Cambridge News - June 26, 2020
Cambridge News - June 26, 2020
Cambridge News - June 26, 2020
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FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020 CAMBRIDGE NEWS 3
News
£900k respray
for plane used by
Prime Minister
By LAUREN BROWN
[email protected] MARSHALL’S PAINT JOB DUE TO
BORIS NOT LIKING ORIGINAL GREY
@Laurenbrown95
THE new paint job costing more
than £900,000 on the plane used by
the Prime Minister has been would cost “around £900,000” and “At every stage we have worked to
unveiled at Cambridge Airport. would mean that the plane could ensure value for money for the UK
The RAF Voyager - which was pre- better represent the UK around the taxpayer and all of the work has
viously a military grey colour - has world with “national branding”. been undertaken in the UK, directly
been resprayed in white, with a Officials have insisted benefiting British suppliers.”
Union flag on the tail-fin and United the plane would still Mr Johnson has previ-
Kingdom written in gold on the fuse- be able to fulfil its ously questioned why
lage. military role as the plane was grey,
Yesterday (Thursday) it was an air-to-air saying he would like The heart in the sky
unveiled at Cambridge Airport, refuelling That incorporates the to have a “Brexit for St Catharine’s
where it was refurbished, before tak- tanker. plane” to help him College graduating
ing off. The respray was done at Mar- At the time cost of creating a design travel the world and students
shall’s huge plane respraying hangar the price tag that will promote the promote the Gov-
at the airport. was revealed, UK around the world... ernment’s vision of
Boris Johnson had previously the Prime Min- global Britain.
Prime Minister’s
complained about the military paint
scheme used on the jet.
ister’s official
spokesman said:
spokesman He also complained
in 2018 while foreign Heartfelt congratulations
But the cost of the respray was “That incorporates secretary that the RAF
condemned by opposition politi- the cost of creating a Voyager jet, which is shared by for St Catharine’s graduates
cians when it was revealed earlier design that will promote the UK the Prime Minister, senior Cabinet
this month. around the world without compro- members and the royal family, A LARGE heart was drawn in the master of St Catharine’s, said:
Downing Street said the work mising the plane’s vital military role. “never seems to be available”. sky above Cambridge city centre “On behalf of the entire St
in an air display celebrating the Catharine’s community, I am
graduation of students at St delighted to offer my heartfelt
Catharine’s College. congratulations to our graduating
Yesterday (Thursday) would students.
have been the first in a series of “Our pride in the successes
days when St Catharine’s achieved by our students, in quite
students were expected to come exceptional circumstances this
together to graduate at in-person year, is today large in the sky
ceremonies this summer. above Cambridge.
It is traditional for students to “I hope everyone in Cambridge
kick off graduation day by who sees the air display will enjoy
gathering for a group photograph this special moment that marks
in the historical heart of the the next chapter in the lives of
college, known as Main Court, our students.”
before a short walk up King’s Dr Holly Canuto, senior tutor of
Parade to Senate House for the St Catharine’s, added:
ceremony itself. “Graduation is an important
Yet due to coronavirus, milestone for any student – and
gatherings across the University the culmination of many years of
of Cambridge have been hard work by our students, as
postponed until further notice well as all the support and
and so, in the absence of the encouragement that they
usual graduation traditions this received from families, friends,
year, the college celebrated the our Fellows and staff throughout
academic achievements of their time at St Catharine’s.
approximately 140 graduating “Today is an opportunity to
students with a large heart- honour our graduating students
shaped vapour trail in the sky. and celebrate with the wider
Students, even though absent, Cambridge community as a whole
will still be rewarded with their during this difficult time.”
degrees and those who had The air display was
expected to attend ceremonies commissioned specially by St
RAF Voyager’s respray on or after June 25 will be offered Catharine’s to be visible from
was unveiled at the opportunity to come back to Main Court and involved a single
Cambridge Airport celebrate together at a later date aircraft, courtesy of local expert
yesterday LEON NEAL when larger gatherings are Mark Jefferies and the Global
possible again. Stars flying team based at the
Professor Sir Mark Welland, airfield in Little Gransden.
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020 CAMBRIDGE NEWS 5
News
By BEN HATTON
[email protected]
@benhattonjourno
TELECOMS giant Huawei has been
granted approval to build the first
phase of its planned Cambridgesh-
ire campus.
Ahead of the decision yesterday
(Thursday) the application drew
international attention owing to
concerns over Huawei’s technology
and its relationship with the Com-
munist Party of China.
South Cambridgeshire District
Council’s planning committee voted
nine to one in favour, granting the
company planning permission to
build an office and research and
development facility in Sawston.
According to the planning appli-
cation it is “the first phase of a wider
campus” and “provides Huawei with
the opportunity to move their opera-
tion from Ipswich to Cambridge”.
Business Weekly reported that
Huawei bought the 530-acre site –
home to the former wholesaler Spic-
ers and just off the A1301 Sawston
bypass – for £37.5 million in 2018. Artist impression of the
In a statement released after the proposed Huawei site
planning decision was made, the near Sawston
company said it will invest £1billion HUAWEI/HDR INTERNATIONAL
in this first phase of the campus pro-
ject.
Huawei development
research institutes, universities, and
local industry, we want to advance
optical communications technology
for the industry as a whole, while
doing our part to support the UK’
broader industrial strategy.
“Ultimately, we want to help involved in espionage, and that it is the company – more than 500 acres and said that although Cambridge local area and wider, particularly in
enshrine the UK’s leading position independent of the Chinese state. – is greenbelt and said: “As the cur- Water did not object “they are cer- terms of improvements to infra-
in optoelectronics and promote UK Councillors on the planning com- rent application shows, we have no tainly putting warning signs in structure, the creation of jobs, and
tech on a global scale.” mittee were advised to put aside intention to build on the greenbelt. there”. the protection of landscape.”
The planning committee drew the those concerns, and prior to the There is plenty for us to build on the Cllr Roberts said that given the The applicant said the buildings
attention of senior figures in the US meeting the council said it would brownfield site”. applicant has stated it plans further will stand around 30 metres at their
government earlier this week when decide the application “based He said the company will “work development on the site, she said “it highest point with 300 parking
The Times reported that a source entirely on consideration of its plan- closely with all the stakeholders” on should have a master plan”. spaces and more than 80 cycling
had said the US Secretary of State ning merits”. future development. “What about the impact on travel? spaces.
Mike Pompeo was “really furious” The chief executive officer at Hua- The company said in a statement What about the impact on housing?” Whittlesford and Sawston parish
over the planned research facility. wei Technologies Research and the plans would “directly create “This area is being pushed and councils supported the application
Ahead of the meeting the Development UK, Henk Koop- around 400 local jobs”. pushed and pushed. We have no real subject to conditions, and Linton
US Under-Secretary of mans, said the plans for a But when asked about the impact plans to accommodate the sort of Parish Council objected.
State for Economic “s t a t e - o f - t h e - a r t on the company’s current site in the growth this business is likely to be Cambridge Past, Present and
Growth, Keith research and devel- Cambridge Science Park, Mr Koop- bringing.” Future, a charity to protect the green
Krach, was opment facility” are mans said that staff would be mov- A planning officer told the com- character of Cambridge, objected.
reported as call- “exciting” and that ing from its site in Ipswich. mittee the application is in an estab- A planning officer said the design
ing Huawei “an This looks like an the company had He told the committee: “We hope lished employment area and there- of the building aims to reduce
extension of the excellent use of a taken “a great most of our team from Ipswich will fore a master plan is not necessary, energy demands. Officers said it
Chinese gov- brownfield site. It is fully deal of time” to move across and that would mean but that one will likely be required would – under the BREEAM envi-
ernment”. liaise with the we would create about 200 addi- for future development. ronmental assessment criteria – be
Critics have in compliance with our council and the tional new jobs.” The chairman of the planning rated as “very good” overall with
alleged the tele- local plan. community. He said the current proposals for committee, Cllr John Batchelor – “excellent” achieved for energy use
coms company is Cllr John Batchelor He said: “Huawei the Sawston site require 367 jobs to who could not vote because his and carbon reduction.
too closely aligned is a long-term major operate the facility. internet cut out
with the Chinese state investor and partner for The plans had been recom- several times dur-
– a criticism that has the UK. For more than 20 mended to the committee for ing the virtual
played a prominent role in the years we have invested and oper-
debate over the extent to which ated in the UK, providing 3G, 4G and
Huawei should be involved in the now 5G products, and we plan on
approval by planning officers.
Councillor Deborah Roberts
pushed for the decision to be
meeting – spoke in
favour of the devel-
opment.
friday
UK’s 5G infrastructure. continuing to do so for many years
The UK government has said it is to come. We currently employ 1,600
reviewing Huawei’s involvement in people in the UK across 20 UK
deferred and was the only councillor
who voted against approval.
She said there were “unanswered
He said: “This
looks like an excel-
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News
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lowest
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sales in
England
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CAMBRIDGE’S housing market is
lagging behind the rest of the UK,
new data from the House Price
Index from Zoopla has revealed.
chester.
In Leeds, sales agreed has
spiked at 21 per cent, and the
increase across all three cities is
Commenting on the findings of
the latest UK House Price Index,
Richard Donnell, director of
research and insight, said: “The
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Since the housing market re-
opened in May in line with lock-
down measures easing, Cam-
bridge has recorded the lowest
driven by the relative affordabil-
ity, with house prices in these
areas sitting below £175,000.
While coronavirus has certainly
rebound in housing market activ-
ity has taken many in the industry
by surprise.
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number of new sales agreed of
any English city.
If you’ve lived in Cambridge
then you probably understand
had an impact on house prices
and the market, we are still likely
to see some changes.
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projections for falling economic
growth and rising unemploy-
ment.
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place to live, with a limited num- per cent. their developments.
ber of properties for sale usually Zoopla has predicted that the “We see returning pent up
due to the historic nature of many recently reported surge in demand and new buyers entering
city centre homes. demand for property, which is still the market creating upward pres-
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whopping 61 per cent in the past market closed, is expected to which has been exacerbated by
two weeks, in a stark comparison delay house price falls. the lockdown.
to a 4 per cent increase in sales Demand for homes is expected “House price growth is set to
across the UK as a whole. to weaken over summer and into hold up in the near term and we
Cambridge’s low number of
sales can be attributed in part to
the lack of properties for sale in
the city, with 39 per cent fewer
the autumn. This reduced
demand, compounded by other
factors and the impact of corona-
virus on things such as employ-
expect the downward pressure on
prices to come in the final months
of the year as demand weakens.”
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properties across the UK in gen-
into early 2021.
Just six weeks from the re-open-
per cent higher than a year ago
this is down to an increase in sales
eral is down 15 per cent. Afforda- ing of the English housing market, in higher value markets where
bility is also stretched in Cam-
bridge, with the average house
sales agreed across the UK are
now 4 per cent higher than pre-
activity has remained subdued in
recent years.
price a staggering £412,800 com- coronavirus times. “We do not expect the rate of
pared to the UK Cities average of
£254,600.
Across the UK the supply of
homes is currently 15 per cent
growth in the Zoopla House Price
Index to reach this level, rather it
The momentum which has
seen the 4 per cent increase in
lower than a year ago, which adds
to the upward pressure on house
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cent.” www.kinnairdhill.co.uk
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News
Woman’s Police’s warning
body found in about dangers of
Granchester diving into water
POLICE have warned water jumpers in
THE body of a woman in her 50s Cambridgeshire they could be putting their lives in
was found in Mill Way, danger.
Grantchester. The force issued a dispersal order for beauty
Police said the deceased was spot Houghton Lock and Mill, near Huntingdon,
found on Wednesday afternoon in after reports of dangerous diving into the water
the village just outside and anti-social behaviour during the heatwave.
Cambridge. It came into effect at 7pm on Wednesday and
The death is not being treated will remain in place until 7pm this evening (Friday).
as suspicious and it will now be Police said the water very dangerous, due to the
passed to a coroner. close proximity to the mill.
No further information about Police also had complaints of anti-social
the woman is available at this behaviour in the area.
time. Sergeant Alice Draper from the St Ives
A police cordon was spotted at neighbourhood policing team said: “With the
the Orchard Tea Garden in recent hot weather we’ve had increased reports of
Grantchester yesterday people causing anti-social behaviour in the area
(Thursday) morning. and most worryingly jumping into the water
The Orchard Tea Garden is putting themselves in danger.
based along Mill Way, “There is a bylaw in place which prohibits entry
Grantchester, a short drive south into the water within 30m of the lock, which is in
of the city centre. constant use, and can be subject to currents which
A police spokesperson said: “A may not be obvious but have the potential to drag
woman in her 50s was found people underwater.”
deceased in Vinery Road Police cordoned The dispersal order, which was granted under
yesterday (Wednesday) off Orchard Tea section 34 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and
afternoon. Gardens in Policing Act 2014, allows officers to direct a
“The death is not being treated Grantchester person to leave the area if they have reasonable
as suspicious and will be passed QUITEGREAT grounds to suspect that their behaviour has
to the coroner.” caused, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or
distress to members of the public.
Calls to remove
memorial window
TRIBUTE TO EUGENICIST IS TARGETED BY ACTIVISTS
By HARRY GOLD
[email protected] est in eugenics. In 1911, Fisher rage. Remove it and re-use the
@harrypgold became founding chairman of the beautiful glass to honour all the
ANTIRACIST campaigners are University of Cambridge Eugenics wonderful opportunities that
pushing for the removal of a Society, arguing that people could Cambridge offers to those who
memorial window at a Cambridge classed as naturally ‘superior’ or come from all walks of life and eth-
college in the wake of the Black ‘inferior’ based on their race and nic backgrounds.
Lives Matter protests. genetics. “It does this fabulous university
On June 7, protesters in Bristol In The Genetical Theory of Nat- less than the credit it deserves and
tore down the statue of slave trader ural Selection, Fisher’s 1930 re- perpetuates a system of inequality
Edward Colston and dumped it interpretation of Darwin’s theory and prejudice it ought to be able to
into the harbour. of natural selection, he wrote that rise above.”
This dramatic incident sparked civilizations fail because people of Earlier this month, Extinction
a number of similar actions, ‘low genetic value’ have more chil- Rebellion Youth Cambridge activ-
prompting people to re-evaluate dren than people with ‘high ists spray-painted the college with
statues across the country. genetic value.’ the message: “Eugenics is geno-
In an attempt to promote further He said this was beginning to cide. Fisher must fall.”
debate, a ‘hit list’ of 78 statues and happen in England, and that caps A spokesperson for Gonville and
memorials in towns and cities should be put on the fertility of Caius College said: “The issue of
across Britain has been compiled immigrants to prevent it. the Fisher Window is one that has
on a website called ‘Topple the Fisher also claimed that groups been of interest to Fellows and stu-
Racists.’ differed “in their innate capacity dents for some time and we are
The list includes ‘cases where for intellectual and emotional aware of the growing concern and
there is a responsibility for colo- development.” anger towards it.
nial violence’ – including one in As well as the Topple the Racists “College Officers have discussed
Cambridge. website, a number of campaigners this important but complex ques-
The stained-glass window in the have also started a petition to push tion with student representatives,
dining hall of Gonville and Caius for the window’s removal. and the college is taking the matter
College pays tribute to controver- At the time of writing, it has forward for debate and decision. It
sial statistician and biologist Ron- amassed 1,460 signatures. should also be noted that the win-
ald Fisher, who was also known for One commenter on the petition, dow is not currently visible to stu-
his strong views on race and inter- Dilys Hadley, said: “This is an out- dents and visitors.”
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National TWITTER
officers injured
NEARLY 30 officers were became hostile towards
injured after a street party officers.”
descended into violence, One witness, who did not
according to a police chief. want to be named, told the
Footage on social media PA news agency: “After the
showed police vehicles being police backed up, the group of
smashed and officers pelted people then forced the police
with bottles and chased out of the estate, throwing
during clashes with a large things at the police, smashed
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick crowd near the Angell Town up a police car that they
estate in Brixton, south abandoned and then it moved
PM backing Jenrick London.
Home Secretary Priti Patel
more towards the main road.”
Four people were in custody
BORIS JOHNSON is standing by Communities described the scenes as yesterday after arrests were
Secretary Robert Jenrick as a Government minister “utterly vile” and said she made for assault and public
suggested anyone attending Tory fundraising would be speaking to order offences, the
events could get similar access to politicians as Metropolitan Police Metropolitan Police said.
wealthy developer Richard Desmond did. Commissioner Cressida Dick. The force said a total of 15
Documents revealed the extent of the contact Police said they were called officers were injured, two of
between the Housing, Communities and Local to reports of a “large whom required hospital
Government Secretary and Mr Desmond before the unlicensed music event” in treatment, while a small
Cabinet minister signed off on the 1,500-home Cecilia Road on Wednesday number of police vehicles
Westferry Printworks scheme in east London. night, and officers tried to were damaged.
“encourage the crowd to But Ken Marsh, chairman
3.2m Credit claims leave”.
A Scotland Yard statement
of the Metropolitan Police
Federation, which represents
MORE than three that over 3.2 million said: “The event continued rank-and-file officers,
million people have people have made and more officers attended described the incident as
applied for Universal Universal Credit the scene and the group “absolutely shocking”.
Credit since the declarations since
Government advised March 16, when
people to stay at home lockdown measures
Walk-in centres
due to coronavirus, a were enforced, and
minister has that 90% of claimants
confirmed. have been paid “in full
Will Quince told MPs and on time”.
Showbiz
‘I won’t GLOBAL
BRIEFS
theatres
skin” thanks to her work in TV.
But in her Daily Mail column,
Reid said that she is criticised
every morning for her outfits, hair
and make-up.
reopen’
She added she is “regularly
instructed to pipe down because
I am a woman”.
Crowe woe
DAME JUDI DENCH VOICES over script
CONCERNS OVER INDUSTRY
Dame Judi
Dench says
you cannot
run a theatre
with people
sitting six RUSSELL CROWE said the first
seats apart Gladiator script he read was “so
bad”.
DAME Judi Dench has said that last year alone, we brought in Crowe, above, starred as Roman
she believes some major theatres £1.3 billion into the economy. So, Emilia Clarke will be
involved in a digital general Maximus Decimus
will not reopen in her lifetime. it is necessary. edition of the Edinburgh Meridius in Sir Ridley Scott’s
The veteran stage and screen “Of course there are lots of other TV Festival in August acclaimed 2000 epic and went
actress, 85, appeared on Channel 4 necessary things. I’m not saying on to win best picture at that
News to discuss the state of the that it should be more prioritised year’s Academy Awards. However
UK’s theatre venues amid the lock- than anything else, but it just is Crowe, 56, has revealed he was
down. going to be a very serious effect on initially far from sure the film
It comes after Prime Minister
Boris Johnson announced that
all of us.”
Mr Johnson also announced
Emilia’s Edinburgh appearance would be a hit.
During an appearance on The
theatres and concert halls are able that social distancing rules would GAME OF THRONES star Emilia including stars Sope Dirisu and Tonight Show Starring Jimmy
to reopen from July 4, but not for be cut from two metres to “one Clarke will appear at the Edinburgh Pippa Bennett-Warner and creator Fallon, he said: “Gladiator was a
live performances. metre plus”. TV Festival, organisers have Gareth Evans – will discuss how unique experience because the
Speaking from her home, Dame Dame Judi said many venues announced. they delivered a big budget script that they had was so bad,
Judi said: “When you hear that The would still be unable to open, The actress will take part in a experience to the small screen. it was just so bad. The producer
Old Vic is in trouble, when you despite the reduction. conversation with filmmaker Paul And some of Europe’s top public didn’t know I’d actually already
hear that the Nuffield in South- She added: “If the theatres now Feig, who directed her in 2019 broadcasters will give their been able to get a copy but the
ampton is in trouble, and Leicester close and become dark, I don’t rom-com Last Christmas. perspectives on the challenges they thing he said is ‘I don’t want to
and Nottingham. know when we’re going to get Sessions at this year’s festival, face, as viewer behaviour evolves send you the document we have,
“This is what we rely on and it’s them back. set to take place in a digital format amid increased competition from because you won’t respond to it’.”
a desperate feeling. “We do need a big injection. You in August, will “look to dissect the US streaming giants.
“And when will they ever open can’t run a theatre with people sit-
again? I don’t know, certainly, I’m ting six seats apart. ”
TV industry and debate the many
challenges facing producers in the
Normal People stars Paul Mescal
and Daisy Edgar-Jones were
Slate to stop
sure, not in my lifetime.
“I don’t know, I can’t see how it’s
The actress has become a social
media sensation after appearing
current climate,” organisers said.
A Gangs Of London masterclass
previously announced as appearing
at the Edinburgh TV Festival, which
voicing Missy
going to recover. It’s not as if we in TikTok videos with her grand- was also announced. The team takes place from August 24 to ACTRESS Jenny Slate announced
don’t bring a great deal of money son Sam Williams during lock- behind the acclaimed crime drama – August 27. she will no longer voice a black
to the economy because I think, down.
character in the animated series
Big Mouth, saying her taking the
role was “engaging in an act of
Doyle estate sues Netflix over upcoming Enola Holmes film erasure of black people”.
The 38-year-old, who is white,
SIR Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate younger sister of famed detective producers Legendary, among The estate argues Holmes’ had starred as Missy in the Netflix
has sued Netflix for copyright Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir others. emotional side was a late addition comedy, but the role will now be
infringement over its upcoming Arthur. In a lawsuit filed in New Mexico, to the character in books that are recast.
Enola Holmes film starring Millie It is based on the Enola Holmes the estate – which lost most of its not yet in the public domain, unlike It comes amid a renewed focus
Bobby Brown. series of books, written by US rights to Sherlock Holmes in 2014 most of Sir Arthur’s stories on diversity in Hollywood
The movie features the author Nancy Springer, who is also – is alleging copyright infringement featuring his most famous following worldwide protests
16-year-old Stranger Things being sued alongside her publisher over the film’s portrayal of the creation. Enola Holmes also stars against racial injustice.
actress as the exceptionally gifted Penguin Random House and detective as possessing emotions. Henry Cavill as Sherlock.
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DISCUSSING the behemoth of The Church View, High Street
Northstowe recently a neighbour and Mill Road area seems to have
had in their possession copies of the been cynically sacrificed, and we
PHOTO
original proposals. will soon be shaking hands with
Looking at what the current Northstowe through our bedroom
situation is now, this in my opinion windows.
exposes the lies and duplicity of To precis what one employee of
planners and developers and one the council once said on a similar
has to wonder in hindsight how we matter: ”Let me have your views by
were ever naive enough to believe
there was even a modicum of
email but I may not have time to
read them all.” of the day
honesty or integrity in what we were Rod Woolsey
first told. Church View
It is patently clear that the Oakington
accused in a show trial in Stalinist
Soviet Union had a bigger chance A knee-jerk reaction expense) and get back to Mill Road The world is a changing place Just take a good look at any one of
of being found not guilty than to two-wheel brigade past the bridge. with people power coming to the the grounds that have been imposed
those concerned with the impact It is always the motorist that fore. Therefore there has to be a lot on a Division One or Two in recent
of Northstowe on their lives have of I FEEL I must write concerning the suffers. more discussion before massive times. Ask their supporters if the
being listened to. brainless decision to close Mill There are so many reasons why decisions like this one are even new ground has any atmosphere.
Just where and to Road bridge to through this bridge MUST stay open – given a second glance. Worst of all they are usually built
whom can we go to traffic. clogging up other roads, delivery When it comes to people’s out of town, causing transport
for help when our It is just a typical vehicles, emergency vehicles, livelihoods, like shopkeepers, this issues.
MP seems locked knee-jerk reaction to disabled drivers, plus of course the should be a very high priority. Despite opposition, I expect
away in his the whingeing two- extra expense and inconvenience I would like to see a lot more the siren voices to get their way
bunker leaving What is the point of wheel brigade. caused, etc. displeasure with this decision so as they always do and the unique
his staff to fob Why not stop A bad idea always remains a bad that we can keep Mill Road bridge atmosphere of the Abbey be but a
us off with
voting for someone who cyclists from using idea however you dress it up. open. happy memory.
platitudes? betrays his the bridge? They As I have mentioned before, Name and address supplied Peter Woor
What is the constituents? could turn right transport systems have to include Pierce Lane
point of voting down Devonshire all different forms of travel, not just Despite flaws, Abbey Fulbourn
for someone Road and use the for example empty buses (we are has great atmosphere
who betrays his Rod Woolsey bridge near the railway being encouraged not to use public Student nurses have
constituents? station (built at great transport). SO the Abbey Stadium is not a 21st also played their part
century stadium we are told.
WEBCHAT
Something that I for one, am truly FOLLOWING the appalling
Protest over closure of thankful.
Have we not seen enough of 21st
comments made by the Care
Minister about student nurses being
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FLASHBACK
Pictures from our past
1974
Ready for your beauty treatment? Ernie the hippo was treated
to a mudbath when the new arrival made himself at home at
1960
the African Safari Park in Blair Drummond, Perthshire. He had
the special beauty treatment daily with his keeper Jane
Henderson getting a bucket of mud and rubbing it over his GIANT panda Chi Chi was one of the star attractions
back, neck and head to prevent his skin from cracking. at London Zoo and thousands of visitors from all
over the UK flocked to see her during the 1960s.
There were hopes she would breed at one point with
male panda An An, from Moscow Zoo, but she made
it clear she was not interested.
1967
A LITTLE TLC
was needed
when Percy Ready for some 1975
IT AIN’T Half
animal magic?
the Penguin Hot, Mum
developed a comedy actors
cold after bad Don Estelle
weather hit and Windsor
Flamingo Park Davies, right,
Zoo in Yorkshire. reached
Percy, a penguin number one in
from the Antarctic, had to be well wrapped the music
up with a scarf and a warm water bottle to charts with
1955
MIND the nose!
Great Indian
1988 1973
Hornbill, Baby
1950
had a double act
going with Alfred
SMILE please. Two swimming stars ROOM for a little one upstairs? Two-year-old Woods, head
with toothy grins took the plunge when giraffe Mary caused a stir when she hopped keeper at London
they were joined by a third – Olympic on a specially converted bus to take a trip Zoo’s bird house, BRUMAS was the first polar bear to be successfully
swimming gold medallist Duncan from her home at Longleat safari park in and would take reared in Britain. She was born at London Zoo on
Goodhew. The swimming champ teamed Wiltshire to Kidderminster. The upper deck swipes at his nose with that strong beak. Alfred November 27, 1948, and was named after her two
up with this pair of dolphins at Windsor was removed from the double decker bus would also put a grape between his lips and Baby keepers Bruce and Sam. Keeper Bruce Smith would
Safari Park to launch a nationwide series so Mary could enjoy the view for her little would snatch it away. They duo delighted children often take her for outings around the zoo and
of swims to raise money for charity. outing and she certainly stopped the traffic. with their tricks for years. children would flock to say hello.
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020 CAMBRIDGE NEWS 23
SOUND OUT
SOUND
I miss being able JUDGEMENT
to perform live
THE LATEST ALBUM
RELEASES RATED
AND REVIEWED
Riva has performed on the same bills as
the likes of Alfie Boe and Barbra Streisand
WHAT’S YOUR
PLEASURE?
and human
it was a bit like that. Music was just part JESSIE WARE
of my life. My first night in the West End ★★★★★
someone asked me if I was nervous and I WHAT’S Your
said ‘no, excited really.’” Pleasure? is a
She has been flown to the US to be refreshing return to
interviewed by Usher, sang alongside the dancefloor for Jessie Ware. The
Michael Ball at the 2006 FA Cup Final and
contact
12-track album is smoky, hazy and
seen her version of You Raise Me Up flirtatious with intimate lyrics and a
attract nearly four million views on contemporary take on 80s disco and
YouTube. funk.
“I got my first recording contract when Her electricity in Save A Kiss
I was 12 because my dad sent off a tape to could fill a sweaty nightclub as her
the record label and they contacted him. powerful tones pulse with the
My mum was saying ‘What have you
Riva Taylor tells MARION
strings and synths. Whispered
done?’ He never expected anyone to get verses build sexual anticipation in
back. He took a risk.”
McMULLEN all about her
the sultry title-track, while Mirage
Riva took time out to study for history (Don’t Stop) is a hazy summer
degree at Durham University, but says anthem. A return to music following
transition from she missed performing and launched
straight back into a music career, touring
the success of her podcast Table
Manners, Ware’s latest release is,
West End child with tenor Alfie Boe once she graduated.
“We had done stuff together before,”
undoubtedly, a pleasure.
T
there are melodies
HE world and textures aplenty
went into to explore and do so with their
lockdown just as customary elan.
the first half of Riva It’s hard to pin down Haim’s sound
Taylor’s new album This here, with an almost Nashville vibe
Woman’s Heart was released. on The Steps, all yearning guitars
“Live performances would have “I had changed as an artist and I knew I and soaring chorus, but then
been great,” she opens, “but lockdown needed to go into the studio and write my elsewhere, we find minimal band
happened and everyone was in the own material.” arrangements, velvety saxophone
same boat. People are still streaming and She is now making her mark as Riva – a lines weaving in and out, lending a
that side of things is not stopping and Hebrew derivative of Rebecca. Her album Jamaican flavour to the surprisingly
fortunately the album has been well A Dream Come True came out in 2001 ska-like Los Angeles. But just when
received and that’s great. and was followed by Shine, then By Your you think you’ve figured this album
“The live side of things will come and Side. She recorded The Creed, the out, they serve up I Know Alone, a
I’m looking at the opportunity of singing soundtrack song for the Assassin’s Creed song that borrows beats from
in December. We’ll just have to wait and video game series, and has worked in millennial UK garage and pairs them
see. I’m remaining optimistic throughout LA with Hans Zimmer’s team. up with downbeat indie lyrics.
all of this.” Her two-years running sell-out Three singles released last year
Riva has been keeping busy at home in Writing Round series at London’s are included as bonus tracks.
London polishing up her kitchen skills Roundhouse, a songwriters’ circle
and says: “I love to cook, but I’ve never in collaboration with Nashville JID002
had the time before. I’ve taught myself songwriter Jeff Cohen, also led to ROY AYERS
how to make a pizza, it is quite a useful the launch of the This Woman’s ★★★★★
skill. I’ve been setting myself a fresh dish Heart community. Last year she AFTER 18 years away,
to learn every week – fresh dish Friday performed before more than Roy Ayers’ return to
– and when I can have friends over I’ll be 65,000 people, on the bill with studio recording is
cooking up a storm. I find cooking quite the legendary Barbra Streisand short but incredibly
creative and I also love to sketch. It’s at the British Summer Time sweet. The eight-track JID002 was
quite therapeutic.” very different person at the back end. With festival in London’s Hyde Park. born out of a series of shows in
She has also been doing interviews age, I’ve opened up more; this first half is “I miss being able to his hometown Los Angeles and
with the likes of Strictly Come Dancing the dark half, the dark heart, and is written perform live and I miss produced totally analogue.
singer Hayley Sanderson as part of her about the trials of those wilderness years.” human contact,” says Riva. Perhaps partly for that reason,
This Woman’s Heart online community At 32, Riva is already a veteran “My parents live 45 minutes Ayers really feels like he’s
(instagram.com/thiswomansheart), performer. Her singing talents saw her on away and summer is recapturing the 70s LA soul for
which supports and connects women in the West End stage under the name Becky normally a time I spend which he’s famed while absorbing
the arts. Taylor when she was just seven, playing with them. I miss being some of the newer jazz styles he
Riva will finally get to release the Eponine in the musical Les Miserables. able to travel, but have had such a great role in inspiring.
Riva realised I don’t
second part of her album later this year. When she was 12 she became the Highlights include the infectious
Taylor need to do as
“The first part is about heartbreak and youngest person ever to sign to EMI funk bass on Soulful and Unique,
has had much as I did.”
the second is about heart make,” she Records. “I always loved singing around to put and opener Synchronize Vibration.
explains. “This album is very much about the house and my parents took me to see touring Whether you’re a jazz and soul
a woman’s journey through her twenties, Les Mis and I remember thinking ‘that’s ■ Go to riva- aficionado or just want something
on hold taylor.com for
shedding some innocence, learning what I want to do’. I went along to audition for now smooth to accompany a sunny
important life lessons and emerging as a and got the part. I make it sound easy, but album details. Sunday, this is a delight from start
to finish.
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FILM REVIEWS
With Damon Smith
PURE
Maxine Peake
as Fanny Lye
AND
Teresa Palmer
and Sam Neill
RIDE LIKE A GIRL (PG)
Preview
THIS is an affectionate biographical
drama about Michelle Payne, the
first female jockey to win the
SINFUL
Melbourne Cup, the most
prestigious thoroughbred race in
Australia.
Horse trainer Paddy Payne
(Sam Neill) presides over a large
family and the majority of his 10
children become jockeys.
Youngest child Michelle (Teresa
Palmer) follows suit and builds a
special relationship with a horse
called Prince Of Penzance.
She prepares to ride the steed
in the 2015 Melbourne Cup, where FANNY LYE DELIVER’D (18)
she is a 100-1 outsider. Drawing on ★★★★★
S
years of experience and her bond
with her mount, Michelle attempts HOT largely in a
to gallop ahead of bookies’ single location –
favourites Fame Game and Trip To a claustrophobic
Paris. 17th-century farmhouse
■ Available to download/stream – Fanny Lye Deliver’d
from June 26. is an engrossing chamber piece and his team to choreograph English Civil War, presides over As the sun
about a common woman, gorgeous single-take camera his remote Shropshire farm with rises over
forcibly blinkered to her power sequences at the mercy of a steely glare and an iron fist. the farm, a
THE GIRL and potential, who faces natural light and the wintry He fervently upholds Puritan preening
WITH A Charles Dance
unspeakable violence in a time elements. stricture and bows down only popinjay (Peter er as John Lye
BRACELET of revolution. Costumes were hand-dyed and to God, admonishing young McDonald), who
(TBC) Maxine Peake delivers a hand-stitched while instruments son Arthur (Zak Adams) for introduces himself as The High
Preview Melissa compelling lead performance as from the era create an intrusive submitting to his subservient Sheriff for the Council of State,
Guers a Puritan’s wife, who believes it is orchestral score, also composed wife, Fanny (Peake). arrives on horseback, searching
ADAPTED
as Lise a grievous sin to challenge her by Clay, layering strings with “Never let a woman best you for “a pair of licentious heretics”
from the
husband’s authority, but the cornetts and sackbuts. boy,” growls the domineering who participated in a sinful
Argentinian
most remarkable element of A taut script draws on years of master. display at a local tavern.
film Acusada (The Accused),
writer-director Thomas Clay’s research and the expertise of The hushed order is thrown Fanny Lye Deliver’d captures
The Girl With The Bracelet is a
third film is the period detail. historical consultants to reflect into disarray by the arrival of two some of the menace of Clay’s
compelling courtroom drama.
The farm was hand-built the radicalism of the era but naked and bloodied strangers, controversial and deeply divisive
Sixteen-year-old Lise (Melissa
from the ground up with Clay’s writing occasionally Thomas Ashbury (Freddie Fox) debut feature film, The Great
Guers) is arrested and charged
authentic materials in a carefully abandons authenticity for an and Rebecca Henshaw (Tanya Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael.
with the murder of her best friend
landscaped location to allow Clay unnecessary pithy putdown Reynolds), who claim to be the Brutality serves the narrative
Flora Dufour (Emilie Lehuraux).
The victim was stabbed on the (“
(“I’d lose the victims of highway robbery. here, sparked by a scene of
morning after a sleepover, but at
attitude if I When John learns that Thomas ‘shroom-fuelled hedonism.
Lise claims she left the house w
were you!”) also served in the military, to Peake and Dance immerse
minutes before the brutal attack. b
before the film uphold the glory of Oliver themselves in their roles
In the courtroom, Flora’s mother d
descends Cromwell’s republic, he permits while Fox preaches “perfect
(Anne Paulicevich) demands into hellish the interlopers to stay one night libertinism” in captivating
justice for her little girl and a retribution in his barn. sermons that momentarily avert
tenacious advocate general (Anais f the
for Soon after, Thomas and our gaze from his distractingly
Demoustier) paints a grim portrait sh
shocking final Rebecca witness John whitened teeth.
of Lise’s character. ac
act. disciplining Fanny and Arthur Clay’s impressively staged
Lise’s legal counsel (Annie John Lye with a birch across their exposed picture bares its pearly whites,
Freddie Fox,left, (Charles backs as “his godly duty to keep snarls and isn’t averse to drawing
Mercier) attempts to counter each as Thomas and
attack while the teenager sits Dance), them on the righteous path” and blood.
Tanya Reynolds a former the enigmatic duo are compelled ■ Available to download/
impassively, awaiting the verdict. as Rebecca, above Captain in the to intervene. stream from June 26.
■ Streaming on Curzon Home
Cinema from June 26.
series
THE third and concluding season of AHEAD of the eagerly awaited
German-language thriller Dark, which debut of Frozen II on Disney+ on
exposes the secrets of four families living July 3, this six-part documentary
link
in the close-knit town of Winden across series follows filmmakers, artists,
different time periods, promises to tie up cast and songwriters in the year
loose narrative threads with a flourish. leading up to the sequel’s world
The second season ended with the premiere.
jaw-dropping sight of the original Martha Into The Unknown: Making
Here are some (Lisa Vicari) lying dead at the feet of an Frozen II witnesses the stressful race
alternate Martha. against time to complete the picture,
small screen In the final eight episodes, Jonas galvanised by the energy of directors
arrivals worth Kahnwald (Louis Hoffman) must join Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck and
checking out forces with the alternate Martha to end the actors Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel,
while we are still cycle of devastation wrought by Adam, the Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff, Sterling K
Louis Hoffman as leader of Sic Mundus. Brown and Evan Rachel Wood.
in lockdown. Jonas Kahnwald ■ On Netflix from June 27. Anna and Elsa ■ On Disney + from June 26.
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020 CAMBRIDGE NEWS 25
WE’RE PROUD
by potty-mouthed rival Faith Brewster playing with kid gloves, surprising
(Rose Byrne) and a Republican given his track record as the acerbic
campaign that sweeps Donald Trump Emmy Award-winning host of The
into the White House. Daily Show who for more than 15
He searches for glimmers of hope in years skilfully dissected headlines.
OF YOU
the political gloom and is intrigued
when a team member unearths video ■ Available to stream/download
footage of retired military man and from June 26.
WARRIOR NUN
Nominate now at prideofbritain.com
INSPIRED by the Warrior Nun Areala
comic series created by Ben Dunn. Orphan
Ava (Alba Baptista) wakes in a morgue
with a glowing artefact embedded in her
back.
She suffers terrifying visions during her
first moments of consciousness and the
young woman seeks spiritual guidance
from the church. Father Vincent (Tristan
Alloa) reveals that Ava bears the halo of
the Warrior Nuns, who have dedicated
their lives throughout the centuries to
battling ancient evil. The plucky teenager
Alba Baptista
reluctantly takes up the mantle and fights
demons on Earth to protect mankind.
■ On Netflix from July 2.
#ourprideofbritain #whosyours
26 CAMBRIDGE NEWS FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020
SCREEN SHOTS
W GEORGIA HUMPHREYS talks to Rosamund Pike and director Marjane
HEN it came to casting
the role of Marie Curie in Rosamund
new biopic Radioactive, Pike says she
film-maker Marjane
Satrapi knew she needed
Satrapi about telling the life story of one of science’s greatest pioneers understands
Marie Curie’s
an actress “who would be fierce”. dislike of
remarkable
because she worked within a man’s
world, while women were still
campaigning for the right to vote.
On meeting Rosamund Pike,
Iran-born artist and writer Marjane,
famed for her work as a graphic
novelist, decided “it was her or
nobody else” for the part.
So, would Rosamund say Marie’s
ferocity is something she could relatee
to?
“Yeah, I’m fierce! F***ing right,” thee
London-born actress retorts
unabashedly. “Especially if you
come across as quite ladylike, I thinkk
a bit of ferocity is vital.”
Rosamund, 41, is an Oscar-
nominated actress with many
memorable films under her belt,
including Bond film Die Another
Day, thriller Gone Girl and emotive
drama A United Kingdom.
Discussing her approach to
this film, written by Jack Thorne,
Rosamund recalls she and Marjane
ON THE
SMAL L
“weren’t too worried about Madamee
Curie being likeable, in the sort
of traditional sense of how you’re
SCREEN
supposed to have female heroines”.
“We find her intensely likeable, Intense: Rosamund as Marie Curie at work in the lab above, and
because of her intenseness, her left, Sam Riley plays Marie’s ‘perfect partner’ husband Pierre
abruptness, her oddity, eccentricity,
her brilliance, her sort of implacable, “So many people think that fame “Not all guys do that,” follows The star confides
direct manner,” she continues. and success should come very Rosamund thoughtfully. “Not all she used to find the
“We find all that really charming quickly; she put in hours and hours,” guys will allow themselves to be scrutiny that comes
and very likeable, for us – but not she notes. charmed by a woman. with walking the red
necessarily likeable to everyone.” “It was hard labour doing “Some people are so busy thinking carpet “unbearable”, but
Rosamund became obsessed with what they did. They could see the about how they’re coming across, has now trained herself
knowing more about Marie’s life phenomenon existed, but then you and Sam is just himself and as Pierre, to handle it.
story, which she found “fascinating. have to prove it and isolate the that comes across, with that sort of Elaborating on her
Right from when she was in Poland elements, and that means she had to amused, go with the flow attitude.” experiences of being in
under Russian rule and you couldn’t retrain from physics and re-train Marie and Pierre became the spotlight when she
speak Polish and girls couldn’t go to herself as a chemist.” celebrities for their achievements, was younger, she says:
university. A huge part of the film, which but after Pierre’s death in 1906, “Pierce Brosnan first
“She was part of this thing called is based on a graphic novel by Marie had an affair with a married warned me about it,
the Flying University, so she was a Lauren Redniss, is the exploration of man and had to face her reputation because the first
rebel and was finding her own route Marie’s marriage and her working taking a blow. photocall I had to d
through – that’s why she was so relationship with her Pierre (played Discussing how women were o was for the
remarkable. by Sam Riley), with whom she had vilified regardless of achievements announcement of the
“It certainly doesn’t faze her to two daughters. – and still can be today – Rosamund 20th Bond film, 40 years
be one of only a few women at the “She found the perfect partner,” explains part of the reason she thinks of Bond.
Sorbonne; by the time she got to the suggests Rosamund, who has two Marie was shamed for her affair. “We went up on the
Sorbonne she’d already been children herself, with husband Robie “An averagely intelligent woman stage and I nearly fell
studying in secret for years – and Uniacke, a mathematical researcher. would have been fine, would have over... The force of
learning when it was forbidden for “Pierre Curie was a very modern, gone unnoticed, but it’s not OK for a these people, the
women to learn, and speak Polish.” forward-thinking man, he wanted to remarkable woman to have an affair, photographers, the
The other thing Rosamund is share equal stature with his wife – or or for the object of the passion to be flashbulbs.
clearly in awe of and wants to make even let her take the stage. And that a remarkable woman. Suddenly she’s “He just put his arm
clear is the amount of hard work was very rare. It’s still rare now.” very threatening, she’s breaking up around me, and I
Marie put in. She continues: “I think we were all families... Affairs were going on all thought, ‘God, he
She and her husband discovered very inspired by their marriage. It the time! Especially in France.” realises I’m about to fall
radium and polonium, which went was a very important part of the film, It’s well known that Marie, who over’.
on to have both good and bad and for me, it’s the dream to have a died aged 66 in 1934, from aplastic “It is a shock; it feels
consequences for the world – total soul connection with someone pernicious anaemia (a condition she like you are being eaten
nuclear weapons, nuclear energy and also create with them.” is believed to have developed after alive for a minute.
and radiation for medical treatment Marjane is full of admiration as she years of exposure to radiation), did “And then you start to
– her research was a huge recalls watching Rosamund and Sam not enjoy the attention that came realise that you can put up a shell.”
contribution towards the fight play a scene. “We fall in love with with fame. It is something else ■ Radioactive is available to
against cancer. this woman the way he does.” Rosamund herself can relate to. watch on digital platforms now.
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TENNIS? I’M MUCH MORE OF A GOLF ADDICT THESE DAYS itself, there’s been a lot of States Tennis Association
ONCE the Indian Wells Former British number one Tim Henman talks to hours of Wimbledon
programming. Each change,” he notes. confirmed the US Open will
tennis tournament had
been cancelled on March 9,
Georgia Humphreys about life off the court weeknight for two weeks, “But they’ve kept their go ahead behind closed
because of coronavirus, the and the impact Covid-19 has had on his sport Sue Barker will be joined core values, that’s what doors in New York at the
situation with the pandemic in the studio at the All makes it special. You have end of August.
moved alarmingly quickly, Presenters England Lawn Tennis Club grass, predominantly white Tim believes that,
and week by week, big Sue Barker, by Tim and Boris Becker, clothing... the royal box.” mentally, players should be
decisions were being made Clare Balding plus John McEnroe and Another fond memory able to deal with having
across the world of sport. and, in his Martina Navratilova via is the first time he played had time off, as getting
The Tokyo Olympics playing days, videolink to look at on Centre Court against injured goes with the
were postponed and soon Tim Henman highlights from SW19 Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who territory.
after, Wimbledon. down the years. was French Open champion, But he believes the
“Once that happened, the Meanwhile, in the in 1996, 15 years later. return to matches could
spotlight was turning very daytime, Clare Balding “To get the opportunity pose a “challenge
rapidly,” says Tim Henman, presents Wimbledon to go out there was physically, because it
45, who retired from Rewind, airing classic something I’d dreamed of.” doesn’t matter how much
professional tennis in 2007. matches, such as the Asked who he thinks you practise and you train,
“Wimbledon certainly
HE
TH
ON T women’s 1969 final would have won Wimbledon competition is always going
SMALL
looked at all the options between Ann Jones and this year, Tim doesn’t to be a bit different... there
and it became clear Billie Jean King, and the hesitate: “In the men’s, can be some very long
EEN
CREE
Djokovic would have been a matches and their bodies
SC
S
cancellation was the men’s final between Goran
responsible thing to do”. Ivanisevic and Andre favourite. He’s number one just won’t necessarily be
While the Oxford-born Agassi in 1992. in the world for a reason, used to that.
sportsman never won a Tim’s first memory of and defending champion. “So, they’ll have to make
grand slam title, his career court at their Oxford home But he is still very much Wimbledon is from 1981 “In the women’s you sure that they take care of
saw him reach the semi- during lockdown, Tim involved with the sport, when, aged six, his mum could probably come up themselves. But I think the
finals of the men’s singles reveals he “doesn’t play a sitting on the board at took him to watch “his hero with a list of 15 or 20 vast majority are really
at Wimbledon four times, great deal of tennis” now. Wimbledon, and working as and idol” Bjorn Borg play, in players. One player who’s keen to get back out there
and for several years, he “I’m much more of a golf part of the commentary the days when players still impressed me enormously, because they love what
was British number one. addict. You’re much more team for the BBC coverage. used wooden rackets. is Bianca Andreescu, a they do.”
Although he and his three likely to find me on a golf And, to keep tennis fans “You look at the roofs Canadian who won the US ■ Wimbledon Rewind
daughters, aged 17, 15 and course than a tennis court,” entertained this summer, now on Centre Court and Open, and she’s still young.” will be on BBC Two
12, have been using the he jokes. the Beeb is serving up 50 Court One, the stadium Last week, the United from June 29 at 1.45pm
28 CAMBRIDGE NEWS FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020
SPOTLIGHT
Ever regretted a tweet? Sisters Stevie and Gina Martin tell MARION
SHOW
Where did the idea for the
McMULLEN why their new podcast reveals a love-hate affair with socialmedia
Might Delete Later podcast
begin?
BUZZ
Stevie: It started about a year
Many early
ago. We really wanted to work
together and went through lots
of different types of ideas.
Some we thought didn’t work
and some we thought were
rubbish, but social media was ALL THE LATEST
at the forefront of our minds.
cool. You
and it’s been really fun. Dancing’s Karen
Gina is amazing when it Hauer and
comes to social media and I am Gorka Marquez
the complete opposite. I have a are to return to
love-hate relationship. I have the stage next
thrown my phone at the wall year with their
think ‘I’d
crying ‘I can’t put anything on spectacular
anything’. Firedance.
Gina is the real whizz – it all They will be
moves so quickly with different turning up the
platforms instantly appearing. I heat with
never post
don’t like the idea of being left rescheduled
behind, but sometimes I feel 20 tour dates and
years older than Gina, not have added a host of new shows
three. including a performance at
Gina: We’ve different ideas London’s Royal Festival Hall on
about social media and it has Friday 26th February.
just made great conversations. Gorka says: “I had such a great
We ask guests about their first time on the Firedance tour; the
post? What they regret posting?
And funny moments and big
mistakes.
Many early posts are not cool
and you think ‘I’d never post
that now. I’m embarrassed by
that.’
that now’ audience, Karen, our fellow
dancers and team made it a truly
memorable experience so the bar
has been set for 2021. I can’t wait
to return.” The tour runs from
February 25.
■ Go to firedancelive.co.uk for
People are human. They ticket details.
make mistakes online. I used to
work in advertising as a DRIVE-IN DELIGHTS
copywriter and art director. It BRAINIAC LIVE,
was a digital agency putting pictured, and
together videos and trailers Bjorn Again are
and I learned a lot about social among drive-in
media. summer specials
On the wish taking place in
How well do you get along? Guest: Nish Kumar list: Ed Balls stadiums, racecourses and
Stevie: At Christmas we had a airports across the UK.
bit of an argument, and we Dizzee Rascal, Kaiser Chiefs,
never argue, but we had an the podcast wizard and I’m the Gina: We like having Gary Numan, tenor Russell
argument at the dinner table social media person. different people on. I Watson and Spandau Ballet’s Tony
with our parents wondering would like to have Hadley are also among those
‘What’s going on?’ How have you been politician Ed Balls. He performing drive-in concerts and
I do comedy and my most managing during lockdown? wrote his own name acts will perform to about 300
recent show had been about Stevie: It’s very familiar. I’m for his first tweet and cars at each show. Events will be
social media and in it I took the mostly on my own at home. it’s gone on to become backed by concert-quality sound
p*** about armchair activists. It (Laughs) I do comedy and I Ed Balls Day. That’s the with a full lighting rig and LED
was not directed at Gina at all, have been in training since best. screens. The summer season will
but she felt it was and I called 2015 for this. I have been doing also feature West End theatre,
her an influencer and she voiceover work under the What are you looking
DJs and family events.
duvet. forward to now
didn’t really like that. ■ Details available from livenation.
She’s done some incredible I have a bit of a balcony and restrictions are easing? co.uk
things (she led the campaign to I’ve been wedging myself in Stevie: Seeing my sister Gina.
the corner to enjoy a bit of We hang out all the time, but
have upskirting made a
we live different sides of THE DREAM WILL RETURN
criminal offence) and I felt sunshine. JASON DONOVAN,
really, really bad that she felt London. She walked for three
inset, and Jac Yarrow
like this. Which guest would you like and a half hours recently to will star in re-scheduled
We made up the next day to have on the podcast? stand outside and wish me a
happy birthday. dates of hit musical
and I said I was really sorry. It Stevie: We’ve had comedian Joseph and the
made me look like I was being Nish Kumar on and body It was so weird seeing
Amazing Technicolor
the mean big sister. (Laughs). positive blogger Megan Crabbe someone in real life and not on Dreamcoat at The
Gina: We really miss each other and I would love to get FaceTime.
There is a little bar in Gina’s London Palladium next summer.
at the moment. politicians, footballers, social Andrew Lloyd Webber, who
We’re best friends and media people, critics and neighbourhood and I’m
looking forward to going there wrote the musical with Sir Tim
definitely each other’s support artists – people who are all very Rice, said: “We will leave no stone
system first and last. Doing the different. with her for a drink and some
lovely nibbles. unturned to find safe access both
podcast has been a bonding I do another podcast called backstage and front of house. I
experience seeing how each Nobody Panic, but doing a ■ Stevie and Gina
Martin host the am delighted that Joseph will be
other works. podcast with your sister is back on The London Palladium
We have very different completely different. It’s like Might Delete Later
podcast, available stage next summer.”
experiences of social media. I chatting with a friend and is Gina (left) and ■ See josephthemusical.com for all
amazing fun. to listen to on Apple Stevie Martin are casting a
love it and Stevie hates it. She’s ticket information.
Podcasts. critical eye over social media
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TODAY’S TV
With Sara Wallis
Cat
(Lauren
Socha)
J
and
Cathy
PICK OF THE DAY
AMIE OLIVER wants to ingredient combos that deliver our salad game – there’s a
get us all back in the big on flavour.” flavour-packed harissa squash (Ellie
kitchen – doesn’t he It’s quite refreshing not to be salad with “a wicked little twist”. White)
realise that’s the only JAMIE’S QUICK & EASY FOOD faced with a super long list of Next he cooks a speedy rosé
place we’ve been for Channel 4, 8pm hard-to-source, hard-to- pesto prawn pasta, and finally
three months!? pronounce spices found only he makes the fastest little
This fourth series was filmed Keeping things simple, these at a niche supermarket. flapjacks around – Buddy’s
pre-lockdown so we’ll forgive recipes require only five These are so easy you might flapjack biscuits. Sadly there’s
him. It’s most welcome at a ingredients – along with a actually even jot them down no cameo from his son Buddy,
time when we could all do with handful of larder basics like salt, and try them out. who has already been following THE OTHER ONE
some inspiration away from a pepper and olive oil. In this first instalment, he in his dad’s footsteps with BBC1, 9pm/ BBC1 Wales, 9.30pm
Groundhog Day meal rotation. “These are recipes that you kicks things off with an aromatic online baking videos. AS THE culture-clash comedy continues,
Also, none of his recipes so far can rattle off in no time,” he lamb curry that he knocks Fully expecting an Oliver Cathy (Ellie White) has an important
seem to include banana bread, says. together in no time. father and son baking show question: “Siri, do charity shops accept
so that’s a result. “Streamlined, with genius Then he tells us he’s upping next time… dead men’s pants?”
This is pretty much where the
proceedings have got to as the two
families cope with the aftermath of their
SOAP
dead, shared, Colin.
CORONATION STREET ITV, 7.30pm CELEBRITY Cathy is packing up the family home
SNOOP DOGS and moving out, making way for some
LEANNE is Channel 4, 8.30pm
watch
brief moments of emotion before Cat
shocked when IF YOU thought and her mum Marilyn (Siobhan Finneran)
Amy reveals that reality shows interrupt wondering what stuff they can
Steve has booked couldn’t get One have.
a trip for them all any more wacky, of the They get a bit carried away. “Does it
to Cornwall. She think again. snoop look like Argos threw up over the lawn?”
Your guide feels that Oliver This bizarre new dogs asks Cat, played by Lauren Socha.
is showing signs show, billed as a “More like John Lewis,” corrects Cathy.
to all the of improvement, David and Shona ‘celebrity property show like no other’, is like Cathy has also decided that she would
but what will the
drama in the consultant say and can they go away?
Through The Keyhole meets Crufts.
We snoop around the homes of famous people,
like to get her dad a memorial bench.
“Like a Princess Diana fountain?” asks
Square, on the Meanwhile, David gets a shock when Shona
leans in for a kiss and suggests that they have sex.
guided by the dogs who live there, which have been Cat. She is keen but hasn’t got the cash.
kitted out with special mounted cameras. Elsewhere, Marcus (Amit Shah) is keen
cobbles and Elsewhere, Fiz is worried that she and Tyrone Kevin McCloud narrates this dogs’ eye view show to prove his masculinity to Cathy and
are becoming dull, Emma gets her hand stuck in as the pooches sniff around, while we the viewers finds an unusual outlet at the local
in the Dales a cast and Amy panics about her exams. try to guess the owner. Sounds barking mad. dump.
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THOMAS WANTS TO
EDUCATE PEOPLE
ABOUT HIV Jermaine Sam
ONE tablet a day is all it takes for Stoke 1 - 1 M’Boro Stoke 1 - 1 M’Boro
Gareth Thomas to know that he
cannot transmit HIV in any way. Any team with a new This feels like a must
manager always gets win for Middlesbrough
The treatment is simple, non- a reaction and Neil but for Stoke it feels
invasive and allows the former Warnock will, so I’m like a “must not lose”.
Wales rugby captain to live a going score draw for I think it will
normal, healthy, happy life. his first match back in end in a stalemate.
And yet according to a recent the dug-out.
survey, fewer than one in five
people are aware that with effec-
tive treatment those living with Leeds 1 - 1 Fulham Leeds 1 - 1 Fulham
HIV cannot pass it on to their Can’t call this one. A huge game in the
Both had strange Championship! Fulham
sexual partner. results last week so need the win for any
That survey of 4,000 people I’m gonna sit on the hope of automatic
was undertaken by Tackle HIV, a fence and call another promotion, but I think
new initiative launched by for- draw. Leeds will shut their
mer Wales rugby captain chances down.
Thomas in association with ViiV
Healthcare to improve public
understanding of HIV and break Swansea 3-0 Luton Swansea 3-0 Luton
the stigma that surrounds it. The Swans have hit the Luton have laboured to
For Thomas this is about edu- ground running since a draw in their last three
cation. Not educating those with restart and I can see matches, but in this one
HIV, but everyone else. that continuing against I think the Swans will be
Gareth Thomas the bottom club. too strong for them.
He explains: “We still live in a
society and a world where playing for the
stigma holds back people being British & Irish
Lions in 2005
able to be honest about living DAVID ROGERS
with HIV. Charlton 2 -1 QPR Charlton 1 - 1 QPR
“Because the truth is, I live
Charlton are desperate Charlton are far from
with HIV, I take a single tablet just how far the medicine has that others have a much harder He concludes: “For me, the
for the points and that safe and with Lyle
every day. I’m on effective treat- progressed in treating the virus. time of it and that is why this goal is to get as many people added edge will see Taylor abandoning
ment that means I can’t trans- It is for that reason the stigma means so much to him. aware of the fact there is a stigma them get all three in a them it is hard to see
mit HIV in any way, shape or surrounding HIV still exists, and “It would be easy to be selfish around HIV, and if they are much needed victory. where the goals will
form. why Thomas is so desperate to and say I’ve come out the other aware of it, they can do some- come from.
“I live my life with HIV with no raise awareness. end and my fight is over, but it’s thing about breaking it. I want
limitations. I’m not saying that “I was somebody who felt they not. My fight is over when every- this to reach as many people as
people who stigmatise are were educated in this,” says body is able to come out the possible. Wigan 1 - 2 Blackburn Wigan 2 - 2 Blackburn
wrong and should know better, Thomas, who announced he other end,” he said. “I’m not telling people what Both sides returned Both teams have won
because I had my own stigma. was living with HIV last Septem- There are other results in the decision they should make or with impressive wins, their first games after
When I found out I was living ber. survey that stand out: more than how they should live their lives, but something has to the extended break so
with HIV, I thought I was going “But the fact is, there has 60% of the people surveyed said but they need to make an edu- give and I’m backing both should be
cated decision before they are Blackburn to make it confident coming
to die. almost been this underground they would or might end their
back to back victories. into this one. Score
“I’m not shouting at people, movement of science and medi- relationship if they found out prejudiced. draw for me.
I’m just telling them we can cre- cine in the last 20 years, and it their partner was HIV positive. “If they have an educated
ate a better environment if eve- has not been publicised. Particularly poignant for understanding of HIV, and are
rybody knew the situation of “When I found out about Thomas is the fact that more still prejudiced, then they are
how far science and medicine
has come in the last 20-odd
treatment and how effective it
could be, and how non-invasive,
than a third of those who play
contact sports say they would
not very nice people.
“But a lot of nice people are
Get the footie5 app
years since we watched that
horrific advert and the tomb-
that I just have to take one tablet
a day, once I realised that I could
not play against an opponent
living with HIV.
doing it because they don’t
understand. I want as many
PLAY FOR FREE
stone telling everybody that HIV live a normal, healthy, happy For a man who was at one people to be as educated about
and AIDS is a killer.” life, I kind of came to terms with time Wales’ all-time record this as possible.”
There is something bitterly it a lot easier.” appearance maker and the ■ Tackle HIV, a new campaign
ironic about the advert to which Thomas readily admits that country’s all-time try-scorer, not led by Gareth Thomas in part-
Thomas refers: the ‘Don’t Die of he enjoys a privileged position to mention a Lions captain, that nership with ViiV Healthcare
Ignorance’ campaign featuring when it comes to living with response came as a shock. and the Terrence Higgins Trust,
the iconic voice of the late John HIV, in part because he has edu- Thomas wants to reach as aims to tackle the stigma and
Hurt. cated those close to him about many people as possible misunderstanding around HIV.
People are only too aware of what it really means to be in his because he knows that many of For more information visit
the dangers of HIV and AIDS. situation. those who perpetuate this www.tacklehiv.org and follow
18+, UK only. One entry each round per player. Prizes will be shared in the
The problem is the ignorance of The 45-year-old is also aware stigma are not bad people. @tacklehiv event of multiple winners. Full T&C’s apply.
38 CAMBRIDGE NEWS FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020
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BODYLINE (9) Sir M Prescott 9-7.........................................................L Morris 89
5 (5) 7-7 LINE OF REASON (15) P Midgley 10 9-7 (D6).....P J McDonald 91 3 (1) 4 CITY CODE (14) R Beckett 9-5 .................................H Bentley 39 Wolverhampton 5f hcp 0-70 (5) in Nov beating Three Little Birds by shd, 11 ran. SECOND 2 (1) -83 ATLANTIC CROSSING (16) P & O Cole 8-10 ..........David Egan —
6 (8) 90- SECRETINTHEPARK (218) M Mullineaux 10 9-7 (D4) .....J Garritty 71 4 COMMONSENSICAL T Dascombe 9-5 .................R Kingscote — COLLECTION 12-1 Held up, headway 2f out, led just over 1f out, headed inside final furlong, no
(2) extra close home, 3rd of 7, 1 1/2l behind Burmese Waltz at Kempton 6f Fillies Handicap (3yo+) (3) 3 (4) -42 BONDI SANDS (11) M Johnston 8-10................P J McDonald 106
7 (3) -42 COLONEL FRANK (7) M Quinn 6 9-7 (BF, C, D)............C Bishop 90 5 (5) 6 MAJD AL ARAB (14) M Johnston 9-5 ........................T O’Shea 44 pol. 4 (3) -41 BILLHILLY (20) Eve J-Houghton 8-8 (D).....................C Bishop —
8 (4) -71 GRISONS (18) R Cowell 4 9-6 (D) ..............................J Watson 82 BETTING: 11-8 Bonnyrigg, 15-8 City Code, 7 Majd Al Arab, 8 Carbon Positive, Commonsensical. BETTING: 5-4 Bodyline, 10-3 Bondi Sands, 7-2 Billhilly, 4 Atlantic Crossing.
9 (2) 167 ENTHAAR (18) S C Williams 5 9-6 (D2) ...................S De Sousa 86
10 (10) 66- MACHREE (196) D Carroll 5 9-5 (D5) ........C J MacRedmond (7) 82
11 (11) 757 PINK FLAMINGO (23) M Attwater 4 9-4 (D3) .....R Clutterbuck (7) 96
FORM GUIDE: BONNYRIGG 5-1 Went left start, raced wide prominent, pushed along and every
chance over 1f out, kept on one pace, 2nd of 5, 1 1/2l behind Jimmy Sparks at Newmarket 6f 2yo
nov stk (5) gs. CITY CODE 6-1 Went left start, headway chasing leaders in centre group over 2f out,
3.15
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BETWAY CASINO NOVICE STAKES (5) 7f Winner £3,493 (11 run)
RTV
1- EJTILAAB (363) I Williams 4 10-4......................P J McDonald —
(5)
FORM GUIDE: BODYLINE 10-1 Behind, headway over 1f out, not clear run and switched sharply
right over 1f out, stayed on same pace inside final furlong, 6th of 17, 3 1/2l behind Hukum at Royal
Ascot 1m 4f 3yo hcp 0-105 (2) gd. BONDI SANDS 5-2 Tracked leading pair, pushed along over 3f
12 (1) 0-8 ERISSIMUS MAXIMUS (21) R Cowell 6 9-3 (D6) ..C Shepherd 90 plugged on in 4th final furlong, 4th of 9, 8l behind Qaader at Newbury 6f 2yo nov stk (5) gd. MAJD 2 (7) 01- STEPNEY CAUSEWAY (231) M Bell 3 9-9 .............C Shepherd — out, ridden and outpaced 2f out, rallied into 2nd inside final furlong, stayed on same pace and no
13 (7) 323 EXCELLENT GEORGE (18) S C Williams 8 9-2 (CD) ....H Bentley 94 AL ARAB 5-1 Raced keenly, led, pushed along over 2f out, headed and hung left over 1f out, soon chance with winner, 2nd of 4, 2 1/2l behind Stag Horn at Goodwood 1m 6f 3yo hcp 0-75 (5) gf.
lost 2nd, weakened quickly final furlong, 6th of 7, 9l behind First Prophet at Newbury 7f 2yo nov stk 3 (3) 0- ADONIS BLUE (282) R Charlton 3 9-2 .......Adam J McNamara 44 BILLHILLY 11-2 Mid-division, good headway on outside chasing leaders over 1f out, pressed
BETTING: 7-2 Colonel Frank, 9-2 Grisons, 13-2 Han Solo Berger, 8 Excellent George, 10 Others. (5) gd. CARBON POSITIVE Distorted Humor colt out of Everything Sweet. COMMONSENSICAL 4 (1) ARLO’S SUNSHINE L McJannet 3 9-2................D Keenan (3) — leader inside final furlong, stayed on to lead final 50 yards, won at Lingfield 1m 4f 3yo hcp 0-65 (6)
FORM GUIDE: COLONEL FRANK 5-2fav Tracked leaders, ridden to chase winner inside final Bated Breath colt out of Critical Path. 5 (6) 0 BILLY THE SQUID (20) G Scott 3 9-2 ..........................G Wood — pol beating Isayalittleprayer by nk, 11 ran. ATLANTIC CROSSING 11-2 Stumbled slightly start, led
furlong, gaining close home, 2nd of 7, nk behind Dark Defender at Newmarket 6f Handicap (4yo+) 6 (11) 6-7 BURANO BOY (16) E Dunlop 3 9-2 .............................L Morris 61
2.45
early, chased leaders, ridden 2f out, kept on inside final furlong, 3rd of 11, 4l behind Quickthorn at
(4) gs. GRISONS 9-4fav Tracked leader, led over 1f out, driven out, won at Lingfield 5f Handicap BETWAY FILLIES’ HANDICAP (4) 6f Winner £4,690 (11 run) RTV 7 (4) DASHING SPIRIT W Knight 3 9-2.........................T P Queally — Kempton 1m 3f mdn auc stks (5) pol.
(4yo+) (5) pol beating King Robert by nk, 6 ran. HAN SOLO BERGER 9-2 Prominent, not much 1 8 2 EPIC ENDEAVOUR (20) W Muir 3 9-2 ......................M Dwyer —
4.50
424
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room over 1f out, soon angled out left, led inside final furlong, driven out, won at Kempton 5f MIA MENTO (22) P Chapple-Hyam 4 10-0 (BF, D) .................................W Buick 81 9 (2) 42- EVENING SUN (247) R Charlton 3 9-2 ......................J Watson 71
READ ANDREW BALDING ON BETWAY INSIDER HANDICAP (4) 1m
Handicap (4yo+) (4) pol beating May Remain by nk, 10 ran. EXCELLENT GEORGE 14-1 Prominent 4f Winner £4,690 (8 run) RTV
on inside, starting to lose place when not much room towards finish, 3rd of 12, 1 1/2l behind 2 (9) -82 WEDDING DATE (10) R Hannon 4 9-12 (C, D)......T Hammer Hansen (5) 87 10 (10) 5 LINCOLN BRIGHT (19) J Chapple-Hyam 3 9-2 ...........J F Egan 40
Atalanta’s Boy at Chelmsford City 6f Handicap (4yo+) (4) pol. CHITRA 9-2 Led, ridden over 1f out, 3 (11) -22 CASPIAN QUEEN (12) R Hughes 3 9-9 (BF, D) .......A Villiers (5) 86 11 (8) 0 PRINCE OF TIDES (17) C Fellowes 3 9-2...............R Kingscote — 1 29- FOX VARDY (259) M Meade 4 9-8..........................S De Sousa 51
(3)
headed entering final furlong, stayed on same pace, 3rd of 10, 3l behind Peggie Sue at Chepstow 5f 4 (6) 373 SECOND COLLECTION (16) A Carroll 4 9-8 (D4)..........B Doyle — BETTING: 2 Evening Sun, 7-2 Stepney Causeway, 4 Ejtilaab, 9-2 Epic Endeavour, 12 Lincoln Bright, 14 Others. 2 (6) 7-7 GAS MONKEY (21) Miss J Feilden 5 9-7 (D2)......S B Kirrane (5) 60
3 (1) 003 STAMFORD RAFFLES (8) J Chapple-Hyam 7 9-7 (CD)........J F Egan 65
3.45
hcp 0-80 (4) gd. ENTHAAR 12-1 Chased leaders on outside, ridden over 1f out, weakened inside 5 (3) 1-2 DONNYBROOK (13) J Gosden 3 9-4 (D) ...............James Doyle 92 PLAY 4 TO SCORE AT BETWAY HANDICAP (5) 1m 2f Winner £3,493
final furlong, 7th of 12, 5l behind Atalanta’s Boy at Chelmsford City 6f Handicap (4yo+) (4) pol. 6 (2) 344 DARK REGARD (14) M Johnston 3 9-4 (BF, D3) ..P J McDonald — (6 run) RTV 4 (4) 4-3 SHAUYRA (16) W Haggas 4 9-6 (BF) ....................James Doyle 85
MERCENARY ROSE 6-1 Tracked winner, ridden and unable to quicken entering final furlong, lost 7 (10) -13 PORTUGUESEPRINCESS (17) A Watson 3 9-3 (D) .....H Doyle — 5 (8) -76 THE JEAN GENIE (12) W Stone 6 9-5 ..................Hollie Doyle 95
2nd close home, 3rd of 10, 3 1/2l behind Benny And The Jets at Kempton 5f hcp 0-85 (4) pol. LINE 1 (5) 537 WIMPOLE HALL (24) W Jarvis 7 9-7 (D2) ...........Gaia Boni (7) — 6 (7) 2-2 NATTY NIGHT (21) W Muir 4 9-5 (D).........................M Dwyer 42
OF REASON 14-1 Awkward start, held up in rear, headway over 1f out, no impression, stayed on 8 (5) 0-0 ANGEL GREY (21) A Balding 3 9-2 (D).......................J Watson 88 2 3-7 BROWN HONEY (19) I Mohammed 4 9-4 .............S De Sousa 57
9 (8) 0-0 ULTRA VIOLET (21) J Chapple-Hyam 3 9-2 (CD) ....David Egan 56
(6) 7 (2) 0-5 HEART OF SOUL (22) I Williams 5 9-1 (D) ..........P J McDonald 82
same pace inside final furlong, 7th of 12, 6l behind Magical Spirit at Beverley 5f Handicap (4yo+) 3 (2) 07- FRENCH RIVIERA (365) J Chapple-Hyam 5 9-4....David Egan — 8 (5) 6-3 THAQAFFA (23) Miss Amy Murphy 7 8-13 (D) ........C Shepherd 87
(4) gd 10 (4) 51- LETHAL ANGEL (223) S C Williams 5 9-0 (D2) .......R Kingscote 88 4 (1) 4-2 ISLE OF WOLVES (13) J Boyle 4 9-4 (D) ...............James Doyle 80
11 (7) 312 AHORSECALLEDWANDA (118) Mrs A Perrett 3 8-8 (D) ..M Dwyer — BETTING: 2 Shauyra, 4 Natty Night, Fox Vardy, 8 Thaqaffa, Stamford Raffles, 10 Heart Of Soul, 14 Others.
1.40
1
BETWAY NOVICE AUCTION STAKES (PLUS 10) (5) (2-Y-O) 6f Winner
£3,493 (9 run) RTV
1 ADAAY DREAM (22) T Dascombe 9-7 (D) ..............R Kingscote —
(4)
BETTING: 7-2 Donnybrook, 9-2 Caspian Queen, 13-2 Wedding Date, 7 Mia Mento, 15-2 Portugueseprincess, 8 Others.
FORM GUIDE: DONNYBROOK 11-4 Taken to post early, prominent, ridden and every chance over
1f out, kept on one pace, 2nd of 10, 1/2l behind Esprit Rose at Leicester 6f fll nov stks (5) gd.
5
6
(4)
(3)
98- SONGKRAN (352) George Boughey 4 8-8...................W Buick —
012 SHAFFIRE (2) H Whittington 4 8-8......................Hollie Doyle 50
BETTING: 2 Isle of Wolves, 3 Songkran, 4 Shaffire, 13-2 Brown Honey, 7 Wimpole Hall, 10 French Riviera.
FORM GUIDE: SHAUYRA 11-8fav Made most until headed over 1f out, no impression on winner
final 100 yards, kept on, 3rd of 12, 4l behind Glan Y Gors at Pontefract 1m 2f hcp 0-80 (4) gd. FOX
VARDY 10-1 Mid-division, headway chasing leaders over 4f out, pushed along and weakened 3f
2 (7) 8 SAM BELLAMY (16) M Johnston 9-2.....................S De Sousa 48 CASPIAN QUEEN 7-4fav Well enough away but squeezed out after start, outpaced in rear, last and FORM GUIDE: ISLE OF WOLVES 11-1 Tracked leaders, pushed along over 3f out, stayed on same out, 9th of 17, 18l behind Hamish at York 1m 6f 3yo hcp (2) sft in Oct. NATTY NIGHT 9-2 Led, clear
pace in 2nd inside final furlong, no chance with winner, 2nd of 11, 2 1/2l behind Edmond Dantes at over 8f out until 3f out, headed over 1f out, brushed by winner entering final furlong, led again and
3 (2) STAR OF ORION R Beckett 9-2 ...............................H Bentley — plenty to do over 1f out, strong run towards outer inside final furlong,just failed, 2nd of 6, shd
Newbury 1m 2f hcp 0-70 (5) gd. SONGKRAN 13-2 Towards rear, pushed along over 3f out, bumped slightly well inside final furlong, headed close home, 2nd of 12, hd behind Imperium at
4 BOBBY ON THE BEAT M Bell 9-0........................C Shepherd — behind Electric Ladyland at Goodwood 5f 3yo hcp 0-90 (3) gd. WEDDING DATE 20-1 Held up
(8)
towards rear, headway on outside chasing leaders over 2f out, 2nd and every chance entering final headway over 2f out, ridden over 1f out, soon weakened, 8th of 10, 9l behind Edaraat at Kempton Lingfield 1m 4f Handicap (4yo+) (4) pol. STAMFORD RAFFLES 18-1 Tracked leader, ridden to
5 (3) 7 POWER ON (23) P D’Arcy 9-0 .....................................J F Egan 30 furlong, outpaced inside final furlong, no chance with winner, 2nd of 10, 1 3/4l behind 1m 3yo hcp 0-75 (5) pol in Jul. SHAFFIRE 5-1 Raced keenly tracking leaders, went 2nd 2f out, lead over 1f out, headed inside final furlong, stayed on, 3rd of 5, hd behind Fantastic Blue at
6 (1) ATASER T Kent 8-12 ...........................................James Doyle — Chairmanoftheboard at Windsor 6f hcp 0-90 (3) gd. MIA MENTO 9-2fav Slowly away, keen ridden and sustained challenge throughout final furlong, always just held, 2nd of 10, nk behind Newmarket 1m 4f hcp 0-85 (4) sft. THAQAFFA 40-1 In touch, ridden and headway over 1f out,
7 (5) MERE GREEN R Fahey 8-11.................................David Egan — towards rear after 2f, headway approaching final furlong, nearest finish, 4th of 11, 1 1/2l behind Triple Nickle at Windsor 1m 2f Handicap (4yo+) (6) gf. BROWN HONEY 7-1 Rearing as stalls every chance when hampered entering final furlong, kept on, 3rd of 10, 2 3/4l behind Dubious
8 (6) FLEETING VISION J Tate 8-8............................P J McDonald — Highly Sprung at Newmarket 6f hcp 0-85 (4) gf. PORTUGUESEPRINCESS 9-2 Soon led, ridden 2f opened and slowly away, soon recovered into mid-division, ridden and struggling over 2f out, 7th Affair at Yarmouth 1m 6f hcp 0-75 (5) gf.
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BRAIN TEASER
Eight pages of puzzles, quizzes and sudoku
STAR SEEKER
Can you find the celebrity name hidden in this crossword?
General Knowledge Quiz
Complete the crossword in the normal way, then make a note
of the letters contained in all the squares which are marked 1. Which US president is famous 10. Which English financier
with shaded stars. These letters will make an anagram of the for making the Gettysburg propounded the law that bad
name you are trying to discover.
Address? money drives out good?
A George Washington A Maynard Keynes
★ B Thomas Jefferson B Sir Michael Trow
★ C Abraham Lincoln C Sir Thomas Gresham
D William McKinley D Simon Masters
★
2. Who added the King’s to King’s 11. Sid Vicious, the subject of Alex
★ ★ Lynn? Cox’s 1986 punk biopic Sid and
A Henry V Nancy, was bassist in which band?
B Charles II A The Clash
C Henry VIII B The Sex Pistols
D George I C The Buzzcocks
★ D The Angelic Upstarts
3. What name was given to the
★ area of England where Danish 12. Which American Civil War
★ customs prevailed between the
9th and 11th centuries?
Daniel Mays
See Question 6.
general became the 18th president
of the United States?
★ A Viking land
A Ulysses S Grant
B Daneland
7. Which city in Piedmont is B Andrew Johnson
C Danelaw
the centre of the Italian motor C Abraham Lincoln
D Anglo-Denmark
★ ★ industry?
D James A. Garfield
GOGEN
Insert letters to form the listed words, moving between adjacent cells horizontally, vertically or diagonally in any direction. Insert all the remaining letters of the alphabet (except Z) in the
grid so all the listed words are spelt out in this way.
1 2 3
S X R A C BAROQUE
BOX
J S G W F AIRS
CHUM
W X F D S BELCH
DUB
CAR DUET FRANK
H O B G F DUVET
FLIP
V O R I L FLACK
JOG
G A R U P FRUIT
JONQUIL
GRAB NEXT LONG
J W Q N L JOB
MILKY
X T Q A P PARTY
QUART
M N Q I B MOCK
PITY
SHOWJUMPING ROT RITE
T U D I K TWO
WHO
Y E U B C SORT
TUBA
K O L E T SPITE
SUIT
VOTED VET
E V M P Y N M D H K WRAP
H C J V Y WAX
WORDSEARCH NINERS
Each number from 1 to 9 represents a different letter. Solve the clues and insert the letters in the appropriate
Here is a list of moons. Can you find them in the grid? The answers squares to discover a word which uses all nine letters.
can be found running backwards or forwards, horizontal, vertical or
diagonal.
1 219625 gives a feline 2 125483 gives a woman
ARIEL DESDEMONA OBERON 1354 gives felines 724589 gives women
BELINDA FERDINAND OPHELIA
6728 gives a feline 687789 gives beautiful women
BIANCA PORTIA
FRANCISCO
CALIBAN PROSPERO
JULIET 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
CORDELIA PUCK
CRESSIDA MARGARET ROSALIND
CUPID MIRANDA TITANIA
13
7 11 12
13
12
8
19
17
13 16 6
12
13
16 2 HOLD
22 7 22 15 Gap
Rod
3 6 35 8 11 10
4 4 8 22 24 17 Stance
11 21 8 16
6 15 9
6 12 26 23 Mail
12 14 16
14 17 11 8
8 8 8 11 Previous
20 12 3 4
19 3 17 17 15
13 7 5 34 FAST
12 16
11
16
24
14 5
25 10
3
8
12 13
4
10 3 NEWS
10 13 9 14 20
12 20 21 15 Webs
14 21 11
12 16 16 14
10 8 11 10 12 4
Groups
14 8 34
Visualises
23 14 11
Charges
PATHFINDER
Beginning with the top highlighted letter, follow a
Sudoku Challenge
continuous path of words associated with the given
subject. The trail goes through each letter once, Easy
twisting up, down and sideways, but never diagonally.
Sci-fi films
T L L A A D E N N L I I U I N
H E T R L B R U E I B R M M A
E M S A L T N M R U Q H T R T
T A R E I E E A A X E E T E O
R I X T A N M D M A L P M X R
R O I N V A E L E N E N E G R
C F T S R T A T H O T P E S A
E E H W A S R F I F E A T I V
A K E R A T H E F T H C Y S I
W A N S A N T M E E E L L Y U
R O N R I T R A H N S O E L M
I T I O B U R E T C O N D O O
R Y M P O T U F T N U I R I P
E R T O C T O E E O F K D H E
P O B A C K T H R S T H E T R
MIRROR IMAGE Medium
Which of the shapes below is an exact
mirror image of the shape on the right?
A B
C D
CLOCKWORD
The solutions from 1 to 12 are all six-letter words
ending with the letter E in the centre. Moving clockwise
from 1, the letters in the outer circle will spell out the
name of an English writer and painter.
12 1
11 2
Hard
7 6 5
10 3
7 5 2
9
E 4
4 9 7
8 4 9
8 5
3 6
7 6
2 1 8
1. Speak wordily 7. Cloak
2. American, informally 8. Wolflike 8 2 1
9. Member of a former
3. Suitable for marriage
4. Girl’s name
sect
10. Twist
6 1 3
5. Knob
6. Greek goddess
11. Pierce
12. Waste matter
5 8 3
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ALPHADOKU
3
Both the puzzles contain 9 x 9 sudokus but with the letters R to Z.
V S Y T Z X
V X U Z
T R W W X U R
W Z S T
X S Y V R
T U R S
S Z W T V W R X 2 digits: 18 24 48 56
3 digits: 453 492 645 779 864 871 923 982
984 988
Z T X X V U 4 digits: 8128 8348 8568 8788
5 digits: 42289 49387
7 digits: 8441824 9956743
S Z T S 9 digits: 248489752 293285832 293884292
298385362
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Heart Over
3. Tea rationing ended Dined
Beaker
desert?
Behind Leaked Sentence
8. In which American city is the Pentagon? time blood Age unit
Nations?
Pungent
bulb
This puzzle has no clues. Instead, every number printed in the grid
represents a letter, with the same number always representing the same Types
letter. For example, if 8 turns out to be a V, you can write in V wherever a
square contains 8. Using your knowledge of words, complete the puzzle.
1 2 3
A A A
B B B
C C C
D D D
E E E
F F F
G G G
H H H
I I I
J J J
K K K
L L L
M M M
N N N
O O O
P P P
Q Q Q
R R R
S S S
T T T
U U U
V V V
W 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 W 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 W 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
X D I X T X H
Y 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Y 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Y 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Z Z O Z T
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Giant Crossword
ACROSS
1 Stableman (6) 33 Indolent (4) 62 Light oars (7) 90 Make happy, exhilarate (5) 112 City in northwest England (9)
5 Excessive (5) 34 Mistake (5) 63 Shin (5) 92 Southwest football team 114 Providence (7)
8 Combat (6) 35 Podium (4) 64 Having therapeutic currently in League One (7,6) 117 Not either (7)
10 Micro-organisms (8) 38 Destiny (6) properties (9) 95 Edges of a roof (5) 118 Pipe for excess water (8)
14 Jockeys (6) 40 Link or connection (3-2) 67 Pleasant or sweet odour (9) 96 Central American country 119 Gardening tools (5)
16 Arm joint (5) 42 Ruud __ __, former Man 69 Smooth and shiny (5) linking Costa Rica to 120 Light shoe (6)
21 Rivals or competes with (8) United and Holland 71 Revival or renaissance (7) Colombia (6) 121 Unnecessary (8)
22 At last (7) striker (3,10) 74 Tortured (9) 98 Net (4) 122 Eras (6)
23 Welsh town (7) 44 Defence plea (5) 77 Pugilism (6) 100 Very strong person (5) 123 Silly or sentimental,
25 Prepare an ambush (3,2,4) 46 Impartial (4-6) 78 Disease that affects the 101 Hiatuses (4) informally (5)
26 Teacher’s workplace (6) 48 Over there (6) limbs (8) 102 Tugs sharply (5) 124 Regular beat (6)
27 __ Idle, Monty Python star 51 Concept, idea (7) 81 Apparently (10) 104 Insolvent (8)
(4) 54 Commercial (10) 82 Let go (7) 107 Health resort (3)
28 Facial twitch (3) 55 Bald (8) 84 Eminem album released in 109 Daddy’s __, 2015 comedy
29 Grating, rough (8) 59 At the rear of (6) 2004 (6) starring Will Ferrell (4)
32 Pungent, sharp (5) 60 Bogey, bugbear (9) 87 Extraordinary (10) 111 Genetic copies (6)
DOWN
2 Japanese warrior (7) 18 Breakers, eg (5) 45 Muslim religion (5) 75 Angers (5) 101 Auctioneer’s hammer (5)
3 Pale mauve colour (5) 19 Diesel oil (4) 47 Nothing (3) 76 Elude (5) 103 To trouble, afflict (3)
4 Draw back (7) 20 Place of worship (6) 49 Supervise (7) 79 Charged particle (3) 105 Corrosive substance (4)
5 Distressed (5) 24 Assertively manly (5) 50 Bureaucracy (3,4) 80 Catches fire (7) 106 Groups of three (5)
6 Lacking something 25 Garland of flowers (3) 52 US state whose capital is 83 Listen secretly (9) 108 Great pain (5)
essential (9) 26 High-pitched cry (7) Nashville (9) 85 Epoch (3) 109 Big and strong, informally (5)
7 Sea eagle (4) 30 Managed (3) 53 Aged (7) 86 __ Partridge, fictional radio 110 Therefore (4)
8 Light wood (5) 31 Rider’s foot support (7) 54 Amphibious rodent (7) DJ played by Steve 112 Stripling (3)
9 Statute (3) 34 Organs of sight (4) 56 Dishonourable (7) Coogan (4) 113 Possess (3)
11 Durable type of wood (3) 36 Frozen water (3) 57 Meeting for discussion (7) 88 Garden implement (3) 115 Call for help (1,1,1)
12 Generation (3) 37 Of flowers (6) 58 Revise (4) 89 Open rebellion (6) 116 Yes, informal (3)
13 Bangla (7) 38 Lock opener (3) 61 Skeleton part (4) 91 Pain reliever (7)
14 Prepared for use or action 39 Body part (7) 65 Embraces, hugs (7) 93 Irritated (5)
(5) 40 Tutor (7) 66 Book of words (7) 94 Flightless bird (3)
15 Speck (3) 41 Snapshot (5) 68 Follow (5) 96 Trailblazer (7)
17 John __, sports 42 All-night watch (5) 70 Popular takeaway dish (5) 97 Colossal (7)
commentator and former 43 Unlikely tales, informally (5) 72 Explosions (6) 98 Manufacturer (5)
tennis pro (5) 44 Easily (2,1,6) 73 Fish (7) 99 Bisect (5)
8 CAMBRIDGE NEWS FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2020
Solutions Kakuro
1
1 6 3 1 4
2
7 6 6 4
PAGE 3
1
Giant Sudoku
3 1 = 7 2 8 ; : . 0 9 6 5 / < 4
4 5 . 3 7 = 2 / 6 1 < 8 0 9 ; :
General Knowledge Quiz PAGE 1 3 7 5 6 8 7 8 1 8 9 4 6 2 / : < 6 5 7 4 ; 9 3 . = 1 0 8
1 C; 2 C; 3 C; 4 A; 5 D; 6 D; 7 A; 8 C; 9 B; 10 C; 11 B; 12 A; 13 D; 2 5 2 9 8 7 6 7 3 5 8 6 9 < 1 = 0 3 : . ; 2 4 5 7 /
14 C; 15 D. 3 9 7 4 4 7 1 4 2 6 4 7 . 0 ; / 9 4 < 8 5 1 : 7 = 3 2 6
Star Seeker 2 4 6 2 9 5 7 5 2 7 8 5 / ; . 1 6 7 3 0 9 8 : 4 2 < 5 =
4 9 8 5 3 2 8 9 6 4 7 5 4 9 ; 6 3 < = : 1 . / 8 0 2
Across: 1 Avid; 8 Aberration; 9 Strength; 10 Mode; 12 Morose;
3 2 9 1 8 6 9 3 4 3 3 2 : 2 4 ; < / 8 0 5 1 = 3 7 6 9 .
14 Dreamy; 15 Finger; 17 Duenna; 18 Hymn; 19 Generate;
21 Consummate; 22 Keep. Down: 2 Virtuosity; 3 Dale; 4 Meagre; 5 6 2 1 6 3 4 2 1 8 9 7 5 3 9 8 = : . 2 7 0 ; 4 < 6 / 1
5 Arched; 6 Stampede; 7 Ante; 11 Diminutive; 13 Organise; 7 8 6 4 9 5 8 6 5 7 < 6 0 = 2 1 4 / . 8 9 5 7 ; : 3
16 Regime; 17 Denial; 18 Hack; 20 Reek. 5 1 4 3 7 5 4 5 7 1 4 9 = . 2 ; 8 : 3 5 / 7 < 9 1 4 6 0
Star Name: LAURA MARLING 6 7 9 4 3 8 9 5 8 7 ; 5 9 6 1 2 = 4 0 7 8 : 3 / . <
3 4 1 7 : 0 4 < = . ; / 3 6 5 2 8 9
Gogen 1 2 3 6 4 8 / . 2 7 3 9 < 0 ; 1 5 : =
5 6 7 6 8 1 2 5 7 9
S X R A C J S G W F W X F D S 1 5 1 5 2 4 3 6 8 9 6 9 8 9 < 3 0 5 / : 6 1 8 2 = 4 . 7 ;
9 5 2 6 9 9 2 3 5 = / 4 8 0 < . 1 ; 2 5 9 : 6 3 7
H O B G F V O R I L G A R U P 0 9 / = 6 7 2 5 . : 3 1 ; 8 < 4
2 8 7 3 5 7 1 2 1 3
J W Q N L X T Q A P M N Q I B 6 7 1 6 2 3 7 9 3 1 4 2 8 8 3 2 6 1 ; 5 4 : < . 9 0 7 / =
9 4 8 2 1 4 8 5 8 5 < ; : 7 2 6 0 8 3 / 4 = 1 9 .
T U D I K Y E U B C K O L E T : . 7 1 9 3 = 4 / 6 < ; 8 0 5 2
8 3 5 9 3 2 2 1 1 3
E V M P Y N M D H K H C J V Y 9 3 5 6 1 8 6 3 5 7 2 7 6 5 < 3 0 6 . 2 7 : 4 1 / = ; 8 9
1 5 6 7 9 2 4 1 9 9 5 0 9 ; 6 / 7 4 1 8 . = < 3 2 : 5
8 1 2 3 7 1 4 7 9 3 5 6 = 8 . : 9 < / 1 5 3 2 ; 0 6 7 4
General Knowledge Crossword PAGE 2
9 6 8 5 9 2 5 3 1 2 3 5 = ; < 6 4 8 . 9 : 0 / 1 7
Across: 1 Spacehounds; 9 Willard; 10 Congo; 11 Trout; 12 Oregano; 4 1 7 : / 8 9 0 ; 5 = 2 6 . < 3
13 Edberg; 15 Gurkha; 18 Liguria; 20 Sucre; 22 Nonet; 23 Cellist;
24 Barry Lyndon. Down: 2 Polio; 3 Chanter; 4 Hudson; 5 Uncle; Arrowword PAGE 6
6 Denmark; 7 Switzerland; 8 No, No, Nanette; 14 Begonia; Sudoku PAGE 4
F H N W C R
16 Upsilon; 17 Marcel; 19 Rotor; 21 Chico.
Easy
S L E E V E A R O S E
Fill In Word Wise: A R A I R W F
Bird: SWALLOW A P P E A R N O B L E
C. Form of carbon used in
pencil-making. I G E T T O U R
SWAM S K E P T
A. Daily. S P E A R S R H Y M E
I P P I T V Y
R S E T T E E P E T D
L A S S D S I C K Niner S E N S E A C R O S S C U P
T R E E L A L O E
1. COASTLINE: T E A X E R A R E A
B T R E N D V
OCELOT, CATS, LION D E R M O T S P A C E E N
C U R U A E E L
2. MANDIBLES: N I B E A S I L Y C E D E
Medium
T B E A N S R
MU S E B A B E T MAIDEN, LADIES, BELLES O D D L Y S A C H A P E L
I S L E E C O D A S E E S K I N L O T N
S O S A Y D L Sportword T M O V E M E N T S
S T EW M L Y R E Across: 1. Smalling; 6. Blake; P A L M E R A T
7. Vault; 9. Ross; 10. Snodin; T E L B O W T W O
Wordsearch 12. LuaLua; 14. Zola; S I G N A L O N I O N
A N K A I L E D R O C R R J C 17. Yohan; 18. Patel; O S T E E R O R E
D A O P H E L I A R L A D N D 19. Stringer.
N I M R Y C X N E S R J P T F I N D E E D K I N D S
I N F B E I D S A G O M O E R
Down: 2. Mears; 3. Loeb;
L A R L N B S E A B R R R I O 4. Irvine; 5. Gould; 6. Burnley; Quick Quiz Remember
Hard
2 1 7 9 6 4 5 3 8
E T A B I I O M S I I D T L S 8. Tindall; 11. Bugner; 1 Joe McGann; 2 Zoological Garden; When
B I N B D B T I V D I L I U A 13. Ashes; 15. Ottke; 16. Spin. 6 3 8 7 1 5 9 2 4
3 1970s; 4 SAS; 5 Badminton; 6 Noun;
C T C A B R I R N N E Y A J L 4 5 9 3 2 8 6 1 7 A. 1964; B. 1993;
U R I W H U V A A M K M H C I 7 Mirage; 8 Washington DC;
5 8 1 4 3 6 7 9 2 C. 1952.
P Y S K R O A N N M F Z O L N 9 Road hump; 10 Adam Smith.
I V C G Y R D D O C O P R N D 3 9 4 8 7 2 1 5 6
D U O V I M G A C Y A A C F A Codeword
P J T E R A G R A M Z G V B O
7 2 6 5 9 1 4 8 3
P N L P R O S P E R O S R M N 8 7 3 6 5 9 2 4 1 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
L E D M X G A R M M O F I N W
M B N D I T U O A C W K V
9 6 2 1 4 3 8 7 5 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
1 4 5 2 8 7 3 6 9 Z X G H L P Q Y J R S E F
Two Speed Crossword PAGE 3
2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Across: 6 Upright; 7 Lay-by; 9 Slain; 10 Condone; 12 Third person; H D B N R M A U T I Q V J
14 Contentious; 18 Sprites; 19 Dairy; 21 Bugle; 22 Disease. Numberfit PAGE 5 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
5 5 4 4 2 4 2 6 1 2 8 9 2
U V R S X Y E H W B O N L
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Split Decision Alphamuddle Word Ladder 4 6 6 5 4 4 5 2 1 4 9 8 2 2 3 8 4
I Z G M A C K Q F J P T D
4 3 4 4 5 2 4 8 2 2 4 9 5
1. Folk, Fork, Fore,
C L A I M B O T C H Bore, Bare, Bale, Tale.
1
2
3 4
5
2 7 4 5
3 3 5 2 3
6 5
6
2
3
2 4 9
5 8
4 2 8
4 3 4 Giant Crossword PAGE 7
O D A O C H R E 2. Hold, Hole, Pole, 5 6 2 2 1 4 5 6 8 9 4 3 3 Across: 1 Ostler, 5 Undue, 8 Battle, 10 Bacteria, 14 Riders, 16 Elbow,
Pose, Post, Past, Fast. 21 Emulates, 22 Finally, 23 Wrexham, 25 Lie in wait, 26 School, 27 Eric,
C L U N G T H I E F 3. News, Nets, Sets,
3 2
4
9 3 8 8
8 7 7
4 2
9
9 2
9
28 Tic, 29 Abrasive, 32 Acrid, 33 Lazy, 34 Error, 35 Dais, 38 Kismet,
40 Tie-up, 42 Van Nistelrooy, 44 Alibi, 46 Even-handed, 48 Yonder,
O L I C R E S T Sees, Fees, Feel, Reel. 8
4
4 4 1 8
2 8
2 4
9
8
2 3
51 Thought, 54 Mercantile, 55 Hairless, 59 Behind, 60 Hobgoblin,
62 Paddles, 63 Shank, 64 Medicinal, 67 Fragrance, 69 Sleek, 71 Rebirth,
A T T I C H E F T Y 8
9
1 2 8
8 8 8
8 3
8
4 8
5
74 Tormented, 77 Boxing, 78 Beriberi, 81 Ostensibly, 82 Release,
7 9 9 5 6 7 4 3
84 Encore, 87 Phenomenal, 90 Elate, 92 Bristol Rovers, 95 Eaves,
5 8 6 4 5 6 96 Panama, 98 Mesh, 100 Titan, 101 Gaps, 102 Yanks, 104 Bankrupt,
Clockword PAGE 4 2 9 3 2 8 5 8 3 2 107 Spa, 109 Home, 111 Clones, 112 Liverpool, 114 Destiny,
117 Neither, 118 Overflow, 119 Rakes, 120 Sandal, 121 Needless,
1 Waffle, 2 Yankee, 3 Nubile, 4 Denise, 5 Handle, 6 Athene, 7 Mantle, Alphadoku 122 Epochs, 123 Soppy, 124 Rhythm.
8 Lupine, 9 Essene, 10 Writhe, 11 Impale, 12 Sewage. Down: 2 Samurai, 3 Lilac, 4 Retreat, 5 Upset, 6 Deficient, 7 Erne,
English writer and painter: WYNDHAM LEWIS. R Z W U V T S Y X S V R U T Y W Z X
8 Balsa, 9 Law, 11 Ash, 12 Age, 13 Bengali, 14 Ready, 15 Dot, 17 Lloyd,
V Y X S R W Z U T U Z X W R V T S Y 18 Waves, 19 Derv, 20 Church, 24 Macho, 25 Lei, 26 Screech, 30 Ran,
Mirror Image: C T U S Y Z X V R W Y W T S Z X U R V 31 Stirrup, 34 Eyes, 36 Ice, 37 Floral, 38 Key, 39 Midriff, 40 Teacher,
U T R V X Y W S Z R S U Y W Z X V T 41 Photo, 42 Vigil, 43 Yarns, 44 At a canter, 45 Islam, 47 Nil, 49 Oversee,
Pathfinder 50 Red tape, 52 Tennessee, 53 Elderly, 54 Muskrat, 56 Ignoble,
X W Y R S Z T V U T Y Z V X S R U W 57 Seminar, 58 Edit, 61 Bone, 65 Cuddles, 66 Lexicon, 68 Ensue,
The Matrix, Interstellar, Alien, Avatar, Star Wars: The Force Awakens,
S V Z W T U Y X R W X V T U R S Y Z 70 Kebab, 72 Blasts, 73 Haddock, 75 Riles, 76 Evade, 79 Ion, 80 Ignites,
RoboCop, Minority Report, Back to the Future, The Martian, The 83 Eavesdrop, 85 Era, 86 Alan, 88 Hoe, 89 Mutiny, 91 Aspirin, 93 Irked,
Fifth Element, Blade Runner, Mad Max, Equilibrium, The Terminator, Y S U Z W R X T V V U W R Y T Z X S
94 Emu, 96 Pioneer, 97 Mammoth, 98 Maker, 99 Halve, 101 Gavel,
X-Men, Planet of the Apes, Gravity, Close Encounters of the Third Z R T X Y V U W S X R S Z V W Y T U 103 Ail, 105 Acid, 106 Trios, 108 Agony, 109 Hefty, 110 Thus, 112 Lad,
Kind, Elysium, Looper. W X V T U S R Z Y Z T Y X S U V W R 113 Own, 115 SOS, 116 Yep.