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I always thought that I climbed the Keir Starmer was fit, but not in a sexy lawyer way Shard, went Robert Crampton STEFAN ROUSSEAU/PA to prison, elen Fielding, having naughtily strung everyone along, has Helena’s confirmed that Keir Starmer was not the sofa leaves role model for Mark and now this Darcy in her Bridget me cold Jones books, as played by Colin Firth in the films. Like Fearful of sounding Last Christmas George King was in HFirth in the films, Starmer might be pervy, I try not to sexy in a buttoned-up lawyerly way, write about Helena Fielding says, but she didn’t base her Christensen more than Pentonville, jailed for scaling the UK’s heroine’s love interest on him for the a couple of times a good reason that she has never met year. She’s not easy to tallest building. So why is he still the guy. So that’s that. ignore, however, the Or rather, that will be that once great Dane. At 50 she climbing, asks Candida Crewe I’ve stuck my oar in. Thing is, I know was gadding about in Starmer slightly, having played football a bustier. Now, at 51, with him for a while 25 years ago, she’s ditched even the n Saturday In October last year he was when he was plain mister, not Sir Keir. underwear and been morning, when a lot sentenced to six months in Pentonville I didn’t find him sexy in a buttoned-up photographed naked on of us were doing a for the Shard incident and served lawyerly or any other way, but I can a sofa. Naturally, she spot of Christmas three. Incredibly, he says he didn’t confirm he was extraordinarily fit. In looks fabulous. shopping, George mind his sojourn in prison. Released in the old-fashioned sense of that word. I dunno, though, King, who is in January, he has nonetheless been And no, I never saw him undressed maybe it’s the weather Barcelona, nipped enjoying his freedom ever since. He because it was evening six-a-side on a (it barely bothered to up the Torre lives with his parents near Oxford, but council pitch and that set-up rarely get light at all in Glories building. It took about 20 for the past two months, to avoid the runs to on-site hygiene. Besides, what London yesterday), Ominutes to get to the top. He admired second lockdown, the extreme athlete goes on in the shower, stays in the maybe it’s the virus, the view for a while like any old tourist has been sky-diving in Portugal. shower. Same as the loo: I once had a for ugly people” is spot on. Ever since maybe it’s age, but my and was back down in no time. I spoke to King after the Spanish wee next to George Clooney and I’ve the gorgeous pouting John Bercow passions were not as No biggie, you might think except, police, who were awaiting him on never blabbed about how far back left the Speaker’s chair, the house inflamed as once they unlike any old tourist, he went up and Saturday morning at the bottom of the from the urinal he needed to stand. has looked bereft of talent (in the might have been. down the outside. The skyscraper is Torre Glories — along with a crowd The younger Keir was a combative, new-fashioned sense of the word). My first thought on shaped not unlike the Gherkin in who had got wind of his ascent — had hard-running, box-to-box midfielder, In fact, the election a year ago was seeing the latest Helena London and is 144 metres tall. King, released him. The officers had taken not wildly skilful, but as efficient and a grey day for parliamentary crumpet- pose was: I’m not sure I who is 21, scaled it like Spider-Man, him briefly to a police station and he methodical a player as he is now a watchers, with heavyweight Adonises like her sofa, arms too with no ropes, just as in July 2019 he left not long afterwards; he expects a politician. I was a goal-hanging striker, such as Nick Soames, Vince Cable high in relation to the spirited himself up the side of the fine, but doesn’t know when he will get deadly with either foot from four yards and Ken Clarke binning it off. At seat, doesn’t look at all Shard and caused something of a it. Occupational hazard. out, so our paths didn’t cross often on the less shapely end of the spectrum, cosy, must be a Scandi media sensation in the process. When he was sent to prison for the the pitch. Mostly, I remember he had, Rory Stewart, Stephen Twigg and triumph of design-over- There were those who, reasonably Shard climb, he wasn’t arrested on the in the parlance, a great engine. He Philip Hammond disappointed their comfort thing. enough, were angry that his climb day because it was felt he hadn’t could run all day, Keir. And did, in fact. legions of lustful fans by stepping And my second potentially put pressure on the broken any actual laws. The policeman Most of us, even in our early thirties, down too. Even the rise of — sort thought was: that emergency services and, even more so, who met him at the top did not were only good for one or two sessions of, a bit, relatively speaking — dishy reminds me, we’re put other people’s lives at risk, quite handcuff him, but shook his hand a week. Keir was rumoured to play Rishi can’t compensate for a huge overdue to move our apart from his own. What if he had instead. It later transpired that he had four times or more. aggregated loss of such raw sofa at home from fallen from the Shard and injured or breached a High Court injunction on Energy is always underrated when sex-goddery on that scale. its usual position at a killed a pedestrian in the process? the building. While the trespassing explaining the progress (and perhaps Maybe the future of halfway decent right angle to the fire to King insists that he very specifically was deemed to be a civil as opposed to also the sex appeal) of successful elected eye candy lies away from its winter position planned for this tragic scenario and criminal offence, he was jailed for people. Lesser mortals think that high Westminster. Marvin Rees, the mayor opposite the fire. ensured that his choice of vertical contempt of court. He hasn’t been put achievers must be super-talented or of Bristol, is a looker, as well as a Which move, I confess, “route” meant that, had he fallen, he off. On the phone, back on terra firma, super-ambitious or super-ruthless. decent chap. And let’s not forget Andy I am actually quite would not have landed on a pavement he sounded as relaxed as anyone I tend to believe they can just keep “it’s not eyeliner, honest” Burnham in excited about. or anywhere near a person. might have done after a morning’s going longer than the rest of us. As Manchester. Another Andy — Street, On live television Piers Morgan was shopping. Perhaps even more so. in longer each day, and longer in life. West Midlands supremo — scrubs up clearly a detractor at first, but King “I’ve been here for four days,” he They are certainly not better OK. And the capital’s Sadiq Khan is at was so unassuming that by the end of said. “I selected which building to looking than the norm. Not the least neat and tidy. the programme he had the presenter climb, checked out the security and politicians anyway. “Showbusiness Not convinced? No, neither am I. eating out of his hand. I’ve known booked into a hotel near by last King since he was ten and I don’t night. I choose a date based on the consider him a reckless youth. In my weather and go for it. You can only the arrival of the royal reporter announced four, in 1981, Charles experience, he thinks deeply about all be in the zone for so long, when I train as the Duke and that the “tour” would buggers off for six the implications of his passion. He am in a wired state, building up to Call that Duchess of Cambridge last from December 6 weeks before his used to work for the charity a climb. The smallest little details began a tour to thank to, er, December 8. marriage to Diana. Centrepoint and as a personal trainer. have to go smoothly: hotel, food, sleep. a tour key workers around “That’s only two days,” So yeah, I know they Since the Shard, he has lived on I am an insomniac, partly due to my the country. I said to my wife. are getting shorter, savings from his work before lockdown ADHD, so I have to get as much as of duty? Prince William “Doesn’t sound like these jollies, but really, and has landed sponsorship and media I can. I managed seven or eight hours emerged in a tartan much of a ‘tour’ to me.” three miserly days? deals. He is writing a book. Channel 4 last night.” BBC News yesterday scarf. I wish he’d worn Perhaps I’ve been And how come has filmed more than 100 hours of The recces he did before attempting morning dutifully a Russ Abbot tam overdoing The Crown. they are allowed footage on him and the documentary to climb the 300m Shard went on for flashed over live to o’shanter with stick-on In series two, in 1956, to travel willy-nilly will probably be broadcast next year, months; he went back so many times Waverley station in orange wig instead, but the Duke of Edinburgh across tier boundaries although a 13-minute taster entitled he wore different clothes on each Edinburgh, the better still, good effort. With is packed off for five and national The Boy Who Climbed the Shard is occasion — a suit one visit, tracksuit breathlessly to report some fanfare, the months. In series borders anyway? already on YouTube. the next — so the CCTV cameras the times | Tuesday December 8 2020 1GT 3 FRANCESCO GUIDCINI FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES; SHARDCLIMBER/INSTAGRAM times2

Pentonville, many of whom were in London gangs. He may be middle- class, but, as he says, “I’m OK with roughing it. The food and the Who will make Meghan conditions didn’t bother me.” Amazingly, an internship of a different sort suited him more than and Harry’s honours list? boarding school. When he arrived at Pentonville, although he does not have By Stuart Heritage a criminal record, he was “cuffed like PAUL EDWARDS/THE SUN everyone else and got on with it”. There were stabbings, boiling kettles poured in people’s faces, self-harm, suicides and mayhem. Alarm bells rang the whole time. King describes it as being like a war zone, “super- intense” and very dehumanising. “When I arrived, I had to strip and squat and cough. I was no longer George, but prisoner No A9251EK. That’s just who you are. There is a lot of darkness there. In my twisted way I was glad it was the worst prison because I knew I could grow from the challenge of it 100 per cent. I learnt a lot about the world and myself. I was in a cell with someone of a different background, different ethnicity, different everything. He was in for attempted murder, but we bonded on humour. That’s universal. If you can find a way to use humour in the darkest situations in life you’re bulletproof.” He would not go so far as to say he wouldn’t get wind. This latest climb, at George King in front actively enjoyed it, but he certainly f reportst are truet — and,d pleaseplease imagineimagine HarryHarry ststrugglingruggling ttoo sosoundund half the height and with far easier of the Shard in London didn’t hate it; he admits that he found God, don’t let them be — the them all out phonetically in a tone- access, was “very simple” in and, below, on the it thrilling, that he was “learning, all Duke and Duchess of Sussex are deaf Zoom conversation about the comparison. “A different ball game.” Torre Glories building the time, far more about life than I planning their very own new year unfairness of inherited privilege, At first he was a bit surprised by ever did at school”. honours list. Papers filed in the delivered to mark the launch of yet how the glass panels on the Spanish When pressed on the food, the filth, IUS apparently show that Harry and another worthy start-up that nobody building tilted further down and were the cockroaches and the rats, he as Meghan’s Archewell foundation is will ever pay attention to. And for that more dusty than expected. He had the good as shrugged over the phone. preparing to distribute alternative reason it’s in. narrowest of metal edges on to “The most important thing [in awards that will celebrate “charitable which to lodge his toes for the prison]p is not to stand out,” service, education, science, literature, The Archewell medal for services upward journey, but he wasn’t KingK says. “But I couldn’t help racial justice, gender equity, to profound Zoom backgrounds put off. He heard sirens on the it because I am 6ft 5in and environmental stewardship, youth This year we discovered that the ascent, “from north, south, eeven when I’d only got as far empowerment, health and mental things behind us during Zoom calls east and west”, but carried on. aas my holding cell there was health”. All of which, if you ask me, define us as people. This award goes It took, he reckons, about 20 a TV with me on the news. I are far too specific. Here are the out to those who made the most minutes to reach the top (the wwas a target, but, for survival, medals that Harry and Meghan painfully earnest effort. The people Shard took 45). yyour mind changes so you should be handing out instead. with yoga mats. The people with “But it is December and bbecome super-aware the whole bonsai plants. The people with cold, and my hands were titime. On my first day, three The Archewell medal for self- backgrounds that were blank except numb, so I had to rub them at ppeople came in, one with a actualised emotional intelligence for a copy of the Marie Kondo book the top till they got warm kknife, to check me out. They The real honours list places too to prove that the blankness was again, and shake down the aasked me what gang I was much emphasis on real things that deliberate. The people with huge lactic acid. Going down was rrepresenting. I held my people have actually done in real manicured Zen gardens being worked almost as easy as going down sshoulders back and my chin up, life. Where are the awards for people on by underpaid immigrants. This a ladder. I cut my knee on aand when they told me who have spent the year working award is for you. one of the panels, so I was I was from Dagenham, I on themselves? Perhaps they made put in a waiting ambulance ccorrected them and said the choice to banish their negative The Archewell raindrop medal before the police car. It’s fine.” I was from Oxford.” energy. Perhaps they read the self-help for nature King’s mother, Hilary, works for her He taught one of his cell mates to book that Adele kept going on about Sorry, humans, this medal is for family property business; his father, read and write, although he is severely this year. Perhaps they bought a nature. Like, the entire concept of Clive, is a chartered surveyor. King is dyslexic. That made him feel that, Peloton. Either way, these people nature, which is Harry’s favourite the youngest of their three sons and despite his situation, he had a sense deserve recognition just as much thing. Nature makes people happy, was independent from an early age. of “earthly purpose”. as actual heroes do. after all, which is a part of why it He began climbing as a toddler, and at He was released on January 12 and exists. What would the world be age 12 climbed the roof of their house. woke the next day in his bed at his The Archewell medal for meaningful without nature? It would be ugly and He is looking forward to enjoying his On my parents’ house feeling “a bit hazy”. empowerment bad. Note: Meghan knows that this mother’s cooking at Christmas this He stood inside his door for five If you looked at the guest list for her award is pointless, but she also knows year. It will be an improvement on last first day in minutes waiting for it to be opened. wedding or the cover of the Vogue that if she includes it Harry will spend year’s slop, but he didn’t say that, I did. “I’d been in prison for over 100 days. issue she edited, you will have realised most of 2021 up a ladder trying to pin Last year, when he looked out of his jail, three It was habit,” he says, laughing. “Then that Meghan badly wants to be friends it to a cloud, which will allow her to cell and into the window of a family the penny dropped. Finally, I could let with as many famous people as concentrate on running for president Christmas on the outside, he missed people my guard down.” possible. Offering them an award with in peace. his family, but didn’t feel upset so came in, Between being let out of prison and “meaningful empowerment” written much as guilty that his choices had before the first lockdown he had to go on it seems like the easiest way for The Archewell medal for private made them suffer. His path as one with and climb a crane as soon as he could her to achieve that. Oprah would transport someone pursuing very different — “Freedom incarnate!” gladly take one. So would Reese Tyler Perry’s private jet, which flew passions — mountaineering and a knife, to Since his release, he has appreciated Witherspoon. Beyoncé would take them from Canada to Los Angeles in boxing as well as climbing — perhaps his family — and space — more than five or six. Gwyneth Paltrow would the middle of a pandemic. The private isn’t one trodden by many of his old check ever. Being able to see the sky probably clad her entire house with jet Harry took to London, hours after school mates. He never enjoyed properly. To walk without being them. Bingo, you’ve just bought your delivering an impassioned speech school. “I felt there was this idea that me out stopped. To have a beer. To eat food way into the celebrity inner sanctum. about climate change. Any of the four everyone has to follow a conventional cooked by his mother. To allow new private jets they took over an 11-day path of GCSEs and A-levels and an dreams to form. The Archewell medal for discovering span last year, creating tonnes and internship. I was so outside that box.” Yet with any luck, none of those closure in a holistic paradigm tonnes of completely unnecessary Certainly, he comes from a much dreams, hopefully realised, will mean Look, I’m going to level with you here. carbon emissions. All of these brave more comfortable background than that this amazing free spirit is ever I have no idea what any of these vehicles deserve medals. Ideally made that of any of his fellow inmates at banged up again. words mean. But I can very clearly of fossil fuels if possible. 4 1GT Tuesday December 8 2020 | the times times2health Yes, you can feast at Christmas Roast dinners, cheese, chocolate and mulled wine: you can have it all and not put on weight over the festive period by following these 27 rules, says Peta Bee

Weigh yourself every day able to avoid chocolate over the next Experts at the Birmingham University few weeks. If you choose dark over and Loughborough University milk your scales will thank you for revealed in their Winter Weight it. Nutritionists at the University of Watch Study, published in the BMJ, Copenhagen compared the effects of that regular weighing — at least twice milk and dark chocolate on appetite a week, but ideally every day — can and found that volunteers felt less prevent people from piling on the hungry and more full after consuming pounds at Christmas. Half of the 272 the dark stuff. Even smelling dark participants were asked to record their chocolate was shown in one study to weight in November and December of reduce levels of the hormone ghrelin, 2016 and 2017, while other participants which stimulates hunger. were not. The scale-users ended the study weighing on average 0.49kg Drink 500ml of tap water less than the non-weighers, who before a meal gained some weight. What scientists at the University of “A brief intervention over the Birmingham term “preloading” with Christmas period can help to prevent water half an hour before a large meal these small weight gains that can help you to lose pounds. Over a accumulate and drive the obesity 12-week period they monitored a epidemic,” wrote Professor Amanda group of obese patients, half of whom Daley of the School of Sport, were asked to preload with tap water Exercise and Health Sciences (sparkling water, sodas or sweetened at Loughborough University. drinks were not allowed) before main meals and the others to imagine they Don’t drink coffee first thing felt full before eating. At the end of the Researchers at the University of Bath’s trial the pre-loaders lost an average Weigh yourself every day Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and 4.3kg (9.48lb) compared with 0.8kg Metabolism suggest postponing your (1.76lb) lost by the control group. first black coffee of the day until after Keep up your daily steps had stable blood sugar levels and breakfast — drinking it beforehand Pile on the Brussels Daily exercise offsets some of the their fat cells showed fewer limits the body’s ability to tolerate Sprouts are low in calories and, being harmful physiological effects of festive “undesirable” changes. the sugar in your first meal, slowing a cruciferous vegetable, have been bingeing. Adding 45 daily minutes of glucose metabolism. A sluggish linked to healthier arteries. A study of walking (4,500-5,000 steps) over the Make reduced-calorie glucose metabolism can lead to weight 133,468 men and women over 24 years festive period could pay off. In a 2013 mulled wine gain. “Starting a day after a poor reported that eating more foods that study in the Journal of Physiology, A regular serving of mulled wine night’s sleep with a strong coffee had a are high in fibre but with a lower researchers at the University of Bath made with added sugar can contain negative effect on glucose metabolism, glycaemic load (a measure of how the showed how just one week of 210 calories. A reduced-calorie option reducing it by around 50 per cent,” carbohydrates in food affects blood overeating in non-exercisers led to in Dr Michael Mosley’s Fast 800 says Harry Smith, a researcher. sugar) — including Brussels sprouts — changes in fat cells that suggested intermittent fasting weight-loss plan was associated with greater weight loss unhealthy metabolic changes. contains 99 calories per serving. To Choose dark chocolate over compared with eating foods with a However, another group, who over-ate make six servings place 750ml dry red milk chocolate higher glycaemic index that were by the same level yet walked on wine, 1 orange (sliced into rounds), The reality is that most of us won’t be lower in fibre, such as carrots. a treadmill for 45 minutes a day, 8 whole cloves, 2 cinnamon sticks and the times | Tuesday December 8 2020 1GT 5 times2health without piling on the pounds COVER: CAMERA PRESS. BELOW: GETTY IMAGES TryT time-restricted eating reported that adding cranberries to interval-training sessions of 60-second KeepingK calorie consumption within the diet helps to reduce weight gain sprints with 60 seconds recovery, a timeline of 8-10 hours — known and deep belly fat. Other researchers repeated ten times on indoor bikes. aas time-restricted eating — can reported that cranberries boost The researchers reported in the hhelp to prevent a late-night splurge. cardiometabolic and gut health. Journal of Applied Physiology that they ““Most people will find it very difficult found that taking a bicarbonate of tto do any serious calorie-cutting Think twice about that soda solution beforehand raised levels oover Christmas,” Mosley says. “But Christmas pud of two appetite-suppressing hormones ssomething like time-restricted eating, According to the Winter Weight (and reduced hunger) for 90 minutes. iincluding rules such as a larger lunch Watch Study, a small Christmas aand ending your evening meal earlier, pud (weighing 450g) contains 1,280 Crack the walnuts can help, and recent studies have calories. Keep serving sizes to no A handful of walnuts a day stem suggested the approach is beneficial more than 100g each (284 calories) appetite. Obese hospital patients were for weight loss.” and limit the brandy cream and butter asked to drink a walnut smoothie you serve with it. containing 14 walnut halves or a Go for a walk after dinner placebo smoothie with identical Instead of slumping on to the sofa, Limit the cream liqueurs calories for five consecutive days. take a brisk 30-minute walk straight The charity Drinkaware says that They then underwent MRI brain after lunch or dinner. According one 50ml glass of Irish cream liqueur scans while looking at pictures of to researchers in Japan, reporting contains 175 calories — about the high-fat or low-fat food. In the walnut in the International Journal of General same as a small mince pie. And it’s group there was higher activation Medicine, it leads to more weight often automatically sold as a double of the insula, a part of the brain loss than waiting for an hour or measure in pubs and restaurants. involved in appetite control. longer after a meal has been “Walnuts can alter the way our consumed before heading outside. Got a sweet tooth? Eat a date brains view food and impact our In a trial, the study author lost Dates contain natural sugars and are appetites,” wrote the study’s authors at nearly 3kg during one month of not particularly low in calories — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center walking at a brisk pace just after a single Medjool date provides up in Boston. eating a meal; a volunteer, who walked to 65 calories — yet they provide at a more leisurely stroll, lost 1.5kg in fibre, which slows sugar absorption Aim for at least an hour the same time. into the bloodstream and keeps you of activity feeling full, as well as beneficial Researchers at Drexel University’s Buy an extra bag of fruit nutrients such as potassium, Center for Weight, Eating and Eat Stilton for a Clementines are low in calories manganese and some B vitamins. Lifestyle Science found that among (about 35 in each fruit), packed with Researchers report that dates boost dieters who didn’t exercise the risk healthy gut biome immune-enhancing vitamin C and the microbiome, which also helps with of overeating was 12 per cent. Among fibre and, what’s more, good for the healthy weight management. All of those who did an hour of daily activity, waistline. A 2015 study that looked at this makes them a far better option the risk of overeating (published in the diet habits of 133,468 American (in moderation) than the selection January 2020 in Health Psychology) 2 star anise in a large saucepan, and adults over 24 years found that eating box if you seek a sweet treat. more than halved to 5 per cent. For bring to a very gentle simmer over citrus fruits was linked to weight loss. every extra ten minutes of activity medium heat. Reduce heat to low Downsize your mince pies there was a further 1 per cent drop and continue to gently simmer for Snack on Brazil nuts The British Nutrition Foundation in the risk of overindulging in the another 15 minutes. “This is packed As long as you don’t choose the reports that a typical 67g mince pie next few hours. with resveratrol and therefore chocolate-coated variety, eating has 253 calories — and that’s before antioxidants,” Mosley says. “I’d Brazil nuts in moderation could prove you add cream. Switch to a mini Limit the roasties recommend a full-bodied wine to be a blessing for your waistline. minced pie (22g) and cut that to Cooked in goose fat, they are a to carry the spice flavour — try Researchers at San Diego State 87 calories per serving. necessity on any Christmas dinner. a shiraz or cabernet merlot.” University asked 22 healthy adults to In the Winter Weight Watch Study, consume 20g of Brazil nuts (five nuts) Don’t indulge in festive researchers advised participants to Eat turkey or 36g of pretzels — containing the hot drinks limit the number of roast potatoes It has a lower fat content per serving same levels of calories and salt — in Resist the temptation to buy a consumed. Three large roasties (100g) than chicken and a relatively high additioadditionn to their regular food. takeaway festive hot drink. According contain 161 calories, which would need amount of protein to help with muscleuscle BothBoth snackss increased a sense of to Action on Sugar, many are so 27 minutes of walking or 14 minutes of building, maintenance and repair. It fullness,fullnes yet the greatest reduction in sugar-laden that they contain as running to burn off. may also boost your festive exercisee hhungerung pangs was experienced by much as two or three white chocolate output. Turkey breast contains onee the group eating nuts, potentially and strawberry muffins or the Add cheese to your mash of the highest concentrations of ann hehelping to prevent overeating. equivalent of eating 14 custard cream Yes, many varieties of cheese are high amino acid called beta-alanine, WWhile the pretzels caused a biscuits. A grande-sized Starbucks in calories, but that doesn’t mean it which has been shown to buffer blblood sugar spike 40 minutes iced gingerbread frappe contains can’t be part of a weight-loss plan. against the lactic acid build-up aafterf consumption, the Brazil 366 calories and 32.7g (8 tsp) of Being high in protein, cheese has a low during intense exercise that can nnutsu did not have the same sugar, while Costa’s the Purple One glycaemic index (GI), meaning it won’t cause muscles to fatigue. Trials nnegativee effect. latte has 353 calories and 35.9g (nearly trigger blood sugar spikes. at the University of Chichester’s 9 tsp) of sugar. “You can add some high-flavour School of Sport, Exercise and Healthlth EatEEat Stilton (sparingly) cheese, such as cheddar, to mashed Sciences reported that 150g of turkeykey It’sIIt’s saltysalt and not low-calorie Eat plenty of turkey soup potato to help to reduce the GI load meat, roughly the amount in a singlegle (124(124 cacalorieslo per 30g serving), but you Mosley suggests making homemade of the starchy vegetable,” says turkey breast, increased muscle can still eat Stilton and other aged turkey soup packed with vegetables as Helen Bond, a spokeswoman for the concentrations of beta-alanine by Crack some cheeses (brie, mature cheddar and a nutritious and filling option over British Dietetic Association. “That 40 per cent and led to a 13 per cent walnuts to gruyère) sparingly because they are Christmas. However, researchers at means it helps to reduce the blood improvement in cycling performance good for gut health. Being fermented, Penn State University have suggested sugar spike that can result in hunger in volunteers. stem your they contain microbes that boost the that any low-calorie soup — those pangs after eating.” microbiome and, in turn, increase that aren’t cream-based — eaten as Avoid pigs in blankets appetite immunity and benefit all-round health a starter can help to reduce overall Get down and do burpees We should all be eating less processed — and a healthy microbiome is calorie consumption in a two-course They are gut-crunching hell, but meat. The British Nutrition associated with a healthy weight. meal by 20 per cent. burpees (a fusion of squats, planks, Foundation recommends substituting push-ups and a vertical jump) were sausage-based stuffing for those with Make your own fresh Take a teaspoon of bicarbonate found to be supreme calorie burners more nutritious chestnuts. One pig cranberry sauce of soda in water before a in a study by the American College in blanket has 70 calories. In their Fresh cranberries are low in calories hard workout of Sports Medicine. Performing Winter Weight Watch study, (about 22 calories per 100g), so it’s Bicarbonate of soda is known to three sets of ten fast burpees with Birmingham and Loughborough worth including them in your festive buffer the effects of acids in the a two-minute rest interval in between universities warned that you would meals (provided you don’t go mad bloodstream that result in fatigue. It the sets burnt about 9.6 calories need to run for six minutes or walk with the sugar). A review of evidence is a popular aid for athletes. Canadian per minute, more than squats for 12 minutes to burn that off. in the Journal of Functional Foods researchers put 11 volunteers through and push-ups. 6 1GT Tuesday December 8 2020 | the times healthbody&soul I wondered why I couldn’t conceive — I found out I had endometrial cancer Tori Tenzer was diagnosed by chance after she struggled to get pregnant at 28. She fears other cases could be missed

wasn’t sitting in the doctor’s symptom is vaginal bleeding and a to feeling as if my whole world were surgery awaiting my test results watery discharge. Because most crashing down. when I was diagnosed with women diagnosed with womb cancer Since my cancer and my treatment cancer. I was working at home have been through the menopause, were not visible to anyone else — and on a sunny Friday afternoon in any vaginal bleeding will be unusual. given that the pandemic meant limited July, preparing for a In women who have not been through social contact — I could have easily presentation. Then I received a the menopause, unusual bleeding carried on without telling anyone. Yet call that would change my life. means heavier periods or spotting in soon after my diagnosis I realised that I’d been expecting fertility results between normal periods. Less I couldn’t stay quiet. I couldn’t meet Ifrom an endometrial biopsy. My common symptoms include friends and have them asking me how husband, Ollie, and I had been trying discomfort in the lower abdomen I was without breaking down. I knew I for a baby for nearly a year with no and during sex. If endometrial cancer couldn’t continue to perform at work. success. When my gynaecologist reaches a more advanced stage, it I couldn’t handle jokes about when we called, cancer was the last thing on my may cause pain in the back, legs or were going to have a baby. mind — I just wanted to find out why, pelvis. My only clue was my inability So we told close friends and aged 28, I hadn’t become pregnant. He to get pregnant. colleagues. I knew I wasn’t ready to phoned me from a noisy train, en About eight in ten uterine cancer pick up the phone, so I wrote a route to see his father, who was dying patients receive major surgical Whatsapp message instead. I chose my from Covid-19. “You need to be resection (that is, a surgical operation words carefully. I didn’t want this to referred urgently to an oncologist,” he that when performed on a cancer define me. It took a week or so for me said. Time froze. patient would be an attempt to remove to have the courage to answer the The days between that call and the the tumour). The standard treatment phone. I soon realised that many oncologist appointment are a blur. I for endometrial cancer involves total people didn’t know how to act or what Endometrial cancer remember thinking we had to keep hysterectomy, which is the removal of to say when I told them that I have busy, but all we wanted to do was curl the womb, cervix, both fallopian tubes cancer and might never be able to — risks and treatment up on the sofa and pretend that none have children. Some got it so right, of this was happening. We resisted the others got it so wrong. 6 One in 36 women in the progesterone. This is called temptation to google, knowing that it People told me that I was so strong, UK will be diagnosed with unopposed oestrogen and it would not give us any reassurance. I’ll but I was exhausted, tired of endometrial (womb) cancer causes cells in the lining of never forget how broken and helpless People said I was pretending. I often wanted to get into in their lifetime. There are the uterus to divide, a risk my parents looked when I told them bed and not get out. “You just tell me about 26 new cases every factor for womb cancer. on the Saturday. strong. I wanted what you need me to do” didn’t make day and about a fifth of Fast-forward four days to my me feel secure. I wasn’t in the head endometrial cancer cases 6 In the UK, most cases of oncologist appointment. I was to get into bed space to think about what I needed. are diagnosed at a late endometrial cancer occur diagnosed with stage one endometrial I needed them to just do, not ask. stage. An estimated 21 per after the menopause in cancer and immediately sent for an and not get out It was the active doing that we so cent will have radiotherapy women aged 40 to 74, when MRI scan to check that it hadn’t and ovaries. Surgery is sometimes appreciated. My brother-in-law who and 16 per cent will have the body is still producing spread. Thankfully, it had not. followed by radiotherapy or turned up at my door with with my chemotherapy as part of oestrogen, but no While I was relieved that it had been chemotherapy. A hysterectomy alone favourite puddings, or the manager their primary cancer progesterone. caught so early, there were still so has excellent survival outcomes, who told me to take every other treatment. Most will have many unanswered questions. Why had especially in early stage cancers like Friday off so I had mental space. a hysterectomy to remove 6 Women with polycystic I got a cancer that is most prevalent in mine. However, it leads to permanent I started seeing a clinical the tumour. ovary syndrome, which postmenopausal women and those loss of fertility. Since that first call psychologist who specialises in means they have cysts on who are overweight? I was neither of from my gynaecologist, I hadn’t gynaecological cancers. I was hesitant 6 Almost nine in ten their ovaries, are also at risk those. I didn’t have any symptoms, registered that my cancer would affect at first because it was only a few weeks women in England because they have high such as bleeding between periods or my ability to have children. after my diagnosis, but I knew I had diagnosed with endometrial levels of oestrogen in their heavier periods than usual. I didn’t Thankfully, there was another to. She understood the cancer world, cancer aged 15-39 survive bodies. even have a history of cancer in my option — an extremely high dosage of the often-confusing medical jargon for five years or more, family. None of it made sense to me or progesterone, which I’d have to take that was being used and the compared with fewer than 6 Women who are my oncologist. daily for a year. This is because most complexities of gynaecological cancers six in ten women diagnosed overweight are three times In the UK endometrial cancer, also stage one cancers are thought to in those looking to preserve their aged 80 and over. more likely to develop referred to as uterine or womb cancer, arise from hormonal imbalances. fertility. One of the most helpful endometrial cancer. is the fourth most common cancer There was a 75 per cent chance that pieces of advice she gave me was to 6 The likelihood of among women, but rates are highest in it would work, but there was no work out who the key people were in developing endometrial 6 If you take tamoxifen, those aged 75 to 79. There are about 15 certainty. I would need to have a my life and really lean into those cancer is linked to high a hormone treatment for women aged 25 to 29 diagnosed with biopsy every three months to monitor relationships. oestrogen levels. Oestrogen breast cancer, or suffer from this form of cancer in the UK each the cancer. If the cancer got worse Part of the reason I’m sharing stimulates the release of hyperinsulinaemia, where year. Just 5 per cent of diagnoses or did not improve, I was going to my story is that cancer is such a eggs from the ovaries, while your body produces more worldwide are in those under 40. I was have a hysterectomy. taboo subject. Gynaecological cancers progesterone maintains insulin than normal, you now one of them. We had to learn to live our life in even more so. Fertility issues are the lining of the uterus. may also be more prone to Most womb cancers begin in the blocks of three months. In the space of not dinner party chat. Yet in the Oestrogen increases if endometrial tumours. cells that make up the lining of the a few hours I could go from feeling UK alone, infertility affects one it is not balanced by Elisabeth Perlman womb (the endometrium). The main grateful that they had found it so early in seven couples and each year more the times | Tuesday December 8 2020 1GT 7

CHRIS MCANDREW FOR THE TIMES healtharts What lockdown has done to your teeth (it’s not pretty) By Harry Wallop his has been a year that has GETTY IMAGES ccavities caused by nine months of wreaked havoc — to care ssnacking and grazing — combined homes, to pubs, to education. wwith not getting a check-up. Worse is But one area, possibly when a simple cavity has started to overlooked, is the damage infect the root, requiring root canal Tit has caused to our mouths. work, or, as the dentists like to call it, Britain’s dental health has taken endodontic therapy. a battering, not just from many of us “I have had patients who have ended scoffing sweets and snacks while we up having a tooth extracted and it worked from home, but mostly could have been prevented if they’d because so many have been unable to been seeing a dentist on a regular basis access a standard dental check-up. and having it checked,” Walmsley says. According to the British Dental Some patients are choosing to have Association (BDA), 19 million fewer their teeth extracted because of the dental appointments have been fear of multiple trips to the dentist, undertaken this year than expected. according to Richards. “Some people During the whole of 2019 there were are still very anxious about Covid, and 39.5 million dental appointments. This if I say to them it’ll take four visits to year it is expected to be considerably save the tooth and the extraction will less than 20 million. “So at year end, take just one, they go with extraction.” Covid-19 will have more than halved access to care in 2020 — with real Child oral health has collapsed consequences for millions of patients,” Even before Covid, the state of says Ashley Dé at the BDA. children’s teeth in the UK was pretty On top of this, a study from Tel Aviv dire. Lockdown, with many children University, published a fortnight ago, allowed to snack throughout the day, found that teeth grinding and jaw has made it worse, dentists worry. clenching rose considerably during “The government had made a lockdown. So what has 2020 done to commitment to expanding supervised our teeth? Here some leading dental brushing schemes in schools. That’s experts spill the beans. gone by the by,” Walmsley says. “Children’s enamel is weaker, so Oral cancer things can progress quicker in Possibly the most serious of all is children,” explains Bradley, who the probable increase in oral cancers. adds: “The No 1 reason for general “I’ve seen a few patients who have anaesthetics given to children under suspicious lesions or ulcers that have seven is the removal of rotten teeth.” not gone away during lockdown and The concern is that many of these they’ve tried to manage it themselves, is not just a fancy bitbit off kit.kit “As“As wellwell aass rotten teeth cannot be pulled because when normally they would have been physically removing the tartar, the of the pressure hospitals are under. picked up by a dentist,” says Natalie energy in water spray helps disrupt the Dentists have not been allowed to than 21,000 women are diagnosed Bradley, a special-care dentistry bacteria, over and above what a hand administer general anaesthetics in with a gynaecological cancer. registrar at Guy’s Hospital in London. scaler can do.” dental surgeries since 2002. “There are People don’t know how to approach At the height of lockdown she was Getting rid of this bacteria is crucial now waiting lists for up to three years these delicate subjects, but the more working in an urgent-care hub in delaying cavities and reversing gum in some parts of the country for open we are, the more we can educate undertaking emergency dental disease. “You have bacteria in the children to get a general anaesthetic others. I also hope that this serves as a procedures for all those who couldn’t mouth, some cause gum disease, some for dental work,” Bradley says. reminder for women and men alike to access a normal dentist. cause tooth decay,” explains Damien get regular tests. Investigate if things She points out that the 19 million Walmsley, the chief scientific adviser Tooth grinding don’t feel normal. If I hadn’t had my missed appointments might have been to the BDA. “It doesn’t matter how It is hard to know if the anxiety of biopsy, my life might not have been mostly routine check-ups, “but that’s good you are with brushing, they just Covid and lockdown has caused a saved. Mortality rates for uterine also 19 million missed cancer sit there quietly doing nothing until surge in tooth grinding (bruxism) cancer are projected to rise to nine screening appointments because you feed them sugar. Then they get to because it is mostly self-reported — if deaths per 100,000 females by 2035. dentists also check your soft tissues work. They turn the sugar into acid, you don’t share a bed with someone, I’ve felt a jumble of emotions — for possible lesions”. and that attacks the tooth.” do you even know you are doing it? tired, angry, confused, motivated, The BDA adds that during the Yet all experts agree that regular, Tel Aviv University found that the irritable, broken, numb and sad — but height of lockdown oral cancer persistent cleaning with a fluoride prevalence of grinding rose from about throughout these lows I felt loved. referrals fell by 80 per cent compared toothpaste can reverse gum disease. 35 per cent pre-pandemic to 47 per Despite some side-effects, including with normal levels. “Oral cancers are And spit, don’t rinse. “By not rinsing, cent during Israel’s lockdown; the fatigue and bloating, I’ve responded surging, and kill more in the UK than the fluoride toothpaste sticks to your prevalence of jaw-clenching by day well to the hormone treatment, which car accidents,” Dé says. “But we’ll have teeth and stops the bacteria doing its rose from 17 per cent to 32 per cent. I will need to continue for at least to wait on next year’s data to see how work,” Walmsley says. Richards believes that there is a link another nine months. this has impacted on survival rates.” between the stress of lockdown and Our plans for a family are on hold, Bradley explains that a mouth ulcer DIY dentistry gone wrong bruxism. “Just at the end of lockdown but we still hope we will be able to that doesn’t heal after two weeks, or During May and June, when a mere I was getting a lot of complaints about bring children into this world. IVF is one with red and white patches, is a 3 per cent of normal dental treatments diffuse, undefined pain, aches in the the quickest and safest option. We will warning sign, as is generally feeling ill were being undertaken, some patients face. But as people got used to being have a small window in which to or swellings in the neck. “You should resorted to drastic measures. out and about that seemed to go away. conceive, given that I’m at risk of the try to see your dentist,” she says. “Or In Portsmouth Chris Savage, 42, a Then, as lockdown 2 hit, it started to cancer coming back when I stop the your GP can refer you urgently if you labourer, yanked out two loose front go up again. I don’t know if it’s because hormone pills. And after pregnancy can’t get a dentist’s appointment.” teeth using some pliers because he was of lockdown or the normal stresses I’ll need a hysterectomy to ensure that in agony, having first downed eight and strains of Christmas.” the cancer does not return. Gum disease pints of strong lager in a rather A splint, or properly fitted mouth When I told my mum that we had It has been even harder to see a dental misguided attempt to numb the pain. guard, can stop the effects of grinding, been struggling to have a pregnancy, hygienist than a dentist because of One man Dentists say that the most common which can cause your teeth enamel to she gave me a pair of pearl earrings. fears that cleaning teeth can cause the DIY dentistry undertaken in lockdown be stripped away and fillings to Pearls are an emblem of resilience, she Covid virus to be sprayed around a yanked out was people mending their dentures become dislodged. told me, the result of a grain of sand surgery. “Hygienists are still not doing with superglue, which is not advised. The most immediate solution is to that gets lodged in an oyster shell procedures that cause a lot of aerosols. two of his “It can cause gum damage and make avoid caffeine before bedtime and cut producing a substance that over time So they are doing a lot of hand scaling, matters worse,” Bradley says. down on your alcohol intake. Hard to becomes hard, shiny and precious. rather than using an ultrasonic scaler,” loose front do at Christmas, perhaps. But since Little did I know how symbolic her gift says Phil Richards from Burton upon teeth with More teeth extracted securing an appointment at a dentist is would be. Since my diagnosis, I haven’t Trent, Staffordshire, who has been a The most common problem spotted still as tricky as getting a Playstation 5, taken them off. dentist since 1998. An ultrasonic scaler pliers by dentists in recent weeks has been it might be worth considering. 8 1GT Tuesday December 8 2020 | the times arts If theatre is NOBBY CLARK; ALI WRIGHT woke it won’t provoke Political plays need to cover all angles to reflect the world, says theatre critic Clive Davis

rom Covid to Corbyn, reading multicultural set texts was Black Lives Matter to a twist that made the average Marvel Brexit, political debate comic seem like kitchen-sink drama. has seldom been more Theatre should broaden the mind, heated. It feels as if we but the growing dominance of woke are reliving 9/11, the ideology risks having the opposite miners’ strike and the effect. It’s good to see work exploring Suez crisis all at the same the growth of the Me Too movement; time. How do we make sense of it all? nobody wants to see old-school sexism FPlaywrights should be at the making a comeback. Yet when almost forefront of our public conversation. every new play about the state of the It was an encouraging sign, for nation seems to portray Britain as a instance, that last month, just before benighted, sexist backwater, and when the latest lockdown came into force, a night at the theatre becomes the the National Theatre reopened the equivalent of a visit to a re-education reconfigured, socially distanced camp, you have to wonder who is Olivier Theatre with Death of England: actually benefiting from the exercise. Jonathan Slinger moment for Theatre Royal Bath to Burgess, could be described as Oleanna Delroy, a monologue by two black The Black Lives Matter mantra can and Rosie Sheehy in stage a revival of Oleanna, David for the Black Lives Matter generation. writers, Clint Dyer and Roy Williams. have a deadening effect too. The Oleanna. Below: Janie Mamet’s controversial two-hander In a genteel liberal arts college a Their earlier piece, Death of England, George Floyd-inspired project that Dee and Moronke about campus politics. When the play smug history professor gets into an which opened at the smaller Dorfman Williams organised for Theatre Royal Akinola in The Niceties — about a lecturer who is accused of argument with a student that quickly space at the beginning of the year, was Stratford East this summer turned out sexual harassment by one of his spins out of control. The professor is a grittily impassioned portrait of a to be crude agitprop. The episodic female students — was first staged, in white, the student black. That both white working-class character — audio play 846 (the title comes from Oleanna is at the 1992, it provoked explosive arguments protagonists are women gives the brilliantly played by Rafe Spall — who the 8 minutes and 46 seconds that Ustinov Studio, among the audience. Men and women dispute extra depth. Burgess tells me was enduring a dark night of the soul. a Minneapolis cop is said to have Theatre Royal, Bath often had radically different takes on that one of her motivations in writing It was easily one of the most thrilling spent with his knee on Floyd’s neck) to December 22 and what they had just seen. the play is to correct what she sees as theatrical events of the year. Delroy delivered angry clenched fists, but from January 4 to 16 Mamet — who has shifted well to the imbalance in Oleanna, a work, she didn’t quite reach those heights, but it little thought-provoking drama. (theatreroyal.org.uk) the right in his autumnal years — was argues, where the male protagonist still spoke in a fresh and original voice. If the aim was to arouse white guilt, accused of misogyny and sanctioning clearly has the intellectual edge. In Given that minority authors have the mini-dramas — which were violence against women. His admirers The Niceties — which you can see in been thrust to the margins for so long, subsequently performed argued that his critics were missing an American online production on it has to be good news that doors are live at the Greenwich+ the point. In a YouTube — the battle is more equal. opening. In the 1980s the writer Docklands festival — ffascinating Hollywood Janie Dee and the newcomer Mustapha Matura, the director probably achieved their RReporter podcast this Moronke Akinola brought the Yvonne Brewster and the like were goal, but is that enough? yyear the playwright- characters to life in London. What was outsiders. Now their successors, led One of the most talked- tturned-film-maker striking about Akinola’s character, Zoe, by the Young Vic’s artistic director, about plays of last year, ddiscussed the was that she was three-dimensional, Kwame Kwei-Armah, are helping to Fairview, ended with a ccontroversy in some neither a victim nor a martyr. Like the call the shots. Last year, in Tree — black actor challenging detail.d He insisted that professor, she could be unbearably co-credited to the actor Idris Elba white members of the heh is even-handed complacent too. “I actually felt like and premiered at the Manchester audience to step on to towardst his characters: I had an obligation to make Zoe International Festival — Kwei-Armah the Young Vic’s stage to “They“ end up destroying complicated and imperfect,” Burgess gave us a vision of a South Africa that see what it is like to be themselves.t That’s why says. “I think one of the big didn’t conform to the right-on clichés turned into mere thet play is a tragedy. You advantages we give white men in film, of a rainbow nation striding towards objects of scrutiny. know,k if one of them’s TV and theatre is that we let them a glorious future. Within minutes, the a villain and the other have all these flaws — from Mad Men Too often, though, another kind of stage was crammed with willing one’so an angel, you to Iron Man to Glengarry Glen Ross — diversity is overlooked in theatreland: victims. Yet the whole exercise had an don’t have a ttragedy, you have a and the audience loves them for their diversity of opinion. There seems to be air of bad faith and bullying about it. melodrama . . . I don’t think either one flaws. We love them for being cocky only one permissible view of the great And, of course, it was another of them is a villain. It’s a classical and messy and reckless and powerful. issues of the day. Have I seen a single example of theatre’s habit of preaching tragedy written with two people on When we try to make black characters drama that takes a sympathetic view to the converted. America and Britain stage and a telephone call . . . I was or female characters perfect we do of the typical Brexit voter? are not the countries they were in shocked, absolutely shocked at the them a disservice because then the Mike Bartlett’s Albion is a contender, the 1950s and 1960s. Yet too many reaction to this play because I thought audience just doesn’t identify with I suppose, but his well-heeled heroine’s playwrights and directors would have Britain that each person’s actions were wrong them and love them and root for them dreamy vision of a lost pastoral idyll us believe nothing, or next to nothing, and right, human and defensible.” on a primal level.” was more of a poetic metaphor. Spall’s has changed. They think they are is always If one play gave me hope that it’s Well said. The conflicts the play character in Death of England comes bold and outspoken; I’d say they lack still possible to write a thoughtful explores have been rattling around in close too, but his was a manic, a basic knowledge of history. There’s portrayed drama about race, sex and politics it my head for months. Would it be too coke-sniffing chancer on the edge of certainly a place for radical voices in was a two-hander that played to tiny much to hope that an adventurous a nervous breakdown. And much as the theatre. Yet when they become the as a audiences last year in its European producer might bring The Niceties I enjoyed the piece, the antihero’s late mainstream we are in trouble. benighted premiere at that bold little London back to London and to a bigger venue? conversion into an empathetic liberal We need more plays that can venue the Finborough. The Niceties, by We need more plays like this. Slogans who broadened his horizons by generate genuine debate. 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BBC/TIGER ASPECT PRODUCTIONS LTD/DES WILLIE never been away, but in an genuinely struggling not to cry. I’m insubstantial ten-minute nibble not giving anything away since French Carol (the first of three). It was in the revealed this on ITV’s Lorraine, but now-familiar modern conceit of the these few minutes of TV are really Midgley Zoom-based TV show, so it lacked the rather profound and brought a tear knockabout zest and repartee of the to this old cynic’s eye. original because French was mainly If Poundland wants to “go TV review flying solo. No one’s fault; these are upmarket” and attract more “middle- the limitations of a laptop. It’s a class customers”, with chargrilled difficult comedy to do mostly in veg and pesto pizzas, then surely monologue, but French always the first thing to do is to ditch the delivers. She is one of the safest pair name “Poundland”? When a shop is of hands in TV and can bounce even brilliantly branded, as this is, it tends the lamest script to life. And The Vicar to stick. So in Inside Poundland: of Dibley, even on two cylinders, is Secrets from the Shop Floor, even pure comfort knickers. when it decked out a Mayfair shop Vicar of Dibley in Lockdown It started predictably, with window as the fake Swedish brand BBC One Geraldine’s Zoom signal cutting Lundon Pad (a cunning anagram of {{{(( out during her sermon, which was Poundland) as a stunt to show off its supposed to reassure her flock, but new homeware range, with goods Inside Poundland sounded as if she was telling them costing up to £10, passers-by said: Channel 4 {{((( they would all catch the virus and “Yeah, but it’s not a pound is it?” die. There was a gag about Owen Harsh, but true. dd that the BBC chose to Newitt (Roger Lloyd-Pack’s character) “Woolworths didn’t only sell wool,” broadcast The Vicar of having sex with a goat, then some replied a senior executive, but his Dibley in Lockdown just schoolchildren demanded to know heart didn’t really seem in the gag. when lockdown has ended why, if Jesus could raise Lazarus from It was amusing, light-relief stuff in and we all want to forget the dead, he only did it the once. which we saw how, while other shops Oabout it. Odd that it didn’t save a James Fleet popped up briefly as wilt in hard times, Poundland thrives, Dibley resurrection, even if it was only Hugo, in lockdown with his father who but like all such shows it was just a a slice, for Christmas Day, especially was slowly boring him to death, but prolonged advert, for which the when its 2020 festive offerings look that bit didn’t quite work. I wish I were managers must be cock-a-hoop. as fresh as last year’s calcified turkey reviewing episode two really because We also learnt that a customer served with a side of ennui. Geraldine gives a beautiful eulogy complained after her mother But it didn’t so here we were with to Alice Tinker, played by Emma defecated on the floor of a store. Eh? Dawn French reprising Geraldine Chambers, who died two years ago Shouldn’t it have been Poundland Granger as seamlessly as if she had aged 53. You can see that French is Dawn French as Geraldine in The Vicar of Dibley in Lockdown complaining, not the other way round?

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Tetonor Moderate No 107 Codeword No 4140 Train Tracks No 1194 37 180 39 44 © PUZZLER MEDIA

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Lay tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each 9 10 10 15 17 17 18 22 28 row and column. There are only straight rails and curved rails. The track cannot cross itself.

When complete, the strip below the grid can be split into eight pairs of numbers. Adding the numbers in a pair gives one of the 16 numbers in Win a Dictionary & Thesaurus the grid. Multiplying them gives a different number in the grid. For example, a 4 and 6 in the strip could be paired to make 10 (4+6) and 24 (4x6) in the grid. Enter each sum below the corresponding number in the Fill the grid so grid. The blanks in the strip must be deduced, bearing in mind the that every numbers are listed in ascending order. column, every row and every 3x2 box contains Every letter in this crossword-style grid has been substituted for a number from 1 Solutions tomorrow. The next Tetonor puzzle will appear on Thursday the digits 1 to 6 to 26. Each letter of the alphabet appears in the grid at least once. Use the letters already provided to work out the identity of further letters. Enter letters in the main grid and the smaller reference grid until all 26 letters of the alphabet have been For more puzzles, accounted for. Proper nouns are excluded. Yesterday’s solution, right Cluelines Stuck on Codeword? To receive 4 random clues call 0901 293 6262 or including an extra Codeword, text TIMECODE to 84901. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network charge. For the full solution Train Tracks and Futoshiki call 0905 757 0142. Calls cost £1 per minute plus your telephone company’s network go to page 10 access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5.30pm). Lexica No 5603 No 5604 Winners will receive a Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus B N I A N D A I L E O Solve the puzzle and text in the numbers in the three Winning Move shaded boxes. Text TIMES followed by a space, then BACByour three numbers, eg, TIMES 123, plus your name, Black to play. address and postcode to 84901 (UK only), by midnight. ______Or enter by phone. Call 09012 925274 (ROI 1516 303 501) áWDrDrDWD]This position is from Derraugh- WAHNby midnight. Leave your three answer numbers (in any Wojtaszek, “Titled Tuesday”, order) and your contact details. à0WDWDpiW]chess.com 2020. AKON Calls cost £1 (ROI €1.50) plus your telephone company’s ßW0WDW1pD]In this game Black massively KIBEnetwork access charge. Texts cost £1 plus your standard ÞDWDWDnDW]outrated his opponent. In such network charge. Winners will be picked at random from circumstances the best chance TLEOall correct answers received. One draw per week. Lines ÝWDW)p!PD]for the weaker player is to try to close at midnight tonight. If you call or text after this create as much confusion as time you will not be entered but will still be charged. ÜDB)WDWDR] GLNE possible. White achieved this SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5.30pm). ÛPDWDW)WD]here and Wojtaszek, presumably C F P N I L O U S C R rattled, now played 1 ... Nd6. Why ÚDRDWDWIW]is this a blunder and what was Slide the letters either horizontally or vertically back into the grid to produce a What are your favourite puzzles in MindGames? WÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈWBlack’s only move to stay alive? completed crossword. Letters are allowed to slide over other letters Email: [email protected]

KenKen Medium No 5132 Futoshiki No 3842 Kakuro No 2801

Fill the grid using the numbers 1 to 9 only. The numbers in each horizontal or vertical run of white squares add up to the total in the .COM triangle to its left or above it. The same number may occur more than once in a row or column, but not within the same run of white squares.

© © 2010 KENKEN PUZZLE & TM NEXTOY. DIST. BY UFS, INC. WWW.KENKEN All the digits 1 to 6 must appear in every row and column. In Fill the blank squares so that every row and column contains each thick-line “block”, the target number in the top left-hand each of the numbers 1 to 5 once only. The symbols between corner is calculated from the digits in all the cells in the block, the squares indicate whether a number is larger (>) or smaller using the operation indicated by the symbol. (<) than the number next to it. © PUZZLER MEDIA the times | Tuesday December 8 2020 1GT 15 MindGames

times2 Crossword No 8456 Brain Trainer Cell Blocks No 4023

1 2 3 4 5 6 Divide the grid into square or TREBLE DOUBLE –3/8 DOUBLE

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IT OF IT IT OF IT S 14 15 16 AN 17 No 2804 18 19 20 Polygon Set Square

21 From these letters, make words of Enter each of three or more letters, always including the numbers the central letter. Answers must be in from 1 to 9 in 22 23 the Concise Oxford Dictionary, excluding the grid, so that capitalised words, plurals, conjugated the six sums verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending work. We’ve in LY, comparatives and superlatives. placed two 24 How you rate 11 words, average; numbers to get 15, good; 19, very good; 23, excellent you started. Each sum Across 15 Bahamian capital (6) Yesterday’s answers should be calculated left 1 Ruminant's divided foot 18 Air of secrecy (8) ail, aim, ait, ill, imp, ital, lamplit, lilt, limp, © PUZZLER MEDIA to right or top 20 Dull sound of impact (4) lip, lipa, lit, mail, mil, mill, milt, pail, pia, (6,4) to bottom. 9 Hooded jackets (7) 22 Steam bath (5) pial, pill, pit, pita, plait, tail, till, tip 10 (Of an engine) ran out of 23 Whip (7) 24 Declare sacred (10) Please note, BODMAS does not apply gear (5) 11 Looked at (4) Down Killer Moderate No 7480 Solutions 12 Surreptitiously (2,3,3) 2 Shakespearean king (4) 14 Crested bird (6) 3 Hindu god (6) Solution to Crossword 8455 4 Decorative ornament; Quick Cryptic 1760 Codeword 4139 Kakuro 2800 B O G N O R T H E F T had alien (anagram) (8) O R F P W I R 5 Lecherous looks (5) S H E A F O V E R D U E 6 Old fogies (5-7) T N P A L R E A 7 Brave a hostile reception O R A T E E X P O R T S (4,3,5) N D A S U U T H A N K S U P R O A R 8 Dance; jacket (6) E E A L S E 13 Put forward; specify (8) R O S E H I P A Z T E C 16 African desert (6) R I I A N T R H 17 School financial officer (6) Train Tracks 1193 I N T E G E R E M I L E 19 Reject with disdain (5) E I H T A C S Sudoku 12,009 Quintagram Suko 3041 21 Owl's cry (4) R U N G S O U T H I T 1 Hate 2 Have Need help with today’s puzzle? Call 0905 757 0143 to check the 3 Hive off answers. Calls cost £1 per minute plus your telephone company’s 4 Live wire network access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm). 5 Love apple Brain Trainer Bridge Andrew Robson Easy 80; Medium 721; Harder 3,780 Cell Blocks 4022 Set Square 2803 Lexica 5601 The online Alt Invitational Mixed Dealer: North, Vulnerability: East-West Sudoku 12,010 Teams V was won by Claire ASSUME Teams ♠ Alpert’s team. The star of today’s 432 LA ♥A9 deal from round nine was her ♦ EI teammate Janice Seamon-Molson K854 Killer Tough No 7481 ♣AK75 WH AM of Florida. She was one of onlyy two ♠ K1085 ♠ J ♥ N ♥ O (out of ten) declarers to make the 872 W E J43 spade game — which is in danger ♦AJ106 S ♦732 PATRON of losing three trump tricks and ♣J6 ♣Q109842 ♠ AQ976 the ace of diamonds. ♥KQ1065 Futoshiki 3841KenKen 5131 Lexica 5602 Declarer won West’s top-of-two ♦Q9 jack of clubs lead with dummy’s ace ♣3 Sudoku 12,011 HONEST then crossed to her king of hearts to lead up the nine of diamonds. S(Molson) W N E P She hoped West would play sec- 1♦(1) Pass BAT E ♠ ond-hand-low, whereupon she 1 (2) Pass 1NT(3) Pass QFD 3♥(4) Pass 3♠ Pass could win dummy’s king and cash DUR I NG the king of clubs, shedding her 4♠ End queen of diamonds. West, Jessica (1) Playing Strong Notrump. EXY Larsson of Sweden, made no mis- (2) High Fives (3) Showing 12-14 — a weak notrump. Chess — Winning Move Word watch take, rising with the ace (East sig- ♠ ♥ nalling low to show an odd num- (4) Showing 5 -5 forcing to game. After 1 ... Nd6? the reply 2 Goliard (c) A wandering ber). At least now declarer had two Rh7+! is a deflection that picks scholar of the 12th and 13th Contract: 4♠ , Opening Lead: ♣J diamond tricks. Killer 7478 up the black queen after 2 ... centuries famed for riotous At trick four, West exited with Kxh7 3 Qxf6. The only move to behaviour ♠ 4 survive is 1 ... Qd6! after which Compas (c) The rhythm of a her second club. Winning ♥ 2 Qxd6 (there is nothing flamenco song dummy’s king (shedding a heart - ♦8 better) 2 ... Nxd6 is about equal Banxring (a) A small tree- dwelling animal of Indonesia, from hand), declarer tried a spade ♣75 to the jack, queen and king. East ♠ ♠ resembling a squirrel ♥ 1085 N ♥ - might have played the ten with - W E - jack-ten, and declarer correctly ♦6 S ♦- ♣- ♣Q1098 played for the jack to be singleton. ♠ A976 West exited with a heart to ♥- dummy’s bare ace. Declarer ♦ ♣- Quiz crossed to the queen of diamonds - Killer 7479 (West falsecarding with the ten) As with standard Sudoku, fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set 1 New York City 2 South Africa 3 Edvard Munch and ruffed a heart, the 3-3 split and for West to have (cleverly) 4 Fishing 5 Al Pacino — in The Godfather trilogy, revealed. She then cashed the king falsecarded with the jack-ten, of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target number of diamonds discarding her last declarer ruffed a diamond, West in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted Serpico, Scarface and The Irishman 6 Rula Lenska heart (West falsecarding with the following. Declarer now exited lines, a digit cannot be repeated. 7 Billy Graham 8 Sir Norman Hartnell 9 Yacht jack). with the seven of spades. West 10 Stephen Hawking 11 Hungary 12 Imagination Declarer had to guess whether won the eight but at trick 12 had to Cluelines Stuck on Sudoku, Killer or KenKen? Call 0901 293 13 Procopio Cutò aka Francesco Procopio dei West’s non-spade card was a club lead from ♠105 round to declarer’s 6263 before midnight to receive four clues for any of today’s Coltelli or François Procope 14 Nintendo 15 Uluru or a diamond. Playing East’s earlier ♠A9. Ten tricks and game made. puzzles. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network or Ayers Rock diamond count card to be true, [email protected] access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm). 08.12.20

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Word watch Sudoku Mild No 12,012 Difficult No 12,013 Super fiendish No 12,014 David Parfitt

Goliard a Gigantic b A shield with a sharpened edge for fighting at close quarters c A wandering scholar of ill repute Compas a Wide open plains b Computer assistance c A flamenco rhythm Banxring a A squirrel-like creature b A washer used in aircraft engines c Performing a robotic dance Answers on page 15 © PUZZLER MEDIA Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

The Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt Suko No 3041

MICHAEL DUNNING/GETTY IMAGES 1 The National 11 Replacing the korona September 11 Memorial in 1927, the pengo is a & Museum is in which former monetary unit of US city? which country? 2 The June 16 Soweto 12 Lead singer Leee Youth Uprising John co-founded which took place in 1976 in London soul three- which country? piece, known for their 1982 hit Just an Illusion? 3 In 1905 Ernest Thiel commissioned 13 Which Sicilian chef which Norwegian founded the oldest painter’s portrait of 15 café in Paris, Le Friedrich Nietzsche? Procope, in 1686? married to Dennis dressmaker to Queen 4 A “piscary” is a place Waterman from 1987 Elizabeth II? 14 In 1992 which for which activity? to 1998? Japanese video-game 9 Kim Jong-un allegedly giant acquired a 5 Which actor’s movie 7 Which US evangelist owns a British-designed majority stake in the roles include Michael (1918-2018) appeared in Princess 95MY, a type Seattle Mariners Corleone, Frank the top ten of Gallup’s of luxury what? baseball team? Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so Serpico, Tony Montana annual “most admired” that the number in each circle is equal to and Jimmy Hoffa? poll a record 61 times? 10 Which scientist co- 15 Which massive the sum of the four surrounding spaces, wrote the 2007 children’s sandstone monolith and each colour total is correct 6 Born Roza Maria 8 In 1957, which British book, George’s Secret is pictured? Leopoldyna Lubienska, fashion designer gained Key to the Universe, with For interactive puzzles visit which TV actress was the royal warrant as his daughter Lucy? Answers on page 15 thetimes.co.uk

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1761 by Joker

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