Daily Express - 18 June 2024

TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2024 BANKING giant HSBC has warned that Labour’s plan to boost workers’ wages risks triggering a surge in unemployment and driving up mortgage bills for millions. And worryingly, its economists raised fears Sir Keir Starmer’s fl agship policy could also stoke infl ation. The Labour Party was left fl oundering yesterday when asked by the Daily Express for a response to their concerns at a press conference. Shadow Paymaster General Jonathan Ashworth dodged answering before the footage was taken off social media. Elizabeth Martins and Emma Wilks of HSBC said in a note to clients: “A higher minimum wage could increase costs and reduce effi ciency, adding to unit labour costs. “This in turn could either push fi rms into reducing headcount and/or sustain lingering infl ation pressures, keeping bank rate higher for longer.” HSBC’s analysis comes days after the Labour leader pledged to bring in a “New Deal for Working People” within his fi rst 100 days in power if elected on July 4. This includes replacing the minimum wage with a so-called “genuine living wage” that refl ects the Lingering HSBC says Starmer will trigger higher mortgage bills and surge in unemployment BANKING GIANT’S DIRE WARNING ON LABOUR PLEDGES TURN TO PAGE 4 Do you fear missing out on grandchildren’s lives? PM: Vote for Reform risks generation under Labour SEE PAGES 28&29 SEE PAGES 4&5 express.co.uk TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2024 £1.50 IN THEIR POMP! Hats of to our King and Queen SEE PAGES 2&3 By Martyn Brown and Michael Knowles

2 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST ANNUAL GARTER memorates the Order of the Garter – the oldest Order of Chivalry. The Garter – awarded by the sovereign without prime ministerial advice for outstanding public service and achievement – is the most senior order of knighthood in the British honours system. Established in 1348 by Edward III after he was Sir Tim Laurence and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, who wore a striking pink Zimmermann dress and Jane Taylor hat. Prince Andrew, as a Royal Knight Companion, was at an earlier lunch for the order but, as last year, was not permitted to join the procession. The annual celebration comFormer MI5 director-general Baroness Manningham-Buller is the order’s new Chancellor – the fi rst woman to hold the post since its inception in 1475. The grand procession, guarded by members of the Household Cavalry Regiment, began at 2.45pm at Windsor Castle’s State Apartments – winding downhill to St George’s Chapel in the grounds. Watching in the public viewing areas were hordes of well-wishers who had been waiting for hours, many with picnic hampers. One onlooker commented: “Since King Charles and the Princess of Wales had their cancer announcements, Windsor Castle has never been so busy. “They’re all hoping for a glimpse of the King when they go round the grounds.” When Charles, 75, and Camilla, 76, arrived at the chapel, a fanfare of trumpets was played. Waiting inside was the Duke of Kent, 88, who is a Royal Knight Companion but too frail to take part in the procession. Among those watching outside were Anne and Edward’s spouses inspired by tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, it is outranked only by the Victoria and George Crosses. Today there will be little let-up for King Charles, who will be at the start of Royal Ascot. OPINION: PAGE 12 HE’S barely had time to draw his breath since Trooping the Colour but yesterday King Charles threw himself into another important occasion on the royal calendar – the annual Garter Day service. The monarch, who is continuing his weekly cancer treatment in between events, fully embraced the pomp and pageantry with Queen Camilla. Wearing white plumed hats and dark blue velvet robes, they were joined by Charles’s eldest son William and the King’s siblings Anne and Edward. Normally William’s wife Kate would attend but she is continuing her cancer treatment after making a much-lauded public appearance at Saturday’s Trooping the Colour. As is tradition, the royals walked behind the offi cial procession of the Knights and Ladies of the Order of the Garter, who currently include former Prime Ministers Sir Tony Blair and Sir John Major. New members being installed this year were Lord Lloyd-Webber, the Duchess of Gloucester, Lord Kakkar and Lord Peach – making the total 21 out of a maximum 24. By Emily Ferguson Royal Editor Supporting roles... Anne, Edward and William in their garb Delighting the crowds...members of the order fi le past, guarded by troops. Right: Sophie Newbie...Duchess of Gloucester Pomp, pageantry, plumes and the Knights of the Round Table, it is outranked only by the Today there will be little let-up for King Charles, who will be at

Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 3 DX1ST DAY SERVICE Pictures: JONATHAN BUCKMASTER, KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/PA, SAMIR HUSSEIN/WIREIMAGE, AARON CHOWN/PA, TONY KERSHAW / SWNS Joining the very exclusive club...Lord Kakkar and Lord Peach Famous faces...from top, Lord Lloyd-Webber, Sir John Major and Sir Tony Blair Another big date for the diary...Charles and Camilla at Windsor Castle ...are the order of the day

4 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST BANK ECONOMISTS SOUND ‘Minimum wage hikes would at some level have a detrimental impact on unemployment’ FROM PAGE ONE expect from Labour have been to some degree delivered already by the Conservatives.” They noted another area of concern was Labour’s silence on the spending cuts needed to some parts of public fi nances unless the economy grows faster than expected. The economists added: “It is possible Labour might have to raise taxation.” Asked yesterday about HSBC’s analysis that the party’s plan could push up wages costs for employers – potentially stoking infl ation and thereby adding to mortgage pressures for working families – Mr Ashworth appeared to divert away from the question. At the Central London press conference, he replied: “We often hear these concerns raised when decisions are made around workers. “The Low Pay Commission will take into account the cost of living – that is important to a Labour Government. One of the reasons we have poor productivity, one of the reasons we have had paltry growth over the past 14 years, is because we’ve got a labour market characterised by low pay and insecure work. And the problem with that is it does not give us the wealth we need in this country. “It’s why living standards are to suggest you want to make enemies of your electorate. “It also appears that you will ignore resident wishes, bulldozing through unnecessary, unsustainable and undesirable development. “This approach treats communities and nature with disdain. Communities are not the problem and should not be treated as such.” Sir Keir agreed in a BBC Panorama interview on Friday that he was willing to “make enemies” over planning to ensure critical infrastructure got built. But campaigners have accused him of showing a “staggering” lack of respect. Sir Keir was asked by the BBC’s Nick Robinson: “Are you saying now, ‘Because I need to get the economy growing, what I will do is say to someone who’s objecting to electricity pylons going across the f eld near their house, sorry, they’ve got to be built, we’ve got to get the economy moving. If you’re worried about that huge new housing development, sorry, that has got to be built’. Are you prepared to make enemies to make the economy grow?” Sir Keir said: “Yes, we’re going to have to be tough, we’re going to have to change the way things PLANNING CAMPAIGNERS ROUND ON STARMER OVER CLAIMS HE WILL ‘MAKE ENEMIES’ IN CAMPAIGNERS have demanded an apology from Sir Keir Starmer for allegedly treating nature and communities with “disdain” with his approach to housing policies and energy infrastructure. Rosie Pearson, chair of the Community Planning Alliance, sent a letter to the Labour leader signed by around 60 local groups across the country. It stated: “We seek an apology for your comments, which appear EXCLUSIVE By Steph Spyro cost of living. But economists at the bank believe raising the minimum wage beyond adjusting it with infl ation would result in another larger jump in costs for fi rms next year. It comes after it soared by a record amount in April – from £10.42 to £11.44 – with the average wage bill growing by 20% for employers in the past two years. Pushing up infl ation again would undo the reduction under Rishi Sunak’s watch – where it has come down from 11.1% in late 2022 to just 2.3% now. It is expected to average between 2% and 3% from now until April, when the minimum wage is adjusted every year. Despite falling overall, infl ation is proving particularly stubborn in the services sector, which has led to a delay in the Bank of England cutting interest rates from a 16-year high of 5.25%. Markets are only expecting one rate cut from the Bank this year after infl ation and wage growth have come down more slowly than expected in recent months. HSBC warns “high wage growth is fuelling infl ation in the UK at the moment”, adding that services infl ation is not “fully tamed”. A decision to keep interest rates higher for longer or even increase them would be a further nightmare for mortgage holders who have been grappling with rocketing borrowing costs in recent years. Ms Martins and Ms Wilks said that while minimum wage hikes have so far occurred without too many negative impacts, Labour’s potential increases risk creating a tipping point. Such rises would “at some level presumably have a detrimental impact on unemployment – we just don’t know where it is until we reach it”, they said. Financial Secretary to the Treasury Bim Afolami said: “This is more evidence that a Labour Government with unchecked power to impose whatever tax rises it wants is a generational threat to families’ fi nancial security.” Figures from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation published yesterday suggested the increase has led to a slump in fi rms hiring summer workers for sectors like hospitality and leisure. HSBC did report the wages proposal could also boost employment – but added this was likely an optimistic view. Ms Martins and Ms Wilks said: “Some of the features of a labour market that we might normally Floundering... Jonathan Ashworth tries to brush off scrutiny YES: 0901 133 4440 NO: 0901 133 4441 Yes text DXYES to 63333 No text DXNO to 63333 You must have the bill payer’s permission. Vote closes at midnight tonight. The Daily Express may contact you by post, SMS and/or email with offers, goods or services that may be of interest to you. 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Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 5 DX1ST ALARM ON PARTY’S PLANS going backwards. Employment is lower at the end of this Parliament than it was at the beginning.” The event was live streamed on social media platform X but was not available to watch afterwards. Sir Keir and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves continued their election campaign with a visit to Southampton Docks yesterday. As part of Labour’s manifesto, the party pledged to remove the “discriminatory” age bands affecting the National Minimum Wage. This would mean all adults are entitled to the same pay and a rise for workers across the UK. The National Minimum Wage is the amount that workers under 23 – but of school-leaving age – are entitled to. Everyone aged 23-plus gets the National Living Wage. Labour’s plans would mean everyone gets the same, no matter their age. If elected, it has also said it will adjust the powers of the Low Pay Commission so it takes the cost of living into account. As it stands the minimum wage rate is set by the Government each year based on recommendations by the LPC. OPINION: PAGE 12 second referendum, said a renegotiated Brexit deal could remove “an inhibitor” to growth. He said: “We took a decision to leave the EU, so we are not going to go back in. But the deal we’ve got is botched, it’s not good enough and I think many businesses would say: ‘We need something that works better’.” The Labour Movement for Europe, chaired by Stella Creasy who is seeking re-election for Walthamstow, North east London, campaigns for the UK’s future in the bloc. In a series of recordings by the group obtained by the Tories, candidates were heard speaking freely of their intentions. Labour’s Camberwell and Peckham candidate Miatta Fahnbulleh on the group’s website says she is “very, very proudly and loudly Remain, and also to be talking about a pathway back to entering the European Union”. In Watford, Matt Turmaine said every candidate endorsed by Labour Movement for Europe shared a “commitment” to rejoining the EU if elected to Parliament. He said it was “important that we’re careful” so campaigners do not give the impression of trying to rerun 2016, adding: “We need to understand what it is we need to do in order to rectify it when we get into power.” Jackie Jones (Ceredigion Preseli) said there was a growing rejoin movement, and added: “We are going to march and march and march and knock that house down until we have rejoined.” Meanwhile, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy and London mayor Sadiq Khan are pushing for a free movement deal for young people. Labour’s admission on Brexit came as Rishi Sunak returned to the campaign trail after four days attending international summits. The Prime Minister insisted all was still to play for despite the Tories trailing in the polls. He said: “There’s two and a half weeks to go in this election, I’m fi ghting hard for every vote because I believe we can win. And there’s a very clear choice at this election: it’s having your taxes cut by the Conservatives or facing signifi cant tax rises with the Labour Party.” Asked if he understands people’s frustrations with the Tory Party, with some voters turning to Reform UK, he said: “Of course I understand people’s frustrations. And I’ve been very clear that we have made progress, but there is more to go. “But the point now is we are on the right track and this election is about the future.” Grant Shapps told Times Radio it was “possible to win the election”, but conceded it was “not the most likely outcome”. EIGHT years ago, we witnessed the largest democratic vote this country has ever seen. More than 17 million people, myself included, voted to leave the European Union. It was a vote to take back control of our borders, our money and our future, and to remove the role of the European Court of Justice. We Conservatives promised to get Brexit done. We did it. But now, Brexit is at risk. The Labour Party have become so complacent about the huge majority they expect to win that their mask is slipping. They are starting to tell us what they’d really do in government and at the top of the list are moves back towards EU membership. Remainer-in-Chief Sir Keir Starmer campaigned for a second referendum. His proposed Foreign Secretary has admitted that Labour would return us to freedom of movement. The person Starmer intends to make Chancellor has revealed that she will look for closer alignment with the EU. Their manifesto even states they’d seek a UK-EU Security Pact encompassing defence. It looks like Labour’s true plan is to get as close to rejoining the EU without actually asking the British people. We got Brexit done and it’s no surprise an incoming Labour government would undermine it – just as Labour have tried to at every step since the referendum. More surprising is why Reform are keen to hand Labour a blank cheque to undo Brexit. Every single vote for Reform is a vote that not only takes Starmer a step closer to Downing Street, but will be taken by his Labour Party as allowing them to do what they want in power. A complacent and cocky Labour government is the last thing this country needs. We have left the European Union and now should be the time to make the best of that decision, not sneakily try to undermine it. COMMENT CHRIS HEATON-HARRIS Northern Irelend Secretary are done.” Labour pledges to build 1.5 million homes during the next parliament. Ms Pearson said: “This confrontational and authoritarian approach from a man who may well be the country’s next prime minister is unacceptable. We need collaboration and engagement, not projects bullied through without scrutiny.” Labour was contacted to comment. BID TO BUILD HOMES Hard hats on...Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves at Southampton docks yesterday Labour plot to take us back to the EU LABOUR is plotting to undo Brexit and take Britain back into the European Union by the back door, Tories have warned. Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have admitted they want to renegotiate Boris Johnson’s deal if they seize power. And a slew of their party’s candidates are hellbent on rejoining the bloc, vowing to campaign to take the UK back in. Cabinet Minister Chris Heaton-Harris, a leading Brexiteer, said: “Labour wants to take us back to Brussels through the back door. “They want to undo Brexit, return to freedom of movement and allow the European Court of Justice to have total jurisdiction in our country. “While the Conservatives have a plan to take our country forward, Labour – backed up by the Liberal Democrats – have no plan and want to take us back to the arguments of the past. “And make no mistake, a vote for Reform is a vote for Starmer.” Ms Reeves said she wanted to seek closer alignment with EU rules in the chemicals and veterinary sectors, better touring rights for UK artists, and greater mutual recognition of qualifi cations for fi nancial services workers. The shadow chancellor said it was not an “exclusive” list, telling the Financial Times: “We would look to improve our trading relationship with Europe. “I don’t think anyone voted Leave because they were not happy that chemicals regulations were the same across Europe.” Sir Keir, who drew up plans under Jeremy Corbyn to hold a Fighting hard...PM Mr Sunak Pathway EXCLUSIVE By Sam Lister Political Editor

6 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST By Kate Harris Political Reporter Reject Reform plea... PM Rishi Sunak be a proper voice of opposition. And our plan, and this is our fi rst big election as a party, our plan is to establish that bridgehead in Parliament and to use that voice to build a big national campaigning movement around the country over the course of the next fi ve years for genuine change.” Asked if he was vying to be PM at an election in 2029, Mr Farage replied: “Yes, absolutely. I think the disconnect between the Labour and Conservative Westminsterbased parties and the country – the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people – are so far apart from where our politics is.” At the launch of Reform’s manifesto at a community centre in Gurnos, in South Wales, Mr Farage acknowledged that his party would not form the government after the July 4 contest. But the ex-Ukip leader said it was the “fi rst important step” ahead of the next election, which could be in 2029. He said: “We are a very new political party. This is not something with which we’re going to govern the country. That’s not possible in this election. “This election is for our party, and for me, the fi rst important step on the road to 2029.” Mr Farage said that Reform had titled its document Our Contract With You because the word associated with manifestos is “lie”. He said: “We are going through a breakdown of trust in politics where manifestos, one after another, keep making the same promises and no one believes now, frankly, a word that they say.” OPINION: PAGE 12 By Steph Spyro Senior Political Correspondent RISHI Sunak warned that Tory supporters voting for Reform will only lead to “a generation” of Labour in power. The Prime Minister’s plea came as Nigel Farage unveiled his party’s manifesto, or “contract”, claiming he would stop illegal migrant boat crossings within 100 days. Reform UK leader Mr Farage said his aim on July 4 was to create a “bridgehead” and show the “huge gap” between the desires of the public and what the main parties were offering. But a Conservative Party spokesman said: “A vote for Reform risks delivering an unaccountable Labour majority. “That would hand Keir Starmer a blank cheque to raise your taxes, take no action on illegal immigration, and even rejoin the EU, with no way to stop him. “Labour are already planning to lower the voting age to 16, and we can expect votes for migrants, EU citizens, and prisoners to follow. “So a vote for Reform won’t mean fi ve years of Labour, it would mean a generation. “If you’re thinking about voting for Reform, and a generation under Labour scares you, there’s only one way to prevent it – vote Conservative.” Mr Farage said the country is “broken” because of runaway immigration levels. But he admit- ‘A vote for Reform risks delivering an unaccountable Labour majority’ Scan here to get the best politics stories on WhatsApp EXPRESS EXTRA Style Trust TORY WARNING AS FARAGE ‘Voting Reform risks handing Labour a blank cheque to raise taxes, do nothing about illegal migration and even rejoin EU’ ‘We all have issues with candidates’ NIGEL Farage insists all parties are having candidate problems because the General Election was called at short notice. His comments followed the resignation of Reform UK candidate Grant StClairArmstrong because he had previously urged people to vote for the British National Party. The Reform UK leader said: “This particular case is a chap in his 70s, who 20 years ago said he was thinking of voting BNP as a protest vote. He was never a member of the BNP. “However, we don’t fi nd that acceptable. Now, we did put in place – with quite a well-known political fi gure, who runs a professional vetting company – we put in place something, we spent a great deal of money on getting that vetting done. It wasn’t done.” Mr Farage told BBC Radio 4’s Today: “With a short General Election, every party is having problems with candidates. “But effectively, when you vote the choices are not so much the candidates in the constituencies – we’ve almost got a presidential style now. People are voting for or against Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, Ed Davey or me. They’re the names that are really on the ballot paper.” It was reported that Mr StClair-Armstrong, the party’s candidate in North West Essex and due to stand against the Tories Kemi Badenoch, posted on a blog in 2010: “I could weep now, every time I pick up a British newspaper and read the latest about the state of the UK. “No doubt, Enoch Powell would be doing the same if he was alive. My solution, vote BNP!” When asked about the post, Mr StClair-Armstrong said: “I’ve got no excuses for that. I think they’re a disgusting party.” He added he did not “see any alternative” than resigning but later said he had been forced to stand down by Reform UK. He added: “I bitterly regret those comments made years ago.” ‘Vote BNP’...StClair-Armstrong Reject Reform plea... PM Rishi Sunak Parliament and to use that voice to build a big national campaigning movement around the country over the course of the next fi ve years for genuine change.” Asked if he was vying to be PM at an election in 2029, Mr Farage replied: “Yes, absolutely. I think the disconnect between the Labour and Conservative Westminsterted a General Election victory is out of his grasp – for now. Instead, Mr Farage said he wants to become Prime Minister in 2029, conceding: “We are not pretending we’re going to win this election. That is not possible.” Reform’s policies include commitments to slash £50billion off public spending, leave the European Court of Human Rights and ban all “non-essential” immigration. Its contract with voters suggests that moves to stop the boats, including sending migrants back to France, would start within 100 days. Along with stripping the Bank of England of key powers, those policies are meant to fund an extraordinary £140billion splurge, largely on tax cuts, the NHS and defence spending. The party is also proposing to make St George’s Day and St David’s Day bank holidays, and abolish the BBC licence fee. But the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank said the proposals were based on “extremely optimistic assumptions” about growth and said the sums “do not add up”. Mr Farage said: “We know what we stand for, we know what we believe in, and for democracy to function properly there needs to

Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 7 DX1ST NIGEL Farage chose to launch Reform’s manifesto in a Labour heartland seat even though his main stated aim is to replace the Tories. With the polls showing his insurgent party catching or even overtaking the Conservatives, the Brexit f rebrand is eyeing what he hopes is his next role – leading the opposition to Sir Keir Starmer. Kicking off the launch event at a run-down community centre in Merthyr Tydf l in South Wales, the 60-year-old quoted an Eminem song as he said: “Guess who’s back, back again?” Mr Farage – who was wearing Union f ag socks – spoke for almost 30 minutes with no autocue to journalists and Reform candidates against a backdrop reading “Britain needs Reform”, while a small crowd gathered outside. Stressing that the 24-page election document was a “contract” with voters rather than a manifesto, he reeled off policies on core topics including immigration and tax. Mr Farage turned his guns on Labour, having previously focused much of his criticism on the Tories. He prompted boos from the audience when he raised the imposition of a 20mph speed limit in Wales by the Labour-run government. Earlier in the day, the arch-Brexiteer revealed he has set his sights on becoming PM in 2029. Mr Farage, who is standing in the Essex town of Clacton, has been buoyed by a poll boost for Reform following his bombshell comeback just weeks ago. His return to frontline politics has come as a blow to Rishi Sunak as he battles to turn around the Tories’ fortunes. But Reform faces an uphill struggle to win seats at the general election even if it secures millions of votes due to difficulties for new parties to break through the f rst-past-the-post system. Buoyed offi cer roles will be phased out and instead PCSOs will become police offi cers. A change to the defi nition of a hate crime is also proposed. THE ECONOMY Reform wants to “simplify” the UK’s tax system, which it says is more than 21,000 pages while Hong Kong’s is 500 pages. The party is proposing to lift the minimum profi t threshold to £100,000 and reduce the main corporation tax rate from 25% to 15% in three years, which it says would “free” 1.2 million businesses. Elsewhere it promises to abolish business rates for small and medium businesses by introducing an “online delivery tax” at 4% for large companies. Mr Farage’s party also pledges to cut fuel duty by 20p per litre, scrap VAT on energy bills, and cut stamp duty to 0% on sales below £750,000. The document also states that inheritance tax would be scrapped for 98% of all estates. EDUCATION A ban on “transgender ideology” is included in the manifesto, with “gender questioning, social transitioning and pronoun swapping” prohibited. The party also proposes a “patriotic curriculum”. Two-year university courses and permanent exclusions for violent children are promised. ENVIRONMENT Reform has vowed to scrap net-zero targets to save £30billion a year for the next 25 years. The party also promises to fast-track licences for North Sea oil and gas. HEALTH All NHS and social care staff will pay zero basic rate tax for three years, in a bid to retain and recruit workers. A tax relief of 20% on all private healthcare and insurance is proposed, which the party says will relieve pressure on the NHS. The party is also proposing a public inquiry into vaccine harms, as it states that “excess deaths are nearly as high as they were during the Covid pandemic”. DEFENCE Reform has pledged to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP within three years, and then to 3% of GDP within six years. It proposes to recruit 30,000 people to the Army full time. CULTURE The party has promised to make St George’s Day and St David’s Day a public holiday. The TV licence would be scrapped under Reform’s plans. PEERS Reform has proposed to replace the “crony-fi lled Lords” with a “smaller, more democratic” second chamber. COMMENT KATIE HARRIS Political Reporter Message to voters...Nigel Farage in South Wales yesterday and, inset below, unveiling Reform’s ‘contract’ IMMIGRATION Party has set out a four-point plan for immigration including: leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, allowing zero illegal immigrants to settle in the UK, establishing a new Department of Immigration, and returning migrants who come over in boats to France. A “freeze” on non-essential immigration is also proposed. Immigrants who commit crimes would have their UK citizenship withdrawn, with the exception of “some misdemeanour offences”. The party is also proposing to ban international students from bringing dependants to the UK. National insurance would be raised to 20% for “foreign workers” to incentivise fi rms to employ British workers. POLICE To “clamp down on all crime and antisocial behaviour”, the party has pledged zero-tolerance policing, with drug dealing and traffi cking crimes receiving life imprisonment. The party will increase stop and searches by recruiting 40,000 new police offi cers in the next fi ve years. All police community support What the party is promising on key issues if elected Open door policy...Mr Farage yesterday LAUNCHES ELECTION CONTRACT

8 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST Britain yesterday Amsterdam Rain 20C/68F Brussels Showers 19C/66F Dublin Cloudy 17C/63F Frankfurt Thunder 27C/81F Geneva Sunny 30C/86F Lisbon Rain 22C/72F Madrid Rain 26C/79F Paris Thunder 22C/72F Rome Sunny 29C/84F Amsterdam Cloudy 19C/66F Brussels Cloudy 20C/68F Dublin Fair 19C/66F Frankfurt Thunder 24C/75F Geneva Rain 29C/84F Lisbon Rain 21C/70F Madrid Rain 26C/79F Paris Rain 21C/70F Rome Sunny 30C/86F Britain Extremes: (24 hours to 2pm yesterday) Warmest: Mildenhall 22C (72F) Coldest: Exeter Airport 4C (39F) Wettest: Spadeadam 0.69in. Sunniest: Wattisham 13.7hr. Lighting-up times Glasgow 10.05pm-4.30am London 9.21pm-4.43am Manchester 9.41pm-4.39am Newcastle 9.48pm-4.26am Belfast 10.03pm-4.46am Birmingham 9.33pm-4.44am Bristol 9.30pm-4.52am Full Moon 22 June MOON rises: 5.56pm, sets: 2.08am SUN rises London: 4.42am, sets: 9.21pm Manchester rises: 4.39am, sets: 9.41pm Moon, sun and tides HIGH TIDE London B’ge (11.50am), (-) Liverpool (9.12am), (9.40pm) Greenock (10.07am), (11.11pm) Dover (9.17am), (9.29pm) Supplied by MeteoGroup Around the world yesterday North West: Scattered showers are expected, especially later. Gentle northwesterly winds. High 17C (63F). East Anglia: Hazy sunshine but with the risk of an isolated shower later. Gentle northerly winds. High 20C (68F). Northern Ireland: Showers clearing, then a dry day with sunny periods later. Moderate north-westerly winds. High 15C (59F). London/South East: Wet with drizzle or rain at times, mainly light in nature. Gentle north-easterly winds. High 21C (70F). Wales: Dry but cloudy at first. Sunny spells and showers later. Gentle north-westerly winds. High 19C (66F). South: Quite cloudy, particularly in the morning, but some sunshine too. Gentle northerly winds. High 20C (68F). Midlands: Dry but cloudy at first. Sunny spells and showers later. Gentle northwesterly winds. High 19C (66F). South West: Bright and dry with some lengthy periods of sunshine. Freshening northerly winds. High 21C (70F). Channel Isles: Wet with rain for a time. A mostly dry afternoon. Moderate northeasterly winds. High 17C (63F). Sea: North Sea: Moderate. Irish Sea: Moderate. Channel: Slight. Today’s summary: A risk of showers Scotland: Bright with a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers. Gentle northeasterly winds. High 18C (64F). UK OUTLOOK TOMORROW: A generally dry day with some bright spells but there will be large areas of cloud cover around. A band of rain will edge into the north-west. North East/Yorks: The risk of scattered thundery showers, especially later. 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Ms Mannes said: “Washing your hands with soap and warm water and using disinfectants to clean surfaces will help stop any further spread of infection. “If you are unwell with diarrhoea and vomiting, you should not prepare food for others and avoid visiting people in hospitals or care homes. Do not return to work, school or nursery until 48 hours after your symptoms have stopped.” A 2019 study, published in the Journal of Food Protection, looked at 35 STEC outbreaks linked to contaminated leafy greens between 1995 and 2018. Author Professor Paul Hunter, from the University of East Anglia, said: “The most common reason was contaminated water during growth, harvesting or processing.” SELECTION OF AFFECTED FOOD SOME of the products recalled over possible e.coli contamination. ● WH Smith This Isn’t Chicken and Bacon Wrap with use-by dates up to and including June 18 Greencore Group: ● Aldi Chicken Fajita Triple Wrap – June 16 ● Amazon BLT Sandwich – June 16 ● Amazon Ploughman’s Sandwich – June 16 ● Boots BLT (Sandwich) with – June 16 ● Boots BBQ Chicken Wrap – June 16 ● Boots Vegan No Chicken Salad (Sandwich) – June 16 ● Boots Vegan No Duck and Hoisin Wrap - June 16 ● Boots Veggie Triple (Sandwich) – June 16 ● Co-op Vegan Gro Onion Bhaji Sandwich – June 16 ● Morrisons Chicken Salad (Sandwich) – June 16 ● Morrisons Chicken Salad PFS (Sandwich) – June 16 ● Sainsbury’s Peri Peri Chicken Wrap – June 16 Samworth Brothers Manton Wood: ● OneStop Tuna Crunch Sub - June 16 ● OneStop Chicken Salad Sandwich - June 17 ● Tesco Chicken Salad Sandwich – June 16 ● Tesco Chicken Salad Sub – June 16 ● The Gym Kitchen Peri Peri Chicken Chilled Wrap - June 16 By Hanna Geissler Health Editor Warning... plant-based food f rm This has recalled certain vegan wraps A VEGAN meat alternatives brand has become the latest company to issue warnings over E.coli. More than 200 people have been infected across the UK since May 25 with at least 67 admitted to hospital. Plant-based food manufacturer This has recalled vegan chicken and bacon wraps with a use-by-date up to and including June 18. The wraps, containing a meat alternative made from soya and pea protein, are sold only at high street retailer WHSmith. The outbreak is thought to be linked to salad leaves mainly in sandwiches. Recall notices were issued last week for 45 products made by Greencore Group and 15 from Samworth Brothers Manton Wood. Trish Mannes, incident director at the UK Health Security Agency, said data from some of the cases has helped to narrow down likely food products. She added: “If you are unwell, have eaten salad leaves recently and are concerned about any symptoms, follow NHS.uk guidance on when to seek help and the steps you can take to avoid further spread.” E.coli, or Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), is often transmitted via contaminated food or close contact with an infected person or animal. The recent outbreak has seen at least 147 cases reported in England, 27 in Symptoms

Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 9 DX1ST THREE LIONS GEAR UP FOR NEXT GAME By Andy Lines and Paul Byrne in Germany Picture: ANDY STENNING, KBA AGENCY RAIL services were severely reduced on Sunday as scores of train drivers and staff refused to work overtime shifts on the day of England’s Euro 2024 opener against Serbia. Northern, Great Western Railway and London North Eastern Railway all cancelled services at short notice. Many drivers and crew members do not have Sunday working included in their contracts, with numerous operators often relying on them volunteering to work extra paid shifts to run timetabled services on that day. By Neil Lancefi eld Rail firms’ Euro woes LIVERPOOL legend Graeme Souness believes former team-mate Alan Hansen is on the road to recovery from illness. Former BBC pundit Hansen, 69, was rushed into hospital earlier this month but was bouncing back when Souness, 71, spoke with him. He said: “He sounded fabulous so I hope that’s him on the way to a full recovery. “He’s defi nitely back because he did nothing but take the mickey out of me. I got on the train on Sunday and my phone rang and I could see it was Big Al. I was thinking, ‘Oh no, don’t answer’. “So I sat down and got the courage to phone back and he answered the phone. He’s been in a diffi cult place but the way he sounded, he’s back, and I hope I’m right.” Match of the Day host Gary Lineker sent best wishes to his former BBC colleague on Saturday night’s show, saying: “It’s been a tough week for everyone associated with Match of the Day.” By Jeremy Armstrong Pal Souness says Hansen is sounding ‘fabulous’ Recovery…pundit Alan Fans urged to behave amid claims of chaos BBC Sport, said: “The nations came together in huge numbers to follow BBC Sport’s coverage of the Euros. “It’s great that we can showcase the best sporting storytelling across BBC TV, iPlayer, radio and online.” 15M TUNE IN TO BEEB FOR THE MATCH AN average 10.5 million people tuned in to watch England’s 1-0 winning start to Euro 2024 against Serbia. But the Beeb said its coverage had a peak audience of 15 million – while it was also streamed 3.5 million times on the iPlayer. Alex Kay-Jelski, director of By Laura Harding Scorer...Jude Bellingham GERMAN police issued a warm welcome to England fans in Frankfurt ahead of Thursday’s match with Denmark but warned they must behave themselves. Their statement came after trouble broke out in Gelsenkirchen while Three Lions supporters also reported “total chaos” surrounding the Serbia match. If England win their group they will be back in Gelsenkirchen for the round of 16 game and fans told the authorities: “Sort it out.” Thomas Concannon, spokesperson for the Football Supporters’ Association, said the situation had been “completely unacceptable”. And the Prime Minister stepped in to urge England fans to stop singing Ten German Bombers, instead concentrating on Hey Jude in honour of scorer Jude Bellingham. He said: “When it comes to the chants specifi cally, I agree with what Gareth Southgate has said about that chant in the past, and what we want is to represent the best of our country at these tournaments. And that means more goals for Jude Bellingham and more singing of Hey Jude.” It came as England the city centre there were frightening scenes as more than 150 armed police tried to arrest fl eeing Serbia and English thugs. Fan Fil Sollof, 59, said: “The behaviour of most in Gelsenkirchen was fantastic but we are let down by a minority of idiots. It was a joke in Gelsenkirchen. Total chaos.” Some supporters took four hours to get back to their hotels while Uber drivers were quoting £100 for a three-mile journey. Mr Concannon said: “We were given strong assurances that the transport system would be capable of handling the amount of fans. “Fans present remained overwhelmingly calm.” EURO 2024: SPORT & PULLOUT tive atmosphere. We ask them to help ensure that everyone adheres to the rules. This will ensure we all experience an unforgettable time.” In Gelsenkirchen on Sunday people queued for well over an hour to get into the Veltins arena. Earlier in players not involved in the 1-0 win over Serbia were seen training yesterday. Police spokesman Marcus Heide said: “The vast majority of English fans are known for being open and spreading a posiTraining...Three Lions with, inset, Southgate Just the jog as Hardest Geezer joins the party CHARITY fundraiser Russ Cook made it to England’s f rst match of Euro 2024 after running from Wembley to the stadium in Germany. The 27-year-old, known as Hardest Geezer, left London a week ago in a bid to reach Gelsenkirchen by Sunday. Russ made kick-off and witnessed Jude Bellingham’s crucial winner in the 1-0 triumph over awkward Serbia. He updated his followers on social media, showing him running the f nal stretches of his 350-mile journey. Russ said: “Collars are up, business mode is activated. Let’s have it, come on England.” He is then shown inside the Arena AufSchalke singing along to Sweet Caroline as the crowd parties and says: “One-nil win secured, back on road in the morning. Up the boys, come on.” The marathon man is running to each venue England play at and set off yesterday for Frankfurt, where England take on Denmark on Thursday. Russ, who completed a mammoth African trek from Cape Town to Tunisia in April, previously said: “I want to support the boys. This might be our year.” By Aisling Grace Way to go...Russ Cook sets off from Wembley streamed 3.5 million times on the iPlayer. Alex Kay-Jelski, director of means more goals for Jude players not involved in the 1-0 win over Serbia were seen training yesterday. Heide said: “The vast majority of English fans are known for being open and spreading a posi-

10 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST DOZENS OF FATALITIES Greek coastguard ‘threw MI5 MAY have issued a rare alert about a lawyer alleged to be a Chinese agent as a distraction from Partygate, a tribunal has heard. The security service claimed Christine Lee, below, was engaged in “political interference” in 2022. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal in London heard that former Labour MP Barry Gardiner told Ms Lee, above, in a text it had been suggested it was issued to distract from then-PM Boris Johnson’s apology for breaking lockdown rules the previous day. He said: “Many people said to me they believe [it]...was to detract attention from Boris’ Partygate apology.” Ms Lee denies being an agent and has taken her case against MI5 to the tribunal. By Callum Parke ‘Spy alert diversion over Boris’ island of Rhodes. Mohamed, a man from Syria, said the group was loaded on to a boat and dumped back in Turkish waters in life-rafts. A valve had not been properly closed on the raft his family were given, he alleged, and they “immediately began to sink”. Mohamed added: “They saw that. They heard us all screaming, and yet they still left us. “The fi rst child who died was my cousin’s son. After that, it was one by one. Another child, another child, then my cousin himself disappeared. By the morning, seven or eight children had died.” Offi cials were fi lmed in another incident taking migrants out to sea and setting them adrift. The BBC showed the footage to Dimitris Baltakos, a former head of special operations with the Greek coastguard. He denied patrols would By Hanna Geissler Off-camera talk... Dimitris Baltakos THE deaths of 43 migrants have been blamed on Greece’s coastal patrols – with accusations that nine people were deliberately hurled overboard into the Mediterranean Sea. An investigation of 15 incidents over three years discovered dozens of fatalities allegedly linked to authorities illegally returning migrants to the sea after they had reached land or forcing vessels out of Greece’s waters. The coastguard has strongly rejected that it had broken the law, insisting its staff worked “tirelessly with the utmost professionalism, a strong sense of responsibility and respect for human life and fundamental rights”. A BBC team spoke to several witnesses, including a man from Somalia who claimed he was handed to the coastguard after being caught arriving on the island of Chios in March 2021. He said: “They threw me zip-tied in the middle of the sea. They wanted me to die.” The man revealed he survived by fl oating on his back until he was able to free one of his hands but three others died. In another alleged incident in September 2022, the Greek coastguard responded after the motor cut out on a boat carrying 85 migrants near the Operations island of Rhodes. Mohamed, a man from Syria, said the group was loaded on to a boat and dumped back in Turkish waters in life-rafts. A valve had not been properly closed on the raft his family were the middle of the sea. They The man revealed he survived by fl oating on his back until he was able to free one of his hands but three others died. In another alleged incident in September 2022, the Greek coastguard responded after the motor cut out on a boat carrying 85

Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 11 DX1ST INVESTIGATED migrants to their deaths’ ISLAMIST preacher Anjem Choudary said he viewed being called an extremist or fanatic as a “medallion” during lectures, a trial was told. Choudary, who was convicted of supporting Isis in 2016, is alleged to have taken a “caretaker role” in directing a banned terrorist network, his trial at Woolwich Crown Court has heard. The 57-yearold, of Ilford, east London, is also accused of being a member of Al-Muhajiroun and encouraging support for the group by addressing online meetings of the Islamic Thinkers Society. Jurors heard that the New York-based ITS and ALM were “one and the same”. Prosecutors say Choudary, above, directed the terrorist organisation from 2014. He denies all charges. The trial continues. By Paul Jeeves Choudary ‘wore tag of fanatic’ be required to do anything illegal and refused to speculate about the footage. But he was caught on a microphone telling someone off-camera in Greek: “I haven’t told them much, right? It’s very clear, isn’t it. It’s not nuclear physics. “I don’t know why they did it in broad daylight. It’s obviously illegal. It’s an international crime.” Greece’s Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy said the footage was being investigated by its independent National Transparency Authority. This comes after hundreds of demonstrators rallied in Athens on Friday to mark the one-year anniversary of a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants off Greece, demanding answers about the disaster. Up to 700 migrants from Pakistan, Syria and Egypt were crammed into fi shing trawler Adriana bound for Italy from Libya that capsized off south-west Greece on June 14 last year. The boat had been monitored by the Greek coastguard for hours. The country is a key entry point for those trying to reach Europe and received more than 41,000 migrants last year. A Unicef report found that from January to November 2023, 34,000-plus arrived in Greece by sea. Most had come from Syria (26%), Palestine (18%) and Afghanistan (17%). Children were estimated to account for 22% of sea arrivals. Greece has long been accused of illegal push-backs to refuse entry. A report from Médecins Sans Frontières, a humanitarian medical care charity, last year included testimonies from 56 patients who witnessed incidents at sea or on land. One woman said: “As soon as we entered Greek waters, a small grey boat came in our direction. “A man dressed in all black with a covered face jumped on our boat. He had a stick in his hand and started beating the person in front of him. “Then he pulled off the engine and dropped it in the water. We were left in the sea with no engine.” The Greek coastguard told the BBC: “It should be highlighted from 2015 to 2024, the Hellenic Coast Guard has rescued 250,834 refugees/migrants in 6,161 incidents at sea. The impeccable execution of this noble mission has been positively recognised by the international community.” ● BBC’s Dead Calm: Killing In The Med? documentary is on iPlayer. Clash...Greek patrols apparently pushing migrants back into the sea. Far left, the Adriana Jumped

12 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST ‘He took the money but never secured anything for voters’ One Canada Square, London E14 5AP Tel: 020 8612 7000 (outside UK: +44 20 8612 7000) How Starmer could put homes on the line Vote Reform, get Labour T he one thing that parties vying in an election normally try to do is reassure homeowners. Not so with Labour. In the likely event that Keir Starmer’s party wins on July 4, analysts from HSBC have already warned of a hike in mortgage rates. The reason for their qualms is that Labour proposes a “real living wage” of £12 an hour. Like many such policies, this appears superfi cially just but HSBC’s economists say that an adjustment from the current national living wage of £11.44 would mean a big rise in costs for employers. As well as causing unemployment, businesses would also pass on their defi cit to customers, and the Bank of England would then keep interest rates high in order to combat infl ation. The real living wage policy is part of Sir Keir’s fl agship package, dubbed a “New Deal for Working People”, and is supposed to end what Labour calls the “discriminatory” age bands that informed the earlier national minimum wage. Set to be enacted within Sir Keir’s fi rst 100 days in power, it would be a bitter pill indeed to fi nd that Labour’s “new deal” actually stoked unemployment, infl ation and mortgage rates – particularly after the period of high infl ation caused by the war in Ukraine, now brought under control by the current government. For all its talk of fi scal growth, this looks like old-fashioned Labour economics – robbing Peter to pay Paul. I t was, if you will, a shot across the bows of the Conservatives. Yesterday, during his Reform party’s manifesto launch, Nigel Farage made an impassioned, if improbable pledge to “stop the boats” in 100 days. Rishi Sunak has rightly called on Tory voters not to move to Reform, saying that it would lead to “a generation” in power for Labour. As Mr Farage himself noted, he won’t even win this election and his eyes are on the next one in 2029. So he’s testing the political market at little cost to himself – and voters should be wary of his counterproductive gesture politics. As one Conservative Party spokesman put it: “A vote for Reform risks delivering an unaccountable Labour majority.” Reform hopes to shift the political dial – but it will be in the wrong direction. His Majesty’s hat tip T he King is back – and in real style. After Saturday’s splendid Trooping the Colour ceremony he and the Queen led the monarchy in celebrating the ancient Order of the Garter. Such ceremonies are part of the rich pageantry of British life and Charles and Camilla dressed accordingly in velvet robes and white plumed hats. The next stop is Royal Ascot – expect more fi ne millinery. I GET the frustration. The man 14 million of you voted for fi ve years ago isn’t on the ballot – and his irrepressible belief that your lives should get better because the UK could be the best place on the planet isn’t part of any pitch. He promised you Brexit and did the heavy lifting within months of winning but Covid and treacherous Tory MPs brought him down, leaving the job half done. No one is offering to fi nish it nor anything else that makes you feel the UK will be any better by the end of this decade than it was at its traumatic lockdown start. You miss the vision, the passion, the humour and delivery. Had Boris Johnson not been toppled he’d have turned up at D-Day in an ancient landing craft and waded on to the beach in full fatigues. German PM Olaf Scholtz and France’s Emmanuel Macron would have worried he’d contrast what our veterans did with their countries’ war records. He’d have praised President Biden for American support in 1944 and used it shamelessly to lock in the US for the long haul in Ukraine. Alas that man, the most compelling campaigner in recent British history, with two mayoral elections, a Brexit referendum and the knockout election of 2019, is not on the pitch. He’s at his desk in the Cotswolds writing his memoirs. S O UP steps Nigel Farage, offering simplesounding solutions to complex problems. He’s a laugh. I’ve enjoyed a few drinks with him and he says what he thinks in a refreshing way. He’s not stunned into silence like Sir Keir Starmer at the suggestion he might be a robot. But don’t be fooled. This privately educated stockbroker whose children have German passports has only once been elected to any parliament – and that was under proportional representation to the EU circus in Strasbourg. He took the money for years but never secured anything for the voters who sent him there. He loves a megaphone but he has never delivered. More importantly, what he’s offering is the exact opposite of what he promises, because every vote for Reform magnifi es the victory of Sir Keir, who told us fi ve years ago that Jeremy Corbyn would make a great prime minister. Reform claims to be the main opposition now and one poll suggests it has overtaken the Conservatives. But it has little prospect of winning many seats. Under its old name, Ukip, it took nearly four million votes in 2015 but only one constituency. Two years later its vote was down and Nigel Farage helped shaft Britain with a hung Parliament. Boris called his bluff in 2019 and delivered the largest Conservative majority for decades. But that looks set to be reversed next month unless this campaign takes a very different turn. Some predict that Sir Keir could gain almost twice the majority Boris did and bed into Downing Street for a decade. If that’s what you want, go for Farage. But don’t fool yourself that your vote will be a check on the high-spending, tax-raising, trade-union loving, red-tape imposing woke agenda that Sir Keir wants to execute. It won’t. Watching Farage join the fray must have made Labour’s day. Having seen Rishi rained on at his launch then fl uff D-Day, the opening of a second front to the right of the Tories was the icing on the cake. Only one moment made Sir Keir happier – that July day two years ago when Boris resigned. The Left couldn’t believe his own party took him out. Labour friends acknowledge relief that Boris is not in this election and I remember his warning to Tory backbenchers that voting him out would split the party, trigger relentless infi ghting, pave the way for a weaker leader and leave the fi eld open for Labour. With Liz Truss before Rishi, Labour’s small lead in the polls got bigger and bigger. RISHI is a hard-working economist who understands fi nancial markets and the best opportunities for growing the economy. Infl ation has come down drastically. He’s identifi ed £12billion to cut from the welfare budget and is on a mission to abolish National Insurance. And he’s passed legislation to allow illegal migrants to be fl own to Rwanda, deterring the small boats. But it’s hard to see him turning this election around. The best check on unfettered Starmer rule is a strong Conservative showing with decent people who know how government works and who are well placed to kick Labour out of offi ce at the next election. Nigel Farage isn’t offering that. So don’t be fooled that he’s remotely capable of delivering the future you want. Guto Harri Boris Johnson’s former director of communications MAKING LABOUR’S DAY: Farage’s vociferous campaigning is splitting the Right Don’t be fooled by megaphone-loving Nigel’s empty vows Boris Johnson’s former director Picture: AARON CHOWN/PA

Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 13 DX1ST I’M NOT saying it wouldn’t have been fun for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dad Ed to be treated to a Majorcan jaunt aboard £300million superyacht Launchpad with his family decked out in T-shirts saying: “Ed’s kids”. I bet they had a blast. I couldn’t help thinking, though, of the dads who are woken at dawn to sip lukewarm mugs of stewed tea brewed for them with love, and heaping praise on crayoned pictures while expressing undying thanks for a new pair of socks. By all means throw everything including the kitchen sink at Father’s Day festivities, but I’m not convinced that cash has much to do with creating an unforgettable day. Isn’t it the charred chicken legs at rainedoff barbecues and the relay races in the park that make the best memories? Or am I a sentimental fool? Actually, don’t answer that... And if my descendants do decide to club together to charter Launchpad for Mother’s Day, I’m in. Socks, kids and a cuppa float the boat of most dads So many falling foul of deadly pavements WE BANG on about potholes all the time, but we never discuss the other perennial peril posing threat to life and limb – I’m talking about our hazardous and ill-maintained pavements. On Friday at 6.04pm, I received this message from my son-in-law: “Vanessa, come urgently. I need you to stay with the children. Allegra is badly injured. We’re waiting for the ambulance.” My lithe, fit daughter, in her mid-30s, was walking home from work, enjoying the brief spell of sunshine and looking forward to a weekend with her family. She was wearing a pair of sensible trainers, and her phone was exactly where it should have been, safely zipped inside her briefcase. She tripped on an uneven pavement slab and as she hurtled forward, hit her face on another jagged shard of broken pavement. Her husband, summoned by kind passers-by, found her unable to move, lying in a spreading pool of her own blood. They arrived home from the hospital at just past midnight. My daughter looked like a broken bird. She had fractured her elbow in two places. A wide gash on her chin was cleaned and stitched up. She has a black eye, a cut across her eyebrow, lacerations and contusions on her knees and a nasty wound in the centre of one palm. Six hours after the accident she was still shaking, her teeth chattering. My son-in-law had the presence of mind to take a picture of the cracked, potentially lethal, pavement. If the council is not flooded with calls from injured residents, it’s a miracle. O N LBC on Sunday, I asked listeners about the problems of navigating the UK’s neglected pavements – and the switchboard ignited. We heard from a 30-yearold wheelchair user who was hurled from her chair, smashing her nose so badly that the surgeon warned she must never again leave the house unaccompanied because the damage was so bad another break would be irreparable. We gasped as a woman, mourning the loss of her beloved mother, described a tumble on a pavement which caused a fatal brain injury. A woman in her 40s on a walking holiday in Scotland phoned fresh from A&E. She’d fallen horribly over an unexpected crevice in a high street pavement. A blind gentleman described the difficulty decaying pavements pose to him and his invaluable guide dog. Is it too much in 2024 to implore our councils to protect us from unsafe pavements? Vanessa Feltz FROM THE HEART POLICE OFFICER’S BEASTLY TREATMENT OF RUNAWAY CALF IS UNREAL I WAS in the newsroom at work when footage circulated of the Surrey police officer deliberately ramming twice into an escaped young cow with their vehicle, flinging her 30ft before trapping her under the car’s bumper. I asked if it was a deep fake. The act was of such unimaginable brutality I couldn’t believe it hadn’t been computer generated. Minutes later a statement confirmed the footage was genuine. Farmers and vets began to call in. Horror and disgust were universal. Alternative methods of calming and rounding up calves are second nature to most country dwellers. Astoundingly the calf, called Beau Lucy, survived the onslaught and is recuperating. The officer behind the wheel has been removed from frontline duties. Any Emmerdale viewer or Archers listener can tell you his action was an affront to man and beast. ■ GRAND Tour presenter Richard Hammond, 54, counsels chaps to keep their marriages vibrant by getting involved in the weekly shop. Does Hammond suggest shouldering a bag for life and heading to the supermarket in person? Not exactly. His precise words were these: “Stay connected at that level, know what’s in the fridge, know what cleaning products you use in the house, stay connected to that.” What? Happily munching the contents of the fridge and idly spectating as your wife shakes and vacs may keep you “connected”, but neither counts as pulling your weight or easing your partner’s burden. Hammond’s terminology is all about dodging the boring bits. “Stay connected” indeed! I can feel my blood coming to the boil. ANYONE who doubts the value of the Royal Family should examine the instant fillip the sight of the Princess of Wales gave the nation on Saturday. The boost to our national psyche was immense. We were worried about Kate, concerned about the debilitating effect of her chemotherapy and anxious she was avoiding cameras because she was simply too depleted to venture out in public. Although we are aware that her radiant appearance doesn’t mean she isn’t struggling through bad days, and might have come at considerable cost, it was a delight and palpable relief to see her happily joking with daughter Charlotte, nine, and keeping irresistible rascal Louis, six, in line. Seeing Kate and her father-in-law enjoying themselves, while being treated for cancer, sent an important and reassuring message about not merely surviving cancer but living your very best life with the illness. Fellow sufferers were cheered beyond measure, and those caring for and worrying about them will be forever grateful. Kate’s joy a right royal pick-me-up TAYLOR Swift’s ex, British actor Joe Alwyn, is sanguine about the demise of their relationship being picked over in public. I have experience of the same thing and can testify that having the ruins of what seemed to you a real, lasting love analysed by strangers is not fun. I’ll try to take a lesson from mature Alwyn who says: “So you have something very real suddenly thrown into a very unreal space: tabloids, social media, press, where it is then dissected, speculated on, pulled out of shape beyond recognition. “And the truth is, to that last point, there is always going to be a gap between what is known and what is said. I have made my peace with that.” I haven’t but I’m channelling Joe and doing my best. I’d go with the Joe after a Swift ex-it Pictures: GETTY

the Beatles and Wings as well as some of his solo material. The tour dates mark his fi rst live shows in the UK since his Glastonbury gig in June 2022, where he became the festival’s oldest solo headliner. A crowd of more than 100,000 people gathered at the festival’s famous Pyramid stage to watch him. The set featured surprise appearances from Bruce Springsteen and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl. Sir Paul performed for more than two Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 15 DX1ST Electrifying Picture: KEVIN MAZUR/GETTY host added: “Since I left, people bring along items from the 1970s, which for me seems like only a few days ago. “Sometimes they have autographs of people I met during my career – the Beatles, fi lm stars like Elizabeth Taylor.” When he fi rst joined the show some experts were unimpressed at his appointment, given his past presenting included hosting Miss World. He reveals: “As far as they were concerned, I was a vulgar interloper. They also complained that I knew nothing about antiques. But I didn’t have to. “They were the ones with the knowledge.” The BBC declined to comment on Aspel’s recollections. ● BBC Four is showing a series of archive editions of Antiques Roadshows this Sunday, including ones featuring Aspel. MICHAEL Aspel says he “fell on his sword” when he realised BBC bosses thought he was getting too old to front Antiques Roadshow. The host of the popular series for eight years until 2008 told Radio Times he then felt forced out. He was replaced by Fiona Bruce. Aspel, now 91, said: “I fell on my sword, because I knew they wanted me to go. It’s ironic being eased out of an antiques show because of your age.” He revealed: “I’d arrive at a venue and think, ‘I’d like to live here’ and then think exactly the same at the next place.” The former chat show By Mark Jef eries Aspel too much of an antique for roadshow Veteran…Aspel today Host…Aspel on show Macca to Get Back on stage at 81 By Tara Fair UK tour dates...Sir Paul SIR Paul McCartney has announced his fi rst UK shows since he headlined Glastonbury in 2022. The former Beatles star, 81, will bring his Got Back tour to London and Manchester in December. He said: “I’m excited to be ending my year and 2024 with tour dates in the UK. It’s always such a special feeling to play shows on our home soil. “It’s going to be an amazing end to the year. Let’s get set to party. I can’t wait to see you.” Sir Paul will play Manchester’s Co-op Live arena on December 14 and 15 and London’s O2 on December 18 and 19. His Got Back show includes music from hours, and was joined on stage by Springsteen for Glory Days and I Wanna Be Your Man. The electrifying show was further amplifi ed as he introduced Grohl to the stage to sing I Saw Her Standing There and Band on the Run. Sir Paul will also take his Got Back show to France and Spain, after previously announcing upcoming dates in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru this October. He launched the tour in 2022, completing 16 shows across the US before his Glastonbury appearance. Last year he performed 18 shows in Australia, Mexico and Brazil. Tickets for the UK shows go on sale from June 21 at 10am. A magical night as Daniel bags a Tony DANIEL Radcliffe is celebrating after winning his f rst Tony Award, calling the honour “one of the best experiences of my life”. The Harry Potter actor was among a star-studded gathering for the ceremony, including Angelina Jolie and her daughter Vivienne, Nick Jonas, Nicole Scherzinger, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson. Daniel, 34, has left audiences spellbound with his starring role in Merrily We Roll Along, winning the award for best actor in a featured role in a musical. He thanked the late George Furth and Stephen Sondheim “for writing this unbelievable show” in 1981, describing the songs as “a gift to get to sing every night”. Daniel said: “This has been one of the best experiences of my life,” and called it an “honour” to share the stage with co-stars Lindsay Mendez and Jonathan Groff in the musical, which charts the turbulent relationship between three lifelong friends. He added: “I don’t really have to act in this show, I just have to look at you and I feel everything. I will never have it this good again.” He also paid tribute to his partner Erin Darke, adding: “My love Erin, you and our son are the best thing that has ever happened to me, thank you so much.” The awards, honouring Broadway productions, were held at Lincoln Centre’s David H. Koch Theatre in New York. Daniel’s Merrily We Roll Along co-star Jonathan won best actor in a musical, while Sarah Paulson won best actress in a play for Appropriate. The Outsiders won the award for best musical, and Stereophonic was named best play. By Ellie Iorizzo Tribute Jolie good fun...star Angelina and, below, with her daughter Vivienne Daniel bags a Tony everything. I will never have it He also paid tribute to his partner Erin Darke, adding: “My love Erin, you and our son are the best thing that has ever happened to me, thank you The awards, honouring Broadway productions, were held at Lincoln Centre’s David H. Koch Theatre in New York. Daniel’s Merrily We Roll Along co-star Jonathan won best actor in a musical, while Sarah Paulson won best The Outsiders won the award for best musical, everything. I will never have it his partner Erin Darke, adding: “My love Erin, you and our son are the best thing that has ever happened to me, thank you Broadway productions, were held at Lincoln Centre’s David H. 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Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 17 DX1ST Patient ‘talked hospital worker down from deadly lone wolf terror attack’ Pictures: GRAHAM HUNT/BNPS Danger...Paris Olympics FUTURE Olympic Games should be moved to cooler months to protect athletes from the searing summer heat. Climate scientists and heat physiologists from the University of Portsmouth warned that temperatures at the Paris games could lead to competitors collapsing or even dying. In a report, they called for changing the schedules so they take place in cooler months or cooler times of day. Kaitlyn Trudeau, of Climate Central, said: “The Earth’s temperatures are on a trajectory that will make it impossible, to host summer Olympics.” She said extreme heat combined with humidity means the body struggles to cool, which can lead to dizziness, exhaustion and heat stroke. It comes after the 2020 Tokyo Games were the hottest in history, with temperatures above 34C. Marcus Daniell, a New Zealand tennis bronze medallist, said the heat “could potentially be fatal”. By Rebecca Speare-Cole Summer is ‘too hot for athletes in Olympics’ movement, pinched one of her fries before she had time to react. Moments later, a gluttonous f ock ambushed a young family as they sat down at a table to eat a meal. Three bandit birds landed and helped themselves to their chips and a piece of sausage. The incidents in Lyme Regis, Dorset, have alarmed visitors. But the town has something of a history of seagull trouble. In 2019, the local council deployed eagles to protect the beaches from gulls after complaints they were terrorising tourists. The birds are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which makes it illegal to kill or injure them. Beaky blinders ...seagulls fl y in for food in Lyme Regis Flock horror! Gulls mug tourists TRIPPERS have been terrorised at a seaside resort by hungry seagulls swooping for their food. In one incident, a bird launched a f y-by “mugging” of a woman walking with a carton of chips, left. The gull swooped down and, in one swift By Tara Fair By Paul Jeeves Crime Editor ‘Radicalised’..Mohammed Farooq Act of kindness ...Nathan Newby A RADICALISED hospital worker was persuaded by a patient to abandon his plans to slaughter “as many nurses as possible” in a bomb and knife rampage, a court has heard. Mohammad Farooq was about to carry out a “lone wolf” attack where he worked when he was spotted by Nathan Newby, it is claimed. The clinical support worker was allegedly ready to explode his homemade pressure cooker bomb at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds. But Mr Newby managed to “talk down” Farooq, 28, in the early hours of January 20 last year, it was said. It is alleged Farooq planned to “seek martyrdom” through a “murderous attack” by detonating the bomb, then stabbing several people before using an imitation gun to incite police to shoot him dead. Jonathan Sandiford KC, prosecuting, told Sheffi eld Crown Court Farooq concocted “Plan A” to attack RAF Menwith Hill, North Yorks. But he opted for “Plan B”, a “softer and less wellprotected target”, it was said. Farooq is also said to have harboured a grievance against several former colleagues. But Mr Sandiford said “two pieces of fortune intervened”. The fi rst was a bomb threat he sent to lure people to the car park was not seen for almost an hour and an evacuation failed. Farooq then intended to detonate his device in a hospital cafe. But “luck intervened again” when Mr Newby went outside for a cigarette. Mr Sandiford said: “Mr Newby realised something was amiss and began to talk to him. That act of kindness almost certainly saved many lives as the defendant told police Mr Newby succeeded in ‘talking him down’.” Farooq admits fi rearms offences, possessing an explosive substance and having a terrorist document but he denies preparing acts of terrorism and an intention to attack Menwith Hill. The trial continues. Court Farooq concocted “Plan A” to attack RAF Menwith Hill, North Yorks. But he opted for “Plan B”, a “softer and less wellprotected target”, it was said. Farooq is also said to have harboured a grievance against several former colleagues. But Mr Sandiford said “two pieces of fortune intervened”. The fi rst was a bomb threat he sent to lure people to the car park was not Mr Sandiford said: “Mr Newby realised something was amiss and began to talk to him. That act of kindness almost certainly saved many lives as the defendant told police Mr Newby succeeded in ‘talking him down’.” Farooq admits fi rearms offences, possessing an explosive substance and having a terrorist document but he denies preparing acts of terrorism and an intention to attack Menwith Hill. The trial continues. A BOY, 16, was crushed to death by a tree it is claimed he was helping to cut. It is claimed Kamil Hubert was holding a rope while workers lopped branches when part of the 30ft tree fell on him in Carlton-inLindrick, Notts. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Two men aged 28 and 31 have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. A woman, 28, has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. Detective Inspector Simon Harrison described the death as “a tragic incident”. By Chris Riches Boy killed by tree fall

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Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 19 DX1ST DRIVERS have been warned to expect delays during a third weekend closure on the M25. National Highways will shut the motorway between junctions 10 and 11 in Surrey from 9pm on Friday, July 12 until 6am Monday. The latest details of fi ve scheduled closures are part of a £317million project to improve junction 10. Shutting the road will allow for construction of a bridge. Motorway vehicles will be directed along A-roads. Jonathan Wade, senior project manager, said: “Please ignore your satnavs and follow our diversion route instead.” By Neil Lancefi eld M25 delay warnings A FAMILY say they must pay a £41,000 “ransom” to free their father from a Turkish hospital after he fell ill on holiday. Malcolm Stocker, 68, was admitted to hospital in Marmaris with an upset stomach. Doctors told his family he was suffering from pneumonia and put him into an induced coma with a medical ventilator for two weeks. He was woken two weeks ago and remains in hospital. His son Lee, 42, from Weymouth, has fl own out to be with his father, of Exmouth, Devon. Daughter Emma-Jane Stocker said the hospital are refusing to release him until the family pay the fi rst half of his medical bill. Miss Stocker, 33, said: “The hospital are holding him and demanding payment. “Every day they have him the bill goes up. It is like they are holding him hostage and won’t release him until the fi rst £20,000 is paid.” The Foreign Offi ce was contacted for comment. By Tara Fair Dad ‘held to ransom’ in hospital say family Fell ill...Malcolm Stocker By Chris Riches Picture: DANIEL JAE WEBB/SWNS Hospital move bid for mum of baby ‘attacked by Letby’ By Daniel Jae Webb THE driver of this lorry escaped unhurt after his vehicle left the road and plunged into a canal. The articulated truck owned by Spanish logistics f rm PrimaFrio, left the carriageway and came to rest in the Kennet and Avon Canal. Emergency services were called to the A346 near Burbage, Wilts, in the early hours of Sunday. Wiltshire Police later said the driver of the vehicle was unharmed. The force issued a warning to motorists to Driver unharmed after lorry plunges into canal Lucky to be alive...lorry left the road and rolled down an embankment avoid the area and f nd alternative routes. Poice added that a “lengthy recovery” took place during which the road was closed for around 24 hours. The driver was looked over by paramedics while Network Rail has been asked to inspect the bridge. A f re service source said officers plugged a fuel leak from the lorry. The Environment Agency and the highways team were informed of the incident. Griffi ths told the court that such dips, known as desaturations, were “not uncommon” in newborns. Mr Myers asked Ms Griffi ths why it was necessary to have “almost continual observations” of high-risk babies such as Baby K. She replied: “Because they are so fragile.” He went on: “It’s the case that even when apparently stable you have to watch them to make sure they don’t deteriorate, isn’t it?” Ms Griffi ths answered: “Yes.” The jury heard that Baby K was eventually transported to Wirral’s Arrowe Park Hospital on February 17 but died there three days later. The prosecution does not allege Letby caused her death. Letby, from Hereford, denies attempted murder. The case continues. A DOCTOR who treated a baby allegedly attacked by killer nurse Lucy Letby stood by her call not to earlier transfer the infant’s mother to a specialist hospital, a court heard. Letby, 34, allegedly attempted to murder the child, known only as Baby K, in the neo-natal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2016 by deliberately displacing the tot’s breathing tube. Manchester Crown Court heard how Letby was convicted last year of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six more. Now she denies trying to kill Baby K within two hours of her birth after she was born “extremely premature” at 2.12am on February 17 eight years ago and weighed just 1lb 8oz. Jurors were told yesterday that plans to move Baby K’s mother to the nearest available hospital at Preston, Lancashire, were cancelled some 35 hours earlier. Giving evidence, consultant obstetrician Dr Sara Brigham said: “It was felt she was advancing in labour so was unsuitable to transfer because of the risk that she could deliver in the back of an ambulance. “Based on the clinical situation at the time, it was the right decision not to transfer her.” Junior prosecutor Simon Driver asked: “Do you stand by your clinical judgment at the time?” Dr Brigham Court drama... jailed killer Letby has denied that she attempted to murder Baby K replied: “I do.” Ben Myers KC, defending, asked the doctor: “With regard to the transfer, that would be something in an ideal world you would have wanted to take place?” Dr Brigham said: “It would, yes.” Mr Myers said: “As it happened, hindsight being a wonderful thing, [Baby K] was not born for another 35 hours so, in fact, there would have been time if that decision had not been taken?” Dr Brigham replied: “I don’t think you can say that because she was lying in a bed. “The act of transferring to a trolley and into an ambulance may have caused the membranes to rupture.” The prosecution claim Letby was “caught virtually red-handed” by senior consultant paediatrician Dr Ravi Jayaram when he entered nursery one on February 17 and saw the nurse standing over Baby K’s cot “doing nothing” as the tot’s blood oxygen levels dipped. Senior neo-natal nurse Yvonne Cancelled

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The cry came after Spain, Ireland and Norway recently all did so, prompting anger from Israel, which has found itself increasingly isolated after nearly eight months of war in Gaza. Experts including the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories said recognition would be a vital acknowledgement of the rights and struggle of the people towards independence. The group’s joint statement said: “This is a pre-condition for lasting peace in Palestine and By Mark Reynolds UN call for global recognition of Palestine to bring lasting truce tary confirmed it would now be holding a daily suspension of military activity along a road in southern Gaza to enable aid to enter. A spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces said on Sunday the pauses would last from 8am to 7pm until further notice. But a spokesman for Mr Netanyahu said this was “unacceptable to him”. Mr Ben-Gvir also denounced the idea, saying whoever decided it was a “fool” who should lose their job. Amid clear unrest behind the scenes, the military later clarified that “normal operations” would continue in Rafah, the main focus of its operation in southern Gaza, where eight Israeli soldiers were killed on Saturday. But the angry reaction of the PM underlined political tensions over the issue of aid coming into Gaza, where organisations battle a humanitarian crisis. Despite international pressure for a ceasefire, an agreement to halt the fighting still appears distant. There have been widespread protests attacking the government for not doing more to bring home around 120 hostages still in Gaza. Meanwhile, officials said seven Palestinians were killed in air strikes on two houses in Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. BENJAMIN Netanyahu dissolved Israel’s six-member war cabinet yesterday as political tensions grew. The incensed Prime Minister acted hours after turning on his own military, criticising army chiefs for pledging to hold daily “tactical pauses” in fighting in Gaza to allow in humanitarian aid. The widely expected dissolution follows the departure from government of the centrist former general Benny Gantz. The PM had faced demands from nationalist-religious partners in his coalition – far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir – to be included in the war cabinet. That move could have intensified strains with international allies, not least the United States. Israeli sources said “some of the issues previously discussed by the war cabinet will now be transferred for discussion in the security cabinet but sensitive decisions will be addressed in a smaller consultation forum”. However, the turmoil came as protesters against Mr Netanyahu’s government and its handling of the war with Hamas stage a week of demonstrations. 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Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 21 DX1ST Doctor diagnosed my Parkinson’s when he saw me on Taskmaster Pictures: PETER HARRIES / SWNS A MAN was seriously injured yesterday after being attacked by a dog. The 24-year-old was given critical care by medics from an air ambulance and taken to hospital. The dog, understood to be a pitbull/Staffordshire bull terrier cross, was sedated and removed, South Wales Police said. The incident happened in Aberavon, near Port Talbot, around 7am. A police spokesman said that the 24-yearold had been taken to hospital with serious injuries, adding: “Our investigation is ongoing.” A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We sent one emergency ambulance to the scene. “Advanced critical care support was delivered by the emergency medical retrieval and transfer service in a Wales Air Ambulance charity helicopter. “One person was taken by road to hospital.” By Jordan Reynolds Man, 24, savaged by dog THE killer of a retired teacher who lured him to his death on a dating app has been sentenced to life. Paul McNaughton, 29, killed Peter Coshan, 75, in a fl at in Leith, Edinburgh, in August 2022 after using a fake profi le to get him to come to the address. McNaughton fi rst met the former Fettes College teacher online in 2021 and proceeded to steal tens of thousands of pounds from him after gaining access to his bank accounts. When Mr Coshan found out about the thefts, he threatened to go to the police unless McNaughton provided him with sexual favours, a court heard. McNaughton hatched a plot to kill him after becoming “fed up”. The killer, who admitted murder and attempting to pervert the course of justice, was sentenced to life at Glasgow High Court with a recommendation he serve a minimum of 22 years. By Tara Fair Life term for date app killer to do it and being absolutely terrifi ed. Jumping out of a plane, though, you look down and it’s like Google maps. “You’re so high, it becomes a bit more abstract and once you jump you feel like you’re fl oating. You don’t have this feeling of falling, which helps. “I love it and actually part of the reason I still do it is if it doesn’t scare me then it wouldn’t be worth doing.” Laura still struggles with heights, however. She explained: “As a kid I wouldn’t climb a tree. I went on a trip with my boyfriend, we went up the Eiffel Tower and halfway up I remember how scared of heights I am.” Laura, of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, pushed herself to do a tandem skydive in June 2007 for Clic Sargent cancer care while at Loughborough University. After enjoying her fi rst jump, she joined the skydiving committee and from there learned how to master it herself. Skydiving champ scared of heights A PROFESSIONAL skydiver has jumped out of a plane more than 5,000 times – despite being afraid of heights. Laura Hampton, 38, was scared to climb trees and ladders as a child. But she fell in love with the daredevil pursuit after having to face her fears in a charity event. She has represented Team GB, has a world record and is now a skydiving coach. Laura said: “Me and some of my housemates did a skydive, which was absolutely amazing and I remember going By Freddie Noble Plane sailing... Laura and thumbs up. Left, a wave and in formation condition. Paul appeared on the show, which stars Greg Davies and Alex Horne, fi ve years ago. He told the Loose Ends podcast: “I was diagnosed when I was 49, which is below average, but you fi nd out from meeting other people with Parkinson’s that you’re by no means the youngest. “I presented with a stiff, painful right shoulder which didn’t get any better for a year and a half. But it was treated as an orthopaedic problem. Eventually, people thought something else was up. And that coincided with me being on Taskmaster. That turned out to be something of a clue. “The fi rst consultant I saw said, ‘I watched you last week on Taskmaster, it was very obvious you’ve got early Parkinson’s disease’. “There are medical schools that use my performance on Taskmaster to show people what early Parkinson’s disease looks like.” He told the Loose Ends pod- be something of a clue. cast: “I was diagnosed when I was 49, which is below average, but you fi nd out from meeting other people with Parkinson’s that you’re by no means the youngest. “I presented with a stiff, painful right shoulder which didn’t get any better for a year and a half. But be something of a clue. “The fi rst consultant I saw said, ‘I watched you last week on Taskmaster, it was very obvious you’ve got early Parkinson’s disease’. “There are medical schools that use my performance on Taskmaster to show people what early Parkinson’s disease Chase star Paul says consultant identified condition on show By Tara Fair Game show...Paul, second right, in Taskmaster PAUL Sinha, star of The Chase, has revealed he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease after a doctor spotted symptoms while watching him on TV. The 54-year-old had been suffering with a painful shoulder for 18 months but medics had been unable to work out why. It was only when he took part in the Channel 4 show Taskmaster – where celebrities attempt to perform a series of challenges – that a consultant who was watching fi gured it out. Footage of his appearance is now shown to medical students to teach them how to diagnose the In pain... Chase star Paul

22 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST Oil boss sues after fire sinks his £1.4m yacht Picture: KEN MCKAY/ITV/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK Claim...Mr Armour about £530,000. It meant that, were they to be found liable, the amount payable by the insurers would be capped – a rule introduced into English law by the Merchant Shipping Act 1995. Now Admiralty Registrar Richard Davidson, in a judgment just made public, has refused an application by Halcyon to prevent the cap. He said: “It is commonplace for the limitation claim and the underlying claims to be tried or arbitrated separately and in separate jurisdictions. “A ship owner is at liberty to choose his domiciliary court as the forum in which to set up his limitation fund and establish his right to limit liability.” The judge said any other owners of vessels damaged in the fire will also be bound by a UK limitation ruling. On the fire investigation, the judge said: “The cause of the fire is simply unknown. Eighteen months have elapsed and no evidence has emerged to suggest that it was started deliberately or recklessly.” The limitation rule, designed to make international commercial shipping insurable and viable, varies from country to country. Mr Armour will continue his compensation claim in Greece. A TYCOON is fighting for compensa- By Richard Gittins tion after his classic wooden yacht was destroyed during a dock blaze. Andrew Armour is making a claim over 95ft oak-framed vessel Halcyon. Made in 1929 and worth £1.4million eight years ago, it sank during a fire in September 2022 while moored at Corfu in Greece. At the time it was being hired out for £17,000 a week. A blaze started aboard nearby motor cruiser Big Kahuna in Gouvia Marina, one of the largest in Greece which can dock up to 960 vessels. The fire spread to three boats, sending the Halcyon to the bottom of the Mediterranean. The yacht, which boasted teak interiors and cabins for eight guests plus three crew, had been bought by a partnership headed by Wales-based oil boss Mr Armour in 2005. Mr Armour, a geologist who specialises in locating oilfields and is based at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, heads the Halcyon Yacht Charter firm. It is seeking up to £1.6million compensation in the Greek courts for its sinking. It issued proceedings last December against the owners of Big Kahuna for compensation. But Big Kahuna’s owners and their insurers asked the High Court in London for the nautical law of limitation to be applied to limit the claim to Blaze... Gouvia Marina in 2022. Inset, the Halcyon New Zealand but the Noel said it was also acceptable in the UK. Susanna responded: “I’ll have to apologise for that just in case there are families that don’t think so.” She then asked about his relationship with Mr Blobby, who featured on show Noel’s House Party. And the character promptly entered. As Mr Blobby hugged Noel, he said: “The only thing that could be said about this, he makes Ed look slim.” It prompted a mock shocked response from the ex-politician co-host before they cut to a advert. Noel’s Blobby gafe in TV return NOEL Edmonds’ appearance on By Mark Reynolds Good Morning Britain descended into chaos as Susanna Reid had to apologise for him swearing. The broadcaster, 75, was also criticised by viewers for his jibe at Ed Balls’ weight after Mr Blobby joined them on the ITV show’s sofa. The Swap Shop legend was talking about his life in New Zealand, revealing he owns an old English pub called the Bugger Inn. GMB presenter Susanna told Noel to “steady” himself, prompting him to say: “No, that’s perfectly acceptable language.” She argued it might be allowed in Mayhem... Noel with Mr Blobby, Ed and Susanna Call charges can vary so please check with your network provider. 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Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 23 DX1ST Siblings united for first time after 70 years A FAMILY history of Alzheimer’s on the mother’s side might increase the chance of developing the condition, a study found. Inheriting a greater risk of the disease can lead to changes in the brain that could form a link to dementia. The US study involved 4,400 adults aged 65 to 85 who had memory loss and trouble solving problems. It found that those with a history of Alzheimer’s on their mother’s side, or both parents, had increased proteins – known as amyloids –linked to the disease in the brain. The fi ndings, published in the Jama Neurology journal, indicate that considering sex-specifi c parental history could be important in identifying adults at heightened risk. Senior author HyunSik Yang, a neurologist at Mass General Brigham in Massachusetts, said: “If participants had a family history on their mother’s side, a higher amyloid level was observed.” By Nina Massey Dementia risk ‘link to mums’ EXPERTS have called for more humanity in inquests after a study found many bereaved families feel let down by the process. The anxiety and distress experienced during the hearing into the death of a loved one can be damaging for some, it was said. One mother who took part in the research said that “the inquest was probably not far off as traumatic as the death for me”. A grieving sister said: “We felt as if we were in the moment of my brother’s death again. It felt like I was experiencing it twice.” Professor Jessica Jacobson, research leader from Birkbeck, University of London, said: “Change is urgently needed to close the gap between expectations of the coroner service and what it can deliver. It is time to ensure that humanity is put at the heart of the service.” The research has been published at voicing-loss. icpr.org.uk By Aine Fox Inquests ‘need more humanity’ Together at last... the siblings meet in the UK. Right, their dad Sydney doorstep of a convent’s orphanage in the rain, which caused him to have bronchopneumonia and spend the fi rst three years of his life in hospital. He was put into foster care, had no idea what his heritage was, and faced racism all throughout his childhood. James added: “I was getting called every name under the sun, and I didn’t even know where I came from.” He tried to track down his birth mum, using an address on his birth certifi cate, and later had a call from her, but decided not to go further. Two years after James was born, Sydney met Josephine’s birth mum in Liverpool. But when she was two her mum and dad split – and the youngster eventually ending up in foster care with Barnardo’s. Josephine explained her mum also faced racism for being white but having a mixed race child. She said: “My mum went to London and couldn’t get a room because they didn’t want mixed race people – there were notices up. “She tried to get me into a playgroup but was told they couldn’t have me because it would upset the other parents, so she left me in a bedroom and went to work. A neighbour called welfare and I was put into foster care.” Josephine moved to the Isle of Wight with her foster mother and, like James, experienced racism. Around the same time Josephine was born, the family believe Sydney may have had an affair with Lorraine’s mum, as she was born just 13 months after Josephine. Last summer, Lorraine found Josephine through a DNA match on MyHeritage, and shortly after – with the help of Josephine’s granddaughter Chloe Fox – found James. Josephine said: “We have the same sense of humour and there’s a lot of love between the three of us. I absolutely adore Lorraine and Jimmy.” Woman finds brother and sister on website By Chris Riches Close...Josephine, James and Lorraine were separated by thousands of miles THREE siblings in their 70s on different sides of the Atlantic met for the fi rst time after discovering each other on a family history website. Lorraine Williams, 74, from British Columbia, Canada, found that James McLoughlin, 77, of Liverpool, and Josephine Morey, 75, from the Isle of Wight, were her brother and sister thanks to genealogy site MyHeritage. Discovering each other seven decades later, the half-siblings have become close through online calls and messages, with Josephine admitting her life now feels “complete”. Dad Sydney, who died aged 80 in 2000, fathered James and Josephine with two women before meeting Lorraine’s mum and emigrating with his new family to Canada in 1951. The trio met face-to-face for the fi rst time at a Best Western Hotel in Southampton last Friday, and were so thrilled they shared a “group hug”. James and Josephine never knew who their father was but thanks to Lorraine they have learned he was from Saint Kitts in the Caribbean – allowing them to teach their own families about their black heritage. Josephine admitted when Lorraine contacted her she was stunned, adding: “I was so shocked…I just was fl oored when we found out about James too. I was apprehensive to start with because I didn’t want to get hurt …but I love them so much now, and I feel complete.” While Lorraine said: “I can tell you with absolute certainty my dad would be over the moon with this, he would be just tickled pink, he would be so proud of them, because I am.” James remarked: “I feel whole now – I always thought my family started with me, and I was just delighted to fi nd out the news.” Sydney, was born in Saint Kitts in 1920 and moved to Liverpool in the early 1940s for work where he met James’s birth mum and he was born in 1947. But James said his mum abandoned him at three weeks on the Abandoned Affair

24 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST THE Rev Richard Coles says he made good money from his No1 hit with The Communards, a cover of Don’t Leave Me This Way, but not as much as someone else enjoyed while lying on their lilo. The clergyman, pictured, says: “The 1980s were a good time to be in a band because there was so much money. “The trouble is you get it so quickly you don’t know what to do. We did get a nice letter from one of the men who wrote it, who built a new swimming pool from the proceeds of our version.” THE change to card and phone payments instead of cash is particularly disappointing for one man, according to Love Actually actor Marcus Brigstocke. Brigstocke, who admits to once buying himself two coin sorters, said: “I did have a lot of coins. “Imagine being King Charles and waiting that long to have your face on the money, and the same year that your face goes on the money we all go, ‘We’re not using that any more.’” THE childhood home of former England rugby star Jonny Wilkinson and his brother Mark paid a heavy price for the boys’ sports obsession. Mark says: “Jonny and I built a set of rugby posts out of empty toilet rolls. And then we had single toilet rolls which we fi lled with kitchen roll so we could do kicking competitions in one of the rooms of the house, which also had holes in the ceiling from the tennis court we’d built in there.” Jonny admits: “Most of the curtains came down.” Mark adds: “When we started to have friends round, and they were asking, ‘Do I need my gum shield?’ that was when we realised we had a problem.” CURB Your Enthusiasm star Larry David says he looks after himself and takes vitamins, but when asked which ones, he admits: “Half of mine I don’t even know. I don’t know if they do anything. “You feel healthy when you’re taking them, you have no idea what they’re doing, and it’s probably a huge waste of money. “I got a handful – I’m like four swallows.” DITCHED by Absolute Radio, Frank Skinner says he’d jump at a return to the airwaves because broadcasting lets him imagine everyone’s laughing at his jokes even when they’re not – unlike when he’s derailed by awkward silences on stage. Asked if he’d take another radio show, Skinner, pictured, says: “Yeah, I love doing it. “When you can hear the audience, sometimes you begin a subject and you’re not getting laughs and then you actually reverse out of that street because there’s no laughs. “On radio, because I think people are laughing all the time in my imagination, I get past that and then you fi nd further down the street there are true riches. “But if I’d been doing that in stand-up I don’t think I’d have got there because I’d have thought, ‘They don’t like this, I’ll do something else.’ So it’s easier to keep your nerve on radio.” HICKEY T HE Rolling Stones have been in existence for more than 60 years yet just eight men can claim to have been a member of the band often regarded as the world’s hardestworking rock ’n’ roll outfi t. By contrast, during their most successful period between 1980 and 1985 – a time in which they scored two No1 singles – Dexys Midnight Runners comfortably counted more than two dozen musicians passing through their ranks. Success didn’t breed stability. The exit door was swinging on a near-constant basis. Going in pursuit of these musicians, nearly half a century later, to fi nd out how their lives panned out became an epic manhunt. It also became the subject of my new book: Searching For Dexys Midnight Runners. Formed in Birmingham in 1978, Dexys’ original eightstrong line-up stood out from what else was going on musically at the time. Punk had largely become a cartoon of itself while the fl ames of disco were distinctly cooling. These eight lads from Birmingham and the Black Country did things differently. Fuelled by the urgency of punk, they revisited the classic soul sound of the late 1960s, creating a sound unlike anything else around, with a horn section replacing what would otherwise have been the role of the lead guitarist. It was what singer Kevin Rowland labelled “a new soul vision”. Two years later, this vision would produce the charttopping single, Geno. And they looked different too. At a time when the New Romantic scene was gathering pace with its lacy frills and heavy make-up, Dexys defi antly dressed down. Their uniform was woolly hats and donkey jackets. This was utilitarian wear for what was essentially not just a job but an existence. The group were committed, religiously rehearsing from sun-up to sundown. And when they weren’t rehearsing they would hang out together in the greasy spoons of Birmingham city centre. They were a gang with an all-for-one, onefor-all outlook. “It was us against the world,” remembers bass player Pete Williams, 45 years on. “All we had was each other.” After Geno climbed to the top of the singles charts, the band went into the studio to record their debut album, the classic Searching For The Young Soul Rebels. “That record was everything we’d rehearsed, everything we’d built up to,” recalls alto sax player Steve Spooner. “It wasn’t just a collection of songs. It was us.” B UT despite the hit singles, and despite the album’s glowing reviews, there was tension in the ranks, an ever-present sense of unease that multiple appearances on Top of the Pops couldn’t quash. Spooner says: “Kevin Rowland was defi - nitely the fi rm leader. It was his inspiration to start off with. But he’d been patted on the back a lot and was starting to buy it. He was starting to want to dominate everything, whereas we’d spent those two years bonding as a unit.” The moment that signalled the end for this fi rst incarnation of Dexys was the discovery by fi ve members of the band that they themselves weren’t signed to the group’s record company, EMI. But the three other members were – meaning that any fi nancial benefi ts weren’t being reaped equally. The fi ve upped and left, leaving Kevin Rowland to construct Dexys Mk II. He appeared to be unphased by this and set about creating both a new sound and a new image. Out went the donkey jackets and the woolly hats. Instead, his new recruits would wear hoodies and boxer boots. Incoming tenor sax player Paul Speare recalls: “I got away with not having a ponytail. You didn’t have to have one if you wore a headband.” Along with the sartorial changes, Rowland wanted to introduce strings to the Dexys’ sound – commanding Speare and the other two horn players to learn cello and viola in just a few weeks fl at. When that plan unsurprisingly didn’t work out (for their live shows, a professional cello player would play behind the stage curtain, hidden from view), Rowland decided to bring violins into the sound instead. This wasn’t without controversy. One of the former members of the original line-up, Rowland’s songwriting partner Kevin Archer, had formed his own band, The Blue Ox Babes. Their brand of fi ddle-laced folk-pop proved attractive to Rowland’s ears and he co-opted the sound. “One day, I was in my fl at with the group,” Archer would later recall, “and I happened to switch on the radio and Come On Eileen was on. I thought, We’ve had it now. I felt gutted.” Rowland would later throw up his hands. “We were both experimenting with strings,” he said. “I wasn’t getting what I wanted: he found it and I stole it. As a result, he disbanded his group. Dexys had taken his sound and succeeded with it.” And what success. Come On Eileen was the UK’s best-selling single of 1982 and also topped the charts in the US, Australia, South Africa and across Europe. More than 40 years on, it remains a staple of social function singalongs, a classic of that decade. When the trio of violin players – the “Emerald Express” – had been recruited Dexys Midnight Runners might have been leader Kevin Rowland getting through a COME EXCLUSIVE By Nige Tassell musically at the time. Punk had largely become a cartoon of itself while the fl ames These eight lads from make-up, Dexys defi antly dressed down. ‘I’ve no regrets. I’ve been all over the world and didn’t have to pay... all I had to do was play some keyboards’ AN EARLY INCARNATION: The band in 1980, including Kevin, centre, Steve behind him and Pete, far right. Below, that year’s big single

Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 25 DX1ST Pictures: BRIAN COOKE/REDFERNS prior to the recording of Come On Eileen, there had been another change of uniform. The hoodies were swapped for denim dungarees, the boxer boots for plimsolls and espadrilles. Again, the purpose had been to look different, to look apart from the slick designer wear favoured by their contemporaries in the pop charts. And this raggletaggle bunch certainly couldn’t be confused with another bunch of chart-topping Brummies, Duran Duran. But Dexys were as in demand as Simon Le Bon and co, fl ying around the world on a seemingly everlasting tour and appearing on the likes of Saturday Night Live. Before the extensive touring, though, the friction in the group led to Rowland once again losing his horn players. With the Emerald Express now front and centre, the horns that once defi ned the Dexys’ sound were being increasingly silenced. The three all walked. “I wouldn’t say it was jealousy,” says trombone player Jim Paterson now, “but it felt like I was getting demoted or substituted. Imagine a footballer who’s playing really well but still gets taken off. It was a bit like that.” Once that lengthy tour – in support of the second Dexys album, Too-Rye-Ay – was fi nally completed, Rowland set about reinventing the group once more. The next three years would be spent writing, recording and re-recording what would become the third album, 1985’s Don’t Stand Me Down. With the band essentially boiled down to a nucleus of three – Rowland, violinist Helen O’Hara and guitarist Billy Adams – Dexys became an even more fl uid line-up, with an endless fl ow of session musicians joining them in the studio. Although now regarded by some as a masterpiece, Don’t Stand Me Down received a lukewarm reception from both critics and the public on its release. Rowland, as ever wishing to remain separate from the rest of the music world, argued with the record company that no single should be released. Indeed, the lead track on the album – This Is What She’s Like – was a radio-unfriendly 12 minutes long. After recording Because Of You – the theme tune to the BBC sitcom Brush Strokes – in 1986, Dexys Midnight Runners went their separate ways. Rowland embarked on an underwhelming solo career, O’Hara joined the band of singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram, while Billy Adams ended up going to university. Rowland later resurrected the Dexys name – albeit without “Midnight Runners” – for a series of well-received albums spread across the last two decades. This summer they’re playing a bunch of live shows as well as releasing the fi rst Dexys live album. It would be the easiest thing for Rowland to ride the nostalgia train but, at 70, he refuses to become a mere heritage act. Instead, and to his credit, he won’t stand still, choosing instead to write, record and perform new songs. “You can’t recreate the past,” he says. “You can’t look like you did when you were 25 or 26. Or sound like you did.” With this in mind – as well as the knowledge he’s been working on his memoirs for the last couple of decades – it was always unlikely Rowland would talk to me for the book, to revisit those heady days in the Dexys’ imperial phase in the fi rst half of the Eighties. Indeed, he politely declined my advances. I NSTEAD, I was left standing among his acolytes at the stage door at the Bath Forum, who were anxious to touch the hem of his garment. There, I met a man called Andy who had spent the afternoon scouring the city’s cafés and tea-shops for a brief encounter with his hero. “I haven’t got a tattoo of him,” said this super-fan. “But I know people who have.” And what of the rest of them, the couple of dozen who were Midnight Runners during the group’s imperial phase in the fi rst half of the Eighties? Despite the turmoil, the anguish and the fi ghts, enough water has passed under the bridge for them to be philosophical about those years, as they tell me as I hunt them down. For Pete Williams, his escape from an apprenticeship in a foundry in 1978 led to him spending his whole adult life as a musician. “I’m 63 now,” he says. “Eighteenyear-old me would be proud that I stuck with music.” Keyboard player Micky Billingham strikes a similar tone, grateful for his time in Dexys – the catalyst for a musical life less ordinary. “Since that fateful day when Kevin Rowland phoned me up at the builders’ merchants I was working at, I’ve had no regrets at all,” he tells me. “I’ve been virtually all over the world and didn’t have to pay for it. And all I had to do was play some keyboards.” Others returned to civvy street, working in factories or as decorators or mortuary attendants. Mandolin player Julian Littman went back to acting, playing Eva Perón’s brother in the fi lm Evita, opposite Madonna. Things also went well for alto sax player Nick Gatfi eld. In 1985, he quit Dexys with just £12 in his bank account. Things turned out just fi ne for him, though. He became a big cheese in the music biz – the man who signed Amy Winehouse. Kevin Rowland clearly wasn’t the only Midnight Runner with a new soul vision. ● Searching For Dexys Midnight Runners by Nige Tassell (Nine Eight Books, £22) is out now. Visit expressbookshop.com or call Express Bookshop on 020 3176 3832. Free UK P&P on orders over £25 one of the biggest groups of the 80s but that didn’t stop band LOT of members. Could one man fi nd out what happened next...? OFF IT, EILEEN! Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 ‘It felt like I was getting substituted, like a footballer who’s played well but still gets taken off’ FIDDLESTICKS: Main, Dexys in Come On Eileen-era hey-day, from left, Billy Adams, Steve Shaw, Helen O’Hara, Kevin Rowland, and Seb Shelton. Above, Rowland today OFF IT, EILEEN!

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Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 27 DX1ST Museum refuses to hand back hero’s medal ‘given to it in error’ Picture: CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL UNIT cowrie shell from the Red Sea region, between Arabia and North Africa, while a Neolithic arrow head was uncovered. The f nds were made between Cherry Hinton and Teversham, Cambs, during checks before the housing is built. Dr Wakef eld said: “It’s a great project that has everything from prehistory to really interesting mills. It’s the f rst time I’ve excavated a medieval mill and you can see where two big pieces of timber called cross trees were put into the ground. They are really cool f nds as X really does mark the spot – the main foundation is made up of a cross to make the support for the windmill post.” The main post of the windmills, which date from 1300 to 1500, were used to grind grain which would have been attached to the foundation and the sail. Dr Wakef eld added: “The ridge [they were located on] was one of the highest points in the area and the perfect location for a windmill as they got the maximum amount of wind.” He said four structures came from different times, with two built on top of each other. “We think that as they were made of wood, they would deteriorate over time, so a new one would be built nearby, salvaging as much wood from the old one as possible. “The department has been having difficulties f nding places for students to dig and the developer went above and beyond to get them on the site and to have that opportunity.” Archaeologists’ windy thriller at fi ve-mill fi nd FIVE medieval windmills and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery have been found on land earmarked for 1,200 homes. Archaeologists say the site has been used as far back as the Neolithic or early Bronze Age 4,000 years ago. Dr Christopher Wakef eld, from Cambridge University’s archaeological unit, said f nding so many windmills in one place was unusual. The Anglo-Saxon cemetery, dating from 580 AD to 700 AD, held the remains of about 60 people, one of whom had a By Astha Saxena History in the marking... medieval windmill foundations, a cowrie shell and arrow head were all discovered By Paul Jeeves Crime Editor Proud...air raid warden James and his family outside Buckingham Palace after the presentation following his 1941 act of bravery Prized...George and a George Medal A FAMILY are locked in a battle with a museum who will not return a rare George Medal they insist was wrongly donated. James Annis Scott was awarded the honour at Buckingham Palace after his bravery as an air raid warden in October 1941. A plaque to the Second World War hero told how a cafe in South Shields “was destroyed and he acted as a ‘human pillar’ to enable survivors to be rescued from the wreckage”. The medal was proudly kept as a family heirloom and was meant to be passed down to James’s grandchild George Scott, then 17, after James and his eldest son, also George, died. But instead the medal was given to the local South Shields Museum & Art Gallery in South Tyneside, by young George’s uncle Colin. Grandson George, now 76, who ran a garage door business, attempted to recover the medal but became too unwell with Parkinson’s disease and now lives in a care home. His wife Lynne has spent £300 on solicitors’ fees but has not recovered the medal. Lynne, 71, a former company manager said: “The medal was presented to my husband George’s grandfather and when he died it was to go to his oldest son, who was George’s father. “But he died at 56 and his younger brother Colin then borrowed it to take it on holiday to show some relatives. “Colin donated the medal to the museum but didn’t have permission.” George, prior to his illness taking hold, visited the museum yet offi cials refused to hand it back. Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said: “We accepted this donation in 1994 in good faith from the son of the person who was awarded the medal and still hold the documentation.” George Medals were given to civilians for non-military acts of bravery. hero’s medal ‘given to it in error’ Prized...George and a George Medal as a ‘human pillar’ to enable survivors A FAMILY are locked in a battle with a museum who will not return a rare George Medal they James Annis Scott was awarded the honour at Buckingham Palace after his bravery as an air raid A plaque to the Second World War hero told how a cafe in South Shields “was destroyed and he acted as a ‘human pillar’ to enable survivors Prized...George and a George Medal hero’s medal ‘given to it in error’ James Annis Scott was awarded the honour at Buckingham Palace War hero told how a cafe in South Shields “was destroyed and he acted as a ‘human pillar’ to enable survivors

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But don’t give up on forging deeper connections with your grandkids as they move from childhood into their pre-teenage years – sometimes known as “tweens”. Studies have found the continued presence of grandparents is equally important to young and old. While you can provide acceptance, stability and a sense of identity to them, a range of studies have found that staying close to your grandchildren will help you live longer and even cut your risk of dementia. Child clinical psychologist Dr Angharad Rudkin – co-author of the new book What’s My Tween Thinking? – says don’t lose confi dence as they grow older. “When they’re little, grandparents have quite a defi ned role – whether it is to look after, play or just spoil their grandchildren,” she explains. “But when that child moves into the adolescent years, grandparents can feel less confi dent and sure about how to be with them. Of course, much will depend on how far away you live. But wherever you are, the good news is there’s plenty of steps you can take to stay close.” REMEMBER HOW IMPORTANT YOU ARE: Research by Oxford University in 2019 found close grandparent-grandchild relationships were linked to a wide range of benefi ts for kids, making them happier, giving them higher self-worth and protecting them against depression – especially if their parents are no longer together. It’s never too late to make a difference. DON’T WAIT TO BE ASKED: Throughout most of history, children have been brought up by an extended family living under one roof or close by. It’s only over the last half-century that generations have started to move farther apart, leaving a growing number of exhausted parents trying to work to keep up with the cost-of-living crisis and juggle childcare. If you don’t live too far away, offer a night’s babysitting on a regular basis to help parents recharge their batteries and, as well, to stay involved with your grandchildren. TELL THOSE STORIES: Grandparents have an important role in “rooting” children benefi ts for kids, making them happier, protecting them against depression – especially if their parents are no longer Throughout most of history, children don’t live too far away, offer a night’s babysitting on a regular basis to help parents recharge their batteries and, as Grandparents TIPS TO KEEP FAMILIES CLOSE: Tanith Carey

Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 29 DX1ST grandparentPictures: GETTY and giving them a sense of their history. As tweens start to understand historical timelines, they can become particularly curious. According to Unicef parenting expert Dr Severino Antonio: “Rooting is one of the most important needs of a child. Children must feel they belong to life, a family, to a story, to a place. Grandparents are generally the main storytellers. Listening to such stories broadens children’s horizons.” So give grandkids a sense of perspective by talking about your life story, your memories of your own parents and grandparents and what life was like for them. In your grandchild’s eyes, you are living history. PLAN SOME BONDING TIME: It’s true that as kids get older, they are not as easy to entertain as they once were – and if you live far away from their home, they may start to feel they are missing out on activities with friends when they come to visit. Instead of feeling rejected, grow with their evolving interests. Ask them to pick an activity in your local area they can look forward to when they visit. Create special rituals for each time they come to stay – or you go to them – whether it’s a trip to the cinema or helping you cook their favourite meal. Indeed, our new generation of grandparents is changing how they see their role. According to new research for family memory app BackThen, nearly a third of grandparents say their main goal is to bring joy to grandchildren – and sharing activities you both love is one of the easiest ways to do that. SHARE YOUR SPARK: What are the activities your tween grandchild loves to do naturally without being asked? Have a think, then look back to your own childhood and what you loved to do. Look for an overlap and fi nd ways to do that activity together. It could be anything from cooking to drawing and making things to enjoying a certain genre of books. Make space for regular one-on-one time to do your “spark” activity every time you see your grandchild. You will both get lost in it and nothing will bring you closer. Make sure each grandchild has their own special time with you. KEEP IT LIGHT: According to a survey of 1,000 children from toy company Play Like Mum in 2021, 47 per cent of children love spending time with grandparents because they make them laugh. So keep it light and look for opportunities to have a giggle together, whether it’s getting them to teach you something new, playing a favourite game or watching a comedy together. And make the most of tech. You won’t be alone. According to the research, nine out of 10 grandparents are purposefully using tech to be more a part of their grandchildren’s lives. If your grandkids have access to a family tablet, set up a private WhatsApp group with each grandchild to share funny and interesting things you’ve seen. There are now private family photo-sharing apps so you can all contribute your pictures and memories just for this. If your grandkids are on social media like Facebook, don’t criticise but see it as a window into their lives. Plus, there will be more to talk about when you see them next. Add positive comments so they know you care about their lives. BE THERE VIRTUALLY: If you live far away, become more of a silver surfer and make the most of technology to bring you closer. For younger kids who love a bedtime story, offer to read to them once a week on screen. And ask parents to be nearby and set the screen’s “night mode” so the blue light doesn’t keep kids awake. For older kids, you could have ongoing games of Monopoly, Scrabble or chess on their family tablet – or you could hold a family “watch night” in which you join them online to watch a new movie or TV series using apps like Streamparty or Synchplay. KEEP UP TO DATE WITH THEIR DEVELOPMENT: Now you’ve come out the other side, it can be easy to have rose-tinted glasses about your own parenting and mistake the development phases that children go through, like moodiness or looking bored, as being “diffi cult”. While your growing grandkids may not be as adoring, it’s all part of their necessary drive towards independence and forging their own identities. Reading up on their psychological development will help your understanding. AVOID UNDERMINING PARENTS: You may not agree with everything about how your grandchild is being raised. But do bear in mind that parenting is harder these days, mainly due to kids being exposed to screens earlier. So hold your tongue with your grandchild’s parents. The tension and disagreement will make kids uncomfortable. Set aside any past family issues that could get in the way of your bond with your grandson or granddaughter. Remember that coming together to support and nurture the next generation is what’s most important. AVOID TAKING IT PERSONALLY: Grandparents tend to believe they should be exempt from the sort of cheekiness that parents get as kids move into their teen years. And it’s true that being the next generation up, you will be buffered from the most challenging moments. But if you are close, tweens may still be testing boundaries with you as they try to become more independent. If they talk back, suggest more polite ways of expressing themselves but, overall, avoid taking it personally. If they are testing boundaries with you, it’s a sign they trust you to keep them loving anyway. ● What’s My Tween Thinking? Practical Child Psychology for Modern Parents by Tanith Carey and Dr Angharad Rudkin (DK, £16.99) is out now. Visit expressbookshop.com or call Express Bookshop on 020 3176 3832. Free UK P&P on orders over £25 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 GETTY your memories of your own parents and grandparents and what life was like for them. In your grandchild’s eyes, you are living history. PLAN SOME BONDING TIME: that as kids get older, they are not as easy to entertain as they once were – and if you live far away from their home, they may start to feel they are missing out on activities with friends when they come to visit. Instead of feeling rejected, grow with their evolving interests. Ask them to pick an activity in your local area they can look forward to when they visit. Create special rituals for each time they come to stay – or you go to them – whether it’s a trip to the cinema or helping you cook their favourite meal. Indeed, our new generation of grandparents is changing how they see their role. According to new research for family memory app BackThen, nearly a third of grandparents say their main goal is to bring joy to grandchildren – and sharing activities you both love is one DON’T GIVE UP: Grandparents are important to kids of all ages ‘It can be easy to mistake the developmental phases they go through as “being diffi cult”’

30 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST For Learning Disability Week, Katie Price tells Catherine Jones all about supporting a child with complex needs K atie Price isn’t short on achievements, as a famous glamour model, reality TV star, bestselling author and businesswoman. But like so many mums, what really lights her up with pride is talking about her kids – especially Harvey, 22, who has achieved so much in spite of grappling with many complex illnesses, including a learning disability. “Harvey never ceases to amaze and impress me,” says Katie, 46. “His drawings are amazing, he has great banter, his memory is amazing, he plays the keyboard without reading music, he’s so good on his iPad and can do things I can’t even do. “He’s more clever than me in ways. He’s even got a Guinness World Record.” EMOTIONS Like 1.5 million people in the UK, Harvey has a learning disability, which can mean needing support with day-to-day activities. The level of needs that comes with having a learning disability can vary. Some may require round-the-clock one-to-one care to keep them safe, while others may need help with specific tasks like using public transport, managing finances, interacting socially or regulating their emotions. The cause of Harvey’s learning disability is unclear, but it could be linked to some of his other conditions, which include septooptic dysplasia (a disorder of early brain development which has caused blindness), autism and Prader-Willi Syndrome (a rare genetic condition which can cause an excessive appetite). Katie has spoken in the past about Harvey’s behavioural issues, which include repeatedly banging his head against a wall, lashing out in distress or raiding the fridge. The Celebrity Big Brother winner says being a mum to a child with complex needs means adapting your whole way of life, the way you communicate and being “very, very patient”. “You can’t rush Harvey like other kids,” she says. “You have to tell him before you do things, warn him.” Harvey’s learning disability and sensitive hearing means he gets distressed by the sound of cutlery, drawers closing or doors banging. In restaurants, Katie asks staff to put a napkin over the door to muffle the sound and when he gets distressed, she calms him with noises. “I have to go ‘ahem’ and then clap my hands,” she explains. “People must think, ‘What is she doing?’, but that’s what Harvey likes. I’ll clap and he laughs. 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Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 31 DX1ST ing disability can be wonderful ewarding but it can bring enges too. We hear of parents ng anxious, stressed and constantly ied about their child’s health and eing. They might have to juggle ors’ appointments, therapy ons and daily care routines, and may feel isolated due to the ue challenges they face. arents are having to fight for children with a learning ility to get adequate healthsuitable education and many things we take for granted. ng to other parents who rstand can be a huge help and encourage anyone struggling to n touch with us.” tie was just 24 when she gave birth arvey. At seven weeks he was tested for blindness after he failed to do a “social smile”. From there on, Katie says it was one diagnosis after another. “There were always lots of doctors, hospital visits and then different classes you do for stimulation, play therapy, speech therapy,” says the mum-of-five. “Because Harvey was my first, I had nothing to compare him to, but I would notice other babies of his age and how behind he was. I could tell by the noises he made, and he never said ‘Mum’. “None of my friends had kids with learning disabilities, so it was a lonely place, but I want other people to know you’re not alone. There’s loads of people in our situation and so many charities out there.” Despite the challenges Katie has faced, she is philosophical about having a child with complex needs. “I’ve always been a maternal person and wanting to care so I believe I was obviously meant to have Harvey. I’ve dealt with it really well and had good support around the family.” Katie, who says caring for Harvey has inspired her to train as a paramedic, is really happy with the medical care Harvey has received, saying it is “spot on”. He has a learning disability nurse, trained specifically to understand how to communicate with him and make reasonable adjustments, while his learning disability passport explains to medical staff how to communicate and what makes things easier for him. Worryingly, Mencap says not everyone with a learning disability is getting the medical help they need. Only a quarter in England are included on their GP’s learning disability register which enables them to access an annual health check and be prioritised for Covid or flu vaccines. And men with a learning disability die on average 20 years earlier than people without one. This could be due to them not getting the support they need in medical situations, or the vital social care they require. Mencap has heard cases of people who felt their learning disability prevented them from getting diagnosed or treated for their medical condition as it was hard for them to articulate their symptoms or they thought medical professionals didn’t take them seriously. The charity is calling on all political parties to commit to tackling these health inequalities by ensuring more people with a learning disability are on the GP learning disability register and training and retaining more Learning Disability Nurses. Harvey’s conditions mean simple health issues can escalate. In July 2020, he ended up in intensive care with a sky-high temperature and breathing difficulties. “It was quite frightening because no one knew what was wrong with him,” Katie remembers. There were also concerns when Harvey caught Covid as evidence shows people with a learning disability are six times more at risk of dying from the virus than the general population. Despite the challenges Harvey faces, he is not letting his learning disability get in the way of leading a full life and he enjoys hobbies such as baking, drawing and swimming. He has achieved great things, from his standing ovation after playing the keyboard on Autism’s Got Talent, to winning that Guinness World Record, for drawing the longest train, at 21m. Katie says there is sadly still a stigma around people with a learning disability. “We get trolled all the time [because of Harvey’s disability]. It’s disgusting, because if people met Harvey, he is such a well-mannered, funny man.” Katie is hopeful society’s attitudes are changing though. “Because of social media, there is a lot more awareness about learning disabilities and people on TV are talking about it,” she says. “I think back in the day it was hidden.” Katie is right that people are seeing more high-profile celebrities with learning disabilities than in the past. Model Ellie Goldstein made history as the first Vogue cover model to have Down’s Syndrome, CBeebies presenter George Webster has a BAFTA and Line of Duty actor Tommy Jessop was the first person with Down’s Syndrome to star in a primetime BBC drama. Alongside Harvey, these celebrities are Mythbuster ambassadors for Mencap and supporting Learning Disability Week, busting misconceptions and raising awareness of the things people with a learning disability can achieve, with the right support. Katie says: “Never underestimate people just because they’ve got a learning disability because they are a lot smarter than us. “I’m just so proud of him and other people like Harvey. “I’ve never had the self-doubt that Harvey’s not going to be able to do this or do all that, because he continues to amaze me in different ways.” ■Harvey and Katie Price are supporting Mencap’s Do you See Me? campaign for Learning Disability Week. Find out more at mencap.org.uk/learningdisabilityweek Edited by AMY PACKER Get in touch! [email protected] trolled e time arvey ceases aze me TALENTS Harvey loves playing the keyboard CHALLENGES With ex-husband Peter Andre and sons Junior and Harvey PROUD Recognising train world record

32 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST Your cycle is under 21 days: A typical cycle is around 28 days, so one that regularly falls below 21 days or above 35 days is considered abnormal and should be mentioned to your GP. Miss Shazia Malik, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at The Portland Hospital (HCA Healthcare UK) adds: “Irregular cycles can often be sorted with hormonal birth control methods such as the Pill or patch. “Weight loss, stress and excessive exercise can have a significant impact on menstruation, so getting these under control can help normalise your cycle.” Heavy bleeding: It’s normal to lose two to three tablespoons of blood during a period but you should see a doctor if you bleed so heavily you need to change pads or tampons more than every couple of hours. Consultant gynaecologist Dr Jo Bailey, who works with VJJ Health, recommends speaking to a GP if you have symptoms of anaemia such as tiredness, fatigue or shortness of breath. Hormonal problems such as polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), thyroid problems and obesity could be to blame. “Consult your GP as there are some simple medications that will help. You may also need to take iron tablets,” says Dr Bailey. Endometriosis, a disease affecting one in 10 women, involves tissue similar to the lining of the uterus growing outside the uterus. According to Dr Bailey it can also cause heavy painful periods and sometimes pain during sex or with opening your bowels. Visit your doctor if you experience any of these symptoms. PMS disrupts daily life: Between 20 and 40 per cent of women experience premenstrual syndrome (PMS). “PMS symptoms can include depression and mood swings, as well as bloating and painful breasts,” says Dr Bailey. When severe PMS symptoms significantly interfere with daily life, it’s known as premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). “Talk to a doctor if you experience significant feelings of sadness or anxiety, noticeable lack of interest in normal activities and/or extreme fatigue, difficulty concentrating or insomnia,” advises Miss Malik. Something smells fishy: A slight odour is normal but fishy-smelling period blood may indicate bacterial vaginosis (BV). Itching, burning or a change in your vaginal discharge may also occur. “BV happens due to an imbalance in the bacteria normally present in the vagina,” says Dr Bailey. GPs can test for BV and prescribe antibiotics. If it is recurrent, a vagina-specific probiotic such as VJJ Perfect V (£26; vjjhealth.com) could help. Bleeding between periods: Some spotting is normal, but at times it can indicate an underlying issue. Consult your doctor if you experience spotting every month which lasts for more than a few days, if you’re bleeding after sex, after menopause or while pregnant, or if your spotting is accompanied by pain, fever, or unusual vaginal discharge. “These symptoms could potentially point to conditions like uterine fibroids, polyps, infections and sexually transmitted diseases,” says Miss Malik. Your period goes AWOL: The most common reasons for periods disappearing – not including pregnancy and menopause – are breastfeeding, stress, over exercising, rapid weight changes and hormonal contraception. PCOS may also be to blame, but tends to come with other symptoms such as rapid weight gain, acneprone skin and an increase in body hair. See your doctor if you’ve skipped your period for three months. “There are long-term health implications of PCOS, including diabetes, heart disease and cancer of the womb lining,” says Dr Bailey. “Depending on the root issue, treatment may involve lifestyle changes, hormonal therapy, or other medications to restore regular ovulation and menstruation,” explains Miss Malik. yourhealth Get in touch! [email protected] Period drama Over her lifetime, the average woman will have 480 periods. But this menstrual cycle doesn’t always go like clockwork. Lucy Gornall asks the experts which symptoms shouldn’t be ignored

Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 33 DX1ST Retail yourhealth therapies By AMY PACKER ■Healthy recipe box service Green Chef has launched a limited-edition Summer Flavours range of meals that feel indulgent and don’t compromise on flavour. Developed by registered nutritionists, the kits include low-carb options including Naked Burgers with Chilli Prawns, Peri Peri Chicken Skewers with Halloumi and Pepper, and Satay Chicken Skewers. From £5.50 per serving (greenchef.co.uk). ■Claiming to be the UK’s innovative new maternity brand, Marbra’s Seamless Leakproof Nursing Bra (£44; marbra.co.uk), has layers to keep you dry so new mothers can ditch disposable nursing pads. Easy-access clips allow for effortless feeds no matter where you are, and soft, breathable fabric provide comfort and support. ■If you never have time for the full wash cycle, Persil’s Wonder Wash Odour Defy (£7 for 31 washes; Asda) is the first detergent specifically designed for even the shortest 15-minute settings and banishes nasty niffs – great for stinky sports kits – while avoiding the sticky residue reduced washing time can leave behind. ■The perfect balance of sweet and sharp, Mary Berry’s new Honey & Apple Cider Vinaigrette (£3.45; Tesco) brings the gut boosting benefits of apple cider vinegar to your summer suppers. Drizzle over salads as a Shelby Preston was just 24 when she was finally diagnosed with bowel cancer after being told she had IBS or an iron deficiency J ust a few weeks after Dame Deborah James died from bowel cancer at the age of 40, shattered Shelby Preston was given the same terrifying diagnosis. “It was so frightening to realise what had taken her life was also growing in my body,” she says. Thankfully, unlike Deborah’s cancer, Shelby’s was caught in the early stages – but only thanks to her perseverance in seeking help for her symptoms. From around the age of 18, Shelby, who works for a local housing association, began experiencing episodes of diarrhoea, bleeding and abdominal pain. She also, despite a healthy appetite, was losing weight. “It would happen every few months and I saw my GP a number of times, and had several physical exams and blood tests, says Shelby, now 26. “At first, I was told my iron levels were too low, then that I had IBS. By 2022 however, my weight had dropped to six stone and on holiday in May that year with my boyfriend Will I began bleeding heavily. I knew something wasn’t right and I needed to push again for answers.” Shelby was finally referred to a gastroenterologist, who performed a flexible sigmoidoscopy, also known as a bowel scope, where a camera is inserted into the back passage to look inside the lower part of the large bowel. “It was the first time, despite six years of symptoms, that anyone had looked inside my body,” says Shelby. “Lying on the bed, looking at the screen, I saw an angry looking growth, which was bleeding. I felt physically sick with fear. “The doctor explained it was a colorectal polyp, which are usually benign, but he’d taken a biopsy.” A week later, Shelby, from Preston, was given the news she had stage one bowel cancer. “I’d known, when I was told to bring someone with me to the meeting, that it wasn’t going to be good news – but it was still a huge shock to hear the word ‘cancer’. You never think it will happen to you, let alone when you’re in your early twenties.” Sadly, Shelby’s experience of a diagnosis of bowel cancer in her twenties is not unique, with rising numbers of young adults with the disease being reported. A study published earlier this year has also predicted a rise in death rates in younger patients from the condition too. “I felt terrified but also relieved that I’d carried on seeking an explanation for my symptoms, because it could have been even worse news,” says Shelby. She was given two treatment options. “I was told I could have a procedure called TEM (Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery) which is done via the anus, so I would have no incision or scarring. “It would remove the cancerous polyps, leaving my rectum intact, with no need for a stoma. “Or, I could have more major surgery where a section of my rectum would be permanently removed. I’d have a temporary stoma but there was a chance it could become permanent. The benefit was that there was less risk of the cancer recurring. “My family and Will were so supportive, but ultimately it was my choice. I opted for the latter - despite the risk it could be “overtreating” the cancer it gave me the best chance of living cancer free.” Shelby’s seven-hour bowel surgery was a success and she spent the next nine months with a temporary stoma while her body healed. “I’d been daunted at the prospect of having one but quickly realised, if this was what it took to stay cancer free, then I just needed to accept it and learn to live with it. “I connected with other young people with stomas on social media and that solidarity, and their advice, was so helpful,” she says. “In August 2023 it was reversed and now my bowel function is around 80 per cent normal. I still have times when I need the loo urgently, and I eat a balanced diet, trying to avoid foods it’s sensitive to.” Shelby didn’t require further treatment, but has regular scans, scopes and blood tests. “So far, they’ve all been clear. It’s hard not to feel anxious in the lead up to them, and even an upset stomach can be worrying, that it’s something more sinister. “I’m trying to move forward from what I have been through, and trust that cancer is behind me. Almost two years on from her diagnosis, Shelby wants to share the importance of never ignoring symptoms and advocating for yourself. “People my age believe cancer isn’t something that affects them, but it’s happening more and more. If you’re worried, don’t dismiss symptoms, seek help and don’t give up until you’re satisfied you know what the problem is. “Being persistent saved my life.” ■Shelby is supporting Bowel Cancer UK’s new campaign Tell Your GP Instead, urging people to speak to their GP as soon as possible if they spot symptoms of bowel cancer: bowelcanceruk.org.uk/ campaigning/tell-your-gp-instead ■WORDS BY EIMEAR O’HAGAN) ‘‘ I felt terrified but relieved that I’d carried on seeking an explanation I kept pushing for answers until they found my cancer FACTS & STATS Bowel cancer is the fourth most common type of the disease in the UK and the second biggest cancer killer, affecting both men and women. Every 15 minutes someone is diagnosed with bowel cancer. That’s nearly 43,000 people every year, around 120 people every day. Almost everyone survives bowel cancer if diagnosed at the earliest stage. However this drops significantly as the disease develops. Early diagnosis really does save lives. Symptoms: ■ Bleeding from your bottom ■ Blood in your poo ■ A change in your toilet habits - going more or less often, diarrhoea or constipation that might come and go ■ Starting to lose weight but you’re not sure why ■ Feeling very tired all the time but you’re not sure why ■ A pain or lump in your tummy SAVED: Shelby after her surgery SUPPORT: Boyfriend Will

34 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST Dr Rosemary Leonard GETTING TO THE HEART OF MEDICAL MATTERS Q I am 84 years old and have osteoporosis. Three of my toes have curled over, meaning I walk on the nails, which is very painful. I file the tops of the nails right down and wear padded caps, which does help, but I wonder if they could be removed completely? If so, would that be a permanent solution? AIn osteoporosis, the bones become weaker, making them fragile and more prone to breakage. It’s a condition that develops over several years, which happens silently, with no symptoms, and many people only become aware they have it when a minor fall leads to a broken bone. The problem with your toes bending over will not be due to this, but rather is more likely due to an imbalance in the strength of the small muscles in the feet, which can lead to ‘claw’ toes developing. It’s a common problem in elderly women and can lead not only to callouses developing on the tops of the toe joints, but also difficulties in getting comfortable footwear. And as you have discovered, in severe cases the ends of the nails rub on the insoles of shoes. In the first instance, you need to see a chiropodist who can file down the nails, remove any hard skin on the end of the toes, and also provide special cushioning pads for your toes and custom-made insoles for your shoes that will take the pressure off the ends of the nails. Your GP should be able to arrange this for you on the NHS. If the problem persists, rather than removing the nails, a better option would be to have the affected toes surgically straightened, which can often be done as a day-case procedure. QFor about eight or nine months now I have been getting a tight band around my chest which is very uncomfortable and worrying. I have been to my GP practice for checks and have not been told what causes it or how to prevent it. Is it something I should worry about? AThere are many possible causes of this, both serious and minor. My first thought, especially in an older person, is that it can be a sign of angina, when the heart muscle is short of oxygen. It tends to be worse when you are doing exercise and less noticeable at rest. Other possible causes are lung problems, such as asthma or chronic obstructive airways disease, but in addition to chest tightness these also usually cause coughing, which you have not mentioned. Acid reflux from the stomach can cause a very uncomfortable, tight feeling in the chest, which can occur at any time of day but tends to be felt most behind the breastbone. I would hope that the checks your GP has done have ruled all of these out. A band-like feeling can also occur if you have a strain affecting either the muscles in the upper back, or the ones that lie between the ribs, or if there is inflammation of one or more of the cartilages that protect the ends of the front of the ribs, a condition known as costochondritis. Chest tightness can also occur with anxiety, as this can lead to increased tension in the muscles of the chest wall and, of course, the more you worry about the pain, the more tense the muscles become and so the tight feeling gets worse. The most effective treatment for this is to try and tackle the underlying cause of the anxiety, and talking therapy can help, but doing regular breathing exercises, when you sit calmly and slowly take deep breaths, can also be very helpful. Q I am experiencing almost total body itching, around my waist, on my back and chest and in my groin in particular. I am a type-2 diabetic, so I am on lots of different pills. My GP says some of my skin problems could be due to varicose eczema, which I accept as I have prominent veins. I have tried using Eurax and Betnovate cream, but nothing seems to have a lasting effect. Do you have any suggestions? It is getting me down. A With increasing age, the skin generally becomes thinner and drier. This in itself can make it feel uncomfortable, but it can also make the skin more prone to irritation from chemicals and perfumes in soaps, shower and bath gels. One of the most common reasons I see for widespread itching is biological washing detergent, so check what you are using. Most non-biological detergents have a blue labelling and are often marked as being suitable for sensitive skin. If you use a fabric conditioner, make sure it does not contain any added perfume (look for a white bottle). When bathing, use unperfumed products suitable for sensitive skin and always apply a moisturiser all over, preferably twice a day. It might seem like an odd suggestion, but using a small, long-handled paint roller (available from DIY shops) can make it easier to apply cream to your back. I’m aware this can take time, and may seem like a hassle, but it really will make a difference. Suitable products for this are available on prescription, which you should be able to get from your GP or practice pharmacist. A common cause of itching in the groin, and other sweaty areas such as under the breasts, is a fungal infection. You are more at risk of this as you are diabetic, while varicose eczema develops when there is increased pressure in the veins of the legs and can cause scaly, itchy skin around the ankles. These both require more targeted treatment than generalised itchy skin elsewhere on the body. Eurax cream can help relieve itching, and as long as you are using the plain version and not the one containing steroid. Betnovate cream, however, contains a strong steroid which, with prolonged use, can thin the skin, so it should only be used sparingly, for a short period of time. ● If you have a health question for Dr Leonard, email her in confidence at [email protected]. She regrets she cannot enter into personal correspondence or reply to everyone Is there any cure for my painful curled up toes? It’s been drummed into us for years, but one in five Brits still don’t know what counts towards their five-a-day, research by recipe box service Green Chef has revealed. Registered nutritionist Lily Keeling is working to help people achieve the recommended intake. “With constantly changing health advice, it’s not surprising so many of us are confused about what can be included in your daily total,” she says. “Put simply, a portion counts as 80g of fresh, frozen or canned fruit and veg, or 30g of the dried equivalent. “You can also count 80g of beans and pulses and 150ml of fruit juice. To qualify as one of your five-a-day, you’ll need to consume 80g of beans and pulses, which can come from foods like hummus. “Many Brits don’t realise baked beans will count towards one of your five-a-day too – just because they are tinned rather than fresh doesn’t impact this.” Sadly, having an extra large portion of one thing doesn’t count as two portions. “Any serving over 80g will still only be considered as one of your daily five servings, as it won’t contribute anything new to the range of vitamins and minerals that we require. “Remember because of the sugar content, we shouldn’t have more than one 150ml serving of fruit juice per day. This is the same for smoothies – blending the fruits releases the sugars that makes them easier to absorb and can cause unstable energy levels.” EASIEST WAY TO HIT YOUR FIVE-A-DAY

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Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 37 DX1ST televisionexpress Luke, who is a diversity, equality and inclusion director and therefore fairly unlikely, one would imagine, to come out with: “Other people’s cultures? They’re kind of overrated.” Of course, whatever type of TV show you’re making, the golden rule is a simple one if you’re referencing a country of which your knowledge and experience is limited. Be respectful. Simple as that. And best avoid flippant jokes, even seemingly harmless puns. “Who will namaste in the competition – and who will wave Mumbai to the sewing room?!” quips host Kiell Smith-Bynoe, who presumably didn’t get the memo. contestants, although it turns out that teaching assistant Marcus’s mum was born and raised there. Might that give Marcus somewhat of an advantage? “I went and visited about 20 years ago,” he reveals. “Hopefully, I know a little bit about it.” Also with a head start over the others, by the sound of it, is Georgie, the one who works as a festival and club DJ. “I’ve worn a sari once,” she reveals, “for a friend’s birthday.” Among the other six contestants, mind you, there’s just as much enthusiasm for this week’s theme. “I love kind of learning about other people’s cultures!” exclaims accurately, they’ve anticipated the likely reaction if they hadn’t (nobody wants to be accused of cultural appropriation, particularly at the BBC) – and brought in a special guest judge, Priya Khanchandani, a respected writer and curator whose areas of expertise handily include South Asian culture. Unlike Patrick and Esme, Priya will be able to critique the contestants’ efforts quite bluntly, should she so wish, without any of them being able to snap back: “Yeah? Like you’ve got a clue what you’re talking about.” Also not from India are any of the contest’s eight remaining Still, if there’s any type of TV programme that can respectfully reflect all that in roughly 57 minutes’ airtime, it’s a sewing contest, right? Neither of Sewing Bee’s judges is of Indian heritage, of course (Patrick is from Edinburgh, Esme is from Bedford), but they’ve thought of that – or, perhaps more THE THEME this week on THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE (9pm, BBC2) is India. Which does seem rather ambitious. India, bear in mind, is the world’s seventh largest country, covering 1.269 million square miles. It has a population of more than 1.4 billion people, living across 28 states, each of which has its own government, culture and traditions. India has a number of prominent religions, including Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism. And its social structure? Hugely complex, to say the least. Sari about the bad puns Mike Ward previews tonight’s TV DID YOU KNOW? Actress Michelle Pfeiffer was often mistaken in her 20s for Blondie singer Debbie Harry, who herself once said if she could pick who would play her in a film, she’d have chosen Pfeiffer. PICKS OF THE DAY Factual: Super Dogs With Extraordinary Jobs, C5, 7pm Film: Murder On The Orient Express, 4Seven, 9pm Health: Super Surgeons: A Chance At Life, C4, 9pm Crime: The Killing Spree: Hunting Joanne Dennehy, C5, 10pm Travel: Villages By The Sea, BBC4, 7.30pm They’re known as man’s best friends, but for many, clever canines have been more than just a protective family pet, they’ve been lifesavers. This is the frst in a two-part series showcasing the abilities of these amazing pooches, who’ve been trained, using ground-breaking techniques, to use their innate talents to help humans. Tonight we meet a golden retriever whose sensitive sense of smell helps to detect hidden diseases in people, including diabetes and cancer. Also featured are two Belgian malinois – a type of shepherd dog breed – who play an important part in saving lives as part of the West Midlands search and rescue team. Kenneth Branagh (above) leads a stellar cast in this 2017 adaptation of novelist Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery. On its journey from Istanbul to London, the luxury Orient Express train becomes stuck in snow – and one of the passengers is found dead. Renowned detective Hercule Poirot, who is on board, sets about tracking down the murderer. Co-stars include Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer. An absorbing look behind the scenes at The Royal Marsden’s world-leading cancer units and following the work of surgeons carrying out pioneering treatments. In this episode, 18-year-old aspiring midwife Anthea has a tumour in her arm but doctors may need to amputate it if the tumour proves too difficult to remove. Also tonight, 43-year-old Cameron is offered complex surgery for his testicular cancer. Documentary focusing on the perturbing story of Cambridgeshire woman Joanne Dennehy (right), one of this country’s most notorious serial killers. Featuring accounts from those who were closest to the case, including police officers tasked with bringing Dennehy to justice, neighbours and witnesses to the killer’s crimes. The programme sets out the events of a 10-day period, during which Dennehy stabbed three men to death and went on the run. Archaeologist Ben Robinson (left) presents this relaxing and interesting half-hour visit to Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast. In the early 19th century this picturesque village was one of the largest fshing ports on the east coast. Today the community enjoys a different type of success welcoming tourists. Ben also explores the surrounding coastline as he learns about the village’s past role as a safe haven, and also its valuable natural resources of shale.

38 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST BBC One BBC Two ITV1 Channel 4 Channel 5 7 9 8 10 11 12 midnight film ratings ★★★★★ Brilliant ★★★★ Very Good ★★★ Good ★★ Average ★ Bad (R) Repeat Today’s TV previews are on the previous page All programmes are listed in British Summer Time (BST). 6.00am Breakfast News headlines. 9.30 Morning Live Magazine. 10.45 Scam Interceptors The interceptors track down some Taylor Swift ticket swindlers. 11.15 Homes Under the Hammer A refurbished semi-detached property is given as a gift. 12.15pm Bargain Hunt (R) 1.00 BBC News at One; Weather 2.00 Rip Off Britain: Holidays Viewers’ breaks that failed to go according to plan (R) 2.30 Animal Park Keepers assess the tigers’ personalities. (R) 3.00 Escape to the Country Nicki Chapman helps a couple to find a home in Norfolk. (R) 4.00 Antiques Road Trip David Harper and Hettie Jago head to Glasgow on their search for antiques. (R) 4.30 LIVE MOTD: UEFA Euro 2024 Turkiye v Georgia (kick-off 5.00pm). Coverage of the Group F match from BVB Stadion Dortmund, as Georgia make their first ever appearance at a major finals. Mark Chapman presents. 6.45am Bargain Hunt In Elsecar. (R) 7.30 Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure Clive travels to the Dominican Republic’s capital city, Santo Domingo. (R) 8.00 Sign Zone: The Great British Sewing Bee The sewers compete in Reduce Reuse Recycle week. (R) 9.00 BBC News Headlines. 12.15pm Politics Live The latest from Westminster and beyond. 1.00 LIVE Tennis: Queen’s The cinch Championships. Clare Balding presents coverage of day two of the men’s grasscourt tournament taking place at Queen’s Club, featuring matches from the first round. 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games Jasmine Harman, Suzannah Lipscomb, Dave Johns and Jason Mohammad test their trivia skills. (R) 6.30 Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes Robson and fellow actor Mark Benton explore the Cleveland and North Yorkshire coast while sampling outdoor activities that promise to be good for mind and body. (R) 6.00am Good Morning Britain A lively mix of news, current affairs and lifestyle features. 9.00 Lorraine Entertainment, current affairs and fashion news, as well as showbiz stories and celebrity gossip. 10.00 This Morning Topical daily magazine, featuring a mix of celebrity chat, showbusiness news, advice and discussion. Including Local Weather. 12.30pm Loose Women Celebrity interviews and topical debate from a female perspective. 1.00 ITV News; Weather 1.20 Regional News; Weather 1.30 LIVE ITV Racing: Royal Ascot Coverage of day one of the meeting, which is headlined by the 4.25 St James’s Palace Stakes, and also features races at 2.30, 3.05, 3.45, 5.05 and 5.40. Coverage continues on ITV4. 6.00 Regional News; Weather 6.20 Party Election Broadcast By the Conservative Party. 6.30 ITV Evening News A roundup of the headlines; Weather 6.25am Cheers Double bill. (R) 7.15 Everybody Loves Raymond Four episodes. (R) 9.05 Frasier Four episodes. (R) 11.05 Great Canal Journeys (R) 12.05pm Channel 4 News Summary Headlines. 12.10 Help! We Bought a Village A hamlet welcomes the first guests of the season. (R) 1.10 Car S.O.S Fuzz and Tim restore a Jaguar Mk2. (R) 2.10 Countdown Greg Rusedski guests in Dictionary Corner. 3.00 A Place in the Sun Double bill. Allie and Cliff search for a new home in Crete; Don and Margaret seek a bolthole on Portugal’s western Algarve. (R) 5.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses Darren and Natalie Brown help a couple from Surrey search for a property. 6.00 Four in a Bed Father-son duo Roberto and Fabrizio host at the Anelli Hotel, Southport. (R) 6.30 Immigration Debate: C4 News Special An edition of Channel 4 News featuring a debate on immigration. 6.00am Milkshake! Children’s TV. 9.15 Jeremy Vine Discussion. 11.15 Storm Huntley Debate on the day’s talking points continues, featuring viewers’ calls. 12.45pm Friends Double bill. (R) 1.40 5 News at Lunchtime 1.45 Home and Away Stevie crosses a boundary. (R) 2.20 FILM A Rose for Her Grave (2023, 12) After the death of her friend, a woman starts to uncover disturbing evidence about the late woman’s husband. Drama, starring Chrishell Stause and Colin Egglesfield. ★★ 4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun Nicola wants to move and open a new family run bar. (R) 5.00 5 News at 5 Headlines. 6.00 Party Election Broadcast By the Labour Party. 6.05 Police Interceptors This episode opens with a 20-mile cross border pursuit, before the suspect heads onto the M1 motorway, weaving all over the road at over 120 miles per hour. (R); 5 News Update 7.05 BBC News at Six; Weather 7.20 Regional News; Weather 7.30 Party Election Broadcast By the Conservative Party. (R) 7.35 LIVE MOTD: UEFA Euro 2024 Portugal v Czechia (kick-off 8.00pm). Gary Lineker presents coverage of the Group F match from Leipzig Stadium, as 2016 champions Portugal make their entry into the tournament. They’ll be looking to improve on a disappointing defence of their title three years ago, when they went out at the last-16 stage in a 1-0 defeat to Belgium. Meanwhile, these are the eighth Euro finals for Czechia since they separated from Slovakia, and reaching the quarter-finals, as they did three years ago, would represent a reasonable effort. Robyn Cowen commentates. 7.00 The One Show With Alex Jones and Lauren Laverne. 7.30 EastEnders Phil presses Sharon for answers and Stevie finds out Will is being blackmailed. Meanwhile, an encounter with Pastor Clayton leaves Yolande shaken. 7.00 Emmerdale Drama from the village in the Dales. 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(R) 10.00 Meet the Richardsons Chris Kamara asks Jon to take part in a Leeds United fundraiser for deprived children. While he’s away, Lucy tries to enrol Elsie in a private school. (R) 10.30 Newsnight Headline analysis with Victoria Derbyshire. 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather 10.30 Regional News; Weather 10.45 UEFA Euro 2024 Highlights Celina Hinchcliffe presents action from the latest Group F matches in Germany, featuring Turkiye v Georgia and Portugal v Czechia. Both of the games 10.00 Football Cops In Carlisle, there are arrests even before the fans get into the ground, and at Wembley the Football Cops are busy keeping rival fans apart for the FA Cup Final between Man Utd and Man City. Last in series. 11.05 FILM Only You (2019, 15) A chance meeting results in a passionate relationship between Spanish arts council worker Elena and PhD student Jake. Romantic drama, starring Laia Costa and Josh O’Connor. ★★★ were expected to be closely contested, though Portugal entered the tournament as the favourites to top the group. 11.50 Made in Britain A look at how the hovercraft managed to inspire one of Britain’s best-selling lawnmowers. (R) 11.05 The Rest is Politics: Election Special Former Conservative MP Rory Stewart and former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell bring their podcast to the screen as they discuss the latest from the General Election campaign. 10.00 The Killing Spree: Hunting Joanne Dennehy Following the story of one of Britain’s most notorious female serial killers, told by those closest to the case. Police, witnesses, and neighbours chart the events of the 10-day period. 12.55am Sign Zone: The Panorama Interviews with Nick Robinson. The journalist questions Keir Starmer of the Labour Party. (R) 1.55 Sign Zone: The Outlaws. The police close in on the gang. (R) 2.55 Sign Zone: On Thin Ice: Putin vs Greenpeace. 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MOVIES 5.00pm Lost Letter Mysteries: Second Chances (2014/PG) Drama, starring Eric Mabius and Kristin Booth. ★★ 7.05 Lost Letter Mysteries: Reconcilable Differences (2014/12) Mystery, starring Eric Mabius and Kristin Booth. ★★★ 9.00 The Missing (2003/15) Western, with Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones. ★★★★ 11.40pm Seraphim Falls (2006/15) Western thriller, starring Pierce Brosnan. ★★★ 1.55am Eye for an Eye (2019/15) Mystery thriller, starring John Travolta. ★★★ 4.00-6.00am An Organised Killer (2021/12) Thriller, starring Allison McAtee. ★★★ Sport Movies Radio Entertainment & Factual CHOICE Composer of the Week: Dvorák Radio 3, 4pm This week’s second look at the life, times and musical output of Czech composer Antonín Dvorák finds Kate Molleson exploring his vital connection to nature, specifically the inspiration that he took from the outside world. She also visits his summer house, Vysoka, in a bid to capture some of its magic. The Equalizer Sky Witness, 9pm McCall (Queen Latifah, left) gets a surprising call from a former Chinese agent who has been poisoned. Can she track down whoever is responsible, and find an antidote before it’s too late?

42 Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DX1ST This breakfast treat’s better when soaked in a spiced-pumpkin-egg mixture. The purée can be shop bought or blitz your own. Serve dusted with icing sugar or with berries and yogurt. Serves 4. INGREDIENTS 4 eggs 4 tbsps pumpkin puree 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 pinch ground nutmeg 8 slices wholemeal bread 2 tsps butter Pumpkin and spice French toast You might wish you had sorted out a family issue earlier. If you had done so you might not be going through the stress, tension and arguments of today. Now you must deal with the consequences of someone else’s irresponsible behaviour. If you feel something is unfair, f ght for what you believe in. If you’ve been hit with a parking ticket that is incorrect, appeal. If a colleague is taking unfair advantage of a policy that is for the benef t of all, take your concerns to a superior. Respect and recognition for your contribution to a group effort will conf rm your efforts have been appreciated. People in high places are aware of your talents. Don’t be surprised if you soon get an offer of promotion or a new job role. You like to think of yourself as being practical but you also have an amazing imagination. It just needs room to grow. Why not return to a hobby or creative pursuit. Switch off from the mundane and your artistic impulses will come back. You’re annoyed with the lack of support coming from those in senior positions. If you have to take charge of a group project, be sure to offer praise where it has been earned. Be conscious of your tone when offering constructive criticism. Worries about doing the right thing will have their roots in an old disappointment. You aren’t repeating a past mistake by taking a chance. Plans you are now making have positive potential. Step forward with renewed hope. It will make sense to stop and think about it before taking up a chance to invest your savings. 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The treaty expired in 1985 and was not renewed. 76 years ago (1948) The frst LP record was set to be unveiled to the public. Developed by Columbia, the 33rpm microgroove vinyl “long play” would soon become the recording industry standard, allowing for a playing time of more than 20 minutes per side. The following year RCA Victor brought out the 45rpm seven-inch record and the hit single was born. TODAY: Tuesday June 18, 2024 ON THIS DAY BIRTHDAYS TODAY’S GIGGLE What did the caretaker say when he jumped out of the store cupboard? “Supplies!” Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is 82. His net worth is £1bn. Citadel star Richard Madden is 38. He was cast in his frst role aged 11. Actress Isabella Rossellini is 72. Ingrid Bergman was her mother. Former president of South Africa Thabo Mbeki is 82. He was a driving force behind the nation’s 2010 World Cup bid. Letter of the day King stamps Sir Alan’s fully deserved knighthood I WAS pleased to learn Alan Bates, the hero of the Post Office scandal, has been rewarded by being knighted (“Now it’s Sir Alan Bates versus the Post Office”, June 17). This man’s devotion in exposing the truth has been nothing less than remarkable, his knighthood is justly deserved. Post Office senior management, if found guilty after a trial, deserve nothing less than a prison sentence. Bryan Peters, Eastbourne, E Sussex Let’s hope justice swiftly follows honour for Bates THE entire country will have sent up a resounding cheer of approval at the news of Post Office campaigner Alan Bates being knighted in the King’s Birthday Honours. Never was an honour so richly deserved. Sir Alan is clearly a man of honour and principle, and to hear that he refused an earlier offer of an OBE, as long as Paula Vennells held her CBE, is typical of the man he is. Let us hope that subpostmasters and mistresses and the public will see justice after the lives of hundreds of people across the country were destroyed. Jean Norfolk, Knottingley, W Yorks Tenacious subpostmaster exposed national scandal I AM absolutely delighted to read the news of the knighthood conferred on Sir Alan Bates, whose determination to expose the truth against the deceitful, dishonest hierarchy at the Post Office, who played out a long game to conceal their actions. But for the tenacity of Sir Alan, this case may never have come to light. The truth matters, it always has and always will. Gerald Norden, Knutsford, Cheshire Calf-crash cop was only trying to avert a disaster WELL done to the cop who had the nerve to ram the runaway cow with his car (“Officer who rammed calf twice ‘removed from frontline duties’”, June 17). Had this 440lb beast run into a crowded area and injured or killed a child, just imagine the outraged headlines had the police just stood by and done nothing. At least the animal got up and walked away. Yet another example of wokery. Paul Spears, Prudhoe, Northumb Officer was doing his job and protecting the public SO EVERYONE is disgusted a police officer tried to stop a cow by hitting it with their patrol car after attempts to stop it had failed. Police had tried to contact a vet to tranquillise the animal but none were available and attempts to contact the owner were ongoing. What are our police supposed to do? Their brief is to protect life and property. Had it been left in a frightened and bewildered state it may have attacked, injured or killed a member of public. Our poor police officers cannot do right for doing wrong. Bob Cross, Eccles, Gtr Manchester Police catch cow but not asylum seekers or crooks THE Surrey Police officer hitting a loose calf twice to prevent it from causing an accident should not be a surprise to the British public. Intelligence and initiative in our police force have been in short supply for some time. They are incapable of catching criminals and locating runaway asylum seekers. A runaway calf obviously was even beyond that challenge without the use of brute force and ignorance. Warren Browning, Rugby, Warks Harry, just take a look at what you could have had I WATCHED King Charles’s official Birthday Parade on TV with feelings of deep national pride. No other country in the world does pageantry better than the UK, and the presence of our Princess of Wales made it even more special (“Brave Charles and Kate show off the best of Britain”, June 17). I could not help but wonder if Prince Harry and his family in Montecito were watching, and did he tell his children he once had the right to stand on the famous Buckingham Palace balcony? Patricia East, Guildford, Surrey Britain shows the world how pageantry is done AS EXPECTED, it was a wonderful Trooping the Colour and flypast for King Charles’s official Birthday Parade. This iconic celebration shows the world how official engagements should be celebrated. Simply amazing. Michael Garrett, Rotherham, S Yorks If they’re all celebrities... please get me out of here I MUST agree with Carole Malone with regard to her comments on Alison Hammond (June 15). However I think this goes for all celebrities. They seem to think the public owe them a living, whereas they actually owe us for having to endure their constant big-headed ways, foul mouths and mispronounced Ts and Hs. Deborah Wisdom, Canterbury, Kent Carole’s right, Hammond is a complete TV turn-off THANK you, Carole. I turn the TV off if Alison Hammond is on. I don’t know why ITV thinks she’s so good. Sue Kinsey, Plymouth Starmer lived high life, God help us if he’s PM THE figures Carole Malone quoted in her column are eye-watering (“Keir’s hypocrisy so riling”, June 15). The hard-done-to former Director of Public Prosecutions was living the life of Riley. Malcolm Hardy, Mansfield, Notts Brown made his bed and now we have to lie in it THE latest King’s Birthday Honours includes so-called artist Tracey Emin and Labour’s former Chancellor and unelected Prime Minister Gordon Brown (“Gongs for stars of Strictly and retro pop charts”, June 15). So now you get made a dame for once having left your bed in a complete mess and you get knighted for once having left the country in a complete mess. Stefan Badham, Portsmouth SOME of the “experts” attempted to cover up England’s woeful performance against Serbia on Sunday night by saying it was just the opening game (“Head boy Jude secures nervy win for England”, June 17). But we witnessed an identical display in the defeat by the “mighty” Iceland just before the Euro 2024 tournament began. How does manager Gareth Southgate manage to transform millionaire superstars of the Premier League into international flops? Had it not been for Jude Bellingham, England could have lost. Wake up, Gareth. You have had enough time to prepare for this tournament and must be as embarrassed as the rest of us. Paul Marston, Walsall, W Mids Boss Gareth turns heroes into zeroes CLOSE CALL: Southgate applauds fans after England’s win No WHEN I was a kid my parents were always on at me about watching too much TV or playing video games on my ZX Spectrum computer. If it wasn’t the internet people were complaining about then it would be something else. I remember my mum telling my dad off in the 1980s for reading his newspaper at the breakfast table. The internet is now part of our lives, whether we like it or not. Whole businesses run off it. And a generation has grown up taking it for granted. Get used to it. Holly Ramsden, Derby FOR me, social media has replaced TV and radio (“Do you need a digital detox?”, June 17). Doomscrolling for hours on end has ruined my attention span, I can’t concentrate on anything for more than a few seconds. Last week I caught myself trying to swipe on a magazine when I got bored of an article. I’ve tried to wean myself off my smartphone but it is just too addictive. We have the world in our pockets but we use the technology to watch cat vidoes and argue with strangers online. Debbie Sloan, Birmingham DO YOU SPEND WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON THE INTERNET? Yes Picture: GETTY

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Daily Express Tuesday, June 18, 2024 47 DX1ST time highs, said Richard Hunter, of Interactive Investor. London remains under pressure as a growing number of UK companies look to list in New York, where valuations are higher. However, US consumer sentiment fell to a seven-month low this month as high prices squeezed personal fi nances. With the US Federal Reserve only expected to cut interest rates once this year the mood is gloomy, Mr Hunter said. “Bad debts have started to edge higher in the face of a squeeze on disposable incomes with the employment market showing signs of weakening.” Global sentiment suffered a further blow yesterday as the Chinese property market slump continued with new home prices falling another 4.3% while existing homes fell 7.5%, the fastest drop in almost a decade. Industrial production also slowed, overshadowing news that retail sales topped forecasts to rise 3.7% in May. Susannah Streeter, of Hargreaves Lansdown, said China’s “mixed bag of data” suggests its economic recovery is likely to remain “highly bumpy”. MARKET REPORT The FTSE 100 opened brightly but the early rally soon fi zzled as the political crisis in France, concerns over US consumer sentiment and a sharp dip in Chinese property prices spooked investors. The index closed at 8,143.28, down 3.58 points – a drop of 0.04%. Specialist insurer Beazley was the day’s biggest climber, jumping 2.90 per cent to end the day trading at 673.5p. Troubled fi nancial advisory fi rm St James’s Place was runner-up, closing 2.50% higher at 533p. B&M European Value Retail added 2.48% to 474.50p, while shares in investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown rose 2.38% to 1,076p, with gambling fi rm Entain up 2.13% to 670p. Medical products company ConvaTec Group was the biggest loser, sliding 3.78% to 244.20p. Aerospace manufacturer Melrose Industries fell 3.76% to 578p and water utility Severn Trent dropped 3.60% to 2,385p. French gloom helps London reclaim stock market crown NO CHANGE: Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England NO INTEREST RATE CUT UNTIL SEPTEMBER THE Bank of England is unlikely to cut base rates this month although headline consumer price inf ation is expected to fall to 2%. May’s f gure is published tomorrow but the BoE’s monetary policy committee is not likely to cut base rates from 5.25% on Thursday. The jobless rate unexpectedly climbed to 4.4% in the three months to April. Regular earnings growth remained unchanged at 6%. “Despite this, concerns about upcoming wage data and services inf ation persist,” Steve Matthews, of Canada Life Asset Management, said. Markets expect a single rate cut this year, mostly likely in September. App will make us influencers JAMES Watt, co-founder of craft beer Brewdog, is launching an app that aims to turn everyday consumers into social media infl uencers. Social Tip will offer a platform for people to upload posts about brands they like and get paid “real cash” based on views, likes and engageTight-fisted firms holding UK back UK businesses invested less than any other economy in the G7 for the third year in a row – hitting growth, productivity and wages. The Institute for Public Policy Research is calling on the next government to boost money fl owing in, especially in green industries, alongside public sector fi nancing. Dr George Dibb, of IPPR, said: “The UK’s dire productivity performance is the single biggest driver of our dire living standards.” He said we need to show businesses it is a “secure, sensible and stable place to invest”. ment. Watt said he was launching the app during this summer because even the cleverest advertising cannot match the “brand building power of genuine peer-to-peer recommendations”. He is targeting infl uencers with smaller individual followings. City&Business email: [email protected] Visit City & Business pages online at www.express.co.uk/city Tel: 020 8612 7156 Pictures: YUI MOK/PA LONDON has regained its crown as Europe’s biggest stock market after political turmoil wiped around £204billion off Parisian share values last week. Stocks in France are now worth about £2.47trillion in total, just behind the UK at £2.51trillion, according to Bloomberg. Paris suffered its worst week in more than 20 years after President Emmanuel Macron announced a snap election. Markets fear his gamble may backfi re with his centrist Renaissance party trailing in the polls Russ Mould, of AJ Bell, said markets fear this could prevent planned budget cuts and add to the country’s budget defi cit. He warned: “This could have implications for France’s credit rating and borrowing costs.” The CAC 40 index climbed in early trading yesterday but Mr Mould said: “It still has some way to go to reclaim the title of Europe’s largest equity market by valuation.” Paris overtook London two years ago but the FTSE has recovered slightly as foreign investors target undervalued UK shares, including Direct Line. The FTSE 100 has grown 5.5% so far this year despite dipping from May’s allBy Harvey Jones GAMBLE: French president Macron ++ THE FTSE 100 THE FTSE 100 THE FTSE 100 ++ 52 WEEK COMPANY CLOSE +/- HIGH LOW 52 WEEK COMPANY CLOSE +/- HIGH LOW 52 WEEK COMPANY CLOSE +/- HIGH LOW 3i Group.........................................3051 +11 3082 1848 A.B. 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157.760 +0.3659 Dollar/Euro 0.932 -0.0019 GOLD($) 2317.80 KRUGERRAND(£) 1825.20 SILVER(pence) 2310.29 BRENT CRUDE($) 83.78 POPULAR SHARES ON THE RISE Abrdn 144¾ +1½ BAE Systems 1337 +2 Barclays 205 +3 BP 460¾ +¾ HSBC Holdings 683 +6¼ Int Consolidated Airlines 165 +1½ Lloyds Banking Group 54½ +¼ Marks & Spencer Group 296 +½ NatWest Group 308 +¾ Rolls-Royce Holdings 461½ +3¾ Saga 117¼ +½ Shell 2726 +15 Vodafone Group 69¾ +¾ POPULAR SHARES UNCHANGED Sainsbury (J) 258¾ POPULAR SHARES ON THE SLIDE AstraZeneca 12428 -82 Aviva 470½ -5½ BT Group 138¾ -1 Centrica 131½ -½ GSK 1600 -4½ National Grid 875¾ -6¼ Tesco 307 -3¼ Unilever 4434 -16 Whitbread 2903 -9 AT A GLANCE Base rate 5.25% Halifax mortgage rate 5.98% Retail Price Index +3.3% (CPI +2.3%) House price Index 0.7% Unemployment 1,510,000 OTHER INDICATORS 38,778.1 +188.9 ▲

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Details can be found at www.ipso.co.uk. + BG + Barclays + BT + Centrica + Dixons Carphone + First Group + HSBC + Kingfisher + Marks & Spencer + Next + Prudential + Rolls-Royce + Sainsburys + Tesco + Unilever + Vodafone + Whitbread + WPP SHARES AT A GLANCE 52 WEEK COMPANY CLOSE +/- HIGH LOW 52 WEEK COMPANY CLOSE +/- HIGH LOW 52 WEEK COMPANY CLOSE +/- HIGH LOW 52 WEEK COMPANY CLOSE +/- HIGH LOW 52 WEEK COMPANY CLOSE +/- HIGH LOW 52 WEEK COMPANY CLOSE +/- HIGH LOW Support Services Ashtead Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5510 +88 6104 4667 Capita Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13¾ 32 12½ Costain Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76¼ -½ 87 43½ DCC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5520# -30 6035 4171 De La Rue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95½ -2½ 102 30 Diploma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4124 -34 4252 2804 Essentra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170# 190 143½ Experian Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3691 -16 3779 2390 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250 273 205 Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15765# -55 17685 11665 Hays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101¼ -1½ 110½ 88½ Inchcape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .750½# +7½ 847 624½ Intertek Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4714# -30 5075 3755 London Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3050# 3100 2850 Macfarlane Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122½ -1 145 99 Mears Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .366 +1½ 394 253 Michael Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .434¾# +2¾ 498½ 365 Mitie Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115½ -2 124¼ 92 Paypoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .640 +27 645 436 Rentokil Initial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448½ +1½ 644 392½ Ricardo Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .492 -3 610 404 Robert Walters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .429 +8 472 353 RS Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .705# +6 839½ 660½ Serco Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169 -1½ 189¾ 137 Shanks Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .674 +11 734 450 SIG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 38 26¼ Smiths News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57# -¾ 65½ 40¾ Speedy Hire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 +¾ 37¾ 23½ SThree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .422 +10½ 439½ 332 Travis Perkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .809 +6½ 914½ 692¼ Trifast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 +1 94 66¼ Technology Hardware & Equipment BATM Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17¼ -¼ 29½ 16½ Spirent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184¾ +½ 200 90 Tobacco British Amer.Tob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2409 +17 2735 2267 Imperial Brands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1993½# -6 2005 1580 Travel & Leisure 888 Holdings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82¾ +1¼ 130 70½ Carnival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1079 +2 1377 811½ Celtic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140 +2½ 145 116 Compass Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2196# -21 2323 1945½ Domino’s Pizza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315½ +5¼ 424½ 275¼ EasyJet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450½ +3 577¾ 360 Entain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669¼ +13¼ 1403½ 654½ Flutter Entert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14485 +650 17475 12155 Fuller Smith & Turner . . . . . . . . . . . .706 -10 728 542 Heavitree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265 290 265 InterContinental Htl . . . . . . . . . . . .8136 -44 8752 5210 Intl Consolidated Airlines . . . . . . . .165 +1½ 186½ 138 Irish Continental Uts . . . . . . . . . . . 481½ -8 540 366 Marston’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31¾ -¼ 39 25¾ Mitchells & Butlers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .299 +4 312½ 199¼ National Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 -1 113½ 46 Rank Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 -1½ 103½ 62½ Saga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117¼ +½ 156 104½ TUI AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590½ +17 677 401 Wetherspoon (JD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .745 +19½ 847½ 613 Whitbread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2903# -9 3678 2855 AIM Alumasc Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192½ -1½ 204 137½ Arbuthnot Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . .955# +10 1105 877½ Boohoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 +¾ 42 29¼ Brown (N.) Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 +1¼ 25 14 Camellia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4320 -30 6100 4270 Churchill China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175# +50 1470 1000 CML Microsystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .350 -5 460 297½ CPP Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165½ 191½ 122½ Cropper (James) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .355 845 230 Dewhurst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1190 1229¼ 710 Fevertree Drinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002# -3 1412 952 Filtronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69½ +2 71¾ 13½ Hornby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 -1 38½ 14½ James Halstead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188 -1 225 184½ Johnson Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159½ +2¾ 171¼ 101 Mothercare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4½ -¼ 8 3¾ Mpac Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .494 -7 530 187½ Naked Wine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60¼ +¼ 112¾ 28½ Nichols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .972 -33 1200 882 Norish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 15 11 Northamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 50½ 35 Ovoca Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 14 +½ Portmeirion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230 412 204 Renold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59¾ 64¾ 27¼ Rockhopper Exploratn . . . . . . . . . . . 15 +½ 15 10¼ Ten Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86½ -1 101 75 Titon Holdings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77½ 90 62½ Volex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338½ 354½ 270 Young & Co Brewery A. . . . . . . . . . .966 +6 1240 946 F&C Inv Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1006 +2 1050 831 F&C Smaller Cos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160½ +½ 167½ 129 F&C US Smaller Companies. . .1262½ +7½ 1360 1065 Fidelity Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .516 -8 542 476 Fidelity European . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387 +½ 411 311½ Fidelity Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169½ -2 185 152½ Fidelity Special . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298# +1 311½ 252½ Finsbury Gwth&In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .842 +2 914 792 Foresight Tech.VCT . . . . . . . . . . . . 72½# 84 71 Gartmore Euro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186# +2 195½ 150 Genesis E.M.F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676¾ -3¼ 720¼ 569 Graphite Ent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1220 1262 1046 Hansa Tst ‘A’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197½ +½ 217 175 Hansa Tst Plc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209 223 180½ Henderson Euro.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . .157# +1 164½ 124½ Henderson Far Est . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237½ 251 197¾ Henderson High Inc . . . . . . . . . . . .157# 172 140½ Henderson Opp Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . .223# -2 236 171½ Herald Inv.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2205 +15 2215 1596 HGCapital Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474½ +1½ 499 353½ HSBC Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . .124¾# -¾ 139½ 117¼ Impax Env.Mkt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391 +½ 417 334½ Int.Biotech.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .660 -4 694 548 International Public . . . . . . . . . . . . 124¾ 139¼ 115½ Invesco Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323 +1 348 286 Invesco Perp UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .431 -3 440 379 JPM American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .982 +7 991 741 JPM Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370 +1 372 313 JPM Claverhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .718 +6 746 630 JPM Emerg Mkt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104½ +½ 108¼ 96½ JPM Euro Sml Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453½ -1½ 485 354½ JPM Global Emerging . . . . . . . . . . 134½ +1½ 140 117 JPM Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .972 +4 982 798 JPM Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .517 -7 553 438½ JPM Overseas IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .568# -1 572 456 JPM Smaller Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322# +2 339 230 JPM US Sml Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .384 412 317 Jupiter Euro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .877 -6 915 743 JZ Capital Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215 224 149 Keystone Inv.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217 -4 231 183¼ Law Debenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .836# -1 897 721 Lowland Invest Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124½ -½ 130 104½ Majedie Inv. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .242 +4 252 181 Manchester&Lon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .792 +20 801½ 413½ Martin Currie Prtflo Tst . . . . . . . . . . .382 397 299 Matrix Inc & Gwth 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 73½ 66½ Maven Income And Growth VCT . 38 40 38 Mercantile Inv Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231 -½ 248 177¾ Merchants Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .555 +1 591 477½ Mid Wynd Int. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .778 +1 788 670 Monks Inv.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1166 -4 1194 890 Montanaro Euro Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140 +½ 145 107¼ Montanaro Uk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108 +2 111½ 84¼ Murray Inc.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .851 -1 898 770 Murray Int.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249 +1 265 219 New India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .786 +6 796 532 New Star Inv.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 +1 123 109½ North Atl.Smlr.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3920 +10 4190 3420 Northern 2 VCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54½ 56½ 54 Northern Venture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57½ 60 54 Oxford Tech 2 VCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 21½ 11 Pacific Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .381# +1 389 340 Pacific Horizon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .622 +2 657 512 Pantheon Int. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311 -2 334 245½ Pershing Square Hold . . . . . . . . . .4294 +18 4349 2704 Polar Cap.Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3285 +20 3300 2105 RCM Technology Trust . . . . . . . . . . .389 +3½ 391¾ 246 RIT Capital Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . .1754 -16 2010 1718 Ruffer Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270½ +½ 289 261 Schroder Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .523 +1 531 456 Schroder Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285½ -½ 302 249 Schroder Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253 -3 263 217 Schroder UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169 -1 176 141¾ Schroder UK M&S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .617 +5 634 482 Scottish American . . . . . . . . . . . . . .505# -1 536 452 Scottish Mortgage . . . . . . . . . . . . . .890# -10¼ 907 637½ Shires Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241 -1 253 209½ Small Comp Div.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . 165½ 168 131 SPARK VCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19½ 20½ 19 Standard Life Equity . . . . . . . . . .299½# +1½ 331 260 Standard Life UK Sml . . . . . . . . . . 481½ -2 508 370 SVM UK Emerging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65¼ 67½ 61½ Temple Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256½# 275½ 212 Templeton Emrg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159 +½ 165½ 141 The European Inv.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 -½ 101 75½ Throgmorton Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .608 +5 641 507 TR Euro.Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179½ +1 188½ 136 TR Prop. IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320 +4½ 345 255 Value & Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185 +1 210 163 Witan Inv Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259 +1½ 270 210½ Witan Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205 +1 243 176 Wwide Healthcare . . . . . . . . . . . .356½# -½ 358½ 288 Financial Services 3i Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3051 +11 3082 1848 3i Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .324# -1½ 348 278½ Abrdn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144¾ +1½ 236¾ 136¼ Aerospace & Defence Avon Rubber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1296 +8 1378 593 Babcock International . . . . . . . . . 527½ +5½ 565½ 269 BAE Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1337 +2 1400 888¼ Chemring Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377 +2½ 396 259 QinetiQ Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442½ +3¾ 459 292¾ Rolls-Royce Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461½ +3¾ 469½ 145¼ Senior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158½ +2 180½ 154¼ Alternative Energy Porvair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .674 -22 730 524 Banks Barclays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205 +3 220 129¼ Bco Santander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366½ -4 414 260½ Close Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431½ +6½ 976½ 299¼ CYBG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214 -¼ 216¼ 142 HSBC Holdings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .683# +6¼ 720¾ 575¾ Investec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .546 -9½ 566 429½ Lloyds Banking Grp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54½ +¼ 56½ 39¾ Metro Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 +¾ 124½ 28¾ NatWest Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308 +¾ 326½ 176¼ Standard Chartered . . . . . . . . . . . . . .720 -4¼ 785¾ 573¾ Beverages Barr (AG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .594 +9 623 451½ Britvic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .955# -8 1018 785½ Coca-Cola HBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2688# -4 2804 2065 Diageo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2575½ -3½ 3457 2560 Chemicals Carclo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18¾ +¼ 19 6¾ Croda International . . . . . . . . . . . . .4059 -68 5956 4034 Elementis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143 +2 156½ 98 Johnson Matthey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1544# -7 1870 1446½ Synthomer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263 -8 637½ 122½ Treatt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .445 -9 700 370 Victrex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1150# +24 1595 1114 Construction & Materials Balfour Beatty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .349½# +2¾ 386¼ 295½ Clarke T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160 +¾ 163¼ 118½ CRH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6110# +80 6898 4102 Dialight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194 +3 237 144 Galliford Try . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233 -3 275 192½ Gleeson (MJ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .549 -1 580 350 Keller Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234# +26 1376 673 Kier Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137¾ +1½ 149½ 74½ Marshalls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300# +3½ 329½ 198 Morgan Sindall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2570 +5 2595 1706 Severfield-Rowen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68¼ -2 75 50 Smart (J) & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125 168½ 117½ Tyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .353 -1 396½ 236 Electricity Drax Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486¼ -2½ 619¾ 401½ SSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1739 -28 1896 1508 Electronic & Electrical Equipment Acal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .681 +5 936 593 Halma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2617 -28 2687 1810½ Morgan Crucible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308½ -½ 331 218½ Oxford Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . .2570 -30 2730 1712 Renishaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4020 +35 4370 2950 Spectris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3160# +34 3807 2935 TT Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157½ +5 185 135¼ XP Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1560 -34 2440 776 Equity Investment Instruments Aberdeen Asian Sml . . . . . . . . . . . .281# +2 287 243 Aberforth Smll.Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1484 +18 1544 1126 Acorn Income. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367½ Albion Tech.& Gen. VCT . . . . . . . . 67½# 73½ 66 Albion VCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43¼ 47½ 43¼ Alliance Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1188# +2 1264 988 Artemis Alpha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .373 +1 378 263½ Aurora Inv.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246½# +2½ 253½ 198 AVI Global Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235 -½ 248 185 Baillie Gifford Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . .714 -10 796 641 Baillie Gifford Shin Nip . . . . . . . . . 111¼ -1¼ 147½ 105 Bankers Inv.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111¼ -½ 117 92¼ Baronsmead VCT.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54½ 56 50¼ BH Macro GBP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .352 +6½ 386 328 Biotech Growth Trust . . . . . . . . . . . .980 -22 1024 718 BlackRock Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .546# -2 631 492½ Bluehone AiM VCT2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 30½ 33 30½ British Assets Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81¼ 87½ 71¼ Brunner Inv.Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310# +25 1355 966 Caledonia Inv. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3410 +20 3660 3110 City Natural Res.Yld . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180 -5 204 152 City Of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413½ 428 371½ Dunedin Ent.IT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507½ -2½ 565 480 Dunedin Income. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .280 -2 294 249 Edin Wwide Inv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143½ +¼ 157 122½ Edin.Drgn.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387 -2 414 325 Edin.Inv.Tst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .715# -5 742 615 Edin.US Tracker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .294 298 258½ Elderstreet VCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 49 44 European Ass Tst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88¼ -½ 91¾ 73 F&C Cap&Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326# -½ 339 271 Ashmore Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174¼ +2½ 232½ 166¼ Guinness Peat Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 +½ 88¾ 64 Hargreaves Lansdown . . . . . . . .1073½ +22½ 1120 690½ IG Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .808 +14 822½ 611 Intermediate Cap.Grp . . . . . . . . . 2234# +42 2394 1255½ International Pers Fin . . . . . . . . . . . .124 -½ 131 100½ IP Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45½ +¼ 61½ 43½ Jupiter Fund Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75¾ +½ 115 73½ Liontrust Asset Man . . . . . . . . . . . . .765 +9 855 523½ London Stock Ex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9434 9674 7986 Lonfin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52½ 55 32 M&G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201 +½ 238¾ 183 Man Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247½ +2¼ 277¾ 202 Paragon Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756 +12½ 779½ 443½ Provident Financial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52¼ +½ 198¼ 46¼ Rathbone Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . .1684 +34 1996 1458 S & U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1900 +10 2450 1800 Schroders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370 -¾ 464½ 347¼ St James’s Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .530 +10 1183 402 Tullett Prebon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203½ -½ 227½ 141 Walker Crips Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 26½ 20½ Fixed Line Telecommunications Airtel Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120½ +1¾ 131½ 90¾ BT Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138¾ -1 143 102¼ Telecom Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1874 +4 1892 1362 Food & Drug Retailers Greggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2858 +48 2940 2282 Marks & Spencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .296# +½ 311½ 185 Ocado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347½ -9¾ 976½ 342 Sainsbury (J) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258¾# 310½ 245¾ Tesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307# -3¼ 315 245½ Food Producers A.B. 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. . . . . . . .1049 +13 1191 967 Frasers Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855½ +7 938 683 Halfords Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141½ +2½ 234 138 Howden Joinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .866 -1½ 930½ 613 JD Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120½# -¼ 175¼ 104 Kingfisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245¾# -2¾ 270½ 201¼ Next. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9038 +30 9426 6438 Pendragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387½ +6 795 313 Pets At Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .294½# +3¼ 397½ 254½ RM Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 -3½ 103½ 48 Topps Tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42½# +¼ 56½ 40½ WH Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1183 +27 1628 1083 Health Care Equipment & Services Convatec Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244¼ -9½ 293½ 196¼ Flying Brands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1¼ 5¾ 1¼ Smith & Nephew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987¼ -12½ 1268 896¼ Household Goods & Home Construction Barratt Development . . . . . . . . . . 487¾ -1¼ 566½ 392¼ Bellway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2604# +6 2860 1921 Berkeley Grp Hldgs . . . . . . . . . . . . .5030 5320 3773 Bovis Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1216 +2 1310 636 Colefax Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .855 877 655 Headlam Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143½ -2½ 275 143½ Mcbride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124½ +4½ 128 25½ Persimmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1422 +2 1498 960½ Reckitt Benckiser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4407 +14 6082 4110 Redrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686½ -1 739 427½ Taylor Wimpey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148¾ +¼ 152½ 99¾ Industrial Engineering Bodycote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .723 +13 768 555 Castings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .391 +15 419 326 Hill & Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1942# +18 2100 1458 IMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1793 +12 1901 1445 Northgate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403½ -1 438 311½ Rotork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325 +1¾ 343¾ 281 Slingsby H.C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .310 +35 310 190 Spirax-Sarco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8495 +10 11130 8058 Vesuvius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471½ +6 504 390¾ Vitec Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .324 -7 723¼ 272 Weir Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2026 +12 2200 1675½ Xaar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144 +7 190 91¼ Industrial Metals & Mining Evraz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 Ferrexpo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 -1 95 41½ Industrial Transportation Braemar Shipping Serv . . . . . . . . 291½ +7½ 310 224 Clarkson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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. . . .993 1145 577 Informa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .843# +½ 852¼ 685¾ ITV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76¼ +½ 79½ 55¾ Pearson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 952½ +3½ 1042 811 Reach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 +1½ 92 59 RELX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3568 +10 3593 2442 STV Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .280 290½ 176½ Wilmington Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379½ +14½ 400 257 WPP Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .738# +2½ 875 681¼ Mining Anglo American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2371 -17½ 2773½ 1670¼ Anglo Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76¾ +2½ 123 70¾ Antofagasta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2033 -8 2410 1293 BHP Billiton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2203 -32 2700 2175 Centamin Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113¼# -¼ 130¼ 78¼ Endeavour Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1618 +8 2024 1250 Fresnillo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .543 -2½ 669 441½ Gem Diamonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12¾ -¼ 21¾ 8 Glencore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448¼ -6¼ 501½ 369 Hochschild Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . 174½ +5½ 188 70¼ Kenmare Res. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323½ +3½ 460 294 London & Ass.Prop . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11½ 15½ 8½ Petra Diamonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 +1½ 76½ 37 Rio Tinto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5181 -38 5891 4559 Mobile Telecommunications Vodafone Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69¾# +¾ 81 63 Nonequity Investment Instruments Oryx Int.Gwth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1300 1450 1020 Rights &Iss.Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2400 -30 2460 1805 Nonlife Insurance Admiral Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2585 +34 2837 2029 Beazley Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673½ +19 690 503 Direct Line Insurance . . . . . . . . . . 198½ +5½ 225¾ 134 Hiscox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1124 +11 1240 938 Lancashire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .607 +8 689 538 Oil & Gas Producers BP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .460¾# +¾ 558 444¼ Cairn Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171½ +1 375¾ 142½ Enquest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 +¼ 18½ 12 Gulf Keystone Pet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135 +4½ 146½ 84¾ Harbour Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292¼ -5¼ 330 218¼ Regal Petroleum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16½ +½ 20¾ 12¼ Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2726# +15 2946 2264½ Soco International . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24½# +¾ 25¼ 18¾ Tullow Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32¼ -½ 39½ 25½ Oil Equipment, Services & Distribution Hunting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394½ +1 446 197½ John Wood Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195¾ -1¾ 200¾ 125¾ Petrofac . . . . . . . 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The offer is provided by Artemis Home Ltd, 278 Torquay Road, Paignton, TQ3 2EU. Offer subject to availability. Free standard delivery up to 10 working days, dependent on product. Additional surcharges may apply to outlying areas. For full terms and conditions visit www. the-sofa-warehouse.co.uk SHOP The Glendale is an electrically operated lift assist and recline chair, designed to provide both relaxation and also can be used as a mobility aid for those who require it. The chair is constructed from a solid, hard wooden frame with a strong a durable recline mechanism which is tested to support up to 21 stone. The seat interior is filled with a pocket sprung unit and is foam covered to provide both comfort and support. The chair is upholstered in a soft yet durable bonded leather with some faux leather used on the lower stress areas. Both the lift assist and recline functions are operated by an easy to use remote control which can be stored in a pocket on the right hand side of the chair. For ultimate relaxation there is also massage points in the seat, lower + upper back and a warming heat function in the lumbar area. Your order will be shipped with our white glove, two man delivery service and delivered within 5 to 10 working days from the point of order. You will be contacted to arrange the delivery date and the chair will be brought into your room of choice and assembled. The lift assist, riser function if this product is classed as a mobility aid and so you may be entitled to VAT relief in some scenarios. Contact our sales team for more information on this. ELECTRIC LIFT ASSIST RISER RECLINER CHAIR WITH MASSAGE AND HEAT only £749.99 GLENDALE CHAIR DIMENSIONS H103cm x W92cm x D99cm SEAT DIMENSIONS H54cm x W54cm x D57cm AVAILABLE COLOURS Black, Brown, Burgundy, Cream and Grey TO ORDER PLEASE CALL US ON 0117 3253 411 Grow a variety of flowers and plants with ease in this large wooden raised planter. Perfect for gardening on a smaller scale, thanks to its convenient height there is no uncomfortable bending over when gardening. • Durable; Constructed from strong and durable fir wood • Portable; Perfect for small-scale gardening and those who rent • Guarantee; 24-month guarantee • Versatile; Grow flowers or vegetables • Raised bed; Easily accessible The portable design means that this raised planter can be moved around easily, allowing you to position it wherever you want in your garden, backyard or patio. The portability also makes it ideal for those who rent as when you move you can simply take it with you. Great for those who worry that their hard work will be left behind as they move on. Dimensions: L100 x W70 x H80cm Material: Fir wood Self-assembly require G3339 - Large Wooden Planter WAS £149.99 NOW ONLY £89.99 + £6.99 p&p LARGE WOODEN PLANTER *Calls cost 12ppm plus your phone company’s access charge. Lines open 7 days a week, 9am-6pm. Please note your contract for supply of goods is with Thompson & Morgan. Subject to availability. To fnd out exactly how we store and use the data you give us please visit www.thompson-morgan.com/privacy. Delivery to UK addresses only. We are unable to ship seeds or plants to EU countries and Northern Ireland. Images for illustration purposes only. Despatched from June onwards. Offer closes 02/07/2024. www.thompson-morgan.com/TM_RE3509 0871 664 2458* Quote TM_RE3509 Only £89.99 WAS £149.99