事实不再被需要
凶手 仍将 被提前释放
作者：Tony Diver 和 Charles Hymas
根据安迪·伯纳姆批准的计划，安德鲁·哈珀警员的凶手将被提前从监狱释放。尽管工党正在对该计划进行审查，但犯有误杀罪的罪犯在服刑过半后将有资格获释。在受害者、国会议员和一线监狱官员的压力下，强奸犯和严重的儿童性犯罪者（包括诱骗团伙犯罪者）将不再被提前释放。该警员的遗孀莉西·哈珀（Lissie Harper）表示，安迪·伯纳姆先生的决定是“彻底的背叛”和“对正义的冒犯”。安迪·伯纳姆在给《电讯报》的一篇文章中表示，他已经“将可能性推向了极致”，但如果不在几个月内让监狱系统“崩溃”，他就无法豁免更多罪犯。为了防止未来的监狱拥挤，安迪·伯纳姆还透露，他已请求司法大臣亚历克斯·诺里斯考虑提前释放更多女性囚犯，“鉴于她们通常造成的风险较低”。《电讯报》上月披露，艾伯特·鲍尔斯和杰西·科尔因误杀 28 岁的安德鲁·哈珀警员于 2020 年被判处 13 年监禁，他们在服刑 6 年半后即具备获释资格。尽管该报道促使安迪·伯纳姆暂停了 6,000 名罪犯的释放，但首相审查的结果意味着鲍尔斯和科尔现在可能在年底前获得自由。2019 年 8 月，安德鲁·哈珀警员前往伯克郡苏尔汉姆斯特德（Sulhamstead）附近调查一起全地形车盗窃案，当时鲍尔斯和科尔试图乘坐由第三名凶手亨利·隆（Henry Long）驾驶的汽车逃跑，而亨利·隆不具备提前释放的资格。安德鲁·哈珀警员的脚踝被牵引绳环套住，在乡间道路上被拖行了一英多米后死亡。哈珀夫人将凶手可能被提前释放的行为描述为“可耻的”，而安德鲁·哈珀警员的母亲德比·阿德拉姆（Debbie Adlam）则表示，这将是一次“扇在脸上的耳光”。
作者：Patrick Galbraith 环境记者
农民警告称，英国的土豆作物正受到热浪的威胁。由于高温抑制了土豆的生长，薯条可能很快会变短，烤土豆也可能难以买到。东英吉利一个向马莎百货和奥尔迪等超市供货的土豆种植集团 3Ms 的吉姆·韦曼（Jim Wayman）告诉《电讯报》：“我们一直在给它们浇水，但在这种高温下它们不生长。这就像是在给尸体浇水。” 如果温度升高到 30°C 以上，土豆就会停止生长，而平均水平……
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“脸”。昨晚，哈珀夫人表示，她对自己丈夫的凶手仍将被释放感到“极度震惊”。她说道：“在他们本就可怜的刑期内提前释放是对正义的冒犯。政府和司法系统不仅让我失望……更是伤口上撒盐。这是一次彻头彻尾的背叛——而且是我无法原谅或忘记的背叛。”据了解，在其中一名罪犯已被告知即将获释后，诺里斯先生于昨日将审查结果告知了阿德拉姆夫人。她告诉《电讯报》：“这让安德鲁的死成了一个笑话。我每天都生活在绝望之中。但我不会坐以待毙。这对我们来说是毁灭性的。感觉正义再次被剥夺了。他们担心囚犯的反弹，但公众同样会有反弹。”
在“获益晋升”计划下，包括杀人犯和强奸犯在内的严重罪犯，除非在狱中表现不佳，否则将有资格在服刑至一半而非三分之二时获释。低级别罪犯的获释门槛则被设定为服刑至三分之一，而非 40 之路。安迪·伯纳姆先生表示，在听取了受害者的担忧后，强奸犯和儿童性侵犯将不适用此次量刑变更。安迪·伯纳姆在给《电讯报》的文章中写道：“我知道人们会对哪些其他罪行仍将被提前释放而感到担忧。我已经把可行性的限度推到了极致。我知道我可以直视人们的眼睛告诉他们，如果不想让整个系统在几个月内崩溃，我已经做到了能要求的所有努力。”影子司法大臣尼克·蒂莫西表示：“安迪·伯纳姆就任首相后的首批行动之一，将是提前释放数千名罪犯——包括杀人犯和恋童癖。”
这在截至上月底的一年中的 16 天里已是被超越的记录。英国气象局的初步统计数据显示，英格兰和威尔士经历了自 1836, 有记录以来最干燥的 7 月，而气温在昨天再次攀升至 30 摄氏度以上。
韦曼先生表示：“我们被指责在制造恐慌，大型零售商说他们的客户期望一定的尺寸标准，但我们认为我们做不到。”
马铃薯市场分析师塞德里克·波特表示，8 月是马铃薯增加重量的关键月份，但大多数马铃薯已停止生长。他敦促公众“趁还能吃的时候赶紧吃土豆”。
去年大号马铃薯供应过剩，部分原因是减重的“减肥针”导致人们减少了碳水化合物的摄入，增加了蛋白质的摄入。大部分过剩的马铃薯被用作牛饲料。欧洲最大的蔬菜生产商之一查尔斯·什罗普郡表示，直到 10 天前，他仍存储着 1,500 吨去年的收获马铃薯，随后麦凯恩 (食品公司) 担心大号马铃薯短缺而将其全部买走。
而热浪同样袭击了欧洲大部分地区，这意味着英国将难以进口大号马铃薯，这进一步加剧了问题。
劳拉·多纳利，健康编辑
一项审查警告称，如果安迪·伯纳姆未能实施其计划中的社会护理改革，15 年内医院床位的四分之一将被痴呆症患者占据。
目前，英国国家医疗服务体系中几乎每 6 张床位就有 1 张被痴呆症患者占用，每天成本约 1200 万英镑m。专家警告称，如果没有激进的改变，到 2040 年这一比例将达到四分之一——这将“挤掉所有人的护理空间”。
英国的医院正越来越多地成为失效的护理体系的替代方案。
胎儿在母体内接受手术
特写
体系，导致数以千计的痴呆症患者在医院长期滞留。 安迪·伯纳姆先生的父亲患有痴呆症，他承诺将投入其“政治资本”来建立一个资金充足的国家护理服务体系。但尽管此前曾提议对遗产征收 10 比分之比的税收，首相尚未解释这将如何支付，并排除了提高所得税、国家保险和增值税的可能性。 该审查表明，英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 所面临的危机规模比部长们承认的要大。预计到 2040, 痴呆症护理成本将增加一倍以上，从 £42.5 增加到 £90, 其中不必要的住院治疗是增长的主要原因。 这项由伦敦大学学院 (UCL) 研究人员开展，并得到盖勒委员会、英国痴呆症协会和阿尔茨海默病协会支持的审查，是对痴呆症住院情况最全面的分析，审查了涉及近 1.5 百万参与者的 77 项研究证据。 研究发现，痴呆症患者住院的可能性比没有该病的人高 42 比分之比，且一旦入院，其在院时间比同龄人长 7 倍。 委员会主席、慈善家劳伦斯·盖勒表示：“我们的医院已经处于崩溃边缘。在患者及其家属都不希望住院的情况下，将六分之一的医院床位分配给痴呆症患者，且每天成本超过 1200 万英镑m，这是不可持续的。” “如果不对此采取紧急行动，15 年内几乎四分之一的医院床位可能会被痴呆症患者占据，这将使医院不堪重负，并挤占所有人的护理资源。”
丹尼尔·马丁 (Daniel Martin) 著 副政治编辑
安迪·伯纳姆在就任首相两周后开始休假。 唐宁街 10 号表示，他将暂时脱离日常职责，与家人共度时光，但坚持认为他将与官员保持联系并继续掌权。 安迪·伯纳姆于 7 月 20, 就任首相，成为十年来的第六任首相。他承诺他的首相任期将成为“英国的电路断路器”，将带来“过去 40 年来最大的变革”。在唐宁街 10 号的台阶上，他表示挑战在于“让政治发挥作用，使其运行得更好”。 在就职的前两周，他发布了一系列关于降低生活成本的政策公告，发表了关于社会护理改革必要性的演讲，并概述了他解决青年失业、向市长下放更多权力以及将国防开支作为区域增长驱动力的愿景。 唐宁街 10 号未透露安迪·伯纳姆及其家人将离开多久，或休假去往何处。不过，一名发言人表示：“政府继续正常运作，首相将与官员保持联系，举行会议并定期接收政府事务的更新。” 安迪·伯纳姆的提前休假受到了改革党的批评。该党主席李·安德森表示：“就职两周，安迪·伯纳姆就已经受够了。在抛弃了一系列缺乏资金支持的承诺，并监督 2,000 多名非法移民潜入我国之后，他就溜出去在国外享乐了。这不是一个认真领导国家的首相。” 由于议会休会，首相通常在 8 月份休息。议会将于 9 月份返回工作两周，然后进入第二次休会 2 。
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领取福利， 度假和 成人玩具可享折扣
作者：Harry Brennan 消费者事务编辑
一些涉及英国最大品牌的优惠方案正向福利领取者提供度假和成人玩具的折扣。
焦虑症及神经多样性领取者也可以通过专为残障人士设计的私营部门方案，享受名贵手表、珠宝和设计师服装的价格优惠。
但许多优惠也延伸至患有“隐性残障”（如 ADHD）且领取个人独立付款（Pip）的个人——尽管人们担心部分人士在滥用这一制度。
一个网站在教用户如何利用“Pip 免费赠品”，而这些方案的支持者在社交媒体上推广这些特权，将其描述为无障碍领域的“最深秘密”。
反对者则称，这些方案威胁到了一个微妙的平衡：一方面是保护真正有需要者的福利体系，另一方面则是可能激励人们不愿工作的文化风险。
此前，人们对地方议会向福利领取者提供夜生活和海滨小屋折扣，以及私人公司在包括伦敦动物园和伊甸园项目在内的景点提供折扣表达了类似的担忧。
此类折扣还引发了人们对其他消费者在补贴不同群体的低成本时，究竟多支付了多少费用的担忧。
改革党主席李·安德森表示，Pip 应当留给那些“真正需要帮助”的人，而不是用来“买打折的成人玩具和奢华度假”。
他补充道：“领取福利的生活正变得比工作更有吸引力，以至于人们在社交媒体上积极指导他人如何利用这些方案。”
一个名为 Purpl 的网站提供了残障人士可享用的折扣，例如
安迪·伯纳姆 英国首相
英国的监狱危机根源于 2010 和 2024 年之间未能增加足够的床位。期间仅增加了 500 个床位，且关闭了 23 所监狱。结果导致目前系统已处于危险的满负荷状态，我们面临新罪犯无法及时被监禁的风险。
必须掌控局面，而这正是我在就任首相最初几天所做的工作。但我这样做是尝试让自己站在犯罪受害者的立场，通过他们的视角来看待问题。我的方法是为他们提供最大程度的支持，并将公共安全风险降至最低。
对于一个在经历创伤后试图重建生活的人来说，没有什么比得知那个对其负责的……更让人感到不公正的了。
包括因心理健康状况而领取个人独立支付 (Pip) 的人士。 通过支付少量月费订阅该计划的用户，此前曾获得包括成人用品店 Lovehoney 最高 70% 的折扣，以及 Calvin Klein 内衣 10% 的折扣等专属优惠。 其他促销活动还包括 TUI 假期最高 500 英镑 (£500) 的折扣，以及 Jet2holidays 和阿尔顿塔 (Alton Towers) 的其他行程优惠。 该计划还提供奢侈品的折扣，包括与钟表制造商 Rotary 的专属 25% 折扣，以及珠宝类产品。 如今，有超过四百万人申请残疾福利，其中超过三分之一的人将心理健康列为其“主要致残情况”。 国家残疾卡 (National Disability Card) 是另一个提供网购和出游折扣的计划。符合条件的申请者两年需支付 20 英镑 (£20)。另一个名为 Access Card 的卡片，旨在向景点和活动工作人员展示其残疾情况，包括在人群和排队时的社交焦虑。 社交媒体上的倡导者表示，该卡在主题公园等场所申请跳过排队时尤为有用。 有人将其描述为无障碍设施中“保守最深”的秘密，让他们和伴侣能以低成本进入包括动物园在内的景点。 Purpl 的创始人乔治娜·科尔曼 (Georgina Colman) 表示：“Purpl 不是一项福利计划。私人资助的零售折扣不应与关于 Pip 如何评估的争论混为一谈。我们的重点是帮助残疾人降低残疾带来的额外成本。” 国家残疾卡计划的戴安娜·泰勒 (Dianne Taylor) 表示，这些折扣是由“零售商资助的，纳税人无需承担成本”。 Access Card 的组织者已收到置评请求。
他们的痛苦将比预期更早地得到释放。然而，这却是许多受害者的痛苦经历。 我理解他们的愤怒与焦虑。不仅如此，我也感同身受。 正因如此，我担任首相后的首批决定之一，就是暂停 9 月份的提前释放计划，并要求对该计划进行紧急审查。 该审查现已结束，因此，我决定做出一些重大调整。强奸、严重的儿童性犯罪及其他诱拐犯罪的刑期现在将被排除在外。这将是在那些已被法院认定为最危险囚犯而已被禁止提前释放的罪犯之外，进一步增加的限制。
GUY BELL / ALAMY
动态图片：马斯登·哈特利 (Marsden Hartley) 的《绘画 50 号》(Painting No 50) (1914-15)，该作品由美国艺术家在柏林期间创作，现由美国艺术泰拉基金会 (Terra Foundation for American Art) 借展至伦敦国家美术馆。
我知道人们会对谁仍将被提前释放感到担忧。但我知道我可以直视人们的眼睛告诉他们，在不冒使监狱系统在数月内崩溃的风险的情况下，我已经尽了最大努力。如果发生崩溃，将使公众面临巨大风险：警方将无法实施逮捕；法院将无法将新罪犯送入监狱；我们的司法系统将陷入瘫痪。 然而，我决心采取更多措施来支持受害者和
监狱系统将面临崩溃的风险， 而我已尽力而为”
公众。因此，除了排除强奸、严重儿童性犯罪和其他诱导犯罪的刑期外，我们还将引入更为严格的社区监管措施。几乎所有获释的罪犯都将被佩戴电子脚镣。监督期将被延长。我们将对罪犯施加新条件，包括与受害者商定的禁区。作为变革的一部分，我们将赋予缓刑监督员权力，禁止罪犯驾驶车辆、出入酒吧及参加社区活动。
还将为受害者提供一套新的支持方案。这将由 1000 万英镑m 的新资金支持，为受害者提供基于创伤知情的联系渠道，并设立全国性的求助热线。政府将致力于彻底解决监狱危机。我不会将同样的问题留给我的继任者。我们将实施自维多利亚 era, 以来最快速的监狱扩建计划，预计到 2031 年将增加 14,000 个新床位。
为了避免这种情况再次发生，我还要求司法大臣寻找其他能释放监狱容量且公众更容易接受的方法。
首先，我要求他审查 2005 年至 2012 年期间判处的无限期刑期，即所谓的“公众保护监禁”（IPP）。这导致数百人在年轻时就被关押，尽管已经服刑多年，但仍然没有释放的希望。
其次，我要求考虑提前释放更多女性囚犯，并研究将更多女性监狱设施转换为关押男性囚犯，因为女性通常风险较低。
第三，我要求官员考虑加快将外国籍罪犯遣返回原籍国。
我们今天宣布的这些变化将产生影响，但我并不伪装这是一个完美的解决方案，或者它达到了我所希望的程度。在接下来的几个月和几年里，我的承诺是重建我们的司法系统，使其赢得公众的信任。这不会在一夜之间实现，也不会没有困难。但我们将交付一个英国人民期待并值得拥有的司法系统。
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“到处乱摸”
庭审获悉，一名警督在索霍区的一家酒吧夜出期间，对三名女性同事实施了性侵。
来自卢顿的 Dave Newman，39 岁，被指控在伦敦市中心该场所的舞池中“抓、摸、抚摸和捏”。南华克刑事法院听取了相关陈述。
一名女性表示，当被告（当时是一名警察）将手放在她的阴部区域（隔着衣服）大约两秒钟时，她吓呆了。
他否认了针对三名不同女性（身份不可公开）的三项性侵指控。
庭审仍在继续。
发现尸体
在搜寻一名 19 岁的皮划艇者过程中发现了一具尸体，该皮划艇者上个月在诺森伯兰海岸附近翻船。
来自罗斯伯里地区的 Michael Henry 的尸体于 7 月 26. 在布莱斯附近被发现。诺森伯兰警方自 7 月 7. 起一直在广泛搜寻 Henry 先生的尸体，当时一艘载有两名男子的皮划艇在鲍尔默附近翻船。另一名男子被海岸警卫队救起。
正式身份确认已经完成，已为验尸官准备好报告。
Henry 的家人表示：“Michael 是一个深受人们喜爱的儿子、兄弟、孙子、侄子、队友和朋友。”
一名原皇家音乐学院的小提琴教师被裁定对性侵一名潜在学生的指控不成立。
南华克刑事法院（Southwark Crown Court）审理得知，68 岁的 Jan Repko 与原告在一次实际的“试听课”中见面，由她为他演奏几首小提琴曲目。
该音乐家被指控在 2022 年的该次课程期间对其进行性侵。
来自伦敦东南部 Walworth 的 Repko 先生——他曾在曼彻斯特的切瑟姆音乐学校（Chetham’s School of Music）和皇家北方音乐学院任教——被判定接触性侵及侵入性侵害罪名不成立。
喜剧演员 Jimmy Cricket 在经历短时间患病后去世，享年 80 岁。
他的亲属表示，这位北爱尔兰脱口秀演员于昨日上午离世，最近几天他“被家人、爱、笑声和歌曲围绕”。
其家人在社交媒体上发布的一份声明中表示：“Jimmy 在多年的职业生涯中，无论是在舞台、荧幕还是广播中，或者是在与人们面对面接触时，为无数观众带来了巨大的欢笑和快乐。”
“但与他给家人带来的幸福相比，这些都微不足道。他与 May 结婚 52 年，是一位忠诚的丈夫，是四个孩子心中完美的父亲，而且确实是一个非常幽默的爷爷，照顾着他的四个孙辈。”
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作者：Emily Smith
亚莉安娜·格兰德（ARIANA GRANDE）宣布，由于人们对其外貌和健康的担忧日益增加，她将退出公众生活。
这位美国流行歌手原定于明年在伦敦巴比肯中心（Barbican）出演音乐剧《乔治公园里的周日》（Sunday in the Park with George）的新制作版。
然而，格兰德的一名代表表示，在她完成巡演后，她将暂停公众生活。
作者：Sarah Rodrigues
亚莉安娜·格兰德（ARIANA GRANDE）决定在对其外貌的“无休止审视”中退出公众生活，这引发了更多关于这位 33 岁歌手健康状况的讨论。
人们不禁好奇，除了她那令人担忧的骨瘦如柴的身材外，这种审视还可能关于什么？
是的，我同情一个超过半辈子都生活在聚光灯下的年轻女性。但作为一名女儿实时关注格兰德成名之路的母亲，我也非常真实地担心她给年轻人树立了什么样的榜样。
即便考虑到格兰德的……
作者：《电讯报》记者
一对夫妇因与邻居之间关于一道栅栏、一只装饰性松鼠以及在 YouTube 上发布的冒犯性歌曲而产生长达 14 年的纠纷，面临支付 150,000 英镑的法院账单。
Philip 和 Denise New 夫妇与邻居 Steve 和 Karen Gibson 夫妇陷入法律纠纷。此前在 2012 年，他们就埃塞克斯郡 Thundersley 两人花园之间的一道栅栏产生了分歧。
这场纠纷源于几英寸的土地，而当 New 夫妇从两家之间的一个柱子上移除了一个“具有情感价值”的松鼠装饰物后，冲突进一步升级。
“那个松鼠柱子是由他的岳父母建造的，他购买了……”
她在九月发行最新专辑《Petal》，但由于“无休止的审视”而决定暂缓。在最近发布了第八张录音室专辑同名主打单曲的音乐视频后，关于格兰德健康状况的猜测加剧，引发了粉丝对其明显体重减轻的评论。
格兰德的一位代表告诉《人物》杂志（People Magazine）：“在完成‘永恒阳光’（Eternal Sunshine）巡演后，亚莉安娜将减少公众曝光。”
“她期待在健康和快乐的状态下圆满结束这次巡演，然后从面向公众的工作和露面中获得一个应得的休息，因为这些活动导致了公众无休止且持续的审视。”
“这次巡演对她来说是一次美好的体验。她热爱她的粉丝，并深爱这次巡演的每一分钟。”
代表补充道：“她的表演具有很强的肢体性，涉及大量体育竞技元素。她每晚都在以非常高水准的状态健康且成功地进行表演。”
在这支以试镜为主题的音乐视频中，格兰德出现在一群男性评审面前。她的角色被告知“不够好”、“很绝望”且“应该去整容”。随后，人们看到她用电锯对这些评论者大开杀戒，最后浑身是血地走出房间。
粉丝们注意到了歌手在视频中的样子，有人表示她“瘦得极端，令人担忧”，另一人补充道：“我认为人们有权为她的健康感到担忧。”
娇小的身高仅5英尺，而她现在的样子让我感到心惊。作为一个在1990年代“海洛因时髦”（heroin chic）era成长的人，我一直非常努力地保护我的女儿免受类似阴险信息的侵害，并为她树立一个健康、强壮、苗条的身体形象。大约十年前，当她 10 岁第一次在尼克频道（Nickelodeon）喜剧剧集《胜利之光》（Victorious）中看到格兰德时，我对格兰德的体重没有任何顾虑。
在这部拍摄于 2010 和 2013 年之间的剧中，这位年轻女演员扮演了可爱天真且声音软糯的 Cat——她是 Jade（伊丽莎白·吉利斯 饰）的坏女孩气场以及聪明但偶尔笨拙的 Tori（维多利亚·贾斯汀 饰）的完美陪衬。当时我的女儿开始对时尚和自己的外貌产生兴趣，相比格兰德的体重，我更担心剧中短裙、露脐上衣和浓妆。
当时的法官表示，那只松鼠在 1980 年代作为送给吉布森夫人及其父母的礼物，因此具有巨大的情感价值。吉布森先生还发现，喜剧词曲作者纽先生在 YouTube 上创作并发布了关于他的诋毁歌曲。
其中一首名为《邻居》（Neighbours）的歌曲提供了如何对付坏邻居的建议，歌词包括：“往他们的窗户扔屎，往门口扔屎 / 骂他是个婊子，骂她是个婊子。”
绍森德郡法院（Southend County Court）的一位法官判定纽夫妇败诉，去年命令他们向吉布森夫妇共同支付 £13,000 的赔偿金及利息，并支付估计约为 £120,000 的该案律师费。然而，他们再次回到了法庭。
在那个年纪， 我能承受 多少创伤。 答案是： 没多少”
本月早些时候，在对赔偿金额提起高等法院上诉后，对方辩称该金额过高应予以降低，结果应撤销成本账单。尽管赔偿金额减少了 £700，但 News 方面反而被要求额外支付 £19,000 的邻居法律费用。
汤普塞尔法官表示，News 上诉的动机是为了获得足够大额的赔偿减免，从而避免支付邻居的费用。然而，他认为 £700 的减免不足以证明撤销其已经面临的六位数账单是合理的，并命令他们在该款项之外，额外支付吉布森一家近 £19,000 的上诉费用。
或者任何其他表演者的身体。这是一批才华横溢的演员，现在看来，格兰德是唯一一个被推向名声顶峰的人，这简直令人惊讶。但也许其他人应该庆幸自己的星光闪烁得较为微弱，因为聚光灯似乎并未对这位美国歌手那么宽容。
2017 年，大约在我女儿开始关注格兰德的演艺生涯一年后，该表演者的“危险女人”巡演曼彻斯特站遭到了伊斯兰主义者的炸弹袭击，导致 22 人死亡。我立刻想到了那些在现场的人的父母。我紧紧抱着我的女儿，想到一个正处于兴奋之中的年轻人会在同一天晚上被夺走生命，我就感到恐惧。
任何父母将如何走出这样的创伤？然而，当
健康。”格兰德的健康状况近年来一直是猜测的焦点，在 2024 年宣传音乐电影改编剧《魔法坏女巫》（Wicked）期间，人们也表达了担忧，她在该片中与英国女演员辛西娅·埃里沃共同主演。那一年，她回应了关于她体重的评论，将其描述为“令人不安”且“可怕”的。
她说：“我认为在今天的社会中，存在一种我们根本不应该拥有的随意性——那就是评论
由沙漠植物制成的卫生纸
作者：汤姆·海恩斯 (Tom Haynes)
Andrex 的制造商正在探索利用沙漠植物而非树木来制造卫生纸，以助力地球。 昨天，金佰利-克拉克 (Kimberly-Clark) 表示，该公司正在测试 Hesperaloe（一种原产于美国西南部的耐旱植物），以此作为卫生纸、厨房纸巾和面纸中木质纤维的潜在替代品。 计划推出这款新型卫生纸的背景是，制造商因依赖新鲜砍伐的树木所提供的木质纤维而面临日益增加的压力。 尽管多年来一直尝试寻找更环保的替代方案，但卫生纸目前仍绝大多数由北美和斯堪的纳维亚森林中采伐的木材制成。活动人士声称，每天有超过一百万棵树被砍伐以制造传统卫生纸。 环保组织还认为，这种产品通常仅使用数秒便被冲走——
（此处文本在原件中可能存在跳跃或缺失，以下为接续内容）
——基于他人的外貌、形象、他们认为幕后发生了什么，或者健康状况，以及他们如何展现自己。 “从你的穿着到你的身体，到你的脸，到你的一切——人们在评论这些方面时有一种随意感，我认为这非常危险。” 格兰德 (Grande) 在 11 月通过社交媒体再次分享了这次采访，将其作为“给所有人的温馨提醒”。 格兰德原定于明年夏天与《魔法坏女巫》(Wicked) 的合作演员乔纳森·贝利 (Jonathan Bailey) 一起出演音乐剧《公园里的周日与乔治》(Sunday in the Park with George)。 Empire Street Productions 的代表确认该音乐剧将在没有她的情况下继续进行，并表示：“我们可以确认，她已决定退出《公园里的周日与乔治》。”
——仅仅一个月后——格兰德举办了“One Love 曼彻斯特”演唱会，旨在援助袭击受害者及其家属。我当时因为另一种原因而落泪：我钦佩一名年轻女孩（格兰德当时年仅 24 岁）在 50,000 多人面前保持坚强，为那些生活被摧毁的人们筹集数百万英镑。 随后，当格兰德的前男友麦克·米勒 (Mac Miller) 在数月后因药物过量去世时，我在想如果是我在那个年纪，能承受多少创伤。答案是：没多少。
当我们 发现 某些事情 不对劲时， 可以指出来…… 但这并不 意味着 要刻薄”
最近的一张 Ariana Grande（左）的照片， 显示这位具有影响力的 演员兼歌手 处于她的最瘦时期
George。我们知道这绝不会是一个容易的决定，她在得到我们完全理解和支持的情况下做出了这个决定。我们衷心祝愿她一切顺利。” Grande 的继任者尚未公布。 巴比肯中心（Barbican）的一位发言人表示： “我们衷心希望在时机成熟时，有一天能欢迎她来到巴比肯中心。” “我们优秀的剧院团队正继续努力准备，计划于 2027 年夏季在巴比肯中心上演《周日与乔治在公园》(Sunday In The Park with George)，由乔纳森·贝利 (Jonathan Bailey) 主演，玛丽安·艾略特 (Marianne Elliott) 执导。” “更多演员阵容、演出详情以及购票信息将很快公布。”
今天，我看着 Grande 皮肤下凸出的锁骨，想给她一个拥抱。我 53 岁，我知道生活有时会给人带来一些相当残酷的打击，让你失去食欲，或者迫使你想要掌控那些少数真正能由你控制的事情。 但一个缺乏生活经验的年轻女孩该如何理解这一点？谢天谢地，我的女儿现在 20 岁，已经足够敏锐，能够意识到，无论在什么情况下，Grande 的身材都不是应该尝试效仿的对象。 然而，我为那些女儿处于我女儿最初迷上 Grande 时年龄的母亲们感到担心。父母该如何告诉孩子，这不是一个值得全心效仿的人？ 我认为，答案在于少关注这位歌手的身体，多关注她的成就。她是 LGBT 权利的坚定倡导者，她拥有惊人的才华，而且她很勇敢——她在曼彻斯特的后续演出就证明了这一点。 作为父母，我认为我们可以与孩子一起庆祝这些方面，并鼓励他们从中汲取灵感，但当某些事情不对劲时，我们也可以指出来。 这并不意味着要刻薄。
发现一些以竹制为卖点的卫生纸实际上主要由硬木纤维制成。 与树木不同，龙舌兰属植物 (hesperaloe) 可以在干燥、低质量的、不适合大多数粮食作物生长且收获速度快得多的农地上生长。 金佰利克拉克 (Kimberly-Clark) 表示，在最终选定龙舌兰属植物之前，他们测试了 70 多种潜在材料。早期的候选材料包括小麦秸秆、玉米废料、海藻、藻类和鸡毛。 计划中的新型卫生纸现在将在亚利桑那州尤马 (Yuma) 的一家试点工厂开发。帮助开发这种新型卫生纸的克雷格·斯拉夫切夫 (Craig Slavtcheff) 表示：“这对金佰利克拉克来说是一次令人兴奋的‘登月计划’，也是二十多年材料和植物科学专业知识的顶峰。”
Restore 党的受欢迎程度 可能会分走其核心选票 并给该党带来极大损害
作者：Tony Diver 和 Pieter Snepvangers
奈杰尔·法拉奇 (NIGEL FARAGE) 正在与“恢复英国”(Restore Britain) 协商达成一项选举协议。 这位 改革党 英国领导人昨天表示，对于讨论与前同事鲁珀特·洛夫 (Rupert Lowe) 合作持“开放心态”，后者于去年被开出党外。 目前领导竞争对手 Restore 党的洛夫先生周日表示，两人需要共同努力，以在下次选举中建立一个“爱国政府”。 在洛夫先生周日没有立即回复法拉奇先生建议进行电话沟通的消息后，潜在的合作遭遇了早期挫折。《电讯报》获悉，洛夫先生随后已做出回应，预计谈判将举行。 洛夫先生正寻求一项选举协议
作者：Genevieve Holl-Allen 和 Ben Butcher
露西·鲍威尔（LUCY POWELL）在担任教育大臣任职之初就表示，她将废除戈夫勋爵的大部分教育改革。这位工党副党魁声称，前保守党内阁大臣对教育系统的改革导致了 100 万人处于不教育、不就业或不培训（Neets）的状态。在 2026 年初，Neets 的数量自 2013 年工党执政以来首次达到 100 万这一里程碑，自 2024 年以来，失业、脱离教育或培训的年轻成年人增加了 91,000 人。鲍威尔女士在《泰晤士报》撰文将英国的这场危机描述为戈夫勋爵在教育部（DfE）任职期间留下的“遗产”。然而，数据并不支持鲍威尔女士的说法，数据显示此次激增是由于雇佣工人成本上升以及年轻人申请心理健康福利等因素导致的。16 到 24 岁之间 Neets 的比例在截至 2026 年 3 月的一年中达到了 13.5%，为十多年来的最高点。上一次青年不活跃程度如此之高是在 2013 年，当时戈夫勋爵尚未离开教育部，且其全面改革的结果尚未显现。戈夫勋爵在 2008 年金融危机后接手了自身的 Neets 危机。Neets 的比例在 2011 年 9 月达到顶峰，为 16.9%。从那时起，在保守党执政期间，不从事教育、就业或培训的年轻人比例有所下降，最低降至 10%。在里希·苏纳克（Rishi Sunak）领导期间，没有工作、不接受教育或培训的年轻人比例略有增加，在疫情后他离职时达到 12.6%。但自从工党执政以来，这一数字已达到 13.5%，相当于增加了 91,000 名失业、脱离教育或培训的年轻成年人。社会公正中心（Centre for Social Justice）智库的政策主任乔·沙拉姆（Joe Shalam）表示，劳动力市场的变化、移民以及心理健康福利都导致了这场危机。沙拉姆先生所在的组织已经
作者：Dominic Penna 和 Daniel Martin
《电讯报》获悉，理查德·泰斯（RICHARD TICE）因涉嫌在一次辩论中未能申报与以色列的利益关系，正接受议会标准监督员的调查。
据了解，一名公众人士投诉称，这位改革党副党魁在讨论反犹主义时，未申报自己曾参加过一次由他人全额出资的以色列之行。
今年 6 月，泰斯先生在威斯敏斯特大厅就“亲以色列影响力”发表讲话，并认为讨论的标题本身就具有反犹主义色彩。议会标准监督机构于 7 月 28 日启动调查，而就在一周前，该机构拒绝审查一项针对泰斯先生的投诉，该投诉涉及他未申报的一笔来自乔治·科特雷尔（George Cottrell）的近 £80,000 贷款，科特雷尔是奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）最亲近的助手之一，且是一名被定罪的诈骗犯。
标准专员丹尼尔·格林伯格（Daniel Greenberg）在网路页面上确认
与法拉格先生达成协议，双方将在下次大选中同意在某些席位撤回候选人，以便让改革党或Restore党有更好的获胜机会。
尽管Restore党尚未确定希望改革党在多少个席位上退出，但党内高级人物认为，鉴于洛威先生对诱拐团伙丑闻进行的独立调查工作，该党在大雅茅斯以及大曼彻斯特地区的竞争将具有优势。
在上周的曼彻斯特市长补选中，Restore党以约 9 比例的第一志愿选票获得第四名，领先于保守党。该党在奥尔德姆、罗奇代尔、泰姆赛德和威根排名第三。
民调机构显示，自去年以来，Restore党获得了 2 至 6 比例的选民支持，这引起了改革党的担忧，担心该党将在下次大选中分散右翼选票。
昨天，法拉格先生承认Restore党迅速增长的受欢迎程度对改革党构成了威胁。在伦敦市中心举行的新闻发布会上，他表示该竞争对手“可能会给我们带来巨大损害”。
在这一问题上曾与包括安迪·伯纳姆在内的政治家合作的沙拉姆先生表示： “将Neet（既不就业也不学习的青年）危机的责任推给戈夫先生显然是荒谬的。” “劳动力市场中失效的激励机制——从雇主雇佣年轻人的成本上升，到失控的移民体系，以及飙升的精神健康福利申请——绝不能被掩盖。显然，政治正在成为阻碍。”
沙拉姆先生补充说，他确实同意，结束英国将“大学视为唯一成功衡量标准的痴迷”，并尽早引入技术教育路径是一项优先事项。
雇佣年轻人的成本上升，部分源于基尔·斯塔默爵士和瑞秋·里夫斯在就任后实施的几项变革。
特别是最低工资的剧增以及雇主缴纳国民保险金的增加，影响了雇主
雇佣年轻员工。这促使预算责任办公室（Office for Budget Responsibility）前高管安迪·金将青年失业危机描述为“自找的”。
财政研究 institute (IFS) 在 3 月的分析中表示，由于政府的政策变动，雇主面临的实际成本增加了 40%。
影子教育大臣劳拉·特罗特表示，“在工党执政期间出现的青年失业率上升，竟然将其归咎于学术标准，这简直不可思议”。
“真正的原因是工党未能解决一个激励懒惰的福利体系和一个惩罚企业的税收体系。”
她指责鲍威尔女士“无视近期的历史和证据”。
戈夫勋爵引入的变革中包括在英格兰推行更严格、更以知识为基础的课程。
鲍威尔女士批评了 2019 年针对小学学生采取的“严苛”拼写测试，认为教师应专注于“创造力”。
戈夫勋爵改革后，英格兰在学术标准方面看到的提升在北爱尔兰、苏格兰或威尔士并未得到体现。
威尔士的 Neets（既不在学也不在就业的青年）人数也表明，戈夫勋爵的改革并非这场危机的原因。2024 年起的一年内，威尔士的 Neets 比例从 10% 激增至 17%。
关于 Neets 增长的另一个解释可见于领取病假津贴的年轻人数量不断增加。
议会标准专员网站表示，目前正在对蒂斯先生涉嫌“未能申报利益”进行调查。
该监督机构表示，调查将针对是否潜在违反下议院行为准则第六条，该条款规定：“议员在议院或其委员会的任何议事过程中，以及在与部长、议员、公职人员或公职持有者的任何沟通中，必须始终公开坦率地申报任何相关利益。”
在一项在线请愿获得超过 100,000 份签名后，这场辩论于 6 月 22 日举行。
在辩论期间，蒂斯先生表示：“这项动议在动机和核心上都是反犹太主义的。因此，我们应完全拒绝它。”
“该动议要求我们讨论以色列对民主的影响。当公民健康时，民主才会繁荣，所以也许我们应该赞颂以色列科学家、企业家以及那些专门从事医学研究的人员的卓越才华和影响力。”
投诉人表示，蒂斯先生在辩论中未申报他去年接受了一次以色列之行，期间他会见了以色列总统艾萨克·赫佐格和外交部长吉迪翁·萨尔。蒂斯先生在一个月后才在议员利益登记册中申报此次访问费用为 £6,250。
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奈杰尔·法拉格 昨日概述 改革党遏制小船 移民计划
通过分裂右翼选票。法拉格告诉《电讯报》，Restore “在雅茅斯以外的全国范围内无法赢得一个席位”，并补充道：“他们真正地在说，如果我们不退后并让他们获胜，他们就会伤害我们。”
但他表示，他对“对话持开放态度”，但警告说“对话不同于谈判”，且他并不一定会进入
作者：Dominic Penna 高级政治记者
在暗示高油价部分导致加油站犯罪率飙升后，能源大臣被指责在为燃油窃贼寻找借口。 米亚塔·法恩布勒（Miatta Fahnbulleh）声称，驾驶员加油后直接开车离开而未付款的案件数量急剧增加，这表明人们在“能源成本方面承受着巨大压力”。 据报道，自伊朗战争爆发以来，驾驶员每天从加油站盗走的燃油平均价值近 £200,000。周五，每升汽油的平均价格攀升至 160 便士，比冲突前高出约 27 便士，创下三年新高。 成本上涨是由油价飙升驱动的，随着唐纳德·特朗普的伊朗和平协议破裂，两周前油价触及每桶 $100 (£75)。
一项协议。周日，洛夫先生（Mr Lowe）表示，如果法拉奇先生（Mr Farage）同意五项政策，他将致力于与对方共同组建一个“爱国政府”。 这些政策包括大规模驱逐出境、禁止穿着波卡（burka）面纱、就死刑举行全民公投，以及排除罗伯特·詹里克（Robert Jenrick）和苏埃拉·布拉弗曼（Suella Braverman）等前保守党大臣加入任何“改革-恢复”（Reform-Restore）内阁。 然而，《电讯报》获悉，洛夫先生愿意就这五项条件进行谈判。一名消息人士表示：“在谈判中，你会带着自己的诉求进入，而这些事情是可以商榷的。” 该消息人士排除了与改革党合并的可能性，但表示洛夫先生希望与法拉奇先生达成一项“合作”协议。 他们表示：“我们谈论的是合作而非合并。对我们来说，最关键的是政策优先级和原则，高于其他任何事情。其他一切都排在其次。” 另外，《电讯报》获悉，洛夫先生去年与保守党达成了一项秘密协议，承诺不批评该党，以换取在下议院公共账目委员会中的一个席位。 两名消息人士表示，洛夫先生已经
根据财政研究所（IFS）的分析，约 640,000 名 18 至 24 岁的年轻人正在领取失业救济金。该总数已从 2022 年底的 556,000 人上升。 该智库发现，增长额的一半以上是由领取病假救济金的年轻人数量增加所驱动的。
根据盗窃预防公司 Forecourt Eye 的分析，在 2 月 28 日冲突开始后的五个月里，加油站盗窃案上升了 20%。 在被问及这些数据时，法恩布勒女士告诉 LBC 广播电台的尼克·费拉里（Nick Ferrari）：“我们非常、非常清楚这一点”
自从伊朗战争导致汽油价格飙升以来，每天从加油站被盗的燃料价值就高达这个数额。
同意如果在委员会出任期间该党提名他进入该机构，他将不会在委员会露面时批评保守党。他随后告诉GB News，他与凯米·巴德诺克（Kemi Badenoch）达成了一项“协议”，不再称呼她的议员们为“自民党式保守党人”。
法拉奇先生（Mr Farage）昨天表示，洛夫先生（Mr Lowe）“一段时间以来一直与（保守党）密切合作”。
一名保守党消息人士表示：“保守党与鲁珀特·洛夫（Rupert Lowe）之间没有任何协议——这完全是法拉奇先生的想象。当奈杰在用垃圾桶打一场毫无必要的补选之战时，他正拼命地抹黑所有反对并质疑改革党的人。”
昨天，改革党表示，它可能会指示皇家海军陆战队在法国海滩登陆，以遣返移民。内政事务发言人齐亚·尤苏法（Zia Yusuf）表示，该党将展现“不屈的决心”，以确保从法国海岸出发进入英国的移民被遣返。他补充说，虽然与法国当局达成协议是更好的选择，但如有必要，改革党政府将利用英国突击队帮助移民在海滩上离船。
而无需寻找工作的要求。 鲍威尔女士试图将戈夫勋爵（Lord Gove）塑造为Neets（既不就业也不上学的青年）危机失败的代表，但这掩盖了更为复杂的现实，即这一人数在工党领导下开始失控。
非常、非常密切……我们理解燃料成本实在太高，人们对此深感担忧。”
费拉里先生（Mr Ferrari）告诉法恩布勒女士（Ms Fahnbulleh），这些犯罪行为与“成本无关”，并质疑她，燃料盗窃瘟疫是否实际上仅仅是“纯粹的犯罪活动”。
能源大臣回答道：“是的，没错。所以我是在谈论你们许多听众真正担心的问题，即汽油的价格。但是的，这就是盗窃，我们在各方面都看到了不同形式的盗窃。
“我们知道，例如，我们正面临一场商店盗窃瘟疫，而这正是我们绝对试图掌控的事情。对此永远没有正当理由。”
改革党英国（Reform UK）能源发言人兼副党魁理查德·泰斯（Richard Tice）告诉《电讯报》：“能源大臣似乎在以生活成本危机（部分由工党造成）过于严重为由，将盗窃行为合法化。”
母体子宫内 于 26 周接受手术
作者：Emily Smith
一名英国女性接受了开创性的子宫手术，以治疗其未出生的婴儿，该婴儿的肠道在体外生长。
梅西·萨维奇（Maisie Savage）在怀孕 26 周时，由一支德克萨斯州的手术团队为其进行了手术。
她的未出世儿子西奥（Theo）被诊断患有复杂腹壁裂（gastroschisis），这是一种脐带发育不全导致肠道在体外发育的疾病。
外科医生采用微创手术技术进入萨维奇女士的子宫，将婴儿的器官推回其腹腔内。
西奥目前五个月大，情况良好，他是全球第三个从该程序临床试验中获益的婴儿。
目前，每 10 名患有腹壁裂的婴儿中就有 1 人无法存活。
来自伦敦的 29 岁萨维奇女士和婴儿 36 岁的父亲乔什·弗伦奇（Josh French）表示，手术的成功让他们感到宽慰。她告诉 BBC：“他是一个小奇迹。”
腹壁裂是一种严重的出生缺陷，英国每年约有 3,000 名婴儿受影响。在较轻的情况下，婴儿需要数周的重症监护、矫正手术以及通过管道喂食。
在最复杂的情况下，他们需要进行肠道移植，最高需在重症监护室停留六个月，接受多次手术，并进行长达两年的静脉喂食。
弗伦奇先生表示，在萨维奇女士进行 20 周扫描后得出的诊断结果令人震惊且“极其可怕”。
这对夫妇均为教师，他们由伦敦大奥蒙德街医院（Great Ormond Street Hospital）的医生转诊至休斯顿的德克萨斯儿童医院（Texas Children’s Hospital），在那里……
德克萨斯儿童医院
作者：Ruby Cline
农民们正在向苹果喷涂粘土“防晒霜”，试图保护它们免受高温影响。
由于英国部分地区正经历今年的第四次热浪，这些水果被喷涂了一种像防晒霜一样的粘土物质。周三，英格兰半数地区被宣布处于干旱状态。
肯特郡的农民克莱夫·巴克斯特（Clive Baxter）表示，这种防晒霜能防止苹果被“晒熟”。
巴克斯特先生告诉《电讯报》：“我们向树上喷涂高岭土（kaolin）或中国白土。这是一种有机产品，作用类似于石灰水，可以阻挡阳光。我知道肯特郡其他一些种植者在过去几年一直在使用这项技术。”
他告诉 BBC，布拉姆利苹果（Bramley apples）“非常容易”被晒伤。
这种防晒霜是由园艺高岭土（一种无毒矿物粉末）与水混合而成，农民用它覆盖苹果，形成一层白色薄膜，反射紫外线辐射并降低果实表面温度。
这种混合物还可以保护果树免受苹果……等昆虫的侵害。
作者：Cameron Henderson
（图片说明） 梅西·萨维奇、乔什·弗伦奇和婴儿西奥（右）。 下方为为其准备手术的部分医疗团队。
他原本可能会面临的 极其糟糕的 人生开端”
蛆虫和一些飞蛾，随后在产品到达消费者之前会被洗掉。 巴克斯特先生补充说，由于气温升高，苹果树处于极度“压力”之下，导致农民不得不进行疏果，从而降低了产量。农民们表示，由于高温导致草类未能生长，他们不得不给牛喂食干草——而这是它们的冬季食物供应。 今年夏天见证了温度
决定削减对这家位于柴郡基地的公共资金投入。该综合体包括帮助追踪首次登月的无线电望远镜，由于此次削减，在工党领导下正面临关闭，研究人员将其贴标签为“科学破坏行为”。 乔德雷尔山天文台由领先的物理学家伯纳德·洛弗尔于 1945 年创立。除了在……中发挥关键作用外
由迈克尔·贝尔福特医生领导的儿科外科医生团队一直在进行一项为未出生婴儿进行手术的临床试验。这对夫妇被告知立即前往德克萨斯州，并在怀孕剩余时间内留在那里。萨维奇女士说：“这是一个巨大的决定。”在前往美国之前，这对夫妇必须前往比利时的鲁汶医院，那里的专家需要通过萨维奇女士的子宫向西奥的腹壁注射肉毒杆菌毒素，以放松肌肉，使修复工作更容易进行。在德克萨斯州的手术过程中，萨维奇女士子宫内的羊水被抽干并用二氧化碳代替，以便为外科医生提供手术空间。弗伦奇先生告诉 BBC：“那一天的漫长感，就像过了一个星期。在每一个阶段的等待以及不确切知道发生了什么。”萨维奇女士留下了一道比剖腹产切口大两倍的疤痕，但她的子宫内仍有一个
婴儿在接下来的 14 周内继续生长。西奥经常踢她的疤痕，导致她感到疼痛。萨维奇女士说：“恢复过程很艰辛，但这是值得的。”西奥于 2 月在德克萨斯州自然分娩。现已返回伦敦的萨维奇女士说：“他们所做的一切完全扭转了他原本可能会面临的极其糟糕的人生开端，他现在太棒了。本质上，他是一个完全正常的宝宝。”弗伦奇先生补充道：“我们 both 感到无比幸运。他们给我们的家庭带来的影响是难以置信的。从格雷特奥蒙德街医院的团队到贝尔福特医生及其团队，他们让我们感到非常受欢迎。当我们在那里时，护理水平令人惊叹，他们让我们生命中一段非常痛苦的时光变得轻松许多，而且我们得到了这个小家伙——我们不能更开心了。” 德克萨斯儿童医院的首席产科和妇科医生贝尔福特医生说，他对目前为止手术和恢复的情况感到非常满意。他说：“母亲、宝宝、手术、手术的时机，以及我们在胎儿手术期间和之后零并发症的事实，简直太神奇了。子宫内部现在成为了创新的新手术空间，脊髓裂和腹壁分裂只是其中两个例子，但我相信我们实际上可以在子宫内进行某些心脏手术，而且我认为我们也可以在子宫内进行一些肺部手术。” 在英国，GOSH 的儿科外科教授、伦敦大学学院干细胞与再生医学负责人保罗·德·科皮希望在试验成功后在英国执行该程序。他告诉 BBC：“我们希望很快能向更大规模的患者提供此项服务。”
Theo 接受的开创性微创手术
通过腹壁为 Theo 注射肉毒杆菌毒素以放松肌肉
农民 Clive Baxter 表示， Bramley 苹果 极易 遭受日灼
记录被打破，5 月最高气温达到 35.1°C，6 月达到 38°C。 英国卫生安全局本周宣布，英格兰南部和东米德兰兹地区发布新的黄色高温预警，预计伦敦昨天的气温将达到 33°C。 与此同时，英格兰有七个地区处于干旱状态，涵盖南部、西米德兰兹和威塞克斯。
在监测人类太空探索的同时，它在冷战期间还充当了导弹攻击的预警雷达。 但该场地的公共资金将于 2028 年 3 月停止。该场地包括洛夫尔望远镜（Lovell Telescope），在 1957 年完工时是世界上最大的可转向射电望远镜。 公开信称，这一决定“令人深感沮丧”，且将
胎儿肠道 在体外
《电讯报》记者报道
畅销犯罪小说作家琳达·拉普兰特（Lynda La Plante）在法庭上含泪表示，在五次被截获违反 20 英里 / 小时速度限制后，禁驾将终结她的职业生涯。
这位 83 岁作家最著名的作品是创造了《头号嫌疑人》（Prime Suspect）中干练的侦探角色简·滕尼森（Jane Tennison），但在现实生活中，她未能在这场避免禁驾的法律斗争中获胜。
该作家试图通过声称她需要开车与罪犯见面以研究书籍来规避禁令。她表示，罪犯在选择见面地点时可能“非常挑剔”，并声称她无法雇佣司机，因为在尝试回想对方提供的信息时，司机的询问会干扰她。
这位作者还声称，如果不能开车将她的狗西奥（Theo）带到温布尔登，她就无法带它散步，因为附近的里士满公园“跑早操的人太多了”。
她表示，如果不能带它散步，西奥将被送走，并补充说“由此带来的情感波动将真正毁掉我的作家生涯”。她补充道：“我的生活非常孤独，且工作异常刻苦，那样我就只能停止写作了。”
尽管她雇佣了尼克·弗里曼（Nick Freeman）——一位因擅长帮名人客户免于禁驾而被誉为“漏洞先生”的律师，但她最终仍未能避免禁驾。
昨天，拉普兰特在伦敦西南部的拉文德山治安法院承认，在 2025 年 11 月至今年 4 月期间，五次在她位于泰晤士河畔金斯顿的家附近违反 20 英里 / 小时的速度限制。法庭获悉，由于 2023, 6 月以及 2025 年 6 月和 7 月的三次超速违章，她的驾驶执照上已经有了九个记分。
她承认在最近的违章中，两次以 24mph 的速度行驶，此外还有 25mph、26mph 和 27mph。这些违章均发生在她带 18 个月大的狗进行日常散步时。
弗里曼先生敦促治安法官免除她的禁令，称开车是“她身份中至关重要的一部分”。
拉普兰特告诉法庭，如果被禁驾，她将关闭她的写作公司，导致四名员工失业。
在作证时，拉普兰特表示，在经历了另一只正值壮年的爱犬雨果（Hugo）早逝的沉痛打击后，她养了西奥。
“我不想让这听起来很琐碎——一个女人和她的狗——但我无法向你们描述与这只巨大而美丽的狼狗相处的感受。我不知道它是怎么做到的，它会走进我的办公室，就像在对我说‘停下来’。它知道我已经连续工作了五个小时，然后这只爪子就拍上来——砰的一声。”
治安法官对拉普兰特处以总计 £3,330 的罚款；由于她的总记分升至 24 分，被禁驾六个月；并命令她支付 £130 的诉讼费用和 £1,332 的受害者附加费。
“剔除世界上一些最清晰的观星之眼”。
考克斯教授（Prof Cox）是英国最顶尖的电视科学家之一，曾是 D:Ream 乐队的键盘手，该乐队在乔德尔班克（Jodrell Bank）拍摄了 1995 年热门单曲《Party Up The World》的音乐录像带。
这位出生于奥尔德姆的教授此后主持了 BBC 的节目
（图表 / 插图说明） 萨维奇女士的子宫部分暴露 萨维奇女士子宫内的羊水被排出并用二氧化碳代替，以便外科医生有操作空间
琳达·拉普兰特昨日出现在拉文德山治安法院外
（图表 / 插图说明） 外科医生通过微创手术将肠道推入西奥的体内。 子宫被放回萨维奇女士体内，她随后自然分娩
从天文台发起的“星空观测直播”（Stargazing Live）。 该信函的其他签署者包括宇航员蒂姆·皮克（Tim Peake）和克里斯·哈德菲尔德（Chris Hadfield）、桂冠诗人西蒙·阿尔米蒂奇（Simon Armitage）、喜剧演员达拉·奥布赖恩（Dara Ó Briain）以及演员克里斯托弗·埃克尔斯顿（Christopher Eccleston）。
与他们一同加入的还有首相最喜欢的曼彻斯特乐队成员，包括 The Smiths 乐队的联合创始人强尼·马尔（Johnny Marr）以及 Elbow 乐队。
他的曲目《One Day Like This》曾出现在其梅克菲尔德（Makerfield）补选竞选活动的启动视频中。
该信函呼吁政府“立即”筹集每年 280 万英镑m 的资金以资助该天文台，并认为该天文台可以通过“跟踪太空碎片、破坏性太阳耀斑、卫星和小行星”，在英国国防中“发挥至关重要的作用”。
《电讯报》记者 报道
内政部已确认，穆罕默德·法耶德的五名受害者曾被人口贩运。 一名幸存者讲述了他们如何被招募到哈罗德百货一个虚假职位的经历；另有两人被聘为合法职位，随后在店面之外被选中遭受虐待。另一名幸存者曾
曾经营慈善机构
麦克斯·斯特芬斯 国际犯罪记者 报道
据报道，一名在雅典因涉嫌谋杀一名英国女性并将其遗体放入行李箱而遭逮捕的阿富汗国民，是一名曾共同经营难民慈善机构的冠军拳击手。夏里夫·艾哈迈德扎伊（Sharif Ahmadzai），26, 岁，因涉嫌杀害 38 岁的慈善志愿者伊丽莎白-简·罗斯（Elisabeth-Jane Ross），并使用她的银行卡提取数千欧元而被希腊警方拘留。根据案卷，初步医疗报告显示她死于窒息。据称，艾哈迈德扎伊先生承认将罗斯女士的尸体丢弃在一座废弃建筑内，并使用她的手机发送短信，使亲属相信她还活着。希腊当局透露，一名无家可归者在 7 月 18 日注意到基普塞利区（Kypseli）一座空房子中散发出“异味”后，发现了罗斯女士的遗骸。据《泰晤士报》和《每日邮报》报道，艾哈迈德扎伊先生一个孩子的父亲，在他美国妻子阿拉娜·霍尔（Alaina Hall）向警方反映他在罗斯女士死后数日的行为异常后，成为了关键嫌疑人。据报道，这对夫妇通过名为“热爱每个国家·雅典”（Love Every Nation Athens）的非政府组织认识了来自爱丁堡的基督教志愿者罗斯女士。据称，在妻子于 7 月 15 日发现他不在家中并检查共享位置，发现他在罗斯女士的公寓后，侦探们对他展开了调查。据称，艾哈迈德扎伊先生试图给妻子 €2,550 (£2,200) 现金以及一部新款苹果 iPhone 17 Pro，由于妻子认为这些是用罗斯女士的钱买的，便将其交给警方。《每日邮报》引述的消息称，当警方于 8 月 1, 日搜查其住所时，发现了的一把黑色金属仿制手枪和一把黑色军用风格的刀具。在接受警方审问时，据报道艾哈迈德扎伊先生告诉侦探，他在浴室里发现罗斯女士时她已经死了，但随后承认
劳拉·多纳利 健康编辑 报道
研究显示，随着产妇年龄增加且体重增加，每 8 名孕妇中就有 1, 人被诊断出患有糖尿病。 爱丁堡大学的这项研究表明，在短短五年内，被诊断为妊娠糖尿病的女性人数增加了 60%。 专家表示，产妇年龄增长、肥胖率上升以及数据收集能力的提高可能是这一趋势背后的原因。
白尾海雕在埃克斯穆尔国家公园（Exmoor National Park）进行了 200 年来的首次释放。 作为英国林业委员会（Forestry England）和罗伊·丹尼斯野生动物基金会（Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation）一项旨在让该物种重返英国天空项目的一部分，6 只大型猛禽被释放。该物种在 18 世纪遭到如此激烈的迫害，以至于在该地区被灭绝。 自 2019. 年以来，该项目已从怀特岛释放了 45 只白尾海雕。此后，部分鸟类开始繁殖，并在 2023, 年导致了自 1780 年以来南英格兰野生环境下诞生首只雏鸟。 官员表示，将在三年内于该国家公园释放 20 只这种英国最大的猛禽。环保人士表示，他们将这些鸟类引入了跨越边界的埃克斯穆尔国家公园。
在通过一家名为海德公园住宅（Hyde Park Residence）的租赁机构招募后，被雇佣为法耶德家族成员的家庭佣工。 他们的案件可追溯到 20 世纪 90 年代，而最近的一起发生在 2010 年哈罗德百货售出之后。五名幸存者均已收到国家转介机制（NRM）的结论性决定，认定他们是受害者。
使用她的银行卡和手机。 当罗斯女士在 7 月 30 日被公开指认时，他的妻子站了出来并向警方提供了信息。 根据一篇亲笔撰写的博客文章，艾哈迈德扎伊先生在 15 岁时逃离阿富汗，并在 2016 年作为一名难民乘坐小船抵达莱斯博斯岛，此前他的家人被塔利班杀害。在文中，艾哈迈德扎伊先生描述了他的父亲——一名军事指挥官——在被叛军在一次伏击中杀害之前，如何在塔利班的六次暗杀企图中幸存。 在文中，艾哈迈德扎伊先生写道：“我失去了我拥有的一切。我理应拥有更好的生活。我的许多梦想被扼杀了。生活确实不公平，但我从未放弃，而且我永远不会放弃。上帝在我这边。他对我的安排尚未结束。现在，我最大的梦想是用我的一切去服务他人。” 在岛上的莫里亚营地（Moria Camp，欧洲第二大难民营）期间，他结识了身为志愿者的霍尔女士。 艾哈迈德扎伊先生在次年皈依了基督教。
据报道，伊丽莎白-简·罗斯（Elisabeth-Jane Ross）是通过其作为慈善志愿者的工作而结识其涉嫌杀害者的。
两人于 2019 年移居雅典，并于 29 2023 年 4 月结婚。 艾哈迈德扎伊（Mr Ahmadzai）在雅典曾两次作为职业拳击手参赛，参加的是超轻量级组别。 他在 2025 年 6 月的首次亮相赛中落败，并在 2026, 3 月的第二次比赛中获胜，夺得了空缺的国家冠军头衔。 罗斯女士是一位虔诚的基督徒，被称为丽莎（Lisa），她经常前往希腊通过非政府组织进行志愿服务并帮助他人，被视为一名“好撒玛利亚人”。 受信仰启发，她曾前往世界各地参与慈善工作，包括在库尔德斯坦地区帮助叙利亚难民。 在雅典，人们经常看到她在城市的贫困地区与无家可归的人交谈，包括在他们饮酒、吸毒和睡觉的一个废弃停车场附近。 艾哈迈德扎伊预计将于明天在雅典治安法庭出庭。
妊娠糖尿病是怀孕期间最常见的并发症。当身体无法产生足够的胰岛素来控制血糖水平时，就会出现这种情况，从而增加早产、紧急剖宫产、子痫前期以及婴儿出生时异常过大或过小的风险。 虽然这种情况通常在分娩后会缓解，但被诊断出患有妊娠糖尿病的女性在以后的人生中更有可能患上 2 型糖尿病和心血管疾病。研究人员分析了 英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 的产科记录，涵盖了 2018 年至 2022 年间在英格兰 184 家医院分娩的 2.3 million 名女性及其 2.800 万 名婴儿。 研究发现，英格兰的诊断率从 2018 年怀孕病例的 8% 左右上升到 2022. 12% 以上。近几十年来，英格兰和威尔士母亲的平均年龄稳步增加，2023, 达到 30.9 岁，而 2003 年为 29.3 岁。
现代奴隶制，是在由 Unseen UK 慈善机构转介后进行的。国家转介机制（NRM）是英国识别现代奴隶制受害者的官方框架，允许受害者获得适当的支持，并为政府提供关于英国现代奴隶制的数据。 法定首响应人员，包括警方、边境部队、国家犯罪调查局和地方当局，
（该地区）的鸟类经常造访此地，历史上这里曾是它们的繁殖地。 这里提供了理想的觅食地、充足的鱼类以及沿海地带的繁殖栖息地。 这六只鸟是根据许可从苏格兰野外捕捉的——几年前白尾海雕在苏格兰被成功重新引入——随后被带到南部的埃克斯穆尔（Exmoor），并在那里由专家照顾。 预计它们在释放后将广泛迁徙，直到四五岁时才会返回该地区繁殖。 来自罗伊·丹尼斯野生动物基金会（Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation）的佐伊·史密斯（Zoe Smith）表示：“在离开了这片景观如此多年后，能将它们带回埃克斯穆尔是一个特殊的时刻。” 埃克斯穆尔国家公园管理局的高级生态学家阿里·霍金斯（Ali Hawkins）表示：“对于埃克斯穆尔来说，这是一个如此令人兴奋的时刻。”
必须向任何他们有合理理由认为可能是现代奴隶制受害者的成年人提供 NRM 转介。 4 月 29, 它被 BBC 报道称，瑞秋·劳（Rachel Louw）在举报遭受法耶德（Fayed）及其兄弟萨拉赫（Salah）的虐待后，获得了积极的结论性理由决定。 自那时起，一个为法耶德幸存者提供支持的倡议小组的所有 4 名成员
肥胖在进入怀孕期的女性中变得越来越普遍。英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 的产科数据显示，几乎四分之一的女性在首次产前检查时处于肥胖状态，而 2010 年代后期这一比例约为五分之一。
爱丁堡大学代谢医学教授丽贝卡·雷诺兹 (Rebecca Reynolds) 表示：“被诊断出肥胖的女性人数增加令人担忧，并影响到已经面临挑战的产科服务交付。”
她指出：“重要的是，妊娠糖尿病也会增加未来患 2 型糖尿病和心血管疾病的风险，”并呼吁采取更好的预防措施，以支持女性在分娩后的康复。
研究发现，妊娠糖尿病的增长在亚裔女性中最为显著，到 2022 年，几乎四分之一的怀孕女性受到影响；而在最贫困地区生活的女性中，这一比例达到了约七分之一。2022 年，大约每 21 名白人母亲中就有 2 名被诊断出患有妊娠糖尿病，而黑人母亲中为 13 人中 2 人，亚裔母亲中为 9 人中 2 人。
这些群体的女性也更容易出现妊娠并发症。黑人母亲进行紧急剖腹产的可能性高出 36%，而生活在贫困地区的女性早产的可能性高出 29%。亚裔女性分娩的婴儿体重低于其胎龄的概率是其他人的两倍多。
名为“没有人高于法律”(No One Above) 的组织成员也收到了结论性裁决： Justine、Elizabeth、Margo 和 Isabella，均为化名。据了解，还有更多幸存者也收到了积极的裁决。
针对法耶德 (Fayed) 的性不端行为指控已超过 400 项，时间跨度从 1977 年到 2014 年，包括性侵犯、强奸、性剥削和人口贩卖。伦敦警察厅正在调查至少 156 名直接与其联系的受害者，其中包括 21 名在法耶德 2023 年以 94 岁之高龄去世前就挺身而出的受害者。在该调查启动 19 个月后，迄今已有 4 人接受了询问。
内政部已被要求就此发表评论。
沙里夫·艾哈迈德扎伊 (Sharif Ahmadzai) 是一名冠军拳击手，他曾与妻子共同经营一家难民非政府组织
“自动”加速被判入狱
《电讯报》记者报道
一名驾驶员声称，他在故意试图让车辆报废并以高速行驶后，其电动捷豹汽车发生了自动加速。
内森·欧文（Nathan Owen），33 岁，在 2024. 3 月 6 日发生的这起事件中，在默西赛德郡以高达 86 英里 / 小时的速度行驶了约 35 分钟。利物浦刑事法院获悉，他陷入了“财务困难”，并欠了 CA Auto Finance 约 £5,000 的款项。在事件当天，他给贷款公司 Plata 打电话，询问是否能在已借的 £3,000 基础上进一步借款，但被告知不能。
五分钟后，在下午 2 点刚过不久，他拨打了 999 电话，声称他的车无法刹车，且无法控制车辆，并称车辆正在加速。
检控官埃里克·兰姆（Eric Lamb）表示：“事实上，在拨打该电话时，他的车是静止的。”警方赶到现场，当时该车行驶速度高达 86 英里 / 小时，在车于柴郡沃灵顿附近的 M62 高速公路上停下之前，紧急服务车辆不得不将其围堵，以确保其他道路使用者的安全。
法院获悉，在警员试图拦截他时，他与警车碰撞了 31 次，且调查发现车辆本身并没有故障。
以使自己能够 甩掉这辆车”
兰姆先生表示：“他编造了这些事件，以使自己能够甩掉这辆车。他完全控制着车辆，并且在完全控制车辆的情况下，以极高且极端的速度行驶。”
警方追捕的录像以及他的 999 报警录音在法庭上播放。录音中听到他告诉接线员他正“在发抖”，而且车已经“疯了”。
当车辆最终被拦截停下时，可以看到刹车灯亮起。欧文在事件发生 40 分钟后联系了融资公司。法院获悉，他随后因分享自己的故事，分别从《太阳报》获得 £300 和从《每日邮报》获得 5000 万英镑0。
捷豹路虎英国公司（Jaguar Land Rover UK）的默里·保罗（Murray Paul）在一份声明中表示，该公司在营销上额外花费了 5,000 万英镑，试图抵消虚假指控带来的负面影响，该公司称这些指控产生了 180 篇负面媒体报道。
辩护律师丹尼尔·特拉弗斯（Daniel Travers）表示，欧文的行为“愚蠢得可怕”。欧文在 6 月承认了危险驾驶和两项欺诈罪名。他在出狱后被禁止驾驶五年，并被判处五年三个月监禁。
一项造成公共骚扰的指控被裁定暂时搁置。
关于为该非政府组织在海外工作的说法，后者目前正面临剽窃指控
戈登·雷纳 (Gordon Rayner) 副主编报道
一家慈善机构对一名正处于剽窃争议中心的剑桥大学教授关于志愿服务的说法提出了质疑。
杰森·阿戴（Jason Arday）教授将其成就之一列为与 WaterAid 慈善机构合作在南美洲和西非“安装供水点”。
然而，WaterAid 表示，该机构从不派遣志愿者出国。
在针对其涉嫌剽窃以及在超长距离跑步和筹款方面显然虚假的说法被质疑后，这是对阿戴教授信誉的最新打击。
他的回忆录《伟大而不幸之事》（Great and Unfortunate Things）定于本月底出版，并将开展一次英国和美国的宣传巡演。
他在其演说代理公司 Simon & Schuster 网站上的个人简介中……
作者：India McTaggard 娱乐及皇室记者
大卫·奥卢索加（DAVID OLUSOGA）表示，“享有特权的白人中产阶级”曾告诉他应该拒绝获得OBE（大英帝国勋章），因为他是黑人。这位 56 岁的历史学家和广播员经常批评大英帝国，但他坚持认为，拒绝一项荣誉将是一种“轻视”。
在接受《电台时报》（Radio Times）关于他接受 2019 年因在历史和社区融合服务方面做出贡献而获颁大英帝国勋章（OBE）的采访时，他表示：“经常有享有特权的白人中产阶级告诉我，一个黑人接受OBE是一件可怕的事情，我认为他们低估了这意味着什么。”
“对于一个移民来说，拒绝一项国家荣誉，与一个在这里出生的人来说是两回事。拒绝荣誉将是一种轻视。而我不想轻视一个我已经成为其公民并将其视为自己国家的国家。”
《黑色与英国：一段被遗忘的历史》（Black and British: A Forgotten History）的作者奥卢索加教授此前曾参与萨塞克斯公爵与公爵夫人那部备受争议的Netflix纪录片。
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演说家代理机构（Speakers Bureau）直到最近还声称： “他还与 WaterAid 组织在南美洲和西非开展并完成了救济工作，安装了提供饮用洁净水的取水点。”
目前，WaterAid 的名称已从该网站的个人简介中删除，但在 Arday 教授参加演讲活动前的其他几份个人简介中，均出现了同样的说法。
当《电讯报》询问 WaterAid 关于 Arday 教授是否曾为该慈善机构在南美洲或西非安装取水点时，一名发言人引导我们查阅其关于志愿者的政策，其中有一个章节标题为：“为什么我们不派遣志愿者出国。”
该政策解释称，“至关重要的是，每个社区都应负责管理自己的项目”，并且“出于对合作对象的尊重，我们也不鼓励或便利自费访问”。
与此同时，在他担任院士的耶稣学院（Jesus College）网站的个人简介页面上，Arday 教授列出了在格拉斯哥大学担任访问教授的经历，他在那里曾作为全职教授工作。
将是一种轻视。我不想 轻视一个我成为了 其公民的国家”
经得起推敲吗？有争议的声明与成就
但并未提及受伤情况。
2015年利物浦约翰摩尔大学的博士论文：分析发现有 188 段内容与另一篇 2009 年的论文相同或相似。插图中的阿戴（Arday）教授表示，他患有自闭症，其学习方法依赖于模仿。
三天走三百英里：目前尚无证据证明他为慈善事业在跑步机上完成的这一壮举。
六天走六百英里：他现在说这花了他 12 天。
35天跑三十场马拉松：阿戴教授称他在 35 天内跑了 30 场马拉松，尽管在第 21 天时腿部出现发丝状骨折导致肿胀。他的这一壮举曾被当地报纸报道，
他在节目中表示：“这些对话被推开了太多次。”他还主持了BBC关于大英帝国历史与遗产的系列节目《帝国》（Empire）。在解释他为何接受这项荣誉时，他表示是因为自己的背景。他被列入已故伊丽莎白二世 2019 年的新年荣誉名单，并于 2023 年由查尔斯国王颁奖。他说：“我的母亲是英国人，但国籍是随父系的。我刚到这个国家时是尼日利亚人。后来我才入籍成为英国公民。但我们住的是社会住宅。我在利物浦大学就读。当地教育局尽管有其缺陷，但在诊断出我患有阅读障碍时给了我帮助。” 他在广受欢迎的BBC节目《时间之屋》（A House Through Time）中担任主演，并且是曼彻斯特大学的公共历史学教授。
在南美和非洲安装净水项目，但该慈善机构从未向海外派遣志愿者。
在他出生前 20 年。他现在说他当时指的是一项社区倡议。
蒙面刀客：他声称在自己的学院大楼里遇到过一名蒙面男子，威胁说如果他不辞职就杀了他。第二次遇到时，该男子携带了一把刀。监控录像中没有出现该闯入者，且阿戴教授并未向警方报告过一名蒙面歹徒。
WaterAid：传记称他在
专家表示，由于患者的种族主义行为增加，英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 的工作人员被辱骂为“猴子”和“肮脏的外国人”。 放射成像师协会（Society of Radiographers）表示，工作人员报告称，在过去的 18 个月里，来自患者的种族主义行为明显增加。 这包括一些患者拒绝接受非白人工作人员的治疗，以及一些人谈论“人们来到这里，抢走我们的工作”。 一项针对放射成像师的民意调查显示，工作人员有时将种族主义言论视为“必须忍受的事情”而予以接受。 工业战略和会员关系执行主任迪恩·罗杰斯（Dean Rogers）表示：“过去一年半里种族主义事件的增加是令人发指且不可接受的——这反映出我们作为一个社会的糟糕现状。”
在他搬到剑桥之前。《先驱报》报道称，格拉斯哥大学表示 Arday 教授从未在该校担任过客座教授。
自上个月有关他抄袭博士论文的指控出现以来，Arday 教授关于筹款的说法已逐渐被揭穿。
他承认，他并没有像之前声称的那样在六天内跑了 600 英里（他现在说这花了 12 天），并且他承认自己并非个人为慈善机构筹集了 550 万英镑m，而是作为一个“100 人的财团”成员共同筹集了这笔钱。
计划出版该教授回忆录的 Simon & Schuster 出版社表示，“就目前情况而言”，出版仍将于 8 月 27 日进行。
Arday 教授在 2023 年以 37. 岁之龄被聘为教育社会学教授，成为剑桥大学历史上最年轻的黑人教授。随后，他成为了该大学多元化推动计划的形象代表。
数千人签署了一封支持他的公开信，但名单中最著名的签署者之一的名字现在已被删除。剑桥大学沃尔夫森学院院长 Ijeoma Uchegbu 勋爵此前是该公开信的第二位签署人，该信指责报纸“试图用虚假的抄袭指控来抹黑 [Arday 教授]”。
她的名字现在已经从这份由左翼“良好法律项目”（Good Law Project）组织的公开信中消失。
在对 Arday 教授的博士论文进行分析后，发现有 180 多个独立段落与另一名学生早前发表的论文相同或近乎相同，这使得抄袭争议成为了国际头条新闻。
剑桥大学目前分裂成两个阵营——一方认为这位教育社会学教授是种族主义抹黑活动的受害者，另一方则认为大学在无视抄袭的初步证据。
《电讯报》获悉，一份被称为“恩典”（Grace）的决议草案正在剑桥大学学术人员的高级成员中传阅，强调学术诚信的重要性，并要求调查研究政策、诚信与治理部门中涉嫌的缺陷。已联系 Arday 教授请求置评。
“英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 拥有多样化的员工队伍——这是其优势之一。我们明确表示：无论是口头表达还是行为表现的歧视、骚扰、种族主义、欺凌或恐吓，都是不可接受的，在 NHS 中没有生存空间。”
放射技师协会正呼吁 NHS 记录种族主义事件并监督其处理情况。
在 2025 年，约 9.26 per cent 的员工表示，他们在过去 12 个月内曾遭遇来自患者或服务使用者的职场歧视。
这一比例高于 2024 年的 9.25 per cent，2023 年的 8.57 per cent，2023, 8.38 per cent 的 2022 年以及 2021 年的 7.91 per cent。
保罗·阿瓦 (Paul Awah) 是一位来自尼日利亚、在贝德福德郡工作的诊断放射技师，他表示：“患者声称听不清我在说什么，或者说他们不能理解我。英语是我唯一使用的语言，而且我认为我在与患者交谈时足够清晰。”
NHS 英格兰的人力资源与组织发展首席官托马斯·西蒙斯 (Thomas Simons) 表示：“针对 NHS 员工的种族主义虐待完全不可接受，在我们的医疗服务体系中没有生存空间。”
针对 NHS 员工的种族主义虐待
再见，里维埃拉 布鲁克林·贝克汉姆 (Brooklyn Beckham) 和他的妻子妮可拉·佩尔茨 (Nicola Peltz) 成功避开了与关系疏远的父母——大卫·贝克汉姆爵士 (Sir David) 和贝克汉姆夫人 (Lady Beckham) 的尴尬会面。这对年轻夫妇周三在坎内散步时，正身处布鲁克林的教父埃尔顿·约翰爵士 (Sir Elton John) 的游艇上度假。仅仅几天后，在婚礼后不久与这对夫妇闹翻的父母，也与小儿子克鲁兹 (Cruz) 一起出现在法国里维埃拉的圣特罗佩。
作者：Anita Singh 艺术与娱乐编辑
记者、前BBC Radio 4《今日》(Today)节目编辑罗德·利德尔 (Rod Liddle) 逝世，享年66岁。
利德尔曾任《周日泰晤士报》(The Sunday Times)和《太阳报》(The Sun)的专栏作家，以及Times Radio的主持人。他在短时间患病后，于周日晚上在米德尔斯堡的詹姆斯·库克大学医院去世。
他是《今日》节目最受关注的编辑之一，于1998年至2002年期间主持该节目。
离开BBC后，他成为了《旁观者》(The Spectator)的专栏作家，在那里他热衷于发表关于种族、移民和女性主义的争议性观点。他经常指责其前雇主具有左翼偏见，尽管他在接受《卫报》(Guardian)采访时将自己定义为“蓝色工党”(Blue Labour)。
利德尔著有多本书籍，包括《自私的哀鸣之猴：我们是如何变得贪婪、自恋且不快乐的》(Selfish Whining Monkeys: How We Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy) (2014) 以及一部名为《大背叛》(The Great Betrayal) (2019) 的关于英国脱欧的分析著作。
他的子女Wilder、Tyler和Emmy在声明中表示：“我们对这位优秀的父亲的突然离世感到非常悲痛和震惊。正如你们所想象的那样，他将我们培养成了好奇、勇敢且始终幽默的人。即使在过去几周住院期间，他也一直掌控着房间的气氛，从未让糟糕的处境表露出来。”
“他留下的遗产令我们所有人都感到无比自豪。他将永远引导我们如何过一种非凡的生活。”
《太阳报》和《周日泰晤士报》的出版商News UK首席执行官丽贝卡·布鲁克斯 (Rebekah Brooks) 表示，利德尔“挑战了传统思维，在英国新闻界留下了不可磨灭的印记”。
《周日泰晤士报》编辑本·泰勒 (Ben Taylor) 表示：“罗德·利德尔拥有极佳的文字驾驭能力，并利用其独特的天赋为读者发声，揭露困扰现代生活的虚伪与荒诞。”《太阳报》总编辑维多利亚·纽顿 (Victoria Newton) 称他为：“一名对我们政治阶层弱点有着极佳洞察力的观察者。”
在利德尔担任编辑期间担任《今日》节目主持人的约翰·汉弗里斯 (John Humphrys) 告诉《i报》(The i Paper)，他们当时“争吵得像地狱一样”，但“对于一名主持人来说，他身上确实有一种神奇的魅力”。
在BBC告知利德尔，如果他不停止为《卫报》撰写专栏就必须离开该节目后，他从《今日》节目辞职。
利德尔出生于伦敦东南部西德卡普 (Sidcup)，年轻时曾是社会主义工人党成员，并支持核裁军运动。他在《南威尔士回声报》(South Wales Echo)开启职业生涯，后来在加入BBC之前为工党工作。
罗德·利德尔 2014 年的照片。他的孩子们说，他们的父亲“将永远指引我们如何过非凡的生活”。
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新成员：就在苏格兰动物园管理员宣布格洛丽亚 (Gloria) 怀孕几天后，一只侏儒河马幼崽在爱丁堡动物园出生，父母是奥托 (Otto) 和格洛丽亚。
作者：Ben Rumsby
在《全景》（Panorama）针对大卫·萨利文（David Sullivan）的调查报道中被点名后不到两个月，托尼·利夫西（TONY LIVESEY）已离开BBC。
利夫西曾任《每日体育报》（Daily Sport）和《周日体育报》（Sunday Sport）的总编辑，随后在Radio 5 Live拥有16-year的职业生涯。他于6月暂时离职。
这位62-year-old的人员离职是因为《全景》节目称，他曾促成一名艳模与萨利文会面；该节目指控萨利文在20世纪90年代存在历史性的掠夺性和剥削行为。
利夫西表示，他“不记得”曾将这名年轻女性介绍给萨利文，而萨利文也否认有任何不当行为。
该节目还声称，利夫西想出了“倒计时至16”（Countdown to 16）这一创意，这是《体育报》的一个专栏，记录了青少年模特距离16,岁还有多久，而16,岁是她们法律上首次可以拍摄半裸照片的年龄。
利夫西随后在Radio 5 Live主持周一至周四的深夜电话节目，他在给《全景》的一份声明中表示，该专栏“绝非”他的创意，且他在书中讨论该专栏的部分内容已被“虚构化”。
在昨天上午发送给5 Live员工的一封电子邮件中，该电台主管海蒂·道森（Heidi Dawson）表示利夫西已决定离开。
她补充道：“托尼请我向他在5 Live多年来有幸共事的优秀同事们表达他最衷心的感谢。我知道你们中的许多人也非常享受与托尼共事，我们祝愿他在未来的所有努力中一切顺利。”
BBC此前一直在“考虑”《全景》对西汉姆联队（West Ham United）共同所有者萨利文提出的严重指控。
一名发言人当时表示：“《全景》的调查包括关于托尼·利夫西的指控，我们对此非常重视。我们也注意到托尼坚决否认了这些指控。”
“他已要求在短时间内退出其广播节目的主持工作，我们将考虑该节目提出的问题。现阶段我们不作进一步评论。”
萨利文于6月卸任西汉姆联队的共同主席和董事，他通过律师在一份声明中表示：“我坚决否认所有这些投诉。”
利夫西职业生涯始于《纳尔逊领导者报》（Nelson Leader），随后在迪拜的《海湾新闻》（Gulf News）工作。在《体育报》之后，他为BBC兰开夏郡广播电台（BBC Radio Lancashire）工作，并在地区电视节目《西北今夜》（North West Tonight）中主持体育报道，随后转到Radio 5 Live。
利夫西在因其在《体育报》时期的经历受到质疑之际，离开了他的BBC广播节目。
作者：Ruby Cline
一名九岁女孩在苏格兰的一个工业区被发现严重受伤，随后死亡。
苏格兰警方表示，该女孩于昨天约 12.02am 在阿布罗斯（Arbroath）的埃利奥特工业区（Elliot Industrial Estate）被发现。
她被送往邓迪的Ninewells医院，随后在那里死亡。
一名35-year-old的男子因与该死讯有关而被逮捕。
警方表示，该男子为白人，英国籍，与死者相识，警方未在寻找其他嫌疑人。
警方表示，来自西约克郡的其他家庭成员此前在该地区露营。
侦查警司尼基·麦戈文（Nicky McGovern）表示，在调查继续进行期间，该女孩的家人正由专业警员提供支持。
一名公众人士告诉《信使报》（The Courier），通往该工业区的道路自昨天凌晨起就已关闭，现场搭建了法医帐篷。
一名附近居民表示，工业区的工人被要求在通过警方封锁线时登记出入。
包括建筑零售商Travis Perkins和工程服务提供商Halliburton在内的公司在该区设有单位。
警力部署和 活动增加”
重大调查小组的侦查督察迈克·内斯（Mike Ness）表示：“随着调查的继续，公众将看到该地区有更多的警力部署和活动。”
“此举旨在让公众放心。任何可能掌握信息的人员应接触这些警员，或拨打 101 联系苏格兰警方，并报出 2026 年 8 月 3 日星期一的事件编号 0008。”
撒旦信徒 坚信自己是吸血鬼
遗弃在教堂附近 的男子被法院 下令无限期住院治疗
《电讯报》记者报道
《电讯报》记者报道
法庭听证会获悉，一名坚信自己是吸血鬼的撒旦信徒饮用血液，并在教堂外遗弃动物尸体。
48 岁的本杰明·刘易斯（Benjamin Lewis）杀害并“肢解且毁容”了鹿和羊，然后将其丢弃。
警员在他家中发现了写有“成为吸血鬼很有趣”的笔记，以及关于邪教和连环杀手的书籍。
侦探们在撒旦信徒的关键日期守在汉普郡的教堂外，随后逮捕了刘易斯。他此前曾告诉法庭他的名字叫德古拉伯爵。他在 9 月 3 日被抓获，那是他们历法中的一个重要日子。
2024 年遗留的一颗鹿头及一个倒置的木十字架令纽森林（New Forest）的当地居民感到恐慌。
这名自称吸血鬼的男子在半夜袭击农场，割断动物喉咙，并在复活节期间将一张塔罗牌放在教堂一只死鹿的头上，以此“留下签名”。
南安普顿刑事法院听证会获悉，刘易斯从小就对“吸血鬼着迷”，并加入了一个吸血鬼邪教。他会定期与其他成员见面，以便他们互相饮用对方的血液。
警方表示，他饮用被宰杀动物的血液，因为他……
藏在冰箱中 并冒领 £78k 福利金
一名男子因将死去的母亲放在冷冻柜中近三年，期间继续领取超过 £78,000 的福利金而被判刑。
60 岁的克里斯托弗·菲利普斯（Christopher Phillips）此前承认，在他位于波思考尔（Porthcawl）的家中，阻碍了对 89 岁的西尔维亚·菲利普斯（Sylvia Phillips）进行合法且体面的安葬。
他还承认了两项欺诈罪名，原因是他未能通知工作与养老金部或布里金德郡自治市议会其母亲已经去世。
在昨天的默瑟蒂德菲尔刑事法院中，卡迪夫记录官特雷西·劳埃德-克拉克（Tracey Lloyd-Clarke）法官判处菲利普斯有期徒刑两年四个月。
菲利普斯共领取了 £78,190.92 的国家养老金、养老金信用额度、护理津贴、冬季燃料补贴、生活成本补贴及住房补贴；如果他如实申报，这些款项本应停止发放。
竞争对手Instagram网红
一名社交媒体网红否认开车将一名竞争对手Instagram创作者撞死。
来自曼彻斯特的加布里埃尔·卡林顿（Gabrielle Carrington），29岁，曾是X Factor的决赛入围者。据称，她在4月19日星期日凌晨4.30分，在索霍区（Soho）阿盖尔街（Argyll Street）的Inca夜总会外撞击了克劳迪娅·扎克热夫斯卡（Klaudia Zakrzewska）。
网上流传的事件视频显示，一名女性进入一辆黑色轿车，随后车辆猛冲向前撞击了扎克热夫斯卡，后者被卷入车底。
卡林顿女士最初被指控企图谋杀，但在扎克热夫斯卡于4月25日因伤去世后，指控被改为谋杀。
昨天，卡林顿女士通过视频链接在中央刑事法院（Old Bailey）出庭，她当时身处布朗兹菲尔德监狱（Bronzefield prison）。她对谋杀以及第二项造成严重身体伤害的指控均否认有罪。
（注：此处文本由于原件缺失，接续前文关于Lewis的案件描述）
……他认为自己会永生。13岁时，他把一只死青蛙放在教堂的十字架上；2003年，他因声称自己是吸血鬼并恐吓一名牧师及其家人而被判处12个月监禁。昨天，他因去年2月至8月期间在汉普郡新森林（New Forest, Hants）的一系列罪行而被下令无限期住院治疗。来自新森林郊区托顿（Totton）的刘易斯（Lewis）承认了五项宗教加重故意骚扰罪和两项盗窃罪。他穿着一套黑色西装通过视频链接出庭。他还在他曾入住的一处针对弱势成人的住宿楼大门上留下了一个鹿头。2025年的这些事件发生在托顿的安克之家（Anchor House）和圣特蕾莎教堂（St Theresa’s Church）、科尔伯里的基督教堂（Christ Church in Colbury）、布拉姆肖的圣彼得教堂（St Peter’s Church in Bramshaw）以及埃默里唐的基督教堂（Christ Church in Emery Down）。他于2025年5月首次被捕，其车内发现了动物血液。他的卧室里还发现了塔罗牌，且在被审讯时他“显得心不在焉”。他于2025年9月第二次被捕，在其住址发现的物品包括吸血鬼和死羊的素描、与死亡相关的报纸剪报、撒旦符号、倒十字架以及人们互相吸血的照片。
检控官劳拉·杜克斯伯里（Laura Deuxberry）表示：“教堂本应是避难所，而这让人们害怕前往他们的避难所。”杜克斯伯里女士解释说，他曾在负责弱势患者的心理健康服务机构安克之家接受治疗，而该机构工作人员在凌晨发现大门上出现一个鹿头和一个倒十字架后，担心他可能会回来。在2025年4月的另一起事件中，五至10天大的羔羊（每只价值£180）被割断喉咙，然后被挂在圣彼得教堂的旗杆上。一位家族世代居住在新森林的农场主表示，她考虑搬走，因为她认为“如果他能做出那样的事，那么他还能做出什么？”另一起事件中，一只羔羊被留在科尔伯里基督教堂附近的树桩上，旁边还有一个倒十字架。法医精神病学顾问高鲁夫·马尔汉（Gauruv Malhan）博士告诉法庭，他认为刘易斯患有自闭症、混合型人格障碍、强迫症（OCD）、可能的轻微学习障碍以及“幻想性思维模式”。
……菲利普斯（Phillips）的死讯已被报道。劳埃德-克拉克（Lloyd-Clarke）法官说：“你继续代领她的处方药，并就她的行踪误导医疗专业人员，在有人询问你母亲的情况时撒谎，反复告诉医护人员她没有……”
这将显著 增加他……进一步被 剥削的风险” £78,190.92
克里斯托弗·菲利普斯在未能通知当局其母亲去世后收到的金额
希望参加预约或接受检查。 “你母亲的养老金和福利继续支付到她的银行账户中，而你是可以访问这些账户的。” 法官补充道：“精神科医生得出的结论是，在犯罪时——
意图袭击安努什·奇切（Anoush Chyche），一名保安。被告无需就第三项酒精超标驾驶的指控进行答辩。 怀特豪斯（Whitehouse）法官确认，她将于1月5日起在中央刑事法院（Old Bailey）审理此案。她将预审听证会定于8月11日和10月9日。 法官将卡灵顿（Carrington）女士继续羁押，但命令被告在下次听证会时被带至中央刑事法院。 卡灵顿女士在Instagram上的账号为RIELLEUK，拥有超过365,000名粉丝，她曾作为Miss Dynamix三人组的一员，在2013年进入了《X Factor》的现场决赛。她在法庭上被描述为一名“社交媒体影响力人物”。 扎克热夫斯卡（Zakrzewska）年约30多岁，是一名TikTok和Instagram影响力人物，艺名为Klaudiaglam。 据称，卡灵顿女士抵达了
索伦特新闻与照片
本杰明·刘易斯（Benjamin Lewis）自称德古拉伯爵，并参加一个成员之间饮用彼此血液的吸血鬼教派
你患有公认的精神障碍，即延长哀伤障碍。 “他记录了你对母亲持久的渴望、难以接受她的死亡、对她的沉迷、社交退缩以及无法恢复正常生活的证据。 “他还注意到，你与母亲之间存在一种他所描述的依赖关系，同时你的社交接触有限。” 法庭获悉，菲利普斯在母亲于2023年3月8日去世前的几个月里辞职，成为其全职照顾者。 在其母亲去世后（死因至今不明），被告购买了一个卧式冷冻柜，并将其尸体存放在该房产的客厅中。 辩护律师鲁斯·史密斯（Ruth Smith）表示，被告告诉警方：“我基本上不想让她走。”
加布里埃尔·卡灵顿（Gabrielle Carrington），见下文，是一名社交媒体影响力人物，在Instagram上拥有365,000名粉丝
开着车来到阿盖尔街（Argyll Street），在下车时似乎与一名男子发生了争吵。 随着更多的人卷入，冲突升级，促使安保人员介入。 据称，卡灵顿女士回到了车内并驶离，冲上人行道撞到了扎克热夫斯卡。 据称，车辆撞到了安保人员奇切先生。当车辆倒车时，可以看到扎克热夫斯卡被压在车底地面上。 凌晨5点，医护人员和警察抵达现场，发现人们在大声喊叫，其中许多人是从附近的Inca夜总会出来的。 扎克热夫斯卡在医院死亡，50多岁的奇切先生遭受了“改变生活的重伤”。 根据法庭指控，卡灵顿女士在事后测试中，每100毫升呼吸中含有61微克的酒精。
车辆 倒车时， 可以看到 扎克热夫斯卡 被压在 车底 地面上”
一名牙买加毒贩在被主张其无法避免在原籍国加入帮派后，免于被驱逐出境。
该移民具有涉及毒品的“长期犯罪记录”，其中最长的一次刑期为六年，是在 2016 年因被判定意图供应 A 类毒品而被判处。
他表示自己曾与帮派有关联并被贩运至英国，如果回到牙买加，他可能会再次陷入帮派之中。他赢得了移民暂缓执行，并被允许在对驱逐令提起上诉期间留在英国。
该移民由于不能公开姓名，被简称为 TWH，出生于牙买加，1999 年持访问签证来到英国。2005, 他作为母亲的受抚养人被授予在英国的无限期居留权。尽管他曾有一位英国伴侣，但两人现已失去联系，其儿子现已成年。该移民有着一段“长期”的犯罪记录，持续 17 年之久，从 2006 年持续到 2023 年。
今年早些时候，他被下达了驱逐令，理由是由于他是“外国罪犯”，驱逐他将有利于“公共利益”。TWH 提出了人权和保护申诉，但内政部拒绝了该请求并维持原驱逐令。
他向初级法庭（First-Tier Tribunal）提起上诉，但被法官驳回。随后，他再次向高级法庭（Upper Tribunal）提起上诉。在最新的上诉中，一份由 Lisa 博士撰写的报告……
作者：Daisy Graham-Brown 发自帕福斯
一名因两岁儿子在塞浦路斯死亡而被起诉的父亲被告知，他可以飞回国内参加葬礼。
这名 37 岁的人士是来自埃塞克斯郡的一名城市高管。上个月，他的儿子从帕福斯附近赫洛拉卡斯（Chlorakas）的 King Evelthon Beach 酒店四楼窗户坠落，该男子随后被指控因鲁莽行为导致死亡。
昨天上午，这名英国国民在帕福斯地区法院出庭，获准回国参加葬礼并与家人团聚，随后于 9 月返回塞浦路斯接受审判。
他告诉记者：“我非常感谢法官和当局让我能够回家与我的妻子和女儿们团聚。这是我现在唯一想做的事情。”
法官 Froso Christodoulidou 表示，塞浦路斯总检察长已同意临时更改该男子的保释条件。此前，他被要求在上交护照并支付 €20,000 (£17,400) 保释金后，必须留在该岛内警方登记的地址。
从明天起，他将被允许……
需要回到 家人身边，回到家中， 好好地地哀悼”
离开塞浦路斯，但必须在9月14日之前返回。他还需要支付另外€10,000的保释金，这笔款项将在他返回该岛后退还。 这位在一家“四大”会计师事务所工作的父亲在五分钟的听证会期间情绪明显激动。 辩护律师亚历山德罗斯·亚历山德鲁表示：“今天，他仍然深陷痛苦，但他对这个结果感到满意。” “他流泪是因为，正如我们所理解的，他需要回到家人身边，回到家中，好好地哀悼，并与家人——不仅是他的妻子——团聚。” “对他来说，今天是个好日子，是个美好的日子，因为他原以为他们不会允许他返回并参加葬礼。如果那样发生，对他来说将是一场灾难——是毁灭性的。” 这位金融高管于7月12日被捕，就在其子从该岛西海岸一家五星级海滨度假酒店的开放窗户坠亡几小时之后。该家庭于当天早些时候抵达塞浦路斯。 警方表示，事故发生在家庭房间外的走廊里，当时两人在等待乘坐电梯前往餐厅时玩耍，幼儿从父亲怀中滑落。该家庭的朋友表示，父亲当时并不知道滑动窗面板是打开的。
戴维斯关于如果被遣返牙买加，其再次犯罪风险将增加的看法被认为是正确的。 报告称：“我认为，一旦被遣送，其再次陷入药物滥用且精神健康状况恶化的风险较高。一旦被遣送，其自杀风险较高……如果被遣返回牙买加，其被再次贩卖的风险被评估为高。” 她补充道：“在我看来，如果在缺乏专业支持、反贩卖支持以及缺乏支持性关系的情况下被遣返回牙买加，他将面临更高的重新使用药物以应对压力的风险……这将显著增加他的……进一步被剥削的风险。” 上级法庭法官卡里姆-乌拉·汗裁定，上诉听证会中存在程序错误，因为相关问题未向该移民妥善呈报，因此此案必须发回初级法庭重新审理。
社交媒体 红人克劳迪亚· 扎克热夫斯卡在 伦敦索霍区一家 夜店门外被车 撞击后死亡
乳腺癌患者中约95% 未接受进一步检查
作者：Michael Searles 副健康编辑
研究揭示，在50岁以下随后确诊为乳腺癌的女性中，高达95%的人未能被英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS）转诊进行进一步检查。 在10年内被诊断出乳腺癌的50岁以下女性中，仅有4.4%符合现有NHS指南下的进一步检查标准。 该分析对比了转诊
导致泽西岛海滩 历史上首次关闭
作者：Samuel Montgomery
作者：Samuel Montgomery
在海峡群岛的历史上，一次鲨鱼目击事件导致泽西岛的一处海滩首次关闭。 周六上午10.40，在圣欧恩湾（St Ouen’s Bay）发现一只深灰色动物，估计长度在10英尺至12英尺之间，随后救生员清空了水域。 当时值班的救生员汤姆·罗尔斯表示，他起初以为Watersplash的一名守卫关于离岸40米处有鲨鱼的报告是个玩笑。 他告诉《泽西晚报》：“起初，我们的反应是，‘这在开玩笑，你在耍我们吧。’但随后他坚持认为是真的。他说有多名公众报告过目击情况。” 罗尔斯先生表示，一名救援同事在
10 到 12 英尺长，然后它 迅速地从他的冲浪板下 游走了”
冲浪板已经划过了那只动物，该动物从西方进入海湾，随后向南游去。 “他说这看起来绝对更像一条鲨鱼，而不是其他任何东西，”罗尔斯先生补充道。“它呈深灰色，大约 10 到 12 英尺长，然后它迅速地从他的冲浪板下游走了。” 监督人员决定关闭海滩，直到确定该物种是否会对人类构成威胁。罗尔斯先生利用 La Braye 的公共广播系统要求人们离开水域。 当时在海滩上的一名 BBC 记者回忆起罗尔斯先生说： “你们可能不信，但我们必须让所有人离开水域——我们要给海滩挂红旗，因为在海湾上游发现了鲨鱼。” 罗尔斯先生随后告诉当地报纸，由于这种情况以前从未发生过，该请求引起了人们“惊讶的目光”。在目击事件发生一小时后，海湾重新开放。
任何人都可以被诊断出的“概括性诊断”
一位开创了自闭症研究的专家表示，目前的自闭症谱系范围如此之广，以至于任何人都有可能患有此病。 伦敦大学学院 (UCL) 认知发展荣休教授乌塔·弗里思 (Dame Uta Frith) 教授表示，自闭症已成为一系列状况的“概括性诊断”，且“任何年龄或智力水平的人，只要符合某些标准，都可以被诊断为自闭症”。 弗里思教授是 20 世纪 60 和 70 年代“自闭症谱系”概念的构建者之一，该概念旨在将那些“非典型病例”纳入其中。 但她现在认为这已经变得“过于宽泛”，她此前曾表示
（将）由国家医疗卓越研究所（Nice）设定的标准，替换为一种名为 Boadicea 的新风险评估工具。该工具会考量包括家族史、生育史、生活方式和遗传学在内的多个因素。
开发该工具的剑桥大学专家表示，与目前的 Nice 标准相比，新模型正确识别出未来患乳腺癌女性人数的倍数高达八倍。在英国，乳腺癌是 50 岁以下女性的主要死因之一，高风险人群将由其全科医生（GP）转诊，以进行进一步评估和专家护理。
研究人员分析了 1,258 名参加 2004 年至 2011 年间“乳腺癌现在世代研究”（Breast Cancer Now Generations Study）的 50 岁以下女性的数据。
这项发表在《英国癌症杂志》上的研究表明，如果对所有 50 岁以下女性使用 Boadicea 模型，将导致 26.5% 的人被归类为高于平均风险并被转诊进行进一步评估。
这包括了在十年内确诊乳腺癌的 50 岁以下女性中的近 35%。
与此同时，研究人员发现，目前的 Nice 标准会导致 1.4% 的女性被转诊进行检测，其中包含 4.4% 最终确诊乳腺癌的女性。
剑桥大学公共卫生与初级保健系的朱丽叶·厄舍-史密斯（Juliet Usher-Smith）博士表示：
“我们需要提高识别乳腺癌最高风险女性的能力，以便我们能够尽早干预，因为在此时期，治疗甚至预防该疾病的选择更多。”
“全科医疗中目前使用的 Nice 标准遗漏了高达 95% 未来将确诊乳腺癌的 50 岁以下女性。现在是时候重新审视这些标准了。”
首席科学家西蒙·文森特（Simon Vincent）博士……
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（该定义）过于包容，以至于“完全没有意义”。
乌塔女爵士（Dame Uta）在一篇新论文中警告说，自闭症已成为“流行文化”的一部分，并且被贴上该病症标签具有一种“几乎是磁石般的吸引力”。
在医学上被称为自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的情况，是一种影响人们如何沟通、理解他人，以及他们如何思考、学习并对声音和光线等刺激做出反应的状况。
目前有超过 270,000 人在等待英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS）的自闭症评估，自疫情以来，对诊断的需求激增。
乌塔女爵士在《心理医学》杂志上写道，现在的定义已经扩大到包括具有较轻微特征的人群，并警告说社交媒体已经“传播了简化或误导性的观点”。
这位 85 岁的老者表示：“自闭症并非一直这样定义——即一种针对各种不同状况的‘概括性诊断’。”
她说：“在 20 世纪 40 年代首次被确认时，它指的是一小群在社交互动、沟通和行为方面存在严重困难的儿童。随着时间的推移，定义扩大到了包括具有较轻微特征且没有语言或学习问题的人。”
“如今，任何年龄或智力水平的人，只要符合某些标准，都可以被诊断为自闭症。”
她表示，“‘神经多样性’概念”的引入意味着人们被鼓励将自闭症视为一种“差异而非障碍”。
一名患有ADHD（注意缺陷多动障碍）的警察工作人员在赢得一起残疾歧视案件后，获赔超过£19,000，原因是她未被提供免费耳机。
法庭获悉，唐娜·韦尔（Donna Vale）在进入埃文与萨默塞特警察局（Avon and Somerset Police）工作时申请了降噪耳机，因为她属于神经多样性人群，耳机能帮助她应对背景噪音。
法庭被告知，她在家里有耳机，但没有使用，也没有将此事告知她的新上司。
然而，在认定警方仍有义务满足其对降噪耳机的请求后，她提起诉讼并赢得了残疾歧视的赔偿。一名法官表示，她在家里有一副耳机却没向老板提起这一点很不寻常。不过，他补充说，这并没有削弱她的诉求，因为“做出合理调整的义务在于雇主，而非雇员”。
法官命令该警局向其支付£19,141的赔偿金，其中包含£15,124的情感伤害赔偿。
韦尔女士于2023年9月以临时职位的身份进入该警局担任受害者与证人护理员，以填补一名长期缺勤者的空缺。她此前经营过一家创意艺术企业，此前没有警察系统工作经验。她表示，她之前从事自由艺术家工作，是因为ADHD让她不想与他人合作。
2023年5月，在全科医生因认为她是自卑而拒绝为其诊断后，韦尔女士通过与ADHD360的在线咨询被诊断出患有ADHD。
在进入警局工作之初，她请求提供降噪耳机并告知了对方她的ADHD情况。在10月份的一次为期四周的试用期评估后，她再次请求提供耳机。韦尔女士的直属主管珍妮·克拉克（Jennie Clarke）要求她确认为何需要降噪版本，但未收到回复。
就业法官埃德蒙·比弗（Edmund Beever）表示：“这件事有一个不寻常之处。她在家里有一些降噪耳机。她没有向克拉克女士提起这一事实，也没有在工作中使用它们。这或许被视为不恰当，但做出合理调整的义务在于雇主，而非雇员。”
支持该研究的Breast Cancer Now的一名官员表示，结果“凸显了Nice（英国国家医疗质量研究所）当前转诊标准的局限性”。
他补充说：“这项研究现在必须作为当前家庭病史指南审查的一部分被认真考虑。”
乳腺癌的常规筛查仅适用于50至71岁的女性。美国、日本和瑞典等一些国家从40岁起就开始筛查。在癌症排名表中，英国继续落后于其他发达国家。在经济合作与发展组织（OECD）国家中，乳腺癌约占女性所有癌症死亡人数的15 per cent。
这一数值一直在下降，但在英国仍高于平均水平，2021年每100,000名女性中有27人死亡，而2023年OECD的平均值为每100,000人中25人。日本的死亡率最低，为每100,000名女性中15人死亡，专家认为这是因为他们能更早地诊断出更多女性。
一名Nice发言人表示：“Nice欢迎这项研究的结果，并认可多因素风险模型在未来提高对乳腺癌高风险女性识别方面的潜力。”
“然而，目前的证据尚不足以在此时更改我们现有的家族性乳腺癌指南。”
的协议在 以色列袭击后 瓦解
致命加沙轰炸后 违背解除武装承诺
作者：Henry Bodkin 耶路撒冷驻地记者
在以色列轰炸增加以及有迹象表明该恐怖组织将不会移交武器后，唐纳德·特朗普关于解除哈马斯武装的协议正处于崩溃边缘。特朗普在周五地对他成立的和平委员会与哈马斯达成协议后，称其为一次“历史性突破”，该协议要求以色列分阶段从加沙撤军，而前提是必须进行武器报废流程。该文件要求以色列立即停止对加沙地带的轰炸。然而，据信在协议达成后，约 40 名巴勒斯坦人被杀，这是加沙数周以来最血腥的几天。目前尚不清楚其中有多少人是哈马斯成员，但媒体报道称有数名平民伤亡，其中包括一些儿童。以色列已经开始针对任何被认为参与了 7 2023. 袭击的恐怖分子开展刺杀行动。昨天，哈马斯警告称，空袭可能会使和平进程脱轨。半岛电视台引用该恐怖组织的一名消息人士的话说：“我们向调解员明确表示，持续的袭击将干扰协议的执行及其时间表的谈判。”一名美国官员告诉以色列 N12 新闻频道：“这些是八个月谈判的成果，旨在实现加沙的非军事化。为什么现在继续进行针对性刺杀，给（哈马斯）一个撤回（协议）的借口？‘这进一步孤立了以色列在中东的地位，因为所有调解国都将此视为（总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡）不守承诺或不想要和平的证据。他杀死了三个无辜的孩子，让以色列人看起来像嗜血的野蛮人。’”以色列国内对于哈马斯是否会移交武器持有深切的怀疑。原则上，该国致力于根据特朗普去年10月的 20 点和平计划，通过撤军以换取解除武装的进程。
作者：Akhtar Makoii
美国已向其士兵呼吁，就如何推进在伊朗的战争提供想法。
“我们正在寻找新的、具有创意且非常规的方式来向伊朗施压并予以惩罚，”美国中央司令部 (Centcom) 情报部门的一名军官在发送给一大组军事分析师的电子邮件中写道。
五角大楼的这一请求反映出，在为期五个月、未能迫使德黑兰投降的战争中，唐纳德·特朗普的选项已变得有限。
在周末，这位美国总统重复了一种自他与以色列共同发起“史诗之怒”行动（Operation Epic Fury）以来出现的模式：宣布计划...
在坟墓前自杀
作者：亨利·博德金（Henry Bodkin），发自耶路撒冷
据以色列媒体报道，一名在10月7日被杀害的女性的男友在其坟墓前自杀。
30 岁的巴尔·阿斯拉夫（Bar Asraf）在利隆·巴尔达（Liron Barda）的安息地开枪自杀。巴尔达在诺瓦（Nova）音乐节上试图帮助伤员时被哈马斯杀害。他最近告诉母亲，没有女朋友他生活得很痛苦，据报道他曾说“没有人能替代她，没有人能让我开心起来”。
以色列军方认为，在10月7日死亡的近 1,200 人中，有 378 人是在诺瓦现场或其附近被杀的。巴尔达当时是音乐节上一名 26 岁的调酒师，她拒绝逃离，坚持救助受伤的参加者，而非自救。
阿斯拉夫的姐姐利希（Lihi）告诉以色列 Walla 新闻网站：“人们需要知道诺瓦事件给人们带来了什么。那天，他开始开车向雷伊姆（Re’im）驶去试图救她，直到他意识到已经没有可以救的人了。”
她将巴尔达描述为她哥哥最好的朋友，并且是“他灵魂的一部分”。
阿斯拉夫女士表示，尽管她的哥哥通常遵守犹太圣日，但他在安息日（Shabbat）开车去了巴尔达的坟墓。在感到日益担心之后
确保人质被释放，以及以色列国防军部分撤出并停止对加沙地带的轰炸。
过去一年的僵局对以色列有利，因为它在哈马斯控制的加沙西部与靠近该飞地的以色列社区之间提供了一个巨大且易于防御的缓冲区。
随着10月选举临近，内塔尼亚胡先生在两年的战争中承诺对哈马斯取得“全面胜利”，因此在哈马斯依然驻留在该地的情况下从加沙地带撤军，在政治上是困难的。
虽然许多细节尚未达成一致，但上周的计划设想了一个北爱尔兰式的“除役”过程。枪支——从重型武器开始——将移交给巴勒斯坦安全部队并存储（可能在加沙地带内），而不是移交给以色列并予以销毁。
自该协议公布以来，已有信号表明哈马斯可能不会履行其协议部分。该组织的发言人暗示
因为所有调解国 都将此视为内塔尼亚胡 不守承诺的证据”
以色列必须在武器移交前撤军，这似乎与特朗普先生的表态相矛盾。 与此同时，加沙支持哈马斯的媒体坚称，针对以色列的武装斗争将继续。在《法莱斯廷》（Falesteen）报纸上，一名支持该立场的人员撰文称，协议是“恢复能力，并争取时间直到力量平衡发生变化”的一种手段。Mish Hek（一个著名的哈马斯附属 Telegram 频道）表示，所有关于“抵抗力量解除武装的讨论都只是传闻和假新闻”，但承认重型武器“将被纳入”和平进程。 支持该协议的西方外交官在私下强调，这种措辞并不一定意味着哈马斯不会交出武器。他们表示，正是因为和平委员会使用了“报废”（decommissioning）而非“解除武装”（disarmament）的措辞——这对哈马斯来说是一个重要的区别——该恐怖组织才同意签署这份文件。
对伊朗进行“大规模袭击”，却在最后一刻取消了计划。 然而，自6月份旨在结束冲突的谅解备忘录在7月初崩溃以来，伊朗一直公开拒绝与华盛顿进行谈判。 据 CNN 报道，美国军方官员表示，通过电子邮件发送此类众筹风格的呼吁极不寻常。 一名美国消息人士称，美中司令部（Centcom）正在“审视所有情况”，并承认需要重新评估其战略。该媒体报道称，美中司令部并未否认发送了该信息。 这封邮件表明美国处于战略僵局：伊朗尚未被迫接受特朗普先生提出的条件，而剩下的手段要么不太可能奏效，要么带有总统不愿承担的风险。 消息人士称，即使是美国最强大的常规武器，也不太可能对伊朗深埋地下的最敏感核设施造成重大影响。 这一呼吁出现之际，同样的挑战正在公开上演。 特朗普先生表示，他为了谈判而撤回了被他称为“第二次世界大战以来最大规模的袭击”的计划，但前提是“能够迅速达成一项协议”，以重新开放霍尔木兹海峡并结束伊朗的核威胁。 他在地区领导人——其中最主要的是沙特王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼——打电话敦促克制之后改变了主意。目前讨论的条款
关于他的失踪，亲属搜寻了墓地。 “我走过去，突然看到他躺在利隆（Liron）的坟墓旁边，”她说。“我对他说：‘巴尔（Bar），起来，你又在干什么？’然后我意识到他浑身是血。” 随后，阿斯拉夫（Asraf）的父亲尝试进行心肺复苏术（CPR）。现场发现了一把枪。 “他在他最想在的地方，与他最想在一起的女人身边去世了，”阿斯拉夫女士说。 阿斯拉夫的母亲布拉查（Bracha）说：“巴尔是个特别的男孩，一个懂得给予、充满爱的男孩。” 这次悲剧是与雷伊基布兹（Re’im kibbutz）附近音乐节大屠杀相关的最新一起高调自杀事件。 10月，28 岁的诺瓦（Nova）幸存者罗伊·沙列夫（Roei Shalev）自杀了，他曾目睹女友马帕尔·亚当（Mapal Adam）被处决。 他在海滨城市内塔尼亚（Netanya）附近的一辆起火汽车中被发现。当时是大屠杀两周年的第三天，也是由唐纳德·特朗普促成的以色列与哈马斯停火协议生效当天。 早些时候，沙列夫发布道：“我只想让这种痛苦结束。” 受害者团体对以色列在支持幸存者方面的表现提出了尖锐批评，指责政府监管的系统要求个人必须证明自己的伤情或创伤。
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废墟浴缸：在以色列军队的袭击后，加沙贝特拉希亚（Beit Lahia）的一个公寓街区被彻底摧毁，一名巴勒斯坦儿童在一个奇迹般完好无损的浴缸里，在酷热的中东天气中消暑。
自第二次世界 大战以来 规模最大的 袭击”
本身就是一种让步。 根据谈判中披露的细节，由包括卡塔尔在内的阿拉伯地区国家起草的一项“妥协方案”将为该海峡建立一套新的进出系统，赋予德黑兰至少部分的水道控制权，并增加了伊朗对过往船只征收通行费的可能性，而华盛顿长期以来一直反对这一点。 伊朗尚未确认与美国进行任何谈判，伊朗官方媒体引用该国外交部的说法称，德黑兰并未与美国举行会谈。 外交部发言人伊斯梅尔·巴盖伊表示，德黑兰仅在与阿曼进行讨论，以商定通过霍尔木兹海峡的安全航运临时路线，且该海峡的关闭并非因为与阿曼的任何争端，而是由于美国和以色列的军事行动及海军封锁。 他昨日表示，只要“美国的侵略和封锁继续”，海峡的地位就不会改变”。 巴盖伊先生表示，伊朗的谈判代表目前均在境内，巴基斯坦仍担任调解人，卡塔尔提供协助。 他拒绝将也门胡塞武装和伊拉克武装组织的袭击与伊朗联系起来，认为德黑兰没有开辟新战线，战争的扩大是那些发动战争的人的过错。 “你不能在一个国家身上点火，然后指望火势只停留在你希望的地方，”他说。
俄罗斯海滨度假胜地
由本报外派记者报道
乌克兰对俄罗斯黑海沿岸一个度假村落的无人机袭击造成7人死亡，其中包括3名儿童，另有至少 40 人受伤。 一段视频显示，在黑海沿岸的阿希波-奥西波夫卡（Arkhipo-Osipovka）度假胜地，一架无人机在游客在岸上和海中观看时，坠落在了一个繁忙的海滩上。 俄罗斯南部克拉斯诺达尔地区州长韦尼亚明·孔德拉季耶夫表示，乌克兰的袭击目标是平民基础设施。 “根据州长的指示，一支专业的灾难医学小组已被派遣到现场。两名成人和一名儿童已被送往医院。” 乌克兰方面没有立即发表评论，乌克兰与俄罗斯一样，声称其并不刻意将平民作为目标。 “今天发生的是基辅政权对平民人口的蓄意袭击，这与军事基础设施毫无关系，”他补充道。
在一个国家 身上点火， 然后指望 火势只 停留在 你希望的 地方”
由莫斯科任命的州长谢尔盖·阿克肖诺夫在 Telegram 上表示，在俄罗斯兼并的克里米亚半岛的一次袭击中，有4人死亡。他没有说明袭击发生的具体地点，也没有提供关于受害者的详细信息。黑海沿岸和克里米亚都是俄罗斯游客喜爱的夏季目的地。 近几个月来，乌克兰加强了对克里米亚的反击，克里米亚于 2014 年被莫斯科夺取，这导致了电力和燃料短缺。 乌克兰表示，俄罗斯对东部城市克里维里赫（Kryvyi Rih）的袭击造成3人死亡，该市是乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基的家乡。 “现场发生了火灾。一家加油站和几辆汽车严重受损，”第聂普罗彼得罗夫斯克地区州长亚历山大·甘扎表示。 在他发布在社交媒体的一张照片中，可以看到消防员正在浇灭火焰，加油站内还有一辆被烧焦的汽车残骸。 据塔斯社报道，俄罗斯外交部发言人玛丽亚·扎哈罗娃指责乌克兰采取恐怖主义手段。 俄罗斯上个月指责基辅部队在袭击乌克兰扎波罗热地区由俄罗斯控制的一处度假营地时，造成 11 人死亡，其中包括4名儿童。 联合国报告称，随着这场持续四年半的战争在看不到和平协议迹象的情况下继续僵持，今年导致平民死亡的人数不断增加。
作者：Nick Squires, James Crisp 和 Joe Barnes
欧盟已告知佩德罗·桑切斯，他必须接受西班牙被列入特别监管措施，以结束由一个塞乌塔（Ceuta）移民危机引发的欧盟内部冲突。
外交渠道告诉《电讯报》，西班牙首相被要求分享经过核实的具体数字，即在最初的人流涌入后，有多少移民被遣返回摩洛哥。这一要求表明，欧盟对马德里的说法持怀疑态度，马德里此前声称，在上周冲入该飞地的估计 60,000 人中，大部分已经重新跨越边境返回。此次危机导致至少 88 人死亡，其中许多人溺水或
作者：Nick Squires 和 James Crisp
数万名来自摩洛哥的移民被迅速驱离塞乌塔的速度，可能会让英国人感到惊讶。多年来，英国一直被迫接纳不定期移民，并等待他们提交避难申请。
西班牙的快速反应似乎启发了英国改革党（Reform UK）的承诺。齐亚·尤苏夫（Zia Yusuf）周日宣布，如果该党执政，将动用皇家海军拦截在英吉利海峡中的移民船只。
在欧洲大部分地区，国际法规定移民和难民应获得提交避难申请的机会——正如大量移民乘船从法国跨越海峡进入英国时的情况一样。在不对其具体情况进行深入审查之前，不能将其驱逐。然而，在塞乌塔及其姐妹飞地梅利利亚（Melilla）——这两个西班牙持有数百年的北非海岸领土碎片——情况则有所不同。
能够迅速驱逐涌入塞乌塔的 50,000 至 60,000 人中的绝大多数，是因为西班牙在十多年前引入了一项特别法律。
根据 2015 年通过的这项法律，西班牙当局可以迅速驱逐移民，而无需允许他们提交避难申请。在欧洲其他地区，这种做法被称为“推回”（pushbacks），或在技术上称为“遣返”（refoulement），且理应是被禁止的——尽管一些国家（如匈牙利和希腊）不时采用这种做法。
改革党声称，其被称为“堡垒行动”（Operation Fortress）的计划将完全符合国际法。然而，内政大臣沙巴纳·马哈茂德（Shabana Mahmood）表示，处理法国和英国水域的英吉利海峡跨境问题“更为复杂”，且无法简单复制
作者：Allegra Mendelson，亚洲特派记者
在有传言称缅甸被拘禁的领导人昂山素季可能在羁押期间死亡之际，一张她与红十字会官员在一起的照片被公布。
该国军政府昨日在首都内比都发布了照片，画面中这位 81 岁的诺贝尔和平奖得主与阿尔诺·德·巴克（Arnaud de Baecque）坐在一起。军方还发布了显然是这位缅甸领导人在 6 月为她的 81 岁生日切蛋糕的照片。
自 2021 年 2 月导致该国陷入内战的政变以来，素季女士一直被拘留。
军政府确认了与德·巴克先生的会面，而国际红十字会委员会（International Committee of...
被挤压至死，此次事件被描述为进入欧盟规模最大的一次非法涌入。
昨天，西班牙中央政府在休达的代表米格尔·安赫尔·佩雷斯（Miguel Ángel Pérez）表示，据估计仍有 2,500 人在休达。然而，该地区的最高官员胡安·赫苏斯·维瓦斯（Juan Jesús Vivas）将这一数字定在 3,000 和 5,000 之间，并告诉西班牙广播公司 Telecinco，其两个移民接收中心（一个针对成年人，另一个针对未成年人）已经“崩溃”。
昨天，欧洲各国首脑举行了一轮紧急会谈，试图结束西班牙与多达 22 个成员国之间的争端。
在冲突激化期间，在许多成员国因突发的移民涌入而要求将西班牙移出申根自由通行区后，桑切斯先生称其欧盟同行“自私”。这次危机进一步加剧了对西班牙总理亲移民政策的大规模批评，包括一项授予特赦的政策。
西班牙的做法。她表示，西班牙和摩洛哥共享陆地边界，并达成了一项允许遣返的协议。英国在 2020. 年底脱欧正式生效时，退出了欧盟的《都柏林条例》（Dublin Regulation），该条例允许成员国将移民遣返回他们抵达的第一个成员国。在此后的多年里，将英吉利海峡移民遣返回欧洲大陆缺乏法律依据。布鲁塞尔拒绝了英国关于达成一项欧盟范围内移民遣返协议的提议，这使得英国不得不仓促与个别国家签署此类协议，但收效甚微。去年取得了突破，基尔·斯塔默爵士（Sir Keir Starmer）和埃马纽埃尔·马克龙（Emmanuel Macron）达成了一项“一进一出”协议，该协议于去年 8 月生效。它允许将通过小船从法国非法入境的个人遣返回法。作为回报，英国接受同等数量来自法国且具有强有力主张（如与英国有家庭联系）的寻求庇护者。从该条约生效起至 6 月 30,，英国向法国遣返了 1,087 人，占同期所有小船入境人数的 3.5%。 4 月，英国和法国达成了一项为期三年、价值 6.62 亿英镑m 的新资金协议，以进一步加强法国沿岸的边境管制、执法和监视。保守党和改革党批评该遣返计划无效，称其不足以起到威慑作用。他们还指责法国在阻止移民尝试跨境方面做得不够。西班牙法律为其在北非的两个飞地引入了特殊的法律制度，规定“在休达和梅利利亚领土边界线上被发现试图不定期跨境的外国人，为了防止其非法进入西班牙，可以被拒绝入境”。这一特殊法律受到了国际法专家和人权组织的批评。
红十字会发言人表示，德·巴克（de Baecque）先生的访问包括了与苏奇女士“私下”交谈的机会。
4 月，苏奇女士被从监狱转移到内比都接受家政监视，她在 2022 年的一场公开审判后被判处 27 年监禁。其中一些生日照片似乎表明她住在一个配有木制家具的简陋房间里。背景中挂着一些衣服。
上个月，她的儿子金·阿里斯（Kim Aris）告诉《电讯报》，虽然他相信她还没有去世，但他尚未看到任何证据。
在照片公布后，他表示：“这可能是第一步，但绝不能是最后一步，”并补充说，他尚未收到关于其母亲状况或健康情况的独立确认。
对该局势 进行 监测， 并对西班牙 提供的 人数 进行 核实”
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组织认为，这实际上使“驱逐出境”（pushbacks）政策合法化。 欧洲难民与流亡者委员会表示：“在边境拒绝接纳人员，严重违反了提供进入国际保护程序渠道的义务，以及尊重‘不推回’原则的要求。这意味着不仅违反了西班牙的法律体系，还违反了欧洲法规以及西班牙批准的国际条约。” 尽管面临此类批评，但在休达（Ceuta）、梅利利亚（Melilla）与摩洛哥之间的边境线上，驱逐出境一直是长期执行的政策，而这里是欧洲与非洲之间唯一的陆地边界。 西班牙当局已经
向非法移民发放了超过 600,000 份工作许可。 持批评态度的政府认为，该计划起到了“吸引因素”的作用，因为它鼓励潜在的寻求庇护者在相信最终能获得合法居留权的信念下进入。一名欧盟外交官告诉《电讯报》，桑切斯先生驻布鲁塞尔的使节在欧盟大使会议上提交马德里对此次危机的最新评估时，显得“略带苦涩”。 “成员国要求对该局势进行监测，并对西班牙分享的遣返人数进行核实，以及吸取教训以防止重复发生，”该消息人士补充道。一名第二位欧盟外交官表示，西班牙使节马科斯·阿隆索（Marcos Alonso）声称，“几乎所有非法越境人员现在都已被遣返”，且没有关于任何移民抵达欧洲大陆的报告。 欧盟各国首都要求另一成员国提交经过核实的报告以证明其主张，这是非常不寻常的。桑切斯
习惯于拦截来自摩洛哥的移民。然而，在周四和周五，他们被庞大的人数彻底压倒了。 希腊是过去十年中承受移民到达压力最大的国家之一，经常被指责采取非法的驱逐出境做法。 希腊当局因在没有正当程序的情况下驱逐移民而受到批评，特别是在与土耳其的陆地边界沿线。 欧洲宪法与人权中心 (ECCHR) 表示，移民被“强行安置在橡胶艇中，通过埃夫罗斯河被送回土耳其”。
桑切斯在今天与欧盟同事举行会谈时，仍可能命令其内政部长费尔南多·格兰德-马拉斯卡（Fernando Grande-Marlaska）拒绝旨在结束争议的折中方案。在马德里的批评者要求对此次危机做出紧急响应后，这次通过视频链接举行的会议已具有高度政治化色彩。 在会谈之前，欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩（Ursula von der Leyen）试图缓解西班牙与欧盟集团之间的紧张关系。在《电讯报》看到的一封写给桑切斯先生的信中，她赞扬了西班牙首相对该事件的“迅速处理”，并阻止了 60,000 名摩洛哥人进入欧洲大陆。 “这种坚决的行动表明了执行现有体制的承诺，对于防止局势进一步恶化，以及防止更多不幸且不必要的生命损失至关重要，”这位欧盟高级官员继续写道。 “我还欢迎贵政府采取的进一步威慑行动，以防止进一步的非法到达，例如
它补充说，“其他人是在靠近希腊海岸的船上被拦截，然后被拖回土耳其海域，或被强迫登上充气筏并被拉入爱琴海”。 在法国和意大利的边界上，法国警方被指控非法驱逐移民。过去，驱逐出境行为曾导致罗马与巴黎之间产生严重的紧张关系。 许多从北非跨越地中海到达意大利的移民，由于缺乏工作机会，并不打算留在意大利境内。 他们向北前进，希望抵达法国、比利时和英国，而这正是他们遭遇驱逐出境的地方。
作者：Emily Smith
一名波兰男子成为了首位在瑞典和波兰之间横渡波罗的海的人。
周日，巴特洛梅日·库布科夫斯基（Bartłomiej Kubkowski）从瑞典南部的卡塞贝加（Kaseberga）游向波兰波罗的海沿岸的兹维努夫（Dziwnów），全程 100 英里，用时 56 小时。
该游泳运动员此前曾尝试横渡四次。库布科夫斯基先生被禁止睡觉或接触为其提供食物和饮水的支持船。到目前为止，他已为一家儿童癌症慈善机构筹集了超过 790,000 兹罗提（£157,178）。
影像显示，库布科夫斯基先生在兹维努夫的海滩上，在人们的欢呼和掌声中走出大海，随后瘫倒在地。
这位 30 岁的男子在 2021 年成功游了 71 英里。2022 年，他在 73 英里处被迫放弃；2023 年，他在大雪条件下游了 81 英里。
去年 8 月，由于极度疲劳且天气恶化，他在 55 小时内游了 99 英里，在距离波兰海岸仅 7 英里处被救起。
库布科夫斯基先生在转向超长距离游泳之前，曾进行了 15 年的竞技游泳。他在波兰赢得了 40 枚奖牌，并参加了欧洲杯和世界杯。
去年，他打破了在游泳池中 24 小时内游最长距离的世界纪录——64.5 英里。
他最近这次游泳接近了美国人莎拉·托马斯（Sarah Thomas）在 2017 年创下的有史以来最长连续无辅助公开水域游泳纪录。
（接前文）加强对海上边境的监视。”
冯德莱恩夫人表示，她准备拨出欧盟资金或部署欧盟边境警卫局（Frontex）的单位，以加强西班牙围绕其北非飞地的防御。
她的干预不太可能平息乔治亚·梅洛尼（Giorgia Meloni）的愤怒，后者曾主导呼吁将西班牙从 29 个成员国的申根自由通行区中移除，以应对此次涌入。
在对移民危机的担忧中，法国、丹麦、瑞典和芬兰随后加入了这位意大利总理的行列。预计梅洛尼女士将利用今天的会谈推动加速在非洲建立移民遣返中心。
她的内政部长马泰奥·皮安特多西（Matteo Piantedosi）预计将在视频会议期间提出“阿尔巴尼亚模式”。
但消息人士称，这些提议在欧盟领导人 10 月再次聚集在布鲁塞尔之前，可能不会被详细讨论。
（接前文）政策。冲突点经常出现在法国和意大利边境的文蒂米利亚镇（Ventimiglia）。
欧洲公民权利倡议（ECCHR）补充道：“西班牙-摩洛哥边境制度已成为‘推回’（pushbacks）的实验室，匈牙利、克罗地亚、希腊、保加利亚和波兰等其他欧盟成员国都在复制这一做法。”
“在欧洲内部边境，例如法国和意大利之间，边境管制和推回行动也激增。”
“一些国家将这些做法写入国家法律，一些国家发布半正式的文件，而一些国家则采取没有任何记录的非正式措施。”
西班牙习惯于将从摩洛哥进入休达（Ceuta）的移民推回，但上周四和周五到达的人数让他们不堪重负。
对据称由名为 Misty 的兽医验证的 大脚野人进行了 DNA 检测
作者：Daniel Bates
康奈尔大学否认对一名据称是大脚野人的生物遗骸进行了 DNA 检测。这家常春藤盟校的一位发言人否认，对于由绰号为“大脚野人猎手 Snake”的查尔斯·斯图亚特（Charles Stuart）发现的所谓大脚野人尸体，校方并未进行过任何分析。今年 7 月，斯图亚特先生在网上发布了他声称是对该生物进行的 DNA 检测结果。据他称，他在纽约州的阿迪朗达克山脉发现了这个身高 8 英尺、体重 300 磅（21st）的生物。他声称，康奈尔大学实验室的结果显示该尸体是真实的，且近 60% 为尼安德特人基因。
但在康奈尔大学发言人表示学校并未参与后，斯图亚特先生反击道，他告诉《纽约邮报》：“康奈尔大学在撒大谎——我不会被噤声。”
斯图亚特先生声称发现大脚野人的说法自 2024. 年首次提出以来就一直饱受争议。他在网上发布了该生物腐烂遗骸的照片，照片显示一只高大、多毛的动物躺在灌木丛中。斯图亚特先生将该生物命名为“Dack”，并将其在纽约州博览会上展出，他声称有 60,000 人前来参观。
但在其主张遭到强烈质疑后，他表示，他将血液、毛发和粪便样本提交给了他在康奈尔大学兽医学院工作的一位朋友。
查尔斯·斯图亚特坚称康奈尔大学实验室的 DNA 检测证明该“生物”是真实的，但这家常春藤盟校否认进行过任何检测。
作者：Emily Blumenthal
澳大利亚警方因在弗吉尼亚·吉夫雷（Virginia Giuffre）去世前几周对其采取的行为而面临审查。
政府监督机构将调查其家属提出的指控，即警方在处理针对其分居丈夫的家庭暴力指控时，并未表现出“足够的紧迫感”。
西澳大利亚州监察员将调查警方在与吉夫雷互动过程中是否采取了适当行动。吉夫雷在遭受杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）及其同伙多年涉嫌虐待后，于去年 4 月在珀斯北部的乡村小镇尼尔加比（Neergabby）的农场自杀身亡，年仅 41 岁。
作者：Emily Smith
加州民主党已支持一项亿万富翁税，尽管州长加文·纽瑟姆表示反对。
如果该项名为“第 40 号提案” (Proposition 40) 的措施获得通过，将对居住在该州的约 200 位亿万富翁征收 5% 的一次性税款。
该计划旨在五年内筹集 $100bn (£75bn) 以资助医疗补助 (Medicaid) 和食品援助计划。
在周日通过了投票所需的 60% 门槛后，该党支持在 11 月的选票中对该措施进行表决。
被视为未来总统候选人的民主党人纽瑟姆先生反对这项征税，他认为这将导致富人离开该州。
他可能的州长继任者哈维尔·贝塞拉 (Xavier Becerra) 同样反对该措施，加州教师协会等工会也持有反对意见。
该税项将追溯适用于截至 Jan 1 2026, 居住在加州，且在今年年底前净资产达到 $1bn (7.5 亿英镑m) 或更多的人员。就该税项而言，个人净资产不包括其直接持有的房地产等资产。
加州人将在 11 月的选票中决定批准或拒绝该倡议。加州民主党 380 人的执行委员会成员周末在圣地亚哥聚集，审议该提案。在早前支持该提案的投票失败后，他们以微弱多数投票支持该措施。
这项税收是由服务业雇员国际工会-联合医疗保健工作者西部 (SEIU-UHW) 这一大型医疗保健工会提出的。“这次支持打破了人们认为加州……
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查尔斯·斯图尔特 (Charles Stuart)（下方）将尸体展出在纽约州博览会（下方）
澳大利亚媒体报道称，此次调查将审查该女性家庭成员几人在 6 月写给监察员的一封信中提出的问题。
吉夫雷 (Giuffre) 的兄弟斯凯·罗伯茨 (Sky Roberts) 和丹尼·威尔逊 (Danny Wilson) 及其妻子阿曼达·罗伯茨 (Amanda Roberts) 和拉内特·威尔逊 (Lanette Wilson) 请求对与家庭纠纷相关的警方行动进行审查。在去年 1 月，吉夫雷曾指称她与分居的丈夫罗伯特·吉夫雷 (Robert Giuffre) 变得“在情感和身体上具有控制欲”，并强行将她与三个孩子分开。
然而，获得六个月限制令并获得孩子临时监护权的是吉夫雷先生。吉夫雷随后被指控涉嫌……
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……批准或拒绝该倡议的 11 月选票。加州民主党 380 人的执行委员会成员周末在圣地亚哥聚集以考虑该提案。在早先支持该提案的投票失败后，他们以微弱多数投票支持该措施。
该税项由服务业雇员国际工会-联合医疗保健工作者西部 (SEIU-UHW) 提出，这是一个大型医疗保健工会。“这次支持终结了关于加州……
以及生物 DNA 实验室。测试显示达克 (Dack) 为 “58.5% 的尼安德特人……混合了 41.5% 的人类，其中一部分是原住民”，斯图尔特先生在他的网站上如此说道。康奈尔大学网站上发布的一份声明称：“康奈尔大学没有为 [斯图尔特先生] 进行任何测试，也没有提交报告。”一名发言人补充说，斯图尔特先生在网站上发布的文档并非来自该学院。斯图尔特先生发布的测试据称是由一名叫作米斯蒂·皮查德 (Misty Pichard) 的人进行的，她是康奈尔大学兽医生物样本库分子生物学的博士候选人。但没有任何以此姓名且与该学院相关的在线信息，且《电讯报》无法核实斯图尔特先生是否认识她。在给《纽约邮报》的一份声明中，斯图尔特先生坚持他的主张。他说：“这并非是对报告事实的争议——而是对控制权的恐慌。”“我绕过了机器，直接找到了……”
公众。我从第一天起就被警告不要分享这份报告。但我还是发布了未经删减的 DNA 报告，因为我相信透明度和公众的智力。”在之前的采访中，斯图尔特先生生动地描述了他发现大脚野人的那一刻。“我能闻到它，因为这具尸体正在腐烂，”他告诉 NewsNation。“这东西就坐在毒藤丛中，简直令人作呕。”尸体旁边有一些“较大的脚印”，这让斯图尔特先生得出结论，这只动物可能是被一个更大的大脚野人“击毙”的。斯图尔特先生声称，该生物体内有一个生殖骨，使其能够“以一种激进的方式繁衍”。“这让我们认为它们实际上并不形成家庭单位，”他说。“它们非常有游牧性。”今年 5 月，斯图尔特先生自出版了一本名为《大脚野人圣经：我是如何找到大脚野人的》（The Bigfoot Bible: How I Found Bigfoot）的书，声称揭露了“本世纪的真实故事”。这具尸体将在今年的纽约州博览会上再次展出，展期为 8 月 26 日至 9 月 7 日。斯图尔特先生的说法引发了与竞争对手大脚野人专家的口水战，其中包括来自大脚野人实地研究组织（Bigfoot Field Researchers Organisation）的马修·莫尼梅克（Matthew Moneymaker）。他称斯图尔特先生发现的生物是一个“廉价的伪造大脚野人尸体”。《电讯报》已联系斯图尔特先生寻求评论。康奈尔大学未作进一步评论。
“民主党人并非仅由亿万富翁税团结在一起，”工会主席戴夫·里根（Dave Regan）表示。 “民调显示，超过 80 比率的登记民主党人支持这一解决我们医疗危机关键方案的措施，现在加利福尼亚州民主党已正式支持这一强力方案。” 根据加州公共政策研究所的一项民调，54 比率的选民和 76 比率的民主党人表示他们将投票支持该税项。
医疗工作者在洛杉矶举行集会，举牌支持亿万富翁税
违反该命令。在信中，家属表示，他们仍然“担心警方在处理弗吉尼亚报告的更广泛风险状况时，缺乏足够的紧迫感”，并询问为什么吉弗雷（Mr Giuffre）没有被指控袭击。 他们补充道：“我们认为，持续的虐待、无法接触她的孩子以及系统应对方案的失败，共同导致了弗吉尼亚自杀身亡。” 2015, 吉弗雷指控爱泼斯坦（Epstein）和吉斯莱恩·马克斯韦尔（Ghislaine Maxwell）在 2001 将她贩卖到伦敦，以便与安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎（Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor）发生性关系。她在其回忆录中声称（该书于 10 月在其去世后出版），在她 17. 岁时曾与这位前王子发生了 19 次性行为。这些指控从未在法院接受审理，蒙巴顿-温莎先生多次予以否认。
吉弗雷还指控，在马克斯韦尔于 2000, 年将其招募后（当时她 16 岁并在特朗普的马阿拉歌度假村工作），爱泼斯坦对其进行了多年的身体和性虐待。在西方澳大利亚警方宣布将对其在吉弗雷提出指控后与之互动的过程启动内部审查一个月后，这项新调查随即展开。 “我相信，如果警方进行了彻底调查，弗吉尼亚现在应该还在这里，”罗伯茨（Mr Roberts）告诉
作者：本尼迪克特·史密斯（Benedict Smith） 华盛顿特派员
一名共和党参议员在一次可能动摇共和党对国会控制权的争端中，称其前女婿不适合担任公职。 俄亥俄州参议员伯尼·莫雷诺（Bernie Moreno）在对方被指控虐待其女儿和孙女后，声称马克斯·米勒（Max Miller）“不应在众议院任职”。 “我相信马克斯·米勒需要寻求专业帮助，以终止他所留下的明显虐待模式。我相信在这样做之前，他不应该被允许继续危及他人，”莫雷诺先生周日表示。 莫雷诺先生的女儿艾米莉·莫雷诺（Emily Moreno）此前指控米勒先生曾用枪指着她的头，向她泼沸水，并导致他们的女儿锁骨骨折。这位俄亥俄州国会议员激烈否认这些指控，并声称在激烈的监护权争夺战中，他拥有可以洗清自己名誉的证据。 米勒先生拒绝放弃其政治生涯，但这场争端令共和党对众议院的控制面临严峻问题。议长迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson）拥有的多数席位极其微弱，这意味着他只能承受两名成员的倒戈。
如果米勒先生自愿离开或被强迫离开国会，共和党的优势将缩小到仅剩一名。即便米勒先生能坚持到 11 月，这些指控也可能会损害他的胜算。 一名接近莫雷诺家族的人士表示，参议员此前一直想介入，但被女儿说服而作罢。 这种情况在米勒先生周日发布一段视频，指责前妻撒谎并将其归咎于其心理健康问题后发生了变化。 周三，莫雷诺先生在谴责并辱骂领导美国应对新冠疫情的安东尼·法乌奇（Anthony Fauci）的同时，却对其女儿遭受虐待的指控保持沉默，因此面临批评。 米勒先生指责这位参议员发动了一场“政治攻击”，旨在转移人们对其“自身媒体闹剧”的注意力。“如果我的女儿”
弗吉尼亚 去世之前 发生了很多 事情…… 我们 遗漏了什么？”
珀斯的 ABC Radio 广播电台。“在弗吉尼亚最终做出那个决定之前，发生了很多事情，而且应该有大量的文件记录……我们遗漏了什么？” 西澳大利亚州验尸官的一位发言人表示，在收到关于 Giuffre 死亡的警方报告之前，将不会就举行死因研讯做出决定。Giuffre 此前曾指控 Giuffre 先生在 2015 年 3 月两人居住在科罗拉多州时对其进行袭击，称当她试图阻止他伤害他们的宠物哈士奇时，他多次拳打她的面部。 Giuffre 先生此前拒绝就针对他的家庭暴力指控发表评论。
“Oho 对我说了同样的话，我个人不会在追究他的责任前等待两年，”他说。 Moreno 女士在 3 月的一份法院文件中提出了虐待指控，但据称相关事件可追溯到 2024 年。 在周日的社交媒体视频中，37 岁的 Miller 先生声称，他的前妻在 2024 年 10 月的离婚诉讼中宣誓承认，他从未虐待过他们的女儿，并承诺公布证据。“我想明确一点：没有任何法院或机构曾证实过任何针对我的虐待指控，”他说。 “这些指控中的每一项都已经经过调查，而且我每次都全力配合，因为我没有什么可隐瞒的。” Moreno 女士的发言人 Stefan Mychajliw 称 Miller 先生的行为是“可耻的”，因为他发表了一番“关于前妻的、古怪且充满谎言的愤怒演说，试图拼命挽救自己的政治生涯”。
手动挡车能培养 更好的驾驶者 ——且更有趣
Sean Thomas
人们普遍认为每个男人都觉得自己是个出色的驾驶员。但这个普遍认知并不适用于我：我很确定我只是一个平庸的驾驶员。然而，在汽车领域的某一方面，我确实非常出色：我非常擅长决定以惊心动魄的方式开车前往那些荒诞的地方。例如，在一个疯狂的秋天，我开着一辆气喘吁吁的租赁车攀登智利的阿塔卡马高原，到达了 16,000 英尺的高度，比阿尔卑斯山的任何地方都要高。另一次，我开着在埃里温机场租来的车深入亚美尼亚的高加索地区，那里有豹子和熊。但最可怕的部分其实是早晚高峰时段的埃里温。还有一次，我开着租来的铃木 Swift 穿越安第斯山脉，这教会了我一个深刻的教训：永远不要尝试开着租来的铃木 Swift 穿越安第斯山脉。最棒的经历是在东南亚的老挝。在丰萨万附近为一部惊悚小说搜集资料时，我驾驶着该国仅有的三辆可租用四轮驱动车之一，选择了一条指南书承认从未有人尝试过的路线前往首都万象。到午夜时，我正行驶在冰冷的丛林泥沼中，猛喝威士忌以鼓起勇气。随后，黑暗中传来了呼救声：那是一个苗族家庭，他们的面包车轴心陷在了泥里，他们怀里抱着一个病得很严重的婴儿，看起来如果没有医生的话将会死去。于是我们将他们的车链在我的皮卡后面，我在沼泽中拖行了数小时，变速箱在轰鸣，婴儿在呜咽，链条每 20 分钟断一次，迫使年轻的父亲 Hector 不得不一次又一次地跳出来修理。但我们成功了。婴儿活了下来。最后，在老挝一个小镇的黎明曙光中，Hector 看着我说出了他唯一会的一句英语：“我爱你。” 关键就在这里。所有这些冒险经历之所以更精彩，是因为我开的是手动挡。这听起来很傻，但事实确实如此。原因如下。手动驾驶是触觉的、身体的，甚至是感官的。
你的手搭在挡把上；你的耳朵捕捉着发动机日益高亢的轰鸣。你的手腕、手臂和脚协调一致，随着机器的律动而猛然加速。是的，这简直近乎一种情欲。驾驶手动挡不仅更具冲击力，而且在某些方面机械性能更优：更轻巧、更简单、维修成本更低。我不确定在老挝的冒险之旅是否能开自动挡车完成。除此之外，手动驾驶更具电影感。想想史蒂夫·麦奎因在《布利特》中像打机关枪一样快速拨动变速箱，或者《意大利任务》中那些在都灵街道上咆哮而过的 Mini 轿车。记得邦德的那辆 Aston Martin DB5 吗，它的挡把里隐藏着一个弹射按钮。然而，尽管如此，手动挡正在消亡。本周的数据显示，近 30 ％的英国驾考使用的是自动挡，而 2008 年这一比例仅为 4 ％。2019 年，手动挡车型占新车销量的 55 ％。而今年，
它们的占比不足 14 ％。整整一代人拿到的驾照禁绝了他们驾驶手动挡的机会。很快，将没有人再知道变速箱带来的微小成就感：一次完美的坡道起步，或一次双离合操作。相反，我们将滑行在那些会叮当作响地提醒我们去喝杯咖啡或保持在车道内的“密封舱”里。变速杆的消失也是一个寓言。随着机器接管人类的任务，我们将忘记如何执行这些任务。想想计算器如何杀死了长除法；卫星导航如何杀死了地图阅读。接下来，自动驾驶将彻底杀死驾驶，随后 AI 将接管数学、写作、编程和音乐创作。我们将变成毫无目标的肉团。这并非一个诱人的前景，所以我打算抵制。明天我预订了一辆共享马自达，准备去趟园艺中心。如果你看到一个妄想症的老家伙在克劳奇端四处疾驰，疯狂地换挡，仿佛他是北
伦敦的麦奎因，那就是我。
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尼克·吉布 (NICK GIBB)
露西·鲍威尔作为教育大臣的开局并不顺利。她声称，学校学术标准的提高导致了 16 至 24 岁之间未就业、未受教育或未接受培训（即 Neets）的人数增加。这在教育和经济层面都表现出一种无知。
她暗示最新数据——显示 Neet 人数已超过 100 万——是迈克尔·戈夫和我 在 2010 到 2023 年期间引入的教育改革的结果，这简直荒谬。这些改革推动了英格兰在国际排行榜上的上升，无论是小学阅读（从世界第 19 位升至第 4 位）还是中学数学（从第 27 位升至第 11 位）。
证明她错误证据是压倒性的。研究一致表明，较高的教育成就降低了而非增加了年轻人处于失业、未接受培训或未继续教育状态的风险。
在 2025 年一份关于 Neet 青年人数上升的报告中，慈善基金会 Impetus 将此类增长归因于社会匮乏、残障和地理位置，但提出了一个重要观点，即“教育资历是
杰森·阿尔代 (Jason Arday) 教授——经常在媒体中被誉为剑桥大学“多样性计划”的“海报男孩”——此刻一定感到深切的委屈。因为在过去的一周里，一群日益壮大的愤世嫉俗者竟胆敢质疑他一些最非凡的成就。
他们不仅指责这位剑桥大学历史上最年轻的黑人教授抄袭其他学者的作品，还对他声称为慈善事业筹集了超过 500 万英镑m 的资金提出质疑。他们对他曾六天跑 600 英里、三天跑 300 英里，以及在 35 天内跑 30 场马拉松（其中部分时间腿部骨折）的说法表示怀疑。而且他们还问道，鉴于 ITV 长期运行的社会实验节目《Seven Up》的参与者比他早出生了近 30 年，他怎么可能声称自己参演了该节目。
好吧，我个人对这些企图抹黑阿尔代教授令人眼花缭乱的成就的行为感到彻底震惊。因此，我在此呼吁这些愤世嫉俗者立即停止这种行为。
毕竟，对待第一位登上火星的人应该是怎样的态度？
你会认为他们应该对他表现出更多的尊重。然而，据我所知，他们中没有一个人因为他在奥运会 100 米项目中打破尤塞恩·博尔特 (Usain Bolt) 的纪录而为他鼓掌。他们也没有因为他撰写了《狼厅》(Wolf Hall)、《汉密尔顿》(Hamilton) 或《西姆斯·希尼诗集》(The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney) 而给予他任何肯定。如果他们祝贺他连续八年赢得温布尔登男单冠军，恐怕我错过了。
真是的。这些人简直厚颜无耻。他们凭什么说他在苹果公司首台家用电脑的设计中没有发挥作用？他们怎么敢暗示他从未穿着比基尼泳裤攀登珠峰以为囊性纤维化研究筹款？他们居然真的有胆量质疑他曾驾驶一艘天鹅形状的踏板船赢得了美国杯？
就我个人而言，我怀疑这场可耻的攻击除了嫉妒、痛苦和恶意之外别无动机。如果真是这样，你可以打赌后续还会有更多。很快，这些心怀妒忌的否定者无疑会告诉我们，阿尔代教授没有导演《教父》电影三部曲，并声称他在 1966 年世界杯决赛中的第二个进球……
……防止成为 Neet（既不就业也不教育的青年）的“保护措施”——“学历阶梯每上升一级，年轻人成为 Neet 的概率就降低一半”。
教育部自己的去向数据追踪了完成 11 年级（Year 11）的学生在接下来的学术年中是否在教育、学徒期或就业状态中至少维持六个月。数据显示，即使在严重贫困地区，那些在英语和数学 GCSE 考试中获得优秀成绩的学生比例较高的学校，其学生继续留在教育、培训或就业中的人数更多。
在卢西·鲍威尔 (Lucy Powell) 的曼彻斯特中心选区及其附近的两所学校中，仅有 25% 和 37% 的学生在英语和数学 GCSE 中均获得 5 级或更高成绩。在这些学校中，只有 82% 和 85% 的学生留在教育体系中或进入培训或就业。
相比之下，由哈米德·帕特尔 (Hamid Patel) 经营的曼彻斯特伊甸男孩领导学院 (Eden Boys’ Leadership Academy)——卢西·鲍威尔在周末的一篇文章中引用了该校——其 67.2% 的学生在英语和数学 GCSE 中获得 5 级或更高成绩，且 93% 的学生留在培训或就业状态。
如果你接受卢西·鲍威尔的论点，那么谢菲尔德的 Mercia 学校或布伦特的 Michaela 社区学校所提供的极高学术强度教学，应该会导致高比例的 Neet 产生。但在这些综合性学校中，82% 和 97% 的学生在英语和数学 GCSE 中获得 5 级或更好成绩。且 95% 或更多的学生留在教育或就业状态。
Mercia 和 Michaela 也是这类学校的典范，其几乎所有学生在英语和数学 GCSE 中都能获得至少 4 级成绩，这证明了通过良好的教学……
以及模范行为，这些资质几乎是每个孩子都能掌握的，无论其背景如何。
能够为学生提供强有力学术成绩的学校，正在提高他们的人生机遇，并显著降低他们失业的风险。
如果这些学校（以及其他学校）能够为学生取得这些结果，那么所有学校都可以做到。这意味着绝大多数孩子，无论其背景如何，都能在学业上取得成就，让他们在 16 岁之后无论决定做什么都具备相应的能力。我们创造的课程或考试体系并非要求过高，而是一个旨在扩大机会的体系，而这些机会曾经是富裕且受教育程度高的家庭的专利。
如果露西·鲍威尔（Lucy Powell）的论点正确，那么在那些青少年学术成就得分较高的其他国家，我们会看到 Neet（不就业、不深造、不培训）率飙升。但事实并非如此。在多年蝉联所有国际排行榜榜首的新加坡，Neet 的比例仅为 3.8%，而英国则为 13.5%。新加坡能够实现如此低 Neet 水平的原因有很多，但明确的一点是，对学术成就的高度重视并没有导致该数值上升。
在现代经济中，几乎每个行当都需要技术要求较高的技能和知识，因此至少到 16 岁为止拥有坚实的学术基础至关重要。我没听说过有哪个雇主因为一个年轻人太精通文字或太擅长计算而拒绝雇用他们。
对于本届政府，以及所有经济发达国家的政府而言，挑战在于如何推动经济增长，以及如何应对技术导致的入门级岗位数量减少的影响。
知道有任何 雇主 会因为 年轻人 太精通 文字 或太擅长 计算 而拒绝 录用他们
从未越线，并且否认他从泰坦尼克号上救了 400 名以上的乘客。 多么可耻的想法。坦率地说，我认为现在是我们所有人向英国最伟大的战时首相表达更多感激之情的时候了。
根据本报昨天的报道，英国的里氏海豚与来自“其他地区”的海豚“不混在一起”。毫无疑问，您觉得这则新闻与我一样令人担忧。因为恐怕我们现在别无选择，只能问自己一个深感不安的问题。 我们的海豚种族主义吗？ 我不知道专家怎么想，但遗憾的是，我担心最坏的情况。看来，英国的海豚是不能容忍、心胸狭隘的“小英格兰主义”偏执分子。 他们莫名地未能意识到多样性是他们的力量所在。结果，他们变成了“灰白至上主义者”。 但究竟是什么解释了他们如此令人震惊地拒绝与其他海豚群融合？他们是被社交媒体激进化了吗？被极右翼分裂主义的言论洗脑了吗？他们对外国海豚的敌意是否应对脱欧负责？ 我们不要排除这种可能性。奈杰尔·法拉奇经常被指责在进行“狗哨政治”。也许，他也一直在进行“海豚哨”政治。
尼克·吉布在之前的 保守党 政府中担任 学校事务大臣， 1997 年至 2024 年期间 担任博格诺尔-雷吉斯 和小汉普顿选区的 国会议员
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工作，例如零售业和 酒店业，以及人工智能的影响。 阅读量较少且科学 知识匮乏的离校学生 肯定不是答案。 本届政府的重点 应该是继续不懈地努力， 强化那些成功地 提高我们学校标准的 改革，并将这些益处 更广泛地传播，而不是 放弃它们。 在保守党执政 14 年之后， 我不能声称我们将 每一所学校都提升到了 伊登男校、默西亚或 米凯拉学校的标准。 显然还有更多工作要做。 但这些年所取得的成就是 被学校督查局（Ofsted） 评定为“良好”或“优秀”的 学校比例大幅提高—— 从 2010 年的 68% 增加 到 2024. 年的 90%。 那些几代以来一直 让学生失望的学校， 现在正在提供 高质量的学术教育。 然而，露西·鲍威尔 认为这些成就过于“单一”， 且让来自贫困背景的 儿童失望了，仿佛 来自较贫困家庭的儿童 不配拥有丰富的学术教育。 这正是前总统 乔治·W·布什所说的 “低期望的软性偏见”。 同样，证据指向的方向 与鲍威尔暗示的截然相反。 2010 年至 2020 年间， 来自贫困背景的儿童 与其更有优势的同龄人 之间的成绩差距，在小学 缩小了 13%，在中学 缩小了 9%。 随后由于新冠疫情造成的 混乱，这一差距又扩大了。 我坚信差距将会 再次缩小，但前提是 我们的改革必须维持下去。 灾难性的是，工党 似乎打算将其全部撕毁。
显而易见，我们不能允许这种令人不安的局面继续下去。 我们必须教育英国海豚，让他们学会拒绝仇恨与分歧，并意识到外国海豚进入我们的海域仅仅是因为他们正在逃离战争与迫害，或者只是在为自己和家人寻求更好的生活。
为此，我提出以下五部分计划。
第一：所有英国海豚必须从小就被告知，英国是由外国海豚建立的。第二：应当让戴安娜·阿博特穿上潜水服，被送入英吉利海峡的深处，在那里发表一场重大演讲，解释如果没有外国海豚，英国经济将会崩溃，我们的 NHS 也会瓦解。第三：必须禁止英国海豚将具有攻击性和恐吓性的圣乔治旗挂在锚点、石油钻井平台及16世纪的沉船等物体上。第四：我们必须打击改革党英国（Reform UK）那令人作呕的新计划，即通过部署皇家海军来拦截外国海豚的到来。第五：在 BBC 上，所有关于海豚的时代剧必须采取“物种盲选”的演员招募方式，以便将相当比例的主角交给鼠海豚、白鲸和鲨鱼。
只有这样，英国的海域才能像我们的陆地一样充满活力、包容且多样。
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英国正陷入青年失业危机的掌控之中，而工党则急于逃避责任。年轻人的失业率有所上升，而目前估计处于非教育、非就业或非培训（Neet）状态的青年总数已超过 100 万。原因不难理解。自 2024 年以来，雇用 18-20 岁人员的成本剧增——这在很大程度上归功于更高的国民保险缴款，以及缩小最低工资主率与青年率之间差距的决定。雇主对雇用年轻人失去兴趣也就不足为奇了，而这些年轻人正越来越多地陷入福利陷阱。但工党拒绝承认其在这一烂摊子中所扮演的角色。荒诞的是，新任教育大臣露西·鲍威尔（Lucy Powell）反而选择将手指指向十多年前由迈克尔·戈夫（Michael Gove）主持的改革。尽管鲍威尔女士承认学校标准已大幅提升，但她暗示，一个具有挑战性的课程已成为一种“束缚”，导致许多孩子被“贴上失败者的标签”。这看起来像是在厚颜无耻地试图转移人们对其政党失败的注意力。改进技术教育将是受欢迎的，但这不应以牺牲学术学习为代价。正如前学校部长尼克·吉布（Sir Nick Gibb）在对面页中所写，没有任何雇主会因为一个年轻人太精通文字或计算而拒绝给他们提供工作。如果鲍威尔女士像她声称的那样认真对待证据，她就不会沉溺于这种看起来是对更高学校标准的意识形态攻击。她赞许地引用了托尼·布莱尔爵士（Sir Tony Blair）对“教育，教育，教育”的关注。但她的方法似乎与旧式的左翼对卓越的攻击，以及教学工会所青睐的进步主义教条有更多共同之处。政府确实需要紧急解决 Neet 人数上升的问题，但不能通过拆除那些在提高学校标准方面做出巨大贡献的改革来实现，因为出身不利的学生是这些改革的最大受益者之一。政府应该修复福利制度，削减税收，并给予雇主激励去冒险雇用年轻工人。遗憾的是，这看起来不太可能实现。年轻人注定将再次被工党背叛。
创纪录的夏季高温给农民带来了沉重打击。随着英格兰一半地区宣布进入干旱状态，全国农民联合会主席汤姆·布拉德肖（Tom Bradshaw）警告称，由于产量低迷，可能会出现供应短缺。他表示，由于无法生长草料，畜牧业农民不得不采取给牛喂食冬季饲料配比的措施，而小麦和燕麦的产量也十分糟糕。他说：“长期以来，我们一直将食品供应视为理所当然。”
这一点很难让人不认同。历任政府都忽视了粮食安全，似乎认为无论情况如何，农民都会继续种植作物和饲养牲畜。许多农民仍在为工党决定对家庭农场征收遗产税而感到震惊，这对那些为了让我们能有食物在桌上而艰苦工作、且往往获得极少经济回报的男女来说，是一种侮辱。
新任财政大臣约翰·希利（John Healey）在周末写道，他希望增强英国抵御如伊朗战争等冲击的韧性。然而在食品问题上，他的关注重点似乎是告诫超市不要进行“价格欺诈”。他足够宽容地承认到目前为止还没有显著证据表明存在这种情况，但零售商指出，他们在一个竞争极其激烈且利润率非常低的行业中工作。
希利先生应该考虑的是，他能做些什么来减轻农民的负担，从而让他们在英国生产更多产品。他们一直不得不面对天气的变幻莫测，并适应其带来的后果。在担心工党接下来会实施什么样的新税收或监管时，他们不应该还要面对这些问题。
罗德·利德尔（Rod Liddle）于周日去世，享年 66 岁，他在英国新闻界无疑占据着一个独特的位置。很难想象还会有人能复制他的成就：2002 年因在《卫报》撰写反保守党的专栏而被 BBC 解雇，随后又转化为《旁观者》读者的宠儿。他精辟地阐述了他人不敢公开表达的普适情感，并且以一种轻快的方式呈现，使得即使是不认同他观点的人也将他的文字视为必读之作。在整个职业生涯中，利德尔嘲讽权势者的矫揉造作和优越感——无论他们是过去的地主阶级，还是今天的“挂绳阶级”（白领职员）。许多从未见过利德尔的人也会想念他的陪伴——对于一名作家来说，还有比这更高的褒奖吗？
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我1948年出生在威尔士的一个煤矿山谷，16岁时拿到几个O-level证书后离开学校。当时有超过65%的孩子在15岁时就离开了学校，许多人从此过上了从事非熟练劳动和苦力的生活。1964年，只有5%的人能进入大学，进入技术学院或其他进一步教育机构的人数比例也与之相似。
在经历了一个配给制和真正紧缩的童年之后，绝大多数人就那样继续生活着。他们克勤克俭，省吃俭用，最终勉强实现了半舒适的退休生活。
我们并非全都是那些可以被课以财务处罚的医生、外交官和律师。我们预期必须通过奋斗来获得一切，而我们也确实如此做了，且往往是在那些21世纪出生的人难以想象的环境下奋斗。
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先生：我不反对佩妮·比利奥尔德博士（《信件》，8月1日）认为恩加约·马什被贵族和上流社会迷住了的观点，但她真的是个势利小人吗？就像奥斯卡·王尔德一样，她是以局外人的身份进入英国上层社交圈的——他来自爱尔兰，她来自新西兰。与王尔德一样，她在描述经典英国社会类型时带有某种幽默的超脱感。而且她的文字确实带有幽默感。虽然不像王尔德那样令人捧腹，但确实存在。
关于多萝西·L·塞耶斯是否是“一名糟糕的作家”这一小问题，我挑战A·N·威尔逊（《评论》，7月30日）去读《谋杀必须广告》的第4章——标题为“哈利奎恩卓越的杂技”——并看看他是否会被触动而为自己的鲁莽道歉。
约翰·塔夫纳 埃塞克斯郡，科尔切斯特
先生：关于多萝西·L·塞耶斯的描绘（《信件》，8月1日）让我想起了我父亲对她的一段评价。20世纪50年代，她是父亲兽医诊所的客户。他提到她经常到户外写作。正如她的画像所示，她是个烟瘾很大的人，当她完成一天的创作时，她坐过的地方可以通过她留下的半圆形的烟蒂堆被识别出来。
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新任财政大臣约翰·希利警告称，任何被判定为“价格欺诈”的英国超市都将面临可怕的后果。 这次干预给人的感觉几乎像是政府在寻求与企业开战。这在我看来表明，该届政府对工业乃至经济学几乎没有了解。 英国超市是极其高效的经营者。在封锁期间，他们及其供应商维持了国家的运转。该行业竞争极其激烈，而且总的来说，英国的杂货价格比许多同类国家都要低。 这是竞争有利于消费者的一个典型例子。在传统的四大连锁店——特易购（Tesco）、 Sainsbury’s、Asda 和 Morrisons 中，营业收入的利润率在 2 到 4% 之间。与此同时，
先生 —— 显而易见，我们迫切需要更多的水库。 这应该是政府的首要任务。没有水我们无法生存。 修复泄漏值得称赞且应当进行，但这不太可能提供足够的水来满足我们目前的需要，以及服务于所有正在建设的新住宅和数据中心。制造工艺同样需要水。 现在就是行动时刻，以免取水栓或更糟糕的情况成为每年的夏季常态。 Karen Gabony 东萨塞克斯郡，伊斯特本
先生 —— 目前的缺水状况让人反思约瑟夫·钱伯林（Joseph Chamberlain，伯明翰国会议员兼市长）所展现的远见，他当时发起活动在威尔士收购土地并修建埃兰谷大坝，将水通过管道引向他的城市。利物浦市政水务局也取得了类似的成就。
热身中：本·麦金尼走上球场，代表 Southern Brave 对阵 Welsh Fire
先生 —— 艾伦·泰尔斯（Alan Tyers）没有抓住“百球赛”的重点（“如果百球赛是电视上板球的未来，也许我现在就关掉电视”，体育版，8月3日）。 在这个国家，如果没有一个由来自国立学校的年轻人组成的、在精彩的一天中爱上这项运动并终身热爱它的不断增长的粉丝群，板球就没有未来。 “百球赛”提供了速度、刺激、音效和火焰效果、旗帜以及球队球衣。体育场经常满员就证明了它的吸引力。观众是由
先生 —— 安迪·伯纳姆一直在回避谈论非法移民问题，直到在塞乌塔危机（报道，8月3日）之后被迫发声。然而，当他最终开口时，并没有提供任何新见解。这很不寻常，因为他通常主意很多，尽管这些主意通常缺乏严肃的计划或资金支持。 Alan Law 伯克希尔郡，斯特雷特利
先生 —— 你们关于从英国向西班牙走私移民的报道（8月3日）说明了人口贩子是如何利用各国移民制度之间差异的。 这对直布罗陀来说具有令人不安的影响。根据新条约，任何国籍的人都可以从西班牙通过陆路边境进入而无需边检。至关重要的是，如果他们随后在直布罗陀申请庇护，第 53 条规定英国负责审查其申请，并要求英国防止
折扣店（如 Lidl 和 奥尔迪）的利润率经常低于 2%。 近年来，由于整体商品通胀、工资上涨、能源账单增加以及包括本届工党政府征收的更高水平的国家保险和商业地产税在内的税收增加，价格有所上涨。 超市的利润率过去更高 —— 为 4 到 5%。 我认为，通过英国超市获得的食品和家用产品的选择、质量和可用性比以往任何时候都更高。如果政客们将超市视为坏人，那么私营部门的其余部分一定就是化身魔鬼了。 超市通常为投资者创造 9 到 11% 的资本回报率，考虑到他们所做的所有工作和承担的风险，这个数字相当乏味。事实上，莫里森 (Morrison’s) 和 Asda 在过去六年中都被收购了，新所有者发现经营十分艰难。我非常怀疑是否有一大群投资者正渴望在这样一个残酷的市场中投入资本。 然而，尽管如此，我们的社会主义主宰者似乎怀疑他们在牟利。政客们根本不知道经营数百家大型超市是多么极其复杂，这些超市可能储备 30,000 种不同的产品，以及采购和销售此类产品范围所需的努力，且通常在接近……时开业
与波维斯的维恩威湖（Lake Vyrnwy）一样。如果能拥有与这些维多利亚时代晚期人们类似的长期思考，英国应该能够存储并分配充足的水资源，以及妥善处理废水——而这在目前并未实现。 詹姆斯·萨克（James Thacker） 沃里克郡，坦沃思-英-阿登（Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire）
先生——在肯特郡，我们被泰晤士河口、北海和英吉利海峡所环绕。水域约占该郡边界的一半。尽管如此，每年我们仍被实施软管禁令。 随着当前的干旱预计将成为一个日益常见的场景，为什么我们不紧急投资于海水淡化？ 沙特阿拉伯、阿拉伯联合酋长国和以色列等国家都拥有高效的大规模海水淡化厂。我们应该效仿他们的做法。 大卫·文森特（David Vincent） 肯特郡，克兰布鲁克（Cranbrook, Kent）
由年轻人、家庭、下班后的成年人、周末的小组以及假期照顾孩子的祖父母组成。他们都热爱这里。愿此情此景长久延续。 吉尔·欧皮（Gill Opie） 白金汉郡，斯托克波吉斯（Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire）
先生——我对“百球赛”（The Hundred）最大的反对意见是，在这种敛财活动进行期间，国内板球赛会停止，从而干扰了其他系列赛。 比尔·科利尔（Bill Collier） 兰开夏郡，厄比（Earby, Lancashire）
在他们的申请获得判定之前，禁止他们返回欧盟。 在发生一次塞乌塔（Ceuta）规模的入侵西班牙本土事件后，大量人员可能会穿越直布罗陀新开放的边界，从而成为英国的责任。该条约中没有明确规定要求西班牙接回从西班牙领土进入直布罗陀的申请人。 即便只有塞乌塔所见人数的一小部分，也可能使一个拥有 34,000 人的领地不堪重负。政府应解释存在什么样的应急预案，西班牙是否——以及如果需要，如何——被要求接回此类申请人，以及如何快速恢复有效的边境控制。 大卫·I·琼斯（David I Jones） 前欧洲审查委员会副主席 登比郡，科尔温湾（Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire）
一年中的每一天都有 17 小时或更长时间。 当然，我们都希望每周购物花钱少一点，但英国人在食品上的总支出占家庭收入的比例仍然低于法国、德国和意大利等国家。尽管英国必须进口我们消费食品的 40% 以上。 我们的超市服务良好：我们应该为它们所做的工作感到自豪，而不是暗示它们是企图坑骗公众的邪恶资本家。 我很难理解为什么左翼人士经常批评超市。 在英国，有些大型企业的利润率是超市的 10 倍——例如谷歌（Google）和微软（Microsoft）。 我说，祝它们好运——但监管者和政治家肯定应该意识到，它们才是关于牟利投诉的更明显的目标。但指控这些目标价格欺诈可能不会获得多少头条新闻，且可能会触怒强大的美国利益。 不久前，我在《今日》（Today）节目中为特易购（Tesco）辩护，反击联合工会（Unite union）负责人莎伦·格雷厄姆（Sharon Graham）的攻击，她指责超市“肆意牟利”。英国的超市连锁店是非常负责任的雇主，并且深知其对供应商、数百万客户以及整个社会的义务。 总体而言，它们为一百多万人提供了稳定的工作。如此之多……（此处原件文本中断）
先生 —— 财政大臣约翰·希利表示，他不会允许超市欺骗 (take the public “for a ride”) 公众（报道，8月2日）。 我认为，正是工党在欺骗超市（以及所有其他雇主），例如通过提高雇主缴纳的国民保险费。它还通过冻结个人所得税起征点，损害了所有员工的利益。 财政大臣不成熟的言论，为其管理经济的前景蒙上了阴影。 西蒙·麦克罗伊 (Simon McIlroy) 萨里郡，克罗伊登
先生 —— 约翰·希利辞去国防大臣职务仅过去几周。当时他解释称，由于时任首相拒绝在 2030. 年前将国防开支提高到 GDP 的 3 %，国家的国防正处于危险之中。希利先生为此赢得了赞赏。 现在我们得知，希利先生在就任财政大臣后，未能确保国防开支实现此类增长（报道，8月1日）。这必然会引发人们的怀疑：他的辞职与国家安全关系不大，而是在基尔·斯塔默爵士苦苦支撑时，他愿意帮其收场，以此讨好 安迪·伯纳姆 并为自己赢得晋升。 杰拉尔德·弗罗斯特 (Gerald Frost) 萨里郡，埃普瑟姆
先生 —— 你们报道（8月3日），自伊朗石油危机开始以来，每天从加油站被盗的燃油价值近 £200,000。 我很难理解为什么更多的加油站不要求顾客在加油前先付款。这在其他国家多年来一直是常态，且在加油泵处即可完成。 本·怀特 (Ben White) 布里斯托尔
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先生 —— 我上次在法国时，必须在加油站出口处通过一个付款亭。 只有在付款后，路障才会升起。这样一来，“赖账”就变得很困难。 加文·英格利斯 (Gavin Inglis) 埃塞克斯郡，西克利夫海滨
先生 —— 我无法抗拒布里奥妮·希尔那封令人愉快的信（8月 3 日），阅读时我不禁地发出“是的，不，是的，不”的感叹。
是的，支持破碎的三色奶冻海绵蛋糕；是的，支持一大口干雪利酒（主要是为了搭配奶冻）；不支持杏桃酱，而应该是罐装天然糖浆覆盆子（如果有新鲜的更好）；绝对不支持果冻或糖粒；很抱歉，不支持 Bird’s 品牌卡仕达酱（尽管我很喜欢它）—— 必须是用玉米淀粉、牛奶和鸡蛋制作的母亲那种“正宗”卡仕达酱；不支持打发奶油；相反，支持一大壶双层奶油随餐配餐；当然，绝对支持烤杏仁片。 波琳·多布森-斯平克 汉普郡，斯威
先生 —— 1981年，我在苏丹西部的达尔富尔地区为基因库收集种子。
有一天，在靠近乍得边境的一个偏远村庄，我和我的苏丹同事被邀请共进午餐。令我非常惊讶的是，他们给我们端上来了一份正宗的三色奶冻，尽管没有奶油。我的同事解释说，这是英国留下的遗产。
在没有练习的情况下，仅用手指进食（这是所有餐食的习俗）极其困难，尤其是在尝试抓取果冻时。 罗杰·克罗斯顿 柴郡，克里斯尔顿
管理良好的机构并未掌管政府的大部分部门。可以肯定的是，如果由他们掌管，公共部门的效率将大幅提高。不幸的是，本届政府对于企业面临的挑战缺乏经验，但他们就像蝎子一样，无法克制地用越来越多的税收和监管来增加企业的负担。政治家有立法需求，而其中许多法律其实是糟糕的主意。这些新的强加措施很少能帮助公民：它们只是增加了成本并给进步制造了障碍。
一个务实的新政府应该鼓励成功的企业，并积极与私营部门接触，寻找互利共赢的方式来帮助他们更好地服务客户。相反，他们增加了新的包装税和能源税——然后当公司被迫将这些增加的成本转嫁给消费者时，他们感到震惊。
英国比以往任何时候都更需要高性能的公司和投资。如果政府为了追求耸动的标题而对充满活力、管理良好的英国公司发起缺乏信息支撑的攻击，那么经济以及选民的生活水平只会进一步恶化。
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在投资者对该公司计划与一家美国竞争对手进行巨额合并的报道感到反感后，阿斯特鲁曾（AstraZeneca）的市值遭受了 £18bn 的打击。随着阿斯特鲁曾与布里斯托-迈尔斯史奎布就一项潜在的 $400bn (£300bn) 联合计划进行谈判的消息传出，这家英国第二大市值公司的股价在昨日暴跌。如果合并完成，将创建全球最大的制药企业之一。这一潜在交易还引发了人们对阿斯特鲁曾可能将业务转移至美国的担忧，这将给英国带来沉重打击。然而，分析师表示，这是一项高风险交易，可能会破坏比创造更多的价值。这将成为有史以来最大的合并案之一，这意味着任何失误都可能造成巨大的代价，并且很可能会引起竞争监管机构和政治家的关注。此次谈判的消息最早由《金融时报》报道，导致阿斯特鲁曾的股价在昨日暴跌 9%，触及 2025. 年 9 月以来的最低水平。Union Investment 的投资组合经理兼阿斯特鲁曾股东 Markus Manns 表示：“与布里斯托合并在战略或财务上都没有意义。”“许多过去的巨额合并都破坏了价值，阿斯特鲁曾显然没有必要这样做。”Jefferies 的分析师表示：“如果说有一家公司不需要财务工程，那就是阿斯特鲁曾。”Jefferies 分析师 Michael Leuchten 表示，他对这一潜在收购感到“困惑”。他指出，投资者支持该公司是因为其持续的销售增长，而不是因为管理层“出去做大交易”。阿斯特鲁曾在伦敦证券交易所的市值约为 £184bn，而纽交所上市的布里斯托-迈尔斯史奎布市值则为 $133bn。布里斯托-迈尔斯史奎布的股价在昨日华尔街飙升了 3.8%。分析师表示，竞争
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英国最大电站的所有者表示，英国国有的电网运营商应在国家电力网络升级延迟的问题上承担赔偿责任。 Drax 首席执行官 Will Gardiner 表示，国家能源系统运营商 (Neso) 以及其他负责英国电力网络的公司，应对阻碍维持电力供应所需的关键新连接的失效行为负责。 今年夏天，英国电网承受了巨大压力，热浪迫使 Neso 在 6 月仓促进口更多电力供应。电网运营
作者：Christopher Jasper
由于与皇家空军 (RAF) 基地的一场争端威胁到航班停飞，一个微小的英国领地面临被切断联系的风险。 前往圣赫勒拿岛（南大西洋一座偏远的火山岛，拿破仑·波拿巴曾被流放到此）的每周航线可能会被取消，因为皇家空军拒绝允许在 700 英里外的升天岛进行紧急备份着陆。 这场僵局威胁到该领地 4,400 名居民的触达
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由于两家公司都拥有庞大的癌症治疗业务，这将成为达成交易的最大障碍。Jefferies 警告称，潜在的交易还可能引发唐纳德·特朗普政府的政治反弹。Leuchten 先生补充道：“在美国政策制定者专注于国内制造业和战略产业之时，阿斯利康将实际上成为一家收购美国大型制药公司的英国收购方。”随着首席执行官 Pascal Soriot 爵士推进向美国的重心转移，这一交易将引发人们对阿斯利康与英国持续联系的质疑。阿斯利康去年 9 月升级了其在纽约证券交易所的上市地位，以便美国投资者直接购买其股票，同时保留在伦敦的上市地位。此举使阿斯利康在纽约的上市地位与在伦敦的地位相当，这被视为对英国陷入困境的股票市场的沉重打击。
随后，阿斯利康与特朗普政府达成了一项 $50 协议，投资于美国制造业和跨大西洋研究设施。当时，Pascal 爵士将这家制药商描述为一家“非常美国化的公司”。随后，该公司同意以折扣价向美国医疗救助计划 (Medicaid) 出售部分药品，以避免被征收关税。尽管如此，这家英国最大的制药商坚持认为，它打算继续以剑桥为基地，并保留在伦敦证券交易所的上市地位。Leuchten 先生表示，通过收购百时美施贵宝 (Bristol Myers Squibb) 来永久转移到美国将是一种“相当激进的做法”。然而，阿斯利康股东 Premier Miton 的首席投资官 Neil Birrell 表示，如果百时美施贵宝的交易达成，这家制药企业将其股份转移至美国的可能性将会增加。
首相表示，此次谈判是“相关公司的私人事务”。一名 No 10 发言人表示：“从更广泛的意义上讲，英国的生命科学部门是我们最伟大的国家资产之一，在开发改善健康结果和拯救生命的药物的同时，推动了全国范围内的创新、技能就业和投资。”
该运营商一直在努力应对大量积压的电力项目——包括许多投机性或不可行的方案——这些项目都申请接入英国的电网。Gardiner 先生呼吁能源大臣 Miatta Fahnbulleh 修改法律，允许发电厂开发商在“未能于具有合同确定性的日期完成连接时获得损害赔偿”。
他表示：“这需要一个重大的根本性系统变革。因为目前，系统运营商以及输电和配电公司对于错过他们承诺给我们的连接日期不承担任何责任。”Gardiner 先生说，运营 Drax 的公司……
只能通过海路运输，从南非最近的港口出发需要五天时间。位于升天岛 (Ascension Island) 的皇家空军 (RAF) 基地本应作为无法在恶劣天气下于圣赫勒拿岛 (St Helena) 降落飞机的备选机场。
但英国航空安全监管机构的一项调查发现，皇家空军禁止在天气恶劣时让运营圣赫勒拿岛航班的 Airlink 公司降落。据称，在禁令之后，Airlink 被迫在危险条件下尝试降落，而不是转向升天岛。
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成功的甜美气息 女演员赞达亚（Zendaya）成为普拉达（Prada）Paradoxe系列香水的全新代言人。赞达亚主演了最新的《蜘蛛侠》大片以及《奥德赛》。
位于约克郡的一座四吉瓦电厂曾被承诺一系列新天然气设施的连接日期，但这些时间表被反复推迟。加丁纳先生（Mr Gardiner）表示，德拉克斯（Drax）在三年前完成了三座天然气发电厂，但到目前为止只有一座与英国更广泛的网络相连，导致另外两座在极端高温导致 Neso 在 6 月 23 日紧急争取额外电力时依然处于闲置状态。
德拉克斯负责人表示，这些项目本可以帮助英国应对威胁英国“系统安全性”的电力供应危机。加丁纳先生表示：“我们最初被告知新的天然气发电站将在 2024. 年连接。现在已经是 2026 年，其中一座已经连接，但另外两座还没有。他们发送信函提供一个连接日期，然后六个月后，又发送另一封信函将日期推后。这两封信中都没有合同确定性，因此我们所承担的成本没有任何追偿途径。”
Neso 一直在试图改革英国的电网连接排队系统。
航空事故调查局（AAIB）的一份报告。AAIB 表示，此举违反了一项协议，该协议规定 Ascension 岛可以被常规列为遇到恶劣天气航班的备选目的地。国防部表示正在评估 AAIB 的调查结果。一名发言人补充道：“我们已知晓报告中的建议，并将仔细考虑。”外交部一名发言人表示，英国保留根据军事需求、安全或安全性顾虑，或机场容量来批准准入的裁量权。
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德拉克斯在 2023. 年完工的天然气发电厂。目前仅有一座与电网连接。
其中一座已连接，但另外两座尚未连接。他们发送信函提供一个连接日期，然后六个月后，又发送另一封信函将日期推后。这两封信中都没有合同确定性，因此我们所承担的成本没有任何追偿途径。”
Neso 一直在试图改革英国的连接排队系统。
作者：詹姆斯·沃灵顿 (James Warrington)
苹果公司已针对政府试图创建 iPhone “后门”访问权限的争议性尝试，发起了一场新的法律战。
据报道，这家美国科技巨头就内政部要求访问英国客户云端数据加密备份一事，提交了一项新的法律申诉。这项在调查权力法庭 (Investigatory Powers Tribunal) 提交的挑战，是苹果公司与政府之间长期博弈的最新转折，并在去年引发了与华盛顿的外交争端。
部长们最初寻求访问英国和美国用户的两方数据，但在唐纳德·特朗普的压力下放弃了这些要求，特朗普将其与中国政府的行为进行了对比。
内政部随后发布了一份范围更窄的“技术能力通知” (TCN)，将美国客户的数据排除在外。
打破苹果端到端加密的努力最早由前内政大臣伊薇特·库珀 (Yvette Cooper) 在去年早些时候发起，她要求获取访问权限。
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将新电厂接入电网。此前这一过程基于“先到先得”原则，但针对可再生能源发电者的补贴导致数十家未经测试的新运营商要求为风电场和太阳能电场提供连接。
到 2024, 年，提案数量足以供应英国八倍的电力，从而形成了需要数年时间才能解决的瓶颈。
Drax 运营着英国最具争议的发电站——位于塞尔比 (Selby) 附近、燃烧木材的 Drax 电厂，该厂每年燃烧 0. 600 万至 7. 00 万棵树，并排放 12 million 吨二氧化碳。其电力被 Neso 视为绿色能源，因为 Neso 将森林归类为“可再生”资源。
Neso 表示，其提供的连接方案
战略失误、成本上升以及严峻的市场环境，使得房屋建筑商 Vistry 面临一场艰巨的战役
阿斯特赛诺卡 (AstraZeneca) 对美国竞争对手百时美克林 (Bristol Myers Squibb) 的收购举措将损害英国的经济和科学基础 本·马洛 (Ben Marlow)
由 辍学者创立 估值达 £2.5bn
作者：Louis Goss
一家由25岁辍学者创立的英国初创公司在研发人工智能（AI）热潮新芯片的同时，其估值已达到 £2.5bn。由企业家James Dacombe领导的Olix公司从投资者处筹集了 $312m (2.32 亿英镑m)，旨在高科技芯片市场与英伟达（Nvidia）竞争。此次交易使Olix的估值达到 $3.3bn，较今年2月该公司再次筹集 $220m 时的估值翻了三倍。Dacombe先生在两年前 23 岁时创立了Olix；此前他在哈罗盖特（Harrogate）的第六形学院（sixth form college）开始A-level课程仅两天便辍学，并在青少年时期创办了他的第一家公司。他在 2018 年 17 岁时创办了脑扫描业务公司CoMind，目前继续担任该公司首席执行官并同时经营Olix。Dacombe先生在 2022 年成为了亿万富翁彼得·蒂尔（Peter Thiel）慈善基金会的成员，该基金会为辍学创业的年轻企业家提供资助。
他的这家新初创公司致力于开发更快速的微芯片以降低AI成本，目前在伦敦、布里斯托、加拿大和美国拥有 140 多名员工。该公司表示，其芯片设计依靠光束而非传统半导体的铜线来传输数据，可以帮助“在AI性能和成本方面实现阶梯式跨越”。Olix最新一轮融资的投资者包括剑桥半导体巨头Arm、Netflix创始人Reed Hastings以及美国交易公司Hudson River Trading。该公司还获得了政府 5 亿英镑m 主权AI基金（Sovereign AI Fund）的支持，该基金由工党设立，旨在投资具有前景的技术公司以确保它们留在英国。
随着风投投资者试图利用AI芯片的旺盛需求获利，一系列新的英国初创公司在今年筹集了数亿英镑。布里斯托初创公司Fractile在今年5月筹集了 $220m，该轮融资由Thiel先生的Founders Fund领投，后者是SpaceX、Palantir和Facebook等科技巨头的早期投资者。CuspAI是一家利用AI发现芯片设计新材料的初创公司，上周从包括杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）在内的投资者处获得了 $450m。在获得资金的同时，Olix表示已任命斯坦福大学电子专家Nick McKeown教授加入董事会，而金融科技公司Wise的前高管Nick Briers已加入并担任首席财务官。AI大臣Kanishka Narayan表示：“Olix正是我们希望通过主权AI基金来支持的那种具有雄心的公司。”
日期取决于传输运营商是否能按时完成更广泛的英国电网升级。Neso表示：“连接改革旨在优先考虑那些准备就绪且对英国未来能源需求具有战略意义的项目。” 代表包括国家电网（National Grid）和英国电力网络（UK Power Networks）在内的英国运营商的能源网络协会（Energy Networks Association）发言人表示：“Neso和网络公司正继续根据商定的联合行业计划，向传输和分配项目发出邀约。” 能源监管机构Ofgem表示，它已意识到关于延迟的担忧，并正在考虑对网络公司实施经济处罚。
根据广泛的 2016 年英国《调查权力法案》（Investigatory Powers Act of 2016）。 此举标志着政府打击网络非法活动努力的升级，且是监控法下首次已知使用TCN的情况。该法律旨在抓捕罪犯和恐怖分子，但被批评者称为《窥探者宪章》（Snooper’s Charter）。 苹果公司此前曾表示，它绝不会在设备中建立后门，并致力于保护用户安全。目前已联系苹果公司和内政部以获取评论。
Vistry面临的诸多问题之一， 作者：Pui-Guan Mann
当格雷格·菲茨杰拉德（Greg Fitzgerald）在三年前公布将他的公司 Vistry 转型为可负担住宅承包商的计划时，此举被赞誉为神来之笔。在此之前，以 Bovis Homes 名义开展业务的 Vistry 是一家普通的房屋建筑商，负责建造房屋并直接将其出售给买家。现在，菲茨杰拉德表示 Vistry 将转向“合作伙伴模式”，与住房协会、地方议会以及政府联手，利用纳税人支持的资金建设可负担住宅。随着工党即将执政，且英国正推进建造数百万套新房的计划，这对于这位备受推崇的首席执行官来说似乎是正确的举措，他曾从建筑工地的茶童一路晋升为一家 FTSE 100 企业的领导者。菲茨杰拉德当时表示：“只要注册供应商、地方当局和公共租赁部门拥有资金，他们对新住房就有巨大的需求。”投资者相信了这个故事。华尔街也是如此，股价随之飞涨。但三年后，菲茨杰拉德的豪赌看来是一个重大的误判。在过去两年中，Vistry 的股价下跌了 75%，从 £14 跌至约 £3，而菲茨杰拉德已于 3 月辞职离开。根据 FCA 的数据，该公司目前是英国被最看空（做空最严重）的股票，约 20% 的股份被出借给预测股价将进一步下跌的投资者。据报道，一些分包商已被告知停工以回笼资金。这家建筑商还采取了折扣超过 £100,000 的手段来刺激销售并产生更多现金。今年上半年，该公司仅售出 6,100 套房屋。一名 Vistry 前内部人士表示：“这是一个规模巨大且无人真正愿意揭露的企业灾难。你只需要看看股价就知道了。”Vistry 是仅有的两家被工党 £39 可负担住房基金视为“战略合作伙伴升级版”的私营供应商之一，这使其被冠以“工党最喜欢的建筑商”之名。但到本届议会任期结束前建设 1.5 million 套房屋的希望已严重滞后，由国家支持的建筑热潮未能实现。官僚作风、建筑成本上升以及信心动摇都导致项目停滞，Vistry 必须依赖的资金正在枯竭。作为其对政府政策敏感度的体现，在有报道称工党正探讨为新房主重新引入“购房援助”（Help to Buy）计划后，其股价昨日上涨了 6%（Vistry 仍在向私人销售房屋...
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蕾切尔·里夫斯去年视察诺丁汉的一个 Vistry 项目。下方插图为格雷格·菲茨杰拉德，他制定了成为可负担住房承包商的计划。
英国被最看空的股票
出借给押注股价进一步下跌的投资者的股份百分比
Vistry Group 19.45%
Ibstock 17.91%
Capita 14.25%
Ocado Group 13.38%
WH Smith 13.04%
Greggs 12.4%
Wizz Air 12.18%
Crest Nicholson 10.84%
Chemring Group 10.5%
Ceres Power 10.4%
数据检索日期：Aug 3 2026
来源：金融行为监管局 (FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY)
买家）。但尽管工党的住房建设问题难辞其咎，Vistry 的衰落背后还有一个前内部人士描述为并非运气不佳，而是多年累积而成的失败故事。他们声称，公司的垮台建立在董事会的投降、战略上的过度扩张，以及一名在激进美国投资者支持下变得大胆的老板之上。据前 Vistry 内部人士称，危机的根源在于 2022 年与竞争对手 Countryside Partnerships 的合并，这次合并是由这家英国公司的美国股东策划的。
两家公司都有一批声音响亮且要求苛刻的所有者：总部位于波士顿的对冲基金 Abrams Capital、来自洛杉矶的积极主义股东 Browning West、杰夫·乌本的 Inclusive Capital Partners 以及 David Capital Partners。前内部人士表示，美国人敦促菲茨杰拉德复制让他们在本土赚了很多钱的合伙模式——尽管该内部人士称这体现了对英国住房市场的“缺乏了解”。他们说：“用合伙模式建造多层建筑并不等同于住房建设。那是完全不同的东西，需要不同的技能。”
内部人士讲述了菲茨杰拉德如何受到两方面的追捧：美国投资者“实际上在崇拜”他，告诉他是“有史以来最伟大的首席执行官”，并向他承诺更丰厚的奖励方案。“格雷格本身就是个富翁，他并不需要他们声称能够提供给他的现金，但他确实买账了那个愿景，”前内部人士称。
在 Vistry 与 Countryside 合并后的几个月内，该公司的美国股东推动了一项为菲茨杰拉德提供巨额薪酬协议的计划。这在薪酬委员会内部引发了一场激烈的争吵，最终导致两名非执行董事和一名高级独立董事离职。
In August 2023, Vistry 提议将菲茨杰拉德的年度总实得薪酬从 340 万英镑m 提高到 560 万英镑m。尽管部分股东反对，该方案仍获得通过。“我不认为当时的董事会和董事长……在表明该方案不可接受方面履行了他们的受信责任，”
Vistry 的根基是如何崩塌的
November 2022 Vistry 与 Countryside Partnerships 合并。
March 2023 美国投资者推动为格雷格·菲茨杰拉德提供巨额薪酬协议。
August 2023 尽管遭到反抗，薪酬协议仍获通过。
September 2023, Vistry 宣布战略转型，仅专注于合伙住房。
January 2024 菲茨杰拉德兼任董事长和首席执行官。
October 2024 一系列利润预警中的第一次。
March 2026 菲茨杰拉德宣布离职；发出利润率降低的预警。
May 2026 发布上半年利润预警。
July 2026 预警上半年亏损 3000 万英镑m。
一位前内部人士表示：“他们只是向美国人妥协了。”然而，一些金融城的消息人士则不认为 Vistry 的困境是由美国投资者驱动的。“在任何美国投资者介入该进程之前，Vistry 就已经对 Countryside 发起了多次收购投标，”一位人士说道，并补充称该公司的麻烦与其直接向买家销售的旧业务有关。其他人则认为，Vistry 试图重塑自身的规模速度远远超过了其运营能力所能承受的范围。“这让他们绊了一跤，”第二位前顾问表示，“他们在商业运作上失手了，完全是一个自摆乌龙。”一位曾在 Fitzgerald 麾下工作的人员表示：“如果社会住房存在巨大的结构性短缺，且你能以轻资产的方式来解决，那么从纸面上看，Vistry 的战略是有意义的。但它的扩张速度太快了。”随后出现了一系列利润预警，以及一笔巨额的建筑外墙修复费用，其中大部分用于修复 Countryside 留下的旧项目现场。
Fitzgerald 在 2024 年在首席执行官的基础上兼任执行主席，随后于 3 月辞职，由 2016 年起就在 Countryside Partnerships 工作的资深人士亚当·丹尼尔斯 (Adam Daniels) 升任首席执行官。他面前的任务规模已经显而易见。他在就任后数周内进行的战略审查结果将与 9 月的半年报一同公布，预计半年报将显示 3000 万英镑 (£30m) 的亏损。这一消息是与上个月财务总监蒂姆·劳洛尔 (Tim Lawlor) 的离职一同公布的。今年上半年，日均净债务接近 8 亿英镑 (£800m)。与此同时有报道称，一些人正推动工党将 Vistry 国有化，以便实现安迪·伯纳姆关于“战后以来最大规模的市政住房建设规划”的使命。
Vistry 此前否认曾就此事与政府进行过任何讨论。Vistry 的一名发言人表示：“我们继续对我们的商业模式以及多年来与合作伙伴建立的强大关系充满信心。虽然目前的市场环境对我们行业的所有公司都具有挑战性，但我们正在规模化且快速地建设，交付这个国家如此急需的高质量住宅，仅上半年就交付了 6,000 套以上。我们已经明确，我们将 2026 年视为一个过渡年，以改进我们模式的执行力，同时专注于现金生成并采取决定性步骤降低债务水平，我们在过去几个月中已取得了显著进展。”
Browning West、Abrams Capital 和 David Capital 已被联系请求置评。Inclusive Capital 在 2023 年关闭了其基金，称公开市场并未对其专注于可持续投资给予回报。
作者：Chris Price
在唐纳德·特朗普取消打击行动并表示美国与伊朗将举行进一步和平谈判后，油价大幅下跌。国际基准布伦特原油昨日早盘下跌高达 9.5pc，跌至每桶低于 $82，此前美国总统表示他已停止了“灾难性”军事行动的计划。特朗普先生
抛售英国 太阳能电站
欧洲陆上可再生能源部门 出售给法国竞争对手 TotalEnergies
作者：Melissa Lawford
壳牌（SHELL）正将其英国太阳能电站业务出售给一家法国竞争对手，以此从净零目标中撤退。 这家英国最大的油气公司确认，已签署协议将其欧洲陆上可再生能源部门出售给法国的 TotalEnergies。 此次出售包括位于英国、意大利、荷兰和西班牙的太阳能电站、电池储能及陆上风电项目。 这些场地的总发电容量为 500 兆瓦，足以供应数十万户家庭的电力。 其中包括位于柴郡伊登舍尔（Iddenshall）新建的太阳能电站，该电站将为英国最大的公共电动汽车充电网络供电。 壳牌曾一度开发四个计划容量为 100 兆瓦的英国太阳能电站。 交易价值尚未披露。 此次出售是壳牌更大规模撤出可再生能源领域的一部分。 去年 11 月，该公司退出了在北海建设两个巨型离岸风电场的项目：即苏格兰东海岸外的 MarramWind 和 CampionWind 计划。 自壳牌首席执行官 Wael Sawan 在 2023 年初接管这家富时 100 (FTSE 100) 企业以来，壳牌已缩减对可再生能源发电的投资，以专注于天然气生产和贸易等更具盈利能力的业务。 此后，这家石油巨头放宽了其 2030 年的减碳目标，并放弃了 2035 年的阶段性目标（即通过降低所售能源的碳强度，以实现 2050 年成为净零排放企业的战略）。 壳牌可再生能源总裁 Machteld de Haan 表示：“该协议反映了壳牌持续专注于
壳牌持续专注于 积极管理并 优化其投资组合”
作者：Tim Wallace
零售商警告称，威尔士的家庭可能被迫开车前往英格兰回收瓶罐，以回收一次性饮料容器 20 便士的押金。 从 1 2027, 10月1日起，全英国的购物者将被收取该费用，旨在提高回收率并减少乱丢垃圾的情况。 然而，零售商表示，威尔士面临着缺乏一个运行方案的风险
作者：Rob White
数千名退休人员将被迫在等待关键养老金增长方面多花一年时间，因为一项政府补偿计划无法按时向其支付。 超过 330,000 名依赖养老金保护基金 (PPF) 和财务援助计划 (FAS) 的退休人员曾被承诺，他们的赔付款最快将在明年 1 月起最终随通货膨胀而上涨。 这两个由政府支持的机构旨在覆盖已破产养老金计划的赔付。 然而，66,000 名计划成员被告知，他们必须等待至至少 2028 年才能获得增长，因为负责每笔付款的 PPF 无法满足截止日期。 PPF 成员 Maurice Alphandary 表示，他对这一消息感到“厌恶”，而另一位活动人士 Terry Monk 则表示，人们在“等待中死去”。 在 1997 年 1 月至 2005 年 4 月期间破产的计划养老金由 FAS 覆盖，之后则由 PPF 接手。但是，虽然 1997 年之后累积的养老金可以随通货膨胀增加，但增长额并不适用于任何累积年份
表示：“显然，他们不想被攻击。他们知道攻击的规模，因为他们看到了攻击的形成。现在我们正在以谈判的形式与他们沟通。谈判将于明天下午开始。” 他还命令石油公司降低美国消费者的汽油价格，并批评雪佛龙首席执行官没有承认他在
积极管理并优化其电力投资组合。 “我们正在回收资本，并优先考虑那些我们拥有差异化能力且能够随着时间推移创造最大价值的领域，包括通过资产支持的电力贸易和以客户为中心的能源解决方案。” 此次抛售发生在竞争对手 BP 将其北海油气资产挂牌出售之后。BP 在该盆地运营了六十年，在该地区雇佣了 1,100 人，这引发了人们对这家石油巨头可能永久退出英国的担忧。 在 BP 努力专注于绿色能源并引发股东抵制后，该公司也一直在撤回其可再生能源投资。 壳牌与道达尔能源（TotalEnergies）的交易不包括海上风电，也不包括壳牌的氢能、碳捕集与封存、液化天然气、化学品或
客户能源供应。 壳牌股价在昨日早盘交易中下跌了 1.1%。 该公司上周报告称，今年前六个月的利润增长了一倍多，达到近 $10 (£7.5)。 季度利润是壳牌自 2023, 年以来的最高水平，这主要受到中东冲突期间油气价格上涨的推动。 布伦特原油在 4 月份一度飙升至每桶 $126，上周维持在 $91 以上。 全球石油基准价格昨日交易价格为 $83.47。 这家能源巨头还赞扬了其化学品业务的更高利润率以及贸易部门的强劲表现。 然而，如果不是因为卡塔尔气田（在中东战争期间受损）产量下降，壳牌的利润本会更高。 卡塔尔约占壳牌全球天然气产量的 10%。
除非威尔士部长紧急任命一名管理人员来负责该计划。 英格兰、苏格兰和北爱尔兰均已选择非营利组织 Exchange for Change 来运行押金返还计划。威尔士尚未确认其任命。 英国零售协会 (BRC) 首席执行官海伦·迪金森 (Helen Dickinson) 在给威尔士第一部长、国民党 (Plaid Cymru) 的伦·阿普·约沃斯 (Rhun ap Iorwerth) 的信中警告称，一个
在那日期之前。活动人士花费多年时间争取改变规则，在去年 11 月的预算案中，前财政大臣雷切尔·里夫斯 (Rachel Reeves) 最终宣布 1997 年之前的养老金将随通胀增加。 尽管涨幅上限为 2.5pc，但此举将从 2027. 年 1 月起提升 265,000 份养老金。然而，另有 66,000 名受影响者仅有权在其担保最低养老金 (GMP) 上获得通胀增幅，这是由于他们“退出”附加国家养老金而与雇主建立的独立组成部分。 在退出制度下，雇主通过支付较低的国民保险缴款，必须为员工提供额外的养老金支付，其待遇至少应与他们本可获得的额外国家养老金相当。 他们还必须增加额外的
管理工作以支持化石燃料工业。 特朗普先生表示，伊朗以及美国的合作伙伴沙特阿拉伯、阿拉伯联合酋长国和卡塔尔都要求他暂缓袭击。 他周六停止了对伊朗的攻击计划，他声称该攻击本将是自第二次世界大战以来最大规模的。他说各方
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新管理人员在明年 10 月前“交付一个可运行的威尔士计划”。此次延迟面临着让威尔士承担高达 330,000 的额外成本。
BRC 的海伦·迪金森 (Helen Dickinson) 表示，一名新的管理人员没有“足够的时间”来“交付一个能够运作的威尔士计划”。
根据通货膨胀因素，每年最高可增加 3%。但 PPF 或 FAS 并不提供此项。根据里夫斯女士 (Ms Reeves) 公告的条款，这将发生变化——但要到 2028 年 1 月才会生效。
PPF 表示，计算过程在管理上较为复杂，且由于“资源有限”，必须分批执行款项增加。
一名发言人表示：“我们的首要任务是从 2027 年 1 月起，为约 265,000 名其计划提供更广泛的 1997 年前增加额的成员执行付款。”
“这种方法让我们更有信心准确且及时地交付这些款项。”
“随后，我们将完成针对约 66,000 名成员的额外工作，这些成员的计划仅在 1988 年后的 GMP 福利上提供增加额，预计付款将于 2028 年 1 月开始。”
一名政府发言人表示：“我们正在对 20 年多来最大规模的养老金补偿进行调整，将使 250,000 多名 PPF 和 FAS 成员受益。绝大多数符合条件的成员将从 2027, 年 1 月起，即最早可能的日期，收到这些增加的款项。”
处于和平协议的“边缘”。原油价格的剧烈下跌也使得昨天的政府借贷成本降低，因为人们希望这能缓解通货膨胀。10 年期英国国债收益率（财政部借款成本的基准）从 5.05pc 降至 4.98pc（此处对应数值 5. 和 4.）。
欧洲股市也上涨，FTSE 100 上涨 0.2pc，Cac 40 上涨。
根据 BRC 的估计，由于消费者将空瓶带过边界交给英格兰的商店和回收中心，每年损失达 2.33 亿英镑 百万。
“偏离 Exchange for Change 申请的后果最终将由威尔士消费者承担，”迪金森女士写道，并警告称这可能带来“价格更高、产品选择减少、饮品供应中断以及更大的混乱”。
通过在整个英国使用同一家管理公司，零售商将节省成本。
称不信任使用 AI 的报告，调查显示
作者：Louis Goss
管理咨询公司在计划采用 AI 方面正面临抵制，绝大多数客户表示他们不信任这项技术。
根据 Source Global Research 的一项调查，约 70% 的咨询客户表示，如果一份报告是使用 AI 编写的，他们将不会信任该报告。
在接受调查的 3,887 家公司中，近三分之一（32%）表示，如果得知咨询公司使用 AI 来出具公开报告，他们对该咨询公司的信任将受到动摇。
这对于全球最大的咨询公司来说，预示着一场即将到来的危机，因为这些公司在大幅削减人类顾问的同时，正投入巨资研发 AI。
自 ChatGPT 推出以来，四大咨询公司（德勤、安永、毕马威和普华永道）都显著削减了其校园招聘计划，同时向 AI 技术投入数十亿美元。
根据管理咨询协会 (MCA) 最近的一项调查，超过四分之三的英国咨询公司正在使用 AI 进行工作。英国最大的咨询公司还推出了内部 AI 工具，以帮助自动化其
在巴黎上涨 0.3pc，而法兰克福的 Dax 指数上涨 0.1pc。德意志银行分析师 Jim Reid 表示：“关于伊朗的最新消息是，外交退出机制的希望有所增加。”
特朗普总统在一次电视采访中批评雪佛龙负责人 Mike Wirth 未能认可其政府在帮助石油工业方面所做的努力，并表示石油公司未能造福消费者。
成本和复杂性，因为一套统一的标签要求将适用于全国所有的饮料容器。
该管理机构将负责宣传该计划，以便购物者了解为什么他们的饮料需要额外支付 20 便士，并解释如何申请退款。然而，由于坚持将玻璃瓶纳入威尔士的计划中，威尔士的任命面临延迟，而英国其他地区将仅包括金属罐和塑料瓶。超市对此表示不满。
工作。毕马威和普华永道已与包括微软和 OpenAI 在内的科技巨头达成协议。在 2023, 普华永道推出了自己的 ChatPwC 工具，将其描述为用于自动化“重复性且乏味任务”的“AI 驱动助手”。
然而，与 AI 相关的错误已导致这些咨询巨头陷入一系列窘境。
普华永道中东业务近期发布的几份关于以下主题的报告——
根据 GPTZero 的一份报告，涉及人工智能和电动汽车的报告被发现充斥着虚假的脚注和无法核实的断言。普华道永 (PwC) 表示，公司正在“更新上述报告中有限数量的支撑引用”，并补充称，合伙企业拥有“研究和内容开发的质量控制流程，我们期望所有员工都能遵守”。
德勤 (Deloitte) 则单独表示，由于其撰写的一份报告包含多项被归咎于人工智能的错误，该公司将向澳大利亚政府提供部分退款，金额为 A$440,000 (£230,000)。
MCA 首席执行官 Tamzen Isaacson 表示：“投资人工智能的公司报告称，其生产力和服务交付有了显著提升。”
“真正的机遇在于将最新的 AI 技术与专业知识、行业知识和人类判断相结合。”
令人尴尬的错误仅仅是 AI 给顾问带来的威胁之一。包括 ChatGPT 的开发商 OpenAI 和 Claude 的开发商 Anthropic 在内的科技巨头已经成立了自己的咨询公司，专注于帮助客户使用 AI 工具。它们威胁要与传统的咨询公司直接竞争。
与此同时，AI 带来的任何效率提升都可能促使客户要求降低价格。
今年披露的消息显示，毕马威 (KPMG) 要求其审计机构 Grant Thornton UK 降低费用，理由是 AI 应该能降低工作成本。谈判结果导致毕马威在 2025 年为其审计支付了 $357,000 (£265,000)，而前一年为 $416,000。
德勤已收到置评请求。
在 Truth Social 上，他写道：“他方便地忘记提到的一点是，如果没有特朗普政府的天才之举、远见、力量和稳定性，石油工业以及我们国家本身将会死掉！”
根据 RAC 的数据，周五英国的汽油价格达到了冲突开始以来的最高水平，无铅汽油上涨至每升 160 便士。
蒸汽 昂贵的蒸汽 维修员 Max Luckham 正在维护 20 世纪 20 年代末南方铁路 U 级蒸汽机车 no. 31806 的烟箱。由于煤炭成本飙升，人们对运营商 Swanage Railway 的未来感到担忧，该铁路经营着英国最受欢迎的遗产铁路之一。在制裁实施前，该公司此前以每吨 £100 的价格从俄罗斯采购煤炭。现在，它需要支付每吨 £400。
引入回收计划将使他们更难以为客户维持低价。 “小型供应商和生产商尤其容易受到额外复杂性和成本的影响，这可能会使供应威尔士市场的商业可行性降低，”Dickinson 女士写道。 一名威尔士政府发言人表示：“我们正加快推进任命押金管理组织的正式程序，该程序将很快完成。”
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“公司们正试图讨好特朗普。这是一场魅力攻势，但目前还无需恐慌，”在制药巨头阿斯特捷尼卡（AstraZeneca）去年将其股票在纽约上市后，一名股东如此说道。
无论是谁说出了这些睿智的话，他们现在一定会庆幸自己选择了匿名，因为这个观察结果在时间面前并不光彩。
上周末有消息称，阿斯特捷尼卡已就一项价值 £300bn 的巨额合并与美国竞争对手百时美施贵宝（Bristol Myers Squibb）进行了谈判。报道中包含了所有常见的免责声明，称讨论可能会延迟甚至破裂。事实上，鉴于双方均未置评，人们强烈感觉到这次谈判可能是具有历史意义的。但仅仅是阿斯特捷尼卡考虑这种合并这一事实，就足以在伦敦金融城和威斯敏斯特引起恐慌。请不要误会：如果这笔交易达成，它有可能给英国带来毁灭性的打击。
特别是对于金融城而言，这几乎肯定将成为丧钟，为英国一些最大公司向大西洋彼岸的大规模迁移打开大门。首先可能是英国石油公司（BP），在宣布退出北海计划后，该公司对英国的承诺显得前所未有的脆弱。分析师和投资者担心，与百时美施贵宝的合并可能是阿斯特捷尼卡迁往美国的初步步骤。如果它逃往纽约，壳牌公司（Shell）将会……
水上风格：Nicholas Perocet，e-foil（电动箔板）教练兼巴黎 Foil 共同创始人，在塞纳河上骑行，背景是拉-德芳斯（La Defence）商务区。除巴黎证券交易所和欧洲银行管理局外，拉-德芳斯还是迪奥（Dior）、道达尔（Total）、亚马逊（Amazon）和默克（Merck）等集团的所在地。
亚当·斯密 (ADAM SMITH)
利用现有预算资助新优先事项， 那么工资单将不得不削减
上周末我们得知，首相和财政大臣已致信内阁，解释称“所有新公告必须由现有预算资助”。即便对于首相的新优先事项，也不会有新资金投入。鉴于首相累积支出承诺的速度快于其财政大臣寻找资金空间的进度，从表面上看，这意味着我们可能会看到现有计划被大幅削减，以支付所有这些开支。财政部官员现在将花费数周时间在部门预算中寻找未支出项、可以再延迟一两年实施的公路和铁路项目，以及可以迅速减少的福利支付。这是一次熟悉的演练，潜在的削减名单也十分熟悉。如果财政大臣和首相决定在不增税的情况下资助新优先事项，那么他们的搜索将很快指向公共部门的工资单。
英国公共部门的总薪酬成本每年高达 £300bn。这大约占总管理支出的四分之一，在剔除福利和债务利息后，这是日常支出中最大可控的部分。约翰·希利名单上的其他任何项目都无法与之相比。财政部数据显示，每 1 个百分点……
AstraZeneca 在合并谈判中大跌
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肯定会感到压力而重新考虑其在英国的住所。汇丰银行能否被寄予留下的希望？其他富时 100 指数巨头如联合利华或力拓如何，他们将伦敦视为家，但业务遍布全球？安迪·伯纳姆必须意识到这一威胁。任何一家占据蓝筹股指数顶层的公司离开，都可能类似于大坝决堤。一旦出现缺口，就无法堵住：更多公司将会搬迁，将伦敦变成一片荒芜的企业废墟。政府对 BP 在 60 年后决定放弃北海的反应（或者说缺乏反应）并不令人放心。这一重大事件在安迪·伯纳姆和商业大臣乔纳森·雷诺兹那里遭遇了彻底的沉默。你本以为关于 BP 可能离开的猜测至少会让约翰·希利在这个周末难以入眠。
相反，财政大臣似乎过于忙碌，被那些多次困扰其前任的虚构“bogeymen”所折磨。在 BP 宣布出售北海资产仅 48 小时后，希利在《电讯报》上写道，警告超市他将打击任何在“加油站或收银台”出现的“价格欺诈”。由于内阁在工作中打盹，指出显而易见事实的任务落在了反对党政治家身上。影子苏格兰大臣安德鲁·鲍伊表示，工党对石油和天然气的敌视意味着 BP 退出北海是“不可避免的”，同时也警告称“这也为该公司完全退出英国铺平了道路”。同样，首相断言阿斯利康与百时美施贵宝之间的谈判是“相关公司的私事”，这令人深感不安。这不会是第一次……
对阿斯利康的真实威胁
SIMON WOHLFART / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
当然，这种对独立性和英国根基的追求遭遇的是一种自满情绪。
大卫·卡梅伦在2014年为辉瑞公司铺红地毯时，既表现出了令人震惊的天真，也表现出了不可原谅的鲁莽，当时辉瑞正对该公司发起一项£70bn的恶意收购。那时，正是由于阿斯特鲁Zeneca首席执行官帕斯卡尔·索里奥特爵士坚持保持独立的决心，加上包括时任党魁埃德·米利班在内的知名工党议员的反对，才确保了阿斯特鲁Zeneca没有落入外人之手。
这位未来的外交大臣攻击了他所谓的辉瑞公司关于保护阿斯特鲁Zeneca研发（R&D）基地的“苍白保证”。
他还指责卡梅伦充当了这家美国制药公司的“啦啦队长”——这提醒人们，米利班曾经也说过一些理智的话。
观察他这次是否仍持有同样的疑虑将会非常有趣。他所持有的许多疑虑...
大坝 决堤一样。 更多公司 将会搬走， 将 伦敦变成 一片企业 荒原”
仅评审机构员工薪资上涨一个百分点，成本就高达 £2.1bn。没有任何道路计划、人员削减或取消的试点项目能如此迅速地产生同等规模的资金。这一点至关重要，因为近期的薪资结算方案极其慷慨。2025-26 年的公共部门薪资轮调给教师带来了 4% 的增长，给初级医生带来了高达 6% 的增长，这两者在当时都明显高于通胀率。虽然幅度稍小，但 2026-27 年的同类方案在各领域都有更多高于通胀的增长。由于近期持续的慷慨，住院医生的名义薪资在过去四年中增长了 35.2%。所有这些显然都在累积。加上养老金、雇主国民保险（NI）以及评审机构系统之外的更广泛公共部门，独立估算认为 2026-27 年轮调在英格兰的全额成本在 £7bn 到 £10bn 之间。2027-28 年结算方案的商定程序现已启动。关于可负担性的证据将在接下来的几个月内提交。只需将 2027-28 年的增长维持在通胀水平，就能为新任首相的优先事项释放大量资金。而更有力的理由是——
支付更高的成本 来维持一个生产力更低的政府， 并要求私营 部门为此买单”
来源：彭博（BLOOMBERG）
十多年前表达的观点——关于卡梅伦应如何“捍卫英国就业机会以及阿斯利康这一英国成功故事”，以及该公司在“研发（这是我们科学基础的关键部分）”方面提供的投资——在今天依然适用。经协商一致的合并通常比敌意收购的破坏性小。然而，显而易见的是，与百时美施贵宝（Bristol Myers Squibb）的合并可能会成为催化剂，导致阿斯利康的重心进一步向美国转移。这将威胁到其总部、在英国的研发存在，以及该国更广泛的科学基础。由于对政府对待制药业的方式极度不满，帕斯卡尔爵士（Sir Pascal）对英国的喜爱在近几月和几年中显著下降。他对基尔·斯塔默爵士（Sir Keir Starmer）决定削减默西赛德郡斯佩克（Speke）一座价值 4.5 亿英镑m 疫苗工厂的国家资金感到愤怒——愤怒到导致该计划被搁置。帕斯卡尔爵士还将责任归咎于一个“令人沮丧”的税率
他们计算了数据。这一差距近期进一步扩大。在截至 5 月的一年里，公共部门的常规薪资增长了 5.5%，而私营部门仅为 2.9%。尽管如此，衡量的公共服务生产力依然疲软。我们现在支付更高的成本来维持一个生产力更低的政府，并要求私营部门为此买单。薪资仅是问题的一半。公共部门的养老金计划依然是整个经济体系中最慷慨的方案之一，雇主缴费率通常在薪资的 25% 到 30% 左右，而私营部门的大部分地区仅为 5% 到 6% 左右。这些都无法阻止一场争斗。2022 和 2023 年的工业争议表明，限制薪资增长会变得多么具有争议，而部长们将辩称，生产力的提高和改革可以帮助解决这个矛盾。但生产力的提升需要数年时间才能实现。希利（Healey）在未来一两年内需要资金。如果部长们认真考虑利用现有预算资助新优先级，他们最终必须面对大多数部门中最大的支出项目。因为其他替代方案要么已被排除
对斯塔默 决定削减 一项 4.5 亿英镑m 疫苗工厂 国家资助 感到愤怒”
因为一项将 $360m (2.7 亿英镑m) 制造工厂设在爱尔兰而非英国的决定。前卫生大臣韦斯·斯特里廷对英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 药物供应商征收的隐形税，以及将新疗法推向市场的困难，也一直是许多沮丧的根源。去年将阿斯利康 (AstraZeneca) 的股票在纽约上市的决定，至少应被部分视为这种失望的结果。但同样，这也是对迅速变化的全球地缘政治的反应。在英国投资停滞的同时，该公司与白宫达成了一项高达 £50bn 的协议，以扩大其在美国的制造和研究设施。美国已经占据了阿斯利康年营业额的 40% 以上。但特朗普威胁要对外国药品征收高额美国进口关税，这已成为一个有效的投资诱因。帕斯卡尔爵士在与特朗普就其计划握手后，将这家制药公司描述为一家“非常美国化的公司”，这很难令人安心。与此同时，人们日益担心华盛顿可能在与北京的贸易战中，对中国制造的药物采取限制措施，这可能会给阿斯利康的董事会带来沉重压力。该公司在中国市场的销售额占其总销售额的 10% 以上，并于近期公布了一项针对中国大陆的 $15bn 扩张计划，其中包括在首都建立一个全新的研发中心。最终，可能是来自金融城的反对而挫败了帕斯卡尔爵士的雄心。在与百时美施贵根 (Bristol Myers) 谈判的消息泄露后，阿斯利康的股价下跌了近 8%——相当于投资者抛售了 £15bn 的股票。由于一位股东声称该交易“在战略或财务上都没有意义”，双方可能会面临巨大的挑战。然而，面对这种对英国国家利益如此明显的威胁，部长的冷漠是没有理由的。
或者要强硬得多。三倍养老金保障机制 (triple lock) 在本届议会期间实际上是安全的。福利和残疾津贴改革是上一届政府受挫的地方。进一步推迟更多的道路和铁路项目效果有限，且会损害在每个邮政编码区域寻求增长的努力。地方政府是新首相权力下放议程的核心，而且没有人会提出在实际条款中削减学校或医院的经费。剥离所有这些，剩下的就是公共部门的薪酬。这是希利 (Healey) 列表中唯一一项规模足够大且能快速实现实际削减的项目。证据表明，领取该薪酬的员工在平均工资、养老金水平以及薪资增长速度方面，已经优于资助他们的私营部门。如果本届政府认真考虑在不提高税收或不违背所有其他承诺的情况下为其优先事项提供资金，那么数字指向只有一个方向。 问题不在于伯纳姆和希利是否审视薪资账单。而在于他们是否有勇气和能力向他们自己的发薪者推销克制之策。
** 2026 年 8 月 4 日，星期二 《电讯报》
政府债券
52周 最高 最低 (£) 股票 价格 (£) + / - 收益率 收益率
107.53 103.38 财政部 6% 28 103.93 +0.23 5.77 4.22
102.33 0.01 财政部 4¼% 32 98.45 +0.52 4.32 4.55
99.39 92.65 财政部 4¼% 36 94.49 +0.71 4.50 4.98
102.00 93.84 财政部 4¾% 38 95.93 +0.88 4.95 5.20
指数挂钩证券
349.35 338.41 财政部 4⅛% IL 30 341.25 +0.61 1.21 0.91
248.27 236.46 财政部 2% IL 35 240.74 +1.19 0.83 1.74
10年期政府债券
利差 Vs 利差 Vs 收益率% 德国联邦债券 美国国债
法国 3.82 +0.67 -0.87
德国 3.15 - -1.54
日本 2.81 -0.34 -1.88
英国 4.95 +1.80 +0.26
美国 4.69 +1.54 -
以下股价、市盈率和股息收益率由 Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. 提供。 收益率的计算方法为历史股息支付额除以收盘股价，再乘以 100。
航空航天与国防 +2.54%
Ç 航空航天与国防 2.54
52周 最高 最低 (p) 股票 价格 (p) + / - 收益率 P / E
最高 最低 (p) 股票 价格 (p) + / - 收益率 净资产价值 (NAV)
1527 902⅜ Babcock Intl 1146½ +25½ 0.7 27.2
2360 1529 BAE Systems 2143 +49 1.8 31.1
551½ 398½ QinetiQ ● 522* +16 2.1 26.0
1532⅝ 990 罗尔斯-罗伊斯 (Rolls–Royce) 1506¾ +39 0.7 21.7
318⅛ 161 Senior ● 292½ +2 0.7 -286.8
银行 +1.62%
Ç 银行 1.62
554⅛ 352⅝ 巴克莱银行 (Barclays) 515 +6¼ 2.2 11.8
563½ 318⅜ Close Bros ● 433¼ +7⅝ — -6.5
1604⅝ 908¾ 汇丰银行 (HSBC) 1597⅜ +21⅜ 3.5 17.8
117¾ 74⅜ 劳埃德银行集团 (Lloyds Bk Gp) 116⅝ +1⅞ 3.4 16.7
725⅛ 500¼ 国民西敏寺银行集团 (NatWest Group) 722¾ +17 4.8 13.5
1080 613 桑坦德银行 (Santander) 1074 +24 1.5 13.8
2278 1285 标准特许银行 (Standard Ch) 2201 +13 2.3 15.2
饮料 +1.28%
Ç 饮料 1.28
2142 1295½ 帝亚吉欧 (Diageo) 1655½ +21 3.8 21.0
化学品 +0.50%
3338 2426¾ Croda Intl 3242 +37 3.4 73.0
2434 1730¾ Johnson Mat ● 1980* -12 3.9 -34.6
819 515 Victrex ● 796 +13 7.5 24.9
建筑 +1.88%
Ç 建筑 1.88
900 539 Balfour Beatty ● 865½ +3 1.6 16.5
410¼ 235⅜ Barratt Redrow 304½ +11¼ 5.6 22.4
涨跌幅 (pc) 汇率
价格 变动
Ç 信息技术 2.68
信息技术 +2.68%
Ç AIM 2.14
AIM +2.14%
Ç 媒体 1.18
Ç 电器 1.05
电器 +1.05%
Ç 支持服务 0.85
支持服务 +0.85%
Ç 通用金融 0.84
通用金融 +0.84%
Ç 家用产品 0.84
家用产品 +0.84%
Ç 工程 / 工业 0.66
工程 / 工业 +0.66%
Ç 投资信托 0.65
投资信托 +0.65%
Ç 医疗保健 0.56
医疗保健 +0.56%
È 旅游与休闲 -0.12
旅游与休闲 -0.12%
È 采矿 -0.80
采矿 -0.80%
È 烟草 -2.28
烟草 -2.28%
È 制药 -6.62
制药 -6.62%
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52周 高 低 股票 价格 + / - 总收益率 覆盖率
237 133½ Boot H 150½ -1½ 5.2 8.6
220½ 124⅜ Costain ● 212½ +1½ 2.0 15.3
1009¾ 788⅝ Grafton Gp ● 1000 +34¼ 3.8 14.2
5730 3915 Morgan Sindall ● 4380 -50 3.7 11.8
1552 947⅜ Persimmon 1131 +24 5.3 12.7
116⅞ 74⅛ Taylor Wimpey ● 80 +2 5.2 28.6
510 171 Dialight 485 +12 — —
800 505 discoverIE Grp ● 774 -1 1.7 25.6
4902 3191⅜ Halma 3548* +18 0.7 36.0
5490 2860 Renishaw ● 5070 +122 1.5 44.0
2060 825 XP Power ● 1732 +116 — -41.2
电力 -0.00%
937½ 613⅞ Drax Group ● 715½ -22 4.2 34.6
1428½ 1000 Nat Grid 1189 -1 4.1 18.2
2767½ 1597 SSE 2356* +10 2.9 22.3
98⅛ 71 Coats Group ● 81⅜ +1⅛ 3.0 18.5
414½ 230 Cropper J 385 +5 — 12.5
28500 8480 Goodwin ● 17720 +400 1.6 54.2
3076 2138 IMI 2962 +26 1.2 23.8
1085 660 Mondi ● 895 +2¾ 1.4 28.0
38⅝ 21¼ Severfield 37⅜ -⅛ -3.1
2746¼ 2088 Smiths Gp 2648 +6 1.8 30.9
8050 5950 Spirax Gp 7100 +155 2.4 32.0
3580 2254 Weir 2638 +2 1.6 27.6
食品生产商 +0.24%
2359 1729½ Ass Brit Fds 2123 +36 3.0 15.0
5195 3270 Coca–Cola HBC 4884 -126 2.1 22.1
5810 4775 Cranswick ● 5260* -90 2.1 17.8
861 447⅞ Hilton Food ● 616 +17 5.7 7.0
138 87 REA Hldgs 108 -1½ — -207.6
5542⅛ 3644 Unilever 4770 +27 3.4 12.9
燃气与水 +0.16%
220¼ 152 Centrica 153¼ -1¾ 3.7 -102.2
606 439⅜ Pennon Gp ● 456* -7 6.4 23.5
3335 2381 Severn Trent 3036 +18 4.2 24.6
1497 1072 Utd Utilities 1397* +14 3.8 16.2
276½ 145⅞ Ashmore ● 210¾ +4⅜ 8.0 17.3
363⅜ 212 Bridgepoint Grp ● 339⅝ +19 2.8 67.9
1880 1240 BrooksMacdonald 1405 -20 5.8 10.8
1956 1016 IG Group 1371 -89 3.1 9.5
2340 1424⅞ ICG 1949 +61 4.5 11.7
690 499⅜ Investec 658½ +9½ 5.8 8.5
72 48 IP Group ● 65¼ +2⅞ 1.9 9.0
上涨股票 71 成交量 收盘价
Ç Barratt Redrow 7.97m 304½ 3.82pc
Ç Metlen Energy 0.21m 4095¼ 3.63pc
Ç Rentokil Initial 30.14m 356¾ 3.48pc
Ç Smith&Neph 1.78m 1197 3.32pc
Ç ICG 0.90m 1949 3.23pc
Ç St James’s Place 3.64m 1086½ 3.13pc
Ç Lion Finance 0.04m 11930 2.76pc
Ç The Sage Grp 2.94m 999⅜ 2.69pc
Ç Rolls-Royce 55.55m 1506¾ 2.66pc
Ç Pershing Square 0.28m 3902 2.47pc
Ç NatWest Group 24.61m 722¾ 2.41pc
Ç BAE Systems 9.80m 2143 2.34pc
Ç Babcock Intl 2.22m 1146½ 2.27pc
Ç Spirax Group 0.41m 7100 2.23pc
Ç Diploma 1.54m 7480 2.19pc
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Ç Persimmon 3.11m 1131 2.17pc
Ç Howden Joinery 1.47m 805 2.09pc
Ç Melrose Ind 8.45m 463¼ 1.98pc
Ç Aberdeen Group 5.93m 245¼ 1.91pc
Ç Kingfisher 7.42m 314¼ 1.85pc
Ç Ass Brit Fds 0.65m 2123 1.73pc
Ç Burberry 1.81m 1207½ 1.68pc
结果汇总
公司 / 营业额 (£) / 税前利润 (£) / 每股收益 (p) / 股息 (p) / 付款日 / 除权日 :--- Allianz Technology Trust / 中期 - (-) / -2.6m (-1.0m) / -0.920 (-0.420) / n / a (n / a) / - Altitude $ / 年度 44.4m (37.3m) / -162k (421k) / -0.330 (1.640) / 0.000 (0.000) / - Clarkson / 中期 413.5m (297.8m) / 55.6m (37.5m) / 131.200 (93.000) / 35.000 (33.000) / 9月 11 / 8月 27 eEnergy / 中期 21.8m (10.1m) / -1.1m (-1.9m) / -0.300 (-0.390) / 0.000 (0.000) / - F&C Invesment Trust / 中期 - (-) / 61.8m (57.8m) / 2.840 (2.620) / 0.990 (0.950) / 8月 03 / 7月 02 FDM Group [Holdings] / 中期 78.6m (97.3m) / 4.1m (8.0m) / 2.800 (5.700) / 3.000 (6.000) / 11月 13 / 10月 22 Kosmos Energy $ / 中期 987.9m (683.9m) / 41.4m (-157.8m) / -7.000 (-42.000) / n / a (n / a) / - Pennpetro Energy $ / 年度 - (-) / -1.1m (-1.3m) / -1.020 (-1.200) / 0.000 (0.000) / - Seeen $ / 年度 5.0m (3.0m) / -2.7m (-2.4m) / -2.030 (-2.250) / 0.000 (0.000) / - Senior / 中期 390.8m (371.2m) / -5.6m (22.8m) / -6.750 (-5.410) / 0.000 (0.850) / -
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基金名称 / 费用 / 净值 / 变动 :--- Global Income / 0% / 334.02 / -0.09 Corporate Bond / 0% / 81.94 / +0.26 Equity Inc / 0% / 142.69 / … Equity Inc Booster / 0% / 90.37 / … Glob Abs Ret‡ / 0% / 109.35 / … Glob Multi-Strat / 0% / 139.93 / -0.14 Inflation-Linked Corp Bd / 0% / 116.64 / +0.3 Long-Term Global Equity / 0% / 503.39 / +1.01 Asian Income / 0% / 314.87 / -0.25 European Opps / 0% / 481.51 / -0.78 Global Dynamic Bd / 0% / 84.45 / -0.09 Global High Yield Bd / 0% / 47.17 / -0.49 International Bd / 0% / 190.22 / +0.09 Multi-Asset Bal / 0% / 307.84 / +0.16 Mult-Asset Div Return / 0% / 198.12 / -0.05 Mult-Asset Growth / 0% / 1639.37 / -0.1 Oriental / 0% / 1239.56 / -0.52 Real Return A / 0% / 136.16 / +0.21 UK Equity Fund / 0% / 1229.89 / -0.21 UK Income / 0% / 104.84 / +0.66 UK Opportunities / 0% / 467.56 / -0.24
B 股
价格 / 之前 / 股票 / 最新 / 变动 / % / 收益 10165 / 6684 / 伦敦证券交易所 (Lon Stock Ex) / 8490 / +92 / 1.9 / 35.6 362¼ / 247 / M&G / 361⅛ / +3⅝ / 5.7 / 28.7 327¼ / 154¼ / Man Group ● / 304¼ / +2 / 4.2 / 26.6 209 / 150¾ / Quilter ● / 195⅞ / +2¾ / 3.2 / 22.0 2458½ / 1620 / S & U / 1945 / — / 5.9 / 10.0 599½ / 358⅝ / Schroders / 588½ / — / 3.7 / 17.3 132 / 77⅛ / Vanquis Banking Gp / 79⅞ / +2 / — / 25.0 416⅛ / 274⅜ / Haleon / 362¼ / -1 / 2.0 / 19.5 1441½ / 1050 / Smith & Nep / 1197 / +38½ / 2.4 / 22.3 1376½ / 976 / Burberry / 1207½ / +20 / — 170 / 106¼ / McBride / 163¼ / +¼ / 1.8 / 8.4 114 / 65⅛ / PZ Cussons / 109⅜ / -1⅜ / 3.3 / -79.3 6522⅞ / 3664 / Reckitt Benck / 5280 / +40 / 4.1 / 11.3 307 / 195 / Aptitude Sftwre / 198½ / +2½ / 2.7 / 27.2 1225 / 771⅝ / The Sage Grp / 999⅜ / +26¼ / 2.2 / 26.5
保险 +0.47%
价格 / 之前 / 股票 / 最新 / 变动 / % / 收益 265 / 177½ / Aberdeen Group / 245¼ / +4⅝ / 6.0 / 11.4 3816 / 2624 / Admiral / 3802 / +30 / 5.4 / 15.4 701⅝ / 590⅝ / Aviva / 701⅝ / +8¼ / 5.6 / 26.1 1296 / 750 / Beazley / 1293 / +2½ / 1.9 / 11.4 1904 / 1246 / Hiscox / 1777 / -32 / 2.1 / 13.2 700 / 549 / Lancashire Hldg ● / 600 / -2½ / 2.8 / 6.7 310 / 217¼ / Legal & General / 303¾ / +3⅜ / 7.2 / 30.4 1238 / 910¼ / Prudential / 1109 / -7 / 1.8 / 9.7 932 / 615 / Standard Life / 925 / +2 / 6.0 / -196.4 1575½ / 1038¾ / St James’s Place / 1086½ / +33 / 1.7 / 10.9 4497 / 1825 / 3i / 2867 / +3 / 2.9 / 3091 394½ / 325 / 3i Infrastructure ● / 384½ / +4½ / 3.5 / 403 820 / 606 / Aberdeen New India / 728 / -2 / — / 816 1366 / 1178 / Alliance Witan / 1365 / +20 / 2.1 / 1418 764 / 439½ / Allianz Tech Trust ● / 686 / +16 / — / 726 331 / 260 / Baillie Giff China / 307 / +1 / 0.8 / 340 118½ / 91⅜ / Baillie Giff Euro Gwth / 118½ / +1½ / 0.6 / 128 153⅜ / 120⅝ / Bankers Invstmt Tst ● / 149⅜ / +2⅜ / 1.9 / 162 1684 / 804 / Biotech Growth / 1588 / -14 / — / 1702 284 / 197 / BlckRckAmInc / 281 / +2 / 5.0 / 273 205 / 116½ / BlackRockEnrgy&Res / 175 / +1 / 3.3 / 183 208 / 159½ / BlckRock FroInv / 190 / +3 / 4.0 / 186 625 / 507 / BlckRck Grt Euro ● / 596 / +8 / 1.2 / 633 238 / 198 / BlckRck Inc&Grth / 220 / -7 / 3.5 / 261 288⅜ / 230¾ / BlackRock Small ● / 270½* / +1½ / 2.9 / 305 1072⅞ / 543⅛ / BlackRock Wld M ● / 883 / — / 2.7 / 894
下跌榜 27 股票 / 成交量 / 收盘价 / 涨跌幅 È AstraZeneca / 13.09m / 11500 / -8.96pc È IG Group / 2.86m / 1371 / -6.10pc È Coca-Cola HBC / 0.77m / 4884 / -2.52pc È Brit Amer Tob / 3.84m / 4466 / -2.28pc È IntContl Hotels / 0.43m / 11677½ / -2.21pc È Imp Brands / 5.49m / 2764 / -2.16pc È Hiscox / 4.17m / 1777 / -1.77pc È Coca-Cola Euro / 0.30m / 8060 / -1.59pc È Airtel Africa / 2.90m / 328 / -1.50pc È Rio Tinto / 3.97m / 7089 / -1.18pc È GSK / 5.52m / 1909½ / -1.14pc È Centrica / 15.19m / 153¼ / -1.10pc È Tritax Big Box / 8.47m / 168½ / -0.94pc È Anglo Amer / 9.17m / 3705 / -0.75pc
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È Glencore 63.44m 539 -0.74pc
È Tesco 11.41m 486⅛ -0.69pc
È Sainsbury 22.60m 357 -0.67pc
È Prudential 6.55m 1109 -0.63pc
È Pearson 1.79m 1249½ -0.60pc
È Vodafone 370.72m 117¼ -0.51pc
È Segro 6.10m 961 -0.41pc
È Haleon 18.64m 362¼ -0.28pc
Glob Multi-Strat (全球多策略基金) 0% 140.69 -0.13
Inflation-Linked Corp Bd (通胀挂钩公司债券基金) 0% 116.72 +0.3
Long-Term Global Equity (长期全球股票基金) 386.99 +1.01
Asian Income (亚洲收益基金) 197.89 -0.25
Continental European (欧洲大陆基金) 317.99 -0.78
Global Dynamic Bd (全球动态债券基金) 82.75 -0.08
Global High Yield Bd (全球高收益债券基金) 75.81 -0.5
International Bd (国际债券基金) 87.24 +0.09
Multi-Asset Bal (多资产平衡基金) 207.74 +0.16
Mult-Asset Div Return (多资产分红回报基金) 153.37 -0.04
Mult-Asset Growth (多资产增长基金) 328.42 -0.09
Oriental (东方基金) 252.05 -0.51
Real Return A (实际回报 A 类) 123.22 +0.21
UK Equity Fund (英国股票基金) 212.4 -0.21
UK Income (英国收益基金) 213.54 +0.67
UK Opportunities (英国机遇基金) 232.99 -0.24
Emerging Income (新兴市场收益基金) 138.66 -0.32
Global Emerging Mkts (全球新兴市场基金) 283.06 -0.74
Global Equity Fund (全球股票基金) 399.61 +0.75
Multi Asset Inc (多资产收益基金) 141.55 -0.46
Discretionary Unit Fund (酌情管理单位基金) No 1, Poultry, London EC2R 8JR. 020 7415 4130
Maitland Discretionary Inc (梅特兰酌情收益基金) 3.00 2246.09 -0.98
Fundsmith LLP PO Box 10846, Chelmsford, Essex, CM99 2BW. 0330 123 1815 www.fundsmith.co.uk enquiries@fundsmith.co.uk
Fundsmith Equity T Acc (Fundsmith 股票 T 累积类) – 696.7 +3.34
395 312 Caledonia ● 388* — 2.0 594
599 486 City of Lon ● 594* +1 3.7 581
467 207 CQS Nat Res G & I 363* +12 7.8 349
330 270 CT Glbl Mgd G 321 +1 — 327
135 114 CT Glbl Mgd I 131½ 6.1 132
592 439⅞ CT Priv Eq Ord 506 +6 5.6 695
373 320 CT UK Cap & Inc 356 -2 3.7 374
126 97 CT UKHighIncTst 116* 5.1 120
480¼ 460 Dunedin Ent # 475 4.8
860 737⅝ Edinburgh Inv Tr ● 850 +6 3.8 914
294½ 185¾ Edin Worldwide ● 237½ +5 256
1332 325¾ F&C Inv Trust 335* +3¾ 1.3 367
672 546 Fidelity Asian V 590 +2 3.5 628
339 241 Fidlty Chna Sp Sits ● 269½ +1½ 3.3 282
442 367½ Fidelity Euro Tst ● 431½ +3 2.3 450
469½ 372 Fidelity Sp V ● 466 +2½ 2.2 460
915 706¼ Finsbury Gwth ● 808 +4 2.5 860
198⅜ 162⅜ Glbl Small Co Trust ● 191¾ 1.6 200
212¼ 173¼ Hend High Inc 204 -1 5.5 218
966 769 Hend Smaller Co ● 954 +1 3.0 1028
3290¾ 2285 Herald Inv ● 2960 +10 — 3200
524 318⅝ HgCapital ● 389 -1 1.3 530
138⅝ 107¼ HICL Infrastructure ● 138 +2 6.2 161
1611⅜ 1288¼ ICG Enterprise Tst ● 1432 -8 2.9 2034
982 782½ JPM Claverh’se ● 970* -4 3.8 987
153 121½ JPM Eur G&I ● 147¾* 148
849 633 JPM Japanese ● 808 +19 1.1 866
722 522½ Land Secs 713 +7½ 5.8
187½ 141½ Lowland Inv 184 +1½ 3.7 201
282 234¼ Mercantile InvTr ● 278* +1½ 3.0 306
673 536 Merchants Tst ● 670* +4 4.4 702
1664 1322 Monks ● 1606 +28 0.1 1677
1034 854⅝ Murray Income ● 1014 -6 4.0 1088
371 283½ Murray Intl ● 370* +1½ 3.4 363
57 47 Northern 2 VCT 54 5.6 55
86½ 79½ Northern 3 VCT 84½ 5.3 85
59½ 53 Nthn Venture 57½ 5.4 58
437 345 Pacific Assets 406 -6 1.4 444
409 319½ Pantheon ● 397 +2 526
2645 1906⅛ RIT Cap Ptnrs ● 2600 +35 1.7 3159
319 281¼ Ruffer Inv Pref ● 293 -3½ 2.1 307
738 488¾ Schroder Asian TR ● 695 +5 1.7 711
562 480⅛ Scot American ● 562 +7 2.9 596
1563 1015¾ Scot Mortgage 1345½ +15 0.3 1456
253 215⅞ STS Global Income 228 232
352 196¼ Tmpletn Em Mt ● 307 +2 1.7 335
364½ 291 TR Property ● 320 +2 5.0 350
150¼ 137 UIL Fin ZDP 2026 150 150
302 239⅞ Utilico Emerg ● 288* 3.3 317
398 306½ Worldw HealthTr ● 373½ -2½ 0.6 402
资产净值 © 2026 Morningstar，估算值为前一日收盘价，详见 www.Morningstar.co.uk。
Guinness Global Investors 18 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ www.guinnessgi.com +44(0)20 7222 5703
Sustainable Energy Acc (可持续能源累积类) – 25.0933 …
Global Innovators Acc (全球创新者累积类) 46.1933 …
Global Equity Income Inc (全球股票收益分红类) 24.6676
可用作 ISA
可用作 ISA
Janus Henderson Investors PO Box 9023 Chelmsford, CM99 2WB 查询电话: 0800 832 832 网站: www.janushenderson.com
Cautious Managed A Acc (审慎管理 A 累积类) 5.00 357.2
Cautious Managed A Inc (审慎管理 A 分红类) 5.00 153.3
China Opps A Acc (中国机遇 A 累积类) 1327 +7
Emerg Mkts Opps A Acc (新兴市场机遇 A 累积类) 296.9
European Sel Opps A Acc (欧洲精选机遇 A 累积类) 3208 -19
Fixed Int Mthly Inc A Inc (固定收益月度分红 A 分红类) 4.25 17.02
Global Care Growth A Inc (全球医疗增长 A 分红类) 4.50 702
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Global Equity Inc A Inc 5.25 87.89 +0.19
Global Select Acc 4.25 6432 …
Global Strategic Cap Acc 5.00 432.3 …
Global Technology A Acc 5.00 6810
Inst UK IDX Opp Tr – 180.9258
Janus Asian Dividend In Ut 97.61
844⅜ 418⅝ Autotrader 530¾ +7 2.2 15.5
690 435 Bloomsbury ● 623* +12 2.6 18.8
1000 719 Informa 896⅜ +10⅝ 2.5 —
87⅜ 65¾ ITV ● 73⅛ -1⅛ 6.8 12.4
1337 874¾ Pearson 1249½ -7½ 2.0 24.3
75⅜ 40⅛ Reach 43¾* -⅞ 13.5 -1.0
3938 1991 RELX 2649 +42 2.6 23.5
827 391⅜ Rightmove ● 471½ +6⅞ 2.3 16.8
410 218½ WPP ● 304¼ +5⅝ 4.9 6.0
4239 2042 Anglo Amer 3705 -28 0.8 -15.1
4475 1858½ Antofagasta 3679 +24 1.3 36.7
3495 1897½ BHP Group 3096 -38 3.3 23.4
81 81 Evraz # — 0.5
4472 1371 Fresnillo 2498 +23 3.8 17.9
707¼ 275¼ Glencore 539 -4 2.3
858 246¼ Hochschild Mng ● 440¼ +8¾ 1.0 15.2
345 178⅜ Kenmare Res 198 -0.7
9117 4436½ Rio Tinto 7089 -85 4.9 15.5
石油与天然气 +0.42%
609⅜ 397⅛ BP 552⅛ -⅜ 4.5
28 9¾ EnQuest 23¾ -⅛ 3.4
553 288½ Hunting ● 447½ +4 2.2 23.0
3758½ 2553¾ Shell 3405½ +22 4.4 15.1
15732 9892 AstraZeneca 11500 -1132 2.1 23.4
3228¾ 1943 Genus ● 2210 +16 1.5 75.4
2282 1288⅝ GSK 1909½ -22 3.7 13.5
1953 1187 Hikma ● 1573 -12 4.0 11.6
房地产 +0.08%
16 6½ Alina Hldgs 10 17
1208 800½ Big Yellow Gp ● 900½ +13 5.2
447¼ 318⅝ Brit Land 444¾ +2¾ 5.2
2154 1469⅜ Derwent Ldn ● 2120 +16 3.8
377 270 Gt Portland Est ● 353¼ +4¼ 2.3
213 149½ Grainger ● 173⅛ -1⅜ 4.9 6.3
388⅝ 263⅜ Hammerson ● 385⅝ +3⅝ 4.7
997⅜ 603 Segro 961 -4 3.3
162⅞ 124⅛ Shaftesbury Capital ● 145¼ +1½ 3.0 7.8
140 104 Town Centre 133 +2½ 3.8
175 132¼ Tritax Big Box 168½ -1⅝ 4.9 183
零售商 +0.46%
169½ 106 Currys ● 164¼ -3⅝ 1.8 10.6
1249 707 Dunelm ● 889 +19½ 7.9 11.5
839½ 598 Frasers Group ● 827½ +17 9.5
2046 1407¼ Greggs ● 1944 +64 3.5 16.2
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Ç 澳大利亚 全普通股指数 (All Ordinaries) 9178.40 +41.40 +0.45pc
Ç 巴西 波维斯帕指数 (Bovespa) 178000.24 +1.24 +0.00pc
È 中国 上海综合指数 (Shanghai Composite) 3809.66 -22.60 -0.59pc
Ç 法国 CAC综合指数 (CAC General) 8613.82 +104.18 +1.22pc
Ç 德国 DAX指数 26001.31 +372.07 +1.45pc
Ç 香港 恒生指数 (Hang Seng) 26009.40 +124.97 +0.48pc
Ç 印度 BSE S&P SENSEX指数 78639.03 +544.39 +0.70pc
È 日本 日经指数 (Nikkei) 63754.90 -607.12 -0.94pc
È 新加坡 海峡时报指数 (Straits Times) 5612.28 -16.22 -0.29pc
Ç 西班牙 马德里证券交易所 (Madrid SE) 1980.90 +20.40 +1.04pc
Ç 瑞士 SMI指数 14371.77 +25.63 +0.18pc
Ç 美国 道琼斯指数 (Dow Jones) 53178.41 +693.38 +1.32pc
Ç 美国 纳斯达克指数 (Nasdaq) 25913.90 +540.05 +2.13pc
Ç 黄金 每金衡盎司 $4053.66 +4.24 +0.10pc
Ç 白银 每金衡盎司 £43.24 +0.12 +0.27pc
È 克鲁格金币
£2968.93 -2.83 -0.10pc
È 新主权金币
£703.23 -3.76 -0.53pc
È 枫叶金币
£2997.36 -2.89 -0.10pc
È 铂金 每盎司 £1213.06 -17.19 -1.40pc
È 钯金 每盎司 £941.13 -12.64 -1.33pc
Ç 铜† A级 £10305.10 +11.27 +0.11pc
È 锡† 高级 £41200.33 -77.92 -0.19pc
È 铅†
£1389.34 -13.07 -0.93pc
È 锌† 特级 £2704.27 -10.32 -0.38pc
Ç 铝† 高级 £2401.40 +18.67 +0.78pc
È 镍†
£12806.97 -61.26 -0.48pc
Ç 波罗的海干散货指数*
2843.00 +111.00 +4.06pc
Ç 小麦 每吨 £200.00 +3.00 +1.52pc
È 布伦特原油 10月结算价 $83.77 -6.35 -7.05pc
*版权所有：波罗的海交易所信息服务有限公司。†数据由伦敦金属交易所提供。
Multi-Mgr Inc&Gwth A Acc 5.00 230.2 …
Multi-Mgr Mangd A Acc 5.00 400.7 +1.5
Multi-Mgr Mangd A Inc 369.6 +1.4
Sterling Bond Acc 4.25 229.5 …
Sterling Bond Inc 4.25 55.43
Strategic Bond A Inc 4.00 95.24
UK Absolute Return A Acc 206.6 -0.2
UK Alpha A Acc 5.25 198.4 -0.6
UK Smaller Cos A ACC 918.8
UK Equity Income A Inc 705.5
UK Index Opps Tst A Acc – 178.6431
US Growth A Acc 2913 +34
J.P. Morgan Asset Management 60 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0JP 客户电话：0800 204020。经纪人专线：0800 727770
JPM Ems C Net Dis – 269.0000 -3.0000
JPM Japan C Net Acc 482.6000 +4.1000
JPM Natural Res C Net ACC 1623.0000 -11.0000
JPM UK Equity Core E Acc *708.3000 -4.8000
JPM UK Equity Core E Inc *92.8700 -0.6300
JPM US Eq Inc C Net *593.4000 +4.1000
JPM US Eq Inc C Net Dis *581.2000 +1.7000
JPM US Select C Net Acc 1232.0000 +7.0000
JPM US Sm Cos Gwth C Net Ac – 1252 -4
981 713 Howden Joinery 805 +16½ 2.7 16.4
106⅛ 64 JD Sports Fash 91 +1½ 1.3 10.5
372¼ 240¼ Kingfisher 314¼ +5¾ 3.9 22.4
412¼ 301⅛ 马莎百货 410⅝ +5½ 1.0 32.3
4 ⅝ Mothercare ¾ +⅛ — 0.7
15310 11200 Next 14900* +55 1.8 19.6
397⅞ 140¼ Ocado ● 216⅝ +4¾ — 4.6
575 200 Pinewood Tech 427 -3 — 89.0
695 172½ Saga ● 679 +7
380¼ 291¼ Sainsbury J 357 -2⅜ 3.8 20.6
1120 378⅝ Smith WH ● 444⅜ +11 -4.0
510⅜ 406⅞ Tesco 486⅛ -3⅜ 3.0 17.7
2832 1981 Bunzl 2796 -6 2.7 19.8
416 215 Capita 266 +7½ — -1.8
6740 4188 DCC Energy 6365 +35 3.4
114⅝ 78⅜ Essentra 106⅜ +2¼ 2.0
3987 2203 Experian 2811 +21 1.8 23.0
5850 3519⅜ Intertek Group 5840 2.8 26.8
250¾ 163½ Int’l Workplace ● 199½ +2⅜ 0.5
172⅛ 123¾ Johnson Serv ● 151¾ +1⅜ 3.2 16.3
214 134¾ MITIE Gp ● 206¾* -¼ 2.2 31.3
507 329⅝ Rentokil 356¾ +12 2.6 25.8
325¾ 205 Serco Group ● 240¼ -1⅜ 1.9 16.7
15¼ 6¾ SIG 8¾ -1.6
723½ 493⅜ Travis P ● 573 +18½ 2.1 -6.9
电信 +0.11%
242⅛ 173 BT Group 203⅛ +1¾ 4.1 18.5
1936 638 Telecom Plus ● 865 +14 5.8 8.5
131⅛ 82 Vodafone 117¼ -⅝ 3.4 -83.1
5326 3677 Brit Am Tob 4466* -104 5.5 12.7
3632 2626 Imp Brands 2764 -61 6.0 11.0
交通 +0.11%
490 294½ ZIGUP ● 463 +½ 5.8 13.7
683¾ 332⅝ easyJet ● 642⅜ +12⅜ 2.1 9.8
1022 500⅜ Entain 547⅜ +6 3.6 -5.2
240⅜ 152⅛ FirstGroup ● 185¼* +¾ 3.9 8.7
776 544 Fullers ‘A’ 720 +6 2.9 18.4
492⅞ 332¾ IAG Intl Cons Air 433½ +1⅝ 1.6 7.1
13305 8458 Intercont Hotels 11677½ -263¾ 1.2 32.0
301½ 223½ Mitchells&But ● 283 +7 9.5
38⅛ 17 Mobico Group 23¾ -1.1
447 210 Playtech ● 375¼ -3⅜ — 0.9
164⅝ 86 Rank Group ● 100¼ +3⅜ 2.9 10.5
817 530½ Wetherspoon ● 817 +39 1.5 13.6
指数 变动
Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Ltd The Zig Zag Building, 70 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6SQ 020 3817 1000
Jupiter Asian Inc L Acc 342.37 -1.2711
Jupiter Asian Inc L Inc 230.73 -1.2711
Jupiter China L Acc 119.19 +0.2009
Jupiter China L Inc 109.11 +0.2010
Jupiter Corp Bond L Inc 51.19 +0.3940
Jupiter Eco L Inc 694.72 -0.4357
Jupiter European L Inc 3929.32 -0.5345
Jupiter Euro Inc L Acc 85.01629
Jupiter Euro Inc L Inc 49.78698
Jupiter Euro Special Sits L Acc – 590.5 -0.5246
Jupiter Fin Opp L Inc 1335.24 +0.6240
Jupiter Fund Of Inv Tsts L Inc – 396.86 +0.1592
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Jupiter Global Finl Innov L Acc – 223.36 -0.6864
Jupiter Income Trust L Inc – *701.47 +0.3818
Jupiter India L Acc – 217.9 +1.5939
Jupiter Japan Inc L Acc 220.1 +0.5514
Jupiter Japan Inc L Inc 141.88 -0.3491
Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo L Acc – 340.81 -0.2837
Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo L Inc 195.16 -0.2826
Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo L Acc – 819.99 +0.1086
Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo L Inc – 792.22 +0.1086
89⅜ 36¾ Afentra 62⅛ -⅜ — -59.7
1130 799 Arbuthnot 830 -10 6.6 7.6
244 125¼ Central Asia Met 146⅝ -¾ 8.2 -4.6
872½ 98 Ceres Power ● 374 +27 — -15.3
460 271 Churchill China 380 -5 5.5 9.6
380 194 CML Micro 282½ +2½ 3.9 -856.1
1538 881⅛ Cohort 1228 +2 1.5 23.5
176½ 101 Eleco 133½ — 0.9 83.4
13 ¼ Futura Medical ⅜ … -0.1
161½ 112 James Halstead 123 +3 7.2 12.7
405 200 Mpac Group 322½ -2½ — -10.1
1800 1100 MS Intl 1440 1.8 21.4
68 34½ Premier Miton 37½* 8.0 48.1
74 46 Tribal Gp 63 2.1 15.0
1½ ½ Xtract Resources 1⅜ +⅛ -5.9
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美国股票 +1.48%
84⅜ 28⅛ Alcoa $ 44⅝ -⅝ 0.9 9.8
387½ 288⅜ Amer Express $ 342 +5¾ 1.1 4.1
63 44¾ BankAmerica $ 62 … 2.1 3.4
254⅜ 176¾ Boeing $ 226⅞ +10¾ —
1073½ 405½ Caterpillar $ 823⅝ +8⅞ 0.8 3.1
214¾ 146½ Chevron $ 194⅝ -2¼ 3.7 0.8
113⅝ 84⅝ Coca–Cola Euro $ 107½ -1⅞ 2.2 0.8
99⅜ 74½ Colgate Palm $ 91⅛ -⅛ 2.3 1.2
ExxonMobil Hldgs $ 155 2.7 1.4
383 261¾ Gen Electric $ 364⅜ +4¼ 0.5 4.5
426¾ 289⅛ Home Depot $ 335¼ +3¼ 2.8 1.5
Honeywell $ 244¾ 1.1 5.0
29⅝ 17½ HP $ 27⅛ -⅛ 4.4 2.3
332½ 199¼ IBM $ 227⅝ +4 3.0 1.7
142⅜ 19 Intel $ 90⅜ +¼
50¼ 29¼ Intl Paper $ 41⅜ +⅝ 4.5 2.8
359¼ 279⅛ JP Morgan Ch $ 352⅞ +1 1.7 3.5
274⅞ 164¾ Johnson&John $ 253 -3⅜ 2.1 1.6
36 24⅞ Keurig Dr Pep $ 30⅞ -¼ 3.0
57⅛ 25⅛ Manpower $ 54¼ +1⅞ 2.7 0.2
341¾ 261 McDonalds $ 268⅜ -2¼ 2.8 1.6
135 77½ Merck $ 127¼ -2⅞ 2.7 1.1
553¾ 349¼ Microsoft $ 487½ +22¾ 0.7 4.9
28¾ 23⅛ Pfizer $ 24⅞ -⅛ 6.9
167¼ 137⅝ Procter & Gamble $ 145 +½ 3.0
221⅜ 150⅝ Raytheon Tech $ 215⅞ +¾ 1.4 2.0
497⅜ 305½ Rockwell $ 482⅜ +2¼ 1.1 1.8
505⅞ 348 Trane Tech $ 460⅜ +5½ 0.9 3.1
135⅛ 95⅜ Wal Mart Strs $ 110⅜ -⅞ 0.9 2.9
119¾ 92¼ Walt Disney $ 97⅝ +1½ 1.5 4.2
英镑 > 欧元汇率 1.1670 变动 -0.26¢ 英镑 > 美元汇率 1.3438 变动 -0.20¢
旅游英镑 £1 = / 英镑 Sterling £1 = / 1 欧元 = / 1 美元 = :--- 澳大利亚 / 澳元 Aus $ 1.8616 / 1.9199 / 1.6451 / 1.4288 加拿大 / 加元 Can $ 1.829 / 1.8861 / 1.6161 / 1.4037 丹麦 / 克朗 Krone 8.2924 / 8.7238 / 7.4750 / 6.4920 欧元区 / € 1.1397 / 1.1670 / … / 0.8685 香港 / 港元 HK $ 10.0036 / 10.5380 / 9.0295 / 7.8422 印度 / 卢比 Rupee 97.41 / 128.1123 / 109.7738 / 95.3394 以色列 / 谢克尔 Shekels 3.8474 / 4.0902 / 3.5047 / 3.0438 日本 / 日元 Yen 203.9393 / 210.3976 / 180.2805 / 156.5750 科威特 / 第纳尔 Dinar … / 0.4159 / 0.3564 / 0.3095 新西兰 / 纽元 NZ $ 2.2019 / 2.2890 / 1.9613 / 1.7034 挪威 / 克朗 Krone 12.2534 / 12.8119 / 10.9780 / 9.5344 巴基斯坦 / 卢比 Rupee 340.39 / 373.3610 / 319.9165 / 277.8500 沙特阿拉伯 / 里亚尔 Riyal 4.7952 / 5.0465 / 4.3242 / 3.7556 新加坡 / $ 1.6359 / 1.7233 / 1.4767 / 1.2825 南非 / 兰特 Rand 21.1696 / 22.1820 / 19.0068 / 16.5075 瑞典 / 克朗 Krona 12.2012 / 12.8300 / 10.9935 / 9.5479 瑞士 / 法郎 Franc 1.0496 / 1.0888 / 0.9329 / 0.8103 泰国 / 泰铢 Baht 43.0605 / 44.8208 / 38.4049 / 33.3550 阿联酋 / 迪拉姆 Dirham 4.7638 / 4.9355 / 4.2290 / 3.6730 英国 / £ … / … / 0.8569 / 0.7442 美国 / $ 1.3133 / 1.3438 / 1.1514 / …
RPI (1987=100) 6月 416.50 +0.3% +3.0%
RPIX (目标 2.5%) 6月 409.70 +1.1 +2.9%
CPI (2015=100 目标 2%) 6月 142.50 +0.1% +2.6%
劳埃德房价指数 (Lloyds house price index) 6月 516.20 +0.2% +0.6%
银行利率 3.75%
Nationwide 基础抵押贷款利率 5.75%
美国联邦基金利率 3.5-3.75%
美国长期债券收益率 5.23%
欧洲基准利率 2.40%
Jupiter Merlin Select L Acc 125.65 -0.2097
Jupiter Merlin Select L Dis 55.53 -0.5753
Jupiter Responsible Inc L Acc – 170.84 -0.2049
Jupiter Responsible Inc L Inc 78.5 -0.2049
Jupiter Global Strat Bond L Acc – 110.15 +0.1266
Jupiter Global Strat Bond L Inc – 52.89 -1.0883
Jupiter UK Growth L Inc 283.6 +0.1410
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Jupiter UK Dynamic Eq L DIS – 291.85 +0.1427
Jupiter Unitstd Van F 3.50 427.4 +0.4966
Jupiter US Sml Cos Inst I Acc – 80.99 …
Jupiter US Sml Cos Ret Acc 74.46 …
马莎百货 Unit Trust Management Ltd Kings Meadow, Chester, CH99 9UT 0870 333 1835
High Income Inc *86.59 86.59
High Income Acc *295.5 295.5
UK Select Port Inc 479.5 479.5
UK Selection Port 1097 1097
UK 100 Co's Fund Inc 323.8 323.8
UK 100 Co's Fund Acc 719.8 719.8
W'wide Man Inc *732
W'wide Man Acc *1315
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欧洲股票 +1.26%
67⅝ 46⅛ AkzoNobel € 61½ +⅞ 3.2 2.3
97⅞ 56⅜ BMW € 60 +¾ 7.3 2.7
17½ 12 Carrefour € 15⅞ -⅛ 7.4 1.6
77½ 53⅛ Continental AG € 72⅜ +½ 3.7 0.3
62⅜ 42⅝ Daimler € 48 +1¼ 7.3 2.9
80⅛ 60⅝ Danone € 67¾ +¼ 3.3 1.2
58¼ 37 Deutsche Post € 57⅜ -⅜ 3.3 1.6
34⅜ 23½ Deutsche Tele € 28⅛ +1⅜ 3.6 2.0
80¼ 63⅞ Heineken € 78⅛ -½ 2.4 2.5
654¾ 440 LVMH € 486⅞ +11¾ 2.7 1.7
82½ 60⅛ LafargeHolcim SFr 71¾ -1½ 2.4 1.9
10¼ 6¾ Lufthansa € 9¼ +¼ 3.6 9.0
15 3½ Nokia OYJ € 8⅛ +⅛ 1.7 0.9
35¾ 25½ Michelin € 34¾ -¼ 4.0 1.7
107½ 58⅝ Pernod Ricard € 68¾ +⅞ 6.8 1.4
27¾ 20⅞ Philips (Kon) € 22¾ 3.7 0.6
287 198 Siemens € 285¼ +2⅝ 1.9 2.0
82⅞ 50⅞ Societe Gen € 83⅛ +1¾ 2.1 3.9
10½ 4⅝ Stellantis € 5 … 13.8 1.1
279¼ 212⅝ Thales € 253¾ +7⅞ 1.5 2.1
81⅜ 49¼ Total € 76⅜ 4.6
44½ 28¼ UBS AG SFr 42½ — 2.3
37⅝ 27⅜ Veolia Environ € 34¼ -⅛ 4.4 0.3
110¼ 71 Volkswagen € 77⅛ +1¼ 6.7 2.6
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300 125 Coastal Africa Group 200
5¼ 3⅝ Mendell Helium 3⅝ -¼ -1.1
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使养老金“差距” 成为关注焦点
领取的养老金比南部 典型国家领取者 少 £185,000 作者：Rob White
“你的窗户被砖头砸破，车窗被砸碎，小混混整夜在周围乱跑，”居民朱利安·沃姆莱顿（Julian Wormleighton）说道。 布莱克浦（Blackpool）曾是北部的骄傲，是一个迷人的度假胜地，曾接待过弗兰克·辛纳屈（Frank Sinatra）、披头士（The Beatles）和皇后乐队（Queen）等演出。 数以百万计的人会前往参观其标志性的塔楼和绵延的海滨大道，无论是为了度夏，还是为了在著名的“灯展”（Illuminations）期间窥见那里沐浴在灯光中的景象。 但现在，就在距离那些林立着游戏厅和恶作剧商店的“金英里”（Golden Mile）仅几条街之隔的地方，布莱克浦正与酒精、药物和匮乏的流行病作斗争，这正将居民们推向早逝的深渊。 根据国家统计局（ONS）的数据，如今这里的男性预期寿命仅为 73.7 岁，女性为 79.1 岁，为英国最低。 这里的平均居民比汉普郡哈特（Hart, Hampshire）的人早死整整 10 年。而在哈特，尽管缴纳的国家保险次数相同，典型的国家养老金领取者在更长的退休生活中领到的金额几乎多出 £185,000。而且，随着国家养老金领取年龄的提高，这一差距注定会进一步扩大。 布莱克浦很可能在安迪·伯纳姆的关注之列，作为他将权力从威斯敏斯特转移到各地区的计划的一部分。与此同时，随着首相关于权力下放的承诺，要求进行国家养老金改革的呼声也日益高涨。 这是一个处于危机中的小镇，它提出了关于英国退休制度公平性的持久疑问——以及贫困人口是否应该通过早逝来补贴富人。布莱克浦的一些社区工作者表示，由于新迁入人口的流动性，预期寿命的统计数据出现了偏差。许多人被廉价的住房所吸引，试图逃避自己的问题，但遗憾的是，他们在达到国家养老金领取年龄之前就去世了。但他们也敏锐地意识到，在这个拥有英格兰 10 个最贫困社区中 7 个的小镇上，居民需要支持——而且这里的成瘾问题和心理健康问题泛滥成灾。在 2023 和 2025 年之间，超过 2,300 人在 75 岁之前去世——这是英格兰每位居民最高死亡率，几乎是全国平均水平的两倍。布莱克浦还拥有全国最高的药物死亡率和第五高的酒精死亡率。 距离海滨不到一英里的地方是雷沃（Revoe），英格兰第三贫困地区，对于西蒙·劳顿（Simon Lawton）来说，那里的问题过于触目惊心。他通过 Revoelution（一个为困难居民提供支持和活动的社区中心）花了八年时间试图解决这个小镇的问题。“（这些问题）全部关乎心理健康、社交孤立和长期健康状况的维护不善。这三点是急诊室入院率高居不下的核心，而且它们都相互关联，”他说道。 他表示，许多人带着成瘾问题来到布莱克浦，被廉价且管理不善的住房所吸引。原因显而易见：该小镇的月平均租金为 £710，购房价格仅为 £134,000，平均住房成本约为全国平均水平的一半。劳顿表示，这扭曲了预期寿命的统计数据，但他坦言，确实有人死得比应有的更早。 “这个统计数据其实有点误导性。因为这里的住房类型是那种非常小的排屋，全部是私人租赁，房东通常不在场且不进行审查。人们来到这里是因为住宿便宜，所以有大量流动人口。我们遇到的人在生活中陷入了某种危机。正因为处于危机之中，他们没有很好地照顾健康，而酒精和药物往往加剧了这一点，所以他们早逝，从而降低了平均预期寿命。” Revoelution 专注于有针对性的面对面支持。工作人员敲门询问人们的健康状况，并通过一辆等待中的 NHS 医疗车，为需要的人提供即时医疗服务。
布莱克浦 ASADOUR GUZELIAN 为《电讯报》拍摄
15 岁的 Ramona Pallagast 为年轻人描绘了一个凄凉的未来，批评布莱克浦的学校以及心理健康支持的匮乏。
为年轻人描绘了一个凄凉的未来——而且她很清楚原因。“这里有很多无家可归的人，很多被其他议会遣送过来的瘾君子，这影响了我们的城镇。所有的建筑都破旧不堪，学校系统糟糕透顶，而且他们不帮助有心理健康问题的孩子，”她说。“这简直就像反乌托邦。布莱克浦曾经很繁荣，海滩拥挤到没处下脚。现在没人想来了。”
但在布莱克浦，也有一些人认为情况终于在好转。布莱克浦议会最近强调了来自健康改善与差距办公室（Office for Health Improvement and Disparities）的数据，这些数据表明，新生男婴的预期寿命增加了 1 年，女孩则增加了近 5 个月。
社区与福祉议员兼内阁成员 Jo Farrell 表示，公共卫生团队和 英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) 推动了这些进步。“我们正在提供……”
投资一直没有匮乏。在廉价航空兴起导致旅游业衰落后，2000 年启动了一项 3 亿英镑 (£300m) 的再生项目以振兴这座城镇。2022 年，又宣布了另外 3 亿英镑 (£300m) 的资金，在进度停滞后，作为当时保守党政府“升级计划”（Levelling Up agenda）的一部分，又提供了 4,000 万英镑 (4000 万英镑m)。
然而，大部分投资都集中在海滨，据报道该镇每年仍接待 1,800 万 (1800 万) 名游客。但在城镇其他地方，衰落的迹象依然明显。通往海岸的热门主干道滑铁卢路（Waterloo Road）是该镇最古老的街道之一，但已有数家商店关门。许多幸存下来的商店是慈善店或其他低端选择。
与此同时，据报道，去年布莱克浦的平均周薪仅为 600 英镑 (£600)——比全国平均水平低约 22%。在附近的南海滩酒吧（South Beach Bar），15 岁的 Ramona Pallagast，
“通过在黑普尔（Blackpool）开展大规模的经济和住房再生计划，建设更好的住宅，创造培训和工作机会，并提升我们城市的自豪感和抱负，”她说道。 解决国家养老金的不平等对于任何政府来说无疑都是一项巨大的任务，尤其是英国正面临不断攀升的国家养老金账单，预计到本十年末，这一数字将突破 £172bn 每年。但对于一个将财政权力与控制权的根本转变视为其愿景关键的政府来说，这是一个将受到更多审查的领域。 伯纳姆的权力下放承诺正处于关注焦点，而 12 月，当国家统计局（ONS）公布新的预期寿命统计数据时，所有目光都将集中在其上。届时，黑普尔将沉浸在灯光节（Illuminations）的璀璨中——但数百万个灯泡的光芒可能无法照亮其核心深处的根源问题。
新数据显示，英国制造业上月再次增长，但增速有所放缓。 标普全球（S&P Global）英国制造业采购经理人指数（PMI）调查显示，7 月的读数为 51.9。尽管如此，这较 6 月的 52.5 略有下降，且创下四个多月来的最低水平。该数值也低于经济学家预测的 52.5。 任何高于 50 的读数均表示活动在增长。标普全球表示，新业务和出口订单的增加有助于维持需求增长和强劲的生产。
时尚连锁店 New Look 在任命新老板的同时透露，由于折扣减少和成本控制更严格，其盈利得到了提升。 这家在英国拥有 309 家店铺的高街零售商任命 Lynda Petherick 为新任首席执行官。她将接替 Helen Connolly，后者将于 9 月底离职，前往领导 Asda 旗下的时尚和家居业务 George。 截至 3 月底的一年内，息税折旧及摊销前利润（Ebitda）从 1430 万英镑m 翻了一倍多，达到 3660 万英镑m。
在日本汽车巨头日产（Nissan）的成本削减措施以及部分市场销售额提升的助力下，该公司在今年第一季度恢复盈利。 这家汽车制造商在截至 3 月的三个月内录得 38 亿日元（1800 万英镑m）的净利润，扭转了 2025 年同期 1158 亿日元的亏损。 季度销售额总计 2.96 万亿日元，比一年前的 2.7 万亿日元增长 9.5%。 首席执行官 Ivan Espinosa 表示，一些全球市场（如中东）仍然存在困难，而美国和日本的销售额正在增长。
中国对集成电路布图设计保护条例进行了修订，提高了登记标准，并允许对严重侵权行为采取惩罚性赔偿，旨在更好地保护国内微芯片技术诀窍。 修订后的条例将于 10 月 15 日生效，并明确了布图设计权利如何许可、转让或作为抵押品使用，并要求主导创建该设计的组织为合格人员提供合理的奖励和报酬。
Circular（宫廷通报）
圣詹姆斯宫 8月3日 皇家公主在蒂姆·劳伦斯副海军上将的陪同下，今日在怀特岛开展了以下活动，并由陛下任命的领地代表（苏珊·谢尔登夫人）接待： 殿下今早出席了考斯周二百周年纪念活动，主持开启了东考斯的Albany Green。 皇家公主作为英国航海学院的赞助人，随后主持开启了位于东考斯海滨大道（the Esplanade）的维多利亚军营教育中心。
今日生日
萨塞克斯公爵夫人 45 岁。
费灵的坎宁安勋爵，前工党内阁部长，87 岁；马丁·贾维斯先生，演员、导演及制片人，85 岁；克莱尔·鲁塞尔夫人，班夫郡领地代表，2002-19 年，82 岁；大卫·霍尔爵士教授，皇家儿科与儿童健康学院院长，2000-03 年，81 岁；休伯特·英格拉汉姆先生，巴哈马总理，1992-2002 年，79 岁；埃德罗姆的阿布特诺特勋爵，前保守党政府部长，74 岁；巴拉克·奥巴马先生，美国总统，2009-16 年，65 岁；伯明罕的史蒂文斯勋爵，英国国家医疗服务体系 (NHS) England 首席执行官，2014-21 年，60 岁；李·麦克先生，喜剧演员、演员、作家，58 岁；乔乔·莫耶斯女士，小说家，57 岁；尼克·库明斯先生，轮椅橄榄球运动员，东京 2020 奥运会金牌得主，41 岁。
今日是伊丽莎白王太后 1900 年诞辰纪念日，以及英国 1914 年对德宣战纪念日。同时也是玛丽莲·梦露 1962 年逝世纪念日。
神职人员新闻
辞职与退休 格林·琼斯博士牧师，陛下监狱与缓刑服务处牧师及牧师顾问（卡莱尔），于 2026年3月13 日退休；安德鲁·多钦教区长，Kesgrave with Little Bealings and Playford 临时负责牧师（圣埃德蒙兹伯里与伊普斯威奇），于 2026年4月5 日退休；莎拉·昆特里尔，Bury St Edmunds Christ Church 牧师（圣埃德蒙兹伯里与伊普斯威奇），于 2026年4月30 日退休；凯里·诺丁斯辞去 Peterborough St Jude（彼得伯勒）临时负责牧师职务，日期为 2026年5月5 日，但仍担任凯特灵总医院和北安普顿总医院牧师（同一教区）；詹妮弗·欧文于 2026年5月17 日停止担任 Foleshill St Laurence（考文垂）助理部长，但保留部分时间职务（同一教区）；加里·尼夫，Harlow St Mary Magdalene（彼得伯勒）负责牧师，于 2026年5月17 日退休；安·科斯拉，Vale of Roding（切姆斯福德）助理牧师，于 2026年5月24 日退休；查尔斯·科斯拉，Vale of Roding（切姆斯福德）培训员，于 2026年5月24 日退休；巴里·达格莫尔教区长，沃里克（考文垂）行政长官，于 2026年5月30 日退休；艾伦·朱厄尔，Stretton St Matthew and Appleton Thorn（切斯特）牧师，于 2026年5月31 日退休；大卫·刘易斯，Bryn a Môr 使命区负责牧师及使命区负责人（圣阿萨夫），于 2026年5月31 日退休。
桥牌新闻
桥牌记者朱利安·波泰奇报道，第九届世界青年跨国锦标赛刚在中国合肥开赛。参赛的英国选手如下： 26 岁以下队 托马斯·布拉德金（参赛队长）和安德鲁·布拉德金，与加拿大和美国队友组队。 16 岁以下队 亚历山大·布利查兹和威尔夫·马歇尔，与印度和挪威队友组队。 罗伯特·马歇尔担任该 16 岁以下队的非参赛队长，而格雷戈尔·布利查兹既是该 16 岁以下队的教练，也是一支没有英国选手参加的 21 岁以下队的非参赛队长。 此外，来自爱尔兰的卢卡·克罗内参加了 31 岁以下团体赛，并已报名参加 31 岁以下双人赛。
坠亡。
本报驻贝德福德记者报道 昨日下午，在贝德福德附近的肯普斯顿（Kempston）发生一起热气球事故，造成四人死亡，第五人受重伤。该气球是为配合一场花展和节日庆典而飞行，在四名乘客和一名飞行员下降时，吊篮从60英尺的高度坠地。遇难者为：飞行员 E. T. WILLOWS 先生；肯普斯顿 Church-walk 的 W. F. HARBATE 夫妇；以及肯普斯顿 Bedford-road 的 ERNEST CROWSLEY 夫人。 第五位乘员 Crowsley 先生（死者的丈夫）受重伤，在危急状态下被送往医院。 该气球属于伦敦 Highbury 的 J. G. Spencer 及子公司，下午已安全飞行多次，Spencer 夫人原计划在傍晚进行一次降落伞跳伞。数千名群众聚集在此观看活动。气球由一根连接在发动机绞盘上的缆绳牵引，每次飞行后通过绞盘将其拉回地面。 在这次不幸的上升飞行前，飞行员要求招募三名乘客，但由于有两对夫妇希望一同乘坐，他同意搭载全部四人。气球上升到了绳索允许的最高高度——600英尺——一切运行良好，直到再次被拉回地面。当距离地面约60英尺时，绳索被一棵树勾住，绞盘不得不停止运作。人们尝试解开绳索，但由于阵风强劲，难以将绳索解脱。 吊篮倾斜至 危险角度。
可以看到吊篮正以危险的角度倾斜，但直到为了让气球升起脱离障碍而进一步解开绳索时，才发生了意外。解绳的时机恰逢一阵强风，随着气球突然向上冲，人们看到将吊篮悬挂在球囊上的绳索断裂，紧接着两部分分离。吊篮坠地，球囊则向西南方向飘向云端。一名目击者称，球囊上的网状结构脱落时“就像剥香蕉皮一样”。在坠落过程中，当时在吊篮环圈内试图释放阀门的飞行员跳了下来，头朝下摔在地上。另外两名乘客也被看到从吊篮中跳出。数十名观众立即奔向现场。飞行员被发现死在吊篮下方，颈椎骨折。另外一名男子和一名女性也已无法救治。另外两名乘客尚有生命迹象，随即被送往贝德福德郡医院。当天受聘的卢顿红十字乐队演奏了几小节国歌，庆典活动随即戛然而止。在解释此次灾难时，一名目击者向我暗示，在将拖曳绳从树上解脱的过程中，一些支撑绳被撕断了。“人群中的一些人，”他说，“抓住了绳子，但他们是在顶着风和绞盘用力。当时的风向预示着即将下雨，这三种相互抵触的力量必然给网状结构带来了巨大的压力。气球直接从网中脱出，飞走了。” 巨大的
响声犹如雷鸣。
另一位灾难目击者评价道：气球在第五次上升后被降低，这时我们听到一声巨响，感到很惊恐。我当时距离绞盘约 500 码，气球距离地面约 120 英尺。在我听来，那声音就像霹雳雷鸣。我抬头看去，发现气球的网破了，载有乘客的吊篮倾斜角度约为 45 度。吊篮里的人蜷缩在底部并紧抓边缘。我可以清晰地看到他们。
一百年前
伦敦，1926年8月4日，星期三
清晰地看到。我看到飞行员威洛斯先生，他当时坐在篮子上方的一个吊床座位上，试图接触安全阀，大概是为了释放气体。他成功地做到了这一点，气球迅速瘪了下去。随着气球瘪掉，风将气球转向，使得气囊穿过了网破损的部分，飘向树林上方。 该气球此前已通过了最彻底的测试。
嘈杂的驾驶者
鉴于内政大臣关于汽车排气管（尤其是摩托车）发出的过度噪音给公众带来的极大困扰和不便的声明，玛丽波恩治安法官 H. C. A. 宾格利先生昨日宣布，今后将对未能使用有效消音器的行为增加罚款。他向两名因该违规行为而被传唤的摩托车驾驶员地提及了内政大臣的声明，并提醒他们，制造“这些可怕的噪音”可能会被处以 £10 的罚款。他认为此前他的罚款数额太低，今后必须予以增加。然而，由于被告是初犯，他仅处以 20 先令的罚款。
公务员与工会
昨日，由荣誉少校 E. 卡多根（联盟党，芬奇利）在下议院提出了公务员与工会关系的问题。他提交了以下质询：询问财政大臣，政府目前是否能够说明拟采取何种行动，以应对公务员协会隶属于外部机构的问题。丘吉尔先生回答道：正如我在之前的回复中所述，国王陛下政府已对此事进行了密切考虑。政府已得出明确结论，公务员协会隶属于外部工业和政治组织违背公众利益，并打算在适当时候引入立法来处理此事。（听众喝彩。）
应当回想的是，《电讯报》是第一家提醒人们注意社会主义者企图控制公务员体系之危险的报纸。早在 1923 年，我们就曾刊登一系列关于该主题的文章。在 5 月 19 日，我们发表了国家惠特利委员会（职员方）通用委员会在大罢工前夕通过的一项非凡决议的文本，这一披露立即引起了公众的极大关注。该决议建议所有公务员在危机期间不要自愿执行除正常职责之外的任何工作，并向组织总部报告任何试图强迫其从事其他工作的行为。在公务员国家惠特利委员会职员方的一次会议上（27 名成员中有 13 名非公务员），该决议得到了认可和批准。随后，联合咨询委员会，包括第一分会公务员协会、公务员法律协会以及国王陛下税务检查员协会，决定在 10 月 31 日前退出国家惠特利委员会。
塞尔维亚与保加利亚
直到昨天深夜，据称塞尔维亚政府就保加利亚“Comitadjis”（游击队）在塞尔维亚边境重新活动的议题，以及保加利亚当局未能镇压此类游击队或马其顿革命委员会行动而致各大强国的照会，仍未抵达伦敦。另一方面，塞尔维亚备忘录的派遣已向日内瓦的国际联盟秘书处确认。
至于所谓的贝尔格莱德向索非亚发出的“最后通牒”，其似乎是对保加利亚政府的一种警告：如果保加利亚政府未能采取必要措施，制止其边境一侧的游击队袭击者，塞尔维亚当局将不得不自行处理此事。在这种情况下，这很难被描述为“战争威胁”。
路透社（Reuter’s Agency）获保加利亚消息人士告知，关于保加利亚游击队侵入南斯拉夫领土的传闻是不真实的。据声明，最近在克里瓦帕兰卡（Krivapalanka）发生的事件绝非由来自保加利亚的游击队引起，而且没有任何侵略者在保加利亚领土内寻求庇护。保加利亚政府坚定决定维持其对邻国的忠诚态度。
BENGE.—2026年7月7日，汉娜（Hannah）和詹姆斯（James）得女，名为莱拉·夏洛特（Lyra Charlotte）。 在线参考号：W0051372
BOND.—2026年7月27日，在林多翼（The Lindo Wing），乔伊·亚当斯（Joy Adams）和西蒙·邦德（Simon Bond）得子，名为亚瑟·汉博（Arthur Hambro），体重7磅。 在线参考号：W0051393
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ABRAHAM.—布赖恩·福斯基（Brian Foskee）中校于7月19日逝世，享年94岁。已故琳（Lyn）之夫，艾莉森（Alison）、希拉里（Hilary）、乔纳森（Jonathan）和尼古拉斯（Nicholas）挚爱的父亲，以及深受爱戴的祖父。葬礼服务将于8月17日星期一下午2点在加德斯比（Gaddesby）的圣卢克教堂（St Luke’s）举行。仅限家属献花。捐款请通过Ginns & Gutteridge向受伤骑师基金（Injured Jockeys Fund）捐赠。电话：0116 2516117。 在线参考号：W0051379
ATHERTON.—弗雷德里克·约翰（Frederick John），于2026年7月21日逝世，享年84岁。深受其家人詹（Jan）、亚历克斯（Alex）、莎拉（Sarah）、劳拉（Lara）、已故的克莱尔（Clare）、马克（Mark）、芬恩（Finn）和因内斯（Innes）的爱戴。仪式于8月12日星期三上午11.30在北约克郡克雷克霍尔（Crakehall）的圣格里高利教堂（St Gregory’s Church）举行。仅限家属献花，捐款请至皇家骨质疏松症协会（Royal Osteoporosis Society）。 在线参考号：W0051405
LANGLEY.—夏洛特·玛丽亚·格雷丝（Charlotte Maria Grace）于2026年7月29日安详逝世，享年64岁。于8月7日下午2.30在米兰德（Milland）的圣卢克教堂（St Luke’s, GU30 7JL）举行安葬仪式。 在线参考号：W0051373
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MELVILLE.—莱昂内尔·休（Lionel Hugh）在巴布亚新几内亚逝世，享年84岁。弗里莎（Fritha）挚爱的父亲，米拉（Meera）的祖父，以及默文（Mervyn）和奈杰（Nigel）的兄弟。毕业后，他在接受教师培训前曾在埃塞俄比亚参与志愿者服务组织（VSO）工作。随后他回到埃塞俄比亚，在亚的斯亚贝巴的桑福德学校（Sandford School）任教，但在革命后不得不离开。1978年，他移居巴布亚新几内亚，在那里担任全国多所学校的负责人及顾问。他是一位活跃且备受尊敬的扶轮社成员；他最近的一个项目为数千名儿童提供了学校课桌。他于2012年被授予大英帝国成员勋章（MBE），并于2026年因对教育和社区发展的贡献被授予国王勋章（纪念巴布亚新几内亚独立50周年）。 在线参考号：W0051408
NEAL.—简·希拉（Jane Sheila）于2026年8月1日安详逝世。休（Hugh）陪伴超过70年的挚爱妻子，卡罗琳（Caroline）和克里斯汀（Christine）深爱的母亲，珍爱的祖母、曾祖母、姑姨及好友。查询请联系：Wright殡葬服务公司，大米森登（Great Missenden）。电话：01494 863101。 在线参考号：W0051384
TEMPERLEY.—约翰·布赖恩（John Brian），前事务律师，于7月18日在索斯韦尔法院护理院（Southwell Court Care Home）安详逝世，享年96岁。慈爱的丈夫、父亲、祖父及曾祖父。私人火化后，将于8月20日星期四下午1.30在布利斯比教堂（Bleasby Church）举行感恩礼拜。请勿献花，欢迎向布利斯比圣玛丽教堂（St Mary’s Church, Bleasby）捐款。查询请联系：D.J. Hall殡葬承办人，南韦尔（Southwell NG25 0EN）国王街Verne House。 在线参考号：W0051389
WATT.—Jessica Marion（原姓 Gooda），现居德文郡班普顿（Bampton, Devon），原居西萨塞克斯郡，于 2026 年 7 月 20 日安详离世，享年 90 岁。她是 David 深爱的妻子，六个孩子的母亲，十四个孙辈的祖母，以及十个曾孙辈的太祖母。垂询请联系 Walter H. Squires & Son。电话：01884 252556。在线参考号：W0051363
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罗德·利德尔去世，享年 66 岁。他可以说是在英国新闻界同辈中攻击性最强的专栏作家——并且以此为荣。对于他的忠实读者群而言，他也是最幽默的，是第一个戳破所有政治陈词滥调、自封的受害者心态以及左翼自由派自命不凡之气的人。利德尔作为一名争议人士的职业生涯始于 2003 年，当时他被迫辞去了 Radio 4 的《今日》(Today) 节目编辑一职。他在《卫报》上发表的一篇专栏文章中，将支持狩猎的乡村联盟 (Countryside Alliance) 游行者嘲讽为“相当愤怒、面色红润的人”，这被认为违反了 BBC 的公正原则。此后，在《旁观者》(The Spectator)、《星期日泰晤士报》和《太阳报》的版面以及广播节目中，他挑战所有人，从广播媒体中的“正确性委员”到种族关系产业的巨头，以及日益激进的跨性别权利倡导者。
他人身攻击的对象范围极广，从工党政府的平等倡导者哈里叶·哈曼 (Harriet Harman)——他最终为一次攻击向其道歉，那次攻击始于“那么——哈里叶·哈曼。你会吗？我的意思是，显然是在喝了几杯啤酒之后，而不是在清醒的时候”——到芬斯伯里公园 (Finsbury Park) 的煽动性伊玛目阿布·哈姆扎 (Abu Hamza)，后者在一次爆炸中失去了双手，利德尔习惯性地称他为“钩子 (Hookie)”。他最尖锐的讽刺大多指向他所认为的“伪左翼”自由派精英的自我强化网络，这些成员占据了许多权力委员会和董事会，从而在很大程度上控制了令利德尔深感关切的公共辩论参数。他将这种现象称为“沙米六度分隔 (Six Degrees of Shami)”，是指沙米·查克拉巴蒂 (Shami Chakrabarti，现为男爵夫人)，这位无处不在的公民自由活动家后来成为了工党的影子大臣。他尤其厌恶那些流露出对白人工薪阶层轻视的精英成员，而利德尔本人认为，由于社会变迁、糟糕的教育以及现代对多元文化主义和少数群体权利的痴迷，白人工薪阶层已被抛弃。在这方面，他重点攻击了《独立报》专栏作家亚斯明·阿里拜-布朗 (Yasmin Alibhai-Brown)——对方也毫不客气地予以回击，在一次激烈的第四频道 (Channel 4) 辩论中告诉利德尔，她厌恶他，并很自豪地当面这么说。
关于利德尔的真相是，他拥有极其敏锐的、能够嗅出伪善与谎言的记者嗅觉，但他在处理事实时也可能不够严谨，且使用的措辞带有伤害性，尤其是在感到宿醉且临近截稿日期时——这导致他多次被提交给新闻投诉委员会，并多次不得不为自己面对种族主义、恐同、恐跨以及其他当代“思想罪”的指控进行辩护。然而，忠实的读者知道他的真实意图，并认同他所描绘的阴暗图景。特别是，他们理解他对那些被政治家抛弃并成为媒体随意嘲讽目标的普通人的同情。这种本能在 2006 年的一篇专栏中得到了最充分的体现，在那篇文章中，他找到了一个 14 岁酒驾青少年的父母，他们住在纽伯里 (Newbury) 的市政议会房中。那个孩子在法庭上暴力发作，而她的父母则向聚集的媒体投掷鸡蛋：他发现这对夫妇“永远地处于穷困潦倒之中”，但
伊恩·伍德（Ian Wood）逝世，享年 84 岁。他是苏格兰最伟大的企业家之一，在家族位于亚伯丁的船舶工程业务基础上，建立了一家极具规模且成功的离岸油气工业服务供应商，并将由此获得的大部分财富用于慈善事业。当伊恩·伍德在 1967 年出任当时的约翰·伍德父子公司（John Wood & Son）总经理时，该公司已是一家繁荣的工程企业，为亚伯丁和彼得海德的渔业船队提供服务，而其家族也是当地领先的运营商。他很早就察觉到了北海石油开采的潜力——1969 年底亚伯丁以东的蒙特罗斯油田的发现，以及随后不久发现的巨大的福蒂斯和布伦特油田——对于能够满足跨国石油巨头需求的供应商来说，这将是一个丰厚的新业务来源。伍德集团（Wood Group）随之扩张，除北海外，还进入北美、南美及中东地区运营，并在世纪之交实现了年度营收 10 亿美元。在伊恩·伍德家长式领导风格及其对细节近乎强迫的关注下，该公司在工程和客户关系方面赢得了世界级的声誉；在 1988 年 7 月亚伯丁东北海域的派珀阿尔法（Piper Alpha）油井火灾导致 39 名员工丧生（总死亡人数为 167 人）后，安全性也成为了驱动原则。该公司于 2002 年在伦敦证券交易所上市（六年后加入富时 100 指数），市值 9.35 亿英镑 (£935 million)，这使得伊恩·伍德能够在接下来的十年里逐渐套现家族持股，为他的慈善雄心提供资金。他一直担任首席执行官直到 2006 年，并于 2012 年卸任董事长。他创建了苏格兰离岸工业中最顶尖的本土公司，并助力其家乡城市成为了欧洲的石油之都。马丁·吉尔伯特（Martin Gilbert）是亚伯丁投资集团的创始人，伍德曾担任该集团早期的非执行董事（两人毕业于同一所学校和大学），他评价道：“他对亚伯丁所做的贡献，没有其他人能……”
利德尔：他憎恨那些蔑视普通人的“伪左翼”自由派精英
善良、忠诚且竭尽全力地对待他们的家庭——这或许是对他所有写作源头的卑微出身的一种回响。 罗德里克·埃德温·利德尔（Roderick Edwin Liddle）1960 年 4 月 1 日出生于肯特郡的西德丘（Sidcup），是埃德温·利德尔（Edwin Liddle）与其妻子玛格丽特（Margaret，原姓克利）之子。埃德温的父亲约瑟夫（Joseph）来自达灵顿，曾是一名火车司机；埃德温曾在铁路部门工作，并在成为税务局职员之前在鱼雷快艇部队服役。 在罗德八岁时，全家搬到了米德尔斯堡一个“精选”的郊区楠索普（Nunthorpe）（尽管他写道，这样描述就像是在说“摩加迪沙的一个精选区域”）。他在劳伦斯·杰克逊综合中学（Laurence Jackson comprehensive）和普里尔·珀斯格洛夫第六形式学院（Prior Pursglove sixth-form college）就读，期间组建了一支朋克乐队并加入了社会主义工人党。 “我在 16 或 17 岁的时候状态最好，”他回忆道，“精力充沛但令人厌恶。”他还回忆起他那忍耐力极强的父亲在他打扮好准备去市中心夜游时的评价：一只耳朵戴着耳环，撕裂的裤子上用彩色马克笔写着“滚蛋”（Fuck Off），肮脏的二手夹克翻领上别着一个鲜红的社会主义工人党徽章：“天呐，你真是跌到谷底了。” 在作为《南威尔士回声报》（South Wales Echo）的记者进入新闻界后，利德尔在 1983 年至 1987 年期间担任工党（Labour）的演讲撰稿人和研究员，随后作为一名成年学生在伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）学习社会心理学，之后加入英国广播公司（BBC）担任见习制片人。1998 年被任命为《今日》（Today）节目编辑，他提升了该节目的……
（图片注：伊恩·伍德在办公桌前，下方为 2013 年接收菲利普亲王颁发的 RSE 皇家奖章）
“……这是他所做过的一切，而且我怀疑再也不会有人能做到。” 伊恩·克拉克·伍德于 21 1942 年 7 月出生在“花岗岩之城”，父母是约翰·伍德和他的妻子玛格丽特（原姓克拉克）。他在罗伯特·戈登学院接受教育，并于 1964 年在阿伯丁大学获得了心理学一等荣誉学士学位。
在调查记者方面的名声，并赢得了多项奖项。 在离开《今日》报后，利德尔在轻娱乐领域有过短暂尝试，在《Call My Bluff》节目中担任队长，与艾伦·科伦对阵，但他的幽默风格被证明过于忧郁。2003 年，他出版了短篇小说集《Too Beautiful for You》；2007 年，出版了讽刺小说《Love Will Destroy Everything》。 他的非虚构作品《Selfish, Whining Monkeys: How We Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy》（2014 年）在分析英国的转型时，通过对他父母充满同情的描绘，营造出一种近乎挽歌的基调。他分析英国如何从一个拥有“就业保障、某种社会流动性的假象、稳步提高的生活水平，以及事物、价值和风俗的一种持久性”的地方，变成一个“将我们所有人凝聚在一起的胶水已经溶解”且“你听到的愤怒吠叫”是竞争性受害者群体在宣泄愤怒的地方。 他总结道，我们变得更加宽容多样性是件好事，但“对旧秩序的这种抛弃让我们变得紧张且喧闹，不快乐，孤立且厌恶”。一位评论家称这本书是“一次狂热且血腥的冲锋，横扫了软弱的自由派权贵阶层懒惰的思维”。 类似的描述也适用于他 2018 年在拥有 2,300 个座位的伦敦帕拉迪姆剧院举行的售罄现场演出（在接受《旁观者》编辑弗雷泽·尼尔森采访时，他手里拿着一瓶红葡萄酒）：甚至一位此前对利德尔深感恐惧的《观察家报》女专栏作家也不得不承认，他“让我走出剧院时的心情感觉不再那么阴郁了”。尼尔森曾观察到，虽然“不要让罗德收敛”是《旁观者》读者经常提出的请求，但利德尔却是那些不订阅该杂志的人最常贬低的人。Twitter 上的道貌岸然之徒反复上利德尔的钩子，对他的一些文章啧啧有事，例如他在其中观察到，自己绝对无法担任教师，因为他“完全无法想象不去勾引学生”；尽管他随后在缓解说明中提到：“我认为我不会在 10 年级以下尝试太多。”利德尔在文字或现实中从未将自己塑造为任何人的榜样；事实上，有时很明显，他鄙视自己的程度几乎与他鄙视目标对象一样深。在承认中年时期个人生活的混乱时，他将自己比作滥交的北美山地鼠。“在共同点上……”
伍德家族从 19 世纪 90 年代起就开始在阿伯丁港从事捕鱼业。伊恩的祖父威廉将业务扩展到船舶修理和海洋工程——在下一代中，伊恩的父亲约翰推动公司发展，使其成为苏格兰最大的独立拖网渔船所有者。伊恩于 1964 年加入公司，1967 年成为总经理，并在 20 世纪 70 年代领导了油田服务业务的发展。 1982 年，集团分拆，JW Holdings 继续作为苏格兰最大的渔业公司（当时该行业正在萎缩），伊恩·伍德担任主席直至去世；而约翰·伍德集团则专注于工程和油田物流——并在他退休后将业务多元化至其他领域，但这带来了一系列财务和合同问题。这家规模缩减的公司于今年早些时候被一家总部位于迪拜的财团 Sidara 收购。 伊恩·伍德还曾担任皇家
用当时的说法，我似乎是那种管不住自己下半身的人。”1993年，他与在英国广播公司（BBC）结识的电视记者瑞秋·罗伊斯（Rachel Royce）开始交往。他们育有两个儿子，泰勒（Tyler）和怀尔德（Wilder），并最终于2004年在马来西亚举行了一场奢华的度假婚礼。但那时，利德尔已经与《旁观者》（The Spectator）的接待员艾丽西亚·蒙克顿（Alicia Monckton）发生了外遇，后者年纪仅为他的一半，并且为此取消了与另一名男子的婚约；瑞秋后来声称他为了回到艾丽西亚身边而提前结束了蜜月——而利德尔则宣称“失败之处在于当初竟然结婚了”。他与瑞秋随后开始对彼此发表激烈的评价，而小报们则乐于在鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）主编下那如不设限肥皂剧般的《旁观者》中发掘新的情节。利德尔报道称，约翰逊在讨论他的下一篇文章时，“突然中断并大笑不止”，以此嘲笑他的窘迫。2005年，利德尔在一次家庭争吵中因对怀孕20周的艾丽西亚实施普通袭击而被逮捕，并接受了警告。他们的女儿出生后，被以女权运动先驱埃米琳·潘克斯赫斯特（Emmeline Pankhurst）的名字命名为埃米琳（Emmeline）。利德尔曾是工党成员长达40年，直到2016年因撰文批评该党“对反犹主义的奇怪情结”而被开除。2019年——即他出版研究建制派试图阻挠脱欧的著作《伟大的背叛》（The Great Betrayal）之年——他加入了社会民主党；在2024年大选中，他作为社会民主党候选人在米德尔斯布勒南部和东克利夫兰（Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland）选区参选，排名第四。在他近期的专栏中，拥趸们尤为珍视一篇关于他（想象中）出席英国电影电视艺术学院奖（Bafta）颁奖典礼的记述，文中提到在一名图雷特综合征活动人士爆发情绪后，现场出现了一系列胆怯的道歉：利德尔声称他对主持人大吼“你这个自以为是、矫揉造作、丑陋、不自然、蜡皮的精液妖精”以及“屁股獾”，且并未被保安驱逐。利德iddle性格中一个令人惊讶的元素或许是他的基督教信仰——这体现在2017年发表在《旁观者》上的一首圣诞诗中，他在诗中哀悼基督在一个充斥着“电视上的胡言乱语、虚伪的亲切、虚假的欢快”的节日中缺席——但“不知为何，祂在高处注视着……是觉得好笑，还是感到震惊，或是心烦意乱——谁知道呢？”罗德·利德尔（Rod Liddle）去世后，留下了他在2008年结婚的妻子艾丽西亚以及三个孩子。
乔纳森·沃思（JONATHAN WORTH）
罗德·利德尔，生于1960年4月1日，卒于2026年8月2日
1988年至1997年期间就职于苏格兰银行。几十年来，任何旨在促进苏格兰商业（尤其是格兰皮安地区和离岸工业）的委员会，如果没有伍德（Wood）的参与都是不完整的。作为规划可行后石油经济需求的杰出倡导者，他是阿伯丁能源转型区的创始主席和主要出资人，该机构致力于在低碳和可再生能源项目中保护并创造地区就业机会。与此同时，成立于2007年的伍德家族慈善基金会将目光投向了苏格兰青年的机会以及撒哈拉以南非洲的发展，特别关注卢旺达和坦桑尼亚的茶叶产业。据当地媒体估算，伍德家族在阿伯丁及其周边资助的项目总额远超£100 million，其中包括罗伯特戈登大学（Ian Wood曾在该校就读）的一所石油和天然气研究所。
（曾于 2005 至 2021 年间担任财政大臣）以及为亚伯丁皇家医院建设的一座多层停车场——他的妻子海伦在尝试在那里停车时曾经历过压力巨大的情况。然而，一项为市中心联合露台花园（Union Terrace Gardens）提供 £50 million 资金的改造计划最终被市议会否决。他的名誉学位和终身成就奖项填满了《名人录》（Who’s Who）条目中的许多行，而他的财富——被认为是苏格兰第三大财富——近期估计为 19 亿英镑 billion。他于 1982 年被授予 CBE，1994 年被封为骑士，2016 年被提升为 GBE，并于 2018 年被封为蓟花骑士。尽管如此，伊恩·伍德在举止上依然完全不摆架子，平易近人，且在亚伯丁郊区和珀斯郡乡村的住宅风格上也十分谦逊，仅将自己的业余爱好列为“家庭、艺术、网球”。出行时，他的公文包里装着脱因茶包和在火车旅途中收集的苏格兰黄油短饼小包装。他于 1970 年与海伦·麦克雷结婚；海伦与他们的三个儿子在世。
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与爵士摇滚乐队“血汗泪” (Blood, Sweat and Tears) 合作的熊一般强悍的歌手
大卫·克莱顿-托马斯于 84 岁去世。他曾是“血汗泪”乐队中那位体格魁梧、嗓音粗犷的歌手兼作词人。这支爵士摇滚先驱乐队在标准的吉他-贝斯-键盘-鼓的阵容基础上，增加了一个气势磅礴的铜管乐组，并推出了一系列热门单曲，包括《旋转之轮》(Spinning Wheel) 和《你让我如此快乐》(You’ve Made Me So Very Happy)。“当你看到他全盛时期的样子，从头到脚穿着黑皮衣，夹克袖子上带着流苏，他就是‘狠角色’的定义，”他的 BS&T 同事卢·波曼蒂 (Lou Pomanti) 回忆道，“无论是在台上还是台下，都不要惹他。”他出生于 September 13 1941 的泰晤士河畔金斯顿，原名大卫·亨利·汤姆塞特 (David Henry Thomsett)，父亲弗雷德·汤姆塞特 (Fred Thomsett) 是加拿大军队的一名电线工，母亲弗雷达 (Freda，原姓史密斯) 是一名钢琴手；两人在弗雷达为部队表演时相识。战后，全家搬到了多伦多；年轻的大卫经常被酗酒的父亲殴打，并在十几岁早些时候离家出走，睡在停泊的汽车和空建筑里，靠偷窃生存；他好斗的名声伴随了他一生。他曾在青少年司法系统中纠缠多年，但在一家机构中他发现了一把吉他并自学了演奏。1962 年获释后，他将名字改为大卫·克莱顿-托马斯，进入多伦多的 R’n’B 音乐圈，并在伟大的摇滚乐手罗尼·霍金斯 (Ronnie Hawkins) 的鼓励下成立了名为“大卫·克莱顿-托马斯与绝佳谢斯”(David Clayton-Thomas and the Fabulous Shays) 的乐队。他们制作了几张专辑，并应主持人保罗·安卡 (Paul Anka) 的邀请，在 NBC 的流行节目《Hullabaloo》中演出。他的下一支乐队“大卫·克莱顿-托马斯与波斯曼”(David Clayton-Thomas and the Bossmen) 是最早拥有铜管乐组的摇滚乐队之一。他们 1966 年的单曲《洗脑》(Brain Washed) 由克莱顿-托马斯共同创作——“60 million 人阅读关于越南的所有报道 / 85 per cent 的人根本不在乎”——在加拿大大获成功。他随后搬到了纽约，在那里结识了“血汗泪”乐队的鼓手鲍比·科隆比 (Bobby Colomby)。这支乐队由键盘手阿尔·库珀 (Al Kooper) 构思（库珀最著名的作品是在鲍勃·迪伦 1965 年的《Like a Rolling Stone》中演奏管风琴），在发行首张专辑《孩子是成年人的父亲》(The Child Is Father to the Man) 后解散了。但有了克莱顿-托马斯担任主唱，他们重新组建（库珀除外），其 1968 年的同名第二张专辑获得了四倍白金认证。
‘狠角色的定义’
1968 年，《纽约时报》宣布他们是“全美最好的摇滚乐队之一……大卫·克莱顿-托马斯……在舞台上笨拙地走动，快乐地对着麦克风尖叫。”在接下来的三年里，BS&T 填满了世界各地的体育场，并成为了伍德斯托克音乐节的亮点之一。1970 年，由于克莱顿-托马斯青少年时期的刑事犯罪记录，尼克松的美国国务院威胁要将其遣返回加拿大，从而强迫他们进行一次铁幕后的文化交流巡演。粉丝们的反应极为激烈，在演出外举行示威，并向舞台上投掷狗屎。“我认为我们当时没有意识到这会产生怎样的反弹并反噬我们，”这位歌手回忆道。在 1971 年的《B, S & T 4》专辑之后，克莱顿-托马斯因长期巡演而精疲力竭，且厌倦了成员间自我意识的冲突，决定单飞。他制作了一系列销量较低的专辑，随后在《新城市》(New City, 1975) 和《比以往任何时候都》(More Than Ever, 1976) 两张专辑中重新回到了乐队。1978 年，随着萨克斯风手格雷戈里·赫伯特 (Gregory Herbert) 在阿姆斯特丹死于药物过量，乐队分崩离析。克莱顿-托马斯以“血汗泪”的名义在成员不断变动的情况下进行巡演和录音，直到 2004 年回到加拿大。该乐队至今仍在活动，在不同时期曾起用过 150 名以上的音乐家。在多伦多，他组建了自己的全明星 10 人乐队；朋友们说，他在晚年变得平和许多。大卫·克莱顿-托马斯结过四次婚并离婚四次，留下第一段婚姻中的一个女儿和第三段婚姻中的一个女儿。
大卫·克莱顿-托马斯， 出生于 September 13 1941， 逝于 June 24 2026
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6.00am 5 Live 早餐 9.00 尼基·坎贝尔 (Nicky Campbell) 11.00 玛丽安娜·斯普林 (Marianna Spring) 2.00pm 马特·乔利 (Matt Chorley) 4.00 5 Live 驾驶 (5 Live Drive) 7.00 5 Live 体育。埃莉诺·奥尔德罗伊德 (Eleanor Oldroyd) 播报当日体育新闻 7.30 5 Live 体育。埃莉诺·奥尔德罗伊德与嘉宾回顾 1996 年亚特兰大奥运会的遗产 9.00 田径。埃莉诺·奥尔德罗伊德展望欧洲田径锦标赛 10.00 强尼·I’Anson (Johnny I’Anson) 1.00am 多顿·阿德巴约 (Dotun Adebayo) 5.00 - 6.00am 金钱觉醒 (Wake Up to Money)
经典 FM (CLASSIC FM)
调频 99.9-101. MHZ
6.30am 经典 FM 早餐，由丹·沃克 (Dan Walker) 主持 9.00 经典 FM 名人堂时间，由丹·沃克主持 10.00 亚历德·琼斯 (Aled Jones) 1.00pm 安妮-玛丽·明霍尔 (Anne-Marie Minhall) 4.00 玛格丽塔·泰勒 (Margherita Taylor) 7.00 惬意之夜，由泽布·索恩斯 (Zeb Soanes) 主持。泽布主持一个由最放松音乐组成的夜晚 9.00 经典 FM 作曲家轮播，由泽布·索恩斯主持。今日焦点是弗洛伦斯·普莱斯 (Florence Price) 10.00 平静经典 (Calm Classics) 1.00am 比尔·欧弗顿 (Bill Overton) 4.00 - 6.30am 早期早餐
仅限数字频道 (DIGITAL ONLY)
仅限数字频道 (DIGITAL ONLY)
8.00am 新闻 8.06 修复世界的人们 (People Fixing the World) 8.30 商业日报 (Business Daily) 8.50 见证历史 (Witness History) 9.00 新闻室 (The Newsroom) 9.30 特派报道 (Assignment) 10.00 新闻 10.06 艺术时间 (The Arts Hour) 11.00 新闻室 11.30 全球故事 (The Global Story) 12.00 新闻 12.06pm 展望 (Outlook) 12.50 见证历史 1.00 新闻室 1.30 录音室中 (In the Studio) 2.00 新闻小时 (Newshour) 3.00 新闻 3.06 修复世界的人们 3.30 商业日报 3.50 世界商业快讯 (World Business Express) 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 新闻 6.06 展望 6.50 见证历史
上午 6:00 《早安英国》(S) 上午 10:00 《今晨》(S) 下午 1:30 新闻 (S) 下午 1:55 ITV 伦敦新闻；天气 (S) 下午 2:00 《迪金森的真实交易》(AD) (R) (S) 下午 3:00 《交易或不交易》(AD) (R) (S) 下午 4:00 《倾斜点》(R) (S) 下午 5:00 《追击》(R) (S) 下午 6:00 ITV 伦敦新闻；天气 (S) 下午 6:30 新闻 (S)
下午 7:30 《走进朗廷酒店：英国第一座豪华酒店》首席执行官抵达，视察酒店最雄心勃勃的翻修工程之一 (AD) (S)
下午 8:00 《艾默代尔》Nicola 发现了一个令人担忧的情况 (AD) (S)
下午 8:30 《加冕街》Dylan 在与 Brody 对峙后陷入昏迷 (AD) (S)
下午 9:00 《冷案法医：尼罗河上的死亡》调查一名英国律师在埃及度假期间的死亡事件 (AD) (S)
晚上 10:00 新闻 (S) 晚上 10:30 ITV 伦敦新闻；天气 (S) 晚上 10:45 电影：《绝地战警 2》(2003) 由威尔·史密斯和马丁·劳伦斯主演的喜剧惊悚续集 (S)
凌晨 1:10 电视购物 凌晨 3:00 《峰会》 凌晨 3:50 ITV 舒缓时光 凌晨 5:05 - 6:00 《失散多年的家人：无迹可寻的出生》
Radio 4 调查：罗马尼亚赎金 (Radio 4, 晚上 8 点)，揭露了亨利·雅各布 (Henry Jakober) 帮助犹太人逃离共产主义时代罗马尼亚的故事。作者：杰拉德·奥多诺万 (Gerard O’Donovan)
晚上 7:00 《新闻室》 晚上 7:30 《今日体育》 晚上 8:00 新闻 晚上 8:06 《任务》 晚上 8:30 《科技生活》 晚上 9:00 《新闻时段》 晚上 10:00 新闻 晚上 10:06 《修复世界的人们》 晚上 10:30 《在工作室》 晚上 11:00 《新闻室》 晚上 11:30 《世界商业报告》 凌晨 12:00 新闻 凌晨 12:06 《艺术之小时》 凌晨 1:00 《新闻室》 凌晨 1:30 《全球故事》 凌晨 2:00 《新闻室》 凌晨 2:30 《气候问题》 凌晨 3:00 新闻 凌晨 3:06 《展望》 凌晨 3:50 《见证历史》 凌晨 4:00 《新闻室》 凌晨 4:30 纪录片：《我们如何走到今天：以色列与巴勒斯坦人》 凌晨 5:00 - 8:00 《新闻日》
RADIO 4 EXTRA
上午 6:00 《等待游戏》 上午 6:30 《谁杀了奥尔德里奇·坎普？》 上午 7:00 《是的，部长》 上午 7:30 《最后的古尼 шоу》 上午 8:30 《追随帕帕诺》 上午 8:45 《小岛》 上午 9:00 《遇见大卫·塞达里斯》 上午 9:30 《酒馆背后》 上午 9:45 《每日礼拜》 上午 10:00 《自由思考》 上午 10:45 论文：《伟大作品的小秘密》 上午 11:00 《等待游戏》 上午 11:30 《谁杀了奥尔德里奇·坎普？》 中午 12:00 《是的，部长》 下午 12:30 《最后的古尼 шоу》 下午 1:30 《追随帕帕诺》 下午 1:45 《小岛》 下午 2:00 《骗局！》 下午 2:30 《兄弟》 下午 3:00 《地海巫师》 下午 4:00 《自由思考》 下午 4:45 论文：《伟大作品的小秘密》 下午 5:00 《等待游戏》 下午 5:30 《谁杀了奥尔德里奇·坎普？》 下午 6:00 《是的，部长》 下午 6:30 《最后的古尼 шоу》 晚上 7:30 《追随帕帕诺》 晚上 7:45 《小岛》 晚上 8:00 《骗局！》 晚上 8:30 《兄弟》 晚上 9:00 《地海巫师》 晚上 10:00 《遇见大卫·塞达里斯》 晚上 10:30 《获胜者是》 晚上 11:00 《全世界皆舞台》 晚上 11:15 《福莱与麦考尔：访谈》 晚上 11:30 《连锁反应》 凌晨 12:00 《自由思考》 凌晨 12:45 论文：《伟大作品的小秘密》 凌晨 1:00 《等待游戏》 凌晨 1:30 《谁杀了奥尔德里奇·坎普？》 凌晨 2:00 《是的，部长》 凌晨 2:30 《最后的古尼 шоу》 凌晨 3:30 《追随帕帕诺》 凌晨 3:45 《小岛》 凌晨 4:00 《骗局！》 凌晨 4:30 《兄弟》 凌晨 5:00 - 6:00 《地海巫师》
6.30 am the King of Queens (AD) (R) (S) 6.55 The King of Queens (AD) (R) (S) 7.20 The King of Queens (AD) (R) (S) 7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (AD) (R) (S) 8.10 Everybody Loves Raymond (AD) (R) (S) 8.40 Everybody Loves Raymond (AD) (R) (S) 9.10 Frasier (AD) (R) (S) 9.40 Frasier (AD) (R) (S) 10.10 Frasier (AD) (R) (S) 10.40 Frasier (AD) (R) (S) 11.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (R) (S) 12.05 pm Channel 4 News (S) 12.10 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD) (R) (S) 1.10 The Great House Giveaway (R) (S) 2.10 Countdown (S) 3.00 A Place in the Sun (R) (S) 4.00 Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith (AD) (R) (S) 5.00 Chateau DIY (AD) (R) (S) 6.00 American Pickers (AD) (R) (S)
Wonderland: Gothic Last of the Summer Wine Accident My Stepmother Is an Alien Hotel Chocolat Unwrapped Inside Longleat
7.00 Channel 4 News (S)
8.00 Hotel Chocolat Unwrapped 巧克力制作师 Yodi 构思限量版饮用巧克力口味 (AD) (S)
9.00 Celebrity Hunted 两名 逃犯通过在电视直播中现身采取大胆行动 (AD) (S)
10.00 Gogglebox 评论员对 The Celebrity Traitors 和 Trigger Point 的看法 (AD) (R) (S)
11.05 Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives 12.05am Naked Attraction 1.05 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 1.55 电影： Breakthrough (2019) 由 Chrissy Metz 主演的基于事实的剧集 3.50 Couples Come Dine with Me 4.45 The Piano 5.40 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.50 - 6.30am Countdown
更多频道 Variations FV Freeview FS Freesat (AD) 语音描述 (R) 重播 (S) 字幕 (SL) 视觉手语
FV Freeview FS Freesat (AD) 语音描述 (R) 重播 (S) 字幕 (SL) 视觉手语
FV 9 FS 173 SKY 116 VIRGIN 108
7.00 pm Great British Railway Journeys 7.30 Wainwright Walks 8.00 To the Manor Born 8.30 Keeping Up Appearances 9.00 She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens 10.00 Castles: Britain’s Fortified History 11.00 Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? 12.00 Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? 1.00 am She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens 2.00 Castles: Britain’s Fortified History 3.00 - 3.30am Great British Railway Journeys
U&Dave
11.20am Yukon Gold 12.20pm Top Gear 2.20 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 3.00 Martin Clunes: Islands of America 4.00 Rick Stein: From Venice to Istanbul 6.00 Hairy Bikers’ Best of British 7.00 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 7.40 Would I Lie to You? 9.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 10.00 QI XL 11.00 Taskmaster 12.00 Mock the Week 12.40am Would I Lie to You? 2.00 QI XL 2.50 Richard Osman’s House of Games 3.35-4.00am Parks and Recreation
ITV2
11.10am Charmed 12.10pm Deal or No Deal 1.10 Supermarket Sweep 2.10 The Floor USA 3.10 The Only Way Is Essex 4.10 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City 5.00 The Real Housewives of Orange County 6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase. 由 Beverley Callard, Kirsty Gallacher 和 Stephen K Amos 主持 7.00 The Floor USA 8.00 The 1% Club 9.00 Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection. 新系列。Olivia 采访承认自己进行过手术、表达过遗憾以及享受过免费医疗的名人 10.00 Family Guy 11.35 American Dad! 12.35am Bob’s Burgers 1.30 Plebs 1.55 Deep Fake Neighbour Wars 2.20 Unwind with ITV 3.00-6.00am Teleshopping
[!NOTE] 本章节源文包含大量外语数据与图片版面，已进行结构化对齐优化。
6.00 am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine (S) 11.30 Storm & Alexis (S) 12.45 pm 5 News at Lunchtime (S) 12.50 Matt Allwright (S) 2.15 电影：《威尼斯谋杀案》(2023, TVM) 惊悚片，由 Sophie Hopkins 主演 (S) 4.00 Castle (R) (S) 4.55 Love Nature (R) (S) 5.00 5 News with Dan Walker (S) 6.00 Majorca: A Year in the Sun (R) (S) 6.55 5 News Update (S)
7.00 The Yorkshire Vet: At Home with the Greens 当 Peter Wright 带 Jean 乘坐直升机时，Jean得以从空中俯瞰她的农场 (R) (S)
7.55 5 News Update (S)
8.00 Inside Longleat 摄像机记录了 Longleat 花园中一些意想不到的访客 (S)
9.00 The Victorians with Rob Rinder and Ruth Goodman 探讨历史上最著名的事件在富人和穷人之间是如何被经历的 (S)
10.30 Manhunt: Search for the Cop Killer 警方在 1982 年搜捕 Barry Prudom 的行动 (R) (S)
12.05 am The Cannibal Next Door 1.00 Cruise TV with LoveitBookit 2.00 GPs: Behind Closed Doors 2.50 Castle 3.40 Friends 4.05 Friends 4.30 The Highland Vet 5.25 Entertainment News on 5 5.35 Milo 5.45 - 6.00am The Adventures of Paddington
FV 10 FS 115 SKY 119 VIRGIN 117
11.30 am Heartbeat 12.35 pm Heartbeat 1.35 Midsomer Murders 3.35 Classic Emmerdale 4.10 Classic Emmerdale 5.15 Classic Coronation Street 5.50 Heartbeat 6.55 Heartbeat 8.00 Vera 10.00 Grantchester 11.00 Grantchester 11.50 Trial & Retribution 1.25 am Wycliffe 2.25 Unwind with ITV 2.30 - 6.00am Teleshopping
Challenge
11.00am Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 12.15pm Lily Savage’s Blankety Blank 1.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special 2.00 Bridge of Lies 3.00 The Chase 4.00 All Star Family Fortunes 4.45 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 6.00 Tenable 7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 8.00 Beat the Chasers 9.00 The Chase 10.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 11.00 Bullseye 12.00 Bridge of Lies 1.00am The Chase 2.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 3.00-4.00am The Chase
Quest
Noon Outback Car Hunters 1.00pm Mike Brewer: Born Dealer 2.00 Shed and Buried 3.00 Shed and Buried: Classic Cars 4.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.00 The Yorkshire Auction House 7.00 Antiques Road Trip 8.00 Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic 9.00 Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques 10.00 The Repair Shop 11.00 How Do They Do It? 1.00am Salvage Hunters 3.00-4.00am Salvage Hunters: The Restorers
FV 26 FS 117 SKY 120 VIRGIN 118
11.25 am Robin of Sherwood 12.30 pm Magnum, PI 1.35 Magnum, PI 2.35 Dempsey and Makepeace 3.45 Boon 4.50 The Professionals 5.55 Minder 7.00 The Motorbike Show 8.00 World Rally Championship Highlights 9.00 Ice Road Truckers 10.00 All Elite Wrestling: Collision 12.00 Dark Side of the Ring 12.55 am Minder 1.55 BattleBots 2.45 Unwind with ITV 3.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping
Mechanic 9.00 Bull Shark Dinner Bell 10.00 What Shark Attacked? 11.00 The Alaska Triangle 12.00 Deadliest Catch 1.00am Bull Shark Dinner Bell 2.00 What Shark Attacked? 3.00-4.00am Gold Divers
PBS America
11.55am Hitler’s Gold 1.00pm America the Bountiful 1.35 Conquistadors: The Rise and Fall 2.35 Hitler’s Gold 3.35 Pirates: Behind the Legends 4.35 Iron Curtain: Living Under Soviet Occupation 5.50 Hitler’s Gold 6.50 Conquistadors: The Rise and Fall 7.50 Pirates: Behind the Legends 8.50 Iron Curtain: Living Under Soviet Occupation 10.00 Hitler’s Gold 11.00 Pirates: Behind the Legends 12.00 Iron Curtain: Living Under Soviet Occupation 1.15am America the Bountiful 2.00-6.00am Teleshopping
Sky History
Noon Ice Road Truckers 1.00pm History’s Greatest Machines with Dolph Lundgren 2.00 Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman 6.00 American Pickers 7.00 Forged in Fire 8.00 Hitler’s Engineers 9.00 History’s Greatest Machines with Dolph Lundgren 10.00 Prison Chronicles 11.00 History’s Deadliest with Ving Rhames 12.00 Great Escapes with
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FV 36 FS 143 SKY 822 VIRGIN 123
6.00 am 经典FM之明日之星，主持人朱利安·劳埃德·韦伯 2025 (S) 7.00 风笛：庆典 (AD) (S) 8.00 绘画之乐 (S) 8.30 绘画之乐 (S) 9.00 意想不到的故事 (AD) (S) 9.30 意想不到的故事 (AD) (S) 10.00 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克呈现 (S) 10.30 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克呈现 (S) 11.00 探索：琼·方丹 (AD) (S) 12.00 仙境：从詹姆斯·巴里到JRR托尔金 (S) 1.00 pm 意想不到的故事 (AD) 1.30 意想不到的故事 (AD) (S) 2.00 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克时间 (S) 3.00 七十年代 (AD) (S) 4.00 探索：理查德·哈里斯 (AD) (S) 5.00 年度肖像画家 2021 (AD) (S) 6.00 意想不到的故事 (AD) (S) 6.30 意想不到的故事 (AD) (S)
7.00 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克呈现 一名女性被未知袭击者殴打 (S)
7.30 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克呈现 (S)
8.00 绘画中的世界：委拉斯开兹的辣椒 委拉斯开兹作品《马尔他和玛丽家的基督》中辣椒背后的故事 (S)
9.15 画笔之外 波提切利《维纳斯的诞生》 (AD) (S)
9.45 画笔之外 达芬奇《最后的晚餐》 (AD) (S)
10.15 仙境：哥特式 探讨该流派从文学扩展到电影的影响 (AD) (S)
11.15 电影 12.15am 我是史蒂夫·麦奎因 2.00 山谷之声 3.00 第二次世界大战与电影 4.00 Sky Arts读书会 5.00 - 6.00am 仙境：从詹姆斯·巴里到JRR托尔金
FV 18 FS 124 SKY 136 VIRGIN 147
11.35 am 四人共床 12.10 pm 四人共床 12.40 来我家吃饭 1.10 来我家吃饭 1.40 来我家吃饭 2.15 来我家吃饭 2.50 来我家吃饭 3.20 四人共床 5.50 汽车救援 (Car S.O.S) 6.50 汽车救援 (Car S.O.S) 7.55 宏伟设计 9.00 欧蒂与理查드의南非奥德赛 10.00 24 Hours in A&E 11.05 24 Hours in A&E 12.10 am 999: On the Front Line 1.15 24 Hours in A&E 2.20 24 Hours in A&E 3.25 - 3.50am 阳光之城
摩根·弗里曼 1.50am 希特勒的工程师 2.50 历史上的伟大机器，主持人多夫·龙格伦 3.40- 4.25am 典当之星
Sky Documentaries
正午 艾伯特·布鲁克斯：捍卫我的生活 1.45pm 我的偶像：约翰·阿马埃奇 2.00 史塔西足球俱乐部 3.50 我的偶像：迈克尔·霍尔丁 4.00 导演们 5.00 探索：加里·奥德曼 5.55 JFK：被背叛的命运 7.00 切尔诺贝利：丢失的磁带 9.00 索尔兹伯里投毒事件：隔壁的间谍 10.40 电影：2000 米到安德里夫卡 (2025) 一支乌克兰小分队试图从俄罗斯军队手中解放一个村庄 12.50am 阿姆斯特丹 毒品贩子 3.50-5.00am 地球之缘
Sky One
正午 大猫之国 1.00pm 夏威夷五勇士 3.00 特种部队 (S.W.A.T.) 5.00 辛普森一家 6.00 动物管制 7.00 辛普森一家 8.00 最佳医疗 9.00 别管那些吵闹的家伙 10.00 郊区之战 10.55 动物管制 11.55 格林 12.50am 警力：曼彻斯特 1.40 道路战争 3.00- 4.00am 夏威夷五勇士
FV 20 FS 158 SKY 143 VIRGIN 116
6.00 am 电视购物 7.20 警局 (The Bill) (S) 8.15 医生 (S) 8.50 医生 (S) 9.25 经典霍比市 (S) 10.45 伤员 (Casualty) (AD) (S) 11.45 警局 (S) 12.45 pm 经典东区居民 (S) 1.25 经典东区居民 (S) 2.00 邻居 (S) 2.30 邻居 (S) 3.00 天空之饼 (S) 4.05 拉夫乔伊 (S) 5.20 岁月如梭 (S) 6.00 夏日之终 (S) 6.35 夏日之终 (S)
7.15 夏日之终 康波幸运的兔子脚带来了麻烦 (S)
8.00 嘿，嘿！ 抵抗组织计划将偷来的钱藏在雷内的裤子里 (S)
8.30 嘿，嘿！ 雷内处理掉了钱并试图销毁微缩胶卷
9.05 嘿，嘿！ 阿尔丰斯在被盖世太保审讯后因心脏问题被紧急送往医院 (S)
9.35 新技巧 侦查小组重新调查一名巨头之死 (AD) (S)
10.55 路特 一名枪手接连谋杀了一系列身穿制服的警察 (AD) (S)
12.10 am 拉夫乔伊 1.20 邦妮法斯修女谜案 2.25 波托菲诺酒店 3.25 志同道合 4.00 - 6.00am 电视购物
10.00 24 11.05 24 1.15 24 2.20 24 12. 6. 1. 3. 4. 5. 0 3.00 0 20
SKY 110 VIRGIN 124
5.00 pm Last of the Summer Wine (夏日之酒) 6.20 Keeping Up Appearances (维持体面) 7.00 Only Fools and Horses (憨憨伙计) 7.40 Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes (爸爸军队：失踪集) 8.20 Are You Being Served? (您被服务了吗？) 9.00 Joe & David’s Magical Sitcom Tour (乔与大卫的魔幻情景喜剧之旅) 10.00 Porridge (监狱粥) 10.40 Not Going Out (不外出) 11.20 Colin’s Sandwich (科林的三明治) 12.00 Porridge (监狱粥) 12.40 am Not Going Out (不外出) 1.20 Colin’s Sandwich (科林的三明治) 2.00 Don’t Wait Up (别等我) 2.45 The Cleaner (清洁工) 3.15 - 4.00am The Green Green Grass (绿绿草地)
Murder 5.00 Murder, She Wrote (谋杀之谜) 7.00 Castle (城堡) 8.00 Unforgettable (难忘) 9.00 In Plain Sight (众目睽睽) 10.00 Hailey Dean Mysteries (海莉·迪恩谜案) 10.56 Good News on GREAT! 11.01 Hailey Dean Mysteries (海莉·迪恩谜案) 11.50 电影：Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death (2020) 侦探片，主演 Alexa PenaVega 12.46am Good News on GREAT! 12.51 电影：Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death (2020) 1.45 电影：Gone Daughter Gone (2020) 3.15 Good News on GREAT! Extra 3.25-4.50am 电影：A Night to Regret (2018)
Sky Cinema Premiere (天空电影首映)
Noon Normal (2026) 1.35pm Wicked: For Good (2025) 奇幻续集，主演 Cynthia Erivo 和 Ariana Grande 4.00 Mortal Kombat II (2026) 奇幻冒险，主演 Karl Urban 6.00 Heretic (2024) 恐怖片，主演 Hugh Grant 8.00 Normal (2026) 动作喜剧，主演 Bob Odenkirk 9.45 Primate (2025) 恐怖片，主演 Johnny Sequoyah 11.20 Eleanor the Great (2025) 剧情片，主演 June Squibb 1.05am Love Me (2024) 2.45-4.40am Redux Redux (2025)
FV 82 FS 306 SKY 324 VIRGIN 445
6.00 am 电影：Murder at 3am (1953, 黑白) 谋杀之谜，主演 Dennis Price (S) 7.10 电影：The Proud Rebel (1958, 黑白) 西部片，主演 Alan Ladd (S) 9.15 电影：Oliver Twist (1982, 电视电影) 时代剧，主演 George C Scott 和 Tim Curry (S) 11.15 电影：Biggles: Adventure in Time (1986) 时空旅行冒险，主演 Neil Dickson (S) 1.00 pm The Adventures of William Tell (威廉·特尔历险记) 1.35 电影：Appointment with Venus (1951, 黑白) 第二次世界大战喜剧，主演 David Niven (S) 3.20 Anthony Perkins: The Actor Behind the Door (安东尼·珀金斯：门后的演员) (S) 4.25 电影：Chase a Crooked Shadow (1957, 黑白) 惊悚片，主演 Richard Todd (S) 6.10 What’s on TPTV with Noel (与诺埃尔一起看TPTV) (S) 6.25 Whiplash (激昂鼓手) (S) 6.55 The Man from UNCLE (超级特工) (S)
7.55 Buccaneer Burton 的航运交易开始显得有些可疑 (S)
9.00 电影：Accident (1967) 剧情片，主演 Dirk Bogarde (S)
11.05 Fortean TV 11.40 电影：Body Double (1984) 惊悚片，主演 Melanie Griffith 1.55am 电影：The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) 剧情片，主演 Margarita Lozano 4.00 Target: The Corruptors (目标：腐败者) 5.00 - 6.00am Railway Murders (铁路谋杀案)
FV 27 FS 159 SKY 155 VIRGIN 129
Noon 古董路演 (Antiques Roadshow) 2.00 pm 破车与现金：修复经典 (Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics) 3.00 破车与现金 (Bangers & Cash) 4.00 秘密纳粹基地 (Secret Nazi Bases) 5.00 奥斯威辛：纳粹与最终解决方案 (Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution) 6.00 古董路演 (Antiques Roadshow) 7.00 绿色星球 (The Green Planet) 8.00 破车与现金：修复经典 (Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics) 9.00 破车与现金 (Bangers & Cash) 10.00 破车与现金：修复经典 (Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics) 11.00 破车与现金 (Bangers & Cash) 12.00 破车与现金 (Bangers & Cash) 1.00 am 寻找、修复、出售 (Find It, Fix It, Flog It) 2.00 被遗弃的工程 (Abandoned Engineering) 3.00 - 6.10am 电视购物 (Teleshopping)
Spirit Women (开始时间 3.00pm) 6.00 The Hundred 现场。Sunrisers Leeds 男队 对阵 London Spirit 男队 (开始时间 6.30pm) 9.30 现场网球。加拿大公开赛 (The Canadian Open) 12.00-4.00am 现场网球
Sky Sports Premier League Noon 转会谈话 (Transfer Talk) 1.00pm 英超集锦 (Premier League Highlights) 2.00 SNF 2.30 英超集锦 (Premier League Highlights) 5.00 英超回顾 (Premier League Review) 6.00 Transfer 360 7.00 The Transfer Show 8.00 英超中的巴西人 (Brazilians in the Premier League) 9.00 Transfer 360 10.00 沉浸其中：曼城的崛起 (Drink It In: The Rise of Man City) 11.00 英超岁月 (Premier League Years) 1.00am 英超复古 (PL Retro) 3.00-4.00am 英超最伟大比赛 (PL Greatest Games)
TNT Sports 1
Noon 英超故事 (Premier League Stories) 12.30pm 英国超级摩托车赛集锦 (British Superbikes Highlights) 1.30 环法女子自行车赛 (Tour de France Women) 2.30 现场：环法女子自行车赛。报道大环赛第四赛段 5.45 破风组 (The Gruppetto) 6.00 欧协联进球回顾 (Uefa Conference League Goals Reload) 6.15 欧联杯进球回顾 (Uefa Europa League Goals Reload) 6.30 英超故事 (Premier League Stories) 7.00 英国超级摩托车赛集锦 (British Superbikes Highlights) 8.00 MLB 集锦 9.00 UFC：终极格斗家 (The Ultimate Fighter) 10.00 赛事回顾 (What Went Down) 10.15 英国超级摩托车赛回顾 (British Superbikes Rewind) 10.30 WRC 回顾 11.30 MLB
FV 14 FS 300 SKY 855 VIRGIN 428
11.00 am 电影：《机器人之梦》(Robot Dreams, 2023) 动画冒险片，由 Ivan Labanda 配音 (S) 1.05 pm 电影：《莫霍克河沿岸的鼓声》(Drums Along the Mohawk, 1939) 约翰·福特执导的历史剧，亨利·方达主演 (S) 3.10 电影：《佐罗面具》(The Mark of Zorro, 1974, TVM) 斗剑冒险片，弗兰克·朗埃拉主演 (AD) (S) 4.45 电影：《疯狂竞赛》(Rat Race, 2001) 喜剧，罗温·艾金逊 (Rowan Atkinson) 主演 (AD) (S)
6.55 电影：《忍者神龟：变种大乱斗》(Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, 2023) 乌龟兄弟多纳泰罗、莱昂纳多、米开朗基罗和拉斐尔旨在赢得纽约人的心。动画奇幻片，由 Nicolas Cantu 配音 (S)
9.00 电影：《我的继母是外星人》(My Stepmother Is an Alien, 1988) 一位丧偶科学家的研究让他与一名执行重要任务被派往地球的外星人陷入浪漫之恋。科幻喜剧，丹·艾克罗伊德、金·贝辛格和乔恩·洛维茨主演 (S)
11.10 《我们在索霍》采访特辑 (Last Night in Soho Interview Special) 11.15 电影：《皮囊之下》(Under the Skin, 2013) 科幻剧，斯嘉丽·约翰逊主演 1.25 - 3.35am 电影：《如何在派对上与女孩交谈》(How to Talk to Girls at Parties, 2017) 浪漫喜剧，艾丽·范宁主演
SKY 108
11.35 am 任务 (Task) 12.50 pm 凶杀案：街头生活 (Homicide: Life on the Street) 1.55 凶杀案：街头生活 (Homicide: Life on the Street) 3.00 亿万 (Billions) 4.10 亿万 (Billions) 5.20 激烈竞争 (Heated Rivalry) 6.25 激烈竞争 (Heated Rivalry) 7.30 真探：夜之国 (True Detective: Night Country) 9.00 哥莫拉：起源 (Gomorrah: The Origins) 10.00 哥莫拉：起源 (Gomorrah: The Origins) 11.00 囚犯 (Prisoner) 12.00 真探：夜之国 (True Detective: Night Country) 1.10 am 真探：夜之国 (True Detective: Night Country) 2.20 真探：夜之国 (True Detective: Night Country) 3.35 - 4.35am 亿万 (Billions)
精彩看点 12.30am MLB Lead Off 1.00-4.00am MLB 现场直播
BBC News
Noon BBC News Now 2.00pm BBC News Now 2.30 今日商业 (Business Today) 2.45 BBC News Now 3.00 经核实直播 (Verified Live) 4.30 今日商业 (Business Today) 4.45 经核实直播 (Verified Live) 5.30 BBC News 6.30 今日世界 (The World Today) 8.00 背景：美国 (The Context USA) 9.00 背景 (The Context) 10.00 10点BBC新闻 (BBC News at Ten) 10.30 新闻之夜 (Newsnight) 11.00 BBC世界新闻：美国 (BBC World News America) 12.00 BBC News 12.30am 新闻播报 (Newscast) 1.00 BBC News 1.30 科技现在 (Tech Now) 2.00 新闻日 (Newsday) 2.30 今日商业 (Business Today) 2.45 BBC体育 (BBC Sport) 3.00 新闻日 (Newsday) 3.30 今日商业 (Business Today) 3.45- 4.00am 亚洲专栏 (Asia Specific)
GB News
Noon 英国下午好 (Good Afternoon Britain) 3.00pm 马丁·道布尼 (Martin Daubney) 6.00 Dewbs & Co 7.00 GBN今晚 (GBN Tonight) 8.00 雅各布·里斯-莫格的国情报告 (Jacob Rees-Mogg’s State Of The Nation) 9.00 帕特里克·克里斯蒂今晚 (Patrick Christys Tonight) 11.00 帕特里克·克里斯蒂今晚深夜版 (Patrick Christys Tonight Late Edition) 12.00 深夜秀现场 (The Late Show Live) 3.00-5.00am 帕特里克·克里斯蒂今晚重播 (Patrick Christys Tonight Replay)
北爱尔兰
BBC One：10.40pm 年度房屋 (House of the Year) 11.10 电影：罗宾汉 (Robin Hood) (2010) 1.20 - 6.00am BBC News BBC Two：无变动 UTV：7.30 - 8.00pm 生活时光 (Life Times)
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苏格兰
BBC One：7.00 - 7.30pm 河城 (River City) 12.50am 苏格兰播报 (Scotcast) 1.25 - 6.00am BBC News BBC Scotland：7.00pm 苏格兰报道：七点新闻 (Reporting Scotland: News at Seven) 7.30 我的小镇 (My Kind of Town) 8.00 农耕生活 (This Farming Life) 9.00 三王 (The Three Kings) 10.45 苏格兰播报 (Scotcast) 11.15 我们的生活：坚如磐石 (Our Lives: Stone Strong) 11.45 循环 午夜 结束
STV：3.50 - 6.00am 夜视线 (Night Vision)
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6.00am Cyw 10.00 Blociau Lliw 10.05 Twm Twrch 10.15 Help Llaw 10.30 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 12.00 Newyddion S4C 12.05pm Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 2.00 Newyddion S4C 2.05 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 4.00 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 5.00 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 7.30 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 7.50 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 10.15 Y Babell Lên 2026 10.45 - 11.50pm Iaith ar Daith
新研究表明，鲸鱼的下潜深度决定了其鸣唱模式。这项研究利用附着在这些哺乳动物身上的吸盘数据，首次将整个座头鲸的鸣唱结构与一个完整的下潜周期联系起来。科学家表示，这些发现可能有助于仅凭声学记录来解释鲸鱼的行为。
雄性座头鲸那令人心碎且复杂的鸣唱可以持续数小时，并在水下传播数英里，在冬季繁殖季节的繁育过程中起着核心作用。但尽管经过了数十年的研究，科学家们对于鲸鱼在鸣唱时具体在做什么的了解仍然非常有限。
朱莉娅·泽 (Julia Ze) 博士发表在《当代生物学》(Current Biology) 杂志上的这项研究，还可以帮助科学家更多地了解座头鲸的行为，这对于监测鲸鱼何时受到人类活动干扰是一个至关重要的参考点。
facts are not needed
killers will still be freed early
to justice and an ‘utter betrayal’ by Burnham
By Tony Diver and Charles Hymas
PC ANDREW HARPER’S killers will be released from prison early under plans approved by Andy Burnham. Criminals guilty of manslaughter will be eligible to be freed halfway through their sentences, despite Labour’s review of the scheme. Rapists and serious child sexual offenders, including grooming-gang perpetrators, will no longer be released early following pressure from victims, MPs and front-line prison offi cers. The offi cer’s widow Lissie Harper said Mr Burnham’s decision was an “utter betrayal” and an “aff ront to justice”. Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Burn- ham said he had “pushed to the very limits of what is possible” but could not exempt more criminals without the jail system “collapsing within months”. In an attempt to prevent future jail overcrowding, Mr Burnham also revealed he had asked Alex Norris, the Justice Secretary, to consider the early release of more female prisoners, “given the lower risk they generally pose”. The Telegraph revealed last month that Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, who were jailed for 13 years in 2020 for the manslaughter of Pc Harper, 28, were eligible to be released after serving six and a half years in prison. Despite the story prompting Mr Burnham to pause the release of 6,000 off enders, the out- come of the Prime Minister’s review means Bowers and Cole could now walk free by the end of the year. Pc Harper had gone to investigate the theft of a quad bike near Sulhamstead, Berks, in August 2019 when Bowers and Cole tried to escape in the car driven by the third killer, Henry Long, who is not eligible for early release. Pc Harper died after his ankles got caught in a towrope loop and he was dragged for more than a mile along country roads. Mrs Harper has described the poten- tial early release of the killers as “deplor- able”, while Pc Harper’s mother, Debbie Adlam, said it would be a “slap in the
By Patrick Galbraith ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT
BRITAIN’S potato crop is under threat from heatwaves, farmers have warned. Chips may soon be shorter and baked potatoes could be hard to come by as high temperatures stunt spuds’ growth. Jim Wayman of 3Ms, an East Anglian potato-growing conglomerate, which supplies supermarkets including Marks & Spencer and Aldi, told The Telegraph: “We’ve been chucking water on them, but in this heat they’re not growing. It’s like watering a corpse.” Potatoes stop growing if tempera- tures rise above 30C, and average levels
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face”. Last night, Mrs Harper said she was “beyond appalled” that her hus- band’s killers will still be released. She said: “To release them early from their already pitiful sentences is an aff ront to justice. The Government and the justice system have not just let me down... they have added insult to injury. This is an utter betrayal – and it’s one I will not be able to forgive or forget.” It is understood Mrs Adlam was informed of the outcome of the review yesterday by Mr Norris after one of the off enders had already been told about their impending release. She told The Telegraph: “It makes a mockery of the way Andrew died. I live with desperation every day. But I won’t take it lying down. It’s gutting for us. It feels like justice has been taken away from us again. They worried about backlash from prisoners, but the public will have a backlash too.” Under the “earned progression” scheme, serious offenders, including killers and rapists, would have been eli- gible to be freed halfway rather than two-thirds of the way through their sen- tences unless they had behaved badly in jail. Lower-level criminals were set to be freed as little as a third, rather than 40 per cent, of the way through . Mr Burnham said that after listening to victims’ concerns, rapists and child sexual off enders would not be eligible for the sentencing changes. Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Burn- ham said: “I know there will be con- cerns about who will still be released early for other off ences. I have pushed to the very limits of what is possible . I know I can look people in the eye and say to them there is nothing more I could have asked for without risking the system collapsing within months.” Nick Timothy, the shadow justice sec- retary, said: “One of Andy Burnham’s fi rst acts as Prime Minister will be to let thousands of criminals – including kill- ers and paedophiles – out early.”
surpassed that on 16 days in the year up to the end of last month . England and Wales have had their driest July in records dating back to 1836, provisional statistics from the Met Office show, while temperatures climbed above 30C again yesterday. Mr Wayman said: “We’re being accused of scaremongering, and the big retailers are saying their customers expect a certain standard of size, but we’re saying we can’t do it.” Cedric Porter, a potato market ana- lyst, said August was a key month for potatoes putting on weight, but most had stopped growing. He urged the pub- lic to “eat your spuds while you can”.
By Laura Donnelly HEALTH EDITOR
A QUARTER of hospital beds will be occupied by dementia patients within 15 years if Andy Burnham fails in his planned overhaul of social care, a review has warned. Almost one in six NHS beds is already occupied by someone with dementia, at a cost of about £12m a day. Experts have warned that this is set to reach one in four by 2040 – “ crowding out care for everyone” – without radical change. Britain’s hospitals are acting increas- ingly as substitutes for a failing care
Last year there was an oversupply of large potatoes, in part because slim- ming “fat jabs” led to people eating less carbohydrate and more protein. Much of the oversupply was fed to cattle. Charles Shropshire, one of Europe’s biggest vegetable producers, said that until 10 days ago he had 1,500 tonnes of potatoes being stored from last year’s harvest when McCain bought the lot in fear of a lack of large potatoes. Adding to the problem is the fact that heatwaves have also hit much of Europe, meaning Britain will struggle to import large potatoes .
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system, leaving thousands of people with dementia enduring long stays . Mr Burnham, whose father has dementia, has pledged to spend his “political capital” creating a fully funded national care service. But the Prime Minister has yet to explain how it would be paid for, while ruling out rises in income tax, National Insurance and VAT, despite previously proposing a 10 per cent levy on estates . The review suggests that the scale of the crisis facing the NHS is greater than ministers have acknowledged. Demen- tia care costs are expected to more than
By Daniel Martin DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
AN DY BURN HAM is taking a holiday two weeks after becoming Prime Minister. No 10 said he would be taking a break from his day-to-day duties to spend time with his family, but insisted he would remain in contact with offi cials and was still in charge. Mr Burnham became Prime Minister on July 20, making him the sixth in a decade. He promised his premiership would be a “circuit breaker for Britain” which would bring in the “biggest changes in the last 40 years”. Speaking
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double by 2040, from £42.5bn to £90bn, with unnecessary hospital stays driving much of the increase. The review, by researchers at Univer- sity College London (UCL), backed by the Geller Commission, Dementia UK and the Alzheimer’s Society, is the most comprehensive analysis yet of dementia hospitalisations, examining evidence from 77 studies involving almost 1.5 mil- lion participants. It found that people with dementia were 42 per cent more likely to be admitted to hospital than those without the condition and, once admitted,
on the steps of No 10 Downing Street, he said the challenge was to “make politics work, to make it work better”. In his first two weeks he made a string of policy announcements on cut- ting the cost of living and a speech on the need for social care reform as well as outlining his vision to tackle youth unemployment, devolve more power to mayors and use defence spending as a driver for regional growth. No 10 would not say how long Mr Burnham and his family would be away or where they would be going on his holiday. However, a spokesman said: “The Government continues to operate as normal, with the Prime Minister
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remained in hospital seven times longer than their peers. Philanthropist Laurence Geller, chairman of the commission, said: “Our hospitals are already stretched to break- ing point. It is not sustainable to allo- cate one in six hospital beds to people with dementia when neither they nor their families want them to be there, at a cost more than £12m a day. “Without urgent action, almost one in four hospital beds could be occupied by people with dementia within 15 years, which would overwhelm hos- pitals and crowd out care for everyone.”
remaining in contact with officials, holding meetings and receiving regular updates on government business.” Mr Burnham’s early break was criti- cised by Reform. Lee Anderson, the party’s chairman, said: “Two weeks into the job and Andy Burnham has already had enough. After dropping a number of unfunded commitments and over- seeing over 2,000 illegal migrants breaking into our country he’s bunked off for a jolly abroad. This isn’t a Prime Minister that’s serious about leading.” It is usual for prime ministers to take a break in August because Parliament is not sitting. It returns in September for a couple of weeks before a second recess .
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holidays and sex toys if you claim benefits
brands aimed at disabled people described as ‘best- kept secret’ in accessibility
By Harry Brennan CONSUMER AFFAIRS EDITOR
BENEFIT claimants are being off ered
discounts on holidays and sex toys
under deals involving some of Britain’s
biggest brands.
Anxious and neurodiverse claimants
can also benefi t from reduced prices on
luxury watches, jewellery and designer
clothes through private sector schemes
designed for disabled people.
But a number of concessions also
extend to individuals with “hidden dis-
abilities”, such as ADHD, who are in
receipt of personal independence pay-
ments (Pip) – despite fears some individ-
uals are abusing the system.
One website teaches users how to
cash in on “Pip Freebies”, while backers
of the schemes promote the perks on
social media, describing them as the
“best-kept secret” in accessibility.
Opponents claim these schemes
threaten to disturb the delicate balance
between a welfare system that protects
the truly needy and a culture that risks
incentivising worklessness.
It follows similar concerns over
councils off ering benefi t claimants dis-
counts on nights out and beach huts, as
well as private fi rms off ering money off
at attractions including London Zoo
and the Eden Project.
Such discounts have also raised con-
cerns about how much more other con-
sumers are paying to subsidise lower
costs for diff erent groups.
Lee Anderson, the chairman of
Reform UK, said Pip should be reserved
for those who “genuinely need help”,
not “to get discounted sex toys and lux-
ury holidays”.
He added: “Living on benefits is
becoming more attractive than work-
ing, so much so that people are actively
coaching others on how to exploit these
schemes on social media.”
One website, Purpl, hosts discounts
available to disabled people, such as
coaching others on how to exploit these schemes on social media’
Andy Burnham PRIME MINISTER
BRITAIN’S prisons crisis has its roots in a failure to add suffi cient new places between 2010 and 2024. Just 500 places were added and 23 prisons were closed. As a result, the system is now dangerously close to capacity and we run the risk of new off enders not being incarcerated in a timely manner. The situation must be gripped and that is what I have done in my fi rst days as Prime Minister. But I have done so by trying to put myself in the shoes of victims of crime and seeing things through their eyes. My approach has been to maximise support for them and minimise the risks to public safety. For someone trying to rebuild their life after a traumatic experience, few things could feel more unjust than learning the person responsible for
those in receipt of Pip including for mental health conditions. Users who subscribe to the scheme for a small monthly fee have previously been off ered exclusive deals including up to 70 per cent off items sold by Love- honey – a sex shop – as well as 10 per cent off Calvin Klein underwear. Other promotions have included up to £500 off TUI holidays, as well as money off other trips with Jet2holidays and to Alton Towers. It also provides discounts on luxury items, including an exclusive 25 per cent off deal with watchmaker Rotary, as well as jewellery. Today, more than four million people claim disability benefits, with more than a third claiming mental health as their “main disabling condition”. The National Disability Card is another scheme which off ers discounts for online shopping and days out. It costs £20 for two years for those who are eligible. Another, the Access Card, is
designed to display disabilities to staff at attractions and events, including social anxiety in crowds and queues. Advocates on social media have said it is particularly useful in obtaining per- mission to skip queues at venues such as theme parks. One described it as the “best-kept secret” of accessibility, allowing them and their partner low-cost access to attractions including the zoo. Georgina Colman, the founder of Purpl, said “Purpl is not a welfare scheme. Privately funded retail dis- counts should not be conflated with debates about how Pip is assessed. Our focus is helping disabled people reduce the extra cost of disability.” Dianne Taylor, of the National Disa- bility Card scheme said the discounts were “funded by retailers at no cost to the taxpayer”. The organisers of the Access Card were approached for comment.
their suff ering would be released earlier than thought. Yet that has been the painful experience of many victims. I understand their anger and anxiety. More than that, I share it. Because of that, one of my fi rst decisions as Prime Minister was to pause the plan for early release in September and order an urgent review of the scheme. That has now concluded and, as a result, I have decided to make some signifi cant changes. Sentences for rape, serious child sex off ences and other grooming off ences will now be excluded. This will be on top of the off enders who are already blocked because they have been deemed by the courts as the most dangerous prisoners. I know there will be concerns about who will still be released early. But I know I can look people in the eye and say to them there is nothing more I could have asked for without risking the prison system collapsing within
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Moving picture Marsden Hartley’s Painting No 50 (1914-15), created while the US artist was in Berlin, is on loan to London’s National Gallery from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
months. Such an outcome would expose the public to enormous risk: police would be unable to make arrests; courts would be unable to send new off enders to prison; and our justice system would grind to a halt. However, I am determined to do more to support victims and the
I could have done without putting the prison system at risk of collapse’
public. So, as well as excluding those sentences for rape, serious child sex off ences and other grooming off ences, we will be introducing much tougher community measures. Nearly all off enders released will be tagged. The period of supervision will be toughened. And we will be imposing new conditions for off enders, including restriction zones agreed
with victims. As part of the changes, we will be giving probation offi cers the power to ban off enders from driving, pubs and community events. There will also be a new package of support for victims. This will be backed by £10m in new funding to provide trauma-informed contacts for victims, alongside a national helpline. The Government I lead will work to fi x the prison crisis once and for all. I will not leave the same problems for my successors. We will deliver the fastest prison-building programme since the Victorian era, with 14,000 new places expected by 2031. To avoid a repeat of this situation, I have also asked the Justice Secretary to identify other ways to free up prison capacity that will be more palatable to the public. First, I have asked him to review the indefi nite sentences handed out between 2005 and 2012, called Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP). This has left many hundreds of
people in prison since they were young but without any prospect of release despite having already served very long sentences. Second, I have asked for the early release of more women prisoners to be considered, and to look at converting more of the women’s prison estate to hold male prisoners, given the lower risk they generally pose. Third, I have asked offi cials to consider faster returns of foreign national off enders to their country of origin. The changes we are announcing today will make a diff erence, but I do not pretend it is a perfect solution or that it goes as far as I would like. My commitment over the months and years ahead is to rebuild our justice system so that it commands the confi dence of the public. This will not happen overnight or without diffi culty. But we will deliver a justice system that the British people expect and deserve.
NEWS BULLETIN
way around dancefloor’
A police inspector sexually assaulted three female colleagues during one night out in a Soho bar, his trial has heard. Dave Newman, 39, from Luton, is alleged to have “grabbed, groped, stroked and pinched his way around the dancefl oor” at the central London venue, Southwark Crown Court was told. One woman said she froze when the defendant – then a police offi cer – placed his hand on her vagina area, above her clothes, for around two seconds. He has denied three counts of sexual assault against three diff erent women, who cannot be identifi ed. The trial continues.
for missing kayaker
A body has been found in the search for a 19-year-old kayaker whose boat capsized off the Northumbrian coast last month. The body of Michael Henry, from the Rothbury area, was located near Blyth on July 26. Northumbria Police had been conducting extensive searches for Mr Henry’s body since July 7 when a kayak containing two men capsized near Boulmer. The other man was saved by the coastguard. Formal identifi cation has taken place and a report has been prepared for the coroner. Henry’s family said: “Michael was a much-loved son, brother, grandson, nephew, team-mate and friend.”
sex assault on student
A former Royal College of Music violin teacher has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting a prospective student. Jan Repko, 68, met the complainant in an eff ective “taster session” for her to play a few violin pieces for him, Southwark Crown Court had heard. The musician was accused of sexually assaulting her during the session in 2022. Mr Repko, from Walworth, in south-east London – who also taught at Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester – was acquitted of sexual assault by touching and assault by penetration.
dies after short illness
Jimmy Cricket, the comedian has died following a short illness. He was 80. The Northern Irish stand-up passed away yesterday morning, having spent recent days “surrounded by his family, love, laughter and songs”, his relatives said. In a statement posted on social media, his family said: “Jimmy brought so much laughter and happiness to countless audiences in his career over the years, whether on stage, screen or radio, or if you met him in person. “But that was nothing to the happiness he gave to his family. A devoted husband to May for 52 years, a wonderful dad to his four children, and a very silly grandad indeed to his four grandchildren.”
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public life after music video sparks renewed speculation about health
By Emily Smith
ARIANA GRANDE has announced that she is withdrawing from public life amid growing concern over her appear- ance and health. The American pop singer had been scheduled to appear in a new produc- tion of the musical Sunday in the Park with George at the Barbican in London next year. However, a representative of Grande said that she would take a break from public life once she had fi nished tour-
girls... and as a mother it terrifi es me
Sarah Rodrigues
ARIANA GRANDE’S decision to withdraw from public life amid “endless scrutiny” over her appearance has sparked yet more discussion about the 33-year-old’s wellbeing. What might such scrutiny, one wonders, be about other than her worryingly skeletal fi gure? Yes, I sympathise with a young woman who has spent more than half of her life in the spotlight. But as the mother of a daughter who has closely followed Grande’s rise to fame in real time, I also have very real concerns about what kind of role model she is for young people. Even taking into account Grande’s
costs neighbours £150,000
By Telegraph Reporter
A COUPLE face paying a £150,000 court bill after a 14-year dispute with neighbours over a fence, an ornamental squirrel and off ensive songs published about them on YouTube. Philip and Denise New ended up in a court row with Steve and Karen Gibson, their next-door neighbours, after a dis- agreement about the fence between their gardens in Thundersley, Essex, in 2012. The dispute was over a few inches of land, which escalated further when the News removed a “sentimentally valua- ble” squirrel ornament from a post between the houses. “The squirrel post had been built by his parents-in-law, he had purchased
ing her latest album Petal in September because of “endless scrutiny”. Speculation about Grande’s health intensifi ed after the recent release of a music video for the title single from her eighth studio album, which sparked comments from fans about her appar- ent weight loss. A representative for Grande told People Magazine: “Ariana will be taking a step back from visibility after she completes the Eternal Sunshine Tour. “She looks forward to finishing the tour and ending it on a high note, both healthily and happily, and then taking a much-deserved break from public-facing work and appearances, which has led to endless, ongoing public scrutiny. “This tour has been a beautiful expe-
diminutive, 5ft-tall proportions, her current appearance makes me wince. As someone who grew up in the 1990s’ “heroin chic” era, I’ve tried very hard to protect my daughter from similarly insidious messages, and to model a healthy, strong, fi t body image to her. And, when she was 10, almost a decade ago, and fi rst came across Grande in the Nickelodeon comedy Victorious, I had no concerns over Grande’s weight. In that show, which was fi lmed between 2010 and 2013, the young actress played the adorably naive and goo-goo-voiced Cat – the perfect foil to the bad-girl energy of Jade (Elizabeth Gillies) and the smart but occasionally hapless Tori (Victoria Justice). My daughter was beginning to show an interest in fashion and her own appearance and I was more concerned about the show’s short skirts, skimpy tops and heavy make-up than Grande
the squirrel as a gift for Mrs Gibson and her parents during the 1980s and, for that reason, it had enormous sentimen- tal value,” said the judge at the time. Mr Gibson also discovered that Mr New, a comedy songwriter, had written and published derogatory songs about him on YouTube . One song, titled Neighbours, off ered advice on how to deal with bad neigh- bours and included the words: “Throw s--- at their window, s--- at the door/ Call him a w-----, call her a w----.” A judge ruled against Mr and Mrs New at Southend County Court and were last year ordered to pay the Gib- sons £13,000 in combined damages and interest, and handed lawyers’ bills esti- mated at about £120,000 for the case. However, they were back in court
rience for her. She loves her fans, and has loved every minute of this tour so much.” They added: “She performs a very physical show, and there is a lot of ath- leticism involved. She performs health- ily and successfully at a very high level night after night.” In the audition-themed music video, Grande appears before a panel of men. Her character is told she is “not good enough”, is “desperate” and “should get some work done”. She is then seen taking a chainsaw to the critics before emerging from the room covered in blood. Fans noted the singer’s appearance in the video, with one saying she is “extremely thin, and it’s concerning”, and another adding: “I think people are allowed to be concerned for her
physical show... healthily and successfully at a high level night after night’
how much trauma I could have coped with at that age. The answer is: not that much’
earlier this month after launching a High Court appeal against the damages amount, arguing that it was too high and should be reduced, with the result that the costs bill should be overturned. And despite having the damages amount reduced by £700, the News have instead been handed a further £19,000 bill for their neighbours’ legal costs. Mr Justice Thompsell said the News’s motivation for appealing had been to secure a large enough reduction in the damages to allow them to avoid paying their neighbours’ costs. However, he said a £700 reduction did not justify overturning the six-figure bill they were already facing, and ordered them to pay on top of that the Gibsons’ near £19,000 costs of the appeal.
or any of the other performers’ bodies. It was a talented cast, and it now seems astonishing that Grande was the only one who was catapulted into fame. But perhaps the others should be glad that their stars fl amed more feebly, because the spotlight does not seem to have been kind to the American singer. In 2017, about a year after my daughter began following Grande’s career, the Manchester leg of the performer’s Dangerous Woman tour was targeted by an Islamist bombing attack that killed 22 people. My immediate thoughts were with the parents of those who had been at the show. I held my daughter close, horrifi ed by the idea of a young person, beside themselves with excitement, having their lives extinguished that same night. How would any parent ever move beyond such trauma? However, when
health.” Grande’s health has been the subject of speculation in recent years, with concern also being expressed dur- ing the press tour for Wicked, the musical film adaptation in which she starred alongside the British actress
Cynthia Erivo, in 2024. That year, she addressed comments about her weight, describing them as “uncomfortable” and “horrible”. She said: “I think in today’s society, there is a comfortability that we shouldn’t have at all – commenting
Toilet roll made out of desert plants
By Tom Haynes
THE maker of Andrex is exploring plans to make toilet paper out of a desert plant instead of trees to help the planet. Yesterday, Kimberly-Clark said it was testing hesperaloe, a drought-resistant plant native to the American South- west, as a possible replacement for wood fibre used in toilet roll, kitchen roll and tissues. The planned new toilet roll comes amid growing pressure on manufactur- ers over their reliance on wood fibre from freshly felled trees. Toilet paper is still overwhelmingly made from wood harvested from forests in North America and Scandinavia – despite years of attempts to fi nd greener alternatives. Campaigners claim that
on others’ looks, appearance, what they think is going on behind the scenes or health or how they present themselves. “From what you’re wearing to your body to your face to your everything – there’s a comfortability that people have commenting on that I think is really dangerous.” Grande shared the interview again on her social media in November “as a loving reminder to all”. Grande had been due to perform in Sunday in the Park with George along- side Jonathan Bailey, her Wicked co-star, next summer. A representative of Empire Street Productions confi rmed that the musical would go ahead without her, saying: “We can confi rm that she has decided to step back from Sunday in the Park with
– just a month later – Grande held her One Love Manchester concert in aid of the victims of the attack and their families, I cried for a diff erent reason: in admiration for a young girl (Grande was just 24 years old at the time) holding it together in front of more than 50,000 people to raise millions of pounds for those whose lives had been torn apart. Then, when Mac Miller, Grande’s former boyfriend, died of an overdose months later, I wondered how much trauma I could have coped with at that age. The answer is: not that much.
more than one million trees are cut down every day to make conventional toilet paper. Environmental groups also argue the product is typically used for only seconds before being flushed away –
of more than two decades of materials and plant science expertise’
can point out when something is not right... but that doesn’t mean being unkind’
The most recent photo of Ariana Grande, left, show the inspirational actress and singer at her thinnest
George. We know this cannot have been an easy decision, and she makes it with our complete understanding and support. We wish her nothing but the best.” A replacement for Grande has not yet been named. A spokesman for the Barbican said: “We sincerely hope to welcome her to the Barbican one day when the time is right. “Our brilliant theatre team are con- tinuing their hard work preparing for Sunday In The Park with George to open at the Barbican in summer 2027 as planned, starring Jonathan Bailey and directed by Marianne Elliott. “Further casting and details about the run, as well as information about how to buy tickets, will be announced soon.”
Today, I look at Grande’s clavicle jutting through her skin and want to give her a hug. I’m 53, and I know that life can deal some pretty cruel blows that kill your appetite, or that compel you to want to regulate one of the few things actually within your control. But how is a young girl, with little life experience, supposed to comprehend this? Thankfully, my daughter is now 20 and suffi ciently discerning to recognise that, whatever the circumstances, Grande’s fi gure isn’t something to try to emulate. However, I fret for mothers whose daughters are at the age mine was when she fi rst fell in love with Grande. How does a parent tell their child that this is not someone to wholeheartedly emulate? The answer, I think, lies in focusing less on the singer’s body and more on her achievements. She’s a passionate advocate for LGBT rights, she has a ferocious talent, and she’s brave – as evidenced by her follow-up performance in Manchester. As parents, I think we can celebrate these things with our children and encourage them to draw inspiration from them, but we can also point out when something isn’t right. That doesn’t mean being unkind.
found that some toilet rolls marketed as bamboo were in fact made mostly from hardwood fi bres. Unlike trees, hesperaloe can be grown on dry, low-quality farmland unsuitable for most food crops and harvested much more quickly. Kimberly-Clark said it had tested more than 70 potential materials before settling on hesperaloe. Earlier candi- dates included wheat straw, corn waste, seaweed, algae and chicken feathers. The planned new toilet roll will now be developed at a pilot factory in Yuma, Arizona. “This represents an exciting moonshot for Kimberly-Clark and the culmination of more than two decades of materials and plant science exper- tise,” said Craig Slavtcheff , who is help- ing develop the new toilet paper.
Restore’s popularity could split their core vote and do party great harm
By Tony Diver and Pieter Snepvangers
NIGEL FARAGE is in talks to strike an electoral pact with Restore Britain. The Reform UK leader said yesterday that he was “open-minded” about dis- cussing working with his former col- league Rupert Lowe, who was ejected from the party last year. Mr Lowe, who now leads the rival Restore party, said on Sunday that the pair needed to work together to bring about a “patriotic government” at the next election. The potential collaboration had suf- fered an early setback after Mr Lowe did not immediately respond to Mr Farage’s message on Sunday suggesting they held a phone call. The Telegraph under- stands Mr Lowe has since responded and talks are expected to take place. Mr Lowe is seeking an electoral pact
wrong to pin blame on Gove for rise of Neets
By Genevieve Holl-Allen and Ben Butcher
LUCY POWELL has begun her tenure as Education Secretary by indicating she will tear up much of Lord Gove’s education reforms. The Labour deputy leader claimed that the former Tory cabinet minister’s changes to the education system led to the one million people not in education, employment or training (Neets). At the start of 2026, the number of Neets hit the one million milestone for the fi rst time since 2013 under Labour, with 91,000 more young adults out of work, education or training since 2024. Writing in The Times, Ms Powell described the crisis in Britain as Lord Gove’s “legacy” from his time at the Department for Education (DfE). However, the data do not bear out Ms Powell’s claims, indicating the surge is down to factors such as the rising costs of hiring workers and young people claiming mental health benefi ts. The proportion of Neets aged between 16 and 24 hit its highest point in the year ending March 2026 in more than a decade, at 13.5 per cent. The last time youth inactivity was that high was in 2013, before Lord Gove left the DfE and the results of his sweeping reforms had materialised. Lord Gove inherited his own Neets crisis following the 2008 fi nancial crash. The proportion of Neets peaked in September 2011 at 16.9 per cent. From that point, the proportion of young people not in education, employment or training fell while the Conservatives were in power, to as low as 10 per cent. Under Rishi Sunak, the proportion of young people without a job, in education or training did increase slightly, hitting 12.6 per cent by the time he left offi ce in the aftermath of the pandemic. But since Labour came to power, the fi gure has hit 13.5 per cent, the equivalent of 91,000 more young adults out of work, education or training. Joe Shalam, the policy director for the Centre for Social Justice think tank, said that changes to the labour market, immigration and mental health benefi ts had all contributed to the crisis. Mr Shalam, whose organisation has
‘failure to declare trip to Israel’
By Dominic Penna and Daniel Martin
RICHARD TICE is under investigation by Parliament’s standards tsar for alleg- edly failing to declare an interest in Israel during a debate, The Telegraph understands. A member of the public complained the deputy leader of Reform had not declared he had been on an all-expens- es-paid trip to Israel when he spoke about anti-Semitism, it is understood. In June, Mr Tice spoke in Westminster Hall on “pro-Israel influence”, and argued the very title of the discussion was anti-Semitic. Parliament’s stand- ards watchdog launched the investiga- tion on July 28, a week after declining to examine a complaint made against Mr Tice over an undeclared loan of nearly £80,000 from George Cottrell, one of Nigel Farage’s closest aides and a con- victed fraudster. Daniel Greenberg, the standards commissioner, confi rmed on the web-
with Mr Farage whereby the pair would agree to stand down candidates in cer- tain seats at the next general election to allow either Reform or Restore a better chance of winning. Although Restore has not set a fi gure on how many seats it wants Reform to step aside in, senior party figures believe it would be competitive in Great Yarmouth and across areas of Greater Manchester following Mr Lowe’s work on an independent investigation into the grooming gangs scandal. In last week’s Manchester mayoralty by-election, Restore finished fourth ahead of the Conservatives on around 9 per cent of fi rst-preference votes. The party fi nished third in Oldham, Roch- dale, Tameside and Wigan. Restore has picked up between 2 and 6 per cent support from the electorate since last year, according to pollsters, raising concerns from Reform that the party will split the Right-wing vote at the next general election. Yesterday, Mr Farage admitted Restore’s insurgent popularity posed a threat to Reform. Speaking at a press conference in central London, he said the rival party “could do us great harm”
worked with politicians including Andy Burnham on the issue, said: “Laying the blame of the Neets crisis at the door of Mr Gove is patently absurd. “Broken incentives in the labour market, from rising costs on employers hiring young people, an out-of-control immigration system, and soaring mental health benefi t claims, must not be swept under the carpet. Clearly, politics is getting in the way.” Mr Shalam added that he did agree that ending Britain’s “obsession with university as the only metric of success” and introducing technical education pathways earlier was a priority. The rising cost of hiring young people is in part down to several changes implemented by Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves after they took offi ce. In particular, the sharp rises in the minimum wage and the increase in employer National Insurance contributions aff ected employers
a welfare system that incentivises idleness and taxes that punish business’
taking on younger workers. It prompted Andy King, a former executive at the Offi ce for Budget Responsibility, to describe the youth unemployment crisis as “self- infl icted”. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said in March that employers faced a 40 per cent real increase in costs as a result of the Government’s changes. Laura Trott, the shadow education secretary, said it was “extraordinary to blame academic standards for the rise in youth unemployment that has occurred on Labour’s watch”. “The real causes are Labour’s failure to tackle a welfare system that incentivises idleness and a tax system that is punishing businesses.” She accused Ms Powell of “ignoring both recent history and the evidence”. Among the changes that Lord Gove introduced was a tougher, more knowledge-based curriculum in England. Ms Powell criticised the move towards “draconian” spelling tests for
site of the parliamentary standards commissioner that an investigation into Mr Tice’s alleged “failure to declare an interest” was under way. The watchdog said the investigation would look into a potential breach of rule six of the House of Commons code of conduct, which states: “Members must always be open and frank in declaring any relevant interest in any proceeding of the House or its committees, and in any communications with minis- ters, members, public offi cials or public offi ce-holders.” The debate took place on June 22 after an online petition received more than 100,000 signatures. During the debate, Mr Tice said: “ This motion is anti-
Nigel Farage yesterday outlines Reform UK plans to curb small boat migrants
primary school pupils in 2019, arguing that teachers should focus on “creativity” instead. Improvements in academic standards seen in England following Lord Gove’s reforms were not mirrored in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales. The number of Neets in Wales also
Semitic in its very motivation and at its
core. As such, we should utterly
reject it.
“The motion asks us to talk about the
influence of Israel on democracy.
Democracy thrives when citizens are
healthy, so maybe we should celebrate
the incredible brilliance and influ-
ence of Israeli scientists, entre-
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The complainant said Mr
Tice did not declare in the
debate he had accepted a
trip to Israel last year, in
which he met Isaac Herzog,
Israel’s president, and Gideon
Sa’ar, foreign minister. Mr Tice
declared the visit cost
£6,250 in the register of
members’ interest a
month later.
Mr Tice was con-
tacted for comment.
by splitting the Right-wing vote. Mr Farage told The Telegraph that Restore “can’t win a single seat in the country outside of Yarmouth”, adding: “What they are really saying is they will hurt us if we don’t stand back and let them win.” But he said he was “open-minded to a conversation” but warned “a conversa- tion is different to a negotiation” and that he would not necessarily enter into
suggests that Lord Gove’s reforms are not to blame for the crisis. The number of Neets in Wales spiked from 10 per cent to 17 per cent in a year from 2024. Another explanation for the growth in Neets can be found in the increasing number of young people on sickness benefi ts.
for fuel thieves’ as crime explodes
By Dominic Penna SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
THE Energy Secretary has been accused of making excuses for fuel thieves after suggesting that high prices were partly to blame for soaring petrol pump crime. Miatta Fahnbulleh claimed a sharp rise in the number of cases of motorists filling up with fuel and driving away without paying indicated that people were “under huge pressure with the cost of energy”. Drivers have reportedly stolen an average of nearly £200,000 worth of fuel from forecourts every day since the start of the Iran war. The average price of a litre of petrol climbed to 160p on Friday, about 27p higher than before the confl ict and a three-year high. Higher costs have been driven by surging oil prices, which hit $100 (£75) per barrel two weeks ago as Donald Trump’s Iran peace deal unravelled.
a pact. On Sunday, Mr Lowe said he would work to bring about a “patriotic government” with Mr Farage if he agreed to fi ve policies. These included mass deportations, a ban on the burka, a referendum on the death penalty and that former Tory ministers such as Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman were excluded from any Reform-Restore cabinet. However, The Telegraph understands Mr Lowe is willing to negotiate on these fi ve conditions. A source said: “In nego- tiations you go in with what you want, and these things can be spoken about.” The source ruled out a merger with Reform but said Mr Lowe wanted a “cooperation” pact with Mr Farage. They said: “We are talking about cooperation rather than a merger. The key thing for us is the policy priorities and principles more than anything else. Everything else is secondary to that.” Separately, The Telegraph under- stands Mr Lowe made a secret agree- ment with the Conservatives last year, in which he promised not to criticise the party in exchange for a seat on the Commons public accounts committee. Two sources said Mr Lowe had
talking about cooperation rather than a merger. The key thing for us is the policy priorities’
About 640,000 people aged 18 to 24 are claiming out-of-work benefi ts, according to analysis by the IFS. The total has risen from 556,000 at the end of 2022. The think tank found that more than half of the increase had been driven by a rise in the number of young people on sickness benefi ts,
Forecourt thefts rose by 20 per cent in the fi ve months after the confl ict began on Feb 28, according to analysis by Forecourt Eye, a theft prevention company. Asked about the figures, Ms Fahn- bulleh told LBC radio’s Nick Ferrari: “We’re very, very conscious of this
Fuel worth this amount has been stolen from forecourts every day since the Iran war sent petrol prices soaring
agreed not to criticise the Tories in his committee appearances if the party nominated him to serve on the body. He later told GB News that he had made an “agreement” with Kemi Bade- noch not to call her MPs “Lib-Dem Tories”. Mr Farage said yesterday that Mr Lowe “had been working quite closely with [the Conservatives] for some time”. A Conservative source said: “There is no deal between the Conservatives and Rupert Lowe – this is a figment of Mr Farage’s imagination. While Nigel fi ghts his unnecessary by-election with a bin, he is desperately trying to smear all of us who oppose and question Reform.” Yesterday Reform said it could instruct Royal Marines to land on French beaches to return migrants. Zia Yusuf, the home affairs spokes- man, said the party would show “unflinching resolve” to ensure that migrants who set out from the French coast to enter Britain were returned. He added that while an agreement with the French authorities was prefer- able, a Reform government would use British commandos to help migrants disembark on beaches if necessary.
with no requirements to search for work. Ms Powell’s attempts to make Lord Gove the fi gurehead of failure on the Neets crisis belies the more complex reality, which has seen the number begin to spiral under Labour.
very, very closely... We understand that the cost of fuel is far too expensive and that people are really worried about it.” Mr Ferrari told Ms Fahnbulleh the crimes had “nothing to do with cost” and challenged her on whether the fuel theft epidemic was in fact just “plain criminal activity”. The Energy Secretary replied: “It is, it is. So I was speaking to the issues that many of your listeners will be really worried about, which is the cost of pet- rol. But yes, it is theft and we’re seeing diff erent forms of theft across the piece. “We know we’ve got, for example, an epidemic in shoplifting and that’s some- thing we’re absolutely trying to get a grip of. There is never any justifi cation for it.” Richard Tice, Reform UK’s energy spokesman and deputy leader, told The Telegraph: “The Secretary of State for Energy appears to be legitimising theft on the basis that the cost of living crisis, partly caused by Labour, is too great.”
surgery inside
mother’s womb
at 26 weeks
world to have ante-natal operation to fix intestines growing outside his body
By Emily Smith
A BRITISH woman has had pioneering womb surgery to treat her unborn baby, whose intestines were growing outside his body. Maisie Savage was operated on by a team of surgeons in Texas when she was 26 weeks pregnant. Her unborn son Theo had been diag- nosed with complex gastroschisis, a condition in which the belly button does not develop properly and the intes- tines develop externally. Surgeons used keyhole surgery tech- niques to reach the baby in Ms Savage’s womb and push his organs back inside his abdomen. Theo, who is now five months old and doing well, was the third baby in the world to benefit from a clinical trial of the procedure. Currently, one in 10 babies with gas- troschisis does not survive. Ms Savage, 29, from London, and the
baby’s 36-year-old father Josh French said they were relieved by the surgery’s success. She told the BBC: “He’s a little miracle.” Gastroschisis is a serious birth defect affecting 3,000 babies in the UK each year. In less severe cases, babies require weeks in intensive care, corrective sur- gery and feeding through a tube. In the most complex cases, they need an intestinal transplant, up to six months in intensive care, several oper- ations and intravenous feeding for up to two years. Mr French said the diagnosis, which was made after Ms Savage’s 20-week scan, had been a shock and “incredibly scary”. The couple, both teachers, were referred by medics at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London to Texas Chil- dren’s Hospital in Houston, where a
TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
sun cream to beat the heatwaves
By Ruby Cline
FARMERS are spraying apples with clay “sun cream” as they try to protect them from soaring temperatures. The fruit are being sprayed with a clay substance that acts like a sun cream as parts of the country experience their fourth heatwave of the year. Drought conditions were declared across half of England on Wednesday. Clive Baxter, a farmer in Kent, said the sunscreen stopped the apples from cooking themselves. Mr Baxter told The Telegraph: “We spray the trees with kaolin, or China clay. It is an organic product and acts like whitewash to block out the sun. I’m aware of other growers in Kent who have been doing this technique for the last few years.” Bramley apples are “very suscepti- ble” to sunburn, he told the BBC. The sunscreen is made by mixing horticultural kaolin clay – a non-toxic mineral powder – with water, which farmers then use to coat the apples, creating a white film that reflects UV radiation and reduces fruit surface tem- peratures. The mixture, which can also protect the trees from insects such as apple
By Cameron Henderson
Maisie Savage, Josh French and baby Theo, right. Some of the medical team who prepared her for her operation, below
they did just
completely
reversed
what could
have been
a really
horrible
start to life’
maggots and some moths, is then washed off the produce before it reaches consumers. Mr Baxter added that apple trees were so “stressed” by the rising temper- atures that farmers were having to thin them, leading to lower yields. Farmers said they were also feeding cows hay – their winter food supply – because grass had not grown in the heat. This summer has seen temperature
decision to cut public funding for the Cheshire-based site. The complex, which includes radio telescopes that helped track the first Moon landing, is facing closure under Labour because of the cuts, which have been labelled “scientific vandalism” by researchers. Jodrell Bank was founded in 1945 by Bernard Lovell, a leading physicist. In addition to playing a crucial role in
team of paediatric surgeons led by Dr Michael Belfort have been running a clinical trial to operate on unborn babies. The couple were told to travel to Texas immediately and remain there for the rest of the pregnancy. Ms Savage said: “It was a huge decision.” Before heading to the States, the cou- ple had to travel to Leuven Hospital, in Belgium, where specialists needed to give Ms Savage a Botox injection through her womb into Theo’s abdomi- nal wall, to relax the muscles to make the repair easier. During the operation in Texas, the amniotic fluid in Ms Savage’s womb was drained and replaced with carbon diox- ide to give surgeons space to operate. Mr French told the BBC: “The length of that day, it felt like a week. The wait- ing and just not knowing exactly what was going on at each and every stage.” Ms Savage was left with a scar twice the size of a C-section incision but still had a baby growing inside her womb for another 14 weeks. Theo would often kick her scar causing her pain. “It was a hard recovery,” Ms Savage said. “But it was worth it.” Theo was born naturally in Texas in February. Ms Savage, who has now returned home to London, said: “Everything they did just completely reversed what could have been a really horrible start to his life, and he’s just the best. He’s a completely normal baby, essentially.” Mr French added: “We both feel incredibly fortunate. The impact they’ve had on us as a family is incredi- ble. They made us feel so welcome, from the team at Great Ormond Street to Dr Belfort and the team. “Whilst we were over there, the level of care was amazing, and they made a very traumatic time of our lives so much easier, and we’ve got this little man – we couldn’t be happier.” Dr Belfort, who is obstetrician and gynaecologist-in-chief at Texas Chil- dren’s Hospital, said he was delighted with how the operation and recovery had gone so far. “The mother, the baby, the surgery, the time of the surgery, the fact that we had zero complications during the foe- tal surgery and after the foetal surgery, just remarkable,” he said. “The inside of the uterus is now a new surgical space for innovation and spina bifida and gastroschisis are just two, but I believe that we could actually do certain cardiac surgeries in utero, and I think we can also do some lung surgeries in utero.” In Britain, Paolo de Coppi, the profes- sor of paediatric surgery at GOSH and head of stem cells and regenerative medicine at University College London, hopes to perform the procedure in the UK if the trial is a success. “We hope that we will be able to offer this to patients in a larger scale very soon,” he told the BBC.
The pioneering keyhole surgery that Theo received
Botox injection given to Theo via abdominal wall to relax muscles
Farmer Clive
Baxter says
Bramley apples
are very
susceptible
to sunburn
records broken, with highs of 35.1C in May and 38C in June. The UK Health Security Agency announced a new amber heat warning across the south of England and the East Midlands this week, with tempera- tures in London expected to reach 33C yesterday. Meanwhile, seven areas of England are in drought, covering the South, the West Midlands and Wessex.
monitoring human space exploration, it also served as an early-warning radar for missile attacks during the Cold War. But public funding for the site, which includes the Lovell Telescope, the larg- est steerable radio telescope in the world at the time of its completion in 1957, is to end in March 2028. The open letter said the decision was “profoundly depressing” and would
Intestines outside foetus
put an end to my writing career
By Telegraph Reporter
LYNDA LA PLANTE, the best-selling crime writer, tearfully told a court a driving ban would end her career after she was caught breaking a 20mph speed limit five times. But the 83 year-old, who is best known for creating the character of Prime Suspect’s DCI Jane Tennison, a no-nonsense detective, failed in her own real-life battle with the law to avoid being banned from the road. The writer tried to swerve a ban by claiming she needed her car to meet criminals to research her books. She said criminals could be “very choosy” about where they meet her, and claimed she could not employ a driver because they would distract her with questions as she tried to recount information she has been told. The author also claimed she would not be able to take her dog Theo for walks if she could not drive him to Wim- bledon, because nearby Richmond Park was “too full of joggers”. If she were unable to take him for walks, he would have to be rehomed, she said, adding that the “emotional tur- moil of that would truly damn my career as a writer”. She added: “It’s very,
“poke out some of the world’s clearest eyes on the sky”. Prof Cox, one of the UK’s foremost television scientists, used to be a keyboard player for the band D:Ream, which filmed the music video for their 1995 hit Party Up The World at Jodrell Bank. The Oldham-born professor has since presented the BBC programme
Ms Savage’s womb partially exposed Amniotic fluid in Ms Savage’s womb drained and replaced with CO2 so surgeons have space to operate
Lynda La Plante outside Lavender Hill magistrates’ court yesterday
very solitary, and I work exceptionally hard, and I would just stop.” She also failed to avoid a driving ban despite employing Nick Freeman, a lawyer known as Mr Loophole for his prowess in getting celebrity clients out of driving bans. Yesterday, La Plante pleaded guilty at Lavender Hill magistrates’ court, in south-west London, to breaking the 20mph speed limit near her home in Kingston-upon-Thames five times between November 2025 and April this year. The court heard she already has
Stargazing Live from the observatory. Other signatories to the letter include astronauts Tim Peake and Chris Had- field, Simon Armitage, the poet laure- ate, Dara Ó Briain, the comedian, and actor Christopher Eccleston. Joining them are members of the Prime Minister’s favourite Manchester bands, including Johnny Marr, the co-founder of The Smiths, and Elbow,
Surgeon pushes intestines into Theo’s body via keyhole surgery. Uterus put back inside Ms Savage, who later gives birth naturally
nine points on her licence, from three speeding offences in June 2023, and June and July 2025. She admitted driving at 24mph twice, 25mph, 26mph, and 27mph in the latest offences, which all happened as she took her 18-month-old dog for his daily walk. Mr Freeman urged magistrates to spare her a ban, saying driving is a “vital part of who she is”. La Plante told the court she would wind up her writing company if banned, putting four staff members out of work. Giving evidence, La Plante said she got Theo after suffering the devastation of the untimely death of another dog, Hugo, who was “in the prime of his life”. “I don’t want it to sound trivial – this woman and her dog – but I can’t tell you what it was like with this enormous beautiful wolfhound. I don’t know how he did it. He would come up into my office, it was as if he said ‘stop’. He knew I had been working for five solid hours, and this paw would come up – bang.” The magistrates imposed fines total- ling £3,330 on La Plante, handed her a six-month ban as her points total rose to 24, and ordered her to pay £130 costs and a £1,332 victim surcharge.
whose track One Day Like This featured on his Makerfield by-election campaign launch video. The letter called on the Government to “immediately” find the £2.8m a year needed to fund the observatory, argu- ing that it could “play an essential role” in UK defence by “tracking space debris, destructive solar flares, satellites and asteroids”.
By Telegraph Reporter
By Telegraph Reporter
FIVE of Mohamed Fayed’s victims were human trafficked, the Home Office has confirmed. One survivor has told how they were recruited into a false role at Harrods, while two were hired for a legitimate role and then selected for abuse off the shop floor. Another survivor was
over body in suitcase ran charity
have told police that he
dumped British woman in
an abandoned building
By Max Stephens international Crime Correspondent
AN AFGHAN national arrested on sus- picion of murdering a British woman in Athens and disposing of her remains in a suitcase is a champion boxer who co-ran a refugee charity, according to reports. Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, has been detained by Greek police for allegedly killing Elisabeth-Jane Ross, a 38-year- old charity volunteer, and using her bank card to withdraw thousands of euros. Initial medical reports suggest she died from asphyxiation, according to a case file. Mr Ahmadzai is said to have admitted to dumping Ms Ross’s body inside an abandoned building and sending text messages from her phone to convince relatives she was alive. Greek authorities disclosed that a homeless man had discovered Ms Ross’s remains on July 18 after he noticed a “bad smell” emanating from an empty building in the Kypseli district. Mr Ahmadzai, a father of one, became the key suspect after his American wife, Alaina Hall, raised concerns to the police about his behaviour in the days following Ms Ross’s death, The Times and the Daily Mail reported. The couple reportedly knew Ms Ross, a Christian volunteer from Edinburgh, through their non-governmental organisation named Love Every Nation Athens. Detectives are said to have opened an investigation into Mr Ahmadzai after his wife found him missing from their home on July 15 and checked his shared location, which placed him at Ms Ross’s apartment. Mr Ahmadzai allegedly attempted to give his wife €2,550 (£2,200) in cash along with a new Apple iPhone 17 Pro, which she handed over to police believing they had been bought with Ms Ross’s money. When police raided his home on Aug 1, they found a black metal replica pistol and a black military-style knife, accord- ing to sources quoted by the Daily Mail. When questioned by police, Mr Ahmadzai reportedly told detectives that he found Ms Ross already dead in her bathroom but later admitted to
By Laura Donnelly HealtH editor
ONE in eight pregnant women are being diagnosed with diabetes as mothers get older and heavier, research shows. The study by the University of Edin- burgh suggests the number of women diagnosed with gestational diabetes has risen by 60 per cent in just five years. Experts said rising maternal age, increasing rates of obesity and improve- ments in data collection are likely to be behind the trend.
since being wiped out 200 years ago
WHITE-TAILED eagles have been released in Exmoor National Park for the first time in 200 years. Six of the large raptors were released as part of a project by Forestry England and the Roy Dennis Wildlife Founda- tion to return the species to England’s skies, after it was persecuted so intensely in the 18th century that it was wiped out in the region. The project has led to the release of 45 white-tailed eagles from the Isle of Wight since 2019. Since then, some of the birds have started breeding, and in 2023, this resulted in the birth of the first chick to be born in the wild in southern England since 1780. Twenty of the raptors – Britain’s larg- est birds of prey – will be released over three years at the national park, officials said. Conservationists say they intro- duced the birds to Exmoor National Park – which sits across the border
employed as a domestic worker for a member of the Fayed family after being recruited via a letting agency called Hyde Park Residence. Their cases dated back to the 1990s, while the most recent took place after the 2010 sale of Harrods. All five survivors have received conclusive grounds deci- sions from the National Referral Mecha- nism (NRM) that they are victims of
using her bank cards and mobile phone. His wife came forward and provided information to the police when Ms Ross was publicly identified on July 30. Mr Ahmadzai fled Afghanistan aged 15 and arrived in Lesbos on a small boat in 2016 as a refugee after his family was killed by the Taliban, according to a self-penned blog post. In the post, Mr Ahmadzai describes how his father, a military commander, survived six assas- sination attempts by the Taliban before insurgents killed him in an ambush. In the post, Mr Ahmadzai wrote: “I lost everything I had. I deserved a bet- ter life than this. So many of my dreams were killed. Life truly isn’t fair, but I never gave up, and I will never give up. God is on my side. He is not finished with me. And now, my biggest dream is to serve others with everything I have.” While at the island’s Moria Camp, the second-largest refugee camp in Europe, he met Ms Hall, who was a volunteer. Mr Ahmadzai converted to Christianity the next year.
everything I had. I deserved a better life than this. So many of my dreams were killed’
Elisabeth-Jane Ross was reportedly known to her alleged killer through her work as a charity volunteer
The pair moved to Athens in 2019 and married on April 29 2023. Mr Ahmadzai fought twice as a pro- fessional boxer in Athens, competing in the Super Light division. He lost his debut in June 2025 and won his second in March 2026, taking the vacant national title. Ms Ross, a committed Christian who was known as Lisa, often travelled to Greece to volunteer and help people through non-governmental organisa- tions, and was regarded as a “good Samaritan”. She had travelled the world partici- pating in charitable work inspired by her faith, including spending time in Kurdistan helping Syrian refugees. In Athens, she would often be seen talking to homeless people in the poorer parts of the city, including near an abandoned car park where they drank, took drugs and slept. Mr Ahmadzai is expected to appear before Athens magistrates’ court tomorrow.
Gestational diabetes mellitus is the most common complication arising during pregnancy. It develops when the body cannot produce enough insulin to control blood sugar levels, increasing the risk of premature birth, emergency caesarean section, pre-eclampsia and babies being born unusually large or small. Although it usually resolves after birth, women diagnosed with gesta- tional diabetes are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular dis-
modern slavery, after being referred by the charity Unseen UK. The NRM is the UK’s official framework for identifying victims of modern slavery, which allows victims to receive appropriate support and provides the Government with data about modern slavery in the UK. Statutory first responders, including the police, Border Force, the National Crime Agency and local authorities,
ease later in life. Researchers analysed NHS maternity records covering more than 2.3 million women who gave birth to 2.8 million babies at 184 hospitals in England between 2018 and 2022. The study found diagnoses rose from around 8 per cent of pregnancies in England in 2018 to more than 12 per cent in 2022. The average age of moth- ers in England and Wales has increased steadily over recent decades, reaching 30.9 years in 2023, compared with 29.3 years in 2003.
Wight birds had frequently visited the area, where historically they would have bred. It provides ideal foraging and plenty of fish, and breeding habitat along the coastline. The six birds were taken under licence from the wild in Scotland – where white-tailed eagles were suc- cessfully reintroduced some years ago – and brought south to Exmoor, where they have been cared for by experts. It is expected that they will travel widely following their release, before returning to the area to breed when they are four or five years old. Zoe Smith, from the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, said: “After so many years absent from this landscape, it is a special moment to be returning them on Exmoor.” Ali Hawkins, senior ecologist with the Exmoor National Park Authority, said: “This is such an exciting moment for Exmoor.”
must offer an NRM referral to any adult they have reasonable grounds to believe may be a victim of modern slavery. On April 29, it was reported by the BBC that Rachel Louw had received a positive conclusive grounds decision, after reporting abuse suffered at the hands of Fayed and his brother Salah. Since then, all four members of an advocacy group for Fayed survivors
Obesity has become increasingly common among women entering preg- nancy. NHS maternity data show almost one in four women are obese at their first antenatal appointment, compared with around one in five in the late 2010s. Rebecca Reynolds, professor of met- abolic medicine at the University of Edinburgh, said: “The rising number of women being diagnosed is concerning and impacts on maternity services delivery which are already challenged. “Importantly, gestational diabetes
called No One Above have also received conclusive grounds decisions: Justine, Elizabeth, Margo and Isabella, all pseu- donyms. It is understood that there are more survivors who have also received positive decisions. More than 400 allegations of sexual misconduct have been made against Fayed, dating from 1977 to 2014, includ- ing sexual assault, rape, sexual exploita-
also increases risk of future type 2 dia- betes and cardiovascular disease,” she said, calling for better preventative measures to help support women after giving birth. The study found the rise in gesta- tional diabetes was greatest among Asian women, where almost one in four pregnancies were affected by 2022, and among women living in the most deprived areas, where rates reached around one in seven. In 2022, around two in every 21 white mothers were
tion and human trafficking. The Met Police is investigating at least 156 vic- tims who contacted them directly, including 21 who came forward before Fayed’s death in 2023 at the age of 94. Four people have been questioned to date, 19 months after the investigation opened. The Home Office has been approached for comment.
diagnosed with gestational diabetes, compared with two in 13 black mothers and two in nine Asian mothers. Women from these groups were also more likely to experience pregnancy complications. Black mothers had 36 per cent higher odds of an emergency caesarean section, while women living in deprived areas were 29 per cent more likely to give birth prematurely. Asian women were more than twice as likely to have babies who were small for their gestational age.
Sharif Ahmadzai is a champion boxer who co-ran a non-governmental organisation for refugees with his wife
claimed Jaguar accelerated ‘on its own’ jailed
By Telegraph Reporter
By Telegraph Reporter
A DRIVER claimed his electric Jaguar accelerated on its own after driving it at high speeds in a deliberate attempt to get it written off . Nathan Owen, 33, drove at speeds of up to 86mph in Merseyside for about 35 minutes during the incident on March 6 2024. Liverpool Crown Court heard he had run into “fi nancial diffi culties” and was in arrears with CA Auto Finance with about £5,000 left to pay. On the day of the incident, he called loan com- pany Plata to ask if he would be able to borrow more on top of the £3,000 he had already loaned from them, but was told he could not. Five minutes later, shortly after 2pm, he called 999 claiming his car would not brake and he had no control over the vehicle, which he said was accelerating. Eric Lamb, prosecuting, said: “In fact, his car was stationary at the time of that call.” Police attended and the car, which was then travelling at speeds of up to 86mph, had to be boxed off by emer- gency service vehicles to keep other road users safe before it came to a stop on the M62 near Warrington, Cheshire. He collided with a police car 31 times as offi cers tried to stop him and investi- gations found there was no fault with
the events in order to enable him to get rid of the vehicle’
the car, the court heard. Mr Lamb said: “He had fabricated the events in order to enable him to get rid of the vehicle. He had full control of the vehi- cle and with full control of the vehicle he travelled at excessive and extreme speeds.” Footage of the police pursuit was played in court, along with the audio from his 999 call, in which he was heard telling an operator he was “shaking” and the car had “gone crazy”. When the car was eventually brought to a stop the brake lights could be seen turning on. Owen contacted the fi nance company 40 minutes after the incident. He was later paid £300 by The Sun and £500 by the Daily Mail for his story, the court heard. In a statement, Murray Paul, from Jaguar Land Rover UK, said the fi rm had spent an extra £50m in marketing to try to counter the publicity from the false allegations, which they said generated 180 pieces of adverse media coverage. Daniel Travers, defending, said Owen’s actions were “frighteningly stu- pid”. Owen pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and two counts of fraud in June. He was banned from driving for a period of five years after his release from custody and he was jailed for fi ve years and three months. A charge of causing a public nuisance was ordered to lie on the fi le.
by Jason Arday he worked abroad for NGO as he fights plagiarism accusations
By Gordon Rayner ASSOCIATE EDITOR
A CHARITY has cast doubt on claims about volunteering made by the Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row. Prof Jason Arday has listed among his achievements “installing water points” in South America and West Africa with the charity WaterAid. WaterAid, however, says it never sends volunteers abroad. It is the latest blow to Prof Arday’s credibility following questions over alleged plagiarism and apparently bogus claims he has made about ultra-distance running and fundraising. His memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, is set to be published at the end of this month, with a publicity tour of the UK and America to promote it. His biography on the website of his speakers’ agency, the Simon & Schuster
to reject my OBE, says Olusoga
By India McTaggard ENTERTAINMENT AND ROYAL CORRESPONDENT
DAVID OLUSOGA has said “privileged white middle-class people” told him to reject his OBE because he is black. The historian and broadcaster, 56, has often been critical of the British Empire but insisted that turning down an honour would have been “a snub”. In an interview with Radio Times about the acceptance of his 2019 Offi cer of the Order of the British Empire for services to history and community inte- gration, he said: “I’m often told by priv- ileged white middle-class people that it’s a terrible thing for a black person to accept an OBE, and I think they under- estimate what it means. “It’s a diff erent thing for somebody who is an immigrant to turn down a national honour than it is for someone
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Speakers Bureau, stated until recently: “He has also undertaken and completed relief work in South America and West Africa with WaterAid installing water points, which provide drinkable and clean water.” The name of WaterAid has now been removed from the biography on the website, but the same claim appeared on several other biographies of Prof Arday ahead of events where he was speaking. When The Telegraph asked WaterAid whether Prof Arday had installed water points in South America or West Africa for the charity, a spokesman referred us to its policy on volunteers, which has a section titled: “Why we don’t send vol- unteers abroad.” It explains that “it’s vital that each community is responsible for managing their own projects” and that “out of respect for the people we work with, we don’t encourage or facilitate self-funded visits either”. Meanwhile, on his biography page on the website of Jesus College, where he is a fellow, Prof Arday lists a visiting pro- fessorship at Glasgow University, where he worked as a full-time professor
who was born here. Turning an honour down would be a snub. And I don’t want to snub a country that I became a citizen of, and which is my nation.” Prof Olusoga, the author of Black and British: A Forgotten History, previously contributed to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s controversial Netflix docu-
would be a snub. I don’t want to snub a country that I became a citizen of’
Withstanding scrutiny? Disputed claims and achievements
but with no reference to injury.
PhD thesis from Liverpool John Moores University in 2015: Analysis found 188 passages that were identical or similar to another 2009 thesis. Prof Arday, inset, says he is autistic and his method of learning relies on mimicry.
Three-hundred miles in three days: No proof yet of his treadmill feat for charity.
Six-hundred miles in six days: He now says it took him 12 days.
Thirty marathons in 35 days: Prof Arday says he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, despite a hairline fracture on day 21 that made his leg swell. His feat was reported in local papers,
conversations that have been pushed away so many times,” he said in the show. He has also fronted BBC series Empire on the history and legacy of the British Empire. Explaining that his background was why he accepted the honour, which he received on the late Elizabeth II’s 2019 New Year Honours list and was awarded by King Charles in 2023, he said: “My mother was British, but nationality is patrilineal. When I was first in this country, I was Nigerian. I was natural- ised British later in life. But we had social housing. I went to Liverpool Uni- versity. The local education authority, for all its faults, gave me help when it diagnosed my dyslexia.” He stars on the popular BBC show A House Through Time and is professor of public history at the University of Manchester.
water projects in South America and Africa but the charity never sends volunteers abroad.
20 years before he was born. He now says he was referring to a community initiative.
Masked knifeman: He claims to have faced at his faculty building a masked man threatening to kill him if he did not resign. On the second occasion the man had a knife. The intruder was not seen on CCTV and Prof Arday did not tell the police about a masked thug.
WaterAid: Biographies say he installed clean
spike in racism from patients
NHS staff have been called “monkeys”
and “dirty foreigners” as part of rising
racism from patients, experts have said.
The Society of Radiographers said
staff had reported a noticeable rise in
racism from patients in the past 18
months.
This includes patients who have
refused to be treated by non-white staff
and some talking about “people coming
over here, taking our jobs”.
A poll of radiographers revealed staff
sometimes accept racist remarks as
“something they have to put up with”.
Dean Rogers, executive director of
industrial strategy and member rela-
tions, said: “The rise in incidents of rac-
ism over the last year and a half is
unconscionable and unacceptable – and
it’s a poor refl ection on us as a society.
before his move to Cambridge. The Her- ald newspaper reported that Glasgow University said Prof Arday has never held a visiting professorship there. Prof Arday’s claims about fundraising have gradually unravelled since allega- tions that he had plagiarised his PhD thesis surfaced last month. He admitted that he did not, as previ- ously claimed, run 600 miles in six days (he now says it took 12 days) and he has accepted that he did not personally raise £5.5m for charity but that he was part of a “syndicate of 100 people” who raised the money. Simon & Schuster, which is set to publish the professor’s memoir, has said that “as things stand”, publication will still go ahead on Aug 27. Prof Arday became the youngest black professor in Cambridge’s history when he was hired as professor of soci- ology of education in 2023 at the age of 37. He went on to become a poster boy for the university’s diversity drive. Thousands of people have signed an open letter supporting him, but the name of one of the most prominent sig- natories on the list has now been removed. Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu, the
“The NHS has a diverse workforce – which is one of its strengths. We are clear: discrimination, harassment, rac- ism, bullying or intimidation – whether expressed verbally or in behaviour – is unacceptable and has no place in the NHS.” The Society of Radiographers is calling for the NHS to record incidents
Racist abuse against NHS staff
Au revoir Riviera Brooklyn Beckham and his wife Nicola Peltz managed to avoid an embarrassing meeting with his estranged parents Sir David and Lady Beckham. The young couple were holidaying on Brooklyn’s godfather Sir Elton John’s yacht when they took a stroll in Cannes on Wednesday. Just days later his parents, who fell out with the couple shortly after their wedding, were also on the French Riviera in St-Tropez with younger son Cruz.
president of Wolfson College, Cam- bridge, was previously the second named signatory on an open letter accusing newspapers of “trying to smear [Prof Arday] with fake accusa- tions of plagiarism”. Her name has now disappeared from the open letter organised by the Left- wing Good Law Project. The plagiarism row has made inter- national headlines after analysis of Prof Arday’s PhD thesis showed more than 180 separate passages were identical or near-identical to an earlier thesis pub- lished by another student. Cambridge is split into two camps – those who believe the sociology of edu- cation professor is the victim of a racist smear campaign, and those who believe the university is ignoring prima facie evidence of plagiarism. The Telegraph has learnt that a draft resolution, known as a Grace, is circu- lating among senior members of Cam- bridge’s academic staff, stressing the importance of academic integrity and requesting an investigation into alleged shortcomings in the Research Policy, Integrity and Governance division. Prof Arday has been contacted for comment.
of racism and monitor how they are dealt with. Some 9.26 per cent of staff in 2025 said they had experienced discrimina- tion at work in the previous 12 months from patients or service users. This is up from 9.25 per cent in 2024, 8.57 per cent in 2023, 8.38 per cent in 2022 and 7.91 per cent in 2021. Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: “Patients claim not to hear what I’m saying, or say they can’t under- stand me. English is the only language I speak, and I believe I’m clear enough when I’m speaking to patients.” Thomas Simons, chief human resources and organisational develop- ment offi cer at NHS England, said: “Rac- ist abuse towards NHS staff is completely unacceptable and has no place in our health service.”
editor Rod Liddle, 66
author who delighted in causing controversy has died after a short illness
By Anita Singh
Arts And EntErtAinmEnt Editor
ROD LIDDLE, the journalist and former editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today pro- gramme, has died at the age of 66. Liddle, a columnist for The Sunday Times and The Sun, and a presenter on Times Radio, died on Sunday evening at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough after a short illness. He was one of the highest-profile edi- tors of the Today programme, which he ran from 1998 until 2002. After leaving the BBC, he became a columnist for The Spectator, where he delighted in airing controversial opin- ions on race, immigration and femi- nism. He regularly accused his former employer of Left-wing bias, although he categorised himself in a Guardian inter- view as being Blue Labour. Liddle was the author of several
books, including Selfish Whining Mon- keys: How We Ended Up Greedy, Narcis- sistic and Unhappy (2014) and an analysis of Brexit entitled The Great Betrayal (2019). His children, Wilder, Tyler and Emmy, said in a statement: “We’re all very saddened and shocked at the sud- den passing of our wonderful father. He raised us much as you might imagine, to be inquisitive, brave and always humor-
Rod Liddle pictured in 2014. His children said that their father ‘will always be our guide on how to live an extraordinary life’
ous. Even in hospital in the last few weeks, he consistently held the room and never let the awful situation show. “He has left a legacy that we are all incredibly proud of. He will always be our guide on how to live an extraordi- nary life.” Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News UK, publisher of The Sun and Sun-
day Times, said Liddle “challenged con- ventional thinking and left an indelible mark on British journalism”. Ben Taylor, editor of The Sunday Times, said: “Rod Liddle had a wonder- ful way with words and used his unique talent to speak for the readers, high- lighting the cant and absurdity that bedevils modern life.” Victoria Newton, the editor-in-chief of The Sun, called him: “A terrific observer of the frailties of our political class.” John Humphrys, a Today presenter during Liddle’s editorship, told The i Paper that they “argued like hell” but “for a presenter there was just some- thing quite magical about him”. Liddle resigned from Today after the BBC told him he would have to leave the programme if he did not stop writing his column for The Guardian. Born in Sidcup, south-east London, Liddle was a member of the Socialist Workers’ Party and supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in his youth. He started his career at the South Wales Echo and later worked for the Labour Party before joining the BBC.
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New addition A pygmy hippo calf was born at Edinburgh Zoo to parents Otto and Gloria just days after zoo keepers in Scotland announced that Gloria was pregnant.
BBC amid Sullivan sleaze investigation
By Ben Rumsby
TONY LIVESEY has left the BBC fewer than two months after being named in a Pano- rama investigation into David Sullivan. Livesey, who was editor- in-chief of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport and subse- quently had a 16-year career at Radio 5 Live, temporarily stepped down in June. The 62-year-old did so after Panorama said he had set up a meeting between a glamour model and Sullivan, who was accused by the pro- gramme of historic preda- tory and ex ploitative behaviour in the 1990s. Livesey said he had “no recollection” of introducing the young woman to Sulli- van, who also denied any wrongdoing. The programme addition- ally claimed Livesey came up with the idea of “Countdown to 16”, a Sport feature chroni- cling how long before a teen- age model turned 16, the age at which they could legally be pictured topless for the first time. Livesey, who went on to host a late-night phone-in show on Radio 5 Live from Mondays to Thursdays, said in a statement to Panorama that the feature was “categor- ically” not his idea and that parts of a book he had writ- ten, in which the feature was discussed, had been “fiction- alised”. In an email sent to 5 Live staff yesterday morning, Heidi Dawson, the station’s controller, said Livesey had decided to leave. She added: “Tony has asked me to pass on his heartfelt thanks to the bril-
being found injured
By Ruby Cline
A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl has died after being found seri- ously injured on an industrial estate in Scotland. Police Scotland said the girl had been found at the Elliot Industrial Estate in Arbroath at about 12.02am yesterday. She was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, where she died. A 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection with her death. Police say the man, who is white and British, was known to her and officers are not looking for anyone else. The force said other mem- bers of the family, who are from West Yorkshire, had been camping in the area. Det Supt Nicky McGovern said the girl’s family was being supported by special- ist officers as their inquiries continued. A member of the public told The Courier that the road leading to the estate had been closed since the early
liant colleagues at 5 Live who he has had the pleasure of working with over the years. “I know many of you have also really enjoyed working with Tony, and we wish him well for all his future endeavours.” The BBC had been “con- sidering” serious allegations made by Panorama against Sullivan, who co-owns West Ham United. A spokesman said at the time: “The Panorama inves- tigation included allegations about Tony Livesey which we take seriously. We also note Tony has firmly denied the allegations. “He has asked to step back
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from presenting his radio show for a short period and we will be considering the matters raised by the pro- gramme. We will not be com- menting further at this stage.” Sullivan, who stepped down from his position as joint chairman and as a direc- tor of West Ham in June, said in a statement through law- yers: “I categorically deny all of these complaints.” Livesey began on the Nel- son Leader and then worked at the Gulf News in Dubai. After the Sport he worked for BBC Radio Lancashire, fronted sport coverage on the regional TV programme North West Tonight before moving to Radio 5 Live.
hours of yesterday, with a forensic tent at the site. Workers on the industrial estate were being asked to sign in and out to get through the police cordon, a nearby resident said. Companies, including the building retailer Travis Per- kins, and the engineering service provider Halliburton have units there.
an increase in police presence and activity in the area’
Det Insp Mike Ness of the major investigation team said: “Members of the public will see an increased police presence and activity in the area as inquiries continue. “This is intended to reas- sure the public and anyone who may have information should approach these officers or contact Police Scotland on 101, quoting inci- dent number 0008 of Mon- day Aug 3, 2026.”
drank animal blood believed he was vampire
lamb bodies near churches is given an indefinite hospital order by court
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A SATANIST who believed he was a vampire drank blood and left animal corpses outside churches, a court heard. Benjamin Lewis, 48, killed and then “maimed and disfigured” deer and lambs before dumping them. Offi cers found notes in his home say- ing “It’s fun to be a vampire” and books about cults and serial killers. Detectives arrested Lewis, who pre- viously told a court his name was Count Dracula, by waiting outside Hampshire churches on key dates for Satanists. He was caught on Sept 3, an important day in their calendar.
A deer head left in 2024 with an inverted wooden cross alarmed New Forest locals
The self-professed vampire raided farms in the middle of the night, slit ani- mals’ throats and “left his signature” by placing a tarot card on a dead deer’s head at a church at Easter. Southampton Crown Court heard Lewis had a “fascination with vam- pires” from a young age and was in a vampire cult with other members, whom he would regularly meet with so they could drink each other’s blood. Police said he drank the blood of slaughtered animals because he
and received £78k of her benefits
A MAN has been jailed after keeping his dead mother inside a freezer for nearly three years while continuing to receive more than £78,000 of her benefi ts. Christopher Phillips, 60, previously admitted preventing the lawful and decent burial of Sylvia Phillips, 89, at their home in Porthcawl. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by failing to notify the Depart- ment for Work and Pensions, or Bridgend County borough council, that his mother had died. At Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court yesterday, Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, the Recorder of Cardiff , sentenced Phil- lips to two years and four months’ imprisonment. Phillips received a total of £78,190.92 in state pension, pension credit, attend- ance allowance, winter fuel payments, cost-of-living payments and housing benefi t, which would have ceased had
rival Instagram influencer with her car
A SOCIAL media infl uencer has denied murdering a rival Instagram creator by running her over with a car. Gabrielle Carrington, 29, a former X Factor finalist, allegedly struck Klaudia Zakrzewska outside the Inca nightclub in Argyll Street, Soho, at 4.30am on Sunday April 19. Footage of the incident circulating online showed a woman getting into a black car before it surged forward and hit Zakrzewska, who went under the vehicle. Ms Carrington, of Manchester, was initially charged with attempted mur- der, but that was changed to murder after Zakrzewska died from her injuries on April 25. Yesterday, Ms Carrington appeared at the Old Bailey by videolink from Bronzefield prison. She pleaded not guilty to murder and a second charge of causing grievous bodily harm with
thought he would live forever. At age 13, he left a dead frog on a church cross, and in 2003 he was jailed for 12 months for terrorising a vicar and his family by claiming to be a vampire. Yesterday, he received an indefi nite hospital order for his spate of off ences in the New Forest, Hants, from Febru- ary to August last year. Lewis, from Totton on the outskirts of the New Forest, admitted fi ve counts of religious aggravated intentional har- assment and two counts of theft. He appeared via video link in a black suit. He also left a deer’s head on the gate of an accommodation block for vulner- able adults where he had stayed. The 2025 incidents took place at Anchor House and St Theresa’s Church in Totton, Christ Church in Colbury, St Peter’s Church in Bramshaw and Christ Church in Emery Down. He was fi rst arrested in May 2025 and animal blood was found in his vehicle. Tarot cards were also found in his bed- room at home and when interviewed he “appeared distracted”. He was arrested for a second time in September 2025 and items found at his address included sketches of vampires and dead sheep, newspaper cuttings relating to death, satanic symbols, upside down crosses and pictures of people sucking blood from each other. Laura Deuxberry, prosecuting, said: “The church is supposed to be a place of sanctuary and this made people fear going to their sanctuary.” Ms Deuxberry explained that he received treatment at mental health ser- vice Anchor House, which deals with vulnerable patients, and that staff there feared that he might return after they found a deer’s head on their gate and an inverted cross, left in the early hours. In a separate incident in April 2025, fi ve-to-10 day-old lambs, costing £180 each had their necks cut and then hung from a fl agpole at St Peter’s Church. A farmer whose family had lived in the New Forest for generations, said she considered moving away because she thought “If he can do that then what else can he do?” Another incident saw a lamb left on a tree stump and an inverted cross near Christchurch in Colbury. Dr Gauruv Malhan, a consultant forensic psychiatrist, told the court that he believed Lewis had autism, mixed personality disorder, OCD, a possible mild learning disorder and “fantastical thinking patterns”.
Phillips’s death been reported. Judge Lloyd-Clarke said: “You continued to collect her prescriptions and misled medical professionals about her where- abouts, lying when enquiries were made about your mother, repeatedly telling medical staff that she did not
this would significantly increase his... risk of further exploitation’ £78,190.92
The amount Christopher Phillips received after failing to notify authorities of his mother’s death
wish to attend appointments or undergo tests. “Your mother’s pension and benefi ts continued to be paid into her bank accounts which you were able to access.” The judge added: “The psychiatrist concludes that at the time of the off end-
intent to Anoush Chyche, a security guard. The defendant was not asked to enter a plea to a third charge of driving with excess alcohol. Judge Whitehouse confirmed that she would try the case at the Old Bailey from Jan 5. She set a further pre-trial hearing for Aug 11 and Oct 9. The judge remanded Ms Carrington in custody but ordered that the defend- ant be brought to the Old Bailey for her next hearing. Ms Carrington, who has more than 365,000 followers on Instagram under the handle RIELLEUK, made it to the X Factor live fi nals in 2013 as one of the three members of Miss Dyna- mix. She was described in court as “a social media infl uencer”. Zakrzewska, who was in her 30s, was a TikTok and Insta- gram infl uencer who went by the name Klaudiaglam. It is alleged that Ms Car- rington had arrived in
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Benjamin Lewis called himself Count Dracula and would attend a vampire cult where members drank each other’s blood
ing you were suffering from a recog- nised mental disorder, namely prolonged grief disorder. “He records evidence of persistent longing for your mother, difficulty accepting her death, preoccupation with her, social withdrawal, and an inability to move forward with ordinary life. “He also notes what he describes as a dependent relationship between you and your mother, together with your limited social contacts.” The court heard that Phillips had left work to become a full-time carer for his mother in the months leading up to her death on March 8 2023. Following her death, of which the cause remains unknown, the defendant purchased a chest freezer and used this to store her body in the living room of the property. Ruth Smith, defending, said the defendant had told police: “I basically didn’t want to let her go.”
Gabrielle Carrington, below, is a social media influencer with 365,000 followers on Instagram
Argyll Street in her car and had appeared to have a row with a man as she got out of the vehicle. The altercation escalated as more people became involved, prompting security to intervene. Ms Carrington allegedly returned to the car and moved off, mounting the pavement and striking Zakrzewska. The vehicle hit Mr Chyche, a member of security staff , it was claimed. As the vehicle reversed, Zakrzewska could be seen under it on the ground. At 5am paramedics and police had attended the scene and found people shouting, many of whom had left the nearby Inca nightclub. Zakrzewska died in hospital and Mr Chyche, in his 50s, suffered “life-changing injuries”. According to the court charges, Ms Carrington had 61 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath when she tested after the incident.
vehicle reversed, Zakrzewska could be seen under it on the ground’
fears he may join gang back home
A JAMAICAN drug dealer has been spared deportation after it was argued that he would not be able to avoid join- ing a gang in his home country. The migrant has a “lengthy criminal history” involving drugs, with his long- est sentence being six years in prison, imposed in 2016 after he was convicted of intent to supply a class A drug. He said he had been involved with a gang and been traffi cked to the UK, and that if he went back to Jamaica he would probably fall in with gangs again. He has won an immigration reprieve and been allowed to stay in the UK while he appeals against his deportation order. The migrant, who cannot be named and was referred to as TWH, was born in Jamaica and came to the UK in 1999 on a visitor visa. In 2005, he was granted indefi nite leave to remain in the UK as a dependant of his mother. Although he had a British partner,
they are no longer in contact, and his son is now an adult. The migrant has a “lengthy” criminal history that contin- ued for 17 years, from 2006 to 2023. He was served with a deportation order earlier this year on the grounds that it would be conducive to the “pub- lic good” because he was a “foreign
criminal”. TWH made a human rights and protection claim, but the Home Offi ce refused this and maintained the deportation order. He appealed against the decision at the First-Tier Tribunal, but this was dis- missed by the judge. He then made another appeal, at the Upper Tribunal. At the latest appeal, a report by Dr Lisa
over son’s death in Cyprus allowed home for funeral
By Daisy Graham-Brown in Paphos
A FATHER who is being prosecuted over the death of his two-year-old son in Cyprus has been told he can fl y home to attend the funeral. The 37-year-old, a City executive from Essex, was charged with causing death by a reckless act after his son fell from a window on the fourth fl oor of the King Evelthon Beach Hotel in Chlo- rakas, near Paphos, last month. Appearing before Paphos district court yesterday morning, the UK national was granted permission to travel home for the funeral and be reu- nited with his family before returning to Cyprus for the trial in September. He told reporters: “I am really thank- ful to the judge and the authorities for letting me go home to my wife and my daughters. That’s all I want to do now.” Judge Froso Christodoulidou said the Cypriot attorney general had agreed to allow a temporary change to the man’s bail conditions, which previously required him to remain on the island at an address registered with police after surrendering his passport and paying bail of €20,000 (£17,400). From tomorrow he will be allowed to
needs to go back to his family, to his house, to grieve properly’
leave Cyprus, but will have to return by Sept 14. He has to pay another €10,000 in bail, which will be returned to him when he arrives back on the island. The father, who works for one of the “big four” accountancy fi rms, became visibly emotional during the fi ve-min- ute hearing. Alexandros Alexandrou, defending, said: “Today, he is still struggling, but he is happy with this outcome. “He was crying because, as we all understand, he needs to go back to his family, to his house, to grieve properly and to reunite with the members of the family – not only with his wife. “Today, for him, it is a good day, it is a nice day because he was thinking they would not allow him to travel back and attend the funeral. If this would hap- pen, it would have been a disaster for him – devastating.” The fi nancial executive was arrested on July 12, hours after his son had fallen to his death from an open window at the five-star beachfront resort on the island’s west coast. The family had arrived in Cyprus earlier that day. Police said the incident happened in a corridor outside the family’s room when the toddler slipped from his father’s arms as the pair played while waiting for a lift to take them to the res- taurant. Friends of the family have said the father was unaware that the sliding window panel was open.
Davies about his increased risk of reof- fending if he were sent to Jamaica was found to be correct. The report said: “I assess the risk of relapse into substance use and deterio- ration in his mental health to be high in the event of removal. His risk of suicide is high in the event of removal... The risk of him being re-trafficked if returned to Jamaica is assessed as high.” She added: “He would, in my opinion, be at increased risk of a return to drug use to cope in the absence of profes- sional support, anti-traffi cking support and the absence of supportive relation- ships if returned to Jamaica... this would signifi cantly increase his... risk of fur- ther exploitation.” Karim-ullah Khan, an Upper Tribu- nal judge, ruled there had been proce- dural errors in the appeal hearing, because the issues had not been prop- erly put to the migrant, so the case must be sent back to the First-Tier Tribunal to be reheard.
Social media star Klaudia Zakrzewska died after she was hit by a car outside a nightclub in Soho, London
who develop breast cancer had not been given further checks, study finds
By Michael Searles Deputy HealtH eDitor
By Michael Searles Deputy HealtH eDitor
THE NHS is failing to refer up to 95 per cent of women under 50 who go on to develop breast cancer for further checks, research has revealed. Just 4.4 per cent of women under 50 who were diagnosed with breast cancer within 10 years met criteria for further checks under existing NHS guidance. The analysis compared the referral
closes Jersey beach for first time in history
By Samuel Montgomery
By Samuel Montgomery
A SHARK sighting has closed a beach in Jersey for the first time in the Channel Island’s history. Lifeguards cleared the water at St Ouen’s Bay after a dark grey animal, estimated to be between 10ft and 12ft in length, was spotted at 10.40am on Saturday. Tom Rolls, a lifeguard on duty at the time, said he thought initial reports from one of the guards at Watersplash of a shark 40 metres from shore were a prank. He told the Jersey Evening Post: “Ini- tially, we were like, ‘That’s a joke, you’re having us on here.’ But then he was persistent. He said multiple sightings had been [reported] by members of the public.” Mr Rolls said a colleague on a rescue
10 to 12ft long, and then it swam away really quickly from under his board’
board had paddled over the animal, which entered the bay from the west before heading south. “He said it looked definitely more like a shark than anything else,” added Mr Rolls. “It was darkish grey, about 10 to 12ft long, and then it swam away really quickly from under his board.” Supervisors decided to close the beach until it could be established whether the species was a threat to humans. Using the public-address sys- tem at La Braye, Mr Rolls asked people to leave the water. A BBC reporter who was on the beach at the time recalled Mr Rolls saying: “You’re not going to believe this, but we’ve got to get everybody out of the water – we are red-flagging the beach because a shark has been spotted fur- ther up the bay.” Mr Rolls later told the local paper that the request had been met with “sur- prised looks” as it had never happened before. The bay reopened an hour after the sighting.
that anyone can have, expert says
THE autism spectrum is now so broad that anyone could have the condition, an expert who pioneered research into the condition has said. Prof Dame Uta Frith, an emeritus pro- fessor in cognitive development at Uni- versity College London, said autism had become a “catch-all diagnosis” for a range of conditions and that “anyone of any age or intelligence level can be diagnosed with autism if they meet cer- tain criteria”. Dame Uta was one of the architects of the “autism spectrum” in the 1960s and 70s which was devised to include the “not-so-typical cases”. But she now argues this has become “too broad”, having previously said it
criteria, which are set by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), to a new risk assessment tool, known as Boadicea, which looks at mul- tiple factors including family history, reproductive history, lifestyle and genetics. Experts from the University of Cam- bridge, where the tool was developed, said the new model correctly identified eight times as many women who went on to develop breast cancer as current Nice criteria. Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death in women under 50 in the UK, and those at higher risk are referred by their GP for further assessment and specialist care. Researchers analysed data from 1,258 women under 50 who took part in the
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was so inclusive it was “completely meaningless”. In a new essay, Dame Uta has warned that autism has become a part of “popu- lar culture” and that there is an “almost magnetic attraction” to being labelled with the condition. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), as it is medically known, is a condition that affects how people communicate and understand others, as well as how they think, learn and respond to stimuli such as sounds and light. More than 270,000 people are wait- ing for an NHS autism assessment, with demand for a diagnosis surging since the pandemic. Writing in the Psychological Medicine journal, Dame Uta said the definition has now widened to include people with milder traits and warned that
Breast Cancer Now Generations Study between 2004 and 2011. The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, suggested that using the Boadicea model for all women under 50 would lead to 26.5 per cent being classed as above-average risk and referred for further assessment. This included almost 35 per cent of women under 50 who developed breast cancer within a decade. Meanwhile, researchers found the current Nice criteria would result in 1.4 per cent of women being referred for tests, including 4.4 per cent who went on to develop breast cancer. Dr Juliet Usher-Smith, of the depart- ment of public health and primary care at the University of Cambridge, said:
social media had “spread simplified or misleading ideas”. The 85-year-old said: “Autism wasn’t always defined this way – a sort of catch- all diagnosis for a huge variety of condi- tions. “When it was first identified in the 1940s, it referred to a small group of children with severe difficulties in social interaction, communication and behaviour,” she said. “Over time, the definition has widened to include peo- ple with milder traits and no language or learning problems. “Today, anyone of any age or intelli- gence level can be diagnosed with autism if they meet certain criteria.” She said the introduction of the “idea of ‘neurodiversity’” means that people are encouraged to see autism as a “dif- ference rather than a disorder”.
“We need to get better at identifying women at highest risk of breast cancer so that we can intervene early, when there are more options for treating, or even preventing, their disease.
identifying women at higher risk of breast cancer so we can intervene early’
“The current Nice criteria used in general practice are missing up to 95 per cent of women under 50 who will go on to develop breast cancer. It’s time to look again at these criteria.” Dr Simon Vincent, chief scientific
free headphones wins £19k payout
A POLICE worker with ADHD has been awarded more than £19,000 after winning a disability discrimination case because she was not given free headphones. Donna Vale requested the noise- cancelling headphones when she took a job with Avon and Somerset Police because she was neurodivergent and they would help her with background noise, a tribunal heard. The tribunal was told she had head- phones at home but did not use them or inform her new boss about them. However, she sued and won her claim of disability discrimination after it was found that the force still had a duty to accommodate her request for the noise-cancelling headphones. A judge
officer at Breast Cancer Now, which supported the study, said the results “highlight the limitations of Nice’s cur- rent referral criteria”. “This research must now be carefully considered as part of the current review of its family history guidelines,” he added. Routine screening for breast cancer is only available for women aged 50 to 71. Some countries such as the US, Japan, and Sweden begin screening from age 40. The UK continues to lag behind other developed countries in cancer league tables. Breast cancer accounts for about 15 per cent of all can- cer deaths among women in Organisa- tion for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.
said that it was unusual that she had a pair at home but did not raise that with her boss. However, he added that it did not undermine her case because “the duty to make reasonable adjustments is on the employer not the employee”. The judge ordered that the constabu- lary pay her £19,141 in compensation, including £15,124 for injury to feelings. Ms Vale began her employment as a victim and witness care officer at the police force in a temporary role to cover a long-term absence in September 2023. She had previously owned a creative arts business and was new to policing. She said she had been a self-employed artist because her ADHD made her not want to work with others. Ms Vale had been diagnosed with ADHD, via an online consultation with ADHD360, in May 2023 after her GP
It has been falling but remains higher than average in the UK, accounting for 27 deaths per 100,000 women in 2021, versus the OECD average of 25 per 100,000 in 2023. Japan has one of the lowest mortality rates at 15 deaths per 100,000 women, with experts suggest- ing it is because they diagnose more women at an early stage. A Nice spokesman said: “Nice wel- comes the findings of this study and rec- ognises the potential of multifactorial risk models in improving the identifica- tion of women at increased risk of breast cancer in the future. “However, the current evidence does not warrant a change to our existing familial breast cancer guideline at this time.”
had refused to diagnose her because they thought it was low self-esteem. Upon beginning work at the force, she requested that she be supplied with noise-cancelling headphones and informed them of her ADHD. She requested the headphones again after a four-week probation review in October. Jennie Clarke, Ms Vale’s line man- ager, asked her to confirm why she needed the noise-cancelling version but did not receive a response. Employment Judge Edmund Beever said: “There is one unusual aspect to this. She had some noise-cancelling headphones at home. She did not raise that fact with Ms Clarke, and did not use them at work. This may be seen as unfortunate, but the duty to make rea- sonable adjustments is on the employer and not the employee.”
with Hamas unravels after Israeli attacks
on pledge to disarm after Jewish state unleashes deadly Gaza bombardment
By Henry Bodkin
Jerusalem Correspondent
DONALD TRUMP’S deal to disarm Hamas is on the verge of collapse, after an increase in Israeli bombing and sug- gestions the terror group will not hand over its weapons. Mr Trump hailed a “historic break- through” on Friday after his Board of Peace struck an agreement with Hamas, mandating a staged Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, contingent on an arms decommissioning process. The document demanded that Israel cease its bombardment of the Gaza Strip immediately. However, about 40 Pales- tinians are believed to have been killed since the deal was struck, marking the bloodiest days in Gaza for weeks. It is not known how many were mem- bers of Hamas, but media outlets reported several civilian casualties, including some children. Israel has embarked on a campaign of assassina- tion against any terrorists thought to have been involved in the attacks on Oct 7 2023. Yesterday, Hamas warned that the air strikes could derail the peace process. Al Jazeera quoted a source from the ter- ror group as saying: “We made it clear to the mediators that the continued attacks will disrupt the implementation of the agreement and the negotiations over its timeline.” A US official told Israel’s N12 news channel: “These are the fruits of eight months of negotiations that were meant to bring about the demilitarisation of Gaza. Why continue with targeted assassinations now and give [Hamas] an excuse to withdraw [its agreement]? “This further isolates Israel in the Middle East, as all mediating countries see this as proof that [prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu] does not keep his word or want peace. He killed three innocent children, making Israelis look like bloodthirsty savages.” There is deep scepticism in Israel that Hamas will hand over its weapons. The country is in principle committed to a process of withdrawal in return for dis- armament under Mr Trump’s 20-point peace plan of October last year, which
By Akhtar Makoii
THE US has appealed to its soldiers for ideas on how to proceed with its war in Iran. “We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” an officer in the intelli- gence branch of US Central Command (Centcom) wrote in an email sent to a broad group of military analysts. The request from the Pentagon reflects how Donald Trump’s options have become limited over five months of a war that has failed to force Tehran to surrender. Over the weekend, the US president repeated a pattern that has emerged since he launched Operation Epic Fury alongside Israel: announcing plans for
takes own life at grave
By Henry Bodkin in Jerusalem
THE boyfriend of a woman who was murdered on October 7 has taken his own life at her grave, Israeli media have reported. Bar Asraf, 30, shot himself at the rest- ing place of Liron Barda, who was killed by Hamas at the Nova music festival while trying to help wounded victims. He had recently told his mother that he was struggling without his girl- friend, reportedly saying that “there’s no one who can replace her, no one to cheer me up”. The Israeli military believes 378 of the almost 1,200 people who died on Oct 7 were killed at or near the Nova site. Barda, a 26-year-old bartender at the music festival, refused to flee, insist- ing on helping wounded partygoers rather than saving herself. Asraf ’s sister Lihi told Israel’s Walla news site: “People need to know what Nova did to people. On that day, he started driving towards Re’im to save her, until he realised there was no one left to save.” She described Barda as her brother’s best friend and “part of his soul”. Ms Asraf said her brother had driven to Barda’s grave on Shabbat, despite usually observing the Jewish holy day. After becoming increasingly worried
secured the release of the hostages and a partial withdrawal by the Israel Defense Forces and cessation of bom- bardment in the Strip. The stalemate of the past year suits Israel, because it provides it with a large and easy-to-defend buffer zone between the Hamas-controlled west of Gaza and Israeli communities close to the enclave. With an election looming in October, it is politically difficult for Mr Netan- yahu, who pledged “total victory” over Hamas during two years of war, to with- draw from the Strip while Hamas remains there. While many details are yet to be agreed, last week’s plan envisaged a Northern Ireland-style “decommission- ing” process. Guns – starting with heavy weapons – would be handed to Palestin- ian security forces and stored, possibly in the Strip, rather than handed over to Israel and destroyed. Since the deal was announced, there have been signals that Hamas may not honour its side of the bargain. Spokes- men for the group have suggested that
as all mediating countries see this as proof Netanyahu does not keep his word’
Israel must withdraw before guns are handed over, appearing to contradict statements by Mr Trump. Meanwhile, pro-Hamas media in Gaza insisted the armed struggle against Israel would continue, with one supportive columnist writing in the Falesteen newspaper that the deal was a means of “restoring capabilities, and buying time until the balance of power changes”. Mish Hek, a prominent Hamas-affiliated channel on Telegram, said all “discussions of the resistance disarming is just rumours and fake news” but acknowledged that heavy weapons “would be included” in the peace process. Western diplomats supportive of the deal have stressed privately that this language did not necessarily mean Hamas would not hand over its arms. They said it was precisely because the Board of Peace used the language of “decommissioning” rather than “disar- mament” – an important distinction for Hamas – that the terror group had agreed to the document.
“massive attacks” on Iran, only to can- cel them at the last minute. Iran, however, has publicly rejected negotiations with Washington since a June memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the conflict collapsed in early July. US military officials said sending such crowdsourcing-style appeals via email was unusual, CNN reported. A US source said Centcom was “look- ing at everything” and acknowledged it needed to re-evaluate its strategy. Centcom did not dispute that the message was sent, the outlet reported. The email suggests the US is at a stra- tegic impasse: Iran has not been forced into a deal on Mr Trump’s terms, and the tools that remain are either unlikely to work or carry risks that the president
about his absence, relatives searched the cemetery. “I walked over, and suddenly I saw him lying next to Liron’s grave,” she said. “I said to him: ‘Bar, get up, what are you doing again?’ And then I realised he was covered in blood.” Asraf ’s father then tried to adminis- ter CPR. A gun was found at the scene. “He died in the place he wanted to be most, with the woman he wanted to be with most,” said Ms Asraf. Asraf’s mother Bracha said: “Bar was a special boy, a boy of giving, of love.” The tragedy is the latest high-profile suicide linked to the massacre at the music festival near the Re’im kibbutz. In October, Roei Shalev, a 28-year-old Nova survivor who had witnessed the execution of his girlfriend Mapal Adam, took his own life. He was found in a burning car near the coastal city of Netanya, three days after the second anniversary of the mas- sacre and the same day that the Donald Trump-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into force. Earlier, Shalev had posted: “I just want this suffering to end.” Victims’ groups have been scathing about Israel’s support for survivors, accusing the government of overseeing a system based on individuals proving their injuries or trauma.
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Rubble bath A child in Palestine cools off in the searing Middle Eastern heat in a bathtub that miraculously remains
intact despite the total destruction of a block of apartments, in Beit Lahia, Gaza, after attacks by the Israeli military.
has been reluctant to take. Even Ameri- ca’s most powerful conventional weap- ons, the sources said, are unlikely to achieve much against Iran’s most sensi- tive nuclear sites, which are buried deep underground. The appeal came amid the same chal- lenge being played out in the open. Mr Trump said that he had pulled back from what he called “the biggest attack since World War Two” in favour of negotiations, “subject to being able to rapidly make a deal” that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end Iran’s nuclear threat. His about-turn came after regional leaders – chief among them being Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince – telephoned to urge restraint. The terms under discussion
back from
what the
biggest
attack since
World
War Two’
would themselves be a concession. According to details that emerged from the talks, a “compromise” being drafted by regional Arab states including Qatar would create a new entry-exit system for the strait, handing Tehran at least partial control of the waterway, and raising the prospect of Iran charging tolls to pass, something Washington has long opposed. Iran has not confirmed any negotia- tions with the US, and Iranian state media quoted the country’s foreign ministry as saying Tehran was not hold- ing talks with America. Esmail Baghaei, the foreign ministry spokesman, said that Tehran was in dis- cussion only with Oman, to agree a tem- porary route for safe shipping through Hormuz, and that the strait remained
Russian beach resort
By Our Foreign Staff
A UKRAINIAN drone strike on a Russian resort village on the Black Sea coast has killed seven people, including three children, and wounded at least 40 others. A video showed what appeared to be a drone crashing on to a busy beach at the resort of Arkhipo-Osipovka, on the Black Sea coast, as tourists looked on from the shore and in the sea. Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, said the Ukrainian attack had targeted civilian infrastructure. “On the governor’s instructions, a specialist disaster medicine team has been dispatched to the scene. Two adults and one child have been taken to hospital.” There was no immediate comment from Ukraine, which, like Russia, says it does not deliberately target civilians. “What happened today was a deliber- ate attack by the Kyiv regime on the civilian population, which has no con- nection whatsoever to military infra- structure,” he added. Four people were killed in a strike on the Russian-annexed peninsula of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, the Mos- cow-installed governor, said on Tele- gram. He did not say where the attack
start a fire against a country and then expect it to stay only where you wanted’
closed not because of any dispute with Oman but because of US and Israeli mil- itary action and the naval blockade. He said yesterday that the strait’s sta- tus would not change “as long as Amer- ica’s aggression and the blockade continue”. Mr Baghaei said Iran’s negotiators were all still inside the country, and that Pakistan remained the mediator, with Qatar assisting. He rejected attempts to link attacks by Yemen’s Houthis and Iraqi-armed groups to Iran, arguing that Tehran had opened no new fronts and that the war’s spread was the fault of those who began it. “You cannot start a fire against a country and then expect it to stay only where you wanted,” he said.
took place or provide details about the victims. The Black Sea coast and Crimea are both summer destinations popular among Russian tourists. In recent months, Ukraine has inten- sified its counter-strikes on Crimea, which was seized by Moscow in 2014, leading to electricity and fuel shortages. Ukraine said a Russian attack on the eastern city of Kryvyi Rih, the home city of Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrain- ian president, killed three people. “A fire broke out at the scene. A gas station and several cars were badly damaged,” said Oleksandr Ganzha, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk region. In a picture he posted on social media, firefighters could be seen dous- ing the flames, as well as the charred shell of a car at the petrol station. Maria Zakharova, a Russian foreign ministry spokesman, accused Ukraine of resorting to terrorism, the TASS state news agency reported. Russia accused Kyiv’s forces last month of killing 11 people, including four children, in an attack on a holiday camp in a Russian-held part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region. The conflict has led to a growing number of civilian deaths this year, the UN has reported, as the four and a half- year war grinds on with no sign of a peace deal.
returns data as bloc says country will be put in special measures
By Nick Squires, James Crisp and Joe Barnes
THE European Union has told Pedro Sánchez he must accept Spain being placed in special measures in order to end the internal confl ict in the bloc trig- gered by the Ceuta migrant crisis. Diplomatic sources told The Tele- graph that the Spanish prime minister has been told to share verifi ed fi gures for the number of migrants returned to Morocco after the initial influx. The demand demonstrates doubt over Madrid’s claim that most of the esti- mated 60,000 people who last week rushed into the exclave had already crossed back over the border. At least 88 people died, with many drowning or
to expel thousands... but Britain still can’t
Nick Squires and James Crisp
THE speed with which tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco have been expelled from Ceuta may have come as a surprise to Britons. For years, the UK has been forced to accept irregular migrants and wait for them to fi le asylum claims. Spain’s rapid response appears to have inspired Reform UK’s pledge, announced by Zia Yusuf on Sunday, that it would use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel if it were in government. In most of Europe, international law dictates that migrants and refugees should be given the chance to lodge an asylum request – as is the case when boatloads of migrants cross the Channel from France to Britain. They cannot be expelled without an in-depth consideration of their circumstances. However, in Ceuta and its sister exclave Melilla – two scraps of territory on the coast of North Africa that Spain has held for centuries – the situation is diff erent. The prompt expulsion of the vast majority of the 50,000 to 60,000 who fl ooded into Ceuta was possible because of a special law introduced by Spain more than a decade ago. Under the law, passed in 2015, the Spanish authorities can swiftly expel migrants without letting them fi le asylum requests. Elsewhere in Europe, this practice is known as “pushbacks” or, more technically, refoulement, and is supposed to be prohibited – although some countries, such as Hungary and Greece, have adopted it from time to time. Reform has claimed that its plan, which it is calling Operation Fortress, would be fully in line with international law. However, Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, said it had been “trickier” to tackle Channel crossings in French and British waters, and it had not been possible to copy
Aung San Suu Kyi is alive
By Allegra Mendelson asIa Correspondent
AUNG SAN SUU KYI, Myanmar’s detained leader, has been pictured with a Red Cross offi cial amid rumours that she may have died in detention. The country’s junta released photos of the 81-year-old Nobel Peace Prize lau- reate sitting with Arnaud de Baecque yesterday in the capital, Naypyitaw. The military also released photos apparently of the Myanmar leader cut- ting a cake for her 81st birthday in June. Ms Suu Kyi has been held in deten- tion since the coup in February 2021 that plunged the country into civil war. The meeting with Mr de Baecque was confi rmed by the military government, while an International Committee of
being crushed to death, in what was
described as the single largest illegal
infl ux into the EU.
Yesterday, Miguel Ángel Pérez, the
Spanish central government’s delegate
in Ceuta, said 2,500 of them were esti-
mated to still be in Ceuta. However, the
territory’s top offi cial Juan Jesús Vivas
put the figure at between 3,000 and
5,000, telling Spanish broadcaster
Telecinco that its two migrant recep-
tion centres – one for adults and another
for minors – had “collapsed”.
Yesterday, European capitals held a
round of emergency talks as they
sought to end a row between Spain and
as many as 22 member states.
In the heat of the feud, Mr Sánchez
branded his EU counterparts “selfi sh”
after many of them called for Spain to be
removed from the Schengen free-move-
ment zone over the sudden migrant
influx. The crisis further exacerbated
large-scale criticism over the Spanish
premier’s pro-migration policies,
including an amnesty which handed
the Spanish approach. Spain and Morocco share a land border and had an agreement allowing the returns, she said. The UK left the EU’s Dublin Regulation, which allows member states to return migrants to the fi rst member state they arrive in, when Brexit took legal eff ect at the end of 2020. For most of the years since, there has been no legal basis to return Channel migrants to mainland Europe. Brussels rejected UK overtures for an EU-wide migrant-return deal, which left Britain scrambling to sign such agreements with individual states, with little success. There was a breakthrough last year, when Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron agreed the “one in, one out” deal, which came into force last August. It allows for the return of individuals arriving illegally in small boats from France. In return, the UK accepts an equal number of asylum seekers with a strong claim, such as family ties to the UK, from France. From the time the treaty came into eff ect until June 30, the UK returned 1,087 people to France, which was 3.5 per cent of all small boat arrivals in the same period. In April, Britain and France agreed a new three-year funding deal, worth £662m, to further strengthen border controls, law enforcement and surveillance along the French coast. The Conservatives and Reform have criticised the return scheme as ineff ective, saying it is not a suffi cient deterrent. They have also accused France of not doing enough to stop migrants attempting to make the crossing. The Spanish law introduced a special legal regime for its two exclaves in North Africa, stipulating that “foreigners detected on the territorial border line of Ceuta and Melilla while trying to cross irregularly may be rejected in order to prevent their illegal entry into Spain”. This special law has been criticised by international law experts and human rights
the Red Cross spokesman said Mr de Baecque’s visit included the chance to speak with Ms Suu Kyi “in private”. In April, Ms Suu Kyi was moved from a prison cell and placed under house arrest in Naypyitaw as she serves 27 years following a show trial in 2022. One of the birthday images appears to suggest she is living in a simple room with wooden furniture. Some clothing hangs in the background. Last month, her son, Kim Aris, told The Telegraph that while he believed she had not died, he had yet to see any proof. After the photos were released, he said: “This may be a first step, but it must not be the last,” adding he has not yet received independent confi rmation of his mother’s condition or wellbeing.
states asked for the situation to be monitored and verification of the numbers returned by Spain’
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organisations, who say it eff ectively legalises the policy of pushbacks. The European Council on Refugees and Exiles said: “To reject people at the border is a serious violation of the obligation to provide access to the international protection procedure and to respect the principle of non- refoulement. This means a violation of not only the Spanish legal system but also the European regulations and the international treaties ratifi ed by Spain.” Despite such criticism, pushbacks have been longstanding policy on the frontiers between Ceuta, Melilla and Morocco, which are the only land borders between Europe and Africa. The Spanish authorities are
out more than 600,000 work permits to
illegal migrants.
Critical governments argued the
scheme serves as a “pull factor” by
encouraging would-be asylum seekers
to enter under the belief they’ll eventu-
ally secure legal residency. An EU diplo-
mat told The Telegraph Mr Sánchez’s
Brussels envoy had been “slightly bit-
ter” in presenting Madrid’s latest assess-
ment of the crisis during the meeting of
EU ambassadors.
“Member states asked for the situa-
tion to be monitored and verifi cation of
the numbers of returns shared by Spain,
as well as lessons learned to prevent a
repeat,” the source added. The Spanish
envoy, Marcos Alonso, claimed that
“virtually all people who have crossed
illegally now have been returned” and
there were no reports of any migrants
reaching mainland Europe, a second EU
diplomat said.
It is highly unusual for EU capitals to
demand another member state submit
verifi ed reports to justify its claims. Mr
accustomed to apprehending migrants from Morocco. However, on Thursday and Friday they were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. Greece, one of the countries that has come under most pressure from migrant arrivals in the past decade, is frequently accused of the unlawful practice of pushbacks. The Greek authorities have been criticised for expelling migrants without due process, particularly along the land border with Turkey. The European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) said migrants had been “forcibly returned in rubber dinghies across the Evros river back to Turkey”.
Sánchez could still order his interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, to reject the compromise hoped to end the row when he holds talks with EU colleagues today. The gathering, via video link, had been highly politicised after Madrid’s critics demanded an emergency response to the crisis. Before the talks Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission’s president, sought to defuse tensions between Spain and the bloc. In a letter to Mr Sánchez, seen by The Telegraph, she praised the Spanish premier’s “swift handling” of the incident and for pre- venting any of the 60,000 Moroccans from entering the European mainland. “This determined action is indicative of the commitment to enforce the system in place and has been crucial in pre- venting further deterioration, and the tragic and unnecessary loss of even more lives,” the top eurocrat continued. “I also welcome the further deterrent action your government has taken to prevent further illegal arrivals, such as
It added that “others were stopped in boats close to Greek shores before being towed back into Turkish waters or forced onto infl atable rafts and pulled into the Aegean Sea”. On the border between France and Italy, French police have been accused of pushing back migrants illegally. In the past, the pushbacks have created acute tensions between Rome and Paris. Many migrants who cross the Mediterranean from North Africa to Italy have no intention of staying on Italian soil because of a lack of jobs. They head north, hoping to reach France, Belgium and the UK, which is where they encounter the pushback
first to swim across Baltic Sea
By Emily Smith
A POLISH man has become the fi rst per- son to swim across the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland. On Sunday, Bartłomiej Kubkowski swam 100 miles from Kaseberga, in southern Sweden, to Dziwnów, on Poland’s Baltic coast, taking 56 hours. The swimmer had attempted the crossing four times previously. Mr Kub- kowski was unable to sleep or touch the support boat that provided him with food and drink. So far, he has raised more than 790,000 zloty (£157,178) for a children’s cancer charity. Footage shows Mr Kubkowski exiting the sea to cheers and applause on the beach at Dziwnów before collapsing. The 30-year-old in 2021 managed 71
is indicative of the commitment to enforce the system in place and has been crucial in preventing the loss of more lives’
reinforced surveillance of the maritime border.” Mrs von der Leyen said she was ready to free up EU funds or deploy units from Frontex, the bloc’s border guard, to bol- ster Spain’s defences around its North African exclave. Her intervention is unlikely to pla- cate Giorgia Meloni, who had led calls for Spain to be removed from the 29-state Schengen free-movement zone in response to the infl ux. The Italian premier was later joined by France, Denmark, Sweden and Fin- land amid fears of a migration crisis. Ms Meloni is expected to use the talks today to push for the creation of migrant repa- triation centres in Africa to be sped up. Matteo Piantedosi, her interior min- ister, is expected to put forward the “Albania model” during the video con- ference. But sources said these proposals won’t likely be discussed in much detail until EU leaders next gather in Brussels in October.
policy. The fl ashpoint has frequently been the town of Ventimiglia on the border between France and Italy. The ECCHR added: “The Spanish- Moroccan border regime has served as a laboratory for pushbacks, with other EU member states such as Hungary, Croatia, Greece, Bulgaria and Poland replicating this practice. “Border controls and pushbacks have also surged at Europe’s internal borders, such as between France and Italy. “Some states root these practices in national law, some issue semi- formalised paperwork and some take informal measures without any record.”
miles. In 2022, he was forced to give up at 73 miles, and in 2023 he swam 81 miles in snowy conditions. In August last year, he was pulled from the water just seven miles from the Polish coast, having swum 99 miles over 55 hours, because of extreme exhaustion and deteriorating weather. Mr Kubkowski swam competitively for 15 years before turning to ultra-swimming. He won 40 medals in Poland and competed in European and World Cups. Last year, he broke the world record for the longest distance swum in a swimming pool in 24 hours – 64.5 miles. His latest swim was close to the record for the longest-ever continuous unas- sisted open-water swim, which Ameri- can Sarah Thomas set in 2017.
Spain is used to pushing back migrants crossing to Ceuta from Morocco but were overwhelmed by the number arriving on Thursday and Friday last week
controls and pushbacks have surged internally in Europe... like between France and Italy’
Snake the Bigfoot hunter and the Ivy League row
to deny it did DNA testing on sasquatch supposedly verified by vet called Misty
By Daniel Bates
CORNELL University has denied that it carried out DNA testing on the remains of a creature claimed to be Bigfoot. A spokesman for the Ivy League uni- versity denied that any analysis had been carried out on the supposed Sas- quatch corpse found by Charles Stuart, who goes by the moniker “Snake the Bigfoot Hunter”. In July, Mr Stuart posted online what he claimed were DNA tests from the body of the 8ft tall, 300lb (21st) creature he said he found in New York’s Adirondack mountains. Results from a lab at Cornell showed the corpse was real and nearly 60 per cent Neanderthal, he claimed. But after a Cornell spokesman said the university had not been involved,
Mr Stuart fi red back, telling the New York Post: “Cornell is flat out lying – I will not be silenced.” Mr Stuart’s claims to have found Bigfoot have been dogged by con- troversy since he fi rst made them in 2024. He published photos online of the creature’s decom- p osing remains, which appeared to show a tall, hairy animal lying in bushes. Mr Stuart named the creature “Dack” and put it on display at the New York State Fair where he claimed 60,000 people came to see it. But after intense scepti- cism over his claims, he said he submitted blood, hair and fae- cal matter to a friend of his who works at the Cornell veterinary
Charles Stuart is adamant DNA tests at Cornell laboratories prove the ‘creature’ is real, but the Ivy League university denied any tests were carried out
By Emily Blumenthal
POLICE in Australia face a review of their conduct towards Virginia Giuff re in the weeks before her death. A government watchdog will investi- gate claims by her family that offi cers did not treat domestic violence allega- tions against her estranged husband “with suffi cient urgency”. The Western Australia Ombudsman will look into whether police acted appropriately in their interactions with Giuff re, who died by suicide aged 41 at her farm in the rural town of Neer- gabby, north of Perth, in April last year, after years of alleged abuse by Jeff rey Epstein and his associates.
Newsom to back billionaire tax
By Emily Smith
THE Democratic Party in California has endorsed a billionaire tax despite oppo- sition from Governor Gavin Newsom. If the measure, Proposition 40, is approved, it would result in a 5 per cent one-time levy on around 200 billion- aires living in the state. It aims to raise $100bn (£75bn) over five years to fund Medicaid and food assistance programmes. The party backed a November ballot on the measure after clearing the 60 per cent threshold needed at a vote on Sunday. Mr Newsom, a Democrat seen as a future presidential candidate, is opposed to the levy which he argues will drive the wealthy out of the state. Xavier Becerra, his probable succes- sor as governor, also opposed the meas- ure, along with unions such as the California Teachers Association. The tax would retroactively apply to those who resided in California as of Jan 1 2026, and who have a net worth of $1bn (£750m) or more by the end of this year. For the purposes of the tax, a per- son’s net worth excludes assets such as real estate they own directly. Californians will decide whether to
Charles Stuart (bottom) put the carcass on show at the New York State Fair (below)
Australian media reported that the inquiry will examine issues raised in a letter written to the ombudsman in June by several members of her family. Sky Roberts and Danny Wilson, Giuf- fre’s brothers, and their wives Amanda Roberts and Lanette Wilson, requested a review of police actions related to the domestic dispute. In January last year Giuff re had alleged that her estranged husband, Robert Giuff re, had become “emotionally and physically con- trolling” and had forcibly separated her from her three children. However, it was Mr Giuff re who was granted a six-month restraining order and temporary custody of the children. Giuff re was later charged with allegedly
approve or reject the initiative in the November ballot. Members of the Cali- fornia Democratic Party’s 380-member executive board gathered in San Diego over the weekend to consider the pro- posal. They narrowly voted to back the measure after earlier votes to endorse it had failed. The tax was proposed by the Service Employees International Union United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), a large healthcare union. “This endorse- ment puts to rest the idea that California
and bio DNA lab. The tests revealed Dack to be “58.5 per cent Neanderthal… mixed with 41.5 per cent human, and some of that’s indigenous”, Mr Stuart said on his website. A statement posted on Cornell’s web- site said: “Cornell did not conduct any testing for [Mr Stuart] or present a report.” A spokesman added the docu- ments Mr Stuart posted on his website were not from the college. The tests posted by Mr Stuart were supposedly carried out by someone called Misty Pichard , a PhD candidate in molecular biology at Cornell’s veterinary biobank. But no one by that name has any online presence linked to the college and The Telegraph was not able to verify whether Mr Stuart is known to her. In a statement to the New York Post, Mr Stuart stood by his claims. He said: “This isn’t a dispute over the facts of the report – it’s panic over control. “I bypassed the machine and went straight to the public. I was warned from day one not to share this report. I released the unredacted DNA report anyway because I believe in transpar- ency and the intelligence of the public.” In previous interviews, Mr Stuart has spoken in vivid terms about the moment he found Bigfoot. “I could smell it because this body was decay- ing,” he told NewsNation. “This thing was sitting in a poison ivy patch and just was absolutely disgusting.” Next to the body were some “larger footprints”, leading Mr Stuart to con- clude the animal was probably “bludg- eoned to death” by a larger Bigfoot. Mr Stuart claimed that there was a reproductive bone in the creature which allowed it to “procreate in an aggressive way”. “And that leads us to think that they don’t actually form family units,” he said. “They’re very nomadic.” In May this year, Mr Stuart self-pub- lished a book called The Bigfoot Bible: How I Found Bigfoot which claimed to reveal the “true story of the century”. The body will be back on display at this year’s New York State Fair, which runs from Aug 26 to Sept 7. Mr Stuart’s claims have caused a war of words with rival Bigfoot experts, including Matthew Moneymaker from the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organisation. He has called the creature found by Mr Stuart a “cheesy fake dead Bigfoot”. The Telegraph has con- tacted Mr Stuart for com- ment. Cornell did not comment further.
sustained abuse, loss of access to children and systemic failures contributed to her death’
Democrats are not united by the billion- aire tax – they are,” said Dave Regan, president of the union. “Polling shows that more than 80 per cent of registered Democrats support this critical solution to our healthcare crisis and now the Democratic Party of California has offi cially embraced that strong support.” According to a poll from the Public Policy Institute of California, 54 per cent of voters and 76 per cent of Demo- crats said they would vote for the tax.
breaching that order. In the note, the fam- ily said they remained “concerned that the broader risk picture Virginia reported was not treated with suffi cient urgency” by police, and asked why Mr Giuff re had not been charged with assault. They added: “We believe the com- bined toll of sustained abuse, loss of access to her children and failures in the system’s response contributed to Vir- ginia’s death by suicide.” In 2015, Giuff re accused Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of traffi cking her to London in 2001 to have sex with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. She alleged in her memoir, which was pub- lished posthumously in October, that she had sex with the former prince on
Healthcare
workers in Los
Angeles hold
placards in support
of billionaire tax
Congress, says Republican senator
By Benedict Smith WasHInGton Correspondent
A REPUBLICAN senator has called his former son-in-law unfi t for public offi ce in a row that threatens to shake GOP control of Congress. Bernie Moreno, the Ohio senator, claimed Max Miller “should not serve in the House of Representatives” following accusations he abused his daughter and granddaughter. “I believe Max Miller needs to seek professional help to end the clear pat- tern of abuse he has left in his wake. I believe he should not be free to con- tinue endangering others until he does,” Mr Moreno said on Sunday. Emily Moreno, Mr Moreno’s daughter, has previously accused Mr Miller of holding a gun to her head, throwing boil- ing water at her and breaking their daughter’s collarbone. The Ohio con- gressman vehemently denied the allega- tions, claiming he had evidence to clear his name amid a bitter custody battle. Mr Miller refused to abandon his political career, but the row poses seri- ous questions for Republican control of the House. Mike Johnson, the Speaker, has a wafer-thin majority that means he can only aff ord two defections.
three occasions when she was 17. The claims have never been tested in a court of law, and Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has repeatedly denied them. Giuff re also accused Epstein of sub- jecting her to years of physical and sex- ual abuse after Maxwell allegedly recruited her in 2000, when she was 16 and working at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. The new inquiry comes a month after Western Australia Police announced they would launch an inter- nal review into their interactions with Giuffre following her allegations against Mr Giuff re. “I believe that if police had done a thorough investigation, then Virginia would still be here,” Mr Roberts told
Should Mr Miller voluntarily leave or be forced out of Congress, it would nar- row to just one. Even if Mr Miller sur- vives until November, the allegations will probably harm his chances. A fi gure close to the Moreno family said the senator had wanted to inter- vene earlier but his daughter persuaded him not to. That changed after Mr Miller posted a video on Sunday accusing his for- mer wife of lying and blaming her mental-health struggles. Mr Moreno faced criticism on Wednesday when he denounced and swore at Anthony Fauci, who led the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic, while staying quiet on the alleged abuse of his own daughter. Mr Miller accused the senator of m o u n t i n g a “political attack” to dis- tract from his “own media cir- cus”. “If my daughter
a lot of things that happened before Virginia’s death... what did we miss?’
ABC Radio in Perth. “There’s a lot of things that happened before Virginia ultimately made that decision, and there should be plenty of documenta- tion ... What did we miss?” A spokesman for Western Australia’s coroner said it would not make a deci- sion on holding an inquest until it received the police report on Giuff re’s death. Giuff re had previously accused Mr Giuffre of assault in March 2015 when they lived in Colorado, alleging he had punched her in the face multiple times when she attempted to stop him from hurting their pet husky. Mr Giuff re has previously declined to comment on domestic violence allega- tions against him.
Oho said the same thing to me, I per- sonally wouldn’t wait two years before holding him accountable,” he said. Ms Moreno made the abuse claims in a court filing from March, but the alleged incidents date back to 2024. In his social media video on Sunday, Mr Miller, 37, claimed his ex-wife admit- ted he had never abused their daughter during their divorce proceedings in October 2024 under oath, and pledged to publish proof. “Just want to be clear: no court, no agency has ever substantiated any allegation of abuse against me,” he said. “Every one of these allegations were already investigated, and I coop- erated fully every time because I had nothing to hide.” Stefan Mychajliw, Ms Moreno’s spokesman, called Mr Miller “shame- ful” for going on a “bizarre and lie-fi lled rant about his ex-wife to desper- ately try to save his political career”.
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manual cars make for better drivers – and more fun
sean tHomas
t’s a truism that every man thinks he is an excellent driver. But it’s a truism that does not apply to me: I’m pretty sure I’m an average driver. Yet there is one motoring arena in which I do excel: I’m very good at deciding to drive to ridiculous places, in hair-raising ways. For example, one mad autumn I drove a wheezing hire car up Chile’s Puna de Atacama to 16,000ft, higher than anything in the Alps. Another time I took a Yerevan airport rental deep into the Armenian Caucasus, where there are leopards and bears. But the scariest part was Yerevan at rush hour. Then there’s the time I crossed the Andes in a rented Suzuki Swift, which taught me one profound lesson: never try to cross the Andes in a rented Suzuki Swift. Best of all was Laos, south-east Asia. Researching a thriller near Phonsavan, in one of only three rentable four-wheel-drive vehicles in the country, I chose a route to the capital city of Vientiane which the guidebook admitted nobody had tried. By midnight I was churning through cold jungle mud, swigging whisky for courage. Then, out of the dark, came cries: it was an entire Hmong family, their van sunk to its axles, and in their arms a horribly sick baby who would, it seemed, die without a doctor. So we chained their van to my pick-up and I hauled them through the swamp for hours, the gears grinding, the baby whimpering, the chain snapping every 20 minutes, forcing Hector, the young father, to leap out and mend it, again and again. Yet we made it. The baby lived. At the end, in the dawn light of a Laotian town, Hector looked at me and said the only English he knew: “I love you.” And here’s the thing. Every one of these adventures was better because I was driving a manual. That sounds silly, but it’s true. Here’s why. Manual driving is tactile, bodily, even sensual.
Your hand rests with on
the knob; your ear reads the
engine’s rising growl. Your
wrist, arm and foot move as
one, as the throbbing
machine surges in response.
Yes, it verges on the erotic.
Not only is driving a
manual more intense, it is
also, in some ways,
mechanically superior:
lighter, simpler, cheaper to
fi x. I’m not sure my Laos
adventure could have been
done in an automatic.
On top of that, manual
driving is way more
cinematic. Consider Steve
McQueen rattling the
gearbox like a machine gun
in Bullitt, or the Minis
snarling through Turin in
The Italian Job . Remember
Bond’s Aston Martin DB5,
which had an ejector button
hidden inside the gearknob.
And yet, despite all this,
manual is dying. This week’s
fi gures show nearly 30 per
cent of British driving tests
are taken in automatics, up
from 4 per cent in 2008.
Manuals accounted for 55
per cent of new cars sold in
2019. This year, they account
for less than 14 per cent. A
generation is acquiring
licences that forbid them
from driving stick-shift.
Soon nobody will know
the tiny triumphs of the
gearbox: the perfect hill start
or the double declutch .
Instead, we shall glide about
in pods that bong at us to
have a coff ee or stay in lane.
The loss of the gearstick is
also a parable. As machines
take over human tasks, we
will forget how to do them.
Think how calculators killed
long division; how sat-nav
killed map-reading.
Next, self-driving cars will
kill driving altogether, and
after that AI will take over
maths, writing, coding,
music-making. We will turn
into purposeless blobs.
It’s not an appetising
prospect, so I intend to resist.
Tomorrow I’ve got a Mazda
booked on a car share, for a
run to the garden centre. If
you see some delusional old
geezer racing around Crouch
End, madly shifting gears
like he’s north London’s
McQueen, that’s me.
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schools is educationally illiterate
claim that higher academic standards have raised youth joblessness is preposterous
nICK GIBB
ucy Powell has not got off to a good start as Education Secretary. She has claimed that increasing academic standards in schools has led to a rise in the number of 16-to-24-year- olds not in employment, education or training (known as Neets). This is both educationally and economically illiterate. Her suggestion that the latest fi gures – which show the number of Neets has reached more than one million – are the result of the education reforms that Michael Gove and I introduced between 2010 and 2023 is preposterous. These reforms drove England up the international league tables in both primary reading (from 19th to 4th in the world) and secondary mathematics (from 27th to 11th). The evidence that she is wrong is overwhelming. Research consistently demonstrates that high educational performance reduces, rather than increases, a young person’s risk of being out of work, training or continuing in education. In a 2025 report into the rise in the number of Neet young people, the philanthropic foundation Impetus attributes such increases to social deprivation, disability and location, but makes the important point that “educational qualifi cations are
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rof Jason Arday – frequently hailed in the media as the “poster boy” for Cambridge University’s “diversity drive” – must be feeling profoundly aggrieved. Because, over the past week, an ever-growing army of cynics have had the gall to query some of his most extraordinary accomplishments. Not only have they accused Cambridge’s youngest ever black professor of plagiarising the work of other academics. They’ve also called into question his claim to have raised more than £5m for charity. They’ve cast doubt on the notion that he once ran 600 miles in six days, 300 miles in three days, and 30 marathons in 35 days, partly with a broken leg. And they’ve asked how he can possibly claim to have featured in ITV’s long-running social experiment Seven Up, given that its participants were born almost 30 years before he was. Well, I for one am thoroughly appalled by these attempts to undermine Prof Arday’s dazzlingly varied achievements. So I hereby call on the cynics to cease and desist.
protective” against becoming Neet – “every step up the qualifi cations ladder halves a young person’s chance of being Neet”. The Department for Education’s own destination data, which tracks whether pupils fi nishing Year 11 are in education, an apprenticeship or employment for at least six months into the following academic year, shows that, even in areas of signifi cant deprivation, schools that deliver high proportions of pupils with good grades at GCSE in English and maths have more pupils remaining in education, training or employment. In two schools in or near Lucy Powell’s constituency of Manchester Central, just 25 per cent and 37 per cent of pupils achieved grades 5 or higher in both English and maths GCSEs. At those schools only 82 per cent and 85 per cent of pupils remained in education or went on to training or employment. Compare that to Eden Boys’ Leadership Academy in Manchester, run by Hamid Patel, who Lucy Powell cited in an article over the weekend. At that school 67.2 per cent of pupils achieved a grade 5 or higher in both English and maths GCSEs and 93 per cent stayed on in training or employment. If you accept Lucy Powell’s argument, then the highly academic diet provided by Mercia School in Sheffi eld or Michaela Community School in Brent should be delivering high levels of Neets. But, in these comprehensive schools, 82 per cent and 97 per cent of pupils achieve grade 5 or better in English and maths GCSE. And 95 per cent or more remain in education or employment. Mercia and Michaela are also examples of schools where nearly all the pupils are achieving at least a grade 4 in English and maths GCSEs, demonstrating that with good teaching
After all, what sort of way is this to treat the fi rst man on Mars? You’d think they would show him more respect. To my knowledge, however, not one of them has applauded him for breaking Usain Bolt’s record in the Olympic 100 metres. Nor have they given him any credit for writing Wolf Hall, Hamilton or The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney. And if they’ve congratulated him on winning the Wimbledon men’s singles title eight years in a row, I’m afraid I must have missed it. Honestly. The sheer eff rontery of these people. Who are they to say that he played no role in the design of Apple’s fi rst ever home computer? How dare they suggest that he has never climbed Everest in a mankini to fund a cure for cystic fi brosis? Do they seriously have the temerity to dispute that he once won the America’s Cup on a swan-shaped pedalo? Personally, I suspect that this disgraceful onslaught is motivated by nothing but jealousy, bitterness and spite. If so, you can bet that there’s more to come. Next thing you know, these envious naysayers will doubtless be telling us that Prof Arday didn’t direct The Godfather fi lm trilogy, claiming that his second goal in the 1966 World Cup Final
and exemplary behaviour these qualifi cations are within the grasp of almost every child, regardless of their background. Schools that deliver strong academic results for pupils are enhancing their life chances and signifi cantly reducing the risk of them being unemployed. If those schools (and there are others) can deliver these results for their pupils, then all schools can. It means the vast majority of children, regardless of their background, can achieve academically, equipping them for whatever they decide to do after the age of 16. We have not created a curriculum or exam system that is too demanding but one which widens opportunities which were once the preserve of well-heeled and well-educated families. If Lucy Powell’s argument were correct, we’d see Neet rates soaring in those other countries which score highly for the academic achievements of their young people. The evidence is not there. In Singapore, which has for years topped all the international league tables, the proportion of Neets is just 3.8 per cent compared to 13.5 per cent in the UK. There are many factors that deliver such low Neet levels in Singapore, but what is clear is that a strong focus on academic attainment has not driven higher numbers. In a modern economy, where almost every walk of life requires technically demanding skills and knowledge, a solid academic grounding at least to the age of 16 is essential. I’m not aware of any employer who turns down a young person for a job because they are too literate or too numerate. The challenge for this Government, and for every government in economically developed countries, is how to get the economy growing and deal with the impact of technology that is reducing the number of entry-level
aware of any employer who turns down a young person for a job because they are too literate or too numerate
never crossed the line, and denying that he rescued more than 400 passengers from the Titanic. What a shameful thought. Quite frankly, I think it’s time we all showed a bit more gratitude to Britain’s greatest wartime prime minister. A
ccording to a report in this newspaper yesterday, Britain’s Risso’s dolphins “do not mix” with those from “other territories”. No doubt you found this news as concerning as I did. Because I’m afraid we now have no choice but to ask ourselves a deeply troubling question. Are our dolphins racist? I don’t know what the experts think, but sadly I fear the worst. The dolphins of Britain, it would seem, are intolerant, small-minded, Little Englander bigots. They have unaccountably failed to recognise that diversity is their strength. And, as a result, they have become grey-and-white supremacists. But what on earth would explain their shocking refusal to integrate with other dolphin communities? Have they been radicalised by social media? Been brainwashed by the divisive rhetoric of the far-Right? And is their hostility to foreign dolphins to blame for Brexit? Let’s not rule it out. Nigel Farage has often been accused of engaging in dog whistles. Perhaps he’s been engaging in dolphin whistles, too.
Nick Gibb served as schools minister in the previous Conservative government and was MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton from 1997 until 2024
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jobs, for example in retail and
hospitality, as well as the impact of AI.
Less well-read and less scientifi cally
knowledgeable school-leavers are
certainly not the answer.
The focus of this Government
should be on continuing the
remorseless hard work of reinforcing
the reforms that are successfully
raising standards in our schools and
spreading their benefi ts more widely,
rather than abandoning them.
I cannot claim after 14 years of
Conservative government that we
raised every school to the standard of
Eden Boys’, Mercia or Michaela. There
is clearly more to do. But what has been
achieved over the years is a much
higher proportion of schools judged by
Ofsted, the school inspectorate, as good
or outstanding – up from 68 per cent in
2010 to 90 per cent by 2024. Schools
that had been failing their pupils for
generations are now delivering a
high-quality academic education.
And yet Lucy Powell regards these
achievements as too “single-minded”
and letting down children from
disadvantaged backgrounds, as though
children from poorer families don’t
deserve a rich academic education. This
is exactly what former President
George W Bush called the “soft bigotry
of low expectations”.
Again, the evidence points in the
opposite direction to that which Powell
suggests. Between 2010 and 2020 the
attainment gap between children from
disadvantaged backgrounds and their
more advantaged peers closed by 13 per
cent in primary schools and by 9 per
cent in secondary schools. This
widened because of the disruption
caused by Covid.
I am convinced that the gap will close
again, but only if our reforms are kept
in place. Disastrously, Labour seems
intent on tearing them up.
Plainly, we cannot allow this disturbing state of aff airs to continue. We must educate British dolphins, so that they learn to reject hate and division, and understand that foreign dolphins only enter our waters because they’re fl eeing war and persecution, or are simply seeking a better life for themselves and their families. To this end, I propose the following fi ve-part plan. One: from an early age, all British dolphins must be taught that Britain was built by foreign dolphins. Two: Diane Abbott should be placed in a diving suit and sent down into the depths of the English Channel, where she will deliver a major speech, explaining that, without foreign dolphins, Britain’s economy would crash, and Our NHS collapse. Three: British dolphins must be banned from attaching the off ensive and intimidating St George’s fl ag to anchors, oil rigs, 16th-century shipwrecks etc. Four: we must fi ght Reform UK’s sickening new plan to block the arrival of foreign dolphins by deploying the Royal Navy. And fi ve: on the BBC, all period dramas about dolphins must have species-blind casting, so that a signifi cant proportion of the lead roles are given to porpoises, beluga whales, and sharks. Only then will Britain’s seas be as vibrant, inclusive and diverse as our lands.
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on school standards
ritain is in the grip of a youth unemployment
crisis, and the Labour Party is desperate to
escape responsibility. The jobless rate among
younger people has risen, while the total number
of that group not in any form of education,
employment or training (Neet) is now estimated to
be more than one million.
It is not diffi cult to understand why. Since 2024,
the cost of employing 18-20-year-olds has risen
dramatically – in large part thanks to higher national
insurance contributions and a decision to narrow
the gap between the main and youth rates of the
minimum wage. It is little wonder that employers
have been put off hiring younger people, who are
increasingly getting caught in the welfare trap.
But Labour refuses to admit its role in its own
mess. Ludicrously, Lucy Powell, the new Education
Secretary, has instead chosen to point the fi nger at
reforms presided over by Michael Gove more than
a decade ago.
While acknowledging that school standards have
risen substantially, Ms Powell suggests that a
challenging curriculum has become a “straitjacket”
that has led to many children being “branded a
failure”. This looks like a brazen attempt to divert
attention away from her party’s failures.
Improved technical education would be
welcome, but this should not come at the expense
of academic learning. As Sir Nick Gibb, the former
schools minister, writes on the facing page, no
employer is likely to turn down a young person for
a job because they are too literate or numerate.
If Ms Powell were as serious about following the
evidence as she claims, she would not be indulging
in what appears to be an ideological attack on
higher school standards. She cites approvingly Sir
Tony Blair’s focus on “education, education,
education”. But her approach seems to have more
in common with the old-fashioned Leftist attacks
on excellence and the progressive dogmas favoured
by the teaching unions.
The Government does need to urgently address
the rise in the number of Neets, but not by
dismantling reforms that have done so much to
improve school standards, with students from
disadvantaged backgrounds some of the greatest
benefi ciaries.
It should fi x welfare, cut taxes, and give
employers an incentive to take a chance on
younger workers. Sadly, this does not look likely.
Young people are set to be betrayed by Labour
again.
ecord summer temperatures have not been kind to farmers. With drought conditions declared across half of England, Tom Bradshaw, the National Farmers’ Union president, has warned of potential shortages due to poor yields. He said livestock farmers have had to resort to feeding cows their winter feed rations because they have been unable to grow grass, while wheat and oat yields are poor. “We have taken our food supply for granted for far too long,” he said. It is hard to disagree. Successive governments have neglected food security, appearing to believe that farmers will continue growing crops and raising lifestock regardless of the circumstances. Many farmers are still reeling from Labour’s decision to impose inheritance tax on family farms, an insult to men and women who work incredibly hard to keep food on our tables, often for very little fi nancial reward. John Healey, the new Chancellor, wrote at the weekend that he wanted to make Britain more resilient to shocks such as the Iran war. On food, however, his focus seems to be cautioning the supermarkets against “price gouging”. He has been gracious enough to admit that there is no signifi cant evidence of this so far, but retailers have pointed out that they work in an extremely competitive sector and on very low profi t margins. Mr Healey should instead be looking at what he can do to lift the burden on farmers so that they can produce more in the UK. They have always had to contend with the vagaries of the weather, and to adapt to its consequences. They should not have to do so while worrying about what new tax or regulation Labour will impose next.
J
od Liddle, who died on Sunday aged 66, surely enjoys a unique place in British journalism. It is hard to imagine that anyone else will replicate his achievement of being sacked by the BBC for writing an anti-Tory column in The Guardian in 2002 and later transmuting into the darling of Spectator readers. He brilliantly articulated popular sentiments which others were too frightened to state, and did so with a levity that made his words compulsory reading even for those who did not share his outlook. Throughout his career, Liddle poked fun at the pretensions and claims of superiority of those in authority – be they the landed classes of times gone by or the lanyard classes of today. Many who never met Liddle will miss his company – is there any higher accolade a writer can earn?
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sIr – I am fortunate to live in an area where a hosepipe ban has only just been imposed. I will do the responsible thing and comply, but surely water companies should have been more responsible about investing in new infrastructure over the years. What other resource can consumers be prevented from using for extended periods while still having to pay for it? Peter Sweetman Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
sIr – We have been told that we are not allowed to use a hosepipe. Imagine, then, how irritating it is to see that, in a nearby road and within a space of only 200 yards, there are three separate leaks releasing water continuously. These appear to have been left unrepaired for several months. Presumably there are similar examples throughout the country. There is something deeply wrong with the management of water companies. Ian Burton Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
sIr – Eleanor Mills focuses on what she considers to be the unfair advantages enjoyed by the post-war “boomer” generation (Features, July 30). She says that anybody over 60 should pay extra wealth or property tax to fund the young at the start of their adult lives. I was born in a Welsh coal mining valley in 1948 and left school at the age of 16 with a few O-levels, when more than 65 per cent of children left school at 15, many to a life of unskilled labour and drudgery. Only 5 per cent ever made it to university in 1964, with a similar percentage going to technical colleges and other further education. The vast majority got on with their lives, after a childhood of rationing and real austerity. They scrimped and saved and moved forward to, at best, a semi-comfortable retirement. We are not all doctors, diplomats and lawyers who are ripe for fi nancial penalties. We expected to graft for everything, and we did, often in conditions unimaginable to those born in the 21st century. Ian Jenkins Hereford
sIr – I don’t disagree with Dr Penny Billyeald (Letters, August 1) that Ngaio Marsh was bedazzled by aristocrats and high society, but was she really a snob? Like Oscar Wilde, she entered the upper-class English social scene as an outsider, he from Ireland and she from New Zealand. As with Wilde, there’s a humorous detachment about her descriptions of classic English society types. And she certainly wrote with humour. Not as hilariously as Wilde, but it’s there all right. On the small matter of whether Dorothy L Sayers was “a poor writer”, I challenge A N Wilson (Comment, July 30) to read Chapter 4 of Murder Must Advertise – entitled “Remarkable Acrobatics of a Harlequin” – and not be moved to apologise for his temerity. John Tavner Colchester, Essex
sIr – The portrait of Dorothy L Sayers (Letters, August 1) reminded me of a comment my father made in connection with her. She was a client of his veterinary practice in the 1950s. He mentioned that she would frequently go outdoors to write. As her portrait shows, she was a heavy smoker and, when she had fi nished that day’s output, the place where she had been sitting could be detected by the semi-circle of stubbed-out cigarettes she left behind. Andrew H N Gray Edinburgh
targets for ‘profiteering’ charges than firms that provide a million jobs
luKe JoHnson
ohn Healey, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, has warned that there will be fearsome consequences for any British supermarkets guilty of “price gouging”. This intervention feels almost as if the Government is looking for a fi ght with business. It suggests to me an administration which has little understanding of industry or indeed economics. British supermarkets are incredibly effi cient operators. They and their suppliers kept the country going during lockdowns. The sector is ferociously competitive, and in general the prices of groceries are lower in Britain than many comparable countries. It is a prime example of competition working in favour of the consumer. Among the traditional Big Four chains – Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons – profit margins range from 2 to 4 per cent on revenue. Meanwhile, the
sIr – It is evident that we desperately need more reservoirs. This should be the Government’s number-one priority. We cannot live without water. Fixing leaks is admirable and should take place, but it is unlikely to give us enough water to fulfi l our current needs, as well as service all the new homes and data centres that are being built. Manufacturing processes also require water. The time for action is now, before standpipes or worse become a regular summer feature. Karen Gabony Eastbourne, East Sussex
sIr – The present water shortages lead one to refl ect on the foresight displayed by Joseph Chamberlain, the Birmingham MP and mayor, who campaigned to acquire land in Wales and construct the Elan Valley dams, piping the water to his city. Something comparable was achieved by the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks
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SIR – Alan Tyers misses the point of The Hundred (“If Hundred is future of cricket on TV, maybe I will just turn off now”, Sport, August 3). There is no future for cricket in this country without a growing fan base of youngsters from state schools having a fabulous day out and loving the sport forever. The Hundred off ers speed, excitement, sound and fi re eff ects, fl ags and team shirts. That the stadiums are often full to capacity shows its appeal. The crowd is made
sIr – Andy Burnham had avoided talking about illegal migration until forced to, following the crisis in Ceuta (report, August 3). However, when he did fi nally speak, he said nothing new. This is unusual, as he’s normally full of ideas, even if they are generally not backed up by serious plans or funding. Alan Law Streatley, Berkshire
sIr – Your report (August 3) on the smuggling of migrants from Britain to Spain illustrates how traffi cking gangs exploit diff erences between national immigration systems. This has troubling implications for Gibraltar. Under the new treaty, people of any nationality may cross the land frontier from Spain without border checks. Crucially, if they then claim asylum in Gibraltar, Article 53 makes the UK responsible for examining their applications and requires it to prevent
discounters, such as Lidl and Aldi, have margins which are frequently less than 2 per cent. Prices have risen in recent years because of overall goods infl ation, rising wages and energy bills, and increased taxes including the higher levels of National Insurance and business property rates charged by this Labour Government. Supermarket margins used to be higher – 4 to 5 per cent. I would argue that the choice, quality and availability of food and household products via British supermarkets is greater than ever. If politicians see the supermarkets as the baddies, then the rest of the private sector must be the devil incarnate. Supermarkets typically generate returns on capital for investors of 9 to 11 per cent, which is pretty underwhelming considering all the work they do and the risks they take. Indeed, both Morrison’s and Asda have been bought in the past six years, and the new owners have found the going tough. I very much doubt there are queues of investors desperate to deploy capital in such a cut-throat market. Yet, despite this, our socialist masters appear to suspect that they are profi teering. The politicians have no idea of how fantastically complex it is to run hundreds of large supermarkets which might stock 30,000 diff erent products, and the eff orts required to source and sell such a range, often opening almost
with Lake Vyrnwy in Powys. With
similar long-term thinking to these
late-Victorians, it should be possible to
store and distribute suffi cient water in
Britain, as well as to treat effl uent
properly – something that is not
currently taking place.
James Thacker
Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire
sIr – Here in Kent, we are bounded by the Thames Estuary, the North Sea and the English Channel. Water forms about half of the county’s borders. Despite this, every year, we have a hosepipe ban imposed. With the current drought expected to become an increasingly familiar scenario, why are we not urgently investing in water desalination? Countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Israel all have highly eff ective, large-scale water desalination plants. We should follow their lead. David Vincent Cranbrook, Kent
up of youngsters, families, adults after work, groups at weekends and grandparents looking after the children during the holidays. They all love it. Long may it continue. Gill Opie Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
SIR – My biggest objection to The Hundred is that domestic cricket ceases while this cash-raiser is going on, disrupting other series. Bill Collier Earby, Lancashire
them from returning to the EU until their claims are determined. Following a Ceuta-scale incursion into mainland Spain, large numbers could therefore cross Gibraltar’s newly open frontier and become the UK’s responsibility. The treaty contains no express provision requiring Spain to take back claimants who enter Gibraltar from Spanish territory. Even a small proportion of the numbers seen at Ceuta could overwhelm a territory of 34,000 people. The Government should explain what contingency arrangements exist, whether – and, if so, how – Spain could be required to take such claimants back, and how rapidly eff ective frontier controls could be restored. David I Jones Former deputy chairman, European Scrutiny Committee Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire
every day of the year for 17 hours or more. Of course we would all like to pay less for our weekly shop, but Britons still spend less on food as an overall proportion of their household income than in countries including France, Germany and Italy. This is despite Britain having to import more than 40 per cent of the food we consume. We are well served by our supermarkets: we should be proud of the job they do, rather than implying that they are villainous capitalists out to rip off the public. I am baffl ed why Left-wingers frequently criticise supermarkets. There are huge businesses which make margins in Britain 10 times those enjoyed by supermarkets – Google and Microsoft, for example. Good luck to them I say – but regulators and politicians must surely see that they are more obvious targets for complaints about profi teering. But accusing those targets of price gouging is likely to get fewer headlines and perhaps upset powerful American interests. Not so long ago I defended Tesco on the Today programme against an attack by Sharon Graham, boss of the Unite union, who accused them of “rampant profi teering”. Britain’s supermarket chains are highly responsible employers, and deeply aware of their obligations to suppliers, millions of customers, and society as a whole. Overall they employ more than a million people in steady jobs. It is something of a tragedy that such
sIr – John Healey, the Chancellor, has said that he will not allow supermarkets to take the public “for a ride” (report, August 2). I would argue that it is Labour that has taken the supermarkets (and all other employers) for a ride by, for example, increasing employer National Insurance contributions. It has also hit all employees by freezing personal tax thresholds. The Chancellor’s immature comments do not augur well for his stewardship of the economy. Simon McIlroy Croydon, Surrey
sIr – It is only a matter of weeks since John Healey resigned as defence secretary, explaining that the nation’s defences were being imperilled as a result of the then prime minister’s refusal to increase defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP by 2030. Mr Healey won plaudits for doing so. Now we learn that Mr Healey failed to secure such an increase in defence spending when he took the job as Chancellor (report, August 1). This is bound to raise the suspicion that his resignation had less to do with the nation’s safety than his willingness to fi nish off Sir Keir Starmer, as the latter struggled to survive, pleasing Andy Burnham and securing promotion for himself. Gerald Frost Epsom, Surrey
sIr – You report (August 3) that nearly £200,000 worth of fuel has been stolen from forecourts every day since the start of the Iran oil crisis. I fi nd it hard to understand why more petrol stations don’t make customers pay for fuel before it is dispensed. This has been normal in other countries for years and is done at the pump. Ben White Bristol
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sIr – When I was last in France, one had to pass a payment booth at the exit of a petrol station. A barrier was raised only after payment had been made. “Bilking” would have been diffi cult. Gavin Inglis Westcliff -on-Sea, Essex
sIr – I couldn’t resist Bryony Hill’s delightful letter (August 3), which I read with exclamations of “yes, no, yes, no”. Yes to broken trifl e sponges; yes to a good slug of dry sherry (mostly for the trifl e); no to apricot jam, but rather a tin of raspberries in natural syrup (or fresh if available); defi nitely no to jelly or sprinkles; sorry, but no to Bird’s custard (much as I love it) – it must be mother’s “proper” custard with cornfl our, milk and eggs; no to whipped cream; yes, instead, to a large jug of double cream to accompany; and, of course, a huge yes to toasted almond fl akes. Pauline Dobson-Spink Sway, Hampshire
sIr – In 1981 I was in the province of Darfur, western Sudan, collecting seeds for gene banks. One day, in a remote village near the Chad border, my Sudanese colleague and I were invited to lunch. To my great surprise we were served a proper trifl e, though it lacked any cream. My colleague explained that it was a British legacy. Without practice, it was extremely diffi cult to eat using only one’s fi ngers, as is the custom for all meals, especially when attempting to grip the jelly. Roger Croston Christleton, Cheshire
well-run institutions aren’t in charge of large parts of government. You can be certain the public sector would be hugely more productive if they were. Unfortunately this Government has minimal experience of the challenges facing business, but like scorpions, they cannot help themselves as they burden companies with ever more tax and regulation. Politicians have a need to pass laws, many of which are a bad idea. These new impositions rarely help citizens: they simply add costs and obstacles to progress. A pragmatic new government would cheer on successful businesses, and engage actively with the private sector to fi nd mutually benefi cial ways to help them serve their customers better. Instead they add new packaging and energy taxes – and are then shocked when companies are forced to pass these increased costs on to consumers. Britain needs high-performing fi rms and investment more than ever. If the Government launches ill- informed assaults against vigorous, well-managed British companies for soundbites, then the economy, and voters’ living standards, will only deteriorate.
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would be the biggest hurdle to a deal as both companies have large cancer treat- ment businesses. The potential deal could also trigger a political backlash from Donald Trump’s administration, Jefferies warned. Mr Leucthen added: “Astra- Zeneca would eff ectively be a UK-based acquirer of one of America’s large phar- mas, at a time when US policymakers are focused on domestic manufacturing and strategic industries.” The deal would raise questions about AstraZeneca’s continued links to Britain as Sir Pascal Soriot, its chief executive, pushes ahead with a pivot towards the US. AstraZeneca upgraded its listing on the New York Stock Exchange last Sep- tember to let American investors buy its shares directly, while keeping its listing in London. The move put AstraZeneca’s New York listing on a par with that of London, in what was seen as a blow to the UK’s struggling stock market. AstraZeneca subsequently struck a $50bn deal with the Trump administra- tion to invest in US manufacturing and transatlantic research facilities. At the time, Sir Pascal described the drugmaker as a “very American com- pany”. The business subsequently agreed to sell some medicines at a discount to the US Medicaid pro- gramme to avoid being hit with tariff s. Despite this, Britain’s biggest drug- maker has insisted that it intends to remain based in Cambridge and retain its listing on the London Stock Exchange. Mr Leuchten said buying Bristol Myers Squibb as a way to shift permanently to the US would be “a fairly drastic way to go about it”. However, Neil Birrell, the chief investment offi cer at Premier Miton, an AstraZeneca shareholder, said the like- lihood of the pharmaceutical business shifting its shares to the US would increase if the Bristol Myers Squibb deal went ahead. The Prime Minister said the talks were “a private matter for the compa- nies involved”. A No 10 spokesman said: “More broadly, the UK life sciences sector is one of our greatest national assets, driv- ing innovation, skilled employment and investment across the country while developing medicines that improve health outcomes and save lives.”
tor has also been grappling with a signifi cant backlog of power projects – including many speculative or unviable schemes – that have been asking to con- nect to the UK’s electricity networks. Mr Gardiner called on Miatta Fahn- bulleh, the Energy Secretary, to change the law to allow power plant developers “to get paid damages when connections are not made on a date for which there is contractual certainty”. He said: “It needs a signifi cant funda- mental system change. Because right now, the system operator and the trans- mission and distribution companies have no liability for missing the connec- tion dates that they’re giving us.” Mr Gardiner said Drax, which operates a
only by sea, a journey which takes fi ve days from the nearest port in South Africa. The RAF base on Ascension Island is supposed to act as an alterna- tive airport for planes unable to land on St Helena in bad weather. But an investigation by the UK air safety regulator found that the RAF had banned Airlink, the company operating the St Helena fl ights, from landing when the weather was bad. After the ban, Air- link was forced to attempt landings in dangerous conditions rather than divert to Ascension Island, according to a
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four-gigawatt plant in Yorkshire, had been promised connection dates for a series of new gas facilities but these timelines had been repeatedly pushed back. Mr Gardiner said Drax had com- pleted three gas-fi red plants three years ago but only one has been connected to the wider UK network so far, leaving the other two sitting idle even as extreme temperatures left Neso racing to secure extra electricity on June 23. The Drax boss said these projects could have helped Britain weather a power supply crunch that threatened the UK’s “system security”. Mr Gardiner said: “We were originally told that the new gas power stations would be con- nected in 2024. Now it’s 2026 and one of
report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). The AAIB said it broke an agreement, which said that Ascension Island could be routinely listed as an alternative destination for flights encountering bad weather. The Ministry of Defence said it was evaluating the AAIB fi ndings. A spokesman added: “We are aware of the recommendations in the report and will consider them carefully.” A Foreign Offi ce spokesman said the UK retained discretion to approve access based on military requirements, security or safety concerns, or airfi eld capacity.
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Gas-powered plants that Drax completed in 2023. Only one has so far been connected to the grid
them is connected but the other two are not. They send letters off ering a connec- tion date and then six months later, they send another letter with a later date. There’s no contractual certainty in either one of those letters and so there is no recourse for the costs we incur.” Neso has been attempting to reform the UK’s queuing system for linking
By James Warrington
APPLE has launched a fresh legal battle against the Government’s controversial attempts to create “backdoor” access to iPhones. The US tech giant has reportedly fi led a new legal complaint over the Home Offi ce’s demands for access to encrypted back-ups of cloud data belonging to Brit- ish customers. The challenge, fi led at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, is the lat- est twist in a long-running tussle between Apple and the Government,
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new power plants to the grid. This previously worked on a first-come, fi rst-served basis but subsidies on off er to renewable generators saw dozens of new and untested operators demand connections for wind and solar farms. By 2024, there were enough propos- als to supply the UK eight times over, creating a bottleneck that is taking years to resolve. Drax operates Britain’s most contro- versial power station, the wood-burning Drax plant near Selby, which burns six million to seven million trees and emits 12 million tonnes of CO2 a year. Its power is deemed green by Neso, which classi- fies forests as a “renewable” resource. Neso has said its offers of connection
which triggered a diplomatic row with Washington last year. Ministers initially sought access to data from both UK and US users, but dropped the demands under pressure from Donald Trump, who drew comparisons to the behaviour of the Chinese state. It instead issued a narrower “techni- cal capability notice” (TCN) that excluded data from US customers. Efforts to break Apple’s end-to-end encryption were first launched by Yvette Cooper, former home secretary, early last year, who demanded access
Strategy errors, rising costs, and a tough market has house builder Vistry facing an uphill battle
AstraZeneca’s move for US rival Bristol Myers Squibb would harm the UK’s economy and science base Ben Marlow
founded by school dropout valued at £2.5bn
By Louis Goss
A BRITISH start-up founded by a 25-year-old school dropout has been valued at £2.5bn as it develops new chips for the AI boom. Olix, led by James Dacombe, an entrepreneur, raised $312m (£232m) from investors as it looks to compete against Nvidia in the market for hi-tech chips. The deal values Olix at $3.3bn, tri- pling its valuation since February, when the start-up raised a further $220m. Mr Dacombe started Olix two years ago when he was just 23, having launched his first company as a teen- ager after dropping out of his sixth form college in Harrogate, just two days into starting his A-levels. He launched his first company, CoMind, a brain-scanning business, at the age of 17 in 2018, and continues to work as its chief executive as well as running Olix. Mr Dacombe was made a fellow of billionaire Peter Thiel’s charitable foundation in 2022, which provides grants to young entrepreneurs who drop out of college to launch start-ups. His new start-up is working to develop faster microchips to lower the costs of AI and now employs more than 140 staff in London, Bristol, Canada and the US. The start-up says its chip designs, which rely on beams of light to move data instead of copper such as a traditional semiconductor, can help “unlock a step change in AI perfor- mance and cost”. Investors in Olix’s latest funding round included Cambridge semicon- ductor giant Arm, Reed Hastings, the Netflix founder, and Hudson River Trading, the US trading fi rm. It also secured backing from the Government’s £500m Sovereign AI Fund, set up under Labour to invest in promising technology companies in an eff ort to keep them in the UK. A series of new British start-ups has raised hundreds of millions of pounds this year as venture investors seek to capi- talise on booming demand for AI chips. Fractile, a Bristol start-up, raised $220m in May this year in a fundraising round led by Mr Thiel’s Founders Fund, which was an early investor in tech giants including SpaceX, Palantir and Facebook. CuspAI, a start-up using AI to discover new materials for chip design, secured $450m last week from inves- tors, including Jeff Bezos. Alongside the funding, Olix said it had appointed Prof Nick McKeown, a Stanford University electronics expert, to its board, while Nick Briers, a former executive at the financial technology business Wise, had joined as its chief fi nancial offi cer. Kanishka Narayan, the AI minister, said: “Olix is exactly the kind of ambi- tious company we want to back through Sovereign AI.”
dates depend on whether upgrades to the wider UK grid are completed on time by transmission operators. “Connections reform is designed to prioritise projects that are ready to progress and strategi- cally needed for Great Britain’s future energy needs,” Neso said. A spokesman for the Energy Net- works Association, which represents the UK’s operators including National Grid and UK Power Networks, said: “Neso and the networks are continuing to issue off ers to transmission and distribution projects under the agreed joint industry plan.” Ofgem, the energy regulator, said it was aware of the concerns over delays and was considering fi nancial penalties against network companies.
under the sweeping UK Investigatory Powers Act of 2016. The move marked an escalation of the Government’s eff orts to combat ille- gal activity online and was the first known use of a TCN under the surveil- lance laws, which are designed to catch criminals and terrorists but referred to by critics as the Snooper’s Charter. Apple has previously said it would never build a back door to its devices and was committed to protecting users’ security. Apple and the Home Office have been contacted for comment.
falling profits are among Vistry’s many problems, writes Pui-Guan Mann
WHEN Greg Fitzgerald unveiled plans three years ago to transform his business Vistry into an aff ordable housing contractor, it was hailed as a masterstroke. Up until then Vistry, which trades as Bovis Homes, had been a run-of-the-mill housebuilder, constructing homes and selling them directly to buyers. Now Fitzgerald said Vistry would switch to a “partnership model”, joining forces with housing associations, councils and the Government to build aff ordable homes using taxpayer- backed funds. With Labour on the verge of power, and the UK pushing forward with plans for millions more homes, it seemed the right move from the well-regarded CEO, who had risen from a building site tea boy to become a FTSE 100 leader. “So long as the registered providers, local authorities and public rental sector have the funding there is a great need and demand for new housing from them,” Fitzgerald said at the time. Investors bought into the story. So did Wall Street and shares fl ew. But three years on, Fitzgerald’s gamble looks to have been a major miscalculation. Vistry shares are down 75pc from £14 to about £3 over the past two years and Fitzgerald is gone, having resigned in March. The company is now Britain’s most heavily bet-against stock, with around 20pc of its shares on loan to investors predicting further falls, according to FCA data. Some subcontractors have reportedly been told to down tools to shore up cash . The housebuilder has also turned to discounting homes by more than £100,000 to boost sales and produce more cash . It sold just 6,100 in the fi rst half of the year. “It is a corporate disaster of a scale that no one has really wanted to shine a light on,” said one former Vistry insider. “You only need to look at the shares.” Vistry is one of only two private sector providers deemed a “strategic partner plus” for Labour’s £39bn aff ordable housing fund, leading it to be dubbed “Labour’s favourite housebuilder”. But hopes of building 1.5 million homes by the end of the parliament are signifi cantly behind and the state-backed building boom has failed to materialise. Red tape, rising build costs and faltering confi dence have all stalled projects and the money Vistry must rely on is drying up. In a sign of its exposure to Government policy, shares rose 6pc yesterday after reports that Labour is exploring plans to reintroduce a Help to Buy scheme for new homeowners (Vistry still sells homes to private
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Rachel Reeves visiting a Vistry project in Nottingham last year. Inset below, Greg Fitzgerald, who set out plans to become an affordable housing contractor
UK’s most-shorted stock
Percentage of shares on loan to investors betting on further declines
Vistry Group 19.45%
Ibstock 17.91%
Capita 14.25%
Ocado Group 13.38%
WH Smith 13.04%
Greggs 12.4%
Wizz Air 12.18%
Crest Nicholson 10.84%
Chemring Group 10.5%
Ceres Power 10.4%
Data retrieved on Aug 3 2026
SOURCE: FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY
buyers). But as much as Labour’s housebuilding problems could be blamed, behind Vistry’s decline also lies a story that former insiders describe not as bad luck, but a failure that was years in the making. They claim the company’s downfall was built on boardroom capitulation, a strategic overreach and a boss emboldened by his backing from aggressive US investors. The roots of the crisis, according to the former Vistry insider, lie in the 2022 merger with rival Countryside Partnerships, which was orchestrated by the British company’s American shareholders. Both companies had a wide range of vociferous and demanding owners: Boston-based hedge fund Abrams Capital, Browning West, an activist shareholder from LA, Jeff Ubben’s Inclusive Capital Partners as well as David Capital Partners. The former insider says the Americans urged
Fitzgerald to replicate the partnerships model that had made them a lot of money at home – despite what the insider called a “lack of understanding” of the UK housing market. “Building multi-storey buildings with a partnerships model isn’t housebuilding. It’s a diff erent animal, it takes diff erent skills,” they said. Insiders recount how Fitzgerald was courted on two fronts: the US investors “eff ectively worshipped” him and told him he was “the greatest CEO that had ever lived”, while promising him a a bigger reward package. “Greg was a wealthy guy anyway, he didn’t need the cash that they purported to be able to deliver to
him, but he certainly bought the vision,” claims the former insider. Within months of the Vistry- Countryside merger, the company’s US shareholders pushed for a plan for a huge pay deal for Fitzgerald. This sparked a bitter row inside the remuneration committee, culminating in the exits of two non-executive directors and a senior independent director. In August 2023, Vistry proposed lifting Fitzgerald’s total take-home pay from £3.4m to £5.6m a year. This passed despite some shareholder opposition . “I don’t believe the board and the chairman at the time... fulfi lled their fi duciary duty in saying that was not acceptable,”
How Vistry’s foundations crumbled
November 2022 Vistry merges with Countryside Partnerships.
March 2023 US investors push for bumper pay deal for Greg Fitzgerald.
August 2023 Pay deal approved despite revolt.
September 2023 Vistry announces shift in strategy to focus solely on partnerships housing.
January 2024 Fitzgerald takes on combined chairman and chief executive role.
October 2024 First in a series of profit warnings.
March 2026 Fitzgerald announces departure; warning on lower margins.
May 2026 Profit warning for first half of the year.
July 2026 Warning of £30m first-half loss.
said the former insider. “They just caved to the Americans.” However, some City sources baulk at the idea that Vistry’s woes were driven by US investors. “Vistry had made multiple bids for Countryside before any US investors got involved in the process,” said one, adding that the company’s woes were linked to its old business of selling directly to buyers. Others believe Vistry tried to reinvent itself far too quickly than its operational capabilities allowed. “It tripped them up,” says a second former adviser. “They dropped the ball on the commercials and it was a complete own goal.” A source who used to work for Fitzgerald says: “If there’s a massive structural shortage in social housing that you can address in a capital-light way, you can see that on paper, Vistry’s strategy makes sense. But it expanded far too quickly.” A string of profi t warnings followed, along with a hefty cladding bill, much of which is being spent on fi xing legacy Countryside sites. Fitzgerald, who had added the role of executive chairman to chief executive in 2024, resigned in March, with Adam Daniels – a Countryside Partnerships veteran since 2016 – promoted to chief executive. The scale of the job in front of him is already clear. The fi ndings of a strategic review that he undertook within weeks of stepping into the role will be published alongside September’s half-year results, which are expected to show a £30m loss. This was announced alongside the exit of its fi nance chief, Tim Lawlor, last month. Average daily net debt hit close to £800m in the fi rst half of this year. It comes amid reports that some are pushing for Labour to nationalise Vistry so that it can deliver Andy Burnham’s mission for the “biggest council housebuilding programme since the post-war period”. Vistry previously denied that any discussions with the Government on the matter had taken place. A Vistry spokesman said: “We continue to have confi dence in our business model and the strong relationships we have built with our partners over many years. “While current market conditions are challenging for all companies in our sector, we are building at scale and pace, delivering the high-quality homes this country so desperately needs, including over 6,000 in the fi rst half alone. We have made it clear that we are treating 2026 as a transitional year to improve the execution of our model, while focusing on cash generation and taking decisive steps to reduce debt levels, and we have made signifi cant progress over the past few months.” Browning West, Abrams Capital and David Capital were contacted for comment. Inclusive Capital wound down its funds in 2023, saying that the public markets had not rewarded its focus on sustainable investment.
By Chris Price
OIL prices have plunged after Donald Trump called off strikes and said the US and Iran would hold further peace talks. Brent crude, the international bench- mark, fell as much as 9.5pc early yester- day to less than $82 a barrel, after the US president said he had halted plans for “disastrous” military action. Mr Trump
British solar farms in net zero retreat
European onshore renewables division to French rival TotalEnergies
By Melissa Lawford
SHELL is selling its British solar farm business to a French rival as it beats a retreat from net zero. The UK’s biggest oil and gas company confirmed it had signed a deal to sell its European onshore renewables arm to France’s TotalEnergies. The sale includes solar farms, battery storage and onshore wind projects in the UK, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. The sites have a combined 500 meg- awatts of generation capacity, enough to power several hundred thousand homes. It includes the newly built solar plant in Iddenshall, Cheshire, which will supply the UK’s largest public electric-vehicle charging network. At one stage, Shell had been develop- ing four UK solar farms with planned capacity of 100 megawatts. The value of the deal has not been disclosed. The sale comes as part of a wider retreat from renewables for Shell. In November, it pulled out of projects to build two giant offshore wind farms in the North Sea: the MarramWind and CampionWind schemes off the east coast of Scotland. Since Wael Sawan, Shell’s chief exec- utive, took over the FTSE 100 business at the start of 2023, Shell has scaled back investment in renewable power generation to focus on more profitable businesses such as gas production and trading. The oil giant has since watered down its 2030 carbon reduction target and abandoned a 2035 interim target to reduce the carbon intensity of the energy it sells as part of its strategy to become a net zero emissions business by 2050. Machteld de Haan, Shell’s president of renewables, said: “This agreement reflects Shell’s continued focus on
Shell’s continued focus on actively managing and high-grading its portfolio’
By Tim Wallace
FAMILIES in Wales could be forced to drive to England to recycle bottles and cans to reclaim 20p deposits on single-use drinks containers, retailers have warned. From Oct 1 2027, shoppers across the UK will be charged the fee, which is intended to boost recycling rates and reduce littering. However, retailers said Wales risked being left without a functioning scheme
extra year for vital pension increases
By Rob White
THOUSANDS of retirees will be forced to wait an extra year for vital pension increases because a government compensation scheme cannot pay them on time. More than 330,000 retirees who rely on the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) and the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) were promised their payouts would finally start rising with inflation by as early as next January. Both government-backed organisa- tions were launched to cover payouts from failed pension schemes. However, 66,000 scheme members have been told they must wait until at least 2028 for the uplift because the PPF, which handles every payment, cannot meet the deadline. Maurice Alphandary, a PPF member, said he was “disgusted” by the news while Terry Monk, a fellow campaigner, said people were “dying waiting”. Pensions from schemes that went bust between January 1997 and April 2005 are covered by the FAS, with the PPF stepping in after that. But while pensions accrued after 1997 can be increased with inflation, uplifts are not applied to any years built up
said: “Obviously, they don’t want to be attacked. They knew the extent of the attack because they saw it forming. Now what we’re doing is we’re talking to them in the form of a negotiation. It begins tomorrow afternoon.” He also ordered oil companies to lower petrol prices for American con- sumers, and hit out at Chevron’s chief executive for not crediting his
actively managing and high-grading its power portfolio. “We are recycling capital and prioritising areas where we have differentiated capabilities and can create the most value over time, including through asset-backed power trading and customer-focused energy solutions.” The sell-off comes after rival BP put its North Sea oil and gas assets up for sale, following six decades of operation in the basin, where it employs 1,100 people, raising fears that the oil giant could quit the UK for good. BP has also been unwinding its renewables investments after its efforts to focus on green energy prompted a shareholder backlash. Shell’s deal with TotalEnergies does not include offshore wind or Shell’s hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, liquefied natural gas, chemicals or
customer energy supply. Shares in Shell dipped by 1.1pc in early trading yesterday. It reported last week that its profits more than doubled to almost $10bn (£7.5bn) in the first six months of the year. Quarterly profits, Shell’s highest since 2023, were driven by increased prices for oil and gas amid the Middle East conflict. Brent crude spiked at $126 per barrel in April and stood above $91 last week. The global oil benchmark was trading at $83.47 yesterday. The energy giant also hailed higher margins in its chemicals business and strong performance in its trad- ing divisions. However, Shell’s profits would have been even higher were it not for lower volumes from its Qatari gas fields, which were damaged during the war in the Middle East. Qatar represents about 10pc of Shell’s global gas output.
unless Welsh ministers urgently appointed an administrator to take charge of the programme. England, Scotland and Northern Ireland have all picked the non-profit Exchange for Change to run the Deposit Return Scheme. Wales has yet to confirm its appointment. Helen Dickinson, the chief executive of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), warned in a letter to Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth, the First Minister, that there was “insufficient time” for a
before that date. Campaigners spent years fighting to change the rules and in last November’s Budget, Rachel Reeves, the former chancellor, finally announced inflationary increases for pre-1997 pensions. Although it is capped at 2.5pc, the move will boost 265,000 pensions from January 2027. However, another 66,000 of those affected were only entitled to inflationary increases on their Guaran-
Retirees reliant on the PPF and the FAS who were promised payouts would start rising with inflation by as early as January
teed Minimum Pension (GMP), a sepa- rate element built up with their employer as a result of being “contracted out” of the additional state pension. Under contracting out, in return for making lower National Insurance con- tributions, employers had to provide staff with additional pension payments that were at least as good as the extra state pension they would have received. They also had to increase the additional
administration for supporting the fossil fuel industry. Mr Trump said that he had been asked by Iran as well as US partners Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar to hold off on strikes. He halted plans for an attack against Iran on Saturday, which he claimed would have been the biggest since the Second World War. He said the sides
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new administrator “to deliver a functioning Welsh scheme” by next October. The delay risks lumping Wales with additional costs of as much as
Helen Dickinson, of the BRC, said there was ‘insufficient time’ for a new administrator ‘to deliver a functioning Welsh scheme’
element by inflation, up to a maximum of 3pc a year. But this is not offered by the PPF or FAS. Under the terms of Ms Reeves’s announcement, this will also change – but not until January 2028. The PPF said the calculations were complex to administer and that “finite resources” meant it had to split the delivery of payment increases. A spokesman said: “Our priority is to implement payments from January 2027 for around 265,000 members whose schemes provided wider pre- 1997 increases. “This approach gives us the greatest confidence of delivering those pay- ments accurately and on time.” “We will then complete the addi- tional work required for around 66,000 members whose schemes provided increases only on post-1988 GMP benefits, with payments expected from January 2028.” A government spokesman said: “We are making the biggest change to pension compensation in over 20 years, benefiting over 250,000 PPF and FAS members. The vast majority of eligi- ble members will receive these increases from January 2027, the earli- est possible date.”
were on the “perimeter” of a peace deal. Oil’s sharp fall also sent the cost of government borrowing lower yester- day, over hopes that it would ease infla- tion. The yield on 10-year UK gilts, a benchmark for what the Treasury pays to borrow money, dropped from 5.05pc to 4.98pc. Stock markets in Europe also rose, with the FTSE 100 up 0.2pc, the Cac 40
£233m per year, according to BRC esti- mates, as consumers take their empties across the border to English shops and recycling centres. “The consequences of deviating from Exchange for Change’s application would ultimately be felt by Welsh con- sumers,” Ms Dickinson wrote, warning it risked “higher prices, reduced prod- uct choice, disruption to drinks availa- bility and greater confusion”. By using the same administrator across the UK, retailers would save
don’t trust reports that used AI, says survey
By Louis Goss
MANAGEMENT consultants are facing a backlash over plans to adopt AI, with the vast majority of customers saying they don’t trust the technology. Some 70pc of consultancy clients said they wouldn’t trust a report if it was prepared using AI, according to a sur- vey by Source Global Research. Almost one third (32pc) of the 3,887 companies surveyed said their trust in a consultancy would be shaken by knowl- edge they had used AI to do produce public reports. It threatens a looming crisis for the world’s biggest consulting firms, which are investing heavily in AI while cutting back on human consultants. All of the big four consulting firms – Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC – have sig- nificantly cut back their graduate recruitment schemes since the launch of ChatGPT, as they invest billions in AI technology. More than three quarters of UK con- sulting firms are using AI to carry out work, according to a recent survey by the Management Consultancies Associ- ation (MCA). Britain’s biggest consult- ing firms have also launched their internal AI tools to help automate their
in Paris up 0.3pc and the Dax in Frank- furt climbing 0.1pc. Jim Reid, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, said: “The latest around Iran is that hopes have risen of a diplomatic off-ramp.” President Trump said oil companies were failing consumers, as he criticised Chevron boss Mike Wirth for not cred- iting his administration’s efforts to help the oil industry during an TV interview.
costs and complexity, as a single set of labelling requirements would apply to all drink containers nationwide. The administrator will be tasked with publicising the scheme, so shoppers know why their drinks cost an extra 20p and explaining how to reclaim their cash. However, Wales’s appointment has faced delays amid insistence on including glass bottles in the scheme in Wales, while the rest of the UK will include only metal cans and plastic bot- tles. Supermarkets have complained
work. KPMG and PwC have struck deals with tech giants including Microsoft and OpenAI. In 2023, PwC launched its own ChatPwC tool, which it described as an “AI-powered assistant” used to automate “repetitive and tedious tasks”. However, AI-related errors have caused a series of embarrassments for consulting giants. Several recent reports from PwC’s Middle East business on topics includ-
in combining the latest
AI technologies with
professional expertise’
ing AI and electric vehicles were dis- covered to be riddled with fake footnotes and unverifiable claims, according to a report from GPTZero. PwC said it was “updating a limited number of supporting citations in the reports mentioned” and added that the partnership had “quality control pro- cesses for research and content devel- opment we expect all our people to adhere to”. Deloitte separately said it would pay a partial refund to the Australian gov-
On Truth Social, he wrote: “The only thing he conveniently forgot to mention is that, without the genius, foresight, strength, and stability, of the TRUMP Administration, the Oil Industry, and our Country itself, would be DEAD!” Petrol prices in Britain hit their high- est level since the start of the conflict on Friday, with unleaded up to 160p per litre, according to the RAC.
Steaming expensive Steam fitter Max Luckham maintaining the smokebox of the late 1920s Southern Railway U class steam locomotive no. 31806. There are fears for the future of its operator Swanage Railway, which runs one of Britain’s most popular heritage railways, due to the spiralling cost of coal. It previously sourced coal from Russia at £100 per tonne before sanctions were imposed. Now it pays £400 per tonne.
that introducing the recycling scheme will make it harder for them to keep prices down for customers. “Smaller suppliers and producers are particularly exposed to additional complexity and cost, which could make supplying the Welsh market less com- mercially viable,” Ms Dickinson wrote. A Welsh government spokesman said: “We are working at pace on a formal process to appoint a deposit management organisation which will be concluded soon.”
ernment after a A$440,000 (£230,000) report it wrote contained various errors that were blamed on AI. Tamzen Isaacson, the chief executive of the MCA, said: “Firms investing in AI are reporting significant gains in pro- ductivity and service delivery. “The real opportunity lies in combin- ing the latest AI technologies with pro- fessional expertise, industry knowledge and human judgment.” Embarrassing errors are only one of the threats AI poses to consultants. Tech giants including OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and Anthropic, the maker of Claude, have launched their own consultancies, focused on helping clients use AI tools. They threaten to compete directly with the traditional consulting firms. At the same time, any efficiencies delivered by AI could prompt custom- ers to ask for lower prices. KPMG was revealed this year to have asked its own auditor, Grant Thornton UK, for a fee reduction, suggesting that AI should make it cheaper to carry out the work. The negotiations led to KPMG paying $357,000 (£265,000) for its audit in 2025, compared with $416,000 the year before. Deloitte was contacted for comment.
BEN MARLOW
proposed merger is a damning indictment of the Government’s apathy
“COMPANIES are trying to be nice to Trump. It’s a charm off ensive, but there’s nothing to panic about just yet,” a shareholder in AstraZeneca said after the drug-making giant listed its shares in New York last year. Whoever uttered those sage words will be mightily relieved they chose to remain anonymous, because it’s not an observation that has aged well. Over the weekend, it emerged that AstraZeneca has held talks about a £300bn mega-merger with US rival Bristol Myers Squibb. The reports came with all the usual caveats about how the discussions may be delayed or even fall apart. In fact, there was a strong sense that the negotiations may even be historic given neither side commented. But the mere fact that AstraZeneca has even entertained such a tie-up should be enough to provoke panic in the Square Mile and Westminster. Make no mistake: if this deal goes ahead, it has the potential to be devastating for Britain. For the City in particular it will almost certainly be the death knell, opening the door to a probable stampede of some of Britain’s biggest companies across the Atlantic starting with BP, whose commitment to the UK has never looked less fl imsy after it announced plans to pull out of the North Sea. Analysts and investors are concerned that a tie-up with Bristol Myers Squibb could be the fi rst step towards AstraZeneca moving to the US. If it fl ees to New York, Shell would
Water sense of style Nicholas Perocet, e-foil instructor and co-founder of Foil in Paris, rides on the River Seine with the La Defence business district in the background. Aside from the Paris Bourse and the European Banking Authority, La Defence is home to groups such as Dior, Total, Amazon and Merck.
large enough to deliver real savings quickly
ADAM SMITH
funding new priorities from existing budgets, the wage bill will have to be cut
OVER the weekend we learnt that the Prime Minister and Chancellor have written to the Cabinet explaining that “all new announcements must be funded from within existing budgets”. There is to be no new money even for the Prime Minister’s new priorities. Given the PM is racking up spending commitments faster than his own Chancellor can fi nd room for them, on
surely feel pressured into reconsidering its UK domicile. Could HSBC be counted on to stick around? What about other FTSE 100 giants such as Unilever or Rio Tinto, who count London as their home but have operations across the globe? Andy Burnham must be alive to this threat. The departure of any of the companies that occupy the upper echelons of the blue-chip index could be akin to a dam bursting. Once the breach has occurred, it cannot be plugged: more companies will move, turning London into a barren corporate wasteland. The response, or rather lack of it from the Government, to BP’s decision to abandon the North Sea after 60 years does not inspire confi dence. This seismic event was met by total silence from Burnham and Jonathan Reynolds, the Business Secretary. You would’ve thought speculation about BP’s possible departure would have at least kept John Healey awake this weekend. Instead, the Chancellor appears to have been too preoccupied, being tormented by the same imaginary bogeymen that haunted his predecessor on multiple occasions. Writing in The Telegraph just 48 hours after BP’s North Sea sale was announced, Healey warned supermarkets that he would crack down on any “price-gouging” at either “the pump or the till”. With the Cabinet asleep at the wheel, it fell to Opposition politicians to point out the bleeding obvious. Andrew Bowie, the shadow Scotland secretary, said Labour’s hostility to oil and gas meant BP’s exit from the North Sea was “inevitable”, at the same time as warning that “it also paves the way for the company to quit the UK altogether”. Likewise, the Prime Minister’s assertion that talks between AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb are “a private matter for the companies involved” is deeply worrying. It wouldn’t be the fi rst time that a genuine threat to AstraZeneca’s
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the face of it this means we’re likely to see some signifi cant cuts in existing plans to pay for it all. Treasury offi cials will now spend weeks searching for underspends in departmental budgets, road and rail projects that can be delayed another year or two, and welfare payments that can be reduced quickly. This is a familiar exercise with a familiar list of potential candidates for the axe. If the Chancellor and Prime Minister are determined to fund new priorities without raising taxes, then their search will quickly lead to the public sector pay bill. Total UK public sector pay costs £300bn a year. This is roughly a quarter of total managed expenditure and the largest controllable slice of day-to-day spending once welfare and debt interest are stripped out. Nothing else on John Healey’s list will come close. Treasury fi gures show that every one percentage
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independence and British roots was met with complacency, of course. David Cameron was guilty of both astonishing naivety and unforgivable recklessness when he rolled out the red carpet for Pfi zer in 2014 after it launched a hostile £70bn takeover bid for the company. Back then it was a combination of the determination of Sir Pascal Soriot, AstraZeneca’s chief executive, to remain independent, plus opposition from prominent Labour MPs including the then party leader Ed Miliband, that ensured AstraZeneca stayed out of foreign hands. The future Foreign Secretary attacked what he described as Pfi zer’s “paper-thin assurances” to protect AstraZeneca’s research and development (R&D) base. He also accused Cameron of acting as a “cheerleader” for the American pharmaceutical fi rm – a reminder that there was once a time when Miliband had some sensible things to say. It will be fascinating to see whether he shares those same misgivings this time around. Many of the doubts he
to a dam bursting. More firms will move, turning London into a corporate wasteland’
point increase in pay for the review body workforces alone costs £2.1bn. No road scheme, headcount reduction or cancelled pilot project comes remotely close as quickly. This matters because recent settlements have been incredibly generous. The 2025-26 public sector pay round handed teachers a 4pc increase and junior doctors up to 6pc, both comfortably ahead of infl ation at the time. While not quite as generous, the 2026-27 equivalent had more above- infl ation increases across the board. Thanks to this continued recent generosity, resident doctors have now seen their pay rise by 35.2pc in nominal terms over the past four years. All of this obviously adds up. Add pensions, employer NI and the wider public sector outside the review body system, and independent estimates put the full cost of the 2026-27 round at £7bn to
£10bn for England. The process for agreeing the 2027-28 settlements has now begun. Evidence on aff ordability will be submitted in the coming months. Simply holding 2027-28 to infl ation would free up signifi cant money for the new Prime Minister’s priorities. And the case for even more
for a less productive state and asking the private sector to pay for it’
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expressed more than a decade ago about how Cameron should be “championing British jobs and the British success story that is AstraZeneca” as well as the investment it provides “in research and development, a crucial part of our science base” are just as relevant today. Agreed mergers tend to be less damaging than hostile takeovers. However, it is clear that a combination with Bristol Myers Squibb could be the catalyst for AstraZeneca’s centre of gravity shifting much further to the US. That would threaten its headquarters, R&D presence in Britain and indeed the country’s wider science base. Sir Pascal’s aff ection for the UK has waned notably in recent months and years as a result of extreme dissatisfaction with the Government’s treatment of the pharmaceutical sector. He was furious at Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to cut back state funding for a £450m vaccine plant in Speke, Merseyside – so much so that the plans were shelved. Sir Pascal has also blamed a “discouraging” tax rate
they ran the numbers. This gap has recently widened further. In the year to May, regular pay in the public sector increased by 5.5pc compared with 2.9pc in the private sector. Despite this, measured public service productivity remains weak. We are now paying more for a less productive state and asking the private sector to pay for it. Pay is also only half of it. Public sector pension schemes remain among the most generous available anywhere in the economy, with employer contribution rates commonly running at around 25pc to 30pc of salary, compared with around 5pc to 6pc across much of the private sector. None of that will stop a fi ght. The industrial disputes of 2022 and 2023 demonstrated how contentious pay restraint can become, and ministers will argue that productivity improvements and reform can help square the circle instead. But productivity gains take years to deliver. Healey needs money over the next year or two. If ministers are serious about funding new priorities from existing budgets, they will eventually have to confront the biggest spending line in most departments. Because the alternatives have either been ruled out
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for a decision to base a $360m (£270m) manufacturing plant in Ireland, rather than Britain. Former health secretary Wes Streeting’s stealth tax on NHS drug suppliers, and the diffi culty in bringing new treatments to market, have also been the source of much frustration. The decision to list AstraZeneca’s shares in New York last year should be viewed at least partially as a consequence of that disenchantment. But equally, it was a response to rapidly changing geopolitics. Stalling investment in Britain has coincided with a whopping £50bn deal with the White House to expand its manufacturing and research facilities in the US. America already accounts for more than 40pc of AstraZeneca’s annual turnover. But Trump’s threat of heavy US import tariff s on foreign pharmaceuticals has been an eff ective investment incentive. Sir Pascal’s description of the drugmaker as a “very American company” after shaking hands with Trump on its plans was hardly reassuring. Meanwhile, growing fears that Washington could pull up the drawbridge on Chinese manufactured drugs as part of its trade war with Beijing are likely to be weighing heavily on AstraZeneca’s board. The company generates more than 10pc of its sales in China and recently unveiled a $15bn expansion plan for the mainland, which includes the building of a brand new R&D centre in the capital. In the end, it may be opposition from the City that derails Sir Pascal’s ambitions. AstraZeneca’s shares tumbled nearly 8pc after news of the talks with Bristol Myers leaked – equivalent to a £15bn sell-off by investors. With one shareholder claiming a deal “does not make strategic or fi nancial sense”, the two sides may have their work cut out. Yet that’s no excuse for ministerial apathy in the face of such an obvious threat to Britain’s national interests.
or are much tougher. The triple lock is eff ectively safe for this Parliament. Welfare and disability benefi t reform is where the last government came unstuck. Delaying yet more roads and rail projects only goes so far and would undermine the search for growth in every postcode. Local government is central to the new PM’s devolution agenda, and nobody is going to propose real-terms cuts to schools or hospitals. Strip all of that away and public sector pay is what is left. It is the only item on Healey’s list large enough to deliver real savings quickly. The evidence shows the workforce receiving it is already on average better paid, better pensioned and faster- growing in salary terms than the private sector funding it. If this Government is serious about funding its own priorities without raising taxes or breaking every other promise it has made, the numbers point one way. The question is not whether Burnham and Healey look at the pay bill. It is whether they have the courage and ability to sell restraint to their own paymasters.
** Tuesday 4 August 2026 The Daily Telegraph
Government securities
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107.53 103.38 Treas 6% 28 103.93 +0.23 5.77 4.22
102.33 0.01 Treas 4¼% 32 98.45 +0.52 4.32 4.55
99.39 92.65 Treas 4¼% 36 94.49 +0.71 4.50 4.98
102.00 93.84 Treas 4¾% 38 95.93 +0.88 4.95 5.20
Index Linked Securities
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248.27 236.46 Treas 2% IL 35 240.74 +1.19 0.83 1.74
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Germany 3.15 - -1.54
Japan 2.81 -0.34 -1.88
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2360 1529 BAE Systems 2143 +49 1.8 31.1
551½ 398½ QinetiQ ● 522* +16 2.1 26.0
1532⅝ 990 Rolls–Royce 1506¾ +39 0.7 21.7
318⅛ 161 Senior ● 292½ +2 0.7 -286.8
Banks +1.62%
Ç Banks 1.62
554⅛ 352⅝ Barclays 515 +6¼ 2.2 11.8
563½ 318⅜ Close Bros ● 433¼ +7⅝ — -6.5
1604⅝ 908¾ HSBC 1597⅜ +21⅜ 3.5 17.8
117¾ 74⅜ Lloyds Bk Gp 116⅝ +1⅞ 3.4 16.7
725⅛ 500¼ NatWest Group 722¾ +17 4.8 13.5
1080 613 Santander 1074 +24 1.5 13.8
2278 1285 Standard Ch 2201 +13 2.3 15.2
Beverages +1.28%
Ç Beverages 1.28
2142 1295½ Diageo 1655½ +21 3.8 21.0
Chemicals +0.50%
3338 2426¾ Croda Intl 3242 +37 3.4 73.0
2434 1730¾ Johnson Mat ● 1980* -12 3.9 -34.6
819 515 Victrex ● 796 +13 7.5 24.9
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900 539 Balfour Beatty ● 865½ +3 1.6 16.5
410¼ 235⅜ Barratt Redrow 304½ +11¼ 5.6 22.4
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220½ 124⅜ Costain ● 212½ +1½ 2.0 15.3
1009¾ 788⅝ Grafton Gp ● 1000 +34¼ 3.8 14.2
5730 3915 Morgan Sindall ● 4380 -50 3.7 11.8
1552 947⅜ Persimmon 1131 +24 5.3 12.7
116⅞ 74⅛ Taylor Wimpey ● 80 +2 5.2 28.6
510 171 Dialight 485 +12 — —
800 505 discoverIE Grp ● 774 -1 1.7 25.6
4902 3191⅜ Halma 3548* +18 0.7 36.0
5490 2860 Renishaw ● 5070 +122 1.5 44.0
2060 825 XP Power ● 1732 +116 — -41.2
Electricity -0.00%
937½ 613⅞ Drax Group ● 715½ -22 4.2 34.6
1428½ 1000 Nat Grid 1189 -1 4.1 18.2
2767½ 1597 SSE 2356* +10 2.9 22.3
98⅛ 71 Coats Group ● 81⅜ +1⅛ 3.0 18.5
414½ 230 Cropper J 385 +5 — 12.5
28500 8480 Goodwin ● 17720 +400 1.6 54.2
3076 2138 IMI 2962 +26 1.2 23.8
1085 660 Mondi ● 895 +2¾ 1.4 28.0
38⅝ 21¼ Severfield 37⅜ -⅛ — -3.1
2746¼ 2088 Smiths Gp 2648 +6 1.8 30.9
8050 5950 Spirax Gp 7100 +155 2.4 32.0
3580 2254 Weir 2638 +2 1.6 27.6
Food producers +0.24%
2359 1729½ Ass Brit Fds 2123 +36 3.0 15.0
5195 3270 Coca–Cola HBC 4884 -126 2.1 22.1
5810 4775 Cranswick ● 5260* -90 2.1 17.8
861 447⅞ Hilton Food ● 616 +17 5.7 7.0
138 87 REA Hldgs 108 -1½ — -207.6
5542⅛ 3644 Unilever 4770 +27 3.4 12.9
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220¼ 152 Centrica 153¼ -1¾ 3.7 -102.2
606 439⅜ Pennon Gp ● 456* -7 6.4 23.5
3335 2381 Severn Trent 3036 +18 4.2 24.6
1497 1072 Utd Utilities 1397* +14 3.8 16.2
276½ 145⅞ Ashmore ● 210¾ +4⅜ 8.0 17.3
363⅜ 212 Bridgepoint Grp ● 339⅝ +19 2.8 67.9
1880 1240 BrooksMacdonald 1405 -20 5.8 10.8
1956 1016 IG Group 1371 -89 3.1 9.5
2340 1424⅞ ICG 1949 +61 4.5 11.7
690 499⅜ Investec 658½ +9½ 5.8 8.5
72 48 IP Group ● 65¼ +2⅞ 1.9 9.0
Risers 71 Volume Close Change
Ç Barratt Redrow 7.97m 304½ 3.82pc
Ç Metlen Energy 0.21m 4095¼ 3.63pc
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Ç ICG 0.90m 1949 3.23pc
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Ç Lion Finance 0.04m 11930 2.76pc
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Ç Rolls-Royce 55.55m 1506¾ 2.66pc
Ç Pershing Square 0.28m 3902 2.47pc
Ç NatWest Group 24.61m 722¾ 2.41pc
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Ç Babcock Intl 2.22m 1146½ 2.27pc
Ç Spirax Group 0.41m 7100 2.23pc
Ç Diploma 1.54m 7480 2.19pc
Ç Persimmon 3.11m 1131 2.17pc
Ç Howden Joinery 1.47m 805 2.09pc
Ç Melrose Ind 8.45m 463¼ 1.98pc
Ç Aberdeen Group 5.93m 245¼ 1.91pc
Ç Kingfisher 7.42m 314¼ 1.85pc
Ç Ass Brit Fds 0.65m 2123 1.73pc
Ç Burberry 1.81m 1207½ 1.68pc
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FDM Group [Holdings] Int 78.6m (97.3m) 4.1m (8.0m) 2.800 (5.700) 3.000 (6.000) Nov 13 Oct 22
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209 150¾ Quilter ● 195⅞ +2¾ 3.2 22.0
2458½ 1620 S & U 1945 — 5.9 10.0
599½ 358⅝ Schroders 588½ — 3.7 17.3
132 77⅛ Vanquis Banking Gp 79⅞ +2 — 25.0
416⅛ 274⅜ Haleon 362¼ -1 2.0 19.5
1441½ 1050 Smith & Nep 1197 +38½ 2.4 22.3
1376½ 976 Burberry 1207½ +20 — —
170 106¼ McBride 163¼ +¼ 1.8 8.4
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6522⅞ 3664 Reckitt Benck 5280 +40 4.1 11.3
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701⅝ 590⅝ Aviva 701⅝ +8¼ 5.6 26.1
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È IG Group 2.86m 1371 -6.10pc
È Coca-Cola HBC 0.77m 4884 -2.52pc
È Brit Amer Tob 3.84m 4466 -2.28pc
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È Glencore 63.44m 539 -0.74pc
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Discretionary Unit Fund No 1, Poultry, London EC2R 8JR. 020 7415 4130
Maitland Discretionary Inc 3.00 2246.09 -0.98
Fundsmith LLP
PO Box 10846, Chelmsford, Essex, CM99 2BW.
0330 123 1815
www.fundsmith.co.uk enquiries@fundsmith.co.uk
Fundsmith Equity T Acc – 696.7 +3.34
395 312 Caledonia ● 388* — 2.0 594
599 486 City of Lon ● 594* +1 3.7 581
467 207 CQS Nat Res G & I 363* +12 7.8 349
330 270 CT Glbl Mgd G 321 +1 — 327
135 114 CT Glbl Mgd I 131½ — 6.1 132
592 439⅞ CT Priv Eq Ord 506 +6 5.6 695
373 320 CT UK Cap & Inc 356 -2 3.7 374
126 97 CT UKHighIncTst 116* — 5.1 120
480¼ 460 Dunedin Ent # 475 — 4.8 —
860 737⅝ Edinburgh Inv Tr ● 850 +6 3.8 914
294½ 185¾ Edin Worldwide ● 237½ +5 — 256
1332 325¾ F&C Inv Trust 335* +3¾ 1.3 367
672 546 Fidelity Asian V 590 +2 3.5 628
339 241 Fidlty Chna Sp Sits ● 269½ +1½ 3.3 282
442 367½ Fidelity Euro Tst ● 431½ +3 2.3 450
469½ 372 Fidelity Sp V ● 466 +2½ 2.2 460
915 706¼ Finsbury Gwth ● 808 +4 2.5 860
198⅜ 162⅜ Glbl Small Co Trust ● 191¾ — 1.6 200
212¼ 173¼ Hend High Inc 204 -1 5.5 218
966 769 Hend Smaller Co ● 954 +1 3.0 1028
3290¾ 2285 Herald Inv ● 2960 +10 — 3200
524 318⅝ HgCapital ● 389 -1 1.3 530
138⅝ 107¼ HICL Infrastructure ● 138 +2 6.2 161
1611⅜ 1288¼ ICG Enterprise Tst ● 1432 -8 2.9 2034
982 782½ JPM Claverh’se ● 970* -4 3.8 987
153 121½ JPM Eur G&I ● 147¾* +1 3.7 148
849 633 JPM Japanese ● 808 +19 1.1 866
722 522½ Land Secs 713 +7½ 5.8 —
187½ 141½ Lowland Inv 184 +1½ 3.7 201
282 234¼ Mercantile InvTr ● 278* +1½ 3.0 306
673 536 Merchants Tst ● 670* +4 4.4 702
1664 1322 Monks ● 1606 +28 0.1 1677
1034 854⅝ Murray Income ● 1014 -6 4.0 1088
371 283½ Murray Intl ● 370* +1½ 3.4 363
57 47 Northern 2 VCT 54 — 5.6 55
86½ 79½ Northern 3 VCT 84½ — 5.3 85
59½ 53 Nthn Venture 57½ — 5.4 58
437 345 Pacific Assets 406 -6 1.4 444
409 319½ Pantheon ● 397 +2 — 526
2645 1906⅛ RIT Cap Ptnrs ● 2600 +35 1.7 3159
319 281¼ Ruffer Inv Pref ● 293 -3½ 2.1 307
738 488¾ Schroder Asian TR ● 695 +5 1.7 711
562 480⅛ Scot American ● 562 +7 2.9 596
1563 1015¾ Scot Mortgage 1345½ +15 0.3 1456
253 215⅞ STS Global Income 228 -1 3.7 232
352 196¼ Tmpletn Em Mt ● 307 +2 1.7 335
364½ 291 TR Property ● 320 +2 5.0 350
150¼ 137 UIL Fin ZDP 2026 150 — — 150
302 239⅞ Utilico Emerg ● 288* +1 3.3 317
398 306½ Worldw HealthTr ● 373½ -2½ 0.6 402
Net Asset Values © 2026 Morningstar Estimated at previous day’s close see www.Morningstar.co.uk.
Guinness Global Investors 18 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ www.guinnessgi.com +44(0)20 7222 5703
Sustainable Energy Acc – 25.0933 …
Global Innovators Acc – 46.1933 …
Global Equity Income Inc – 24.6676 …
Available as an ISA
Available as an ISA
Janus Henderson Investors PO Box 9023 Chelmsford, CM99 2WB Enquiries: 0800 832 832 Website: www.janushenderson.com
Cautious Managed A Acc 5.00 357.2 …
Cautious Managed A Inc 5.00 153.3 …
China Opps A Acc 5.00 1327 +7
Emerg Mkts Opps A Acc 5.00 296.9 …
European Sel Opps A Acc 5.00 3208 -19
Fixed Int Mthly Inc A Inc 4.25 17.02 …
Global Care Growth A Inc 4.50 702 …
Global Equity Inc A Inc 5.25 87.89 +0.19
Global Select Acc 4.25 6432 …
Global Strategic Cap Acc 5.00 432.3 …
Global Technology A Acc 5.00 6810 …
Inst UK IDX Opp Tr – 180.9258 …
Janus Asian Dividend In Ut 5.00 97.61 …
844⅜ 418⅝ Autotrader 530¾ +7 2.2 15.5
690 435 Bloomsbury ● 623* +12 2.6 18.8
1000 719 Informa 896⅜ +10⅝ 2.5 —
87⅜ 65¾ ITV ● 73⅛ -1⅛ 6.8 12.4
1337 874¾ Pearson 1249½ -7½ 2.0 24.3
75⅜ 40⅛ Reach 43¾* -⅞ 13.5 -1.0
3938 1991 RELX 2649 +42 2.6 23.5
827 391⅜ Rightmove ● 471½ +6⅞ 2.3 16.8
410 218½ WPP ● 304¼ +5⅝ 4.9 6.0
4239 2042 Anglo Amer 3705 -28 0.8 -15.1
4475 1858½ Antofagasta 3679 +24 1.3 36.7
3495 1897½ BHP Group 3096 -38 3.3 23.4
81 81 Evraz # 81 — — 0.5
4472 1371 Fresnillo 2498 +23 3.8 17.9
707¼ 275¼ Glencore 539 -4 2.3 —
858 246¼ Hochschild Mng ● 440¼ +8¾ 1.0 15.2
345 178⅜ Kenmare Res 198 — — -0.7
9117 4436½ Rio Tinto 7089 -85 4.9 15.5
Oil & Gas +0.42%
609⅜ 397⅛ BP 552⅛ -⅜ 4.5 —
28 9¾ EnQuest 23¾ -⅛ 3.4 —
553 288½ Hunting ● 447½ +4 2.2 23.0
3758½ 2553¾ Shell 3405½ +22 4.4 15.1
15732 9892 AstraZeneca 11500 -1132 2.1 23.4
3228¾ 1943 Genus ● 2210 +16 1.5 75.4
2282 1288⅝ GSK 1909½ -22 3.7 13.5
1953 1187 Hikma ● 1573 -12 4.0 11.6
Property +0.08%
16 6½ Alina Hldgs 10 — — 17
1208 800½ Big Yellow Gp ● 900½ +13 5.2 —
447¼ 318⅝ Brit Land 444¾ +2¾ 5.2 —
2154 1469⅜ Derwent Ldn ● 2120 +16 3.8 —
377 270 Gt Portland Est ● 353¼ +4¼ 2.3 —
213 149½ Grainger ● 173⅛ -1⅜ 4.9 6.3
388⅝ 263⅜ Hammerson ● 385⅝ +3⅝ 4.7 —
997⅜ 603 Segro 961 -4 3.3 —
162⅞ 124⅛ Shaftesbury Capital ● 145¼ +1½ 3.0 7.8
140 104 Town Centre 133 +2½ 3.8 —
175 132¼ Tritax Big Box 168½ -1⅝ 4.9 183
Retailers +0.46%
169½ 106 Currys ● 164¼ -3⅝ 1.8 10.6
1249 707 Dunelm ● 889 +19½ 7.9 11.5
839½ 598 Frasers Group ● 827½ +17 — 9.5
2046 1407¼ Greggs ● 1944 +64 3.5 16.2
Ç Australia All Ordinaries 9178.40 +41.40 +0.45pc
Ç Brazil Bovespa 178000.24 +1.24 +0.00pc
È China Shanghai Composite 3809.66 -22.60 -0.59pc
Ç France CAC General 8613.82 +104.18 +1.22pc
Ç Germany DAX 26001.31 +372.07 +1.45pc
Ç Hong Kong Hang Seng 26009.40 +124.97 +0.48pc
Ç India BSE S&P SENSEX 78639.03 +544.39 +0.70pc
È Japan Nikkei 63754.90 -607.12 -0.94pc
È Singapore Straits Times 5612.28 -16.22 -0.29pc
Ç Spain Madrid SE 1980.90 +20.40 +1.04pc
Ç Switzerland SMI Index 14371.77 +25.63 +0.18pc
Ç USA Dow Jones 53178.41 +693.38 +1.32pc
Ç USA Nasdaq 25913.90 +540.05 +2.13pc
Ç Gold per troy oz $4053.66 +4.24 +0.10pc
Ç Silver per troy oz £43.24 +0.12 +0.27pc
È Krugerrand
£2968.93 -2.83 -0.10pc
È New Sovereign
£703.23 -3.76 -0.53pc
È Maples
£2997.36 -2.89 -0.10pc
È Platinum per oz £1213.06 -17.19 -1.40pc
È Palladium per oz £941.13 -12.64 -1.33pc
Ç Copper† grade A £10305.10 +11.27 +0.11pc
È Tin† high grade £41200.33 -77.92 -0.19pc
È Lead†
£1389.34 -13.07 -0.93pc
È Zinc† special high grade £2704.27 -10.32 -0.38pc
Ç Aluminium† high grade £2401.40 +18.67 +0.78pc
È Nickel†
£12806.97 -61.26 -0.48pc
Ç Baltic Dry Index*
2843.00 +111.00 +4.06pc
Ç Wheat per tonne £200.00 +3.00 +1.52pc
È Brent Crude Oct settlement $83.77 -6.35 -7.05pc
*Copyright Baltic Exchange Information Services Ltd. †Data provided by the London Metal Exchange.
Multi-Mgr Inc&Gwth A Acc 5.00 230.2 …
Multi-Mgr Mangd A Acc 5.00 400.7 +1.5
Multi-Mgr Mangd A Inc 5.00 369.6 +1.4
Sterling Bond Acc 4.25 229.5 …
Sterling Bond Inc 4.25 55.43 …
Strategic Bond A Inc 4.00 95.24 …
UK Absolute Return A Acc 5.00 206.6 -0.2
UK Alpha A Acc 5.25 198.4 -0.6
UK Smaller Cos A ACC 5.00 918.8 …
UK Equity Income A Inc 5.00 705.5 …
UK Index Opps Tst A Acc – 178.6431 …
US Growth A Acc 5.00 2913 +34
J.P. Morgan Asset Management 60 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0JP Clients:0800 204020.Brokerline 0800 727770
JPM Ems C Net Dis – 269.0000 -3.0000
JPM Japan C Net Acc – 482.6000 +4.1000
JPM Natural Res C Net ACC – 1623.0000 -11.0000
JPM UK Equity Core E Acc – *708.3000 -4.8000
JPM UK Equity Core E Inc – *92.8700 -0.6300
JPM US Eq Inc C Net – *593.4000 +4.1000
JPM US Eq Inc C Net Dis – *581.2000 +1.7000
JPM US Select C Net Acc – 1232.0000 +7.0000
JPM US Sm Cos Gwth C Net Ac – 1252 -4
981 713 Howden Joinery 805 +16½ 2.7 16.4
106⅛ 64 JD Sports Fash 91 +1½ 1.3 10.5
372¼ 240¼ Kingfisher 314¼ +5¾ 3.9 22.4
412¼ 301⅛ Marks & Spen 410⅝ +5½ 1.0 32.3
4 ⅝ Mothercare ¾ +⅛ — 0.7
15310 11200 Next 14900* +55 1.8 19.6
397⅞ 140¼ Ocado ● 216⅝ +4¾ — 4.6
575 200 Pinewood Tech 427 -3 — 89.0
695 172½ Saga ● 679 +7 — —
380¼ 291¼ Sainsbury J 357 -2⅜ 3.8 20.6
1120 378⅝ Smith WH ● 444⅜ +11 — -4.0
510⅜ 406⅞ Tesco 486⅛ -3⅜ 3.0 17.7
2832 1981 Bunzl 2796 -6 2.7 19.8
416 215 Capita 266 +7½ — -1.8
6740 4188 DCC Energy 6365 +35 3.4 —
114⅝ 78⅜ Essentra 106⅜ +2¼ 2.0 —
3987 2203 Experian 2811 +21 1.8 23.0
5850 3519⅜ Intertek Group 5840 — 2.8 26.8
250¾ 163½ Int’l Workplace ● 199½ +2⅜ 0.5 —
172⅛ 123¾ Johnson Serv ● 151¾ +1⅜ 3.2 16.3
214 134¾ MITIE Gp ● 206¾* -¼ 2.2 31.3
507 329⅝ Rentokil 356¾ +12 2.6 25.8
325¾ 205 Serco Group ● 240¼ -1⅜ 1.9 16.7
15¼ 6¾ SIG 8¾ — — -1.6
723½ 493⅜ Travis P ● 573 +18½ 2.1 -6.9
Telecommunications +0.11%
242⅛ 173 BT Group 203⅛ +1¾ 4.1 18.5
1936 638 Telecom Plus ● 865 +14 5.8 8.5
131⅛ 82 Vodafone 117¼ -⅝ 3.4 -83.1
5326 3677 Brit Am Tob 4466* -104 5.5 12.7
3632 2626 Imp Brands 2764 -61 6.0 11.0
Transport +0.11%
490 294½ ZIGUP ● 463 +½ 5.8 13.7
683¾ 332⅝ easyJet ● 642⅜ +12⅜ 2.1 9.8
1022 500⅜ Entain 547⅜ +6 3.6 -5.2
240⅜ 152⅛ FirstGroup ● 185¼* +¾ 3.9 8.7
776 544 Fullers ‘A’ 720 +6 2.9 18.4
492⅞ 332¾ IAG Intl Cons Air 433½ +1⅝ 1.6 7.1
13305 8458 Intercont Hotels 11677½ -263¾ 1.2 32.0
301½ 223½ Mitchells&But ● 283 +7 — 9.5
38⅛ 17 Mobico Group 23¾ — — -1.1
447 210 Playtech ● 375¼ -3⅜ — 0.9
164⅝ 86 Rank Group ● 100¼ +3⅜ 2.9 10.5
817 530½ Wetherspoon ● 817 +39 1.5 13.6
Index
Change
Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Ltd The Zig Zag Building, 70 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6SQ 020 3817 1000
Jupiter Asian Inc L Acc – 342.37 -1.2711
Jupiter Asian Inc L Inc – 230.73 -1.2711
Jupiter China L Acc – 119.19 +0.2009
Jupiter China L Inc – 109.11 +0.2010
Jupiter Corp Bond L Inc – 51.19 +0.3940
Jupiter Eco L Inc – 694.72 -0.4357
Jupiter European L Inc – 3929.32 -0.5345
Jupiter Euro Inc L Acc – 85.01629 …
Jupiter Euro Inc L Inc – 49.78698 …
Jupiter Euro Special Sits L Acc – 590.5 -0.5246
Jupiter Fin Opp L Inc – 1335.24 +0.6240
Jupiter Fund Of Inv Tsts L Inc – 396.86 +0.1592
Jupiter Global Emg Mkts L Acc – 101.05 -1.7345
Jupiter Global Finl Innov L Acc – 223.36 -0.6864
Jupiter Income Trust L Inc – *701.47 +0.3818
Jupiter India L Acc – 217.9 +1.5939
Jupiter Japan Inc L Acc – 220.1 +0.5514
Jupiter Japan Inc L Inc – 141.88 -0.3491
Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo L Acc – 340.81 -0.2837
Jupiter Merlin Bal Prtfo L Inc – 195.16 -0.2826
Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo L Acc – 819.99 +0.1086
Jupiter Merlin Grth Prtfo L Inc – 792.22 +0.1086
89⅜ 36¾ Afentra 62⅛ -⅜ — -59.7
1130 799 Arbuthnot 830 -10 6.6 7.6
244 125¼ Central Asia Met 146⅝ -¾ 8.2 -4.6
872½ 98 Ceres Power ● 374 +27 — -15.3
460 271 Churchill China 380 -5 5.5 9.6
380 194 CML Micro 282½ +2½ 3.9 -856.1
1538 881⅛ Cohort 1228 +2 1.5 23.5
176½ 101 Eleco 133½ — 0.9 83.4
13 ¼ Futura Medical ⅜ … — -0.1
161½ 112 James Halstead 123 +3 7.2 12.7
405 200 Mpac Group 322½ -2½ — -10.1
1800 1100 MS Intl 1440 — 1.8 21.4
68 34½ Premier Miton 37½* — 8.0 48.1
74 46 Tribal Gp 63 — 2.1 15.0
1½ ½ Xtract Resources 1⅜ +⅛ — -5.9
The Alternative Investment Market is for young and growing companies. Shares may carry higher risks than those with a full quotation, and may be difficult to sell.
Americans +1.48%
84⅜ 28⅛ Alcoa $ 44⅝ -⅝ 0.9 9.8
387½ 288⅜ Amer Express $ 342 +5¾ 1.1 4.1
63 44¾ BankAmerica $ 62 … 2.1 3.4
254⅜ 176¾ Boeing $ 226⅞ +10¾ — —
1073½ 405½ Caterpillar $ 823⅝ +8⅞ 0.8 3.1
214¾ 146½ Chevron $ 194⅝ -2¼ 3.7 0.8
113⅝ 84⅝ Coca–Cola Euro $ 107½ -1⅞ 2.2 0.8
99⅜ 74½ Colgate Palm $ 91⅛ -⅛ 2.3 1.2
ExxonMobil Hldgs $ 155 — 2.7 1.4
383 261¾ Gen Electric $ 364⅜ +4¼ 0.5 4.5
426¾ 289⅛ Home Depot $ 335¼ +3¼ 2.8 1.5
Honeywell $ 244¾ — 1.1 5.0
29⅝ 17½ HP $ 27⅛ -⅛ 4.4 2.3
332½ 199¼ IBM $ 227⅝ +4 3.0 1.7
142⅜ 19 Intel $ 90⅜ +¼ — —
50¼ 29¼ Intl Paper $ 41⅜ +⅝ 4.5 2.8
359¼ 279⅛ JP Morgan Ch $ 352⅞ +1 1.7 3.5
274⅞ 164¾ Johnson&John $ 253 -3⅜ 2.1 1.6
36 24⅞ Keurig Dr Pep $ 30⅞ -¼ 3.0 1.7
57⅛ 25⅛ Manpower $ 54¼ +1⅞ 2.7 0.2
341¾ 261 McDonalds $ 268⅜ -2¼ 2.8 1.6
135 77½ Merck $ 127¼ -2⅞ 2.7 1.1
553¾ 349¼ Microsoft $ 487½ +22¾ 0.7 4.9
28¾ 23⅛ Pfizer $ 24⅞ -⅛ 6.9 0.8
167¼ 137⅝ Procter & Gamble $ 145 +½ 3.0 1.6
221⅜ 150⅝ Raytheon Tech $ 215⅞ +¾ 1.4 2.0
497⅜ 305½ Rockwell $ 482⅜ +2¼ 1.1 1.8
505⅞ 348 Trane Tech $ 460⅜ +5½ 0.9 3.1
135⅛ 95⅜ Wal Mart Strs $ 110⅜ -⅞ 0.9 2.9
119¾ 92¼ Walt Disney $ 97⅝ +1½ 1.5 4.2
£ > Eur Rate 1.1670 Change -0.26¢ £ > $ Rate 1.3438 Change -0.20¢
Tourist £1 = Sterling £1 = 1 Euro = 1 Dollar = Australia Aus $ 1.8616 1.9199 1.6451 1.4288
Canada Can $ 1.829 1.8861 1.6161 1.4037
Denmark Krone 8.2924 8.7238 7.4750 6.4920
Euro € 1.1397 1.1670 … 0.8685
Hong Kong HK $ 10.0036 10.5380 9.0295 7.8422
India Rupee 97.41 128.1123 109.7738 95.3394
Israel Shekels 3.8474 4.0902 3.5047 3.0438
Japan Yen 203.9393 210.3976 180.2805 156.5750
Kuwait Dinar … 0.4159 0.3564 0.3095
New Zealand NZ $ 2.2019 2.2890 1.9613 1.7034
Norway Krone 12.2534 12.8119 10.9780 9.5344
Pakistan Rupee 340.39 373.3610 319.9165 277.8500
Saudi Arabia Riyal 4.7952 5.0465 4.3242 3.7556
Singapore $ 1.6359 1.7233 1.4767 1.2825
South Africa Rand 21.1696 22.1820 19.0068 16.5075
Sweden Krona 12.2012 12.8300 10.9935 9.5479
Switzerland Franc 1.0496 1.0888 0.9329 0.8103
Thailand Baht 43.0605 44.8208 38.4049 33.3550
UAE Dirham 4.7638 4.9355 4.2290 3.6730
UK £ … … 0.8569 0.7442
USA $ 1.3133 1.3438 1.1514 …
RPI (1987=100) Jun 416.50 +0.3pc +3.0pc
RPIX (Target 2.5pc) Jun 409.70 +1.1 +2.9pc
CPI (2015=100 target 2pc) Jun 142.50 +0.1pc +2.6pc
Lloyds house price index Jun 516.20 +0.2pc +0.6pc
Bank Rate 3.75pc
Nationwide Base Mortgage Rate 5.75pc
US Fed Funds 3.5-3.75pc
US Long Bonds Yld 5.23pc
European base rate 2.40pc
Jupiter Merlin Select L Acc – 125.65 -0.2097
Jupiter Merlin Select L Dis – 55.53 -0.5753
Jupiter Responsible Inc L Acc – 170.84 -0.2049
Jupiter Responsible Inc L Inc – 78.5 -0.2049
Jupiter Global Strat Bond L Acc – 110.15 +0.1266
Jupiter Global Strat Bond L Inc – 52.89 -1.0883
Jupiter UK Growth L Inc – 283.6 +0.1410
Jupiter UK Dynamic Eq L DIS – 291.85 +0.1427
Jupiter Unitstd Van F 3.50 427.4 +0.4966
Jupiter US Sml Cos Inst I Acc – 80.99 …
Jupiter US Sml Cos Ret Acc – 74.46 …
Marks & Spencer Unit Trust Management Ltd Kings Meadow, Chester, CH99 9UT 0870 333 1835
High Income Inc – *86.59 86.59 …
High Income Acc – *295.5 295.5 …
UK Select Port Inc – 479.5 479.5 …
UK Selection Port – 1097 1097 …
UK 100 Co's Fund Inc – 323.8 323.8 …
UK 100 Co's Fund Acc – 719.8 719.8 …
W'wide Man Inc – *732 …
W'wide Man Acc – *1315 …
M&G Securities Ltd PO Box 9039, Chelmsford, CM99 2XG Enq: 0800 390 390. UT Deal: 0800 328 3196
Europeans +1.26%
67⅝ 46⅛ AkzoNobel € 61½ +⅞ 3.2 2.3
97⅞ 56⅜ BMW € 60 +¾ 7.3 2.7
17½ 12 Carrefour € 15⅞ -⅛ 7.4 1.6
77½ 53⅛ Continental AG € 72⅜ +½ 3.7 0.3
62⅜ 42⅝ Daimler € 48 +1¼ 7.3 2.9
80⅛ 60⅝ Danone € 67¾ +¼ 3.3 1.2
58¼ 37 Deutsche Post € 57⅜ -⅜ 3.3 1.6
34⅜ 23½ Deutsche Tele € 28⅛ +1⅜ 3.6 2.0
80¼ 63⅞ Heineken € 78⅛ -½ 2.4 2.5
654¾ 440 LVMH € 486⅞ +11¾ 2.7 1.7
82½ 60⅛ LafargeHolcim SFr 71¾ -1½ 2.4 1.9
10¼ 6¾ Lufthansa € 9¼ +¼ 3.6 9.0
15 3½ Nokia OYJ € 8⅛ +⅛ 1.7 0.9
35¾ 25½ Michelin € 34¾ -¼ 4.0 1.7
107½ 58⅝ Pernod Ricard € 68¾ +⅞ 6.8 1.4
27¾ 20⅞ Philips (Kon) € 22¾ … 3.7 0.6
287 198 Siemens € 285¼ +2⅝ 1.9 2.0
82⅞ 50⅞ Societe Gen € 83⅛ +1¾ 2.1 3.9
10½ 4⅝ Stellantis € 5 … 13.8 1.1
279¼ 212⅝ Thales € 253¾ +7⅞ 1.5 2.1
81⅜ 49¼ Total € 76⅜ … 4.6 2.0
44½ 28¼ UBS AG SFr 42½ — 2.0 2.3
37⅝ 27⅜ Veolia Environ € 34¼ -⅛ 4.4 0.3
110¼ 71 Volkswagen € 77⅛ +1¼ 6.7 2.6
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300 125 Coastal Africa Group 200 — — —
5¼ 3⅝ Mendell Helium 3⅝ -¼ — -1.1
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Eqty Inv Chrties GBP Dis – 1900.91 -1.5379
CAR - Net Income reinvested.
Natwest Investment Funds (RBS Collective Investment Funds Ltd) PO Box 249, York YO90 1ZY 0117 940 3848
Global Bond Fund Inc – 86.19 …
Mangd Eqty Grwth Fnd Acc – 186.76 …
Mangd Grwth Fund Inc – 156.44 …
Mangd Grwth Fund Acc – 170.60 …
UK Eqty Fund Acc – 181.04 …
UK Eqty Fund Inc – 142.33 …
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Generation Fd 5.00 *1101.92 …
FENIX Balanced Fund Dis 5.00 *218.77 …
Blackpool put
spotlight on
pension ‘divide’
get £185,000 less than typical state claimant in South, writes Rob White
“YOU’VE got bricks through your windows, car windows being smashed, little brats running around all night,” says resident Julian Wormleighton. Once the pride of the North, Blackpool was a glamorous holiday hotspot, hosting acts such as Frank Sinatra, The Beatles and Queen. Millions would travel to see its iconic tower and sprawling promenade, either for a summer holiday or to glimpse it bathed in light during the famous Illuminations. But now, just a few streets away from its Golden Mile, lined with amusement arcades and joke shops, Blackpool is grappling with an alcohol, drugs and deprivation epidemic that is sending residents to an early grave. Life expectancy today is just 73.7 for men and 79.1 for women, the lowest in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The average resident dies a full decade before those in Hart, Hampshire, where the typical state pensioner is handed almost £185,000 more across their lengthier retirement, despite making the same number of National Insurance contributions. And this gap is only destined to widen as the state pension age rises. Blackpool is likely to be within Andy Burnham’s sights as part of his plan to move power out of Westminster and into the regions. And alongside the Prime Minister’s promises of devolution come growing calls for state pension reform. It is a town in crisis, which throws up the enduring questions about the fairness of Britain’s retirement system – and whether poorer people should be subsidising the wealthy by dying young. Some of Blackpool’s community workers say the life expectancy statistics are skewed by the transient nature of new arrivals. Many are lured by cheap accommodation as they seek to escape their problems, but tragically die well before state pension age. But
they are also acutely aware that residents need support in a town with seven of England’s 10 most deprived neighbourhoods – and where addiction and mental health problems run riot. Between 2023 and 2025, more than 2,300 people died below the age of 75 – England’s highest rate per resident and almost double the national average. Blackpool also has the country’s highest death rate for drugs and the fifth highest for alcohol. Less than a mile from the seafront is Revoe, England’s third most deprived area, where the issue is all too stark for Simon Lawton. He has spent eight years trying to tackle the town’s problems through Revoelution, a community hub offering support and activities to struggling residents. “It [the problems] were all about mental health, social isolation and poor maintenance of long-term health conditions. Those are three things at the heart of high A&E admissions and they’re all linked,” he says. He says many people arrive in Blackpool with addiction issues, drawn in by cheap, poorly managed accommodation. It is easy to see why when, at £710 a month for rent and just £134,000 to buy, the town’s average housing costs are around half the national average. Lawton says this is skewing life expectancy statistics, but he freely concedes that some people are dying earlier than they should. “The stat is a bit misleading really. Because of the type of housing here, really small terraces, they’re all privately rented and the landlords are often absent and don’t do checks. “People end up here because it’s cheap accommodation, so there’s loads of transients. We get people who’ve hit some sort of crisis in their lives. Because they’re in crisis, they don’t look after their health very well, exacerbated often by drink and drugs, so they die young and it brings down the average life expectancy.” Revoelution focuses on targeted, face-to-face support. Workers knock on doors to ask people about their health, providing immediate access to health services for those who need them via a waiting NHS van. Blackpool
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Ramona Pallagast, 15, paints a bleak future for young people, criticising Blackpool schools and the lack of mental health support
paints a bleak future for young people – and she is clear on why. “There’s a lot of homeless people, a lot of drug addicts who get sent by other councils which affects our town. All the buildings are run-down, the school systems are terrible and they don’t help kids with mental health,” she says. “It’s quite dystopian. Blackpool used to be full. The beaches were so crowded you couldn’t step on them. Now no one wants to come.” But there are some in Blackpool who feel the situation is finally getting better. Blackpool council recently highlighted data from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, which suggest life expectancy has risen by a year for newborn boys and almost five months for girls. Jo Farrell, a councillor and cabinet member for communities and wellbeing, says public health teams and the NHS had driven improvements. “We are delivering
has not been short of investment. After tourism declined with the rise of cheap airlines, a £300m regeneration project was launched to revitalise the town in 2000. In 2022, a further £300m was announced, with another £40m provided after its progress stalled, as part of the then-Conservative government’s Levelling Up agenda. Much of the investment, however, has been focused on the seafront, and the town still hosts a reported 18 million visitors a year. But signs of decline remain clear elsewhere in the town. Waterloo Road, a popular thoroughfare to the coast, is one of the town’s oldest streets, but several shops have shut down. Many of those that have survived are charity shops or other budget options. Meanwhile, the average wage in Blackpool last year was reported as just £600 a week – some 22pc behind the national average. In the nearby South Beach Bar, Ramona Pallagast, 15,
huge economic and housing regeneration across Blackpool, building better homes, creating training and work opportunities, and raising pride and aspiration in our town,” she says. Tackling state pension inequality is an undeniably huge task for any government, particularly as Britain battles a spiralling state pension bill which is expected to soar past £172bn a year by the end of the decade. But for an administration which has laid out a fundamental shift of fiscal power and control as key to its vision, it is an area which will be under increased scrutiny. Burnham’s devolution promises are in the spotlight, and in December, all eyes will be on the new life expectancy statistics when they are published by the ONS. By then, Blackpool will be bathed in its Illuminations – but the glare of a million lightbulbs may cast little light on the deeper rooted issues at its core.
growth slows in July
The UK’s manufacturing sector grew again last month but at a slower pace, according to new figures. The S&P Global UK manufacturing PMI survey showed a reading of 51.9 in July. It nevertheless represented a slight slowdown from 52.5 in June and marked the lowest level for four months. It was also below the 52.5 reading predicted by economists. Any reading above 50 indicates that activity is growing. A rise in new business and export orders helped maintain growing demand and strong production, S&P Global said.
boss as profits double
Fashion chain New Look has appointed a new boss as it revealed its earnings were buoyed by having fewer discounts and tighter control on costs. The high street retailer, which has 309 shops in the UK, has named Lynda Petherick as its new chief executive. She will take over from Helen Connolly, who leaves in late September to head up Asda’s fashion and homeware business George. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) more than doubled to £36.6m in the year to the end of March, from £14.3m.
pushes it back into black
Japanese car giant Nissan returned to profit in the first quarter of the year, helped by cost-cutting measures and improved sales in some markets. The carmaker recorded a Y3.8bn (£18m) net profit in the three months to March, a reversal from the Y115.8bn loss in the same period of 2025. Quarterly sales totalled Y2.96tn, up 9.5pc from Y2.7tn a year earlier. Ivan Espinosa, the chief executive, said difficulties remained in some global markets, such as the Middle East, while sales were growing in the US and Japan.
chip design protections
China has overhauled regulations protecting integrated-circuit layout designs, tightening registration standards and allowing punitive damages for serious infringement, as Beijing seeks to better safeguard domestic microchip know-how. The revised regulations will take effect on October 15 and clarify how layout-design rights can be licensed, transferred or used as collateral, and require organisations leading their creation to provide eligible personnel with reasonable rewards and remuneration.
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ST JAMES’S PALACE August 3rd The Princess Royal, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, today carried out the following engagements on the Isle of Wight and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant (Mrs Susan Sheldon): Her Royal Highness this morning opened Albany Green, East Cowes, on the occasion of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of Cowes Week. The Princess Royal, Patron, United Kingdom Sailing Academy, later opened the Victoria Barracks Education Centre, the Esplanade, East Cowes.
Today’s birthdays
The Duchess of Sussex is 45.
Lord Cunningham of Felling, former Labour Cabinet Minister, 87; Mr Martin Jarvis, actor, director and producer, 85; Mrs Clare Russell, Lord-Lieutenant of Banffshire, 2002-19, 82; Prof Sir David Hall, President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2000-03, 81; Mr Hubert Ingraham, Prime Minister of the Bahamas, 1992-2002, 79; Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom, former Conservative government minister, 74; Mr Barack Obama, President of the United States, 2009-16, 65; Lord Stevens of Birmingham, Chief Executive, NHS England, 2014-21, 60; Mr Lee Mack, comedian, actor, writer, 58; Ms Jojo Moyes, novelist, 57; Mr Nick Cummins, wheelchair rugby player; Paralympic gold medallist, Tokyo 2020, 41.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1900 and of the declaration of war by Britain on Germany in 1914. It is also the anniversary of the death of Marilyn Monroe in 1962.
Clergy news
Resignations and retirements Revv Dr Glynn Jones, chapl, HM Prison and Probation Service, and chaplaincy adv (Carlisle), retired on March 13 2026; Can Andrew Dotchin, int p-in-c, Kesgrave with Little Bealings and Playford (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich), retired on April 5 2026; Sarah Quantrill, v, Bury St Edmunds Christ Church (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich), retired on April 30 2026; Keri Noddings resigned as int p-in-c, Peterborough St Jude (Peterborough) on May 5 2026 but remains chapl, Kettering General and Northampton General Hospitals (same dio); Jennifer Irvine ceased as assoc min, Foleshill St Laurence (Coventry) on May 17 2026, but retains pto (same dio); Garry Neave, p-in-c, Harlow St Mary Magdalene (Peterborough), retired on May 17 2026; Ann Kosla, assoc p, Vale of Roding (Chelmsford), retired on May 24 2026; Charles Kosla, tr, Vale of Roding (Chelmsford), retired on May 24 2026; Ven Barry Dugmore, adn, Warwick (Coventry), retired on May 30 2026; Alan Jewell, v, Stretton St Matthew and Appleton Thorn (Chester), retired on May 31 2026; David Lewis, p-in-c and mission area leader, Bryn a Môr Mission Area (St Asaph), retired on May 31 2026.
Bridge news
The 9th World Youth Transnational Championships have just started in Hefei, China, writes Julian Pottage, Bridge Correspondent. British players competing are as as follows: Under-26 Team Thomas Bradkin (playing captain) and Andrew Bradkin with Canadian and American teammates Under-16 Team Aleksander Blicharz and Wilf Marshall with Indian and Norwegian teammates. Rob Marshall is non-playing captain of this Under-16 Team, while Grzegorg Blicharz is both coach for this Under-16 Team and non-playing captain of an Under-21 Team that has no British players in it. In addition, Luca Crone from Ireland is playing in the Under-31 teams event and has registered for the Under-31 pairs.
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FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, BEDFORD Four persons were killed, and a fifth was seri- ously injured, in a balloon disaster which occurred at Kempston, near Bedford, yesterday afternoon. The balloon was being flown in con- nection with a flower show and fête, and four passengers and the pilot were making a descent when the basket crashed to earth from a height of 60ft. The victims were: Mr. E. T. WILLOWS, the pilot; Mr. and Mrs. W. F. HARBATE, of Church-walk, Kempston; and Mrs. ERNEST CROWSLEY, of Bedford-road, Kempston. The fifth occupant, Mr. Crowsley, husband of the dead woman, was seriously injured, and was removed to hospital in a critical condition. The balloon belonged to Messrs. J. G. Spencer and Sons, of Highbury, London, and had made a number of trips quite safely during the after- noon, and Mrs. Spencer was to have made a par- achute descent in the evening. A crowd of some thousands of people had assembled to witness the proceedings. The balloon was held by a haw- ser attached to a motor-winch, by which it was drawn down to the ground after each trip. Before the ill-fated ascent the pilot had asked for three passengers, but, as two mar- ried couples wished to go up, he agreed to take all four. The balloon rose to the full height allowed by the rope – 600ft – and all went well until it was being drawn down again. When it was within about 60ft of the ground the rope caught in a tree, and the winch had to be stopped. Efforts were made to free the rope, but, owing to the gusty wind, it was found difficult to disentangle the rope. BASKET TILTED AT DANGEROUS ANGLE.
The basket could be seen tilting at a dangerous angle, but it was not until more rope had been unwound, in order to allow the balloon to rise clear, that anything untoward occurred. The unwinding of the rope synchronised with a strong gust of wind, and, as the balloon plunged suddenly upwards, the cordage by which the basket was suspended to the envelope was seen to snap, and the next moment the two portions came asunder. The basket crashed to the ground, and the envelope sailed away into the clouds in a south-westerly direction. An eyewitness declared that the network over the envelope of the balloon seemed to come away “like a skin peeled from a banana”. On the way down the pilot, who was in the hoop of the basket trying to release the valve, jumped and fell to the ground head foremost. Two of the other passengers were seen to jump from the basket. Scores of spectators immediately rushed across the field to the scene. The pilot was discovered under the basket with his neck broken. One of the other men and a woman were also beyond help. The other two passengers showed signs of some life, and they were immediately removed to the Bedford County Hospital. Luton Red Cross Band, which had been engaged for the day, played a few bars of the National Anthem, and the fête was brought to an abrupt conclusion. In explanation of the disaster, an eyewitness suggested to me that some of the supporting ropes were torn in liberating the trailing rope from the tree. “A number of the crowd,” he said, “took hold of the rope, but they were pulling against the wind and the winch. The wind at that moment was blowing up for a shower, and the three contending influences must have put a tre- mendous strain on the network. The balloon simply slipped out of the netting and was gone.” LOUD NOISE LIKE CRACKING THUNDER.
Another witness of the disaster remarked: The balloon was being lowered after the fifth ascent when we were alarmed by hearing a loud noise. I was about 500 yards away from the winch, and the balloon was about 120 feet above the ground. The noise seemed to me like crackling thunder. I looked up and saw that the net of the balloon was torn and the basket with the passengers was tilting at an angle of about 45 degrees. The peo- ple in the basket were crouching in the bottom and clinging to the side. I could see them quite
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clearly. I saw Mr. Willows, the pilot, who was in a hammock seat above the basket, trying to get at the safety valve, presumably to release the gas. This he succeeded in doing, and the balloon quickly deflated. As it did so the wind turned the balloon so that the gas bag passed through the torn part of the netting and floated away across the trees. The balloon had been most thoroughly tested. NOISY MOTORISTS.
In view of the statement of the Home Secretary as to the great annoyance and inconvenience caused to the public by the excessive noises emitted by the exhausts of motor vehicles, and particularly of motor-cycles, Mr. H. C. A. Bingley, the Maryle- bone magistrate, announced his intention yester- day of increasing the fines in future for failure to use effective silencers. He drew the attention of two motor-cyclists who were summoned for the offence to the Home Secretary’s statement, and reminded them they were liable to a fine of £10 for making “these ghastly noises”. He supposed that his fines hitherto had been too small, and in future he would have to increase them. As, how- ever, this was the defendants’ first offence, he imposed a fine of only 20s. CIVIL SERVANTS AND TRADE UNIONS.
The subject of the relations of the Civil Service to trade unions was raised in the House of Commons yesterday by Major Hon. E. Cadogan (Unionist, Finchley), who had given notice of the following question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is now in a position to state what action the Government propose to take with regard to the affiliation of Civil Service associa- tions to outside bodies. Mr. Churchill replied: As I have already stated in my reply to previous questions, his Majesty’s Government have had this matter under close consideration. They have come definitely to the conclusion that it is contrary to the public interest that associations of civil servants should be affiliated to outside industrial and political organisations, and intend in due course to introduce legislation to deal with the matter. (Hear, hear.) It will be recalled that The Daily Telegraph was the first newspaper to draw attention to the dan- gers of the Socialist conspiracy to capture the Civil Service. As far back as 1923 a series of articles on the subject appeared in our columns. On May 19 last we published the text of the remarkable resolution passed by the General Purposes Com- mittee of the National Whitley Council (Staff Side) on the eve of the General Strike, a disclosure which at once attracted great public interest. That resolution advised all Civil Servants not to volunteer to perform during the crisis any work other than their normal duties, and to report to the headquarters of the organisa- tion any attempt to cause them to do other work. At a meeting of the Staff Side of the Civil Service National Whitley Council (thir- teen members out of twenty-seven not being Civil Servants), this resolution was endorsed and approved. Thereupon the Joint Consul- tative Committee, including the First Divi- sion Association Society of Civil Servants, Civil Service Legal Society, and the Associa- tion of his Majesty’s Inspectors of Taxes decided to withdraw by Oct. 31 from the National Whitley Council. SERBIA AND BULGARIA.
Down to a late hour yesterday the Note which the Serbian Government was stated to have addressed to the Great Powers on the subject of the renewed activities of Bulgarian Comitadjis on the Serbian frontier and the failure of the Bulgarian authori- ties to repress either such Comitadjis or the oper- ations of the Macedonian Revolutionary Commit- tee, had not reached London. On the other hand, the despatch of a Serbian memorandum was con- firmed to the League Secretariat at Geneva. So far as the so-called “ultimatum” from Bel- grade to Sofia is concerned, it would appear to have constituted a warning to the Bulgarian Government that, should it fail to take the nec- essary measures to check the Comitadji raid- ers on its own side of the border, the Serbian authorities would have to deal with the mat- ter themselves. In the circumstances, this can hardly be described as “a threat of war”. Reuter’s Agency is advised by Bulgarian sources that the rumours of incursions of Comitadjis from Bulgaria into Jugoslav territory are untrue. The recent incident at Krivapalanka, it is declared, was in no way due to Comitadjis coming from Bulgaria, and, moreover, none of the aggressors found shel- ter in Bulgarian territory. The Bulgarian Govern- ment is firmly determined to maintain its loyal attitude towards Bulgaria’s neighbours.
BENGE.—On 7th July 2026, to Hannah and James, a daughter, Lyra Charlotte. Online Ref: W0051372
BOND.—On 27th July 2026, at The Lindo Wing, to Joy Adams and Simon Bond, a son, Arthur Hambro, weighing 7lb. Online Ref: W0051393
Deaths
ABRAHAM.—Lt Col Brian Foskee on 19th July aged 94. Husband of the late Lyn, beloved father of Alison, Hilary, Jonathan and Nicholas and much loved Grandpa. Funeral Service on Monday 17th August at 2 p.m. at St Luke’s, Gaddesby. Family flowers only. Donations to Injured Jockeys Fund c/o Ginns & Gutteridge. Tel: 0116 2516117. Online Ref: W0051379
ATHERTON.—Frederick John, aged 84 years on 21st July 2026. Dearly loved by all his family, Jan, Alex, Sarah, Lara, the late Clare, Mark, Finn and Innes. Service at St Gregory’s Church, Crakehall, North Yorkshire on Wednesday 12th August at 11.30 a.m. Family flowers only, donations for Royal Osteoporosis Society. Online Ref: W0051405
LANGLEY.—Charlotte Maria Grace died peacefully on 29th July 2026, aged 64. Burial on 7th August at 2.30 p.m. at St Luke’s, Milland, GU30 7JL. Online Ref: W0051373
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MELVILLE.—Lionel Hugh in Papua New Guinea aged 84. Much loved father of Fritha, grandfather of Meera and brother of Mervyn and Nigel. After school he served with VSO in Ethiopia before training as a teacher. He returned to Ethiopia to teach at Sandford School, Addis Ababa but had to leave after the revolution. In 1978 he moved to PNG where he served as head of and consultant to schools across the country. He was an active and highly respected Rotarian; his most recent project provided school desks for thousands of children. He was awarded MBE in 2012 and King’s Medal (commemorating 50 years of PNG’s independence) in 2026, for services to education and community development. Online Ref: W0051408
NEAL.—Jane Sheila died peacefully on August 1st 2026. Beloved wife of Hugh for over 70 years, dearly loved mother of Caroline and Christine, treasured grandmother, great grandmother, aunt and friend. Enquiries: Wright Funeral Services, Great Missenden. Tel: 01494 863101. Online Ref: W0051384
TEMPERLEY.—John Brian, former Solicitor, died peacefully at Southwell Court Care Home on 18th July, aged 96. Loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. Private cremation followed by Service of Thanksgiving at Bleasby Church at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday 20th August. No flowers please, but donations to St Mary’s Church, Bleasby welcome. Enquiries to D.J. Hall Funeral Directors, Verne House, King Street, Southwell NG25 0EN. Online Ref: W0051389
WATT.—Jessica Marion (née Gooda) of Bampton, Devon, and formerly of West Sussex, died peacefully on 20th July 2026, aged 90 years. Loved wife of David, mother of six, grandmother of fourteen and great-grandmother of ten. Enquiries to Walter H. Squires & Son. Tel: 01884 252556. Online Ref: W0051363
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THEREFORE BEING justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5.1-2 (AV)
Public notices
THE OFFSHORE PETROLEUM ACTIVITIES (OIL POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL) REGULATIONS 2005 (AS AMENDED)
Golar-Nor Ltd has applied to the Secretary of State Energy Security & Net Zero for a Permit to discharge oil in accordance with the Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2005 (“OPPC”).
The Permit Applications are in relation to the Petrojarl Rosebank FPSO located in the Rosebank Field West of Shetland, as required under the Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution and Control) Regulations 2005 (“OPPC”). The purpose of the Permit Application is for the potential discharge of oil from produced water and fluid from the FPSO slop storage tanks with a total quantity of 0.3 tonnes oil per year. Copies of the application may also be obtained from Altera Infrastructure, Arnhall Business Park, Unit 3 Prospect Park Prospect Road, Westhill AB32 6FJ, Tel: 01224 568200 until close of business on 01/09/2026.
Copies will be provided by post.
Interested parties have until 01/09/2026 to make representations in relation to the permit application to the Secretary of State. All representations should quote the Department’s reference number PRA/352 OLP/1828 and may be made by letter or e-mail to:
Business Support Team Department of Energy Security & Net Zero Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment & Decommissioning AB1 Building Crimon Place Aberdeen AB10 1BJ Email: OPRED@energysecurity.gov.uk
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OD LIDDLE, who has died aged 66, was arguably the most offensive columnist of his generation in the British press – and wore that badge with pride. To his army of devoted readers he was also the funniest, and the first to burst every balloon of political cant, self- proclaimed victimhood and Left-liberal pomposity. Liddle’s career as a controversialist was launched by his forced resignation, in 2003, from the role of editor of Radio 4’s Today programme. A column he had written for The Guardian, in which he mocked pro- hunting Countryside Alliance marchers as “rather angry, ruddy-faced people”, was deemed to have breached BBC impartiality rules. Thereafter, in the pages of The Spectator, The Sunday Times and The Sun, and on the airwaves, he took on all-comers, from the commissars of correctness in the broadcast media to the panjandrums of the race- relations industry and the increasingly strident advocates of transgender rights. Objects of his ad hominem derision ranged from the Labour government’s equalities champion Harriet Harman – to whom he eventually apologised for an attack that began “So – Harriet Harman, then. Would you? I mean after a few beers obviously, not while you were sober” – to the rabble-rousing imam of Finsbury Park, Abu Hamza, who had lost both hands in an explosion and to whom Liddle habitually referred as “Hookie”. Many of his sharpest barbs were aimed at what he saw as the self-reinforcing networks of the “faux Leftie” liberal elite, whose members filled any number of powerful committees and boards, thereby largely controlling the parameters of public debate on issues that animated Liddle. He dubbed this phenomenon “Six Degrees of Shami” in reference to Shami (now Baroness) Chakrabarti, the ubiquitous civil liberties campaigner turned shadow Labour minister. He especially loathed members of that elite who let slip their contempt for the white working class, whom Liddle himself felt had been left behind by social change, bad education and modern obsessions with multiculturalism and minority rights. In this respect he singled out the Independent columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – who gave as good as she got, telling Liddle in a heated Channel 4 debate that she loathed him and was proud to say so to his face. The truth about Liddle was that he possessed a formidable journalistic nose for hypocrisy and lies, but that he could also be loose with his facts and hurtful with his epithets, particularly when feeling crapulous and close to deadline – leading to several referrals to the Press Complaints Commission and many occasions when he had to defend himself against accusations of racism, homophobia, transphobia and other contemporary thought crimes. Loyal readers, however, knew where he was really coming from and recognised the dark picture he painted. In particular they understood his sympathy for the common man who had been abandoned by politicians and become a target of casual media scorn. This instinct was never better expressed than in a 2006 column in which he tracked down, in their Newbury council house, the mother and father of a 14-year-old drink- driver who had kicked off violently in court while her parents hurled eggs at the assembled media: what he found was a couple “perpetually on their uppers”, but
IR IAN WOOD, who has died aged 84, was one of Scotland’s greatest entrepreneurs, having built a hugely successful supplier of services to the offshore oil and gas industry on the foundation of his family’s Aberdeen-based marine engineering business – and having devoted much of his resulting fortune to philanthropy. When Ian Wood became managing director of the then John Wood & Son in 1967, it was already a flourishing engineering concern, servicing the fishing fleets of Aberdeen and Peterhead in which the family was also a leading operator. He was early to spot the potential of North Sea oil extraction – with the discovery of the Montrose field east of Aberdeen in late 1969 and the huge Forties and Brent fields soon afterwards – as an abundant source of new business for those who could meet the demands of incoming multinational oil giants. Wood Group expanded to operate in North and South America and the Middle East as well as the North Sea and to achieve a billion dollars in annual revenues by the turn of the century. Under Ian Wood’s paternalist helmsmanship and with his workaholic attention to detail, it acquired a world-class reputation in engineering and customer relations; safety was also a driving principle, following the loss of 39 employees (among a total death toll of 167) in the Piper Alpha oil rig fire in waters north-east of Aberdeen in July 1988. The company was floated on the London stock exchange in 2002 (joining the FTSE 100 six years later) with a market value of £935 million, enabling Ian Wood gradually to liquidate the family’s holding over the following decade to fund his philanthropic ambitions. He remained chief executive until 2006 and retired as chairman in 2012, having created the foremost native company in the Scottish offshore industry and helped make his home city the oil capital of Europe. Martin Gilbert, founder of the Aberdeen investment group of which Wood was an early non-executive director (and a product of the same school and university), said of him: “What he did for Aberdeen no one else
Liddle: he loathed those of the ‘faux Leftie’ liberal elite who treated the common man with scorn
kind, loyal and doing their best for their family – an echo, perhaps, of the humble upbringing that was the fount of all his writings. Roderick Edwin Liddle was born at Sidcup, Kent, on April 1 1960, the son of Edwin Liddle and his wife Margaret, née Clee. Edwin’s father Joseph, from Darlington, had been an engine driver; Edwin worked for the railways and did war service in motor torpedo boats before becoming an Inland Revenue clerk. When Rod was eight the family moved to Nunthorpe, a “select” suburb of Middlesbrough (though he wrote that describing it thus was a little like saying “a select area of Mogadishu”), where he was educated at Laurence Jackson comprehensive and Prior Pursglove sixth-form college, formed a punk band and joined the Socialist Workers Party. “I was at my best when I was 16 or 17,” he recalled, “energetic but obnoxious.” He also recalled his long-suffering father’s comment on seeing him dressed for a night on the town, earring in one ear, ripped trousers with “Fuck Off” written on them in Magic Marker, bright red SWP badge on the lapel of a filthy secondhand jacket: “Christ, you can’t sink any bloody lower.” Having entered journalism as a reporter on the South Wales Echo, Liddle worked for the Labour Party as a speechwriter and researcher from 1983 to 1987 and went on to study social psychology as a mature student at the LSE before joining the BBC as a trainee producer. Appointed editor of Today in 1998, he boosted the programme’s
Ian Wood at his desk and, below, receiving an RSE Royal Medal from Prince Philip in 2013
has ever done and I suspect no one else ever will.” Ian Clark Wood was born in the “granite city” on July 21 1942, to John Wood and his wife Margaret, née Clark. Educated at Robert Gordon’s College, he took a first in psychology at Aberdeen University in 1964.
reputation for investigative journalism, winning a number of awards. After he left Today Liddle enjoyed a brief foray into light entertainment as a team captain opposite Alan Coren on Call My Bluff, but his style of humour proved too saturnine. In 2003 he published a collection of short stories, Too Beautiful for You, and in 2007 a satirical novel, Love Will Destroy Everything. His non-fiction work Selfish, Whining Monkeys: How We Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy (2014) achieved – not least through sympathetic glimpses of his parents – an almost elegiac tone as he analysed Britain’s transition from a place of “job security, a semblance of social mobility, steadily rising living standards and a kind of permanence of things, of values and mores” to one where “the glue which bound us all together has dissolved” and “the furious yapping you hear” is the proclamation of outrage by competing grievance groups. It was good that we have become more tolerant of diversity, he concluded, but “this sacking of the old order has left us fraught and clamorous, unhappy, isolated and averse.” One critic called the book “a flaming, bloodthirsty romp, scything through the lazy thinking of an effete liberal establishment”. Similar descriptions were applied to his sell-out live performance, bottle of red wine to hand (in interview with the Spectator editor Fraser Nelson), at the 2,300-seat London Palladium in 2018: even a female Observer columnist, previously horrified by Liddle, had to admit he “sent me out of the
The Wood family had begun fishing from Aberdeen harbour in the 1890s. Ian’s grandfather William expanded into ship repair and marine engineering – and in the next generation, Ian’s father John took the company forward to be the largest independent trawler owner in Scotland. Ian joined him in 1964, becoming managing director in 1967 and leading the development of its oilfield services in the 1970s. In 1982 the group was split, with JW Holdings continuing as Scotland’s largest fishing business (in a by-then shrinking industry), which Ian Wood chaired until the end of his life, while John Wood Group focused on engineering and oilfield logistics – and diversified, after his retirement, into other areas of activity which brought a series of financial and contractual problems. The diminished business was acquired earlier this year by a Dubai-based conglomerate, Sidara. Ian Wood was also a director of Royal
theatre feeling quite a lot less gloomy”. Nelson once observed that while “Don’t tone down Rod” was a plea he frequently heard from Spectator readers, Liddle was the writer most frequently deprecated by those who did not subscribe to the magazine. The bien-pensants of Twitter repeatedly fell for Liddle’s bait, tutting over articles such as the one in which he observed that he could never have worked as a teacher because he “could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids”, although he observed in mitigation: “I don’t think I’d have dabbled much below year 10.” What Liddle never did, in print or person, was hold himself up as anyone’s role model; indeed, it was sometimes evident that he despised himself almost as much as his targets. Acknowledging the mess of his personal life in middle age, he likened himself to the promiscuous North American montane vole. “In common parlance, I seemed to be the sort of chap who couldn’t keep it in his trousers.” In 1993 he began a relationship with Rachel Royce, a television reporter whom he had met at the BBC. They had two sons, Tyler and Wilder, and were finally married in 2004 in a lavish holiday ceremony in Malaysia. But by then Liddle had begun an affair with The Spectator’s receptionist, Alicia Monckton, who was half his age and who broke off her engagement to another man; Rachel later claimed he left their honeymoon early to return to Alicia – while Liddle declared that “the failure was to have got married in the first place.” He and Rachel proceeded to vent savage opinions of each other while the tabloids relished a new plot line in the unbuttoned soap opera that was The Spectator under the editorship of Boris Johnson. Liddle reported that Johnson “broke off discussing my next article to howl with laughter” at his discomfiture. In 2005 Liddle was arrested and accepted a caution for common assault against Alicia during a domestic row when she was 20 weeks pregnant. When their daughter was born she was named Emmeline after the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Liddle was a member of the Labour Party for 40 years until he was expelled in 2016 for writing about “its strange affection for anti-Semitism”. In 2019 – the year he published The Great Betrayal, a study of the establishment’s attempts to thwart Brexit – he joined the Social Democratic Party; in the 2024 general election he stood as the SDP candidate in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, coming fourth. Among his recent columns, devotees especially treasured an account of his (imagined) presence at the Bafta awards ceremony in which craven apologies were issued after an outburst by a Tourette’s campaigner: Liddle claimed to have bellowed “you self-important, preening, hideous, unnatural, waxen-skinned spaffgoblin” and “arse badger” at the compère without finding himself ejected by bouncers. A surprising element of Liddle’s make-up, perhaps, was his Christian faith – expressed in a Christmas poem in The Spectator in 2017, in which he lamented the absence of Christ from a festival of “drivel on the telly, fake bonhomie, fake cheer” – but “somehow from up above, He watches… amused, appalled, distraught – who knows?” Rod Liddle is survived by Alicia, whom he married in 2008, and his three children.
JONATHAN WORTH
Rod Liddle, born April 1 1960, died August 2 2026
Bank of Scotland from 1988 to 1997. For several decades no committee for the promotion of Scottish business, particularly in the Grampian region and the offshore industries, was complete without Wood’s presence. As a prominent advocate of the need to plan for a viable post-oil economy, he was the founder chairman and principal funder of Aberdeen’s Energy Transition Zone, which sought to protect and create regional jobs in low-carbon and renewable projects. Meanwhile, the Wood family charitable foundation, established in 2007, set its sights on opportunities for young people in Scotland and development in sub-Saharan Africa, with a special focus on the tea industry in Rwanda and Tanzania. Projects funded by the Woods in and around Aberdeen were reckoned by local media to have totalled well over £100 million, including an Oil and Gas Institute at Robert Gordon University (where Ian Wood was Chancellor from 2005 to 2021) and a multi-storey car park for Aberdeen Royal Infirmary – where his wife Helen had endured stressful experiences trying to park. But a scheme for the transformation of the central Union Terrace Gardens, for which £50 million was offered, was eventually rejected by the city council. His collection of honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards filled many lines of his Who’s Who entry and his fortune – reckoned to be Scotland’s third largest – was estimated latterly at £1.9 billion. He was appointed CBE in 1982, knighted in 1994, raised to GBE in 2016 and created a Knight of the Thistle in 2018. Yet Ian Wood remained entirely unpompous and approachable in manner – and modest in the style of his homes in suburban Aberdeen and rural Perthshire, listing his recreations simply as “family, art, tennis”. When he travelled, his briefcase carried decaf tea bags and mini-packs of Scottish shortbread collected on train journeys. He married Helen Macrae in 1970; she survives him with their three sons.
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Bear-like singer with the jazz- rockers Blood, Sweat and Tears
AVID CLAYTON-
THOMAS, who has
died aged 84, was the
bear-like, rough-voiced
singer and lyricist of Blood,
Sweat and Tears, the
jazz-rock pioneers who
augmented the standard
guitar-bass-keyboards-
drums line-up with a
storming brass section,
delivering a succession of
hits including Spinning
Wheel and You’ve Made Me So
Very Happy.
“When you saw him in his
prime, dressed from head to
toe in black leather with
fringes on his jacket sleeves,
he was the definition of a
badass,” recalled his BS&T
colleague Lou Pomanti.
“Don’t mess with him – on
stage or off.”
He was born David Henry
Thomsett on September 13
1941 in Kingston upon
Thames the son of a lineman
serving in the Canadian
army, Fred Thomsett, and
Freda, née Smith, a pianist;
they had met when she was
entertaining the troops.
Postwar, the family
moved to Toronto; young
David was regularly beaten
by his alcoholic father, and
left home in his early teens,
sleeping in parked cars and
empty buildings and
stealing to survive;
a reputation for brawling
would linger throughout his
life. He spent several years
snarled up in the youth
justice system, but in one
institution he found a guitar
and taught himself to play.
Released in 1962, and
changing his name to David
Clayton-Thomas, he entered
Toronto’s R’n’B scene and,
encouraged by the great
rock’n’roller Ronnie
Hawkins, he started a band,
David Clayton-Thomas and
the Fabulous Shays. They
made a couple of albums and
played on NBC’s pop show
Hullabaloo at the invitation
of its host, Paul Anka.
His next band, David
Clayton-Thomas and the
Bossmen, was one of the
first rock bands with a brass
section. Their 1966 single
Brain Washed, co-written by
Clayton-Thomas –
“60 million people reading
all about Viet Nam / 85 per
cent of them don’t give a
damn” – was a big hit in
Canada.
He moved to New York,
where he came across the
Blood, Sweat and Tears
drummer Bobby Colomby.
The band – brainchild of
keyboardist Al Kooper, best
known for playing the organ
on Bob Dylan’s 1965 Like a
Rolling Stone – had broken
up after their debut album,
The Child Is Father to the
Man. But with Clayton-
‘The definition of a badass’
Thomas up front they re-formed (minus Kooper), their self-titled 1968 second album going quadruple platinum. In 1968 The New York Times declared them “one of the best rock bands in the country... David Clayton- Thomas... lumbers around the stage happily screaming into the microphone.” For the next three years BS&T filled stadia around the world, and were one of the highlights at Woodstock. In 1970 they were coerced into undertaking a cultural- exchange tour behind the Iron Curtain by Nixon’s US State Department, who threatened to deport Clayton-Thomas back to Canada due to his teenage criminal convictions. The reaction from their fans was savage, with demos outside gigs and dog excrement hurled on stage. “I don’t think we realised how it would bounce up and bite us,” the singer recalled. After the B, S & T 4 album in 1971 Clayton-Thomas, exhausted by life on the road and fed up with the clashing of egos, went solo, making a clutch of albums that sold little, and he returned to the band for the albums New City (1975) and More Than Ever (1976). They fell apart in 1978 when their saxophonist Gregory Herbert died of a drugs overdose in Amsterdam. Clayton- Thomas toured and recorded as Blood, Sweat and Tears with an ever-shifting line-up until 2004, when he went home to Canada. The band continue to this day, having featured more than 150 musicians at various times. In Toronto he formed his All-Star 10-piece band; he had much mellowed in his later years, friends said. David Clayton-Thomas was married and divorced four times, and is survived by a daughter from his first marriage and a daughter from his third.
David Clayton-Thomas, born September 13 1941, died June 24 2026
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Comedians Joe Wilkinson and David Earl revisiting Porridge, one of their favourite sitcoms
F ans of classic British sitcoms won’t want to miss this delightfully silly series in which friends and fellow comedians Joe Wilkinson and David Earl revisit three of their favourite British comedies, Porridge, Fawlty Towers and The Office. The format is simple, with charm, nostalgia and the strong connection between the two presenters – who have been friends for years and together wrote the gently likeable BBC Two
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare HBO Max Terrifying documentary about the harrowing days following the massive earthquake that hit Japan in March 2011. Even with entire towns washed away and 20,000 killed, still greater catastrophe was posed by the Fukushima nuclear power plant, where soaring radiation levels and potential collapse threatened devastation on an unimaginable scale.
Murder 24/7 BBC One, 9pm The real-life crime series
comedy The Cockfields – doing what little heavy lifting there is. In this opener, Earl sets himself the task of bringing Wilkinson’s all-time favourite Porridge to life for him by taking him to significant recording and rehearsal spaces, meeting key personnel (surprise appearances by Christopher Biggins, one of few surviving cast members, and its creators Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais are highlights, for viewers and a
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gobsmacked Wilkinson) and generally summoning the ghost of Ronnie Barker. This is a show that makes a virtue of its low budget and, for once, what emerges is far more affecting – and effective – than many a more expansive production. A reminder of the social importance of comedy for many of us, and the collective enjoyment of watching it with family and friends. Gerard O’Donovan
final days, they quickly establish he had a guest staying who’d recently been released from prison. Continues tomorrow.
The Victorians with Rob Rinder and Ruth Goodman Channel 5, 9pm The pair explore the railway boom of the 1840s through the eyes of people who experienced it, rich and poor. They include a draper who made a vast fortune through investments and some of the ordinary men and women who built the tracks and worked for the railway companies.
Survivor Australia
BBC Three, 9pm
It’s a tired format, going for
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and this Australian version
is its 14th season. As ever,
two tribes of players are
shipped to a remote
location – here the South
Pacific island of Samoa –
living on rations and facing
tough challenges to win a
A$50,000 (£26,000)
prize.
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The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door Sky Documentaries, 9pm This documentary looks again at the 2018 nerve- agent poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Then PM Theresa May is one in an impressive line-up of contributors that includes politicians, spooks, cops, medics and the partner of poisoning victim Dawn Sturgess. The film also explores what might have happened to the Skripals who subsequently disappeared. GO
Scarlett Johansson is on the prowl in Glasgow city centre
Under the Skin (2013) Film 4, 11.15pm ★★★★★ Jonathan Glazer’s film is a staggering exercise in gonzo existentialism, with Scarlett Johansson’s alien honeytrap browsing the streets of Glasgow for male victims who can’t believe their luck. Light on dialogue and heavy on mood, this exploration of loneliness, sex and modernity gets more out of Johansson than any of her vehicles since. A mix of horror and science fiction that will leave you compelled.
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12.05 am The Cannibal Next Door 1.00 Cruise TV with LoveitBookit 2.00 GPs: Behind Closed Doors 2.50 Castle 3.40 Friends 4.05 Friends 4.30 The Highland Vet 5.25 Entertainment News on 5 5.35 Milo 5.45 - 6.00am The Adventures of Paddington
FV 10 FS 115 SKY 119 VIRGIN 117
11.30 am Heartbeat 12.35 pm Heartbeat 1.35 Midsomer Murders 3.35 Classic Emmerdale 4.10 Classic Emmerdale 5.15 Classic Coronation Street 5.50 Heartbeat 6.55 Heartbeat 8.00 Vera 10.00 Grantchester 11.00 Grantchester 11.50 Trial & Retribution 1.25 am Wycliffe 2.25 Unwind with ITV 2.30 - 6.00am Teleshopping
Challenge
11.00am Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 12.15pm Lily Savage’s Blankety Blank 1.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special 2.00 Bridge of Lies 3.00 The Chase 4.00 All Star Family Fortunes 4.45 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 6.00 Tenable 7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 8.00 Beat the Chasers 9.00 The Chase 10.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 11.00 Bullseye 12.00 Bridge of Lies 1.00am The Chase 2.00 The Chase Celebrity Special 3.00-4.00am The Chase
Quest
Noon Outback Car Hunters 1.00pm Mike Brewer: Born Dealer 2.00 Shed and Buried 3.00 Shed and Buried: Classic Cars 4.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.00 The Yorkshire Auction House 7.00 Antiques Road Trip 8.00 Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic 9.00 Johnny Vegas’ Little Shop of Antiques 10.00 The Repair Shop 11.00 How Do They Do It? 1.00am Salvage Hunters 3.00- 4.00am Salvage Hunters: The Restorers
FV 26 FS 117 SKY 120 VIRGIN 118
11.25 am Robin of Sherwood 12.30 pm Magnum, PI 1.35 Magnum, PI 2.35 Dempsey and Makepeace 3.45 Boon 4.50 The Professionals 5.55 Minder 7.00 The Motorbike Show 8.00 World Rally Championship Highlights 9.00 Ice Road Truckers 10.00 All Elite Wrestling: Collision 12.00 Dark Side of the Ring 12.55 am Minder 1.55 BattleBots 2.45 Unwind with ITV 3.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping
Mechanic 9.00 Bull Shark Dinner Bell 10.00 What Shark Attacked? 11.00 The Alaska Triangle 12.00 Deadliest Catch 1.00am Bull Shark Dinner Bell 2.00 What Shark Attacked? 3.00- 4.00am Gold Divers
PBS America
11.55am Hitler’s Gold 1.00pm America the Bountiful 1.35 Conquistadors: The Rise and Fall 2.35 Hitler’s Gold 3.35 Pirates: Behind the Legends 4.35 Iron Curtain: Living Under Soviet Occupation 5.50 Hitler’s Gold 6.50 Conquistadors: The Rise and Fall 7.50 Pirates: Behind the Legends 8.50 Iron Curtain: Living Under Soviet Occupation 10.00 Hitler’s Gold 11.00 Pirates: Behind the Legends 12.00 Iron Curtain: Living Under Soviet Occupation 1.15am America the Bountiful 2.00-6.00am Teleshopping
Sky History
Noon Ice Road Truckers 1.00pm History’s Greatest Machines with Dolph Lundgren 2.00 Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman 6.00 American Pickers 7.00 Forged in Fire 8.00 Hitler’s Engineers 9.00 History’s Greatest Machines with Dolph Lundgren 10.00 Prison Chronicles 11.00 History’s Deadliest with Ving Rhames 12.00 Great Escapes with
FV 36 FS 143 SKY 822 VIRGIN 123
6.00 am Classic FM’s Rising Stars with
Julian Lloyd Webber 2025 (S) 7.00
Bagpipes: A Celebration (AD) (S)
8.00 The Joy of Painting (S) 8.30
The Joy of Painting (S) 9.00 Tales of
the Unexpected (AD) (S) 9.30 Tales
of the Unexpected (AD) (S) 10.00
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 10.30
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S) 11.00
Discovering: Joan Fontaine (AD) (S)
12.00 Wonderland: From JM Barrie to
JRR Tolkien (S)
1.00 pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD)
1.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S)
2.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (S)
3.00 The Seventies (AD) (S)
4.00 Discovering: Richard Harris (AD)
(S)
5.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2021
(AD) (S)
6.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S)
6.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) (S)
7.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents A woman is beaten by an unknown attacker (S)
7.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S)
8.00 The World in a Painting: Velazquez’s Chili Pepper The story behind the pepper in Velázquez’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (S)
9.15 Beyond the Brush Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (AD) (S)
9.45 Beyond the Brush Da Vinci’s The Last Supper (AD) (S)
10.15 Wonderland: Gothic A look at the genre’s influence as it spread from literature to film (AD) (S)
11.15 The Movies 12.15am I Am Steve McQueen 2.00 Voices of the Valleys 3.00 World War II & Cinema 4.00 Sky Arts Book Club 5.00 - 6.00am Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien
FV 18 FS 124 SKY 136 VIRGIN 147
11.35 am Four in a Bed 12.10 pm Four in a Bed 12.40 Come Dine with Me 1.10 Come Dine with Me 1.40 Come Dine with Me 2.15 Come Dine with Me 2.50 Come Dine with Me 3.20 Four in a Bed 5.50 Car S.O.S 6.50 Car S.O.S 7.55 Grand Designs 9.00 Oti and Richard’s South African Odyssey 10.00 24 Hours in A&E 11.05 24 Hours in A&E 12.10 am 999: On the Front Line 1.15 24 Hours in A&E 2.20 24 Hours in A&E 3.25 - 3.50am A Place in the Sun
Morgan Freeman 1.50am Hitler’s Engineers 2.50 History’s Greatest Machines with Dolph Lundgren 3.40- 4.25am Pawn Stars
Sky Documentaries
Noon Albert Brooks: Defending My Life 1.45pm My Icon: John Amaechi 2.00 Stasi FC 3.50 My Icon: Michael Holding 4.00 The Directors 5.00 Discovering: Gary Oldman 5.55 JFK: Destiny Betrayed 7.00 Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes 9.00 The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door 10.40 FILM: 2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) A Ukrainian platoon attempts to liberate a village from Russian forces 12.50am Amsterdam Narcos 3.50-5.00am Edge of the Earth
Sky One
Noon Big Cat Country 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 3.00 S.W.A.T. 5.00 The Simpsons 6.00 Animal Control 7.00 The Simpsons 8.00 Best Medicine 9.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks 10.00 The ’Burbs 10.55 Animal Control 11.55 Grimm 12.50am The Force: Manchester 1.40 Road Wars 3.00- 4.00am Hawaii Five-0
FV 20 FS 158 SKY 143 VIRGIN 116
6.00 am Teleshopping 7.20 The Bill (S) 8.15 Doctors (S) 8.50 Doctors (S) 9.25 Classic Holby City (S) 10.45 Casualty (AD) (S) 11.45 The Bill (S) 12.45 pm Classic EastEnders (S) 1.25 Classic EastEnders (S) 2.00 Neighbours (S) 2.30 Neighbours (S) 3.00 Pie in the Sky (S) 4.05 Lovejoy (S) 5.20 As Time Goes By (S) 6.00 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 6.35 Last of the Summer Wine (S)
7.15 Last of the Summer Wine Compo’s lucky rabbit’s foot causes problems (S)
8.00 ’Allo ’Allo! The Resistance plans to hide stolen money down Rene’s trousers (S)
8.30 ’Allo ’Allo! Rene gets rid of the money and tries to dispose of the microfilm
9.05 ’Allo ’Allo! Alfonse is whisked to hospital with heart trouble after being interrogated by the Gestapo (S)
9.35 New Tricks The squad reinvestigates the death of a magnate (AD) (S)
10.55 Luther A gunman murders a series of uniformed police officers (AD) (S)
12.10 am Lovejoy 1.20 Sister Boniface Mysteries 2.25 Hotel Portofino 3.25 Birds of a Feather 4.00 - 6.00am Teleshopping
SKY 110 VIRGIN 124
5.00 pm Last of the Summer Wine 6.20 Keeping Up Appearances 7.00 Only Fools and Horses 7.40 Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes 8.20 Are You Being Served? 9.00 Joe & David’s Magical Sitcom Tour 10.00 Porridge 10.40 Not Going Out 11.20 Colin’s Sandwich 12.00 Porridge 12.40 am Not Going Out 1.20 Colin’s Sandwich 2.00 Don’t Wait Up 2.45 The Cleaner 3.15 - 4.00am The Green Green Grass
Murder 5.00 Murder, She Wrote 7.00 Castle 8.00 Unforgettable 9.00 In Plain Sight 10.00 Hailey Dean Mysteries 10.56 Good News on GREAT! 11.01 Hailey Dean Mysteries 11.50 FILM: Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death (2020) Whodunit starring Alexa PenaVega 12.46am Good News on GREAT! 12.51 FILM: Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death (2020) 1.45 FILM: Gone Daughter Gone (2020) 3.15 Good News on GREAT! Extra 3.25-4.50am FILM: A Night to Regret (2018)
Sky Cinema Premiere
Noon Normal (2026) 1.35pm Wicked: For Good (2025) Fantasy sequel starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande 4.00 Mortal Kombat II (2026) Fantasy adventure starring Karl Urban 6.00 Heretic (2024) Horror starring Hugh Grant 8.00 Normal (2026) Action comedy starring Bob Odenkirk 9.45 Primate (2025) Horror starring Johnny Sequoyah 11.20 Eleanor the Great (2025) Drama starring June Squibb 1.05am Love Me (2024) 2.45- 4.40am Redux Redux (2025)
FV 82 FS 306 SKY 324 VIRGIN 445
6.00 am FILM: Murder at 3am (1953, b/w) Murder mystery starring Dennis Price (S) 7.10 FILM: The Proud Rebel (1958, b/w) Western starring Alan Ladd (S) 9.15 FILM: Oliver Twist (1982, TVM) Period drama starring George C Scott and Tim Curry (S) 11.15 FILM: Biggles: Adventure in Time (1986) Time travel adventure starring Neil Dickson (S) 1.00 pm The Adventures of William Tell 1.35 FILM: Appointment with Venus (1951, b/w) Second World War comedy starring David Niven (S) 3.20 Anthony Perkins: The Actor Behind the Door (S) 4.25 FILM: Chase a Crooked Shadow (1957, b/w) Thriller starring Richard Todd (S) 6.10 What’s on TPTV with Noel (S) 6.25 Whiplash (S) 6.55 The Man from UNCLE (S)
7.55 Buccaneer Burton’s shipping deal begins to look a bit suspicious (S)
9.00 FILM: Accident (1967) Drama starring Dirk Bogarde (S)
11.05 Fortean TV 11.40 FILM: Body Double (1984) Thriller starring Melanie Griffith 1.55am FILM: The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) Drama starring Margarita Lozano 4.00 Target: The Corruptors 5.00 - 6.00am Railway Murders
FV 27 FS 159 SKY 155 VIRGIN 129
Noon Antiques Roadshow 2.00 pm Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics 3.00 Bangers & Cash 4.00 Secret Nazi Bases 5.00 Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution 6.00 Antiques Roadshow 7.00 The Green Planet 8.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics 9.00 Bangers & Cash 10.00 Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics 11.00 Bangers & Cash 12.00 Bangers & Cash 1.00 am Find It, Fix It, Flog It 2.00 Abandoned Engineering 3.00 - 6.10am Teleshopping
Spirit Women (start-time 3.00pm) 6.00 The Hundred Live. Sunrisers Leeds Men v London Spirit Men (start- time 6.30pm) 9.30 Live Tennis. The Canadian Open 12.00-4.00am Live Tennis
Sky Sports Premier League Noon Transfer Talk 1.00pm Premier League Highlights 2.00 SNF 2.30 Premier League Highlights 5.00 Premier League Review 6.00 Transfer 360 7.00 The Transfer Show 8.00 Brazilians in the Premier League 9.00 Transfer 360 10.00 Drink It In: The Rise of Man City 11.00 Premier League Years 1.00am PL Retro 3.00- 4.00am PL Greatest Games
TNT Sports 1
Noon Premier League Stories 12.30pm British Superbikes Highlights 1.30 Tour de France Women 2.30 Live: Tour de France Women. Coverage from the fourth stage of the Grand Tour race 5.45 The Gruppetto 6.00 Uefa Conference League Goals Reload 6.15 Uefa Europa League Goals Reload 6.30 Premier League Stories 7.00 British Superbikes Highlights 8.00 MLB Highlights 9.00 UFC: The Ultimate Fighter 10.00 What Went Down 10.15 British Superbikes Rewind 10.30 WRC Review 11.30 MLB
FV 14 FS 300 SKY 855 VIRGIN 428
11.00 am FILM: Robot Dreams (2023) Animated adventure, featuring the voice of Ivan Labanda (S) 1.05 pm FILM: Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) John Ford’s historical drama starring Henry Fonda (S) 3.10 FILM: The Mark of Zorro (1974, TVM) Swashbuckling adventure starring Frank Langella (AD) (S) 4.45 FILM: Rat Race (2001) Comedy starring Rowan Atkinson (AD) (S)
6.55 FILM: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) Turtle brothers Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers. Animated fantasy with the voice of Nicolas Cantu (S)
9.00 FILM: My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) A widowed scientist’s research draws him into a romance with an alien sent to Earth on an important mission. Sci-fi comedy starring Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger and Jon Lovitz (S)
11.10 Last Night in Soho Interview Special 11.15 FILM: Under the Skin (2013) Sci-fi drama starring Scarlett Johansson 1.25 - 3.35am FILM: How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) Romantic comedy starring Elle Fanning
SKY 108
11.35 am Task 12.50 pm Homicide: Life on the Street 1.55 Homicide: Life on the Street 3.00 Billions 4.10 Billions 5.20 Heated Rivalry 6.25 Heated Rivalry 7.30 True Detective: Night Country 9.00 Gomorrah: The Origins 10.00 Gomorrah: The Origins 11.00 Prisoner 12.00 True Detective: Night Country 1.10 am True Detective: Night Country 2.20 True Detective: Night Country 3.35 - 4.35am Billions
Highlights 12.30am MLB Lead Off 1.00-4.00am Live MLB
BBC News
Noon BBC News Now 2.00pm BBC News Now 2.30 Business Today 2.45 BBC News Now 3.00 Verified Live 4.30 Business Today 4.45 Verified Live 5.30 BBC News 6.30 The World Today 8.00 The Context USA 9.00 The Context 10.00 BBC News at Ten 10.30 Newsnight 11.00 BBC World News America 12.00 BBC News 12.30am Newscast 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Tech Now 2.00 Newsday 2.30 Business Today 2.45 BBC Sport 3.00 Newsday 3.30 Business Today 3.45- 4.00am Asia Specific
GB News
Noon Good Afternoon Britain 3.00pm Martin Daubney 6.00 Dewbs & Co 7.00 GBN Tonight 8.00 Jacob Rees- Mogg’s State Of The Nation 9.00 Patrick Christys Tonight 11.00 Patrick Christys Tonight Late Edition 12.00 The Late Show Live 3.00-5.00am Patrick Christys Tonight Replay
Northern Ireland
BBC One: 10.40pm House of the Year 11.10 FILM: Robin Hood (2010) 1.20 - 6.00am BBC News BBC Two: No variations UTV: 7.30 - 8.00pm Life Times
No variations
No variations
Scotland
BBC One: 7.00 - 7.30pm River City 12.50am Scotcast 1.25 - 6.00am BBC News BBC Scotland: 7.00pm Reporting Scotland: News at Seven 7.30 My Kind of Town 8.00 This Farming Life 9.00 The Three Kings 10.45 Scotcast 11.15 Our Lives: Stone Strong 11.45 Loop midnight Close STV: 3.50 - 6.00am Night Vision
Wales
ITV1 Regions
S4C
6.00am Cyw 10.00 Blociau Lliw 10.05 Twm Twrch 10.15 Help Llaw 10.30 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 12.00 Newyddion S4C 12.05pm Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 2.00 Newyddion S4C 2.05 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 4.00 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 5.00 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 7.30 Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 7.50 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 2026 10.15 Y Babell Lên 2026 10.45 - 11.50pm Iaith ar Daith
explain behaviour
A whale’s dive shapes its song patterns, new research suggests. The study using data from suction caps attached to the mammals is the fi rst to connect an entire humpback whale song structure to a complete dive cycle. The fi ndings could help explain whale behaviour from acoustic recordings alone, say scientists. The haunting, complex songs of male humpback whales can last for hours and travel for miles underwater, playing a central role in reproduction during the winter breeding season. But despite decades of research, scientists have had far less insight into what the whales are doing while they sing. The study by Dr Julia Zeh, published in the journal Current Biology, could also help scientists learn more about humpback behaviour, which is an essential reference point for detecting when whales are disturbed by human activity.
本次翻译存在严重缺陷，主要表现为严重的幻觉（Hallucinations）、关键数字错误以及不稳定的文本重建。译文在处理部分段落时脱离了原文，编造了大量不存在的细节，且在处理专业术语和数字时出现低级错误。
£12m $\rightarrow$ 译文 1200 万英镑m (残留英文单位 m 且重复)。£42.5 [million] $\rightarrow$ 译文 £42.5 (丢失数量级)。£90 [million] $\rightarrow$ 译文 £90 (丢失数量级)。10 per cent (推测，见上下文) $\rightarrow$ 译文 10 比分之比 (翻译极其拙劣且不自然)。42 per cent $\rightarrow$ 译文 42 比分之比。1836 $\rightarrow$ 译文 1836, (标点错误导致断句)。“比分之比” 是对 "per cent" 的极其错误的机械翻译，应为“百分比”。1200 万英镑m (残留 m)。August 2023 (部分段落未翻译)。£30m (在正文总结处残留 m)。❌ 存在阻塞性问题 (BLOCKING ISSUE) 该翻译件不可交付。其幻觉程度已达到改变文档性质的级别，数字错误严重，且翻译质量低下。建议重新翻译并严格校验源文匹配度。