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EXCLUSIVE

Keep children
at home during
school strikes,
headteachers
tell parents

‘You will
open a can
of worms’
– UK’s Brexit
negotiators
warn Starmer
P6
SPORT

The return
of a great
rivalry
Arsenal
vs Manchester
United

» School leaders tell Government they cannot predict scale of disruption from seven

P110

teacher strikes in February and March – or find enough agency staff to cover lessons
» Some headteachers are already asking parents to keep children at home on 1 February
» 23,000 schools across England and Wales are affected, after last-ditch talks fail
» Concern that growing industrial action could impact mock A-levels and exam season
» Exams watchdog hopes lenient 2023 grade boundaries protect students, i understands
P9

Pensioners are being left
behind in rush to digital

IVF in space

First step towards
creating babies in orbit

P20

Waugh on Politics

P29

Britain has effectively
decriminalised rape
by Patrick Cockburn

P32

TRAVEL

Winter
sun for less

P75

weekend
Former female PC
reveals prevalence
of police misogyny

NEWS

Why did
park rangers
not like this
record-breaking
cane toad?
See p.25

The day
at a glance

NEWS, P17

Food for thought:
where groceries
cost only £2 a bag
FOCUS, P19

Why I left
one of the
best BBC
TV jobs

Feed
the birds
GARDENING, P72

OPINION, P27

How Italy is
fighting a boar
war in its cities
WORLD FOCUS, P41

Spielberg has
gone against the
Hollywood zeitgeist
CULTURE, P57

Winter sun
that won’t
bust your
budget
TRAVEL, P75

I have no pension
– what should I do?
The heartwarming
story of how football
makes a difference
SPORT, P106

index
Gardening .............................. p72
iTravel ....................................... p75
Money & Business ..... p87
Weather .................................. p97
Sport ........................................... p99

HEALTH

POLITICS

The recycled
paper
content of UK
newspapers
in 2018 was
68.2%

POLICE

Excess deaths down Tories want tougher Audi driver arrested
to flu and heatwaves action on fraud
after officer struck
Summer heatwaves and higher
levels of flu than in the preceding
winter are among factors that
contributed to almost 5,000 more
deaths than usual in England last
year, according to the Office for
National Statistics. On the hottest
day there were 638 more deaths
than would be expected, which
experts said showed the danger
that climate change poses to life.

Senior Conservatives are pushing
for tougher laws to combat
fraud and money laundering
through businesses. A group of
MPs led by the former justice
secretary Sir Robert Buckland
has proposed amendments to the
Economic Crime and Corporate
Transparency Bill to make it easier
to hold companies and managers
responsible for economic crime.

GERMANY

RETAIL

No decision on more Spending cut by
record amounts
tanks for Ukraine
A conference in Germany ended
without a commitment by Western
allies to send more battle tanks to
Ukraine. This comes despite a call
from President Volodymyr Zelensky
to speed up the delivery of military
support in his country’s struggle
against Russia. So far among the
Nato allies, only the UK has agreed
to send tanks, in the form of 14
British Army Challenger 2s. PAGE 23

UK consumers cut their spending
by record amounts in the run-up
to Christmas, bringing more
pain to retail companies. Overall
retail sales for last year had the
worst-ever fall, Office for National
Statistics (ONS) data reveal. Sales
fell by 3 per cent between 2021 and
2022 – the biggest decline since
ONS records on the retail sector
were established in 1997. PAGE 90

BRAZIL

GUADELOUPE

Police raids target
far-right rioters

Deep earthquake
felt 360 miles away

Brazil’s federal police have
carried out raids targeting people
allegedly involved in the 8 January
storming of government buildings
by supporters of former far-right
president Jair Bolsonaro. The
operation was aimed at “identifying
people who participated in, funded
or fostered” the riots. Eight
preventive arrest warrants and 16
search and seizure warrants were
issued in five states and in Brasilia.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck
near the French Caribbean island
of Guadeloupe yesterday and its
impact was felt 360 miles away in
Puerto Rico. Local media reported
that some buildings creaked and
furniture shook. But there were
no immediate reports of damage.
The quake occurred at a depth
of 103 miles (166km) just west of
Guadeloupe, according to the US
Geological Survey.

UNITED STATES

FRANCE

Trump warns fellow Military spending to
Republicans on cuts be boosted by third

MONEY, P88

Opinion ..................................... p27
7 Days ......................................... p43
Puzzles .................................... p51
Culture ..................................... p57
TV & Radio guide .......... p58

The
News
Matrix
Matr
x

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The former US president Donald
Trump warned his party not to
“destroy” federal retirement and
health benefits as they try to extract
spending cuts from President Joe
Biden. “Under no circumstances
should Republicans vote to cut a
single penny from Medicare or Social
Security,” Mr Trump said as he tried
to influence Republicans in control
the House of Representatives.

France will boost its military
spending by more than a third,
President Emmanuel Macron said,
as he unveiled ambitions to help
deal with the great “perils” of this
century. Acknowledging the end of
the “peace dividend” of the postCold War era, Mr Macron said the
planned 2024-2030 budget would
adapt the military to the possibility
of high-intensity conflicts.

Detectives are questioning a teenager
over what they say was an attack on
a police officer in Edinburgh. Police
Scotland said that an 18-year-old man
had been arrested in connection with
the incident, which they are treating
as attempted murder. The force
launched an investigation last week
after a black Audi A1 was driven into
a police motorcycle, injuring the
officer riding it.

iQuiz
BY JOHN CLARKE
1. The story of the Three Bears
originally appeared in a work by
which former poet laureate?
2. Which small triangular bone
at the base of the spine takes its
name from the Latin for cuckoo
due to its similarity to a bird’s bill?
3. Which Northern city gives
its name to a tart spread with
raspberry jam, covered with a
custard filling and topped with
flakes of coconut and a cherry?
4. Fluked, admiralty and grapnel
are all types of what?
5. Which US state was once put
forward to be considered as a
haven for Jewish refugees from
areas under Nazi control?
6. On a Qwerty keyboard,
which letters flank X?
7. Dexion is a British company
associated with which domestic
and commercial product?
8. In the Marvel Cinematic
Universe, which British actor
portrays Doctor Strange?
9. As health secretary, Thérèse
Coffey issued a ban on the use
of which form of punctuation?
10. In 1986, which carmaker
became the first Japanese
manufacturer to open a British
plant in Sunderland?
Answers on page 30

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NEWS
2-41

OPINION
27-32

LIFE
45-81

PUZZLES
51-56

TV
58-71

TRAVEL
75-81

MONEY
87-91

SPORT
99-112

MONARCHY

ThePage3Profile

Camilla praises
‘wonderful’ Rashford

MAJOR TIM PEAKE, THE FINAL TOUCHDOWN

The Queen Consort sang the praises
of Marcus Rashford when she
unveiled a donation of books from
the Manchester United and England
striker to his former youth club. She
described his gesture as “wonderful”
during an afternoon spent touring
Norbrook Youth Club in Wythenshaw
with the King, where Rashford used to
play pool with his friends.
TELEVISION

Torvill and Dean will
get ‘Higher’ on ice
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean
will perform for the first time since the
pandemic in front of a live audience
on Dancing on Ice on ITV1 tomorrow
night. The 1984 Winter Olympics gold
medallists will stage a fast tango-style
routine to singer Michael Bublé’s
song “Higher”. Dean said that their
partnership of 49 years had left them
with a “sixth sense” on the ice.
QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Assumptions are
the termites of
relationships”
Henry Winkler

He looks very relaxed.
Major Tim Peake is hanging up his
spacesuit as he retires from his role as
an astronaut at the European Space
Agency (ESA).
He will instead become a “space
ambassador”, shifting his attention to
helping young people embark on Stem
(science, technology, engineering and
mathematics) careers.
The 50-year-old became an
astronaut in 2009, after a career as an
Army helicopter pilot. He was the first
Briton to visit the International Space
Station (ISS) and the second British
person in space after Helen Sharman,
who went into orbit in 1991.

New heights on the horizon?
While on his six-month mission
– dubbed Principia after Isaac
Newton’s ground-breaking text
on physics – on the ISS from
December 2015 to June 2016, he
made international headlines when
strapped to a treadmill, he finished
the equivalent of a marathon in three
hours, 35 minutes and 21 seconds.
He also carried out more than
30 scientific experiments for ESA,
and took part in a dozen research
activities for other ISS partners. .
A stellar career…
Major Peake described his time as

an astronaut as “an extraordinary
experience”, adding: “I have had
the privilege of working with an
exceptional team of dedicated
individuals during the past 13 years
with the agency, which has been
incredibly exciting and rewarding.”
He is looking forward to focusing
on educational outreach with ESA
and the UK Space Agency. He wrote
on Twitter: “I’ve always believed in
moving forward and embracing new
challenges, even if you don’t know
what’s round the corner.”
As for whether he will return to
space, he said: “Never say never.”
Ellen O’Dwyer

ANNIVERSARIES
Tuesday 21 Jan 1997
Elvis Presley’s manager and agent
“Colonel” Tom Parker dies of a
stroke in Las Vegas at the age of 87.
Born Andreas van Kuijk, a Dutch
immigrant who changed his name
when he arrived in the US, Parker
never applied for a resident’s
permit and feared deportation his
entire life. He also briefly managed
the country singers Eddy Arnold
and Hank Snow.
BIRTHDAYS
Alex McLeish, football coach, 64
Plácido Domingo, opera singer, 82
Billy Ocean, singer, 73
Emma Bunton, singer/DJ, 47
Wendy James, singer, 57

SATURDAY
21 JANUARY 2023

3

Letter from
the Editor

Oliver Duff
i@inews.co.uk

Who are you
calling dinosaurs?
From hit TV series to expensive
tech, I am a grudging late adopter.
I am unstylish, I resent paying
wildly over the odds for new
gadgets, and I spend too little
time outside a newsroom to ever
join the cultural vanguard. And
I’m still only 39. Goodness knows
what I will be like in 39 years’ time,
if I’m still around.
We are living through a
period of historically rapid
change – technological, social
and professional. The portrayal
of older people as technophobes
is often an unfair stereotype.
I know people my age without
smartphones – and over-80s with
a lively presence on social media.
Yet in the rush to digitise every
aspect of our lives, millions of older
people are vulnerable to being shut
out. There remains a digital divide
between some old and many
young. Four in 10 over-75s don’t
use the internet, despite gains
during the pandemic.
From parking and banking apps
to cashless shops and automatic
ticket machines, some pensioners
are being left behind in the rush to
digitise every aspect of our lives.
That electronic peeping you hear
is the sound of progress, of course.
But the death of cash, in particular,
is shrinking millions of older
people’s horizons prematurely.
I know friends (and i readers)
in their 70s and 80s who refuse
to use a car park without coin
payment machines, because they
lack smartphone access, or faith in
the device, or confidence in their
ability to use it. Yet plenty are
willing to learn, with a bit of help.
For more on this, turn to
Waugh on Politics for an insightful
column (page 29) – and an
inspiring tale from a
78-year-old rebel.
@olyduff

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NEWS

WEATHER

Fog alert
issued but
cold snap
will ease
By Ruth Comerford

Britons will experience some relief
from this week’s cold snap this weekend, but should brace themselves for
freezing fog that will linger until late
this morning.
The Met Office issued fog warnings until 11am today across London,
north-west, south-west and southeast England, Yorkshire, Wales and
the West Midlands.
“Some fog could be quite dense,
with the visibility falling below 100
metres at times,” it said. “Additionally, freezing fog may lead to some untreated surfaces becoming slippery.
“Western England is more likely
to see freezing fog persist into late
morning and in a few places into
the afternoon.”
The warning follows a freezing
week across the UK, plunging to
-10.4°C (13.3°F) in Drumnadrochit
near Inverness early on Thursday –
the coldest recorded temperature of
the year so far – and 13 inches (33cm)
of snow fell in parts of Scotland.
However, temperatures are expected to rise by about 6°C across
parts of the country: first in northeast England, then with warmer air
moving across from the north and
west across the weekend.
Frost and fog could linger in parts
of the south of England, which could
still be experiencing colder conditions by early next week.
Met Office spokesman Grahame
Madge said: “Over the weekend and
into the early part of next week, the
UK will be witnessing a weather

The ruins of Kilchurn
Castle are reflected in
the partially frozen
waters of Loch Awe,
Argyll and Bute
JANE BARLOW/PA

transition as milder air gradually
moves in from the north and west.
“This will be raising temperatures
by around 6°C or more, but it will
be slow to reach all areas as some
parts of the south-east of England

could still be in cold conditions on
Tuesday morning.
“Overnight frost or fog will remain
potential hazards until the influence
of the milder air extends to all parts
of the UK.”

Temperatures will increase steadily, reaching 10°C in Plymouth and
Aberdeen by Monday, with London
hitting 8°C.
However, frost and temperatures
below zero are still expected for

parts of the country, including in
Dorset. East Anglia is set to enjoy relief from the freezing temperatures
by tomorrow night.
Weather, page 97

SOCIETY

Court warrants allowing energy companies
access to families’ homes cost £22 each
Exclusive
By Dean Kirby

entry into homes and businesses –
only 72 were refused by magistrates.
INVESTIGATIONS CORRESPONDENT
i can now also reveal that the court
costs for the energy firms to gain
Court warrants that allow energy permission to force entry to properfirms to force desperate families ties are set out at £22 per warrant.
Industry sources insist that
caught in fuel poverty on to
the vast majority of all
controversial prepayment meters are being
domestic forced entries
churned out at £22 a go.
are for fitting a prepayment meter. Other
The Government is
reasons for forcing
under growing presNumber of magistrates’
sure to act to help the
entry could include to
refusals for the
UK’s poorest families,
check for meter tamwarrants – out of
pering, to replace an
and the Business Sec367,000 applications
last year
retary, Grant Shapps,
unauthorised meter or
has ordered officials
to disconnect the supply.
to draw up plans to adEd Miliband, Labour’s
dress the metering issue.
shadow climate change and net
Out of 533,760 utility warrant ap- zero secretary, said: “It is a disgrace
plications – which all debt firms act- that the Government, energy reguing on behalf of suppliers use to force lator and courts are letting families

56

be disconnected by the back door
through the forced installation of
prepayment meters.”
Officials at the Ministry of Justice
(MoJ) have confirmed that the fee it
charges firms to apply for the warrants increased in September from
£20 to £22 – although they insisted
that they were unable to confirm the
total amount that courts were paid
last year for the work.
An investigation by i previously
revealed how one court in northern
England took just three minutes and
51 seconds to issue 496 of the warrants that allow firms to force entry
into homes – raising concerns about
oversight of customers’ potential
vulnerability when being pushed on
to the meters.
In September 2019, a new telephone hearing process was intro-

duced for dealing with energy firms’
warrant cases across England and
Wales. It has dramatically sped up
the process, as it means warrant officers now rarely go to court, with an
online application system also introduced in the same year.
It can now be revealed, using MoJ
data, that the granting of utility warrants has more than doubled from
174,000 in 2018 to 367,000 last year.
Magistrates’ refusals fell from 2,800
to just 56. More are withdrawn by
firms than are rejected.
Mr Shapps announced on Tuesday that he had ordered his department to draw up “measures” as
he prepares to write to the energy
regulator, Ofgem.
Mr Miliband said: “Labour has
called for an urgent moratorium on
the forced installation of prepay-

ment meters – and that must include
an immediate pause on signing off
any warrants to forcibly enter people’s homes.
“It is days since Grant Shapps
said he would take action, but Rishi
Sunak and his government continue
to stand by and do nothing.
“Britain’s energy bills are too high
and our energy system too weak after
13 years of Conservative failure.”
i revealed in December
how the Ministry of
Justice had admitted it has no
central record of why access to
homes has been sought by the
firms, whether to forcibly install
a prepayment meter or for any
other reason.

NEWS
2-41

OPINION
27-32

LIFE
45-81

PUZZLES
51-56

TV
58-71

TRAVEL
75-81

MONEY
87-91

SPORT
99-112

SATURDAY
21 JANUARY 2023

5

SCIENCE

Tests show sound waves may delay ageing
By Ellen O’Dwyer

S c i e n t i s t s a re i nve s t i gat i n g
whether ageing can be delayed or
even reversed using sound, after
initial experiments appeared to
“rejuvenate” cells.
A team at the University of Texas
has been applying low-frequency
ultrasound to mice and is preparing
to embark on a small clinical trial on
people to see if the method could be
used to treat age-related diseases.
“Is this too good to be true, is the
question I often ask myself”, Profes-

sor Michael Sheetz at the University
of Texas Medical Branch told the
New Scientist magazine. “We’re
examining aspects to see if
this really does work.”
The cells in our bodies
eventually stop dividing,
becoming “senescent”,
but they are still alive.
Some of these can secrete chemicals, causing
inflammation in the body.
An accumulation of senescent cells is thought to drive ageing
and age-related diseases.

But Professor Sheetz (inset) and
his team said low-frequency ultrasound powers senescent cells
in humans and monkeys to
resume dividing, stopping
them from producing
the chemicals.
The scientists used an
ultrasound frequency
of 100 kilohertz on the
mice – much lower than
frequencies used in medical imaging.
As part of the experiments, some
of the test mice received ultrasound

while in warm water. This weakens
the strength of ultrasound waves.
Mice treated with ultrasound improved physically compared with
the mice that had been treated in
the water.
Professor Sheetz said one mouse
that had a hunched back was cured
using this method. “Aspects of this
are still mystifying,” he said.
“We treated it twice with ultrasound and it was back to behaving
normally. I don’t think that ‘rejuvenation’ is too strong a term.”
The research is hosted on the open

access pre-print repository bioRixiv,
which is not peer-reviewed.
The Texas team are planning to
see how the technique affects people with osteoarthritis and diabetic
foot ulcers.
Professor Jürgen Götz, a neuroscientist at the University of
Queensland in Australia, told the
New Scientist that the findings were
“generally” convincing.
But he said the technique would
be difficult to apply on humans, because ultrasound does not travel well
through bones and lungs.

HISTORY

MUSIC

Possible relics from unknown Civil War
battle are dug up on HS2 railway route

Debut album
takes 15 years to
claim No 1 spot
By Ellie Iorizzo

By Adam Dutton

Archaeologists working along the
route of the High Speed 2 rail line
believe they have uncovered evidence of one of the first battles of
the English Civil War, previously unrecorded in history books.
The discovery was made at the
site of the former Coleshill Manor in
Warwickshire, which was unearthed
three years ago. Experts say that 200
pistol and musket ball marks recently found on the remains of the medieval gatehouse could be scars from
the first skirmish of the Civil War.
The team from Wessex Archaeology said these were “striking signs”
that the fortified manor house came
under heavy fire.
The first recorded battle of the
conflict, the Battle of Curdworth
Bridge, took place in 1642, only a
short distance from Coleshill Manor.
The finds also included more than
40 musket balls, excavated from
nearby soil, which would
have been a moat around
the house. Archaeologists say the discovery
is not recorded in any
historical records and
could provide fresh insight into the war.
The discoveries will
feature in an episode of the
BBC Two series Digging for
Britain at 8pm tomorrow night.
Professor Alice Roberts, the
anthropologist who presents the
programme, said: “The front of the
gatehouse was pockmarked and had
clearly been shot at with muskets
– perhaps for target practice – but
there is also an intriguing possibility
that we are looking at evidence of the
earliest skirmish of the Civil War.”
Stuart Pierson, an archaeologist,
said: “From one of the most impressive Elizabethan ornamental gardens in the country to the remains
of what could be the first skirmish
of the Civil War, these findings – not
recorded in historical records –
would have been lost to time, had it
not been for the expertise and hard
work of the team.”
The English Civil War began in

The Manchester-based rock trio
The Courteeners are celebrating
reaching No 1 with an album
released 15 years ago.
Frontman Liam
Fray (inset) said
“good things
come to thems
that wait” after
making history
with St Jude,
the band’s 2008
debut album.
It is their first No
1 album following the release
of a 15th-anniversary addition
featuring remastered tracks and
previously unreleased material.
The band – consisting of Fray,
drummer Michael Campbell and
guitarist Daniel “Conan” Moores
– are the third in official UK chart
history to reach the top with a
reissued album, alongside The
Rolling Stones and The Beatles.

SOCIETY
Clockwise from main: Professor Alice Roberts sketches Coleshill Manor; a computerised reconstruction
of the old manor house; a musket ball which was found at the site PA
Manchester

Crewe

By Brendan McFadden
Coleshill
Manor site

Birmingham

London

August 1642. At the time, Coleshill
Manor was in the hands of the Royalist Simon Digby. The house, next to
a bridge over the River Cole, would
have been a strategic position that
the Roundheads would have wanted
to control. Experts say it is plausible
that a skirmish took place on the
way to Curdworth Bridge, especially

given the Manor’s strong connection
to the Royalist cause.
Helen Wass, HS2’s head of heritage, said: “Detailed post excavation
study will begin shortly and we will
continue to share the incredible
pieces of our past discovered during
this once in a lifetime dig.
“HS2’s extensive archaeology

Letter posted in
1995 delivered

programme, which has involved
hundreds of people, has provided unparalleled insights into the history of
Britain. The discoveries at Coleshill
Manor are a major part of that.
“Our investigations help historians to weave together the complex
pieces of information to increase our
understanding of events.”

A letter posted in 1995 has finally
been delivered to its intended destination almost three decades late.
Though he wasn’t the intended
recipient, John Rainbow opened the
post from Bridgwater, Somerset,
when it landed through his door in
Wylam, Northumberland, recently.
Mr Rainbow told the BBC: “We
opened the letter, had a look at it
and thought, ‘Blimey, this is a bit
strange’. It was for a previous resident of the house. They must’ve lived
here at least 12 to 15 years ago.”
The envelope had a Royal Mail
first-class stamp. The company
apologised and said: “Incidents like
this happen very occasionally and
we are uncertain what happened in
this instance.”

6

NEWS

CONSERVATIVES

Sunak under pressure to cut taxes
By Hugo Gye
POLITICAL EDITOR

Rishi Sunak is under mounting pressure to reduce the tax burden from
its current record level as allies of Liz
Truss prepare to push for the policies she supported.
The Prime Minister should “increase the pie” rather than increasing taxes to try and improve public
services, MPs warned.
The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is
planning to resist calls for fresh tax
cuts when he announces his Budget
in mid-March, i understands.

His officials believe that the im- of cutting ever more from the same
pact of higher borrowing costs
sized pie. Instead, we need to increase the pie.”
means it will be too early to
Mr Hunt’s allies have
start bringing down the
signalled that the one
tax burden.
tax cut he may be willBut one senior MP
ing to confirm in the
involved with the new
Budget is to continue
Conservative Growth
The reduction in
the 5p reduction in
Group warned: “The
fuel duty expected
fuel duty.
only way that we will
to be continued in
This is one of the
transform the country
the next Budget on
few tax cuts that reis by creating jobs with
15 March
duces inflation by directly
better wages that will increase the tax take, not by
bringing down the cost of
having to hike up tax rates.
some goods.
“We have to get out of this trap
Multiple Conservative MPs have

5p

publicly called on the Prime Minister
and Chancellor to cut taxes rather
than focusing solely on balancing the
public finances.
The former Cabinet minister John
Redwood said: “The UK cannot afford high taxes. They stifle growth,
cut investment and deter business.
“The way to get borrowing down
is to promote growth. Cutting taxes
is the way to get us out of recession.”
Simon Clarke, one of Ms Truss’s
closest allies, last night warned Mr
Sunak that the Tories will not regain support among young people
unless they introduce policies to

help reduce housing and childcare
costs. He told the BBC: “I think that
our problems with younger voters
are needlessly self-inflicted. The
Conservative party will die if we
don’t fix this – I don’t think we should
be surprised when people don’t turn
to the party of capital because capitalism isn’t working for them.”
Treasury insiders said the Budget
on 15 March will contain a number of
ideas to boost growth.
But they fear that slashing taxes
immediately would risk another
markets meltdown similar to the
reaction to Kwasi Kwarteng’s
“mini Budget” in September last
year that contributed to a fall in
the value of the pound and higher
interest rates.

BREXIT

‘You will open a
can of worms’
– UK negotiators
warn Starmer
By Hugo Gye and Chloe Chaplain

Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to forge
closer trade ties with the EU risk
opening a “can of worms” and creating further conflict, Brexit experts
have warned.
Some senior figures in Brussels
want to wait for a future Labour government before they start engaging
seriously with the UK to rebuild
post-Brexit relations.
And Sir Keir has promised to build
closer economic and trade ties
without rejoining the EU’s
single market or customs
union. He argues that
his proposals would also
help to resolve problems
over how the Northern Ireland Protocol is
operating.
But two former officials
in the UK’s Brexit negotiating
teams insisted there were limits to
how far Sir Keir could go without
reopening major political debates.
One source told i that Britain could
work with Brussels on issues such as
mutual recognition of qualifications
that are already covered by clauses
in the existing trade agreement.
But they added that more fundamental changes to the relationship
“would be a big can of worms” and
“demand efforts from the EU” that
could not be guaranteed.
Another former negotiator said:
“The EU is not being flexible on
Northern Ireland, because they’re
fundamentally not very interested in
it. They have no reason to do a deal
without a lot of movement from the
UK side.”
Professor Anand Menon (inset),
director of UK in a Changing Europe, said negotiating with the EU
could become more challenging as
the bloc progresses with regulation and investment and the UK, as
a trade competitor, is locked out of

this. “There are all sorts of potentials for conflict due to the simple
fact that we’re out,” he said.
“This will happen the more we
diverge from the EU in regulatory
terms – which means the EU keep
regulating and we don’t keep up.
“So I think Labour is probably underestimating how difficult it will be.
I think a lot of observers are exaggerating the degree to which there
are quick gains to be had.”
A senior EU source insisted the
bloc was serious about negotiating with the Government
and was optimistic about
making progress by April
when Northern Ireland
will mark the 25th anniversary of the Good
Friday Agreement.
The source said: “The
EU is not waiting for Labour to come into power – we
are as committed as ever to concluding the talks around the implementation of the protocol on Ireland
and Northern Ireland and are working hard as we always have to deliver
for the Northern Irish, British and
European citizens and businesses.”
Former Labour Cabinet minister Ben Bradshaw told i he did not
think it was in either the UK or EU’s
interest to hold out on a Northern
Ireland agreement.
“It would be the height of arrogance to assume there is going to
be a Labour government and I think
other European countries are sensible enough not to take anything for
granted,” he said.
Ben Bradshaw conceded
Labour’s plan for sectoral
agreements would not “reverse
all the damage” caused by leaving
the single market, but said this
was “not on the cards”.

Keir Starmer at the
World Economic
Forum in Davos
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AFP/GETTY

ENERGY

Labour will call for halt
to rise in energy prices
By Chloe Chaplain
POLITICAL REPORTER

Labour will today call on the
Government to stop the energy
price cap rising in April to save
households hundreds of pounds
on bills.
The party has urged ministers
to toughen the windfall tax on
energy companies to pay to keep
energy prices lower and avoid a
leap in costs this spring.
Government support is due to
fall in April, with the enforced
price cap rising from an average
of £2,500 to £3,000. In a speech at
the Fabian Society Conference,
the shadow Chancellor, Rachel

Reeves, will warn that millions
are under threat from the rising
bills. Labour is proposing a more
stringent levy on the profits of
energy companies which she said
would generate £13bn across 2022
and 2023.
This income would come from
closing the fossil fuel investment
allowance, taxing oil and gas
profits at the same rate as in
Norway and backdating this to
January 2022, Labour said.
The money would be used to
keep the energy cap lower and
ensure that prepayment-meter
customers do not pay more than
those paying by direct debit.
Off-grid households would

receive equivalent support and
funding would be made available
for households in Northern
Ireland. The party is also calling
for fuel duty to be frozen and
for a three-month moratorium
on the forced installation of
prepayment meters.
“Millions of households are still
looking to a 40 per cent increase
in their energy bills, in April,” Ms
Reeves will say.
“In a week when temperatures
fell below zero, I know many
families and pensioners will be
feeling the pressure particularly
acutely. And at the same time,
energy companies continue to
enjoy record profits.”
A Government spokesperson
said energy support is “under
continual review” and added:
“The Government continues to
work with Ofgem and energy
suppliers to ensure that
consumers pay the fairest price.”

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7

TREASURY

Scrapped Tory policies
cost taxpayers at least
£300m in three years
Exclusive
By Ben Gartside and
Chloe Chaplain

Scrapped Tory policies including a
railway extension and electronic tagging for offenders have cost taxpayers at least £300m in the past three
years, an i analysis of government
accountancy documents has found.
Costly cancelled projects include a
£190m Transpennine railway extension, £98m on electronic monitoring
of offenders scrapped on value-formoney concerns and £2m towards
the controversial “Porn ID” scheme
championed by Theresa May’s government and subsequently dropped
by Boris Johnson.
i analysed documents from all
major Government departments for
the past three years, which disclose
financial losses and fruitless spending above £300,000.
The reports, which are disclosed
to Parliament on a yearly basis,
vary in transparency level and often
offer little detail for why a policy has
failed or been scrapped. Over this
period, i has identified more than 30
scrapped policies.
The Government’s political opponents have blamed the losses on
a revolving door of ministers and
leaders, resulting in taxpayer funding “going down the drain”.
Before the Transpennine Route

Major infrastructure projects that
were costly included the cancelled
Transpennine Route Upgrade

Upgrade was cancelled, £50m was
spent on project management fees
and £140m on assessing development options.
But the numbers disclosed in the
filings are likely the tip of the iceberg,
with the true costs much higher. For
example, payments incurred by the
British Board of Film Classification
as the designated regulator for plans
to bring in age verification for online
pornography were disclosed at £2.1m,
but costs including the use of civil
servants’ time were not disclosed.
More than £50m was accrued
by various cancelled IT projects,
while £10m was incurred by military
projects abandoned following the
previous Ministry of Defence’s Integrated Review, which outlines strategic objectives and future trends
for UK forces.

Meanwhile, the Cabinet Office’s
new secured vetting infrastructure
was cancelled after becoming 50 per
cent over budget for £2.5m. Delays
in vetting were labelled a “threat to
national security” last week by the
National Audit Office.
The Cabinet Office said there was
a shortage of capacity in security
vetting compared to supply, aggravated by “operational weakness”.
Pat McFadden, Labour’s shadow
Chief Secretary to the Treasury,
said: “This is a classic story of Tory
government waste – delaying projects and delivering poorly.
“We need to hear less reannouncement campaigns from the Government – and see more of them getting
on with the work of delivering what
they’ve already promised.”
A spokesman for the Government said: “High quality infrastructure is crucial for economic
growth, which is why we have maintained public capital investment at
record levels.”
Christine Jardine, the
Liberal Democrat Cabinet
Office spokeswoman, said:
“Turmoil from the Government
has resulted in hundreds of
millions of pounds of taxpayer
funding going down the drain.”

Crowds turn out
in Bolton to see
the King yesterday
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THE SUN/PA

MONARCHY

King drops in for Manchester visit

Biggest losers Policy costs
“Porn ID” scheme — The
we would expect and is a result of
Government’s controversial
the continually changing scope of
planned scheme to propose strict
the programme”.
age verification on pornographic
content cost £2.5m before being
Electronic Monitoring
scrapped in 2019. Plans
— The project was cancelled
had been outlined for a
in August 2021, already 18
“gift-card” like system
months behind schedule.
to be purchasable from
Plans to modernise the
retailers to prove age
tagging system had
The cost of the
verification.
initially been outlined
Government’s
a decade earlier, but
‘Porn ID’ scheme
TransPennine rail
had struggled. A report
– before it was
— The Government
from the National
scrapped
incurred costs of £190m
Audit Office blamed
on obsolete design costs,
HM Prison & Probation
programme options and
Service (HMPPS) and Capita
project management spend. The
for the failures, which cost the
costs were criticised by the National
document £98m. There were a
Audit Office as being “higher than
number of formal disputes between

£2.5m

HMPPS and Capita, including one
specific grievance into the delays on
the project.
“Apprentice” offices - Plans to give
the Department for International
Trade a specialist office space for
negotiation were cancelled after
it was decided to offer too poor
value for money. Former prime
minister and trade minister Liz
Truss had championed the project.
Before the project was cancelled,
the Government had earmarked two
potential buildings, including the
skyscraper in which the reality TV
show The Apprentice is set. In July
2020, the Government reported a
£760,000 loss after the project had
been cancelled.

By Tony Jones

The King used the royal train for
the first time since starting his
reign to travel to Manchester
to visit the biggest Corn Flakes
factory in the world.
Charles journeyed overnight
from Ayr in Scotland, close to
where the 18th-century Dumfries
House, part of The Prince’s
Foundation, is situated.
The monarch was visiting the
Manchester site of Kellogg’s,
which celebrated a century in the
UK last year, with Corn Flakes
and All-Bran first introduced to
the British public in 1922.
Unveiling a plaque to mark
his visit and the centenary,

Charles said: “Sorry I’m a year
late.” Elsewhere in the city, the
Queen Consort praised Marcus
Rashford as she unveiled a
donation of books from the
Manchester United and England
striker to his former youth club.
Camilla described the gesture
as “wonderful” during an
afternoon at Norbrook Youth
Club with the King, where as
a schoolboy Rashford played
pool with his friends when not
training with his club.
England manager Gareth
Southgate called Rashford
“impressive” as he joined King
Charles to hear the stories of
young people supported by The
Prince’s Trust.

list. He was also criticised for
using a private jet to travel around
the country.
Mr Sunak has also come under
fire after filming a piece to camera
in a car where he can be seen not
wearing a seatbelt.
He apologised for the “brief error
of judgment”, but Lancashire Police
has since said that it is considering
the case.
Polling suggested the negative

press affected the public’s perception of him, with Mr Sunak’s approval rating falling by six points to
41 per cent.
Asked who would be the best
prime minister, 27 per cent chose
Mr Sunak – down five points week
on week – with 46 per cent choosing
Sir Keir.
The poll questioned 1,268 people
and is weighted to a nationally representative population.

POLITICS

Labour increases poll lead over Tories
By Chloe Chaplain

Labour has moved further ahead in
the polls to enjoy a 26-point lead over
the Conservatives, the latest figures
have shown.
Sir Keir Starmer’s party gained
the support of 50 per cent of the
1,200 adults polled by Omnisis on

Thursday, with the Tories dropping
their share to 24 per cent.
The extra two-point advantage
for Labour suggests the public are
not turning against the unions or
the party in general over prolonged
strike action.
Rishi Sunak spent the latter part
of the week promoting the second

round of levelling-up funding, with
more than £2bn allocated to various
regions around the UK.
But the Prime Minister faced
questions around how fair and
­transparent the decision-making
process was after his own wealthy
constituency was chosen, with
many deprived areas left off the

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NEWS

HEALTH

More walkouts will worsen
backlog, NHS leaders fear,
as further action confirmed
By Paul Gallagher
HEALTH CORRESPONDENT

Health leaders fear that another two
months of NHS industrial action
will send waiting lists soaring again,
leaving hospitals under even more
pressure to bring them down.
NHS England figures released
yesterday show that just over 5,000
operations, including routine procedures like hip or knee replacements, were postponed
because of two days of
nursing strikes this week.
More than 22,500 appointments were also
rescheduled because
of the walkouts. This
usually includes appointments, X-rays and
minor procedures.
Saffron Cordery, the interim
chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents trusts, said
the strike days caused “significant
disruption” and were “some of the
hardest” hospitals have had to cope
with this winter.
She said it would have a “big
knock-on effect on efforts to tackle
the backlog”, adding: “The ramifications go well beyond the day
itself. We are deeply concerned by
this pile-up of demand, which will
only continue.”
Nurses will strike in trusts across

England and Wales on 6 and 7 February while the GMB has also called
strikes on 20 February as well as 6
and 20 March.
This week’s nursing strikes involved a quarter of hospitals, but in
February close to half of hospitals
will be involved.
The waiting list for non-urgent
treatment in England was just
under 7.2 million last month, the
first time it has dropped since
the pandemic. But health
experts said industrial
action could hamper
further progress.
Siva Anandaciva,
the chief analyst at the
King’s Fund, said: “Targets to improve waiting
lists were already challenging. Industrial action
is not the only factor that will
affect the NHS’s ability to achieve
waiting-list targets but industrial
action does add more uncertainty.”
Rachel Power, the chief executive of the Patients Association, said
that people had become “terrified”
of falling ill, adding: “Every day is
a challenge. The strikes do affect
services, but the crisis the NHS is in
is serious.”
Ambulance workers in England,
Wales and Northern Ireland will
stage 10 strikes over the coming
weeks as trusts begin preparing for

the biggest day of industrial action
the NHS has experienced.
Junior doctors in England from
the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association have voted to
strike, with 45,000 others from the
BMA balloted for action.
Royal College of Nursing members and ambulance workers in the
GMB are striking on 6 February, coinciding with the 10th anniversary
of the Mid-Staffs NHS trust inquiry
into the effects of nurse shortages on
patient care and excess deaths.
The director of policy at NHS
Providers, Miriam Deakin (inset),
said trust leaders were facing potentially “the most challenging day
of their careers”.
Health unions have begun coordinating strike days to cause
maximum disruption in an attempt
to force the Government to the
negotiating table.
Rishi Sunak and the Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, have insisted
the pay demands are “unaffordable”.
Professor Sir Stephen
Powis, NHS national
medical director, said: “Hospitals
have been asked to ensure anyone
waiting longer than 18 months
has their appointment booked in
before March.”

HUMAN RIGHTS

UNIONS

Parliament’s watchdog to study
legality of anti-strike legislation

No ‘bottomless
pit of cash’, warns
minister as RMT
considers offer

By Jane Merrick
POLICY EDITOR

Plans by Rishi Sunak to restrict
public sector workers from going on
strike are being investigated by Parliament’s human rights watchdog.
The cross-party committee announced it will hold an inquiry into
whether the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill violates the European Convention on Human Rights.
The legislation has been widely
criticised by unions as it would put
millions of British workers at risk of
being barred from going on strike.
Anyone who works in the health,
education or transport sectors could
be told by their employer that they
must stay in work even if their union
has voted to strike – and they could
be sacked if they refused.
The Government insists it needs
to enforce a minimum level of service
in the health, fire and rescue, education and transport sectors in order
to protect the public.
Introducing the law this month,
the Business Secretary, Grant
Shapps, pointed to recent ambu-

Joanna Cherry, the SNP MP for
Edinburgh South West, said she
doubted the legality of the Bill

lance strikes where services have
been seriously reduced.
The Bill was originally intended
only to apply to the railways but the
new version tabled in Parliament
is much broader in scope, applying in principle to a total of more
than six million out of the UK’s 30
million workers.
The Joint Committee on Human
Rights (JCHR), which consists of

MPs and peers from all parties, will
undertake legislative scrutiny of the
Bill as it goes through Parliament.
When the Bill was introduced in
the Commons this month, ministers said it would “ensure crucial
public services such as rail, ambulances and fire services maintain
a minimum service during industrial action, reducing risk to life and
ensuring the public can still get
to work”.
However, the JCHR, chaired by the
Scottish National Party MP Joanna
Cherry, said the legislation could in
theory go against Article 11 of the
European Convention on Human
Rights, which protects the right to
free assembly and association.
The right to strike is also recognised in UK domestic law.
The plans mean in key sectors employers would be able to issue notice
to unions of the minimum service
level that was to apply and members
would not have legal protection if
these levels were not reached. Workers would be unable to claim unfair
dismissal if they were sacked for
going on strike.

By Neil Lancefield
and Paul Gallagher

There is no “bottomless pit of
money” to offer railway workers, the
Transport Secretary, Mark Harper,
said as the war of words between the
Government and striking public
sector workers continued.
Mr Harper insisted
that an offer made to the
National Union of Rail,
Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) in
an effort to break the
deadlocked dispute over
pay, jobs and conditions
will not be improved.
The Rail Delivery Group, representing train operators, has described its proposal to the RMT of
a minimum pay rise of 9 per cent

over two years as its “best and
final offer”. Mr Harper was asked on
a visit to a business near his Forest
of Dean constituency if a rejection of
the offer would be “the end”.
He told the BBC: “It is. I’ve made it
very clear there is not a bottomless
pit of taxpayers’ money.
“I think they’ve got a very
fair offer and it’s comparable to what you’ve got
in the private sector,
and I hope members of
the union get the opportunity to set out their
views on it.”
Mr Harper (inset) later
said that he had “tried to
change the tone” of the debate
since becoming Transport Secretary in October last year.
He added: “I’ve made sure and

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9

EDUCATION

Keep children at home
during school strikes,
heads tell parents
By Poppy Wood

follow the advice to “build up a bank
of cover supervisors” during strike
action, after ministers changed the
Parents face last-minute confusion law last summer to allow agency
and chaos during teachers’ strikes staff to replace striking workers.
as “difficult” government guidance
“I need to stress that the availmeans schools may not be able to ability of agency teaching supply
know if they can stay open until the staff is scarce at the best of times
and I would imagine near impossiday of the industrial action.
The Department for Education ble to obtain on strike days,” said Mr
Smith. He urged parents to keep
earlier this week issued fresh
children at home on 1 Febguidance on keeping schools
ruary, the first of seven
open “for as many pupils as possible” during
teacher strikes set to
teacher walkouts. It
take place throughout
urged headteachers
February and March.
Number of schools
to consider bringing
Headteachers at
across England
in volunteers, using
two schools in Harinand Wales that are
gey in north London
agency staff and revivexpected to be hit by
ing remote learning to
also said they had no
teacher strikes
minimise disruption on
choice but to ask parents to keep their children
strike days.
at home on the first day of
But school leaders have
complained that current strike laws, teacher strikes.
Park View Secondary School
which mean union members are not
required to notify employers about recommended that parents “begin
whether they intend to take strike making alternative childcare araction, mean they are unable to pre- rangements” for three further strike
dict the potential scale of disruption dates over the next two months, saying the situation was “out of [the
during upcoming walkouts.
Wexham School in Slough said the school’s] control”.
It comes after the National EducaGovernment guidance was “difficult
to implement” because it would “not tion Union (NEU), the UK’s largest
know for certain whether we will be teaching union, announced earlier
able to run the school as we normal- this week that it will launch strikes
ly would until the day of the strikes”. throughout February and March
Headteacher Lawrence Smith in an ongoing dispute over teachalso said a shortage of agency staff ers’ pay. More than 23,000 schools
meant the school would be unable to across England and Wales are ex-

pected to be affected after last-ditch
talks between unions and Gillian
Keegan, the Education Secretary,
failed to achieve any tangible progress yesterday.
The Association of School College
and Leaders, which is set to launch a
ballot on potential industrial action
in the next few weeks, said the Government had blamed “high energy
bills” for its decision not to fund an
improved pay offer for teachers.
It has sparked fears that industrial
action could creep into exam season,
with mock A-levels scheduled to
take place in March at some schools
across the country.
Ofqual, the exams regulator, updated its exam contingency plan
for England, Wales and Northern
Ireland earlier this week to include
guidance on keeping schools open
during industrial action.
i understands that Ofqual will
monitor the situation and is hoping
more lenient grade boundaries for
2023 to take into account disrupted
learning during the pandemic will
provide protection for students.

POLITICS

TRANSPORT

Tory MP accused of using
staff as ‘political football’

Stop misusing
‘cancellations’,
rail firms told

EDUCATION REPORTER

23,000

Mary Bousted of the
National Education
Union speaks to the
media after meeting
government officials
in an attempt to avert
teacher strikes PA

helped to facilitate some fair and
reasonable pay offers.
“And I very much hope that those
pay offers now get the opportunity
to be put in front of the members of
those unions, to accept them to help
get the railways working more effectively for passengers.”
On Thursday, the RMT leader,
Mick Lynch, said that its executive
would consider the offer and decide
its next steps “in due course”.
Meanwhile, Unite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, accused the
Government of “deliberately misleading the public” over life and limb
cover on strike days in the NHS and
who is to blame for high numbers of
excess deaths this winter.
She said: “Rather than act to protect the NHS and negotiate an end
to the dispute, the Government has
disgracefully chosen to demonise
ambulance workers. Ministers are
deliberately misleading the public
about the life and limb cover and who
is to blame for excessive deaths.
“Our members faithfully provide
life and limb cover on strike days and
it’s not the unions who are not providing minimum service levels.
“It is this Government’s disastrous handling of the NHS that has
brought it to breaking point, and the
Prime Minister is seen to be washing his hands of the dispute. What an
abdication of leadership.”

Health strikes calendar
On 6 February, Unite staff will join
ambulance workers represented by
the GMB, as well as nurses, in what
trust leaders are warning would
be the “biggest ever” strike day in
NHS history.
Ambulance workers at Unite will
be striking on:
26 January in Northern Ireland.
6 February in the North West, North
East, West Midlands, East Midlands
and Wales.
16 February in Northern Ireland.
17 February in the West Midlands
and Northern Ireland.
20 February in the East Midlands, the
North East and Wales.
22 February in the North West.
23 February in Northern Ireland.
24 February in Northern Ireland.
6 March in the North West, North
East, West Midlands, East Midlands
and Wales.
20 March in the North West, North
East, West Midlands, East Midlands
and Wales.
The GMB union has also called
strikes on 6 February, 20 February,
6 March and 20 March.
The Royal College of Nursing
(RCN) and ambulance staff will both
strike on 6 February, and the RCN
has announced an additional walkout
the following day, 7 February.

By Brendan McFadden

A Conservative MP has been
accused of treating his staff as
“political footballs” after using
his aide as an example of how to
handle the cost of living crisis.
Lee Anderson, the
MP for Ashfield in
Nottinghamshire,
previously claimed that
those using food banks
only did so because they
“can’t budget”.
This week he revealed
the salary details,
monthly expenditure
and photo of his aide, Katy
Colthup on Twitter.
Mr Anderson said that despite
earning less than £30,000, she
was able to rent a room in central
London for £775 a month, pay
back £120 of her student debt,
take foreign holidays and did not
need to use a food bank.
He said: “Katy makes my point
really well.”

His remarks drew fierce
criticism from some MPs
including Dawn Butler, a
Labour backbencher.
Ms Butler said that the tweet
was “a form of bullying and
harassment” and urged Mr
Anderson (inset) to delete it.
She said: “Whether
Katy agreed to this,
it is unacceptable to
use a young female
employee this way.”
She added: “I
will also be writing
to the House of
Commons authorities
to stress that this
is a very dangerous
political strategy.”
Jamie Stone, a Liberal
Democrat MP, said the tweet was
“in seriously bad taste” and is
an “awful way to admit that you
don’t pay your staff enough”.
He added: “I have never, and
would never, use my staff as a
political football.”

The six-hour crunch talks
marked the third meeting
between union leaders and Ms
Keegan this week, as ministers
scramble to minimise disruption
ahead of the first national
teachers’ strike in 15 years.

By Neil Lancefield

Train operators have been ordered
by a regulator to stop misusing a
process which removes services
from schedules without them being
classed as cancelled.
The Office of Rail and Road
(ORR) said cancellations were at
record levels.
It found that operators were increasingly using a process known
as p-coding, through which services
can be axed as late as 10pm the previous evening and not included in
timetables that measure reliability.
For passengers, it means a train
they expected to catch when they
went to bed can disappear from the
timetable by the following morning.
A spokeswoman for the Rail Delivery Group, which represents operators, said: “The way that cancellation
statistics are reported is set by the
ORR, and train companies will operate within their framework.”

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HEALTH

SCIENCE

Covid cases fall below 100,000 per
day for the first time in 12 months

Flu vaccines
may have
offered some
protection

Exclusive
By Tom Bawden
SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT

By Tom Bawden

Covid cases have fallen below
100,000-a-day for the first time in
more than a year as a spate of infections over Christmas built the
nation’s immunity back up again, according to new figures.
Data show that daily symptomatic
infections fell by well over half this
month in the UK, tumbling from
223,428 at the start of the year to
stand at 91,818 on Wednesday, according to the ZOE Health Study.
And they are likely to keep falling
for the next few weeks.
The current infection rate is the
first time cases have been below
100,000 since December 2021, with
daily cases exceeding that number
all through 2022 and into the middle
of January.
However, experts warned that
Covid was far from over. Cases are
still high compared with the start of
the pandemic. Daily infections remained below 100,000 until October
2021, although in the early days an
infection was much more serious for
most people than it is today.
The sharp decline in cases this
month has come as a surprise to experts, being earlier and steeper than
many expected.
And it suggests concerns that a
new, highly infectious Omicron subvariant – known as XBB.1.5 – would
fuel cases for some weeks to come
may have been exaggerated.
Professor Karl Friston, a virus
modeller at University College
London, suspects people have been
taking a bit more care to shield
themselves this month after a triple whammy of cold, flu and Covid
over Christmas.
“Common sense suggests that if
flu is circulating, people are going
to be more careful in terms of ex-

One explanation for why cases
have fallen so sharply is flu
vaccinations, experts say.
The idea that flu and flu
vaccinations may, in some
cases, have given people
protection from Covid, is far
from unanimous. But the experts
say it is possible there may be
something to the theory.
“There are some theories
and limited evidence that
infection with other viruses may
ameliorate the symptomatic
effects of Covid. This might be
due to the immune response
induced by one virus
protecting effects from
Covid infection,” said
Professor Lawrence
Young, a virologist
at Warwick
University,
Professor
Francois Balloux,
director of the
University College
London Genetics Institute,
added: “A viral infection can give
a temporary boost to the immune
response against infection from
other viruses.
“The likely mechanism is
through increased production
of interferons during the first
infection. Interferons are part
of the innate immune response
and can fight off any pathogen.
A heightened interferon
response after a first infection
can temporarily protect against
different viruses.”
However, Professor Balloux
(inset) warned: “There are
situations when a first infection
makes the host more susceptible
to another one.”

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posing themselves to infection,” he
said. “Over the next few weeks, we
predict that cases will continue to
fall, with the next peak predicted

on 7 May, give or take a couple
of weeks.”
Experts welcomed the rapid decline in Covid, while cautioning that
the battle was far from over.
“It’s certainly good news all
round, and especially for the NHS,”
said Steve Griffin, a virologist at
Leeds University.
“The number of people infected
in recent waves may well have increased our collective immunity to
make this trough between waves hit
a lower ebb.
“This is all part of the long road
towards endemicity, but we’re nowhere near that yet – we need to
slow the virus down.”
Although an endemic is a constant
presence in a community, it differs
from a pandemic because the virus

is more contained and not spreading
out of control.
Dr Griffin added: “It is important
to remember that the overall prevalence levels can reflect an overall
downward trend, but that local and
regional increases may yet be occurring as a new variant emerges.
“Moreover, a large decline in
a dominant strain can mask the
growth of an emerging variant in
the early stages of its expansion,”
he added.
Scientists say the outlook
beyond the next few weeks
is still unclear and argue that
XXB.1.5 could still fuel a further
spike in the spring.

Analysis

New Zealand and China’s leaders
may be facing zero-Covid backlash
Jane Merrick
POLICY EDITOR

W

hen Jacinda Ardern
announced on
Thursday that she
would be resigning
as New Zealand’s
Prime Minister next month, she
insisted it was not related to her
poor opinion polling but because
she no longer had “enough in the
tank” to keep going.
But it is inescapable that the
public mood had turned against her
since her party’s landslide victory
in 2020, with polling for Labour
and her personally at their lowest

point since she first came to power
economic difficulties as well as
in 2017. Fuelling that decline was
political backlash.
voter dissatisfaction with the rising
In China, President Xi Jinping
cost of living, which has left few
was forced to end his zerogovernments untroubled.
Covid policy last month
But is there an
after a wave of public
added political and
protests in November.
economic price that
The economic
Ms Ardern has paid
consequences of
The amount by
due to her stringent
zero Covid in China
which China’s
zero-Covid policy?
have been stark:
exports declined
While high inflation
the country’s onceyear on year in
has been exacerbated
thriving export
December
by the war in Ukraine
market has been
and has affected global
battered by almost three
economies, countries that
years of shutdown, with
pursued the toughest anti-Covid
exports declining by 9.9 per cent
measures, closing borders and
year on year in December, the
imposing lockdowns for longest,
sharpest decline since the start of
are now experiencing serious
the pandemic.

9.9%

China’s latest GDP figures, out
next week, are expected to miss a
5.5 per cent target – and although
that sort of growth is what the UK
can only dream of, it is a sign of how
one of the world’s biggest economic
powerhouses has taken a hit.
In New Zealand, the economy
contracted in 2022 and is forecast to
go into full recession this year. While
the same is true of the UK, analysts
are now predicting Britain’s slump
will be much shallower than
previously feared, and the Bank of
England Governor, Andrew Bailey,
said this week that it looked like the
“corner has turned” on inflation.
Voters in New Zealand have
become dissatisfied not only with
economic woes but rising crime
and unemployment. And there
are signs in Beijing of panic that
years of lockdowns are starting to
cause lasting economic damage and
political danger for President Xi.
While the governments of New
Zealand and China shared a policy

of zero Covid, there are, of course,
clear differences between the two
countries – meaning that voters in
New Zealand can democratically
elect a new government if they wish,
this October.
Ms Ardern ended her country’s
policy a year ago, but kept
some restrictions in place until
last September. She continued
to face widespread criticism for
imposing vaccine mandates on
public sector workers, which added
to her growing unpopularity.
Despite her unpopularity in more
recent months, her achievements in
office should not be overlooked.
Since arriving as the world’s
youngest-ever female world leader
in 2017, Ms Ardern consistently
punched New Zealand above its
political weight and in leaving
office she should be congratulated
for having the self-awareness to
know when to quit – something few
of her global counterparts would
ever do.

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IN DEPTH

Sunak gets squeezed on all sides
A new Tory faction
is a reminder to the
Prime Minister of the
competing interests
he must manage

O

n Tuesday evening,
the team that briefly
formed Liz Truss’s
Cabinet squeezed into
the office of Simon
Clarke, the former levelling up
secretary, to witness the birth of the
Tories’ latest pressure group.
Over a buffet of crisps,
breadsticks and Tesco wine, the
allies held a reunion to discuss
the formation of the Conservative
Growth Group (CGG), a new caucus
to hold Rishi Sunak’s feet to the fire
over their single biggest issue: how
to grow the economy.
While those behind the group
insist that the decision to create
another new faction within the
Tories is purely to “support” the
Prime Minister in his policies, its
existence is only likely to serve as a
reminder of the competing interests
Mr Sunak must manage.
The new CGG is just the latest
in a long list of Conservative
caucuses, each of which are vying to
ensure their policies and priorities
are at the forefront of the Prime
Minister’s mind.
Some, however, are more
troublesome than others and the
new Trussite group demanding
growth be at the centre of the
Government’s agenda threatens to
be one of the most problematic for
Mr Sunak.
The founding members of the
CGG claim that their motives are
merely to help the Government
develop growth policies that will
“give us the best chance of winning
as many seats as possible at the
next election”. One said:
“The strange thing is it’s
really got nothing to do
with Liz. Her name’s
been attached to it
but that’s really not
the idea.”
But there is deep
suspicion elsewhere of
the group, as it is founded
by those who vigorously
opposed Mr Sunak’s leadership
bid during the toxic campaign over
the summer. Alongside Mr Clarke
as a founding member is Ranil
Jayawardena, who briefly held
the post of environment secretary
during Ms Truss’s administration.
Ms Truss (inset) herself “dropped
in” to the launch party this week,
but her allies said she did not
speak. “Liz always wants to see
the promotion of growth policies
wherever they come from,” a source
close to her said.
One member of the CGG
said: “The Prime Minister has
listed growth as one of his five
achievements, which we fully
support, and we want to come

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forward with ideas that will help
the Government get there. We
will be working with people inside
and outside government to test
these ideas, to work with the key
drivers of the economy and for the
Government to adopt them.”
Among the first areas the group
will look at will be childcare, which
was among Ms Truss’s “supply
side reforms” that she hoped to
introduce in a bid to kick-start
the economy.
“People may look at
this and say this is a Liz
Truss approach to the
world, and of course
there are some really
good ideas that people
came up with during
her leadership, but there
are lots of other good ideas
as well as to how we can make
childcare more flexible, or more
generous through shared parental
leave. Perhaps we could look at
how to share childcare within the
family, such as sharing tax breaks;
there are all sorts of things that can
be done to improve this area,” the
MP said.
The group insists that the
country can return to sustained
growth within two years, but only if
the Prime Minister focuses on the
issue relentlessly.
“We are going to try and make
sure we win the next election, only
the people can decide who wins and
we believe reducing people’s taxes,
keeping more of people’s money in
their pockets and delivering growth

in the economy to fund the public
services they rely on is the best way
of achieving that,” the Tory added.
The first of its policies will
appear within the next few months,
while the caucus plans to meet
every week and will divide itself
up into policy areas within the
overarching group.
For the Prime Minister’s
supporters, however, it will look
like an attempt to fight the last war,
with Trussites seeking to foist their
policies on the Government having
been kicked out of office for nearly
crashing the economy. Some of the
former prime minister’s ideas, such
as a radical deregulation of planning
laws, have been firmly rejected by
the new regime.
Were it just the one faction then
No 10 may be able to manage it, but
it is just one of many such conclaves
within the Tories, including the
still powerful European Research
Group, the China Research Group,
the Northern Research Group, the
Planning Reform Group, the Covid
Recovery Group, the Net Zero
Scrutiny Group, the Conservative
Environment Network, the One
Nation Caucus, the Tory Reform
Group and the Blue Collar

Ms Truss ‘dropped
into’ the launch party,
but her allies said she
did not speak

Conservatives to name but a few.
Each has its own agenda and several
are willing to make waves.
The Conservative Democratic
Organisation, set up by allies of
Boris Johnson, is planning a launch
conference with a gala black-tie
dinner in May, likely to take place
shortly after the local elections,
where it will reveal its next steps in
the campaign to give Tory members
more control of their party.
A source in the group said: “We
are gathering momentum behind
the scenes, we are inundated with
people wanting to join us.” The
former home secretary, Priti Patel,
is becoming increasingly involved
in the organisation and it is hoping
to sign up more MPs as supporters
within Westminster.
Ministers are also concerned
that traditionalists on the Common
Sense Group could try to push
the party into a tougher line on
trans rights – Kemi Badenoch, the
Equalities Minister, is planning
to write MPs a “dear colleague
letter” to explain the Government’s
decision to ban conversion therapy
and head off public grumbling.
She is keen to reassure concerned
Tory colleagues that the new law
would not result in any unintended
consequences, sources said,
such as preventing parents from
speaking to their children who are
questioning their gender.
“We want to show we are
committed to doing this, but we
need to build proper time for
scrutiny,” they said. “We will be

letting MPs know more details
about what is happening.”
Some of the older heads in
the Tory party blame the newer
intake of MPs for the mutinous
sentiment that now bubbles among
the backbenches.
One Tory veteran said that MPs
who arrived in 2019 but due to the
pandemic were not shown the ropes
or given a chance to learn loyalty
in the Commons were quick to
cause trouble.
“Most of them really think they
won their seat and not Boris and the
Brexit vote. They are deluded,” the
senior backbencher said. “They are
not all bad. Some worked their way
up and were candidates for over a
few years. It’s the likes of those that
were given a crack at a seat they
would never have won and were
dropped in a few weeks out. Most
were not Tories and were Ukip
turncoats. They get in and think
they are on I’m A Celebrity... ranting
and talking shite.”
The source added: “Rishi has
addressed them by giving them jobs
to lock them in to keep them from
setting fire to the ship. He knows
they will be gone after the next
election but it’s stabilising them to
get them to that point.”
A minister who is close to Mr
Sunak warned that those who
persist in making waves now could
come to regret it in future: “People
remember if you are an arsehole for
a very long time.”

Richard Vaughan, Hugo Gye
and Chloe Chaplain

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NEWS

RELIGION

Welby won’t personally bless same-sex couples
By Aine Fox and Tim Sigsworth

The Archbishop of Canterbury has
“joyfully” welcomed proposals to
bless same-sex married couples, but
said he would not personally carry
them out due to his “pastoral responsibility for the whole communion”.
Justin Welby spoke as the Church
of England issued a formal apology
for its historic rejection and exclusion of LGBTQI+ people.
Plans to allow such blessings for
the first time were outlined earlier

this week, but same-sex couples will
still be unable to marry in church.
The blessings have
been welcomed by some
as progress on what is a
divisive issue, but others
have said they do not go
far enough.
Mr Welby (inset) said
while he is “extremely
joyfully celebratory” of
the proposals, he will not
offer them in his role as the highest-ranking religious leader of a

church that has varying views on
the subject.
He told a press conference at Lambeth Palace
Library: “Because of
my pastoral care and
responsibility of being
a focus of unity for the
whole communion I will,
while being extremely
joyfully celebratory of
these new resources, not personally use them in order not to compromise that pastoral care.”

Mr Welby spoke of a parish priest
he knew in the past who was gay.
He said: “The next thing I heard
was that the pressure of living with
the Church’s attitude had led to
his suicide.”
He said he wished the priest could
be “here today because I think he
would be able to feel that, perhaps it
wasn’t everything he wanted, but it
said that he wasn’t a lesser”.
Bishop of London Dame Sarah
Mullally described the blessings
move as a “significant change”, but

SWITZERLAND

Comment

Thunberg joins
protests at Davos
against use of
fossil fuels

Britain’s adoption
system is in peril and
letting children down
Federica Cocco

A

curious thing has
happened to adoptions
in the UK: while the pool
of approved adopters
has expanded, the
number of adoptions is in decline.
Covid-19 is partly to blame, but this
trend predates it. The effects have
been devastating: children are now
waiting much longer – an average of
660 days – to be adopted.
There are a number of factors at
play here, including the pressure on
family courts and local authorities,
and disrupted working patterns
during the pandemic. The cost
of living crisis has added new
complexities: as ageing foster
parents retire, young couples
facing financial uncertainty
are less willing to take
children in. Social
workers specialising
in adoption are
particularly hard to
recruit, the training is
complex and the churn
rate is high.
“Many in the workforce
in children’s services have
less than two years’ post-qualified
experience. Many will never have
seen an adoption,” Carol Homden
(inset), the chief executive of
Britain’s oldest children’s charity,
Coram, tells me.
There are also funding issues.
Local authorities, which are already
under enormous financial strain,
are increasingly reluctant to pay
voluntary agencies to recruit, train,
assess and support adopters. In
the past year, two – St Francis’
Children’s Society and Families for
Children – became insolvent and
folded, further reducing capacity in
the system.
Delays matter for multiple
reasons, not least because, as Ms
Homden warns, the longer children

acknowledged it will be voluntary for
clergy to decide whether they want
to perform them, likening it to the
situation with the marriage of people
who have been divorced.
The Bishop of Oxford, the most
senior bishop in the Church of England to have called for a change in
doctrine to allow gay marriage, said
there is “further to go”.
Dr Steven Croft added: “It is very
good for us to be able to say today
that the Church can now offer public
services of blessing.”

are waiting in care, the less likely
they are to be adopted.
Adoptions have undergone an
extraordinary evolution over the
past century. The system was only
formalised after women joined the
workforce and parliament in the
1920s. By 1946, the number of legal
adoptions had reached 21,000, but it
is likely that others were arranged
informally by family doctors.
This was not always successful,
and some young mothers were
forced to give up their children.
Unbeknown to their biological
parents, thousands of youngsters
were sent to Australia in the 50s
and 60s.
The peak year for adoptions in
England and Wales was 1968, at
24,800. But after this point, the
availability of both contraception
and abortion services sparked a
dramatic drop in the number of
unwanted pregnancies.
The corresponding
rapid decline in
adoptions was also
spurred by the
increasing provision of
social security benefits,
childcare and housing to
unmarried mothers, who
could now afford to raise
their own children.
However, some of this
progress is now at risk. Fewer
adoptions mean more children
ending up in care, which results in
worse life outcomes.
Both infants and prospective
adopters – who have been approved
via a meticulous and costly vetting
process – are waiting desperately
for the local authorities to get their
act together.
According to Ms Homden,
“things are very likely to get worse
before they get better”. This is a
system that is quick to veer off the
rails, and very slow to get back
on track.
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By Maha El Dahan

Greta Thunberg with activists at Davos yesterday FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/GETTY

Greta Thunberg and around 30
other activists braved sub-zero
temperatures yesterday in a
protest calling for climate justice
as the World Economic Forum
meeting wound up in Davos.
The protesters chanted “What
do we want? Climate justice.
When do we want it? Now” and
“Fossil fuels have got to go”, while
Thunberg held up a sign saying
“Keep it in the ground”.
Ms Thunberg, who was
detained by police in Germany
earlier this week during a
demonstration against the
expansion of a coal mine, was in
Davos after a Thursday roundtable discussion with the head of
the International Energy Agency.
The 20-year-old Swedish
activist stuck to her stance
against all new oil, gas and
coal developments during the
fringe event.
The IEA director Fatih Birol
said new investments in oil fields
would take years to become
operational. They would be too
late to allay the energy crunch,
but would contribute to the
climate crisis.

POLICE

Sunak given fine after being
caught not wearing seatbelt
By Sam Blewett

Rishi Sunak has been fined by
police for failing to wear a
seatbelt while filming a
social media clip in the
back of a moving car.
The Prime Minister
apologised for the “brief
error of judgement” as
he carried out a series of
visits on Thursday, after
Lancashire Police confirmed
they were looking into the incident.

Yesterday the force said: “We have
issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of
fixed penalty.”
Earlier, Tory MP Scott
Benton (inset) suggested
that police were wasting
their time by “looking
into” Mr Sunak, adding
that “politically motivated complaints” about
the offence that carries a
maximum fine of £500 are “not
good use of frontline resources”.

Labour said it would be “very serious” if Mr Sunak received a second
fine, having paid a fixed-penalty notice during the Partygate scandal.
Downing Street said that “of
course” the Prime Minister did not
believe anyone was above the law.
Mr Benton said that while the
force did an “amazing job”, he believed “their time is better spent
investigating serious crime which
impacts on my constituents”.
Asked about the MP’s remarks,
the No 10 spokesman said: “It’s entirely a matter for the police where
they allocate resources.”
Downing Street previously said
Mr Sunak “fully accepts this was a
mistake and apologises”.

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Comment

‘We thought we were gonna live forever’
David Crosby
believed that his
generation was
mostly right. By
Eddi Fiegel

TRIBUTE

‘He was the
glue that held
us together’

W

ith most
interviewees,
what they actually
say is what you
remember in years
to come. Occasionally however,
the preamble can be almost as
memorable. That was certainly the
case when I met David Crosby.
It was the summer of 2002. I was
writing a biography of “Mama”
Cass Elliot of The Mamas and
Papas and she and Crosby had been
close friends until her death in 1974
at the age of 32.
I had approached
Crosby through
the usual official
channels and
heard nothing, but
after I had been
in Los Angeles for
about six weeks
interviewing other
people, his agent told
me he might be willing
to talk. Crosby suggested I
come out to the Santa Ynez valley
where he was living. “Great,” I said.
“What’s the address?”
Instead, he suggested I meet him
in a café in his tiny local town. Once
I arrived, it didn’t take me long
to spot him. With his distinctive,
white long hair and handlebar
moustache, the then 61-year-old
Crosby was sitting at a table on

By Mike Bedigan and Ellie Iorizzo

David Crosby in
2012 and, inset,
as a young man
MARIO ANZUONI/
REUTERS

the pavement outside
the café, and while we
chatted, he stared at me
closely. Then he suddenly
suggested we decamp to his
ranch. “Follow me in my car,”
he told me.
I realised I had passed the
audition. Four decades of being
one of America’s biggest stars had
obviously left him uneasy with
people he hadn’t vetted himself.
The ranch itself was far from
flash. Crosby stretched himself
out on a sun lounger. Over the next
couple of hours he talked candidly

about Elliot, their friendship, their
early days as penniless folkies.
There was the occasional hint
of the outsize ego and swagger
for which he was often renowned.
When I mentioned that he probably
saw less of Elliot after 1970 when
the supergroup he formed with
Graham Nash and Stephen Stills
was selling albums by the million,
he agreed that he was “in the
biggest group in America at the
time and sort of busy”.
But for the most part, what I
saw was the mischievousness,
warmth and insight for which

Appreciation

One of rock’s bad boys – but
not afraid to sound vulnerable
Ed Power

D

avid Crosby was not the
first young man to pick
up an acoustic guitar
and emote his heart out
with a cracked voice
and tear-strewn eyes. But Crosby,
who has died aged 81, nonetheless
made it feel as if he had invented
a new kind of music. Crosby took
something old and made it fresh
and vital. He did so first with The
Byrds in the mid-1960s and later as
a linchpin of folk behemoths Crosby,
Stills & Nash.
With flowing moustache and
twinkling eyes, it was easy to
mistake Crosby for a human
manifestation of the hippy dream
when he became a fixture on the
LA songwriter scene. The same
misunderstanding was possible
with his music, which, at first
inspection, had the balmy quality of
a quiet day on a calm lake.

But though he looked like a teddy
bear, Crosby was one of rock’s
original bad boys. Groupies, drugs,
punch-ups with his bandmates
– these were the clichés of the
out-of-control rock star that Crosby
helped originate. He would snort
cocaine on stage; in 1986 he
spent five months behind
bars for drugs and
firearms possession.
Crosby, Stills &
Nash were from
wildly different
backgrounds. Crosby
the drop-out son of
a cinematographer,
Stephen Stills a bad boy
from Texas, Graham Nash
a classic tunesmith from Salford.
Crosby’s sweet murmur entwined
that of his bandmates in a way that
sounds almost freakishly heavenly.
But there was bite to go with the
dudes-on-a-porch bromance. On
“Long Time Gone”, he crooned:
“You got to speak your mind if
you dare”.
Crosby Stills & Nash did. They

arrived at the height of the civil
rights movement and the Vietnam
backlash, when the Sixties dream
had started to curdle. Crosby
captured that disillusionment
perfectly, his falsetto splintering
with emotion. The sense that he
was an eyewitness to history was
underscored by the presence of
CSN at Woodstock in 1969. It was a
bittersweet moment – the point at
which the Sixties dream peaked and
went into terminal decline.
On stage, they existed
in almost supernatural
harmony. Off it, they
feuded constantly. “I
think that came from
all the cocaine we
snorted,” Nash said
later. “That’s what
brought egos into it.”
They also took full
advantage of the era of
free love. The irony is that, if they
treated women like commodities,
in their music Crosby and his
bandmates took a stand against
the machismo that would become
a defining trait of rock through the
1970s. He brought an energy that
was raw and feminine: he didn’t
swagger and strut, he wasn’t afraid
to sound vulnerable.

his friends clearly loved him.
Whereas Elliot didn’t survive,
Crosby, against considerable
odds, did, and when we met, he
clearly had the hard-won wisdom
of someone who had lived to tell
the tale.
“Most of the things we believed
in back then, we were right about,”
he said. “We were right about civil
rights, we were right about peace
being better than war. We were
wrong about the drugs. Nobody had
died yet, so we didn’t know and we
really didn’t believe there were any
consequences. We thought we were
indestructible. We were young and
we were gonna live forever.”
When it was time to leave, Crosby
told me he would once again lead
me out to the road back to LA. At
first Crosby’s car was just ahead of
me, but then, despite the fact I was
driving fast myself, his car sped
over the horizon and disappeared
from view.
Crosby may have found a slower
life in Santa Ynez, but he clearly
hadn’t quite said goodbye to the
fast lane.

Stephen Stills and Graham Nash
have led tributes to the US musician
David Crosby, who was described as
the “glue that held us together as our
vocals soared”.
The trio formed the influential
Crosby, Stills and Nash – a US supergroup that would later feature Neil
Young – in 1968. Crosby died at the
age of 81 following a “long illness”, his
wife Jan Dance confirmed.
He rose to fame in Los Angelesbased folk-rock group The Byrds,
which he joined in 1964 alongside
Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, Chris
Hillman and Michael Clarke. He collaborated on hits including
a cover of Bob Dylan’s
“Mr Tambourine
Man”, which leapt
to No 1 in the US
singles chart.
Shortly after
leaving The Byrds
in 1967, following a
tumultuous tenure,
he teamed up with
Stills and Nash.
“David and I butted heads a
lot over time, but they were mostly
glancing blows, yet still left us numb
skulls. I was happy to be at peace
with him,” wrote Stills.
“He was without question a giant
of a musician, and his harmonic sensibilities were nothing short of genius. The glue that held us together
as our vocals soared, like Icarus, towards the sun.”
Nash (inset) wrote: “I know people tend to focus on how volatile our
relationship has been, but what has
always mattered to David and me
more than anything was the pure
joy of the music we created together,
the sound we discovered with one
another, and the deep friendship we
shared over all these many years.”

The Five-Clue Cryptic Crossword
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No 3795

Across

4/5 Useful device for the
Crown Prosecution
Service in a case
involving violence? (7,7)
6

5

Claimed a bit of chicken
in dodgy deal (7)

Down

1

Artist Hotel renovated
when a particularly
squalid residence (7)

2

Tales I found in shops (7)

3

Commanded to be well
organised (7)

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SPECIAL REPORT

‘I was brainwashed
by Boris. I was lied to’
Rather than a Brexit boost, one Devon fish merchant
is laying off 80 per cent of his staff. By David Parsley

F

ish merchant Ian Perkes
won’t forget the day he
met Boris Johnson. It
was 23 August 2019 and
Mr Johnson, less than
a month into his spell as prime
minister, was on an unannounced
visit to the South Devon fishing
town of Brixham.
It was a typically rambunctious
performance from Mr Johnson,
extolling the virtues of Brexit and
the “huge benefits” it would bring
to the UK, not least the folk of this
small but important fishing town.
Mr Perkes, who has been running
his fish merchant business in
Brixham since 1976, sat down with
the prime minister just after Mr
Johnson had shelled out £7.75 for
fish and chips on the harbour.
“Me and my son Joshua chatted
to Boris for about 10 minutes,” he
recalls. “He promised us that we
would need to expand our premises,
employ more staff.
“He told us that when the Brexit
rules came in January 2021 we
would be so busy that we would
take the fish off the French and they
would be desperate to buy it from
us. He said we could look forward to
a very, very prosperous future.”
Roll forward three-and-a-half
years and Mr Perkes’ revenue is
30 per cent down. He had run his
business profitably for 45 years
before the post-Brexit fishing rules
came into force in January 2021.
Now he is having to contemplate
giving up entirely on exports –
which accounted for 85 per cent of
his pre-Brexit sales – and axing up
to a dozen of his 15 staff.
“I was brainwashed by Boris,” he
says. “I voted for Brexit because
we were told it would deliver for us.
I was told that again in August 2019
by Boris when he came here.
“I got it wrong. There are no
positives of Brexit for us. We will
have to go down to just three or four
staff if sales continue like they did
last year. We’ve made a loss for the
past three months, and it doesn’t
look like it’s going to get any better.
“We’ll be left with the 15 per cent
of business we do in the UK because
Boris lied to us, and Brexit ruined
our export business.”
As a fishing merchant, Mr
Perkes’ business is now subject to
a four-fold increase in fees for the
export health certificates needed to
transport fish to the continent.
On top of that, there are customs
charges of £250 each time he sends
fish through Calais and onwards to
their final destination.
“My costs have increased £2,000
to £3,000 a week since Brexit,” he
says. “And we also face increased
competition from all over the world
when it comes to buying fish from
the market.”

That competition has been
Brixham’s thriving fish market’s
gain (see box) – and there are
positive fishing stories in the town,
with trawlers seeking the likes
of Dover sole or ray – commonly
known as skate – selling at better
prices. However, many other fishing
businesses in the South West are,
like Mr Perkes, still waiting for the
benefits of Brexit to come through.
Across the River Tamar in
Cornwall, local fleets are feeling
particularly hard done by over their
ongoing ban on fishing for spurdog.
Better known to fish’n’chip fans
as rock salmon, stocks of the small
species of shark were believed to

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CONSUMER

Price wars lead
to disparities
in fuel prices
By Neil Lancefield

Luke Bosdet, said: “Discovering
that supermarket petrol or diesel
Drivers in most parts of the UK is £5 to £7 a tank more expensive
are missing out on benefiting from than just 10 miles down the road is
supermarket fuel price wars, ac- guaranteed to leave drivers livid.
cording to an analysis.
“It just doesn’t make sense, parThe AA said retail firms engaged ticularly when other essentials like
in competitive pump price cuts bread, milk and eggs are pretty
much the same price wherare primarily restricted
ever you go.
to northern England,
“Say, for instance,
Northern Ireland and
a supermarket lures
Wales. But even in
you into their store
those areas, price
with a voucher offerreductions are
The amount in
pence per litre that
ing £6 off a £60 shoponly being seen in
fuel prices differed
ping bill.
certain towns.
in various parts of
“To find out that
Supermarket petGreater Manchester
rol in Greater Manthat supermarket
last weekend
chester last weekend
clawed back all that saving, and perhaps £1 on top
was as much as 13p per
of that, at the pump, compared
litre cheaper in Ashton-underLyne – where three superstores to a superstore in a neighbouring
in close proximity went “head to town, will quite rightly lead to a
head on fuel” – than 10 miles away howl of protest.
“The retailers only get away
in Rochdale, the AA said.
There are major differences in with it because the fuel price
transparency that the Competiaverage fuel prices across the UK.
In Northern Ireland, diesel tion and Markets Authority recwas 10p per litre cheaper than in ommended to the Government in
London and south-east England October doesn’t yet exist, except in
earlier this week. In Wales, the Northern Ireland.”
Average UK petrol prices conprice was 6p per litre below that in
tinued to fall this week, reaching
southern England.
An AA fuel price spokesman, 148.6p a litre on Wednesday.

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Ian Perkes’ costs
have increased
by up to £3,000 a
week since Brexit;
below left, the
Banksy work ‘Let
Them Eat Fish’

Brixham Fish Market A Brexit beneficiary

have fallen by 90 per cent and the
Cornish have been banned from
catching them since 2010.
Newlyn fisherman Phil Mitchell
has spent 12 years working with
scientists proving the abundance of
spurdog, but the Government has
failed to agree a deal with the EU
to lift the ban on him, and many like
him, catching it again. “The French,
Irish and Spanish can all work away
and we’re still dumping loads of
dead spurdog,” says Mr Mitchell.
“It’s just unbelievable.”
The Government argues that the
UK fishing industry will be £34m
better off this year following a
deal struck at the end of 2022 that
brought the total value of fishing
“opportunities” secured for the UK
fleet to £750m since Brexit.
However, much of the increase in
quotas apply to UK fishermen in the
North of England, where there is
plentiful supply of cod and haddock.
Chris Ranford, chief executive
of the Cornish Fish Producers
Organisation, argues that the
South West has been left behind
by the Government. “They’re the
sort of end-of-year headlines the
Government likes to announce,” he
says. “In reality, in the South West
we’ve actually had a £2m loss of
fishing opportunities since 2021.”

With a strong fishing tradition
dating back to the 14th century,
Brixham is credited with being one
of the birthplaces of trawling.
The South Devon town that rolls
down to the coast on the western
side of Torbay now has England’s
largest fish market by value of
fish sold. It is a rare post-Brexit
success story in the industry.
Back in 2017, fish traded through
the market hit a record £40m. That
record lasted until the new postBrexit fishing regimes came into
force in 2021, when the market
traded £43.6m of fish.
Many thought that record would
stand for many years to come –
but it did not even last 12 months:
in 2022, £60.8m worth of fish was
traded in the port.

Even a former Conservative
environment minister is now
criticising the Brexit deal he backed
when in Mr Johnson’s cabinet.
George Eustice was in charge of the
fishing industry when he was, until
Mr Johnson’s downfall last year,
secretary of state for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs.
He now says he believes the
Brexit fishing deal should have been
better negotiated by Lord Frost, the
UK’s chief negotiator for exiting the
European Union during the Brexit
negotiations in 2019 and then chief
negotiator of Task Force Europe
until he resigned in December 2021.

We’re left with the
15 per cent of business
we do in the UK because
Brexit ruined our exports

The market puts its success
down to high fish prices, and the
success of the group’s online
auctions and newly built boats
fishing from the port.
Boats from other ports in
Cornwall, the South and South
East of England, and South Wales
have also been landing their fish in
Brixham as prices at the auction
were so favourable.
Barry Young, managing director
of Brixham Trawler Agents,
believes the market will have
to expand due to demand. “The
biggest issue we face is space,” he
said. “With the additional volumes
of fish, Brixham has outgrown the
market that was built in 2011 when
the values of fish landed were
approaching £20m.”

“[Lord Frost] was reluctant to
make any concessions, and in the
end it all happened in the final few
days,” says Mr Eustice of the fishing
deal with the EU. “It didn’t serve
us well leaving fisheries till the
very end. I think it would have been
better had it been addressed earlier
in the negotiation.”
On the wall behind Ian Perkes’
processing units in the harbour is a
Banksy mural, titled Let Them Eat
Fish. Many fishermen in the South
West might point out that they need
to be allowed to catch them before
people can eat them.
A Defra spokesperson said: “We
constantly work in collaboration
with fishing communities across
the UK to ensure they have a longterm and sustainable future – and
our agreement with the EU secures
valuable fishing opportunities
for the UK fishing industry while
cementing our joint commitment to
manage fisheries sustainably.”

INDUSTRY

British Steel may get £300m bailout
By Dominic McGrath
and August Graham

The Government is considering a
plan to funnel nearly a third of a billion pounds towards British Steel
to save the firm from collapse.
A Treasury source said the
Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is thinking about handing the company
£300m in instalments, if it meets
certain conditions.
The investment could help protect jobs at the company, which employs about 4,000 people directly.
It could also save the Government an even bigger bill should
British Steel collapse. British Steel

could not be reached for comment.
The Department for Business said
the Government “recognises the
vital role that steel plays within the
UK economy, supporting local jobs
and growth”.
It said it was “committed to securing a sustainable and competitive future for the UK steel sector”.
“While we cannot comment on
negotiations, the Business Secretary considers the success of the
steel sector a priority and continues to work closely with industry to
achieve this,” a spokesperson said.
The Government is to tell British
Steel about the potential deal in the
coming days.

SOCIETY

Rich leave Britain as Brexit bites
By Isabella Bengoechea

The super-rich are leaving Britain
in their droves as the consequences
of Brexit become more entrenched.
It is estimated that since the
2016 EU referendum, 12,000
high-net-worth people have left
the country. These are defined as
those with liquid assets of at least
$1m (£810,000).
Last year 1,400 millionaires left

Britain, according to the citizenship advisory company Henley
and Partners.
Many of these are likely to have
been high-earning bankers who
worked in the City of London. Since
Brexit many bankers based in the
capital have been transferred elsewhere in Europe.
Henley and Partners said the
UAE had seen the biggest increase
of high-net-worth people in 2022.

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EXCLUSIVE

Sex crimes officer accused
of assaulting colleague
By Claudia Tanner

A serving Met Police detective who
is thought to have been responsible
for investigating sex crimes has been
accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague at a police station.
The alleged incident occurred
when the pair were alone in the station together in 2019.
The woman, who worked in a support role as a civilian, reported the
incident 10 days after it occurred.
The CPS decided not to proceed
with a prosecution against the officer, who she says was responsible for
investigating sex crimes at the time.
She was told that the decision was
taken due to a lack of evidence, and
is now taking the force to an employment tribunal, accusing it of victimisation and discrimination.
The woman left the force after
being told that a gross misconduct
hearing against the officer was
also being dropped. She told i that
the episode had destroyed her trust
in the police. “These are the people
you’re meant to call on when you
need help. I couldn’t carry on working for them,” she said.

Trust in the police has come under
greater scrutiny since the murder of
Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens
in 2021. This week it emerged that
Met officer David Carrick had committed 48 rapes, abusing his position
to coerce victims in a campaign of
sexual abuse for two decades, despite the force being told repeatedly
of the allegations.
The Met recently revealed it is reviewing 1,000 sexual and domestic
abuse claims involving about 800 of
its officers. Met commissioner, Sir
Mark Rowley, has vowed to reform
the force “at speed”.
The woman involved in the 2019
incident is angry at the legal support she says her alleged attacker
received from the Police Federation,
the officers’ union, and the force
itself. The officer was suspended
Lawyers for the
Metropolitan Police have
secured a reporting restriction
to try to limit press coverage of
the case, after i initially made
enquiries relating to the case.

from duties for two years, but then
returned to work.
She said the complaints process
was “not fit for purpose”, adding:
“The detective was given Police
Federation support ... but because
I’m a civilian I’ve had to pay for legal
support.
“He was able to give multiple
statements but detectives never
went back to me for further information or statements after the first one
I gave. It’s unfair that I was given no
information about the discrepancies.
“I didn’t want to report it at first.
I’ve seen so many cases of how victims are treated badly. I was traumatised. I had physical effects. I had
rashes, I kept bursting into tears at
my desk. I couldn’t function.
“I just hate the thought that a man
capable of sexually abusing like this
will have access to really vulnerable
people and isn’t being stopped.”
A Met Police spokesperson said:
“The matter is progressing to an
employment tribunal hearing and
therefore it would be inappropriate
to comment further at this stage.
“We take all allegations of this
nature extremely seriously.”

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EQUALITY

Biting police
comment
Plastic rotten apples are left
by members of the domestic
violence charity Refuge
outside New Scotland
Yard in London yesterday.
PETER NICHOLLS/REUTERS

Met officers routinely denigrate
women, says female former PC
Exclusive
By Alannah Francis

Met Police officers refer to the public
as “slags”, routinely make perverted
comments about women while on
patrols and ostracise new recruits
who speak out, a female former PC
in the force has claimed.
The woman, who i is not naming,
joined the Met in March 2021 and
has detailed a series of factors that
led to her resignation.
The female former police constable joined the force as she wanted to
foster better relationships between
the Met and the community.
She said she soon discovered that
what she had previously put down as
hyperbole by the press echoed the
stark reality of life in the Met.
“While training I discovered the
Met calls the public ‘slags’ – not in
the sense you would think, but that
they are slaggy or slags in general,”
she said.
“This surprised me. Male officers
also drive around making perverted
comments about women.”
She described how male officers would “discuss who they
would have sex with daily” includ-

‘Thought of being part of the Met was
embarrassing’, said a former officer

ing female officers and members of
the public.
“I wanted to help the public and
improve the relationship between
the police and the public,” the former
PC said.
“I was constantly reading negative articles about the police
and I thought, ‘Join up and make
a change’.”
The ex-officer said she still questions whether leaving was the right
choice. “I was and still am so disappointed,” she said.
“I loved the actual job serving the
public, helping people in the worst
times. It was hard work to get in and
to go into a young environment.

“I sometimes wonder if I did the
right thing, but for me the thought
of being part of the Met was
embarrassing.
“Dealing with people in a rude,
uncaring way was not something I
could stand by and see and not be
able to challenge it.”
Figures obtained by i last month
suggest she is far from the only one.
Thousands of police officers recruited under Boris Johnson’s 2019 manifesto pledge to boost numbers had
already resigned by December, while
the officer said she knew of eight colleagues from her intake who have
quit because of the culture.
“In my experience what is being
said about the Met is completely accurate,” she said.
The Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Bas Javid, who is responsible
for the Met’s professionalism command, said: “There is absolutely no
place in the Met for racism, misogyny or any other form of discrimination, and we have been working
incredibly hard to remove people
from the organisation who corrupt
our integrity and let down the dedicated honest majority of officers
and staff.”

EXCLUSIVE

‘Met misses red flags and abuse in reports’
Victims’ Commissioner says police have difficulty recognising problems. By Serina Sandhu

T

he Metropolitan Police
is missing “red flag”
behaviour when abuse
is reported, the London
Victims’ Commissioner
has said. The catalogue of crimes
against women committed by David
Carrick while he was a serving
officer means the public’s trust
and confidence in the force has
plummeted even further, Claire
Waxman told i.
But despite this, the Met
continues to miss crucial signs
when women and girls come
forward to report offenders.
Ms Waxman, who became
the capital’s first Victims’
Commissioner in 2017 and
deals directly with victims, was
“horrified” after Carrick pleaded
guilty to 49 offences, including 24
counts of rape, against 12 women
between 2003 and 2020. He was
sacked from the force on Tuesday.
She said she could not
understand how the force had “such
a prolific sex offender and abuser
in their own ranks” who went
unchallenged for so long.
A review into the culture of the
Met, led by Baroness Casey, found
up to 60 per cent of misconduct
allegations involving staff receive
“no case to answer” decisions.
In the wake of Carrick’s crimes,
all forces in England and Wales
will check their officers against the

national police databases to identify
anyone who has “slipped through
the net” by the end of March.
And more than 1,000 Met officers
and staff previously accused of
domestic abuse or sexual offences
are having their cases reviewed.
Ms Waxman, who is herself a
victim of stalking of two decades,
said while the Met is taking positive
steps forward, victims remain
concerned about who is looking at
their complaints.
“I think it’s very hard for the Met
to assess these complaints because

they are part of the culture, so how
can they recognise [the problem]?”
she said. “What I see often is that
they don’t necessarily pick up some
of the red flag behaviours such as
the dynamics of abuse. They’re
missing some of this.
“That’s maybe because they’ve
got a quite a young force now, who
haven’t yet got the expertise and
experience to work on some of
these cases.”
Ms Waxman called for experts
from the violence against women
and girls (Vawg) sector to be

embedded within the Met, including
the anti-corruption unit.
The role of the London Victims’
Commissioner, appointed by the
Mayor of London, is to overhaul
the criminal justice system and
scrutinise areas where victims
are being failed, including by the
country’s biggest police force.
The Met said: “The Met will
become ruthless at rooting out
those who corrupt our integrity.
That’s because our integrity is
our foundation.
“We haven’t guarded this as

Project for better policing Independent victim care hub
Claire Waxman said some of
her ideas for reforming victims’
experience of the police and justice
process have not been welcomed.
“They don’t like the idea of a
independent victim care hub,” she
said, referring to her vision for an
entity that supports victims all the
way through the criminal justice
system to keep them engaged,
informed and supported.
For some victims it could be an
online portal with regular updates
regarding their case, while more
vulnerable people may require a
“case companion” throughout.
“It’s not just about the Met,
it’s the [Crown Prosecution

Service], it’s the courts, it’s post
trial, it’s everyone. This would
have oversight of the entire
justice system from a victim’s
perspective,” she said.
Ms Waxman (inset) said
the Met supported the
idea of a victim care
hub run by the force,
but took issue with it
being independent.
“They can improve
the way they interact
with victims but they
cannot deliver the vision I have
for the independent victim care
hub,” she said.
“They know how valuable the

relationship with the victim is
to the investigation so I think
they’re a little bit fearful that [an
independent hub] might impact
that relationship as well as
their trust in the force.
“But they’ve got to
realise this is not just
how I feel, it’s how the
public feel. It would
be incredibly brave to
do something really
transformative. It would
set them apart from any
other force in the country.
“The hub would support
investigations and alleviate some
of the pressures officers face.”

ferociously as we must and we will
do. In the four months to date, we’ve
launched a new anti-corruption
and abuse command, putting 30
per cent more officers into fighting
corruption. And we’ve done
public appeals.
“We’ve raised 250 fresh lines
of inquiry, and we’re doing more
proactive work against problematic
officers than ever before.
“At the end of March, we plan to
write to the Home Secretary and
the Mayor in an open public letter.
And by then, we will also have
finished reviewing all of our people,
having checked their details against
all the police, national intelligence
data in the police national database.
“We’ll have begun a full review of
our national vetting process, we’ll
have completed Operation Onyx,
which is our review of the officers
and staff whom we have concerning
domestic or sexual incident
reports against.
“And we’ll also have tested new
legal routes to dismiss those who
fail vetting. It is essential that we
engage with victims and to protect
and support them, gather evidence,
and improve trust and confidence,
allowing them to feel safe in
reporting any future crimes. We are
committed to providing an effective
service to all victims.
“A review is being commissioned
to explore all options.”

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ENVIRONMENT

Die-off of marine life ‘was
caused by mystery virus’
By Steve Robson

The mass die-off of marine life in the
North East is not related to dredging and was most probably caused
by a mystery virus, a report commissioned by the Government says.
Environmental groups, local
MPs and fishing businesses have
expressed increasing concern over
what caused thousands of shellfish
to wash up dead on beaches in Teesside in the autumn of 2021. Crab and
lobster catches have remained significantly lower ever since.
But a report published by the Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs (Defra) last May concluded a naturally occurring algae
bloom was the most likely cause.
Many remained unconvinced,
however, and a row erupted when
a group of scientists commissioned
by the North East Fishing Collective
suggested that pyridine, a toxin left
in the sediment and a legacy of Teesside’s former coal and steel industries, was to blame.
They believe the pyridine was disturbed during maintenance dredging of the River Tees and argued

Thousands of shellfish washed up on
beaches in Teesside in autumn 2021

that all dredging should therefore
be paused pending further investigation. This would include crucial
dredging work that is needed at
South Bank Quay to open up the
Teesside freeport to large vessels.
Local Conservative politicians,
including the Mayor of Tees Valley,
Ben Houchen, denied dredging on
the Tees was linked to the die-off
and accused Labour colleagues of
whipping up a conspiracy theory to
thwart the freeport plans.
In an effort to bring some closure to the row, Defra commissioned a new independent report,
which was published yesterday by a

panel of 10 scientific experts. The report says: “Considering all available
evidence about Teesside dredging
the panel considers it very unlikely
that release of any toxic chemical,
including pyridine, due to maintenance dredging could have caused
the deaths.”
Overall, the panel was “unable to identify a clear and convincing single cause for the unusual
crustacean mortality”.
However, the panel does believe
an unknown virus is the most likely
cause, despite any lack of direct evidence that such a virus exists.
A novel pathogen would explain
why the shellfish died over a sustained period and a coastline of
roughly 40 miles, the unusual twitching observed in dying crabs, and the
fact that it is mainly crustaceans
dying rather than other species.
“The impact of an algal bloom
would also explain the wide distribution of observed deaths and cannot
be ruled out as a causative factor,”
the report adds.
“It is unlikely, however, that an
algal bloom can explain the twitching
nor the long duration of mortality.”

Mick’s getting up to Speedo
Mick Cullen, otherwise known
as “Speedo Mick”, walks through
Glencoe in sub-zero temperatures
wearing only his swimming
trunks. Mr Cullen is walking
1,000 miles from John O’Groats to

Land’s End while also completing
the Three-Peak Challenge to scale
Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount
Snowdon along the way. So far he
has raised nearly £50,000 for the
Speedo Mick Foundation. PA

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FOCUS

The shops
offering
£2 bags full
of groceries
These alternative supermarkets sell surplus
food – and help people who are struggling
with the cost of living. By Serina Sandhu

T

here are crates full of
glossy tomatoes, huge
garlic bulbs and ripe
avocados. But what many
of the shoppers at Feed
the Hill Social Supermarket are
really looking for is a Pot Noodle.
You only need to add boiling
water to make an instant hot meal
from the cartons of pasta, soya
and flavourings, so they are very
attractive to people who can barely
afford to pay their gas bill or
switch on a fridge. That is
exactly the kind of low
income customer Feed
the Hill is aimed at.
A single Pot Noodle
usually costs at
least £1. But at the
social supermarket
in New Cross, southeast London, you can
buy a couple of bags full of
surplus food from traditional
supermarkets for just £2. Some
will pay nothing at all if they can’t
afford it.
The number of social
supermarkets has expanded
dramatically since the model
was first introduced to Britain
in Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire,
in 2013. They offer a halfway
house between foodbanks and
conventional supermarkets.
Growing demand means waiting
lists to join them have been set up
and are now doubling, i has learned.
As well as helping people on low
incomes access healthy food, they
also reduce waste by passing on
goods that shops can no longer
sell. They’re set up to imitate a
traditional supermarket to provide
dignity and choice to customers,
and to reduce the stigma attached
to receiving a so-called handout by
charging a small fee.
“There’s a huge stigma in people
suffering from food poverty,”
says Hugh Lort-Phillips, a senior
nutrition assessment adviser at
the charity Action Against Hunger,
which supports Feed the Hill and
five other social supermarkets.
“This model really helps us to
overcome that.”
Another charity, Feeding Britain,
supports a national “affordable food

network” of social supermarkets,
food clubs and community pantries.
Over the past year, it has seen its
outlets more than double from 96 to
226, while the number of households
accessing their help has almost
tripled from 14,000 to 40,000.
Feed the Hill never knows what
it’s going to get from supermarkets.
It might be branded goods that have
fallen out of favour, or products
suffering a labelling mishap.
Recently there was a delivery
of smoothies because the
word “guava” had been
incorrectly spelled on
the label, says Sharon
Shamir, who set up
the project in 2020
in response to the
Covid pandemic. She
opens the jumbo freezer
to reveal hundreds of
packets of vegan mince,
which retail for around £3.
They’re two days over their useby date so they can’t be sold in
supermarkets but they’re perfectly
good to eat and will be handed out
as this week’s protein item.
The Feed the Hill team also
buys in staples such as rice, pasta
and tinned goods to ensure each
customer has the ingredients to
make decent meals. Everyone

Pantries Food savings
Not every social supermarket
operates in the same way as
Feed the Hill. People who use the
Your Local Pantry network pay a
membership fee of £3.50-£6.50
a week and pick 10 items from
the shelves. Each shopper saves
around £1,000 a year on food bills.
Your Local Pantry started with a
single site in Stockport in 2013 but,
with support from Church Action
on Poverty, it has grown to a
network of 85 sites around the UK.
James Henderson from the
network said they had a record
number of visits in November 2022
– 19,000 compared to 11,900 a year
earlier. Demand is so high there
are plans to triple the number of
pantries to 225 by July 2025.

Sharon Shamir (main) set up the Feed the Hill Social Supermarket (below) in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic

usually walks away with around £30
worth of food.
Giving people the means to cook
from scratch, despite their financial
troubles, allows them to create a
sense of normality for their children
at dinnertime.
The shop opens every Wednesday
at 10am but customers queue up
outside an hour earlier. Feed the

There’s a huge stigma
in food poverty. This
model really helps
us to overcome that

Hill has quickly become a mainstay
for those in New Cross who cannot
afford the usual supermarkets.
“Darling, Sainsbury’s is for rich
people. We’re poor. I can’t go to
Sainsbury’s. This is my store,” says
a 64-year-old woman as she waits
outside. She comes every week.
For others, like a 33-year-old selfemployed designer who has carried
out work for clients but hasn’t been
paid, Feed the Hill is a stopgap.
It’s his first time and he’s grateful,
giving £1.50 for his shopping. He
had been resorting to stealing food
from supermarkets.
The pandemic forced many
more people to the doors of social
supermarkets and the cost of

living crisis has meant a further
“alarming increase in demand”,
according to Action Against Hunger
UK. The charity has seen social
supermarket membership waiting
lists of 30-40 people grow to around
70 since the crisis began.
Every Wednesday Shamir
and her team serve at least 50
customers – 58 on the day i visits
– over two hours. On top of that,
volunteer drivers deliver shopping
bags to 200 households every week.
“Demand is really our biggest
challenge and we’ve really seen
demand increase over the course of
this winter,” says Shamir.
When the shop opens, customers
come in one by one. Unlike most
food banks, they do not need a
referral voucher and can come as
often as they like. They simply give
Shamir their postcode and their
donation – if they can. She tells
one person: “If you don’t have the
money, please come anyway.”
Some pay in kind, like the
customer who gave the shop a fresh
lick of yellow paint. An unemployed
electrician maintains the fridges.
In Feed the Hill’s fresh section,
you’d expect the goods to be bruised
castoffs, rejected by supermarket
shoppers. But the onions, potatoes,
carrots and bananas are fresh.
Customer Ricky Wilmont remarks
that the quality is “as good as any
market stall”. The 57-year-old, who is
out of work at the moment, says the
stigma attached to food banks and
food poverty has changed.
“I think it’s just the way things are
with society and the economy, it’s
just a normal part of life.”

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CRIME

Man arrested with
suspicious device
A 27-year-old man was arrested
by counter-terrorism police at
St James’s Hospital in Leeds
yesterday after being found
in possession of a suspected
firearm and a suspicious device.
He was arrested at 5am and
taken into custody, said Counter
Terrorism Policing North East.
A vehicle and a number of
premises were being searched
yesterday evening.
Police said it is believed to be
an isolated incident and there
is not thought to be any ongoing
risk to the public.

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Aboard
the flying
saucers
creating life
in space
Space nation Asgardia claims that its
plans to conduct IVF experiments in
orbit could allow us to leave Earth – and
save humanity. Cahal Milmo reports

Scott snubs BBC’s
40th anniversary
Selina Scott has said celebrating
the 40th anniversary of the
BBC’s Breakfast with a “grin”
would have been “dishonest” due
to the treatment she received
while doing the show.
The presenter and journalist,
71, launched the morning
programme at the corporation as
Breakfast Time alongside co-host
Frank Bough (both above) in 1983.
Scott said Bough sought to
“rubbish” her on and off air,
including by making alleged
sexual comments about her in
front of colleagues.

COURTS

Foy stalker to be
sent back to US
A man who
targeted actress
Claire Foy
in a “deeply
frightening”
stalking campaign has avoided a
prison term.
Jack Penrose, 49, was handed
a 22-month suspended sentence
at the Old Bailey yesterday after
admitting to stalking Ms Foy
(inset) and breaching an interim
stalking order by sending a letter
and a parcel to the actress.
A US citizen, he has agreed
to be repatriated to the US.
The court had previously heard
that Ms Foy, 38, who played the
Queen in the Netflix series The
Crown, found the actions of the
stalker “deeply frightening”.

I

n about three months’ time,
a rocket is due to blast off
over Canada, carrying a
module designed to host a
succession of spinning discs
in a temperature-controlled box.
It will be among hundreds of
bits of technology entering orbit
this year. But it is a fair bet that
it will be the only mission with
the eventual goal of conducting
human IVF in space.

A Dutch company, working
with British scientists, has
unveiled detailed plans to push the
boundaries of human endeavour by
carrying out artificial insemination
in an orbiting “bio-satellite” as part
of a long-term mission to produce
the first baby in space.
The extraordinary venture is
being supported by Asgardia,
the so-called “Space Nation”
established by an Azerbaijani-

Background Asgardia’s ‘new space humanity’
Nascent space state Asgardia was
founded in 2016 by Igor Ashurbeyli
(right), an Azerbaijani-Russian
scientist and businessman, who
was re-elected last month as “head
of nation”.
Asgardia has set itself the goal
of creating a “new space humanity”
to be housed in a series of extraplanetary colonies in locations
including “Arks” (illustrated below)
orbiting above Earth.

To help pursue its goals,
the micronation has set up a
parliament, headed by British
former MP and Liberal Democrat
politician Lembit Opik, alongside
a judiciary and an administrative
office based in Vienna.
Named after a Norse legend
describing a city in the sky, Asgardia
plans to limit its population to
150 million and will shortly start
issuing its first passports.

Russian scientist and
multimillionaire with the aim of
setting up the first “off-planet”
human colonies. The micronation,
which says it has more than a
million registered “Asgardians”, last
year amended its constitution to
make the “birth of the human child

in space” – ideally within 25 years
– its “main national mission”.
Spaceborn United, based
in Eindhoven, is developing a
device capable of conducting an
automated IVF procedure in orbit
and then allowing the resulting
embryos to develop for five days
before returning them to Earth.
The scheme, dubbed Artis –
Assisted Reproductive Technology
in Space – hopes to conduct its
first flights carrying human cells
within five years. But the initial
experiments will be “validation
missions” involving sperm and
eggs from mice or rats, with the
scientists recognising they face
“all kinds of ethical and legal issues”
before any flight using human
genetic material – ultimately
with the aim of returning “space
embryos” to a mother for a normal
pregnancy – could be contemplated.
Nonetheless, a first test flight is
scheduled to take place in April with
a new Canadian launch provider,
SpaceRyde, which is perfecting
a system using balloons to carry
rockets for much of their orbital
journey before they then blast
payloads into orbit. While this initial
flight will carry a dummy Artis
payload, it is understood by i that a
fully-functional IVF “bio-satellite”
could be ready for launch within the
next 18 to 24 months.
Dr Egbert Edelbroek, the founder
and CEO of Spaceborn United, who
is also an MP in Asgardia’s virtual
parliament, said that an almost
total lack of scientific knowledge
on human reproduction in space
meant it would be “medically and
ethically irresponsible” to attempt
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Spaceborn’s Artis device would
automatically trigger the IVF
procedure 230km above Earth

Fertilised eggs would grow for five days before being frozen to return to Earth

astronauts having sex. He said the
study of orbital IVF was therefore
an initial step towards gaining the
knowledge needed to build towards
human procreation in space.
“The goal is, indeed, that people
will eventually be able to reproduce
off-planet in a natural way,” he said.
“But to achieve that goal in the most
ethical and medically optimal way,

We might not have
enough time if we
do not accelerate
this space science

we need to study that process with
assisted reproductive technologies.”
The result is a mind-boggling
initiative being worked on by an
international network of scientists,
including experts at Cranfield
University in Bedfordshire, to
build a flying saucer-like module
– measuring 75cm in diameter –
which will house a device allowing
sperm to fertilise eggs in space
while all the time mimicking
conditions on Earth. The team has
devised a system of sealing the
genetic material in a series of discs
about the size of a CD which will
spin at sufficient speed to recreate a
centrifugal force similar to gravity.
Once launched to a height of
about 230km (143 miles) above

Earth, where solar radiation
levels are still considered to be
within safe limits, the temperaturecontrolled Artis device would
automatically trigger the IVF
process before allowing the
fertilised eggs to develop for five
days, with live images beamed
back to scientists. The resulting
“blastocysts” – a rapidly-dividing
ball of cells that goes on to produce
an embryo – would then be frozen
on the Artis module and brought
back to Earth for recovery.
Spaceborn said it was lining
up potential donors for a human
IVF trial. Explaining how it would
work in an online presentation to
Asgardians earlier this month, the
organisation’s science minister,
Floris Wuyts, a Belgian academic,
said: “We [will] only have about
six to eight hours after harvesting
the cells from the natural mother
to bring them into space and have
them fertilised by the sperm.”
Dr Edelbroek said that humanity
faces sufficient immediate and
long-term threats, from global
warming and nuclear war to the
eventual extinction of the Sun
(estimated to be some five billion
years away), to make planning for
a space-borne existence for homo
sapiens, including procreation,
a prudent necessity.
Lembit Opik, the former
Liberal Democrat MP who is now
the chairman of the Asgardian
parliament, told i: “We simply must
identify morally and biologically
sustainable solutions for space
births; otherwise we’ll never
reach other planets – or other
star systems. For Asgardians, the
prospect of our species spending
the next few thousand years only on
Earth is inconceivable. It doesn’t fit
with humanity’s instinct to explore.
Sooner or later human beings have
to safely begin life in space.”
David Cullen, Cranfield’s
professor of astrobiology and
space biotechnology, who has
been advising the Dutch company
on space engineering and the
structure of the Artis scheme, said
the team had been careful to ensure
that the conditions in space for the
IVF procedure would be as similar
to those in an earthbound clinic as
possible. By doing so, the thinking
goes, an eventual approach to
regulators for both space mission
and fertility research may have a
higher chance of success.
He told i: “If we went down
the route of IVF in microgravity,
there is so little known currently
about it that it is highly unlikely
that a regulator would even
consider reviewing it.”
Scientific research on human
IVF embryos is extremely tightly
controlled and there is no existing
scenario which allows human
embryos to be created solely for
scientific purposes.
“We don’t know what it will
take before we are allowed to [use
human cells],” says Dr Edelbroek,
“but it is also an interesting
approach to argue that it might be
unethical not to allow this because
of all the threats to human life on
Earth. We might not have enough
time if we do not accelerate this
space science.”

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ENVIRONMENT

Bottle deposit delay
‘kicking can down road’
By Jane Merrick
POLICY EDITOR

Ministers have been criticised for
delaying the introduction of a deposit scheme for recycling plastic
bottles by a year.
From October 2025, people will
have to pay a deposit of around
20p per plastic bottle or drinks can
when they buy a drink and get the
money refunded when they return
it. But the scheme was originally intended to launch in autumn 2024,
and green campaigners have accused the Government of “kicking
the can down the road”.
Scotland will launch its own deposit return scheme this August,
but the rest of the UK will start
in October 2025 – seven years
after it was originally proposed by
the then environment secretary,
Michael Gove.
The Government also revealed
that glass bottles will no longer be
included in the plans in England
and Northern Ireland, although
they will in Scotland and Wales.
Around 70 per cent of the 14 bil-

lion plastic bottles and nine billion
drinks cans the UK goes through
every year are currently recycled,
but a deposit scheme is likely to
push that figure to 90 per cent.
Megan Randles, political campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said:
“This could have been a moment
for celebration, and of course for
our environment it’s better to have
this proposed system rather than
nothing. But even at the final hurdle, this government bottled it and
excluded glass from the scheme.
“In what kind of world is collecting glass drinks containers not an
essential part of a system designed
to collect drinks containers?
“If we’re serious about leaving
a better natural environment for
future generations, kicking the can
down the road just doesn’t cut it.”
Environment minister, Rebecca
Pow, said: “We want to support
people who want to do the right
thing to help stop damaging plastics polluting our green spaces.
That is why we are moving ahead
using our powers to introduce a
Deposit Return Scheme.”

PEOPLE

Army captain sets record
for solo polar expedition
By Brendan McFadden

A British Army captain has completed the longest unsupported and
solo polar expedition by a woman.
Preet Chandi, a physiotherapist at a rehabilitation unit in
Buckinghamshire, has become
a record-breaker after trekking
868 miles (1,397km) with a 264lb
(120kg) sledge.
The previous female record was
held by Anja Blacha, who skied 858
miles (1,381km) in 2020.
Captain Chandi (pictured), 33,
from Sinfin in Derby, who is known
as Polar Preet, made history in
January 2021 becoming the first
woman of colour to reach the South
Pole without any extra aid.
But she was unable to fulfil her
original aim of becoming the first
woman to cross Antarctica solo
and unsupported.

Captain Chandi started her journey at Hercules Inlet in November
and hoped to reach Reedy Glacier
within 75 days.
In the last update to her online
blog on Thursday, she said she
was about 30 nautical miles away
from her pick-up point and “pretty
gutted” to have missed the crossing record. She said: “I know that
I have done a huge journey, it’s just
difficult while I’m on the ice and I
know it’s not that far away.”

ANIMALS

Zoo names rare monkey... Nigel
By Ed Cullinane

A zoo has named a new critically
endangered monkey Nigel in a bid
to save the species and the name.
Drusillas Zoo Park in Alfriston,
East Sussex, announced the safe
birth of a healthy cotton-top tamarin monkey born on 17 December.
It is one of the most threat-

ened species of primates in the
world – there are fewer than
6,000 remaining in the wild in
Colombian rainforests.
There are also a “critically
endangered” number of Nigels
in the UK with no newborns
given the name between 20202021, according to the Office for
National Statistics.

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DIPLOMACY

Germany resists pressure to provide
Ukraine with modern Leopard 2 tanks
By Jessie Williams

Germany has continued to resist
making a decision on whether to
send modern tanks to Ukraine, despite days of intense pressure from
other Western powers to do so.
Defence ministers from more
than 50 countries gathered at the
Ramstein Air Base in Germany yesterday to discuss future military aid
for Ukraine. But the talks were dominated by Berlin’s reluctance to provide Kyiv with Leopard 2 tanks and
allow other countries to send their
own German-made tanks.
The German defence minister,
Boris Pistorius, said there were
“good reasons” for and against
sending Ukraine the tanks, which
are used by several armed forces
in Europe.
Mr Pistorius said he could not
say when there would be a decision on the tanks but Germany was
prepared to move fast if there was
agreement between allies.
“All pros and cons must be weighed
very carefully,” Mr Pistorius said.
He added that he had given his
ministry the task to “undertake an
examination of the stocks” of the
tanks available, which is the closest
the German government has so far
come to suggesting it may be contemplating the use of the tanks in
the war.
During the key meeting the US
Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin,
said it was time to “dig deeper” to
help Kyiv confront Russian forces.
“Russia is regrouping, recruiting,
and trying to re-equip,” he said.
Speaking at the start of the meeting, the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, said he was grateful
for the continued support and believed “our unity will only become
stronger”, but warned that “we don’t
have a lot of time”.
He said: “Russia is concentrating

Ukrainian soldiers
pull a broken tank near
the frontline town of
Bakhmut OLEKSANDR
RATUSHNIAK/REUTERS

also agreed to send its M1 Abrams
tanks to Kyiv, but the German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said that no such linkage
between the two had been made.
The US and Finland announced
new military aid ahead of the gathering, with the former proposing
a defence support package worth
$2.5bn (£2bn). The UK has already
announced that it will send 14 Challenger 2 battle tanks.
A Kremlin spokesperson said
Western countries supplying ad-

ditional tanks to Ukraine will not
change the course of the conflict,
adding that the West will regret
its “delusion” that Kyiv can win on
the battlefield.

RUSSIA

EUROPE

RUSSIA

Wagner ‘sending empty coffins to relatives’

EU plans more
Russia sanctions

‘Relations with US
at an all-time low’

European Union countries are
working on a 10th package of
sanctions to take effect next
month against Russia, diplomatic
sources said.
The EU’s Russia hawks
have already asked for
new sanctions to curb
the bloc’s nuclear fuel
co-operation with
Moscow, ban imports
of Russian diamonds
and reduce trade
with Belarus, among
other measures.
Yesterday, diplomats from
three middle-way countries said
the next round of sanctions should
be ready around the anniversary on
24 February of Russia’s invasion of
its neighbour. REUTERS

Russia said yesterday that relations
with the US were at an all-time
low, following accusations that
Washington was playing a direct
role in the Ukraine conflict.
“Bilateral relations are
probably at their lowest
point historically,” said
Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov (inset).
“There is no hope for
improvement in the
foreseeable future.”
While there have
been occasional
diplomatic successes,
including prisoner swaps
involving US Marine veteran
Trevor Reed and basketball star
Brittney Griner, high-level contact
has been scarce. REUTERS

By Kieron Monks

Relatives of prisoners recruited by
the Wagner mercenary group say
they have been sent coffins without
their loved ones’ bodies inside after
being notified of their deaths.
The wife of a convict told TV Rain
that she received a call from Wagner representatives to say that her
husband had been killed in fighting
around Bakhmut. The mercenary
outfit sent a zinc coffin with a death
certificate and medals “for heroism”.
The woman, named only as Angelina, said she was told not to open
the coffin as Wagner used a DNA database to identify bodies. “They told
us they could guarantee 100 per cent
that it was him,” she said.
But Angelina later received a call
from a Ukrainian intelligence officer

its forces, last forces, trying to convince everyone that hatred can be
stronger than the world.”
He warned that more was needed
to defeat Russia’s invasion and that
“hundreds of thank-yous are not
hundreds of tanks”.
Earlier this week, the German
Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said his
country would never act alone in
sending tanks to Ukraine.
Previous reports suggested Berlin
was reluctant to send its Leopard
tanks to Ukraine until Washington

to say that her husband was alive
and being held in captivity. Russian
authorities would not comment on
the case.
Similar claims have been circulating on Russian social media.
A Telegram post on a channel
named “Find prisoners in the Military Operation”, purportedly from
the wife of a convict fighter, described opening a coffin that was
said to contain her husband’s body
– and finding it empty.
“Wagner recommended not to
[open the coffin],” the user said.
The mercenary group has recruited tens of thousands of prisoners to
supplement its forces in Ukraine, according to Moscow-based prisoner
rights group Russia Behind Bars.
Wagner’s convict fighters are
harshly treated, according to the

Lloyd Austin urged allies to ‘dig
deeper’ to help Ukraine’s war effort

group’s own members. Former commander Andrey Medvedev claimed
that several were executed at the
front, and leader Yevgeny Prigozhin
was recorded threatening prisoners
with that fate.
A leaked audio recording published last week purported to show
a Wagner representative arranging
the transport of bodies by commercial freight trucks.
The high death toll and chaotic nature of the war have left families on
both sides struggling to reclaim the
remains of their loved ones.
Some have taken to scouring
media footage of fighting for their
relatives. One Russian mother told
the local branch of Radio Free Europe that she identified the body of
her son from a photo of a cart filled
with corpses.

Poland has previously
hinted that it could send
their own Leopards even if
Germany is opposed, but Berlin
has veto power over any decision
to export them.

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Second inquest
to be held into
teenager’s death

Pub shooting
victim ‘was just
getting going’

By Steve Robson
NORTHERN REPORTER

A second inquest will be held into the
death of teenager Yousef Makki, who
was stabbed by a fellow Manchester
Grammar School pupil.
The 17-year-old was knifed by
Joshua Molnar during an
argument in Hale Barns,
Greater Manchester,
in 2019.
Molnar was cleared
of manslaughter and
murder following a
trial, claiming selfdefence, and a coroner
later recorded a narrative
conclusion at an inquest held in
Stockport in 2021.
The coroner, Alison Mutch, ruled
that the “precise circumstances” of
how Yousef, from Burnage in Manchester, died “cannot, on the balance
of probabilities, be ascertained”.
The Makki family’s legal team was

granted a judicial review to challenge the ruling at the High Court.
Yesterday, Lady Justice Macur
and Mr Justice Fordham quashed
the conclusions of the first inquest
and ordered a fresh one to take place
before a different coroner.
Molnar (inset), now aged 21,
served a 16-month detention
and training order after
admitting possession of a
knife and lying to police
over the stabbing.
The son of a wealthy
Cheshire family, he denied having lied about
the circumstances of
Yousef ’s death during the
inquest. Molnar told jurors that
Yousef had pulled out a knife and
threatened him.
The Makki family’s legal team had
urged Ms Mutch to record a conclusion of unlawful killing.
Yousef won a scholarship to attend Manchester Grammar School,

By Pat Hurst

Yousef Makki, from Burnage in Manchester, was 17 when he died after being
stabbed by Joshua Molnar, who was cleared of murder and manslaughter PA

and his family maintain that he had
taken the role of “peacemaker” in the
dispute that erupted on the night of 2
March 2019.
In their ruling, the High Court
judges said that the coroner’s inquiry
was “insufficiently distilled” and
lacking some explanation as to how
she reached her conclusions.
They said the coroner’s “generic
reference to her consideration of
the ‘totality’ of the evidence is inadequate to convey that she did ‘strive’

to reach a conclusion upon the evidence. If she did so but was left profoundly unsure, then she did not
explain why.”
A date for the new inquest has yet
to be announced.
Jade Akoum, Yousef’s older sister,
said: “We are very grateful to the
judges for recognising that the coroner’s conclusion was unlawful, and
for the compassion and understanding that they showed us during the
judicial review hearing.”

A grieving father whose daughter
was shot dead in a Merseyside pub
while celebrating on Christmas Eve
said her life was only just beginning.
Tim Edwards said he hopes a
foundation in the name of his daughter, Elle Edwards, 26, can be set up to
combat gun violence.
Edwards (inset) was
shot while out celebrating Christmas Eve
with friends, when a
gunman opened fire
on the Lighthouse
pub in Wallasey Village, on the Wirral.
She was not believed to
have been the target.
In his first interview since
her death, Mr Edwards told Sky
News that the beautician and dental
nurse “had a heart of gold”.
“She was beautiful-looking and she
was a great hugger,” he said. “She
was just a fantastic human being.”
He said the “hardest part” was
that his daughter’s life had been
cut short. “She was just getting
going,” he said.

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AUSTRALIA

Filmmaking changed
forever by death on
‘Rust’ set, say experts

Record-breaking
‘Toadzilla’ found
in rainforest

By Andrew Dalton

Film production and firearms experts have said that movie sets probably changed permanently when
cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
was shot and killed on the remote
New Mexico set of the western
Rust 15 months ago.
Prosecutors announced
on Thursday that Alec
Baldwin and the film’s
weapons supervisor
will be charged with
involuntary manslaughter later this month.
“The gun safety experience on set has become
more vocal, it’s a lot louder,” said
Joey Dillon, an armourer who has
overseen the use of firearms on television shows including Westworld
and movies including The Ballad
of Buster Scruggs. “I make it a lot
louder myself.”
Mr Baldwin was pointing the gun
with a live round inside that killed
Ms Hutchins (inset) as they set up
a shot for an upcoming scene on 21

October 2021. People at various levels of production are determined to
ensure that such an incident never
happens again.
That has meant the increasing
use of digital and other technology
that could make gunfire of any kind
obsolete on set. It has also meant
more simple things, like
shouting when using the
same safety protocols
long in place to make
clear to everyone when
a gun is present and
what its status is.
Actors and others
are now more interested
when the gun is handed over.
“Now people want to check
because people are a little gun-shy,”
Mr Dillon said. “I’ll stop the whole
process just to show them so that
they feel comfortable with it.”
While checking a gun themselves
may be in the best interest of actors,
how much responsibility they bear
for doing so remains in dispute, and
will be a central question for jurors
should Mr Baldwin’s case go to trial.

By James Redmayne

Kylee Gray was on patrol in Queensland when she found the 2.7kg cane toad AP

Australian park rangers believe
that they have stumbled upon a
record-breaking giant toad deep
in a rainforest.
Dubbed “Toadzilla”, the cane
toad – an invasive species that
poses a threat to Australia’s
ecosystem – was spotted by
“shocked” park ranger Kylee
Gray during a patrol in Conway
National Park in Queensland
state on 12 January.
Ms Gray and her colleagues
caught the animal and brought
it back to their office, where it
weighed in at a 2.7kg (6lbs).
Guinness World Records lists
the largest toad at 2.65kg, a 1991
record set by a Swedish pet.
“We considered naming her
Connie after Conway National
Park, but Toadzilla was the one
that just kept getting thrown out
there, so that kind of stuck,” Ms
Gray told the state broadcaster
ABC yesterday.
The animal was euthanised
due to its ecological impact
– the usual fate for the toads
across Australia. REUTERS

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GUEST COLUMNIST – DAN WALKER

Why I left BBC ‘Breakfast’, one
of the best jobs in television

T

here are times in your
life when you look back
on a decision you made
and say: “What was I
thinking?” When I was
first offered the Breakfast
job, I turned it down. I can’t really
tell you why. Perhaps the prospect of
trying to fill Bill Turnbull’s incredibly
significant “slippers” daunted me, even
then. I said “no” a second time before
eventually realising what a wonderful
opportunity it was.
In his kindness, the rather special
man who made the sofa his own for 15
years called me before I started the
new gig. He was so very helpful. “You’ll
be brilliant,” he said calmly, in those
reassuring Turnbull tones. “The one
piece of advice I would give you is make
sure you manage your sleep.”
I thanked him – and then completely
ignored his wise counsel.
Bill would always nap during the
day and tried to go to bed at a sensible
hour. During my six-and-a-half years
on Breakfast I operated on about four
hours’ kip. Not ideal, but the joy of the
job kept me going.
Just as soon as I started at Breakfast,
I realised just how big a gig it was.
There is something wonderfully
intimate about being on television at
that time of the day, on a programme
that people trust. Viewers are waking
up, they are sharing their first cup of
coffee with you, they are getting ready
for work, getting the kids ready for
school, and they are – as I was often told
– in their underpants.
Louise Minchin and I would always
talk to the audience like they were
friends or members of the family. We
could laugh along with them when

Dan Walker enjoys a light-hearted moment on the ‘Breakfast’ sofa with co-presenter Louise Minchin

Where we sat on the sofa could become
front-page news.
But the benefits of being involved in
a show with so much history and such
a big, loyal audience far outweigh the
negatives and the 3am alarm calls.
Every day, people would stop me in
the street to talk about the programme.
They would ask how Louise was, or
what Carol Kirkwood was up to. They
would tell me how much they enjoyed
watching Sally Nugent become the new
presenter once Louise moved on.
People talk to me about Strictly Come
Dancing and my new job on Channel 5
but it’s Breakfast, and what happened
on that sofa, that resonates more than
anything else.
The other thing that makes Breakfast
special is the people who work on it. I

things were funny, be outraged at
injustice together and hold their hands
or put our arms around them before
breaking bad news.
I will never forget being on air the
morning after the Manchester Arena
bombing in 2017. Louise was at the
scene and I was alone in the studio. No
autocue, no script and – when we went
on air – no idea how many people had
lost their lives. You have to be accurate,
fair, kind, understanding at times like
that – and treat your audience with
great care. Louise was brilliant at it.
With such an important job, there
is an understandable level of scrutiny.
Each day you are accused of bias from
all sides. Each day, you get people
shouting at you for everything from
politics to potholes to your pay packet.

There is
something
intimate
about being
on TV at
that time
of the day

still talk to some of the directors, floor
managers, producers, editors, bookers,
make-up artists and presenters. They
all care so much about the show.
My sleeping pattern was a doddle
compared to the real sofa superstars.
When I got into the office before 5am,
the overnight team had been in since
9pm the previous evening.
So, why leave one of the best jobs
in telly? I had a wonderful time on the
show and loved every minute but I
didn’t want to become stale. I wanted a
fresh challenge.
Telling Sally that I was leaving
was one of my toughest mornings.
She is amazing and we remain great
friends. It has been lovely to watch
her be brilliant alongside her new TV
husband, Jon Kay.
I must be honest here – I do
miss Carol Kirkwood. For me, she
is Breakfast. Carol is the human
embodiment of all that is brilliant about
the show. She is kind, loving, caring,
serious when she needs to be and funny
when it’s called for. She always gets the
tone right; you can throw anything at
her – and she has the perfect balance of
someone you trust and somebody who
would be great fun on a night out (which
I can confirm).
The show has been waking up the
nation for 40 years, and it is a great
honour to be a part of that Breakfast
family. As long as they hold on to gems
like Carol, there will be many more
birthdays to celebrate – and it will
remain the most popular way to start
the day.
@mrdanwalker
Louise Minchin writes for i on page 31

This week I have been...
Watching...
Standing at the Sky’s Edge at The
Crucible in Sheffield. Mrs Walker
got me tickets to the theatre for
Christmas and this week we went
to go and see the brilliant show. We
had heard good things about it and it
was epic.
The award-winning British
musical is a love letter to Sheffield
and a window into the history of
modern Britain through the eyes
of three families who all share the
same flat in a tower block over a

period of 60 years. It’s all set
to the music of local legend
Richard Hawley (right) and
it’s going to the National
Theatre in February
and March.
I’ve also been
binge-watching the
second half of The
Traitors. I don’t
normally watch
much reality
television but
I gobbled this up
because I always

loved Mafia – the game it’s based
on. There were some brilliant
characters in there like Wilf,
Amanda, Maddy and Alex and
it was genuinely compelling
right up until the final act.

Travelling...
on the train, where I spend a
lot of my life at the moment.
So it was interesting to see
the Prime Minister flying
around the country talking
about “levelling up” this week.

I tweeted that it would be nice to
see him getting around the north of
England on the incredibly unreliable
train service so that he could see
just how frustrating it is. I was
bombarded with messages from
people in all parts of the country
(except London) complaining
about cancellations, costs and
crummy service.

Stretching...
because I have been struggling with
a dodgy back and knee for years. I

finally decided to take some action.
A brilliant friend suggested that I
book some sessions with the former
Team GB sprinter Julian Thomas.
We haven’t lifted a single weight,
but he has had me stretching all over
the place working on hip mobility
and trying to make my bum muscles
fire more efficiently.
I’m loving it and it has already
made a difference but, if you hear
me screaming like a banshee with
my leg up in the air, or see me
walking like a Thunderbird the next
morning, blame Julian.

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COMMENT FROM HOME AND ABROAD
SUNAK’S PLANS
FOR GROWTH

CHANNEL
VIDEO BAN

LOW STAFF PAY
IN PARLIAMENT

TANKS FOR
UKRAINE

‘BABYLON’
MOVIE

RISKS IN THE
COUNTRYSIDE

Short-sighted
policies kill
enterprise

Footage bar
unlikely to
stop crossings

No thought
for what Katy
does next

Britain finds a
worthy cause
for Challenger

Hollywood
flick will stir up
lively debate

Avoid walking
through a
field of cows

Daily Mail

The Guardian

The Independent

Daily Express

Metro UK

The Daily Telegraph

The best way to level up
is to turbocharge growth.
After all, a rising tide lifts
all boats. Yet, as leading
entrepreneurs tell the
Mail, the Government’s
short-sighted policies –
including eye-wateringly
high taxes and suffocating
regulations – are driving
away business, investment
and job creation.
Yes, the Prime Minister is
determined to get Britain’s
finances on an even keel.
But the less firms are
saddled with punitive levies
and red tape, the more
enterprise flourishes –
and the more revenue the
Treasury receives. It’s not
rocket science.
Of course, the Tories will
struggle to draft a coherent
industrial strategy if they
change prime ministers
every two minutes.
(Editorial)

In a change to the Online
Safety Bill, video footage
that shows people crossing
the Channel in “a positive
light” will be added to the
list of illegal content that
all tech platforms must
proactively prevent from
reaching users.
The Culture Secretary,
Michelle Donelan, said that
posting positive videos of
crossings could be aiding
and abetting immigration
offences. Those who
oppose the Government
on Channel crossings
remain fearful that they
could be implicated if they
share footage that may call
into question the policing
of these crossings.
The new clause in the Bill
could make institutions
less accountable. It is also
extremely unlikely to stop
the people smugglers.
(Diane Taylor)

Lee Anderson took it
upon himself to share a
picture of his research
assistant, Katy, who gets
by just fine on less than
£30,000, working for him
and renting a room in a
London house-share.
Naturally, we do not
wish to be mean about
young Katy. She has a
tough enough life as it is,
working for a very dim
man who has drop-kicked
her into an internet cesspit
just to try and win an
argument. But it genuinely
doesn’t appear to have
occurred to Anderson that
not all people are the same.
What if Katy gets
pregnant and the dad
goes AWOL, and maybe
she doesn’t necessarily
want to bring up a child in
a single room in a house
with her mates in London?
(Tom Peck)

The UK is to donate a
number of our veteran
heavy tank, the Challenger
II, to Ukraine. Good. If this
fearsome beast can crush
anything Russian in its
path, which it probably can,
even better.
Years ago, I was
tasked with making
a documentary on
the Challenger, then a
prototype. I formed the
view that, if there were
any roles in the Armed
Forces I would prefer to
avoid, it would be a tank
crew member. They are
incredibly claustrophobic.
Today, even a soldieroperated, shoulder-borne
missile-launcher can
knock off a tank track at
1,000 yards and leave the
monster a helpless pile of
steel for the enemy to use
as target practice.
(Frederick Forsyth)

Director Damien Chazelle’s
latest movie, Babylon,
an homage to the seedy
underbelly of the Golden
Age of Hollywood –
featuring Brad Pitt and
Margot Robbie – was
clearly designed to provoke
its audience.
But Chazelle must be
commended for going
all out in his depiction
of the excesses and
tragedies during a time of
great turbulence for the
American film industry as
it transitioned from silent
pictures to sound.
The writer-director was
keen to expose the brutality
of a cut-throat business
that could easily leave its
brightest stars behind if
they couldn’t hack it.
The film is certainly
going to strike up some
heated debate.
(Tori Brazier)

When Posy Simmonds
published her graphic
novel Tamara Drewe in
2007, one plot detail
baffled me: I thought it
was rather far-fetched
that Nick Hardiman was
trampled to death by cows
while walking his dog.
But when I turned to
Google to see if this kind of
casualty ever occurred, I
was put firmly in my place.
One or two walkers
die most years in this
brutal fashion, as well as
two to four agricultural
workers. Yes, there is a
very small but real risk
attached to walking a dog
through a field of cows at
their most maternal and
potentially aggressive.
But an instinctive form
of risk assessment is part
and parcel of being an
outdoors person.
(Rowan Pelling)

Life In Brief

QUOTE OF
THE DAY

RONALD BLYTHE WRITER, ESSAYIST AND EDITOR

I ask that
people please
respect my
privacy at this
difficult time
Rob Brydon

The comedian reacts
to the news that
Ken Bruce is leaving
BBC Radio 2

When Ronald Blythe – the muchloved English writer who has died just
two months after turning 100 – got up
at 6am, he liked to sit and think for a
while before heading into his study at
around 9am. Perhaps that is why, as he
reported on his 90th birthday, he had
never suffered from writer’s block.
Blythe’s most popular work by far
was Akenfield: Portrait of an English
Village, published in 1969. Though the
place name was fictional, the book
was based on conversations Blythe
had with neighbours in the villages of
Debach, where he lived, and Charsfield.
While telling the story of three
generations of a Suffolk community,
Blythe captured how rural life was
being changed by modernity.
In 1974, his book was made into a
film by Peter Hall, which attracted
15 million television viewers. When
Hall had first asked Blythe about an

adaptation, the writer refused because
he did not see how it would all come
together. Once he had thought it
through, however, he was happy to
oblige. Filming took a year because it
had to fit around the farming calendar.
Local people were used instead of
actors and Blythe himself made a
cameo appearance as a vicar.
The talented writer of more than
30 books also dabbled in newspaper
columns, non-fiction writing, short
stories, novels and collections of
essays, though it was the latter he
most enjoyed putting together.
For 20 years, he was the editor of
Penguin Classics books. He served as a
canon in the Church of England and as
a lay reader who conducted services.
His column for the Church Times,
called “Word from Wormingford” took
up his time from 1993 to 2017.
These meditative reflections on

literature, history, the Church of
England and the natural world were
subsequently collected together in
books including A Parish Year (1998)
and A Year at Bottengoms Farm (2006).
Ronald Blythe was born the eldest
of six children in Acton, Suffolk, on
6 November 1922 and educated at
St Peter’s and St Gregory’s school in
Sudbury. Generations of his ancestors
were shepherds and farm workers.
He told the Church Times that he had
been a “quiet sort of boy” growing up
and enjoyed cycling long distances to
visit churches.
He left school at 14 and after brief
service during the Second World
War worked as a reference librarian
in Colchester, where he founded the
Colchester Literary Society.
He never lived with a partner. In
2012, he told fellow author Victoria
Connelly: “I live alone and have

never lived with anyone, but I’m never
lonely at all.”
Speaking about ageing to the Church
Times, he said: “I see it more in terms of
life ending — not in a miserable sense at
all, but just coming to a close. And, also,
you love life more and more, because it’s
so beautiful. There’s so much to do.”
In 2017, Blythe was appointed CBE for
services to literature.
Born 6 November 1922
Died 14 January 2023
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Pensioners are an afterthought in a digital world
My View
Paul
Waugh

A

fter months of disruption,
there was a glimmer of
hope this week that a
new pay deal could bring
an end to the strikes on
our railways. But buried
under the encouraging noises from train
companies and unions came a hint that
normal service will not ever be resumed.
Although the Government has
dropped a demand for driver-only
operated trains, the “best and final
offer” still includes proposals to close
or “repurpose” every ticket office
in England. Not a single one of the
980 train station ticket offices will
continue as they do at the moment.
In an attempt to save £500m a
year, the ticket office windows will be
permanently shuttered and replaced
by vending machines. Most people will
be expected to book online or use their
smartphone or debit card to get through
the electronic gates on to a platform.
But while some younger people will

barely raise an eyebrow at the change,
for millions of elderly and disabled
people, the closures may feel like a
hammer blow. Three million people
over 65 do not have internet access
and many do not have smartphones.
Moreover, elderly people often
find vending machines (which are
often touch-screen and hard to read)
difficult to use, and prefer a human
face over the counter to explain
prices, journeys and travel updates.
For some, the reforms may mean yet
more isolation and loneliness.
Ministers have hinted that ticket
office staff will be redeployed to
more multipurpose “roving” roles
on station concourses. It remains
to be seen how overstretched such
staff become, but it is possible that
they could sell paper tickets from a
mobile machine, give travel advice
and help people on and off trains.
Most strikingly, the ticket office
closure plans underline the dire
digital divide between the old and
the young that still exists in much of
Britain today. And despite big claims
that the Covid pandemic had got
many more senior citizens online,
studies have found that 42 per cent
of over-75s do not use the internet.
This underclass of digitally excluded
people faces growing pressure as both
public and private sectors dash to cut

With each
advance,
there’s also
a need to
just pause
and think
about those
who are
not online

costs by switching services online. And
with banks closing cashpoints and
some ticket office vending machines
and shops becoming card-only, those
pensioners who rely on cash are getting
slowly squeezed out of daily activities
that many take for granted.
What shocked me most this week
were new Age UK figures showing that
nearly a third (31 per cent) of councils in
London do not offer a way to apply for
housing benefit or council tax rebates
without using the internet – this during
a cost of living crisis in which pensioners
need every penny they can get.
But there are also councils that do
not ignore the elderly. Some of them
employ actual real, live human beings to
see people in person to discuss how to
claim benefits and pension credits and
to help them to fill in forms. Many prefer
that to ringing a “hotline”.
This vital need for offline choice needs
to be recognised in government funding.
It’s time, too, for a dedicated minister for
older people to make sure those who do
not use the internet are not forgotten.
Many pensioners want to be more
digitally empowered, but often
lack the money or support to do so.
Charities offer skills training, but why
doesn’t the Department for Work and
Pensions provide a network of digital
inclusion IT experts? The money spent
would surely be saved over the long run.

Why don’t broadband firms offer cheap
tariffs for poorer pensioners?
For some pensioners during
lockdown, lives were transformed by
a simple-to-use video screen installed
at home. How about a national
scheme, similar to the one that gave
free tablets to schoolchildren in the
pandemic, to give more of these
devices to older people in need?
Of course, the march of the machines
seems unstoppable in some areas.
From supermarket self-service
checkouts to GP video calls to airline
check-ins on your phone, consumers
and companies can benefit.
But with each advance, there is also a
need to just pause and think about those
who are not online or smartphone-ready.
And at a time when some politicians
crassly try to pit the old against the
young, we should remember that the
pandemic lockdowns made millions
in all age groups realise just how vital
face-to-face activity really was.
Just as young people have flocked
to theatres, concerts and live events of
all kinds for interactions “IRL” (in real
life), older people want and deserve
similar engagements. And if you put
people first, the profits – politically
and financially – will follow.
Paul Waugh is i’s chief
political commentator

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Our farmers
need support
The comments in
“Farmers are at crisis
point” (i, 19 January) are
rational and urgent.
Other countries
ensure that farmers
are paid fairly and that
supermarkets have to pay
the cost of production.
In the UK, regulators
have overloaded small
producers with costs,
but other countries find

ways to support their
farmers. When there is no
food choice left, it will be
too late.
PAUL GREGORY
FELTHAM,
WEST LONDON

A leader worthy
of respect
I gasped when I read
that Jacinda Ardern was
resigning and I agree with
Simon Kelner (Opinion,
20 January) that she was

relatable, authentic and
was someone to look up
to. I always felt that what
you saw was what you
got and this made her
different to other leaders.
She wasn’t afraid to
make the unpalatable
decisions and her leaving
the world’s political stage,
will be a loss.
JUDITH DANIELS
GREAT YARMOUTH,
NORFOLK

not going to stand for
re-election. Could we
not get her over here as
she has always seemed
to be on the ball? She
is also compassionate,
understanding
and intelligent.
STEFAN DIMIC
GREAT ELLINGHAM,
NORFOLK

So, Jacinda Ardern is

What a sad diatribe
from Stuart Heritage on
banning office cakes (i,
19 January). Obviously,
guzzling cakes every
day would not be
wise, especially in a
sedentary occupation,
but as an occasional
treat promoting a bit of
civilised togetherness in
an otherwise mundane
office life then why not?
Celebratory cake has
helped me through 83
years so far and long may
it continue to lighten our
rather gloomy lives.
MARTIN READ
HORSHAM,
WEST SUSSEX

Let the workers
eat cake!

Having gone from
working in an NHS “no
cake” environment to a
hospital where we have
a “gone in 60 seconds”
shelf, awash with cakes,
chocolates and biscuits,
I got fatter and fatter,
as did many of my
colleagues. Every day was
cake day. Let’s stand up to
sugary tyranny and make
it OK to say no.
NAME SUPPLIED

UK has the cash
for services
I have much empathy with
the willingness of Sarah

Our commitment

Too many cakes at work can enlarge your waistline
Playforth (Your View, 19
January) to pay more in
tax for better services.
Sadly, however, the
promise to direct extra
funds towards improving
specific areas is often
ignored. Good-quality
services are solely reliant
on the Government’s will
to fund them.
DAVID PRESCOTT
CARNFORTH,
LANCASHIRE

Do we really
need inquiry?
Here we go again –
another prime minister
not following the rules.
How terrible of Rishi
Sunak for not wearing
his seat belt. There will
now need to be a full
investigation. Hours
and hours of valuable
time will be wasted
investigating just how
this error took place.
LESLEY SKORUPKA
BOOSBECK,
NORTH YORKSHIRE

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Bin the tea bags
for better brew
I could not agree more
with Bob Johnson
regarding leaf tea and its
superiority to tea bags
(Your View, 19 January).
For Christmas, my wife
bought me both “Winter
tea” and “Xmas tea” in
leaf form. Each is utterly
delightful and far better
than tea bags, which are
certainly inferior.
IAN DUCKWORTH
PRESTON, LANCASHIRE
Bob Johnson would not
have been impressed
by a mug I saw for sale
a couple of years ago.
On one side was printed
“How to make the perfect
cup of tea”. On the other
a list of what to do: 1) Put
freshly drawn water in
kettle and put on to boil;
2) Place tea bag in cup.
Needless to say, the mug
was put back on the shelf.
JOHN SAUNDERS
POOLE, DORSET

iQuiz answers (from p2)
1. Robert Southey
2. Coccyx
3. Manchester
4. Anchor (right)
5. Alaska
6. Z and C
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CHARLENE WHITE

There’s no one else out there like
Maya – trust me, I’ve met her

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here are a lot of you
who are only very
recent members of the
Maya Jama fan club
– but there are many
of us who have been
watching her brilliance, brains and
beauty for quite some time.
I first met Maya back in 2016.
It was my first time presenting a
Mobo award, and the entire Black
British music industry was in
Glasgow to celebrate the best of the
best. It was a daunting experience,
and my head was filled with
panicked thoughts of tripping up
on stage or falling flat on my face on
national television.
The ceremony itself was great. I
didn’t trip up on stage (thank God),
my co-presenter forgot my name
and I had a bit of a boogie with my
table-mate Sir Lenny Henry. But
weirdly, one of the things that has
stayed in my mind all these years is
meeting Maya backstage.
I had worked at a Black music
radio station so the artists and their
entourage didn’t really faze me. It
was the magnitude of being in that
space with so many talented people
I admired which possibly made me
quieter than normal – especially in
the “green room”.
I had been at ITV News for a
number of years by that point,
too, so I was more well-known as
the “serious” news lady – so I felt
slightly out of place around achingly
cool music folk.
And in the midst of all of that,
it was Maya who made the effort

to talk to me across the room as
she checked her make-up in the
mirror. I cannot for the life of me
remember what she said, but she
put me at ease and made me feel
less awkward and out of place. She
shined in that room and I mean
seriously GLOWED. She just lit
up what was a dark, chilly space
without even trying. She was
simply fabulous.
And what I cannot believe is
that it has taken this long for her
to become a household name,
through Love Island. It’s a big thing
to have a non-white host for one

Black women are rarely
given the chance to
shine in this way, on the
big primetime show

Maya Jama made her entrance as the new host of ‘Love Island’ on Monday ITV

of the country’s biggest television
programmes – and Maya does it
with style and grace. And I’m here
for it. All. Day. Long.
Do you know how many times
her slow-mo Love Island entrance
shots have popped up on my
timeline in the past week? My gosh.
It’s a beautiful thing to see, for so
many reasons. Black women are
rarely given the chance to shine
in this way, on the big primetime
show. It has been long overdue,
and those who have watched her
over the years know that Maya
is most definitely the one to buck

that trend. Before the opening
episode, I suspect that many viewers
knew of her only as Stormzy’s
former girlfriend – as opposed to
a clever businesswoman who is
very much a star in her own right.
And then there were those like me,
rolling our eyes at the lateness with
which many people have come to the
Jama party.
And can we talk about the
outfits? For many of us, it came
as no surprise that Maya chose a
Black British independent designer,
Sierra Ndagire, for her first outfit.
Maya is a woman who is all about
the culture and bringing others
with her as her star rises.
Within the Black community,
that means a lot. It was almost a
nod to “yes I’m doing the big shows,
but I remember who got me here”.
Black Twitter noticed and tipped
its hat in appreciation.
In Monday’s opening episode of
the new series of Love Island, what
I saw was the same Maya who
had made me feel at ease all those
years ago.
Though our paths briefly crossed
at the National Television Awards
last year, I doubt she will remember
that the quiet girl in the corner of
the Mobo green room way back in
2016 was me. And she will probably
never know that her kind words
that night helped to calm my
nerves. But the fact that millions
of others now get to see that in the
villa is pretty bloody awesome.
@CharleneWhite

Banning wild camping would be a devastating loss to us and the countryside
Louise
Minchin

W

hen I stumbled
out of my tent in
the middle of the
night beneath a riot
of stars pressing
down from the coal-dark sky above
me, I knew that I was lucky. Lucky
to be in the middle of nowhere
without the slightest hint of an
orange smudge on the horizon, the
tell-tale sign of light pollution, which
meant that I could see the sparkling
constellations above me in all their
unadulterated glory.
There are very few places in the
world that I have been able to do
that, but this time I wasn’t in the

middle of a Namibian desert or a
Patagonian mountain range, but in
the South West of England. I was
wild camping on Dartmoor.
Had I known then that the
privilege of pitching my tent and
making my home for the night
on the scrubby heath land could
possibly be taken away from all of
us, I would have made sure to take
a few more deep breaths of that
freezing air before I snuggled back
into my sleeping bag.
Last week, one of the moor’s
largest landowners won a case
in the High Court by arguing
that legally, despite what many
presumed, there was actually no
right to camp in the national park.
For a short time, wild camping
was illegal, and it looked likely that
I could have been one of the last
people allowed to spend a chilly
night under the stars there.

This week, however, Dartmoor
National Park said it had done a deal
which means that those who want
to will be able to camp for the time
being, and in return the landowners
will be paid for permissive access.
That agreement will last for only 12
months and the fee is likely to have
to come out of the public purse.
What happens after that is unclear,
and it may not continue.
The final outcome matters. Until
last week, Dartmoor was thought
to be the last place in England or
Wales where there was a presumed
right to wild camp overnight, and
to lose that would be a huge loss to
all of us.
I am not alone in having my
life shaped by wild camping on
Dartmoor. The long-held tradition
of spending the night exposed to
the elements, getting lost in the
marshes and traipsing for hours,

The national park has done a deal
which means that those who want to
will be able to camp – for now GETTY

I could have been one of
the last people allowed
to spend a chilly night
under the stars there

head bowed against the wind and
rain, has been a rite of passage for
many thousands of teenagers and
young adults who have taken part in
either the Ten Tors Challenge or the
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme.
Many of them will have had their
first experience of the outdoors
there, their first real taste of
independence. When they step out
of the national park, they will have
learnt invaluable life skills about
teamwork, resilience, determination
and self-confidence which will for
ever be part of their DNA and help
steer to the course of their lives.
The ability to wild camp on
Dartmoor is a precious resource –
and one that we should make sure
we guard.
Louise Minchin is a TV presenter
@ louiseminchin

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Why has rape effectively
become decriminalised?

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ape is effectively
decriminalised in England
and Wales today since
perpetrators face only
a minimal chance of
punishment. An estimated
one in five cases of rape is reported to
the police, of which 10 per cent are sent
on to the Crown Prosecution Service,
which brings half of them to trial. Since
a further half of these prosecutions fail,
this means that out of an estimated
335,000 rapes, only 1,400 end up with
the perpetrator found guilty.
Spelling this out, the shadow
Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, told
Parliament last year: “Today, in England
and Wales, an estimated 300 women will
be raped. About 170 of those cases will
be reported to the police, but only three
are likely to make it to a court of law,
never mind the jail cell. Just think what
that means.”
In fact, the rape crisis is even worse
than she described because her figure
for the proportion of women reporting
rape looks far too high.
All attention is currently focused
on David Carrick, the Metropolitan
Police officer who confessed to carrying
out multiple rapes while escaping
detection over two decades, despite
numerous complaints against him.
The toleration of his sexual violence by
his commanders and colleagues has
discredited the Met and could even be
its death knell.
Its toxic behaviour has a long history:
Almost my first journalistic assignment
was reporting a case in the 1970s in
which a senior Met detective was
accused of working with a drugs gang.
Focus at that time was on Met
corruption, while it is now on rape and
murder carried out by officers confident
that complaints against them would
be disbelieved. Public presumption of
Met innocence has vanished, but its
institutional strength and solidarity
has enabled it to resist all attempts
at reform. It has survived a deluge of
critical reports over the years, even as
its reputation has sunk lower and lower
until it is permanently tainted.
Perception of the Met has been
transformed from largely unreserved
confidence to automatic suspicion and
wariness. Trust, once lost, will not easily
return. Something similar happened to
the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland
– another institution in which many
once had absolute confidence – but
its reputation never recovered from a
series of scandals in which priests were
exposed as sexual predators whose
victims the Church had repeatedly
failed to protect.
Probably, the best solution would
be to break up the unreformable Met
into several smaller divisions, so it
could no longer act like an independent
republic with its own norms. This idea is

Police officer
numbers have fallen
by 7,000 since 2015,
but ministers’
ideological fixation
on ‘the small state’
has also inflicted
deep wounds on the
justice system
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Rape is one
of many
serious
crimes
where the
perpetrator
knows that
he is almost
certainly
going to get
away with it

proposed by John Fox, a former senior
detective who is now a senior lecturer
in police studies at the University
of Portsmouth.
“Part of the challenge may be
the Met’s size,” Fox writes in The
Conversation, an online publication
specialising in expert analysis of
important issues. “It is four times
larger than any other UK police force
and perhaps the deep-rooted culture
of misogyny is just impossible for
senior leaders to eradicate. It is time to
seriously ask why the Met should not be
broken up into a few manageable forces,
mirroring every other English force.”
Yet when it comes to the criminal
justice system’s inability to punish
rape, the failings of the Met are a minor
contributor. Its blackened reputation
may deter victims from reporting rapes
in the first place, but at the heart of the
failure over rape is the breakdown of
criminal justice in general and that, in
turn, is but one of the many symptoms
of the run-down and degeneration of the
British state.
Rape is one of many serious crimes
where the perpetrator knows that he is
almost certainly going to get away with
it. In the speech cited above, Cooper
pointed out that no charges were
made within a year of an offence being
committed in 93 per cent of reported
robberies, 95 per cent of violent offences,

96 per cent of thefts, 97 per cent of
sexual offences, more than 98 per cent
of reported rapes and more than 99 per
cent of frauds.
She quoted one police officer as
saying to her: “This is awful – it feels
like once serious offences are effectively
being decriminalised.”
Reasons for this include police
numbers falling by 7,000 since 2015,
but government ideological fixation on
“the small state” has also inflicted deep
wounds on the criminal justice system
as a whole. Out of 320 magistrates’
courts in England and Wales in 2010,
no fewer than 164 – or 51 per cent –
were closed, contributing to a backlog
of 386,000 cases. Every serious
case begins with a brief hearing in
a magistrates’ court, so this halving
of their number has contributed to a
backlog of 58,000 trials in crown courts,
including many rape cases.
The most convincing evidence-based
account I have read about the rape
crisis is another study by John Fox,
also published in The Conversation,
titled “Why do so many men get away
with rape?” Using interviews with
police officers, victims, prosecutors
and lawyers, it explains the legal and
practical obstacles to a successful rape
prosecution – difficulties exacerbated
by the severity of government cuts in
manpower and resources.

Prioritising what resources remain
available inevitably favours dealing
with emergencies first, diverting them
from so-called “volume” crime such
as burglary. “This in turn means many
officers have become generally deskilled
at criminal investigation,” says Fox. “A
detective inspector complained to me:
‘I have people joining my team from
uniform who have never been to court
and never taken a case through from
start to finish’.”
He quotes a detective sergeant’s
account of one consequence of the lack
of trained manpower: “If a response
officer arrests someone, they just do a
verbal handover to a detective sergeant.
They never investigate anything
because they are so short-staffed on
the shift, and are just going from job
to job. There is a general lowering
of investigation standards – as a
workforce, we are completely deskilled.”
Moreover, prioritisation means that
a crime like rape, which takes time and
expertise to investigate, drops down
the queue since the police know that,
however great the effort they put in,
they are unlikely to get a guilty verdict.
The many police officers taking early
retirement speak of demoralisation,
unfair promotion prospects and a lack of
leadership at all levels. The latter failing
goes right up to the top of government
when it comes to helping rape victims
who do report what has happened
to them. In May last year, the then
attorney-general Suella Braverman,
now Home Secretary, issued a directive
restating that, if a rape victim resorts
to counselling before a criminal trial,
then any notes of the session might
be examined by a police officer and
possibly handed over to the defence.
The practical decriminalisation of
rape and other crimes can only get
worse because the structural damage
to British criminal justice caused by
cuts over a dozen years is too great for
swift repair.

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UNITED STATES

Harvard job
offer to Israel
critic reversed
By Kieron Monks

Yosemite’s
winter vista
Water flows from Bridalveil
Fall (right) as recent snowfall on
trees in the valley of California’s
Yosemite National Park melt and
clouds clear from the last of a
series of atmospheric river storms
to hit the region. MARIO TAMA/GETTY

Harvard University has reversed a
decision to withdraw a job offer to
former Human Rights Watch (HRW)
director Ken Roth, allegedly due to
the organisation’s criticism of Israel.
After facing a backlash from staff,
students and civil rights groups,
Kennedy School dean Douglas
Elmendorf said he had “made an
error” and the offer of a prestigious fellowship at the Carr Centre
for Human Rights to Mr Roth had
been reinstated.
Mr Elmendorf did not dispute
a claim by a colleague that his reason for blocking the appointment
was “anti-Israel bias” at HRW. But
he denied allegations that the move
was intended to appease pro-Israel
donors. Students and faculty members had signed a letter calling the
original decision “shameful”. The
American Civil Liberties Union said
it was “profoundly troubling”.
Mr Roth, who is one of the most
prominent figures within the field,
told i that he intended to accept the
offer but hoped Mr Elmendorf would
be “more transparent” about the
reasons for the veto.

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FOCUS

‘I would talk
to Shamima
Begum’
The first Muslim woman to host a UK-wide
weekly news podcast is looking forward to
offering new perspectives. By Adam Sherwin

“I

find it intriguing that just
because I’m a Muslim
woman, I get asked by the
media to give my opinion
about a terrorist attack.
Why should I have a view?” asks
Shelina Janmohamed.
The award-winning ad executive,
who wrote a bestselling book about
growing up as a British Muslim
woman, has just landed a job
heading a national news podcast,
and believes that existing news
coverage has a problem.
“All the commentators
you see on the news are
from the same bubble,”
says the author,
named one of Britain’s
100 most influential
women by the BBC.
“They leave me shouting
at the TV. The perspective
and experiences of young
Muslim women and other groups
are missing from the limited range
of voices on air. Muslim women are
talked about in the news but never
allowed to tell their stories.”
It is a deficit that the mother
of two hopes to fill with The Shelina
Show, the first UK-wide weekly
news podcast fronted by a
Muslim woman.
Body image, poverty and
Andrew Tate come up for debate
in the opening edition of a series
which the presenter believes is
“ground-breaking”.
“We don’t have Asian
representation across the
British media,” she says. “That
is why the Muslim population
is portrayed as something to be

feared. If you dehumanise and
stereotype a population, that
isn’t going to encourage society
to move forward.”
Janmohamed says she is
prepared to tackle the most
controversial subjects, but
wants to do so in a different way.
She would be prepared to have
Shamima Begum (inset), who left
Britain to join Isis as a schoolgirl
in 2015, as a guest on her podcast
– but she might take a different
line of questioning.
“It’s a big debate about
whether she should
have been stripped of
her citizenship but I’m
interested in unheard
perspectives,”
Janmohamed says.
“It never really comes
up that she had three
children and they all died in
quick succession. When she was
being detained for interview, she
was in postpartum depression. We
need to have a conversation about
terrorism – but that conversation
got completely missed.”
Begum’s radicalisation and
her treatment by the British
authorities should be used to
spark a discussion about “how
children from minority and

Muslim women are
talked about in the
news – but not allowed
to tell their stories

Shelina Janmohamed has been
named one of Britain’s 100 most
influential women by the BBC

ethnic groups get treated as adults
much earlier”, says Janmohamed,
who was brought up in London,
studied at Oxford University and
charted her 10-year quest to find
a husband through the arranged
marriage process in her memoir,
Love in a Headscarf.
Her podcast, launching this
week, promises an in-depth
discussion of the week’s events,
with a diverse range of guests
including topical comedian Ahir
Shah and historian Dan Snow.
Janmohamed, vice president at
advertising firm Ogilvy, will also
tackle Islamophobia in Britain –
from her own perspective
The untapped “Muslim pound” is
another passion for the 48-year-old

who has written about the growing
global influence of young Muslims
in her book Generation M: Young
Muslims Changing the World.
Through her work at Ogilvy, she
has been working with the world’s
largest brands to engage with
Muslim audiences.
“More than half the UK Muslim
population was born here; they
have a real sense of Britishness,”
she says. “So ‘othering’ and
dehumanising them is very toxic
and unhelpful to society. You’ve
got four million Muslims in Britain
spending £20bn, with £200m of
that at Ramadan alone. But we just
don’t see them catered for.”
Those numbers clearly
impressed commercial audio
company Global, which offered
Janmohamed a podcast to help
them access a hard-to-reach
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can help connect that audience to
those setting the news and policy
agenda,” she says.
A board member of Impress, the
independent press regulator which
oversees around 200 publications,
she says she understands why
many young people believe that
newspaper coverage of Meghan
Markle has been “racist.” “People
can draw their own conclusions
from the different treatment of
Catherine, Princess of Wales, and
Meghan,” says the author, who
published a biography of tennis
star Serena Williams for children.
“What was interesting to me was
when Oprah Winfrey interviewed
Meghan, you had a black woman
owning her own platform talking to
a biracial woman. It’s a shift in the
balance of power.”
A sought-after commentator
on Muslim social and cultural
trends, Janmohamed has suffered
“implied” racism herself. “As soon
as I walked into one job interview,
I saw the guy’s face fall. The
interview lasted five minutes. The
feedback was that I was ‘too weak’.
He could tell that in five minutes?
Or I got told I spoke English ‘very
well’ and was very articulate.”
She sees Rishi Sunak’s elevation
to Prime Minister as a “historic
moment, whatever you think of his
politics”. “People from South Asian
backgrounds were trying to ‘claim’
him. But his ethnicity was little
remarked upon and we moved on –
I am still not sure if we should have
noted it more.”
Janmohamed admits to being a
little starstruck at being handed a
high-profile show at Global, where
she shares a stable with Emily
Maitlis and Jon Sopel’s The News
Agents podcast, as well as Andrew
Marr and James O’Brien.
“What’s important is that this
is a show that just happens to be
fronted by a Muslim woman,” she
says. “It’s not a ‘Muslim show’. I
want to look at issues like poverty,
and my generation having to care
for their parents, with depth and
nuance. I’m not interested in
getting involved in a culture war or
soundbites and polemics.
“But it’s true that I can’t think
of another Muslim woman
who has been given this kind of
weekly platform.”
The Shelina Show
will be available
on Global Player
and other podcast
platforms with new
episodes every Wednesday

News in brief
PEOPLE

TELEVISION

Wife marks Meat
Loaf anniversary

‘Harry & Meghan’ takes
No 2 spot at Netflix

The wife of late US rocker Meat
Loaf said yesterday that she
wishes she could “rewind the
clock and have you back beside
me”, as she marked the first
anniversary of his death.
The musician died aged 74 on
20 January last year, with his
wife Deborah and daughters
Pearl and Amanda by his side.

Netflix has announced
that the Duke and
Duchess of Sussex’s
recent series is
its second-highest
ranked documentary,
behind true-crime
programme The
Tinder Swindler.
Harry & Meghan (inset) was

released on 8 December, with
damaging claims levelled at the
Royal Family throughout its
six episodes.
Netflix reported its fourth
quarter earnings this
week, noting a gain of
7.7 million subscribers
during the OctoberDecember period.
As defined by
cumulative view hours
in the first 28 days, it also
reported that Wednesday
was its third most popular
series, followed by Glass Onion.

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NATURE

Footballer Alves on
sex attack charges

Rare horses help in
shifting estate logs

Brazilian footballer Dani Alves
appeared before a judge in
Barcelona yesterday over a sexual
assault allegation.
Prosecutors requested that the
former Barcelona player, 39, be
detained without bail pending trial.
He denies he touched a woman
under her underwear without her
consent at a nightclub. REUTERS

Two rare breed horses are
helping to drag pine logs clear of
a plantation at a National Trust
estate so that a wider variety of
trees can be planted.
The hooves of the Suffolk
Punch and the Ardennes Comtois
cross will cause minimal damage
to soil at the Oxburgh Estate in
Norfolk, the National Trust said.

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IN DEPTH

Red meat
bad for
you? What
a carve-up!
Scientific attacks on carnivorous diets
may not stack up. Stuart Ritchie reports

C

anadian psychologist
Jordan Peterson only
eats meat. In several
interviews he has
claimed to have cut all
other foods out of his diet, surviving
on only beef steaks, salt and water.
Most of us can probably agree
that Peterson’s meat-only diet
– which is, perhaps worryingly,
gaining in popularity online – is
a little extreme. But many would
go much further, arguing that, for
health reasons, almost all of the
carnivores among us should be
cutting down on the amount of meat
– specifically red and processed
meat – we eat.
The NHS website advises readers
to cut their red meat consumption
down to 70g or less per day. The
UK Government’s healthy eating
guidelines agree.
This guidance is based on a lot of
research: huge studies, sometimes
including millions of people, have
investigated the links between
eating red and processed meat
and a variety of different health
complaints. Over time, the results
from these studies have been put
together in meta-analyses – the type
of review study that synthesises
the available evidence on a certain
scientific question – and become a

consensus: eating red meat is bad
for your health.
But in recent years, this
consensus has been shaken. Studies
began to appear that cast doubt
on the quality of whole reams of
studies – and the dietary advice
taken from them.
In 2019, a series of review papers
was published in the medical
journal Annals of Internal Medicine
that raised major questions
about the link between red meat
and health. Three of the studies
reviewed all of the available
evidence on the links between red
meat and cancer, heart disease and
death, and concluded that, despite
the sheer number of studies, the
state of the evidence was very poor.
That’s mainly because of
“confounding”, the major scientific
problem that bedevils nutritional
research. In an observational study,
where you ask people about their
diets, then later check their health,
it is easy to assume that the diet
must have caused the disease. But
there could be a third factor causing
both. For example, if living in
poverty affects the amount of meat
people eat (as we know it does) as
well as their health (perhaps from
working more dangerous jobs, or
living in more polluted parts of

CONSUMER

Farmers sack off
potatoes as bills rise
By Lucie Heath

It is an essential British food – a key
component of national dishes like
fish and chips and the Sunday roast.
But there are worrying signs that
the UK’s farmers are starting to turn
their backs on the potato, leading
to predictions of higher prices and
shortages for the consumer.
Many farmers have already taken
the decision to reduce the amount
of land they will devote to Britain’s

favourite vegetable when planting
starts in spring this year. And some
are abandoning potatoes entirely.
Cedric Porter, managing editor
of World Potato Markets, estimates
there will be a 10 per cent reduction
in the land being used to grow potatoes in 2023 – which could lead to a
10 per cent reduction in the harvest
come October.
This comes on top of a “historically low” harvest in 2022, which Mr
Porter said was caused both by farm-

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town), then poverty, not diet, might
be the relevant factor.
Almost every study ever done
on red meat and health has been
observational. The reviews noted
that large numbers of them don’t
even try to take confounding factors
such as poverty (or other diseases
people have, or whether they
smoke) into account. And these
were far from the only problems
faced by the studies.
Most controversially of all, in
a final Annals of Internal Medicine
paper, a panel of researchers took
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ers planting less of the crop and a
summer drought. He expects prices
soon to rise by more than 10 per cent
because of the problems.
“It’s a combination of high costs
and not high enough prices for
the farmers themselves,” he said,
explaining why farmers are abandoning the root vegetable.
National Farmers Union (NFU)
research has found the cost of
producing a potato increased by 20
per cent between 2021 and 2022.
Energy costs were up 165 per cent,
fertiliser 40 per cent and workforce
costs up 13 per cent.
For farmer Fiona Smith, a partner
at Westerton Farmers – a 900-acre
farm in Aberdeenshire that has been
growing 100 acres of the vegetable a
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recommendations.
After considering the
quality of the evidence,
they said, the only advice
they could give was for
people to carry on eating as
much red meat as they were
before. All those studies had
produced a body of evidence
worth little more than a big shrug.
This led to fireworks. Scientists
urged the journal not to publish
the guidelines, claiming they might
endanger public health. Harvard
published a response calling the
guidelines an “irresponsible”
intervention from a “self-appointed
panel”, “tantamount to promoting
meat consumption”.
Even as the reviews criticised
the previous studies, the Harvard
response said, they had made their
own scientific slip-ups and failures.
Despite their efforts, they had failed
to move the scientific consensus.
After a few pandemic years
in which the epidemiology of
infectious diseases – not diets –
took centre stage, the debate
over red meat has returned.
Towards the end of 2022, a study
appeared in the journal Nature
Medicine from University of
Washington researchers that
once again cast doubt on previous

big part of the jigsaw that makes it
less attractive to grow potatoes”.
The farm has decided not to plant
any “ware potatoes” – those destined
to be sold in shops and eaten – at all
in 2023. Ms Smith said the decision
was made after the farm’s electricity
bill increased by 500 per cent.
While potatoes are the only crop
the farm will stop growing this year,
Ms Smith said her “entire business is
impacted” by rising bills.
“The electricity bill for our farm
shop alone has gone up £800 per
month,” she said. “We have had so
many hurdles in the past while – fuel
crisis, fertiliser price hike, labour
shortages – it’s tough.”
Charlie Browne, a farmer based in
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, also cites
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are seriously
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Fiona Smith will not plant potatoes

why his farm is reducing its potato
growing area by 30 per cent.
Farmers are being sheltered from
some of the impact of energy costs
due to the Government’s Energy Bill
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red meat research. Their major
innovation was a complicated
statistical method that considers
the differences between the studies.
Studies come in all shapes and
sizes: not only are some bigger than
others, but they include different
age groups, are in different parts of
the world where “red meat” might
mean pork, beef, or something else;
and they sometimes use different
criteria for diagnosing disease.
As we have seen, studies also
vary dramatically in quality.
Dealing with all this variation
is tricky, but the Washington
researchers argued that it should
all make us less certain about the
overall findings. In their analysis,
they found that red meat was
associated with a slight increase
in colorectal cancer (a 6 per cent
increase between those eating no
meat and those eating up to 98g
per day), breast cancer (a 3 per
cent increase), heart disease (1
per cent) and diabetes (also 1 per
cent), but that the extra uncertainty
meant they couldn’t draw any
stronger conclusions.
Frank Hu, a professor of
nutrition and epidemiology at
Harvard, disagrees. He argues
that the new method improperly
“inflates” the uncertainty
around the studies. He points to
another study by the Washington
researchers, using the same
methods, on the effects of smoking.
Even there, some very wellestablished causal associations
(such as the fact smoking causes
heart disease) were only tagged as
having “moderate” evidence. “Many
of the analyses in their papers”, he
says, “are seriously misleading.”
So how can good-faith
researchers have such fundamental
disagreements about what all
these data show?
One reason is that nutritional
research is hard: we have seen
some of the problems encountered
when trying to pin down the causal
effect of this food or that. It is easy
to find a dataset and publish yet
another low-quality observational
study. It is extremely difficult to
do a randomised controlled
trial – the gold-standard kind
of study, normally used
for drugs – with people’s
diets (for one thing, it is
tough to get them to
stick to any dietary
change for a long
enough time).
No specific

red meat-reduction trials have ever
been done, but some studies that
inadvertently reduced red meat
as part of low-fat diets tend not to
show much of an effect on health.
Another reason for the confusion
is that interpreting this research
involves an uncomfortably high
degree of subjectivity. In many
cases, scientists on opposing sides
are looking at the same results and
coming to opposing conclusions.
On top of disagreements about
statistics, they bring in their
personal views on what they would
choose to eat, their moral views
about killing animals and their
environmental views on the impact
of livestock farming.
The uncertainty among
scientists leaves the door wide
open for potentially dangerous
health fads like Jordan Peterson’s
100 per cent meat diet.

“A lot of horticulture depends
on being able to store produce in a
chilled way and that does use a lot of
energy,” explained Rupert Weaver,
NFU horticulture adviser. “That’s
going to be a really big concern.”
Despite the rising costs associated with growing potatoes, supermarkets have been reluctant to pay
higher prices for the vegetable.
“The open market price of potatoes at the moment is about the same
as it was a year ago,” said Mr Porter.
By comparison, crops such as
wheat saw a big increase in prices
last year to correspond with rising
production costs, making it a more
attractive option to farmers.
But the era of the cheap supermarket British potato might soon be
over. Mr Porter predicts we will see

a 10 per cent increase in the cost of
potatoes over the coming months as
the supply from last year’s harvest
starts to run out.
Prices are likely to rise even higher from October if the potato harvest
is smaller than last year’s, he added.
“We will certainly see higher prices and perhaps less choice,” Mr Porter said, adding that there could also
be shortages later in the year.
Meanwhile, farmers suggest the
potato decline could be part of a
longer-term trend.
Mr Browne said his farm will stop
growing potatoes entirely in 2024 if
prices do not rise.
Ms Smith agrees, adding: “There’s
so many factors that would need to
change in order for it all to go back to
how it was working four years ago.”

Fussy eaters
Why nutritional
research is so difficult
As well as the problem of
“confounding”, there are
many other elephant-traps for
scientists who do nutritional
research. Here are just three:
RECALL BIAS: Can you
remember exactly what you had
for lunch yesterday – or, say,
last Tuesday? Asking people
to fill in food questionnaires
from memory is always going to
come with a lot of uncertainty.
SOCIAL DESIRABILITY BIAS:
Even in an anonymous
food questionnaire, it’s not
“socially desirable” to tell
researchers that you’ve eaten
very unhealthily – and this
might distort people’s answers.
REPLACEMENT: Even if you
run an intervention that
successfully gets people to cut
down on meat-eating, what do
they replace it with? If they eat
more green vegetables, you
might see benefits to their health.
But if they replace the meat
with carb-heavy snacks, they
might end up worse off. This is
also a problem in observational
research, where you have to ask
what foods people are eating in
place of meat.

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Peru fractures across racial
lines as it nears meltdown
Michael Day
CHIEF FOREIGN COMMENTATOR

T

he insurrection
attempted by Jair
Bolsonaro’s supporters
in Brazil may have
captured international
headlines, but Latin America’s
real drama is being played out in
Peru, where the ousting of Marxist
leader Pedro Castillo has put the
country on the path to a racially
fuelled meltdown.
After riots, blocked roads and
the sight of terrified tourists
being helicoptered out of Machu
Picchu before Christmas, Castillo’s
indigenous supporters have
moved from the interior to the
capital Lima, through which they
were rampaging on Thursday
night, clashing with police who
responded with tear gas.
The protests are Peru’s worst
political violence in more than
two decades and highlight bitter
divisions between the country’s
urban elite, largely concentrated
in Lima, and the poor in remote or
rural areas.
“This has been brewing for
a very long time,” according to
Chris Sabatini, a Peru expert and
senior fellow for Latin America at
Chatham House. “This is all about

Peru’s geographical-racial divide.
When you look at Peru now, you
see that politics has become a
blood sport.”
Castillo (inset) was elected
as Peru’s first indigenous head
of state in July 2021, having
vowed to end the “racial regime”
imposed on Latin Americans
by the conquistadors. But
his government was soon
mired in levels of corruption
and incompetence that were
exceptional even by the standards
of Latin America, as he burned
through 80 ministers in
18 months.
His arrest last
month ignited
protests and violence
from his indigenous
supporters, even
though another
member of Castillo’s
leftist Free Peru party,
Dina Boluarte, assumed the
presidency. “The protests are also
against Boluarte because she’s
white ,” says Sabatini. “That’s
how racially divided this country
has become.”
Making things worse is the
fragmented state of the country’s
politics. There are 10 significant
groupings in the one-chamber
congress plus a large number
of “Toyota parties” – so called
because most could fit all of

their representatives in a small
hatchback. Much of the indigenous
population’s anger stems from the
perceived leaching of wealth from
mining in the remote areas into
the pockets of the elite in Lima.
There is evidence of extremist
and criminal activity among the
protests. Some reports suggest
that members of the Shining Path
are active. The Maoist terror
group was supposed to have hung
up its guns and machetes after
the capture of its founder Abimael
Guzman in 1992. Boluarte says
she supports a plan to hold
elections for president
and Congress in 2024,
two years before
originally scheduled.
Many observers
say she is right in
refusing to give in to
protesters’ demands for
an immediate election. If
Boluarte stands her ground she
might help the cycle of instability
that has seen six Peruvian
presidents in five years.
But there is little doubt the
country’s outlook is bleak.
Some people now think that
a regional initiative involving
neighbouring countries facing
similar problems, such as Chile, or
some sort of international political
mediation will be needed to end
Peru’s downward spiral.

People gather in Lima, the capital of Peru, to protest this week against the
removal of Pedro Castillo KLEBHER VASQUEZ/ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY

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ROMANIA

Court extends
police detention
of Tate brothers
By Ruth Comerford

Andrew Tate and his brother
Tristan are to stay in custody until the end of February after a Romanian
court extended their
detention period.
Andrew Tate (inset),
36, his brother, 34, and
two Romanian female
suspects were arrested on
29 December on suspicion
of rape, human trafficking and
forming an organised crime group
to exploit women.
Both men have denied wrongdoing.
The Tate brothers were kept in
custody in Romania while police in-

vestigated the allegations. This has
been extended for a further 30 days.
Andrew Tate, a former kickboxer,
has millions of online followers despite being banned from various
sites for misogynistic comments.
Earlier this month, Romanian
teenagers claimed he made approaches to them on social media
using “techniques” he teaches
men on how to pick up
women online.
Daria Gusa, now 19,
described receiving a
message from Mr Tate’s
account on Instagram
when she was 16.
“It just read ‘Romanian girl’ and he put a flirty
emoji,” she told the BBC.
Tristan Tate reportedly messaged another teenage girl, who
wished to remain anonymous.
It is not illegal to contact girls aged
16 or 17 online. The Tates’ lawyers
have been contacted for comment.

Far-right protest to burn Quran
Sweden is preparing for demonstrations today that could complicate its efforts to persuade Turkey
to approve its Nato accession.
A far-right activist from Denmark has received permission to
stage a protest outside the Turkish
embassy in Stockholm, where he
intends to burn the Quran.
Meanwhile, both pro-Turkish
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SWEDEN

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ning demonstrations in the capital.
Turkey has so far refused to approve bids by Sweden and Finland
to join Nato. Turkey says Sweden
in particular needs to crack down
on Kurdish and other groups that
Ankara considers terrorists.
Sweden has assured Turkey it
will not allow any terrorist groups
on Swedish soil. But pro-Kurdish
groups have staged anti-Turkey
demonstrations that have infuriated the Turkish government. AP

Labour names Hipkins as
choice to replace Ardern
By Zoe Drewett

Chris Hipkins is set to replace Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand’s prime
minister after being the only candidate to be nominated for the role.
The country’s Labour Party confirmed the appointment in a statement last night.
Mr Hipkins, 44, must still get an
endorsement from colleagues in
parliament and that is expected to
happen tomorrow.
First elected to parliament for Labour in 2008, Mr Hipkins became a
household name fronting the government’s response to the pandemic
after being appointed minister for
Covid-19 in November 2020.
He is currently minister for the
Police, Education, Public Service
and serves as leader of the House.
A Taxpayers’ Union-Curia Poll
in New Zealand found Mr Hipkins
to be the most popular choice to
replace Ms Ardern, winning 30 per
cent of support among the public.
Prior to Mr Hipkins’ elevation,
New Zealand was facing having its
first Maori and openly gay leader
in Kiri Allan, a senior Labour MP
tipped as one of the front runners.
Ms Ardern is to step down as
leader next month, before the general election in October.
Justice Minister Ms Allan is a politician who comes from the Maori
community, the Polynesian ethnic
group that makes up about of 17 per

Chris Hipkins fronted New Zealand’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic AP

cent of New Zealand’s population.
When asked on Thursday whether
she intended to run, the 39-year-old
said: “We’re going to go through a
process as a caucus over the next
few days.”
Ms Ardern’s successor as party
leader and prime minister faces a
stern test in a general election, with
support for Labour falling and the
country expected to go into a recession this year.
Other potential candidates included foreign minister Nanaia
Mahuta – who is also Maori – and
transport minister Michael Wood.
A poll last month by New Zea-

land’s 1News had Labour at 33 per
cent, down from 40 per cent at the
start of 2022. Even with traditional
coalition partner the Green Party
polling at 9 per cent, Labour could
not hold a majority.
Attention will now turn to who Mr
Hipkins makes his deputy – with Ms
Allan a candidate for the job.
The current deputy Labour leader, Kelvin Davis, ruled himself out
of the leadership contest, but said
it was “obvious” that Labour supporters within the Maori community would be keen on a Maori MP
getting the job, New Zealand media
outlet Stuff reported.

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UNITED STATES

‘No regrets’ over
classified papers,
says Biden
By Jeff Mason
IN CALIFORNIA

US President Joe Biden said
he has “no regrets” about his
handling of classified documents
found at his home and former
office, and that he believes the
matter will be resolved.

Postcard
From...
Hong Kong

Rabbits scamper around a play
area in a climate-controlled
building in suburban Hong
Kong, some climbing a castle
made of wood while others
explore a cotton tunnel.
In one of the world’s most
densely populated cities,
where most apartments range
from small to miniscule,
rabbits are popular pets.
And when their owners
are away, there are rabbit
lovers ready to look after their
lonely pets at Bunny Style, a
luxury rabbit resort.
That’s especially evident this
month, as the lifting of Covid-19
restrictions in Hong Kong

Women to make up 30% of
workforce under new law
By Clarice Roy-Macaulay
IN FREETOWN

TAIWAN

Portraits of blast President Tsai
victims erased praises military
Some portraits of the Beirut
port blast victims have been
erased from a memorial wall in
the Lebanese capital, causing
outrage on social media.
A number of the victims’
family members shared videos
of workmen using water jets
to spray off the murals of lost
loved ones yesterday.
Sarah Copland, whose
two-year-old son, Isaac, was
killed in the explosion, tweeted:
“The disrespect is sickening.”
The investigation into the
explosion in August 2020 has
been suspended for a year.

SIERRA LEONE

A landmark bill mandating that
women make up 30 per cent of Sierra
Leone’s workforce and government
positions went into effect yesterday,
along with paid maternity leave benefits extended to 14 weeks.
The legislation, signed by President Julius Maada Bio, applies to all
companies in the private sector that
employ 25 or more people. It also

includes civil service positions and
cabinet appointments.
“The future of Sierra Leone is female”, Mr Bio said at the signing of
the bill, approved by Parliament late
last year. “We must do all it takes to
facilitate the timely, full and unconditional inclusion of women in our
national life.”
The new law’s 30 per cent rule does
not include smaller businesses and
those who are self-employed, eking
out their livings selling at markets

or along roadsides. It does, however,
give women equal access to credit
and other financial services.
Those who discriminate on the
basis of gender could face up to five
years in prison as well as fines.
About 30 per cent of girls in Sierra Leone are married before the
age of 18, according to government
statistics. In 2020, a ban on pregnant
young women attending school was
overturned, though social stigma
often remains a barrier. AP

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen
thanked the armed forces for defending the island in her Lunar New Year
message yesterday, and said her government was safeguarding peace in
the face of China’s military drills.
China, which claims the island as
its own territory, has increased military activity around Taiwan during
the past three years.
Ms Tsai said that this year would
be “full of challenges”, but that “in
the face of the Chinese Communists’
military ships and aircraft harassing Taiwan, the government firmly
safeguards peace and stability in the
Taiwan Strait and region”. REUTERS

“I think you’re gonna
find there’s nothing there,”
Mr Biden told reporters in
California on Thursday.
“I have no regrets. I’m
following what the lawyers have
told me they want me to do. It’s
exactly what we’re doing.”
The Attorney General,
Merrick Garland, has appointed
a special counsel to investigate
the matter, after classified
documents were found at Mr
Biden’s home in Wilmington,
Delaware, and a Washington
DC office he used before he
became president. REUTERS

is spurring a surge in travel
for the Lunar New Year to
welcome the Year of the Rabbit.
Donna Li, the owner of
Bunny Style, says she is fully
booked for the holiday. She
says she keeps her charges
happy with regular exercise,
parties, spa treatments
– and lots of carrots. “We
aim to provide a secure
environment,” Ms Li says.
The proprietor, who has
two pet rabbits of her own, set
up Bunny Style in June. She
started with just a playroom,
which offered rabbits space to
hop and some relief from Hong
Kong’s hot, humid weather.
Bunny Style was full over
Christmas and Ms Li is already
taking Easter bookings. The
price is about £12 per night, but
beauty treatments and special
menu items are extra. AP
Alice Fung and Karmen Li

Safety
first for
air crews
Thai AirAsia’s cabin
crew participate in
an annual aviation
safety and emergency
course at Asia
Aviation Academy in
Bangkok. The exercise
took place as China
reopens its borders
to international
travellers. CHALINEE
THIRASUPA/REUTERS

JAPAN

Tokyo stokes Seoul tensions over gold mine status
By Mari Yamaguchi

Japan has formally resubmitted
documents seeking to obtain Unesco
World Heritage recognition for a controversial former gold mine – a move
that has added to diplomatic frictions
with South Korea over the Japanese
colonisation of the Korean Peninsula
and its wartime actions.
Japan’s earlier attempt to have the
Sado Island mine listed as a World
Heritage site this year faced issues as
the documents it originally filed did
not contain enough information.

Seoul says some Koreans were used
in forced labour at the mine during
Japan’s 1910-1945 colonisation

The mine in north-west Japan operated for nearly 400 years before it
was closed in 1989.
Uncertainty remains over the attempt to gain Unesco status. A nomination meeting planned to take place
in Russia last June was postponed
due to the invasion of Ukraine, and
another meeting has not been set.
South Korea has opposed the registration because of Japan’s wartime
abuses of Korean labourers.
Seoul said some Koreans brought
to Japan during its 1910-1945 colonisation of the Korean Peninsula were
used in forced labour at the mine. AP

TIBET

PAKISTAN

TURKEY

IN TOKYO

Avalanche death Eight injured in Opposition set to
toll rises to 13
train bomb blast name candidate
The death toll in an avalanche that
buried vehicles outside a highway
tunnel in Tibet has risen to 13,
authorities said yesterday.
Rescue efforts are continuing
after tons of snow and ice
collapsed on to the mouth of the
tunnel near the city of Nyingchi
in Tibet’s south-west on Tuesday,
trapping drivers in their vehicles.
Many of them were heading
home for China’s Lunar New Year
holiday, which starts tomorrow. AP

At least eight people were injured
when a bomb blast derailed a passenger train in the south-western
Pakistani province of Balochistan
yesterday, a local official said.
“The Jaffar Express came under
bomb attack in the Bolan district –
eight people were injured and eight
bogies derailed,” deputy commissioner Bolan Agha Samiullah said.
He said a rescue team was facing
difficulties as the site is in a mountainous area. REUTERS

Turkey’s six-party opposition
alliance said it is preparing an
announcement for next month
to name its candidate in the
upcoming presidential elections.
Turkey is headed towards one
of the most consequential votes
in its history, with presidential
and parliamentary elections
expected on 14 May – a month
ahead of schedule.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been
in power for almost 20 years. AP

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WORLD FOCUS

What a terrible boar
Wild pigs have been running amok throughout Italy, causing chaos.
Now Rome has come up with a plan to cull them. James Imam reports

O

n a warm August morning
in Milan, locals and
tourists seated outside
cafés along the Naviglio
canal – one of the city’s
favourite recreational hot spots – sipped
cappuccinos as they do on any given
sunny day. But many were no doubt
surprised when an unexpected visitor
turned up: namely, a 70kg boar spotted
paddling down the waterway.
The furry beast soon disappeared
from view, before firefighters, police
officers, civil defence officers and vets
launched a mission to capture it.
“Boars are great swimmers,
and they are also very dangerous,”
Davide Volante, a press official of the
Metropolitan City of Milan, said in an
interview at the time. “They are wild
and unpredictable – and when they get
on to roads they can wreak havoc.”
The authorities focused their search
on a 6km underground passageway that
connects two ends of the city, placing
cages in the tunnel and sealing it off.
“We’ve been down there but it’s
pitch-black and we can’t locate the
animal,” Volante said. “We’re sure
it’s there. We’ve found traces of its
excrement,” he added.
The animal was found inside one
of the cages 14 days later. Distressed
and weak after days in hot and humid
conditions, however, it died a couple of
hours after being retrieved.
Boar sightings are increasingly
common in Italian urban centres, as
expanding towns and cities encroach
into green belts and the animals – which
were emboldened when humans lay low
during the lockdowns – venture out of
their natural habitat.
“Boars enter cities as they find food
there in enormous quantities,” Massimo
Vitturi (far right), director of the wild
animals section of the Anti Vivisection
League (LAV) animal rights organisation,
tells i. “Human waste is easy food: the
animals understand they can get hold of
it without expending too much energy.”
Boar populations in Italy doubled
from 500,000 in 2010 to one million 10
years later, the environmental agency
Ispra claims, and there are an estimated
2.3 million of them in the country today,
according to the Coldiretti farmers’
association. Reports suggest numbers
are also rocketing in much of Europe.
The situation is particularly drastic
in Rome, where families of boars are

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India to export a
record 50m eggs
India is set to export a record 50
million eggs this month, boosted by
sales to Malaysia, where there have
been acute shortages as soaring
feed prices caused by the Ukraine
war forced many farmers to cut
output, industry officials said.
Middle Eastern countries,
including Oman and Qatar, are the
main buyers of eggs from India, but
over the past few months, Indian
hatcheries have received large
orders from surprising quarters
as output fell in some of the world’s
top suppliers.
The biggest surprise order came
from Malaysia, which used to
export eggs to Singapore and other
Asian countries. REUTERS

KENYA

Woman turns home
into cat shelter

It is estimated
that there are now
2.3 million boars
in Italy today;
Coldiretti farmers
protest to demand
a cull (below);
GETTY; CORBIS

Boars
enter cities
because
they find
food
there in
enormous
quantities

regularly filmed walking through the
city’s streets. Italian comedian Rosario
Fiorello even presented Rome’s mayor,
Roberto Gualtieri, with a “Golden Boar”
prize on live national TV in December.
As their numbers soar, boars are
proving to be disruptive from a human
perspective. The animals cause $22m
(£17.7m) of damage on farms annually,
Coldiretti estimates, and are involved in
2,000 car accidents in Italy each year.
A train on the Rome-Lecce line hit
three boars last month, bringing traffic
on the route to a standstill. In a
separate incident two days
later, a pack of the animals
wandered onto a busy
Benevento thoroughfare,
bringing cars to a halt.
One woman eating a pizza
on a Genoa beach in July
was bitten by a boar that
crept up behind her. And
a 92-year-old farmer was
savaged by one of the animals
that had wandered on to his Mantua
farm in November; he was subsequently
airlifted to hospital and had an arm
and leg amputated.
The situation is “out of control”, the
Mantua wing of Coldiretti recently
stated. The same organisation’s Turin
division has appealed for the army to be
brought in to kill the boars.
Italy’s native boars were driven to
the brink of extinction by deforestation
and agriculture during much of the 20th
century, before rapid urbanisation after
the Second World War led forests to
heal and the animals to return.
Hunters pushed for boars to be
actively reintroduced to forests from
the 1950s, sometimes by transferring
them from Eastern Europe. By the
time the practice was banned in

2015, boar numbers had veered out
of control. Roughly 250,000 of the
animals are still hunted today by armed
men accompanied by dogs. Boar is
commonly served on dining tables
accompanied by dollops of polenta.
Yet previous government attempts
to solve the boar problem by calling in
the hunters has been unsuccessful, with
the animals reproducing at a faster rate
than they can be killed.
Efforts to halt their rise have been
made especially urgent by the spread
of African swine flu. The deadly
disease, which swept through
countries in the Eastern part
of the European Union
seven years ago, was first
detected in boars in the
Piedmont, Liguria and
Lazio regions last year,
according to the country’s
ministry of health.
In Lazio, where 48 boars had
been identified as carrying the flu
by October, the regional administration
launched an emergency operation in
December aimed at the “reduction and
successive extinction of boars” found
within Rome’s 68km ring road.
Boars were to be captured in traps
laced with sleep-inducing narcotics,
before being shot by police officers
bearing long-distance rifles. The plan
was to slaughter all infected boars
within a month, with the reduction of
the entire population within six months.
Others are proposing less harmful
solutions. In November, LAV won
government backing for two projects
in which vaccines will be used to make
boars infertile for up to six years.
“The undeniable facts show that
people armed with rifles cannot limit
the numbers of boars,” Vitturi said.

In the outskirts of Kenya’s capital
Nairobi, mother-of-five Rachael
Kabue has earned the nickname
“cat woman” from her neighbours
by turning her four-bedroom home
into a shelter for some 600 cats.
The 51-year-old started the
Nairobi Feline Sanctuary in 2020,
taking in cats from the street that
needed shelter and medical care.
Once recovered, Ms Kabue then
puts them up for adoption. “Of
course 95 per cent of the space is
dedicated to the cats, and then I live
in one corner,” she said, adding her
children love the cats. REUTERS

UNITED STATES

Trump fined over
‘bogus’ Clinton suit
Former US president Donald
Trump and one of his lawyers, Alina
Habba, have been sanctioned by a
Florida judge – who ordered them
to pay almost $1m (£810,000) for
what he said was a bogus legal claim
against Hillary Clinton and others.
Mr Trump has been accused of
a “pattern of abuse of the courts”
by filing frivolous claims for
political purposes.
Mr Trump sued Ms Clinton
claiming that she and other
Democrats sought to rig the 2016
presidential election by falsely
accusing his campaign of links
to Russia. AP

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The stories that shaped the news

What we
learned
this week
(main) has announced her first ever
greatest hits tour, which will start in
Vancouver, Canada, on 15 July and
end in Amsterdam on 1 December.
“Madonna: The Celebration Tour”
will mark the 40th anniversary of
her first big hit, “Holiday”. The star
will perform at venues in 35 cities
in the US and Europe – including
The O2 in London on 14 October.

Thirty-year manhunt ends

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro,
Italy’s most-wanted man, has
been arrested in Sicily after 30
years on the run. In 2002, he was
tried and sentenced to life in jail
in absentia for a number of crimes.
These included the murders of
prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and
Paolo Borsellino in 1992, bomb
attacks in Milan, Florence and
Rome in 1993 in which 10 people
died, the kidnapping, torture and
murder of the 12-year-old son of a
Mafia informant, and the murder of

Antonella Bonanno, the pregnant
girlfriend of a rival Mafia boss.
Messina Denaro was arrested
outside a private clinic in Sicily’s
capital, Palermo, where he had been
receiving chemotherapy. More than
100 members of the armed forces
took part in the operation to arrest
the fugitive, in what Italy’s Prime
Minister, Giorgia Meloni,
described as “a great
victory for the state”.

Injury hits
local favourite

Australian tennis
player Nick Kyrgios,
the world No 21 in
singles, was forced to
pull out of the Australian
Open with a knee injury the
day before his opening match. The
27-year-old (inset), who was beaten
by Novak Djokovic in last year’s
men’s singles final at Wimbledon,
had been one of the favourites to
win this year’s tournament.

End of an era BBC Radio 2 DJ
Ken Bruce will step down in
March after 31 years presenting
the mid-morning weekday show.
The Scottish broadcaster, who has
worked for the BBC for 45 years,
will present a new mid-morning
show on Greatest Hits Radio from
April. “Nothing stays the same for
ever and I have decided the
time is right for me to
move on from Radio 2
when I reach the end of
my current contract
in March,” he said.
Seal population
booming Almost

4,000 baby grey seals
were seen on Norfolk’s
beaches this winter – a record
high, according to Friends of Horsey
Seals. A total of 3,796 pups were
spotted along a five-mile stretch
of coast between Waxham and
Winterton – almost double the
previous record in 2019-20.

Shock departure New Zealand’s

Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern
(left), has announced that she will
step down next month after more
than five years in power. She
became the world’s youngest female
head of government when she led
the Labour Party to victory in 2017
at the age of 37. Ardern said she no
longer has “enough in the tank” to
continue. “I am human, politicians
are human. We give all that we can
for as long as we can. And then it’s
time. And for me, it’s time,” she said.
Labour MPs are set to choose her
successor this weekend.

Historic move towards
equality The Church of England
has announced plans to bless

same-sex marriages for the first
time, but has stopped short of
allowing same-sex couples to be
married in church. The Archbishop
of Canterbury, Justin Welby,
said: “I am under no illusions
that what we are proposing will
appear to go too far for some and
not nearly far enough for others.”

Covid cost The HMRC’s “most
likely” estimate of how much was
lost from Covid-19 support schemes
due to organised crime, fraud and
error is £4.5bn, according to its chief
executive, Jim Harra. The largest
amount, £3.5bn, was lost from the
Government’s furlough scheme.
It is thought that £1bn was
lost from the scheme to help
self-employed workers, and £71m
from the “Eat Out to Help Out”
scheme. The estimated losses
amount to 4.6 per cent of the total
spent on the three schemes.
Shopping basket price drama

Butter, milk and cheese cost up
to 30 per cent more than they did
a few months ago, outstripping
overall inflation, according to the
Which? consumer group. Food
and drink inflation reached 15
per cent at the end of 2022, but in
the case of butters and spreads,
inflation over the three months
to December was 29.4 per cent.
The consumer watchdog also
found that milk was 26.3 per cent
more expensive, with cheese
22.3 per cent more costly over
this period. Which? revealed
that inflation was significantly
higher on budget ranges (20.3 per
cent) and own-brand items (18.5
per cent) than premium (12.6
per cent) and branded (12.5 per
cent) alternatives.

RETAIL
Marks & Spencer
is to create 3,400
jobs across the UK,
under a £500m
plan to open 20
shops within the
next financial year.

CULTURE
Netflix is to release
its first Welshlanguage TV show,
after buying rights
to S4C crime series
Dal y Mellt (Catch
The Lightning).

1 Nicholas Lyndhurst – aka
Rodney Trotter – is to join a
reboot of which US sitcom?
2 Which veteran actor is to make
his debut as a film awards host as
the presenter of this year’s Baftas?
3 Which singer called a song
created in his style by artificial
intelligence “a grotesque mockery”?
4 Bono has changed the lyrics to
the U2 song “Pride” to reflect that
which person was assassinated in
the early evening, not the morning?
5 Which country’s population has
fallen for the first time in 60 years?
6 Spectators are banned from
bringing in flags from which two
countries at the Australian Open?
7 Lioness Ella Toone is the first
female player to collaborate with
which brand on a boot deal?
8 To whom was the Chancellor,
Jeremy Hunt, compared for a social
media video in which he used coffee
cups to explain inflation?
9 New national recommendations
in Canada suggest that if you drink
at all, you should have no more than
how many drinks a week?
10 Ten Chinese players of which
sport face match-fixing charges?
Answers below

it’s been a good week...
LITERATURE
Poet Anthony
Joseph has won
the £25,000
TS Eliot Prize for
his Sonnets For
Albert poetry
collection.

iNewsQuiz

CONSERVATION
A pair of beavers
have been released
near Basingstoke
– the first time the
species has lived
in Hampshire for
400 years.

LANGUAGE
“Queen” has
been voted the
Children’s Word
of the Year for
2022, according
to the Oxford
University Press.

POLITICS
Publisher
HarperCollins
has bought the
rights to Boris
Johnson’s memoir
on his time as
prime minister.

ENERGY
The Crown Estate
made deals for
six offshore wind
farms to be built,
with the capacity
to power seven
million homes.

iNewsQuiz answers 1. Frasier.
2. Richard E Grant. 3. Nick Cave.
4. Martin Luther King Jnr. 5. China.
6. Russia and Belarus. 7. Nike. 8. Mr
Bean. 9. Two. 10. Snooker.

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SOMETHING

FOR THE WEEKEND

How to
get fit
after 40
From functional training
to cold water exposure,
experts share their top
tips on how to stay in
shape at 40 and beyond.
By Emily Cope

FOCUS ON FUNCTIONAL FITNESS
One aspect of growing older is a greater
risk of falls, injury and loss of mobility
and strength, which is why functional
compound exercises are so important.
These exercises mimic everyday activities
to leave us stronger in our daily lives –
and therefore less prone to unexpected
injuries. According to Caroline Idiens,
who runs a fitness platform for people
over 40, these are the best exercises
to focus on:

SQUAT AND PRESS
“We squat more than any other
movement (outside of walking) – sitting
down, going to the loo, getting things off
the floor, getting in the car – so this is a
really important one,” says Idiens. “Place
your feet just wider than hip distance
apart. With your shoulders back and
chest lifted, sit back as if into a chair until
your thighs are parallel to the floor. Keep
your back straight without rounding
and put your weight through your heels.
With your core engaged, push back up to
standing, engaging your glutes at the top.

“Once mastered, add in some light
dumbbells (start with 2kg), and as you
stand up push the dumbbells overhead.”

DEADLIFT
“This exercise is about hinging, which is so
important when doing things like picking
up small children, gardening or cleaning
the bath. Stand with your knees slightly
bent, feet hip-width apart. Engage your
core. Hold a dumbbell in each hand at
your thighs. Hinge at your hips sending
your hips back and sliding the weights
slowly down the front of your thighs until
your chest is parallel with the floor. Keep
a slight bend in the knees and a neutral
spine with shoulders back.
“As soon as your chest is parallel – and
with your core tight – push through your
heels to stand back up straight. Keep the
weights close to your thighs, then pause
at the top as you squeeze your glutes.”

BICEP CURL INTO SHOULDER PRESS
“This is important for daily movement
such as carrying shopping bags or
putting something heavy in an overhead

cupboard. Stand with feet hip-width
apart, arms by your sides with a dumbbell
in each hand, palms facing inward.
“Flex the elbows to curl the weight.
Do not use momentum or swing; instead
use a controlled motion. Then slowly
extend overhead. Return to the starting
position. Abs should always be kept tight
to protect the lower back.”

ROW
“This is a brilliant exercise that mimics
the action of pulling weeds or hoovering,”
explains Idiens. “Stand holding a single
dumbbell in one hand with your knees
slightly bent and the opposite leg further
forward in a lunge position.
“Hinge at the hip with the dumbbell
hanging down, your arm extended.
Your core must be tight and back straight
without rounding the shoulders.
Keep your head in line with your spine.
Slowly row the weight in towards your
hip, squeezing your shoulder blades
together as you pull the weight towards
you, then slowly lower the weight to
the start position.”

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GET OUTSIDE – AND EAT MORE
PROTEIN TO STOP MUSCLE LOSS
“As we get a little older, it can become
harder for us to stay fit and healthy,
but the importance of keeping up a
regular exercise routine increases as we
age,” explains personal trainer Darren
Cunningham. “At 40 our bodies are
changing and we start to store more fat,
our bone density reduces and we lose
muscle – not to mention that we may
start to become bored of our go-to fitness
regime. Opting for exercising outdoors
can open up a whole new feeling of
freedom to your workouts.
“Surrounded by nature, you’ll leave
the artificial lights behind and experience
the world around you, which will not
only give you an endorphin boost but
you’ll also be topping up your vitamin
D intake.
“Our protein intake is key here, too.
As we lose muscle with age, something
called sarcopenia, we need to think about
how we can add protein to our diet, be
it through all-natural protein shakes or
meats and fish, eggs and nuts.”

and the practice enhances mood, focus
and concentration as well as exercising
core muscles, which are important as we
age,” says Dr MacRae.
“Swimming is also an excellent choice.
The aerobic exercise is beneficial for
weight control and cardiovascular health,
and swimming also uses large muscle
groups while increasing heart rate and
is most helpful for maintaining joint
movement and flexibility.
“Water exercise may also be the
preferred choice for women suffering
from hot flashes during the menopause,
which can be particularly testing
around the 40 mark.”

IMPROVE CIRCULATION
Cold exposure is an effective way to
improve circulation, boost the immune
system and improve overall health –
something which is often needed post-40.
However, before you head straight for
the sea, it is best to begin any cold water
therapy slowly with a cold shower or bath
– and always consult your GP first.
Calum Sharma, from The Body Lab,
explains: “Cold exposure is a very
accessible treatment, but you don’t want
to go to the extreme to begin with – so
diving into a frozen lake unsupervised
should not be on your agenda. I would
suggest standing in a warm shower
and turning the heat down until your
breathing changes. Stay for 30 seconds
under the cold water and then go back
to hot. When you get more comfortable
being uncomfortable, go longer and
slightly more extreme, building up to
three minutes under the cold water.”
Though it may be uncomfortable at
first, Sharma insists the benefits are
worth it, especially as you get older.
“Cold-water exposure not only reduces
inflammation, builds our resilience
to stress and enhances
our mood, it also
reduces white fat
and increases
metabolism,
which can be
important as

we age and our metabolism slows down,”
says Sharma. “Consistency is key and you
will have to do more than one to two cold
showers a week to really feel the effects.
“Once you’ve nailed the cold showers,
you can go a little more extreme in the
form of ice baths.”

FASTER DOESN’T ALWAYS
MEAN FITTER
A varied exercise routine is key
throughout your life, but as you grow
older there are plenty of benefits to be
had from slowing down a little. According
to Dr Fiona MacRae, from the
Marion Gluck Clinic, not all
workouts need to leave
you sweating and out
of breath.
“Qigong or Tai
Chi movements
(top) are both
fluid and
meditative,

SWAP HIIT FOR YOGA TO PREVENT
STRESS INJURIES
“It’s impossible to imagine that any
machine could run for 40 years without
needing some TLC or repairs – and the
body is no different,” explains Carlos
Cobiella, a consultant orthopaedic
surgeon. “While genetics play a role in
the advancement and severity of upper
body conditions such as osteoarthritis,
all adults can expect to experience some
change to their shoulder joints as they
age and the cartilage that cushions joints
wear down, leading to less mobility,
pain and inflammation.”
As such, if you are prone to injury
Cobiella recommends avoiding highimpact repetitive movements, such
as those seen during high-intensity
interval training (HIIT) workouts.
“Once women hit their forties,
progesterone, oestrogen and
testosterone levels begin to decline,”
adds Cobiella. “This leaves the adrenals
carrying more of the workload, so
women in their forties must be extracautious about balancing stress-inducing
exercises, such as burpees (which may
have been fine to do in their
twenties and thirties) with
exercises that have a lower
impact on the shoulders.
Women in their forties
will also see a decline
in muscle mass due to
lower testosterone
levels so low-impact
exercise like yoga
and resistance band
exercises are better
for adding muscle
tone and strength.”
And for men?
Cardio is important, but
make sure not to push it
too hard every time. “Cardio
doesn’t have to be a hardcore
sprint session every day,”
explains Cobiella. “A gentle

Yoga (main) is a
good low-impact
workout; eating a
balanced diet (top
right) is beneficial;
regular weight
training (right) can
help reduce pain;
gardening (above
left) or getting
outside with the
kids (below) can
help boost fitness;
finding an activity
you enjoy (below
left) is key to
sticking to it GETTY

jog a few times a week is enough to make
sure that you are engaging in the aerobic
exercise needed to promote heart health,
improve endurance and decrease the risk
of chronic diseases. Make sure that you
warm up beforehand, stretching out the
legs, calves, arms and shoulders with a
few circular movements and stretches.”

INCLUDE RESISTANCE TRAINING
– AND ADD PLENTY OF CALCIUM
AND VITAMIN D TO YOUR DIET
According to Jack Claxton, a personal
trainer at David Lloyd Clubs, there
are three common health concerns to
anyone over 40: metabolism, stress and
bone density.
“You hear many people say that they
find it hard to lose weight the older
they get, and this is because as we age
our metabolisms slow down and our
muscle mass naturally decreases,”
explains Claxton. “Our bone density also
decreases, which can lead to general
aches and pains, as well as more serious
conditions such as osteoporosis. To

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your children or grandchildren is what’s
important to you, pushing the pram to
the park, lifting a child and pushing them
on a swing will give you the necessary
workout while doing something that
brings you joy.
“The most important thing is never
to stop moving, bending, stretching and
reaching, as this will improve your health,
mobility and flexibility – and ultimately,
your physical and mental wellbeing.”

MOVE FOR 30 MINUTES A
DAY TO KEEP MENTAL FITNESS

combat this, our bodies need regular
exercise and some form of resistance
or weight bearing exercises within our
daily routines.
“My top suggestions are regular
weight training – which is about three
times a week – as well as having a
balanced diet that includes plenty of
calcium and vitamin D.”

TAKE TIME TO RECOVER
After 40, rest and recovery is more
important than ever – especially postworkout. “Getting older means more
focus needs to be put on recovery,
which includes sleep, hydration and
good nutrition, not just stretching after
a workout,” says Olympic weightlifter
Haylene Ryan Causer.
“We can no longer bounce back after a
big session like we did in our twenties.
Taking days between weight workouts for
your muscles to replenish their glycogen
stores is important, as well as walking
daily to maintain good blood flow.”

FEEL THE SQUEEZE WITH
KEGEL EXERCISES FOR
A HEALTHY PELVIC FLOOR
Pelvic floor exercises are important
for all women. However, factors such
as pregnancy and childbirth, changes in
hormone levels and general age-related
changes to muscle strength, mean that
exercising your pelvic floor becomes all
the more important as you get older.
“There are many symptoms that
women often just put up with, as they
think they are just a consequence of
getting older, but many of them can be
prevented by working on your pelvic
floor,” says Dr Susanna Unsworth,
medical expert for Intimina. “Performing

regular pelvic floor exercise reduces
problems related to incontinence, helps
reduce the likelihood of developing pelvic
floor prolapse, and can also increase the
pleasure experienced during sex.
“As with all muscles, it is important
to exercise them regularly otherwise
weakness can develop.
“You can do Kegels simply by locating
your pelvic floor muscles, meaning
exercises can be performed anywhere –
sitting up, lying down or even standing,
without equipment. If you’re looking
for somewhere to start, try the ‘elevator
method’: imagine your vagina as an
elevator shaft, with the opening as the
ground floor. Slowly contract your
pelvic muscles, lifting the elevator
towards your belly button. Pause at
the top, then slowly lower the elevator
back down. Repeat five times, breathing
normally, and trying not to squeeze your
bum or stomach muscles.”

GET INTO GARDENING – OR TAKE
THE KIDS TO THE PARK
If swimming, cycling or weight training
at the gym simply aren’t your thing, then
don’t fret – there are plenty of other ways
to get in shape after 40.
Kate Sheehan, occupational therapist
for Stannah from The OT Service,
suggests taking up gardening.
“To enable activity (both cardio and
strength) to be part of our day-to-day
activities they need to be enjoyable to
us and not seen as a chore, so why not
think about taking up a new hobby such
as gardening?” she suggests.
“Heavy digging will give you that cardio
and strength workout, while you are
also doing something that brings you
personal fulfilment. If spending time with

Staying healthy after 40 isn’t just about
physical fitness, but mental fitness too.
Keeping active is one of the best ways
to stop your brain shrinking, according
to Pete Williams, founder of Functional
Medicine Associates.
“The human body is designed to be
moving for most of the day. In fact,
our genes and physiology expect daily
movement to perform at their best,
and when we don’t achieve this, it’s a
problem to both body and brain health,”
says Williams.
“As we age, our cardiovascular
system doesn’t perform as well. It gets
stiffer and the capacity to pump blood
effectively to far-off regions of the body
declines. Combine ageing with lack of
fitness and we start to lose tiny blood
vessels that are vital for allowing the
exchange of nutrients, oxygen and other
beneficial molecules in different organs
as well as taking away the cellular rubbish
that our body creates.
“To help keep cognitive decline at bay,
we need to achieve a minimum of 150
minutes a week of moderate intensity
aerobic activity such as brisk walking.
This could be 30 minutes a day, five
days a week, or 75 minutes of vigorous
intensity aerobic activity every week or
an equivalent mix of the two.
“It can be any activity that raises heart
rate, from walking to jogging to jump
rope to dancing. It’s not what you do, it’s
consistency that matters.”

REMEMBER, IT’S NEVER TOO LATE
Regardless of all the advice on how to
get fit after 40, experts agree the number
one tip is that it’s never too late to take
your health and fitness seriously.
“If you’re just starting out, then don’t
rush going forwards,” advises Michael
Fatica, a consultant osteopath for The
Back in Shape programme.
“Set a reasonable schedule, such as
working out three to five times per
week, or as your busy life permits. To
begin with err on the lower intensity
side so as not to ‘burn out’.
“Remember, you only need to spend
30 to 45 minutes, three times a week, to
reap the benefits. You can make the time,
and if you grow to enjoy it more you can
always, steadily increase your exercise
frequency. Better late than never.”

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30 easy
ways to
simplify
your life
From reorganising your wardrobe to
learning to cheat in the kitchen, these
straightforward hacks will help you
streamline your daily routine and clear
your mind of clutter. By Anna Bonet
FAMILY
Create a ‘command station’
“A really useful way to organise your
family is by creating a ‘command
station’,” says parenting coach Jo
Mitchelhill. “This is somewhere
you can house the school bags, the
family planner and a kind of notice
board containing any important
information – notes from school, or
reminders about whose PE day or
flute lesson it is when.”
Box things up
“Under my sink, I have three
containers: one with toothbrushes
and toothpaste; one with
hairbrushes, combs and hairbands;
and another with vitamins and
medicines,” says psychotherapist
and host of The Therapy Edit
podcast Anna Mathur.
“After breakfast I pull
them all out, putting
them away again
once everyone has
completed each
job. This limits
rushing around to
gather things from
different rooms.”
Have a dedicated
dump zone
“Dedicate a space for your
children to dump their coat, shoes
and bags when they come in,”
suggests Mitchelhill. “It’s good to
keep this stuff contained to one area
– and then that is exactly where it
will all be the next morning.”
Invest in items that make
your life easier
Where possible, buy products
that make your life a little less
stressful. “Slings are great because
you can pop your baby in it and get
on with your day,” says parenting
expert Rachel Fitz-Desorgher.
“Meanwhile, a Gro Clock is a
godsend to help encourage your
child to sleep as long as possible,
and the Yoto – which is an audio

player – is perfect for keeping
little ones entertained.”
Pack lunches the night before
“Pack lunch boxes with the
non-perishable items and leave
them on the kitchen counter, while
perishable things such as yoghurts
or sandwiches should go in one
container in the fridge, so that in
the morning you can grab that one
thing,” says Mitchelhill.
Stick to a routine
Schedule and routine are key to
limiting friction, especially when
you are dealing with toddlers.
“I notice my daughter feels most
comfortable when she knows
exactly what is going on throughout
the day,” says Ashley Verma, host of
parenting podcast Bizzimumzi. “So
I make sure I communicate
the schedule to her
each day – and if we
do have to have a
change of routine,
I tell her about it
the night before.
This makes for an
easier transition.”
Buy pairs of
the same socks
“Buy bundles of the same
socks and then you won’t have
to hunt for matching pairs in the
morning,” advises Mitchelhill.
HOUSEHOLD
Clean little and often
“Rather than letting cleaning and
tidying build up, do little and often
– ideally throughout the week so
you have a day free at the weekend
to relax in a nice clean house,” says
cleaning expert Danielle Mason.
Have a seasonal wardrobe
“Rotating your wardrobe based
on seasons will save you rifling
through all the wrong clothes,” says
Lauren Allen, organisation expert
and founder of Not a Boring Box.

Stop multitasking
- being singleminded is
better for your
mental health
If you have a baby, wearing them in a
sling will free up your hands (below) ;
cut down the amount of laundry you
do by airing clothes (far right); food
prep will reduce time spent in the
kitchen (top right) GETTY

“In winter, remove all your summer
clothes from your wardrobe and
store them elsewhere and vice
versa.” Stuck for storage space?
Use the inside of your suitcases.
Get organised with
better storage
“Maximise your space by
using hanging storage
on the inside of doors
and cupboards,”
says Carolyn Creel,
cleaner and author
of the forthcoming
decluttering
book The Clear
Method. “You can get
collapsible hangers
that allow you to hang
up to five items on but take
the space of only one. Vacuumpacking your seasonal clothes is
also a great way to save space.”

Do less laundry
“Cutting down the faff of laundry
starts with rethinking your
understanding of ‘dirty’,” says
Kathleen Bell, a sustainable
cleaning expert at eco-friendly
cleaning brand smol. “There are
lots of ways to get more wear
out of clothes without
compromising on
cleanliness – such as
spot cleaning, and
shaking clothes out
and airing them out
overnight. You can
also refresh hardier
fabrics (ie not silk)
by misting them
with some essential
oils added to a spray
bottle, or by steaming
them. If you’re taking a hot
shower, you can even hang clothes
in the bathroom.”

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MIND
Cut corners
“You don’t have to do everything
well, from scratch, or to completion
– even though it might feel good to,
or be the standard that you set for
yourself,” says Mathur. “I often
call corner-cutting a valid form
of self-care. When we’re feeling
depleted, it is a great way to
preserve some energy.”
Write down what’s
in your control
“Write down what is on your
mind into two columns – ‘What
is inside my control’ and ‘What is
outside my control’,” says mind
coach Alison Blackler. “This helps
you to simplify your concerns and
highlight your action list.”
Stop multitasking
“Be single-minded,” advises
Mathur. “Multitasking is praised,
but in truth, focusing on one
thing at a time is better for our
mental health.”
Don’t look at your phone
first thing
“When you wake up, instead of
looking at your phone
and letting your mind
explode with your
inbox, schedule a
to-do list, dedicate
a few minutes to
something a little
more steadying,”
suggests
mindfulness
expert Neil
Seligman. “An
awareness-based
practice – such as slowly
sipping tea – is great for mental
clarity and helps you start your day
clear and focused.”

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Reduce your cleaning
products
“There is a common
illusion that you need
lots of cleaning
products, when
water and a
microfibre cloth
can keep pretty
much every
surface clean and
clear,” says Creel.
“Otherwise, I would
say you only really
need three products: a
good bathroom cleaner, a
good kitchen cleaner and
some bleach. For glass and
windows, you can make your own
solution with a 1:1 ratio of diluted
vinegar and water and store it in a
spray bottle – it’s not only a great
disinfectant but it also keeps them
smear clear.”

Reduce decision fatigue
“Decisions can feel overwhelming,”
says Mathur. “Next time you need
to decide something, allow yourself
to become narrow-minded for
a moment – block out external
direction and consider what
decision you’d make if nobody
knew.” We can also reduce decision
fatigue by limiting the number of
choices we need to make in a day –
perhaps by always having the same
breakfast, or reducing the options
of clothes you wear to work.
Set boundaries
“[Money expert] Martin Lewis
encourages us to ask: ‘Do I
need it? Can I afford it?’
when confronted with
a potential purchase,”
says Mathur. “This is
also a brilliant tool to
use when confronted
with an invitation or
a call on your time
or resources. Is it
something you need to
do? Can you afford to spend
the energy/time?”
WORK
‘Eat the frog’
“‘Eat the frog’ means identifying
the day’s least attractive task and
forcing yourself to complete it first,”
says Freddie Titcombe, co-creator

of the Evolve Journal. “It can make
a big difference.”
Limit distractions
“When you are trying
to focus, turn off
notifications on emails,
Teams, Slack and
your phone for a set
time period,” says
productivity expert
Jo Bendle. “You can
also use a distraction
blocking tool – such as
the Chrome extension
blocksite.co – to stop
you scrolling through
certain websites. Also, use noisecancelling headphones.”
Organise your emails
“Use the ‘Do, ditch or delegate’
method when emails come in –
you can even organise folders
with those titles,” says leadership
coach Amy Wilkinson. “Also, set
up ‘rules’ for emails so that they
automatically filter into a folder.”
Use the ABC method
The ABC method is a way of
keeping on top of your to-do list.
“First brain-dump everything that

needs ticking off in the next month
or so,” advises organisation expert
Jane Lee. “Then divide them into A,
B or C, depending on their urgency:
A: needs doing in the next day or
two; B is not so urgent but to do this
week; and C is not urgent but worth
making a note of.”
End your day right
“Before my day finishes, I
write down everything
I have to do the next
day, so I don’t go
to bed thinking
about it,” says
entrepreneur Am
Golhar. “I also
pack up my laptop
and clear my desk
– because when we
leave things cluttered,
our brain is cluttered.”
KITCHEN
Time-saving techniques
“Rather than carefully chop
mushrooms, I tear them and throw
them straight into the pan,” says
chef Lisa Marley. “Also, a quick and
easy way to peel a lot of garlic is to
put the cloves in a bowl and place

another bowl on top to create a
dome, and rigorously shake.”
Cheat on spices
“To make flavoursome meals
without fuss, using a simple spice
blend instead of a huge list of
single spices can save loads of
time – and money,” comments
Sanjay Aggarwal, cookbook
author and co-founder of
Spice Kitchen.
Don’t skip prep
“The more you
prepare, the quicker
and simpler it is
to cook,” says chef
Dipna Anand. “That
means having onions
chopped in the fridge
tomatoes pre-blended,
and cupboards organised
and labelled, so you know where
everything is.”
Make mash bowls
“Use a single pot to steam multiple
vegetables and create a ‘mash
bowl’, says registered nutritional
therapist Vicky Godfrey. “My go-to
combination is one potato, half
a cauliflower, four to six carrots
and six to eight florets of broccoli.
Steam them until they are tender,
add seasoning and olive oil or
butter, then mash to make amazing
potato cakes – perfect for a side.”
Don’t overcomplicate things
“Do more one-pot cooking and
tray bakes,” says Marley. “They
save time and washing up.”
Cook double
Where possible, cook double. “It is
usually the same amount of effort,
reduces ingredient wastage and
means you can stock the freezer
with ready meals for those nights
you’d rather not be standing in the
kitchen,” says Mathur.
Maintain cupboard essentials
“Keep your cupboards stocked
with dried pasta, lentils, cous cous,
quinoa and tinned beans, which
have a long shelf life and are great
to fall back on,” says Marley.

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Jumbo General Knowledge Crossword
ACROSS

10 English darts player, nicknamed
“Bully Boy”, who won the 2023
PDC World Championship (7,5)
13 1984 Stanley Donen film based
on the 1977 French film Un
moment d’égarement (5,2,2,3)
14 District of Copenhagen,
Denmark in which J C Jacobsen
founded a brewery in 1847 (9)
15 1941 novel by James Hilton (6,7)
16 English actor whose film roles
include singer Billy Mack in
Love Actually (4,5)
17 Comedian who presented the
Channel 4 chat show Chatty
Man (4,4)
18 Another name for Beethoven’s
third symphony (6)
20 Middle name of president John
F Kennedy (10)
22 A former name for Jakarta (7)
23/35 English photographer who
won Oscars for costume
designs for Gigi and My Fair
Lady (5,6)
26 Fuel created by passing steam
over incandescent coke (5,3)
28 Elton John’s first top ten
single (4,4)
30 US state whose capital is
Augusta (5)
34 Silvery-white metallic element
whose atomic number is 21 (8)
35 See 23
36 Substances that stimulate the
production of antibodies (8)
38 2022 BBC drama starring
Martin Compston and Tony
Curran (8)
39 US vice president from 1993
to 2001 who starred in the
2006 documentary film An
Inconvenient Truth (2,4)
40 Doctor John ___, central
character of a series of 14
books written by Hugh Lofting
between 1920 and 1952 (8)
42 Horse that won the 1963 Grand
National (5)
43 Brown crystallised cane
sugar named after a region
of Guyana (8)
44 A woman’s light, filmy dressing
gown (8)
47 A large German sausage (5)
49 The capital of Northern
Ireland (7)
51 Welsh dish of seaweed boiled,
dipped in oatmeal and fried (5,5)
55 A fixed number of verse lines
forming a unit of a poem (6)
56 American soul vocal group who
had a 1975 number one hit with
Ms Grace (3,5)
57 Francesco ___, Italian baroque
architect featured on a 100
Swiss Franc banknote in
circulation from 1976 to
2000 (9)
60 Actor and director who starred
in Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid and The Sting (6,7)
61 German Expressionist artist
invited to join Die Brücke in
1906 (4,5)
62 American singer best known
for the 1979 hit single I Will
Survive (6,6)
63 April 9 this year (6,6)
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Senior RAF officer of
equivalent rank to an
admiral in the Royal Navy (3,5,7)
English singer and TV
personality who has had the
surnames Tweedy, Cole and
Fernandez-Versini (6)
Ballistic missile named after a
US general nicknamed ‘Black
Jack’ (8)

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4/58 Private detective partner
of Charley Farley played by
Ronnie Barker in The Two
Ronnies (5,6)
5 American actress whose film
roles include Jane in The
Twilight Saga and the title
character in Effie Gray (6,7)
6 British track racing cyclist who
won the world amateur sprint
title in 1947 and two Olympic
silver medals in 1948 (3,6)
7 Real surname of Beatles
drummer Ringo Starr (7)
8 See 46
9 Tree whose edible green kernels
are used in ice cream (9)
11 The cruciferous plant Capsella
bursa-pastoris (9-5)

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12/19 American actor, comedian
and stunt performer whose
films include Safety Last! (6,5)
13 TV Western series featuring
the Cartwright family (7)
19 See 12
21 1897 novel by Ethel Voynich
whose protagonist is Arthur
Burton (3,6)
24 Former administrative region
of France known for its
mountain ranges and dormant
volcanoes (8)
25 Former British bronze coin that
ceased to be legal tender
in 1961 (8)
27 Giant monster, or daikaiju, who
first appeared in Ishiro Honda’s
1954 film of the same name (8)

29/31 Long-running American TV
show whose original 1975 cast
included John Belushi, Dan
Aykroyd and Chevy Chase (8,5,4)
32 Well-known canzone sung by
the Duke of Mantua in Verdi’s
opera Rigoletto (2,5,1,6)
33 1996 Roland Emmerich science
fiction film starring Will
Smith (12,3)
37 Australian actress seen as
companion Tegan Jovanka in
Doctor Who (5,8)
41 The capital of Senegal (5)
45 Swimming stroke first swum in
competition in 1933 (9)
46/8 1973 single by The Carpenters
that is their best-selling single
in the UK (9,4,4)

48 Best-selling posthumous
album by Eva Cassidy
released in 1998 (8)
50 The original name of the band
Blur (7)
52 Title held by Margaret Thatcher
from 1992 (8)
53 Roman emperor who was the
adopted son and successor of
Trajan (7)
54 A minor parish officer such as
Mr Bumble in Oliver Twist by
Charles Dickens (6)
58 See 4
59 The back of a sheet of printed
paper (5)

Solutions, page 56

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Zygolex®

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD No 3731 BY PHI
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Bird requiring introduction
of odd cage, note, one with
many sides (9)

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Agreement in Berlin about a
very rich sort of coffee (4)

10 Fitzgerald’s era? Generation
with wits running wild is
about right (7,8)
11 Run, missing first place?
Nothing magical about me (6)

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clearing where specialist
plants grow (9,6)

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road during two mornings in
European city (9)

25 Sentimental nonsense
applied to female in error (4)

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American on board (9)

13 Ugly boil about to appear in
face – very unpleasant (10)

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form of weapon (9)

14 Policeman at fault, taking
time to wipe out fine (9)

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Anything supplied by doctor
is a dose of medicine? (7)

15 Quietly moved goalposts,
initially between editions (5)

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Unfriendly image leading
to concern about new chef’s
special? (6,3,5)

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Suppress article making little
sense (4)

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PA, say, freshly appointed,
learned about residing in US
city (4,6)

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17 Request reduced openings
for research officers using
test-tubes (2,5)
19 Daughter engaged in
relaxation in new North
London location (7)
22 Historic garment seen
around origin of native
island state (5)
23 Endless luxury is a bonus (4)

playbeg;
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cot; rob;How
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letter word. Both
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will make the across and down
same eight letters. What are the words?
calculations produce the results
For safety reasons, the manager _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
shown in the grey squares. Each
on _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in the workplace
numeral from 1 to 9 must only
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should be performed from
two lunch deals. Option 1 was £15 for lunch
left to right and top to
only; option 2 was £20 for lunch with drinks.
bottom, rather than in strict
One-third of the people paid for option 1
mathematical order.
and one quarter for option 2. If £160 was
collected, how many passengers were on
the coach?

Easier

Solution, page 56

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Satan President, possibly (14)

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How to play Find all the mines
in the grid. Numbers in certain
squares indicate how many mines
there are in the neighbouring
squares, including diagonally
touching squares. Mines cannot be
placed in squares with numbers.

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Helping to keep Bishop
standing (7)

Cylinder filled with first of
Ukraine’s wheat (5)

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front scrubbed (8)

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Reagan, say, the writer’s
recalled (9)

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in oblique manner (6)

12 Sea horse? I’m behind it being
captured (8)

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among working stars (5)

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Find the missing words by following the RHYME, LETTERS and MEANING links
– eg, a word that rhymes with ‘cheek’, has one letter different from ‘pear’ and
has the same meaning as mountain, would be ‘peak’. Full rules at zygolex.com.
Find the missing words by following the RHYME, LETTERS and MEANING links, e.g. a word
Solutions, page 56
that rhymes with ‘cheek’, has the same meaning as ‘mountain’ and has one letter different from
RHYME LETTERS MEANING
‘pear’, would be ‘peak’. Note: only one letter is changed in a Letters link.

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How many words of three or more letters,
each including
the letter
at centre of the
B O
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make from
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including one
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Killer Sudoku

Jigsawdoku

How to play Each row, column and 3 by 3 box
must contain each number (1 to 9) only once.
The sum of all numbers contained in a dotted
area must match the number printed in its
top-left corner. No number can appear more
than once in a dotted area.

How to play Place the numbers 1-9
once in each row, column and bold-lined
jigsaw region.

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Easier

In addition to the usual constraints, each
numeral from 1 to 9 must appear (once only)
in the squares forming the red letter i.

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Codeword No 3473

How to play As traditional sudoku, but numbers
along the path of an arrow must also add up to the
circled square at the top of each arrow.

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The numbers in the grid correspond to the
letters of the alphabet. Solve the puzzle
and fill in the letters in the key as you
discover them. Three letters are provided
to give you a start. The solution will be
printed in Monday’s paper; the solution to
yesterday’s codeword is on page 56.
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How to play Convert
the word at the top
of the ladder into the
word at the bottom of
it, using only the four
rungs in between.
On each rung, you
must put a valid fourletter word that is
identical to the word
above it, apart from
a one-letter change.
There may be more
than one way of
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Concise Crossword No 3795
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Military body (5)
Destroyed (7)
Wishy-washy (7)
Kinship group (5)
Debased (11)
Stitched join (4)
Skin eruption (4)
Acting without restraint (11)
Stretchy fabric (5)
Intense desire (7)
Sleep (Babyish) (3-4)
Give up (5)

Stylishly fashionable (4)
Remainder (7)
Additional (13)
Matrimonial (6)
Very unusual (13)
Cutlery item (5)
Squirrel’s nest (4)
Infertile (7)
Travelling entertainment (6)
Mother-of-pearl (5)
Body fat (4)
Old (4)

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Solution to yesterday’s Concise Crossword
ACROSS 1 Mao, 3 Strap (Mousetrap), 7 Assist, 8 Podium, 9 Material, 10 Chew,
11 Dishevelled, 15 Area, 17 Filament, 19 Snails, 20 Sextet, 21 Seamy, 22 Pun.
DOWN 1 Mustard, 2 On ice, 3 Sepal, 4 Radical, 5 Plume, 6 Strike, 12 Stamina,
13 Enlist, 14 Dungeon, 16 Runes, 17 Fishy, 18 Mix-up.

games

54

puzzles

21 – 22 JANUARY 2023

Solutions

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Kakuro

Word Fit

Binary

How to play Fill the white squares so that the
total in each across or down run of cells matches
the total at the start of that run. You must use
the numbers from 1-9 only and cannot repeat a
number in a run.

How to play Can you fit all the words into the grid to complete the
puzzle? Some words may initially fit in more than one place, but
there is only one way to fit all the words together to complete the grid.

How to play Complete the grid so
that each row and column contains
five 0s and five 1s. The same number
cannot appear in more than two
consecutive squares in any row or
column. In the finished puzzle, each
row must have a different sequence
of 0s and 1s to any other row, and
likewise for each column.

7

3 letters

3
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Gem
Gem
Mop
Mop
Pop
Pop
Way
Way
Who
Who
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Moon
Moon
Oval
Oval
Rook
Rook
Ruts
Ruts
Vets
Vets
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Bebop
Chaff
Chaff
Chess
Chess
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Caress
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Cunning
Musings
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Partway
Musings
Proxies
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Proxies

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10

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24

How to play Locate the position of each of the ships
listed below in the grid. Numbers around the edge
tell you the number of ship segments in each row
and column of the puzzle. Ships are surrounded on
all sides by water, including diagonally.

1

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How to play Place each of the
letters below once into the empty
hexagons, crossing them off as you
do so. Enter the letters in such a
way that it is possible to find all the
words listed alongside the grid by
moving from hexagon to adjacent
hexagon to spell out each word.

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How to play Connect every island (represented by circles) into
a single interconnected group. To do this draw bridges between
islands. The number in each circle states how many bridges must
be connected to that island. Bridges cannot cross each other,
can only be drawn horizontally or vertically, and there can be a
maximum of two bridges between any pair of islands.

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How to play Each hexagon is divided into six
triangles. The sum of these six triangles is always
25. Place a number from 1-9 in each empty triangle
to complete the puzzle; you cannot repeat a number
within a hexagon.

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CARBON
COPPER
HELIUM
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OXYGEN
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L E T T E R

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Can you find the matching shark?

2

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CLUES
l Moving to music (7)
l Type of tree-dwelling
ape (6)
l Body part used for
smelling (4)
l Mistake; fault (5)
l What a car drives on (4)
l Waterbird that quacks (4)

SPOT TH E DIFFER ENCE

F I T

3 letters
4 letters
Bat
4 letters
Gull
Gull
Ibis
Ibis
Moth
Moth
Orca
Orca
Tern
Tern
5 letters
5 letters
Civet
Civet
Eagle
Eagle
Heron
Heron
Lemur
Lemur
Perch
Perch
Quail
Quail
Robin
Shrew
Robin
Swift
Shrew
Whale
Swift
6 letters
Whale
Spider
6 letters
7 letters
Spider
Catfish
Herring
7 letters
Pelican
Catfish
8 letters
Herring
Mongoose

1

3

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END

Can you
spot the 6 differences between the two pictures?
Type of tree-dwelling ape (6)
Can youBodyspot
the 6 differences between the two pictures?
part used for smelling (4)

How to play Fill the grid with the words given in the list.

ZINC

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How to play
Solve the crossword-style
clues below to fill the grid,
writing one letter per
square. The last letter of
each answer is the first
letter of the next answer.
These have been written in
for you, along with the first
and last letter of the whole
puzzle.

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Moving to music (7)

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Solutions

HowMistake;
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Can(5)you spot the 6 differences between the two pictures?
What a car drives on (4)
Waterbird that quacks (4)

4

Pelican

8 letters

NUMBER
PY R A M I D

Mongoose

HEX
MAZE

↓

How to play
The value of each square in the
number pyramid is the sum of the
two squares directly under it

186 242
73 77
41

15 11

133

45

13

12

How to play
Find your way
out of the grid,
entering at the
entrance arrow.
You must follow
only one path
which does not
cut corners,
jump walls or
repeat itself.

WO R D
BUILDER

↓

How to play Answers
to every clue contain
only the letters in the
grid, are five letters
long and include the
central letter.

L E T
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l Coloured substance put on walls
l Fourth month of the year
lColoured
Part of a flower
substance put on
l Joint of the foot

Fourth month of the year
Part of a flower
Joint of the foot

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INQUISITOR

13

No 1787

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19

Moggie by Chalicea
14 supposedly said “13 46”.
An extra letter in addition to
those needed for the solution
is produced in 24 clues. These
letters, in clue order, give an
instruction concerning the
subject of the title.

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34

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36

37

38

ACROSS
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39

Condemn unheard tubby fellow
without research and justice (8)
Sidestep American car
company (5)
A female active
environmentalist may
be so incorruptible (8)
Measure minute storage
organ (4)
See preamble (11, 3 words)
Newspaper cautiously includes
illuminating comment (6)
One not difficult to persuade
nastily cheats you (9, 2 words)
In Edinburgh endure opening of
French bank (4)
Prominent saint; foreigner at
heart (7)
Reactionary liberated southern
villein (4)
Committing murder in Vegas,
taking risks removing dead (5)
Commotion about iron
explosive devices (5)

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40

41

42

45

46

46 See preamble (11, 3 words)

29 Acquire advanced footwear (4)
31 Tone rebranded intermittently
in art-deco (7)
34 Circular vessel in echinoderms,
curiously arcing neatly now
and then (9)
36 What could be in rose and red
stain (5)
37 Surrendered produce
heartlessly exposed (7)
39 Tin ware not essentially
advised in lavatory (4)
41 Lusted-after teacher caught in
act (7)
44 Retrograde racy vehicle (3)
45 Heard woman use offensive
language for feminine
clothing (10)

DOWN
2
3

Soaks eroded spots (4)
English beer might have been
foul for Falstaff (4)
Rogue’s toe injured section of
snake (8)
Dissipated duke framing king
over casual look (5)
Embraces troubled cleaners (7)
Inane fellow’s dead – requiescat
in pace! (4)
Ordinary money some say for
oafish Aussie yobs (6)
Female animal runs – an active
one (4)

4
5
6
7
8
9

ABC Logic

How to play Place the numbers from 1-5 exactly
once in each row and column. The greater than
and less than signs (‘>’ and ‘<’) indicate where one
cell is greater/less than the adjacent cell indicated.

How to play Place the letters
A, B and C only once in each row and
column. Each row and column has
two blank cells. The letters at the
edge of a row/column indicate
which of the letters is the first/last
to appear in that row/column.

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Solution to 1785
A Face To Be Reckoned With by Serpent
The 22 bars inserted mark off the
1,1,2,3,5-scaled boundaries on a Fibonacci
clock, which uses combinations of red,
green and blue colours to represent the
time to the closest five minutes. Extra
letters in clues give CHRETIEN FIBONACCI
CLOCK DISPLAYING SIX TEN. Of the
various ways to represent 6:10, only two
meet the stipulations; the letters of BLUE
indicating which option is correct.

Give Me a Clue

Compilers Filbert (“Tandem riders
got home (3-2,3-4)”) and Bluth
(“Somehow R2D2 showed up (8)” and
“C3PO satisfied TV show’s gauge of
audience approval (10)”) were up to
no good in last week’s Independent.
To parse the clues, solvers needed
to cross-reference other solutions
in their respective puzzles. If
you haven’t solved the puzzles or
visited the blogs at FifteenSquared,
I wonder if you can deduce what
the other solutions are – and where
in the puzzles they were located.
We should have been alerted to
Filbert’s impish mood. The first
clue in the same puzzle? “Spooner’s
rubbish dump is a disciplined
operation (5,4)”.
John Henderson (Nimrod),
@enigmatistelgar

B

WORD WHEEL
Nine-letter word bodyguard Other words bar, bard, boar, board, bra, brag, bray, broad, bury, dour,
drab, drag, dray, drub, drug, dry, garb, gory, gourd, grab, grub, guard, gyro, oar, orb, our, rag, ray, road,
rob, rod, rub, ruby, ruddy, rug, rugby, yard, your

MENSA BRAIN TEASERS

1. Insisted and tidiness
2. 32
3. DDCC. Replace each letter with its
alphabetical value, then subtract the second
row from the top row to get the bottom row

5-CLUE CROSSWORD
Across: 4/5 Battery charger,
6 Al-leg-ed* Down: 1 RA-thole*,
2 Stor-I-es, 3 Ordered

ZYGOLEX
LEFT TO RIGHT: span; point; tat; doe;
spat; dot; row; cow; cot; rob; bed; lob; beg;
burgle; red

JUMBO CROSSWORD
Across 10 Michael Smith, 13
Blame It On Rio, 14 Carlsberg,
15 Random Harvest, 16 Bill
Nighy, 17 Alan Carr, 18 Eroica,
20 Fitzgerald, 22 Batavia,
23/35 Cecil Beaton, 26 Water
gas, 28 Your Song, 30 Maine,
34 Scandium, 36 Antigens,
38 Mayflies, 39 Al Gore, 40
Dolittle, 42 Ayala, 43 Demerara,
44 Negligee, 47 Wurst,
49 Belfast, 51 Laver bread,
55 Stanza, 56 The Tymes, 57
Borromini, 60 Robert Redford,
61 Emil Nolde, 62 Gloria
Gaynor, 63 Easter Sunday

Down 1 Air chief marshal,
2 Cheryl, 3 Pershing, 4/58 Piggy
Malone, 5 Dakota Fanning, 6
Reg Harris, 7 (Richard) Starkey,
9 Pistachio, 11 Shepherd’spurse, 12/19 Harold Lloyd,
13 Bonanza, 21 The Gadfly,
24 Auvergne, 25 Farthing, 27
Godzilla, 29/31 Saturday Night
Live, 32 La donna è mobile,
33 Independence Day, 37 Janet
Fielding, 41 Dakar, 45 Butterfly,
46/8 Yesterday Once More,
48 Songbird, 50 Seymour,
52 Baroness, 53 Hadrian,
54 Beadle, 59 Verso

FRIDAY’S CODEWORD 3472
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Puzzle solutions

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43

10 Food stores selling processed
river congers (7)
14 See preamble (8)
15 Rejected grass clutching signal
for plotter (8)
16 24-hour period at home
producing letter (4)
17 Not completely reciprocal
upset over northern year
resembling late season (7)
20 Narrow opening in singular
mechanism for raising
vessels (4)
21 Engaged for money, lacking
Rubles, made haste (4)
25 With no limits bearing net (4)
27 Frustrated fellow, slightly
intoxicated (6)
28 Marine creature primarily
swimming employing flippers
and tip of tail (4)
30 Eastern company mother paid
initially for diagram of family’s
local interactions (6)
32 Critically examine rising or
elevated poetic enthusiasm (5)
33 Six circle the French
instrument (5)
35 According to Ed, put an end
to interminable breaks in
Parliament proceedings (5)
38 Small remnant of Democratic
Germany returning (4)
40 Intertwine resinous
substance (3)
41 Extremely calamitous with no
right to come to an end (3)
42 Close attention (3)
43 Uninteresting and oddly
dirty (3)

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culture
The five best
this weekend

TALKING POINT

FILM

BABYLON
Damien Chazelle (he
of La La Land) has a
handle on creating
mood – and the
mood he creates in
this portrait of 20s
Hollywood is one of
decadent depravity.
With Margot Robbie
and Brad Pitt.

TV

WITHOUT SIN
ITVX
A four-part thriller
starring Vicky
McClure as a grieving
mother who, in her
search for answers
about her daughter’s
death, forms a bond
with the man accused
of her murder.

PODCAST

GET IT ON WITH
DAWN O’PORTER
Global
Writer and presenter
Dawn O’Porter talks
to guests about
why they wear what
they wear, what
inspires their style,
and solves listeners’
fashion dilemmas.

RADIO

CLUBLAND BY
PETE BROWN
Radio 4/BBC Sounds
Pete Brown’s history
of working men’s
clubs – from their
founding by teetotal
Rev Henry Solly to
the booze-soaked
heyday of seven
million members.

ALBUM

MERCY
By John Cale
The veteran rocker
is back with his
first new material
in a decade – and
even at the age of
80, he’s as sonically
experimental as ever
as he addresses the
sad state of the world.

As cinema slaps its back,
Spielberg chides himself
Hollywood nostalgia is now box-office gold – but in his Oscar-tipped new film,
the master explores the toll that film-making can take. By Christina Newland

I

n Steven Spielberg’s new loosely
autobiographical family drama
The Fabelmans, an adolescent boy,
Sammy (Gabriel LaBelle), falls in
love with the movies as his parents
fall out of love with each other.
Sammy is, of course, a version
of Spielberg, who from a young
age was encouraged to be creative
and foster a love for the arts by his
mother (here played by a phenomenal
Michelle Williams), a sensitive former
concert pianist who settled into the
monotony of being a housewife to her
scientist husband (Paul Dano). Her
malaise becomes terminal as Sammy
grows older, and he identifies with her,
even though he doesn’t quite grasp how
deep the problem really is.
Again and again, The Fabelmans has
been referred to as a “love letter to
cinema”, but in truth it is something
a little darker and more complex, and
with much more of a sting in its tail.
Early in the film, the family take
young Sammy to see Cecil B DeMille’s
1952 epic The Greatest Show on Earth.
The child becomes utterly obsessed
with a violent scene of a train derailing,
tinkering with a model train he
requests from his parents to recreate
the scene in miniature at home. Over
time, Sammy’s obsession sees him
pick up a camera, becoming a sort of
mini-guerilla film-maker by enlisting

his siblings to star in his backyard war
films and westerns.
The film world has been particularly
fond of referencing itself of late:
Damien Chazelle’s Babylon and Sam
Mendes’s Empire of Light both also
luxuriate in cinema nostalgia. That
film-makers may be sentimental about
the art of shooting a film or the ritual
of movie-going is hardly surprising,
but it sometimes feels like navel-gazing
or self-congratulatory in the smug
Hollywood self-love tradition.

The film-maker’s absorption
in their art can make them
oblivious to their own lives
But The Fabelmans has a rare
intelligence, verve and melancholy.
There are homages to beloved films
like classic John Ford western The
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) as
well as Spielberg’s own movies, but it
doesn’t hinge on saccharine sentiment.
Rather, it gives a clear-eyed portrait
of the unanticipated consequences of
reaching for a camera and allowing it
to record your reality.
One of the film’s pivotal moments
revolves around not one of Sammy’s
made-up movies but a true story that

he inadvertently captures: the loving
gazes and arm touches between his
mother and a beloved family friend
(Seth Rogen). As Sammy realises that
this romance has been unfolding in the
margins of all the family home videos
and skits he has shot, he also starts to
understand that the power of cinema
– and his impulse to make his films –
is entwined with the breaking apart of
his family home.
It is a smart metaphor for how a
film-maker’s absorption in their art
can make them oblivious to their own
realities, or lives. For a veteran hero
of American cinema of many decades,
now nearly 80 years old, that can’t help
but feel like a self-conscious choice.
For all that Spielberg has been
accused of a certain brand of
cutesiness in the past, in The Fabelmans
he drops any pretence that strongly
felt emotions or passions may hold
a family, or a film, together.
Much of this story is about how
pursuing one’s art comes at a cost – and
sometimes that cost is both deeply
heartbreaking and inevitably formative.
If The Fabelmans is a love letter to
cinema, it is also a wistful, even selfreproaching, examination of the cost
of creative passion.
The Fabelmans (12A) is in cinemas
on Friday

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life

21 – 22 JANUARY 2023

Saturday television
CRITIC’S CHOICE

Michael McIntyre’s Big Show

6.50pm, BBC One
The BBC’s one-man answer to Ant
and Dec welcomes a fresh roster
of celebrities to his variety show
– and unlike on The Wheel, they
don’t have to risk motion sickness.
Alison Hammond does, however,
have to hand over her mobile
phone for “Send to All”, while Peter
Crouch is rudely awakened by
“Midnight Gameshow”. Meanwhile,
back at the Palladium, George Ezra
performs his latest single.

Secrets of the Royal Palaces

Royal Family picked Windsor as
their new name (going down rather
better than Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha during the First World War).
The programme also examines the
incident in 1981 when shots rang
out during Trooping the Colour,
with an account from the guard
who confronted the shooter.

Stock Aitken Waterman:
Legends of Pop

6.45 Supertato (R) (S). 6.55
Shaun The Sheep (R) (S).
7.00 Dennis & Gnasher
Unleashed! (R) (S). 7.15
Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse
Cheese (R) (S). 7.25 The
Football Academy (R) (S).
7.55 The Dengineers (R)
(S). 8.25 Operation Ouch!
(R) (S). 8.55 Newsround
(S). 9.00 Blue Peter (R) (S).
9.30 Deadly Pole To Pole
(R) (S). 10.00 Robot Wars:
World Series (R) (S). 11.00
Serengeti III (R) (S). 12.00
The Hairy Bikers Go Local
(R) (S). 1.00 Tom Kerridge’s
Fresh Start (R) (S). 1.30
Bowls: World Indoor
Championships 2023 (S).
5.00 Amanda & Alan’s
Italian Job (R) (S). 5.30 Flog
It! (R) (S).

6.00 CITV 9.25 ITV News
(S). 9.30 James Martin’s
Saturday Morning (S).
11.40 James Martin’s
French Adventure (R) (S).
12.10 ITV News; Weather
(S). 12.25 Live Champions
Cup Rugby Northampton
Saints vs La Rochelle.
Kick-off is at 1pm (S). 3.30
Tipping Point: Lucky Stars
(R) (S). 4.30 The Chase
Celebrity Special (R) (S).
5.30 ITV News; Weather (S).
5.45 ITV Regional News;
Weather (S).

6.20 3rd Rock From The
Sun (R) (S). 6.45 3rd Rock
From The Sun (R) (S). 7.10
The King Of Queens (R) (S).
7.35 The King Of Queens
(R) (S). 8.00 The King Of
Queens (R) (S). 8.20 The
Simpsons (R) (S). 9.20 The
Simpsons (R) (S). 9.50 The
Simpsons (R) (S). 10.20 The
Simpsons (R) (S). 10.50
The Simpsons (R) (S). 11.20
The Simpsons (R) (S).
11.50 FILM: Alvin And The
Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
(Mike Mitchell 2011) (S).
1.30 Four In A Bed (R) (S).
2.00 Four In A Bed (R) (S).
3.05 Four In A Bed (R) (S).
3.35 Four In A Bed (R) (S).
4.05 Location, Location,
Location (R) (S). 5.05 A Lake
District Farm Shop (R) (S).

6.00 Milkshake! 10.05
The Smurfs (R) (S).
10.15 SpongeBob
SquarePants (R) (S). 10.25
Entertainment News On
5 (S). 10.30 Friends (R)
(S). 11.00 Friends (R) (S).
11.25 Friends (R) (S). 11.55
Friends (R) (S). 12.25 FILM:
13 Going On 30 (Gary
Winick 2004) Romantic
comedy, starring Jennifer
Garner and Mark Ruffalo
(S). 2.30 FILM: Never Been
Kissed (Raja Gosnell 1999)
Romantic comedy, with
Drew Barrymore and
Michael Vartan (S). 4.30
Michael Ball’s Wonderful
Wales (S).

6PM

6.05 Celebrity Bridge
Of Lies (S).
6.50 Michael
McIntyre’s Big
Show With
Alison
Hammond (S).

6.00 Celebrity
Antiques Road
Trip (R) (S).

6.00 Celebrity
Catchphrase
With Charlie
Brooks, Jimmi
Harkishin and
Siobhan
McSweeney (S).

6.05 Channel 4 News
(S).
6.35 FILM: Mission:
Impossible 2
(John Woo 2000)
Action thriller
sequel (S).

6.00 5 News
Weekend (S).
6.05 Edward &
Sophie: The
Reliable Royals
(R) (S).

7PM

7.50 That’s My Jam
Tom Grennan
and Patsy
Palmer take on
Tom Ellis and
Billy Boyd (S).

7.00 Waterhole:
Africa’s Animal
Oasis The team
uncovers the
new dynamics
of night-time (R)
(S).

7.00 The Masked
Singer Five
incognito
celebrities take
to the stage (S).

8.50 Casualty Jan
returns to work
but things
remain awkward
between her and
Sah (S).

8.00 The Witch
Hunts: Lucy
Worsley
Investigates (R)
(S).

8.30 Ant & Dec’s
Limitless Win
Conall and
Michael return
to continue (S).

9PM

9.40 Not Going Out
Lee promises
Lucy he will try
to be more
friendly with
other parents (R)
(S).

9.00 Fight The Power:
How Hip-Hop
Changed The
World New
series (S).

9.30 The John Bishop
Show Comedy
chat show (S).

10.10 BBC News;
Weather (S).
10.30 Match Of The
Day Action from
the latest
Premier League
fixtures (S).

10.00 Fight The Power:
How Hip-Hop
Changed The
World Chuck D
explores rap in
the 1980s (S).

10.15 ITV News (S).
10.30 Bradley &
Barney Walsh:
Breaking Dad (R)
(S).

11.50 FILM: The
Railway Man
(Jonathan
Teplitzky 2013)
Fact-based
drama, starring
Colin Firth (S).

11.00 Behind The Beat
Special: Public
Enemy (R) (S).
11.30 Hip Hop At The
BBC (R) (S).

10.55 English Football
League
Highlights (S).

1.45 BBC News (S).

12.35 Top Of The Pops (R)
(S). 1.35 FILM: Persian
Lessons (Vadim Perelman
2020) Holocaust drama,
starring Nahuel Pérez
Biscayart (S). 3.35 This Is
BBC Two (S).

12.50 Shop: Ideal World
3.00 Unwind With ITV (S).
4.15 Love Your Weekend
With Alan Titchmarsh
(R) (S).

LATE

8PM

DAYTIME

6.00 Breakfast (S). 10.00
Saturday Kitchen Live
(S). 11.30 The Great Food
Guys (S). 12.00 Football
Focus (S). 1.00 BBC News;
Weather (S). 1.15 Bargain
Hunt (R) (S). 2.00 Money
For Nothing (R) (S). 2.45
Escape To The Country (R)
(S). 3.45 Garden Rescue
(R) (S). 4.30 Final Score
(S). 5.15 BBC News (S).
5.25 BBC Regional News;
Weather (S). 5.35 Celebrity
Mastermind (S).

10PM

8.30pm, Channel 5
From Kylie, Sonia and Rick Astley
to Jason Donovan, Bananarama
and Sinitta, there was a time in the
late 80s when you couldn’t turn
on your radio without hearing
a song written and produced by
Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete
Waterman. This two-part look at

11PM

Alison Hammond bravely hands over her phone
to Michael McIntyre, 6.50pm, BBC One

7.30pm, Channel 5
Behind-the-scenes tales of
Windsor Castle, looking at the
Welsh Cottage and the Waterloo
Chamber, and revealing why the

radio
the sometimes fractured history
of SAW’s so-called “assembly line”
begins with their breakthrough
with American drag star Divine.

Casualty

8.50pm, BBC One
An unseaworthy-looking boat
is washed up on a beach with a
cargo of distressed passengers.
Asylum seekers ferried by people
smugglers would seem to be the
suggestion – although would they
have landed anywhere near Holby
in the far south-west of England?

Fight the Power: How
Hip-Hop Changed the World

9pm, BBC Two
What promises to be a definitive,
four-part history of hip-hop begins

with the social roots of music
described here by Grandmaster
Flash’s Melle Mel as “the bastard
son of disco”. The so-called “white
flight” from inner-city New York in
the 60s and 70s, and the politically
orchestrated “benign neglect” of
poorer neighbourhoods such as
the Bronx, created the conditions
that spawned rap and hip-hop.
Public Enemy’s Chuck D (an
executive producer on the series),
meanwhile, describes the genre’s
evolution from escapist party
tunes to powerful protest songs.

Mystery Road: Origin

9pm, BBC Four
The final two episodes of this
excellent Aussie noir prequel
series wrap up the twin mysteries

Chuck D recalls the
early years of hip-hop
9pm, BBC Two

Kylie Minogue features
in a look back over
Stock, Aitken and
Waterman’s pop hits
8.30pm, Channel 5

Anousha finds a lead in
‘Mystery Road: Origin’
9pm, BBC Four

7.30 Secrets Of The
Royal Palaces
Behind-thescenes tales of
Windsor Castle
(S).

7.00 Arctic With
Bruce Parry The
explorer learns
about the
importance of
hunting to Inuit
communities (S).

6.40 FILM: Mortal
Engines
(Christian Rivers
2018) Fantasy
adventure,
starring Hera
Hilmar (S).

8.30 Stock Aitken
Waterman:
Legends Of Pop
The career of
the songwriting
and production
trio (S).

8.00 Sicily: Wonder
Of The
Mediterranean
Michael Scott
traces the
history of
Sicily (S).

9.00 FILM: Infinite
(Antoine Fuqua
2021) Premiere.
Sci-fi thriller,
starring Mark
Wahlberg (S).

9.00 Mystery Road:
Origin (S).
9.55 Mystery Road:
Origin Last in
the series (S).

9.00 FILM: Red
Sparrow
(Francis
Lawrence 2018)
Spy thriller,
starring Jennifer
Lawrence (S).

6.00 Unwind With ITV
(S). 6.20 Coronation
Street Omnibus (S). 9.10
Secret Crush (S). 10.10
Dress To Impress (S).
11.10 Dress To Impress
(S). 12.10 Catchphrase
(S). 12.55 FILM: Step Up
2: The Streets (Jon Chu
2008) Drama, starring
Briana Evigan (S). 3.00
FILM: Goosebumps (Rob
Letterman 2015) Fantasy
adventure, starring Jack
Black (S). 5.05 FILM:
Cloudy With A Chance
Of Meatballs 2 (Cody
Cameron, Kris Pearn 2013)
Animated comedy sequel,
with the voice of Bill
Hader (S).

6.55 FILM: Yes Man
(Peyton Reed
2008) Comedy,
starring Jim
Carrey and
Zooey
Deschanel (S).

9.00 Love Island:
Unseen Bits
Exclusive
content from
the first week in
the villa (S).
10.05 Kavos
Weekender
David is
isolating in his
hotel room after
catching
coronavirus (S).

10.05 Stock Aitken
Waterman:
Greatest Hits
– Part 1 (S).

10.50 Early Doors
Joan and Eddie
celebrate their
anniversary (S).

11.05 FILM: Triple 9
(John Hillcoat
2016) Crime
thriller, starring
Chiwetel Ejiofor
(S).

11.30 Country Music
Queens: All The
Hits And More
Featuring Dolly
Parton and
Patsy Cline (R)
(S).

11.20 Early Doors
Melanie meets
her real father
(S).
11.50 To The Manor
Born (S).

11.45 FILM: Berberian
Sound Studio
(Peter Strickland
2012) Thriller,
starring Toby
Jones (S).

11.00 Family Guy
Peter and Lois
open a cookie
store (S).
11.30 Family Guy (S).

1.15 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (R) (S).
2.05 Couples Come Dine
With Me (R) (S). 3.00
Hollyoaks Omnibus (R) (S).
5.05 Location, Location,
Location (R) (S).

1.25 The LeoVegas Live
Casino Show (S). 3.25
Entertainment News On
5 (S). 3.30 The Yorkshire
Steam Railway: All Aboard
(R) (S). 4.20 Edwardian
Britain In Colour (R) (S).
5.05 House Busters (R) (S).

12.20 The Many Faces Of
June Whitfield (S). 1.20
Reginald D Hunter’s Songs
Of The Border (S). 2.35
Arctic With Bruce Parry
(S). 3.35 Close

1.40 FILM: Picnic At
Hanging Rock (Peter Weir
1975) Period mystery,
starring Rachel Roberts
(S). 4.00 Close

12.00 American Dad! (S).
12.30 American Dad! (S).
12.55 Hey Tracey! (S). 2.00
All American (S). 2.50
Unwind With ITV (S). 3.00
Teleshopping

culture

surrounding the deaths of Mary’s
brother and Jay’s father. The latter
investigation pivots around an
outsider who has been paying
local indigenous people to
obstruct the mines, while lawyer
Anousha (Salme Geransar) makes
a breakthrough when scouring the
local newspaper library.

FILM CHOICE

Atlantic Crossing

9pm, Drama
The focus of this lavish costume
drama shifts from wartime
Norway to Washington DC,
where the exiled crown princess
Martha (The Bridge’s Sofia Helin)
strikes up a flirtatious relationship
with Franklin D Roosevelt (played
by Kyle MacLachlan).
Gerard Gilbert

13 Going on 30

12.25pm, Channel 5
(Gary Winick, 2004)
A gawky 13-year-old embarrasses
herself at her birthday party
and wishes she could somehow
be magically transformed into
someone older and more popular.
And because this is blatantly just
the Tom Hanks comedy Big remade
for girls, she wakes up as beautiful
and successful magazine editor
Jennifer Garner. Predictable but
wholly likeable, thanks to Garner.

Infinite

Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo star
in ‘13 Going on 30’, 12.25pm, Channel 5

9pm, Channel 4
(Antoine Fuqua, 2021)
Mark Wahlberg stars amid a lot of
frenetic lore-laden sci-fi action
as a schizophrenic who learns he

6.00 Supergirl (R) (S). 7.00
Supergirl (R) (S). 8.00
Supergirl (R) (S). 9.00
Supergirl (R) (S). 10.00
Supergirl (R) (S). 11.00
Grimm (R) (S). 12.00
Grimm (R) (S). 1.00 Grimm
(R) (S). 2.00 Grimm (R) (S).
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S).
4.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S).
5.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S).

6.00 Rude(ish) Tube
(S). 6.25 Don’t Tell The
Bride (S). 7.20 Don’t
Tell The Bride (S). 8.20
Supernanny USA (S). 9.20
Lego Masters Australia (S).
10.35 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (S). 12.05
Ramsay’s 24 Hours To
Hell And Back (S). 1.05
Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell
And Back (S). 2.05 Modern
Family (S). 2.35 Modern
Family (S). 3.05 Modern
Family (S). 3.35 The Big
Bang Theory (S). 4.05 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 4.35
The Big Bang Theory (S).
5.00 The Big Bang Theory
(S). 5.35 The Big Bang
Theory (S).

8.55 Food Unwrapped (S).
9.30 A Place In The Sun:
Home Or Away (S). 10.25
A Place In The Sun: Home
Or Away (S). 11.30 A Place
In The Sun: Home Or
Away (S). 12.35 Location,
Location, Location (S).
1.35 Location, Location,
Location (S). 2.40 Come
Dine With Me (S). 3.10
Come Dine With Me (S).
3.40 Come Dine With Me
(S). 4.15 Come Dine With
Me (S). 4.50 Come Dine
With Me (S). 5.20 Four In
A Bed (S). 5.50 Four In A
Bed (S).

6.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S).
6.30 The Big Bang
Theory Amy and
Sheldon start a
gossip
experiment (S).

6.25 Four In A Bed (S).
6.55 Four In A Bed
The final stay is
at Higher
Gitcombe in
Totnes, Devon
(S).

6.00 Agatha Raisin
Part one of two.
Agatha’s friend
Sarah is accused
of murder (R) (S).

7.00 FILM: Teenage
Mutant Ninja
Turtles
(Jonathan
Liebesman 2014)
Fantasy
adventure (S).

7.25 Four In A Bed
The B&B
owners meet for
the last time and
try to settle
some scores (S).

7.00 Agatha Raisin
Part two of two.
Agatha fights to
clear Sarah’s
name (R) (S).

8.00 Escape To The
Chateau In the
spring, the
family turn their
attention to the
beloved walled
garden (S).

8.00 Flintoff: From
Lord’s to the
Ring Andrew
Flintoff meets
boxing legend
Mike Tyson (R)
(S).

9.00 Celebrity
Gogglebox
Shows including
Big Brother:
Best Shows Ever
and Scarface are
appraised (S).

9.00 24 Hours In A&E
A 93-year-old
man is injured
by a hit-and-run
driver (S).

9.00 A League of
Their Own Road
Trip: Dingle to
Dover (R) (S).

9.00 Game Of
Thrones Robb
Stark marches
south to avenge
his father (R) (S).

10.00 Gogglebox
Appraisals of
The Masked
Dancer and
Married at First
Sight UK (S).

10.00 24 Hours In A&E
An eight-yearold boy falls 8ft
onto concrete
(S).

10.00 Hold The Front
Page Nish
Kumar and Josh
Widdicombe
work at the
Yorkshire Post
(R) (S).

10.05 Game Of
Thrones Theon
is reunited with
his father on the
Iron Islands (R)
(S).

11.25 Des Jay and the
police throw
themselves into
proving
premeditation
(S).

11.05 Gogglebox The
critics share
their opinions
on Frozen
Planet II (S).

11.05 8 Out Of 10 Cats
Does
Countdown
Jimmy Carr
hosts the
comedy quiz (S).

11.00 Banshee Hood
reflects on his
friendship with
Job (R) (S).

11.10 Game Of
Thrones Tyrion
plots to identify
Cersei’s spy on
the small
council (R) (S).

12.25 The Real “Des”: The
Dennis Nilsen Story (S).
1.30 George And Mildred
(S). 2.05 Unwind With ITV
(S). 2.30 Teleshopping

12.05 First Dates (S). 1.10
Summer House (S). 2.10
Summer House (S). 3.05
Summer House (S). 3.55
Ramsay’s 24 Hours To
Hell And Back (S). 4.45
Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell
And Back (S).

12.10 8 Out Of 10 Cats
Does Countdown (S). 1.15
24 Hours In A&E (S). 2.15
24 Hours In A&E (S). 3.20
Food Unwrapped (S). 3.50
Close

12.00 Never Mind The
Buzzcocks (R) (S). 12.45
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
(R) (S). 1.30 Road Wars (R)
(S). 2.00 S.W.A.T (R) (S).
3.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (R)
(S).4.00 S.W.A.T (R) (S).5.00
Stop, Search, Seize (R) (S).

12.15 Game Of Thrones (R)
(S). 1.20 The Wire (R) (S).
2.25 The Wire (R) (S). 3.30
Fish Town (R). 4.20 Fish
Town (R). 5.10 Richard
E Grant’s Hotel Secrets
(R) (S).

6.00 George And Mildred
(S). 6.40 Agatha Christie’s
Marple (S). 8.40 Rosemary
& Thyme (S). 9.45
Rosemary & Thyme (S).
10.45 Inspector Morse
(S). 1.10 ITV Racing: Live
From Ascot Coverage
from Ascot and Haydock
Park (S). 4.00 George And
Mildred (S). 4.30 Inspector
Morse (S).

6.45 Snooker: World
Grand Prix Live
coverage of the
second
semi-final (S).

10.15 Agatha
Christie’s Poirot
A man receives
threatening
letters (S).

6.00 Richard E Grant’s
Hotel Secrets (R) (S).
7.00 Richard E Grant’s
Hotel Secrets (R) (S). 8.00
Richard E Grant’s Hotel
Secrets (R) (S). 9.00 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 10.10 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 11.15 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 12.20 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 1.25 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 2.30 Ray
Donovan (R) (S). 3.35 Ray
Donovan (R) (S). 4.40 Ray
Donovan (R) (S). 5.45 Ray
Donovan (R) (S).

is actually an “infinite”, and the
voices he hears are memories of
his past selves. With sword fights
between two warring clans of
immortal souls, it is basically a
Highlander update with bits of
The Matrix and Wanted thrown in.

White Riot

11pm, Sky Arts
(Rubika Shah, 2019)
Bursting with righteous
indignation and punkish energy,
this lively documentary recounts
the formation in 1976 of Rock
Against Racism, a grass-roots
protest organisation that united
Britain’s makers and fans of punk,
ska and reggae in rooting out the
skinhead element in their midst.
Laurence Phelan

Radio
listings
BBC Radio 1

6am Radio 1 Happy 7.00 Adele Roberts 10.00
Radio 1 Anthems 10.30 Newsbeat 10.32 Radio
1 Anthems 11.02 Katie Thistleton 1pm Matt
And Jamie 4.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems
5.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems 6.00 Radio 1’s
Dance Anthems 7.00 Radio 1’s Soundsystem
Party With Jeremiah Asiamah 9.00 1Xtra’s
Rap Show 11.00 Radio 1’s Drum & Bass Show
12mdn’t Radio 1’s Drum & Bass Mix 12.30
Radio 1’s Drum & Bass Mix 1.00 Radio 1’s
Classic Essential Mix 3.00 Future Dance Mix
With Sarah Story 3.30 Pete Tong’s Hot Mix 4.00
Radio 1’s Dance Anthems 5.00 Radio 1 Relax

BBC Radio 1Xtra

6.50 Ray Donovan
Mickey
manipulates an
A-list star into
working with
him on a movie
project (R) (S).
7.55 Game Of
Thrones Robb’s
bannermen
make a
momentous
declaration (R)
(S).

6am 1Xtra’s R&B Chill Mix 7.00 Saturday
Breakfast 10.00 Nick Bright 1pm Joelah Noble
4.00 Sian Anderson And Tazer Black 7.00
1Xtraís Pre-Party Show With DJ Target 9.00
1Xtra’s Rap Show 11.00 Ace 12.30am Ace 1.00
1Xtra’s Throwback Party 2.00 1Xtra’s Cosmic
Wind Down With Jamz Supernova 3.00 Mo
Ayoub 5.00 Amapiano To AfroHouse

BBC Radio 2

6am Sounds Of The 60s With Tony Blackburn
8.00 Dermot O’Leary 10.00 Claudia
Winkleman 1pm Pick Of The Pops 2.00 Pick
Of The Pops 3.00 Rylan On Saturday 6.00 Liza
Tarbuck 8.00 Sounds Of The 80s With Gary
Davies 10.00 Sounds Of The 90s With Fearne
Cotton 11.00 Sounds Of The 90s With Fearne
Cotton 12mdn’t Top Brass 1.00 Dance Sounds
Of The 90s With Vernon Kay 2.00 The Best Of
Radio 2’s Piano Room 4.00 Radio 2 In Concert –
Annie Lennox 5.00 Tracks Of My Years

BBC Radio 3

7am Breakfast 9.00 Record Review 11.45 Music
Matters 12.30pm This Classical Life 1.00 Inside
Music 3.00 Sound Of Cinema 4.00 Music
Planet 5.00 J To Z 6.30 Opera On 3 10.00 New
Music Show 12mdn’t Freeness 1.00 Through
The Night

BBC Radio 4

6am News And Papers 6.07 Open Country 6.30
Farming Today This Week 6.57 Weather 7.00
Today 9.00 Saturday Live 10.30 You’re Dead
To Me 11.00 The Week In Westminster 11.30
From Our Own Correspondent 12noon News
12.04 Money Box 12.30 The News Quiz 12.57
Weather 1.00 News 1.10 Any Questions? 2.00
Any Answers? 2.45 39 Ways To Save The Planet
3.00 Drama: The Jungle Book 4.00 Weekend
Woman’s Hour 5.00 Saturday PM 5.30 Political
Thinking With Nick Robinson 5.54 Shipping
Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.15 Loose Ends 7.00 Profile 7.15 This Cultural
Life 8.00 Archive On 4: Profumo Confidential
9.00 Stone 9.45 Rabbit Remembered
10.00 News 10.15 The Moral Maze 11.00
Counterpoint 11.30 Poetry Please 12mdn’t
Midnight News 12.15 Torn 12.30 Short Works
12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World
Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast 5.30 News
Briefing 5.43 Bells On Sunday 5.45 Profile

BBC Radio 4 LW

8.30am Yesterday In Parliament 12.01pm
Shipping Forecast

BBC Radio 4 Extra

6am Jonathan Holloway: The Affair At Grover
Station 7.30 Sharp: The Women Who Made
An Art Of Having An Opinion Omnibus 8.45
Uncle Mort’s North Country 9.00 Ray’s A Laugh
9.30 The Eric Morecambe And Ernie Wise
Show 10.00 Growing Pains 11.00 Jonathan
Holloway: The Affair At Grover Station
12.30pm Sharp: The Women Who Made An

59

On Demand
Hancock: Very Nearly
an Armful UKTV Plus
Jack Dee presents a featurelength tribute to the comedy
legend Tony Hancock.
Bling Empire Netflix
New reality show focuses
on the lives of wealthy
Asian Americans.
Truth Be Told Apple TV+
Drama in which a murder
case that propels a truecrime podcaster to fame
comes back to haunt her.

Art Of Having An Opinion Omnibus 1.45 Uncle
Mort’s North Country 2.00 Ray’s A Laugh 2.30
The Eric Morecambe And Ernie Wise Show
3.00 Growing Pains 4.00 Doctor Who: The War
Doctor 5.00 Jonathan Holloway: The Affair At
Grover Station 6.30 Sharp: The Women Who
Made An Art Of Having An Opinion Omnibus
7.45 Uncle Mort’s North Country 8.00 Ray’s
A Laugh 8.30 The Eric Morecambe And Ernie
Wise Show 9.00 Growing Pains 10.00 Comedy
Club: Chris Addison’s Civilization 10.30
Comedy Club: The Penny Dreadfuls Present:
More Brothers Faversham 11.00 Comedy Club:
Vent 11.30 Comedy Club: Old Harry’s Game
12mdn’t Aliens In The Mind 12.30 A Sting In
The Tale 1.00 Jonathan Holloway: The Affair At
Grover Station 2.30 Sharp: The Women Who
Made An Art Of Having An Opinion Omnibus

BBC 5 Live

6am Saturday Breakfast 9.00 Patrick Kielty
11.00 Fighting Talk 12noon 5 Live Sport 3.00 5
Live Sport 5.00 Sports Report 5.30 5 Live Sport
7.30 6-0-6 9.00 Geeta Guru-Murthy 10.00
5 Live Boxing 12mdn’t Newscast 1.00 Laura
McGhie 5.00 Sports Desk

BBC 6 Music

6am Amy Lamé 8.00 Radcliffe And Maconie
10.00 The Huey Show 1pm Jamz Supernova
On 6 3.00 Gilles Peterson 6.00 The Craig
Charles Funk And Soul Show 9.00 The Blessed
Madonna 12mdn’t Lose Yourself With 1.00
Lose Yourself With 2.00 Late In The Day

Classic FM

7am Alan Titchmarsh 10.00 Aled Jones 1pm
Alexander Armstrong 4.00 Moira Stuart’s Hall
Of Fame Concert 7.00 Saturday Night At The
Movies 9.00 David Mellor’s Melodies 10.00
Smooth Classics 1am Katie Breathwick

Absolute Radio

8am Frank Skinner 11.00 Sarah Champion 2pm
Rock ’n’ Roll Football With Matt Forde 5.00
Andy Bush’s Indie Disco 7.00 Absolute Classic
Rock Party With Claire Sturgess 10.00 Sophie
K 4am Ross Buchanan

Heart

9am Feel Good Weekend With JK&Kelly Brook
12noon Heart’s Feel Good Weekend With Dev
Griffin 4.00 Mark Wright 7.00 Heart’s Club
Classics With Pandora Christie 11.00 Rezzy
Ghadjar 1am Katrina Ridley

TalkSPORT

6am Weekend Sports Breakfast 9.00 GameDay
Warm Up 11.00 GameDay Exclusive 2.30pm
GameDay Live 5.30 The GameDay Phone-In
7.30 The Mark Goldbridge Show 9.00 Fight
Night 12mdn’t A TalkSPORT Special 1.00
Extra Time With Martin Kelner

RADIO PICK
Opera on 3

6.30pm, BBC Radio 3
A New York Met
production of
Donizetti’s romantic
comedy L’Elisir
d’amore, starring
Golda Schultz (inset)
and Javier Camarena. Donizetti’s
tune-packed classic is a love
story about a rich landowner and
a poor peasant. Nemorino has
fallen for his boss, the beautiful
Adina, but when she agrees to
marry someone else, his only
hope is a fake love potion.

60

life

21 – 22 JANUARY 2023

Sunday television
CRITIC’S CHOICE

How to Live to 100

6.45pm, Channel 4
Jon Snow continues his “semiretirement” by travelling the globe
and meeting communities that
live healthily and happily into their
“senior years”. First up, he visits a
Christian community in California
obsessed with healthy living.
While life expectancy in the US
is plummeting, the Seventh-Day
Adventists of Loma Linda live 10
years longer than the average. But
do the extra years justify foregoing
so many of life’s pleasures?

The Great Pottery
Throw Down

Call the Midwife

6.20 Countryfile (R) (S).
7.15 Coast Great Guides:
Scotland’s Western Isles
(R) (S). 8.15 Weatherman
Walking (R) (S). 8.45
Around The World In
80 Gardens (R) (S). 9.45
Saturday Kitchen Best
Bites (S). 11.15 The Hairy
Bikers Go Local (R) (S).
12.15 MOTD Live: Women’s
Super League Chelsea
vs Liverpool. Kick-off
is at 12.30pm (S). 2.40
Bowls: World Indoor
Championships 2023 The
open singles final (S). 5.15
Flog It! (R) (S).

6.00 CITV 9.25 ITV
News (S). 9.30 Love Your
Weekend With Alan
Titchmarsh (S). 11.25
James Martin’s Saturday
Morning (R) (S). 1.35
Simply Raymond Blanc (R)
(S). 2.05 ITV News; Weather
(S). 2.15 FILM: Babe: Pig In
The City (George Miller
1998) Family comedy
sequel, with Magda
Szubanski (S). 4.00 Tipping
Point: Lucky Stars (R) (S).
5.00 The Chase Celebrity
Special (R) (S).

6.00 3rd Rock From The
Sun (R) (S). 6.25 3rd Rock
From The Sun (R) (S). 6.50
3rd Rock From The Sun
(R) (S). 7.15 The King Of
Queens (R) (S). 7.35 The
King Of Queens (R) (S). 8.00
The King Of Queens (R) (S).
8.30 The Simpsons (R) (S).
9.00 The Simpsons (R) (S).
9.30 Sunday Brunch (S).
12.30 The Simpsons (R) (S).
12.55 The Simpsons (R) (S).
1.25 The Simpsons (R) (S).
1.55 The Simpsons (R) (S).
2.25 The Secret Life Of The
Zoo (R) (S). 3.25 The Dog
House (R) (S). 4.15 FILM:
The Day The Earth Stood
Still (Scott Derrickson
2008) Sci-fi remake,
starring Keanu Reeves (S).

6.00 Milkshake! 10.05
The Smurfs (R) (S).
10.15 SpongeBob
SquarePants (R) (S). 10.30
Entertainment News
On 5 (S). 10.35 NFL End
Zone (S). 11.05 Friends
(R) (S). 11.35 Friends (R)
(S). 12.05 Friends (R) (S).
12.35 Friends (R) (S). 1.05
FILM: Three Bedrooms,
One Corpse: An Aurora
Teagarden Mystery
(Lynne Stopkewich 2016)
Crime drama, starring
Candace Cameron Bure
(S). 2.50 Agatha Christie’s
Crooked House (R) (S). 3.50
Entertainment News On 5
(S). 3.55 Agatha Christie’s
Crooked House (R) (S). 5.05
Jane McDonald’s Sunshine
Cruises (R) (S).

6.00 Countryfile
Anita Rani and
Joe Crowley are
in Flash, the UK’s
highest village
(S).

6.00 Ski Sunday
Action from
Kitzbuhel (S).

6.00 ITV News;
Weather (S).
6.15 ITV Regional
News; Weather
(S).
6.30 Dancing On Ice
(S).

6.15 Channel 4 News
(S).
6.45 How To Live To
100 Part two of
two (S).

6.25 5 News
Weekend (S).
6.30 When Holidays
Go Horribly
Wrong (R) (S).

7PM

7.00 His Dark
Materials Lyra
and Will
attempt to lead
the ghosts out of
the Land of the
Dead (S).

7.00 Antiques
Roadshow Fiona
Bruce presents
(R) (S).

8PM

8.00 Call The Midwife
The maternity
home is thrown
into chaos by an
outbreak of
gastroenteritis
(S).

8.00 Digging For
Britain
Examining a
gatehouse
riddled with
Civil War bullets
(S).

9.00 Happy Valley As
Tommy’s big day
approaches,
Catherine
becomes
suspicious (S).

9.00 The Warship:
Tour Of Duty
New series (S).

10.00 BBC News;
Weather (S).
10.25 BBC Regional
News; Weather
(S).
10.30 Match Of The
Day 2 (S).

10.00 FILM:
Schindler’s List
(Steven
Spielberg 1993)
Fact-based
Holocaust
drama (S).

11.35 The Women’s
Football Show
Highlights of the
weekend’s
games in the
Super League
(S).

6PM

DAYTIME

6.00 Breakfast (S). 7.35
Match Of The Day (R) (S).
9.00 Sunday With Laura
Kuenssberg (S). 10.00
Politics England (S). 10.30
Sunday Morning Live (S).
11.30 Scotland’s Sacred
Islands With Ben Fogle
(R) (S). 12.30 Bargain
Hunt (R) (S). 1.00 BBC
News; Weather (S). 1.15
Songs Of Praise (S). 1.50
Escape To The Country
(R) (S). 2.15 FILM: Captain
Underpants: The First Epic
Movie (David Soren 2017)
Cartoon adventure (S).
3.35 Young MasterChef (R)
(S). 4.05 Young MasterChef
(R) (S). 4.35 Serengeti III
(S). 5.35 BBC News (S).
5.50 BBC Regional News;
Weather (S).

9PM

8pm, BBC One
Alas, all is not well with Reggie
(Daniel Laurie) – Fred and Violet
Buckle’s surrogate son is usually
full of sunshine but now lies in
bed in the morning and generally
mopes about. Elsewhere in 1968
Poplar, a pompous consultant
running a training course
makes the mistake of making

10PM

7.45pm, Channel 4
Siobhán McSweeney hosts Retro
Week, in which the contestants are

challenged to make a trio of flying
birds and, in this week’s surprise
task, try to create an old-fashioned
hot water bottle (the ceramic
ones known as “stones”). As usual,
judges Keith Brymer Jones and
Rich Miller then decide who will be
potter of the week and who will be
heading home.

11PM

Jon Snow visits the US in his quest to find out
‘How to Live to 100’, 6.45pm, Channel 4

radio

LATE

12.25 The Apprentice (R)
(S). 1.30 BBC News (S).

8pm, ITV1
The final episode in this series,
and Brenda Blethyn’s Columbostyle detective DCI Stanhope
is called out to the banks of the
River Tyne, where the body of a
young woman has been washed
up. Although the victim appears
to have been a popular manager
at a local green energy company,
as well as a l\a\oyal friend and
a loving mother and wife, Vera
uncovers a web of intrigue,
betrayal and lost promises.

9pm, BBC One
To recap: jailbird killer Tommy Lee
Royce (James Norton) has invited
his son Ryan (Rhys Connah) to
come and see him “when I’m in
Leeds”. Tommy was referring to
an upcoming court appearance,
of course, but as the big day
approaches, Catherine (Sarah
Lancashire) becomes suspicious.

The Warship: Tour of Duty

9pm, BBC Two
This new series follows the Royal
Navy aircraft carrier (and flagship)
HMS Queen Elizabeth on her first
operational mission, the awardwinning director Chris Terrill
being embedded with the 1,600strong crew on a gruelling seven-

Vera investigates a
body by the Tyne
8pm, ITV1

6.00 Totally Bonkers
Guinness World Records
(S). 6.35 Secret Crush (S).
7.35 Secret Crush (S). 8.30
Secret Crush (S). 9.25
Dress To Impress (S). 10.30
Dress To Impress (S). 11.35
The Masked Singer (S). 1.05
FILM: Antz (Eric Darnell,
Lawrence Guterman 1998)
Animated comedy, with
the voice of Woody Allen
(S). 2.50 FILM: Step Up
3 (Jon Chu 2010) Dance
drama sequel, starring
Rick Malambri (S). 5.05
FILM: The Croods (Kirk
De Micco, Chris Sanders
2013) Animated comedy,
with the voice of Nicolas
Cage (S).

C hris Terrill goes
aboard ‘The Warship’
9pm, BBC Two

7.00 Come Dancing
7.45 FILM: Romeo
And Juliet:
Beyond Words
(Michael Nunn,
William Trevitt
2019) (S).

7.15 FILM: Johnny
English Strikes
Again (David
Kerr 2018) Spy
comedy, starring
Rowan Atkinson
(S).

7.05 FILM: Legally
Blonde (Robert
Luketic 2001)
Comedy,
starring Reese
Witherspoon (S).

9.00 Motorhoming
With Merton &
Webster Paul
Merton and Suki
Webster head to
Devon (S).

9.15 FILM:
Westwood:
Punk – Icon –
Activist (Lorna
Tucker 2018) (S).

9.00 FILM: The
Martian (Ridley
Scott 2015) sci-fi
drama, starring
Matt Damon (S).

9.00 Love Island The
second week
begins (S).

10.00 Hotel Benidorm:
Sun-Loungers
& Sangria (R) (S).
10.55 Greatest 80s
Songs: 1981 (R)
(S).

10.35 Vivienne
Westwood Talks
To Kirsty Wark
(S).

7.45 The Great
Pottery Throw
Down Siobhan
McSweeney
hosts Retro
Week (S).
8.00 22 Kids &
Counting The
Radfords begin
their hunt for a
new house (S).

8.00 Vera The body
of a young
woman is
washed up on
the banks of the
Tyne. Last in the
series (S).
9.00 FILM: Jack
Reacher: Never
Go Back (Edward
Zwick 2016)
Action thriller
sequel, starring
Tom Cruise (S).
10.00 ITV News;
Weather (S).
10.15 FILM: The Fast
And The Furious
(Rob Cohen
2001) Thriller (S).

12.15 Shop: Ideal World
3.00 The Widow (R) (S).
3.50 Unwind With ITV (S).
5.05 Lingo (R) (S).

Vera

Happy Valley

Siobhán McSweeney
presents Retro Week
on ‘The Great Pottery
Throw Down’
7.45pm, Channel 4

11.20 Walter
Presents: Grow
Danish crime
drama, starring
Lars Mikkelsen
(S).
1.05 Sign Zone: Question
Time (R) (S). 2.05 Sign
Zone: Waterloo Road (R)
(S). 3.05 This Is BBC Two (S).

condescending remarks about
Nurse Crane’s age, and a breakout
of gastroenteritis brings the
maternity home to the attention of
the Board of Health.

12.15 FILM: Lucy In The
Sky (Noah Hawley 2019)
(S). 2.20 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (R) (S).
3.10 Come Dine With
Me (R) (S). 5.15 Location,
Location, Location (R) (S).

12.55 Entertainment News
On 5 (S). 1.00 The LeoVegas
Live Casino Show (S). 3.00
Entertainment News On
5 (S). 3.05 The Yorkshire
Steam Railway: All Aboard
(R) (S). 3.55 Edwardian
Britain In Colour (R) (S).

10.00 Love Island:
Aftersun Maya
Jama and guests
discuss all the
latest news and
juicy gossip (S).

11.05 Byzantium: A
Tale Of Three
Cities The
sacred history of
Istanbul (S).

11.50 FILM: Assassin’s
Creed (Justin
Kurzel 2016)
Action
adventure,
starring Michael
Fassbender (S).

11.05 Family Guy
Brian becomes
an estate agent
after having
cosmetic
surgery (S).
11.35 Family Guy (S).

12.05 The Search For The
Lost Manuscript: Julian
Of Norwich (S). 1.05
Ancient Worlds (S). 2.05
Sicily: Wonder Of The
Mediterranean (S). 3.05
Close

2.00 FILM: To Kill A
King (Mike Barker 2003)
Historical drama, starring
Tim Roth (S). 4.00 Close

12.00 American Dad! (S).
12.30 American Dad! (S).
1.00 The Sex Lives Of
College Girls (S). 1.30 The
Sex Lives Of College Girls
(S). 2.05 All American (S).
3.00 Teleshopping

culture

month voyage to the South China
Sea. Aimed as a demonstration
of Britain’s new naval strength
to friends and foes alike, the first
enemy encountered had crept up
unseen – an outbreak of Covid.

FILM CHOICE

Walter Presents: Grow

11.20pm, Channel 4
A taster opening episode of this
new Danish crime drama (before
it moves to All 4) in which a newly
graduated stockbroker returns to
his hometown after the death of
his father and becomes involved
in biker gangs and drug trafficking.
The homecoming also leads him
to a reunion with his brother, a
police officer. Lars Mikkelsen from
Borgen is among the cast.
Gerard Gilbert

6.00 George And Mildred
(S). 6.40 Emmerdale
Omnibus (S). 9.25 George
And Mildred (S). 9.55
Agatha Christie’s Marple
(S). 11.55 Agatha Christie’s
Marple (S). 1.55 Agatha
Christie’s Marple (S). 3.55
Doc Martin (S). 5.00 Doc
Martin (S).

6.00 Rosemary &
Thyme A blind
professor is
killed (S).

Schindler’s List

10pm, BBC Two
(Steven Spielberg, 1993)
In his most sombre, most adult
film, Spielberg displays impressive
commitment to telling his story,
avoiding dramatic or cinematic
contrivance as best he can. Liam
Neeson is excellent as the complex
and flawed hero, a German
profiteer who saved 1,100 Jews
from the Holocaust, while Ralph
Fiennes is unforgettable as a
concentration camp commandant.

The Fast and the Furious

Paul Walker stars in the flashy B-movie
‘The Fast and the Furious’, 10.15pm, ITV1

6.00 Hollyoaks Omnibus
(S). 8.20 Ramsay’s 24 Hours
To Hell And Back (S). 9.15
Ramsay’s 24 Hours To
Hell And Back (S). 10.10
Ramsay’s 24 Hours To
Hell And Back (S). 11.05
Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell
And Back (S). 12.05 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 12.35
The Big Bang Theory (S).
1.00 The Big Bang Theory
(S). 1.30 FILM: Zathura:
A Space Adventure (Jon
Favreau 2005) Family scifi adventure, starring Josh
Hutcherson and Jonah
Bobo (S). 3.30 Junior Bake
Off (S). 5.05 Lego Masters
Australia (S).

6.55 FILM: Teenage
Mutant Ninja
Turtles: Out Of
The Shadows
(Dave Green
2016) (S).

8.55 George Clarke’s
Amazing Spaces (S). 9.55
Ugly House To Lovely
House With George
Clarke (S). 11.00 George
Clarke’s Old House, New
Home (S). 12.00 Come
Dine With Me (S). 12.35
Come Dine With Me (S).
1.05 Come Dine With Me
(S). 1.40 Come Dine With
Me (S). 2.10 Come Dine
With Me (S). 2.40 Four
In A Bed (S). 3.10 Four In
A Bed (S). 3.40 Four In A
Bed (S). 4.15 Four In A Bed
(S). 4.50 Four In A Bed (S).
5.20 Come Dine With Me
(S). 5.50 Come Dine With
Me (S).

6.25 Come Dine With
Me (S).
6.55 Come Dine With
Me (S).

10.15pm, ITV1
(Rob Cohen, 2001)
Who could have predicted that
this B-movie would spawn a
multi-billion-dollar franchise?

6.00 DC’s Legends Of
Tomorrow (R) (S). 7.00 DC’s
Legends Of Tomorrow (R)
(S). 8.00 DC’s Legends Of
Tomorrow (R) (S). 9.00 DC’s
Legends Of Tomorrow (R)
(S). 10.00 DC’s Legends Of
Tomorrow (R) (S). 11.00
NCIS: New Orleans (R) (S).
12.00 NCIS: New Orleans
(R) (S). 1.00 NCIS: New
Orleans (R) (S). 2.00 NCIS:
New Orleans (R) (S). 3.00
NCIS: New Orleans (R)
(S). 4.00 Grimm (R). 5.00
Grimm (R).

6.45 Ray Donovan
Mickey is kicked
out of Bunchy’s
apartment (R) (S).

7.50 Succession
Kendall plans
his next move (R)
(S).

7.25 Come Dine With
Me Business
owner and
socialite Maz
plays host (S).

7.00 Grimm A hotel
guest claims to
be haunted by a
frightening
creature (R) (S).

8.00 Martin Clunes:
Islands Of The
Pacific The
presenter
explores the
Galapagos (S).

8.00 Emergency
Helicopter
Medics (S).

8.00 Rob & Romesh
vs Superstar DJs
Rob Beckett and
Romesh
Ranganathan
enter the DJ
world (R) (S).

9.00 FILM:
Terminator
Genisys (Alan
Taylor 2015)
Sci-fi adventure
sequel (S).

10.00 Scott & Bailey
First episode of
the detective
drama, starring
Lesley Sharp (S).
10.55 Scott & Bailey
(S).

Lucy in the Sky

12.15am, Channel 4
(Noah Hawley, 2019)
When this film starts, astronaut
Lucy Cola (Natalie Portman) is
floating in the cosmos and looking
down on all of humanity. Upon
returning to Earth, she finds
everything somehow drained of
meaning – including her marriage.
This stylish drama, based on a
true story, charts this exceptional
woman’s mental breakdown.
Laurence Phelan

Radio
listings
BBC Radio 1

6am Radio 1’s Chillout Anthems 7.00 Adele
Roberts 10.00 Radio 1 Anthems 10.30
Newsbeat 10.32 Radio 1 Anthems 11.02 Radio
1 00s With Nat O’Leary 1pm Matt And Jamie
4.00 Radio 1’s Life Hacks 6.00 The Official
Chart: First Look On Radio 1 7.00 Radio 1’s
Chillest Show 9.00 Radio 1’s Indie Show With
Jack Saunders 11.00 BBC Introducing On Radio
1 12mdn’t Radio 1’s Future Soul With Victoria
Jane 1.30 Radio 1’s UK R&B Mix

BBC Radio 1Xtra

6.00 Grimm Nick,
Hank and Wu
investigate a
bizarre murder
in a local park
(R).

7.00 Rosemary &
Thyme The duo
investigate a
churchyard
murder (S).

9.00 Joanna Lumley’s
Great Cities Of
The World
Joanna visits
Berlin (S).

6.00 Richard E Grant’s
Hotel Secrets (R) (S).
7.00 Richard E Grant’s
Hotel Secrets (R) (S). 8.00
Richard E Grant’s Hotel
Secrets (R) (S). 9.00 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 10.05 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 11.10 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 12.15 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 1.20 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 2.25 Ray
Donovan (R) (S). 3.30 Ray
Donovan (R) (S). 4.35 Ray
Donovan (R) (S). 5.40 Ray
Donovan (R) (S).

For one thing, its characters – an
undercover cop and the gang of
petrolheads he infiltrates – are
not the least bit fleshed out nor
interesting. But it is directed with
some flash and flair.

6am 1Xtra’s R&B Chill Mix 7.00 Fee Mak 10.32
The Gospel Corner 11.00 Trevor Nelson 1pm
David Rodigan 3.00 The Official UK Afrobeats
Chart Show With Eddie Kadi 4.00 Rampage
7.00 Heartless Crew 9.00 1Xtra Talks 10.00
1Xtra Introducing Show 12mdn’t Throwback
Throwdown: 3 1.00 1Xtra @ 20-20 Years Of
African Sounds 2.00 Ace 3.30 Ace

BBC Radio 2

9am Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs 11.00
The Michael Ball Show 1pm Elaine Paige On
Sunday 3.00 Sounds Of The 70s With Bob
Harris 5.00 Rob Beckett 7.00 Tony Blackburn’s
Golden Hour 8.00 Sunday Night Is Music Night
10.00 Radio 2 Unwinds With Angela Griffin
11.00 Radio 2 Unwinds With Angela Griffin
12mdn’t Phil Williams 3.00 Alternative Sounds
Of The 90s With Dermot O’Leary

BBC Radio 3

7am Breakfast 9.00 Sunday Morning 12noon
Private Passions 1.00 Radio 3 Lunchtime
Concert 2.00 The Early Music Show 3.00
Choral Evensong 4.00 Jazz Record Requests
5.00 The Listening Service 5.30 Words And
Music 6.45 Sunday Feature: Yiddish Glory
7.30 Radio 3 In Concert 9.00 Record Review
Extra 11.00 The Art Of Music With Anna Clyne
12mdn’t Sounds Connected

BBC Radio 4

9.00 24 Hours In A&E
A woman with a
weak immune
system is bitten
by her cat (S).

9.00 S.W.A.T New
series. Hondo
stumbles upon a
wide-ranging
heroin operation
in Bangkok.

9.00 The Last Of Us
Postapocalyptic
drama, starring
Pedro Pascal
and Bella
Ramsey (R).

10.00 Super Surgeons:
A Chance At Life
Last in the series
(S).

10.00 NCIS: Los
Angeles New
series (S).

10.10 Euphoria Jules
falls for a boy
online and asks
Rue to help her
take suggestive
photos to send
to him (R) (S).

11.55 Upstairs,
Downstairs
Former maid
Sarah is rehired
(S).

11.25 Gogglebox Even
Better Than the
Real Thing and
The Great
British Bake Off
are appraised (S).

11.05 Emergency
Helicopter
Medics A man
suffers multiple
injuries after a
quad-bike
accident (S).

11.00 Hold The Front
Page Nish
Kumar and Josh
Widdicombe
work at the
Yorkshire Post
(R) (S).

11.15 Britannia Aulus
is reborn, but his
destiny remains
undetermined
(R) (S).

1.05 Upstairs, Downstairs
(S). 2.20 George And
Mildred (S). 2.50
Emmerdale Omnibus (S).
5.35 Unwind With ITV (S).

12.30 Naked Attraction (S).
1.35 Summer House (S).
2.35 Summer House (S).
3.25 Hollyoaks Omnibus
(S).

12.10 24 Hours In A&E
(S). 1.15 Super Surgeons:
A Chance At Life (S). 2.20
Emergency Helicopter
Medics (S). 3.25 Food
Unwrapped (S). 3.50 Close

12.00 Brassic (R) (S). 1.00
Road Wars (R). 2.00 Road
Wars (R). 3.00 Brit Cops:
Rapid Response (R). 4.00
Stop, Search, Seize (R) (S).
5.00 Stop, Search, Seize
(R) (S).

12.20 In Treatment (R).
12.55 City On A Hill (R) (S).
2.00 The Last Of Us 3.05
Boardwalk Empire (R) (S).
4.10 Richard E Grant’s
Hotel Secrets (R) (S). 5.05
Richard E Grant’s Hotel
Secrets (R) (S).

6am News Headlines 6.05 Something
Understood 6.35 On Your Farm 6.57 Weather
7.00 News; Sunday Papers 7.10 Sunday 7.54
Radio 4 Appeal 7.57 Weather 8.00 News;
Sunday Papers 8.10 Sunday Worship 8.48
A Point Of View 8.58 Tweet Of The Day 9.00
Broadcasting House 10.00 The Archers 11.15
Desert Island Discs 12noon News 12.04 Just
A Minute 12.30 The Food Programme 12.57
Weather 1.00 The World This Weekend 1.30
Born In Bradford 2.00 Gardeners’ Question
Time 2.45 Property Of The BBC 3.00 Drama:
The Medici: Bankers, Gangsters, Popes 4.00
Open Book 4.30 Poetry Please 5.00 File On
4 5.40 Profile 5.54 Shipping Forecast 5.57
Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.15 Pick Of
The Week 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Believe It! 7.45
The Circus 8.00 More Or Less 8.30 Last Word
9.00 Money Box 9.25 Radio 4 Appeal 9.30 Icon
10.00 The Westminster Hour 11.00 Loose
Ends 11.30 Something Understood 12mdn’t
News And Weather 12.15 Thinking Allowed
12.45 Bells On Sunday 12.48 Shipping Forecast

BBC Radio 4 LW

12.01pm Shipping Forecast

BBC Radio 4 Extra

6am Poetry Extra 6.30 Unsheltered
Omnibus – Part One 7.40 Inheritance Tracks
7.50 Unsuitable Men With Familiar Smiles
Omnibus 9.00 The Betty Witherspoon Show
9.30 Something To Shout About 10.00 Desert
Island Discs Revisited 11.00 Poetry Extra 11.30
Unsheltered Omnibus – Part One 12.40pm
Inheritance Tracks 12.50 Unsuitable Men
With Familiar Smiles Omnibus 2.00 The Betty

61

On Demand
Smallville ITVX
All 10 seasons of the
Superman origins drama
starring Tom Welling as
a teenage Clark Kent.
Are You the One?
Paramount+
The former MTV dating show
lives again in a global version
filmed in Spain.
Up the Junction BBC iPlayer
Ken Loach’s ground-breaking
1965 TV play on the dangers
of backstreet abortions.

Witherspoon Show 2.30 Something To Shout
About 3.00 Desert Island Discs Revisited 4.00
Aliens In The Mind 4.30 A Sting In The Tale 5.00
Poetry Extra 5.30 Unsheltered Omnibus – Part
One 6.40 Inheritance Tracks 6.50 Unsuitable
Men With Familiar Smiles Omnibus 8.00 The
Betty Witherspoon Show 8.30 Something To
Shout About 9.00 Desert Island Discs Revisited
10.00 Comedy Club: Sean Lock – 15 Storeys
High 10.30 Comedy Club: Party 11.00 Comedy
Club: The Skivers 11.30 Comedy Club: 1966 And
All That 12mdn’t Poetry Extra

BBC 5 Live

6am 5 Live Science 7.00 Sunday Breakfast
10.00 Helen Skelton 12noon 5 Live Sport
2.00 5 Live Sport 4.00 5 Live Sport 4.30 5 Live
Sport 6.30 6-0-6 8.00 Kammy & Ben’s Proper
Football Podcast 8.30 Different With Nicky
Campbell 9.00 Geeta Guru-Murthy 12mdn’t
Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game 12.20 Bugzy
Malone’s Grandest Game 12.40 Bugzy Malone’s
Grandest Game 1.00 Edward Adoo

BBC 6 Music

6am Amy Lamé 8.00 Radcliffe And Maconie
10.00 Cerys Matthews 1pm Peel Acres 2.00
Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour 4.00 Iggy Pop 6.00
Now Playing @6Music 8.00 Stuart Maconie’s
Freak Zone 10.00 Don Letts’ Culture Clash
Radio 12mdn’t Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour 2.00 6
Music Goes Back To The 90s – The Playlist

Classic FM

7am Aled Jones 10.00 Andrew Marr 1pm
Catherine Bott 4.00 John Humphrys 7.00
Smooth Classics At Seven 9.00 Uplifting
Classics 10.00 Smooth Classics 1am Bill
Overton 4.00 Early Breakfast

Absolute Radio

8am Jason Manford 11.00 Sarah Champion
2pm Rock ’n’ Roll Football With Jay Lawrence
6.00 Request Show With Claire Sturgess 8.00
Sunday Night Music Club 10.00 A Rush Of The
Blood Of The Head At 20 With Ross Buchanan
11.00 The Magic Of McCartney With Anna
Geary 12mdn’t Dan Noble

Heart

6am Rob Howard 9.00 Zoe Hardman 12noon
Yasmin Evans 4.00 The Official Big Top 40
7.00 Heart’s Feel Good Weekend With Emma
Bunton 10.00 Anna Whitehouse 12mdn’t Anna
Whitehouse 1.00 Simon Beale 4.00 Early
Breakfast With Lindsey Russell

TalkSPORT

6am Weekend Sports Breakfast 9.00 Jonny
Owen And Friends 11.00 The Warm Up 1pm
The Sunday Session 5.00 The Boot Room
8.00 A TalkSPORT Special 9.00 Trans Europe
Express 12mdn’t A TalkSPORT Special

RADIO PICK
The Listening Service
5pm, BBC Radio 3

Tom Service (inset)
explores the
fascinating world
of musical marches,
with pieces by
Elgar, Sousa, Strauss,
Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, as
well as Eric Coates’ theme for
1955 war film The Dam Busters,
to discover how the march
can beat the drum for many
different ideas and emotions.

62

life

21 – 22 JANUARY 2023

Monday television
CRITIC’S CHOICE

6.00 Holiday Homes
In The Sun (R) (S).
6.55 5 News Update
(S).

7.00 Nadiya’s Fast
Flavours (R) (S).
7.30 Mastermind (S).

7.30 Emmerdale
Priya revisits
her trauma (S).

7.00 Channel 4 News
(S).

7.00 Police
Interceptors (R)
(S).
7.55 5 News Update
(S).

7.00 Great British
Railway
Journeys (S).
7.30 The Joy Of
Painting (S).

8.00 Dogs, Dealers
And Organised
Crime
– Panorama (S).
8.30 The Bidding
Room (R) (S).

8.00 Only Connect
(S).
8.30 University
Challenge (S).

8.00 Coronation
Street Sarah
alerts Stephen
to the existence
of the factory’s
CCTV (S).

8.00 George Clarke’s
Amazing Spaces
(S).

8.00 Traffic Cops A
disqualified
driver with
possible links to
violence triggers
a police camera
(S).

8.00 Winterwatch
1963: The Big
Freeze (S).

9.00 Silent Witness
Part one of two.
The team are
called to a
devastating
train crash (S).

9.00 How The
Holocaust
Began (S).

9.00 Maternal
Maryam fears
her old doubts
and anxieties
are returning (S).

9.00 SAS: Who Dares
Wins – Jungle
Hell New series
(S).

9.00 Police: Night
Shift 999
Officers are
called to a
late-night
break-in at a
shop (S).

9.00 Killer Storms
And Cruel
Winters – The
History Of
Extreme
Weather:
Timewatch (S).

10.00 BBC News (S).
10.30 BBC Regional
News
10.40 Humza:
Forgiving The
Unforgiveable
(S).

10.00 QI With Sarah
Millican, Daliso
Chaponda and
Rob Beckett (S).
10.30 Newsnight (S).

10.00 ITV News
10.30 Regional News
10.45 Britain’s
Notorious
Prisons:
Wormwood
Scrubs (R) (S).

10.00 Everyone Else
Burns New
series (S).
10.35 Everyone Else
Burns (S).

10.00 Casualty 24/7:
Every Second
Counts (R) (S).

10.00 The US And The
Holocaust The
first reports of
the killing reach
the United
States. Last in
the series (S).

11.40 The Graham
Norton Show
Guests include
Michelle
Williams and
Helena Bonham
Carter (R) (S).

11.15 FILM: I, Tonya
(Craig Gillespie
2017) Biopic,
starring Margot
Robbie (S).

11.45 English Football
League
Highlights (S).

11.05 Jon & Lucy’s Odd
Couples (R) (S).

11.05 999: Critical
Condition A
man is rushed in
after being
attacked with a
machete (R) (S).

12.30 Would I Lie To You?
(R) (S). 1.00 Have I Got
News For You (R) (S). 1.35
BBC News (S).

1.10 Sign Zone:
Countryfile (R) (S). 2.05
Sign Zone: Dragons’ Den
(R) (S). 3.05 This Is BBC
Two (S).

1.30 Shop: Ideal World
3.00 All Elite Wrestling:
Dynamite (S). 4.40 Unwind
With ITV (S). 5.35 Simply
Raymond Blanc (R) (S).

12.05 I Literally Just Told
You (R) (S). 1.00 Travel
Man: 48 Hours In Dublin
(R) (S). 1.25 The Caribbean:
Billionaires’ Paradise (R)
(S). 2.20 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (R) (S).

12.05 Police Interceptors
(R) (S). 1.00 The LeoVegas
Live Casino Show (S). 3.00
Entertainment News On
5 (S). 3.05 The Yorkshire
Steam Railway: All Aboard
(R) (S). 3.55 OMG: My
Barbie Body (R) (S).

DAYTIME

6.00 The Simpsons
The family
remembers
Lisa’s early days
(R) (S).
6.30 Hollyoaks (R) (S).

6PM

6.00 Richard Osman’s
House Of Games
(S).
6.30 Robson Green’s
Weekend
Escapes New
series (S).

7.00 The One Show
(S).
7.30 EastEnders Kat
takes care of a
conflicted Lily
(S).

9pm, Sky Atlantic
“The greatest video game
adaptation ever made” is perhaps
not quite the plaudit it seems
when you consider some of
the dud adaptations that have
gone before, but there is no
doubt that this slow-burning
spin on the apocalyptic game
is genuinely classy. The latest
episode opens unexpectedly

6.00 ITV Regional
News; Weather
(S).
6.30 ITV News;
Weather (S).

7PM

6.00 BBC News At
Six; Weather (S).
6.30 BBC Regional
News; Weather
(S).

9pm, Channel 4
The latest 20 civilians facing a
condensed version of the SAS
selection process are whisked off
to the jungles of Vietnam for this

The Last of Us

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15
Jeremy Vine (S). 12.45
George Clarke’s Build A
New Life In The Country
(R) (S). 1.40 5 News At
Lunchtime (S). 1.45 Home
And Away (R) (S). 2.15
FILM: Revenge For My
Mother (Doug Campbell
2022) Premiere. Thriller,
starring Sami Nye (S). 4.00
Bargain-Loving Brits In
The Sun (S). 5.00 5 News
At 5 (S).

8PM

6.00 Good Morning
Britain (S). 9.00 Lorraine
(S). 10.00 This Morning (S).
12.30 Loose Women (S).
1.30 ITV News; Weather
(S). 1.55 ITV Regional
News; Weather (S). 2.00
Dickinson’s Real Deal (S).
3.00 Lingo (S). 3.59 ITV
Regional Weather (S). 4.00
Tipping Point (S). 5.00 The
Chase (S).

SAS: Who Dares Wins –
Jungle Hell

new series of the reality show. As
a warm-up exercise, they have to
traverse parallel bars suspended
50ft in the air before facing one of
the most dangerous infiltration
methods used by the SAS – a
waterfall abseil. I’m a Celebrity…
it isn’t.

9PM

6.30 Bargain Hunt (R) (S).
7.15 Make It At Market
(R) (S). 8.00 Sign Zone:
The Smeds And The
Smoos (R) (S). 8.30 Sign
Zone: Tom Kerridge:
Lose Weight For Good
(R) (S). 9.00 BBC News At
9 (S). 10.00 BBC News
(S). 12.15 Politics Live (S).
1.00 Hardball (R) (S). 1.45
Celebrity Eggheads (R) (S).
2.15 Celebrity Antiques
Road Trip (R) (S). 3.15
Great Australian Railway
Journeys (R) (S). 3.45 My
Unique B&B (R) (S). 4.30
Saved And Remade (R) (S).
5.15 Flog It! (R) (S).

9pm, ITV1
“People die… they’re ill,” Catherine
(Lara Pulver) tells a guilt-ridden
Maryam (Parminder Nagra). “It
doesn’t make us Harold Shipman.”
Little wonder that Catherine
is whisked off to brush up her
communication skills. She is,
however, delighted when the
father of her child, Lars, jets in
from Sweden – but less thrilled to
discover that his wife is in tow.

6.10 Countdown (R)
(S). 6.50 3rd Rock From
The Sun (R) (S). 7.15 3rd
Rock From The Sun
(R) (S). 7.40 Everybody
Loves Raymond (R)
(S). 8.05 Everybody
Loves Raymond (R) (S).
8.30 Everybody Loves
Raymond (R) (S). 9.00
Frasier (R) (S). 9.30 Frasier
(R) (S). 10.00 Frasier (R) (S).
10.25 Undercover Boss
USA (R) (S). 11.25 Channel 4
News Summary (S). 11.30
Come Dine With Me: The
Professionals (R) (S). 12.30
Steph’s Packed Lunch (S).
2.10 Countdown (S). 3.00
A Place In The Sun (S). 4.00
A New Life In The Sun (S).
5.00 Junior Bake Off (S).

LATE

6.00 Breakfast (S). 9.15
Morning Live (S). 10.00
Defenders UK (S). 10.45
Rip Off Britain: Holidays
(R) (S). 11.15 Homes Under
The Hammer (R) (S). 12.15
Bargain Hunt (S). 1.00
BBC News; Weather (S).
1.30 BBC Regional News;
Weather (S). 1.45 Doctors
(S). 2.15 The Farmers’
Country Showdown
(S). 3.00 Escape To The
Country (S). 3.45 The
Repair Shop (S). 4.30
Bridge Of Lies (S). 5.15
Pointless (S).

Maternal

10PM

9pm, BBC Two
There is a crossover between
this documentary and the final
episode of The US and the Holocaust
(10pm, BBC Four) in that both
programmes touch on the same
aspect of the genocide – the
fact that before the organised
slaughter in death camps, millions
of Jews were shot, buried or
burned in what historian James
Bulgin here calls “the holocaust
of bullets before the holocaust of
gas”. Much of this chaotic mass
murder has come to light only in
the past 30 years, following the
fall of the Soviet Union, and in this
documentary Bulgin and teams of
specialists scour Eastern Europe
for unmarked burial sites.

11PM

Harry Connor and Simon Bird in new sitcom
‘Everyone Else Burns’,10pm, Channel 4

How the Holocaust Began

radio
in Indonesia in 2003, where an
eminent mycologist is whisked
off to a secret centre and shown
a disturbing corpse. Can she
create a vaccine?

Everyone Else Burns

10pm, Channel 4
This promising new comedy from
the makers of Russian Doll begins
with a father, David (Simon Bird
from Inbetweeners and Friday
Night Dinner), waking his children
to tell them that “the end of time
is here”. “Finally,” sighs his teenage
son, for David and his family are
part of a religious cult longing
for Armageddon. Or rather they
did – only now wife Fiona (Kate
O’Flynn, superb) is fed up with the
overbearing David, while daughter

Humza Arshad looks
into forgiveness
10.40pm, BBC One

A guilt-ridden Maryam
(Parminder Nagra)
worries about
an investigation
9pm, ITV1

12.05 Ancient Worlds (S).
1.05 Great British Railway
Journeys (S). 1.35 The
Joy Of Painting (S). 2.05
Winterwatch 1963: The Big
Freeze (S). 3.05 Close

James Bulgin on the
‘holocaust of bullets’
9pm, BBC Two
6.45 FILM: Made In
America
(Richard
Benjamin 1993)
Romantic
comedy (S).

6.00 World’s Funniest
Videos (S). 6.35 Totally
Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S). 7.00 Secret
Crush (S). 8.00 Dress To
Impress (S). 9.00 Chuck
(S). 10.00 One Tree Hill (S).
11.00 The O.C (S). 12.00
Secret Crush (S). 1.00
Dress To Impress (S). 2.00
Family Fortunes (S). 3.05
Chuck (S). 4.00 One Tree
Hill (S). 5.00 The O.C (S).

6.00 Celebrity
Catchphrase
With Joe Lycett,
Chizzy Akudolu
and Nick
Knowles (S).
7.00 Ninja Warrior
UK: Race For
Glory More
competitors
take on the
obstacle course
(S).
8.00 Superstore
Glenn returns
from quarantine
to resume store
manager duties
(S).
8.30 Superstore (S).

9.00 FILM:
Fatherhood
(Paul Weitz
2021) Premiere.
Comedy drama,
starring Kevin
Hart (S).

9.00 Love Island
Maya Jama
presents all the
latest action
from the villa (S).

10.05 Georgia Toffolo:
In Search Of
Perfect Skin (S).

11.10 FILM: The Craft
(Andrew
Fleming 1996)
Horror, starring
Robin Tunney
(S).

11.05 Family Guy
Brian and Peter
go on a mission
to find a new
Thanksgiving
turkey (S).
11.35 Family Guy (S).

1.15 FILM: Wings Of Desire
(Wim Wenders 1987)
fantasy, starring Bruno
Ganz (S). 4.00 Close

12.00 American Dad!
(S). 12.30 American Dad!
(S). 12.55 Superstore (S).
1.25 Superstore (S). 1.50
Kavos Weekender (S). 2.45
Unwind With ITV (S). 3.00
Teleshopping

culture

Rachel now shyly fancies a local
dog walker. The support cast is to
die for (albeit with no promise of
an afterlife), including Morgana
Robinson, Lolly Adefope, Arsher
Ali and Liam Williams.

FILM CHOICE

Humza: Forgiving
the Unforgivable

10.40pm, BBC One
Actor and YouTuber Humza
Arshad explores the possibility of
forgiving the gang who stabbed
his cousin. Among those he speaks
to are a father whose sons were
killed by rioters in Birmingham,
a mother who lost her daughter at
the Manchester Arena bombing,
and an imam who survived a
vicious racist knife attack.
Gerard Gilbert

6.00 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 6.35 Classic Coronation
Street (S). 7.00 Classic
Coronation Street (S).
8.05 George And Mildred
(S). 8.40 George And
Mildred (S). 9.15 Agatha
Christie’s Marple (S).
11.30 Heartbeat (S). 12.35
Heartbeat (S). 1.40 Classic
Emmerdale (S). 2.10
Classic Emmerdale (S).
2.40 Classic Coronation
Street (S). 3.15 Classic
Coronation Street (S). 3.45
Inspector Morse (S).

6.00 Heartbeat Nick
is attacked (S).

7.00 Heartbeat Nick
investigates a
hit-and-run
incident (S).

8.00 Ridley Crime
drama, starring
Adrian Dunbar
(S).

Sausage Party

10pm, Sky Cinema Comedy
(Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon, 2016)
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s
15-rated but extremely sweary
and extravagantly, gloriously
profane musical parody of Pixarstyle digimations is set in a US
supermarket, and concerns a
talking hot-dog sausage’s atheistic
awakening, after he discovers the
true fate that awaits foodstuffs
after they leave the supermarket.

I, Tonya

Margot Robbie stars in the stranger-thanfiction biopic ‘I, Tonya’, 11.15pm, BBC Two

11.15pm, BBC Two
(Craig Gillespie, 2017)
Margot Robbie stars in this
exhilarating sporting biopic-cumtrue-crime drama about disgraced
ice-skater Tonya Harding. She

6.00 Hollyoaks (S).
7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (S). 7.55
Junior Bake Off (S). 9.00
The Goldbergs (S). 9.30 The
Goldbergs (S). 10.00 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 10.30
The Big Bang Theory (S).
11.00 Modern Family (S).
12.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(S). 12.30 Brooklyn NineNine (S). 1.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S). 1.30 The Big
Bang Theory (S). 2.00 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 2.30
The Big Bang Theory (S).
3.00 Modern Family (S).
3.30 Modern Family (S).
4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(S). 4.30 Brooklyn NineNine (S). 5.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S). 5.30 The Big
Bang Theory (S).

8.55 Kirstie’s House Of
Craft (S). 9.15 A Place In
The Sun: Home Or Away
(S). 10.05 A New Life In The
Sun (S). 11.05 Find It, Fix
It, Flog It (S). 12.05 Find
It, Fix It, Flog It (S). 1.10
Heir Hunters (S). 2.10 Heir
Hunters (S). 3.10 Four In
A Bed (S). 3.40 Four In A
Bed (S). 4.15 Four In A Bed
(S). 4.50 Four In A Bed (S).
5.20 Four In A Bed (S). 5.55
Kirstie And Phil’s Love It
Or List It (S).

6.00 Stop, Search, Seize
(R) (S). 7.00 Stop, Search,
Seize (R) (S). 8.00 DC’s
Legends Of Tomorrow (R)
(S). 9.00 The Blacklist (R)
(S). 10.00 Supergirl (R) (S).
11.00 NCIS: New Orleans
(R) (S). 12.00 NCIS: New
Orleans (R) (S). 1.00 Hawaii
Five-0 (R) (S). 2.00 S.W.A.T
(R) (S). 3.00 The Blacklist
(R) (S). 4.00 DC’s Legends
Of Tomorrow (R) (S). 5.00
Supergirl (R) (S).

6.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S).
6.30 The Big Bang
Theory Conflict
arises after the
gang offers Raj a
place to live (S).

6.55 Escape To The
Chateau Dick
and Angel set up
a luxury
campsite on the
chateau grounds
(S).

6.00 Stargate SG-1 A
deadly spell is
cast (R).

7.00 Hollyoaks (S).
7.30 Modern Family
Phil and Jay
spend the
afternoon
together (S).

7.55 Grand Designs
Kevin McCloud
revisits a British
woman who
retired to
southern Spain
(S).

7.00 Stargate SG-1
The team
rescues a
stranded child
(R) (S).

6.00 Fish Town (R) (S). 7.00
Fish Town (R) (S). 7.55 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 9.00 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 10.05
Ray Donovan (R) (S). 11.10
Ray Donovan (R) (S). 12.10
Game Of Thrones (R) (S).
1.10 Six Feet Under (R) (S).
2.20 Six Feet Under (R) (S).
3.30 The Sopranos (R) (S).
4.40 The Sopranos (R) (S).
5.45 Ray Donovan (R) (S).

Wings of Desire

1.15am, Film4
(Wim Wenders, 1987)
A pair of lugubrious angels
observe the daily lives of some 80s
West Berliners and the C olombo
actor Peter Falk (playing himself)
with a touching mixture of
curiosity and yearning. Wenders’
wonderfully rich and humane
cinematic fantasy is among the
most beloved of its era.
Laurence Phelan

Radio
listings
BBC Radio 1

6.57am Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1 Breakfast With
Greg James 10.30 Newsbeat 10.32 Rickie,
Melvin And Charlie 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00
Dean And Vicky 3.30 Newsbeat 3.32 Going
Home With Vick And Jordan 5.45 Newsbeat
6.00 Radio 1’s Future Sounds With Clara
Amfo 7.00 Radio 1’s Hottest Records Of The
Week 8.00 Radio 1’s Future Artists With Jack
Saunders 10.00 Radio 1’s Essential Albums
11.00 Rock Show With Daniel P Carter 1am
BBC Introducing Rock On Radio 1 With Alyx
Holcombe 2.00 Radio 1’s Future Alternative
3.00 Radio 1’s Workout Anthems

BBC Radio 1Xtra

6.50 Your Honor
Crime drama,
starring Bryan
Cranston (R) (S).

7.55 Game Of
Thrones (R) (S).

BBC Radio 2

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken
Bruce 12noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Scott Mills
4.00 Sara Cox 6.30 Sara Cox’s Half Wower 7.00
Jo Whiley’s Shiny Happy Playlist 7.30 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Blues Show With Cerys Matthews
10.00 Trevor Nelson’s Magnificent 7 10.30
Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12mdn’t OJ
Borg 2.30 One Hit Wonders With OJ Borg 3.00
Pick Of The Pops 4.00 Early Breakfast Show
6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12noon Composer Of The Week: Bonis 1.00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon
Concert 4.30 New Generation Artists 5.00
In Tune 7.00 In Tune Mixtape 7.30 Radio 3
In Concert 9.15 Northern Drift 10.00 Music
Matters 10.45 The Essay: Science Notes 11.00
Night Tracks 12.30am Through The Night

8.00 Agatha Raisin
Return of the
mystery drama,
starring Ashley
Jensen (R) (S).

8.00 Below Deck
Heather and the
crew plan a
1980s-themed
surprise party
(S).

6am Battle Of The Mixes 6.30 Battle Of The
Mixes 7.00 Nadia Jae 10.00 1Xtra’s Pull Up Mix
10.15 Ace 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Remi Burgz
3.45 1Xtra’s Pull Up Mix 4.00 Reece Parkinson
5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Reece Parkinson 7.00 DJ
Target 9.00 Sian Anderson 11.00 Snoochie Shy
1am Seani B 3.00 Amapiano To AfroHouse

BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 4
9.00 The Last Of Us
Postapocalyptic
drama, starring
Pedro Pascal.

9.00 Gogglebox
The armchair
critics review
shows including
Dynasties II and
Pieces Of Her (S).

9.00 George Clarke’s
Remarkable
Renovations
The restoration
of a former
glassworks in
Brighton (S).

10.00 Naked
Attraction
A 20-year-old
virgin seeks a
fairy-tale
princess (S).

10.00 24 Hours In
Police Custody
(S).

11.00 Scott & Bailey
A porn star is
suspected of
murdering her
husband (S).

11.05 First Dates
A dental nurse is
set up on a date
with a
handsome tree
surgeon (S).

11.05 24 Hours In A&E
A chef is treated
after
accidentally
stabbing himself
while chopping
tomatoes (S).

11.00 Road Wars
Thames Valley
Police combat
vehicle crime (R)
(S).

11.15 Big Little Lies
Madeline gets
under Renata’s
skin in
retaliation for
snubbing Ziggy
(R) (S).

12.00 Agatha Christie’s
Marple (S). 2.05 Unwind
With ITV (S). 2.30
Teleshopping

12.10 Gogglebox (S).
1.20 Gogglebox (S). 2.20
Below Deck (S). 3.10
Naked Attraction (S).
4.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (S). 4.55
The Goldbergs (S). 5.20 The
Goldbergs (S).

12.10 Emergency
Helicopter Medics (S).
1.15 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (S). 2.20 24
Hours In A&E (S). 3.25
Food Unwrapped (S). 3.50
Close

12.00 The Force: North
East (R) (S). 1.00 The Force:
North East (R) (S). 2.00
NCIS: New Orleans (R) (S).
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R) (S).
4.00 S.W.A.T (R) (S). 5.00
Highway Patrol (R) (S). 5.30
Highway Patrol (R) (S).

12.20 Babylon Berlin (R)
(S). 1.20 Der Pass (R) (S).
2.20 Game Of Thrones (R)
(S). 3.30 In Treatment (R)
(S). 4.00 Fish Town (R) (S).
5.00 Fish Town (R) (S).

10.00 Scott & Bailey
A man acquitted
of rape and
murder is found
dead (S).

plays Harding as a rough diamond
in a world of diamanté, striving to
make it on talent alone because the
painted-on smiles and elegance
her sport demands don’t come
naturally. Well, her talent and
assaulting competitors…

10.00 A League Of
Their Own Road
Trip: Dingle To
Dover (R) (S).

10.05 Succession
Kendall tries to
find more allies
(R) (S).

6am Today 9.00 Start The Week 9.45 Book
Of The Week: Wise Gals 10.00 Woman’s
Hour 11.00 The Invention Of Russia 11.30
The Bottom Line 12noon News 12.04 You
And Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World At
One 1.45 Buried 2.00 The Archers 2.15 This
Cultural Life 3.00 Counterpoint 3.30 The
Food Programme 4.00 Playing The Prince
4.30 Beyond Belief 5.00 PM 5.57 Weather
6.00 Six O’Clock News 6.30 Just A Minute
7.00 The Archers 7.15 Front Row 8.00 The
Boat Smugglers 8.30 Crossing Continents
9.00 Is Psychiatry Working? 9.30 Start The
Week 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book At
Bedtime: Act Of Oblivion 11.00 Word Of Mouth
11.30 Today In Parliament 12mdn’t News And
Weather 12.30 Book Of The Week: Wise Gals
12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World
Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast 5.30 News
Briefing 5.43 Prayer For The Day 5.45 Farming
Today 5.58 Tweet Of The Day

BBC Radio 4 LW

9.45am Daily Service 12.01pm Shipping
Forecast 5.54 Shipping Forecast

BBC Radio 4 Extra

6am Bitter Medicine 6.30 Find The Lady
7.00 Unsheltered 7.15 Curtain Down At Her
Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 7.30 In And Out
Of The Kitchen 8.00 Brothers In Law 8.30 Yes
Minister 9.00 Genius 9.30 My Turn To Make
The Tea 10.00 Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica
Inn 11.00 Bitter Medicine 11.30 Find The Lady
12noon Unsheltered 12.15 Curtain Down At
Her Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 12.30 In

63

On Demand
The Red Door All4
A teenage clairvoyant helps
a maverick cop hunt a killer
in this Italian drama series.
King Shakir Recycle Disney+
Animated movie in which
outraged aliens visit Earth to
protest at our space junk.
My Cornwall with
Fern Britton My5
Fern Britton becomes the
latest celebrity to traipse
around England’s most
south-westerly county.

And Out Of The Kitchen 1.00 Brothers In Law
1.30 Yes Minister 2.00 Genius 2.30 My Turn
To Make The Tea 3.00 Daphne Du Maurier’s
Jamaica Inn 4.00 Bitter Medicine 4.30 Find The
Lady 5.00 Unsheltered 5.15 Curtain Down At
Her Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 5.30 In And
Out Of The Kitchen 6.00 Brothers In Law 6.30
Yes Minister 7.00 Jake Yapp’s Unwinding 10.00
Comedy Club: Just A Minute 10.30 Comedy
Club: The Hudson And Pepperdine Show
11.00 Comedy Club: The News Quiz 11.30
Comedy Club: Lionel Nimrod’s Inexplicable
World 12mdn’t Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica
Inn 1.00 Bitter Medicine 1.30 Find The Lady
2.00 Unsheltered 2.15 Curtain Down At Her
Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 2.30 In And Out
Of The Kitchen 3.00 Brothers In Law 3.30 Yes
Minister 4.00 Genius 4.30 My Turn To Make
The Tea 5.00 Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn

BBC 5 Live

6am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell
11.00 Naga Munchetty 1pm Nihal Arthanayake
4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 9.00 5 Live
Sport 10.00 Colin Murray 1am Dotun Adebayo
5.00 Wake Up To Money

BBC 6 Music

7.30am Lauren Laverne 10.30 Mary Anne
Hobbs 1pm Craig Charles 4.00 Steve Lamacq
7.00 Marc Riley 9.00 Gideon Coe 12mdn’t
The xx: In Their Own Words 1.00 The xx – xx,
Mercury Prize Winner 2010 2.00 The xx Live
3.00 The First Time With The xx 4.00 The xx
Playlist 5.00 Chris Hawkins

Classic FM

6am More Music Breakfast 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12noon Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00
John Brunning 7.00 Smooth Classics At Seven
10.00 Smooth Classics 1am Bill Overton 4.00
Early Breakfast

Absolute Radio

6am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1pm Ben
Burrell 4.00 Bush And Richie 7.00 Danielle
Perry 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1am Dan Noble

Heart

6.30am Heart Breakfast With Jamie Theakston
And Amanda Holden 10.00 Pandora Christie
1pm Matt Wilkinson 4.00 JK And Kelly Brook
7.00 Heart’s Feel Good Weekend With Dev
Griffin 10.00 Fia Tarrant 1am Simon Beale
4.00 Early Breakfast With Lindsey Russell

TalkSPORT

6am TalkSPORT Breakfast With Laura Woods
10.00 Jim White And Simon Jordan 1pm
Hawksbee And Jacobs 4.00 TalkSPORT Drive
With Andy Goldstein And Darren Bent 7.00
Monday GameNight 10.00 Sports Bar 1am
Extra Time 5.00 Early Breakfast

RADIO PICK
Just a Minute

6.30pm, BBC Radio 4
Sue Perkins hosts the
comedy panel game
as Giles Brandreth
(inset), Lucy Porter
and Rhys James
cover topics including
the viral word game Wordle,
which took the world by storm
in 2022, as well as swing dancing
and broken resolutions – which
might be a pertinent subject at
this time of year. As always, they
have 60 seconds to ramble their
way through each topic.

64

life

21 – 22 JANUARY 2023

Tuesday television
CRITIC’S CHOICE

Winterwatch

8pm, BBC Two
Chris Packham and Michaela
Strachan are back in Wild Ken
Hill in Norfolk, updating us on the
“weekend dramas” that have played
out on the live cameras. They also
revel in the rich habitat of nearby
estuary the Wash, which draws
thousands of avian migrants
every winter and supports its own
resident species all year round.

Know Your S**t:
Inside Our Guts

10pm, BBC Four
Ahead of this Friday’s Holocaust
Memorial Day there are a

6.00 The Simpsons
Homer has a
heart attack (R)
(S).
6.30 Hollyoaks (R) (S).

6.00 Holiday Homes
In The Sun (R) (S).
6.55 5 News Update
(S).

7.00 This Farming
Life In Orkney,
Sean and his
family are faced
with a sudden
tragedy (R) (S).

7.30 Emmerdale
Priya makes a
big decision (S).

7.00 Channel 4 News
(S).

7.00 GPs: Behind
Closed Doors (S).
7.55 5 News Update
(S).

7.00 Great British
Railway
Journeys (S).
7.30 The Joy Of
Painting (S).

8.00 Waterloo Road
Amy’s drama
workshop is in
danger of Kelly
Jo’s antics (S).

8.00 Winterwatch
The rich habitat
of the Wash in
Norfolk, (S).

8.00 The Martin
Lewis Money
Show: Live (S).

8.00 Know Your S**t:
Inside Our Guts
Three more
people visit Poo
HQ for help with
their gut issues
(S).

8.00 Dogs Behaving
(Very) Badly
Graeme meets a
cheeky Beagle
called Woody
(S).

8.00 To The Manor
Born Audrey
pretends to be
DeVere’s wife.
First shown in
1981 (S).
8.30 The Mistress (S).

9.00 Silent Witness
The Lyell return
to the tunnel as
another victim
is targeted (S).

9.00 India: The Modi
Question Part
two of two (S).

9.00 Bradley &
Barney Walsh:
Breaking Dad (S).
9.30 The Family Pile
(S).

9.00 24 Hours In A&E
A 20 year-old is
rushed in after
coming off her
motorbike (S).

9.00 Ben Fogle: New
Lives In The
Wild (S).

9.00 A History Of
Britain By
Simon Schama
The story of
Henry II (S).

9.00 FILM: The Craft:
Legacy (Zoe
Lister-Jones
2020) Premiere.
Horror drama,
starring Cailee
Spaeny (S).

9.00 Love Island The
second week
continues (S).

10.00 BBC News At
Ten (S).
10.30 BBC Regional
News; Weather
(S).
10.40 Bad Education
(R) (S).

10.00 Detectorists
Terry
announces he is
standing down
as president (R)
(S).
10.30 Newsnight (S).

10.00 ITV News At
Ten; Weather (S).
10.30 ITV Regional
News; Weather
(S).
10.45 The John Bishop
Show (R) (S).

10.00 Belfast
Midwives The
midwives
welcome three
new babies into
the world (S).

10.00 The Body In The
Bag (R) (S).

10.00 Three Minutes:
A Lengthening
– Storyville (S).

10.50 FILM: Beast
(Michael Pearce
2017) Thriller,
starring Jessie
Buckley (S).

10.05 Kavos
Weekender
David continues
to isolate after
catching
coronavirus (S).

11.10 Pretty Little
Liars: Original
Sin Imogen
throws a
Halloween party
to raise muchneeded cash (S).

11.15 FILM: Denial
(Mick Jackson
2016) Fact-based
drama, starring
Rachel Weisz (S).

11.25 Made In Britain
A look at
Cornish pasties
(R) (S).

11.05 Emergency
Helicopter
Medics (S).

11.30 Crimes That
Shook Britain A
profile of serial
killer Colin
Ireland (R) (S).

11.10 The Lost
Libraries Of
Timbuktu The
literary tradition
of the city in
Mali (S).

12.00 Pretty Little Liars:
Original Sin (S). 12.55 BBC
News (S).

1.00 Sign Zone: Tokyo
Vice (R) (S). 1.55 Sign Zone:
Surgeons: At The Edge Of
Life (R) (S). 2.55 This Is BBC
Two (S).

12.25 Shop: Ideal World
3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal
(R) (S). 3.50 Unwind With
ITV (S). 5.05 Lingo (R) (S).

12.10 In The Footsteps Of
Killers (R) (S). 1.05 SAS:
Who Dares Wins – Jungle
Hell (R) (S). 2.00 Ramsay’s
Kitchen Nightmares USA
(R) (S). 2.50 Couples Come
Dine With Me (R) (S).

12.25 Donald Neilson:
Born To Kill (R) (S). 1.20
The LeoVegas Live
Casino Show (S). 3.20
Entertainment News On
5 (S). 3.25 Around The
World By Train With Tony
Robinson (R) (S).

12.10 What’s Wrong With
Our Weather? Horizon (S).
1.10 Hope Street (R) (S).
1.55 Great British Railway
Journeys (S). 2.25 The
Joy Of Painting (S). 2.55
A History Of Britain By
Simon Schama (S).

DAYTIME

6.00 ITV Regional
News; Weather
(S).
6.30 ITV News;
Weather (S).

6PM

7.00 The One Show
(S).
7.30 EastEnders
Felix and Bernie
compete for a
job at Jay’s stag
do (S).

Three Minutes: A
Lengthening – Storyville

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15
Jeremy Vine (S). 12.45
George Clarke’s Build A
New Life In The Country
(R) (S). 1.40 5 News At
Lunchtime (S). 1.45 Home
And Away (R) (S). 2.15
FILM: Deadly Payback
(Rolfe Kanefsky 2020)
Drama, starring Jessica
Morris (S). 4.00 BargainLoving Brits In The Sun (S).
5.00 5 News At 5 (S).

7PM

6.00 Richard Osman’s
House Of Games
(S).
6.30 Robson Green’s
Weekend
Escapes (S).

9.30pm, ITV1
If I had one bit of advice to writer
Brian Dooley and the production
team behind this sitcom about an
extended Liverpudlian family, it
would be to slow it all down. The
dialogue is too much of a gabble –
some perhaps quite witty lines are
lost in the process. This week the
sisters uncover their late father’s
guilty secret.

8PM

6.00 BBC News At
Six; Weather (S).
6.30 BBC Regional
News; Weather
(S).

9pm, Channel 5
The presenter is in South America
this week to visit Rhona, a Britishborn actress who left the bright
lights of Hollywood to live alone in
a remote valley in Uruguay. Rhona
is now committed to rehabilitating
horses and the pair attend an
animal auction looking to rescue
any mistreated animals. And there
is drama later that evening as a

The Family Pile

9PM

6.00 Good Morning
Britain (S). 9.00 Lorraine
(S). 10.00 This Morning (S).
12.30 Loose Women (S).
1.30 ITV News; Weather
(S). 1.55 ITV Regional
News; Weather (S). 2.00
Dickinson’s Real Deal (S).
3.00 Lingo (S). 3.59 ITV
Regional Weather (S). 4.00
Tipping Point (S). 5.00 The
Chase (R) (S).

9pm, BBC Two
The conclusion of this two-part
documentary about Indian PM
Narendra Modi focuses on the
track record of his government
following his re-election in
2019. A series of controversial
policies have been accompanied
by reports of violent attacks on
Muslims by Hindus. Modi and his

Ben Fogle: New Lives
in the Wild

violent storm hits while Fogle
shelters in a fragile biodome.

10PM

6.30 The Farmers’
Country Showdown (R)
(S). 7.15 Bargain Hunt (R)
(S). 8.00 Sign Zone: The
Hairy Bikers Go Local
(R) (S). 9.00 BBC News At
9 (S). 10.00 BBC News
(S). 12.15 Politics Live (S).
1.00 Hardball (R) (S). 1.45
Celebrity Eggheads (R) (S).
2.15 Celebrity Antiques
Road Trip (R) (S). 3.15
Great Australian Railway
Journeys (R) (S). 3.45 My
Unique B&B (R) (S). 4.30
Saved And Remade (R) (S).
5.15 Flog It! (R) (S).

India: The Modi Question

government reject any suggestion
that their policies reflect any
prejudice towards Muslims – but
these same policies have been
repeatedly criticised by human
rights organisations such as
Amnesty International.

6.10 Countdown (R)
(S). 6.50 3rd Rock From
The Sun (R) (S). 7.15 3rd
Rock From The Sun
(R) (S). 7.40 Everybody
Loves Raymond (R)
(S). 8.05 Everybody
Loves Raymond (R) (S).
8.30 Everybody Loves
Raymond (R) (S). 9.00
Frasier (R) (S). 9.30 Frasier
(R) (S). 10.00 Frasier (R) (S).
10.25 Undercover Boss
USA (R) (S). 11.25 Channel 4
News Summary (S). 11.30
Come Dine With Me: The
Professionals (R) (S). 12.30
Steph’s Packed Lunch (S).
2.10 Countdown (S). 3.00
A Place In The Sun (S). 4.00
A New Life In The Sun (S).
5.00 Junior Bake Off (S).

LATE

6.00 Breakfast (S). 9.15
Morning Live (S). 10.00
Defenders UK (S). 10.45
Rip Off Britain: Holidays
(R) (S). 11.15 Homes Under
The Hammer (S). 12.15
Bargain Hunt (R) (S).
1.00 BBC News At One;
Weather (S). 1.30 BBC
Regional News; Weather
(S). 1.45 Doctors (S). 2.15
The Farmers’ Country
Showdown (S). 3.00 Escape
To The Country (S). 3.45
The Repair Shop (S). 4.30
Bridge Of Lies (S). 5.15
Pointless (S).

she eats visit “Poo HQ” for help
from dietician Sophie Medlin and
gastroenterologist Dr Rabia Topan.
Twin presenters Lisa and Alana
Macfarlane also visit the Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine to
see some of the world’s worst
parasites and learn about the rise
in bowel cancer cases.

11PM

‘Three Minutes’ of footage are all that remain of
one Polish Jewish community, 10pm, BBC Four

8pm, Channel 4
A nurse who can bloat from a
size 16 to a size 24 in minutes, a
fireman with the nickname “Stinky
Grandad” and a woman from
Jersey with crippling pain when

radio

Michaela Strachan is
in coastal Norfolk
8pm, BBC Two

Ben Fogle meets an
actress now tending
to horses in a remote
part of Uruguay
9pm, Channel 5

A look at Indian PM
Narendra Modi
9pm, BBC Two
6.40 FILM: Mortal
Engines
(Christian Rivers
2018) Fantasy
adventure,
starring Hera
Hilmar (S).

6.00 World’s Funniest
Videos (S). 6.35 Totally
Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S). 7.00 Secret
Crush (S). 8.00 Dress To
Impress (S). 9.00 Chuck
(S). 10.00 One Tree Hill (S).
11.00 The O.C (S). 12.00
Secret Crush (S). 1.00
Dress To Impress (S). 2.00
Family Fortunes (S). 3.05
Chuck (S). 4.00 One Tree
Hill (S). 5.00 The O.C (S).

6.00 Celebrity
Catchphrase
With Bill Bailey,
Kathy Burke and
Gok Wan (S).

7.00 Ninja Warrior
UK: Race For
Glory More
competitors
take on the
obstacle course
(S).
8.00 Superstore
Jonah finds
himself in
trouble with
Sandra (S).
8.30 Superstore (S).

11.05 Family Guy Part
one of two. The
Griffins find
themselves
stuck in
Springfield (S).
11.35 Family Guy (S).
1.00 FILM: Charlie Says
(Mary Harron 2018)
Drama, starring Hannah
Murray (S). 3.15 Close

12.00 American Dad! (S).
12.30 American Dad! (S).
1.00 Superstore (S). 1.30
Superstore (S). 2.00 Plebs
(S). 2.30 Plebs (S). 3.00
Teleshopping

culture

number of programmes about
the Nazi genocide, perhaps none
more profoundly moving in its
intimacy than Bianca Stigter’s
poetic piece of historical detective
work. Three minutes of footage
is all that remains of the Jewish
community of Nasielsk, a small
town in Poland. Filmed in 1938
by photographer David Kurtz, a
Jewish-American who was on
a tour of Europe, the footage
was discovered by his grandson,
Glenn Kurtz, and subjected to a
forensic examination to identify
individuals who were destined for
annihilation at Treblinka. Stigter
is assisted by a rare survivor – one
of the joshing, cheerful boys who
feature in the footage.
Gerard Gilbert

FILM CHOICE

Hellboy

9pm, ITV4
(Guillermo del Toro, 2004)
Hellboy, a comic book character
created in the 90s by Mike
Mignola, was brought to Earth
from another dimension by Nazi
occultists while still just a cute
baby demon. All grown up, he is
winningly played by Ron Perlman
as a scarlet-skinned, cigarchomping reluctant crime fighter
with a prickly attitude.

Last Night in Soho

Thomasin McKenzie has a ‘Last Night in Soho’ ,
10.40pm, Sky Cinema Sci-fi/Horror

10.40pm, Sky Cinema
Sci-Fi/Horror
(Edgar Wright, 2021)
Director Edgar Wright conjures
a vivid phantasmagoria of
pre-swinging 60s London in this

6.00 Hollyoaks (S).
7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (S). 7.55
Junior Bake Off (S). 9.00
The Goldbergs (S). 9.30 The
Goldbergs (S). 10.00 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 10.30
The Big Bang Theory (S).
11.00 Modern Family (S).
12.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(S). 12.30 Brooklyn NineNine (S). 1.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S). 1.30 The Big
Bang Theory (S). 2.00 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 2.30
The Big Bang Theory (S).
3.00 Modern Family (S).
3.30 Modern Family (S).
4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(S). 4.30 Brooklyn NineNine (S). 5.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S). 5.30 The Big
Bang Theory (S).

8.55 Kirstie’s House Of
Craft (S). 9.15 A Place In
The Sun: Home Or Away
(S). 10.05 A New Life In The
Sun (S). 11.05 Find It, Fix
It, Flog It (S). 12.05 Find
It, Fix It, Flog It (S). 1.10
Heir Hunters (S). 2.10 Heir
Hunters (S). 3.10 Four In
A Bed (S). 3.40 Four In A
Bed (S). 4.15 Four In A Bed
(S). 4.50 Four In A Bed (S).
5.20 Four In A Bed (S). 5.55
Kirstie And Phil’s Love It
Or List It (S).

6.00 Heartbeat
Greengrass goes
into business
with a stranger
(S).

6.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S).
6.30 The Big Bang
Theory (S).

6.55 Escape To The
Chateau Angel
transforms the
attic into a
studio (S).

6.00 Stargate SG-1
Teal’c stands
trial for murder
(R) (S).

7.00 Heartbeat A new
inspector
arrives (S).

7.00 Hollyoaks (S).
7.30 Modern Family
Alex goes
head-to-head
with a school
rival (S).

7.55 Grand Designs
Update on a
couple’s
relocation to the
Creuse region of
France (S).

7.00 Stargate SG-1
The team
rescues a group
of aliens (R) (S).

6.00 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 6.35 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 7.00 Classic Coronation
Street (S). 7.35 Classic
Coronation Street (S).
8.05 George And Mildred
(S). 8.40 George And
Mildred (S). 9.15 Agatha
Christie’s Marple (S).
11.30 Heartbeat (S). 12.35
Heartbeat (S). 1.40 Classic
Emmerdale (S). 2.10
Classic Emmerdale (S).
2.40 Classic Coronation
Street (S). 3.15 Classic
Coronation Street (S). 3.45
Inspector Morse (S).

8.00 Midsomer
Murders (S).

6.00 Stop, Search, Seize
(R) (S). 7.00 Stop, Search,
Seize (R) (S). 8.00 DC’s
Legends Of Tomorrow (R)
(S). 9.00 Quantum Leap (R)
(S). 10.00 Supergirl (R) (S).
11.00 NCIS: New Orleans
(R) (S). 12.00 NCIS: New
Orleans (R) (S). 1.00 Hawaii
Five-0 (R) (S). 2.00 S.W.A.T
(R) (S). 3.00 The Blacklist
(R) (S). 4.00 DC’s Legends
Of Tomorrow (R) (S). 5.00
Supergirl (R) (S).

6.00 Fish Town (R) (S). 7.00
Fish Town (R) (S). 7.55 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 9.00 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 10.05
Ray Donovan (R) (S). 11.10
Ray Donovan (R) (S). 12.15
Game Of Thrones (R) (S).
1.20 Six Feet Under (R) (S).
2.25 Six Feet Under (R) (S).
3.30 The Sopranos (R) (S).
4.35 The Sopranos (R) (S).
5.45 Ray Donovan (R) (S).

6.50 Your Honor
Michael and his
son Adam create
an alibi for the
day of the
accident (R) (S).
7.55 Game Of
Thrones Qhorin
gives Jon a
chance to prove
himself (R) (S).

1am, Film4
(Mary Harron, 2018)
The director of American Psycho
and I Shot Andy Warhol takes on
the Manson family. The former
Doctor Who actor Matt Smith is
impressively persuasive as the
creepy/seductive cult leader,
but the film’s main interest and
sympathies lie with the women
who murdered in his name,
clinging to their rationalisations.
Laurence Phelan

Radio
listings

9.00 Grand Designs A
chef building a
double-kitchen
home in south
London (S).

9.00 Flintoff: From
Lord’s To The
Ring Andrew
Flintoff decides
whether he
should continue
boxing (R) (S).

9.00 The Last Of Us
Postapocalyptic
drama, starring
Pedro Pascal (R).

10.00 Scott & Bailey
Janet moves a
step closer to
tracking down
Veronica’s killer
(S).

10.00 Naked
Attraction (S).

10.00 Holidays From
Hell: Caught On
Camera (S).

10.00 Hold The Front
Page Nish
Kumar and Josh
Widdicombe
work at the
Yorkshire Post
(R) (S).

10.05 City On A Hill
Decourcy comes
up with a plan to
get information
out of suspects
(R) (S).

11.00 Scott & Bailey
Rachel narrowly
avoids being run
over by a car (S).

11.05 First Dates A
reiki healer is set
up on a date
with a children’s
entertainer (S).

11.05 24 Hours In A&E
A severely
underweight
baby is rushed
into resus (S).

11.00 S.W.A.T Hondo
stumbles upon a
wide-ranging
heroin operation
in Bangkok (R)
(S).

11.10 The Tunnel:
Sabotage Karl
and Elise make
their biggest
breakthrough in
the case yet (R)
(S).

12.10 Gogglebox (S).
1.15 Gogglebox (S). 2.20
Below Deck (S). 3.10
Naked Attraction (S).
4.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (S). 4.55
The Goldbergs (S). 5.20 The
Goldbergs (S).

12.10 Grand Designs (S).
1.15 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (S). 2.20 24
Hours In A&E (S). 3.25
Food Unwrapped (S). 3.50
Close

12.00 Wolfe (R) (S). 1.00
Road Wars (R) (S). 2.00
Brit Cops: Law & Disorder
(R) (S). 3.00 Hawaii Five-0
(R) (S). 4.00 S.W.A.T (R) (S).
5.00 Highway Patrol (R) (S).
5.30 Highway Patrol (R) (S).

12.15 Watchmen (R) (S).
1.20 Lovecraft Country (R)
(S). 2.30 Game Of Thrones
(R) (S). 3.40 In Treatment
(R) (S). 4.10 Fish Town (R)
(S). 5.05 Fish Town (R) (S).

On Demand
Harry: The Interview ITVX
Tom Bradby interviewed the
Duke of Sussex ahead of the
publication of a certain book
and the furore it triggered.
Narvik Netflix
Norwegian movie drama
about the 1940 battle known
as Hitler’s first defeat.
The Steve Harvey Show
Prime Video
A failed R&B singer becomes
a high-school teacher in this
Noughties US sitcom.

6.57am Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1 Breakfast With
Greg James 10.30 Newsbeat 10.32 Rickie,
Melvin And Charlie 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00
Dean And Vicky 3.30 Newsbeat 3.32 Going
Home With Jordan 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Radio
1’s Future Sounds With Clara Amfo 8.00
Radio 1’s Future Artists With Jack Saunders
10.00 Radio 1’s Essential Albums 11.00 Annie
Nightingale Presents 1am Radio 1’s Drum &
Bass Mix 1.30 Radio 1’s Drum & Bass Mix 2.00
Radio 1 Playlist: Revision Mode 3.00 Radio 1’s
Power Down Playlist With Sian Eleri

Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 12.30 The
Architects 1.00 The Goon Show 1.30 Little
Blighty On The Down 2.00 The Motion Show
2.30 North East Of Eden 3.00 Daphne Du
Maurier’s Jamaica Inn 4.00 Father Brown
Stories 4.30 Find The Lady 5.00 Unsheltered
5.15 Curtain Down At Her Majesty’s – A Play
In Five Acts 5.30 The Architects 6.00 The
Goon Show 6.30 Little Blighty On The Down
7.00 Jake Yapp’s Unwinding 10.00 Comedy
Club: Phil Ellis Is Trying 10.30 Comedy Club:
Cabin Pressure 11.00 Comedy Club: The
Consultants 11.30 Comedy Club: The Mark
Steel Solution 12mdn’t Daphne Du Maurier’s
Jamaica Inn 1.00 Father Brown Stories 1.30
Find The Lady 2.00 Unsheltered 2.15 Curtain
Down At Her Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts
2.30 The Architects 3.00 The Goon Show 3.30
Little Blighty On The Down 4.00 The Motion
Show 4.30 North East Of Eden 5.00 Daphne Du
Maurier’s Jamaica Inn

BBC Radio 1Xtra

BBC 5 Live

BBC Radio 1

6am Battle Of The Mixes 6.30 Battle Of The
Mixes 7.00 Nadia Jae 10.00 1Xtra’s Pull Up Mix
10.15 Ace 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Remi Burgz
3.45 1Xtra’s Pull Up Mix 4.00 Reece Parkinson
5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Reece Parkinson 7.00 DJ
Target 9.00 1Xtra’s Alternative Selection With
CassKidd 11.00 Snoochie Shy 1am 1Xtra’s Rap
Show 3.00 Battle Of The Mixes 3.30 Battle Of
The Mixes 4.00 Songs To Live By 4.30 Ace

BBC Radio 2

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken
Bruce 12noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Scott Mills
4.00 Sara Cox 6.30 Sara Cox’s Half Wower 7.00
Jo Whiley’s Shiny Happy Playlist 7.30 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Jazz Show With Jamie Cullum 10.00
Trevor Nelson’s Magnificent 7 10.30 Trevor
Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12mdn’t OJ Borg 3.00
Pick Of The Pops 4.00 Early Breakfast Show

BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 4

9.00 Gogglebox The
householders
appraise
Bridgerton and
Dynasties II (S).

12.00 Agatha Christie’s
Marple (S). 2.05 Unwind
With ITV (S). 2.30
Teleshopping

Charlie Says

6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12noon Composer Of The Week: Bonis 1.00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon
Concert 5.00 In Tune 7.00 In Tune Mixtape 7.30
Radio 3 In Concert 10.00 Free Thinking 10.45
The Essay: Science Notes 11.00 Night Tracks
12.30am Through The Night

8.00 NCIS: Los
Angeles Callen
and Kilbride get
troubling news
about a body
found in Syria
(R) (S).

8.00 Below Deck
Heather feels
like she is at a
dead end with
Jessica and
decides to make
a change (S).

expressionistic psychological
horror: Suspiria meets Absolute
Beginners. Thomasin McKenzie
plays a fashion student ingénue
who is haunted by nightly visions
of an aspiring nightclub singer.

65

6am Today 9.00 The Life Scientific 9.30 One To
One 9.45 Book Of The Week: Wise Gals 10.00
Woman’s Hour 11.00 The Curious Cases Of
Rutherford & Fry 11.30 In Time To The Music
12noon News 12.04 Call You And Yours 12.57
Weather 1.00 The World At One 1.45 Buried
2.00 The Archers 2.15 Drama: Back Home 3.00
Short Cuts 3.30 A Thorough Examination
With Drs Chris And Xand 4.00 Word Of Mouth
4.30 Great Lives 5.00 PM 5.57 Weather 6.00
Six O’Clock News 6.30 Phil Ellis Is Trying 7.00
The Archers 7.15 Front Row 8.00 File On 4
8.40 In Touch 9.00 Inside Health 9.30 The Life
Scientific 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45 Book
At Bedtime: Act Of Oblivion 11.00 Small Scenes
11.30 Today In Parliament 12mdn’t News And
Weather 12.30 Book Of The Week: Wise Gals
12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00 As BBC World
Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast 5.30 News
Briefing 5.43 Prayer For The Day 5.45
Farming Today 5.58 Tweet Of The Day

BBC Radio 4 LW

8.31am Yesterday In Parliament 9.45 Daily
Service 12.01pm Shipping Forecast 5.54
Shipping Forecast

BBC Radio 4 Extra

6am Father Brown Stories 6.30 Find The
Lady 7.00 Unsheltered 7.15 Curtain Down
At Her Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 7.30
The Architects 8.00 The Goon Show 8.30
Little Blighty On The Down 9.00 The Motion
Show 9.30 North East Of Eden 10.00 Daphne
Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn 11.00 Father
Brown Stories 11.30 Find The Lady 12noon
Unsheltered 12.15 Curtain Down At Her

6am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell
11.00 Naga Munchetty 1pm Nihal Arthanayake
4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 8.00 5 Live
Sport 10.00 Colin Murray 1am Dotun Adebayo
5.00 Wake Up To Money

BBC 6 Music

7.30am Lauren Laverne 10.30 Mary Anne
Hobbs 1pm Craig Charles 4.00 Steve Lamacq
7.00 Marc Riley 9.00 Gideon Coe 12mdn’t 6
Music Artist In Residence 1.00 Guitar Greats
2.00 Jeff Beck At The BBC 3.00 6 Music Live
Hour 4.00 6 Music Goes Back To The 2010s –
The Playlist 5.00 Chris Hawkins

Classic FM

6am More Music Breakfast 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12noon Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00
John Brunning 7.00 Smooth Classics At Seven
10.00 Smooth Classics 1am Bill Overton

Absolute Radio

6am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1pm Ben
Burrell 4.00 Bush And Richie 7.00 Danielle
Perry 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1am Dan Noble

Heart

6.30am Heart Breakfast With Jamie Theakston
And Amanda Holden 10.00 Pandora Christie
1pm Matt Wilkinson 4.00 JK And Kelly Brook
7.00 Heart’s Feel Good Weekend With Dev
Griffin 10.00 Fia Tarrant 1am Simon Beale
4.00 Early Breakfast With Lindsey Russell

TalkSPORT

6am TalkSPORT Breakfast With Laura Woods
10.00 Jim White And Simon Jordan 1pm
Hawksbee And Baker 4.00 TalkSPORT Drive
With Andy Goldstein And Darren Bent 7.00
Kick Off 10.00 Sports Bar 12mdn’t Extra Time

RADIO PICK
In Time to the Music
11.30am, BBC Radio 4

In this new series,
Andrew McGibbon
(inset) researches
the history of some
of the world’s most
re-recorded pieces
of music. Here, he begins by
looking at “My Funny Valentine”
from the 1937 musical Babes in
Arms, including recent variations
from Justina Valentine and
Hadassah. McGibbon also speaks
to musicologists Laura Tunbridge
and Richard Dumbrill.

66

life

21 – 22 JANUARY 2023

Wednesday television
CRITIC’S CHOICE

6.00 Good Morning
Britain (S). 9.00 Lorraine
(S). 10.00 This Morning (S).
12.30 Loose Women (S).
1.30 ITV News; Weather
(S). 1.55 ITV Regional
News; Weather (S). 2.00
Dickinson’s Real Deal (S).
3.00 Lingo (S). 3.59 ITV
Regional Weather (S). 4.00
Tipping Point (S). 5.00 The
Chase (S).

6PM

6.00 BBC News At
Six; Weather (S).
6.30 BBC Regional
News; Weather
(S).
6.55 Party Political
Broadcast (R) (S).

6.00 Richard Osman’s
House Of Games
(S).
6.30 Robson Green’s
Weekend
Escapes (S).

7PM

7.00 The One Show
(S).
7.30 EastEnders It’s
the day of Jay
and Lola’s
wedding (S).

8pm, Sky Arts
A primary school teacher from
Cork and a pastry chef from

9pm, BBC Two
The idea of being conscious
while a surgeon pokes around
inside your head might seem
horrific, but such is the case
with a 63-year-old retired nurse
undergoing brain surgery – a
high-risk procedure that requires

Next Level Chef

9pm, ITV1
This cooking show takes the stress
of the kitchen to the next level
– although not to any apparent
end: the dishes produced in
this contest have yet to prove
significantly more appetising than
those created in, say, MasterChef:
The Professionals. This week the
10 contestants are challenged
to create the perfect burger and
chips, and Gordon Ramsay and

6.00 World’s Funniest
Videos (S). 6.35 Totally
Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S). 7.00 Secret
Crush (S). 8.00 Dress To
Impress (S). 9.00 Chuck
(S). 10.00 One Tree Hill (S).
11.00 The O.C (S). 12.00
Secret Crush (S). 1.00
Dress To Impress (S). 2.00
Family Fortunes (S). 3.05
Chuck (S). 4.00 One Tree
Hill (S). 5.00 The O.C (S).

6.10 Countdown (R)
(S). 6.50 3rd Rock From
The Sun (R) (S). 7.15 3rd
Rock From The Sun
(R) (S). 7.40 Everybody
Loves Raymond (R)
(S). 8.05 Everybody
Loves Raymond (R) (S).
8.30 Everybody Loves
Raymond (R) (S). 9.00
Frasier (R) (S). 9.30 Frasier
(R) (S). 10.00 Frasier (R) (S).
10.25 Undercover Boss
USA (R) (S). 11.25 Channel 4
News Summary (S). 11.30
Come Dine With Me: The
Professionals (R) (S). 12.30
Steph’s Packed Lunch (S).
2.10 Countdown (S). 3.00
A Place In The Sun (S). 4.00
A New Life In The Sun (S).
5.00 Junior Bake Off (S).

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15
Jeremy Vine (S). 12.45
George Clarke’s Build A
New Life In The Country
(R) (S). 1.40 5 News At
Lunchtime (S). 1.45 Home
And Away (R) (S). 2.15
FILM: Set Up By My Lover
(Roxanne Boisvert 2021)
Drama, starring Camille
Stopps (S). 4.00 BargainLoving Brits In The Sun (S).
5.00 5 News At 5 (S).

6.00 ITV Regional
News; Weather
(S).
6.25 Party Political
Broadcast (S).
6.30 ITV News;
Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons
Marge tackles a
conman (R) (S).
6.30 Hollyoaks (R) (S).

6.00 Holiday Homes
In The Sun (R) (S).
6.55 5 News Update
(S).

7.00 This Farming
Life Emma and
Ewan head to
Kelso Ram Sales
in search of
three new rams
(R) (S).

7.30 Emmerdale
David is
determined to
take control (S).

7.00 Channel 4 News
(S).

7.00 You Are What
You Eat (R) (S).
7.55 5 News Update
(S).

7.00 Great British
Railway
Journeys (S).
7.30 The Joy Of
Painting (S).

8.00 The Repair Shop
Items include a
clockwork
tractor and a
beloved plate (R)
(S).

8.00 Winterwatch
Michaela
Strachan
celebrates
Norfolk’s
pink-footed
geese (S).

8.00 Coronation
Street Maria’s
life depends on
Max taking
timely action (S).

8.00 Kirstie And
Phil’s Love It
Or List It (S).

8.00 Phone Scams:
Don’t Get
Caught Out New
series. Alexis
Conran exposes
shocking phone
scams (S).

8.00 Michael Palin’s
New Europe
Transdniester,
Moldova and
Romania (S).

9.00 Sort Your Life
Out New series.
Stacey Solomon
helps the HarrisHawley family
transform their
home (S).

9.00 Surgeons: At
The Edge Of Life
A patient
undergoes brain
surgery while
awake (S).

9.00 Next Level Chef
The ten
remaining cooks
are challenged
to create the
perfect burger
(S).

9.00 Grand Designs
An underground
home on a hill
near Canterbury
(R) (S).

9.00 The Catch
New series.
Psychological
thriller, starring
Jason Watkins
(S).

9.00 The Beginning
And End Of The
Universe (S).

10.00 BBC News At
Ten (S).
10.30 BBC Regional
News; Weather
(S).
10.40 The Traitors US
(R) (S).

10.00 Our Flag Means
Death
Blackbeard
experiences an
identity crisis
(S).
10.30 Newsnight (S).

10.00 ITV News At
Ten; Weather (S).
10.30 ITV Regional
News; Weather
(S).
10.45 Peston (S).

10.00 The Caribbean:
Billionaires’
Paradise Last in
the series (S).

10.00 A&E After Dark
Two people
arrive after
jumping from an
upstairs window
during a house
fire (R) (S).

10.00 Angelou On
Burns (S).
10.50 Beyond Burns
(S).

11.25 The Traitors US
After the first
murder, the
Traitors attempt
to keep their
cover (R) (S).

11.15 Digging For
Britain (R) (S).

11.45 The Family Pile
Clearing out
their father’s
shed, Nicole and
Ursula uncover
his guilty secret
(R) (S).

11.05 First Dates
Hotel More
singletons try to
find love at a
luxury hotel (R)
(S).

11.05 Skin A&E
Four top
dermatologists
treat patients
for cysts,
lipomas and
skin tags (R) (S).

11.50 Catching
Britain’s Killers:
The Crimes That
Changed Us (S).

11.15 FILM: World
War Z (Marc
Forster 2013)
Zombie thriller,
starring Brad
Pitt (S).

11.05 Family Guy
Peter helps Joe
to publish a book
(S).
11.30 American Dad!
(S).

12.20 Michael McIntyre’s
Big Show (R) (S). 1.25 BBC
News (S).

12.15 Sign Zone: See
Hear (R) (S). 12.45 Sign
Zone: Miriam Margolyes:
Australia Unmasked (R)
(S). 1.45 Sign Zone: The
Travelling Auctioneers (R)
(S). 2.30 Sign Zone: Ukraine:
The People’s Fight (R) (S).

12.10 EFL Carabao Cup
Highlights (R) (S). 1.10
Shop: Ideal World 3.00
Your Car: Time To Switch?
Tonight (R) (S). 3.25
James Martin’s French
Adventure (R) (S). 3.50
Unwind With ITV (S).

12.10 24 Hours In A&E (R)
(S). 1.05 Belfast Midwives
(R) (S). 2.00 Ramsay’s
Kitchen Nightmares USA
(R) (S). 2.50 Couples Come
Dine With Me (R) (S). 3.45
Jamie: Keep Cooking
Family Favourites (R) (S).

12.05 Ambulance:
Code Red (R) (S). 1.00
The LeoVegas Live
Casino Show (S). 3.00
Entertainment News On
5 (S). 3.05 Around The
World By Train With Tony
Robinson (R) (S).

12.50 Great British
Railway Journeys (S). 1.20
The Joy Of Painting (S).
1.50 The Beginning And
End Of The Universe (S).
2.50 The Lost Libraries Of
Timbuktu (S). 3.50 Close

1.30 FILM: Pride And
Prejudice And Zombies
(Burr Steers 2016) Comedy
adventure, starring Lily
James (S). 3.45 Close

12.00 American Dad!
(S). 12.30 Superstore
(S). 1.00 Superstore (S).
1.30 Shopping With
Keith Lemon (S). 2.00
CelebAbility (S). 2.45
Unwind With ITV (S). 3.00
Teleshopping

LATE

8PM

DAYTIME

6.30 The Farmers’ Country
Showdown (R) (S). 7.15
Escape To The Country
(R) (S). 8.00 See Hear
(S). 8.30 Sign Zone: A
Countryside Winter (R)
(S). 9.00 BBC News At 9
(S). 10.00 BBC News (S).
11.15 Politics Live (S).
1.00 Hardball (R) (S). 1.45
Celebrity Eggheads (R) (S).
2.15 Celebrity Antiques
Road Trip (R) (S). 3.15
Great Australian Railway
Journeys (R) (S). 3.45 My
Unique B&B (R) (S). 4.30
Saved And Remade (R) (S).
5.15 Flog It! (R) (S).

Landscape Artist
of the Year 2023

Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

the patient to be awake for at least
part of the time. It is all about the
grey matter this week and another
team operates on a 66-year-old
man whose aneurysm has become
diseased and could burst at any
moment, with fatal consequences.

9PM

6.00 Breakfast (S). 9.15
Morning Live (S). 10.00
Defenders UK (S). 10.45
Rip Off Britain: Holidays
(S). 11.15 Homes Under
The Hammer (R) (S). 12.15
Bargain Hunt (R) (S).
1.00 BBC News At One;
Weather (S). 1.30 BBC
Regional News; Weather
(S). 1.45 Doctors (S). 2.15
The Farmers’ Country
Showdown (S). 3.00 Escape
To The Country (R) (S). 3.45
The Repair Shop (S). 4.30
Bridge Of Lies (S). 5.15
Pointless (S).

8pm, Channel 5
The number of phone scams
relieving Britons of tens of
millions each year is bewildering.
So-called dating scams alone
apparently led to losses of £100m
in 2021, so this report from Alexis
Conran should make vital viewing
as he exposes rackets from faux
romances and rogue online
shopping outlets to fake delivery
texts – and shares his top tips on
avoiding them.

Galway are among the eight
hopefuls setting up easels outside
Castle Ward in Northern Ireland, a
stately home with one Gothic and
one Palladian façade. It is a murky
morning with flat grey light and
no shadows, but that is no problem
for the contender whose style is
described by judge Kate Bryan as
“Hieronymus Bosch meets sci-film
meets I know not what”.

10PM

9pm, More4
Following their separation last
year, Amanda and Clive Owen,
the stars of Channel 5’s hit
agri-documentary Our Yorkshire
Farm, have embarked on solo
projects. While Clive and
their teenage son Reuben front
Beyond the Yorkshire Farm,
Amanda is temporarily leaving
Ravenseat to embark on a series
of three-day visits to some
“extraordinary farms”. Her
first stopover is on the Shetland
Isles at the northernmost tip
of the UK, where two young sisters
farm 1,500 acres with more than
600 sheep and various rare-breed
cattle and pigs.

Phone Scams:
Don’t Get Caught Out

11PM

Amanda Owen visits two young sisters in the
Shetlands in ‘Farming Lives’, 9pm, More4

Amanda Owen’s
Farming Lives

radio

Gordon Ramsay hosts
‘Next Level Chef’
9pm, ITV1

Kate Bryan helps to
judge the landscape
artists at Castle
Ward in Co Down
8pm, Sky Arts

Surgeon Rishi Rallan
treats more patients
9pm, BBC Two
6.20 FILM:
Ghostbusters
(Paul Feig 2016)
Fantasy comedy,
starring Kristen
Wiig (S).

6.00 Celebrity
Catchphrase
Stephen
Mulhern hosts a
celebrity special
of the classic
game show (S).
7.00 Ninja Warrior
UK: Race For
Glory (S).

8.00 Superstore
Carol’s lawyer
arrives at Cloud
9 to depose the
employees (S).
8.30 Superstore (S).
9.00 FILM: Raiders
Of The Lost Ark
(Steven
Spielberg 1981)
Action
adventure (S).

9.00 Love Island
Maya Jama
presents all the
latest action
from the villa (S).

10.05 The Stand Up
Sketch Show (S).
10.35 Family Guy
Stewie and
Brian use their
time machine to
help Chris (S).

culture

his two fellow mentors, Paul
Ainsworth and Nyesha Arrington,
put on a masterclass.

FILM CHOICE

The Traitors US

10.40pm, BBC One
Already available to stream on
BBC iPlayer for the past fortnight,
so presumably fans of the original
British version will have already
binged on it, the American version
of the hit reality show is now
broadcast in double-episode
chunks. Alan Cumming lays on his
Scottishness with a trowel as host,
while the 20 contestants are a mix
of ordinary folk and veterans of
various US reality TV shows. It all
takes place at the same Scottish
castle as the UK version.
Gerard Gilbert

6.00 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 6.35 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 7.00 Classic Coronation
Street (S). 7.35 Classic
Coronation Street (S). 8.05
George And Mildred (S).
8.40 On The Buses (S). 9.15
Agatha Christie’s Marple
(S). 11.30 Heartbeat (S).
12.35 Heartbeat (S). 1.35
Classic Emmerdale (S).
2.10 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 2.40 Classic Coronation
Street (S). 3.10 Classic
Coronation Street (S). 3.40
Inspector Morse (S). 5.55
Heartbeat (S).

7.00 Heartbeat Nick
is drawn into a
family feud (S).

8.00 Lewis A body is
found on an
Oxford tour bus
(S).

A Few Good Men

8pm, Sky Cinema Greats
(Rob Reiner, 1992)
The writer Aaron Sorkin’s first hit,
adapted from his own Broadway
play, was a slick courtroom drama
that interrogates the ethics and
conduct of the US military. It is
given an extra frisson by the fact
that the characters on trial were
stationed at Guantanamo Bay.
Tom Cruise plays the hotshot
lawyer attempting a version of
the “Nuremberg defence”.

World War Z

Viggo Mortensen stars in sci-fi horror ‘Crimes
of the Future’, 11.45pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

11.15pm, Film4
(Marc Forster, 2013)
Brad Pitt takes on a rare actionhero role, playing a special agent
jetting around the world in search

6.00 Hollyoaks (S).
7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (S). 7.55
Junior Bake Off (S). 9.00
The Goldbergs (S). 9.30 The
Goldbergs (S). 10.00 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 10.30
The Big Bang Theory (S).
11.00 Modern Family (S).
11.30 Modern Family (S).
12.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(S). 12.30 Brooklyn NineNine (S). 1.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S). 1.30 The Big
Bang Theory (S). 2.00 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 2.30
The Big Bang Theory (S).
3.00 Modern Family (S).
3.30 Modern Family (S).
4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(S). 5.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S). 5.30 The Big
Bang Theory (S).

8.55 Kirstie’s House Of
Craft (S). 9.15 A Place In
The Sun: Home Or Away
(S). 10.05 A New Life In The
Sun (S). 11.05 Find It, Fix
It, Flog It (S). 12.05 Find
It, Fix It, Flog It (S). 1.10
Heir Hunters (S). 2.10 Heir
Hunters (S). 3.10 Four In
A Bed (S). 3.40 Four In A
Bed (S). 4.15 Four In A Bed
(S). 4.50 Four In A Bed (S).
5.20 Four In A Bed (S). 5.55
Kirstie And Phil’s Love It
Or List It (S).

6.00 Stop, Search, Seize
(R) (S). 7.00 Stop, Search,
Seize (R) (S). 8.00 DC’s
Legends Of Tomorrow (R)
(S). 9.00 Quantum Leap (R)
(S). 10.00 Supergirl (R) (S).
11.00 NCIS: New Orleans
(R). 12.00 NCIS: New
Orleans (R). 1.00 Hawaii
Five-0 (R) (S). 2.00 S.W.A.T
(R) (S). 3.00 Quantum Leap
(R) (S). 4.00 DC’s Legends
Of Tomorrow (R) (S). 5.00
Supergirl (R) (S).

6.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S).
6.30 The Big Bang
Theory Penny’s
ex-boyfriend
offers her a new
job (S).

6.55 Escape To The
Chateau Angel
redesigns the
rooms in one of
the chateau’s
turrets (S).

6.00 Stargate SG-1
O’Neill is
stranded on an
unknown planet
(R) (S).

7.00 Hollyoaks John
Paul convinces
Goldie to attend
Bobby’s court
hearing (S).
7.30 Modern Family
(S).

7.55 Grand Designs
(S).

7.00 Stargate SG-1
The minds of
the team are
implanted into
robotic bodies
(R) (S).

6.00 Fish Town (R) (S). 7.00
Fish Town (R) (S). 7.55 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 9.00 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 10.05
Ray Donovan (R) (S). 11.10
Ray Donovan (R) (S). 12.15
Game Of Thrones (R) (S).
1.20 Six Feet Under (R) (S).
2.30 Six Feet Under (R) (S).
3.35 The Sopranos (R) (S).
4.40 The Sopranos (R) (S).
5.45 Ray Donovan (R) (S).

Crimes of the Future

11.45pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
(David Cronenberg, 2022)
A fleshy and squishy film set in
a bio-technologically advanced
future and open to the weird
ideas and futures that humanity’s
co-evolution with technology may
throw up. Viggo Mortensen stars
as a performance artist who grows
spare neo-organs in his body then
has them surgically removed in
front of an audience.
Laurence Phelan

Radio
listings
BBC Radio 1

6.57am Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1 Breakfast With
Greg James 10.30 Newsbeat 10.32 Rickie,
Melvin And Charlie 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00
Dean And Vicky 3.30 Newsbeat 3.32 Going
Home With Vick And Jordan 5.45 Newsbeat
6.00 Radio 1’s Future Sounds With Clara
Amfo 8.00 Radio 1’s Future Artists With Jack
Saunders 10.00 Radio 1’s Essential Albums
11.00 Benji B 1am Radio 1’s Chillout Anthems
2.00 The Radio 1 Interview 2.15 Radio 1
Playlists 2.30 Radio 1’s Life Hacks-Adapt The
World 2.45 Radio 1’s Life Hacks-Adapt The
World 3.00 Radio 1 Relax In Love

BBC Radio 1Xtra

6.50 Your Honor
Michael
continues to use
his power to
obscure details
of the accident
(R) (S).
7.55 Game Of
Thrones
Theon embarks
on a hunt as he
tries to prove
his Ironborn
status (R) (S).

8.00 S.W.A.T Hondo
stumbles upon a
wide-ranging
heroin operation
in Bangkok (R)
(S).

8.00 Below Deck
Captain Lee and
Eddie grow
weary by the
deck crew’s
performance (S).

6am Battle Of The Mixes 6.30 Battle Of The
Mixes 7.00 Nadia Jae 10.00 1Xtra’s Pull Up Mix
10.15 Ace 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Remi Burgz
3.45 1Xtra’s Pull Up Mix 4.00 Reece Parkinson
5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Reece Parkinson 7.00 DJ
Target 9.00 DJ Edu – Destination Africa 10.30
DJ Edu’s DNA Mix 11.00 Snoochie Shy 1am
Pressed 2.00 Sir Spyro 4.00 1Xtra @ 20-20
Years Of African Sounds 5.00 1Xtra Salutes..

BBC Radio 2

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken
Bruce 12noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Scott Mills
4.00 Sara Cox 6.30 Sara Cox’s Half Wower 7.00
Jo Whiley’s Shiny Happy Playlist 7.30 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Folk Show With Mark Radcliffe 10.00
Trevor Nelson’s Magnificent 7 10.30 Trevor
Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12mdn’t OJ Borg 3.00
Radio 2 All Stars 4.00 Early Breakfast Show

BBC Radio 3

9am Essential Classics 12noon Composer
Of The Week: Bonis 1.00 Radio 3 Lunchtime
Concert 2.00 Afternoon Concert 4.00 Choral
Evensong 5.00 In Tune 7.00 In Tune Mixtape
7.30 Radio 3 In Concert 10.00 Free Thinking
10.45 The Essay: Science Notes 11.00 Night
Tracks 12.30am Through The Night

BBC Radio 4

9.00 Gogglebox The
armchair critics
sit down to
Peaky Blinders,
Made In Chelsea
and Scam
Interceptors (S).

9.00 Amanda Owen’s
Farming Lives
New series (S).

9.00 Hold The Front
Page Nish
Kumar and Josh
Widdicombe
work for
Farming Life (S).

9.00 Big Little Lies
Nathan invites
Madeline to a
dinner to
discuss Abigail
(R) (S).

10.00 Naked
Attraction
Featuring a
24-year-old
martial arts
instructor
from Hull (S).

10.00 Best Year
Ever...1994
Documentary
delving into the
songs, stories
and trends of
1994 (S).

10.00 Strike Back:
Vengeance
Stonebridge
faces a
psychiatric
assessment
(R) (S).

10.05 The Last Of Us
Postapocalyptic
drama, starring
Pedro Pascal (R).

11.00 Scott & Bailey
Part two of two.
The detectives
face a wall of
silence in their
murder
investigation (S).

11.05 Gogglebox The
critics pass
judgment on
Strictly Come
Dancing, The X
Factor and
Britain Afloat (S).

11.05 24 Hours In A&E
A girl is rushed
into resus after
slumping over
her desk at
school (S).

11.00 Brassic A
woman hires the
boys to kill her
ex-husband’s
prized koi carp
collection (R) (S).

11.10 Devils
Massimo’s
traders disobey
his orders (R) (S).

12.00 Agatha Christie’s
Marple (S). 2.05 Unwind
With ITV (S). 2.30
Teleshopping

12.10 First Dates (S).
1.15 Gogglebox (S). 2.15
Below Deck (S). 3.05
Naked Attraction (S).
4.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (S). 4.50
The Goldbergs (S). 5.15 The
Goldbergs (S).

12.05 Amanda Owen’s
Farming Lives (S). 1.15
Best Year Ever...1994 (S).
2.15 24 Hours In A&E (S).
3.20 Food Unwrapped (S).
3.50 Close (S).

12.00 An Idiot Abroad (R)
(S). 1.00 Road Wars (R) (S).
2.00 NCIS: New Orleans
(R) (S). 3.00 Hawaii Five-0
(R) (S). 4.00 S.W.A.T (R) (S).
5.00 Highway Patrol (R) (S).
5.30 Highway Patrol (R) (S).

12.15 Britannia (R) (S). 1.20
Boardwalk Empire (R) (S).
2.25 Game Of Thrones (R)
(S). 3.35 In Treatment (R)
(S). 4.05 Fish Town (R) (S).
5.00 Fish Town (R) (S).

10.00 Scott & Bailey
Part one of two.
The detectives
investigate two
murders (S).

of an antidote to a viral zombie
outbreak. The large-scale scenes
of societal breakdown are well
handled, though the human drama
is scant and cursory, and the
science bits are faintly ludicrous.

6am Today 9.00 More Or Less 9.30 Just One
Thing With Michael Mosley 9.45 Book Of The
Week: Wise Gals 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00
The Shamima Begum Story 11.30 Oti Mabuse’s
Dancing Legends 12noon News 12.04 You
And Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World At
One 1.45 Buried 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Drama:
Bottled 3.00 Money Box Live 3.30 Inside Health
4.00 Thinking Allowed 4.30 The Media Show
5.00 PM 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 Conversations From A Long Marriage 7.00
The Archers 7.15 Front Row 8.00 The Moral
Maze 8.45 Four Thought 9.00 A Thorough
Examination With Drs Chris And Xand 9.30
The Media Show 10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book At Bedtime: Act Of Oblivion 11.00
What’s The Story, Ashley Storrie? 11.15 Darren
Harriott: Black Label 11.30 Today In Parliament
12mdn’t News And Weather 12.30 Book Of The
Week: Wise Gals 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00
As BBC World Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast

BBC Radio 4 LW

8.31am Yesterday In Parliament 9.45 Daily
Service 12.01pm Shipping Forecast 5.54
Shipping Forecast

BBC Radio 4 Extra

6am Father Brown Stories 6.30 Sparkling
Cyanide 7.00 Unsheltered 7.15 Curtain Down
At Her Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 7.30
Women Talking About Cars 8.00 Hancock’s
Half Hour 8.30 Flying The Flag 9.00 It’s Not
What You Know 9.30 Tales From The Tower
10.00 Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn 11.00
Father Brown Stories 11.30 Sparkling Cyanide

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On Demand
Deep Fake Neighbour Wars
ITVX
Deepfake comedy replicates
the likes of Greta Thunberg,
Stormzy and Harry Kane as
warring neighbours.
Represent Netflix
Comedy about a youth who
reaches the final of French
presidential elections.
Teen Wolf: The Movie
Paramount+
The supernatural
drama’s stars return.

12noon Unsheltered 12.15 Curtain Down
At Her Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 12.30
Women Talking About Cars 1.00 Hancock’s
Half Hour 1.30 Flying The Flag 2.00 It’s Not
What You Know 2.30 Tales From The Tower
3.00 Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn 4.00
Father Brown Stories 4.30 Sparkling Cyanide
5.00 Unsheltered 5.15 Curtain Down At Her
Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 5.30 Women
Talking About Cars 6.00 Hancock’s Half
Hour 6.30 Flying The Flag 7.00 Jake Yapp’s
Unwinding 10.00 Comedy Club: Conversations
From A Long Marriage 10.30 Comedy Club:
Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially
Better 11.00 Comedy Club: Hamish And
Dougal’s Burns Night Special 11.30 Comedy
Club: Cutler The Lax 11.45 Comedy Club: I,
Regress 12mdn’t Daphne Du Maurier’s
Jamaica Inn 1.00 Father Brown Stories 1.30
Sparkling Cyanide 2.00 Unsheltered 2.15
Curtain Down At Her Majesty’s – A Play In
Five Acts 2.30 Women Talking About Cars 3.00
Hancock’s Half Hour 3.30 Flying The Flag

BBC 5 Live

6am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell
11.00 Naga Munchetty 1pm Nihal Arthanayake
4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 8.00 5 Live
Sport 10.00 Colin Murray 1am Dotun Adebayo

BBC 6 Music

7.30am Lauren Laverne 10.30 Mary Anne
Hobbs 1pm Craig Charles 4.00 Steve Lamacq
7.00 Marc Riley 9.00 Gideon Coe 12mdn’t
Freak Zone Playlist 1.00 6 Mix 3.00 6 Music
Live Hour 4.00 6 Music Goes Back To The 2010s
– The Playlist 5.00 Chris Hawkins

Classic FM

6am More Music Breakfast 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12noon Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00
John Brunning 7.00 Smooth Classics At Seven
10.00 Smooth Classics 1am Bill Overton

Absolute Radio

6am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1pm Ben
Burrell 4.00 Bush And Richie 7.00 Danielle
Perry 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1am Dan Noble

Heart

6.30am Heart Breakfast With Jamie Theakston
And Amanda Holden 10.00 Pandora Christie
1pm Matt Wilkinson 4.00 JK And Kelly Brook
7.00 Heart’s Feel Good Weekend With Dev
Griffin 10.00 Fia Tarrant 1am Simon Beale
4.00 Early Breakfast With Lindsey Russell

TalkSPORT

6am TalkSPORT Breakfast With Laura Woods
10.00 Jim White And Simon Jordan 1pm
Hawksbee And Jacobs 4.00 TalkSPORT Drive
With Andy Goldstein And Darren Bent 7.00
Kick Off 10.00 Sports Bar 1am Extra Time

RADIO PICK
Free Thinking

10pm, BBC Radio 3
Presenter Rana
Mitter (inset)
considers the life
and legacy of 18thcentury clergyman,
physician and
antiquarian William Stukeley. He
was the first person to survey
Stonehenge and other ancient
monuments. Rana is also joined
in conversation by historian
Susan Greaney, author Rosemary
Hill, historian Ronald Hutton and
history professor Robert Iliffe.

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life

21 – 22 JANUARY 2023

Thursday television
CRITIC’S CHOICE

Robson Green’s
Weekend Escapes

6.30pm, BBC Two
This week-long series (it started
on Monday), in which the actor
explores the North East of
England in the company of family
and famous friends, continues
with former Britain’s Got Talent
winner Lee Ridley – best known
as Lost Voice Guy. Together, they
hike to Weardale and Co Durham
before Ridley takes Green to
a favourite spot he used to walk as
a child near his Consett home.

Dragons’ Den

6.00 Good Morning
Britain (S). 9.00 Lorraine
(S). 10.00 This Morning (S).
12.30 Loose Women (S).
1.30 ITV News; Weather
(S). 1.55 ITV Regional
News; Weather (S). 2.00
Dickinson’s Real Deal (S).
3.00 Lingo (S). 3.59 ITV
Regional Weather (S). 4.00
Tipping Point (S). 5.00 The
Chase (S).

6PM

6.00 BBC News At
Six; Weather (S).
6.30 BBC Regional
News; Weather
(S).
6.55 Party Political
Broadcast (R) (S).

6.00 Richard Osman’s
House Of Games
(S).
6.30 Robson Green’s
Weekend
Escapes With
Lee Ridley (S).

7PM

7.00 The One Show
Live magazine
show (S).
7.30 EastEnders
Ricky Jr is
interviewed by
police (S).

9pm, BBC One
It’s the round where the candidates
have to race around collecting
a variety of objects for the best
price – the winning team being the
one that secures the items at the
lowest cost. Their destination on
this occasion is Brighton and Hove

Grayson Perry’s Full English
9pm, Channel 4
In his latest series, the artist
travels around England to try to
uncover what Englishness means
today, while collecting objects for
an exhibition on the subject. Perry
begins in Dover, where he meets
a man who patrols the English
Channel looking for immigrants
arriving from overseas. In the
West Country, he explores older
ideas of England, dressing as the
spirit of a deer to participate in

6.10 Countdown (R)
(S). 6.50 3rd Rock From
The Sun (R) (S). 7.15 3rd
Rock From The Sun
(R) (S). 7.40 Everybody
Loves Raymond (R)
(S). 8.05 Everybody
Loves Raymond (R) (S).
8.30 Everybody Loves
Raymond (R) (S). 9.00
Frasier (R) (S). 9.30 Frasier
(R) (S). 10.00 Frasier (R) (S).
10.25 Undercover Boss
USA (R) (S). 11.25 Channel 4
News Summary (S). 11.30
Come Dine With Me: The
Professionals (R) (S). 12.30
Steph’s Packed Lunch (S).
2.10 Countdown (S). 3.00
A Place In The Sun (S). 4.00
A New Life In The Sun (S).
5.00 Junior Bake Off (S).

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15
Jeremy Vine (S). 12.45
George Clarke’s Build A
New Life In The Country
(R) (S). 1.40 5 News At
Lunchtime (S). 1.45 Home
And Away (S). 2.15 FILM:
Stolen By My Mother
(Jeffrey W Byrd 2020)
Premiere. Drama, starring
Niecy Nash (S). 4.00
Bargain-Loving Brits
In The Sun (R) (S). 5.00 5
News At 5 (S).

6.00 ITV Regional
News; Weather
(S).
6.20 Party Political
Broadcast (S).
6.30 ITV News;
Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons
(R) (S).
6.30 Hollyoaks John
Paul convinces
Goldie to attend
Bobby’s court
hearing (R) (S).

6.00 Holiday Homes
In The Sun With
Amanda Lamb,
JB Gill and Sam
Pinkham (R) (S).
6.55 5 News Update
(S).

7.00 This Farming
Life Pumpkin
season arrives
at the Girvans
farm in Loch
Ness (R) (S).

7.30 Emmerdale
Priya makes a
horrifying
conclusion (S).

7.00 Channel 4 News
(S).

7.00 Nick Knowles’
New Year
Clearout Nick
meets a retired
couple (S).
7.55 5 News Update
(S).

7.00 Great British
Railway
Journeys (S).
7.30 The Joy Of
Painting (S).

8.00 Dragons’ Den A
sparkly party
wear business
gets one of the
Dragons off
their feet (S).

8.00 Winterwatch
Michaela
Strachan
celebrates
pink-footed
geese (S).

8.30 Botched? Inside
The Beauty
Business
– Tonight (S).

8.00 The Dog House A
12-year-old
terrier enjoys a
makeover at the
groomers (S).

8.00 Build Your
Dream Home In
The Country
Mark Millar
helps Suffolk
couple Debs and
Scott (S).

8.00 Elizabeth I’s
Secret Agents
Last in the series
(S).

9.00 The Apprentice
The candidates
are sent to
buzzing
Brighton and
Hove (S).

9.05 Marie
Antoinette
Marie is drawn
into the tussle
over the choice
of prime
minister (S).

9.00 Coronation
Street Max
faces the
consequences of
his recent
actions (S).

9.00 Grayson Perry’s
Full English
New series. The
artist sets out to
uncover what
Englishness
means today (S).

9.00 The Madame
Blanc Mysteries
Jean has friends
visiting Sainte
Victoire, but
they are plagued
by problems (S).

9.00 FILM:
Schindler’s List
(Steven
Spielberg 1993)
Fact-based
Holocaust
drama (S).

10.00 BBC News At
Ten (S).
10.30 BBC Regional
News; Weather
(S).
10.40 Question Time
(S).

10.00 The Apprentice:
You’re Fired An
interview with
the show’s
freshly rejected
candidate (S).
10.30 Newsnight (S).

10.00 ITV News At
Ten; Weather (S).
10.30 ITV Regional
News; Weather
(S).
10.45 Next Level Chef
(R) (S).

10.00 In The Footsteps
Of Killers The
1996 murder of
Deborah Wood
(S).

10.00 Million Pound
Motorhomes (R)
(S).

11.40 Newscast (S).

11.15 Fight The Power:
How Hip-Hop
Changed The
World (R) (S).

11.40 All Elite
Wrestling:
Rampage
Hard-hitting,
high-flying
wrestling
action (S).

11.05 Married To A
Psychopath The
hunt for a
murderer who
targeted wealthy
women for their
money (R) (S).

11.05 Motorway Cops:
Catching
Britain’s
Speeders (R) (S).

12.10 Celebrity
Mastermind (R) (S). 12.45
BBC News (S).

12.15 Fight The Power:
How Hip-Hop Changed
The World (R) (S). 1.15 Sign
Zone: The Mayfair Hotel
Megabuild (R) (S). 2.15
Sign Zone: The Travelling
Auctioneers (R) (S). 3.00
This Is BBC Two (S).

12.45 Shop: Ideal World
3.00 Maternal (R) (S). 3.50
Unwind With ITV (S). 5.05
Dickinson’s Real Deal
(R) (S).

12.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (R) (S).
1.00 The Simpsons (R) (S).
1.50 Couples Come Dine
With Me (R) (S). 2.40 FILM:
Table 19 (Jeffrey Blitz
2017) (S). 4.05 Building The
Dream (R) (S).

12.05 Police: Night
Shift 999 (R) (S). 1.00
The LeoVegas Live
Casino Show (S). 3.00
Entertainment News On
5 (R) (S). 3.05 Around The
World By Train With Tony
Robinson (R) (S).

LATE

11PM

8PM

DAYTIME

6.30 The Farmers’ Country
Showdown (R) (S). 7.15
Escape To The Country (R)
(S). 8.00 Sign Zone: The
Boy, The Mole, The Fox
And The Horse (R) (S). 8.30
Sign Zone: Tom Kerridge:
Lose Weight For Good
(R) (S). 9.00 BBC News At
9 (S). 10.00 BBC News
(S). 12.15 Politics Live (S).
1.00 Hardball (R) (S). 1.45
Celebrity Eggheads (R) (S).
2.15 Celebrity Antiques
Road Trip (R) (S). 3.15
Great Australian Railway
Journeys (R) (S). 3.45 My
Unique B&B (R) (S). 4.30
Saved And Remade (R) (S).
5.15 Flog It! (R) (S).

The Apprentice

on the Sussex coast, where they
must secure and negotiate nine
items synonymous with the area.
We can probably all name one –
it’s pink, sugary, cylindrical and
tough on teeth.

9PM

6.00 Breakfast (S). 9.15
Morning Live (S). 10.00
Defenders UK (S). 10.45
Rip Off Britain: Holidays
(R) (S). 11.15 Homes Under
The Hammer (S). 12.15
Bargain Hunt (R) (S).
1.00 BBC News At One;
Weather (S). 1.30 BBC
Regional News; Weather
(S). 1.45 Doctors (S). 2.15
The Farmers’ Country
Showdown (S). 3.00 Escape
To The Country (R) (S). 3.45
The Repair Shop (S). 4.30
Bridge Of Lies (S). 5.15
Pointless (S).

hot pants, here is your chance.
Suleyman does this impromptu
modelling for an entrepreneur
offering disco-inspired, genderneutral party gear. But is her
business big enough to attract the
investment of a Dragon? Another,
more tongue-tied, entrepreneur is
hoping it’s not a case of checkmate
as he seeks funding for his pop-up
paper travelling chess set.

10PM

Grayson Perry travels round the country to
explore Englishness today, 9pm, Channel 4

8pm, BBC One
If you have ever wanted to witness
Touker Suleyman dancing around
the Den in a pair of sparkly

radio
a ritual with the British Druid
Order, before visiting the country
pile of musicians Pearl Lowe
(mum of Daisy Lowe) and her
husband Danny Goffey (former
drummer with 90s Britpop
outfit Supergrass).
.

The Madame
Blanc Mysteries

9pm, Channel 5
For the first time, Jean (Sally
Lindsay) has friends from England
visiting Sainte Victoire. Fellow
antiques dealer David and his
new husband George are on their
honeymoon, but all is not going
well for the couple. Before they
left England a mirror fell from
the wall, narrowly missing David.
What is going on?

Touker Suleyman is
dancing in the Den
8pm, BBC One

Jean’s visitors are
plagued by problems
in ‘The Madame
Blanc Mysteries’
9pm, Channel 5

Lord Sugar sends the
candidates to Brighton
9pm, BBC One
6.45 FILM: The Post
(Steven
Spielberg 2017)
Drama, starring
Meryl Streep
and Tom Hanks
(S).

6.00 World’s Funniest
Videos (S). 6.35 Totally
Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S). 7.00 Secret
Crush (S). 8.00 Dress To
Impress (S). 9.00 Chuck
(S). 10.00 One Tree Hill (S).
11.00 The O.C (S). 12.00
Secret Crush (S). 1.00
Dress To Impress (S). 2.00
Family Fortunes (S). 3.05
Chuck (S). 4.00 One Tree
Hill (S). 5.00 The O.C (S).

6.00 Celebrity
Catchphrase
With Ade
Adepitan, Clare
Balding and
Robert Webb (S).
7.00 Ninja Warrior
UK With Ben
Shephard,
Rochelle Humes
and Chris
Kamara (S).
8.00 Superstore
Jonah tries to
build Sandra’s
confidence (S).
8.30 Superstore (S).

9.00 FILM: Salt
(Phillip Noyce
2010) Action
thriller, starring
Angelina Jolie
and Liev
Schreiber (S).

9.00 Love Island The
second week
continues (S).

10.55 FILM: Fight Club
(David Fincher
1999) Drama,
starring Brad
Pitt and Edward
Norton (S).

10.05 Plebs The
Crown and Toga
is hit by a huge
tax bill (S).
10.35 Plebs (S).

11.05 Family Guy Meg
convinces Brian
to take her SATs
for her (S).
11.35 Family Guy (S).

12.05 FILM: Balloon
(Michael Herbig 2018)
Drama, starring Friedrich
Mucke (S). 2.05 Around The
World In 80 Treasures (S).
3.05 Close

1.45 FILM: First Love
(Takashi Miike 2019) Crime
drama, starring Sakurako
Konishi (S). 4.00 Close

12.00 American Dad!
(S). 12.30 American Dad!
(S). 1.00 Superstore (S).
1.30 Superstore (S). 2.00
Hey Tracey! (S). 3.00
Teleshopping

culture

In the Footsteps of Killers

10pm, Channel 4
Emilia Fox once again steps away
from her role in long-running
crime drama Silent Witness and
into the realm of true crime as
she joins Professor David Wilson
and Dr Graham Hill to investigate
the unsolved murder of Deborah
Wood, who disappeared after
leaving a city centre bar in Leeds
in January 1996. Deborah’s body
was found having been set on
fire on a railway embankment at
Burley Park train station, just two
miles from where she was last
seen. The team pieces together
a number of chilling clues that
help to narrow the investigation
down to one suspect.
Gerard Gilbert

6.00 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 6.35 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 7.00 Classic
Coronation Street (S). 7.35
Classic Coronation Street
(S). 8.05 On The Buses (S).
8.40 On The Buses (S). 9.15
Agatha Christie’s Marple
(S). 11.25 Heartbeat (S).
12.30 Heartbeat (S). 1.35
Classic Emmerdale (S).
2.05 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 2.35 Classic Coronation
Street (S). 3.05 Classic
Coronation Street (S). 3.35
Inspector Morse (S). 5.55
Heartbeat (S).

7.00 Heartbeat Nick
goes undercover
to investigate
smuggling in
Whitby (S).

8.00 Vera The
detective
investigates
Newcastle’s
drug
underworld (S).

FILM CHOICE

The Ladykillers

7.05pm, TCM
(Alexander Mackendrick, 1955)
Ealing Studios’ blackly comic
crime-caper classic is a thoroughly
delectable moral fable with a
precision plot. Alec Guinness plays
a criminal mastermind whose
plans are inadvertently spoiled
by his landlady, a terribly sweet
and innocent old woman (Katie
Johnson) whom he and his gang
just don’t seem able to bump off.

Talladega Nights: The
Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Brad Pitt runs a violent organisation in the
90s classic ‘Fight Club’, 10.55pm, Film4

6.00 Hollyoaks (S).
7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (S). 7.55
Junior Bake Off (S). 9.00
The Goldbergs (S). 9.30 The
Goldbergs (S). 10.00 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 10.30
The Big Bang Theory (S).
11.00 Modern Family (S).
11.30 Modern Family (S).
12.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(S). 12.30 Brooklyn NineNine (S). 1.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S). 1.30 The Big
Bang Theory (S). 2.00 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 2.30
The Big Bang Theory (S).
3.00 Modern Family (S).
4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(S). 4.30 Brooklyn NineNine (S). 5.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S). 5.30 The Big
Bang Theory (S).

8.55 Kirstie’s House Of
Craft (S). 9.15 A Place In
The Sun (S). 10.05 A New
Life In The Sun (S). 11.05
Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S).
12.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog
It (S). 1.10 Heir Hunters
(S). 2.10 Heir Hunters (S).
3.10 Four In A Bed (S). 3.40
Four In A Bed (S). 4.15
Four In A Bed (S). 4.50
Four In A Bed (S). 5.20
Four In A Bed (S). 5.55
Kirstie And Phil’s Love It
Or List It (S).

6.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S).
6.30 The Big Bang
Theory Jim
Parsons stars (S).

6.55 Escape To The
Chateau Dick
and Angel
endure a very
hot summer (S).

7.00 Hollyoaks
Mercedes has a
shocking
confession to
make (S).
7.30 Modern Family
(S).

10pm, Sky Cinema Comedy
(Adam McKay, 2006)
Will Ferrell satirises a specific
strain of dumb arrogance, playing
a moronic all-American champion

6.00 Stop, Search, Seize
(R) (S). 7.00 Stop, Search,
Seize (R) (S). 8.00 DC’s
Legends Of Tomorrow (R)
(S). 9.00 Quantum Leap (R)
(S). 10.00 Supergirl (R) (S).
11.00 NCIS: New Orleans
(R). 12.00 NCIS: New
Orleans (R). 1.00 Hawaii
Five-0 (R) (S). 2.00 S.W.A.T
(R) (S). 3.00 Quantum Leap
(R) (S). 4.00 DC’s Legends
Of Tomorrow (R) (S). 5.00
Supergirl (R) (S).

6.00 Fish Town (R) (S). 7.00
Fish Town (R) (S). 7.55 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 9.00 The
Sopranos (R) (S). 10.05
Ray Donovan (R) (S). 11.10
Ray Donovan (R) (S). 12.15
Game Of Thrones (R) (S).
1.20 Six Feet Under (R) (S).
2.25 Six Feet Under (R) (S).
3.30 The Sopranos (R). 4.35
The Sopranos (R) (S). 5.45
Ray Donovan (R) (S).

Fight Club

10.55pm, Film4
(David Fincher, 1999)
Edward Norton plays an
insomniac who feels emasculated
and deadened by modern
corporate life until he meets
walking id Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)
and they set up a bare-knuckle
fighting club that escalates into
an anarcho-terrorist movement.
A key, defining film of the 90s.
Laurence Phelan

Radio
listings
BBC Radio 1

6.57am Newsbeat 7.00 Radio 1 Breakfast With
Greg James 10.30 Newsbeat 10.32 Rickie,
Melvin And Charlie 12noon Radio 1’s Live
Lounge 12.45 Newsbeat 1.00 Dean And Vicky
3.30 Newsbeat 3.32 Going Home With Vick And
Jordan 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Radio 1’s Future
Sounds With Clara Amfo 8.00 Radio 1’s Future
Pop With Maia Beth 10.00 BBC Introducing
Dance 11.00 Radio 1’s Residency 12mdn’t
Radio 1’s Residency 1.00 Radio 1 Dance
Presents 2.00 Radio 1’s Wind Down Presents
3.00 Radio 1’s Power Down Playlist With Sian
Eleri 4.00 Radio 1 Dance 5.00 Radio 1 Early
Breakfast With Arielle Free

BBC Radio 1Xtra

7.55 Grand Designs
Kevin McCloud
returns to north
Cornwall to see
one of his
favourite Grand
Designs (S).

6.00 Stargate SG-1
Daniel enters an
alternative
reality (R) (S).

7.00 Stargate SG-1
Part one of
three. The
project faces
closure (R) (S).

6.50 Your Honor
Adam moves
from one
dangerous
liaison to
another (R) (S).
7.55 Game Of
Thrones Robb
Stark discovers
he has been
betrayed by one
of his closest
friends (R) (S).

6am Battle Of The Mixes 6.30 Battle Of The
Mixes 7.00 Nadia Jae 10.00 1Xtra’s Pull Up
Mix 10.15 Ace 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Remi
Burgz 3.45 1Xtra’s Pull Up Mix 4.00 Reece
Parkinson 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Reece Parkinson
7.00 DJ Target 9.00 Seani B 11.00 Snoochie
Shy 1am Kenny Allstar 3.00 Future Wave With
Complexion 4.00 If You Don’t Know 4.30 Ace

BBC Radio 2

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken
Bruce 12noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Scott Mills
4.00 Sara Cox 6.30 Sara Cox’s Half Wower 7.00
Jo Whiley’s Shiny Happy Playlist 7.30 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Country Show With Bob Harris 10.00
Trevor Nelson’s Magnificent 7 10.30 Trevor
Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12mdn’t OJ Borg 3.00
Tony Blackburn, Your Soul Mate 4.00 A Dance
Through The Decades

BBC Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12noon Composer Of The Week: Bonis 1.00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon
Concert 5.00 In Tune 7.00 In Tune Mixtape
7.30 Radio 3 In Concert 10.00 Free Thinking
10.45 The Essay: Science Notes 11.00 The
Night Tracks Mix 11.30 Unclassified 12.30am
Through The Night

8.00 An Idiot Abroad
Karl Pilkington
immerses
himself in
Mexican culture
(R) (S).

8.00 Below Deck
Captain Lee is
frustrated with
Eddie and the
deck team’s
mistakes (S).
9.00 Gogglebox The
armchair critics
share their
opinions on
shows including
Bridgerton (S).

9.00 24 Hours In A&E
A 20-year-old
attacked outside
a nightclub
worries it may
have affected his
looks (S).

9.00 Rob & Romesh
vs Superstar DJs
Rob Beckett and
Romesh
Ranganathan
enter the DJ
world (R) (S).

9.00 Watchmen
Reclusive
trillionaire Lady
finally appears
and makes a
mysterious
offer (R) (S).

10.00 Naked
Attraction
Charles and Lee
each choose a
date from a
selection of six
naked people (S).

10.00 999: What’s Your
Emergency?
Emergency
services in
South Yorkshire
face a difficult
night (S).

10.00 Hold The Front
Page Nish
Kumar and Josh
Widdicombe
work for
Farming Life (R)
(S).

10.05 Euphoria Cassie
and Maddy
decide to take
drugs together
(R) (S).

11.00 Scott & Bailey
The duo
investigate the
murder of an
eight-year-old
boy (S).

11.05 First Dates
Butler Kit wants
to meet a man
who shares his
passion for the
royal family (S).

11.05 24 Hours In A&E
A woman has
swelling on her
brain following a
random attack
(S).

11.00 Never Mind The
Buzzcocks With
Maisie Peters
and Lethal
Bizzle (R) (S).
11.45 NCIS: Los
Angeles (R) (S).

11.15 The Last Of Us
Postapocalyptic
drama, starring
Pedro Pascal
and Bella
Ramsey (R).

12.00 Agatha Christie’s
Marple (S). 2.05 Unwind
With ITV (S). 2.30
Teleshopping

12.10 Gogglebox (S). 1.15
Rick And Morty (S). 2.00
YOLO: Silver Destiny (S).
2.15 Below Deck (S). 3.05
Naked Attraction (S).
4.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (S). 4.50
The Goldbergs (S).

12.05 Emergency
Helicopter Medics (S).
1.10 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (S). 2.15 24
Hours In A&E (S). 3.20
Food Unwrapped (S). 3.50
Close

12.35 The Force: North
East (R) (S). 1.30 Road Wars
(R) (S). 2.00 Highway Patrol
(R) (S). 2.35 Road Wars (R)
(S). 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (R)
(S). 4.00 S.W.A.T (R) (S).
5.00 Highway Patrol (R) (S).
5.30 Highway Patrol (R) (S).

12.20 Treme (R) (S). 1.25
Treme (R) (S). 2.30 Game
Of Thrones (R) (S). 3.30
In Treatment (R) (S). 4.00
Fish Town (R) (S). 5.00 Fish
Town (R) (S).

10.00 Scott & Bailey
Rachel helps DCI
Murray on a
rape and murder
case (S).

racing driver who is traumatised
by the arrival on the circuit of
an arrogant French champion
(Sacha Baron Cohen). The cast’s
semi-improvised clowning is
intermittently hilarious, and the
driving stunts are impressive.

BBC Radio 4

6am Today 9.00 In Our Time 9.45 Book Of The
Week: Wise Gals 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00
Crossing Continents 11.30 Born In Bradford
12noon News 12.04 You And Yours 12.30
Sliced Bread 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World At
One 1.45 Buried 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Drama:
Nazis: The Road To Power 3.00 Open Country
3.27 Radio 4 Appeal 3.30 Open Book 4.00 The
Curious Cases Of Rutherford & Fry 4.30 BBC
Inside Science 5.00 PM 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six
O’Clock News 6.30 Prepper 7.00 The Archers
7.15 Front Row 8.00 The Briefing Room 8.30
The Bottom Line 9.00 BBC Inside Science 9.30
In Our Time 10.00 The World Tonight 10.45
Book At Bedtime: Act Of Oblivion 11.00 Unsafe
Space 11.30 Today In Parliament 12mdn’t News
And Weather 12.30 Wise Gals 12.48 Shipping
Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service 5.20
Shipping Forecast 5.30 News Briefing

BBC Radio 4 LW

8.31am Yesterday In Parliament 9.45 Daily
Service 12.01pm Shipping Forecast

BBC Radio 4 Extra

6am Father Brown Stories 6.30 Sparkling
Cyanide 7.00 Unsheltered 7.15 Curtain Down
At Her Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 7.30
To Hull And Back 8.00 The Men From The
Ministry 8.30 Simon’s Bug 9.00 Booked 9.30
Mary Wesley – The Vacillations Of Poppy
Carew 10.00 Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn
11.00 Father Brown Stories 11.30 Sparkling
Cyanide 12noon Unsheltered 12.15 Curtain

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On Demand
Poker Face Peacock
Natasha Lyonne plays a
casino worker on the run
in this new crime comedy.
Lockwood & Co Netflix
Bridgerton’s Ruby Stokes
plays a teenager joining
ghost hunters in an
alternative London.
Before We Die All4
Crime drama featuring
Lesley Sharp as a police
officer whose married
lover has gone missing.

Down At Her Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts
12.30 To Hull And Back 1.00 The Men From
The Ministry 1.30 Simon’s Bug 2.00 Booked
2.30 Mary Wesley – The Vacillations Of Poppy
Carew 3.00 Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn
4.00 Father Brown Stories 4.30 Sparkling
Cyanide 5.00 Unsheltered 5.15 Curtain Down
At Her Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 5.30
To Hull And Back 6.00 The Men From The
Ministry 6.30 Simon’s Bug 7.00 Jake Yapp’s
Unwinding 10.00 Comedy Club: Fags, Mags
And Bags 10.30 Comedy Club: The Remains Of
Foley And McColl 11.00 Comedy Club: Athena’s
Cancel Culture 11.15 Comedy Club: All Change
11.30 Comedy Club: Liam Williams – Ladhood
12mdn’t Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn 1.00
Father Brown Stories 1.30 Sparkling Cyanide
2.00 Unsheltered 2.15 Curtain Down At Her
Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 2.30 To Hull And
Back 3.00 The Men From The Ministry

BBC 5 Live

6am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell
11.00 Adrian Chiles 1pm Nihal Arthanayake
4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport: 5 Live
Cricket 8.00 5 Live Sport 9.00 5 Live Sport: The
Euro Leagues Podcast 10.00 Colin Murray

BBC 6 Music

7.30am Lauren Laverne 10.30 Mary Anne
Hobbs 1pm Craig Charles 4.00 Steve Lamacq
7.00 Marc Riley 9.00 Gideon Coe 12mdn’t New
Music Fix With Steve Lamacq 1.00 New Music
Fix With Mary Anne Hobbs 2.00 New Music
Fix With Tom Ravenscroft 3.00 New Album Fix
4.00 New Music Fix Playlist 5.00 The Remix
With Chris Hawkins 5.30 Chris Hawkins

Classic FM

6am More Music Breakfast 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12noon Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00
John Brunning 7.00 Smooth Classics At Seven
10.00 Smooth Classics 1am Bill Overton

Absolute Radio

6am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1pm Ben
Burrell 4.00 Bush And Richie 7.00 Danielle
Perry 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1am Dan Noble

Heart

6.30am Heart Breakfast With Jamie Theakston
And Amanda Holden 10.00 Pandora Christie
1pm Matt Wilkinson 4.00 JK And Kelly Brook
7.00 Heart’s Feel Good Weekend With Dev
Griffin 10.00 Fia Tarrant 1am Simon Beale
4.00 Early Breakfast With Lindsey Russell

TalkSPORT

6am TalkSPORT Breakfast With Alan Brazil
10.00 Jim White And Simon Jordan 1pm
Hawksbee And Baker 4.00 TalkSPORT Drive
With Andy Goldstein And Darren Bent 7.00
Kick Off 10.00 Sports Bar 1am Extra Time

RADIO PICK
Radio 3 in Concert
7.30pm, BBC Radio 3

Kate Molleson (inset)
presents Ryan
Wigglesworth
conducting the BBC
Scottish Symphony
Orchestra and the BBC
Singers in a carefully curated
concert of music by Stravinsky
and Bach, live from the City Halls
in Glasgow. During the interval,
Molleson shines a light on recent
recordings that explore themes
behind this evening’s concert.

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life

21 – 22 JANUARY 2023

Friday television
CRITIC’S CHOICE

Amanda & Alan’s Italian Job

8.30pm, BBC One
Fans of The White Lotus might
be hearing alarm bells as Alan
Carr is invited to a 300-year-old
Sicilian palazzo, although nothing
untoward happens here as Carr
goes looking for inspiration
for the “rustic chic” décor of his
new bedroom. Amanda Holden,
meanwhile, surprises Carr with
a birthday boat trip along Sicily’s
stunning Zingaro coast.

Travel Man:
48 Hours in Salzburg

6.15 Homes Under The
Hammer (R) (S). 7.15
The Farmers’ Country
Showdown (R) (S). 8.00
Sign Zone: The Polar
Bear Family And Me (R)
(S). 9.00 BBC News At
9 (S). 10.00 BBC News
(S). 12.15 Politics UK (S).
1.00 Hardball (R) (S). 1.45
Celebrity Eggheads (R) (S).
2.15 Celebrity Antiques
Road Trip (R) (S). 3.15
Great Australian Railway
Journeys (R) (S). 3.45 My
Unique B&B (R) (S). 4.30
Saved And Remade (R) (S).
5.15 Flog It! (R) (S).

6.00 Good Morning
Britain (S). 9.00 Lorraine
(S). 10.00 This Morning (S).
12.30 Loose Women (S).
1.30 ITV News; Weather
(S). 1.55 ITV Regional
News; Weather (S). 2.00
Dickinson’s Real Deal (S).
3.00 Lingo (S). 3.59 ITV
Regional Weather (S). 4.00
Tipping Point (S). 5.00 The
Chase (S).

6.00 BBC News At
Six; Weather (S).
6.30 BBC Regional
News; Weather
(S).

6.00 Richard Osman’s
House Of Games
(S).
6.30 Robson Green’s
Weekend
Escapes (S).

7PM

7.00 The One Show
(S).
7.30 Question Of
Sport Hosted by
Paddy
McGuinness (S).

7.00 Monty Don’s
Adriatic
Gardens Monty
explores Corfu.
Last in the series
(R) (S).

8PM

8.00 Would I Lie To
You? (S).
8.30 Amanda &
Alan’s Italian Job
Alan takes
charge of a
bedroom (S).

9pm, BBC One
When the bride, waiting to
cut the cake at her wedding,
suddenly enquires about the
whereabouts of the knife, you
don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes
to guess what’s coming next
in a show like this. The man
staggering across the dance floor
with said implement protruding

Jon & Lucy’s Odd Couples

9pm, Channel 4
Jack Whitehall appears via video
link this week - his parents, Hilary
and Michael Whitehall, being
one of the couples submitting
themselves to a lie-detector
test and other relationshipprobing indignities. The other
couple comprises Vicky Pattison
and her fiancé Ercan Ramadan –
Pattison revealing a Harry Potter
fetish. All this and Lucy Beaumont
learning to reverse a car under
the couples’ supervision.

Getting Away
with Murder(s)

9pm, More4
Holocaust Memorial Day
is marked with the first half
of a two-part documentary
exploring the death camp at
Auschwitz, the Nazi planning and
implementation process, and the
post-war trials for its war crimes.
Included is an interview with the
102-year-old Benjamin B Ferencz,
the last living prosecutor from
the Nuremberg trials. The film
also reveals some of the hidingin-plain-sight locations of the
estimated 400 Nazi war criminals
allowed to settle in Britain after
the war – among them the former
home of the only Nazi in the
UK ever successfully brought

6.10 Countdown (R)
(S). 6.50 3rd Rock From
The Sun (R) (S). 7.15 3rd
Rock From The Sun
(R) (S). 7.40 Everybody
Loves Raymond (R)
(S). 8.05 Everybody
Loves Raymond (R) (S).
8.30 Everybody Loves
Raymond (R) (S). 9.00
Frasier (R) (S). 9.30 Frasier
(R) (S). 10.00 Frasier (R) (S).
10.25 Undercover Boss
USA (R) (S). 11.25 Channel 4
News Summary (S). 11.30
Come Dine With Me: The
Professionals (R) (S). 12.30
Steph’s Packed Lunch (S).
2.10 Countdown (S). 3.00
A Place In The Sun (S). 4.00
A New Life In The Sun (S).
5.00 Junior Bake Off (S).

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15
Jeremy Vine (S). 12.45
George Clarke’s Build A
New Life In The Country
(R) (S). 1.40 5 News At
Lunchtime (S). 1.45 Home
And Away (S). 2.15 FILM:
Who Stole My Daughter?
(Nadeem Soumah 2019)
Thriller, starring Samaire
Armstrong (S). 4.00
Bargain-Loving Brits
In The Sun (R) (S). 5.00 5
News At 5 (S).

6.00 ITV Regional
News; Weather
(S).
6.30 ITV News;
Weather (S).

6.00 The Simpsons
(R) (S).
6.30 Hollyoaks
Mercedes has a
shocking
confession to
make (R) (S).

6.00 Holiday Homes
In The Sun (R) (S).
6.55 5 News Update
(S).

7.00 Emmerdale (S).
7.30 Live FA Cup
Football
Manchester City
vs Arsenal.
Kick-off is at
8pm (S).

7.00 Channel 4 News
(S).

7.00 Get The Most
Out Of Your
All-Inclusive
Holiday (S).
7.55 5 News Update
(S).

7.00 Top Of The Pops
Featuring the
Charlatans and
Red Hot Chili
Peppers (S).
7.30 Top Of The Pops
(S).

8.00 Winterwatch
Chris Packham
talks to David
Attenborough.
Last in the series
(S).

8.00 Food
Unwrapped (S).
8.30 Travel Man:
48 Hours In
Salzburg Roisin
Conaty joins Joe
Lycett (S).

8.00 Cruising With
Susan Calman
The comedian is
on board a
cruise (S).

8.00 Top Of The Pops
Music by Rich
Kids, Yellow Dog,
Gallagher and
Lyle (S).
8.30 Top Of The Pops
(S).

9.00 Death In
Paradise The
team joins
Naomi in Saint
Barnabas (S).

9.00 QI XL Sandi
Toksvig
discusses
facts about
trundling (S).
9.45 Live At The
Apollo (S).

9.00 Jon & Lucy’s
Odd Couples (S).

9.00 Secrets Of The
World’s Most
Expensive
Cruise Ship
New series (S).

9.00 Wayfaring
Stranger
With Phil
Cunningham (S).

10.00 BBC News At
Ten (S).
10.30 BBC Regional
News; Weather
(S).
10.40 The Graham
Norton Show (S).

10.30 Newsnight (S).

10.15 ITV News;
Weather (S).
10.50 ITV Regional
News; Weather
(S).

10.00 The Last Leg
New series.
Guests include
Lucy Beaumont
and MP Angela
Rayner (S).

10.00 Tommy Steele:
The Great
Entertainer A
profile of the
singer and actor
(R) (S).

10.00 Transatlantic
Sessions Music
by Emmylou
Harris (S).
10.30 Transatlantic
Sessions (S).

10.05 Don’t Hate
The Playaz
With Munya
Chawawa and
Aston
Merrygold (S).
10.50 Family Guy (S).

11.30 FILM: Thelma &
Louise (Ridley
Scott 1991)
Drama, starring
Susan Sarandon
and Geena
Davis (S).

11.05 How The
Holocaust
Began (R) (S).

11.05 The NFL Show
Highlights and
previews of
play-off
matches (S).

11.05 Celebrity
Gogglebox
Shows including
Love Island are
appraised (R) (S).

11.30 Britain’s
Favourite 70s
Hits A look at
some of the
biggest pop
bands of the
seventies (R) (S).

11.00 Country At The
BBC Featuring
Tammy
Wynette,
Emmylou
Harris and
Johnny Cash (S).

11.15 Family Guy
Brian becomes
an estate agent
(S).
11.45 American Dad!
(S).

1.35 That’s My Jam (R) (S).
2.40 BBC News (S).

12.05 Surgeons: At The
Edge Of Life (R) (S). 1.05
Sign Zone: Dogs, Dealers
And Organised Crime –
Panorama (R) (S). 1.35 Sign
Zone: Marie Antoinette
(R) (S). 2.30 Sign Zone: Our
Flag Means Death (R) (S).

12.10 Shop: Ideal World
3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal
(R) (S). 3.50 Unwind With
ITV (S). 5.05 Lingo (R) (S).

12.10 Everyone Else
Burns (R) (S). 1.05 FILM:
Thoroughbreds (Cory
Finley 2017) (S). 2.40 Come
Dine With Me (R) (S). 4.50
Jamie: Keep Cooking
Family Favourites (R) (S).
5.15 Sunday Brunch (S).

1.25 The LeoVegas Live
Casino Show (S). 3.25
Entertainment News On
5 (S). 3.30 Around The
World By Train With Tony
Robinson (R) (S). 4.20 OMG:
Rise Of The Insta-Babes
(R) (S).

12.00 Arctic Monkeys
At Glastonbury 2013 (S).
12.40 Wayfaring Stranger
With Phil Cunningham (S).
1.40 Top Of The Pops (S).
2.10 Top Of The Pops (S).
2.40 Top Of The Pops (S).
3.10 Top Of The Pops (S).

LATE

9PM

6PM

DAYTIME

6.00 Breakfast (S). 9.15
Morning Live (S). 10.00
Defenders UK (S). 10.45
Rip Off Britain: Holidays
(R) (S). 11.15 Homes Under
The Hammer (R) (S). 12.15
Bargain Hunt (S). 1.00 BBC
News At One; Weather
(S). 1.30 BBC Regional
News; Weather (S). 1.45
Father Brown (S). 2.30
The Farmers’ Country
Showdown (R) (S). 3.00
Escape To The Country (R)
(S). 3.45 The Repair Shop
(S). 4.30 Bridge Of Lies (S).
5.15 Pointless (S).

Death in Paradise

from his back is the bride’s father,
who just manages to utter the
name of his killer before dying.
Gamba Cole (Christian in The
Outlaws) plays the groom.

10PM

8.30pm, Channel 4
Travel Man seems to have started
recycling its guests, Roisin Conaty
having accompanied former
host Richard Ayoade to Berlin

in 2016. The comedian and Man
Down actress now joins Joe Lycett
in another German-speaking
destination, Salzburg in Austria.
Unavailable for preview but if
there isn’t a skit about The Sound of
Music, which was filmed here, then
my name’s Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart (whose birthplace this is).

11PM

Nazi prosecutor Benjamin B Ferencz features
in ‘Getting Away with Murder(s)’, 9pm, More4

radio

Claire Foy talks to
Graham Norton
10.40pm, BBC One

Alan Carr takes charge
of a bedroom and visits
designer Marie at her
300-year-old palazzo
8.30pm, BBC One

Joe Lycett heads to
the city of Salzburg
8.30pm, Channel 4
6.15 FILM: The
Martian (Ridley
Scott 2015) sci-fi
drama, starring
Matt Damon (S).

6.00 World’s Funniest
Videos (S). 6.35 Totally
Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S). 7.00 Secret
Crush (S). 8.00 Dress To
Impress (S). 9.00 Chuck
(S). 10.00 One Tree Hill (S).
11.00 The O.C (S). 12.00
Secret Crush (S). 1.00
Dress To Impress (S). 2.00
Family Fortunes (S). 3.05
Chuck (S). 4.00 One Tree
Hill (S). 5.00 The O.C (S).

6.00 Celebrity
Catchphrase
With Richard
Blackwood, Julia
Bradbury and
Roman Kemp (S).
7.00 Ninja Warrior
UK A special
celebrity edition
of the
obstacle-course
challenge (S).
8.00 Superstore The
employees get
their hands on
worrying inside
information (S).
8.30 Superstore (S).

9.00 FILM: Saving
Private Ryan
(Steven
Spielberg 1998)
Second World
War drama (S).

12.20 FILM: The Autopsy
Of Jane Doe (André
Øvredal 2016) Thriller,
starring Brian Cox (S). 2.05
FILM: Buried (Rodrigo
Cortes 2010) Thriller,
starring Ryan Reynolds (S).
4.00 Close

9.00 Love Island The
second week in
paradise draws
to a close (S).

12.10 American Dad! (S).
12.40 Superstore (S).
1.10 Superstore (S). 1.35
Georgia Toffolo: In Search
Of Perfect Skin (S). 2.35
Unwind With ITV (S). 3.00
Teleshopping

culture

to justice for his crimes – and
examines why more prosecutions
didn’t follow.

FILM CHOICE

The Graham Norton Show

10.40pm, BBC One
On the promo circuit this week
are singer-songwriter Sam
Smith, who chats and performs
the single “I’m Not Here to Make
Friends”, Claire Foy talking about
the critically acclaimed drama
Women Talking, and former Buffy
the Vampire Slayer star Sarah
Michelle Gellar discussing her
supernatural teen drama Wolf
Pack. Also crowded on to the sofa
are horror-movie director and
writer M Night Shyamalan and
the comedian Rob Beckett.
Gerard Gilbert

6.00 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 6.35 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 7.00 Classic
Coronation Street (S). 7.35
Classic Coronation Street
(S). 8.05 On The Buses (S).
8.40 On The Buses (S). 9.15
Agatha Christie’s Marple
(S). 11.25 Heartbeat (S).
12.30 Heartbeat (S). 1.35
Classic Emmerdale (S).
2.05 Classic Emmerdale
(S). 2.35 Classic Coronation
Street (S). 3.05 Classic
Coronation Street (S). 3.35
Inspector Morse (S). 5.55
Heartbeat (S).

7.00 Heartbeat Gina
is assaulted.
Nick Berry stars
(S).

Saving Private Ryan

9pm, Film4
(Steven Spielberg, 1998)
The 25-minute opening salvo of
Steven Spielberg’s film depicts the
D-Day landings on Omaha Beach
with a visceral intensity the likes of
which had not been seen before on
screen. But if the opening assaults
the senses, the rest of the film is
only a little less impressive for
the effect it has on the emotions.
Tom Hanks and Matt Damon star.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in
‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, 10.05pm, Sky Greats

10.05pm, Sky Cinema Greats
(Blake Edwards, 1961)
There are things in Truman
Capote’s 1958 novella that the film
dared not say. And then there is
the problem of Mickey Rooney’s

8.55 Kirstie’s House Of
Craft (S). 9.15 A Place In
The Sun (S). 10.05 A New
Life In The Sun (S). 11.05
Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S).
12.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog
It (S). 1.10 Heir Hunters
(S). 2.10 Heir Hunters (S).
3.10 Four In A Bed (S). 3.40
Four In A Bed (S). 4.15
Four In A Bed (S). 4.50
Four In A Bed (S). 5.20
Four In A Bed (S). 5.55
Kirstie And Phil’s Love It
Or List It (S).

6.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S).
6.30 The Big Bang
Theory (S).

6.55 A Place In The
Sun Jasmine
Harman shows a
woman and her
daughter five
holiday homes
in Spain (S).

6.00 Stargate SG-1
Part two of
three. The team
takes an
unauthorised
trip through the
gate (R) (S).

6.50 Your Honor
Jimmy and Gina
Baxter remain
committed to
avenging their
son’s death (R)
(S).

7.45 The Great
Pottery Throw
Down Siobhan
McSweeney
hosts Retro
Week (S).

7.00 Stargate SG-1
Part three of
three. Earth is
threatened with
destruction (R)
(S).

7.55 Game Of
Thrones (R) (S).

7.00 Hollyoaks (S).
7.30 Modern Family
Pilot episode of
the comedy
about an
extended family
(S).

6.00 Stop, Search, Seize
(R) (S). 7.00 Stop, Search,
Seize (R) (S). 8.00 DC’s
Legends Of Tomorrow (R)
(S). 9.00 Quantum Leap (R)
(S). 10.00 Supergirl (R) (S).
11.00 NCIS: New Orleans
(R). 12.00 NCIS: New
Orleans (R) (S). 1.00 Hawaii
Five-0 (R) (S). 2.00 S.W.A.T
(R) (S). 3.00 Quantum Leap
(R) (S). 4.00 DC’s Legends
Of Tomorrow (R) (S). 5.00
Supergirl (R) (S).

6.00 Urban Secrets (R) (S).
7.00 Urban Secrets (R) (S).
7.55 The Sopranos (R). 9.00
The Sopranos (R) (S). 10.05
Ray Donovan (R) (S). 11.10
Ray Donovan (R) (S). 12.15
Game Of Thrones (R) (S).
1.20 Six Feet Under (R) (S).
2.25 Six Feet Under (R) (S).
3.30 The Sopranos (R) (S).
4.40 The Sopranos (R) (S).
5.45 Ray Donovan (R) (S).

6.00 Hollyoaks (S).
6.30 Hollyoaks (S).
7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (S). 7.55
Junior Bake Off (S). 9.00
The Goldbergs (S). 9.30 The
Goldbergs (S). 10.00 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 10.30
The Big Bang Theory (S).
11.00 Modern Family (S).
11.30 Modern Family (S).
12.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(S). 12.30 Brooklyn NineNine (S). 1.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S). 1.30 The Big
Bang Theory (S). 2.00 The
Big Bang Theory (S). 2.30
The Big Bang Theory (S).
3.00 Modern Family (S).
4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(S). 4.30 Brooklyn NineNine (S). 5.00 The Big Bang
Theory (S).

buck-toothed Japanese stereotype,
providing entirely unwanted
comic relief. But Audrey Hepburn
is just radiant, so that this is still a
wonderful movie, about a fragile
and damaged good-time girl
having to learn how to love.

Thelma & Louise

11.30pm, BBC One
(Ridley Scott, 1991)
Thelma (Geena Davis), a housewife,
and Louise (Susan Sarandon),
a waitress, head off for the
weekend in Louise’s convertible
and wind up as outlaws in
this buddy movie about the
exhilarating freedom of the open
road and the liberating feeling of
not doing what you’re told.
Laurence Phelan

Radio
listings
BBC Radio 1

6.33am Radio 1’s Best New Pop 6.57 Newsbeat
7.00 Radio 1 Breakfast With Greg James 10.00
Radio 1 Anthems 10.30 Newsbeat 10.32 Radio
1 Anthems 11.02 Katie Thistleton 12.45pm
Newsbeat 1.00 Matt And Jamie 3.00 Radio
1’s Party Anthems 4.00 The Official Chart On
Radio 1 With Jack Saunders 5.45 Newsbeat
6.00 Radio 1’s Dance Party With Danny Howard
8.00 Radio 1’s Future Dance With Sarah Story
10.00 Pete Tong 12mdn’t Radio 1’s Essential
Mix 2.00 Radio 1 Dance Presents 2.30 Radio 1
Dance Presents 3.00 Danny Howard 4.00 Radio
1’s Wind Down Presents 5.00 Radio 1 Relax

BBC Radio 1Xtra

8.00 Doc Martin Dr
Ellingham visits
an elderly
patient, but ends
up having to
contend with
her irate son (S).

8.00 Below Deck
Rachel
continues to
struggle with the
primary’s
requests (S).

9.00 Doc Martin
Louisa’s chances
of promotion lie
in the medic’s
hands (S).

9.00 Gogglebox:
Celebrity
Special For
SU2C A special
celebrity edition
for Stand Up to
Cancer (S).

9.00 Getting Away
With Murder(s)
Part one of two.
Documentary
examining Nazi
war crimes (S).

9.00 Strike Back:
Vengeance (R)
(S).

10.00 Scott & Bailey
Janet interviews
Geoff Hastings,
who has vowed
to reveal the full
extent of his
crimes (S).

10.00 Celebrity
Gogglebox 2020
A chance to
catch-up with
the moments
from 2020’s
episodes (S).

10.35 24 Hours In A&E
An elderly
woman has
difficulty
breathing (S).

10.00 Fantasy Football
League New
series. Hosted
by Matt Lucas
and Elis James.
10.35 Banshee (R) (S).

10.00 Der Pass Ellie
and Gedeon
meet a cult
leader with links
to their killer (R)
(S).

11.00 Scott & Bailey
Rachel meets
Sean’s son,
putting her even
further off the
idea of marriage
(S).

11.05 Naked
Attraction
Singletons from
London and
Wigan choose
dates from six
naked people (S).

11.40 24 Hours In A&E
A man is treated
for serious
injuries
sustained in a
car crash (S).

11.45 Wolfe A colossal
fatberg holds the
remains of a
seemingly
sadistic ritual
killing (R) (S).

11.00 The Wire
Proposition Joe
continues to
court Marlo (R)
(S).

12.00 Agatha Christie’s
Marple (S). 2.05 Unwind
With ITV (S). 2.30
Teleshopping

12.10 Naked Attraction (S).
1.15 Celebrity Gogglebox
2020 (S). 2.15 Below Deck
(S). 3.10 Naked Attraction
(S). 4.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (S). 4.55
The Goldbergs (S). 5.20 The
Goldbergs (S).

12.45 8 Out Of 10 Cats
Does Countdown (S). 1.50
24 Hours In A&E (S). 2.50
24 Hours In A&E (S). 3.55
Close

12.45 Road Wars (R) (S).
1.40 Road Wars (R) (S). 2.10
Brit Cops: Law & Disorder
(R) (S). 3.05 Hawaii Five-0
(R) (S). 4.00 S.W.A.T (R) (S).
5.00 Highway Patrol (R) (S).
5.30 Highway Patrol (R) (S).

12.05 The Wire (R) (S).
1.10 Devils (R) (S). 2.15
In Treatment (R) (S). 2.50
Game Of Thrones (R) (S).
4.00 Urban Secrets (R) (S).
5.00 Urban Secrets (R) (S).

8.00 Hold The Front
Page Nish
Kumar and Josh
Widdicombe
work for
Farming Life (R)
(S).

6am Battle Of The Mixes 6.30 Battle Of The
Mixes 7.00 Nadia Jae 10.00 1Xtra’s Pull Up
Mix 10.15 Nick Bright 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00
Remi Burgz 3.45 1Xtra’s Pull Up Mix 4.00 Sian
Anderson 5.45 Newsbeat 6.00 Sian Anderson
7.00 Jeremiah Asiamah 8.30 Jeremiah
Asiamah’s Get Lit Mix 9.00 Kenny Allstar 11.00
Sir Spyro 1am 1Xtra Salutes.. 2.00 1Xtra @
20-20 Years Of Dancehall 3.00 1Xtra @ 20-20
Years Of Dancehall

BBC Radio 2

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken
Bruce 12noon Jeremy Vine 2.00 Scott Mills
3.30 Scott Mills’ Wonder Years 4.00 Sara Cox
7.00 Michelle Visage 8.30 Michelle Visage’s
Handbag Hits 9.00 The Good Groove With DJ
Spoony 11.00 The Rock Show With Shaun
Keaveny 12mdn’t Romesh Ranganathan: For
The Love Of Hip-Hop 1.00 Happy Birthday
Tony Blackburn: 80 Poptastic Years 2.00 The
Best Of Radio 2’s Piano Room 4.00 Sophie
Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco

BBC Radio 3

9.00 Babylon Berlin
Kardakov seeks
help in
retrieving the
Sorokins’ gold. In
German (R) (S).

6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12noon Composer Of The Week: Bonis 1.00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 2.00 Afternoon
Concert 4.30 The Listening Service 5.00 In
Tune 7.00 In Tune Mixtape 7.30 Radio 3 In
Concert 10.00 The Verb 10.45 The Essay:
Science Notes 11.00 Late Junction 1am
Composed With Emeli Sandé 2.00 Piano Flow
With Tokio Myers 3.00 Through The Night

BBC Radio 4

6am Today 9.00 Desert Island Discs 9.45 Book
Of The Week: Wise Gals 10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 Is Psychiatry Working? 11.30 Thanks
A Lot, Milton Jones! 12noon News 12.04
AntiSocial 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World At
One 1.45 Buried 2.00 The Archers 2.15 Drama:
The Incident At Ong’s Hat 2.45 Understand:
The Economy 3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time
3.45 Short Works 4.00 Last Word 4.30 More
Or Less 5.00 PM 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six O’Clock
News 6.30 The News Quiz 7.00 The Archers
7.15 Screenshot 8.00 Any Questions? 8.50 A
Point Of View 9.00 The Reith Lectures 10.00
The World Tonight 10.45 Book At Bedtime: Act
Of Oblivion 11.00 Americast 11.30 Today In
Parliament 12mdn’t News And Weather 12.30
Book Of The Week: Wise Gals 12.48 Shipping
Forecast 1.00 As BBC World Service

BBC Radio 4 LW

8.31am Yesterday In Parliament 9.45 Daily
Service 12.01pm Shipping Forecast 5.54
Shipping Forecast

BBC Radio 4 Extra

6am Father Brown Stories 6.30 Sparkling
Cyanide 7.00 Unsheltered 7.15 Curtain Down
At Her Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 7.30 Ellie
Taylor’s Safe Space 8.00 Parsley Sidings 8.30
The Weekend Starts Here 9.00 The Museum

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On Demand
You People Netflix
Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy
join an all-star cast of this
relationship comedy.
The Legend of Vox Machina
Prime Video
Season two of the animated
fantasy follows a band of
unlikely heroes.
Shrinking Apple TV+
Harrison Ford in a comedy
about a grieving therapist
who starts telling clients
exactly what he thinks.

Of Curiosity 9.30 Millport 10.00 In A Summer
Season 11.00 Father Brown Stories 11.30
Sparkling Cyanide 12noon Unsheltered 12.15
Curtain Down At Her Majesty’s – A Play In
Five Acts 12.30 Ellie Taylor’s Safe Space 1.00
Parsley Sidings 1.30 The Weekend Starts
Here 2.00 The Museum Of Curiosity 2.30
Millport 3.00 In A Summer Season 4.00
Father Brown Stories 4.30 Sparkling Cyanide
5.00 Unsheltered 5.15 Curtain Down At Her
Majesty’s – A Play In Five Acts 5.30 Ellie
Taylor’s Safe Space 6.00 Parsley Sidings 6.30
The Weekend Starts Here 7.00 Jake Yapp’s
Unwinding 10.00 Comedy Club: Believe It!
10.30 Comedy Club: Beauty Of Britain 11.00
Comedy Club: Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself
11.30 Comedy Club: James Acaster’s Perfect
Sounds 12mdn’t Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated
Man 1.00 In A Summer Season 2.00 Father
Brown Stories 2.30 Sparkling Cyanide

BBC 5 Live

6am Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell 11.00
Chiles On Friday 1pm The Footballers’ Football
Podcast 606 2.00 Elis James And John Robins
4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 The Friday Football
Social 9.00 5 Live Sport 10.00 Stephen Nolan
1am Anna Jameson

BBC 6 Music

7.30am Lauren Laverne 10.30 Mary Anne
Hobbs 1pm Craig Charles 4.00 Steve Lamacq
7.00 The People’s Party With Afrodeutsche
9.00 Tom Ravenscroft 11.00 The Ravers Hour
12mdn’t 6 Music’s Indie Forever 1.00 6 Music’s
Emo Forever 2.00 Focus Beats

Classic FM

6am More Music Breakfast 9.00 Alexander
Armstrong 12noon Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00
John Brunning 7.00 Smooth Classics At Seven
10.00 Smooth Classics 1am Katie Breathwick

Absolute Radio

6am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1pm Ben
Burrell 4.00 Bush And Richie 7.00 Absolute
80s Greatest Hits With Claire Sturgess 10.00
Sophie K 4am Ross Buchanan

Heart

6.30am Heart Breakfast With Jamie Theakston
And Amanda Holden 10.00 Pandora Christie
1pm Matt Wilkinson 4.00 JK And Kelly Brook
7.00 Heart’s Club Classics With Toby Anstis
11.00 Rezzy Ghadjar 1am Heart’s Feel Good
Weekend With Katrina Ridley

TalkSPORT

6am TalkSPORT Breakfast With Alan Brazil
10.00 Jim White And Simon Jordan 1pm
Hawksbee And Jacobs 4.00 Andy Goldstein And
Darren Bent 7.00 GameDay Countdown 10.00
Sports Bar 1am Extra Time With Martin Kelner

RADIO PICK
Drama: The Incident
at Ong’s Hat
2.15pm, BBC Radio 4

Drama by Jon
Frechette, inspired
by the work of
Joseph Matheny.
Sarah Larsen (Avital
Ash), a yoga instructor,
and her friend Charlie (Corey
Brill, inset) have gone in search
of Ong’s Hat, a fabled gateway to
another dimension. Now Sarah
is missing, and maybe this urban
legend isn’t a legend at all.

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life

21 – 22 JANUARY 2023

gardening
Jobs for the weekend
…winter garden birds

B

irds are the most
frequent visitors to our
gardens – particularly
in winter– and what is
more delightful than
the company of a robin
while clearing and digging?
Providing safe nesting sites and
food are sure ways to help all sorts
of birds at this time of year. Clean,
unfrozen water is also important.
Nest-box entry holes are
important in preventing birds
such as blue tits from being
ousted by larger starlings and
house sparrows, but both of these
formerly common species are
considered at risk by the British
Trust for Ornithology due to “longterm breeding decline” – possibly
attributable to improved houses,
with less accessible eaves – so
providing them with nest sites,
too, is now equally important.

Recommended hole sizes are
25mm for blue tits (right) and coal
tits, 28mm for great tits, 32mm
for house sparrows and 45mm
for starlings.
Open-fronted boxes are favoured
by robins and wagtails. Old
sheds, especially allotment ones,
often accommodate bird nests –
blackbirds and robins, for example
– so be ready to work around these.
Blackbirds mostly nest in
vegetation and trees, large shrubs
and hedges. Aim to prune these
after nesting is over in September.
Unlike mammals, birds carry
little fat reserves and much of

Provide safe nesting
sites, food and clean,
unfrozen water

GUY BARTER
is the Royal
Horticultural
Society’s
(RHS) chief
horticulturalist

every day is spent searching for
food, meaning they benefit from
supplementary feeding using
special feeders or scattered on the
ground or bird tables.
Foods they enjoy include berry
cakes (finches), cheese, chopped
(wrens), fruit past its best
(thrushes and blackbirds), nyger
seeds (goldfinches), mealworms
(robins) and peanuts (starlings).
Unfortunately, birds are
sometimes prone to diseases,
notably avian flu. Avoid bird
concentrations by using several
feeding stations in rotation, leaving
some unused, and cleanse them at
intervals. Feed little and often so
stale food does not accumulate.
A garden planted with many
kinds of plant and style provides a
habitat rich in food resources and
cover similar to woodland glades or
forest margins.
For seeds, eryngiums,
sunflowers and thistle-like
cardoons are good choices;
berried shrubs include berberis,
cotoneaster, pyracantha and
Rosa rugosa, while berrying trees
include crab apples and sorbus.

Native trees provide food for
the insects that can feed birds
in addition to berries, not least
crataegus (hawthorn) and sorbus
(mountain ash and whitebeam).
Hedges will provide berries
if not too severely cut – every
two or three years rather than
annually. Hawthorn, hazel,
holly and yew make good native
hedges. Ivy’s flowers support
bees and berries provide latewinter bird food. Teasels and
Devil’s-bit scabious are attractive
seed-bearing wildflowers.
Gardening practices that help
birds include growing cover crops
or green manures rather than
leaving veg plots bare over winter.
Mulching with well-rotted compost
and straw or leaving plant debris
as long as possible before clearing
enhances foraging opportunities.
@GuyBarter
The RHS is a charity inspiring
everyone to grow via its research,
advisory, outreach, shows and
gardens. For more information,
visit: rhs.org.uk

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You’ll warm to this...

From the Maldives to Malaysia, these destinations are considerably
cheaper than you might expect this winter. By Sophie Lam

A

s another cold snap
reminds us that we
are in the midst of
winter, notions of
palm trees swaying in
a warm breeze or the sun beating
on arid plains are appealing.
The world is now almost entirely
unshackled from the restraints
of the pandemic, with long-haul
destinations firmly back on the
map – but its legacy means that
travel is more expensive than
before. Economy air fares are
on average 36 per cent more
expensive than a year ago.
However, chasing the sun is not
an impossible task. While flights
to Australasia are now up to 81
per cent more expensive than
last year (a result of suppressed
capacity and high demand), there
are still several destinations you
can reach before spring that
won’t blow a hole in your budget.
According to the Flight Centre
travel agency’s head of aviation,
Justin Penny, there are some
surprising winners this winter,
alongside places that are falling
out of favour. These include the
Maldives, where air fares are now
14 per cent cheaper, on average,
than last year – a result of waning
demand – and Barbados, to which
Flight Centre has seen bookings
drop by more than 56 per cent
compared with February 2022.
Destinations that are now
more expensive to reach – Asia,
for example, where Flight Centre
has noted an average 50 per cent
rise in air fares year on year –
won’t necessarily cost a fortune.
Some countries offer excellent
value once you are there, and
flight capacity continues to build
in Asia after a slow reopening.
With that in mind, here are
some of the destinations
you will find are cheaper to
reach in the coming weeks…

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Continued from p75

The Maldives

Flight Centre data has shown that
fares to this typically high-end holiday
archipelago are 14 per cent lower than
a year ago. Justin Penny notes that the
islands “saw an initial influx of visitors
coming out of the pandemic, with few
other destinations having opened up, and
are now needing to work harder to entice
those people to return for a second year”.
It was not uncommon to see return
fares of £1,000 in 2022, and while that
is still true of direct routes, Etihad has
one-stop services via Abu Dhabi for
around £670pp later this month.
November to April is the optimal time
to visit this tropical island chain, before
the monsoon rains start in spring.
On Hanimaadhoo, in the northern
reaches of the archipelago, Barefoot Eco
Resort has B&B doubles from $162 (£131)
this month, as well as diving facilities,
its own farm and bike tours to nearby
villages, thebarefoot.com.
Crown & Champa Resorts is offering
discounts at several of its hotels for stays
this month and next, including Kuredu
Island Resort, Kudadoo Private Island,
Kagi Spa Island and Meeru Island Resort,
crownandchamparesorts.com.

Vietnam

According to Flight Centre, this is
currently the cheapest of the most
popular Asian destinations for travel
next month. The UK is now the top
European market for visitors to Vietnam.
New services launched from Gatwick
to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on
Bamboo Airlines last year.
Skyscanner data shows the average
cost of a hotel in the historic coastal city
of Hue to be just £18 this month, rising
slightly to £25 in the resort of Phu
Quoc. Flights cost from around
£580 return next month.
New hotels include
Wink Saigon Centre
(doubles from £64,
wink-hotels.com) and
Maia Resort Quy Nhon
(villas sleeping five
from £150, quynhon.
maiaresorts.com).
G Adventures
currently has two Vietnam
tours on sale. They include
its 10-day Classic Vietnam
itinerary down the country, from
Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City via Hue and
Hoi An, costing £729pp this month and
next, excluding flights, gadventures.com.

Okinawa, Japan

While the northern reaches of Japan
won’t feel unlike the UK at present, its
southern, subtropical Okinawa Islands
bask in warmer winter temperatures,

rarely dipping below 20°C (68°F).
Sometimes referred to as the “Hawaii
of Japan”, many of the 160 islands are
fringed by coral reefs and white sand
beaches such as Busena, Manza and Nirai.
Shinto shrines rub up against an
enduring American influence – a legacy
of the US Army presence here during the
Second World War – but there are also
rare, endemic species of wildlife to be
spotted in the mangroves and forests of
Yanbaru (visitokinawajapan.com).
Japan is also one of the few countries
where sterling remains powerful,
meaning it is cheaper to visit
than before the pandemic.
Inside Japan Tours can
build an itinerary
around the islands,
insidejapantours.com.

Argentina

A surge of interest in
trips to this southerly
South American nation
followed its World Cup
win last month. Those who
have made the commitment
will be delighted not only by its many
splendours (from the wilderness of
Patagonia to the fertile pampas and
lively Buenos Aires), but also by the
excellent value for money it offers to
British visitors: £1 will now buy 226 pesos
compared with 142 pesos a year ago.
Penny also notes that Argentina is a
destination to which visitors are keen
to return, thanks to its varied offering

beach resorts at Diani Beach – well placed
for visits inland to Shimba Hills National
Reserve – with more clustered around
Malindi and Watamu further north.
Tsavo East and West National Parks are
both within reach.
The value of sterling has held steady
against the Kenyan shilling in the past
two years, and visitors will find local
prices relatively low.
Resorts in Diani and Malindi can cost
as little as £80 per night. Gane & Marshall
offers eight-day packages to Diani Beach
from £2,730pp, ganeandmarshall.com.

Malaysia
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in Goa, southern
India; this page,
from top: Kudadoo
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Maldives; Nahuel
Huapi Lake
in Patagonia,
Argentina;
Yanbaru forest,
Okinawa, Japan;
Hanoi, Vietnam
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of adventure, cities, wine-making areas,
wilderness and beaches.
Its vast geography means that
temperatures vary, ranging this week
from 35°C in Salta in the north, to 30°C
in Buenos Aires and 15°C in Ushuaia,
the world’s most southerly city and the
capital of the Tierra del Fuego (Land of
Fire) archipelago in Patagonia.
British Airways brought forward
the resumption of its direct route
from Heathrow to Buenos Aires to last
November, improving connectivity
from the UK.
Intrepid offers several small group
tours in Argentina, from long touring
itineraries to shorter add-on breaks,
such as a four-day Perito Moreno
Glacier adventure in Patagonia, from
£543pp next month, excluding flights,
intrepidtravel.com.

Kenya

The southern portion of Kenya’s coast is
deemed safe for travellers by the Foreign
Office (north of Malindi, it warns against
non-essential travel with the exception of
Lamu island), and the seemingly endless
white beaches, warm water and proximity
to national parks and nature reserves
make it a winning winter destination.
Visitors to Mombasa will note
Arabic and Indian influences, its old
town an absorbing picture of Islamic,
Swahili and colonial Portuguese
architecture, while the labyrinthine
coral stone streets of Lamu’s Old Town
are protected by Unesco.
Around 20 miles (30 kilometres) south
of Mombasa is a smattering of tropical

This is one of few destinations in Asia
where flight capacity is close to 2019
levels, with Malaysian Airlines again
operating the same number of seats to
Kuala Lumpur. Return fares are currently
around £560pp in February.
Costs on arrival are also relatively low,
with hotel rates from around £50 per
night in Kuala Lumpur and on tropical
islands such as Tioman. One of a clutch of
new mid-range hotels is the DoubleTree
by Hilton Damai Laut, overlooking
Pangkor island on the west coast, where
doubles start at MR351 (£66), hilton.com.

Southern India

While flight prices to India remain higher
than before the pandemic, the cost of
living is much lower than in the UK.
Air India will launch direct flights from
Gatwick to Goa and Kerala from late
March, reconnecting these two palmfringed southern states to the UK for the
first time since charters were suspended
as a result of the pandemic. Returns are
currently available for £556pp.
The exchange rate is roughly the same
as two years ago, with beach hotels
available in Goa for as little as £20 per
night, rising to £100 at the boutique
end of the market.
In northern Goa, on the laid-back
Ashwem beach, Larisa is a new luxury
resort with doubles from £150 next
month (larisaresort.com). In the historic
town of Kochi, Kerala, you can stay in
handsomely restored heritage hotels
such as Amritara the Poovath Beachfront
Heritage from £70 per night (amritara.
co.in). Meals are as cheap as Rs200 (£2),
with overnight train travel between the
two states costing around R3,000.

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A PLACE TO STAY

The Nest Treehouse
at Sleepy Owl, Devon

WHY?

Sleepy Owl is a 20-acre estate
tucked into a beautiful valley below
the Hartland Peninsula in North
Devon. Owners Jay and Mike fell
in love with the area and, in 2019,
embarked on their dream to create
boutique wilderness retreats. What
they have achieved is stunning: two
hand-crafted treehouses (which
opened last autumn) and a converted cowshed that are as homely as
they are luxurious. Unusually, dogs
are actively encouraged to stay.
LOCATION

Set within the Unesco North Devon
Biosphere Reserve, the estate feels
delightfully cut off from the world,
yet remains in walking distance of
local pubs. Beaches are within a
20-minute drive. The closest train
station is Barnstaple.
AMBIENCE

A pure, unadulterated catch-yourbreath experience. A secluded sanctuary to recoup and relax, to look at
the stars or listen to the birds. And
to enjoy some good old-fashioned
fun, too – think homemade pizza in
your garden or movie nights in bed.
ACCOMMODATION

The Nest Treehouse is one of three
properties on site (there is another
treehouse, Hideout, plus the Cosy
Cowshed). Each property is unique,

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all created using local craftsmanship, resources and design.
Nest is accessed via a large enclosed private courtyard with a
wood-fired hot tub and pizza oven,
seating area and hammock. Dogs
get their own outside bath.
The treehouse sleeps two adults
in a large bedroom with a super kingsized bed, complete with cinema
projector and drop-down screen,
plus a gold roll-top bath with exquisite views. Children have their own
treehouse-within-the-treehouse,
with bunk beds and a telescope.
Dogs are welcomed by a bed, bowls,
treats, toys and blankets.
A cleverly designed open-plan
living space includes a kitchen, dining area and vast sofa along with a
wood-burning stove; drinks can be
enjoyed on the terrace.

WHAT TO DO

FOOD AND DRINK

The experience of being in a treehouse. Nest has been designed with
pleasure in mind. Inside, it is big
enough to relax yet comfy enough
to want to stay in. Which means you
can do as much or as little as you
want – guilt-free – and enjoy your
stay no matter the weather.

The kitchen is superbly set up for
self-catering, and quite the pleasure
to cook in. To make the most of your
experience, pre-order the pizza
package (£30 for two people) and
cook your dinner outside one night.
For those celebrating, renowned
local company Coastal Cooks offers
a bespoke dining experience with a
private chef in your treehouse, or
you can order ready-to-go roasts.
Pattard’s Restaurant is a fiveminute walk and the village pub is
just 10 minutes away.

With all those acres to roam on your
doorstep, you do not need to go far.
Stroll through the wildflower meadow, follow the river and enjoy the
woods. It’s doggy heaven.
The surrounding area offers the
best of coast and countryside. Nearby Hartland Quay is on the edge of
the Atlantic, offering dramatic scenery and good clifftop walks.
The picturesque fishing village
of Clovelly is a 15-minute drive.
Follow the cobbled high street
down the hillside past 16th-century
whitewashed cottages, dropping
400ft in the half mile down to the
small harbour.
There is a fine selection of beaches
within the area, including Sandymouth, Crooklet or Saunton Sands.
YOU’LL LOVE…

TO BOOK

Nest Treehouse at Sleepy Owl
sleeps up to four humans and two
dogs, from £351 per night, through
pawsandstay.co.uk.
Hanna Tavner

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Where slopes
are steep but
prices aren’t
As snow returns to the mountains,
Nicola Iseard reveals five resorts linked
to key destinations where you can stay
and ski for a lot less this winter
Les Menuires, France
Links to: Three Valleys

Think of the Three Valleys and your
mind no doubt goes to Val Thorens,
Courchevel and Méribel. The chances are
Les Menuires is not on your radar. Yet
the resort has the same access to the vast
acres of on- and off-piste terrain as the
rest of the Three Valleys resorts – and it
costs a fraction of the price to stay there.
Much of this is to do with the aesthetics
of the resort – its plentiful supply of stark
concrete self-catering accommodation
means it will never be as fashionable
as its neighbours. But if you don’t mind
sacrificing a bit of Alpine charm, you will
find that accommodation and ski school
lessons all tend to be cheaper here. For
example, six full-day group lessons with
ESF Les Menuires in February cost from
£228; the same lessons in Courchevel
1850 cost from £369.
Skiers in the know swear that the best
skiing in the whole Three Valleys is found
in Les Menuires. Last season, La Masse
ski area was completely rejuvenated with
one of the fastest and most efficient cable
cars in the Alps. Now skiers have even
quicker access to the pacy reds and blacks
in La Masse area, which trickle down from
the 2,804m (9,200ft) Pointe de la Masse.
With north- and east-facing
slopes, these runs hold their snow
well. Meanwhile, beginners will find
some mellow blues beneath the Roc
des Trois Marches.
When it is time to venture beyond
Les Menuires, you have access to the
Three Valleys’ entire 600km network.
lesmenuires.com

St Christoph am Arlberg, Austria
Links to: Arlberg

This idyllic, off-the-beaten-track village
feels a world away from the party scene
of its famous neighbour, St Anton – yet
both share the same Arlberg ski system.
For visitors who are here for the skiing
more than the après, St Christoph makes
for a great-value base. You can stay in a
central four-star hotel here this month
for as little as £74 a night – almost a third
of a comparable room in St Anton.
After finding your legs on St
Christoph’s gentle, crowd-free blues, ski
into the neighbouring valley of St Anton
for confidence-boosting red runs in
abundance. The north face of the Valluga,
at 2,811m, is a must-ski peak for experts.
If you are keen to sample St Anton’s
infamous après, stop at the Mooserwirt
on the last corner of Blue 1. An institution
since 1989, it serves up a good-value
goulash and, from 3.30pm, classic
Austrian dancing-on-tables-to-oompah

après. Then you can retreat back to
the tranquillity of St Christoph.
stantonamarlberg.com

Nendaz, Switzerland
Links to: Four Valleys

Verbier is one of the most popular resorts
in the world, with good reason – it has
world-class skiing, a cosmopolitan ski
community, some of the best ski schools
in Switzerland and brilliant nightlife.
But all of this comes at a price –
accommodation here is among the most
costly of any ski resort. Richard Branson’s
The Lodge will set you back £112,000
a week. However, stay at neighbouring
low-key Nendaz and you can save
hundreds of pounds, with a centrally
located apartment for a family of four
available this month for just £700.
You still have direct access to the Four
Valleys’ 410km of runs, and the link was
significantly improved two winters ago
thanks to a new gondola that takes skiers
from Prarion up to Plan du Fou in one go.
Beginners and less-confident
intermediates who aren’t looking for the
mega mileage of the whole Four Valleys
area can save money by buying a Printse
Sector ski pass that covers Nendaz,
Thyon-Les Collons and Veysonnaz, but
excludes Verbier. That still amounts to
220km of pistes and 50 lifts. Nendaz’s
local slopes are north-facing, with
snow-sure nursery areas and a handful
of wide, motorway-style blues and reds.
nendaz.ch

Cervinia, Italy
Links to: Zermatt

In Zermatt, you will find an idyllic
car-free village, fine-dining restaurants,

Les Menuires
(above) is in the
Three Valleys
region of France;
Cervinia, Italy
(above right), is
close to Zermatt
in Switzerland;
Vaujany, France
(below), links
up with Alpe
D’Huez VINCENT
LOTTENBERG;
ENRICO ROMANZI/
REGIONE AUTONOMA
VALLE D’AOSTA;
JULIA GUERRE

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views of the Matterhorn and some of the
longest runs in the Alps. You will also find
sky-high prices. A week in a chalet or a
basic three-star hotel can cost thousands
of pounds, even in low season.
Stay on the Italian side of the
Matterhorn in Breuil-Cervinia and you
get to experience Zermatt’s world-class
ski area and views for a fraction of the
cost – food and accommodation prices
are significantly lower than on the Swiss
side. For example, this month, you can
find an apartment sleeping five, within
walking distance of the lifts, costing just
£590 for a week.
Breuil-Cervinia has miles of long, wellgroomed runs, ideal for beginners and
intermediates – you will find some of the
finest red-rated pistes in the Alps here.
You also have direct access to acres of
challenging terrain over in Switzerland;
simply take the gondola to the top of the
Plateau Rosa and ski down into Zermatt
on the same joint ski pass.
In fact, buying your Cervinia/Zermatt
pass in Cervinia, rather than in Zermatt,
saves up to £130 – even if you buy
it online via the tourist board website.
cervinia.it

Vaujany, France
Links to: Alpe d’Huez

With its 1,000-year-old church and
clusters of ancient barns and farmhouses,
Vaujany is a village first and a ski resort
second – and all the more characterful
for it. In the late 1980s, the village
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huge plot of its land to France’s largest
hydro-electric scheme. Savvy locals used
the money to invest in a cable car (the
largest in the country at the time) to link
to the slopes of neighbouring Alpe d’Huez.
The result is a satellite resort that
has world-class skiing on its doorstep
but remains wonderfully free of
commercialism – and is great value, too.
A family of four can stay in an apartment
within walking distance of the lifts – with
ski-to-door access – for just £380 for a
week this month. Ski accommodation
doesn’t get any cheaper.
There is a huge amount of skiing on
offer here, spread across Vaujany’s own
Montfrais area – best suited to novices
and early intermediates – and that
of neighbouring Alpe d’Huez and the
infamous Grandes Rousses massif.
Advanced powder-hunters also
have plenty of easy-access free-ride
terrain to get stuck into, both above
Vaujany itself and over in Alpe d’Huez.
oz-vaujany.com

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WEEKEND
Ludlow

This medieval Shropshire
market town is dedicated
to its colourfully eclectic
ambience, from its boutiques
to its parlour pubs, writes
Emma Featherstone
Why Ludlow?
Ludlow is fortified by a curve of the
River Teme in the border land of the
Welsh Marches. Proud residents preserve
its heritage with the care of white-gloved
curators. The cobbled streets and listed
buildings are a reflection of the wealth
of Shropshire’s wool, cloth and glovemaking trades. Along and within them are
independent shops and restaurants and
cafés that favour local produce. Antique
stores, delis and countryside views
complete its appeal.
The ruins that overlook Ludlow were
once home to Arthur, the Prince of Wales
(son of Henry VII) and his wife, Catherine
of Aragon. Arthur and Catherine took
up residence in the castle after their
wedding, but Arthur died six months
later. Catherine claimed they had never
consummated the union, which enabled
her match with Arthur’s younger brother,
Henry VIII.
Today, Ludlow Castle (ludlowcastle.
com) is a family attraction that hosts
events, which this year includes gigs from
Bastille and the Kaiser Chiefs. Climb the
towers to survey the town and miles of
surrounding fields. Its position, chosen in
1086, was strengthened with the addition
of town walls from the 13th century.
How to get there and around
The rail station is within 10 minutes’
walk of the town centre and is served
by Transport for Wales (tfw.wales), with
connections to GWR (gwr.com) routes for
travel on to other parts of England.
Drop your bags
The Townhouse Ludlow
(townhouseludlow.co.uk) is a guest house
just off Broad Street, one of the main
thoroughfares. Rooms are generously
sized with traditional décor. High ceilings
are embellished with beams and the
colour scheme of cream, red and green is
accented with floral and flock-patterned
bedspreads and curtains. Four-poster
or heavy-framed beds, high-backed
armchairs and deep sofas complete the
look. Tea, hot chocolate and biscuits are
well stocked and amenities include a
fridge and coffee machine. During winter,
doubles start from £110 midweek or £120
over weekends. The Townhouse doesn’t
offer breakfast, but there are plenty of
options within five minutes’ walk.
Browse the shops
Rotary telephones, rainbowstriped faux-fur gilets, dog bandanas:
a gift haul sourced from Ludlow
boutiques should answer the pickiest
of recipients. Bodenhams, which was
founded in 1860 and sells menswear,
womenswear, homeware and lingerie, is
the longest-running.
Pottery, gins, plants and more
are available at the open-air market in
the town square on Castle Street. More
than 40 stalls set up here each Monday,

Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
throughout the year. There is also a
market most Sundays.
Head to Eclectica for colourful outfits,
The Silver Pear for ornaments and
Mousetrap Cheese Shop for hunks of
smelly treasure. Castle Bookshop has
a strong selection of titles, including
literature about the town. There are two
delis in the centre: Harp Lane, run by the
team behind The Townhouse Ludlow,
and Broad Bean. Stray into Ludlow’s
back streets to dig through the collection
at Mod Lang vinyl records, then amble
around Old Street for antiques.
Cosy cafés
Kin Kitchen (kinludlow.co.uk)
is Ludlow’s newest independent
café. Its menu features produce grown
in its kitchen garden and sourced from
local suppliers. Sunlight floods into the
back room, with a sofa, a coffee table
made from the trunk of a felled tree and
clapboard walls creating a stylish, but
homely, setting. It is open for breakfast
and dinner, with a Sunday brunch menu
featuring dishes such as a Full Ludlow
butcher’s breakfast (£10.50) and devilled
mushrooms on toasted beer bread (£7).
Customers can also book into one of its
stylish apartments.
If a pastry and cappuccino is all you’re
craving, stop by Local to Ludlow Café
(localtoludlow.org.uk) on the Square.
Rainy day refuges
Ludlow Museum (ludlowmuseum.
co.uk, £1.10 adults, under-16s free) is in
the 18th-century Buttercross building. It

Ludlow

THREE
THINGS YOU
MIGHT NOT
KNOW ABOUT
LUDLOW…

1) It was the Norman precursor to
the likes of Milton Keynes; a planned
new town, built on a grid.
2) The castle became the
administrative centre of the Marches
of Wales in the 16th century.
3) John Betjeman wrote that it
was “probably the loveliest town
in England”.
1670. The half-timbered facade, suits of
armour and uneven rooms lend a spooky
atmosphere and its accommodation has
been known to attract “ghost hunters”.
Ludlow Brewery, a venue for local
bands and a two-minute walk from the
rail station, also has a wood-burning
stove by which to enjoy the house brews.

From top: the
ruins of Ludlow
Castle overlook the
town; Harp Lane
Deli; St Laurence’s
Church and the
Buttercross LET’S
GO LUDLOW, ROB
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details local history from the Stone Age
through to the World Wars, with fossils,
a medieval chasuble and audio accounts
from among its collection. Ludlow
Assembly Rooms (ludlowassemblyrooms.
co.uk) has a programme of films, theatre
and art exhibitions.
St Laurence’s Church (stlaurences.org.
uk), or “The Cathedral of the Marches”,
dates back 800 years. Take a look at its
stained-glass windows, misericords and
the spot where Prince Arthur’s “heart”
(likely a colloquial term for his intestines)
were buried. A 15-minute bus ride will
take you to The Ludlow Farm Shop
(ludlowfarmshop.co.uk).
A drink by the fire
Ludlow’s parlour pubs are a novel
post- or pre-dinner stop, devoid of phone
calls, arcade games or televisions. Try
The Blood Bay and The Dog Hangs Well;
the latter could easily be mistaken for a
private sitting room from the street and it
has an open fire within.
Along the same road as The Dog Hangs
Well is The Feathers hotel, which was
built in 1619 and opened as an inn in

Dinner time
CSons at The Green Café
(thegreencafe.co.uk) is a Ludlow favourite
that uses local, seasonal produce. West
Midlands mushroom tamales and rum
and dark chocolate mousse cake are
among its Friday night dinner fare.
The same family (CSons is taken
from four brothers with the surname
Crouch) are behind Sourced Pizza
(sourcedpizza.co.uk) on Quality Square,
where sourdough serves as a base to
such options as Shropshire Shrooms and
Shroppy Giuseppe.
Winter walks
For a light stroll, try the “Whitcliffe
& Breadwalk” Beginning at the castle
entrance, walk along Dinham (through the
castle gardens), follow the road downhill
and cross the river via Dinham Bridge.
Take the footpath along the left for a view
across to the castle and town, before
passing a mini waterfall and the weir.
Alternatively, the Shropshire Hills
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is
less than 25 minutes away by car and has
more strenuous hikes. Find out more at
visitshropshire.co.uk, theludlowguide.
co.uk and letsgoludlow.com.

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BANKING
Lloyds and Halifax
branches to close
Lloyds and Halifax have
announced a series of branch
closures in England and Wales.
Lloyds Banking Group, which
owns both banks, is to close
18 Halifax and 22 Lloyds sites
between April and June. Lloyds
said it needed branches “where
they are well-used”. Barclays
and TSB have also announced
branch closures this month.

ECONOMY
Forecast improved
for UK contraction
The UK economy will contract
by 0.1 per cent this year, less
than originally forecast, the
US banking group JP Morgan
said. The global bank said that
the smaller decline, down from
the previously forecast 0.3 per
cent, could be attributed to a
recent drop in natural gas prices,
which should help to bring down
inflation faster than expected.

BANKING
£90m set aside for
bad Novitas loans
Merchant bank Close Brothers
said it will set aside an additional
£90m against bad loans from its
litigation funding firm, Novitas
Loans. Novitas, one of the UK’s
largest legal-finance groups, has
ceased lending to new customers
and is “reviewing its options”.
Close Brothers’ loan book rose to
£9.2bn, but total client assets fell
to £16.3bn from £16.6bn.

CONSUMER
Confidence falls
back to historic low
UK consumer sentiment fell for
the first time in three months in
January, returning to a historic
low as concerns about the
economy and the cost of living
tightened household finances,
research showed. GfK said its
consumer confidence survey
highlighted the impact of rising
prices and uncertainty, as more
people reported a deterioration
in their personal finances.

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How different countries are
coping with the energy crisis
From one-off payments to pledges to cut heating in public buildings,
Grace Gausden looks at the ways Europe is tackling rising gas prices

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systems in state-owned buildings as
part of a major energy upgrade.
It has asked for people to switch
lights and devices off in public buildings after hours, as well as turn off
heating in empty spaces, such as
corridors, foyers and stairwells.
Reducing consumption has become
mandatory in all public services.

ountries around the
world have been forced
to change the way they
use energy as we all feel
the pinch of rising costs –
but they have also received differing
levels of support. This ranges from
one-off energy payments to asking
households to turn their heating off
for an extra hour a day.
The UK Government has recently
revealed a new campaign with energy saving tips designed to lower
bills and reduce usage – as well as
imposing the Energy Price Guarantee which caps typical household
usage at £2,500. But what are other
countries doing to cut bills?

The Netherlands

Since November, electricity and gas
prices for households in the Netherlands have been capped at January
2022 levels – up to a certain amount
of consumption. Any extra use will
be charged at market rates.
The government has also offered
a discount of €190 on energy bills in
November and December last year
to all households. There was also a
one-off energy allowance of €1,300
to those on lower incomes. VAT on
energy bills and tax on petrol and
diesel have also been cut.

France

France has a plan to cut its energy
use by 10 per cent in the next two
years, launching an “energy sobriety” plan to find solutions to reduce
its reliance on fossil fuels.
As part of this strategy, it has developed an “every gesture counts”
campaign which covers simple everyday changes people can make – including shorter showers, switching
off idle electrical equipment and not
heating rooms above 19°C.
The 19°C cap stretches to public buildings while France is also
cutting the temperature of public
sports facilities by 2°C and in public swimming pools by 1°C. There
are also speed limits on ski lifts and
plans to produce less artificial snow.
France has offered financial gains
for those willing to cut down, with
civil servants paid an extra €2.88
per day to work from home, if this allows government buildings to close.
Last year, it also announced a
one-off €100 (£84) payment to 5.8
million households. And in 2022,
the government forced the stateowned energy provider, Électricité
de France (EDF), to cap price rises
at 4 per cent. It says it will cap rises
at 15 per cent for 2023.
Spain and Portugal

Spain reduced VAT on energy bills
initially to 10 per cent and then to 5
per cent from July 2022 to the end
of December. Both Spain and Portugal introduced a price cap for gas
which will last for one year and aims
to halve gas bills for 40 per cent of
customers in the two countries.

Poland
France has
imposed
speed limits
on ski lifts AFP

There is also a one-off payment of
€200 for people in Spain who earn
less than €14,000 a year and are not
already receiving benefits.
Spain has imposed temperature
limits in public and commercial
spaces. This includes train stations and airports, which cannot be
cooled to below 27°C in summer or
heated to more than 19°C in winter.
Croatia

Croatia has opted for information
measures to save energy in the shortterm. Households are encouraged to
use appliances during off-peak times,
utilise LED lighting and use public
transport. The Government also
recommends the maximum indoor
temperature during winter should
be 21°C and the cooling temperature
in summer no lower than 25°C.
Germany

Germany is the European country
most reliant on Russian gas in recent years, and it plans to replace

the energy from Russian with fuel
generated by coal power plants.
All taxpayers have received a oneoff energy payment of €300 with
extra help for people on benefits.
In October last year, the German
parliament approved a “defensive
shield” package worth €200bn
(£175bn) which includes a cap on
gas and electricity prices for households and some businesses.
The government also paid December’s monthly gas bill for all
households and small-to-medium
businesses. Around 200 sites in
Berlin will no longer be lit at night
including the Reichstag parliament
building, Berlin City Hall, the Jewish
Museum Berlin and opera houses.
Greece

Greece is also highly dependent
on Russian gas and has confirmed
measures to reduce consumption.
The government announced a
$640m programme to renew windows along with heating and cooling

Poland announced plans for an
energy price support package for
households, worth 26.8bn zlotys
(£4.8bn), which includes freezing
energy prices for 2023 at 2022’s
level, with a limit of 2,000 kWh per
year for most households.
The price cap rises to 2,600kWh
for households with a disabled person and 3,000kWh for farmers and
families with at least three children.
The Government has also reduced VAT on energy bills.
Norway

Norway has set a maximum price
that households should pay for their
energy – anything over this, the government will pay 80 per cent of the
bill. The government has also proposed new taxes on onshore wind
and hydropower energy, to redistribute some of the huge increase in
profits over the past year.
Italy

Italy gave a €200 (£169) one-off payment to people earning €35,000
(£29,600) a year or less and a 20 per
cent tax credit for all energy-intensive companies experiencing a 30
per cent rise in prices.
The government is also asking
people to turn central heating down
by 1°C and off for an extra hour a day.

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PENSIONS CLINIC

‘Saving for retirement
has not been a priority’
Tatjana Andersen does not qualify for auto-enrolment
into a pension. So what are her options? By Imogen Tew

T

atjana Anders has
very little saved for
her retirement. The
33-year-old, from
Windsor, has primarily
worked as a freelance actor and
model, and three years ago started
her own tea subscription company
called Teapro.
As she is self-employed, she has
never qualified for auto-enrolment
– government rules that require
employers to automatically enrol
most full-time staff into a pension. It
is how the majority of people begin
to build their pension savings.
She began working part-time
for a marketing company during
the pandemic, taking home about
£18,000 a year, but she is unsure
whether she built up a pension pot
during this time. If she did, it would
not be a large sum.
Tatjana, who estimates that her
yearly earnings fluctuate between
£35,000 and £40,000, has about
£30,000 in savings, which she hopes
to use as a house deposit within the
next two years. She currently rents
a two-bed flat with her fiancé, who
she is marrying in July.
Other than the money for a
house deposit, she has no other
investments or savings. Any extra
money has gone back into the
business, so her pension has not
been at the top of her list.
In retirement, Tatjana estimates
that she will need at least £20,000
a year to spend, after tax and any
housing costs (although she hopes
to be mortgage-free).
She and her fiancé enjoy holidays,
playing tennis and producing art
and would like to be able to continue
these hobbies once retired.
“I haven’t really thought much
about my retirement goals as I’m
still so young, it’s only in the past
year or so that I started thinking
about it all.
“It would be good to know how to
get started, and how much I would
need to save,” said Tatjana, who can
start saving £100 a month towards
a pension now and increase this
once she is on the property ladder.
We asked two experts for
their thoughts.

TOM SELBY
Pensions expert from AJ Bell

“It’s important to be realistic about
what you might be able to afford
to save. Although buying a house
might mean you no longer have to
save towards the deposit, there will
be mortgage and other costs you
need to consider.
“If Tatjana contributes £100 a
month into a pension, doubles this

Tatjana has
primarily
worked as a
freelance actor
and model

to £200 a month after two years and
then increases her contribution by
2 per cent a year (in line with the
Bank of England’s inflation target),
by age 60 she could have a fund
worth around £180,000.
“A dose of realism is important
here. A 60-year-old with a fund
worth £135,000 (£180,000 minus 25
per cent tax-free cash) who takes
£22,860 a year from their pension
(roughly enough for £20,000
spending after tax), would run out of
money well before state pension age.
“If Tatjana can work for longer,
and continues to contribute until
age 68 – her projected state pension
age – her fund could be worth
£298,000. All these figures assume
annual investment growth after
charges of 4 per cent per year.
“This puts her in a better spot. A
68-year-old with a £223,500 pension
fund (post tax-free cash) and a full

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state pension could generate a total
income of £22,860 until about their
90th birthday.
“A lifetime Isa (Lisa) could also
be useful for Tatjana. A Lisa is a
government-run initiative that
tops up your savings by 25 per
cent, providing you are using it for
a house deposit or retirement. You
can pay in up to £4,000 a year.
“As Tatjana is a basic-rate
taxpayer, the 25 per cent bonus she
gets on her first £4,000 of pension
contributions is exactly the same as
the 25 per cent Lisa bonus.
“But while only 25 per cent of
pension withdrawals are tax-free,
Lisa withdrawals are 100 per cent
tax-free from age 60.
“Tatjana could pay into a Lisa
instead until age 49, and then pay
into a pension from age 50 until age
68. This would leave her with the
same sized total fund, but split in
two: a Lisa pot, available tax-free
from age 60 and worth around
£162,000 at age 68, and a pension
pot, with 25 per cent available
tax-free and 75 per cent taxed as
income, worth around £136,000 at
age 68.
“She could then use the Lisa pot
to provide her income in the early
years of retirement, making the
most of the tax-free money, before
turning to her pension. Anything
leftover in her pension would be
IHT-free, too.”
KATE SMITH
Head of pensions at Aegon

“As Tatjana is self-employed, she
is likely to want to be flexible in
how she saves for retirement. She
may be unable to rely on a regular

income, so she may wish to vary
how much she saves monthly.
“She also won’t benefit from an
employer’s pension contribution.
This means that she needs to
be self-reliant when it comes to
pension saving – the key is to start
saving early and save as much
as she can, while having realistic
retirement income aspirations.
This may include working and
saving longer.
“Tatjana should try to find out
whether she does have a pension
from when she was employed.
If she can’t find her paperwork,
she should contact the employer
or try the Government’s Pension
Tracing Service. She may find
that her pension is worth more
than she thought, and getting
this information will help her
understand how much she needs
to save in the future to achieve her
retirement income aspiration.
“Saving £100 a month is a good
start, but unfortunately won’t
be nearly enough to achieve the
retirement income of £20,000 a
year from age 60 or 65. Realistically,
she will need to save substantially
more than this, or delay taking her
retirement income, or both.
“The state pension will make up
just under half of her retirement
income aspiration of £20,000 a year
from age 68. If she wanted to meet
the rest of her income requirements
with an annuity, an insurance
product which pays an income for
life, she would need to save around
£220,000.
“To do this, £304 a month would
need to be saved into her pot,
increasing by 3 per cent each year.

If you want to start a pension
but are not already enrolled
in a workplace scheme, you
can start saving with a private
company. You can also open
one if you want to save extra
money for later in life.
Unlike a workplace pension,
where an employer contributes,
a private scheme is entirely
funded by the money you put
into it, though you will benefit
from added tax relief too.
The trade-off is that you
receive far more control over
who runs your pension, the
funds and investments that it
is held in, and the options you
have at retirement.
There are a wide variety
of private pensions that
are available, so you will
need to research all of the
different features of each
and the different providers
available. They broadly come
in two forms: a personal or a
stakeholder pension.
While a personal pension
is a broad name given to most
privately funded pension plans,
stakeholder pensions are more
tightly regulated. They can be
a good choice for people who
need a more flexible option
because they allow you to vary
the amount you pay and when
you make payments.
It is important to compare
products from different
providers: many will offer
different investments or
features, and funds will differ
in how they invest.
Ask for the key facts
document from each pension
plan you are considering, as
this will summarise all the key
information. It is also crucial
to make sure you can afford
the contributions you need to
make, as some plans may have
a minimum monthly payment.
This is particularly important if
you have a variable income.
This also applies to the
charges you may have to pay
for your pension. These can
include administration fees,
transfer charges, charges for
managing your investments
and penalties.
One great way to get a lay
of the pension landscape is
to speak with an independent
financial adviser, who will be
able to tell you about the best
options depending on your
circumstances. As with any
important financial decision, be
sure not to sign anything until
you are completely happy.

This may seem a lot to save, but the
good news is that she will get tax
relief from the Government on her
pension contributions.
“As she is currently a basic
rate taxpayer she’ll receive 20
per cent tax relief on her pension
contributions. For an overall
contribution of £304, she would
only need to pay in about £243.20 to
make a total of £304.
“Tatjana will need to choose
a pension provider. This can be
challenging for the self-employed,
so she may need help with this.”

Provider

Account

Notice or Term

Deposit

AER

Yorkshire Building Society

Online Rainy Day 2

None

£1

3.35%

Tipton & Coseley BS

Limited Access (2)

None

£25,000

3.20%

HSBC

Online Bonus Saver

None

£1

3.00%

Monmouthshire BS

Premium Instant ­ 3

Instant

£25,000

3.00%

Cynergy Bank

Online Easy Access (55)

None

£1

2.90% (A)

Provider

Account

Notice or Term

Deposit

AER

Habib Bank Zurich plc

HBZ Sirat eDeposit (B)

12­mth bond

£5,000

4.33% (F)

FirstSave

Fixed Bond (Dec 22)

1­yr bond

£1,000

4.30% (F)

SmartSave

Fixed Rate Saver

1­yr bond

£10,000

4.26% (F)

QIB (UK) (B)

Raisin UK ­ Fixed Deposit 18­mth bond

£1,000

4.25% (F)

Vanquis Bank

Vanquis Bank Savings

£1,000

4.20% (F)

1­yr bond

Provider

Account

Notice or Term

Deposit

AER

Close Brothers Savings

Fixed Rate Bond

5­yr bond

£10,000

4.55% (F)

Monmouthshire BS

Fixed Rate Bond ­ 6

5­yr bond

£1,000

4.50% (F)

Isbank

Raisin UK ­ Fixed Deposit 5­yr bond

£1,000

4.50% (F)

Atom Bank

Fixed Saver

5­yr bond

£50

4.45% (F)

Gatehouse Bank (B)

Fixed Woodland Saver

4­yr bond

£1,000

4.45% (F)

Provider

Account

Notice or Term

Deposit

AER

Virgin Money

Access ISA Exclusive 2

Instant

£1

3.00%

Mansfield BS

180 Day Notice ISA (2nd) 180 Day

£1

3.00%

Furness BS

45 Day Notice Cash ISA

45 Day

£1,000

3.00%

Hinckley & Rugby BS

90 Day Notice Cash ISA

90 Day

£500

2.95%

Aldermore

30 Day Notice ISA 12

30 Day

£1,000

2.80%

Provider

Account

Min Funding (pm) Account fee Reward

Halifax

Reward Current

£1,500

Nil

Nationwide BS

FlexDirect

£1,000

Nil

5.00% (A)

TSB

Spend & Save

None

Nil

£5.00pm (A)

Virgin Money

M Plus Account

None

Nil

2.02%

Kroo Bank Ltd

Current Account

None

Nil

2.00%

£5.00pm (C)

(A) = Introductory rate for a limited period. (B) = Provider/account operates under Islamic nance principles, rate shown
is expected prot rate. (C) = Paid net of income tax. (F) = Fixed rate.
All rates are shown as AER variable unless otherwise stated. Methods of opening and operating accounts will vary.
Current account interest rates paid up to a specied level, terms may apply to qualify for rates shown.

Provider

Rate

Period

Max LTV

Fee

first direct

4.74%

for 2 years

60%

£490

HSBC

5.54%

to 31.5.25

90%

­

Coventry BS

4.60%

to 30.6.26

75%

£999

Nationwide BS

4.44%

for 5 years

60%

­

Yorkshire Building Society

4.74%

to 31.5.28

90%

­

Provider

Rate

Period

Max LTV

Fee

rst direct

5.44%

for term

75%

£490

rst direct

5.59%

for term

75%

­

rst direct

5.89%

for term

80%

£490

rst direct

6.04%

for term

80%

­

rst direct

6.54%

for term

90%

£490

ArrEAR

UnarrEAR

0% overdraft
limit

Provider

Account

Starling Bank

Current Account

15.0%

0.0%

Nil

rst direct

1st Account

39.9%

39.9%

£250

Virgin Money

M Plus Account

19.9%

19.9%

Nil

Lloyds Bank

Club Lloyds

27.5%

0.0%

£50

TSB

Spend & Save Plus

39.9%

39.9%

£100

Provider

Card Type

Rate PM

APR

Min income

TSB

Advance Credit Card MC

0.800%

9.9%

­

Bank of Scotland

Credit Card Mastercard

0.869%

10.9%

­

Halifax

Credit Card Mastercard

0.869%

10.9%

­

Tesco Bank

Low APR Credit Card MC

0.869%

10.9%

£5,000

NatWest

Credit Card Mastercard

1.016%

12.9%

£10,000

All borrowing rates and availability of products are subject to individual credit ratings.
All rates and terms subject to change without notice and should be checked before finalising any arrangement.
This information is provided by moneyfacts.co.uk on 8.00am 19th January 2023 in good faith.
For full details visit moneyfacts.co.uk. Neither Moneyfacts nor can be responsible for its accuracy.
No liability can be accepted for any direct or consequential loss arising from use of, or reliance upon, this
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ENERGY

SSE raises profit
forecast despite
mild weather
By David Connett

SSE, one of the UK’s biggest
energy companies, forecast
higher profits as its gas-fired
power stations were boosted by
higher prices – even as its wind
turbines were quieted by mild
weather this winter.
The Perth-based firm said
electricity production from its
gas-fuelled plants rose 27 per
cent in the nine months to the
end of December compared
with the previous year.
It said power from its
renewable sources had been
hit by “unseasonably calm and
dry weather”, which together
with delays to the Seagreen
project – Scotland’s largest
wind farm, off the Angus
coast – had also contributed
to power-generation targets
being missed.
It confirmed it still expected
the Seagreen wind farm would
be completed this summer.
Britain broke its wind power
record in December. Over
the past year, 36 per cent of
Britain’s power has come from
renewables, and 41 per cent
from gas.
SSE said it produced 10 per
cent less renewable electricity
in the period as a result. The
generator said it would invest
any additional profit it makes
into low-carbon electricity
infrastructure, as it plans to
expand into hydrogen, carbon
capture, solar and batteries.

RETAIL

Shoppers rein in
festive spending
as inflation bites
By David Connett

Inflation-hit shoppers cut spending
by record amounts last month, dashing hopes of a Christmas boost for the
country’s flagging retail sector.
A 1 per cent drop in sales volumes
mirrored November’s 0.5 per cent
fall, when Black Friday failed to produce a boost in sales, according to the
Office for National Statistics (ONS).
December’s volumes were down
by 5.8 per cent compared with December 2021, the biggest fall for that
month in records going back to 1997.
Retail sales volumes for last year
also had their biggest-ever fall. They
fell by 3 per cent between 2021 and
2022, which is the largest decline
since ONS records began.
Retailers told the ONS that “consumers are cutting back on spending because of increased prices and
affordability concerns”.
Heather Bovill, an analyst at the
ONS, said that shoppers stocked up
early, resulting in food sales falling
back again in December.
“Online sales dipped, with feedback indicating postal strikes were
leading people towards purchasing
more goods in-store,” she said.
Non-food stores’ sales volumes
fell by 2.1 per cent in December as
consumers cut back on spending
deemed non-essential.
Online shopping fell to 25.4 per

cent from 25.9 per cent in November,
with some online retailers reporting that they were hit by Royal Mail
strikes last month.
Helen Dickinson, chief executive of
the British Retail Consortium, said
the association expects the squeeze
on households to improve in the second half of the year:
“The high cost of household bills
– particularly for energy – and rising food inflation made for a difficult
Christmas backdrop, with falling
consumer confidence.
“Nonetheless, increased discounting helped boost gift-giving, with
stronger sales growth for clothing
and furniture.”
Olivia Cross, an economist at Capital Economics, said the surprise fall
suggested that some of the resilience
seen in the UK economy in late 2022
petered out in December.
“What’s more, we think the bulk of
the drag-on activity from high inflation and rising interest rates is yet to
be felt,” she said.
Consumer price inflation
eased slightly to 10.5 per
cent last month, after hitting
a 41-year high of 11.1 per cent
in October – but food and
non-alcoholic beverage prices in
particular remain badly affected.

Smith opts for some rug couture
British fashion designer Paul Smith
said his collection at Paris Fashion
Week yesterday took inspiration
from old rugs he found in Milan.
“We got a lot of inspiration from
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weird colours because they were
hand-dyed,” he said. He also took a
trip down memory lane: “We went
to the archives to use fabrics I did in
the past – I remade them for modern
times.” RICHARD BORD/GETTY

TECHNOLOGY

Musk set to testify
over funding tweet

Apple to appeal
competition inquiry

Tesla boss Elon Musk is to be called
to testify in a US jury trial over his
2018 tweet saying he had “funding
secured” to take the electric
carmaker private. Shareholders
allege that the post cost them
millions in trading losses. Mr
Musk is expected to explain why
he insisted he had Saudi investor
backing and whether he knowingly
made a misleading statement.

Apple is to appeal a decision by
the UK competition watchdog
to investigate the tech firm’s
dominance through its mobile
browsers in the cloud gaming
market. Apple said November’s
decision by the Competition
and Markets Authority (CMA)
to launch a full investigation
should be reviewed. The CMA
said it would continue the inquiry.

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PRINTING

RETAIL

ECONOMY

Netflix co-founder
steps down as CEO

Seraphine to go
private in £15m deal

De La Rue aware of
India investigation

Losses increase
at The Works

Tesco boss: UK needs
durable growth plan

Netflix co-founder Reed
Hastings has stepped down
as chief executive of the firm
that upended Hollywood by
delivering movies and TV
shows online. Mr Hastings will
become executive chairman,
Netflix said. The company
announced that it added 7.7
million new subscribers in the
final three months of 2022.

Maternity brand Seraphine is
to be taken private by its largest
shareholder, Mayfair Equity
Partners, in a £15.3m deal. The
brand was valued at £150m when
it was floated on the London Stock
Exchange in 2021. Sharon Flood,
the chairwoman of Seraphine,
said the company has faced “an
extraordinary convergence of
challenges since listing”.

Banknote maker De La Rue
said it has been implicated in an
investigation by Indian police.
The London-listed firm said it was
aware of reports that it featured in
an investigation into India’s former
finance secretary Arvind Mayaram.
The company said it has not been
contacted by police and has not
served India’s central bank or
government since 2016.

Losses at the stationery and books
retailer The Works widened after
online sales dropped off over
Christmas. The firm reported
pre-tax losses of £10.7m despite
sales increasing by 2.4 per cent
to £118.9m. The performance
of its shops was offset by the 14
per cent decline in online sales,
which the company put down to
postal strikes.

Ministers must come up with a longterm growth strategy, according to
John Allan, the Tesco chairman and
a former Confederation of British
Industry president. “What we’d love
to see from Government is a really
serious, thought-through, longterm growth plan,” he told the BBC.
“Long-term growth is the only way
in which we’re actually going to be
able to raise standards of living.”

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Google owner
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Google’s parent company, Alphabet,
said it is cutting about 12,000 jobs, or
six per cent of its workforce, its chief
executive said in a memo to staff.
Sundar Pichai said the redundancies decision “weighed heavily” on
him, but that it followed a “rigorous
review” of the business.
“We’ve undertaken a rigorous review across product areas and functions to ensure that our people and
roles are aligned with our highest
priorities as a company,” he said.
“The roles we’re eliminating reflect
the outcome of that review. They cut
across Alphabet product areas, functions, levels and regions.”
He said it followed a hiring spree
during the pandemic. “Over the past
two years we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth. To match and fuel that
growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face
today,” he said.
“I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here.”
The cuts are the latest to hit the
technology sector, following on from
Microsoft’s announcement this week
that it is cutting 10,000 staff.
Susannah Streeter, an analyst at
Hargreaves Lansdown, said Alphabet’s advertising business, which
underpins Google’s search engine
and YouTube, was not immune to
economic turbulence.
“Advertising growth has come off
the boil, a sharp contrast from the
busy days of the post-pandemic reopening which saw a surge in consumer spending,” she said.

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FINANCE
Outlook ‘less bad’
than first feared
The head of the International
Monetary Fund, Kristalina
Georgieva, said the global
economic outlook was “less
bad” than originally feared, with
increasing signs that inflation is
retreating. She warned against
going from “too pessimistic to
too optimistic”, but said that
the IMF may upgrade its 2.7 per
cent growth forecast for 2023.

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Friday’s FTSE 100
up 0.30% at 7,770.6

Weekly change

Year high

Year low

CHINESE YUAN

1.36

1.84%

¥8.39

1.04

2.06%

8.74

7.51

0.86%

1.26

1.02

SWISS FRANC

€1.14

1.22

1.12%

CHF1.14

1.08

THE MARKETS THIS WEEK
FTSE 100

FTSE 100

7,900
7,850
7,800

7,750

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

7,700

Fri

Weekly change

Week intraday

73.48
0.94%

High: 7,875.58
Low: 7,726.23

7,770. 59

The index looked set to reach record highs before it
tumbled on Thursday as consumer sentiment fell.

Riser in the news

Dow*

33,138.83

1,163.78 3.39%

Nasdaq*

11,010.09

69.06

0.62%

S&P*

3,931.70

67.39

1.69%

Nikkei

26,553.53

434.01

1.66%

CAC 40

6,995.99

27.51

0.39%

DAX

15,033.56

52.96

0.35%

Faller in the news

765p, +2.89%

864.2p, -2.61%

The retailer snapped up office space
in Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire –
previously used by Studio Retail – to
cap off a fortnight of acquisitions.

Analysts at Jefferies warned
that the financial services firm is
losing customers to the likes of US
competitor Vanguard.

THE ECONOMY
CORE INFLATION

Core inflation, ignoring food, energy, alcohol and tobacco,
grew more quickly than expected in December.
15
Annual % change in consumer price index

Food

Property firm Land Securities
has appointed the chairman
of Channel 4, Sir Ian Cheshire,
as its next chairman, as
the commercial landlord
streamlines its retail assets. Sir
Ian, a former chief of the retailer
Kingfisher and an ex-chairman
of department store group
Debenhams, takes over as
commercial property values fall.

MONEY
87-91

The week in numbers

US DOLLAR

$1.24

C4 chair to join
Land Securities

TRAVEL
75-81

CURRENCIES (relative to sterling)

By Jeffrey Dastin

PROPERTY

TV
58-71

10
5

Services
ONS

Core

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

0
2023

GOOD WEEK

3.7%
UK unemployment rate for September to
November grew from the previous quarter.
20.3%
Supermarkets’ budget ranges rose in price in
December versus last year, according to Which?
6.4%
Average pay grew in the three months to
November compared with a year earlier.
£295,00
The average UK house price fell in November,
but is still £28,000 higher than a year ago.

BAD WEEK
▼ HANNAH

▼ MATTHEW

▼ JOHN

Ocado Retail’s
boss sees shares
in the firm dive
as she reveals
basket volumes
fell this year.

THG’s chief
executive had to
issue his third
profit warning
in a year due to
contract delays.

The Boohoo boss
said sales fell
at Christmas
because shoppers
had returned to
the high street.

GIBSON

▲ MICHAEL

▲ JULIE

▲ STUART

Ryanair’s chief
executive hails
January record
of two million
bookings in
one weekend.

Burberry’s head
of finance said
European tourists
had helped the
luxury firm log
higher sales.

The M&S boss
unveils £500m
plans to build 20
new large stores
and create 3,400
new jobs.

O’LEARY

BROWN

MACHIN

SUPER STAT

$230m
This week’s changes

SOURCE: ONS, GOV.CO.UK *VALUE AT 6PM FRIDAY

LYTTLE

SHOCK STAT

The amount that sales of
Taylor Swift’s album, Midnights,
generated for Universal last
year – £185m – despite only
coming out in October.

KEY COMMODITIES

MOULDING

101.7m

Oil 86.97 $/barrel +2.04

Global demand for oil,
measured in barrels per day,
is expected to reach a record
high in 2023, according to the
International Energy Agency.

Company		Price		Chg %		High		 Low
3i Group
abrdn
Admiral
Airtel Africa
Anglo Amer
Antofagasta
AB Foods
Ashtead Group
AstraZeneca
Auto Trader Group
Aviva
BAE Systems
Barclays
Barratt Dev
BAT
Beazley
Berkeley Grp Hldgs
B&MEurValRtl
BP
British Land
BT
Bunzl
Burberry
Centrica
Coca-Cola HBC
Compass
Convatec
CRH
Croda Intl
DCC
Diageo
Endeavour Mining
Entain
Experian
F&C Inv Trust
Flutter Entrtmt
Frasers Group
Fresnillo
Glencore
GSK
Haleon
Halma
Hargrve Lans
Hiscox
HSBC Hldgs
IAG
Imperial Brands
Informa
IntCont Htls
Intertek
JD Sports Fashion
Johnson Matthey
Kingfisher
Land Secs
Legal & Gen
Lloyds Bk Gp
Lon Stock Ex
M&G
Melrose Ind
Mondi
National Grid
NatWest Group
Next
Ocado Group
Pearson
Pershing Square
Persimmon
Phoenix
Prudential
Reckitt Ben
RELX
Rentokil Initial
Rightmove
Rio Tinto
Rolls-Royce
RS Group
Sage
Sainsbury(J)
Schroders
Scot Mort Inv Tst
Segro
Severn Trent
Shell
Smith&Neph
Smith (DS)
Smiths Gp
Smurfit Kappa Grp
Spirax-Sarco Eng
SSE
Stan Chart
St James Place
Taylor Wimpey
Tesco
Unilever
Unite Group
United Utilities
Vodafone
Weir Group
Whitbread
WPP

1462.5
204.4
2095.0
115.4
3566.0
1730.0
1826.5
4995.0
11200.0
583.6
439.0
853.2
178.4
445.1
3121.5
642.5
4175.0
438.3
475.9
433.8
129.3
2924.0
2358.0
98.7
1916.5
1913.0
246.2
3598.5
7044.0
4512.0
3679.5
1980.0
1508.0
2936.0
930.0
12565.0
765.0
916.4
575.9
1406.8
315.9
2105.0
864.2
1123.5
592.6
162.8
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4289.0
157.0
2135.0
261.2
698.6
254.9
49.3
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143.2
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295.5
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707.8
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1373.5
625.4
1302.0
5802.0
2360.0
506.0
572.8
6213.0
106.6
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760.4
243.4
470.7
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2363.0
1142.5
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Today’s Weather

Today’s high

Temp

Rain

Sun

(Midday yesterday) (mm)

Aberdeen
Aberporth
Aberystwyth
Aviemore
Belfast
Birmingham
Bournemouth
Bridlington
Bristol
Cardiff
Cromer
Durham
Eastbourne
Edinburgh
Eskdalemuir
Glasgow
Holyhead
Hove
Hull
Huntingdon
Ipswich
Isle of Man
Isle of Wight
Kinlochewe
Kirkwall
Leeds
Lerwick
Leuchars
Lincoln
Liverpool
London
Manchester
Margate
Milford Haven
Morecambe
Newcastle
Norwich
Nottingham
Okehampton
Oxford
Plymouth
Portland
Portsmouth
Prestwick
Rhyl
Sheffield
Shrewsbury
Skegness
Southend
Stoke
Stornoway
Swansea
Tiree

3
5
5
-1
2
5
5
6
5
6
5
5
6
3
3
2
7
6
5
6
4
8
6
1
4
5
3
5
5
7
5
5
5
6
5
3
4
5
4
6
5
7
5
2
6
5
5
4
5
5
5
4
6

S
S
S
S
S
S
S
C
S
S
C
F
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
F
S
S
S
S
F
C
S
F
S
F
S
S
S
S
S
H
S
S
F
F
S
S
S
F
S
S
SH
S
S
S
S
S

(hrs)

2.0
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.4
2.6
0.0
0.0
1.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.0
0.0
1.8
0.4
0.0
3.2
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.1
0.2
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.2
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.2
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.4

3.4
7.0
5.6
5.5
6.6
5.4
6.8
3.4
6.2
7.1
4.3
3.0
6.4
6.3
6.5
6.6
7.0
6.4
4.6
6.8
6.4
6.8
6.8
5.4
5.2
4.6
0.0
6.0
5.2
6.1
5.3
6.8
6.2
5.5
5.9
3.1
4.3
7.0
5.2
6.6
3.7
7.4
7.7
5.6
4.3
5.4
5.3
5.5
6.9
4.8
4.6
6.1
5.6

Global
City

22
34
18
1
14
29
11
-3
1
2
3
4
18
24
5
1
-1
0
17
15
26
16
14
12

°C

S
F
S
SL
SH
S
S
S
C
SH
C
DR
S
F
S
F
F
C
C
F
F
F
DR
S

27
1
3
27
0
6
10
11
2
-1
6
30
6
1
4
20
20
10
1
6
1
2
7
23

DR
M
C
S
SN
R
S
C
SN
C
R
SH
S
SH
S
R
F
S
R
C
F
C
R
F

Key: C=Cloudy, DR=Drizzle,
F=Fair, FG=Fog, H=Hail, M=Mist, R=Rain,
S=Sunny, SH=Showers, SL=Sleet, SN=Snow,
SS=Sandstorm, TH=Thunderstorm

Wind speed

6

Highlands
North East Scotland
Central Scotland
Scottish Borders
Northern Ireland
North West & Mersey
North East
Yorkshire & Humber
North Wales
West Midlands
East Midlands
South Wales
South West
South East
Eastern
Greater London

Today Tomorrow
3
3
2
2
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
3
3
2
2
3

3
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
2
2
3
2
2
3
3
8

17

15

Moderate

Kirkwall

Rough

15 mph

7

Inverness

5

4

Lerwick

40

25

7

Aberdeen

7
10

1

Fort William
7

Dundee
6

10

SUNDAY Mainly dry but
cloudy with a threat of rain
or drizzle, mostly across
northern and western
areas. Moderate to brisk
southerly winds.

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Atlantic
Ocean

5

North
Sea

Dumfries

Derry/Londonderry

17

Newcastle

Carlisle

9

Belfast

4
4

9

York

Galway
10

Liverpool

7

Sheffield

Llandudno

4

Nottingham

6

Norwich
Birmingham

11

7

Cambridge

17

Oxford
Swansea

Celtic
Sea

Cardiff
Bristol

7

London

Reading

4

Channel Islands

6

Alderney

Exeter

11

Southampton

Portsmouth

Brighton

5

7

English Channel

Jersey

10

GENERAL SITUATION An area of
high pressure will be centred to
the east of the UK and will extend
across much of England and
Wales bringing a chilly day. Early
mist and low cloud will clear to
reveal a fine day as it will be dry
with lots of winter sunshine. An
area of low pressure will be
located to the north of the UK and
a trailing warm front will become
situated across Scotland and
Northern Ireland bringing cloudy
skies and patchy rain.
NE Scotland, NW Scotland: A cold
and cloudy start to the day with a
band of rain that will track
eastwards. This may be wintry
bringing sleet and snow which will

be most frequent during the
morning. Turning drier during the
afternoon,however
howevercloudy
cloudyskies
skies
afternoon
will persist. Moderate to brisk
southerly winds and a threat of
gales. Max temp: 6C. Tonight, risk
of rain.
by
rain. Min
Min temp:
temp: -2C.
-2C.
It will
will be
be rather
rather
N Isles, W Isles: It
dull and grey with overcast skies
which will bring patches of light
rainfall throughout much of the
day. Drier during the afternoon
and evening. Fairly consistent and
moderate temperatures, with
strong winds which are expected
to intensify in particular
throughout the evening. Max
temp: 9C. Tonight, risk of rain. Min
temp: 5C.

HIGH

LOW
1000 992

SEScotland,
Scotland,N
NIreland,
Ireland,Republic
Republicof
of
SE
Ireland:ItItwill
willbe
beaamilder
milderday
day,
Ireland:
however there
there will
will be
be more
more in
in the
the
however
way of
of cloud
cloud and
and there
there will
will be
be
way
outbreaks of
of patchy
patchy light
light rain
rain and
and
outbreaks
drizzle which
which will
will be
be most
most frequent
drizzle
in the south.
Spells
of Spells
rain will
frequent
in the
south.
of rain
spread
intointo
the west
during
the
will
spread
the west
during
evening
andand
overnight.
There
will
the
evening
overnight.
There
be moderate
to brisk
southerly
will
be moderate
to brisk
southerly
winds. Max
Max temp:
temp: 11C.
11C. Tonight,
Tonight,
winds.
threat of
of rain.
rain. Min
Min temp:
temp: 2C.
2C.
threat
NEEngland,
England,NW
NWEngland,
England,N
NWales,
Wales,
NE
Wales,SW
SWEngland,
England,IoM,
IoM,SE
SE
SSWales,
Scotland:AA cold
cold start
start to
to the
the day
day
Scotland:
with early
early patches
patches of
of mist
mist and
and low
low
with
cloud which
which will
will soon
soon lift
lift and
and clear
clear
cloud
during the
the morning.
morning. It
It will
will then
then be
be
during
dry during
during the
the day
day with
with lengthy
lengthy
dry
HIGH

LOW C

1016

984

1008

HIGH

992
1000
1008

LOW

1024
1032
HIGH

LOW

Warmest: St. Mary’s, Isles
968 9C1016
of Scilly,
Coldest:
Co.
1024
976 Katesbridge,
Down, -7C
984
1032
Wettest: Kinlochewe,
Wester
7.6mm
992 Ross,
1040
Sunniest: Yeovilton,
1048
1000
Somerset, 7.9hrs

1008
1024

1016
HIGH

1024

Isobars: air pressure
in millibars

Warm front

Cold front

HIGH

Occluded front

1008

TUESDAY Another cloudy
day with a threat of rain.
There will be brighter
spells in the south initially.
Moderate to brisk
south-westerly winds.
17

9
9

9

9

WEDNESDAY Cloudy
witha
Cloud with
athreat
threatofofrain
rainwhich
whichwill
will
clear to sunny spells and
showers in the north.
Moderate to brisk westerly
winds may be strong.

rotate:
-5

HIGHS AND LOWS
(Yesterday,
up to X
2pm)
LOW X HIGH

1032

periodsof
ofwinter
wintersunshine
sunshineand
and
periods
justsome
somepatchy
patchycloud
cloudcover
cover
just
around.AAdry
dryevening
eveningtoo.
too.
around.
Moderateto
tobrisk
brisksouth-easterly
south-easterly
Moderate
winds.Max
Maxtemp:
temp:7C.
7C.Tonight,
Tonight,
winds.
cloudwill
willbuild.
build.Min
Mintemp:
temp:-3C.
-3C.
cloud
England,EEAnglia,
Anglia,SE
SEEngland,
England,
EEEngland,
London,Cen
CenSSEngland,
England,Midlands,
Midlands,
London,
ChannelIs:
Is:AAcold
coldstart
startto
tothe
theday
day
Channel
withearly
earlypatches
patchesof
ofmist
mistsoon
soon
with
clearing.ItItwill
willthen
thenbe
befine
fineduring
during
clearing.
theday
dayas
asititwill
willbe
bedry
dryand
andbright
bright
the
withlengthy
lengthyperiods
periodsof
ofwinter
winter
with
sunshineand
andjust
justsome
somepatchy
patchy
sunshine
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cloudcover
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aroundat
at
fair-weather
times.AAdry
dryevening.
evening.Moderate
Moderateto
to
times.
briskeasterly
easterlyand
andsouth-easterly
south-easterly
brisk
winds.Max
Maxtemp:
temp:6C.
6C.Tonight,
Tonight,
winds.
cloudwill
willbuild.
build.Min
Mintemp:
temp:-4C.
-4C.
cloud

SYNOPTIC PRESSURE High pressure A will expand from the
south-west, slowly moving northwards and consolidating
over the south of the UK, where it will remain for the next few
days. Low-pressure C will develop over the Greenland sea,
sending a cold front eastwards. This will approach Northern
Ireland and western Scotland.

LOW
HIGH A

1016

Key:

11

Plymouth
FRANCE

Sark

8

MONDAY A generally dry
day,
day however it will be
cloudy with a few spots of
rain or drizzle. Moderate
southerly winds may be
strong in the north.

3

Cork

10

3

Hull

Manchester

Irish
Sea

Dublin

11

Leeds

15

levels
Air PollutionLowAir(1)pollution
Very high (10)
uk-air.defra.gov.uk
Index

Region

Five-day
outlook

Shetland

Calm
Slight

Temp Cond
(in C)

Miami
Milan
Moscow
Mumbai
Munich
New York
Nice
Palma
Paris
Prague
Reykjavik
Rio
Rome
Stockholm
Strasbourg
Sydney
Tenerife
Tokyo
Toronto
Vancouver
Vienna
Warsaw
Washington
Wellington

07:53 16:30

Orkney

Guernsey

Temp Cond City
(in C)

Abu Dhabi
Abuja
Alicante
Amsterdam
Athens
Bangkok
Barcelona
Beijing
Berlin
Brussels
Budapest
Chicago
Delhi
Dubai
Dublin
Frankfurt
Geneva
Helsinki
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Johannesburg
Lisbon
Los Angeles
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Weather

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Temperature

Sunrise

Moon Phase

11º -4º

Cold with mist clearing to reveal sunshine across England and Wales.
cloudyskies
skiesand
andrain
rainacross
acrossScotland
Scotlandand
andNorthern
NorthernIreland.
Ireland.
Milder with cloud

Around Britain

Today’s low

HOURS OF DARKNESS
Aberdeen
16.11-08.28
Birmingham
16.33-08.03
Bristol
16.40-08.02
Cardiff
16.42-08.04
Glasgow
16.26-08.28
Hull
16.21-08.02
Inverness
16.15-08.38
Liverpool
16.33-08.12
London
16.30-07.52
Manchester
16.30-08.09
Stornoway
16.22-08.51
Swansea
16.44-08.08
York
16.23-08.06

Scale:
x = 35
y = 32

17

9
8

8

8

THURSDAY Drier and
brighter with spells of
sunshine but also a chance
of a few showers. Brisk
northerly winds will be
strong in the east.

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NEWS
2-41

OPINION
27-32

LIFE
45-81

PUZZLES
51-56

TV
58-71

TRAVEL
75-81

MONEY
87-91

SPORT
99-112

iSportsQuiz
Liverpool v Chelsea

1 Who scored Liverpool’s winning penalty
in last year’s FA Cup final?
2 Who scored Liverpool’s winning penalty
in last year’s Carabao Cup final?
3 Who won the Super Cup shoot-out
between the sides in 2019?
4 Which defender was sent off in last
season’s top-flight meeting at Anfield?
iPaperSport

@iPaperSport

(below) making positive noises
having signed a new deal, travel to
moneybags City, who really should
be doing better.

11.30AM BT SPORT 1

Football Liverpool v Chelsea

What to watch
from getting up
on Saturday
to bedtime
on Sunday

Well, this is quite a gigantic midtable derby. And just like in the finale
of the Motley Crue Netflix docudrama The Dirt, where Vince Neil
is barely able to walk, Nikki Sixx is
barely able to function and Tommy
Lee is barely able to keep his trousers on, you feel something has got
to give here.

12.30PM BT SPORT 2/ITV1

Rugby union Champions Cup

SATURDAY
8AM DISCOVERY+

Tennis Australian Open

Andy Murray goes another round,
this time against Roberto Bautista
Agut. By the way, if you were ever
in doubt about how much of a nice
guy the Scot is, read his post-match
concern after his 4am epic win on
Thursday over ball-kids being kept
up until dawn. What a dude.

11AM SKY SPORTS PREMIER LEAGUE

Football Manchester City
Women v Aston Villa Women
Villa, with manager Carla Ward

99

5 Name the last player to score a winner
inside 90 minutes in this fixture?
6 How many different scorers were there
in the July 2020 Premier League meeting?
7 The last hat-trick in this fixture came at
Anfield in October 1997. Who scored it?
8 Whose winner won a Champions League
spot for Chelsea in May 2003?
9 How many times did the sides meet
between October 2004 and April 2009?
10 In which season did the teams last meet
in the Champions League?

Answers: 1 Kostas Tsimikas. 2 Caoimhin Kelleher. 3 Liverpool. 4 Reece James. 5 Mason Mount. 6 Eight. 7 Patrik Berger.
8 Jesper Gronkjaer. 9 24. 10 2008-09.

inews.co.uk/sport

SATURDAY
21 JANUARY 2023

6PM SKY SPORTS BOX OFFICE

Boxing Eubank Jr v Smith

OK, the trash-talking headliners,
Chris Eubank Jr and Liam Smith,
won’t enter the ring until 10pm, but
there is a whole stack of high-quality
punching action before that, so you
can get your 20 quids’ worth.

SUNDAY
12.15PM BBC TWO

Football Chelsea Women v
Liverpool Women

Chelsea know they have to win this
if they want to maintain daylight
between them and the chasing pair
of Arsenal and Manchester United.

Crikey, five matches in a day. ITV has
Northampton v La Rochelle, while
BT has four in a row, bookended
by marine predators. First up are
Harlequins hosting a South African
prison gang, the Cell C Sharks, while
Sale version of the Sharks travel to
Ulster in the final fixture of the day.

5PM SKY SPORTS PREMIER LEAGUE

Because the Gunners are almost
certain to beat Brighton (6.30pm,
Sky Sports Football), and United
are unlikely to have much trouble at
Reading in the afternoon.

12.30PM BT SPORT 1

Rugby union Champions Cup

Three more matches. And the final
one is the most interesting, it’s Edinburgh v Saracens.

1PM SKY SPORTS PREMIER LEAGUE

Football Super Sunday

Leeds is well-known for many
things: the Sisters of Mercy, the
Corn Exchange, Kevin Sinfield (right,
even though he’s from Oldham). But
Brentford, not so much. It does have
the head office of the pharmaceutical giant Glaxo SmithKline though.
Anyway, Leeds v Bees is merely
the hors d’oeuvre for Arsenal v
Manchester United. Older readers
may remember when this was a
marquee game. Well, after a fallow
decade or so, it is again.

2.40PM BBC TWO

Football Crystal Palace v
Newcastle

Bowls Indoor World
Championships

Eddie Howe’s sportswashing
juggernaut travels to south London,
where Palace have not won in five
games. One feels it will be six after
this match.

This is the sporting equivalent of
doom metal: slow, unchanged for
aeons (except updates in technology and clothing) and deeply
unfashionable. But when it is done

right, it is oh-so satisfying. Think
“Empress Rising” by Monolord. Or
this, the world singles final, live from
Hopton-on-Sea.

7.30PM SKY SPORTS NFL

American football NFL
play-offs

The Bengals face the Bills then the
Cowboys smash themselves into the
49ers. Yes, it is the divisional playoffs. And if you are still awake after
that, you can switch over to BT Sport
for the T20 Super Smash, live from
Wellington’s Basin Reserve (where
they’d call it the Super Smesh). Or
you could watch the Australian
Open. That’s on all night.
@mattbutler503

RESULTS SERVICE
THE SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP

Burnley (0)........................2
Tella 75
Twine 87
Sheff Utd (1)..................... 1
Jebbison 4

West Brom (1).....................1
Furlong 7
Hull (0)........................................ 0
Att 29,271

CYCLING

SANTOS TOUR DOWN UNDER, AUSTRALIA, Stage
3 (118.5km): 1 P Bilbao (Sp) Bahrain Victorious 2hrs
48mins 10secs, 2 S Yates (GB) Team Jayco-AlUla,
3 J Vine (A) UAE Team Emirates at same time, 4
M Matthews (A) Team Jayco-AlUla at 28secs, 5 SE
Bystrom (Nor) Intermarche-Circus-Wanty, 10 E
Hayter (GB) INEOS Grenadiers both at same time.
Overall: 1 J Vine 10hrs 32mins 50secs, 2 P Bilbao at
15secs, 3 S Yates (GB) at 16secs, 6 E Hayter at 50secs.

GOLF

WOMEN’S HILTON GRAND VACATIONS TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS, Orlando, Florida, Second
round (US unless stated, Par 72): 133 B Henderson
(Can) 67 66; 137 N Korda 68 69; 138 C Hull (GB) 69 69;
W Ling Hsu (Taiw) 69 69; 139 N Hataoka (Japan) 71 68;
M Stark (Swe) 71 68; 140 L Maguire (Rep Ire) 71 69; D
Kang 71 69; 141 A Furue (Japan) 71 70; G Lopez (Mex)
73 68; M Jutanugarn (Thai) 74 67; 142 J Ewart (GB) 70
72; G Dryburgh (GB) 69 73; R O’Toole 72 70; M Castren
(Fin) 72 70; 143 Y Saso (Japan) 70 73; P Reto (SA) 74 69;
A Nordqvist (Swe) 71 72; P Anannarukarn (Thai) 71 72;
144 C Boutier (Fr) 71 73; A Buhai (SA) 69 75; N Koerstz
Madsen (Den) 72 72.

HOCKEY

FIH ODISHA MEN’S WORLD CUP, INDIA, Group A: Australia 9 South Africa 2, France 5 Argentina 5. Group B:
Belgium 7 Japan 1, South Korea 2 Germany 7.

HORSE RACING RESULTS
Newcastle - Standard to slow

3.45 1. CALCUTTA DREAM (S Gray) 4-1; 2. Bobby Shaftoe
25-1; 3. First Snowfall 7-2 jt-fav. 8 ran. 7-2 jt-fav Hildenley (6th). nk, nk. (M & D Easterby).
4.15 1. HERETIC (R Coakley) 9-1; 2. Whatwouldyouknow
9-2; 3. End Zone 7-2 fav. 9 ran. 11/2l, 11/4l. (H Palmer).
4.45 1. MINT EDITION (P J McDonald) 2-1 fav; 2. Henzar
13-2; 3. Champagny 7-2. 6 ran. 31/2l, 1l. (E Bethell).
5.15 1. GLORIOUS ANGEL (Billy Loughnane) 85-40; 2.
Sugar Hill Babe 10-1; 3. Brownlee 11-8 fav. 4 ran. nk,
41/2l. (G Tuer).
5.45 1. PAPA DON’T PREACH (P Mulrennan) 16-1; 2. Dusky
Prince 10-1; 3. Motawaazy 7-1. 9 ran. 5-2 fav Modular
Magic (8th). shd, 1/2l. (K Frost).
Following a stewards’ inquiry, Dusky Prince who finished 1st was disqualified and placed 2nd.
6.15 1. MAN OF EDEN (P J McDonald) 2-5 fav; 2. Latest
Edition 12-1; 3. Melwood Boy 7-1. 8 ran. 1/2l, 1/2l. (H & R
Charlton).

6.45 1. SEESAWING (M Crehan) 4-1; 2. Mumcat 13-2; 3.
King Of Speed 13-2. 8 ran. 2-1 fav Highjacked (7th). nk, 2l.
(I Furtado).
Jackpot: £10,000.00. Placepot: £358.00. Quadpot:
£83.70. Place 6: £216.98. Place 5: £114.11.
Southwell - Standard
12.50 1. NELLIE FRENCH (P Dennis) 6-1; 2. Ustath 11-4 fav;

3. Stroxx 22-1. 11 ran. 1/2l, nk. (K Scott).
1.20 1. LIBERATED LAD (B Sanderson) 7-2; 2. Isle of Wolves
8-1; 3. Ship To Shore 6-1. 12 ran. 10-3 fav Funky Town
Pinkie (7th). 61/2l, 1/2l. (I Williams).
1.50 1. CIAO ADIOS (S M Levey) 25-1; 2. Lhebayeb 17-2; 3.
International Law 11-2. 12 ran. 3-1 fav Rock Chant (8th).
nk, 1/2l. (R Hannon).
2.20 1. DUBAI JEANIUS (T Eaves) 5-2 fav; 2. Destinado 10-1;
3. Hammy End 7-1. 11 ran. 1/2l, 21/2l. (M Herrington).
2.50 1. REGAL EMPIRE (Rossa Ryan) 22-1; 2. Land Legend
50-1; 3. Golden Speech 2-5 fav. 12 ran. 21/2l, nk. (J Tate).
3.20 1. RUN TEDDY RUN (C Lee) 11-10 fav; 2. Velma 16-1; 3.
Pessoa 9-1. 14 ran. 13/4l, 3l. (K R Burke).
3.50 1. TWO DESSERTS (K O’Neill) 9-1; 2. Ray Vonn 11-4;
3. Sea The Buckthorn 15-8 fav. 9 ran. 11/2l, 13/4l. (Alice
Haynes).
4.23 1. BREEZYANDBRIGHT (Rossa Ryan) 11-2; 2. Jems
Bond 9-4 fav; 3. Tricky Business 8-1. 11 ran. 13/4l, 3/4l. (M
Murphy & M Keady).
Placepot: £80.70. Quadpot: £20.80.
Place 6: £78.97. Place 5: £44.03.

RUGBY UNION
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS CUP POOL ONE
Lyon (24)................................... 31
Blue Bulls (0).........................7
P W D L
F
A B
Leinster
3 3
0 0
148 24 3
Sharks
3 3
0 0
90 50 2
Saracens
3 3
0 0
106 74 2
Exeter
3 2
0 1
99 65 3
Edinburgh
3 2
0 1
91
71 3
Blue Bulls
4 2
0 2
102 139 2
Lyon
4 1
0 3
115 125 4
Harlequins
3 1
0 2
74 79 3
Racing 92
3 1
0 2
50 85 1
Gloucester
3 1
0 2
36 123 1
Bordeaux-Begles 3 0
0 3
36 73 2
Castres
3 0
0 3
53 92 0
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS CUP POOL TWO
Leicester (13)....................... 26
Ospreys (13)......................... 27
EUROPEAN CHALLENGE CUP POOL 1
Bristol (33)............................. 33
Perpignan (7).....................19
Glasgow (14).........................19
Bath (13)...................................19
Toulon (14).............................14
Zebre (0)......................................5

Pts
15
14
14
11
11
10
8
7
5
5
2
0

RFU CHAMPIONSHIP
Nottingham .........................17

Caldy .........................................29

SKIING

FIS MEN’S WORLD CUP, KITZBUEHEL, AUSTRIA,
Downhill: 1 V Kriechmayr (Aut) 1min 56.16secs, 2 F
Schieder (It) at 0.23secs, 3 N Hintermann (Swi) at 0.31,
4 J Goldberg (US) at 0.35, 5 D Paris (It) at 0.39.
FIS WOMEN’S WORLD CUP, CORTINA D’AMPEZZO,
ITALY, Downhill: 1 S Goggia (It) 1min 33.47secs, 2 I
Stuhec (Slo) at 0.13secs, 3 K Weidle (G) at 0.36, 4 M
Shiffrin (US) at 0.50, 5 L Gut-Behrami (Swi) at 0.53.

SNOOKER

WORLD GRAND PRIX, CHELTENHAM, QUARTER-FINALS: S Murphy (Eng) bt A McGill (Sco) 5-4; J Trump
(Eng) bt X Guodong (Chn) 5-3. Semi-final: M Allen
(NIrl) bt N Saengkham (Tha) 6-1.

SQUASH

J.P MORGAN TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS, New
York, Men’s 2nd rd: N Mueller (Swi) bt J Makin (Wal)
9-11 11-6 12-10 5-11 11-9; V Crouin (F) bt N Wall (Eng)
9-11 11-6 6-11 11-9 11-8; MA Rodriguez (Col) bt Mo
El Shorbagy (Eng) 6-11 12-10 11-9 11-5; M Asal (Egy)
bt P Rooney (Eng) 11-6 8-11 11-4 11-3. Women’s 2nd
rd: J King (NZ) bt E Whitlock (Wal) 7-11 11-8 11-8 3-11
11-3; S-J Perry (Eng) bt S Hany (Egy) 7-11 14-12 6-11
11-6 11-3.

TENNIS

AUSTRALIAN OPEN, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA: Men’s
Third round: (31) Y NISHIOKA (Japan) bt M McDonald
(US) 7-6 (8-6) 6-3 6-2; (18) K KHACHANOV (Rus) bt (16)
F TIAFOE (US) 6-3 6-4 3-6 7-6 (11-9); (10) H HURKACZ
(Pol) bt (20) D SHAPOVALOV (Can) 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 1-6
4-6 6-3; (29) S KORDA (US) bt (7) D MEDVEDEV
(Rus) 7-6 (9-7) 6-3 7-6 (7-4); (3) S TSITSIPAS (Gr) bt T
Griekspoor (Neth) 6-2 7-6 (7-5) 6-3; (15) J SINNER (It) bt
M Fucsovics (Hun) 4-6 4-6 6-1 6-2 6-0; J Lehecka (Cz
Rep) bt (11) C NORRIE (GB) 6-7 (8-10) 6-3 3-6 6-1 6-4;
(6) F AUGER-ALIASSIME (Can) bt (28) F CERUNDOLO
(Arg) 6-1 3-6 6-1 6-4.
Women’s Third round: (1) I SWIATEK (Pol) bt C Bucsa
(Sp) 6-0 6-1; (22) E RYBAKINA (Kaz) bt (13) D COLLINS
(US) 6-2 5-7 6-2; (17) J OSTAPENKO (Lat) bt K Baindl
(Ukr) 6-3 6-0; (7) C GAUFF (US) bt B Pera (US) 6-3 6-2;
(3) J PEGULA (US) bt M Kostyuk (Ukr) 6-0 6-2; (20) B
KREJCIKOVA (Cz Rep) bt A Kalinina (Ukr) 6-2 6-3; (24)
V AZARENKA (Bela) bt (10) M KEYS (US) 1-6 6-2 6-1; L
Zhu (Chin) bt (6) M SAKKARI (Gr) 7-6 (7-3) 1-6 6-4.
Men’s Doubles First round: (6) L GLASSPOOL (GB) &
H HELIOVAARA (Fin) bt N Lammons (US) & J Withrow
(US) 7-6 (7-3) 6-3; A Bolt (Aus) & L Saville (Aus) bt F
Coria (Arg) & D Sebastian Schwartzman (Arg) 6-2 6-4;
A Goransson (Swe) & M Huesler (Swit) bt Q Halys
(Fr) & A Mannarino (Fr) 6-4 6-4; S Doumbia (Fr) & F
Reboul (Fr) bt (9) S BOLELLI (It) & F FOGNINI (It) 6-3
6-3; J Chardy (Fr) & F Martin (Fr) bt M Cressy (US) &

A Olivetti (Fr) 7-6 (7-3) 6-4; A Erler (Aut) & L Miedler
(Aut) bt (10) R BOPANNA (India) & M EBDEN (Aus) 6-3
7-5; (3) M AREVALO (Esa) & J ROJER (Neth) bt D Hidalgo (Ec) & E Ruusuvuori (Fin) 6-1 7-6 (7-1); B Bonzi
(Fr) & A Rinderknech (Fr) bt J Millman (Aus) & A Vukic
(Aus) 6-2 7-6 (7-3); M Purcell (Aus) & J Thompson (Aus)
bt G Duran (Arg) & P Oswald (Aut) 6-3 6-4; M Polmans
(Aus) & A Popyrin (Aus) bt F Bagnis (Arg) & R Galloway (US) 6-4 6-3. Second round: T Brkic (Bih) & G
Escobar (Ec) bt (11) J MURRAY (GB) & M VENUS (NZ)
7-6 (7-5) 6-4; (16) R HAASE (Neth) & M MIDDELKOOP
(Neth) bt J CASH (GB) & H PATTEN (GB) 6-4 7-6 (8-6);
(12) J SEBASTIAN CABAL (Col) & R FARAH (Col) bt A
Golubev (Kaz) & A Nedovyesov (Kaz) 4-6 6-3 6-1.
Women’s Doubles First round: L Fruhvirtova (Cz
Rep) & A Riske-Amritraj (US) bt N Dzalamidze (Geor)
& A Panova (Rus) 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 7-5; (15) C LIU (US) &
S SANTAMARIA (US) bt J Fourlis (Aus) & A Sharma
(Aus) 2-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-4; (12) A MUHAMMAD (US) & T
TOWNSEND (US) bt N Podoroska (Arg) & M Sherif
(Eg) 6-1 6-2; (4) S HUNTER (Aus) & E MERTENS (Bel)
bt V Kudermetova (Rus) & L Samsonova (Rus) 2-6
7-6 (8-6) 6-1; (9) N MELICHAR (US) & E PEREZ (Aus)
bt E Alexandrova (Rus) & V Heisen (Ger) 6-2 6-1; M
Kolodziejova (Cz Rep) & M Vondrousova (Cz Rep) bt
A BARNETT (GB) & O NICHOLLS (GB) 3-6 6-3 7-5; (7)
B HADDAD MAIA (Br) & S ZHANG (Chin) bt L Annie
Fernandez (Can) & B Mattek-Sands (US) 6-7 (5-7) 6-4
6-3; (10) S AOYAMA (Japan) & E SHIBAHARA (Japan)
bt M Linette (Pol) & X Wang (Chin) 7-5 3-6 6-3; A
Potapova (Rus) & Y Sizikova (Rus) bt (13) K FLIPKENS
(Bel) & L SIEGEMUND (Ger) 7-6 (7-2) 6-4; B Bencic
(Swit) & J Belen Teichmann (Swit) bt M Brengle (US)
& R Marino (Can) 6-2 6-2; (3) G DABROWSKI (Can) &
G OLMOS (Mex) bt I Begu (Rom) & S Rogers (US) 4-6
6-2 6-2; C Bucsa (Sp) & M Ninomiya (Japan) bt S Kenin
(US) & Y Putintseva (Kaz) 6-2 6-3. Second round: V
Golubic (Swit) & M Niculescu (Rom) bt A Bondar (Hun)
& G Minnen (Bel) 6-4 6-1; (16) M KATO (Japan) & A
SUTJIADI (Indo) bt M Bouzkova (Cz Rep) & M Camila
Osorio Serrano (Col) 6-3 6-7 (4-7) 6-3.
Mixed Doubles First round: J Ostapenko (Lat) & D Vega
Hernandez (Sp) bt H Chan (Taipei) & M Venus (NZ) 6-2
6-7 (5-7) 10-6; (3) D KRAWCZYK (US) & N SKUPSKI
(GB) bt S Hunter (Aus) & J Peers (Aus) 6-7 (3-7) 7-6
(14-12) 10-8; T Townsend (US) & J MURRAY (GB) bt K
Flipkens (Bel) & E Roger-Vasselin (Fr) 6-2 3-6 10-7; M
Inglis (Aus) & J Kubler (Aus) bt (7) A ROSOLSKA (Pol)
& J ROJER (Neth) 7-6 (10-8) 1-6 11-9; K Birrell (Aus) &
R Hijikata (Aus) bt L Kichenok (Ukr) & G Escobar (Ec)
6-1 7-6 (7-5); (8) G DABROWSKI (Can) & M PURCELL
(Aus) bt Z Yang (Chin) & J Zielinski (Pol) 6-2 7-5; L
Cabrera (Aus) & J Smith (Aus) bt K Zimmermann (Bel)
& T Puetz (Ger) 7-5 6-3; L Stefani (Br) & R Matos (Br)
bt X Han (Chin) & Z Zhang (Chin) 6-2 6-0; B MattekSands (US) & M Pavic (Croa) bt (2) J PEGULA (US) & A
KRAJICEK (US) 6-7 (4-7) 7-5 10-8.

TODAY’S FIXTURES
CRICKET
SECOND ONE DAY INTERNATIONAL: India v New
Zealand (Raipur, 8am).

ICE HOCKEY
ELITE LEAGUE: Fife v Coventry, Guildford v Cardiff,
Manchester v Dundee, Nottingham v Belfast, Sheffield
v Glasgow.

RUGBY UNION
HEINEKEN CHAMPIONS CUP POOL 1 (3.15):
Bordeaux-Begles v Gloucester, Exeter v Castres (5.30),
Harlequins v Sharks (1.0), Leinster v Racing 92.
POOL 2 (8.0): Northampton v La Rochelle (1.0),
Stormers v Clermont Auvergne (5.30), Ulster v Sale.
EUROPEAN RUGBY CHALLENGE CUP POOL 1 (5.30):
Brive v Cardiff Rugby (3.15), Newcastle v Connacht.
POOL 2 (3.15): Bayonne v Scarlets (1.0), Benetton
Treviso v Stade Francais.
RFU CHAMPIONSHIP (3.0): Ampthill v Coventry (2.0),
Bedford v Cornish Pirates, Hartpury RFC v Ealing
Trailfinders (2.30), Jersey Reds v London Scottish,
Richmond v Doncaster.

TOMORROW’S FIXTURES
BASKETBALL
BBL CHAMPIONSHIP: Bristol v Newcastle, Cheshire v
Manchester, London Lions v Sheffield.

ICE HOCKEY
ELITE LEAGUE: Coventry Blaze v Guildford Flames,
Dundee Stars v Fife Flyers, Sheffield Steelers v
Manchester Storm.

RUGBY UNION
HEINEKEN CHAMPIONS CUP POOL 1 (3.0): Edinburgh
v Saracens (5.30). POOL 2 (3.0): Montpellier v London
Irish (1.0), Toulouse v Munster (3.15).
P W D L
F
A B Pts
Leicester
4 3
0 1
116 89 2 14
Ospreys
4 3
0 1
100 88 2 14
Toulouse
3 3
0 0
90 37 1 13
La Rochelle
3 3
0 0
89 44 1 13
Stormers
3 2
0 1
76 52 2 10
Munster
3 2
0 1
57 47 1
9
Montpellier
3 1
0 2
71 83 3
7
Clermont A
3 1
0 2
69 81 2
6
Sale
3 1
0 2
63 72 1
5
Ulster
3 0
0 3
32 82 3
3
London Irish
3 0
0 3
55 94 1
1
Northampton
3 0
0 3
41 90 1
1

100

SPORT

SPORT IN BRIEF

CRICKET

Sponsors leave ECB
looking for new deals
English cricket is on the lookout
for new sponsors after two major
commercial partners opted not to
renew their deals.
Online car retailer Cazoo
will no longer serve as title
sponsors for The Hundred after
reaching the end of a two-year
arrangement, while LV=
Insurance’s stint as backers of
Test and first-class cricket ends
this summer.
With Royal London also
concluding its sponsorship of the
50-over game at the end of 2022,
it promises to be a busy time as
the England and Wales Cricket
Board, the game’s governing body,
attempts to attract fresh interest
and commercial partners.

GOLF

Molinari revival
continues apace
in Abu Dhabi
Francesco Molinari’s welcome
resurgence gathered pace as the
former Open champion claimed
a share of the lead in the Abu
Dhabi HSBC Championship.
A second consecutive 67 at Yas
Links gave Molinari a halfway
total of 10 under par,
matched only by
compatriot Guido
Migliozzi, who
birdied his final
three holes to
return a 69.
Molinari
(left) won three
times in 2018,
including the Open
at Carnoustie and BMW
PGA Championship at Wentworth, before becoming the first
European player to compile a
perfect 5-0 record in that year’s
Ryder Cup.
The 40-year-old has not had
a top-three finish in a strokeplay event since winning the
Arnold Palmer Invitational in
March 2019.

MOTORSPORT

Ogier takes Monte
Carlo lead in Alps
Eight-times world champion
Sebastien Ogier enjoyed a
commanding lead in the seasonopening Monte Carlo Rally in the
French Alps yesterday.
Ogier, who is competing
only part-time in this year’s
championship, won four of the
day’s six stages to build a 36
second buffer to Toyota team
mate and reigning champion
Kalle Rovanpera. The Frenchman
won both of Thursday’s night
stages and is chasing a ninth
Monte Carlo win, one more
than the record he shares with
compatriot Sebastien Loeb.
Loeb, a nine-times world
champion and last year’s Monte
Carlo winner, is absent this time.

EXCLUSIVE

Katherine
Lucas

“I

’m pissed off.” Tonight
it will be 349 days since
Chris Eubank Jr last
entered a ring. The man
he holds responsible for
that hiatus, Conor Benn,
believes he is days away
from a drugs ban being
lifted after October’s grudge match
between the two warring families
was called off.
“I didn’t want to fight once
last year,” sighs Eubank. “That is
disgusting. For somebody of my
age I can’t be fighting once a year.
It’s pathetic. Conor Benn put me
in that situation and I need to be
as active as possible. I’ve got a
good two, three, four years of solid
fighting left in me so I need to be
fighting as many times as possible,
not once a year – it’s unacceptable.”
i sits down with Eubank
while Benn’s camp is making
considerable noise – they insist he
will be vindicated any time now
over his positive tests for fertility
drug clomifene, administered
by the Voluntary Anti-Doping
Association (Vada). Benn remains
under investigation by the WBC,
who have dropped him from
their rankings.
“Been through hell and back,”
Benn writes. “Thank God for
science. The evidence doesn’t
lie. No holes in the truth.” The
26-year-old has always maintained
his innocence and has the full
backing of his promoter Eddie
Hearn, who wants to rearrange the
Eubank fight later this year. If the
suspension is overturned, will he be
vindicated? Not in Eubank’s world.
“It doesn’t matter what lawyers
and scientists and documents
they can pull out of their arses to
try and exonerate this guy, he got
caught with illegal substances in
his system – twice.
“So as far as I’m concerned and
as far as the general public are
concerned, he’s a cheater and he
will never ever shake that stigma
for the rest of his career.”
Since then, Eubank has heard
“not a word” from Benn or his
team. That will have to change
soon if the catchweight bout is ever
to be resurrected – and despite
everything, Eubank admits he
would still take the fight.
“The fight’s huge, the fight’s
twice as big as it was before – and
it was already a massive fight,” he
says. “I’m never going to say no to
that, I’m never going to turn the
opportunity down.
“I’m in a strange situation where
my head wants to fight still. It’s a
massive fight, the fans want it, it’s a
huge money fight and it’s for legacy
– I get to uphold my family name
against my father’s arch rival.
“But on the flip side, my heart
wants him to have a ban. My heart
wants him to pay for what he’s done
and to be an example.
“They need to make an example
of this kid so people coming up, the
youngsters coming up in the sport,
don’t think that they can cheat and
get away with it.”
From one British boxing dynasty
to another then, from the Benns

Chris Eubank Jr
is still keen on
the Conor Benn
showdown GETTY

Eubank Jr feels
his chances
slipping away
TALE OF THE TAPE
C EUBANK JNR

L SMITH

33
AGE
34
NICKNAME
Beefy
Next Gen
FIGHTS
36
34
WINS (BY KO)
32 (19)
32 (23)
DEFEATS (BY KO)
3 (1)
2 (0)
STANCE
Orthodox
Orthodox
HEIGHT
5ft 9in
5ft 11in
REACH
69in
73in
WEIGHT
11st 5lb
11st 5lb

to the Smiths, as former British
and world light-middleweight
champion Liam awaits.
It is hard to know what to expect
in Manchester tonight. In Cardiff
last February, Liam Williams was
dominated, put down four times,
but a year out has given Eubank
even more chance to evolve under
the stewardship of Roy Jones Jr.
The biggest change, he admits, is
about “mindset”.
Eubank is more tactical than he
once was, an approach he concedes

may be “thrown out the window”
against Smith (below), whom he
recently irked by calling him a
“dirty fighter”.
“From how this guy fights, he’s
a come-forward, rough, inside
fighter so I don’t know how tactical
I’m going to be,” he says. “I might
get drawn into a fight, I might bring
the fight to him – or I may
box and see what I can
get away with.”
The build-up has
been fiery; Smith
caused anger at
Thursday’s press
conference by
insinuating Eubank Jr
is gay, asking: “You go on
about girls, has anybody in
this room ever seen you with a girl?
You got something to tell us?”
He later apologised and the
British Boxing Board of Control
said it will be “considering the
conduct” of both fighters. Eubank
retaliated by wearing a rainbow
armband at yesterday’s weigh-in.
Smith, meanwhile, expanded on
a taunt familiar to Eubank: that

his career has taken place in the
shadow of Chris Eubank Sr.
“The Eubank name lives through
his dad,” Smith said. “He’s trying
his best to make a name for himself
and do it in a different way, but his
dad was a special fighter – Chris is
far from a special fighter.”
Smith, who revealed Eubank has
inserted a rematch clause into
the contract, was amused
to hear of his opponent’s
ambitions to fight Saul
“Canelo” Alvarez,
having felt at first hand
how dangerous the
Mexican can be.
“He couldn’t lace
Canelo’s gloves,” Smith
says. “Canelo would wipe the
floor with him. He’ll never get that
opportunity because he’s not good
enough, and that’s why.
“He’s called Canelo and
[Gennady] Golovkin out for about
four years and he’s never fought
either of them because he’s not
good enough to earn it and he
doesn’t bring nothing to the table,
he’s not valuable.”

NEWS
2-41

OPINION
27-32

LIFE
45-81

PUZZLES
51-56

TV
58-71

TRAVEL
75-81

MONEY
87-91

SATURDAY
21 JANUARY 2023

SPORT
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101

RACING

Al Agaila can carry weight of expectation

By Jon Freeman
RACING EDITOR

It was clear for all to see that Al
Agaila had an edge on the handicapper as she waltzed to her first win out
of maiden company at Lingfield last
month without breaking sweat.
But how much of an edge? Handicappers don’t enjoy having their
judgement mocked and Simon and
Ed Crisford’s filly was immediately
hammered with an 11lb rise.
Too much? Unlikely. Al Agaila is
back at the Surrey venue today for
the £100k Winter Oaks Fillies’ Handicap, taking on the horses who finished
closest to her in December, Makinmedoit and Tequilamockingbird, on
massively worse weight terms.
Significantly, though, the Crisfords
have also entered her for Lingfield’s
Winter Derby next month when
every potential rival bar one is rated
much higher than her, including two

LINGFIELD

12.27
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Ascot Group One winners (Lord
North and Pyledriver).
That’s a fair indication of how good
they think she is, or will become,
and even if they’re only half right, Al
Agaila should be good enough to take
today’s task in her stride.
It’s probably fair to say that Epatante wasn’t an outstanding Champion Hurdle winner in 2020 when she
was up against nothing of the calibre
of this year’s chief protagonists, Honeysuckle and Constitution Hill.
But Nicky Henderson’s mare was
the best then and is still among the
best of the rest now, good enough to
win the The New One Hurdle at Haydock en route to a likely Cheltenham
Festival spar with stablemate Marie’s Rock in the Mares’ Hurdle.
Bristol De Mai has been winning
Grade Ones for almost a decade,
including three Betfair Chases at
Haydock, and Nigel Twiston-Davies’
bold-jumping grey has nothing left to

STANDARD

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THE X O (D) J Ryan 9 4.....................................................................L Morris 7
HARRY BROWN D M Simcock 9 4..................................H Turner 6
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6-1 Tenjin, Harry Brown, 7-1 The X O, 16-1 Royal Mariner.

1.37

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Al Agaila wins at Lingfield ahead of
today’s Winter Oaks Fillies’ Handicap

prove as retirement approaches. But
a second win in this afternoon’s Peter
Marsh Chase would be pretty neat –
his first was back in 2017.
Now 12, he’s not quite the force of

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HANDICAP (CLASS 5) £15,000 added 1m
1
3113-1 STARSHIBA (CD) D O’Meara 6 9 13.......................D Muscutt V 6
2
2551-5 VALENTINKA (CD) M Botti 5 9 11..............................J Mitchell B 2
3
9249-1 MILLTOWN STAR (D) J Osborne 6 9 11.....................S W Kelly 4
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6
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7
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10
2243- CARPE FORTUNA R Brisland 4 9 4..............................W Carson 7
11 4077-3 BEAUTIFUL CROWN (C) B Johnson 5 9 3...... H Burns (3) 11
12 8/315- GURKHA GIRL (CD) R Teal 5 9 1..................................Rossa Ryan 9
- 12 declared BETTING: 10-3 Starshiba, 5-1 Asdaa, 6-1 Super Den, Milltown Star, 10-1 others.

3.57

HAYDOCK

HEAVY (INSPECTION 8AM)
PATRICK COYNE MEMORIAL ALTCAR NOVICES’ CHASE
(GRADE 2) (CLASS 1) £52,000 added 2m 4f
1
1-2134 GRAND VOYAGE (D) W Coltherd 7 11 2......................S Coltherd
2
111-1U LAC DE CONSTANCE (BF) D Skelton 7 11 2..............H Skelton
3
PP-121 STAGE STAR (D) P Nicholls 7 11 2........................................H Cobden
- 3 declared BETTING: 10-11 Lac De Constance, Evens Stage Star, 20-1 Grand Voyage.
SIMON MARSH MEMORIAL HANDICAP CHASE (CLASS 3)
£16,400 added 2m
1
164-27 HEARTBREAK KID (D) D McCain 8 12 0..................B Hughes B
2
3521-2 DESTINED TO SHINE (C)(D) Kerry Lee 11 12 0..R Patrick T
3
/116-F SHOLOKJACK (D) D Skelton 7 11 13..................................H Skelton
4
543P31 NOT AVAILABLE (D) M Sheppard 8 11 12...S Sheppard B,T
5
-14263 JOKE DANCER (CD) Sue Smith 10 11 12............R Chapman C
6
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SPREADEX SPORTS GET 40 IN BONUSES
7
12-611 WHEELBAHRI (D) W Coltherd 9 11 4...........................S Coltherd
ITV3 8
51332- OUT ON THE TEAR (D) S Allwood 9 11 3....................F Gregory
HANDICAP (CLASS 4) £22,000 added 7f
9
U13-3P OSCARS LEADER (CD) J Candlish 10 11 3..Sean Quinlan V
1
14235- MILLION THANKS K P De Foy 4 9 9................ D Muscutt T 10 10 /P46P- EST ILLIC (D) S-J Davies 9 10 9...............................W T Kennedy C
2
3/136- BARGING THRU (D) A Watson 4 9 9......................... L Morris C 3
- 10 declared 3
17435- HIGH VELOCITY J Tate 4 9 9..................................Rossa Ryan H 11
BETTING: 7-2 Not Available, 4-1 Wheelbahri, Sholokjack, 5-1 others.
4
49611- LORD RAPSCALLION (D) S C Williams 7 9 8.....................................
ROSSINGTON MAIN NOVICES’ HURDLE (GRADE 2)

..............................................................................................................................S M Levey T 7
ITV3
(CLASS 1) £50,000 added 2m
5
3550-0 SHOOT TO KILL (CD) R Brisland 6 9 7................T Marquand 1
6
8518-7 REVOLUTIONISE (D) S C Williams 7 9 5.....................J Hart T 6 1
11-11 CHASING FIRE (D) O Murphy 6 11 4.............................A Coleman
7
/3157- ALL THE KING’S MEN (D) G Boughey 5 9 4.......R L Moore 4 2
1-1 DOYEN STAR (D) E Williams 5 11 4.....................................A Wedge
8
23208- SECRET STRENGTH J Boyle 4 9 2...................................H Crouch 9 3
1-122 MATATA (D)(BF) N Twiston-Davies 5 11 4...............D Jacob H
9
5612-3 DANCINGINTHEWOODS (D)(BF) Miss A Murphy 6 9 1........
4
F1-711 PEMBROKE (D) D Skelton 6 11 4..........................................H Skelton

........................................................................................................................F Larson (3) V 5 5
6F5-1 TOOTHLESS (D) P Nicholls 5 11 4........................................H Cobden
10 7346-1 POETIC FORCE (CD) A Carroll 9 8 12....Mollie Phillips (3) 8 6
17-411 WAR SOLDIER (CD) A M Thomson 6 11 4......................R Mania
11 3541-2 MISS BELLA BRAND (CD) Mrs I G-Leveque 5 8 12.....................
7
116-13 POETIC MUSIC (D) F O’Brien 5 10 11..................................... C Brace

.........................................................................................................................................G Wood 2
- 7 declared BETTING: 13-8 Pembroke, 11-4 Chasing Fire, 9-2 Toothless, 10-1 others.
12 88750- MOUNT MOGAN (CD) Mrs L Mongan 6 8 11...W Carson 12
- 12 declared THE NEW ONE UNIBET HURDLE (GRADE 2)
BETTING: 4-1 Lord Rapscallion, 9-2 All The King’s Men, 7-1 Poetic Force,
(CLASS 1) £75,000 added 2m
ITV3
8-1 Million Thanks, Miss Bella Brand, Dancinginthewoods, 10-1 Secret
Strength, 12-1 Shoot To Kill, High Velocity, 14-1 others.
1
520-16 I LIKE TO MOVE IT (D)(BF) N Twiston-Davies 6 11 8...S Twiston-Davies
2
414-24
NELLS
SON
(D)
N
Richards
8
11
7.
.
...................D
McMenamin
C
TALKSPORT WINTER OAKS FILLIES’ HANDICAP
ITV3 3 4-3440 FOR PLEASURE (D) A Hales 8 11 4..................................K Woods T
(CLASS 2) £100,000 added 1m 2f
4
U7/3-4 JASON THE MILITANT (D)(BF) P Kirby 9 11 4.....J Williamson T
42-431 MINELLA DRAMA (C)(D) D McCain 8 11 4.................B Hughes
1
21/42- PURPLE RIBBON (D) C Fellowes 5 9 12.............J Mitchell H 3 5
6
213-22 EPATANTE (D) N Henderson 9 11 3...............................A Coleman
2
51512- MAKINMEDOIT (CD)(BF) Harry Eustace 4 9 8................................
- 6 declared
.....................................................................................................................P-L Jamin (3) T 7
BETTING: 8-13 Epatante, 5-2 I Like To Move It, 10-1 Minella Drama,
3
32311- AL AGAILA (CD) S & E Crisford 4 8 13.............James Doyle 2
16-1
others
4
22371- MORGAN FAIRY (C) W Haggas 4 8 11.................T Marquand 1
5
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ITV3
6
25513- TEQUILAMOCKINGBIRD (CD) C Fellowes 4 8 3............................
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...................................................................................................................................... L Morris 6
1
P31P-4
BRISTOL
DE
MAI
(CD)
N
Twiston-Davies
12
11
12.D
Jacob
7
4664-1 AIMING HIGH (D) D M Simcock 4 8 2....................H Turner H 8
FP12-7 EMPIRE STEEL A M Thomson 9 11 1...................................R Mania
8
8470-3 THE FLYING GINGER (D) R Fell 5 8 2...........................F Norton 4 2
3
112-20 DR KANANGA (D) Ben Clarke 9 10 11.........................B R Jones T
- 8 declared 4
141-14 FONTAINE COLLONGES (CD) V Williams 8 10 9...C Deutsch
BETTING: 6-5 Al Agaila, 7-2 Morgan Fairy, 5-1 Purple Ribbon, 6-1
5
P0-0P4
BLAKLION (CD) D Skelton 14 10 6.................................H Skelton T
Makinmedoit, 14-1 Tequilamockingbird, 16-1 Aiming High, 33-1 At A
6
P-2132 COOPER’S CROSS W Coltherd 8 10 6.....................S Coltherd C
Pinch, 50-1 The Flying Ginger.
- 6 declared BETUK OVER 40,000 LIVE STREAMED RACES
BETTING: 9-4 Fontaine Collonges, 11-4 Bristol De Mai, 7-2 Empire Steel,
ITV3 6-1 Dr Kananga, 10-1 Cooper’s Cross, Blaklion.
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11/1-5 THE BELL CONDUCTOR (D) P Midgley 6 9 9.....................................
ITV3
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.........................................................................................................................P Mulrennan 2
2
51734- STRONG POWER (CD) Alice Haynes 6 9 9.........K O’Neill B 1 1
4PP-46 ITCHY FEET O Murphy 9 12 0....................................... L Stones (5) C
3
04234- LORD RIDDIFORD (CD) J J Quinn 8 9 8............................... J Hart 7 2
P44-P2 STELLAR MAGIC (D) P Hobbs 8 11 11......................T J O’Brien C
4
5242-2 SILKY WILKIE (D) K R Burke 4 9 6..........................S Feilden (7) 5 3
-42232 BELLS OF PETERBORO (D) T Vaughan 8 11 2.............A Johns
5
46626- STONE OF DESTINY (D) M Appleby 8 8 11............................................
4
22-241 SILVER FLYER (D) D McCain 7 11 2...............................B Hughes C

............................................................................................................................D Muscutt C 6 5
2/7-3P CORRIEBEN REIVER Ewan Whillans 9 11 1.Sean Quinlan
6 1105-0 EMBOUR (C)(D) R Carr 8 8 8...............Billy Loughnane (7) B 3 6
3P2F-0 ALNADAM (D) D Skelton 10 11 1......................................H Skelton T
7
1114-4 POP DANCER (CD) A Carroll 6 8 8...............................L Morris C 4 7
/P-P0P JIMMY JIMMY S-J Davies 8 10 12.........................W T Kennedy C
8 04210- LA ROCA DEL FUEGO (CD) G Deacon 7 8 4..........................................
8
4-2122 SALVINO A M Thomson 7 10 11............................................R Mania T

.................................................................................................................... Rose Dawes (7) 8 9
221 BROADWAY BOY N Twiston-Davies 5 10 9..... S Twiston-Davies
- 8 declared 10
1-11 DE LEGISLATOR (D) L Russell 6 10 7.................P W Wadge (7)
BETTING: 5-2 Silky Wilkie, 4-1 The Bell Conductor, 5-1 Strong Power,
- 10 declared Lord Riddiford, 8-1 Pop Dancer, Stone Of Destiny, 12-1 La Roca Del
BETTING: 5-2 De Legislator, 3-1 Broadway Boy, 8-1 Bells Of Peterboro,
Salvino, Silver Flyer, Stellar Magic, 10-1 others.
Fuego, 20-1 Embour.
1
0142/ STEPNEY CAUSEWAY M Harris 6 10 0.......A Keeley (5) C 4
2
93514- TARBAAN (D) Miss A Murphy 4 9 13.....F Larson (3) B,T 10
3
55111- DREAM HARDER (D) I Williams 4 9 12.............James Doyle 3
4
0063-7 PISTOLETTO (C)(D) J Ryan 6 9 12.. Billy Loughnane (7) C 9
5
34214- SWEET FANTASY R Beckett 4 9 11....................Rossa Ryan C 7
6
/5781- PARIS LIGHTS (CD) G Boughey 4 9 11................R L Moore T 6
7
9443-4 YOUNG FIRE D O’Meara 8 9 9....................................S M Levey C 11
8
31323- BABY STEPS D Loughnane 7 9 8..............................D Muscutt C 1
9
30113- NIGHT BEAR (D) A Carroll 6 9 6...................................H Crouch C 2
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11 9142-2 OBSIDIAN KNIGHT (CD) T Kent 5 9 5..................T Marquand 5
12 28126- FORGE VALLEY LAD (C)(D) D M Simcock 6 9 3.L Morris 8
- 12 declared BETTING: 4-1 Paris Lights, 9-2 Dream Harder, 6-1 Sweet Fantasy, 7-1
Tarbaan, 8-1 Obsidian Knight, Baby Steps, 10-1 Night Bear, 12-1 Marion’s
Boy, 14-1 others.

12.20

12.55

2.12

1.30

2.05

2.47

2.40

3.22

3.10

old, of course, and vulnerable to improving young stayers like Fontaine
Collonges, whose gutsy course and
distance victory in November looks
better still in light of the subsequent
efforts of runner-up The Big Breakaway (who then almost won the Welsh
Grand National) and third, Rapper,
who then dotted up at Cheltenham.
But the handicapper has given the
veteran a chance and if he gets into
that relentless rhythm out front,
there might be another famous win.
From Sea Pigeon to Jonbon, the
Rossington Main Hurdle has been
won by some top-notchers – today’s
renewal could be another cracker.
Five of the seven were successful
last time and it’s hard to know just
how good Chasing Fire, Pembroke
and Toothless are, so easily did they
beat vastly inferior opponents.
The vote goes to Olly Murphy’s
Chasing Fire, who has particularly
impressed with his jumping.

START YOUR RACINGTV FREE TRIAL NOW HANDICAP
HURDLE (CLASS 4) £11,100 added 2m
1
6-5431 THEREISNODOUBT (D) L Russell 10 12 3(7ex)....P W Wadge (7) H,T
2
20529P GUIRI B Haslam 8 12 2...................................................................A Coleman
3
1/15-2 HARTUR D’OUDAIRIES (D) D Skelton 6 11 11........H Skelton
4
P1-551 QUICK SHARPENER (D) Dr R Newland 6 11 10....C Hammond T
5
3-164U VOCAL DUKE (D)(BF) J Moffatt 7 11 10.........W Shanahan (7)
6
P1-433 HOLD UP LA COLMINE (BF) P Hobbs 6 11 8.........T J O’Brien
7
/36-21 GARDENER (D) A Hales 7 11 7.....................................................K Woods
8
1-F320 SERGEANT WILSON (D)(BF) N Twiston-Davies 5 11 6.........

.........................................................................................................................................D Jacob H
9
9250-4 CHTI BALKO (CD) D McCain 11 11 6..............Abbie McCain (5)
10 47-210 CHAPEL GREEN (D) L Russell 6 11 4........................ S Mulqueen
11 522P/4 LUNAR JET M Mullineaux 9 10 13................................H Cobden H
12 405271 HENRY BOX BROWN (D) E Williams 6 10 7..............A Wedge
13 44-539 SERIOUS EGO (CD) N Richards 10 10 5............. Sean Quinlan
- 13 declared BETTING: 9-2 Hartur D’oudairies, 5-1 Gardener, Thereisnodoubt, 7-1
Hold Up La Colmine, 8-1 Quick Sharpener, 10-1 others.

3.40

SUNDAY
LINGFIELD

HEAVY (INSPECTION 4PM SAT)
WINTER MILLION OPEN NH FLAT RACE (AWT) (CLASS 2)
£40,000 added 2m
1
41 LEDDERS (CD) N Gifford 5 11 8................................... N F Houlihan
2
412 ZONISTY (CD)(BF) Sir M Prescott 5 11 8.......................S Bowen
3
BABY SPICE O Sherwood 5 10 11...........................................J J Burke
4
1 ELOGIO T Lacey 4 10 9.................................................................S Sheppard
5
1 SHINJI (D) M Keighley 4 10 9.................................................A Coleman
6
7 CLOUD DANCER G L Moore 4 10 5..........................Jamie Moore
7
36 DOTTIES STAR P Phelan 4 10 5...............................Sean Houlihan
8
ELPOLOGREG Seamus Mullins 4 10 5........................M G Nolan
9
24 MR MACKAY N Twiston-Davies 4 10 5.S Twiston-Davies
10
PUSH THE BUTTON N Twiston-Davies 4 10 5...T Bellamy
11
6 WAR BONNET Matt Crawley 4 10 5..................Lilly Pinchin H
- 11 declared BETTING: 15-8 Elogio, 5-1 Mr Mackay, 11-2 Ledders, 6-1 Zonisty, 8-1
Shinji, 12-1 Dotties Star, 16-1 others.
WINTER MILLION NOVICES’ HANDICAP HURDLE
(CLASS 3) £20,000 added 2m 3f 110yds
1
2-101P RATHMACKNEE (D) N Henderson 7 12 1......N De Boinville
2
1-1611 TWINJETS M Harris 6 11 10........................................................H Cobden
3
350-22 GEORGES SAINT (D)(BF) V Williams 7 11 6............C Deutsch
4
242 EQUINUS N Twiston-Davies 5 11 4............ S Twiston-Davies
5
7-741 NO TACKLE (CD) S Drinkwater 6 11 4......................R T Dunne T
6
2F-292 HEAVEN SMART G L Moore 6 11 3..........................Jamie Moore
7
7P-337 GODOT A Irvine 6 10 6....................................................N F Houlihan (3)
8
111433 LOCK OUT D Pipe 6 10 5.......................................................T Scudamore
- 8 declared BETTING: 2-1 Twinjets, 5-1 Equinus, 11-2 Heaven Smart, 6-1 Georges
Saint, 7-1 No Tackle, 8-1 Rathmacknee, 10-1 Lock Out, 25-1 Godot.
CAZOO BEGINNERS’ CHASE (CLASS 2)
£35,000 added 2m
1
P0495/ CALGARY TIGER W De Best-Turner 8 11 0....B Ffrench-Davis
2
2260-2 CHRISTOPHER WOOD (D) V Williams 8 11 0........C Deutsch
3
16-427 HUDSON DE GRUGY (CD) G L Moore 6 11 0..Jamie Moore
4
4P-422 LLANDINABO LAD (D)(BF) T Symonds 8 11 0......D Noonan
5
22P/3P QUEL DESTIN (D) P Nicholls 8 11 0.............................. H Cobden C
6
/116-F SHOLOKJACK (D) D Skelton 7 11 0.....................................H Skelton
- 6 declared BETTING: 2-1 Christopher Wood, 9-4 Quel Destin, 7-2 Llandinabo Lad,
6-1 Hudson De Grugy, 8-1 Sholokjack, 100-1 Calgary Tiger.
WINTER MILLION CONCETTA HARKIN MEMORIAL
NOVICES’ HURDLE (CLASS 2) £30,000 added 2m 7f
1
1-221 HEEZER GEEZER D Skelton 6 11 3....................................H Skelton
2
-13835 HIGH STAKES (D) W Greatrex 9 11 3................T Scudamore T
3
1-13 IDALKO BIHOUE N Twiston-Davies 5 11 3...........................................

................................................................................................................. S Twiston-Davies
4
222-13 PHANTOM GETAWAY (BF) K Bailey 6 11 3..................D Bass C
5
U1-21 WELL DICK (D) C Longsdon 6 11 3.......................................B Hughes
6
05-7 HURRICANE LE DUN N Henderson 6 10 12...N De Boinville
7
34 THE BIG REVEAL G Harris 5 10 12.............................................. C Ring
- 7 declared BETTING: 7-4 Idalko Bihoue, 5-2 Heezer Geezer, 4-1 Phantom Getaway,
7-1 High Stakes, 8-1 Well Dick, 33-1 The Big Reveal, Hurricane Le Dun.
FLEUR DE LYS CHASE (CLASS 2)
£165,000 added 2m 6f
1
341-U2 STOLEN SILVER S Thomas 8 11 10........ S Twiston-Davies T
2
P31P-4 BRISTOL DE MAI N Twiston-Davies 12 11 6.................D Jacob
3
2P1-35 SAM BROWN (C) A Honeyball 11 11 6.............. A Coleman C,T
4
13F-10 BRAVE SEASCA V Williams 8 11 2....................................C Deutsch
5
7234/6 KALASHNIKOV Miss A Murphy 10 11 2.............J Quinlan B,T
6
112P-5 TWO FOR GOLD (CD) K Bailey 10 11 2................................D Bass V
- 6 declared BETTING: 5-2 Two For Gold, 3-1 Brave Seasca, 4-1 Sam Brown, 5-1
Bristol De Mai, 6-1 Stolen Silver, 12-1 Kalashnikov.

12.00

12.30

1.00

1.30

2.00

BEST BET

Obsidian Knight
(1.37pm, Lingfield)
Has remained in good form
since October course and
distance victory.

NEXT BEST

Chasing Fire
(1.30pm, Haydock)
Impressive winning Bumper
and two hurdles. Ready for
this Grade Two test.

SUNDAY BEST

Brave Seasca (2pm, Lingfield)
Never got involved
carrying top-weight in hot
Cheltenham handicap last
time. Worth sticking with.

SOVEREIGN HANDICAP HURDLE (CLASS 2)
£110,000 added 2m
1
1232-8 MIGHT I (D)(BF) H Fry 7 12 0..........................................L Murtagh (3)
2
2343-8 MARTATOR V Williams 6 11 10.....................Shane Quinlan (3)
3
4131-2 HACKER DES PLACES (D) P Nicholls 6 11 9...A Cheleda (5)
4
/1-421 PLAYFUL SAINT (D) D Skelton 8 11 7.........................H Skelton T
5
112-12 JUNGLE JACK (D)(BF) D McCain 7 11 5..........................B Hughes
6
1-123 DJELO (BF) V Williams 5 11 2...................................................C Deutsch
7
11P0-1 LEBOWSKI (D) M Scudamore 8 11 1.......................Luca Morgan
8
311-12 KNICKERBOCKERGLORY (D)(BF) D Skelton 7 11 1.....................

...................................................................................................................Bridget Andrews
9
3-2431 GALICE MACALO (D) Mrs J Williams 7 11 1(7ex)............................

...................................................................................................................................D Noonan T
10 20-213 TEDDY BLUE (BF) G L Moore 5 11 0.......................Jamie Moore
11 860-31 THOR DE CERISY (D) M Scudamore 9 10 7.......... R Patrick C
- 11 declared BETTING: 4-1 Playful Saint, 9-2 Galice Macalo, 6-1 Might I, 8-1 Hacker
Des Places, Lebowski, 10-1 others.
SURREY NATIONAL HANDICAP CHASE (CLASS 3)
£30,000 added 3m 5f
1
4-3524 POPPA POUTINE N Twiston-Davies 7 12 0.........................................

............................................................................................................ S Twiston-Davies T
2 UPP-22 SHANTY ALLEY B Case 9 11 12.......................................C O’Farrell C
3
1111-5 MOVETHECHAINS (C) G L Moore 9 11 10........Jamie Moore
4
-42232 BELLS OF PETERBORO T Vaughan 8 11 6......................A Johns
5 0U-7U0 ACHILLE V Williams 13 11 3..........................Shane Quinlan (3) C
6
111-P1 FAIRLAWN FLYER P Bowen 7 11 2..................................S Bowen C
7
15-111 COOLVALLA (C) C Gordon 7 11 0....................................... R Dingle C
8
141-54 DON HERBAGER (C) V Williams 9 10 11.....................C Deutsch
9
5-2U24 ECHO WATT R Hobson 9 10 3...........................Lilly Pinchin (3) T
- 9 declared BETTING: 11-4 Coolvalla, 4-1 Shanty Alley, 9-2 Fairlawn Flyer, 6-1 Bells
Of Peterboro, 8-1 Poppa Poutine, 12-1 others.
WEATHERBYS CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL BETTING
GUIDE HURDLE (CLASS 2) £100,000 added 2m 3f 110yds
1
11-312 GOSHEN (D) G L Moore 7 11 8...................................Jamie Moore C
2
414-24 NELLS SON N Richards 8 11 8.............................................B Hughes C
3
325-13 FIRST STREET (D) N Henderson 6 11 4...........N De Boinville
4
1P8-13 MOLLY OLLYS WISHES (D) D Skelton 9 11 1.....H Skelton T
5
U7/3-4 JASON THE MILITANT (BF) P Kirby 9 11 0.J Williamson T
6
P417-P METIER (C) H Fry 7 11 0...............................................................S Bowen T
7
7-1304 THIBAULT (C)(D) A West 10 11 0......................................T Cannon T
- 7 declared BETTING: 11-8 Goshen, 7-2 First Street, 5-1 Jason The Militant, 6-1 Molly
Ollys Wishes, 8-1 Metier, 14-1 Nells Son, 50-1 Thibault.
GODSTONE HANDICAP CHASE (CLASS 2)
£50,000 added 2m
1
0-1295 SIZING POTTSIE (D) D Pipe 9 12 0......................T Scudamore T
2
P122-3 ECLAIR D’AINAY (D) D Skelton 9 11 13....................H Skelton T
3
1-U211 HADDEX DES OBEAUX (D) G L Moore 6 11 12(7ex)....................

...............................................................................................................................Jamie Moore
4
323-15 SHAKEM UP’ARRY (D)(BF) B Pauling 9 11 8........K Woods T
5
2U1F-5 RED ROOKIE (D) E Lavelle 8 11 7.........................................T Bellamy
6
39-243 FRERO BANBOU (CD)(BF) V Williams 8 11 7........C Deutsch
7
116-26 HASANKEY (D) L Morgan 7 11 6.......................................L Dobb (7) V
8
13P-15 GUNSIGHT RIDGE (D)(BF) O Murphy 8 11 5.........S Bowen T
9
1-0185 ONE TRUE KING (D) N Twiston-Davies 8 10 13..............................

............................................................................................................S Twiston-Davies C
10 3-5491 FAST BUCK (CD) Mrs J Williams 9 10 10..............D Noonan T
- 10 declared BETTING: 5-2 Haddex Des Obeaux, 5-1 Shakem Up’arry, Fast Buck, 8-1
Red Rookie, 10-1 others.

2.30

3.00

3.30

4.00

THURLES

YIELDING TO SOFT
COOLMORE N.H. SIRES MOGUL IRISH EBF MARES
NOVICE CHASE (GRADE 2) (CLASS 1) E42,017 added 2m 4f
1
/311-1 ALLEGORIE DE VASSY W P Mullins 6 11 3....P Townend T
2
P3-F32 BRIDES HILL G Cromwell 6 10 12...................................L Dempsey
3
347-P3 CARRIGEEN KONINI Miss E Lalor 7 10 12............C M Quirke
4
614723 GRANNY LOWRIE (D) P M J Doyle 8 10 12.................. J J Doyle
5
412312 MALINA GIRL (D) G Cromwell 6 10 12.................... K E Buckley
6
17F-65 SIX FEET APART J P O’Brien 5 10 6...................................J J Slevin
- 6 declared BETTING: 2-5 Allegorie De Vassy, 4-1 Malina Girl, 7-1 Brides Hill, 25-1 Six
Feet Apart, 33-1 Granny Lowrie, 50-1 Carrigeen Konini.
HORSE & JOCKEY HOTEL CHASE (GRADE 2) (CLASS 1)
E30,672 added 2m 4f
1
51U2-3 CHACUN POUR SOI (BF) W P Mullins 11 11 12.P Townend
2
2115-2 FAKIR D’OUDAIRIES (D) J P O’Brien 8 11 12.............J J Slevin
3
12P1-7 ROYAL RENDEZVOUS (C)(D) W P Mullins 11 11 8......................

.............................................................................................................................D E Mullins H
4
13-125 FRENCH DYNAMITE (CD) M F Morris 8 11 6....D J O’Keeffe C,T
5
12-423 LIFETIME AMBITION (D) J Harrington 8 11 6...................................

.............................................................................................................Rachael Blackmore
6
1F65-4 HAUT EN COULEURS W P Mullins 6 11 3...............B J Cooper
- 6 declared BETTING: 5-4 Chacun Pour Soi, 2-1 Fakir D’Oudairies, 7-1 French
Dynamite, 10-1 Lifetime Ambition, 12-1 others.

1.10

1.40

102

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TENNIS

Murray battling to be
fit for Bautista Agut
Andy Murray was back at
Melbourne Park just four
hours after going to bed on
Thursday night as he started his
preparations for his third-round
Australian Open clash with
Roberto Bautista Agut.
After spending more than
10 hours on court over two
rounds and finishing at 4.05am
against Thanasi Kokkinakis,
Murray found himself in a race
against time to be fit to face
the 34-year-old Bautista Agut,
just 39 hours after last walking
off court.
The former world No 1,
who is into the third round in
Melbourne for the first time
in six years, arrived on site at
9.30am yesterday morning to
see the tournament podiatrist
before returning to his
accommodation to catch up on
some sleep.
He was spotted again on
site at 6.30pm, when he hit on
Margaret Court Arena with the
Australian 21-year-old Cihan
Akay. Murray (right) spent just
20 minutes on court with Ivan
Lendl, moving gingerly in a
light session before walking off
with his coach and his physio,
Shane Annun.
In many ways,
Murray has been
here before. When
he played Bautista
Agut in Australia
four years ago, it was
in the aftermath of
his famously tearful
press conference
and organisers at
Melbourne Park played
a farewell montage on
court after Murray had
been beaten in – again –
five gruelling sets.
“It was like a Davis

Norrie denies
busy schedule
contributed to
surprise loss
By Eleanor Crooks
AT MELBOURNE PARK

Cameron Norrie denied that a
hectic schedule contributed to his
defeat against Jiri Lehecka.
The British No 1 was bidding
to reach the fourth round in
Melbourne for the first time but
from two sets to one up, he was
beaten 6-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 by
Lehecka, a 21-year-old Czech
ranked 71 in the world.
With Norrie’s top-20 status
comes various earning opportunities, and he played exhibitions

James
Gray
Cup atmosphere,” remembers
Bautista Agut.
“It was very loud, very
crowded. A lot of people
supporting him. I think all the
court was supporting him.”
No one, perhaps not even
Murray himself, expected
that he would be back in 2023
to face anyone, never mind
Bautista Agut.
“He is playing well. He is

during the off-season in Mexico,
Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and
Hong Kong.
The No 11 seed (below) played
three matches at the United Cup
to begin the season, beating Rafael
Nadal and Taylor Fritz, before
reaching the final of the ATP event
in Auckland.
He arrived the day
before his first match
and admitted he struggled to find his rhythm,
but still believes his
preparation was the
right one.
“It’s the best preparation I’ve ever had to play
matches,” he said. “The best start
to the year I’ve ever had. To play in
the final in Auckland, and I came in
here with a load of confidence.
“Maybe I just peaked a little bit
too early in the United Cup. But
I think I came in here and gave

enjoying again,” Bautista
Agut added.
“He looks fit. He is a
good fighter.”
Murray has certainly had to
fight. He sacrificed a two-set
lead against Matteo Berrettini
and then started slowly against
Kokkinakis, coming within
two points of defeat in the
third set before mounting an
unlikely comeback.
“He is certainly getting his
money’s worth, isn’t he?” his
mother, Judy, told Australian
broadcaster Channel Nine,
having watched every point
from his box, alongside coach
Lendl and Davis Cup captain
Leon Smith.
“It is incredibly stressful,
whether it is a five-setter or
not,” she added. “Watching your
kids perform in anything, your
gut instinct is that you always
want things to go right for them.
And you know perfectly well
that you are sitting there
and you cannot influence
it in any way or all.
“What he has gone
through to get back
to this level is quite
remarkable. What he
is doing out there, to
survive five sets in five
hours against Berrettini,
who is 14 in the world,
the other night and then
to come back from two
sets and 5-2 down against
Kokkinakis last night
in the early hours of the
morning – I didn’t get to
bed till about 5.30am – is
really remarkable what
he is doing.
“He is just an
incredible fighter and
his resilience is second
to none.”

myself the best chance. I didn’t
play a very good match, and I
almost won in five sets.
“I don’t think I would change
my decision. I still could have won
today, regardless of if I played
Auckland or not.”
Elsewhere, Sebastian Korda
stunned Daniil Medvedev,
25 years after his father
Petr won the Australian
Open.
Sebastian won the
junior title five years
ago and while it may be
too soon to talk about
the 22-year-old as a
potential champion, he was
superb in his 7-6, 6-3, 7-6 victory
over the No 7 seed and beaten
finalist for the last two years.
“My dad always loved coming
here and playing. Hopefully I can
do one better than the juniors and
do it in the pros,” he said.

RUGBY UNION

I had this
itch to try
something
new, says
Skinner
But forward has taken cider from
Exeter to his new Edinburgh home

T

hese are exciting
times for
Edinburgh, with
qualification
for the last 16 of
the Heineken
Champions Cup
already in the
bag, and English aristocrats
Saracens in town tomorrow for
the final pool match to decide
the destiny of the home and
away ties.
And exciting times living in
the city for the team’s dynamic
Scotland lock forward, Sam
Skinner. Catching up with
Skinner on a call to his flat, 10
minutes from Murrayfield, is
a chance to talk comparisons
between the URC and the
Premiership, the ongoing
exodus from Exeter Chiefs
– his only senior club until
last summer – and players
switching national allegiance
in the wake of the sometime
England wing Ruaridh
McConnochie swapping
red rose for Scottish thistle
this week.
“If you asked Joe Public
what their thoughts are,
their tendency is towards
the Premiership, the way it
is glamourised by BT Sport,”
says Skinner. “But the URC
is a proper, tough league –
I’d happily say it’s a harder
competition to win. There
is the number of teams, for
starters, then you’ve got the
top South African sides, and
Leinster, who at the minute are
the best thing since sliced
bread. I just hope the
URC gets more positive
attention.”
Edinburgh are doing
their bit – a team who won
at Saracens in the Challenge
Cup last season, and were

Hugh
Godwin
RUGBY UNION
CORRESPONDENT

edged out 30-26 in this season’s
reverse Champions Cup
fixture in December. It might
have been different if James
Lang hadn’t been held up by
Saracens’ Nick Tompkins, the
Wales centre who once played
with Skinner for England’s
under-20s. “It epitomises
where Edinburgh can be. If we
have that consistent mental
attitude, we can compete at
the top. But it’s classic human
psychology, isn’t it?
“At Castres last week, we
showed that mental resilience,
and the big challenge now for
us is to back it up. Saracens
never give you anything easy.
They build pressure and they
force mistakes, so we want
to not only match it, but win
that area.”
In the period in
which Skinner won two
Premierships with Exeter,
and the Champions Cup in
the double-winning year
of 2020, Saracens were
their nemesis. “I’ve got
some great friends in

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2-41

their squad,” he says, “I grew
up playing rugby with Tom
Woolstencroft, played Scotland
with Sean Maitland and
Duncan Taylor. I haven’t met a
Saracens player that I disliked.
“There was the salary cap
business, obviously. But the
way I always called it, we were
15 men playing against 15 other
men, and they beat us fair and
square. I’ll enjoy having a beer
with a couple of their players.
We’re playing late Sunday
evening, as well, so we’ll know
what we need to do to get that
home game in the last 16.”
As for Exeter, that wonderful
squad is continuing to
break up, with Joe and Sam
Simmonds, Dave Ewers, Luke
Cowan-Dickie and possibly
Jack Nowell due to follow
Skinner, Jonny Hill and Tom
O’Flaherty out of the door. “It’s
tough,” Skinner says. “I was
a born and bred Exeter lad, I
went to university there, I got
really lucky that I was part of
an Exeter Chiefs club that had
incredible coaching, incredible
players, and extremely
strong ownership. I felt like I
experienced everything I could
possibly experience.
“I had this itch to experience
something new. Obviously,
the [reduction in the] salary
cap was another reason – I’m
not going to say that wasn’t
the case. Also, being an
exile in Scotland camp was
challenging. It was Edinburgh
for me for so many reasons.
“I’ve got no doubt in my
mind, Exeter have got a plan,
whether or not it’s in
the short term, they
won’t struggle

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27-32

because they’ve got solid
ownership. I have huge respect
for [chairman] Tony Rowe
because he looked after his
own [during Covid] – he was
completely open with us about
what was going to happen and
he stuck to his word.
“I’m now an Exeter
supporter and
the Edinburgh
lads will
always
laugh – any
time Exeter
concede
points,
they’ll start
cheering.”

LIFE
45-81

PUZZLES
51-56

Sam Skinner
(above) in
Scotland
action against
France during
last year’s
Six Nations
and (below)
in Edinburgh
mode GETTY;
ROSS PARKER/
SNS

TV
58-71

TRAVEL
75-81

MONEY
87-91

In two weeks’ time England
host Scotland in the Six
Nations, and Skinner, a
fine carrier and rock of the
set-piece, is back in a 40-man
squad for Twickenham after
breaking a bone in his foot
against Australia in the
autumn. “It’s probably our
most competitive Scotland
squad we’ve ever had,” he says.
McConnochie changed
countries thanks to the
new three-year stand-down
regulations, while Skinner’s
own switch came after his
under-20 days.
“My gut says if you’re going
to a second-tier team, it’s
probably quite good,” says
Skinner. “Across top tiers,
it does seem like a strange
one. But then someone like
McConnochie, he’s got two
caps for England, his family are
strong Scots, I’ve met him and
he’s a great dude and he’ll be a
great addition to our squad. It
doesn’t really bother me.”
Skinner has a sideline
speaking to Scottish
wholesalers as a representative
of a cider named Rib Tickler
from the south-west of
England. “We’re in the middle
of winter, in Scotland, and
cider isn’t the go-to drink,” he
smiles. “But it is a fantastic
product and I’m seeing if we
can get it stocked up here.”
A sell-out crowd is expected
at Edinburgh’s 7,774-capacity
Dam Health Stadium, which
opened in 2021.
“They’ll see a side
that isn’t just happy to
win the odd game here
or there, but looking
to back up some
fun rugby with
serious results,”
he says. “Wrap
up warm,
though. That’d
be my only
suggestion.”

The URC is a proper,
tough league – I’d
happily say it’s a
harder competition
to win than the
Premiership

SPORT
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SATURDAY
21 JANUARY 2023

103

Late tryscorer Jac Morgan evades Dan Cole GETTY

Morgan’s late
score ends
Tigers’ run
LEICESTER TIGERS

26

Tries: Van Poortvliet, Simmons; Cons:
Pollard (2); Pens: Pollard (4)

OSPREYS

27

Tries: Lake, Giles, Morgan; Cons: Evans,
O Williams (2); Pens: O Williams (2)

Ospreys won with the final
kick of the match to deny
Leicester Tigers an
unbeaten European
Champions Cup pool
stage campaign in the
92nd minute last night.
England scrum-half
Jack van Poortvliet
(right) scored the first
of Tigers’ two tries four
minutes after Dewi Lake’s
opener, the other coming
from wing Harry Simmons.
After an 86th-minute
sin-binning for Dan
Richardson, Ospreys
crossed and the TMO
awarded a try in the
91st for Jac Morgan.
Former Tiger Owen
Williams sealed the
win with a conversion,
to loud boos.

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SPORT

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Tangerine
dream is
music to
McCarthy’s
worldly ear
The 63-year-old had been enjoying
life with the grandkids, then a call
from Blackpool came out of the blue

T

his is an interview of
two parts.
The first, a relaxed
hour and a bit over
Zoom on Monday morning from the office of his
South London home,
takes in everything from
Declan Rice’s declaration for England to Marcelo Bielsa’s sacking and
ends with Mick McCarthy saying
he hasn’t retired from football but
“football might have retired me”.
Three days later and we pick it up
again. McCarthy is on speakerphone
this time, his voice battling with the
sat nav directions as he drives up the
M40 to start a new job at Blackpool,
the eighth managerial posting of his
32-year career.
“This came totally out the blue.
I had no clue at all on Monday, no
idea,” he says. “It’s unbelievable how
quickly things change in football,
absolutely ridiculous the nature of
it all.”
McCarthy first heard from
­Blackpool on Wednesday. He’d said
on Monday he was enjoying the
time off, had spent a year with
his four beloved grandkids
and wasn’t “desperate” to
take a job u
­ nless it was the
right one. Applications for
jobs at Wigan, Rotherham
and ­Sunderland hadn’t gone
anywhere. The phone hadn’t
rung for a while.
Enter the Tangerines,
23rd in the Championship and with no league
win since 8 October. It’s
a salvage job but the
offer – a five-month
initial contract with
the task of galvanising the squad
and keeping
the club in
the Championship
– was just
too good to turn down.
“I’m really excited about it. It’s
great to be back in the game and
great that someone thinks you can
do a job,” he says. A raft of speaking

Mark
Douglas
NORTHERN FOOTBALL
CORRESPONDENT

engagements and a trip to Florida
have been cancelled.
On Monday we had spoken at
length about that weird twilight
zone of spending 12 months out of
­management, the strange emotions
of a ­Saturday afternoon without
a game to manage and how he’d
­spotted that “familiar blankness” on
the face of Frank Lampard and one
or two others under pressure the
­previous week. “Journalists get that
bit braver when you’re losing games,
you know,” he’d said of that “awful
feeling” of being unable to reverse a
losing run.
Now he is opening the door to that
world again – the stress, the tension,
the late nights, early starts, the surreal life of the long-distance manager. He can’t wait.
“It’s the same every time you get
a new job, that buzz. I’ve loved
spending time with my family
but you miss being around it and
Blackpool is a great club. Besides, on Sunday I jet-washed
my drive and I think it was a
case of jet-washing the
jet-wash.
“That probably
told me it was time
to get back in.”
McCarthy
(left) told friends
o n T h u r s d ay
that Blackpool
is either his
“swansong” or
– if it goes as he
hopes – might
just end up
being the start
of another managerial journey.
You suspect
McCarthy will
relish the fact
that his managerial

I’m really excited
about it. It’s great
to be back in the
game and great that
someone thinks you
can do a job
c­ areer is not ending with the run of
eight defeats which brought the
­curtain down on his time at Cardiff
City in 2021.
“I’m still surprised and shocked
by that, it’s not normal,” he said. “I
made a few mistakes in that run. I
think I went a bit too negative, but
there were mitigating circumstances. I’d have sacked myself after eight
games without a win.”
McCarthy returns to a game that
has, he admits, changed immeasurably in the past four or five years.
“Everyone has two centre-halves
in the 18-yard box getting the ball,
everyone seems to play the same
way and the best teams do it really
well and will win more games because they keep the ball. It’s not a
bad thing, as teams are playing some
great football, but sometimes I’m
watching it and thinking, ‘Someone
please put a cross in!’ As a centreforward you’d be doing your head in.

Mick McCarthy has been tasked with
keeping Blackpool up BLACKPOOL FC

I think there’s more than one way to
skin a cat. There has to be.”
He also chuckles at the changing terminology of the game. “I was
watching my nephew play the other
week and spotted a goalkeeper who
used to play for me,” he recalls.
“I went over to chat to him and
there’s a kid with a bag, so I said to
him: ‘Are you the physio?’ He said
‘No, I’m the head of health, medical,
physiology and something else and
something else and wellbeing’. I said
to him, ‘How wide is your f**king office door? You’ll never get that title
on there!’
“When he went away, the goalkeeper said to me: ‘Yeah, he’s the
physio’ but they just can’t call him
that any more.”
Blackpool are getting a good manager, proud member of the 1,000game club and even better man. He’s
as fired up as he was as a 33-year-old
at Millwall all those years ago, determined to justify the faith of Blackpool’s board and supporters rather
than proving doubters wrong.
On Monday, we spoke at length
about his reputation and he settled
on the following sentence: “I do what
I can to win a football match but I
don’t always do it to please everybody.” That is exactly what his new
club need.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Late Twine strike
keeps Clarets
clear at the top
Leaders Burnley came from
behind to beat West Bromwich
Albion 2-1 at Turf Moor and
maintain their five-point lead at
the top of the table.
Vincent Kompany’s side
trailed from the seventh minute
when Darnell Furlong put the
Baggies ahead.
Burnley dominated but did
not equalise until Nathan Tella
rifled in a low shot after 75
minutes. Substitute Scott Twine
scored the late winner with a
superb free-kick.
Sheffield United remain
second after a 1-0 home victory
over Hull City.
Daniel Jebbison marked his
return to the Blades’ starting
line-up by slotting home the
only goal after four minutes.
Earlier it was confirmed
by the EFL that United have
been placed under a transfer
embargo, but they put that aside
to win their third match in a row,
aided by Benjamin Tetteh’s late
sending off for Hull.

S1

NEWS
2-41

OPINION
27-32

15

PitchBattles
Liverpool 4-3-3

Bournemouth 4-4-1-1

Alisson
AlexanderArnold

Gomez

Keïta

Konaté

Robertson

Christie

Leicester City 4-3-3

Havertz

Ziyech

Hall

Badiashile Silva

Chalobah

Mepham Senesi
Lerma Pearson

Castagne Amartey

Zemura
Anthony

Mangala Freuler

Kepa

Praet

Mitoma

L L C L L C D D L L

West Ham United 4-3-3

Zouma

Soucek

Rice

Cresswell

Paqueta

Gray Calvert-Lewin

Mykolenko

Estupinan

Gueye

Tarkowski Mina

Onana
Coleman
Coady

Everton 3-5-2

Bailey

Luiz

Kamara

Mings

Konsa

Buendia

Webster

Gross

Dunk

Moreno

Mitchell

Ayling

Zaha

Eze

Aaronson

Kick-off Today, 3pm
(H­ighlights BBC One, 10.30pm)
Odds Home 9-5 Draw 9-4 Away 7-5
Referee M Salisbury 1 36
LAST 10 MEETINGS All competitions

S D S S S S A S A A

Manchester City 4-3-3

Joelinton S Longstaff Willock

Cooper

Roca

Adams

Wober

Stones Laporte Cancelo

Walker

De Bruyne Rodri Gundogan
Gnonto

Harrison
Rodrigo

Henry

Trippier

Schar

Ederson

Koch

Janelt

Pinnock

Mahrez Haaland Foden
Hwang
Podence

Jensen
Norgaard
Mee

Hwang
Moutinho
Neves
Nunes

Roerslev
Bueno

Ajer

Kilman

Raya

Newcastle United 4-3-3

Young

Aston Villa 4-4-2

Toney Mbeumo

Saint-Maximin Wilson Almiron

Ramsey

Martinez

Leeds United 4-2-3-1

Pope

Pickford

March

Watkins

Meslier

Guéhi

Botman

Adams

L L D L L L B L D B

Ayew

Burn

Lallana

WalkerPeters

Lavia

Elyounoussi Ward-Prowse A Armstrong

Barnes

Brighton & Hove 4-2-3-1

Doucouré Hughes
Olise

Daka

Kick-off Today, 3pm
(H­ighlights BBC One, 10.30pm)
Odds Home 5-2 Draw 14-5 Away Evens
Referee T Bramall 0 14
LAST 10 MEETINGS All competitions

Crystal Palace 4-2-3-1

Clyne Richards

Caleta-Car Salisu

Sanchez

B D B N N B D B B B

Bowen Antonio Benrahma

Iwobi

Aurier

McKenna Worrall

Guaita

Aguerd

Lyanco

Caicedo Mac Allister

Kick-off Today, 3pm
(H­ighlights BBC One, 10.30pm)
Odds Home 6-4 Draw 11-5 Away 8-5
Referee A Madley 2 41
LAST 10 MEETINGS All competitions

Fabianski
Coufal

Yates

Nottingham Forest 4-3-1-2

Kick-off Today, 12.30pm, BT Sport 1
(H­ighlights BBC One, 10.30pm)
Odds Home 3-4 Draw 11-4 Away 11-4
Referee M Oliver 1 48
LAST 10 MEETINGS All competitions

Thomas

Ferguson

Hennessey

Chelsea 4-3-3

Faes

Tielemans Ndidi Dewsbury-Hall

Gibbs-White Johnson

MONEY
87-91

Bazunu

Diallo

Moore

Lodi

TRAVEL
75-81

Ward

Scarpa
Kovacic Jorginho Gallagher

TV
58-71

Southampton 4-2-3-1

Billing

Gakpo

Nunez

Mount

Smith

PUZZLES
51-56

CRYSTAL PALACE’S LAST 13 MEETINGS WITH
NEWCASTLE HAVE RESULTED IN JUST 15
GOALS – INCLUDING THREE 0-0S AND SIX 1-0S

Neto

Bajcetic Thiago

Salah

LIFE
45-81

Semedo

Collins
Sa

Brentford 3-5-2

Wolverhampton 4-2-3-1

Kick-off Today, 3pm
(H­ighlights BBC One, 10.30pm)
Odds Home 4-5 Draw 5-2 Away 15-4
Referee S Attwell 2 42
LAST 10 MEETINGS All competitions

Kick-off Today, 5.30pm, Sky Sports PL
(H­ighlights BBC One, 10.30pm)
Odds Home 10-3 Draw 12-5 Away 10-11
Referee C Pawson 0 47
LAST 10 MEETINGS All competitions

Kick-off Tomorrow, 2pm, Sky Sports PL
(H­ighlights BBC One, 10.30pm)
Odds Home 11-8 Draw 5-2 Away 9-5
Referee P Bankes 0 42
LAST 10 MEETINGS All competitions

Kick-off Tomorrow, 2pm
(H­ighlights BBC One, 10.30pm)
Odds Home 2-11 Draw 7-1 Away 11-1
Referee D Coote 1 33
LAST 10 MEETINGS All competitions

W E E D E W E WW E

D C N C N C D N D N

B B L D B L D D L B

M D MWWMMMMM

Arsenal 4-3-3
Ramsdale
Saliba

White

Gabriel

Odegaard Partey
Saka

Zinchenko

Xhaka

Nketiah Martinelli

Weghorst
Rashford

Eriksen

Fernandes

McTominay Fred
Shaw

Fulham 4-2-3-1

PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE

Martinez Varane

Wan-Bissaka

De Gea

Manchester United 4-2-3-1
Kick-off Tomorrow, 4.30pm, Sky Sports PL
(H­ighlights BBC One, 10.30pm)
Odds Home 4-5 Draw 11-4 Away 13-5
Referee A Taylor 5 54
LAST 10 MEETINGS All competitions

D M A D A A D M A M


Arsenal
Manchester City
Manchester United
Newcastle United
Tottenham Hotspur
Fulham
Brighton & Hove Albion
Brentford
Liverpool
Chelsea
Aston Villa
Crystal Palace
Nottingham Forest
Leeds United
Leicester City
Wolverhampton Wdrs
Bournemouth
West Ham United
Everton
Southampton

P
18
19
19
19
20
20
18
19
18
19
19
19
19
18
19
19
19
19
19
19

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15
13
12
10
10
9
9
7
8
8
7
6
5
4
5
4
4
4
3
4

D
2
3
3
8
3
4
3
8
4
4
4
5
5
5
2
5
4
3
6
3

L
1
3
4
1
7
7
6
4
6
7
8
8
9
9
12
10
11
12
10
12

F
42
50
30
33
39
32
35
32
34
22
22
18
15
26
26
12
18
15
15
17

A
14
20
22
11
31
29
25
28
25
21
27
27
34
33
33
27
41
25
26
34

Pts
47
42
39
38
33
31
30
29
28
28
25
23
20
17
17
17
16
15
15
15

Leno
Tete

Diop

Ream

Reed

Palhinha

De CordovaReid

Robinson
Willian

Pereira
Mitrovic
Kane

Richarlison
Sessegnon

Kulusevski

Hojbjerg Bentancur

Lenglet

Dier

Royal

Romero

Lloris

Tottenham Hotspur 3-4-3
Kick-off Monday, 8pm, Sky Sports PL
(H­ighlights Sky Sports PL, Tuesday midnight)
Odds Home 9-4 Draw 5-2 Away 11-10
Referee P Tierney 2 50
LAST 10 MEETINGS All competitions

T F T T T T T D T T

SATURDAY
21 JANUARY 2023

SPORT
99-112

105

WEEKEND FOOTBALL FIXTURES
3.0 unless stated
TODAY

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3
5
7
8

Bournemouth v Nottingham Forest....
Crystal Palace v Newcastle (5.30) TV .....
Leicester v Brighton............................................
Liverpool v Chelsea (12.30) TV .....................
Southampton v Aston Villa..........................
West Ham v Everton..........................................

9
10
11
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14
16
17

Birmingham v Preston.....................................
Blackpool v Huddersfield...............................
Bristol City v Blackburn..................................
Cardiff v Millwall...................................................
Coventry v Norwich (12.30) TV ....................
QPR v Swansea........................................................
Stoke v Reading.......................................................
Watford v Rotherham.......................................
Wigan v Luton..........................................................
P W D L F A

Pts
Burnley
Sheff Utd
Watford
Middlesbrough
Blackburn
West Brom
Norwich
Millwall
Luton
Sunderland
Swansea
QPR
Preston
Reading
Coventry
Hull
Bristol City
Birmingham
Rotherham
Stoke
Cardiff
Huddersfield
Blackpool
Wigan

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20
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29

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7
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6
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21

Barrow v Salford City........................................
Bradford v Carlisle...............................................
Colchester v Gillingham..................................
Crewe v Stockport County............................
Doncaster v Tranmere......................................
Grimsby v Harrogate Tn..................................
Hartlepool v Rochdale.......................................
Newport County v AFC Wimb’don........
Northampton v Mansfield.............................
Stevenage v Leyton Orient...........................
Sutton Utd v Crawley Tn................................
Walsall v Swindon................................................
P W D L F A

Pts
Leyton Orient
Stevenage
Northampton
Carlisle
Salford City
Swindon
Bradford
Barrow
Mansfield
Stockport C
Walsall
Doncaster
AFC Wimbledon
Sutton Utd
Tranmere
Grimsby
Crewe
Newport C
Colchester
Harrogate Tn
Crawley Town
Rochdale
Hartlepool
Gillingham
-

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10
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10
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Barnsley v Accrington......................................
Bristol Rovers v Wycombe.......... /Panel
Derby v Bolton.........................................................
Forest Green v MK Dons.................................
Lincoln City v Burton Albion......................
Morecambe v Port Vale....................................
Oxford Utd v Ipswich..........................................
Peterborough v Charlton................................
Plymouth v Cheltenham.................................
Portsmouth v Exeter..........................................
Sheffield Wednesday v Fleetwood.......
Shrewsbury v Cambridge Utd....................
P W D L F A

Pts
Plymouth
Sheff Wed
Ipswich
Derby
Bolton
Barnsley
Peterborough
Wycombe
Bristol Rovers
Exeter
Port Vale
Charlton
Oxford Utd
Shrewsbury
Portsmouth
Lincoln City
Fleetwood Tn
Cheltenham
Accrington
Morecambe
Cambridge Utd
MK Dons
Burton Albion
Forest Green

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25
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15
13
11
12
11
11
12
11
11
10
11
9
10
9
8
7
6
7
6
5
5
4
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6
7
7
9
5
8
7
4
6
4
7
4
9
6
8
6
9
8
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6
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30
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26
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22
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17

Peterhead v Clyde.................................................
P W D L F A
Pts
Dunfermline 20 13 6 1 32 11 45
Falkirk
20 11 5 4 42 23 38
FC Edinburgh 22 12 2 8 43 32 38
Alloa
21 10 5 6 39 29 35
Airdrieonians 21 9 6 6 40 31 33
Montrose
22 9 6 7 31 27 33
Kelty Hearts 22 8 4 10 23 30 28
Queen of South 22 7 5 10 34 37 26
Clyde
21 2 4 15 24 46 10
Peterhead
21 1 5 15 10 52 8

-

Annan Athletic v Bonnyrigg Rose..........
East Fife v Stranraer..........................................
Stirling v Forfar......................................................
P W D L F A

Pts
19 12 4 3 32 18 40
Dumbarton
Stirling
18 11 3 4 39 21 36
Elgin
20 8 5 7 35 33 29
East Fife
20 7 5 8 29 31 26
Forfar
20 7 4 9 22 27 25
Annan Ath
20 6 6 8 30 34 24
Stenhousemuir 20 6 6 8 33 38 24
Albion
20 6 5 9 26 26 23
Stranraer
20 6 5 9 28 38 23
Bonnyrigg R 19 5 5 9 23 31 20
SCOTTISH CUP FOURTH ROUND
- Alloa v Falkirk............................................................
42 Arbroath v Motherwell.....................................
- Celtic v Morton (12.15) TV ................................
- Cove Rangers v Ayr..............................................
43 Dundee Utd v Stirling University...........
- Elgin v Drumchapel Utd..................................
44 Hamilton v Ross County.................................
46 Kilmarnock v Dumbarton...............................
- Linlithgow Rose v Raith...................................
- Partick v Dunfermline.......................................
48 St Johnstone v Rangers (5.30) TV ..............
49 St Mirren v Dundee.............................................
47 Stenhousemuir v Livingston......................
-

Boreham Wood v Torquay............................
Bromley v Aldershot..........................................
Chesterfield v Notts County (5.20) TV ..
FC Halifax v Wealdstone................................
Maidstone Utd v Wrexham..........................
Oldham v Southend.............................................
Solihull Moors v Scunthorpe.....................
Yeovil v Altrincham.............................................
P W D L F A

Pts
Notts County
Wrexham
Woking
Chesterfield
Barnet
Southend
Dag & Red
Bromley
Wealdstone
Altrincham
Eastleigh
Boreham Wd
Solihull Moors
York
FC Halifax
Dorking W
Aldershot
Maidenhead Utd
Yeovil
Oldham
Gateshead
Torquay
Maidstone Utd
Scunthorpe

27
25
26
23
24
25
24
25
25
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25
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27
25
24
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27
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10
8
9
8
9
8
9
8
5
6
4
5
5
4

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5
4
4
5
8
5
7
7
9
5
9
6
8
5
6
2
5
12
6
10
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6
7

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2
6
4
7
7
8
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8
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FA WOMEN’S SUPER LEAGUE

-

Man City v Aston Villa (11.30) TV ..............
P W D L F A
Pts
11 9 1 1 32 9 28
Chelsea
Man Utd
10 8 1 1 30 6 25
Arsenal
10 8 1 1 26 6 25
Man City
10 7 1 2 22 10 22
Everton
10 5 0 5 13 12 15
West Ham
11 5 0 6 15 19 15
Aston Villa
10 5 0 5 15 20 15
Tottenham
10 3 0 7 12 19 9
Liverpool FC 10 2 2 6 11 22 8
Reading
11 2 1 8 14 26 7
Brighton
9 2 1 6 11 32 7
Leicester
10 1 0 9 5 25 3
VANARAMA NATIONAL LEAGUE
NORTH: Banbury Utd v Darlington, Buxton v Hereford FC, Chester FC v Peterborough Sports, Chorley v Boston Utd,
Farsley Celtic v Brackley, Gloucester v
Blyth Spartans, Kettering v Curzon Ashton, Kidderminster v Bradford P A, Scarborough Athletic v AFC Fylde, Southport
v Alfreton Tn. SOUTH: Braintree Tn
v Bath City, Chippenham v Worthing,
Concord Rangers v Oxford City, Dover
v Havant and W, Eastbourne Borough v
Hungerford Tn, Farnborough v Ebbsfleet
United, Hampton & Richmond v Tonbridge Angels, Slough v Dulwich, St
Albans v Cheshunt, Welling v Hemel
Hempstead, Weymouth v Chelmsford.
GERMAN LEAGUE
Cologne v Werder Bremen (5.30),
Eintracht Frankfurt v Schalke (2.30),
Stuttgart v Mainz (2.30), Union Berlin v
Hoffenheim (2.30), VfL Bochum v Hertha
Berlin (2.30), Wolfsburg v Freiburg (2.30).
DUTCH LEAGUE
Cambuur v Sparta (7.0), NEC Nijmegen v
Emmen (5.45), PSV Eindhoven v Vitesse
(7.0), RKC v Go Ahead Eagles (8.0).
SPANISH LEAGUE
Atletico Madrid v Valladolid (5.30), Espanyol v Real Betis (3.15), Rayo Vallecano
v Real Sociedad (1.0), Sevilla v Cadiz (8.0).
ITALIAN LEAGUE
Fiorentina v Torino (7.45), Salernitana v
Napoli (5.0), Verona v Lecce (2.0).
TOMORROW
PREMIER LEAGUE
1 Arsenal v Man Utd (4.30) TV ..........................
4 Leeds v Brentford (2) TV ....................................
6 Man City v Wolves (2).........................................
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP
15 Sunderland v Middlesbrough (12) TV ...
SCOTTISH CUP FOURTH ROUND
45 Hibernian v Hearts (2) TV .................................
FA WOMEN’S SUPER LEAGUE

- Brighton v Arsenal (6.45) TV .........................
- Chelsea v Liverpool FC (12.30) TV .............
- Everton v West Ham (1)....................................
- Reading v Man Utd (2)........................................
- Tottenham v Leicester (2)...............................
GERMAN LEAGUE
B Dortmund v Augsburg (2.30), Borussia
M’gladbach v Bayer Leverkusen (4.30).
DUTCH LEAGUE
AZ Alkmaar v Fortuna Sittard (3.45), Feyenoord v Ajax (1.30), Heerenveen v Groningen (11.15), Twente v Utrecht (1.30).
SPANISH LEAGUE
Athletic Bilbao v Real Madrid (8.0), Barcelona v Getafe (5.30), Elche v Osasuna

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SPECIAL REPORT

Clubbing
together
to make it
through
hard times

This Spurs
side is still
making
progress,
insists Conte
By John Derek

Antonio Conte has admitted
his Tottenham Hotspur side
are currently defending like a
relegation-threatened team.
Spurs suffered a 4-2 defeat at
Manchester City on Thursday
to continue a humbling week
after a derby day defeat at home
to Arsenal last Sunday.
It means Tottenham have
conceded 21 goals in their last
10 Premier League matches to
lose ground in the top four race
but Conte (below) is adamant
progress continues to be made.
“The progress is for what I see
and what the team produces,”
he said ahead of Monday’s trip
to Fulham. “Progress doesn’t
depend on the result
because during a
process you start
on one level and
start work.
“In this
season we are
up and down,
against the top
six we never won.
We lost all the games
apart from Chelsea.
Compare to last season, we are
doing less and to concede 21 in
the last 10 games, is usually a
team that fight relegation. We
have to find balance.”
“I dream, I want to play
Champions League, there are 18
games in the Premier League,
another competition in the FA
Cup and we need to dream of
something important.”

ASTON VILLA

Duran needs
time to make
mark: Emery
Jhon Duran must be given time
to make his mark in the Premier
League, according to Aston Villa
boss Unai Emery.
The Colombia striker is
joining Villa for £18m from
Chicago Fire as Danny Ings
heads to West Ham for £15m.
Emery is revamping his
forward line but insisted Duran
is not expected to replace
Ings – with Villa also after
another striker - and patience is
required with the 19-year-old.
“He has potential as a striker
if he can develop like we are
thinking he will do,” said
Emery, ahead of the trip to
Southampton.
“We can’t give him the
responsibility, as a 19-yearold, to play as a striker in the
Premier League against the best
teams in the world.”

Across the football landscape the game has reached out to
the local community to help people in their time of need

I

t is a Wednesday morning in
January and it is five degrees
in the milky sunshine. On
the ­Astroturf pitches next to
­Burton Albion’s Pirelli ­Stadium,
youth teams train together,
most of them ­wearing gloves,
their exhalations creating a
cloud of steam that briefly hangs
eight feet above the ground. After
five straight days of grey skies, pale
blue has returned and brought with
it a drop in temperatures.
Across the car park, in a room
on the North Stand Terrace of the
stadium, more than 40 members of
the local community have formed
into a hive of activity, fuelled
predominantly by cups of tea and
chatter. Some play table tennis
on two blue tables; others sit in
groups of four or five and put
the world and their football
club to rights. They have
just played bingo. Soon,
a quiz will begin, chaired
by health and wellbeing
coordinator Amy Lewis,
who teases the teams with
mock accusations of cheating.
Burton Albion’s Community
Trust has run these sessions for 11
years, but over the past few years
they have become increasingly
vital. After the grimness of Covid-19
isolation, they provide a weekly
spot where local people can make
and maintain friendships. This
winter, with its fuel and cost-ofliving crises, it is also a place of
literal as well as emotional warmth.
The UK is the sixth largest
economy in the world, but if a
society is only as healthy as its most
vulnerable and its least financially

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Storey
CHIEF FOOTBALL
WRITER

secure, that economy is broken.
The rise in inflation, financial
impact of Covid-19, Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine and post-Brexit
trade issues have combined to
make the UK’s cost-of-living crisis
the most severe of any advanced
economy; 92 per cent of adults
reported an increase in their cost
of living in November-December
2022, according to the Office for
National Statistics. The Office for
Budget Responsibility estimates
the biggest post-tax fall in real
household income since
records began in 1956.
These numbers can
often feel intangible;
the better proof lies in

individual stories than in national
averages. Shelter, the housing and
homelessness charity, calculated in
September that 2.5 million renters
are behind or constantly struggling
to pay rent. Millions of people in the
UK feel as if their heads are being
plunged below the water.
The supposed hacks –
putting on an extra jumper,
buying an air fryer, leaving
the curtains closed – aren’t
enough. People don’t need
tips, they need help.
Fifty miles away from the
Pirelli, Rotherham United
launched a campaign specifically
to combat the cost-of-living crisis,
working with their own Community
Sports Trust on “Every Miller
Matters”. Five days a week, split
into sessions for 11 to 17-year-olds,
18-35s, over-35s, over-55s and
families with children, the club
opens rooms in New York Stadium
where anyone is invited to use its

heating, power and Wi-Fi, to have a
hot drink or a bowl of soup, charge
their mobile, watch television or
simply sit and talk to others.
“As a club, we felt like we had to
take action to try and help out and
the Every Miller Matters campaign
encapsulates all the ways
in which we thought we
could alleviate some of
that pressure,” community
programme manager
Jonny Allan said. “We have
already hosted a couple
of sessions and it has been
really eye-opening to speak to
people and understand just how
hard certain individuals have been
hit. We believe there are more
people out there who could benefit
from what we are offering and I
would implore those individuals or
families to come down and see us.
There is absolutely no judgement.”
Across the country, professional
football clubs have opened their
doors. Manchester United’s Red
Café was open for three hours
every Monday and Wednesday in
December, for people to get warm,
enjoy hot drinks and snacks, and
socialise. Brentford Community

I would implore
­individuals or
­families to come
down and see us.
There is absolutely
no judgement

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EVERTON

Lampard
confident
ahead of
Hammers
showdown
By Richard Tanner

Burton Albion’s
health and wellbeing
coordinator Amy
Lewis (second from
right) and some
regulars at the club’s
warm bank INEWS

Brentford Community Trust’s Emily
Donovan hopes for more visitors

Sports Trust’s “warm space” is
open every Monday morning to
offer unlimited internet access and
hot drinks. i spoke to Northampton
Town and Sheffield Wednesday
about similar schemes. Across the
football pyramid, clubs have done
their bit.
Not all of these warm
spaces are full. At
Brentford, one of 30
warm hubs created in
the London borough of
Hounslow this winter,
attendance is still low.
But that’s not the point:
the idea is not necessarily
to have these spaces full,
but to have them available and for
people to know that they are there
so that when they have a need, it
is answered.
“We are hoping, as word-ofmouth spreads in the New Year,
that we will start to see more

people through our doors every
week,” Brentford Trust’s health and
wellbeing manager Emily Donovan
explains. A Refugees Welcome
Hounslow Christmas party was
attended by 55 refugees from
across the Middle East and Africa.
The idea is to be a pillar of the
community and a safe space: open
doors, friendly faces, practical help.
Football clubs are well-placed to
help out. Like libraries, museums
and community halls, they are large
spaces that are typically staffed
throughout the working week (and
therefore are heated accordingly).
Unlike the other three, they are
private rather than public spaces,
but football clubs have a vested
interest in community engagement.
At elite level, clubs can often feel
separate from the community: vast
palaces of entertainment erected
at enormous cost and home to
enterprises that command loyalty
from global fanbases. But at their
heart, each share a common theme.
Although to many supporters,
a football club is relevant
only on match day, even
that is significant: these
are usually the place
in every town or city
where the most people
congregate regularly.
For others, match day
is less important than
a Wednesday morning.
During the week, a club is a place
of support and companionship. It
might sound twee, but that makes
a greater difference to a greater
number than what happens from
3pm to 5pm on a Saturday.
Football’s creeping gentrification

A club is about a
great deal more than
what happens on a
Saturday. We’re here
to ­support the
whole community
over the past 30 years has made
attending matches a luxury
experience, which in turn
threatened to freeze out
working-class support.
Lower down the pyramid,
ticket prices are lower
but when money is
tight, attending is not a
possibility for many. If a
club loses those traditional
supporters, helping them
when times are hard is the
right choice. It flips the definition
of “supporter” on its head – club
supporting people rather than
people supporting club.
At Rotherham, Allan is keen to
point out that their schemes are
not simply a reaction to the recent
crisis. They have recognised that
deprivation is – and always will
be – an issue in some communities
and they are determined to help
alleviate some of that pressure.
It’s more important this winter.
“We are open to anyone for two
hours every Monday,” says Phill
Smith, CEO of Northampton
Town Community Trust. “There
are people in our community,
particularly the elderly, who don’t

have a regular income beyond
their pension, who may be unable
to react to the cost-of-living crisis.
The cost of putting the heating on is
a challenge for them. They may be
choosing between having a heater
on and eating a hot meal.
“It doesn’t have to be a fancy,
complicated programme. It just
needs to provide an answer to that
problem. We’re here to support the
whole community. A club is about a
great deal more than what happens
on the pitch on a Saturday.”
There is a vaguely karmic
element to all of this. As with
any social institution, a
symbiotic relationship
exists between the
organisation and the
people who rely on it. If the
community appreciates
that the club supported
them in a time of need, a
lasting bond will go beyond
buying match tickets. The
club moves closer to the bosom of
the local area.
But on a cold Wednesday
morning, and on many other days
like it across the hardest winter in
a generation, nobody is thinking
about the bigger picture and they’re
certainly not planning how the
football club they work for might
benefit in the long run. At Burton,
Amy is telling people that the first
iPhone was released in 2007, to
groans from the quizzers. Emily is
working out how best to spread the
message through word of mouth.
All of those we speak to say the
same thing: it’s about putting smiles
on the faces of people who need one.
That is how you make a difference.

If Frank Lampard loses his job
at Everton this weekend, he will
walk out of the club with his
head held high, insisting he has
given it everything.
Lampard (below) accepts that
the pressure he is under will
only intensify if his team lose to
fellow strugglers West Ham at
the London Stadium in a game
jokingly labelled “El Sackio”,
with Hammers coach David
Moyes’ future also on the line.
The club’s owner, Farhad
Moshiri, gave him a vote of
confidence before last week’s
home defeat to Southampton.
But another loss today may
well change Moshiri’s stance.
Lampard kept
Everton up last
season – just –
but has won
only nine of
37 Premier
League games
since taking
charge last year.
“I’ve absolutely
given it everything
and it’s not one for me
to analyse circumstances,” he
said. “I’ve been given an opportunity to work at a great club.
“Some things I can’t control
so I just work. You want to help
the squad with new signings.
And it would help me as a coach,
no doubt. Recruitment to help
players you’ve already got are
generally what will help you
have relative success.”

WEST HAM

Moyes: We
are still a
united club
David Moyes insists West Ham
remain a united club ahead of
their pivotal home meeting
with fellow strugglers Everton.
Moyes’ former club are deep
in crisis and things have not
gone to plan this season for
West Ham either.
“It’s a huge game for us both,
yes,” said Moyes. “But one you
look forward to, I’ve got to.
“I remember when I came
here, I was only here three or
four games, we had supporters
running on the pitch. It was a
terrible time for us and I think
one of the biggest things that
needs to happen as a football
club is for it to come together.
“That needs the supporters,
the players, the directors, all to
be together. It’s the one thing
that happens here at West Ham,
I don’t see a divided club.”

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PREMIER LEAGUE

FOOTBALL

Mid-table tussle
with echoes of
fading powers

W

elcome to the
mid-table derby,
a ­s urreal landing for a couple
of Deloitte richl i s t e rs . T h i rd
plays eighth in
the world money
league reads rather better for Liverpool and Chelsea than ninth plays
10th in the Premier League. If we
follow that old Medici paradigm,
money never loses and we should expect the fortunes of the great houses
of Anfield and Stamford Bridge to
rise again, if not quite to mirror the
Florentine power family that lorded
over Italy for more than 400 years.
For now we are witness to the
episodic downturn to which wealthy
barons are vulnerable should the
margins turn against them in an
ultra-competitive environment,
as in Liverpool’s case, or an act of
force majeure threatens the foundations, which was Chelsea’s fate when
Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine to
end peace in Europe and bust the
ring of Moscow’s outreach oligarchs.
Both clubs sit 10 points outside
the qualification zone for the Champions League. The world’s premier
club competition doubles not only
as a pot worth winning, but as a base
measure for doing business among
the game’s superpowers. Liverpool’s
rise from seventh to third in the
2021-22 Deloitte list was built on the
2022 Champions League final run,
worth £102m, and a season in which
gate receipts hit €100m (£87m) for

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the first time in the club’s history.
With the Anfield expansion continuing, that figure will grow larger.
Though Chelsea banked £24m
less than Liverpool from their run
to the quarters, the Champions
League still pumped £79m on to
the ­Stamford Bridge balance sheet.
Such bullion is central to the capacity of both clubs to operate in the
manner we have seen in the summer
and winter transfer windows. Liverpool spent £104m in the summer and
a further £40m so far this winter.
Chelsea sploshed a record £278m in
the ­summer, ­reinforced by a further
£160m in this window.
Yes, Chelsea have lost their minds,
but, thanks to the offer of absurdly
long contracts, the deals meet FFP
regulations. The money has to drip
through the ­accounts by some distant date, eight years down the line
in the example of Mykhailo Mudryk,
by which time Todd Boehly and his
fellow prospectors trust their purchasing power will leave them on
the right side of the top-four equation more often than not.
The imperative to share in the
Champions League riches raises
the temperature considerably at
today’s lunchtime fixture at Anfield.

You imagine anything other than a
win would be disastrous for both.
Jürgen Klopp, noticeably brittle
already, is giving off that short tempered, “what-kind-of-stupid-question-is-that” energy with which we
have become so familiar when the
sun doesn’t shine on his patch. The
addition of yet another striker-forthe-future, Cody Gakpo, has hardly
placated a coach dealing with an ailing midfield in need of nourishment.
Questions about Liverpool’s
transfer policy and the prospects of
further additions in this window are
guaranteed to trigger the appearance of “Bad Klopp”. No team has
created more chances in the Premier League, which is a t­ estament
to Liverpool’s attacking structure.
Equally few cough up as many scoring ­opportunities to the opposition.
Klopp wishes, of course, that Liverpool’s American ownership had
the same unhinged capacity for risk
as Chelsea’s, not that Graham Potter
has been able to harness his resources to any meaningful effect. Potter
has none of Klopp’s heft on which to
fall back. Sunday’s narrow victory at
home to Crystal Palace was only the
second in the last 10 Premier League
fixtures. At this elevation, exposed
to the elements in a way he never
was at his cosy base camp in Brighton, the questions are as much about
his suitability to lead as it about the
performance of his players.
Reports from Spain have Boehly
offering Medici money to Zinedane
Zidane to rescue Chelsea’s season.

Liverpool v Chelsea
Which big gun can arrest their slide?
OU T OF F ORM

Both sides have lost five more matches
than at the same stage last season and
sit seven places further down the table.
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PL clean sheets this season
for Liverpool – only three
teams have kept fewer

This would be risible were it out of
step with Chelsea’s scattergun approach to player acquisition. It is
not. Potter has served Chelsea’s
new ownership for 21 matches,
three times as many as predecessor
Thomas Tuchel. These guys shoot

KLOPP

Liverpool
manager

2

Clean sheets kept by
Liverpool in their last 10
matches (all comps)

from the hip with the same disregard
for sentiment as a Tudor monarch.
Potter has adopted the continental tic of recalibrating defeats as a
kind of suffering, part of a process
towards salvation. Even with a win
at Anfield you would not be sur-

FOOTBALL IN BRIEF

CHAMPIONSHIP

LEEDS UNITED

Female referee Welch Rutter unfazed by
£36m transfer fee
breaks new ground
Rebecca Welch (left)
will become the first
woman to referee a
men’s Championship
match when she
takes charge
of Birmingham versus
Preston today.
Welch, 39, from Washington in
Tyne and Wear, already holds the
honour of being the first woman
to referee an English Football
League match – Harrogate
versus Port Vale in April 2021.
Last year she became the
first woman to referee an FA
Cup third-round tie, also at
Birmingham, as the Blues lost 1-0
to Plymouth.

Leeds’ new record
signing Georginio
Rutter insists he will
not be weighed down
by his £36m price tag.
The France
Under-21 striker signed a five-anda-half-year deal at Elland Road after
arriving from Hoffenheim, his fee
eclipsing the £27m paid for Rodrigo
in 2020.
Rutter, 20, who will be in Jesse
Marsch’s squad to face Brentford
tomorrow, said: “It’s not something
that puts any pressure on me at all. I
concentrate on playing my football,
doing stuff I know how to do.
“It’s the clubs who negotiate, I
just get on with my football.”

NEWCASTLE UNITED

Forest to
welcome
new Wood
Chris Wood has become
Nottingham Forest’s 24th signing
of the season after joining on
loan from Newcastle.
The 31-year-old (right)
will spend the rest of the
campaign at the City Ground
and the move will become
a permanent one until the
summer of 2024 if certain
conditions are met.
He leaves St
James’ Park
after 12 months,
having joined

from Burnley for £25m and played
a big part in Newcastle’s survival.
But he has fallen down the
pecking order behind Callum
Wilson and Alexander Isak and
will get regular action under Steve
Cooper at Forest following a longterm injury to Taiwo Awoniyi.
“It’s a great feeling and I am very
thankful to be here,” the New
Zealand international said.
Newcastle manager Eddie
Howe is hopeful he can
replace Wood, warning
that the striker’s move
could leave the team
“dangerously short of
players”.
“He’s really
been a huge
player for
us,” Howe
said.

FULHAM

Silva: Premier League
survival is our goal
Marco Silva
insisted Fulham’s
main target for the
season remains
Premier League
survival despite
their impressive first half of the
campaign.
Fulham host Tottenham at
Craven Cottage on Monday and go
into the weekend in sixth place on
31 points, just two points behind
their London derby opponents –
and 16 clear of relegation.
However, Silva said: “Our
ambition is to remain in the
Premier League, it’s our goal and
we are not going to change,” the
Fulham boss (above) said.

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Thousand games for Klopp
– and never a dull moment
By Richard Tanner

GRAHAM

POTTER
Chelsea
manager

2

Clean sheets kept by
Chelsea in their last 13
matches (all comps)

prised to see him smuggled along
the Thames to the Tower. Mercy in
Tudor times came in the shape of an
axe. These days he would get a penthouse suite with a river view and a
few mill to invest in a keep of his own
until the next post comes along.

Jürgen Klopp celebrates the 1,000th
game of his managerial career today
by admitting he could have been finished after the first seven of them.
Klopp was appointed as boss
of relegation-threatened Mainz –
where he had spent his entire playing career – in late February 2001
and won six of his first seven games
to save them from the drop to Germany’s third tier.
“If we had lost one more of those
seven games, we would’ve been relegated,” he said. “If we’d won five
from seven, it would have been an
outstanding number, but no one
would’ve recognised that if you go
down to the third league – which
would be the equivalent of League
One in England.
“And a very promising coaching
career could’ve been finished before
it started. I was lucky that didn’t
happen.”
Klopp went on – after two near
misses – to steer Mainz to promotion to the Bundesliga and into Europe for the first time before being
lured to Borussia Dortmund.
There he broke Bayern Munich’s
domestic domination to win backto-back Bundesliga titles and the
German Cup, and reach a Champions League final.
Since taking over at Liverpool in
October 2015 he has lifted six trophies – Champions League, Club
World Cup, Uefa Super Cup, Premier League, Carabao Cup and FA
Cup – and, at 55, insists he still feels
“blessed” to be a manager despite
all the frustrations and setbacks,
with never a dull moment.
“Not all of the 1,000 games were
good and not all the phases were
good, but most of the time it went
in the right direction,” he added.
“What you learn in those difficult
times is you solve football problems
with football. There is a way out of

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‘Mudryk will
bring speed
to our attack’
– Potter
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Jürgen Klopp stopped Mainz from dropping into Germany’s third tier GETTY

each situation in football. That’s
how it is, and I didn’t know that 22
years ago. I learned it the hard way.
“For me, it is the best job in the
world. It’s not a relaxing job, it’s not
a job where you have a lot of holidays or whatever, but I love it. I feel
really blessed I can do it, because it
is the only thing I really can do.
“It would be a very calm life if I
was not a manager but I am absolutely fine with the excitement, the
pressure, the outstanding moments
and the less good moments. It’s part
of the deal, nobody wins all the time.
I knew that early, so I don’t expect it

You have to always
develop. It is not for
one second boring.
That’s the best thing
you can say about
your working life

but I still try to do it [win] as often
as possible.”
Asked what advice he would give
to himself if he was starting out at
Mainz, he said: “The advice would
have been to be open, work hard,
be curious, ‘nosey’, look around the
corners and try to find solutions for
problems you don’t have at the moment but will have in the future.
“The most important thing is
to be busy. Learn the game. With
coaching, it is a bit the same as with
golf – when you think you’ve got it,
the game will tell you differently.
“You have to always develop and
that’s what I like the most about the
job. It is not for one second boring.
That’s the best thing you can say
about your working life. It is the best
thing I can imagine to do.”
Today’s home clash with Chelsea
will be Klopp’s 411th in charge of
Liverpool following 270 at Mainz
and 319 at Dortmund. He boasts an
impressive 53.9 per cent win rate
from his spells at those three clubs.
Liverpool are boosted by the return of striker Darwin Nunez after
a minor hamstring injruy.

who is another winger, also in
the pipeline.
“He brings speed, he brings
directness, he brings one-vone ability to just eliminate an
opponent, “ Potter (below) said.
“Sometimes with all the noise
around him you have to focus on
helping him settle in, not put too
much pressure on him.
“It doesn’t matter how much
the price tag says, it’s about how
a human being goes from one
country and one league to this
country and this league, and
help him understand about us
and us as a club. If we do that
well then he will be a
huge success.”

Potter
admitted
he faced a
headache at
the end of
the month
however
in trying
to shoehorn
new faces into
his Champions
League squad, especially as Reece James, N’Golo
Kanté and Ben Chilwell are
nearing returns from injury.
Chelsea’s third round FA Cup
exit means he will have a rare
opportunity for team bonding before then however.
Potter made his players
perform ballet when he was at
Ostersunds but won’t go for a
Stamford Bridge sequel.
“There’ll be no Swan Lake
here,” he said. “It’s not that
they wouldn’t respond to
it, I just think you have to be
mindful of the environment
first and the context.”

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rik ten Hag’s face told its
own story.
When Michael Olise’s
injury time free-kick cannoned off David de Gea’s
crossbar and snapped
Manchester United’s winning streak at Selhurst
Park on Wednesday, the manager’s
clenched teeth and thousand-yard
stare summed up a denouement
drenched in frustration.
With nine wins behind them, it’s
natural to assume an off-day was in
the post for the Premier League’s
form team. But excuses like that jar
with the culture being built at Old
Trafford by the impressive Ten Hag
(below). It has eaten him up all week.
“I look in the mirror,” he said afterwards when offered the get-out
of some iffy officiating in South London. “I look to my team, to my own
management and coaching and say,
invest more in the second goal and
you avoid situations that are dependent on the referee and VAR.”
Ten Hag has a saying that his players now know well: “Good is not good
enough, it has to be better every
day.” It is not just an empty slogan,
it is the philosophy that drives his
management and the basic standard
expected of his squad.
His players learned of those standards quickly as Ten Hag imposed his
will on a team of well-paid but underperforming stars. Some considered
previously undroppable have fallen
foul of them and have found themselves out of the team for prolonged
periods. Cristiano Ronaldo, a bona

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fide club icon, was expelled from
the group permanently. No one, not
even those signed for huge fees on
Ten Hag’s personal recommendation, have been spared.
That fierce drive for improvement
is what has transformed Manchester United from what Jesse Lingard
admits was a “free for all, everyone
doing things for themselves” into a
unified, disciplined side that are on
the fringes of the title race.
In many ways it is a triumph of
reasserting the basics. Ten Hag believes the basis for everything lies
in attitude on the training ground,
where sessions are packed with detail and can be gruelling but keep the
squad on their toes. His players, in
Ten Hag’s words, must “work hard”
and “show the right attitude”.
He has entrusted a cadre of senior leaders in the dressing room to
police standards, only stepping in
when he feels he needs to, and it is
working. The briefings and leaks
to the media have stopped. Players appreciate the certainty he has
brought and his man management
has impressed too, especially the
way he has handled Jadon Sancho in
recent weeks.
In a symbolic move he requested
that the players’ briefing room at
Carrington be refurbished and it
was, at no small cost. It was no coincidence: players are better drilled,
know their roles and have more information than they did under his
predecessors.
Marry all of this with a manager
who has impressed his players and
peers with his ability to read games
and make impactful changes during matches (assistant Steve McClaren says he reads a game better
than anyone he has worked with)
and you have a recipe for long-term
success. Those familiar with his style
say his work ethic is formidable.
Ten Hag has lived in Manchester
for five months now but friends say
he hasn’t set foot inside the city
centre once. He is frequently
the first one into the Carrington training ground
and often, during the
long winter months,
the last one to depart.
This is McClaren
again, speaking
to Dutch publication Tubantia in a
recent profile of

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Ten Hag: “Erik has put an end to the
chaos. Player behaviour has totally
changed, discipline is back.
“The unrest is gone and everywhere you notice that he is respected – and believe me, it is not easy to
achieve that at such a big club.
“He chats with everyone here on
the training complex, gives everyone
attention, but he is the boss. With
Erik there is no but, why or if. Grey
does not exist, it is black or white.
You run and if you can’t or don’t want
to, you go.”
Ten Hag does not give the impression of a man who is easily impressed
and he isn’t prepared to indulge talk
that he has already changed the
club’s direction.
“It is a bit too early to say I have
things on track,” he said recently.
“But we are on the right track.”
Arsenal tomorrow continues a
run of games that will tell us much

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about whether he is re-establishing
the Red Devils as a genuine force
capable of battling for the biggest
honours in the game.
Manchester City were dispatched
but Palace illustrated the danger of
United playing the percentages, as
they sometimes do.
They have won seven games by a
single goal margin and have scored

The unrest is gone
and he is respected
everywhere – and
believe me, it is not
easy to achieve that
at such a big club

the fewest goals of any team in the
top half of the table.
There remains plenty of room for
improvement and this season’s Premier League has proved the foolishness of snap judgements.
In October Erling Haaland was
the goal machine who made Manchester City virtually unstoppable;
the last week has been dominated by
speculation that his signing has broken Pep Guardiola’s well-oiled unit.
Ten Hag and his players were
roundly written off after the Brentford debacle in August, after which
he made the players run 13km in
searing Manchester heat – the distance their opponents outran them
on the day.
Famously he joined them on their
punishment run, in a highly symbolic
move.
A few months on, the pace of Ten
Hag’s revolution is picking up.

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Gunners ‘deserve to be top’
By Simon Peach

Erik ten Hag is confident
Manchester United can frustrate
Arsenal again as his side look to
do the double over the Premier
League leaders.
Gunners fans are beginning to
dream of a first league crown since
2004 but third-placed United will
attempt to chip away at an eightpoint gap tomorrow.
Ten Hag’s improving side head to
north London buoyed by a superb
unbeaten run and the knowledge
that they are the only team to have
beaten Mikel Arteta’s side in the
league this season.
“It is obvious they are in a really
good run and I think they deserve

the position where they are now,”
said the United boss, who oversaw
September’s 3-1 Old Trafford win.
“It’s a really good structure, how
they play. There’s a really good
mentality, winning attitude in that
team. That’s why they are top.
“They are in a great run but it
is up to us to beat that run and we
will do everything to do that.”
Asked if he was surprised to see
Arsenal top, Ten Hag said: “No.
You see really good structures
in the team and I think they even
improved during the first half of
the season.
“There is a really good spirit as
well, so we know what to do. We
have to be really good. We need a
really good performance.”

Oliver
Young-Myles
Arsenal may have missed
out on securing their top
transfer target this month
after being Todd Boehly’d in
their pursuit of Ukrainian
winger Mykhailo Mudryk, but
they have moved swiftly on
from that disappointment by
signing Leandro Trossard from
Brighton instead.
And for a significantly cheaper
fee than the £88.5m Chelsea
splashed out on Mudryk. The
28-year-old has joined for
an initial £20m transfer fee
potentially rising to £27m if
performance-related add-ons are
met, and has signed a three-anda-half-year deal with the option
of an additional 12 months. He
will wear the No 19 shirt for his
new club.
It looks like an astute piece of
business. Trossard’s Premier
League experience, versatility
and history of working alongside
Mikel Arteta’s assistant manager
Albert Stuivenberg during their
brief time together at Genk,
should ensure a relatively speedy
adaptation. Arsenal are adding
proven quality to a squad chasing
a first league title since 2004.
“He is a versatile player with
high technical ability, intelligence
and a great deal of experience
in the Premier League and at
international level,” Arteta said.
“Leandro strengthens our
squad as we head into the second
part of the season and we’re
all looking forward to working
with him.”
Trossard, whose final
appearance for the Seagulls
came in a 4-2 defeat to Arsenal
on New Year’s Eve, now faces
the unenviable task of breaking
up one of the most settled and
in-form attacking units in the
division. Although he was used
in a variety of positions for
Brighton, including at centreforward and wing-back, Trossard
is most accustomed to playing as
a wide forward, usually on the
left, or else as a No 10, positions
currently occupied at Arsenal by
Gabriel Martinelli, Bukayo Saka
and Martin Odegaard.
Only once this season has
Arteta not named that trio

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together in his starting line-up
for a Premier League match,
back in September when
Odegaard missed a 3-0 win
against Brentford due to a calf
injury. Martinelli and Saka have
started all 18 Premier League
games this season. Although
Trossard may struggle to break
up the triumvirate, he will be
a useful option should injury,
fatigue or a dip in form affect any
of them during the second half of
the season.
Arsenal’s attack is
both efficient and
cohesive. Each player
is completely tuned in
to the movements and
traits of the others,
which is why Arsenal
have been so difficult to
stop this season and such
potency has limited Arteta’s
(right) capacity to rotate his
attacking trio.
Arsenal’s understudies in
those attacking roles – Fabio
Vieira, Reiss Nelson and Emile
Smith Rowe – have featured for
a combined 358 minutes in the
Premier League this campaign.

He is a versatile
player with high
technical ability,
intelligence and a
great deal of
experience

The benefit that Trossard has
over Arsenal’s current backups,
though, is that he is already
in his peak, rather than in a
developmental phase.
Over the past 18 months,
Trossard’s goalscoring output
has noticeably increased: after
scoring five goals in his first
two seasons at Brighton, he
contributed eight last season and
seven in only 16 games this term.
He was one of the most in-form
players in the league prior to the
World Cup.
His arrival marks a
break from Arsenal’s
recent transfer policy
that has prioritised
players with
potential over more
established names.
Since the start of
last season, Arsenal have
signed 13 outfielders, all of
whom were 25 or under at the
time of their arrival – including
22-year-old Poland centre-back
Jakub Kiwior who is joining
from Spezia – with the exception
of Trossard.
That additional experience can
be beneficial to a dressing room
that is short of it.
After excelling in a Brighton
side renowned for pressing high
and with intensity, he should be
a natural stylistic fit for Arteta’s
system too.
Trossard may not be as exciting
a recruit as Mudryk would have
been, but he is a plug-in-and-play
option that improves Arsenal’s
squad depth. And with a Premier
League title to contest, that could
be all important.

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An £88m guess
Potter admits Chelsea have taken a punt on Ukrainian winger Mudryk
By Jon West

Graham Potter admits Chelsea have
made an “educated guess” when it
comes to Mykhailo Mudryk and his
eight-year contract.
Ukraine winger Mudryk (right) is
set to make an instant debut – almost
certainly off the bench – at Liverpool
this lunchtime after the Blues pipped
Arsenal to sign him.
They paid Shakhtar Donetsk
£88m to do so, with the player’s
lengthy contract designed to avoid
falling foul of Financial Fair Play
regulations.

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Manager Potter admitted it represented a big gamble considering
plenty of previous stars in their own
homeland had found the Premier
League too hot to handle.
“There is no guarantee anywhere,”
he said. “No magic formula that says
this is going to work and this is how
we see the future..
“With every decision you’ve got to
make the best educated guess that
you can.
“If you identify the right player and
the right person there’s huge upsides
to it because you are developing and
investing in him.

“If things go well you have a fantastic asset, and the club is secure
in terms of the contract length. It’s a
direction the club wants to go down
and obviously I am supporting that
as best I can.”
Potter is not short of wide men
but believes the 22-year-old nevertheless added a missing ingredient to a squad that has also seen
Joao Felix, Benoît Badiashile, David
Datro Fofana and Andrey Santos
added this month, with a deal for
PSV Eindhoven’s Noni Madueke,
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