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1922-2014 — THE PRESTON PLUMBER

Preston And England Great Sir Tom Finney Dies At 91

Above: Across the Irish Sea, Cork in southern Ireland was underwater after the RIver Lee burst its banks.

FORMER England and Preston forward Sir Tom Finney died last month at the age of 91.

Preston confirmed the “extremely sad news” adding “Sir Tom was the greatest player to ever play for Preston North End and one of the all-time greats for England.”

Finney played for Preston from 1946 until he retired 14 years later, scoring 210 goals in 473 appearances. He won footballer of the year in 1954 and 1957 – the first player to receive the honor twice.

He also scored 30 times in 76 appear-ances for England, putting him joint sixth on the all-time scoring list with Alan Shearer and Nat Lofthouse. The Preston man also exhibited his immense power and flair at three World Cups from 1950 to 1958 representing England.

Finney was knighted in 1998.Football League Chairman Greg Clarke

said Finney was “quite possibly the finest player to have ever played in the Football League and was a true gentleman.”

EPITOME“He was also the epitome of the one club

man with few people ever having contrib-uted as much to a single team, their city or our competition,” Clarke said. “He will be greatly missed by the English game.”

Often described as the most complete

British footballer of all time, yet he failed to win a single major honour for either club or country. Blessed with exquisite balance, skill and tactical intelligence, he played the game with a grace – or indeed good grace – given to very few: he was never booked, sent off or even ticked off by referees. Stanley Matthews may have been the public’s favourite, but to purists Finney was the greater all-rounder.

His brilliance inspired and often carried the team. Bill Shankly, an established

right-half for Preston when Finney joined (and later manager of Liverpool), said of his friend: “Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age ... even if he had been wearing an over-coat.” It was classic Shankly hyperbole, though few who saw Finney play would disagree with the sentiment.

PLUMBERBorn in Preston, in the street next to

the club’s Deepdale stadium, Finney was nicknamed the Preston Plumber after com-pleting an apprenticeship with his family’s plumbing business.

He was linked with a move to Italian side Palermo in 1952, but Preston chair-man Nat Buck quashed the deal, saying: “If tha’ doesn’t play for us, tha’ doesn’t play for anybody.”

He twice won the footballer of the year title, in 1953-54 and 1956-57, and was twice a runner-up in the league with North End, as well as playing in the 1954 FA Cup final defeat to West Brom.

In all, he scored 187 league goals for the club but in 1961, a year after he retired, they were relegated from the top flight and have not returned since.

Finney maintained his links with Pres-

By Jill Lawless And Seth Borenstein

BRITAIN’S WEATHER service says it sees the tentacles of climate change in the spate of storms and floods that battered the country, but has stopped short of saying that global warming directly caused the extreme conditions.

Last month’s round of bad weather slammed into Britain’s west coast with torrential rain and winds gusting up to 106mph. Trucks were toppled, trees were felled and a major chunk of the railway was closed.

The website of rail operator Virgin Trains greeted visitors with the words: “Do Not Travel.”

England, which has been lashed by wind and rain since December, had its wettest January since records began in 1766.

FLOODSThe resulting floods have drenched the

southwestern coast of England, the low-lying Somerset Levels and the Thames Valley west of London, where hundreds of properties have been swamped after the Thames burst its banks.

Britain’s Met Office, the nation’s weather agency, said in a paper published during the storms that “there is no defini-tive answer” on the role played by climate change in the recent weather and floods. But it said there is “an increasing body of evidence that extreme daily rainfall rates are becoming more intense,” probably due to a warming world.

Met Office chief scientist Julia Slingo told the BBC that “all the evidence sug-gests there is a link to climate change.”

It was the latest in a series of assertions by weather agencies linking extreme weather events with human-made global warming. Last year the Met Office and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said events ranging from Superstorm Sandy flooding to US heat waves to extreme rainfall in Australia and New Zealand had all been made more likely by climate change.

EVIDENCEThe Met office study discusses evidence

of increasingly extreme weather events and links both Britain’s damp winter and the extreme cold that has hit the United States and Canada to “perturbations” in the jet stream over the Pacific Ocean and North America. But it does not say outright that global warming caused the flooding. To do that, scientists take months, sometimes

years, to conduct detailed computer simu-lations – and the report said such research was needed in this case.

In the United States, NOAA research meteorologist Martin Hoerling said the Met Office study “identifies many chal-lenges for research” rather than drawing firm conclusions.

But Pennsylvania State University cli-mate scientist Michael Mann said it was “a remarkably blunt report for a group that is typically characterized by a staid approach.”

“The bottom line is this: we are indeed now seeing with our very eyes the impacts of climate change on severe weather, record heat, drought, more intense hur-ricane activity,” Mann said in an email. “The only question at this point is how far downstream this treacherous torrent we are going to paddle.”

A similar question – when will it end?

Storm With 106mph Gusts Hits Flooded Britain-Ireland

– was being asked by many Britons, from flooded farmers to riverside residents piling sandbags against the encroaching waters of the Thames.

PREPARE“I tried to prepare for this, I bought

100lbs of sand and I called the council,” said Suhair Al-Fouadi, a resident of the town of Egham, who woke to find a foot of water in her house. “But they would do nothing. Now I have water from the sewer coming in through my doors.”

The Met Office issued its highest-level red warning of “exceptionally strong

winds.” It said a gust of 106mph was recorded at Aberdaron in northwestern Wales.

Railway operator Network Rail closed the main west coast train line for several hours the same evening because of the wind. Two Premier League soccer matches were postponed because of safety concerns related to the weather, while a man in his 70s died of suspected electrocution while trying to move a tree that had downed some power cables near the English town of Chippenham.

R Barclays Slashes Jobs While Boosting Bonus Pool, During Net Loss

By Danica KirkaBARCLAYS, Britain’s second-biggest bank in terms of assets, is to slash up to 12,000 jobs as it seeks to change its corporate culture following a string of scandals.

But even as the reductions were announced last month, Barclays set aside more money for bonuses. The bonus pool rose by £210m in 2013 – a move Chief Executive Antony Jenkins defended despite the fact the bank’s performance worsened in the fourth quarter.

The cuts include 400 jobs in Bar-clays’ investment division, one of the targets of Jenkins’ plan to transform the bank into a more ethical institution after its involvement in the Libor loan rate-rigging scandal.

The total staff reduction from a workforce of 140,000 is part of a plan to reduce costs to £16.8bn by 2015.

“At Barclays, we believe in paying for performance and paying competi-tively,” he said. “Ensuring that we have the right people in the right roles serving our customers and clients effectively in a highly competitive global environ-ment is vital to our ability to generate sustainable shareholder returns.”

LOSSThe news over the job cuts came

as the bank revealed that its net loss widened to £642m in the fourth quar-ter, from £589m a year earlier. The results showed that operating expenses

R Coronation Street Star Cleared Of Sex ChargesA LONGTIME star of the soap opera Coronation Street was cleared in Febru-ary of multiple charges of sexual assault against young girls.

A jury at Britain’s Preston Crown Court found 81-year-old William Roache, who plays Ken Barlow on the show, not guilty of

four counts of indecent assault and two counts of rape.

Five women had accused Roache of assaulting them between 1965 and 1971, when they were aged 16 or under. Prosecutors had argued that Roache took advantage of his fame to abuse star-struck girls and then keep them from speaking out.

But Roache said he did not know the women accusing him and had never as-saulted anyone.

KINDER“In in these situations there are no

winners, and I think we should all be much kinder to ourselves,” Roache said as he left court surrounded by his family.

Roache was one of several veteran UK show business figures arrested after revelations that the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile was a serial sexual preda-tor who abused scores of young people over several decades.

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Atlantic Crossing – In Row Boat – Then Man Proposes To GirlfriendWITH the advent of the likes of YouTube creative ways of proposing very often impress us with their romantic efforts; but, a London man’s rowing boat crossing of the Atlantic to proposed to his beau will not be repeated too often.

Harry Martin-Dreyer, 27, rowed a diamond engagement ring the 3,000 mile journey.

Martin-Dreyer made the crossing in a small rowing boat with crew mate Alex Brand, braving blisters, treacherous waves, extreme heat and sharks before arriving in Barbados.

After 50 days of rowing, a decidedly wob-bly and bearded Martin-Dreyer then dropped to one knee and proposed to girlfriend Lucy Plant.

Martin-Dreyer had kept the ring in a water-proof bag, only revealing his plans to Brand once they were underway on the voyage which raised £145,000 for leukaemia and diabetes charities.

Luckily Plant, 27, accepted and the boys then celebrated with family and friends, who had been waiting on the waterside in Port St Charles.

Plant, who met Mr Martin-Dreyer six years ago when they were at Bristol University together, said: “He pulled me aside and did this odd move, I assumed he’d fallen over. He had it in a vacuum packed bag, it’s a really beautiful diamond solitaire.

“It was fantastic – a complete surprise. I kept saying ‘no, no, no’ – and Harry said: “Can I take that as a yes?”

Wedding Brawl Over Pork Pie Brings In The Police Dogs

PORK PIES are very popular in Britain, but this particular one at this particular wedding was the cause of a mass brawl last month, according to police.

West Yorkshire Police dog section were called to a “large fight” and tweeted: “All started over a pork pie apparently! #dayruined”

A call for assistance had been made over a disturbance at the Harold Club in Low Moor, Bradford. A number of officers attended immediately bringing things under control, a police spokesperson said.

“The section of the premises open to the public was closed to prevent any further problems.

“Two arrests were made for assault, with those arrested being bailed pending further inquiries.”

‘Bullying Frog’ Reported To Local Council Call Centre

AMUSED council workers at a call center found themselves “helping” a local man who told them he was being harassed by a frog last month.

The frog apparently kept appearing at the bottom of his stairs. The man seemed to be overcome by his visitor and didn’t know how to deal with the situation; so, a call to the council was his next step (or hop).

A spokesman for Crawley council said: “We advised him it would probably hop off on its own, but he was adamant the frog was harassing him,”

Another call that stand out as, perhaps, inappropriate was when people phoned the council office asking for money, including a man who wanted cash to buy a rail ticket to a funeral.

Cockroach Kebabs Now A Delicacy At Liverpool Prison

INMATES at a Liverpool prison are said to be ‘enriching’ their diet by eating cockroach kebabs.

Inspired by survival antics on the TV show I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here, prisoners at

HMP Liverpool are swapping recipes on how best to cook the bugs after watching bushtucker trials on the reality TV show.

The 1,183-capacity jail is notorious for its cockroach infestations after inspections in 2003 and 2011 found areas were overrun with the insects.

Neil Harrison-Scott, 43, in a letter to the Inside Time newspaper for prisoners, said he was encouraged to try the ‘snack’ after watching the ITV show.

“My favourite snack, to supplement the poor and meagre prison diet, is cockroaches,” he explained.

“There are many here and the best way to catch them is by placing empty crisp packets on the floor and turning the lights out.

“You can boil them in the kettle or fry them in an empty tuna tin, but my favourite is cockroach kebabs.

“Simply fashion a skewer from a sliver of wood and impale two or three, then melt a chocolate bar to use as a dip.

“Cockroaches have a nutty taste so when you dip them in chocolate they taste like a fruit and nut bar.

“If celebrities eat them in the jungle then why shouldn’t hungry prisoners get a bit of protein too?”

Euro Politician Has Her Cottage Pie ‘Nicked’ Out Of Her Car

IT BECAME obvious to the European Com-mission vice-president that official papers were not the target of thieves who robbed her car in London last month, but her recently-purchased cottage pie was a desirable piece of “swag”.

Viviane Reding, of Luxembourg, was in London for a public debate on Europe, and when she emerged from the meeting she discovered someone had broken into her official car and stolen her luggage – includ-ing a cottage pie bought from a London farmers’ market.

Reding, 62, said: “I got it to show people how good British cooking is. I just hope that at least they eat it and don’t throw it away.”

The thieves also stole suitcases contain-ing clothes and jewellery – but left behind the bag containing Mrs Reding’s official papers.

“It is the first time I have had my bag stolen and I travel all around the world, Reding said.

“They left my papers fortunately. It is a real pain in the neck. It will be really difficult to replace the clothes, jewellery and make-up.”

Goldfish-Drinking Prank By Thatcher Pallbearer Brings

ComplaintsLANCE CORPORAL James Steel was honoured to be one of Margaret Thatcher’s pallbearers last April at the former Prime Minister’s funeral. Unfortunately, Steel may be remembered for a challenge that saw him drink a pint of lager that had two gold fish in the glass last month.

A recent craze among young people, called Necknomate Challenge, and is said to have originated in Australia. The pranks usually involve drinking a pint of beer in one

gulp, and then carry out an unusual prank-challenge while being filmed, and then be posted online.

Steel, 25, from Ripon, claims the fish survived and are now being looked after by his girlfriend.

The soldier defended his actions saying: “The fish did survive. I gave them to my girlfriend – she now has them in a bowl,” he said.

“I decided to do it that way because I thought it was funny.”

And he added: “I have an impeccable career as a soldier but I’m also a human being, I don’t walk around in my uniform all day. I was just doing what the rest of the country is doing.”

The RSPCA said it was horrified by the number of neknomination pranks which involved cruelty to animals.

A spokesman said: “Eating a live animal and sharing a film of it isn’t funny.

“It sends a message that animal cruelty is okay as long as it is presented in a light-hearted way.”

Great Dane Puppy Is Biggest Dog In Britain

PUPPY DOG Freddy isn’t exactly the tiny, cuddly type that one imagines when the word “puppy” comes up – when on his hind legs Freddy stands a mere 7ft 4in, and is thought to be Britain’s biggest dog.

And, with no official measurement yet being recoreded, that would make Freddy as tall as world-record holder Zeus, and signifi-cantly larger than Britain’s current biggest dog Samson, who is 6ft 6in

But astonishingly the gigantic dog is only an 18-month-old puppy, and while most Great Danes reach their maximum height by that age, they can continue growing until the age of three.

Freddy’s owner Claire Stoneman, 38, of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, is a taxi driver who runs a fleet of pink “glam cabs”, admits to being “dog obsessed”. Stoneman said that despite his size she regards Freddy as “my baby”.

“I can’t imagine life without him,” Claire said. “Mum loves him too. She’s tiny, so when she first saw him she was like ‘Bloody hell!’ But she’s used to him now, she bosses him about.”

Freddy eats his way through £75 worth of food a week, and has destroyed an incredible 14 sofas in his short life so far.

Stoneman added: “I think I will miss his playfulness when he’s no longer a puppy, but I won’t miss him eating sofas!”

Pizza Shop’s Expanding Dough Rises To The Occasion ...

IF THE PIZZERIA worker was looking for a raise, they got one that they may not have wanted a little sooner than planned last month. A load of unwanted pizza dough that had been thrown into a recycle bin expanded, and expanded and . . . began to push open the lid of the of the container and ooze out onto the street.

Passer-by Ailsa Burn-Murdoch took a photograph of her pizza dough experi-ence outside a branch of Papa John’s in

Edinburgh. She posted the photograph on Twitter where it quickly went viral – soliciting a response from the pizza chain. She had tweeted: “I have a feeling @PapaJohnsUK owe a local sanitation worker free pizza for a year.”

And the company responded quickly: “Thanks for letting us know about this. We’re currently investigating this further directly with the store.”

Scottish Brewery Launches Beer Mocking Putin’s Anti-Gay StanceRUSSIA’S anti-gay laws are being noted in Scotland and one beer brewer has come out with a “protest brew” which mocks the controversial anti-gay laws in Russia.

BrewDog’s new pale ale is called Hello My Name is Vladimir, and carried Warhol-esque images of Russian president Vladimir Putin on the label.

The Aberdeen-based brewery has sent a case of the limited edition ale – which carries the slogan “Not for Gays” – to the Kremlin.

It will also be donating 50 per cent of profits from public sale to charities helping oppressed minorities around the world.

Hello My Name is Vladimir aims to mock President Putin’s discriminatory legislation introduced ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The beer, an 8.2 per cent ABV double IPA containing Russian Limonnik berries, carries a warning that it ‘may contain traces of sarcasm’.

Co-founder James Watt said: “It’s been our mission at BrewDog to upend the status quo in whatever form it occurs.

“Whether it’s the stranglehold the mega brewers have had on beer production in Eu-rope over the last 50 years, or in the case of Russia, the sick legislation that discriminates against millions of its citizens.”

WWII Soldier Gets His Reward For Saving Officer’s Life

– 70 Years OnA PINT of beer and recognition for his brave deed came to a WWII soldier last month.

Fred Harris, an army driver, was honoured for jumping from his armoured vehicle while German bullets flew over the bridge and his injured comrade lying motionless on the ground.

He and Sergeant Bill Tynan ran to the aid of the stranded lieutenant, before lifting him into the back of their armoured car and driving him to safety. Harris’s act of gallantry took place in 1944, and was finally recognized for saving the life of a man who would go on to become a General in the Army and be knighted twice by the Queen.

Harris never again saw or even heard about the man whose life he had saved. But now, 70 years after the gun battle at La Bas-see in northern France, the pair have finally been reunited.

Now aged 91 and living in Mill Hill, Lon-don, Harris met up with General Sir Hugh Beach GBE KCB MC, for the first time since he saved his life.

Harris said: “It was emotional for me and him. I have tried to find out what became of him over the years but with no success. It was only last year that I found out who he was.

“It was fantastic to see him again – I think he owes me a beer!”

The pair had been emailing and Harris

said: “I told him he’s a lucky bugger. I’m pleased he made it. I said to him that it’s a shame I didn’t know what he had achieved since our last meeting because I could have dined out on this story.”

The meeting, at the Victory Services Club in Marble Arch, came after the pair were reunited by a mutual friend in the Normandy Veterans’ Association.

‘Spikey’ Experience On Clapham Common To Promote TV Show

LOCALS around Clapham Common were treated to a rare site last month . . . a 12ft-long hedgehog.

The promotional piece has been installed in south London to promote David Attenbor-ough’s latest TV series.

The 8ft-wide structure on Clapham Com-mon took over two months to create, and with 2,000 soft wood spikes is larger than a rhinoceros. The animal will feature in the At-tenborough’s new show Natural Curiosities, which began airing in the UK on February 18.

According to research by UKTV, a quarter of British adults have never seen a hedge-hog in the wild, while a further 74 per cent are worried about the species’ declining numbers.

There are no hedgehogs native to the US.

Yorkshireman Flees Jail Because It Was Full Of ‘Lancs And Scousers’

RICHARD MILBURN missed his native York-shire companionship … so he walked out of his open-prison incarceration.

Milburn had told fellow prisoners he had no fellow Yorkies to bond with.

The Daily Mirror reported that when convicted burglar Milburn, 29, was moved to the open prison in Lancashire and was dismayed to find it was “full of Lancashire and Liverpool people”.

Milburn, who was serving three and a half years for burglary and driving offences, decided to take leave of Kirkham Jail on the outskirts of Preston and head back home to Bradford back last November.

Two months later, he decided to hand himself back into the police and is now serving an extended sentence at Category B HMP Leeds jail. At Bradford Crown Court Milburn, from the East Bowling area of the town, admitted escape and was given a further three months.

Prosecutor Paul Nicholson said: “It must have been something of a loose regime.

Automatic Toothcleaning? Catch Is…You Have To Wear A Top HatA WEIRD INVENTION competition saw one man with £10,000 top prize for his “teeth-cleaning top hat” last month

Sam Hunter Baxter beat out competition from 300 other “crazy” inventors and will get to see his idea become a real gadget.

The Bristol music student, 19, said: “One day, to while away the time when brushing my teeth I calculated that on average people spend 75 days of their life with a toothbrush in hand.”

Other mad ideas included killer heels which can store house keys, a beard shaped razor and training shoes with rollers on the soles to act as mini-treadmills.

Wit Oddoski, founder of Oddka, which spon-sored the contest, said: “The toothbrush hat is a deserving and wonderfully offbeat winner.

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Elsewhere, huge waves caused stones from a beach to smash into a restaurant, and unprooted trees in various parts of the country.

Rail transport particularly suffered, and because of a broken railway line the county of Cornwall became completely cut off from the rest of the mainland.

It was not a happy new year, and one can only hope that 2014, which came in with a bang, will go out with a wimper.

William And Kate Put Duty Ahead Of Romance On Valentine’s Day

The Duke of Cambridge lugged sandbags in a flood-hit village as Kate opened a school art studio.

The Duke, together with brother Prince Harry, pulled on waders and waterproofs to help build sandbag walls with other members of the Armed Forces in Datchet, Berkshire.

William and Harry joined forces with their Household Cavalry comrades to form a human chain unloading sandbags from an Army lorry onto a flatbed truck which transferred them to the local golf course, across which flood waters have flowed to the village.

A palace spokesman said: “They wanted to show their support for the flood victims and felt the most appropriate way to do that was through the Armed Forces relief effort.”

The Queen has also done her bit to help the flood victims by sending feed and bedding from the royal farms at Windsor to farmers on the Somerset Levels.

Meanwhile, Kate spent the morning visiting Northolt High School in Ealing, north-west London, to open the latest studio run by The Art Room charity, of which she has been Royal Patron for two years.

The Art Room offers art therapy to children aged five to 16 years old who are facing chal-lenges in their lives, and has six other studios at schools in Oxfordshire and London.

Northolt’s Art Room was funded with £105,000 raised by the City firm ICAP, which holds a charity day every year at which guests including the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry have in the past stood in as traders to raise money on the phones.

Jon Snow, Patron of The Art Room, said: “The Duchess thinks there should be an Art Room in every school in Britain. If you can prevent a child from being excluded you’re probably preventing a child ending up in a young offenders institution.

“Kids who come in in crisis emerge confi-dent and with their self-esteem boosted, and there is no stigma attached to spending time in the Art Room.”

London’s £3bn Ghost MansionsMore than 700 “ghost mansions” – worth

a total of £3bn – lie empty and unused in London, an investigation revealed recently.

Research revealed the remarkable scale of the “no lights on” phenomenon as London faces the worst housing crisis in its history, with 800,000 people on waiting lists.

Paul Palmer, London’s leading empty homes “detective”, who previously worked for Westminster council, said his analysis showed that there were “at least” 740 uninhabited properties worth £5m or more. He said: “The scandal of London’s posh empties continues unabated. Offshore investors are still using some of London’s finest homes as real-life Monopoly pieces, hiding behind solicitors and anonymous PO Box accounts in places like the British Virgin Islands.”

He estimated the combined value of the properties at £3.2bn, enough to fund the construction of more than 10,000 affordable homes.

The properties are scattered in a “mansion belt” stretching diagonally across London, from Wimbledon and Richmond in the south-west, to Hampstead and Highgate in the north-east. However, the great clusters are in the most elite enclaves of Mayfair, Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Kensington.

The findings shocked Mayor Boris John-son, who said it made “little sense” for so much living space to be left unused and called on councils to levy punitive levels of council tax on owners of long unoccupied homes.

Other prominent figures added their voices to demands for a tax on owners of empty homes, including interior designer Kelly Hoppen and architect Lord Rogers, who said “owners of buildings have a social responsibil-ity as well as an economic one”.

But some property experts said relaxations of planning laws and the huge demand for luxury homes in London meant more unused buildings were likely to be converted into family homes over the next few years.

Mayfair estate agent Peter Wetherell said: ”With a lot of these empty properties, there’s a lot of a activity going on below the water. There is a huge demand for really big, nice unmodernised homes — not to be left empty, but to be lived in.”London Bids Farewell To The Historic Routemaster

Historic Routemaster buses may soon be lost to London for ever after plans were announced to axe one of the last two surviv-ing routes.

Transport for London wants to scrap “heritage” route 9 that runs the vintage buses every 20 minutes during the day between Kensington High Street and Trafalgar Square. This would leave Routemasters operating only on part of route 15, between Trafalgar Square and Tower Hill.

The heritage routes were introduced by Ken Livingstone in 2005 to dampen anger at the removal of the Routemasters, regarded as a London icon and tourist attraction, from regular service.

TfL claims the arrival of the new Route-master-style bus – dubbed the Boris Bus or the Borismaster – has reduced the popularity of the old buses. The new buses arrived on route 9 last October (2013).

But bus enthusiasts fear the axeing of the service on route 9, planned for July, will hasten their demise. Only five Routemasters survive on each of the two heritage routes.

They say the timing is appalling as it comes during 60th anniversary celebrations for the Routemasters – a two-day festival is planned for Finsbury Park – and after the Mayor launched his “Year of the Bus”.

TfL boss Leon Daniels said: “All good things, as they say, come to an end and I am afraid I have to announce that traditional Routemasters will be withdrawn from route 9 this July.”Fight To Save Pub Where King Had Trysts With Lillie Langtry

A pub where King Edward VII reput-edly had secret trysts with his mistress Lillie Langtry has been sold to a Hong Kong-based developer.

The Clifton Hotel in St John’s Wood, which dates from the 19th Century, is currently empty with a “to let” sign outside. Residents fear it will be turned into housing, further slashing the handful of surviving local pubs.

More than 1,600 people have signed a petition to reopen it for the community. Cam-paigner Simone Fletcher said the battle to save the Clifton, in Clifton Hill, had “galvanised the community”.

Resident Grazyna Green added: “It’d be a shame if the community lost use of it. It goes back 200 years. A picture of Edward VII has hung outside for as long as anyone can remember.”

Edward, nicknamed Bertie, had a three-year affair with actress Langtry after they met at a Mayfair dinner party in 1877. As royalty were not allowed to go into pubs, the married king reputedly had the Clifton, originally a hunting lodge, rebranded as a hotel.

Howard Kayman, of estate agency Aston Chase, said: “The new owner is aware of local feelings but his intentions are to let the pub/restaurant as a going concern. Sherlock Museum Boss’s Bizarre Bid To Clear Double Killer

The man who runs the Sherlock Holmes Museum has launched a bizarre investigation to try to clear a notorious murderer.

John Aidiniantz has spent thousands of pounds, made from tourists at the museum, on preparing an appeal for the man who murdered Dr Lin Russell and her daughter Megan and left her other little girl, Josie, for dead back in 1996.

He has set up a so-called “justice depart-ment” in the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, aimed at overturning miscarriages of justice, and is preparing evidence for the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) which refers cases for appeal.

The armchair detective, who runs the museum at Holmes’s fictional address of 221B Baker Street in London, said: “The trial and conviction of Michael Stone would have caused the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories to choke on his pipe.

“We are in touch with Michael and he is delighted that someone is taking an interest in his case. But this is not about exonerating people. This is about catching the perpetrator.

“This is what Sherlock Holmes did in the books. He was a forerunner of forensics to solve a case. You have got to look at the DNA rather than gossip of prisoners. The DNA doesn’t lie and it rules out Michael Stone. We need the case to be looked at again.”Great Ormond Street Pioneers Living Donor Kidney Transplants For Children

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital have used a new technique to enable children to receive a kidney transplant from a previously incompatible donor.

The breakthrough, revealed for the first time, saves some children as young as 15 months from requiring dialysis after being born with irreversible kidney failure.

The new practice involves “washing” the blood of patients prior to the transplant to remove antibodies that would have caused the operation to fail. Although common in adults, this type of transplant is virtually unheard of in children. Patients can potentially go home within 10 days – the same as a conventional kidney transplant.

Of the 28 kidney transplants of all types that Great Ormond Street has performed in the last year, 16 organs have come from living donors.Brand New Marriage For Russell And Khan

Russell Brand is hoping it’s second time lucky amid speculation he is ready to pop the question to lover Jemima Khan.

Katy Perry’s ex is believed to be commis-

sioning a jeweller to design an engagement ring. “A proposal is definitely imminent” an insider told Grazia magazine.

“Russell’s been working with a friend of his to create the perfect ring. He wants it to include Buddhist and Islamic symbols – an intertwining of their two faiths.”

Brand, 38, had intended to ask Khan to marry him on her 40th birthday recently but wants to wait until the ring is ready, according to friends.

“Russell is planning a trip to Asia for the two of them in the spring, when he intends to propose,” the source added.

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Stormy WeatherWE’VE HAD quite a bit of weather here recently. Storms lashing the west coast, rain almost every day, floods an lost power in thousands of homes.

Gale force winds blew the roof off a building in Holborn in central London and crashed into a minicab killing the driver and seriously injuring two of its passengers.

ton, serving as the club’s president. The stadium is located on Sir Tom Finney Way, a statue stands outside the ground, while inside, a stand was renamed in his honour in 1995. He was knighted in 1998.

Internationally, he played in the in-famous 1-0 defeat by the United States at the 1950 World Cup and went on to represent England at both the 1954 and 1958 tournaments.

Speaking in 2012, England’s record goalscorer Sir Bobby Charlton called Finney’s contribution to football “im-measurable”.

Sir Tom, played 76 times for England and spent his whole 14-year career with his home-town club.Online: http://sirtomfinney.com/fan-tributes/

Sir Tom Finney . . .Continued from page 1

Freedom For IRA Man Linked To 1982

Hyde Park BombAN IRISH REPUBLICAN Army veteran charged with the IRA killing of four sol-diers in London’s Hyde Park in 1982 has been freed from custody after a judge ruled that the man had received secret British as-surances he would not be arrested.

The judge said British authorities in Northern Ireland in 2007 provided John Downey with a confidential document promising him he would not be arrested if he entered the United Kingdom.

The 62-year-old Downey, who lives in the Republic of Ireland, was arrested last year at London’s Gatwick Airport and charged with four counts of murder over the Hyde Park bomb which also killed seven horses.

The February 25 judgment found that the 2007 document issued to Downey gave false assurance, because London police still wanted to arrest him.

London police used fingerprint and witness evidence to identify Downey as an IRA member involved in the Hyde Park blast, when a nail bomb in a parked car exploded as ceremonial mounted troops passed, mortally wounding four soldiers and seven horses.

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from the flooding since it’s protected by the Thames Barrier, a series of 66-foot high metal gates across the entire river. The massive gates can be closed to stop the tide from coming up the Thames, which gives more space for the river to handle excess water from upstream. At low tide, the Thames barrier is then opened and the floodwaters flow to the sea. But some riverside communities were still flooded.

Yet the Met Office said there would be no quick end to Britain’s flood misery.

At least one more storm was forecast.Flood-hit villagers have lambasted Brit-

ain’s environment chief as he visited part of southwest England where thousands of acres have been underwater for more than a month.

Environment Agency chairman Chris Smith has been criticized for the failure to dredge rivers on the low-lying Somerset Levels, where farmland has been inundated and villages cut off.

Smith said he was very proud of the work his staff had been doing “in the face of the most extreme weather.”

But farmer Jim Winkworth said he was “bloody mad” that Smith had not apologized.

Prime Minister David Cameron also

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Royal Help For Flood Victims – Physically

And MonetarilyPRINCE CHARLES last month visited flood-hit areas of southwest England, riding by boat and tractor to survey the damage and showing support for the locals.

The royal pledged a £50,000 do-nation to help flood victims in the Somerset Levels area, where thou-sands of acres dotted with farmland and villages had been under water for a month.

Charles braved rain and flooded roads to meet locals at a reception, telling those attending: “The trag-edy is that nothing happened for so long.”

The royal rode on a boat to visit a village cut off by flood waters, and later climbed aboard a tractor-towed trailer to visit a farm.

George Osborne Informs Scots

SCOTLAND has been warned.If it votes to leave the United King-

dom later this year, then the new country walks away from the using the pound as its currency.

That’s the hard-line and potentially game-changing message presented last month by UK Treasury chief George Os-borne, who ruled out a currency union in a speech in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh last month.

“The pound isn’t an asset to be divided up between the two countries after breakup as if it were a CD collection,” Osborne said. “If Scotland walks away from the UK, it walks away from the UK pound.”

Underscoring the importance of the day, senior leaders for all three major parties took to the airwaves and backed Osborne’s remarks – an unusual show of unity on any issue other than national security.

The pound – also known as sterling – is one of the world’s most-enduring curren-cies and is one of the main battle-lines in the run-up to September’s referendum.

HACKLESThough the comments may raise the

hackles of many and contrasts with the “love-bombing” approach of Prime Minister David Cameron in his appeal for unity in early February, Osborne is gambling that the majority of Scots will move beyond the romantic appeal of independence and focus on more tangible bread-and-butter economic issues.

It also signaled that UK leaders were willing to stand and fight for the union on its strengths, and not just on emotion.

Pro-independence leader Alex Salmond reacted angrily to Osborne’s speech, de-scribing the attack on his planned currency union as an effort to bully and intimidate Scottish voters. Being part of a sterling zone has been the centerpiece of the Scot-tish National Party’s strategy to guarantee a secure, stable transition.

“Their efforts to claim ownership of sterling will backfire spectacularly in terms of reaction from the people of Scotland who know that the pound is as much theirs as it is George Osborne’s,” he said.

Osborne noted the recent experience of the euro to back up his view that a currency union cannot work if there isn’t a high degree of political union. Why, he asked, should the remaining UK members – England, Wales and Northern Ireland – shoulder the risk of a currency union should Scotland vote to break away?

INTENSIFICATIONOsborne’s remarks signal an intensifica-

tion of the independence debate. By ruling out the pound, Osborne is hoping that Scotland’s population of around five mil-lion will ask a series of questions that will tilt the debate against independence and seasoned economists continue to ponder. Such as: What would replace the pound?

Backing Independence Means No UK Pound

How would Scotland raise money? What currency will I use for my pint, let alone my mortgage?

There’s no question that Scotland has a welter of resources, such as oil and gas, highly-rated universities and a whisky so wonderful the whole world knows about it. However, aside from the currency issue, there are issues relating to how the country would deal with the loss of billions of pounds handed out by London as well as future oil production levels.

Polls have consistently put support for independence at between 25 percent and 30 percent over the past three years, with support for remaining in the union at be-tween 45 percent and 50 percent. But the number of undecided voters is significant.

Barroso: Very Tough For Scotland To Join EU

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s presi-dent says it would be very tough for Scotland to join the EU if voters decide to break away from Britain later this year.

Jose Manuel Barroso told BBC it would be “extremely difficult, if not impossible” for Scotland to get all 28 EU nations to approve it as a new member if voters there decide to leave Britain and form an independent country.

Other EU figures have made similar comments before, but Barroso’s words came as a stark warning before the bind-ing referendum in Scotland in September.

Lawmakers Back Immigration Plans On Criminals To Strip Citizenship

visited the area earlier in February.Bouts of rain, high tides and strong

winds have pounded Britain since Decem-ber, and recently washed away a stretch of the main rail line linking London and the southwest.

LAWMAKERS last month backed a government proposal to give authorities the power to strip foreign-born terror suspects of their British citizenship.

The proposal from Home Secretary Theresa May targets naturalized citizens who are deemed to have seriously harmed “Britain’s vital interests.”

It came as lawmakers debated a proposed immigration bill that aims to make it easier for authorities to deport foreign-born criminals and others who do not have the right to stay in Britain.

“Citizenship is a privilege, not a

right. These proposals will strengthen the Home Secretary’s powers to ensure that very dangerous individuals can be excluded if it is in the public interest to do so,” said immigration minister Mark Harper.

British politicians have long grumbled about their obligation to house foreign convicts who use human rights law to evade deportation and stay in Britain.

STRESSEDMay stressed the proposed new pow-

ers would only apply to a very small num-ber of people, but rights campaigners say

the proposal – which has to pass further legislative stages before becoming law – would give the government too much power and make potentially innocent people stateless.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg called the proposal controversial but “justifiable.”

The Home Secretary already has the power to take away British citizenship from those with dual nationality. The new moves would allow her to make people stateless if they have been naturalized as a British citizen.

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UK Inflation Below Target For First Time In 4 Years

BRITAIN’S inflation rate slipped in January below the official two percent target for the first time since 2009, making it less likely that the Bank of England will move soon to raise interest rates.

Official figures last month showed consumer prices were up 1.9 percent in the year to January, down from the two percent rate in December. The drop was due to retailers slashing prices on furniture, alcohol and tobacco.

Chris Williamson, the chief economist of Markit, described the combination of falling inflation and strong economic growth as a “Goldilocks” scenario. The Bank of England’s policymakers will be able “to keep their foot on the accelerator for longer via lower interest rates to help drive a strong and more sustainable recovery.”

Until recently the bank had been indicating that its key interest rate would remain at the record low of 0.5 percent until joblessness fell to a more tolerable level. Once that unemployment threshold neared, Mark Carney, the bank’s governor, decided to update the so-called forward guidance to broaden the range of indicators that would be considered before rates are raised.

The low inflation number will give the bank even more freedom to let the economy strengthen before deciding to act on rates.

Bank Of England Seeks To Assuage Rate Hike Fears

BANK OF ENGLAND Governor Mark Carney sought last month to assure home-buyers and businesses that UK interest rates won’t rise any time soon because the economic recovery is still fragile.

Though headline figures for growth and unemployment have improved faster than previously predicted, Carney said there are a number of issues that will mean inter-est rates have to remain low for a while to come. The bank’s benchmark interest rate has been at a record low level of 0.5 percent for nearly five years.

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LUNDY ISLAND is a lump of granite three miles long and half a mile wide rearing up from where the Atlantic meets the Bristol Channel. If you look from the beach at West-ward Ho!, it lies in the middle of the horizon twelve miles out to sea. The next land beyond that is America.

That was where our north Devon weather came from and we young salts had a couple of rhymes as aide-memoires, to wit

‘Lundy highRain is nigh’ and‘Lundy nearRain is here.’These rhymes were part of our collective

weather-lore, all of which came together in our oft-chanted advertising slogan for Devon:

‘Come to sunny Deb’mWhere et rainsZix days out of seb’m.On the seventh,It pours.’In modern terms, Devon’s default weather

setting was wet: it all came from the sea and rarely stopped.

REMINDEDI have been constantly reminded of my

childhood exposure to rain this winter. It started coming down on December 5 and has continued with a rare break ever since. In the south west and south of England, we have been subjected to the wettest winter since records began in 1910 with twice the average rainfall. There has never been rain like it or such incessant flooding.

The worst has been in the Somerset Levels, a patch of the country extending southwards from Bridgwater, the site of the last pitched battle fought on English soil at Sedgemoor. It was at Westonzoyland in July 1685 that the concluding part of the Mon-mouth Rebellion was fought out with victory going to the Royalist forces of James II.

James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and illegitimate son of Charles II, fled the scene and was apprehended three days later in Hampshire. He met his end at the hands of the notorious executioner Jack Ketch who is claimed to have wielded the axe between five and eight times to sever Monmouth’s head. Many of Monmouth’s followers met similarly grisly fates after attendance at Judge Jeffreys’ Bloody Assizes.

Somerset Tourism now promote the Pitchfork Rebellion Trail but it is not a route you can easily visit these days since much of it lies under a 200-square mile flood, completely cutting off several villages, the most prominent of which are Muchelney and Moorland. They have been surrounded since New Year with water up to six feet in depth.

Muchelney’s settlement of 200 souls was mentioned in the Domesday Book, the name meaning “increasingly great island” since it stands on ground elevated somewhat above marshland. The whole of the Levels in fact lie below sea level and are drained by a tidal river, the Parrett, which goes down to the sea in Bridgwater Bay.

The Parrett and its tributary, the Tone, are at the core of the problem for over the years their courses have needed to be dredged to run off the excess caused by rain. For the past 20 to 30 years dredging has been discon-

tinued. The process itself causes damage as the river banks fall in when the river flow is strengthened.

RAGEThere has been

rage in Somerset since the Environ-ment Agency (EA) who are responsible for managing land

and protecting it from freakish weather announced that it put front rooms before farmland. In other words, their priority is to protect towns not country. The EA chairman is Lord Smith, ex-Labour MP Chris Smith – in 1984 the first MP ever to come out and declare himself gay. He took up his three-day-a-week £100,000 a year post in 2008 when he declared that the country faced difficult decisions with coastal erosion where we would have to accept that some places should be left to the sea.

Now the chickens have come home to roost and painful, expensive decisions have to be taken. Prince Charles, the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, Lord Smith and the Prime Minister have all visited the Somerset Levels and seen for themselves the catas-trophe which has overtaken the countryside and its inhabitants.

MONEYMoney has finally been pledged for dredg-

ing to be restarted but the water has yet to subside. In mid-February the storms were still coming and the water was still rising. The locals are asking if anything at all will be left if it ever dries out. One encouraging sight, though, was the arrival of a big team from Holland complete with pumps and expertise. Four hundred years ago, Dutchmen had helped to engineer the original Levels. Now they are back, magnanimously extending a helping hand.

Elsewhere in the west the coastal railway line through Dawlish (in sunny Deb’m) was subjected to a fearful pounding one night in early February with waves approaching 50 feet in height, a veritable surge of high tides and 80 mph winds that destroyed the railway banking and left the track hanging like a suspensions bridge over seething seas.

This track was laid back in 1840 by no less an engineer than Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It has stood all these years protecting the houses behind it and keeping alive rail com-

Wettest-Ever Winter Drowning The Nation

munication between London and Plymouth. The destruction of the line means that for at least six weeks Plymouth and Cornwall will be cut off from the rest of the country.

And the storms showed no sign of abating as February turned into March.

WORSEIn fact, things went from bad to worse as

the Thames valley inevitably began to flood from Oxford all the way down to the outskirts of London. It was as though the bottom half of the country had dropped into the sea as area after area fell into the rising tide of mud and sewage.

I write as one who knows floods. I grew up in the Kenwith Valley, Bideford, and we were subjected to them annually, most of them happily stopping just below our French windows. There were eight houses in our val-ley, all victims of flooding. The reason was that the small stream that wound through the field behind our houses overflowed in heavy rain. This was a common occurrence, hence the irony with which we sang about

Sunny Deb’m. These floods were man-made. There was

a culvert downstream where the rivulet flowed under a road bridge. In times of extra-heavy rain, this was deliberately blocked by the local council to stop the town centre further downstream from being flooded.

INCONVENIENCEOur consolation was that we rented our

house so it being a victim of flooding was a passing inconvenience not a crippling finan-

cial blow. Sadly that is not the case on the Somerset Levels or by the rail track in Dawl-ish or in the Thames valley. There, people are losing their livelihoods and their homes.

It is little short of a catastrophe. The Environment Agency have said there is a clear hierarchy of importance when it comes to floods: lives first, then homes and finally property. The scale of the deluge is such that we may only be able to save lives.

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THE CHURCH of England’s General Synod has moved a step closer to creating its first female bishop.

The church’s national assembly ap-proved fast-track legislation which could see the first woman selected as a Church of England bishop by the end of the year.

It marks another step forward on an issue that has long divided the church. Only two years ago, the General Synod failed to pass legislation by just six votes – drawing criticism from Prime Minister

Church Of England Takes Step Toward Female Bishops

David Cameron.But new compromise proposals, which

only apply to England, are aimed at mas-saging the issue by giving guidance to parishes that reject female ministry.

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using the exchange rate of the day of the deal. Again, I recommend using oanda.com to find the appropriate rate. The IRS rules say that your purchase price should also be calculated using the exchange rate on the day it took place. This means you can be lucky and have a reduced gain or increased loss, part of which is exchange rate changes and nothing to do with how much you really made. Unfortunately, there are also the opposite occasions, where a sterling loss turns into a dollar gain simply because of the exchange rates used.

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increased by £1.1bn during the period, including £468m for “Project Transform,” Jenkins’ flagship culture change effort.

Jenkins said the bank had “more work to do” as part of its overhaul, but unions attacked the bonus increase at a time of job cuts.

“The culture change the bank promised will be less than skin-deep if those at the top still Hoover up obscene amounts of money while workers in call centers and branches struggle by on low wages and face the persistent pressure of job insecurity,” said Dominic Hook, Unite’s national officer.

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told the court that Roache was an innocent man swept up in the wake of the Savile scandal.

Coronation Street, set in a fictional working-class district in northwestern England, is among the longest-running programs on British television. Roache has played the much-married Barlow since its first episode in 1960.

He had not been appearing on the show while he faced the charges. In a statement, Coronation Street broadcaster ITV said: “We look forward to talking to Bill soon about his return to work.”

DAVE LEE TRAVISMeanwhile, a jury has

cleared a veteran radio and television DJ of 12 counts of indecent assault.

Jurors at London’s Southwark Crown Court failed to reach a verdict on

two more counts against Dave Lee Travis.The 68-year-old had denied 13 counts of

indecent assault and one of sexual assault.He had been accused of assaulting

young women over a period of three decades.

Travis, a longtime radio DJ and host of TV music show Top of the Pops, was one of several veteran UK show busi-ness figures arrested following the Savile revelations.

A court hearing was held February 24 and decided Travis will face retrial on the two outstanding charges.

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Sex ChargesContinued from page 1

In England, Two Out Of Three Adults Overweight Or ObeseMORE THAN 60 percent of adults in England are overweight or obese, ac-cording to new figures by the national public health agency.

The figures were released this month. Experts have previously pre-dicted England’s increasing obesity epidemic could mean half its popu-

lation will be obese by 2030. People who are heavy have a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.

To fight bulging waistlines in Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands, authorities are trying a new approach. Overweight people can sign up to get

frequent text messages encouraging them to move more and eat less.

One text says “Maybe walk to the shops or use the stairs more often.” Officials described it as a “cheap and effective nudge” to take action before obese people need expensive medical attention.

Lucinda Reaches Heights No Other Photographers Dare

LUCINDA GRANGE is not your aver-age photographer, as she achieves heights, literally, that no others do.

Grange, 25, an adventure pho-tographer recently showed off one of her latest daredevil shots of New York City’s skyline from a perch on a Chrysler Building eagle.

The Hartlepool native travels the world and sneaking atop of many famous buildings and structures and snapping photographs.

Just a few of her impressive list of climbs include the Great Pyramid of Giza, Firth of Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland and New York’s Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges.

She has risked her life – not to mention the constant threat of detection by security guards – to compile an amazing portfolio of work.

Grange said: “Climbing these incredible manmade structures is something most people wouldn’t consider, but I love to test myself and find out what I’m capable of. I know some people see what I do as reckless but often the pictures look more extreme than was the case. Sometimes climbing a structure can be fairly easy and a lot of fun. Getting to see places that very few people would even dream of going is a big draw for me. Seeing a city from an different viewpoint gives you

a completely different perspective on things.”

As well as scaling buildings and bridges, Grange and her friends have delved below cities exploring hidden rivers, abandoned subway stations and labyrinthine sewage systems.

Grange has now put her pictures in a book and plans to deliver first edition copies by hand to customers all over the world.On the net: http://www.lucindagrange.com/

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CORONATION STREET lost one of its best characters this month. After 16 years playing Hayley Cropper, actress Julie Hesmondhalgh left the show. There was no way that Hayley could have been given an easy way out on the show. She and Roy were for life, partners for ever, soul-mates until the end. And so there was only way for Hayley to leave Coronation Street, and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house when she did.

After suffering from pancreatic cancer for some months, Hayley takes her own life this month. She tells Roy it’s time for her to go. But Roy’s not ready and begs for just another day. “We could start today again, better,” he cries. “Tomorrow. Do today again, tomor-row.” But Hayley is insistent, she knows the time is right. And with that, Roy helps her to the bedroom where she downs a lethal cocktail, telling Roy he must, under any circumstances, touch the glass or her drugs otherwise he’ll be implicated in her suicide.

At Hayley’s funeral, she’d requested the mourners wear a splash of colour and they do her proud. Sean’s in a red suit, as is Carla. There are pink umbrellas, red ties and Tim’s in his green and white Weatherfield County football top. Mary turns up in her flamenco dress and Norris wears a bow-tie that he wore when he danced with Hayley. At the humanist service. the mourners are handed daffodils on their way in, a symbol to place on Hayley’s flowered coffin as they say their goodbyes. Carla stands and gives a reading, followed by Fiz. But when Fiz gets to the point in her speech about how selfless Hayley was, how she put others before herself, it’s too much

for Roy to bear. He interrupts Fiz. “People deserve to know the truth,” he said, standing up to address the gathered crowd. “I’m sorry, but they do. The truth … the truth is, she was not perfect. She was flawed. She was real. She was my light, my beautiful coruscating light. My life was a dark corner and she came into it. I could see. I could see the world with her. I understood life. I understood love. She was my constant, my comfort, my compass. Hayley was my truth, without her, I …” And then he faltered and could speak no more.

In other news this month, Chesney’s girlfriend Sinead moves in with him. Unfor-tunately for Chesney, so does Sinead’s auntie Beth, Beth’s son Craig with his pet rat called Darryl, and auntie Beth’s boyfriend, Kirk.

Rita’s not pleased this month when Gloria and Dennis get their heads together again to organise another band night in the Bistro. Rita’s feeling left out and when she puts this to Dennis he replies that he often feels like a spare part between her and Norris too.

Nick and Leanne split up and Nick moves back in with his mum. Gail’s delighted to have her golden boy back but Nick can’t stand her fussing over him all of the time. “Get a cat!” he tells her. “I’m allergic to cats,” she huffs back. “And I’m allergic to you!” he replies before moving back into his flat.

And finally this month, Tracy starts being more attentive to Amy after she’s made jeal-ous when she finds out that Amy is spending time with Michelle. Worse still, Amy seems to enjoy being with Michelle too, and Tracy can’t have that. So she spends the night with Amy watching films on TV. Rob even joins in too. But just when Tracy thinks she’s playing happy families with Rob and daughter Amy, she finds out that Rob has kissed Tina. “Get ready to gloat, mam!” Tracy tells Deirdre, who has never liked Rob.

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HAPPY 29TH Birthday to EastEnders! It was February 19, 1985 when the door was kicked down to Reg Cox’s bed sit and Den uttered the immortal words, “it stinks in ’ere!” And it’s been one big roller coaster ever since! And that roller coaster continues this month…

The road to romance never runs smooth when it runs through Albert Square, and so it is in the with Bianca and new boyfriend Terry: Things were going well, and their kids were blending well, then Terry’s ex-wife, the slutty stewardess shows up and tosses a monkey wrench into everything. Slutty stewardess then sets her sights on David Wicks, who also falls for her game, until he comes to his senses and deletes her from his phone (and hopefully life)…

At the Vic…. No sooner had the Carter family settled into running the place than they found out there was rising damp in the cellar, that will cost thousands to repair. It turns out Phil knew it when he unloaded it on them. To make things worse, Sharon has decided to open her own bar, just off the Square, the site of Booty – though that is the site that was originally The Dagmar (remember that?) Family life, upstairs at the Vic is crowded with Shirley and sister Tina joining their brother Mick with his wife Linda and kids Nancy and Johnny (who, in a moving episode, just

came out as gay to his supportive father and less supportive mother)… While Janine has been in jail Billy has been running her empire (though not well), not seeing that Lucy and Danny have been skimming. Then Janine sells everything to fund her defense. Danny’s also been scamming Lucy; she’s the last in the Square to find out he’s gay (and trying to cruise Johnny while bedding Lucy), but when she does, all that lovely stolen cash goes flying out the window (literally!) and he’s gone…

Elsewhere…After being rejected by Carol, Masood has gone completely off the rails, getting drunk, gambling away Tamwar’s University money (and blaming Fatboy). Then Shabnam shows up, back from Pakistan, a completely different person: Gone is the modern, independent woman. She has re-turned as a devout muslim who is displeased that Masood has been in a relationship with that white woman, Carol Jackson… Alfie’s market stall is not cutting it, so he hatches a plan to go out to Australia for some temp work (with the long MIA Spencer), hoping to come back quids in. When he gets back there’s a bigger problem: Kat, riding on the top of a double decker bus spots Stacey! She has been hiding in plain sight just 20 minutes across town. She has changed her name to Jenny, and she and Lilly have been living with her boyfriend, a banker, in town. But once Kat comes looking for her and her cover is blown, she is tossed and ends up back in the Square, hiding in the Slater house. Kat needs the help of incarcerated Janine to drop the false charges that made Stacey run three years ago so she can come back out in the open…

And threatening the very core of Albert Square are the Council’s plans to close

By Aida CerkezIT WAS THE first, and so far only, perfect score in Olympic skating history. And when Britain’s Torvill and Dean were through with their legendary Bolero rou-tine at the Sarajevo Olympics the sport was changed forever.

Three decades after their gold medal-winning performance of Ravel’s haunting masterpiece in 1984, Jayne Torvill, 54, and Christopher Dean, 55, returned to the ice February 14, dancing the same routine at the same rink.

With the Olympics underway in So-chi, the pair said they were honored to be invited back to skate in an arena they consider “hallowed ground.”

“We are so honored and humbled to be invited back to Sarajevo and come back to the place where our lives changed,” said Dean.

On Valentine’s Day 30 years ago, the two became the first dancing pair ever to receive a perfect six from all judges in a skating competition.

DESTROYEDThe sports hall, Zetra, was destroyed

during the 1992-95 Bosnian war that took 100,000 lives. It was rebuilt in 1999 and the skaters are there helping to promote the Youth Olympics that Sarajevo will host in 2017. The city invited the skaters to mark Olympic anniversary and help raise funds for a permanent ice rink in preparation of the Youth games.

Sarajevo was besieged throughout the war by Bosnian Serb forces who shelled and sniped daily, killing over 11,000 people in the city. The enemies divided the country into a Serb part and another shared by Bosniaks and Croats. The border runs through the former Olympic village, now a Sarajevo suburb.

Administratively, there are two Saraje-vos. Torvill and Dean’s goodwill perfor-mance is playing a symbolic role in healing divisions: The official invitation is signed by the city’s two mayors and stamped with their emblems, a rare show of cooperation.

The Olympic site looks very different decades – and one calamitous war – later. The stadium has been repaired but it’s surrounded by tombstones of the war dead.

Torvill and Dean said they watched the tragedy on TV and wondered what had happened to the wonderful people they had met in Sarajevo.

the Bridge Street Market. At first Ian looks out for #1, and takes a payoff to keep the traders from revolting, but he finally comes around and leads a sit-in in the Square (for the 29th Anniversary episode), almost get-ting arrested and making the BBC news. The council is now rethinking, and Ian is rethinking the engagement to Denise now that Jane is back. Some things never change!… ATTENTION NEW YORK FANS: Now is the time for all good Easties to come to the aid of their favorite PBS station, WLIW21! WLIW New York is currently in the midst of its annual EastEnders Pledge Drive, trying to raise the dosh to pay the BBC’s licensing fee for another year, and we need every single Eastie in NY to join in! Go to: wliw.org/EastEnders to browse the great Thank You Gifts you can receive for pledging. You’ll love the new, exclusive East-Enders tote bag! Or if you’d like to pledge a smaller amount, just click the “no gift” button. Every single pledge of any amount is needed and greatly appreciated. We need your sup-port so please join in this annual whip ‘round!

Downton Abbey: Are you a Downton Abbey fan? If so, you might enjoy reading my cheeky recaps, The Downton Abbey Dish, on PBS ThirteenNY’s website. Here’s the latest one as of press time: www.thirteen.org/program-content/the-downton-abbey-dish-season-4-episode-7/ And you can click forward or backward to read them all from there.

As always, if you’d like to keep up with all things EastEnders, just email me here at the Launderette and I’ll sign you up for my FREE, weekly EastEnders e-newsletter called the E20 Chronicles:E20Launderette@gmail.com. TA!

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“Today we had a very emotional mo-ment,” Dean said, choking with emotion. Regaining his composure, he explained how the duo had just met the girl who

picked up flowers from the ice before the two went going out to skate.

“To personally hear her story from the six-year-old girl who picked the flowers up and the subsequent life afterward and then today being here with her daughter, a generation that had gone through some difficult tragic times and yet now they are so hopeful and joyful ... that really brought it home for us today,” he said.

Torvill said she often wondered whether the little girl they had met at the Olympics was still skating.

When they met the girl – now a proud mom – they were in for an emotional sur-prise: Her daughter was among the young skaters performing in the gala event.

Torvill And Dean Back In Sarajevo After 30 Years

Torvill and Dean recreated their legendary Bolero routine at the Sarajevo ice rink where they won Gold.

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VIOLENCE FROM THE DOCK

Lee Rigby Murderers Sentenced, One For LifeA MUSLIM extremist was jailed for life and his accomplice for 45 years February 26 for hacking British soldier Lee Rigby to death on a London street in a “terrorist” killing that shocked the nation.

Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, were dragged from the dock in the Old Bailey court in London after they started screaming “Allahu ak-bar” (God is greater) at the judge during the sentencing.

The pair of Muslim converts were found guilty in December of ploughing into Rigby with a car before attacking him with knives in broad daylight outside his barracks in Woolwich, southeast London, in May 2013.

Judge Nigel Sweeney ordered Adebo-lajo to spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole for killing Rigby, who had previously served in Afghanistan, and said Adebowale had to serve a minimum of 45 years.

“This was a murder with a terrorist connection,” the judge said, describing the killing as “sickening and pitiless”.

He said a whole-life prison term was

a “just penalty” for Adebolajo, who had proclaimed his admiration for the Al-Qaeda terror network, but that the younger man’s “lesser role” meant he would get a shorter sentence.

Adebolajo and Adebowale, both Britons who were raised by Nigerian Christian families before converting to Islam, said they had attacked the off-duty soldier to avenge the deaths of Muslims at the hands of British troops.

Minutes before the sentencing, Ade-bolajo started shouting “Allahu akbar” and Adebowale called out “that’s a lie” in response to claims that they had been radicalised.

Adebolajo was pinned to the ground before being carried out head first. Ade-bowale was dragged out. The scuffle lasted over a minute and was so violent that protective screens over the dock rocked. They scuffled with guards before being carried down to the holding cells and were not in court to hear their penalties read out.

The fighting was yards from Rigby’s family, some of whom were so upset they were left crying.

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AS WORKING visa’s become increasingly difficult to get through the US Embassy in London, I am receiving quite a few calls from people looking into the B visa option.

The B visa (B1/B2) as it is applied to UK citizens, is for business persons or visitors who need to remain in the United States for longer than 90 days and for up to six months. The visa itself is generally valid for a five year period. In the most recent past, when a visitor presented a B visa to the inspecting officer upon arrival in the United States, the officer generally would grant the person an I-94 valid for up to 180 days. That is, the B visa holder could remain in the United States for up to six months. Further, a B visa holder could extend their authorized stay for an additional six months while in the United States, and could even change their status to another visa category without leaving the United States.

Unfortunately, after 9/11, the government has revisited the B visa regulations and now instructs inspecting officers to authorize an individual’s stay for only as long as the of-ficer determines it will take for the visitor to complete his trip. In many cases, this turns out to be only thirty days. Thus, even if you arrive in Los Angeles with a five year B visa, unless you have a schedule and supporting documents to explain the reason for your visit

To ‘B’ Or Not To ‘B’and the reason why you need to be here for more than thirty days, chances are you will only be authorized to remain in the United States for thirty days. Trying to verbally explain your reasons to the inspecting officer upon arrival will probably not be good enough – you will need documentation. Please note, you can still get a six month authorized stay, but you should be prepared to provide the inspecting officer with supporting documents to support your request. However, you will never be granted a five year stay regardless of the validity dates on your visa. The maximum amount of time you can be granted by law is six months.

On another note, if you plan to try and stay in the US through a change of status petition your application may be denied based on fraud if it is filed within the first 30 days after you entered the country. That is, the CIS may view your initial entry as fraudulent if you apply to change to another category within thirty days after entry into the United States with a B visa.

The above article is provided for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal advice. Please consult your immigration at-torney to discuss the specifics of your own case. I can be reached at (619) 235-5400 or through my web page at www.urelaw.com.

By Jill Lawless

THEY WERE a British family on a day out – almost a million years ago.

Archaeologists announced in February that they had discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and one million years old – the most ancient found outside Africa, and the earliest evi-dence of human life in northern Europe.

A team from the British Museum, London’s Natural History Museum and Queen Mary college at the University of London uncovered imprints from up to five individuals in ancient estuary mud at Hap-pisburgh on the country’s eastern coast.

British Museum archaeologist Nick Ashton said the discovery – recounted in detail in the journal Plos One – was “a tan-gible link to our earliest human relatives.”

Preserved in layers of silt and sand for hundreds of millennia before being exposed by the tide last year, the prints give a vivid glimpse of some of our most ancient ancestors. They were left by a group, including at least two children and one adult male. They could have been be a family foraging on the banks of a river scientists think may be the ancient Thames, beside grasslands where bison, mammoth, hippos and rhinoceros roamed.

University of Southampton archaeol-ogy professor Clive Gamble, who was not involved in the project, said the discovery was “tremendously significant.”

TANGIBLE“It’s just so tangible,” he said. “This is

the closest we’ve got to seeing the people.“When I heard about it, it was like

hearing the first line of (William Blake’s hymn) Jerusalem – ‘And did those feet, in ancient time, walk upon England’s moun-tains green?’ Well, they walked upon its muddy estuary.”

The researchers said the humans who

Scientists Find 800,000-Year-Old Footprints In UK

left the footprints may have been related to Homo antecessor, or “pioneer man,” whose fossilized remains have been found in Spain. That species died out about 800,000 years ago.

Ashton said the footprints are between 800,000 – “as a conservative estimate” – and one million years old, at least 100,000 years older than scientists’ earlier estimate of the first human habitation in Britain. That’s significant because 700,000 years ago, Britain had a warm, Mediterranean-style climate. The earlier period was much colder, similar to modern-day Scandinavia.

Natural History Museum archaeologist Chris Stringer said that 800,000 or 900,000 years ago Britain was “the edge of the inhabited world.”

“This makes us rethink our feelings about the capacity of these early people, that they were coping with conditions somewhat colder than the present day,” he said.

ADAPTATIONS“Maybe they had cultural adaptations

to the cold we hadn’t even thought were possible 900,000 years ago. Did they wear clothing? Did they make shelters, wind-

breaks and so on? Could they have the use of fire that far back?” he asked.

Scientists dated the footprints by study-ing their geological position and from nearby fossils of long-extinct animals including mammoth, ancient horse and early vole.

John McNabb, director of the Center for the Archaeology of Human Origins at the University of Southampton – who was not part of the research team – said the use of several lines of evidence meant “the dating is pretty sound.”

Once uncovered, the perishable prints were recorded using sophisticated digital photography to create 3-D images in which it’s possible to discern arches of feet, and even toes.

Isabelle De Groote, a specialist in ancient human remains at Liverpool John Moores University who worked on the find, said that from the pattern of the prints, the group of early humans appeared to be “pottering around,” perhaps foraging for food.

She said it wasn’t too much of a stretch to call it a family.

TOGETHER“These individuals traveling together,

it’s likely that they were somehow re-lated,” she said.

Research at Happisburgh will continue, and scientists are hopeful of finding fos-silized remains of the ancient humans, or evidence of their living quarters, to build

... the earliest evidence of human life in northern Europeup a fuller picture of their lives.

The footprint find will form part of an exhibition, Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story, opening at the Natural History Museum later in February.

The footprints themselves, which survived for almost one million years, won’t be there. Two weeks after they were uncovered, North Sea tides had washed them away.

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“I am a pudding man. Nothing de-presses me more than a meal which doesn’t finish with one… However boring the discussion, I perk up when they wheel in the sweet trolley. I inspect it as I would a guard of honour… I look forward to the petits fours … and … often nibbling the spun sugar in the swan’s beak, or breaking off a piece of the basket and chewing the wickerwork!”

– Robert Morley

IT CAN be confusing for the non-Brit to understand what we mean as puddings … which refers to dessert here. However it doesn’t just refer to the creamy sweet cold pudding in the US, but a variety of different sweet “afters” of all sorts. And we Brits have always had a sweet tooth. When I first came here I always made a dessert after the meal as that was what I was used to, however in my husband’s family it was usually only special meals such as in the holidays when it was served. In the latter years as we had to start watching our waistlines, I used to just end the meal with some fresh fruit, but I do love a good sweet afters!! Some readers also may be confused with the term sweet trolley in Mr Morley’s quote. This refers to dining in a usually high class hotel or restaurant, and is still to be seen in Britain. I do have recol-lections of being treated out where there was a sweets trolley, and able to look over

everything, and always having a problem choosing, as I wanted one of each!!!

Originally sugar was very expensive in Britain, and only the very rich could afford it and it was brought over in the spice ships of the mid fourteenth century, and at first it

was used like a spice. In the 1700’s the use of sugar increased as it was then cheaper, due to being grown in the British colonies etc. However the heyday of the English pudding tradition really came through in the Victorian times, when many of the bread based puds such as summer pudding, apple Charlotte etc and of course the bread and butter pudding came into favour, it also was always economical and a good way to use up extra bread, (but I do recommend using a good quality bread). I recently had a request for bread pudding, which is not to be confused with the lighter bread and butter pudding with a custard sauce. (I will feature that in the near future also)

Bread pudding is a lot denser, and usu-ally served in slices with a custard sauce or cream. I remember a customer in our former tea room commented when I served it that it was a good as he remembered it years ago. His family would like it even better the next day with a good cuppa. I hope you enjoy my version

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a casserole dish or loaf pan. Cut crusts off the bread and break into small pieces in a medium bowl. Pour the milk over the bread and let stand about 30 minutes or until well soaked. Add melted butter, sugar, mixed spice and beaten egg. Using a fork beat mixture up until no lumps remain, then stir in the dried fruit. Spread into prepared bak-ing dish and sprinkle with nutmeg. Bake for 1 hour or until set. Serve sliced with custard sauce or cream (Yield 4 servings)

Old Fashioned Bread Pudding1/2lb brown or white bread (I like a mix of both)1¼ cup milk3 Tbsp melted butter1/3 cup brown sugar1 Tbsp mixed spice (Allspice)1 beaten egg2/3 cup mixed currants and raisinsGrated nutmeg

Increase Of Vehicles Brought On Birth Of Britain’s Motorways

IT’S BEEN over 30 years since I consistently drove a car around Britain and as I remember that traffic congestion was, at times, pretty bad even back then. I assumed it must be a lot worse these days, although on my last few recent trips back home I didn’t notice much difference than it was back in the 70s. Even taking into account the dramatic increase in the number of cars over the years on British roads.

Here are some facts on the number of cars registered in the UK:

• 1955-three million• 1960-seven million• 1970-15 million• 1980-20 millionToday there are about 29 million registered

vehicles in the UK. For such a small island it is a tribute to the Ministry of Transport for planning a road network throughout the nation that can accommodate this amount of traffic.

It was the birth of the Motorway system that first contributed to this easing of traffic throughout Britain. It all started in 1958 albeit the planning started as early as 1937. The Preston Bypass was the first of these “new” motorways, a sort of experiment for what was to follow. Why Preston? With a population of

around 185,000 or so in 1958 this seemed like an unlikely spot to start Britain’s new motorway system, but looking at the Road Plan, it was quite obvious why. Preston was the point where traffic from the Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn and Cheshire (and beyond) directions all merge to head north-wards into the Lake District or west towards Blackpool. Preston was the only place where any A-class road crossed the River Ribble that separated northern Lancashire from southern Lancashire. These geographical realisations meant that all long-distance traffic on the western side of England was obligated to pass straight through the town.

So, in 1953, the Ministry announced that the Preston Bypass would commence in the 1956-57 financial year, and at the same time made reference to it being a “guinea-pig” for all the motorways that followed, both in standards and in construction. It was designed for a speed of 70mph, although there was no speed limit for the first few years of operation. There was, however, a disagreement between the Ministry and the engineer James Drake regarding the width of the road: the Ministry wanted two lanes in each direction, whilst Drake wanted three. Eventually, a compromise was worked out where there was two lanes provided, but the central reservation was wide enough to allow an extra lane to be provided easily.

The Preston Bypass opened on December 5, 1958, making it the first motorway in Britain. As befitting its status as the very first motorway, it was opened by the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan. A large plaque was unveiled (and still exists today) at the A59 junction – although its modern place-ment manages to be relatively unobtrusive! The Ministry’s insistence on two lanes in each direction backfired slightly when the third lane was added in the mid-1960s, though the compromise of the extra-wide central res-ervation, as planned, meant the conversion was easily achieved – although there were no hard shoulders through bridges. Meanwhile, the bypass was being joined to the rest of the new M6, with the section to the Lancaster Bypass to the north opening in 1964, and the south already being opened in 1963.

But, even with three lanes in each direc-tion the Preston Bypass once again became a bottle neck over the River Ribble Bridge during the 1980s. A study showed that the Bypass should be widened once again, this time to four lanes in each direction between the M61 and M55 junctions. As part of the work, the entire carriageway was recon-structed, and in some cases moved slightly

off the original route. All the bridges over the motorway were removed, and so today’s Preston Bypass is almost completely different to the original – with only some small areas being original to its predecessor.

Here are some interesting facts about the unique and great Motorways of Britain:

• The M6 was one of the earliest and it is also the longest at 232 miles, it extends from Catthorpe (junction 19 on the M1) to the A74M in Gretna Green, Scotland which itself joins the M74 to Glasgow. There have been rumors that the M74 may be renumbered to M6, which would then make the M6 more than 360 miles in length.

• The second longest Motorway is the M1 at 193.5 miles and this runs from London’s A406 North Circular road to Leeds where it joins the A1. This famous Motorway has the distinction of having the very first Motorway service station which were unique in Britain located at Watford Gap, just north of London, it opened on the February 2, 1960. A second one located further north opened soon after at Newport Pagnell.

• A candidate for the widest Motorway could have been the section of the M6 at the River Ribble in Preston, but, ironically, it is still a bottle neck even today – it’s not however as the wide (most lanes) is a section of the M61 in Greater Manchester which boasts 17 lanes.

• As for the shortest Motorway in Britain, there are a number of them which are one mile or less in length. There have been conflicting claims on this subject, but it now appears that the A635(M), which is joined to the A57(M), Mancunian Way and runs to the A6, is the shortest at about 328 yards or 300 meters long. There is no sign on this Motorway depicting its name, and, I suppose, no time for motorists to take it in.

• Not surprisingly the M25 (London Orbital Motorway) is the busiest Motorway in the UK, the section between junctions 12 and 15 carrying on average 180,000 to 200,000 vehicles, and in typical peak periods traffic

can reach above 200,000, simi-larly on other sections too, such as junctions 15 to 16 and 12 to 9.

• The longest uninterrupted length between junctions exists on the southbound M11 between junction 10 and junction 8 and is 17 miles, (junction 9 exists only on the northbound side).

• The most complicated British Motorway interchange is situated at Gravelly Hill north of Birming-ham, on the Midland Link Motor-

way section of the M6. Popularly known as Spaghetti Junction, it has 18 routes on six levels, together with a diverted canal and river. It consists of 26,000 tons of steel, 250,000 tons of concrete and 300,000 tons of earth, and cost £8.2m to construct.

The Motorway traffic system has come a long way since 1958, there are now 50 Motorways throughout Britain plus 18 more upgraded A-class roads to Motorway stan-dards. Traffic jams still occur only too often but just think what it would be like without this magnificent feat of Motorway engineering.

And, just for the record: The worst re-corded traffic jam in Britain was, as you might have guessed, on the M6 from the Preston (still a bottleneck) Bypass to Carnforth, Lan-cashire on April 17, 1987; it involved 50,000 vehicles and about 200,000 people, all at a complete standstill.

Happy Motoring

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British Academy Film Awards Winners 2014

WINNERS OF the 2014 British Academy Film Awards, presented February 16Film – 12 Years a Slave British Film – Gravity Director – Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity Actor – Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave Actress – Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine Supporting Actor – Barkhad Abdi, Captain

Phillips Supporting Actress – Jennifer Lawrence,

American Hustle Rising Star – Will Poulter British Debut – Writer-director Kieran Evans,

Kelly + Victor Original Screenplay – Eric Warren Singer

and David O. Russell, American Hustle Adapted Screenplay – Steve Coogan and

Jeff Pope, Philomena Film Not in the English Language – The

Great Beauty Music – Gravity Cinematography – Gravity Editing – Rush Production Design – The Great Gatsby Costume Design – The Great Gatsby Sound – Gravity Visual Effects – Gravity Makeup and Hair – American Hustle Animated Feature – Frozen Short Film – Room 8 Short Animation – Sleeping With the Fishes Documentary – The Act of Killing Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema

– Peter Greenaway Academy Fellowship – Helen Mirren

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By Jill LawlessACTRESS Sienna Miller said last month that she had a “brief encounter” with James Bond star Daniel Craig, but insisted a Brit-ish tabloid misconstrued the nature of the relationship based on a hacked voicemail message.

Miller told Britain’s phone-hacking trial that she probably did leave a message for Craig that ended “I love you.” But she said she always signed off to family and friends that way.

“The thing that’s been slightly miscon-strued about this voicemail message is the fact that I said I love you and that this was some incredibly important declaration of love,” Miller said.

“I had always ended my phone calls to Daniel ‘I love you’; it was a declaration of friendship.”

Miller testified by video link to the Lon-don court from New Orleans at the trial of two former News of the World editors, and five others, over phone hacking and other wrongdoing at the now-defunct tabloid.

BRIBERYThe defendants deny a variety of charg-

es, including phone hacking, bribery and obstructing a police investigation.

These days of the trial had focused on evidence from Dan Evans, a former reporter who says he hacked Craig’s phone and used the “I love you” message as the basis of 2005 stories about an affair between Craig and Miller. She was then dating actor Jude Law, while Craig was in a relationship with film producer Satsuki Mitchell.

Evans has pleaded guilty to phone hack-ing, and says t o p e d i t o r s w e r e a w a r e o f h i s a c -tions. Defense lawyers have questioned his credibility as a witness, sug-

gesting the affair story could have come from sources other than phone hacking, such as associates of Miller and Law.

Miller, 32, said Evans’ description of her voicemail for Craig rang true, and she could see why it would have caused excitement among journalists who heard it.

EVIDENCEMiller, who sat beside an FBI agent as

she gave evidence from the United States, said she had “absolutely never” courted

media attention and regretted that her relationship with Craig – her co-star in the 2004 movie Layer Cake – had been turned into “a titillating piece of information” for the press.

“Whether or not I was in a relationship with Daniel Craig at the time, it was a very brief encounter,” she said. “He was my best friend. My saying ‘I love you’ was nothing new.”

After Miller finished her evidence, judge John Saunders thanked her and said: “I am very sorry what has gone on in this court and reported in the press has caused you distress.”

Owner Rupert Murdoch closed the News of the World in 2011 after details emerged of the scale of its snooping on celebrities, politicians and others in the public eye.

The same year Miller accepted £100,000 to settle a phone-hacking lawsuit against the newspaper.

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Midnight House – By Alex BerensonThis is the second book about CIA agent

John Wells. (I haven’t read the first – just discovered this author).EARLY ONE morning a retired CIA operative is shot and killed in the street. Later that night a former Army Ranger is gunned down in his doorway. The following day Agent Wells gets a call to report to Langley – Now!

The victims were part of a ten-member interrogation squad from a secret base called The Midnight House. They have been tasked to get information out of terrorists by whatever means necessary – but, of course, the t e a m d o e s n ’ t exist if anyone asks. The story weaves in and out and around. No one knows any-thing and anyone that might is too scared to talk. As John and his partner Shafer begin to put together the pieces they discover that the team psychiatrist – a woman – committed suicide. They talk to her husband but he is so distraught they really can’t get any information out of him except that she was so upset about the way things were done that she couldn’t take it anymore. What the heck was going on at that base? Shafer and John finally find a file with numbers in it for 12 people – the prisoners had code numbers – but they have been told there were only ten. As they dig deeper they discover that there were, in fact, 12 prisoners but something so bad happened that the only thing left to do was cover it up by getting someone – very high up and with the skills – to totally erase those two numbers from the system.

Wells makes travels to Cairo and makes contact with the brother of one of the prison-ers and gets some fascinating information – he almost gets caught in the process – but who is chasing him? The terrorists or “his” people? And if it’s the US Government why? Is he getting too close? To what? How far up the ladder is this cover up? Is what the boy told him true?

They take their information back to their contact at the CIA and are told that they are wrong and to stop looking into the situation. Right – tell these two rebels to stop? Not a chance. As they dig even deeper the water gets even muddier but that makes them even more curious and the more they are told to stand down the more they want to dig.

He winds up back in the middle east with a team on a mission to get a laptop left in a small house with a family that doesn’t even know it’s there – cemented into their floor – in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods there! They get it but what they have to go through to retrieve it is unbelievable!

When all is said and done they unravel the mystery – buried laptops, payoffs, interroga-tions, dead bodies, crazy people, cover ups are all involved. They are threatened by the very people they’ve worked for for years but they won’t give up.

Is a roller coaster ride and if you aren’t skeptical or distrusting of the government before you read this you certainly will be after! An absolutely wonderful read! Enjoy!

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Authorities Reportedly Arrest 2 In Rolls Probe

BRITAIN’S Press Association says UK authorities have arrested two people as part of an investigation into the dealings in Asia of the engine maker Rolls-Royce PLC.

The Serious Fraud Office says two men were arrested after search warrants were executed in London last month. The SFO did not give further details about the arrests and the company declined to comment.

The arrests come after the fraud office announced in December that it had opened a criminal investigation into bribery and corruption allegations at the defense and aerospace group.

Rolls Royce disclosed in 2012 that the SFO asked the company to investigate allegations of bribery and corruption in Indonesia and China. The company hired a law firm to examine the allegations and handed the file to the SFO.

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Nurse Nathan Filer Wins Britain’s Costa

Book AwardMENTAL HEALTH nurse Nathan Filer has won Britain’s Costa Book Award for his saga of schizophrenia, The Shock of the Fall.

The novel, Filer’s first, charts the story of two brothers split by a boyhood acci-dent, taking the reader into the surviving sibling’s mind as he struggles to deal with mental illness and the fallout from his brother’s death.

Filer – who has only just been married – told the BBC the story was tinged with sadness but he believed the main character was one that readers would like to spend time with.

Filer’s book is published in the United States as Where The Moon Isn’t.

The Costa Book Award is worth £30,000. It’s open to writers based in Britain and Ireland.

Killing Suspect Fails To Block Extradition

From UKMURDER suspect Shrien Dewani has lost his bid to block his extradition to South Africa, where he’s accused of arranging the murder of his new wife, Anni, during a honeymoon trip in 2010.

The case has drawn attention in both countries, and has been dragged out by legal wrangling in Britain over whether Dewani is fit to be removed from the country.

Dewani denies the charges, and his law-yers argue that he suffers post-traumatic stress and depression and should not be extradited.

Britain’s High Court last month ap-proved Dewani’s removal so long as South African authorities could give a guarantee as to how long he would be kept there without trial.

The court had been told the South Af-ricans were willing to do so.

London Theater Box Office Boomed In 2013MORE PEOPLE than ever attended London theaters in 2013, with ticket income rising for a 10th straight year, despite Britain’s fragile economic recovery.

Figures released last month show there were more than 14.5 million visits to theaters in 2013, up four percent from 2012.

Box office revenue rose even more – by 11 percent to more than £585m.Industry group the Society of London Theatre, which compiled data from 52 venues,

said sales were boosted by newly opened musicals, including The Book of Mormon,Once and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

The one blot on a strong year was the December 19 collapse of part of a ceiling at the Apollo Theatre during a performance. Almost 80 people were hurt, seven seriously, and the venue remains closed.

Sting’s Musical Finds A Broadway Home

By Mark KennedySINGER-SONGWRITER Sting’s new musical The Last Ship has found a nice berth on Broadway.

Producers said last month that the show – inspired by Sting’s memories of growing up in Newcastle a shipbuilding community in northeast England – will start performances September 30 at the Neil Simon Theatre. Opening night will be October 26.

Before coming to Broadway, The Last Ship will make its world premiere next summer at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre.

The story centers on a man from a sea-faring town who travels the world for 14 years only to return to find the shipyard’s future in grave danger and his sweetheart engaged to someone else.

Sting last year released a CD titled The Last Ship with some songs that may make it onstage.

IT IS difficult to gauge how much effect the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) will have on individual “Ex-Pat” US taxpayer investors. Since the legislation was enacted in 2010, there has been great effort to ensure that all foreign financial institutions (FFIs) were aware of their responsibilities and the penalties for non-compliance but very little focusing on the individual investor.

The IRS has made it clear that FATCA is not intended to raise revenue from the FFIs but rather to provide the IRS with information about US taxpayers, and all their overseas assets and income.

It is hoped that all US taxpayers are aware that broadly, they will either have their personal and foreign investment details reported to the US or a 30 percent withholding tax will be applied to any US source income from January 1, 2014. There is no option to choose the withholding tax.

For example, the agreement implement-ing FATCA with the UK, has amended the UK rules regarding Data Protection meaning that the investor does not have to consent to having his information dis-closed but only has the right to see what information has been disclosed.

All Ex-Pat investors will need to make

sure that they are following the increased US self reporting requirements for their total foreign financial assets and as part of this, the statute of limitation for IRS audits of returns listing foreign sourced income has been extended from three to six years. Unintended non-compliance may result in a minimum $10,000 fine and wilful non-compliance may result in prosecution, so it is imperative that every Ex-Pat checks their personal position to ensure that their US returns will match the information provided directly to the IRS from the FFIs

It is estimated that there is a surpris-ingly significant number of Ex-Pats who have not updated their residence address with the FFIs because they also have a UK contact address, and all individual inves-tors should check with their FFIs that they are holding correct information for them.

It is likely that many US taxpayers may be unaware of the effect these rules may have on them and may need specialist advice to minimise the impact.

Janet Pilborough-Skinner is a Private Client Director in the UK with Mazars, a firm of accountants, tax and business advisers who are a global partnership across 71 countries.

BRITAIN’S Home Secretary has banned French comedian and pro-vocateur Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala from entering the United Kingdom.

He had previously announced plans to visit Britain in a show of support for soccer player Nicolas Anelka, who faces a ban for mimicking the comic’s “quenelle” salute during a match. The gesture is considered by many to be anti-Semitic.

A Home Office statement issued last month said Dieudonne is subject to an exclusion order issued under Home Secretary Theresa May’s power to keep someone out of Britain for

public policy or public security reasons. He has been convicted multiple times for inciting ra-cial hatred or anti-Semitism.

The Football Association has charged An-elka over the pose, struck after he scored a goal in a game in December. He is contesting the charges.

CLOSE to the Royal Albert Hall, and underground, a parking spot in London sold for £400,000 last month.

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UK Nuclear Alert: Naturally Occurring

RadiationELEVATED radiation levels detected last month at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in northwestern England were caused by naturally occurring background radon, not by any faults at the aging plant, the operating company said.

Only essential workers were asked to report for work as safety teams worked to pinpoint the cause of the elevated radiation, in the northern end of the sprawling site – the largest nuclear site in Europe.

Sellafield Ltd said its on-site monitors detected unusual activity overnight, leading it to reduce staffing levels as a precaution.

The plant was never shut down and there was no evacuation. The company said there had been no risk to public safety.

Nuclear reprocessing involves separating uranium and plutonium from nuclear waste for reuse as fuel, and treating the waste for storage. Reprocessing has taken place at Sellafield for more than 50 years.

The complex has long been targeted by anti-nuclear campaigners who have pointed to a number of leaks and other incidents there over the years.

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1-April 27: Four Winds Renaissance Faire at Vizcaya Ranch 15 miles south of Tyler, TX. www.fourwindsfaire.com

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R Ye Olde Kings Head of Santa Monica, CA 90401 holds their annual St Paddy’s Day cel-ebration all day on the 17 with Corned Beef and Cabbage, Irish Stew, Green Beer, Bagpiper, DJ, lots of fun; 6 Nations Rugby shown live; Carling Cup Final March 2 (310) 451-1402.

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25- Mar 3: Estrella War XXX: the Fellowship of the Kings at Shrepf Farms in Queen Creek, AZ www.estrellawar.org

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R Cameron’s Inn of Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 join them for a merry St Patrick’s Day celebration on the patio, at the BBQ Pit, or indoors (650) 726-5705.

4-6: 8th Annual Boulder City Renaissance Faire at Veteran’s Memorial Park, Boulder City, NV. www.bcrenfaire.org

5: The Medieval & Renaissance Faire at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. www.cmrf.org.ohio-state.edu

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12-13: Southampton Renissance Faire at Wal-ter Cecil Rawls Library & Museum Arts/Shands Park. Courtland, VA. www.medievalsouthampton.yolasite.com (757) 653-0132.

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Flower Steps Down As England Team Director

ANDY FLOWER has stepped down as England team director following the Ashes whitewash in Australia.

The ECB confirmed Flower’s departure in a statement last month despite his earlier announcement that he would continue in his role alongside captain Alastair Cook.

Flower said “following the recent very disappointing Ashes defeat it is clear to me that this is now time for England cricket, led by Alastair Cook, to rebuild with a new set of values and goals.”

Flower’s five years as coach have seen many bright spots, including three succes-sive Ashes series victories.

~ FORMULA ONE ~McLaren Hires Boullier

As Racing DirectorFORMULA ONE team McLaren has hired Eric Boullier as its new racing director, less than a week after the Frenchman left as team principal of Lotus.

The appointment of Boullier continues the behind-the-scenes restructuring at McLaren, who recently brought back former team principal Ron Dennis as its new chief executive.

McLaren is looking to bounce back from its worst season in F1 since 1980 after failing to make a single podium.

Boullier says in a statement that “I’m both eager and determined to play an active part. To bring about the changes that will deliver success.”

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Dibaba Runs Fastest-Ever 2 Miles Indoors

GENZEBE DIBABA produced her third record performance of the month February 16, with the Ethiopian racing the fastest two miles at the Birmingham Grand Prix.

Dibaba eased over the line in 9min 48secs indoors in central England, more than 20 seconds ahead of her rivals to break compatriot Meseret Defar’s world-best mark from 2009 by almost six seconds. The IAAF said it wasn’t a world record as there are no official records for two miles.

“In the middle of the race I felt a bit weak and tired, but with the help of the crowd and all the buzzing I was able to gain momentum and get the record,” Dibaba said on the IAAF website.

Dibaba had already broken the indoor 1,500 and 3,000-meter world records last month as she prepared for the world in-door championships this month in Sopot, Poland.

HOPING“I’m hoping to win a gold again at the

world indoors, that’s the plan,” Dibaba said. “I have a 1500m gold from last time, so this time I want the 3000m.”

British sprinter James Dasaolu will be hoping he is fit for the championships after appearing to injure himself while upstaging Nesta Carter of Jamaica to win the 60 meters.

Dasaolu left the Birmingham track on a wheelchair with an ice pack on his left hamstring.

It is a potential blow for Dasaolu, who won his heat in 6.47secs – the fastest time this year, before winning the final in 6.50secs. That was 0.03 seconds ahead of Carter, while Kim Collins of St Kitts and Nevis was third followed by British sprinter Dwain Chambers.

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Collingwood To Be England Assistant Coach

TRIPLE ASHES winner Paul Collin-gwood has been named England’s assistant coach to Ashley Giles for the forthcoming tour of the West Indies and the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.

The former England all-rounder cap-tained England to the World Twenty20 title in 2010.

England and Wales Cricket Board managing director Paul Downton said: “I am delighted that Paul has agreed to join the England coaching staff for the trips to the West Indies and Ban-gladesh.”

An embarrassing 5-0 Ashes series loss left England in tatters, with emblematic batsman Kevin Pietersen being axed in a bid to rebuild trust within the team. The ECB also announced earlier that former England seam bowler Angus Fraser had been appointed to England’s selection panel.

Scotland Wins ICC World Cup Qualifying

TournamentSCOTLAND captain Preston Mommsen made an unbeaten 139 last month to set up a 41-run win over the United Arab Emirates in the final of the International Cricket Council’s World Cup qualifying tournament.

Scotland made 285-5 batting first in the February 1 final and Swapnil Patel not out on 99 as the UAE made 244-9 in reply.

Both teams had already qualified for the World Cup by making the final, and will join the top nations at the tournament in Australia and New Zealand over February and March, 2015.

Scotland will play in Group A with New Zealand, Australia, England, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan while UAE will play in Group B with India, Pakistan, South Africa, the West Indies, Zimbabwe and Ireland.

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THE GOVERNMENT last month cut fund-ing for the country’s Olympic basketball program ahead of the 2016 Games.

Basketball received £8.6m in the four years before the 2012 London Olympics where Britain qualified as hosts.

But UK Sport, which distributes money from the government and National Lot-tery, has decided basketball doesn’t offer a realistic prospect of producing a medal in Rio de Janeiro.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said last month the London Olympics were a “lost opportunity” and questioned why the government wasn’t backing basketball.

Roger Moreland, performance chair-man at British Basketball, is “aghast” at the decision to strip funding, explaining: “We are still on the road to Rio but we now have to qualify for EuroBasket 2015 with our hands tied behind our back.”

Cameron Protects Football Fans’ World Cup Pints

FOOTBALL fans: Your cups runneth over.

Prime Minister David Cameron has stepped in to overrule a government de-partment that said bars couldn’t stay open late during England’s opening match against Italy at the World Cup in Brazil.

The British Beer and Pub Association had asked for a nationwide extension to licensing hours for the June 14 game, which starts at 11pm British time.

Many British pubs close at 11pm, though some have licenses to open later.

The Home Office said no, but Cameron tweeted last month: “I have ordered a re-think on pub opening times for England’s World Cup games.”

The government can relax the rules on occasions of “exceptional international, national or local significance,” as they did during the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

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Andy Murray Steers Britain To Davis Cup Victory In San DiegoANDY MURRAY’S dominating influence was the deciding factor as Britain made tennis history at Petco Park in San Diego, California, January 31-February 2, where a British vic-tory over the USA put them in the Davis Cup quarter-finals for the first time in 28 years. The Wimbledon champion put Britain on the right track with a three set win over Donald Young, while James Ward fought his heart out from two sets behind to win his encounter with Sam Querrey 1-6, 7-6 (7-3) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. American brothers, Bob and Mike Bryan, have 16 Grand Slam double titles under their belt and an upset was unlikely. They beat Colin Fleming and Dom Inglot 6-2, 5-3, 3-6, 6-1. The reverse singles on the final day saw Andy Murray grab victory with a 7-6 (7-5) 6-7 (3-7) 6-1, 6-3 over Sam Querrey, for an unassailable 3-1 lead. It’s the first time Brit-ain has beaten the USA since 1935, leaving non-playing captain Leon Smith, absolutely delighted. Britain faces Italy in the last eight.

British number two Dan Evans, did not make the Davis Cup squad, but made his first ATP semi-finals at the Zagreb Indoors in Croatia, before losing 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 to Tommy Haas. The 23-year-old from Solihull in the west midlands, still looking for his first ATP final, did overcome the Czech, Jan Hajek, and then Michael Berrer and Philip Kohlschreiber, both from Germany… At the Federation Cup qualifier in Hungary, Laura Watson was absent through injury. Skipper Judy Murray’s team of Heather Watson Jo-hanna Jonta, Tara Moore and Jocelyn Rae, beat Latvia 2-1, but lost to both Romania and Hungary by the same score-line. Britain finished third in the qualifier and did not progress to the next round. Heather Watson won all three of her single contests.

Andy Murray took his talents to Rot-terdam, for the ABN AMRO World Tennis tournament where Marin Cilic dispatched the Scot 6-3, 6-4, in the quarter-finals. Murray had earlier beat Dominic Thiem and Edouard Roger Vasselin in straight sets. Same weekend, Heather Watson won an ITF event in Midland, Michigan, beating Ksenia

Pervak of Russia,6-4, 6-0. The 21-year-old from Guernsey, is ranked number three in Britain.Aussies Deliver More Trauma

England concluded their tour of Australia with three Twenty20 international matches, and lost all of them. A close game at

Hobart, saw the Aussies win by 13 runs. Australia 213-4 at 20 overs. England 200-9 all out. At Melbourne, the defeat was by eight wickets. England 130-9 at 20 overs. Australia 131-2 at close. The hosts won at Sydney, by 84 runs. Australia 195-6 at 20 overs. Eng-land 111 all out. After losing the Ashes 5-0, and the ODIs 4-1, England’s shell shocked players were glad to bid farewell to the land down-under. Andy Flower has stepped down as England coach, while Kevin Pietersen whose been part of the England side since 2004, with 104 Test appearance and 23 Test centuries will not be part of the rebuilding process… The England Lions beat the Sri Lanka A side at Pallekele by 167 runs in the first of a three match unofficial Test series. Lions 330 and 319-8 dec. Sri Lanka A 171 and 311 (MS Warnapura 108)

Scotland beat the United Arab Emirates in the final of the ICC World Cup Qualifier series in New Zealand, winning by 41 runs at Lincoln. Scotland 285 (Preston Mom-msen 139 not out)- 5 at 50 overs, UAE 244 (Swapnil Patil 99 not out)-9 at close. The Scots won seven of their eight games, and will qualify for the 2015 World Cup, to be held in Australia, in February of next year. Their opponents, the UAE qualify also, along with Afghanistan and Ireland.The International Game

Sri Lanka bounced Bangladesh by an innings and 248 runs at Mirpur. Bangladesh 232 and 250. Sri Lanka 730 (Kaushel Silva 139, Mahela Jayawardene 203 not out, Kithuran Vithanage 103 not out)-6 dec. At Chittagong, the second and final Test was drawn. Sri Lanka 587 (Kumar Sangakkara 319) and 305 (Kumar Sangakkara 105)-4 dec. Bangladesh 426 (Shamsur Rahman 106, Imrul Kaye 115) and 271 (Mominul Haque 100 not out)-3 at close… New Zea-land beat India by 40 runs in their first Test at Auckland. New Zealand 503 (Kane Wil-liamson 113, Brendon McCullum 224) and 105. India 202 and 366 (Shikhar Dhawan 115) at close. The second Test witnessed Brendon McCullum, become the first Kiwi to hit a triple century in a Test match in a game drawn at Wellington. New Zealand 192 and 680 (Brendon McCullum 302, Brad Watling 124, Jimmy Neesham 137 not out)-8 dec. India 438 (Rahane 118) and 166-3 at close ... Australia beat South Africa by 281 runs at Centurion, in the first match of their Test series. Australia 397 (Shaun Marsh 148, Steven Smith 100) and 290 (David Warner 115)-4 dec. South Africa 206 and 200.Boxing And Golf

After two debilitating career defeats to American Tony Thompson, David Price (16-2) relinquished his British heavyweight crown and looked to get away to restart his shattered dreams. The 30-year-old Liverpool heavyweight got back in the driving seat late January, with a first round knockout of Istvan Ruzsinsky (12-10-1) in Stuttgart. He was supposed to fight Kazakhstan’s Konstantin Airch (27-9-2), but he failed the medical… Top heavyweights Dereck Chisora (20-4) and Tyson Fury (22-0) won their bouts at the Copper Box Arena in London, February 15, and a second face-off between the two of them looks likely in the near future. European champion Chisora pulled a unanimous deci-sion over American, Kevin Johnson (29-5-1), while former British champion Tyson Fury, put Minnesota’s Joey Abell (29-8) on the canvas four times before the ref halted it in the fourth.

Rory McIIroy got the Dubai Desert Classic off to a gangbuster start with a nine under 63, but it was last year’s winner Stephen Gallacher, who took the podium, February 2, finishing with a 16 under 272. The Scot won by a stroke from Emiliano Grilio of Argentina. McIIroy was four strokes distant… Tiger Woods’ niece, Cheyenne Woods, won

the Australian Ladies Masters at Royal Pine, by two strokes. For the 23-year-old from Arizona, it her first major title. Cheyenne is the daughter of Tiger’s older step-brother.Beckham Makes It Official-New MLS Franchise In Miami

David Beckham had a full day in south Florida, February 5, were he publically an-nounced his plans for a MLS expansion team in Miami. Greeted by Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Britain’s soccer icon answered a host of questions about his Miami Beckham United enterprise, and at a crowded reception at the John L Knight Conference Center, he schmoozed a big room of Miami’s wheel-ers and dealers. MLS Commissioner Don Garber, was on hand for the occasion with a gentle reminder that the Miami franchise was contingent on a new 25,000 capacity stadium being built. Later, Beckham attended the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Centre, where it was standing room only. He visited the Kendall Soccer Park to meet some 300 youngsters, but it got quite chaotic, and he found himself hustled away by local police before his visit really got under way. The kids were very disap-pointed. The area of Floridahad already seen two previous soccer franchises, namely, the Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977-83) and the Miami Fusion (1998-2001), though both played in Fort Lauderdale. Conventional wisdom is that Miami will pull bigger crowds, noting the 71,000 who recently gathered for a Brazil-Honduras encounter. Beckham assured skeptical politicians that, “We don’t want public money, we will fund the stadium ourselves.” If things go well, it’s expected the new team and stadium could be ready for action in 2017.

The United States beat fellow World Cup qualifier South Korea at Carson, California, Febuary 1, where goals by Chris Won-dolowski in the 4th and 60th minutes gave Jurgen Klinsmann’s men a 2-0 win, and the team’s 13th consecutive home victory. Earlier, the Asians were beaten 4-0 by Mexico at the Aztec StadiumEuropean Soccer

February 18-19,saw the last sixteen in the knockout round of the Champions League commence with Manchester City’s caution-ary start, played directly into Barcelona’s hands at the Etihad. Martin Demichelis brought down Lionel Messi in the 18 yard box, was sent off, and Messi put the penalty away in the 54th minute. Dani Alves scored in the final minute for a 2-0 win for the Spaniards, leaving City somewhat shaken by the whole experience… Apprehension and uncertainty was evident at the Emirates Stadium too, where World and European club champions Bayern Munich, faced an Arsenal side emitting early enthusiasm. But Mesut Ozil missed a penalty in the 7th minute, then the Gunner’s goalie Wojciech Szczensy got sent off in the 37th minute, and Bayern’s David Alaba missed a penalty too, five minutes before the break. A tremendous shot just outside the box by Toni Kroos put Bayern ahead, then Thomas Müller made it 2-0, two minutes from the whistle.

The last 32 knockout round in the Europa League Cup, first legs February 20, produced a sparse crowd in the Ukraine for Tottenham, where social upheaval has engulfed the nation. Spurs kept Dnipro at bay until the 81st minute when Konoplyanka, broke the deadlock, giving the host a 1-0 win. Coach Tim Sherwood called the pitch a disgrace. Meanwhile it was gridlock at the Liberty Stadium, where Swansea City concluded with a goalless draw with Napoli.FA Cup

The fifth round of the FA Cup, February 15-16-17, saw a couple of big clubs get knocked out by other big clubs. Manchester City beat Chelsea 2-0 at the Etihad, and Ar-senal topped Liverpool 2-1 at the Emirates. A Craig Gardner goal four minutes after the break gave Sunderland the only goal of the game against Southampton, while Cup hold-ers Wigan, progressed with a 2-1 victory in Wales over Cardiff City. Everton conquered Swansea 3-1 at Goodison Park. Division One strugglers Sheffield United who have already put Aston Villa and Fulham out, moved to the

sixth round after a 3-1 win at Bramall Lane over Nottingham Forest, when Chris Porter scored twice in the last minute.Scottish Soccer

The semi-finals of the Scottish league Cup, February 1-2, saw Aberdeen reach their first cup final for fourteen years after a 4-0 win over St Johnstone. Jonny Hayes provided a brace that put the Dons on the way. The other semi-final got complicated, after Inverness CT had two players sent off and the match with Heart of Midlothian ended 2-2, with no goals in extra-time. Jamie Hamill hit two for Hearts within two minutes, and Greg Tansey and then Nick Ross, in the final minute net-ted for the Caley Thistle. Inverness won the penalty shootout 4-2.

The fifth round of the Scottish Cup, February 7-8-9, witnessed Rangers roar pass Dunfermline at the Ibrox, where a Dean Shiels hat-trick pushed them to a 4-0 win. Celtic had gone twelve consecutive domestic home games without conceding a goal at Parkhead, but Aberdeen brought that record to an end, leaving Neil Lennon in a deep state of unrest as the Dons came away 2-1 winners. Anthony Stokes put the Hoops ahead in the ninth minute, while Russell Anderson leveled it seven minutes from the break. Peter Pawlett hit the winner in the 50th minute, while Celtic desperately attempted to turn the game around. Upset at Easter Road, where Raith Rovers won 3-2 against Hibernian, after a winner by Grant Anderson in the 63rd minute turned the tide. Dumbarton, St Johnstone, Inverness CT,

and Albion Rovers made it to the quarter-finals too, while Dundee Utd’s 2-1 win over St Mirren, leaves them as the lone premier side left in the competition.Sporting Passings

It been over fifty years since Preston North End played in the top tier of English football, but ask Deepdale fans about the glory days, and the name Tom Finney comes up every time. Born within the very neighbourhood of Preston’s home stadium, the former plumber could walk to home matches within a few minutes from his front door. He made 433 ap-pearances for Preston between 1946-1960, scored 187 goals, and was capped 76 times for England, scoring thirty times. He spent his whole career at Preston, where a move from Italian side Palermo in 1952, was quickly squashed by the chairman of the board. He was awarded the OBE in 1961, and was knighted in 1998. Sir Tom Finney was 91.

A master of the headed soccer-ball, Tony Hateley cost Chelsea £100,000 in 1966, which was then a record transfer fee for the blues. Hateley started as a teenager for Notts County in 1958, before hitting the big time with Aston Villa five years later. His proclivity for scoring with his head, made him a target of many other clubs, and he would add Liver-pool, Coventry City, Birmingham City, back to the County, Oldham Athletic, before ending up in America with the Boston Minutemen in 1974. He scored 211 league goals during his pro-career, and though he never played for England, his son Mark, also a centre-forward, won 32 caps. Tony Hateley was 72.

Ireland And France Set The Early Six

Nations PaceSix Nations Round One: Three Home WinsTHE FIRST TWO weekends of Six Nations rugby sorted out the field into three groups of two. Ireland and France emerged unbeaten after two games, while Scotland and Italy brought up the rear, their seasons seemingly intent on avoiding the wooden spoon.

Wales are chasing their third consecu-tive championship and started in fine style: a fifth-minute try from Alex Cuthbert who benefited from a wicked bounce of the ball leaving fullback Angelo Esposito in his first international clutching thin air. It was the big Welsh wing’s tenth try in 20 Tests.

The Italians were not to be humili-ated – two opportunist tries from centre Michele Campagnaro saw to that. But in the final analysis, the accurate boot of Leigh Halfpenny ensured Italian indiscipline was punished and Scott Williams scored a try in the crucial dying moments of the first half. Wales were comfortable but not convincing winners at 23-15.

England opened their campaign in Paris and were 16-3 down by the 22nd minute. In the first half-minute a speculative kick ahead by the French flyhalf cannoned off Billy Twel-vetrees right into the hands of winger Yoann Huget a matter of yards from the English line. But England fought back with tries from Mike Brown and débutant Leighton Burrell and as the final whistle beckoned, they were 24-19 ahead with a famous victory at hand.

But the sheer effort had tired the visitors to the point where in the last attack as the French swung the ball out wide, Alex Goode bought a simple dummy from centre Gael Fickou fresh on the field. He planted the ball behind the posts for a simple conversion and an unbelievable 26-24 win for France.

In Dublin, Scotland ran into an Irish brick wall and could only pick up a couple

of penalties from Greig Laidlaw in a 28-6 hammering. Scotland looked bereft of ideas and their efforts were continually snuffed out by powerful Irish play. The Irish ran in three tries – from Jamie Heaslip, Andrew Trimble and Rob Kearney – to secure an easy win.Round Two: Ireland and France benefit from home advantage again

The following week, Ireland stayed in Dublin to face Wales in a game that started in bright sunshine and ended in lashing rain and deep gloom. That at least were Welsh feel-ings as Ireland comprehensively dismantled them using a kicking game inspired by Jonny Sexton at flyhalf.

The Irish forwards enjoyed almost total supremacy, shoving the visitors around at will. Wales conceded two tries both earned through powerful Irish scrum play. Sexton couldn’t miss a penalty kick but Leigh Half-penny was only allowed one pot at goal which prevented a whitewash but not the humiliation of a 26-3 battering which Warren Gatland later described as the worst of his career.

France predictably saw off the Italian challenge in Paris with a 30-10 victory that exposed the Azzurri’s lack of class.

England, on the other hand, quickly made up for the disappointment in Paris with a punishing 20-0 demolition job on Scotland. The weather may have accounted for the fact that England didn’t score more, though coincidentally their two try-scorers as in Paris were Mike Brown and Leighton Burrell.

Stuart Lancaster’s decision to go for youth and pace in the backs has certainly paid off. This young English side can only get better, a lapse in concentration against France in the closing moments the one thing that may pre-vent them from winning this championship.Remaining games

March 8:Ireland v Italy; Scotland v France. March 9: England v Wales.March 15: Italy v England; Wales v Scotland; France v Ireland

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– Saturday, March 1 –Everton v West Ham; Fulham v Chelsea;

Hull v Newcastle; Stoke v Arsenal;Sunderland P-P West Brom; Southampton v Liverpool

– Sunday, March 2 –Aston Villa v Norwich; Swansea v Crystal Palace;

Tottenham v Cardiff– Saturday, March 8 –

West Brom v Man Utd; Arsenal P-P Swansea;Cardiff v Fulham; Crystal Palace v Southampton;

Man City P-P Aston Villa; Norwich v Stoke;West Ham P-P Hull; Chelsea v Tottenham

– Sunday, March 9 –Newcastle P-P Everton

– Monday, March 10 –Liverpool- P-P Sunderland

– Saturday, March 15 –Hull v Man City; Everton v Cardiff;

Fulham v Newcastle; Southampton v Norwich;Stoke v West Ham; Sunderland v Crystal Palace;

Swansea v West Brom; Aston Villa v Chelsea– Sunday, March 16 –

Man Utd v Liverpool; Tottenham v Arsenal– Saturday, March 22 –

Chelsea v Arsenal; Cardiff v Liverpool;Everton v Swansea; Hull v West Brom;

Man City v Fulham; Newcastle v Crystal Palace;Norwich v Sunderland; West Ham v Man Utd

– Sunday, March 23 –Tottenham v Southampton; Aston Villa v Stoke

– Tuesday, March 25 –Man Utd v Man City

– Saturday, March 29 –Man Utd v Aston Villa; Crystal Palace v Chelsea;

Southampton v Newcastle; Stoke v Hull;Swansea v Norwich; West Brom v Cardiff;

Arsenal v Man City– Sunday, March 30 –

Fulham v Everton; Liverpool v Tottenham– Monday, March 31 –

Sunderland v West Ham

Arsenal: Olivier Giroud came back after two games on the bench to score twice in the first half-hour of a 4-1 dismantling of

Sunderland. Tomas Rosicky and Laurent Koscielny tallied on either side of halftime on the day the club unveiled a bronze statue of Dennis Bergkamp outside the Clock End. The Gunners conceded four goals in the first 20 minutes at Anfield and mustered only a Mikel Arteta penalty kick in a 5-1 defeat. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, injured on the opening day of the season, showed what he can do when fit by scoring twice early in the second half of a 2-0 defeat of Crystal Palace.

Aston Villa: They lost 1-0 at Newcastle and were left with just one point and one goal in their last four games. A 1-0 halftime lead provided

by Leanrdo Bacuna’s goal dissipated in a 2-1 loss at Everton. Sparkling saves by Brad Guzan and crucial goalmouth blocks by Ron Vlaar brought Villa a 0-0 tie at Cardiff City.

Cardiff City: Owner Vincent Tan endured a miserable afternoon on his 62nd birthday, watching a 4-0 thumping administered by Hull at

Cardiff City Stadium that was their worst home defeat in nearly 14 years. The Bluebirds have been shut out more times this season, 15, than any other Premier League team, and the loss left them in 19th place with 11 matches to play. Frazier Campbell and Craig Noone shot against the woodwork and they needed six saves from David Marshall to earn a 0-0 home draw with Aston Villa.

Chelsea: A stoppage-time goal from a Frank Lampard free kick snuck its way into the net for a 1-0 defeat of Everton that extended

their league unbeaten streak to 12 games. Defender John Terry lunged at the ball near the edge of the goal area and it caromed into the net off keeper Tim Howard. Eden Hazard ran rampant to score a hat trick and despite the absence of Terry for the first time this season Chelsea posted a 3-0 shutout of New-castle United. Branislav Ivanovic followed up a blocked Ramires attempt to smash a shot that earned a 1-0 win at Manchester City.

Crystal Palace: Glenn Murray made his first start for the club in more than nine months and nearly scored in the second min-ute against Manchester United,

but he turned his shot wide and an hour later United broke through to take a 2-0 decision. Tom Ince and Joe Ledley scored in the first 27 minutes and Marouane Chamakh put away a controversial penalty kick in the second half to down West Bromwich Albion, 3-1. Murray, sidelined since suffering a knee injury in the first leg of the promotion semifinal last May, drew a huge ovation when he came on as a substitute.

Everton: Their winless run extended to five matches in a 1-0 loss at Chelsea despite seven saves – including a spectacular

double stop– by goalie Tim Howard, who got a piece of John Terry’s point-blank deflection in stoppage time but couldn’t keep it out of the net. Two solid shots by Leon Osman were repelled by good saves. Steven Naismith equalized four minutes after coming on as a sub and with just five minutes left Kevin Mirallas struck the winning goal of a 2-1 victory over Aston Villa.

Fulham: Former German interna-tional and Bayern Munich manager Felix Magath debuted as Cottagers’ boss in a 1-1 draw at West Brom-

wich Albion. Ashkan Dejagah’s goal in the 28th minute stood up until they conceded an equalizer with four minutes remaining. They led twice at home against Liverpool via an own goal and strike by Kieran Richardson but succumbed in stoppage time to a 3-2 defeat. Darren Bent stole a goal and a point late in stoppage time at Old Trafford to secure a 2-2 tie. Steve Sidwell had deftly tucked away a Lewis Holtby chip to open the scoring.

Hull City: Two goals by Nikica Jelavic filled the sandwich braced by those of Tom Huddlestone and Jake Livermore as the Tigers

inflicted a 4-0 mauling at Cardiff City. Shane Long scored his second goal in as many games and Jelavic tacked on a clincher in the second half to record a 2-0 victory at Sunderland.

Liverpool: Jordan Henderson and Daniel Sturridge each scored twice as Liverpool never trailed but had to keep scoring to outlast Swansea City, 4-3. Sturridge

netted an equalizer and won the penalty kick by which Steven Gerrard scored the winner in stoppage time for a riveting 3-2 win at Fulham. Kolo Toure’s own goal put Liverpool behind and Phillipe Coutinho matched a second goal caused by a Liverpool defensive error. Martin Skrtel stunned Arsenal, and just about everybody else, by scoring twice in the first 10 minutes to set off a 5-1 trampling. Raheem Sterling netted two and Sturridge also scored.

Manchester City: Yaya Toure’s strike with 20 minutes to play eased City past Stoke City, 1-0, despite an astonishing miss from

two yards out by Edin Dzeko. After inflicting a 5-1 thrashing of Spurs at Tottenham, City failed to score in back-to-back games for the first time this season; they lost at home, 1-0, to Chelsea, and tied Norwich City, 0-0, away. The loss to Chelsea ended a 61-match streak during which they had not been shut out at home.

Manchester United: The big guns did the business to win, 2-0, at Crystal Palace. Robin Van Persie broke a scoreless

deadlock in the 62nd minute from the penalty spot with his fourth goal in the last five games and six minutes later Wayne Rooney cel-ebrated a new contract by netting a clincher. After falling behind early to Fulham at home, United struck twice in two minutes on goals by Van Persie and Michael Carrick, and then succumbed to a Darren Bent strike deep into stoppage time to end up at 2-2.

Newcastle: The Magpies ended a run of five straight home losses in dramatic fashion: Loic Remy struck in the second

minute of stoppage time to down Aston Villa, 1-0. After hitting the post late in regulation, Remy pivoted in the goalmouth to volley his 12th goal of the season. They had previ-ously plummeted to their fourth straight home defeat – a first-time occurrence in Premier League play – against Tottenham, 4-0.

Norwich City: Robert Snodgrass curled a shot into the bottom corner from outside the penalty area early in the second half to give Norwich

just their second win in 12 games, a 1-0

defeat of Tottenham. The Canaries survived a Manchester City invasion to secure a 0-0 tie. They defended stoutly and correctly lost a goal to an offside call when Gary Hooper swept the home the rebound of a saved Leroy Fer header.

Southampton: Maya Yoshida headed home his first Premier League goal from Steven Davis’s free kick to supply a 1-0 lead at

West Ham, yet despite totaling 25 shots the Saints couldn’t score again and fell, 3-1. The Saints had run their unbeaten streak to six games by winning at Hull, 1-0, with a Jose Fontes goal in the 69th minute. An elegant chip by Jay Rodriguez came back off the crossbar

Stoke City: The Potters needed some late defensive heroics to grab a 1-1 home draw with Swansea City. They took an early lead with

a Peter Crouch goal but after conceding an equalizer early in the second half were rescued by a Ryan Shawcross goalmouth clearance and a superb save by Asmir Begovic. Goals by Charlie Adam seven minutes before and after halftime powered the Potters to a 2-1 home triumph over Manchester United. Adam’s first goal was a free kick that deflected into the net off Michael Carrick, and his second, a first-time hit of a blocked attempt, flew into the top corner from 25 yards out.

Sunderland: Emanuele Gi-accherini scored in the 81st minute to highlight an otherwise bleak encounter that ended

4-1 at Arsenal. The Black Cats posted their second straight 3-0 win by belting Newcastle in the Tyne-Wear derby with goals by Fabio Borini, Adam Johnson, and Jack Colback. Johnson’s goal was his seventh in as many games.

Swansea City: The Swans battled back repeatedly at Anfield but came up just short in a 4-3 loss to Liverpool. Jonjo Shelvey’s goal

cut a 2-0 deficit in half and a pair of goals by Wilfried Bony drew them level at 3-3 but after falling behind again they couldn’t muster a fourth. Chico Flores scored his third goal of the season to rescue a 1-1 tie at Stoke City just a few days after a training-ground argument with interim manager Gary Monk.

Tottenham Hotspur: Emmanuel Adebayor’s early and late goals powered Spurs to a 4-0 win at Newcastle. Paulinho tallied early in the second half to double the lead

and Nacer Chadli got the fourth in the final minutes of regulation. Adebayor also hit the goal midway through the second half by which Spurs downed Everton, 1-0.

West Bromwich Albion: Matej Vydra’s shot in the 86th minute against Fulham squeezed through the hands of the opposing goal-

keeper and with the help of goal-line tech-nology was ruled to be the goal by which West Brom earned a 1-1 tie. Thievy Bifouma scored on his debut early in the second half at Crystal Palace but despite piling up a 17-10 advantage in shots the Baggies never caught up and were beaten, 3-1. Victor Anichebe came on as a sub to score an equalizer, his third goal of the season, in the 87th minute of a 1-1 tie with Chelsea.

West Ham United: The Ham-mers rebounded from conceding an early goal at home to beat Norwich City, 3-1, for their fourth

straight win Matt Jarvis equalized from a Kevin Nolan cross in the 20th minute, Carlton Cole hit the winner three minutes later, and Nolan punctuated his 100th appearance by scoring with an overhead kick in the second half. He departed shortly thereafter via a sub-stitution to a standing ovation. Nolan scored both goals in a 2-0 triumph at Aston Villa.

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FIXTURES, DRAWS AND RESULTS

By Ridge Mahoney

LEAGUE TABLES

As of February 27

SCOTTISH COMMUNITIES LEAGUE CUP

FINALSunday, March 16

At Celtic ParkAberdeen v Inverness

RAMSDEN’S CHALLENGEFINAL

Sunday, April 6, 2014Easter Road, EdinburghRangers v Raith Rovers

THE WILLIAM HILL SCOTTISH CUPFIFTH ROUND

Saturday, February 8Albion 2, Stenhousemuir 0; Alloa 0, Dumbarton 1;Celtic 1, Aberdeen 2; Dundee Utd 2, St Mirren 1;

Forfar 0, St Johnstone 4; Hibernian 2, Raith Rovers 3;Rangers 4, Dunfermline 0; Inverness CT 2, Stranraer 0

SIXTH ROUND DRAWSaturday, March 8

Raith Rovers v St JohnstoneAberdeen v Dumbarton

Sunday, March 9Inverness CT v Dundee Utd

Rangers v Albion

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUERound of 16 Draw

First LegTuesday, February 18

Man City 0, Barcelona 2; B Leverkusen 0, Paris St-Germain 4Wednesday, February 19

Arsenal 0, B Munich 2; AC Milan 0, Atletico Madrid 1Tuesday, February 25

Olympiakos 2, Man United 0; Zenit St Ptrsbrg 2, B Dortmund 4Wednesday, February 26

Galatasaray 1, Chelsea 1; Schalke 1, Real Madrid 6Second Leg

Tuesday, March 11Atletico Madrid v AC Milan; B Munich v Arsenal

Wednesday, March 12Barcelona v Man City; Paris St-Germain v B Leverkusen

Tuesday, March 18Chelsea v Galatasaray; Real Madrid v Schalke

Wednesday, March 19B Dortmund v Zenit St Ptrsbrg; Man United v Olympiakos

UEFA EUROPA LEAGUERound Of 32 Results – First Leg

Thursday, February 20Anzhi Makhachkala 0, KRC Genk 0

Dynamo Kiev 0,Valencia CF 2Esbjerg fB 1, Fiorentina 3

FC Chornomorets Odesa 0, Lyon 0FC Dnipro 1, Tottenham 0Juventus 2, Trabzonspor 0PAOK Salonika 0, Benfica 1

Slovan Liberec 0, AZ Alkmaar 1Ajax 0, FC Red Bull Salzburg 3

FC Porto 2, Eintracht Frankfurt 2Lazio 0, Ludogorets Razgrad 1

Maccabi Tel Aviv 0, Basel 0NK Maribor 2, Sevilla 2

Real Betis 1, Rubin Kazan 1Swansea 0, Napoli 0

Viktoria Plzen 1, Shakhtar Donetsk 1

Round Of 32 – Second LegThursday, February 27

Rubin Kazan v Real BetisBasel v Maccabi Tel Aviv

Eintracht Frankfurt v FC PortoFC Red Bull Salzburg v AjaxLudogorets Razgrad v Lazio

Napoli v SwanseaSevilla v NK Maribor

Shakhtar Donetsk v Viktoria PlzenAZ Alkmaar v Slovan Liberec

Benfica v PAOK SalonikaFiorentina v Esbjerg fB

KRC Genk v Anzhi MakhachkalaLyon v FC Chornomorets Odesa

Tottenham v FC DniproTrabzonspor v Juventus

Valencia CF v Dynamo Kiev

FA CUP WITH BUDWEISERSIXTH ROUND

Saturday, March 8Arsenal v Everton; Sheff Utd v Charlton

Sunday, March 9Hull v Sunderland; Man City v Wigan

CAPITAL ONE CUPFINAL

March 2Wembley Stadium

Man City v Sunderland

EURO 2016 GROUPS DRAW

ENGLAND got what appears to be a favourable draw for the Euro 2016 Championship, held in France last month.

Alongside England in Group E will be Switzer-land, Slovenia, Estonia, San Marino and Lithuania, and the nations will play each other home and away in qualifiers which are due to kick off this autumn.

Wales also appear to have been given a decent draw but Scotland and the Republic of Ireland have been drawn together in a tough group and Northern Ireland may also face a tough task.

Group A: Holland, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Iceland, Latvia, Czech Rep.

Group B: Bosnia, Andorra, Israel, Belgium, Wales, Cyprus.

Group C: Spain, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Belarus, Slovakia, Ukraine.

Group D: Germany, Gibraltar, Georgia, Scotland, Poland, Rep of Ireland.

Group E: England, San Marino, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia, Switzerland.

Group F: Greece, Faroe Islands, N Ireland, Finland, Hungary, Romania.

Group G: Russia, Liechtenstein, Austria, Moldova, Montenegro, Sweden.

Group H: Italy, Malta, Norway, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria.

Group I: Portugal, Albania, Armenia, Serbia, Denmark – *France

* All Group I teams will play France home and away but the results will not count towards qualification. As host

nation France is automatically qualified.

~ CRICKET ~

Pietersen England Career Over After Being Dropped

KEVIN PIETERSEN’S England ca-reer ended after nine turbulent years February 4, when the brash batsman was dumped in a bid to rebuild the team following an embarrassing tour of Australia.

The divisive former captain, whose talent has regularly been overshadowed by his ability to attract controversy, dis-covered he was being dropped following a meeting of team management at Lord’s to decide his future.

And after being axed for the tour of West Indies and the subsequent World Twenty20 tournament, the 33-year-old Pietersen signaled his international career was over.

“Although I am obviously very sad the incredible journey has come to an

end, I’m also hugely proud of what we, as a team, have achieved over the past nine years,” Pietersen said in a statement.

“I believe I have a great deal still to give as a cricketer,” he added. “I will continue to play but deeply regret that it won’t be for England.”

WOEFULThe England and Wales Cricket

Board is trying to usher in a new era after a woeful tour of Australia when England was beaten 5-0 in the Ashes and won just one limited-overs game.

By dumping Pietersen, the ECB said it hopes to “start the rebuilding process.”

“Clearly this was a tough decision be-cause Kevin has been such an outstand-ing player for England – as the fact that

he is the country’s leading run scorer in international cricket demonstrates,” said Paul Downton, the England team managing director.

“However everyone was aware that there was a need to begin the long term planning after the Australia tour. There-fore we have decided the time is right to look to the future and start to rebuild not only the team but also team ethic and philosophy.”

Pietersen has been accused of being a disruptive influence within the Eng-land dressing room several times since he made his debut in 2004, but played 104 tests, 136 one-day games and 37 Twenty20 fixtures.

“We all wish Kevin the very best in the rest of his career,” Downton said.

BARCLAYS PREMIER P W D L F A GD PtsChelsea 27 18 6 3 49 21 28 60Arsenal 27 18 5 4 52 27 25 59Man City 26 18 3 5 69 27 42 57Liverpool 27 17 5 5 70 35 35 56Tottenham 27 15 5 7 36 33 3 50Man United 27 13 6 8 43 31 12 45Everton 26 12 9 5 37 27 10 45Newcastle U 27 12 4 11 33 38 -5 40Southampton 27 10 9 8 38 32 6 39West Ham U 27 8 7 12 31 34 -3 31Hull City 27 8 6 13 29 31 -2 30Swansea C 27 7 7 13 36 40 -4 28Aston Villa 27 7 7 13 27 37 -10 28Norwich C 27 7 7 13 20 39 -19 28Stoke City 27 6 9 12 27 42 -15 27Crystal Pal 26 8 2 16 18 36 -18 26West Brom 27 4 13 10 31 39 -8 25Sunderland 26 6 6 14 26 42 -16 24Cardiff City 27 5 7 15 19 48 -29 22Fulham 27 6 3 18 27 59 -32 21

English Championship P W D L F A GD Pts Leicester C 32 22 5 5 59 32 27 71Burnley 32 17 12 3 50 26 24 63Derby County 32 18 7 7 60 40 20 61QPR 31 16 8 7 37 25 12 56Nottingham F 32 14 13 5 53 35 18 55Reading 32 14 8 10 50 37 13 50Wigan Ath 31 14 7 10 37 29 8 49Brighton 31 12 10 9 33 27 6 46Blackburn R 31 12 10 9 38 35 3 46Ipswich T 32 11 12 9 43 37 6 45Leeds United 31 12 7 12 43 39 4 43Watford 32 10 12 10 44 39 5 42Middlesbro 32 9 13 10 41 36 5 40Huddersfield 32 11 7 14 40 44 -4 40Sheffield W 31 8 12 11 38 38 0 36Birmingham 32 9 9 14 39 41 -2 36Bournemouth 31 9 9 13 37 51 -14 36Blackpool 32 8 11 13 29 44 -15 35Bolton Wan 32 7 12 13 37 49 -12 33Doncaster R 32 7 9 16 28 48 -20 30Millwall 32 6 10 16 31 60 -29 28Charlton Ath 29 6 9 14 24 38 -14 27Barnsley 31 5 11 15 30 51 -21 26Yeovil Town 31 6 7 18 27 47 -20 25

English League One P W D L F A GD Pts Leyton O 33 20 7 6 66 32 34 67Wolverhamptn 31 20 7 4 54 20 34 67Brentford 31 20 6 5 54 31 23 66Preston NE 33 16 13 4 46 33 13 61Rotherham U 32 16 10 6 58 43 15 58Peterborough 31 16 4 11 51 41 10 52Walsall 32 12 11 9 37 31 6 47Swindon T 33 13 7 13 50 44 6 46MK Dons 33 13 7 13 48 45 3 46Port Vale 32 13 4 15 44 49 -5 43Bradford City 32 9 14 9 43 38 5 41Sheffield Utd 31 10 8 13 33 38 -5 38Gillingham 33 11 5 17 42 55 -13 38Coventry City 31 13 8 10 59 56 3 37Oldham Ath 33 10 7 16 37 46 -9 37Carlisle Utd 32 10 6 16 37 54 -17 36Colchester U 30 8 11 11 36 39 -3 35Crawley Town 27 8 11 8 32 36 -4 35Tranmere R 32 9 8 15 38 55 -17 35Crewe Alex 33 9 7 17 37 62 -25 34Bristol City 33 6 14 13 47 55 -8 32Shrewsbury T 32 7 10 15 31 43 -12 31Notts County 33 9 3 21 42 55 -13 30Stevenage 31 8 4 19 29 50 -21 28

English League Two P W D L F A GD Pts Chesterfield 33 17 10 6 55 30 25 61Scunthorpe U 33 15 14 4 51 32 19 59Rochdale 32 17 6 9 50 36 14 57Oxford Utd 33 14 13 6 46 28 18 55Burton Albion 33 14 11 8 36 33 3 53Fleetwood T 32 16 4 12 48 39 9 52Southend Utd 33 13 10 10 40 31 9 49Plymouth A 32 12 9 11 33 36 -3 45Newport C 30 11 9 10 39 38 1 42Hartlepool U 33 11 9 13 36 38 -2 42Wimbledon 33 11 8 14 34 39 -5 41York City 33 9 13 11 38 37 1 40Dag & Red 32 10 10 12 39 41 -2 40Morecambe 32 10 10 12 36 42 -6 40Bury 31 9 12 10 37 36 1 39Exeter City 33 10 9 14 38 43 -5 39Cheltenham T 32 9 12 11 37 44 -7 39Portsmouth 33 9 12 12 37 48 -11 39Bristol Rovers 32 9 11 12 31 33 -2 38Mansfield T 33 9 11 13 34 47 -13 38Wycombe W 32 9 10 13 35 39 -4 37Accrington S 32 9 10 13 35 42 -7 37Northampton 32 8 8 16 27 43 -16 32Torquay Utd 32 7 9 16 31 48 -17 30

Scottish Premiership P W D L F A GD Pts Celtic 27 23 3 1 63 14 49 72Aberdeen 27 16 3 8 39 26 13 51Motherwell 26 15 2 9 39 39 0 47Inverness CT 25 13 5 7 33 21 12 44Dundee Utd 26 11 8 7 46 31 15 41St Johnstone 26 10 5 11 34 30 4 35Hibernian 26 8 8 10 24 29 -5 32Kilmarnock 27 7 6 14 33 45 -12 27Partick Thstl 27 5 10 12 28 44 -16 25Ross County 27 7 4 16 32 49 -17 25St Mirren 27 6 6 15 25 44 -19 24Hearts 27 5 6 16 22 46 -24 6

Scottish Championship P W D L F A GD Pts Dundee 25 14 4 7 38 22 16 46Hamilton Ac 25 13 6 6 38 24 14 45Falkirk 25 12 7 6 37 20 17 43Dumbarton 25 10 6 9 45 45 0 36Queen ot Sth 25 10 5 10 34 29 5 35Alloa Athletic 25 9 6 10 24 30 -6 33Livingston 25 9 5 11 39 40 -1 32Raith Rovers 25 8 8 9 33 38 -5 32Cowdenbeath 25 8 4 13 35 50 -15 28Morton 25 3 7 15 19 44 -25 16

Scottish League 1 P W D L F A GD Pts Rangers 26 24 2 0 83 14 69 74Dunfermline 26 17 2 7 60 41 19 53Stranraer 24 11 6 7 43 33 10 39Ayr United 25 10 6 9 40 46 -6 36Brechin City 26 9 4 13 42 51 -9 31Stenhousemuir 26 7 9 10 37 50 -13 30Forfar Athletic 24 8 5 11 38 38 0 29East Fife 25 7 4 14 21 46 -25 25Airdrieonians 26 5 7 14 28 49 -21 22Arbroath 26 5 3 18 35 59 -24 18

Scottish League 2 P W D L F A GD Pts Peterhead 25 14 7 4 48 28 20 49Annan Ath 25 13 5 7 48 36 12 44Stirling Alb 25 11 6 8 39 38 1 39Clyde 26 11 6 9 31 33 -2 39East Stirling 26 10 8 8 37 34 3 38Albion Rovers 26 9 8 9 31 32 -1 35Berwick Ran 26 9 7 10 43 35 8 34Montrose 26 8 8 10 33 36 -3 32Elgin City 25 7 6 12 43 49 -6 27Queen’s Park 26 3 5 18 21 53 -32 14

skated outside the perimeter of the finishing line and did not officially end her run. Former speed-skater Wilf O’Reilly, commented that the decisions against her were extremely harsh.

“I’m confused and broken,” said the 23-year-old from Livingston in Scotland, re-sponding to a BBC reporter. “But I will come back in four more years and try again, you can be sure of that.”

On the final day of compet i t ion, Britain’s four man

bobsled team were just a tenth of a second off a medal.

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73 $10,882 $9,404 $10,586 $9,108 $9,994 $8,517 $7,900 $6,421 $6,853 $5,550

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Lizzy Yarnold Takes The Gold, Medals In Snowboarding & Curling

A blitz of negative publicity preceded the first Olympics in Russia since 1980, but the $51bn, 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, February 7-23, was on schedule. The open-ing ceremony featured a colourful panorama of Russian history and culture,where 5,000 performers and volunteers held spectators attention in a glittering spectacle at the Fisht Olympic Stadium. There were no references to Lenin or Stalin however. A variety of light displays, strains of Tchaikovsky, coupled with ballet vignettes and an extraordinary blaze of colour and music. The parade of competing nations entering from an under-ground ramp in the middle of the stadium was a novelty not seen before. A humongous firework display concluded the ceremony, and President Vladimir Putin, announced the games open. Some 87 nations were at Sochi, along with 2,900 competitors, chasing 98 gold medals in 15 sporting disciplines. Britain’s squad of 56 was led out by flag car-rier John Eloy, a speed skater preparing for his third consecutive Olympics. The American squad numbered 230 athletes.

Britain found gold on Valentine’s Day, when Lizzy Yarnold won the skeleton, domi-

nating the competition from the very start. The skeleton appears to be a favoured British event, as Amy Williams captured the gold in Vancouver 2010. Reigning world champion Shelley Rudman, captured silver in this event in 2006, but this year’s finish was well down the field. The 25-year-old Kent born gold medalist, lives and trains in Bath, and broke into a swathe of joyful tears on the podium as the gold medal was presented.

Earlier, snowboarder Jenny Jones, put Brit-ain on the medal table with a bronze medal in the slopestyle. Britain has won some 23 med-als (nine gold) at the previous winter games since 1924, all won on ice. The 33-year-old Bristol athlete made history by claiming Brit-ain’s very first medal ever on snow.

Britain’s Curling teams were in the fray from the very start and the men’s squad skip-pered by David Murdoch, reached the medal round beating Norway 6-5, then winning their semi-final against World Champion’s Sweden by the same score-line. In the final, the Canadians were in top form however, and won 9-3, giving Canada the gold and Britain the silver. Nerves played a part in the final, as the British team struggled to find their earlier momentum.

“I’m disappointed now, but a silver medal is scarily cool,” said David Murdoch.

The all-Scottish, British women’s side, led by Eve Muirhead, showed their extraordinary talents in the round robin matches by chalk-ing 12-3 victories over both the USA and Japan, that put them in the history books for the biggest recorded wins in Curling at any Olympics. The women’s squad are the reign-ing world champions, but lost 6-4 to Canada, in the semi-finals, but beat Switzerland 6-5 for the bronze. The final stone gave Britain the winning point and the medal.

“We knew we had to step it up,” said the teary eyed Eve Muirhead. “The girls were fantastic.”

Sadness and disappointment for Speed-skater Elise Christie, a bronze medalist in the 1,000m at the world championships last year, was considered a potential medaling prospect in either the 500m,1,000m or the 1,500m skate. But calamity struck on all three occasions. Two races she was involved with resulted in a collision, and both times judges ruled she was responsible and disqualified. The third disqualification was because she

Gold medalist Lizzy Yarnold, led the British team out at the closing ceremony as Britain recorded it best medal tally at a Winter Olympics since 1924. The Russians topped the medal table with 33 medals, the USA col-lected 28, while Norway with 26 and Canada with 25. Skiing and winter training facilities are sparse and not as luxurious in Britain, as they are in the regular top winter Olympic performing nations; but UK Sport reckons its nearly £14m Olympic budget was well spent considering the medal count.

Lizzy Yarnold wraps herself in the Union Jack after securing her Gold medal for women’s skeleton.

Celtic Goalkeeper Breaks Scottish Shutout Record

CELTIC GOALKEEPER Fraser Forster has broken the Scottish league shutout record.

The Englishman surpassed Bobby Clark’s previous record of 1,155 minutes without conceding a goal – set during the 1970-71 season – against Hearts last month by not being beaten in the first 31 minutes.

The 25-year-old Forster kept 12 consecu-tive Scottish Premiership clean sheets before the Hearts game, last conceding a league goal on November 23.

Pellegrini Charged By UEFA, Apologizes To Referee

MANCHESTER City manager Manuel Pel-legrini was charged with misconduct by UEFA on last month, hours after apologizing for blaming a referee for his team’s Champions League loss to Barcelona.

After questioning the integrity of Jonas Eriksson, Pellegrini faces a touch-line ban when his case is heard February 28 by UEFA’s control and disciplinary body.

UEFA announced that Pellegrini was “charged for violation of the general principles of conduct.”

Premier League Crushes Rivals In January Spending

ENGLISH Premier League clubs were once again the biggest spenders in Europe in the January transfer window, splashing out around £130m to break the record for the season as a whole.

Figures by football finance experts Deloitte released last month show that teams in Eng-land’s top division had an outlay of £760m over the summer and January windows,

shattering the previous record of £670m from the 2008/09 season.

The Premier League is midway through the first year of lucrative broadcasting deals that are generating more than $8.5bn through 2016.

France’s top clubs were the second heavi-est spenders in Europe in January, according to Deloitte, although their total outlay was only around 40 percent of the Premier League.

Man United In Talks With Companies Over New Kit Deal

MANCHESTER United is negotiating with several sportswear companies as the Pre-mier League champions look to secure a new kit deal.

The club’s current 13-year sponsorship deal with Nike, which is worth £303m, expires at the end of the 2014-15 season.

United has one of the most lucrative brands in sport and is the biggest mon-ey-maker in English football, generating £363.2m in 2012-13.

The club, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, will receive $559m under a seven-year shirt sponsorship with General Motors Co’s Chevrolet division from next season.

Swansea Fires Manager Michael Laudrup

MICHAEL LAUDRUP was fired as Swansea manager last month, paying the price for a slump in the year since delivering the south Wales club’s first major trophy.

The Dane is leaving the Premier League club after 20 months, having signed a new contract in March 2013 after being linked with leading clubs following his team’s triumph in the League Cup.

Though, Swansea was 12th in the stand-ings but just two points above the relegation zone, prompting the 49-year-old Laudrup’s dismissal.

Garry Monk, the 34-year-old defender who has been out injured since September, has replaced Laudrup, alongside first team coach Alan Curtis, “for the foreseeable future,” Swansea said.

Spain, Greece, Bosnia To Play In US Ahead Of World Cup

DEFENDING champion Spain will prepare for the World Cup in the United States along with Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Honduras.

Soccer United Marketing, an affiliate of Major League Soccer, says it will organize exhibition games involving those six nations along with Bolivia and El Salvador from May 27 to June 10.

England announced last month it will play a pair of matches at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, facing Ecuador on June 4 and Honduras on June 7.

The World Cup will be in Brazil for the first time since 1950 and opens June 12.

Man United To Go On Pre-Season Tour Of US

MANCHESTER United will prepare for next season by going on tour to the United States. No details have been announced, but United says it will visit several cities on its first US trip since 2011.

Plans for the tour might be disrupted if David Moyes’ side has to take part in the early qualifying stages of the Europa League in early August.

The English Premier League champions are struggling in their first season since Alex Ferguson retired, sitting seventh in the stand-ings, seven points behind the Champions League qualification places.

Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal and Man-chester City have also announced preseason tours of the US.

Elise Christie