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A WOMAN will appear in court by TARIQ TAHIR detained by Cowell’s security today after Simon Cowell came staff. Nothing was thought to have face-to-face with an armed intruder ‘over-zealous fan’. One friend been stolen from the property. at his £7.5million mansion. added: ‘It was a frightening expe- Leanne Zaloumis, from Catford, An arrest was made on Saturday rience. Simon’s fine but shaken up south , has been charged night after reports of a disturbance – because he didn’t expect some- with aggravated burglary – defined at the pop mogul’s house in west thing like that to happen.’ under the Theft Act as a break-in London. The incident happened shortly involving a gun, imitation gun, Officers who arrived at the prop- after the first episode of Cowell’s offensive weapon or explosives. erty – the former French ambass- new series of Britain’s Got Talent Cowell who is estimated to be ador’s residence in Holland Park was aired on ITV. worth as much as £300million, – found a woman had forced her The intruder was said to have splits his time between homes in way into the premises. got in through a downstairs win- London and Los Angeles. Sources close to Mr Cowell, 52, dow, after evading extensive secu- Shaken up: Simon Cowell said the intruder was probably an rity at the property. She was THE VOICE PIPS BGT P9 «

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A PHOTOGRAPHER appears to by AIDAN RADNEDGE turn back but we decided to carry be standing on a cloud – thanks to on. As soon as we arrived, the Snow messing: a mind-boggling optical illusion. and made it look just like a cluster gusts of wind were making it hard Matteo Zanvettor Matteo Zanvettor produced of clouds. to get good shots but we soon dis- appears to have these stunning pictures after an Mr Zanvettor, from Merano, , covered it was creating an unusu- his head in the expedition to the Alps was almost returned from last week’s trip to al haze above the snow. clouds thanks ruined by extreme weather. Lagazuoi, which is part of the Am- ‘It really felt like we were on a to an optical pezzo Dolomites in the Italian Alps, illusion created Winds of up to 160kph (100mph) cloud which merged together by winds on the left him and colleague Edoardo with some spectacular images. with all the others in the sky. Italian Alps, Brotto thinking about bailing out. The 41-year-old said: ‘I’ve nev- ‘It was kind of a surreal aspect which gave him But they couldn’t believe their er been on top of a mountain with to photography and something I some spectacular luck when the gusts whipped up such strong winds. will probably never be able to ex- images the frozen snow into a frenzy – ‘I was worried we might have to perience again.’ PICTURES: CATERS

4 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 Rail watchdog METRO home digest Soldiers on standby over tanker strike gets huge rise TROOPS are training to stand in for petrol tanker drivers should they strike next month. The servicemen are being lined up to ensure deliveries to forecourts from ministry and airports do not dry up resulting in the chaos that hit Tony by JOHN HIGGINSON chief executive. Blair’s government in 2000. When earlier this Cabinet Office minister Francis THE boss of an independent rail month it was re- Maude said the government had watchdog has been awarded a 25 per vealed that train ‘learned the lessons’ of the past cent pay rise by the government operating com- and stood ‘ready to act’ if 2,000 department he is paid to scrutinise. panies were fail- members of the Unite union walk Anthony Smith’s salary as chief ex- ing to meet punc- out over their employment terms ecutive of Passenger Focus has risen tuality targets of and conditions. Trapped: Rescuers try to save a man who was buried up to his neck from £95,000 in 2008 to £122,000 92 per cent, Mr in sand after a dune collapsed in Druridge Bay, Northumberland. He last year. Smith told Metro was eventually pulled free and taken to hospital PICTURE: NORTH NEWS He now earns more than the £69,000 Focus: Mr Smith the target should Good schools raise salary transport secretary Justine be lowered. house prices by 42% Greening is paid and almost as much ‘Hearing that these targets will not Plea deal ‘best hope’ for Tappin as she gets when her £65,000 MP’s be met is disappointing and under- PARENTS face a ‘premium’ of SUSPECTED arms dealer Christopher Tappin would be salary is included. lines that realistic targets that passen- about £91,000 to buy a house insane not to accept a plea deal in the US, it is claimed. Despite claiming to be independent, gers can rely on must be set in the near a top state primary school, a The extradited Briton, 65, who faces 35 years in jail, has the bulk of Passenger Focus’s £6.4mil- future,’ he said. study suggests today. They are no chance of being cleared as the system empowers lion budget last year came from Ms In December, when passengers looking at paying £309,732 – or 42 prosecutors as ‘judge, jury and executioner’, Natwest Greening’s department. learned they were to face an average per cent higher than the typical Three fraudster David Bermingham said. The 49-year- Critics say there is a conflict of in- fare rise of 5.9 per cent with some price of £218,114 – to get their old (pictured) negotiated a 37-month jail term in 2008. terest because the group was previ- facing double-digit rises Mr Smith children the best education. ously funded by a rail regulator. said: ‘It could have been a lot worse.’ While the East Midlands Next year, with an almost 50 per Mr Smith denied being influenced commands the highest school and finally... cent cut in funding from the DfT to by the Department for Transport. premium, London attracts the AN ESTATE agent was surrounded by police after being mistaken for a £3.8million, Passenger Focus has cut ‘At no time during our sponsorship smallest, with prices just 7.4 per burglar – as he showed a prospective buyer around a home. Darren its 60-strong workforce by a third by DfT have they ever tried to control cent higher, property website Harrison had to prove he had the key to the property in Shoreham, East rather than reduce the salary of its what we do or say,’ he told Metro. PrimeLocation.com found. Sussex, after a ‘well-intentioned’ 999 call from a neighbour, police said.

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Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 5 Tory ‘cash for access’ anger £250,000 lobbying boast was unacceptable, says PM

by JOHN HIGGINSON policy unit. Speaking to Sunday Times re- CLAIMS by a senior Conservative fund- porters, who posed raiser that £250,000 could secure access to as wealth fund exec- the prime minister were ‘completely unac- utives, he claimed: ceptable’, David Cameron said yesterday. ‘It will be awesome Peter Cruddas quit as the party’s co- for your business.’ treasurer after he was filmed assuring Chief secretary to undercover reporters that ‘things will the treasury, Danny open up for you’ if they donated the Alexander, branded Boasts: Cruddas money to the party every year. Mr Cruddas’ com- Mr Cameron insisted it was ‘not the ments ‘utterly disgraceful’. way’ they raised money and promised an Shadow minister Michael Dugher investigation. ‘It should not have hap- accused Mr Cameron of going back on his pened,’ he told the BBC. promise to ‘clean up politics’ and demand- Mr Cruddas promised donors invitations ed the disclosure of policy representations to private dinners at No.10 and at Mr made privately by donors since 2010. Cameron’s country residence, Chequers, Tory deputy chairman Michael Fallon where they could lobby him and have insisted donors were unable to influence their views ‘fed into’ the Downing Street government policy.

In his stride: David Cameron and wife Samantha run the charity mile in Buckinghamshire yesterday Why Cameron ran a mile... THOUSANDS of runners joined celebrities for the London Mile yesterday. Fundraisers dressed as elephants, tigers, polar bears and robots ran alongside stars including JLS, retired boxer Michael Watson and former Dr Who actor David Tennant. David Cameron, wife Samantha and their two eldest children, Nancy and Arthur, ran in Buckinghamshire, near the prime minister’s country residence. Former MP and TV star Ann Widdecombe launched the London run. Standing away from the pack she said: ‘It’s a good thing I’m not down The running men: David Tennant and Michael Watson there or I would be coming in at about 3pm.’

Out in front: The JLS boys – (l-r) Aston Merrygold, JB Gill, Oritse Williams and Marvin Humes – in Horse Guards in London yesterday PICTURES: GETTY Sex offenders ‘applied to be teachers’ A PAEDOPHILE who carried out a sex attack on a girl ous driving and assaulting a child, were all weeded out aged under 13 was among thousands of convicted after failing Criminal Records Bureau checks. criminals who tried to become teachers last year. Netmums founder Siobhan Freegard said: ‘Parents He was just one of 4,098 criminals with 9,493 will be appalled at these figures. It’s shocking that thou- previous offences who applied to work with children, sands of offenders are applying to work with children.’ official figures showed. The offenders, whose convic- The CRB said criminal records checks have picked tions included drug dealing, causing death by danger- up at least 130,000 ‘unsuitable’ job applicants.

Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 7 Even average emissions ‘can make planet hotter, faster’ THE Earth is heading towards irreversible, runaway climate change by 2050, a major new study has suggested. The planet will heat up by up to 3C (5.4F) in the next 40 years, researchers have warned. It is very likely to cross the critical ‘2C barrier’ at some point this century if pollution continues at the same rate, they say. If it does so, it would trigger change that could not be reversed, scientists said in the journal Nature Geoscience. The warning comes after the researchers ran 10,000 simulations using the computers of volunteers as part of the BBC Climate Change Experiment. They showed average global temperatures were on course to rise by between 1.4C (2.5F) and 3C (5.4F) with mid-range greenhouse gas emissions. Taking it easy: A sun-lover relaxes in a deckchair on Brighton beach yesterday PICTURE: CONNORS Sunseekers enjoy early spring sizzle

BRITONS flocked to the seaside as by SONIA ELKS mal for the time of year by the they took advantage of the hottest weekend but west and north- weekend of the year. day was Fyvie Castle in Aberdeen- eastern parts of are likely Coastal resorts saw thousands shire, where a temperature of 22.8C to be warmest. turn out to lap up temperatures of (73F) was recorded – beating the However, the driest March since 22.2C (72F) on Saturday – making previous March high of 1965. records began has failed to impress it England’s warmest March day More sunshine is forecast for the Environment Agency, which is for 22 years. much of this week with the mercu- implementing a hosepipe ban in About 200,000 people hit the ry staying above 20C (68F) in most many areas from April 5. beach at Blackpool while others regions until Thursday. ‘Obviously, it’s nice to have a sun- packed the shores of Brighton, ‘We’ve got clear skies, plenty of ny weekend but what we really need Bournemouth and Langland Bay, sunshine and quite dry ground is a prolonged period of rainfall,’ near . which is heating up quite quickly,’ said a spokesman for the agency. Others dusted off their barbecues said Met Office spokeswoman Re- ‘We’re working with farmers to for the first time this year as super- becca Sherwin. keep them going through the sum- markets reported a surge in sausage ‘Most places will be dry, warm mer. However, it’s been a very dry and burger sales. and sunny for the next few days.’ week and river levels are continu- The hottest place in Britain yester- Temperatures will be back to nor- ing to fall,’ he added.

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Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 9 BBC’s new show trounces Britain’s Got Talent during crucial 20min head-to-head Why Aunty’s in good Voice THE VOICE has claimed first blood in a by ANDREI HARMSWORTH lion viewers against The Voice’s 8.4mil- ratings war against Britain’s Got Talent. lion. ITV director of television Peter The BBC’s search for the country’s delighted with the success of his talent Fincham said: ‘BGT celebrates some Bizarre: Dennis best voice trounced ITV’s talent coaches Tom Jones, Will.i.am, Danny brilliant acts and it’s fantastic that the Egal dazzles circus when the two shows overlapped O’Donoghue and . series remains such a firm favourite the Britain’s for 20 minutes on Saturday. with viewers.’ Got Talent ‘It’s fantastic that viewers have re- judges – but Newcomer The Voice averaged sponded so warmly to the launch of The Before the face off, Cowell was tetchy the German 8.9million viewers as Simon Cowell’s Voice,’ he said. about the BBC putting its show on the window big-hitting rival floundered with an The BBC claimed The Voice’s debut same night. ‘When you mess around dresser average of 6.6million between 8pm and was 3million greater than the figures with the schedule and it affects the view- couldn’t put 8.20pm. scored by X Factor, BGT and its own ers, that to me is silly rivalry,’ he said. rival The Voice Even Cowell’s comeback to the BGT on their debuts. in the shade panel failed to stop his TV baby shed- There was at least a silver lining for SUBOY’S BATTLE – PAGE 20 PICTURE: PA ding more than 1million viewers com- Cowell’s team, who insisted theirs was pared with the show’s opening night last the most watched show of the night year, when he was absent in America. when it came to average audience size. BBC1 controller Danny Cohen was On that front, BGT scooped 9.3mil-

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10 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 I must be crazy, says marathon man Balls

ED BALLS revealed yesterday he the training’s was in training for next month’s very hard. It’s London Marathon – and admitted probably a he must be ‘crazy’, given the crazy thing to pressures of his job. do.’ He The shadow chancellor said he pointed out started clocking up the miles in that senior October for the event on April 22. politicians Mr Balls disclosed his secret rarely found running regime after somebody Runner: Mr Balls the time to on Twitter said they had seen him run a in Regent’s Park, London wearing marathon. Mr Balls, 45, who will ‘very tight, unedifying trousers’. be raising money for disabled The Labour frontbencher said: children, said his goal was ‘just to ‘I’m finally at the peak of finish’. He confessed: ‘I’m not training. It’s quite nerve-racking, going to be that fast, to be honest.’ Date with history: March 26, 1981

THE Gang of Four – Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams – defect from Labour to launch the Social Democratic Party. They pledged to ‘reconcile the nation’ and ‘heal divisions between classes’ after becoming disillusioned with Labour leader Michael Foot. The party merged with the Liberals in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats PICTURE: UNIVERSAL PRESS Takeaway pizza is more salty than sea water

A TAKEAWAY pizza could contain by SONIA ELKS your entire daily allowance of salt in one go, a health charity has warned. on average about two-and-a-half times The family favourites have up to 10g as much salt as supermarket ones. of salt in them – far more than the 6g Just 16 per cent of takeout meals met daily maximum recommended by the guidelines from the Department of government, a survey to mark Salt Health of 1.25g of salt per 100g. Awareness Week shows. Pizza Express’s regular pepperoni The saltiest was claimed to be a peppero- pizza contained just over 5g of salt, and ni pizza from the Adam & Eve gastropub Tesco’s Full On Flavour Simply Pep- in Mill Hill, London which contained peroni thin stone-baked pizza was the 10.57g, making it saltier than sea water. saltiest of the supermarkets with 4.7g. And more than three-quarters of Prof Graham MacGregor, chairman of takeout meals failed to meet guidelines Cash, said: ‘The government is not tak- designed to cut the amount of hidden ing enough action to reduce salt in the salt in our diets, which can lead to a takeaway sector. Salt puts up our blood host of health problems including pressure – the highest risk factor for strokes, cancer and heart disease. stroke. Reducing our intake would save Health group Consensus Action on thousands of people.’ Salt and Health analysed 199 margher- A Department of Health spokesman ita and pepperoni pizzas from takea- added salt reduction was a key priority ways, pizza chains and supermarkets as part of the Public Health Responsi- across the country. bility Deal, and many businesses, in- Half of the takeaways contained the cluding Adam & Eve, had already cut entire 6g daily recommendation and had salt levels in food. Modfather back at the top

VETERAN mod rocker yesterday stormed to the top of the album charts. The former Jam frontman proved he is still going strong after four decades in music when his 11th offering, Sonik Kicks, went straight to No.1 following its release on Monday last week. The 53-year-old ‘Modfather’ took the top spot from the Military Wives Choir, who dropped to third place. Gotye was knocked off the top of the singles chart by Katy Perry’s Part Of Me – her third No.1. Hitman: Weller

METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 11 Lorry driver dies in hospital 1 in 10 dies of bowel cancer in first month as M5 crash claims 2nd life ONE in ten bowel cancer victims dies within a month of being diagnosed, a new report reveals. Three in five only find A LORRY driver who was seriously in- by AIDAN RADNEDGE out they have the illness after jured when his vehicle crashed into a Collision: being admitted to hospital, stationary coach on the M5 has died in from Somerset to be with him in hospital The lorry is while more than half are aged hospital, police said yesterday. in Birmingham, had not been named by embedded over 80. The National Cancer The 65-year-old haulier is the second police yesterday. in the side Intelligence Network said person to die following the collision Emergency crews treated more than of a single- 91,980 people were diagnosed which claimed the life of a coach pas- 20 passengers, who were being driven deck coach in England between 2006 and senger and left another critically ill. from Birmingham to the Evesham area which was 2008. ‘Our survival rates are The coach broke down in thick fog on of Worcestershire. carrying a poor compared to elsewhere in the inside lane of the M5 at Halesowen A 35-year-old man who had been party of Europe,’ said NCIN’s Eva Morris. between junctions three and four, near travelling on the single-decker vehicle fruit-pickers Frankley Services. was confirmed dead at the scene. PICTURE: PA West Midlands police arrested and The coach was not fitted with seat bailed the 49-year-old coach driver on belts. Warning signs were put up after it suspicion of causing death by danger- broke down, the Highways Agency ous driving. said. The Volvo lorry was travelling from Fog alert signs had also been on since Manchester to Devon on Saturday when the early hours but police declined to it hit the coach. speculate whether low visibility con- The driver, whose family had travelled tributed to the crash.

Wall crawler: Alain Robert, dubbed the ‘French Spider- Man’, climbs the 215m (705ft) Bakrie Tower in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, yesterday. Robert, 49, took up climbing as a seven-year-old and has scaled 85 giant structures around the globe since, using only his bare hands and climbing shoes PICTURE: REX

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If you have a story for MiniCosm, email us at [email protected] 12 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO in focus RAF’s greatest survivor

HE biggest danger faced As the 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict approaches,JAMES DAY rear door,’ Brewer (pictured), 48, told thing momentarily lost gravity. by motoring presenter delves into the remarkable history of the Chinook helicopter Bravo me. ‘I sat there as rounds pinged past That’s when we heard the pilot, Ian Mike Brewer is usually November that first saw service in that war and is still flying today... my head and lodged in the fuel tank Fortune, saying over the radio he’d dodgy car salesmen, not under where I was sitting. been shot in the head. Taliban fighters, but he hit ‘They got the injured on board ‘I’m thinking this is it, 200mph theT headlines two years ago after was filming a documentary called on a mission to rescue wounded sol- and took off but as we were flying into the desert floor, these are my barely escaping with his life on the Frontline Battle Machines for the diers in the middle of a gunfight. away there was a sudden bang, the last moments on Earth.’ Afghan front line. Discovery Channel when he climbed ‘The helicopter landed in a hot zone whole thing shuddered and every- The bullet had actually rebounded The Wheeler Dealers presenter aboard an RAF Chinook helicopter where a full firefight ensued at the offoff theth pilot’s helmet but ricocheted aroundarou the cabin piercing the vital The componentscomp and sending shrapnel intoint Flt Lt Fortune’s cheek. twin-engine ‘Thanks to the bravery and skill Chinook transport of Flt Lt Fortune he avoided has two, a crashcrash landinglandin and helicopter , flew a severelyse damagedd ama three-bladed rotorsand front The helicop-hel one at the terter safe- one at the British record back for the number of troops in any one lift is two other pilots 90 but there was to receive DFCs while thought to be one lift flying Bravo November in Vietnam with 120 are Sqn Ldr Steve Carr refugees Iraq in in 2003 and Flt Lt Craig Wilson in Afghanistan in 2006

The Chinook

Aircrew: 4 Max speed: 185mph Length: 15.5m [51ft] Rotor span: 18.3m [60ft] Weight: 22,680kg [50,000lb] max Range: About 300 miles Monday,Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 13

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Chinooks are highly Chinooks are highly valued for their valued for their capability to fly 'hot Enemies capability to fly 'hot and high' enabling them would regard and high' enabling them down a to land troops high in bringing to land troops high in as the the Afghan Chinook the Afghan mountains ‘ultimate’ result, mountains owing to the aircraft's size ly back to Camp Bastion with blood pouring down his face. He RAF in February 1982, by April saved 21 lives that day,’ Brewer it was bound for the Falklands filming she got damaged again in said. and it’s been in continuous Afghanistan and was flown back Flt Lt Fortune, 29, later became conflict ever since. This is the to the UK for a new lick of paint, the fourth pilot of the exact same most decorated piece of military which will see her serving for an- helicopter to be awarded the hardware in Britain.’ other 30 years.’ Distinguished Flying Cross. Speaking about his special Brewer explained: ‘When I REWER has filmed a relationship with the Chi- stepped off the aircraft, I looked two-part documentary nook, Flt Lt Fortune said: back at it and saw the registration tracing the famous heli- ‘It’s old hat for Bravo number “BN”. I asked some engi- Bcopter’s story back to November now, isn’t neers and they said this is Bravo the battle for the Falk- it? It’s just another November, the sole surviving lands where it flew one of the story, another ex- Chinook of the Falklands cam- conflict’s most daring missions ceptional story to paign, the sole survivor of the and helped saved countless lives. join other excep- Atlantic Conveyer ship sunk by After 30 years of action and tional stories that the Argentines on May 25, 1982.’ countless repairs, Bravo Novem- are already at- Brewer dug deeper and found ber has had an upgrade as part of tached to that air- Bravo November had also served the Ministry of Defence’s craft.’ in Kosovo and both Iraq wars and £408million refit programme. n Falklands Hero: was thought to be the first Brewer added: ‘The stars have Bravo November Chinook to cross enemy lines aligned with Bravo November and starts on the Discovery each time. ‘It was delivered to the our documentary because during Channel at 9pm tomorrow. 14 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012

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AM shocked that Jenny which costs more than £30. This ■ I am outraged by the breath- Jones, the London mayoral makes Ms Jones’s solution 300 takingly ignorant comments of 50p tax cut candidate for the Green times more expensive than that Jenny Jones. Her suggestion of Party, can make such ill-in- employed by the police. using a Taser is ludicrous. Shoot- formed comments regarding Furthermore, although techni- ing a Taser (a one-shot device) at Shooting good for all Ithe use of Tasers instead of fire- cally a Taser will work on a dog, it a small, fast-moving target such ■ arms when dealing with a vicious will only knock it down temporar- as a frenzied dog would require Cutting the top income tax dog (Metro, Fri). ily. After the five-second cycle of an almost Olympian feat of rate is a good thing and it is ex- Police officers do not carry the Taser runs out, the dog gets marksmanship. tremely narrow-minded to vicious Tasers as a standard practice; only back up and is likely be more She further suggests that police think otherwise (Metro, Thu). specialist units, such as SO19 and aggressive than before. should have ‘done their home- The more we tax the very TSG, carry them. As SO19 fire- If Ms Jones ever wants to be work’ before carrying out the rich, the less likely they will be arms officers patrol London taken seriously as a mayoral can- operation. Since the abolition of to stay in the country. streets 24/7, there would be no didate, maybe she should concen- dog licences, there is no central dogs is The result? Britain loses additional expense in deploying trate on wishing the brave, injured database of dog ownership. The massive amounts of tax reve- them as this incident would fall officers well and leave the tactical only way to garner intelligence is nue and people on lower under their routine duties. decisions and financial advice to deploy surveillance teams in incomes will need to be taxed The only expense would be the down to those who have a clue advance – an exercise likely to be more to make up the differ- cost of the bullets used, which what they are talking about. far more expensive than the safer and ence. Wake up. Dave (police firearms officer), Melanie Hitchcock, London cost less than 10p each, in com- reactive deployment of CO19. parison to a Taser cartridge, Bedfordshire Dan Maund, Hampshire SEND US YOUR TXT cheaper ● Ron, not every smoker with the more ‘sociable ● ‘really are this country, not tax it into gets cancer. I’d be habbit’ may be at risk of. bigger than the Beatles’? oblivion. Andy, Manchester Darren, London than a interested to see costs That’s two-times more incurred by the NHS popular than Jesus, I ● Foodies, make your compared with the ● Ron, move to electronic guess. C Smith, London morning porridge more revenue raised in tax and cigarettes. You’ll have gob exciting – drop chocolate *Texts cost 50p plus your compare that with alcohol- loads more cash while not ● Eric, what sort of an buttons in it. Please share Taser normal network rate. SMS Helpline: 08000 141 178. Full related diseases, which I being a burden on the incentive is a 90 per cent other food experiments. T&Cs on metro.co.uk/mobile suspect many of those NHS. Simplz. Dan, London tax rate? We need to grow Tasty Colin, Surrey Text Views followed by your comment, name and where you live to 65400 Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 15

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Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 17 It’s one Hel of a honeymoon

A NEWLYWED couple are enjoying a honeymoon – in southern Afghanistan. RAF Sqn Ldr Rachel Mawdsley and her husband Gareth, a Navy lieutenant commander, started six-month tours as flight co-ordinators at Camp Bastion in Helmand province shortly after tying the knot. Mrs Mawdsley, 35, said ‘It’s not our perfect honeymoon but it’s worked surprisingly well.’ The couple, from Bath, return home in May At ease: The wedding day and are planning a proper break in Tanzania.

US pays out Military manoeuvres: Rachel and Gareth Mawsdley enjoy married life at Camp Bastion PICTURES: PA £500,000 for victims of rogue soldier

FAMILIES of the 16 Afghans killed in a by FRED ATTEWILL shooting spree by a rogue US soldier have each been paid £31,500 in compen- £1,250 for each death and the wounded sation by Washington. were paid £630 by Afghan officials. They were presented with the money Families of the dead said they were on Saturday and were told it came from more concerned about SSgt Bales being president Barack Obama. punished than the payouts. The six wounded when SSgt Robert The 38-year-old is being held at a mili- Bales opened fire on sleeping villagers tary jail in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in Kandahar earlier this month each re- after being flown out of Afghanistan last ceived £7,000 in damages. week. He was formally charged on Fri- A spokesman for Nato and US forces day over the March 11 massacre in the declined to confirm or deny the pay- villages of Balandi and Alkozai. ments were made owing to the ‘sensitiv- Meanwhile, nine Afghan police officers ity’ of the situation. and a foreign soldier were killed by a ‘It is usually a matter of agreement that bomb in Kandahar province on Saturday. the terms of the settlement remain confi- They were on patrol when they were dential,’ he said. hit by an improvised explosive device in The families had previously received Arghandab district. Leap-year baby joy for soldier

A SOLDIER serving in Afghanistan has toasted the birth of his second child – but has so far only seen her on video. Maj Edward Colver, 35, from Sheffield, has been leading troops from 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment in Helmand province since late last month. His wife, Lisa, gave birth on February 29 to a daughter, Philippa, who weighed in at 4.1kg (9lb 2oz). Maj Colver said: ‘It feels awful being away for the birth but I have an important job to do out here.’

18 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 60 seconds Chicago native JENNIFER MORRISON, 32, starred as Dr Allison Cameron in House. Now she’s Emma Swan, daughter of Snow White, in Once Upon A Time

Emma is a damaged character, to say the ful, because I don’t believe or know that she’s my in common with Emma. I have strong instincts least. I’m guessing you are rather less mother. So I just have to think: ‘What would it about people in terms of whether I feel they are damaged. She’s parts of myself but to a much have been like to be friends with my parents at being honest with me or not. And it is interesting greater extreme. She puts up her walls and can be my age?’ She’s also really Emma’s first friend, because, at times, I feel like I’m very off about it very sceptical. I definitely put up a front that I’m and Emma is still a kid, because she hasn’t grown when my emotions get involved, or when I’m

OK, and I don’t let people realise how sensitive in a way where she’s emotionally an adult. dealing with a guy that I have feelings for. That’s GETTY exactly what Emma has trouble with. I am or how emotional I might actually be. You have a ‘superpower’ with which you Ginnifer Goodwin plays your mum, Snow can tell who’s lying. Would you like that Fairy tales are everywhere right now. White. That’s pretty out there. It’s wonder- in real life? It may already be something I have Why? I can only guess but it’s not an accident that Disney’s Snow White was released during the Great Depression. This is a time where everybody is unstable eco- nomically and so many things are shift- ing in the world. We all grew up with these fairy tales so there’s a warm, fuzzy comfort to going back to those stories as an adult and experiencing them We all grew“ up with in different ways. these fairy tales so Your parents are there’s a warm, fuzzy teachers. How did you comfort to going back end up being a child to those stories model, then an actress? I have no idea. Honestly, it makes me wonder about past lives, because from the moment that I have a memory of having a memory, I thought of myself as an actor. Has working in the business for such a long time demystified the cult of celebrity for you? Well, I guess I have to believe that every- thing happens for a reason. I may never on to the fact that you have no idea understand exactly what the journey what you’re doing. But then you realise has been. at some point, ‘I guess no one knows what the heck they’re doing, we’re all Did you pick up any crazy just figuring it out as we go’. Still, an English expressions or fondness actor with too much time on their hands for strange foods from Hugh is a dangerous thing. Laurie in House? Hugh always stayed What do you do when you’re in his American accent during filming, not working? I obsessively watch so I feel like I missed out on getting movies. I feel that, with the amount of some British culture. It would always films out there, I could watch movies feel so weird when we would do a press all day and all night and still never event or something. He’d be speaking catch up to the movies that I’d like to with a British accent and we’d all say: see. I always have a pile of DVDs or ‘Come on, don’t put on that accent!’ BluRays that I’m dying to watch and I Your on-screen boyfriend in Once always have a pile of books that I’m Upon A Time, Jamie Dornan, has working my way through. I just start- ed F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful left the programme. Are you And The Damned. missing him? So much. He had such a joy for life and was such a central What did you play in Mr And part of our social life out here in Van- Mrs Smith? I was one of Angelina couver, where we film. He always Jolie’s staff going around in short skirts found a new little pub with a great new and high heels. I was on salary for six beer, and we all got into playing this months with a lovely group of girls, all arcade game, Big Buck Hunter, because of whom I still know. he loved playing it. Ginny Goodwin and I bought him an actual Big Buck Are you including Ms Jolie in Hunter game for his home in London. that? I think I’ve run into her once since then. I’ve certainly been in the You’re also busy making films. same room with her at award shows. You starred in Warrior with Tom Hardy and start another film, But you’re not lining up with Some Girls, soon. Do you like to the masses to say ‘hi’? Yeah, ex- actly. I’m not adding myself to that list stay busy? I really do but I also have of crazy people who are like: ‘Don’t to try to take care of myself. I’ve been you remember me?’ getting sick a lot lately and that’s Lesley O’Toole because I’ve been going, going, going. [email protected] There is that thing with actors, though. You always feel like you’re in your last Once Upon A Time airs on Channel 5 job and that someone is going to catch from this Sunday. Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 19 Drought threat to 6million £30million Obama fires warning shots is needed to BARACK OBAMA took a long hard look He returned to the capital Seoul for a at North Korea yesterday and warned private meeting with president Lee its secretive regime it would achieve Myung-bak. They warned there would help Niger, ‘nothing by threats or provocations.’ be ‘consequences’ if the North proceeded On his first visit to the South’s side of with its plans to launch a satellite using the heavily patrolled no man’s land a long-range rocket next month. says charity called the Demilitarised Zone, the US Meanwhile, deputy prime minister president said: ‘It’s like you’re in a time Nick Clegg visited a monument near the by CHRIS RICHARDS warp. It’s like you’re looking across 50 same zone to British soldiers who died years into a country that has missed 40 during the Gloucester Valley Battle TENS of thousands of impoverished Scrutiny: Mr Obama looks across no man’s land years or 50 years of progress.’ against Chinese forces in the Korean War. Africans will die unless aid agencies can secure millions of pounds of extra fund- ing, says Save The Children. A severe drought coupled with crop failure and sharp price rises for staple foods mean that 6million people in Niger face a catastrophe that threatens to ‘spiral out of control’. The situation is so dire that the crisis could ultimately match the severity of the one that gripped Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia last year unless action is taken within ‘a matter of weeks’. Tribute: Mr Clegg visits the Families in parts of the country have Korean War site PICTURES: REUTERS lost 80 per cent of their crops, while a number of households can afford only themselves.’ The charity said it needed to two thirds of the food they need to sur- spend £30million to alleviate the coun- vive, the charity warns. try’s problems but had so far been able to Save The Children chief executive Jus- raise just five per cent of this sum. tin Forsyth, who visited Niger, said: ‘I ‘The needs are already urgent and are met families who were cutting out meals growing fast,’ Mr Forsyth added. ‘Un- and resorting to mixing wild leaves into less we get more money, we won’t be their food to make it go further. able to scale up quickly, which we know ‘They were also selling possessions from past crises is absolutely critical.’ and taking children out of school to save To donate to the appeal, call 0207 012 on fees in a desperate attempt to feed 6400 or visit savethechildren.org.uk

Brother ‘helped’ in school murders THE brother of Toulouse gunman Mohammed Merah appeared in court yesterday to be charged with ‘complicity in murder’. Abdelkader Merah was said to have been close to the Jewish school where his 23- year-old sibling gunned down a Rabbi and three children on Monday last week. The 29-year-old Islamic radical is also believed to have assisted his brother on two attacks in which three French paratroopers died. Abdelkader Merah denies the accusations and was remanded in custody by a court in Paris. He is said to have been ‘very proud’ of his brother, who was killed on Thursday during a shoot-out with police. 20 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO Maximum security for short but sweet 1D gig

One Direction’s jaunt in America is Pepper Ballpark venue. Meanwhile, turning into a logistical nightmare as lads proved singing live the singers are now armed with 20 comes easy... especially once a few security guards each to keep beers are down the hatch. screaming fans at bay. They were caught on camera The five boys turned up to their gig seemingly drunkenly swaying around in Dallas on Saturday along with a the karaoke booth in Rock & Reilly’s 100-strong protection team. bar in Hollywood. They performed just four songs for They treated customers to a unique Hands up: One Direction get the crowd jumping in Dallas PICTURE: SPLASH a crowd of about 7,000 at the Dr version of the Goo Goo Dolls’ Iris. win

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look out for our Ange: My hairy bottles right leg’s in store now not a joke Angelina Jolie was oblivious to the stir her right leg created at last month’s Oscars when she wore a racy black number with slits up the side. After a Twitter site devoted to her leg attracted thousands of fans, the 36-year-old said: ‘I honestly didn’t pay attention to it. You know what I mean? I don’t watch those TV shows and if I go online and see something about myself, I don’t entrants 12+ and residents of GB, IoM or CI. promotion ends 25/05/12. draw on 26/05/12. see www.gvwurl.com/jessiejgb for full terms and click on it. The people I conditions. promoter: Coca-Cola Great Britain, 1 Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9HQ. ‘Glacéau vitaminwater’ and the ‘Glacéau vitaminwater’ surround myself with get up are trade marks of energy brands, inc. aka Glacéau. don’t really talk about that kind of stuff.’ Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 21 #JLS took fans to the future and back in robot-like suits when they performed at a one-off charity gig Edited by for Sports Relief at . The Proud singers chose to bring along their 4th Dimension tour costumes with them as they graced the stage alongside and . Andrei Harmsworth I won’t be another SuBo

E HAS been dubbed no chance of a repeat of SuBo, who ‘SuBoy’ after his barnstorm- was taken to hospital after the 2009 Hing performance on Britain’s final. Got Talent but Jonathan ‘My family are very supportive and Antoine has vowed not to implode like I’m being well looked after by the Susan Boyle did after her success. team at BGT,’ Antoine said last night. The 17-year-old, who was partnered Cowell initially scoffed at his ap- by Charlotte Jaconelli, 16, as he bel- pearance on Saturday night’s opening lowed ’s The Prayer, show, muttering ‘just when you said he could handle Simon Cowell’s thought things couldn’t get any worse’, fame game after it was revealed he but Antoine has BGT’s backing. suffered a nervous breakdown only ‘We are aware of Jonathan’s cir- five months ago. cumstances and have been closely in- His determined bid came as Cow- volved in discussions about his wel- ell’s camp defended his participation, fare with his family,’ a spokesperson revealing the teenager had now been for the show said. ‘The welfare of given a once-over by psychologists. contestants is our key priority and we ‘I thought long and hard before work with them to provide what help entering BGT and discussed it with and support is needed.’ my family,’ said Antoine. As for Antoine, he said he would try ‘My breakdown was when I was at to lose weight – but not because of school. Me and school don’t go so pressure to look good. well,’ he added. ‘This, on the other ‘Yes (I would) but it would be hand, is exactly what I want to do. because I should lose weight to be ‘Singing is what I love and doing healthy,’ he said. ‘I am the way I am BGT has been fun and made me happy.’ and I always will be – if other people Antoine said Cowell’s team were ral- don’t like me, then that’s their choice lying around him to check there was but I quite like me.’ Unlikely star: Jonathan Antoine sang Andrea Bocelli’s The Prayer with Charlotte Jaconelli on Saturday night PICTURE: PA 22 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO

#January Jones has incorporated eating Doherty’s hit the very big Healthy: Pete her own placenta into her Doherty performs beauty regime. The Mad at the Monte Carlo Men stunner, who gave time since moving to Paris Bay Hotel in birth to son Xander in Monaco September, told how she’s Pete Doherty looks like he has his trademark suit, tie and trilby.by. PICTURE: CAPITAL turned it into capsules. been making the most of fine The 33-year-old has given up onn ‘I have a great doula who French cuisine since moving to his drug-ravaged British life afterter makes sure I’m eating Paris. clocking up more than 20 arreststs well, with vitamins and The Babyshambles and and has since made the French teas, and with placenta Libertines singer revealed a capital his home. capsulation,’ the 34-year- much fuller figure when he Looking back on his showbiz old said. ‘Your placenta rubbed shoulders with the days of dating 38-year-old Katee gets dehydrated and made glitterati at a gig in Monaco. Moss and hanging out with Amyy into vitamins. It’s not He was instantly recognisable Winehouse, he said: ‘I was a bitt witchcrafty or anything!’ despite the weight gain thanks to unhinged at that time.’ Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 23 is bringing her K25 celebrations to Britain ‘Happy March #K25 LOVERS!! Anti Tour gigs in UK!’ The shows #with a string of intimate gigs. The pop princess slipped have seen Kylie sing her favourite B-sides and demos as she WIN back into hot pants for her Anti Tour shows Down Under and celebrates a quarter of a century in music. Tickets go on sale will give her British fans a taste, too. The 43-year-old tweeted: today for Manchester on April 1 and London two days later. Fancy a midweek gig to celebrate the sunshine? We have teamed up with Absolute Radio to give away a pair of tickets to see Hard-Fi. The band play their exclusive Absolute Radio session at London’s Hard Rock Cafe President Madge tomorrow, raising funds for The ANDREI HARMSWORTH HE is the undisputed queen of pop by wild and not grind? This is the ques- Prince’s Trust. For but Madonna has made her case tion that people should be asking.’ your chance to get up close to for becoming the US president. rules to suit her pop career after her And she won’t be toning anything the band, email your name The singer unveiled her mani- new video was given an 18+ rating down as she has appealed for Quen- and mobile number to S on YouTube for being too racy. festo as she showed chatshow host Jim- tin Tarantino to shoot a video for the [email protected]. my Fallon how to pull off her dance She insisted: ‘There would be no new track from her album MDNA. uk by 3pm today. Usual restrictions whatsoever on any of moves in spray-on leather trousers. ‘I have a whole thing worked out promotional rules apply – see my videos, ever. The 53-year-old mum of four took in a motel room,’ she said. ‘All he metro.co.uk/win charge as fans posed questions to her in ‘I’m supposed to be a girl gone has to do is show up with a camera. an interview for her Facebook page. wild in the video! How could you go And I can’t afford a director’s fee.’ ‘Well, when I am the president,’ she declared. ‘I will first of all take all the money spent on defence and put it into education, so that schoolteachers get paid more money. It’s scandalous how low their pay is.’ Madge then promised gay marriage would get the green light under her reign. ‘Gay marriage would be legal every- where and accepted,’ she said. The Material Girl would also bend a few

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METROCOSM SCIENCE & DISCOVERY by BEN GILLILAND www.CosmOnline.co.uk Until Messenger made its first flyby of Mercury in 2008, we only had close-up pictures of one 1 half of Mercury’s surface. Messenger has now mapped more than 99 per cent of the planet Swift Mercury gives Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, HEN ancient astron- sandal-wearing messenger. When the GEochemistry and Ranging) omers observed the scientists of the 21st century decided tiny planet that lives to send the first spacecraft to orbit Launched: August 2004 on the doorstep of the around Mercury, they saw no reason to First Mercury flyby: Sun, they saw how break the tradition so they named the January 2008 Wquickly it seemed to shoot across the craft Messenger. Arrived in orbit: heavens. So the Romans named it after The mission was launched in 2008 March 2011 the god Mercury – the speedy, winged and, since moving into orbit a little Messenger is protected from the Sun by a over a year ago, the spacecraft has cap- 2.5m solar shield made of ceramic cloth. tured nearly 100,000 images and re- In front of the shade, temperatures reach vealed new information about Mercury, 360C (700F) but the craft’s delicate instru- which, even thousands of years since ments are kept at a pleasant 20C (68F) its discovery, has always been one of The surface the least understood planets in our 1 Until Messenger arrived at Mercury, many scientists believed that the solar system. planet had cooled off quickly after its formation and has The reason we know so little about been geologically dead for billions of years. Mercury is simple – it is uncomforta- Messenger has found evidence that seems to bly close to the Sun. It is difficult to indicate geological processes continued for study from afar because telescopes some time after its formation like Hubble are blinded by the Sun’s glare and any probe sent to Mercury must contend with temperatures that Left: The Caloris Basin, a swing from a searing 360C (680F) to 1,500km-wide impact crater an unbearable -160C (-256F). created about 4billion years ago. Only one craft has ever been sent to Messenger has shown the floor photograph Mercury – Mariner 10 – of the basin has risen since its and it didn’t dare hang around. was formed – suggesting an Nasa had to make do with a handful Messenger reached Mercury’s orbit in March active interior on of images snapped as the spacecraft whizzed past. 2011. It has been circling the planet twice a day, Mercury Mercury pushed it up. collecting nearly 100,000 images and taking The orange blobs around Thirty years after Mariner 10, Mes- 4million images: more than measurements Nasa the edge are lava vents senger was sent to shed light on this

26 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 Singer raises a Smile thanks to our Deed Feed

WE LIKE to think we can help get your by TARIQ TAHIR creative juices flowing for the day ahead – and it seems to be working. help sometimes feeling we can easily A singer- has been inspired get stuck in our own bubbles.’ to compose a tune by Metro’s Good Juliyaa – aka 24-year-old Londoner Deed Feed. Julia Suit – was raised by a Ghanaian Juliyaa reads the messages posted on mother and Welsh father. She describes the column during her commute to work her music as rhythmic soul, which is from Archway to Angel on the London influenced by her African roots. Underground. The readers’ comments Metro’s Junior Olokodana came up – which thank friends, family and stran- with the Good Deed Feed as part of a gers for acts of kindness – moved the campaign that was meant to last only performer to write Smile. four weeks. ‘I regularly read the Good Deed Feed ‘Almost two years later, this is still and thought about how much nicer our running and putting smiles on the faces journeys would be if we took some of commuters,’ he said. responsibility for each other’s happi- ness,’ she said. To hear Juliyaa’s song go to ‘Living in London is great but I can’t metro.co.uk/gooddeed

Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 27 Genial Jocky has left the oche for last time

THE world of lined up yesterday to by CHRIS RICHARDS long-time rival added: ‘We pay tribute to Jocky Wilson, one of the had some great times together, will never game’s first giants, who has died aged 62. millions on TV in 1982, was a 5-3 victory forget you and your toothless grin!’ Wilson, a chain-smoking, pot-bellied over in Stoke-on-Trent. Wilson turned professional in 1979 and and often belligerent player, was a crowd Lowe, 66, yesterday tweeted: ‘Jocky reached the quarter-finals of every world favourite who lit up the world of televised Wilson, a player I rated one of the finest championship for 13 years until 1991. darts in the early 1980s. ever, and always enjoyed sharing the He quit the sport in 1995 and became a Twice a world champion, the former oche, RIP my friend.’ recluse in a council flat in Kirkcaldy. miner from Kirkcaldy in Fife had been Record world title winner Phil Taylor Wilson was immortalised when his pic- suffering from the lung disorder chronic said: ‘We owe Jocky so much. With the ture was wrongly flashed up on Top Of pulmonary obstructive disease. likes of and John Lowe, he The Pops as Dexys Midnight Runners His first world title win, watched by made the game what it is today.’ And sang Jackie Wilson Said in 1982.

Folk hero: Jocky Wilson wins the 1989 world title against Eric Bristow PICTURE: REX

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IT’S the biggest event in London by FRED ATTEWILL £159.60 was nearly 19 per cent up for decades so it’s no surprise that on February 2011. hotel prices are soaring before the was also much higher than the Rio de Janeiro – the venue for the Olympics this summer. average room rate in the capital in 2014 football World Cup and the Average room prices at hotels in January at £119.72. 2016 Olympics – averaged £157.59 the capital last month were £132.54 The best bargains among the ten in February 2012, more than 21 per – a 6.6 per cent increase on the European capitals in the hotel.info cent up on a year ago. figure for February last year. survey were in Warsaw, with rooms The city staged its carnival in Among European capitals, only in the Polish capital averaging only February this year, after it had been (£153.61) and Oslo £74.17 in February. held in March last year. (£134.63) had more expensive Worldwide, the most expensive The cheapest of the cities was Is- room rates than London. average room rates last month were tanbul, where room rates were only The February figure for London in Sydney, where the price of £60.01 on average in February. Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 29 Anger at U-turn over Heathrow runway 3 BUILDING a third runway at Heath- by CHRIS RICHARDS ‘That promise was written into the row airport would be a ‘totemic be- coalition agreement. Any U-turn trayal’ of the electorate, environmen- Johnson said the move would be an would be a totemic betrayal.’ tal campaigners said yesterday. ‘environmental disaster’ and ‘intol- There are fears business will move The plan has been revived by the erable’ for people in the west of the to other EU countries such as Conservatives. Tim Yeo, chair of the capital. ‘It will not be built as long as and Germany unless airport capacity Commons energy and climate change I am mayor of London,’ he said. in the south is increased – in 2011, select committee, told the Observer: John Sauven, Greenpeace director, Heathrow’s traffic to China grew by ‘We have to get on with this. If we told Metro: ‘David Cameron and three per cent, compared to nine per don’t, the Chinese and others will Nick Clegg both personally prom- cent each in Paris and Frankfurt. take their business elsewhere.’ ised not to allow new runways at An alternative plan would involve However, London mayor Boris Heathrow, Gatwick or Stansted. building a second runway at Gatwick.

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30 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 PG Tips tops Apple in Facebook power

NOTHING gets a Briton’s atten- by HAYDEN SMITH the Engagement Index – the first tion like a good old-fashioned cup measure of the success of social of tea – even on social networks. friends. Upmarket hi-fi brand Bang networks in promoting business. It must be the taste, because the & Olufsen was second in the 250- Director Angus Wood said the most successful big brand to have strong group with 12.6 per cent, most successful brands were those set up a Facebook page to boost while car maker Jaguar came third that could keep fans coming back business is... PG Tips. with 11.9 per cent. to their Facebook pages. The tea specialist, famous for its Apple trailed behind fourth- He said: ‘It’s easy to go out and chimpanzee TV ads, has the coun- placed cold cure Lemsip. buy ‘‘fans’’ with short-term com- try’s highest ‘engagement level’ of Waxwork attraction Madame Tus- petitions and other fan-bait but if 16.3 per cent – the amount of fol- sauds was ninth and luxury watch those users never return, and never lowers who like, follow, post a brand Rolex took tenth place. In- interact with the brand’s content, comment or share its page with dustry analysts Prospect compiled it’s not an efficient investment.’

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Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 31 London photographers capture borough scenes as they compete for Sony awards Inspiration with a capital eye

Light fantastic: Westminster Bridge Traffic by Johnathan Toolan DO THESE shots of a half- by CHRIS RICHARDS frozen lake and city centre traffic look like winners to you? Awards exhibition, which takes The images are among the en- place at Somerset House in cen- tries in the Londoners Photogra- tral London from April 27. phy Competition, which invites They may look like daunting the capital’s residents to capture competition but you have until life in their borough. April 13 to enter if you think you Robson Kingshott’s wintry can do better. scene in Osterley Park, Houns- It is open to amateur, student low, and Johnathan Toolan’s and professional photographers. snapshot of city life on Westmin- The Sony awards have received ster Bridge are vying for a place more than 110,000 entries. See at the Sony World Photography www.worldphoto.org/london Reflective: Robson Kingshott’s upside-down Winter In The Park shows trees reflected in a lake in Osterley Park, Hounslow 32 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012

Smiley again: Gary Oldman, who won the best actor gong at the Jameson Empire Awards for his role as George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The awards were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel PICTURE: THE PICTURE LIBRARY Gary’s the best man as he wins film fans’ votes by TARIQ TAHIR Hallows – Part 2, which won best GARY OLDMAN may have missed film and the best out on both an Oscar and a Bafta this director gong for year but last night he was crowned best David Yates. actor by film fans. Britons contin- The actor won the accolade for his ued to lead the way portrayal of George Smiley in Tinker with Olivia Col- Tailor Soldier Spy at the Jameson Em- man winning best pire Awards, which are voted for by the actress for her role film magazine’s readers. Olivia Colman in Paddy Consid- The awards were hosted by Lauren ine’s Tyrannosaur. The night also saw Laverne and Empire’s Chris Hewitt at a Kenneth Branagh’s Thor win best sci-fi, ceremony in London, with Danny De Ben Palmer’s The Inbetweeners win Vito, Agyness Deyn, James McAvoy best comedy and Ben Wheatley’s Kill and Michael Fassbender among the List win best horror. stars attending. Mark Dinning, Empire’s editor, said: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy dominated ‘British movies have ruled the world in the awards, also winning best thriller the past year. The readers of Empire are and best British film. It was closely fol- the smartest academy out there and lowed by Harry Potter And The Deathly have picked the very best winners.’

MISSING Can you help? Benjamin Phillips The 17-year-old has been missing from Chatham in Kent since January 28. Benjamin is 1.7m (5ft 8in) tall, of slim build with blue eyes and short fair hair. He was last seen wearing a black McKenzie jacket, black trainers and a white cap with a star on it. He is urged to call 0808 800 700.

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Health & Sex Music Ultramarathon man Dean Madonna delivers a METRO Karnazes has some blitz of glitterballs training tips for the with her 12th studio marathon p36 album, MDNA p38 A FRESH, FUNKY MIX

ROCKET JUICE & THE MOON EETING Damon Albarn as may be the trio of he mooches around his Damon Albarn, Tony Allen and Flea – but don’t call west London base – M admiring the view over the By Arwa Haider Westway; whizzing up them a supergroup vegetable juice; exchanging football banter – you wouldn’t guess that he’s probably the busiest man in the music world right now. His latest projects include his ‘pastoral folk’ Dr Dee and the reunion of his Britpop veterans Blur for the London Olympics closing concert; he’s also continued with cartoon superstars Gorillaz and other production work (such as Bobby Womack’s next album). Most imminently, there’s the release of the eponymous album from Albarn’s Afro-funky-psych-soul combo with legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea: Rocket Juice & The Moon. ‘You blend all of these things into your life; that’s the secret – otherwise you go stark raving mad,’ says Albarn. Despite his laddish Blur persona, he mostly seems happy being a driving force rather than commanding the spotlight: ‘I am part of a lot of things that are converging at the moment. On Rocket Juice, I’m just having a whale of a time in the background, § playing TOM SHEEHAN TOM 34 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012music

“It took me years not to take criticism negatively

messing around on silly Chicago siblings Hypnotic Brass § keyboards. It was an amaz- Ensemble, on the Honest Jon’s ing meeting of minds with Tony label co-owned by Albarn. The and Flea, and most of these tracks core trio performed on Honest were one-take wonders. We Jon’s Chop Up tour last year; their bounced all over the place.’ grooves (from Afrobeat to hip hop, Rocket Juice’s launch pad was wistful balladry and pop rock) are the Albarn-helmed Africa Express illustrated by Ogunajo Ademola’s touring collaboration; a 2008 bold imagery, and they’re fuelled Lagos date provided the initial by a mutual bromance. connection between Flea and ‘When Damon calls me, I might Allen, and sparked jam sessions not always know what he’s aiming with Albarn. These evolved into a at, but I know it’s not bulls***,’ full album, with guests including says Allen, with gruff fondness. US soulstress Erykah Badu, Mali- The Afrobeat architect’s highly an songbird Fatoumata Diawara, distinctive drum patterns open the another Albarn outfit, The Good, The means to an end. We totally impro- Statesmen: Albarn (above) and keyboardist Cheick Tidiane Seck, Rocket Juice album, on the track Bad & The Queen, and he collaborates vised over a few meetings, left it Flea (below, on stage at a Red Ghanaian rapper M.anifest and 1-2-3-4-5-6; Allen was also part of on Dr Dee. ‘He feels like an insepara- wild so it feels cosmic and loose. I Hot Chili Peppers gig) are now ble music partner,’ he says. love to just jam; my life mission is veterans in the music industry to play music in the moment.’ Making all of this gel into an He’s only visibly uncomfortable HE term ‘supergroup’ accessibly catchy album is no mean when asked if Rocket Juice doesn’t feel entirely feat, however, and involved much compromise. ‘It appropriate to this projects such as doesn’t work like that,’ he insists. breezy set-up. Rocket Juice are ‘Everyone here’s so open, “what- T‘Supergroup sounds pretty as liable to draw as ever happens” is the orthodoxy. silly,’ giggles irreverent much ‘purist’ criti- But most things are still uncharted superstar and intrepid talent cism as they are crosso- territory for me – including being Flea. ‘Damon and Tony are ver praise. ‘I’ve always able to sing and play rhythm two musicians I admired had an inquiring in tune.’ plenty before I worked mind; music has been ‘Damon’s very English, I’m from with them. Damon’s an a constant search and Hollywood, Tony’s from Nigeria… amazing musician, and battle with myself,’ and our hearts are all in the same his storytelling ability says Albarn, smiling. ‘And place,’ says Flea. ‘Fatou sounds so on a song like Poison it took me years not to connected to the joy and pain seems to be in his take criticism negatively. inside her. Erykah is like a funky blood. And Tony, man, It was strange at the Brits Billie Holiday. And I was so he’s just a treasure. He’ll (where Blur won the Out- excited when M.anifest started lay down this funky wick- standing Contribution Award busting out these rhythms.’ ed groove and I just want to this year), being 17 years older Allen adds the ultimate approval. get into the middle of it. It’s than the other participants in ‘This was a very different approach like being freezing, then the pageant. I remember what to The Good, The Bad & The immersing yourself into a it was like originally, and Queen – this was impromptu,’ he hot bath. there’s a marked change says. ‘For me, things are supposed ‘The Rocket Juice album in my outlook now; to be instant and unfixed – the was made with no precon- over time you learn to music doesn’t have to end.’ ceived plan,’ adds Flea. ‘The create order, and not be Rocket Juice & The Moon (Honest playing never felt like a afraid of chaos.’ Jon’s) is out today.

ON MY iPOD CHRIS GEDDES of Belle & Sebastian GANGSTA I’M GONNA LOVE YOU DESERT RAVEN BY TUNE-YARDS JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE, BY JONATHAN WILSON This is a mix of distorted BY BARRY WHITE This tune has got a perfect bass, junk yard percussion, BABY head-nodding guitar riff. This song is one of the horn blasts and vocal pinnacles of 1970s exuberance. EVERYWHERE BY symphonic soul. My FLEETWOOD MAC mate Andrew Divine I loved this when I was a CLASSES played it when we kid, but then I went through were DJing recently IN SILENCE a period of hating 1980s – I had to stick it on (FOR JESS) production. More recently, the iPod at home for though, I’ve started to BY HAPPY repeat listens. PARTICLES appreciate the synthesiser pads DUCHESS and lush vocal reverb again. Happy Particles are a Zena Alkayat new band from Glasgow. This BY SCOTT WALKER song opens with a simple The Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Belle & Sebastian’s new Late Night string quartet and builds and Trembling Bells cover has been Tales compilation is out today. builds until it dissolves into a getting airplay which made me The free launch party is at Big shimmer of reverb. It’s lovely. go back to the original. Chill Bar, London, on April 1.

36 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 edited by health&sex VICKI-MARIE COSSAR LET’S TALK ABOUT

BETWEEN THE SHEETS: HE only thing better than sex, it is said, is choco- erotic stories. For 21-year-old Jill The past decade saw late. But perhaps it’s more apt to say that the only Boyd, her web page is a place to track an orgy of anonymous sex blogs, dating memoirs and thing better than sex is talking about sex. Every- her sexual development. She is a Tone’s at it. And from fantasy-sharing discussion virgin. ‘Starting a blog was my way of confessionals. Now niche networks let women be groups, foreplay masterclasses, tantra workshops understanding the sex world,’ she and women-only porn parties, women are increasingly being says. ‘At one point I got into porn and loud and proud with sex talk By Helen Croydon invited to go public with their pillow talk. masturbation and I wrote about it to The trend started with New York’s Cake parties – understand it.’ raunchy get-togethers geared towards The appetite to write about sex is women exploring their sexuality. being matched by an equally vora- Word soon spread and now the group cious appetite to read about it. has become a pleasure empire with So-called ‘clit-lit’ or ‘cliterature’ – branded vibrators, a published book saucy books for women – have and a newsletter with 30,000 female become popular pull-out freebies in subscribers. It paved the way for a many magazines. thriving market in female hedonism, Mainstream publishers such as Ran- giving rise to women-dominated par- dom House, Penguin, and Simon & ties such as Killing Kittens. Schuster have all inaugurated erotica But many find such brash and bold imprints. And there are now more sexual pioneering intimidating. This how-to sex-tips books than you can is giving rise to more friendly sexual shake a vibrator at. sharing networks. sale This month saw Britain’s first-ever sex writers’ conference. Some 100 ERHAPS a telling sign the now on bloggers, publishers, novelists and stigma is finally starting to columnists from all corners of the P fade for the 21st-century erotic universe came together for female libertine is the Eroticon 2012 in Bristol. Like-minded number of women who are now will- individuals gathered to exchange ing to associate their name with their ideas, push blog traffic and discuss dalliances. Lori Smith sat on a speak- issues such as sexual reticence in the ers panel at Eroticon. She writes a sex media. Most were women. column for the online magazine Bitch- One of the speakers at the event, Zoe Buzz.com. When she first started the Margolis, has become an icon of sex blog, knowing it was under her real confessional writing. She started her name changed the way she wrote. blog, Girl With A One Track Mind, in ‘I held back more because I was 2004. ‘The only sex blogs I knew worried how people would perceive about in the early days were mine and me. But then I thought, most people Belle De Jour’s,’ she says. ‘Now there have sex. It isn’t something we should are thousands. Women write about sex be ashamed of. Therefore, if people at because we are surrounded by sexual- work see what I’m writing about, why ised images of women in the main- should I be bothered?’ stream media that don’t portray Conferences such as Eroticon and female sexuality in a realistic way. It’s other small and friendly sex-sharing a fight back. Women are challenging groups are great for the emancipation £8 was £14.99 the hypocrisy in the media that sex of women and for creating positive has to be hetero-normative and attitudes towards sex. Transformers: monogamous.’ However, we mustn’t forget that Dark Of The Moon But sex-sharing isn’t just about per- these saucy events are so alluring in sonal narratives. Many at Eroticon use the first place thanks to the delightful their sites for photography projects, mystery surrounding sex. Let’s just commentary on sex and politics or for hope they don’t become too popular. Be prepared for

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the run of a lifetime personal. ‘Chafing can Annette Chase, a musculoskeletal the impact on your bones,’ she says. be painful and the only physiotherapist with Pure Sports ‘Try to avoid running only on way to prevent it is Medicine at David Lloyd Leisure, concrete roads and treadmills. Al- with lubrication,’ he says it’s important to listen to your though treadmills are lower impact says. He recommends us- body in the last month of training. than road, you will run slightly differ- ing Aquaphor ointment, ‘If you need to take a break or short- ently on them compared with how which will last the entire en a session, don’t be worried to do you run outside.’ marathon. ‘It’s not uncom- so,’ she says. ‘Don’t ignore any nig- Whether you’re doing it as a chal- mon to see a runner crossing gles you have. Some may be nothing lenge or to raise money for charity, the finish line with two red but others may be a warning that an just remember to have fun on race streaks down the front of injury is starting. It is always better to day and know you’re not alone – a their jersey from bleeding be safe than sorry, even if this means staggering 35,500 people have en- nipples. Nip Guards will pausing your training temporarily.’ tered this year. Vicki-Marie Cossar easily solve this problem.’ Chase also recommends mixing up Dean Karnazes’ book Run! 26.2 Stories Pounding the streets is your terrain. ‘Hills will make you of Blisters and Bliss (Allen & Unwin, bound to affect your body. stronger and off-road can decrease £10.99) is out now.

38 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 reviews editor music ARWA HAIDER

Grinderman: 2 RMX on the scuzzy energy of the originals. There are using a process of automatic writing inspired by Mute HHHII many highlights, though: joins the obsessively recorded incidental sounds. The remix album has had a varied band on Super ; A Place To Bury All this may well set off your ‘wilfully inscru- history: championed by 1980s Strangers offers an exhilarating take on Worm table bulls***’ detector – but Other People’s pop stars, including Tamer; and Andrew Weatherall lends some Problems is a thoroughly enjoyable debut, with and Madonna; fuelled by 1990s clubbing; and splendid swagger. Each riff is enthusiastically an all-important grasp of songwriting craft. reclaimed by modern indie creatives. Radio- chewed and spat out into something new. AH Stand-out tune Interference chops orchestral head’s The King Of Limbs LP was remixed last instrumentation over a throbbing, squelchy year – now ’s gnarly garage thrashers Breton: Other People’s Problems bassline and a Foals-like yelping melody, while Grinderman bow out with these reworkings of FatCat Records HHHHI tracks such as haunting album closer The Com- their latest album. Breton are a five-piece ‘subversive mission have a more Massive Attack-style dislo- The tracks are in safe hands: art collective’ who evolved from cated ambience. This is experimental, bold and (who spruces up Palaces Of Montezuma); Fac- the south London squat party acutely listenable. Amy Dawson tory Floor and Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh scene, named themselves after the father of sur- Homme – although they don’t always improve realism, André Breton, and construct tracks e.s.t.: 301 ACT HHHHH Posthumously released rarely live up to fans’ expectations but this seven-track set from e.s.t. – the Swedish trio who redefined jazz for the post-rock/ generation (no wonder purists hated them) – is as good as anything they put out prior to the premature death of pianist Esbjörn Svensson in 2008. The group’s fondness for eerie atmospherics is much in evidence. Indeed, at its best, 301 (named for the studio in Sydney where it was recorded in 2007) is positively hair-raising. The brooding menace of Inner City, City Lights intensifies remorselessly across its 12-minute running time, while Three Falling Free Part II is a thunder- ing epic of mounting angst and fierce distortion. In between, there’s the un- earthly electronic fuzz of Houston, The 5th, while the collection is round- ed off with the gentle comedown – including the lovely, waltzing Empty of The Childhood Dream. It’s a splen- Vessels Make The Loudest Sound and did final statement from a sorely a bucolic take on Black Sabbath called missed trio of pioneers. Robert Shore Trinkets Pale Of Moon. There are moments of unhinged gen- ius: The Malkin Jewel is a wonderfully The Mars Volta: paranoid, Nick Cave-ish horror story Noctourniquet set to a lopsided reggae beat, while Warner Bros HHHII Molochwalker is a pulsating slab of The Mars Volta, a Texan punk-prog that recalls their old band, At outfit led by the elabo- The Drive-In. But, too often, the lengthy, rately coiffured pairing of Omar Ro- highly textured atmospherics will leave dríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zav- you jabbing at the fast-forward button. ala, specialise in a brand of slightly John Lewis scary prog-metal that many thought had died out with punk; a world of Mark Stewart: The wonky time signatures, wiggly axe so- Politics Of Envy los and arcane sci-fi imagery. Their Future Noise Music sixth album is, for them, a relatively HHHHI restrained affair, heavy on the ballads Mark Stewart made his

Soprano Renée Alan Gilbert does a suitably swoony MUSIC Fleming is a job with the Orchestre EXTRA singer who Philharmonique de Radio France. Classical seems to divide Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi are a & opera opinion. No one tougher sell – the composer’s disputes the writing is rather grim – but Henri plumptious Dutilleux’s Le temps l’horloge beauty of her voice but some find (written especially for Fleming, her performances mannered and right) is a Ravel-esque Gallic treat. over-emphatic: on the opera-blog The superb Berlin-based Kuss www.parterre.com you’ll meet Quartet reveal adventurous some of the hounds snapping at programming on Thème Russe her heels. Let them snap. If they’re (Onyx). Their recital of Russian not swayed by the soaring string quartet music begins and gorgeousness of her account of ends in the 19th century. The Ravel’s Shéhérazade on Poèmes opener is the delightful Variations (Decca), there’s no hope. Fleming On A Russian Folk Song by ten brings the right note of febrile different composers and they end dreaminess to Ravel’s languorous with an intense performance of and decadent music, and conductor Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No.1

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MADONNA NEW SINGLES MDNA : iLL Manors (Atlantic) British MC-crooner (and now film- HHHHI maker) swaps his soulboy threads Power-pop jubilee for sportswear again, as his politician-damning latest anthem hits the streets. Wickedly punchy There’s a pattern to Madonna’s throbbing rhythms of Gang Bang it is, too: an angry, articulate voice 21st-century ‘comebacks’: an evoke her original breakthrough, with mainstream reach. opinion-splitting first tune (spiked in New York’s Danceteria. with sniping about her age; she’s Madonna has never merely bor- Eugene McGuinness: Shotgun now 53), then a wow-inducing per- rowed from other genres and sub- (Domino) formance that demands global re- cultures, she acts like she owns Fresh-faced indie singer/ spect. Madonna has done it again them, and this album reasserts her songwriter McGuinness goes for with 12th studio album MDNA, claim on centre stage. When she an old-fashioned sample here – preceded by the single Give Me All enlists hip guest stars such as MIA the Peter Gunn bassline always gets an official British release. Your Luvin’ (which stalled at 37 in and Nicki Minaj, they’re notably hits the bullseye. Banks (above) hasn’t lost the edge the British chart) and her dazzling her cheerleaders – Minaj even to her snappy, sinewy electro-rap – Super Bowl extravaganza. concludes the track I Don’t Give A Chris Isaak: My Baby Left Me but it’s hard to shake the thought She’s made a typically sharp with the line: ‘There’s only one (Rhino) of stuffy old industry execs getting choice of producers. Euro electro queen and that’s Madonna, bitch.’ An adeptly warbled Elvis rendition sweaty under the collar. maestros Martin Solveig and Ben- The sweeping Falling Free sounds from smouldering country-rock ny Benassi provide fierce rhythms both confessional and controlled, dude Isaak. It does have the tang Totally Enormous Extinct over the first half of the album, while the dance tracks are deliv- of gourmet karaoke, though, Dinosaurs: Tapes & Money while the second part features ered in a blitz of glitterballs. along with the rest of Isaak’s (Polydor) sleeker orchestrations from Wil- It feels like her nightlife flashing recent covers album. This bouncy electro beast goes on liam Orbit (who produced her before your eyes. Arwa Haider a nightlife rampage. It’s a clubby 1998 LP Ray Of Light). The over- Azealia Banks: 212 (Polydor) boneshaker of Tyrannosaurus- all effect is a series of ready-to- VERDICT Madonna’s 12th The raunchy-hot tip of 2011 finally sized proportions. AH download anthems rather than a album is a florid, traditional album’s ebb and flow. limelight-seizing statement of MDNA is a pointedly ‘modern’ intent that proves pop culture’s collection but it’s also laced with grande dame reigns supreme echoes of Madonna’s earlier work, from the Catholic act of contrition Label Universal that launches into current single Producers Martin Solveig, Benny Girl Gone Wild, to the instrumen- Benassi, William Orbit tal hints of previous hits; even the

name as the impossibly tall frontman while still sounding impossibly fu- stripped-back, no-nonsense set of of The Pop Group, a late-1970s Bris- turistic. Best of all is Gustav Says, a vintage vibe dub. Apart from its crisp tol outfit who had little commercial mutant funk confection that could be production values, some of this success but whose mix of Gothic Stewart’s poppiest track yet. JL sounds as though it was unearthed paranoia, agitprop posturing and free from the Channel One vault: the jazz proved hugely influential on art- Sly & Robbie: classic, hypnotic, driving rhythm ists as diverse as Nick Cave, Massive Blackwood Dub patterns, effects-laden guitar stabs Attack and Nine Inch Nails. Stew- Groove Attack HHHHI and shooting star bleeps are all art’s first proper album in a while has The world’s ultimate present and correct – Sly even whips him teaming up with a veritable drum and bass duo, Sly out his Syndrum. But from woozy, who’s who of post-punk luminaries. Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, shimmering opener Dirty Flirty, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Daddy G have gone back to basics for this, through the rubbery complexity of help to unite digi-dub with doomy their first pure dub album in years. Burru Saturday, to the full-immer- dubstep on Gang War and Apoca- The brainchild of producer Alberto sion dub soak of The Great Escape, lypse Hotel; Autonomia is a Screa- ‘Burur’ Blackwood, it has Sly and Blackwood Dub never sounds like a madelica stomp featuring Bobby Robbie hook up with Compass Point mere exercise in nostalgia – the Rid- Gillespie; while tracks such as Stere- All Stars members including Mikey dim Twins and friends bring the heft otype see assorted Slits, Raincoats ‘Mao’ Chung and Uziah ‘Sticky’ of decades at the top of their game and Public Image Limited members Thompson in Kingston’s legendary but set it lightly on these cheerily up- revive the fractious spirit of 1979 Harry J studio; together they create a lifting tracks. Siobhan Murphy

Between, there’s Stravinsky’s The blond heldentenor Klaus Concertino and Schnittke’s Florian Vogt is something of a Canon in memoriam Igor superstar in Germany, fêted for his Stravinsky. Sweet-souled playing, shining, easy voice and stage clever, dramatic – what more do presence. He hasn’t appeared you want? much in Britain but perhaps Schubert wrote his first two Helden (Sony) will help build a symphonies at 16 and 17. Although clamour. His account of they’re immature works (Brahms Siegmund’s Winterstürme from even hesitated to include them in Die Walküre is almost painfully his complete edition of Schubert’s beautiful in its lightness and works) it’s hard to imagine them simplicity. He includes some performed with more zest or Mozart to prove that not all transparency than on Schubert heldentenors lack vocal agility – Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (RCA). and makes a good-ish case. But Conductor David Zinman makes when in his true métier (Wagner) them feel fresh and the Tonhalle- he’s simply sensational and the Orchester Zürich plays with arias from Lohengrin and Die confidence. If there’s lift music in Meistersinger are scalp-tingling. heaven, this is what it sounds like. Warwick Thompson 40 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 THEATRE REVIEW going out After Miss Julie HHIII

IAGHILEV’S Ballets August Strindberg’s 1888 Russes was renowned DANCE REVIEW portrait of a suicidal girl for its youth, vigour Beyond Ballets Russes who makes a disastrous and collaborations. HHHHI psycho-sexual play for

D ANNABEL MOELLER And George William- her father’s butler is a son’s Firebird, which features in cornerstone drama about the first of two programmes inspired Debussy’s refrain, played simply female sexual subjectivity by the troupe’s works, is a fitting and danced powerfully and and class hierarchies. tribute to its spirit, with a hungry without artifice. Patrick Marber’s 2003 young cast and a vital retelling of To finish, a reimagined Rite of version relocates the action man’s attempt to first worship Spring, where the usual tribal sign- to the evening of Labour’s nature, and then degrade her. posts have been removed for some- 1945 landslide election Ksenia Ovsyanick debuts as Fire- thing more liminal and dreamlike; victory – a superficially bold bird, sylph-like, elemental and as where bodies huddle and – out- stroke given that the era exquisite in the flexing of a wrist as turned and urgent – beat out their anticipates the collapse of in the fury of capture. violent chorus. As the beautiful those same class certainties. Williamson’s staging for Erina Takahashi dances herself Yet it feels all wrong. The the English National Ballet is into expiry, the group conspires, an extravagant deference exciting of costume and urgent of airless frenzy of brutal excitement. paraded by the ‘downstairs’ rhythm. Brave, bold and fearless, I don’t know which is more staff Jean, a proud working this Firebird will fly – with some rewarding – the energy of the man, and his devout fiancée grooming. dance, or the relief when it’s over. Christine, plus the Next up Faun(e) – let’s skip Diaghilev would be thrilled. imprisoning propriety of an unremarkable L’après-midi Tanis Taylor the class system into which d’un faune – is a pure, palette- all three characters are cleansing digestif. A response to Programme 1 until tomorrow, locked, seem at odds with Nijinsky’s 1912 original, it clears Programme 2 Wed until Apr 1, Marber’s chosen period. the stage but keeps the score with Coliseum. www.eno.org Fitting tribute: The dreamlike Rite of Spring inspired by Ballets Russes This is a tricky drama full of abrupt gear shifts, in Haunch Of Venison launches its which the cat and mouse new Fitzrovia space with this ART REVIEW declarations of love and lust exhibition from Scottish Katie Paterson between Jean and Natalie conceptual artist Katie Paterson, HHHII Dormer’s mercurial, imperial who aims to communicate Miss Julie are as inherently cosmic occurrences on an premiere of Paterson’s project unstable as the mind of Miss everyday, human scale. 100 Billion Suns, first devised Julie herself. The Dying Star Letters for last year’s Venice Biennale. Yet Marber’s witty, spiky displays a series of notifications This involved confetti canons script swaps psychological posted by the artist upon the shooting thousands of pieces depth for melodrama. You deaths of various stars, of paper correlating with understand what Jean and while Ancient the history of gamma Miss Julie need from each Darkness TV loops ray bursts, the other, but Marber never footage of the universe’s biggest grounds their violently sexual ‘ancient darkness’ explosions. If you relationship nor Miss Julie’s at the end of the arrive at 1pm, you morbid flirtations in a observed universe. might catch its daily reliable emotional truth. But although her firing; otherwise you Natalie Abrahami’s ideas are grand, can see photographs production is both exciting and charming, recording the confetti overheated and lacking in their transmutation into drifting in the Italian city. danger, despite decent the consciously humdrum can Paterson’s commitment to performances from her three- lead to a somewhat imagining the almost strong cast and a centrally underwhelming show. unimaginable is remarkable, compelling one from Dormer. For , Dying Star but this small show never feels But this feels like a facsimile Doorbell, which represents the quite commensurate with that play – and as a result, the sound of a dying star every time sense of wonder. Amy Dawson tragic finale barely feels the gallery door is opened with tragic at all. Claire Allfree a tiny hum, is clever but Until Apr 28, Haunch Of Venison, practically imperceptible. 51 Eastcastle Street. Until Apr 14, Young Vic. Also included is the British www.haunchofvenison.com www.youngvic.org

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Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 41 best of what’s on… tv with Sharon Lougher and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh A Very British Holiday, Mark Lawson Talks BBC2, 7pm To Graham Norton, The Wonderland documentary BBC4, 10.25pm strand casts its wry gaze on Graham Norton (right) is the British camping holiday, used to being in charge of currently undergoing something proceedings from his chat of a resurgence thanks to show chair but how does squeezed budgets and an ever- he feel at the end of the present desire to escape the interview barrel? Fairly city’s relentless pace. Film-maker comfortable, it seems: near-fatal stabbing while at Philippa Robinson pitches her he’s honest, thoughtful drama school and how his tent at the Isle Of Wight’s busy and entertaining company genealogical discoveries Whitecliff Bay site as she as he talks to Mark on emotion-tugging embarks on a summer of fishing Lawson about everything ancestry show Who Do You expeditions, barbecues and best from discovering his Think You Are? genuinely hat competitions. SL homosexuality, his failed to move him. SL FILM CHOICE My Murder, BBC3, 9pm Robin Hood: Prince A powerful, well-acted and engaging Of Thieves, C5, 9pm drama re-enacting the true story This 1990s take of Shakilus Townsend, a love- on the hero in struck 16-year-old led to his death tights has by his 15-year-old girlfriend in what attained legend would become known (in 2008) as status, mainly the Honeytrap Killing. Starring Attack by making The Block’s John Boyega (left) and ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’ written by Levi David Addai, it’s part of by Bryan Adams a fixture on BBC3’s gritty state-of-the-nation umpteen wedding playlists. SL strand, Criminal Britain. Thanks for that. Otherwise, the retold story is comfortingly , Sky1, 8pm One Night, BBC1, 10.35pm familiar. Kevin Costner does a sturdy job as Robin while Alan You’ve now had three months for Douglas Hodge (above) is superb in this woozily Rickman (above) caddishly steals your fitness regime resolutions to gripping new drama centring around the escalating his thunder as a magnificently come good: but if the pounds are tensions between his frustrated London kitchen boo-hiss Sheriff of Nottingham. still sticking on like limpets, then salesman and the children from the local sink Radical at the time for a point of the get-in-shape gizmos featured estate that forever seem to cross him. He’s view shot of a speeding arrow: tonight may help. Plus the R&D frustrated about the negative attitudes and look, that was amazing stuff team invent a dating ‘machine’ thoughtlessness that they and practically everyone back then. LI-Z to help a singleton find her Mr else he meets seem to display – but he misjudges Right… hopefully it’s less eyebrow- his reactions every time. Continues tomorrow. SL raising than it sounds. SL TURN OVER FOR FULL TV LISTINGS

INSIDE THE BOX What KEITH WATSON watched at the weekend

ICE boat that Titanic, shame As toffs and servants clambered up the about characters for a disaster drama to it sank. Yes, I’m shameless- gangplank, rubbing shoulders with drop emotional anchor. Too often I ly borrowing from artist sailors and second classers, we were found myself playing Pick A Drowner N David Shrigley there, a man drowning in a wave of clichés before to fill in time before iceberg chummie with a pithy gift for putting things the ill-starred boat had even left turned up. Things could pick up as other in perspective. His point being that Southampton. From rebel aristo girl stories emerge from the surf but, thus the iceberg-pranged liner has been Georgiana (Lady Sybil with a charm far, this Titanic isn’t floating my boat. propelled to a place in popular bypass) to the cheeky Italian steward culture that’s way out of propor- with an eye for the ladies, it was hard EING Human (BBC3) has gone tion to its significance. to find anyone you’d fling a lifeline to down the shapeshifting Sugababe The latest to climb aboard the come iceberg time. B route when it comes to key per- story boat is Julian Fellowes To be fair, the plucky cast did their sonnel, so it’s a credit to creator/writer who, in the wake of the global best with the thin pickings they’d been Toby Whithouse that the original spirit success of Downton Abbey, given. Lyndsey Marshal deserves credit of this werewolf/ghost/vampire saga could get the green light to dram- for making maid Watson believable has survived pretty much intact. With atise his shopping list. That could with the flimsiest of material while Julian Fellowes plenty of life left in the budding have proved more diverting than Celia Imrie gamely channelled Dinner- “could get the green bromance between Hal and Tom the flotilla of class stereotypes bob- ladies as Token Northern Woman, but light for dramatising (Mitchell? George? Who?) and the bing about in his latest, the un- these were sketches rather than flesh- small matter of the future of humanity originally titled Titanic (ITV1). and-blood humans. You’ve got to care his shopping list to sort out, another series is a must.

42 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012tv REGISTER TODAY & WE’LL DOUBLE BBC 1 BBC 2 6.00 Breakfast (T,W) 9.15 The 1952 Show (T,W) 6.00 CBeebies 7.00 CBBC 8.30 CBeebies 11.30 BBC YOUR FIRST DEPOSIT 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer (R,T,W) Followed World News (T,W) 12.00 Daily Politics (T,W) 1.00 by BBC News 11.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming (T,W) My Life In Books (R,T,W) 1.30 Living Dangerously 11.45 Cash In The Attic (T,W) A woman tries to raise (R,T,W) 2.15 Weakest Link (T,W) 3.00 Helicopter money for building projects. Followed by BBC Heroes (R,T,W) Narrated by Rav Wilding. 3.45 Flog News 12.15 Bargain Hunt (R,T,W) From Lewes in East It! Ten Of The Best (T,W) Paul Martin takes a look Sussex. 1.00 BBC News; Weather (T,W) 1.30 back at leisure-related items featured in the series, Regional News; Weather (T,W) 1.45 Doctors (T,W) including a picnic set in Derbyshire and an Mandy tries to help a patient out of a personal impressive collection of postcards. 4.30 Breakaway crisis, and Freya attempts to impress the partners (T,W) Nick Hancock hosts the game show in which to ensure they choose her over Kevin. 2.15 Secrets six contestants compete to win £10,000 — but PLUS MANY MORE GAMES And Words (T,W) New series. First of five stand- must decide whether to stick together or break alone dramas on the theme of adult literacy. A away from the pack in a bid to win big. 5.15 Put decorator enlists the assistance of his daughter’s Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (T,W) New MEarcade.co.uk teacher to help him read a collection of letters. series. 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Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 43 # TV Trivia David Hasselhoff has given his name to a newly discovered SCREEN TALK species of crab, which, like him, has lots of hair on its chest Thank God it’s Monday ITV 1 Channel 5 Regional Bubbling sexual tension, the fault lines in old variations friendships and feverish male jealousy collide in 6.00 Daybreak (T,W) 8.30 Lorraine (T,W) 9.25 The 6.00 The Treacle People (R,T) 6.15 The Hoobs (R,T) 6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff11.10 LIVE The Last Weekend, author Blake Morrison’s tale Jeremy Kyle Show (T,W) 10.30 This Morning (T,W) 6.40 The Hoobs (R,T) 7.05 Freshly Squeezed (T) 7.35 With Gabby 12.10 5 News Lunchtime (T) 12.15 ANGLIA As ITV except 1.55- of a reunion in the country that takes a chilling 2.00 With this year’s Dancing on Ice champion. 12.30 According To Jim (T) 8.00 Everybody Loves Emergency Bikers (R,T) 1.15 Home And Away (T) 1.45 Anglia News; Weather turn while the summer temperatures soar. Actor- 1.30 8.30 9.00 3.59-4.00 Anglia Weather Loose Women (T,W) With Gok Wan. ITV News; Raymond (R,T) Frasier (R,T) Undercover Neighbours (T) Summer struggles to readjust to life 6.00-6.30 turned-writer Mick Ford has adapted Morrison’s 1.55 2.00 10.00 11.00 Anglia Tonight; Weather (T,W) Regional News (T,W) 60 Boss USA (R,T) The Food Hospital (R,T) at school, particularly when her classmates mock 10.30-10.35 taut tale for TV, with Rupert Penry-Jones and 12.00 Weather Anglia Minute Makeover (T,W) New series. Home You Deserve This House (T) Channel 4 News her for cheating. Michael is lifted after discovering News; Weather BORDER As Shaun Evans set for the roles of Ollie and Ian, 3.00 12.05 2.15 improvement challenge from Stevenage. Midday Summary (T) Baking Mad With Eric Emilia has broken up with Lucas. The Mentalist ITV except 1.55-2.00 Tyne Tees two old mates whose lives have followed very Dickinson’s Real Deal (T,W) David Dickinson helps Lanlard (T) 12.35 FILM: Those Magnificent Men In (R,T) Jane tries to prove the innocence of a woman and Border News 3.59-4.00 6.00-6.30 different paths since their uni days. It’s due to members of the public in Colne, , sort Their Flying Machines (1965) (T,W) A motley who looks set to be convicted of murder, but Border Weather screen on ITV1 later this year. the treasures from their trash. Items include assortment of oddball characters competes in the must find enough evidence before the jury’s Lookaround; Weather 10.30- clairvoyance glasses, and mugs featuring four first London-to-Paris air race in a range of verdict is announced. Starring Simon Baker. 3.10 10.35 Lookaround; Weather 3.59 4.00 CARLTON As ITV except 1.55- famous faces. Regional Weather (T,W) ramshackle aircraft. Period comedy, starring Terry- FILM: Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights (2009) (T,W) 2.00 3.10 London News; Weather Things heat up in the Hamptons Midsomer Murders (R,T,W) Part one of two. Thomas and Stuart Whitman. Countdown (T) Premiere. A Baltimore cop takes a job in Alaska, 3.59-4.00 4.00 5.00 London Weather Revenge is a dish best Barnaby and Jones race to find a connection (T) Come Dine With Me where he ends up investigating the murder of his 6.00-6.30 London Tonight; 5.30 between a stolen antiques racket and two couples (T) Liv Sargeant hosts the first party in Bath. girlfriend’s father. 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China’s growth on the rest of the 1.55-2.00 those below decks. Based on records The West Country world’s bubbliest volcanoes. On the off-chance 8.30 Coronation Street (T,W) Audrey tries world, and how criticism of the Today 3.59-4.00 ITV West from the official inquiry, the film 6.00-6.30 that the lava refuses to act up for the to get David to sign the salon back country’s politics could jeopardise follows the men working in the ship’s Weather The West over to her. future investment. Last in the series. Country Tonight; Weather cameras, they’re taking no chances – massive machine rooms, and their 10.30-10.35 The West Country live action will be interspersed with 9.00 Scott & Bailey (T,W) Rachel helps DCI 9.00 Embarrassing Bodies (T) Dr Christian desperate battle to save the vessel, as Tonight; Weather pre-recorded footage. Murray on a rape and murder case – Jessen advises a man who wants a well as those in the passenger cabins WESTCOUNTRY As ITV except and back home, she makes a vasectomy, and Dr Dawn Harper – including the man racing to save his 1.55-2.00 The West Country shocking discovery about what her examines a woman whose bowel secret mistress, the nurse searching Today 3.59-4.00 Westcountry First, I’d like to brother Dom gets up to in her flat. condition has left her with extensive flooding corridors for the child in her Weather 6.00-6.30 The West scarring on her stomach. Country Tonight; Weather thank Wotsits 10.00 ITV News At Ten; Weather (T,W) care and the brothers perched on the 10.30-10.35 The West Country 10.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA lip of the sinking vessel deciding 10.30 Regional News (T,W) Tonight; Weather YORKSHIRE Possibly the awards show to (T) Gordon Ramsay is in New Jersey to whether to jump. 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Action adventure, with Hasselhoff (R,T,W) The former test. Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman. Nation Of People and Most More- Britain’s Got Talent judge talks about 12.05 12.10 1.10 12.05 1.00 ish Food – on BBC1 next month. Random Acts (T) Death Row (R,T) Gladiator: The True Story (R,T) Will Twiglets triumph over his career and personal life. Falklands’ Most Daring Raid (R,T) 2.10 FILM: Made SuperCasino 3.55 House Doctor (R,T) 4.20 Wildlife Quavers? 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Last in Vengeance The gladiator’s agencies. 10.00 Weeds The Bailey, Rich Hall and Rob Robot (2004) A detective is Designs Australia 10.05 starring Ron Perlman and and the series. 9.00 The Seasons leadership skills are tested. Botwins head for Denmark – Brydon. 10.00 Have I Got A convinced a robot has killed its Beeny’s Restoration Selma Blair. 11.20 Celebrity With Alan Titchmarsh The 11.15 A League Of Their Own but Silas is not sure he wants Bit More News For You With creator, even though it has Nightmare 11.10 Relocation: Juice: Corrie vs Eastenders effect of autumn on the 12.15 Fringe 1.15 Dog The to go. Last in the series. 10.35 guest host Damian Lewis. been programmed never to Phil Down Under 12.15 The Special 12.05 The Vampire nation’s landscape and Bounty Hunter 1.40 The Real Funny Or Die Presents 11.10 11.00 Mock The Week With harm humans. Sci-fi thriller, Daily Show Global Edition Diaries 1.00 Coronation wildlife. 10.00 A Touch Of A&E 2.10 Caribbean Cops 3.05 Blue Bloods 12.10 Seinfeld 1.10 Patrick Kielty, Zoe Lyons and with Will Smith, Bridget 12.50 Deal Or No Deal 1.50 Street 1.55 Emmerdale 2.20 Frost 12.10 Numb3rs 1.00 MacIntyre: World’s Toughest Ad Men 2.10 Six Feet Under Milton Jones. 11.40 QI XL 12.40 Moynahan and Alan Tudyk. Relocation, Relocation 2.55 A Harry Hill’s TV Burp 2.45 Jeeves And Wooster 1.55 ITV3 Towns 3.55 Dom Joly’s Happy 3.15 Curb Your Enthusiasm Have I Got A Bit More News 11.15 A Girl’s Guide To 21st Place In The Sun: Home Or Teleshopping 5.45 ITV2 Nightscreen 2.30 Hour 4.45 Crash Test 4.35 Funny Or Die Presents For You 1.30 Mock The Week Century Sex 12.00 Away 3.55 Close Nightscreen Teleshopping Dummies 5.10 Oops TV 5.05 The X Files 2.00 I’m Alan Partridge Teleshopping

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GAME Group could be saved from adminis- tially own a stake in the struggling retailer, tration with reports suggesting its lenders plan which almost collapsed in January, but rival to buy the business. bids are expected from Gamestop and Op An RBS-led consortium could buy a Capita. Administrator PwC is likely to slimmed-down version of the company, which announce the closure of loss-making stores is expected to go into administration today. within the 600-strong store estate, triggering The move means the taxpayer could poten- job losses among the workforce of about 6,000.

Old hat: Few realise there is money to be made in trading in your unwanted and obsolete iPad as well as that redundant mobile phone Don’t get left behind, cash in on old gadgets by JAYNE ATHERTON MONDAY money TECHNOLOGY is moving so fast that must-have gadgets can be out of date within a year, leaving fans struggling anything from an to keep up with the cost of upgrades. iPad to an iPod The new Apple iPad 3 for instance, or even a cam- has arrived before many users have had era,’ he said. time to get the hang of their iPad 2s. Marketing di- Mobile phone recycling has been rector Lee Farrer, around for years but fewer people real- 36, from London ise that many companies will also buy made more than other mobile devices. £200 from recy- Fone Bank UK, for example, is offer- cling three gadg- ing £310 for a second-hand iPad 2 with ets. She said: ‘I 64GB, wifi and 3G, which is almost am a sucker for half the cost of a new top-of-the-range Quids in: Lee Farrer new technology iPad 3 costing around £650. and have a drawer full of old mobile Entrepreneur Chris Frost has launched phones. I recycled three phones and RecycleYourGadget.co.uk to allow us- my old iPod Nano and made £240, ers to compare recycling prices. paying off my credit card bill in full ‘There are hundreds of pounds to be and clearing some space in my drawers made with very little risk by recycling at the same time.’

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METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 45 TOURIST RATES FTSE 100 FTSE 250 DAX CAC-40 DOW US$1.587 Figures at Australia (A$) ...... 1.47 Poland (zloty) ...... 4.62 close of €1.195 (C$) ...... 1.53 Singapore ($) ...... 1.91 5854.89 11566.67 6995.62 3476.18 13080.73 business Euro (E) ...... 1.17 South Africa (rand) ...... 12.19 on Friday £ ¥130.68 New Zealand (NZ$) ...... 1.88 US ($) ...... 1.54 +9.24 +14.97 +14.36 +3.72 +34.59 2,000 jobs saved by £350m deal to revamp submarine

A £350MILLION contract to up- by JAYNE ATHERTON new nuclear reactor core. It will grade a Royal Navy nuclear missile also get an equipment, missile submarine will be announced today. mond will unveil the project today launch and computer system up- The deal with defence company when he visits Devonport Dock- grade. Babcock to refit and refuel HMS yard in , where the work The deal comes despite criticism Vengeance will safeguard up to will be carried out. over a ‘delay’ in signing the deal. Deterrent: HMS Vengeance at Faslane submarine base in Helensburgh, Scotland GETTY 2,000 jobs over the next three He will say: ‘As well as securing Labour MP Alison Seabeck said years. Work on the Vanguard Class 2,000 UK jobs, this contract will there was ‘concern’ after the sub- submarine will secure more than ensure the nuclear deterrent sub- marine arrived without a signed 1,000 staff at the company as well marine fleet can continue to oper- contract for the refit on March 2. as a further 300 in the surrounding ate safely and effectively to main- ‘There was no obvious reason area and another 700 in the supply tain a continuous at-sea deterrent.’ why, given refits are planned years chain across Britain. HMS Vengeance will be the last in advance, that there should be a Defence secretary Philip Ham- of its class to be refuelled with a delay,’ she said. Heels deal is tied down by patriotic Yull Shoes START-UP company Yull Shoes cost a little more to make but on a could be the only independent small production run there is not shoemaker to produce its high much difference between costs in heels in Britain after moving Britain and China.’ production from China. The brand – known for its Founder Sarah Watkinson, 22, patriotic trademark of a Union said the firm had found a British flag printed on the soles – has factory with the machines launched a new collection, capable of making the shoes. including styles called Windsor They are produced with the for the Queen’s diamond jubilee support of The Prince’s Trust and and Stratford to mark the the British Footwear Association. Olympics. They cost from £65 to Homegrown: Sarah Watkinson Ms Watkinson said: ‘The shoes do £110 on average. BUSINESS BITES

n THE parent company of Birds of more than 200 companies at 4.8 per cent with the South Eye has been put up for sale for by the EEF manufacturers’ body East at 5.2 per cent. London rent £2.5billion, according to reports. showed. ‘Pay settlements have hit £1,212 per month – well Iglo Group, Europe’s largest remained below long-run ahead of the national average. frozen food company, could be average levels, with a sense of auctioned after approaches were economic realism prevailing in n THE number of takeovers and made to its private equity owner the key bargaining rounds,’ mergers in Britain has fallen 14 Permira. It bought Iglo, which said economist Lee Hopley. per cent, a report shows today. has a factory in Lowestoft, The declining number of deals Suffolk, for £1.4billion in 2006 n DEMAND for rental properties in the first quarter of the year and expanded the business by increased further last year and compared to the previous three buying Findus Italy for helped push the average months stemmed from fears £669million in 2010. monthly rent to £716. It drove over the future of the eurozone the figure up from £682 in 2010, as Greece threatened default, n PAY deals in manufacturing with rental yields surging by up Ernst & Young’s M&A Tracker groups are stable at about 2.5 to seven per cent in Yorkshire said. However, in Britain a 41 per per cent. The number of and the Humber. Yields in cent rise in the average size of employers imposing wage Greater London were below the the deals to £167million meant freezes is also falling, the survey national average of 6.2 per cent their value rose 20 per cent.

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FORMER world darts champion by DES KENDALL before the razzmatazz of the current Jocky Wilson has been hailed as the darts scene, but George recalls: ‘It ‘Braveheart’ of the sport following darts,’ said one of Wilson’s former ri- was more fun when we played. his death on Saturday night. vals, Bobby George. ‘He hated the ‘I remember we were playing in The 62-year-old, who won world ti- English and wanted to beat them. He America and I picked him up. When I tles in 1982 and 1989, passed away at really turned it on against England.’ lifted his suitcase I nearly fell over his home in Kirkcaldy, Fife, having because there was nothing in it. suffered with the lung disorder chron- ‘When I asked him what was inside, ic pulmonary obstructive disease. ‘He really turned it on he replied: “A pair of socks... it looks A proud Scot, Wilson was one of the better when you check into a hotel if main forerunners to darts’ current against the English’ you’ve a suitcase.” What a boy!’ popularity, and engaged in a long- After retiring in 1995, Wilson with- running battle with England’s Eric Three-time world champion Martin drew from public life, and returned to Bristow, pipping him in one of the all- Adams said: ‘When Jocky was on Kirkcaldy from Wallsend, Tyne and time great finals in 1989. song, there was no stopping him.’ Wear. He was married to Argentina- Legend: Wilson was a household name during the 1980s PICTURE: ACTION IMAGES ‘He was like the Braveheart of Wilson took to the oche in an era born Malvina and had three children. WEEKEND BY NUMBERS PICTURE: ACTION IMAGES

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48 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 london 2012 OLYMPIC BRIEFING Murray’s mint year goes on MODERN PENTATHLON Britain’s Samantha Murray continued her impressive start to 2012 by winning the Budapest Cup. And there was further good news for Team GB with team-mate Kate French taking silver, Katy Burke finishing fifth and Kerry Prise 11th. Murray (pictured) has won the Hungarian Indoor Championships and finished sixth at the World Cup event in Charlotte this year. Mixed blessings for Brit pair BADMINTON and Jenny Wallwork Tenacious: continued their battle to make the Olympics with mixed Grainger goes for an doubles victory at the Polish International. The British pair elusive gave themselves a boost by beating team-mates Ben Stawski Olympic title and 21-15, 21-11. Robertson and Wallwork are again this competing with and for a summer place in London. PICTURE: GETTY

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SRI Lankan cricket England fly-half Flood (pictured) was in top Pakistan and, in particular chiefs yesterday form, scoring 26 points for the Tigers, with Saeed Ajmal, may beg to differ admitted they Tom Homer replying with 24 for Irish. after they sent England into a have deliberately tailspin during their recent 3-0 targeted England Test whitewash in the UAE. fans with a huge England go fourth But Strauss was bullish when rise in ticket prices speaking ahead of the first Test, for the first Test in RUGBY UNION England had to be which was due to start in this old Galle. English fans content with fourth place at the Hong Kong Dutch fortress city at 5.30am this – of which there Sevens following a crushing 28-0 defeat to morning English time. are expected to be South Africa in their third-place play-off. ‘I’m very happy with our spin more than 5,000 – After narrowly losing 14-7 to eventual bowling options, we’ve got two will pay ten times winners Fiji in their semi-final, England as much as their produced a tired display to concede two tries Australian in each half. England had earlier enjoyed a ‘They both ask very counterparts did 19-14 quarter-final win over Australia. Fiji last October, with went on to win a thrilling final, beating New different questions’ prices per day up Zealand 35-28. to 5,000 rupees of the best spinners in the world,’ (£25). The hike has he said. ‘Graeme Swann showed prompted talk of a Sachin insists he’s that pretty much over the last two boycott and Sri or three years and Monty Panesar Lankan Board not ready to retire has come back into real form secretary Nishanta recently. They both ask very dif- CRICKET Sachin Tendulkar has denied he Ranatunga only is considering retirement after ending his ferent questions of the opposi- inflamed the tion’s batsmen.’ year-long wait for a 100th international situation when he century last week. Following the milestone Sri Lanka possess nobody of said: ‘Whenever the potency of Muttiah Muralith- there was speculation Tendulkar, 39 next there is a demand month, would use the occasion to announce aran, having only won one match for tickets it is our since the world-record breaking his retirement from one-day internationals policy to put prices at the least. ‘I will decide when to retire,’ said off-spinner retired from Tests in up. We will get the July 2010. Tendulkar. 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I don’t want to set targets.’ International Cricket Council for ‘You only have to go to any nets we understand that, and a chal- as you can, that’s important. excessive turn, is treating both session here and you realise there lenge we’re looking forward to.’ ‘You’re trying not to cross that left-arm spinner are a lot of good spin bowlers Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jaya- line but we will certainly push Raonic withdraws to and off-spinner Suraj Randiv around Sri Lanka, and Herath wardene is confident his side can everyone to the limit and see who with the utmost respect. ‘We’re and Randiv are very canny opera- push England to breaking point cracks first.’ send Andy through TENNIS Andy Murray moved into the last SPORT RESULTS 16 of the Miami Masters without hitting a Flyers 1 2 (OT), Sheffield ..26 Leigh ...... 43 Northampton 18 11 0 7 8 432 304 52 P W D L B F A Pts ball as Milos Raonic withdrew from their Steelers 13 2. North Wales C ...28 Toulouse ...... 10 Exeter 18 10 0 8 9 350 326 49 Bristol 3 2 1 0 1 101 34 14 BBL CHAMPIONSHIP third-round match with an ankle injury. The Oulton ...... 8 Sheffield ...... 58 Gloucester 18 8 1 9 8 375 376 42 London Welsh 3 2 1 0 1 78 57 13 Yesterday Wath Brow ...... 22 South Wales ..... 24 Sale 18 8 0 10 8 384 464 40 Nottingham 3 1 0 2 1 70 59 6 walkover sets up a meeting with Gilles Cheshire ...... 65 Worcester ...... 94 STOBART SUPER LEAGUE Bath 18 8 0 10 7 330 330 39 Doncaster 3 0 0 3 1 30 129 1 Yesterday London Irish 18 6 1 11 10 407 436 36 Glasgow ...... 60 Plymouth ...... 71 Yesterday Barrow ...... 32 FC Lezignan-C ....22 POOL B Simon or Jurgen Melzer in the fourth round. Guildford ...... 97 Durham ...... 59 Worcester 18 7 1 10 5 253 307 35 Bradford ...... 18 ...... 38 Bradford D Hill ....6 Keighley ...... 58 Wasps 18 5 0 13 7 298 414 27 Moseley ...... 27 Esher ...... 15 Canadian Raonic injured his ankle in practice Castleford ...... 28 Hull ...... 42 Newcastle 18 3 2 13 3 283 471 19 GOLF Hull KR ...... 40 Huddersfield .....22 Dewsbury ...... 84 Thatto Heath C ..12 P W D L B F A Pts Plymouth A 3 2 0 1 1 70 43 15 and pulled out three games into a doubles EUROPEAN TOUR TROPHEE HASSAN II St Helens ...... 46 Leeds ...... 6 East Hull ...... 20 Rochdale ...... 48 RABODIRECT PRO12 Wakefield ...... 32 Catalan agonsDr ..22 Hunslet ...... 34 Royal Navy ...... 14 Benetton Treviso .23 Ulster...... 27 Moseley 3 2 0 1 1 72 55 15 (Golf du Palais Royal, Agadir, Morocco) Hunslet Old B .....12 Featherstone ....86 London S 3 2 0 1 0 50 71 14 match on Saturday. Widnes ...... 38 London Broncos .30 ...... 14 Scarlets ...... 26 Esher 3 0 0 3 2 42 65 6 Final rnd (Gbr & Irl unless stated, par P W D L F A Pts Myton Warriors ...4 Halifax ...... 94 Connacht ...... 16 Munster ...... 20 72): 271 M Hoey 74 67 65 65, 274 D Warrington 8 6 1 1 239 148 13 Swinton ...... 66 Siddal ...... 0 P W D L F A Pts POOL C McGrane 65 68 71 70, 275 R Coles 73 Huddersfield 8 6 0 2 251 144 12 Whitehaven ...... 52 Hunslet W ...... 6 Leinster 18 14 1 3 458 278 64 Yesterday 70 65 67, J Donaldson 72 68 74 61, P Hull 7 5 1 1 200 116 11 Workington ...... 6 Batley ...... 22 Munster 18 12 0 6 389 292 56 Cornish Pirates .. 25 Rotherham T .....17 Hoey’s Ryder chance Wigan 8 5 0 3 270 147 10 Ospreys 18 12 1 5 368 292 53 Leeds Carnegie ..24 Bedford ...... 24 Price 68 66 72 69, 276 M Manassero Leeds 7 5 0 2 208 146 10 York ...... 40 ...... 14 (Ita) 69 70 65 72, K Horne (Rsa) 69 70 Glasgow 18 10 4 4 348 272 51 Catalan Dr 7 5 0 2 190 162 10 RUGBY UNION Ulster 18 11 0 7 392 339 50 P W D L B F A Pts 70 67, E Molinari (Ita) 68 70 71 67, 277 H Salford 8 4 0 4 198 228 8 Scarlets 18 10 1 7 348 284 50 Bedford 3 2 1 0 1 82 68 14 GOLF Northern Ireland’s Michael Hoey is Otto (Rsa) 69 69 70 69, J Kingston (Rsa) Bradford 8 4 0 4 160 211 8 AVIVA PREMIERSHIP Cardiff Blues 18 9 0 9 373 354 45 Cornish Pirates 3 1 1 1 1 64 57 9 70 67 70 70, I Garrido (Spa) 69 71 69 St Helens 8 3 1 4 220 161 7 Newport-G D 18 7 1 10 289 361 33 Leeds Carnegie 3 0 2 1 0 41 58 5 back in the hunt for a Ryder Cup debut after Hull KR 8 3 1 4 196 200 7 Gloucester ...... 27 Exeter ...... 28 Rotherham T 3 1 0 2 0 56 60 4 68, J Manuel Lara (Spa) 70 65 70 72, P Harlequins ...... 14 Bath ...... 6 Benetton Treviso 18 6 0 12 347 428 30 winning Morocco’s Hassan Trophy by three Larrazabal (Spa) 74 68 67 68. Wakefield 7 2 0 5 146 172 4 Connacht 18 4 1 13 246 353 25 Widnes 8 2 0 6 139 340 4 Northampton .... 32 Wasps ...... 15 Edinburgh 18 4 1 13 358 452 23 TENNIS Lndn Broncos 8 1 0 7 178 276 2 Yesterday strokes. Hoey, 33, had closing rounds of 65 Aironi Rugby 18 4 0 14 232 443 19 ATP & WTA SONY ERICSSON OPEN Castleford 8 1 0 7 122 266 2 London Irish ...... 32 Leicester ...... 41 (Miami, Florida) ELITE LEAGUE for a 17-under-par winning total. Matteo POWERGEN P W D L B F A Pts THE CHAMPIONSHIP POOL A 3rd rd: Grigor Dimitrov (Bul) bt (7) Belfast Giants 4 THIRD ROUND Harlequins 18 14 1 3 4 412 300 62 London Welsh ... 34 Doncaster ...... 24 Tomas Berdych (Cze) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, (9) Manassero, needing to win to have a chance 3 (OT), Braehead Clan 6 Doncaster ...... 57 Sharlston ...... 10 Saracens 18 13 1 4 5 393 282 59 Yesterday Janko Tipsarevic (Ser) bt (18) Alexandr 1, Blaze 6 4, Fife Gateshead ...... 28 York Acorn ...... 20 Leicester 18 11 1 6 9 498 405 55 Nottingham ...... 19 Bristol ...... 24 Dolgopolov (Ukr) 6-4, 5-7, 6-2. of qualifying for The Masters, was joint sixth.

50 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 formula one malaysian grand prix RESULTS AND STANDINGS Race positions (after 56 laps): 1 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 2hrs 44mins 51.812secs, 2 Sergio Perez (Mex) Sauber-Ferrari 2:44:54.075, 3 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren 2:45:06.403, 4 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 2:45:09.500, 5 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Lotus F1 Team 2:45:21.268, 6 Bruno Senna (Bra) Williams 2:45:29.479, 7 Paul di Resta (Gbr) Force India 2:45:36.224, 8 Jean- Eric Vergne (Fra) Scuderia Toro Rosso 2:45:38.797, 9 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Force India 2:45:39.704, 10 McLaren slip back as Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes GP 2:45:41.808, 11 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 2:46:07.339, 12 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Scuderia Toro Rosso 2:46:08.640, 13 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes GP 2:46:10.405, 14 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren 2:46:11.531, 15 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 2:46:29.131, 16 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Caterham at 1 lap, 17 Timo Glock (Ger) Marussia at 1 lap, 18 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Caterham at 1 lap, 19 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Williams at 2 laps, 20 Charles Pic (Fra) Marussia at 2 laps, 21 Narain Karthikeyan (Ind) HRT-F1 at 2 laps, 22 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) HRT-F1 at 2 laps Not classified: 23 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Sauber- Ferrari 46 laps completed, 24 Romain Grosjean (Swi) Lotus F1 Team 3 laps

Drivers’ standings 1 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari ...... 35pts 2 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren ...... 30 3 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren ...... 25 4 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull ...... 24 5 Sergio Perez (Mex) Sauber-Ferrari ...... 22 6 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull ...... 18 7 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Lotus F1 Team ...... 16 8 Bruno Senna (Bra) Williams ...... 8 9 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Sauber-Ferrari ...... 8 10 Paul di Resta (Gbr) Force India ...... 7 11 Jean-Eric Vergne (Fra) Toro Rosso ...... 4 12 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Toro Rosso ...... 2 13 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Force India ...... 2 14 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes GP ...... 1 Manufacturers’ standings 1 McLaren ...... 55pts 2 Red Bull ...... 42 3 Ferrari ...... 35 4 Sauber-Ferrari ...... 30 5 Lotus F1 Team ...... 16 6 Force India ...... 9 7 Williams ...... 8 8 Scuderia Toro Rosso ...... 6 9 Mercedes GP ...... 1 Winning in the rain: Former world champion Fernando Alonso sails to victory, taking the chequered flag at yesterday’s Malaysian Grand Prix PICTURE: EPA

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Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 51 rugby league Alonso storms clear by ADAM HAY-NICHOLLS F1 Correspondent, in Sepang

FERNANDO ALONSO claimed a dramatic victory at the rain-hit Malaysian Grand Prix yesterday as McLaren failed to make the Decisive score: Phelps most of their front-row lock-out. Written off by many after a difficult winter, Ferrari delivered a 28th career win for Alon- Hard work is so as the double world champion denied Sauber’s Sergio Perez a first victory. key for Denis Lewis Hamilton was third for the second successive race, again from pole, while McLaren team-mate Jenson Button was out SUPER LEAGUE of the points after a miserable drive which WIDNES ...... 38 featured a mid-race collision with Narain LONDON BRONCOS ...... 30 Karthikeyan’s HRT. Even Alonso had not expected maximum points and said: ‘The win was a big surprise. WIDNES boss Denis Betts insists ‘Our goal was to score as many points as his side are determined to prove possible. An unbelievable result, a great job the pundits wrong after a dramatic from the team.’ 38-30 win over London Broncos The victory took him past Sir Jackie Stew- lifted them off the foot of the table. art into fifth in the all-time win standings but Vikings fended off a Broncos fightback as a Cameron Phelps try and two Gareth O’Brien goals sealed their second win in three 42 Years since a Mexican last games, and Betts said: ‘Nobody enjoyed an F1 victory – the wait expected us to get off the bottom goes on after Perez’s second spot but now we are away from that spot. We’re making progress day in, day out. Hard work is the key.’ Alonso is aware his Ferrari remains well off Grin bonus: the pace in dry conditions. Alonso, left, is ‘We maximised the potential in our hands,’ congratulated added the Spaniard, who climbed to the top by Hamilton Craig salutes of the drivers’ standings on 35 points. on the ‘The team deserve this win. It’s a tough podium Rovers effort time for us at the moment but this is a Sunday yesterday we will remember.’ PICTURE: EPA Alonso started the race in eighth place but SUPER LEAGUE worked his way up to fifth by the time HULL KR ...... 40 torrential rain led to a red flag. HUDDERSFIELD ...... 22 He overtook Mexico’s Perez on the 17th of A race to forget for sorry Button the 56-lap race but the Sauber was on course JENSON BUTTON apologised to his CRAIG SANDERCOCK praised to secure an unlikely victory when those McLaren team after a ‘horrendous’ ‘It was tough, things just his Hull KR side as they came dreams were shattered with five laps to go. race in Sepang. from behind to beat Huddersfield Perez ran wide on turn 13 and was left with Button is normally of spiralled out of control’ 40-22 at Craven Park. too much to do before the chequered flag. changeable conditions but yesterday ‘We finally got an 80-minute ‘I knew I had to get him soon because in all anything that could have gone wrong I’m just sorry for the team because they performance,’ Sandercock said. the high-speed corners I was losing my front did as he collided with the HRT of did a great job all weekend, and we ‘We were consistent in our tyres running behind him,’ said the 22-year- Narain Karthikeyan and finished 14th. expected a lot more from the front row. endeavour and application old, who still scored more points in one race Coming just a week after his near- ‘This was one of those races that throughout the game. than he did all of last season. perfect victory in Australia, Button sometimes happen. We’ll put it behind ‘I said to the players after the Hamilton was satisfied with his efforts and (pictured left) said: ‘I can’t do anything us and move forward from there. game, when you play a top side insisted: ‘I can’t complain as I’m on the but laugh really. ‘I’m positive things will hopefully get you need all 17 players contribut- podium for the second weekend in a row. ‘It was a tough afternoon when back to normal in China, but I just want ing and I thought they all did.’ ‘I was able to stay out of trouble with the everything just spiralled out of control, to say sorry to the guys again, which is conditions. We did a great job.’ although I didn’t do a very good job. the most important thing.’ Flying start THE BIG COUNTDOWN 123 DAYS TO GO to Rush job ST HELENS gave Mike Rush a perfect start to his spell in charge Georgina leaves it late to finish in the medals as they thrashed champions Leeds 46-6. Rush, who was promoted to GEORGINA HARLAND produced a shooting. She added just 832 points in 49 seconds behind third place going interim head coach after Royce lung-bursting run in the final event in the fencing but picked up 1,308pts by into the final event. But she clocked Simmons’ sacking, oversaw the modern pentathlon at the Athens finishing second in the swimming and 10min 17.31sec to win the 3,000metres Saints’ first win in six matches as Olympics to claim the bronze medal. added 1,140 to her tally with sixth in cross-country and claim 1,252 points to Jonny Lomax led the way with a The Bath-based athlete started badly the riding. Harland (pictured), the finish on 5,344, trailing only Hungary’s 22-point haul. Elsewhere, Wake- as she was 30th in a field of 32 after 2001 and 2002 world bronze gold medallist Zsuzsa Voros and field beat Catalan Dragons 32-22, picking up just 808 points in the medallist, was still only 14th overall, ’s Jelena Rublevska. Hull won 42-28 at Castleford and Salford overcame Bradford 38-18.

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52 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 football premier league THE TIPSTER on Twitter @tipstermetro United can stride closer to title MANCHESTER United can exert to retain their title after City a vice-like grip on the Premier were held at Stoke and those League title tonight by beating odds are bound to shorten if Fulham in style. A convincing they thump the Cottagers, who victory will not only put Sir Alex have not scored a league goal at Ferguson’s men three points Old Trafford in their last four Three huggers: clear at the top, it could also visits. United to lead at half-time Ben Arfa, wipe out Manchester City’s goal and full-time is 8/11 with Coral right, is difference advantage, which while more than 3.5 goals is 13/8 mobbed they have enjoyed for most of with Ladbrokes, who go 7/4 Nani after scoring the season. United are just 2/5 (pictured) is on target. yesterday PICTURE: REUTERS MONEYBACK Shop at 2,500 participating retailers and get cashback...Easy ATTENTION PAs & OFFICE MANAGERS! Magpies soar EARN £1000s IN CASHBACK ON but Pardew a SITES YOU USE ANYWAY, LIKE.. non-believer

ALAN PARDEW has played down by PAUL MURPHY Newcastle’s hopes of securing Champi- ons League football despite closing the there was some reputation that he was gap on Tottenham to five points after a an enfant terrible but not here.’ 3-1 win at West Brom yesterday. Pardew confirmed skipper Fabricio Two goals from Papiss Cisse and one Coloccini is out of next weekend’s visit by Hatem Ben Arfa enabled the Mag- of Liverpool with a hamstring injury, pies to move level on points with fifth- while Albion’s James Morrison limped placed Chelsea in the Premier League off with a knee-ligament problem. before ’s consolation. Baggies boss Roy Hodgson, mean- But Pardew said: ‘Are we Champions while, reacted to headlines – prompted League contenders? I don’t think so. by a radio interview he did – linking ‘I don’t think we’ve got the depth of him with the England job. squad to challenge for that [a Champi- Hodgson said: ‘The radio guy said to ons League place]. I get told the fans me, “if you were offered the England might think “this is on” – but not me.’ job, would you take it?” My direct an- Ben Arfa, who set up both Cisse goals, swer was: “It would seem to me as an was the man of the match and Pardew Englishman, you would need a very Example: Instead of going to Viking directly, now heaped praise on the masterful French- good reason to turn it down.” man, saying: ‘There aren’t many play- ‘What I’ve said all along is that the FA visit Viking via Metro Moneyback. Shop as normal, ers who can do what he can. are going through the process and I just ‘He might be a nice wild card for the happen to be one of the people caught and get 10% cashback in your bank account! France squad. In the past in France up in the speculation.’ MATCHFACTS JOIN FREE NOW: West Brom: Foster, Jones, McAuley, Coloccini (Santon 46), Perch, Ben Arfa Olsson, Ridgewell, Morrison, Andrews (Shola Ameobi 75), Guthrie, Cabaye, (Long 46), Mulumbu (Scharner 73), Gutierrez, Cisse (Ferguson 79), Ba. www.metro.co.uk/moneyback Thomas (Brunt 46), Odemwingie, Booked: Williamson. Fortune. Goals: Cisse 6, 34, Ben Arfa 12. Goal: Long 52. Att: 25,049. *Terms & conditions apply. See website for details Newcastle: Krul, Simpson, Williamson, Ref: Chris Foy (Merseyside). YOUR NEXT STOP IS A FREE £25 BET

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football premier league Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 53 Kenny wants patience for Crouch plotting recall for Anfield kids

LIVERPOOL manager Kenny Dalglish has warned against placing too much expectation on Euros after wonder strike the club’s youngsters after the Reds’ Premier League season hit a new low with a fifth defeat in their by SIMON KAY last six matches. There were very few positives to STOKE striker Peter Crouch insists he take from the 2-1 loss to Wigan, has not given up hope of winning an but the perform- England recall for Euro 2012. ance of 19-year- The former Liverpool and Tottenham old Jon Flanagan striker put a massive dent in Manchester and the debut City’s Premier League title aspirations given to 17-year- with a wonder strike in the 1-1 draw at old Raheem the Britannia Stadium on Saturday. Sterling (pictured) The 31-year-old, who has netted 22 in- raised hopes ternational goals, has not played for his among discon- country since scoring against France in tented fans. November 2010 after falling out of fa- Winger Sterling became the club’s vour with former boss . third-youngest player and looked But the Italian’s departure ahead of this lively in a brief cameo. But summer’s European Championships in Dalglish urged fans not to expect Poland and Ukraine has changed the pic- too much, too soon. ‘You just need ture and Crouch remains eager to force to draw your horses back a bit,’ said the Scot. ‘It is nice to see the kids get a game but it is also better ‘If I get a chance with for us to look after them and manage them. We are not going to England I will grab it’ throw kids in and destroy them.’ his way into contention. He said: ‘I knew when I signed for Stoke that if I was Major boost for playing well and scoring goals, I would have a chance of being involved in the Martinez’s men England set-up. ‘There is huge competition. I have been WIGAN boss Roberto Martinez fortunate enough to play in two World believes his side showed they mean Cups and 42 times for my country. business in their relegation fight ‘I know if I am working hard and play- with Saturday’s stunning victory ing well I will get a chance and hopefully at Anfield. ‘Overall we deserved I will grab it with both hands.’ three points and that is a major Crouch’s extraordinary volley from 25 statement when you consider who yards just before the hour stunned City. we are and who Liverpool are,’ he ‘I do it a lot in practice – it is not some- said. ‘It is a huge boost. Every win thing that just happens – but they don’t is extra important and in many always fly in like that,’ he added. ‘That’s ways it can give you belief and probably my best goal, to be honest.’ Fantasy football: Crouch hopes this stunning strike against City will boost his England chances PICTURE: MARK PAIN confidence and make things easier.’ THIS WEEK’S FIXTURES

TODAY npower League 2 RALLYING Connacht (7.15pm), Ulster v Aironi Rugby Stevenage v Wycombe ...... Irn-Bru Third Division Principality Building Society FOOTBALL Accrington Stanley v Oxford Utd ...... FIA WRC Rally Portugal (until Sunday) (7.05pm) npower League 2 Berwick v Clyde ...... Premiership (2.30pm): Carmarthen East Stirling v Annan Athletic ...... Barclays Premier League Aldershot v Bristol Rovers ...... (Faro, Algarve) The Championship Pool A: Bristol v Accrington Stanley v AFC Wimbledon ... Quins v Bedwas, Cross Keys v Aberavon, Burton Albion v Crawley Town ...... Elgin v Stranraer ...... Man Utd v Fulham ...... (8pm) TV Bradford v Crawley Town ...... RUGBY LEAGUE Nottingham (7.45pm) Llanelli v Cardiff, Newport v Swansea, 1 Burton Albion v Gillingham...... Co-operative Championship: Sheffield v SATURDAY Crewe v Northampton ...... Montrose v Alloa ...... Pontypridd v Neath, Tonmawr v Halifax (7.30pm) Gillingham v Macclesfield ...... Queens Park v Peterhead ...... Llandovery CRICKET Shrewsbury v Port Vale...... CRICKET FOOTBALL (3pm unless stated) Oxford Utd v Morecambe ...... Uefa Women’s European First Test (day 1 of 5): Sri Lanka v FRIDAY Barclays Premier League Championship qualifier SUNDAY Day 1 of 4: MCC v Lancashire (Abu Plymouth v Bradford ...... England (Galle) FOOTBALL (7.45pm unless stated) Aston Villa v Chelsea ...... Croatia v England ...... FOOTBALL Dhabi) Port Vale v Dag & Red ...... SNOOKER npower Championship Everton v West Brom ...... Rotherham v Hereford ...... Welsh Premier League Cup Barclays Premier League China Open (all week, Beijing) WEDNESDAY Doncaster v Birmingham ...... Fulham v Norwich ...... Shrewsbury v Aldershot ...... semi-final, second leg Newcastle v Liverpool ...... (1.30pm) TENNIS FOOTBALL (7.45pm) npower League 2 Man City v Sunderland ...... Swindon v Bristol Rovers ...... Afan Lido v Neath ...... (2.30pm) Tottenham v Swansea ...... (4pm) Corbett Sports Welsh Premier League ATP & WTA Sony Ericsson Open (all Champions League Barnet v Torquay ...... (8pm) QPR v Arsenal ...... Blue Square Bet Premier Clydesdale Bank Premier League week, Miami, Florida) Southend v Cheltenham ...... Wigan v Stoke ...... AFC Telford v Darlington ...... Newtown v Carmarthen ...... (2.30pm) Celtic v St Johnstone ...... (12.45pm) quarter-finals, first leg BASKETBALL TUESDAY AC Milan v Barcelona ...... BASKETBALL Wolves v Bolton ...... Bath City v Fleetwood Town ...... Inverness CT v Hibernian ...... (3pm) BBL: v , npower Championship BBL: v The Ramsdens Cup final Marseille v Bayern ...... Braintree Town v Alfreton Town ...... FOOTBALL (7.45pm unless stated) v Mersey Tigers, Blackpool v Southampton ...... (5.25pm) CRICKET Falkirk v Hamilton ...... (4.05pm) npower League 1 Cambridge Utd v Wrexham...... Champions League v Cheshire Jets (English Brighton v Middlesbrough ...... Forest Green v Barrow ...... MCC university matches (day 1 of 4): BASKETBALL Sheff Utd v Chesterfield ...... Cambridge MCCU v Essex (Fenner’s), quarter-finals, first leg Institute of Sport, Sheffield) Bristol City v Derby ...... Grimsby v Kidderminster ...... BBL Championship: Cheshire Jets v Clydesdale Bank Premier League Middlesex v Durham MCCU (Merchant Apoel Nicosia v Real Madrid ...... MOTOR CYCLING Cardiff v Millwall ...... (12.30pm) Kettering v Stockport ...... Guildford Heat, v Inverness CT v St Johnstone ...... Taylors School), Oxford MCCU v Benfica v Chelsea ...... World Superbike Championship rd 2 Crystal Palace v Nottm Forest...... Lincoln City v Tamworth ...... Newcastle Eagles, Plymouth Raiders v THURSDAY (Imola, Italy) Hull v Coventry...... Glamorgan (The Parks), Somerset v Leicester Riders (Plymouth Pavilions) The FA Cup with Budweiser Mansfield v Ebbsfleet United ...... Cardiff MCCU (Taunton Vale CC), Surrey v RALLYING Ipswich v Barnsley ...... RUGBY LEAGUE sixth round FOOTBALL (all 8.05pm) Newport County v Gateshead ...... Leeds/Bradford MCCU (The Kia Oval) British Rally Championship Bulldog Leeds v Watford ...... Co-operative Championship: Dewsbury Tottenham v Bolton ...... (7.30pm) Europa League Southport v Hayes & Yeading ...... RUGBY LEAGUE International Rally North Wales (Until Peterborough v Leicester ...... v Featherstone (3pm), Keighley v Hunslet Sixth-round replay quarter-finals, first leg Clydesdale Bank Premier League Stobart Super League: Catalan Dragons Sunday) (Welshpool) Portsmouth v Burnley ...... Dundee Utd v Dunfermline ...... (2pm), Swinton v Batley (2pm). Sunderland v Everton ...... (8pm) AZ v Valencia ...... v Widnes (6.30pm), London Broncos v RUGBY LEAGUE West Ham v Reading ...... Hearts v Aberdeen ...... Championship 1: Doncaster v South npower Championship Atletico Madrid v Hannover ...... Wakefield (5.45pm) Crystal Palace v Doncaster...... (8pm) Stobart Super League (8pm): Castleford npower League 1 Motherwell v Rangers ...... (12noon) RUGBY UNION Wales (3pm), Gateshead v Whitehaven Schalke v Athletic Bilbao ...... v Hull KR, Hull v Bradford, Leeds v Bournemouth v Yeovil ...... (3pm), v Rochdale Ipswich v Middlesbrough ...... St Mirren v Kilmarnock ...... Aviva Premiership: Bath v Northampton Sporting Lisbon v Metalist Kharkiv ...... Huddersfield, Salford v Wigan, Bury v Tranmere ...... Irn-Bru First Division (2.30pm), Oldham v Barrow (3pm), Leicester v Nottm Forest ...... (5.30pm), Exeter v London Irish (3pm), GOLF Warrington v St Helens Carlisle v Huddersfield ...... Partick v Livingston ...... Workington v London Skolars (2pm) Peterborough v West Ham ...... Saracens v Harlequins (3pm) European Sicilian Open (until Sunday) The Co-operative Championship: Leigh Charlton v Leyton Orient ...... Queen of South v Ayr ...... RaboDirect PRO12: Munster v Leinster RUGBY UNION Portsmouth v Hull ...... (Verdura Golf & Spa Resort, Sicily, Italy) v York (8pm) Chesterfield v Scunthorpe ...... Ross County v Raith ...... (7.30pm), Ospreys v Benetton Treviso Aviva Premiership: Wasps v Gloucester npower League 1 US PGA Shell Houston Open (until RUGBY UNION Exeter v Colchester ...... Irn-Bru Second Division (6.30pm) (3pm) MK Dons v Carlisle ...... Sunday) (Redstone Golf Club, Houston, Aviva Premiership: Leicester v Worcester Hartlepool v Sheff Utd ...... Albion v Cowdenbeath ...... The Championship Pool A: Doncaster v The Championship Pool C: London Oldham v Leyton Orient ...... Texas) (7.45pm), Newcastle v Sale (8pm) MK Dons v Brentford ...... Arbroath v Brechin...... London Welsh (2.30pm). Pool B: Bedford Scottish v Plymouth Albion (2pm) Preston v Brentford ...... LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship RaboDirect PRO12: Edinburgh v Notts County v Oldham ...... Dumbarton v Forfar ...... v Leeds Carnegie (3pm), Rotherham SWIMMING Stevenage v Bournemouth ...... (until Sunday) (Mission Hills Country Scarlets (7.35pm), Glasgow v Cardiff Blues Rochdale v Walsall ...... East Fife v Stenhousemuir ...... Titans v Cornish Pirates (2pm). Pool C: Fina Open Water 10km Marathon Walsall v Colchester ...... Club, Rancho Mirage, California) (7.35pm), Newport-Gwent Dragons v Sheff Wed v Preston ...... (12.45pm) Stirling v Airdrie Utd ...... Esher v Moseley (3pm) Swimming World Cup (Eilat, Israel)

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54 METRO Monday, March 26, 2012 football premier league Bring it on, Arsene! HARRY REDKNAPP has thrown down by MARK CURTIS sive league win. Tottenham have gone bring it on, Arsene!’ Spurs looked nailed the gauntlet to opposite number Arsene five league matches without a victory, on to finish ahead of Arsenal a month Wenger, insisting Tottenham can still on Saturday, maintaining the five-point but Saturday’s performance suggested ago but their mini-slump has even cast win their battle with Arsenal to finish gap to their fifth-placed opponents. that blip was about to end. doubt on a top-four finish. third in the Premier League. The result was not enough to prevent And Redknapp scoffed at suggestions ‘It would be a bigger blow if we don’t Spurs boss Redknapp watched his side them slipping further adrift of the resur- third place was beyond his side, saying: make [the top four], that’s for sure,’ take a crucial step towards finishing in gent Gunners, however, who opened up ‘No, it’s not out of reach, of course not. added Redknapp. ‘That would knock the top four by drawing 0-0 at Chelsea a three-point lead with a seventh succes- I still think we’ll finish above Arsenal – me for six.’ Bullish: Redknapp

PICTURE: ACTION IMAGES REAM MAKES PLEDGE TO FAB wants Bolton to pay tribute to Fabrice Muamba by booking an FA Cup semi-final trip to Wembley. Wanderers fed off an emotional atmosphere at the Reebok Stadium on Saturday to beat Blackburn 2-1 thanks to two goals from David Wheater which lifted them out of the bottom three of the Premier League. Defender Ream wants Bolton to win the FA Cup quarter-final at Spurs tomorrow for Muamba, who is still in intensive care after the cardiac arrest he suffered at White Hart Lane. Ream said: ‘It will be difficult but we’ve a job to do and we will do it for Fabrice.’ Emotional: Wheater after his second goal

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football premier league Monday, March 26, 2012 METRO 55 FOOTBALL RESULTS BARCLAYS PREMIER Leyton Orient 0 Sheff Wed ...... 1 Att 6,196 R Johnson 49 LEAGUE Oldham ...... 1 Bournemouth 0 Arsenal ...... 3 Aston Villa ....0 Taylor 52 Att 4,459 Gibbs 16 Walcott 25 Att 60,108 Preston ...... 1 Bury ...... 1 Arteta 90 Aneke 68 Elford-Alliyu 90 Cech: Anything but top Bolton ...... 2 Blackburn ...... 1 Att 1,735 Wheater 28, 35 Nzonzi 56 Scunthorpe ....0 Notts County .0 Att 26,901 Att 4,619 Chelsea ...... 0 Tottenham ....0 Tranmere ...... 2 Exeter ...... 0 Att 41,830 Labadie 49 Att 4,786 Liverpool ...... 1 Wigan ...... 2 Cassidy 90 Suarez 47 Maloney 30 (pen) Walsall ...... 1 Stevenage ...... 1 Att 44,431 Caldwell 63 Butler 3 Bostwick 60 four will waste season Norwich ...... 2 Wolves ...... 1 Att 4,786 Holt 26, 45 (pen) Jarvis 25 Wycombe ...... 1 MK Dons ...... 1 Att 26,752 Beavon 90 Powell 46 Stoke ...... 1 Man City ...... 1 Att 5,572 by DAVID KENNEDY Crouch 59 Toure Yaya 76 Yeovil ...... 0 Hartlepool ...... 1 Att 27,535 Att 4,033 Noble 65 Sunderland ....3 QPR ...... 1 P W D L F A Pts PETR CECH has warned of a ‘lost’ Bendtner 41 Taiwo 79 Charlton 39 24 10 5 70 31 82 year at Chelsea if they fail to qualify McClean 70 Att 37,128 Sheff Wed 39 22 8 9 67 45 74 Sessegnon 76 Sheff Utd 38 22 7 9 73 4173 Huddersfield 38 18 17 3 71 38 71 for the Champions League. Swansea ...... 0 Everton ...... 2 MK Dons 38 18 13 7 72 40 67 Att 20,509 Baines 59 Carlisle 37 15 13 9 54 56 58 Saturday’s goalless draw against Jelavic 76 Stevenage 37 14 15 8 51 34 57 Tottenham was another blow for the Yesterday Notts County 39 16 9 14 58 54 57 Colchester 38 12 16 10 50 49 52 Blues and their bid to play in Europe’s West Brom .....1 Newcastle ..... 3 Brentford 37 13 11 13 48 44 50 Long 52 Cisse 6, 34 Hartlepool 39 13 11 15 43 46 50 elite club competition for the tenth Att 25,049 Ben Arfa 12 Tranmere 39 12 12 15 41 42 48 P W D L F A Pts Bournemouth 38 13 9 16 40 45 48 successive campaign. Man City 30 22 4 4 72 22 70 Oldham 37 13 9 15 45 54 48 Man Utd 29 22 4 3 73 27 70 Preston 38 12 11 15 47 57 47 And goalkeeper Cech admitted their Arsenal 30 18 4 8 61 39 58 Yeovil 39 12 10 17 50 64 46 Tottenham 30 16 7 7 53 35 55 Scunthorpe 39 8 19 12 48 52 43 entire season would have been a waste Chelsea 30 14 8 8 49 34 50 Leyton Orient 37 11 10 16 40 56 43 if they do not finish in the top four. Newcastle 30 14 8 8 44 42 50 Bury 39 11 10 18 49 70 43 Liverpool 30 11 9 10 36 31 42 Wycombe 39 11 7 21 57 72 40 He said: ‘It is a year lost in the Sunderland 30 11 7 12 39 34 40 Walsall 38 7 18 13 38 44 39 Everton 30 11 7 12 30 32 40 Rochdale 39 7 13 19 35 62 34 progression of the club. Swansea 30 10 9 11 34 36 39 Exeter 39 8 10 21 33 62 34 Norwich 30 10 9 11 41 47 39 Chesterfield 38 7 12 19 40 62 33 ‘For a big club, you can accept that Stoke 30 10 8 12 29 41 38 Fulham 29 9 9 11 37 40 36 NPOWER LEAGUE TWO the team does not win the league West Brom 30 10 6 14 36 41 36 Wimbledon ...4 Burton Albion 0 Aston Villa 29 7 12 10 31 38 33 because it is in transition. Blackburn 30 7 7 16 43 62 28 L Moore 9 Moncur 75 Att 3,819 Bolton 29 8 2 19 33 58 26 Harrison 90 S Moore 90 ‘But you can’t afford to slip out of QPR 30 6 7 17 33 53 25 Bradford ...... 2 Gillingham .... 2 the Champions League spots, because Wigan 30 5 10 15 27 55 25 Wells 71 Montrose 25 Wolves 30 5 7 18 31 65 22 Hanson 84 Ramsden 56 (og) Att 9,858 NPOWER Bristol Rovers 1 Southend ...... 0 ‘It will CHAMPIONSHIP Harrold 86 (pen) Att 6,258 Barnsley ...... 1 Peterborough 0 Cheltenham ...0 Oxford Utd ....0 Cotterill 24 Att 9,698 Att 4,365 be a year Burnley ...... 2 West Ham ..... 2 Crawley Town 3 Rotherham ....0 Bartley 25 Nolan 68 Tomkins 70 Clarke 43 Att 2,766 Paterson 36 Att 15,246 Alexander 53 (pen) lost if Coventry ...... 2 Portsmouth ...0 Mills 67 McSheffrey 55 Att 15,809 Dag & Red .....2 Accrington S ...1 Chelsea Norwood 77 Woodall 85 Grant 43 Derby ...... 3 Crystal Palace 2 Doe 90 Att 1,476 S Davies 6 Martin 79 Hereford ...... 0 Crewe ...... 1 fail to Hendrick 29 Ambrose 90 Att 2,326 Murphy 79 Robinson 49 (pen) Att 25,222 Morecambe ...0 Shrewsbury ....1 Leicester ...... 2 Hull ...... 1 Att 2,175 Collins 68 qualify’ Dyer 18 Fryatt 8 Northampton 0 Plymouth ...... 0 Marshall 19 Att 23,759 Att 6,718 Middlesbro .... 1 Bristol City .....1 Torquay ...... 2 Port Vale ...... 1 the big teams are about the Champi- Martin 56 Ephraim 13 Howe 71 (pen) McCombe 29 Att 15,275 Jarvis 74 Att 3,136 ons League.’ P W D L F A Pts Millwall ...... 0 Leeds ...... 1 Swindon 37 24 4 9 63 27 76 However, Cech was confident Att 14,309 McCormack 65 Torquay 39 21 9 9 56 42 72 Nottm Forest . 1 Brighton ...... 1 Shrewsbury 38 21 8 9 54 34 71 Chelsea would not suffer the same Lynch 90 Vokes 63 Crawley Town 37 19 11 7 65 45 68 fate as Liverpool were they to finish Att 21,249 Southend 39 20 7 12 64 46 67 Reading ...... 3 Blackpool ...... 1 Cheltenham 39 19 8 12 55 41 65 outside the top four. Oxford Utd 38 16 14 8 52 36 62 Harte 30 Pearce 35 LuaLua 41 Crewe 39 18 7 14 56 52 61 The Reds have not played in the Leigertwood 60 Att 20,906 Gillingham 38 17 7 14 68 55 58 Southampton 2 Doncaster ...... 0 Rotherham 39 14 11 14 56 54 53 Champions League since their last Sharp 58, 75 Att 30,209 Aldershot 37 16 5 16 40 42 53 PICTURE: EMPICS Morecambe 39 13 12 14 55 45 51 appearance in 2009. On fire: McClean celebrates netting Sunderland’s second goal against QPR Watford ...... 2 Ipswich ...... 1 Accrington S 38 12 14 12 47 50 50 Murray 71 Emmanuel-Thomas 18 Bristol Rovers 38 13 10 15 46 57 49 Cech (pictured) added: ‘Liverpool Deeney 82 Att 12,757 Wimbledon 39 13 8 18 54 66 47 had so many problems within the Yesterday Port Vale 38 16 8 14 61 52 46 Birmingham .. 1 Cardiff ...... 1 Burton Albion 38 11 10 17 45 65 43 club, not really on the pitch, so that is TOP CAT JAMES FELINE UP FOR CUP Northampton 38 11 8 19 49 68 41 Huseklepp 68 Hudson 78 Bradford 38 9 13 16 46 51 40 why they kind of lost some time. Att 17,704 Barnet 38 10 9 19 44 67 39 JAMES McCLEAN swiftly turned his semi-final awaiting the winners. But P W D L F A Pts Dag & Red 39 11 5 23 40 67 38 ‘But this club has the structure. I Southampton 39 23 9 7 72 35 78 Plymouth 39 8 13 18 40 57 37 attention to FA Cup glory after scoring winger McClean (pictured), who last Reading 39 22 7 10 56 34 73 Macclesfield 39 8 12 19 36 51 36 believe one season will make a one goal and playing a part in the other week signed a new deal on Wearside, West Ham 38 19 12 7 59 38 69 Hereford 39 8 11 20 41 63 35 Brighton 39 17 11 11 48 40 62 difference, because it will slow down two as Sunderland beat struggling warned: ‘We can’t look beyond the Middlesboro 38 16 13 9 45 42 61 CLYDESDALE BANK Birmingham 38 16 12 10 60 41 60 all the process of being a Champions QPR 3-1 in the Premier League. next game, the gaffer wouldn’t let us. Blackpool 39 16 12 11 66 56 60 PREMIER LEAGUE League club and hunting for trophies Cardiff 39 15 15 9 57 50 60 Aberdeen ...... 0 Inverness CT ...1 The Black Cats host Everton in a Cup We know how much Tuesday’s game Hull 38 16 10 12 38 32 58 Dunfermline .. 1 St Mirren ...... 1 but it will not be the end of Chelsea Leeds 39 16 9 14 59 57 57 replay tomorrow, with a Liverpool means. Hopefully, we can get a result.’ Leicester 38 15 10 13 56 48 55 Hibernian ...... 0 Dundee Utd .. 2 because I believe we’ll come back.’ Derby 39 16 7 16 44 52 55 Kilmarnock ....2 Motherwell ...0 Watford 39 14 12 13 46 55 54 St Johnstone ..2 Hearts ...... 1 Crystal Palace 38 13 14 11 39 35 53 Ipswich 38 15 6 17 61 67 51 Yesterday Burnley 38 14 8 16 50 47 50 Rangers ...... 3 Celtic ...... 2 Barnsley 39 13 7 19 47 62 46 Leaders Peterborough 38 12 8 18 59 62 44 P W D L F A Pts FOOTBALL DIGEST Millwall 39 10 10 19 44 54 40 Celtic 31 24 3 4 64 20 75 Nottm Forest 38 11 6 21 41 59 39 Rangers 31 21 4 6 60 23 57 Bristol City 39 9 9 21 33 62 36 Motherwell 31 16 6 9 41 35 54 u CHRIS HUGHTON was not u LEE WALLACE described Coventry 39 8 11 20 35 52 35 Dundee Utd 31 12 10 9 51 40 46 Westcarr adds the Doncaster 38 7 10 21 33 63 31 St Johnstone 30 13 7 10 41 34 46 happy with Birmingham’s 1-1 Rangers’ halting of Celtic’s title Portsmouth 38 10 10 18 38 43 30 Hearts 31 12 6 13 36 31 42 draw at home to Cardiff, gloss to Paint win charge as ‘massive’ after his JOHNSTONE’S PAINT WELSH PREMIER despite the point moving side beat the champions-elect TROPHY FINAL Bangor City ....2 Llanelli ...... 2 them into the Championship u CHESTERFIELD claimed the 3-2 at Ibrox yesterday. Celtic Yesterday Carmarthen ...0 Aberystwyth . 3 Chesterfield ...2 Swindon ...... 0 Friday play-off spots. Marlon King Johnstone’s Paint Trophy with a would have lifted the SPL title Risser 47 (og) Att 49,602 Afan Lido ...... 2 Port Talbot .... 2 Westcarr 90 Airbus UK ...... 3 Newtown ...... 1 missed a penalty before Erik 2-0 victory over Swindon at with a win and Wallace, who New Saints ....2 Prestatyn Tn ...1 Huseklepp’s opener was Wembley yesterday. The League scored Gers’ third, said: ‘It’s NPOWER LEAGUE ONE Yesterday Brentford ...... 2 Rochdale ...... 0 Bala Town ...... 2 Neath ...... 2 cancelled out by Mark One strugglers withstood early massive [to stop Celtic]. We Diagouraga 32 Att 4,919 Leaders Hudson. ‘We were not at our pressure before going ahead knew the atmosphere would Donaldson 85 P W D L F A Pts Colchester ...... 1 Carlisle ...... 1 TNS FC 29 21 4 4 68 30 67 best,’ said boss Hughton. ‘But through Oliver Risser’s own goal. be electric. We went out and Rowlands 51 Berrett 68 Bangor City 29 20 3 6 65 37 63 Neath 29 17 8 4 55 26 59 it gets us into the top six and Craig Westcarr (pictured) sealed gave a big effort so thanks to Att 3,672 Llanelli 28 15 4 9 53 33 49 Huddersfield ..1 Charlton ...... 0 Bala Tn 28 13 7 8 44 34 46 now we have to stay there.’ the win in stoppage time. the fans.’ Rhodes 14 (pen) Att 15,735 Prestatyn Tn 29 8 4 17 36 55 28

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MANCHESTER United bid to strike by KEVIN AITKEN another blow to their City rivals in the title race tonight with Sir Alex Ferguson European campaign which ended with admitting they are in the perfect shape to them going out of both the Champions finish the job. League and Europa League. Manchester City’s failure to win at ‘I take my share of the criticism too Stoke on Saturday means a draw against with my selections,’ he added. Fulham at Old Trafford would be enough ‘I took too many chances giving young for United to reclaim top spot. players a run-out to speed up their devel- They will be after a win, though, as opment. We let the fans down. I won’t they look to turn the screw on City and take as many chances next season.’ reward the fans Ferguson believes he let City midfielder Gareth Barry accepts down with early European exits. there is now no room for error in the title ‘We are in the right place, at the right race. ‘It is important now we keep it to time and, most importantly, with the no more than the three points for when right players,’ said the United boss. we do play Manchester United,’ he said. CISSE GIVES TOON PLENTY TO SHOUT ABOUT ‘After weeks trailing in second place ‘We can’t be relying on other teams. It we’ve got our noses in front and we’re is going to be really tough but while it is Breakthrough: Papiss Cisse celebrates Newcastle’s opener in yesterday’s 3-1 win at West Brom ready to put the pressure on again.’ in our hands, it is still possible. We are which keeps Alan Pardew’s men firmly on track for a place in Europe «FULL STORY – PAGE 52 Ferguson admits he made mistakes in a confident we can do that.’

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