BRUCE FORSYTH finally received his knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list last month.

The 83-year-old For-syth’s career dates back to the Second World war and currently he is the host of the UKs Strictly Come Dancing.

“I’m over the moon,” he said. “It has really hit me how big the honour is. It makes me feel as though my life has been worthwhile.”

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British Teen Charged With CybercrimesPOLICE fi led charges last month against a teenager suspected of involvement in cyberattacks on the CIA website.

Ryan Cleary, 19, has been charged with fi ve offenses under the Computer Misuse Act, police said.

One of the charges relates to bringing down the website of Britain’s Serious Organized Crime Agency – the UK’s FBI equivalent – using a fl ood of traffi c, in what is known as a “distributed denial of service” attack.

Cleary is suspected of having ties to the Lulz Security hacking collective, which has recently targeted Sony, the CIA website and the US Senate computer system.

British police had said that a computer seized following Cleary’s arrest was be-ing examined specifi cally for Sony data.

Lulz, which has used its Twitter ac-count as a platform to taunt victims and announce cyber coups, has dismissed speculation Cleary was involved in its operations.

The charges against Cleary date to events as far back as October 29 – when the teenager is accused of attacking the web-site of the British Phonographic Industry. An attack on the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry followed just one month later, police said.

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Man Convicted In 2002 Slaying Of SchoolgirlA CONVICTED double murderer was found guilty last month in the 2002 slaying of Milly Dowler, a case that had transfi xed Britain after the schoolgirl went missing.

Dowler, 13, was abducted while heading home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey south of London, sparking a nationwide search. Her remains were found in woodlands six months later by mushroom pickers.

A jury found that Levi Bellfield, already spending life in prison for two murders, was responsible for Dowler’s death. He has been told he will never be released.

He has also been convicted of at-tempted murder in a separate case. His intended victim was in court June 23 when the jury reached its verdict in Dowler’s slaying.

All of the attacks happened near bus stops, earning Bellfi eld the name “The Bus Stop Stalker” in the British press.

Dowler’s mother and sister were overcome with emotion when the verdict was announced.

Bellfield, 43, is likely to receive another life sentence for Dowler’s killing.

LEEDS United fans started a campaign to have a ban lifted on a great grandmother who took part in a pitch invastion during the last game of the team’s season.

Margaret Musgrove, 63, was given an automatic ban for going on the grass dur-ing the game.

Musgrove said the club was her life and she was devastated by the ban.

Hundreds of people have joined a Facebook group to get the ban lifted. The club said it was policy to suspend people for such actions.

Musgrove had already renewed her season ticket for next season but has had that seized along with the ban for running on the Elland Road pitch at the end of the 1-0 win against Burnley April 30.

Musgrove said: “I just ran on to the pitch and waved my hands and said ‘I love you boys’”

She said she was sorry for her actions but “just got carried away with the atmo-sphere”.

The Facebook group “Give Mags Mus-grove Her Season Ticket Back Mr Bates” appeals to club owner Ken Bates – who

Great Grandmother Banned For Pitch Invasion

in the 1980s famously wanted to install electric fences to keep fans off the pitch when he was chairman of Chelsea – to be more lenient to Musgrove.

Marie Blankley, who set up the group, which has more than 800 members, said: “Yes she’s done wrong. A 12-month ban is too harsh, a three-month ban, yes she’d take it.

“Mags is not a hooligan. She loves Leeds United with a passion.”

Great Grandma Margaret being escorted from the field.

William And Kate Touring Canada, Then South To Los Angeles

THE NINE-DAY tour of Canada for Prince William and his new bride Kate began June 30 (UJ Press day).

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s nine-day tour will span seven cities and five provinces. The visit will include stops in PEI, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Quebec and the National Capital Region, where the couple will celebrate Canada Day.

The couple are scheduled to arrive in Ottawa on June 30. They are expected to at-tend all the events together with no separate programs.

More than 1,300 members of the inter-national media will be along on the tour, compared with 848 last year during the Queen’s visit to Canada.

Highlights of their itinerary include:•June 30 – Their first official function

in Ottawa is laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial. They will then head to Rideau Hall where they will be greeted by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Governor General

Website Problems For Olympic Ticket Bidders THOUSANDS of people across Britain rose at dawn and hunched over their computer keyboards in the second round of bidding for tickets for the 2012 Lon-don Olympics last month.

But the hopes of many were dashed. The site was working – but very slowly. Olympic organizers urged ticket hope-fuls to be patient.

The sales on Friday, June 24 came after two-thirds of ticket seekers failed to earn any in the fi rst round. The 1.2 million previously unsuccessful bidders received priority in the morning sales. About 2.3 million tickets went on sale, many of them for football.

Tickets will also be sold in stages next year.

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HOW WOULD you like to live in this idealic piece of Britain? The problem is . . . it’s not in Britain. Thames Town built in 2006 was an ambitious scheme to relieve population pressure in Shanghai . . . yes, as in Shanghai China.

Thames Town comes with its own church, fish’n’chip shop and pub, The RockPoint Inn, which was mod-elled after the original establishment in Lyme Regis, Devon.

Cobbled streets, Tudor and Edwardian style town-houses and the village clock tower all add to the illusion that you’re actually in an English town.

Unfortunately since its opening five years ago, it has become something of a ghost town, with houses priced out of the market for many, leaving empty streets and shops unrented. Nowadays it has become a popular backdrop for wedding photographers to bring their clients. One online blogger likened Thames Town to film sets from The Truman Show.

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Public Sector Strikers Protest

Government PlansTEACHERS and public sector workers swapped classrooms and of-fi ces for picket lines June 30 in what unions hope will be the fi rst unrest in a summer of discontent against the Conservative-led government’s austerity plans.

Airport operators warned there could be long lines at immigration entry points because of walkouts by passport offi cers, but most of Britain’s airports, including Heathrow and Manchester, said it was business as usual.

Unions estimated that up to 750,000 teachers and civil servants joined the one-day strike, affecting courthouses, tax offi ces and employment centers, as well as schools.

Thousands of union members marched through London, Manchester and other cit-ies to demand that the government rethink its plans to curb public sector pensions. Small groups of anti-capitalist protesters scuffl ed with police as the march neared Parliament, and were cordoned in by offi -cers. Police said 41 people had been arrested for offenses including possession of drugs, criminal damage and breach of the peace.

MODERATEWhile some British trade unions – such

as those representing London subway drivers – have a reputation for frequent strikes, their public sector counterparts are traditionally moderate. There has not been a national strike by teachers since the 1980s, and for one of the unions, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, last month marked its fi rst strike in its 127-year history.

Their leaders say they have no choice. They say their members worked many years for modest pay, on the promise of a solid pension, and accuse the government of reneging on that deal.

Helen Andrews of the National Union of Teachers told a rally in Manchester that teachers were being asked to “pay more, work longer, get less.”

ACCUSEDPrime Minister “David Cameron has

accused teachers of a lack of morality,” she said. “Who really lacks morality? The thief or those who try to stop the thief?”

The walkouts weren’t as dramatic as the rioting in Greece, which faces far more severe cuts, but unions hope to send a strong message of opposition to Britain’s govern-ment and its austerity plans.

The government insists everyone must share the pain as it cuts £80bn from public spending to reduce Britain’s huge defi cit, swollen after the government spent billions bailing out foundering banks. It is cutting civil service jobs and benefi ts, raising the state pension age from 65 to 66, hiking the

amount public sector employees contribute to pensions and reducing their retirement payouts.

ASSESSMENTSThe two sides gave widely differing as-

sessments of the level of disruption.

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No ‘Just Dessert’ In Sticky Claim Against School

IT WAS hot, yellow and very tasty, but when a collision took place in a Yorkshire school that resulted in one pupil spilling custard over the hand of another, litigation occurred. The des-sert brought a lawsuit against the Rotherham Borough Council, where negligence was charged after a pupil’s wrist was scolded. The council paid £5,750 for the injured student.

A Freedom of Information request that was adhered to by Rotherham council revealed other financial compensations paid out during miscellaneous school situations. One boy got £11,492, after a shelf fell from the wall and landed on his head, while a girl who slipped on a section of anti-slip matting was awarded £1,003. A boy in a team building exercise class was thrown in the air and allowed to fall to the ground without being caught,received £15,000, while a girl who was injured during a game of Frisbee got £879. Yet, cricket enthusiast, 11-year-old Andrew Saunders who inadvertently got locked in the school after sport practice and lost a finger climbing over the railing to exit the property received only £250.

The Custard award did get under the skin of Nick Smeaton of the Campaign for Real Education however, who bitterly complained, “It is scandalous that thousands of pounds of taxpayer’s money are spent on these, often frivolous claims, when the money should be spent on schools.”

Pizza Customer Sees ‘Red’ Over Ginger Notation On OrderRED HEADED Ross Waijgtknecht from Peasedown, near Bath, hears all the jokes about his hair colour from his schoolmates, but did not think he’d get similar comments while ordering a pizza. The 11-year-old pizza lover ordered a special Texas BBQ flavoured pie for takeout, and spelt out his name cor-rectly for the Domino Pizza staff. But when the order was completed the staff had wrote “Ginger Kid,” on the receipt and the schoolboy was not happy.

Ross’ father Andrew, was not happy either, and demanded a complete apology from Domino’s corporate office. “You would not describe someone by the colour of their skin or by calling them fat, so why is it okay to call Ross ‘ginger,’” said the irate father.

Pat Bennet, manager of the Pizzeria, that caters for a nearby skate park, said they had apologized and offered a free pizza, and that the name on the receipt was to assist the order taker and not cause offence. The youngsters come in and order using the same names that sometimes causes confusion explained the apologetic pizza man.

What Was Good For Farmer Was Not Good For The Goose

ESCAPING THE rambunctious and predatory reactions of a Canadian goose, a man on a quad bike from Cowfold near Horsham, lost control of his vehicle and hit a tree. Jan Pieniazek broke his leg, and when emergency services arrived his tibia bone was protruding through the skin. He had been picking up grain from a nearby farm, when he apparently upset a mother goose with a plethora of goslings. He jumped on his bike to outrun the enraged bird, but she kept after him, before landing on his head that momentarily blinded him from the approaching tree.Pieniazek is convalescing at home and is

expected to heal in five-six months, while the Mother goose has successfully raised her brood of six unscathed.

Rural Britain Feeling Pinch Of Poor Economy And Taxes

A REPORT from the National Housing Federa-tion, authored by the leaders of the British Beer and Pub Association, casts a dismal expecta-tion for Britain’s rural communities. 893 pubs closed their doors last year, citing taxes and the recession that has had a distinctive effect of country living. 400 village shops closed in 2008, and rural schools are closing at the rate of one a month, while local post offices that were once a traditional part of the community have become increasingly rare. The NHF says affordable housing could save the smaller communities, but wealthier homeowners from the big cities have pushed rural real estate to new highs, and with no new housing being considered in the villages, things do not look likely to change.

Wall Of Shoes Find Baffles Experts At 300-Year-Old CottageRENOVATION of a 300-year-old cottage in the Snowdonia National Park at Geli Lago, has revealed a mystery under the old fireplace. Contractors working to strengthen the weak walls and chimney came across one hundred single shoes. The cottage has been derelict for over 50 years and when the roof finally collapsed some years ago, the National Trust decided that it was worth preserving as part of the local heritage. Little is known about the families who originally lived there, and the Trust has reached out to locals in the area seeking information. Apparently, buried shoes are not an uncommon occurrence in British archeology, and concealed footwear has been found in over 1,000 historical sites across the nation. For now, no-one is quite sure why shoes are buried and its further im-plications. One theory forwarded for the Gelli Iago cottage, is that a former inhabitant may have been a cobbler and these shoes were part of his stock. The footwear is thought to be from the Victorian era.

‘Dognapper’ Holds Banker-Neighbour’s Pet For Ransom

A MAN who kidnapped a Yorkshire terrier from a bank worker who failed to get him a loan was jailed for two years at Bristol Crown Court. Gabriel Radzikowski, 29, of Bath, thought that former neighbour Sara Lilly, director of the local Lloyds TSB could easily arrange credit for him. When she could not, her 15-year-old Yorkie, Bilbo Baggins went missing and Radzikowski sent a ransom letter demanding £500 for a safe release. The police were called and a passerby later found the half frozen pet, whimpering and shivering near a local pool. The man denied the charges, but the family who had rented him a room told police they had seen him with the Yorkie. He was given one year for imprisonment and blackmail and another year for intimidation.

Durable Bat Found In Dog Food Sealed Five Months Previous

DOG LOVER, Doreen Harben, 52, from the Isle of Skye, had the shock of her life when she opened a bag of dried dog food and found a small bat inside. The small creature was barely alive, but doting Doreen who has no fear of bats nursed the chronically dehydrated

animal back to life. A toilet roll tube and an ice cream container provided the nest for the severely traumatised bat. A call to the Purina company in Cambridgeshire, revealed the bag was sealed five months ago and the bat must have got trapped inside at that time. They later handed the bat over to the Hessilhead animal rescue centre in Beith, for better professional care. They hope to release it back in the wild very soon.

“We at the centre can’t get our heads round how it managed to survive for five months in a sealed foil bag,” said Andy Christie. “I’ve never seen anything like this.

Britain’s Oldest Cat Passes One Day After 30th Birthday

BRITAIN’S OLDEST cat died last month, just one day after the family had put on a big 30th birthday celebration for their favourite black and white feline who goes by the name of Mischief. Chris Thorne, 54, of Launceston, Cornwall, was heartbroken. In Cat years he was 136-years-old. The world’s longest living cat was reputedly a moggie named Crème Puff from Austin, Texas, who lived for 38 years.

“We’ve had him since a kitten in 1981,” said a distraught Chris Thorne. “He was with us for so long.”

Relatives Leave Woman Dead While They Claim Pension

WHEN Olive Maddock, 95, died in Wirral, Merseyside, her daughter and grand-daughter left her in the bedroom where she had passed and attempted to collect her government benefits. The two were only able to draw a £176.92p pension check and pension credit for £34.44p, before a neighbour complained to police about the strange smell emanating from the house. Police found the dead woman collapsed behind the bedroom door, while a forensic examination discovered insects on the corpse, though concluded she probably died of natural causes.

Olive Hazel Maddock and grand-daughter Jasmine Maddock, 35, pleaded guilty at Liv-erpool Crown Court, to unlawful prevention of burial and benefits fraud. Judge Gerald Clifton granted them bail, but will sentence the pair this month.

Shark Bumping Attack Puts Cornish Fishermen On Alert

FISHERMEN off the coast of Cornwall, were cautioned when a man fishing for mackerel a mile from St Ives, was nearly toppled into the sea after a large fish collided with his boat. The 60-year-old veteran reported the collision to the harbour master, identifying it as an oceanic white tip shark after he recog-nized the mottled white tipped dorsal fin. Two other boats in the vicinity also reported being circled by the mysterious intruder before it swam off too. The Oceanic White Tip is not the biggest shark in the sea, and only grows to around 13ft and about 270lbs. Its large dorsal fins make the ingredient for Shark’s fin soup. It’s a deep sea predator who is

reputedly scared of nothing and no-one and Jacques Cousteau once called it, “the most dangerous of sharks.”

Harbourmaster Steve Bassett said, “People are speculating and starting to panic,” but could not explain how a warm water shark had turned up in the cold waters off the Cornwall coast. The British coastline is home to 30 different species of sharks, some of them just seasonal visitors.

‘Emergency’ GPS Signal To Coastguard Came

From … A Volvo At SeaTHE HOLYHEAD Coastguard launched a lifeboat from Moelfre in Anglesey, last month, after police informed them of an emergency signal four miles out at sea. But after a three hour search in the dark and finding nothing, they returned to base. Logistic experts took another look at the emergency signal they had received, and discovered it was from a new GPS device fitted on BMWs and Volvos. Further investigation revealed that a BMW car alarm went off on a vehicle traveling on the Dublin to Liverpool ferry, and somehow, it was picked up by the local coastguard.

Dave Massey of the Moelfre lifeboat said they were in the exact spot off the Welsh coast, 25 minutes after receiving the call but found nothing. The launching was logged as a false alarm with good intentions.

‘Shower’ Of A Council Leave Woman Without Hot Water

For Three MonthsEIGHTY-FOUR-year-old Nessie Rennie of Ab-erdeen, has been living without hot water for over three months, even though the council has sent out fourteen workmen at different times to fix her boiler. The plumber said she needed an electrician, and the electrician said she needed a plumber, while one workman recommended she leave a tap running in the kitchen while taking her shower to siphon off the cold water. Rennie is at her wits end, while a spokesman for Age Scotland bitterly complained, “It beggars belief that in three months the council has proved unable to sort out her water supply.”

However, the message finally appears to be getting out.

“We apologize for the inconvenience,” said a council spokesman. “We will send maintenance staff to the property again to investigate.”

Perfect Cup Of Tea Now Down To A Science

RESEARCHERS at the University of Northum-bria say they have calculated the formula for the perfect cup of tea.

Apparently the most vital ingredient is patience. The scientists said the key to the best tasting brew was to let it sit for six minutes before drinking. Not only does it avoid scolding but by then it has cooled to 60c, the optimum temperature to let the flavours flood out.

But leave it until after 17 minutes and 30 seconds and the tea will be past its best, reported the Daily Telegraph.

The team at the university’s School of Life Sciences spent 180 hours of testing and a panel of volunteers consumed 285 cups of tea in the laboratory. They concluded that the best method was to add boiling water to a tea bag in a mug and leave for two minutes.

Then remove the bag and add the milk and leave for six minutes until it reaches optimal temperature of 60c.

Ian Brown, senior lecturer at the University of Northumbria, said it was the complex taste of tea that made it so popular. Brown, a food and nutrition expert, said: “When enjoying a cup of tea, our palette requires a balance between bitterness and sweetness.”

The research, commissioned by Craven-dale Milk, also found that in Britain we drink a staggering 165 million cups of tea per day, or 60.2bn a year.

Twitter ‘Recognition’ For Laurel-Ann Hardie

CANADIAN woman Laurel-Ann Hardie is today, better known than she was earlier last month following the revelation of her name on Twitter.

Many people suspected the name was fake when it first surfaced online, but it has since emerged it is the real name of a Cana-dian academic, reported Metro.

Professor Laurel-Ann Hardie, a lecturer working at the school of contemporary media at Fanshawe College in Ontario, adopted the name when she married her husband, James Hardie, giving up her maiden name Hasen.

On learning her name had created so much interest on Twitter, she said: “I am used to it. My husband and I worked together before we were married and people used to say if you were married you would be Laurel-Ann Hardie, almost the same as the UK-US comedy pair Laurel and Hardy.

“It just seemed like fate. I am a Laurel and Hardy fan. I was given lots of posters of them as wedding presents.”

Leicester City Centre ‘Taken Over’ By Zombies

LEICESTER’S city centre was invaded by Zombies last month when nearly 200 people in make-up and torn clothing staged a ‘mass shamble’ for half a mile through the streets.

The protest followed a request, made under the Freedom of Information Act, asking the council what preparations had been made for a zombie invasion.

The groaning mob pressed their blood-stained faces against the windows of Leices-ter City Council’s offices to make their point. The council later admitted it was unprepared for the incident.

And the ‘concerned citizen’ even received a reply in which the council conceded it was ill-prepared, and staff confirmed it had been taken in good humour.

Lynn Wyeth, the council’s head of infor-mation governance, said: “We’ve had a few wacky ones before but this one did make us laugh.”

As the earlier story spread across Twitter and other social networking sites, it prompted James Dixon to organise the zombie march on Facebook. He said it started as a “small gathering for friends” but eventually attracted more widespread interest after going viral with hundreds gathered for the march.

He said: “We went for a shamble. We shambled from the clock to the city council offices – about half a mile through the city centre.

“There were just a couple of security guards at the building. We didn’t try to get inside – just pressed ourselves up against the glass like zombies do.”

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Our Illiterate SocietyTHE EVENING Standard newspaper has discovered that many British children can neither read nor write. So they have launched a campaign calling for volunteers to teach children to do just that.

But isn’t that what teachers are supposed to do? So what are the teachers doing while their pupils are being taught by volunteers? And are the volunteers sufficiently qualified to teach?

And what have children been learning during all their years at school? One mother told me: “They mostly play games on their computers. I don’t know what else they do.” But surely even that demands a certain amount of literate skill: reading the buttons for ON or OFF and pressing ENTER.

The fact is that our educational system is a disgrace. When these children leave school they will be unable to fill in a job application form, or to write their name and address, to drive a car (how will they read the road signs?) or travel (reading the names of Un-derground stations or organising air travel).

Opportunities in theatre or journalism would be closed to them – and even the humble shopkeeper would be unable to tot up the bill. So of what use will they be to Prime Minister David Cameron’s ”Big Society”? All that they will be fit for is, probably, sweeping the streets.SEE KATE’S DRESS – FOR £17.50

Kate Middleton’s wedding dress will go on display for 10 weeks this summer at Buckingham Palace – but visitors will have to pay £17.50 to see it.

The garment, by Sarah Burton, creative director at Alexander McQueen, will be the star exhibit during the annual opening of the palace state rooms. Visitors can also see William and Kate’s wedding cake.

The Royal Collection expects more than half a million paying visitors, breaking the record of 420,000 set in 1994; but the Maid of Honour’s dress, which was designed by Burton and belongs to Kate’s sister Pippa, will not be on display.

Neither will the clothes worn by the four bridesmaids and two pageboys. A Royal Collection spokesman said: “The aim is to focus on the British craftsmanship of the duchess’s wedding ensemble, rather than create a wedding tableau.”

The dress, on show from July 23 to Oc-tober 3 in the ballroom, is made from ivory and white satin. The skirt’s shape resembles an opening flower.

ROYALS MARK GARTER DAYBritain’s royal family has turned out for

the annual Order of the Garter service at Windsor Castle.

The Queen was joined by her husband, Prince Philip, the newly-married Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a host of other royals for the Garter Day ceremony.

Garter Day is a symbolic occasion when holders of the honor, chosen because they have held public office, contributed to national life or served the sovereign personally, meet to celebrate the most senior British order of chivalry.

The Duchess of Cambridge, grinned broadly as she watched her husband, Prince William, take part in a procession ahead of the service – causing him to blush.

PHILIP: 90 YEARS – AND 90 GAFFES – OLD

Prince Philip reached his 90th birthday on June 10, and told BBC interviewer Fiona Bruce: “I‘ve done my bit I want to take it easier from now on”

The prince, well known as an expert in dontopedology (the art of opening one’s mouth and putting one’s foot in it), had 90 gaffes listed against his name. Most famous ones were:

“If you stay here much longer you’ll go home with slitty eyes”– to a British student while on a visit to China.

“I would like to go to Russia very much- although the bastards murdered half my

family” – asked, in 1967, if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

WANT TO BUY A TV CENTRE?The BBC is selling its Television Centre at

Shepherds Bush as part of its cost-cutting drive following the licence fee freeze. The doughnut-shaped building which opened in 1960, is expected to fetch up to £300m.

The 14-acres site in Wood Lane is home to about 5,000 employees, but will be empty by 2015 after staff move to other sites including Broadcasting House and the new MediaCity in Salford, Lancashire.

I well remember meeting Dr Who (Tom Baker) at the TV Centre when he was appear-ing in another Dr Who episode and I was in the next studio appearing in I Claudius. At the time I was seventh in line to be Dr Who, but Tom Baker won the part.

SO – WE’RE STILL HERESo what happened to the end of the World?

It should have ended on May 21, according to Christian evangelist Harold Camping, but I woke up on May 22 to find that I was still in existence – and so was the rest of the world.

It just goes to show that one just can’t rely on these planets to live up to their expecta-tions. Perhaps the Time Lord Dr Who had something to do with it, but he’s probably in another century by now. I haven’t noticed any Daleks roaming the streets so far, so perhaps it was just a simple miscalculation.

Well, you know what these women scien-tists are like – and Miss Calculation is obvi-ously no exception! So after a grand rethink, Camping has come up with another date for the apocalypse – October 21. If nothing happens then, I suggest that Camping gives up trying to predict world endings and try weather forecasting instead – at least every-body expects those to be just as unreliable. so they won’t be such a disappointment.

IT’S BACK – AND IT’S A NEW ROUTEMASTER

Mayor Boris Johnson has unveiled a pro-totype of the new Routemaster bus, which is expected to be on the road by next March. It will replace the current “bendy” bus, which should be off the road by Christmas. So what will happen between Christmas and March is anybody’s guess.

Each bus will cost £30,000. The Mayor tested the new bus and gave his verdict: “This is the smoothest ride. It is the most sophisticated piece of machinery I have ever seen. This is a marvel of technology.” – from

which I gather that he liked it.The bus uses lightweight materials and is

40 per cent more efficient than conventional buses, as well as being much quieter. It will carry 87 people – 62 sitting and 25 standing – almost half the number of a bendy bus.

Like the original Routemaster, I will have a hop-on, hop-off door and for 12 hours a day. a conductor. The hop-on door will operate only when the conductor is on board..

Development of the bus was a key pledge in Johnson’s election campaign. Former mayor Ken Livingstone withdrew the original Routemasters in 2005 because they were in-accessible to wheelchairs and pushchairs.

ARMED POLICE TO PATROL THE UNDERGROUND

Armed police will begin routine patrols on trains and London’s Underground to counter the rising threat of a terrorist attack on the transport system.

The first are expected this year, with regular operations beginning in time for the 2012 Olympics.

The move, agreed with the Home Secre-tary, comes amid growing fears of a Mumbai-style terror raid on railway and Tube stations. The decision means that British Transport Police will have its own unit of armed of-ficers, and need no longer rely on asking the Metropolitan police for support.

The new unit will be based at key rail stations in London but also deployed for oc-casional patrols on the Underground.RESTORED ST PAUL’S UNVEILED

After 15 years of being surrounded by scaffolding, tourists and City workers had their first “clean” sight of St Paul’s Cathedral since before the Millennium last month.

Workers put the finishing touches to the £40m makeover of Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece The white Portland stone is now free of soot and pollution after more than 150,000 blocks were cleaned on the outside alone.

Removal of the last exterior scaffolding coincides with the 300th anniversary of St Paul’s being declared built.

What has been the first comprehensive restoration of the cathedral began in the summer of 1996.

The Rt Rev Graeme Knowles, Dean of St Paul’s, said: “We’re thrilled that in the year we celebrate the anniversary we can mark the completion of this extraordinary project. The two million who come here each year can witness Wren’s original vision.”

St Paul’s Cathedral Foundation raised the money for the restoration.

WINE AND BEER PRICES SOARDrinks prices have soared by 10 per cent

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Experts say that the rise was almost entirely due to the rocketing cost of drink. It comes at the same time as an unprecedented squeeze on families as shop prices, taxes and frozen pay are all contributing to reduced household income.

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Photographer Wounded In Belfast Rioting

POLICE in Northern Ireland blamed an outlawed Protes-tant paramilitary group for starting two nights of rioting that saw hundreds of masked youths hurl bricks, bottles and gasoline bombs and left three people with gunshot wounds last month.

A photographer was shot in the leg during the unrest in the Short Strand, a small Catholic community in a predominantly Protestant area of east Belfast.

The Press Association agency said its photographer was in stable condition at Royal Victoria Hospital. The agency did not release his name. Other journalists on the scene said a youthful gunman had shot at photogra-phers covering the violence.

Police said about 400 people were involved, from both sides of the sectarian divide, but that Irish Republican Army dis-sidents were responsible for the gunfi re.

Masked and hooded youths threw bricks, bottles, fi reworks and other mis-siles at each other, and at armored police vehicles. Police fi red more than 60 plastic bullets at the marauding youths.

Police Assistant Chief Constable Alistair Finlay blamed the Ulster Volunteer Force, a group that declared a cease fi re in 2009 and said it had disarmed.

“Their hands are upon this, whether by direction, by omission or commission,”

he said.Sectarian tensions typically fl are in the

build-up to July 12, a divisive holiday when tens of thousands of Protestants from the Orange Order brotherhood march across Northern Ireland. Last summer, more than 80 police offi cers were wounded during four nights of riots in Catholic districts of Belfast.

This year’s violence is among the most intense in years, but confi ned to a small and historically tense area of Belfast.

Northern Ireland’s Protestant First Minister, Peter Robinson, and his Catholic deputy, Martin McGuinness, condemned the violence.

“A small minority of individuals are clearly determined to destabilize our communities,” McGuinness said. “They will not be allowed to drag us back to the past.”

Rioters use fire bombs on Northern Ireland police officers in East Belfast last month.

Juror Jailed For Facebook Chat With DefendantA JUDGE has sentenced a juror to eight months in jail for contacting a defendant on Facebook during a trial.

Forty-year-old Joanne Fraill admitted contempt of court for chatting with defendant Jamie Seward on the social networking site.

Justice Igor Judge said last month that her conduct was “directly contrary to her oath as a juror.”

Fraill is the fi rst juror in Britain to be convicted of using the Internet during a trial. She burst into tears when the sentence was pronounced

Her lawyer said she was remorseful and had not meant to subvert the trial.Seward was given a two-month suspended sentence at London’s High Court.

Nancy’s Not Your Typical SheepdogTHIS ONCE mangy Chihuahua was brought into a London animal home two years ago with a skin disease so severe that she had to be hand-reared by a shelter employee.

Now the 2-1/2 pound rescue dog has been fi lmed bounding after sheep several times her size, chasing them around a small enclosure in southern England.

The video released by the Battersea Dogs & Cats Home is an attempt to “prove that rescue dogs really can do anything,” owner Ali Taylor said in a statement last month.

Taylor said she trained Nancy follow-ing several trips to various farms, but cautioned against others deploying their dogs for sheep herding duties.

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•July 1 – They will attend a citizenship ceremony at the Museum of Civilization and then it’s off to Parliament Hill for Canada Day celebrations, where William will briefly address the crowd.

•July 2 – After a tree planting at Rideau Hall and a reception for war veterans and war brides, the couple depart for Montreal. There, they will visit Saint-Justine Hospital, a facil-ity for young cancer patients, and go to the Institut de tourism et d’hotelerie where they will participate in a class of chefs in training. The students will then serve them a private dinner. Amid a fireworks competition in the harbour, the couple board HMCS Montreal for the overnight journey to Quebec City.

•July 3 – The couple will meet the Royal 22nd Regiment, the Van Doos, who have just returned from Afghanistan. Expect an inspec-tion of the guard and a walkabout. They then head to the Citadel and after some down time depart for Levi Fort to participate in a fair. They depart by plane to Charlottetown where they will stay at Government House.

•July 4 – In the morning, they will tour Province House, and be greeted by the Fathers of Confederation on the steps. There will be a welcome by Premier Robert Ghiz and then a walkabout on George Street. Then they will head to Dalvay by the Sea. After a brief rest, they attend an outdoor reception complete with BBQ, dragon boat race and music. They will be greeted by Anne of Green Gables and do a walkabout. They depart for Summerside by helicopter where they will see a search and rescue demonstration and attend a reception for fishermen rescued by such teams. They leave for Yellowknife.

•July 5 – At Somba Ke Civic Plaza, the couple will be welcomed by the premier and aboriginal leaders in a ceremony that includes prayer and drum songs. They will do a walkabout with aboriginal athletic events. At a Territorial Legislature for Youth Parliament

event, young people from different ridings will come to the legislature and try to solve a problem of their choosing and report their results to William. The couple then travel by sea plane to Blatchford Lodge to meet with Canadian Rangers. After walking to Dechinta Centre, which tries to recapture the aboriginal language and culture for young people, they return to Yellowknife and retire for the night.

•July 6 – The couple depart for Calgary and have the day to themselves in a private location.

•July 7 – After visiting Foothills Hospital, they head to the BMO Centre for a reception hosted by Harper and his wife. There will be a gift presentation from the government of Canada to the couple and a speech by Harper.

•July 8 – The couple will attend the launch of the Calgary Stampede parade and watch part of the parade. Then they visit ENMAX Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo. Their final stop is Challenger Rotary Park where William will do an inspection of the guard with full military honours.

Los Angeles, California•July 8 – After an 11-day tour of Canada,

the royal couple will arrive in California, where their activities will focus on “supporting British interest in California through the prism of their own interests.” On Friday night, the couple will be special guests at the Consular-General Reception held by the United Kingdom Trade and Investment, a government department that oversees British business interests outside of England.

•July 9 – Things pick up on Saturday afternoon, with Prince William slated to play in a charity polo match at the Santa Barbara Polo Club. All proceeds will go to the American Friends of the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry. Following the polo match, there will be a reception involving a luncheon and an awards ceremony. That evening, William and Kate will be attending a dinner hosted by the Brit-ish Academy of Film and Television Arts at the legendary 1926 Belasco Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. The event is meant to celebrate “up and coming British talent” in the arts.

•July 10 – On Sunday, the couple will visit the Inner-City Arts School, an organization that brings education and training to some of the poorest neighborhoods in LA. After that, William and Kate will visit Culver City’s Sony Studios, where they’ll attend the Service Na-tion: Mission Serve job fair for veterans.

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Study: UK Failing To Address Corruption

By Cassandra VinogradCORRUPTION is a much larger problem in Britain than acknowledged and key institutions are refusing to confront the problem, a global watchdog warned.

Transparency International UK called the findings of its two-year study into corruption in the UK a “corruption health-check” for the country – with a diagnosis of “growing threat, inadequate response.”

The group said its research found that corruption is fl ourishing in some parts of the UK and there is “disturbing evidence” of denial in policy responses to the issue.

“There is complacency and a lack of knowledge of the extent of corruption in key sectors and institutions,” according to the study, which examined 23 sectors. “For every institution or agency that recognizes the problem of corruption and makes an effective effort to tackle it, there is another, facing the same degree of corruption risk, that ignores it.

The report noted that some sectors should be commended for tackling cor-ruption, but that political parties, prisons,

sports and Parliament are a “major issue of concern.”

CONFESSEDTransparency International confessed

it was diffi cult to measure the prevalence of corruption in the UK because offi cial data and statistics often categorize of-fenses under more general headings, such as fraud.

In addition, the group noted that there are at least 12 different agencies or govern-ment departments with partial responsibil-ity for anti-corruption activities, plus more than 40 police forces – leading to patchy and uncoordinated responses.

“The policy response is incoherent and uncoordinated,” the report said. “This inadequate response has in certain areas created a culture of impunity.”

For those reasons, corruption often goes unrecognized or unreported – which Transparency International said makes its research preliminary. The group said its fi ndings could just be “the tip of an iceberg” and called for more research into corruption and a coherent approach to tackling the issue.

By Cassandra VinogradBRITAIN’S government is expected to outline a revised strategy to tackle home-grown terrorism, saying that tens of mil-lions of pounds spent on anti-extremism projects have failed to steer young Mus-lims away from violence.

The government is expected to say that costly and controversial initiatives did not produce security benefi ts for Britain – and could even have helped fund groups that promote hardline beliefs.

The revised approach will focus on identifying extremist threats in prisons, universities and the health service, a new tack for policy that initially focused on supporting mainstream Muslim groups as alternatives to extremism.

The fresh strategy, outlined in an as-yet-unreleased review of the anti-extremism project, also is expected to include pro-posals to limit the scope of the Internet in fostering radicalization – though it was unclear how far new rules could go.

The anti-extremism initiative, dubbed Prevent, was launched following the July 7, 2005 terrorist attacks on London’s transport networks. It was aimed at pro-viding alternatives to militant Islamism by supporting mainstream groups through lecture tours by moderate clerics and by funding for outreach work by reformed extremists.

CONTENTIOUSThe contentious plan drew criticism

from all sides – some Muslims said it involved spying on young people, while taxpayer groups questioned the merit of funding adventure holidays, rap lessons or team-building exercises.

Home Secretary Theresa May in No-vember said the project was not working as well as it could be, and launched a review of the program so the government could take a fresh look at how it was combatting extremism.

Last month, she pre-empted the fi ndings by accusing universities of complacency in

tackling Islamic extremism and radicaliza-tion on campus.

She told Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper Monday that universities have not been taking the issue of radicalization seriously and are unwilling to recognize that extremists can form groups on campus “without anyone knowing.”

While a government unit to fi lter out potentially illegal Internet content was created last year, the report is expected to stress that universities will be closely watched and outline plans to prevent computers in schools, libraries and col-leges from accessing unlawful material on the Internet.

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Royal Marines On Standby Near

Yemeni CoastROYAL MARINES have been de-ployed off the Yemeni coast to help evacuate British nationals if neces-sary, the BBC reported last month.

Britain’s Ministry of Defense said the military has assets in the Gulf region and are ready to help, but refused to offer any details.

“Due to the recent deterioration of the political situation in Yemen, the (Foreign Offi ce) and (the Ministry of Defense) have made contingency plans for an evacuation of remaining British nationals and entitled person-nel, should it become necessary,” the military said in a statement. “As part of that contingency, UK military as-sets and personnel in the Gulf region are on standby to assist.”

The Foreign Offi ce could not im-mediately say how many Britons live in Yemen.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have scrambled to arrange a power transfer to end President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s rule.

The Yemeni leader is in Saudi Ara-bia after being wounded in a rocket attack, and authorities worry that his return will spark new, intensi-fi ed fi ghting between his forces and opposition tribesmen determined to topple him.

Assange Says House Arrest Hampering Wikileaks Work

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange says his house arrest over sex allegations is hampering the work of the secret-spilling site, and his supporters accuse Britain of spying on him.

The 39-year-old Australian has spent six months at a supporter’s rural estate as he fi ghts extradition to Sweden, where he is accused of the rape and sexual assault of two women.

Supporters have released a video claim-ing police had set up surveillance cameras near the house to record license plates of visiting cars.

Assange’s bail conditions require him to wear an electronic tag and report to police daily.

Assange told the Associated Press last month that he had become “a fi xed target” for snoopers.

Government ‘Shocked’ By TV Expose Of Care Home Abuse

GOVERNMENT leaders last month or-dered a review of the care of vulnerable people after a TV documentary showed staff physically and verbally abusing resi-dents of a home for adults with learning diffi culties.

The BBC’s Panorama program fi lmed staff at the Winterbourne View private hos-pital in Bristol, southwest England, appear-ing to punch, slap and taunt residents.

Police said four people had been ar-rested and the care home’s owner said 13 staff members had been suspended.

Care services minister Paul Burstow said the abuse was “shocking.” He or-dered spot checks on similar facilities and promised to strengthen safeguards against abuse.

“There can be no place for such inhu-manity in care services,” Burstow said.

Care home operator Castlebeck said it was distressed by the allegations and was cooperating with police and other authorities.

“I was shocked, disgusted and ashamed by what I saw on Panorama,” said chief executive Lee Reed.

Castlebeck is a private company paid by the government look after adults with autism, learning diffi culties and mental health problems.

He said auditor PricewaterhouseCoo-pers had been hired to conduct an inde-pendent review of the company, which runs 56 facilities caring for 580 people across Britain.

Libya Gets Tickets To London Olympics

ORGANIZERS for the London Olympics say Libya has been given hundreds of tickets to the games.

A spokeswoman for London 2012 says the tickets went to Libya’s Olympic Com-mittee – “not an individual” – for distribu-tion to sports organizations and athletes.

She was responding to a report last month in the Daily Telegraph claiming Moammar Gadhafi ’s son, who heads the country’s Olympic committee, received hundreds of tickets to the games.

Key members of Gadhafi ’s regime are under travel bans and there is no indication the Libyan leader or his son plan to – or could – attend the Olympics.

The London Olympic organizing com-mittee is obliged to give tickets to any of the International Olympic Committee member states who request them.

Schools were the hardest hit. The govern-ment said 11,000 schools were closed or partially closed, more than half the total of 21,000 in England and Wales.

The Metropolitan Police said almost all of its civilian staff who answer emergency and non-emergency calls had walked out. The force drafted in police offi cers to fi ll the gap.

The government said job centers, courts and government call centers were all op-erating as normal, and “less than half” of civil servants in the striking unions had stayed away.

But Mark Serwotka, head of the civil service PCS union, said 85 percent of his members were out on strike – including some members of Cameron’s 10 Down-ing Street.

Public Sector Strikers Protest . . .

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Sunday Brunch, A Drama UnwindsSEVERAL WEEKENDS ago while enjoying a particularly festive brunch I was approached by an attractive, enthusiastic, mimosa-drinking Brit named Julie. She wanted some clarification about the Visa Waiver Program that she was traveling on. The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) of course is the US policy that allows for nationals from 36 participating visa waiver countries, including the UK, to travel for up to 90 days to the US without ob-taining a visa. Rather than detailing the rules of the Visa Waiver Program, my conversation with Julie is not entirely unlike many discus-sions that I’ve had before with VWP travelers, and so instead I’ll simply share:

Julie: Hello, I’m Julie. Don’t you just love mimosas?

Ron: Yes. I do love mimosas. Very much so.

Julie: [whispered] So, you’re Ron Rehling, the immigration lawyer right?

Ron: [whispered] That’s right Julie. Julie: Ahh, that’s fun for you. Call me

Jules. I truly hate to bother you but I just have a question for you, and pretty much know the answer already. So I am on holiday from London, on the Visa Waiver, and it expires next week. So, do I really have to leave? I understand it’s more like a guideline sorts.

Ron: Jules, you definitely should leave prior to the expiration of your VWP status.

Jules: Really? I’m such having a lovely time, and there’s this party that is really im-portant for me to attend so I’d like to request an extension.

Ron: Party? Let’s hear about that. [10 minute party discussion]

Jules: So you’re saying that Visa Waiver Program doesn’t allow for extensions.

Ron: Correct. You could have requested an extension if you were on a B-1 tourist visa, but again, not on a Visa Waiver.

Jules: Well I’ll just go to Canada then. My friend went to Canada and she came back and got a new period of time.

Ron: That doesn’t sound right. Is she Canadian?

Jules: Yes. How did you know? Ron: It’s different for Canadians, but for

you, the 90 day period of your VWP includes any time spent in Canada, Mexico and adja-cent islands. So by example, if you only had 10 days left on your original 90 days, and you went to Canada for five, you could only return to the US, for the remaining five days left.

Jules: Hmm. That’s no good. Let’s just say, I got a job offer. I’ve met tons of people so can I just change from Visa Waiver to a work visa in the US?

Ron: Your potential employer can submit a visa petition for you in the US, but you would still have to leave the US, and subsequently re-enter with your new visa after processing through the US Embassy.

Jules: So I can or can’t change to a work visa? These strawberries a great.

Ron: That’s the thing with the VWP. For the convenience of traveling or simply traveling on your UK passport, you can’t extend it, nor can you change status to a work permit

while in the US. I do agree however that these strawberries are really sweet.

Jules: Hypothetically, let’s just say that my visa waiver happened to expire five months ago. An issue you think?

Ron: Yes, in your fictional scenario that could pose a series of issues for you. First, a person who stays beyond the expiration date of their VWP has violated the terms of their VWP status and is out-of-status, but more importantly begins accruing unlawful presence in the US.

Jules: So you definitely think you’ll come to the party?

Ron: Absolutely. But, Jules pay attention: if you accrue 180 days of unlawful presence in the US, you will be barred from re-entering the US for three years once you do leave. If you accrue one full year, you will be barred from re-entering the US for 10 years. So you really need to avoid the 180 days period to avoid the automatic bar.

Jules: So, I’m cool up to the 180 days then?

Ron: No. Not cool at all. It’s possible that you could be detained and, or removed from the US. You’re a stylish gal and I can assure you that will not appreciate ICE’s orange one-piece from their year around collection.

Jules: Orange. That sounds hideous. Then I’ll leave right now, return next month for the party.

Ron: That’s possible, but not very likely. Because you violated the terms of the Visa Waiver Program by your overstay, you’ll have to apply for a B-1 visa at the US Embassy in London, and they likely won’t be persuaded by the fabulous reasons for your overstay, although it sounds like you’ve had a great trip, nor will the Embassy share your feel-ings regarding the critical necessity of you to attending the party, which I agree does really sound fun, but the point is, again that it is highly unlikely that you will be allowed to return so quickly based on what you’ve told me so you don’t count on it.

Jules: So you still think I should go?Ron: Yes, you should have left before the

expiration of VWP and now, it’s imperative that you avoid an automatic bar by being here unlawfully for 180 days which is apparently the date of the party. It’s important to note that when you travel on the convenience of Visa Waiver Program, you truly have no rights other than to come and visit for the purpose of traveling and then only up to 90 days.

Jules: No extension, no work permit, orange jumpsuit, this brunch has decidedly themed poor. Is there nothing that can be done? You must know someone.

Ron: With the singular possibility of you getting married to a US citizen and adjusting status through that process there is nothing that can be done in these VWP situations.

Jules: Oh fantastic, why didn’t you just say so?

Ron: What’s that?Jules: Don’t tell anyone, the party is

actually an engagement announcement. Jim and I are getting married, his family

owns the winery, it’s very exciting, but very hush-hush.

Ron: Oh, well congratulations first and foremost. That is an exceedingly important piece of information. Which winery? [10 minute winery discussion]

Jules: So Jim and I will see you Monday to discuss the marriage petition and that other important legal stuff you mentioned. So what now?

Ron: A mimosa Jules, a mimosa.Disclaimer: This ‘tongue-in-cheek’ article is not

intended as legal advice, but rather for entertain-ment purposes, and to remind our readers of the necessity of engaging immigration counsel to address their specific circumstances.

Government Backs Separation Of Banks

By Robert BarrTHE GOVERNMENT intends to force banks to separate their retail operations from their more volatile investment banking, and it is putting up for sale the fi rst bank nationalized during the credit crisis, the nation’s Treasury chief said last month.

George Osborne endorsed the principle of insulating retail banking from other bank activities, but said he was waiting for the final report of the Independent Commission on Banking to fl esh out the details.

The move is intended to help prevent a repeat of the fi nancial crisis of 2008 and to keep banks from becoming too big to be allowed to fail.

Even before Osborne spoke to a gather-ing of fi nancial executives, bank shares tumbled lower following reports of his decision.

“All banks should be allowed to fail safely without affecting vital banking ser-vices,” Osborne said, “without imposing costs on the taxpayer.”

SELLHe also announced that the government

is preparing to sell nationalized mortgage lender Northern Rock, the fi rst British casualty of the credit crisis.

The Independent Commission on Bank-ing, chaired by Sir John Vickers, a former chief economist of the Bank of England, has recommended a clear separation of retail and investment banking; details of

the commission’s proposal are expected in a fi nal report on September 12.

Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, had also advocated a break up of the big banks.

In his speech to the gathering, King did not comment on Osborne’s decision, but said taxpayers could not credibly continue to support a banking system with assets several times larger than Britain’s annual GDP.

DEPENDENCEBanks “cannot be allowed to benefi t

from an unsustainable dependence on the UK taxpayer. To allow that would be unfair to millions of people, not here tonight, who are now bearing the costs of the fi nancial crisis,” King said.

Bankers have been divided in their reac-tion to the proposals.

Stephen Hester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, recently told a parliamentary committee that ring-fencing could backfi re by creating “a protected beast that the government would support,” inadvertently encouraging excessive risk-taking on the retail side.

Hester added that the removal of im-plicit government support would also make other parts of the bank more exposed.

RBS and Barclays favor a limited ring-fencing which only covers retail deposits, while HSBC Chairman Douglas Flint recommended that the retail side should include some corporate deposits and loans.

‘Big Stink’ Over Blazing Cheese Truck SOMEONE will be getting a grilling about this. British fi remen fought fl ames when a truck carrying a cargo of cheese caught fi re on an English road.

The truck loaded with 24 tons of cheese caught fi re on a rural road in Somerset, southwest England.

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue service said that fi re spread rapidly through

the truck and set its consignment of cheese alight.

The fi re department believe that the blaze was caused by a fault with the vehicle.

Before it suffered the fi re – and cheesy meltdown – the driver had been headed for a mechanic to have a problem fi xed.

No one was reported hurt in the inci-dent.

Wad Of £20 Notes Flushed Down Toilet

FLUSHING a handful of 20-quid notes down his toilet made sense to a business-man after being told they were ‘fake’. Unfortunately, shortly after, the bank took back their judgement and declared the money as legal tender.

The man, who did not wish to be named, was among a number of businessman led to believe their cash was counterfeit on the Western Isles of Scotland. Bank staff became suspicious of £10 and £20 notes on the Isle of Lewis and a police inquiry was launched, reported STV.

The town’s banks and many local shops stopped accepting £10 and £20 notes and purchased ultra-violet scanners in a bid to catch the counterfeit notes. But the ‘fake’ notes have since been scrutinised by experts from the Serious Organised Crime Agency who pronounced them all absolutely genuine.

The businessman complained: “This is a right mess and it was caused by the RBS and Bank of Scotland.

“I tore up the £20 notes returned to me by the bank as fakes and I put them down the toilet to stop them getting back into circulation.”

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IRONIC THAT this month included a big lunar eclipse over Europe because Albert Square suddenly has more moons than Jupiter…

After the Alfie-Kat-Ronnie-Jack baby swap story hits the tabloids, a mysterious man is seen tearing it out of the paper, and turning up in Albert Square. Turns out he’s Eddie Moon, long lost father of Michael Moon, uncle to Alfie, and if you’ve been wondering why Michael Moon (living with Roxy but creepily obsessed with Ronnie) is so twisted, here’s the guy who can tell us why: Michael doesn’t speak to him and tells people he’s a murderer who killed his mum. Turns out what happened is he walked out on her, knowing she was unstable, leaving her with then six-year-old Michael, and while he was gone Michael witnessed her kill herself. So Michael wants nothing to do with him, but he seems to be charming most of the rest of the Square and Kat and Alfie invite him to stay at the Vic…

Elsewhere… Ricky is trying to get a temp job in Dubai to make some dough for his kids… Carol starts an odd flirtation with Ed-die… Max is continually foisting himself into the life of the newly remarried Tanya (much to the chagrin of Vanessa)… Another long lost father to reappear is Fatboy’s, who is homeless and starting trouble right off the bat: He dislikes Mercy, finds out her visa has expired and shops her to immigration. She gets a deportation notice, so to avoid losing her, Fatboy proposes marriage. He really loves her but is pretending he’s only doing it for the papers…Phil and Shirley continue to stumble along. He is staying sober but worried, she convinces him to start going to AA-type meetings anyway and who else should turn up to those meetings? Rainey: The woman who got him hooked on crack in the first place. She’s not doing so well with this whole sobriety thing and is trying to drag Phil back into the swamp with her. So far he’s resisting…

Across the Square Dr Evil continues his campaign of revenge against the Masoods,

but the only one who sees what he’s doing is the increasingly hapless Masood, who no one listens too because Dr Evil has been so successful at spinning lies and isolating him from his family. Everyone, including Zainab buys Evil’s act hook, line and sinker. Desperate, Masood enlists the help of Phil to try to drive Dr Evil away: They toss him in the car boot and take him to an abandoned warehouse where Masood is supposed to beat him up and threaten to set him on fire (just like Evil’s family did to Zainab years ago in Pakistan). But Masood is too good and so threats turn to talk and he gets Evil to agree to leave the Square and leave his family alone. But instead, after they part ways Evil beats himself up and runs to Zainab claiming it was Masood that did it. Zainab had been just about to take Masood back but now she tells him she’s done for good – and Tamwar even bans him from his and Afia’s fake wedding…

EastEnders very rarely casts known actors in the show, but the new character of Eddie Moon is played by 70’s glitter rocker, David Essex, who has lost most of his hair, but none of his charm.

If you are one of the MANY EastEndersfans impatiently waiting for the BBC to make it’s iPlayer service available in the US already (supposedly scheduled to happen before the end of the year), you will not be happy to hear about the latest news; that even when iPlayer does get here, the package of BBC programs available for pay-per-view download will NOT include EastEnders. Yeah, you heard that right. Makes iPlayer seem rather pointless, doesn’t it? We cannot understand why the BBC just doesn’t get it that, of all its shows, EastEnders has the biggest, most loyal audi-ence. Was Auntie just so traumatized by the outcry when BBCA cancelled EastEndersthat they are simply (stubbornly) refusing to sell their content to that audience? Can’t figure it out. All I know is, if the most recent reports are true, you’d better hope your other sources for EE hold out – Indefinitely!

If you’d like to keep up with all things EastEnders in between our little chats here, just sign up for my FREE, weekly EastEnders e-newsletter, The E20 Chronicles. To get thyself on my mailing list, just email me here at the Launderette: E20Launderette@gmail.com.

Signed, Deborah GilbertAKA E20Launderette

THERE’S A funny smell coming from under-neath Underworld. The drains are blocked and Carla’s not pleased. She blames Owen for shoddy refurbishment work and he rightly takes neither the blame nor the responsibility, he just tells Carla if she wants diagnostics done on her drains, it’ll cost her. Oh, it’s gonna cost her alright when she finds out just what’s causing that stench. It’s not something fishy, it’s a dead body by the name of Fishwick. Yes, Colin’s body is decomposing under the foundations, wrapped up in a bad carpet. Fiz is beside herself with grief when she finds husband John digging up the dead body of the man he killed some months ago. John’s flipped and gone completely stark staring mad. He’s taken three hostages and tied them up in a cellar and when it looks like he’s going to get caught out for killing Colin, Charlotte and Joy, his days look numbered. Ah, but that’s when he does a runner after he falls from the top of the hospital roof and poor wife Fiz gets arrested on suspicion of Colin’s murder.

Over at Roy’s Rolls, Hayley takes Roy by surprise and books him a holiday. Roy doesn’t like holidays, and he certainly doesn’t like last minute surprises, but Hayley ushers him out of the café, leaving Roy’s mum behind the counter to look after the place while they’re away.

At the Rovers, Becky goes ballistic when she finds out that Steve called Social Services to tell them that they’d bought little Max from Becky’s sister Kylie for twenty five thousand pounds. Tracy Barlow seizes on the tension between Steve and Becky to stick her oar in and get Steve on her side to look after little Amy between them. Becky loses control, inflamed with jealousy, and smashes the Barlow house up before going out on a bender, again. Deir-dre’s more than a little upset to find Becky’s smashed her Etruscan urn that she’s sculpted at pottery class and Corrie fans up and down the country breathed a sigh of relief that at least Becky didn’t take the sledgehammer to the framed photo of Corrie icon, Uncle Albert.

Sally gets a proposal from boyfriend Jeff after they spend a lovely weekend in la France. But Sally’s reply isn’t what Jeff was hoping for when she gives him a big, fat, ‘non’ when he

was expecting ‘oui’. Kevin wonders if Sally’s still got feelings for him when he finds out that she’s turned Jeff’s proposal down, but Sally’s just feeling sorry for Kevin having to look after little baby Jack all on his own.

Sunita’s aunties come to stay, which is bad news for the Alahans, as they try to pretend their reduced circumstances and small ter-raced house are temporary. But you can’t pull the wool over the aunties’ eyes, they find out what’s going on and are determined to make Dev and Sunita’s business their own business. These two aunties a couple of interfering old busy-bodies, and great fun to watch.

In the Kabin, Dennis Tanner’s been washed and spruced up by Rita and he’s on good form behind the counter helping out selling newspapers and bon-bons. Rita’s loving the company of an old mate, a blast from the past, Elsie Tanner’s son no less. But Norris’ nose has very firmly been put out of joint now he’s not the only man around the shop – and around Rita.

And finally this week, Graeme Proctor – love doctor – is torn between two women as he sleeps with his wife. Nothing wrong with that, you may think, but this is the pretend wife who he only married so she could get a visa to stay in the UK. The problem is that Graeme realises he’s falling in love with sham-wife Xin, which makes his girlfriend Tina, it is fair to say… Not Best Pleased.

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UK Considers Tougher Approach To

Foreign TakeoversBy Jane Wardell

WHAT DO Britain’s major airports, most of its utilities, the top drugstore chain, one of its biggest brewers and the maker of the nation’s favorite chocolate bar have in common? All are owned by foreign companies.

They have been snapped up in recent years in a rash of takeovers that is raising concerns about how much of this island nation has fallen to profi t-seeking investors from abroad.

While the United States and many European countries have strict regulations barring foreign control of many businesses, Britain has been largely content in the belief it has more to gain than lose from its relaxed takeover rules.

But last year’s controversial $21.4bn takeover by Kraft Foods Inc of 195-year-old Cadbury PLC, maker of the Dairy Milk bar, stirred up nationalist sentiment and prompted the government to consider a tightening of the legislation.

With its decision on a so-called Cadbury Law due in just a few weeks, debate is rag-ing about whether Britain should become more protectionist.

Among the foreign owners are Spanish infrastructure fi rm Ferrovial, which bought Heathrow Airport owner BAA in 2006 for £10.3bn, while French utility EDF acquired British Energy in 2008.

Car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, meanwhile, is on its third foreign owner, Tata Motors of India.

A major concern is that foreign owner-ship can have a big impact on jobs.

Last year’s Cadbury-Kraft deal ap-peared to bear out such worries. Both lawmakers and the public were outraged when the US company reneged on a pledge to keep open a British chocolate factory, switching production to Switzerland in-stead to reduce its tax bill.

And regardless of how far the govern-ment takes the Cadbury Law, just about everybody agrees that keeping Britain competitive in areas like skills, infrastruc-ture and tax is the only way to ensure a level playing fi eld for both foreign and local buyers.

Transportation To London Olympic Park Completed

LONDON 2012 offi cials say construction on public transportation to the Olympic Park site has been completed, more than a year ahead of the Summer Games.

The Olympic Delivery Authority says the work was completed at Stratford Sta-tion, which is the main transportation hub for visitors to the Olympic Park.

About $10.6m is being spent on Brit-ain’s transportation for the Olympics. Ten rail routes including the high-speed Javelin, Eurostar and Docklands Light Railway will serve Stratford.

“Thanks to the Games and the massive settlement we’ve secured from central gov-ernment, London is seeing a neo-Victorian age of investment in its transport infra-structure,” said Mayor Boris Johnson.

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‘A Bloody Amoeba’PRINCE PHILIP turned 90 in June.

It was not exactly a state occasion – the next one of those will come in a year’s time when the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Eliza-beth’s accession to the throne is celebrated – but it is still an event to celebrate.

There is a temptation to assume that since he is the Queen’s consort, at 59 years the longest serving one in British history, that he is also a commoner like Diana Spencer and Katherine Middleton. Nothing could be further from the truth.

A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein, the Danish/German nobs, Philip was born into the Greek Royal family. His dad was Prince Andrew of Denmark and Greece, brother to King Constantine who had the misfortune to be overthrown in the early 1920s. The revolutionary council responsible passed a law exiling Andrew and his family in perpetuity, forcing Philip and his four sisters to flee to France, the infant Philip being conveyed in a fruit box serving as a makeshift cot.

He attended a variety of schools up to the outbreak of World War II, including Cheam and Gordonstoun, Kurt Hahn’s brainchild run on the lines of his Jewish school in Germany which Philip attended and whose bracing outdoor ethos appealed to him.

He joined the Royal Navy in 1939 and graduated through the Dartmouth Royal Naval College, of which more in the next paragraph, as the top cadet in his intake. War service took him around the world and he was mentioned in despatches in the Battle of Crete where he saved his ship from a night bomber attack. He devised a scheme whereby he set smoking rafts afloat from the ship, thereby sufficiently distracting the enemy bombers to allow his ship to slip away.

He had met his bride-to-be when he del-egated to escort the Royal sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret, on a tour of Dartmouth, and seven years later the relationship had ma-tured. George VI agreed to their engagement provided that the announcement was delayed until Elizabeth reached 21 in June 1947.

Philip meanwhile renounced his Greek and Danish royal titles, as well as his allegiance to the Greek crown. He converted from Greek Orthodoxy to C of E and became a naturalised British subject. He also adopted the surname, Mountbatten, from his mother’s family. He was a bit miffed that for the next dozen years his wife and children were not allowed to take the Mountbatten name, being styled the House of Windsor.

He said privately at the time, “I am nothing but a bloody amoeba. I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children.” Queen Mary, the Queen’s grandmother, and Winston Churchill were Philip’s opponents and it wasn’t until 1960, when Mary was long gone and Churchill had retired that the omission was rectified and our royal house became that of Windsor and Mountbatten.

Their wedding took place on November 20, 1947, an early splash of splendour in the gloomy postwar years. On February 6, 1952, George VI died when Elizabeth and Philip were in Kenya on vacation – and the rest is history.

Prince Philip is one of the hardest-working of the royal family, his record of hard work these days being exceeded only by Princess Anne. He is a notoriously spiky character, an archetypical grumpy old man whose frequent witty observations often fail to find their mark and stamp him out as one of the last bastions of the anti-political correctness brigade.

Once in addressing the General Dental Council, he put his finger on his weakness: “Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practised for a good many years.”

He has a particular knack of offending women. Of his daughter, Princess Anne, he remarked, ‘If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she isn’t interested’.

A random selection of his sexist com-ments and their contexts here may illustrate the problem more fully:

“British women can’t cook.” (Scottish

Women’s Institute, 1961)

“You ARE a wom-an, aren’t you?” (Ac-cepting a gift from a woman in Kenya, 1984)

“Ah, so this is the feminist corner then.” (To a group of women Labour MPs wearing name badges reading ‘Ms’, 2000)

“Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?” (To wheel-chair bound Susan Edwards and her guide dog, 2002)

He has a distinctly sceptical view of any handicap:

“Do people trip over you?” (A nursing home resident in a wheelchair, 2002)

“We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time someone let off a gun, asking,” “Are you all right? Are you sure you don’t have a ghastly problem? You just got on with it!’ (Discussing counselling for servicemen in a TV documentary, 1995)

“So who’s on drugs here?...HE looks as if he is on drugs.” (Indicating a 14-year-old at a youth club, 2002)

His views on race are decidedly mediaeval:

“Do you still throw spears at each other?” (To aboriginal leader William Brin, Queensland, 2002)

“It looks as though it was put in by an Indian.” (Of a fuse box in a Scottish factory. He later clarified: “I meant to say cowboys. I just got my cowboys and Indians mixed up.” 1999)

“It looks the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her art lessons” (Commenting on Ethiopian art. 1965)

He is particularly partial to the Scots:“In education, if in nothing else, the Scots-

man knows what is best for him. Indeed, only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.” (Said when he was elected Chan-cellor of Edinburgh University. 1953)

“That’s a nice tie...Do you have any knick-

ers in that material?” (Discussing a tartan designed for the Papal visit with the Scots Tory leader Annabel Goldie. 2010)

“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” (To a Scottish driving instructor. 1995)

Anyway who could dislike a man who could say to Tom Jones after the Royal Variety Performance, 1969, “What do you gargle with – pebbles?” Next day he added, “It is very difficult to see how it is possible to become immensely valuable by singing what I think are the most hideous songs.”

Philip is worshipped as a god in Vanuatu as the pale-skinned son of a mountain spirit and the brother of John Frum. According to ancient tales the son travelled over the seas to a distant land, married a powerful lady and would in time return with copious gifts. The villagers had observed the respect accorded to Queen Elizabeth II by colonial officials and came to the conclusion that

her husband, Prince Philip, must be the son from their legend.

David Attenborough in a distant TV docu-mentary got the best description of John Frum from one of his devotees: “’E look like you. ’E got white face. ’E tall man. ’E live long South America.”

Three out of four isn’t bad though!john.polley1@ntlworld.com

Do You, Or Don’t You, Want To Join The Initiative?

IN APRIL I wrote about the requirement to fi le reports of foreign bank accounts with the US Treasury by June 30 each year. From the response I received, this has obviously hit a cord with many people.

What I didn’t mention then was the cur-rent initiative by the IRS to bring people into compliance with the FBAR require-ments. Why not? Well firstly, I have a limited number of words in order to fi ll my “space” and there was quite enough to say already! Secondly, it is diffi cult to write about an “IRS initiative” without it sound-ing downright scary! But many people who have looked into fi ling the FBAR, maybe for the fi rst time despite having been here for many years, have seen the mention of the 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative (to give it the full title!) and have become very worried.

The Initiative requires people who have not previously fi led FBARs, now fi le for all years from 2003 to 2010 inclusive, including amended tax returns if they have not declared income arising overseas. The procedure is generally the same, no matter how much money you have kept off-shore or the history behind the accounts. Whilst the original intended target is those Ameri-cans who have knowingly transferred mon-ies out of the US or made sure substantial sums never came to the US, like many initiatives it includes many people beyond this group.

The IRS information about the initiative made no distinction between people, I think the position of people who come from else-where and retain banking and investment links with their country of origin are very different. But the IRS are claiming a penalty equal to 25 percent of the highest annual

balance in overseas accounts, so what I think about it could turn out to be interest-ing, but not very helpful. (I also would like to see foreign governments making the point to the US Treasury about the initiative “catching” people it was never intended for, but we wait in vain on that one!)

This was the position when I wrote in April. The choice lay between a 25 percent fi xed penalty or continuing to be non-compliant. I think (in general) British people like to stay on the right side of the rules (especially over here!); not that we’re angels, but we’re not devils either!

At the beginning of June, the IRS issued new information about the initiative. It is now possible to opt-out of the initiative if you feel your circumstances are such that a 25 percent penalty is unreasonable. On one level, that’s just about everybody who will be fi ling! But it is a huge conces-sion on the part of the IRS that there are people for whom the 25 percent penalty is inappropriate. They went even further, and gave examples for which it would be suitable to claim no penalty at all. These examples had a common thread of Ameri-cans living overseas and meeting all their local tax requirements. Although these are people who may have thought they had left the US tax system, rather than those who joined it from overseas, it is encouraging to have more options within the initiative. Everything has to be fi led by August 31 under the initiative, unless an extension is requested and granted.

I hope this convinces some people that joining the initiative will be a better choice than hoping never to be discovered!

Mary-Heather Styles loves working with tax problems and the people who have them. She is more approachable than the IRS! She can be contacted at mhstyles@transatlantictax.com or (602) 995-5007.

Probe Into Welsh Refinery Blast Which Killed FourAUTHORITIES are investigating an explosion which killed four workers and injured another at a crude oil refi nery in southwestern Wales.

Fire offi cials said last month that the fi re at the Chevron refi nery in Pembroke was extinguished quickly, and that they were confident there was no threat to public health.

Two government agencies, Environ-

ment Agency Wales and the Health and Safety Executive, are leading the investiga-tion, along with police.

The blast sent thick black smoke pouring from a storage tank which was undergoing maintenance. A nearby tank was also damaged.

Chevron said four contract workers were killed. Their names were not im-mediately released.

ELAINE DAVIDSON, the most pierced woman in the world, was married in Edin-burgh last month.

Davidson, who has nearly 7,000 piercings, married Doug-las Watson, a retired civil ser-vant, in a low-key ceremony/reception.

Brazilian-born Davidson, 46, wore a fl owing white wed-ding gown and fl oral tiara with only her face visible, which was painted green and covered in 192 piercings.

By contrast, her husband, who is in his 60s, was conservatively-dressed in a simple navy suit, a sky-blue shirt and a Marks and Spencer tie.

Bespectacled Watson, who has no pierc-ings or tattoos, clutched his bride’s hand as they walked out of the central Register Offi ce in front of stunned onlookers.

The couple, who live in Edinburgh, where she operates an aromatherapy shop called Tropical Rainbow, happily posed

for photographs before heading off for a reception at a local city cafe.

The groom said: “Elaine looked astonish-ing,” he said after the 35 minute ceremony. “People see the piercings but I see the amazing personality underneath. We have known each other for a long time. We met in a coffee shop in Glasgow 15 years ago and got chatting. We connected straight away and have been together ever since.”

She added: “If he did not like tattoos and piercings he would not be the one for me. I feel very happy.”

‘Piercing’ Wedding Day For Record Holder

Elaine Davidson with her husband Douglas.

Police Find ‘Crocs Home’ In LondonLONDON police found four rare crocodiles in the spare bedroom of a suburban house.

The dangerous reptiles were found by chance by police offi cers at a semi-detached house in Croydon.

The offi cers, who were there on an unrelated matter, called in wildlife of-fi cials who had the West African dwarf crocodiles seized, reported the Croydon Guardian.

Rob Quest, manager of the London Animal Health Service, said: “We were very surprised to get the phone call and to discover there were West African Dwarf Crocodiles.

“We have collected caiman crocodiles

before, which come from South Amer-ica, but they are in trade whereas the African dwarf crocodiles are protected and are much harder to get hold of.

“I wouldn’t even begin to guess how they got into the country. Because of their size they will not kill a man but they are capable of a nasty bite.

“They have a twisting action when they bite down on something so could take big chunks of fl esh out of you and a reasonable-sized dwarf crocodile could have your arm off.”

The owner of the protected animals did not have a licence for them and is expected to be charged under the Dan-gerous Wild Animals Act 1976.

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Contact Leo and Karen at PO Box 5691 Oxnard, CA 93031 or leolewis12@yahoo.com

Karen’s California Events Calendar

PETER ASHER, of Peter & Gordon fame, True Love Ways and World Without Love, gave us an amazing concert plus a trip down memory lane at a recent concert at The Canyon Club in Agoura Hills. Using a split screen, Peter sang and played guitar with his former singing part-ner, Gordon Waller, who died recently. Not only was it moving, between songs he gave us an insight into the early days of folk, rock and roll, and how it sort of came together. I say sort of, because no one really knew where it was going on or how long it would last. Fashion was changing and the mini skirt was in vogue, much to our delight!

But the pioneers, including Peter who has always been as much a producer as an artist, discovered Mary Hopkin (Those Were the Days), signed Twiggy, worked with Andrew Oldham, Marianne Faithful, The Stones, The Everly Bros, James Taylor, Bad Finger, Jeff Ross, and Carol King, among the many. He

took charge of the A&R development at form-ing Apple Records for The Beatles.

Still bringing the British Community together, the Canyon Club was packed with Brits including former Consul General Bob Peirce and his wife Sharon Harroun Peirce, and Sir Ken Robinson, amongst others, all hanging onto every word he said. Karen and I actually were able to see one of the final performances of Peter & Gordon, held at the Residency. Thanks again for a memorable performance. Peter, isn’t it time to write that book?

In Devon, an arson attack in Torquay has destroyed some of the country’s rarest and most priceless costumes, including redcoat uniforms some over 100-years-old, ward-robes from The Kings Speech, and the BBC’s Downtown Abbey. 50 firefighters battled in vain to control the blaze at 3:30am in what was the second largest costume outfitters in the UK, started from scratch by 76-year-old Lionel Digby some 50 years ago. It’s been a lifelong labor of love and a passion for Lionel and awfully sad, not only the priceless costumes are lost, but your life’s work. I’ve known and been a friend of Lionel since he first brought rock shows to Devon and Corn-wall in its hay day, but he decided to have a more secure income renting costumes and it just grew from there, with a lot of hard work. A 28-year-old man has been arrested and charged with six offenses including arson.

Another rather disturbing story (covered in April UJ) is that of 24-year-old Rebecca Corium (Chester), who went missing while working on board a Disney cruise ship, the Disney Wonder, on its way to Puerta Val-larta on the Mexican Riviera when she failed to show up for her shift as a youth activity councilor one morning. Her last known con-tact with anyone on board was a fellow crew member at 5:45am when he found her crying after an inter-ship phone call. He asked if she was OK? And she nodded yes.

That was recorded on the ships security video, then, nothing more. Rebecca’s parents were notified and flown out to meet the ship on its return to San Pedro, California. By the

time her parents arrived to pick up her per-sonal possessions a new set of passengers were on board and ready to leave for their cruise which gave them very little time to ask questions. Did she go overboard or was it foul play on the high seas? We simply don’t know enough. But it is about a fun loving adventurous young British lass and surely it’s up to us to ask questions for her family, since we’re here and they are back in Chester and there just aren’t enough answers. We hope Disney is seeking a full independent inquiry and another look at all the footage.

In the meantime you can help by visiting the website set up by Rebecca’s parents Mike and Anne Corium: http://www.cruise-lawnews.com/tags/rebecca-coriam/ where the investigation news is updated. If you know something about Rebecca’s disappearance, please contact the family using the informa-tion below:

Coriam Family: 011-44-7747359968, Media Spokesman: 011- 44-7932815970, Rebecca-Coriam.com or Email: help@rebecca-coriam.com

It used to be Britain owed the US millions of dollars after WWII. Now Britain it seems, is America’s third largest creditor, holding some $272bn in US Treasury bonds, behind China and Japan. Nice to know someone has faith in our economic future!

A surprise happy birthday event for UJcolumnist Car Man Phil, arranged by wife Pat and daughter Eliana, was held at Ye Olde King’s Head in Santa Monica. Longtime friend and best man at our wedding, Phil’s another fun Brit who spent his youth driving Land Rovers across Europe, Afghanistan, through the Khyber Pass and on to India.

Phil has spent most free time as an adven-turer and aircraft designer, working all over the world from Germany, Holland, France, and Canada before settling in SoCal. His

biggest claim to fame is his daughter Eli (me Uncle). The King’s Head was fun and busy as ever. Always good to see old friends like manager John Gordon and Guido, who are both in their 26th year there, still all smiles and a big welcome on your arrival.

Met up with another favorite Brit, Ranbir Shergill, president of Ventura Fusion Soccer Team and former Arsenal soccer star Bob McNabb of Huddersfield at a recent match. Bob was part of the English Premier League Championship who has played alongside such greats as Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore. Bob now resides in Agoura Hills.

Ranbir’s team is doing extremely well and are welcoming a ‘Friendly’ with West Brom-wich who will be visiting the US for a training camp, playing the Fusion July 17, 3pm at Oxnard College www.vcfusion.com

A really exciting game that’s not to be missed is July 24 when the LA Galaxy play Manchester City, (see ad). This promises to be a fun and challenging game pitting the best players that Man City have to offer against top notch players like David Beckham and Landon Donovan.

We’re now getting all excited for the upcom-ing visit of the Royals, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate. We hope to bring you lots of photos and a story!

July Birthdays: the late Princess Diana 49; Deborah Harry 56; Geoffrey Rush 59; John Paul Jones 263; Ringo Starr 70; Patrick Stewart 70; Mark Burnett 50; Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker Bowles 63: Diana Rigg 72; Daniel Radcliffe 21; Kate Beckinsale 37; Roger Taylor (Queen) 61; Helen Mirren 65; Mick Jagger 67; Maureen McGovern 61; Beatrix Potter 144; JK Rowl-ing 45; and Peter Asher 69.

Peter Asher performing with video of Gordon Waller on split-screen at The Canyon Club. Photo: Leo Lewis.

Karen Lewis, the staff of the Kings Head: Reinaldo, Debbie, Julie, Ashley, Catherine, and Leo Lewis with John Gordon and Car Man Phil

at Phil’s birthday bash!

July1, 8, 15, 23, 31: British & Dominion Club of

Garden Grove has Dart Night July 1; Pub Quiz July 8; a fabulous Fish and Chip Night July 15; their 1st Annual Pub Crawl July 23, with limited seating; and Roast Dinner July 31 (714) 898-6733.

You Say Tomato in San Francisco is your one-stop shop for all your favorite sweets, jams, Heinz beans, salad cream, meat pies, and a natter with David (415) 921-2828.

4: Kings Head in Santa Monica offers Happy Hour 4-7 pm Monday thru Friday. Celebrate July 4th weekend in the cool Pub. Royal Memorabilia in stock for the Royal visit. Join them for Afternoon Tea (310) 451-1402.

6: English Afternoon Tea at Plaza Pantry in Ojai 1:30-3:30 Beryl (805) 646-6325.

The British Connection in Torrance, Ca has opened a sister store in Gig Harbor, Wa at 3200 Tarabochia St (253) 509-0474. Google ‘British Connection Gig Harbor’ and read the nice article about Neil Bennett and the new English shop www.thebritishconnection.com

Through 24: Funny Money, A Madcap Farceof the British Persuasion, by Ray Cooney at Elite Theatre Company in Ventura (805) 483-5118.

10: Trans Oceanic presents a Royal Weddings Tea 2pm at Crown Plaza Hotel in San Pedro discussing royal weddings from Queen Victoria to present, with silent auction, and lavish buffet (310) 521-0175.

The Lookout Pub in Channel Islands Harbor has good food, plenty of Ale, and a fabulous patio for a lazy meal while listening to your favorite band (805) 985-9300.

9-10: Southern California Pirate Festival at Woodley Park 6530 Woodley Ave Van Nuys www.RosesandDaggersProductions.com

9, 23: Mayflower Club of N Hollywood holds their Pot Luck Games night July 9; Dueling Piano’s+ Two July 23; and Clubnite with Chandler Station Band July (818) 769-9805.

17: Ventura Fusion vs West Brom, 3pm at Oxnard College www.venturafusion.com

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– Clifton FadimanCHEESE HAS to be one of my favourite of foods. I love it in any form. Any time, any where! I always enjoy sampling local cheeses when traveling, and what could be more comforting when a bit peckish than a cheese ‘sarnie’or ‘butty’ (depending what part of the UK you are from, and I can use both as my Dad was from Manchester and my Mum Hitchin!) Or of course a Ploughman’s lunch in a country pub with a pint of cider (real cider not just apple juice as it is here!) where the relish and pickled onion used to be the landladies’ own; however I still enjoy the commercial Branston’s pickle.

Cheese goes back so far in history, and it wasn’t really until around the Regency times that different types of cheeses evolved from regional areas, as travel became more accessible. The most well known British one I think is Cheddar cheese, followed by Gloucester and Stilton. European cheeses also are in favour, Italian parmesan, Dutch Edam etc. I think one of the most divine soft cheeses I ever had was from a market stall on a brief visit to France, and our hosts recommendation we shared the cost (wasn’t cheap) and we save until we got back to England via the Chunnel. We had it later that evening with other market items, but how we raved over that cheese…made us want to go all the way back to get some more!! I hope the British custom of a cheese plate after a good meal is still in effect, I still do that sometimes.

I missed the British cheeses a lot when I came over, but as we were in Wisconsin which is a dairy state, was fortunate to be able to get some really good cheeses. Not so when we moved to Florida though, just

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Cheese and Onion Tart1 cup all purpose flour1 tsp of Colman’s dry English mustard1/4 cup butter1 egg yolk2 Tbsp milk1Tbsp olive oil1 Red Onion, peeled and finely sliced8 oz cream cheese1/2 cup heavy whipping cream4 eggssalt and pepper1/2 tsp grated nutmeg1 cup sharp cheddar cheese1/4 cup parmesan cheesePreheat oven to 400F. Place flour,

mustard, butter in food processor. Pulse a few times. Add the egg yolk and milk and process until pastry forms a ball. Roll out on floured surface and line a lightly greased 10 inch flan case. Prick all over with fork, line with foil and add baking beans to weigh down, and bake about 10 minutes. Remove foil and beans, lower temperature to 350F, and bake a further five minutes.

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TWO YOUNG BOYS were disciplined for playing soldiers at school last month, caus-ing parents to criticise school policy.

Teachers at Nathaniel Newton Infant School in Nuneaton reprimanded the two boys after they were seen making pistol shapes with their fi ngers.

The school, which caters for around 180 pupils aged four to seven, said the gun gestures were “unacceptable” and were not permitted at school.

However, parents have described the reaction as “outrageous”, while family groups warned that “wrapping children in cotton wool” damages their upbringing.

Defending its policy, a spokesman for Nathaniel Newton Infant School said: “Far from stopping children from playing we actively encourage it.

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made if playing turns into unacceptable behaviour.

“The issue here was about hand gestures being made in the shape of a gun towards members of staff which is understand-ably unacceptable, particularly in the classroom.”

But the father of one of the boys said: “It’s ridiculous. How can you tell a seven-year-old boy he cannot play guns and armies with his friends. Parenting groups condemned the school’s reaction to the children’s game of soldiers, warning that it risked causing a rift between the school and parents.

Margaret Morrissey, founder of the fam-ily lobby group Parents Outloud, said: “It is madness to try to indoctrinate children aged seven with political correctness in this way.”

HANDSHAKES, high-fi ves and hugs are all banned under a school’s new rules.

Governors imposed a ‘no contact’ rule which they say prevents fi ghting or bully-ing, reported The Sun.

Dayna Chong, 15, was thrown into detention for cuddling a female pal at The Quest Academy, in Croydon, South London.

Her mother, Anita, 33, from New Add-ington, said the policy was “extreme” and “ludicrous”.

She said: “If the kids can’t even hug each other at school some of them will never learn how to be socially interactive. You need an embrace to comfort you when things go wrong. I’ve never heard of anything so crazy in my life.”

Year Ten pupil Dayna said: “I was just hugging my friend in the morning to say hello and I had to sit on my own and miss out on break because of it.”

Sarah Hope’s 15-year-old daughter

got into trouble for giving a friend a high-fi ve.

She said: “It’s a very, very cold policy. I think it’s sad that the children are missing out on this sort of closeness.”

A Quest Academy spokesman said: “Physical contact between students is not allowed because it is often associated with poor behaviour or bullying and can lead to fi ghting.”

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UK To Repay Kenya For Stolen School Funds

KENYAN activists are demanding the arrest of the education minister over rev-elations that $45m donated for elementary education was stolen. The activists last month locked themselves in the minister’s offi ces.

The UK, a major donor to Kenya, told the government last month that the portion of stolen funds that Britain donated must be repaid. Britain said it would not give the Kenyan government any more money until it improves its integrity and fi nancial management.

A Kenyan government audit last month found that $45m in education funding had been stolen, far above the $1m a 2009 audit found had been stolen.

No Kenyan leaders have yet taken responsibility for the scandal.

Police Arrest Two Men Near Home Of

Singer Joss StonePOLICE have arrested two men on suspi-cion of conspiracy to rob and murder near the rural home of singer Joss Stone.

Devon and Cornwall Police say the men aged 30 and 33-years old were arrested last month near Stone’s house in Cullompton, southwest England after residents reported a suspicious-looking vehicle.

Detective Inspector Steve Parker said the men “had in their possession infor-mation relating to an individual in the Cullompton area and items which lead us to suspect that they may have intended to commit a criminal offense.”

The force would not confi rm a report in The Sun newspaper that the men had swords, rope and a body bag, as well as maps and aerial photos of Stone’s secluded property.

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By Raphael G SatterA CLOSE friend of the Prime Minister was found dead in a portable toilet at one of the country’s leading music festivals Sunday, authorities said.

Christopher Shale died in unexplained circumstances in the VIP area of the Glastonbury Festival, an entertainment extravaganza that’s one of the fi xtures of Britain’s music calendar.

Shale, who was in his 50s, chaired the Conservative Association in David Cameron’s West Oxfordshire constitu-ency, and in a statement Cameron said he and his wife Samantha were devastated by the news.

“He was a great friend and has been a huge support over the last decade,” Cameron said. “A big rock in my life has suddenly been rolled away ... like so many others Sam and I have lost a close and valued friend.”

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I WONDER how many of you know the differ-ence between a Bull and an Ox?

I confess I didn’t until I looked it up. An Ox is the subgenus of the Bovine whereas the Bull is the genus, subgenus by the way is just below the genus in biological classification ranking but ranks above a species.

Still confused? I’m an expert on the subject now so I’ll simplify it. The Bull which is superior in stock is used only for breeding purposes, that is, until the age of four when they are usu-ally slaughtered, poor devils. In contrast the Ox which is much bigger than a Bull doesn’t begin his useful life until the age of four by which time he is big and strong enough to pull heavy loads for the purpose of which he is bred. It is not exactly a rosy life either for the Ox, except for a few stock selected for breeding the majority are normally castrated at birth.

Why am I giving you this biology lesson? The emblem of the Morris car badge depicts an Ox, not a Bull as many people outside of the relevant Morris city have incor-rectly assumed, and the wavy lines beneath the Ox is water, a ford in fact at the river Thames. Hence the given name Oxford. The Ox crossing the ford can also be found on the City of Oxford coat of arms.

William Morris was born in 1877 in the Corner Gardens area of Worcester, when he was three years old his family moved to 16, James Street, Oxford. Upon leaving school at the age of fifteen, Morris was apprenticed to a local bicycle-seller and repairer. Nine months later, aged 16, like so many pioneers of the motor car business he set up a business re-pairing bicycles. He initially started in the family home but as the business became a success he opened a shop at 48 High Street and began manufacturing as well as repairing bicycles. In 1901, he began to work with motorcycles, designing the Morris Motor Cycle, and in 1902 acquired a garage in Longwall Street from which he sold, repaired and hired cars.

In 1912 he designed a car, the possibly incorrect name of the car became known as the ‘Bullnose’ Morris, the real name William Morris gave the car was of course the Morris Oxford. He began manufacture of his new car in a disused military training college in Cowley, Oxford; production was short lived however as a brief time later Britain saw the outbreak of World War One and the factory was given over for the productions of munitions.

In 1919 motor car production recom-menced and Morris was able to produce about 400 cars in that year. A larger car was added and staying true to his local heritage Morris named this larger car the Morris Cowley and then an updated version of the Oxford was added which was an up-market version of the Cowley, by 1926 and with several body style changes production of these motor cars increased to about 56,000. Up until 1926 whether it was an Oxford or a Cowley these cars all were known as the Bullnose Morris.

It was the radiator that gave the cars the name, not the Bull, or I should write the Ox. The shape of the radiator top was round¸ bull or bullet nosed, it mattered not that the emblem affixed to the radiator grille had a subgenus version of the bull on it, it was the shape of

the grille which gave the cars their moniker. The radiator grille is the one piece of a car that gives it recognition, it is a sort of signature of the marquee, this is especially true on British and European cars. There was no mistaking the look of this motor car with the Bullnose radiator grille in the 1920’s. The vehicle was iconic and there were a lot of them around, in fact they dominated the British motoring scene during that era – by 1925 Morris cars had 45 percent of the British market. The Bullnose deserved this share because it offered better value for money than the competition.

It was not just a matter of price, the Morris demanded respect because its combination of brisk performance with lack of temperament and unfailing reliability. It was a sprightlier performer than more expensive rivals in the 12-14 horse power class, such as the Austin or the Humber.

As evolution sometimes demands, in 1926 the Bull’s look was about to change. Morris decided on a different style of radiator grille for his cars to give them a more modern Edward-ian appearance, they became known as the Flatnose Morris. The other main purpose of the redesign was to make the cooling more efficient and combine the more up-to-date appearance with a chassis that was better able both to carry saloon bodywork and to withstand climate conditions. Sensibly though, the Flatnose retained, with only minor modifications, nearly all the major, well proven, mechanical components of the Bullnose. Staying in place were the engine, gearbox, and axles.

The Flatnose lasted until 1933 and was replaced by a Stubnose and then a modern more integrated grille was introduced for the 1948 Morris Oxford. This grille design which was also used on the Morris Minor. The design

Bullnose Morris Oxford.lasted the longest, and was used on several Oxford models until 1960. From then on the signature grilling on the Oxfords gave way to generic looking features that melded into the differing bodywork styling which made instant recognition of the marquee more difficult than before. But, the Oxford still retained its flagship status of the Morris motor car brand as it did throughout its existence.

In 1952 Morris and Austin merged to be-come British Motor Corporation (BMC) , the Oxford III was the current model at that time and a competing Austin model was introduced, a sort of university challenge if you like, it was the Austin Cambridge. The last Morris Oxford rolled out of the gates at Cowley in 1971 mak-ing it the longest running car model in Britain, a total of 59 years – but that was not the end for this Morris flagship model.

In 1948 Hindustan Motors in India under license from Morris began importing parts from Cowley and producing the Morris Oxford III. When the series III days came to an end in 1957 all the tooling for this car was transferred to India for continued production. The car was renamed the Ambassador, and series produc-tion of this car began again, and they are still making them today in India, and selling them in great numbers. Despite its British origins, the Ambassador is considered as a definitive Indian car now and is fondly called “The king of Indian roads”.

A couple of British importers have tried re-introducing the Hindustan Ambassador to Britain with one of these importers fitting the cars in original Morris Oxford III livery. If you look it up historians will tell you that the longest running car model is the Volkswagen Beetle but they could be ‘full of Bull’, the Oxford is 99-years-old now and still going strong.

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DNA Mix-Up Causes Carpenter’s ArrestFORENSIC OFFICERS incorrectly arrested a carpenter last month when his DNA was found on a door he’d repaired.

Jason Gaspard had earlier fixed a door that had been smashed by a burglar and was then wrongly arrested when forensics mistook his DNA for the thief’s.

Gaspard, 40, had cut himself on glass while at the property and offi cers found his blood the next day, reported The Mirror. He was called to the police station and thrown in a cell for an hour before offi cers realised the mistake.

Gaspard, of Hove, East Sussex, criticised officers, accusing them of heavy-handedness and failing to be sincere in their apology to him.

“Stupid isn’t the word – this was

ridiculous,” he said. It was absolutely mad. I kept thinking what could all this be about. I was particularly miffed because I had left a lady without water while I went to see the police about it all.”

The unlucky Gaspard said he may now seek legal advice over the actions of Sussex Police.

A Sussex Police spokesman said: “Unknown to offi cers, the man cut his fi nger at the scene of the crime and as a result he was arrested by appointment on suspicion of burglary.

“After a short time in custody the man was eliminated from police inqui-ries and immediately released. Sussex Police apologise for any inconvenience caused to the man as a result of his arrest.”

BA Apologises For Refusing Travel To Down Syndrome Girl

BRITISH AIRWAYS staff refused a seat on a fl ight from London’s Gatwick Airport to Glasgow, based on the passenger being a 12-year-old Down Syndrome girl.

Airline telephone staff refused to sell a plane ticket to Alice Saunders for an unac-companied trip from London’s Gatwick Airport to Glasgow. Her mother, Heather Saunders, was told it was company policy to not accept young passengers with Down Syndrome fl ying alone.

“I explained I wanted her to travel as an unaccompanied minor, she was 12-years-old, she had Down Syndrome and was very independent,” she told the Daily Mail.

However, according to the mother, the customer service agent said company policy would not allow it because of prob-lems incurred in the past.

Saunders added that, according to the representative, had she not told the airline about Alice at the time of booking, she would have been turned away at the gate.

But, according to a British Airways spokesperson, it is not against company policy allow those with Down Syndrome to fly alone. “We will carry any child over fi ve years old as an unaccompanied minor provided they can go to the toilet unassisted, feed themselves, and behave in a socially acceptable manner,” she told the Daily Mail.

This includes Down Syndrome pas-sengers.

The spokesperson added that the airline “apologises unreservedly” to the Saunders and has offered the Saunders’ two return tickets.

Angry Local Man Silences Church Bells CHURCH BELLS to many conjure up many emotions, mostly positive. But, one unidentifi ed man near Ripon in North Yorkshire doesn’t share pleasant feelings when he hears the local church bells. So, after a three-hour peeling of bells, he took things into his own hands, he fi rst scaled the steps inside St John the Divine Church in Sharow, popped his head through a trap door, and gave the bellringers a good-old mouthful. But, not fi nished, the man then slammed the trapdoor shut on his way down, trapping the unhappy ropepullers.

His victims, a six-strong group of expert bellringers from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, were trapped for half an hour before pa-rishioner Sandra Price heard them stamp-ing on the fl oor and set them free.

She said: “The ringers were relieved to see me. They said they’d been about two thirds of the way through their peal when a man appeared, shouting and swearing.

ANGULAR“All they could tell me was that he

was between 60 and 70, was thin, had an angular face and was wearing a green and white check shirt.”

Villagers are now wondering whether he the same man who waged a hate campaign against local bellringers a few years ago.

Peter Triffi tt added: “We know there’s a history of somebody complaining about the bell-ringing here, so I’m wondering whether it’s the same person.

“If that’s true, last week he’d have heard the ringing on Tuesday, then Wednes-day and then the full three-hour peal on Sunday.”

A spokesman for North Yorkshire Po-lice confi rmed that a complaint had been lodged about the incident.

Overweight Roland Could Be UK’s Next Top ModelBRITAIN’S next top male model could be an overweight, ginger-haired student who is currently in first place in a poll contest.

Roland Bunce, 24, entered the Make Me The Next Model contest with the dream of launching a catwalk career. Immediately, thousands of people began voting for him putting him at the top of the voting chart, reported The Sun.

Fans are using Facebook and Twitter to “break the conventional beauty barrier”.

Bunce is now way out in front of hun-dreds of other hopefuls with more custom-ary good looks.

He stands to scoop a £2,000 shopping

spree at fashion chain Next, a photoshoot and an introduction to top modelling agency Storm if he wins.

Bunce has 10,000 fans on Facebook and his name has been retweeted 1,500 times on Twitter as far away as Italy.

One fan wrote: “Legend. I’ve just voted for you”, another joked with the ditty: “He’s big, he’s round, he’s won £2,000. Roland B, Roland B.”

Roland said he was “overwhelmed” by the support. The vote closes on June 30 and industry experts will then pick a short list of the 50 best candidates.

A Next spokeswoman said: “We are de-lighted for absolutely anyone to enter.”

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‘Sausage Therapy’ For Addicted

Banger MuncherA LONDON MAN is undergoing therapy to beat his 13-bangers-a-day eating habit.

David Harding, 47, from Greenwich, has already spent nearly £2,000 on counselling and hypnosis, reported The Mirror.

But the father-of-three admitted: “I genuinely cannot bear the thought of living without sausages.

“Drug addicts crave their fi x, and it’s the same for me – except my drug is a banger.”

The accountant says he has eaten at least one sausage per day, in sandwiches, fry-ups or main meals, since the age of fi ve.

He spends £700 a year on bangers and has bought a deep chest freezer just to store his favourites – McWhinney’s Irish pork sausages.

Harding realised he could be an addict last year when wife Susan decided to do “something different” for dinner and failed to serve his usual fare. He said: “I went a bit mad at the thought of it. It was then that I realised something wasn’t quite right and sought professional help.”

Since then he has spent £1,876 on coun-selling, which has included four sessions with a specialist therapist and two with a hypnotist.

Experts confi rm his addiction is not physical, but so far neither the therapy nor the hypnosis has worked.

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By Jill LawlessWRITER Terry Pratchett said last month that watching a man being helped to die had reaffi rmed his support for assisted suicide, while anti-euthanasia groups criticized the televised death as propaganda that could encourage copycat suicides.

The suicide, fi lmed for a BBC docu-mentary, has reopened debate on Britain’s decades-old law against helping another person end their life.

Pratchett watched Peter Smedley, a 71-year-old British businessman with mo-tor neuron disease, take a lethal dose of barbiturates at a facility run by the Swiss group Dignitas.

Best-selling fantasy author Pratchett was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2007 and is a vocal supporter of the right to die.

He said he was moved by Smedley’s death, broadcast on BBC television.

“He said to me ‘Have a good life.’ And then he shook (my PA) Rob’s hand and said ‘Have a good life, I know I have,”‘ 63-year-old Pratchett told the broadcaster.

“The incongruity of the situation over-takes you. A man has died, that’s a bad thing, but he wanted to die, that’s a good thing.”

ASHAMEDPratchett said he was ashamed that Brit-

ish people had “to drag themselves to Swit-zerland, at considerable cost, in order to get the services that they were hoping for.”

Campaigners against assisted suicide criticized the decision to show Smedley’s death. The former Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, called the program “propaganda on one side.”

“I think an opportunity had been by-passed of having a balanced program – the thousands of people who use the hospice movement and who have a good and peace-ful death, there was very little about them,” Nazir-Ali told BBC radio.

Peter Saunders, campaign director of the group Care Not Killing, said the show

could lead to “copycat suicide or suicide contagion.”

He said the group had asked the govern-ment “to carry out an urgent investigation into the way that assisted suicide has been covered by the BBC and its link to English suicide rates.”

The BBC denied bias, saying it was “giving people the chance to make their own minds up on the issue.”

PRAISEThe broadcaster said 82 people had

contacted it to praise the show after it was broadcast, while a total of 898 had com-plained, 162 of them after the broadcast.

Assisted suicide is illegal and carries a maximum 14-year sentence in England and Wales, but few people have been prosecuted in recent years for helping friends or rela-tives die abroad.

After a series of legal test cases, the chief prosecutor last year drew up guidelines to clarify when criminal charges would be more or less likely.

Mitigating factors include a motive of compassion, evidence the victim had made a voluntary and informed decision to end their lives and evidence a suspect tried to talk the victim out of suicide.

In Switzerland, “passive assisted sui-cide” – giving another person the means to kill themselves and accompanying them through the process – is legal provided the helper doesn’t personally benefi t from a patient’s death.

Sorry Offi cer, Now P**s Off!YOBS can now swear at police without fear of arrest, according to a recent guid-ance issued to offi cers.

Louts are able to tell cops to “f*** off” or call them “w*****s” and use the C-word with impunity, says a recent advice card from chiefs. It says courts do not accept that such terms cause offi cers “harassment or distress” and so do not justify making an arrest in themselves. The card has been issued by Scotland Yard to offi cers of London’s Met, who face foul-mouthed tirades daily.

Yard bosses warn that in the past com-

pensation has been paid over cases where courts ruled that bad language alone was an insuffi cient reason to detain someone.

They also point out that if officers handcuff anyone they must be prepared to justify doing so.

Peter Smyth, of the Metropolitan Police Federation, called the card “patronising”, adding: “Offi cers don’t need to be told how to do their job. They are pretty robust about language.”

The Met said: “It gives useful guidance on execution of powers.”

Fisherman Jailed In Cocaine-Smuggling PlotA JUDGE has sentenced a fi sherman and four others for plotting to import more 562lbs of cocaine into Britain using lobster pots.

Prosecutors say lobster fisherman Jamie Green masterminded the “au-dacious” plan to put the cocaine into knapsacks tied to a buoy off the Isle of Wight, off England’s south coast.

They said Green and his accomplices planned to pick up the drugs that were thrown overboard by smugglers trav-eling from Brazil and then pretend to be returning from a normal fishing expedition.

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Bravehearts With Strong Stomachs In Edinburgh

EDINBURGH was the place to be last month if you liked Haggis!

Even celebrities such as Lulu and The Proclaimers added their voices to support to the Edinburgh International Haggis Championship.

The championship was one of the fi rst events of Edinburgh’s festival season, and raised funds for Help for Heroes.

The inaugural competitive eating cham-pionship took place at the Art Roch hostel on Edinburgh’s Grassmarket.

Lulu explained: “We’ve got to have a Scottish champion. I think I myself have eaten a haggis supper in less than two minutes in my youth. She added: “Here’s to raising lots of money and putting Scotland’s delicious national dish fi rmly on the map!”

Craig and Charlie Reid of The Proclaim-ers described Help for Heroes as “the most worthy of causes”. Scotland’s most famous twins added: “Good luck with the indigestion.”

There was even vegetarian versions of haggis available for anyone who couldn’t stomach oats and innards.

Habitat Stores Placed In Administration

HABITAT, the modern home store, had most of its stores put into administration last month.

Three of the furniture chain’s stores in London and the Habitat brand will be purchased by Home Retail Group, owner of Argos and Homebase for £24.5m in cash.

Habitat has appointed administrators for its other 30 outlets, which will continue trading for now.

HRG will retain 100 staff at the London stores and 50 in “brand support”, which includes Habitat’s furniture designers.

It is unclear what will happen to Habi-tat’s other 750 employees, including those at the branches in administration.

Habitat, which was set up in 1964 by de-signer Sir Terence Conran, has been owned by the private equity fi rm Hilco since it bought the heavily-indebted retailer from Ikea-affi liate Ikano in 2009.

Habitat said that, “trading conditions have remained challenging for retailers of big ticket items such as furniture” with the company continuing to make a loss.

It also promised to fulfi l all existing orders and protect customer deposits.

HRG is buying the rights to the Habi-tat brand in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

Habitat said that Hilco is also in ad-vanced talks with another party to sell the furniture company’s profi table interna-tional business.

Habitat owns 27 stores in France, six in Spain and fi ve in Germany.

Olympic Anti-Doping Chief Issues Drug Warning

THE DIRECTOR of the anti-doping lab for the 2012 London Olympics has a warning for any athletes considering using banned substances.

“If you want to take drugs don’t come to London – because we’ll catch you if you take drugs,” professor David Cowan said at the end of a World Anti-Doping Association symposium last month.

Cowan heads King’s College London’s Drug Control Center, the only WADA-accredited lab in Britain.

“The IOC is aiming to test more and more athletes,” Cowan said. “All I can tell you is that in Beijing there were 5,000 samples taken, so obviously that will in-crease, but even I do not know the exact number.”

About 10,000 athletes are expected at the London Games, and Cowan will be aided by nine other WADA lab direc-tors from around the globe during the competition.

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Derby DayThe Epsom Downs drew 100,000 people

for the running of the 221st Derby, June 4, who sweltered on an unusually hot and humid spring afternoon.

The Queen was looking to be the first mon-arch since King Edward VII in 1909, to win the oldest race in the world. Her horse Carleton House, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, drew partisan punters eager to show royal sup-port and the horse ended up 5-2f. But it was French raider Pour Moi (4-1), who took the glory winning by a head in a photo-finish over 25-1 long shot Treasure Beach.

Ridden by 19-year-old Mickael Barzalona, the jockey became the first teenager to win this race in thirty years. Pour Moi was trained by Andre Fabor, and jointly owned by John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith.Carleton House was third just three quarters of length behind. Royal jockey Ryan Moore, concurred that Carleton House’s unlucky outside draw at the start, did not give him the clear run at the beginning of the race that would have made the difference. 13 ran. Three time Derby winner Kieren Fallon was barred from this year’s race, when an appeals court found him guilty of reneging on a deal to ride Native Khan. The nearest the Queen has come to a Derby winner, was a second place finish with Auriole in 1953.

The previous day, Dancing Rain (20-1) won the Oaks by three quarters of a length from Wonder of Wonders 3-1f.

Dan Wheldon Wins Indianapolis 500

JR Hildebrand appeared to have the India-napolis 500 in his pocket as he approached the final bend before the chequered flag, May 30, but the rookie driver miscalculated his speed and smashed into the wall, leaving British driver Dan Wheldon, to nip through sharply after the mistake and win his second Indianapolis 500. Once again, fuel strategy played a major role in the 500 mile race, and was the reason reigning champion Dario Franchitti, who had challenged with team-mate Scott Dixon for most of the race were unable to push home their advantage in the closing laps. Incredibly, the Englishman never

held the lead during the race, until the final finishing straight. Dan Wheldon’s Indy Car career has been in the wilderness this year, after a dispute with Panther Racing he has been without a team since. Recently formed racing team Bryan Herta Au-tosports, a former teammate of the Emberton born driver, gave

the Englishman a one-off ride. Wheldon who won here in 2005, collected a winner’s purse worth $2,567,255.

“I just felt a lot of relief. It’s an incredible feeling,” said the unemployed Briton. “I never gave up.”

“Not bad, considering he does not have a full time job,” quipped AP journalist Paul Newberry.

The IndyCar Firestone Twin 275 at Fort Worth, Texas, June 12, saw Dario Franchittiwin the first race and Will Power the second. At the Milwaukee 275 Indy, June 19, the Scottish driver took the chequered flag and ties top of the drivers table sharing 271 points with Will Power.

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel continues to lead the Formula One Series. He won the Monaco Grand Prix and would have won the Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal, June 11, but for Britain’s Jensen Button overtaking him on the final lap. Mid-June Vettel led with 161pts, with Button chasing with 101pts.

England Win Test SeriesEngland’s first Test match against Sri

Lanka at Cardiff, turned into an unexpected route, after the tourists collapsed in the second inning and England won by an innings and 14 runs. Sri Lanka 400 (Pras-anna Jayawardene 112) and 82. England 496 (Alastair Cooke 133, Jonathan Trott203. Ian Bell 103)- 5 declared. At Lords, the second Test was drawn. England 486 (Matt Prior 126) and 335 (Alastair Cook106)-7 dec. Sri Lanka 479 (T Dilshan 193) and 127-3 at close. The tourists then visited Chelmsford, for a three day game against Essex, but rain thwarted a result on the final day and the match was tied. Sri Lanka 337 (Lahiru Thirimanne 104, Kumar Sangakkara153)-9 dec and 38-3 at close.

Essex 351 (Ryan ten Doeschate 164, Tom Westley 99) The third and final Test match at the Rose Bowl was drawn, giving England the series 1-0. England 377 (Ian Bell119)-8 dec. Sri Lanka 184 and 334 (Kumar Sangakkara 119) -5 at close.

After losing the first Test match in Guyana by 40 runs, Pakistan leveled the two match series at St Kitts, beating the West Indians by 196 runs. Pakistan 272 and 377 (Umar Gul 135, Misbah ul-Haq 102-6 dec. West Indies 223 and 230.

The Chennai Super Kings won the Indian Premier League, beating the Royal Challenge of Bangalore by 58 runs in the final. CSKs 205-5 at 20 overs. RCB 147-8 at 20 overs.

The County GameMost of late May and June was taken up

with the Friends Life Twenty20 Tournament. However, mid-June, Durham lead Division One winning five of eight games with 139pts, chased by Lancashire winning five from seven matches with 122pts. Northamp-tonshire lead Division Two with four wins from seven games at 121pts, followed by Glamorgan with 95pts.Donald Bests Lee Westwood,

First Win For Robert RockThe European PGA, BMW Championship

at Virginia Water, England, concluded during the final weekend of May, with a duel between the world number one Lee Westwood and the world’s number two Luke Donald. Both British men tied after a ten under 278, went in to the first play-off hole that saw Westwood’s hit the water while Donald’s tee shot ended a couple of feet from the cup. Donald’s victory sees the duo change places, with Westwood dropping to number two and Donald becom-ing the world’s number one.

Thirty-four-year-old Englishman Robert Rock, won his first European title with a 21 under 267 to win the Italian Open at Fiano, June 12. The victory earns him a spot in the US Open.Record Breaking Rory McIlroy Youngest US Open Champion

Twenty-two-year-old Rory McIIroy, may have choked on the last nine holes of the Masters in April, but at Bethesda, Maryland, in the 111th US Open, the Belfast youngster stormed to his first Major winning easily with a 16 under 268. He was eight strokes clear of second man Jason Day. He becomes the youngest US Open champion in 88 years, since Bobby Jones won in 1923. He recorded the lowest four round total ever, beating Tiger Woods’ previous record by four strokes. He also had the lowest record 36 and 54th hole stroke total in US Open history. Lee West-wood was joint third, ten strokes distant, but no-one came close to challenge the Ulster-man’s dominance.

“The whole week has been incredible,” said the new Belfast champion, who collected a winner’s purse of $1,440,000.Nadal Beats Murray On Way

To French Open VictoryThe red clay of the Roland Garros stadium

in Paris welcomed the first Grand Slam event of the 2011 tennis year, The French Open, May 22-June 5.

Andy Murray reached the semi-finals where arch-rival number one seed Rafael Nadal, proved too much for the 23-year-old Scot. Nadal, seeking his sixth consecutive French crown won 6-4, 7-5, 6-4. Nadal beat Roger Federer in three sets in the final. Earlier, Murray had fought his way passed Eric Prodan (Fr) Simone Bolelli(It) Michael Berrer (Sp) Viktor Troicki and in the quarter-finals Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina. Brother Jamie and partner Nadia Petrova reached the semifinals of the mixed doubles before being ousted by top seeds Katarina Srebotnik and Nenad Zimonjic. British women’s number one Elena Baltcha,got through the first round as did fellow Brit, Heather Watson, but both fell in the second. Li Na won the women’s singles final with a 6-4, 7-6 (7-0) victory over Francesca Schiavone (Ita) becoming the first Chinese player to win a Grand Slam.Queens Club Win For Murray

Andy Murray defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsongaof France in the final of the Ageon Champion-ships at the Queens Club, June 13, for his 17th

ATP title. Murray who won this tournament in 2009, becomes the only British player to win at Queens twice. It was that much more pleasing for the Scot, after coming from a set down. Murray won 3-6, 7-6 (7-2) 6-4, where a capacity crowd filled every avail-able seat. Tsonga had earlier knocked out French Open champion Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals. Earlier, Murray had eliminated Xavier Malisse, Janko Tipsarevic, had a walkover against Marin Cilic, who retired injured, before beating Andy Roddick in the semi-finals.

It could have been an all-British final. British number two James Ward, produced his best career tennis yet, beating Stanislas Wawrinka, last year’s champion Sam Quer-rey (US) and Adrian Mannarino of France before falling to Tsonga in the semi-finals 3-6, 6-7 (8-6).

Across the nation a number of tourna-ments were in progress as the warm-up for Wimbledon began early last month. Brit-ish women’s number one Elena Baltcha, claimed her first tournament of the year, beating Petra Chetkovska of the Czech Republic in the final of the Aegon Challenge at Nottingham, June 11.

Serena Williams returned to tennis in over a year after a series of injuries. At Eastbourne in the Aegon International, she was beaten by the number one seed Vera Zvonareva in the third round, while big sister Venus, fell in the quarter-finals to Daniela Hantuchova.

Froch Wins WBC, Rhodes Puts Up Brave Fight

Carl Froch (28-1) retained his WBC super-middleweight title at Atlantic City, June 4, with a split decision over Glen Johnson. The experienced Johnson (51-15) a Jamai-can living in Miami, gave the Briton a tough workout and did not dispute the decision. Froch contended however, “I thought I won the fight easily.”

Same weekend in Cardiff, Gavin Rees(35-1) captured a unanimous decision over the formerly unbeaten Irishman, Andy Murray (24-1) to take the vacant European lightweight crown.

European light-middleweight champion Ryan Rhodes (45-5) found it an uphill battle against WBC Champion Saul “Canelo” Alva-rez, a man 14 years his junior at Guadalajara, Mexico, June 18. The 34-year-old Sheffield fighter found Alvarez’s youthful aggression a big problem, and the unbeaten Mexican (37-0-1) had him on the canvas in the fourth round. By the twelfth, Rhodes’ corner figured they’d seen enough bravery from their fighter and threw in the towel.

Welsh bantamweight Sean Goldrick, 18, collected a belated 2010 Commonwealth Games Gold Medal, after the man who beat him in the final Manju Wanniarachchi of Sri Lanka failed a drug test.

Rugby UnionThe Spring tours and internationals began

last month. The Barbarians beat Wales 31-28 in Cardiff, and at Twickenham, the Baa Baas beat England 38-32.…The Churchill Cup, a competition for second tier nation hosted in England saw the England Sax-ons decimate the USA Bald Eagles 87-8, Canada beat Italy 26-12. The Saxons then beat Tonga 41-14, while Italy beat Russia 24-19. The Saxons beat Canada 37-6 in the final to win the Cup. Other results include, US beating Russia 32-25 and Italy beating Tonga 27-18.Radcliffe Eager, But Not Fully

Fit For CompetitionAfter an 18 month lay-off to have a second

baby and recuperate from some reoccurring injuries, world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe had a disappointing return at Lon-don’s BUPA 10,000m road race, June 1. Jo Pavey won in 32 minutes and 23 seconds with Gemma Steel second and Radcliffe third. The Bedfordshire runner is aiming for the 2012 Olympics and with time running out is eager to get some competitive running in. She complained of sciatica pain and a lack of power in her legs after just 4,000m, and admits she is not fully fit yet. Mo Farah won the men’s race.

Alistair Brownlee and his younger brother Jonathan took first and second places in the second race in the World ITU triathlon series in Madrid, June 4.

At Kitzbuhel in Austria, June 18, Brownlee won again to edge himself in to the lead in the World ITU championships.

Olympic medallist and world champion Bradley Wiggins warmed up nicely for the approaching Tour de France, by winning the Criterium du Dauphine road race in the French Alps.

Football Play-OffsSwansea became the first Welsh club to

compete in the English Premier League after a Scott Sinclair hat-trick in front of an 86,000 plus crowd at Wembley, gave them a 4-2 vic-tory over Reading in the Championship Play-off final. Peterborough Utd and Huddersfield Town looked to be heading for extra time at Old Trafford in the Division One play-off final, but with twelve minutes to go, the Posh exploded with three goals to claim a place in the Championship next season with a 3-0 win. After just one year in the football league after rising from the Conference League last year, Stevenage will play Division One soc-cer in August. At the Division Two play-off final at Old Trafford, a John Mousinho goal four minutes prior to the break proved the only netting of the game against Torquay Utd. Rushdon and Diamonds played in the football league from 2002, until relegated back to the Conference in 2006. They are in deep financial trouble. They won the Division Two title in 2003, but money problems have persisted and they have been thrown out of the Blue Star Conference League.

Carling Nations CupThree of the home nations and the Re-

public of Ireland competed in the inaugural Carling Nations Cup at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, which was completed during the last weekend of May. The new tournament did not come up to financial expectations however, and officials were mighty unhappy that only 529 paying customers turned up for the Wales-Northern Ireland game, that the Welsh won 2-0. A Robbie Keane goal in the 23rd minute gave the hosts the Cup, where the only goal of the final match sunk Scotland. Other games saw the Republic of Ireland slam Northern Ireland 5-0, who had a man sent off in the 53rd minute. Scotland beat Wales 3-1. Robert Earnshaw put the Welsh ahead in the 36th minute, but three second half goals by James Morrison, Kenny Miller and Christophe Berra gave the Scots victory.

International SoccerAfter Barcelona showed Manchester

United how the game should really be played to win the Champions League Final 3-1, and become European club champions after a scintillating performance, English football would receive further trauma as the European Nations Cup group games continued.

A full house at Wembley watched in amazement as England went down 0-2 to Switzerland, in the 35th minute when Tran-quillo Barnetta, pierced the English defense for the second time. Frank Lampard put a

penalty away two minutes later and Ashley Young, leveled things out in the 51st minute. Fabio Capello, could not have been happy with this 2-2 result, along with most of the fans who witnessed the game.

Argentina fielded a second eleven at Abuja for a friendly with Ghana, leaving out names like Messi, Tevez, Mascherano and Aguero. They paid the price. Ghana won 4-1. Diego Maradonna has signed a two year contract to coach UAR club Al Wasl, but at a welcoming press he took the opportunity to blast FIFA calling them dinosaurs. “Unfortunately at FIFA, we have a big museum, a big museum,” he complained.

64,000 plus turned out at Foxboro for the USA’s friendly with world champions Spain, where a lack luster American eleven were beaten 4-0. Spain, who then moved south for a 3-0 away win at Caracas over Venezuela.

CONCACAF Gold CupTwelve Central America and Northern

American nations competed in the CONCA-CAF Gold Cup for the honour of representing the region in the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil, a prelude to the 2014 World Cup. Hosted by the US, (who have won this com-petition four times previous) and split into three groups of four, the Americans got off to a good start winning 2-0, in Detroit, against Canada. Jozy Altidore and Fulham’s Clint Dempsey with a netting in each half were the marksmen. At Tampa in front of a 27,000 plus crowd, Panama proved aggressive and goals by Luis Tejada (19th minute) and Gabriel Gomez (36th) had Bob Bradley’s men flatfooted. Clarence Goodson got one back in the 68th minute, but the Panamanians hung on 2-1, for their first ever victory over the US. A goal by Jozy Altidore proved the only goal of the game against Guadeloupe, at Kansas City. In other group games, Manchester United’s Javier Hernandez scored a brace in two games, as Mexico destroyed Cuba and El Salvador 5-0 apiece and then slammed Costa Rica 4-1. Costa Rica overwhelmed Cuba 5-0, and Jamaica beat Grenada 4-0.

In the quarter-finals June 18-19, Jermaine Jones and Clint Dempsey gave the US a 2-0 win over Jamaica, while Honduras beat Costa Rica 4-2, Mexico took Guatemala 2-1, and Panama won 5-3 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie with El Salvador.

World Cup 2014Spain became World Champions barely a

year ago, but already Brazil 2014, is on the horizon. The very first preliminary match of the next World Cup took place June 15, and then evolved into controversy. Belize (for-merly British Honduras) beat Monserrat 5-2 in Couva, Trinidad, that included a hat-trick by Deon McCauley. But then Belize informed FIFA, that the nation’s football association did not have the authority, and would not provide security for Montserrat players and FIFA of-ficials for the second leg in Belmopan.

FIFA demanded the government reinstate the authority of Belize’s football association and if the second leg is not played and the situation is not solved by July 10, Belize will be expelled from the 2014 World Cup. A dozen and more preliminary two legged 2014 World Cup matches are scheduled across the globe June 26-July 3.

Early Wimbledon2011 Wimbledon, June 20-July 3, saw ten

British players enter the singles competition but five days later only Andy Murray was left standing.

Murray terminated Daniel Gimeno-Travers of Spain, Tobias Kamke of Germany, and Ivan Ljubic of Croatia to reach the last sixteen. Murray’s three Brit compatriots (James Ward, Daniel Evans, Daniel Cox) failed to come out of the first round. On the women’s side, out of six hopefuls, three made the second round. Britain’s women’s number one Elena Baltcha beat Mona Barthel of Ger-many in the first, but fell to 20th seed Shuai Peng of China in the second. The British 2008 Wimbledon Junior champion, Laura Robson, beat Angelique Kerber of Germany, and gave fifth seed Maria Sharapova a run for her money before losing 7-6(7-4) 6-3. Anne Keothavong beat fellow Brit Naomi Broady, before tumbling out to the 8th seed, the Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova.

Notable upsets in the early days saw French Open champion Li Na beaten in the second round by German wildcard Sabine Lisicki, and second seed Vera Zvonareva upset by Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova. John Isner (US) was drawn with Nicolas Mottet (Fr) for the second year running, but there was no three day historic breaking match this year. Remember the 70-68 win-ning set twelve months ago? This time Isner won in straight sets. The Williams sisters survived the first week of competition, but exited the tournament on June 27.

Mexico Wins Gold CupMexico captured the CONCACAF Gold

Cup, June 25, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, in front of a record 93,000-plus crowd. Michael Bradley and Landon Dono-van put the US up 2-0 in the early stages of the game, but the Mexicans turned on the

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magic in a very spirited response coming from behind to win 4-2. Mexico will rep-resent the CONCACAF region in the 2013 Federations Cup in Brazil. Both nations have dominated tthe Gold Cup over the last nine tournaments, with the Mexicans claiming a fifth victory. The US has won four. In the semi-finals at Houston, a Clint Dempsey goal gave the US a 1-0 win over Panama, while Mexico beat Honduras 2-0.

Late SportA feisty encounter in Cologne, June 25,

saw European Champion Matthew “Mac the Knife,” Macklin (28-3) lose a split deci-sion in a challenge for Felix Sturm’s WBA middleweight crown. The battling Brummie roared out his corner throwing a variety of nastiness that had the German temporar-ily on the defensive. But Sturm (36-2-1) edged back in to contention during the later rounds, leaving the judges to decide a very tight contest.

The NatWest Twenty20 International at Bristol, June 26, saw Sri Lanka beat Englandby nine wickets. England 136 at 20 overs. Sri Lanka 137-1 at close.

In Jamaica, India won their first Test encounter with the West Indies by 63 runs. India 246 and 252 (Rahul Dravid 112). West Indies 173 and 262.

Budweiser To Sponsor English FA Cup

BUDWEISER became the first American title sponsor of FA Cup last month as organizers try to enhance the competition’s global status and ensure the final is restored as the English season’s showpiece finale.

Budweiser looks to raise the FA Cup’s profile around the world after agreeing to a three-year deal worth a reported $39m. Soc-cer’s oldest domestic cup competition will be known as “The FA Cup with Budweiser.”

Due to Wembley Stadium hosting the Champions League final last month, the final had to be staged on the same day of league matches for the first time in more than 50 years.

Budweiser is owned by Anheuser-Busch, which became the US subsidiary of An-heuser-Busch InBev NV after being bought by Belgium’s InBev in 2008. Since then, the company has been working hard to establish Budweiser as a global brand.

Budweiser is investing a large part of its marketing budget in Britain, where sales increased 36 percent last year as the beer benefited from its sponsorship of the World Cup in South Africa.

With Budweiser replacing German utility company E.ON as the main sponsor, both of England’s cup competitions are sponsored by American beer companies.

Carling, which is owned by the Denver-based Molson Coors Brewing Co, is the title sponsor of the League Cup. England’s national team is backed by Danish brewer Carlsberg.

Roo ‘Keeps His Hair On’ – Literally

ENGLAND striker Wayne Rooney has had a hair transplant.

Rooney confirmed the news via Twitter: “I was going bald at 25, why not. I’m delighted with the result.”

The 25-year-old Manchester United star said his head was “still a bit bruised and swollen.”

The Sun newspaper said he was seen visiting London’s famous Harley Street during the week and leaving with his hair covered, adding that Rooney was going for a “hi-tech baldy cure.”

Houllier Steps Down As Aston Villa Manager

GERARD HOULLIER has stepped down as manager of Aston Villa after just nine months in charge following medi-cal advice.

The Premier League club announced on its website that the 63-year-old French-man had left by mutual consent.

Houllier, who un-derwent emergency heart surgery in 2001, had been absent from his job since he was hospitalized in April with a heart problem described by the club as “a dissection of the descending aorta.”

“Doctors have ad-vised that he will require

further time to recuperate,” the Villa state-ment said.

Houllier took over in September 2010 fol-lowing the abrupt departure of Martin O’Neill shortly before the start of the season.

“We regret the circumstances of Gerard’s departure and, naturally, we wish him well in his continued recovery,” chief executive Paul Faulkner said.

Former Birmingham City manager Alex McCleish took over the manager position last month.

Hargreaves, Vieira Among Big Names Without Club

INJURY-PLAGUED England midfielder Owen Hargreaves and former France internationals Patrick Vieira and Robert Pires head a list of players released by Premier League clubs this offseason.

The injury-plagued Hargreaves, who starred for England in the 2006 World Cup, leaves English champion Manchester United after playing just 11 minutes in the past two seasons.

Crosstown rival Manchester City has let the 35-year-old Vieira depart after 18 months at the club, while compatriot Pires is also looking for a new team following the midfielder’s release from Aston Villa.

Other high-profile players now without a club are England defenders Matthew Upson (West Ham) and Jonathan Woodgate (Tot-tenham), Hungary captain Zoltan Gera and Ghana fullback John Pantsil (both Fulham).

Young Is United’s Second Pre-Season Signing

ENGLAND winger Ashley Young became Manchester United’s second major signing of the offseason last month when he joined the Premier League champions on a five-year deal.

The 25-year-old Young is reported in the British media to have cost United £17m, even though he had only 12 months left on his contract at Villa.

Capped 15 times by England and able to play on either wing as well as in a central position behind the strikers, Young will add further strength to United’s attacking options.

United manager Alex Ferguson has already signed England under-21 defender Phil Jones from Blackburn this summer for a reported

£16m, and the club has also recently final-ized at deal with 20-year-old Atletico Madrid goalkeeper David de Gea.

Blatter Refuses Qatar 2022 World Cup Probe

FIFA PRESIDENT Sepp Blatter has affirmed hewill not initiate an investigation into Qatar’s successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup.

Qatar’s victory, along with other issues, has been under scrutiny since then FIFA official Jack Warner emerged claiming the event had been “bought”.

The controversy around the Qatar bid team’s victory was fuelled when Warner made public an email from general secretary Jerome Valcke.

The Sunday Times newspaper had previ-ously claimed that FIFA executive commit-tee members Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma were paid £916,000 to vote for the Gulf state.

Blatter, who secured his fourth term as FIFA president unopposed after being cleared by the body’s ethics committee of any knowl-edge of any alleged bribery, is unconvinced by the evidence against Qatar.

Meanwhile One of the men who decided to suspend leading FIFA executives Jack Warner and Mohamed bin Hammam says while soccer’s world governing body has been tainted, the game will overcome bribery and corruption issues.

REFORMVeteran Australian soccer broadcaster

Les Murray, one of the 13 members of FIFA’s independent Ethics Committee, told The Associated Press last month that FIFA is still badly in need of reform to rebuild its integrity.

Warner has since resigned as FIFA vice president, president of CONCACAF and all soccer duties. He is maintaining what was described as the “presumption of innocence” by ensuring the sport’s governing body closed its investigation into his part in alleged bribing of Caribbean soccer union leaders in his native Trinidad during bin Hammam’s campaign to unseat Sepp Blatter as FIFA president.

Bin Hammam and two Caribbean soccer union employees, meanwhile, remain provi-sionally barred from all soccer-related duty while facing accusations of paying bribes to up to 25 Caribbean voters during the cam-paign. All have denied any wrongdoing.

By John PolleyBy John Polley

H e n s o n B a c k F o r W a l e s And TVGAVIN HENSON has been recalled to the Welsh side after two years in the wilderness. He trotted out for a home fixture against the Barbar-ians in mid-June. Wales lost the closely fought encounter and Henson showed how rusty he has got. Nevertheless, he did well enough for Warren Gatland to put him on the long list for the Welsh Rugby World Cup squad.

He was hoping to make a career in France with Toulon but fell out with their management after an unseemly brawl. Now he entertains hopes of returning to Cardiff though at 29 his long-term prospects look a bit shaky. His TV career has not gone off the boil since he has been booked to star in the UK version of the US hit show The Bachelor where 25 glamor-ous women will compete to be the woman of his dreams. It is hard to sort out who is the more desperate, the bachelor or the women who actually are volunteering to be bored out of their skulls!

Phillips OffOne Welshman definitely heading for France

is current national scrum-half Mike Phillips. A number of clubs were looking to sign up the 28-year-old who has been signalling his inten-tion of leaving Ospreys throughout the season. He has joined the Top 14 side Bayonne who were seeking a world-class No 9, an initial approach to All Black Byron Kelleher having fallen through.

Cipriani Back In Rebels’ Good BooksDown Under there is better news for Danny

Cipriani, the out-of-favour English flyhalf. He was dropped from the Melbourne Rebels side for going out on the town with a team mate in

Sydney, then suspended for the Rebels’ two-week tour of South Africa. A couple of serious injuries to his replacements have paved the

way for his return to first team ac-tion. With the Super Rugby season reaching its climax, he will happily be restored to the Rebels.

Lawrence Dallaglio, now coach-ing at London Wasps, has recently affirmed the Londoners’ keenness to get young Danny back in their

colours. This would pave the way back for his rehabilitation in the national side and despite Toby Flood’s success in the England side, there is a real need to have a bit of depth in the flyhalf spot.

Manoeuvrings Continue At TwickenhamEngland’s World Cup winning coach Sir Clive

Woodward has been around the houses since the glory days. At present he is performance director for the British Olympic Association but there is ample evidence that the English Rugby Union bosses are keen to see him back in har-ness on the rugby field in the same role.

Former England captain Nigel Melville has now been appointed Chief Executive Officer for the RFU. He enjoyed a successful career coach-ing Wasps and Gloucester before becoming president and chief executive of USA Rugby but once he learnt of the sudden departure of John Steele for the RFU he immediately threw his hat into the ring – and it was promptly picked up by the grey suits at Twickers. Steele was shown the door after his apparent mishandling of the search for a performance director.

You may remember that Woodward stormed out of his job as coach following a row with the then chief executive. Twicken-ham appears to have forgotten that spot of unpleasantness.john.polley1@ntlworld.com

English FA Defends ‘British’ Position

THE HOME nations who object to an all-British football team at the 2012 London Olympics accept they can’t stop their players featuring in the tournament, the English Football Association said last month.

The British Olympic Association announced last month that players from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are eligible to play for Team GB following an “historic” agreement with the English FA.

That angered the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish associations, who reiterated their objections to their players being selected.

FA general secretary Alex Horne said his organisation was acting within the rules.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been blocking plans to have combined British teams at the Olympics because they don’t want to jeopardize their status as separate teams in UEFA and FIFA events.

The BOA said the four British associations have been assured by FIFA that combined British team for the men’s and women’s competitions “will in no way compromise their autonomy and independence ... nor have any impact on their positions of leadership within the FIFA governance structure.”

Despite their stance, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have said their players would be free to participate at the Olympics without fear of sanctions.

MIKE DOYLE, 64, a defender who played a key role on Manchester City’s title teams of the late 1960s and early ‘70s, has died.

Doyle was being treated for liver failure. He had been in poor health the past 12 months.

Doyle made more than 550 appear-

ances for Manchester City from 1962-78. He was on the City team that won the

English title, FA Cup, European Cup Win-ners’ Cup and the League Cup from 1968 to 1970. He captained City when it won the League Cup again in 1976. Doyle played five times for England.

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40-44 $1,166 $1,609 $947 $1,400 $628 $1,097 $550 $960 $526 $745 $468 $662

45-49 $1,299 $1,566 $1,065 $1,332 $825 $1,030 $719 $897 $587 $708 $522 $631

50-54 $1,586 $1,742 $1,344 $1,502 $1,039 $1,165 $907 $1,036 $770 $859 $685 $765

55-59 $1,917 $1,917 $1,667 $1,667 $1,290 $1,288 $1,124 $1,124 $947 $955 $842 $850

60-64 $2,822 $2,656 $2,572 $2,406 $2,168 $1,914 $1,963 $1,762 $1,640 $1,457 $1,460 $1,297

65-69 $5,893 $5,113 $5,640 $4,890 $5,276 $4,453 $4,056 $3,310 $3,546 $3,176 $3,156 $2,827

70-74 $9,724 $8,437 $9,306 $8,069 $8,705 $7,348 $6,692 $5,462 $5,851 $5,240 $5,207 $4,665

Bolton Wanderers July 14 vs FC Tampa Bay at Al Lang Stadium (7:30pm KO).July 17 vs Orlando City in Florida at the Citrus Bowl, in Orlando. See AD Page 15July 20 vs Houston Dynamo at Roberson Stadium in Houson.Everton July 20 vs Philadelphia Union at PPL Park.July 23 vs DC United. More dates maybe added.Manchester City July 16 vs Club America (in San Francisco)July 18 vs Vancouver Whitecaps (in Vancouver)July 24 vs LA Galaxy (in Los Angeles) See AD Page 13There’s a possibility that another friendly may be scheduled between July 18-24.Manchester United July 13 vs New England Revolution, Gillette Stadium, Boston,July 20 vs Seattle Sounders, Qwest Field, Seattle.July 23 vs Chicago Fire, Soldier Field, Chicago.July 27 vs MLS All-Star team, Red Bull Arena, New Jersey.July 30 vs Barcelona, FedEx Field, Washington DC.Newcastle United July 20 vs Sporting Kansas City.July 26 vs Columbus Crew. July 23 vs Orlando City in Orlando, Florida. See AD Page 15West Bromwich Albion July 12 vs San Jose Earthquakes at Buck Shaw Stadium.July 17 vs Ventura Fusion at Oxnard College in Calfornia (3pm KO).July 20 vs Portland Timbers at JELD-WEN Field.

Jol, Villas-Boas Join Premier League List

By Ridge Mahoney

THE NEW cast of managers in the Premier League next season will include a few fa-miliar names and the latest young hotshot to come out of the Portuguese league.

NOT THAT SPECIAL . . . YETWith no chance of luring back the ‘Special

One’ to Stamford Bridge, Chelsea instead has hired one of Jose Mourinho’s former assistants.

Andre Villas-Boas, 33, is the seventh man-ager hired since Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought the club eight years ago. There will be the inevitable comparisons to Mourinho, some of which apply: he comes to Chelsea from Porto, where he worked under Mourinho, and last season led the club to an impressive double of Portuguese League and Europa League titles.

He also insists he prefers a less regi-mented, more fluid form of football than his near-legendary former mentor. “I encourage freedom of choice in football,” he said to The Mirror. “Players can only achieve their true potential if they are not shackled and are able to stand on their own two feet. Creativity in my players is important. I love the unpredict-able part of the game.”

Villas-Boas follows Claudio Ranieri, Mourino, Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Hiddink and Ancelotti to the Chelsea manage-rial reins during the reign of Abramovich. As a teenager growing up in Oporto, he lived in the same apartment building as Bobby Robson, who was then managing the club.

He served as Mourinho’s assistant at Porto, Chelsea and Inter before leaving to take over at Academica de Coimbra, where he stayed less than a year prior to his hir-ing by Porto in June of last year. That one season was enough to prompt yet another steep step up.

“This job is all I ever wanted,” he said. “I accept people may view it as a gamble employing someone so young, but if I didn’t believe I could succeed what is the point?”

McLEISH BECOMES A VILLANJust a few days after Birmingham manager

Alex McLeish sent an e-mail stating he’d resigned from the relegated club, city rival Aston Villa announced his hiring.

The move prompted angry reaction from Birmingham club officials and fans, who had hoped McLeish could re-build the team that he led to the League Cup title despite being relegated. But no improper conduct could be established, and McLeish, 55, took over at

his second Premier League club.The Scot started as a manager at Mother-

well in 1994, and then managed Hibernian, Rangers, and Scotland up until 2007. He guided Birmingham to three successful sea-son but in May the club was relegated on the final day of the season, a week after losing a crucial home game against Fulham.

Aston Villa chief executive Paul Faulkner said, “Unquestionably, Alex meets the criteria we set out at the beginning of our search which was based on proven Premier League experience, leadership, a hard-working ethic and, most importantly, a shared vision for Aston Villa.”

One of his first decisions upon taking command was to turn down a chance to acquire US midfielder Michael Bradley, who had seldom played after joining Villa in January on loan from German club Borussia Moenchengladbach.

FULHAM FINALLY GET JOLOn the second attempt, Fulham managed

to snag Dutchman Martin Jol as their new manager to replace Mark Hughes, who resigned June 1.

Jol signed a two year deal worth a reported £1.5 million a year plus bonuses.

Last summer, Fulham tried to get him as Roy Hodgson’s replacement but weeks of negotiating failed to secure a compensation deal to get him out of his contract with Ajax. Fulham instead to turned to Hughes, who led the Cottagers to an eighth-place finish a year after Hodgson had guided them into the Europa League final.

Jol has been unemployed since being dismissed by Ajax in December. He coached Tottenham from 2004 to 2007, leading the team to a fifth-place league finish and the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup and FA Cup. A slew of signings he’d not approved promoted his departure. He spent a year in the German Bundesliga with Hamburg before going to Ajax. He is Fulham’s third manager in the past three years.

In a statement he said, “I am very happy to join Fulham Football Club, a wonderful

traditional club. It is a club with good, solid foundations and a great fan base. I am looking forward to being part of the Fulham family and thank the chairman for the trust he’s shown in me.”

On the club’s Web site, team owner Mo-hammed Al Fayed said, “He understands my vision for the club, and believes in what we are striving to achieve here. I know that he will dedicate himself to helping us move forward, and is with us for the long term, to help us build and progress. We have enjoyed three incredibly successful years, and my hopes and dreams for this club are for that journey to continue. I know that with his wealth of experience and success, Martin is the right man to help us do this.”

ALLARDYCE, HUGHTON TAKE DROPWest Ham and Birmingham are preparing

for their stints in the League Championship by hiring Sam Allardyce and Chris Hughton, respectively, as their new managers.

Both have been recently dismissed by Newcastle; Allardyce takes over at West Ham following his firing by Blackburn in December. Rival clubs are bidding for several of the Hammers stars, including Scott Parker, Carlton Cole and Robert Green, and Allardyce says his short-term goals are focused on youth players.

Allardyce, a former defender, built his reputation by guiding Bolton into the Premier League in 2001 and keeping them there with bargain-price squads assembled largely with veteran players cast off by other clubs. He also got the team into European competition for the first time, then headed to Newcastle, but lasted just seven months into a three-year contract.

Hughton, 52, a former Irish international, returns to management seven months after he was fired by Newcastle. The former Spurs player began as an assistant with that club in 1993 and moved up t to assistant manager before taking a similar post with Newcastle in 2008, and then served as manager in their League Champioship period from October, 2009, to last December.

Andre Villas-Boas Alex McLeish Martin Jol Sam Allardyce Chris Hughton

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British Shot-Putter Banned For Doping Violations

A BRITISH shot-putter has been handed a three-year ban after testing positive for two prohibited substances.

Mark Edwards, who was ranked No 2 in Britain in 2010, tested positive for tes-tosterone and a metabolite of the banned substance clostebol last September. He was provisionally suspended in November.

A tribunal of the National Anti-Doping Panel said it gave Edwards a harsher sanction than the standard two-year ban because the presence of more than one banned substance constituted aggravating circumstances.

AS OF JUNE 27, 2011*Free transfer **Fee undisclosed

Players listed as out of contract in some cases have not signed with another club and could be retained. Players listed in italics were in the midst of pending moves at press time.

ARSENAL. In: Carl Jenkinson** (Charlton Athletic). Out: None.

Possible: Samir Nasri to Manchester United, Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona.

ASTON VILLA. In: None. Out: Nigel Reo-Coker, John Carew, Robert Pires (all out of contract), Ashley Young (Manchester United), Brad Friedel* (Tottenham).

BLACKBURN. In: Myles Anderson* (Ab-erdeen). Out: Benjani Mwarurawi (out of con-tract), Frank Fielding (Derby County).

BOLTON. In: None. Out: Johan Elmander* (Galatasaray), Jloyd Samuel (out of contract).

CHELSEA. In: Lucas Piazon (Sao Paulo, takes effect January, 2012). Out: Jacopo Sala**, Michael Mancienne**, Gokhan Tore** (all to Hamburg).

EVERTON . I n : None . Ou t : James Vaughn**(Norwich City), Luke Dobie** (Mid-dlesbrough).

FULHAM. In: Dan Burn. Out: Zoltan Gera, John Pantsil), Diomansy Kamara, Eddie Johnson, Matt Saunders (all out of contract).

LIVERPOOL. In: Jordan Henderson (Sunder-land). Out: None.

MANCHESTER CITY. In: None. Out: Patrick Vieira (out of contract).

MANCHESTER UNITED. In: Ashley Young (Aston Villa), Phil Jones** (Blackburn), David de Gea (Atletico Madrid). Out: Bebe (Besiktas, loan), Ritchie De Laet (Norwich City, loan), Owen Hargreaves (out of contract), Edwin Van der Sar, Phil Neville, Paul Scholes (all retired).

NEWCASTLE UNITED. In: Sylvain Marveaux* (Rennes), Demba Ba* (West Ham United), Yohan Cabaye** (Lille), Kevin Nolan** (West Ham United), Mehdi Abeid** (Lens). Out: Sol Camp-bell, Shefki Kuqi (both out of contract).

NORWICH CITY. In: Ell iot Bennett** (Brighton), Steve Morison (Millwall)**, James Vaughn** (Everton), Ritchie De Laet (Manchester United, loan). Out: None.

QUEEN’S PARK RANGERS. In: None. Out: Lee Brown, Pascal Chimbonda (both out of contract).

STOKE CITY. In: None. Out: Abdoulaye Faye, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Ibrahima Sonko (all out of contract).

SUNDERLAND. In: Keiren Westwood* (Cov-entry City), Sebastian Larsson* (Birmingham), Ahmed Elmohamady** (ENPPI Club), Craig Gardner (Birmingham). Out: Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Bolo Zenden (out of contract), Sulley Muntari (loan expired).

SWANSEA CITY. In: Danny Graham (Wat-ford). Out: None.

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR. In: Brad Friedel* (Aston Villa). Out: Jamie O’Hara (Wolverhamp-ton), Jonathan Woodgate (out of contract).

WEST BROMWICH ALBION. In: Billy Jones*, Gareth McAuley*. Out: Scott Carson (Bur-saspor).

WIGAN ATHLETIC. In: None. Out: Jason Kou-mas, Steve Caldwell (both out of contract).

WOLVERHAMPTON. In: Dorus de Vries* (Swansea City), Jamie O’Hara (Tottenham). Out: Jody Craddock, Marcus Hahnemann (both out of contract).

TRANSFER FEES£20.5m – David de Gea, Atletico Madrid to

Manchester United£20m (unconfirmed) – Jordan Henderson,

Sunderland to Liverpool£17m (unconfirmed) – Ashley Young, Aston

Villa to Manchester United£16.5m (unconfirmed) – Phil Jones, Black-

burn to Manchester United£5m (unconfirmed) – Lucas Piazon, Sao

Paulo to Chelsea£5m – Jamie O’Hara; Tottenham to Wolves£4m – Kevin Nolan, West Ham United to

Newcastle United£3.5m – Danny Graham; Watford to Swan-

sea City£1.5m – Scott Carson, Wolves to Bursaspor£1m (maximum) – Dan Burn, Darlington to

Fulham£400,000 – Frank Fielding, Blackburn to

Derby County

English Premier League Major Transactions