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fears over on a thrilling

first day

Johnson’s
notebooks
Officials refuse to return ex-PM’s ‘sensitive’ journals
WEEKEND
Steven Swinford Political Editor Johnson’s notebooks remain at the

Boris Johnson’s 25 notebooks from his

centre of a legal battle between the
government and the Covid public
How to get a
time in office are being withheld from
him by the government after a review
inquiry, due to culminate in a judicial
review at the end of the month. The
good night’s
by the security services found pages of
highly sensitive material.
dispute revealed for the first time that
Johnson was keeping detailed notes of
sleep over 40
Officials have advised that the sensi-
tive passages should only be viewed by
his time in Downing Street, which are
expected to form the basis of political
Expert guide
people with the highest level of security memoirs.
clearance and must be “appropriately Baroness Hallett, the inquiry’s chair-
stored” in a secure location if they are woman, has demanded access to unre-
returned to Johnson. The review also dacted copies of Johnson’s notebooks
raised concerns about some of John- and WhatsApp messages so she can
son’s WhatsApp messages. determine which parts are relevant.
The dispute over the notebooks The Cabinet Office has refused to
thrusts Johnson once again to the comply, and has only been willing to
centre of a legal battle between the gov- provide redacted copies. Its position
ernment and the Covid inquiry as Rishi has perplexed many Tory MPs, who
Sunak tries to move on from an acrimo- have urged the government to demon-
nious dispute with his predecessor. strate a greater commitment to trans-
Johnson has asked his supporters not
to vote against a damning report which
parency.
The Cabinet Office has told the in-
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found he deliberately misled the Com- quiry: “Some of the material in question for your Times
mons, amid claims that attempting to may involve issues of national security
put up a fight would expose his lack of and we appreciate the inquiry’s under- newspaper when
support among Conservative MPs. standing of the need to treat sensitive
Allies of the former prime minister material appropriately. We will con-
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insist he wants to move on from Tory tinue to work with both Mr Johnson Page 44
infighting but Johnson has begun and the inquiry to ensure that any
writing a new column in the Daily Mail materials that may contain . . . security
that will be followed nervously in sensitivities are handled appropriately.”
Downing Street. The ministerial ethics A source close to Johnson insisted
watchdog accused Johnson of a “clear that there is “no national security sensi- Knighthood for Amis The author Martin Amis
received the same honour
breach” of its rules after he informed tive material” in the notebooks, des- as his father Sir Kingsley
them about the column half an hour cribing them as “daily jottings from the day before he died last month Pages 4-5 y(7HB7E2*OTSNQN( |||+$!&'
before it was announced yesterday. Continued on page 2
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News

Today’s highlights Rate rises set to add £3,000 a

12.05pm The former medic Adam Kay on his latest
book Undoctored and forthcoming gigs at
the Edinburgh Fringe
year to mortgage repayments
1.15pm The former Conservative minister and
whip Anne Milton Mehreen Khan, George Nixon, with deals being pulled and replaced term pain to come if the next inflation
3.15pm The comedian Ria Lina, right, who is Oliver Wright with new higher-rate mortgages,” report is also poor.
performing in the Laugh Till it Hurts event Simon Pittaway, senior economist at “The problem is people are panicking
to support food charity The Felix Project Homeowners face paying almost the Resolution Foundation, said. and we can only hope that the Bank of
4.15pm The Conservative MP Sir Bob Neill £3,000 extra on their mortgage next Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, is England doesn’t panic and put up rates
6.35pm Rafael Behr on his book Politics: A year as part of a £16 billion borrowing under growing political pressure to step higher than they need to be.”
Survivor’s Guide crunch from fast-rising interest rates. in and help homeowners struggling He said there could be more mort-
Research from the Resolution Foun- with repayments with demands from gage rate rises next week. “It is now a
dation has found the average person the Liberal Democrats for the govern- case of how much business are the
due to re-fix their mortgage next year ment to introduce a mortgage support banks getting in and can they cope. I
DAB RADIO l ONLINE l SMART SPEAKER l APP faces paying up to £1,000 in extra fund. However last night Treasury know they would rather sit back and
monthly repayments if the Bank of sources insisted that such a move wait but they may feel they have no
England’s base rate rises as high as would be “completely the wrong thing choice but to move.”
6 per cent. to do” as it would fuel inflation and sub- The Bank makes its next rate deci-
T O D AY ’ S E D I T I O N Total monthly repayments could rise sidise wealthier households. sion on Thursday, with the monetary
by as much as £2,900 compared with Two-year fixed mortgage rates are policy committee under pressure to de-
before the base rate began to rise in already poised to top 6 per cent next liver an outsized increase of half a per-
2-for-1 junk food Trump facing Public’s faith in late 2021. This compares with an aver- week, having risen to 5.98 per cent yes- centage point to bring down the strong-
age increase of £2,000 facing house- terday, said the financial data analyst est core inflation since 1991 and damp-
deals set to stay corruption case Bank plummets holds before this week’s jump in rate Moneyfacts. At the start of May the av- en private sector wage increases.
A ban on two-for-one Donald Trump is likely Public confidence in expectations. erage rate was 5.26 per cent. Five-year Most economists expect the MPC to
junk food deals is set to face charges under the Bank of England’s Financial markets now expect the fixed-rates have risen from 4.97 per carry out a smaller quarter of a percent-
to be shelved by Rishi legislation originally ability to control Bank to take aggressive action against cent to 5.62 per cent. age point rate rise as the Bank will be
Sunak amid concerns enacted to prosecute inflation is at a record rising inflation, lifting the base rate Major lenders including HSBC, Nat- wary of piling too much pressure on the
about the cost of living. mafia gangsters. The low. The findings of a from the current 4.5 per cent to as high West, Nationwide Building Society and mortgage market as the economy is
Planning laws could case in Georgia, under survey by Ipsos were as 6 per cent by the middle of next year. Santander have all increased their slowing and the full impact of higher
be used to combat Racketeer Influenced revealed days before This would be the highest interest rates mortgage rates this week. borrowing costs is yet to be felt.
obesity instead, with and Corrupt the monetary policy since early 2000 and pile financial mis- Andrew Montlake, managing direct- Mortgaged homeowners have
restrictions on new Organisations (Rico) committee is ery on mortgage holders with both or at the mortgage broker Coreco, said: already found themselves £118 under-
fast food outlets as well laws, concerns alleged expected to raise the fixed and variable rate loans. “It is a vicious circle as one lender in- water on average at the end of each
as street layouts to pressure to overthrow cost of borrowing for “Market expectations that interest creases rates, leaving another with the month as they cut back on food and
encourage walking the results of the 2020 the 13th consecutive rates are going to rise even higher and cheapest rate, they then get inundated other expenditure to try and keep up
and cycling. Page 6 election. Page 39 time. Page 45 stay higher for longer are having a and have to move up. It will stop at some with mounting mortgage costs, accord-
major effect on the mortgage market, point, but there may be more short- ing to the Citizens Advice charity.

80
days since Wall Street Journal
ournal
reporter Evan Gershkovich
was detained in Russia
vich Cost of living ‘is forcing Keep secrets
#FreeEvan the retired back to work’ off AI, civil
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LEADING ARTICLES 27
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CROSSWORD 83
TV & RADIO
SATURDAY REVIEW
People are changing their life plans and retired between February and April
servants told
returning to work as living costs rise, a this year, down from 1.180 million dur-
charity for the elderly has claimed. ing the same period last year. Charlie Moloney
FOLLOW US Age UK said that older people were Caroline Abrahams, charity director
thetimes timesandsundaytimes thetimes complaining that their retirement at Age UK, said: “The cost of living Civil servants have been warned in
aspirations were “being ruined” by in- crisis is driving a coach and horses leaked guidance not to share state se-
flation. through many older people’s retire- crets on ChatGPT, a report claims.
WEEKEND SATURDAY REVIEW SPORT It highlighted the case of a worker ment plans. The guidance, a six-page document
who took early retirement in May last “The government needs to provide circulated to government departments
year to care for a mother with demen- more generous financial support for in April, comes as ministers prepare to
tia. The person said: “Due to increases people who cannot keep working until regulate the AI industry.
in fuel and all utilities I have been they become eligible for their [state] The Telegraph reported a section of
forced to get a part-time job to supple- pension, as well as increasing access to the document as saying: “You should
ment my work pension.” training and flexible working for those never put sensitive information or per-
Another said: “I am a carer for my who can, reducing the level of eco- sonal data into these tools. Beyond ex-
husband who needs to keep warm in nomic inactivity, which is one of their isting data protection laws, govern-
winter. I had to take a part-time job to big goals.” ment has no oversight over how data,
make ends meet.” A survey by Opinium for Age UK in which is entered into web-based Gen-
The charity quoted another person January found that among people aged erative AI tools, is then used.”
CHILLING STUFF NOVEL LIST BRITISH ACE who told it: “The only time my family 60 to 65, about 9 per cent said they or Although the guidance warns civil
From ketchup to Ranking the work Cameron Norrie used the heating last winter was at someone in their household had re- servants to beware of “bias” in the AI
chutney, ice cream of Ian McEwan as on his hopes Christmas. I am working but my wages cently had to change their work habits. programs, it encourages users to
goes experimental the author turns 75 for Wimbledon would not cover the cost of heating my Phil Brown, director of policy at “explore” new technologies.
house and leave enough to buy food People’s Partnership, the pension pro- Rishi Sunak met new technology
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rising. I am due to retire in September half of people in jobs feared they would regulate artificial intelligence and
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Pop model: I deserve more than this

Woman who appeared
on cover of Roxy Music
album fights expulsion
after 74 years in Britain,
Jack Malvern writes
Looking up seductively from a rumpled
sheet in a satin-frilled minidress, Kari-
Ann Moller set the tone for an album
that would transform pop music.
Her appearance on the debut album
by Roxy Music in 1972 not only im-
pressed music fans of the time but may
now influence whether she is allowed
to stay in Britain.
The former model, who has lived in
the UK for all but the first ten months of
her life, was stopped by immigration
officials this year and told that she was
not allowed to remain because she had
a Norwegian passport.
The threat of expulsion has prompt-
ed her husband, Chris Jagger, brother of
Sir Mick, to help her apply for settled
status by uploading a copy of the album
cover to demonstrate how long she has
lived in this country. He was so irritated
that he wrote a letter to The Times,
which is published today.
Mrs Jagger, as she is now known,
gave up modelling in her 20s to become
a yoga teacher. But she had already
changed cultural life in Britain. In 2018
The Sunday Times celebrated the re-
release of Roxy Music’s self-titled debut
as “the album that transformed pop”.
It noted that executives at Island Kari-Ann Moller helped to change pop music and is married to Chris Jagger, brother of Sir Mick, but has a Norwegian passport
Records had mixed feelings about re-
leasing the experimental work by when her modelling career was just here at all. You’re going to have to sit “At the time, Roxy Music was quite an
Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno. taking off, Moller needed a passport here with a policeman while I go up to unknown band and she was quite a
Chris Blackwell, the label’s founder, urgently so she could take up an assign- the offices to find out what to do.” well-known model.”
forced the issue when he was so be- ment in New York for the Mary Quant She was released after an hour and He said there should have been an
guiled by the image of Moller that he fashion label. told that she could remain for only abundance of evidence of her living in
asked: “Have we signed them up yet?” She found that the quickest way three months, during which time she Britain. “If they don’t have any evidence
Her face also graced the cover of was to get a temporary passport could apply for EU settled status. Al- of her being in the UK, you wonder
Mott the Hoople’s 1974 album The from the Norwegian embassy by though Norway has never been in the what kind of computer they have,” he
Hoople and she appeared briefly in a citing her father’s citizenship before EU, it is part of the European Economic added. “It couldn’t pick up her national
scene in the 1967 Bond spoof Casino securing a full passport. Area and is regarded by the Home insurance number or her NHS number
Royale in which David Niven was She married Jagger 44 years ago Office as if it were an EU member state. or her marriage certificate.”
the spy with a licence to kill. and has lived in Britain for 74 years. “The three months are up now,” she An official at the Home Office said:
“The whole thing is an absolute Between them the couple have five said. “I don’t know if I can go out of the “Border Force officers routinely carry
nightmare,” she told The Times. sons, aged 38 to 50 — two from her country and see my aunt in Norway. As out passport checks on passengers ar-
“There is a risk that I may not be previous marriage, one from his you can imagine, to be taken aside, riving in the UK. We are in contact with
able to come back in if I go away. It and two together. They also have having been in this country all my life.” Ms Jagger and assisting her.”
is crazy because I don’t even 14 grandchildren. They lived in Mr Jagger, a musician like his Government policy states that Nor-
speak Norwegian.” Muswell Hill, north London, brother, said the situation was ridicu- wegians may apply for settled status if
Mrs Jagger’s story begins in before moving to a farm in Somer- lous. “Brexit — the whole thing is a dis- they have lived in Britain for at least five
1947 when she was born in set in 2000, near their son Robert. aster,” he said. “You’ve got a govern- years before April 2021 and have
Arendal, a small city in south- She only encountered a problem ment department spending time and “reasonable grounds” not to have ap-
eastern Norway. Her father with her passport when she arrived money on dealing with this nonsense. I plied before the deadline of June 2021.
was a Norwegian airman who at Bristol airport in March after a just wonder how many other people are Mrs Jagger said that she had been
met his British wife while serv- break on the islands of Madeira. in a difficult situation like this. asked to supply “further information”
ing in the Royal Air Force during An immigration official stopped “The whole online process has taken to support her claim. Her husband has
the Second World War. her at his booth to ask her how long me eight hours so far. I uploaded her not yet uploaded her stills from Casino
Her mother longed to return to she had lived in Britain. When she earlier Norwegian passports and as a Royale, in which she faced Orson
Britain and brought her daughter told him 74 years, he replied: “Well, bit of a joke I uploaded the Roxy Music Welles in an intense game of baccarat.
to live in Cornwall. At the age of 17, there’s nothing to show that you live cover. She did quite a lot of these things. Model application, letters, page 26
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News Birthday honours

Literary star
and fashion
queen make
King’s list
Charlie Parker, Shayma Bakht want to be linked at all to the British
Jack Malvern Empire. It’s so ridiculous,” he said. “No,
there’s no chance of that happening.
Martin Amis, who once described the Really, I would prefer not to be English.”
royals as “philistines” and said he never He went on to describe the royal family
wanted a gong, was a knight for a day as “philistines”.
before he died.
The literary giant, 73, died of oeso- famous faces
phageal cancer at his Florida home on Dame Anna Wintour, 73, the Vogue ed-
May 19 but had accepted the honour itor-in-chief, was given the highest
from the King and had kept it secret award as a Companion of Honour for
during his final days. her services to fashion and publishing.
If he was ever known as Sir Martin, Wintour took over the magazine in
therefore, it would only have been by 1988, succeeding Grace Mirabel-
his close family. la. Her Vogue covers featured
A Cabinet Office spokesman said prominent women including
that knighthoods come into force actresses and politicians —
when a recipient accepts an invita- such as Angelina Jolie and Hill-
tion, but Buckingham Palace asks ary Clinton — whereas past
the newly honoured person to editions had exclusively fea-
keep it secret until the official tured models.
announcement either at the Vicky McClure, 40, the
new year or on the mon- actress who starred in
arch’s official birthday. the hit television series
Last night, the Cabi- Line of Duty, was
net Office revealed appointed MBE for
more than 1,100 recipi- founding Our
ents of awards for Dementia Choir.
their outstanding con- McClure formed Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue was appointed Companion of Honour. Vicky McClure, left, the Line of Duty star was
tributions across all sectors the choir with people living
and parts of the country. with dementia for a BBC pointed OBE for his services to charity financial gain [but] her contribution has community heroes
Amis was among a host of documentary in 2018 to and football. changed the way hundreds of millions Suzanne Richards, 54, was made MBE
celebrities, scientists, sports study the impact of music of people have lived with diabetes ever for the work of her charity, Smile For
stars and politicians who ac- therapy. The choir has science since.” Joel, which was created to help victims
cepted gongs for the King’s since developed into a Sir John Irving Bell, regius professor of of terrorist attacks in memory of her
first birthday honours list. national charity. medicine at the University of Oxford, arts eldest son, Joel, who was killed in an
The appearance of his Davina McCall, 55, was has been awarded the highest award of Sir Ian McEwan, 74, the Booker prize- attack on the resort of Port El Kantaoui
name on the list was made made MBE for her “es- Order of the Companions of Honour winning novelist, was made Compan- in Tunisia.
more surprising by the fact teemed” career as a broad- for his services to medicine, medical re- ion of Honour for his service to litera- She said the recent attacks in Not-
that he had previously rejected caster and campaigner, ac- search, the life science industry and ture. McEwan’s work includes his novel tingham “brought tears to my eyes
the idea of ever being knighted. tress and presenter alongside public health. Atonement, which was adapted into an because it mirrored what happened
In an interview in a French the veteran broadcaster Ken Dr Sheila Reith, a consultant physi- Oscar-winning film featuring Keira eight years ago” when Joel, 19, her
magazine in 2011, Amis made Bruce. cian, has been appointed CBE for devel- Knightley and James McAvoy. father, Patrick, and her brother Adrian
clear that he would not accept The former England and oping and pioneering the use of the first Ben Okri, 64, the Nigerian-British were all fatally shot in June 2015. They
a knighthood himself if it Arsenal footballer-turned- insulin injection pen. The judging com- poet and novelist, has been knighted for were among the 38 that died in the
were offered to him. “I don’t pundit Ian Wright was ap- mittee said “she subsequently made no services to literature. attack, 30 of whom were British.

Vicar who guards flock from mobs in Moscow appointed OBE

Charlie Parker, Shayma Bakht 60 regular members of his congrega- “It is the equivalent of sanctioning cow patriarch remained “supportive” of leadership “during an exceptionally
tion have left the country. The war the Pope, who is not only the head and the city’s Anglican community, the Re- challenging period which has seen the
A vicar who runs an Anglican church prompted a wave of sanctions against representative of the Catholic Church membrance Day service had been dis- first major conflict on European soil
next to the Kremlin and criticised UK Russian officials and allies of President but the embodiment of it,” he wrote. rupted by an “organised demonstra- since the Second World War”. He was
sanctions against Russia’s religious Putin, including Patriarch Kirill, head “Whilst the UK government may tion” in which the chant “Defeat to An- among 110 people recognised for excep-
leader has received an honour from of the Russian Orthodox Church. Kirill wish to express their rejection of the glo-Saxon vampires” had been heard. tional services overseas.
the King for his Christian work in has repeatedly voiced support for what support given to the conflict by the Alison Rogers, the vicar’s wife, was Moore was part of a joint effort with
Moscow. the Kremlin calls its “special military Patriarch (although it should be noted also honoured on the King’s birthday western intelligence agencies to expel
The Rev Canon Malcolm Rogers, the operation”. that he has never blessed the war), by list for her services to the British about 400 Russian diplomats from
Archbishop of Canterbury’s represent- The patriarch was sanctioned amid imposing sanctions on him the community in Russia. continental Europe, including France
ative to the Russian Orthodox Church, accusations that he had helped the UK is playing into thee narra- Others honoured for and Germany, to combat the Kremlin’s
was appointed OBE for maintaining his Kremlin frame the invasion as a “holy tive that the conflictt in w
their work supporting espionage capabilities.
ministry in the city despite a diplomatic war” and was said to be close to Putin. Ukraine is a defensive ve Ukra
Ukraine include Rich- Alice Good, 55, was made an MBE for
breakdown with the West after the Rogers has condemned the war as fight for the survival off ard Moore, 59, the founding Sunflower Sisters, which
invasion of Ukraine. unjustifiable but because he has no Russia against expan- he
head of MI6, who helps women coming from Ukraine to
Rogers, who speaks Russian, was diplomatic immunity his continued sionist Western ha been knighted
has settle in Britain. The group was set up
appointed chaplain of St Andrew’s in work puts him at personal risk. He has forces who are set on fo his outstanding
for on Facebook after Good saw a picture
Moscow in 2019. He had won praise for had to navigate local religious and destroying every- c
contribution to for- of a Ukrainian mother and child, who
reviving the Anglican community and political sensitivities to continue sup- thing that is Rus- e
eign policy and she said was “the same age as my
securing $2.5 million from Moscow city porting his congregation. sian.” na
national security. daughter, who at the time was six years
council to restore his church. In a letter to The Times last year, he Months later, in The committee old . . . making a plea for somebody to
The invasion of Ukraine in February condemned the British government for December, Rogerss pra
praised Moore for his help”.
last year made his position far more sanctioning Kirill, warning that it said political tensions ns The group has 33,000 members and
challenging. He has faced protests would be used by Putin to send more were on his doorstep. tep. The Rev Canon Malcolm volunteers who support Ukrainians in a
against the West outside his church and soldiers into Ukraine. While he said that thee Mos- Rogers has faced protests women-only environment.
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Award for BBC impartiality row official

Charlie Parker Civil servants and MPs were also William Shawcross racially discriminated against col-
handed honours in last night’s list. stepped back from leagues had escaped disciplinary
The regulator who had to step back Ben Bradshaw, the former Labour an inquiry into action.
from an investigation into Richard minister for culture, media and sport, Richard Sharp’s Over the course of five years that
Sharp’s appointment as the BBC chair- was knighted, while the Conservative appointment as department alone spent nearly
man amid complaints about his MPs John Baron, Bob Blackman, BBC chairman £300,000 settling cases of race and dis-
impartiality has been made a Knight Damian Collins and Heather Wheeler ability discrimination.
Bachelor. were also recognised. This month Chisholm told the Com-
William Shawcross, the commission- Alex Chisholm, the Cabinet Office mons public administration and consti-
er for public appointments, was given permanent secretary, one of the promoted than their non-white col- tutional affairs committee that the
the task of leading the inquiry into most senior civil servants, was made a leagues. In a letter to Chisholm, civil Cabinet Office had accepted all 61 of
claims Sharp helped to facilitate an Knight Commander of the Order of the service bosses were accused of denying the report’s recommendations.
£800,000 loan for Boris Johnson while Bath. that the organisation was institutional- “We accepted all of those and are
in the process of applying for the job. In May Whitehall was accused of ly biased. committed to implementing [them],” he
Shawcross came under pressure to “racist institutional bias” by the civil The Times revealed that an internal said. “Some of those are quick wins,
disassociate himself from the investi- service’s largest union as it was claimed report by the Cabinet Office had found some of them take a longer period
gation after it emerged the pair knew white staff were twice as likely to be civil servants who bullied, harassed or of time.”
each other, prompting accusations that
“cosy relationships” could have affect-
ed the findings. He later admitted that
they had met several times, and was
criticised for “taking weeks to realise a
conflict of interest”. It also emerged
that his daughter worked as head of
policy for Rishi Sunak.
Shawcross’s job as regulator is to
provide independent assurance that
ministers’ selections for senior public
roles are fair and based on merit.
In a letter published in January,
Shawcross admitted that he had “met
Mr Sharp on previous occasions”, and
so would play no further role in the
inquiry.
He said his commissioner powers
would be delegated to “an independent
person who will be appointed by my
office for this one investigation”.
Whether someone receives an
honour, and which one they are given,
is decided by an honours committee,
whose recommendations go to the
prime minister and then to the King,
who then awards it.
Receiving his knighthood in the
King’s birthday honours list last night,
Shawcross was noted as working as the
government’s independent reviewer of
the UK’s Prevent counterterrorism
strategy and previously serving as a
made MBE for Our Dementia Choir special representative for British
victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA ter-
Terry Waite, who was held hostage in rorism.
Lebanon for four years, and became co- He was also praised for reforming the
founder and president of Hostage Charity Commission as its chairman
International, has been appointed from 2012-18, as well as writing and
Knight Commander of the Order of St lecturing on international policy,
Michael and St George [KCMG]. geopolitics, the media, humanitarian
intervention, the United Nations and
camilla the British royal family.
Separately from his birthday honour’s “He has served on the board of nu-
list, the King also gave one of Britain’s merous charities and organisations,
highest gongs to the Queen. with a particular interest in helping
Camilla is now a Royal Knight of the those affected by geopolitical crises and
Order of the Thistle, Scotland’s greatest championing human rights. He is a
order of chivalry, Buckingham Palace keen campaigner for the preservation
announced yesterday afternoon. and protection of local conservation
Honours list, pages 74-80 areas,” the honours list said.

I’m nothing special, says

106-year-old recipient
Shayma Bakht, Charlie Parker Junior Jay Frood, 18, of Merseyside,
who was awarded a BEM for his work as
With more than 1,000 worthy individu- an anti-bullying ambassador and his
als honoured by the King, two have social media campaign to remove the
stood out for being generations apart. male stigma against dancing.
Joan Willett, 106, has become the Frood told of being bullied at school
joint-oldest recipient of an honour from the age of six because he had a
from a monarch. She is awarded a Brit- “passion for dancing”. He said: “I just
ish Empire Medal (BEM) after raising felt so isolated. But I carried on.”
£60,000 for the British Heart Founda- In 2016, he became the UK Freestyle
tion. Willett, a double heart attack sur- Dance Champion and won two world
vivor of Hastings, East Sussex, shares competitions in 2019 before joining
the age title with Anne Baker, 109. Justin Bieber on tour.
Baker received her MBE in 2021 for Luke Grenfell-Shaw, 29, a cancer
her work for the NSPCC. patient, has been appointed MBE for
Willett said: “I’ve had to keep it a raising £300,000 across five charities
secret for a while until it was officially related to cancer through his tandem
announced and couldn’t tell anyone, so bike ride from Bristol to Beijing.
that was difficult. I feel so very hon- Cathal Yeats, the assistant commis-
oured and flattered, but I don’t think I sioner of Royal Gibraltar Police, was
have done anything special.” honoured with an overseas territorial
The youngest recipient this year is police medal.
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Sunak shelves ban on junk food deals Quintagram® No 1657

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each letter underneath once only

Chris Smyth Whitehall Editor improving health in disadvantaged pizza”, but a consultation on the plan- conflicted with internal government 1 Bird’s forelimb (4)
areas as key to his department’s mis- ning system could encourage more evidence that promotional deals actu-
A ban on two-for-one junk food deals is sion, and Whitty is said to be “really councils to adopt such rules, or even a ally result in families spending more on ----
set to be shelved as Rishi Sunak bows to keen on using the planning laws more national policy on factoring obesity in- food they do not need. 2 In debt (5)
Conservative concerns about the cost forcefully” against obesity. to planning decisions. Instead, ministers are preparing to
of living. The measures are still being dis- The ban on promotional deals for un- announce another delay to bring the -----
Ministers are preparing to delay the cussed, but could include restrictions healthy products has been a mainstay policy into line with a 9pm watershed 3 Sound made by cattle (6)
policy beyond the next election, effec- on new fast food outlets as well as street of successive government obesity poli- for junk food advertising, pushed back
tively killing it. layouts to encourage walking and cy- cies, but has repeatedly fallen victim to to January 2025 or as far as October ------
However, Michael Gove and Sir cling. In one of the first interventions, Conservatives being divided about in- 2025. An announcement is expected 4 Permitting (8)
Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer planning officials rejected a request this tervening in public health. The meas- imminently as ministers come under
for England, are said to be attempting to month to open a Papa John’s pizza shop ure was due to be introduced last year pressure from Conservative MPs over --------
use planning laws to fight obesity in the in Newcastle, citing the area’s high obe- but was delayed to October this year by the policy. 5 Revelling in self-pity (9)
name of levelling up. Measures under sity rate. Boris Johnson over concerns about the Katharine Jenner, director of the
consideration include restricting the Gove said he was not involved in the cost of living. Obesity Health Alliance of doctors and ---------
opening of takeaways near schools. decision, and did not want to “deprive However, efforts to present the delay charities, said health experts were A A G G G G G I
Gove, the levelling-up secretary, sees the citizens of Tyneside of a thick crust as relief during the cost of living crisis “deeply concerned”, saying there is “no
time to delay when it comes to address- I I I I L L L L
ing our obesity crisis, which costs our L N N N N N O O
health service billions every year, and
causes serious illness such as heart O O W W W W W W
attacks and stroke”. Solutions see Register p83
She added: “Multi-buy price promo- Cryptic clues Review p49
tions do not save people money. The
government’s own data shows they can
increase food and drink purchasing by First trans archdeacon
around 22 per cent. They encourage
people to impulsively buy more un- The Church of
healthy food, rather than make savings England has
from food on their shopping list.” appointed its first
Tory MPs are likely to welcome a de- transgender
lay, but are already pressing ministers archdeacon. The
to go further. Greg Smith, the MP for Rev Canon Rachel
Buckingham who has repeatedly criti- Mann has been
cised the policy, said: “The state has no made Archdeacon
business telling shopkeepers how they of Bolton and Salford, and is
can promote their goods or consumers believed to be the most senior
how they should buy them. This nanny trans member of the clergy
state nonsense needs dropping for within the church. She said she
good, not just delaying for a year or so.” was “humbled and excited” to be
Michelle Mitchell, the chief execu- taking on the “demanding and
tive of Cancer Research UK, said: “It’s hope-filled role”.
disappointing to hear that once again
the UK government might retreat from Police stabbing arrest
implementing legislation passed to
help make a healthy diet more accessi- A man has been arrested after the
ble, affordable and appealing for all. stabbing of a police officer in
When obesity causes 13 different types Maidstone on Thursday evening.
of cancer, we need to see bold action.” The constable, in his fifties, was
attacked at Albion Place and
airlifted to a London hospital in a

Protesters “serious condition” but was later

released. Neighbours reported
seeing at least 30 officers enter a

want inquiry block of flats. A 48-year-old local

man was being questioned.

for Orgreave Sacked over sambuca

An army sergeant has been
sacked after punching a soldier
Thousands of people will join a protest who bought a round of sambuca.
today to keep up the pressure for an in- Penijamini Qoroya, 41, who had
quiry into one of the most violent clash- set a “two-pint rule” during a pub
es of the miners’ strike 39 years ago. trip, admitted causing actual
Police confronted pickets outside a bodily harm on the way back to
coking plant in Orgreave, South York- camp in Estonia. Qoroya, of the
shire, on June 18, 1984, in what the 4th Regiment Royal Artillery, was
miners said was a military-style opera- told to pay his victim £750 at
tion to attack them. Bulford military court, Wiltshire.
The Orgreave Truth and Justice
Campaign (OTJC) has continued to Cocaine haul arrests
call for an inquiry, claiming years of
“lies and cover-ups” over the Conserva- Two men have been arrested in
tive government’s role in policing of the Leicestershire after £120 million
year-long strike. worth of cocaine was discovered
Kevin Horne, one of the 95 miners hidden in sacks of charcoal. The
arrested at what became known as the National Crime Agency said
Battle of Orgreave, said: “We were only 1.6 tonnes of the drug were found
striking for the right to work. on June 8 in a container on a ship
“Pardons by the Scottish govern- from Panama that had arrived at
ment for Scottish miners arrested dur- London Gateway port in Essex.
ing the miners’ strike, continuing anger The arrests followed a raid of two
in ex-mining communities, papers farms after a controlled delivery.
from the time of the strike embargoed
from public release until at least 2066 Case of the lost violin
and growing numbers who support this
campaign for truth and justice show it is The editorial director for Soho
in the public interest to hold an Or- House, the members’ club, is
greave inquiry.” seeking to reunite a child’s violin
The OTJC has submitted evidence to with its owner after finding it in
the Home Office about why it believes the back of a rental car. Teo van
there should be an inquiry. den Broeke tweeted an appeal to
The campaign group said: “Our find Isabella Lopez, whose name
powerful and detailed evidence seems was on the case left in a Zipcar
to have been ignored — any kind of vehicle in south London. The
Orgreave inquiry was ruled out.” rental firm said it was speaking
The rally is being held in Sheffield. with him to help with the search.
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Spotify switches
off Sussexes by
ending podcast
after one series
Keiran Southern, Will Pavia, Alex Farber ting 200 jobs and making a “strategic
realignment” in its podcasting depart-
Spotify has ended its podcasting deal ment. Part of this adjustment appeared
with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to involve a reduction in the number of
after only one series of her Archetypes exclusive deals it signed.
show and companies are now question- The wider entertainment industry
ing whether high-profile celebrity deals has been forced to tighten its belt as
represent value for money. companies have struggled to make the
One industry expert has suggested streaming business profitable amid
Harry and Meghan, who have put pressure from Wall Street.
themselves in the spotlight with a flurry Michael Niederman, a professor in
of tell-all interviews, documentaries cinema and television arts at Columbia
and memoirs, are now “running out of College Chicago, said: “Making content
steam”. The couple signed a reported is hard. People roll into it, not appreciat-
$20 million deal with the streaming ing how deeply hard it is and how the
giant in December 2020 but only pro- great storytellers of our time went
duced a single podcast series in two- through a long process of development
and-a-half years. to get to that door.
A source told the Wall Street Journal “When you think you can just pop in In her Archetypes podcast the Duchess of Sussex interviewed celebrity guests to help women “to be our authentic selves”
that the Sussexes at that door there is
had failed to produce
enough content to
receive the full
payout from their
going to be a prob-
lem. I’m about to
teach a group of kids
— the first thing I
A great big archetypal celebrity nothing
agreement with the have to tell them is sustain public interest. It would be Williams, Mariah Carey etc) couldn’t
Swedish company. you can’t tell your James Marriott fascinating to know the listener save the podcast. Meghan has a
In a joint state- life story over and Comment figures. For Spotify to have ended remarkable ability to take fascinating
ment with Spotify, over again, unless such a high-profile deal, I suspect people and cover them in
Harry and Meghan’s you find a way to they are very low indeed. Perhaps meaningless gush (“You’re choosing

H
Archewell Audio make it universal. I aving wasted too much of almost a relief for Harry and Meghan liberation and newness. I love that so
said they had “mu- don’t think they my life listening to it, I’m as Archetypes was hardly good PR for much.”) until they are not interesting
tually agreed to part [Harry and Meghan] hardly surprised that them. The podcast revealed their at all.
ways and are proud are capable of that.” Spotify has dropped the pointlessness more painfully than any The problem is not unique. Many
of the series we Insiders have Duchess of Sussex’s of their other ventures. celebrities who can imagine little
made together”. speculated whether podcast. Archetypes, you may have Nobody cared. For Harry and more fascinating than their own
A representative the end of the deal forgotten, was a motivational Meghan this is a worrying sign. conversation have been contriving
for WME, the talent agency that repre- suggests Harry and Meghan’s content is interview show aimed at helping Meghan’s most (only?) profitable limp excuses for podcasts. Tom Daley
sents the duchess, said that “the team not as popular as the material they pro- women “to be our authentic selves”, media enterprise is endlessly retailing has one about “the benefits of
behind Archetypes remain proud of the duce when showing their personal whatever that means. And it was the her story about leaving the royal allowing the things we love to guide
podcast they created at Spotify” and lives, as they did in their Netflix docu- distilled essence of purest Californian family. Last year’s Netflix our lives”. The long-coupled Jameela
added: “Meghan is continuing to devel- mentary. One well-placed producer banality. A great big smiley, bland documentary milked that tale to Jamil has a podcast about dating.
op more content for the Archetypes au- told The Times that the pair were start- motivational nothing. Even the within an inch of its life. There is Even in this woeful company
dience on another platform.” ing to “run out steam” creatively. unintentional hilarity of the self- nothing more to be said. The failure Meghan stands out. It turns out that
The decision not to renew the con- “What else is there for them to say? regarding celebrity speak (Meghan of Archetypes shows that whenever broadcasting is a skill. Not everyone
tract for the podcast, which started in There are only so many times that they always telling her guests things like, “I she tries to talk about anything else can do it. Gushing over your famous
August last year, was revealed a week can complain about the way the family want to hold a space for you as a virtually nobody is interested. Even mates is not interesting. I
after Spotify announced that it was cut- treated you or their lack of privacy.” guest to define yourself”) could not the roster of celebrity guests (Serena congratulate the public on tuning out.
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Johnson calls off

his allies ‘to avoid
new humiliation’
Oliver Wright, Chris Smyth,
Geraldine Scott
Boris Johnson has told his supporters
Slimming pills made him ill
not to vote against a damning report
that found he deliberately misled Chris Smyth, Oliver Wright from the National Institute for
the Commons amid claims that it Health and Care Excellence, the
would expose his lack of support Boris Johnson has revealed that he drug must be given alongside help
among Tory MPs. took a £2,700-a-year slimming drug from specialist weight management
The Commons had been due to vote but had to give it up because it services, which have capacity for
on the privileges committee report on made him ill. about 35,000 patients a year.
Monday that recommended Johnson In his first column since But ministers want it far more
be suspended from parliament for 90 announcing a return to journalism widely available and are about to
days and lose the entry pass to which on Thursday, the former prime launch pilots to see if the drugs can
former MPs are entitled. minister said he took the drug work with far less intensive lifestyle
However, friends of Johnson said semaglutide, also known as support, including from pharmacists
yesterday that he instructed his sup- Ozempic or Wegovy, after seeing and through apps.
porters not to oppose the motion that the effect it had on a cabinet Sunak and Steve Barclay, the
means the committee findings are like- colleague who had lost weight. health secretary, see the drugs as an
ly to go through without a vote. Johnson predicts that appetite- alternative to more interventionist
They said the decision was an at- suppressing drugs will become “like public health measures and
tempt to “move on” from his clashes statins” for obesity, in a rare show of The Times reveals today that they
with Rishi Sunak and said Johnson unity with Rishi Sunak who has said are kicking a planned ban on buy-
didn’t want to be perceived as causing such weight-loss medicines will be a one-get-one-free food deals into the
Tory party disunity. “game-changer”. long grass.
However critics claimed the move Ministers are launching trials of Johnson says a friend “shared the
was designed to avoid a “humiliation”. mass use of the drugs, in the number of a brilliant physician who
They said that fewer Tory MPs were ultimate hope of making them had prescribed this magic potion”
lined up to vote against Johnson’s sus- available to up to 12 million people. and who told him he was “an ideal
pension than the 32 who voted against Semaglutide is currently only candidate”.
a 30-day suspension imposed on the available privately under the brand “For weeks I jabbed my stomach,
SNP MP Margaret Ferrier for travelling name Ozempic for people with type and for weeks it worked,” he writes.
across the country while positive for 2 diabetes. However, it is widely “Effortlessly, I pushed aside the
Covid. So far only eight MPs have pub- used off-label by celebrities, and puddings and the second
licly defended Johnson. Johnson confirms rumours in helpings. I must have been losing
“He didn’t have the support and he Westminster that a senior four or five pounds a week
knew it,” said one Tory opponent. member of his cabinet had — maybe more.”
Polling for The Times finds that more been using the drug to But Johnson then said
than 20 per cent of voters now have a lose weight. He does not he “started to dread the
less favourable view of Johnson as a re- name the minister who injections, because
sult of the findings of the privileges he said had they were making me
committee. Overall, 78 per cent of “miraculously changed feel ill”, saying one
voters say the former prime minister is his appearance”. minute he would be fine and
untrustworthy and just 22 per cent In his Daily Mail column, the next vomiting.
would like to see him return as an MP. Johnson writes that “we are Johnson writes that he
Meanwhile the former prime minis- still in the foothills of what has given up the drugs and
ter was yesterday accused of another these drugs can do”, saying for now is “back to exercise
“clear breach” of rules by an ethics they could be and willpower” but says he
watchdog after he informed them “transformative” and part of has not given up on such
about a column in the Daily Mail only people’s daily routine. medicines.
half an hour before it was announced. Under the alternative brand “I look at my
Former ministers are expected to name Wegovy, semaglutide has colleagues — leaner but not
request permission from the advisory been approved by the NHS after hungrier — and I hope that if
committee on business appointments evidence that it can help people science can do it for them,
before taking up jobs after leaving reduce their bodyweight by ten maybe one day it can help me,
office. The committee said Johnson had per cent or more. However, and everyone else.”
failed to consult them but a spokesman under current recommendations My Week, Boris Johnson, page 36
for the former prime minister said: “Bo-
ris Johnson is in touch with Acoba and
the normal process is being followed.” The MP insisted that the result of the son’s inner circle said they were minded in Camden who grew
Most Conservative MPs are expect-
ed to skip debate on the privileges com-
privileges committee investigation was
“beyond anyone’s comprehension” and
to vote against the report: “The com-
mittee has had a bit of a tantrum there
S
Sympathy votes up in South Ruislip —
says Mickey Mouse
mittee after party managers imposed a
minimum one-line whip, effectively
giving Tories permission to be else-
would “push a lot of people into the
camp of opposing because the punish-
ment is OTT”.
and that’s wrong.”
The former Tory party chairman Sir
Jake Berry told ITV’s Good Morning
aren’t ruled out could be his opponent
for all he cares.
“Don’t remind me,”
anny Beales been ordinary. And he says, when told if he

D
where for the free vote. “You can only explain it as being Britain he was “afraid” to talk about the
Sunak’s spokesman would not say driven by personal malice,” they added. report because he said the committee does not although the ex-prime wins on July 20, amid
whether the prime minister would at- One ally said they would decide on had “threatened MPs that if they do so, really want minister will not be on deep dissatisfaction
tend, saying he “hasn’t fully had time to the day how to vote but they would be they themselves will be subject to these to talk the ballot on July 20, with the Tories
consider the report”. speaking in the debate to raise concerns sorts of sanctions”. about Boris he looms large over his nationally, he will have
One Johnson ally said Sunak “should about the committee. He said: “It’s an attack on free speech. Johnson (Geraldine former constituency. a maximum of 18
not skip it”, criticising colleagues who However another Tory MP, who was It’s an absolute disgrace and it rather Scott writes). In any Beales, the Labour months to convince
wanted to duck taking a position on initially supportive of Johnson, said begs the question that if the committee usual election, a candidate in Uxbridge voters to stay with him.
Johnson’s conduct. they would be staying away. “There are is so certain and so happy with their former Tory MP being & South Ruislip, had On the doorstep,
“Conservative MPs should have to plenty of reasons you can be away at the findings, why are they trying to stop any embroiled in scandal until Friday been when trying to win
take a stand on this,” the former minis- moment, we’ve got three by-elections debate on this.” and resigning would be expecting to face over floating voters,
ter said. “My members would be abso- to be campaigning for. I think you MPs must kill off Boris for good, manna from heaven Johnson in next year’s Beales said he tells
lutely outraged if I backed this report. might see more colleagues than normal Matthew Parris, page 23 for Labour spinners, general election. them: “You’re going to
“We’re sent to the House of Com- on the doorsteps on Monday,” he said. Johnson, Enoch Powell and the ghost of keen to capitalise on But following have two opportunities
mons to make decisions and I have With Sunak saying that Monday’s the 1974 election, letters, page 26 their downfall. Johnson’s shock to pick your MP in the
limited sympathy for attempts to avoid vote was “a matter for individual MPs” Sunak must look to the future of Britain But polls involving resignation as an MP, next couple of years.”
making one.” another MP who is not part of John- now, leading article, page 27 Johnson have rarely Beales — a councillor The gamble appears to
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JOSHUA BRATT FOR THE TIMES

Bounceback Boris? Even

Some residents, such as
Cassie, below left, are
still supportive of Boris
Johnson, who quit as
the MP for Uxbridge &

loyalists think he’s finished

South Ruislip last week.
For the by-election next
month, Labour’s Danny
Beales, below, hopes he
has a winning proposal

If elected, he said, he The ex-PM still wants ferentiate Rishi from Boris.” They lapse of that in a week and a half is stag-
would push for a new added: “It will allow the party to reset.” gering. What he really wanted to do was
hospital in Hillingdon.
He was born in the
influence but there are Another government figure added:
“The party has moved on. We saw it
de-escalate this. It was just to play
straight on the honours. Sunak could
current one where doubts he’ll have impact, with his opposition to the Windsor have fixed it. They have made a cata-
some buildings date agreement. How many MPs followed clysmic handling error.”
back to the 1940s. Oliver Wright and his call? Less than two dozen. Now he’s But even traditional Johnson loyal-
Although Hillingdon been found to have lied to parliament. ists in the Commons have doubts about
was included in plans Steven Swinford write He is over as a political force.” the plan. They suggest in private that he
announced by Johnson Unsurprisingly, Johnson and his is so consumed by anger about what he
at the last election to It was the moment the Conservative allies take a very different view of his perceives to be the injustice of the com-
build 40 new hospitals, Party appeared to move on. prospects. The committee’s recom- mittee report and the stance taken by
it has since been At prime minister’s questions on mendation of a 90-day suspension, Downing Street that he has failed to
confirmed it will have Wednesday, Boris Johnson, the former they argue, effectively makes him a grasp the severity of the situation.
new storeys and new prime minister who led the party to “martyr”. He remains, they say, hugely “My own view is that he is finished,”
departments instead. their biggest majority since Margaret popular with grassroots Tories and now said one senior minister who remains
The Tories, who Thatcher, was reduced to being the butt plans to appeal directly to them, effec- loyal to Johnson. They said it was im-
selected Steve of a joke from his own side. tively mounting a guerrilla campaign possible to see how Johnson could
Tuckwell, a local Philip Davies, a maverick right-wing against the government as he presses return to the Commons this side of an
councillor, as their Tory, jokingly claimed Johnson was a for his priorities: tax cuts, delivering on election — and even if the Tories lost,
candidate on Thursday, “socialist” who had effectively squan- Brexit and levelling up. without a seat Johnson could not stand
have claimed credit for dered his majority. “He’s the one who “The party is now essentially frac- in a subsequent leadership race.
plans being approved said that we should be more Conserva- tured,” one Johnson ally said. “Al- “The only way back is if someone like
to upgrade the tive,” he said. “If only he had a majority though Tories know this was a Labour Kemi [Badenoch] or Suella [Braver-
hospital. They spy a of 80 and been prime minister.” stitch-up they failed to avoid the trap. man] wins but a year or two in, they
weak spot in Beales’s The response of Davies’s fellow Tory The government instead has its finger- don’t seem to have made much progress
reluctance to oppose MPs was revealing. He sat down to prints on the knife.” against [Sir Keir] Starmer,” they said.
the ultra low emission cheers and laughter from the benches Another ally was blunter about the “In those circumstances I can see the
zone expansion being around him, including Rishi Sunak. perceived gloating in No 10: “It adds in- refreshed parliamentary party, without
introduced by Sadiq Downing Street believes this week sult to injury and it’s very unwise of so many enemies of Boris, seeing him as
Khan, the Labour marks a turning point. The privileges them to be so openly provocative. The the best chance of winning an election.
mayor of London. committee’s extraordinary report into experience of Boris Johnson is that any- It’s not impossible. But if I’m honest, I
Beales points out it Johnson and the Downing Street par- one who writes him off is miscalculat- don’t think it’s very likely.”
was Johnson, when ties scandal, which recommended a ing. After the election, all bets are off Another broadly supportive back-
mayor himself, who 90-day suspension for Johnson for mis- and we’ll see how many of Rishi’s bencher added: “I don’t see how he gets
started the process of leading parliament, has, they believe, people are smiling then.” back from here. I don’t see a path. If I
introducing the zone. left the former prime minister a dimin- A source familiar with Johnson’s was him, I would say ‘to hell with it’ and
But it is the first ished and politically damaged figure. thinking said he planned to adopt simi- enjoy my money and forget about it.
issue Lesley Burrows, The committee has even gone so far lar tactics to those he employed when But then, he does like having his cake
56, brings up. Burrows, as to recommend Johnson be stripped he was last in the wilderness, using his and eating it.”
a local mother, said: “I of his parliamentary pass, effectively writing to set the political weather. His Some of those close to Johnson ac-
can’t afford £12.50 barring him from the parliamentary es- new weekly column in the Daily Mail is cept he no longer commands the kind
e
every day.” tate unless he attends as a visitor, going seen as the best way of communicating of support among MPs as he did last
Despite efforts by the through security like any ordinary directly with the Conservative base. autumn, when he reached the thresh-
main parties to treat member of the public. “That will be very widely read,” the old of around a hundred MPs that
Johnson as a has-been, On Monday — Johnson’s 59th birth- source said. “He will have a weather- would have placed him on the leader-
he is popular in the day — the Commons is expected to making influence which is very differ- ship ballot against Sunak.
constituency he held wave through the sanctions, with ent to what he’s doing now.” “The appetite for further leadership
for eight years over senior government figures saying they Others suggested Johnson might disruption is minimal,” said one sup-
three elections. do not expect it even to go to a vote. also spend time on the so-called rubber porter. “We have to focus on the busi-
“Personally, I quite “I don’t think many people on our chicken circuit, speaking to Tory mem- ness of government. There is a job to do
liked him,” said side think there’s been a major miscar- bers at association lunches and dinners. and the irony is that mortgage rates are
Burrows. “I’m sad to riage of justice,” said one minister. “The “There will be direct communication higher now then when Liz was forced
see him go.” whips haven’t even bothered to phone with the base,” the source added. “We from office, and [yet] there is barely a
Her partner, Simon round asking people what they’ll do. will project his message more widely blink from some of our colleagues.”
Linthwaite, 59, added: Normally they try to find out, right than he has been. There will be a wide But even if Sunak and his allies be-
“To be honest, the down to the last MP.” range of things to talk about: tax, direc- lieve Johnson’s defenestration repre-
pressure they were Downing Street senses a longer-term tion of the economy, where levelling-up sents a clear “break” with Johnson,
under during Covid, I opportunity. For months they have de- is going, what people’s priorities are.” others think the spat between the two
don’t care if he did bated how to confront the Boris prob- There was also a direct warning to men will continue to sicken the Con-
have a few drinks. He lem, wanting to differentiate Sunak the prime minister, suggesting that servative body politic for years to come.
got the vaccinations from the former prime minister in Johnson has decided that any pretence “This does in its own awful way draw
out very quickly.” public but aware of the loyalty he at- of loyalty to Sunak is over — mainly as a line on the leadership question,” said
Other local residents tracts among grassroots members. a result of the row over his resignation one former cabinet minister. “But this
were also sympathetic. “It’s a clear breakpoint for us,” said a honours list. “A week and a half ago he will not be lightly forgotten. People
Cassie, 39, who did not senior No 10 source. “Just as the eco- was on the cusp of an outbreak of peace have long memories.”
give her surname, said: nomy differentiated Rishi from Liz and a peace deal in the meeting Additional reporting by Chris Smyth
“There’s extra pressure [Truss], integrity and honesty will dif- between Johnson and Sunak. The col- and Henry Zeffman
when you’re a
be: “Give me a shot, playing down ththe politician to be perfect.
and if you don’t like it,
kick me out next year.”
A senior government
Johnson factor. A week
after he dramatically
quit, a party source
None of us is perfect.”
Sympathy does not
necessarily extend to
Peers may kill trophy-hunting ban
source likened it to said that on the votes. An MRP poll Geraldine Scott private members’ bills meant that any more harm than good into one that will
proposing but adding: doorstep they were last year from YouGov amendments approved by the Lords genuinely advance the conservation of
“You can always get preaching a message of suggested Johnson A ban on trophy-hunting imports could would have the “practical effect of kill- vulnerable species.”
divorced in a year’s looking to the future. would have lost his seat be abandoned if peers insist on tweak- ing the bill”. Others to express concerns included
time.” “It’s a tough one to if an election were held ing the proposed new law, it has been Lord Swire, a Conservative former Lord Lucas, who said: “We may not like
Beales, 34, is call,” the source said. then, and nationally claimed. minister, said the UK should work with trophy hunting, but the proceeds of tro-
confident that despite “I don’t really know the Conservatives are The legislation, which would prohibit the countries that would be affected by phy hunting flowing into a well-man-
the short time frame, how it will go down.” about 15 points behind importing hunting trophies from spe- it, not against them, in order to “put in aged conservation effort are immense-
he will be able to Beales pinpoints Labour. Johnson’s cies of concern, passed its second read- place the best possible protocols which ly beneficial to wildlife.”
convince voters he is tackling homelessness, majority of 7,000 ing unopposed in the Lords yesterday. enhance conservation”. Lord Hamilton of Epsom, a Conserv-
worth sticking with. rising mortgage rates means that the Tories But Conservative peers have claimed Lord Mancroft, a Conservative peer, ative former minister, said he probably
However, his sales and levels of crime as are not upbeat about it may harm efforts to protect endan- said he would table a “conservation qualified as a trophy hunter for shoot-
pitch is not focused on priorities. He says winning next month, gered animals and are set to propose amendment” to introduce a “small but ing a “significant number” of red stags
Johnson. “It was never almost all the services and a source said new amendments which could lead to hugely important tweak” to the bill. in Scotland and taking some of their
about who I was up that allowed him to “governments always the whole ban being “thwarted”. He said: “This would allow that if horns back to England. “It’s never been
against,” Beales insists progress in life, after lose by-elections”. The new law has support from the there was a demonstrable conservation in any way something that’s appealed to
in an interview with being made homeless Charmed Starmer has all government, Labour and the Liberal benefit from the hunting, a trophy me to shoot a magnificent beast in
The Times. The Tories, twice as a teenager, the luck, Matt Chorley, Democrats, but peers heard that the could be imported.” He added: “It will Africa, but it does bring significant in-
meanwhile, are also have deteriorated. page 29 limited parliamentary time set aside for turn this bill from one that will do much come into those countries,” he said.
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From job rejection to youngest peer UWE DEFFNER/ALAMY; 10 DOWNING STREET

Johnson’s move to send a son’s private parliamentary secretary,

wrote online: “I wonder if she was a
junior aide to the Lords middle-aged fat male she would be crit-
icised in this way.”
has baffled Downing Owen went to the University of York
to study international relations and
Street, Ben Ellery and politics, and graduated with a 2:1 in
2015. Olivia Utley, who knew her at uni-
Oliver Wright write versity and is now a presenter on GB
News, said she had “monitored Lady
When Dominic Cummings’s stint as Owen’s career with interest, and in-
Boris Johnson’s chief adviser came to an creasing bafflement”. Writing in The
ignominious end, the prime minister Independent, she said: “[We] had a few
wanted to bring in someone he could mutual friends; when asked to describe
trust. her, one says, rather cattily: ‘Yeah she
This week that trust was rewarded was fun, bit of a party girl, don’t remem-
when Charlotte Owen, the junior ber her showing any great prowess for
member of Johnson’s parliamentary legislative scrutiny.’”
office that the former prime minister Owen’s father, Michael, was a teacher
turned to in the wake of the departure who died two years ago aged 91 and her
of his “capo”, became the country’s mother, Kathryn, 70, works for her
youngest peer, aged 30. brother’s forklift truck company. She
Her dazzling rise has left many baf- often visits her mother at the family’s
fled. Before her elevation to the Lords large modern detached home in up-
she was a relatively low-key figure and market Alderley Edge, Cheshire. One
had not shown the “slightest bit of grip neighbour said: “She grew up around
or nous about how the Tory parlia- here and all her family are close by. We
mentary party worked”, according to all knew who Charlotte worked for.”
one Downing Street figure. Questions have been raised about
It is an impressive honour for Owen whether she exaggerated the amount
who, The Times can reveal, was turned of time she worked as a special adviser
down for a job working for the deputy to the prime minister.
speaker of the Commons, Dame Elean- On LinkedIn, Owen says she served
or Laing. Those with knowledge of the as a special adviser to Johnson from
appointment say her selection, after February 2021 to July last year. How-
just under six years in parliament, was ever, government records of special ad-
an example of Johnson wanting to visers, who are senior aides, paid for by
“upset the establishment”. the taxpayer, show that in June 2021
One government source said Owen’s Owen was not in that role.
first role in Downing Street was as a By the following year she was divid-
junior member of staff in the political ing her time between No 10 and work-
unit that was the link between the Tory ing for Chris Heaton-Harris, then the
party and Downing Street, with tasks chief whip. He told The Times: “She was
such as greeting MPs who were invited an outstanding special adviser to me in
in for meetings. “No one who was work- my role as chief whip jointly with the
ing in the building at the time can un- prime minister. Nobody had their fin-
derstand why she is on the list,” they ger on the pulse of the parliamentary
said. “It is completely mad.” They de- party like she did. The House of Lords is
scribed her role as akin to that of an a place which needs to reflect the whole
executive assistant. of society and I know she will make an
“There were a lot of highly talented outstanding contribution.”
women working in No 10 in different When news of Johnson’s list leaked
stages of Johnson’s premiership — Mu- last year, it was reported that he had in-
nira Mirza [his head of policy], Sam Co- tended to elevate Henry Newman,
hen [his effective deputy chief of staff] another adviser and a friend of his wife,
and yet he hands an honour out to Carrie, to the House of Lords, rather
someone who was so junior people had than Owen. But Newman was ditched
to look her up. It completely discredits after he went back to work for Michael
the system and is basically a scandal.” Gove, Johnson’s arch-rival, and Owen’s
This was backed up by another name was put on the list as a replace-
Downing Street staffer who said they ment, claimed a source. Newman is said
were aware of her presence in the build- to have had no knowledge of that claim.
ing but she had been “very junior”. The Times also understands that
Another said: “When Boris was fac- Owen had made it to the final two to
ing the vote of no confidence she was Charlotte Owen, who applauded Boris Johnson after he announced his resignation as PM, has a peerage at the age of 30 work for Laing, the deputy speaker of
the person behind the idea to send out the house, but failed at the final hurdle.
letters to every MP — including mem- helped a lot of MPs handle the job, par- According to her LinkedIn profile,
bers of his own cabinet — asking them ticularly the new intake, who had no Owen’s work in politics dates to 2011
to back him. There were people coming prior experience of Westminster. Al- when she interned in George Osborne’s
into the building saying, ‘How can we though somebody from outside might office. The following year she worked in
help?’ and she’d say things like, ‘We be looking at Charlotte and thinking the Tatton Conservative branch office
need some help stuffing letters’. she’s very young, actually, she was very in Cheshire. In 2015 she worked for a
“It is completely baffling how she able to relate to the 2019 intake, and lots month in Brussels for an MEP, before a
ended up being elevated to the Lords. of them needed her expertise. four-month stint in 2016 at the commu-
No one who worked in the building at “She came in at a time when things nications agency Portland.
the time would have regarded her as had blown up with Dominic and Boris The Tory MP William Wragg hired
being senior, let alone the only woman knew her from his parliamentary office. her as an intern in January 2017 and
in No 10 to get a peerage.” He values loyalty so asked her to join later that year she served as a parlia-
Another source added: “If she’d got a him in Downing Street. At the time the mentary intern to Johnson. Later that
CBE I’d have thought that was a bit odd. office felt a bit underpowered and she year she worked as a parliamentary as-
But a peerage? That’s insane.” changed that. sistant to the Sir Alok Sharma MP, then
One government figure claimed that “I think the characterisation of her as as a senior parliamentary assistant to
her candidacy had been promoted by junior is wrong. Her role was low profile Sir Jake Berry MP and Johnson.
the Conservative MP Nigel Adams, but she was pivotal. She was consulted The MP Trudy Harrison, who
who was himself due to get an honour by Boris before reshuffles because she worked with Owen when Harrison was
but ended up resigning after he was had such a good knowledge of the dy- parliamentary private secretary to
blackballed by the House of Lords ap- namics of the parliamentary party. Johnson, said: “She was a breath of
pointments commission. “She was do- brought some order to that,” one doesn’t consider it as a job. She had a “She understood who was friends fresh air. She changed the game on how
ing a lot of work for him when he was a member of Johnson’s cabinet said. deeper interest in it.” with who. I always think it’s a good No 10 engaged with MPs and is well re-
cabinet office minister,” they said. “She’s very impressive and very good at One colleague who worked closely thing when talented young people, par- spected and liked across the party. She
However, others have disputed the understanding what makes colleagues with her said that her age had been ticularly women, come into politics and is an excellent political strategist and
criticisms and believe the peerage was tick. She would say to Boris: ‘When you instrumental in helping the new 2019 the Conservative Party is supposed to her advice was always highly valued by
well deserved, calling some of the dis- speak to X, make sure you remember Y’. contingent of MPs settle in. They said: be trying to pursue that aim.” the prime minister. She will be a won-
approval “sexist”. “We would be looking at the spread- “She was brought in specifically by Bo- Sir James Duddridge, the MP for derful addition to the upper house.”
“Things could be chaotic around Bo- sheet but she would have it all in her ris with the aim of improving relations Rochford and Southend East, who A spokesman for Johnson and Owen
ris and she was the person who kind of head. She’s hugely dedicated and between MPs and No 10. I think she worked with Owen when he was John- said: “We do not comment on honours.”
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BEN STANSALL/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Hosepipe ban for

millions in south
hosepipe ban The company’s main

A has been
imposed on
households in
Kent and
Sussex, despite plenty of
water in reservoirs (Tom
Whipple writes).
reservoirs at Arlington,
in East Sussex, and
Ardingly, in West
Sussex, are at or near
capacity, but the storage
tanks, pumped with
drinking water, are
South East Water said severely depleted.
it was unable to keep up South East Water said
with demand for that across the region it
drinking water, also was pumping an extra
known as treated 120 million litres of
water, and the only water a day, equivalent
way to restore to the supply of four
pressure for medium-sized
customers was to towns, but that
cut consumption. demand in the hot
Supply weather had
problems have exceeded all
left as many as previous
4,000 people levels.
without “We are
water since pumping as
Monday. Now much water as
the company we can into
has issued an the system,
immediate ban but water is
on sprinklers being used
and hoses in the before it gets to Bewl Water, on the East Sussex boundary, was nearly full last week, like reservoirs run by South East Water, which is setting up bottled water stations
two counties, customers who
and urged are currently “clearly unacceptable”. unacceptable.” 6 The surface of the sea
people to on the end of Rainfall in central England They follow from a The water outages was hotter during April
restrict their our system,” mm 4 previous incident in have already led to the and May than at any
water use to said Douglas 1931-2022 2023 December where burst closure of some schools. time ever recorded for
3
essentials. Whitfield, average mains led to households With some households those months, according
South East South East 2 losing water. Clark said further from pumping to Met Office data
Water serves Water’s 1 that South East Water stations having had no stretching back to 1850.
2.2 million director of needed to urgently water all week, South Antarctic sea ice has hit
customers operations, Feb Mar Apr May Jun
0 improve its resilience. East Water said it had a record low. The Met
across the south speaking on Data is 14-day average and was last updated yesterday “Thousands endured no options other than a Office said both climate
east. The ban does BBC Radio the misery of being hosepipe ban. change and variations in
not affect Kent. weekend, and bottled burst main in Tunbridge without running water The National Drought ocean currents could
customers in the Authorities water stations have been Wells. Greg Clark, the before last Christmas,” Group warned in raise temperatures.
region who are expect the supply set up for those in the Conservative MP for he said. “To now have no February that England Citizen mutiny in Europe
served by other problems to worst hit areas. They Tunbridge Wells, said water at the height of was “one dry spell” away over net zero, page 30
water companies. continue into the were exacerbated by a the shortages were the summer is from drought. Weather, page 71

Ex-police watchdog in Film composer pitches key

question to girlfriend at gig
rape case sues ministry Peter Chappell
As the composer Hans Zimmer paused
before playing his last piece at the O2,
locked. Everything is good. I’ve got this
one little number left. It’s intimate in its
insignificance but maybe not so insig-
nificant and maybe I quite like it.” He
Fiona Hamilton Crime Editor authorised charges against Lockwood The IOPC then confirmed that Lock- he had a final introduction to make to then performed Time from his score of
for nine offences under the Sexual Of- wood had been advised a month earlier the audience. “There’s one more thing”, the 2010 film Inception.
The former head of the police watch- fences Act 1956. The alleged incidents to “continue in his role as normal” when he said. “So this is the woman I love, ap- De Luca, who has also worked as a
dog who has been charged with rape is took place when he was in his twenties he informed a senior Home Office offi- parently she loves me.” producer and runs a beauty brand, sat
suing the Home Office for unfair dis- and living in Humberside. cial about the inquiry. Onto the stage at the east London beside him as he played piano. Later in
missal after he was forced out over the Lockwood’s solicitors, PCB Byrne, Tom Whiting, Lockwood’s deputy, arena appeared his girlfriend, Dina De the performance on Thursday, Zimmer,
allegations, The Times has learnt. said in a statement: “Mr Lockwood who is now the IOPC’s temporary head, Luca, an entrepreneur and New York who has a house in London, took to the
Michael Lockwood, 64, faces six strenuously denies all of these allega- and the watchdog’s general counsel, hotel owner, dressed in white. The Os- floor with one of his musicians to play
charges of indecent assault and three of tions from nearly 40 years ago. He will had been informed previously. car-winning German musician, 65, guitar among the crowd and stopped
rape involving a girl who was aged strongly defend his position and will The IOPC has commissioned an in- turned to her and asked: “Why did I briefly to hug and kiss De Luca.
under 16 when the alleged incidents continue to co-operate with the pro- dependent review by Sir David Calvert- bring you up here? I was going to ask During the show he led his band and
took place in the 1980s. Lockwood, the Smith into whether “appropriate steps” you something really important. the Ukrainian Odesa Opera Orchestra
former director-general of the Inde- Michael Lockwood were taken before the resignation. “Did you lock the back door? as they treated fans to a host of pieces
pendent Office for Police Conduct claims he was Attempts were made to contact Is the milk in the fridge? Do he composed for blockbuster films
(IOPC), has denied wrongdoing. forced out over Lockwood for comment concerning we have any sorbet in the such as Gladiator and the James
Lockwood had been told to keep the investigation the employment matter. freezer? Will you marry Bond film No Time To Die.
working “as normal” when he told a Lockwood was previously chief exec- me?” He said: “I would really to
senior Home Office official last No- utive of the London Borough of Har- The audience ap- thank our orchestra because
vember he was facing investigation. row, in northwest London, before be- plauded on their our orchestra is special, our
However, Suella Braverman, the coming the first director-general ap- feet as De Luca orchestra is from Odesa
home secretary, asked Lockwood to re- ceedings.” Lockwood is due to appear pointed to lead the IOPC when it embraced the in Ukraine. It takes
sign or be suspended when she was in- before magistrates in Hull later this replaced the Independent Police Com- composer in enormous courage to
formed a month later. He resigned, cit- month. plaints Commission in 2018. front of his or- sit here, smile at you,
ing “personal and domestic reasons”. Humberside police had been investi- The IOPC said in a statement: “Mr chestra and play without flaw for
The Times has learnt that earlier this gating for several months when the Lockwood was IOPC director general nodded her three hours while
month Lockwood lodged a claim for case came to light following the resig- from 2018 to 2022, but as a Crown ap- agreement. you do not know
unfair dismissal over the way his case nation of Lockwood, who was account- pointee, not employed by the IOPC. After he had what’s going on at
was dealt with by the Home Office, able to the home secretary and ap- “As criminal proceedings are active, exchanged home and every-
which oversees the IOPC. pointed by her predecessor Priti Patel. we are unable to comment any further.” words with his thing is going on at
The case, which the Home Office is Two days after his resignation an- The Home Office said: “We are fiancée, Zimmer home.”
expected to defend, is due to be heard at nouncement, Braverman revealed she aware Mr Lockwood has made a claim told the audience
a London employment tribunal later had taken “immediate action” on be- to the employment tribunal. It would be that “things are Hans Zimmer
this year. Yesterday the Crown Prose- coming aware of the criminal inquiry, inappropriate to comment further working out well, and his fiancée,
cution Service announced it had asking him to resign or be suspended. whilst legal proceedings are ongoing.” the back door is Dina De Luca
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TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JACK HILL

Helmets on
for the tech
that will blow
your mind
‘Brain-computer’ Switzerland used a BCI to help a
paralysed man walk again. Gert-Jan
interfaces could be part Oskam, 40, had lost the use of his legs 12
years ago after an accident that dam-
of everyday life within aged his spinal cord at the neck. Two
small circular sections of his skull were
five years. Rhys Blakely removed and an array of electrodes
were placed on to the surface of his
tests it out for himself brain. These monitor his brain activity,
which is decoded by an AI, which sends
In a laboratory in central London, I’ve a stream of signals to a second set of
been asked to play a simple video game. electrodes implanted in the small of his
Each time a red robot appears on a back. These stimulate his spinal cord,
screen, I have to instruct a robotic arm causing his leg muscles to flex and
to pick it up. But this won’t involve allowing him to walk.
pressing a button or waggling a joystick. Professor Zubair Ahmed, director of
Instead, I merely think about making the Centre for Trauma Sciences Re-
a fist. My hand does not move, but the search at the University of Birming-
robot arm on the screen does. A ham, says that these techniques are including a team from the US military, players are very interested in integrat-
machine is decoding my thoughts (I’m destined to liberate many paralysis vic- in a competition that called for it to de- ing these kinds of neural interfaces into
wearing a kind of mind-reading helmet) tims from their wheelchairs. Another termine “behavioural intentions using virtual reality headsets, into earphones
and then translating them into action. BCI system, developed at the Univers- brain waves” picked up through EEG. and so on,” said Jackson. He stressed,
“Not long ago we thought this would ity of Tübingen in Germany, has al- The demonstration I took part in in- however, that there was a gulf between
be impossible,” said Allan Ponniah, a lowed a “locked-in” paralysis victim, volved five to ten minutes of “training”, what could be achieved at present with
consultant at the Royal Free NHS Foun- who could not speak or move at all, to where I flexed my hands into fists. Cogi- a surgically implanted device and with
dation Trust and a founder of Cogitat, communicate entire sentences. Again, tat’s software homed in on the motor an EEG helmet that sat on your head.
the company behind the system. it works by decoding his brain activity. cortex and was able to detect patterns of The benefits of brain surgery for a para-
Buoyed by a surge of technical These early applications have been electrical activity related to this gesture. lysis victim may be clear. But how many
progress, he now believes that this kind medical, but others have their sights set The next step involved a video game people, he wonders, would have a hole
of “brain-computer interface” (BCI) on larger markets. Elon Musk has where you play a sorcerer. When you drilled in their head in order to
could be part of everyday life within five founded Neuralink, a company built on Rosa Stampolidou and Rhys Blakely think about making a fist, a sphere of commune more closely with a video
years — that by linking the central the premise that brain implants which use the mind-reading technology from magical energy grows on the screen. game?
nervous system to machines it will be allow people to communicate directly Cogitat, an Imperial College spin-off Your fist doesn’t move, but the sphere Ponniah, as you might imagine, is
possible to create new forms of enter- with supercomputers will one day be as grows. It is a very unusual feeling. “It’s bullish on what will be possible without
tainment, new ways of working and common as wireless earbuds are today. billions of neurones, generating a addictive,” says Dimitrios Adamos, a co- resorting to surgery. Already, Cogitat is
new medical treatments. Last month, the UK information stream of electroencephalogram founder of Cogitat, which has been spun able to tap into a person’s thoughts,
After decades of research, BCIs have watchdog said that new regulations may (EEG) data. The signal is far less clear out of Imperial College London. “We albeit at a rudimentary level. He be-
recently shown glimpses of their be needed to police technologies that than that from a surgically implanted think we can use this to control pros- lieves that the technology will improve,
potential. “If you’re thinking about may, quite literally, read your thoughts. device that sits on the brain itself. Using thetic limbs, to drive drones, to navigate the hardware will become cheaper, and
clinical applications, then absolutely The system I tried out this week at an EEG helmet to monitor brain activi- in virtual worlds,” said Ponniah. that people will value the experience.
we’re at the point where science fiction Imperial College has one big difference ty is like trying to follow a football game Early next year the Cogitat system is “When you imagine something and
is starting to become a reality,” said with the BCI that helped Oskam walk: by listening to the roar of the crowd due to be part of an NHS trial to look at you see it actually happening — it’s
Andrew Jackson, professor of neural there was no need to undergo brain from outside the ground, says Jackson. whether it can help in the rehabilitation mind-blowing,” he said. “This isn’t an
interfaces at Newcastle University. surgery. Instead, you wear a £20,000 But Cogitat has shown that useful of stroke patients. incremental step. This is a total trans-
One case study made global head- helmet that contains 21 electrodes. information can still be harnessed. Last Where the technology goes from formation in how people can interact
lines last month, when researchers in They monitor the electrical activity of year its technology beat a field of rivals, there is an open question. “The big tech with computers.”

New dinosaur found on Isle of Wight Dancer vows to ‘fight like

Seren Hughes Researchers found the new species to
be more closely related to some
History Museum’s department of earth
sciences, who led the study. Pond said
a tiger’ in battle over wall
Dinosaur remains found on the Isle of Chinese ankylosaurs, which could sug- that all ankylosaur remains found on
Wight have been confirmed as belong- gest these dinosaurs moved freely from the Isle of Wight in the past 142 years Jonathan Ames Legal Editor has also had roles in The Bill, Inspector
ing to a new species. Asia to Europe in the early Cretaceous will now need to be revisited. Morse and EastEnders — has refused to
The remains of the ankylosaur, a her- period. At the time, southern England The specimen was excavated from A dancer who starred in a film with consent to the wall being knocked
bivore, date from about 125 million and the Isle of Wight were part of an is- the Wessex Foundation fossil site in the David Bowie has vowed to “fight like a down. However, last year her neigh-
years ago. It is the second species of land with a climate similar to today’s early 1990s and studied at the Dinosaur tiger” in a legal battle with her neigh- bours obtained a party wall award, a
armoured dinosaur to be found on the Mediterranean. Isle Museum in Sandown. It was initial- bour over their £1 million homes. legal mechanism that should allow
island, which is known for its prolifera- The find suggests that a greater di- ly thought to be from the same species Susan Lee is in a dispute with a mar- them to proceed with their plans.
tion of dinosaur fossils, after Polacan- versity of armoured dinosaurs existed as the earlier find, but recent re-exami- ried couple over the brick wall that runs Lee has contested that order on the
thus foxii was unearthed in 1865. in what is now the UK, according to nation revealed discrepancies. Re- between their gardens in Peckham, basis that the disputed structure is en-
The new species has been named Stuart Pond, a researcher at the Natural searchers said that the Wessex Founda- south London. Lee, 71, who appeared tirely on her land.
Vectipelta barretti after Professor Paul tion contains rocks that are “hugely im- with Bowie in Jim Henson’s 1986 movie Nicholas Isaac KC, representing Lee,
Barrett, a world-renowned palaeontol- The species of ankylosaur had a more portant” to understanding more about Labyrinth — has fallen out with Vanes- told the judge that Lee insisted that she
ogist who has worked at the Natural blade-like spiked armour than others how dinosaurs went extinct. sa and Andrew McVickers, both in their alone owns the wall.
History Museum (NHM) for two dec- Professor Barrett said: “I’m flattered fifties, over their plans to build an ex- Andrew McKie, the married couple’s
ades. Ankylosaurs had short legs and and absolutely delight- tension to their property. barrister, criticised Lee’s tactics in the
wide, flat bodies covered in pro- ed to have been rec- A judge at the Mayors and City coun- litigation, which he argued had run up
tective armour plates and spikes. ognised in this way, ty court in London has been told that legal costs and caused the McVickers
Vectipelta barretti differs not least as the first paper I ever wrote the plans drawn up by the McVickers upset. “She said she would fight like a ti-
from Polacanthus foxii in its was also on an armoured dinosaur in involve the demolition and rebuilding ger to get her way,” said McKie of Lee,
neck and back bones and pelvic struc- the NHM collections.” of a wall that separates their 1930s turning the case into “a time-consum-
tures. The new find also has a more The findings were described in the homes. ing and complex piece of litigation”.
blade-like spiked armour. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. The court was told that Lee — who The case continues.
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Every student and every parent

We all recognise the Council House out across those of us in
the sun-drenched crowd that filled Old
magic of youth in the Market Square.
Three families swamped in grief
stabbing victims’ bright, somehow managed to address those
who had gathered, just as the fathers of
smiling faces, the two students had done, with heart-
breaking dignity, the day before. “We
Damian stand here and we hear your love and
Whitworth we are united in grief and shock and
disbelief,” said Emma Webber, Barna-
writes by’s mother.
There were gasps as Grace’s brother,
James, urged the crowd to “cherish
When Grace O’Malley-Kumar and every moment you spend with your
Barnaby Webber were identified as the loved ones as you just never know when
two students murdered in Nottingham it will end”. His father, Sanjoy, said their
this week, fellow student Aiden Smith family had been four “and now we are
looked at their photographs and was three”. All her daughter and Barnaby
struck by a thought that many of us will had been doing, said her mother, Dr
recognise. “I didn’t know them. But Sinead O’Malley, was walking home.
they looked familiar,” he told me, as we “Just walking home after a night out.” I
talked on Nottingham’s Old Market suspect every eye in the audience had a
Square. “Barnaby looks so much like tear in it, but I had abandoned my re-
one of my friends.” sponsibilities as a trained observer at
Those two students, with their radi- this point and was staring at the ground,
ant smiles, eyes dancing with life and blinking hard.
promise, looked familiar to many of us Perhaps this story has resonated so
who had never met them. We didn’t strongly, and not just with those of us
know Grace or Barnaby, but we know with student offspring, because we
Graces and Barnabys. think of students as characters in one of
As the father of another 19-year-old the magical chapters of a lifetime. They
student at a different university, I saw are on the cusp of serious adult life, rev-
them when dropping my son off at elling in that glorious period when the
freshers week two years ago and when rules and regulations of school are be-
hind them and the full responsibilities
of adulthood, with its wages and sky-
high rents and impossibility of owning
a home, are ahead of them.
Students are learning how to fly,
while retaining ties to the nest; explor-
ing themselves and new friends, part-
ners and ideas, in the safety of student-
land, a place which is part of the real
world but also slightly to the side of it.
This week’s murders came just days
before the mass migration of fledglings
back to their family roosts.
Smith, a business and marketing stu-
dent at Nottingham Trent University,
who was attending the vigil with his
friend, Maddy Fowkes, 21, said his
mother had been keen for him to attend
the event. “She wanted me to represent
her as well. That morning [of the mur-
ders] I woke up to a message from a
worried mother. It’s a parent’s worst
nightmare.”
Our students have had a hard time
over the past few years. Lockdowns hit
them especially hard. They missed
their friends. Their education was dis-
Students Grace O’Malley-Kumar, top, rupted. Many didn’t get to take their
and Barnaby Webber, above right, exams. And now their university
were killed as they walked home. Ian experience is marred by lecturer strikes
Coates, above left, a caretaker, died in and unmarked work. Little surprise
a later attack as he travelled to work then that, free of Covid, students have
been enjoying themselves before going
meeting him off trains packed with their separate ways for the summer, 3 them, she said. “It almost felt like the
students coming home. including in Nottingham on Monday How it happened 2 Magdala Rd apocalypse the next day. My parents
Just after 4am Suspect allegedly
I’ve been delighted to have boys with night. Road closures Mapperley Rd
were saying: ‘Come home now. We will
cricket-mad Barnaby’s shaggy fringe This week’s events have shattered stabs Ian Coates, come and pick you up. We don’t want
Suspect allegedly 65, and steals his
lounging in my garden, bantering about Nottingham but the shockwaves have 5.45am tries to break into a you being there at the moment’.”
cricket while batting balls against the rolled out to all universities because white van. She stayed on to work but many stu-
Maples St residential home Coates’s body is
fence. I know friends of my children social media means there are only a few Police arrest 6 dent celebrations were cancelled as her
(my 17-year-old daughter is at the uni- degrees of separation between one stu- discovered at peers streamed home well before term
man aged 31 Bentinck Rd A60
versity open day stage) with the sunny dent and another, wherever they are. In about 6am ends next week.
disposition Grace’s family and friends Nottingham there are close to 40,000 Ilkeston Rd N OT T I N GH A M “I feel paranoid whenever I see any
have spoken of; young women who tear students, but they describe it as feeling Police raid a property Nottingham
5 dodgy-looking person,” said Srija. “You
up hockey pitches and have a gift for like a village. Trent University About 5.30am do not know what anyone’s intentions
friendship. In Radford Recreation Ground, a 1 7 4 Milton St Van are really.” The club where Sophie
When we first learnt that Grace small park just up Ilkeston Road where 500 metres Sherwood St rams pedestrian works has arranged for student staff to
wanted to be a doctor, my next thought the students were killed at Van, followed by in city centre take taxis home in the early hours so
was of those brilliant women junior 4am on Tuesday, I talked to Sophie, police, rams two City A60 they don’t walk.
June 13, 4am Ilkeston Rd
doctors we’ve all met, who light up grim 20, and Srija, 19, as they sat in the sun- pedestrians Centre “I used to walk back from nights out
Barnaby Webber and Grace
accident and emergency departments shine trying to make sense of what quite a lot. It’s obviously silly, but you
O’Malley-Kumar, both 19,
with their effervescent energy, reassur- had happened. are stabbed to death Nottingham Nottingham don’t think anything will happen,” said
ing us in our most anxious moments “I made the mistake of searching Canal Castle Cerys Williams, 22, a final-year chemis-
and keeping our creaking hospitals Grace and Barney’s names on Insta- try student. Now, said her friend, Sam
running. In a few years she would prob- gram and finding mutual friends and a nightclub in the city centre and happened but because she had stopped Connelly, 22, a civil engineering finalist,
ably have been one of them. looking at all the photographs,” said returns home along Ilkeston Road. “I to get food she wasn’t there at the exact people will be more careful and will
At Thursday night’s extraordinary Sophie. “That really set me off. There walk back down that street almost time it happened. spend that extra money on late-night
vigil, for Grace, Barnaby and the school are always connections.” Srija is living every night at that time. It was very “Little things, that if they had been cabs. “There’s an underlying depression
caretaker Ian Coates, the second in two in a house next year with someone who jarring. One of our friends was walking slightly different . . .” She leaves the around everything,” he said. They were
days, emotion swept from those speak- played in Barney’s cricket team. back from the club by herself and she thought hanging. having a pint in the Rose and Crown,
ing on the steps of the neo-baroque Sophie works several nights a week in walked by the scene 20 minutes after it The city is different now for all of where a handful of other students, in
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feels the horror of these losses CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES; PAUL TONGE FOR THE TIMES

Doctor’s daughter
‘died trying to save
friend from attacker’
David Woode, Will Humphries their professionalism, diligence, re-
David Brown, Isobel Frodsham spect and care they have shown during
this time.”
A witness has claimed that one of the On Thursday Grace’s family ad-
students stabbed to death on a night out dressed a vigil for the victims in the
tried to save her friend in the attack. centre of the city.
One resident, who has not been In a moving speech Sinead O’Malley,
named, said CCTV has captured the in- her mother, told a crowd of thousands:
cident in Nottingham, which shows “Be kind to each other. Look out for
Grace O’Malley-Kumar attempting to each other. Don’t have hate in your
save Barnaby Webber as the pair were hearts. Say prayers for my baby girl.”
assaulted on Tuesday morning. Grace’s father, Dr Sanjoy Kumar, said
Webber and O’Malley-Kumar, both through tears: “Imagine a world of love
19, were walking home after a Univers- and no violence. Just imagine that
iity of Nottingham end of term party world.”
w
when they were stabbed. Webber, from Taunton, Somerset,
Ian Coates, 65, a school caretaker, had been studying history and was a
Flowers have been left att w
was also killed later as he made his way talented cricketer. O’Malley-Kumar, a
Nottingham Council tto work. medical student from Woodford Green,
House in tribute to the The resident told MailOnline: “The northeast London, also played cricket,
victims. Grace O’Malley- b
boy and the girl were walking on their as well as representing England at
Kumar’s family — her o
own, there was nobody else in the pic- hockey in the under-16 and under-18-
mother Sinead, father tture except the attacker, who came up squads.
Sanjoy and brother — ffrom behind.” As the Ashes began yesterday at
joined a vigil in the She added that Webber was attacked Edgbaston cricketers from the England
city’s Market Square, ffirst and O’Malley-Kumar had the op- and Australia teams wore black arm-
above, along with p
portunity to “run away”, but didn’t. bands to “show solidarity” with the vic-
students including “She tried to save the boy. They were tims as they took to the field. A mo-
Aiden Smith and jjust walking home from Pryzm after a ment’s silence was held before the
Maddy Fowkes, right. n
night out, like young people do.” national anthems.
Barnaby Webber’s family y Her husband said the couple have Police previously revealed that Valdo
and friends visited the b
been taking medication to help them Calocane, who was charged yesterday
site where he and ssleep since watching the video, now in over the murders, was a former Uni-
O’Malley-Kumar were tthe custody of police, adding: “What we versity of Nottingham student, but said
stabbed to death, below w
witnessed on the screen keeps playing “this is not believed to be connected
o
over in our minds. It’s awful.” with the attack”.
Yesterday, friends joined Webber’s Calocane, who graduated last sum-
ffamily during a visit to the scene in mer, is alleged to have killed the stu-
IIlkeston Road, a day after his parents, dents before murdering Coates, a father
Emma and David, both 51, and younger of two who was just four months away
brother Charlie joined a vigil in the city from retirement, and stealing his van.
centre. He is also charged with the at-
“We chose to come to this dreadful tempted murders of three pedestrians
space because we owe it to both Barna- who were hit by the van. Nottingham
by and Grace to let them know we are University Hospitals NHS Trust said
here,” the Webber family said. two patients were now stable, and one
“As has been expressed by so many had been discharged from hospital.
already, heartbreak cannot begin to de- Yesterday the Independent Office for
scribe our loss. As painful as this tribute Police Conduct, the police watchdog,
today has been, it is yet another step said it was investigating if the presence
forward on the very long dark journey of a police car, which followed Coates’s
we have been forced to take. stolen van, had influenced the driver
“We would like to thank all at Not- before it hit two pedestrians in the
tingham University and the police for second of the road traffic incidents.

the post-exams uniform of shorts,

T-shirts and shades, were drinking
quietly outside. Normally the garden
would be packed on a sunny afternoon
said another. Students in turn are con-
cerned that this might dent the reputa-
tion of Nottingham in the minds of pro-
spective students.
‘Quiet’ graduate charged with murder
after the end of exams. “I don’t know anyone who comes to Will Humphries, David Woode a model. Armed police raided the house Calvary Church. Hazel Vaughan, whose
“Could it inspire other people to Nottingham and doesn’t love it. I’m so David Brown on Tuesday. husband Adrian is the pastor, said they
come out of the woodwork and do the glad I ended up here,” said Connelly. Kamran Khan, 41, who lives next to were an “amazing family, really lovely”.
same?” asked Jodie, 20, an engineering But perhaps, if anything, the awful A “very quiet” graduate was charged the property, said he recognised Calo- Calocane, his younger brother and
student, at the pub. “Once it happens events of this week will draw students yesterday with murdering three people cane. “About two years ago he would sister attended the Sir Thomas Picton
you are always going to have that in the even closer together. Many were deeply including two students at his former come over and sit in the back garden High School, which recently became
back of your mind. moved by the words of the two fathers university. and smoke and drink with this girl who Haverfordwest High School. He left the
“I don’t think any student is going to at the first vigil, where Dr Sanjoy Valdo Calocane, 31, was accused of lived there,” he said. “He was very quiet town more than a decade ago.
be able to walk down that road without Kumar asked them to look after each killing Barnaby Webber and Grace but he had distinctive eyes.” Calocane, who worked at a Next
thinking about what happened there other. “It was heartbreaking,” said O’Malley-Kumar, first-year students at Bella Crawshaw, 20, a first-year store while studying at Nottingham,
for the rest of their time here. Jodie. “When you are at uni you feel like Nottingham University, early on Tues- computer science student living in the completed his three-year degree last
“It’s so sad. They were so young and you are part of a community and when day. He is also alleged to have murdered property, said police had asked if a black summer but did not attend his gradua-
their parents were expecting them something like this happens, even if Ian Coates, 65, a school caretaker. male lived or visited the house. tion ceremony. In a posting on a jobs
home next week.” you don’t directly know the people, it Friends said Calocane, a mature Calocane was born in Guinea-Bissau, website he said: “My field of study of-
Residents of Nottingham worried affects everyone. I am keeping that in student who graduated last year with a west Africa, and grew up on Madeira. fered broad foundation in engineering
that for Grace and Barnaby the city had mind: be kind to everyone, look after degree in mechanical engineering, was His father, Amissao, 55, was granted science and engineering design and the
not been the protective staging ground everyone.” more reserved than his peers. Portuguese citizenship in 2006 and the opportunity to develop interpersonal
for adult life that it should have been. It’s an indelible message as our stu- He moved into a student university family moved to Haverfordwest in and management skills.”
Many of the bouquets of flowers placed dent offspring, laden with accumulated block in the Radford area of the city in Wales the following year. They gained Months after graduating he asked to
by the scene of the murders had messa- clobber, return home for the summer October 2021. Webber and O’Malley- settled status as EU nationals. be let into the MI5 headquarters in cen-
ges from local people. “I am so sorry and once again occupy their childhood Kumar, both 19, were stabbed to death His father works as a carer while his tral London. His name was recorded.
this happened to you in our city,” wrote bedrooms. less than 100 yards from the block. mother, Celeste, is a nurse at the town’s Calocane was described as “of no
one. “The whole city of Nottingham is Victims’ relatives shone in their darkest Further along the road was the Withybush General Hospital. The fixed address” by police when he was
thinking about you and caring for you,” hour, leading article, page 27 student house of Calocane’s girlfriend, family worship at the pentecostal charged yesterday.
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How doubt
and panic
ended in jail
for abortion
Convicted mother has bours at the home, where their parents
lived for 40 years, remembered a “tight-
become a focus for knit” family who rallied round their
elderly father when their mother died
those querying the law, last year. The father moved shortly
afterwards. “This will have absolutely
Tom Witherow and crushed him,” a former neighbour said.
It was in late September 2019 that the
Mario Ledwith write woman became pregnant while in
sexual relationships with two men who
Families forced to stay at home, public were not her long-term partner, the
services shut down and emergency court was told. About six weeks later
measures rushed through to keep the she realised she was pregnant but did
country running. not initially know who the father was.
The intensity of the early weeks of She did not look into abortion at first.
the first lockdown left millions in fear. Instead, in January 2020, when she be-
For one family it prompted a series of lieved she was about 14 weeks pregnant, The rules around early abortions changed at the start of the pandemic, when a “pills by post” scheme was approved
events that led a mother-of-three to use she began searching online for “how to
a new service providing abortion pills not look pregnant” and “how to hide a perall, the sentencing judge, said. the effects of progesterone, and four hills near Stoke-on-Trent. Lawyers for
by post to terminate her unborn daugh- pregnancy bump”. Through March and April 2020, she misoprostol tablets, used 24 to 48 hours the convicted woman told the court her
ter, later named Lily, while she was Around this time she exchanged searched online for “how to lose a baby later to induce labour and cause mis- family “had distanced themselves from
between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant. messages with the man she believed at six months”, “extreme measures to carriage. After the mother took the first her” and “that is something she will
On Tuesday the 44-year-old was jail- was Lily’s father, although this was only have a miscarriage” and “how to do a tablet, on May 9, she said she could still need to work on in the course of time”.
ed for 28 months at Stoke-on-Trent confirmed with a DNA test after the ba- miscarriage at home”. feel the baby move but two days later, The Times has chosen not to name
crown court. The case has sparked by was stillborn. On January 17, he tex- Phone records recovered by police on May 11 at 1pm, she took the four mi- the mother due to the unique circum-
widespread debate and led many to ask: ted her: “It means a lot to me when I showed she told a friend she could not soprostol tablets. The impact was al- stances of the case and her fragile men-
should women be jailed for abortion in think of you and the baby.” He support- keep the child. In an exchange with most immediate. tal health. Hours before the sentencing,
2023? ed her in court on Tuesday and provid- another friend, she said she was too old She phoned 999 at 4.10pm to say she she posted a text image on Facebook
Her partner of more than two ed a mitigating letter to the judge. to have another child and did not want believed she might be having a miscar- which read: “No one has the right to
decades, and father to her three living The court was also told that police to be a single mother. riage, but the paramedics who attended judge you because no one knows what
children, told The Times: “I can’t even did not find any messages to suggest he But she is alleged to have told Lily’s left when she assured them she was not you’ve been through. They may have
get my own head around it.” did not want her to have the baby. De- father a different story. Robert Price, for pregnant. Two hours later her condi- heard stories, but they didn’t feel what
The court was told how the mother spite this, her internet searches showed the prosecution, told the court she tion had worsened. Her partner called you felt.”
desperately tried to hide the pregnancy how her thinking shifted from hiding feigned a “serious kidney illness”, add- 999 at 6.39pm and told the operator she But her suffering was not enough to
— the result of a relationship with the pregnancy, to ending it. On Februa- ing: “This was a lie. She created a false was in labour. Lily was born at 7pm, but prevent the judge ordering a sentence
another man — before lying to obtain ry 14, she searched online: “Can being impression to Lily’s father that she had never took a natural breath. She was of more than two years, meaning it
the drugs from the pandemic “pill by hit in the stomach cause a miscar- had an abortion due to illness.” taken to Royal Stoke Hospital where could not be suspended.
post” scheme. The baby was stillborn in riage?” and “abortion at 23 weeks”. On May 6 she phoned the British she was pronounced dead. He told the court the law gave him no
May 2020 after she took the tablets. She went to her GP on March 2, Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), a The mother was back on Google later choice and pointed to her careful re-
The sentence means the mother’s thought to be the only time she saw her charity and abortion care service. the same night, asking if she could go to search and the lies she told to obtain the
three children, including one with spe- doctor during her pregnancy, because Six weeks previously, among a flurry prison for aborting a child at 30 weeks. pills. The judge ruled there was evi-
cial needs, will be left in the sole care of of a cyst, but did not mention the preg- of emergency measures put in place at She denied a charge of child destruc- dence of “emotionally unstable person-
their father while she is in prison. Her nancy, later telling police this was the start of the pandemic, a change in tion, part of a 1929 act, but in a pre-trial ality traits” but she was “not suffering
conviction, based on a law passed in because of embarrassment. the law allowed women to conduct hearing in August 2022 her lawyers en- from any serious mental illness” when
1861, sparked anger from campaigners She was almost six months pregnant abortions at home without the need for couraged the Crown Prosecution Ser- she ordered and took the pills.
who demanded abortion be decrimi- when Britain entered lockdown. Dur- an in-person appointment at a clinic. vice to consider an alternative charge Even in the mother’s own friendship
nalised, but the woman’s detractors said ing what was described by the senten- Parliament quickly approved the under section 58 of the Offences circle there are critics. One former
she had months to arrange a legal ter- cing judge as the “most intense phase”, “pills by post” scheme, now a perman- Against the Person Act 1861, to “unlaw- friend said this week: “She had plenty of
mination, or suggested that the child the woman’s partner, 51, invited her ent fixture, allowing women under ten fully administer a poison or noxious time to terminate. She conned those
should have been put up for adoption. back into the family home. The court weeks pregnant to take two pills after a thing with intent to procure a miscar- people, lied to them, to get those abor-
The Times has visited the couple’s heard they had become estranged, al- phone consultation, to induce a miscar- riage”. In February 2023, three months tion pills.”
family, neighbours and friends and though it is not known for how long. riage at home. The convicted woman before a planned trial, she pleaded Lily has stayed in her family’s
combed through court records to re- He did not find out she was carrying told BPAS advisers she was seven guilty leading to a sentencing hearing thoughts. When the woman’s mother
construct the events that led to Tues- another man’s child until the stillbirth weeks and four days pregnant, when on Tuesday. The mother’s long-term died in January 2022, a notice in the
day’s sentencing. ten weeks later. “You were, I accept, in she was 31 weeks pregnant. partner was not present in court. local newspaper remembered a “trea-
The mother in question grew up in a emotional turmoil as you sought to In the post she received one mifepri- The Times spoke to him at the sured nana” to ten grandchildren — in-
terraced home in south Stoke. Neigh- hide the pregnancy,” Mr Justice Pep- stone tablet, usually taken first to block couple’s semi-detached house in rolling cluding “the late Lily May”.

Division (and envy) as council staff move to a four-day week

Ali Mitib dependency on expensive agency staff. Despite its reported success, resi- be worried that they’ll say ‘well that cult to get my work done in four days
About 450 desk-based employees re- dents in Cambourne, the largest town person’s on a day off’.” but if they’re managing then I am
The pubs, restaurants and leisure at- ceived full pay as part of the three- in the authority, are divided over the The trial coincides with the council happy,” he said.
tractions of South Cambridgeshire may month trial, with the expectation that scheme, with some claiming that tax- imposing one of the largest council tax Another resident, Anna, 45, said: “I
have found themselves a little busier of they would be more productive while payers are footing the bill for council rises in England since the tax was intro- don’t have an issue with it as long as I
late. Local council staff have more time working fewer days. After the initial test staff enjoying an extra day off. duced 30 years ago, according to the don’t see a reduction in my service. My
on their hands thanks to trial that has period council leaders decided to ex- Dean Woolley, 34, a builder who of- Taxpayers’ Alliance pressure group. bins are collected every fortnight. If
divided the community but could tend it for another 12 months and in- ten works in Cambourne, said: “Five Michael Stepp, 33, an estate agent that goes to every three weeks, it’ll be
transform Britain’s public sector. crease the arrangement to about 150 days’ pay for four days’ work does seem who lives in Cambourne, said he had unacceptable. I am pretty jealous of
In January, South Cambridgeshire refuse workers, after analysis showed a bit unfair. They’re not doing any work not seen a drop-off in services provided them though.”
district council became the country’s that a four-day working week was on that day off so I’m sure they’ll be by the Liberal Democrat-controlled Bridget Smith, the council leader,
first local authority to test a four-day “overwhelmingly positive” for staff happy with that. But if any problem ar- authority. “If they can manage to get said: “Staff are more motivated and
working week in an effort to improve its health and wellbeing and did not result rives with an application or any issues their work done in a shorter period of when they’re more motivated they’re
employee retention rate and reduce its in a decline in performance. you are having with the services, you’ll time then why not. I would find it diffi- more productive.”
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Peacock vigilantes take invasion into own hands

Seren Hughes several stately homes and other open birds squawking. “I’ve seen as many as her door asking for food, and more than munity. This is their home, they have
spaces were keen to take them in, seven of them outside on the street, 200 people have signed a petition to never known anything else and they
Three peacocks have been found dead adding: “It’s a suburban housing estate strutting around in a little gang,” said keep the peacocks on the estate. bring joy to so many people, especially
after a Cumbrian estate was overrun by and although many people love them, one resident, who has been left Dawn Charlton, 59, who set up the those who are housebound and love to
the birds and frustrated locals took it’s not the place for peacocks to be “shattered” by the sleepless petition said: “It’s set people against watch them.”
matters into their own hands. roaming free.” nights. “You start to wonder if each other but I don’t care, A Cumberland council spokesman
Five years ago the Ellen Bank Hotel Residents have complained of dam- they’re thinking of mugging the peacocks are said: “Cumberland council has received
near Maryport shut down and three of age to their vehicles and a nine-year- someone. As time has gone by beautiful and some complaints from local residents
its resident peacocks moved them- old girl was said to have been scratched they’ve got more used to being they are part regarding the behaviour of some free-
selves to the Ellenborough estate. The when she accidentally disturbed a bird around people and now they have of this com- roaming peacocks in the Maryport area
trio — which were named Romeo, in her garden. no fear at all. It’s like living in an and our officers are currently working
Juliet and Betty — were initially met Luke Pearson, 26, said his Volks- aviary.” with other agencies to investigate these
with affection and a Facebook group wagen Passat, which is only six months But not everyone sees the non- reports and gather information.”
was dedicated to them. old, had been covered in peck marks. indigenous birds, which are not
Since then the number of peacocks “They come and sit on it and scratch it covered by UK wildlife protection laws, At first there were three peacocks
has risen to 30, including a brood of with their claws and the male birds see as pests. Kathryn Roberts, 31, likes to on the Ellenborough estate, but
eight which hatched under a boat in a their reflections in it and think it’s feed them Cheerios after they peck on now there’s about 30
garden. After years of scratched cars, another male so peck at them. They’re
dislodged television aerials and sleep- literally fighting with themselves but
less nights some residents have had the only damage is to the car.”
enough. The concrete plant worker added:
Two peacocks died after being “delib- “The other day I was taking my son to
erately” hit by cars and another was school when one of the peacocks took
poisoned, Mel James, an animal sanc- off from a roof, swooped between two
tuary owner who is co-ordinating the houses and slammed into the side of the
rescue effort, said. car. It’s only in moments like that when
Road closures are planned and the you realise how big they are. They’re a
police and fire brigade will be enlisted nuisance and need to go.”
to catch the elusive birds. James said Others are kept up at night by the

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the secretary of state’s office like

High office Ken used to do,” Hancock piously
said. Hardman tells me that there
for Mr Vertigo was then an awkward pause “as
the pair of us considered whether
Matt was really the man to be
When you have been shot at in lecturing anyone on what
Iraq, had a bomb placed under ministers get up to in their offices”.
your seat in the Himalayas and
worked in Boris Johnson’s beating john malkovich
Downing Street, few things faze When he was writing his first
you. Even so, Mark Sedwill had his novel, Tom Hanks followed
doubts about his next mission something called the pomodoro
since he suffers from a fear of method, based on 25 minutes of
heights. The former head of the focused work broken by five-
civil service and national security minute breaks. It gave him rigour
adviser is to abseil down the 289ft but meant his life was ruled by a
Lloyd’s building in the City of stopwatch. If only all actors could
London next month in aid of the be so disciplined. Richard E Grant,
lord mayor’s charity appeal. “Was who interviewed Hanks on
this how it felt becoming cabinet Thursday night for a Penguin
secretary?” asked one Jeremy event, said that John Malkovich
Hunt, who I hope really is the was in a film directed by Paul
chancellor, as he donated on Newman and arrived late on set.
Sedwill’s JustGiving page. Another Newman did not lose his rag, but
pal told him that if he needs any when Malkovich returned to his
advice “there’s a big dog with time hotel room he found 60 alarm
on his hands who has perfected clocks waiting for him. “He was
crashing from great heights and never late again,” Grant said.
bouncing back up again”. I’m sure
Sedwill would rather Boris just The comedian Harry Hill was once
made a generous donation. at a benefit event where comedians
performed karaoke and was moved
Sedwill did at least get something by the tax-shy Jimmy Carr singing
out of Johnson when he stood down Sweet Caroline to his long-term
in 2020. Anthony Seldon’s recent girlfriend. Hill says he asked the late
book says the prime minister gave Sean Lock why such a happy couple
him portraits of Thomas Cromwell, still hadn’t tied the knot. Lock
Henry VIII’s right-hand man, and suggested it was because Carr
Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I’s “doesn’t like the idea of giving a
intelligence chief. Apt, though given speech and not getting paid for it”.
Cromwell’s sticky end after
displeasing the boss, a bit unsettling. jackson’s loco motions
When the late Glenda Jackson
close but no cigar became an MP, she was sponsored
The journalist Isabel Hardman by the train drivers’ union Aslef
interviewed Matt Hancock for her rather than Equity. I’m told this
new book on the history of the was down to Ray Buckton, the
NHS, Fighting for Life, and general secretary, who had been
asked the former health much taken by Jackson in the
secretary which of his 1971 film The Music Lovers. Her
predecessors had inspired naked writhing on the floor of a
him. Hancock praised Ken train carriage was enough
Clarke, right, for his to convince Buckton that
clarity of vision but she truly had the
pursed his lips at locomotive industry’s
Clarke’s approach to his interests at heart.
own health. “I definitely
never smoked a cigar in patrick kidd
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Pet owners go abroad to cut bills TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP

‘Veterinary tourism’ Case study

packages to Turkey are beer Alaydi, 28, was
taking off as treatment
costs soar in Britain,
writes Andrew Ellson
Growing numbers of Britons are taking
A shocked at how much
her local vet charged
when her kitten,
Charcoal, became ill.
Alaydi, a customer service
assistant from Leeds, said she
became worried about Charcoal,
their pets overseas for treatment to who is now seven months old,
avoid crippling vet bills in the UK, The when he appeared lethargic and
Times has found. barely ate for a day.
Sterilising a dog now costs up to £860 She took him to her local
as private equity groups consolidate practice which charged £47 for
their grip on Britain’s veterinary indus- an initial consultation. She said:
try. Analysis shows that some proce- “The vet asked a few questions
dures are up to three times more expen- about his symptoms and whether
sive in Britain than France, meaning I saw him ingest any items. I
owners can save thousands of pounds confirmed that I hadn’t but she
by travelling abroad. proceeded to suggest an x-ray to
The Times found one clinic in ensure nothing was blocking his
London charging nearly £70 for a con- throat and a blood test to test for
sultation, while another in Berkshire any diseases.”
was charging £856.50 for keyhole steri- As Abeer expected, the x-ray
lisation of a large dog. showed nothing and the blood
A standard consultation costs an av- test found only that he may have
erage of £55 in the UK compared with been dehydrated. Abeer was still
£30 in France, and dog owners here presented with a bill of nearly
have to pay an average of £400 to steri- £700.
lise a bitch, a procedure that costs £250 She said: “I was shocked. I had
on the continent. Even putting down a no idea vets cost that much. I felt
pet is more than twice as expensive in like I was being exploited, they
Britain at an average of £124. could have run an external
Complex operations are also signifi- examination or offered him some
cantly more expensive here. Insurers food to see if it was a blockage or
say that hip dysplasia in a dog in Britain a loss of appetite, but I felt like
costs an average of £5,000 to treat com- they wanted to go for the most
pared with £1,200 in France. expensive option.
Owners who are prepared to go fur- “As a first-time pet owner, I
ther afield could see even greater sav- was worried and felt responsible
ings. Some Turkish clinics are advertis- for the well being of my kitten.
ing “veterinary tourism” packages However, they are experienced
where owners are offered flights, trans- vets and should be able to tell
fers and luxury hotel stays while their when something is serious
pets undergo surgery. enough to call for an x-ray. I feel
Susie Samuel, of VetHelpDirect, I was emotionally manipulated to
which reviews vet practices, said most agree to any suggestions they
people who take their pets abroad for offered.”
treatment do so while on holiday, main- Abeer Alaydi was worried when her cat, Charcoal, was off his food and feels she was manipulated to agree to costly tests
ly in France and Spain, or when they
visit family in places such as Poland. standard” of care. However, there are year to September 2021 it had revenues chased Kevin Castle vets in September ised to sell Kevin Castle vets and the
“It’s an emerging trend. Prices have growing concerns that consolidation in of £885 million, a 33 per cent increase 2021 and was ordered by the CMA to other seven practices to offer certainty
been going up significantly in the UK so the industry is lowering competition on the previous year, delivering an op- continue operating it as an independ- to staff.
thousands of pounds can be saved on and driving prices higher. erating profit of £150 million. ent business in November 2022. It says Rising vet costs have left large num-
planned surgery, like orthopaedic oper- The number of independent prac- One of the brands IVC operates is its practices are free to set their own bers of pet owners struggling to afford
ations [such as hip replacements],” she tices has slumped over the past decade Parkview Vets in southeast London, prices to reflect local conditions and care for their animals.
said. as private equity groups and big corpo- which charges £66.82 for a consultation the quality of care available and points The Dogs Trust said it is seeing
Higher prices in the UK are ex- rate players have entered the market. and £125 for a same-day appointment. out that its average consultation fee is “more and more dog owners in desper-
plained in part by a shortage of vets In 2013, nearly nine in ten clinics The cost of spaying a bitch varies less than £45. ate situations” because of unexpected
after Brexit and Covid-19, which has were independently owned but that has between £390 and £590. The practice Colin Raftery, senior director of veterinary bills. It said nearly two thirds
driven wages higher. Property costs are fallen to a third today, with seven large says its fees reflect its “gold standard” of mergers at the CMA, said: “As a small of dog owners would struggle to pay an
also greater in Britain, which makes companies controlling the rest of the care. number of large players continue to buy unexpected vet bill of £500 and that it
running a surgery more expensive. industry. Earlier this year, the competition up independent practices and chains received 50,000 inquiries last year from
Pet insurance is more widely used in The Competition and Markets watchdog opened an investigation into across the UK, we’re continuing to people needing to give up their pets. It
the UK, meaning many owners do not Authority (CMA) is actively monitor- IVC’s takeover of eight independent closely monitor their activities so that is calling on the government to do more
bear the full cost so there is less incen- ing competition in the industry and practices, including Kevin Castle vets we can take action to ensure that cus- to support owners by pausing VAT on
tive for vets to offer budget options. said it “continues to receive complaints based in Erith, a mile and half from tomers in areas where vets are acquired veterinary services for 12 months.
Research by Tesco Bank suggests about higher prices or lower quality Parkview’s Belvedere practice. The aren’t left facing a lack of competition.” Despite the high cost of vets in the
that more than half of pet owners in the services as a result of too many vets’ watchdog said it was concerned that pet IVC denies that its business practices UK, VetHelpDirect warned pet owners
UK now have insurance. This means practices in the same area being under owners in the area would suffer from stifle competition and says it invests in that there were “logistical difficulties”
British surgeries often have the very the control of a single company”. less competition if the merger went the clinics it buys to provide “the best with going abroad, particularly if after-
best equipment and offer the most in- The largest provider of veterinary ahead. diagnostic and treatment options”. care was needed. “Different countries
novative treatments, which can cost services in the UK is IVC, which is Kevin Castle offers cat sterilisation at It said it was disappointed with the have different entrance requirements
more. One vet told The Times that owned by private equity and operates £110.25, which is just over half the £205 competition review and did not agree including the need for a passport and
owners with insurance expect a “gold more than a thousand practices. In the charged by Parkview. IVC first pur- with the watchdog’s analysis but prom- animal health certificate,” it said.

Clarkson can extend farm’s car park after planning victory

Charlie Moloney the existing parking area for a three- posed the project, with one hiring a ning permission — back to its original knock-on effects with nearby and adja-
year conditional period. barrister from London to complain on state. “Six weeks is more than sufficient cent fields being used.”
Jeremy Clarkson has partially won his The proposal to create a restaurant his behalf. to restore the surrounding land to the Perrins said many visitors to the farm
high-profile planning battle to extend featured on the Amazon Prime show A local councillor objected because condition it was in before,” he said. shop “had no regard to the proper use of
his farm. Clarkson’s Farm, in which the Sunday of fears over light pollution, while the However, Perrins gave permission the highway”, adding: “I am not
The former Top Gear presenter lost Times columnist attempts to turn a council also placed a mile-long line of for an extension to the existing parking surprised, as heard in evidence, that
an appeal against the decision by West profit from farming. cones to stop cars parking anywhere area, citing Clarkson’s “high profile” as tensions have run high between some
Oxfordshire district council to refuse Clarkson proposed opening a restau- near the farm shop. one of his considerations. of those living locally and some visitors
him to turn Diddly Squat Farm into a rant to capitalise on the success of his Richard Perrins, the planning in- “There can be no doubt that the high to the farm shop.”
restaurant, but while Clarkson has farm shop, and formed a co-operative spector, rejected Clarkson’s appeal profile has resulted in the farm shop Although a car park extension would
been ordered to restore the existing with neighbouring farmers to serve against an enforcement notice issued being ‘oversubscribed’,” the inspector harm the area’s character, Perrins said,
barn structure back to its original form, local produce. However, some resi- by the council to revert the land — said. “It is clear the site cannot cope the benefits to the local economy and
he has obtained permission to expand dents who lived nearby strongly op- which had been altered without plan- with parking demand and that has had tourism would outweigh the harm.
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NICOLE HAINS; CHRIS JACKSON/GETTY IMAGES

Freedom of
speech at risk
as pupils shut
down debate
Nicola Woolcock Education Editor and respect to someone who disagreed
with them.
Free speech is one of the biggest “Teaching them how to speak with a
worries facing schools, as they teach powerful voice as well as teaching them
children how to express themselves how to disagree well are both really
without shouting each other down, ac- equally important,” she added.
cording to two leading head teachers. Lunnon told the conference at
Pupils must learn how to speak confi- Downe House School, an independent
dently but also need lessons in listening boarding school in Berkshire: “The one
and arguing well without running away thing I’m worried about — I think sure-
from upsetting opinions, teachers told a ly as educators we all do — is a world
conference. Their views were echoed where we cannot have free speech. I
by other school leaders, who said child- mean, what is that?
ren not taught how to listen without “Education is based on Socratic dia-
shutting others down could be less able logue or discourse and reasoned cour-
to challenge ideas at university. teous conversation and discussion, and
Campuses have been at the heart of I really think we should as educators —
free speech rows, with some students and actually anyone else who cares
demanding the withdrawal of invita- about education — need to fight for
tions to speakers deemed controversial, that. Basically the adults in the room.
such as Kathleen Stock at Oxford Uni- “We really do and we should not let it
versity, and noisy protests at events. just slip by and let it go and think it’s
Now heads suggest there is a similar somehow okay. It is not, we must pro-
inclination among some pupils to shut tect free speech and the right of people
down debate. Clare Wagner, head of to say [things] courteously, and to be lis-
Henrietta Barnett, a girls’ state gram- tened to, and not shut that down.” programme will be
mar school in north London, and Jane
Lunnon, head of Alleyn’s, a private
James Handscombe, head of Harris
Westminster Sixth Form, said his
Ascot goes operated following the
Woodland Carbon Code,
school in south London, told a confer-
ence that teaching children how to
school was trying to teach teenagers to
discuss difficult topics. “The challenge green with which was established in
2011 to promote best
speak confidently was critical. is to encourage students to engage criti- practice for organisations
Wagner said: “A really important
part of public speaking is to listen.
cally with ideas without attacking indi-
viduals — to point out the truths that
net-zero wanting to create
woodland to mitigate
When someone comes up to do their
speech [in school], they all have to have
are being held self-evident without
saying the unsayable simply to cause
enclosure their carbon emissions.
Ascot has been
offence. We call this tightrope ‘kindness expanding its
he first Royal environmental

T
Clare Wagner and and scholarship’ and it’s a mode of
Jane Lunnon, engagement that is developed in every Ascot of the credentials in recent
below, say learning activity across the school.” reign of King years, sending no waste to
to listen well is Caroline Derbyshire, chief executive Charles next landfill since 2019.
vitally important of Saffron Academy Trust in Essex, week will have Wildflower meadows
said: “Schools are in a good position to an added green element, The village enclosure at Royal Ascot will operate as a net- have been established
allow discussion of more contentious with the village enclosure zero area. The King and Queen are expected to attend within the estate and
topics in the context of classrooms. at the track set to operate beehives have been
eye contact, pens are down and they “Religious education and personal, as a net-zero carbon not allowed and a hat and plastic will be installed inside the
have to keep watching and making social and health education teachers, emissions area for the must be worn — but it collected and all other racecourse. Reservoirs
smiling faces of encouragement. for example, can create the right cul- first time (Rob Wright has a more relaxed feel, waste — which is to be collect rainwater from
“And the other side of that is they’ve ture and conditions for such discus- writes). with live music, street taken away by electric the grandstand roof to be
got to learn how to disagree rather than sions to happen without a view going The village enclosure is food and cocktail bars. vehicles — will be used on the track and
just speak. I think that is one of the most unchallenged. This may not be the case a more relaxed area on Ascot runs from Tuesday compostable. grounds.
important things, that your voice is not in universities, where young people op- the inside of the course to Saturday next week. The intention is for the The King does not have
powerful if the only thing you’re doing erate more independently. during the royal meeting, Electricity for the racecourse to roll out this the same passion for
is shouting someone else down.” “We do not shy away from allowing hosting up to 10,000 village enclosure will be policy to other parts of racing that his mother
She said it was important to teach pupils to discuss a full range of pol- people a day. solar-powered, half of the the track once data from had, but he is nonetheless
pupils to listen well, about respectful itical and moral topics and we A smart dress code is food will be plant-based, next week has been expected to be a regular
dialogue and to disagree with each aim for balance when we in- still in place there — men food and drink will be analysed. For those presence at the meeting
other with politeness. vite outside speakers into are required to wear a locally sourced. limited elements that next week, with a host of
Wagner added: “While we are school.” jacket and tie, while for Everything that is used cannot function as fully horses set to carry the
teaching our children to speak David James, deputy women strapless tops are will be recycled. Glass net zero, an offset royal silks.
well and with confidence, with head of Lady Eleanor Holles
clarity and with accuracy, it’s School, said: “We promote
also important to teach them oracy in every lesson, and
that if someone else is talk-
ing, you listen and you’re re-
spectful.
through our debating
society, as well as teach-
ing it specifically in
Cambridge plea over marking boycott
“Even if you don’t agree, sixth form.” If this
that you really listen to the grounding was not put Nicola Woolcock the severe impact of the marking and part of industrial action over pay and
argument. Not saying ‘no, in place before univers- assessment boycott, as time is short. conditions. Students have also missed
no, no, I do not feel comfort- ity, “the risk could be The acting vice-chancellor of Cam- “Exams are now over for undergrad- lectures and tutorials because of strikes.
able with your ideas’, which that they are not bridge has written to academics, beg- uates. As they relax and celebrate, I UCU is close to resolving a separate
really worries me. It is the equipped to challenge ging them to end a marking boycott realise I need to set out more clearly dispute over pensions. However, Free-
thing that worries me most unfounded claims and that will leave more than half its final- than ever just how enormous the im- ling says there seems to be “no prospect
about where we are in that ideas,” he added. ists without degrees. pact of the boycott is likely to be . . . stu- of a resolution” over the other issues in
whole area.” I say, Darbishire, why Students may end up waiting until dents could still be waiting for degrees time to help students at Cambridge,
Wagner said such views are you in a dress?, Giles the autumn for their results, Dr Antho- well into the next academic year.” which is due to announce its next per-
went against democracy, free Coren, page 24 ny Freeling writes in the letter seen by Lecturers at 144 universities are re- manent vice-chancellor in the autumn.
speech and liberty and that Schools must teach The Times. He says: “I am writing one fusing to mark final-year students’ More than 50 per cent of the univers-
her school built into lessons respect in argument, final time to ask you to do all you can to work in a boycott organised by the Uni- ity’s 4,500 undergraduates are said to
that pupils should give space leading article, page 27 protect thousands of our students from versity and College Union (UCU) as be affected by the marking boycott.
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Hormone may be key to

easing morning sickness
Kaya Burgess Science Reporter triggered by certain types of stress. their bodies have become desensitised.
In previous studies, researchers at Finding a way to increase GDF15
Scientists are increasingly confident Cambridge University confirmed that prior to conception could help to re-
that they have found the cause of severe women with morning sickness have duce the risk of hyperemesis gravidar-
morning sickness in pregnant women, higher levels of GDF15. Researchers at um during pregnancy, the study noted.
finding new evidence that a hormone the University of Southern California, A number of companies are develop-
called GDF15 is the culprit. in Los Angeles, found that some vari- ing treatments to reduce the levels of
About two thirds of women experi- ants of the gene for GDF15 can increase the hormone for other conditions.
ence some degree of nausea or vomit- the risk of hyperemesis gravidarum. The drug thalidomide was used to
ing during pregnancy which can, de- A team combining researchers who treat morning sickness in the 1950s
spite the term morning sickness, occur worked on both of these studies has before it was discovered that it causes
at any time of day. In about one in 50 now found that pregnant women with serious congenital disorders. “Since the
pregnancies the sickness can become severe morning sickness have signifi- tragedy of thalidomide, concerns about
so severe that it is classed as hypereme- cantly higher levels of the hormone safety have understandably been very
sis gravidarum, which can lead to dan- compared with pregnant women expe- prominent,” the researchers wrote.
gerous weight loss and dehydration. riencing little nausea or sickness. Sumona Saha, of the University of
A hormone called growth/differenti- Their study, which has not yet been Wisconsin-Madison, told New Scien-
ation factor 15, or GDF15, has been sin- peer-reviewed, also found that women tist: “The work . . . has provided compel-
gled out as a potential culprit by a num- who have higher levels of GDF15 in ling evidence that GDF15 may be linked
ber of studies. It was first discovered in their blood before becoming pregnant to hyperemesis gravidarum. Based on
the late 1990s and was found in 2017 to are less likely to suffer from severe sick- this, I am interested to see the develop-
cause nausea and vomiting when ness after conception, suggesting that ment of therapeutics.”

Surgeons no longer oppose assisted dying

Kat Lay Health Editor council has now voted to move to a neu- quiry — as “prescribing life-ending
tral position, matching the British Med- drugs for terminally ill, mentally com-
The Royal College of Surgeons of En- ical Association, Royal College of Phy- petent adults to administer themselves
gland is the latest medical body to drop sicians and Royal College of Nursing. after meeting strict legal safeguards”.
opposition to assisted dying. The poll, completed by 19 per cent of Some 59 per cent of respondents said
A poll of its members found 72 per the college’s membership of almost that, regardless of their own view on
cent thought it should no longer oppose 30,000, defined assisted dying — into legal changes, doctors should be in-
the practice, with 52 per cent supportive which the health and social care select volved in confirming a patient met the Later . . . Rod Stewart loosens his tie and shirt as he relaxes with his friend Jools
of changing the law. The college’s committee is currently holding an in- eligibility criteria. Holland after the pair enjoyed a night out at Loulou’s club in Mayfair, London
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‘I was a confident free spirit — but

abusive marriage battered my soul’ NEALE HAYNES FOR THE TIMES (PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE COURTHOUSE HOTEL , LONDON)

The Repair Shop expert bour, boasting about filling it with post-
ers of naked women. When his wife left
Suzie Fletcher has the room in disgust, Rob, a former com-
petitive wrestler, followed her and
complex feelings about grabbed her by the throat with such
force, he lifted her off her feet.
her late husband, she “I weighed very little and clearly my
health was in a very poor state. So when
tells Lucy Bannerman he picked me up with that move, I just
thought, ‘this is it. I’m really in trouble.’
Fans of The Repair Shop will remember “That’s when I knew what this person
the moment when the leather expert, was capable of.”
Suzie Fletcher, rolled back the saddle of When he trashed her workshop on
a rocking horse to find the handwriting another occasion, she called the police,
of a much-missed husband and burst but was told: “If we come up there, one
into tears. She too, she revealed, had of you is going to jail.” She feared the
lost her husband to cancer. consequences when he came out.
“I suspect that most viewers thought Leaving an abusive relationship can
all my tears were for my husband. They be even more dangerous than staying.
were, but it’s much more complicated,” According to Women’s Aid, 55 per cent
she says in her new memoir, in which of women killed by their ex-partner
she speaks for the first time about the died within the first month of separa-
coercive, controlling man who would tion; 87 per cent in the first year.
eventually threaten to kill her. Twice, she nearly left. “But of course,
Fletcher, in her early 60s, has become he talked me round and the honey-
a star on the BBC programme, using her moon would begin again.”
40 years of experience as a saddle Rob’s most chilling threat came “out
maker to fix battered heirlooms. of the blue.” She was never quite sure
What is less well known is that she what she would return home to on Sat-
joined the programme as she was urdays after her saddle fittings, as he
repairing her own life, after an abusive had often spent the day drinking.
18-year marriage which “had battered “I just said hello, and he uttered those
my self-confidence and my soul”. words — ‘I’ve worked out how to have
Born in Oxfordshire, Fletcher you killed. And I will get away with it.’ It
trained as a master saddler and went on just stopped me in my tracks.”
to work with the harness maker to the She didn’t believe him when he apol-
late Queen. ogised, but went along with it; she was
By the time she arrived in Boulder, afraid what he would do if she didn’t.
Colorado, in her mid-30s, she had Then the love-bombing would start
travelled widely, been married once again and eventually they were back
and was “a free spirit, full of confidence enjoying the great outdoors and rides
thanks to a wonderful skill [in leather- on their Harley Davidson motorbikes.
making] that I could take anywhere in As the years went on, Rob’s violent
the world”. outbursts became less frequent. “I
She had been living in the US for really felt that we were on a path to him
three weeks when she first saw Rob. He learning how to manage the anger.”
was her Marlboro Man fantasy, a swag- When Rob was diagnosed with ad-
gering, hard worker with a blond mous- vanced pancreatic cancer in 2013, did
tache, in shorts and a cut-off white she feel even the slightest relief? She
T-shirt. Her face still lights up at the shuts down the question, firmly. “No.
memory of their first meeting. I’ve lost too many people to cancer. I felt
“Talk about handsome,” she smiles. it was so unjust.”
“He took me out that evening and we As the cancer advanced, his remorse
really hit it off.” grew. “If he asked me to draw him a
The first warning sign came on the Suzie Fletcher joined The Repair Shop team, with the “wise” Jay Blades, below, while she was piecing herself back together bath, that was when he wanted to talk to
second date. “He came to pick me up me and tackle those difficult subjects.
after work and I saw a very tired, very good role model. One of the strong sion from women. When I look back at “Knowing how volatile things can get, He knew he had been out of order, and
fed-up and really quite grouchy man, bonds that we had as a couple was that the undermining tactics that he used, it the fact that you know there’s a firearm that was actually one of the saddest
on his third or fourth beer.” we cared about the fragility of the plan- was all based on his own insecurities.” close by is always in the back of your things, listening to his apologies in his
He sped through a junction, ignoring et and we worked blimmin’ hard.” By the time they bought a homestead mind.” hour of need.” In the weeks before his
the stop sign. “There was a sign from the They both dreamed of owning a farm on the crossroads of a dirt track on During one fight, Rob threatened to death, he told her, “I hope it wasn’t all
heavens,” she says, rolling her eyes. She farm. “It was a combined dream.” the Eastern Plains, one of the most shoot their dog. Well-intentioned in- bad.” She insists it was not.
started making escape plans, readying Three months after meeting, sparsely populated areas of the terventions made things worse. Does she miss him? “I miss the per-
herself to jump out at the next opportu- Fletcher walked into the government US, “I was well and truly cor- If anyone dared to confront son that was so lovely and so funny and
nity and “say ‘adios amigo’.” office in downtown Boulder, intending ralled off”. Her weight plum- his behaviour or defend her in that strong bond that we held.” But that
Sensing he had overstepped the to sort out some visa admin and meted to seven and a half public, “he would apologise until other person, the wounded bear, she
mark, Rob put on a charm offensive and stepped out married. “He very quickly stone. She “could tell by the way they were gone, and then it would doesn’t miss him? “No. I fell in love with
they ended up having “another great manoeuvred me into going there,” she he walked in the door” what all kick off”. this person who was sadly damaged.”
date”. said, recalling how the official outlined strategies she needed to adopt to Today, Fletcher radiates calm, She moved back to Britain in 2017
The first glimpse of his controlling her various options, adding “or you can contain the rage. her voice still tinged with an and joined The Repair Shop team, which
nature came when he arrived to pick get married now”. “He used to say to me, American cadence already included her brother, Steve, a
her up in a new truck. He insisted on “The piece of paper was in front of me ‘don’t poke the bear’. from two decades in clock expert. It was “the beginning of
having covers on the seats. and Rob goes, ‘sign there’.” She did. He set a lot of the the States. She comes my own restoration”.
“I had to be careful how I sat and I “There were eyebrows raised at home, rules and I learnt back often to the She thanked Jay Blades, her co-star,
couldn’t leave any marks. I was terrified but I was swept up in the emotion.” how to manage word “confused”. for his “kind words and wise logic” in
of even breathing on them the wrong Much later, she would go through the those rules. “It was so confus- encouraging her to share her story. He,
way. He drove around that weekend, Women’s Aid questionnaire, asking “I wasn’t allowed ing because there too, found fame on the show after over-
showing off his brand new truck and whether you are in an abusive relation- to leave the house were also so many coming adversity.
the new woman in his life.” ship “and I think I ticked every box — ever — if he was great moments in She says she is at peace with her past.
The relationship moved fast. “He had but one”. having a bad time. If our time together. “I look back and think I’m made of
some wonderful attributes: very charis- He demeaned her in public. He tried we had had an argu- But he had this tough stuff. Or grit, as they call it.
matic, strong and hard-working.” to turn her against her family and ment, [the rule was] demon inside him, “I keep reminding myself that I have
Neither wanted children and al- friends, saying “they didn’t have my the argument stays this inner rage. It was had quite a lively life. I’m still positive,
though Rob had had a difficult child- best interests at heart”, and isolated her within the property.” a life of extremes from I’m still healthy and I’m looking for-
hood and had been married twice further from loved ones who were This being Colorado, one day to the next.” ward to the next 40 years, working and
before, “he was cleaning up his act and already 4,000 miles away. He con- there were firearms in the Two or three years in- writing, laughing and dancing.”
really wanted to straighten out his life. trolled what she wore — “shorts were house. Fletcher’s father- to their marriage, he The Sun Over The Mountains: A Story
Even though I saw flashes of this darker banned” — and accused her of flirting. in-law had taught her was showing off his Of Hope, Healing And Restoration by
side, I thought, well, maybe I could be a “He expected a great deal of submis- how to handle a gun. “man cave” to a neigh- Suzie Fletcher, is published by Radar
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Citizen mutiny across Europe

raises doubts about net zero
Weekend essay
Pages 30-31
Comment
Wrong ’un Boris a product of modern Britain
It would be characteristically cowardly of Tory MPs to abstain from censuring ex-PM — they must kill him off for good
ALAMY
vessel — and now wail that we were But hardly a single one of those are parliamentary colleagues. Love
Matthew landed with a wrong ’un. egging me on had themselves gone Sir Michael as I genuinely do, the
Parris Landed? By whom? Ourselves. He on record with their own low sight of Michael Fabricant MP
was the product of 21st-century opinion of the man. A couple of defending Johnson on TV is a tell-tale
Britain’s state of mind. Splashing them were to back him, later, for the of dwindling support. Maybe a dozen
around at the shallow end of politics, leadership. Since then I have learnt from among some 350 really support
we prized performance over something about the world. But still him (though you wouldn’t think it

H
ave you seen the film Being substance. Dazzled by celebrity, we I’ve watched with disbelief as those from the BBC’s unsteady news
There? This classic 1979 looked for a mascot rather than a who fell for Johnson the first time judgment that “both sides” should
satire stars Peter Sellers as commanding officer. Moreover — round have duly fallen for him the have equal time). But why make an
Chance, a gardener with and this adds to our culpability — we second time too, and the third and enemy of any colleague when, by
learning difficulties — but always knew he was no good. Never fourth. Is it just, as I’ve suggested, abstaining, you don’t have to?
mistaken for a savant because his will I forget the first time I blurted our era’s fascination with stardust
pronouncements make no obvious
sense so are thought to be profound.
out the truth more than seven years
ago in a Times column (March 26,
and glitter? Our infantile
preoccupation (and here I include
Stick the knife in and
He catches the ear of the US
president. “Chauncey Gardiner”
2016) whose headline and strapline
our sub-editor got exactly right:
my own trade) with exhibition,
“messaging”, “communicating” and
relieve us all of having
becomes a national celebrity and
White House adviser, and is himself
“Tories have got to end their affair
with Boris — Charm can make us
entertaining — to the exclusion of
sheer bloody competence in public
to think of him again
being lined up for the presidency as, forget the dishonesty and administration? In fact, I think there Thus could silence win a majority
in the final scene, he wanders off and recklessness that would be ruthlessly is something more, something that among Commons Tories, allowing
walks across the surface of a lake. exposed if he became leader”. I’ll seems temporarily to have disturbed Johnson to remind us later that most
“Life,” we hear quoted at the end, “is quote a paragraph about the “abyss” the balance of the Tory mind, tilting Conservatives did not support their
a state of mind.” I said we faced; and make no apology it in his favour: Brexit Derangement own colleagues on the privileges
Who are the idiots in this story? for an I-told-you-so because I did tell Syndrome. Ambushed by zealotry, Peter Sellers plays a simpleton who is committee. Rishi Sunak, were his
Chauncey? No. He is the product of you so. the party forgot balance sheets and mistaken for a savant in Being There whips to encourage colleagues to
the idiocy of others. The targets of CVs and fell for a mere cheerleader. abstain, should remember John
the satire are the world of politics
and the media, where credulous
MPs’ want of valour When, famously, Johnson wrote
two draft newspaper columns, one in
supported conclusions. But some
Tory MPs, though they would not
Clare’s To a Fallen Elm: “Thou’st
sheltered hypocrites in many a
creeps and courtiers either couldn’t
believe the evidence of their senses
let this shoddy joker favour of Leave and the other in
favour of Remain, to help him (he
disagree, will abstain. Why?
Since I would not like to use this
shower/That when in power would
never shelter thee.” I’ve often enough
or didn’t dare say out loud that the
emperor had no clothes. Of obvious
into Downing Street said) make up his own mind which
argument was most persuasive, there
word of named individuals, I will use
it now, before anyone (including,
quoted Margaret Thatcher on this
subject. When hunting a crocodile
inadequates the world has an “The abyss is Mr Johnson’s public was something he omitted from both perhaps, they themselves) can know (she told the late Ian Gow) and the
unlimited supply. When one of them and private record. We don’t seem to columns: the real reason he chose who these MPs are. They are creature has been driven onto a
is raised up and by public acclamation see it, yet it stares at us from Leave. Which would best assist a cowards, and examples of what sandbank, you don’t help it back into
placed in authority over us, should yellowing newspaper print, from an Johnson leadership bid? The answer carried this shoddy joker into deeper water. “You stick the knife in.”
we blame the clown? No, we should insuppressible internet, from the was incontestable. Help Cameron Downing Street in the first place: an Stick it in, then. Relieve the British
blame those who carried him aloft. public record, from judicial statements, and Osborne win their referendum excess of discretion and a want of people, and relieve your columnist,
Any pub, any workplace, may have from colleagues’ judgments, from and entrench their own leadership? valour. of ever having to think about this
a ludicrous if engaging loudmouth, everything we know or ought to know Or knock them from their perches? They will have their reasons, of political bubble again. Boris was a
but he isn’t made prime minister. So, but have been persuaded, such is his You know the answer. So did he. If course. Maybe a handful of activists state of mind. End it.
in an important sense, Boris is charm, to brush aside and forget.” Leave won and he’d led the on their local Conservative
innocent. The culprits are those who The response to that column from campaign, he’d be king. If Remain association are residual Johnson fans
(variously) chose him to lead the friends in politics and journalism won and he’d supported it, Cameron — why antagonise them? Probably a red box
Conservative Party, voted in a should have taught me I was wrong would be the star. few thousand among their For the best analysis
general election to put him in in expecting Johnson’s early Next week the Commons will vote constituents still admire him — why
Downing Street, carried on downfall. By email, verbally and by on the privileges committee report. upset a fervent minority when the
and commentary on
supporting him in the face of every text message I was deluged with The House will overwhelmingly majority (with little time for Johnson) the political landscape
indication that he was an empty congratulation and encouragement. endorse the committee’s powerfully will hardly notice? And then there thetimes.co.uk/redbox

Ann Treneman Notebook

of pink meerkats. There was a fee to
It was rosy on postcard. And then, early one
morning, my friend looked out into
Rich and tacky walk in the park and they charged a
looked down from the parliamentary
press gallery as she gave her diligent

I
the garden and saw the round s there any place more euro for the loo. Everything looked and worthy speeches. She was dull to

the Riviera, and hairy rear end of a . . . well,

of what exactly? Was it a very
large dog?
disappointing than
Portofino? We felt we
had to visit this
tacky and expensive. It was rammed
with people, loitering without intent.
In a place where the “have yachts”
the point of ditchwater, her delivery
as dry as toast. How I wished, hoped,
prayed she would somehow become

until a beast It turned around. It was most

definitely a boar. Photos were
taken. The boar headed
legendarily charming
fishing village-turned-
hangout for the rich
meet the “have nots”, I’m happy to be
the latter. Escape!
Elizabeth I and wipe the floor with
everyone. Only once, after Thatcher
died, did she let rip. Then it was back
Three felt wrong
appeared towards the window and, er, richer. And, to boring. She left politics in 2015 and

I
(alarums) but then approaching from the t was something of a gamble going a little later so did I. We met again in
turned and trotted sea, it does look on this holiday. Every year Ian and the theatre. She played Lear and was

T
here are some things that down the garden delightful, its natural I went somewhere with these old fearlessly brilliant, her large, raw red
you can’t anticipate stairs, as if this was harbour ringed with friends of mine but this year, of hands spread out in front of her as
because it never occurred the kind of thing multi-coloured course, we would total only three, she ranted and raged, and was spell-
to you they might be boars did all the houses, small cafés and not four. It was strange at times, the binding in Edward Albee’s Three Tall
possible. So last week there time. We soon shops. But I felt like an empty chair often a bit too visible, Women in New York. What a gift she
we were, my friends and I, in a discovered that alien the moment we but it was comforting for the rhythm had but, when it came to politics, she
wonderful house in the hills above wild boars are, disembarked. There were no of life to continue. We thought of left the orations to others.
Rapallo on the Italian Riviera. A in parts of real shops, only luxury him often and, back in London,
little beach, frequented almost Italy, what boutiques offering placed pebbles from the Italian beach All aboard

O
exclusively by Italians (the “almost” foxes are unlikely items such as on his grave so he could be there too. verheard on Radio 4 this
was me), was just down the hill. to London or coyotes to stiletto boots. An week, in reference to a couple
Portofino was a short boat ride away. San Francisco. They have outlandishly bad Magnificent Glenda featured in a novel: “They

I
The yachts were mega, the sea even been seen having sculpture park “reviewed” Glenda Jackson, who found themselves in a situation-ship,
crystal clear, the weather hot but not beach shindigs in Genoa. featured a rhino died this week aged 87, in two as we say now.” Do we say that now?
too hot. Yes, we were living in a Yikes. dangling
d from a crane and a line settings. For more than a decade I This is news to me.
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I say, Darbishire, why are you wearing a dress?

At Linbury Court prep school progressive issues are all the rage but Jennings is having fearful trouble with pronouns
be any gender we wanted to be, and say you’ll jolly well grass her up to There aren’t any statues of Cecil
Giles that seeing as boys are such mouldy Stonewall and she’ll dig out a packet Rhodes or Francis Drake round here,
Coren fish, we should all jolly well change of the good stuff quicker than billy-o!” so Pemberton-Oakes must fall.”
our pronouns immediately.” “Lobsterous squared! And she’s “Pemberton-Oakes must fall!”
“What’s a pronoun?” said Jennings, sworn to secrecy?” chorused the boys. “Pemberton-
who found grammar a bore. “Is it the “Utterly sworn.” Oakes must fall!”
same as a porpoise?” “Lobsterous cubed!” Just then, Old Wilkie, the angriest

K
atharine Birbalsingh, the “Don’t be daft, Jennings,” said Just then Bromwich Major appeared beak at Linbury Court, arrived.
outspoken head teacher of Darbishire. “We did them in English. with a hacksaw and a length of rope. “Jennings!” he roared. “What is
Michaela Community A pronoun is an arbitrary imposition “I say, you chaps, who’s coming to going on here?”
School in Wembley and of the heteronormative patriarchy the memorial garden with me to pull Jennings said nothing.
former social mobility designed to delegitimise gender down the statue of Mr Pemberton- “Jennings!”
commissioner, has told an education fluidity and suppress the proletariat Oakes, the old Archbeako?” “I shan’t say a word to you, Sir,” said
conference that private schools are by the criminalisation of sexual self- “Not me,” said Atkinson, who was Jennings, sniffing an opportunity,
“too caught up with social justice expression. In short, it’s an ozard swiz. still upset about losing at conkers. “until you stop deadnaming me. I am
problems when they should be My pronouns are ‘she/her’, and you “I’ve got to go to the art room and transitioning to, um, non-binary
focusing on traditional teaching” and have to respect them or I’ll jolly well throw orange powder at the fourth- genderqueer, like we learnt in biology.”
that “their obsession with progressive tell on you to the headma — sorry, form sculpture project for my Just “Oh, I’m sorry Jennings,” said Old
issues is having a damaging effect on gender-non-specific Archbeako!” Stop Oil prep.” Wilkie. “It’s unlike you to pay
state schools, who feel compelled to “I’ll tell you what’s an ozard swiz,” “Not me,” said Darbishire. “I’ve got attention in class. What is your name
follow suit”. Sounds to me like said Jennings. “Being made to go to a to go and write to my MP to protest now, dear boy?”
Birbalsingh has been reading too boys’ school when you’re actually a about not being allowed to use the “I’m not a boy, sir. I’m a non-boy,”
many Jennings books, those girl. What were your parents The beaks know better than to involve girls’ loos.” said Jennings. “Like a non-man, only
marvellously progressive prep-school thinking?” parents in pupils’ plans to transition “But there aren’t any girls’ loos,” smaller. But as we only use surnames
novels of the 1950s and 1960s by the “They don’t know I’m a girl yet,” said Jennings. here, I suppose my name is still
late Anthony Buckeridge . . . said Darbishire. “Old Carter wasn’t make a frantic bish of our Latin prep, “Exactly,” said Darbishire. “It’s a Jennings. Which is an ozard swiz. Now,
allowed to tell them that I’m or if we fox into town on the number mouldy chizz.” if you’ll kindly step aside, Wilkie . . . ”
It was a drizzly games afternoon at 7 bus for half a pound of gobstoppers, “I’ll come,” squeaked Bromwich “You mean, ‘Sir’.”
Linbury Court preparatory school
and JCT Jennings was up at the
‘Ugh, Jennings,’ said so they can jolly well tell them if
we’re changing our name to Maureen
Minor, arriving late on his bicycle. “I
got caught up in the third form’s
“No I don’t. Mr Carter says ‘Sir’
and ‘Miss’ are relics of more servile
cricket nets modelling systems for
defunding the police with a shoebox
Bromwich Major. ‘You’re or Hildebrand or something.”
Darbishire sighed patiently. “When
Extinction Rebellion protest. Down
wiv cars!”
times and are being phased out in all
good private schools. So, if you will
full of newts when a ten-year-old
blond child looking remarkably like
such a centrist dad’ a ten-year-old boy chooses to
embark on a course of puberty-
“Why are you pulling Pemberton-
Oakes down?” said Jennings. “He
kindly step aside, I am off to the bus
stop to fox into town and pick up
his best friend, Charles Edwin transitioning, on account of the rules.” blocking drugs,” he said, “it is wasn’t such a bad old cove.” half a pound of gobstoppers.”
Jeremy Darbishire, emerged from “What rules?” considered a private matter between “Ugh, Jennings,” said Bromwich “Whaaaaaaaat?” cried Old Wilkie.
the pavilion wearing something that “The ones where they can’t tell our him and the school.” Major. “You’re such a centrist dad. All “Your parents will hear of this!”
definitely wasn’t his school uniform. pater if we decide we’re one of the “Lobsterous!” said Venables, who statues are racist imperial throwbacks “No they won’t, Sir, because I’ve
“I say, Darbishire,” said Jennings. other 57 genders.” had just beaten Atkinson at conkers that celebrate white supremacy.” made an appointment to drop in on
“Why are you wearing a dress?” “Fifty-seven genders? Fossilised and thought transitioning sounded “Old Carter will throw you back to Mermaids UK for a chat about
“Because I’m a girl now, Jennings. fishhooks!” said Jennings. “I can like a fun thing to do with the rest of imperial times when he finds out!” gender reassignment on the way, and
Obviously.” hardly count to 57! If they try and the afternoon. “Where do you get said Jennings. that, as we all know . . . ”
“Eh? No you’re not, you rotten ask me what the square root of it is, these drugs?” “It was Old Carter’s idea, actually,” “ . . . is a private matter between
fibber.” there’ll be an ozard hoo-ha. And what “From Matron, actually,” said said Bromwich Major. “It’s our you and the school,” said Mr Wilkins
“Yes, I am. We did it in biology, do you mean they can’t tell our pater Darbishire. “She’ll try and fob you off history prep: find a statue of an old with an exhausted sigh. “You win
remember? Old Carter said we could and mater? They can tell them if we with a spoonful of cod liver oil but just white bastard and pull it down. again, Jennings!”

Jonathan Tulloch Nature Notebook

How herring sudden, serious illness can be as
challenging mentally as it is
physically. I felt like a fox caught in a
resemble flat shores. Perhaps this
pair had chicks in a nearby arable
field, on top of a warehouse, or even
roared with chlorophyll. The lone
cherry tree and each hawthorn
billowed with blossom, fragrance and

gulls helped gin trap by the back paw.

Once out of immediate danger,
however, and the pain controlled
on the hospital roof above me.
Let dandelions roar
bees. Clouds of insects swayed over
the chin-high wash of Queen Anne’s
lace. I wasn’t the only one on

me towards (thank you, Friarage hospital), I

became aware of something gently,
persistently caressing my cheek. A B
ack home again, and free to
walk in the garden. The sun on
my face, and the soft rain too,
the mend.
Twenty years ago, when I began
planting here, there was nothing but
good health spring breeze. Somehow, I’d got
a bed by an openable
window. Through this
slowly washed away the hospital
ward’s acrid stillness. Building up
strength, I was soon walking up the
a straight path through green wheat.
Now, biodiversity was flourishing.
Halfway along the bridleway, I heard

A
few weeks ago, I walked window came the cul-de-sac and, though stooping like a whitethroat. Hidden in a hawthorn,
into the urgent treatment rollicking calls of an old man, I felt 21 again. it suddenly rose above me. For a
centre at Friarage herring gulls and as It was here that I found the jewel. moment its throat, white as the May
Hospital and ended up soon as I could sit up, I A dandelion grew from a kerb. It blossom, showed brightly; then, still
staying for three nights. spent hours watching seemed almost impossibly beautiful The UK has more than 250 species of singing, it returned to its perch. It
I’d been planning to go badger- them zip and scoot past to my aching eyes. And what hope it dandelion. Left, an oystercatcher was nesting somewhere near by in a
watching that evening but instead the window on angled offered. So much energy is spent snarl of brambles.
of sitting under my blue-grey wings. As I trying to eradicate this I was swimming. Bluebells We’ve long known that nature is
favourite sycamore, watched, I told misunderstood plant, yet here it was shimmered under the trees like a good for physical and mental health.
peering at the sett myself that glowing with unquenchable life — pond and the oaks seemed as massive Studies show that a view of trees
waiting for the clan we were on a dent-de-lion (lion’s tooth) indeed! as mahogany trees in a rainforest. from a hospital ward helps surgical
to emerge, I found ship and the gulls were Do what you will, you can’t patients recover more quickly and
myself staring at the escorting us as we sailed suppress the dandelion. We should The best medicine use less pain relief. In Japan, doctors

A
unlovely towards health. be cherishing them. They not only t last, after a convalescence can prescribe patients with a few
arrangement of a hospital ward. Herring gulls might not feed pollen beetles, hoverflies, bees, spent reading Laurie Lee in days in a “healing forest”. As for me,
Rather than an invigorating have been a surprise but I butterflies, goldfinches, sparrows and the back garden and following I have found healing in the birds, the
post-badgerwatch cycle ride was astonished by the bullfinches but are extraordinarily the progress of a common carder bee flowers and the trees. This is a
home under silent stars, I was regular peep of an diverse, with more than 250 nest in the unmown lawn, I was medicine with only good side-effects.
drenched in the glare of bleeping oystercatcher pair passing dandelion species in the UK. ready to wander alone again. I began
intravenous pump lights. And and repassing over the As the month of May deepened, by visiting the mile of trees I’ve Jonathan Tulloch’s children’s novel
when morning finally arrived, it hospital. Incredibly adaptable, and with it my recovery, it was time planted along a bridleway. The Cuckoo Summer was nominated for the
wasn’t brought to me by the dawn oystercatchers no longer nest to go further. I’ll never forget walking farmer left his margins uncut last 2023 Carnegie Medal
chorus drifting through our open only on beaches but in the woods with my wife for the autumn and after a wet spring I was
bedroom window but on the trundle increasingly breed inland, first time since my illness. The air greeted by a tsunami of white and
of the 6am medication trolley. A choosing nesting sites that was so clear and fresh that it felt like green. My alders, willows and maples @jonathantulloch
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A thousand little acts can help save nature

Humans have extracted so much from the natural world that it’s dying, but it’s not too late to change our habits
is deadening underneath our feet. entomologist who surveyed the Make space for nature wherever construction: how do we compensate
Jenni Take insects, a life-form I have insect research concludes we are possible. Wildlife needs water and nature? Not as an afterthought but a
Russell rarely thought of except as threat or witnessing the largest extinction wild spaces, and Britain’s ponds have necessity. Add bee bricks and space
irritation, best destroyed — event on Earth in 250 million years. largely disappeared. Small patches of for swifts and swallows in new
mosquitoes, aphids, wood lice, flies. Professor Dave Goulson, one of wildflowers double the numbers of buildings, plant hedges not fences,
As a child in the country I loathed Britain’s leading biologists, describes bees and butterflies in two years. In create green corridors for wildlife.
cycling through the unavoidable this as “ecological Armageddon”. He schools and gardens, plant for Dig rain gardens in old and new sites
clouds of summer gnats, swallowing has warned: “If we lose the insects, pollinators. Thrill children with the to absorb water runoff. Ban the
@jennirsl and choking on them. I wished then everything is going to collapse.” glory of nature. Put in bird baths and paving of gardens for parking. Make
savagely for them to disappear. I write this both because it’s new mini ponds; they can be dish-sized permeable paving the new norm.

N
ature is in crisis. Soils are And now they all but have. Along and profoundly alarming to me and and be effective. Lever up some Create a pocket park in a parking
being depleted faster than with vast numbers of other tiny because it frames the vital importance paving stones to plant the soil below. space in every street. Plant trees.
they can regenerate, crawling, burrowing, airborne things. of how we should respond. Our green Pile dead wood to rot for insects and Make Plantlife’s campaigns, No
wildlife populations have It is a phenomenon that scientists and pleasant land is one of the world’s hedgehogs. Even flat-dwellers can Mow May and Let it Bloom June,
crashed by two thirds in have only just begun to measure and most nature-depleted countries, in the plant window boxes and add tiny official policy. Mowing verges, lawns
50 years, bird species are vanishing, a understand, much less visible than water bowls. and parks in late spring kills wild
quarter of all plant and animal
species are dying out and their rate
the disappearance of rhinos or swifts,
but a catastrophe because insects Treat Britain’s verges Ban plastic grass everywhere but
sports grounds, and then only with
flowering plants and the insects,
birds, voles, lizards and shrews
of disappearance is accelerating. We
are living through the sixth mass
form two thirds of life on Earth and
are the basis of it. They pollinate
as the phenomenal planning permission; it is a death
carpet, polluting for ever. Ban all
depending on them. This year far too
many have been stupidly razed by
extinction in the planet’s history. For
the first time we are the cause.
three quarters of all plants, consume
dead creatures and vegetation, and
nature reserve they are pesticides in private and public spaces,
as France has done. Using them is
bureaucrats blind to this crisis, from
the Environment Agency on the
It’s not a distant threat but an are the prey on which so many birds, bottom 10 per cent. This is largely a unforgivable, knowing what we do river in Bridport to the Highways
immediate one. We have had our free fish and animals depend. manmade crisis, of habitat loss, now. Campaign to reform or minimise Agency, found by gardener Joel
lunch building, poisoning, extracting, Six years ago shocked German pesticides, pollution and climate. agricultural pesticides. They are Ashton to have destroyed some 20
dredging, harvesting, rapaciously entomologists reported that in 27 Humankind can start to redress it killing life on land, river and sea. miles of flowers along the A1. Treat
demanding all the natural world can years the number of flying insects but only if we treat nature not as, Green everything. Hamburg in Britain’s verges not as an extension
offer us. We are treating the planet’s had fallen by three quarters. Now variously, an idly pretty thing, a vexing Germany aims to install green roofs of roads but as the phenomenal
life as an infinitely exploitable, scientists conclude that insect obstacle or an infinite treasure chest on two thirds of suitable buildings. natural reserve they are, much richer
adaptable resource. It isn’t. We are numbers worldwide are tumbling by but as a precious asset to be nurtured. They cut pollution and noise, insulate in wildlife than the farmland around
killing the web of growing things on 2.5 per cent a year, disappearing From now on, if we are to build and cool down. Insist all offices, and them, and totalling the size of the
which our own survival depends. eight times faster than vertebrates. If and grow, we have simultaneously to retailers in out-of-town stores such as Lake District national park.
If awe, wonder, respect and joy can’t this continues, 40 per cent will be prioritise how to replenish what we Sainsbury’s, Ikea and B&Q, turn We can take up the beauty and
drive us to do things differently, sheer gone within decades. Experts such as remove. This shift will have to be green rhetoric into reality, with excitement of this challenge. Or we
selfishness should. The world we take those at the Royal Society and the driven by governments if it is to take plantable sedum roofs, climbers on can close our eyes and let life as we
for granted, of trees, flowers, birdsong Natural History Museum (NHM) off, but all of us must start where we walls, and hedges, trees, flowerbeds know it die.
and fertile soil, may look reassuringly fear they are ringing a warning bell can, now. The NHM’s slogan is: small and water fountains in car parks.
unchanged to us. That’s an illusion. It that isn’t being heard. The Australian actions make a big difference. Make the first question for all Janice Turner is away
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Johnson and the ghost of the 1974 elections Degrees of success

Sir, Emma Duncan’s article (Jun 16)
Sir, The comparison of Boris Johnson the same way as Boris Johnson has Sir, Allies of Boris Johnson have welcoming the decline in humanities
with Donald Trump is facile, except done, then the judge would probably warned Tory MPs that they might be degrees overlooks the importance of
for the language about a witch-hunt. call that person into court for deselected by their local parties at the transferable skills. Many of my former
No one has ever accused Johnson of contempt of court. Assuming that the next general election if they support students who read for a degree in
being a crook, despite his casual report of the privileges committee is the findings of the privileges music have gone on to become
relationship with the truth. A closer approved on Monday, should not committee on Monday. A more successful lawyers, medical doctors,
comparison would be with Enoch Johnson then be called to the Bar of democratic outcome would be for educators and entrepreneurs across a
Failing care system Powell and the defeat of the Heath the House of Commons for a rebuke members of the public to deselect wide range of activities. It is gratifying
government in February 1974, and from the Speaker? This may be the MPs who oppose the motion by not to hear from them when they return
Sir, James Kirkup’s conclusion in his Ted Heath’s subsequent humiliation in only way to restore the dignity and voting for them at the next election. at a later stage how the intellectual
article (Jun 16) on the failure of the the October election; Powell had authority of parliament and Jeremy Streeten discipline and critical acumen
care system, that “there’s only one urged people to vote for Labour as it encourage other MPs to be more Tonbridge, Kent acquired through three years’ rigorous
sensible place to look for funding and had made a manifesto pledge to honest in future. study of the arts at undergraduate
that’s housing”, is all very well when renegotiate the Treaty of Brussels. Edward Walsh Sir, The recommendation that Boris level proved crucial in equipping them
that housing is unoccupied on the Rishi Sunak can either go down in Dyrham, Wilts Johnson be sent to lonely exile on for their later careers.
death of those who have received the by-election defeat and humiliation Rockall (letter, Jun 16) is pre-empted Dr Roger Allen
care. It was once a reasonable when the general election comes or Sir, In June 1963 Jack Profumo was by its present occupant, the Emeritus fellow in music (fellow and
assumption that children would have seize the bull by the horns and call a removed from the privy council for adventurer “Cam” Cameron (“Rockall tutor in music 2001-18), St Peter’s
long flown the nest by this time, and snap election for July 20 or 27 on the giving a false statement to greets Chris Cameron with wind, mist College, Oxford
have homes of their own. However, theme that he is going to govern on parliament. Exactly 60 years later and gusto”, Jun 11), who is trying to
many people like us have adult his terms without sabotage from his Boris Johnson should suffer the same break the world record for the longest Sir, Emma Duncan says the decline of
children living at home whose plans party within or the unions outside. He penalty, which would stop him calling solo stay on the barren rock. English as a subject for study at
to buy were scuppered when Liz may well lose again but live to fight himself right honourable (which he Gerald Steele university is a “healthy development”
Truss became PM, and who now have another day. If he hangs on till the last plainly is not). If some of the many Lancaster and that “literature is lovely stuff but
little realistic chance of buying a minute and loses he will be finished minions he put on the Privy Council it’s not a way to earn your bread”. In
property. Using housing to pay for for good from leading his own party. chose to resign in protest, it would Sir, The members of the privileges the same edition Kevin Deeming’s
social care in cases like these will And that is what Johnson wants. not matter in the least. This ancient committee, particularly its letter (“Bozymandias”, Jun 16) is a
result in extra local authority Joe Haines institution now has over 750 Conservative members, are to be parody of Shelley’s Ozymandias, and
expenditure on the homeless, robbing Press secretary to Harold Wilson members, some 400 more than admired for their independence and lampoons the personality and office of
Peter to pay Paul. 1969-76; Southborough, Kent 60 years ago. It could do with integrity. Might they be nominated a former prime minister. I fear that
John Orton slimming, like the House of Lords. for peerages? Mr Deeming’s literary wit would be
Portishead, Bristol Sir, If a person on trial in an ordinary Lord Lexden Alan Henderson lost on future Times readers should
court criticised the judge and jury in Conservative Party historian Hemingford Abbots, Cambs Ms Duncan’s utilitarian vision for the
future of higher education prevail.
Waters and Israel Bank of England in increasing interest
Amanda Stevens
Leamington Spa
Sir, You published two articles about Vital holiday reps rates to reduce inflation (letter, Jun Rebuilding Ukraine
Roger Waters’s recent concerts, a five- 16). Surely an increase in interest rates
star review entitled “If you ignore the Sir, Your leading article “Seasons in on loans and overdrafts will increase with Russian cash Promoting Unesco
rants, this was majestic” (Jun 2) and a the Sun” (Jun 15) was a welcome the costs of production for businesses,
piece by Martin Samuels entitled celebration of the British holiday rep. which will probably be passed on to Sir, Professor Geoffrey Ingham Sir, Richard Morrison is to be
“Roger Waters should not be I left a terrraced house in Liverpool at the consumer in higher prices. asserts, correctly, that Russian applauded for speaking up for Unesco
cancelled. Here’s why” (Times2, the age of 22, planning to work a Similarly, an increase in mortgage deposits at the Fed are liabilities of and its global promotion of education,
Jun 8). Waters’s argument that he single summer season in Spain. Ten rates will fuel demands for higher the Fed to Russia, and goes on to culture and science (“Yes, Unesco
loves Jews but abhors the State of years later I was on the board of a wages, again increasing the costs of argue, in my view incorrectly, that may be flawed, but we are better in
Israel is an age-old antisemitic tactic. major travel business, and ten years production for businesses. Both effects this puts them beyond the reach of than out”, Jun 16). In a recent
By all means, go on stage and wave a after that was chief executive of the will create inflationary pressure. seizure (“Rebuilding Ukraine”, letter, research project published by Unesco
Palestinian flag. Moreover, stand up UK’s biggest luxury travel group. Tim Chaloner Jun 16). They are in fact exactly and the Institute for Economics and
against the present Israeli Many other senior executives in the Syderstone, Norfolk analogous to the gold bars or dollar Peace, cultural dialogue within and
government — as thousands of travel industry will tell a similar story. bills with which he contrasts them: between nations was identified as one
Israelis do every week. However, In fact, almost 50 per cent of senior assets held on behalf of the owner by of the best ways of countering rising
hoisting a pig in the air with a Star of
David and the words “Anne Frank”
managers in the sector began their
careers with a season overseas.
Read my lips a depositary institution, for whom
they represent a liability.
xenophobia. Culture and science can
work powerfully in the cause of peace.
while wearing a Nazi uniform is not a Repping remains one of the best Sir, Further to your report “Experts’ Perhaps I can make the argument We need more of it.
political statement, it’s a racist one. It opportunities for social mobility; an lip service that decodes stars’ private clearer another way. If a financial Tom Woodhouse
is impossible to separate the love a opportunity that should not be denied chats” (Jun 16), years ago I used to play penalty is imposed on me by a legal Emeritus professor of peace studies
fan may have for his songs and the to this generation. snooker on Saturdays with the Labour process, the courts have the power to and international development,
symbolism he surrounds it in. The Derek Jones MP Jack Ashley, who was profoundly compel my bank to hand over money University of Bradford
medium is the message. Former CEO, Kuoni UK Group; deaf and a superb lip-reader. On one from my account. Likewise, it is open
Ryan Prince Stratford-upon-Avon occasion, after he played what I to the western governments
Leadership council member, Facing
History & Ourselves
thought a fortunate shot, I muttered
wordlessly to myself. From the other
concerned to pass laws confiscating
without compensation Russian assets
German train travel
Rising interest rate end of the table, Jack said: “In the first
place, Ian, that was not lucky — and,
held within their respective
jurisdictions, and to compel the banks
Sir, Regarding Helen Rumbelow’s
Notebook (Jun 15) on the German rail
Abortion verdict Sir, Having studied and taught
economics for 50 years I am
in the second, I’ll have you know my
parents were married.”
holding those assets to transfer them
to new ownership.
system, my wife and I travelled to
Copenhagen via Brussels, Cologne
Sir, Regarding Melanie McDonagh’s increasingly perplexed by the Ian Jones Gareth Howlett and Hamburg. All the German trains
Thunderer (“Abortion outrage hides seemingly automatic reaction of the Lingfield, Surrey Edinburgh were late by 20 to 45 minutes. We
fact this was a prenatal killing”, Jun 16), were told by a passenger that
my son, who is now a healthy 26-year- compensation would be paid only if
old, was born eight weeks premature.
The child in this case was aborted at A LIVING suggest, or in some other position, are
details which may safely be left to the
relatives of the fallen, which were lit
by the Prince of Wales last
the delay was more than an hour. We
had to make connections so it was all
that juncture. If the child had been
born and the mother then poisoned it LIGHT AFTER First Commissioner of Works, who
has a consultative committee on war
December at the Guildhall. The
symbolism of a perpetual light or
very stressful, and matters were not
helped by the subsequent four-hour
she would have been prosecuted for
murder. It is right that she has been DARKNESS memorials composed of architects,
sculptors, and other persons of taste.
fire is not confined to Christianity,
but is found in the religions of
journey on a Danish train on which
no seats were available. German staff
given a custodial sentence. Careful trial and experiment would ancient Greece and Rome, as well as on the train were unhelpful but the
J Wragg discover the best way of realising the in other faiths. It expresses an staff changed at the border and
Fleet, Hants from the times june 17, 1923 idea. Subject to that condition, we feel instinctive aspiration of mankind Danish staff did help to free seats that
that this conception of a perpetual that the beloved dead should enjoy were blocked with luggage.
The proposal, made by several light which “would through dusk and light in place of the darkness which Paul Grover
Corrections and members of Parliament in The darkness bear its message of enduring held such terrors for humanity in Exning, Suffolk
clarifications Times of Saturday, that a light memory towards the skies” would the childhood of the world. It would
shining upwards and never to be accord nobly with the stark dignity of seem, therefore, that a perpetual
extinguished should be added to the
Cenotaph is one to capture the
the Cenotaph itself. It would recall
those beautiful Lanterns of the Dead
light on the Cenotaph would most
fittingly complete the symbolism of
Model application
The Times takes
complaints imagination. There is reason to still to be found in burial-grounds in that august memorial. The decision Sir, My wife, Kari-Ann, who is
about editorial believe that if the idea commends France, dating back to the 11th and must rest with the general public Norwegian, has lived in the UK for 74
content seriously. We are committed to itself to the public generally, as we 12th centuries. Their light was a here and in the Dominions, that is, years but is now being asked to apply
abiding by the Independent Press cannot doubt that it will, the Office homage paid by the faithful to dead with kith and kin of all the glorious to the EU settlement scheme, so to
Standards Organisation (“IPSO”) rules of Works would approve and take Christians sleeping their last sleep in dead whom the Cenotaph support her application I have
and regulations and the Editors’ Code of the necessary action. The nature blessed ground. But the lanterne des commemorates, and we can hardly uploaded a picture of Roxy Music’s
Practice that IPSO enforces.
Requests for corrections or and intensity of the illuminant, and morts was probably lighted only on doubt that they would approve. 1972 debut album, Roxy Music, as she
clarifications should be sent by email to whether it should be placed within special occasions. A closer parallel is, is featured on the cover. I wonder if
feedback@thetimes.co.uk or by post to the laurel wreath at the top of the perhaps, in the little green Lamps of this is admissible evidence?
Feedback, The Times, 1 London Bridge Cenotaph, as our correspondents Maintenance, given to Toc H by thetimes.co.uk/archive Chris Jagger
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Leading articles

Daily Universal Register

UK: Trooping the Colour ceremony marks
the official birthday of the King.
India: G20 agriculture ministers’ three-day
meeting in Hyderabad concludes.

Birthdays today
Venus Williams,
pictured, five-time
Wimbledon singles
Tories’ Tasks
champion (2000-01,
2005, 2007-08), 43; Paul Boris Johnson’s fate matters far less than the country’s long-term attractiveness as a
Brason, president, Royal
Society of Portrait base for enterprise and investment. Rishi Sunak should focus on this
Painters (2000-02), 71;
Sir Patrick Duffy, the oldest living former In denouncing the Commons privileges commit- toms regulations with Britain’s nearest trading — and to reverse Britain’s poor recent record
MP, 103; Newt Gingrich, Speaker, US House tee this week, Boris Johnson kept open the possi- partners have hit smaller and medium-sized ex- in productivity.
of Representatives (1995-99), 80; Prof bility of one day returning as an MP. The Conserv- porters especially. Mr Sunak’s government must Contrary to alarmist prognostications, genera-
Lawrence Goldman, historian and editor, ative Party should scotch that notion, while Rishi make Britain a centre for newer growth industries. tive AI can act as a catalyst for improved living
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Sunak concentrates on the pressing issue of the President Macron of France has elicited criticism standards and efficiency, allowing machines to
(2004-14), 66; Kendrick Lamar, Pulitzer- nation’s economic difficulties. He must urgently for hosting Elon Musk and Mohammed bin Sal- take over tasks that have in the past been accom-
winning rapper and songwriter, Damn (2017), craft a message that resonates with voters. man, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, in Paris this plished by human intelligence. Britain has inher-
36; Ken Livingstone, mayor of London That will be difficult given pressures on living week following recent visits to France by both ent advantages in developing these technologies,
(2000-08) and former MP, 78; Phyllida standards imposed by high inflation and rising in- men. Mr Macron wants a Tesla factory and Saudi notably its world-class universities. Both financial
Lloyd, director, Mamma Mia! (2008), 66; terest rates. Britain’s growth rate has lagged be- investment, and is not squeamish about courting incentives and regulatory arbitrage could help
Ken Loach, director, Kes (1969), 87; Barry hind comparable economies since not just the controversial figures whose presence in Downing Britain become a global leader, by ensuring that
Manilow, singer, Copacabana (1978), 80; Brexit vote of 2016 but the banking crash of 2007- Street would doubtless provoke howls of outrage. there are different rules for different industries. It
Eddy Merckx, five-time winner of the Tour 09. Though the remedy of unfunded tax cuts pro- The market for EVs is burgeoning, coincident would make no sense, for example, to apply strin-
de France, 78; Baroness (Estelle) Morris of posed by Liz Truss was ill-judged, her diagnosis of with global measures to curb emissions, and Brit- gent regulations appropriate to the banking sec-
Yardley, Labour MP (1992-2005), education weak growth was not. The most plausible way for ain should be in the business of offering tax incen- tor, whose failure could bring down the entire eco-
and skills secretary (2001-02), 71; Sir Jon Mr Sunak to convey a sense of purpose is to make tives to attract investment. Mr Macron has dedi- nomy, to other service companies using AI to pre-
Murphy QPM, chief constable of Merseyside Britain an attractive centre for foreign direct in- cated much time to a plan for “reindustrialising” dict consumer behaviour.
police (2010-16), 65; Peggy Seeger, singer, vestment and growth industries of the future. the French economy with facilities for EV produc- Growth industries like these, and others in
about whom Ewan MacColl wrote The First Weak growth means the government gets less tion and electric car batteries. By contrast, Britain which Britain has intellectual strengths such as
Time Ever I Saw Your Face (1957), 88; Prof tax revenue, while an ageing population puts up- has lost ground in the race for attracting invest- biotechnology or the low-carbon sector, could
Karol Sikora, oncologist, 75; Chris ward pressure on welfare spending. Part of the ment in these technologies. help generate productivity gains and hence boost
Spedding, guitarist, Pogo Dancing (1976), 79; malaise stems from a decline in Britain’s industrial Mr Sunak knows the stakes. He this week de- real incomes. Mr Sunak has the opportunity to
Nicola Tuxworth, head of programming, base. The country’s historic strengths in oil extrac- clared his aim for Britain to be a “science and tech- plot a course for Britain to succeed outside the EU,
The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham tion and manufacturing have been eroded, while nology superpower”, with particular reference to while still open to the global economy, by attract-
Literature Festival, 63; Jodie Whittaker, Brexit has made it harder for financial services the opportunities provided by artificial intelli- ing inward investment. This will matter far more
actress, Doctor Who (2017-22), 41. companies to sell products in the single market gence (AI). The prime minister is right to see the for the country, as well as Conservative fortunes,
through “passporting” arrangements. New cus- potential in its application to numerous industries then ephemeral squalls over Mr Johnson’s fate.
Birthdays tomorrow
Sir Paul McCartney,
pictured, musician and
composer, 81; Moeen Ali,
Opening Minds
cricketer, Warwickshire
and England, 36; Saqib Schools must do more to teach respect in argument and good disagreement
Bhatti, Conservative MP
for Meriden, “Good disagreement” is an ideal the Archbishop need to be tested and defined. How else can the argument is the ability to listen and formulate a
Conservative Party vice- of Canterbury often holds up as one the Church of necessary questioning at the heart of all intellec- response that demolishes the opposing thesis but
chairman for business, 38; Michael England should strive for in its agonised internal tual advance be instilled in each generation? not the speaker.
Blakemore, theatre director, Copenhagen arguments. It is not, sadly, something that the It is depressing, therefore, to rational liberals to It is all too tame for today’s aspiring radicals. In-
and Kiss Me, Kate (both 2000, Tony award church, or indeed most institutions in public life, is hear that it is not only in universities where the stead the accusatory ad hominem attack is pre-
winner), 95; Sally Bolton, chief executive, often successful with. Instead, rancid polemics, shutters are now closing on freedom of expres- ferred: rougher, raucous, contemptuous and more
All England Lawn Tennis Club, 49; Barbara name-calling and demands that “unacceptable” sion. More and more, teachers were told at a likely to attract attention and followers in the only
Broccoli, film producer, the James Bond film views should be silenced or prosecuted mark more recent conference, pupils need to be taught to lis- forum where opinions now flourish or die, social
series, 63; The Most Rev Leo Cushley, and more debates — on television, on campus or ten, respond to and reconcile diverse views with- media. Critically engaging with ideas is demand-
Roman Catholic archbishop of St Andrews on social media. out simply shouting each other down or demand- ing and time-consuming. Better, would-be social
and Edinburgh, 62; Derek Deane, artistic Take the government’s need to enforce freedom ing a block on what they do not want to hear. Shut- revolutionaries conclude, is a stampede to over-
director, English National Ballet (1993-2001), of speech on university campus in law. It is a signal ting down debate on the spurious grounds that whelm old and “harmful” attitudes, be they on
70; Kaja Kallas, prime minister of Estonia, that a totalitarian mindset is creeping ever closer unfashionable views are tantamount to abuse is sex, race, gender, rights or history.
46; Daniel Keighran, soldier, recipient of the if today’s first response to “outdated” views is cen- already a threat that too few universities have rec- Such blinkered and vindictive tactics are the
Victoria Cross for Australia, 40; Paul sorship, repression and ostracism. ognised and confronted. Yet already that mindset long-term enemy of democracy. Schools know
Mayersberg, scriptwriter, The Man Who Fell It used to be the case that respect for others and is beginning to pollute learning at a younger age. that. Teachers know that their first task is to teach
to Earth (1976), 82; Thabo Mbeki, president tolerance of diverse opinion were attitudes that Allied to the ancient art of rhetoric, debating all pupils to listen. They are fighting, however,
of South Africa (1999-2008), 81; Alison schools tried to foster. Until recent fears of causing societies have long been a feature of the best edu- against a tide of intolerance and a tsunami of
Moyet, singer, That Ole Devil Called Love offence took hold, teachers tried to expose young cation. Once flourishing largely in private social-media incitement. Teaching unions them-
(1985), 62; Sir Trevor Pears, executive minds to robust views, controversial stances or schools, they are now a mainstay of all that aspire selves are no longer models of rational debate.
chairman, Pears Foundation, 59; Oleksiy political polemics. The bland, the conformist and to teach oracy and to train pupils how to express Nor are politicians now seen to take a lead in
Reznikov, Ukraine’s minister of defence, 57; the unquestioning should have little place in the themselves cogently as well as courteously. There thoughtful, respectful, considered argument: in-
Isabella Rossellini, actress, Blue Velvet teaching of ethics, civics and citizenship in the best are national debating competitions and debating deed, the very opposite is now polarising Britain.
(1986), 71; William Rucker, chairman, schools. Debates must intend to provoke. Limits clubs in inner cities. And key to all such structured Without good disagreement, democracy totters.
Lazard UK (financial advisory and asset
management company), UK Dementia
Research Institute, 60; Delia Smith, cookery
writer and joint majority shareholder,
Norwich City FC, 82; Linda Thorson,
actress, The Avengers (1968-69), 76.
Brave Hearts
On this day
Relatives of the victims of the Nottingham attacks shone in their darkest hour
They could barely have absorbed the reality of the row. Sinead O’Malley, mother of Grace, a medical aby were into hockey and cricket, and Mr Coates,
In 1940 German aircraft sank the Lancastria situation they were in when called upon to address student at Nottingham University, who died a caretaker, was a Nottingham Forest fan. His son
off the port of Saint-Nazaire, with the loss of a crowd of thousands. The relatives of the three alongside her friend Barnaby, a history student, as James explained: “He loved his family and he also
more than 3,000 troops and refugees. people stabbed to death in Nottingham in the the pair returned from a night out to celebrate the loved his Forest. You Reds!”
early hours of Tuesday could have been forgiven end of exams, summed up the terrible injustice of Speaking earlier to students, David Webber said
for incoherence when speaking at the vigil held in two 19-year-old lives cut short: “All they were do- of his son Barnaby: “I’ve lost my baby boy.” His
The last word the city’s Old Market Square to commemorate ing was walking home. They were just walking fellow grieving father, Sanjoy Kumar, said: “Grace
those they had just lost. home after a night out . . . it was just truly so unfair.” and her friend, they fell together.”
“I don’t think that success has got anything to For the families of Grace O’Malley-Kumar, But Ms O’Malley joined Barnaby’s mother, Em- They were all so eloquent, these three families
do with money — money for me isn’t a way of Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates, the worst of ma Webber, in refusing to give way to anger, thrust suddenly into the public gaze. Listening to
keeping the score.” Martin Bell, war reporter, nightmares had come true: sudden, random, urging the crowd to “be kind to each other, look them, so many parents must have thought: how
quoted in Reflections on Success by Martyn senseless and irreparable loss. Yet there was clarity after each other — don’t have hate in your hearts”. can they bear this? How could I bear this? But in
Lewis (1997) and restraint in their expressions of love and sor- The dead were vibrant people. Grace and Barn- their darkest hour their humanity shone.
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older time, writers filled pages with Comma cause It would be now, but a hundred
quotation marks, commas and semi- years ago it was how The Times spelt

O
colons supposedly to help the reader,’ ver the years The Times has it and remained so until, as far as I
[McCarthy] said. ‘But there comes a dispensed with a great deal of can tell, Times style was shaken up
point where in my opinion they just the punctuation that used, in and modernised in the late 1950s.

with McCarthy’s mess up the page.’”

Before you reach for a dictionary,
“polysyndetic” means using several
conjunctions one after another, often
repeating the same conjunction —
McCarthy’s words, to “mess up” our
pages. We no longer put full stops
after initials or after “Mr” and “Mrs”,
hyphens in “to-day” and dashes after
colons. Semicolons are rare beasts as
The evolution of the spelling is a bit
obscure. Jewelry seems to have been
current in the early 19th century,
while the Victorians preferred
“jewellery”, the version we now use.

conjunction-itis and, and, and — to create the effect

of slowing down the narrative and
giving it a rhythmic and portentous
power. Here, for example, is
McCarthy in The Road: “Out on the
well, unlamented by me.
On commas, the style guide has
robust views. Unnecessary commas,
it says, interrupt the flow of a
sentence. “Omit the comma before if,
Quite why The Times resisted this
for 50 years, or why America stuck
with the older version, is a mystery
to me but no doubt someone out
there will explain.
It’s only three weeks or so since road the pilgrims sank down and fell unless, before, after, as, since, when,
Rose Robbie Millen, The Times books over and died and the bleak and but, despite etc unless the rhythm or Off guard
Wild
‘I
editor, re-read Cormac McCarthy’s shrouded earth went trundling past sense of the sentence demands it.” s ‘guardrails’ now the most
Feedback 1985 classic Blood Meridian, which, in the sun and returned again as The guide quotes the great Keith overworked word (like egregious,
a tribute written after the author’s trackless and as unremarked as the Waterhouse who, as well as writing perfect storm and tsunami)?” asks
death this week, he described as “the path of any nameless sisterworld in novels, TV series and film scripts, Michael Collier of Holmes Chapel,
literary equivalent of being the ancient dark beyond.” was a journalist on the Daily Mirror, Cheshire.
@timesfeedback waterboarded”. Giles Coren said in a Just to see how polysyndeton for which he wrote a style guide. “It Good spot, Michael. Search our
comment below Robbie’s re-reading (that’s the noun) would work in a is not the function of the comma,” he pages for the last month or so since

T
he book reviews in the that he’d been traumatised by the newspaper context, I took a sentence wrote, “to help a wheezing sentence Rishi Sunak joined the voices raising
Saturday Review are always book, and the general consensus from Robbie Millen’s Blood Meridian get its breath back. That, however, is concerns about AI and guardrails are
an entertainment and among our commenters was that review and gave it the McCarthy how the comma earns much of its everywhere. Go back to last year and
education in their own McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, which treatment. Here’s what Robbie wrote: living in journalism.” they simply used to be what stopped
right, but I have to admit was published and won the Pulitzer “The violence is so relentless, the Or, as our own guide puts it: “If people falling off bridges.
that the “Rereading” series, since it prize in the same year as Blood author’s view of mankind so your sentence needs a comma just to Richard Quin wrote from Wool,
started a few years ago, has probably Meridian, was the superior read. unremittingly bleak, the imagery so stop the reader collapsing in a heap Dorset, to dispute our assertion that
given me even more inspiration for McMurtry, who died two years disturbing that you feel sullied and before reaching the end, you might Henry VIII “sought a divorce” from
what to pick up and read right now. I ago, was certainly kinder to his soiled by reading it.” do better to recast it as two Catherine of Aragon. This he says,
don’t know how I missed Barbara readers than McCarthy. Quite apart And here’s my McCarthy version: sentences anyway.” was Tudor Protestant propaganda
Pym’s Crampton Hodnet the first time from the violence in the latter’s “The violence is so relentless and the and what Henry actually asked the
round, but I’m ever grateful for its novels was the challenge of what his author’s view of mankind so Uncut gem Pope for was a decree of nullity.

V
re-reading appearance a couple of obituarist called “unconventional unremittingly bleak and the imagery ictoria Field was puzzled by “The old saw ‘divorced, beheaded,
years ago, and Clive Davis’s recent punctuation”, which meant an almost so disturbing that you feel sullied the spelling of “jewelry” in the died, divorced, beheaded, survived’
review of The Last Picture Show total lack of it. “He eschewed short and soiled by reading it.” archive extract last Saturday should correctly be ‘annulled,
reminded me that one day I’ll have sentences broken up by punctuation Actually, I think it reads rather about 1923’s perishingly cold Derby beheaded, died, annulled, beheaded,
time to go back and read all Larry marks in favour of the polysyndetic well, but somehow I doubt it would Day. “Surely this is the American survived’,” he says.
McMurtry’s books again, hurray. linkage of ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘or’. ‘In an have made it past the subs. spelling?” she asked. It’ll never catch on.
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Comment

N Charmed
avigating Westminster There have been three major shifts about the lying laundry basket, poor but no point looking it up now; and
Bridge through the selfie in Labour’s electoral fortunes: Rishi Sunak stamping his big-boy Rutherglen & Hamilton West, home
sticks and the roasted December 2021, when the Commons boots but nobody taking any notice. of the SNP Covid commuter
chestnuts and the follow-
the-ball three-cup
tricksters, by far the hardest to dodge
was infamously told “there were no
parties”; July 2022, when Johnson
finally did what so many ambitious
Starmer must Good luck is being pooed on by a
bird. Even better for Starmer to
watch Nadine Dorries dumping on
Margaret Ferrier.
And more SNP serendipity: Nicola
Sturgeon went from boasting she had
is the woman selling lucky heather.
Worry no more. Sir Keir Starmer has
bought the job lot.
groupies had done and fell on his
sword; and October 2022, when Liz
Truss released her bull into the china
have lucky Sunak from a great height. She went
on TV to declare: “The last thing I
would want to do would be to cause
passed her driving theory test to
crossing her fingers that she got all
the answers right in the custody
It sits alongside his four-leaf clovers,
wishbones and collection of rabbits’
shop of the economy. A political AI
chatbot without the empathy,
rabbits’ feet a by-election in my constituency.”
Six hours later she was quitting
suite. It will be a while before she gets
behind the wheel of the campervan.
feet which resembles the greatest
bunny bloodbath since Watership
Down. That’s the only explanation for
Starmer sat tight. Kept quiet. Let his
cursed opponents walk under the
ladder of life.
coming out with “immediate effect”. Then
she wasn’t. And it was all the
posh boy’s fault (posh Sunak,
On Monday Starmer is due to
make a speech on his fourth mission,
which I don’t need to tell you is, um
how the Labour leader finds himself
the luckiest man in Britain.
What luck to take over the party
There he was just last week, Mr
Flip-Flop, abandoning Ed Miliband’s
£28 billion plan to cook bacon
of his ears not posh Johnson).
It means Lib Dem hopes
of hoovering up her Mid
. . . make Britain, umm . . . something
green . . . umm. Superwindfarms? In a
stroke of good fortune, this snoozefest
from its least popular leader in 85 sandwiches on solar panels. Disaster! Matt Chorley Bedfordshire seat will not is up against David Cameron at the
years, then to gaze across the But wait, falling from the heavens overshadow Labour efforts Covid inquiry and MPs voting to
dispatch box at the crumpled ruins was the list of No 10 work-experience to do the by-election treble: pettily take away Johnson’s Commons
of the guy who used to do the Boris kids getting peerages. Then came Uxbridge, where famed pass. Phew. Never mind hanging up
Johnson character pinocchioing his Johnson chomping his way through Listen to Matt Chorley vote-winner Johnson has cut the horseshoes; the lad who grew up
way to oblivion. Grip the dispatch My First Thesaurus, railing against every Monday to Friday, and run; Selby, vacated by surrounded by donkeys is kicking ass.
box, touch wood and pray it lasts. kangaroo witches. Headlines all 10am to 1pm someone I think called Nigel As long as he does nothing. Lucky boy.

Bader was a hero but he was also a brute

Historians know that complex figures such as the RAF ace require clear-eyed scrutiny rather than unthinking adulation
ALAMY
incapable of accepting that people When Ross was selected for
Ben may be simultaneously admirable Though revered repatriation two years before the war
Macintyre and flawed; that individuals can only for his bravery, ended, Bader refused to let him leave
be fairly judged in the context of Douglas Bader Colditz. “You came here as my lackey
their times; and that the job of a could be selfish and you will stay with me as my
historian is not to offer ethics lessons and rude, as his lackey until we are both liberated,”
but to gather new evidence and try orderly Alex he insisted. Ross obeyed. “In those
@benmacintyre1 to see the past more clearly. Ross, below, days, you just didn’t go against what
knew all too well
The story of Douglas Bader is a an officer said,” he observed some

I
have accidentally started a perfect case in point. years later.
curious and furious dogfight over Despite losing his legs in a terrible Bader was the first prisoner to
Douglas Bader, the legless flying accident in 1931, Bader leave Colditz after it was liberated, by
Second World War flying ace. persuaded the RAF to let him fly hitching a lift in the Jeep of a
During a recent talk on my again when war broke out and newspaper reporter. A few months
new book about Colditz at the Hay became a poster boy for the war in later he telephoned Ross at his home
literature festival, I remarked that the air, inspiring levels of courage in in Scotland.
Bader, a PoW in the castle between others they never thought possible. “Have you got my legs?” Bader
1942 and 1945, was not quite the He was almost as famous in demanded. Ross explained that the
saint of legend. More specifically, I Germany as he was in Britain. American liberators of Colditz had
said he was “racist, snobbish and Having shot down dozens of permitted each man to take away
brutally unpleasant to anybody he enemy planes, Bader was himself
considered to be of a lower socio-
economic order”.
shot down over France in August
1941. While baling out of his Spitfire,
Bader’s darker side
This was reported in The Sunday
Telegraph under the headline
one of his artificial legs jammed
under the joystick and as his
was known to many
“Colditz TV show to portray British
officers as racist”, which provoked
parachute inflated, it was torn off.
In a measure of his celebrity,
of his contemporaries
the considerable ire of the MP Lee Bader’s German captors invited the only one suitcase, and the spare legs
Anderson, deputy chairman of the British to send a replacement false had been left behind.
Conservative Party, who tweeted: leg. Sure enough, with “You’re a c***,” said Bader and
“Another vile attack on our Great Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering’s rang off. They never spoke again.
British hero and flying ace Douglas approval, an RAF bomber was given Bader’s jagged personality
Bader.” Others piled in, with safe conduct over Saint-Omer and proves that it is possible to be
observations such as: “Nothing dropped a new prosthesis by simultaneously courageous, famous,
seems to be sacred to the Wokerati. parachute. The mission was disabled and extremely unpleasant.
If they hate everything in the UK so codenamed, brilliantly, Operation Far more complicated than the myth
much, why can’t they just go Leg. With two operative legs, (and a lot more interesting), the
elsewhere?” immediately tried
Bader imm British flying ace had a heart of oak,
Bringing up the rear escape and ended
to escap legs of tin and feet of clay.
came a Spectator up in Colditz, the History is not some set of building
columnist, Douglass PoW camp for blocks to be assembled or dismantled
Murray, incensed recalcitrant
rec according to fashion or political
that I was officers. After the
of inclination. It is a science and an art,
shooting holes in war, he raised
w the steady accumulation of new
the Bader millions for
m evidence in order to see the past
mythology. “I disability
d anew and more coherently.
hope that people charities.
ch The darker side of Bader was
without legs point Bader was a known to many of his
out that Bader was supremely
sup brave contemporaries but never publicly
one of theirs and tell
ell man but he was also expressed because he was a sacred,
Macintyre where to o a mon
monster: arrogant, unassailable figure; to doubt him
stick it,” Murray wrote
rote domineering,
dominee selfish and might have undermined the moral
last week under thee spectacularly
spectacularly rude. selling hardback in postwar Britain. servant whose tasks included rectitude of the war itself.
headline “How to dismantle Al
Although most of hihis Even by the standards of the time, cooking and cleaning for the While the likes of “30p Lee” may
history”. “We are allowed to have our contemporaries admired him, many Bader’s political and racial views irascible RAF officer and carrying consider my portrait of Bader “vile”,
heroes.” also loathed him. The war made him were extreme: he praised apartheid him up and down two flights of the messages I have received from
This minor skirmish of the culture famous and insufferable. Bullying, in South Africa, supported the white stairs every day for his bath. Bader people who actually knew him
wars illustrates a much wider lonely, foul-mouthed and aggressive, minority regime in Rhodesia, never once thanked his servant, suggest it is accurate and overdue.
problem in the bitter battle over how he was a far cry from the character favoured the return of the death or shared his superior rations with Everyone is at liberty to ignore the
to interpret our history. Those who depicted by Kenneth More in Reach penalty and opposed all immigration. him. He called him Das Ross, the complex reality of the past and
condemn the past, and those who for the Sky, based on Paul Brickhill’s Inside Colditz, Bader had an German word for a horse ridden worship their own heroes but that is
defend it with equal fury, seem hagiographic book, the biggest- orderly named Alex Ross, a prisoner- into battle. not history. It is religion.
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weekend essay

Citizen mutiny
across Europe
raises doubts
about net zero
Strict climate laws have riled households and farmers on the continent,
while Biden has cushioned the blow with generous incentives. What’s
the right mix between carrot and stick, ask Roger Boyes and Ben Cooke

I
n the beginning there was fire. Just as cavemen of them in eastern Europe. The Americans, flush with
once crouched around the flames, so coal scuttles green subsidies from the Biden administration, are
and mantelpieces became the focus of modern life. moving into the market. Then there’s the shortage of
“There’s an emotional connection between people skilled labour: Germany has to find an extra 60,000
and combustible energy sources,” says the heating engineers in short order. Not forgetting the
environmental historian Melanie Arndt of Albert obstacles thrown up by a bureaucratic planning system
Ludwig University, Freiburg. that insists, because of tight noise pollution controls,
Now coal is on its way out, so are wood burners, and that heat pumps on a terraced house have to be
governments in Europe are poking in people’s cellars, 3 metres (10ft) away from neighbours.
telling them to change their living habits in the next The Greens are taking a hit. They were always the
few months. That’s how Germans are beginning to see party of risk aversion: against US missiles being
it and it’s no good telling them that they voted for it. stationed in Germany, hostile to nuclear waste storage.
As the net zero deadlines gallop closer, as states get Once in government, in coalition with Gerhard
tougher in their restrictions, so political tensions are Schröder’s Social Democrats, they showed a slightly
starting to crackle across Europe. different face: less pacifist but more bossy. Now they
Britain should watch out. It’s coming our way unless are back in power again, the bossiness has returned.
we work out new ways of mustering public support for They’re enforcers and voters are starting to punish
the big climate decisions. them. In a local election in the city-state of Bremen, an
Spurred on by his coalition partners, the Greens, the essentially anti-Green party called Citizens in Anger
German chancellor Olaf Scholz has made a came out of nowhere to win 10 per cent of the vote.
commitment to ban the installation of new oil and gas In the Netherlands a farmer-citizen movement, the
heating systems in households from next January (the BBB, won provincial elections on a manifesto of
heating of buildings accounts for a quarter of EU opposing government targets for halving nitrogen oxide countryside locals, although broadly sympathetic to

“
consumption). It is a profoundly unpopular decision. emissions from livestock manure and fertilisers which renewables, are organising to oppose big solar panel
Yes, 68 per cent of Germans support a shift in energy pollute land and waterways. BBB is scooping up the companies who are generating profits but not many
policy but the upheaval in implementing it is huge. support not just of farmers, who say they are going to jobs. Irish farmers are rebelling against a proposal to
Nobody did much in the way of serious energy have to cull cows and pigs, but also the broader public, Combating cull tens of thousands of cattle to meet green targets.
saving for 20 years. Individual judgments, based on once fiercely proud of the Dutch role as a food exporter And in the European parliament, the centre-right
goodwill rather than state intervention, were made: to the world. “No farmers, no food!” it says on their climate change European People’s Party is calling for a regulatory
eat more veg, less meat; fly less; plant trees; vote
Green from time to time. It was a special complacency
banners. The whole governing system is in a tangle
over the net zero targets which are officially presented is all about pause on green issues. Euro elections are next year;
standing up for emission curbs at a time of rising food
based on the certainty of cheap Russian gas.
Today there’s panic. Consumer advice bureaus are
as an “unavoidable transition”. The courts have started
to block permits for housing and infrastructure
making it prices is seen as a vote loser.

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flooded with anguished and frustrated Germans.
Pensioners are terrified they will have to leave
projects unless the government complies with its
climate pledges; the central government in turn
cheap and easy limate change legislation is being sold on
fear, the assumption that people will accept
their homes because they can’t afford the
€30,000 needed to install a heat at pump
piles pressure on o provincial governors who
are facing aangry voters. There is a real
to do the right discomfort if they think it can stave off
catastrophe. It’s an emotional argument —
and modern insulation. The draft
law actually provides for a grace
aft
ce
possibility that the BBB could make
possibilit
common cause with the far right.
comm
thing — if it’s change your homes and driving habits now
so your children won’t fry in the future — and it is
period but that hasn’t eased thee
angst. Nor has the promise of
Germany, support for the
In Ge
radical right AfD has risen to 19
radi
painful it is running out of steam, devalued perhaps by the
disruptive protest strategy of Just Stop Oil. There is
heat pump subsidies, the size per cent as it campaigns against going to meet still a part of the public who, although not deniers,
of which the government has green
gr laws. believe extreme weather is cyclical.
not confirmed. French farmers meanwhile resistance That said, the majority of people in Britain and
The state has demanded a drove
d their tractors through across the continent agree that societies must rise to
sacrifice from its citizens, but Paris
P to protest against the challenge of climate change. In April, a YouGov
can it keep its promises? It pesticide
pe curbs. Emmanuel survey found large majorities worried about it: 63 per
says the country can produce Macron, who knows how
M cent of adults in Germany, 65 per cent in the UK, 77
half a million heat pumps a quickly a protest group such as
qu per cent in Spain and 81 per cent in Italy.
year from 2024, reaching a totall the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) But the survey also found people were loath to pay
of six million by 2030, one of itss can tthrow policy off course, has more for the environmental consequences of their
benchmarks on the way to net pressed “pause” on anti-carbon
presse consumer choices. Only a quarter of Britons support
zero by 2050. But four million will be llaws
aws and told the rest of the world to an increase in fuel tax, for instance, while only 23 per
needed by next year alone. Almostmost ccatch
atch up with
wi Europe. There is plenty of cent were willing to pay more for their plane tickets.
weekly, new factories are being set up, most nimby action, ttoo. In the Spanish What these results show is that climate change will
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subsidise heat pumps. It has also bowed to the
country’s mighty car industry and watered down its
plans to ban new petrol and diesel cars in 2035.
Britain, and other countries, should learn from it. In
the drive to net zero, balances have to be struck. The
Dutch farmers, the German heat pump resisters are
digging in their heels because they sniff not only high
costs and a risk to livelihoods but also a creeping
authoritarianism. “You absolutely have to spend
money and offer strong incentives to get industries
developed and to get people demanding the
technology,” says Matthew. “But if you want to do it in
an economically efficient way, you also need to use the
power of regulation to drive that investment.”

S
ubsidies are inefficient because they inevitably
give money to some people who would have
bought heat pumps or electric cars anyway.
And even with subsidies for cleaner
alternatives, some people will keep buying
polluting technologies if they have the choice. That’s
why Jan Rosenow, director of European programmes
at the Regulatory Assistance Project, believes wielding
the stick is essential. He thinks that, although
Germany’s 2024 ban on gas boiler sales is too soon for
the public and industry to adjust, it should come no
later than the early 2030s. “From the perspective of
consumers, why should they invest in a heat pump just
because they get a subsidy? You need to offer them a
fairly sizeable subsidy. If you have a deadline, you’re
driving demand and the subsidies just help people
comply. If you don’t have a deadline, that demand
needs to be stimulated by a lot more carrots.”
If the UK government is to meet its net zero target, it
needs to speed up — it is currently on course to miss its
interim target of reducing emissions by 68 per cent by
2030. Should it follow Joe Biden in handing out more
carrots, or the Germans in waving the stick? Might it
already be waving that stick too aggressively, with the
looming 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel
cars, and its aim to ban the sale of gas boilers by 2035?
And if the government doesn’t provide more capital
investment into clean tech industries, will Britain miss
a chance to be a pack leader in the green revolution?
We can’t realistically match the huge scope of
Biden’s green subsidies. But we can call an end to a
political culture that has chopped and changed and
cut. In 2013, David Cameron decided to “get rid of all
the green crap”, slashing funding for energy efficiency
schemes. The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, a
think tank, has estimated that this decision prevented
the insulation of nine million homes, at a cost to
households of £150 a year. In 2015, just days after the
signing of the Paris climate change agreement, the
Cameron government also cut government subsidies
for rooftop solar panels by 65 per cent, leading to a
collapse in rates of solar panel installation.
Last year the government also wound down its £1,500
subsidy for electric cars. Having cancelled one subsidy
for heat pumps — the Green Homes Grant — last
year it began another, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme,
which offers £5,000 off the price of an air source heat
never be solved by individual self-abnegation. In the that, despite the extra upfront investment net zero French farmers blocked pump or biomass boiler. It could go further, offering,
words of Ed Matthew, campaigns director at the requires, it promises to be an economic boon in the the Esplanade des say, two thirds of the price for low-income households,
environmental think tank E3G: “Combating climate longer term. A study by the Oxford Martin School at Invalides during a protest but the chances of the government meeting its target
change is all about making it cheap and easy to do the the University of Oxford in September last year in Paris. Left, Germany’s to deploy 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028 look, at
right thing, because if it’s painful and costly, it’s going suggested the world could save $12 trillion by 2050 economy minister Robert the moment, pretty low. The government’s bungled
to meet resistance.” with a rapid switch away from fossil fuels. But the hope Habeck, who says green rollout of electric vehicle chargers is also the product
The Biden administration has taken that message to of a richer, more energy-secure future depends on goals are not being met. of confused priorities and a chronic lack of confidence.
Last August President
heart. When he signed the Inflation Reduction Act dramatically speeding up the deployment of clean People bought into the idea of electric vehicles, only to
Biden allotted $370 million
(IRA) last August, Biden dramatically altered the cost technologies. And that won’t happen if the upfront for green initiatives in
find the infrastructure wasn’t keeping pace. Between
calculus of a host of green choices, offering discounts costs are spread inequitably. the Inflation 2020 and the start of this year, the ratio of
of up to $14,000 off the purchase of electric home Take heat pumps. According to the Regulatory Reduction Act electric vehicles to chargers almost doubled,
appliances such as heat pumps, $7,500 off an electric Assistance Project, an energy think tank, they can save from 16 to 30. The 2030 ban on the sale of
vehicle, and 30 per cent off the price of solar panels. households £146 a year on energy bills. But these new petrol and diesel cars is looking like a big
Although the law has been reported as allotting savings are currently dwarfed by their exorbitant stick. Yet stretching the deadline simply eases
$370 billion for green initiatives, its price tag will be as installation costs of up to £15,000. The more heat the pressure on the government to create an
big as the American people decide, because the tax pumps are deployed, the cheaper they will become. appropriate charging network.
credits are uncapped. If Americans opt for electric The government believes that by 2030 they could be The past five years have seen a worldwide flurry
cars, stoves and heaters en masse, it will be far larger. as cheap as gas boilers — but that decline in cost will of net zero targets. They now apply to 88 per cent
Goldman Sachs has estimated the IRA could dole out only come if more people buy them. of the world’s carbon emissions, 85 per cent of its
$1.2 trillion over its ten-year timescale. To drive demand for clean technologies, politicians population and 92 per cent of its GDP. But setting
The rationale of these subsidies is not to make green have two tools: carrots (subsidies) or sticks (banning those targets was the easy bit. Implementing them
choices artificially cheap for ever, but to help green polluting products). The IRA tries to bring this will require an industrial revolution faster than
industries scale up to the point where they can cleaner future into being with carrots alone. Its any in history. All revolutions, even the most
outcompete polluters without government help. authors knew they had no chance of getting the peaceful, demand sacrifice — and leadership.
During the past two decades, similar measures have votes in Congress for strict deadlines on the We will have to forsake technologies we
helped make renewable energy the cheapest energy sale of petrol cars or gas boilers. The know and trust. If done right, it promises
the world has ever known, and it’s still getting cheaper. Germans come at this from a different huge benefits: better insulated homes, cars
Between 2009 and 2019, the price of solar generation angle. Their boiler ban is based on a that are faster and cheaper to run; lower
fell by 89 per cent, and the price of onshore wind by more pessimistic view of human bills; freedom from the whims of Opec and
70 per cent. By 2021 it was cheaper to build new solar behaviour; there has to be an element of Putin’s Russia. But if leaders — Rishi Sunak
farms in many parts of the world, including China, compulsion. But the German government and Keir Starmer included — can’t engineer
India, the UK and most of Europe, than to continue has wielded that stick clumsily, threatening to the right mix of carrot and stick to take their
operating local coal plants. This cost decline means ban installations before clarifying how much it will public with them, they may not last long.
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All quiet on the migration front line STUART BROCK

Charlie Parker fluenced by the weather. Border Force Aycliffe residents talking about it like they were last year,”
has not registered any “uncontrolled Kerry Jones and she said. “I am worried it’s going to get
A Border Force clampdown has result- landings”, where boats arrive without Louise Monger, a bit livelier in the summer when the
ed in no undetected migrant boat land- interception. Sources at the agency said below, have weather gets better. This is definitely
ings this year, with locals in Dover say- that there were only four such landings mixed feelings the calm before the storm”.
ing they now feel safe in their homes. last year. about Border However, some still feel unsafe. On
Residents of Old Folkestone Road in In October, a 16-year-old Albanian Force’s success two occasions in the past year, Kerry
Aycliffe, a neighbourhood a short walk migrant entered the back door of a Jones, 46, has seen a migrant climb over
from a beach commonly used as a land- home on Old Folkestone Road and wais
her waist-high fence and try to break
ing point for migrant boats that escape asked a resident to drive him to Man- h home. Following the inci-
into her
detection, shored up their home secur- chester. When the resident refused, he den the Kent county council
dents,
ity and slept with sledgehammers by demanded to use her phone so he could ha installed higher fences on
has
their beds after a migrant entered one arrange to be picked up. he end-of-terrace home to
her
of the road’s homes last year. Louise Monger, 36, one of the locals m
meet council requirements.
But now, locals have told of their re- who came to her neighbour’s aid, said: Jones, who doesn’t answer
lief that their neighbourhood has once “From what we saw last year to what we feel safe, our kids are still safe, the Jess Parker, th door without her hammer,
the
again become quiet and peaceful, amid we’re seeing now, it’s quiet. schools are safe, and the migrants aren’t 30, an Aycliffe ha also paid £600 to install
has
fears that the summer weather could “There’s nothing going on but then walking into people’s houses or running resident, said: “It ho
home security cameras.
result in a spike in small boat crossings. we have to remember that we’re only around the street. feels more peace- e- “I had to make sacrifices [to
Last year, Border Force detected at early in the summer. “It used to stress the kids out but now ful, more safe. It fo the security cameras]. We
pay for
least 54,000 migrants entering the UK “Whatever Border Force is doing they’ll go to the beach, they’ll go for pic- feels quiet but it’s weird. cut back on food. I wasn’t able to take
illegally, with 45,000 of them arriving they’ve done something right because nics, they’ll go swim in the sea like it’s I feel safe going down the my autistic child out because I had to
on small boats. So far this year more we’ve had no problems. They could be nothing. But I’m worried because it’s beach, I’ve gone d down ththere fi hi a
fishing putt money away. We didn’t want to be
than 9,279 people have arrived, a drop collaring them in the middle of the going to get hotter and the seas are few times and it’s been awesome. here because we were frightened to be
of just 16 per cent compared with this ocean before they even get near Ay- going to be calmer. Are we going to get “I think the kids in the neighbour- here, frightened to see who’s coming to
time last year. Crossings are heavily in- cliffe. That’s a bonus in my eyes because double the numbers we had last year?” hood feel a lot safer because they’re not the door at night,” she said.

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Conspiracy newspaper
‘prints 150,000 monthly’
Alex Farber Media Correspondent the model of 15-minute cities, where all
key infrastructure is a short walk away,
Conspiracies about the “great replace- is a plot to control the public and keep
ment theory”, 15-minute cities and them under surveillance.
digital currencies are gaining traction The Light is edited by Darren Nesbit,
as a fringe publication handed out at a 52-year-old musician. “We started . . .
shops and cafés seeks to capitalise on a so the general public can have informa-
post-pandemic opportunity. tion that is being kept from them for
About one person in 20 is estimated agendas and purposes. Freedom of ex-
to have read The Light, which was pression means allowing people to
launched in lockdown and has pub- make up their own minds,” he told the
lished articles including “Control over BBC’s Marianna in Conspiracyland pod-
money will end in total slavery”. The cast. Nesbit advocated that scientists
Manchester-based paper has promoted involved in developing the Covid jabs
controversial authors including Mark should be hanged, in a hunt for justice
Collett, the leader of Patriotic Alter- referred to online as “Nuremberg 2.0”.
native, a far-right activist group. Bobby Duffy, of KCL, said one in
Research by King’s College London three people are less likely to believe of-
(KCL) found 14 per cent of the popula- ficial information because of the gov-
tion has heard of The Light, with the ernment and media’s behaviour during
majority of these having read one of the the pandemic, with 15 per cent consid-
150,000 copies it claims to print month- ering violent protest to be justified. “It’s
ly. About one third of respondents said . . . shocking to see quite how wide-
the “great replacement theory” — the spread some conspiracy beliefs are, but
suggestion that whites are being re- it’s perhaps even more worrying how
placed by non-white immigrants— is many people say they’d be willing to act
Tom Hanks and I Richard E Grant interviewed the Oscar-winning actor at An Evening With Tom Hanks in central London real. The same proportion believe that on them,” he said.
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Models at fashion shows in cricket pitch. The

To catch the eye this Milan and Berlin have
worn Oakley sunglasses,
glasses are designed to
stop sunlight shining
into the side of the eyes,
summer get a pair which can cost up to
£214, and which are
worn by Jonny Bairstow,
aid depth perception
and do not move around
of cricketers’ shades the England cricketer on the head while
running.
version costs £214. Fashionistas
orget the You are as likely to don’t need any

F scorecard: it’s
the England and
Australian
cricket teams’
choice of sunglasses that
the style set will be
studying this weekend at
spot them on stylish
types as on the Ashes
circuit this summer.
Justin Bieber has
worn some. So
have models
on some of
of that — they
just think they
look cool. Blame
high-end
labels:
Alexander
McQueen,
Edgbaston (Hannah this Balenciaga
Rogers writes). season’s and
No, really: the sporty hottest Balmain
wraparound shades designer each put
preferred by Jonny catwalks. It-girls techie
Bairstow, Nathan style them not with reflective
Lyon and their whites and trainers wraparound
teammates have but bustiers and sunglasses
caught the eye of heels. on their
fashionistas. Cricketers Summer
They are not consider Oakley’s 2023
from a chi chi Radar range runways. At
luxury designer, essential for match David Koma’s
nor do they have play on a sunny day. show in
chic thick black Now the glossy London this
or tortoiseshell posse has season, models
frames. Rather, appropriated them even wore
they are made as a must-have too. i
iterations from
by the technical You might well ask Oakley.
sportswear why. With their It is too soon to
brand Oakley, lightweight, slip-proof tell who will
with brightly frames and colour come out on top
coloured and contrast in this year’s
iridescent optimised lenses, it’s Ashes — but in
lenses and no surprise that the fashion circles
flexible legs. item has become a both teams
The most practical choice for know they are
expensive players on the ahead.

It’s the mother of all dilemmas

An ‘embryo’ created For Professor Magdalena Zernicka-
Goetz, the scientist who announced the
and they’re bound up with notions of
personhood. The question of which How it works
representations of reality, but they are
not identical with reality itself,” said
without eggs throws successful creation of the model em-
bryos, the answer is clear: obviously
form of life applies to reproductive ma-
terials is a very rich area for debate to
Synthetic embryo model
Christina Rozeik, the co-ordinator at
Cambridge Reproduction. “In the same
up deep philosophical not. “They look like embryos, they have which we do not have the answers.”
Grown entirely from mouse stem cells
instead of a fertilised egg
way as one of my son’s model aero-
a three dimensional structure like em- Clearly, said Professor Roger Stur- planes is not an actual aeroplane.”
and ethical questions, bryos,” said Zernicka-Goetz, who also mey, from Hull York Medical School, 1 Stem cells are But here comes the second paradox.
has a position at the California Institute the fact they have not come from a The better we become at modelling em-
Tom Whipple writes of Technology. “But,” she added, sperm and egg is a big difference. For
made to
specialise into bryos this way, the closer we get them to
“they’re not embryos. It is important to now, he said, if you wanted to get theo- three types take off, the more useful they become,
At first, the cells had no specialism. In a be truthful.” What, then, are they? logical, you can easily make the case needed to mimic the finer this distinction.
dish in a lab each had the potential, in The reason these models are needed they have not reached the stage of “en- an embryo This “touches on a deep dilemma,”
theory, to become many different is that, at present, we know very little soulment”. said Professor Hank Greely, from Stan-
human cell types. But the scientists about early pregnancy. Most miscarria- Up until the point an egg can split to ford University. “We use models when
who put them there had specific plans. ges that happen, happen before you make twins, some theologists have we cannot ethically experiment on the
The cells were bathed in chemical mes- even know you are pregnant. They argued it cannot have a soul, because originals, but as we make our models
sages, and began to organise: clumping, happen in the first few weeks. This is al- the soul would split. “It’s a philosophical better and better, we risk backing into
2
dividing and forming a structure. so the hardest time to study. and religious concept,” said Sturmey, those same ethical constraints.”
There, in the laboratory of a It is only legal to look at real embryos adding, “Whatever ensoulment is.” Chemical signals are used to coax He advocated more experiments in
Cambridge scientist, they arranged as they develop up to 14 days. Even There is a less arcane interpretation cells into forming an embryo-like non-human primates to better under-
themselves: to mimic a human embryo. then, very few are donated. But if we of these answers. When biologists start cluster, or stand the models. “I don’t have an an-
It was an embryo, though, that had want more pregnancies to succeed, having to quote ancient Greek or grap- “blastocyst” swer to ‘what they actually are’,” he said,
never seen an egg or sperm. These especially when using IVF, this is the ple with the matter of souls, it is a sure adding, “that’s the crucial question.”
“model embryos” were not real embry- period we need to investigate. sign we are on the frontiers of episte- Sturmey, Starr and Rozeik are part of
os. They could never become a baby, So rather than use a real embryo, the mology. a collaboration in Cambridge looking
but — in results announced this week idea is that human stem cells — cells For now, these concerns remain in to explore these issues and lay down
— they were recognisably embryo-like. that can become other cells — can be philosophy. The fact that the an- guidelines. Their hope is that, as with
Now, if the announcement is to be used to make a model one, that can be nouncement of success was made previous advances in fertility, the UK
believed, they will be used to help us poked, prodded and genetically ahead of peer review, at a conference, can work to develop the ethics in paral-
better understand early pregnancy. tweaked, to understand the mysteries meant that scientists could not scruti- lel. They will have a lot to consider.
They will also, however, accelerate an of our own development. nise the data — which itself led to com- Gunes Taylor, from the Crick Labo-
ethical debate. There are, though, paradoxes here. plaints. Yesterday it was published, 3 Blastocyst begins to develop
ratory, said that one thing worth con-
There are many questions about the The need for the model embryos is alongside another similar experiment sidering is we may have the question
in a way analogous to
research, announced at a conference in prompted by the ethical problems of us- from an Israeli team. Other researchers the wrong way round. Maybe we don’t
normal human
Boston. How long could these model ing real embryos. But their creation is said that while clearly impressive, the need to debate what the stem cells are.
embryo
embryos, in theory, keep on develop- itself an ethical conundrum. model embryos were not going to fool Maybe we need to debate what we are.
ing? How useful will they be in their The biggest conundrum of all is what, anyone that they were the real thing. “This is an opportunity for us to re-
stated goal, to aid research to under- in a philosophical sense, are they? The Practically, few believe that the flect on what exactly it is that we think
stand miscarriage in early pregnancy truth is, said Sandy Starr, the deputy model embryos we have today could it is that makes us human,” she said.
and improve IVF? director of the Progress Educational ever develop into a baby, even if anyone “Our DNA? Growing in a uterus? The
There is, though, another equally Trust, a fertility charity, the question is wanted them to. It may be, in fact, that idea that we came from two parents,
pressing question, one that scientists unanswerable. different kinds of model embryos end rather than a collection of lab-generat-
are now grappling with. What are they? “There were several words for life in up being used for different investiga- ed stem cells? We will need to get better
Not in a biological sense so much as a ancient Greek. One is zoe. One is bios. tions — and that each never attempts to at defining what we mean by human
philosophical one. Are “they” in any One refers more to biological life and represent the entire embryo. and decide what we think makes
meaningful sense “us”? one refers more to human life as lived, “These are models and so they are humans, humans.”
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‘Ukraine isn’t a movie — there’s

The foreign secretary tells Steven Swinford that was all fun. [But] increasingly she was Cleverly argues, why Ukraine will
told her behaviour meant she would ultimately defeat Russia. “For the
the war could last for years to come and the be denied privileges. They started
reducing the amount of food she was
Ukrainians this isn’t about territorial
gain, this isn’t about ego, this isn’t
West must support Kyiv for as long as it takes given. She was told they [her family] about economic acquisition, there’s no
don’t really love you, they don’t care natural resources they’re trying to

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arlier this month James they were told was a two-week for you any more. There was an steal,” he says. “This is an existential
Cleverly, the foreign summer camp. They were instead attempt to indoctrinate and fight for them. Putin wants to end the
secretary, visited Ukraine. separated from their families for reprogramme her. It took seven concept of Ukraine. He wants to
What he saw, he says, months and effectively abducted, months to find her.” rewrite history to claim this country
could have come from the assailed on a daily basis with Russian The children Cleverly met were does not and has never existed. This
pages of a dystopian novel. propaganda and punished for rescued by a Ukrainian charity, but he is genuinely an existential fight for
Cleverly met children from expressing pro-Ukrainian views. says that the Russian indoctrination the Ukrainians and when you are
Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine “One girl went across to this of children is happening on a fighting for your survival you don’t
who had been sent away for what summer camp,” he says. “Initially it “significant scale”. It explains, stop until you are successful.”
But while adamant that Ukraine
will ultimately win, Cleverly cautions
that the conflict could go on for years.
The West, he says, must remain
united in its support for the long
term. “This is not a movie,” he says.
“In films it’s really simple. In the first
act the good guys hold out whilst
they’re being assailed by their
opponents. In the second act there’s
this coalition of support. In the final
act their friends come riding over the
hill and save the day. It’s not a film,
there are no certainties.
“There is no guarantee that there
will be a quick or immediately
decisive military result. We need to
get our heads around that. We need
to get our heads around the fact we
have got to continue backing the
Ukrainians for however long it takes
because we promised that we would.”
Ukraine’s success in defending its
territory, however, means that
thoughts are increasingly turning to
the future. Britain and Ukraine will
next week jointly host the Ukraine
Recovery Conference in London,
which will draw up plans for
rebuilding the nation and its
economy. “They’re looking to rebuild
their society, rebuild their country,”
he says. “They are going to need
money for that. This is about
discussing where the money’s going
to come from in the short term, the
medium term and the long term.”
During his trip to Ukraine, Cleverly
was struck by how the municipal
workers he met were treated.
“They’ve got hero status, just like the
people on the front line,” he says.
“Putin had a clear plan to freeze and
starve the Ukrainians into
submission. The constant running
repairs that these men and women
carried out — keeping the lights on, James Cleverly in the Foreign Office.
keeping the heating on — were just as
important in preventing Ukraine friend”? “Iain is understandably, quite
being defeated over the winter.” rightly angry and frustrated with the
While Cleverly has earned the treatment he has received,” he says. “I
respect of colleagues for his forthright am not and never would criticise him
position on Ukraine, some are less for being angry and frustrated. He
complimentary about his position on disagrees with how I’m doing that. I
China. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a think he’s wrong in his assessment, he
former Conservative leader who has thinks I am wrong.”
been sanctioned by Beijing, recently

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described Cleverly as a “wet rag”. leverly is one of the great
Chris Bryant, a Labour MP, accused survivors of the
him of being a “China stooge”. Conservative Party’s recent
Cleverly is preparing to visit China convulsions. Having first
next month. “I’ve always said that we entered government under
can and will seek to influence China,” Theresa May, he served as joint
he says. “There is behaviour on the chairman of the party under Boris
world stage and behaviour directed Johnson before rising to the role of
towards the UK that we are deeply foreign secretary under Liz Truss.
uncomfortable with. I will of course When Sunak took the reins after
raise these issues, I will raise human Truss’s disastrous 49-day premiership,
rights in Xinjiang, I will raise their he chose to keep on Cleverly as
failure to abide by agreements on foreign secretary in a bid to reaffirm
Hong Kong, I will raise the fact party unity.
they’ve sanctioned my The foreign secretary was one of
parliamentarians completely the key members of Truss’s team,
inappropriately. We have got to smuggled in through the back door of
engage . . . I’m not going to retreat her home in Blackheath, London, in
from my belief that we can and the early days of the Tory leadership
should seek to influence China. It’s a contest as she weighed up her bid.
long game.” Does he regret his role in her
How does it feel to be branded a government, given the aftermath of
“wet rag” by Duncan Smith, someone the mini-budget?
he considers to be a “good, good “None of us would have wanted it
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no guarantee of a quick result’ James Spencer Cleverly blackouts, the bins piling up, the rats in
Trafalgar Square. This Starmer-led
Labour Party is nothing like as
Curriculum vitae Susannah Sparks. They have two professional as Tony Blair and the
Born September 4, 1969 children and live in Blackheath, Labour Party was in the late Nineties.
Educated Riverston School and southeast London. It is still riddled with all the same
Colfe’s School, private schools in Lee, people, including Starmer, who tried to
southeast London; Ealing College of Quickfire make Jeremy Corbyn prime minister.”
Higher Education (now University of Boris Johnson or Liz Truss? James

T
West London). Cleverly and Rishi Sunak, hand in he foreign secretary has
Career After a degree in hospitality hand into the future. made no secret of his own
management, Cleverly went into Joe Biden or Donald Trump? leadership ambitions in the
publishing. In 2007 he founded We work with the incumbent past, having briefly stood to
the web publishing company of the White House become Tory leader in 2019.
Point and Fire. In 2008 he irrespective. He pulled out of the contest after
became a London assembly The Diplomat or failing to win the endorsement of
member and held senior Succession? I’ve not enough MPs. Does he still want to
positions under Boris Johnson. watched Succession, I’ve lead the Conservative Party? He
He became an MP in 2015 for watched some of The suggests not, but in answering
Braintree and has served as Diplomat. highlights the fact that two of his
Brexit minister, minister for Foreign holiday or predecessors as foreign secretary —
education and now staycation, left? Staying Johnson and Truss — went on to get
foreign secretary. He has home. International travel the top job.
been in the Territorial starts being a lot less “This is a fantastic job,” he says. “I
Army since 1991. glamorous when you have to absolutely love it. I’m genuinely
Family Married to do it three times a month. amazed that two of my predecessors
seem to trip over themselves to leave
what is an amazing, amazing job. I am
to play out the way it did,” he says. are the party of government and we very, very happy in the job I am
“We can do a whole load of analysis are working to resolve this. But we’re doing. It is an important job at an
about the pace of change Liz was seeing inflation in Germany, the US, important time. I am not going to get
trying to drive. I stand by the point around the world. We know why it’s distracted by any speculation about
that we need to have a strategy for happening and we’re working to what might happen next.”
growth. And Rishi has made it one of resolve this.” Away from Westminster friends
his pledges to go for economic Cleverly is an old friend of Boris describe Cleverly as a “massive geek”
growth. So I absolutely subscribe to Johnson, who has quit as an Tory MP who is known for his love of painting
that.” over the damning report into the miniature figures and playing fantasy
Cleverly says he has visited 31 Downing Street parties scandal. Does board games — something he picked
countries and had 603 meetings with Cleverly think Johnson is done up while raising his children. “It’s
representatives of foreign politically? “It’s painful to see the probably the closest I get to
governments since becoming foreign party rowing with itself,” he says meditation,” he says.
secretary. “You would be perhaps diplomatically. “We’ve got a His wife, Susie, was recently
unsurprised to hear that I don’t set government to run and ultimately diagnosed with breast cancer. While
aside a whole load of time thinking we’ve got an election to win. The the barrage of treatment was
about what could have, maybe should Labour Party are still a basket case.” ultimately successful, and her
have, or did or didn’t happen. I’ve got But one of the biggest critics of prognosis is now at the “upper end of
work to do, a job that I love and Sunak’s government is now Johnson, expectations”, it has been a
plenty to keep me busy.” rather than Labour. Would he like to challenging time. “I remember the
A recent YouGov survey found a see Johnson rein in his attacks? “I oncologist saying the test had come
third of voters believe the very much subscribe to the Reagan back, it confirmed it’s cancer,” he
government is responsible for higher mantra of never speaking ill of a recalls. “He described it in very dry,
interest rates — in part seen as a fellow Conservative,” he says. technical terms. I was taking it all on
legacy of Truss’s brief premiership. Does he think the damage he says a board, I was making sure Suzie was
Has he seen his mortgage go up? Labour government would inflict OK. But then he said we know
“Cost of living affects me just as much would be greater than that inflicted on exactly what this is, why it’s
as it affects everyone else,” he says. the economy by Tory turmoil? “It happening, how we can treat it. There
“My financial circumstances are always is,” he says. As sure as night is a very high chance that you will be
much better than for many other follows day. The bottom line is that able to live a full life.” The treatment,
people. There are people who are they break it every time they get it. I he says, has gone “very, very well”.
really struggling because of economic grew up watching the repercussions. After his interview Cleverly heads off
shockwaves. Of course they are I’m old enough to remember the late to yet another diplomatic function —
He is certain Ukrainians will defeat Russia as they are fighting for their survival [blaming the government] because we Seventies, the three-day week, the with Susie at his side.
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My Week Boris Johnson*

Monday working-class girl from Liverpool.” can easily ask her accountant.” Jacob says he’s a bit lost. Nadine says she’s still feeling loyal,
“It’s a witch-hunt!” I’m shouting. “It’s “Nobody has ever called me one of “Look,” I say. “What’s happening to too. In fact, she adds, the only thing
a protracted political assassination! those before,” I say, a little confused. Wednesday Nadine is important. But I think we stopping her from resigning is that
It’s a bloody outrage!” The privileges committee report all know what’s more important.” she’s not sure if she already has.
“Too right,” says Nadine Dorries. Tuesday comes out tomorrow. It is rubbish. It “Is it what’s happening to you?” “It’s sad,” says Jacob. “They’re
“I’d already had my stationery On telly, Rishi has been saying that is deranged. So I’m meeting in my says Carrie. clearly motivated by tribal politics
printed.” this honours fuss is all because I kitchen with multiple allies. “Of course it is,” I say. and don’t care about the facts at all.”
“He doesn’t mean that,” says Jacob asked him to do something that he “But it’s still just us,” says Jacob, “I thought it might be,” she says. “I mean, imagine being like that,”
Rees-Mogg, who is here, too. thought was wrong. So I call him. nodding at Nadine. says Nadine.
“The problem,” says Nadine, “Since when was this a problem?” I “Don’t you start,” I snap. Thursday
ignoring him, “is a pair of privileged say. “It’s literally why I made you Then Nadine says she The report comes out at Friday
posh boys who don’t know the price chancellor.” wants to know how 9am. I intend to release my Gone for a jog in my mad shorts.
of milk.” “Look Boris,” says Rishi. “It’s the some blonde 30- own rebuttal at exactly the Around the corner, I run into a pack
Jacob and I look at each other, end of the road. You lied to the year-old ex-aide same time. Unfortunately of journalists.
warily. House. of mine is still it’s 8.30 now and I “Mr Johnson!” shouts one. “Is it
“Rishi Sunak,” she says, “and James “You said multiple officials had said getting a peerage haven’t actually started true you have multiple supporters
Forsyth.” your parties were OK. But it was only when she isn’t. it yet. prepared to vote down the
“Oh them,” I say. two.” “Yeah same,” says “Nobody could have committee’s report?”
“Not that posh,” says Jacob. “Only “Two is multiple!” I shout. Carrie, who is foreseen this,” says “More than multiple!” I say,
Winchester.” Then I tell him that Nadine says here too. Carrie. proudly, because it’s about seven.
“I mean,” says Nadine, “they expect he’s a posh boy who doesn’t know the “By the way,” says “Shush,” I say. “Anyway,” says another.
me to believe that it’s you who lied! price of milk. Nadine. “I’m not Later, Jacob and Nadine “Apparently you’ve got a job with a
You! To one of your most loyal “Nadine says that about everyone, resigning. I mean, I come back, to discuss our plans tabloid newspaper! Big relief!”
supporters!” though,” says Rishi. am, but I’m also of attack. “Scrivener’s wages,” I scoff. “I
Jacob agrees that this is “Fair point,” I concede. not. Because I was “Your enemies have over- wouldn’t call it a relief. I’m loaded
unimaginable. “Also,” says Rishi, “it was only going to when they egged the pudding,” says Jacob. these days, anyway.”
“But that’s the Remainer narrative,” Winchester.” didn’t want me to, “And I for one am prepared to “Oh, not for you,” says the
he says. “That he’s selfish. And self- “That, too,” I admit. but now I’m not spend all day saying so to news journalist. “For us. Because we were
obsessed. When I think we all know “And anyway,” says Rishi, “my wife’s going to give them crews in the hot sun, while all terrified you might be coming to
what this is really about.” family has a significant investment the satisfaction. Until inexplicably dressed as a one of ours.”
“Yes,” says Nadine. “It’s about a in the global dairy industry. So I I do.” December undertaker.” *according to Hugo Rifkind

Mozart’s panic as future

mother-in-law fumed
Constance Kampfner they usually so intimate.
Venning said it was rare to
A letter showing Mozart in a get this “degree of insight . . .
“complete panic” over his love into his character . . . and
life is due to go up for auction feelings at a pretty crucial
this summer. moment in his life.”
The composer penned the “He comes from a very
note to a close friend, explaining strict Catholic background.
that he needs to get married So the fact that he’s already
within two days in order to save cohabiting with Constanze,
his future wife from the scandal that they’re already sleeping
of being dragged out of his together, he’s sort of throw-
house by the police. ing caution to the wind,”
He said it followed a “misun- Venning said.
derstanding” with his future He added: “It tells you
mother-in-law in the summer something about Mozart as
of 1782. a kind of revolutionary
“She’s about to send in the figure. He’s someone who
police to retrieve his fiancée isn’t obeying the old rules.”
with obviously terrible conse- Mozart’s arrival in Vienna
quences for his reputation,” ex- the previous year was a
plained Thomas Venning, turning point in his profes-
Christie’s Head of Books and sional and personal life.
Manuscripts. Having left the security of
“He’s in a complete crisis and the Salzburg court, he had
rather wonderfully pouring out decided to pursue an inde-
his heart in a totally unfiltered pendent career as a compos-
way.” The letter finds er, performer and teacher.
Mozart was 26 at the time Mo
Mozart, below, He was relying on a handful of
and had only recently arrived in a crisis over pupils to sustain a living and con-
in Vienna. His soon-to-be-wife th
the threat of tinued to teach throughout the 1780s
Constanze was known to be C
Constanze, as a way to supplement his income. It
cohabiting under the le
left, being was in the summer of 1782 that he
same roof as the re
removed by premiered the opera Die Entführung
composer, po
police as they aus dem Serail (“The Abduction from
mpt-
which prompt- we
were known to the Seraglio”), which would help es-
ed er
her be cohabiting
c tablish his reputation as a composer
mother, Cä-- across German-speaking Europe.
cilia We- The plot concerns the attempt of the
ber, to Waldstätten,
W aldstätte Mozart hero Belmonte, assisted by his ser-
send in declares
deeclares the only
o possible vant Pedrillo, to rescue his beloved
the police solution is for him to mar-
so Konstanze from the seraglio, or
to reclaim ry Constanze the next harem, of Pasha Selim.
her day – or indeed the same
d The letter, which has always been
daughter da
day if at all possible. The in private collections, has not been
from Mo- co
couple were wed on seen by the public or scholars since
zart’s Au
August 4, 1782, and re- 1989.
house o
to mai
mained married until his It is expected to become the most
save her rep-p- death in 1791 at the age of 35. expensive Mozart letter to date when
utation. Tho
Though the musician wrote it goes on auction at Christie’s in July
ter to
In the letter many leletters during his life, they as part of its Classic Week sale and
Baroness von are not often
ofte up for auction, nor are could fetch up to £500,000.
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ANDREW COOPER

Tedious and Jack Whitehall’s

superstar musings
went down only

plodding. Is middlingly with

the audience

this the best

he can do? Settle Down goes no deeper than a
Hello! picture caption. He moans
Comedy Dominic Maxwell about “the missus” forever asking
for explanations when they watch
telly together. He moans their
Jack Whitehall child’s due date is 9/11. He has a
decent gag or two about Roxy
Brighton Centre having dated Leonardo DiCaprio.
HHIII Yet he’s long past the point where
he can keep on presenting himself
as a feckless loser. Can he bring up
“A lot has happened since we spoke a child when he can’t even keep a
last,” Jack Whitehall says, beaming, basil plant alive, he asks. Reckon he
as he settles into Settle Down, his can if he puts his mind to it.
first stand-up show in four years. Even in a loyal crowd, these
Hasn’t it just! Yet, with the superstar musings go down only
exception of a swift rant against middlingly. There are loud ads for
Boris Johnson and a concluding his podcast playing on the screens
homily about representation in in the interval, and a finale in which
Disney films, what Whitehall is he announces that he decided to
talking about is almost entirely his return to London from LA because
own misadventures. he missed the drizzle and cynicism.
Or he tries to present them as He comes across as no more than
misadventures, but really it looks as his own brand ambassador.
if he’s just a really happy, wildly Touring to August 21,
successful, mildly anxious guy. jackwhitehall.com
He has been working in
Hollywood. He has left behind but jovially oversold jokes about performer, self-mocking
“drink, drugs and casual hook-ups” internet robots, pubic hair, Love personableness amped up to
to settle down with his girlfriend, Island, boarding school (oh no, not stadium level, and his plodding
the model Roxy Horner. They are again!) and how he’s shyer off stage material. Yes, he can act out pet
expecting their first child. They’ve than on except after a drink. peeves with aplomb. Yet his peeves
taken the chance to go on a luxury He touches, briefly, on a bit of never get beyond the pet — literally
safari while they still can before real-life pain. Beyond that it is so when he tells us about his £7,000
parenthood, albeit it was marred by absolutely going to be all this new toy poodle. “I know,” he says,
sharing a car with some big, bigoted frivolous nonsense. And it’s tedious. “I’m a privileged twat.” Fine, but do
Floridians. “It’s not all going to be If I get testy about Whitehall, it’s something unexpected with it. He
all this frivolous nonsense,” he because there is such a gaping gulf says he doesn’t want to give us the
promises, as he hits us with obvious between his world-class talent as a Instagram version of his life, but

Summer holidays spoilt

by hotel staff shortages
Ben Clatworthy president of the Galicia Tourism unemployed in this country but we
Travel Correspondent Cluster, said: “The industry will adapt can’t find anyone to hire and I am
Blanca Schofield, Tom Kington to the situation and instead of open- talking about waiters and dishwash-
ing eight hours a restaurant will may- ers, not IT staff,” Bocca said.
Hotels in Europe have closed whole be have to open for four.” He blamed Italy’s unemployment
floors and restaurants curtailed their His comments are echoed by the benefit payments. “If you combine
hours as the hospitality sector faces Business Confederation of Hospitali- that with a bit of work off the books,
chronic staff shortages. ty in Spain (CEHE), which represents you can earn as much as you would in
Holidaymakers are being warned more than 300,000 companies. a job in a hotel,” he said.
that sites across Europe are facing A spokeswoman insisted that while Nuria Montes, the general secre-
unprecedented labour issues, heap- there is “no crisis” in the sector, re- tary of the Business Association of
ing pressure on summer hotspots. cruitment is harder than it was pre- Hotels and Tourism in Valencia, said
Hospitality businesses are grappling pandemic. “Managers will end up there was a risk that people would
with recruitment woes after the pan- adapting and those that cannot find rather be on benefits than working,
demic when millions of workers were personnel to look after clients will and that even with rising salaries
laid off without notice. probably have to opt for options like posts stay vacant.
Tom Jenkins, the chief executive of reducing [capacity] or reducing She said: “It could be that they don’t
Etoa, the European tourism associa- opening hours,” she said. “But what is want to work on weekends because
tion, said: “Any industry would find it certain is that this will never take its that’s the thing with tourism — it’s a
difficult, having let people go and told toll on either the quality of service or 24-hour job, 7 days a week, 365 days a
them to find another job, to then ex- on the attention paid to clients.” year. You have to work weekends,
pect them to return. This is a problem Shortages are also being felt in nights and holidays.
that is being felt everywhere.” France and Italy, with the latter fac- “Some people just don’t like that
According to the World Travel and ing a shortfall of 220,000 workers in kind of job. I don’t think it’s simply a
Tourism Council (WTTC) trade tourism this summer. Industry bosses salary question because even by in-
body, 1.69 million people working in suggest that one reason is that young creasing offers we can’t find workers.
the sector were laid off in 2020 people no longer want to do manual We have shortages of qualified posi-
as pandemic lockdowns closed summer jobs. tions like chefs and maintenance
businesses. The travel industry Bernabò Bocca, the head of Italian managers, which are posts with cor-
rebounded quickly last year, hoteliers’ association Federalberghi, responding important salaries. Even
when most countries dropped Covid said restaurants are reducing the then, we don’t have the workers to fill
entry restrictions and protocols, but number of available tables and hotels these vacancies.”
vacancies could not be filled fast are keeping rooms shut as they hunt Within the sector there are worries
enough. The WTTC says one in nine for staff. “We thought it couldn’t get about how long the crisis will last.
remain unfilled. worse after last year but it did. There “I wish I had a crystal ball to tell
Spain, the UK’s most popular holi- are 1.2 million now employed in the you what the next 12 months would
day destination, is experiencing acute sector, so we are about 20 per cent look like,” Jenkins said. “We simply
problems, despite having 3.5 million under,” he said. don’t know.”
people unemployed. Cesáreo Pardal, “There are meant to be two million Travel, Weekend pullout
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‘Shells, drones — they’re
throwing everything at us’ DANYLO ANTONIUK/REUTERS

Ukraine’s progress in Brigade broke through Russian

defences to take back Blahodatne,
battle is comingg at 50 miles to the east.
It took three days to find a route in
a price, writes that was not mined, the Ukrainians
creeping forward in their mine-resist-
Catherine Philp p ant MaxxPro vehicles. The Russians
tried to repel their advance, and a group
in Blahodatne of Ukrainian soldiers became pinned
down behind a building, some killed by
It took only moments after the Ukraini- machinegun fire as they tried to flee.
an flag was hoisted over Blahodatne for One survivor made his way to the
the Russian shelling to erupt again. Sol- remainder of his unit to raise the alarm,
diers dashed for cover behind wrecked and they escaped in a MaxxPro, under
buildings, in ditches and inside their heavy Russian fire. “The MaxxPros are
prized American armoured MaxxPro like a red rag to the Russians, they
vehicles as the fire rained down. target it with everything they have,”
“They are throwing everything at us,” Stepan said. “But they are almost
said Stepan, a former bus driver. “Shells, indestructible.”
mortars, missiles, rockets and drones. Kyiv residents shelter in a metro station as Russian missiles target the capital One MaxxPro was hit by shells and
They haven’t stopped.” burnt out; another was struck by mor-
Airstrikes too, sometimes ten a day, tars, “but everyone inside survived.
including one that set off an alert in Putin vows to attack western jets deployed outside Ukraine They truly saved our soldiers lives.”
Blahodatne yesterday, sending soldiers When the Ukrainians reached the
scurrying for cover in a basement in President Putin has The Netherlands and in talks. “Well, we will village centre they found three dozen
this village in southern Donetsk. Rus- threatened to destroy Denmark, both Nato burn everything they civilians still in their damaged homes
sian attack helicopters fire rockets at western fighter jets members, are leading delivered and see what and the bodies of Russians strewn in the
troops as they attempt to fan out beyond Ukraine’s efforts by an they are going to do streets. One last group of Russians were
through the village, taking over the borders if they are used international coalition next,” he said. “We see holed up in the half-destroyed cultural
positions the invaders have left behind. against Russian forces, to train pilots and they are trying to centre. “Those who resisted we killed,
Ukraine may be celebrating its first predicting that such an support staff, maintain achieve victory on the the others we took prisoner,” Ivan, 40, a
few successes of the counteroffensive, escalation could drag aircraft and ultimately field of battle. Go for it, machinegunner, said.
raising its flag once again in a string of Nato into the conflict supply F-16s to Ukraine. we’ll see how it works All those taken prisoner were merce-
seven villages along the Mokri Yaly (Tom Parfitt writes). The Ukraine air force out for them. So far, it’s naries fighting for the notorious Wag-
river. But its forces also face a running He said in a speech at said yesterday that not working. And it’s ner group. One had shot himself to
battle to keep hold of the liberated terri- the St Petersburg “several dozen” combat unlikely it will.” avoid capture. Another claimed he had
tory and push on through Russian-laid International Economic pilots would be sent A BBC analysis of never fired his weapon and, on inspec-
minefields to even more daunting Forum that German abroad for training. more than 25,000 tion, the Ukrainians discovered he was
defences beyond. Leopard 2 deployed by In a typically Russian soldiers who telling the truth.
The first line of multilayered de-
fences, where trenches and earthen
Ukrainian forces were
“burning, being
combative speech,
Putin said that Russia
have died in the war
suggests the Kremlin’s
“These guys were prisoners before
they came here, I guess they have noth- Macron and
mounds are interlaced with minefields destroyed” and added: had the capability to fighting force is ing to lose,” Ivan said.
and dragon’s teeth anti-tank barri-
cades, lie nine miles to the south.
“F-16s will also burn,
there’s no doubt about
destroy “any building or
structure” in the centre
increasingly older and
less disciplined. It found
The discovery suggests the Russians
put those troops deemed expendable in
MBS embrace
As the Ukrainians advance they be-
come increasingly vulnerable, exposed
that. If they will be
located on airbases
of Kyiv, but had
refrained from doing so
that early last year the
typical Russian casualty
the exposed positions ahead of their
main defences. None of the Russian at the Élysée
on the empty southern plains to Rus- beyond the borders of because Ukraine was was aged 21, and was a Marines who had put up the fiercest re-
resident Macron

P
sian firepower beyond. Ukraine, and used in not enjoying success on low-ranking sistance were captured alive.
Western intelligence officials, assess- combat, Russia will see the front line. professional soldier. But In a sharp reminder that the front welcomed Crown Prince
ing the start of the counteroffensive this how and where to strike He claimed he was “in recent months”, the line is not Ukraine’s only battlefield, a Mohammed bin Salman
week, acknowledged that Ukraine was those being used ready for dialogue with typical Russian killed in flurry of Russian missiles were inter- to Paris yesterday as part
taking significant casualties and mak- against us. This poses a the US but that it was Ukraine was 34, and a cepted over Kyiv, exploding noisily as a of his efforts to attract
ing slow progress towards the main line serious danger of more intent on convict recruited from delegation of African leaders arrived on investment from oil-rich Saudi
of Russia’s defence. further pulling Nato into supplying arms to prison by the Wagner a peace mission to meet President Zel- Arabia, despite questions over its
“The vulnerability of the classic this armed conflict.” Ukraine than engaging mercenary group. ensky. Led by President Ramaphosa of human rights record (David
single lanes through the minefields South Africa, they will travel on to Chazan writes).
make the Ukrainian armoury very vul- Russia to meet Putin, despite Zelensky’s He welcomed another
nerable to attack,” they said. The coun- armed vehicles and wiped out the times ours. It’s hard for soldiers but they insistence that no negotiations are high-profile guest, Elon Musk, who
teroffensive was “going in the right di- 350-strong 47th brigade. are fighting. They are f***ing recover- possible while Russia is killing his was visiting the Élysée Palace for
rection” but they predicted “grinding, Days later a staff sergeant, Valerie ing our land metre by metre.” people. the second time in two months and
costly warfare” for months to come. Markus, released a video in which he One western official called the com- In the days since they liberated
“The idea that the Russians were just claimed his force had lost only five men bined arms assaults the Ukrainians Blahodatne, the 68th brigade has suf-
going to melt away and the Ukrainians and that the Russians had come out of were attempting “incredibly difficult”, fered a steady stream of casualties —
were going to drive straight through
their defensive line was in people’s wil-
dest dreams,” one western official said.
“In this conflict the advantage has al-
the battle worse. “We are on the offen-
sive, they are on the defensive,” he
fumed. “They are carrying losses many
casting doubt on Markus’s claim to have
inflicted more casualties than his bri-
gade had sustained.
“While they are inflicting casualties
“hundreds of them”, said a battlefield
medic who has taken the name “Bone-
setter”. He added; “Most of them are
from mines and shelling.”
Gotta catch
ways been with the defender.” on the Russians they are not significant, All around the soldiers, the air crack- Japan
Russian-held territory
One of the most closely watched bat- because the Russians are choosing the led with the sound of shelling, both out-
Richard Lloyd Parry Tokyo
tles took place on June 7 at Mala Tok- Ukrainian counter-offensives time to withdraw, in a manner similar to going and incoming — a duel between
machka, in western Zaporizhzhia Mokri Yaly River the way the Ukrainians defended the Ukrainian side’s own artillery,
oblast, as about a dozen American- themselves against Russian vehicles,” which has been moved forward to the Japan is facing a wave of robberies of
UKRAINE Dnipro
donated Bradley fighting vehicles and the official said. new front lines, and that of the Rus- Pokémon trading cards — originally
German-made Leopard tanks tried to Mala Tokmachka Still, there was amazement when sians, hidden behind defensive lines to aimed at children — that have become
breach a minefield and came under Blahodatne President Putin, meeting military blog- the south. valuable objects of financial specula-
ferocious attack. One officer described Donets gers at the Kremlin, admitted Russia “There are minefields everywhere,” tion and targets for criminals.
it as “running into a wall of steel”. Odesa had lost 54 tanks to the counteroffen- Bonesetter said. “And as we continue to Last month ¥2.2 million (£12,100)
With Ukraine officially silent on bat- sive, many more than expected. advance, we know there will be more worth of cards were stolen in the moun-
tlefield developments, Russia leapt on It was the same night, June 7, that the casualties.” tainous Yamanashi prefecture, south-
the failed assault for propaganda pur- 47th brigade were beaten back that James Cleverly: War may last for years, west of Tokyo. One thief, according to
poses, claiming to have destroyed 120 50 miles CRIMEA their comrades in the 68th Jaeger Saturday interview, pages 34-35 the Wall Street Journal, carried out a
the times | Saturday June 17 2023 39

Welcome to Slowjamastan: France faces up to fraught

DJ founds his own nation relationship with migrants
Page 41 Page 42

STEPHANIE LECOCQ/REUTERS

Georgia targets
Trump with law
that snared Mob
United States
David Charter Washington
Donald Trump is likely to face further
‘I’d terminate
criminal charges, this time under anti-
racketeering laws originally enacted to
prosecute mafia gangsters.
election rivals’
His appearance in a Miami federal Keiran Southern Los Angeles
criminal court this week may be
followed by another first for a former He’s a commando-in-chief with a
president: charges under Racketeer In- total recall for politics, the
fluenced and Corrupt Organisations president of pump who could
(Rico) laws in Georgia. terminate Donald Trump on the
The case arises from alleged pressure stump.
applied by Trump and his associates to Arnold Schwarzenegger, the
officials in the southern state to over- former Republican governor of
throw the results of the 2020 election, California, has said he believes
including his notorious phone call to he would win the race to become
the Georgia secretary of state to “find US president if he were allowed
11,780 votes” — one more than Joe to run.
Biden’s victory margin. The star, 75, told CNN that “of
A decision on charges is expected to course” he would run if allowed,
be announced in August, adding to the adding that the 2024 field — like
list of cases set to come to trial in an in 2016 — is “open right now”.
election year, with Trump the He said: “I mean, think about it
frontrunner for the Republican presi- right now. Who is there that is
dential nomination. really a person who can bring
Fani Willis, the district attorney from everyone together?
Atlanta investigating Trump, is compil- “Who is here today that people
ing a Rico case to indict not just the say, ‘Okay, he’s not too old or he’s
former president but numerous mem- not too this or too that’. Because
bers of his circle who played a part in an it’s now a question about who do
alleged scheme to reverse his defeat in you vote against rather than who
half a dozen swing states. do you vote for. I see so clearly
She has demanded information from how I could win that election.”
two companies hired by the Trump Schwarzenegger is not eligible to
who, it is hoped, can be persuaded Macron is hoping he will announce President Macron hopes to persuade campaign to seek evidence of election run for president as the US
to build a new Tesla car plant in a big purchase of Airbus planes for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman fraud in various states, but who came up Constitution states that nominees
France, rather than Spain or Italy. a new Saudi airline. The two leaders to invest Saudi’s oil riches in France empty handed. Their research was must be born in America, and he
The billionaire held talks in Rome are expected to turn out for a global never published but could be crucial for was born in Austria.
with Giorgia Meloni, the Italian conference in Paris next week on to France than any other European the Georgia prosecution, because a key The star of films including The
prime minister, on Thursday. poverty, climate change and country for the past four years. element of Rico cases is to show that Terminator said
Macron’s conversation during a biodiversity. “France has become very good at the conspiracy was extensive. “people are
one-to-one working lunch with Bin The prince is believed to be marketing itself,” said Patrick Norm Eisen, co-author of a Brook- looking for some
Salman is said to have focused more staying at the €275m Chateau Louis Pelata, a business strategy ings Institution report on the Rico laws, new answer,
on diplomacy than business. The XIV, which he owns. It was built 12 consultant advising AESC Envision, said Willis would claim that the Trump not a right wing or
crown prince arrived in Paris with a years ago, modelled on the gilded a Sino-Japanese group building an campaign “essentially became a racket- left wing, but
retinue of investors and a plan to opulence of the Palace of Versailles. electric car battery factory in the eering enterprise”, adding: “There’s someone that can
invest up to €3 trillion by 2030 as He will be at a reception on north of France. challenges that come with the Rico bring the nation
the kingdom seeks to diversify its Monday to promote his country’s A Macron aide said: “A president route, but the payoff in terms of together”.
economy away from fossil fuels. bid to host Expo 2030, and is who rolls up his sleeves and gets on commanding the jury’s imagination
The Saudi contingent and Musk seeking the backing of France, a with it makes a big difference.” and securing the most serious penalties Arnie would
will both attend VivaTech, an leading arms supplier to Gulf Despite global economic is substantial.” like to stand
annual technology conference in nations. turbulence, France attracted record Those convicted under the law face a
Paris dedicated to innovation and Macron has faced a wave of foreign investment last year, with jail term of up to 20 years.
startups. protests over pension reforms, but 1,725 projects expected to create Willis, 52, has built her reputation on the Republican secretary of state in
Bin Salman will also attend the business leaders praise him for nearly 60,000 jobs, a 7 per cent far-reaching Rico cases, including one Georgia, as a “perfect call”.
Paris Air Show next week, where attracting more foreign investment increase from 2021. against 11 Atlanta school teachers in- He denied all 37 criminal charges in
volved in test-cheating in 2015. Her in- Miami this week over the alleged illegal
vestigation focuses on two schemes: retention of classified documents and
Trump’s alleged attempt to persuade obstruction of justice. The district judge

them all: thieves lured by Pokémon cards officials to “find” votes, and efforts by
his allies to send a number of Republi-
can electors to Congress on January 6,
2021, for the formal tallying of presi-
in charge of that case, Aileen Cannon,
has issued her first order to require all
lawyers representing Trump and his
valet, Walt Nauta, who is charged
heist by climbing on to the roof of They are used in a game in which Masaki Omori, 35, was recruited dential votes, in place of the Democrat- alongside him, to obtain security clear-
a building in Tokyo andnd ab- players ppitch “monsters”, repre- through an online ad, according to Jap- ic electors chosen by Georgia voters. ance from the Department of Justice to
seiling through the sented by cards, in fights anese media. He subsequently broke Willis has said that her investigation be able to view sensitive material.
window of a sixth-flooror agai
against friends and com- into a shop at 5am. Reports claim he includes potential “solicitation of elect- Cannon set a deadline of June 20, a
shop. The biggest rob- pet
petitors. More than 53 bil- was offered more than ¥1 million for ion fraud, the making of false state- tough demand considering that both
bery was on May 13, lio of the cards have
lion the robbery, in which he stole ¥1.15 mil- ments to state and local governmental Trump and Nauta are still seeking Flor-
when ¥6.5 million of be
been produced around lion of cards. bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, viola- ida-based lawyers to defend them.
cash and cards were th world, but the rarest,
the Kenta Hosaka, whose shop was tion of oath of office and any involve- 6 Trump failed to keep a promise to
stolen from a shop in as well as those with robbed, told the Wall Street Journal ment in violence or threats related to diners at the Versailles restaurant in
Kumamoto prefec- un
unique misprints and that the cards are “like Rolex watches, the election’s administration.” Miami, where he met supporters after
ture in the far south of flaw can change hands
flaws, gold, silver, platinum or used cars”. Trump, 77, has consistently denied his court appearance, according to the
the country. a much as ¥600,000.
for as The number of robberies means any wrongdoing in Georgia and fre- Miami New Times. “Food for every-
The cards are sold in m accused of a rob-
A man shops selling the cards are installing quently refers to his hour-long taped one!” he said. About ten minutes later, it
packets of five for ¥200. bery in Akihabara district, extra security. conversation with Brad Raffensperger, reported, he left without paying.
40 2GM Saturday June 17 2023 | the times

World
YIN BOGU/XINHUA/AP

Xi talks AI
with his
‘old friend’
Bill Gates
resident Xi of

P China discussed
the rise of
artificial
intelligence
with Bill Gates at a
meeting in Beijing
yesterday, according to
sources, although the
details of the discussion
were not mentioned in
official read-outs (Didi
Tang writes).
Xi described the
Microsoft founder as an
“old friend” and said the
foundation of China-US
relations lies with the
people, in an apparent
swipe at America’s
politicians, according to
state media.
“We always place our
hope in the American
people and hope that the
peoples of the two
countries will be friends
for ever,” Xi, 70, told
Gates, who is visiting
China for the first time
since 2019. Xi granted a
meeting with Gates, 67,
and told him: “You are
the first American Bill Gates with President Xi, is a backer of OpenAI, including mainland that China needs to The details of any comment, the Bill &
friend I’ve seen this year who told him he was the whose ChatGPT bot set China and Hong Kong, seize opportunities to discussion of AI between Melinda Gates
in Beijing.” “first American friend I’ve off a wave of excitement to sign on. use AI to drive Xi and Gates were not Foundation directed
According to sources seen this year in Beijing” and alarm last year that Xi said he welcomed economic development, disclosed in reports of Reuters to the post,
familiar with the talks, has spread to China. American companies but has also cautioned the meeting published which said the pair had
the two men discussed solve humanitarian OpenAI and ChatGPT bringing the new about its risks, with the by Chinese state media discussed global health
advances in AI, for crises. are not blocked by technology to China, the country weighing up a or in an online post and development
which Gates has been a Although Gates now Chinese authorities, but Reuters news agency new law on the by Gates reflecting on challenges such as
prominent advocate, concentrates on OpenAI does not allow reported. technology as well as his trip. health inequity and
citing its potential to philanthropy, Microsoft users in some countries, He has previously said rules for generative AI. When asked for climate change.

Taiwan split over threat from China

Former leader says The sensitive, literary side of Xi, 70, is
not one that has been obvious in the
against the DPP vice-president, Willi-
am Lai, insists that it is a choice
communist control. The DPP govern-
ment has refused to acknowledge the
“For those who are familiar with Chi-
nese history, to go from division to uni-
war is avoidable, eight years since that meeting, and the
prospect of butchered soldiers and
between “war and peace”.
Ma said: “In my term of office no
Consensus — and without this, China
refuses to talk to it, and makes increas-
fication takes years, perhaps hundreds
of years,” he said. “What people want
writes Richard weeping families appears closer now country believed that there would be ingly menacing threats to achieve its most is peace, prosperity and stability. It
than ever. Xi, then three years in power, war between the two sides of the Tai- goal by force. doesn’t have to come with unification,
Lloyd Parry is now into an unprecedented third wan Strait. It is the DPP government’s To the DPP, the only logical response and that can’t be achieved in a short
term, and he has established himself as adoption of misguided policies that has is to bolster Taiwan’s military defences, period of time.”
in Taipei the most menacing and uncompromis- brought Taiwan to the brink.” and President Biden has become the Alexander Huang, head of inter-
ing Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. Taiwan was a backwater until 1949, first US leader to say explicitly that the national affairs for KMT, goes further.
President Xi is known for his ruthless Ma, from the nationalist Kuomint- when the nationalist army of Chiang US would defend the island if it had to. “Dialogue is not an end in itself, it’s a
authoritarianism and ambition, but ang (KMT) party in Taiwan, left office Kai-shek retreated there after its defeat “To deter conflict is the real issue,” tool,” he said. “We buy time. Beijing
when Ma Ying-jeou met him he discov- in 2016. His successor, Tsai Ing-wen, on the mainland by Mao’s communists. said Wang Ting Yu, a DPP MP. wants to end the game, DPP wants to
ered that the Chinese leader also had a 66, of the Democratic People’s Party A lifetime later, the island is a rich and “Democracies around the world must quit the game. KMT’s position is to
taste for poetry. (DPP), has enraged the Chinese gov- thriving democratic society; for all in- deliver a clear signal to Xi: if you use make the game infinite.”
Ma, 72, was the president of Taiwan ernment by emphasising Taiwan’s inde- tents and purposes, the Taiwanese in- military force, we will fight you, you’ll The problem is Xi, who gives no sign
at the time, the democratic self-ruling pendence from the mainland. After the habit an independent country. fail and the price will be the loss of your of being prepared to wait hundreds of
island that China claims as its own and suppression of democracy in Hong This has never been declared formal- power.” years. His third term will end in 2027,
threatens to take by force. The strait Kong, fewer and fewer of Taiwan’s ly, however; instead, under an arrange- The counter-argument is that while which is also the 100th anniversary of
that divides the island from the main- people think of themselves as Chinese, ment known as the “1992 Consensus”, Taiwan must be ready to defend itself, the founding of the PLA. Xi has prom-
land has long been clouded by the or hold out any wish for “reunification”. the two sides agreed that there is one preparing for war without also talking ised a “rejuvenation of the Chinese
threat of invasion and war. Governments in the United States, China, but agreed to disagree on who is about peace is more likely to nation”, which many take to include
When Ma talked to Xi in 2015 he was Japan and Europe have warned against its rightful government. provoke Xi than to deter him. taking control of Taiwan, by the cen-
the first Taiwanese leader to meet a Chi- any attempt to take Taiwan by force; The idea of tiny Taiwan taking “I see chances for dia- tenary of the communist victory in
nese president face to face. In a subtle China retorts angrily that the issue is a over mighty China has long logue,” said Ma, who over- 2049. He has promised not to pass the
spirit of flattery, but also warning, he re- domestic, internal matter. The People’s been a ludicrous fantasy. But saw an unprecedented problem endlessly from one generation
cited an ancient poem about the trage- Liberation Army (PLA) has conducted with Beijing’s suppres- boom in cross-Strait trade to the next.
dy of war. “To rout the foe at hazard of increasingly aggressive air and sea sion of democratic op- under his presidency. “I see “It’s a risk to assume that China or Xi
their lives/Five thousand soldiers sank exercises in the Strait, even firing mis- position in Hong the chances for peaceful co- Jinping will change,” said Vincent
into the sand,” the Tang dynasty poet siles over the island after Nancy Pelosi, Kong, more and more existence. We don’t need to Chao, a spokesman for Lai, the DPP
Chen Tao wrote. “Their skulls unburied the senior US congresswoman, visited Taiwanese also object provoke the other side all presidential candidate. “The presump-
by the river’s strand/They live on in the Taipei in August last year. to the notion that the time to show how tion has misled the world for the past
dreams of weeping wives.” For Ma and a significant number of their island could loyal we are to Tai- three or four decades, the idea
Ma told The Times: “Xi Jinping knew Taiwanese it is a disastrous state of af- ever come under wan. That makes no that China will conform to our expecta-
the poem. We had both learnt it when fairs, and one which is at the centre of sense.” tions. The KMT wants to restart dia-
we were young. We recited it together campaigning for the presidential elect- Taiwan has For all his talk logue and take a more conciliatory
— so you see, we have some things in ion to be held in January, when Tsai will bolstered its of poetry recitals, cross-Strait approach. But the long-
common, we can communicate with be replaced after serving her limit of defences in case Ma is not naive term calculus for Xi Jinping doesn’t
one another. This gives me confidence two four-year terms. The KMT, whose of an attack by about Xi’s in- change: reunification is the only result
that we can continue the process.” candidate, Hou Yu-ih, is competing its neighbour tentions. he’ll be satisfied with.”
the times | Saturday June 17 2023 2GM 41

World
Whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers dies aged 92
David Charter Washington making whistleblower who shocked Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon The report showed that US officials
America by revealing how the govern- Papers, that he was only one week into believed the war could not be won, that
Daniel Ellsberg, the US military analyst ment covered up internal assessments a two-year tour of duty in Saigon when President John F Kennedy approved of
who exposed longstanding American that the conflict could not be won. he realised the US was in a war it could plans for a coup in South Vietnam and
government doubts and deceit over the His actions made him the target of a not win. that Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon
Vietnam War by leaking the Pentagon smear campaign by the Richard Nixon While working at the Rand Corpora- Johnson, had plans to expand the war.
Papers, has died at the age of 92. White House with Henry Kissinger, 100, tion think tank he gained access to a Ellsberg’s eventual prosecution for
Ellsberg, who was diagnosed with who was then the president’s national secret 7,000-page report covering US espionage, theft and conspiracy was
inoperable pancreatic cancer in Febru- security adviser, referring to him as “the involvement in Vietnam from 1945 dismissed on the grounds of govern-
ary, died at his home in Kensington, most dangerous man in America who until 1967, which he covertly copied and ment misconduct as evidence against
California, his family said. must be stopped at all costs”. eventually began feeding to the New him had been obtained by the so-called
Motivated by a desire to bring the war Ellsberg, who served in the Marine York Times. The Nixon administration White House Plumbers of Watergate
to an end, he was regarded as a history- Corps, said in his 2003 book, Secrets: A lost attempts to block publication. Daniel Ellsberg outside court in 1973 fame from a break-in.

All hail the sultan of Slowjamastan: Depardieu

forced to sell
DJ declares independence from US art amid sex
allegations
United States The sultan of
Keiran Southern Slowjamastan Los Angeles Slowjamastan,
France
The sultan of Slowjamastan lets out a Randy “R Dub”
David Chazan Paris
sigh as he weighs the burdens of leading CALIFORNIA Williams, rules over
a nascent nation, which to the un- his country, which Gérard Depardieu, the veteran French
Pacific
trained eye seems little more than a plot Ocean
is already sending screen actor facing a series of sexual
of scrubland off State Route 78 between out postcards assault allegations, is to sell much of his
the towns of Ocotillo Wells and West- Slowjamastan €5 million art collection.
San Diego
morland. David Nordmann, the auctioneer,
20 miles MEXICO
San Diego is two hours away but acknowledged that the sale could be
we’re in another country altogether. In affected by the “legal problems” of the
this dusty corner of California, the 74-year-old star, who is also under
sultan — or Randy “R Dub” Williams, a police investigation for alleged rape,
radio DJ who appears to have borrowed which he denies.
a costume from Colonel Gaddafi’s “We would prefer that there weren’t
wardrobe — explains how he declared these problems,” Nordmann said. “The
independence from the United States. ‘Depardieu effect’ will be difficult to
Williams, 46, who grew up in the Los gauge, but over and above his personal-
Angeles suburbs, bought his 11-acre ity, this is a collection of very high quali-
plot for $19,000 in the southern Cal- ty works of art.
ifornia desert in December 2021 and “People won’t buy because they’re
announced that he was creating a fans of Depardieu but because they
micronation in a press conference from want to acquire the artworks.”
his offices in the capital, Dublândia. Nordmann rejected suggestions that
There is, perhaps, a whiff of the the star of Jean de Florette and Cyrano
middle-aged hipster about Williams, de Bergerac was selling his collection
who is flanked by Mark Corona, his because of financial difficulties.
chief border agent, a beefy chap with a “He’s had five heart operations and 17
water pistol, during an interview with motorbike accidents and he needs to
The Times at his “consulate” in San lighten the load a little.”
Diego — a commercial radio station. Depardieu, whose excesses are leg-
He has been overwhelmed, however, endary, once boasted of drinking 14 bot-
by the response to his scheme. His tles of wine a day. He has said he worked
country now has 10,000 “citizens” who
applied for a passport online. Depardieu is under
This can be explained in small part by investigation for
Williams’s charisma, though California suspected rape
is a state whose residents often decide
they want to go it alone. Proponents of
New California, for example, formed in
2018, maintain that old California has
become “ungovernable” and seek to
gather much of the rural areas along as a male escort and robbed graves in
with San Diego and Orange counties, his youth.
to form a 51st state. The idea of micro- President Putin granted him Russian
nations is gaining traction citizenship in 2013 after he said he was
around the world. Reports leaving France to escape high taxes.
suggest that most emerged Depardieu declared they were kindred
in Australia, such as the Gay spirits, saying: “We both could have
and Lesbian Kingdom of tthe sultan is feeling gener- Word of the new desert nation has been hoodlums.” But the bromance
the Coral Sea Islands, with oous and I like to reward my spread and readers in Bangladesh ended abruptly when the star criticised
its capital Heaven on the ppeople. We have elections mistakenly believed that it was an the Ukraine invasion.
Great Barrier Reef off aand referendums.” official country. The centrepiece of the 250 artworks
Queensland. The Princi- Citizens decided that the They emailed Williams requesting a to be auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot in
pality of Hutt River, more rraccoon should be the visa, telling him that they were seeking September is L’Homme qui marche, a
than 350 miles north of nnational animal of Slow- a better life. He had to break character statue of a walking man, valued at up to
Perth in Western Australia, jjamastan while the mara- briefly to post a travel advisory on the €800,000. The figure by Germaine Ri-
was dissolved in 2020. The sschino cherry was the Slowjamastan website, explaining that chier, a French sculptor, bears some re-
Empire of Atlantium, how- nnational fruit. Crocs, the tourists needed a US visa. semblance to Depardieu, who played
ever, was created in New mmuch-maligned footwear, The sultan, however, has grand plans the portly, enormously strong charac-
South Wales to show that wwere banned. “We will for- for his small nation. ter Obelix in four Asterix films.
the days of nation states ccibly remove a ‘Croc’ and As well as creating an online commu- There are contemporary abstract
were numbered with the bbeat you over the head with nity and making people smile, Williams paintings and a statue by Auguste Ro-
spread of electronic com- iit,” the rules state. The hopes another county will officially re- din, who was portrayed by Depardieu
munication. ccountry’s green passports cognise Slowjamastan. in the film Camille Claudel.
Williams appears to agree, iinsisting
i ti iis nott h l i Sl
helping. j t iis a refuge,
Slowjamastan f iinclude
l d iinspirational quotes from some He notes that under the 1933 Monte- Thirteen women who worked with
that his nation seeks to unite rather an escape from the bickering. You can of the sultan’s favourite hip hop artists, video Convention, requirements for Depardieu have claimed that he groped
than create a border to divide people. leave your arguments at the doorstep.” including A Tribe Called Quest. any prospective countries include or sexually harassed them. Prosecutors
“Most people get Slowjamastan,” he Williams adds, however, that there Slowjamastan’s population is fast having a permanent population and a dropped a rape case but then reopened
said. “They enjoy it. It brings a smile. are rules that must be observed. “It is rising as it approaches Nauru’s, home to defined territory, which Slowjamastan it. Depardieu “absolutely denies any
“Divisiveness is getting worse, people 100 per cent a dictatorship,” he said. about 12,000 people. But its has even if only a few people call the rape, any sexual assault, any crime,” his
are hating each other and social media “However, there are some days when infrastructure is a work in progress. country off State Route 78 home. lawyer said.
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France faces up
to its fraught
relationship
with migrants
France the right-wing president of the day, and
it was only inaugurated in 2014 once he
Adam Sage Paris
had left office.
Right-wing opposition parties are de- Six years later, it closed again for
manding a crackdown on asylum. The another overhaul. On Saturday, it will
left wants measures to help foreigners reopen after a €2.5 million renovation
integrate into French society. President with a new narrative that begins with
Macron’s centrist government is trying the slave trade and ends with the arrival
to navigate a path between the two, of migrants in recent decades, from
without much success. It put forward north Africans settling in Parisian sub-
an immigration bill in February, with- urbs to Britons in the Dordogne.
drew it in March and promised to bring Rivière’s aim is to show how migrants
it back. Since then, it has dithered. have shaped France. Yet even before
The row over migration was fraught the museum’s relaunch, it was em-
in France even before the stabbing of broiled in a fresh controversy after pub-
four children, including a three-year- lishing an advertisement hailing “all
old British girl, by a Syrian refugee in these foreigners who have made
Annecy in the French Alps on June 8. French history” alongside a picture of
Now it is feverish, with populists accus- Louis XIV, the Sun King. Traditionalists
ing the government of failing to prevent expressed indignation at the sugges-
“Francocides” — a term they coined to tion that the 17th-century monarch,
describe the killing of French people by who was born in France to a French
migrants — and Filippo Grandi, the father, Louis XIII, could be counted as a
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, foreigner on the grounds that his
accusing them of sowing “hatred”. mother, Anne of Austria, was Spanish.
The issue is dominating the news Rivière points out that almost a third
agenda, although to Constance Rivière, of the current French population is ei-
director-general of the Porte Dorée ther a migrant or the child or grand-
Palace, which houses the National child of migrants. “Our music, our liter-
Museum of the History of Immigra- ature, our cinema, our arts, our sports,
tion, it is not really news at all. our gastronomy would not be so in-
She views Macron’s woes as the latest credibly rich without the contributions
episode in a seemingly interminable of those who have come to France and
French struggle to come to terms with brought a bit of elsewhere,” she said.
immigration. “I have been dealing with Yet if France has long depended upon
the question of rights, and particularly foreigners, it has not always treated
of foreigners’ rights, for 20 years and them well. More than one million Afri-
about every two years there has been an can slaves were taken across the Atlan-
immigration law accompanied by ex- tic in French ships between the 17th and
pressions of fear. I am [not] so sure it is 19th centuries. In the late 1800s, the
very different today,” she said. French economy relied on migrant
The Porte Dorée Palace in eastern workers from Belgium, Italy and
Paris itself bears testimony to French Poland. They faced hostility and riots.
complexities. The monumental edifice Moussa Sarr, an artist born in Corsica
was opened in 1931 as the Palace of Col- in 1984, whose work, Blackface, features
onies for an exhibition vaunting the in the museum, said racism remained
merits of the French empire. In 1935, it far-reaching. “When I take the under-
was renamed the Museum of France ground, I get stopped to have my ticket
Overseas and in 1960 the Museum of checked far more than most people and
African and Oceanic Arts. In 2007, it when I go to the supermarket with my
became an immigration museum, the backpack, I am told to take if off when
first of its kind in Europe. everyone else is allowed in with theirs.
However, historians involved in the “I don’t think attitudes have changed Show of hands President Biden and his wife Jill hosted Eva Longoria at a screening of the film Flamin’ Hot, which she directed,
project fell out with Nicolas Sarkozy, much since the 19th century.” on the South Lawn of the White House. It tells the story of a janitor who claimed to have invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos crisps

Survivors blame Greek coastguard for refugee boat tragedy

Greece home in the Netherlands, kissed his taken to shore were Egyptians, Syrians, once express the desire to continue to
younger brother on the head through Pakistanis and Palestinians. At least 78 Italy,” she said. “They were in danger
Anthee Carassava Athens
metal fencing around a warehouse people, including one woman, were and needed to be rescued. They didn’t
Tom Kington Rome
where survivors have been sleeping. confirmed to have died. say anything to me about refusing to be
Survivors of this week’s migrant boat Others showing up to search for Nawal Soufi, a Syrian activist based rescued by the Greeks.”
sinking in the Mediterranean, in which missing relatives were not so lucky. in Italy who took distress calls from the Soufi said that during the day she
hundreds were killed, were reunited Tito, an Egyptian living in Milan, said boat on Tuesday, said a passenger told spoke to a 20-year-old Syrian woman
with relatives as the Greek coastguard he had travelled to Greece to help a her that a passing cargo ship had at- before she went below deck. She added:
denied it had caused the boat to flip friend trace his 25-year-old brother. tached ropes to the vessel to throw “They begged me, saying, ‘Perhaps this
over. “He had made the trip from Cairo to bottles of water to the migrants. will be our last night.’ They felt death
The vessel, thought to be carrying up Tobruk in Libya to get on the boat,” Tito “The man told me a ship came close was coming closer.”
to 750 people, sank early on Wednes- said. “But we know nothing about his Fadi, a Syrian, embraces his brother and attached two ropes, one to the high Soufi said survivors had told her the
day, 50 miles from Greece after setting fate — whether he survived or not. Mohammed through a metal barrier part of the boat and one to a forward Syrian woman was among the victims.
off from Tobruk, Libya. Only 104 survi- They haven’t told us anything.” part,” she said in a Facebook post. “In The United Nations called yesterday
vors were ferried to shore. Greek officials denied claims from They said ‘no help, we go to Italy’ and this phase, the [crew] started throwing for investigations into the tragedy. The
It is feared that up to 100 children survivors that coastguard crews caused continued on their way.” Nikos Alex- bottles of water. This created panic on Pope said he felt “so much sorrow”.
packed below decks were among the the top-heavy boat to tip over when iou, a spokesman for the Greek coast- board and there was a risk of capsizing Vincent Cochetel, of the United
victims. “Thank God for your safety,” they attached a rope and tried to tow it guard, added: “We instead chose to for bottles of water.” Nations High Commissioner for Ref-
said Fadi, a Syrian, as he saw his brother to Greece. mind the vessel from a distance. If we Soufi, 26, challenged the Greek ugees, said Greece should have inter-
Mohammed, 18, who was taken to the “There was no mooring rope,” Ilias had left, I doubt there would have been coastguard’s claim that the migrants vened. He said: “Under international
Greek city of Kalamata. Siakantaris, a spokesman for the Greek any survivors.” had insisted on heading to Italy. law, Greek authorities should have or-
Fadi, who had travelled from his government, said. “They refused it. He added that most of those people “During the whole day they did not ganised this rescue operation sooner.”
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of Don Quixote. De la
Treasures Cueva said a third of the
exhibits will be changed
of Spanish each year, drawing on
the more than 150,000
royalty on pieces the Patrimonio
Nacional manages.
The idea for the
show at last museum arose during
the Second Republic but
he wealth of it ground to a halt at the

T imperial Spain,
once the envy
of the world,
was sacked by
Elizabethan pirates,
looted by Napoleonic
invaders and bought for
outbreak of the 1936 to
1939 civil war that
brought Franco to
power. Two decades
after his death and the
return to democracy, the
initiative was taken up
a song by American again in 1998. But it
industrialists (Isambard took another 25 years,
Wilkinson writes). Yet €172 million and several
its royal treasures are of changes of government
such a scale that many before the project could
have lain for centuries in be finished.
obscurity in warehouses Leticia Ruiz, director
and dark monastery of the gallery, said that
corners. bringing together such a
Now, nearly 100 years variety of pieces makes
after the idea was first it “a museum of
proposed, the museums”. She added:
artistic riches “Experts
of the royal w know
will
collection m
most of the
have been p
pieces but
drawn fo the
for
together p
public many
from o them will
of
palaces b a
be
and s
surprise,
convents across s
such as
Spain and united cultural opened in Europe,” Ana hillside crowned by the order V
Velázquez’s
in a single events. It is de la Cueva, president of palace, contains works across W
White
museum in housed in a the Patrimonio by El Greco, Goya, seven H
Horse.”
Madrid. The modern Nacional, a government Caravaggio and floors. Perhaps
opening of the annexe to body that runs royal Tintoretto. De la Cueva Tapestries, a
among
Royal the royal heritage, which passed said the collection furniture t most
the
Collections palace. into public control in the brought together pieces t d
and lavishly decorated W k b
Works by G
Goya anddLLuisa
i i artefacts
moving t f are
Gallery, set “It’s 1930s, said. “It’s also of “incalculable value”, carriages stand Roldán sit alongside paintings by Goya
for June been unique to gather what many of which had alongside sculptures, gilded carriages in the showing Spanish rebels
29, has decades the monarchs collected never been exhibited in suits of armour, such as Royal Collections Gallery, making bullets to use
been hailed as since a over 500 years in a public. the one belonging to the which is due to open in against the French, and
one of the museum of contemporary museum.” Descending from Holy Roman Emperor Madrid almost 100 years his signature on a list of
year’s great this The vast construction, street level, the museum Charles V, and books, after it was proposed paintings demanded as
European magnitude which stands on a steep is laid out in historical including a first edition gifts for Napoleon.

Secrets, lies and lockdowns behind Berlin Wall

required. Everything could be allegiance: during his first hospital The public never got a whiff of it. striking thing about the book is the
Oliver G E RMANY bought: doping substances for the posting in the GDR, even his Stasi Doctors would often conceal the number of curious resonances with
Olympic squads, blood-thinner for observers were a little creeped-out severity of disease from the patients the 2020s. It is not just a matter of
Moody the son of a state conglomerate by the zeal with which he themselves, leaving people oblivious crumbling hospitals, it is also the
manager, even tip-offs about press-ganged his colleagues into to advanced cancers or heart policies wheeled out by the
impending defections to the West by forming a choir for Stalin’s birthday. conditions. Braun sees this as a communist state. Workers who
East German doctors or scientists. His Nazi background bound him “mirror image of an authoritarian dropped out through long-term
berlin
CONFIDENTIAL Sprenger’s story is one of many into a wider conspiracy of silence. system that sought to keep its illness were cast as shirkers,
revelations in Political Medicine, a For many years Misgeld covered up citizens in a childlike state of damaging the national cause. GPs
new book on the first two decades of for a colleague who had carried out impotence”. were pressured to crowbar these
n its early years the German the East German health ministry by horrific human experiments in a There was an almost medieval skiving crybabies back into the

I Democratic Republic (GDR),

better known as the former
socialist state of East Germany,
made a fateful decision to
“purify” and “interference-proof ”
its supply of medicines.
All western-made treatments were
the historian Jutta Braun.
It will come as little surprise that
the state’s claim to heal the bodies of
a workforce racked by war and
hunger through “social hygiene” was
undermined by a sprawling system
of corruption, hypocrisy, ineptitude
concentration camp, using a
machine he had built with his own
hands to chop the wombs out of
living women. In return, when other
senior doctors got wind of Misgeld’s
past, the secret police did not just
turn a blind eye: they actively made
fixation on “plagues”, which
occupied a strange space between
medical reality and political
metaphor. Friedrich Wilhelm
Brekenfeld, another formerly devout
Nazi who ran the ministry’s hygiene
department, oversaw public
labour force, an idea that has
resurfaced in parts of the western
centre-right today.
Outbreaks of infectious disease
were sometimes crushed with
lockdowns, and the GDR introduced
vaccine mandates in the 1950s. The
purged from the doctor’s and warped ideology. Yet there are sure the story was buried. information campaigns that results were impressive: polio and
armamentarium. Pharmaceutical also plenty of findings that deserve This climate of secrecy permeated disseminated mad conspiracy diphtheria were wiped out within
stocks collapsed by a third. There attention. Those who argue that the into medical practice. Some theories along these lines. State years, and tuberculosis cases fell by
were desperate shortages of heart East Germans did a better job of hospitals carried out clandestine media accused the US of using two thirds in a decade.
medication, hormones, anaesthetics exorcising the spectre of the Third trials of compounds ds secret aircraf
aircraft missions to “While I was writing this book
and labour-inducing drugs such as Reich than their capitalist cousins in developed by West “g
scatter “great quantities and writing about vaccination in the
oxytocin. The secret police force, the West did might stumble over the German drugs infec
of infected insects” GDR, there was an enormous
the Stasi, even confiscated tiny doses chapters on denazification. companies. In 1951 a over China and discussion in Germany about
of medicine sent to families from As doctors and other highly trained homemade Kor West
Korea. whether we should bring in a
their relatives in West Germany. medical professionals fled the GDR antibiotic called Ge
Germans were vaccine mandate,” Braun said.
In the GDR, however, there was in droves, the authorities were so Loranil was sa to be drilling
said “There were quite a few people in
usually a workaround if you had the desperate to cling on to the rolled out much h
holes into pats of Germany who said that in this
right connections. Whenever a big remainder that they covered up all too quickly after b
butter and filling respect the GDR was significantly
cheese in the ruling party took a bad manner of past sins. a botched test th
them with more progressive, so why don’t we
turn, they called in Alfred Sprenger, In a past life Gerhard Misgeld, phase. It killed at po
poison to spread do the same?
a former Nazi turned Stasi agent. who ran the ministry’s research least ten people, dy
dysentery “Of course one can say: is an
Sprenger would slip across the division from 1960 to 1967, had including babies thr
through the East. authoritarian power grab justified if
border into West Berlin with a stack joined the Hitler Youth, then the and toddlers. Pe
Perhaps the most it saves people’s lives? This is a very,
of banknotes, activate his contacts paramilitary Sturmabteilung, and Internal reports very, awkward fracture point in
in the Rhineland’s drugmakers and finally the Nazi party itself. Under blamed the disasterr on G
GDR
DR for
forces would seize society and it always has to be
procure for the elites whatever they communism, he simply switched his rs”.
“pests and saboteurs”. any weste
western medicines renegotiated afresh.”
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world markets (Change on the day) commodities currencies
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ITV comes calling Odey firm

for Midwife maker freezes two
TV is in talks Liberty may seek to more funds
I to buy the
production house
behind Call The
Midwife, right,
and Gogglebox as it
seeks to strengthen its
studio division and
raise its share in ITV.
ITV has grown the
share of programming
made by ITV Studios
from half in 2009 to
68 per cent in 2020,
with content also sold
Ben Martin Banking Editor
Investors fleeing the hedge fund firm
founded by Crispin Odey in the wake of
sexual misconduct allegations against
offset more volatile to other broadcasters. him have forced the group to freeze
revenues from its ITV Studios’ withdrawals from two more portfolios.
advertising-dependent contribution to group Odey Asset Management suspended
broadcast arm (Alex revenue rose by 19 per trading in the Odey Special Situations
Farber writes). cent to £2.1 billion in fund after receiving “a sizeable level of
The FTSE 250 2022, cushioning a redemption requests”, it said in a letter
broadcaster said it was 10 per cent decline in to clients. Dealings in the LF Odey
“actively exploring the advertising revenues. Portfolio fund have also been brought
possible acquisition of While ITV insiders to a halt because of rising withdrawals.
All3Media” but added are confident the deal It means that five funds, with com-
that there “can be no would not attract the bined assets of about £950 million at
certainty as to whether attention of regulators, the end of May, have now been hit by
any transaction will a combined ITV the turmoil engulfing the group.
take place”. Studios and All3Media The latest suspensions came despite
All3Media was set would generate UK steps taken by bosses at the Mayfair-
up in 2003 and has turnover of about based business to stabilise the situation.
grown to become one £1.4 billion. These included the decision by its part-
of Britain’s leading Tom Harrington, nership last Saturday to oust Odey, 64,
production companies, head of television at from the business he founded in 1991.
worth an estimated the analysts Enders, Investment firms can freeze funds in
£1 billion. It is jointly said that after the order to prevent them from being over-
owned by Warner Bros controversy over the whelmed by clients demanding their
Discovery and Liberty presenter Phillip money back. A flood of redemptions
Global, which also Schofield, ITV wants would otherwise force managers into a
holds a 10 per cent “a positive narrative fire sale of assets to meet withdrawals.
stake in ITV. out there to put the Odey Asset Management has now
A tie-up could result focus back on its core suspended four funds with a fifth fro-
in Warner selling its business”. zen, to close by early September. Over-
stake to trim its Shares in ITV rose all assets at the firm totalled $4.4 billion
$49 billion debts, while 0.8 per cent to 70½p. Continued on page 48

Confidence in Bank hits record low

Public losing faith in ability to tame inflation before rate decision
and exceeding the previous low of strength of price rises when setting being unfair in blaming the industry for
Mehreen Khan, Isabella Fish 6 Traders betting that the Bank of
minus 12 recorded late last year. Public interest rates. Appearing before the food price inflation, Ken Murphy, chief
England will raise interest rates
Public confidence in the Bank of measures of current inflation also rose House of Lords economic committee executive of Tesco, said: “Yes, I do.”
further have propelled the pound to
England’s ability to control inflation in May to 9.6 per cent from 9.2 per cent this week, Bailey admitted that the Bailey said this week that food price
its best weekly performance against
has fallen to a record low in a blow to in the previous three-monthly survey. Bank had “lessons to learn” from inflation would be slow to fall after
the dollar in more than a year (Ben
the authority of the governor Andrew Household inflation expectations persistently high prices. “We still think rising to a record 19 per cent in recent
Martin writes).
Bailey. are an important way for central banks inflation will come down but it is going months. The governor said that the
Sterling rose to around $1.28
A survey of public attitudes conduct- to judge whether their policies to keep to take a lot longer,” he said. Bank’s surveys of businesses had found
yesterday, taking its gain over the
ed by Ipsos last month found that net inflation low and moderate are credi- Consumer price inflation dropped in that companies said they would reduce
course of the week to more than
satisfaction on whether the Bank was ble. If the public thinks inflation will April to 8.7 per cent from 10.1 per cent prices in line with falling energy prices,
1.9 per cent. It has been pushed
“doing its job to set interest rates to con- continue to rise they may be more likely in March, still the joint-highest rate but this had yet to materalise in many
higher by expectations that the
trol inflation” had fallen to the lowest to boost their spending in the short among major advanced economies, sectors including food and goods.
Bank will be forced to increase
since the poll began in 2000. term and ask for pay rises, helping to alongside Italy. Murphy said that energy and labour
borrowing costs further to rein in
The finding comes days before mem- push up demand and prices. The inflation data for May will be re- costs had increased for Tesco, and that
inflation. Policymakers at
bers of the monetary policy committee The timing of the Bank’s latest survey leased on Wednesday, the day before he expected them to remain elevated
Threadneedle Street are due to
are expected to raise the cost of borrow- on how the public views its perform- the Bank’s decision. At present, the given the shortage of workers in Brit-
announce their latest rate decision
ing for the 13th consecutive time to ance in controlling inflation comes at a Bank’s committee thinks that inflation ain. Where commodity prices had
on Thursday. The base rate
4.75 per cent from 4.5 per cent, with difficult time for the nine-strong rate will drop to 8.3 per cent in May from come down, such as for milk, bread,
currently stands at 4.5 per cent after
some in the market pricing in a 50 basis setting committee as the cost of bor- 8.7 per cent in April and is on course to pasta and oil, the supermarket had cut
a succession of gradual increases
point increase to 5 per cent for the first rowing, and particularly the spiralling reach its 2 per cent target in 2025. prices, he said. He added that the price
since late 2021, when it had been at
time since April 2008. cost of mortgages, has become a polit- Bailey was also criticised yesterday of commodities such as potatoes, pro-
a record low of 0.1 per cent.
The net satisfaction balance — ical headache. by the boss of Britain’s biggest super- tein and rice had not fallen.
Markets now anticipate that it will
which measures the proportion of On Thursday, MPs on the Commons market chain for his comments on food “We react pretty quickly when we see
need to go as high as about 5.75 per
people who say that they trust the Bank Treasury select committee called on price inflation, saying that the retailer those commodities come down,” Mur-
cent to contain inflation. The
subtracted by those who do not — fell the Bank to investigate the models it was quick to react to falling commodity phy said after the grocer’s first-quarter
consumer prices index stood at
to minus 13 in the latest quarterly sur- used to forecast inflation after it was prices. trading update.
8.7 per cent in April.
vey, down from minus 4 in February criticised for underestimating the Asked if he believed the Bank was Tesco sales rise, page 47
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Need to know
1
Homeowners taking out new
mortgages face having to pay
almost £3,000 extra on average
‘It was very Libor fallout
2005
Barclays traders make

convenient to
hundreds of requests for Libor
next year in a squeeze that could and Euribor rates that will aid
total £15.8 billion by 2026, their commercial positions
according to a think tank. Page 2 (and bonuses)
2007
2
Public confidence in the Bank Barclays submits ‘lowball’ Libor
of England’s ability to control rates to give an artificially
inflation has fallen to a record
low in a blow to the authority of
governor Andrew Bailey. The
finding by Ipsos comes days before
members of the monetary policy
committee are expected to raise
throw traders 2008
Integrity of Libor is
questioned in the media.
Peter Johnson tells New York
Fed that dollar Libor rates are
“absolute rubbish”
healthy picture of its finances

under the bus’

the cost of borrowing for the 13th
consecutive time. Page 45
2012
3
Investors fleeing the hedge Barclays is fined £290m
fund firm founded by Crispin prompting senior resignations,
Odey in the wake of sexual including chief executive Bob
misconduct allegations against Diamond. SFO launches inquiry
him have forced the group to Peter Johnson, the the surface. In one way it’s really bad 2013-15
freeze withdrawals from two because I don’t like feeling like this. In Numerous other banks fined
for Libor manipulation. Tom
more portfolios. Odey Asset
Management suspended trading in
former banker jailed for one way it’s brilliant. Because it shows
how important it is — too important to Hayes is first person in UK to
the Odey Special Situations fund market manipulation, sweep under the carpet.” go on trial and sentenced to
14 years, reduced to 11 on
and the LF Odey Portfolio fund In the United States the conduct
after redemption requests. Page 45 is now a whistleblower, Johnson and others including Tom appeal
Hayes, a UBS and Citigroup trader sen-
James Hurley writes
4
Company insolvencies in tenced to 14 years, were convicted for is
England and Wales last no longer considered a crime. In parlia-
month rose by 40 per cent Peter Johnson makes a surprising ment last month, David Davis, the
year-on-year to the highest level admission as he pours a cup of tea in the former Brexit secretary, claimed “serial
since monthly records began in kitchen of his home near Tunbridge miscarriages of justice” had occurred
January 2019, data from the Wells, Kent: “I’m as nervous about while “real villains got off scot-free”.
Insolvency Service showed. speaking to you as I was about being in- Britain has become a “global anoma-
terviewed by the FBI.” ly” in criminalising normal commercial

5
Four executives of Cineworld Events of recent weeks have seen the activity, Davis claimed, as he called for
will collect $35 million from former banker thrust back into the an inquiry into the establishment’s role 2022
its lenders when the cinema spotlight over his role in what Johnson in the scandal. Now Johnson has US court overturns
chain emerges from Chapter 11 himself reluctantly calls a “conspiracy”: agreed to speak publicly for the first convictions of two former
bankruptcy. A source said they the alleged involvement of the Bank of time. In a joint interview with The 2023 Deutsche Bank traders. Every
Libor trial conviction in US has
would be providing valuable help England, UK government and his Times and the BBC, Johnson claims Criminal Cases Review
now been overturned
to the new management for up to former bosses at Barclays, his employer that, against his vehement protests, he Commission review on
12 months. Page 48 for 30 years, in falsely understating in- was instructed to lie about interest whether convicted trader
terest rates linked to trillions of dollars rates, a result of alleged pressure from Tom Hayes can take his case
to the Court of Appeal due

6
Abcam, one of Britain’s most worth of transactions. top Barclays executives, the Bank of
successful biotech companies, The scandal saw nine low and mid- England and the government to ease within weeks
has called on shareholders to dle-ranking bankers, including John- pressure in financial markets during
vote against plans by its founder son, jailed in the UK. the credit crunch.
Jonathan Milner to overhaul the On his kitchen table, Johnson, a 68- “After the financial crisis, the UK pressing against my chest. I’d wait for day-to-day basis”, sourcing funding for
board, calling his behaviour erratic year-old grandfather, has gathered rel- public, absolutely justifiably, needed six o’clock before I started self-medi- deals and balancing risk.
and dysfunctional. Page 49 ics of his extraordinary role in the affair heads on pikes. They were outraged. I cating with alcohol. I had panic Before the financial crisis, he also
to show me: a prison diary; a letter to just think the authorities chose the attacks.” used to spend about five minutes each

7
Britain’s rail regulator has put MPs from his father about his case; and wrong heads,” he said. He sheds tears as he recalls what he day submitting the bank’s dollar Libor,
caterers on notice to ensure his prisoner identification card. “Libor As well as his freedom and career, the calls the hardest day of his life: telling or London inter-bank offered rate,
consumers get a fair deal as it memorabilia,” he jokes, referring to the scandal cost him £500,000 in legal fees his father he was involved in the scan- readings. Libor and Euribor, its Euro-
announced a market study of name of the interest rate that took over and a fine from the City regulator as dal when news of a £290 million fine for pean equivalent, were meant to reflect
railway station catering. The his life. well as contact with his parents in the Barclays broke in June 2012. “I felt I’d let the rates at which banks could borrow
Office of Rail and Road noted that The fresh attention — the result of later years of their lives. He also lost him down. I was sort of the apple of his from each other. They were key bench-
food and drink sold at stations was the publication of a new book examin- certain friends “who thought there’s no eye.” His father died two months after marks in the financial system that were
often more expensive than on the ing the affair, which paints Johnson as a smoke without fire”, and the episode his release from prison. “I didn’t have used as the basis for pricing products
high street. Page 50 whistleblower rather than a villain — is has taken an enormous toll on his men- enough time to reconnect. The whole ranging from mortgages to commercial
both a relief and a curse, he says. tal health and family life. process has been devastating. ” loans and student loans.

8
The chief executive of the “I’ve spent years trying to suppress At one stage, while fearing extradi- Johnson began his career at Barclays After returning from a holiday in
stockbroker Peel Hunt said he my emotions because I don’t want to tion to the United States, he admits he in 1981. At the time of the scandal his job 2007, Johnson noticed something was
was not interested in doing get upset and bitter and twisted. All my had “serious suicidal thoughts”. “I’d go was to “make sure that we had enough wrong. Rates being submitted by other
consolidation deals as it reported a emotions have come bubbling back to around all day with a sort of a weight US dollars to keep the bank going on a banks were too low compared with the
37 per cent fall in revenues and
scrapped dividends and staff
bonuses. Steven Fine insisted that
it could continue to operate as an
independent and was well able to
withstand the collapse in volume
Company insolvencies jump to new monthly high
of deals and floats affecting the Helen Cahill liquidations. Numbers have risen since, industry when it brought in advisers restructuring of a business, have also
UK market. Page 51 reaching a 13-year high in the final from FRP Advisory to handle its increased and we expect to see more
Company insolvencies in England and quarter of 2022 and staying close to that insolvency. The Northumberland- management teams making use of

9 Currys has surprised the City

by unveiling plans for a
potential sale of its Greek
retail business Kotsovolos. Alex
Baldock, its chief executive, said
Wales last month rose by 40 per cent
year-on-year to the highest level since
monthly records began in January
2019.
Data from the Insolvency Service
in the first quarter of 2023.
“Given that trading conditions
remain extremely challenging, the
number will likely continue to climb
through the second half of the year,”
based business was a contractor on a
number of projects in the northeast and
had a turnover of more than £40 mil-
lion in the year to March 2022.
Nicky Fisher, president of R3, the
these corporate rescue tools in the
coming months.”
6 Consumers are relying more on
credit cards and personal debt, accord-
ing to the trade body for 300 companies
performance was “robust in the yesterday showed that 2,552 companies said David Kelly, head of insolvency at restructuring trade body, said: “The providing credit, banking, markets and
UK and Ireland” but it was the were declared insolvent last month, the accountants PwC. fallout from battling the effects of the payment-related services.
“right time” to consider the future overwhelmingly through creditors’ PwC said construction and retail pandemic, coupled with rising costs, In the year to the end of March, out-
of Kotsovolos. Page 51 voluntary liquidations, in which a com- were the hardest-hit sectors, and the increased creditor pressure and high standing balances on credit cards grew
pany’s directors agree to wind up the number of food manufacturers in inflation, is causing more businesses to by 9.6 per cent, UK Finance said. There

10 Travis Perkins cut profit

forecasts by more than
10 per cent in an
unscheduled trading update. The
FTSE 250 builders’ merchant
business without a formal court order.
However, the government agency
said there had also been a 34 per cent
increase in compulsory liquidations,
partly due to more requests from tax
trouble was also increasing. About
99 per cent of liquidations featured
companies with annual sales of under
£1 million, it added.
There was a wave of distress in
turn to an insolvency process to help
resolve their financial issues.”
Lindsey Cooper, a restructuring
advisory partner at RSM, said: “With
the continued increase in interest rates
were 343.8 million credit card transac-
tions, 4.9 per cent more than in the
same month in 2022. The total spend of
£20 billion came in 8.4 per cent higher.
There were 2.1 billion debit and credit
conceded that it “has not seen the authorities to recover funds from construction, with 42 firms that pro- it is becoming more and more difficult card transactions in total in the UK in
anticipated easing of market companies unable to pay their tax bill. vide domestic and commercial building for some businesses to refinance and March, up 4.3 per cent. The total spend
conditions in the second quarter Insolvencies in the UK were low services appointing administrators, we expect more failures among those of £77.8 billion was 5.8 per cent up on
to date”. The shares fell 6.7 per during the pandemic because of an according to data from Creditsafe. businesses which are already in a March 2022. Contactless payments
cent on the day. Page 51 £80 billion business loan programme Howard Russell Construction be- vulnerable cash position. made up 61 per cent of credit card and
and a temporary bar on court-ordered came one of the largest casualties in the “Administrations, which also allow a 75 per cent of debit card transactions.
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Business
o of the UK’s most overcrowded
one
p
prisons, as a 61-year-old softly spo-
k
ken middle-class grandfather. “I
ssuddenly realised I was in a very
u
uncomfortable, alien, frightening
eenvironment.”
He describes sharing a 12ft by 7ft
ccell with a toilet in the corner “sur-
rrounded by torn sheets”. “That was
th
the privacy: you were defecating
33ft away from your padmate.”
Shortages of prison staff meant
h
he was sometimes kept in his cell
fo
for up to 54 hours, other than ten-
Peter Johnson described the process minu
minute breaks to collect meals.
of being investigated and then jailed “People were going mad, and no
“devastating”, and hopes that a public wonder. I’m a fairly gentle person and I
inquiry will be held into the scandal wanted to throw furniture around.”
After five weeks Johnson was moved
provided so that colleagues could profit to Ford Prison in West Sussex, an
from trades. Bob Diamond, the “open” prison for low-risk convicts.
Barclays boss at the time, would later This was “still horrible” but a relief, with
tell MPs that such conduct was “despi- more and longer visits allowed, and it
cable”. was easier to phone Liz, about whom he
The traders were excoriated by politi- speaks glowingly. He kept himself busy
cians, judges and the media. Yet under walking more than 6,000 miles by
Libor rules set by the British Bankers doing circuits of the perimeter fence,
Association, bankers were allowed to raising about £3,000 for a veterans’
pick from a range of rates to their com- charity in the process.
mercial advantage as long as they were Johnson was released in July 2018.
ones genuinely available on the market. Banned from the City by the regulator,
Juries were not told this. he says he now helps to look after his
“Every rate I ever submitted for Libor grandchildren and acts as an assistant
was a justifiable rate within the range to Liz, who runs tours of London for
that I was being shown in the market American tourists. He is still counting
that day,” says Johnson. the cost to his freedom in other ways —
He was told that he was under in- his conviction means he can’t visit
vestigation in 2009 and was inter- family in New Zealand until 2026.
viewed by the FBI the following year Calls for a fresh public inquiry from
He informed them of alleged pressure the likes of Davis, Lord Tyrie and
to rig rates by central banks and Labour’s John McDonnell have given
governments. In 2012 Johnson was Johnson some hope that his role in the
sacked by Barclays and in 2013 he learnt scandal might be reappraised.
that he was being charged by the Seri- “I’d like vindication in the eyes of
ous Fraud Office. those who treated us as pariahs, scum,
“I’d always prided myself on having a despicable. It would be nice for every-
good moral compass. I couldn’t under- thing to be examined again, with all
stand how it was happening to me. As facts on the table, and people not able to
time has gone on, I’ve thought it was squirm out of anything. If someone
very convenient to throw traders under needs to be held accountable, so be it.”
the bus.” Such optimism is tempered by bitter
Johnson’s protestations of innocence experience. He adds: “The justice
are complicated by the fact that, unlike system seems to be an old boys’ net-
traders he was prosecuted alongside, he work that’s happy for low hanging fruit
pleaded guilty. That was simple prag- to be picked and eaten and the fruit at
prices lenders were in truth charging the US central bank, the Federal Re- Libors lower,” Dearlove said. Johnson matism, he argues, as legal fees for a the top of the tree gets ignored.”
each other. “It didn’t correspond with serve, to banks’ “lies” about the interest replied: “So I’ll push them below a real- trial at which he was advised he had a The Criminal Cases Review Com-
reality.” He continued to submit accu- rates they were paying to borrow dol- istic level of where I think I can get good chance of being found guilty mission is expected to decided whether
rate readings, only to come under pres- lars. He also says he warned the Bank of money?” would amount to £1 million, meaning Hayes’s case should be referred to the
sure from his bosses when these made it England that Libors were “fundamen- “PJ, I’m on your side . . . everyone he would have to sell the family home. Court of Appeal within weeks.
look as though Barclays was paying tally wrong” and “set too low”. “They agrees that it’s the wrong thing to do . . . “If I plead guilty we could keep the A Bank of England spokesman said:
more for its funding than rivals, a sign of didn’t seem particularly interested.” these guys have just turned around and house and get on with my life without “The Bank fully co-operated with the
financial distress. “I wanted to put in Despite his protests, Johnson says he said, ‘Just do it.’” this massive financial hit which would Serious Fraud Office’s investigation
honest [rates] and I was asked to put in was told to push his Libor rates lower, “Unbelievable!” Johnson replied on affect me and my wife Liz for the rest of into Libor manipulation, responding to
dishonest ones. I thought, ‘I’m going to but he was allowed to keep them higher the tape. What does Johnson think of our lives,” he said. “It was absolutely the all requests for information and docu-
fight against this as much as I can’.” than rivals as long as they didn’t make that instruction now? “Unbelievable.” right thing to do. I’d have loved to plead ments. It is entirely false to suggest that
Colleagues told him that the pressure Barclays appear too much of an outlier. The recording, leaked to the BBC in guilty with a proviso. You can’t do the Bank has withheld relevant infor-
to lower rates was coming from a Bar- Then, in October 2008, he received a 2017, prompted calls for an investi- that.” mation.”
clays boardroom fretting over specula- call from his boss, Mark Dear- gation but no one was prosecuted for In 2016, Johnson was sentenced to six An SFO spokeswoman said that a
tion about the bank’s financial position. love.“You’re going to absolutely hate this “lowballing” of rates. By then years in prison. His guilty plea took a number of the convictions it secured
Evidence uncovered in Rigged, a book this, but we’ve had some very serious Johnson was in prison for another form third off the tariff. He served two years “have been reviewed by the Court of
by the BBC journalist Andy Verity, pressure from the UK government and of manipulation, “trader requests”, in prison, with a further two on parole. Appeal and all have been upheld”.
shows that Johnson repeatedly alerted the Bank of England about pushing our whereby higher or lower rates were He arrived at Wandsworth Prison, Barclays declined to comment.

Shoppers are switching from upmarket rivals, says Tesco

Isabella Fish Retail Editor executive, said that Tesco had seen an prices were unlikely to return to the
“elevation of dining in and people Board defends asking chairman to step down levels they were prior to Russia’s inva-
Britain’s biggest supermarket chain treating themselves at the weekend”, a sion of Ukraine as wages were material-
claims to be benefiting from shoppers market for which M&S and Waitrose The Tesco board has on this occasion”. His of Tesco. The board ly higher than they were two years ago,
switching from upmarket rivals compete fiercely. defended its handling of comments were met by went through great energy prices were still high and com-
including Waitrose and Marks & “A lot of people have been pleasantly the situation an applause from deliberations over a modity prices also stubbornly high.
Spencer amid surging food prices. surprised about our Finest range,” he surrounding John Allan, others attending. number of weeks and Food prices rose by 19.3 per cent in
Like-for-like sales at Tesco rose by said, adding that Tesco’s summer and its former chairman, The Guardian meetings before we April, dipping only slightly from
8.2 per cent to £14.8 billion in the first BBQ ranges had also had strong sales. who was asked to step reported last month came to the decision March’s 19.6 per cent and remaining
three months of the year as it noted Murphy, 56, admitted there was still down following that Allan allegedly that it was close to the highest rate for more than
“encouraging early signs” of an easing some “modest” volume decline across allegations over his touched the bottom of a inappropriate to put 45 years, according to official figures.
in grocery inflation. the group, but said that general mer- workplace conduct senior member of Tesco John up for re-election Murphy said he did not believe a
Tesco is not obliged to give profit chandise volumes had bounced back (Isabella Fish writes). staff in June 2022 at the at this AGM. John hasn’t price cap on grocery essentials, an idea
figures in its first-quarter update but with the good weather. At the company’s company’s AGM. He has been sacked, he’s been floated by the government last month
said UK like-for-like sales, excluding He said that the company’s overall annual general meeting strongly denied three of asked not to be re- and implemented in some countries,
fuel, rose 8.8 per cent in the 13 weeks to performance had been underpinned yesterday, a member of four claims made elected to the board.” including France, was needed in the
the end of May, amid double-digit food by its focus on value, as it expanded a the audience, a retired against him. Grote said the search UK and denied that Tesco had been
price inflation. price match with the German discount police officer, said there Byron Grote, interim for a new chairman was artificially holding up prices, pointing
Sales of Tesco’s Finest range were up rival Aldi to include around 700 “should be a certain chairman, said the already well under way to falling profit margins for the chain.
14.9 per cent and more than a hundred products. threshold to sack a board “has great and that a permanent The group said it was “well posi-
new premium products were released, Tesco recently cut prices on bread by person”, before respect for John Allan replacement for Allan tioned for the months ahead” and
as it claimed a ninth consecutive period 12 per cent, while pasta and broccoli suggesting that Tesco and the contribution would be announced in maintained its full-year guidance.
of switching gains from upmarket were both 16 per cent cheaper in June had “set the bar too low he’s made as the chair due course. Shares in Tesco were down 1½p, or
competitors. Ken Murphy, chief compared with May. Murphy said 0.6 per cent, at 263p.
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Hacked companies named on dark web

Katie Prescott Hacked companies named include that had its data stolen. However, they requests: “We show video proof, we Rafe Pilling, a security researcher
Technology Business Editor Shell and other US and western have not been named by the hackers. have no use for a few measle dollars to working in the SecureWorks Counter
European firms, representative of the The group published a statement on deceive you.” Threat Unit, said: “Criminals are trying
Russian hackers have been drip-feeding software’s customer base. the dark web giving companies until Not all affected organisations, to maximise the return on their
the names of their victims from a recent A Shell spokesman said: “We are last Wednesday to “contact them” and Ofcom among them, are listed on the campaign by applying pressure and
cyberbreach onto the dark web this aware of a cybersecurity incident that set out a list of steps to follow. site. There is speculation this is because psychological tactics.”
week, with warnings that the total has impacted a third-party tool, In broken English, the hackers wrote: Clop has pledged not to target govern- The BBC would not confirm how
number is expected to be sizeable. MOVEit Transfer, which is used by a “This is an announcement to educated ment data, saying in a statement that many people had lost data in the
So far more than 35 businesses are small number of Shell employees and companies who use Progress MOVEit “we do the polite thing and delete all”. breach, but both current and former
known to have been hacked but none of customers. There is no evidence of im- product that chance is we download a Toby Lewis, global head of threat staff members are being notified that
their information has yet been pub- pact to Shell’s core IT systems. Our IT lot of your data as part of exceptional analysis at Darktrace, said the leaks they have been affected. Some of them
lished online — a move that mirrors teams are investigating. We are not exploit. We are the only one who follow Clop’s playbook. The group has left many years ago, giving the impress-
previous incidents involving Clop, the communicating with the hackers.” perform such attack and relax because previously targeted at least two other ion the total could be a large number.
group behind the attack. The data was British Airways, Boots and the BBC your data is safe.” similar file transfer services: “They are The hackers concluded their most
obtained through a vulnerability in have all revealed that they were The group urged businesses to trust looking at where organisations are recent statement with: “If you put data
MOVEit, a widely distributed piece of collateral damage in the attack through them and said it had been doing this for moving data because it is more on internet . . . do not blame us for
software from Progress, a US devel- their supply chains because Zellis, their many years. Clop promised it would vulnerable in transit, rather than within penetration. We are only financial mo-
oper, used to transfer information. payroll operator, was one of the firms delete data if the victims complied with the walls of an organisation.” tivated and do not care about politics.”

LUKE MACGREGOR/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES

Silvana Tenreyro, left, is Bank’s monetary

Doves and hawks in made CBE; Diane Coyle,
far left, becomes a
policy committee as
Silvana Tenreyro, who
in recent months has
birthday honours dame, as does Annette
King, below, while Nick
Varney is knighted
voted against rate
rises, was made a
osses at Sky, managing the stakes CBE. Tenreyro stands

B Lloyds
Banking
Group and
the tourism
group behind
Madame Tussauds are
among blue-chip
held by taxpayers.
Budenberg has also
chaired The Crown
Estate since 2016,
“steering the
organisation through
exceptionally
executive at Lloyd’s of
London and Hiscox,
was “a pioneer . . . in
the male dominated
world of insurance”,
according to the
citation.
down next month.
Diane Coyle, the
economist and former
vice-chairwoman of
the BBC Trust, is
made a dame. Kevin
Daly, a Goldman
business leaders challenging times”. Andy Haldane, the Sachs economist, is
recognised in the Another former Bank of awarded an OBE and
King’s birthday knighthood goes to England chief Alex Chisholm, now a
honours (Patrick Nick Varney, chief economist who first senior civil servant
Hosking writes). executive of Merlin sounded a warning but known to many as
Jeremy Darroch, Entertainments from about the danger of the man who
who joined the pay 1999 until 2022. The inflation back in June combined the Office
TV group Sky in 2004 group behind 2021, is given a CBE. of Fair Trading and
as finance director Tussauds, Alton He is now chief the Competition
and was chief Towers, Legoland and executive of the Royal Commission, is
executive from 2007 Chessington World of Society of Arts. recognised with a
until 2021, is awarded Adventures was cited There was equal knighthood.
a knighthood. “He as “a huge British recognition for doves Rupert Gavin, a
made Sky the most business success, as well as former Dixons
valuable British start- creating memories for hawks on the executive who went
up in the last 30 years millions of families”. on to run BBC
when he oversaw its There was Worldwide, is also
acquisition by recognition for the knighted.
Comcast for advertising industry In a thin crop of
£31 billion in 2018,” with a damehood for honours for
the citation said, Annette King, who entrepreneurs,
although Sky’s roots chairs the Advertising Anthony
go back to 1980. Association and is Watson,
Robin Budenberg, chief executive of the founder of the
chairman of Lloyds, is UK arm of Publicis, start-up Bank
also knighted. As a which owns Saatchi & of London and
banker with UBS, he Saatchi. a diversity
helped orchestrate Susan Langley, campaigner,
the government chairwoman of the gets a CBE
rescue of UK banks in insurer Gallagher, is for services to
2008 and later ran the also made a dame. the LGBT
Treasury offshoot Langley, a former community.

Troubles mount at Odey hedge fund Cineworld top brass to share

Continued from page 45
before its woes began. In a sign of the
Odey about his conduct in 2021 and set
rules for his behaviour, including
and backed Brexit. He has long been
one of Britain’s best-known hedge fund
$35m as lenders take over
pressure the firm is under to raise cash banning him from speaking to female managers but has faced claims about
for redemptions, it has been selling employees about non-work topics. The his conduct in the past. Dominic Walsh Cineworld expects to emerge from
investments in companies in recent Financial Conduct Authority has been In 2021 he was cleared by a judge of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in
days, including stakes in Plus500, the investigating claims of non-financial indecent assault over an alleged inci- The chief executive of Cineworld and July but it has made clear that a debt
trading platform, and AO World, the misconduct at the firm since 2021. dent in 1998. Since Odey’s acquittal, three other executives will collect a restructuring would not provide any
white goods retailer. The revelations have prompted other allegations about his behaviour combined $35 million from the embat- payout to equity shareholders.
A filing on Thursday showed it had banks and investors to pull back from have been reported by The Sunday tled cinema chain’s lenders when it After the recent decision to scrap the
trimmed its stake in Conduit Holdings, the hedge fund. Investment banks that Times, Bloomberg and Tortoise Media, emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. sale of its operations, the cinemas
a reinsurer, and Sky News said the firm had provided key prime broking and which he has also denied. Mooky Greidinger and his brother group is pressing ahead with a debt-for-
had sold shares in The Restaurant custodian services to the firm are Companies House filings show Odey Israel, deputy CEO, plus Nisan Cohen, equity swap that hands control of its
Group, the Wagamama owner, to Oasis among those that have moved to cut on Thursday resigned as a director of finance chief, and Renana Teperberg, assets to lenders, together with an
Management, an activist investor. ties. This has prompted the firm to ICP, which is involved in the Lloyd’s of chief commercial officer, will get the equity raising of $800 million and
The scandal erupted nine days ago pursue a break-up by shifting funds and London insurance market. He had been money in consulting fees and to $1.46 billion in new debt financing. Its
when the Financial Times reported staff to rival asset managers. a director of three firms within ICP. He smooth their exit from the firm. debt pile will fall by $4.5 billion.
claims by 13 women that Odey had On Thursday it said it had “become did not return a request for comment The payments are likely to raise eye- Cineworld, founded in 1995, operates
either sexually assaulted or harassed clear that some investment manage- about his resignation. brows given the state in which they left almost 750 sites in ten countries. It
them in a period spanning 25 years. He ment activities of the partnership are Until last week he managed five Cineworld, but a source familiar with floated in 2007 but a debt-fuelled
denies the accusations. affected by recent events”. funds at Odey, with combined assets of the company said the foursome would expansion left it near to collapse and it
The claims raised concerns in the The crisis marks a swift fall from $1.2 billion. It is understood that about be providing valuable help to new man- was forced to file for bankruptcy
City about the culture within Odey’s grace for Odey, a multimillionaire who half of this sum was his own money, the agement, including brokering meetings protection in America last September.
firm. It emerged that the firm warned has donated to the Conservative Party fate of which is unclear. with suppliers, for up to 12 months. Cineworld declined to comment.
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Dominic O’Connell Abcam asks

investors to
It’s boom time at the air show, but a keep ‘erratic’

‘‘
climate cloud could spoil the party founder out
Alex Ralph
Making commercial emissions per passenger. Total
aircraft has always emissions, however, continue to One of Britain’s most successful biotech
been a boom and increase. companies has called on shareholders
bust game. But there Airbus’ latest market forecast to vote against plans by its founder to
has never been a predicts aviation will grow by a overhaul the board, calling his
bust to boom swing quite like the one compound rate of 3.6 per cent a year behaviour erratic and dysfunctional.
the aerospace and airline world has for the next two decades, with Abcam has called an extraordinary
just experienced. It is difficult to 40,850 new aircraft taking to the general meeting for next month after
convey how extraordinary the change skies. It is hard to square this vision of Jonathan Milner requested that share-
has been, but there will be plenty of steady growth with western holders be able to vote on appointing
proof on display at the Paris air show, governments’ plans to achieve net him as executive chairman and
which kicks off on Monday. zero emissions by 2050. removing three directors, including the
Shows like Farnborough and Paris Batteries are not suitable for large chairman and chief financial officer.
are often a triumph of hype over or long-haul aircraft, hydrogen power Milner is still one of the company’s
substance. The coming week will be seems many years away — and, given largest shareholders.
an exception, with a splurge of their large backlogs and entrenched The company said: “Notwithstand-
multibillion-dollar orders expected. position, it is questionable whether ing that the board had previously
Airlines need aircraft to cope with the Boeing or Airbus have a powerful invited Dr Milner to join the board, his
rush of returning passengers after the commercial incentive to adopt new erratic, dysfunctional and self-serving
pandemic, and they have a powerful technology. Both are setting great behaviour since then has made it clear
incentive not to delay. The two big store by “sustainable” aviation fuels, that whatever potential benefits he
planemakers, Airbus and Boeing, are which are in essence the same as the could have brought to the board as a
already sold out. Put down a deposit current oil-based products, but from non-executive director are materially
next week and you will have to wait different sources. The reality is that outweighed by the risks of bringing a
five years, probably more, for the first they are currently only produced in clearly detrimental presence to the
delivery. Analysts at Bank of America tiny quantities and their widespread board that almost certainly would be
expect orders from Emirates, Japan adoption will require a huge industrial focused on undermining our current
Airlines, Vietnam Airlines, Pegasus, shift. Amid all the hoopla at Paris this management team.”
Finnair, Riyadh Air, Turkish Airlines week, it is a sobering reflection that Milner, 58, who retains about 6.3 per
and IndiGo. The two rival commercial aviation still has no cent of Abcam, has become embroiled
manufacturers always like to have credible path to net zero. in a dispute over its direction and
surprises up their sleeve, so I would strategy. Last month he attacked the
bet on that list being too short. PS A couple of months ago I wrote handling of its listing on the Nasdaq
Three years ago none of this looked about the psychological and economic index in the US.
possible. Covid-19 smashed the underpinning of film franchises, in He founded Abcam in 1998 and
industry, with a large part of the particular the concept of “optimum turned it into one of the largest compa-
western world’s airline fleet grounded novelty”, where an audience wants nies on the London Aim exchange
for about a year, and aircraft Having survived the bust, the pair sidelines over the past two years, something familiar, but with just the before stepping down from the board in
movements worldwide down 80 per can look forward to a period of wary of the threadbare nature of right amount of twist to make it 2020. The Cambridge-based company
cent by the autumn of 2020. It was an extended boom. Airbus has airline balance sheets. Now they have interesting. This week on Times cancelled its listing on Aim last year.
existential moment for many carriers, outstanding orders for about 7,500 begun to creep back, which will help Radio I spoke to Ynon Kreiz, the boss Milner is seeking to replace Peter
which survived either on government aircraft. By the end of the Paris show, carriers pay for their ambitious of the toy company Mattel, who is Allen, 67, as chairman, and has said that
assistance, emergency calls on that number will be close to 8,000, or expansion plans. trying to turn its brands — Barbie, Abcam needs to “enhance focus on
shareholders or drastic cost-cutting, just over a decade’s worth of work at Airbus and Boeing have the Matchbox, Polly Pocket and others — governance, execution and cost-con-
and often a combination of all three. current production rates. It is pushing additional luxury of scant into film franchises. trol” to reclaim its reputation as the
Airbus had to slam the brakes on its as hard as it can to speed up competition. Air shows were — thirty Kreiz is going for what appears to “Amazon of antibodies”.
assembly lines. Boeing did the same, production of its bestselling A320 years ago — all about the latest shiny be maximum novelty. The Polly In a letter to shareholders ahead of a
although it had the added family of planes, from the current 45 aircraft and the jostle for orders Pocket film (Polly Pocket is a small meeting on July 12, Abcam said that
complication of dealing with the a month to 65 a month by the end of between rival makers. Now the field doll) is being done by Lena Dunham, under Alan Hirzel, 55, its chief execu-
aftermath of two fatal crashes of the next year and 75 in 2025. has shrunk to just two, with no of Girls fame, while Thomas and tive since 2014, revenues had nearly tri-
737 Max. One of this week’s themes will be potential usurper in sight. There is the Friends (Thomas the Tank Engine as pled and the company had expanded
Airbus shares lost more than half the creaks and groans coming from distant threat of China; its first proper was) is being handed to Marc Forster, globally and increased its market share.

’’
their value, dropping from €139 at the the supply chain — the makers of airliner, the Comac C919, made its the director whose biggest hit was Milner was offered a non-executive
start of 2020 to €49 five months later. engines, avionics, fuselage parts and debut commercial flight last month. It World War Z, in which Brad Pitt board seat but said it was “subject to re-
Boeing also plummeted, falling from thousands of other components — as has been produced, however, with the battled cannibalistic hordes of undead strictions that would impair my ability
$340 to $95. As passengers have it struggles to keep pace with demand. extensive collaboration of western humans. to hold management accountable”.
rushed back and airlines returned to Boeing also has a bulging order book, aerospace companies and it is not How all this turns out remains to In the letter, Abcam said Milner had
profit, the shares have recovered, but with a backlog of about 4,500 planes, clear whether Washington will allow be seen, but I for one been asked to sign a settlement
not to the same degree. Airbus has and also wants to go faster. Even at its that to continue. look forward to the agreement “consistent with his status as
made up most of the lost ground and planned higher rates, it too has about Bosses of the two companies should zombie apocalypse a significant shareholder joining the
is now at €130, while Boeing, still ten years’ worth of work. not sleep easy, however. The duopoly overwhelming the board, which was entirely customary
weighed down by the Max debacle, The other unseen factor pushing faces a threat of a different kind from Island of Sodor. and in line with market practice”.
continuing build quality issues and the flood of orders is the quiet return the battle against climate change. The It added: “It is now clear that Dr
lingering concerns about the of banks to the aircraft finance industry likes to boast about how it is Dominic O’Connell is business Milner has never been interested in
company’s culture, is at $218. market. They have stayed on the gradually reducing carbon dioxide presenter for Times Radio resolving this dispute amicably.”
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UK takes bet on being centre of

Rishi Sunak wants to given to cryptocurrencies and other
emerging innovations based on block-
that has since been abandoned. The
committee said: “It is not the govern-
create a ‘global hub’ for chain technology, and praised Britain
for being “on the right path to becoming
ment’s role to promote particular tech-
nological innovations for their own
digital finance despite a leader in crypto regulation”. Sunak sake,” and argued that large swathes of
said that he was thrilled with the firm’s the crypto industry “remain a Wild
warnings over its risks, decision. West”.
Only a month earlier, however, the Andreessen’s UK push and the MPs’
Ben Martin writes prime minister had received a warn- warnings neatly illustrate the debate
ing about his crypto ambitions from that rages over crypto, which ministers
In April last year Rishi Sunak, then some of his own MPs. The Commons must confront if they are to make Brit-
chancellor, announced that it Treasury committee, which is chaired ain a centre for digital assets.
was his aim “to make the UK by the Conservative MP Harriett On the one hand there is the allure of
a global hub for cryptoasset Baldwin, published a report into a nascent technology that proponents
technology”. On Monday the crypto market in which it argue has the potential to revolutionise
the prime minister’s ambi- warned ministers to take “a the financial system. On the other,
tions received their biggest balanced approach to support- there are fears that the largely unregu-
boost yet. ing the development of lated and volatile crypto markets pose
The Silicon Valley- cryptoasset tech- significant risks to consumers and are
based group Andreess- nologies”. exploited by criminals for scams and
en Horowitz, one of the The MPs cited a money laundering.
world’s largest venture government plan Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency
capital firms, revealed for the Royal Mint to and remains the most popular. It was
that it had picked develop a digital created in 2008 and, like other digital
London for its first over- asset known as a tokens, it exists only as computer code,
seas office, which will non-fungible token lying beyond the reach of the govern-
focus on crypto. (NFT), a project ments and central banks.
The American busi- that was announced There are now more than 25,000 dif-
ness said that the UK was when Sunak first ferent digital currencies with a total
“strongly positioned to unveiled his crypto market capitalisation of about $1 tril-
lead in web3”, the term push last year but lion, from mainstream tokens such as
ether to dogecoin, which started out as
a joke and now has a market cap above
$8 billion. Many are used simply for
price speculation by traders rather than
as a form of payment.
There are also stablecoins, which are
typically pegged to fiat currencies, and
NFT digital assets, and central banks
including the Bank of England are
exploring whether to develop central
bank digital currencies.
The Financial Conduct Authority,
the British regulator, estimated that
4.97 million people in Britain, or 9 per
cent of adults, held digital assets in
August last year, up from 2.3 million in
atest
2021. It said this month that its latest
een a
research “suggests that there has been
asset
substantial increase in the cryptoasset
holdings of UK consumers”.
The technology has also led to o
decentralised finance — DeFi — Crypto assets and technology
Cry
which is the umbrella term for
financial products and markets and
an other tokens last year that
built using distributed ledger was
w dubbed the “crypto winter”
technology such as blockchain. by
b followers of digital assets. In
The plethora of activities November
N the Bahamas-based
covered by the term “crypto” rais- crypto
cr exchange FTX, one of the
es the question of precisely what world’s
wo biggest, collapsed into
Britain wants to become a hub for.. bankruptcy.
ban Its founder, Sam
Furthermore, since Sunak set out ut Bankman-Fried,
Ban who had been one
ital
his ambitions for Britain, the digital of the biggest names in the digital as-
eries
assets industry has been hit by a series sets industry,
ind now faces charges of
of body blows. fraud, which
w he denies, in the United
tcoin
There was a sharp sell-off in bitcoin States. Indeed, the US has started to

Heat is on for rail station catering

Dominic Walsh tition at the regulator, said that with UK rail accounts for only about
consumers being hit by the rising cost 15 per cent of SSP’s business. That is
Britain’s rail regulator has put cater- of living, it was important that they forecast to fall to about 10 per cent
ers on notice to ensure consumers get had access to affordable food and over the next few years as it focuses
a fair deal as it announced a market drink. on airports, particularly in America.
study of railway station catering. While prices were generally higher The study noted that in some cases
The Office of Rail and Road noted at all types of transport hub, includ- lease contracts can hamper a cater-
that food and drink sold at stations ing airports, the regulator noted that er’s ability to improve the quality of
was often more expensive than on the this was not specific to catering and the offering. In other cases the nature
high street, while lack of investment was also prevalent among retailers. of a lease can hinder a station
can cause low satisfaction rates. operator’s ability to sign new tenants
Analysts said the study by the and inject competition, which could
regulator was “not helpful news”. indirectly hit station funding.
Shares in SSP, the dominant player in The report concluded that there
UK stations, fell 5¼p, or 1.9 per cent, may be factors affecting competition,
to 269p, reflecting expectation of but it did not yet have grounds for
only limited fallout. taking specific action.
The regulator said it had started to A spokesman for SSP said: “We will
gather intelligence on the structure participate fully in this process. We
of the market, the effectiveness of have always been, and will continue
competition and possible barriers for to be, committed to meeting the
new entrants. It called on interested needs of consumers in this sector and
parties to submit evidence by July 7. The Office of Rail and Road will look providing them with value, quality
Grahame Horgan, head of compe- at possible barriers to competition and choice.”
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Business

crypto technology BJANKA KADIC/ALAMY

Griffith, the City minister, announced
We’re not looking to
merge, says Peel Hunt
the plans for regulation, he emphasised
the need to “protect consumers who are
embracing this new technology”. The
FCA has also previously been cautious
boss after £1.5m loss
in its approach.
“It’s easy to say we’re going to be a Patrick Hosking Financial Editor slightly bigger, their average market
crypto hub, but the important thing is value rising from £684 million to
when the rubber meets the road, when The chief executive of the stockbroker £691 million. “I see potential for us to
it comes to actually drafting up the [reg- Peel Hunt said he was not interested in become the midcap partner of choice,”
ulatory] framework,” said Ian Taylor, doing consolidation deals as it reported Fine said.
board adviser of the trade body a sharp fall into the red and scrapped He played down the significance of
CryptoUK. “We now have to focus our dividends and staff bonuses. the decision by WE Soda to pull its flot-
efforts to work with the FCA.” Steven Fine, who personally owns a ation this week, a potential £6 billion
The regulator has long argued that 4.5 per cent stake in the business, blockbuster that had been seen as a vote
cryptocurrencies have no inherent insisted that it could continue to of confidence in London: “The last
value and has told retail investors that operate as an independent and was well thing you want is a deal coming to
they should be prepared to lose all their able to withstand the collapse in market that doesn’t perform well.” Peel
money if they invest in digital assets. It volume of deals and floats affecting the Hunt is advising on another imminent
has also frustrated many working in the UK market. UK flotation, that of the international
industry with its supervision of crypto He also reported two glimmers of banking business CAB Payments.
firms for anti-money laundering con- hope: an improvement in the pipeline The company is in the process of
trols, the main area where the FCA has of prospective merger deals in the past opening an office in Copenhagen in
power over digital assets businesses. few months and “tentative signs of a
Crypto possesses “every red flag for a pick-up” in capital markets deals, such
regulator”, said Charles Kerrigan, a
partner who focuses on digital assets at
the law firm CMS. “The regulator’s job
is to manage downside risk and there’s
obvious downside risk in investing in
as company floats.
Peel Hunt reported a 37 per cent slide
in revenues to £82.3 million in the year
to March. The firm sank to a pre-tax
loss of £1.5 million from profits last time
37%
Drop in revenues in year to March
Peel Hunt
crypto: it’s still extremely volatile, and of £41.2 million.
you can lose your money and there are Its cash position worsened from order to be able to solicit for business in
bad actors in the market.” £76.7 million to £27.4 million but Fine the EU. It is also restructuring its REX
It was therefore natural that the FCA said this had been caused by the shift platform, renaming it RetailBook and
might approach crypto “super cau- from being a limited liability partner- inviting in rival firms like Hargreaves
tiously”, he said. Indeed, this month the ship to becoming a plc. Peel Hunt Lansdown and Numis in order to com-
regulator outlined tough new rules to restructured in September 2021 as it pete better with Primary Bid. REX was
clamp down on the marketing of cryp- floated on the junior market Aim. developed to enable private investors to
toassets to the British public. “We are definitely not burning cash,” take part in floats they have trad-
When it comes to creating a broader he said, adding that he was not talking itionally been excluded from.
rulebook for digital currencies the EU to anybody about merging. Staff bonuses have been slashed from
is ahead of the UK, however, having The deals famine has prompted a about £20 million to zero. “It breaks my
already drawn up its Markets in Crypto number of consolidation deals among heart,” Fine said. “I’ve got people
Assets regulations, known as MiCA. rival midcap brokers in recent months. who’ve busted a gut, but if revenues
Some view the EU’s head start as a blow Numis agreed to be bought by Deut- don’t cover expenses, what do you do? I
to Britain’s crypto ambitions but others sche Bank while Cenkos and finnCap have to take it on the chin.”
believe that it gives the UK a second- struck a £43 million merger deal. Investors who bought into Peel
mover advantage because it can correct Although Peel Hunt’s corporate Hunt’s float at 280p are nursing heavy
problems created by MiCA. Even so, client numbers overall fell in the year losses. The shares fell 1½p yesterday, or
regulation will inevitably act as a brake from 162 to 155, clients were getting 1.5 per cent, to 100½p.
on activity in the industry.
A spokeswoman for the FCA said: “In
any market, competitiveness thrives
have gained in popularity in Britain, encouraging Rishi Sunak to attract US firms

move aggressively against the crypto er.” In February the UK government

when strong standards are in place that
protect people and markets while
Travis Perkins shares on
industry. This month the US Securities put its ambition to become a crypto hub encouraging innovation. The crypto
and Exchange Commission sued two
giant crypto exchanges, Binance and
into action by setting out a plan to
comprehensively regulate the crypto
industry is no exception.”
Some consider bitcoin and other
slide after profit warning
Coinbase, in separate legal actions for markets, a task that will ultimately fall speculative tokens as simply the first
allegedly running illegal exchanges. to the Financial Conduct Authority “use case” for crypto that will event- Robert Lea Industrial Editor analyst, said one of the trends in the
“It’s a challenging environment in (FCA), which will work out the details ually be superseded by other, more use- sector affecting Travis Perkins was the
the US, that’s for sure,” Tom Duff-Gor- of the rulebook. ful technologies based on blockchain. Travis Perkins has cut profit forecasts building trade dealing directly with
don, vice-president of international There are signs, however, that the Becoming a centre for these new inno- by more than 10 per cent in an manufacturers rather than through
policy at Coinbase, said. “Right now, the woes experienced by the crypto indus- vations, which could drive the digitali- admission that the sharp downturn in intermediary builders’ merchants.
messages coming out of the UK are try last year have tempered the gov- sation of financial markets, is viewed as consumer spending power has affected Smaller housebuilders withdrawing
different, more encouraging and clear- ernment’s enthusiasm. When Andrew the main prize from the UK. business. from the market had also had an effect.
In an unscheduled trading update — On top of that there has been a rise of
but one which will not have surprised disruptor rivals such as Lords; private

Currys explores sale of Greek business followers who have seen the stock slide
20 per cent over the last four months —
the FTSE 250 builders’ merchant
conceded that it “has not seen the
equity-backed players such as Jewson
chasing market share; and the DIY
chains B&Q and Wickes, a former
division of Travis Perkins, aiming to
Isabella Fish Retail Editor partnership in 2000 with Dixons the pandemic, which the owners did anticipated easing of market conditions attract trade customers.
Group, which eventually acquired a not feel was demonstrated in its in the second quarter to date.” “The issue for investors is how much
Currys has surprised the City by majority stake four years later. Dixons valuation at the time. The IPO did not It continued: “Volumes in both the of the woes at Travis are its own doing,”
unveiling plans for a potential sale of its Group subsequently merged with come to fruition and the division has new build housing and private domestic Rawlinson said.
Greek retail business Kotsovolos. Carphone Warehouse to create Dixons subsequently been hit hard by price RMI (repair, maintenance and The group, which also includes
The British electricals retailer said Carphone in 2014 before rebranding as competition in the Nordics, forcing it to improvement) markets continue to be Toolstation, employs 20,000 staff in
that Kotsovolos was a “strong-perform- Currys two years ago. The group has issue two profit warnings this year. impacted by higher interest rates and 1,500 outlets providing goods for
ing and profitable business, with high about 830 shops in eight countries and Currys warned of more trouble in its weaker consumer confidence driven by construction jobs ranging from the
brand awareness” that was not re- 35,000 employees. Nordic subsidiaries last month after persistent, higher than anticipated HS2 railway to household projects.
flected in its current valuation. Alex Baldock, chief executive, said reporting that they are being investi- consumer price inflation. During the pandemic’s DIY boom,
It added that the division’s opportu- the retailer’s “performance is robust in gated by the European watchdog over a “Assuming that the present condi- annual profits reached £353 million.
nities for further growth and the Greek the UK and Ireland, where our possible violation of competition rules. tions persist for the balance of the year, Earnings were expected to slow to
economy’s upbeat outlook meant it was transformation is working, and we’ve The company’s total turnover management now expects to deliver a £322 million for last year but in the
“the right time to explore all options”. taken action to drive a profitable dropped by 7 per cent last year, full-year adjusted operating profit of event it turned out significantly worse
Kotsovolos was founded in Athens in recovery in the Nordics. although better-than-forecast sales around £240 million.” at £295 million as volumes fell, margins
1950 and has more than 90 stores “Kotsovolos is an excellent business across the UK and Ireland led to an Analysts had been expecting some- tightened and Toolstation plunged into
across Greece and Cyprus, selling with a bright future and now is the right uplift in its annual earnings guidance. thing nearer £270 million. The shares the red.
electrical goods and providing repair time to assess how best to take The group now expects to report fell 58¼p, or 6.7 per cent, to 808½p, Nick Roberts, 54, Travis Perkins chief
and installation services. The Greek Kotsovolos forward to maximise value adjusted pre-tax profits of between valuing the group at £1.7 billion. executive, has previously rebutted
business makes up about 10 per cent of for our shareholders.” £110 million and £120 million for the The Travis Perkins alert weighed on suggestions that consumers were not
total Currys sales, with UK and Ireland Currys explored listing a minority period, compared with a prior forecast the shares of several others in the sec- prepared to pay for goods affected by
accounting for 50 per cent and the stake of its Nordic business in 2020 as of around £104 million. tor, including Marshalls, which issued inflation, arguing instead that
Nordics about 40 per cent. the region had continued to see higher Shares in the business were 0.9 per its own profit warning last month. confidence had been knocked by the
The company struck a strategic profits and market share even during cent higher at 51¼p yesterday. Stephen Rawlinson, an independent mini-budget last autumn.
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Making £650m sale could tick Reuben brothers sue

Trafigura over nickel
Trafigura is being sued by the
billionaire Reuben brothers over

all the right boxes for Marlowe

nickel trading. The move comes
after Trafigura in February
alleged it had been the victim of a
$577 million fraud over what it
claims were fake nickel shipments
purchased from firms linked to
£650 million — above the group’s News of the potential disposal did an Indian businessman. In its
current market value — according to not come as much of a surprise to own lawsuit against the man it
Sky News, which also reported that analysts at Investec given Marlowe’s accuses of fraud, Trafigura
Jessica Newman Market report exploratory talks with potential shift in focus towards its higher- acknowledged that it might be
bidders are already under way. margin governance, risk and exposed to claims by the third
Marlowe was formed in 2015 by compliance business. Regardless of parties to which it sold the

W
ord that Marlowe is attracted much attention among City Alex Dacre, chief executive and son whether a sale goes through, the allegedly fake cargos. In the new
considering selling its traders and investors yesterday. of Paul Dacre, the former Daily Mail analysts believe there is a clear case filed in the UK High Court
testing, inspection The division, the Aim-quoted editor, out of a cash shell backed by “disconnect” between Marlowe’s last week, the Reubens’ company,
and certification business services group’s biggest, Lord Ashcroft which remains the valuation and the assets it owns. Hyphen Trading, is seeking more
(TIC) division could be acquired for as much as group’s largest shareholder. Analysts at Stifel reckon that than $8.4 million from Trafigura
because of the “resilience and scale” in a dispute over a cargo bought
of the TIC division it could generate from the Swiss commodities
interest from private equity bidders. trader last September, Bloomberg
The news saw Marlowe’s shares reported. A separate case had
shoot up 58p, or 9.8 per cent, to a also been brought by Hyphen in
seven-month high of 650p. Singapore over another disputed
On the wider market, the FTSE 100 nickel deal, it said. Trafigura
capped off three weeks of consecutive declined to comment.
losses as it recorded its best weekly
performance in two months. The Rebel alliance calls for
blue-chip index, up for a fifth day
straight, rose 14.46 points, or 0.2 per audit of Liontrust deal
cent, to 7,642.72, extending its gains An investor group opposed to the
for the week to 80.36 points, or 1.1 per £96 million takeover of the Swiss
cent. The FTSE 250 was flat on the asset manager GAM by Liontrust
day, down just 8.52 points to Asset Management of the UK has
19,030.89. Over the week the index called on the GAM board to
lost 60.77 points, or 0.3 per cent. conduct a special audit of the
Entain was among the top risers in offer. The rebel group, headed by
the FTSE 100, picking up 19p, or 1.6 the French telecoms billionaire
per cent, to £12.21 as Jefferies repeated Xavier Niel, yesterday raised
its “buy” recommendation. Frasers questions about the funding of
Group gained 13p, or 1.9 per cent, to the deal and its conditionality.
reach 697p on the back of the Sports Liontrust, an acquisitive fund
Direct owner raising its stake in the manager and FTSE 250 member,
white goods retailer AO World to agreed last month to take over
GAM, which was embroiled in
the Greensill affair and had
Wall Street report billions withdrawn by clients. The
alliance of NewGAMe SA and
Indices ended the week on a sour Bruellan, which together hold
note despite signs of easing prices 9.4 per cent of GAM shares, say
and slowing growth fuelling hopes Liontrust’s offer undervalues
that rates will peak soon. The Dow GAM and have raised questions
Jones industrial average fell 108.94 about a short-term funding
points, or 0.3 per cent, to 34,299.12, facility provided by Liontrust.
still a weekly rise of 1.3 per cent. The rebels are calling for an
extraordinary meeting in August.

above 21 per cent. Investors also piled Amazon given nod

into Darktrace on advice from HSBC,
lifting the FTSE 250 group 40½p, or to hoover up iRobot
13.2 per cent, to 347¼p. Amazon has been given the green
Elsewhere a warning from Travis light in the UK for the $1.7 billion
Perkins that a slowdown in the takeover of iRobot, the robotic
housing market will hit profits this vacuum maker, following an
year sparked a sell-off among other investigation by the competition
big builders’ merchants and retailers. watchdog. The Competition and
As Travis tumbled 58¼p, or 6.7 per Markets Authority concluded
cent, to 808¾p, its peer Grafton lost that iRobot’s UK market position
30½p, or 3.6 per cent, to 819¾p and is “modest”, that Amazon lacked
Marshalls, the landscaping and any incentive to disadvantage
building products company, eased 14p, rival manufacturers and that it
or 5.1 per cent, to 262p. would not undercut other “smart
Shares in DIY retailers also took a home” platforms. The transaction
hammering. Kingfisher closed down remains under review in other
2¾p, or 1.1 per cent, to 233½p and countries and is separate from
Wickes was 4¼p, or 3.4 per cent, the investigation into Amazon’s
lower at 120½p. Marketplace e-commerce
Applause for a rosier profit outlook platform, which continues. The
at Mears Group lifted shares by 22p, CMA’s attitude towards takeovers
or 8.4 per cent, to 285p. The social is being closely watched following
housing provider said that “continued its recent decision to block the
elevated revenues” in the first five merger of Microsoft and
months of the year meant that bosses Activision Blizzard, amid
now expect annual profits to be criticism that the regulator could
“materially ahead” of current market be at risk of stifling business
expectations. growth in the UK.

The day’s biggest movers

Company Change
Darktrace HSBC repeats buy recommendation 13.2%
Ocado Extends gains for sixth consecutive session 7.4%
Frasers Group Lifts stake in AO World 1.9%
Entain Positive commentary from Jefferies 1.6%
Land Securities Recovers some losses 1.1%
Kingfisher Fears of housebuilding slowdown -1.1%
Antofagasta Copper prices come off five-year high -1.3%
JTC Suffers profit-taking -4.1%
Marshalls Negative read-across from Travis Perkins update -5.1%
Travis Perkins Profit warning -6.7%
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The Manifesto Business

‘Bringing mobile to people for the

first time is something I’m proud of’ TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE

The chief executive of the more mundane and then I went

back into something more exciting
Helios Towers sees his and more interesting.”
This was Helios, which he joined
work as an opportunity when it was a start-up in 2010,
working on the finance side. It was
as well as a challenge, not his first experience of African
telecoms. While at PwC he focused
he tells Katie Prescott on tech, mobile and telecoms
transactions when he worked on a

I
n the bustling Kariakoo market deal with Vodafone in Ghana.
in the heart of Dar es Salaam, Helios’s first tower portfolio
Tanzania’s vibrant capital, people acquisition was in 2010 in Ghana,
buy, sell and socialise. It is also a followed by one in Tanzania and one
hub of a different kind. in the DRC, the following year, “that
Mobile phone antennas fixed to gave us the base of operating in three
lampposts enable visitors to use their markets, and then we grew from there
phone and make mobile payments. over the years”.
This is one of the more He was chief finance officer when
straightforward solutions that Helios the company went public on the
Towers has come up with to support London Stock Exchange in 2019,
African mobile operators in getting stepping up as chief executive in April
their customers online. The telecoms last year. The float allowed the
infrastructure company linked a cable business to grow. “The main
from a phone tower to the posts on challenge was investors’ concerns or
either side of the market, the only lack of knowledge of the region. A
way of bringing a connection to this huge part of our investor education
busy place, sandwiched awkwardly process pre-IPO was to explain our
between buildings. markets, explain such phenomenal
In the neighbouring Democratic growth and why risks that they might
Republic of the Congo (DRC), be worried about were mitigated
sending people out by canoe, or up through our business models, our
mountains, are some of the ways that processes, through our customers.”
the FTSE 250 business has of The share price has fallen by 19 per
deploying its teams to maintain the cent since the stock market listing.
operations of its thousands of mobile Immediately afterwards, Covid hit
phone masts, as the road network in and Helios teams continued to be
the vast African country is so poor. deployed, classed as essential workers:
Helios Towers owns over 13,500 “Everyone was working from home
telecommunication towers across and the volume of data traffic going
Africa and the Middle East, providing through the network significantly
mobile coverage to 141 million people. increased across our markets through
It has a target of almost doubling this Tom Greenwood sees the potential for growth in Africa and the Middle East, with Helios now serving 141 million people Covid. Keeping the mobile networks
and owning 22,000 towers by 2026. running really was a lifeline in that
The logistics of operating in the footprint is the most diversified of all time, and that’s something that we’re

Q&A
continent blow the mind. Along with challenges and learning every day TowerCos in Africa. Its customer base immensely proud of.”
the geographical constraints and the opportunities of How do you relax? is blue-chip and well diversified. It has Strategically, the deals continued
scale, there is the unreliable power running a business and Teaching my kids long-term contracted revenues through lockdown when Helios
grid, plus the complexity of dealing in putting capital at risk to football and musical of $4.8 billion with an average expanded into Senegal, Madagascar,
many different languages, cultures turn a profit. instruments (although remaining life of more than seven Malawi and Oman, its first foray into
and jurisdictions. Who is your mentor? Who do you most not always relaxing!) years.” the Middle East, doubling in size.
Tom Greenwood, 42, chief My mum and dad. admire? In its latest full year results, Helios The business has been backed by a

CV
executive, says that the dispersed Does money motivate My wife and my two announced that its revenue was up who’s who of investors, including
nature of the towers makes managing you? kids, who inspire and 25 per cent to $560.7 million while its George Soros, Madeleine Albright
them difficult “over millions and I’m motivated by the teach me every day. adjusted profit was $282.8 million, up and Jacob Rothschild, who bought
millions of miles of land”. He adds: health and happiness of What’s your favourite 18 per cent. into the vision of boosting mobile
“To run one telecom tower is very my family, friends and TV programme? The company has developed a bit penetration in the continent at the
easy. You can put one up in your back colleagues, and by I am currently enjoying Age: 42 of a playbook for its expansion, which start. Is that a difficult group to
garden, but to run thousands over making tangible Drive to Survive, which, Education: Leeds focuses on employing people from the juggle? “I’ve learned so much from
two continents, that’s the challenge. progress for people’s underlying the University, maths and countries it works in. “Typically, we working with them for the last 13
So coming up with the operational lives. For Helios Towers, entertaining people finance. will enter a market through a power years and since the IPO, I couldn’t
processes, systems and people to deal this means enabling dynamics, really Career: 2010 Helios portfolio acquisition with one of the really ask for more in terms of really
with that is our challenge.” communication for highlights well the Towers; previously PwC, largest mobile operators,” Greenwood high-quality investors who know the
Bribery and corruption could be an everyone in the markets ingredients that create Moores Rowland. says. “We’ll set up systems, processes, ins and outs of running businesses.”
issue in some markets, which in which we operate. high-performing teams. Family: I live with my and recruit a localised team. Across On the ground, the towers can be
Greenwood says the company What was the most What does leadership wife and two kids in the group about 97 per cent of all of life-changing. Beyond allowing day-
protects against with “the right important event in mean to you? Dubai. We relocated our teams are from m the to day access to health
to-day
processes, systems and tone from the your working life? Having a vision, there from London a markets in which we services and a banking,
top”. Yet the bigger the difficulty in Putting on nightclub creating a strategy to few years ago to be operate and that when tthe UN or non-
operating in a country, the bigger the events when I was achieve it, and closer to the Helios includes the gover
governmental
opportunity. The DRC is the young. I didn’t realise it executing day to day on Towers markets and managing orga
organisations go to
company’s second-largest market and then but it taught me a that strategy. Inspiring expand more in the directors, the an area to deal
“demand there is huge because it has huge amount about the people around you and region. finance directors. wi
with a disaster,
got one of the lowest mobile We do a huge su
such as an ebola
penetration rates of anywhere in the amount of o
outbreak, they
world. Only about 35 per cent of power uptime for example. It’s also cost and those deals have loaded its training and w
will try to set up a
people have phones.” good for the environment because balance sheet up with debt, which development.” ba
base camp near a
The premise behind the business is rather than having four telecom stood at $1.68 billion in its latest Now based in tel
telecom tower so
simple. It buys up and runs the sites towers standing next to each other, annual report. Dubai with his tha
that they can use
and then leases out space on the with generators, using power, Investors are watching this family, running thei
their phones.
towers to mobile operators. It costs emitting carbon, you just have one.” leverage, but it is not a concern to telecom towers in As G Greenwood puts
roughly the same to operate a tower, The company has grown through John Karidis, director of telecoms Africa was not always ays iit,
t, Helio
Helios is operating in
whether you’ve got four networks on about 15 acquisitions so far. “We research at Numis: “Helios has a long owing
his career plan. Growing ““aa region w which is growing
it or one, as Greenwood explains. acquire a portfolio from a mobile track record of good execution, and up, Greenwood had d various ffaster
aster than any anywhere else on
“Because we’re sharing the operator who is looking to release strong growth prospects. Its contracts aspirations of becomingming a footballer
footballer, a the planet” and this ccreates an
infrastructure we can sell space on it capital from their balance sheet and have effective protections against fuel doctor or a DJ. exponential demand for phone
for less than what it would cost them outsource the passive side of the price volatility and inflation rates. After working as a club promoter at infrastructure, “enabling people to
if they were doing it themselves. We network.” Customers include Airtel More than 70 per cent of its earnings university, he took a more traditional communicate on mobile, sometimes
provide guarantees around the Africa, Vodacom and Orange. before tax and other deductions is in route into accountancy, a period for the first time. That is a thing I am
operational capacity of the tower, the This rapid growth has come with a hard currency. Its geographic which he describes as “a few years of proud of.”
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world should
you invest now?
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‘I wanted to help Mum in her final
days, but the system let us down’
knows what they are doing. The last to
The 20-week wait for sign is the attorney (the one getting the
power to manage the affairs). Each sig-
a power of attorney nature needs to be signed by a witness.
leaves families in limbo A power of attorney cannot be used
before you register it with the OPG,
at the very worst times, which will check for potential fraud or
exploitation. You can send your forms
says Lucy Alderson only by post to the office in Birming-
ham. The application costs £82.

W
hen Pamela Rae-
Welsh got the devas- Don’t get it wrong
tating news that her Lawyers say that the OPG’s process is
mother had terminal notorious. Families who have made
lung cancer, she small errors will wait for weeks only to
wanted to help in every way possible. be told that applications need to be re-
They decided that Pamela should submitted, adding months to their wait.
deal with any money matters, so Carol, “All signatures need to be done in a
who was 73, applied for a financial last- specific order and dated correctly,” said
ing power of attorney to give her Paul Davies from the law firm Clarke
daughter authority to make decisions. Willmott. “Don’t assume that small
They did the same for Pamela’s father, mistakes will be overlooked. Although
Charles, 76, so that he would be free to the forms are less complicated than
spend more time with his wife. they used to be, if you are not used to
Power of attorney allows someone to
act on your behalf if you do not want to
manage your affairs or fear that you
may not be able to in the future. You
have to apply while you still have the
mental capacity to make that decision.
88,000
applications a month are sent to
You get the form from gov.uk and the Office of the Public Guardian
post it to the Office of the Public Guard-
ian (OPG) for approval. Last year, filling them out, you may struggle. The
771,822 power of attorneys were regis- OPG has a reputation for not approving
tered, up 9 per cent from 2021. But wait- things — if forms are not in tip-top
ing times are now growing. shape, they will be rejected.”
Solicitors said that before the pan- If you make an error on your form,
demic it took about ten weeks to register cross it out, and make sure all the par-
a power of attorney — now it takes an ties put their initials beside the mistake.
average of 20 weeks as the OPG works If you do not have power of attorney,
through the Covid backlog. It gets about you need to go to the Court of Protec-
88,000 applications a month. tion, which will decide whether to legal-
Pamela, 40, who runs Worsley Crea- ly appoint someone to make decisions
tive, a marketing firm, sent the forms off on behalf of someone who is unable to.
in December, but Carol’s health rapidly This can be costly — there is a £371
declined, leaving Pamela having to Pamela Rae-Welsh with her mother, Carol, whose power of attorney application was finally rejected a week after she died application fee, a £494 fee if your case
watch her dad try to juggle his financial needs a hearing, and a £234 appeal fee
affairs while caring for his wife. “It was Nearly 17 weeks after the paperwork critical that the delays are addressed.” over money decisions such as selling to challenge the court’s decision. If you
so stressful,” Pamela said. “I wanted to was submitted, her father’s power of Rachael Gooding from the law firm property, dealing with banks, tax and are appointed by the court, you will
be able to help more so he could spend attorney was registered in April. “The Slater and Gordon said: “It is possible to debts. The form is the same for both. have to pay an annual supervision fee
the time with Mum in her final days.” process should be smoother and quick- ask the OPG to speed up your applica- You need to sign the documents in of up to £320.
Carol died a week before the OPG er where there’s a terminal illness, or if tion, but it’s rare that happens.” the right order. First, the donor (the Then there’s the fact that the Court of
finally gave an update: the application someone has a serious accident,” Pam- person handing over the management Protection also has a backlog.
had been rejected because Pamela’s ela said. “My mum went downhill so How it works of their affairs). Then a “certificate pro- The Ministry of Justice said: “Staff are
identity couldn’t be verified. There was quickly, and waiting for the power of There are two types of power of attor- vider” — someone not related to the working day and night to meet demand.
no news about her father’s application. attorney caused emotional turmoil — ney: property and financial, and health donor but who has known them for at We are getting 19,000 more power of
“I was having to ferry him to banks I wouldn’t want that for anyone else.” and welfare. A health power of attorney least two years, or a professional such as attorney applications a month than
and council offices so he could deal with Campaigners want the OPG to speed allows someone to make medical and a GP, solicitor or social worker. They before the pandemic. Reforms going
all the admin,” Pamela said. “He could up its process. Lubna Shuja, the presi- care decisions on your behalf. A finan- need to confirm that the donor is mak- through parliament to digitise the ser-
have just concentrated on grieving.” dent of the Law Society, said: “It is cial power of attorney gives control ing the power of attorney by choice, and vice will make it simpler and quicker.”

The £100m cost of cutting back on your pension saving

W
orkers struggling with higher Companies have to put in at least 3 per butions dropped to 8 per cent from age 7 per cent had stopped all contributions
living costs could be putting cent of a worker’s salary, but many 35, you would have a £184,000 pot — What your pot could be worth at the end of last year, according to the
their retirement at risk by match employees’ contributions and so £63,000 less. Pensions Management Institute.
cutting their pension contributions. pay far more. This should mean that Jonathan Griffith from LCP said: Average pension at 65 if you started Employees who cut back on pension
Employees at FTSE 100 companies more is being saved overall but contri- “The level of DC pension savings was saving at 30 saving also miss out on tax perks,
lost out on £100 million in employer butions are actually dropping at some already too low and now more people because contributions and investment
% of salary paid in

12%
contributions last year because they of the biggest firms. are heading towards not having enough returns from pension funds are exempt
saved less into their pensions, the con- LCP said that saving 12 per cent of the to retire.” 8% from income tax. Mark Ormston from
sultancy LCP said. Some 60 per cent of average salary from age 30 to 65 would LCP said that 12 per cent of employ- the pension broker Retirement Line
Source: LCP

companies said that their average pen- give you a pension pot of £247,000 at 65, ees had cut back pension contributions said: “People need to think carefully
sion spend had fallen. assuming a standard investment strate- and a further 14 per cent planned to about balancing their current needs
Defined contribution pots are the gy that started in equities and then make reductions next year, according while not robbing their future selves.”
most common workplace pensions. gradually de-risked. If pension contri- to its survey of 10,000 workers. Some £247,000 £165,000 Rachel Mortimer

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to a human for more serious or denied the right to get in touch by

Just give me a complicated queries, particularly

where there is the risk of fraud.
And it’s not just retailers and travel
firms. HM Revenue & Customs
(HMRC) is closing its helpline for
phone — after all, they’re not
phoning for a chat about the weather.
Invariably it is older and vulnerable
customers who lose out. These people
are overcharged because they can’t

phone number, self-assessment tax returns for three

months from June 12. This seems a
bonkers decision at a time when
thousands of people are already
complaining that they are waiting for
speak to someone about a wrong bill
and are at risk of fraud if they can’t
easily get in touch with a company to
verify the credentials of a spurious
text, email or call.

I don’t want your

hours on hold, having their calls cut Next month the City regulator, the
off, and being unable to get help Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),
from the tax office. It also coincides will bring in new Consumer Duty
with an important tax deadline for rules. These will stipulate that
self-employed people on July 31. people should “receive
HMRC wants to trial a system communications they can

useless chatbot where customers who call for help are

sent a text message with a link to a
webpage that it thinks may be able to
solve their query. Does it think that
people are calling for fun?
understand, products and services
that meet their needs and offer
fair value, and that they get the
c
customer
w
support they need,
when they need it”.
You only phone the tax office as a The FCA is not too prescriptive
last resort after you have already i its rulemaking, but I would
in
torn most of your hair out trying to argue that to fulfil this last duty in
Holly Mead navigate its website for an answer.
I get why so many companies are
shunting their customers online. It is
particular, you must provide a way
f all customers — not just the
for
t
tech-savvy — to be able to contact
Deputy Money Editor cheaper for the business, and
less hassle for staff.
y
you.
Unfortunately these rules will not
Debenhams doesn’t extend beyond financial services.

W
hen my mum texted recently tried to contact the exist on the high street The Consumer Rights Act is a
last week to say she Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air any more, so it’s fair to comprehensive piece of legislation for
needed a phone when she was owed hundreds of assume that its providing protection to customers
number for pounds in compensation for a customers are all where something goes wrong, if goods
Debenhams, I was cancelled flight. Not only does the au fait with the are faulty or not as described, for
tempted to reply by telling her to airline charge a shocking £1.45 a internet. But that example. But it says nothing about
Google it. minute if you want to call, but if it doesn’t mean customer support or ease of contact.
“It’s about your birthday present,” decides that your query could have that they Is it time to update the rules?
came the second message. Suddenly I been answered online, it will charge should be You could do as one person
was more interested. you an extra €15 (about £13) for suggested to me and never use a
I won’t regale the entire story but inconveniencing its call centre. company that doesn’t have a phone
suffice to say, when the gift went All too often companies treat their number. But screening out such
missing in transit, it was apparently customers with utter contempt. They companies could mean we miss out
impossible to contact Debenhams. make it so difficult to get in touch on the best deals. And what if it had a
There was no response to emails. A that I can only assume that their phone line when you signed up then
“contact us” tab led to a blank page. aim is for us to give up trying. removed it, or supposedly has one but
The company website invites you to And it feels as though you can never get through?
get in touch via Instagram or customer service has got even Digital customer service can be
Facebook, but says that it won’t worse since the pandemic. great — it can help us to carry out
monitor Twitter. And, most baffling of Even those companies you can simple tasks with a few clicks. But
all, it says: “Sorry we don’t have a actually call are still running the companies are trying to move too
phone number”. automated message blaming Covid quickly — we have not yet reached
That’s not a faux boast either: for long waiting times. Companies need to the stage where online services can
even the head office phone number For simple queries, a chatbot is fine. solve everything.
that we managed to find online said A password change or tracking a provide a way that When things go wrong, you can’t
“number not recognised” when we
tried to ring it. Where does this leave
delivery date, for example. But
anyone who has been around the
you can speak to beat the human touch. Digital
services are all well and good until
people when something goes wrong? chatbot circle of hell realises it is vital an actual human my birthday present goes missing.
It’s not just Debenhams. A friend that firms also provide a way to speak @holly_mead_

The big question IN THE

SUNDAY TIMES
Should we bring back tax relief on mortgages? TOMORROW
homeowners to afford larger and Buy scheme, the stamp duty
Yes more expensive mortgages, but not
buy-to-let investors.
No holiday and Rent to Buy) all this
will do is underpin house prices at
Joe Stallard from We need an environment in Graham Cox from excessively high levels.
the broker House which homeowners and renters the broker Instead we need them to fall so
and Holiday Home thrive equally, by encouraging good Self-Employed that they become more affordable.
Mortgages landlords who provide quality Mortgage Hub Then we need policies that keep
housing options for those who them affordable, such as freeing up
Reinstating cannot or do not want to buy. Unless the local authorities to build social
mortgage interest relief at source To strike that balance, government is going to spread the housing at scale and including
could be helpful as long as it is regulations and safeguards need to largesse to renters, then bringing house prices in the 2 per cent
done with care to ensure it will be factored in to ensure back more generous mortgage inflation target.
really help those struggling with homebuyers are supported and interest relief is a bad idea. We have negative wage growth,
higher repayments. If it works, it landlords can service their I have every sympathy with when it instead needs to exceed
could give a breather to families mortgages without having to raise struggling homeowners, but why is house price inflation.
finding it hard to keep up with their rents to unaffordable levels. there not the same consideration Every pound spent on housing is
mortgages in these uncertain times. Or, just as bad, if not worse, given to tenants paying through the one pound less spent in the real
The tax break was introduced in being unable to maintain nose for often poorly maintained economy, supporting businesses,
1983 to boost homeownership and properties so that they become an rental properties? jobs and investment. It’s no wonder
allowed borrowers to claim relief unhealthy horror show for tenants. Even if their landlords received GDP and productivity have been
on interest paid on their mortgage. Creating an environment where tax relief on interest payments, flatlining for well over a decade, the special report
It was scaled back and just before it everyone has suitable and would that filter down into their situation is unsustainable.
was scrapped in April 2000, the
relief was worth 10 per cent of
affordable accommodation is what
matters most.
rents?
We need to get away from this
Bringing back mortgage interest
relief at source is just addressing
How to dig for
interest paid on the first £30,000 of
a mortgage.
Do I think bringing back tax
relief on mortgage interest could be
“bailout” mentality and address the
underlying problems.
the symptom of unaffordable
mortgage payments, rather than
victory over the
This could make a real difference
to families facing financial
a helpful tool for homeowners
struggling with higher repayments?
The government scrapped tax
relief on mortgage interest for
the root cause: at nearly eight times
the average UK income, house
cost of living crisis
difficulties. But it is essential to Cautiously, yes. homeowners in 2000 when Gordon prices are too high. plus
ensure that reinstating mortgage The key lies in reviving each part Brown argued that it had become Until we tackle this, growth and
interest relief doesn’t inadvertently of the housing market, not just a middle-class giveaway. productivity will remain weak.
push good landlords out of the selecting odd bits and hoping for Just like other band-aid Housing costs are exerting a Why you are in for
market, by making it easier for the best. “solutions” (including the Help to stranglehold on the economy. a mortgage shock
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Your debt could double in a decade

Homeowners seeking a The higher the rate, the bigger the burden
deals have to allow borrowers to make What else is out there?
repayments to cover their interest. Pay- Standard mortgage rates have risen too
loan beware — equity Average equity release rates (left) Years for debt to double (right)
ments on a £60,000 equity release loan and to get one you will need to pass
would be £336 a month at 6.71 per cent, affordability checks, which may be
release rates are up, 9% 18 compared with £205 at 4.1 per cent. difficult for older borrowers who have
If you don’t pay off retired and do not have a
but the alternatives are 8 16 your interest as it steady income.
builds up, your debt So-called retirement
few, says George Nixon 7 14
will increase, and the interest-only mortga-
6 12 higher the rate, the ges have been avail-

A
nyone using equity release 5 10 more you will have to able since 2021. They
to free up some property repay. In March 2021 are like equity re-
4 8
wealth could have doubled the average equity lease in that you
their debt within ten years 3 6 release rate was don’t need to repay the
thanks to soaring interest 2 4 3.86 per cent, which debt until you die or
rates. would mean your debt move into care, but you
Equity release allows the over-55s to 1 2 would double in about will have to make
borrow against the value of a property. 0 0 19 years. At today’s monthly interest pay-
You do not have to make any repay- 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 average rate, it would ments. Just 5,862 have
ments until you sell your home, usually Source: Moneyfacts take about ten and a been taken out since
when you die or move into care. half years. April 2021, compared
The average rate on equity release mortgage market in the past two weeks. have a choice, they can’t wait for rates to Rising costs mean with 99,507 equity re-
loans leapt up to 8.13 per cent after the The average two-year fixed rate has fall. Some people will find it’s too ex- that loan sizes are fall- lease loans.

5.98%
government’s disastrous mini-budget gone from 5.26 per cent at the start of pensive and have to downsize instead.” ing. “We are seeing Affordability rules
in September, which sent borrowing May to 5.98 per cent yesterday. Borrowers may decide to wait before fewer applications have been blamed
rates soaring. It had fallen to just over If mortgage rates hit 6 per cent taking out a loan for home improve- for cars, holidays for the low take-up
6 per cent by the start of last month, but homeowners will be spending 23.6 per ments or travel, but Steve Wilkie from and other luxury’ of these loans. A
chaos in the bond markets has sent it up cent of their incomes on mortgage re- the broker Responsible Life, said: “Con- items, and more for The lowest equity couple taking out a
to 6.71 per cent this week, according to payments, the most since 1991, said sumers have to accept that we now live gifting to help family, release rate today. retirement interest-
the data firm Moneyfacts. The lowest Neal Hudson from the property analyst in a higher interest rate environment.” for paying off interest- It was 2.81% in only mortgage must be
rate you can get now is 5.98 per cent BuiltPlace. In the first three months of the year only mortgages and top- able to show that each
from Standard Life. In October 2021 But even though the cost of borrow- £699 million was borrowed through eq- ping up income shortfalls,” October 2021 would be able to afford the
you could get a loan at 2.81 per cent. ing is spiralling, homeowners who need uity release, the lowest quarterly said Andy Wilson, a financial repayments if the other died.
The chaos was sparked by higher money but are reluctant to move may amount since the three months from adviser. Rates start at 5.65 per cent from
than expected inflation figures, which find themselves with few alternatives. April 2020, during the pandemic. Loan amounts fell from an average of Leeds Building Society for a two-year
have triggered fears of more rises in the Jane King from the advice firm Ash A record £4.84 billion was borrowed about £130,000 last year to £60,000 last fix and 5.54 per cent on a five-year fix
Bank of England base rate, which has Ridge Private Finance said: “Higher in the first nine months of 2022 when month, according to Air Club, a lending from Family Building Society. On a
gone up 12 times since its record low of rates have an effect on people, because the average equity release rate was as platform used by brokers. £60,000 loan you would pay £283 a
0.1 per cent in December 2021 and is if you roll up the debt it gets hideously low as 4.1 per cent, according to the People are also borrowing money month on the two-year option, com-
now 4.5 per cent. Lenders have pulled expensive. But those who need the Equity Release Council, a trade body. gradually rather than in one lump sum pared with £299 on Standard Life’s
hundreds of deals from across the money to fund their living don’t really Since last year all new equity release in the hope that rates fall, Wilson said. 5.98 per cent equity release deal.
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Where in the
world will you
invest next?
David Brenchley asks the professionals if you should play it safe with the
big markets, back the rise of Asia or go bargain-hunting by the Black Sea

I
nvestors with a time machine labels such as Gucci. It has
should go back a decade and put all American dominance struggled, but could be re-

70%
— or most — of their money in invigorated by a new
America. They say diversification Return on £10,000 creative director. Con-
£40,000
is the only free lunch in investing, sider Ferrari too. A
but betting big on just 500 large US Vanguard
V n d S&P 35,000 recession may mean
stocks would have secured you a far 5 0 ETF
500 30,000 that some people
greater return than backing more than 25,000 decide against buy- rise in the value
3,500 global shares. 20,000 ing a new supercar,
A £10,000 investment in the Van- but Ferrari’s long of America’s seven
15,000 biggest stocks in
guard S&P 500 exchange traded fund Vanguard
V
Va
Vangu FTSE
ard FT
a T
TSE waiting list should
(ETF) made ten years ago would now 10,000 ensure that sales hold 2023 so far
All
A World
r ETFF
be worth £38,795. An investment in the 5,000 up. Its limited edition
Source: FE fundinfo
more diversified Vanguard FTSE All- 0 vehicles, which cost up to
World ETF would be worth £27,840. 2014 16 18 20 2022 $2 million and are sold by in-
Yet the past is no guarantee of the vitation only, have gone down well.
future, and some people are convinced start backing UK shares again, overseas Yardley suggested the Comgest
that America’s dominance cannot last. private equity firms could well snap Growth Europe ex UK fund, which in-
So where in the world should you them up instead, said Ben Conway from vests in quality businesses such as the
invest? Hawksmoor Investment Management. Dutch chipmaker ASML and the Dan-
This could set share prices soaring as ish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, and the Hollings still thinks the region is investors were spooked
investors finally realise the potential of Janus Henderson European Selected well positioned, suggesting the by a real estate fraud in-
UK stocks in their home market. Opportunities fund, where big hold- Veritas Asian fund for exposure to volving the alleged illegal
Years of poor performance have sent Yardley suggested the Schroder Re- ings include the luxury conglomerate fast-growing companies, and Prusik selling of millions of pounds
UK shares plummeting to historically covery fund and City of London invest- LVMH and the sportswear firm Adidas. Asian Equity Income fund for divi- of bonds.
cheap levels, and many think the region ment trust, while Conway highlighted dend-paying stocks. Greenwood said that the Vietnam
is poised to deliver big gains. the Odyssean and Aberforth Smaller Consumers in China built up excess Opportunity Fund investment trust
“The Brits hate British companies Companies investment trusts, plus Asia savings of about $1.5 trillion during and the Vietnam Enterprise Invest-
right now,” said Alec Cutler from the Crux UK Special Situations and Polar For Mike Hollings from the wealth Covid, which is set to be spent, said ments fund were good opportunities
investment firm Orbis. But he has Capital UK Value Opportunities. manager Shard Capital, Asia is the Chris Tennant from the wealth manag- trading on large discounts to the value
identified opportunities in the market, future and should be a key part of a er Fidelity International. He is keen on of their underlying portfolios.
including the construction firm Bal- long-term investor’s portfolio. “The Chinese internet stocks and companies Justin Thomson from the fund house
four Beatty, the aerospace and defence Europe West is bankrupt — we’ve lived beyond that will benefit as the country’s draco- T Rowe Price said that India has “every-
firm Rolls-Royce and two flooring European stocks could benefit as the our means. In Asia they know about nian Covid restrictions are lifted. thing you expect from an emerging
companies, Headlam and Victoria. Chinese economy rebounds, said Zeh- saving,” he said. If you are uncomfortable investing in market: a young population, improving
The last time the US underper- rid Osmani from the investment man- By 2050, according to the Abrdn China, consider Vietnam. Many see the standards of literacy and education,
formed the UK flourished. The S&P ager Franklin Templeton. The coun- Research Institute, four of the world’s country as being where China was and an emerging middle class.” But the
500 returned 124 per cent in the ten try’s wealthy middle class has plenty of seven largest economies will be in Asia: 20 years ago, and there are bargains to market has got “a bit ahead of itself” he
years to March 2013, whereas the pent-up firepower ready to splurge on China, India, Indonesia and Japan. be had, according to Nick Greenwood said, so investors may want to wait for
FTSE 100 was up 170 per cent and the luxury goods. The Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh from the Migo Opportunities invest- prices to ease before hitting the buy
FTSE 250 was up 382 per cent. Osmani likes the Italian clothing and Vietnam will be in the top 25. This ment trust. Vietnam has a young popu- button.
“This might be the case again if we brand Moncler. Its recent TikTok cam- means that Asia will dominate the glob- lation and a growing middle class, and is
stay in a world of higher inflation and paign was viewed more than six billion al economy over the second half of this benefiting from tensions between the
commodities rise strongly as we move times, and the firm has collaborated century, the institute said. US and China because companies have Japan
towards net zero carbon emissions,” with Mercedes-Benz and the singer There are risks — not least politically moved manufacturing bases there. In the late 1980s Japan was the largest
said James Yardley from the research Alicia Keys. Another favourite is — and tensions between China and The market was one of the worst stock market in the world before crash-
firm FundCalibre. If investors don’t Kering, the French company behind Taiwan could cause problems. But performers last year, though: retail ing. It accounted for 40 per cent of

Stop the sexism and give dads six weeks off with pay
Campaigners say that income, matching the minimum that still very difficult for many fathers and
mothers are entitled to in the first six second parents to afford leave and this
sharing is caring when weeks of maternity leave. has serious consequences for both
The CPP said that the UK had some parents’ mental health.
it comes to family leave, of the least generous paternity rights in “If the UK wants to reduce the gen-
says Rachel Mortimer Europe and that extending paid leave
would create a fairer workforce and
der pay gap and stem the growing
demand for mental health services,
boost the economy. It said that the government policy must send a strong

C
ampaigners are calling for the gender pay gap, the pay disparity signal about the importance of both
amount of statutory paternity between working men and women, was parents’ role in providing childcare
leave to be tripled to six weeks at 4 per cent smaller in countries that gave from the beginning of a child’s life.”
almost full pay to help parents and re- fathers more than six weeks of paid Shared parental leave was intro-
duce the gender pay gap. paternity leave. duced in 2015 and lets mothers transfer
Almost half of new fathers who were In Sweden parents get a combined a share of their leave to the other part-
entitled to paternity leave but returned 480 days’ of leave and must take at least ner. But not all parents are eligible and
to work early did so because they could 90 days each. They are paid about critics say the system is underused
not afford to take the rest of the time of, 78 per cent of their salary for the first because mothers are reluctant to give
a survey suggested. or pay is at the discretion of the employ- had gone back to work because of 390 days. The country has the highest away time with their child.
New fathers get a minimum of two er, but many offer the legal minimum. money worries. labour force participation in the world, The government said: “We’re com-
weeks’ paternity leave and employers A survey of more than 1,800 fathers The group and the Centre for Pro- according to the Organisation for Eco- mitted to ensuring parental leave is fair,
are legally required to pay them at least by the parenting campaign group Preg- gressive Policy (CPP), a think tank, said nomic Co-operation and Develop- allowing working parents to share up to
£172.48 a week — less than half the nant Then Screwed found that 43 per that fathers should get six weeks of ment. 50 weeks of leave and up to 37 weeks of
minimum wage. Any additional leave cent who did not take their full leave paternity leave paid at 90 per cent of Rosie Fogden from the CPP said: “It is pay in the first year of their child’s life.”
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11% Georgia

21%
If you’re looking for a racier invest-
ment, Georgia could be an option for a
increase in Georgia’s small part of your portfolio.
GDP last year, after Despite its neighbour Russia waging
being adjusted for war on Ukraine and Russian forces
inflation being stationed on territory that is in- increase in the cost of electric
ternationally recognised as Georgian, car insurance in a year
the country’s economy is booming.
Georgia’s GDP rose 11 per cent
last year after adjusting for infla-
tion because of a burgeoning
middle class and an influx of
wealthy Russian IT professionals
keen to avoid military conscription.
Greenwood said that the investment
trust Georgia Capital’s 62 per cent dis-
count was “a major mis-pricing oppor-
tunity” for adventurous investors.

US

28%
A portfolio of Amer-
ica’s largest seven
stocks (Apple, Mic-
rosoft, Alphabet —
Charging the earth
rise in Japan’s
Nikkei 225 index this
year, taking it to a
the parent com-
pany of Google—
Amazon, Nvidia,
Meta and Tesla) is
for going electric
up 70 per cent in
33-year high 2023. The other 493 Insurance premiums, energy prices and parts
companies on the S&P
500 have gained 0.1 per all add up to a costly switch, says Ali Hussain
cent, according to Bank of

E
America. Against a backdrop of such lectric cars are becoming more the average price of petrol at the pumps
poor share price performance for most expensive to insure and run now 147p a litre and diesel 163p, com-
companies, Cutler said, investors because of a lack of replacement pared with 165p and 178p a year ago.
would be hard pushed not to find an parts and garages to service them. The cost of electricity at car charging
attractive stock in the region. Batteries, which can cost more than points has remained stubbornly high,
Cutler likes energy infrastructure £5,000 to replace, are often scrapped if the RAC said.
companies, which own the pipelines they are even slightly damaged because The government has banned the sale

$1.5trn
that transport oil and gas around that can cause performance issues. of new petrol and diesel vehicles from
America. He highlighted Kinder Mor- Sometimes a whole vehicle can be writ- 2030 to reduce greenhouse gas emis-
gan and MasTec as beneficiaries of an ten off if the battery is damaged, further sions, but analysts warn that there is a
global markets; fund house Artemis likes acceleration in demand for energy in- pushing up an owner’s premiums. need for a rapid improvement in the
today it is 6 per Japanese automation frastructure projects. Between February and April this electric car charging infrastructure
cent. stocks such as Keyence and Investors must be discerning, year the average cost of fully compre- before this can happen.
The market excess Chinese SMC, which are world-class though. After years of share price rises, hensive insurance for an electric car Geraint Jones from Broadway Insur-
is at a 33-year savings built up and attractively priced. US stocks are expensive relative to was £687 — 21 per cent higher than the ance Brokers said: “Repairs or replace-
high, but it during Covid, now Warren Buffett is one other markets. The so-called Buffett same period the year before, according ment parts for some of the most popu-
remains well below set to be spent famous investor who started to Indicator (named after Warren Buf- lar models, such as Tesla, for instance,
its 1989 peak, and buy shares in Japanese compa- fett), which compares the total value of can only be dealt with by a restricted
Japanese firms are about nies in 2020, and he has been top- US firms against the country’s GDP, number of specialist or approved gara-
two thirds cheaper than US ping up his holdings after a visit to the is about 155 per cent, indicating that ges. Many local garages don’t have the
companies, according to Jonathan country in April. Through his invest- the shares are pricey. Buffett prefers the right equipment or the knowledge nec-
Francis from the fund house Harring- ment holdings company Berkshire measure to be below 80 per cent. essary to fix them.
ton Cooper. Hathaway he has bought a stake in Conway’s one dedicated US equity Any damage to the “If an accident is severe enough to
Regulators are forcing Japanese five Japanese stocks, including the position is in small companies, which damage the battery, it can render the
companies to return more cash to commodity trading firms Mitsui & Co, he believes are cheap compared with battery can render the vehicle a write-off, whereas a similar
shareholders through share buybacks Mitsubishi and Itochu. their historic valuations. He tips the VT vehicle a write-off impact may not be terminal for a diesel
and dividends, in a bid to push share Conway thinks small and medium- De Lisle America fund, which has or petrol model.”
prices higher. Firms that do not comply sized companies are well placed to positions in the uranium fuel provider The consumer group Which? tested
with the new corporate governance thrive in Japan, but it requires specialist Cameco, the soft toy maker Build-A- to the consumer site Compare The more than 70 electric cars and found
code can be downgraded from the knowledge of the region to invest. Bear Workshops and the motorhome Market. Petrol car insurance went up that their actual range was on average
Tokyo Stock Exchange’s “Prime” He likes the Nippon Active Value and company Winnebago Industries. 18 per cent to an average of £659. nearly 20 per cent shorter than adver-
market to the lesser “Standard” market. M&G Japan Smaller Companies Yardley said: “Most of the best com- Insuring a Tesla last year cost an av- tised. The average electric car battery
The fact that the pressure on firms is funds. “They are culturally sensitive panies in the world are listed in the US. erage of £1,086 — a 33 per cent increas- needed 15 per cent more power than the
from inside Japan rather than from and use Japanese people to exert a little They are world leaders in tech, AI, life es on the year before. manafacturers claimed to become fully
foreign investors means the measures bit of pressure that can lead to big sciences and many more sectors.” The Electric car drivers may also be more charged, Which? said.
should have a significant impact, change. They’re not insensitive for- advice is to not completely ignore likely to need separate breakdown Some 60 per cent of people would not
Conway said. Alex Stanic from the eigners looking to make a quick buck.” the US market, even if it is expensive. cover because of the risk of their car buy an electric car, according to a sur-
battery running out. vey of 2,000 people by the insurance
Legal cover is also recommended to firm InsuretheGap.
protect you from claims if someone “Range anxiety” — the fear of the

Two more years to plug gaps trips over your cable protectors while
you are charging your vehicle at home,
adding another £15-25 a year.
An electric car is cheaper to run than
battery running out while you are driv-
ing — lack of charging infrastructure
and high costs were the main reasons
given.

S
avers hoping to boost their state extra claims that were inevitably going of missed national insurance con- a petrol or diesel vehicle if you The average cost of a replacement
pension have been given nearly to result,” said Tom Selby from the in- tributions but, for a limited window charge it at home electric car battery is about £5,400,
two extra years to plug gaps in their vestment platform AJ Bell. of time, taxpayers can top up contri- (about 10p a mile), according to Book My Garage, a car
national insurance record. “Unfortunately, the phone lines are butions missed between April 6, but the cost rises servicing comparison site.
Taxpayers previously had until July once again jammed, which suggests 2006, and April 5, 2016. to about 21p a mile And while the upfront cost of an elec-
31 to top up gaps in their national insur- this hasn’t happened and people are Filling in one year of contribu- if you use a public tric car has fallen about 22 per cent over
ance contributions to ensure that they still unable to get through to enquire tions could boost your state pension rapid charging 12 months, they are still significantly
would get the full state pension, which by almost £303 a year — more than point, according more expensive at £31,250 on average
is worth £203.85 a week — £10,600 a £6,000 over a 20-year retirement, to the RAC. compared with £16,300 for a typical
year.
The deadline is now April 5, 2025,
after people complained that they
could not get through to the Depart-
£303
possible state pension boost for adding
not taking into account future rises
in the state pension.
It normally costs £17.45 to fill in a
missing week of national insurance
A petrol car
costs an average
of 16p a mile and
a diesel 17p. Fuel
petrol car, according to the online car
seller AutoTrader. The average cost of a
diesel car is £16,600.
Electric car drivers do not have to pay
ment for Work and Pensions (DWP) on a year of national insurance payments contributions. It would cost £907.40 prices have road tax, which can be between £10 and
the phone. to make up a year’s worth. dropped sharply £2,605 a year depending on how much
It is the second time the deadline has about topping up their national insur- But topping up contributions over the past carbon a car produces — but they will
been extended due to the government’s ance record.” may not be the best thing to do in few weeks with have to pay from April 2025.
clogged phone lines — the original You need 35 years of national insur- every case. Before you make any In London they are exempt from the
cut-off point was April 5 this year. ance contributions to qualify for a full top-ups, check with the Future Older cars will expanding ultra low emission zone
“The original extension was only state pension, and at least ten years of Pension Centre on 0800 731 0175 or be charged to (£12.50 per day) and the more central
ever going to be effective if the DWP contributions to get any state pension visit gov.uk/check-state-pension to enter Greater congestion charge zone, which costs
staffed its helplines sufficiently to clear at all. find out what would be best for you. London from £15 a day. The congestion charge ex-
the existing backlog and deal with the Normally you can make up six years Lucy Alderson August 29 emption ends in December 2025.
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If a fund manager jumps How they performed

Average "alpha ratio" for managers who moved firms
Old firm New firm
1.53

ship, should you go too? 0.67

1.36 1.3
1.22

0.88

O
They may have made ne of the biggest dilemmas
for an investor is what to do
investors have lost a collective £1 billion
and the fund is in the process of being
you a fortune, but that when a fund manager
leaves — stick around to
wound up.
It’s a salutary lesson, but others —
star stockpicker might see how their successor such as Nick Train and Terry Smith — After 3 years After 5 years To date
fares, or follow them to their new firm? have been successful. Source: Morningstar Direct
not travel well, warns Going with the manager can prove When deciding whether to stick or
costly. Ask anyone who followed Neil twist, you need to be selective. Research ter in the new firm than at their old fund ployer. “If it’s to rid themselves of the
David Brenchley Woodford when he left Invesco Perpet- from the data firm Morningstar sug- house for the first three years after checks and procedures that come with
ual to set up his own fund shop. Those gests that fund managers perform bet- jumping ship. After five years, however, being part of a larger fund house, that
they perform worse than they did at could well be a red flag,” Moore said.
their former employer. “Equally, if it’s because they want a
According to the study, which gave bigger share of the pie that might not be
managers an “alpha ratio” measuring a good thing for you as an investor.”
the value they had added to a fund’s re- There is a balancing act here, though.
turns, those with the worst track record Darius McDermott from the research
at their previous firm had the biggest agency FundCalibre said that ideally
improvement at their new firm. Those the manager would have greater re-
who had been top performers tended to sources and freedom in their new job,
do much worse at their new firm. with appropriate risk controls but no
However, even though many manag- extra administrative tasks to distract
ers do not perform as well at their new them from running the fund.
fund as they did at their old one, they McDermott said: “Sometimes fund
still often do better than the managers managers leave because they want
that took over their old fund. more flexibility and more resources.
Morningstar found that in the five This is beneficial for investors.”
years after leaving a fund, a manager
would return an average of 52 percent- Weigh up the cost
age points more a year on their new
fund than their successor achieved at Fees should always be a key considera-
the fund they left behind. tion. Sometimes new funds are more
Woodford is the perfect example of expensive because they don’t have the
Morningstar’s research. He made a fly- scale of larger funds, meaning that their
ing start after his new fund was costs are higher. But sometimes fund
set up, returning 53 per cent groups offer lower fees to attract
in his first three years, investors and build scale.

£1,175
much higher than the “If fees charged at the
FTSE all-share in- new fund are significantly
dex’s 25.5 per cent higher, it can be a deal-
gain. That turned breaker,” Mathieu
out to be the peak of Caquineau from Morn-
the fund’s powers, ingstar said. “No matter
though. By the five- Value of a £10,000 how talented the port-
year mark, it was up investment in Neil folio manager and how
13 per cent versus a Woodford’s fund well the transition looks,
37 per cent gain for the after nine years if fees are too high at the
FTSE all-share. new shop, investors may lose
Another example is in the long run.”
Simon Brazier, who left the fund
group Ninety One in May. He joined Think wider
the firm, then known as Investec Asset
Management, to some fanfare in 2014 A manager may perform badly because
and had modest early success, doubling their investment style is out of favour.
the return of the FTSE all-share. He Value investors, who buy stocks they
failed to build on that, though, and left think are cheap, have struggled for a
the fund having delivered a return of long time because low interest rates
about 48 per cent, versus 58 per cent for have pushed investors into risky
the FTSE all-share. growth stocks, for example.
This doesn’t necessarily mean they
Woodford lessons are a bad manager. Compare their per-
formance against other value manag-
Woodford turned a £10,000 investment ers before deciding how skilful they are.
into £232,500 in his 25 years managing One sign of a manager having “cour-
the Invesco Perpetual High Income age of their convictions” would be if
fund, but his Woodford Equity Income they decide to set up a new fund or bou-
fund turned £10,000 into £1,175 in nine tique during a tough market, Moore
years. Why couldn’t he replicate his said. This could signal confidence in the
success? Woodford changed his style of likely success of their chosen style. For
investing. He went from buying under- example, setting up a value fund in the
valued, blue-chip UK companies while middle of a growth stock bull market
at Invesco to backing small companies will be a hard sell.
that were hard to sell at Woodford In-
vestment Management. “That was a New kid on the block
complete departure from what he had
made his name doing,” said John Moore If a fund manager is joining a rival in-
from the wealth manager RBC Brewin vestment house, research that firm and
Dolphin. check how it has handled new fund
Moore said that investors should take managers in the past.
a “wait and see” approach when a man- Some companies will welcome new
ager leaves to set up their own boutique joiners and put a lot of resources behind
and reassess the situation once the fund them, others may not. Their track
manager is established in their new record of welcoming those managers
home. He said: “This should remove a should give a steer as to how future
degree of risk and give you time to switches might fare.
check they still align with your invest-
ment preferences.”
Online
Red flags Follow David Brenchley’s
investments as he
Consider the reasons why the fund makes his changes
manager decided to leave their old em- thetimes.co.uk/getrichslowly
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My £54,000 was sent by snail mail

still rely on cheques for transfers. If the
Times Money Mentor payment had been electronic, it would If you would like us to investigate
Troubleshooter have been processed immediately.
Halifax said it sends cheques to make
a consumer problem, write to
Troubleshooter, Times Money,
sure the overall fund total is trans- 1 London Bridge Street,
London SE1 9GF or
Katherine ferred. This does not seem to make
sense in your case, where three cheques troubleshooter@thetimes.co.uk.
Denham were sent, and I don’t see why the over-
Please include a phone number
all total couldn’t have been transferred
electronically, but the bank wouldn’t you £200 as a goodwill gesture, plus
give me a clear response. £521 to cover the financial loss caused
My query did, however, seem to by the delay. You said you found it un-
speed things up — Hargreaves had the believable that Halifax would post

I
n February I asked Halifax to funds by the end of April and Halifax cheques without checking them, but
transfer my stocks and shares Isa, has apologised for the delay and paid were glad to get your money.
containing about £54,000, to the
investment platform Hargreaves
Lansdown.
I had a letter from Halifax in March Money Mentor
to say that it had transferred my money. Online
But when I checked my account with Stocks and shares Isas
Hargreaves it contained only £31,586. rated by our experts
I called Hargreaves and asked where thetimes.co.uk/money-mentor
the remaining £22,489 was and it said
there had been problems with the How your Isa performs depends on
cheques from Halifax. The first cheque what you’re invested in, but it is worth
for £31,586 was cashed, the second evaluating regularly. As well as
bounced and Hargreaves returned a comparing the investment options, it is
third because it couldn’t be paid in. also important to compare platform
It is now the end of March and noth- fees and customer service ratings.
ing appears to have happened. Har- The government says it should take
greaves said it was waiting for Halifax no longer than a month to transfer a
to send a new cheque. The woman I stocks and shares Isa to a new firm, but
spoke to at Halifax didn’t seem sur- this relies on nothing going wrong dur-
prised that the cheque had bounced ing the process.
and said she would get a new one issued Unfortunately for you, Halifax’s deci-
that day. But neither I nor Hargreaves sion to send cheques slowed everything
have received anything. down. The second cheque had been
Could you help? made payable to you rather than Har-
Stan Watkinson, Norfolk greaves, which meant that the com-
pany couldn’t cash it. Hargreaves asked
Troubleshooter replies for it to be reissued, but the replace-
You wanted to move your Isa because ment cheque was also made payable to
your investments had performed poor- you again, so couldn’t be cashed either.
ly. Many stocks and shares Isas have Each time the cheques were sent
suffered a similar fate, with the average back to Halifax, both you and Har-
Isa falling 3.27 per cent in the year to greaves chased the bank. You then
February, according to the data firm faced a painstaking wait for each new
Moneyfacts. They rose an average of cheque to be reissued and posted.
6.92 per cent in the year before that. It seems ludicrous that companies

Oops, I insured my house twice

I moved house in January last year lots to think about, but I wondered
and took out home insurance with how you had managed to take out
Sainsbury’s Bank for £245 a year. two home insurance policies.
Fast-forward 12 months and You said you bought one
during the renewal process, through the website, but when you
Sainsbury’s told me that I had downloaded the app, there was no
insured the same house twice. evidence of it on your account, so
I cancelled one of the policies, you bought the same policy again
expecting a full refund but got through the app.
only £50 for the time remaining on You should have realised that
the policy. Sainsbury’s had charged you
I called Sainsbury’s and it said I twice, but I appreciate that it
had to write a letter to request a might have been hard to keep
refund. There was no option to track of every transaction when
email, which is frustrating. so much money was changing
I posted the letter to Sainsbury’s hands during the house-buying
in February and phoned in March process.
and the customer service agent It’s also odd that the insurer’s
told me that it was investigating, system didn’t flag up the fact that
but could not give me a timescale. you had two identical home
I was told to call back at the end of insurance policies. I put this to
the week. Sainsbury’s but it said it couldn’t
I don’t understand why I need to give me an answer. It also wouldn’t
send a letter and apply for a refund explain why you had to write an
when it was Sainsbury’s that told actual letter rather than an email
me that I had insured the same to request a refund.
house twice. I also don’t see how Sainsbury’s Bank said: “We’re
Sainsbury’s could let the same sorry that Mr Tideswell’s
property be insured twice anyway. experience wasn’t up to our usual
My issue seems to highlight high standards of customer service
problems with Sainsbury’s and we’re working with the
procedures which I don’t think are insurer to arrange a refund.”
fit for purpose. Could you help me It also offered you £150
get my money back? compensation to apologise, which
Phil Tideswell, Tyne and Wear you accepted, although, like me,
you would have liked some
Troubleshooter says indication that the system would
I can appreciate that moving be changed so that it will flag up
house can be stressful and there is any duplicate purchases.
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Ethical ‡@ 114.20 … +0.70 … Global A Acc ‡@ 2049.00 … +25.00 … Short Dated Corp Bd Inc ‡ 24.64 … -0.04 2.80
High Income R Inc ‡@ 62.12 … … 6.32 Emerging Mkts Blended Debt A Inc ‡@ 63.88 … +0.11 6.73 Strat Inc A Inc ‡@ 80.01 … -0.10 3.61
European ‡@ 114.00 … +1.90 … Japan A Acc ‡@ 516.80 … +4.20 … UK Select A Inc ‡ 2764.17 … +38.44 2.31
Income R Acc ‡@ 513.35 … +2.92 3.96 Emerging Mkts Equity A Acc ‡@ 150.08 … +2.29 0.97 UK Gwth A Acc ‡@ 196.10 … -0.40 …
Far Eastern ‡ 115.10 … +1.20 3.41
Income R Inc ‡@ 220.38 … +1.25 4.08 Multi-Man Tst A Acc ‡@ 1268.00 … +20.00 0.57 UK Sel Gwth A Acc ‡@ 2345.00 … +5.00 1.33
Fund of Inv Tst ‡@ 136.50 … +1.00 0.43 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Acc ‡@ 183.36 … -0.26 …
Monthly Dist R Inc ‡@ 62.65 … +0.36 5.07 Intl Gwth ‡ 129.50 … +1.60 … Multi-Man Tst A Inc ‡@ 1127.00 … +18.00 0.58
Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt A Inc ‡@ 69.82 … -0.10 …
Strategic Assets R Acc ‡@ 90.21 … +0.18 … Japanese ‡ 74.79 … +0.81 1.46 Nat Resources ‡@ 951.20 … +27.20 …
Strategic Bond R M Acc ‡@94.37 … -0.32 3.73 Emrg Mkts Local Curr Debt Gross I Acc ‡@ 220.49 … -1.26 … Sterling Class A Investment Funds 3
North Amer ‡ 154.80 … +1.50 … New Europe A ‡@ 155.70 … -73.10 2.11
Strategic Bond R M Inc ‡@ 49.09 … -0.16 3.82 Enhanced Natural Resources A Acc ‡@ 134.24 … -4.54 … OEIC B Class
Smaller Cos ‡@ 104.80 … +0.30 … Portfolio ‡@ 295.60 … +0.60 0.98 Corp Bd A Inc ‡ 32.79 … +0.01 4.04
Strategic Bond R Q Acc ‡@ 94.20 … -0.32 3.80 Global Bond A Acc ‡@ 139.30 … +5.98 … Tracker and Specialist Investment Funds
Special Sits ‡@ 50.53 … +0.71 1.40 Stg Corp Bd A Acc ‡@ 85.59 … -0.61 … Dividend Inc ‡ 51.70 … -0.54 6.03
Strategic Bond R Q Inc ‡@ 48.87 … -0.17 3.87 UK Equity Inc ‡@ 91.76 … +0.96 … Global Bond A Inc ‡@ 109.33 … +4.52 … Recovery A Inc ‡ 108.21 … +0.94 3.61 UK Trkr B Acc ‡@ 427.90 … -1.30 3.00
UK Growth R Acc ‡@ 740.01 … +0.48 2.14 Stg Corp Bd A Inc ‡@ 48.30 … -0.35 … UK Trkr B Inc ‡@ 190.80 … -0.60 3.08
UK FTSE 100 IT ‡@ 71.35 … +0.85 … Global Bond I Gross Inc ‡@ 1167.00 … +46.14 … Sml Cos Inc ‡ 333.68 … +2.90 …
UK Smaller Cos R Acc ‡@ 1813.65 … +12.25 … UK FTSE All-S IT ‡@ 80.22 … +0.90 2.50 UK Act 350 A Acc ‡@ 199.00 … -1.30 …
Global Dynamic A Acc ‡@ 193.61 … +6.88 …
UK Special Sits R Acc ‡@ 709.59 … +2.06 … UK Growth ‡@ 83.05 … +1.02 2.73 UK Dynamic Acc ‡@ 206.70 … +6.80 …
Global Energy A Acc ‡@ 170.97 … -4.81 …
UK Dynamic Inc ‡@ 148.20 … +4.90 …
Global Equity A Acc ‡@ 234.59 … -0.59 … UK and Income Investment Funds
UK Equity A Acc ‡@ 401.90 … -4.70 3.45 Sterling Class A Investment Funds 4
Global Franchise A Acc ‡@ 309.20 … +1.14 … Corp Bond B Acc ‡@ 370.70 … +0.40 1.39
UK Equity A Inc ‡@ 46.44 … -0.54 3.49 Episode Allocation A Inc ‡@ 140.76 … +0.84 2.89
Global Free Enterprise A Acc ‡@ 1279.99 … +9.66 … Corp Bond B Inc ‡@ 136.30 … +0.10 1.40
HSBC GLOBAL ASSET MGMT (UK) LTD UK Eqy & Bd Inc Acc ‡@ 167.10 … +2.30 3.41
Enq: 0845 745 6123 Dlg: 0845 745 6126 Mon-Fri 8-6 Global Gold A Acc ‡@ 188.73 … -4.24 0.88 UK Gwth B Acc ‡@ 205.60 … -0.60 1.79
AXA FRAMLINGTON UNIT MGMT LTD UK Eqy & Bd Inc Inc ‡@ 90.29 … +0.88 3.50
HSBC Index Tracker Investment Funds (OEIC) Global Special Situations A Acc ‡@ 325.55 … -1.02 … UK Sel Gwth B Acc ‡@ 2481.00 … +8.00 1.09
Dling: 0845 602 1952 Priv Clients: 0845 777 5511 UK Higher Inc A Acc ‡@ 1132.00 … +12.00 …
Amer Ind Acc ‡@ 960.11 … +11.28 … Global Special Situations A Inc ‡@ 251.24 … -0.79 …
Equity Inc ‡@ 572.40 … -2.10 4.43 UK Higher Inc A Inc ‡@ 531.30 … +4.30 … MARKS & SPENCER UNIT TRUST LTD
Gilt Acc @ 201.30 211.80 -1.50 1.08 Amer Ind Inc ‡@ 760.93 … +8.94 … Managed Growth A Acc ‡@ 275.01 … +1.34 …
UK Sm Cos A Acc ‡@ 563.30 … +18.80 … 0808 005 5555
Gilt Inc @ 74.35 78.24 -1.00 1.09 Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 1222.44 … +16.66 … Monthly High Income A Acc ‡@ 243.45 … +2.02 3.54 OEIC C Class
Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 761.14 … +10.37 … UK Str Eq Inc A Acc ‡@ 197.90 … +5.70 … High Income 85.11 85.11 +0.36 4.19
Health Acc ‡@ 2976.00 … -11.00 … Monthly High Income A Inc ‡@ 63.17 … +0.42 5.01 UK and Income Investment Funds
FTSE 100 Ind Acc ‡@ 281.56 … +3.34 3.32 UK Str Eq Inc A Inc ‡@ 100.50 … +2.87 … High Income Acc 240.70 240.70 +0.90 …
Jap Smlr Co Ac @ 62.56 66.09 -0.93 0.30 Multi-Asset Protector A Acc ‡@ 167.19 … +0.37 … UK Gth C Inc ‡@ 126.60 … -0.20 …
FTSE 100 Ind Inc ‡@ 125.73 … +1.49 3.41 US A Acc ‡@ 1036.00 … +14.00 … UK 100 Comp Acc @ 460.90 460.90 +1.60 2.87
Managed Inc ‡@ 138.30 … -0.70 4.20 Strategic Bond A Acc ‡@ 244.54 … +0.50 … UK Sel Gwth C Acc ‡@ 2598.00 … +8.00 1.29
FTSE 250 Ind Acc ‡@ 289.06 … +2.21 3.62 UK 100 Cos @ 226.50 226.50 +0.90 2.94
Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 206.50 … +0.20 6.18
FTSE 250 Ind Inc ‡@ 172.33 … +1.31 3.07 UK Select Pflo @ 333.50 333.50 +0.10 3.17
UK Growth Inc ‡@ 218.10 … +2.50 0.95
FTSE All-S Acc ‡@ 715.26 … +7.99 … UK Selection Port Acc @ 701.80 701.80 +0.20 1.49
UK Select Opps Inc ‡@ 1889.00 … +24.00 1.18
FTSE All-S Inc ‡@ 355.38 … +3.97 … Worldwide Mgd Acc @ 943.30 943.30 +2.00 1.31
UK Sml Cos Inc ‡@ 264.60 … +4.30 0.16 STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS
Jap Ind Acc ‡@ 150.69 … +1.14 … Wwide Mgd @ 551.70 551.70 +1.10 1.32
0845 279 3003
Jap Ind Inc ‡@ 115.20 … +0.87 … Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Shares
Pac Ind Acc ‡@ 513.73 … +5.57 3.44
Pac Ind Inc ‡@ 312.05 … +3.38 3.56 AAA Inc CAT Acc ‡@ 86.30 … -0.69 …
AAA Inc CAT Inc ‡@ 48.21 … -0.38 1.41
MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MGMT LTD
AXA FUND MANAGERS LTD AAA Income Acc ‡@ 94.10 … -0.74 …
Enquires: 0800 0961 962
Admin & Enq 0117 989 0808 Amer Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 208.50 … -0.80 …
The Morgan Stanley Funds (UK)
AXA Trusts Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 151.00 … -1.10 3.32
HSBC Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Share Class Class A Shares
Corp Bond Inc ‡@ 49.67 … -0.35 3.39
Gen Acc ‡@ 2101.00 … -53.00 2.64 Equity
Balanced Acc ‡@ 243.92 … +1.12 0.93 Euro Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 262.10 … … …
Gen Inc ‡@ 1079.00 … -32.00 2.70 Balanced Inc ‡@ 151.95 … +3.09 … Dev Opp Fund F Acc ‡@ 774.71 … +8.85 … Glb Advtg CAT Acc ‡@ 149.20 … +0.80 1.39
Corp Bd Acc ‡@ 259.31 … -1.75 5.02 Dev Opp Fund I Acc ‡@ 770.25 … +8.76 … Glob Advtg Acc ‡@ 197.00 … +1.00 1.36
Corp Bd Inc ‡@ 99.70 … -0.67 3.43 Glob Bal Inc F F Acc ‡@ 948.56 … +11.42 5.29 Glob Eq Uncstrd Acc ‡@ 164.60 … +1.30 …
Gilt & Fd Int Acc ‡@ 497.78 … +7.06 … Glob Bal Inc F F Inc ‡@ 867.52 … +10.44 5.48 Higher Inc Acc ‡@ 146.70 … +0.40 …
Gilt & Fd Int Inc ‡@ 74.17 … +1.05 … Glob Bal Inc F I Acc ‡@ 946.97 … +11.39 5.31 Higher Inc Inc ‡@ 44.65 … +0.12 …
Income Acc ‡@ 715.32 … +5.61 … Glob Bal Inc F I Inc ‡@ 865.89 … +10.41 5.50 Japan Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 127.40 … -0.30 …
UK/Global Investment Companies Income Inc ‡@ 293.49 … +2.30 … Glob Bal Sust F F Acc ‡@ 948.52 … +8.11 1.50 Managed Acc ‡@ 367.60 … +3.70 …
Euro Acc A ‡@ 234.70 … +0.10 1.18 Monthly Inc Acc ‡@ 313.41 … -1.33 3.21 Glob Bal Sust F F Inc ‡@ 928.52 … +7.94 1.52 Select Inc Acc ‡@ 91.51 … -0.06 …
Extra Inc Inc B ‡@ 86.74 … -1.81 1.16 Monthly Inc Inc ‡@ 126.29 … -0.03 4.06 Glob Bal Sust F I Acc ‡@ 947.14 … +8.09 1.45 Select Inc Inc ‡@ 51.26 … -0.29 …
Global Gwth Acc R ‡@ 288.10 … +1.20 0.52 UK Grth & Inc Ret B Acc ‡@ 146.06 … +1.03 4.16 Glob Bal Sust F I Inc ‡@ 928.24 … +7.93 1.44 UK Eq Gth Acc ‡@ 372.70 … -0.20 …
Japan Acc A ‡@ 162.30 … +0.90 1.51 UK Grth & Inc Ret B Inc ‡@64.47 … +0.46 4.29 Glob Br Eq Inc Fund F Inc ‡@ 1308.96 … +11.08 … UK Eq Hi Alpha ‡@ 230.00 … -0.10 …
Pac Gwth Acc A ‡@ 479.80 … -18.60 … UK Gth & Inc Acc ‡@ 146.06 … +1.03 4.16 Glob Br Eq Inc Fund I Acc ‡@ 1823.26 … +15.34 … UK Eq Hi Inc Acc ‡@ 268.60 … +2.30 …
UK Gth & Inc Inc ‡@ 64.47 … +0.46 4.29 Glob Br Eq Inc Fund I Inc ‡@ 1399.40 … +11.78 … UK Eq Hi Inc Inc ‡@ 72.68 … +0.61 …
Glob Br Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@ 13816.74 … +268.93 … UK Ethical Acc ‡@ 206.20 … +1.70 …
Glob Br Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@ 1633.69 … +53.36 0.71 UK Opps Acc ‡@ 234.40 … -1.90 …
Glob Br Fund I Inc (PH) ‡@ 3782.47 … +73.62 … UK Opps Inc ‡@ 211.70 … -1.70 …
Glob Br Fund I Inc (PH) ‡@ 1558.79 … +50.82 0.71 UK Smlr Cos Acc ‡@ 767.30 … +9.70 …
HSBC Specialist Investment Funds (OEIC)
CIS UNIT MANAGERS LTD Glob Ins Fund F Acc ‡@ 584.85 … +9.96 …
08457 46 46 46 American Index Retail Acc ‡@ 960.11 … +11.28 … Glob Ins Fund F Inc ‡@ 584.85 … +9.96 …
American Index Retail Inc ‡@ 760.93 … +8.94 … Glob Ins Fund I Acc ‡@ 581.76 … +9.88 …
European Gwth ‡@ 212.50 … +2.60 …
Asian Gth Acc ‡@ 147.77 … -0.67 … Glob Ins Fund I Inc ‡@ 581.76 … +9.88 … SVS BROWN SHIPLEY FUNDS
Sus Leaders ‡@ 796.30 … +8.60 …
Asian Gth Inc ‡@ 130.99 … -0.59 … Glob Sust Fund F Acc (PH) ‡@ 1228.43 … +41.76 0.62 Enquiries:0141 222 1151
UK Growth ‡@ 633.90 … +7.00 …
Chinese Eq Acc ‡@ 513.81 … -13.85 0.40 Glob Sust Fund F Inc ‡@ 1282.30 … +26.03 …
UK Income ‡@ 202.50 … +0.50 5.32 Balanced A Acc ‡@ 136.41 … +1.38 1.25
Chinese Eq Inc ‡@ 434.76 … -11.72 0.34 Glob Sust Fund I Acc ‡@ 1299.80 … +26.34 …
Euro Gth Acc ‡@ 973.97 … -10.00 0.41 Balanced A Inc ‡@ 121.04 … +1.22 1.26
Glob Sust Fund I Acc (PH) ‡@ 1226.15 … +41.61 0.47 Cautious A Acc ‡@ 111.49 … +0.30 1.83
Euro Gth Inc ‡@ 817.05 … -8.39 0.44 Glob Sustain Fund F Acc ‡@ 1307.32 … +26.54 … Cautious A Inc ‡@ 95.74 … +0.26 1.85
Stg Corp Bond F F Acc ‡@ 117.00 … -0.52 3.47 Dynamic A Acc ‡@ 337.41 … +5.57 …
Stg Corp Bond F F Inc ‡@ 91.19 … -0.41 3.53 Dynamic A Inc ‡@ 302.75 … +5.00 …
CLOSE FUND MANAGEMENT LTD Stg Corp Bond F I Acc ‡@ 2487.12 … -11.14 3.03 Growth A Acc ‡@ 345.11 … +4.45 1.09
0870 606 6402 IGNIS ASSET MGMT Stg Corp Bond F I Inc ‡@1298.09 … -5.82 3.10 Income A Acc ‡@ 247.80 … +1.60 …
Dlg: 0141 222 8282 Sust Fixed Inc Opps F F Acc ‡@ 932.58 … +1.50 2.82 Sterling Bond Acc ‡@ 242.37 … +1.39 …
Beacon Inv ‡ 84.88 … +0.45 …
American Gth Inc @ 322.55 340.42 +1.71 … Sust Fixed Inc Opps F F Inc ‡@ 887.40 … +1.42 2.89 Sterling Bond Inc ‡@ 97.00 … +0.54 …
Balanced Growth @ 262.17 276.69 -1.59 1.52 Sust Fixed Inc Opps F I Acc ‡@ 927.92 … +1.46 2.63
Balanced Growth Acc @ 393.13 414.92 -2.40 1.49 Sust Fixed Inc Opps F I Inc ‡@ 886.98 … +1.40 2.67
Corporate Bond ‡@ 99.69 … -1.17 4.77 Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 119.47 … +0.23 … US Sm Cos A Acc ‡@ 976.20 … +26.90 … US Adv F F Acc ‡@ 1632.90 … +53.37 …
European Growth @ 403.88 426.26 -1.19 2.18 US Adv F F Acc (PH) ‡@ 952.68 … +46.92 … THREADNEEDLE INVESTMENTS
Target Return A Acc ‡@ 102.03 … +0.39 0.82
Dealing: 020 7426 6232 European Growth Acc @ 475.71 502.07 -1.47 2.24 US Adv F I Acc ‡@ 1735.65 … +56.64 … Client Serv: 0800 0683000
Target Return A Inc ‡@ 87.63 … -0.07 0.87
Glob Gwth @ 331.53 349.90 +2.16 … US Adv F I Acc (PH) ‡@ 995.80 … +49.09 … Intermediary Serv: 0800 0684000
Winchester ‡ 3652.28 … +3.88 1.01 UK Alpha A Acc ‡@ 2656.84 … -26.59 …
Higher Yield @ 83.98 88.64 +0.86 … Institutional Shares (Class 2) (500000 GBP)
UK Blue Chip A Acc ‡@ 770.11 … +5.67 …
Higher Yield Acc @ 275.04 290.28 +2.83 … JUPITER UT MGRS LTD Threadneedle UK Eq Opps Ins Inc ‡@ 128.96 … +0.98 1.54
UK Smaller Companies A Acc ‡@ 4642.03 … -33.24 …
Japan @ 49.06 51.78 -2.35 0.94 020 7581 3020
UK Smaller Companies A Inc ‡@ 4163.62 … -29.81 …
Managed @ 130.89 138.15 +0.95 … Absolute Return ‡@ 31.99 … +0.08 0.11 SANTANDER UNIT TST MGRS
UK Special Situations A Acc ‡@ 1391.95 … -19.23 1.59
Managed Trust @ 71.96 76.96 +1.59 … Distribution and Growth ‡@ 96.28 … -0.04 2.70 08457 413002
Mngd Pfolio Inc @ 95.54 100.84 +0.63 0.58 UK Special Situations A Inc ‡@ 498.97 … -6.90 1.63 Retail Shares (Class 1)
EDENTREE INV MGMT LTD Emg Euro Opps ‡@ 145.34 … -72.04 … Bal Pfolio Inc ‡@ 110.50 … … …
0800 358 3010 Pacific Grth @ 498.71 526.34 -0.26 1.34 Euro Special Sits ‡@ 470.95 … +9.67 … Bal Port Gwth Acc ‡@ 229.50 … -0.20 1.79 Threadneedle HY Bd Rtl Inc ‡@ 36.52 … +0.03 4.37
Smaller Comp @ 756.24 798.14 -8.40 … European ‡@ 3031.43 … +66.15 … Equity Inc Inc ‡@ 201.90 … +0.60 … Threadneedle Mthly Etr Inc Rtl Inc ‡@ 78.36 … +0.12 3.64
Resp & Sust Sterling Bond ‡ 82.55 … -0.50 4.22
Smaller Cos @ 628.94 663.79 -6.93 … Financial Opps ‡@ 691.33 … +5.68 … N&P UK Gwth Inc ‡@ 182.80 … +6.00 3.09 Threadneedle SterlingCorpBd Ins Inc ‡@ 51.59 … -0.36 2.63
Resp & Sust Eurp Eq ‡ 327.80 … +4.40 1.96
Resp & Sust Glbl Eq ‡ 345.30 … +4.10 … Income Trust ‡@ 504.13 … +4.14 … Stkmkt 100 Tkr @ 266.50 266.50 +2.60 … Threadneedle SterlingCorpBd Rtl Inc ‡@ 51.53 … -0.35 2.29
Resp & Sust Mgd Income ‡ 120.60 … -0.30 4.96 Merlin Bal (Acc) ‡@ 229.42 … -2.32 3.48 UK Growth Acc ‡@ 465.80 … +2.30 3.23 Threadneedle Stg Bd Ret Inc ‡@ 41.97 … -0.29 2.55
Resp & Sust UK Eq ‡ 223.90 … +1.50 … For ISIS Asset Mgmt see F&C Fd Mgmt Ltd (OEICS) Merlin Gwth (Acc) ‡@ 541.15 … -1.25 … UK Growth Inc ‡@ 245.30 … +1.20 3.31 Threadneedle Strat Bd Ret ‡@ 40.08 … -0.10 3.73
Resp & Sust UK Equity Opps ‡ 281.40 … +5.20 … INSIGHT INVESTMENT FDS MANAGEMENT LTD Merlin Inc (Acc) ‡@ 339.97 … -1.28 … Threadneedle UK Eq Inc Rtl Inc ‡@ 99.24 … +0.66 3.48
Client Servs: 0207 163 4000 JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS
Merlin Wwide (Inc) ‡@ 382.59 … +0.16 … Threadneedle UK Growth & Inc Rtl Inc ‡@ 93.84 … +0.70 2.74
Insight Investment Multi-Manager Funds Investors Serv: 0800 832 832 Dlng: 0845 946 4646 UK Growth ‡@ 264.45 … +4.60 0.68 Threadneedle UK Insti Rtl ‡@ 183.46 … +1.58 1.89
Well Bldr Bal Acc ‡@ 96.05 … +0.24 … UK Special Sits (Inc) ‡@ 206.16 … +1.84 2.27 SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MNGRS LTD Threadneedle UK Mthly Inc Rtl Inc ‡@ 68.65 … +0.57 4.25
Well Bldr Gwth Acc ‡@ 93.79 … -0.32 … All Stks Credit A Inc ‡@ 110.10 … -0.40 … Threadneedle UK Rtl Inc ‡@ 139.21 … +1.69 1.47
0141 248 6100
Asian Div Inc U Trst Inc ‡@77.63 … +0.39 6.23 Threadneedle UK Smaller Coms Rtl Inc ‡@ 358.09 … +4.79 …
F & C FUND MANAGEMENT LTD (OEICS) Cautious Man Fd A Acc ‡@ 279.90 … -1.40 2.91 European Inc 1777.00 1873.48 +12.14 0.78
Enqs: 0870 601 6183 Dealing: 0870 601 6083 Far Eastern Inc 584.69 617.09 +3.79 …
Cautious Man Fd A Inc ‡@ 136.90 … -0.60 2.96
Share Class 1 - Retail Intl Growth Inc 380.56 400.59 -0.13 …
INVESCO FUND MGRS LTD China Opp Fund A Acc ‡@ 1115.00 … +37.00 0.31 LEGAL & GENERAL (UT MGRS) LTD
Japanese Inc 41.85 41.85 +0.57 0.56 For Resolution see Ignis
Corporate Bd ‡@ 49.99 … -0.58 … Dling: 0800 085 8571 Inv Serv: 0800 085 8677 Emg Mkts Opps Fd A Acc ‡@ 196.30 … +2.30 0.76 Enquiries: 0870 050 0955 Dealing: 0870 050 0956
Mutual European 2762.93 2908.99 -73.67 1.11 TU FUND MANAGERS LIMITED
Emerging Mkts ‡@ 116.50 … -8.20 … Brkr Serv: 0800 028 2121 Erpn Grth Fund A Acc ‡@ 303.10 … +4.20 … Equity Acc @ 2616.00 2639.00 +17.00 2.12 Mutual Far Eastern 930.02 981.55 +16.35 1.15
Euro Gwth & Inc 1 ‡@ 1289.00 … +33.00 … INVESCO Funds Erpn Sel Opps Fd A Acc ‡@ 2316.00 … +48.00 … Equity Dist @ 893.80 902.00 +5.60 2.15 British 958.20 958.20 +12.70 …
Mutual North Am 1983.00 2092.88 +19.24 0.24
Extra Inc Bond ‡@ 43.47 … -0.01 1.85 Fix Int Mnthly Inc Fd Acc ‡@ 28.15 … -0.04 4.73 Euro Ind Acc ‡@ 539.20 … +7.90 … European 210.70 219.40 +3.90 …
UK Str Inc N/Trl ‡@ 323.57 … -2.78 … Mutual UK Eq 1419.40 1428.80 -5.79 …
FTSE All-Shr Track ‡@ 426.60 … +4.60 3.06 Global Equity Fund Acc ‡@ 4243.00 … +63.00 … Euro Ind Inc ‡@ 353.20 … +5.10 … Nth American Inc 1227.65 1295.67 +29.21 …
Global Gwth SC1 ‡@ 308.40 … +2.40 … Global Equity Income A Inc ‡@ 65.93 … +0.71 3.35 Fixed Int Acc ‡@ 126.70 … -1.10 2.40 UK Equity Inc 562.23 593.38 -8.90 … This list contains unit trusts and Oeics widely held
High Inc Trst @ 11.04 11.63 -0.03 5.58 Fixed Int Dist ‡@ 58.66 … -0.49 2.44 by private investors. The weekly price change is
Global Tech A Acc ‡@ 3263.00 … +91.00 …
Max Inc Bond ‡@ 43.10 … +0.10 3.68 Glob Gwth Acc @ 243.90 243.90 +0.60 1.15 based on a Friday-to-Thursday trading period.*
INVESCO PERPETUAL Funds Instl UK Idx Opps A Acc ‡@ 115.64 … +1.23 2.97 Yield expressed as CAR (Compound Annual
Multi Man Caut ‡@ 70.41 … +0.79 3.18 Glob Health Acc ‡@ 106.60 … -0.40 0.85
M-Asset Abs Ret A Acc ‡@ 161.60 … -1.00 … Return); † Ex dividend; ‡ Middle price; . . . No sig-
Multi Man Distr ‡@ 60.44 … +0.45 3.37 Childrens Acc ‡@ 471.01 … +3.89 … Glob Tech Acc ‡@ 106.10 … +3.40 … nificant data. # Periodic charge deducted from cap-
M-Man Active Fd A Acc ‡@ 258.30 … +1.80 … SCOTTISH WIDOWS UNIT TRUST MGRS
North Amer ‡@ 851.60 … +4.30 … Corp Bond Acc ‡@ 194.73 … -1.25 1.60 Gwth Tst Acc @ 106.00 106.50 -2.10 0.17 ital; @ Exit charge
Pacific Gwth ‡@ 479.90 … +4.60 0.04 High Income Inc ‡@ 315.40 … +1.13 … M-Man Inc Grth A Inc ‡@ 144.90 … +0.30 … High Inc Acc ‡@ 123.90 … +0.70 5.26 0845 300 2244
Strategic Bd ‡@ 192.40 … -0.70 1.43 Income & Grth Inc ‡@ 425.09 … +6.26 3.10 M-Man Inc Grth Fd A Acc ‡@ 187.90 … +0.40 … Japan Ind Acc ‡@ 73.28 … +0.36 1.71 Authorised Inv Funds (OEICs)
OEIC A Class
Data as shown is
UK Equity ‡@ 3446.00 … +34.00 1.27 Income Inc ‡@ 1237.18 … +6.77 … Sterling Bond U Trst Acc ‡@ 197.70 … -1.50 … Pacific Ind Acc ‡@ 204.80 … +1.40 …
Sterling Bond U Trst Inc ‡@ 53.69 … -0.41 … Managed Investment Funds for information
UK Gwth & Inc Acc 1 ‡@ 658.50 … +2.90 … Money Acc ‡@ 93.36 … +0.05 … UK 100 Ind Acc @ 180.90 180.90 +7.60 3.19
UK Gwth & Inc Dist ‡@ 234.70 … +1.00 … Monthly Inc Plus Inc ‡@ 90.26 … -0.20 6.27 Strategic Bond A Inc ‡@ 100.30 … -0.40 3.33 UK Active Opps Acc @ 249.90 252.90 +1.80 … Bal Port A Acc ‡@ 237.60 … -0.10 0.01
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UK Smaller Cos ‡@ 1022.00 … +3.00 … UK Aggressive Inc ‡@ 154.28 … +0.90 … UK Abs Ret Fd A Acc ‡@ 169.90 … +0.30 … UK Index Acc ‡@ 350.20 … +3.90 3.22 Caut Port A Acc ‡@ 207.10 … +0.30 0.43 Morningstar or this publication
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Oxbury Bank via website Easy Access (1) £1,000 3.90% Skipton BS 0800 446776 6.18%F to 30.9.25 95% £495 To 30.9.25 Bank of Ireland UK via website 5.1% £188.64 £11,318.40
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Family Building Society via website Online Saver (5) £100 3.85% Loughborough BS 01509 631950 5.29%F for 5 years 95% - 1st 5yrs Sainsbury's Bank via website 5.4% £189.95 £11,397.00
Cumberland BS 0808 256 6876 5.43%F to 1.8.28 95% - To 1.8.28
Long-term fixed rates Borrowing rates and availability of products are subject to individual credit ratings.

Provider Contact Account Min AER Remortgages

Tandem Bank via app Fixed Saver (5 yr) £1 5.35% F
Redmptn Credit cards
Provider Contact Initial Period Max Fee charge
Atom Bank via app Fixed Saver (5 yr) £50 5.30% F Rate LTV until Introductory rate for balance transfers
Close Brothers Savings via website Fixed Bond (5 yr) £10,000 5.30% F Newbury BS 01635 555777 4.99% F to 29.7.25 75% £850 To 29.7.25 Bal trans Purch
United Trust Bank via website UTB Bond (5 yr) £5,000 5.25% F Cumberland BS 01228 403141 5.40% F to 1.8.25 75% - To 1.8.25 Provider Contact Product name Transfer fee APR
Beehive Money via website Goal Bond (31.8.28) £500 5.10% F Newbury BS 01635 555777 4.99% F to 29.5.26 75% £850 To 29.5.26 Virgin Money 0800 389 2875 BT CC MC 0% 1st 31 mths 3.50% 23.9%
Cumberland BS 01228 403141 4.82% F to 1.8.28 75% - To 1.8.28 NatWest 0345 788 8444 Longer BT MC 0% 1st 30 mths 2.99% 23.9%
Easy access cash Isas
Virgin Money 0330 057 1701 4.93% F to 1.10.28 80% £995 To 1.10.28 RBS 0345 724 2424 Longer BT MC 0% 1st 30 mths 2.99% 23.9%
Provider Contact Account Min AER
Barclaycard 0800 151 0900 Platinum BT Visa 0% 1st 30 mths 3.45% 24.9%
Shawbrook Bank via website Access Isa - 24 £1,000 3.78% Short-term fixed-rate mortgages
Tesco Bank 0345 300 4278 CC BT MC 0% 1st 30 mths 3.49% 22.9%
Gatehouse Bank A via website Easy Access Isa £1 3.75% Redmptn
Provider Contact Initial Period Max Fee charge
Virgin Money via website Exclusive Isa 2 £1 3.75% Introductory rate for purchases
Rate LTV until
Principality BS via website Online Isa £1 3.75% B Newbury BS 01635 555777 4.99% to 29.7.25 75% £600 To 29.7.25 Introductory Purch
Leeds BS via website Ltd Issue Isa (61) £1,000 3.75% Barclays Mortgage 0333 202 7580 5.27% to 30.9.25 60% - To 30.9.25 Provider Contact Product name Term APR

Fixed cash Isas HSBC 0808 256 6876 5.69% to 31.8.25 90% - To 31.8.25 NatWest 0345 788 8444 Purchase & BT MC 0% 1st 23 mths 23.9%
Newbury BS 01635 555777 4.99% to 29.5.26 75% £600 To 29.5.26 RBS 0345 724 2424 Purchase & BT MC 0% 1st 23 mths 23.9%
Provider Contact Account Min AER
HSBC 0808 256 6876 5.29% to 31.8.26 90% £999 To 31.8.26 Barclaycard 0800 151 0900 Platinum All-Rounder Visa 0% 1st 23 mths 24.9%
Virgin Money via website Fixed E-Isa 595 (24.5.26) £1 4.73% F
HSBC 0345 7404 404 Purchase Plus CC Visa 0% 1st 20 mths 23.9%
UBL UK via website Fixed Isa (3 yr) £2,000 4.71% F Long-term fixed-rate mortgages
M&S Bank 0800 997 996 Shopping Plus Offer MC 0% 1st 18 mths 23.9%
Leeds BS via website Fixed Isa (2.8.26) £100 4.70% F Redmptn
United Trust Bank via website Isa Bond (3 yr) £5,000 4.70% F Provider Contact Initial Period Max Fee charge
Rate LTV until Cashback credit card
Close Brothers Savings via website Fixed Isa (3 yr) £10,000 4.65% F
Barclays Mortgage 0333 202 7580 4.67% to 30.9.28 60% £899 To 30.9.28
Purchase
Lifetime cash Isas Barclays Mortgage 0333 202 7580 4.69% to 30.9.28 75% £899 To 30.9.28 Provider Contact Product name APR Cashback
Provider Contact Account Min AER Principality BS 0330 333 4002 5.00% to 30.9.28 90% £1,395 To 30.9.28 American Express 0800 917 8047 Platinum Cashback 35.3% 0.75% - 1.25% standard
Moneybox via website Cash Lifetime Isa £1 3.50% B Cumberland BS 01228 403141 5.01% to 1.8.28 85% - To 1.8.28 Intro 5%/3mth (max £125)
Nationwide BS 0800 302010 4.94% for 10 years 85% £999 1st 10 yrs American Express 0800 917 8047 Plat Cashback Everyday 29.7% 0.50% - 1.00% standard
Beehive Money via website Homebuyer Lifetime Isa £1 3.00%
Intro 5%/3mth (max £100)
Beehive Money via website Retirement Lifetime Isa £1 3.00% Discounted variable-rate mortgages Halifax 0345 944 4555 Cashback CC MC 22.9% Standard 0.25% - 0.50%
Skipton BS via website Online Lifetime Isa 4 £1 2.55% Redmptn on spend over £1 a year
Paragon Bank via website Cash Lifetime Isa - 3 £1 2.50% Provider Contact Initial Period Max Fee charge Lloyds Bank 0345 602 1997 Cashback CC MC 22.9% Standard 0.25% - 0.50%
Rate LTV until on spend over £1 a year
Regular savings accounts Furness BS 0800 220568 4.43% for 2 years 80% £999 1st 2 yrs Barclaycard 0800 151 0900 Rewards Visa 25.9% Standard 0.25% on
Provider Contact Account Min AER Cumberland BS 01228 403141 4.59% for 2 years 85% £999 1st 1 yr spend over £1 a year
Mntly
Newbury BS 01635 555777 4.24% for 3 years 75% £600 1st 3 yrs Borrowing rates and products are subject to credit ratings. Terms apply to all cashback
NatWest via website Digital Regular Saver £1 6.17% V
Tipton & Coseley BS 0800 833853 4.74% to 31.7.26 90% £999 To 31.7.26
Royal Bank of Scotland via website Digital Regular Saver £1 6.17% V
Earl Shilton BS 01455 844422 5.64% for 5 years 90% £724 1st 5 yrs Current accounts
Principality BS via website 1 Yr Regular Saver (33) £1 5.50% F
Bank of Scotland via website Monthly Saver £25 5.50% F Buy-to-let mortgages Credit interest
Halifax via website Regular Saver £25 5.50% F Redmptn Account
Provider Contact Initial Period Max Fee charge Provider Contact Account name Fee AER
Pension annuities Rate LTV until Halifax 0345 720 3040 Reward Current Account None £5 pm C
Hinckley & Rugby BS 01455 251234 4.59% D for 2 years 60% £1,249 1st 2 yrs TSB 0345 975 8758 Spend & Save Plus £3pm £5 pm
Single life Loughborough BS 01509 631950 4.69% D for 2 years 80% - 1st 2 yrs Nationwide BS 0800 30 20 10 FlexDirect None 5.00% B
Provider Contact Age 60 Age 65 Age 70 Post Office Money 0800 077 8033 5.54% F to 31.8.25 75% £495 To 31.8.25 Kroo Bank Ltd kroo.com Current Account None 3.60%
Canada Life 0345 300 3199 £3,022.80 £3,348.48 £3,775.56 Principality BS 0330 333 4002 4.78% F to 30.9.28 60% £1,395 To 30.9.28 Virgin Money 0800 678 3654 M Plus Account None 2.02%
Legal & General 0345 765 4465 £3,036.96 £3,344.40 £3,752.76 HSBC 0800 256 6876 5.14% F to 31.8.28 75% £1,999 To 31.8.28
Aviva 0800 015 5064 £2,918.68 £3,259.30 £3,713.07 The selections above are based on a combination of initial rate, fee and incentive available. Arranged overdrafts
Just 0345 302 2287 £2,866.80 £3,177.48 £3,573.84 Account Usage
National Savings & investments Provider Contact Account name Fee EAR Fee
Starling Bank via website Current Account None 15% £0
Notice or Min AER Interest
Joint life Term Paid first direct 0345 600 2424 1st Account None 39.9% £250
Provider Contact Male: Age 60 Age 65 Age 70 Accounts and bonds Virgin Money 0800 678 3654 M Plus Account None 19.9% £0
Female: Age 55 Age 60 Age 65
Green Savings Bonds 4 3 Yr Bnd £100 4.20% F Yearly Lloyds Bank 0800 015 4000 Club Lloyds £3pm 27.5% £50
Canada Life 0345 300 3199 £2,709.96 £2,902.32 £3,198.00
Income Bonds None £500 2.89% V Monthly TSB 0345 975 8758 Spend & Save Plus £3pm 39.9% £100
Legal & General 0345 765 4465 £2,642.40 £2,871.48 £3,144.72
Direct Saver None £1 2.85% V Yearly Current account interest rates paid up to a specified level, terms may apply.
Aviva 0800 015 5064 £2,486.08 £2,686.46 £2,950.62
A = Provider operates under Islamic finance principles, rate shown is expected profit rate. B = Intro-
Just 0345 302 2287 £2,511.00 £2,676.24 £2,935.32 Tax-free products ductory rate. C = Paid net of income tax. F = Fixed rate. D = Discounted variable rate. V = Variable
rate. All savings rates are shown as AER variable unless otherwise stated. Methods of opening
Junior Isa Age 18 £1 3.40% Yearly
accounts varies. All rates and terms subject to change. No liability can be accepted for loss arising
Based on a pension pot of £50,000 Direct Isa None £1 2.40% Yearly from use of this information. Visit Moneyfactscompare.co.uk for full details.
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Money Equity prices

Dividend yields Please note that the information in the 12 month Price 12 month Price 12 month Price 12 month Price
dividend yields column has been suspended due to High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E

technical problems at Morningstar, the provider. 8774 7078 Lond Stk Ex Gp 8720 – 46 … 89.1 320 218 Boot (Henry) 230 … … 12.3 96V 66K Sirius Real Estate 87K – W … 6.8 1335 1020W Dewhurstv 1055 … … 12.1
12-month high and low Please note the 12-month high 222V 159Y M&G 197N – 3W … 61.6 510K 324O Br Land 343 + 8N … 46.9 173K 160K Smart (J) 166 + 1K … 4.5 330 192N Dialight 231 + 1 … …
and low figures for shares supplied by Morningstar are 286O 204N Man 224K – 2X … 9.0 167K 120 Caledonian Tstv 150 … … 29.9 50 30K Steppe Cementv 38K … … 8.8 1282X 847 Electrolux 'B' 1062V + 1O … 8.0
based on intra-day figures, not closing prices. 29 8 Manx Finv‡ 22 … … 11.1 64O 43O Cap & Regnl 57 – 1K … -0.5 128N 85 Taylor Wimpey 109Y + K … 7.2 182K 85K Feedbackv 115 … … …

3 1 Marechale Capv 1K … … 0.7 2550 2310 Cardiff Prop‡ 2450 + 20 … 26.6 178K 129 Town Centre‡ 144 … … 5.6 936 426 Gooch Hsegov 634 … … 46.9

12 month Price 12 month Price 14247N 11324O Marsh McLn 14195 + 103O … 29.5 25 2K Carecapitalv 3X … … -0.4 1082K 738 Travis Perkins 808K – 58V … 7.8 4655 2400 Goodwin 4610 + 150 … 25.4
High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E High Low Company (p) +/- Yld% P/E
720 530 Mattioli Woodsv 635 + 10 … … 170 106 Clarke T 144K … … 10.3 197N 125X Tritax Big Box Reit 137K + 1V … 2.4 2498 1876K Halma 2336 – 10 … 33.8

19K 7K Metal Tigerv 9 + O … 3.5 290O 191X Countryside Partner 229O + 14 … 16.7 95Y 57 Tritax Eurobox‡ 57N – K … … 1514 893 Hill & Smith‡ 1514 + 4 … 35.6
8O … Drumzv 8O + 1N … …
Automobiles & parts 125K 58O EFG-Hermes Hldg 62O … … 4.0 153V 69 Metro Bank 122K – 3 … -0.8 27W 5Y Craven Housev 13N … … -0.2 283 184K Tyman 275K + K … 10.8 112 67K Holders Techv 67K … … 4.1
195 122K EPE Special Oppsv 157K … … 8.8 1761O 1353Y Nat Aust Bk 1386N + 10X … 13.7 4353 2756K CRH 4193 + 107 … 17.4 1207 791K Unite 908 + 13 … 10.6 2N O Image Scanv 2 … … 12.3
307V 89K Aston Martin Lag 307V + 7V … -1.8
1213K 825N FBD 1104N … … 4.9 938K 519K Vistry Group 722K – 19K … 6.3
309Y 212W NatWest 255 – 1 … 10.0 2924 1876 Derwent London 2144 + 22 … 9.5 1680 1071 IMI 1650 – 12 … 22.5
72K 66 Fiskev 66K + K … 11.8
Banking & finance 78 59 Frenkel Toppingv 70 … … 40.7
341 170W Numisv‡ 333 … … 6.7 4 3 Dolphin Capitalv 3Y … … -2.6
165 86 Warehouse REIT‡ 86 – X … 2.0
… … Inspirit Energyv … … … …
648 343W Workspace Grp 510 + 1K … -7.5
860 548 Georgia Capital 860 + 45 … 2.3 587K 375W Onesavings Bank 508 – 11 … 6.7 31K 22 First Propv 27 … … … 10200 6740 Judges Scientificv‡ 9700 + 320 … 48.9
236 133 Abrdn 214Y – 1N … 4.6 895 682 Gresham Housev 730 … … 29.3 755 622K Wynnstay Propsv 675 … … 4.8
652 377K PayPoint 452K – 10K … 14.1 47K 35 Fletcher Kingv 36K … … … 101K 72K LPAv 97K … … …
2392 1729 Admiral 2175 – 36 … 11.0
506 320 H&T Groupv‡ 438 + 3 … 14.0
49O 23K ADVFNv 23K … … 4.1 4N N PCF Groupv Y + N … -0.4 44 27N Foxtons Group 39V – O … … 798O 768V Meggitt 798O + V … …
390 255V AJ Bell‡
26375K 19497 Aon Corpn
332V +
26044K + 203X
6W … 31.1
… 63.5
55K
983
33 Hansard Global
740O Hargreaves Lansdown821O –
48K – 1N
14K
… 16.7
… 14.6 684V 506O Phoenix 548 + 2W … -6.3 202 145 Galliford Try 202 – 3 … 44.8
Consumer goods 527 286K Melrose 508O – 4O … …

42O 23X Appreciate Groupv 42V … … 18.3 175 143W Helios Underv‡ 175 … … … 242W 136N Provident 225 … … 4.2 424 252K Genuit Group 320K – 13 … 19.4 323K 217 Morgan Advanced‡ 278 + 1K … 11.7
1002K 645 Arbuthnot Bkgv 940 + 15 … 20.8 5O 1 Agriterrav 1N … … -0.1
647K 442V HSBC‡ 611O + 2W … 13.3
1371K 797K Prudential 1124K – 10K … 18.2 550 335 Gleeson (MJ) 394 – 3 … 6.1 400 220 Mpacv 226 … … 5.9
14 8K Argo Groupv 9 … … 4.1 39K 25K Aireav 34 – K … 12.5
847K 660 IG Group 691 – 6 … 7.0
286W 180Y Ashmore 216 – 8W … 7.3 2N Y Quantum Blockchainv 1X … … -9.0 988X 630K Grafton 819X – 30K … 9.5 745 264 MS Intlv 630 – 5 … 90.0
1398 1129X Aus New Z 1248W + 8 … 9.7 883 500 Impaxv‡ 599 – 10 … 19.7 952 740 Anglo-Eastern‡ 760 – 30 … 6.9
467Y 373O Aviva 396 – 1O … 52.1 1562K 953V Intermed Capital‡ 1397K – 12K … 8.0 122Y 80N Quilter 84 – 1Y … 60.0 297V 205W Grainger‡ 240W – V … 14.9 2855 1720 Oxford Inst 2665 + 65 … 36.4
306 147K Animalcarev‡ 181K … … …
341K 193W Banco Santander 273 – 2K … 6.5 118 64W IPF 115K – 1 … 6.4 109O 49 Randall & Quilterv 52 – 3 … 77.5 636 409V Great Portland‡ 456W + K … -5.7 1861K 1038O Philips El nv … … … …
3375 1306 Bank of Georgia 2990 + 75 … 9.2 2070 1237 AB Foods‡ 1925K + 27 … 31.8
169W 130V International Public P'ship130V – 2 … 16.7
189X 133Y Barclays 153Y + V … 3.7 2220 1570 Rathbone Grp 1992 + 48 … 15.4 30K 17V Hammerson 26O + X … -2.8 17 12N PipeHawkv 13 … … 27.6
546W 351K Investec 459 – 9O … 11.5 121 79 Bakkavor Group 92 … … 9.5
N … Blue Star Capitalv V … … 3.3 Y K RiverFort Global Oppsv X … … 1.9 167 101 Harworth Gp 113 – 3 … 3.9 84K 23V Pressure Techv 39K … … -3.2
376 283 BP Marsh&Ptnrsv 376 + 3 … 10.3 340 253 Investment Co 340 … … 12.2 561 432 Barr (AG) 478K – 8K … 16.9
15V 6O Braveheart Invv 14K … … 0.3 88 52K IP Group‡ 54W + 1K … 2.0 2050 1370 Rockwood Strategic 2050 … … 3.0 630 425 Heath (Samuel)v 425 … … 8.8 4338 3342 Renishaw 4130 – 32 … 23.5
3Y 1K Bidstack Groupv 1O … … -1.4
515 507 Brewin Dolphin 515 + 1 … 28.1 230 94 Jarvis Securitiesv 158K – 2 … 11.3 2570 1905 S & U‡ 2340 + 30 … 11.0 431K 243K Helical PLC 278 + 19K … 6.7 31 20K Renoldv 28O – 1K … 10.3
57K 24K Brand Architektsv 33 … … -1.4
303W 173Y Bridgepoint 209O + 2K … 13.1 160K 83O Jupiter Fund Mgmt 109 – 2 … 4.0
64 30 Cenkos Secsv‡ 30K … … 6.2 2 W Sancus Lending Grpv Y … … -0.4 1065 865 Highcroft Invs 865 … … 3.7 158 66V Rolls-Royce 151V + 1V … …
3628 2554K Brit Amer Tob 2580K + 2 … 8.7
95N 55Y Just Group 80V – 1K … …
325 262K Chesnara 279K + 2 … 15.5 56O 40X Schroder REIT‡ 46 + 2 … 4.8 208V 148N Ibstock 157V – 2K … 20.4 1O X Ross Gp X … … -1.6
664 368K Lancashire Holdings 563K + 2 … … 936 707K Britvic‡ 892K + 3 … 20.2
53 9 City of Lon Gpv 10 + 1 … -0.6
470 343K City Lon Inv Gp 433 – 1K … 10.1 284N 204 Legal & Gen 230W – 1K … 7.0 604W 358O Schroders 454 – 2 … 2.0 222 176 James Halsteadv 222 + 5K … 23.6 2641 1580 Burberry 2289 + 34 … 19.7 342V 229K Rotork 325 – 3 … 35.3
1148 858K Close Bros 944 – 5K … 7.0 … … Liberty Group 502X – 2X … … 1304K 920 St James Place 1125 – 12K … 21.4 849 591 Keller‡ 695 + 17 … 8.0 198Y 131 C&C Grp‡ 133V – 2K … -7.9 200 130 SDI Groupv 152 + 1 … 25.0
312 165W CMC Markets 167V – K … 5.1 1290 704 Liontrust 785 – 5 … 9.8
1022K 490X Commerzbk 874 + 11 … 44.8 790O 519K Stand Chart 675V – 3O … 15.1 5819O 3842V Kingspan Group 5315 – 142O … 20.8 6N 2V Capital Metalsv 2N … … -0.6 181V 111 Senior 170O – V … 29.8
55N 37 Livermore Invsv 38K + 1 … 2.4
1056W 650V Deutsche Bk 810Y – 10O … 9.5
12 6K Starvestv 7 … … -1.1 743V 485N Land Sec‡ 590W + 6K … … 148 92 Carr's Grp‡ 142K – 2K … 17.5 70W 48 Severfield 70W – O … 12.5
257N 135 Direct Line Ins 153O – 5O … 6.3 53Y 39 Lloyds Banking Group45 … … 6.2
58K 57 Downing ONE VCT 57 … … 7.7 32O 22 LMS Capital‡ 24K … … 10.6 525 296 Character Grpv 301 … … 5.3 14O 6 Six Hundredv 6K + K … 38.0

1640 1070 Churchill Chinav‡ 1425 – 70 … … 1594Y 1074 SKF B 1455V + 12 … 10.7

Investment companies 2565 1770K Coca Cola HBC‡ 2332 + 13 … 18.6 300 215 Slingsby (HC)v 300 … … 4.9

880 610 Colefaxv 752K … … 13.3 1797K 1364 Smiths 1691K – 1K … 26.8
12 month Price Yld Dis(-) 12 month Price Yld Dis(-)
High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm High Low Company (p) +/- % or Pm 3340 2586 Cranswick 3316 + 16 … 17.5 1435 986 Solid Statev 1185 + 42K … 28.5

329 164 Devro 329 … … 17.8 470 316 Somero Enterv 330 + 5 … 7.3
2036 1042 3i Group 1990 – 11 … 14.0 1223O 928 ICG Ent Tr 1100 + 4 … -42.5
3960 3320K Diageo 3354K – 4K … 25.8 3841 2690 Spectris‡ 3705 + 29 … 12.1
352 281K 3i Infrastructure 302 – 8 … -6.8 486W 373V Impax Env Mkts 415 + 3K … -5.2
101 80N Abrdn Div I&G 85 + K … -25.9 374 279 Invesco Asia Tr 340 – 2 … -8.8 1W W Distilv W … … 10.6 12350 9130 Spirax-Sarco 11115 – 140 … 35.0
1428 1066 Aberforth Smlr 1272 – 4 … -12.5 173 141 Invesco BondInc 163 – 1 … 2.0
988 760 Evans (M.P.)v‡ 760 – 10 … 6.5 57 28K Surface Trsfmsv 33 … … …
1046 876 Alliance 1010 + 2 … -6.9 157W 110K IPST Bal 130 … … -14.6
457 345 Asia Dragon Tr 396 – 1 … -11.6 258K 200 IPST Gbl Eq 232 … … -15.6 103K 68 Finsbury Foodv 91 … … 10.8 3K 1X Tanfieldv 3N … … -9.0
220 171K Athelney Trust 195 … … -12.5 101O 88 IPST Managed 91 … … -17.0 10680 5690 Games Workshop 10680 + 170 … 29.4 440 345 Thorpe FWv 371 – 2 … 25.8
206K 171O AVI Global Trust 194 – K … -9.4 177 141 IPST UK Eq 156 – 3 … -13.7
495 373K IP UKSmallerCos 440 … … -10.0 1210K 831 Glanbia 1183X + 32W … 29.1 2K X TP Groupv 2V … … -3.3
348 204K Baillie Gifford Ch Gr 227 – K … -12.3
102V 73K Baillie Gifford Eu Gr 94 + N … -14.6 800 650 JPM American 753 + 1 … -4.4 107N 60O Greencore 74O + Y … 14.9 95K 48K Transense Techv 87K … … 64.3
829 657 Baillie Gifford Jpn Tr 790 + 5 … -7.1 402 222 JPM Asia 361 + 2 … -9.3
451K 239K JPM Chinese 283K + 4 … -9.7 348 231 Headlam 275 + 6 … 11.8 3500 3070 Ultra Electrncs 3500 + 6 … 37.4
168 131N Baillie Gifford SN 144K – 1W … -10.1
183 139W Baillie Gifford UK Gr 170 + K … -14.5 722 624 JPM Claverhs 672 + 8 … -5.9 1106 500 Hilton Food‡ 663 – 12 … 13.8 435 284K Vesuvius 420O + 3O … 11.2
109 90Y Bankers 99O + V … -11.7 120W 91 JPM Em Mkts 108 … … -8.4
31K 22 Hornbyv 22K … … … 1530 626 Videndum 635 … … 11.6
5232 377K BH Macro 378 – 1 … -2.0 449 339 JPM Euro disc 402K – K … -14.9
1048 745W Biotech Growth 848 – 5 … -6.9 142K 107K JPM GEMI 132 – N … -9.7 2185 1695 Imperial Brands‡ 1759K – 3 … 5.8
323K 202 Volexv 283 – 2K … 15.4
150 95 BlckRck Com Inc 114 – 1V … -11.0 481 386 JPM GG&I 465 + 1K … 0.3
1K 1N J Lewis Hfordv 1N … … 7.3
898 719Y JPM Indian 822 + 2 … -17.0 2021 1328K Weir 1812K – 10K … 30.6
144K 116K BlckRck Fro Inv 136K – 3K … -6.5
566 396 BlckRck Grt Euro 548 + 2 … -5.2 353 301 JPM Jap Sml Co 320 – 1 … -10.2 9310V 7141X Kerry Gp 7594 – 106K … 21.0
3160 1464 XP Power‡ 2140 – 40 … 11.4
206 165 BlckRck Inc & Gwth 190 + 3 … -10.8 521 408K JPM Japan# 504 … … -7.7
32K 15K McBride 26O … … -4.7
974O 735 JPM Mid Cap 912 + 12 … -14.9 160 97K Zytronicv 100 … … 33.3
428 330 BlckRck Latin Am 411 – 6 … -13.1
98V 85N JPM Multi-Ass G&I 93K + K … -4.5 305 205 Mulberry Groupv 258 – 2 … 10.6
215 179K BlckRck SustAm 186K + K … -6.4
-22 134O "JPM Em E GBX + 102K … …
1478 1162 BlckRck Smlr 1328 – 4 … -12.7 1320 970 Nicholsv 1085 – 5 … …
670 477Y BlckRck Throgmorton 614 + 4 … -4.1
315
244K
230 JPM Smllr Co
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286
221
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1K
1
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… -15.5 245 165 Norcros 178 … … 5.6
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774 524 BlckRck Wld Min 626 + 3 … -2.3
871 649 Law Debenture 798 + 1 … 0.8 374K 291N Origin Entsv‡ 306V … … 9.6
325 256 CT Cap&Inc 303 + 4 … -3.6
135 99 Lowland 119K – O … -9.9 1454 1103 Abcamv 1226 + 123 … …
121 68K Balanced Comm Prop 74Y – O … -36.0
223 156O Majedie 191 – 3K … -16.2 14K V Pittardsv 6N … … 2.9
162O 122 The Glbl Smaller 144O + W … -13.8 306K 219K AdvancedMedicalv 235K – 8 … 37.0
358 272V M Currie Port 357 + 2 … -0.7 512K 300 Portmeirionv 410 … … 17.4
534 375K CT Priv Eq Ord 484 – 12K … -29.1
116K 89Y Marwyn Val In 90K – 1 … -46.2 21N 5 Allergy Therapv# 6N + 1N … -7.3
90V 60 CT Real Estate 79 – K … -17.5 Y K Provexisv K … … 0.2
222 158N Mercantile IT 204K – 1 … -14.2
89 71 CT UK HIT 85 – K … -5.1 29 22K STM Groupv 25K … … 9.8 100V 58 Life Science Reit 75K + 1V … … 105K 16K Anglev 16K – O … -2.2
606 480 Merchants 556 + 1 … 1.1 221 170W PZ Cussons 176O – 3O … 20.3
93 79 CT UK HIT B 87 … … -3.4
768 639O Mid Wynd 715 + 11 … -2.5 4082W 3197N Sun Life Can 3980 + 1O … 10.1 603 178K Anpariov 229 + 6K … 12.0
355 294 CT UK HIT UNIT 338 … … -6.2 25 12 Lon & Assoc 12 … … -1.6 155K 65O REA 70 + 6 … -5.5
1102 875 Monks Inv Tst 1008 – 2 … -11.4 10 5O Tavistock Invv 7N … … 1.2
1335 1072K Brown Advsr US Sm 1190 – 10 … -14.8 12294 9656 AstraZeneca 11788 + 102 … …
151V 104V Montanaro Eur Sml 141K – N … -12.0 250O 161O Londonmetric Property‡177X + 2 … 3.7 2W Y Real Gd Fdv Y … … …
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410 233 Zotefoams 362 + 7 … 21.7 94N 61K Lookers‡ 85 + 1 … 5.4
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281V 184O SSP 264O – 5V … -5.1 1W Y Petropavlovsk# 1V – V … 1.6 285 182 Mears Group 285 + 22 … 24.7 37 21 BATM Adv Coms 27X + 1 … 11.6 120K 67N Centrica‡ 118O + 3N … 12.0
V … Bezant Resv … … … -0.7
5O 1Y Tastyv 2O … … 3.7 7K 4Y Phoenix Globalv 6K + N … -1.6 608 590 Menzies (John) 607 – 1 … 48.0 29 14N Berkeley Res 26N – V … … 258 248K ContourGlobal 251 + K … 28.3
2855 2034 BHP Group 2481 – 24 … 10.8
99K 56 Mitie Gp 95V … … 47.6 21K 6 Blackbirdv 7K – N … … 793 473W Drax Group 575V + 1O … 42.6
295 65 Tintrav 88K … … -1.5 4K 1X Plexus Holdingsv 3 … … -0.7
5W 1O Border & Sthn Petv 2O … … …
1N O CloudCoCo Groupv 1 … … -2.5 582K 457 Jersey Electricity‡ 481 … … 9.1
704W 290X Tui 595K – 1 … -6.2 350 168 Polymetal Intl 185 – 5 … … 13O 3O MobilityOnev 5 … … 3.7
20Y 13Y Bougainville 17Y – 1 … … 1185 858W National Grid‡ 1049K + 15 … 24.4
3V 1V Webis Holdingsv 1W … … … 56K 25 Newmark Secv 53K … … … 2624 1810 Computacenter‡ 2308 + 8 … 14.3
698 499 Porvair 674 + 2 … 25.9
4K 1 BowLevenv 1 … … -1.3 9O 5X OPG Powerv 8Y – K … 5.7
783K 389O Wetherspoon JD 682K – 14 … -6.3 90K 65K Concurrent Techv 71 – 1K … 16.8
19N 3O Prospex Energyv 8N … … … 6K 3K Norm Broadbentv 6N … … …
567K 363Y BP‡ 459K … … 16.6 1070 755 Pennon 767 + 10K … 55.5
3445 2285 Whitbread‡ 3445 + 45 … … 12 5O Corerov 6N … … …
60K 37 Northern Bearv 49 + 1 … 5.0
14X 8W Proton Motor Power Sv 9K … … -1.7 O N Rurelecv O … … -0.6
16X 8W Cadence Minv 8X … … 0.8 2250 1080 Cranewarev 1515 – 80 … 69.0
1270 870 Young & Co - Av‡ 1240 + 20 … …
286 220 NWF Grpv 270 … … … 3003 2213 Severn Trent‡ 2704 + 8 … …
2X 1X Cadogan Petrol 1X + V … 23.6 4 1O Providence Resv 3N … … 29.0
892 564 Young & Co - N/Vv‡ 830 + 6 … … 3N 1O Crimson Tidev 2O … … 18.6
491K 362V PageGroup‡ 409O – 2K … 11.0 1900 1428 SSE 1864 + 26 … 7.2
1350 825 Caledonia Miningv 1020 – 10 … 9.9 2O 1 Quadrise Fuels Intlv 1K – V … -5.8 24 11N CyanConn Hldgsv 14Y + V … …
64K 46 PCI-PALv 53K – 1 … … 1145 828V United Utilities 1040 + 3 … 95.4
Media 555N 181W Capricorn Energy 181W – 6K … 1.4 24N 2 Rambler Met&Minv# 5W … … 0.1
12 6Y Petardsv 6Y … … 12.5
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98 61 Record 87V … … 23.9 Companies in bold are constituents of the
48 20K Altitude Groupv 40K – K … … 924 599 FDM Group‡ 677 – 4 … 23.5
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Money Markets
Wall Street Major indices Eurotop 100 FTSE volumes (000s)

June 16 wkly June 16 wkly June 16 wkly New York Close +/- 12mthhigh 12mthlow Yield P/E 3i 7,365 Intertek 1,148
close +/- close +/- close +/- Abrdn 17,358 JD Sports 16,572
Dow Jones 34299.12 (-108.94) RWE AG 37.50 -1.40 43.98 34.57 36.74
3M 104.54 +4.64 eBay 45.04 -0.77 Netflix 431.92 +11.90 Admiral 1,865 Johnson Math 1,368
Nasdaq Composite 13689.57 (-93.25) Swatch Group AG 265.40 +2.50 342.70 215.70 2.28 19.36 Airtel Africa PLC 10,330 Kingfisher 16,068
Abbott Labs 106.20 +4.51 Ecolab 182.04 +4.56 Newmont Mining 43.83 +2.37
S&P 500 4409.59 (-16.25) AP Moller-Maersk A Dn Kr 11990.00 -470.00 22260.00 11000.00 1.98 Ang Am 6,664 Land Sec 6,153
AbbVie 138.64 +0.46 Edison Intl 70.18 +2.46 NextEra Energy 75.59 +1.52 Legal & Gen 34,168
AP Moller-Maersk B Dn Kr 12185.00 -450.00 22650.00 11100.00 2.01 Antofagasta 2,991
Accenture 319.54 +10.82 Edwards Life 91.94 +7.84 Nike 113.59 +7.73 Tokyo Lloyds Bkg Gp 380,628
ABB Ltd S SF 35.49 +0.02 35.74 23.84 2.37 17.44 Ashtead 1,705
Activision Blizzard 81.99 +1.61 Electronic Arts 128.66 +2.72 Norfolk Sthn 224.14 +7.96 Lond Stk Ex Gp 2,220
Nikkei 225 33706.08 (+220.59) Air Liquide Fr ¤ 167.94 +7.64 167.94 114.48 1.84 31.47
AB Foods 2,296
Adobe Sys 495.40 +41.40 Eli Lilly 447.71 +1.67 Northrop Grum 458.35 +4.09 AstraZeneca 4,765 M&G 12,509
Aflac 69.43 +0.46 Emerson Elec 87.41 +3.21 Nucor 151.41 +5.86 Hong Kong Airbus Fr ¤ 131.18 +1.28 132.34 86.52 1.39 24.42 Auto Trader 6,782 Melrose 8,578
Agilent Tech 121.13 +5.34 Entergy 102.01 +0.57 Nvidia 426.92 +39.22 Hang Seng 20040.37 (+211.45) Allianz G ¤ 210.30 +0.50 228.40 156.22 13.49 Aviva 13,412 Mondi 2,221
Air Prods & Chm 293.17 +14.58 EOG Res 113.41 -2.84 Occidental Petr 58.15 -1.17 Anglo American UK p 2545.00 -35.00 3699.00 2223.50 5.04 B&M European 7,902 Natl Grid 22,149
Albemarle Corporation228.17 +7.67 Equifax 229.77 +5.93 Omnicom 95.15 +0.66 Amsterdam Anheuser-Busch InBev B ¤ 53.46 +0.38 62.01 45.56 1.41 27.08 BAE Sys 11,488 NatWest Gr 46,984
Alexion Pharmas 182.50 Equinix 778.61 +34.92 ONEOK 60.95 +1.11 Barclays 99,251 Next 883
AEX Index 772.72 (+0.08) Arcelor Mittal 25.76 30.52 19.41 0.79 2.21 Ocado Gp 9,482
Allergan 193.02 Equity Res 66.72 +0.54 Oracle 125.46 +15.61 Barratt Devs 8,809
ASML Holding Nl ¤ 659.80 -14.00 698.10 375.75 0.86 51.74 Pearson 4,203
Allstate 111.17 -0.79 Estee Lauder 203.95 +27.42 O'Reilly 919.49 +12.50 Sydney BHP Group 3,056
AstraZeneca UK p 11788.00 +102.00 12828.45 9499.21 1995.94 Berkeley 607 Pershing Sq 317
Altria 44.07 -1.15 Evrsurce Engy 72.08 +1.71 Paccar 78.66 +1.83 AO 7451.20 (+81.20) Persimmon 3,208
Atlas Copco A Sw Kr 156.60 -3.35 165.00 91.35 9.49 BP 117,458
Amazon 125.49 +2.06 Exelon 41.22 +1.14 Parker-Hannifin 369.10 +12.97 Phoenix Gp 3,863
Frankfurt Atlas Copco B Sw Kr 135.35 -3.20 140.95 82.30 8.20 Brit Amer Tob 10,535
Amer Elec Pwr 84.91 +1.23 Expedtrs Intl 118.83 +3.52 Paychex 113.59 +1.90 Prudential 10,591
AXA Fr ¤ 26.40 -0.18 30.34 20.34 6.40 9.03 Br Land 25,416
Amer Express 172.21 +0.49 Express Scripts 92.33 Paypal Hldngs 66.49 +3.00 DAX 16357.63 (+67.51) Reckitt Benck 3,354
Banco Santander Es ¤ 3.22 +0.03 3.87 2.32 3.69 6.55 BT Group 34,860
Amer Tower 192.89 +5.59 Extra Space Stor 145.28 +0.78 PepsiCo 186.04 +3.69 Relx 9,785
Singapore Bunzl 1,611
Ameren Corp 84.08 +0.72 Exxon Mobil 105.13 -2.26 Pfizer 40.06 +1.09 BBVA Es ¤ 6.79 +0.06 7.56 3.97 6.39 9.39 Rentokil Itl 12,854
Burberry Grp 1,949
American Int 57.30 +0.42 Facebook 196.64 +8.00 PG&E 17.40 +0.52 Straits 3260.03 (+17.18) Barclays UK p 153.94 +0.14 198.86 128.12 3.74 Centrica 62,254
Rightmove 5,637
American Wtr W 148.98 +2.32 Fastenal 56.58 +1.81 Philip Morris Intl 94.89 +2.30 BASF G ¤ 45.70 -0.66 53.77 37.90 7.69 Rio Tinto 5,793
Coca Cola HBC 1,637
Ameriprise 325.00 +10.65 Fedex 233.46 +9.70 Phillips66 97.13 -1.63 Brussels Rolls-Royce 40,567
Bayer G ¤ 52.33 +0.52 65.66 46.70 52.11 Compass 11,595
BEL20 3658.43 (-0.11) RS Group 2,651
AmerisrceBerg 183.01 +4.79 First Solar 188.92 -3.08 Pioneer Ntrl Rscs 206.80 +2.00 BHP Group UK p 2481.00 -24.00 2862.00 1998.60 10.85 Convatec 7,572
Sage Gp 6,349
Ametek 155.91 +5.62 FirstEnergy 39.07 +0.46 PNC Finl 128.47 -0.46 BMW G ¤ 111.72 -0.80 113.46 68.44 6.05 CRH 2,831
Paris Sainsbury J 14,604
Amgen 229.63 +10.87 FIS 54.78 +0.12 PPG Inds 143.08 +3.41 Croda 814
CAC-40 7388.65 (+97.74) BNP Paribas Fr ¤ 56.57 +0.28 67.02 40.67 6.93 8.27 Schroders 5,832
Amphenol 82.15 +3.92 Fiserv 114.23 +1.27 PPL 26.99 +0.17 DCC 560 Scot Mtge 2,944
BP UK p 459.60 -0.10 570.57 359.20 Diageo 7,727
Anadarko Petrlm 72.77 Ford Motor 14.42 +0.68 Price T Rowe 114.21 -0.26 Segro 12,095
Zurich British Am Tob UK p 2580.50 +2.00 3645.00 2543.00 8.73 Endeavour Mining PLC
Analog Devices 188.27 +5.81 Freeport-Mcm 39.89 +2.00 Priceline.com 1905.64 +20.64 Severn Trent 1,200
SMI Index 11386.26 (+83.43) BT Group UK p 136.40 +1.75 196.60 22.98 13.24 3,611
Aon Corp 329.38 +15.06 Garmin 106.00 +0.66 Principal Fin 74.78 +3.39 Shell PLC 29,124
DJ Euro Stoxx 50 4394.82 (+29.70) Centrica UK p 118.85 +3.25 122.21 65.78 12.01 Entain 10,664 Smith & Neph 6,229
Apple 185.02 +4.06 Gen Dynamics 217.34 +5.07 Procter & Gmbl 149.54 +2.98
Christian Dior Fr ¤ 819.00 +24.00 872.00 529.50 1.51 30.36 Experian 4,049 Smith (DS) 5,840
Applied Mats 138.93 +2.81 Gen Electric 106.29 -0.01 Progressive Cp 129.99 -0.91
London Compagnie de Saint-Gobain 56.19 +0.69 58.54 35.18 13.65
F&C Investment Tr 782 Smiths 1,727
Archer Daniels 75.48 +2.94 General Mills 80.71 -1.59 Prologis 122.63 +1.32 Flutter Ent 623
FTSE 100 7642.92 (+14.66) CS Group S SF 0.82 +0.01 5.86 0.66 11.59 Smurfit Kappa 543
Arthur J. Gallagher213.78 +6.91 General Mtrs 37.96 +1.73 Prudential Finl 87.03 +2.48 Frasers Group 898
FTSE 250 19015.74 (-23.67) Spirax-Sarco 454
AT&T 16.06 +0.11 Genuine Parts 161.47 +5.65 Public Serv Ent 62.54 +0.47 Mercedes-Benz Group AG 76.10 +0.92 76.10 50.19 7.73 Fresnillo 1,070 SSE 4,859
Auto Data Proc 221.40 +6.18 Gilead Sciences 78.86 +0.74 Public Storage 287.10 +0.25 FTSE 350 4209.49 (+6.20) Danone Fr ¤ 55.30 +0.64 61.88 46.76 3.66 19.10 Glencore 49,824 St James Place 3,512
Autodesk 213.47 +12.08 Global Payments 100.68 +0.59 Qualcomm 122.62 +3.51 FTSE Eurotop 100 3680.18 (+26.00) Deutsche Bank G ¤ 9.51 -0.13 12.09 7.25 9.50 GlaxoSmKline 20,277 Stand Chart 15,182
Autozone 2493.83 +130.64 Goldman Sachs 338.31 +2.29 Quanta Services 185.95 +3.12 FTSE All-Shares 4167.90 (+5.98) Deutsche Telekom G ¤ 19.42 +0.06 23.13 17.35 22.68 Haleon 28,684 Taylor Wimpey 30,511
AvalonBay 192.45 +4.14 Google Class A 123.53 +1.30 Realty Income 61.39 +0.48 FTSE Non Financials 5054.40 (+13.85) Halma 3,741 Tesco 42,875
Diageo UK p 3354.50 -4.50 3960.00 3304.32 25.80
Baker Hughes 57.68 Google Class C CS 124.08 +1.21 Regeneron Pharm 783.15 +36.63 Hargreaves L 2,158 Unilever 11,813
techMARK 100 6851.58 (+47.90) EON G ¤ 11.42 +0.27 12.29 7.28 6.44 Hiscox 2,454
Ball Corp 69.49 -11.15 Grainger (WW) 732.43 +25.95 Republic Serv 145.73 +2.43 Unite Group 1,835
Bargains n/a EDF Fr ¤ 12.00 12.05 7.27 2.33 9.44 HSBC 65,939 Utd Utilities 4,247
Bank NY Mellon 44.65 +0.22 Halliburton 32.58 +0.24 Rockwell Auto 315.80 +10.30
Bank of America 29.19 -0.08 Harris 189.13 -8.09 Rockwell Collins 141.04 US$ 1.2829 (+0.0046) Enel It ¤ 6.11 +0.01 6.26 3.96 6.40 Imperial Brands 4,227 Vodafone Gp 289,684
Bard (CR) 331.24 Hartford Financial 71.88 +0.56 Roper Inds 458.78 +6.98 Euro 1.1724 (+0.0047) Engie (FR) 14.36 +0.13 15.56 10.07 9.84 10.27 Informa 9,614 Weir 863
ENI It ¤ 12.98 -0.07 14.98 10.45 6.74 Intercont Htls 1,205 Whitbread 1,883
Baxter Intl 45.36 +3.39 HCA Hldngs 290.08 +18.29 Ross Stores 107.84 +4.55 £:SDR 0.98 (+0.00) Intl Cons Air 23,847 WPP 6,209
BB&T 54.24 -0.48 Hershey 260.72 +4.90 RylCaribbean 95.30 +4.08 Exchange Index 81.99 n/a Fresenius Medical Care Ag & Co 73.67 -0.85 83.15 63.51 20.87
Becton Dickinsn 258.63 +7.13 Hess 135.56 -0.83 Salesforce.com 211.76 -3.55 GlaxoSmKline UK p 1364.60 -10.20 1842.76 16.64 15.76
Berkshire Hath 338.31 +3.02 Hologic 81.23 +3.47 Schlumberger 47.78 +0.25
Bank of England official close (4pm)
CPI 130.43 Apr (2015 = 100)
Glencre Xstrata 475.35 +0.35 584.50 395.40 17.39 European money
Biogen Idec 297.48 -11.40 Home Depot 300.38 +3.03 Schwab (Charles) 54.40 -0.60
Blackrock 702.78 +18.38 Honeywell Intl 203.00 +5.11 Sempra Energy 148.20 +0.50 RPI 372.80 Apr (Jan 1987 = 100)
Heineken NV Nl ¤
Henkel KGaA G ¤
95.50
65.58
+0.84
+0.14
106.30
70.10
78.28
56.55
1.83 16.81
17.72
deposits %
Boeing 219.99 +2.68 Hormel Foods 41.27 +0.40 Sherwin-Williams 247.89 +7.13 RPIX 290.10 Jun (Jan 1987 = 100)
Henkel KGaA Pref G ¤ 73.78 -0.16 78.84 57.30 19.93 Currency
Boston Sci 54.32 +3.04 HP Ent 17.57 +1.78 Simon Prop 112.79 +2.09 Morningstar Long Commodity 677.16 (+5.72) Hermes Intl SCA Fr ¤ 1986.00 +35.80 2036.00 966.00 0.67 86.57 1mth 3mth 6mth 12mth
Bristol-Myrs Sq 66.16 +1.36 HP Inc 31.00 +1.20 Southern Co 71.76 +0.50 Morningstar Long/Short Commod 4703.45 (+27.75) Dollar
HSBC UK p 611.80 +2.40 653.80 434.70 13.37
Broadcom Ord 867.82 +63.20 Humana 445.65 -67.69 S&P Global 395.21 +11.21 0.13 0.20 0.29 0.55
Iberdrola Es ¤ 11.82 +0.23 11.96 9.09 1.60 20.59 Sterling
Brown-Forman- B 65.40 +1.06 IBM 137.48 +2.18 Spectra Engy 62.08 -1.30
Capital One Fin 110.07 -1.42 ICE Group 111.68 +1.72 Starbucks 101.88 +3.92 Commodities Imperial Tobacco UK p
Inditex Es ¤
1759.50
34.39
-3.00
-0.26
2185.00
34.84
1692.50
20.53 2.21
5.88
36.84 Euro
4.20 5.00 4.74 0.81
Cardinal Health 91.25 +4.48 IFF 80.35 +2.11 State Street 73.77 -0.14
ICIS pricing (London 7.30pm) ING Nl ¤ 12.29 +0.07 13.55 8.43 4.57 10.15 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.50
Caterpillar 245.27 +10.24 Illinois Tool 247.99 +10.48 Sthwest Airlines 34.25 +3.63
Celgene 108.24 Illumina 205.87 +5.34 Stryker 294.35 +13.71 Intesa Sanpaolo It ¤ 2.37 +0.02 2.60 1.58 6.95
Centene 65.66 -3.34 Ingersoll-Rand 64.52 +2.06 SunTrust Banks 70.13 Crude Oils ($/barrel FOB) Linde G ¤ 342.70 -3.45 349.80 261.20 54.08 Gold/precious
CenterPoint Egy
Cerner
29.18 +0.23
94.92 +0.07
Intel
Intuit
36.42
455.03
+5.08
+23.48
Sysco
Target
73.39
133.81
+0.85
+6.82 Brent Physical 75.85 +0.79
Lloyds Bkg Gp UK p
L'Oreal Fr ¤
45.05
414.95
+0.09
+5.15
54.33
442.60
38.51
300.70 1.46
6.26
51.34
metals
Chevron 157.26 -1.60 Intuitive Surg 329.44 +16.68 TE Connectivity 135.65 +7.65 BFOE(Aug) 76.63 +0.94
BFOE(Sep) 76.62 +0.92 LVMH Fr ¤ 868.60 +24.90 904.60 537.30 1.42 36.93 Because of a technical issue, the gold fix
Chipotle Mex Grill2032.92 -7.63 JB Hunt Trprt 176.68 +6.64 Texas Insts 176.60 +6.01 Munich Re G ¤ 329.90 +2.00 346.90 212.70 16.01 prices are from Thursday.
WTI(Aug) 71.93 +1.12
Church & Dwight 96.16 +2.06 Johnsn & Johnsn 164.23 +4.22 TheKraftHeinz 36.99 +0.11 WTI(Sep) 71.92 +1.07 Bullion: Open $1958.18
Natl Grid UK p 1049.50 +15.00 1229.21 844.29 24.46
Cigna Corp 268.83 +2.95 Johnson Controls 65.47 +1.96 Thermo Fisher 537.30 +19.12
Nestle S SF 109.26 +0.96 118.74 103.60 Close $1954.46-1954.72 High $1967.80
Cintas 491.36 +10.93 JP Morgan Chase 143.26 +2.25 TJX 81.26 +1.90
Cisco Systems 52.07 +2.41 Kansas City 293.59 Tractor Supply Co 218.93 +1.71 Products ($/MT) Novartis S SF 90.76 +0.39 93.95 73.33 3.54 10.10 Low $1953.50
Citigroup 48.19 -0.11 Kellogg 66.29 -0.87 Transdigm Group 815.89 +15.88 Orange 10.39 +0.03 11.87 9.08 6.76 3501.49 AM $1934.65 PM $1952.35
Spot CIF NW Europe (prompt delivery) Pernod Ricard NV Fr ¤ 203.30 +0.50 218.00 166.60 2.03 31.17 Platinum $1092.00 (£851.89)
Clorox Co 156.54 -0.12 Kimberly-Clark 137.68 +3.18 Travelers 176.75 +1.15
CME 184.13 -0.71 Kinder Morgan 17.04 +0.01 TSYS 133.27 Premium Unld 876.00 880.00 +28.00 Philips Elect Nl ¤ 18.66 +0.02 21.81 12.13 4.36 28.29 Silver $23.99 (£18.72)
Coca-Cola 61.67 +1.20 KLA-Tencor 464.81 -0.84 Ulta Salon 447.91 +24.29 Gasoil EEC 740.00 741.00 +23.75 Prudential UK p 1124.50 -10.50 1336.00 782.40 18.26 Palladium $1721.11 (£1342.68)
Cognizant Tech 65.09 +3.04 Kroger 46.17 Union Pacific 204.67 +5.00 3.5 Fuel Oil 444.00 444.00 +7.00 Reckitt Benckiser UK p 6498.00 +6.00 8020.00 5782.00
Naphtha 548.00 561.00 +8.00
Colgate-Palm
Comcast
77.78 +1.94
41.23 +1.00
Lab Corp Amer
Lam Research
234.27
612.65
+16.70
+6.06
Untd Rentls
UPS
403.09
178.58
+14.07
+8.09
Richemont S SF 150.45 +4.50 161.10 91.80 1.54 36.74 Dollar rates
Rio Tinto UK p 5300.00 -43.00 6329.00 4424.50 5.54
ConocoPhillips 104.92 +1.03 Lennar 120.02 +5.82 US Bancorp 33.45 +0.59 Roche Hldgs S SF 302.40 +4.40 409.60 267.00 3.19 20.75 Australia 1.4570-1.4572
Consd Edison 92.97 -0.52 Level 3 Coms 53.63 +0.43 Utd Health 458.49 -35.13 ICE Futures Canada 1.3198-1.3199
Rolls-Royce UK p 151.20 +1.15 160.00 64.44 102.86
Constellation Brs 246.03 +4.42 Lockheed Martin 459.17 -3.52 Utd Tech 86.01 -18.63 Denmark 6.8165-6.8175
Gas Oil Royal Bank Scot UK p 120.90 -0.45 265.00 100.34 4.76
Corning 35.85 +3.07 Lowes Cos 217.08 +7.96 Valero Energy 114.21 +0.82 Euro 0.9148-0.9151
Jul 741.00-740.75 Oct 715.25-714.75 Shell 2336.19 +1.69 2613.50 1908.60 12.31 Hong Kong 7.8214-7.8218
Costco Whole 523.65 +6.37 LyondellBasell 92.24 +3.22 Ventas 46.08 +0.36 Aug 723.00-722.75 Nov 709.25-708.75 Sanofi-Aventis Fr ¤ 95.66 +1.40 105.18 76.45 3.78 19.64 Japan 141.82-141.82
Crown Castle Int 114.61 +0.65 Marathon Petrol 113.29 +0.28 VeriSign 223.64 +2.67 Sep 717.50-717.25 Volume: 738322 Malaysia 4.6120-4.6170
CSX 33.21 +0.90 Marriott Intl 176.40 -2.61 Verisk Analyt CS 224.49 +5.13 SAP G ¤ 126.54 +1.76 127.20 79.58 28.82
Norway 10.581-10.583
Cummins 235.81 +9.18 Marsh & McLenn 181.15 +2.90 Verizon Comm 36.46 +0.99 Brent (9.00pm) Schneider Electric Fr ¤ 162.98 -1.60 167.98 110.02 1.91 29.20
Singapore 1.3378-1.3380
CVS Caremark 67.72 -4.04 MartinMarietta 426.54 -0.72 Vertex Pharma 347.89 +13.78 Siemens G ¤ 163.78 -2.00 167.00 93.67 25.02 Sweden 10.642-10.645
Aug 75.84-75.83 Nov 75.42-75.39
Danaher 241.80 +6.43 MasterCard 376.53 +7.31 Visa 228.91 +5.35 Sep 75.85-75.83 Dec 75.14-75.12 Standard Chartered UK p 675.20 -3.80 797.40 515.60 15.14 Switzerland 0.8940-0.8941
Darden Rest 166.01 +4.10 McCormick 92.65 +1.98 Vulcan Mats 207.31 +0.67 Oct 75.67-75.65 Volume: 1955277 Swatch Gp BR S SF 265.40 +2.50 342.70 215.70 2.28 19.36
Deere&Co
Delta Air Lines
407.63 +28.76
42.79 +3.51
McDonald's
McKesson
293.70
406.20
+6.91
+12.29
Walgreens Boots 32.68
Wal-Mart 155.53
+1.26
+2.44 LIFFE
Swiss Re AG S SF
Telefonica Es ¤
88.32
3.62
+0.06
-0.03
99.68
4.96
68.16
3.22
6.52
8.21
21.85
2.69
Other Sterling
Devon Energy 49.80 -0.07 Medtronic 89.15 +5.42 Walt Disney 91.32 -0.61 Tenaris SA It ¤ 12.88 -0.15 17.83 10.95 3.69 Argentina peso 319.40-319.41
Digital Realty Tr. 105.18 +0.93 Merck & Co 109.32 -1.39 Waste Mgt 165.03 +2.35 Cocoa
Tesco UK p 262.90 -1.60 307.23 194.35 13.39 Australia dollar 1.8676-1.8678
Discover Financial 115.32 +1.18 Metlife 55.50 +1.63 WEC Engy 91.43 +1.50 Jul 2590-2564 Sep 2287-2260
Sep 2475-2474 Dec 2262-2230 TotalEnergies 39.69 +0.87 42.19 24.51 7.83 Bahrain dinar 0.4797-0.4868
Dollar General 164.32 +11.27 Microchip 85.47 +5.40 Wells Fargo 42.18 +0.05
Dec 2427-2403 Mar 2161-2090 UBS AG S SF 18.25 -0.01 20.85 13.87 2.68 8.60
Dollar Tree 136.24 +4.47 Micron 67.66 +2.23 Welltower 52.22 -2.58 Brazil real 6.1881-6.2035
Mar 2370-2351 Unilever NV Nl ¤ 47.56 +0.63 50.93 41.43 3.64 24.42
Dominion Res 53.33 +0.24 Microsoft 342.60 +15.81 Weyerhaeuser 31.00 +1.34 May 2409-2325 Euro 1.1724-1.1730
Dover 147.73 +6.59 Mondelez 73.59 +0.62 Williams Cos 30.53 +0.14 Vinci Fr ¤ 110.48 +2.20 112.40 80.84 3.69 24.88
Jul 2345-2255 Volume: 84421 Hong Kong dollar 10.025-10.026
Dow Chemical 53.16 +1.42 Monster Bvrge 58.45 +1.20 Xcel Energy 63.89 +0.44 Vivendi Fr ¤ 8.35 +0.09 10.74 7.59 3.03
D.R. Horton 116.40 +2.39 Moodys 341.85 +6.37 Xilinx 194.92 RobustaCoffee Vodafone Group UK p 73.71 -0.15 132.04 71.71 India rupee 105.01-105.01
Dr Pepper Snap 123.66 -0.02 Morgan Stanley 88.09 +1.88 Xylem 113.44 +3.73 Jul 2815-2788 Mar 2591-2485 Volkswagen G ¤ 159.85 -0.10 209.00 138.70 5.49 Indonesia rupiah 19179-19179
DTE Energy 114.12 +2.69 Motorola Sols 280.25 +2.26 Yum Brands 138.58 +5.14 Sep 2748-2745 May 2566-2555 Volvo B Sw Kr 218.30 -1.85 221.85 154.28 12.91 Kuwait dinar KD 0.3923-0.3947
Duke Energy 92.18 +0.66 M&T Bank Corp 123.16 -3.76 Zimmer 144.10 +8.09 Nov 2690-2650 Zurich Fin S SF 428.70 +0.70 458.30 384.70 5.61 14.63
Eaton 191.26 +3.96 Nasdaq OMX 51.22 -6.61 Zoetis 170.74 +7.65 Jan 2590-2586 Volume: 18239 Malaysia ringgit 5.8986-5.9050
New Zealand dollar 2.0613-2.0618
White Sugar (FOB) Singapore dollar 1.7148-1.7151
London Financial Futures Reuters Mar 686.00-684.20 Money rates % S Africa rand 23.333-23.344
May 670.60-669.30
Period Open High Low Sett Vol Open Int Aug 701.70-700.80 Aug 649.80-643.80 U A E dirham 4.7065-4.7068
Long Gilt Jun 23 95.300 95.300 94.670 94.780 77 119 Oct 699.00-695.50 Oct 623.50-608.50
Dec 695.20-692.00 Volume: 69290 Base Rates Clearing Banks 4.50 ECB Refi 2.50 US Fed Fund 4.50-4.75
SEP 23 94.700 95.360 94.410 94.720 164884 497411 Exchange rates
3-Mth Sterling Sep 23 London Grain Futures
Dec 23 Halifax Mortgage Rate 3.99 Bid Change
LIFFE Wheat (close £/t)
Mar 24 Australia $ 1.865 +0.01
Jun 24 Jul 173.00 Nov 202.85 Jan unq Canada $ 1.690
Mar unq May 211.00 Volume: 876 Treasury Bills (Dis) Buy: 1 mth 4.604; 3 mth 4.900. Sell: 1 mth 4.330; 3 mth 4.600 Denmark Kr 8.736 +0.03
3-Mth Euribor Jun 23 96.415 96.425 96.405 96.410 105718 535178
3-Mth Sterling Sep 24 Euro ¤ 1.173
London Metal Exchange Hong Kong $ 10.018 +0.05
3-Mth Euribor Sep 23 96.070 96.085 96.060 96.075 161626 590842 (Official) 1 mth 2 mth 3 mth 6 mth 12 mth Hungary 437.534 +0.38
Dec 23 96.095 96.100 96.070 96.090 138482 446939 Interbank Rates 4.2013 0.000 4.9231 4.7447 0.00
Cash 3mth Dec 22 Indonesia 19133.944 +85.78
Mar 24 96.205 96.210 96.175 96.205 121884 423538
Israel Shk 4.559 +0.03
Jun 24 96.375 96.385 96.340 96.380 149501 381042 Copper Gde A ($/tonne) Japan Yen 181.276 +2.25
3-Mth Euroswiss Sep 23 Eurodollar Deps 5.33-5.55 0.00-0.00 5.04-5.04 4.67-4.67 3.82-3.82
8560.0-8561.0 8573.0-8575.0 8565.0-8575.0 New Zealand $ 2.058 +0.01
Dec 23 Norway Kr 13.537 +0.12
Mar 24 Lead ($/tonne)
2172.0-2174.0 2131.0-2132.0 2130.0-2135.0
Sterling spot and forward rates Poland 5.233 +0.03
Jun 24 Russia 107.584 +1.29
FTSE100 Jun 23 7629.0 7688.0 7629.0 7645.5 5096 60020 Mkt Rates for Range Close 1 month 3 month S Africa Rd 23.285 -0.10
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2484.0-2485.0 2486.0-2487.0 2492.0-2497.0 Switzerland Fr 1.145 +0.01
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USA $ 1.281 +0.01
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ABBEY LIFE CLERICAL MEDICAL INVESTMENT GROUP International 634.80 668.20 +5.90 … Oseas Equity Ord 1882.60 1981.60 +7.80 … Gilts & Fxd Int 497.00 523.10 -2.30 … Squirrel 29.11 30.64 +0.02 …
01202 292373 Narrow Plain,, Bristol BS2 0JH 0117 9290566 Japan 307.90 324.10 +6.60 … Property Init 256.80 270.30 -0.10 … Growth Fund 858.90 904.10 +4.70 … Stag 93.76 98.69 +0.46 …
80 Holdenhurst Road,, Bournemouth Life Funds North Amer 4205.60 4426.90 +27.70 … Property Ord 957.90 1008.30 +0.40 … International Fd 1289.30 1357.20 +14.80 …
BH8 8AL Cash 298.99 314.73 +0.15 … Perpetual 468.00 492.60 -1.30 … North American 2324.90 2447.30 +27.40 … Pensions
American Ser 4 3923.80 4130.30 +46.00 … Dist Acc S2 200.87 200.87 -0.16 … Schroders 1479.10 1556.90 +14.40 … NPI Opportunity Fd 862.10 907.40 +6.80 … Bear 107.00 112.60 -0.10 …
Custodian S4 562.30 591.90 +1.10 … Fidelity Bal 1174.06 1235.85 +5.27 … Select Mgd 147.80 155.60 -0.30 … 020 7477 5567 Safety Fund 605.70 637.60 -0.60 … Bull 119.40 125.70 +0.40 …
Equity Ser 4 791.30 832.90 +6.10 … Gilt & Fixed Int 473.15 498.06 -2.94 … UK Eqty Inc 1540.30 1621.30 -39.50 … 55 Moorgate, London EC2 UK Equity 961.30 1011.90 +3.10 … Deposit 35.37 37.23 +0.03 …
Ethical S4 423.90 446.20 -4.00 … Non Eqty 386.63 406.98 -1.53 … UK Equity Gwth 2252.70 2371.20 +2.70 … Gilt Edged 55.40 58.31 -0.33 …
UK Fxd Int 487.20 512.80 -3.30 … Americas 2617.10 2754.90 +26.70 …
European S4 975.50 1026.90 +5.20 … Nth American 3089.79 3252.41 +30.00 … Deposit 364.70 383.90 +0.20 … SCOTTISH PROVIDENT INSTITUTION Owl 139.90 147.20 +0.30 …
Fixed Int Ser 4 770.60 811.20 -3.50 … Property 660.47 695.23 -1.17 … Far East 1714.30 1804.60 +11.70 … 0131 556 9181 Squirrel 47.27 49.76 +0.04 …
High Inc Ser 4 2628.80 2767.10 -5.60 … UK Gwth 1329.83 1399.82 +16.03 … Pension Fixed Interest 889.30 936.20 -3.70 … 6 St Andrews Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YA Stag 153.90 162.00 +0.90 …
International S4 824.60 868.00 +8.60 … With Prof Bd S2 122.60 122.60 … … Aggressive Mgd 4 1003.20 1055.90 -3.70 … Indexed Gilt 659.30 694.00 +2.80 … Cash 304.30 320.30 +0.20 …
Japan Ser 4 563.90 593.60 +10.50 … With Profits Flex 128.80 128.80 … … Balanced Mgd 3 3735.40 3931.90 +15.30 … Managed 1700.50 1790.00 +7.60 … Equity 895.80 942.90 +0.70 … Pre 1982 Series
Man Ser 4 2304.70 2426.00 +11.20 … With Profits Reg 405.40 426.80 +0.20 … Cautious Mgd 2 815.90 858.80 -3.90 … Overseas Equity 2413.10 2540.20 +22.20 … Fixed Interest 649.30 683.50 -4.80 …
Money Ser 4 534.30 562.40 +0.30 … 3-Way Fund 3041.60 3041.60 +8.50 …
European 1297.90 1366.20 +2.10 … UK Equity 2541.80 2675.60 +17.50 … Index Linked 487.90 513.60 -3.90 …
Prop Fd Ser 4 987.20 1039.20 … … Pension Funds Far Eastern 2734.10 2877.90 +38.00 … International 1077.40 1134.10 +10.70 …
Protected Gth S4 213.80 225.00 … … Gresham
Cash 341.18 359.14 +0.23 … Framlington 258.10 271.70 +0.80 … PEARL Managed 887.00 933.70 +4.50 …
European 2120.40 2232.00 +35.37 … Green 1057.30 1112.90 +4.90 … Property 589.80 620.80 +0.30 … American & Genrl 4828.90 5083.00 +59.80 …
The Pearl Centre,, Lynch
y Wood,, Peterborough
g Capital Fund 2571.80 2707.10 +5.90 …
Fomerly Hill Samuel Life Assurance Ltd Gilt & Fixed Int 527.73 555.51 -4.09 … International 938.30 987.60 +9.50 … PE2 6FY 01733 470 470
Halifax 142.88 150.40 … … Japan 385.30 405.50 +7.60 … Formerly Prolific Equity Fund 2929.70 3083.90 +6.70 …
Equity Fund 2995.00 3169.30 +29.80 … North Amer 12261.10 12906.40 +121.70 … Inv Equity 5896.60 6207.00 +19.30 … Fixed Interest 601.90 633.60 -2.90 …
European Fund 5106.40 5403.60 +27.60 … Nth American 4731.47 4980.49 +48.78 … Adventurous Mg 874.10 920.20 +5.90 …
PP Bal Pens 1174.95 1236.78 +5.10 … Perpetual 566.20 595.90 -1.90 … Inv Managed 3880.80 4085.10 +17.10 … Income 1008.50 1061.50 +2.30 …
Fixed Intl 857.20 907.10 -3.90 … Schroders 2846.70 2996.50 +33.90 … Inv Prop Ac Grs 875.40 921.50 +0.60 … Bal Gwth Mngd 2689.20 2830.80 +13.70 … International Gth 3994.80 4205.10 +39.40 …
Income Fund 3273.60 3464.10 +13.70 … PP Caut Pens 376.04 395.84 +0.24 … Cash Fund 551.10 580.20 +0.30 …
PP UK Gth Pens 1158.58 1219.56 +13.96 … Select Mgd 158.90 167.30 -0.30 … Inv Prop Dist 277.00 291.60 +0.20 … Japan & General 639.60 673.30 +12.10 …
International 2228.70 2358.40 +23.30 … UK Eqty Gwth 4006.30 4217.10 +6.00 … Ret Managed 4587.70 4829.20 +22.60 … Cautious Mngd 376.50 396.40 -0.50 … Managed Bond 3357.80 3534.50 +9.30 …
Managed Series A 2166.20 2292.30 +10.60 … PP UK Prop Pens 716.39 754.09 -1.11 … Equity Fund 3774.30 3973.00 +37.10 …
With Profits Reg 739.60 778.60 +0.50 … UK Eqty Inc 2512.60 2644.80 -64.20 … Money Fund 525.40 553.00 … …
Managed Units 3953.90 4162.00 +19.60 … UK Fxd Int 1042.50 1097.30 -7.10 … Equity Inc Dist 154.40 162.60 -0.60 … Property Fund 1144.60 1204.90 +1.00 …
Money Series A 485.50 513.70 +0.20 … With Profits Spec 732.70 771.30 +0.60 … PHOENIX LIFE LTD European 848.80 893.50 +6.70 …
Edward Pavilion,, Liverpool
p L3 4SL 0151 239 3000 Recovery Fund 2728.80 2872.50 +13.80 …
Money Units 685.70 721.70 +0.40 … Extra Income Fd 1403.80 1477.70 -6.30 …
Property Series A 1362.60 1441.90 … … COUNTRYWIDE ASSURED LLOYDS TSB LIFE LTD For further fund prices
p please
p ring:
g 0800 731 2031 Far East 2170.90 2285.20 +35.90 …
Harbour House,, Portway,y, Preston,, Lancs For further fund p
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please ringg 0800 731 2031 WINTERTHUR LIFE UK LIMITED
Property Units 2519.30 2651.90 +0.20 … 01634 834000 Fxd Interest Fund 1073.90 1130.50 -8.20 … 01256 470707
PR2 2PR Mountbatten Hse,, Chatham,, Kent Broker Life Funds
Smaller Cos 2757.20 2917.70 +1.90 … High Income 3063.60 3224.90 -11.10 … Winterthur Way, y, Basingstoke
g RG21 6SZ
CA Funds 0800 262536 Life Funds Moneyhill Grth 510.43 537.29 +2.58 … International 1293.60 1361.70 +12.70 … Formerly Colonial
Deposit Life 223.10 234.80 +0.10 … Equity 1685.40 1774.10 +5.20 … Managed Dist 132.50 139.50 -0.20 …
Formerly Target Life Assurance Co Ltd Cash ‡ 285.70 … … …
Deposit Pen 313.10 329.50 +0.10 … Managed 3681.10 3681.10 +6.50 … Lifestyle Bond Funds (Post 29/1/01) North American 3824.00 4025.30 +17.50 …
Deposit 360.10 379.00 +0.20 … Intl Life 1011.40 1064.60 +6.80 … Property Fund 889.40 936.30 +0.50 … Cash Inv Pens ‡ 532.70 … -0.10 …
Income 3369.00 3546.30 -1.00 … Cash Pens ‡ 146.40 … -0.10 …
Financial Ser 1 260.30 274.00 +3.30 … Intl Pen 1392.50 1465.70 +11.20 … Managed Inv 1908.40 2008.80 +3.20 … Cautious Mgd 251.30 251.30 +0.30 … Technology 7324.70 7710.30 +181.60 …
Fixed Interest 571.60 601.70 -2.60 … Mgd Life 792.60 834.30 -0.40 … Deposit 154.10 154.10 +0.10 … UK Mid Cap 3395.10 3573.80 -15.30 … Equity ‡ 1403.90 … -0.30 …
Managed 2126.20 2238.20 +9.90 … Mgd Pen 1180.00 1242.10 -0.50 … Equity 272.10 272.10 +0.80 … Equity Inv Pens 9390.10 9884.30 +6.60 …
Mngd Growth 819.80 863.00 +8.60 … Life Funds-Series Two-Current Series Equity Inc 300.30 300.30 -0.60 … Equity Pens Cap 2349.40 2473.00 -8.30 …
UK Eqty Life 855.30 900.30 +0.60 … Henderson Investment Bonds
Property 804.20 846.50 … … UK Eqty Pen 1106.40 1164.60 +0.90 … American 3385.20 3563.40 +17.40 … European 362.20 362.20 +2.00 … Fxd Int ‡ 1003.90 … -7.20 …
TSB Intl 1577.20 1660.20 +16.40 … Balanced 2530.70 2663.90 +1.50 … Eurotech 90.10 90.10 -0.20 … Deposit Fund 374.30 394.00 +0.20 … Fxd Int Inv Pens ‡ 2451.20 … -12.30 …
Cash 417.40 439.40 +0.20 … Far East 425.20 425.20 +6.90 … European Fund 1392.40 1465.70 +10.90 … Fxd Int Pens Cap ‡ 677.60 … -3.30 …
CWA Series Funds 0870 600 0014
European Gth 898.70 946.00 +3.40 … Fixed Int 192.20 192.20 -0.80 … Far East Fund 2133.20 2245.50 +35.30 … Idx Lk Inv Pens ‡ 1479.60 … … …
AEGON SCOTTISH EQUITABLE
Q Equity Fd 1821.70 1917.60 +2.40 … Fixed Interest 706.50 743.70 -5.50 … FTSE All Share Tkr 293.90 293.90 -0.60 … Fixed Interest 52.20 55.00 -0.40 … Idx Lk Pens Cap ‡ 408.40 … -0.40 …
08456 100010 Glob Cash 367.10 386.40 +0.20 … German Growth 1685.30 1774.00 +8.50 … Income Dist I 109.40 109.40 -0.40 … Global Managed 1552.20 1633.90 +8.00 … Key ‡ … … +1.20 …
Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh EH12 9SE Glob Eqty 3539.10 3725.40 +19.00 … Income 3109.80 3273.50 -1.10 … Income Dist II 109.40 109.40 -0.40 … North America 1709.10 1799.10 +8.00 … Managed 1327.20 1397.10 +3.70 …
American 2175.82 2290.34 +20.64 … Glob Fxd Int 1239.00 1304.20 -17.10 … Japan Growth 342.40 360.50 +7.00 … International 320.50 320.50 +3.40 … UK Equity Fd 976.00 1027.40 -2.20 … Mngd Inv Pens 3627.50 3818.40 +5.80 …
Cash 280.33 295.09 +0.13 … Glob Mgd 2382.20 2507.60 -2.40 … Managed Inv 2077.40 2186.80 +3.50 … Japan Grth 217.00 217.00 +4.00 … Mngd Pens Cap 912.20 960.30 +0.80 …
Distribution 93.62 98.55 -0.14 … Glob Prop 778.80 819.80 … … Pacific Basin 1409.80 1484.00 +19.20 … Managed 281.00 281.00 +0.90 … SCOTTISH WIDOWS GROUP Pacemaker ‡ … … +2.50 …
Ethical 661.88 696.71 -7.46 … Managed Fd 2976.90 3133.60 -3.00 … Property 1553.70 1635.50 -5.00 … North America 490.60 490.60 +6.00 … PO Box 902, Edinburgh EH16 5BU
European 1352.56 1423.75 -2.37 … Property Fd 640.20 673.90 … … Smllr Cos Recov 4801.00 5053.70 -20.60 … Pacific Grth 649.10 649.10 +8.90 … ZURICH ASSURANCE LTD
Fixed Interest 451.57 475.34 -2.38 … Property 348.10 348.10 +0.30 … Cash Fund 365.70 385.00 +0.20 … 0845 300 2332
Worldwide Gth 2074.00 2183.20 +15.60 … Equity Fund 2431.60 2559.60 +1.50 …
Global 381.72 401.82 +2.63 … FRIENDS PROVIDENT UK Leader 282.40 282.40 -0.50 … UK Life Centre,, Swindon SN1 1EL
International 1150.51 1211.06 +7.51 … 01722 413366 UK Smlr Cos 290.90 290.90 -2.90 … Fixed Interest Fd 870.60 916.40 -6.60 … Life Funds
Castle Street, Salisbury, Wilts SP1 3SH Pension Funds Indexed Stock Fd 616.90 649.40 -3.60 …
Japan 461.71 486.01 +11.69 … With Profits 157.89 157.89 +0.10 … Equity 11015.30 11595.10 +49.30 …
Mixed 949.04 998.99 +0.24 … American Pens 2070.60 2179.60 +12.50 … International Fd 2469.40 2599.40 +16.10 …
Cash 326.90 344.10 +0.20 … Inv Cash 556.50 585.80 +0.40 … Managed (1) 1100.50 1158.40 +1.40 …
Pacific 1563.70 1646.00 +16.71 … European 1576.90 1659.90 +9.30 … Cash Pen 315.70 332.30 +0.20 …
European Pen 1676.60 1764.80 +7.70 … Other Life & Pension Funds Inv Pol 1 5466.10 5466.10 +113.30 … Managed (2) 836.20 880.20 +1.10 …
Technology 5505.10 5794.84 +175.88 … Fixed Inter Life 640.20 673.90 -7.70 … Managed (3) ‡ 653.60 … +0.90 …
UK Equity 916.03 964.24 -3.78 … Far East Pen 598.80 630.40 +8.80 … Pens Unit W Prof 249.38 262.51 +0.21 … Inv Pol 2 4625.70 4869.20 +95.60 …
Index Linked 552.60 581.70 -0.10 … Inv Pol 3 3811.00 4011.60 +78.40 … Mangd Gen 4 157.10 165.30 +0.20 …
Managed 1149.20 1209.70 +8.30 … Fixed Int Pen 493.80 519.80 -4.80 … With Profits Bd 193.14 193.14 +0.13 …
FTSE 100 398.60 419.60 -0.90 … Mixed Fund 1965.80 2069.20 +4.10 … Property 1879.00 1977.90 +1.20 …
ALBA LIFE North American 1265.10 1331.70 +17.00 … Property Fund 917.30 965.60 -2.90 … Property (1) 394.10 414.80 +0.30 …
Overseas Equity 1835.30 1931.90 +18.40 … Managed Pen 1016.40 1069.90 +1.40 … Pensions Solution Funds (Post 6/4/2001)
50 Bothwell St,, Glasgow
g G2 6HR Property Pen 947.60 997.50 -2.90 … Property (2) ‡ 429.70 … +0.40 …
0141 248 2000 Pacific Basin 577.50 607.90 +5.60 … Balanced Grth 281.00 281.00 +0.30 …
Property 677.10 712.70 -0.80 … UK Equity Pen 789.00 830.60 +0.40 … SKANDIA LIFE ASSURANCE CO LTD
Formerly y Britannia Cash Deposit 164.50 164.50 +0.10 … 01703 334411 Pension
Life Stewardship 1760.90 1853.60 +7.40 … Equity 279.70 279.70 +1.00 …
UK Equity 1804.90 1899.90 … … LONDON LIFE Skandia House,, Portland Terrace Managed (1) 1561.10 1643.30 +1.80 …
European 1635.90 1722.00 +15.60 … Equity Inc 309.20 309.20 -0.80 … Southampton SO9 7BX Equity Acc 31099.30 32736.10 +169.10 …
0117 984 7777 European 430.30 430.30 +2.80 …
Far East 634.80 668.30 +10.30 … Formerly London & Manchester Assurance Spectrum, Bond Street, Bristol, BS1 3AL Balanced Acc 947.70 997.50 +4.90 … Managed Acc 16929.10 17820.20 +29.00 …
Fixed Interest 758.20 798.10 -4.00 … Eurotech 173.80 173.80 +4.40 … Property (1) 727.30 765.50 +0.50 …
Deposit 516.10 516.10 +0.30 … Far East 513.50 513.50 +10.00 … Equity Acc 2059.50 2167.90 -7.70 …
International 1443.90 1519.90 +17.00 … Equity Ex Cap ‡ … … -1.40 … Property (2) ‡ 774.20 … +0.70 …
Deposit A 295.80 311.40 +0.20 … Fixed Int 213.00 213.00 -1.30 … Global Acc 812.50 855.20 -1.20 …
Japan 744.10 783.30 +13.90 … Equity Life ‡ … … -6.10 … Property Acc 8673.20 9129.70 +6.20 …
Deposit P 677.10 677.10 +0.50 … FTSE All Share Tkr 330.60 330.60 -0.80 … Property 580.30 610.80 +0.40 …
Managed Fund 1496.90 1575.70 +5.10 … Fixed Interest ‡ … … -3.80 … With Profs (5) ‡ 241.90 … +0.20 …
Money Market 405.90 427.30 +0.20 … Fxd Int Ex Cap ‡ … … -0.80 … Equity 4205.30 4205.30 +28.50 … Index Linked 263.80 263.80 +0.20 … With Profs (6) ‡ 212.50 … +0.10 …
Gtd Dep Ex Cap ‡ … … -0.10 … Equity A 934.70 983.90 +6.30 … International 388.30 388.30 +4.80 … STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO
North America 1458.50 1535.30 +16.90 … Standard Life House,, 30 Lothian Road,,
Property 985.50 1037.40 … … Guaranteed Deposit ‡ … … +0.30 … Equity P 3683.20 3683.20 +30.60 … Managed Grth 309.20 309.20 +1.30 … Share Class 1 - Retail
Inter Life ‡ … … +17.60 … Fixed Int A 462.30 486.70 -1.90 … Pens Protector 202.90 202.90 -0.10 … Edinburgh EH1 2DH 0131 225 2552
UK Equity 2662.70 2802.80 +8.00 … Managed (2) ‡ 816.80 … +1.20 …
Intl Ex Cap ‡ … … +3.00 … Fixed Int P 1648.20 1648.20 -9.10 … Property 448.40 448.40 +0.40 … Cash ‡ 439.80 … +0.20 …
Prop Ex Cap ‡ … … -0.20 … Fixed Interest 1087.60 1087.60 -4.50 … UK Leader 306.90 306.90 -0.60 … Equity ‡ 4648.90 … -9.20 …
Pensions
Equity 1873.30 1971.80 +6.10 …
Prop Life ‡ … … -0.80 … Index Stock A
Index Stock P
Indexed Stock
515.20
861.30
686.70
542.40
861.30
686.70
+2.20
+5.40
+2.90
…
…
…
Unitised W Prof 210.87 210.87 +0.20 … European ‡
Far East ‡
1008.00
547.60
…
…
+1.00
+8.70
…
… British funds
European 2071.80 2180.80 +24.10 … FP Life Assurance ex NM PRUDENTIAL INDIVIDUAL LIFE FUNDS Fixed Interest ‡ 952.20 … -6.00 …
Far Eastern 514.60 541.60 +10.40 … International 1498.90 1498.90 +13.90 … 0345 601601 Index Linked ‡ 590.80 … +3.00 … 12 month Price Int Yld Grs rd
American 3392.00 3570.60 +46.00 … International A 897.20 944.50 +8.30 …
Fixed Interest 765.40 805.70 -5.20 … Deposit 546.80 575.50 +0.40 … 55 King's Road, Reading, RG1 3AH International ‡ 2863.70 … +9.50 … High Low Stock (£) +/– % yld
International 1249.60 1315.40 +17.50 … International P 1984.40 1984.40 +22.00 … Managed ‡ 3046.50 … -5.30 …
European 3836.10 4038.00 +22.90 … Mixed 2402.40 2402.40 +13.50 … Euro Fund ‡ … … +3.40 … Index-linked
Japan 363.50 382.70 +8.30 … Fixed Interest 1334.90 1405.20 -16.10 … N American Fd ‡ … … +10.50 … Nth American ‡ 1076.60 … +1.70 …
Managed 1061.20 1117.10 +4.30 … Mixed A 756.40 796.30 +4.20 … Property ‡ 834.50 … +0.40 … 389.95 359.04 Tr IL 2K% 24 * 374.72 – .22 1.44 2.86
Income Acc 4045.50 4258.50 -2.30 … Mixed P 2396.40 2396.40 +13.80 … Strategic Fund 644.30 678.20 -11.00 … 108.79 98.57 Tr IL 0V% 24 98.59 – .14 … 2.01
Money Market 481.70 507.10 +0.20 … Income Dist 682.30 718.20 -0.30 … 110.76 96.90 Tr IL 0V% 26 97.00 – .21 … 1.24
North America 2162.60 2276.40 +29.40 … Property 789.30 789.30 +0.40 … 121.02 99.85 – .29 1.34 0.87
International 1821.50 1917.40 +7.50 … Property A 338.50 356.40 +0.20 … Pensions (Series 4) Tr IL 1N% 27 101.66
Property 901.30 948.70 +0.10 … Scottish Amicable Life Fds (First Series) 115.50 93.33 Tr IL 0V% 28 96.66 – .29 … 0.79
Managed 2565.60 2700.70 +6.60 … Property P 621.70 621.70 +0.30 … Cash ‡ 136.00 … +0.10 … 116.14 92.36 Tr IL 0V% 29 96.39 – .24 … 0.77
Mixed 1776.00 1869.50 -17.90 … Cash Fund ‡ … … +0.30 … Equity ‡ 250.60 … -0.20 … 378.34 301.39 Tr IL 4V% 30 * 332.67 – .48 1.94 0.86
AXA SUN LIFE Property 1905.00 2005.30 -2.40 … Equity Fund ‡ … … +1.50 … European ‡ 306.80 … +1.70 … 122.01 90.61 Tr IL 0V% 31 97.07 – .13 … 0.49
Singapore & Mal 1264.90 1331.50 +12.30 … MERCHANT INVESTORS ASSURANCE CO LTD Fixed Interest ‡ … … -17.20 … 135.86 99.08 Tr IL 1N% 32 106.13 – .15 1.18 0.58
PO Box 1810,, Bristol BS99 5SN St Bartholomews House,, Lewins Mead Far East ‡ 294.20 … +6.50 …
Tokyo Fund 1165.60 1227.00 +11.30 … Intl Fund ‡ … … +14.90 … 131.56 92.56 Tr IL 0O% 34 100.44 – .12 … 0.71
AXA Assurance - 02476 235500 Bristol BS1 2NH Fixed Interest ‡ 209.50 … -2.00 … 289.48 206.76 Tr IL 2% 35 * 237.35 – .26 1.03 0.89
Sun Life - 0117 989 3000 UK Equity 2495.20 2626.60 -0.10 … Managed Fund ‡ … … +5.60 … Index Linked ‡ 219.70 … +1.50 … 127.28 82.01 Tr IL 0V% 36 91.84 – .03 … 0.77
AXA Equity
q y & Law - 02476 235400 Far East 755.10 794.80 +8.30 … Property Fund ‡ … … -0.20 … International ‡ 360.00 … +1.80 … 145.98 94.08 Tr IL 1V% 37 104.10 + .01 1.14 0.82
Life Assnce - AXA Equity & Law Series 6. 1% AMC Friends Prov (London & Manchester) Ass Ltd Fd Gilt Edged 1240.70 1306.00 -10.30 … Managed ‡ 281.20 … +0.90 … 128.38 78.25 Tr IL 0V% 39 88.86 + … … 0.88
Interest Fund 565.90 595.70 +0.20 … 139.39 84.60 Tr IL 0X% 40 95.90 + … … 0.89
Balced Ser 6 2611.90 2749.30 +2.60 … Capital Gth Acc ‡ … … +10.90 … PRUDENTIAL LIFE FUNDS Nth American ‡ 410.50 … +1.60 … 131.56 75.20 Tr IL 0V% 41 86.97 + .02 … 0.91
Distribution Ser 6 92.60 97.50 -0.30 … Flexible Acc ‡ … … +11.80 … Intl Equity 2123.90 2235.70 +22.40 … 01786 448844 Property ‡ 257.20 … +0.20 … 144.27 82.66 Tr IL 0X% 42 94.67 + .04 0.66 0.93
Europe Ser 6 2104.30 2215.10 -2.50 … Flexible Cap ‡ … … +1.90 … Managed Fd 1231.70 1296.50 -3.00 … PO Box 14962,, Craigforth,
g , Stirling,
g, FK9 4ZD Stock Exchange ‡ 367.20 … +2.60 … 132.20 72.26 Tr IL 0V% 44 83.61 + … … 1.00
North American 812.00 854.70 +6.20 … Others 133.61 70.25 Tr IL 0V% 46 81.87 + .12 … 1.02
Higher Inc Ser 6 4994.60 5257.50 -34.50 … Inv Trust Acc ‡ … … -3.40 … 153.32 80.78 Tr IL 0O% 47 94.26 + .14 0.81 1.02
Property Ser 6 1561.50 1643.70 +0.60 … Inv Trust Cap ‡ … … -1.20 … Property 1414.00 1488.40 +0.30 …
UK Equity 1111.70 1170.20 +4.20 … BonusBond 255.90 269.40 -0.10 … SUN LIFE OF CANADA 135.46 66.79 Tr IL 0V% 48 80.59 + .20 … 1.00
UK Equities Ser 6 4100.10 4315.90 -9.10 … Moneymaker Acc ‡ … … +3.00 … Cap Gteed Bd 390.40 410.90 +1.20 … Basingview,
g , Basingstoke,
g , Hants RG21 2DZ 148.99 72.64 Tr IL 0K% 50 88.32 + .20 … 1.00
Prud Inher Bd (Cap) ‡ … … -1.40 … Dealing: 01256 841414 143.40 65.69 Tr IL 0N% 52 81.91 + .22 … 0.97
MGM ASSURANCE 188.02 88.77 Tr IL 1N% 55 108.75 + .30 1.26 0.94
Life Funds - Sun Life (inc Birmingham Midshires)& AXA Assurance 1% AMC GUARDIAN Prud Inher Bd (Inc) ‡ … … +0.60 … Equity Account 7586.40 7586.40 +10.00 … 144.50 60.50 Tr IL 0V% 56 77.58 + .29 … 0.90
01253 733151 MGM House,, Heene Road,, Worthing g 146.16 60.14 Tr IL 0V% 58 77.04 + .23 … 0.90
BN11 2DY 01903 836000 Equity Fund Acc 2856.60 3006.90 +3.50 …
Cash Acc 475.60 500.60 -0.10 … Ballam Rd, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire FY8 4JZ 163.10 64.93 Tr IL 0W% 62 84.56 + .32 … 0.84
Scottish Amicable Life Fds (First Series) Equity II 6617.70 6966.00 +7.00 … 159.32 55.87 Tr IL 0V% 65 76.66 + .30 … 0.77
Deffrd Dist 695.70 732.30 -2.50 … Deposit 114.48 120.50 -0.08 …
Deposit 442.30 465.60 +0.30 … Cash 374.60 394.30 +0.20 … Fixed Int Fd Acc 721.90 759.80 -4.90 … 165.07 54.65 Tr IL 0V% 68 76.42 + .40 … 0.75
Distribution Fund 338.10 355.90 -1.20 … Deposit Acc 376.58 396.40 +0.24 … 183.99 55.40 Tr IL 0V% 73 80.57 + .49 … 0.57
Equity Life 4704.50 4952.10 +10.10 … Equity 2527.10 2660.10 +0.70 … Growth Acc 9005.10 9005.10 +11.90 …
Equity Acc 5996.10 6311.70 -13.30 … Fixed Interest 387.54 407.93 -3.32 …
European 714.70 752.30 +8.20 … Indx-Lnkd Scs Acc 522.50 550.00 +0.10 …
European 993.80 1046.10 -1.10 …
Fixed Interest 1598.70 1682.80 -7.60 … Fixed Interest Acc 1099.63 1157.51 -6.60 … Fixed Interest 837.20 881.30 -12.60 …
Managed Account ‡ … … +16.90 … Longs (Over 15 years)
Far Eastern Acc 2260.00 2378.90 +6.50 … Managed 483.36 508.80 -9.19 … Index-Linked 543.50 572.10 -3.00 … 137.37 63.35 Tr 0V% 51 79.06 + .24 … 0.99
Index Linked 604.00 635.80 -2.80 … International 1996.40 2101.40 +10.80 … Managed IV 3880.60 4084.80 +14.30 …
Fixed Int Acc 894.70 941.80 -10.70 … Managed Acc 1564.97 1647.34 +6.10 … 78.69 44.40 Tr 1N% 51 48.65 – .04 … 4.48
Inter Life 2856.10 3006.40 +32.60 … Managed 2018.90 2125.10 +3.60 … Mngd Fund Acc 1701.80 1791.30 +6.60 … 132.80 82.51 Tr 3O% 52 87.87 – .06 … 4.50
Global Eqty Acc 2657.30 2797.20 +11.40 … Property 250.17 263.34 -0.42 …
Managed Life 2742.30 2886.70 +7.60 … Property 1077.00 1133.70 +0.10 … Money Fund Acc 342.40 360.40 +0.10 … 83.95 46.78 Tr 1K% 53 51.10 – .04 … 4.47
Japan Acc 382.60 402.80 +3.20 … Property Acc 824.14 867.52 -0.63 … 86.73 48.25 Tr 1X% 54 52.57 – .02 … 4.44
North American 1467.60 1544.80 +16.80 … Pens Equity 1873.70 1972.30 +2.90 …
Managed Acc 3201.40 3369.90 +3.10 … 148.14 90.79 Tr 4N% 55 96.51 – .08 4.40 4.45
Pacific 886.00 932.60 +10.10 … Pens Fixed Int 927.80 976.60 -6.30 …
North Amer Acc 3190.70 3358.60 +8.90 … The M & G Series 89.85 49.39 Tr 1O% 57 53.84 – .08 … 4.36
Prop Life 1041.90 1096.70 +2.90 … NAT WEST LIFE ASSCE LTD Pens Guarantee 1530.60 1611.10 +1.40 … 147.23 87.32 Tr 4% 60 93.19 – .16 … 4.37
Pacific Acc 1676.40 1764.60 +0.50 …
PO Box 886, Trinity Quay, Bristol BS99 5LJ Amer Bond Acc 1351.10 1418.80 -21.40 … Pens Indx-Lnkd 664.60 699.50 +0.10 … 57.80 26.21 Tr 0K% 61 29.92 + … … 4.19
Property Acc 1191.90 1254.60 +0.50 … 111.19 60.88 Tr 2K% 65 65.39 + .01 … 4.28
HALIFAX LIFE LTD Growth Mgd Pens 574.02 604.23 +3.24 … Deposit Bond Acc ‡ … … +0.40 … Pens Intl 1342.40 1413.00 +15.70 …
PO Box 285,, York YO1 1YB 01904 611110 Pens Mngd Acct 4440.40 4674.10 +18.20 … 140.44 79.01 Tr 3K% 68 84.41 + .04 … 4.28
Equity Bond Acc 5174.20 5433.00 +1.40 … 86.15 42.99 Tr 1X% 71 47.50 + .07 … 4.15
BARCLAYS LIFE ASSURANCE CO LTD Life Funds Euro Smlr Cos 209.30 219.90 -21.90 … Pens Money 440.40 463.50 +0.20 … 71.08 32.96 Tr 1V% 73 37.19 + .07 … 4.07
0845 603 5000 NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE Pens Property 1819.60 1915.30 +0.90 … 103.74 85.32 Tr 3O% 53 87.45 – .05 … 4.51
Balanced 100.01 105.28 +0.30 … SOCIETY - Ex NUAM Funds European Bd Acc 2136.80 2243.70 -28.10 …
Level 12, 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP Deposit 36.08 37.98 … … Extra Yld Bd Acc 4341.10 4558.30 -7.20 … Pers Pens Acct ‡ … … +39.30 … 134.92 98.36 Tr 4O% 38 102.30 + … 4.64 4.54
PO Box 140,, Norwich NR3 1PP Prop Fund Acc 1415.60 1490.10 +0.50 … 84.53 58.05 Tr 1V% 39 61.99 – .04 … 4.55
500 Accum 1474.79 1552.41 -3.83 … Foundation 103.56 109.01 +0.28 … 01603 622200 Gbl Basics Bd Acc 1161.30 1219.40 +16.90 … 128.07 92.08 Tr 4N% 39 96.57 – .06 4.40 4.55
America Acc 2877.89 3029.36 +7.98 … Opportunity 121.23 127.61 +0.84 … Gilt Bond Acc ‡ … … -13.70 … 129.21 91.30 Tr 4N% 40 96.33 – .06 … 4.56
Comb Inc Acc 2719.62 2862.76 -6.55 … Deposit Fund 616.18 648.61 +0.38 … High Yield Bond 442.10 464.30 -1.00 … TESCO PERSONAL FINANCIAL LIFE LTD 83.80 54.72 Tr 1N% 41 59.40 – .05 … 4.53
Equity Acc 3943.18 4150.71 -10.13 … Eqity Fund 16337.08 17196.92 +35.51 … Index-Lnkd Gt Bd 375.60 394.40 -6.10 … 0845 845 5555 115.33 76.78 Tr 3N% 44 82.54 – .15 … 4.57
Pension Funds 135.11 93.79 Tr 4K% 42 99.30 – .08 4.53 4.55
Far East Gwth 1297.40 1365.68 +12.54 … Fixed Int Fd 1552.90 1634.63 -7.47 … International Bd 5984.70 6284.00 +3.00 … PO Box 23042, Edinburgh EH3 8YG
Balanced S2 102.47 107.86 +0.34 … Higher Inc Plus 218.95 230.47 -0.27 … 120.03 79.61 Tr 3K% 45 85.40 – .14 … 4.57
Gilt 2 Init 200.48 211.03 -2.70 … Japan Bond Acc 512.20 537.90 +2.20 … Balanced Growth 292.30 292.30 +1.70 … 135.24 89.35 Tr 4N% 46 95.52 – .10 4.45 4.56
Gilt Edged Acc 818.17 861.23 -10.45 … Deposit S2 41.68 43.87 … … Intl Fund 1313.53 1382.66 +5.51 … Japan Sm Cos Acc 235.80 247.70 -3.80 … 74.22 43.93 Tr 0Y% 46 48.59 – .06 … 4.53
Foundation S2 103.49 108.94 +0.30 … Managed Fund 6415.93 6753.61 +9.06 … Intl Growth 450.20 450.20 +3.50 … 84.68 51.06 Tr 1K% 47 55.79 – .04 … 4.54
Inter 2 Init 491.53 517.40 +0.71 … Managed Bond Acc 3660.80 3843.90 +6.70 … UK Growth 283.30 283.30 -0.40 …
Opportunity S2 121.60 128.00 +1.00 … Property Fd 2424.64 2552.25 +1.19 … Prop Bond Acc 1507.80 1583.30 +0.10 … 89.57 53.78 Tr 1O% 49 58.31 – .05 … 4.51
International Acc 2004.58 2110.09 +4.23 … 139.18 89.75 Tr 4N% 49 95.53 – .12 4.45 4.54
Japan Acc 472.22 497.08 -0.87 … Rec Bond Acc ‡ … … -8.40 … 66.37 35.82 Tr 0X% 50 39.76 – .04 … 4.46
INVESCO FUNDS MGMT LTD Formerly Commercial Union S East Asia Bd Acc 1300.20 1365.30 -20.40 … WINDSOR LIFE ASSUR CO LTD
Managed 2 Init 552.70 581.79 -1.70 … 01952 292929
Managed Acc 2246.42 2364.65 -5.41 … Alban Gate,, 14th Flr,, 125 London Wall,, Lond
EC2Y 5AS 020 7710 4567 Cash 311.70 328.20 +0.10 … Windsor House,, Telford,, Shropshire
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Managed Alpha 1685.98 1774.72 -4.38 … PRUDENTIAL PENSION FUNDS 103.82 97.17 Tr 4 V% 27 97.17 – .06 … 4.99
Formerly GT Global Fund Mgmt Ltd Fxd Int 490.80 516.70 -2.40 … Formerly y AEtna 98.68 85.65 Tr 1N% 27 87.32 – .07 … 4.69
Money Acc 436.63 459.61 +0.29 … Index-Lnkd 510.90 537.80 +0.40 … Scottish Amicable Non Series A 1982 Series 113.40 98.22 Tr 4N% 27 98.22 – .07 4.33 4.70
Prop 2 Init 217.41 228.85 +0.04 … Plan Far East 554.30 583.40 … … Int Equity 1446.90 1523.00 +11.80 … 92.68 79.15 Tr 0V% 28 81.42 – .07 … 4.64
Property Acc 881.76 928.17 +0.76 … Plan Wwide 924.50 973.20 -0.10 … 100% Safeguard 155.80 164.00 … … Cash Deposit 333.40 351.00 +0.20 … 100.63 84.72 Tr 1X% 28 86.23 – .10 … 4.56
Managed 1464.40 1541.50 +6.70 … 95% Safeguard 171.90 180.90 +1.80 … Far East Equity 1726.40 1817.30 +23.60 …
UK Growth Acc 1245.12 1310.65 -3.20 … Property 822.60 865.90 +0.40 … 94.88 84.28 Tr 0W% 26 86.17 – .04 … 4.91
Univ Tech Acc 875.01 921.07 +1.84 … LEGAL & GENERAL INVESTMENT MGMT Fixed 640.30 674.00 -3.10 … 99.70 89.28 Tr 1K% 26 90.67 – .05 … 4.78
UK Equity 1975.90 2079.90 +4.10 … Index-Linked Fd 610.10 642.20 +0.20 … 126.68 106.60 Tr 6% 28 106.60 – .14 5.63 4.62
0203 1243000 Var Ann (5) ‡ … … -0.20 … SAVE & PROSPER INSURANCE AND PENSIONS 92.99 77.61 Tr 0K% 29 79.85 – .10 … 4.61
One Coleman Street, EC2R 5AA St James's House,, 27-43 Eastern Rd,, Romford Managed 1501.20 1580.20 +4.20 … 95.06 78.21 Tr 0Y% 29 80.42 – .11 … 4.45
& AXA Assurance 1% AM Var Ann Acc (5) ‡ … … -5.00 … N Amer Equity 2418.40 2545.70 +29.80 …
B Soc Lnkd Init 136.20 143.40 … … RM1 3NH 90.09 72.39 Tr 0W% 30 74.93 – .14 … 4.41
Equity 2 Init 964.24 1014.99 -3.13 … Customer Helpline: 0845 3000144 Property 487.70 513.30 +0.50 … 124.13 101.89 Tr 4O% 30 102.28 – .20 4.64 4.39
Brit Opps Int 221.20 232.80 -3.70 … Formerly General Accident 87.42 69.25 Tr 0N% 31 72.01 – .10 … 4.39
British Opp 818.80 861.90 +0.10 … Special Opp 2068.10 2176.90 +10.40 …
Bal Inv Fund 353.00 371.60 -0.20 … 92.63 73.06 Tr 1% 32 75.91 – .10 … 4.39
Building Soc Linked 283.40 298.30 … … American 1534.10 1614.90 +19.70 … UK Equity 1643.10 1729.60 +3.80 … 122.11 98.13 Tr 4N% 32 99.44 – .14 4.27 4.33
CANADA LIFE Deposit Fund (2) 650.80 685.10 +0.40 …
01707 651122 Cash 444.00 467.30 +0.20 … Cash Deposit 264.20 278.10 +0.10 … Gilt Fund 1352.20 1423.40 -6.40 … 101.14 90.82 Tr 4 V% 27 91.06 – .10 … 4.40
Conv Life 431.60 454.20 … … Formerly AEGON Life 89.47 68.57 Tr 0Y% 33 71.41 – .07 … 4.41
2-6 High Street, Potters Bar, Herts EN6 5BA Cash Initial 119.10 125.40 -0.30 … Global Equity Fd 1655.70 1742.80 +11.00 … 126.68 98.89 Tr 4K% 34 100.63 – .08 4.47 4.43
Equity 4767.00 5017.90 -21.50 … European 1162.50 1223.70 -5.00 … Property Fund (46) 282.70 297.60 +0.10 … Balanced 2093.30 2215.10 +5.80 … 82.71 61.24 Tr 0X% 35 64.29 – .03 … 4.48
Cash 320.20 337.00 -0.10 … Fixed Int 412.20 433.90 -2.00 … 125.01 94.91 Tr 4N% 36 97.77 – .06 4.35 4.48
CLife Euro Mgd 1684.00 1772.00 -44.00 … Equity Initial 1073.10 1129.60 -14.50 … Fixed Interest 593.80 628.40 -2.90 …
Fixed Initial 463.80 488.20 +3.70 … Index-Linked 494.50 520.50 -1.80 … 94.18 67.54 Tr 1O% 37 71.05 + .01 … 4.53
CLife Intl Fd 1662.00 1749.00 -16.00 … SCOTTISH LIFE INVESTMENTS International 2476.50 2620.70 +24.40 … 104.43 … Tr 3O% 38 91.36 + .02 … 4.57
Fixed Interest 1312.10 1381.10 -5.60 … International 905.70 953.40 +8.40 … Money 402.10 425.50 +0.30 …
Deposit Fund 525.30 552.90 +0.20 … Japan 430.60 453.30 +7.40 … 0131 225 2211
Equity 1174.00 1235.00 -17.00 … Index Linked Gilt 618.70 651.30 +0.30 …
Japan Smllr Cos 440.50 463.70 +7.50 … 19 St Andrews Square, Edinburgh EH2 1YE Property 1228.40 1299.90 +1.00 … Shorts (under 5 years)
Equity Fund 3087.00 3249.00 -10.00 … Index Lkd 270.30 284.50 +0.60 … UK Equity 2718.60 2876.80 +6.30 … 101.22 93.15 Tr 2% 25 93.68 – .03 … 5.05
International 2464.00 2593.70 +24.90 … Managed 738.70 777.60 +0.90 … American 1814.20 1909.70 +2.80 … 100.88 96.11 Tr 3K% 25 96.13 – .02 … 5.28
European 1926.00 2027.00 -1.00 … Pacific Fund 1010.60 1063.80 +6.00 … Deposit 315.60 332.30 +0.10 … 95.25 86.33 Tr 0V% 26 88.57 – .05 … 4.83
Fixed Interest 910.60 958.50 -5.20 … Intl Initial 537.00 565.30 -6.40 … Formerly Crown
Life Property 1411.30 1485.60 +0.80 … Property 597.20 628.60 +0.20 … European 2883.40 3035.20 -10.50 … 97.47 90.15 Tr 0X% 25 92.03 – .01 … 4.92
Gilt & Fxd Int 631.20 664.40 +5.30 … UK Equity 1131.20 1190.70 +2.30 … Fixed Interest 651.60 686.00 -1.10 … Life Equity Acc 4145.20 4363.40 +9.70 … 108.54 99.82 Tr 5% 25 99.89 – .01 5.01 5.06
Gilt Edged Fd 1114.00 1172.00 -7.00 … Managed 3092.80 3255.50 +4.00 … 96.42 90.04 Tr 0N% 25 92.51 + … … 5.14
Managed Initial 770.70 811.30 -3.70 … Unitised Profit 413.90 435.70 +0.20 … Global Mgd 1477.50 1555.30 +0.90 … Life Fxd Int Acc 748.10 787.40 -3.60 … 102.28 96.82 Tr 2O% 24 97.25 + … … 5.10
International 2708.00 2850.00 +25.00 … Index Linked 673.10 708.60 +3.40 … Life High Inc Acc 3391.50 3570.00 +9.90 … 99.66 97.34 Tr 0O% 23 99.66 + .03 … 4.27
Intl Mgd 3646.00 3837.00 +35.00 … Property Initial 349.80 368.20 -0.60 …
Formerly Provident Mutual Managed 1337.50 1408.00 -1.60 … Life Intl Acc 3007.20 3165.50 +29.80 … 100.59 98.04 Tr 2N% 23 99.47 + .02 … 4.65
Investment Fd 1466.00 1539.00 -25.00 … Pacific 1172.40 1234.20 +6.60 … Life Inv Tst Acc 3668.20 3861.20 +10.20 … 97.53 94.34 Tr 0V% 24 97.10 + .03 … 4.95
Japanese 397.30 418.20 +5.90 … LINCOLN FINANCIAL GROUP Deposit Initial 87.00 91.60 … … 98.91 94.79 Tr 1% 24 96.71 + .02 … 5.06
Barnett Way, y, Barnwood,, Gloucester GL4 3RZ Pen Worldwide 521.00 548.50 +1.60 … Life Managed Acc 2649.80 2789.30 +7.20 …
Managed 1291.00 1358.00 -9.00 … Deposit Ord 325.50 342.60 +0.20 … Property 930.60 979.60 +0.60 … Life Money Acc 480.50 505.80 +0.30 …
Managed Fund 2735.00 2878.00 +6.00 … 01452 371371 For further p prices 0800 7315139 Equity Init 777.90 818.80 +1.20 … * maturities as having a 3-month indexation lag and
Life UK Equity 1715.20 1805.50 -0.10 … Life Property Acc 719.90 757.80 +0.60 …
ML Intl Fxd Int 697.00 733.60 -0.30 … Equity Ord 2945.30 3100.40 -6.00 … Worldwide 452.40 476.30 +0.70 … which trade on a real clean price basis, excluding
Money 539.50 567.80 +0.20 … Aggressive Mgd 4 719.00 756.80 -2.20 … Fixed Int Init 166.80 175.50 -0.90 … inflation adjustment charge
Multiple Inv 3469.00 3651.00 +7.00 … Balanced Mgd 3 1642.00 1728.40 +5.90 … Fixed Int Ord 622.40 655.20 -3.10 … Life Funds
North Amer 2420.00 2547.00 +28.00 … Cautious Mgd 2 490.90 516.70 -1.90 … I-Linked Gilt Init 182.60 192.20 +0.10 … SCOTTISH MUTUAL ASSURANCE Bear 63.34 66.67 -0.06 … Data as shown is
Property 1020.00 1073.00 +2.00 … European 831.20 874.90 +1.00 … I-Linked Gilt Ord 624.20 657.00 +0.60 … 0141 248 6321 Bull 76.32 80.33 +0.21 …
301 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5HN for information
Property Fund 1865.00 1963.00 -1.00 … Far Eastern 1727.10 1817.90 +20.20 … Managed Initial 464.60 489.10 +1.80 … Deposit 22.07 23.23 +0.01 …
UK Equity 4712.00 4960.00 -19.00 … Framlington 215.60 227.00 +0.40 … Managed Ord 1742.20 1833.90 +2.30 … Cash Fund 287.00 302.10 +0.20 … Gilt Edged 35.21 37.07 -0.18 … purposes only. No offer is made by
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Weather
Today Showery rain and thunderstorms in the west, largely dry and bright in the east. Max 26C (79F), min 9C (48F) Weather Eye
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Aberdeen
An unsettled day across the British
Aberporth 24 PC 0.0 12.0
Isles with outbreaks of thundery rain At 17:00 on Friday there were no flood 22
Anglesey 25 PC 0.0 14.0 spreading northwards.
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naturalresources.wales/flooding and 25 77 there is a good view. This
Bournemouth 23 S 0.0 14.6 21 NORTH haze comes from the
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Bridlington SEA 15 59 smoke of intense wildfires
Bristol 25 S 0.0 11.9
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10 50
that have raged in Canada, in what
Cardiff 24 S 0.0 8.8
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16 Glasgow 5 41
has been the country’s worst wildfire
Edinburgh 22 S 0.0 16.2 0 32
Eskdalemuir 24 PC 0.0 15.1
20 8 -5 23 season on record. Thick smoke from
Glasgow 25 S 0.0 15.5
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-10 14 the fires has turned skies over much
Hereford
Herstmonceux
23
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9.0 ATLANTIC Londonderry -15 5 of Canada an apocalyptic orange,
Ipswich 23 S 0.0 14.7 OCEAN
Newcastle more like a scene from Mars, and
Carlisle
Isle of Man 19 PC 0.0 14.7
Monday Belfast also created severe air pollution.
23 S 0.0 ** 24
Isle of Wight
Jersey ** ** 0.0 14.3 Outbreaks of showery rain in northern 18 20 The fires were particularly severe
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Lerwick 14 PC 0.0 8.5
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tinderbox conditions that stoked up
Leuchars 19 S 0.0 16.4 ooo
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Galway IRISH 6
Lincoln 24 S 0.0 13.3
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of smoke into the US especially
Liverpool 25 S 0.0 ** SEA Sheffield
London 25 S 0.0 11.9 Dublin
LLlandudno
20 along the eastern coast and by
Lyneham 24 S 0.0 14.0 Wednesday the sky in New York had
Manchester
Margate
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Nottingham turned a lurid orange and the sun
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red in the worst recorded air quality
Newcastle 23 S 0.0 ** 13 19 there in two decades.
24 S 0.0 11.2
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Orkney 20 C 0.0 15.1 21
Cork
Birmingham Cambridge A plume of smoke also drifted
Oxford 25 S 0.0 ** 19
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Plymouth
Portland
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20
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was far thinner and less polluting.
Scilly, St Mary’s 18 C 5.6 **
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26 This weekend, a low-pressure system
Shoreham 25 S 0.0 13.5 Mostly cloudy across the far southeast
SEA Bristol London approaching Ireland and the UK
of England with some heavy and
25
Shrewsbury
Snowdonia
24
23
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0.0
0.2
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thundery rain. Sunny
Sunny
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from the Atlantic will help to sweep
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C 3 Plymouth Brighton too, but rain is in prospect for many
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20
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PC
0.0
0.0
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16.5
parts and will help to wash down any
Whitehaven 24 S 0.0 14.2 21
25
CHANNEL 8
pollution.
Wick 19 S 0.0 ** 5 This is not the first time that
Yeovilton 26 S 0.0 10.2
wildfires raging in Quebec have
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ttl d in Republic off Ireland
Ireland, N Irela
Ireland: Early winds. Maximum 24C (75F), minimum affected Britain. In May 1870,
The world western Britain with showery rain and showery rain will clear leaving a day 9C (48F). another unusually dry spring in
All readings local midday yesterday
scattered thunderstorms. Mostly dry in of sunny intervals and scattered London, SE Eng, Cen S Eng, Mids, Quebec set off intense forest and
Alicante
Amsterdam
28
25
S
S
Madeira
Madrid
24
30
PC
PC
24 eastern Britain with hazy sunshine. thunderstorms. Gentle southeasterly E Anglia, NW Eng, Channel Is: Hazy grass fires, and on May 22 and 23
Wales, SW Eng, Lake District, winds. Maximum 22C (72F), minimum spells of sunshine with the risk of an
Athens 27 PC Malaga 29 PC
Argyll, SW Scotland, Glasgow, IoM: 11C (52F). isolated shower. Light to gentle east or the skies over the British Isles
Auckland 11 R Mallorca 28 PC
A cloudy morning with spells of E Eng, Cen N Eng, NE Eng, Borders, southeasterly winds. Maximum turned a hazy pink colour for
Wednesday
Bahrain
Bangkok
40
33
S
PC
Malta
Melbourne
26
16
PC
PC Sunny spells with the risk of an
showery rain and possibly a few Edinburgh and Dundee,
Dundee Cen Highland,
Highland 26C (79F),
(79F) minimum 11C (52F)
(52F). several hours. The sun reddened and
Barbados 31 SH Mexico City 30 S isolated shower in eastern England. embedded thunderstorms. Brighter Aberdeen: A dry morning with hazy NW Scotland, Moray Firth, N Isles, in some places went through an
in the afternoon with the risk of a spells of sunshine. Through the NE Scotland: Hazy sunny periods with
Barcelona 25 S Miami 33 PC A bright morning
thunderstorm
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widely
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astonishing kaleidoscope of colours,
35 S 27 S
Beijing
Beirut 26 PC
Milan
Mombasa 28 B
afternoon.
southeasterly winds. Maximum cloud amounts will increase. Light Gentle southeasterly winds. Maximum including pink, blood red, purple,
Belgrade 18 R Montreal 25 B
Max 25C, minin
n 7C
7C
25C (77F), minimum 12C (54F). to moderate south or southeasterly 26C (79F), minimum 9C (48F). green, blue, yellow and bright silver
Berlin 18 B Moscow 26 S under a veil of smoke. The sun also
27 B 33 S
Bermuda
Bordeaux 27 S
Mumbai
Munich 23 SH
21 Tides Noon today grew so dim that some people
Brussels 25 S Nairobi 22 B Tidal predictions. reported looking at it safely and
Bucharest 28 S Naples 27 PC
20
Heights in metres 1008
00088
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008 seeing sunspots on its surface.
23 B New Orleans 32 B Today Ht Ht
Budapest
Buenos Aires 14 S New York 23 B 24 Aberdeen 01:28 3.9 13:47 3.9
LO
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Cairo 36 S Nice 26 PC Avonmouth 07:20 12.1 19:40 12.3 1000
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Calcutta 37 S Nicosia 28
28
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Belfast 11:31 3.3 23:49 3.4
HIGH
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GH
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of Bailieborough, Ireland, reported
8 B
Canberra
Cape Town 15 B
Oslo
Paris 27 S
Cardiff 07:11 11.2
05:53 5.0
19:29 11.4
18:12 5.1
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Devonport
Chicago 19 B Perth 19 PC
Dover 11:32 6.2 23:52 6.3 HIGH
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GH Magazine: “Groups of people gazed
Copenhagen 22
25
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PC
Prague 18
14
PC
C Thursday Dublin --:-- -- 12:00 3.8 heavenward, some of them
Corfu Reykjavik
Delhi 36 S Riga 27 S Sunny periods with the risk of a few Falmouth 05:23 4.7 17:41 4.8 LOW
LOW
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betraying by their looks evident
1008
100
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Dubai 39 S Rio de Janeiro 26 PC showers in Scotland, Wales, Ireland
and northern England.
Engnglan
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Greenock --:-- -- 12:50 3.2
LO
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1016
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Harwich --:-- -- 12:02 3.8
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18
28
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Rome
40
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Holyhead 10:38 5.2 22:59 5.3
HIGH
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Warm front them more or less emotions of
LO
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Florence 29 PC San Francisco 22 PC
Max 25C, min
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Hull 06:27 6.9 18:45 7.0 1016
0116
0016
16 LOW
OW
W Occluded front interest or astonishment.”
Frankfurt 26 S Santiago 18 S Leith 02:41 5.1 15:02 5.2 Trough
Geneva 26 PC São Paulo 17 B Liverpool 11:22 8.6 23:44 8.7
26 S 24 S 20
Gibraltar
Helsinki 28 S
Seoul
Seychelles 30 PC
London Bridge
Lowestoft
01:46 6.8
09:49 2.4
14:16 6.6
22:03 2.4
Synoptic situation Highs and lows
24hrs to 5pm yesterday
Hours of darkness
Aberdeen 22:36-03:41
Speak directly to one
Hong Kong 26 T Singapore 31 B A series of occlusions and
Honolulu 28
29
PC
B
St Petersburg 26
26
S
S
21
Milford Haven
Morecambe
06:23 6.3
11:33 8.6
18:44 6.4
23:55 8.7 troughs associated with an area Warmest: St. James’s Park,
Greater London, 28.0C
Belfast
Birmingham
22:32-04:16
22:02-04:14 of our forecasters on
Istanbul Stockholm Newhaven 11:25 6.1 23:40 6.3 of low pressure to the west of Coldest: Braemar, 3.0C Cardiff 22:02-04:25
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
29
15
S
S
Sydney
Tel Aviv
18
29
S
S
25
Newquay 05:15 6.4 17:36 6.5 Ireland will bring showery rain
and embedded thunderstorms
Wettest: St. Mary’s,
Isles of Scilly, 5.6mm
Exeter 21:59-04:30 09065 777675
Oban 06:01 3.6 18:08 3.6 Sunniest: Kinloss, 16.8hrs* Glasgow 22:34-04:00
Kuala Lumpur 32 PC Tenerife 25 PC to parts of western Britain
** ** 27 PC 23 Penzance 04:48 5.0 17:11 5.1 Liverpool 22:12-04:12 8am to 5pm daily (calls are charged
Kyiv Tokyo through the morning, turning
28 PC 19 B Portsmouth 11:44 4.3 23:59 4.5 Sun and moon London 21:50-04:12 at £1.55 plus network extras)
Lanzarote Vancouver brighter in the afternoon with For Greenwich Manchester 22:10-04:09
Las Palmas 27 PC Venice 25 S Shoreham 11:40 5.7 23:55 5.9 Sun rises: 04.42
The Times weather page Southampton 11:34 4.2 22:59 4.2
a scattering of thunderstorms. Newcastle 22:17-03:56
Lima 21 DU Vienna 23 PC Sun sets: 21.19
A dry day with hazy spells of Moon rises: 03.37 Norwich 21:50-04:00
Lisbon 30 S Warsaw 23 PC is provided by Swansea 06:29 8.7 18:48 8.8
sunshine across eastern areas Moon sets: 21.21 Penzance 22:04-04:41
Los Angeles 19 C Washington 26 PC Tees 03:49 5.1 16:06 5.1
Luxor 39 S Zurich 24 PC
of Britain. New Moon: June 18 Sheffield 22:06-04:06
Weymouth 06:57 1.8 19:15 2.0 weatherquest .co.uk
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Obituaries

Gordon McQueen
Imperious Scottish footballer who scored a famous header at Wembley
Walking out for Scotland at Wembley Liverpool’s John Toshack, or any other third round against Manchester City,
in 1977, Gordon McQueen turned to big and bruising centre forwards, but he had a fight with his team-mate David
England’s Mick Mills and said: “Can Toshack’s Liverpool team-mate Kevin Harvey. Disciplined by the manager, he
you smell the whisky, Millsy?” Keegan was another matter. He listed asked for a transfer. In February 1978,
The roar from the hordes of tartan- the England forward as his most diffi- he joined Manchester United for a fee
clad fans in the 100,000 crowd illustrat- cult opponent. “Keegan was so difficult of £500,000 — a British record at the
ed his point that England were hardly to pin down; he was so quick and alert.” time. In the eyes of Leeds fans, joining
enjoying home advantage. An impos- Revie left to become England man- their bitter rivals across the Pennines
ing 6ft 4in tall, with shoulder-length ager and was replaced by Brian Clough, was a betrayal but McQueen was unre-
blond hair, McQueen gave them an aft- who famously told the squad when he pentant, adding for good measure:
ernoon to remember when he rose ma- arrived that they should chuck their “Ninety-nine per cent of players want
jestically to power in a header from a trophies and medals in the rubbish bin to play for Manchester United and the
free kick. Scotland went on to secure a because they had won them by cheat- rest are liars.”
famous 2-1 victory against the “Auld ing. McQueen, however, was one of the Some claimed that the fee was too
Enemy”. “They reckon it was the big- few players who took a liking to “Old high for a defender too easily pulled out
gest travelling support in the history of Big Head”, who was sacked after 44 of position, but Manchester United’s
football,” McQueen recalled with pride. days following poor results and player manager Dave Sexton believed that
Always game for a laugh, McQueen unrest. “I was young and I didn’t mind McQueen would dovetail perfectly in
would re-enact his header on David Brian Clough at all; I enjoyed working central defence with Martin Buchan, a
Baddiel and Frank Skinner’s cult Nine- for him at the time.” fine reader of the game. McQueen was
ties show Fantasy Football League and He was in the minority, but became a deceptively quick and endeared himself
was also happy to oblige by breaking mainstay in the remodelled team under to the United faithful by marauding up
the crossbar in two to recreate the the more emollient Jimmy Armfield. the field in his lolloping style, somehow
scene when drunken Scotland support- The next season McQueen was voted managing to take the ball with him.
ers ran riot on to the Wembley turf to player of the year as Leeds reached the He flourished as United reached the
celebrate like an army of crazed Bay FA Cup final against Arsenal in 1979,
City Rollers fans. losing when Arsenal scored with virtu-
There were few more imperious ally the last kick of the game.
things on a football pitch in the Seven- The following season United finished
ties than McQueen leaping through the second in the First Division but the ar-
air to win and score headers, but he later rival of Ron Atkinson as manager in
paid a heavy price for this gift when his 1981 signalled a more difficult period for
vascular dementia diagnosis was attrib- McQueen. Atkinson disapproved of his
uted to years of heading footballs. forays up the field and criticised him in
Gordon McQueen was born in the front of his team-mates after a 3-0 de-
town of Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire, in feat at Southampton in 1983. Nonethe-
1952. His father, Tommy, was a goal- less, McQueen ended the season with
keeper for Hibernian and Accrington a winner’s medal when United beat
Stanley. Growing up 25 miles west of Brighton in the FA Cup final replay.
Glasgow there was only one leisure ac- By 1985 McQueen was suffering from
tivity. “Everywhere you turned there knee problems and had lost his place in
was a game going on,” McQueen re- the team. With the emergence of Paul
called. “My academy was the streets, McGrath, he knew his time was up. He
the back garden, and the park.” left the club in the summer of 1985 after
As a teenager, Gordon played as a 184 appearances and signed a contract
goalkeeper and then a forward but as a McQueen played 381 club matches with Seiko of Hong Kong. His time at the
gangling 15-year-old converted into a club was blighted by septicaemia, which

Ronnie Knight
centre half. He was already 13 stone final of the European Cup. Before every resulted in him spending most of his
when he signed for St Mirren at the age game, McQueen would speak to his wages on medical bills. He retired after
of 18. English clubs, including Bobby father on the phone, who would give playing 381 club matches as a profes-
Robson’s Ipswich Town, were soon cir- him the same piece of advice: “Keep sional and scoring 40 goals.
cling, but McQueen chose Don Revie’s your heid, laddie.” “I succeed most of McQueen had a short spell manag-
Leeds, signing for £30,000 in the sum- the time but must admit there’s been ing Airdrieonians in Scotland and later
mer of 1972. the occasional slip,” said McQueen settled in Middlesbrough, where in Career criminal and nightclub owner whose
With Jack Charlton nearing retire- with some understatement. 1994 he joined his old United team-
ment, Revie needed a “strong charac- One such occasion was his sending- mate Bryan Robson to serve as the Cockney charm seduced Barbara Windsor
ter” to replace him and decided that he off in the European Cup semi-final in club’s first team coach. He left the club
would tutor the raw, young Scot in the Barcelona in front of 100,000 fans. “A in 2001 after Steve McLaren took over “A bit of a rascal but a very sweet man,” stolen banknotes from the hold-up —
ways of Elland Road, which in other player called Clarez spat at me. They as manager and later worked as a pun- was Barbara Windsor’s generous view the cash he had taken with him to Spain
words meant “running through brick say you should count to ten if that hap- dit for Sky Sports. of her former husband Ronnie Knight. — but denied that he had been involved
walls” for the manager. McQueen felt pens so I did . . . and then knocked him He is survived by his wife, his daugh- To the police officers and judges who in the heist itself, for which his brothers
overawed but was soon made to feel at out.” Suspended from the final, he ter Hayley, a presenter for Sky Sports dealt with him, he was an unscrupulous Jimmy and Johnny had already been
home with so many fellow Scots in the missed out on the chance to play who campaigned to impose restrictions criminal who consorted with notorious sentenced.
dressing room, including Billy Bre- on heading footballs after her father’s gangsters including the Kray twins. The Crown accepted his plea of not
mner, Peter Lorimer and Joe Jordan. ‘They say you should diagnosis, his daughter Anna and son Knight placed himself somewhere in guilty to robbery but in sentencing,
“Even the English players were talking Eddie. Hayley said that during her the middle of these contrasting assess- Judge Gerald Gordon told him, “I do
in Scottish accents,” recalled McQueen count to ten, so I did and father’s cognitive deterioration he ments. “Call me a convicted receiver of not know what precise role you played
who was known for his laconic humour. stayed in touch with “old footie pals” by purloined goods, a baddie, a charmer,” but professional robbers are not going
By the start of the 1973-74 season then I knocked him out’ doing quizzes on Zoom. he said. “But I only ever robbed the rich to hand over the sort of sums you got
McQueen was a first-team regular McQueen scored five goals in 30 ap- and I never hurt anyone.” unless the person to whom they give it
alongside Norman Hunter in the centre against his boyhood hero Franz Beck- pearances for his country. He was a reg- After going on the run in 1984 with a is very deeply involved himself.”
of Leeds’ defence. Knowing that his age- enbauer of Bayern Munich. Leeds were ular in the Scotland team by the time suitcase full of stolen cash, he spent a He served three years before he was
ing team would soon be broken up, Rev- desperately unlucky (some would say they qualified for the 1978 World Cup in decade on the Costa del Sol before re- released on parole. He spent his final
ie pushed them relentlessly that season. cheated) to lose 2-0. Argentina with arguably their best ever turning to Britain with the assistance of years suffering from Parkinson’s
Playing notably more attractive foot- When McQueen married Yvonne team, but McQueen injured knee liga- a tabloid newspaper. He believed that disease and living in a one-bedroom flat
ball, Leeds were not beaten in the league Crowther at Leeds register office in 1977, ments before the tournament and was he would never have to stand trial but in a sheltered housing complex in
until the 30th match of the season his team-mate and close friend Joe Jor- devastated to miss out. His header had been poorly advised. Arrested on Cambridge, where he had briefly been
against Stoke City and won the title in dan was best man. When Jordan joined against England at Wembley in 1977 his arrival at Luton airport, he was evacuated as a boy during the Second
what became known as the “charge of Manchester United in January 1978, was no little consolation. subsequently sentenced at the Old World War.
the light brigade”. McQueen wanted to join him so that Bailey to seven years for his part in the His marriage to Windsor effectively
By then McQueen was streetwise to they could recreate their double act that Gordon McQueen, footballer, was theft of £6 million from the headquar- ended when he went on the run and she
the threats of straying elbows and studs terrorised defences at free kicks. born on June 26, 1952. He died of ters of Security Express in east London divorced him in 1985. She had earlier
in his achilles tendons. He felt no By then things were turning sour for complications from dementia on June 15, in 1983. stood by him throughout another trial
qualms about dealing with the likes of McQueen at Leeds. In the 1978 FA Cup 2023, aged 70 Knight admitted handling £314,813 in at the Old Bailey in 1980 — for the
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Honours List 2023
Pages 74-80

Olga Kennard
Pioneering crystallographer who founded the
renowned Cambridge Structural Database
“Science is a lot of patient, hard work,
but very exciting when you make a new
discovery and suddenly find out a new
principle or gain a new understanding
of how something works.” So wrote Ol-
ga Kennard, the Hungarian crystallog-
rapher, in her autobiography.
The Cambridge Structural Database,
which she launched in 1965, was to be-
come renowned. The database of small
molecule crystal structures, one of the
first scientific repositories in the world,
Knight and Windsor with the gangster Reggie Kray at a film premiere in 1969 is today regarded as an essential re-
source for researchers, particularly
deed had been done he opened a bottle write — and he and his brothers were those working on the development of
of champagne. “He killed my little soon in trouble with the law. “It’s the new drugs. In 2019, it logged its mil-
brother so he had to go. My only regret way you’re brought up,” he said when lionth crystal structure.
was I didn’t do it myself,” he told the asked why he turned to crime. “You Kennard’s interest in crystallogra-
Sunday Mirror in 1999. want to be as good as other people phy, which is concerned with determin-
Windsor was shocked by the revela- around you, so you start earning money ing the structure of complex molecules
tion. “I picked up his book in Water- but not the way you should.” using x-rays, began in her early twen-
stone’s and I just couldn’t believe it,” she He briefly had a legitimate job as a ties. In 1987, her contribution to this Kennard’s family fled Hungary in 1939
said. Yet if she had not believed he was scaffolder but there was more profit in field of science led to her becoming one
capable of murder, she cannot have dealing in stolen goods, for which he of the first female fellows of the Royal university refused to award degrees to
been unaware that he was a villain, served a prison sentence in 1961. He Society. She is one of just five female women. Four years later, when the in-
loveable or otherwise. moved on to running pool halls, escort structural biologists whose portraits stitution changed its rules, she collect-
When she married him he had agencies and peep shows and took over hang in the National Portrait Gallery’s ed her MA.
already served a 15-month prison sen- two clubs, the A&R on Charing Cross permanent collection. Upon finishing her studies, Olga ap-
tence for receiving stolen goods and Road and Tin Pan Alley in Soho, which Kennard’s breakthrough came when proached the university’s Cavendish
shortly after their wedding she was attracted celebrities and criminals in she and a small team of researchers Laboratory to see if she could work as a
photographed with her husband and equal measure. Members of the Rolling solved the structure of ATP (adenosine research assistant. She was hired by
Reggie Kray in a Soho nightclub. Stones and a youthful Freddie Mercury triphosphate), an organic compound Max Perutz, a chemist who went on to
During his trial for murder, Windsor that provides energy for many bodily win a Nobel prize in 1962.
discovered that her husband was He confessed his part in functions, including blood circulation After two years, she moved back to
having an affair with Susan Haycock, a and muscle contraction. She also con- London, where she met her first hus-
barmaid 16 years his junior. Haycock the killing, knowing he ducted pioneering research into both band, David Kennard, a doctor. They
fled to Spain with Knight and they mar- antibiotics and steroids, shedding light married in the summer of 1948 and had
ried there in 1987. could not face trial again on their mechanisms of action. two daughters, Susie and Julia, who
The wedding was attended by several Born Olga Weisz in Budapest in 1924 survive her. The couple divorced in 1961
gangsters on Scotland Yard’s wanted were among the regulars; so too were to Cato, an antiques dealer, and Joir, a and in 1993 she married the pharmacol-
list and was watched by two plain- the Krays, the Richardsons and “Mad” merchant banker, she grew up in an Or- ogist Sir Arnold Burgen, who prede-
clothes detectives from the Flying Frankie Fraser. thodox Jewish home. In 1939, aged 15, ceased her last year.
Squad. With characteristic arrogance, At one point Reggie Kray asked Olga fled Budapest with her mother Shortly after her first marriage, she
Knight sent them a bottle of Knight to join a gang of heavies sent “to and two younger siblings, George and joined the scientific staff of the Medical
champagne to make their vigil more put the frighteners on a north London Judith, two weeks before the outbreak Research Council, initially working at
convivial. mob who were getting stroppy” and of war on September 1. Her father, con- its Institute of Ophthalmology, where
Knight with Barbara Windsor in one of On his release from prison he was in armed him with a sawn-off shotgun. scious of rising antisemitism, had fled she studied with Hamilton Hartridge, a
his nightclubs in 1970 and, below a relationship for several years with When he was charged with handling to the UK in 1938 and arranged for the distinguished British eye physiologist
right, as a fugitive in Spain in 1994 Diane Lumley, a mother of three who stolen money from the Security Ex- rest of the family to follow. “We left who was working on the mechanism of
was 29 years his junior. However, it was press robbery, his lawyer told him that everything behind, our beautiful flat, colour vision.
murder six years earlier of Alfredo Susan who cared for him dur- ret
if he had tax returns from his my father’s bank and of course all our In the early 1950s, she moved to the
“Italian Tony” Zomparelli, an ss.
ing his final illness. c
clubs they could seek to friends,” she later recalled. MRC’s National Institute of Medical
underworld figure who in 1970 had He is survived by two th his unex-
claim that Olga was educated at Hove County Research where she met her “most im-
stabbed to death Knight’s younger children, Gary and plained riches had School for Girls in Brighton. She knew portant mentor” — Professor JD Ber-
brother, David, during a gangland fight Lorraine, from his been gained legiti- very little English, which meant that nal, an Irish scientist who was known to
in which Ronnie had also been in- first marriage to o mat
mately. Needless she excelled at maths and science, his students as the “sage”. He encour-
volved. At his trial in 1970, Zomparelli June Billingham,, s there were
to say which didn’t require good language aged her to start collating crystallo-
claimed self-defence and was convicted to whom he was no such records. skills. “I suppose this was one of the rea- graphic data. She remained adamant
of manslaughter, only to be shot dead still married “I don’t believe sons why I became a scientist,” she said. that her gender never impacted her
by hitmen in a Soho amusement arcade when he met in taxes,” he Olga stayed in Brighton until the ability to progress in her career. Friends
on his release from prison in 1974. Windsor in 1957. sa
said. spring of 1940, when foreigners were described her as “resilient”.
Six years later Knight was arrested Introduced to When he fled ordered to leave the coast for fear of a In 1962 she became director of the
for the murder after one of the hitmen, Windsor by a to Spain he
to German invasion and the family Cambridge Crystallographic Data
George Bradshaw, claimed that Knight mutual friend in n alre
already had a moved to London. “My parents used to Centre, which is now a self-funding
had paid him £1,000 to carry out the the film industry, y, seco
second home get very angry with me because I re- charity. “In particular, her work ex-
killing. Knight denied involvement and ant
there was an instant there, owned joint-
there, fused to go to the shelter until I finished tended our understanding of alter-
Windsor stoutly defended him and attraction and they ly with
ly wit Windsor. my homework. Somehow the raids native structures of DNA,” the Royal
gave evidence. When he was acquitted married in 1964. In his While evading
While ev justice never seemed quite real to me although Society said.
he turned to the jury and said, “Thank memoir he described ibed thea- he added a restaurant, a
he I could see parts of London burning in She stayed in the chemistry depart-
you gentlemen. Merry Christmas. You trical carry-ons inn the bedroom, s
nightclub and several other the distance, and bomb damage in ment until her retirement in 1997, when
have certainly made mine.” with Windsor dressed d as a ffairy
i god- d ti to
properties t his
hi Spanish
S i h portfolio. many streets,” she said of the Blitz. she was 73, and published more than
However, in his 1998 book Memoirs mother “in lacy suspenders, waving her On his release from prison in 1998 he It wasn’t long before Olga’s parents 200 scientific papers during her tenure,
and Confessions, written from tapes he magic wand” and commanding “Rise claimed to be a reformed character but decided to move once again. They set- along with several books.
made in prison, he admitted that he had again, Sir Knighty”. two years later was fined £200 for steal- tled in Evesham, Worcestershire, in “I think I have been very fortunate in
hired another hitman, Nicky Gerard, Ronald Knight was born in 1934 in ing items worth £39.74 from a Waitrose January 1941. Olga attended Prince my family, my work, and all that hap-
who was himself later murdered, to the slums of Hoxton, east London, to store. “He can’t help it,” said Lumley, his Henry’s Grammar School, and was sub- pened to me,” she reflected in old age.
carry out the killing in payback for the law-abiding parents, James and Nellie. then partner. “He doesn’t mean to hurt sequently offered a place at Newnham
murder of his brother. His early years were characterised by anybody but if he can get away with it, College, Cambridge, to study natural Olga Kennard OBE, crystallographer, was
The confession was made safe in the poverty, violence and a childhood ill- he will.” sciences. The summer before starting born on March 23, 1924. She died on
knowledge that under the double jeop- ness that confined him to hospital for there, she asked her father to take her March 1, 2023, aged 98
ardy rule he could not be tried a second several years. When he left school he Ronnie Knight, gangster, was born on “out to tea in a tea shop as part of my
time for the crime. He also admitted was almost illiterate — Windsor January 20, 1934. He died of pneumonia preparation, because I’d never been to
that when he received the news that the claimed to have taught him to read and on June 12, 2023, aged 89 one”. She graduated in 1944, when the Email: obituaries@thetimes.co.uk
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services to the administration of justice Mary
Order of the Companions Patricia Ryan founder and director, Cyber Girls First,
of Honour services to STEM education for girls and to the
provision of IT equipment for children in hospital Eve
CH Caroline Samson clerk of the journals, House of
Commons, services to parliament and to the state
Professor Sir John Irving Bell regius professor of
medicine, University of Oxford, services to medicine, funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Charles
medical research, the life science industry and to Adam Laurie Sebag-Montefiore trustee, National
public health Ian Russell McEwan novelist and Gallery, services to the arts and to culture Professor
screenwriter, services to literature Dame Anna Caroline Mary Series emeritus professor of
Wintour editor-in-chief, Vogue, global editorial mathematics, University of Warwick, services to
director, Vogue, and global content officer, Condé Nast, mathematics Gary Paul John Shaughnessy
services to fashion chairman, Z Zurich Foundation and Parkinson's UK,
services to business and to charity Peter Francis
Order of St Michael and St Sheridan chief executive, Co-Operation Ireland,
services to peacebuilding Professor Giuliana
George Silvestri clinical director, ophthalmology, Belfast
Health and Social Care Trust, and clinical lead, NI
CMG Eyecare Network, services to ophthalmology and
Geoffrey Charles Knupfer lately lead forensic eyecare in Northern Ireland James Roland Sinker
scientist and head of investigation team, Independent chief executive, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS
Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains, for Foundation Trust, services to healthcare Elizabeth
public service Ann Sloan director, Annie Sloan Interiors Ltd,
services to interior design Professor Deborah Anne
Order of the Bath Swallow Marit Rausing director, Courtauld Institute
of Art, services to art and to education Maria
KCB Silvana Tenreyro services to the economy Ann
Alex Chisholm permanent secretary, Cabinet Office, Elizabeth Underwood deputy finance director,
and chief operating officer, Civil Service, for public defence equipment and support, Ministry of Defence,
service services to defence Simon Robert Vincent executive
vice-president, Hilton Group Europe, Middle East and
Order of the British Africa, services to the tourism industry Anthony
Empire Watson chief executive officer and founder, the Bank
of London, and advocate for LGBT equality, services to
DBE the LGBT community, to equality and to diversity
Anne Rachel Webber co-founder and co-
Jacqueline Marie Baillie deputy leader of the chairwoman, Commission for Looted Art in Europe,
Scottish Labour Party, for political and public service services to the return of looted art Gordon George
Professor Averil Olive Bradley (Averil Welsh lately head of business group, UK Export
Mansfield) services to surgery and to equality in Finance, services to business Stephen Frank Welton
medicine Professor Diane Coyle Bennett professor founder and chairman, BGF, services to small
of public policy, University of Cambridge, services to businesses and to entrepreneurship Mark Steven
economics Annette King chief executive officer, White lately chairman, Education Training Collective,
Publicis Groupe UK, services to advertising and to the services to further education Charles Alexander
creative industries Susan Carol Langley non- Wilson lately president, Grocery Aid, services to
executive chairwoman, Gallagher UK, and lately lead business and philanthropy Duncan Henry Wilson
non-executive director, Home Office, for public service chief executive, Historic England, services to heritage
and services to the financial services industry Janet Young lately government head of property
Kathryn Alexandra McDowell managing director, profession, Cabinet Office, for public service
London Symphony Orchestra, services to music
Professor Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland Tasso The novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan is appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour
Leventis chair in biodiversity, Department of Biology, OBE
Oxford University, services to international Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, services to policy Professor Anne Carla Ferguson-Smith pro- services to the construction industry and to charity Katherine Ruth Abbott capability and performance
conservation Elizabeth Mary Nicholl president, regeneration Shona Elizabeth Riach UK executive vice-chancellor for research and international Michael King local government and social care management lead, Department for Levelling Up,
World Netball, services to sport Neslyn Eugenie director to the International Monetary Fund, for public partnerships and the Arthur Balfour professor of ombudsman, services to local government Nicholas Housing and Communities, services to human
Watson-Druee voluntary chairwoman, Birmingham service genetics, University of Cambridge, services to medical David Gordon Knight photographer, services to resources and to mental health Khurshid Alam
and Midlands Women Economic Forum, services to research Peta Jane Dunckley Foxall lately fashion and to photography Barbara Anne chairman, Academy for Advanced Studies and Training
women and to ethnic minorities Professor Melanie Order of the British chairwoman, the Wildlife Trusts, services to nature Laithwaite managing director, Laithwaites, services UK International, services to BAME healthcare and the
Joanne Welham executive chairwoman of the conservation Professor Vincent Francis Fusco to the wine industry Peter John Lawson chairman, professional development of BAME doctors Professor
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research
Empire professor, high frequency electronic engineering, Scottish Opera, services to the Arts in Scotland Dario Renato Alessi professor of signal
Council, services to bioscience School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Simon David Lebus interim chief regulator, Ofqual, transduction, University of Dundee, services to
Knights Bachelor CBE Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, services services to educational assessment David John biomedical research and translation Parvinder Kaur
Professor David Samuel Harvard Abulafia to science and to engineering The Rev Canon Nigel Lewis co-founder and co-chairman, Commission for Aley director of global operations, Oxford Vaccine
Martin Louis Amis author, services to literature (to emeritus professor of Mediterranean history, Mark Genders chief education officer, Church of Looted Art in Europe, services to the return of looted Group, University of Oxford, services to vaccination
be dated 18 May 2023) Professor Peter John University of Cambridge, services to scholarship England, services to education Allan George Gibb art Paul Gregory Kieran Little principal and chief during Covid-19 Leanne Almond lately deputy
Barnes professor of thoracic medicine, Imperial Professor Derek Alderson chairman, Centre for head of sea fisheries, Marine Scotland, services to executive, City of Glasgow College, services to director, National Crime Agency, services to law
College London, services to respiratory science Rt Hon perioperative care, and lately president, Royal College marine resources in Scotland John Greig services to education Tasmin Elizabeth Little violinist, services enforcement Luke Anthony senior officer, National
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw member of of Surgeons of England, services to surgery Zahra association football and to the community in Scotland to music Laura Elizabeth Marks social activist and Crime Agency, services to law enforcement Elaine
parliament for Exeter, for political and public service Shiva Bahrololoumi chief executive officer, Derek Grieve deputy director, head of vaccinations broadcaster, services to interfaith relations, to Arnold founder, Separation and Reunion Forum,
Robin Francis Budenberg chairman, the Crown Salesforce UKI, services to the information technology division, Scottish government, services to public Holocaust and genocide education and commemoration services to children of African descent and to charity
Estate, services to the economy David Jeremy sector John Charles Baron member of parliament health during Covid-19 Andrew George Haldane and to women's empowerment Therese Lynn Miller Christopher Paul Ashworth head of social impact,
Darroch lately executive chairman, Sky, services to for Basildon and Billericay, for political and public chief executive, Royal Society of Arts, services to the non-executive director, Galliford Try plc, Stelrad Group Nominet, services to social equality, inclusion and to
business, to charity and to sustainability Stephen service Professor Paliarkarakadu Assen economy and to public policy William Benedict plc, Goldman Sachs International, Rothesay Life, and the voluntary sector Anthony Keith Atherton
Arthur Frears director and producer, services to film Muhammed Basheer chair in structural engineering, Hamilton-Dalrymple historian, author and art Goldman Sachs International Bank, services to the services to disability sport and to inclusion James
and television Rupert Alexander Gavin services to University of Leeds, services to civil engineering curator, services to literature and to the arts financial sector Ceri Ann Morgan director, EU and Keith Babbington vice-chairman, National
drama, the arts, to heritage and to the economy Brigadier Neil Alexander Crerar Baverstock Christopher Hampson chief executive officer and international trade, Department for Environment, Food Association of Civic Officers, services to the state
Professor Iain Gilmour Gray director of aerospace, yeoman usher, House of Lords, services to parliament artistic director, Scottish Ballet, services to dance and Rural Affairs, services to capability and inclusion funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Mark
Cranfield University, services to the aerospace and to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Edward Harley chairman, Acceptance in Lieu Panel, in international trade Edward Patrick Morris lately Jonathan Bailey executive director, UK Centre for
industry Professor Ian Andrew Greer vice- Elizabeth II Donna Bell director, social care and services to heritage, to charity and to the community president, Royal College of Obstetricians and Ecology and Hydrology, services to microbial ecology
chancellor, Queen's University Belfast, services to national care service development, Scottish in Herefordshire Angela Yvette Hillery chief Gynaecologists, and consultant gynaecologist, Norfolk and to scientific leadership Vincent James Bailey
education and to the economy Professor Stephen government, for public service David John Bellamy executive, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS and Norwich University NHS Foundation Trust, lately leader, Conservative group, Vale of Glamorgan
Philip Jackson University of Cambridge Frederick chief of staff to the mayor of London, Greater London Foundation Trust and Leicestershire Partnership NHS services to the improvement of women's healthcare council, for political, voluntary and charitable services
James Quick professor of biology and senior group Authority, services to the state funeral of Her Majesty Trust, services to the NHS Damian Andrew Hopkins and to patient safety Paul Noble Wilson Morrison Rhona Margaret Baillie chief executive, the Prince
leader, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Queen Elizabeth II Ann Elizabeth Bentley global founder, the Radius Group, services to the retail director, Ukraine humanitarian taskforce and refugee and Princess of Wales Hospice, Glasgow, services to
services to innovation and research Richard John board member, Rider Levett Bucknall, services to industry Professor Medwin Hughes vice-chancellor, resettlement and asylum support, Department for palliative care and to the hospice movement Antony
Mantle general director, Opera North, services to construction Robert John Blackman member of University of Wales and University of Wales Trinity St Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, services to Ellis Baines executive director for services, the Royal
opera Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri poet and parliament for Harrow East, for political and public David Group, services to education and to the Welsh refugees Elizabeth Margaret Murray (Elma British Legion, services to the armed forces
novelist, services to literature The Hon William service Ivor Bolton conductor, services to music Roy language Professor Debra Jean Humphris vice- Murray) deputy chairwoman, developing the young community John Nigel Barnes chief executive
Hartley Hume Shawcross for public service Mark Brannen interim director-general, net zero, energy chancellor, University of Brighton, services to workforce, Employers' Forum, services to young people officer, Historic Royal Palaces, services to heritage
Thompson media executive, services to media and transport, Scottish government, services to education and to the NHS Sarah Alice Hunter in Scotland Professor Paul Michael Newman BP Nicholas Guy Baveystock director-general and
Nicholas John Varney chief executive, Merlin transport in Scotland on the demise of Her Majesty England Women's rugby union captain, services to professor in information engineering, University of secretary, Institution of Civil Engineers, services to
Entertainments, services to the visitor economy Queen Elizabeth II Major General Nicholas John rugby union Jane Elizabeth Hutt minister for social Oxford, services to technology and to engineering engineering Timothy David Bestwick chairman,
Professor Steven George West president of Caplin chief executive officer, Blind Veterans UK, justice, Welsh government and Senedd member for Professor Julia Alison Noble Technikos professor Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, services to
Universities UK and vice-chancellor, University of the services to veterans and to the vision impaired Vale of Glamorgan, for political and public service of biomedical engineering, University of Oxford, the commercialisation of science, technology and
West of England, services to health and to education Anthony John Valerian Cheetham publisher, Susan Louise Ibbotson lately regional director of services to engineering and to biomedical imaging innovation Ceinwen Blake deputy director, corporate
Professor Nairn Hutchison Fulton Wilson services to literature Michael Hugh Cherry lately public health, Midlands and Regional director, Office Phillip Mark Hayes O'Dell lately director of flight information technology and services, Office for
honorary founding president, College of General chairman, Federation of Small Businesses, services to for Health Improvement and Disparities, Department operations and chief test pilot, Rolls-Royce, services National Statistics, for public service Patricia
Dentistry, services to dentistry business and to international trade Kenneth of Health and Social Care, services to public health to UK aviation Olivia Clare Pinkney chief constable, Margaret Brennan-Barrett chief executive officer
Cranham actor, services to drama Peter Anthony Celia Diana Savile Imrie actress, services to drama Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, services to and principal, Northampton College,
Order of the Bath Davies chairman, Smart Energy Code Panel, services John Brian Hansen Johnson lately chief executive policing Judith Ragan trustee, the Queensmill Trust, Northamptonshire, services to further education
to the energy industry and net zero emissions officer, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, services to services to children and young people with special James William John Brereton lately deputy
CB Cynthia Verna Davis founder, Diversifying Group the maritime industry Professor Christopher John educational needs Carolyn Ann Regan chief director, transport security operations centre,
Adrian Duncan Baguley deputy chief executive and Ltd, services to equality, diversity, and inclusion Hugh Jones deputy chief medical officer, Welsh executive, West London NHS Trust, for public service Department for Transport, services to the state
director General Strategic Enablers, Defence Barrie Chisholm Deas lately chief executive, government, services to healthcare Vincent Thomas Sheila Baillie Mackenzie Reith lately consultant funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth
Equipment and Support, services to defence Martin National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations, Keaveny lately lord mayor of London, services to physician, services to people with diabetes Professor Jane Brewin lately chief executive, Tommy's,
Gerald Clarke government actuary, for public service services to the fishing industry Mark David Ducker socioeconomic advancement, to British-Irish relations Eleanor Mary Riley professor of immunology and services to women's health Pippa Britton lately vice-
Philip Duffy director-general, growth and lately chief executive officer, Step Academy Trust, and to the City of London Professor Peter James infectious disease, University of Edinburgh, services to chairwoman, UK Anti-Doping, and vice-chairman, Sport
productivity, HM Treasury, for public service Shona Thornton Heath, London borough of Croydon, services Kelly regional director of public health, Office for immunology David James Ring independent Wales, services to sport Clare Parry Brunton deputy
Hunter Dunn second permanent secretary, to education Professor Thomas John Evans Health Improvements and Disparities, Department of chairman, National Shipbuilding Projects, services to director, major events directorate, Cabinet Office,
Department for Health and Social Care, for public professor of molecular microbiology, University of Health and Social Care, services to public health Ian shipbuilding Clifford Mark Robson group managing services to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen
service Clive Andrew Maxwell lately director- Glasgow, services to healthcare during Covid-19 Peter Kenyon director, finance and programmes, director, BAE Systems, services to the defence Elizabeth II Chantal Louise Bryan founding trustee
general, high speed rail group, Department for Clenton Anthony Farquharson associate and lately Defence Nuclear Organisation, Ministry of Defence, industry Stephen Edward Rogers lately district and campaigner, Teach Us Too, services to children and
Transport, services to rail transport Emran Mian chairman, Think Local Act Personal, services to services to public finance and to volunteering David judge, county and family court, chairman of Mental young people with special educational needs Gareth
director-general, regeneration, Department for disability personalisation, to social care and to health Richard Kilburn founder, MKM Building Supplies, Health Tribunal and recorder of the Crown Court, Richard Bullock services to the Welsh financial
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economy David Colleton Buxton chief executive Neil Frow managing director, NHS Wales Shared women's health and welfare in Wales Amar Latif Howard Geoffrey Smith director of the Elizabeth
officer, Action on Disability and lately chairman, Services Partnership, services to NHS Wales Zoe founder and chief executive officer, Traveleyes, Line, Transport for London, services to rail transport in
British Deaf Association, services to the deaf and Jane Fry director, the Outstanding Society, services services to the visually impaired and to London Jenifer Ann Evelyn Smith lately deputy
British sign language communities Alison Byrne to social care and to nursing William Fullen lately entrepreneurship Zoe Elena Leach lately chief medical director, Public Health England, services to
interim director for equality, inclusion and human chief executive, Believe Housing, services to housing executive officer, National Pig Association, services to sport during Covid-19 Nicola Jayne Smith governor,
rights, Scottish government, services to the Ukraine Martino Gamper product designer, services to design the pig industry Andrew Fraser Ledgerton-Lynch HM Prison Risley, services to HM Prison and Probation
crisis Kevin Byrne founder, Checkatrade.com, services Edmund Ross Garratt chief executive, NHS Suffolk editor, Fire Magazine, services to the Fire Fighters Service Susan Catherine Soroczan group director,
to industry and to consumer protection Audrey and North East Essex, services to the integrated care Charity and to fire safety Roy Andrew Ledgister Department for Work and Pensions, for public service
Cameron chairwoman, British Sign Language plan system Hugh Dunlop Gillies services to transport in services to social mobility Janet Carole Lewis Ingrid Marika Sarah Southworth lately director
working group, University of Edinburgh, services to Scotland on the demise of Her Majesty Queen founder and director, English Youth Ballet, services to international affairs, Cabinet Office, for public service,
chemical sciences and to inclusion in science Elizabeth II Victoria Gradden head, Royal Navy’s dance Dr Peter Hammond Liddle founder, Liddle particularly for services to British Foreign Policy
communications John Raymond Camp chief domestic engagement, services to the state funeral of Collection, the University of Leeds, patron, Halifax Nicky Spence operatic tenor, services to music
executive officer, the Compass Partnership of Schools, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Brigadier John Great War Heritage Society, and life president, the Phillip Spence chief operating officer, the British
Royal borough of Greenwich and Essex, services to Thomas Graham services to the military and to the Second World War Experience Centre, services to Library, services to libraries Jennifer Naomi
education Michele Louise Campbell-Louden community in Northern Ireland Lydia Greenway heritage and to public understanding of the world Spencer-Plews chief executive officer, Northern Star
assistant director, immigration prison team, Home founder, Cricket for Girls, and former cricket player, wars Debra Mary Livingstone head of protocol and Academies Trust, Yorkshire, services to education
Office, services to immigration and to national services to cricket Suzanne Lisa Griffin deputy honours, Scottish government, services in Scotland on Professor Stephen George Spiro vice-president
security Gail Lindsay Carson director of network director, DWP Digital, Department for Work and the demise of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Martin and lately chairman, Rennie Grove Hospice Care,
development, International Severe Acute Respiratory Pensions, for public service David Roger Griffiths Lawrence Loat lately chairman, Equal Civil services to hospice care Stuart James Sterling
and Emerging Infections Consortium, services to global services to association football in Wales Freya Rose Partnerships Campaign, services to civil partnerships deputy director, Major Events directorate, Cabinet
health Anuj Jayantilal Chande partner, Grant Grimwood lately principal private secretary to the Hew Donald Joseph Locke artist, services to art Office, services to the state funeral of Her Majesty
Thornton, services to international trade and law officers, Attorney General's Office, for public Matthew John Lodge director, rail infrastructure, Queen Elizabeth II Philippa Ruth Stobbs lately
investment Professor Ian Charles director, Quadram service Claire Marie Guest co-founder, chief Department for Transport services to the rail industry assistant director, Council for Disabled Children,
Institute, and professor, Norwich Medical School, executive and chief scientific officer, Medical Detection Robert William Henderson MacGeachy chairman, services to disabled children Andrew John Stokes
University of East Anglia, services to science and Dogs, services to medical knowledge, public health and PEAK Scientific, services to manufacturing and to director, Visit England, services to tourism Sarah
clinical research Professor Carolyn Anne Chew- wellbeing Beverley Ann Halligan principal social philanthropy Miles Bradley Mack lately chairman, Louise Strangleman liaison officer, defence science
Graham professor of general practice research, Keele worker, children and families, London borough of Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties in and technology laboratory, Ministry of Defence, for
University and lately chairwoman, Society of Academic Newham, services to social care Thomas Edward Scotland, services to general practice Joan Ishbel public service Michael Straughan services to the
Primary Care, services to general practice and patient Halliwell captain, England Wheelchair Rugby League, MacKay head of curriculum innovation at Education British Automotive Industry Rex Strong head of
care, and to primary care research, particularly into services to wheelchair rugby league Julie Scotland, services to education in Scotland Russell regulatory integration, Sellafield Ltd, services to the
long Covid Andrew James Churchill executive Harmsworth lately deputy chief executive, Unlock, Scott Maliphant choreographer, services to dance civil nuclear industry Thomas Richard Stephen
chairman, JJ Churchill Ltd, services to engineering National Association of Ex-Offenders, services to ex- Professor Helen Jane Marshall vice-chancellor and Peregrine Stuart-Smith garden and landscape
Trevor Clare team leader, Ministry of Defence, offenders Professor Jennifer Margaret Hartley chief executive officer, University of Salford, Greater designer, services to landscape design The Rev Dr
services to defence Michael Kenneth Claridge co-founder, Prison Reading Groups, services to Manchester, services to higher education Roisin Richard John Sudworth secretary, inter-religious
operations and customer interface team leader, prisoners Paul Ragle Harvey fundraiser, services to Theresa Marshall chief executive officer, Northern affairs and national inter-religious affairs adviser,
defence equipment and support, Ministry of Defence, charity and to people living with Alzheimer’s and Ireland Council for Integrated Education, services to The actress Celia Imrie is made CBE Church of England, services to interfaith relations and
services to defence David Philip Clarke chief dementia Tina Harvey executive headteacher, Perseid education and to community reconciliation in Northern cohesion Jane Susan Sweeney head of programme
executive officer, British Paralympic Association, School, London borough of Merton, services to special Ireland Giles Francis Maskell consultant clinical Alan Owers chief executive, World Horse Welfare, management, delivery and challenge, HM Treasury, for
services to Paralympic sport Linda Jayne Cobb education Elizabeth Noel Harwerth chairwoman, radiologist, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, for charitable services to equine welfare in the UK and public service Kevin Brendan Taylor chairman,
principal manager, Decent and Safe Homes Services UK Export Finance, services to international trade services to diagnostic radiology Georgina Alison Abroad Christian William Papaleontiou head of Industrial Development Advisory Board, services to
(DASH), Derby city council, services to housing Jeffrey Christopher Hayes trustee, St John's May Masters assistant director, HISP Multi- tackling child sexual abuse unit, Home Office, services business and to the economy Sharon Jane Tennant
Damian Collins member of parliament for Folkestone Foundation, trustee, West Ham United Foundation, Academy Trust, Eastleigh, Hampshire, services to to tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation lately principal, Sandelford Special School, Coleraine,
and Hythe, for political and public service Anthony and lately trustee and chairman, Trust for London, education Chloe Kate Sevgi Kilcoyne Mawson Navaratnam Partheeban co-founder, British services to education in Northern Ireland Professor
Cook senior officer, National Crime Agency, services services to charity and to the voluntary sector Paula clerk assistant, House of Lords, services to parliament Veterinary Ethnicity and Diversity Society, services to Rama Shankaran Thirunamachandran vice-
to law enforcement Philip Michael Cook lately chief Maria Hay-Plumb independent non-executive board and to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen inclusion Richard Jeremy Paxman chief executive chancellor, Canterbury Christ Church University,
executive and group principal of Education Training member, the Crown Estate, services to the public Elizabeth II Anthony James May lately chief officer, Paxman Coolers Limited, services to Canterbury, Kent, services to higher education Carol
Collective, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, services sector Varinder Hayre district crown prosecutor, executive, Nottinghamshire county council, services to international trade Simon Robert Pender deputy Lee Tozer lately director, adult social services, Isle of
to further education Professor Aravinthan Crown Prosecution Service, London, services to law local government Elizabeth Anne McCleary lately director, Cabinet Office, services to national security Wight Council, and trustee, Association of Directors of
Coomarasamy professor of gynaecology and and order Steven Hemsley senior officer, National director, social security policy and legislation, Mark Antony Pilgrim lately chief executive, North Adult Social Services, services to social care Anne
reproductive medicine, University of Birmingham, Crime Agency, services to law enforcement Colin Department for Communities, Northern Ireland of England Zoological Society (Chester Zoo), services Margaret Turner director of children’s safeguarding
services to maternal health Richard Devereux James Herring head of employee policy team, Executive, services to social security policy and to zoos and to wildlife conservation Susan Pope and social work, London borough of Camden, services
Burcombe Cooper lately chairman of trustees, Department for Work and Pensions, services to the legislation in Northern Ireland Fiona Teresa forensic scientist, Principal Forensic Services, services to children’s social work Sarah Catherine Turvey co-
Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Alfie McDonald principal, Drumnamoe Nursery School, to forensic science and to the criminal justice system founder, Prisons Reading Groups, services to prisoners
services to dance Jonathan Simon Cox deputy Thomas Hewett wheelchair tennis player, services Lurgan, Co Armagh, services to education and Gareth William Powell lately chief customer and Christian Cyril Van Der Nest resilience and
director, Citizens UK, services to community to tennis Charlotte Heyes chief negotiator and voluntary and charitable service in Northern Ireland strategy officer, Transport for London, services to partnership lead, Transport for London, services to the
organising and refugee resettlement Susan deputy director, trade negotiations group, Department and abroad Fiona Mary McKenzie founder, transport and to the state funeral of Her Majesty state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Linda
Christine Cox founder and director of SMART-UK, for Business and Trade, services to international trade Centrestage, Kilmarnock, services to the community in Queen Elizabeth II Sunand Prasad chairman, UK Ventress lately cluster manager northeast and
services to addicts in prison Lisa Anne Crausby Rebecca Joanne Hickey assistant director, Harris East Ayrshire Jennifer Gail McKibbin lately director Green Building Council, services to regeneration regional estates and strategy manager, HM Courts and
executive director, Star Academies, Blackburn, Federation, and principal, Harris Academy Beckenham, of EU exit operational readiness, the Executive Office, Patricia Pritchard chairwoman, Fenland and East Tribunals Service, services to the administration of
Lancashire, services to education Lucy Mary London borough of Bromley, services to education Northern Ireland Executive, services to EU exit and Cambridgeshire Opportunity Area, services to justice John Stanley Vice lately editor of debates,
Elizabeth Crowe soprano, services to music Simon Professor Jane Katharine Hill professor of ecology, Covid-19 contingency planning Gavin Marcus education and to social mobility in Fenland and East House of Lords, services to parliament Martin
Daglish co-founder, Walking With The Wounded and University of York, services to conservation ecology McKinnon chief officer, Kent Special Constabulary, Cambridgeshire Stuart Graham Proffitt editor and Austin Walsh deputy director of life sciences,
Fundraiser, Tommy's, for charitable services Kevin Georgina Gay Hood founder and principal, Paint Pots services to policing Professor Donald Campbell publisher, Penguin, services to literature Graham Diamond Light Source, services to science during
John Daly co-head of central and eastern Europe, Montessori Schools Ltd, services to early years McMillan professor of surgical science, University of Quinn chief executive officer, New Bridge Multi Covid-19 Mohammad Amjid Wazir member and
Middle East and Africa economics, Goldman Sachs' education and to the community in London Clare Glasgow, services to cancer research Claire Louise Academy Trust, Oldham, Greater Manchester, services deputy leader, Stoke-on-Trent City council, for political
Global Macro Research, services to economics Howard chief executive officer, Natspec, services to Merron deputy head, safety, security and business to children and young people with special educational service and to the community in Stoke-on-Trent
Professor Prokar Dasgupta foundation professor of children and young people with special educational resilience, Ministry of Defence, services to the state needs and disabilities Amarjit Raju chief executive, Caron Melina Wheeler singer, songwriter, record
surgery, King's Health Partners, and chair in robotic needs and disabilities Professor Louise Michele funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Alan Keith Disability Direct, services to people with disabilities, producer and musician, services to music Heather
surgery and urological innovation, King's College Howard professor emerita of women's mental health, Meyrick deputy director, Teaching Regulation Agency, to carers and to mental health Charles Mottram Kay Wheeler member of parliament for South
London, services to surgery and science Janet Davies King's College London, services to women's mental services to education John Joseph Millward head, Ramsden deputy director, Government Equalities Derbyshire, for political and public service Professor
services to healthcare in Wales Jo-Ann D'Costa- health Stephen Glyn Hughes chief executive officer, inspections and enforcement division, Veterinary Office, for public service Norma Victoria Raynes Timothy John Whitley managing director, Applied
Manuel autism ambassador and parent advocate, Education Impact Academy Trust, Birmingham, West Medicines directorate, services to animal health and director, From Generation 2 Generation, and Research, BT, services to communications technologies
services to children and young people with autism Midlands, services to children and young people with welfare Professor Nicola Jane Milner professor of chairwoman, Caldecott Festival Group, services to and to scientific policy The Rev Dr George James
Roy Allan Steven Devon head of events and special educational needs and disabilities Juliet archaeology, University of York, services to tackling loneliness in older people and to the Whyte lately principal clerk, general assembly of the
exhibitions, Scottish parliament, services in Scotland Hughes-Hallett founder and honorary president, archaeology Alyson Mitchell lately head of ethical community in Shropshire Neil Andrew Redit senior Church of Scotland, services to faith communities
on the demise of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Smart Works Charity, services to Unemployed Women digital national team, Scottish government, services to principal engineer, defence science and technology Professor Graham Richard Williams president,
Frances Anne Dickens founder and chair, Astus Michael Hulls lighting designer, services to dance digital inclusion William Montgomery board laboratory, Ministry of Defence, services to defence European Thyroid Association, services to
Group. services to media trading Keith Michael and to the arts Garry Edward Hunt professor and member, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, and Gordon James Reid wheelchair tennis player, endocrinology Simon Richard Williams director,
Donnelly Fire and Rescue Service Advisor UK, research scientist, services to space science and to Belfast Metropolitan College, services to the Northern services to tennis Emily Elisheva Renee Reuben National Care and Health Improvement Programme,
services to fire and rescue Jonathan Michael business Jacqueline Leigh Hunt member, Culture Ireland economy Timothy Michael Morfin chief co-founder and chief executive, Duchenne UK, services services to care Camilla Anne Wood Countess Of
Dutton chief executive officer, Rugby League World Recovery Board, and trustee, British Film Institute, executive officer, Transforming Lives for Good, to charity and to people with Duchenne muscular Halifax lately president, Macmillan Cancer Support,
Cup, services to rugby Michael John Edgar director, services to the arts Ishtiaq Hussain assistant services to disadvantaged children and young people dystrophy Professor Stuart Ian Rogers lately for voluntary services to people affected by cancer
Mike Edgar Production Ltd, services to the state director, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Geoffrey Owen Morris director, Eden Campus, marine scientist, Cefas, services to marine fisheries Denis Edmond Woulfe co-chairman, Leaders as
funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Bianca Communities, for public service Janine Mireille University of St Andrews, services to charity and to and environmental science Michael Peter Rose joint Change Agent Board, services to business and to
Jutta Effemey co-founder and chief executive Irons co-founder and chief executive, Tomorrow's the environment Colin Michael Morrow director, managing director, Magic Light Pictures, services to equality Ian Edward Wright broadcaster and author,
officer, Momentum Children's Charity, services to Warriors, services to the music industry Thomas procurement operations, Crown Commercial Service, animation Edward Rowland lately medical director, services to association football and to charity
young people with life challenging conditions Neill Jackson head of executive services, the Cabinet Office, for public service Paul Richard Mott St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, Mohammed Younis owner, Star Day Nurseries,
Oluwafemi Elufowoju Jr director and actor, services Executive Office, Northern Ireland Executive, services head of joint extremism unit, Home Office and HM services to cardiology Judith Rosemary Salinson Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, services to early years
to drama Tina Louise Emery co-chairwoman, to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Prison and Probation Service, services to national lately president, Women in Advertising education and to the community in Peterborough
National Network of Parent Carer Forums, services to Lisa Juliet James community outreach, Ukraine security Sheila Murphy Liverpool officer, Labour Communications London, services to advertising
children and young people with special educational Humanitarian Taskforce, Department for Levelling Up, Party, for political and voluntary services Barry Robert David Sanders director of digital customer
needs and disabilities Lawrence James English Housing and Communities, services to the Ukrainian Neilson chief executive, Construction Industry services, Houses of Parliament, services to parliament MBE
lately senior district crown prosecutor, West Midlands, community Christopher John Jenkins lately chief Training Board Northern Ireland, services to economic and to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Julia Elizabeth Adamson managing director,
services to law and order Anthony John Plowden executive officer, Commonwealth Games Wales, development Professor John Norman Newton Elizabeth II Jonathon Hugh Christopher Saxton Education and Public Benefit, BCS, the Chartered
Eyton artist, services to painting and to the art services to the Commonwealth Games and to sport in director of public health analysis, Office for Health (Joe Saxton) founder, nfpSynergy, founder, Institute for IT, services to education Professor
community Peter Alan Farr head of civil law policy, Wales Alexandra Claire Johnson co-founder, Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health CharityComms and chair, PTA UK/Parentkind, services Pascale Veronique Aebischer professor,
Ministry of Justice, services to civil justice Mark Duchenne UK, co-founder, Joining Jack, and lately and Social Care, services to public health Julia to the charitable sector Douglas William Scarfe Shakespeare and early modern performance studies,
Alexander Fawcett chief executive officer, Nest board member, World Duchenne Organisation, services Elizabeth Nolan lately deputy director, international chief executive officer, Bournemouth Symphony University of Exeter, services to economic and societal
Invest, services to pension saving Robert Francis to charity and to people with Duchenne muscular climate strategy, Department for Business, Energy and Orchestra, services to the arts Duncan Clinton resilience during Covid-19 George Gray Alexander
Fellows lately head of education, College of dystrophy Shirley Jones inspector, Department of Industrial Strategy, services to international climate Sharkey lately chief executive, royal borough of lately member, Moray council, services to the
Paramedics, services to paramedic education Yvonne Education Northern Ireland, services to education, diplomacy Professor Joanne Victoria Elizabeth Windsor and Maidenhead, services to the state funeral community in Forres, Moray Peter Frank Allam
Anita Field founder and chief executive officer, the training and safeguarding young people and adults at Norton (Jo Smith) professor of early intervention of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Anne Catherine lately chief executive, Weymouth and Portland
Ubele Initiative, services to the voluntary, community risk Neil Arthur Kermode managing director, and psychosis, University of Worcester, services to Shaw executive director, Transport for West National Sailing Academy, services to sailing Eniola
and social enterprise sector and to social justice European Marine Energy Centre, services to renewable higher education and to student suicide prevention Midlands, services to the Commonwealth Games 2022 Aluko services to association football and to charity
Xenia Mary Fletcher (Xenia Carr-Griffiths) energy and to the community in Orkney Derek Irwin and response Sean Joseph O’Callaghan police Mark Thomas Sheridan deputy director, HM Darnish Amraz youth worker, Birmingham City
services to the public sector and to the British retail Keys founder, Euro Auctions, services to the economy leader, British Transport Police, services to policing Revenue and Customs Fraud Investigation Service, Youth Service, services to young people in Birmingham
industry Simon McLean Flowers executive principal, Kavitha Kishen deputy director, security, resilience and the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth services to combatting fiscal fraud and to staff Carol Ann Anderson director, Trustee Savings Bank,
Carr Manor Community School, Leeds, and chief and strategy, Government Office for Science, services II Jacqueline O’Donovan managing director, mentoring Ryan Daniel Sinclair assistant head, services to the banking and financial services sector
executive officer, Leeds Learning Alliance, services to to national resilience and diversity in government O’Donovan Waste Disposal, services to recycling, to Department for Business and Trade, services to Ewan David Anderson superintendent, Police
education Susan Rosemary Foister director of science and engineering Sarah Elizabeth Knight safety and to industry Christopher Oglesby chief defence and security exports to Ukraine Michelle Service of Northern Ireland, services to law and order
public programmes and partnerships, the National behavioural scientist, defence science and technology executive officer, Bruntwood, services to charity and Prudencear Skeer chief constable, Cumbria police, Muhammad Arif Anis co-founder, One Million
Gallery, services to art Laura Frances Fretwell head laboratory, Ministry of Defence, services to the state to regeneration in the northwest of England Peter services to policing David William Smith founder, Meals, services to frontline workers during Covid-19
of ceremonial team, Northern Ireland Office, services funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II Anju Kumar Daniel Oliver trustee and chairman, strategy and Women in Games and founder, BAME in Games, Lisa Karen Ashford director and chief executive
to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, services to delivery, UK Scouts, services to young people Roland services to the video game industry and to diversity officer, Ethex, services to impact investment Rachael
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Joanna Atkins deputy head, strategy and protocol Scotland Sarah Greenhalgh (Sarah Smith) in the UK Professor Francis John Hughes lately
team, Constitution and Major Events directorate, and chairwoman, Tobacco Factory Theatres, services to professor of periodontology, King's College London,
lately deputy head, venue security and transport, theatre and to the community in Bristol and Cornwall services to dentistry Katherine Alexandra Hui
Cop26, Cabinet Office, services to Cop26 and to the Luke Peter Grenfell-Shaw cancer activist and founder, Laces Community Club, services to community
state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II cyclist, founder, Bristol2Beijing, services to charitable football and to young women in east London
Richard Norman Auty lately inspector, Metropolitan fundraising for people with cancer Colin James Catherine Elizabeth Humphrey principal, Groggan
Police Service, services to forensic collision Griffiths campaigner, maternity services, Shrewsbury Primary School, Randalstown, Co Antrim, services to
investigation Hilda Bailey team leader, Ministry of and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, services to maternity education in Northern Ireland Suzanne Elizabeth
Defence, services to defence Norma Baillie founder healthcare Jacqueline Amanda Griffiths senior Hutchinson chief executive, Little Hearts Matter,
and operations manager, PrioritEyes Ltd, services to policy adviser, Department for Business and Trade, for services to children, adults and their families with
blind and partially sighted people David Alfred public service John Parry Griffiths coach, British congenital heart disease Corinne Hutton founder,
Baker foster carer, Plymouth city council, services to Canoeing, services to canoeing and paddlesport Finding Your Feet, services to sepsis awareness and to
children Susannah Jane Baker co-founder, the Kayleigh Rhianon Griffiths campaigner, maternity amputees Roksanda Ilincic services to fashion
Pickwell Foundation, services to Ukrainian refugees services, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, design George Imafidon chief executive officer,
Vivienne Patricia Baker foster carer, Plymouth city services to maternity healthcare Rhiannon Mair Motivez, services to engineering, to technology and to
council, services to children Euan Andrew Barker Griffiths co-founder and managing director, Comics young people John Lea Ivens executive headteacher,
royal and ceremonial planning manager, Scottish Youth, services to young people Nigel Sylvester Guy Maudsley and Bethlem Hospital School, London
government, services in Scotland on the demise of Her director, Windrush Generations UK, services to the borough of Southwark, services to education William
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Jane Margaret Barker Windrush generation Lynne Haines headteacher, Hugh Jack proprietor, Duke of York Public House,
founder, Perry Riding for the Disabled Group and the Greenvale School, London borough of Lewisham, services to the arts and to tourism in Belfast Faye
Cavalier Centre, services to charity and to people with services to children and young people with special Elizabeth Alice Jackson chief communications
disabilities Jessica Lucy Barker co-founder and joint educational needs Lindsey Victoria Hall chief officer, ceremonials and culture, Department for
chief executive officer, Cygenta, services to executive officer, Real Ideas Organisation, services to Culture, Media and Sport, services to the state funeral
cybersecurity Richard Barley director of gardens, social enterprise and to the community in Cornwall of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Desmond Jaddoo
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, services to horticulture and Plymouth Thomas Kingsley Hall welfare bishop, the Village Fellowship Church, and chairman,
William Barnes governor, St Cuthbert's Catholic support officer, BLESMA, services to Veterans in Windrush National Organisation, services to the
Primary School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, services to Wales William Andrew Hall head of testing, Windrush generation Sarah Mary James director,
education and to the community in Newcastle-Upon- exercising and activation team, Cabinet Office, Craft Festival, services to craft Sarah Helen
Tyne Richard Maxwell Barrett founder, Daventry services to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Atkinson Javaid founder, Cycle Sisters, services to
Contact and Spencer Contact, services to the Elizabeth II Stephen Philip Hallam lately managing cycling and to the community in London Thomas
environment and to the community in director, Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, Melton Mowbray, Jeffers services to local government and to the
Northamptonshire John Livesey Hender Bate Terry Waite is made Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George services to the baking industry and to the community community in Dundonald, Co Down Archibald Ian
services to the Talyllyn Railway, Wales Marjorie in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire Jenny Halpern Jenkins services to charity and to the community in
Elaine Baylis deputy regional chairwoman, chairman, UK Music Education Council, services to School of Materials and Design, Hereford College of Prince founder and chairwoman, Access Aspiration, Peebles, Scotland Kapaljit Singh Jhuti head of
membership, Conservative Party South West, for music education Siena Castellon neurodiversity Arts, services to blacksmithing and to heritage crafts services to charity, to young people and to social services, transport and passenger logistics, Heathrow
political service Sebastien Joseph Bechara services advocate, services to neurodiversity acceptance, Sandeep Dwesar chief operating and financial mobility Caroline Marie Hamilton chief executive, airport, London, services to the state funeral of Her
to wheelchair rugby league John Charles Bennett equality and inclusion Ann Chalmers chief executive, officer, Barbican Centre, for public service in the City Safety Assessment Federation, services to business Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Joysy John adviser,
group scout leader, Wistaston Scout Group, services to Child Bereavement UK, services to bereaved children, of London Susan Dzendzera lately chief executive and to engineering Elaine Hammans lately head of EdTech, services to the technology sector Barbara
young people in Cheshire Matteo Giulio Livio young people, parents and families Rosalyn Carol officer, Gingerbread Corner, services to children and to early years, Southend City Council, Essex, services to Ann Johnson director of nursing, Risedale Estates
Bergamini founder and chief executive officer, Shout Chalmers services to the arts and to people with the community in the London borough of Croydon education Stewart John Harding lately co-founder, Ltd, services to social care Clare Louise Johnson
Out UK, services to charity, to social enterprise and to sensory impairments Yui Chit Daniel Chan honorary Gillian Pearl Eaton director, Sporting Futures Parks Agency and director, GreenSpace, services to deputy head, property profession, Valuation Office
education David Lambert Berry volunteer, the Duke treasurer and trustee, UK Youth, services to charity Training, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, services to further heritage and park conservation Jennifer Anne Hardy Agency, services to the surveying profession and to
of Edinburgh's Award, services to young people and to and to young people Nicola Jane Chance Thompson education and skills Mary Edmiston payment campaigner and founder, Cancer Card, services to diversity Alan Edward Jones lately chairman and
the community in the Wirral Claire Joanne Bessant chief executive, Piece Hall Trust, services to culture services operations manager, Student Loans Company, cancer support Andrea Harford lately work coach consultant, the Village Bakery, services to the food
lately chief executive officer, International Cat Care, and to heritage Fiona Susan Channon deputy services to education and to charity Inua team leader, Department for Work and Pensions, industry and to the economy in Wales Gareth Lloyd
services to cat welfare Roma Bhopal physiotherapist yeoman usher, House of Lords, services to parliament Muhammed Ellams poet, playwright and performer, services to people with autism Robert Harper Jones services to sport and exercise medicine in
and specialist hand therapist, services to and to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen services to the arts Theresa Mary Ellerby director, volunteer, Belfast Lough Sailability, services to sailing Wales Keith Jones chairman, EAST, services to
Physiotherapy Deborah Jayne Blackburn assistant Elizabeth II Teresa Chaytor artistic director, TIN the Children's House, Stallingborough, northeast for people with disabilities in Northern Ireland marginalised people in Peterborough, Cambridge
principal, finance, Aquinas College, Stockport, Greater Arts, services to the performing arts for people with Lincolnshire, services to education Niall William Kathryn Ann Harper-Quinn headteacher, Hounslow Pauline Jones employer and partnership manager,
Manchester, services to further education Nicholas learning disabilities John Child lately managing Andrew Elliott head of sports medicine, Heath Infant and Nursery School, London borough of Department for Work and Pensions, services to the
John Blackburn chief executive officer, Lingfield director, Sandcastle Waterpark, services to tourism, to sportscotland Institute of Sport and chief medical Hounslow, services to education Victoria Louise community in Birmingham, particularly during the
Education Trust, Darlington, County Durham, services people with disabilities and to the community in officer, British Olympic Association, services to sports Harrington lately assistant chief officer, Essex police, 2022 Commonwealth Games Sonya Jones services to
to education Colin Francis Bland chief executive Blackpool, Lancashire Margaret Jean Christensen and exercise medicine Winston George Ellis services to policing Mary Rosaleen Harrison tackling child exploitation Nadine McKenzie Judge
officer, Sporting Chance, services to sport Fiona commercial adviser, Department for Culture, Media ambassador, BAME Health Collaborative, for charitable headteacher, St Francis Catholic Primary School, choreographer and honorary patron, Big Bad Wolf
Elizabeth Blyth lately deputy head, Russia-Ukraine and Sport, for public service Hayley Karen Citrine services to ethnic minority communities Paul Stuart Morley, Leeds, services to education Tanya Olivia Children’s Theatre Company, services to dance in
team, Cabinet Office, for public service Deborah Jane lately chief nurse northwest, NHS England, services to Ethell HR director, BAE Systems Submarines, services Harrod art historian, services to the crafts Emma Scotland Natalia Kaliada co-founding artistic
Boden world heritage site co-ordinator, Cornwall and nursing Lorna Shireen Paterson Clayton founder, to the defence industry and to the community in Louise Hart deputy head, engagement and protocol, director, Belarus Free Theatre, services to theatre
West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, ACTS Educational Charity and Academic Families, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria Caroline Evans and lately chief media operations and events officer, Sardarni Navleen Kaur founder, Sahara Sisterhood,
services to heritage James Robert Bolton services services to young people Tania Natasha Cohen chief headteacher, Parks Primary School, Leicester, services Cop26 unit, Cabinet Office, services to Cop26 and to services to women and to interfaith relations Michael
to charity in Rutland Jean Frances Bonnick executive, 360Giving, services to charity and social to education Jonathan Grant Evans services to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Olatunde Kehinde equality, diversity and inclusion
magistrate, supplemental list, and vice-president, justice Razvan Ungureanu Constantinescu association football in Northern Ireland David Peter Hart district executive committee member, champion, Environment Agency, for public service
Norfolk Magistrates’ Association, services to the founder, From Bristol with Love for Ukraine, for Anthony Eyre manager, building services and Wigan and District Scout Council, services to young Kenneth Keld secretary, north of England branch,
administration of justice Marie Boyce customer voluntary services to the People of Ukraine Monica ceremonial works, House of Commons, services to people in Greater Manchester Nigel Alan Hartley British Korean Veterans Association, services to
services manager, Department for Work and Pensions, Mary Cooney head of control centre operations, parliament and to the state funeral of Her Majesty chief executive officer, Mountbatten Hospice Group, veterans Ellen Dorothy Kemp member, Boleyn Trust,
services to business transformation Iain Patrick Transport for London, services to transport and to the Queen Elizabeth II Mohammed Fahim services to Isle of Wight and Hampshire, services to hospice care services to education in the London borough of
Wentworth Boyd lately chairman and trustee, state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II the community in Walsall, West Midlands, particularly Valerie Margaret Hawkins chief executive officer, Newham Rosalind Penelope Kennedy services to
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, Anthony Philip Cooper volunteer, the Royal British during Covid-19 Aqil Farooq police sergeant and Mid Wales Tourism, services to tourism and to the charity and to the community in Bristol Penelope
services to heritage Paul Boyd founder and director, Legion, for voluntary services to veterans Professor chairman, staff association, Avon and Somerset Police, economy in Wales Andrew Paul Haynes lately Jane Kenway director of early intervention and
Morningside School of Music, Edinburgh, services to David Alan Cooper services to lift and escalator services to policing and to diversity and inclusion specialist adviser to the board, Sherwood Forest NHS prevention, London borough of Islington, services to
entrepreneurship and to the music industry Prudence engineering Susan Margaret Copeland regional Karen Jane Farr children and young persons Foundation Trust, and non-executive director, early years children and families Nicolai Khalezin co-
Bray chairwoman, Association of Liberal Democrat chairwoman and trustee, East of England National manager, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Fire and University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, services to founding artistic director, Belarus Free Theatre,
Councillors and Campaigners, for political service Garden Scheme, services to heritage and to charity Rescue Service, services to young people and to public health and to the NHS in Nottinghamshire and services to theatre Ritu Khurana disc jockey and
Mark Julian Bretton services to business, the Peter Andrew Corry services to music and to the safety Amy Elizabeth Fearn referee, services to Leicestershire Aaron Lee Hearne fundraiser, broadcaster, services to music and to broadcasting
economy and to charity, particularly during Covid-19 arts in Northern Ireland Catherine Diana Courtney association football Professor Ruth Fee professor, Childline, services to children David Ian Heaton Heather Mary Kidd councillor, Shropshire council,
Caroline Sandra Brewster programme management project director, Artists’ Lives, British Library, services public services education, Ulster University, for public facilities manager, Prime Minister's Office, for public services to rural communities Carly Teresa Nyst
office lead, HM Revenue and Customs, for public and to oral history Sara Louise Cox referee, services to service and to higher education in Northern Ireland and voluntary service Diane Gillian Heighes Kind director, Ada Lovelace Institute, services to data
charitable services Rosemarie Brim manager, Prime rugby union Thomas Dillon Coyd coach, England Lynn Marie Fell senior operations manager, work and government banking industry lead, HM Revenue and and artificial intelligence ethics Andrew Michael
Minister’s Office, for public service Simon Andrew wheelchair rugby league team, services to wheelchair health, Department for Work and Pensions, for Public Customs, services to the state funeral of Her Majesty Blair Knox director of population health and
Broadhurst detective inspector, Police Service of rugby league Ronan Gerard Cregan services to local Service Lynn Fidler ceremonials team, Department Queen Elizabeth II Claude Hendrickson services to engagement, Bay Health and Care Partners,
Scotland, services to policing James Reginald government and to regeneration in Belfast Helena for Culture, Media and Sport, for public service Kate community self-build housing Ian Scott Henry group Morecambe Bay, services to general practice Nihara
Brockman services to bookbinding Erika Elaine June Rachel Croft founder and chief executive Fisher-Stevens deputy director, National Crime director, Henry Brothers Ltd, services to the economy Sonali Krause founder and chief executive, Stem4,
Brodnock entrepreneur, services to diversity in the officer, Streetlight UK, services to the eradication of Agency, services to law enforcement Nicola Jean and to charity in Northern Ireland Robin Matthew services to the mental health of young people
technology sector Vanita Brookes fellow, faculty of modern day slavery Sara Joanne Crookdake Fleury managing director, Kidzrus Nursery Group, Herringshaw head of resilience, National Highways, Charlotte Kume-Holland head of policy, major
dental surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England, assistant chief executive, Disability Stockport, services Salford, Greater Manchester, services to early years services to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen events, Cabinet Office, and lately head of strategy,
services to the oral health of people with disabilities to disabled people in northwest England Jennifer education and to the community in Salford, Greater Elizabeth II Kevin Hewlett managing director and Covid-19 deployment, Department of Health, and
Geoffrey Brown managing director, Ripon Farm Anne Cross lately member, Mental Health and Care Manchester Wendy Jacqueline Forrester registered manager, Hale Place Care Homes Ltd, Social Care, for public service, mental health and
Services, services to the rural economy William Eric Standards Tribunals, services to the administration of philanthropist and founder, Forrester Family Trust, services to People with dementia Susan Penelope wellbeing leadership and to the state funeral of Her
Brown lately museums national security adviser, justice and to the community in Tunbridge Wells, Kent services to charity Stephen William Franey Hewson-Lowe founder and director, Bodywise UK, Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth Angela Lalley
services to museums and to the arts Gareth Boswell Tara Jane Cullen operations lead, members services technical staff development manager, King's College services to women’s health and to the environment director of risk, resilience and community safety,
Browning beat forester, Forestry England, services to team, House of Commons, services to parliament and London, services to technical staff in research and David William Heyburn head of operations Welsh government, services to the state funeral of
forestry and nature recovery Kenneth Robertson to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II education Angela Maddalyna Frazer-Wicks microbiology and health protection, Public Health Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Frances Emma Lane
Bruce broadcaster, services to radio, to autism Pauline Culley association chairwoman, Darlington chairwoman, Family Rights Group, services to children Wales, services to the NHS Keith Robert Hill chief executive officer, Northwick Park Trust, Canvey
awareness and to charity Michael Buckland lifeboat and Sedgefield Conservatives, for political service and families Eileen Mary French founder trustee, services to education and to disadvantaged children Island, services to education in Essex Professor
operations manager and helm, Weston-Super-Mare Samuel Matthew Curran services to cricket Essex Council of Voluntary Youth Organisations, Professor Jane Elizabeth Hillston professor, Helen Eileen Langton vice-chancellor, University of
lifeboat station, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Catherine Daley lately constable, British Transport services to young people in Essex Emma Elizabeth quantitative modelling, University of Edinburgh, Suffolk, services to education Elizabeth Delia Larkin
services to maritime safety Margaret Mary Bull Police, services to law and order Nizamuddin Fry (Emma Bristow) services to motor sports and services to computer science and to women in science founder and president, Friends of Rosie, services to
governor, Mandeville School, Aylesbury, Noordin Damani consultant microbiologist, Southern women in sport John Fyffe services to education and Ronald Hinds lately non-executive director, Scottish charity, especially childhood cancer research Andrew
Buckinghamshire, services to education Christopher Health and Social Care Trust, services to infection to young people in Scotland Pauline Marie government, for public service Fiona Jane Hoban James Laver services to education in Bradford, West
Robert Burghes trustee, NHS Charities Together, prevention and control in Northern Ireland and to the Gamester founder, Connector Media Community assistant remembrancer (ceremonial), Guildhall, City Yorkshire Anne-Marie Lavery head of facilities
services to the NHS Malcolm Roger Burnell World Health Organisation Andrew James Daniels Interest Company, and co-founder and director, the of London, services to the City of London and to the management, Prime Minister's Office, for public
founder, It’s My Shout Productions, services to the foster carer, Credo Care, services to children with Sewing Room, services to social enterprise and to the state funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II Zoe Branka service Julie Lawrence lately director, national
creative industries in Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan Nicola disabilities Frances Elizabeth Davies manager, community in Lancashire Janice Rosanne Gault Holland for charitable service, particularly during executive committee, and general secretary of office
Anne Butler chief executive officer, Young K&C, Royal Totally Different Playscheme, Bushey, Hertfordshire, chief executive, Northern Ireland Hotels Federation, Covid-19 Michaela Anne Hollywood services to staff, Labour Party, for political service Mark
borough of Kensington and Chelsea, services to the services to children and young people with special services to tourism and hospitality Rosamund Jane people with disabilities Arlene Victoria Holmes Maurice Leach founder and editor, Wonkhe, services
play sector Delia Alexandra Button services to the educational needs Rhiannon Louise Davies Gentle for voluntary service to children with special Henderson associate professor of Classics and to higher education Paul Jeffrey Leach paediatric
community in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire Carroll campaigner, maternity services, Shrewsbury and needs and their families in West Sussex Diana ancient history, Durham University, services to and special care dentist, services to children with
Carson Buxton deputy chief executive, Highlands and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, services to maternity Judith Gerald chief executive officer, Book Trust, education Jonathan Holt lately head, customs special educational needs and disabilities in northwest
Islands Enterprise, services to economic development healthcare Michel Jean Dearman honorary vice- services to reading and children’s literature Michael process owner project management office, HM Wales Judith Elizabeth Alison Ledger founder and
in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland Mary president, Wooden Spoon Yorkshire Region, for Frederick Gibbons commissioner operations, St John Revenue and Customs, for public service and to chief executive, Baby Lifeline, services to pregnant
Elizabeth Byatt services to education, to the arts charitable services to young people Brenda Rivera Ambulance, for voluntary service Mary Gillespie neurodiversity awareness Lawrence George women and newborn babies Stewart Andrew
and to charity in Moray Lorna Lynn Canning senior Agon Deocampo ward manager, Acute Medicine, people and capability team, HM Treasury, services to Langford Honeysett head of financial scrutiny, Leggett interim director for roads, Transport
policy adviser, Home Office, for public service Emma Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, services to people with disabilities Sarah Na-Lamle Godwin committee office, House of Commons, services to Scotland, services in Scotland on the demise of Her
Rose Cantrell founder and chief executive officer, nursing Anna Marta Dezyk (Hanya Dezyk) deputy Lamptey founder, ShowerBox, services to homeless parliament Edward Hosking team leader, Ministry of Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Hearl Roger Lenton
First Days Children's Charity, services to children and chairwoman, Association of Ukrainians in Great people Alice Karen Good founder, Sunflower Sisters, Defence, services to defence Professor Rachid chair of trustees, Wellspring Academy Trust, Barnsley,
vulnerable people in Wokingham, Berkshire Angela Britain, services to Ukrainian refugees Bawa Singh services to Ukrainian refugees Mark Andrew Hourizi director, Institute of Coding, services to the West Yorkshire, services to education Marcella
Devonte Caroo head, physical security compliance, Dhallu lately councillor and mayor, Sandwell Goodway founder and chief executive, the Matthew digital sector Robert Ian Houston founder and Leonard services to social work in Northern Ireland
Barclays UK, services to the community in the London metropolitan borough council, West Midlands, for Tree Project Charity, services to charity and to chairman of trustees, Boost Charitable Trust, services and internationally Rabbi Stanley Levin (Shlomo
borough of Newham Raymond Stephen Carroll political and voluntary service Professor Philip disadvantaged people Jon-Paul Graham head of city to people with disabilities and to disadvantaged Levin) services to interfaith and to the Jewish
transport manager, Northern Ireland Office, services in Michael Dickens founder, Added Scientific, services operations, Greater London Authority, services to the communities through sport Ian Philip Howard vice- community in the London borough of Camden Robin
Northern Ireland on the demise of Her Majesty Queen to the additive manufacturing sector Sean Joseph state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II president, World Triathlon, services to triathlon Inna Lipscombe learning facilitator, Marshall Skills
Elizabeth II Gillian Karen Carver headteacher, St Dillon principal, Primate Dixon Primary School, William Gerald Gray chairman, Royal Highland and Hryhorovych head teacher, St Mary’s Ukrainian Academy, Cambridge, services to further education and
Ann's School, Hanwell, London borough of Ealing, Coalisland, Co Tyrone, services to education in Agricultural Society of Scotland, services to School, Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea, skills Helen Mary Lloyd services to cultural heritage
services to education Philip Julian Castang Northern Ireland Delyth Eirian Done head of school, agriculture, to charity and to the community in services to education and to the Ukrainian community conservation Patricia Joyce Longdon chairwoman,
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Honours
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Strategic Lay Forum, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Cross, services to mental health William Morgan with HIV Colin Shields services to ice hockey Kenneth Walker services to the hospitality industry
Trust, services to health and social care Rachel Anne patron and fundraiser, NSPCC, services to charity Samuel Shouksmith team leader, Ministry of and to charity Rhoda Jean Walker volunteer,
Lopata co-founder, Sea-Changers, services to marine Selwyn Arthur Leslie Morgans lately manager, Defence, services to defence David Arthur Shreeve Northern Ireland Rare Diseases Partnership, services
nature conservation David Thomas Lowbridge-Ellis Aycliffe Secure Children’s Home, Durham, services to co-founder and director, Conservation Foundation, and to people with rare diseases in Northern Ireland
director of school improvement, Matrix Academy children’s social care Michelle Sharon Morris early environmental adviser, Archbishops’ Council, Church of Kingsley Cyril Ward founder, Rockfield Studios,
Trust, Walsall, West Midlands, services to education years language and communication pathway lead, England, services to the environment Andrew Paul services to music Jamie Antoney Ward-Smith
Adrian Lucas services to charity and veterans in Greater Manchester Combined Authority, services to Simpson head of digital communications, Department chairman, Co-Op Foundation, and lately chief executive
Scotland Karen Jane Lynch services to social speech and language therapy Reverend John Irvine for Culture, Media and Sport, services to government officer, Do-It Foundation, services to young people and
enterprise and to charity Steven Machin lately head Morrow chaplain, Northern Ireland Prison Service, communications James Simpson services to charity David Timothy Warner chairman, Local
of counter-terrorism, HM Prison Whitemoor, services services to prisoners and their families Professor wheelchair rugby league Michelle Gabriel Anita Trust, services to the community and voluntary sector
to HM Prison and Probation Service Ronald John Raja Anindya Sekhar Mukherjee consultant Simpson project co-ordinator, St Columbs Park Derek Alexander Watson quaestor and factor,
MacLean manager, Grimsay Boat Shed, services to psychiatrist, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS House, services to young people in Northern Ireland University of St Andrews, services to entrepreneurship
boat building and to heritage crafts in the Western Foundation Trust, services to people with fetal alcohol Inderjit Singh for voluntary and charitable services and to sustainability Gillian Anne Weaver co-
Isles Annie Macsween honorary president, Comunn spectrum disorders Jennie Muskett composer, to the community in Scotland Harvinder Singh Rai founder, Human Milk Foundation, services to charity
Eachdraidh Nis (Ness Historical Society), services to services to music Christine Elizabeth Myhill sergeant, West Midlands police, services to policing and to human milk banking Helen Catherine Webb
the Scots Gaelic language Barbara Mary Maddison libraries and heritage manager, Gateshead and and to the Sikh community Rosalind Margaret co-founder, Sea-Changers, services to marine nature
honorary vice-president, National Council of Women of chairwoman, Association of Senior Children’s and Slinger chairwoman, Centre Membership Committee, conservation Susan Mary Wilkinson lately county
Great Britain, services to young women Sally Education Librarians, services to public libraries during Pony Club, services to equestrianism and to charity co-ordinator, Farm Community Network, services to
Magnusson broadcaster and author, services to Covid-19 Robert Malcolm Naish lately protector, David Mark Smith lately chief executive, Energy the farming community in Somerset John Beresford
people with dementia and their carers Rizwana Canal and River Trust, services to the canal network Networks Association, services to the energy industry Willett police staff, Office of the Sussex Police and
Mahmood-Ahmed headteacher, Carlton Junior and Lennox Floyd Nembhard chief immigration officer, James Smith team leader, Ministry of Defence, Crime Commissioner, services to policing and to
Infants School, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, services to Home Office, for public service and to diversity Shiva services to defence Janine Faye Smith commercial community cohesion in Sussex David Henry
education Andrew Malcolm chief executive officer, Chandra Niraula pandit, Brigade of Gurkhas, and digital resilience manager, Department for Work Williams vice-chairman, D2N2 Local Enterprise
W H Malcolm Ltd, services to the transport industry Ministry of Defence, for pastoral services to military and Pensions, for public service Stephen Robert Partnership, and chairman, Geldards LLP, services to
Anthony Kevin Male services to charity and to the personnel Alan Stephen Noake assistant county Smith lately chief engineer, BAE Systems Digital business and to the economy in Derbyshire and
community in Portsmouth, Hampshire Dennis John commissioner, global projects and community impact Intelligence, services to defence Hina Solanki Nottinghamshire Charles Emmanuel Williams
Mardon chairman, Citizens Advice Exeter, services to (Kent Scouts) and Deal, Walmer, Sandwich and founder, Sol Cosmedics, services to business and to (Charlie Dark) founder, Run Dem Crew, services to
vulnerable people in Exeter, Devon John Michael District, services to young people in Kent Barry charity Professor Eva Sorensen professor, chemical running and to young people Lynn Willis operations
Marren founder, Company Shop Group, services to Joseph Nolan chairman of trustees, Eden Academy engineering, University College London, services to manager, Sellafield Ltd, services to business Barbara
alleviating food poverty Camilla Marshall deputy Trust, services to education Damian Benedict Nolan education and chemical engineering Glenda Wilson programme adviser, Childcare Works, services
head of news, Prime Minister's Office, services to the divisional manager, adult social care services, Halton Stephanie Spencer chairwoman, Trinity School, to education Professor Bencie Woll professor of
state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II borough council, services to adult social care Dagenham, London borough of Barking and Dagenham, sign language, University College London, services to
Hannah McGarry McLachlan Marshall (Anna Professor Christine Susan Norton professor of services to children with disabilities and special higher education and deaf people Hazel Verena
Marshall) services to lawn bowls Andrew Clive clinical nursing research, Florence Nightingale Faculty educational needs Patricia Clare Spruce (Patricia Constance Wood co-founder and editor, Slightly
Martin head of access and services, House of of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King's Murphy) associate director, people services and Foxed, services to literature Katherine Wooder
Commons, services to parliament and to the state College London, services to nursing research Peter recruitment, Yeovil District Hospital and Somerset executive headteacher, the Bridges Federation, London
funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Roy Cairns O'Hara chief executive, OLM Systems, NHS Foundation Trusts, services to the NHS Jyotsna borough of Southwark, services to education Robert
Martin volunteer engineering co-ordinator, RAF services to social care Sally Jane Orange fundraiser, Srikanth violinist, services to music Patricia Mary Woodland wood grainer and decorative artist,
Museum, and chairman, the Aerospace Museum services to charity and to mental health Sally Angela Stafford vice-chairwoman, Battersea, services to services to art and to heritage crafts Claire
Society, services to heritage Julia Margaret O'Sullivan board member, Turn2Us, services to charity and to visually impaired people Non Elizabeth Woods head gardener, Hillsborough Castle,
Maskery highly specialist paediatric occupational charity and to families affected by poverty during Davina McCall, the TV presenter, is Rhiannydd Stanford services to triathlon in Wales services to horticulture and to the community in
therapist, Belfast Trust, services to children Andrew Covid-19 Rhiannon Catherine Page ceremonials made MBE for services to broadcasting Jane Elizabeth Stanford-Beale volunteer and chief Northern Ireland on the demise of Her Majesty Queen
Mason officer, National Crime Agency, services to law team, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, for executive officer, Autism Berkshire, services to young Elizabeth II Colin Richard Woolford strategic
enforcement Sonia Maulson general manager public service Asitha Panditharatna director of bereaved by homicide Elizabeth Anne Rix chief people with autism and their families Richard security director and counterterrorism adviser, City of
(north), Southeastern Trains, services to rail transport employment services, the Forward Trust, services to nurse, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Antony Stanton campaigner, maternity services, London Corporation, services to the state funeral of
and to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen further education and skills Professor Catherine services to nursing leadership Paul Anthony Roach Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, services Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Margaret Wright
Elizabeth II William Jonathan McArthur Rebecca Parker chairwoman, Institute of Place town manager, Windsor, Eton and Ascot, and deputy to maternity healthcare Jadwiga Lisa Stepanovic services to the third sector in Scotland Graham
emergency planning officer, Northern Ireland Management, Manchester Metropolitan University, chairman, ceremonial events planning group, Royal founder and chief executive officer, Social Ark, Philip Yandell chief executive, Yandell Media Group,
Ambulance Service, services to emergency planning services to education and to place management Anita borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, services to the services to young people and to social enterprise services to the media and to the food industry
preparedness, resilience and response Thomas Parmar head, lessons from Auschwitz project, state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Sonia Sandra Stephenson head of personnel security, Sharon Young principal, project engineering,
McAuley acting head, sign language policy team, Holocaust Educational Trust, services to Holocaust Heather Roberts services to the community in Department for International Trade, for public service Elizabeth Line, Transport for London, services to rail
Department for Communities, Northern Ireland education and remembrance Professor Kanwal John Shropshire Claire Elisabeth Robinson consultant John Benedict Stepney chair, Nationwide transport in London Susan Jane Young (Susan
Executive, services to deaf people in Northern Ireland Pasi lately centre director, Royal London Haemophilia radiographer in forensic imaging, University Hospitals Association of Blood Bikes, services to the NHS and to Alder) people policy leader, HM Revenue and
Mark McBride-Wright founder and chief executive Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust, services to the NHS of Leicester NHS Trust, services to forensic charity John Alexander Eadie Stevenson Customs, services to the state funeral of Her Majesty
officer, EqualEngineers, services to diversity, equity Jay Prakash Patel qualified person assessor, investigations Graham Robinson policy manager, volunteer, Tennis Scotland, services to lawn tennis Queen Elizabeth II Janet Sally Zmroczek lately
and inclusion in engineering David Alexander AstraZeneca, services to public health during Covid-19 Scottish Government, services to equality in Scotland James Brown Stewart lately chairman, Hamilton head, European and Americas collections, British
Mervyn McCall services to business and to the Jeeta Patel lately senior policy adviser, Cabinet Suzann Marie Robinson (Suzann McLean) chief Sound Talking Newspaper, services to visually Library, services to literature and to heritage
community in Northern Ireland Davina Lucy Pascale Office, for public service Christine Grace Payne executive officer and artistic director, Theatre impaired people in Hamilton, Lanarkshire James
McCall services to broadcasting Gerard Joseph lately general secretary, Equity, services to the trade Peckham, services to the arts and to marginalised Wilson Stockan leader, Orkney Isles council, services BEM
McCann services to victims of historical institutional union movement Hilary Jasmine Erica Paynter young people in London Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd) to local government The Rev Robert Stevenson Anthony John Adkins fundraiser, services to charity
abuse in Northern Ireland Michael Phillip Anthony exhibitions secretary, Society of Wood Engravers, Paul Damian Rodgers staff officer, Headquarters Stockman minister, Fitzroy Presbyterian Church, Brian Alcock hand grinder, services to heritage crafts
McCann head of maintenance operations, House of services to the arts Professor Robert Charles Infantry, Ministry of Defence, services to the army and Belfast, services to peace and reconciliation Karen (to be dated 29 May 2023) Idris Ali provision
Commons, services to parliament and to the state Pearson lately chairman, clinical ethics committee, to veterans Ian Malcolm Rogers athletics official, Stone team leader, Ministry of Defence, services to contracts manager, Department for Work and
funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Rosemary Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, services services to athletics Helen Margaret Rooker defence Kelly Stone head of airport operations, Pensions, for voluntary service to the community in
McCarthy head of global workforce, education and to medicine, to medical education and to health (Helen Hughes) lately voluntary chief executive Heathrow airport, London, services to women in Oldham, Greater Manchester Icek Jankel Alterman
research, Health Education England, services to research and innovation Deborah Evelyn Pecover officer, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, services to charity, aviation engineering Sandra Strong chairwoman, services to Holocaust remembrance and education Gill
midwifery and maternity healthcare Mark Richard commission director, Arcadis, services to the state to the arts and to the community in Ludlow, customs and export licensing committee, British Andrew manager, Department for Work and Pensions
McClennon chairman, Institute for Apprenticeships funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Leanne Shropshire Alison Ross operations and culture Exporters Association, services to British exporters Job Centre, for public and charitable services in
and Technical Education, services to further education Jummai Pero founder, Leanne Pero Foundation, director, Auto Trader, services to the digital and Alan Edward Stubbs vice-president, Buglife, Fleetwood, Lancashire Ezekiel Abiodun Awoyomi
and apprenticeships Professor Wilson Glenn services to charity, particularly to minority ethnic technology Industry Erika Ann Rushton co-founder, services to invertebrate conservation Donna Marie inspector, British Transport Police, services to policing
McCluggage professor, Queen's University, Belfast, people with cancer Emma Louise Petrucci co- Kindred Liverpool City Region Community Interest Swan founder, Calmer Therapy, services to children and to young people Paul Maurice Axford royal
services to people with gynaecological cancer Vicky founder, Red Sky Foundation, services to health and to Company, services to civil society and to social with special educational needs and their families in ceremonial and honours officer, Scottish government,
Lee McClure actor, services to drama and to charity the community in northeast England Sergio Petrucci enterprise Alison Ryland lately head of healthcare, northeast England Robin Keiji Kingston Sykes services in Scotland on the demise of Her Majesty
Laura Ann McCorry head of Hillsborough Castle, co-founder, Red Sky Foundation, services to health and HM Prisons Usk and Prescoed, Aneurin Bevan lately head of import controls, Department for Queen Elizabeth II Preston Thomas Ayres Trustee,
Historic Royal Palaces, services in Northern Ireland on to the community in northeast England Margaret University Health Board, services to prison healthcare International Trade, for public service Richard James YMCA Milton Keynes, services to young people in
the demise of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Hazel Patricia Pieroni lately head of Employment Policy, in Monmouthshire Narinder Singh Sagoo services Symonds security incident policy and investigation Buckinghamshire Rahima Do Nascimento Aziz
McFarlane development officer, Royal National Pay and Reward, House of Lords, services to to charity Reverend Fiona Jean Sample founder team leader, Ministry of Defence, services to defence trustee, Aziz Foundation, services to young people
Institute of Blind People, for charitable services to Parliament and to the State Funeral of Her Majesty and chief executive officer, the Oswin Project, services Penelope Jane Taylor head, Newark College and Air Catherine Bailey lately nurse director for
people with sight loss Mary Katherine McGee Queen Elizabeth II Gail Fiona Pirkis co-founder and to the rehabilitation of offenders Bilal Bin Saqib co- and Space Institute, services to skills and employment musculoskeletal services, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
business engagement officer, Mid Ulster council, editor, Slightly Foxed, services to Literature Rabbi founder, One Million Meals, services to the NHS and in Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire Susan NHS Foundation Trust, services to nursing Elizabeth
services to tourism in Northern Ireland Michael Alan Plancey councillor, Hertsmere borough council, to the community in Stanmore, London borough of Taylor chairwoman, British Amateur Rugby League Susan Baitson founder, High Net Connect, services
Albert Paul McGrath founder and chief executive and emeritus rabbi, Borehamwood and Elstree Harrow Prodaman Kumar Sarwal lately trustee, Association, and vice-president, Rugby Football to business and to entrepreneurs Perminderjeet
officer, the Muscle Help Foundation, for charitable Synagogue, for political and public service Shubha Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust, and chairman, League, services to rugby league football Iryna Kaur Banwait founder and managing director,
services to people with muscular dystrophy Margaret Platt (Shubha Sathyendranath) merit scientist, Master Ropemakers Ltd, services to heritage and to Terlecky chairwoman, Association of Ukrainian Banwait Group Holdings, services to social care Joan
McGuckin services to survivors and victims of remote sensing, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, services the charitable sector Jacqueline Ann Sawdon co- Women in Great Britain, services to Ukrainian Linda Barnett services to the community in
historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland to oceanography David William Pond lately chief founder, the Exodus Project, services to young people refugees Karel Victoria Thomas executive director, Hampton, London borough of Richmond upon Thames
Professor Lynne McKenna dean, education and executive, Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby, services to and to charity in Barnsley, South Yorkshire Martin British Universities Finance Directors Group, services Zoe Bennett entrepreneur and motivational speaker,
society, University of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, wheelchair rugby David John Poole clockmaker, Harold Sawdon co-founder, the Exodus Project, to higher education Lloyd Justin Thomas lead, services to charity and inspiring disadvantaged people
services to education Martina Elizabeth McKenzie services to horology and heritage crafts Andrew services to young people and to charity in Barnsley, apprenticeships and funded skills, the Co-Operative Graham Michael Benson services to young people
chief executive, Staffline Ireland, and chairwoman, Kenneth Portersmith chief executive, Music Stuff, South Yorkshire Clare Elizabeth Scherer chief Group, services to food retail Robert Thompson and to the community in Goole, East Riding of
policy and advocacy, Federation of Small Businesses, services to young people and to the community in executive officer, the Naval Children's Charity, services chef, services to hospitality, to tourism and to charity Yorkshire Carol Antonio Bent senior youth worker,
services to the economy in Northern Ireland Ian Manchester Sandrasekeram Premachandran to Royal Navy families Kendra Amelia Schneller Terri Thomson deputy head, protocol and honours The Avenues Youth Project, Queen's Park, London,
McLaughlan lately chief executive, Youth Scotland, adviser, Care Quality Commission, and emergency homeless and inclusion health programme lead, team, Scottish government, services in Scotland on services to young people in the City of Westminster
services to charity and to youth work Maria Teresa medicine consultant, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Queen’s Nursing Institute and Nurse Practitioner, the demise of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Paul Cheryl Bertschi Tutor, Southend Adult Community
McLoughlin chairwoman, women’s artistic Trust, services to health and care Colin John Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, services Nigel Todd manager, Green Flag Award Scheme and College, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, services to education
gymnastics technical committee, British Gymnastics, Preston lately chief executive, Shropshire Wildlife to homeless and inclusion health nursing Susannah Keep Britain Tidy, services to public parks and to the Balvir Mohan Bhalla founder, Super Cool Friends
services to gymnastics Joan Elizabeth McParland Trust, services to wildlife conservation in Shropshire Ruth Schofield services to journalism and to community in Liverpool Iain Douglas Tolhurst Charity, services to the community in Ilford, London
services to people with myalgic encephalomyelitis and and the Marches Maxine Hannah Pritchard head, diversity in the broadcasting industry Joe Scotland organic farmer, services to agriculture Yuliana borough of Redbridge, particularly during Covid-19
to their families and carers in Northern Ireland financial inclusion and vulnerability, HSBC UK, services director, Studio Voltaire, services to art Jane Topazly founder, Buddy With, services to business Nighat Bhola director, Humdum UK, services to food
Reverend Tracey Elaine McRoberts rector, Saint to vulnerable people Jennifer Elizabeth Pugh chief Elizabeth Scott divisional bereavement project lead and to female entrepreneurship Rachel Tranter- provision and to the community in the London borough
Matthew’s Parish, and rural dean of Mid-Belfast, medical officer, Irish Horse Racing Regulatory Board, midwife, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Needham director, Group for Education in Museums, of Barking and Dagenham, particularly during Covid-19
services to the community in Belfast Robb Merchant services to horse racing in Northern Ireland Caroline Trust, and lead and founder, National Bereavement services to museums, to heritage and to the arts Jean Jennifer Susan Blackwell founder, DanceSyndrome,
owner, White Castle Vineyard, services to viticulture Thomson Rae libraries and community assets Midwives’ Forum, services to bereaved parents Verona Trewick business management lead, services to disabled people Margaret Francis
Heather Patricia Miller lately head of quality, manager, London borough of Newham, services to Sophie Elizabeth Scowen major ceremonials Department for Work and Pensions, services to Dorothy Boadella lately association chairwoman,
excellence and development, South Eastern Regional public libraries Aftabur Rahman chief executive manager, Greater London Authority, services to the voluntary organisations Terence David Alan Tricker Plymouth Moorview, Conservative Party South West,
College, services to education in Northern Ireland officer, Legacy West Midlands, services to heritage state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II services to the community in Staffordshire Katharine for political service Claire Marie Bond constable,
Lorna Marie Millington future networks manager, and to the community in Birmingham Nimisha Raja Richard Anthony Selby managing director Pro Steel Jane Turnpenney chief executive officer, Children Staffordshire police, services to women in policing and
Cadent Gas, services to business and to the founder, Nim's Fruit Crisps, services to small and Engineering and national chairman, Institute of First Academy Trust, Edmonton, London borough of to the community in Staffordshire Robert Frank
environment Gary George Ernest Mitchell senior medium enterprises Adil Rashid services to cricket Directors, services to the economy and to charity in Enfield, services to education Ian Robert Twinley Bonner curator, Greater Manchester fire service
lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's Adam Ernest Reid senior security strategic Wales John Alexander Charles Sennett police chairman, East Anglia Reserve Forces and Cadets museum trust, services to fire and rescue heritage
University Belfast, services to nursing and dementia communications manager, Northern Ireland Office, staff, Metropolitan Police Service, services to policing Association, for voluntary service to defence and to Nigel Thomas Bowers chairman, Chatterley
care Professor Terrie Edith Moffitt chairwoman, services to the state funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II Farrukh Tasnim Shah consultant haematologist, the community in the east of England William Peter Whitfield Friends, services to heritage Linda Bowley
social behaviour and development, King's College John Henderson Reid chairman of trustees, Whittington Health NHS Trust, services to Upham executive director, Growing Space, services to volunteer, services to charity and to the community in
London, services to social science Rizwan Wali Trimontium Museum, services to culture and to thalassaemia and sickle cell patients Sarah Isobel mental health in Newport, Wales David Upjohn the London borough of Redbridge Gail Ann Boyd for
Mohammed services to the community in Glasgow heritage in Scotland Norman Victor Reid staff Sharpe lately support staff member, National foster carer, Credo Care, services to children with voluntary services to the community in the Clogher
Professor Mark John Monaghan consultant clinical officer, Department for Communities, Northern Ireland Assembly for Wales, for political and public service disabilities Elliot David Vaughn founder, GiveOut, Valley, County Tyrone Margaret Kathleen Bracey
scientist in echocardiography and director of non- Executive, services to social housing Petro Rewko Catherine Annette Shaw lead advanced nurse services to charity and to the LGBTQ+ community Lisa chairwoman, South Gloucestershire branch, The Royal
invasive cardiology, King's College Hospital NHS board chairman, Association of Ukrainians in Great practitioner, NHS Highland, services to nursing in rural Serafina Ventura services to cybersecurity and to British Legion, for voluntary service to veterans and to
Foundation Trust, services to cardiology (to be dated Britain, services to the Ukrainian community Martin Scotland Natalie Susannah Shenker co-founder, diversity and inclusion Arturo Vilches-Moraga the community in South Gloucestershire Anthony
18 May 2023) Derek Moore community development Richard Finch Reynolds volunteers co-ordinator, Human Milk Foundation, services to charity and to consultant geriatrician and physician, Northern Care Brooke founder, Bumble Bee Barbarians mixed ability
worker, North West Cultural Partnership, services to MissionAssist Charity, services to indigenous human milk banking Fallon Suzanne Michelle Alliance NHS Group, services to geriatric patients contact rugby union team, services to people with
the community in Londonderry Janice Kathleen languages Suzanne Jacqueline Richards Sherrock services to darts Mercy Lusungu Shivani Anika Walia founder, Anika Food Charity, disabilities Norman Brown group scout leader, 3rd
Moore senior psychosocial practitioner, British Red campaigner, Smile for Joel, services to people Shibemba speaker and campaigner, services to people services to the alleviation of food poverty David Hindley Scout Group, services to young people in
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Greater Manchester William Austin Brown services Risk and resilience officer, Aberdeenshire council, services to tourism and to hospitality in Northern
to the community in Coalville, Leicestershire Sheila services in Scotland on the demise of Her Majesty Ireland Kenneth Edgar Munday services to charity
Margaret Bruce musical director, Cancer Fund for Queen Elizabeth II Richard William Wakerley and to the community in Westfield, East Sussex Alan
Children, Inverness, services to the community in Easom services to the community in Melton Victor Naylor group scout leader, 10th North Leeds
Inverness and the Highlands Kimberly Bryans Mowbray, Leicestershire Steven Paul Edney (Grammar School At Leeds) Scout Group, services to
services to community managed libraries in the fundraiser, Brittle Bone Society, services to charity young people John Anthony Newbould for
London borough of Bexley Karen Bullock founder, Rebecca Elizabeth Sarah Edwards services to voluntary services to ecological surveying and data
Snydale Riding for the Disabled Association, services rowing Kenneth Eliot volunteer, services to table collection Heather Elizabeth Newton services to
to charity and disabled people in Snydale, West tennis Gareth John Elliott services to Lowland the community in Crewe and Nantwich, Cheshire
Yorkshire Juliet Victoria Burgess-Ray community Rescue and to the community in Aylesbury, Laura Jane Newton-Harris services to the
access defibrillator co-ordinator, services to the Buckinghamshire Anthony Robert Ellis co-founder, community in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire Terasa
community in Rutland Gary Burks superintendent Kings Lynn Literature Festivals, services to literature Newton-Harris services to the community in
and registrar, City of London Cemetery and Christine Evans area organiser, Dunfermline, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire Denis Nicholl services to
Crematorium, services to the bereaved and to the Poppyscotland, for charitable services to veterans the Boys' Brigade in Northern Ireland Jane-Elizabeth
community in east London Jack David George Burt David Evans work coach, Department for Work and Nolan Trustee, Anfield Sports and Community Centre,
Runnymede District Vice President, 1st Egham Hythe Pensions, services to the community in Scarborough, services to young people and to the community in
Scout Group, services to young people and to the north Yorkshire Kathleen Margaret Evans Liverpool Ann Elizabeth Norman lately professional
community in Egham Hythe, Surrey Lydia Monica chairwoman, Leeds Lieder, services to the arts lead for criminal justice and learning disabilities, Royal
Burton chairwoman, British Wheel of Yoga, services Barbara Ann Ewart lately public health nurse, College of Nursing, services to healthcare Access Joan
to yoga Francis Michael Callaghan for voluntary services to the community in Northern Ireland Vikki Mary Norman scout leader, 1st Eye Scout Group,
services to the community in County Tyrone and Ewen services to the community in Coquetdale, services to young people and to the community in
County Fermanagh Margaret Patricia Calver Morpeth, Northumberland Sherree Fagge head of Suffolk Suzanne Jayne Oldnall domestic abuse
treasurer, Norwich Table Tennis League and Committee nursing palliative and end of life care, NHS England, advocate, services to the Victims of Domestic Abuse
Member, Norfolk County Table Tennis Association, services to healthcare Marigold Jacqueline Louise Simon Timothy Graham Otter services to the
services to table tennis David Euan Campbell Farnell-Watson creator and ward co-ordinator, community in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton,
founder, Strathearn Artspace, services to culture in Neighbourhood Watch South Richmond, services to the particularly during Covid-19 Rebecca Oyeyemi
Perthshire Richard Menzies Campbell manager, community Henry Finney voluntary boxing coach, Oyelami senior programme manager, policy and
Arbroath Football Club, services to association football services to boxing and to young people in Hyde, programme management, Cabinet Office, services to
and to the community in Angus Margaret Carey Greater Manchester Julie Flaherty services to the The poet and novelist Ben Okri is knighted for services to literature the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
service delivery coach, Department for Work and Northern Ireland Child Funeral Fund Daniel Leslie Andrew Paul Padmore artistic director and
Pensions, services to the community in Hull, East Ford founder, Capel Comets Youth Football Club, Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, particularly during Covid- England, services to Forestry Stuart James conductor, Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir, services to
Riding of Yorkshire Glyn Caron services to the services to youth football in Dorking, Surrey 19 Reginald David Harrison services to Langworthy manager, England over-60s walking music Barry Arnold Palmer head of safety and
community in Llanyravon, Cwmbran Tarpe Catford Elizabeth Anne Forde services to community disadvantaged young people and to the community in football team, services to association football and security, Tate, services to the state funeral of Her
Co-ordinator, Powerhouse, services to charity and development in Mid-Ulster Julie Ann Forrest Merseyside Karolynne Anne Hart cultural and arts walking football Gillian Lauder hairdresser, services Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Hetalban Mayank Patel
women with learning disabilities Anndeloris Marina honours and protocol manager, Scottish government, programme manager, Gateshead Libraries, services to to the community in Grangemouth, Stirlingshire compliance and investigation officer, HM Revenue and
Chacon chief executive officer, Bristol Black Carers, services in Scotland on the demise of Her Majesty public libraries and to the arts Magdalena Harvey Sandra Lawrence founder and director, Cornwall Customs, services to homeless people in Newcastle
services to charity and to the community in Bristol Queen Elizabeth II Naomi Forrester-Soto reader in director, Polish White Eagle Appeal, services to Accessible Activities Programme, services to families upon Tyne Virendra Mahendrakumar Patel
Caroline Ann Joan Chadwick director, Biomedical Vector Biology, Keele University, services to public Ukrainian refugees and the provision of humanitarian with disabled children and young people Robert technical support partner, John Lewis and Partners,
Services Unit, University of Birmingham, services to communication during Covid-19 Pauline Jane aid to the people of Ukraine Carole Angela Hayes Lewis special inspector, South Wales Police Special services to the community in Hampshire Ian Pattison
humane animal research Edna May Chapple services Franklin cleaning supervisor, St Brendan's Sixth Form school crossing patrol officer, Cambridgeshire county Constabulary, services to policing Colette Elizabeth lately chairman, NHS Sunderland Clinical
to the community in Sedgley, West Midlands Jeanne College, Bristol, services to further education Junior council, for voluntary and charitable services in St Lock services to the community in Warrenpoint, Commissioning Group. services to the NHS Corina
Catherine Chattoe lately chairwoman, board of Jay Frood fundraiser and anti-bullying ambassador, Neot's, Cambridgeshire Lindsay Martin Hedmann County Down Jeanne Louise Long founder, Happy Antonette Pearce Programme and policy manager,
trustees, Against Breast Cancer, for charitable services services to vulnerable children Jeffery Edward Fry trampolining coach, services to trampolining Alan Handbag, for charitable services to disadvantaged Land Transport National Security, Department for
to people with Cancer Rekesh Chauhan pianist and Meet and Greet Host, Waterloo Station, London, South Christopher Henshaw team leader, Environment people in Bristol, Gloucestershire and Swindon Elaine Transport, services to the state funeral of Her Majesty
composer, services to music, to charity and to mental Western Railway, services to the railway industry Agency National Coarse Fish Farm, services to the Lowe services to the community in Marske-on-Sea, Queen Elizabeth II Teresa Maryann Pearson Station
health in the British Asian community, particularly Caroline Susan Galloway freelance angling coach, environment and to freshwater fisheries James North Yorkshire Tara Mackings services to the manager, Staines and Windsor and Eton Riverside,
during Covid-19 Deborah Chestnutt project co- services to young people and to disadvantaged Austin Hetherington for voluntary services to police community in Tyne and Wear, particularly during South Western Railway. services to the state funeral
ordinator, Good Morning Ballymena, services to older communities Paul Anthony Gardner services to the officers in Northern Ireland Georgina Hewes Covid-19 Helen Elaine Maguire services to the of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Rolf Penzias
people in County Antrim Ehsan Shahid Choudhry community in Hinckley, Leicestershire Colin Noel volunteer and fundraiser, The Children's Society, for community in Claygate, Surrey Kailash Malhotra services to Holocaust remembrance and education
co-founder, MH The Open Kitchen, services to the Garrett services to Violin Making Emma Justine charitable services to children and young people peer educator volunteer, Kidney Research UK, services Reginald Roy Pierce lately chairman, Business Radio
community in the London borough of Hounslow Garrett head of visitor experience, Tate, services to Angela Eugenie Hewitt founder trustee, to Kidney Organ Donation for Minority Ethnic Groups Council, Federation of Communication Services,
Graham Charles Clarke president, Frome Collegians the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Naturezones, services to nature conservation and Linda Frances Matthews lately director, Yateley services to business and radio communications Lewis
youth team, services to association football and to Christine Garrity founding director and director, education Katrina Louise Susannah Hicks Beach Industries for the Disabled Ltd and chief executive Thomas Potter founder, Geeky Medics and GP
young people in southwest England Julia Clarke Pollok Credit Union, services to the community in director of volunteer-led services, Mindsong and officer, Careers Development Group, WISE Ability, registrar, services to higher education and to medicine
lately deputy headteacher, Prince of Wales Primary Pollok, Glasgow John Gault services to the Trustee, Summerfield Charitable Trust, services to services to charity and to people with disabilities Peter Solomon Quigley for voluntary services to
School, London borough of Enfield, services to horticultural industry in Northern Ireland Krishna charity, to music and to the community in Coln St Anthony McAllister football coach, services to the community in Belfast Sally Ann Ralston
education Richard John Clarke Crew manager, Ghosh services to education and to the community in Aldwyns, Gloucestershire Christopher David association football and to young people in community engagement manager, Merseyrail, services
Suffolk fire and rescue service, services to the Fire London Alexander Gibson founder, Challenging Hingley lately head of visitor experience, Tate, Manchester Paul William McBride services to the to the rail industry and to charity in the Liverpool city
Fighters Charity and to the community in Suffolk Motor Neurone Disease, services to charity, services to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen community in Lisburn, County Antrim Angela Teresa region Paul Martin Reeves head of nursing for
Kathryn Cleland interim ward sister, Paediatric particularly to people with Motor Neurone Disease Elizabeth II Peter John Hollely regional event McCann head of community services, Lisburn and education and new roles, NHS England, services to
Outpatient Department and Short Stay Paediatric Susan Giles senior curator, World Cultures Collection, operations lead, St John Ambulance, services to the Castlereagh city council, services in Northern Ireland nursing Ronald Thomas Richards secretary, South
Assessment Unit, South Eastern Health and Social Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, services to UK state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Louie on the Demise of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II West Volleyball Association, services to volleyball and
Care Trust, services to health and social care Sarah heritage and museums Linda Anne Gillies health Carullo Horne deputy associate director of nursing, Dawn McConnell services to Cancer Patients in to the community in southwest England Judith Ann
Louise Clibbens participation business support and wellbeing caseworker, Decorum NI, services to the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Northern Ireland Anne McCormack chair, Broke not Richardson lifeboat press officer, Dungeness Lifeboat
manager, UK Parliament, services to the state funeral veterans’ community in Northern Ireland Deborah and NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard Clinical Broken, services to Disadvantaged People in Kinross, Station, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, services
of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Agnes Black Mary Louise Girvan services to the community in research fellow, services to nursing Christine Horton particularly during Covid-19 Anne McCreadie to maritime safety Lydia Catherine Riding deputy
Close chairwoman, Baby Haven, services to the County Down Pamela Vanessa Glasgow Baxter controller and housekeeper, Bryngwyn Hall, services to services to the community in Merkinch, Inverness head of programme management, Cabinet Office,
community in Belfast Geoffrey Cole chairman, founder AUsome Kids, services to Children with heritage and to charity in Wales Gary Raymond Patrick Gerald McCullough Campus Food and Drink, services to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen
Birmingham Trees for Life, services to horticulture and Autism in Cookstown, County Tyrone Carol Janice Howes services to table tennis, to young people and Queen's University Belfast, services to Higher Elizabeth II Suzanne Ripton services to Holocaust
to the environment Denzil Connick co-founder and Veronica Godby drama workshop leader and agent, to the community in Tunbridge Wells, Kent Amber Education in Northern Ireland Catherine Frances education and remembrance Victoria Robertson
life vice-president, South Atlantic Medal Association, services to drama and to the community in northwest Kate Hughes Military transport road safety and McCully Trustee, Cobbes Meadow Group, Riding for founder and chief executive, Kaleidoscopic UK, services
for voluntary service to Falklands war veterans Paul England Jacqueline Goddard leader in girlguiding, assurance manager, Ministry of Defence, services to the Disabled Association, services to charity and to to victims of domestic violence and to refugees Julia
Stuart Cording sergeant, North Yorkshire police, Essex South-East, services to young people in Essex the community in Oxfordshire Winsome Andrea people with disabilities in Canterbury, Kent John Robinson services to public libraries and to the
services to policing and to charity Jonathan David Peter William Godden services to disadvantaged Hull senior business strategy manager, Transport for Mark McDowell services to the community in community in northeast England Margaret
Covey tree nursery manager, trustee and treasurer, people and to the community in Bristol, particularly London. services to transport in London and to Slough, Berkshire Lynnette McElheron services to Elizabeth Robinson services to the Girlguiding
Moors Trees Charity, services to the environment during Covid-19 Victoria Golding wildlife diversity and inclusion Lilian Hunter services to the vulnerable people and to the community in Newton movement in Northern Ireland Thomas Pringle
Patricia Joyce Covington services to the community rehabilitator, Kent Wildlife Trust, services to community in Ingatestone, Essex Guy Melvin Hurst Abbot, Devon Jean Patricia McGrogan services to Robson fundraiser, for charitable services to the
in Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire Thomas Stephen education, to charity and to animal welfare Trevor president, Basingstoke Astronomical Society, services young women in Northern Ireland Catriona Marcia community in Newcastle upon Tyne Hilary Rodgers
Coyle war pension and armed forces compensation Gomes services to the community in the royal to amateur astronomy Simon Kenneth Hylands McLuckie chairwoman, Original Richmond Business services to homeless people and to the community in
scheme advocate, RMA — The Royal Marines Charity, borough of Greenwich, during Covid-19 Gwynne founder, Building Bridges Community Arts Theatre, and Tourism Association, services to the environment Kettering, Northamptonshire, particularly during
services to veterans and serving members of HM Dudley Goodfield tax specialist programme Lurgan, services to the arts and to the community in and to the community in Richmond, North Yorkshire Covid-19 Paul Francis Rodgers services to homeless
Armed Forces Russell William Crispin firefighter, recruitment lead, HM Revenue and Customs, services County Armagh Joan Helen Ikel coach, services to Alexander Blackburn McMenemy for voluntary people and to the community in Kettering,
London Fire Brigade, services to the fire and rescue to graduate recruitment and to Sport Gillian archery in Essex and the London borough of Redbridge service to the Scottish Schools Football Association Northamptonshire, particularly during Covid-19
service and to the community in east London Ian Margaret Gough services to education in County Genevieve Ann Irvine founder, SWELL — Supported and to the Scottish Football Association Roberta Ann Margaret Mary Rooney business support officer,
Jeffrey Cross customer service adviser, HM Revenue Armagh Caroline Helen Grasmeder deputy head, We Live Life, services to people affected by cancer in McMullan leader and treasurer, 2nd Benburb Boys' Patient and Client Support Services, Belfast Health
and Customs, services to the Welsh Ambulance operations and assurance, Cabinet Office, services to County Fermanagh Patricia Jeal services to the Brigade, services to young people in County Tyrone and and Social Care Trust, services to health and social
Service Trust The Hon Harriet Mary Margaret the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II community in Higham, Kent Sally Jane Johnson County Armagh Tracey Elizabeth McNickle project care Mandy Rowlatt head of prosecutions,
Cullen trustee, Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, Edwin John Gray services to choral music in founder, The Harry Johnson Trust, for charitable co-ordinator, Carrick Connect, services to young people Northamptonshire police, services to policing Sandra
services to literature Christine Ann Culleton lately Northern Ireland Andrew Michael Green physical services to People with Cancer Sian Margaret and to the community in Carrickfergus, County Antrim Louise Ruddock co-founder and owner, Scarlett &
community nurse, Aneurin Bevan Health Board, education teacher, New College Pontefract, West Johnson services to Squash in Wales Archibald Frank Meakin scout leader, 59th Newchapel Scouts, Mustard Ltd, services to business and to the voluntary
services to the NHS in southeast Wales Mary Yorkshire, services to sport and to education John Buchanan Johnston services to the community in services to young people in Stoke-on-Trent Ina Lesley sector in Norfolk and Suffolk Louise Russell founder
Catherine Daly services to young people and to the Leslie Stuart Griffiths coach, Swansea Harriers Cockenzie and Port Seton, East Lothian Julia Frances Melville unit leader, Smithton Girlguides, services to and chief executive, Give a Dog a Bone and an Animal
community in the Clogher Valley, County Tyrone Athletics Club, services to athletics in Wales Kay Lois Jones co-founder, John's Campaign, services to people young people and to the community in Smithton, a Home, services to charity and to tackling loneliness
Jessica Davey youth participant and volunteer, Grimshaw swimming coach, services to swimming with dementia Sandra Margaret Jones badminton Inverness-shire Andrew Chisholm Melvin lately and isolation in older people in Scotland Lynva Jane
Second Wave Centre for Youth Arts, services to young and to the community in the London borough of coach, services to badminton and to the community in pipe major, Williamwood Pipe Band and founder, Russell services to the environment in West
people in Deptford, London borough of Lewisham Jane Lewisham Ronald George Groves services to the Dorset Imogen Melissa Joss services to the Piping Services Scotland, services to traditional music Yorkshire Christopher Robin Rutt services to the
De Groot school nurse, Woldingham School, community in Chale, Isle of Wight Gillian Hagen community in Gloucestershire Stephen Lionel Judd and to the community in Glasgow Aruna Mene artist, community in Kilve, Somerset Sunethie Salig
Caterham, Surrey, services to nursing Malcolm John services to the community in Blidworth, police constable and leader, Essex volunteer Police services to fabric art, to charity and to sustainability services to law enforcement and to diversity
Leslie Dent services to the community in Gosport, Nottinghamshire Patrick Joseph Halpin district Cadets, Essex Police, services to policing and to young Katy Anne Merrington cultural gardener, The Jonathan Paul Sanderson services to athletics and
Hampshire Dorothy Dentith services to girlguiding events lead, St John Ambulance, services to the state people Martin Kapel services to Holocaust education Hepworth Wakefield, services to the arts and to the to the community in Telford and The Wrekin,
and to the community in Congleton, Cheshire Mary funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Veronica and remembrance Dorothy Joyce Kay volunteer, community in Wakefield, West Yorkshire Marion Shropshire Michael Frederick Arnold Sayer
Jean Devon services to the community in Glasgow Hammersley school crossing patrol officer, services Citizens Advice, Elmbridge West, services to Lynn Micklewright founder and manager, Shropshire services to the community in Bodham, Norfolk Joseph
and in Argyll and Bute Balbir Dhillon postmaster, to the community in Glengormley, County Antrim employment advice Sister Nuala Kelly services to Cat Rescue, services to feline welfare Claire Miller Henry Seddon founder, Zero Gravity, services to
services to the community in Birchwood, Cheshire Caroline Handley services to refugees and to the the community in Belfast Lynette Kennedy nurse senior public safety officer, City of edinburgh council, social mobility Nanar Setrakian Strategy and
Kuldeep Singh Dhillon Postmaster, services to the community in Ledbury, Herefordshire Mark Andrew consultant, learning disability, Camden Learning services in Scotland on the demise of Her Majesty protocol project manager, Cabinet Office, services to
community in Birchwood, Cheshire Judith Mary Hanna for voluntary services to the community in Disability Service, London borough of Camden, services Queen Elizabeth II Jonathan Cartmell Miller the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Dickins coach developer and volunteer, Riding for the County Londonderry Alison Marie Hanscomb to people with learning disabilities Aaron William services to charity in Scotland Mohammad Mirza Elaine Shallcross pickleball player, coach,
Disabled Association, services to charity and people station manager, Slough, Great Western Railway. Kerr services to disability awareness and to assisted caseworker, HM Revenue and Customs, services to administrator and International Federation of
with disabilities Jennifer Rose Ann Didcote services to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen running in the United Kingdom Oyovwe Sagbodje mental health Wendy Patricia Mitchell member, Pickleball ambassador, services to pickleball Maurice
Postmaster, services to the community in Bishop's Elizabeth II Kathryn Elizabeth Harley specialist in Kigho founder and chief executive officer, Widows York Minds and Voices, Dementia Engagement and Grahme Shearer services to the community through
Cleeve, Gloucestershire Kim Diver castle steward, paediatric dentistry, services to paediatric dentistry Empowerment Trust, services to bereaved people in Empowerment Project, services to people living with the YMCA in Carrickfergus, County Antrim Lucy
Hillsborough Castle, County Down, services in and dental education David Harling deputy director, Manchester Kay Christian King principal, Young dementia Judith Monk chairwoman, The Hastings Jessica Shuker Paralympic wheelchair tennis player,
Northern Ireland on the demise of Her Majesty Queen Learning Disability Nursing, NHS England, services to England Kindergarten, Pimlico, City of Westminster, and Rother YMCA, services to disadvantaged young services to sport Yasmin Sidhwa founder and
Elizabeth II Lawrence Patrick Doherty project the NHS and to people with learning disabilities, and services to early years education Anthony Charles people in East Sussex Dorothy Ann Moore school director, Mandala Theatre Company, services to drama
manager, Department for Work and Pensions, services to autistic people and their families Colin Norman Kingston scorer, services to cricket Paul Colin Kirby secretary, Crumlin Integrated Primary School, services Mark Simpson lately head of Public Enquiry Service,
to the community in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear Harris services to the community in Solihull, West quality improvement adviser, Care Quality to education in County Antrim Lynne Morgan House of Lords, services to parliament Jeanette
Philippa Jade Donegan services to people with Midlands Karen Anne Harris police staff, Citizens in Commission, services to health and social care Barry president, Ashford Middlesex Hockey Club, services to Anita Sloan services to knitwear design and to
disabilities and to the community in Middlesbrough, Policing, east regional co-ordinator and Suffolk Albert Kitchener services to railway heritage Priya hockey Maureen Morrison president, Arbroath diversity in the fine arts Bryan Frederick Smith
north Yorkshire, particularly during Covid-19 Sylvia manager, Suffolk Constabulary, services to policing Kumar general practitioner, Kumar Medical Centre, Fundraising Guild. for voluntary services to the Royal coach, services to athletics Eric Smith services to
Douglas founder, MsMissMrs, services to Women in Dominic Peter Harrison Lately director, public Slough, services to health improvement in southeast National Lifeboat Institution in Arbroath, Angus radio and to the community in Shropshire James
Glasgow Albert Duffus services to boxing, to health, Blackburn with Darwen borough council, England Ernest Randolf Langford fundraiser, St Emma Muldoon founder and chief executive, Simply Leslie Smith researcher, for voluntary service to
veterans and to charity in Inverness-shire, services to vulnerable people in Lancashire Patricia Michael's Hospice, Herefordshire, services to Charity Emma, services to Disabled People Martin Francis veterans of the Cyprus emergency and their families
Aberdeenshire and Moray Graeme George Duncan Mary Harrison services to the community in Lawrence Langton Forest Craftsperson, Forestry Mulholland Head Concierge, Europa Hotel, Belfast, John Desmond Smith services to music and to
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charity Kim Lorraine Smith services to the to human rights Vicky Bowman director, Myanmar hospitality team, protocol directorate, Foreign,
community in Winshill, Staffordshire, particularly Centre for Responsible Business, services to Commonwealth and Development Office, services to HOME OFFICE (FIRE)
during Covid-19 George Stables boxing coach and responsible business and to human rights in Myanmar British foreign policy Margot Raggett founder and
official, services to amateur boxing in Devon David Mark Cutts lately United Nations deputy regional director, Remembering Wildlife, services to
King’s Fire Service Medal
John Stallard services to mental health in the humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, services international wildlife conservation Professor Lauren Donna Joanne Bentley MBE head of strategic
Scottish Highlands Royston Esler Starkey services to humanitarian assistance Rob Harrison lately Rea professor of Latin American studies, University of safeguarding, Essex county fire and rescue service
to mineralogy Paul Stead leader, 9th Doncaster Scout director-general, Russia/Ukraine and director-general, Sheffield, services to education in Latin America and Roderic Andrew Hammerton lately chief fire
Group, services to young people in Doncaster, South analysis, Covid-19 taskforce, Cabinet Office, services the UK Rosamund Roberts honorary consul, the officer, Shropshire fire and rescue service Peter
Yorkshire Frank Dermott Stevens for voluntary to national security and British foreign policy Dr Bahamas, services to British nationals in The Bahamas Patrick Heath deputy chief fire officer, Tyne and
services to swimming in Northern Ireland Gordon Michelle Haslem director-general, Foreign, The Reverend Canon Malcolm Rogers Chaplain St Wear fire and rescue service Gavin Andrew
Brodie Stewart organist, teacher and conductor, Commonwealth and Development Office, services to Andrew’s Anglican church, Moscow, and the Tomlinson chief fire officer, Derbyshire fire and
services to music Susan Stone services to education British foreign policy Kumar Iyer director-general, Archbishop’s representative to the Russian Orthodox rescue service
Charles Edwin Summers director, volunteer and economics, science and technology, Foreign, Church, Moscow, Russia, services to the British and
project manager, Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust, Commonwealth and Development Office, services to Commonwealth community and to the Anglican church DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
services to heritage Geoffrey Bruce Sword lately British foreign policy Ian Levy director, Foreign, in Moscow, Russia Lynne Rossiter event manager,
chairman, Summerseat Players, services to drama and Commonwealth and Development Office, services to Protocol events and hospitality team, Protocol King’s Ambulance Service
to the community in Greater Manchester and east British foreign policy Jane Marriott lately high directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Medal
Lancashire Elizabeth Tait emergency response commissioner, British High Commission Nairobi, Office, services to British foreign policy Samantha
volunteer, British Red Cross, services to the state Kenya, services to British foreign policy Seller Pacht head of cyber threats, cyber policy Jason Christian Graham Killens chief executive
funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Shula department, National Security directorate, Foreign, officer, Welsh ambulance service Professor John
Anita Joan Tajima director, Windsor and Knights Bachelor Commonwealth and Development Office, services to William Martin chief paramedic and quality officer,
Maidenhead Youth and Community Counselling Professor Oliver Hart Lewis P and Linda L Geyser British foreign policy Karen Steen executive head London ambulance service
Service, services to the community in Berkshire David university professor, Harvard University, United States teacher, Falkland Islands Schools, Falkland Islands,
William Tarr services to Ashton Keynes Primary of America, services to economic theory services to education in the Falkland Islands James NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE
School and to the community in Ashton Keynes, Watler retired civil servant, the Cayman Islands,
Wiltshire Jane Tattam founder and lately Order of the British services to public service and education in the Cayman King’s Ambulance Service
chairwoman, Needed Urgent Remedial and Surgical
Equipment Charity, services to fundraising for the NHS
Empire Islands Zoe Weston team leader, Foreign,
Commonwealth and Development Office, services to
Medal
and to the community in Beverley, East Riding of British foreign policy Keith Wilson-Jabbar area Brian Joseph Maguire paramedic, Northern Ireland
Yorkshire Tracey Sandra Tatum lately manager, Mill CBE Jackie Baillie, deputy leader of the manager, Secure Technical Services Officers, British ambulance service
View Care Home, Bradford, West Yorkshire, services to Albert Mena lately financial secretary, government Scottish Labour Party, is made DBE Embassy Beijing, China, services to security across the
people with dementia Ernest Reginald Telford of Gibraltar, services to His Majesty’s government of China Network Sheila Windridge founder and SCOTTISH OFFICE
services to the Somme Nursing Home, Belfast, during Gibraltar Trustee, Edirisa UK, services to local communities in
Covid-19 Jaime Terese Eastham Thurston founder
services to vulnerable children in Kenya Victoria King’s Police Medal
and chief executive officer, 52 Lives, services to
OBE Beach Trustee, Friends of St Michael’s Girls Primary southwest Uganda Fouzia Younis lately head of
communications, British High Commission Islamabad, Malcolm Graham deputy chief constable, Police
Professor Andrew Bastawrous chief executive, School, Busembatia, Uganda, services to empowering
charity Trudi Elin Togneri lately senior technician, girls in Uganda Megan Bick trustee, British Pakistan, services to British foreign policy Service of Scotland Kenneth Edward MacDonald
Stirling High School, services to young people and to Peek Vision, services to eye health overseas Juliet de
Baubigny general partner, Bond Capital, services to Emergency Action in Russia and the Republics, assistant chief constable, Police Service of Scotland
the community in Stirling Katy Turner lately senior
carer, Caring Connections, services to social care British entrepreneurship, to charity and to the services to civil society development in eastern Europe
and central Asia Eric Blair honorary British consul,
BEM King’s Fire Service Medal
during Covid-19 Trevor Charles Tween ecologist, promotion of diversity within the technology sector Rosemary Caldwell volunteer, Kenya, services to
Philip Bigley trustee and chairman of the board of Monaco, services to British nationals in Monaco local communities and to animal welfare in Kenya Matthew Acton area commander, Scottish fire and
Luton borough council, services to conservation and Professor Frank Bowling professor of translational
trustees, Hostage International, services to those Shane Freeman desk officer, Foreign, Commonwealth rescue service
wildlife Roy Tyzack services to the community in and experimental medicine; Departments of Diabetes
affected by kidnap and hostage situations
Brentwood, Essex Rosemary Stacy Waddy district
internationally Andrew Bolton Wendy Yu curator in and Vascular Surgery, Manchester Foundation Trust,
and Development Office, services to British foreign
policy Sylvia Gallimore treasurer and trustee, Have
King’s Ambulance Service
logistics officer, St John Ambulance, services to the
state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II charge, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan services to medical organisations overseas John
Broadfoot chairman/founder, SOS Kit Aid, services to
Stick Will Travel, services to charity and to local Medal
Claudia Helen Walker member, group executive Museum of Art, New York, United States of America, communities in Spain and the United Kingdom
services to art and fashion Stephen Bull chairman, developing rugby around the world Gail Carreras Julie Shields head of service for the East Region,
committee, 1st Keswick Scout Group, services to Barbara Gray ex-chairwoman, Women’s Royal
Renewable UK; executive vice-president, Aker specialist paediatric physiotherapist, Gibraltar, Scottish ambulance service
young people in Cumbria Jane Elizabeth Walker Voluntary Service, Portugal, services to the Women’s
Solutions, services to the UK’s green transition and to services to the disabled community in Gibraltar Royal Voluntary Service and for community work in
president, Edinburgh, Lothian and Fife, British Red Duncan Collard desk officer, Foreign, Commonwealth JERSEY
Cross, for voluntary service to the Red Cross Kendal UK/Norway relations Matthew Carter group chief Lisbon, Portugal Erma Lewis founder and
executive officer, Depaul International, services to the and Development Office, services to British foreign
Walker Team leader, Ministry of Defence, services to
global humanitarian sector Julia Crouch deputy head policy Joe Connell security consultant, services to
chairwoman, Erma’s Jamaica Hospital Appeal fund; King’s Ambulance Service
defence Selwyn Richard Sykes Walker services to founder and trustee, Wheelchair Recycling We Can Do,
the community in Preston Candover, Hampshire of mission, British Embassy, Moscow, Russia, services security, counterterrorism and international security services to charity Barbara Morgan vice-consul, Medal
to British foreign policy Omar Daair British High Capacity Building St John Coombes director, Cyprus British Consulate General Los Angeles, United States
Eleanor Walsh swimming coach, services to International Financial Services Association, Cyprus, Jason Charles Hamon head of emergency planning,
swimming and to the community in Cockermouth, Commissioner Kigali, Rwanda, services to British of America, services to British nationals overseas
foreign policy and to international development services to the British community in Cyprus Peter resilience and operational support, States of Jersey
Cumbria Clive Edward Frank Waterman services to Daniel O Donoghue head, UK Visas and Immigration, ambulance service
Patrick Dunne chairman, EY Foundation and Cradock volunteer, Voluntary Service Overseas, British Consulate General New York, United States of
the Reading Male Voice Choir and to charity Ernest services to international development Francis
Anthony Watson chairman, Saffron Walden Museum chairman, Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA), America, services to UK visa operations in the
services to charity and to philanthropy in Africa and Dickinson heritage leader, services to armed forces ROYAL NAVY
Society, services to heritage and to the community in Americas Kay Rawbone co-founder and chief
the UK Dr David Ferrand former chief executive commemoration work in Malta and the UK Dr Joanna executive officer, Sailability Hong Kong Ltd, services Order of the Bath
Saffron Walden, Essex Hilary Maude Weedon Durbin chief of party, USAID Mikajy, Madagascar,
services to movement, dance and exercise Salomon officer, Financial Sector Deepening Kenya, Nairobi, to inclusive sailing in Hong Kong Alison Rogers
Kenya, services to international development services to biodiversity conservation in Madagascar
Jacques Weisser services to the Jewish community
Professor Ivor Gaber UK government adviser, Denise Ead former charity trustee, Helping Uganda
spouse of the chaplain, St Andrews Anglican Church,
Moscow, Russia, services to the British community in
KCB
and to Holocaust remembrance Leslie Roy Welling Schools, services to the education and health of Vice-Admiral Richard Charles Thompson
services to the community in Devizes, Wiltshire United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Russia Suzanne Romero clinical nurse manager,
Organization (UNESCO) and professor, political Children in Uganda and Rwanda Christopher Evans primary care centre, Gibraltar Health Authority, CB
Emma Wells founder, Riverside Rebels Running Club, co-owner of Applewood Permaculture Centre, adviser
services to fitness and to the community in Walton- journalism, University of Sussex, services to media Gibraltar, services to health in Gibraltar Barbara Rear Admiral James Godfrey Higham
freedom internationally Peter Hailey founder and to the Himalayan Permaculture Centre, and Rowe desk officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and
on-Thames, Surrey Matthew Wennington security Agroecology volunteer with Voluntary Service
operations manager, Prime Minister's Office, services director, Centre for Humanitarian Change, services to Development Office, services to British foreign policy ARMY
humanitarian assistance in east Africa Ursula Hart Overseas, services to international development Paul Sheppard secure technical services officer,
to the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Michael Graham Wheeler dental hygienist and deputy director, Foreign, Commonwealth and through the introduction and promotion of sustainable British embassy, Moscow, Russia, services to the Order of the Bath
Development Office, services to British foreign policy farming practices in Rural Nepal Dr Keith Farrell British embassy Moscow Ann Steele private
dental workforce lead tutor, Health Education England, vice-chairman, the Gibraltar Heritage Trust, services to
services to oral health in southwest England Steven James Hayward team leader, Foreign,
Commonwealth and Development Office, services to the protection and preservation of Gibraltar’s heritage
secretary to the deputy permanent representative, GCB
Wilcock services to the community in Trawden, United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, New General Sir Mark Alexander Popham Carleton-
British foreign policy David Heath counsellor, Helen Fennell president, Prime Skills Association, York, United States of America, services to British
Lancashire Joan Isobel Dean Willett fundraiser, Albufeira, Portugal, services to young people in the Smith
services to charity, particularly during Covid-19 political affairs, Foreign, Commonwealth and foreign policy David Wright Lisbon area
Jonathan Mark Williams senior engagement and Development Office, services to British foreign policy Algarve, Portugal Alex Franklin supply chain representative and lately vice-chairman, the Portugal KCB
James Hooley Joint head, Royal and Coronation Unit, manager, Crown Agents and Palladium, services to and Atlantic Islands branch of the Royal British Lieutenant General Nicholas Robert Macrae
protocol manager, Cabinet Office, services to the state international humanitarian emergency response Ian
funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Jacqueline Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Legion, services to the Royal British Legion in Portugal Borton
services to British foreign policy Jason James Gosling trustee and legal adviser, Hertford British
Wilson founder, Save Our Hedgehogs, services to
wildlife rehabilitation Mildred Wiltshire chief director-general, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Hospital Charity, France, services to British nationals Overseas Territories CB
Foundation, services to UK/Japan relations Shamini in France Kelvin Green lately consular regional Major General Paul Raymond Griffiths, Major
marshall co-ordinator, British Motorsport, services to
Jayanathan barrister-at-law; chief executive officer, director, Sub-Saharan Africa, British High Commission Police Medal General Timothy John Hodgetts, Major General
motorsport Andrew Wing services to the community Pretoria, South Africa, services to British nationals Colin Richard James Weir
in Gosport, Hampshire Anne Wingate services to Arcturus Consultancy Ltd; associate tenant, Foundry Alex Enriles chief inspector, Royal Gibraltar police,
Chambers, London, services to the rule of law and to overseas Gillian Griffith co-founder and trustee, The Gibraltar, services to policing in Gibraltar Cathal ROYAL AIR FORCE
beekeeping Reverend Stephen Paul Wood minister, Safe Water Trust, services to health and economic
Newport Pagnell Baptist Church, services to refugees international development Richard Keith board Yeats assistant commissioner, Royal Gibraltar police, Order of the Bath
member and chairman, Turquoise Mountain development overseas John Griffith co-founder and Gibraltar, services to policing in Gibraltar
in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire George Sydney Trustee, The Safe Water Trust, services to health and
Foundation, services to protecting heritage and
Wright president, Stafford Branch, Royal British
Legion, for voluntary services to veterans in communities overseas Charles Mayhew founder and economic development overseas David Hardcastle HOME OFFICE CB
chief executive officer, Tusk Trust, services to Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Air Vice-Marshal Ranald Torquil Ian Munro
Staffordshire Duncan Alan Wynn services to the
community in Worcestershire Catherine Margaret conservation and to communities in Africa Angus Development Office, services to British Foreign Policy King’s Police Medal
McKee head, Intelligence Policy Department, National Daryl-Ann Hardman founding trustee and ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER
Wynne volunteer international technical official, chairwoman, Friends of the Belarusian Children’s Amanda Jane Blakeman chief constable, North
International Canoe Federation and European Canoe Security directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Wales police Adrian Charles Cafe constable, Thames The Royal Victorian Order
Development Office, services to British foreign policy Hospice, services to children’s palliative care in the
Association, services to sport Mark Peter Younger Republic of Belarus Denise Harvey Sherrard Valley police Susannah Clarke lately detective chief
Professor Christopher Milroy forensic pathologist,
services to the community in Parsons Green, London
borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Salma Bano University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, services to Independent Publisher, services to literature and to superintendent, Lancashire Constabulary Paul
Jonathon Denaro lately detective inspector, West
CVO
forensic pathology Warwick Morris lately chairman, UK/Greece cultural relations Nimo Hassan Abdilahi Nicholas Vincent John Barrett lately surgeon-
Zulfiqar services to art and to education director, Somalia NGO Consortium, services to Midlands police Joanna Edwards lately dentist to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Paul
Vietnam-UK Network, services to UK relations with superintendent, Metropolitan Police Service Nicholas
Vietnam and the Republic of Korea Piers Rennie humanitarian assistance and development in Somalia/ Christian Bell lately trustee, the Duke of Edinburgh’s
DIPLOMATIC SERVICE Somaliland Rebecca Hayward visits officer, UK Brian Elton lately chief inspector, Hampshire & Isle International Award Satyajit Bhattacharya lately
head of Section, Foreign, Commonwealth and of Wight Constabulary Daniel Fleming constable,
Order of St Michael and St Development Office, services to British foreign policy delegation to Nato, Brussels, Belgium, services to
British foreign and defence policy Claire Henderson Humberside police Garry Mark Forsyth lately chief
serjeant-surgeon to the Royal Household the Right
Honourable Baron Paul Yaw Boateng lately
Stephen Stenning director, Culture in Action, British
George Council, services to UK cultural relations Ian Tilling executive director, Helping Hands, Healing Hearts, constable, Bedfordshire police Redouane Haddouch
constable, Metropolitan Police Service Emily-Jane
trustee, the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award
President, Casa Ioana Association, Romania, services Baguio, the Philippines, services to vulnerable children Alan John Farthing lately surgeon-gynaecologist to
Higham chief superintendent, Greater Manchester
GCMG to civil society in Europe, particularly in Romania in the Philippines Carwyn Hill co-founder and chief
police Stephen Michael Jupp chief constable,
the Royal Household Dr Angela Josepha Garvey
Sir Simon Gass chairman, Joint Intelligence James Vaughan lately international director, Royal executive officer, Hope Health Action, services to lately lord-lieutenant of the county borough of
international healthcare, food aid and education National Police Chiefs’ Council Wendy Keepin lately Londonderry Sarah Elizabeth Healey lately
Committee, Cabinet Office, services to national National Lifeboat Institution, services to worldwide inspector, Gwent police Serena Margaret Kennedy
security and British foreign policy drowning prevention Daniel Hill team leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and permanent secretary, Department for Culture, Media
Development Office, services to British foreign policy chief constable, Merseyside police Andrew Nimmo and Sport, for services to the Royal Household Robert
KCMG MBE Wayne Ives head, United Nations political and detective sergeant, Metropolitan Police Service
Bernard Declan O’Reilly deputy chief constable,
Walter Hunter lord-lieutenant of the Shetland
Dr John Chipman director-general and chief multilateral candidacies, multilateral and human rights Islands John Guy Elmhirst Monson financial
Jaime Acosta headmaster, St George’s School, directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Sussex police and College of Policing Mark Graham
executive, The International Institute for Strategic adviser to the household of the Prince and Princess of
Bogota, Colombia, services to education and to Office, services to British foreign policy Robert Keen Porter constable, Metropolitan Police Service Wales, and former trustee, the Royal Foundation of
Studies, services to international peace and security
environmental protection Rachel Agelou senior co-founder and executive director, Jenga community Emanuel Nathaniel Samuel constable, Devon and the Prince and Princess of Wales Sir John Wilfred
Peter Lewis lately registrar, International Criminal
humanitarian civil military affairs adviser, Norwegian development outreach, Uganda, services to charity and Cornwall police David Sturman lately chief Peace lord-lieutenant of Nottinghamshire Andrew
Court, the Hague, the Netherlands, services to the
Refugee Council, Oslo, Norway, services to peace and community development in Uganda Sarah Latham superintendent, West Midlands police Jonathan Smith lately trustee, the Duke of
International Criminal Court and to international
criminal justice Richard Moore chief, Secret stabilisation overseas Garth Arch chairman, The deputy head, Diplomatic Missions and International Edinburgh’s International Award Tracy Annette
Children and Youth Services Foundation, Cayman Organisations Unit, Protocol directorate, Foreign, NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE
Intelligence Service, services to national security and Watkins personal assistant to the Lord Chamberlain,
British foreign policy Terry Waite co-founder and Islands, services to business, commerce and the Commonwealth and Development Office, services to King’s Police Medal Royal Household Garth John Weston lately trustee,
president, Hostage International, services to charity community in the Cayman Islands Andrew Baker British foreign policy Dr Michael Londesborough the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award
and to humanitarian work Class Teacher, King’s College Junior School, chemist researcher, services to UK/Czech Republic Darrin Jones chief superintendent, Police Service of
Wimbledon; founder of Obera Schools' Project, Kenya, science co-operation and to education Hannah Northern Ireland Kellie Janine McMillan LVO
CMG services to education and to the community in Obera, Maunder team leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and superintendent, Police Service of Northern Ireland Joanne Butcher visitor services manager, Palace of
Marcus Bleasdale photojournalist and human rights Kenya Briony Bax trustee, Saidia children’s charity; Development Office, services to British foreign policy Valarie Elizabeth Robinson constable, Police Holyroodhouse Caroline Louise Creer secretariat
activist, services to international photojournalism and founder and chairwoman, The Orphan Support League, Belinda Perkins event manager, protocol events and Service of Northern Ireland director, Private Secretary’s Office, Royal Household
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Colonel Peter Robert Cowley Flach lately
Lieutenant, the King’s Body Guard of the Honourable
ROYAL AIR FORCE CBE
Royal Red Cross David John Ellery services to business and to the
Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms Gemma Catherine
community Augustine Sanga Mano services to the
Teresa Kaza lately head of collections and inventory,
public, to the energy industry and to mining Anthony
former household of the Prince of Wales and the Associate James Seeto services to business and to the
Duchess of Cornwall Belinda Margaret Georgiana Flight Sergeant Anita Rosemary Wiejak community Kanankege Hemasiri Wickramaratne
Kim deputy private secretary to Her Majesty the
for public service in road construction and
Queen Matthew Magee deputy private secretary to ARMY rehabilitation
His Majesty the King Timothy Peter Maynard head
of property projects, Royal Household Linda Susan King’s Volunteer Reserves OBE
Savides lately senior HR manager, former household
of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall
Medal Isu Aluvula services to the community and to
religion Colin James Calvert services to the
Claudia Catherine Spens lately project co-ordinator, Warrant Officer Class 2 Craig Blaney, Captain community through rural health David Stuart Doig
former household of the Prince of Wales and the David Gary Burgess, Colonel David Ronald services to the printing industry Dr Uke Nintepa
Duchess of Cornwall Commander Anne Gillian McNeil, Warrant Officer Class 2 Lee Jay Shaw Wikai Kombra for public service in education Billy
Sullivan deputy private secretary to the Princess Huaan Lin services to business and to the community
Royal Mark Ian Tentori member, Duchy of Lancaster ROYAL AIR FORCE Linda Paru services to business and to the
finance committee Susan Elizabeth Theobald lately community Lester Govi Seri services to nature
personal assistant to the principal private secretary to King’s Volunteer Reserves conservation and research Simon Sing Sung Sia
the former Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Medal services to business, to sport and to the community
Cornwall Wapu Sonk services to the mining industry Wilson
Flight Lieutenant Graham John Blackburn, Air Orlegge Thompson services to research and to rural
MVO Specialist Class 1 Westley Whyte farming Marcelina Tjandra services to business and
Timothy John Connery operations engineer,
to the community
property section, Windsor Castle Sharon Jennifer COOK ISLANDS
Ann Gislingham services to the Royal Household
Eniola Aluko is appointed MBE for services to association football and to charity MBE
William John Graham learning manager, Royal Order of the British Pastor John Avawangi Apami services to religion
Collection, Buckingham Palace Anna Margaret
Greenleaf (Anna Henderson) lately HR manager, Glassey, Lieutenant Commander Amy Glover, Christopher Dunne, Squadron Leader Robyn Empire and to the community Darius Bobo services to
education Gari Dogodo services to the people of
former household of the Prince of Wales and the Lieutenant Commander Anthony James Rodney Elizabeth Hackwell, Wing Commander Lorna Central Province and National Capital District Leong
Duchess of Cornwall Ruth Hately lately receptionist, Lofts, Sub Lieutenant Adaiah Jekamiah Jayne Hoban Air Specialist 1 (now Acting OBE Chye Ho services to business, to the community and
former household of the Prince of Wales and the Pelailiah Providence Culzac, Petty Officer Barry Corporal) Prem Dorje Lama, Squadron Leader Dr Teariki Noovao services to health, to the public to public service Waso Ipopi services to the
Duchess of Cornwall Darren Terence Haynes John Turner Macdonald, Engineering Technician William Anthony Leather, Sergeant Paul David and to the community in the Cook Islands community and to health Harry Jacob bishop, the
accountant, Sandringham Estate Natalie Elise (Weapon Engineering Submarines), Captain Mitchell, Squadron Leader Gary Montgomery,
Hegarty lately assistant communications secretary, Richard Ian Watson, Major Christopher Alan Sergeant (now Acting Flight Sergeant) Robyn MBE United Church in Papua New Guinea, services to
religion and to the community Konga John services
former household of the Prince of Wales and the Webber Caroline Muscroft-Bloomfield, Squadron Leader Nooapii Tearea services to the public and the
community to business John Stuart MacIndoe services to
Duchess of Cornwall Timothy Charles Hewitt Andrew Spour, Flight Lieutenant David business and to the community Alphonse Kapi
detective inspector, Metropolitan Police Service, ARMY Alexander Taylor, Squadron Leader Princejit BEM Malipu services to teaching Issac Nopura Meya for
services to royalty protection Janice Annette Hook Singh Ubhi
lately head of general correspondence, former
Order of the British William George Doherty services to business and public service in the Southern Highlands Provincial
Administration Reverend Joseph Porel
to the community Christopher Earle Vaile services
household of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Empire ISLE OF MAN
to business and to the community Pandukwasi services to religion and to the
Cornwall Laura Louise King assistant Order of the British community Kevin Pullen for public service, especially
communications secretary, Royal Household, Simon
King sergeant, Metropolitan Police Service, services
CBE Empire BAHAMAS on Bougainville matters Kongo Roke for public
Brigadier Andrew Stuart Garner, Brigadier Anna service in the Southern Highlands Provincial
to royalty protection Paul Leddington Wright lately Clare Luedicke, Brigadier Toby Lloyd Rowland,
Order of St Michael and St Administration Nirmal Singh for public service
secretary, Royal Almonry, Royal Household Elaine
Olive MacLean administrative assistant,
Colonel (now Acting Brigadier) Nicholas Thomas MBE George Philip Charles Stace services to business and to the
Captain James Stuart McKenzie services to the insurance industry Andrew Michael Watson for
Superintendent’s Office, Palace of Holyroodhouse OBE Isle of Man community, David McLean services to CMG public service Kikila Yavase for public service
Emily Charlotte Louise Martin assistant private Colonel Richard David Hadley Ball, Colonel
secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Jo- Sharon Mary Beatty, Lieutenant Colonel James
the arts, to culture and to music on the Isle of Man
Warren Logan Rolle services to the public BEM
Anne Louise Mead lately events co-ordinator and Campbell, Colonel David Roland Cockwell, Sister Anna Anda services to rural health Pamenda
administrator, former household of the Prince of Lieutenant Colonel Belinda Lorraine Forsythe,
GUERNSEY Order of the British Emba for public service Alphonse Kanowi services
Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall Sally Ann O’Neill Lieutenant Colonel (now Acting Colonel) Knights Bachelor Empire to education Takuna Mapi for public service Topa
lately deputy treasurer to Her Majesty Queen Rebecca Sarah Jacques-Grey, Colonel (now Mata services to the community Yoanes Olesu ward
Elizabeth II Shila Patel payroll officer, Privy Purse Richard James McMahon services to the Crown and councillor and village elder, services to the community
and Treasurer’s Office, Royal Household Iain Petrie
Acting Brigadier) Tobias Lambert, Lieutenant
Colonel Philip Robert Nathan, Warrant Officer
to the community in the bailiwick of Guernsey CBE Sale Poporo for public service Henry Purel services
Neko Grant services to politics to education in the Southern Highlands Province Mary
Sergeant, Metropolitan Police Service, services to Class 1 Andrew John Stokes, Colonel Tim John Order of the British
royalty protection Julian Charles Phillips services to Symonds, Colonel Andrew Derrick Watson
Empire OBE Rema services to education George Rombo A
services to religion and to the community Augustine
the Royal Household Joanne Sarah Purcell lately Austin Bernard Davis services to the community
general correspondence secretary, former Household of MBE Periciles Maillis services to the environment Tipale services to the community George Wali for
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall Captain Steven John Adamson, Lieutenant
Colonel (now Acting Colonel) Stuart Richard
OBE MBE
public service
Anna Maria Rischitelli functions co-ordinator, David John Warr services to the community in
Government House, Victoria, Australia Jennifer Allen, Major Daniel Robert Austin, Sergeant Guernsey Andrea Elizabeth Eyvonne Archer services to the SOLOMON ISLANDS
Helen Wideson operations manager, Liam James Bayford, Warrant Officer Class 1 public Thomas Maitland Cates services to the
Superintendent’s Office, Windsor Castle Sophia Robbie George Beech, Lieutenant Colonel James MBE community Colin Higgs services to the public Order of the British
Katharine Wills senior metalwork conservator, Royal Leonard Brown, Lieutenant Colonel Rosanne
Collection, Royal Household Paula Wilson lately Kathleen Buckley, Major (now Acting
Alan Stuart Gough services to music in Guernsey
BEM Empire
financial controller and deputy treasurer, former Lieutenant Colonel) Christopher Paul Carter, Bonnie Basden services to sport Clayton Curtis
household of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Major Peter James Cornish, Sergeant Thomas
JERSEY services to culture Edison Alric Dames services to OBE
Cornwall Andrew John Wright lately head Couper, Colonel Peter Michael John Cowell, Order of the British culture Frederick Kendal Taylor services to sport Joseph Hutaiwairaha services to the public and to
wandsman, Royal Maundy Services Major Hamish Lawson Davison, Lance Corporal the community in the field of education
Natasha Maria Linda Day, Major Steven George Empire King’s Police Medal
Royal Victorian Medal Day, Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 Johannes Leamond Deleveaux deputy commissioner of police,
BEM
Jakobus Du Toit, Warrant Officer Class 1 MBE the Royal Bahamas Police Force
Stephen Henguaiku Malie services to the
Bar (Silver) Deborah Anne Fairclough, Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer Anne Bridge founder and chairwoman, community in the field of education and health
Peter Thomas Charles Clayton head gamekeeper, Wendy Faux, Major Paul John Ganuszko,
Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Gareth Russel
Jersey Literary Festival Association, services to the
community Jason Charles Hamon services to the
GRENADA King’s Police Medal
Crown Estate, Windsor Huw Gordon Jones tractor
driver/stockman, Royal Farms, Windsor Nicholas Hall, Captain Melissa Jane Henley, Major Craig provision of volunteer medical safety support to Order of the British John Wesley Matamaru services to the public and
Simon Matthews mobile warden, Windsor Great Hutton, Captain Helen Jasper, Lieutenant sporting and community events in Jersey William Empire to the community in the field of policing Ian Harara
Park, Crown Estate Robert James McGee carpenter, Colonel (now Acting Colonel) Iain Lamont, Harris services to the community in Jersey Vaevaso deputy commissioner, The Royal Solomon
Crown Estate, Windsor Gordon Raymond John Lieutenant Colonel Danny Scott Alan Leslie, Islands Police Force, services to the public and to the
Robinson mobile warden, Windsor Great Park, Crown Captain (now Acting Major) George Wayne CBE community in the field of policing
ISLE OF MAN Tillman Thomas services to Grenada
Estate Long, Lieutenant (now Acting Captain)
Silver Bartholomew Philip Lucas, Major Robert Order of the British OBE ST LUCIA
Marshall, Major Iain Veitch McDavid, Captain
Stuart Neil Crossan head gardener, Government (Acting Major) Matthew Speirs McNairn, Major Empire Augustine Jeffrey services to culture Paul Phillip Order of St Michael and St
House, Jersey Terry Alan Humphries yeoman services to sport
Robert Edward Morford, Major Harry Anthony
warder, HM Tower of London Brian Francis Lees Noble, Major William James Devine Patrick, BEM MBE George
foreman, Balmoral Castle Carol Margaret Leslie Warrant Officer Class 2 Deborah Christine Wendy McDowell services to music and drama on Pasupuleti Gita Kishore Kumar services to
Turpie warden, Palace of Holyroodhouse Stella June Penny, Warrant Officer Class 2 James Stephen the Isle of Man business Kimberlain Mills services to culture CM
McLaren lately hat-maker to Her Majesty Queen Christopher Rochester, Corporal William James His Grace Archbishop Gabriel Malzaire services to
Elizabeth II Stephen John Shand lately chauffeur, Ross, Warrant Officer Class 1 Abbas Salihu, PAPUA NEW GUINEA community development
GUERNSEY
Royal Mews, Royal Household Anne Theresa Major Keith William Scott, Major Helen Mary
Stevens daily cleaner, Bagshot Park Estrellita Morrell Stamp, Major Anthony Russell Viney, Order of the British Order of St Michael and St Order of the British
Mateo Talbot dresser to Princess Alexandra, the
Honourable Lady Ogilvy Peter Whyte warden, Palace
Major Edward Charles Watts, Major (now Empire George Empire
Acting Lieutenant Colonel) Joseph Francis
of Holyroodhouse Caven Wood
BEM KCMG OBE
ROYAL NAVY ROYAL AIR FORCE Kevin Neil Adams services to Sark The Honourable Christopher Sevese Haiveta Gabriel Barry Prospere services to business
services to political and public service enterprise and development Bonnie Lawrence
Order of the British Order of the British JERSEY
Zephirin services to community development
Empire Empire CMG MBE
Order of the British The Honourable Kerenga Kua services to the legal
Samuel Decaille for humanitarian service in the field
sector David Ruma Wereh for public service in road
CBE CBE Empire construction and rehabilitation of sport Paul Raymond Vaughn Louis-Fernand for
Commodore James Robert Dean, Rear Admiral Air Commodore Anthony John Beasant, Air committed humanitarian service in education and
Timothy Christopher Woods Commodore Emily Jane Flynn, Group Captain BEM Order of the British commerce Dr Linda Patricia Lucombe for
committed humanitarian service Amalraj
OBE Sara Bridget Mackmin Robert Anderson MacDonald senior instructor, Empire Penigilapadi for committed humanitarian service
OBE Jersey Kenpo Karate Association, services to the
Commander Charles Michael Barrow,
Commander Ian Gerald Danbury, Colonel Wing Commander Tracey Louise Affleck, Group
community KBE BEM
Jonathan Wyn Dowd, Captain Francis Durham Captain Leonie Boyd, Group Captain James Robin Gerard Fleming services to the community Stephen Augustin services to music and the arts
Hirons, Captain Stephen Andrew Large, Matthew Calvert, Wing Commander Victoria ROYAL NAVY and to the banking system Carola Henry for committed humanitarian service
Cuthbert Walter James services to the community,
Lieutenant Colonel Michael John Scanlon,
Commander Fergus Steven Walker
Ann Fulton, Wing Commander Craig Robert
Ledieu, Wing Commander Anthony John Lett
Royal Red Cross DBE music and the arts Gregor Philgence for committed
Wing, Commander Victoria Tuesday Williams, Monica Esther Salter services to business and to humanitarian service
MBE Wing Commander Jonathan Robert Gibson
Member the community
Lieutenant Zachariah Thomas Sidney Blow, Commander Karen Margaret McCullough BELIZE
Warrant Officer Class 1 Andrew Charles
Young Knights Bachelor
Cornish, Petty Officer (Diver) Andrew Robert MBE ARMY Paul Kurai services to the Catholic Church and to the
Order of the British
Coulson, Warrant Officer Class 1 (Mine
Warfare) John Cowan, Warrant Officer 2 Jamie
Sergeant Matthew James Breese, Squadron
Leader David Gary Cooper, Warrant Officer
Royal Red Cross community in Enga Empire
Paul Dougal, Engineering Technician (Marine Andrea Jane Culley, Chief Technician Martin Order of the British MBE
Engineering), Sergeant James Dunlop, Chief Richard Darbon, Squadron Leader Elizabeth Associate Empire
Petty Officer (Royal Navy Welfare) Victoria Margaret Dawson, Squadron Leader Brendan Staff Sergeant Lindsey Anne Collinson Tseng Hoei Ying services to the community
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Truth is not just fact but how we lead our lives Politics with no boring bits
and taking responsibility for recognised in the gospels, But the threat remains. mystery at the heart of our Listen to Matt Chorley on
Credo one’s actions. when Pilate asks Jesus, When standards in public being, and at the heart of the Times Radio, Monday to
Jan Arriens But times change, and we “What is truth?”, to be met life were debated in cosmos. Without such a right Friday at 10am
stand at a perilous moment. with a pregnant silence. parliament this year, Ruth ordering, we will not be able
Truth and integrity are being Pilate, the representative of Cadbury, MP for Brentworth to take the necessary steps to
undermined to the extent that power, authority and empire, and Isleworth, might have ensure human beings live
democracy itself is under finds himself confronted by a channelled her Quaker lives which respect each other
threat, exactly when we need deeper truth in the person forebears when she said: and the great diversity of life
to work together. Many of before him. “This matters if we want which our beautiful planet
ruth has been at the those in power seem to act Quakers regard truth as people to vote and have faith upholds.”

T heart of Quakerism
for 350 years, indeed
an early name for
Quakers was Friends
of the Truth. Quakers try to
lead lives faithful to the
deepest truth we know and
with impunity, disregarding
facts and scientific findings.
Respect for the judiciary is
being undermined and trust
in our institutions threatened.
This week we have heard
once again that the former
not only about accuracy and
verifiability, but about how
we lead our lives. It is the
kind of truth alluded to by
Jesus in his statement: “I am
the way, and the truth, and
the life.” It is an inner truth, a
Now the world has
to face up to an
existential challenge
We invite others, of
whatever faith or none, to
join us in doing what we can
to ensure that truth and
integrity flourish — in the
interests of our personal
relationships, of our
silent meetings for worship prime minister Boris Johnson guide, putting us in touch that their vote matters, and democracy, of the rule of law,
are where we connect most deliberately misled with our higher selves. have faith in what it is they and of fairness and equality.
deeply to this truth. This deep parliament over parties held At the core of Quakerism are voting.” It will be difficult work, but
belief in a truthful life means in Downing Street in we experience a sense of Quakers have a distinctive the world faces an existential
choosing to follow the contravention of coronavirus oneness, wonder and mystery. way of understanding truth, challenge. The effects of Join us for breakfast
leadings of the Spirit even rules. Lying to parliament That universal sense provides grounded in experience and climate change are all around Listen to Aasmah Mir and
when it is difficult. means lying to the people one the basis for the co-operation communal discernment, us. Addressing them will Stig Abell on Times Radio,
Since 1695 Quakers have represents. Governing with so urgently needed. So we integrating scientific, depend on co-operation on an Monday to Thursday at 6am
refused to swear oaths in a integrity is essential for seek kinder ground: religious and ethical unseen scale. Only by
court of law, as that would generating trust; when that tolerance, respect, mutual knowledge, which could be working together, trusting the
imply that we tell lies at other trust breaks down people co-operation and shared helpful here. Gerald truth revealed to us by the
times. British brands such as become disillusioned, and ethical and spiritual values. Hewitson, founding member Spirit, only by experiencing
Cadbury, Rowntree’s, leaders lose their mandate. Many, including politicians, of the Quaker Truth and our world reverentially and
Barclays and Clarks owe their How can we counter this? are seeking to promote the Integrity Group, says: “We leading sacramental lives, can
existence in part to the truth Truth is an elusive and common good. The may recognise the deeply we face the challenge ahead.
testimony. These Quaker difficult subject. parliamentary privileges troubled world we are facing
businesses rose to Philosophically, truth has committee, which found as a crisis of the Spirit — one Jan Arriens is a former Australian
prominence in the 1800s on become viewed as contingent against Johnson, is made up that will continue until diplomat, translator, founder of
the basis of fair dealing and on its context, rather than of MPs doing their best to humanity puts itself in right LifeLines (which supports prisoners
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Guards, this evening attended the Colacicchi), and Henry, Earl of Arundel, a AND MISS M. E. M. TOWNSEND grandchildren. Funeral on Thursday 29th his large and ever growing wider family. illness. Husband to Selina, father, stepfather
Senior Colonels’ Conference and daughter, Serena Elena Rose, sister to Flora The engagement is announced between June at 4pm, at St Denys Church, Bill was preceded in death by his beloved and grandfather. All inquiries to J Dilnot
Dinner at Clarence House. and Eliza. Charles, eldest son of Mr Edward Benyon of Colmworth. No flowers please. Donations wife Jane after more than 40 years Smith & Son Funeral Directors. Tel: 01304
Mortimer West End, Hampshire, and Mrs to St Denys Church or perennial.org.uk together. The funeral service will be held 380914.
Katy Davis of Fifehead Saint Quintin,
St James’s Palace SELF on 12th June 2023 to Lucy (née Dorset, and Megan, younger daughter of HAMES Angela (née Williams) on 3rd
at St Mary’s Church, Hitchin, Hertfordshire,
16th June, 2023 Patalong) and Matthew, a daughter, Anna
Mr and Mrs David Townsend of Loxwood, June 2023, peacefully at home. Loving wife
on Tuesday 27th June at 12.30pm. All are WHITE Hazel Beatrice (née Bole) on 27th
The Princess Royal, Colonel, The Blues Elizabeth Gael. welcome to attend followed by a May 2023, aged 100. Wife of late Rev
West Sussex. of the late Peter Hames, Captain, Royal gathering to show our love for him. No
and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Laurence White, died peacefully at home.
Navy. Beloved mother of Pippa, Joanna, flowers but donations to the Garden
Dragoons), this evening presided over a Beloved mother of Maggie, Kate, Jo and
MISS K. J. R. HAMES Olivia and Iona, and grandmother of House Hospice. A memorial service to Caroline. Devoted grandmother and
Conference attended by the Colonels of AND MR J. D. WAGSTAFF Sebastian, Ruby, Rupert, Rosy and Hamish. celebrate his life and extraordinary career great-grandmother. Family funeral, no
the Regiments of the Household The simple way to place your The engagement is announced between All of whom, with her cherished wider will be announced at a later date. All
Division at Clarence House. flowers. Donations to Marie Curie or
announcement in The Times. Katherine, daughter of Mrs Sandra Hames family, friends and neighbours, gave inquiries to EH Crouch, Baldock. Tel: 01462 St Barnabas Hospice, Lincolnshire.
Her Royal Highness subsequently and the late Mr Richard Hames of her life its meaning. Her sparkling spirit 491144. Thanksgiving service in Chichester
attended the Senior Colonels’ Dinner at Available 24 hours a day, Tytherton Lucas, and James, son of Mr and lives on.
Cathedral on 20th September at 1.30pm.
Clarence House. seven days a week. Mrs Douglas Wagstaff of Hayton, Yorkshire.
HAMILTON-RUSSELL Charles Richard MARSHALL Peter KCMG, CMG, CVO, died
St James’s Palace newsukadvertising.co.uk MISS M. J. DRAGOJEVIC on 11th June 2023, aged 57. Died peacefully peacefully at home on 10th June 2023,
16th June, 2023 AND MR J. C. WHITLOCK at home after the bravest fight against aged 98. Much-loved father of Fiona and
The Duke of Kent, Colonel, Scots cancer. Adored husband of Claire. Proud Guy and beloved grandfather to Raphael,
Michael and Billie Dragojevic of father of Sophia and Will. Much-loved son
Guards, this evening attended the Dorney, Berkshire, joyfully announce Christoph and Grace. Funeral service at
of Richard and Prudy. He will be hugely St Mary Abbots, Kensington, on 29th June
Senior Colonels’ Conference and the engagement of their daughter missed. A private funeral will be held for
Dinner at Clarence House. Misha Jordan Dragojevic to Jordan at 2pm.
close family. Details of a memorial service
Charles Whitlock on 28th May 2023.
St James’s Palace
will follow. POWELL Jim died on 20th May 2023,
aged 74. Beloved husband of Kay, step-
Trustee Acts
16th June, 2023 HASSALL Margaret Elise (née father of Emma and Clare, brother of Mike,
Princess Alexandra was represented by Waterhouse) on 13th June 2023, aged 92.
the Reverend Canon Paul Wright (Sub- LEGAL, PUBLIC, COMPANY & PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES brother-in-law of Lisa, uncle of Tommy and SMART,   V i c t o r   L e i t h .   L a t e   o f   1
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Dean of His Majesty’s Chapels Royal) at JWR Taylor (county music adviser Ted and Georgia. Donations to Samaritans Road, Ongar, Essex CM5 0AJ, who died
the Service of Thanksgiving for the To place notices for these sections please call 020 7481 4000 Staffordshire), loving mother of John, Peter, and Lendwithcare charity. on 27th July 2022 particulars to Alane
Reverend Canon John Oates (formerly Notices are subject to confirmation and should be received David and Andrew. Funeral Colwich Church Lunn Solicitors Limited, 48 Cloverley
Rector of St Bride’s Church, Fleet on 27th June 2023 at 2.30pm. No flowers, REYNOLDS Edward Braxton on 31st May Road, Ongar, Essex CM5 9BY (Ref:
Street), which was held at St Bride’s by 11.30am three days prior to insertion donations to FOSYM supporting Young 2023, aged 82. Funeral at Heavitree Parish AL/Smart) by 18th August 2023.
Church, London EC4, this afternoon. Musicians of Staffordshire. Church at 10.30am on 30th June.
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The Times Saturday Quiz Olav Bjortomt O Tempora! Crossword CDII by Lanifica
A weekly crossword for the classically minded
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1 Which chocolate brand makes Boost

Bites, Bitsa Wispa, Fudge Minis and
Dinky Deckers?
20 1 2 3 4 5 6

7
Clues, which may
be straight or
mildly cryptic,
always lead to
8 9

2 Alexander von Humboldt showed

that water is made up of two parts
hydrogen and one part what?
answers in Latin

10 11

3 Which brother of Mario (Chris

Pratt) is voiced by Charlie Day in
The Super Mario Bros. Movie?
12

13 14 15
On national TV in 1983,
4 schoolteacher Diana Gould
questioned Margaret Thatcher about 17 18
16

19
the sinking of which Argentine ship?
20

5 Which Swedish pop group released

the 2021 dual single Don’t Shut Me
Down / I Still Have Faith in You?
21 22

Which sitcom featured the mystery

6 of Uncle Bryn and his nephew
Jason’s fishing trip?
23

Across Down
A controversial 20-year restoration 2
7 of which Leonardo da Vinci mural
1 From here and from there, from
different directions (4,2,4) 3
He assails and attacks (7)
Heel of limestone (4)
was completed in 1999?

The conservationist Esmé Kirby is

Ghost Train, The Frighteners, The
Wyrm and Daemonic? 19 Born in Prestonpans in 1991,
which Scottish boxer is
nicknamed “The Tartan Tornado”?
8 A pushing against, so a pressure,
shock, or incitement (abl. sing.) (7)
4
5
Oxen, bulls (acc. plur.) (6)
Deus qui tumida aequora placat,
8 synonymous with which Welsh
14 Which Middlesbrough
9 Flagito, postulo, peto (5)
10 I reckon, I think; vae, inquit, ____
vide Aen. 1.124-56 (8)
6 Gladius, vide Aen. 12.731-2, at
national park?

What is Cape Verde’s official

contractors built the Tyne Bridge
and Sydney Harbour Bridge? 20 Known for her work Enron,
which British playwright is
pictured?
deus fio, Suetonius, Div. Vesp. 23 (4)
11 You instructed and informed,
perfidus ____ / frangitur (5)
7 Best known (sometimes, most
9 language?
15 Similar to the Women’s Institute,
which voluntary organisation’s
praecepisti (8)
13 They whirl about, torquent (6)
14 Tilled and cared for, or dressed to
notorious) (10)
8 He’d ruled (pluperf. subj.), vide Tac.
Hist. 1.49, omnium consensu capax
Britain captured Mauritius from Welsh name means “Daughters of the
10 the French during which series
of wars in the early 19th century?
Dawn”?
Last week’s O Tempora! solution
impress (6)
17 Attendants, orderlies, people on
stand-by; ad te ____ meos ....
imperii nisi ____ (10)
12 He shapes and moulds, delineates,
or even teaches (8)
Located in the Channel Islands 15 Emphatic 2nd person sing.
11 The 2003 Russell T Davies
biographical TV miniseries Nolly
16 archipelago, what is California’s
largest island?
mitterem, Cic. Ad Fam. 2.19 (8)
19 Likewise, just so, pariter, eodem
modo (4)
pronoun, vide Lucr. 4.915, ____ in
culpa ... sis (7)
is about which Crossroads star? 21 Furthermore, also, even; ____ atque 16 The evening, or its star (6)
Resident in England, which 18 Somewhere else (honest, guv) (5)
12 Which British newspaper
columnist (1913-2006) used the
17 Turkish-born academic wrote the
1988 article Bargaining with Patriarchy?
____, over and over again (5)
22 We have a bevvy, bibimus (7)
23 Broken up, off or asunder (neut.
20 You as well, you too, eg ____ ____,
Brute? (2,2)
pseudonym Peter Simple? plur. PPP) (10)
Which Sheffield stadium was

13 Which horror novelist from

Newcastle upon Tyne wrote
18 built for the 1991 World Student
Games and demolished in 2014?

Times Crossword No 28,632 Suko No 3831

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Across 24 Saunter around capital, flipping
warm (7)
1 Attacks fail to stop cheats in 26 How to make garment smarter,
football (4-5) worn by small person using
9 10 6 Subject this person to anti- rhetorical device (7)
discriminatory checks (5) 27 For one year, parliament vacated
9 Road test gathering very little in country (5)
information (7) 28 Weed in extremely demure
10 English teacher’s back in a panic, clothing along with hero (9)
11 12 13 providing cover for head (7)
11 Pressure noble to show some Down
wisdom, proverbially (5)
12 Movement in Labour not quite 1 Bad day to raise flag (5)
14 15 16 anti capital (4,5) 2 Shake and struggle, drinking
14 Current bridge player holding unpleasant tot (7)
clubs and diamonds (3) 3 Stick with incredibly subtle means
15 Travellers — Wolves supporters, of campaigning (9)
17 18 19 according to Spooner (11) 4 Go wrong dropping ecstasy in e.g.
17 Commits a sin breaking religious stag party (11)
way of life (11) 5 What’s up for that lady? (3)
19 Outlaw cop brought back (3) 6 Personnel brought in to head for
bobby’s beat (5) Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so
20 Home in Greek city has area for
20 21 22 23 7 Equipment for artist or female that the number in each circle is equal to
flowers (9)
friend? (7) the sum of the four surrounding spaces,
22 Th Mu c lacks a
The Sound of Music
8 Bard’s trick, capturing a Trojan and each colour total is correct.
vigorous quality (5)
lover (9) Solution MindGames in Saturday Review
24 25 26 13 What may help you get a job in Quiz answers 1 Cadbury 2 Oxygen. He and
6 1 industry (11) French chemist Joseph Louis Guy-Lussac
14 Having a direct effect, I negotiate made the discovery in 1805 3 Luigi 4 ARA
stutteringly? (9) General Belgrano 5 Abba 6 Gavin & Stacey
27 28
16 Old PC getting senior rank (9) 7 The Last Supper 8 Snowdonia. She
18 Make invalid, treated in full, formed the Snowdonia National Park
ultimately healthy (7) Society 9 Portuguese 10 Napoleonic Wars
A £20 Waterstones gift voucher will be awarded to the senders of the first five correct solutions 19 Issue for Roman during Disney (in 1810) 11 Noele Gordon 12 Michael
opened on Thursday. Enter by post to: Times Crossword No 28,632, PO Box 2164, Colchester, Essex film frames (7) Wharton 13 Stephen Laws 14 Dorman
CO2 8LJ, or by email to: prize@thetimes.co.uk, with “Crossword 28632” in the subject line. Open 21 Horse, to some extent, is what Long. Both were designed by the London
to 18+, UK & ROI residents only. Winners and solutions will appear on Monday week. rider may need (5) firm Mott, Hay and Anderson 15 Merched
23 Discover 50 per cent reduction in y Wawr 16 Santa Cruz Island 17 Deniz
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............................................................................................................................................................................... festival (3) Concise Quintagram answers 1 Wing
2 Owing 3 Lowing 4 Allowing 5 Wallowing
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