Wednesday, February 22, 2012 The world’s most popular free newspaper Brits special The crowning of Queen Adele (but she wasn’t treated royally) Rihanna – she’s definitely da one An A+ performance by Ed Sheeran ...and a bit of barnstorming by Blur

»All the winners on Page 7, plus Guilty Pleasures gets the gossip on Pages 18-19 GPS threat to SPORT stock markets So, is this FRAUDSTERS could make mil- EXCLUSIVE by FRED ATTEWILL clocks away from the current time, rupt air and ship navigation systems, lions of pounds in seconds by hack- do some fraudulent trading and then researchers are claiming. the end ing into GPS systems synchronising tions, it is feared. The culprits would move the clock back. The warnings come ahead of a stock market deals around the world, be almost impossible to trace. ‘It’s only a matter of time before London conference on the growing experts are warning. Bob Cockshott, from the govern- someone spoofs the time and makes threat from gangs interfering with for AVB..? They could plunder their loot in ment-backed Knowledge Transfer an awful lot of money.’ satellite systems. Mr Cockshott said the blink of an eye by resetting the Network, said: ‘Clever organised Other weaknesses in GPS technol- »Napoli...3 Chelsea...1 clocks recording automated transac- criminals could set financial houses’ ogy could also be exploited to dis- TURN TO PAGE 4 « Pages 46-47

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 3 Milliner turns heads as she sends Fashion Week models down the catwalk in the buff You can leave your hat on

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THIS year it seems all the cool kids are wearing... nothing. That was the message from London Fashion Week yesterday as Robyn Coles’ models paraded down the runway in their birthday suits, complemented only by a selection of felt hats. The milliner also bucked the trend for using size zero glamazons by having her eight-months pregnant pal Sophia Cahill, an ex-Miss Wales, premiere her headgear. And, just like in the fairytale of the Emperor’s New Clothes, the audience didn’t bat an eyelid as the nude models strutted their stuff at the White Rabbit Studio in Shoreditch, east London. ‘When you’re a new brand you have to attract attention somehow,’ said Coles, a 31-year-old former Armani buyer from Pontypool, south Wales. ‘I wanted to show that all kinds of people can wear headgear. A hat will never make you look fat.’ CENSORED

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4 METRO Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO home digest Crash pilot died in mid-air Mothers feed our food tastes AN RAF reservist killed in a mid- WHAT pregnant women eat has been found to and finally... air collision was ‘dead before have ‘long-term consequences’ for their babies. RAG week students his aircraft hit the ground’, an Taste preferences are often set in the womb in Bristol have inquest heard. Flt Lt Mike Blee when babies inhale amniotic fluid which, created Britain’s (pictured), 62, and cadet scientists say, affects their future eating habits biggest burrito. It Nicholas Rice, 15, died when and problem behaviours such as addiction. took 15 people 26min their plane hit a glider in Oxfordshire in 2009. to prepare and was The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Baby P pair appeal sackings more than 23.5m TWO social workers sacked (77ft) long. Instead of Olympics terror plan tested over the Baby P scandal have making one long A TERRORIST attack is being simulated on the launched an appeal against flour wrap they Tube to test the response during the London their dismissal. Gillie Christou joined 110 tortillas Olympics. The disused Aldwych station on the and Maria Ward claim they together. In true Strand will be the scene of the mock incident were unjustly fired by Haringey student style, it was in the two-day operation, which starts today. council amid the public outcry over the 2007 Funny old game: Players compete at the ancient Shrovetide polished off in less About 2,500 people will be involved. death of the boy (pictured) in north London. football match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, yesterday REUTERS than 15 minutes. Rangers owner used £24m in future seat sales to seal takeover

by STEPHEN DEAL Whyte added: ‘I regret not making RANGERS FC owner Craig Whyte the arrangements has admitted using money from the sale more transparent of future season ticket income ‘to but, at the time, I complete the takeover’ of the club. regarded it, as I do Despite previously appearing to deny with all my other the controversial deal, Mr Whyte said business dealings, he regretted not being more open with as a confidential fans and claimed he was personally ‘on transaction. the line’ for £27.5million in guarantees Deal: Mr Whyte ‘In retrospect, I and cash. should have been completely open In another extraordinary day at the about it but I’m not sure Ticketus would Glasgow club, Mr Whyte’s statement have been very happy about their was almost immediately followed by confidentiality being breached.’ one from administrators. He denied trying to make ‘a fast buck’ Duff and Phelps confirmed £24mil- out of Rangers. lion paid by Ticketus to secure the right Last month, Mr Whyte insisted his to sell future season tickets was used by takeover ‘was funded entirely from one Mr Whyte to pay the club’s £18million of my companies’. He added he was debt to Lloyds Banking Group when he able to satisfy previous owner Sir David completed his takeover last May. Murray – who was convinced to sell up The Rangers owner said, if he emerged for a token £1 – and Lloyds that he had from administration in control of the secured £33million well before a deal club, he may gift the majority of his was struck with Ticketus. shares to a supporters’ foundation. Duff and Phelps continue to investi- Discussing the Ticketus deal, Mr gate the 40-year-old’s purchase. Warning over GPS jammers FROM PAGE 1 signal within their range of 32km (20 miles). One fear is that a jammed stock markets used unencrypted car taken on a cross-Channel ferry GPS to record trades. Even if the will block naval navigation systems. thefts were detected, they would In tests on a modern patrol boat, have to suspend trading, causing even a weak jammer caused most of widespread disruption. Another the systems to crash. Prof Last said: speaker at the conference, Prof ‘The ship’s auto pilot began to David Last, will warn of the growing change course, we lost the satellite dangers from powerful GPS links, we lost the system giving other jammers, already used by gangs to ships our position.’ The jammers can block signals from hijacked lorries. cost as little as £100, are available Some devices will disrupt any GPS online and are not illegal to own.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 5 Gang ‘gave 13yo girls drugs and then used them for sex’ A GANG of men plied girls as young by FRED ATTEWILL chester, in 2008 and 2009. Four of the about to hear distressing. No child as 13 with drink and drugs before accused were cab drivers, one was a should be exploited as these girls say ‘passing them around’ for sex, a court had an abortion. All the girls were student and four were jobless. Two oth- they were.’ heard yesterday. from broken homes. ers worked in takeaway restaurants. Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Aziz, Abdul One teenager recalled being raped She told detectives: ‘When you’ve The girls used nicknames including Rauf, Mohammed Sajid, Adil Khan, by two men while she was ‘so drunk got Asian friends, numbers get passed ‘Master’ and ‘Tiger’ for the men, said Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed Amin, she was vomiting over the side of the and they pass it to their friends. prosecutor Rachel Smith. Qamar Shahzad, Liaquat Shah, Hamid bed’, jurors heard. ‘And they pass it to their friends, Some of them paid the five girls, Safi and an unnamed 59-year-old 160,000 child Some were forced to have sex with ending up with a massive circle... aged between 13 and 15, and took deny charges of conspiracy to engage ‘several men in a day, several times a everyone’s got it.’ cash from other men for supplying in sexual activity with children under week’. One 13-year-old became preg- The offences allegedly took place in them. Miss Smith warned jurors: the age of 16. The trial at Liverpool smokers start nant to one of the 11 defendants and and around Rochdale, Greater Man- ‘Some of you may find what you are crown court continues. up every year

See video THE scale of the task in keeping from the children away from cigarettes is visit at revealed by new figures showing metro.co.uk/ almost 160,000 youngsters take up cambridge smoking every year. The number of those aged 11 to 15 who start the habit could fill 5,200 classrooms, says Cancer Research UK. Almost 1million under-15s – more than a quarter of all children – have tried smoking at least once, while eight out of ten start before they are 19. Pupils who try one cigarette by the age of 11 are about twice as likely to take up smoking later. Jean King, of Cancer Research, called for tobacco companies to introduce plain packaging to ‘help reduce the appeal of smoking and give children one less reason to start’. Footballer jailed for bogus letters scam FORMER Norwich City striker Leon McKenzie was yesterday jailed for six months for sending bogus letters to police to avoid a driving ban. The 33-year-old sent correspondence from a fictitious garage claiming his car was off the road at the time of six speeding Puppy love: The Duchess of Cambridge meets schoolchildren in Oxford, where she revealed the name of her puppy after months of speculation. The 30- offences in 2008 and 2009. He year-old said the cocker spaniel is called Lupo, the Italian word for wolf. The duchess joined an art-therapy session run by The Art Room charity, of which admitted perverting the course of she is a patron, at Rose Hill primary school. She also visited the Oxford Spires Academy, where the charity has another centre PICTURE: AP justice at Northampton crown court. 6 METRO Wednesday, February 22, 2012

And thethe winnerswinners are...are... British male solo artist ‘Yes to gore, Ed Sheeran British female solo artist Adele A double British breakthrough act Ed Sheeran no to nudity’ British group Coldplay British single One Direction — she rocks What Makes You Beautiful ADELE was crowned queen of the By ANDREI HARMSWORTH on Facebook Brit Awards by George Michael after Mastercard British album she did the double last night. all of whom were treated to a flash of STAFF who screen content for by TARIQ TAHIR of the year And she sparked controversy after the huge diamond adorning her en- Facebook are being told to block pho- Adele, 21 angrily giving the finger in frustration gagement ring finger. tos of mild nudity – but allow images banned but images of ‘snot’ are International male as host James Corden cut her off Her boyfriend Simon Konecki was of death and disfigurement, it has allowed – as are ‘cartoon faeces, urine solo artist ahead of Blur’s performance. thought to be planning to pop the been claimed. and spit’. Bruno Mars She later apologised for the gesture, question around her birthday in May. A 17-page document given to staff Depictions of illegal drug taking International female saying it was aimed at the ‘suits’ run- Meanwhile A Team singer Ed at online moderator oDesk tells them should also be deleted but marijuana ning the show. Sheeran capped his meteoric rise to delete ‘obvious sexual activity, is OK as long as it does not depict solo artist The 23-year-old was handed the when he equalled Adele’s win double. even if naked parts are hidden from selling, buying or growing, modera- Rihanna night’s biggest prize – the British al- First he beat Noel Gallagher to the view’, a former worker has revealed. tors are told. International group bum of the year – by the Wham! star, British male solo prize and the Suf- But guidelines give the go-ahead to And although racist comments of Foo Fighters who was making his own comeback folk lad was off his seat again to pick ‘deep flesh wounds’, ‘excessive any kind are to be banned, ‘humour International breakthrough act after his battle with pneumonia. up the British breakthrough title. blood’ and ‘crushed heads, limbs, etc overrules hate speech, unless slurs are Lana Del Rey She was back on the winner’s podi- Collecting it, he thanked his manager – as long as no insides are showing’. used or humour is not evident’. um again when she beat Jessie J, Flor- for taking him from a ‘chubby, ginger Outstanding contribution The rules are used by oDesk to scru- Facebook said third-party compa- ence & The Machine and Kate Bush teenager’ to where he is today. tinise photographs, text and videos nies, with staff often based in devel- to music to the British female solo artist prize. There was also success for one of that have been flagged by one of oping countries, were hired to provide Blur The London girl collected her sec- the show’s performers, Rihanna, who Facebook’s 850million users. quick ‘precursory classification’ for Critics’ choice ond gong from Kylie Minogue, say- won international female solo artist. The former employee passed the the millions of reports it receives Emeli Sande ing: ‘I feel like a drag queen next to But the night belonged to Blur, who guidelines to US website Gawker every day. you.’ She continued: ‘It’s been an closed the show with a barnstorming after claiming he received a ‘humili- A spokesman said: ‘These contrac- amazing year. Thank you. I’d like to medley after being given the outstand- ating’ 63p ($1) per hour for screening tors are subject to rigorous quality thank my record company for letting ing contribution to music accolade. photographs. controls and we have implemented me be the kind of artist I want to be.’ In it, staff are told images of ‘urine, several layers of safeguards to protect Her table at the bash at London’s 02 See more pictures and video faeces, vomit, semen and ear wax’ are the data of those using our service.’ Arena was flooded with well-wishers, at metro.co.uk/brits Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 7 whammy for Adele as ‘suits’ with the finger

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However, judge by FRED ATTEWILL everyone sees your Graham Cottle, sitting at Exeter crown f***ed-up afro hair.’ court, warned the 27-year-old to ‘do as A REDHEAD bullied as a child because Mrs Harvey said the he was told’ by probation officers and of her frizzy hair has become a victim of childhood bullying added an additional 50 hours of work internet trolls 30 years later. stopped only after to his 175-hour sentence. Gray, from Natalie Harvey was targeted on Twitter she straightened her Plymouth, was convicted of assault in and Facebook after a photograph of her hair in a two-hour October after bragging about a street aged five was circulated. daily routine. attack on Facebook. The 35-year-old, who has spent £10,000 ‘When I entered hiding her hairstyle, contacted police school I would be about the abuse that brought back memo- Mrs Harvey at 35 spat at and called ries of being called ‘Orphan Annie’. names,’ said the mother of one. The Green ‘They were saying such horrible things ‘The kids were so cruel and would call by Neil about my hair,’ said Mrs Harvey, who me Annie and Yoda and racist remarks.’ Sean wears a wig to hide her red locks. Mrs Harvey, from Nottingham, has now Room ‘They must have found a picture on a deleted her Twitter profile and increased Celebrities behind closed doors Facebook gallery from three years ago. privacy settings on her Facebook page. ‘It was so personal and nasty. It targeted ‘Something has to be done about online Johnny Depp says wearing directly at something that has affected me security,’ she said. nail polish is ‘his choice’. He throughout my life.’ ‘At least at school I could turn round and adds: ‘How does that affect One tweet said: ‘I can’t wait to pull off see who was insulting me but this is so the world? Just leave me be.’ your wig and reveal your ginger afro hair faceless. The bullies are able to hide Katherine Kelly may have left to everyone’. Another stated: ‘Wait until behind their keyboards.’ Corrie but fans have followed her to the National Theatre. ‘I hear whispers about Becky in the audience,’ she says. Alexandra Burke would think about going back to The X Factor as a judge if asked. ‘Why not?’ she says. ‘I really enjoyed it.’ Jessie J says that being a mentor on The Voice is ‘the best’. She adds: ‘I just hope I can get Tom Jones to agree to a duet now I sit next to him.’ Justin Bieber claims his next album will be ‘more grown up and mature’. He says: ‘It has to reflect where I am in my life and that is how I see things.’ Gavin Henson denies faking ‘true love’ for TV show The Bachelor. He says: ‘I was in it to win and woo someone so I PICTURES: SWNS am very sad about it all.’ Unlucky locks: Natalie Harvey was called Orphan Annie Alesha Dixon has hinted to moles that Simon Cowell is getting ready to sign her for a new record deal now she is I got stir fired – for part of BGT team...

Follow me on Twitter not being Chinese on @neilsean1 A TEENAGER was sacked as a waiter from a Chinese restaurant – for being white. David O’Neill Work will go for a successfully sued the upmarket diner after his hours were cut by a new Scream at auction manager who handed his shifts to workers from China. But the A VERSION of Edvard Munch’s most 19-year-old law student represented famous work, The Scream, is expected himself at a Birmingham to fetch at least £50million at auction. employment tribunal and was The painting, the only one of four in awarded £5,000 for breaches private hands, is being sold by the including race discrimination and family of Petter Olsen, a philanthropist unfair dismissal. The teenager, from who supported the artist in the 1920s. Selly Oak, described how the Ocean ‘The moment has come to offer the Dragon restaurant tried to ignore his rest of the world a chance to own and complaints after his hours were cut appreciate this remarkable work,’ said from October 2010. ‘Although I kept Mr Olsen’s son, Thomas. He plans to contacting the manager, she kept use the proceeds from the sale to build informing me that there were no a museum, art centre and hotel at his hours available but she would be in farm in Norway. The piece will be on touch,’ he said. When he wrote to display in London ahead of Sotherby’s complain ‘they denied all knowledge auction in New York on May 2. Chopped: Mr O’Neill NEWSTEAM of me’, he added. 10 METRO Wednesday, February 22, 2012 DSK ‘couldn’t METRO world digest Duel over iPad rights may end in payout tell nude girls CHINA: The company suing Apple over the rights to the iPad name yesterday said it would discuss an out-of-court settlement. The move by Shenzhen Proview Technology were hookers’ could bring several lawsuits over the trademark – including one by HAYDEN SMITH hearing set for today in Shanghai – to an end. Proview says it has DISGRACED former banker Domin- owned the name in China since ique Strauss-Kahn was yesterday 2001 and has tried to block the questioned by police investigating an sale of Apple’s devices. It also international prostitution ring. claimed the US technology giant’s The ex-head of the International ‘dishonest’ purchase of the rights Monetary Fund was quizzed in Lille in 2009 was not legally binding. HONDURAS: A relative of a prisoner who died in the Comayagua for more than 12 hours and could be prison blaze waits to identify and recover a body at a morgue in detained for three more days. Film star apes get Tegucigalpa. At least 359 inmates died in the fire last weekPICTURE: AP French detectives have already arrested eight men on suspicion of into show for free organising the ring and using corpo- Saleh ousted after 33-year rule rate funds to pay for orgies. INDONESIA: A film about one YEMEN: Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33 years in power came to Several sex workers from France woman’s efforts to rescue orang- an end yesterday when his deputy was voted in as the utans and return them to Borneo’s and Belgium have come forward and Shamed: Strauss-Khan PICTURE: EPA new president. The 69-year-old agreed to step aside for said they slept with Strauss-Kahn, a disappearing jungles has made its Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi (pictured) in exchange for fact that he is not disputing. guish a naked prostitute from any way home. Born to be Wild 3D immunity from prosecution. Mr Hadi, 66, promised ‘big But the 62-year-old maintains he other naked woman.’ has wowed US audiences and will political, economic and social change’. Mr Saleh, who is could not have known they were call The scandal is known as the ‘Carl- now be screened in the rainforest currently in the US, is set to return to Yemen this week. girls when he had sex with them in ton affair’ after a Lille hotel where where it was made after president Paris and Washington in late 2010 clients were allegedly supplied with Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said it and finally... and early 2011. call girls. Separate allegations of sex- ‘tugged at his heart’. He hopes the Henri Leclerc, one of his lawyers, ual assault and attempted rape in New story of Canadian conservationist BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Motorists who deliberately drive through said: ‘As you can imagine, at these York and France have been dropped Biruté Mary Galdikas will inspire puddles to splash pedestrians will be hit with a new £15 fine. ‘Victims kinds of parties you’re not always against DSK. A chambermaid is pur- his countrymen to work harder to should take the registration number of the driver’s car and report it to dressed, and I challenge you to distin- suing a civil suit against him. save the threatened red apes. their local police station,’ said a Sarajevo police spokesman. Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 11 £200bn Greek rescue deal agreed – at a cost to Britain

BRITISH taxpayers could be by JOHN HIGGINSON forced to pay a further £1.6billion Political Editor to bail out Greece. Rally: A burnt Koran is held aloft EPA After more than 12 hours of gru- borne said with half of our exports elling talks, eurozone ministers going to the EU, the news could yesterday agreed a £200billion only be ‘good for Britain’. Protests after rescue deal that would save the He added: ‘Of course, the Greek country from bankruptcy. political system has to deliver As part of the plan, £90billion of some difficult decisions but I don’t Korans burnt debt will be wiped out and interest think there is any other option. rates on loans will be slashed. ‘Hopefully, we can all move on A further £108billion will also now and get the European econ- by US troops be loaned to the country to help it omy growing.’ Kiss me, get back on its feet. Stock markets including the Chris: THOUSANDS of Afghans protested Jean-Claude In exchange, Greece has agreed FTSE-100 and Germany’s Dax outside a US military base yesterday fell yesterday as investors said Juncker, to cut pay, public sector jobs and president of after it emerged that copies of the spending as well as find £270mil- Greece would break the terms of Eurogroup, Koran had been burned. Up to lion of savings in this year’s na- its latest deal within three years. kisses the 2,000 demonstrators threw stones tional budget. ‘The bailout bandage is on but it International and chanted ‘die, die foreigners’ Next month, the IMF will decide won’t take much to unravel,’ said Monetary outside the Bagram base in the how much to contribute to the David Miller, partner at Cheviot Fund leader eastern Parwan province. US package but if it is the same as last Asset Management in London. Christine helicopters fired flares to try to time, Britain could be made to But the EU’s economic affairs Lagarde break up the rally. The Islamic hand over £1.6billion. commissioner Olli Rehn insisted after signing holy texts and other religious Many countries feel Greece will the eurozone would see full com- a £200billion materials are believed to have been struggle to fulfil this promise and pliance from Greece. He said: ‘We bailout package to inadvertently set alight as part of a have called for a team of repre- expect the unprecedented solidarity rubbish disposal. US Gen John Allen of Greece’s partners to be matched secure the sentatives from the EU, IMF and future of said it was ‘not intentional’ and European Central Bank to oversee by a strong commitment by Greek Greece apologised. An unnamed military Greek tax and spend policies from leaders to implement their austerity PICTURE: AFP/ official claimed the holy books Athens. Chancellor George Os- programme.’ GETTY were being used to fuel extremism. 12 METRO Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO in focus MQ-9 Reaper Primary Function: Britain � Intelligence, surveillancece and reconnaissance providing armed support if necessary Drop the pilot and US � Hunter/killer weapon systemem Thrust: 900hp Wingspan: 20.1m Length: 11m Height: 3.8m Weight: 2,223kg empty Maximum takeoff weight: 4,760kg60kg Fuel Capacity: 2,740litres send in the drones Payload: 1,701kg Speed: Cruise speed about 230mphmph Range: 1,850km Max altitude: Up to 15,240m LEVEN years ago yester- Barack Obama recently spoke in public for the first time about one of the turning point, according to Peter Weapons: AGM-114 Hellfire missilessiles day, an aircraft flew over a world’s worst-kept secrets – America’s drone strikes in Pakistan. After Singer, of the Brookings Institution and GBU-12 500lb laser-guided military base in Nevada and in Washington. bombs another sign of their growing influence,HAYDEN SMITH looks at the Aircrew (remote): Two, pilot fired a missile at a US army ‘The technology had existed be- E remarkable rise of unmanned aircraft over the last decade and sensor operator tank. The combat vehicle fore but 9/11 created the demand was empty and it was only a test side. As one vice president at a ro- launch but this was no routine target US president Barack Obama openly Last year, drones were reportedly botics company put it to me, before practice – for the two pilots were not acknowledged for the first time the involved in the captures of Osama 9/11 no one at the Pentagon would sat in the cockpit but in a control use of drone strikes to target al- bin Laden and Muammar return his calls. After, he was told, room, watching on monitors. Qaeda suspects in Pakistan’s “Make them as fast as you can”.’ The US Air Force exercise on tribal areas. February 21, 2001, was the first It was a major departure from Gaddafi, while a successful live missile launch from Washington’s usual policy of refus- strike also killed key al-Qaeda fig- the previously unarmed Predator ing to speak publicly about the op- ure Anwar al-Awlaki. The last decade saw surveillance drone – and heralded a erations, which commentators say In fact, unmanned aircraft have an international arms new dawn in modern warfare. started in 2004. been used for about 30 years, mainly race develop at a Armed and unarmed remotely pi- In recent days, Pakistani officials for surveillance, although a little startling rate. Noel loted aircraft are now at the fore- said two US strikes killed at least 21 over a decade ago the prospect of Sharkey, professor front of military operations and suspected militants, while un- them becoming so influential ap- of robotics at Shef- their influence is growing on and manned American aircraft were said peared remote. field University, said off the battlefield. Three weeks ago, to be monitoring events in Syria. The September 11 attacks were a 51 countries were using

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How they work drones, with the number gagement are no different to seat, albeit in Las Vegas, albeit rising from just a few be- those governing manned air- with a cup of coffee in your fore 2001 to thousands craft, with ‘every effort’ made hand, when you are listening now. to minimise the risk of civilian to the radio and they are UAVs used in Afghani- The Teal Group esti- casualties. screaming, “Get us out of stan are launched and mates that spending on so- here”, your palms are sweaty landed locally by a called unmanned aerial NALYSTS high- and the hairs on the back of team ‘in theatre’. Once vehicles will almost light three key rea- your neck stand up,’ he said. airborne, control is double over the next sons why drones ‘You are completely ab- handed to a crew in decade to £7.4billion Aare so appealing to sorbed by mission.’ Nevada, who then a year. military leaders. Chris Cole, from website control it remotely by Britain’s collection is They can stay airborne for up Drone Wars UK, said they satellite link. Robotics growing, with £135mil- to 26 hours, they are often ‘could make war more likely’, professor Noel lion invested to double the cheaper than manned fighter while Professor Michael Boyle Sharkey said the pilot fleet of Reaper drones to jets and they can operate with- of La Salle University said and sensor operator ten and new multi-million out risk to personnel. their use ‘effectively auto- sit side by side in a pound systems in de- Former RAF pilot Keven mates killing’. kind of ‘control pod’ velopment. Gambold, of the Unmanned But Elizabeth Quintana, of with four individual MQ-1B Predator Reapers used in Experts consultancy, operates the Royal United Services In- Afghanistan are cur- US Predators in Nevada. stitute, said: ‘I do understand screens each and one Primary Function: rently operated from He said: ‘On a night shift concerns but it is a knee-jerk ninth shared monitor. Armed reconnaissance, airborne Creech Air Force you would take over from the reaction borne out by too many He described the surveillance and target acquisition Base in Nevada but pilot on the shift before and fly Terminator-type movies. controls as ‘standard Thrust: 115hp will soon be control- for four ‘I think in many ways it is joysticks’. Wingspan: 16.8m led from Brit- more ethical to use unmanned In the case of an Length: 8.22m armed drone, once a Height: aircraft.’ 2.1m missile strike is Weight: 512kg (empty) hours in Iraq do- Either way, there is no sign Maximum takeoff weight: 1,020kg ing whatever mission and then of drones disappearing. Rather, cleared the sensor Fuel Capacity: 455ltr ain for the first take a break for two hours, they’re getting smarter. Prof operator ‘lights the Payload: 204kg time. The MoD de- grab something to eat, re-brief Singer said: ‘They will con- target’ with an Speed: Cruise speed about 84mph, scribes their primary and then go back into a station tinue to evolve in their intelli- infrared laser, he said. up to 135mph role as ‘intelligence, ten feet away that’s operating gence and autonomy, size, ‘The missile locks on Range: Up to 1,240km surveillance and re- in Afghanistan.’ shape and form. The new gen- to where the laser Max altitude: Up to 7,620m connaissance’, with a Critics of unmanned opera- eration can do things like take marks and the pilot Weapons: Two laser-guided ‘complementary’ tions speak of a ‘PlayStation off and land on their own.’ presses the button to AGM-114 Hellfire missiles mission to provide mentality’ to war but Mr Gam- And then some. One micro- Aircrew: Two, pilot and sensor fire the missile,’ said armed support. bold rejected the notion. UAV can now be guided via an Prof Sharkey. operator The rules of en- ‘When you are sat in that iPhone app.

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How would you describe Safe House? built it up, there’s storytelling about the charac- lent situations and he manipulates through Entertaining. People have said it’s an action ters in those action scenes. charm and dominance. Ryan’s character says: movie but I didn’t think of it that way. It didn’t ‘I’m not going to let you in my head,’ and he’s read that way. When I saw the finished film, I was You play a manipulative former CIA already in his head. A sociopath does it because like, ‘whoa’. The director did a great job. It read agent called Frost. There’s a psycho- he enjoys it. more as a thriller. The fights weren’t described logical aspect to him, isn’t there? Yes. the way it is in the film – the director wanted Frost is very manipulative when it comes to Ryan But your character does it all for the down and dirty, raggedy, ugly fights. For the first Reynolds’ character. I read a book called The So- right reasons. Right. That’s the only part week I’d just come in and watch. He doesn’t do ciopath Next Door and based my character on it. I didn’t like. I guess Ryan Reynolds’ character storyboards, so it was all in his mind. He really A sociopath’s blood pressure goes down in vio- becomes the son he’s never had. A sociopath doesn’t have a conscience – but can a sociopath be a good parent? Maybe there’s that window. There was a great documentary about a hit man for the mob who killed 400 people but GETTY went home and was a great father. They can compartmen- talise. Like in the scene where Frost disarms him I’ve had“ three but doesn’t kill him. Maybe surgeries on my knee that’s Frost’s affection for him but then, obviously, we so the toughest part needed to keep Ryan alive was where I have to for the sake of the movie. jump off roofs You got a black eye – how did that happen? We were doing a scene in a car where we were fighting. There’s a guy on top of the car driving it, so we don’t know when he’s turning. It means you can shoot all the way around the car and it appears Ryan is driving. I was sitting in studio picture, though. I just filmed the back seat trying to strangle Ryan Flight, a tough story about an alcoholic with a pair of handcuffs. The guy airline pilot. It’s not a tent-pole movie turned, Ryan’s head flew back and so we got $30million to make it. It smashed into mine. meant [director] Bob Zemeckis and I took one-tenth of our usual salary but What’s the worst injury you’ve almost 40 per cent of the back end – so had while making a film? That if it hits, ker-ching. If not, we still made could have been it in terms of stopping the movie we wanted. It’s called ‘show- the shoot. They put a lot of ice on it but business’. I don’t have a problem with the next day it was jet black. The make- that. Five years ago we might have got up artist did a great job but they shot $70million to make it – now they’re from the back of my head for a while. looking for Mission: Impossible 6 or Twilight 4. Studios will take the credit Is doing action scenes more dif- for smaller movies if they get Oscars ficult as you get older? I’ve been but I get it, we’re in tough economic boxing for 20 years and I’ve always times. If I loan someone $50million, I been an athlete. The most difficult part want my money back, I don’t want to is I’ve had three surgeries on my knee hear: ‘We blew it but had a nice time so the toughest part was the scenes making the movie.’ where I have to jump off roofs. Because I box, I’m used to fights and What difference does winning we had lots of martial arts training. We an Academy Award make to were doing it three days a week so I your career? My agent got me a lot was in good shape. I was ready for a more money after winning them. With nice bath and a massage at the end of Training Day, it was the first time I’d the day. When you’re younger, you get played a bad guy so I got more bad guy drunk all night and go back to work on scripts. Plus the film made money so two hours’ sleep. These days I have a people thought I was good for business. nice meal and put my feet up. It changed more the first time I won. How has the film industry I went from being somewhat of an unknown to being on people’s radar. changed over the course of your career? Studios are now owned by If you get another one, would big corporations, so all the decisions you prefer it to be for acting or are made in a completely different way. directing? Directing. I’ve already got The mid-majors, places like Summit, two for acting. Either way, it beats a are like what studios used to be. The sharp stick in the eye. big studios are more interested in their big tent pole movies and farm out the Have you got any directing rest of it and take distribution deals. projects lined up? We’ll see. There might be things coming up. Does that make it difficult to Safe House is in cinemas on Friday. find stuff you want to do? You can’t rely on the studios, you have to Andrew Williams know where to go to find it. This was a [email protected]

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 17 MiniCOSM SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY IN BRIEF Let long-missing people be BUGS LIGHTYEAR: Space bugs can generate electricity. Microbes living 30km above Earth were used to produce a declared dead, beg families charged slime that generated 200 watts when used with an electrode. This ‘battery’ could A SINGLE certificate declaring a by SONIA ELKS be used in parts of the world missing person is ‘presumed dead’ without power, Newcastle should be introduced to help their a presumption of death order after University scientists claim. families, MPs say. seven years. The paperwork would replace The MPs also want to introduce WATERWORLD: The Hubble the current ‘crazy paving’ of rules guardianship orders to allow fami- telescope has found a new relating to the affairs of those who lies to look after the missing per- planet, a waterworld have disappeared, they add. son’s estate by cancelling direct enshrouded by a thick, Families of those who are miss- debits and providing maintenance steamy atmosphere. It’s in Eyes on the ing face a ‘confusing, costly and for dependants. the Ophiuchus constellation, prize: Actress emotionally exhausting legal proc- Peter Lawrence, whose 35-year- 40 light-years from Earth. Emilia Fox ess’, according to the Commons old daughter Claudia disappeared justice select committee. in York in 2009, told Metro: ‘I Called GJ 1214b, it’s ‘like no unveils the Diamond ‘We do not agree with ministers realised very soon after she went planet we know of’, US Jubilee Egg, who claim the system is working missing that there is a great diffi- astronomers said. valued at “adequately”,’ said Sir Alan Beith, culty in dealing with all financial £100,000, as chairman of the committee. and practical affairs. TRUNK TRIP: Fossilised the prize for ‘The evidence we have heard ‘Of course, this had been at a tracks thought to have been the Fabergé from families faced with the prob- time when you are at your lowest made by the oldest recorded Big Egg Hunt. lems of resolving these affairs is emotional ebb.’ herd of elephants have been The egg, decorated with overwhelming. The law needs to Mr Lawrence said he had met found in the UAE. The be changed. bereaved families that risked los- 7million-year-old prints in 60 gemstones, will be given to ‘Missing people have been held ing their home because the miss- Abu Dhabi are of adult the winner of to have died in order to dissolve a ing person’s assets were frozen. females, calves and a solitary the hunt to marriage, while remaining techni- ‘Nothing short of legislation will male, according to a study in find 200 cally alive in the eyes of mortgage be good enough. The momentum the Royal Society journal. Fabergé eggs lenders and other agencies.’ is unstoppable, I hope,’ he added. hidden around Sir Alan wants a Presumption of A Ministry of Justice spokesman If you have a story for MiniCosm, London Death Act, based on the Scottish said: ‘We will carefully consider email us at [email protected] PICTURE: PA model, to be brought in. Under all the committee’s recommenda- this law, families would apply for tions and will respond shortly.’ 18 METROMETRO Wednesday,Wednesda February 22, 2012 METRO BritsB a money spinner!

DELE and Ed Sheeran will be said the stellar line-up at the Brits was part of exclaimed. ‘It’s never happened asked to host the Brits for a second waking up with multi-million a ‘three-year plan’ to make our flagship music before.’ time. ‘I’m lucky enough to watch A pound hangovers after last night’s event ‘classier’ and boost album sales. Adele’s British album Coldplay rehearse in an empty are- Brit awards. ‘The more you make it about the music, the sales are expected to sur- na,’ he chuckled. ‘Imagine if that Show host James Corden said the British more people will go out and buy music the pass 6million this morning was an auction prize... it’d be mmusic industry would be in line for a big next day,’ he told me. after she scooped the Mas- amazing, you know, so I feel ccasha boost after the duo joined Blur, Cold- ‘Last year, there was a 225 per cent increase tercard British album prize very lucky to be a part of it.’ pplay and Noel Gallagher to blitz viewers. in sales the next day for the artists who won for 21. The 23-year-old su- While our biggest musical TThe 33-year-old Gavin And Stacey star and performed at the Brits. That’s huge,’ he perstar has sold an album names were toasting their bank every seven seconds since balances with parties on the setting the world alight with Thames and at the top of the Tate Someone Like You at the Modern, The One Man, Two Guv- 2011 show. nors star was on a self-imposed But Corden left his ego outside booze ban. London’s O2 Arena last night to ‘Last year, my girlfriend was eight let Britain’s newest victorious months pregnant so I went out with stars, Emeli Sandé and Ed Sheeran, a couple of mates but this year I enjoy their fair share of the lime- have two shows the next day – a light. The comic actor said he’d felt matinee then an evening show – so like he’d won the lottery after being I shan’t be going crazy.’ Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 19 Edited by Andrei SPECIAL Harmsworth

Olly Murs was hoping newly single Mollie King was Blur go for gold with watching his Brits perform- ance very closely last night. He admitted he huge Olympic show was desperate to help cheer up the 24-year- BlurBlu fans will enjoy another wrote: ‘We’re rowing in... old singer. He told tastetast of Parklife after the band going for gold... grabbing Heart: ‘I heard that confirmedcon they will play a the baton... for the high Mollie from The massivema show at this summer’s jump... No, hang on, is that Saturdays is single Olympics.Oly The awesome right? Fact is, Blur have now so think I fofoursomeu will ‘go for gold’ accepted the invite to might be, “Oh hi duduringr a gig at London’s Hyde headline the Olympics’ Saturdays, how PaParkr to mark the Games’ Closing Ceremony are you doing? closingclo ceremony on August 12. Celebration Concert in Hyde And hi Mollie...”.’ OOn their Facebook page, Blur Park on 12th August.’

Winners in the glamour stakes: Kylie Minogue, Pixie Lott and Nicole Scherzinger PICTURES: REUTERS/AFP/GOFFPHOTOS.COM Riri’s fans stunned as she duets with Brown

Rihanna stunned her loyal fans Turn Up The Music singing, ‘I love before last night’s Brits by you baby’ and ‘you make me releasing two ‘love laugh’. duets’ with her ex, Brown, however, was Chris Brown. more explicit about his The shocker came feelings on Riri’s hit as the international Birthday Cake, as the 22- female winner ran year-old sings: ‘Girl I riot at the O2 – wanna f*** you right now. demanding a private Been a long time, I’ve dining space and been missing your body.’ more booze for her Last night, Riri dressing room. continued three days of Before she hit the birthday fun in London, stage, the 24-year- which saw model Kelly old’s voice could be Brook, 32, join her at heard on a remix of Brown’s track Nozomi restaurant on Monday.

Cougar Caroline Flack was JLS star JB Gill was under ‘a bit #steering clear of her former #of pressure’ to pop the toyboy Harry Styles on the Brits question to long-term girlfriend after-party circuit last night. The Xtra Chloe Tangney after bandmate Factor host, 32, was on the guest list Marvin Humes got engaged to his at the Warner Music bash in Two sweetheart, The Saturdays singer Temple Place, while 18-year-old Rochelle Wiseman. ‘Luckily, it’s all Styles was living it up with Sony at died down now and everyone’s The Arts Club in Mayfair. It may be focusing on Marvin and Rochelle,’ just as well as One Direction star said Gill, whose group missed out Styles has the hots for Mick Jagger’s on best single at the Brits. 20-year-old daughter Georgia.

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Boy, 2, ‘killed by drugs plant food’ A BOY aged two died after drinking by HAYDEN SMITH plant food his mother used to grow can- nabis at home, a court heard yesterday. Booth’s home showed plant food was Aaron Booth swallowed the poison- being used for growing cannabis. ous liquid because he thought it was a ‘She was almost seeming annoyed by Fruit Shoot drink, jurors were told. the involvement of the police because Mother Lauren was more concerned they were going to have to find some- about moving her cannabis plants than where else to grow the skunk, seemingly her son’s condition when she visited not bothered about her son,’ he added. him in hospital, it was claimed. Aaron died at Leeds general infirmary Aaron died 11 days after drinking the in November 2010. pH UP food and was said to have been Booth, 24, from Huddersfield, denies extremely thirsty before taking it. wilfully ill-treating or neglecting her Thomas Storey, for the prosecution, son. The case at Bradford crown court said a notebook and laptop seized from continues. Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 21 Cathedral’s Easter statue recreates the agony of Jesus’s crucifixion using melted wire Blessed are the coat hangers by SONIA ELKS CHRISTIANS believe Jesus died on a cross to save us from our sins – and visitors to a cathedral this Easter will see his final agonising recreated using coat hangers. Christ is seen as a tormented figure howling in pain in the sculpture Die Harder, which goes on display at South- wark Cathedral today. Edinburgh-based artist David Mach used melted-down coat hangers, with the straightened hooks sticking out of the body as sharp spikes. Mr Mach, who has created other crucifixion scenes, is inspired by the ‘struggle, pain, love and death’ in the Bible. Officials at the London cathedral hope the figure ‘will bring home to people the human agony of the crucifixion’. It will remain on display until Good Friday on April 6.

Howls of pain: Die Harder by David Mach is made from coat hangers and shows visitors to Southwark Cathedral the suffering Christians believe Jesus endured for three days on the cross PICTURES: GRETEL ENSIGNIA

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Our food critic, Marina O’Loughlin, gives her taste buds a workout at Fitzbillies – but is it any good? p28 JOHN LEES Take small steps to find success Our columnist says forget luck when seeking a new career path. Develop your interests and learning Mix instead to go in the right direction p31 it up BOOKS Tales of injustice come to light Author Elliot Perlman’s T’S midday. It seems too early to be queu- by CHLOE SCOTT book tells Gin, table service and no ing to get into the hidden depths of the bar Happiness Forgets. But owner Alastair [email protected] stories of US standing up – these are Burgess appears and hastily unlocks the citizens in the doors to his tiny basement in London’s East describe as a ‘nocturnal, subterranean place wrong place IEnd. Followed by staff, we clomp downstairs to serving high-end cocktails in a low-rent at the wrong p32 old-school drinking rules what Burgess and his partner, DJ Andy Bird, basement’. Opening last year on a shoe- § time 24 METRO Wednesday, February 22, 2012 edited by food CHLOE SCOTT

TOP TIPS UNION FLAG DRINKS FOR NATURE LOVERS: FOR BUDDING DRINKS GEEKS: CIDER BRANDY GIN IS WHERE IT’S AT Julian Temperley’s Cider Brandy peppermint tea, Burrow Hill apple At a Beefeater and Plymouth gin master (www.ciderbrandy.co.uk) comes juice, Bramley apple syrup and lime,’ distillers night at private members’ club The in different vintages. Last year, it was he tells me. Zetter Townhouse, mixologist Tony Conigliaro granted European Union Protected Make it yourself: 40ml Somerset Cider Geographical Indication (PGI) status. served an earthy bevy of drinks – a Woodland Brandy (Strangeway uses the three- Martini and a Pine Cordial Gimlet using The brandy is a favourite of 40ml chilled mixologist of the year Nick year vintage), Beefeater 24 gin. The latter also included peppermint tea, 40ml Burrow infusions from Christmas trees. Strangeway, who has put it on Hill apple juice 20ml lime the menu at his latest venture, , But it’s hard to go past the simplicity of a Tom juice, 20ml Bramley apple Collins, a gin and sparkling lemon drink. the Mark Hix bar and syrup restaurant in Belgravia. . Method: Stir on rock ice Make it yourself: Happiness Forgets’ Perfect Strangeway uses it in in a highball glass and top Tom Collins: Fill glass with ice, add 50ml gin, Temperley Mojito Tea. with soda. Garnish with a mint 20ml lemon juice and 20ml sugar syrup (mix ‘It’s a mojito-style drink that sprig and lime wedge. 1:1 water to caster sugar). Top with 100ml soda combines Somerset Cider Or let the experts do it: water and garnish with a lemon slice. Brandy with chilled www.hixbelgravia.co.uk/marksbar

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We all got soaked on punch as hasty teens. Remember Mr Micawber from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, who drank so much punch that his face ‘looked as if it had been varnished all over’? Once again, the British bowl of many measures is au courant. Last year, Jelly-makers Bompas and Parr created a Willy Wonker-esque punch lake on top of a London townhouse for people to row on. Make it yourself: Strangeway kindly offers his acclaimed recipe for Royal Warranted Punch. ‘This is the most blue-blooded of punches, with most ingredients holding a royal warrant or being associated with the royal family.’ Build the following in a punch bowl or jug: 2 parts Beefeater, 1 part Dubonnet, 1 part Hawkers 3 dashes angostura bitters, 1 part lemon juice, sloe gin (or Plymouth sloe gin), 4 parts Twinings earl grey tea (chilled), 4 parts ½ part Grant’s Morella cherry liqueur, ½ part Pol Roger champagne. Then fill the punch bowl with Jo Hilditch British cassis, ½ part Jo Hilditch British ice and garnish with fresh seasonal berries and framboise, splash The King’s ginger liqueur, currants, lemon wheels and borage flowers.’ “People want to talk to the bartender and learn about

string budget, it’s become for grown-ups.’ (His website even know which § much-discussed on the says: ‘No wallies allowed.’) bourbon to pick Twittersphere and among On the dimly lit bar, by the 1950s but he was en- drink pilgrims. onion lamps that I’d love to steal, thusiastic.’ So why the flurry of excitement? he plucks a simple, tall glass and fills The fact this Well, Happiness Forgets is part of a it with ice to begin making me a Tom place, Soho new breed of British bars. As odd as it Collins – ‘It’s a great gin cocktail’ – speakeasy Milk might sound, if you’re familiar with before musing: ‘It’s now 20-to- & Honey and 69 hitting the high street for Friday-night 25-year-olds who want a good drink.’ Colebrooke Row are frolics, this place serves water with Burgess, who worked under Audrey successful, shows people each drink and it’s table service only. Saunders, the godmother of cock- want something different. For oldies? Posh? Au contraire – this tails, at Pegu club in New York, reck- Another reason British drink- is a humble dive bar, attracting every- ons the average Brit is becoming ing habits are maturing, says one from in-the-know creatives to more discerning when it comes to Burgess, is the boom in artisan slickly suited office workers. their drinks. British spirits. ‘A fair few people are fed up with ‘People want to talk to the bartend- Somerset Cider Brandy has doing rubbish drugs, getting ham- er and learn about spirits,’ he says. just got a Protected Geographi- mered and trying to pull,’ says ‘A guy came in the other day and cal Indication (PGI), Burgess. ‘I’m 34, I just thought: asked for an Old Fashioned. He’d which means that, “Where would I like to go?” This is never had one before and didn’t like champagne, it Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 25

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ULL up outside Cambridge institution the landmark bakers’ squidgy, sticky, impossible- RESTAURANT Fitzbillies and you could be forgiven for to-resist Chelsea buns: a delicious anachronism. wondering what century you’re in. The But this is a very new operation. The clammy REVIEW lovely wooden facade and curlicued attentions of the recession had recently slammed Fitzbillies signage, the window groaning with shut its 90-year-old doors. Now, the buns may HHHHI Pintricate wedding cakes (one elaborate confection be made to the original recipe and the frontage with swans turns out to be the work of an 80-year- lovingly restored but it’s the new owners – food old master-confectioner), the stands laden with writer Tim Hayward and his Cambridge-raised wife Alison – who have transformed the little fossil’s fortunes. Full disclosure: I know Hayward from when we both used to infest the spoddiest of food forums. But I’m con- fident that a guy with the brass neck to deep-fry whole turkeys, the enthusi- asm to make his own charcuterie and the pointy-headedness to create his own food magazine (Fire & Knives) TeethWhitening & Clean isn’t going to land us with one of those ‘more in sorrow than anger’ reviews. As soon as we’re scarfing some buttery, crumbly cheese straws strewn with fennel and nigella seeds, and swigging ‘marmalade fizz’ – cham- pagne spiked with syrup made from Seville oranges left over from making their marmalade – we know we’re in 78% OFF safe hands. In the kitchen, those be- long to Rosie Sykes. How lucky they are to have scored this most intuitive, accomplished and unstarry chef, writer (of the excellent The Kitchen Revolution) and former Guardian columnist and bloody fine cook. The dinner menu changes weekly. Typical dishes give me a tiny eclairs. Being let loose here would be frisson of longing: crab bisque with like The Famous Five Discover Their mustard and dill scone; wild boar Inner Bunter. steak with mulled cider sauce and champ; steamed venison and pickled walnut pudding; bacon rolls with NYWAY: dinner. It’s home-made plum ketchup; almond great. Concise the menu cake with rhubarb ripple ice cream. may be, but there are Lunch and teatimes are less ambi- fireworks: a blood orange tious but no less thoughtful, bristling andA razor-thinly sliced fennel salad with preserves and pasties and items whose dressing is pungent with ‘on toast’. anchovy; or folds of burgundy-hued Have you spotted a theme yet? This house-cured beef – there’s a lot of is almost comically, John Bullish-ly curing and smoking in addition to trad Brit: even ingredients such as ca- the pickling and preserving – with volo nero are translated as ‘black cab- shavings of Berkswell cheese, its bage’; tortilla or frittata becomes ‘baked omelette’; quiche is ‘egg and bacon pie’. And the cakes and buns? Being let loose here I adore the word buns: Bath buns, “would be like The WORTH £629 their famous Chelsea buns, ‘hot from PAY ONLY £139 the oven, three times a day’. Plus Famous Five Discover and professional teeth whitening at Covent lardy cake and Eccles cake and coffee Their Inner Bunter Get a consultation, clean Garden Dental Spa for only £139 at wowcher.co.uk market finds, all for sale – to the y very real welcome from the staff. Te rms & Conditions Appl RESTAURANT The youngish, cool-ish clientele is REVIEW lapping it up. Behind us, a blind Trangallán date is in full impressing-each-other HHHHI flow. If the decor is haphazard, the Ge a ww a dy menu and wine list are anything

Scan me! but. They’re both short and carefully It’s cold outside, freezing cold, but chosen. The daily-changing menu inside Trangallán everything hints at a confident hand in the twinkles with warmth, from the kitchen coupled with smart flattering light cast by the sourcing: grassy-green and peppery chandeliers over the artfully Italian olive oil; dense crusty bread Go to wwcher.co.uk/metro mismatched furniture – all flea from cult local pizzeria Datte Foco; Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 29

with Guild Of Food Writers’ Restaurant For seafood, Square, in Padstow, where they WHERE Cornish-based agreed they had the best pizza – it’s Reviewer Of The Year @MarinaOLoughlin chef/proprietor nice to be welcomed with children MARINA O’LOUGHLIN I EAT Nathan in a proper restaurant. Chef Nathan Outlaw’s two- The qualitiesq I look for when Outlaw MMichelin-starichelin-star I’m eating out are cleanliness,clea a eeponymousponymous welcoming aatmospheret restaurant, based in St EEnodocnodoc and simpsimple menus. COCKTAIL CULTURE Hotel in Rock, is one of I can’t sstand fussy, the best. pretentiousprete places; Star tipples to try I wantwan to enjoy the eating it This week: Drambuie ‘North Cornwall has an expexperience,e not feel abundance of good uncuncomfortable.o For 15 Rusty Nail restaurants – you can eatat dridrinks,n my favourite Possibly drunk by... well for breakfast, lunchh placplacee is The Safe Don Draper and dinner. We have a HarbHarbouro Inn in great little fish shop inPort Port FoweyFowey.. It’s my mother- Mad Men fans are salivating Isaac called Fresh Fromm The in-law’s pub!p At home, over the prospect of season Sea where I get all my ccrabsrabs and my wife RachelRach makes a five. Sky Atlantic will screen lobsters. My favourite dedelili iiss RRelishelish in mmeanean cchickenhicken piepie andand I love my new episodes just two days Wadebridge, where they make and mum’s Victoria sponge.’ after they are broadcast in the stock wonderful coffee. I like Sharp’s www.nathan-outlaw.com US. Apparently, the action brewery’s Doom Bar beer; it’s a jumps forward in time. Will clean, refreshing ale, which I also use Don (Jon Hamm, below) ditch on my menu with mussels. Sharp’s is his Old Fashioneds for just across the road from my house in something newer? As he’s a Rock, so that’s useful. whisky man, how about a Rusty When I’m not working, I like visiting Nail? Big in mid-1960s America, The Seahorse (right) in Dartmouth. it was actually created around Chefs Mitch Tonks and Mat Prowse the time of Pearl Harbor. Of cook amazingly fresh, local seafood course, were I his doctor, I’d in their charcoal oven. I recently took suggest Draper switch to neat my children to Rojano’s In The soda water. Make it... Over crushed ice in a short tumbler, pour 25ml Drambuie then 25ml whisky. Stir gently. Add lemon twist garnish. Drink it… Albannach WC2 and Good Godfrey’s at the Waldorf Hilton, London; Coco Tang, Nottingham; The Corinthian, Glasgow; 56 North, Edinburgh. Keith Old curious shopfront: The anachronistic art nouveau of Fitzbillies Barker-Main sharpness adding a welcome layer is tepid; sage dumplings with the of piquancy. guinea fowl are hefty bruisers; that There’s game pudding with celeri- ‘bread’ pudding is so vast that I’m ac mash, remarkably achieving both on the intravenous Fernet Branca. delicacy and stodge. Its suet crust, Fitzbillies’ sticky buns are an outra- toasty at the edges, is crammed with geous indulgence already, bathing a forward-thinking, foodie (sorry for venison and hare and, I think, duck, them in butterscotch and dolloping invoking the ‘f’ word) agenda. slow-cooked in rich, very English on clotted cream are perhaps teensy Friends who remember the original gravy. Guinea fowl can be dry; steps too far. That’s as bad as it gets. Fitzbillies from their student days Sykes’s version is not, leg and breast Fitzbillies is only open for dinner talk of dustiness and stodge. Hayward both luscious and perfectly matched at weekends but more evenings are might jokingly bemoan the fact the with a slightly sweet stewed red planned – Cambridge should rejoice. inherited clientele doesn’t have a cabbage. Puddings? How about The Haywards have married the best Shoreditch state of mind but, actually, profiteroles stuffed with silky blood of nostalgia and tradition in their it works like an absolute dream. The orange ice cream and chocolate beautiful, Cambridge Blue-tiled template for this student town’s small sauce? Or a bread pudding made shop – the lampshades are made treasure should be on every catering from the killer – almost literally – from old preserving pans; there’s a college’s curriculum. Chelsea buns? Clever wine list, too. beef pattie on the lunch menu from Marina O’Loughlin I’m going to try, dispassionately, to an original 1938 recipe; Gill Abbs, Dinner for two with wine, water and criticise: the fluffy, creamy celeriac one of their bakers, has been at Fitz- tip costs about £80. 52 Trumpington mash that accompanies the pudding billies for more than 40 years – with Street, Cambridge. www.fitzbillies.com

fresh fish and seafood from ‘our gastro-cultural space’. But fair neighbour Les’. It’s all beautifully enough, they do feature regular done: subtle, super-sweet slices of live music, screenings and freshest raw scallop with a performances (there’s a film on lemony fennel purée; excellent the night we visit; after, the Guijuelo ham; seared bavette audience stays to drink, snack and with a clever little salad of discuss). If I had Trangallán at the broccoli and cauliflower tips. end of my road, you’d have to There are people carping online prise me out: it’s pretty much my about portion sizes but I’m not dream local. MO’L sure they understand tapas. And Tapas for two with wine, water and the prices reflect the quality of service cost about £70. the ingredients. Neither am I sure 61 Newington Green, N16. about their self-description as ‘a www.trangallan.com 30 METRO Wednesday, February 22, 2012 break DAILY SKIVE Your working day can be fun – if you cut out the Stuck for awkward tea break chit-chat? Why not rehash one of these work. Here’s how… Screen break ill-considered, half-baked opinions on a topical happening? Does your job corrode your soul? Follow the TV: Daddy Daycare ADVERT: Dr Oetker’s cupcakes FILM: Safe House ancient eastern tradition of At least it doesn’t feature Channel 4’s This advert is guaranteed to make If you’re a teenage boy who putting a battery-powered resident gallumpin’p, baroness, you forget whatever programme enjoys explosions and car egg-shaped cat on your desk. Kirstie Allsopp.pp. you’re watching and will chases, you might like this. Yurakoro Lucky Cats come with confrontconfron you with questions about If not, you probably won’t. seven preloaded sounds. It joins the channel’shannel’s £7.99, www.firebox.com line-up of endlessdless the pointpoin of human existence. With the Academy makeover, babyby Apparently,Appar it’s all about making Awards this and property shows andnd cupcakes.cupc Competing with weekend, this flick Tea break once again reflects its youryour loved one in some sort is a timely reminder The McLaggan commissioners’ dodgyy of cupcake-makingc duel is that winning an Smith Nato views of modern men.. thethe thingthing toto dod with your Oscar is no Phonetic Channel 4 seems to leisureleisure hours – at least if guarantee of a career Alphabet Mug think men should serveve you live ini Germany spent making cinematic will help you only to tell dowdy womenmen or whateverwha other classics. Denzel Washington spell out your they look nice in maxii dresses weirdoweird European may have won the Best Actor name, address and (Gok Wan) or to carryy their nationnatio this was gong in 2002 and Best postcode to foreign call centres. overbearing other half’sf’s filmedfilm in. Supporting Actor in 1990, £10.50, www.johnlewis.com handbags (Allsopp’s doormat, With than yet here he is chasing Ryan Phil Spencer). This show 2.5million Reynolds (left) in a lacklustre Fag break maintains that men are crap at people spy caper. He’s not alone – it’s Sometimes, people get ill and, looking after children. Last week,ek, unemployedunemp in hard to believe these days but when they recover, turn French. the voice-over told us that two menmen Britain – and some of those Catwoman star Halle Berry Foreign accent syndrome is a who made it clear to their broodydy wives being forcedforce to work for free in won Best Actress in 2001 and rare side effect of brain injury they didn’t want children neededed an ‘attitude supermarketssupermarkets for their basic benefits – and even True Blood’s Anna Paquin in which the patient speaks in adjustment’ (a divorce seems the more sensible crackpot German Dr Oetker thinks now is the won Best Supporting Actress in a different accent. In 2010, option). Shows such as this have a niche time to tell us Brits to fritter away our cash on 1994 for The Piano. Think of 49-year-old Kay Russell, from audience of bitter, working mothers. If their cupcake-making paraphernalia? No. Surely, that when you see the winners Gloucestershire, woke up lives are that bad, why not resign from their life’s too short to know what a ‘waifer daisy’ weeping at their good fortune with a French accent jobs, divorce their husbands, put their children is let alone buy one? Let alone participate in this weekend – they’ll be after a severe up for adoption and see if that brings them the a cupcake-baking showdown with the missus? crying over their CVs soon migraine. fulfilment they crave? Ludicrous. enough. Scott Tenorman

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32 METRO Wednesday, February 22, 2012 reviews editor books CLAIRE ALLFREE

THE STREET SWEEPER ELLIOT PERLMAN HHHHI Monumental take on 20th-century horrors

Elliot Perlman has tales of injus- war, in which survivors describe in individual lives. Williams tice to impart, of those guilty only the horror of the death camps. hopes to be reunited with his of being in the wrong place at the Through a broad range of char- daughter, while Zignelik broods wrong time, with the wrong acters, Perlman works in shock- over a broken relationship. colour skin or the wrong religion. ing moments of the black experi- Not everything works. The Lamont Williams is an African- ence in the US, including the plight of the lovelorn historian American hospital orderly in murderous Detroit race riot of seems gossamer-thin, and Perl- Manhattan in a work programme 1943 and how angry white mobs man’s relish for intercutting for released prisoners. No one in Alabama in the 1950s con- between different strands is dis- believes him but he really didn’t fronted children who defied tracting. But he’s also a consum- commit the robbery for which he school segregation. Yet amid the mate storyteller who utilises a was jailed. He strikes up an sweep of history, much is at stake vast amount of research to create unlikely relationship with an eld- enthralling characters born out erly patient, who reveals to him of the previous century’s darkest VERDICT A panoramic his memories of the Holocaust. novel of 20th moments. Chapter by chapter, he Meanwhile, Adam Zignelik, a century injustice and the gradually brings their stories Jewish historian whose father need to bear witness. together in a vast, brilliantly con- was a leading civil rights lawyer, ceived structure. Altogether, The is struggling with his career until Publisher Faber Street Sweeper is a monument to he discovers a trove of audio Price £14.99 the importance of history and recordings made just after the memory. Ben Felsenburg Various Pets Alive & Dead Q: A Love Story by Evan Mandery by Marina Lewycka Fourth Estate, £16.99 Fig Tree, £12.99 HHHHI The Woman Who Went     HHHHI Evan Mandery’s third novel To Bed For A Year by Sue Townsend Marina Lewycka displays a similar follows a New York novelist whose Michael Joseph, £18.99 mix of astringent humour and worldly older self travels back in time to HHHII   humanism in her fourth novel as she urge him to ditch his fiancée By the time she was 23, Sue did in her acclaimed debut, A Short because their son (not yet a twin- Townsend had three children under History Of Tractors In Ukrainian. kle in the eye) will inherit a fatal five and would fantasise about Doro and Marcus, now in their six- genetic disorder. He reluctantly being jailed so that she could read in ties, are idealistic revolutionary does so – only for more future solitude on her bunk bed. types who raised their children in a selves to appear, proffering wildly Her latest protagonist, Eva, isn’t in left-wing commune and are naively, contradictory advice. any formal institution but she is desperately at odds with 21st-century It’s great fun if you can stomach imprisoned in her own life, worn down materialism. Their three children, some of the pseudo-philosophical by her thoughtless family and her own Serge, Clara and Oolie Anna (all ramblings about psychology and wasted dreams. As this healthy woman named after revolutionaries) struggle evolution. The hero is a likeable eventually takes to her bed and stays with the legacy of their upbringing. klutz and part of the novel consists there for 12 months, things recalibrate Primary-school teacher Clara wants of extracts from his fiction: in one, around her: family members struggle everything to be spick and span; Philip Roth jumps off a bridge to fend for themselves, secrets are Serge can’t admit to his parents he’s when a robot writer wins a revealed, emotions bubble over. a City trader rather than a maths Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Townsend’s political and social PhD, and is up to his neck in a dodgy As well as oddball comedy, satire isn’t as biting as in prior works. deal and Oolie Anna, who has there’s a syrupy climax for anyone The opportunity to tackle the science Down’s Syndrome, wants to leave seeking the romance advertised in versus religion debate (through Eva’s home and live in her own flat where the slightly misleading subtitle physicist husband) is only gently she can watch porno films. that the British publisher added flirted with, and Eva’s undergraduate Characterised with mocking affec- (the US title was Q: A Novel). children appear untouched by the tion and dollops of irony, each family The science fiction conceit puts a financial pressures that cripple stud- member comes up against the fact neat spin on the stock tale of a ents today. But in forcing a group of that ideology and real life are not Manhattanite thirty-something people to figure out the things that always a compatible mix in this funny, scared to commit. matter most in life, it certainly pricks farcical novel. Tina Jackson Anthony Cummins at the conscience. Sharon Lougher

has many deep-seated, fascinating FIVE problems. And few countries have QUESTIONS a more inaccurate picture painted Tobias Jones of them – in Britain we think of Italy as this rustic, mandolin- strumming, pepper-grinder- A lot of the love/hate wielding, aria-singing country but relationship with Italy you that’s far from the truth. described so well in The Dark Blood On The Altar describes Heart Of Italy is evident in the case of an Italian serial your latest book, the true- murderer and follows the crime account Blood On The family of his first victim, Altar. What are your feelings 16-year-old Elisa Claps, who for the country? spent years trying to get I’m extremely fond of it; my wife’s justice. What effect did such Italian and one day we’ll move traumatic case have on you? back there. But if I see something If you’re that close to the worst crooked or corrupt I say so. Italy grief imaginable, you begin to              

METRO Wednesday, February 22, 2012 33 PICTURE THIS

Beaton In Vogue by Josephine Ross (Thames & Hudson, £24.95) is a sumptuous compilation of the characterful photographs, sparkling essays and elegant illustrations produced by Cecil Beaton for the style bible over the course of more than half a century. Images such as the snap of a grinning Twiggy, perching legs astride on top of a wardrobe, demonstrate his knack for letting the personality of his subjects shine through. As well as high fashion, there are his war photographs, writings and drawings, from London in the Blitz to China (pictured) and the north African Desert.

Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn Narcopolis £20, Union Books by Jeet Thayil HHHHI Faber, £12.99 Donovan Hohn’s debut has a glib title HHHHI and cutesy premise: the story of how Bombay rarely appears in modern fiction the author set off on an odyssey to get the way it does in Jeet Thayil’s debut. to the bottom of the fates of 28,800 The drug dens, waste dumps and broth- plastic toys (a quarter of them ducks) els of the city in the 1970s form a crepus- lost at sea in 1992 after falling off a cular dreamscape for Thayil’s characters cargo ship in the Pacific. as they drift through days elongated by But comparisons with Melville’s the opium pipe: his unnamed narrator; great novel aren’t so fanciful. Moby- Dimple, a eunuch hired by the drug deal- Duck’s prose is easier going than Moby er Rashid to work in his parlour; Rumi, Dick but its scope is compelling: less an addict who winds up in rehab; and the story of Hohn’s oceanic adven- various others whose fate proves as tures, more a troubled philosophical nightmarish and as difficult to verify as consideration of man’s relationship the nature of reality itself in this haunted with the artificial and the natural and city of death. how our emotional response to pollut- Everything changes when heroin hits ants, plastics and toys are shaped by in the 1980s – ugly, merciless and, elaborate symbols (not least the Thayil hints, a harbinger of the ugly, rubber duck itself). merciless modernity ahead. In precise, It’s often ambivalent in tone, cast- colour-saturated prose,Thayil eschews ing doubt on the effectiveness of conventional narrative for wayward many populist attempts to clean up stories that bleed in and out of each our heavily polluted oceans and, other like colours in the rain, in a com- unlike Moby Dick, it lacks a show- passionate novel that largely succeeds stopping finale. But the journey is in transcending drug literature’s usual extraordinary. Andrzej Lukowksi clichés. Claire Allfree understand their crusade. Theirs was a does that inform your fiction? classic David and Goliath story but their I suppose it does. I’m suspicious of the rigorous, furious search for the truth tidy denouement. Crime should be the was contagious. And as we heard the ultimate in realism. In Italy, that usually graphic details of how these women means justice won’t be a part of it. died, it literally gave you nightmares. You say that Berlusconi was How do you find writing ultimately the reason you true crime? moved back to Britain. What It’s a funny genre – some people think was your reaction when he it’s rather grubby and tawdry. You have left office last year? to avoid focusing on the gruesome We have an Italian flag on the tree details for a wider survey of what the house that’s been flying at half-mast for crime says about society and about us. years and we raised it when he went but You also write crime fiction and I’d be amazed if he didn’t come back. It have said whereas the British was relief tempered with apprehension. write about a search for justice, Blood On The Altar is published by Faber Italian authors look at injustice – on March 1, priced £16.99. 34 METRO Wednesday, February 22, 2012 ART REVIEW Jeremy Deller: going out Joy In People HHHHI

IKE a highly trained rapid Jeremy Deller doesn’t paint, response unit, Nicolas Kent’s THEATRE REVIEW doesn’t draw and doesn’t Tricycle Theatre again proves The Bomb: A Partial History sculpt. Instead, he itself adept at seizing the HHHII coordinates collaborative moment with its latest big happenings, often involving Levent: ten short plays examining the the public. This is the 2004 nuclear bomb. with peaceful self-determination in Turner Prize-winner’s first As tensions simmer in the Middle Amit Gupta’s Option. museum show and his work East in a way not seen since the Cold For all the fluidity of Kent’s well- is difficult to represent in a War, Part One runs through the histo- acted, outgoing production, The Bomb gallery space but the ry of proliferation, with Ron Hutchin- isn’t served well by the play-cycle for- Hayward has pulled it off son’s Calculated Risk an excellent di- mat, mainly because the power of nu- with aplomb. gest of the ethical and political clear weapons is so abstract. There’s a real sense of questions faced by Clement Attlee in And it’s a pity history’s two great discovery and fun, 1945 over whether Britain should nuclear stand-offs – the Cuban mis- commensurate with Deller’s pursue its own nuclear programme. sile crisis and, latterly, India and Paki- inclusive practice, as you The awesome philosophical para- stan – aren’t featured. Only David explore the mix of photos, doxes of the bomb – a hugely expen- Greig’s The Letter Of Last Resort ephemera and video. Deller sive weapon that’s only effective if finds a moment of very real, very hu- sometimes curates events it’s never used – combined with the man conflict. But, as Part Two plays with serious or political impossibility of putting the genie out the legacy of Part One, the Tricy- implications, such as the back into the bottle, is subsequently cle once again powerfully dramatises seminal 2001 film The Battle dramatised in various (and somewhat the need to understand our history in Of Orgreave, which recreates repetitive) displays of intellectual and order to understand ourselves. the 1984 clash between political shadow-boxing: from the Claire Allfree striking miners and police. growing number of nations joining Other works riff lightly on The Club in Lee Blessing’s bluntly Until Apr 1, Tricycle Theatre. popular culture but often still satirical Seven Joys to India’s struggle www.tricycle.co.uk Tense times: Weapons inspectors in From Elsewhere: On The Watch touch on the profound. Interactive touches are ‘I don’t care if the show stinks. everywhere and you can even You’re not coming back? drink tea in a reconstruction Neither am I,’ declares Jackie COMEDY of a Lancashire market snack Mason, having just walked on REVIEW bar. Visitors need to pop on stage to the strains of Sinatra’s Jackie Mason: Fearless 3D glasses for the show’s New York, New York (or ‘New HHHII conclusion, Exodus 2012, Yoik, New Yoik’). featuring thousands of But don’t believe everything movie stars in light of the wheeling Texan bats. It’s you hear: these shows might be impending Oscar ceremony. a fun thrill but lacks the the 75-year-old’s British Ever the old pro, he even human element that makes farewell but he’s still scatters in some topical the rest of the exhibition the ultimate British references: resonate. Overall, though, showbiz trouper, Ed versus David Deller joyously rips up the irrepressibly Miliband, even the rule books and challenges delivering two solid Harry Redknapp what art can be – but he does hours of classic and tax-evasion scandal. it without obfuscation or newer material like But whether pretention. Amy Dawson a Jewish joke robot. targeting that lot, Until May 13, Hayward Gallery. There are moments Barack Obama or the www.southbankcentre.co.uk that are a little ill- mission to Mars, all roads judged – some out-dated lead back to Jewishness: racial and homosexual whatever your thoughts of stereotyping will make you Mason over his five-decade cringe. But other gags do bear career, he did it his way. repeating, including our Sharon Lougher personal favourite, which sees him campaign for plumbers to Until Mar 17, Wyndhams Theatre. be taken just as seriously as www.ticketmaster.co.uk

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 35 best of what’s on… tv with Sharon Lougher and Colin Kennedy American Guns, Winterwatch, Discovery, 10pm BBC2, 9pm Rich Wyatt and his wife Renee First there was would be a typical suburban Springwatch, then American couple – were it not Autumnwatch; now it’s the for the fact that they own a turn of Winterwatch and major gun trading facility just time for Chris Packham outside Denver. If they can’t get and Kate Humble hold of what you want, they’ll (pictured) with Martin make it: this opening episode Hughes-Games to show us on some lucky swallows sees Rich rebuild a 19th-century how wildlife is faring in the that have escaped Britain contraption that’s part shooter, freezing temperatures. and wound up in South part knuckleduster. Nice. SL Michaela Strachan also Africa. Plus, there’s word reports on why this sceptered isle FILM CHOICE has suddenly seen an influx of owls. Cute! SL No Distance Left To Run ITV4, 9pm Fully 19 years Grey’s Anatomy, Sky after Starshaped, Living, 10pm the previous documentary This episode picks up about Blur, this where the previous one film follows left off – with Meredith and Damon Albarn Alex looking out at a family (pictured), Graham Coxon, Alex of dead and injured strewn James and that Dave bloke on across a road after the car/ drums for their triumphant return ambulance crash. There’s in 2009. Fans will be thrilled more emotional hand- with comeback concert footage wringing from Cristina Big Body Squad, C5, 8pm from Hyde Park and Glastonbury (Sandra Oh, left) as but even people who harbour she continues to fond feelings for the 1990s delay telling Teddy This six-part series comes fleshed out with some disturbing statistics: did you know there are a should enjoy the interviews, as about Henry’s the nice Essex boys recall their death. SL million morbidly obese people in England alone, double the number in 2000? And that Britain is Britpop heyday, including the home to the man who has just officially become rivalry with Oasis. They were always more engaging than your the world’s fattest – 58-stone Keith Martin? Keith Alexander Armstrong’s Big Ask, Dave, 10pm average rock stars and the appears in this first episode – he weighed 53 stories of drugs, ego and fame Alexander Armstrong is joined by the ever-personable Ed stone when it was filmed – with the team of are both funny and frank. CK Byrne, live wire Russell Kane and the self-deprecating nurses, carers, dieticians and ambulance workers Mark Watson for this latest outing of the cosy panel show, who are specially trained to take the strain. SL in which guests devise as well as answer the questions. SL TURN OVER FOR FULL TV LISTINGS

INSIDE THE BOX What KEITH WATSON watched last night

T’S turned out to be a bit of ‘There should be gay people out there Where Gok scored was simply by a tease, has Gok’s Teens: The who aren’t stereotypes,’ said Daniel, listening. His portfolio as Minister For Naked Truth (C4). For a start, 19, who’d come out at 16 but found it a Youth might need some work but there I there hasn’t been much, aside bit of an anticlimax. You should have was no doubting the impact he’d made from the odd candid reminiscence, seen the look on Gok’s face. ‘Stereo- on the teenagers over whose lives he’d of Mr Wan’s own rocky adoles- type, moi?’ was practically subtitled waved his magic wand. The days out cence. And if you wanted starkers on his smooth forehead. Gok’s solu- were temporary, the fact that someone teenagers confronted by an all- tion to Daniel’s dithering? Sashaying actually gave a Gok could have a last- around mirror and weeping, then him round Soho to meet a gay MP and ing impact. you were barking up the wrong then a glamorous chapess by the name Embarrassing Bodies tree. of Lady Lloyd. As stereotype-busting FTER an uncertain start Moving out of his catwalk went, it seemed a touch off-beam. Prisoners’ Wives (BBC1) has comfort zone, this was Gok tak- Another strand confronted the prob- Agot its teeth into its disparate ing the softly, softly approach to lems faced by Britain’s teen carers. clutch of characters, the overlapping empowerment. Driven by a desire Gok tackled this by whisking them off storylines starting to pack a genuine to fix everybody, this was Gok as for a fun day out at a theme park and it You should have emotional punch. And Pippa Haywood counsellor, taking a tilt at shoe- felt like trying to fix a broken leg with “seen the look has never been better than as horning the angst of troubled youth a sticking plaster. Yet for all these quib- on Gok’s face. nerve-edged Harriet, a woman on the into a bite-sized TV show. At bles, Gok’s Teens: The Naked Truth brink. When the breakdown comes, it times, it made for a bumpy ride. still came off as strangely inspiring. ‘Stereotype, moi?’ promises to be special.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 39 Ecovelocity: Metro’s low carbon motor show returns in May and it’s bigger and better than METRO wheels ever. See www.ecovelocity.co.uk for details King of the city Xenter YAMAHA XENTER 125: TWIST AND GO SCOOTERING JUST BECAME MORE REFINED THANKS TO SOME CLEVER JAPANESE ENGINEERING, WRITES GEOFF HILL ESTING motorcycles is pitch that absorbs initial shocks Not cobbled together: Yamaha a glamorous occupation and a larger pitch for stronger listened to what riders wanted, that involves riding ones. It then translates that such as better handling, and Texotic machines in even vertical bump and grind into a delivered with the Xenter 125 more exotic locations, horizontal movement; and it then sipping a Martini on the beach works, laughing off the worst of dictating deathless prose to a Barcelona’s potholes. me free to appreciate the useful personal secretary. Customers also wanted the scoot- mirrors and the glovebox under the Right… I thought, as I blew my er to be easier to out on the stand. handlebars, which is big enough nose for the fourth time in as many A Yamaha representative told me for your scootering mitts. minutes and stood in the lobby of a her friend bought one, rode it And as if those pesky customers Barcelona hotel looking out at the home, then phoned her husband to hadn’t got enough already, they snow drifting gently down on the come and put it on the stand. complained traffic was getting new Yamaha Xenter 125. The snow As a result, the Xenter has a true heavier and they wanted to feel stopped after a while and was centre stand (or possibly a xenter relaxed when riding through replaced with freezing rain. But busy streets. the good news is Yamaha’s latest VITAL STATS So with pliant suspension, an mini-commuter is worth it. ergonomically spot-on riding posi- There was a time when scooters Yamaha Xenter 125 Engine: 125cc liquid-cooled tion and linked front and rear brak- had the performance of a gerbil ing (which means you won’t come fuel-injected SOHC four-stroke and the handling of a drunken a cropper no matter how ham-fist- Power: 12.3bhp @ 7,500rpm jellyfish. Not any more: with four- ed you are with the anchors), the Torque: 8.8lb ft @ 7,250rpm stroke engines up to 800cc, wheels Xenter is a doddle to ride when Top speed: 55 mph (est) up to 16in, punchy performance filtering through traffic and power- and bike-style handling, it’s no Fuel efficiency: 110mpg (est) ing through corners. surprise British scooter sales rose Wet weight: 142kg There’s even enough punch in by 12 per cent last year. On sale: now the fuel-injected motor to get you The Xenter is aimed at customers Price: £2,999 including screen away from traffic lights faster than who know nothing about bikes, or and top box most cars, accompanied by a even scooters, but want an easy-to- surprisingly meaty snarl liable to ride city runabout. stand), right under the centre of bring a smile to the face of even Yamaha’s research revealed that gravity making it easier for anyone the hairiest biker. customers wanted better road- to park it with aplomb. The engine is a peach: totally holding and stability because More floor space to carry new. Its lightweight forged alu- cobbled streets, tram rails and shopping home was also request- minium piston, ceramic-coated potholes were making riding ed, resulting in the biggest flat- cylinders and a single-shift bal- difficult and stressful. board of any scooter: ancer all add up to a tasty lack of They had a ready- even at 6ft 7in, my knees vibration. As with the TMax, it’s made solution in weren’t bashing against mounted on to the chassis rather the monocross rear the front panel. This left than over the back wheel to suspension used in improve handling. its impressive sports In Britain, the machine will scooter the TMax. be sold with a screen and a This clever little top box that can fit two chap has a spring open-face helmets or one full- with both a finer face. There’s also storage space under the seat for things such as rain gear or a lock and the comfortable pillion seat comes with grab rails and footrests. In fact, the only complaint is that the black-on-grey LCD in- strument panel is a bit dull – but then you should be looking at the road in front of you, anyway.

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Follow our business team on METRO Edited by Jayne Atherton Twitter on @JayneAtherton business [email protected] and on @Cheryl_Latham Google shares LSE prices for free Mobile giant to GOOGLE started to provide real-time share Group said it would allow them to make ‘more prices from the London Stock Exchange free informed investment decisions’. of charge yesterday. Maxim Edelman, head of strategic Google Finance’s deal with the LSE Group, partnerships at Google, said the service would spend £1.5bn on which also owns Borsa Italiana, aims to attract enable users ‘to better monitor market changes, small investors, who trade equities for their manage their portfolios and track economic personal accounts rather than companies. LSE and financial developments in Europe’. 4G everywhere

MOBILE network provider Everything by CHERYL LATHAM Everywhere yesterday pledged to invest £1.5billion in the next three years on lion in the three months to the end of rolling out superfast 4G technology. last year, with a record 313,000 net cus- The operator’s owners, Orange and tomer additions in the quarter. T-Mobile, said the technology would Data and messaging revenue was also allow users to download music and up at 43 per cent of average revenue per films to smartphones at the same speeds user, as more customers took up smart- as laptop or desktop computers. phones. It has successfully tested 4G in St Everything Everywhere was formed Newlyn East in Cornwall and will bid by a merger of its owners in 2010 to for coverage in auctions to be held by create a combined customer base of Ofcom later this year. 27million, with 48 per cent of users Chief executive Olaf Swantee said the now on contracts. business was ‘capitalising’ on opportu- The company has been driving down nities provided by smartphones. costs to improve its margins with £278 ‘As a result of network sharing and million in savings last year, which in- customer experience improvements, we cluded 550 job cuts that focused on sen- are seeing good commercial momen- ior management or head office roles. tum and are capitalising on the smart- At least 98 per cent of the population phone and data opportunity to drive would have access to 4G technology, underlying growth,’ he added. which will trigger a near six-fold in- Everything Everywhere recorded a 12 crease in demand for smartphones and per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £12mil- data, Ofcom said earlier this year. 24-hour bra gives boost to women always on the go A NEW cleavage-boosting bra that can be worn for work, rest and play has become a lingerie brand’s fastest selling invention. The Ultimo Dreamwire has a hidden wire encased in soft foam for support and the company claims many women now wear it in bed. Since launching last month, it has become the brand’s fastest seller, with extra stock being shipped in to cope with demand. Ultimo founder Michelle Mone said: ‘We all lead busy lifestyles and the last thing ladies need is an uncomfortable bra.’ Fast seller: The Dreamwire bra

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cricket Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO 43 athletics KP hits new heights to seal one-day whitewash by CHRIS STOCKS Turkey-bound: Farah Cricket Correspondent, in Dubai KEVIN PIETERSEN’S second century in the Farah eyes space of three days propelled England to a 4-0 one-day series whitewash of Pakistan. Pietersen plundered a career-best ODI score boost with of 130 to guide England to a four-wicket triumph, after they were set 238 to win. Before his 111 in last Saturday’s series- indoor trip clinching victory in Dubai, the South African- Maximum man: born batsman had not reached three figures in Pietersen smashes this format in three-and-a-half years. the ball for six as he MO FARAH has been named in But after waiting so long, two have come helps England to the Great Britain & Northern along at once for the 31-year-old as he eclipsed another victory Ireland team for next month’s his previous best one-day innings of 116 against PICTURE: GETTY World Indoor Championships South Africa at Centurion in 2005 and helped despite an injury concern. his side turn the tables on Pakistan after their The world 5,000metres recent 3-0 Test series defeat. SCOREBOARD champion lost over two miles in ‘That is probably the best innings I’ve played,’ Birmingham on Saturday and Dubai Pakistan won toss admitted Pietersen. ‘I felt if I batted for 50 PAKISTAN suggested he might skip the overs, then we could come close.’ Mohammad Hafeez c Kieswetter b Dernbach .1 event. However, he will now Azhar Ali c Morgan b Dernbach ...... 58 Shafiq b Bresnan ...... 65 compete over 3,000m in Umar Akmal c Dernbach b Briggs ...... 12 Shoaib Malik lbw b Briggs ...... 23 153 Balls faced by Pietersen in his Misbah ul-Haq c Trott b Dernbach ...... 46 match-winnings innings yesterday Shahid Afridi c Bresnan b Finn ...... 9 ‘I’ve no concerns over Akmal run out ...... 2 Rehman c Trott b Finn ...... 12 Farah whatsoever’ Ajmal b Dernbach ...... 1 England’s chase started poorly, with captain Junaid Khan not out ...... 0 Alastair Cook dismissed for four off the second Extras b1 lb4 w3 8 Istanbul after being included in Total 10 wkts (50 overs) 237 ball of the reply, and they were reduced to 68 Fall: 1-1 2-112 3-135 4-144 5-202 6-215 7-220 8-233 a 39-strong squad. for four in the 16th over. 9-237 UKA head coach Charles van Bowling: Finn 10-0-42-2, Dernbach 10-0-45-4, But a 109-run fourth-wicket partnership be- Bresnan 9-0-47-1, Briggs 10-0-39-2, Pietersen Commenee described Farah’s tween Pietersen and Craig Kieswetter put them 1-0-4-0, S R Patel 10-0-55-0 loss as ‘healthy’, and added: ‘If on course, and the returning Tim Bresnan hit ENGLAND INNINGS athletes remain unbeaten for a A N Cook lbw b Junaid Khan ...... 4 the winning runs with four balls to spare. K P Pietersen c Rehman b Ajmal ...... 130 number of years, the moment England had named two debutants, with 21- I J L Trott c Mohammad Hafeez b Rehman .... 15 they get beaten is coming closer, E J G Morgan lbw b Ajmal ...... 15 year-old batsman Jos Buttler dismissed for a J C Buttler c Azhar Ali b Ajmal ...... 0 so that’s out of the way now. second-ball duck by Saeed Ajmal. But the oth- C Kieswetter run out ...... 43 I’ve no concerns whatsoever.’ S R Patel not out ...... 17 er, left-arm spinner Danny Briggs, returned T T Bresnan not out ...... 4 Jessica Ennis will look to promising figures of two for 39. Jade Dernbach Extras lb3 w10 ...... 13 retain her pentathlon crown, was the pick of the bowlers with four for 45. Total 6 wkts (49.2 overs) ...... 241 with Dwain Chambers hoping Fall: 1-4 2-50 3-68 4-68 5-177 6-236 Cook, meanwhile, was last night drafted into Bowling: Junaid Khan 9.2-0-53-1, Rehman to defend his 60m title. Olympic the squad for the upcoming Twenty20 matches 10-0-31-1, Ajmal 10-0-62-3, Shahid Afridi 400m champion Christine against Pakistan as cover for Ravi Bopara, who 10-0-54-0, Mohammad Hafeez 10-0-38-0 Ohuruogu is also selected in the England bt Pakistan by 4wkts was ruled out of this game with a back injury. 4x400m relay.

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44 METRO Wednesday, February 22, 2012 rugby union six nations SPORT DIGEST PICTURE: GETTY Haye ready to party after Chisora brawl Farrell: I can BOXING David Haye jetted off to ‘warmer climates’ yesterday as German police admitted their hands were tied for up to a boot nerves fortnight as they try to track him down. Haye (pictured) could face up to five years in prison if found guilty of ‘dangerous assault’ during his brawl with Dereck into touch Chisora. Haye had been keeping a low profile but arrived at Heathrow before boarding a flight – reportedly to Las Vegas. He tweeted: ‘Managed to shake off them bird watchers (photographers) on M25! Jetting off to warmer climates. on HQ bow Its PARTY TIME!’ Munich Police are trying to work with British colleagues to track down Haye but the process could After only two caps, Owen Farrell already take up to a fortnight to begin. looks the part at centre for England. Danny Rory hopes to top Griffithscat ches up with the rising star the lot by Sunday WEN FARRELL was whistle blows because there isn’t time calmness personified as to think about anything else other GOLF For the first time in his young he booted England to than the business at hand.’ golfing life, Rory McIlroy starts a victory in Italy, but the Farrell reckons he will not be fazed tournament today knowing by the end Saracens star admits he by an intense atmosphere if he has to of it he could be world No.1. The 22- Owill be a bag of nerves before his take important kicks in what could be year-old US Open champion will top the international Twickenham debut. a classic encounter and added: ‘I’m rankings on Sunday if he wins the WGC- Stuart Lancaster’s side entertain used to kicking under pressure in big Accenture Match Play in Arizona, and Wales in a match likely to go a long occasions. current No. 1 Luke Donald falls at the way to determining who will win this ‘I have done that in important first or second hurdle. McIlroy, who year’s Six Nations title. matches for Saracens – like last year’s faces South African George Coetzee in England beat Scotland 13-6 at Mur- Grand Final – and I don’t let it get to the opening round, said: ‘The rankings rayfield, with Farrell kicking two me. I just get on with the job. are sort of a by-product of what you do. penalties and a conversion before he I’d rather just concentrate on trying to weighed in with 14 points in the 19- win tournaments and trying to improve 15 comeback victory over Italy in ‘I’m used to kicking in as a player.’ Centre of attention: Farrell has excelled in the No.12 jersey Rome a fortnight ago. It is an eye-catching start to the big games for Sarries’ 20-year-old’s international career but Vikings are struck the stakes will be raised when he runs ‘We have shown a lot of character Parling set to lock out Palmer out for the first time at HQ. winning in Edinburgh and coming by Watts outage LEICESTER lock Geoff Parling an impact off the bench in Farrell’s Sarries team-mate Schalk back to win when we were behind to is in line for his England Test the victories over Scotland Brits has claimed the young centre Italy, and it shows we have a lot of RUGBY LEAGUE Widnes Vikings debut in Saturday’s clash and Italy. Centre Manu has ‘ice running through his veins’ belief in ourselves. have suffered a major blow with the with Wales after Tom Palmer Tuilagi and fly-half Toby when he takes aim between the posts. ‘Wales have played some attractive loss of Australian half-back Anthony was last night axed from the Flood are also back in Farrell said: ‘The adrenaline will rugby in their last two games so it is Watts for at least six months with a squad. Parling is set to be England’s match-day squad definitely be flowing when I run out going to be a very tough game against knee injury. The 25-year-old former promoted into the starting for the first time in the of the tunnel before the game and the them but we are really looking Sydney Roosters player tore his right XV with scrum-half Lee tournament, with both hairs on the back of my neck will forward to it.’ anterior cruciate ligament in his Super Dickson and number eight Leicester players expected to definitely be standing up when the League debut – Sunday’s 38-18 home O2 customers can apply to get a free pie and pint Ben Morgan. All three made start from the bench. national anthem is being sung. delivered to their door as they get behind the team in defeat by Salford. Watts becomes the ‘But I won’t be affected once the the RBS 6 Nations – www.O2ForEngland.co.uk second Widnes player to be ruled out for a six-month period after forward Ben Kavanagh ruptured an Achilles tendon against the Reds. Jones ready to weigh in after Gatland call ALUN-WYN Jones is ready to do a job for Ricky’s number up Wales at Twickenham on Saturday, despite his WALESSQUAD chronic lack of rugby since the World Cup. CRICKET Ricky Ponting admits it is The British & Irish Lions lock Jones has L Halfpenny; A Cuthbert, J Davies, J Roberts, G almost certain he has played his last made one post-World Cup start for the Ospreys North; R Priestland, M Phillips; G Jenkins, K Owens, one-day international for Australia but A Jones, A-W Jones, I Evans, D Lydiate, S Warburton, – against Italian side Aironi last Friday night – T Faletau. Replacements: R Hibbard, P James, R he wants to continue playing Test because of a toe injury suffered during training Jones, J Tipuric, L Williams, J Hook, S Williams. cricket. The 37-year-old, who has been in November, and subsequent surgery. But dropped from the squad for the rest of Wales coach Warren Gatland has no issues the Commonwealth Bank Series, said: ‘I with handing the 26-year-old his 60th cap. ‘Alun-Wyn is fit, he is experienced and he had don’t expect to play one-day cricket for ‘I am delighted to start,’ Jones said. ‘It will a really good World Cup. For us, having Australia any more and I’m pretty sure be a step up from regional rugby to interna- someone of that experience to come back also Welcome the selectors won’t pick me. All I have tional rugby fitness-wise, but I am happy. gives us some size and physicality. return: left is Test cricket, so I want to be the ‘I will probably be blowing a bit, but you ‘I don’t have concerns over his experience Jones best I can be in that form of the game.’ always are in a Test match.’ Gatland added: and his ability, that’s why we’ve thrown him in.’ PICTURE: GETTY BET LIVE WITH BLUE SQUARE THROUGHOUT THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 METRO football 45 Peace breaks out at City

Target: Toure as Tevez finally says sorry

Racist chants by PAUL MURPHY land Porto in MANCHESTER City striker Carlos Tevez last night apologised ‘sincerely and unreservedly’ for his conduct in Uefa’s dock recent months. The Argentinian has also withdrawn Uefa have opened disciplinary his appeal against City’s fine of six proceedings against Porto weeks’ wages for gross misconduct, following Manchester City’s claims which was due to be heard by the two of their players were racially Premier League in the coming days. abused during their Europa Tevez sparked a dispute with the club League match in Portugal. when he refused to warm up during the City lodged a written complaint Champions League loss at Bayern after suspected outbreaks of Munich in September and then spent monkey chanting aimed at Mario more than three months in Argentina Balotelli and Yaya Toure marred without permission. their 2-1 victory at the Estadio The 28-year-old reported back to the Dragao last Thursday. club last week after failing to secure a However, Porto coach Vitor move in January and says he now wants Pereira and forward Hulk last to fight for a place in the team. night claimed there may have been Manager Roberto Mancini had long a misunderstanding when asked about the matter. The pair both said the home fans ‘I wish to apologise to may have been chanting, ‘Hulk, Hulk, Hulk’ at the club’s star everyone I’ve let down’ Brazilian player. Pereira said: ‘Normally in our maintained he would only consider Tevez league and our stadiums we don’t for selection again after an apology. have problems regarding racism. In a statement released by City, Tevez In my opinion it was probably a said: ‘I wish to apologise sincerely and misunderstanding.’ unreservedly to everybody I have let Hulk added: ‘I did not notice any down and to whom my actions over the racist abuse. ‘In our stadium I last few months have caused offence. My always hear “Hulk, Hulk, Hulk”.’ wish is to concentrate on playing foot- Uefa will hear the case on ball for Manchester City Football Club.’ March 29. Tevez is ineligible to play in tonight’s Europa League tie against Porto. He has not played for City since that night in THE TIPSTER Munich on September 27. Tevez was suspended and later fined on Twitter @tipstermetro for misconduct before he flew back to South America to begin his unauthorised MANCHESTER City can reach the leave on November 7. last 16 of the Europa League at While away, Tevez was found guilty of tea time by sending Porto gross misconduct. He sparked further packing. The Premier League controversy shortly before his return last week when he accused Mancini of treat- leaders, who hold a 2-1 ing him ‘like a dog’ in Munich but that advantage from the first leg, are matter now also seems to be closed. 4/6 with William Hill and Bet City’s statement read: ‘Carlos Tevez Victor to triumph again. Sergio has today apologised to all concerned for Aguero has scored twice in his Back in the running: Tevez is going to fight for his City place after apologising yesterday PICTURE: EAMONN AND JAMES CLARKE his recent conduct.’ last three outings and can be on target again at 5/4 with Boylesports and Bet Victor. Luke Donald begins the defence Ferdinand hoping to go to school on Ajax of his WGC-Accenture Match Play title today but we are RIO FERDINAND wants to win the swerving the world No.1 and Europa League – if only to shut a few £50.9m United’s bank balance according to financial results for the plumping for Rory McIlroy to kids up in the school playground. fourth quarter of 2011, which showed total revenue at £175m, an increase reign supreme at a general 12/1. Now a father of three, the defender has discovered his status as a of £18.5m. However, United will lose around £3m per round in prize Back him each-way along with money alone by not being in the Champions League. Martin Kaymer 25/1, Webb Manchester United star does not Simpson at 30/1 and Dustin spare him from the cutting comments. Johnson at 33s with Ladbrokes, Ahead of tomorrow’s last-32, second you’re walking up the path to school, there’s still a little kid inside me who Coral and Stan James. leg with Ajax, he said: ‘We’ve still got you don’t want kids laughing at you has pride and an ego.’ United lead 2-0 lives to lead outside of football. When because you’ve been beaten. And after the first leg in Amsterdam. Hungry: Ferdinand DOWNLOAD THE BLUE SQUARE MOBILE APP NOW Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc. BET AT BLUESQ.COM Terms and conditions apply. Over 18’s only. Blue Square encourages responsible gambling, gambleaware.co.uk

46 METRO Wednesday, February 22, 2012 football Terry faces two months out with knee injury

CHELSEA captain John boss Villas-Boas had hoped Terry has been ruled out he would recover for last for up to two months after night’s game at Napoli. AVB suffers on aggravating a knee injury, But, despite training, the although Andre Villas- England centre-back woke Boas is hoping be will be up in pain. CHAMPIONS LEAGUE back much sooner. Villas-Boas said: Terry is due to have a ‘Hopefully John will be NAPOLI ...... 3 small procedure on the out for less than six weeks. CHELSEA ...... 1 right knee that has been They’re cleaning the joint, troubling him since he hopefully it will be less.’ by DANIEL JONES collided with a post in last He will also miss next month’s FA Cup game week’s international ANDRE Villas-Boas’ Chelsea future against Portsmouth. Blues friendly against Holland. is hanging in the balance after his team lost 3-1 in Naples last night. RESULTS Ezequiel Lavezzi’s brace and a goal from Edinson Cavani cancelled out UEFA CHAMPIONS Rochdale 31 6 10 15 29 51 28 Chesterfield 31 6 9 16 36 52 27 Juan Mata’s opener to put a big dent LEAGUE FIRST KNOCK- Wycombe 32 7 5 20 39 63 26 in the Blues’ hopes of reaching the OUT ROUND FIRST LEG LEAGUE TWO Champions League quarter-finals. CSKA Moscow 1 Real Madrid ...1 Aldershot ...... 2 Southend ...... 0 Wernbloom 90 Ronaldo 28 Mekki 26 Att 2,949 Villas-Boas insists it is not game Att 70,000 Payne 64 (pen) over and said: ‘A couple of mistakes Napoli ...... 3 Chelsea ...... 1 Cheltenham .....0 AFC Wimbledon 0 Lavezzi 38, 65 Mata 27 Att 2,603 against Napoli and you’re going to Cavani 45 Att 60,000 Crewe ...... 2 Accrington ....0 get punished. 3-1 is more difficult to Clayton 81 Att 3,179 NPOWER Murphy 90 recover but not impossible with the FOOTBALL LEAGUE Gillingham .....0 Rotherham ....0 amount of chances we get.’ CHAMPIONSHIP Att 3,248 Barnsley ...... 1 Birmingham ..3 Northampton 3 Macclesfield ..2 However, his position will come un- Davies 19 Edwards 8 (og) Jacobs 26 Donnelly 17 der more scrutiny, especially after he Att 9,558 Fahey 27 Guttridge 45 Tomlinson 85 Redmond 78 Akinfenwa 52 Att 4,529 boldly left experienced campaigners Blackpool ...... 1 West Ham ..... 4 Oxford Utd ....2 Barnet ...... 1 Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and K Phillips 45 Tomkins 28 Rendell 43 Hector 16 Att 13,043 Maynard 32 Constable 56 Att 5,848 Michael Essien on the bench. O’Neil 74 Swindon ...... 2 Shrewsbury ....1 Things had begun well for the Blues Vaz Te 90 Connell 64, 76 Richards 40 Millwall ...... 1 Middlesbrough 3 Att 7,990 when Mata capitalised on Paolo Can- Henderson 43 Emnes 15, 38 P W D L F A Pts Att 9,286 Main 86 Swindon 30 19 4 7 52 23 61 P W D L F A Pts Cheltenham 32 18 6 8 50 30 60 Ramires is close to West Ham 31 18 6 7 51 32 60 Southend 32 18 5 9 57 39 59 Southampton 32 17 8 7 58 32 59 Shrewsbury 31 17 6 8 45 29 57 signing a contract Birmingham 31 15 9 7 50 28 54 Torquay 31 16 8 7 45 34 56 extension that would Reading 31 16 6 9 39 27 54 Crawley Town 28 16 7 5 52 35 55 Cardiff 32 14 11 7 50 39 53 Oxford Utd 31 13 11 7 43 30 50 tie the Brazil midfielder Middlesbrough 31 14 11 6 38 32 53 Port Vale 30 13 6 11 48 41 45 Flying: Cavani celebrates while Cech to Chelsea until 2017. Blackpool 32 14 10 8 53 42 52 Rotherham 31 12 9 10 48 43 45 and Ivanovic are left prostrate as Hull 30 15 5 10 31 25 50 Crewe 31 14 3 14 42 43 45 Brighton 31 14 7 10 36 33 49 Accrington St 31 11 10 10 38 39 43 Chelsea crash in Naples navaro’s sliced clearance to slot past Leeds 32 14 6 12 52 48 48 Burton Albion 30 11 10 9 44 46 43 Burnley 32 14 5 13 44 37 47 PICTURE: GETTY Gillingham 30 12 6 12 49 43 42 Morgan de Sanctis on 27 minutes. Crystal Palace 31 11 10 10 33 30 43 Leicester 31 11 9 11 42 37 42 Morecambe 30 10 10 10 46 37 40 But the lead lasted just over ten Barnsley 32 12 6 14 45 51 42 Aldershot 30 12 4 14 30 35 40 Derby 31 12 6 13 33 41 42 Bristol Rovers 31 10 7 14 38 51 37 minutes as Lavezzi curled home a Ipswich 31 12 4 15 50 57 40 Wimbledon 31 10 7 14 40 55 37 sweet finish from the edge of the box. Watford 32 10 10 12 36 47 40 Barnet 30 9 6 15 37 50 33 Peterborough 31 10 7 14 50 51 37 Bradford 29 7 10 12 35 40 31 And the hosts were in front on the Millwall 32 7 10 15 31 44 31 Macclesfield 31 8 6 17 28 39 30 Bristol City 32 8 7 17 27 49 31 Plymouth 31 6 9 16 35 52 27 Game for a laugh: Benched trio stroke of half-time when Cavani bun- Nottm Forest 31 8 4 19 26 49 28 Hereford 31 6 9 16 29 49 27 Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and John dled in Gokhan Inler’s cross. Portsmouth 31 9 8 14 33 34 25 Northampton 30 7 6 17 37 59 27 Obi Mikel, from left, are all smiles Coventry 32 6 7 19 28 46 25 Dag & Red 30 7 3 20 30 56 24 The game was wide open after the Doncaster 30 6 6 18 26 51 24 before kick-off CLYDESDALE BANK break with both defences vulnerable. LEAGUE ONE Lavezzi fired wide when clean Charlton ...... 1 Rochdale ...... 1 PREMIER LEAGUE Kermorgant 56 Adams 53 Dundee Utd ...4 Kilmarnock ....0 through while Didier Drogba and Att 15,067 P W D L F A Pts MATCHFACTS Gary Cahill went close for Blues. MK Dons ...... 2 Bury ...... 1 Celtic 27 22 2 3 58 16 68 Bowditch 20, 45 (pen) Amoo 10 Rangers 27 19 4 4 51 16 51 But when more comical defending Napoli: De Sanctis, Campagnaro, Cannavaro, (Cole 12), Ramires, Meireles (Essien 70) Att 6,405 Motherwell 26 13 6 7 34 29 45 by David Luiz allowed Cavani to tee Scunthorpe ....0 Walsall ...... 1 Hearts 27 10 6 11 31 26 36 Aronica, Maggio, Inler, Gargano, Zuniga, Malouda (Lampard 70), Sturridge, Drogba, Att 3,455 Cuvelier 34 St Johnstone 26 10 6 10 33 32 36 up Lavezzi for the third, the writing P W D L F A Pts Dundee Utd 27 8 10 9 42 39 34 Hamsik, Lavezzi (Dzemaili 74), Cavani. Mata. Booked: Meireles, Cahill. Charlton 31 20 9 2 57 23 69 Kilmarnock 27 7 11 9 30 40 32 Booked: Cavani. Goals: Mata 27. was on the wall. Cole cleared Chris- Sheff Utd 30 19 5 6 58 29 62 Aberdeen 27 7 10 10 27 30 31 Goals: Lavezzi 38, 65, Cavani 45. Att: 60,000. tian Maggio’s shot off the line late on Sheff Wed 32 17 6 9 54 41 57 St Mirren 27 6 11 10 25 36 29 Huddersfield 30 14 13 3 57 30 55 Inverness CT 26 7 6 13 31 42 27 Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Luiz, Bosingwa Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain). but Chelsea still have a mountain to MK Dons 31 15 10 6 61 35 55 Hibernian 26 4 7 15 24 50 19 climb in next month’s home leg. Stevenage 28 13 9 6 44 25 48 Dunfermline 27 4 7 16 29 59 19 Carlisle 30 12 10 8 43 48 46 Bournemouth 32 12 8 12 38 38 44 TENNIS Brentford 30 11 10 9 43 37 43 Hartlepool 31 11 8 12 39 37 41 ATP TOUR OPEN 13 premier league Notts County 30 11 7 12 45 44 40 (Marseille, France) Colchester 29 10 9 10 41 45 39 Preston 30 11 6 13 43 50 39 1st rd: David Goffin (Bel) bt Adrian Bury 31 11 6 14 40 51 39 Mannarino (Fra) 6-2, 1-0 ret. Leyton Orient 30 10 8 12 33 43 38 Kroenke faces grilling over Gunners plans Oldham 28 9 8 11 34 43 35 WTA DUBAI TENNIS Tranmere 31 8 10 13 31 37 34 Yeovil 31 8 9 14 39 52 33 CHAMPIONSHIPS STAN KROENKE is expected the club. A statement read: day’. It asked whether this Exeter 32 8 9 15 30 47 33 1st rd: (5) Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) to give Arsene Wenger his ‘The AST still seeks a fuller was made available to Walsall 31 6 13 12 30 36 31 bt Aleksandra Wozniak (Can) 6-1, 6-7 £45m Estimated Scunthorpe 30 6 13 11 38 45 31 (6-8), 7-5. public support at the club’s explanation from the new manager Wenger to strengthen monthly board meeting today cost of failure to qualify owner as to his vision for the his squad. FIXTURES but faces some stiff questions for Champions League club. Greater engagement by ‘Did the manager have the from Arsenal fans over his Stan Kroenke [as he option to use all or some of FOOTBALL (7.45pm unless stated) Clydesdale Bank Premier League Europa League round of 32, second leg Celtic v Dunfermline ...... plans for the club. shareholder Kroenke. Small committed to in the Takeover these cash reserves in summer Man City (2) v Porto (1) ...... (5pm) TV Motherwell v Hibernian ...... With the Gunners staring at shareholders represented by prospectus] would help to 2011 and January 2012, or are ESPN CRICKET npower Championship Women’s Twenty20 match: New a seventh year without the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust address this.’ resources being held back as a Hull v Brighton ...... Zealand v England (Auckland) npower League 1 GOLF (until Sunday) silverware, an angry share- (AST) want more interaction The AST estimated Arsenal contingency for failure to Notts County v Stevenage ...... WGC – Accenture Match Play holders group is demanding from the American billionaire, had around £50million to qualify for the Champions npower League 2 Championship (Ritz Carlton GC, Dove Crawley Town v Morecambe ...... Mountain, Marana, Arizona) answers from majority who owns a majority stake in ‘spend or to save for a rainy League?”,’ it said. FANCY CITY TO SERG PAST PORTO TONIGHT?

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Tevez says sorry to Mancini and City »p45 ‘I’ve let people down’

It’s so Farr, so good for Owen »p44 Rising star talks to Metro

Intense pressure: Villas-Boas looks on as Chelsea endure a dismal defeat in Italy which will lead to further speculation over his future PICTURE: AFP/GETTY premier league Rafa and Manu winning fitness race TOTTENHAM have received a double boost Arsenal. I can’t wait.’ Adebayor, who spent ahead of Sunday’s north London derby, with three-and-a-half years at the Gunners, both Rafael van der Vaart and Emmanuel expects to overcome a twisted knee. Adebayor confident they will be fit. He wrote on Twitter yesterday: ‘Just KP’s in the Van der Vaart has missed Spurs’ last three finished training, really happy with the games since hobbling off with a calf injury progress. Working on my fitness for Sunday.’ during the 3-1 win over Wigan last month. Luka Modric is expected to be ready for the runs again However, the Dutchman will return to match at the Emirates Stadium after missing »p43 Return: training today and hopes to be involved last weekend’s FA Cup tie at Stevenage with Van der against Arsenal. ‘I’m recovering well from illness but Benoit Assou-Ekotto is a major Another ton, another win Vaart my injury,’ he said. ‘I’ll be happy to play doubt after a groin operation.

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