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7 days IT’S BEEN A GOOD WEEK FOR... BTS The South Korean boy band (right) have iNewsQuiz become the first group to have a foreign- language song enter the US charts at No 1. ‘Life The stories that shaped the week Goes On’, sung predominantly in Korean, topped 1 Which animated character will the US Billboard 100 chart in its debut week. adorn a commemorative 50p coin? Transformational biology A 50-year-old 2 Who had a Major accident that biological challenge has been solved by AI left him needing a walking boot? researchers at Google, which could accelerate the development of drugs for cancer and other 3 More than 1,000 people signed up diseases. Researchers will be able to predict for an “-throwing contest” at the the shape of proteins, and understand how Making a unveiling of a statue of whom? they perform specific tasks in the body, in days rather than years in the once-in-a-generation 4 What connects Lewis Hamilton, breakthrough. The development could also help Prue Leith and Margaret Atwood? feed the world and even solve the plastic crisis. meal of it 5 Which country said it had landed Sore eyes An effective new treatment to a robot probe on the Moon? restore vision is on the horizon. It works by injecting genetically modified stem cells into MPs don’t know if the Scotch egg is more 6 What pantomime role will Olivia the eye to mend damaged retinas. Letters from strangers An unwell 10-year-old Sir David Attenborough The broadcaster Colman play in BBC Two’s version from Chartham in Kent, Abbie Paice, received and natural historian, 94, will receive a lifetime than a snack. So what do the people who of Cinderella this Christmas? Rewilding Beavers have built their first dam in thousands of birthday cards and presents from achievement award at the Rose d’Or Award in Exmoor in more than 400 years, following river well-wishers around the world after her mother recognition of his 60-year career. The awards, make them think, asks Kasia Delgado 7 A statue of whom appeared restoration work by the National Trust. The dam shared on social media that she loved receiving set up in 1961, celebrate achievement in on the empty Edward Colston at the Holnicote Estate near Minehead has been letters in the post. entertainment programming. plinth in Bristol in a tribute to the made by the first beavers to be released into the n a year as strange as 2020, dish, hence the “Scotch” part of its started. Our regular-sized ones are actor Dave Prowse? wild by the trust in its 125-year history. Inspirational teachers Ranjitsinh Disale, a Climate change Global emissions goals are now perhaps it is fitting that this week name, but others believe it has nothing perfect for a light lunch.” teacher from a village school in India, who within “striking distance” following pledges of the most hotly debated topic in to do with Scotland and arrived here The Gourmet Scotch Egg Company 8 Alien, , Dragon, Seahorse, Maggie O’Farrell (inset) The author’s fought for the education of girls, won action from big polluters such as China and the the UK has been the Scotch egg. from India, after British soldiers in York agrees. “We view Scotch Viking, Blob, Swan, Bush Baby – all lauded book about the short life of this year’s Global Teacher Prize. He US, a think-tank has said. If all nations meet their IThis humble ball of egg, meat and returned home from the colony having either way,” says Kate Dawson, who will appear in which TV show? Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet, was gave away half of the $1m (£740,000) net-zero emissions targets, the world is heading breadcrumbs has for days graced enjoyed the dish nargisi – an egg makes the dish herself for the business, named Waterstones book of the year. prize, sharing it with the runners-up. for 2.1°C of warming by the end of the century – front pages, radio shows and television wrapped inside lamb mince and fried. “but they can be a substantial snack 9 What did German divers Jamie Frost, a UK teacher who ran just short of the Paris Agreement goal of limiting news segments. The matter in question: Whoever we have to thank (or blame, if you have one of ours. They are the searching the Baltic for discarded Osteoporosis sufferers Scientists a free maths tuition website, was warming to between 1.5°C and 2°C. is it a meal or a snack? depending on one’s taste buds), the size of tennis balls, but they can also fishing nets stumble upon? have identified a gene that plays a awarded a one-off Covid Hero prize. The furore began when Cabinet Scotch egg appears to have enjoyed life be served with salad, chips or potatoes key role in the ageing of bone, tendon, Heritage highlights The 5,000-year-old minister George Eustice said that a as a substantial meal in certain homes and you have a meal. We’ve seen many 10 Whose son is set to join ligament and cartilage, which they hope Green living Hundreds of Scottish sarsen stones at Stonehenge were Scotch egg would count as a substantial in Victorian Britain. In Mrs Beeton’s restaurants doing this.” a Formula One team for the can be used to treat age-related diseases homes are to become the first in the world illuminated with images of unsung meal, and could therefore be served 1861 Book of Household Management, she Louise Wagstaffe, an experienced chef first time next year? connected to the skeletal system. to use 100 per cent green hydrogen for heritage champions from across the with alcohol by in tier two areas. advises to serve one for supper with who founded social enterprise Delicious heating and cooking in a trial that could UK who have worked to keep the Michael Gove, perhaps unaware “good brown gravy”. The sausage meat By Design, feels the nation might be Andrea Levy The late author of the prize- lead to households across the country UK’s heritage accessible during of the hornet’s nest he was kicking, could also, she suggested, be replaced asking the wrong question about Scotch winning Windrush novel ‘Small Island’ will replacing fossil fuel use. the pandemic. said shortly afterwards: “A couple of with pounded anchovies. eggs. “Perhaps the question should be: Answers below become the first writer of colour to have her pen

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nature of the Scotch egg has a Scotch egg. “They remind if it’s high enough quality. He uses rare- she adds. “For me, a Scotch egg is a i a Super Cup game in 2019. refurbished bikes to refugees. US coast for almost 48 hours. changed over the years since it me of picnics as a child,” the breed pork, game or venison to swaddle wonderful snack. Coupled with a lovely was invented. celebrity chef tells iweekend. “We a large free-range egg. He says plenty summer salad, it would make a light Luxury department store Fortnum used to go to Windsor Great Park in of his clients eat them as the main dish, lunch. However nobody ever says: ‘Let’s & Mason claims to have created the summer and there was always a Scotch with a bit of salad on the side. “Ours are go out for a Scotch egg dinner” in the dish in the mid-18th century, touting egg in the hamper, so there is a lot of quite large so sometimes people even way you might say ‘Let’s go for a steak’ it as an easy snack for the well-to-do nostalgia attached to it for me.” share them with their families,” he says. or ‘Let’s go for a curry’.” traveller passing through London’s Instead of being content with a hard- Nobody What adds meal-worthy substance to The novelist Ian Rankin offered a very busy Piccadilly. However, this isn’t boiled picnic variety in his restaurants, ever says: his eggs is the breadcrumb layer. Some different perspective when he tweeted necessarily the truth. “I’m sure they he wondered whether it would be supermarket varieties might use panko this week that his venerable character started life as part of dinner, not as a possible to develop one with a runny ‘Let’s go for breadcrumbs, which are light and crisp, detective Rebus has a particularly good traveller’s food,” food historian Annie . “After a lot of trial and error, we a Scotch but Laing “blitzes” a rustic loaf. recipe for Scotch eggs: FREE TROLLS TOY FIGURE PLUS 20% OFF Gray (inset) said in 2015. “Plus, if you’re developed a recipe which we use for the Size matters for London butchers “Put eggs on to boil. rich enough to shop at Fortnum’s, you’d quail’s egg ones we serve at the Hind’s egg’ as you HG Walter, too. “Our Scotch eggs are Pour a Scotch while you wait. be stopping at an inn for lunch, not Head in Bray. We were the first to do might say bite-size and easily snackable,” says a Keep drinking. 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