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Prince Harry Takes The Mound For The Mets

PRINCE HARRY warms up for before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the New York Mets and the Minnesota Twins Saturday, June 26, 2010 in New York.– See more on the Prince’s recent visit to New York on page 3

SERVING TROOPS marched with veterans and cadets through the sun-soaked streets of Winchester and Cardiff last month, as Britain marked its second annual Armed Forces Day.

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, reviewed the parade in Cardiff, the focus of a national ceremony to honor Britain’s military.

“When men and women walk through the streets in uniform like this it makes them feel 10 feet tall,’’ said Captain Jimmy Carroll of the Queen’s Dragoon Guards, who served in Afghanistan last year. “The guys out in Afghanistan know that people are out marching today and that the crowds are out. They know that

Britain Marks Armed Forces Day

More than 600 British soldiers returning from Afghanistan marched through the southern English town of Winchester on June 23, in the largest ever homecoming parade staged in Britain.

they can come home and come back to massive public support. It is exactly like being a rock star.”

Thousands of people were in the Welsh city for the event. A fl ypast and church service followed the parade, and hundreds of smaller celebrations took place across the country.

On June 23 over 600 returning troops from the 11 Light Brigade marched through the streets of Winchester after a six month deployment in Afghanistan.

It was a deadly month in Afghanistan for the British military, which announced the deaths of eight soldiers. Since the be-ginning of operations in Afghanistan, 307 British troops have been killed. There are about 10,000 British troops in Afghanistan, mainly focused in the volatile southern

Helmand province.Armed Forces Day was created last year

amid criticism that the country didn’t do enough to honor its military.

The Queen sent a message of support to mark the day, which she said celebrated “servicemen and women past and present, and the cadet forces.”

“The men and women of our Armed Forces have always been admirable exam-ples of professionalism and courage,’’ her message said. “Then as now, they perform their duties in often the most diffi cult and dangerous of circumstances, both at home and overseas.”

At Wimbledon, 14 members of the armed forces were invited to watch the tennis tournament from the Royal Box, and were given a standing ovation by the

Bloody Sunday Killings Ruled Unjust By Peter Morrison and David StringerTHE BRITISH soldiers who killed 13 Catholic demonstrators in Northern Ire-land during “Bloody Sunday” nearly four decades ago committed “unjustifi ed and unjustifi able” killings of unarmed and innocent victims and then lied about it, a fact-fi nding investigation concluded June 15 after a 12-year hunt for the truth.

More than 1,000 Londonderry resi-dents applauded, hugged and cried out-side city hall as the long-awaited verdict was announced live on a huge television screen. They had campaigned for 38 years for the victims – originally branded as Irish Republican Army bombers and gunmen – to have their good names re-stored and the guilt of the soldiers proved beyond doubt.

“Unjustifi ed and unjustifi able. Those are the words we’ve been waiting to hear since January the 30th of 1972,” Tony Doherty, the son of one Bloody Sunday

Everyone in Britain will feel the strain, he said, from shoppers paying higher sales tax, wealthy people hit for higher capital gains taxes, banks targeted by a new levy and even the Queen- who accepted a freeze in her support from taxpayers.

Here some key points of Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget:

TAXVAT: Rate will rise from 17.5 percent

to 20 percent from January 4, 2011. Personal income tax allowance: To be

increased by £1,000 in April to £7,475 – worth £170 a year to basic rate taxpay-ers. It is expected that 880,000 of the lowest-paid will be taken out of income tax altogether.

Council tax: Could be frozen for one year from April 2011 in England, but ex-tra funds will only be offered to councils

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Budget: SharpestCuts In DecadesTREASURY chief George Osborne unveiled last month the toughest cuts to public spending in decades, a raft of tax rises and a new levy on banks in an emergency budget aimed at restoring the country’s ravaged public fi nances.

In his fi rst budget, Osborne told law-makers his austerity package – which will see welfare payments and spending pro-grams slashed – was necessary to quickly reduce crippling national debts racked up during the global fi nancial crisis.

Former PM ThatcherVisits Downing StreetSOME 20 years after she left No 10 Downing Street, a frail-looking Margaret Thatcher was back to visit with her Con-servative successor, David Cameron.

Thatcher, 84, clung to the railing out-side the famous black door as she walked up to the doorstep to pose for pictures. She waved to photographers, but made no comment.

Thatcher’s visit last month, which lasted about 45 minutes, came as the Con-servative government said it was prepar-ing what are likely to be the deepest cuts to public spending since Thatcher was in offi ce. Britain’s budget defi cit is forecast to reach 10.4 percent of gross domestic product this year, and the government is under considerable pressure to slash expenditure.

Thatcher has been in poor health since a series of strokes in 2002.

Fake Cop Not Happy With

England FansRESIDENTS of Worksop were taking down their England fl ags and removing their football shirts on the orders of a . . . bogus policeman.

The “offi cer” operating in and around Worksop, told people to remove their England shirts and take down their fl ags.

A probe was launched after the Guardian revealed that a woman in the town had been asked to take down her England fl ags by what she thought was a genuine police offi cer.

It emerged that someone is posing as a Police Community Support Of-fi cer (PCSO) and was in Clumber Park lasking people to remove their England shirts.

Chief Superintendent Dave Wakelin said: “I am aware of last week’s public-ity regarding the story that one of my staff members advised a local Worksop resident to remove her fl ag from her balcony as it was upsetting foreign residents.”

“We are now absolutely certain that these were not bona-fi de members of Notts Police, and this, linked to reports that over the weekend similar incidents occurred with people in Clumber Park being told remove their England shirts, leads me to believe that there is someone in our local community intending to cause unease.”

Bulger Killer Charged With Child Porn Offenses

PROSECUTORS said that a man con-victed of murdering a toddler in 1993, when he himself was just 10 years old, has been charged with child pornography offenses.

Jon Venables, 27, has been charged with downloading and distributing indecent photographs of children. Venables was in-dicted earlier, but the charges could only be reported last month after a judge ordered some reporting restrictions lifted.

Prosecution lawyer Gavin Millar read the charges out for the record at London’s Central Criminal Court. He said Venables is accused of downloading onto his com-puter 57 indecent photographs of minors between February 2009 and February this year, and of distributing seven indecent im-ages of children over the Internet between February 1 and 23 this year.

Venables and another 10-year-old, Rob-ert Thompson, lured two-year-old James Bulger away from a shopping center in Liverpool in 1993 and beat him to death by an isolated railway line.

MEMORYThe crime shocked Britain because of

the ages of the victim and his baby-faced killers, and was seared into the national memory through closed-circuit video footage of the two older boys leading the toddler away to his death.

Venables and Thompson were released from juvenile detention in 2001, when they were 18, and given new identities, which the press is barred from revealing – a rare and highly controversial move.

The case continues to arouse strong feelings. While some applauded the deci-sion to release the young killers and hailed their apparently successful rehabilitation, others, including Bulger’s parents, argued they should never have been freed.

Venables was taken back into custody in February for violating his parole condi-tions. Offi cials then would not give details of his alleged offense, saying it could prejudice any future trial.

Venables is due to attend a court hearing July 23, when he will appear by video link from prison.

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Tom Jones Returns To Green Grass Of Home At 70

SIR TOM Jones celebrated his 70th birth-day, June 7, and last month his hometown principality was all geared up to join in the merriment and revelry. School children across Wales practiced versions of the Welsh war-bler’s big hit It’s not Unusual, and local televi-sion stations fitted in tributes to the Pontypridd vocalist who started out as Tommy Scott and the Senators. Still married to his high-school sweetheart, Melinda, after they were wed at aged 16; Jones the Voice had a home in Los Angeles for years, but recently moved lock, stock and barrel back to Wales. His gregari-ous and upbeat television shows that ran for three years starting in 1969, have never been reshown because of legal and litigation problems. But those of us who remember the uninhibited and raucous performances never doubted a new star was in the ascendance. He was awarded a knighthood in 2006.

A couple of months ago, Tom’s unem-ployment 1961-64 records from the dole office were put up for auction at Mullocks in Shropshire, after being rescued from a garbage skip. They were withdrawn however, after they did not reach the reserve price. The personal cards revealed that Tom “had little enthusiasm for work which might dirty his fin-ger nails, and would not do shift work because he was a part-time singer in a band.” His employment record showed he did jobs as a factory worker, glove maker and labourer. His unemployment career ceased permanently in July of 1964. 100 million hit records later, all this is behind him, as a distinctive welcome from the valleys echoed “Happy Birthday Tom Jones.”

Sir Winston’s Speeches And Letters Auctioned At Christie’sAT AN auction of Winston Churchill memora-bilia at Christie’s in London, a comprehensive collection of speeches and letters fetched £577,063.

Private letters from friends and political comrades that demonstrated the desperate and uncertain situation during the early days of the war, showed Churchill as positive and undefeated. A series of such letters went for £34,850.

A collection of Churchill’s free trade speeches went for £39,650, while an un-smoked Havana cigar still in its box fetched £2,125. The collection originally belonged to US publishing magnate Steve Forbes, who says his reason for selling the memorabilia is mainly because his immediate family have no interest in the collection. Forbes plans two more similar auctions in New York later this year, and in London next summer.

Police Tow Car To Protect It From Being Stolen

MARCUS MORRIS’S job interview in the Leeds city centre, went a lot easier than the circumstances he encountered when he tried to drive home. His car was not at the spot he had parked it, and thinking it was stolen he called the police.

He was then informed that a patrolling con-stable had discovered the car with the back window down, and suspecting that there was a high risk of theft, had had the car towed to a police storage facility. It cost him £150 to get his car back, and he was not happy that a job interview had proved so expensive.

“I couldn’t believe it,” said Morris, 25. “It

seems outrageous.”West Yorkshire Police were unapologetic

that they had towed the car.“It was to protect the vehicle from car

thieves,” they said, and it was police policy for patrolling officers on the beat to look for measures that could prevent crimes being committed.

Morris complained that if it had been stolen or objects removed, it would have been his responsibility and his own fault and he would have been prepared to accept that. He is taking legal advice in an attempt to get his money back.

Ferret Legging Could Have Bite Taken Out Of It

FRANK BARTLETT’S ferret legging contest in Whittingham, Staffordshire, has come under attack from various animal right groups. Fer-ret legging is basically putting a ferret or two down your trousers, and enduring the threat of a nasty nip in very private place. The winner is the one who can stand the creatures wriggling around in the darkness within the confines of their underwear for the longest amount of time. The current ferret legging world record was set over twenty years ago, where a male participant tolerate a very active ferret scuttling around the inside of his pants for five hours. No word on if he was bitten. Frank Bartlett calls it a light-hearted test of endurance and a great way to raise money for charity, but ferret lovers are up in arms.

The National Ferret School wants the RSPCA to investigate, claiming the animals suffer unnecessary stress and discomfort in such situations.

Spokesman James McKay, called it a stupid event, and says it’ll put ferret welfare back twenty years. He says it infringes on the 2006 Animal Welfare Act.

Frank Bartlett remains upbeat however. The ferrets used have been handled regularly and are tame and friendly, and will probably find a comfy place inside the men’s baggy pants and fall asleep. Apparently, the com-petitors have been involved with ferrets for years, and do not appear concerned about any random nipping or biting.

Gladiators Burial Ground Uncovered At York

FOUNDATIONS for a new housing develop-ment in York, revealed a Roman Cemetery dating back to 200 AD that has had local archaeologists frothing at the mouth for some twenty years. Now after much excavation, which revealed a collection of 80 tall males with horrendous injuries, experts think it’s a graveyard specifically catering for gladiators. Dozens of the skeletons are headless, and according to historians, when gladiators were severely injured their heads were sliced off as an act of mercy rather than let them suffer. The bodies were buried with respect and dignity, which included pottery, food and other religious offerings for the next life. One of the skeletons has a carnivorous bite mark on its shoulder that could have been made by a big cat like a lion or tiger while fatal head wounds are predominate amongst the bodies.

Jenny Hall the curator for Roman Ar-chaeology at the Museum of London, says information regarding gladiatorial combat in Roman Briton is scarce, and that the violent recreation enjoyed by the populous was an expensive blood sport. Gladiators toured the empire like rock bands today and were heroes and stars admired by legions of fans.

She speculates that these men did not all die in York, and this cemetery may have had a particular religious significance that only gladiators were interred there.

Kurt Hunter-Mann of the York Archaeo-logical Trust has met some skepticism about the presumed gladiator graveyard and com-mented, “The research is continuing and we must therefore keep an open mind.”

Palaces Cost-Cutting Leaves Princesses Without Guards

THE DAUGHTERS of Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, are to lose their 24-hours police protection. Princess Beatrice 21, and Princess Eugenie,20, have been receiving round-the clock bodyguards while attending universi-ties classes in London and Newcastle. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has long been concerned over the rising costs protecting Britain’s minor Roy-als, and said the half-million pounds annually giving the princesses such protection was unacceptable. The Police spend £50m a year protecting the 22 members of the Royal fam-ily, including some who are a little less Royal than others. The Met has liasoned with Home Office officials and MI5 counter-terrorists officers in their attempt to bring costs down, and it has been agreed that other minor Roy-als will have their security details cut too. Sir Paul did reiterate however, that security would continue to be provided for high profile events. The Princesses’ mother, The Duchess of York (Fergie) has recently been in the news at-tempting to sell access to her ex-husband in a News of the World, expose, but the incident is not thought to have any relevance to the Met’s cost cutting measures. A former head of the Royal protection squad, Dai Davies, explained that the extortionate cost on police resources had been under discussion for sometime now, and Sir Paul Stevenson had finally forged an agreement between the different organizations and authorities involved.

Chris Brown Refused Entry Into Britain

SINGER Chris Brown whose community service hit the headlines in February over his assault of then girlfriend Rihanna, was unable to attend his scheduled gigs in Glas-gow, London, Birmingham and Manchester, last month.

He was denied a visa to enter Britain, citing his conviction of a serious criminal offence. Promoters SJM said the postpone-ment of the shows was through “unforeseen circumstances,” and suggested people hold on to their tickets for a possible re-arranged scheduling. Sony Music acknowledged Brown’s tour had been cancelled too.

Questions were directed at the Home Office regarding the decision and they issued a statement concluding, ”Each application to enter the UK is considered on its individual terms.”

Kitchen Staff Caught Up In Regular Batterings

THE STAR Inn at Harome, is the first York-

shire restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star, and while the food is regarded as excep-tional, the discipline in the kitchen apparently borders on near violence. Police were called to the eatery after a chef alleged he had been assaulted by the kitchen-supervisor.

He said his trousers had been set on fire with a blow torch and he had also been hit with a rolling pin; and, while making a nettle risotto, the stinging vegetables had been purposely brushed across his neck caus-ing much pain and discomfort. He says he witnessed another chef held upside down and dunked face first in to a vat of broccoli and stilton soup, that was later served to customers. Police took away an unnamed 28-year-man who was later released, saying further inquires were needed.

The Star Inn is owned by Andrew and Jacquie Pern, who though separated, continue to run the one star Michelin rated restaurant. Mr Pern was loathe to expand on the kitchen antics, but said he was dealing with the matter.

“We are taking the allegations very seri-ously,” he said.

Jack The Jig-Saw Man Finishes Giant Puzzle

JACK HARRIS is a dissectologist, which for the uninitiated, means he loves doing jig-saws. Eight years ago, the Shepton Mallett resident was given a five foot square, 5,000 piece jig-saw of the painting of James Tis-sot’s The Return of the Prodigal Son, by his family because of his boast he could do them so quickly. It has dominated the dining room table since then, but finally, last month the 86-year-old retiree finished his quest only to find one of the pieces was missing. He searched the house for the lost piece but never found it and came to the conclusion that maybe the dog ate it. A call to the manu-facturer didn’t help either, as this particular puzzle was long out of production.

Queen Victoria was one of Britain’s fa-mous dissectologist, who had the pictures removed from the box because she said the images only made the jig-saws easier to complete.

MBE Milkman Very ‘Mooved’ Meeting Queen

A MILKMAN from Leicester received an MBE from the Queen last month . . wearing a cow-themed suit.

Tony Fowler, 51, won his MBE for helping police catch a string of criminals by keeping a lookout for suspicious behaviour on his milk run.

He has helped foil burglaries, youths joy riding, drug deals and has even blocked in car thieves with his milk float on his round in Melton Mowbray.

Buckingham Palace did have advance warning that Mr Fowler wanted to dress up like a Fresian cow for the event. Aides had done their best to dissuade him – but Fowler merely toned down his outfit slightly, reports the Daily Mail.

He agreed not to use face paint and to wear plain trousers instead of ones with white hoops stitched on the bottom. And luckily, his dog had already chewed off the tail that had been fixed to the back of his suit.

Afterwards the milkman insisted that his outfit had gone down well with the monarch, who is a keen farmer. “She was a bit disap-pointed it wasn’t a Jersey (costume) because that’s her own cows at Windsor,” he said.

“My wife Anne is not pleased about me go-ing as a cow but I just want to do something different.”

Horse Wins Annual Equine-Human Race Again

FOUR LEGS have triumphed over two once again, with a horse galloping to victory in Britain’s annual Man v Horse race.

Forty-four horse-and-rider teams took on 253 runners and 115 relay teams in the 22-mile race last month in and around the town of Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales.

The fastest horse, Sly Dai, finished in two hours, seven minutes and four seconds. The fastest human, DHL truck driver Haggai Chetkwang, crossed the line in 2:17:27.

The race has been held since 1980, and individual human runners have won only twice, in 2004 and 2007.

Organizers say future races will cover 44 miles, testing the theory that longer courses give humans a better chance because horses tire more quickly.

Parish Members To Take Vicars Point

COMPULSORY Archery is on the ‘hymn list’ for the congregation of one Wiltshire vicar.

By reviving an ancient law The Reverend Mary Edwards, of Collingbourne Ducis, near Marlborough is inviting all the village members to a celebration.

Edwards said: “It’s an unrepealed law from some time in the middle ages and I can call all the men – but I’ve extended it to all people – in the parish to archery practice.

“We are celebrating the building of a new loo in the church. After all these years we have at long last brought running water to the church.”

Residents were rewarded for complying with the law with a bar, a barbecue and live music. Church warden Mike Cox said: “It seems she’s still entitled to do that. I’ve been checking on the web and most archery experts and clergy seem to agree she is.

“Though a lot of the laws were repealed, that particular one still stands so she’s entitled to call the men of the village, and presumably the women and children too, to archery practice.”

The Last Of The Last Of The Summer Wine To Air

BRITAIN’S longest running comedy series, Last of the Summer Wine, will come to an end after the broadcast of the final series this summer. For 37 years the characters of a small Yorkshire village that had plenty of time on their hands has been compulsive and clas-sic viewing for millions of Britons. Only actor Peter Sallis who plays Norman Clegg is left of the original cast. Compo’s (Bill Owen) en-thusiasm and unwelcome attraction for Nora Batty (Kathy Staff) and Foggy Dewhurst’s (Brian Hewitt) illusion that he was Britain’s most deadly spy during the war, and then there was the eccentricities of the community’s richest resident played by Dame Thora Hird. Other characters emboldened those Yorkshire adventures over the years, with every one of those half hour series written by its creator Roy Clarke and produced by Alan JW Bell. The great theatre in the sky has claimed many of those precious talents who magnificently lit up that small BBC screen in 1973, but through DVD technology they will live forever.

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They obtained the money from busi-nessman Terence Collins and his financial backer Marcel Boerkhoorn. Miss Dhir told the court: “It is a fact that lies were told by the defendants, which makes them guilty of conspiracy to defraud.”

The three defendants: solicitor Conn Far-rell, 57, of Aldershot; retired construction company contracts manager Patrick Dolan, 68, of Tottenham, north London; and lorry driver Anthony Lee, 49, of Goole, East York-shire, all deny conspiracy to defraud.

The Ritz is owned by twins Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay, who also own The Daily Telegraph newspaper.

BUT THIS ONE IS FOR SALENotting Hill Gate, west London, is for

sale at £130m or near offer. Known as the local high street for the Cameron set (it is a Conservative stronghold), the deal could give fresh life to the shopping street known as “Concrete Alley”.

The congested strip of shops and restau-rants in the heart of one of London’s most fashionable districts has attracted keen inter-est from all parts of the world, according to property industry sources.

Local campaigners say that the change of ownership could pave the way for a dra-matic overhaul of the concrete alley, flanked by some of the most expensive housing in Europe.

John Scott, of the Notting Hill Gate

up the area foundered five years ago in the face of local and council opposition.

The sale is being handled by agents Cush-man & Wakefield, who say that the Hollywood link (the film Notting Hill starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts) had boosted interest.

But all is not sweetness and light in the area. Shopkeepers who have seen rents soar in recent years while business has been lost to the internet, said there was deep concern about the future. Trushar Patel, manager of Tylers hardware shop, said: “We’ve been here since 1986 but we’ve reached the limit of what we can afford on the rent, and now it is up for sale it is very worrying.”

LAUNCH OF THE NEW ROUTEMASTER

London’s Mayor Boris Johnson has, finally, launched the new Routemaster bus, which he calls “a slinky beautiful machine”.

The first buses will be on the streets at the end of next year, with “a few hundred more” by the time of the Olympics in 2012.

They will have two staircases and three doors, one of which will be the “hop-on hop-off “ feature of the old model. But when the back of the bus is open – during busy times – it will be manned by a conductor.

The new bus will replace the bendy bus which is being phased out, although ques-tions remain about whether the new bus – costing £7.8m for five – would provide value for money. But Transport for London

FORECAST FAILEDAccording to Tina Brown, author of The

Diana Chronicles, Prince William and Kate Middleton were due to announce their engagement on either June 3 or 4. Sadly, it just didn’t happen.

The plan, according to Brown, was for a June engagement and a winter wedding, after the turmoil of the election was over and a new Prime Minister was installed in Downing Street.

November is the same month when the Queen and Prince Philip married in 1947. Tina Brown’s forecast surprised most royal watch-ers. Unfortunately, her forecast was, to say the least, inaccurate: It just didn’t happen.

SELFRIDGES IS NO 1Selfridges store in Oxford Street has

been named as the best department store in the world.

The chain store, which has another in Birmingham and two in Manchester, beat Bloomingdale’s in New York and Lane Crawford in Hong Kong to win the retail prize at the Global Department Store Summit in New York.

IS ANYONE THERE?A London student is to help NASA

search for life at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere.

Rainbow Lo, a 16-year-old student at Ursuline High School, Wimbledon, will spend two weeks in California with the US space agency on a mission to launch a rocket 115 kilometres into the sky.

The Clotho project is being run with a group of amateur space enthusiasts called the Maverick Foundation. It hopes to discover how high up in the Earth’s atmosphere life can survive.

The team will launch a rocket into the stratosphere. It will release a probe that will collect any microbes it finds before returning to Earth. The organisms will be analysed to help understand how they survive in one of the planet’s harshest environments.

WESTERN C-CHARGE TO ENDMayor Boris Johnson has announced

plans to scrap the western extension of the congestion charge zone on Christmas Eve. But he also confirmed that the daily charge would increase by 25 percent from £8 to £10 from January 4 next year. Drivers who sign up to a pre-pay scheme will pay £9.

The move, which has to be ratified after public consultation, will return the zone to its original eight-square-mile central London area introduced by Ken Livingstone in 2003.

Park Lane will once again be its western boundary instead of the Shepherds Bush roundabout. At a stroke, almost the entire borough of Kensington and Chelsea will be removed from the zone.

The move will cost Transport for London £55m a year in lost revenue and congestion and air quality will worsen in west London. There are also concerns about the increased danger to cyclists. But there should be fewer delays in the central zone because tens of thousands of drivers in west London will no longer qualify for a 90 per cent residents’ discount.

FINALLY Jimmy Powers, US radio boxing an-

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£250m For The Ritz? No SaleA £1m cash deposit will secure the sale of The Ritz hotel for £250m, according to three fraudsters who managed to convince two businessmen to part with their money.

Prosecutor Anuja Dhir,QC, told Southwark Crown Court: “The deal that sounded too good to be true was a complete fantasy.. The three men were in no position to sell the Ritz hotel, the true value of which was put at £600m.”

An artist’s impression of the new-look Routemaster bus set to be on the roads of London by 2012 – just in time for the Olympics.

Prince Harry In New York For

African CharityPRINCE HARRY took a tumble from his horse last month before his defeat in a New York polo match against the world’s best known polo player, Argentina’s Nacho Figueras.

But it was all for a good cause – to ben-efi t 400,000 children of an AIDS-ravaged African nation.

The 25-year-old son of the late Princess Diana fell off his polo pony in the fi rst half of the third Annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Governor’s Island.

But he had a smile on his face as he got up and continued the contest, which Figueras’ Black Watch team won 6-5 in overtime. At fi rst, the prince’s Black Rock foursome was ahead, with Harry scoring an early two points, despite his fall.

“I think his horse got spooked, or something,”’ Figueras told The Associ-ated Press.

The United States “has always protected the downtrodden, the poorest, those most in need of help in the world,” Harry said before the match. “And to me, this is what the United States stands for.”

Harry played as part of his pledge to continue his mother’s work.

Harry’s three-day visit to New York began June 25 at the West Point Military Academy north of the city, followed by UNICEF the day after and throwing the fi rst pitch at a Mets game.

Far-Right Leader Secures Invite To Queen’s PartyTHE LEADER of the far-right British National Party says he has been invited to the Queen’s summer garden party at Buckingham Palace.

The palace said last month that Nick Griffi n is a member of the European Parliament and is entitled to tickets for the annual function.

Griffi n announced the invitation in a speech to supporters. Griffin said the invita-tion to the party in late July was for himself and three family members.

In nation-al elections earlier this year, Griffi n sought a seat

in Britain’s House of Commons but was defeated. He was invited to attend the palace event last year by another party member, but declined after protests.

The BNP opposes Britain’s immi-gration policy and claims to fi ght for “indigenous” Britons.

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Routemaster will carry 87 passengers: 62 sitting and 25 standing. It will cut emissions and give Londoners “a bus they can be proud of,” says the Mayor, adding: “I expect to have hundreds of these on London’s roads, and for cities around the globe to be beside themselves with envy for our stunning red emblem of 21st century London.”

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victim, told the crowd to cheers. He was one of dozens of relatives who took turns declaring the innocence of lost loved ones to the crowd as the TV screen displayed black-and-white portraits of each of the 13 dead and 15 wounded.

VINDICATED“The victims of Bloody Sunday have

been vindicated, and the soldiers of the Parachute Regiment have been disgraced. Their medals of honor have to be removed!” Doherty declared to more cheers.

In London, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the investigation – based on evidence from 921 witnesses, 2,500 written statements and 60 volumes of written evidence – demonstrated that the soldiers’ shooting into the crowd protesting the internment without trial of IRA suspects was “both unjustifi ed and unjustifi able.”

Cameron apologized on behalf of the British government, and summarized the

fi ndings of English judge Lord Saville: The soldiers never should have been ordered to confront the protesters, they fi red the fi rst shots and targeted unarmed people who were clearly fl eeing or aiding the helpless wounded. None of those killed or wounded that day in Londonderry had posed a threat to the soldiers, Saville concluded.

BUDGETEDThe Bloody Sunday Inquiry, authorized

by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998 in the run-up to the negotia-tion of the Good Friday peace accord that year, was originally budgeted to cost £11m and report fi ndings by 2002. Instead, the fi nal bill was estimated at nearly £200m – making it the longest and most expensive inquiry in British legal history. Cameron said Britain would never attempt anything like it again.

But the British, Irish and US govern-ments welcomed the fi ndings as priceless to heal one of the gaping wounds left from Northern Ireland’s four-decade confl ict that left 3,700 dead. Bloody Sunday fueled a rise in support for the IRA, which didn’t cease-fi re until 1997 after killing nearly 1,800 people.

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which keep their own costs down. Worth about £35 per household.

Capital Gains Tax: To rise from 18 per-cent to 28 percent from midnight for higher rate taxpayers. The “entrepreneurs relief” rate of 10 percent on the fi rst £2m of gains will be extended to the fi rst £5m.

The balance of spending cuts to tax rises would be 77 percent to 23 percent.

CIGARETTES, ALCOHOL & FUELNo increases this time round. Labour’s

plan to increase the duty on cider by 10 percent infl ation will be scrapped from July.

BENEFITSChild benefit: Frozen for the next three

years. Tax credits: Reduced for families

earning over £40,000 next year. But low income families will get more Child Tax Credit – the amount per child will rise by £150 above the rate of infl ation next year – at an annual cost of £2bn.

Housing benefit: New maximum limit of £400 a week for properties with more than three bedrooms, £250 a week for a one-bedroom fl at, £290 for a two-bedroom property and £340 for a three-bed property, to save £1.8bn a year by the end of the Parliament.

Unemployed people will see their Hous-ing Benefi t cut by 10 percent, after 12 months of claiming Jobseekers Allowance from April 2013.

The government will introduce a medi-cal assessment for Disability Living Al-lowance from 2013 for new and existing claimants.

The welfare shake-up will save £11bn by 2014/15.

PUBLIC SECTOR PAY Public sector workers face a two-year

pay freeze if they earn over £21,000. Those

earning less £21,000 will get a fl at pay-rise worth £250 in both years.

Armed services personnel in Afghani-stan will see their operational allowance doubled to £4,800 – as announced by David Cameron earlier in the month.

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Budget: SharpestCuts In Decades

PENSIONSThe basic state pension will be linked

to earnings from April 2011, with the pension guaranteed to rise in line with earnings, prices or 2.5 percent, whichever is the greater.

The government will accelerate the increase in state pension age to 66 – a “call for evidence” was to be made later in the week.

The government will also consult on phasing out the default retirement age – to ensure those who want to work past 65 are able to do so.

BUSINESSFrom April 2011, the threshold at which

employers start to pay National Insurance will rise by the rate of infl ation plus £21 per week.

Corporation Tax will be cut next year to 27 percent, and by one percent annually for the next three years, until it reaches 24 percent.

The small companies’ tax rate will be cut to 20 percent.

REGIONSWhite Paper to be published on tackling

regional economic differences in Britain later in the summer, followed by a paper on rebalancing the economy of Northern Ireland.

The upgrade of the Tyne and Wear Met-ro, extension of the Manchester Metrolink, redevelopment of Birmingham New Street station and improvements to the rail lines to Sheffi eld and between Liverpool and Leeds will go ahead.

Chancellor’s 150-Year-Old Budget Box Takes Last BowA RED wooden box that has carried the government’s budget to the House of Commons since 1860 made its last of-ficial appearance last month.

T reasury chief George O s b o r n e s t r u c k t h e t r a d i t i o n a l pose, holding the box aloft for photographers, before he set off to the House of Commons to announce the government’s budget plans. But he left it behind.

The box was first used by William Ewart Gladstone in 1860, and most Chancellors of the Exchequer have used it ever since. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown was an exception, using a new red box during his 11 years heading the Treasury.

The old box will be retired to a perma-nent display in the Cabinet War Rooms.

The National Archives said a replace-ment box, using traditional materials and techniques, has been commissioned.

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Gunman’s Family Baffled At His Deadly Rampage

THE FAMILY of gunman Derrick Bird say they have no idea why he carried out the “horrifi c” shootings of 12 people in Cumbria.

Two statements were read at St Mi-chael’s Church in Lamplugh, the village where one of Bird’s brothers, his twin, was found dead. The family also offered condolences to the loved ones of those killed.

Bird’s sons Graeme and Jamie said: “We do not know why he committed these horrifi c crimes and we are both mortifi ed by the sad events.”

Later hundreds of people gathered in Seascale, the village where Bird killed three people, for the fi rst of two memorial services.

The second service was held in White-haven, where Bird shot dead one of his fellow taxi drivers.

In Lamplugh, in a statement read by Rev Jim Marshall, Bird’s sons called the 52-year-old a “loving dad who had recently become a grandfather” and “the nicest man you could ever meet”.

Police were still trying to establish a motive for the killings

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They said: “Dad was a loving, cheerful character, and was well known throughout the whole community and the areas in which he worked.

“He will be missed by us and by his family and by his friends.”

Of the victims’ families, Bird’s sons said: “Our thoughts are with them”.

Bird killed 12 people in west Cumbria June 2 before driving to the Lake District

where he shot himself. Police believe he deliberately targeted

some of his victims and indiscriminately shot at others during his 45-mile ram-page.

ESTABLISHDetectives are continuing to try to es-

tablish a motive for the killings. Speaking outside the church, Marshall

said Bird’s mother Susan learnt of her son’s gun rampage when she turned on the television”

He said: “She was horrifi ed, she was astounded. She was just stunned and still can’t take it in.”

He said Mrs Bird then locked all the doors. When asked if the family had feared for their lives, he replied: “Yes, wouldn’t you if you realised (he) had killed his twin brother.”

We cannot offer any reason why Der-rick took it upon himself to commit these crimes.

But Rev Marshall said the Derrick Bird his family knew “was not the person they saw on Wednesday”.

Five Candidates In Race To Lead

Labour PartyBRITAIN’S opposition Labour Party says that five candidates have won nominations in the race to be its next leader, with left-winger Diane Abbott securing her place just before the deadline.

Four former members of ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Cabinet were also nominated: former Foreign Secretary David Miliband, his brother, the former Environment Secretary Ed Miliband, former Schools Secretary Ed Balls and former Health Secretary Andy Burnham.

Abbott is the only woman and the only black candidate in the race. She re-ceived the necessary nominations after left-winger John McDonnell dropped out and urged support for her.

Voting for the new leader begins August 16, and the result won’t be an-nounced until September 25.

UK Double Oil Rig Inspections After BP Leak

Obama Tells Britain No Hard Feelings Over SpillBy Jill Lawless

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has reassured Prime Minister David Cameron that his frustration over the mammoth oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not an attack on Britain as the two leaders tried to soothe trans-Atlantic tensions over the disaster.

Cameron’s Downing Street offi ce said the two leaders held a “warm and construc-tive” telephone conversation for more than 30 minutes last month.

Obama has recently sharpened his criti-cism of BP PLC as the company struggles to stop millions of gallons of oil gushing from its ruptured deep-sea well. Cameron is under pressure to get Obama to tone down the rhetoric against of a major Brit-ish company, fearing it will hurt millions of Britons – as well as many Americans – who hold BP stock in investments and pension plans.

Cameron’s offi ce said the prime minis-ter “expressed his sadness at the ongoing human and environmental catastrophe,” but stressed BP’s economic importance to Britain, the US and other countries.

FRUSTRATIONSIt said Obama recognized that BP –

which he has pointedly referred to in public by its former name, British Petroleum – is

a multinational company, “and that frus-trations about the oil spill had nothing to do with national identity.” Obama said he had no interest in undermining BP’s value. The company’s stock has lost 40 percent of its value since the oil rig fi re on April 20 that unleashed the United States’ worst oil spill.

Downing Street said the two men agreed that BP should continue “to work intensively to ensure that all sensible and reasonable steps are taken as rapidly as practicable to deal with the consequences of this catastrophe.”

The Obama administration walked a careful line: trying to show toughness with BP, but also reassuring Britons that the president holds no animosity toward their country and institutions. The strategy could be risky if Obama’s political opponents use it to reinforce claims that he has been too gentle and diplomatic in dealing with the oil company.

Tony Hayward and other BP executives met with President Obama last month for the fi rst time since the crisis began.

APOLOGISINGHayward also testifi ed at a US House

of Representatives hearing last month, apologising for insensitive comments

made shortly after the spill began.A senior Obama administration offi cial,

speaking on condition of anonymity to de-scribe the private conversation, confi rmed that the president had told Cameron “that our frustration has nothing to do with national identity” but focuses instead on “ensuring that a large, wealthy company lives up to its obligations.”

The offi cial said Obama told Cameron that BP “must meet its obligations to those whose lives have been disrupted,” and that the administration “will insist everything be done to cap the well, capture the oil, and pay for the cleanup, the environmental damage done and the tens of thousands of economic claims as a result of this di-saster.”

M e a n w h i l e , worldwide, Britain has doubled rig in-spections. Bulgaria scrapped plans for a new oil pipeline. Chi-nese and French oil giants are upgrading equipment and pro-cedures designed to prevent spills. As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, nations around the globe are taking a cue from this cautionary tale and ratcheting up their oversight of the petroleum indus-try. While Canada’s offshore regulator is tightening oversight of its deepest-ever exploration well, be-ing drilled by Chevron off the coast of New-foundland.

LEE BRAY of Bristol left nothing to the neighbour’s imagination during this world cup – banners and flags were not enough for Lee – he had two graffiti artists paint his house exterior, top to bottom.

Bray, 34, of Knowle West, decided that replica shirts and car flags just weren’t enough, reported the BBC.

So he commissioned the artists to cover the front of his house in a giant World Cup mural.

The father of two daughters said his

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football-mad family all supported the makeover.

He said: “People are coming from all over Bristol to take photos of the house, I really believe England can go all the way and win in South Africa.”

Bray, who owns a drainage engineer-ing company, and his family were plan-ning to move soon and the tribute will be covered over once England’s World Cup bid was over, unfortunately, sooner than planned.

OFFICIALS said last month they would double the number of inspections carried out at oil rigs in the North Sea following the disastrous leak at a BP-operated installation in the Gulf of Mexico.

Britain’s Department of Energy said the average number of annual environmental checks aboard the country’s 24-odd drilling rigs would rise from eight to 16, and said it was hiring three extra inspectors to help

pursue the more aggressive program. The department did not provide de-tails of the inspections, but said they involved visits to each rig.

Energy Secretary Chris Huhne said that while he believed the measures governing the nation’s offshore energy industry were robust, the catastrophic leak and its aftermath had given the government “pause for thought.”s “every reason to increase our vigilance.”

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THE BIGGEST whodunnit in EastEnders his-tory is drawing to a close and as DI Marsden tightens the screws on the residents of Albert Square, hoping the guilty one will pop, she inadvertently causes the death of an innocent, but first.

Ricky and Bianca’s wedding day comes and goes off without a hitch, or at least it would have but Carol Jackson shows up, still seething with hate for Bianca and tries to ruin it all. But after much shouting, the wedding happens anyway.

On the same day, Bradley and Stacy run off to the registry office for a surprise elope-ment. They are planning to leave the Square to start a new life elsewhere. But Stacy’s overbearingly disturbed “friend”, Becca, doesn’t like being shut out so she calls the old Bill and tells them it was Bradley what done it. When cops show up in the Square, Bradley and Stacy try to run, but are spotted and Bradley gives chase; running up a ladder, to the roof of the Vic where he falls and is killed as Stacy, Max and Jack scream in horror and the rest of the Square looks on. Everyone thinks Bradley was running because he was guilty, but Stacy tells Max, “It wasn’t Bradley. It was me. I killed Archie.” (She whispered those words, and even though no one else in the Square heard her, half the UK did as this episode was broadcast LIVE, to celebrate EastEnders 25th Anniversary).

After Bradley’s death, Max turns to drinking; Carol and Billy move in with Max, claiming it’s too help him but we later find out she’s been fired from her job then tossed from her Council Flat; Stacy disappears for parts unknown; Roxy and Ronnie get into a fight about something and stop speaking;

Roxy is pushing Peggy out of the Vic; Phil is trying to convince Shirley to start seeing him again; Dotty’s real Mum shows up at Dot’s looking for her. Turns out she wasn’t dead after all. That was just another one of Nicks lies. And turns out her real name isn’t even Dotty. At first Dot tells the woman she hasn’t seen Dotty, but then feels guilty and arranges a mother and child reunion, and Dotty leaves with her mum.... And a mysterious little girl shows up at the Walford East tube station and is found by Ronnie. The girl says she’s looking for her father, shows Ronnie a picture and asks if she knows him. She says yes, that she’ll take her to him. But when she walks into the Vic and sees Phil yelling at someone, she decides some children are better off without their dads and instead calls social services and has them pick the girl up. It’s only then that we see the picture; it’s an old photo of Phil, Lisa and baby Louise! The little girl is long lost Louise who ran away from her neglectful mum, to come looking for her Dad and Ronnie sent her away. We have a feeling that won’t turn out well.

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EVERYONE gathers at the Barlow’s house for the reading of Blanche’s will. Daughter Deirdre gets the jewels, son-in-law Ken gets Eccles the dog and the Maeve Binchy novels, Tracy gets the cash and Norris gets an instruction to cancel Blanche’s puzzle magazine from the corner shop.

In Weatherfield jail, Tracy Barlow’s moved into the same cell as Gail McIntyre as the cops get her to make Gail confess to killing Joe in the Lakes. Tracy’s doing wonderful stuff with her face, pulling it into all sorts of shapes and emotions to wring as much out of Gail as she can but so far, no luck. Gail’s sticking to the story that she’s innocent, which of course, she is, although she should still be locked up for being so thick. Mean-while back on the cobbles, Gail’s sons David and Nick launch a campaign to get their mum out of jail. Enterprising lads these two clearly are, if not a bit dim, they start their campaign by bribing a witness to lie.

Roy and Hayley have much on their mind after Roy starts doing a life and death audit and decides they need to be legally wed in case one of them dies. You might remember they were ‘wed’ back in 1999 but the law has changed on transsexuals marrying and finally Corrie are addressing this now, and about time too. Hayley takes this to mean Roy’s proposing and she gets excited about a big wedding, a cake and a new frock. Roy just wants the legal aspects taken care of and when Hayley fusses over a wedding, he takes back his proposal of marriage. What a cad.

Graeme continues his quest to get Tina up and well, but she’s still not been outdoors just

yet. She’s eating now, which is a good sign that Graeme’s doing something right and he’s even managed to put a little smile on her face. Meanwhile Jason’s not happy that Graeme’s spending so much time with Tina and won’t let him into the flat. But although Graeme’s enjoying looking after Tina, he’s secretly lusting after Rosie Webster.

Teresa Morton left the cobbles this month after Liz McDonald had a word with her in the Rovers Return and told her what Teresa had secretly known, that Lloyd was eyeing up Cheryl the stripper. To save face, Teresa tells Lloyd she’s leaving for a new job in a new town and then when she turns the corner with her bag in her hand, she calls one of her kids, with tears in her eyes, and tells them she was coming to stay.

Over at Underworld, the knicker factory, there’s a leak in the ceiling. Carla’s under pressure to finish an order and needs a new stitcher. Izzy gets the job and Kirk starts work in packing, over the moon to have a job handling ladies undies all day. He’s still trying to work out what most of them are. But the order’s not completed in time and the buyer cancels his cheque. The leak in the roof gets bigger and just when Carla Connor thinks that things can’t get any worse, she’s taken hostage in the factory by her ex-husband Tony Gordon, the murderer with the mad eye. He’s escaped from jail and is determined to do his dastardly deeds on the Street.

And over in the bookies shop, Peter Barlow gives Deirdre a part-time job. Well, she’s got nothing else to do, has Deirdre, not since she got made redundant from the council. And on such moments, the world of soap turns.

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Britain Gives US Strongest Pledge To Stay In WarBRITAIN’S new government publicly assured the US last month that it remains committed to its central role in the war in Afghanistan.

Defense Minister Liam Fox pledged that the new coalition government in Britain won’t change course in Afghanistan, in its strongest statement to date on the subject. Britain is the most important US ally in the war and contributes more than 9,000 soldiers, the second-highest number of forces after the United States.

Fox did say that the fi rst thing he considered when he took the job last month was whether the war was worthwhile. The new leadership is considered less invested in the war than the former Labour government.

London 2012 Olympics

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By Stephen Wood

THE 2012 London Olympics may not escape more budget cuts as Britain’s new government seeks to slash public spending.

Britain’s Sports Minister Hugh Robert-son said last month he could not guarantee the Olympic budget would be spared when the government’s public spending review begins in the fall.

“I cannot say categorically that there will be no adjustments,” Robertson told The Associated Press. “No one can say that the state of the nation’s fi nances are not dire, and sport and the Olympics Games are not immune from that.

“But when we look at the Olympic budget we will make an argument that refl ects its importance to the nation and make sure that we deliver a successful games that Britain can be proud of, on time and under budget.”

RESPONSIBLEThe Olympic Delivery Authority, the

body responsible for building the venues for the games, was told last month its fund-ing would be cut by $39.5m. The overall public sector budget for the Olympics is $13.6bn.

The ODA reduction was just a slice of the $8.7bn in total spending cuts an-nounced by the coalition government to trim Britain’s record budget defi cit.

More cuts are expected when the gov-ernment’s spending review takes place in the fall, when each department will have to justify its funding in what has been dubbed Prime Minister David Cameron’s “star chamber.”

Robertson announced that British sport’s share of money raised by the national lottery would increase from 16 percent to 20 percent by 2012, an increase of about $73m a year. The move is part of the minister’s efforts to safeguard a positive future for British sport after the 2012 Olympics.

Retail Sales, Car Production Rise In MayRETAIL sales in Britain rose 4.4 percent in the year to May while vehicle production soared by 59 percent, two reports said last month, suggesting the economic recovery from a deep recession is continuing for a third quarter.

The fi gures indicate consumer spending is holding up better than expected, though the outlook is clouded by looming cuts in public expenditure and possible tax hikes.

The Offi ce for National Statistics said retail sales rose by 0.4 percent from April

to May, but half of that gain refl ected rising prices for gas.

Vicky Redwood, economist at Capital Economics, said sales in the second quarter were on course for a strong rise.

A year ago, Britain was just beginning a cash incentive program for new car buyers who traded in a car more than 10 years old. That program has now expired.

About 70 percent of British vehicle production is for export, so the industry’s worries stretch beyond the UK economy.

RBS, 500 More Job Cuts Over Three YearsPART-NATIONALIZED Royal Bank of Scotland says it is cutting 500 jobs in its wealth management division.

RBS has been cutting staff since it was bailed out by the government during the fi nancial crisis, leaving the bank 80 percent owned by taxpayers.

RBS has accelerated its plans to re-

structure the business since the European Commission ordered it to sell 318 branches and the insurance business to soothe com-petition concerns after the state rescue.

The banks says the latest cuts will be made over three years and that it will try to minimize compulsory lay-offs.

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It Costs Half A Million To Talk To Fergie’s HubbyA SMALL three-year-old helicopter with freckles and a turned-up cap, much of whose life has been spent fer-rying lobsters, longs for adventure. He finds it when he is able to assist in the rescue of a kidnapped schoolgirl.

The above synopsis may seem somewhat flimsy for a best-selling book but then its authoress was only 30, and she had been pretty busy elsewhere in her life. Her mar-riage was very much the same age as the eponymous hero, Budgie, in the above . And, much like the lobsters, it was on the rocks. Within two years, it would end in the divorce court. Sadly, Budgie the Helicopter was not a best seller either.

Our literary heroine this month is Sarah Ferguson, a one-time member of the Royal Family entitled to the status of Her Royal Highness. It was a style she forfeited in 1996 when she was summarily booted out by her mother-in-law and forced to resort to the humiliation of being called the Duchess of York. She was married to Prince Andrew and has two daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie who are fifth and sixth in line to the British throne.

Both daughters are beneficiaries of the Civil List (the money paid by the British people to keep the Royal Family in the manner it deserves) and their father, Prince Andrew, has insisted that each of them should receive Special Branch protection 24-hours-a-day. This costs the tax payer the best part of half a million smackers a year apiece.

Sarah Ferguson, by contrast, has a life style which is supported by sky hooks. She claims that her divorce settlement ran out at a measly £15,000 per annum, presumably because the debts of £4m she allegedly knocked up during her marriage were settled by the Royal Purse.

She has had to make up her own script in the past 14 years since divorcing Andrew in 1996 and turned a tidy penny for a number of years as US spokesperson for Weight Watchers International. This helped her to clear more of her debts. These by the way seem to be the natural consequence of be-ing Duchess of York and the understandable reaction to having to make do on fifteen grand a year.

She has spent a lot of her time in charity work, raising money by milking her contacts one assumes, and her experience of life has led to a couple of TV programmes made here in the UK.

CRUSADESIn her crusade to heal broken Britain, for

example, she spent some time last year in Northern Moor, in the Wythenshawe area of Manchester. Her observations on the state of affairs there – drugs, gang violence, drunkenness, underage sex etc – were not welcomed by the local community who felt that any trouble was caused by a tiny minority and that Sarah Ferguson could take a running jump as far as they were concerned.

She was left distraught by the reaction of the locals but in a supreme gesture of self-sacrifice said, “I might let Britain settle down a bit. I find it quite tiring that it’s so difficult to support and help.”

Apparently, she now plans to take her community crusade to America where her intimate knowledge of life in urban ghettoes should provide even more moments of high comedy.

Howeve r , h e r willingness to help worthy causes (chief amongst which pre-sumably is herself) was unkindly ex-posed in May when she was the subject of a News of the World (NoW) sting. This Sunday organ pays for the services of a man known as the Fake Sheikh, Mazher Mahmood, an undercover reporter who cus-tomarily poses as an Indian businessman.

PROMISEDOn the video he made, which is publicly

available, Sarah Ferguson is seen in a hotel room saying, “£500,000 when you can, to me opens doors.” She promised an intro-duction to the Prince, claimed he’d help fix lucrative deals and demanded a cut of all the profits.

“Look after me,” she said, “and he’ll look after you…you’ll get it back tenfold. I can open any door you want.”

She is also seen taking away a brief-case containing forty thousand dollars in cash. (She will without a shadow of doubt have declared this in an income tax return somewhere.)

The half million pounds to her were to ensure that the Indian businessman had ac-cess to Prince Andrew. Which is I suppose a fair price – about what I earned in a lifetime spent in teaching.

When the details of her financial dealings

with the NoW were revealed to her as she flew to the US to receive an award for her charity work, she pronounced herself “devastated” and “regretful”, adding quickly that Prince Andrew had known nothing about the deal.

DEVASTATEDIt is the word “devastated” that interests

me here. It suggests that she had only just found out what she was doing thanks to the fortunate chance of a video recording taken by the Fake Sheikh. It is to be hoped that she doesn’t find out that she has done this before since it may make her feel completely devastated to the point where she did us all a favour and withdrew completely from public life.

That, however, is the sort of fairy tale ending which even Budgie the Helicopter couldn’t engineer.

What happened in real life was that Sarah Ferguson came clean in a televised inter-view with the peerless Oprah Winfrey – an occasional beneficiary herself, one thinks, of Sarah Ferguson’s impeccable service to Weight Watchers. Curiously, she talked about herself in the third person, a manner of narration which distances yourself from personal blame.

Instead of saying how devastated she was and that “I was p****d at the time”, she commented on the behaviour of the princess: that she was the worse for wear and was to be pitied for what she had done. Thus neatly absolving herself from any blame.

It may go down well with the American public but it cuts no ice here in Britain!

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UJ Book Reviewer TANYA is a proud mother of three, and a wife that can brew a mean morning tea. Her kids and husband provide her daily dose of both joy and in-sanity so she claims to be a well balanced individual. When she grabs a moment, somewhere between 8 o’clock and 8:05, Tanya crams in some writ-ing. She currently has three blogs. www.readthemandeat.com – About books and food; www.splatthefat.weebly.com – About dieting, and her lat-est: www.thirtynineplusone.webs.com About anything and everything.

Little Bee by: Chris Cleeve: Little Bee is a story that shines a brave bright spotlight on many of our most controversial political issues today. The title character’s sometimes deeply dark sometimes wisely uplifting voice examines the moral dilemma which is immigration. Her story, fleeing Nigeria following a rebel ambush that her family fell victim to, could belong to any one of the millions of asylum seekers world wide, stories that we cannot truly comprehend when viewed only from a reclined position, in front of our media boxes.

With this story, Cleeve fills in all the bits missing from those forty-five second news blurbs we seem to have grown accus-tomed to. The thing is you can’t sum up horror in a blurb, or deliver the news of it accurately. Each piece of news has a story. A full story. Without this story it is hard for us to feel truly connected to events. Cleeve succeeds in attaching us to Little Bee’s situation and in blowing life into an issue that otherwise might have gone unnoticed. He takes the reader on an immigrant’s painful journey, connecting the

reader visually and emotionally to immigra-tion issues of globalization and morality . With Cleeve’s portrayal, we see these issues that might be ignored if we’re not faced with them at our front doors.

Just because Britain doesn’t have a big door with a stained glass window and a

Big Ben jingle buzzer does not mean we shouldn’t be inquisitive about the people who arrive at our borders and their multiple needs, fears and desires. Cleeve opens this door wide and through his well-observed, beautifully writ-ten prose he ushers the reader into a profoundly significant story. He impels us to feel the

fear of rebel warfare, he reveals the despair felt from being incarcerated in an immigra-tion detention center after fleeing the horrors of one’s homeland, and he cultivates in us an appreciation for the courage necessary to rebuild a life. The reader gets a sense of the entire experience as this harrowing but beautiful story unfolds.

Any book that not only tells a good story but also requires the reader to step into someone else’s shoes, to learn and ap-preciate something new is definitely on my hot list. Little Bee does all of this and more. It stays with you long after you have turned the last page – a mark of a good read. I love Chris Cleeve. I want to marry Chris Cleeve. He may even have another suitor once you have read Little Bee.

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Rude Britannia In Cheeky Stand At The TateSAUCY POSTCARDS and depictions of bare backsides went on display at one of the country’s top art galleries last month.

Tate Britain is hosting Rude Britannia the show, featuring works by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, the Viz maga-zine team and an ‘absurd’ room curated by Harry Hill.

One of the most outrageous items on display is a sketch by Scarfe depicting the late clean-up TV crusader Mary White-house in a sexual position. Scarfe said that even he was slightly taken aback that the 1971 cartoon, entitled Mrs Mary Righteous explains her position to the Pope, had gone on show.

He said: “That’s extraordinary to have got that in the Tate – even I’m a bit shocked.”

Scarfe said some ‘prudes’ might take offence, but added: “Not a lot of them are around. We British we seem to love all this stuff.”

A Spitting Image puppet of Baroness Thatcher is also among the display, as well as drawings of Viz characters Sid the Sexist and the Fat Slags and various seaside postcards.

Martin Myrone, curator of 18th and 19th century British art at Tate Britain, said: “Humour is a really important aspect of British cultural history.”

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WORLD CUP fever was certainly first and foremost on the minds of both customers and landlord (Raff) alike at the Press Roomin Santa Barbara. When Karen and I visited June 12 for the USA v England game. Prob-ably an equal amount of supporters from both countries were there, which made for an equal shouting match and on that one England lost since it was a tie. Besides, it’s so much easier to chant: USA USA USA rather than chanting: England England England. And what is it about those Vuvuzela’s! Sounds like bee’s gone wild!!

Everyone made the excuse to make it an event! Lines formed outside the Pub at 7am and in this case not enough room. It truly lived up to its name as there was plenty of Press in the Press Room.

The next match found John Hiscock (Daily Telegraph) and myself in the Lookout at the Channel Islands of Oxnard 7am watching the US and UK get one goal each on two differ-ent screens. If wasn’t crossed eyed before

I sure am now.I was forced to take a week off to get my

life back and go sailing on the tall ship the Bill of Rights. They were short crew members which put a huge smile on my face, sailing eight out of ten days. Tough job but someone had to do it.

Our entire program is based on youth training and one particular trip involved students from CSUCI on a marine environ-mental exploration. As we set sail in the pristine waters of the Pacific Ocean that is teaming with life we saw six whales, dozens of dolphins and sea lions as we sailed past six oil rigs in the Santa Barbara Channel on our way to Santa Cruz Island, anchoring in the shelter of Prisoner Harbor. It was a bit choppy sailing but fun.

The research project organized by Dr Christopher Cogan, Environmental Science and Resource Management of California State University Channel Island and accompanied by his German wife, Dr Uta Passow of CSU Santa Barbara. They even brought a micro-scope on board and showed the students and crew marine life you can’t see with the naked eye. Fascinating!!

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Celebrating birthdays in June: Prince William 28; Jeff Beck 66; Ray Davies 66; Stevie Nicks 62; Cilla Black 67; TV chef Jamie Oliver 35; KT Tunstall 35; Hugh Laurie 51; Jackie Stewart 71; Tom Jones 70; Liam Neeson 58; Russell Brand 35.

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British Great Escape Veteran Harrison, 97By Robert Barr

JACK HARRISON, who survived the Great Escape plot by Allied prisoners in a German prison in World War II, has died at age 97, his family said.

Harrison died last month at Erskine veterans’ home in Bishopton, Scotland.

As one of the camp’s gardeners, Har-rison helped dispose of the dirt excavated from three escape tunnels. He was 98th on the list of some 200 inmates designated to make the escape on March 24, 1944, but only 76 got away before guards detected the breakout and raised the alarm.

The breakout was celebrated in the 1963 fi lm The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen and James Garner.

Only three men managed to reach safety. Adolf Hitler ordered the execution of 50 recaptured escapers, and 23 others were returned to custody.

British news reports said Harrison was believed to be the last survivor of the plot, but this could not be confi rmed. In addi-tion to the 200 men who won places in the escape queue through a drawing, others were also involved in preparations.

“I guess it was a blessing in disguise I never made it through, as most were shot,” Harrison said in an interview last year with the Scottish Sun newspaper. “But the main purpose wasn’t just to escape. It was to outfox the Ger-mans. It was a huge moral victory. It humiliated Hitler and gave the Nazis a bloody nose.”

When the escape was detected, Harrison said he had to quickly burn his disguise as a Siemens engineer and get back into his prison uniform.

“I was to be a Hungarian electrician so I became Aleksander Regenyi, who was em-ployed by a German fi rm,” he recalled.

Harrison was a Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down and captured in Novem-ber 1942 on his fi rst mission, a raid on the Dutch port of Den Helder. He was taken to Stalag Luft III prison near Sagan in eastern Germany – now Zagan, Poland.

After the war, Harrison resumed his teaching career. He retired in 1975 as di-rector of education for the isle of Bute.

“To others he was considered a war hero, but to us he was much more than that. He was a family man fi rst and foremost as well as a church elder, Rotarian, scholar, traveler and athlete,” his son Chris and daughter Jane said in a statement.

They said Harrison took up marathon running in his seventies to raise money for charity.

Ex-Stereophonics Drummer Stuart Cable, 40STUART CABLE, the former drummer with the British rock band Stereophonics, has died at the age of 40.

South Wales Police say Cable was found at his home in the town of Aberdare, 165 miles west of London.

The force says the cause of death has not been determined, but there are no suspicious circumstances.

Cable co-founded Stereophonics with singer Kelly Jones in the early 1990s. The band had a string of British top 10 hits, including Have a Nice Day.

Cable left the group in 2003 amid reports of confl icts with band mates.

He recently formed a new band, Killing for Company, and worked as a broadcaster, with a show on BBC Radio Wales.

Filmmaker Ronald Neame, 99

VENTRILOQUIST Ray Alan died suddenly last month at the age of 79.

Better known as the ‘handler’ of Lord Charles (the drunken puppet), Alan has been a fi xture on British TV and stages for decades.

Alan, from Reigate, Surrey, was a TV regular from the 1950s to the 1980s, appearing on shows including variety serial The Good Old Days.

In 1954 he worked with Laurel and Hardy after fellow ventriloquist Harry Worth was forced to pull out of a show. His puppet became famous for his catchphrase “you silly arse” and having an eye for glamorous women.

In later years he was an entertainer on QE2 cruises, taking a break from show-business in 2008 due to ill health.

Old age had also made it increasingly diffi cult for him to control his puppet. Alan – always accompanied by Lord Charles – was often a guest on TV shows

including Celebrity Squares, Give Us A Clue and 3-2-1. He clocked up the most appearances on The Good Old Days, where he and Lord

Charles made their TV debut.

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Food Critic Egon Ronay, 94ONE OF the longest survivors of the early days of cinema in Britain, Ronald Neame, died last month, he was 99.

Neame, who began his fi lm career with Hitchcock, directed the hugely successful 1972 action adventure The Poseidon Adventure enjoyed a career that spanned eight de-cades. He worked with many of the 20th Century’s most distinguished fi lm-makers and performers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Noel Coward, Alec Guinness, John Mills, Maggie Smith and David Lean.

Ronald Neame was born in London in 1911. The son of a celebrated photogra-pher, Elwin Neame, and the actress Ivy Close, he was destined for a career in entertainment.

He began as a clapper boy on Hitch-cock’s Blackmail, the fi rst talking picture made in England, in 1929.

Ronald Neame went on to become a

producer and eventually a director, and is best known for The Poseidon Adventure. It was slated by the critics but the picture was a major box offi ce success and developed a cult following.

Other noted success with fi lms such as: Tunes of Glo-ry, The Horse’s Mouth, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodieand Scrooge, the musical with

Albert Finney. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for her

performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

As a producer, he was proud of Great Expectations, Brief Encounter and Oliver Twist, all directed by his longtime col-laborator and friend, David Lean.

Neame, who was nominated three times for an Oscar, was a founding member of the British Film Academy and he was made a CBE in 1996. In the same year he was given a Bafta Lifetime Fellowship Award.

Jack Harrison, right, is seen with other prisoners-of-war in this

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By Jill LawlessFOOD CRITIC Egon Ronay, whose epon-ymous restaurant guides helped Britain embrace fi ne dining after years of postwar austerity, died last month. He was 94.

Family friend Nick Ross said Ronay died at his home near the village of Yat-tendon, 50 miles west of London, after a short illness.

Born in Budapest in 1915, Ronay was the son of a prosperous restaurant-owner whose business was ruined by World War II and the subsequent So-viet occupation. Ronay left communist Hungary for Britain in 1946.

He worked as a manager at London restaurants before opening his own estab-lishment, The Marquee, which sought to bring French culinary fl air to a country just emerging from years of food rationing.

“You could eat well in London,” Ronay told The Observer newspaper in 2003 about the 1950s, “but in extremely few

places.” He began writing about food for The

Daily Telegraph newspaper, and in 1957 produced the fi rst Egon Ronay Guide to British restaurants, modeled on France’s Michelin guides. The annual guides, researched with the help of a team of anonymous reviewers, became immensely

popular, and restaurants dis-played the blue Egon Ronay label as a seal of approval.

As well as his restaurant guides, Ronay rated eating spots at airports and highway service stations, and acted as a food consultant to a chain of pubs. He said his goal was

to raise the quality of dining for everyone, not just the elite.

Ronay sold the guides to the Automobile Association in 1985, but went to court and regained the right to the Egon Ronay name years later, after the company that subse-quently bought them went bankrupt.

Ronay is survived by his wife Barbara, two daughters and a son.

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WITHOUT question the most significant British event is the opening of Universal’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando. The Lord Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, wrote an essay of outrage in the UK Tele-graph questioning its location. Since every element of the Harry Potter stories is 100 percent English, it should have been built there not Florida he insisted. Why do we Brit-ish so often let others purloin our best ideas, he queried? Quite, but at least Florida’s huge resident British community can enjoy it. I happen to be a Harry Potter fan and the very day each film is released attend the first showing. They appeal because they feature England’s greatest actors like Dame Maggie Smith and Robbie Coltrane and the school setting evokes the positive esprit de corps of an English school with pupils in uniform, taking me back emotionally to teaching days in London. Mind you, my students were stroppy East End teenagers not mannered Hogwarts youngsters.

There’s a surprising business connection to the movie too. In May 2000 I received a call from Joan Castonguay at the top cast-ing agency in Hollywood, CA. You’ll have seen her credited on blockbuster movies. They had the USA casting contract for the forthcoming Harry Potter films to find the star. “Harry” had to be physically true to the book’s description, no older than 13 and be English, not an American boy playing one, she briefed me. They had been recommend-ed to contact my office as a source of all things British here and did I know anybody? I explained that the children of British expats in the USA acquire an American accent and finding a British boy here meeting require-ments was a needle in haystack challenge. I could send out a casting call eBritNews to the British Bureau’s database but that only reaches Florida Brits. They should take a

print ad out in Union Jack Newspaper I recommended, which they were not aware of. That ran in the June 2000 issue but did not yield Harry. As I guessed from the start, the film’s Harry Potter would be found over in the world of Harrys ... England.

Anyway, Orlando’s Wizarding World should be put on your must-experience list. The Hidden Journey ride has been dubbed the most inventive and scariest ever by visitors. Daniel Radcliffe’s mother, over for the opening, told reporters the only way she coped was seeing her son in front guiding her on his quidditch stick! I’d need this whole newspaper to do this place justice so instead go to website www.Universalorlando.com to find the photospread and booking info.

WORLD CUP FINAL WORD: Thanks to my pal Ajit for this: Osama bin Laden has just released a new tape to prove he is still alive. He said England’s performance against Algeria was complete s**t. British intelligence dismissed the claim, stating the message could have been recorded anytime in the last 44 years.

BLACK TOT DAY. On July 31 if you’re near a bottle of rum, Pusser’s preferably, raise your glasses, me British hearties. Charles Tobias, owner of the famous rum company based in Tortola, British Virgin Islands wants you to know about Black Tot Day. (See ad in this issue). The ration of Pusser’s, started in 1650, was stopped on July 31, 1970, dubbed “Black Tot Day” by the people who object. Centuries ago, shipboard life was incredibly difficult, so the daily issue of Pusser’s Rum was the highlight of a crew’s day. Prior to 1740, the men’s daily tot was a whole pint, drunk neat. Before battle they got a double and another if victorious. (Three pints of rum

doubtless led to the famous English sea shanty, What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor, methinks).

In 1970, the Admiralty Board decreed there was no place for the daily issue of rum in a modern navy and after 320 years one of the seas longest and unbroken tradi-tions was cast aside. “Times had changed”, opined their Lordships. “In a highly sophis-ticated navy no risk for margin or error which might be attributable to rum can be allowed.” (Hmmm … we managed to field the finest navy in the world for centuries and colonised/conquered/discovered half the planet with our tipsy tars, so don’t see how that argument holds rum, I mean water.) Anyway this year marks the 40th anniversary of the loss of this great Royal Navy tradition. In 1979, Tobias resurrected the Pusser’s tradition, obtained the rights and blending information from the Admiralty and began bottling and selling this storied spirit to the public for the first time. The Royal Navy Sailors’ Fund receives a donation from sales of British Navy Pusser’s Rum and has become the fund’s largest source of income. Pusser’s are arranging promotional events at Florida’s British pubs this summer, so call yours to find out more. Coincidentally, I own a beautiful gold and blue china souvenir ship’s decanter full of Pusser’s Rum, bought in 2005 from their shop on the stunning island of Tortola. I poured it over my Miami ice-cream for months … yummy.

HELP BRING THE NEXT WORLD CUP TO THE USA. This would mean some international matches, potentially the Eng-land team could be playing in Miami and Tampa. The decision for Word Cup 2018 is made by FIFA at the end of this year, so VOTE NOW at the official website www.gousabid.com. (Build the campaign: add

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UK-USA CULTURAL COMMENTARY – I remain amused by the summer sight of American males in baggy swimtrunks flap-ping down to their knees. Utterly unflattering and unsexy, unlike European males who wear smaller costumes that fit and enhance. It’s the beach, after all, not the office. The reason: Straight American men won’t wear costumes which draw attention to the bulge of their genitalia, another example of the deep-rooted Puritanism here. Thank God, British males are more evolved. They don’t look any sexier but just don’t give a damn!

FYI: The ITV programme about the challenges of Florida’s British émigrés, shot here months ago, which some of us were featured in, airs August 26 in the UK, producers tell me. Tell your peeps in the UK to tune in.

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Holiday Photo Saves Life Of ToddlerA HOLIDAY snap played a major part in saving a two-year-old boy’s life last month.

The photo highlighted a cancerous tumour in his right eye and was spotted by his grandmother.

When Beverly Warner saw the snap, in which a white shadow can be seen in Ewan’s eye, she was immediately concerned about her grandson. She remembered reading about a child with cancer who had the same shadow in a photograph and warned Ewan’s parents to get him checked out.

When mum Samantha, 32, took Ewan to the doctors he was sent to the local hospital

before being referred to London where he was diagnosed with a retinoblastoma – a deadly tumour of the retina.

The camera fl ash had revealed light sen-sitive cells in his eye that could not be seen face-to-face – a sign of the eye cancer.

Doctors were forced to remove Ewan’s eye but his quick diagnosis meant that the cancer had not spread to other parts of his body. He has since gone on to make a full recovery and has been fi tted with a prosthetic eye.

Beverley Warner, 61, said: “I read a story last year about retinoblastoma and saw a picture of a child with it.”

Migrants To Britain Asked To Prove English Skills

PEOPLE immigrating to Britain to join their spouses or partners will be asked to prove they can speak English under new rules.

The Home Offi ce says all migrants coming to Britain from outside the Euro-pean Union will need to “show that their command of English is good enough to cope with everyday life before being granted a visa.”

Applicants already need to meet certain criteria before being admitted to the coun-try, including proving their relationship is genuine and they are able to support themselves fi nancially.

The Home Office said the language requirements will come into force this fall and are consistent with regulations in other EU countries.

Last year, about 38,000 spousal visas were granted.

UK Firm Bringing 250 Jobs To Rochester

A BRITISH venture capital company is bringing three tech-nology businesses with a total of 250 new jobs to a former Eastman Kodak build-ing in Rochester, here in the US.

Offi cials from Chel-tenham, England-based Cody Gate Ventures announced last month that Intrinsiq Materials, Quintel Technology and Omni-ID will be located at the East-man Business Park. The companies are involved in the manu-facturing and research and development of advanced technology.

The jobs are ex-pected to be fi lled over a four-year period.

Queen To Visit Ground Zero On US VisitBUCKINGHAM Palace says that the Queen will visit the former site of the Twin Towers as part of her forthcoming tour of North America.

A palace spokesman said the 84-year-old monarch would pay her respects at the site on July 6, the same day she is due to address the United Nations General As-sembly. He did not go into specifi cs.

The Queen’s son Prince Charles and

his wife Camilla visited the site in 2005. Prince Harry, Charles’ son and the third in line to the throne, was there last year.

The Queen’s US visit will follow a weeklong tour of Canada in honor of the Canadian Navy’s centenary and to mark Canada Day.

She is being accompanied by her hus-band, the Duke of Edinburgh, who turned 89 last month.

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WE IN Florida are already having hot steamy weather. It will be a long summer, and we also need to be aware of the summer storms; it is rumbling out there now.... Of course we are also very wary of the terrible oil spill out there in the Gulf.

The area we recently moved to is near a fresh fish place, and I discovered it when a friend I was lunching with was telling me that she planned to collect an order for fresh crab meat, so I went with her, and then bought some myself to try.

I have always liked crabmeat, but not al-ways pleased with the way it gets prepared. In the States the crab cake is very popular, usu-ally attributed to Maryland. However there are many versions of preparing it, and frequently with lots of peppery spices which Jack and I dislike. So I had fun working on a recipe with a special sauce, and it was really super.

Crab is available in many forms, and each area lays claim to theirs being the best. In the States, Dungeness crab is found on the West coast, King Crab from Alaska is fabulous, Blue crabs along the East and Gulf Coasts and here in Florida, Stone crabs are very popular. In England, the two main areas are East Anglia, and Devon/Cornwall. The Southwest coasts crabs tend to be larger than those caught in East Anglia. I remember one visit we made to Devon, near Clovelly, I had crab I saw being brought up by a fisherman at the sea side, so I knew it was very fresh. Then when we were staying near Cromer in Norfolk, had their crab in a salad, they tend to be smaller, but they are packed with meat; very good that was too.

When we were stationed in Egypt in the 50’s, I recall my father bringing in lots of very small crabs, can’t remember what water we were near, but I do remember Mum plunging them into a large steaming pot on our paraffin stove, and us noshing on them.... rather fiddling but good with lashings of butter.

If you do use fresh crab meat, be sure

to pick it over carefully to make sure all the shell bits are out. Frozen can also be used, and I have used tinned in the past, but they were rather strong tasting

I’m not sure where my crab meat came from last week, but I certainly will be going back there and get it again.

My version of crab cakes is quite light, and I also experimented with Remoulade sauce. I would recommend that after mix-ing the crab mix, you chill for at least half an hour or they can be hard to handle and stay in shape. I hope you enjoy my version of crab cakes and special sauce.Crab Cake and Remoulade

sauce a la SandraPrepare Remoulade sauce, cover and chill1 Large celery stick, cleaned and chopped2 spring onions, chopped3 Tbsp butter2 Tbsp mayonnaise1 tsp dry Colman’s mustard1 Tbsp chopped capers1 Tsp Worcestershire sauce2 Tbs chopped parsley,1/2 tsp TabascoJuice of 1½ lemons, Salt and Pepper1lb crab meat3/4 cup fresh breadcrumbs3 Tbsp butterSauté celery and onions in butter until

tender, cool. Mix together, next eight ingre-dients. Fold in the prepared crab meat and breadcrumbs. Divide the mixture up into eight balls, and chill for 30 minutes. Remove crab mixture from fridge, and squeeze into pat-ties, gently sauté them in the butter for about 15-20 minutes, flattening them gently a bit with a spatula. (I recommend when cooking any thing fish-like to test that the cooking temperature reaches 160 degrees).

Serve with the Remoulade sauce. Lu-verly with boiled new potatoes and minted peas. Yield: Four servings

Remoulade Sauce:Mix together:1 cup mayonnaise 2 Tsp white vinegar1/4 cup Ketchup 1 tsp grated lemon peel1/4 cup parsley 1 tsp Tabasco1 Tbsp Horseradish(I welcome comments, queries and recipe

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Flashy Book Dealer In Limo For Shakespeare TrialA FLASHY British book dealer accused of stealing a rare fi rst edition of Shake-speare’s plays appeared for trial last month in a silver limousine, sporting a Panama hat and fl ashing victory signs at reporters.

Raymond Scott was accused of stealing the 1623 folio from England’s Durham University in 1998. The 53-year-old was arrested after a man took the volume to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washing-ton, claiming he found it in Cuba and ask-ing for verifi cation that it was genuine.

Experts at the library suspected the book was stolen and called in police.

Scholars consider the folio one of the most important printed works in the Eng-lish language.

Scott was also charged with theft and handling stolen goods in cases unrelated to the folio. He denied all the charges.

He arrived at Newcastle Crown Court in a silver Chrysler 300.

For an earlier court appearance, he wore a kilt and came in a horse-drawn carriage led by a Scots piper.

Police Called To Unlocked Bank DoorA MEMBER of the public called police after fi nding a bank door un-locked outside business hours.

Hampshire police were called to the HSBC branch in Tadley and re-mained on guard until the keyholder arrived, reported the BBC.

Offi cers said everything inside the branch appeared to be in order and nothing had been taken.

A spokesman for HSBC said it was not clear whether the bank had been left open all night.

He said: “We are still investigating the chain of events. It’s hard to say how long the door was open – but unlikely it was open all night.

A spokesman for Hampshire Po-lice said: “There was nothing suspi-cious about it apart from the fact that the door was open.”

BA Vows To Fly On If Workers Walk Out Again

BRITISH AIRWAYS PLC chief executive Willie Walsh said last month the airline is committed to expanding its services to the United States as he also vowed to carry on fl ying through potential further strikes by cabin crews.

Walsh said BA was considering adding fl ights to Boston, Washington and Chicago from London City airport as he said that transatlantic traffi c remained “robust” de-spite the global economic downturn.

BA already runs a service to New York

from London City, via Shannon in Ireland, targeting business customers.

As a dispute with cabin crews over changes to pay and working conditions rumbles on, Walsh said that BA plans to operate all its long-haul services if workers strike over the summer.

Talks between BA and the Unite union – mediated by the government-backed conciliation service – broke down last month, raising the prospect of further walkouts.

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I’M HAVING a hard time concentrating on anything other than the World Cup this month. I suppose most of you readers are of the same mindset. I did however manage to follow a portion of the Le Mans 24 hour race, it was on the same day as the England v USA game, so my day went as follows: Got up at about 5am and alternated my viewing between the Korea v Greece game and the first hour or so of the Le Mans sports car 24 hour endurance race, then is was off to Santa Monica to the Cock & Bull to get an early seat for the England game. I could have watched the game at home of course but for me England games must be watched in England so, as I’m 6,000 miles or so from good old Blighty I do the next best thing and travel the 15 miles or so to Santa Monica.

To me English pubs are like the Embassy and therefore can be regarded as English soil. I caught the majority of the earlier Argentina v Nigeria game and by about half way through that game the pub was full. I had lunch during the two hour interval between the two games and settled to watch what was to be the most eagerly anticipated England game for quite some time and gave a thought to those motor racing drivers pushing their respective machines upwards of 200mph around the Circuit de la Sarthe in the late afternoon in north western France. I suffered through the England-USA game, disappointed, more with England’s performance, than by the result. I then went home, took a nap, had dinner with my wife and daughter and settled down to watch a few more hours of Le Mans on TV again. I finally went to bed and then woke early to see the finish of the race.

It’s amazing how much one can get done in one day, not by me, I mean the racing teams at Le Mans. I suppose that it isn’t the first time that Le Mans has coincided with the World Cup but this could be a first, the Brit-ish F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone takes place on the same day as the World Cup Final (at different times though, thankfully). So if you are both a motor racing fan and a footy fan you can catch them both.

Football and motor racing are two very dif-ferent kinds of sports and one never associ-ates one with the other. However, forty years ago they did sort of partner each other, and from the result came about the best selling car in Britain for a short time afterwards.

After the first ever intercontinental rally – the London-Sydney in 1968 – there was widespread enthusiasm for an even more difficult test. With the Football World Cup being held in Mexico in 1970, it was the perfect opportunity to hold a parallel, much tougher challenge – the World Cup Rally. It was to be sponsored by the Daily Mirror and was to start at Wembley stadium (where the World Cup was won in 1966) and end at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City (where the World Cup would be presented to the winners in 1970).

England were strong favorites to win the Cup in the 1970 tournament after their success in 1966, furthermore Britain had dominated in motor sport throughout the 1960’s, so the Daily Mirror World Cup Rally which was to prelude the Mexico World Cup generated a great deal of interest throughout Britain. Many of the worlds leading rally driv-ers were to participate, and a few celebrities, including a squad member of the 1966 World Cup, the great Jimmy Greaves. Royalty was even represented as Prince Michael of Kent also participated.

The start date was April 19, 1970 and the course, 16,000 miles of it, ran as follows, London, Dover then on to Lisbon in a zigzag route passing through most of Europe’s ma-jor and capital cities along the way. From the port of Lisbon it was over to Rio de Janeiro

by ship and from there to Mexico City by way of Montevideo, Buenos Aries, Santiago, La Paz, Lima, Cali, Panama and San Jose. The roads, off the beaten track in many places in both Europe and South/Central America were brutal, hence, of over 100 participating cars only 23 survived to the finish with the 23rd place car arriving in Mexico City over two days behind the winner which arrived at the Azteca Stadium on May 27.

The rules about what cars could be entered were not restrictive but due to the demanding nature of the course most competitors were conservative and used modified versions of standard models. That did not prevent there being a wide variety of cars, from Volkswagen Beetles to Rolls-Royces. There were works (officially sanctioned and prepared) entries from Ford, British Leyland and Moskvitch,

and semi-works entries from Citroën. I’m not sure how it was in the rest of the world but the TV and media coverage of the event in Britain I remember was first rate and plentiful with progress reports reported two and three times a day during the whole month-plus long-rally.

The event was a superb build up for the World Cup, like delivering the cup to its desti-nation from whence it came. The winning car which boosted sales tremendously in Britain as a result was a Ford team modified Escort Mk1 fitted with a 1850cc version of the Kent cross flow engine and which had up-rated components from other Ford models, it was driven by Hannu Mikkola and Gunnar Palm of Finland. It was no fluke victory either, of the first eight-place finishers, five were 1850cc works Ford Escorts.

The second place went to British drivers Brian Culcheth and Johnson Syer driving a works Triumph 2.5PI. Fourth place also went to Triumph, this time a three man crew headed by the great Paddy Hopkirk. It was the Escorts though that came through the strongest which prompted Ford to make this Works car available to the public and the result was the Escort Mexico and a little later the Escort RS16. Both models were extremely popular, they were fast and had superb handling characteristics, perfect for the small roads around Britain. As for the England World Cup Team in Mexico, as you know they fell sadly to Germany. Jimmy Greaves did us proud though, he finished a creditable sixth in the Lon-Mex rally, driving, you guessed it, a works Ford Escort.

Happy Motoring

Woman Received Lungs Of A

30-Year SmokerTHE FAMILY of a 28-year-old British woman who unknowingly received a lung transplant from a smoker says she would have been “horrifi ed” and have lodged a complaint.

Cystic fi brosis sufferer Lyndsey Scott in February 2009 received a double lung trans-plant from a donor who had smoked for three decades. She died in July of pneumonia.

Britain’s top transplant offi cial Chris Rudge defended the decision and said patients should be told they are not getting a “brand new” organ. He said on the BBC that “lungs from a smoker can be working perfectly normally.”

Scott’s family called for patients to be told more information about organ donors before accepting a transplant.

Free Beer Offer Email From Council, Not Real

AN ANNUAL free-beer day offered by a local council seemed too good to be true ... and, as the old adage suggests, it was!

The Northamptonshire County Council which sent out an email proposing an an-nual free beer day has apologised after admiting the suggestion was a joke.

The message, outlining a scheme in which every pub would hand out beer to locals, was received by people who had signed up for details of ongoing public consultations.

Workers hastily retracted the message after it was created by a member of staff as part of a training scheme at Northamp-tonshire County Council.

A spokesman from the council said there had been a “mix-up” and that the email should never have been sent, re-ported the Daily Telegraph.

Palin ‘Would Love’ Maggie Thatcher

MeetingSARAH PALIN wrote in a Facebook posting last month that she’s been invited to London – she didn’t say by whom – and the invitation included an offer to arrange for a meeting with one of her “political heroines,” former Brit-ish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

She said she “would love” to meet with Thatcher and hoped to arrange a trip soon.

Palin was responding to an article by the Daily Mail, which raised the potential for an upcoming visit.

The possible London visit comes amid continued speculation that the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee may run for president in 2012. Such a journey wouldn’t be her fi rst high-profi le trip overseas: she gave a speech in Hong Kong last year on US-China relations.

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FRANCHITTI IS INDY 500 CHAMPIONTHE Memorial Day Weekend running of the Indianapolis 500, had a distinctive British feel to it as three Brits filled the first four places. Reigning IndyCar champion Dario Franchittiran an almost perfect race, leading 155 of the 200 laps, to win his second Indianapolis 500 in grand style. The Edinburgh born Scot had earlier won this race in 2007. Dan Wheldonfrom Emberton, who won here in 2005, followed Franchitti home for the runner-up spot. Wheldon was runner up last year too. Marco Andretti was third, and Manchester’s Alex Lloyd, in only his second year in IndyCar was fourth. Basildon’s Justin Wilson was seventh, while the other British contestant, Mike Conway, from Bromley, Kent, survived a spectacular aerial crash two laps from the end and did not finish.

LEWIS HAMILTON LEADS FORMULA ONE

Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel took the first and second places at the Grand Prix of Monte Carlo, but at the Turkish Grand Prix, May 30, two weeks later, they col-lided with one another on the 40th lap. The race turned in to an all-British duel between McLaren team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Jensen Button, with Hamilton getting the chequered flag. The same scenario played

out at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, June 12, with the two British drivers battling it out with Hamilton claiming the chequered flag. Hamilton leads the Formula one driver’s table with 109pts, Button follows with 106pts.

Jorge Lorenzo of Spain won the British Grand Prix on June 20, to extend his lead at the top of the

MotoGP world championship standings.CRICKET: BANGLADESH IN

ENGLANDBangladesh began their tour of England

with three, three day matches beginning at the Oval, mid-May, with a drawn game against Surrey. Surrey 318 (Matthew Spreigel 108)-7 dec and 313-3 at close. Bangladesh 376 (Usman Afzaal 159)-6 dec. At Chelmsford, Essex beat the visitors by five wickets. Bangladesh 231 and 211. Essex 313 (John Maunders 126) and 130-5 at close. At Derby, the England Lions won by nine wickets. Bangladesh 220 and 161. The Lions 296 and 86-1 at close.

Bangladesh has a reputation as the Cinder-ella of the Test Cricket scene, but at Lords, they gamely showed there developing talent and it was not until just before tea on the final day that England could claim an eight wicket victory.

England 505 (Jonathan Trott 226) and 163-2 at close. Bangladesh 282 and 382 (Igbal Tamim 103). At Old Trafford however, the Tigers could not handled the rambunc-tious English bowling, and in just three days, England carved out a convincing innings and 80 run victory for a 2-0 result in the short Test series.

England 419 (Ian Bell 128). Bangladesh 216 (Igbal Tamim 108) and 123 at close. The Tigers interrupted their English tour for

the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, but will return this month for a series of ODIs.

England beat Scotland by seven wickets in an ODI in Edinburgh. Scotland 211.

England 213-3 at close. South Africaopened their Caribbean tour with a 163 run win against the West Indies in the first Test at Port of Spain. South Africa 352 and 206-4 dec. West Indies 102 and 293.

THE COUNTY GAMELast month, England’s domestic game

saw the Friends Provident Twenty20 com-petition, take precedence over the county championship.

Mid-June, Nottinghamshire led the county table with four wins from seven games with 112pts, Yorkshire 103pts and Somerset100pts follow. Glamorgan led Division Two with five wins from eight games with 126pts, Sussex 112pts and Gloucestershire 101pts chase.

The men who produced a solution for limited over games shortened because of rain, were both awarded MBEs in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis came up with an accepted method to decide results when rain stopped play. The Duckworth/Lewis method has been in use since 1996.

WORKFORCE WINS DERBYSir Michael Stoute claimed his fifth Derby

winner on a gorgeous sunny day at the Epsom Downs, June 6, when Workforce (6-1) broke the course record with a spectacular run at the 231st running of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious horse race. At First Sight (100-1) was second with Rewilding (9-2) third, and Aidan O’Brien favourite Jan Vermeer (9-4f) fourth. 12 ran. Mid-way through the mile and a half, At First Sight led by some six lengths, but Workforce owned by Saudi Prince, Khalid Abdulla, powered forward with two furlongs to go and overalled another Aidan O’Brien horse to win by seven lengths. For jockey Ryan Moore it was a double celebration, as he had rode Snow Fairy (9-1) to victory in the Oaks, the previous day. Trainer Stoute, had his first Derby victory with Shergar in 1981,who later, mysteriously disappeared and was never seen again.

Stoute would win again in 1986, 2003 and 2004.

RUGBY UNIONThe summer rugby tours of the southern

hemisphere began early last month. At Twickenham, England beat the Barbarians35-26,before heading of for their antipodean tour. They commenced in Perth, against the Australian Barbarians with a 28-28 result, before losing the first Test to Australia27-17.

They went on to beat the Australian Barbarians 15-9, and won the second Test at Sydney, June 19, winning 21-20. Wales were beaten 31-34 by South Africa in Cardiff. Scotland travelled to Argentina winning 24-17 in the first Test and 19-13 in the second for an historic series victory. New Zealandtaunted Ireland 66-28, then beat Wales 42-9 in Dunedin. South Africa beat France 42-17 and then Italy 29-13

England Saxons captured the Churchill Cup after a 38-10 win over Canada in New Jersey. Earlier they went to Russia and won 49-17, and in Denver, Colorado, they beat the USA 32-9. Other CC results saw Russiabeat Uruguay 38-19, while France beat the USA 24-10 and Uruguay 43-10.

DONALD WINS IN SPAIN – US VICTORIES FOR ROSE AND WESTWOOD

Luke Donald claimed his first win in four

years when he won the Madrid Masters with a 21 under 267, May 30. One stroke behind was rising Welsh star Rhys Davies. Same weekend, Brian Davis notched his fifth second place finish on the American tour at the Colonial Invitational at Fort Worth, Texas. The Brit finished with an 18 under 262, but was still three strokes distant from winner Zach Johnson.

Justin Rose got the Memorial Tournament at Dublin, Ohio, concluding June 6, off to a memorial start with a seven under 65. He was later crowded out a bit, but on the final round fighting a four stroke deficit, he hit a six under 66, that gave him an 18 under 270, for his first victory in seven years. He earned over a million dollars for his win, three strokes clear of Ricky Fowler. Tiger Woodscarded a six under 282. Same weekend, at the Celtic Manor Course in Newport, UK, Ulsterman Graeme McDowell, shot an eight under 63, on the final round to win the Welsh Open with a 15 under 269. Rhys Davies was runner-up three behind, with Luke Donaldthird, five distant.

Lee Westwood’s burgeoning form over the last month or two, exploded at Memphis, in the St Jude Classic, June 13, with a record breaking seven under 63 in the first round. His persistence continued when he entered a play-off after a 10 under 260, resulted in a three man tie. At the fourth play-off hole with Robert Karlsson and Robert Garrigus, Westwood claimed his second PGA title.

“It’s definitely nice to win again,” said the Englishman.

Same weekend, the USA won the Curtis Cup (the women’s version of the Ryder Cup) beating Britain & Ireland, twelve and one half to seven and one half at the Essex Country Club, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.

MCDOWELL FIRST BRIT TO WIN US OPEN IN 40 YEARS

Calmness and composure was the criteria that carried Graeme McDowell, to an historic victory at Pebble Beach, California, June 20, where a steady hand proved the optimum advantage as an even par 284, earned him the US Open title. Coming off a victory as the Welsh Open champion in Newport, Wales, two weeks previous, the Northern Irelander remained unfazed by rain delays and sometime quirky greens, and became the first Briton to win the US Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970. While Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods received the media atten-tion, and youngster Dustin Johnson had the cameras focusing in, McDowell kept to his regular game plan that gave him a one stroke victory over Gregory Havret of France. It was the first Major for McDowell, who collected his biggest pay-check ever worth $1.3m.

“I’m playing the golf of my life now,” said the brand new US Open champion.FRENCH EXIT FOR ANDY MURRAY

The red clay of the Roland Garros Stadium has not provided much encouragement for British players over the years, and this year’s French Open Championships, May 23-June 6, proved no different. Andy Mur-ray’s attempt to thwart the dour record came to an end in the fourth round when Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic ousted the Scot 6-4, 7-5 ,6-3. Previously, Murray had won a hard-fought five setter going over the four hour mark against Richard Gasquet of France, then had another five setter before besting Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina. He then beat Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus in four sets. Other Brits did not go so far. British number one Elena Baltacha, Anne

Keothavong, Kate O’Brien and men’s double pair Jamie Murray and Jonathan Marray did not get by the opening round. Rafael Nadalwon his fifth French singles title with a three set win over Robin Soderling, and Francesa Shiavone became the first female Italian singles winner here, after beating Samantha Stosur of Australia.

BOXING38-year-old Vitali Klitscho (42-2) is seven

years older than the challenger for his WBC heavyweight crown, but in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, May 30, it was still not enough for European Champion Albert Sosnowski(45-2-2) to upset the big Ukrainian world champion. The Polish fighter seemed to be holding his own until the bell saved him in the ninth, but after crashing to the canvas in the tenth, the ref stopped the fight. Klitscho is looking at David Haye’s WBA crown.

Britain took three silver medals at the European amateur boxing championships, their best haul since 1961. Iain Weaver (featherweight from Bournemouth) Khalid Yafai (flyweight from Birmingham) and Tom Stalker a lightweight from Liverpool were the honourees. Man in charge, former world middleweight contender Robert Mc-Cracken, the man who trains Carl Froch, is getting the credit for reviving Britain’s amateur boxing status.

WORLD CUP WARM-UPSEngland bade farewell to the homeland

May 24, with a 3-1 win over Mexico at Wem-bley. In Graz, Austria, May 30, England took on Japan in an extraordinary game where the Japanese scored all the goals. In fact, Marcus Tulio Tanaka found his own net twice, giv-ing England a 2-1 win. England finished off their World Cup preparations June 10, at the Moruleng Stadium in South Africa, beating local side, the Platinum Stars 3-0.

The United States’ World Cup preparation went badly against the Czech Republic where they lost 4-2, after Bob Bradley, left most of the first teamers out.

Confidence rose in the next couple of games however, as the US beat Turkey 2-1 and Australia 3-1.

MORE SPORTAndrew Ellis and his company RFC

Holdings looked all set to buy out Glasgow Rangers from major shareholder Sir David Murray, when suddenly the deal went sour. Murray owns 90 per cent of the shares of SPL club, that are reputedly £30m in debt. A Murray media release abruptly announced the club is no longer for sale…. Crystal Palace were saved from extinction when a last minute bid by CPFC 2010, a consortium of supporters led by Steve Parish and Martin Long reached an agreement with bank admin-istrator Brendan Guifoyle just a few hours before total liquidation. Palace had laid off 29 employees and had not met the payroll for May…. At Wimbledon, trainer Charlie Listerclaimed his fifth Greyhound Derby when Bandicoot Tipoki (7-2) beat out favourite Toomaline Jack (10-11f) by half a length…. The man who made Darts (the PDC) into a big commercial and financial success, Barry Hearn, pledges to do the same for snooker after the top 64 ranked players in the world voted 35-29 to put him in charge. World dart champion Phil Taylor won the PDC, UK Open

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Teams on Tour: • Glasgow Celtic • Bolton Wanderers • Manchester United • Manchester City • Portsmouth FC • Tottenham Hotspur

~ TOUR GAME DATES ~July 14: Charlotte Eagles v Bolton Wanderers,

Restart Field, Charlotte, North Carolina.

- Portsmouth v Club America, Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA.

- Philadelphia Union v Celtic, PPL Park, PA. 8pm

July 16: Manchester United v Celtic, Rogers Center, Toronto, Canada

July 17: Portland Timbers v Manchester City, Merlo Field (University of Portland), Portland, Oregon

- San Jose Earthquakes v Tottenham Hotspur San Jose, CA. 7pm. www.sjearthquakes.com

- Charlotte Battery v Bolton Wanderers, 7:30pm, Blackbaud Stadium, Daniel Island, SC. www.charlestonbattery.com

- Ventura County Fusion v Portsmouth, exhibition game kicks off at 3pm at Oxnard College – 4000 S. Rose Ave., Oxnard, CA 93033. www.vcfusion.com

July 18: San Jose Earthquakes v Tottenham Hotspur, Buck Shaw Stadium, San Jose, CA

- Seattle Sounders FC v Celtic 12pm, Seattle, WA

July 21: Philadelphia Union v Manchester United, Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia.

- Toronto FC v Bolton Wanderers, BMO Field, Toronto.

- Portsmouth v an Edmonton Select side. 7:30pm Commonwealth Stadium, Edmon-ton, AB

British Teams Touring The US This MonthJuly 22: New York Red Bulls v Tottenham

Hotspur participate in the New York Football Challenge. Red Bull Arena, NY. 8pm. www.newyorkredbulls.com

July 23: NY Football Challenge: Manchester City v Sporting Lisbon, 8pm at Red Bull Arena, NY.

July 24: Portsmouth v DC United, RFK Sta-dium, Washington, DC.

July 25: NY Football Challenge: New York Red Bulls v Manchester City, 1pm at Red Bull Arena, New York.

- NY Football Challenge: Tottenham v Sporting Lisbon, 1pm at Red Bull Arena, NY

- Kansas City Wizards v Manchester United 5pm at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri.

July 28: Club America v Manchester City, Georgia Dome, Atlanta.

- MLS All Stars v Manchester United, Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas.

July 30: Chivas v Manchester United, Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico.

July 31: Inter Milan v Manchester City, M&T Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland.

World Cup Shorts

at Bolton, June 3-6, for the fourth time with a 10-2 win over Adrian Lewis in the final… Former Wolverhampton Wanderers and England goalkeeper Bert Williams, died last month. He was 93. Williams’ incredibly long career was severely tarnished when he let in the goal that allowed the USA to beat England1-0 in the 1950 World Cup. However, he was always a big favourite at Molyneaux.

EARLY WIMBLEDONThe Queen made one her infrequent

visits to Wimbledon, where after a tour of the grounds she watched Andy Murray win his second round match in straight sets over Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen. The Queen had last visited 33 years previous, when Virginia Wade captured the women’s singles title. Wimbledon began Monday, June 21, but by the third day, only Andy Murray who beat Jan Hajek of the Czech Republic in the first round was the only British singles player left stand-ing. Officials did not issue as many wildcards to the British players, and for the first time in over a hundred years there was not an English singles competitor on court. Murray’s fellow Scot, Jamie Baker was the only other British male to play singles. He went out in the first round to Andreas Beck of Germany. Six Brit-ish women began the tournament, but none reached the second round. British number one Elena Baltacha won the first set, was 5-3 up in the second, but still lost to Petra Martic of Croatia. Britain’s 2008 Wimbledon Junior champion, Laura Robson, tackled the high seeded Jelena Jankovic and gave a brave display but it was not enough. In the doubles, some British duos did progress to the second round; including, Jamie Delgadoand Josh Goodall, Chris Eaton and Dominic Inglot, Ross Hutchins and Jordan Kerr and Jocelyn Rae and Heather Watson.

Misery for new French Open cham-pion Francesca Shiavone of Italy, who was eliminated on the first day of play by Vera Dushevina of Russia, while losing French finalist Samantha Stosur of Australia, suffer a first round exit too.

The longest game in tennis history, became a major media event when John Isner of United States beat Nicolas Mahut of France, 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3), 70-68. The match spread over three days had an actual playing time of eleven hours and five minutes. Wimbledon officials made a special presentation to the players and the umpire where former singles champion Ann Jonesand Tim Henman did the honours.

Roger Federer was stunned by 12th seed Tomas Berdych.

Andy Murray reached the semi-finals to face Rafael Nadal on July 2.CHAMBERS WINS 100M IN BERGEN

Britain’s Dwain Chambers won the 100 meters in 9.99 seconds on the first day of the European Team Championships.

Chambers was never seriously challenged on his way to posting the fastest time in the 100 by a European this year, ahead of France’s Christophe Lemaitre, who ran a personal best of 10.02.

Chambers tested positive for the steroid THG in August 2003 and served a two-year ban. He is banned for life from the British Olympic team, though he won the right to compete for British teams in other cham-pionships.

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Jamie Carragher, who had replaced King, and midfielder Gareth Barry, an injury absentee in the US game, provided a measure of stability in front of the back line.

Still, England fended off Slovenian at-tacks in the final half-hour on blocks by Glen Johnson, Terry, and Upton after goalie Samir Handanovic had repelled a Rooney shot and Terry header.

After falling behind on Gerrard’s goal in the fifth minute and fighting back to tie, the Americans made a few lineup changes to face Slovenia, and gave up two first-half goals on defensive miscues. More changes were made; Donovan started a comeback by lashing a shot into the roof of the net three minutes into the second half, the US scored again through Michael Bradley in the 82nd

minute, and lost an apparent winner by Rang-ers’ Maurice Edu on an officiating decision yet to be explained.

TRIUMPHThe Americans’ remarkable triumph over

Algeria fueled two days of extensive media coverage and unprecedented exposure, yet it also seemed to drain them for a knockout match against Ghana, which four years ago beat the US, 2-1, to eliminate them after group play. Bradley restored Ricardo Clark and Robbie Findley to the lineup; neither would last longer than the first half.

Again, the Americans fell behind early

USA And England Face Similar Issues. . .when Kevin Prince Boateng converted a midfield turnover by Clark. Edu replaced Clark and Benny Feilhaber took over for Findley, with Dempsey moving from midfield to forward. They rallied to tie with a Donovan penalty kick, then surrendered yet another early goal – by the powerful Asamoah Gyan -- less than three minutes into extra time. This time, they could not respond. A glorious chance – the Americans were slotted into a quadrant with Uruguay and South Korea along with Ghana for a spot in the semifinals – went unclaimed.

STORMEDGermany stormed out to a 2-0 lead against

England, Upson headed home a cross to cut that deficit in half, and a minute later came a flashback to Geoff Hurst’s controversial win-ner in the 1966 World Cup final. Lampard’s shot off the underside of the bar clearly landed two feet over the goal line before it bounced back up to be grabbed by Ger-man goalie Manuel Neuer, but the officials missed it. Midway through the second half, German striker Thomas Mueller – certainly well-named for his prowess in front of goal – scored twice within three minutes on counterattacks.

Capello has already stated he’ll start looking at new players for the start of Euro-pean Championship qualifying in September, should the FA decided to retain him. His troubles with Terry, limited command of

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Wolves To Increase Stadium Capacity To 36,000

WOLVERHAMPTON Wanderers is planning to spend £40m on increasing the capacity of its Molineux stadium to help it cement a place as a Premier League regular.

Wolves said that they hope to increase the number of seats in their 121-year-old stadium from 29,303 to 36,000 in time for the 2014-15 season.

The most recent redevelopment was only 20 years ago, but improved facilities and extra seats would bring in extra revenue that should allow the team to invest in transfers and attract higher-caliber players with better wages.

Vieira Commits To Manchester City For Another Year

MANCHESTER CITY says Patrick Vieira will stay at the English Premier League club next season after taking up a one-year contract extension.

The 33-year-old French midfielder joined City on an initial six-month deal in January after spending nearly four years at Inter Milan.

He played 14 times for City as it finished fifth and missed out on a place in next sea-son’s Champions League.

Vieira, who won the Premier League three times with Arsenal, was left out of France’s squad for this year’s World Cup finals in South Africa.

Fowler Seeks Damages From North Queensland

FORMER Liverpool and England striker Robbie Fowler is suing Australian A-League football club North Queensland for damages over the termination of his playing contract.

Fowler was one of seven Fury players whose contracts were terminated when North Queensland restructured earlier this year due to financial difficulties and its running was taken over by Football Federation Australia.

Fowler has since signed a new A-League deal with the Perth Glory.

The players’ union, Professional Football Australia, took action against North Queen-sland on behalf of the seven sacked players and reached settlements for all but Fowler.

The amount sought by Fowler has not been revealed.

SOCCERSOCCER

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official right on that line is much more likely to get a better view, even on a hard-hit shot that quickly rebounds back up off the ground.

Had a goal-line official been watching the Tevez play, he would have immediately seen that Tevez did indeed touch the ball after Lionel Messi directed it towards the goal, which apparently both officials didn’t notice. (Had Tevez not touched the ball, play would have continued and if it evaded both defenders and crossed the goal line the goal would be valid.)

Before he replaced Joao Havelange as FIFA president after the 1998 World Cup, Blatter badgered referees for years to improve their work on dangerous tackles and off-side decisions, which video replays showed were being botched at an alarming rate. Now, however, as the man-in-charge, he seems too gun-shy to implement changes that are drastically needed.

Blatter Needs More Than Apologies

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ESPN’s World Cup Coverage Has A Distinct English Accent

STANDING on the sideline – er, touchline – at US soccer practice, Martin Tyler looked on. After more than three decades of broadcasting in England, he was getting ready for his American debut on ESPN.

Enough of the vague soccer commen-tary by much-maligned Dave O’Brien. For this World Cup, ESPN and ABC brought in the best English-language soccer an-nouncer in the business.

“We have the NFL, we have the NBA, we have the Stanley Cup, all your major sports events are broadcast in this coun-try,” Tyler said by telephone from his home in England before heading to the World Cup. “Nobody has ever sent an Englishman over to do it.”

Authenticity is the buzz word. ABC and ESPN got bashed for their coverage of the 2006 World Cup and responded by hiring the 64-year-old Tyler, an acclaimed broadcaster for Britain’s Sky Sports, as its lead announcer for the tournament in South Africa that opened June 11. He was been joined by Adrian Healey, Derek Rae and Ian Darke to create an all-British play-by-play crew for the 64 World Cup matches.

“The decision is a strange one in some ways to me,” said former ABC and ESPN analyst Seamus Malin. “I don’t think you have to be a cheerleader for Americans, but I think you have to a lot of reference places.”

FAMILIARTyler’s voice is familiar to US soccer

fans from his coverage of the English Pre-mier League and the European Champions League, which is relayed regularly on Fox Soccer Channel.

His voice also is known from the EA Sports FIFA video games, where he part-ners on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox360 versions with former Scotland forward Andy Gray, another Sky Sports announcer. Gray is also working for a US network, broadcasting a World Cup studio show

from California for FSC.“I guess the US audience, in fairness,

is still learning the game in many ways. It’s taken us 100 years to learn the game and we’re not still sure we’ve got it right,” Gray said with a chuckle.

ESPN/ABC has invested a huge amount in its World Cup coverage, sending 200 people to South Africa to produce the tele-casts along with 100 local hires. Among the soccer stars who are participating are Juergen Klinsmann, Ruud Gullit, Ally McCoist; the network talked with Jose Mourinho, but couldn’t come to terms.

The biggest difference between British and American announcers. On the olde is-land, the broadcasters are more restrained, more likely to keep talk to a minimum.

PARTNEREDTyler, who has broadcast every World

Cup since 1978, is working with with former Nigerian player Efan Ekoku. And for the US v England match Tyler patrnered with former American captain John Harkes.

Tyler actually worked in the United States early in his career: He produced the world feed for soccer coverage at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

He used to visit the US on holiday in the summer, too, catching up with old soccer buddies such as Bobby Moore and George Best when they played in the North Ameri-can Soccer League. And he broadcast the 1986 World Series on a delayed basis for the British network ITV.

Until this year, Tyler had broadcast the World Cup for the Australian network SBS. He lives in London near the Chelsea and Fulham training grounds and estimates he covers about 100 matches per season.

The coverage by ESPN seems to be working as every week seems to bring a new soccer record for the network, as the USA v Algeria World Cup match was the most viewed soccer game ever for ESPN.

Martin Tyler

Wimbledon Closes Roof For First Time In 2010

John Steele Leaves UK Sport For RFU

JOHN STEELE is leaving as chief execu-tive of UK Sport to become the new CEO of the Rugby Football Union.

Steele will replace Francis Baron, who is retiring after 12 years at the RFU.

Steele is a former player, coach and executive director of Northampton Saints rugby club.

As leader of UK Sport, Steele was in charge of funding Britain’s Olympic ath-letes ahead of the 2012 London Games.

At the RFU, he will help organize the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England.

Steele will officially leave UK Sport for the RFU in late July.

English, and the team’s disjointed perfor-mances at the tournament cast shadows on his future.

COMPLEXBradley’s case is more complex; injuries

to forward Charlie Davies, who missed the World Cup, and defender Oguchi Onyweu, who struggled in the first two matches and was replaced, pointed out how shallow is the US pool of national-team players capable at the highest level. The solid, composed play of Feilhaber and Edu prompted speculation they should have been in the starting lineup for that opener against England, but US Soccer is still grappling with how to find and develop talent scattered across a huge country whose own pro league (Major League Soccer) is still mid-level at best. Only four of the USA’s 23 World Cup players currently play in MLS, and Donovan is probably headed overseas sooner rather than later.

Critics pointed to Capello’s selection deci-sions – the omission of Theo Walcott being one – and problems finding a replacement for Ferdinand. In this category, Capello and Bradley were burdened with some of the same problems despite working in sharply contrasting situations and with different reservoirs of player talent.

For both nations, the frustrations of World Cup 2010 and long-term plans for the next four-year cycle range beyond issues of managerial decisions.

THE ROOF over Centre Court at Wimble-don was closed for the fi rst time at this year’s tournament – not because of rain, but because of fading sunlight.

The retractable cover, first used in 2009, was shut after the third set of No 3-seeded Novak Djokovic’s fi rst-round

match against Olivier Rochus of Belgium on opening day. Rochus was leading 6-4, 2-6, 6-3.

Play resumed after a delay of about 35 minutes.

It was the third match on Centre Court during Day one of the tournament.

CARLING CUP DRAW First Round

(To be played week of August 9)Hartlepool United v Sheffield United Leicester City v Macclesfield Town

Walsall v Tranmere Rovers Carlisle United v Huddersfield Town

Stockport County v Preston North End Barnsley v Rochdale

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Southampton v AFC Bournemouth Brentford v Cheltenham Town

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To Bow Or Not To Bow: As Queen Visits Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON players were able to revive a lost tradition when the Queen visited the tournament for the fi rst time in 33 years last month.

The All England Club dropped the tradi-tion of a bow or curtsy to the royal box in 2003. That came at the request of the Duke of Kent, the club president, to the relief of most players at the time.

Martina Navratilova once joked: “Men have it easy ... the curtsy is the toughest part of the match.”

When the Queen arrived at Wimbledon last month the club left it up to players whether to show a measure of deference to her before their match. On her last visit on July 1, 1977, Virginia Wade won the ladies’ singles championship – Britain’s only singles’ title in 33 years.

Wade was present last month, along with Venus and Serena Williams, who both curtsied; Roger Federer and Andy Roddick Bowed.

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By Ridge MahoneyTHE WORLD Cup sagas for England and the United States, which began with a 1-1 tie that pleased neither side, ended at the same stage: the round of 16.

For England, a 4-1 thrashing by Germany was disaster; the Americans felt a muted sense of satisfaction tinged with disap-pointment after losing to Ghana, 2-1, in extra time. The futures of both managers, Fabio Capello and Bob Bradley, are in doubt, with perhaps Capello’s two remaining years on his contract causing pause at FA headquarters. Bradley’s four-year contract is up at the end of this year.

An all-time record TV audience for a US men’s game, including hundreds of public screenings and watch parties around the country, celebrated an incredible stoppage-time goal by Landon Donovan that downed Algeria, 1-0, and landed the US on top of the group. England came second with the same total of five points; they lost first place on the second tiebreaker of goals scored.

All of the English problem areas cited prior to the World Cup arose in South Africa: a replacement for defender Rio Ferdinand, questionable goalkeeping, leadership with the captain’s armband stripped from John Terry, and how to properly align Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard in the same midfield. Capello had steered England through the qualification process smoothly, with nine wins and one loss, 34 goals scored and six conceded, but all of his experience with Italian clubs and Real Madrid didn’t transform England into a serious contender for the title.

REPLACEMENTAt halftime of the opener, Ferdinand’s re-

placement Ledley King had to be substituted because of injury. Already keeper Robert

Green had contrived to let Clint Dempsey’s two-bounce shot glance off his gloves into the net to equalize a shrewd Gerrard goal struck in the fifth minute from a clever first-time diagonal ball played by Emile Heskey.

The sides traded half-chances with numerous Americans squaring off against teammates and foes they see regularly in the Premier League.

Donovan’s successful loan stint with Everton, where US keeper Tim Howard also plays, and Dempsey’s role during Ful-ham’s run to the Europa League final ratcheted up anticipation

for their meeting, which of course prompted endless remembrances of the 1950 game in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a 1-0 US win decided by a Joe Gaetjens’ goal. Dempsey’s tame shot and Green’s gaffe became an Internet sensation before the final whistle blew, and in the next match David James took over in the English net.

Gerrard’s goal represented one of the few times in four matches that England exploited a defensive glitch. They labored grimly through a 0-0 draw with Algeria and were booed off the pitch, prompting Wayne Rooney – whose own desultory performance surely merited at least a few hoots and whistles – to lash out bitterly. He apologized a day later, and a squad facing a very stark reality of not advancing pulled together to rescue a spot in the knockout rounds by beating Slovenia, 1-0, with a Jermaine Defoe goal created by a James Milner cross.

EARNEDDefoe had earned a spot alongside Rooney

in the starting lineup, and Milner had replaced Aaron Lennon, who’d cut apart the US a few times but ran aground against Algeria. Matt Upson took the central defensive spot along-side John Terry in place of the suspended

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Blatter Needs More Than ApologiesBy Ridge Mahoney

TO HIS credit, FIFA president came out and publicly apologized to England and Mexico for the terrible officiating decisions that marred their matches in the round of 16.

To his discredit, however, he didn’t apologize for being a bonehead. In March, he stated his adamant opposition to the use of any technology to assist the four match officials, even though they’ve been been about to communicate by headsets for several years. In the aftermath of a Frank Lampard shot that rebounded off the bar and landed well over the goal line yet wasn’t ruled a goal in a 4-1 loss to Germany, and a blatantly offside goal by Argentina’s Carlos Tevez against Mexico that was allowed to stand, he reversed his stance.

“Everybody knew at the start of this competition that we would not apply any other system, such as having two additional referees in the penalty areas or using tech-nology, including goal-line technology,” said Blatter. “Consequently, the principle will not be changed for this competition. But with what we have experienced here, it would be nonsense to not reopen the file on technology at the next business meeting of the IFAB on 20 and 21 July in Wales.”

EXPERIMENTIt was after the latest meeting of the IFAB

(International Football Association Board)

in March that Blatter declared experiments with goal-line technology, which included microchips imbedded in the ball and imaging equipment to track where the ball traveled, to be done and over. The past season of Europa League matches featured goal-line officials, one at each end of the field, who are stationed at the intersection of the goal-line and the goal-area line to monitor the penalty area and rule on goal-line situations.

Those experiments will continue next season. “It is an ongoing process at FIFA and on my personal agenda,” said Blatter. “In October-November we will present a new model on how to improve high-level refereeing.”

While that may open the door a crack to goal-line technology to determine whether a ball has crossed the line, Blatter is adamantly opposed to any use of video replay for other situations, such as assessing off-side. Thus any chance FIFA might adopt or even experi-ment with video replay, as is used in basket-ball, baseball, football, hockey, cricket, rugby and other sports is nearly nonexistent.

IMPROVEDGoal-line officials could be a marked

improvement in situations such as those of both Lampard and Tevez. Referees and their assistants are often poorly positioned to see whether a ball has crossed the line, but an

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England’s controversial third goal scored by Geoff Hurst (not shown) in the World Cup Final against West Germany in 1966 was given by a USSR linesman.

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Hodgson Hired As New Liverpool Manager

LIVERPOOL announced the appointment of Roy Hodgson as their new manager July 1.

Hodgson was announced as the new manager of Liverpool, carrying with him the experience of coaching three national sides and managerial roles with clubs in six differ-ent countries.

The 62-year-old Hodgson had been seen as a potential replacement to England manager Fabio Capello following the national team’s dismal showing at the World Cup - but he hasn’t always been so in-demand in his native country.

Hodgson had mixed success at Blackburn, much better at Fulham – Europa League Final-ists, and has previously enjoyed memorable runs at Halmstads, Sweden; the Swiss na-tional team at the 1994 World Cup in the US; two spells at Inter Milan, and stints at Swiss side Grasshopper, Danish club FC Copenha-gen – where he won the Superliga title – and Italy’s Udinese, as well as taking charge of the national teams of United Arab Emirates and Finland to fill out his resume.

Arguably Hodgson’s greatest attribute has been his ability to get the best out of players who are not household names. With players such as Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres and Javier Mascherano at Anfield, he will now have to prove he can manage world-class stars who are rumored to be unhappy with a lack of success.