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Vol. 29 No. 9 December 2011 Iconic DJ Jimmy REACHING the end of the Earth Savile Dies At 84 Hugh Grant: has become almost routine these British Woman Attempts days: One hundred years after By David Stringer Norway’s Roald Amundsen beat Non-Murdoch Britain’s RF Scott to the South Pole, VETERAN broadcaster Jimmy Savile, Historic Antarctic Crossing more than 30 teams are trying for Britain’s famously eccentric culture figure, it this year. died at his home in northern England last Newspaper Some will kite-sail over the vast month. He was 84. Antarctic ice and snow. Others will Savile, known for his garish tracksuits, drive in from the coast. A wealthy chunky gold jewelry and boundless enthu- Hacked Me handful will be dropped off one siasm for pop music and charity work, was degree north of the South Pole, for Continued on page 4 relatively leisurely guided treks of In 2007 about 70 miles to the pole. By Jill Lawless But Felicity Aston has been there, done that. Weather and her own THE HEADLINES ACTOR Hugh Grant said last month that considerable stamina permitting, he believes his phone was hacked by the 33-year-old British adventurer R RTabak Convicted Of Britain’s Mail on Sunday tabloid – the Continued on page 8 Murdering Joanna Yates first time he has implicated a newspaper A JURY has convicted a Dutch engineer not owned by Rupert Murdoch in the with a penchant for violent pornography wrongdoing. of murdering his next-door neighbor, Grant, star of Four Weddings and a a landscape architect whose death Funeral and other movies, told an inquiry sparked a media frenzy. into media ethics that a 2007 story about Vincent Tabak strangled 25-year-old his romantic life could only have been Joanna Yeates in her apartment in Bris- obtained through eavesdropping on his tol, southwest England, in December. voice mails. Yeates’ disappearance, and the dis- He said he could not think of any other covery of her frozen body on Christmas way the newspaper could have obtained Day was heavily covered in the British the story alleging that his romance with media. Jemima Khan was on the rocks because of Tabak, 33, admitted manslaughter his conversations with a “plummy voiced” but denied murder, saying he had not woman the paper identified as a film studio meant to kill Yeates. executive. The jury at Bristol Crown Court con- Grant said there was no such woman, victed him of murder by a 10-2 vote. but he did receive voice messages from Wales Football Manager Gary Speed Found Dead A judge sentenced Tabak to a mini- the assistant of a producer friend. mum 20 years in jail, saying he had “She would leave charming, joking GARY SPEED, Last year, the Queen gave Speed the consistency in a 20-year playing career – as committed “a dreadful, evil act on a messages ... and she had a voice that can who took over Member of the British Empire award in well as a knack for goals – Speed started vulnerable young woman.” only be described as plummy,” he said. as Wales foot- her annual Birthday Honors list for his out with Leeds and won the English league LIBEL ball coach just services to football. championship with the club in 1992. Grant sued the newspaper for libel 11 months ago TRAGIC Moving on to Everton and then Newcas- R RMilitary Readied Ahead Of and won. after playing for “Just cannot believe the news regarding tle, Speed became the first player to play Unison Strike Challenged as to whether he was his country a re- Gary Speed. We waved at each other a in 500 Premier League games and held SECURITY of Britain’s borders was to speculating about the source of the story, cord 85 times, couple of days ago dropping our kids off the record with 535 until it was surpassed be maintained during a planned public Grant acknowledged that he didn’t have has died. He was at school. I’m numb,” Manchester United by goalkeeper David James in 2009. Ryan sector workers stage a mass walkout any hard proof. 42. striker Michael Owen wrote on Twitter. Giggs has also since passed the mark. November 30. “Speculation? OK But ... I’d love to hear The Football “He has died aged 42. So sad. He lived Speed scored in every topflight season Meanwhile, Labour MP John Mc- what the Daily Mail or the Sunday Mail’s Association local to me and we knew his family. He in which he played until dropping out of Donnell said a complete shutdown of explanation of what that source was if it of Wales an- leaves behind two sons. Tragic.” the Premier League in 2008 when he joined Heathrow airport would be the best wasn’t phone hacking.” nounced Speed’s death without giving the Admired for his dedication, fitness and Continued on page 8 move on safety grounds. Prime Minister David Cameron set up cause. Though it was understood he was Military personnel were asked to the inquiry into media ethics in the wake found hanged in his home. Local police prepare to man Britain’s borders when of a still-evolving scandal over phone said there were no suspicious circum- public sector workers stage the mass hacking in Britain. Murdoch shut down the stances surrounding Speed’s death. Olympic walkout. The move came as Heathrow discredited News of the World tabloid in “We extend our sympathies and con- Airport bosses warned the strike could July after evidence emerged that it had rou- dolences to the family,” the FAW said cause “gridlock” as passengers are tinely eavesdropped on the voice mails of in a statement. “We ask that everyone Torch To Visit forced to remain on planes as queues public figures, celebrities and even crime respects the family’s privacy at this very build inside terminals. victims in its search for scoops. sad time.” Civil servants were also approached Grant is one of a string of high-profile Speed, whose 85 caps is a Welsh record All Corners to help out, with up to 18,000 immigra- witnesses, including actress Sienna Miller for an outfield player, had only become tion officials expected to take part in and author JK Rowling, who will testify Wales coach in December in a move that the walkout. about how they were followed, photo- had long been predicted by former team- Of Britain QUEUE graphed, entrapped and harassed by tabloid mates and commentators. Only goalkeeper Passengers travelling through Heath- Neville Southall, with 92 appearances, row were told they may have to queue Continued on page 8 played more games for Wales. for up to 12 hours during the strike. Chief operating officer at Heathrow, Normand Boivin said BAA had “reluc- Great Gift Ideas! Fireworks Smoke tantly concluded” that the UK Border UNION JACK Agency would be unable to provide Linked To Crash a contingency plan to support normal SUBSCRIPTION operations. 12 issues all That Killed Seven The TUC said the Government’s year long! POLICE say smoke from a fireworks dis- THE OLYMPIC Torch will visit some of said Eamon Nugent, who works at a hotel estimate that the strike could cost the play may be linked to the 34-car pile-up on Britain’s best-known tourist spots. There’s on the outskirts of Bready. The torch con- UK £500m in lost revenue was “fantasy a major motorway that killed seven people a stop at prehistoric Stonehenge, a ride voy will certainty be a big spectacle there economics”. £sd and injured 51. across Loch Ness, and a trip up to the sum- – the village is so small it takes just around Unison general secretary Dave COIN SETS Assistant Chief Constable Anthony mit of Mount Snowdon in Wales. 15 minutes to walk around it, he added. Prentis told The Guardian: “We have a Bangham says witnesses had reported But the aim of the 70-day torch relay OPPORTUNITIES million female members, and it is their $29.95 dense smoke that made driving almost ahead of the 2012 London Games is really decision – they wanted to take this ac- impossible at the scene of last month’s down to earth – to bring the flame close to There will, of course, be plenty of photo tion. The right-wing press brand this as English-American Dictionary collision on the M5 in southwestern ordinary Britons and their homes, organiz- opportunities. Starting on May 19, 2012 an old-fashioned trade union dispute, “DIVIDED BY A COMMON England. ers said last month. at Land’s End, a wind-swept corner in linking it to strikes in the past. But this Cornwall, southwestern England, the torch LANGUAGE” - $14.95 He said police are now investigating a “The main target is to get to as many is different. People who provide our fireworks show that took place around the people as we possibly could,” said Sebas- will go pass lighthouses, ancient castles local government services, our health time of the fatal crash. The fireworks dis- tian Coe, chairman of the London organiz- and historic sites like Hadrian’s Wall. It services, people who care for us, are Yorkshire Passport play was one of many organized over that ing committee, as he announced the full will be carried in a steamer across Lake saying they can’t take it any more. weekend to mark Guy Fawkes Day. route of the relay. Windermere in the Lake District, on a row And 75 percent of these workers are - $9.50 It took police a few days before all roads That means devising a route that cov- boat on the Thames, and on horseback and women. All prices + shipping were reopened following the accident. ers over 1,000 villages, towns and cities chair lifts elsewhere. 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Over 100-Year-Old Christmas others for passing her driving test. Her parents ing for financial gain. Recorder Mr Nicolas the cards back to me to deal.” Pudding Donated To Museum and boyfriend Neil MacFarlane, suggested Wood, commented it was a “mean offence,” Douthwaite, of Kineton, Warwickshire, she was too far along and she should cancel that deprived a small museum of its prized said: “As soon as I picked up my hand I saw A PORTSMOUTH woman who re-discovered the driving test. But 21-year-old Emma had TODAY’STODAY’S exhibits. Cassemis was put under a twelve I had a complete set of spades. an old can of Christmas pudding at the failed the test in August and was eager to month supervision order and instructed to “We laid our cards on the table and Arthur back of her pantry has donated the find pass this time. do 200 hours of unpaid community work. He had all the hearts, Norman the diamonds and to the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The “One good thing about being in labour,” BRITAINBRITAIN was ordered to pay £340 in costs. Ron the clubs. They weren’t in order but they Peek, Frean & Co Teetotal Plum Pudding is said the new Mom and proud owner of a BY LARRY GARDNER were all there.” 112-years-old and was part of a donation to new driving license. “It really killed my pre- Reg Hits 109 And Celebrates British sailors during the Boer War by an Ag- test nerves.” with its unattractive cavity could get lost. Birthday With Cake Girl Gets Head Trapped nes “Aggie” Weston, whose charity towards Karen Fairweather of Omega Auctions, says BRITAIN’S oldest man celebrated his 109th In Clothes Horse the Royal Navy is well documented. Paintings, Letters, Furniture, the tooth is too fragile for a DNA test, but she The decorative but faded tin reads “For is convinced of its authenticity. Dr Michael birthday last month. Reg Dean from Wirk- STUDENT Danielle Morgan was a little em- the Naval Brigade, In The Front, With Miss And Queen Victoria’s Zuk, who bought the tooth, has written a book sworth, Derbyshire, a former minister and barrassed when she had to be cut free by Weston’s Best Christmas & New Year, 1900, Bloomers On Auction on celebrity teeth and said when he heard it army chaplain ate birthday cake with family firefighters when she got her head trapped Wishes.” Miss Weston’s passion for the was up for sale, he just had to have it. He and friends. He founded the Dalesman Male in a clothes horse. A PAIR of Queen Victoria’s rather large Voice Choir in the late 1980s, and they were Senior Service saw her found Rest Homes bloomers fetched £9,735, more than three plans to display it in his office, and take it Morgan, of the University of Derby, admits for retired Royal Naval personnel in both De- with him on lecture tours of surgery facilities there to sing “Happy Birthday.” His affection she was “mucking about” in her flatmate’s times than was expected at the Lyons and for the choir remains strong and he rarely vonport and Portsmouth, and when she died, Turnbull auction house in Edinburgh, while a and dental schools. bedroom when the accident happened. she was buried with full naval honours. missed the weekday rehearsals. He has been Friends and staff at Sir Peter Hilton Court hall pair of her silk stockings was sold for more married three times, and lived alternately in The woman said the Christmas pudding than £5,000. The Victoriana up for bid was Wild Report For Huddersfield of residence tried to free her before calling had been in her late husband’s family for Tunstall, Staffordshire, Stratford upon Avon, the fire service, reported the BBC. part of a collection on sale by the Forbes Train Commuters Derby and Belper. He feels confident he’ll years and could not explain why it had never Publishing house. Two pre-Raphaelite The 18-year-old said she had been left TRAIN COMMUTERS heading for Shepley, make it to 110 and 111. with bruising to her neck and shoulders but been opened and eaten. paintings by Sir John Millais and Sir Edward just outside of Huddersfield, were shook Museum manager Victoria Ingles, thinks Burne-Jones brought successful bids of He is five years younger than the world’s could now laugh about the accident. She had from their afternoon thoughts of dinner and fallen off the bed of her flatmate, Lisa Smith, it’s the oldest Christmas pudding in exis- £553,092 and £505,000 respectively. Five evening TV, when a tannoy message over the oldest man, who is Jiroemon Kimura of tence, but doubts the contents would be hundred royal paintings, letters and furniture Japan, who is 114-years-old. 18, when the clothes horse fell on top of her train system informed them that there was and her head went through the frame. edible today. and other items produced over £3m for the a lion on the line and the train would not be Forbes family. The Forbes’ hosted many ce- Ghost Thought To Be Miss Morgan, 18, from North Wales, said: Giant ‘Chicken’ Had Escaped stopping at the station. It was later revealed “My friends just thought it was hilarious. lebrities over the years, and a bed that Dame that local police had received a 999 call A ‘Wine Snob’ From Special Farm Elizabeth Taylor and her seventh husband “I found it funny at first but after it got warning of a lion on the tracks. They were A WINE SNOB ghost has been nicknamed taken off I had a panic attack and the ambu- IT WAS the biggest chicken Adam Mazur Larry Fortensky had occasion to share, was unable to confirm the report, but to be on the Corky by regulars at the Court Oak pub in had ever seen. The Blackburn paperboy sold for £9,375. lance came out.” safe side passed on the message to Network Harborne, Birmingham. Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service con- was delivering his morning editions when Rail, who immediately decided their sched- Corky haunts the cellar, according to pub he saw the large bird and nearly fell of his Blood Donor Breaks The firmed that they used cutting equipment to uled stop at Shepley Station be bypassed. manager Anne Tyler, and smashes wines that free Miss Morgan from the clothes horse. bike. He rushed home to tell his mom, that 400-Visit Mark In Scotland Stunned and confused commuters were full he doesn’t like. a five foot bird had charged passed him in THE SCOTTISH National Blood Transfusion of questions, like, “Where is the Lion ?” the street with it wings out-stretched and Tyler claims Corky has given his opinion Fenton The Dog On Loose Services honoured a Belshill man who has This incident follows another last May about the wine on offer every Halloween looking extremely irate. donated his blood regularly over the last forty when a police helicopter was deployed to In Royal Park Mom brushed it off as a tall story. The for the last few years. She said smashed years. Retiree, Andy McArthur, attended over a golf course, which was evacuated, after a bottles of red and white house wine were A POOR dog owner was caught on video shaken creature ended up in the back garden 400 times and was registered as having white tiger was seen in a Hampshire field by in his vain effort to catch his pet, Fenton, of Tom Ansbro, who said “he couldn’t believe discovered in the cellar until the selection given 2,500 litres of plasma since he starting members of the public. Police had received was upgraded. as it chased wild animals in a royal park his eyes.” It was not a chicken however, but giving blood as a teenager. He calculates he several calls about the tiger sightings, and last month. a South American rhea, a smaller version of Nuala Gallagher, of the Sizzling Pubs chain has spent 124 full days on the couch over special staff from Marwell Zoo were called which owns the pub, said: “It isn’t so much A smartphone user was quietly filming a the African ostrich. Police contacted a local the years. in to help advice and possibly tranquillise group of deer in London’s Richmond Park farmer who brought out a trailer, where he things that go bump in the night as things the animal. However, as officers slowly ap- going smash in the night at the Court Oak. when the peace is suddenly shattered by and a helper bundled the near hysterical bird Million Pound Offers To Footy proached, they realised it wasn’t moving. The cries of “Fenton! Fenton!” aboard and transported the animal back to Team Turn Out To Be Hoaxes “People have spotted the figure of a man, helicopter crew also realised that it didn’t have aged about 60, behind the bar and the staff As the shouting gets louder, the amateur Moorland Farm, where Michael Greenwood BLUE SQUARE Bet Premier club, Cambridge a heat source through its thermal imaging cameraman spins around to see the entire keeps some fifty such creatures. have felt his presence numerous times over United, have had an empty trophy cupboard equipment. This was because the so-called the years. But it is Corky’s insistence on herd of deer stampeding across the park, Farmer Greenwood thinks a dog or fox for years, but with the club’s ongoing finan- white tiger turned out to be a stuffed toy. chased by a loose dog and its despairing must have spooked the bird and caused the certain wines that set him apart as a spirit. It cial crisis it was decided to put the unused only ever happens at this time of year when owner. animal to stampede. Apart from a couple of piece of furniture on ebay and request an Gun Thief Caught With Help The spooked herd continue to charge grazes on the legs, the rhea was unharmed Halloween is in sight. If the pub has a house opening bid of fifty quid. But things got com- Of Family Photographs wine that is not to his liking, he makes his across the grass and into the path of and calmed down considerably when re- pletely out of hand, and bids that were well MICHAEL CASSEMIS is an ardent gun col- oncoming traffic as a well-dressed man turned to the flock. feelings known by smashing bottle after over a million pounds began to appear of the lector, but his enthusiasm for pistols and bottle of it in the cellar until it is changed for staggers into view screaming: “Jesus Christ! site. The cabinet was described as “a quality Fenton!” ‘Very’ Pregnant Woman rifles went over the line when he broke into a wine he approves of. He’s a bit of a wine piece of furniture which would look great in the Cobbaton Combat Museum near Barn- snob, which is why he’s been named Corky The film cuts off with a giggle from the Finished Driving Test Then anyone’s home,” but the club soon realized staple, and stole half-a-dozen exhibits. The by customers.” cameraman as the owner’s calls go unheed- Gives Birth those large, outrageous bids were bogus. stolen armaments included two AK-47s, a The pub is built on the site of a 17th cen- ed and Labrador Fenton races off into the EMMA FRENCH was determined to pass her Rather than chuck it out, it was decided a few world war two Japanese sub machine gun, a tury hanging ground, sparking speculation distance, still chasing the spooked deer. driving test and was not going to let the fact quid could be made for the CFU, but the hoax Chinese assault rifle, a Bren gun and a couple that Corky may be the ghost of someone The comic clip was uploaded to YouTube that she was in labour stand in her way. The bids were not part of the plan. John Bilboa, of pistols. That they had been de-activated who died there years ago. and immediately attracted nearly 250,000 has since modified the site, and removed and could not be fired had not discouraged hits. baby was not scheduled for another month but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU things were happening out of Emma’s control. the offending lunatic bids. There are several the theft. Under cover of a charity event the Four Perfect Suits Dealt In offers around the £1,000 mark, which it is museum was holding, Cassemis, 44, took The heavily pregnant Mom-to-be from Liv- Pensioners’ Card Game ingston, Scotland, suffered four contractions hoped are bona-fide, and will assist in the advantage of the informal occasion and lax during her driving test but did not inform the club’s ultimate survival. security and made off with the guns. But as at AGAINST all odds, four pensioners were left examiner as he may have cancelled the test Canadian Dentist Pays most festive occasions, families had brought stunned when they were each dealt a com- WE KNOW their cameras, and snap shots of smiling plete suit of cards in a game last month. there and then. She courageously followed his $31,500 For Lennon’s instructions keeping the secret of her broken Moms and Dads and kiddies, also revealed a Wenda Douthwaite, Arthur Beasley, Nor- water to herself. On receiving the news she Extracted Tooth picture of Cassemis’ car and its license plate. man Stone and Ron Coles – all in their 70s YOU KNOW had passed successfully, she drove herself A $31,500 BID by a Canadian dentist was The Welshman from Llanrumney in Cardiff, – had just sat down to their first hand in their to St John’s Hospital nearby, using her newly enough to buy a John Lennon molar at the had barely time to savour his newly acquired local village hall. a Brit who would acquired driving license. She was found to be Omega Auctions in Stockport last month. weaponry, before a knock on the door by The odds against four people each being dilated and was moved to the birthing room, The late Beatle reputedly gave it to his house- police resulted in his immediate arrest. dealt a full suit are over 2,235 septillion-to- where some time later she delivered a baby keeper Dorothy “Dot” Jarlett, who worked at At Exeter Crown Court, he pleaded it one (that’s 24 zeroes), it was reported. Love a gift sub to girl that she named Eva. Hospital staff were his Kenwood home in Weybridge, Surrey, in was not your regular burglary and he had Coles said: “I shuffled the cards a number confused with the plethora of congratulations the mid-sixties. She is 90-years-old now and not taken them for money, but rather as a of times like I always do. I then passed the Union Jack å as some of those were for the new baby and was concerned this rather strange souvenir collector and hobbyist and was not look- deck to Alan, who cut them. And he passed

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Their daughter Victoria, Workers at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in an attempt by Westminster council and born in 1819, became Britain’s longest serv- have reported at least two sightings of ghosts Transport for London to ease congestion. ing monarch, but even she could not over- in the past month. It is part of a £14m project which began come the aura of unhappiness. She married An usher said that a “ghostly grey figure” in July, allowing traffic to move in both di- Prince Albert, who also died early. was seen standing in the box during a per- rections (presumably not at the same time!) Then Princess Margaret, whose marriage formance. Another member of staff claimed along Pall Mall and St James’s Street. to Tony Armstrong Jones crumbled in the to have seen a “ghostly mist” walking across The revamp also includes new footpaths 1970s. She lived there alone until her death in the upper circle. and lighting. Street clutter including out of Parking Mad! 2002 – her only regular company was a ghost Shrek, which is German for Fright, stars date signs and railings has been removed. known as the mysterious Lady in Blue. Nigel Lindsay as the ogre and Kimberley The work is aimed at improving views to WESTMINSTER Council seems to have declared war on motorists with their Her neighbour was Princess Diana – and Walsh as Princess Fiona. It opened in June. St James’s Park and Horse Guards Parade, Draconian measures on parking facilities. Margaret’s last years were reduced to peep- Assistant theatre manager Marc Brown which will be the venue for volleyball during Parking is usually free during evenings from 6pm on single yellow lines and at weekends ing behind the net curtains as Diana brought said: “There have been two claims of ghostly the 20012 Games. from Saturday afternoon. Night parking could cost up to £10 or £20 a night home her own lovers in the boot of her car sightings that I’m aware of. Apparently Westminster city council leader Colin Bar- past Margaret’s apartment. One of the most we’re one of the most haunted buildings row said: “We have been very pleased to be Transport minister Norman Baker has KATE CONSOLES JILTED PIPPA poignant occurrences was the clandestine in Britain.” involved in a project that will clearly make a branded the new charges as “vindictive”. He Pippa Middleton is said to have parted burial of the stillborn daughter of Diana’s The theatre is the oldest functioning one difference to so many people’s lives.” best friend, Rosa Monckton, in the palace’s in the capital, dating back to 1812. It is said said: These charges appear to be less about from her City broker boyfriend after a series FINALLY controlling parking and more about raising of rows. She was consoled at Balmoral by her back garden. to have its own “resident ghost” called The money for the council. sister Kate, 29, and Prince William. These are just a few of the unhappy Man in Grey. In 1939 more than half the cast From the Ilford Recorder; A salvo of six “You might even say that they constitute The couple are said to have endured a memories which the new couple will have of one production claimed to have seen the shots were fired while six burglars sounded a war on the motorist.” difficult relationship since she was thrust to banish in order to usher in another gilded Man in Grey, also in the upper circle. The Last Post. The charges have been called “a tax on into the spotlight by her appearance at the period. One hopes that Kate will have better One wonders why such ghostly figures From stolen mailboxes, no doubt. nightlife” and is opposed by Mayor Boris royal wedding. luck than most of the princesses who have tend to haunt the upper circle when seats [email protected] Johnson, the Government, Labour, Lib-Dem Two months ago they reportedly stunned lived there. and Conservative MPs, as well as theatres, fellow guests at a friend’s wedding by having THIS AND THAT… restaurants and other businesses. a blazing row. Crowds are flocking to see the Leonardo Musical Train Proposal Goes Viral Business Secretary Vince Cable said that A friend said that Middleton was in no rush da Vinci exhibition at the National Gallery COMMUTERS on board the 19:57 train mob, but wanted it to be quite intimate – so all “business friendly” councils should ensure to find a new boyfriend. “She always goes for in Trafalgar Square. Major exhibits are the service to Watford Junction outside Lon- I came up with the idea of the Overground that they “properly consider” the impact sporty guys. Whoever is lucky enough to win paintings of Madonna Litta (c.1491-95) don last month were amazed and enter- train from Euston, where we live. of their policies on firms struggling in the her affections will have to be athletic.” from St Petersburg, and the Virgin of the tained when a “flashmob” happening saw “The biggest problem was making sure economic crisis. THE CURSE OF KENSINGTON Rocks (c.1485). a choir break into song and culminated in Lucy made the train. There was only a Economists have warned of the “negative PALACE The exhibition is open until February 5, Adam King proposing to his unsuspecting three-minute window to get the choir, me impact” on the West End’s £50bn economy. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have 2012, from 10am to 6pm Monday to Thurs- girlfriend. and Lucy on. A lot of the choir are our Conservatives have tried to change the per- decided to take over Princess Margaret’s day, 10am to 10pm Friday to Saturday, and King enlisted the help of his choir, friends, which made things even harder – ception that the Government is over-zealous old apartment at Kensington Palace as their 10am to 7pm Sunday. Admission is £16 the Adam Street Singers, to serenade his we had to make sure she didn’t recognise in targeting drivers to raise millions in fines permanent home. (concessions available). girlfriend, Lucy Rogers, with a rendi- people.” and charges. But in view of the palace’s chequered his- Car radios will be switched off overnight if tion of Bill Withers’ Lovely Day. The Neil Robinson, director of the singers Westminster city council’s actions will fuel tory, could this be a wise move? Consider: the Government sticks to its plan for switch- 34-year-old tailor then asked Rogers, 25, and part of the choir, spoke of his joy at accusations that motorists are again being one Queen died of smallpox a week after ing from analogue to digital radio, a report to marry him. how well the flashmob proposal had gone. used as “cash cows” to plug shortfalls as moving in; another lost 17 children; few has revealed. The deadline is set for 2015, A YouTube video of the proposal, which “For the last couple of months Adam and I spending cuts bite. marriages survive there; so can the latest but a survey by Auto Express has revealed has now gone viral, shows the groom-to- have been planning the proposal together The council is planning to abolish free inhabitants escape the curse of Kensington that many car manufacturers do not offer be getting down on one knee on board the and we all got together on Monday this parking on single yellow lines and parking Palace? digital radios because the standard “isn’t London Overground service, before Rog- week to rehearse the song. It was quite a bays between 6:30pm and midnight Monday After the death of King George I in 1727 yet high enough”. ers bursts into tears and said yes. military operation.” to Saturday, and between 1pm and 6pm on Caroline, Queen Consort of George II, became Admiralty Arch has been put up for sale by King told the Evening Standard: “I http://www.ujnews.com/recent-news/musical-proposal- Sunday. Parking will cost up to £4.80 per chatelaine. Known as the fattest and funni- the Government, and could become a hotel. knew I wanted to do some kind of flash- rocks-train-carriage/ hour in bays. est of all as well as the cleverest she hosted The gateway to The Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has salons even more glorious than Princess Mall and one of the already piled pressure on the town hall to Margaret would more than two centuries worst traffic jam reconsider its plans. later. But the palace curse continued with her sites in London has The Perfect Xmas Gift Here! a $35 present right here! Page 4 ujnews.com December 2011 Iconic Disc Jockey Jimmy Savile Dies At 84 Continued from page 1 weekly television pop music show, launch- vid Hamilton told the host of two long-running British televi- ing the program in 1964 and returning to Britain’s Sky News sion programs and claimed to have been a present its final edition in 2006. television. “But most longtime confidant to Prince Charles and In 1971, he was awarded an OBE, and, of all, I remember ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. in 1990, he actually received two knight- him as just a totally Rarely seen without his trademark large hoods. The first was from the Queen in her flamboyant, over the cigar, Savile had initially worked in a birthday list, and the other from the Pope, top, larger than life coal mine as a teenager before embracing who made him a Knight Commander of character and as he music and built a national profile as a disc St Gregory The Great. Only last year, he was on the air, he jockey – first in Britain’s dance halls and committed half a million pounds of his was just the same later on radio, including the renowned own money to students at the University off.” Radio Luxembourg. of Leeds, for medical research. Savile was also Savile claimed have been the first DJ in For almost 20 years from 1975, Savile famous for his catch the world to use two turntables – enabling also hosted the hugely popular series Jim’ll phrases, one being: continuous music to be played – inventing Fix It, in which the broadcaster responded “Now then, now then, the techniques later embraced by modern to children’s letters by arranging for their howzabout this then, dance music, and to have pioneered the wishes to be realized. guys and gals?” use of record, rather than live bands, at Savile championed a host of good Savile never mar- nightclubs. causes – frequently running marathons to ried and lived alone FIRST raise money – and led work to collect £20m in his native Leeds, “History has it that I was the very, very for the creation of a national spinal injuries in northern England, first in the whole world” to organize a disco center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in reserving part of his event, he told the BBC in May. southern England. home as shrine to his Bestowed with a knighthood for his ENERGETIC late mother. charity fundraising, Savile was best known “He was a very energetic character,” His guarded, and as the host of the BBC’s Top Of The Pops friend and fellow radio presenter Da- sometime curious, private life was the In keeping with his last wishes, Savile There was already a memorial bench subject of a much watched television was buried in the resort town of Scarbor- to him in the town – he had it installed documentary in 2000 by film maker Louis ough – at a 45-degree angle in the earth, himself – bearing the words “Sir Jimmy Theroux, son of author Paul Theroux. looking out over the sea. 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In order to qualify for L-1 classification, the employer must: Olympic Torch To Visit IMMIGRATION • The US company must have a qualify- ing relationship with a foreign company All Corners Of Britain By Stephen Ure (parent company, branch, subsidiary, or affiliate); and Continued from page 1 “We saw the appetite around the royal • The US and foreign company must be ain’s population of 62 million people, wedding and that’s what we’re wanting “doing business” while the foreign worker Coe said. to do,” Coe said, referring to the many is on an L-1 classification. Doing business Next year’s torch relay will be relatively themed parties organized across the coun- Options To H-1B Visa means the regular, systematic, and continu- modest compared to the one that kicked off try during Prince William’s wedding to THE CAP for the H-1B non-immigrant working 50 percent of the company or must have ous provision of goods and services by the the Beijing Games. Organizers decided to Kate Middleton in April. visa for the fiscal year (October 1, 2011 to operational control of the company); and US and foreign company. Merely having an keep the relay within Britain – apart from Most of the 8,000 torchbearers will be September 30, 2012) has now been reached. • The invested funds must be at risk to office is not sufficient. the lighting in Greece – to control it after ordinary members of the public nominated The H-1B is one of the most common total loss. In addition to the employer requirements, chaotic scenes marred the international by their community, but it is likely that working visas. As such, with the cap being the employee must also meet certain re- relay in 2008, when human rights protests sports stars like David Beckham will also reached, this leaves many foreign workers in O-1 Classification: Extraordinary Abil- quirements. in London, Paris, San Francisco and else- run with the torch. limbo as they are unable to obtain the neces- ity For an L-1A classification, the employee where disrupted the journey. The flame is set to arrive from Greece sary work visa to legally work and remain in The O-1 classification is available to must: Coe dismissed concerns that activists on May 18, 2012. The relay will also go off the United States. Fortunately, there are other individuals with an extraordinary ability in • Have worked for the foreign company would again use the event as an excuse to the mainland to visit Northern Ireland, the immigrant and nonimmigrant visas available the sciences, education, business, arts, or one of the last three years immediately pre- protest, saying they are working closely Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Shetland, for those who find themselves outside of the athletics. ceding his/her admission to the United with police and that a security convoy Orkney and the Isle of Lewis. The journey H-1B visa cap. The following is a list of the In order to qualify for the O classification, States; and of about 11 vehicles will accompany the ends in London, where the flame will stay most popular non-immigrant options that the foreign worker must have a company • Seeks to enter the United States in an flame wherever it goes. a week before being carried down the are available to foreign workers and/or their sponsor him/ her and the foreign worker executive or act in a managerial capacity. EMBRACE Thames to the Olympic Stadium to light sponsoring companies: must demonstrate that he/she has sustained Executive capacity means the employee has Instead, organizers hoped that local the cauldron at the opening ceremony on national or international acclaim and that he/ July 27, 2012. E-2: Treaty Trader/Treaty Investor the authority to make decisions without too communities would embrace the torch re- she will continue to work in his/her area of lay and celebrate it with Olympic-themed Torch relay details online: The E-2 classification is available to Brit- much oversight. Managerial capacity means http://www.london2012.com/games/olympic-torch-relay/ expertise. street parties and barbeques. ish Nationals through a treaty entered by the Extraordinary ability in the fields of sci- the employee has the authority to supervise United States and the United Kingdom. The ence, education, business or athletics means and control the work of professional em- E-2 classification can be useful to companies that the foreign worker is “one of the small ployees and to manage the company, or a who want to sponsor foreign workers or department in the company. Perfume Takes Fragrance From Marmite percentage who has risen to the very top of For an L-1B classification, the employee for individuals who want to start their own the field”. PERFUMES will never be the same were invented in Burton. companies. must: Extraordinary ability in the field of arts • Have worked for the foreign company again if one company has their way in “It also has leather, representing the Foreign Workers means achieving “a high level of achievement one of the last three years immediately pre- the industry. boots and footballs used at Burton Albion, In order to qualify for the E-2 as a foreign in the field of the arts evidenced by a degree ceding his/her admission to the United Burton-on-Trent has got its own and Ambra, inspired by amber nectar, the worker, the foreign worker must: of skill and recognition substantially above States; and ­designer scent which ap- beer which made Burton • Have the same nationality as the prin- that ordinarily encountered to the extent that a • Seeks to enter the United States in a parently smells of Marmite, famous worldwide. cipal employer (in essence, if the foreign person described as prominent is renowned, specialized knowledge capacity. Specialized leather, pickle and beer. “I was shocked at how worker is a British national, then the sponsor- leading, or well-known in the field of arts.” knowledge means the employee possess spe- The city, said to smell good it was as that is not ing company must also be owned by a British L-1: Intracompany Transferee cial knowledge of the petitioning organization’s of ale from the surrounding normally how you make a national or company); and There are two L-1 classifications-- L-1A services, products, techniques, equipment, hops fields, has inspired the perfume.” • Be engaging in duties of executive or and L-1B. The L-1A classification allows a US management, and so forth. bizarre new perfume called Brookes owns a bridal supervisory in nature (the employee’s duties company to transfer an executive or manager In addition to the above non-immigrant Eau-de-Burton, reported the shop called Weddings2Go enables him/her to exercise ultimate control from one of its foreign affiliates to an office visas, there are also immigrant visas (green Daily Telegraph. where couples can use her and responsibility for the organization’s over- in the United States. This classification also card) that are available to foreign workers. Businesswoman Victoria Blue Box perfume service all operations) or have specialized skills that allows a foreign company, who does not yet Executives, investors, and foreigners with Brookes thinks her new to create their own scent for makes the employee essential to the efficient have a branch/presence in the United States, extra-ordinary abilities can get their immigrant fragrance works perfectly the big day. operation of the business. to send an executive or manager to the United visas sometimes as quickly as the non- and is selling it for £36.50 in the run up But Victoria has revealed she’s not Foreign Investors States for the purpose of establishing a US immigrant visas. to Christmas. expecting too many to go for her Eau-de- In order to qualify for the E-2 treaty inves- Office. The L-1B allows a US company to She said: “Burton is known for its smell Burton concoction. but not always in a good way. But the tor, the investor must: transfer a person with specialized knowledge The above information is given for infor- • Be in the process of investing or has from one of its foreign affiliates to an office perfume smells really good – I have had “It’s more of a novelty item for die hard mational purposes only and should not be lots of compliments from people. Burtoians who might want to give their invested a substantial amount of money in in the United States. This classification also taken as legal advice. Please consult with an a US company (we typically recommend a allows a foreign company, who does not yet “It is made up of Gourmand, represent- loved ones something a bit different in the attorney to discuss the particulars of your ing Marmite and Branston Pickle, which run up to Christmas,” she said. $100,000.00 investment); have a branch/presence in the United States, own case. 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PUBLICATION: UNION JACK CLIENT: KESTREL INTERNATIONAL Prepared by Jeff 619-466-3129 Page 6 ujnews.com December 2011 KEEPING UP WITH BRITAIN’S FAVOURITE SOAP OPERAS William To Be pottery gift where Ken can keep his nuts. conspires with Dr Evil to break Christian and “They’re peanut bowls!” she shrieks in delight Syed up… Deployed To as she dances around the living room as Ken Ben is still trying to be the macho son Phil looks on in dismay. wants, now sparring at the gym where he finds There’s chaos in the cafe when Norris a kindred spirit. But after Patrick sees the two The Falklands and Mary dream up slogans to enter a com- boys kissing in the alley, Ben fears Patrick will PRINCE WILLIAM will be deployed to the petition. Norris doesn’t like Mary’s poetic tell Phil and starts a campaign to terrorize him. politically sensitive Falkland Islands next IT’S EILEEN GRIMSHAW’S 50th birthday musings and she bins the piece of paper He throws a brick through the B&B window, year as an air force search and rescue pilot, and she’s got a face like a wet weekend in where she’s scribbled her thoughts, only for and then locks Patrick in the Minute Mart, Britain’s defense ministry said last month. Weatherfield. In serious need of cheering up, Sylvia in the café to pick it up and enter it in SOMETHING ODD is happening in Albert threatening him and smashing up the place. The second in line to the British throne she registers with an online dating agency but her own name. Square (or in the writers’ room); Suddenly Phil comes along just in time to see Patrick will spend six weeks in February and only after Rosie has photoshopped Eileen’s Over at Underworld, Frank sends his swans are a topic of conversation. Four dif- pushing Ben back and gets the wrong idea March at the British outpost 290 miles east picture so she looks all sleek and wrinkle mother in as his proxy and she strips out ferent times in the last month or so. From (that Patrick attacked Ben) – which, of course, of Argentina’s coast in the Atlantic Ocean, free and her face resembles a new potato. the fixtures and fittings taking 40 percent of Tamwar talking about their mating habits to Ben allows. Now it’s Phil’s turn to terrorize the Defense Ministry said. Anyway, Eileen doesn’t get a date from the everything she and her hench mob can lay Big Mo buying what she thinks is a very large Patrick. He wages this campaign until Ben He will be part of a crew of four Royal internet but she does end up having dinner their nasty fingers on. This leaves Carla with turkey to serve in the Vic (which turns out (finally) tells Phil that it was all a mistake – and Air Force personnel on the deployment. The in the Bistro with the fireman who comes to nothing to work with and she lays off her to be a swan illegally shot on the Thames), he finally comes out and tells Phil (who doesn’t prince, known in the military as Flight Lt rescue her when she gets her head stuck in staff, some of who turn on her and go and something is afoot in Walford. We don’t know want to hear it) that he’s gay. Phil leaves to get William Wales, is an RAF helicopter pilot, the railings on the roof of Underworld. What work for nasty Frank. what this means, or if it means anything at all, currently based in Wales. was she doing up there in the first place? Elsewhere, as Fiz is up in court for away and Shirley (whom Phil called) returns but if one adjusts the antenna on ones tinfoil from her trip with a new face. All seems OK, The defense ministry said William, 29, I hear you ask, well, I’ll tell you seeing as three murders she didn’t commit, husband hat, might one think, could it be a hint of would not undertake any ceremonial royal though you asked so politely. The factory John kidnaps Rosie Webster, again. To be briefly, until Ben develops a serious crush something fowl(er) returning to the Square? on Christian (who always keeps the proper duties during the deployment. His wife girls put up a banner announcing that it was kidnapped once by a murdering lunatic is One can hope, can’t one?… Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, will remain Eileen’s big Five-Oh. Horrified, Eileen goes up boundaries clear). After Ben tries to kiss him, unfortunate. To be kidnapped twice is simply Til then… On the eve of his wedding to in Britain. there and tries to take it down and gets her careless. The jury find Fiz not guilty of two and Christian rebuffs him, Ben runs out into Britain has ruled the Falklands for head stuck in the process. But at least she murders but guilty of the third and an innocent Jody, Darren has a drunken one-night stand the Square, seen by Dr Evil. He calls Ben into with Lauren, causing him to realize he can’t more than 180 years, but Argentina claims does get to meet a man on her big day which woman is sent down to the big house. his office and convinces him to tell people sovereignty over the islands it calls Las is pretty much what she wanted. What she And finally this month, with Sian away on go through with the wedding (even though that Christian tried to molest him. Christian Malvinas. didn’t expect was to find out that new man holiday with her mum, naughty Amber jumps Jody is willing to forgive him). He leaves is confronted with the accusations in the Vic, Next year is a sensitive time – the 30th Paul is married and his wife has early-onset at the opportunity to take Sophie on a night Walford, leaving Jody heartbroken… Mandy by a furious Phil who then goes on to smash anniversary of the Falklands War. Alzheimer’s disease. This is going to be an out where she spikes her drink and ends up has moved in with Ian and even though he has Christian and Syed’s flat before Ben admits INVADED emotional rollercoaster of a storyline with kissing her in a club. Sophie’s shocked but re- fallen for her, she seems to be taking him for that he lied. But most of the Square doesn’t Argentina invaded the islands in April Corrie tackling such an issue, possibly the alizes she doesn’t want anyone from Sian and a ride. On top of that, their behavior causes know it’s a lie and between being harassed 1982, and British forces retook them after first time ever that such a condition has been when she returns from her holidays, Sophie Bobby to run away to see Jane, who returns as a nonce and Amira’s games, Christian a 10-week war that killed 650 Argentine addressed by a soap opera. And if any soap proposes to Sian, who accepts. Roll on the to Walford to bring him back to the Square decides to leave… troops, more than 250 British personnel opera can do it well, Coronation Street can, big, fab Weatherfield women’s wedding! (and maybe FINALLY get together with I first mentioned my new book, The E20 and three islanders. with the full support of the UK Alzheimer’s Glenda Young Masood?)… Roxy leaves Ben babysitting Chronicles, in my October column. It a col- William’s uncle, Prince Andrew, served Society. http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com Amy, and he leaves her alone and she tries lection of NEW, EXCLUSIVE interviews with in the conflict as a Sea King helicopter Over at Weatherfield General there’s a to take a bath by herself and almost drowns. many of your favorite EastEnders stars, not pilot. bombshell dropped when baby twins are She’s rushed to hospital and now child ser- available anywhere else – the whole purpose Britain still maintains about 1,000 troops confirmed for Tracy and Steve. Steve does vices have given Amy to Jack (because Ben of which is to raise funds for Children In in the territory, which is home to about the right thing and tells Tracy he’ll stick by her SUBSCRIBER won’t admit what he did)… Need. The book is now out and for sale and 3,000 people. but it’s not enough for our Tracy, she always Despite Dr Evil’s attempts to keep her 100 percent of the profits from this book are The residents overwhelmingly wish to wants more, and this time she gets it when remain British, but Argentine President Steve agrees to be her fella and they are now CHANGE OF away, Amira turns up in the Square with going directly to Children In Need. To see a her baby, Syed’s daughter, to see him and preview or to buy the book, click on this link Cristina Fernandez has insisted Argentina officially an item. and Britain should negotiate over the future Chris gets some good news from the ADDRESS he’s instantly besotted with the baby. But Dr to its page in the Blurb bookstore: www. Evil finally goes a step too far when he uses blurb.com/my/book/detail/2561006 of the islands, as the UN General Assembly hospital that his tumour is shrinking and has urged. he’s going to be well. Does he share this Email your change of address at Christian to fake a DNA test, and his lies are I hope you’ll all buy it and enjoy it! If you’d British Prime Minister David Cameron good news? No he does not, in fact he exposed. Even though everyone FINALLY like to keep up with all things EastEnders, least ONE MONTH in advance of has refused. pretends he’s getting worse so that ex-wife sees the light, Zainab feels sorry for him and just sign up for my FREE, weekly EastEnders “As long as the Falkland Islands want to Cheryl will feel sorry for him and he can get changes to [email protected] lets him back in, causing Masood to finally e-newsletter. To get thyself on the mailing be sovereign British territory, they should back with her. wash his hands of her, leaving Zainab even list, just email me here at the Launderette: remain sovereign British territory – full Over at the Barlow’s, it’s Ken’s 72nd birth- to insure you don’t miss an issue more isolated at the hands of Dr Evil who [email protected] stop, end of story,” Cameron said in June. day and Deirdre’s present is a hand-made is now becoming violent. Meanwhile Amira Signed, Your Faithful Reporter, Deborah In response, Fernandez accused Cameron Gilbert AKA E20Launderette of “mediocrity bordering on stupidity.” TRANSATLANTICT U.S. / U.K. TAX ADVICE A English Barrister * 30+ years experience * Enrolled Agent Immigration • Divorce X Estate Planning * Value Added Tax * Expert Evidence Income & Capital Taxes * Tax on Property Sales Green Card Double Taxation Relief * Residence / Domicile Inheritance Taxes * Withholding Taxes * Expatriate Tax Working Visa

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This will work so long as your liability – Before You Move to US tax has not already started or you do not decide to back-date it to the beginning Mess – Of Others’ Making! To The US! of the calendar year. Secondly, if you have a large potential gain in your property, THEY DON’T use chalk any more. Instead our pound into their Euro-fold. YOU MAY imagine there are only un- but prefer not to sell, you could transfer they have a white board on which the teacher As this momentous year draws The brutal truth is that whether we are in or pleasant tasks to do with taxes, but even the house to another entity, for example a writes with a felt pen. out of the Euro currency area is immaterial. If for me there are some things I do not company. This would crystallize the gain I mention this only because increasingly I to a close, it is time to remedy Greece should default on its debt repayments enjoy. One such task is telling British to date for which you could claim the seem to have two-way conversations with UJ that omission, for the banking (or Ireland or Portugal, for that matter), the people that the capital gain on their UK UK tax relief. It would also give the new readers – and it was my column on teaching pound will not escape. Our exposure to those residence is taxable here, and there could owner/entity a higher base cost, so any (UJ October) that produced the liveliest of collapses that started with the countries’ debts will be quite significant. If be US tax to pay. future sale would produce a (hopefully) responses throughout the past year. Several Lehmann brothers’ bankruptcy Italy – or Spain – goes belly-up then we shall In the UK we are conditioned to the lower gain. people wondered if “50 Years at the Chalk be deep in the mire, as deeply enmired as any idea there is no tax payable on the sale These two ideas are worth considering Face” continued to make sense. I suppose in 2008 now threaten to engulf country in the Euro but, of course, without the of a “principal private residence”. With before you move here for any assets on it doesn’t! us all in 2012, with the Euro comfort of seventeen others. the exception of the last few years, the which you have a potential gain. There is In other months I have covered subjects SPAIN unrelenting increase in UK property no equivalent in the US to the UK capital ranging from the Oldham and Saddleworth countries like Greece, Ireland, Keep an eye on Spain, by the way. I had a prices meant some people could finance gains tax allowance (though capital gains by-election (UJ February) to the vote on the conversation back in June with a Portuguese their entire retirement on the tax-free gain tax rates are lower here), so it may be worth Alternative Voting System (UJ March), Prince Portugal and Italy going down taxi-driver who was bemoaning the supine re- they made on down-sizing their residence. th taking advantage of the UK allowance Philip’s 90 birthday (UJ July) and Scottish in domino fashion. sponses of his compatriots in the face of the The cost of UK property can make the US before you leave. independence (UJ November). Euro crisis. “The Spanish won’t put up with private residence exemption of $250,000 You may feel this is only to the advan- The only major subject that I have not writ- it,” he warned. “They are very strong.” (for a single person) or $500,000 (for a tage of the person who has not yet moved ten about directly is the Euro-zone Crisis. our partners would One of the things that mystifies me is married couple) not go far. Until recently, here. They definitely have the flexibility As this momentous year draws to a allow us to retain the exchange rate between the pound and you didn’t have to own UK property in to arrange their affairs in a beneficial way, close, it is time to remedy that omission, for that share of trade on the Euro. Back in 2008, the Euro was worth many parts of the UK for very long to make though most people, (once through the the banking collapses that started with the better terms than we about 70p. Today, it stands at 86p and has a larger gain than that! immigration hurdles) do not take time to Lehmann brothers’ bankruptcy in 2008 now currently enjoy. not budged below that for three years. No The wise decision to keep your UK also consider tax and financial preparation. threaten to engulf us all in 2012, with the Euro COMPLICATES matter how well we do, or how badly the Euro property, just in case things don’t turn out But they should! countries like Greece, Ireland, Portugal and What complicates does, the rate is seemingly fixed there. It may here as you had hoped, has a hidden cost. It is my task over the next year to help Italy going down in domino fashion. matters more is that keep our exports up in Europe but it costs as If you decide to stay in the US, and then people already here with these arrange- EURO the Euro-zone seems much to holiday in Greece and Portugal as it want to sell your UK property, the tax-free ments, as well as encouraging new arrivals At present there are ten of us EC countries to be splitting in two: does in Germany and Italy. And that hardly gain is restricted – if it exists at all! to consider advance tax planning – the who do not trade in the Euro, and a further the wealthier more makes sense. The US exemption, in addition to being very best kind! seventeen desperately trying to prop up that economically sound And so we turn to 2012. Before that ar- Happy Christmas! currency. The Brits, in spite of Tony Blair’s small compared to the UK relief (and how northern nations, headed by Germany and rives, we shall all have Christmas to distract often can we say that!), has restrictions. Mary-Heather Styles is looking forward enthusiasm, have steered well clear. France, and the rest. Angela Merkel and us and I would like to wish all UJ readers to non-traditional festivities in Phoenix, I have to confess that, initially, I urgently In general, during the five years prior to Nicholas Sarkozy are moving closer together compliments of the season. Beyond lies the the sale, you must have both owned the Arizona. She can be contacted at mh- wanted the UK to go along with the major and are openly resentful of Cameron express- New Year. [email protected] or on (602) European powers. My only reservation was property and used it as your main residence ing views about the future of the Euro. That Throughout the year, I have really en- for two years. 471-7801. (See ad in this issue of UJ) based on a distant memory of decimalisa- trend seems likely to continue, pushing Britain joyed hearing from so many of you and I tion. It began on St George’s Day 1968 and ever further into the cold. sincerely hope that this will continue as we the changeover was completed at the end of If we could join the wealthier states without head towards the Olympic Games, surely the Thatcher And Blair Win Funds For Public Duties Valentine’s Day 1971. adopting the Euro, that might be a solution, highlight for Britain of 2012. THE GOVERNMENT says ex-prime £535,00 for duties including answering That process was quite an exciting one but they are now considering closer political Happy New Year to you all! minister Margaret Thatcher has claimed letters and attending events. though one Londoner reported that when union. That would definitely not find favour John Polley about £500,000 in taxpayers’ cash over John Major, Thatcher’s successor the 50 pence coin was introduced in 1969 in Britain any more than they would welcome [email protected] the last five years. introduced the system of payments to he had accidentally left a 50p tip for a waiter Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude former leaders for their duties after quit- in a saucer full of 10p coins. disclosed last month that the 86-year-old ting office. “Fortunately, the waiter was dead honest, former leader had received the payments Figures dating back to 2006 show and he told me,” the man reported, reminding Prince William Helps Save Sailors In Capsize for public duties. Major has claimed £490,000, while ex- me of the days when a ten bob tip would have FIVE SAILORS remained missing at sea Royal Air Force dispatched two helicop- Thatcher, who led Britain for 11 leader Tony Blair has been paid £273,000 been considered excessive. last month, while the British coast guard ters to search for the sailors. years from 1979, has been paid a total of since he left office in June 2007. What troubled me about decimalisation confirmed that search and rescue efforts The men still missing are believed to was that the Chancellor at the time, Jim had been suspended due to rough seas. have perished, according to the coast Callaghan, decided to base the new pound Two sailors from a ship that capsized guard. on the old pound, making the new penny in the Irish Sea in gale-force winds were worth 2.4d, thereby immediately building in rescued “in reasonable condition” No- price inflation. vember 27, the British coast guard said, Queen Marks Anniversary It was this process of “rounding-up” as it while one body was recovered. Of King James Bible was called that disturbed me: prices would Britain’s Royal Air Force confirmed rise to accommodate the new currency. The that Prince William, who has trained as a THE QUEEN has attended a ceremony at same was equally upsetting with the Euro search and rescue pilot based out of RAF London’s Westminster Abbey to mark the thirty years on. My son tells me that prior Valley, was the co-pilot of the helicopter 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, to the Euro, the price of a coffee in Italy that recovered the two sailors. often considered the most influential book had always and everywhere been 980 lire. The 1977-built 81 metre (259 foot) ever printed in the English language. Overnight, it became 50 cents, half a Euro, MV Swanland capsized around 10 miles The translation – the Old Testament 1000 lire in old money. Thus the price went (16 kilometres) off the coast of Wales, from Hebrew, the New Testament from up in a flash by two and a half percent. Not according to data from Marine Traffic. Greek – was assembled by 47 translators in much but then it was just one of thousands com. six committees working in London, Oxford of invisible price rises that would happen The crew sent out a mayday call and Cambridge. across the board. about 2am local time, saying the ship It was first ordered by James I at Hamp- But whatever my personal convictions/ was caught in strong winds and had a ton Court Palace in 1604 as he attempted to prejudices, it is clear to me that our future cracked hull, the coast guard’s press forge unity between England and Scotland, is inextricably tied up with the EU and the office said. and emerged seven years later. Euro. The vessel capsized before responding The Queen was joined by Prince Philip, David Cameron’s approach is largely ships were able to reach the area and the and son, Prince Charles at the service. conditioned by the Euro-scepticism of his Conservative Party. The extremists want out. They favour a referendum to get us out. Full stop. Cameron is less extreme but wishes to re-negotiate our terms of membership to wrest back power from Brussels. I think he is a little disingenuous for our fellow-Europeans are hardly likely to cede back anything that will help us to be wealthier and yet remain a full non-Euro member. Moreover, since 50 percent of our trade is currently with Europe, it is inconceivable that

Christmas is coming . . . A Union Jack Subscription makes a great gift! See Page 3 Page 8 ujnews.com December 2011 Hugh Grant: Non-Murdoch In New Testimony, James Murdoch Tabloid Hacked Me In 2007 Blames Newspaper Underlings Continued from page 1 spoke in quiet, composed voices during HE DIDN’T SEE. He wasn’t told. He Over the past few months, the pair have of annoyance – occasionally starting journalists. their 30 minutes of nationally televised didn’t know. challenged the credibility of their former his answers with “as I testified earlier” The first witnesses were the parents of testimony. Called back to Britain’s Parliament boss, accusing the 38-year-old News Corp or “as I answered earlier” – he kept his murdered teenager Milly Dowler, whose They described their shock and anger after former News Corp employees chal- executive of not telling the truth when he cool, even when Labour lawmaker Tom mobile phone voice mails were hacked when a private walk to retrace their miss- lenged his credibility, senior executive claimed they never told him about the Watson described him as a bumbling after she disappeared in 2002. ing daughter’s last steps was secretly James Murdoch insisted he’d been kept incriminating email back in 2008. crime lord. ALIVE photographed by the tabloid. in the dark about widespread phone Murdoch made one important conces- “You must be the first mafia boss in Her mother told the inquiry that she OBSERVED hacking at his now-defunct News of the sion to their version of events – acknowl- history who doesn’t know he’s at the believed her missing 13-year-old was still Sally Dowler said she and her husband World tabloid, blaming two of his senior edging that he’d been briefed on the head of a criminal enterprise,” Watson alive once she reached the girl’s previously Bob had no idea they were being observed lieutenants for failing to warn him of the incriminating email back in 2008 – but said in what sounded like a carefully full voice mailbox. as they walked near their home in May paper’s culture of criminality. insisted that its importance was kept crafted sound bite. Sally Dowler said when she could 2002, but days later saw the pictures in “None of these things were mentioned from him. Murdoch, stony-faced, dismissed the finally leave a message on her daughter the News of the World. to me,” he told an often-skeptical House “What never happened is Mr Crone comment as inappropriate. Milly’s voice mail weeks after the girl “It just felt like such an intrusion into of Commons’ media committee. and Mr Myler showing me the relevant REFUSED disappeared, she shouted: “She’s picked a really, really private grief moment,” she Over more than two-and-a-half evidence, explaining to me the relevant One lawmaker asked whether Mur- up the voice mails! ... She’s alive!” said. The couple said they later realized hours of questioning, Murdoch stuck evidence – and its relevance – or talk- doch was aware of any phone hacking at In fact, messages on Milly’s phone had that their own phone, as well as their to that line. ing about wider spread criminality,” The Sun, the News of the World’s sister been deleted by someone working for the daughter’s, had been hacked. “It was not shown to me,” he said of an Murdoch said. “That simply did not paper and currently Britain’s biggest News of the World tabloid while the Dowl- More than a dozen News of the World explosive email which implicated one of happen.” selling daily. ers and the police were still searching for journalists and editors have been arrested his top reporters in phone hacking. In a statement, Crone attacked Mur- Murdoch refused to say, citing an the girl, who was later found dead. and several senior Murdoch executives “It didn’t occur to me to probe doch’s testimony, insisting that he hadn’t ongoing investigation. The Dowlers said they had been utterly have resigned over the still-evolving further,” he said when quizzed about misled lawmakers. Asked whether he would close The Sun shocked when police told them, much later, scandal. Two top London police officers the legal advice his subordinates had DISINGENUOUS if evidence of phone hacking emerged that Milly’s phone had been hacked. also lost their jobs, along with Cameron’s supplied him. “At best, his evidence on the matter there, he declined comment. Sally Dowler said she “didn’t sleep for media adviser. “It didn’t seem necessary for me to was disingenuous,” he said of Murdoch’s Separately, Scotland Yard chief about three nights.” The inquiry, led by Judge Brian Leveson, ask for a copy,” he said of a seven-page comments. He did not immediately re- Bernard Hogan-Howe announced that “When we were given that informa- could recommend major changes to the document warning of overwhelm- turn calls seeking further comment. police were working their way through tion, it was terribly difficult to process way the media in Britain are regulated. ing evidence of illegal behavior at his Myler’s telephone number is unlisted, some 300 million emails from News it,” she said. The inquiry also heard from Harry company. and a letter sent to him more than a International. Her husband Bob said he recognized Potter author Rowling, comedian Steve BLAME month ago has gone unanswered. Some 120 officers and staff are inves- immediately that the information was “dy- Coogan, actress Miller and former For- Speaking quickly and confidently, Murdoch’s solo performance was far tigating the phone hacking scandal. The namite.” News that tabloid journalists had mula 1 boss Max Mosley – whose taste for Murdoch laid the blame at the door of less dramatic than the July 19 hearing force said it had contacted less than a targeted not just celebrities but a murdered sadomasochism was revealed in a widely former News of the World Editor Colin at which his 80-year-old father Rupert third of the News of the World’s nearly girl shocked many Britons and triggered a publicized News of the World sting. Myler and former in-house lawyer Tom Murdoch repeatedly banged the table 6,000 potential victims. police investigation and media recrimina- It’s a courtroom lineup that Britain’s Crone, both of whom resigned soon to back his points. Although the navy- Online: tions that are still unfolding. celebrity-obsessed tabloids would love, if after the scandal broke earlier this year. suited James Murdoch showed flashes Media committee website: http://www.parliament.uk/cmscom The Dowlers took the stand together and only they weren’t the ones in the dock. Welsh Manager Found Dead . . . British Woman Attempts Historic Antarctic Crossing Continued from page 1 Norway two weeks ago, earning plaudits for the side’s style of play and emphasis phone interview with the Associated Press. The 5-foot-11 Aston weighs around “It’s part of the challenge of the expedition, 170 pounds and she’ll be hauling up to Sheffield United. on youth. “We’ve got talent in abundance and I’m to see how I’ll cope with it.” 187 pounds of gear on a sledge. It includes With injuries finally beginning to affect PRECIOUS freeze-dried food, fuel and a camp stove him, Speed became a coach at Sheffield fortunate to be in that position,” Speed said after the November 12 win in Cardiff. “We Aston spoke from Punta Arenas, Chile, for melting snow. She’s also bringing United and formally retired from play- where she boarded a charter flight after along a solar recharger and two MP3 ing at the end of the 2009-10 season. He are building for the future. There is still a lot of improving to be done but we are losing a precious week waiting for weather players – one has music donated by her became Blades manager early in the fol- to break. From a base in Antarctica, she’ll friends, everything from peaceful ska tunes lowing campaign but was soon approached going in the right direction.” Speed is survived by his wife and two then take a second plane to her starting to heavy metal and “fluffy pop songs;” the by Wales after John Toshack resigned as point at the foot of the Leverett Glacier, other has mostly audio books from her coach. children. An inquest into Speed’s death was due where the Ross Ice Shelf meets the rocky father on “the whole of British history ... Speed led the team to five wins from coast. 300 hours of it!” 10 matches, including a 4-1 win over to open November 30. Felicity Aston She tweeted from the base camp last Online: Continued from page 1 month: “at the basecamp on union glacier Aston’s expedition site: www.kasperskyonetransantarcticexpedition.com Kate Handles Wife’s Suspicions will only pause at the pole long enough in my tent. first night on the ice. great to Aston’s Twitter site for tweets during her journey: to pick up more food and fuel. Her plan is be here.” www.twitter.com/felicity_aston. First Solo Royal Lead To False Alarm to keep on skiing, by SCOTLAND YARD says a suspicious herself, all the way to Engagement device placed in a man’s car that caused the other side of the THE ROYAL FAMILY says the Duch- them to summon the bomb squad and frozen continent – ess of Cambridge has handled her first close a number of streets was put there and become the first solo duties since her wedding to Prince by his wife in an apparent effort to track person using only William – acting as a last-minute stand- his whereabouts. muscle power to cross in for father-in-law Prince Charles at a The man found the flashing device in Antarctica alone. charity dinner. his vehicle in Surrey, south of London, If she manages to The young royal hosted an event last and feared it was an explosive. complete this journey month in aid of In Kind Direct, a char- Police said he drove to the nearest of more than 1,000 ity supported by the heir to the British station and reported it, spurring them miles in late January, throne, at London’s Clarence House. into action. An ambulance and the fire she would also set a St James’s Palace said the duchess department were also summoned. record for the longest had been “delighted to be able to step A spokeswoman who asked not to be solo polar expedition in” and greet the 30 guests attending identified because of police policy said by a woman, at about the reception. the man’s wife called police 30 minutes 70 days. Charles had traveled to Saudi Ara- later to report that a security company “This is my first bia for the state funeral of crown prince had put the tracking device in the car solo expedition, the Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud. at her request. first time I will have spent this length of Last month William and the duchess Police say the device was not dan- also visited a UN center that distributes time without com- gerous and was removed without pany,” she said in a emergency supplies to East Africa. incident. December 2011 ujnews.com Page 9 Meryl Streep Unveils Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me Coming To Beeb TV ‘TIS THE SEASON to be merry – NPR’s both sides of the pond. The show premieres Friday, December wildly popular weekly radio quiz program Host Peter Sagal says, “This is terrific, 23 at 8pm/7central. Poster For ‘Iron Lady’ Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is coming to because I always assumed that the only TV with a special year-end show only on way I could get on the BBC would be to CRACKERS - MINCE PIES - PUDDINGS - SWEETS all felt we needed a superstar to play her, BBC America! have David Attenborough narrate my mat- Have a truly British holiday with all you somebody of huge intelligence, passion If you’re looking for a fast-paced, irrev- ing rituals. Glad this happened instead.” need from home. 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From the U.K. to the U.S. December 2011 ujnews.com Page 11 British Consulates: Stop No Painkillers Please, We’re British IN BRITAIN, the popular US pain- Many British doctors say drugs. “It’s a delicate balance,” said Kyle The Silly Questions killer OxyContin is considered similar Hultgren, managing director of the Center the country has a more for Medication Safety Advancement at of the other requests we get and discour- to morphine and used sparingly. Vicodin ONE BRITISH man rang his consulate af- isn’t even licensed. And at most shops, conservative approach to Purdue University. “It would be hasty ter being dumped by a dominatrix abroad, age callers from making these types of to say that it’s too easy for people to get requests.” remedies like ibuprofen are sold only in while another caller asked what to do about 16-pill packs. doling out painkillers than prescription medication because there are ants in his Florida holiday villa. More than one million Britons live still people in serious need who can’t get abroad and consular officials handle some To avoid risks including addiction, in the US, where overdose It’s just some of the many bizarre strong painkillers are often kept at arm’s access,” he said. requests constantly straining the UK’s 1.4 million calls each year, Hay said. deaths from powerful drugs PRESSURE COPE length from patients – even if that means Foreign Office staff. some people will be left suffering. including OxyContin and Hultgren said aggressive pharmaceuti- “We’re not directory inquiries,” Brit- The Foreign Office had to set up a call cal advertising puts more pressure on center in the Spanish city of Malaga this Many British doctors say the country ain’s exasperated Foreign Office pro- has a more conservative approach to dol- Vicodin, tripled over a American doctors. “Patients sometimes claimed in a statement November 10. year to cope with the volume of non- openly ask for medications because consular inquiries received by embassies ing out painkillers than in the US, where decade, according to a Other calls included a man who asked overdose deaths from powerful drugs they’ve seen them advertised,” he said. the consulate for advice on prime fishing and consulates in Spain, Portugal, Italy government report there “Physicians need to be very disciplined and and Andorra. The center filters calls so including OxyContin and Vicodin, tripled spots in Greece, another who asked what over a decade, according to a government earlier this month. explain to patients why a certain medica- restaurants might not be full for the holi- consular staff can focus on important tion may not be right for them.” requests. report there earlier this month. days and a third who wanted to know what “We are much more cautious here about health service so that patients’ primary Painkiller use in Britain has been rising size shoe Prince Charles wears. That caller “A lot of our time was being taken up doctors know what their patients are get- in recent years, but not at a scale compa- with queries that we could not assist with,” all sorts of painkillers,” said Dr Anthony apparently wanted to send the heir to the Ordman, founder of a pain clinic at Lon- ting from others. rable to the US According to the Royal throne a special gift, even though Charles said Maria Leng, a consular official in Ordman also said British doctors may be Pharmaceutical Society, about 60 million Tenerife. “We can issue emergency travel don’s Royal Free Hospital. He said the is known to get his shoes custom-made UK’s socialized medicine system, where less inclined to automatically do what their drugs like aspirin and codeine were given by John Lobb, one of the world’s most documents or visit you in hospital but we patients want. “In the US, doctors might out last year, a slight rise from the nearly can’t pick you up from the airport or make nearly everyone gets their prescriptions exclusive shoemakers. from a single physician, makes “doctor wish to please their patients and prescribe 58 million dispensed in 2009. MEET DOG private arrangements.” them something because they’re clients,” There are a few hundred deaths every Like most embassies or consulates, For- shopping” to get drugs from different Another British man rang the consul- doctors nearly impossible. he said. “But in the UK, the patient doesn’t year due to overdoses of drugs including ate in Sydney to find out what clothes he eign Office staff can help issue travel docu- pay the doctor directly so I can choose not methadone, codeine and other opioid medi- ments, assist if citizens become victims PRESCRIPTIONS should pack for his holiday and a man in Prescriptions for opioid drugs must to prescribe painkillers without the fear of cines – though that also includes people Dubai asked consular officials to meet his of crime or give alerts about developing suffering financially myself.” who have taken other drugs like heroin. situations such as the nuclear disaster in be written on a special pink pad – and dog on arrival at customs since he was on even those from private doctors get cross- In the US, some experts said they don’t Go to www.ujnews.com to read more holiday when the dog was to land. Japan or the earthquake in Haiti. want to deprive people of much-needed on this subject “We wanted to draw attention to things But weather forecasts, translation ser- referenced with the country’s national that we actually can help with,” Charles vices and other nonessential requests are Hay, director of consular services at the out of their remit. Higgins Wins Irish Foreign Office, told The Associated Press. On line: “One way of doing that is to detail some www.fco.gov.uk/travel Presidency With 56.8 Putting Money Where Percent Of Votes MICHAEL D HIGGINS has won the presidential election in Ireland with a Their Mouths Are Government To Allow Armed total 56.8 percent share of votes. Last month’s result capped a two- day count of ballots to determine who Guards To Combat Sea Piracy would succeed Mary McAleese as SHIPS SAILING under Britain’s flag will to a Commonwealth summit in Australia, Ireland’s ceremonial head of state. be permitted to carry armed guards on some where he discussed the issue with leaders Higgins’ victory was assured after perilous routes to combat the threat from pi- from the Seychelles and Mauritius. partial results gave him an unassail- rates, the prime minister said last month. Cameron said Britain’s interior ministry able lead versus six other candidates, David Cameron said Britain was revers- would issue licenses authorizing the use of who conceded defeat. ing its opposition to the use of weapons armed guards for ships operating off East The 70-year-old Higgins has dedi- aboard ships, amid mounting concern Africa’s coast, in other parts of the Indian cated his political career to champion- about the risks of vessels and crew being Ocean and in the Arabian Sea. ing Irish culture and left-wing human seized by pirates – particularly off Soma- He said the change is intended for rights causes worldwide. He is a se- lia’s coast. commercial vessels, rather than leisure nior figure of Labour, the junior party Cameron’s office said the use of weap- sailors – such as Paul and Rachel Chandler, in Ireland’s coalition government. He ons on British-flagged ships is banned the British couple held for 388 days by also is a published poet. under firearms laws, but that new rules Somali pirates. Entrepreneur and reality TV judge would be in place within weeks. “The extent of the hijack and ransom of Sean Gallagher came second, former Britain’s announcement follows the ships around the Horn of Africa I think is IRA commander Martin McGuin- A NEW craze in the UK has seen Liz would be if she saw this but I decision in February of the International a complete stain on our world,” Cameron ness third. people “putting their money where think I wear the crown rather well. Chamber of Shipping, the major trade told the BBC. “The fact that a bunch of their mouths are”. “Perhaps it’s time to start some a association of ship owners, to support pirates in Somalia are managing to hold to Hague Says Moneyfacing involves people petition to replace the monarch with members hiring private security companies ransom the rest of the world and our trad- placing a folded bank note in front our own faces?” to provide protection. ing system I think is a complete insult.” Torture Allegations of their face and taking a photo Another, who posed as Charles DISCUSSED NERVY to create a hybrid face. Facebook Darwin on £10 note, wrote: “I’d “The evidence is that ships with armed Many nations, including Britain and Undermine UK groups dedicated to the craze have like to think this is how Darwin’s guards don’t get attacked, don’t get taken Germany, had previously been nervy over FOREIGN Secretary William Hague says been created and internet forums descendants will one day evolve to for hostage or for ransom, and so we think the use of armed guards – and Cameron did allegations that British intelligence agen- have popped up containing hundreds look like. this is a very important step forward,” not elaborate on what rules would apply on cies were complicit in the torture of terror- of photos. “I’ve never had a beard before Cameron told BBC television during a visit the use of lethal force by private security ism suspects have undermined Britain’s The internet craze sees people but might have to grow one know contractors. international standing. posing with banknotes in countries that I’ve seen how well Darwin’s “Piracy is a very serious problem and Hague delivered a speech last month on all over the world, including Canada, looks on me.” it’s sensible to allow ships to take the ap- the role of secret intelligence in Britain’s Chile, America and of course the The stunt is believed to be an off- The Perfect propriate measures to protect their crew foreign policy. UK. shoot of a similar internet phenom- and cargo,” Britain’s Transport Secretary In extracts released in advance by his One user who posted a picture of enon, “Sleeving” where people pose Justine Greening said in a statement. “The office, Hague acknowledges that claims himself with the Queen’s face on a £5 for photos with vinyl album covers Christmas Gift ! UK will allow the use of private armed MI5 and MI6 officers were complicit in the note wrote: “I’m not sure how proud in front of their face. security guards on our ships in exceptional detention and torture of suspects overseas circumstances and where it is lawful to “undermined Britain’s standing in the A Union Jack do so.” world as a country that upholds interna- Figures released last month by the EU tional law and abhors torture.” Subscription Naval Force show that pirates hold nine In the speech, Hague promises to draw ships and an estimated 246 hostages. In a line under the past, but praises the intelli- ~ See Page 3 ~ February, pirates killed a Filipino crewman gence services as vital assets that help save aboard the German-owned MV Beluga civilian and military lives and safeguard Nomination. Britain’s economic interests.

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Nice to know Barry is a warm, social man whom the we have a future!” I’m not surprised as each SANTA BARBARA’S Concours d’Elegance organizers flew in especially to sign auto- year we get to enjoy the company of Jaguar marked its 25th Anniversary while celebrat- graphs and display an assortment of his designer Ian Callum (also designed some of ing the 125th Anniversary of this year’s work. He’s created some of the most sought Aston Martin’s). marque manufacturer, Mercedes Benz; the after paintings of famous events associated The Land Rover has come out in a class 100th Anniversary of the Indianapolis 500 with automobiles you’ll ever see, including of its own, especially the “Evoque,” a luxury with Andy Granatelli as Grand Marshall; the this year’s poster. Well worth checking out crossover. We talked to Bentley’s Graeme 35th Anniversary of one of Santa Barbara’s www.barryrowe.com Russell, head of Public Relations and Com- own manufacturers, Clenet Coachworks, and From classics to the present, with concept munications who was just as pleased with Two beauties! Model Christina Thompson with Bentley’s New Continental GTC. Photo: Leo Lewis it kicked off its sister event, the Mille Miglia cars of the future, all at the LA Auto Show the growth in sales over the last year as he’s North America Tribute. All in all, it was some currently running at LAs downtown Conven- showing off the gorgeous new Continental years-old or 102, A Snow White Christmas is and we’re thrilled to continue to bring the weekend with 250+ cars on display!! tion Center through Nov 27. Car Man Phil GTC convertible and very modestly priced the perfect present for the family this holiday family fun of the traditional British Panto to LA Approximately 20 Clenets were on display, and I enjoyed our annual marathon walk at $165,000.00. I asked if he would forward season,” said Magic Pictures International audiences with our new production of Snow a late 70s type vehicle remastered and per- through East and West Halls, with a notice- the information to our editor and publisher President Kris Lythgoe. White,” says Jason Haigh-Ellery, President fected into an individualized, high-end 30s able absence of the overpriced high end Ron Choularton and suggest what a nice Starring Glee’s Lindsay Pearce as Snow of Magic Theatre. “Both shows promise to be looking model. Frenchman Alain Clenet’s phi- cars, such as no Bugatti, Ferrari, Maserati, Christmas present it would make to his White; Star Trek: The Next Generation’s fun family productions – the perfect holiday losophy: “the point is not to make many cars, Lamborghini, which we can’t afford anyway. loyal and devoted LA Office staff, Karen and Marina Sirtis as The Wicked Queen; Neil present.” Call (818) 508-4200 for tickets but to make one car very well.” He combined To the outstanding presentation of even more Leo. Hey, it would beat last year’s gift of a Patrick Harris in the onscreen special guest www.elportaltheatre.com old world style with American mechanics British cars like Jaguars, Land Rovers, Mini’s, gift subscription to the UJ. It’s not overly role of “The Magic Mirror;” and Erich Bergen Emmy-nominated comedic actor Fred which led Fortune to call his work, “Driven Morgans, Lotus, Rolls Royce, Bentley, and extravagant. I could have asked for the million from Jersey Boys as the Prince Willard stars as Cinderella’s father, Baron Art.” And they are a work of art!! In one car, Aston Martin’s, which we can all afford. I’ll dollar Aston Martin. The Grand Opening Fundraiser Gala on HardUp; recording artist and Broadway I may just request a Morgan? Longtime November 29, also presented by Parenting sensation Shoshana Bean as the fairy friend Dennis Glavis, main dealer of Morgan magazine, will feature a VIP reception and godmother, and American Idol’s David Her- Cars in NA has excelled himself this year with meet-and-greet with cast members. All nandez as Dandini. The entire stage set was an extraordinary variety of the very famous proceeds will benefit LA’s BEST After School shipped by containers from London. Morgan vehicles, and boy do they look good!! Enrichment Program. “We’re thrilled to join The British American Business Council What we didn’t get to see was the new Mor- forces with Lythgoe Family Productions to in- Los Angeles (BABCLA) proudly presents its gan three-wheeler. Thanks to government troduce the tradition of holiday Panto to mod- 52nd Annual Christmas Luncheon celebrating red tape it’s stuck in customs, hopefully to ern families,” said Mark Wildman, VP/Group the 2012 Summer Games in the UK Decem- be released in the next couple of days when Publisher of The Parenting Group. “Lythgoe’s ber 14 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa the show opens to the general public. My clever, unique way of storytelling – and their Monica, with hosted champagne reception, guess, plan for next year or maybe the year work to give back to the community – sup- exclusive networking, silent auction and after! www.morganwest.net (310) 998-3311 port Parenting’s efforts to help parents and grand raffle, Traditional British Christmas [email protected] children create new ways to experience the Luncheon and live entertainment, featuring Parenting magazine presents a Lythgoe magic of the holidays together.” as MC Fred Roggin, award winning sports Family Production of the holiday Panto A A Cinderella Christmas, now in its second anchor NBC4 and Universal Sports www. Snow White Christmas, running November season following last year’s successful run, babcla.org or (310) 312-1962 for reserva- 30-December 18 at the El Portal Theatre, will run from December 22 to January 8, also tions. Guest speaker will be the renowned with opening night gala benefiting LA’s BEST. at the El Portal Theatre. “Last year’s produc- Sir Ken Robinson. “Whether you are two- tion of Cinderella exceeded our expectations, Continued on page 13 Car Man Phil with Jaguar designer Ian Callum at LA Auto Show. Photo: Leo Lewis December 2011 ujnews.com Page 13 Trip; 17: Christmas Pot Luck Games Night; 31: Queen at the El Portal Theatre (866) 811-4111. snow in Santa Monica from Mid-December at Ye Leon & Karen’s Karen’s California New Years Eve Buffet Party (818) 769-9805 . 22: And back by popular demand thru Janu- Olde Kings Head; celebrate Boxing Day on De- California View . . . Events Calendar Reservations required. ary 8 the Lythgoe Family Productions offers the cember 26; and NYE in British Style at 4pm with o McLaren’s Shortbread offers a large Panto A Cinderella Christmas starring Fred Wil- DJ Danny, bagpiper, party favors, then do it all Riverside Dicken’s Festival celebrates DECEMBER selection of gift baskets for your choosing, so lard as Baron Harup and Shoshana Bean as the again at midnight. The best party in town! Christ- Charles’ Dickens 200th birthday. 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OBITUARIES Brian Heaton-Jones Shelagh Delaney, Friend of Union Jack Cricketer, 1935-2011 Apartheid Foe Playwright BRIAN HEATON-JONES, 76, SHELAGH DELANEY, 71, the play- Dania Beach, FL. Captain Heaton- wright best known for her 1958 play A Jones was born July 27, 1935 in Basil D’Oliveira Taste of Honey, has died of cancer. Liverpool, England and immigrated BASIL D’OLIVEIRA, 80, the South Delaney died at her daughter’s home A Coward If I Return, A Hero If I Fall, by to the United States in 1961. He African-born England cricketer who be- in eastern England, said agent Jane Vil- Neil Richardson on O’Brien Press. is survived by his four children, came a pivotal figure in the sport’s battle liers. Delaney was a few days short of THIS BOOK is a remarkable collection of vet- John Heaton-Jones, of ME, Jeffery against apartheid, died last month after a her 72nd birthday. erans’ stories gath- Heaton-Jones, of Ireland, Julie Frost long illness. The writer was just 19 when A Taste ered from soldiers’ of ME, and Jennifer Iannucci of D’Oliveira played 44 tests and four of Honey premiered. The downbeat tale families, military CT. He joined the Royal Marines in one-day internationals for England, his of a young woman’s pregnancy follow- records, diaries, 1957 and served in Libya and North adopted nation. He was prevented from ing a one-night stand with a black sailor, documents and Africa with the 42nd Royal Marine playing top-level cricket in South Africa in and her supportive relationship with a letters. It shows Commando. He was the co-founder the 1950s because he wasn’t white. gay artist, verged on scandalous at the just how significant of the Royal British Legion Branch He was the central figure in cricket’s time, but the play had successful runs Irish involvement Florida. decision to finally turn its back on South in London and New York. truly was in WWI. Africa during its apartheid era. In one of From 1914-1918 Her sec- there was 200,000 the game’s great controversies, D’Oliveira ond play, The Valerie Lewis was on the England team that was to tour South Africa’s tour of England in 1951,” Irishmen from all Lion in Love, parts of Ireland from all social, religious and Friend of Union Jack South Africa in 1968. South Africa deemed Majola said. about a diffi- that unacceptable and the tour was called D’Oliveira was born in Cape Town in political backgrounds who went to war. At cult marriage least 35,000 never came home. Luckily two 1937-2011 off, leading to more than 20 years of cricket 1931 and showed great skill as a batsman between a isolation. and accurate medium pace bowler. But of them did, my Grandfathers – Gerry Ryan frustrated man and Christopher Chambers, or else I wouldn’t VALERIE LEWIS born July 6, After the “D’Oliveira Affair,” South because he was classified as colored and and an aggres- 1937 in Stoke-on- Africa did not play another match outside nonwhite in South Africa, he wasn’t al- be writing this review! sive woman, Irishmen in the British Army and other Trent, England. the country for 23 years and did not play lowed to play first-class games. did not enjoy Died peacefully any international cricket between 1970 and He was persuaded to move to England ranks of military served everywhere. They the same suc- were in Belgium at Ypres, in France on at home in Alpine, 1991. Only when apartheid was dismantled by the cricket broadcaster and journalist cess when it CA. Survived by following Nelson Mandela’s release from John Arlott, who found D’Oliveira a place the Somme, and in Gallipoli, Palestine and opened in 1960. She didn’t write for Mesopotamia (Iraq). An Irishman fired the her loving hus- prison was the country re-admitted to as a professional player in the Lancashire the theater again until 1979, when she band of 52 years, cricket community. leagues in northern England. first British Army shot of the war. An Irish- revised her BBC-TV series The House man won the first Victoria Cross. Irish flying Dennis, daughters Other sports also banned ties with South D’Oliveira’s ability was soon recog- that Jack Built. Karen and Lesley, Africa as a result, and the country’s soccer nized. But in 1968, in the Ashes series, he aces were celebrated as aerial heroes. The In between, she wrote screenplays: war also united Irishmen. At Messines Ridge, beloved grand- team did not return to the international suddenly became headline news for other The White Bus, 1966; Charlie Bubbles, children John stage until 1992. reasons. He was placed on the England the soldiers of north and south won a vic- 1968, for which she won a second tory together but on Frezenberg Ridge they Matthew, Casey and Joseph, brother “Throughout this shameful period in squad to go to South Africa later that year Writer’s Guild Award; and The Raging Colin and sister Nicole. South Africa’s sporting history, Basil as a replacement for an injured player. were slaughtered side by side. Author Neil Moon, 1970. Richardson honours his great grandfather’s Val will be especially missed on the displayed a human dignity that earned South Africa’s ruling National Party She also wrote the screenplay for sidelines watching her grandkids soccer him worldwide respect and admiration,” had made it clear that it would not accept experiences in the trenches in spired this col- the 1985 film Dance with a Stranger, lection of Irish veterans’ stories. The book is games. She will always be remembered Cricket South Africa chief executive Ger- D’Oliveira. But his selection to the team based on the story of Ruth Ellis, the by good friends, Jeff, Steph, Ben, Ron ald Majola said. underlined a shift in sports – cricket would a heavy in its depth of research and coverage last woman to be executed for a crime with over 150 photographs and memorabilia. and her other “grandson” Kevin. In many ways, D’Oliveira’s role in no longer ignore apartheid. Having sparked in Britain. She also wrote a memoir, changing views toward apartheid over- friction between the two governments, the I have had the book for several months and I Sweetly Sings the Donkey, in 1963. can only read so much at a time as the weight shadowed – and distracted from – his tour was canceled. South Africa’s sports Delaney’s early work was rooted in immense talent as a cricketer. isolation soon began. of the tales reaches a place in my mind and Joan (Plant) Marr her home town of Salford, an industrial soul that needs to process it all. How lucky I He scored 2,484 test runs, averaging In 2005, D’Oliveira was made a Com- suburb of Manchester. Friend of Union Jack 40.06, hit five centuries and took 47 mander of the Order of the British Empire am that my grandfathers made it home since 1931-2011 wickets with his probing away-swingers. in Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday honors’ To live in Salford, she said in a 1960 so many did not. A fascinating book! He also scored more than 19,000 first-class list. film by Ken Russell, was to be restless; His significance to the game – and to she compared herself to a tethered JOAN (PLANT) MARR, 80, passed runs and took 551 wickets in his 16-year horse, eager to be cut free. In Salford, away October 17, career with England and county side England and South Africa – is recognized by the Basil D’Oliveira Trophy, which the she also found a vitality which infused 2011 in Lake Ha- Worcestershire. her writing. vasu City. Joan “He was a very good allrounder,” Tom countries now compete for whenever they was born on Feb- Graveney, D’Oliveira’s close friend and play a test series against each other. “The language is alive, it’s virile, ruary 23, 1931 in a teammate with England and Worcester- Last month, on the third day of the it lives and it breathes and you know Yorkshire, Eng- shire, said. “But his batting was the thing. second test between South Africa and exactly where it’s coming from. Right land to David He was tremendously strong.” Australia in Johannesburg, South African out of the earth,” she said. Delaney is survived by her daughter, NORTHEAST OHIO and Ethel (Mar- His statistics were all the more impres- players wore black arm bands to honor By Joe Nicholls. Joe and Kevin McGinty can tindale) Plant. sive given that he probably missed his best D’Oliveira. Charlotte Delaney, and grandchildren Max, Gable and Rosa Delaney. Funeral be heard on “Sounds of Britain and Ireland” Joan married her cricket years because of the discrimination The Wanderers stadium also observed Sundays 4-5pm (EDT) on Cleveland’s WCPN husband, George in his home country. He did not make his a minute’s silence for a man who was arrangements were not immediately announced. 90.3FM and www.wcpn.org. Marr, on May 27, 1950 in Stretford, test debut until he was 34. never allowed to play a first-class game DECEMBER Manchester before emigrating to the US. “One can only imagine what he might in South Africa and yet became one of the Online: 2, 16: British-American Club, Fish & chips din- most important players in his country’s Film on Delaney, Joan and George resided in San Diego, have achieved had he made his debut as http://www.dangerousminds.net/tag/Ken-Russell ners, 8564 Ravenna Rd, (off Rte 82) Twinsburg, California for over 40 years before mov- he should have done at the age of 20 on cricket history. 6:30-8:30pm (330) 963-6370. ing to Lake Havasu City. Joan was an 2, 9, 16, 23, 30: West Side Irish American award winning Ballroom dancer who Club, Irish-style dinners, 8559 Jennings Rd, loved to grow and tend to her vegetable whole life, including his filmmaking, had been affected by the death of his cousin Olmsted Township, 6-9pm (216) 251-4075. and flower gardens. She was a great Ken Russell, 1927-2011 2: Jaguar Club of Ohio, Christmas Party, cook as well and enjoyed preparing Marion, who stepped on a land mine when DIRECTOR KEN RUSSELL, 84, they were children. Blue Heron Golf Club, Medina, 6:30 pm (330) meals for family and friends. Joan 666-1102. enjoyed camping and boating on the got Oliver Reed and Alan Bates to wrestle Attracted by the romance of the sea, naked, turned Vanessa Redgrave into a Russell attended Pangbourne Nautical Col- 2: Scottish American Society, St Andrew’s Colorado River and traveling with her Dinner-Dance, SYB party center, Stow 6pm, husband. They traveled 44 states within demonic nun and cast Ringo Starr as the lege before joining the Merchant Navy at pope. Critics and mainstream audiences 17 as a junior crew member on a cargo ship (330) 882-0342. the USA as well as visiting Canada and 4: Cleveland Manx Society, Christmas Mexico. Joan will be deeply missed by often hated his films. Actors and admirers bound for the Pacific. He became seasick, loved him. soon realized he hated naval life and was Party, Holiday Inn, Independence, 1pm (216) her family and friends. 481-2476. Joan is survived by her beloved The iconoclastic British director, whose discharged after a nervous breakdown. death was announced November 28, made Desperate to avoid joining the family’s 9, 23: British-American Club, Pub Nights, husband George of Lake Havasu City; 8564 Ravenna Rd, Twinsburg, 8pm, (330) daughter, Yvonne (Roy) Gash; son, films that blended music, sex and violence shoe business, he studied ballet and tried in a potent brew. his hand at acting before accepting he was 963-6370. Ian Marr; daughter-in-law, Carolyn 13 SHANO, Scottish Heritage Meetings, Com- Hittner; grandchildren, Kody, Justin, Only a few of his movies were commer- not much good at either. He then studied cial successes. The best known were Women photography, for which he did have a tal- munity Presbyterian Church, 5132 Mayfield Rd, Heather, Angela, Christopher, Stepha- Lyndhurst. 7:30pm (330) 463-5559. nie, Joshua and Suzi as well as nine in Love, an Academy award-winning adap- ent, and became a fashion photographer tation of DH Lawrence’s novel, and Tommy, before being hired to work on BBC arts 14: Calon Lan Welsh Club, Lunch Meeting, great grandchildren. Ron and Jeff at the Denny’s Restaurant, Rte 224 Boardman, 1pm Union Jack were friends of Joan, and which turned The Who’s rock opera into a programs, including profiles of the poet psychedelic extravaganza complete with “It’s an absolute shame that the British John Betjeman, comedian Spike Milligan (330) 758-4202. wish George strength in his loss. 14: British American C of C, Link Club, appearances from Elton John, Eric Clapton film industry has ignored him,” she said. and playwright Shelagh Delaney. th and Tina Turner. “It’s an absolute disgrace ... he broke down “When there were no more live artists Joint Holiday Luncheon, 100 .Bomber group ATTENTION FORMER Pete Townshend, who wrote Tommy, barriers for so many people.” left, we turned to making somewhat longer Restaurant. Cleveland Airport, 11:30am (216) described Russell as a “grand dame” who Women in Love, in 1969, was one of films about dead artists such as Prokofiev,” 621-0222. ROYAL MARINES brought to his films about music the “lavish Russell’s biggest hits, earning Academy Russell once said. 16: English Speaking Union, Beefeater’s Ball, affection and the kind of grandiosity only Award nominations for the director and The Devils, a 1971 film starring Red- Mayfield Country Club, South Euclid, 6pm (216) Now living in the US musicians and composers can dream of.” for writer Larry Kramer, as well as win- grave as a 17th-century nun in the grip of 268-4160. “He believed all artistic work could be ning Jackson an Oscar. It included one of demonic possession, was heavily cut for 22: Daughters of the BE, Westminster There is now a Royal Marine made to come alive over and over again,” the decade’s most famous scenes – a nude its US release and is due to be released on Chapter, meeting, Lyndhurst, 7:30pm (440) Townshend said. wrestling bout between Bates and Reed. DVD in Britain for the first time in 2012. 461-2533. Association Branch formed in Russell was fascinated with altered men- Reed said at the time the director was Russell told The Associated Press in the US. tal states and loved horror, religious turmoil “starting to go crazy.” 1987 that he found such censorship “so and Gothic excess. Critics could be sniffy – Paul McGann, who starred in Russell’s tedious and boring.” He called the Ameri- Please contact: Pauline Kael once wrote that Russell’s films The Rainbow, said the director “encour- can print of The Devils “just a butchered John Topping, Secretary “cheapen everything they touch.” aged an irreverent joyousness on set and nonsense.” The Perfect Gift - But many in the film industry felt his usually got it.” Russell’s fascination with changing Royal Marine Association influence was underrated. “I remember him sat on a camera mental states also surfaced in 1980 film Anytime! USA Branch Supermodel Twiggy, who starred in crane in kaftan and sandals shouting to Altered States, a rare Hollywood foray for Russell’s 1971 film The Boy Friend, said us through a megaphone: ‘Even greater him, starring William Hurt as a scientist 8409 Lake Crest Terrace, directors like Steven Spielberg and George heights of abandon!’“ McGann said. “He’s experimenting with hallucinogens. A Union Jack Lucas “say that as a kid they would watch how you imagined, and hoped, a movie Married four times, Russell is sur- Fairfax Station, VA 22039-2678 Ken Russell movies. I don’t think he got the director would be.” vived by his wife Elize Tribble and his Subscription Phone: (703) 690-8944 attention he deserved.” Born in the English port of Southampton children. Glenda Jackson, who won a best actress in 1927, Russell fell in love with the mov- The director’s son, Alex Verney-Elliott, ~ See Page 3 ~ www.rma-us.org Academy Award for Women in Love, said ies as a child. said Russell died in a hospital following a Russell was an “incredible visual genius.” In one of his last interviews, he said his series of strokes. December 2011 ujnews.com Page 15 which you can detach and insert the iPhone or glasses, they work really well, providing iPod and it doubles the battery life. This con- you get good ones with AR (anti reflective) traption works great when you can’t charge coating, sun glasses of course. We all need your phone or iPod for an extended period them for driving at some time. Like to show of time. Look them up on the internet http:// off your heritage? How about a nice chrome store.griffintechnology.com they have lots of radiator badge, there are lots of them avail- neat little well-made devices for the car. Drink able online. a cup of tea or coffee while listening to music With these ideas, I’m only scratching the or books or taking the language lessons with surface on motoring-related gift ideas, but a nice travel mug, most dealerships sell very I hope I’ve given you some things to think An MG nice ones personalized for the type of car you about. As for the kids, check out Airfix (they Christmas – or your friend is driving, throw in a Starbucks advertise here) and sell model cars along CHRISTMAS TIME is coming up again and gift card with the mug, how can that not be a with their aircraft. Anyway here’s wishing all this month, and as I like to keep the spirit of See Carman Phil’s coverage well received gift? you readers a very merry Christmas and a Christmas in my columns at this time of year Know someone who does a lot of night happy new year. I thought I would touch on some gift ideas of his recent driving? Consider a pair of night driving Happy Motoring. from the motoring perspective. attendance of If you are anything like me, and most men the LA Auto are I think, Christmas shopping can be quite Show next Marc Jacobs Perfume Ad Banned In UK daunting. I’m usually a last minute shopper, month. a habit which compounds the difficulty in BRITAIN’S advertising standards watch- under 16-years-old in the ad, and the deciding what gifts to give. The female dog last month banned a Marc Jacobs per- styling in the image drew attention to her gender is generally much more adept in gift fume ad starring actress Dakota Fanning, sexuality. shopping and I do envy them for that. It’s saying it seemed to sexualize a child and “Because of that, along with her appear- the thought that counts not the gift, as is so could cause serious offense. ance, we considered the ad could be seen often said, and women do put much more Four readers complained about the to sexualize a child,” it said. thought in it than men – resulting in much wonderful sanctuary from the elements with magazine ad for Jacobs’ recently launched Perfume maker Coty UK said it had not you can make the prepaid credit $25 if $50 “Oh, Lola!” perfume, the Advertising received any complaints. It said that the ad more appropriate and pleasing gifts, however is too above your budget. warmth or air conditioning available with the they rarely cross into the motoring realm as it flick of a switch. Venturing outside of this Standards Authority said. The ad showed was targeted at readers over 25-years-old, Another idea: A small USB thumb drive is the 17-year-old star in a pale short dress, and that while the image was provocative, still is considered male territory, even though always handy to keep in your car also with the confinement is another thing though and there probably are an equal number of female could be troublesome. No matter where one sitting with an oversized perfume bottle – it wasn’t indecent. Most magazine readers info on it to cancel your credit cards should which is shaped like a vase holding a giant would be used to “edgy images” in fashion drivers to male counterparts. you lose your wallet. Forget about driving lives an umbrella will be needed someday and I can’t imagine anyone not having one red flower – between her legs. magazines and are not likely to find the ad To me my car is almost like my second gloves, they are a throwback to the days The watchdog said that Fanning looked offensive, it added. home and I like to have it with me at all times, when motor cars were open topped and most tucked away in the car somewhere, they and feel like something is missing when drivers don’t use them, I don’t. I doubt if one are available with the logo of almost any it’s not, I keep my stuff in it you see, stuff I car in a thousand has got a pair of gloves in make of car printed on them at dealerships feel a need to have with me all the time. On the glove box these days as these compart- and would make for a nice and appreciative weekends, if we go on a family trip we use my ments are usually stuffed with everything but gift. Along with my umbrella I always carry wife’s car, – the family car – and I always feel gloves. I however always have had a pair of pakamac type rain gear, spare shoes, socks, a little as my “stuff” which always stays in my mechanics gloves in the boot, along with a underwear, jeans and a tee-shirt along with a car are no longer with me. I do of course take towel, just in case I need to change a wheel or jacket, why not? One never knows, and they some of this stuff along in the family car even have to take care of some other mechanical take up very little room. though I feel it’s not their true home. I always problem. I rarely need them but they are there A toiletry bag is a must too which are keep a small waterproof wallet in the glove if and when I do, and they save my hands also available with the cars logo; fill it up box containing a prepaid $50 Visa card and a from getting greased up or worse. with the essential stuff and a bottle of water $20 bill. I find them to be the perfect thing you Apart from the obvious, getting from A to for teeth brushing. Car rugs are great too, could have should you lose or misplace your B, the motor car has given us the freedom I have always had one tucked away in the wallet or purse, or just run short of money. and opportunity to carry things around with boot, I have had the same one now for about It’s a perfect worthwhile gift for anyone, just us, things one might desperately need on 30 years, it is a wool tartan that I bought in let the lucky recipient know what it’s for; and occasions. The inside of a motor car is a Edinburgh, Scotland, and my young daughter has been appreciative of this blanket on many occasions, along with my spare jacket. 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New hours: 6am-10pm Monday-Saturday • 8am-8pm Sundays We’re on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AllThingsBrightandBritish Twitter: @britfoods www.brightandbritish.com December 2011 ujnews.com Page 17 “I shall strongly recommend to all cooks of either sex, Super Broccoli Grown to keep their stomachs free from strong liquors till after dinner, and their Noses from snuff” – Clermont 1776 By UK Scientists POPEYE might want to consider switch- anin. After 14 years, the enhanced hybrid NOT A BAD idea I guess, but the sips of Treacle Tart ing to broccoli. British scientists unveiled was produced, which has been granted a plonk can help when facing the huge task a new breed of the vegetable that experts patent by European authorities. No genetic of preparing the Christmas dinner! I still con- Short crust pastry 1½ cups Lyles golden syrup say packs a big nutritional punch. modification was used. tinue to do the traditional meal every year; The new broccoli was specially grown It’s been on sale as Beneforte in select I feel it is so worth the effort, even though 2 egg yolks 2 cups finely ground fresh bread- to contain two to three times the normal stores in California and Texas for the last it is not easy at times. One thing that helps amount of glucoraphanin, a nutrient be- year, and hit British shelves last month. is to prepare well ahead of time, of course crumbs Finely grated rind, and juice of 1 lemon lieved to help ward off heart disease. Later this fall, the broccoli will be rolled making the Christmas pudding, mincemeat “Vegetables are a medicine cabinet out across the US. and fruit cakes are much better when made Preheat oven to 375 F degrees. Line a lightly greased 9” pie tin with the pastry. Mix already,” said Richard Mithen, who led The super vegetable is part of an in- several weeks ahead of time. But also the electric mixer beat one cup butter in a large the team of scientists at the Institute for creasing tendency among producers to side things such as cranberry sauce, brandy syrup, egg yolks, breadcrumbs, (reserve 4 fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of thugar and Tbsp) lemon rind and juice, (easier to mix in Food Research in Norwich, England, that inject extra nutrients into foods, ranging butter or rum sauce, bread sauce etc can beat again. Meanwhile make sure that the developed the new broccoli. “When you from calcium-enriched orange juice to be made days ahead. Nowadays it is so a saucepan over low heat). Pour into pastry rum is of the highest quality. Try another shell, top with reserved breadcrumbs. Bake eat this broccoli ... you get a reduction in fortified sugary cereals and milk with much easier to purchase imported British cup. Open a second quart if necessary. Add cholesterol in your blood stream,” he told added omega three fatty acids. In Britain, foods either at your nearby Brit store or on 40-50 minutes or until set. Serve warm or two large eggs, two cups of fried fruit and room temperature, freezes well if there is Associated Press Television. the new broccoli is sold as part of a line of line, so there is nothing wrong with serving beat until high. If druit gets stuck in beaters An AP reporter who tasted the new vegetables that includes mushrooms with ready-made items. any left!!) just pry it loose with a drewscriver. Sample Best Rum Cake Ever broccoli found it was the same as the extra vitamin D, and tomatoes and potatoes I thought this month, I would feature an the rum again, checking for tonscisticity. regular broccoli. Scientists, however, said with added selenium. alternative dessert, which is easy to make (I cannot take credit for this but have Next sift three cups of pepper or salt (it it should taste slightly sweeter because it Not enough data exists to know if and always popular, and it’s been a while had it for many years, and was recently doesn’t really matter) Sample the rum contains less sulphur. anyone could overdose on glucoraphanin, since I last featured it. Ideal for those who do asked to feature it again.) again. Sift half a pint lemon juice. Fold in the Glucoraphanin works by breaking fat but vitamin D and selenium in very high not (gasp!!) like Christmas pudding, but this Before you start, sample the rum to check chopped butter and strained nuts. Add one down in the body, preventing it from quantities can be toxic. is a rich flavoured pie, luverly served with for quality. Good isn’t it? Now go ahead and babblespoon of brown thugar or whatever clogging the arteries. It is only found in Mithen and colleagues are conducting real Devon cream, or custard sauce. You select a large mixing bowl, measuring cup colour you can find. Wix mell. Grease oven broccoli in significant amounts. human trials comparing the heart health of do need to find the Golden syrup however, etc. Check the rum again. It must be just and turn pan to 350 gredes. Now pour the PATENT people eating the super broccoli to those there just isn’t any substitute. I will follow right. To be sure the rum is of the highest whole mess into the coven and bake. Check To create the vegetable, sold as “super who eat regular broccoli or no broccoli. it with another “recipe” in contrast to my quality, pour one level cup into a glass and the rum again, and go to bed! broccoli,” Mithen and colleagues cross- They plan to submit the data to the Euro- above quote … or maybe not! drink it as fast as you can. Repeat. With an I wish you all very Happy Christmas bred a traditional British broccoli with a pean Food Safety Agency next year so they can claim in advertisements the broccoli (I welcome comments, requests and recipes and can be reached at [email protected]) wild, bitter Sicilian variety that has no flowery head, and a big dose of glucoraph- has proven health benefits. Airline Passengers Asked RAF Investigates Ejector Seat Death BRITAIN’S Royal Air Force has grounded aircraft fitted with the same sort of ejector seat involved in an accident that killed a pilot with the Red Arrows aerobatic display team last month. For Extra Cash For Fuel The air force suspended all nonessential flying on Hawk T1, Tornado GR4 and Tucano aircraft last month. Flights in Afghanistan will not be affected. AIRLINES have already begun charging sengers on another Comtel flight were Iraq war veteran Flight Lt Sean Cunningham died after being ejected from for food, drinks, seat assignments and told they would not be taking off until they his seat while his plane was still on the ground. The accident took place at the baggage. Now one is demanding that come up with 10,000 rupees (about $200) Red Arrows’ base at RAF Scampton in central England. passengers cough up extra cash on board each, Kandra told the BBC. He is the second pilot from the nine-member stunt team to die within three for fuel. It was not clear when that plane was months. In August, Flight Lt John Egging died in a crash after a show in Hundreds of passengers traveling from said Sue Ockwell, a crisis management supposed to have taken off. The passengers southern England. India to Britain were stranded for six expert at Travel PR. in Amritsar were not stuck on the plane or hours in Vienna when their Comtel Air “It’s a bit like, well, boarding a train at the airport, according to British diplo- flight stopped for fuel on last month. The and saying that you can’t go on because mats in India. Most were booking flights charter service asked them to kick in more they’ve cut the electricity off because on other airlines to get to Britain. Netflix To Provide Service than £20,000 to fund the rest of the flight they haven’t paid the bill,” Ockwell said. Airport officials in Birmingham said to Birmingham, England. “You just really don’t expect it. This is that Comtel’s flights the following week- The situation may represent a new low patently not going to do that airline any end had been canceled, but Kandra insisted To The UK, Ireland in customer care in an era when flyers good at all.” all would be operating as normal. NETFLIX INC plans to offer its online in the service can sign up at Netflix’s web are seeing long lines, long waits and few The passengers did eventually reach subscription service to the United King- site to receive an email alert that will let perks. Birmingham, but many expressed anger. Oban ‘Enjoys’ Quicky dom and Ireland starting early next year, them know when the service has launched, Britain’s Channel 4 news broadcast vid- “It is absolutely disgusting,” said providing access to movies and television the company said. eo showing a Comtel cabin crew member Dalvinder Batra, who is from the West Fireworks Display shows. Netflix has faced criticism lately due telling passengers: “We need some money Midlands. “There are still people stuck A FIREWORKS display is always ap- The company said last month that to a recent price increase and a failed to pay the fuel, to pay the airport, to pay out there.” preciated. But, the townsfolk of Oban in subscribers will get unlimited TV shows attempt to split up its video subscription everything we need. If you want to go to Bhupinder Kandra, the airline’s ma- Scotland last month got what turned out and movies streaming online to their tele- service. Netflix boosted prices for com- Birmingham, you have to pay.” jority shareholder, told the Associated to be the fastest fireworks show they had visions and computers, Macs, tablets and bination packages of DVDs-by-mail and Some passengers said they were sent Press from Vienna that travel agents had ever seen. cellular phones for a monthly fee. Internet video streaming by as much as off the plane to cash machines in Vienna taken the passengers’ money before the For while the local display for Bonfire The Los Gatos, California-based com- 60 percent, effective September 1. After to raise the money. planes left but had not passed it on to the Night was supposed to last 20 minutes a pany said details about pricing, content the higher prices kicked in, CEO Reed “We all got together, took our money airline. technical glitch ignited the entire display SOLVENT and supported devices will be disclosed Hastings announced a plan to spin off the out of purses – £130,” said Reena Rindi, over a period of just 50 seconds. closer to launch. DVD rental side into a separate website who was aboard with her daughter. “Chil- “This is not my problem,” he said. “The More than £6,000 worth of fireworks Netflix started streaming to the US in called Qwikster. The move was so reviled dren under two went free, my little one problem is with the agents.” were sent up in the short – but spectacular 2007 and added Canada in 2010 and 43 by subscribers that Hastings changed his went free because she’s under two. If we But Kandra insisted the company was – display. countries in Latin America and the Ca- mind within three weeks. didn’t have the money, they were making still solvent. Now the company behind the error, ribbean in September. The company has Netflix’s stock has dropped by 60 us go one by one outside, in Vienna, to get “We have not run out of money,” he Pyro 1, has offered locals a free display to more than 25 million members in the US, percent since the price increases were the cash out.” said. “We have enough.” make up for the mistake. ASHES Canada and Latin America. announced in mid-July. The sell-off has Later, the Civil Aviation Authority Councillor Roddy McCuish, who Those in the UK or Ireland interested wiped out $9bn in shareholder wealth. Amarjit Duggal told the BBC she was stepped in to protect passengers after a helped to organise the display, said locals flying from the Indian city of Amritsar on company that sold flights on Comtel Air had been “fantastic” about the farcical – Comtel after scattering her mother’s ashes. went out of business. Astonbury Ltd., trad- and beautiful – mistake. Her father, sister and uncle were still in ing as Skyjet, ceased trading. The authority He told the BBC: “They are going to Amritsar and did not know when they will ensure that passengers get home in the come back and do a free display in Oban would be able to return home. coming days. at no charge over Oban Bay at the end of Lots of The situation was highly unusual in Eu- A similar Comtel situation was taking our winter festival.” rope, where airlines are tightly regulated, place back in Amritsar. 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The Aussies came back to win Racism Furor 284 (Michael Clarke 151) and tie proved a disappointment it was enough. the second Test at Johannesburg, by two Continued from page 24 47. South Africa 96 and 236 The Czech Republic beat Montenegro 2-0 wickets after a tremendous second innings. (Graeme Smith 101, Jacques in the home leg, and won the away leg 1-0. South Africa 266 and 339 (Hashim Amla as part of wide-ranging reforms following Kallis 116)-2 at close. Bosnia-Hercegovina and Portugal produced 105). Australia 296 and 310-8 at close… damaging allegations of bribery, vote- Compiled by Larry Gardner Tennis, Boxing, Formula One a goalless draw in the first leg, But in Por- Australia won the Four Nations Rugby League rigging and ticket scams. & Rugby League tugal, Cristiano Ronaldo hit a brace as the Tournament beating England in the final at The latest gaffe by the 75-year-old Portugese triumphed 6-2. Elland Road, 30-8. Swiss official sparked a furor in England, A Nose Thwarts Ed Dunlop Andy Murray saw his unbeaten string of 17 wins, three tournament victories in European Soccer Late Soccer where authorities are investigating two allegations of racial abuse involving Of Historic Win September, come to an end last month. The fourth round series of group games Champion League Matches November THE MELBOURNE Cup is the biggest horse The Scot withdrew from the Swiss Indoors Liverpool and Chelsea players in Premier in the Champions League, November 2-3, 22-23, saw Benfica hold Manchester United League games. race in Australia, and the nation grinds to a because of injury, but at the Paris Masters, saw British clubs come away undefeated. to a 2-2 tie at Old Trafford. A Phil Jones own halt as the one-mile-seven-furlong course he was ousted in the quarter-finals by Tomas “This is the latest episode that calls into An early goal by Antonio Valencia put Man- goal in the ninth minute put the Portuguese question whether this man should be the at Fremington, becomes a national focus. Berdych 4-6, 7-6 (7-5) 6-7. Previously chester United ahead at Old Trafford, while ahead, before Berbatov leveled on the half November 1, saw the race run for the 151st he took out Jeremy Chardy (Fr) and Andy head of world football,” British Sports Wayne Rooney found the net three minutes hour. Darren Fletcher found the net in the Minister Hugh Robertson said. “For the time with a record of only four foreign horses Roddick … Unbeaten British and Com- from time to give the Reds a 2-0 win over 59th minute, and minute later Aimar had ever winning here. A British trained horse monwealth heavyweight champion Tyson sake of the game, he should go.” Romania’s Otelul Galati. Yaya Toure put equalized. Manchester City went down 2-1 Manchester United defender Rio Fer- has never won this antipodean classic, Fury, pushed his record to 17-0 at Event City, Manchester City 1-0 up at Villarreal on the in Italy against Napoli. Cavani hit a goal in but Ed Dunlop came pretty close this time, Trafford Park in Manchester, November 12, dinand and Blatter then traded barbs on half hour, followed by a Ballotelli penalty each half, while Balotelli scored for the Sky Twitter in an unusual exchange of views when his 50-1 shot Red Cadeaux, finishing after stopping Neven Pajkic in the third to on on the break. Toure hit another one in Blues. Arsenal secured themselves a place in a nose behind the winner, the 7-1 French retain his Commonwealth crown. st between a professional athlete and an the 71 minute, giving City a well-earned the knockout round with a 2-1 home win over international sports official. horse Dunaden, 23 ran. Newmarket trainer The Canadian had Fury on his back in the 3-0 win. Ramires put Chelsea in the driving Borussia Dortmund. Robin van Persie scored Ed Dunlop commented, “We don’t like to be second, but the Briton roared back in the next Ferdinand had led a growing chorus of seat in Belgium against Genk, but the hosts one in each half, while an injury time netting put disapproval from black players when he second, but I’ve come all the way down here round and Pajkic was given a standing count. hit an equalizer in the 61st minute. David Luiz the Germans on the card. Chelsea fell to a last for the first time so you have to be delighted. The ref stopped it some time later much to wrote that Blatter’s views were “so con- missed a penalty for Chelsea that could have minute winner at Bayer Leverkusen, where descending its almost laughable.” If he’s okay, we’ll be back next year.” the disgust of Pajkic (16-1) who complained made the difference. The scoreline stayed the home side won 2-1. Didier Drogba put It was the closest finish in living mem- he could have gone on … Sebastian Vettel SARCASTIC 1-1. At the Emirates, Arsenal fought a tough the blues ahead three minutes after the break, The England player also posted a sarcas- ory. had already secured the 2011 Formula One encounter with Marseilles, in a match that Derdiyok leveled in the 73rd minute, while the Golf: Donald, McIlroy & Championship, but added his 11th victory of tic message after FIFA’s website published concluded in a goalless game. late winner decided the game. a statement from Blatter accompanied by Catriona Matthews the year after winning the Indian Grand Prix Europa League A David Beckham header to Robbie at Noida, October 30. Lewis Hamilton won a photograph of him hugging Tokyo Sex- Luke Donald’s world number one rank- The continuing Group games in the Europa Keane, who put the ball through for Landon wale, a black official from South Africa. ing has received some criticism because the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, November 13, Donovan to score at Carson, California, saw Alonso was second and Jensen Button third League, November 3, saw only Spurs falter. Blatter used Twitter, which he joined his points total are for high finishes in Stoke’s Dean Whitehead (51st) and Peter the LA Galaxy capture the MLS Cup for the ahead of the 2010 World Cup in South tournaments and not the result of a bunch of … Last month’s four nations rugby league th third time beating Houston Dynamo 1-0. The tournament held in England showed an amaz- Crouch (64 ) had the measure of Maccabi Africa, to direct a tweet at an individual victories. The Englishman showed his mettle Tel-Aviv in Israel, and though Maccabi nailed third qualifying round of CONCAFAF games user for the first time. late October however, where a string of six ing difference in the quality of play between for the 2014 World Cup were completed the southern and northern nations. England an injury time goal the Potters came away “(at)rioferdy5 The ‘black man’ as you birdies witnessed a eight under 64, during the with a 2-1 win. Anthony Stokes grabbed a last month. call him has a name: Tokyo Sexwale,” final round of the Disney Children’s Miracle started off with a 42-4 victory over Wales, The USA goes in to the fourth round while Australia beat the New Zealanders brace and Gary Hooper made it three, as Blatter wrote early Thursday. Network Classic at Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Celtic beat Rennes 3-1 at Parkhead. Fulham qualifying group with El Salvador, Canada, Blatter said Sexwale, a South African that earned him his second PGA title of the 26-12. Later, New Zealand would swamp Guyana, Jamaica, Guatemala and Antigua Wales 36-0 and Australia beat England 36- produced the goods at the Cottage, two by government minister and former Robben year. Donald finished with a 17 under 271, Andy Johnson, and singles by Damien Duff & Barbuda. Island prisoner, “had done tremendous two strokes ahead of the field plus a check 20. At the KC Stadium, England would beat First round replays in the FA Cup, saw the reigning world champions New Zealand and Steve Sidwell for a 4-1 win over Wisla work against racism and apartheid in for $846,000. Early November, the Donald’s Krachow of Poland. Birmingham City were Southern Premier League club Stourbridge Africa.” celebrate an new addition to the family with 28-6, and Australia would finish with a 56-14 oust division two’s tailender Plymouth Ar- win over Wales. two down at half-time at St Andrews, against In Brussels, EU spokesman Dennis the birth of a daughter. Club Brugges, but a Jean Beausejour netting gyle, 2-0, following a 3-3 tie in Devon. Abbott denounced Blatter’s view as “com- Rory McIIroy captured a $2m purse at the Sailing in the 55th minute followed by a successful Sporting Passings pletely unacceptable.” Shanghai Masters, after winning a play-off The world’s oceans are awash with three penalty by Marlon King, gave the Blues a His strategy was effectively simple, but “It is not OK to racially abuse someone against Anthony Kim. It’s the fourth pro-win major competitions. 2-2 tie with the Belgians. An undistinguished mostly successful. When Joe Frazier was on the sports field, shake hands at the end for the US Open champion. The Clipper 11-12 round the world yacht display by Tottenham at Rubin Kazan, saw in the ring, his tactic of continuously mov- and say ‘That’s OK.’ It is not,” Abbott told Both men finished on an 18 under 270. race is on its fourth leg and scheduled to the Russians take the honours with the only ing forward, head down, punching as he The Associated Press. The first play-off hole saw Kim miss a three reach New Zealand late November. The brain goal of the game in the 55th minute. went, made him the most feared boxer of However, that view appeared in a foot putt, while the Irishman holed a two child of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the race FA Cup his generation. minority as reaction outside England was footer for victory. has ten, 68 foot racing yachts of identical Three rather brutal bouts with Moham- more restrained. Scotland’s Catriona Matthews notched build and financing crewed by some 450 The first round of the FA Cup, November 11-12-13, which mixes non-leaguers with med Ali, wrote the pair of them in to boxing Blatter’s remark seemed at odds with up her fourth LPGA victory at Guadalajara, non-professional sailing personal looking history, but he was unable to conquer a bout his pledge after his June re-election that Mexico, November 13, in the Lorena Ochoa for adventure. Devon’s Robert Dean is the first and second division clubs did not provide many surprise results. Luton Town suffering with liver cancer. Joe Frazier was an Olympic FIFA would not tolerate a lack of respect Invitational and picked up a check for pro-skipper of “Welcome to Yorkshire,” and gold medallist at Tokyo in 1964, and retired on and off the field. $200,000. Three rounds in the sixties, she Gordon Reid from the Isle of Wight is in their first year in the Conference League hit an 80th minute winner at Kenilworth Road, to with a pro-record of 32-4-1. Mohammed Ali, A few days later Blatter decided the finished with a 12 under 276, four strokes charge at “Edinburgh’s Inspiring Capital.” Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, were amongst “case is now closed” and said: “I have ahead of the field. Same weekend, seeking The Volvo Ocean Race, formerly the beat Division Two’s Northampton Town by the only goal of the game, and Conference other boxing elite that gathered at his funeral. been working now for 37 years in FIFA his first victory in two years, Tiger Woods Whitbread Round the World Race, started Smokin Joe was 67. and I started working in Africa. There is put on a better performance at the Austra- last month with six fully sponsored boats, side Fleetwood Town won 2-0 at home against Wycombe Wanderers. A few balls hit Stand Renamed For Fergie no discrimination in my feeling and there lian Open in Sydney. He led the field in the though bad weather in the Bay of Biscay had is no racism, nothing at all. second round, but finished two off the lead two of them scurrying for port, looking for the net at AFC Totton of the Southern Premier Manchester United has renamed the north Division, where Bradford PA were dispatched stand at its Old Trafford stadium the Sir Alex “This matter, for me, is over. I cannot behind winner Greg Chalmers, who carded repairs, after just 24 hours. The two handed say more than that. a 13 under 275. Transat Jacques Vabre yacht race from Le 8-1, and MK Dons smashed Nantwich 6-0. Ferguson Stand in honor of its manager’s 25 Division two’s Swindon, playing at home, years in charge. “We go forward and there is zero toler- Cricket Fraudsters Havre to Costa Rica, saw six Brits, includ- ance in racism and in discrimination and ing Mike Golding and Dee Caffari aboard eliminated Division One’s high fliers Hud- United announced the tribute to its longest dersfield Town 4-1. Eight non-league sides serving manager ahead of last month’s zero tolerance in all activities on the field Sentenced, Aussies Laid Low a 14 boat fleet that left the French coast of play and outside the field of play. At Capetown mid-November. went through to the second round scheduled Premier League meeting with Sunderland, December 3-4, while another bunch are unveiling a sign moments before Ferguson’s “During my activities as FIFA president Two of the Pakistan cricketers charged International Friendlies involved in replays. 1,409th game with the northwest England nothing surprises me, but I was very much hurt by these comments because it touched with a spot-fixing scam during last year’s A plethora of friendly internationals and a Scottish Soccer club kicked off. England-Pakistan series were found guilty “I never expected that,” Ferguson said of my conscience and in my conscience is long list of World Cup 2014 qualifiers took Financial problems at Hearts, saw the the determination I have to go against any at Southwark Crown Court. place last month, November 12 and15. Fabio the gesture. “It was a real surprise. I have to Former Pakistan skipper Salman Butt, was players receive their wages late last month, discrimination.” Capello missed his son’s wedding to witness after the club admitted its priority was to pay thank Manchester United for doing that.” jailed for 30 months for bowling deliberate Ferguson saw the sign for the first time It seems Blatter doesn’t realise that England take the field against World and Eu- a large income tax bill first. it’t the rest of the football world that will no-balls in a betting scam. Bowler, Moham- ropean Champions Spain at Wembley, where after walking onto the pitch through a guard med Asif, 28, was sentenced to a year Owner, Vladimir Romanov, says he is determine whether the case is closed. an 80,000 plus crowd saw Capello hand the looking to sell the club and is open to offers. of honor formed by the teams of United and behind bars, while 19-year-old Mohammed captaincy to Frank Lampard. Spain con- Sunderland, which was managed by former Amir, who admitted the offence received a Dunfermline closed its North Stand, saying trolled the ball for long periods, but England it will save the club £20,000 a year. Rangers’ United defender Steve Bruce. six month sentence. They are all expected to persisted and four minutes after the break, A crowd of 75,570 gave Ferguson an Police Say Ferdinand appeal. The three of them were given lifetime court case with the Internal Revenue Services Lampard found the net for the only goal of the has been deferred to January. The sum of ovation and chief executive David Gill an- bans from the sport of cricket. Mazhar Ma- game. Several days later, England beat Swe- nounced the north stand was being renamed Threatened In Letter jeed was reputed to have paid Asif £65,000, £49m under discussion has been circulated den at Wembley, for a first victory over the in the press, where the case will decide the after him. POLICE say they have launched an Butt £10,000 and Amir £2,500. He was given Scandanavians since 1968. A Gareth Barry United said it will also erect a statue of investigation after Queens Park Rang- two years and eight months jail time, plus future of the club. On the field, Rangers held header, was deflected in to the Swedish goal a 10 point lead, mid-November over Celtic Ferguson at Old Trafford before the start of ers defender Anton Ferdinand was sent 16 months for conspiracy. The Pakistan th by Daniel Majstorovic in the 27 minute for in the SPL. Interesting game at Kilmarnock, next season. a letter reportedly containing death Cricket Board called it a “bad day for Pakistan the only goal of the game. Scotland traveled threats. cricket,” but strongly defended the credibility where visitor’s Inverness CT won 6-3. Bears Conquer London With to Cyprus and came away with a 2-1 victory. The third round of the Scottish Cup, Win Over Bucs Ferdinand was at the center of an of Pakistani cricket saying such corruption Kenny Miller (23rd) and James Mackie (56th) ongoing separate police investigation was not rampant amongst its players and of- November 12, saw few surprises but plenty The Chicago Bears didn’t mind making provided the netting, with the host getting one of goals. Airdrie Utd beat Gala Fairydean after he was allegedly racially abused by ficials. The Judge, Justice Cooke, remarked back in the 59th minute. Wales turned it on at the trek to London to promote American England and Chelsea captain John Ter- that cricket matches would be tainted by the 11-0 at home, and Morton chalked a 5-1 football. Cardiff with a confident 4-1 win over Norway. home win over Deveronvale. Livingston ry during a Premier League match on scandal for years to come. th th They just hope their solid performance Gareth Bale (11 ) Craig Bellamy (16 ) and visited Irvine Meadow and conquered 6-0. October 23. Terry denies the claims. On the international cricket scene, New two by Sam Vokes made coach Gary Speed, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was The Metropolitan police said it can Zealand beat Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in a Junior side Auchlineck Talbot, face an away enough to leave British fans satisfied without a very happy man. tie against Hearts in the fourth round, while “confirm that officers are investigating one-off Test match by 34 runs. New Zealand Jurgen Klinsmann drew over 70,000 fans an encore. an allegation of malicious communica- 426 (Martin Guptill 109) and 252-8 dec. the other junior side left in the competition, “We should be one of the teams going over at St Denis, Paris, for the visit of his US team, Culter, drew 1-1 at home with Partick Thistle tion” sent to Ferdinand. Zimbabwe 313 and 331 (Brendan Taylor who were without Landon Donovan. France and showing our brand of football internation- It is reported in the British media that 117). The West Indies won their two match and go to a replay. ally,” Bears coach Lovie Smith said. “You’re were held at bay for 72 minutes, before the Late News the letter was hand-delivered to Loftus Test series in Bangladesh, after drawing the shot shy US squad paid the price for its poor never excited about flying for eight hours, but Road – QPR’s ground. first game at Chittagong, and winning the vision up front when Remy beat Tim Howard Tiger Woods and his late, estranged the players handled it well.” Ferdinand said he had “strong feel- second at Mirpur by 229 runs. West Indies in the 72nd minute, giving France a 1-0 win. caddy, Steve Williams, shook hands rather A lot better than the Bucs, anyway. ings” about the Terry accusations but 355 (Kirk Edwards 121) and 383 (Darren Klinsmann found his feet against Slovenia a tensely during the foursomes of the Presi- Matt Forte ran for 145 yards and a wouldn’t be commenting further. Bravo 195)-5 dec. Bangladesh 231 and few days later, where the USA carved out a dents Cup in Melbourne, Australia, November touchdown, and the Bears held on to beat 278. Pakistan and Sri Lanka drew their first 16-20. Williams’ new boss Adam Scott, the Buccaneers 24-18 on October 23 in the 3-2 away win. Edson Buddle put them on the encounter in a three match Test series in way, followed by a Clint Dempsey netting and and partner KJ Choi, beat Woods and Steve fifth annual NFL regular-season game at The Perfect Gift - Anytime! Abu Dhabi. Pakistan won the second Test Jozy Altidore put a penalty away. Stricker seven and six. Some satisfaction for Wembley Stadium. by nine wickets. Sri Lanka 239 and 257. Woods in the fourballs however, where he Despite not arriving in London until the A Union Jack Pakistan 403 (Azhar Ali 100) and 94-1 at Euro-Playoff and partner Dustin Johnson beat Scott and Friday, Chicago dominated for three quarters close. The third Test was drawn at Sharajah, The play-off for the final four places in the Choi three and two. The USA went on to win against a Bucs team that spent the whole Subscription thus giving Pakistan the series 1-0. South European 2012 Championships concluded their sixth President’s Cup 19-15. week in Britain to get acclimatized to the time Africa bowled the Aussies out for 47 in November 11 and 15. The Republic of Ire- India clinched their short Test series difference and climate. ~ See Page 3 ~ December 2011 ujnews.com Page 21 Page 22 ujnews.com December 2011 Man City Announce Record Losses IOC Downplays UK’s More Than 100 Olympic MANCHESTER City’s losses soared to ro and France midfielder Samir Nasri in a Noncompliance With nearly £200m in the latest financial year further outlay of £74m in the offseason. amid a lavish spending spree that helped CLAIM Doping Code Teams To Use UK Camps the club end a 35-year trophy drought City leads the league by five points BRITAIN’S noncompliance with global and qualify for the lucrative Champions after 11 matches as it looks to claim a first anti-doping rules is a mere “technicality” MORE THAN half the world’s national Birmingham University campus. League for the first time. English title in 43 years. that will have no bearing on the participa- Olympic committees have signed deals The US men’s and women’s bas- Figures released last month showed the In view of UEFA’s financial fair play tion of British athletes at next year’s Lon- to set up training camps in Britain be- ketball teams will be in Manchester, northwest club had net operating losses of regulations, which came into operation in don Olympics, the IOC said last month. fore next year’s London Games. while the US Olympic Committee will £160.5m, with the figure rising to £194.9m July, City’s chief operating officer Graham The World Anti-Doping Agency ruled The London organizing committee also have facilities at the University of by adding on “additional exceptional Wallace said: “Our losses ... will not be last month that the British Olympic As- said last month that 118 national bod- East London. charges” of £34.4m. repeated on this scale in the future.” sociation’s lifetime ban for drug offenders ies have reached agreements with local The British and Japanese Olympic They are the highest losses ever by Under those regulations, clubs face be- violates the anti-doping code, which sets communities throughout Britain. teams will use facilities at Loughbor- a British club in a single year, with its ing barred from the Champions League and out rules and sanctions for all Olympic “Each facility will provide a vital ough University in central England. staggering wage bill of £174m surpassing Europa League if they cannot break even bodies. service to ensure athletes can prepare he powerful Australian swimming that of Chelsea (£172m) and Manchester on football-related business. Britain is the only country with a for competition in 2012 while engaging team will be in Manchester and Chinese United (£152m). City’s overall turnover rose 22.5 percent lifetime drug suspension, and the BOA their local community with sport and gymnasts in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Bankrolled by Abu Dhabi billionaire to £153.2m and commercial revenue was was the only national Olympic committee culture,” LOCOG chairman Sebastian Brazil will train at the Crystal Palace Sheikh Mansour, City spent heavily last up almost 50 percent to £48.5m. TV rights found in noncompliance with the code by Coe said. sports center in London, while Canada year on improving its squad with world- rose 27.4 percent to £68.8m. WADA’s foundation board in Montreal. Usain Bolt and the Jamaican athlet- and South Korea will use facilities at class players such as David Silva and Yaya “We should not underestimate the WADA President John Fahey said he ics team and the US track and field London’s Brunel University. Toure and was rewarded by winning the club’s other major achievements in terms was “very disappointed that it’s come team will train in Birmingham in cen- National committees are paid up FA Cup – its first major piece of silverware of its continued commercial performance, to this.” tral England. They will use the newly to £25,000 each to train at approved since 1976. groundbreaking partnership initiatives, The BOA is expected to defend its rule renovated Alexander Stadium and the camps in Britain. Roberto Mancini’s team also finished expanding contribution to the community, at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. third in the league to reach this season’s and independent recognition for the quality Compliance with the World Anti-Dop- Royal Mint Making Rugby’s Longest Ever Match Champions League, which helped entice of our facilities and match day offerings,” ing Code is mandatory under International the likes of Argentina striker Sergio Ague- chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak said. Olympic Committee rules. The ultimate 2012 Olympic Medals A RUGBY CLUB in northwest England sanction for failing to comply is exclusion has set a record for the sport’s longest BRITAIN’S Royal Mint has begun mak- ever match by playing continuously for FOOTBALL from the Olympics. TECHNICALITY ing the 4,700 medals that will be awarded more than 24 hours. Magpies Rename Stadium Sports Direct Arena But the IOC noted that Britain’s national during the 2012 London Olympics and Congleton RUFC played the equiva- anti-doping agency, UK Anti-Doping, is Paralympics. lent of 18 straight matches plus injury JUST WHEN Newcastle United fans fans already exhibited several times in The medals will each take 10 hours to time to raise money for charity and and owner Mike Ashley seemed to have Ashley’s four-year tenure. “fully compliant” with the code and said there was no risk to athletes from the 2012 make by a select team of designers, techni- earn a place in The Guinness Book of reached a truce, the Premier League club “Just as Alan Pardew and his players are cians and craftsmen in South Wales. Records. prompted fury among supporters last doing so well, with a new spirit emerging host nation. “The BOA has only been deemed non- British artist David Watkins designed A 44-man squad was split into teams month by announcing it had renamed its between the club and the supporters, Ash- the Olympic medals. The front of the named Congleton Bears and Mali Li- 119-year-old stadium with immediate ley takes aim with a shotgun and shoots compliant on a technicality rather than any unwillingness of the BOA to fight doping,” medal displays the Greek goddess, Nike, ons. After a meager 40 points had been effect. Newcastle United in the foot – again,” said stepping from the Parthenon to arrive at scored in the first 21 hours, the defenses Ashley’s uneasy relationship with the an editorial in Newcastle fan magazine IOC spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau said in a statement to The Associated Press. the host city. The reverse contains five were exhausted and the Lions ran out Magpies fans settled over the past three True Faith. “This will be a tragedy if the symbolic elements, including the River 889-715 winners. months as manager Alan Pardew guided inevitable outpouring of anger goes any- “We are confident that the BOA and UKAD will do their utmost to ensure clean British Thames, a symbol of London. 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Call: 1-800-490-0261 | Email: [email protected] December 2011 ujnews.com Page 23 Tottenham Hotspur – Emman- FIXTURES & DRAWS uel Adebayor scored early and late CARLING CUP REMIERSHIPREMIERSHIP first-half goals and Luka Modric ran Quarter-Finals PP rampant to power Spurs past Aston LEAGUE Week commencing November 28 Arsenal v Manchester City Villa, 2-0. Adebayor’s goals ex- Chelsea v Liverpool OUNDUP tended Spurs’ unbeaten run to nine Manchester United v Crystal Palace ROUNDUP R games. An amazing 13-save performance by TABLES Cardiff v Blackburn By Ridge Mahoney Aguero converted from the penalty spot be- Brad Friedel highlighted a 3-1 win at Fulham; AsAS of OF November AUGUST 2829 fore and after, respectively, a sharp finish by goals by Gareth Bale and Aaron Lennon pro- WILLIAM HILL Arsenal – Thomas Vermaelen defender Micah Richards in a 3-1 thumping of SCOTTISH CUP scored once for each team in a 1-1 vided a 2-0 halftime lead that barely lasted BARCLAYS PREMIER Newcastle that preserved City’s 100 percent amid a furious assault and a Younes Kaboul Fourth Round draw at Fulham. The Gunners won home record. Balotelli’s goal was his ninth P W D L F A GD Pts To be played January 7-8 their fifth straight league match 57th minute own goal. Substitute Jermaine Man City 13 11 2 0 43 12 31 35 Ross County v Stenhousemuir of the season. City rallied for a 3-2 win at Defoe scored the final goal with seconds left Man United 13 9 3 1 30 13 17 30 Livingston v Ayr/Montrose with a pair of goals by Robin Van Persie that QPR after falling behind for the first time this Tottenham H 12 9 1 2 26 16 10 28 Raith v Morton secured a 2-1 comeback triumph at Norwich. in stoppage time. Newcastle Utd 13 7 5 1 19 12 7 26 season. Goals by Edin Dzeko and David Silva Chelsea 13 8 1 4 28 17 11 25 Hearts v Auchinleck Talbot After a defensive miscue by Per Metersacker West Bromwich Albion – After Cowdenbeath v Hibernian pushed City ahead and Yaya Toure’s header Liverpool 13 6 5 2 17 12 5 23 enabled Norwich to take the lead, Van Persie Youssouf Mulumbu scored in the Arsenal 13 7 2 4 26 23 3 23 St Johnstone v Brechin five minutes after QPR had equalized proved 10th minute, keeper Ben Foster Aston Villa 13 3 7 3 16 17 -1 16 Stranraer/Forfar v Aberdeen took his tally for the calendar year to 30. to be the winner. Everton 12 5 1 6 15 16 -1 16 Culter/Partick v Queen of South Van Persie scored the first goal and set up saved a penalty but couldn’t cor- Norwich City 13 4 4 5 19 21 -2 16 Inverness v Dunfermline Manchester United – A pen- ral the rebound; that goal triggered a 3-1 Queens PR 13 4 3 6 14 24 -10 15 Falkirk v East Fife Vermaelen and Mikel Arteta for the others in alty kick whistled against Rio Stoke City 13 4 3 6 13 23 -10 15 Motherwell v Elgin/Queen’s Park Tottenham victory. Shane Long came back Swansea City 13 3 5 5 12 16 -4 14 a 3-0 defeat of West Bromwich Albion Ferdinand, who appeared to play West Brom A 13 4 2 7 12 20 -8 14 Arbroath v Rangers Aston Villa – Tottenham overran early from a knee injury to head the winner in Fulham 13 2 6 5 15 16 -1 12 Peterhead v Celtic the ball cleanly, infuriated United Villa, 2-0, at White Hart Lane while a 2-1 defeat of Bolton at the Hawthorns. After Sunderland 13 2 5 6 15 15 0 11 Airdrie Utd v Dundee Utd yet yielded the goal by which Newcastle gar- a Jerome Thomas opener and Bolton equal- Wlvrhmptn W 13 3 2 8 13 23 -10 11 Dundee v Kilmarnock piling up a 22-3 edge in shots. nered a 1-1 draw. Javier Hernandez blocked Bolton Wndrrs 13 3 0 10 19 31 -12 9 St Mirren v Hamilton Keeper Shay Given helped stem izer from a penalty conceded by Thomas, Wigan Ath 13 2 3 8 12 24 -12 9 an attempted clearance into the net for his sixth Long got his head to a Nicky Shorey cross Blackburn R 13 1 4 8 17 30 -13 7 the tide with four saves but his bobble of a goal of the season. Chicharito’s fifth was all SCOTTISH COMMUNITIES cross set up the second goal. The forward as West Brom beat Bolton for the first time NPOWER FOOTBALL LEAGUE LEAGUE CUP United required to post a 1-0 win at Swansea. in seven years. CHAMPIONSHIP Semi-Finals partnership of Gabriel Agbonlahor and Darren Ryan Giggs scooped up a weak Swansea pass Wigan Athletic – The Latics P W D L F A GD Pts To be played January 28 & 29 Bent sliced apart Norwich in a 3-2 victory; Southampton 18 12 3 3 40 19 21 39 Falkirk v Celtic and set up the Mexican international to score ended an eight-match losing Agbonlahor set up Bent for two goals and from close range. An own goal by former West Ham Utd 18 11 4 3 33 15 18 37 Ayr v Kilmarnock in-between scored himself. Bent equalized streak by drawing, 3-3, with Cardiff City 19 9 7 3 33 22 11 34 United Wes Brown provided United with a Blackburn. Jordi Gomez tied Middlesbro 18 8 8 2 23 15 8 32 UEFA EUROPA CUP five minutes after Norwich had taken the lead 1-0 home victory over Sunderland marked Leeds United 18 8 4 6 29 28 1 28 Wednesday, November 30 the game in the seventh minute and Gary Blackpool 18 7 6 5 30 23 7 27 and added the winner following Agbonlahor’s Hull City 17 8 3 6 18 18 0 27 Rubin Kazan v Shamrock Rovers, GpA by the north stand being renamed for Sir Alex st early second-half goal that put Villa in front. th Caldwell scored in the 31 for a 2-1 lead, but Birminghm C 16 7 5 4 23 18 5 26 Braga v Birmingham, GpH Ferguson on the 25 anniversary of his taking after conceding another goal they went ahead Leicester City 18 7 5 6 24 20 4 26 Celtic v Atletico Madrid, GpI Blackburn – A 3-1 loss at charge at the club. Crystal Palace 18 7 5 6 18 17 1 26 Tottenham v PAOK Salonika, GpA Stoke City left Rovers manager again when Albert Crusat poked home during Brighton 18 7 5 6 21 21 0 26 Newcastle – Demba Ba th Thursday, December 1 Steve Kean with just six victories a scramble in the 88 minute. A stoppage- Peterborough 18 7 3 8 34 31 3 24 FC Twente v Fulham, GpK converted a controversial pen- Reading 18 6 6 6 20 19 1 24 in 34 league matches since tak- time penalty kick awarded when the opposing Barnsley 18 6 6 6 21 22 -1 24 Stoke v Dynamo Kiev, GpE alty kick – at Old Trafford, of keeper, up for a corner, was fouled in the Derby County 18 7 3 8 23 28 -5 24 Wednesday, December 14 ing over; Ruben Rochina’s goal came with the all places – as the Magpies Burnley 18 6 3 9 25 29 -4 21 Besiktas v Stoke, GpE match long since decided. Ayegbeni Yakubu penalty area re-tied the game. Keeper Ali Portsmouth 18 5 5 8 20 21 -1 20 Fulham v Odense BK, GpK battled to a 1-1 draw despite Al-Habsi kept the Latics alive after they fell Ipswich Town 17 6 2 9 25 33 -8 20 Thursday, December 15 may have scored goals separated by the losing Jonas Gutierrez to a red card in the Watford 18 5 5 8 17 26 -9 20 Shamrock Rov v Tottenham, GpA longest duration ever recorded in a regulation th behind 1-0 at Sunderland; a Gomez penalty Nottingham Ft 18 6 2 10 18 30 -12 20 79 minute. Keeper Tim Krul’s heroics added Millwall 18 4 7 7 20 20 0 19 Birmingham v NK Maribor, GpH match; he scored less than two minutes after kick tied the game and sub Franco di Santo Bristol City 18 5 4 9 18 28 -10 19 Udinese v Celtic, GpI to United’s frustration. Dan Gosling got a late kickoff and in eighth minute of stoppage time notched the winner in stoppage time. Coventry City 19 2 7 10 16 29 -13 13 Group A consolation goal in a 3-1 loss at Man City Wolverhampton – A penalty Doncaster Rov 18 3 4 11 13 30 -17 13 P W D L F A Pts to book-end a dramatic 3-3 draw at Wigan. that ended the Magpies 11-match unbeaten PAOK 4 2 2 0 7 4 8 Rovers owners Venkatesh and Balajil Rao kick won by David Edwards and NPOWER FOOTBALL Rubin Kazan 4 2 1 1 6 3 7 run to start the season, equaling the starts converted by Stephen Hunt gave LEAGUE ONE Tottenham 4 2 1 1 4 2 7 flew in from India the morning of match, then in 1950-51 and 1994-95. An own goal and Shamrock Rovers 4 0 0 4 3 11 0 departed at half-time. Wolves a 1-0 lead at Everton in P W D L F A GD Pts Group E a spectacular Ryan Taylor strike downed the 37th minute, but Wolves surrendered an Charlton Ath 19 14 4 1 42 14 28 46 P W D L F A Pts Bolton – Ivan Klasnic equalized Everton, 2-1, in front of the top crowd of the Sheffield Wed 19 12 3 4 34 24 10 39 Stoke City 4 3 1 0 8 3 10 with a penalty earned via a foul on equalizer before halftime and gave away a Huddersfield 19 10 8 1 37 17 20 38 Besiktas 4 2 0 2 7 4 6 season to date; 50,761. MK Dons 19 10 6 3 39 21 18 36 Dynamo Kiev 4 1 2 1 3 3 5 Fabrice Muamba in a 2-1 loss at penalty kick late in the second half by which Sheffield Utd 19 10 5 4 33 22 11 35 Maccabi Tel Aviv 4 0 1 3 3 11 1 Norwich City – Grant Holt came it lost, 2-1. Goals 11 minutes apart in the Notts County 19 9 4 6 34 27 7 31 West Bromwich Albion. After Kevin off the bench to score the winner in Brentford 19 8 5 6 22 20 2 29 Group H Davies scored in the second minute second half swept Wolves to a 3-1 home Carlisle Utd 19 8 5 6 25 28 -3 29 P W D L F A Pts a 2-1 defeat of Queen’s Park Rang- triumph over Wigan. Jamie O’Hara, Edwards, Stevenage 19 7 7 5 24 18 6 28 Club Brugge 4 2 1 1 7 5 7 from a quickly taken and hotly disputed free ers in their first top-flight meeting Bury 19 8 3 8 25 27 -2 27 Birmingham C 4 2 1 1 7 7 7 kick, Chris Eagles and Klasnic each tallied and Stephen Ward scored for Wolves’ first Hartlepool U 18 7 5 6 24 25 -1 26 Braga 4 2 1 1 10 5 7 since 1995. The Canaries took command win in nine games. Tranmere R 19 7 5 7 20 21 -1 26 Maribor 4 0 1 3 3 10 1 twice as Wanderers pummeled Stoke City, early and grabbed the lead at Carrow Road Oldham Ath 19 7 5 7 27 29 -2 26 Group I 5-0, to reverse an FA Cup semifinal defeat by Colchester U 19 5 8 6 26 30 -4 23 P W D L F A Pts when captain Russell Martin tallied during a Bournemouth 19 6 5 8 22 26 -4 23 Atletico Madrid 4 2 1 1 7 3 7 the same score to the same team last April. scramble. Steven Morison capitalized on a Preston North E 18 7 2 9 31 36 -5 23 Udinese 4 2 1 1 5 6 7 Chelsea – Juan Mata set up BARCLAYS PREMIER Exeter City 19 5 5 9 20 30 -10 20 Celtic 4 1 2 1 5 5 5 defensive blunder to provide the Canaries FIXTURES FOR THE MONTH Leyton Orient 19 4 7 8 19 29 -10 19 Rennes 4 0 2 2 4 7 2 first-half goals for John Terry and a 1-0 home advantage against Arsenal that Scunthorpe Utd 19 3 9 7 25 30 -5 18 Group K Daniel Sturridge with a free kick Rochdale 19 4 5 10 22 35 -13 17 P W D L F A Pts not even a nine-save performance by keeper – Saturday, December 3 – Walsall 19 3 7 9 18 25 -7 16 FC Twente 4 3 1 0 12 5 10 and centering ball, respectively, John Ruddy could preserve in a 2-1 defeat. Newcastle v Chelsea Yeovil Town 19 3 7 9 21 30 -9 16 Fulham 4 2 1 1 7 3 7 before scoring a third himself as Chelsea Blackburn v Swansea Wycombe W 19 3 4 12 20 32 -12 13 Odense 4 1 0 3 6 10 3 Norwich took a 1-0 lead at Aston Villa with Man City v Norwich Chesterfield 19 3 4 12 23 37 -14 13 Wisla Krakow 4 1 0 3 4 11 3 overpowered Wolverhampton, 3-0. Stur- an Anthony Pilkington free-kick but crumbled QPR v West Brom NPOWER FOOTBALL ridge’s goal 10 minutes into the second half and conceded three before a late Morrison Tottenham v Bolton Wigan v Arsenal LEAGUE TWO UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE knotted up a game with Liverpool, 1-1, but goal narrowed the gap to 3-2 yet no further. Chelsea’s resistance melted in the 87th minute Aston Villa v Man Utd P W D L F A GD Pts RESULTS Queen’s Park Rangers – – Sunday, December 4 – Southend Utd 19 13 3 3 37 18 19 42 Played November 1 and they conceded a goal by which they lost, Two goals by Heidar Helguson Everton v Stoke Crawley Town 19 13 3 3 40 25 15 42 Arsenal 0, Marseille 0, GpF; Borussia D 1, Olym, 0 GpF; 2-1. Frank Lampard stooped to nod home a Wolverhampton v Sunderland Cheltenham T 19 12 2 5 29 18 11 38 Genk 1, Chelsea 1, GpE; Valencia 3, Bayer Lev 1, GpE – which gave him five in the last Shrewsbury T 19 11 4 4 32 19 13 37 – Monday, December 5 – Played November 2 low Branislav Ivanovic cross five minutes into Burton Albion 19 10 5 4 32 26 6 35 five matches – carried QPR to Fulham v Liverpool Bayern M 3, Napoli 2, GpA; Benfica 1, Basle 1, GpC; the second half for a hardly convincing 1-0 Swindon T 19 10 3 6 30 16 14 33 an impressive 3-2 win at Stoke – Saturday, December 10 – Gillingham 19 9 4 6 33 25 8 31 Man Utd 2, SC Otelul Gal 0, GpC; victory at Blackburn. Morecambe 19 8 6 5 35 21 14 30 City. Helguson equalized midway through Arsenal v Everton Villarreal 0, Man City 3, GpA Everton – Goals by Marouane Oxford United 19 8 5 6 28 23 5 29 Played November 22 the first half and Luke Young scored just Bolton v Aston Villa Torquay Utd 19 7 7 5 31 26 5 28 Bayern M 3, Villarreal 1, GpA; Man Utd 2, Benfica 2, GpC; Fellaini and sub Apostolos Vellios Liverpool v QPR Rotherham U 19 7 6 6 34 33 1 27 before halftime for a 2-1 lead. Helguson’s Man Utd v Wolverhampton Port Vale 19 7 5 7 32 28 4 26 Napoli 2, Man City 1, GpA; SC Otelul Gal 2, Basle 3, GpC secured a 2-0 victory over Bolton th Played November 23 second goal in the 54 minute from a Joey Norwich v Newcastle AFC Wimbldn 19 7 5 7 29 35 -6 26 as Everton won back-to-back Macclesfld T 19 7 4 8 21 20 1 25 Arsenal 2, Borussia D 1, GpF; Bayer Lev 2, Chelsea 1, GpE; Barton cross was sufficient for QPR’s third Swansea v Fulham West Brom v Wigan Crewe Alex 19 8 1 10 22 27 -5 25 Marseille 0, Olympiakos 1, GpF; Valencia 7, Genk 0, GpE matches for the first time this season. Fellaini away win of the season. Jay Bothroyd’s fine Aldershot T 19 7 2 10 23 24 -1 23 FIXTURES scored from close range four minutes into the header gave QPR a 1-0 home lead against – Sunday, December 11 – Accrington S 19 5 8 6 20 23 -3 23 Tuesday, December 6 second half and Vellios netted 12 minutes Sunderland v Blackburn Bristol Rov 19 6 4 9 24 32 -8 22 Man City, and later they rallied to tie it, 2-2, Stoke v Tottenham Barnet 19 5 4 10 24 38 -14 19 Borussia D v Marseille, GpF; Chelsea v Valencia, GpE; from time. A rally from 1-0 down to beat Hereford Utd 19 4 5 10 16 32 -16 17 Genk v Bayer Lev, GpE; Olympiakos v Arsenal, GpF with a Helguson goal but after conceding – Monday, December 12 – Northampton 19 4 4 11 23 39 -16 16 Wednesday, December 7 Wolverhampton, 2-1, eased the pressure of again, a Helguson shot off the bar left them Chelsea v Man City Bradford City 19 3 6 10 20 28 -8 15 Basle v Man Utd, GpC; Benfica v SC Otelul Galati, GpC; five defeats in the previous six matches. Phil with a 3-2 defeat. – Saturday, December 17 – Dagenham&R 19 4 1 14 17 36 -19 13 Man City v Bayern Munich, GpA; Villarreal v Napoli, GpA Jagielka’s header from a Leighton Baines free Blackburn v West Brom Plymouth A 19 3 3 13 18 38 -20 12 Stoke City – Goals from Rory Everton v Norwich UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE kick tied the game and nearly 40 minutes of Delap, Glenn Whelan and Peter Fulham v Bolton CLYDESDALE BANK SCOTTISH PREMIER STANDINGS frustration denied them a winner until a push- Crouch produced a 3-1 home Newcastle v Swansea P W D L F A GD Pts ing foul on Louis Saha presented a penalty Wolverhampton v Stoke Rangers 16 12 3 1 30 7 23 39 Group A defeat of Blackburn that ended a Wigan v Chelsea Celtic 16 11 2 3 34 14 20 35 P W D L F A Pts kick that Baines converted. Jack Rodwell – Sunday, December 18 – Motherwell 16 9 3 4 20 18 2 30 Bayern M 5 4 1 0 11 4 13 four-game losing streak in league play. Delap scored at the end of the first half in a 2-1 th QPR v Man Utd St Johnstone 15 6 5 4 18 12 6 23 Napoli 5 2 2 1 8 6 8 Hearts 16 6 4 6 15 11 4 22 opened the scoring in the 28 minute and Aston Villa v Liverpool Man City 5 2 1 2 7 6 7 loss at Newcastle. Stoke led the rest of the way, unlike what St Mirren 16 5 5 6 14 19 -5 20 Villarreal 5 0 0 5 2 12 0 Fulham – With an own goal and Tottenham v Sunderland Kilmarnock 16 4 7 5 21 25 -4 19 Group B befell them against Queen’s Park Rangers in Man City v Arsenal Dundee Utd 16 4 6 6 21 26 -5 18 a few spectacular saves by Mark Hibernian 16 3 5 8 16 26 -10 14 P W D L F A Pts a 3-2 defeat. Crouch set up Jon Walters to – Tuesday, December 20 – Inter Milan 5 3 1 1 7 5 10 Dunfermline 16 3 5 8 19 34 -15 14 Schwarzer, Fulham extracted a Wolverhampton v Norwich Aberdeen 15 3 4 8 17 21 -4 13 Trabzonspor 5 1 3 1 3 5 6 score the opener in the eighth minute but QPR Blackburn v Bolton Lille 5 1 2 2 6 6 5 1-1 draw at Arsenal. Despite an hit the next three before Ryan Shawcross Inverness CTe 16 3 3 10 20 32 -12 12 CSKA Mscw 5 1 2 2 7 7 5 astounding 31-9 edge in shots, the Cottag- – Wednesday, December 21 – tucked away a Crouch flick-on. Ricardo Fuller Aston Villa v Arsenal Group C ers fell at home to Tottenham, 3-1; all their IRN-BRU SCOTTISH DIVISION ONE P W D L F A Pts came on as a sub, his first appearance since Man City v Stoke Newcastle v West Brom P W D L F A GD Pts Benfica 5 2 3 0 7 4 9 efforts produced just an own goal and a sustaining an Achilles injury in April. Ross County 14 9 4 1 24 11 13 31 Man United 5 2 3 0 10 6 9 clear Spurs handball in the penalty area that Everton v Swansea Falkirk 14 6 4 4 23 22 1 22 Basel 5 2 2 1 9 9 8 Sunderland – Kieran Fulham v Man Utd Dundee 14 6 2 6 17 16 1 20 Otelul Glti 5 0 0 5 3 10 0 wasn’t whistled. Clint Dempsey was thwarted Richardson and Jack Col- QPR v Sunderland Livingston 14 4 7 3 20 19 1 19 Group D by a fine save and goalmouth block, Zdenek Wigan v Liverpool Greenock M 14 5 4 5 17 23 -6 19 P W D L F A Pts back smashed shots off the – Thursday, December 22 – Hamilton Ac 14 5 3 6 21 17 4 18 Grygera had to be stretchered off with an Partick Th 13 4 4 5 19 14 5 16 Real Madrid 5 5 0 0 16 2 15 woodwork in a 0-0 home Tottenham v Chelsea Ajax 5 2 2 1 6 3 8 apparent knee injury. Raith Rovers 14 4 3 7 14 17 -3 15 Lyon 5 1 2 2 2 6 5 draw with Fulham. Sebastian Larsson’s – Monday, December 26 – Ayr United 13 4 3 6 13 24 -11 15 Dinamo Zgrb 5 0 0 5 2 15 0 Liverpool – Charlie Adam’s goal in the eighth minute side provided a Chelsea v Fulham Queen ot Sth 14 3 4 7 14 19 -5 13 Group E shot was diverted past the goal- 1-0 lead the Black Cats were unable to hold; Arsenal v Wolverhampton IRN-BRU SCOTTISH DIVISION TWO P W D L F A Pts keeper for an equalizer, yet Bolton v Newcastle Bayer Lvrksn 5 3 0 2 7 7 9 they gave away a penalty kick near the end Liverpool v Blackburn P W D L F A GD Pts Chelsea 5 2 2 1 10 4 8 he and his teammates were Man Utd v Wigan Cowdenbeath 14 9 3 2 31 14 17 30 of the first half and conceded a winner in Arbroath 14 9 3 2 34 21 13 30 Valencia 5 2 2 1 12 4 8 stymied repeatedly in a 1-1 Sunderland v Everton Genk 5 0 2 3 1 15 2 second-half stoppage time to lose, 2-1 at Stenhousemuir 14 7 3 4 26 19 7 24 draw with Manchester City. Glen Johnson West Brom v Man City East Fife 14 6 1 7 20 26 -6 19 Group F home to Wigan. Stoke v Aston Villa Dumbarton 14 5 3 6 26 28 -2 18 P W D L F A Pts stormed into the goalmouth to score the Swansea City – Prior to kickoff – Tuesday, December 27 – Albion Rov 14 5 2 7 23 28 -5 17 Arsenal 5 3 2 0 6 3 11 winner against his former club in a 2-1 win Swansea v QPR Airdrie Utd 14 3 5 6 29 35 -6 14 Marseille 5 2 1 2 4 2 7 of a match against Aston Villa, Brechin City 14 3 5 6 15 21 -6 14 Olympiakos 5 2 0 3 5 5 6 at Stamford Bridge. Maxi Rodriguez’s goal in a moment’s silence was held in Norwich v Tottenham Forfar Ath 13 3 4 6 21 26 -5 13 Borussia Dtmnd 5 1 1 3 4 9 4 the 33rd minute marked his first start of the – Friday, December 30 – Stirling Alb 13 3 3 7 16 23 -7 12 Group G tribute to Wales manager Gary Liverpool v Newcastle season and Johnson’s dramatic strike in the – Saturday, December 31 – P W D L F A Pts th Speed, who was found dead in his apart- IRN-BRU SCOTTISH DIVISION THREE APOEL 5 2 3 0 6 4 9 87 came when he controlled a crossfield ment earlier that day. Welsh internationals Man Utd v Blackburn P W D L F A GD Pts Zenit St Ptrsbrg 5 2 2 1 7 5 8 ball from Adam and nutmegged Ashley Cole Arsenal v QPR Annan Ath 12 8 3 1 23 11 12 27 Porto 5 2 1 2 7 7 7 Ashley Williams, Neil Taylor and Joe Allen Bolton v Wolverhampton Alloa Ath 13 7 4 2 20 18 2 25 Shakhtar Dntsk 5 0 2 3 4 8 2 before firing home. lined up for Swansea, and were joined by Chelsea v Aston Villa Elgin City 12 6 3 3 22 13 9 21 Group H Norwich v Fulham Berwick Ran 13 6 3 4 26 20 6 21 Manchester City – Vincent their international teammate James Collins, Stranraer 12 6 2 4 27 18 9 20 P W D L F A Pts Stoke v Wigan Barcelona 5 4 1 0 16 4 13 Kompany scored in a 1-1 draw at who played for Villa in a 0-0 draw. A superb Queen’s Park 12 5 3 4 18 18 0 18 AC Milan 5 2 2 1 9 6 8 Swansea v Tottenham Clyde 12 4 4 4 16 11 5 16 FC Viktoria P 5 1 1 3 2 9 4 Liverpool in which Mario Balotelli save by Michael Vorm on Luis Suarez helped – Sunday, January 1 – Montrose 13 4 1 8 22 33 -11 13 BATE Borisov 5 0 2 3 2 10 2 came on as a sub and drew two the Swans hold Liverpool to a 0-0 draw at West Brom v Everton Peterhead 12 1 3 8 11 21 -10 6 cautions in six minutes. Balotelli and Sergio Anfield. Sunderland v Man City E Stirlingshire 13 1 2 10 10 32 -22 5 Page 24 ujnews.com December 2011

RFU Comes Down has opted to go for surgery on his shoulder. United Extend Chicharito Ireland for another four years and then hand The operation to get rid of a trapped nerve is Contract Until 2016 the bench over to (assistant coach Marco) expected to rule him out for up to six months. Tardelli.” Heavily On Tindall He aims to make the Lions’ tour of Australia JAVIER HERNANDEZ has signed a new Ireland qualified for a major tournament for in 2013 the climax of his career. contract with Manchester United, tying the the first time in a decade after sealing a 5-1 Earlier this year he broke a 78-year-old Mexico striker to the Premier League side featuring David Beckham – plays its first aggregate win over Estonia in a Euro 2012 record set by Scot Ian Smith as the all-time until the end of the 2015-16 season. group match the following day at Manchester playoff last month. Five/Six Nations try scorer when he crossed Initially signed by United as a long-term United’s stadium. Trapattoni says he wants Ireland to at least for his 25th championship try against Eng- prospect, the 23-year-old Hernandez has Government sport minister Hugh Robert- reach the final eight, pointing to Greece’s land. scored 23 goals in 55 appearances since son says “there are no greater football venues surprise victory at Euro 2004 as inspiration. Shaun Edwards Signs For Wales moving from Chivas in July 2010. anywhere than our host stadiums.” Shaun Edwards has left London Wasps “Chicharito” helped United win a record The teams play a group match every three after 10 years as defence coach and head 19th English league title and reach the days. The draw to decide their opponents has FIFA’S Blatter Faces coach. Wasps’ director Lawrence Dallaglio Champions League final, earning a regular yet to be made. and Northampton’s English winger Chris Ash- starting berth and praise from manager Alex With England, Scotland, Wales and North- Calls To Resign In ton took the opportunity at his presentation to Ferguson. ern Ireland recognized as separate countries remind the England hierarchy that Edwards Ferguson says “the last player I remember by FIFA, Britain last played at the Olympics Racism Furor making an impact as big and as quickly as in Italy in 1960. Mike Tindall could fit into the national coaching line-up By Graham Dunbar now that his Welsh contract had expired. Javier is Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ... His talent for creating space in the box and his finish- WITH FIFA still MIKE TINDALL has been fined £25,000 and Sadly for them, they were rapidly to dis- ing ability mark him out as a natural goal Huddersfield Sets Football banned from England’s elite play- cover that Wales were not letting League Record reeling from corrup- scorer.” tion allegations, Sepp ers squad of 32, effectively ending him go that easily and he is now HUDDERSFIELD extended its unbeaten run his career as an English player. signed up for another four years Blatter faced a sharp FA To Replace Medal Reid to a history-making 43 games by beating backlash and calls for This follows his behaviour during to take the boyos up to the next Notts County 2-1 in the Football League the World Cup when he was filmed World Cup. Welsh Chief Executive Sold For Club his resignation last last month. month following his staggering around and drunkenly Roger Lewis has sworn he will THE ENGLISH Football Association will The northern club is now just six matches embracing a blonde ex-girlfriend. move heaven and earth to keep replace the FA Cup medal former England comments downplay- By John Polley short of Arsenal’s English all-league record ing the problem of He also changed the version of together his coaching team – and midfielder Peter Reid auctioned off to help of 49 games undefeated, achieved by Arsene events he gave to the team management and he has been as good as his word. pay the wages at a cash-strapped club he Sepp Blatter racism in football. Wenger’s “Invincibles” who went through the The FIFA presi- his own advisers. Nathan Hines Retires managed. whole of the 2003-04 Premier League season He now intends to appeal the fine but if it Despite Reid selling the treasured medal dent provoked outrage by suggesting in Scots forward Nathan Hines is retiring without losing. television interviews that on-field racial goes ahead it will cost his team, Gloucester, from the Test arena after 11 years at the top. and helping to pay a heating bill at Plymouth Since losing 4-1 to Southampton on De- as much as £100,000. This comes from the out of his own pocket, Reid was fired last abuse could be settled by a handshake and Aussie-born Hines only came to the land of cember. 28 last year, Huddersfield – which quickly forgotten. £160,000 that is paid by the Rugby Football his maternal grandfather for a six-month stay month as manager of the bottom club in the plays in the third-tier League One – has won Union to clubs for each elite player on their fourth tier of English football. Britain’s sports minister called for Blat- in 1998 but hung on to win 77 caps. During 25 games and drawn 18. ter to go “for the sake of the game,” the books. Tindall’s £200,000 club contract is that period he helped Scotland beat every top Throughout the turmoil, it was left to Reid That run surpasses Nottingham Forest’s due to expire in the summer. to persuade the players not to strike while not European Union described his remedy for rugby nation apart from New Zealand and he 42-game unbeaten run across the 1977- racism as “completely unacceptable” and Johnson Resigns also won selection for the 2009 British and receiving full salaries. 78 and 78-79 seasons, which stood as a Martin Johnson walked away from the Now, though, he is going to receive the global players’ union said his comment Irish Lions tour. Football League record as it came before the was “a remarkable mistake.” England’s coach’s job in mid-November National coach Andy Robinson described another copy of the 1986 FA Cup runner-up launch of the Premier League in 1992. at a meeting of the Rugby Football Union medal from the governing body. Former England and Manchester United him as one of Scotland’s toughest competi- Huddersfield is managed by former New- striker Andrew Cole wrote in a newspaper executive. He accepted his side had fallen tors”. And you couldn’t argue with that. The Liverpool-born Reid has managed castle midfielder Lee Clark. well below expectation in the World Cup and Manchester City, Leeds, Sunderland and the column that Blatter was “clueless” and an took full responsibility for it. England’s 2012 Autumn Series Thailand national team after a career that saw “out-of-touch buffoon.” England’s record over the past three and Next autumn England face a gruelling him play for England 13 times. Trapattoni Wants To Lead Blatter’s latest gaffe follows previous a half years of his management has been series of matches. In the space of three Ireland At Euro 2016 verbal missteps such as suggesting that moderate but Johnson came nowhere near weeks from November 10, they will play Fiji, British Olympic Football HE’S ALREADY going to be the oldest coach women players should wear tighter shorts, establishing England as a major force. It was Australia, South Africa and World Champions at next year’s European Championship, and and gay fans should refrain from having simply asking too much of him to succeed at New Zealand. Fixtures Announced now 72-year-old Giovanni Trapattoni says sex at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar where the highest level at a job he had never tackled In all, England will play South Africa four LONDON organizers say Britain will play its he wants to coach Ireland through to Euro homosexual acts are illegal. before – coaching. Predictably he failed. But times in 2012 following a three-Test tour to first men’s Olympic football match since 2016. DISCREDIT who put him in that post? that country in the summer. The All Blacks 1960 on July 26 at Old Trafford. Trapattoni’s contract is due to expire after Blatter managed to further discredit Brian O’Driscoll To Miss Six Nations will be playing their first game on English soil Organizers of the 2012 London Games Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, but he tells FIFA just weeks after he won some praise Brian O’Driscoll’s career is hanging in since lifting the trophy. say Britain’s women’s team will open their the Gazzetta dello Sport that extending it is for promising to confront allegations of the balance. The 32-year-old Leinster player John Polley tournament at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium “only a formality.” financial wrongdoing by senior colleagues has not played for his side all season and [email protected] on July 25. The men’s team – possibly Trapattoni adds, “I would like to stay with Continued on page 20

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