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Vol. 28 No. 4 July 2010

Britain Marks Armed Forces Day THE HEADLINES

Bloody Sunday
Killings Ruled Unjust
By Peter Morrison and David Stringer
THE BRITISH soldiers who killed 13
Catholic demonstrators in Northern Ire-
land during “Bloody Sunday” nearly four
decades ago committed “unjustified and
unjustifiable” killings of unarmed and
innocent victims and then lied about it, a
fact-finding investigation concluded June
15 after a 12-year hunt for the truth.
More than 1,000 Londonderry resi-
dents applauded, hugged and cried out-
side city hall as the long-awaited verdict
was announced live on a huge television
screen. They had campaigned for 38
years for the victims – originally branded
as Irish Republican Army bombers and
gunmen – to have their good names re-
stored and the guilt of the soldiers proved
beyond doubt.
More than 600 British soldiers returning from Afghanistan marched through the southern English “Unjustified and unjustifiable. Those
town of Winchester on June 23, in the largest ever homecoming parade staged in Britain. are the words we’ve been waiting to hear
since January the 30th of 1972,” Tony
SERVING TROOPS marched with they can come home and come back to Helmand province. Doherty, the son of one Bloody Sunday
veterans and cadets through the massive public support. It is exactly like Armed Forces Day was created last year
amid criticism that the country didn’t do Continued on page 4
sun-soaked streets of Winchester being a rock star.”
and Cardiff last month, as Britain cityThousands of people were in the Welsh enough to honor its military.
for the event. A flypast and church The Queen sent a message of support Budget: Sharpest
Cuts In Decades
marked its second annual Armed service followed the parade, and hundreds to mark the day, which she said celebrated
Forces Day. of smaller celebrations took place across “servicemen and women past and present, TREASURY chief George Osborne
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the the country. and the cadet forces.” unveiled last month the toughest cuts
Duchess of Cornwall, reviewed the parade On June 23 over 600 returning troops “The men and women of our Armed to public spending in decades, a raft of
in Cardiff, the focus of a national ceremony from the 11 Light Brigade marched Forces have always been admirable exam- tax rises and a new levy on banks in an
to honor Britain’s military. through the streets of Winchester after a six ples of professionalism and courage,’’ her emergency budget aimed at restoring the
“When men and women walk through month deployment in Afghanistan. message said. “Then as now, they perform country’s ravaged public finances.
the streets in uniform like this it makes It was a deadly month in Afghanistan their duties in often the most difficult and In his first budget, Osborne told law-
them feel 10 feet tall,’’ said Captain for the British military, which announced dangerous of circumstances, both at home makers his austerity package – which will
Jimmy Carroll of the Queen’s Dragoon the deaths of eight soldiers. Since the be- and overseas.” see welfare payments and spending pro-
Guards, who served in Afghanistan last ginning of operations in Afghanistan, 307 At Wimbledon, 14 members of the grams slashed – was necessary to quickly
year. “The guys out in Afghanistan know British troops have been killed. There are armed forces were invited to watch the reduce crippling national debts racked up
that people are out marching today and about 10,000 British troops in Afghanistan, tennis tournament from the Royal Box, during the global financial crisis.
that the crowds are out. They know that mainly focused in the volatile southern and were given a standing ovation by the
Everyone in Britain will feel the strain,
he said, from shoppers paying higher
sales tax, wealthy people hit for higher
capital gains taxes, banks targeted by
a new levy and even the Queen- who
accepted a freeze in her support from
taxpayers.
Here some key points of Chancellor
George Osborne’s Budget:
TAX
VAT: Rate will rise from 17.5 percent
to 20 percent from January 4, 2011.
Personal income tax allowance: To be
increased by £1,000 in April to £7,475
– worth £170 a year to basic rate taxpay-
ers. It is expected that 880,000 of the
lowest-paid will be taken out of income
tax altogether.
Council tax: Could be frozen for one
year from April 2011 in England, but ex-
tra funds will only be offered to councils
Continued on page 4
Former PM Thatcher
Visits Downing Street
SOME 20 years after she left No 10
Downing Street, a frail-looking Margaret
Thatcher was back to visit with her Con-
servative successor, David Cameron.
Thatcher, 84, clung to the railing out-
side the famous black door as she walked
up to the doorstep to pose for pictures.
She waved to photographers, but made
no comment.
Thatcher’s visit last month, which
lasted about 45 minutes, came as the Con-
servative government said it was prepar-
ing what are likely to be the deepest cuts
to public spending since Thatcher was in
office. Britain’s budget deficit is forecast
to reach 10.4 percent of gross domestic
product this year, and the government
is under considerable pressure to slash
expenditure.
Thatcher has been in poor health since
a series of strokes in 2002.

Bulger Killer Charged With
Child Porn Offenses
PROSECUTORS said that a man con-
victed of murdering a toddler in 1993,
when he himself was just 10 years old,
has been charged with child pornography
offenses.
Jon Venables, 27, has been charged with
downloading and distributing indecent
photographs of children. Venables was in-
dicted earlier, but the charges could only be
reported last month after a judge ordered
some reporting restrictions lifted.
Prosecution lawyer Gavin Millar read
the charges out for the record at London’s
Central Criminal Court. He said Venables
is accused of downloading onto his com-
puter 57 indecent photographs of minors
between February 2009 and February this
year, and of distributing seven indecent im-
ages of children over the Internet between
February 1 and 23 this year.
Venables and another 10-year-old, Rob-
ert Thompson, lured two-year-old James
Bulger away from a shopping center in
Fake Cop Not Prince Harry Takes The
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England Fans
RESIDENTS of Worksop were taking
down their England flags and removing
their football shirts on the orders of a
. . . bogus policeman.
The “officer” operating in and around
Worksop, told people to remove their
England shirts and take down their
flags.
A probe was launched after the
Guardian revealed that a woman in the

BRING NEW Liverpool in 1993 and beat him to death

by an isolated railway line.
MEMORY
town had been asked to take down her
England flags by what she thought was

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a genuine police officer.
The crime shocked Britain because of It emerged that someone is posing
the ages of the victim and his baby-faced as a Police Community Support Of-

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killers, and was seared into the national
memory through closed-circuit video
footage of the two older boys leading the
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Venables and Thompson were released
issue of the Union Jack! from juvenile detention in 2001, when they
were 18, and given new identities, which
the press is barred from revealing – a rare
ficer (PCSO) and was in Clumber Park
lasking people to remove their England
shirts.
Chief Superintendent Dave Wakelin
said: “I am aware of last week’s public-
ity regarding the story that one of my
staff members advised a local Worksop
resident to remove her flag from her

Call: and highly controversial move.

The case continues to arouse strong
feelings. While some applauded the deci-
balcony as it was upsetting foreign
residents.”
“We are now absolutely certain that
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others, including Bulger’s parents, argued that over the weekend similar incidents
they should never have been freed. occurred with people in Clumber Park
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tions. Officials then would not give details
of his alleged offense, saying it could
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in our local community intending to
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in the past month . . .
Tom Jones Returns To Green
Grass Of Home At 70
SIR TOM Jones celebrated his 70th birth-
day, June 7, and last month his hometown
principality was all geared up to join in the
merriment and revelry. School children across
Wales practiced versions of the Welsh war-
bler’s big hit It’s not Unusual, and local televi-
sion stations fitted in tributes to the Pontypridd
vocalist who started out as Tommy Scott and
the Senators. Still married to his high-school
sweetheart, Melinda, after they were wed at
aged 16; Jones the Voice had a home in Los
Angeles for years, but recently moved lock,
stock and barrel back to Wales. His gregari-
ous and upbeat television shows that ran for
three years starting in 1969, have never
been reshown because of legal and litigation
problems. But those of us who remember the
uninhibited and raucous performances never
doubted a new star was in the ascendance. He
was awarded a knighthood in 2006.
A couple of months ago, Tom’s unem-
ployment 1961-64 records from the dole
office were put up for auction at Mullocks
in Shropshire, after being rescued from a
garbage skip. They were withdrawn however,
after they did not reach the reserve price. The
personal cards revealed that Tom “had little
enthusiasm for work which might dirty his fin-
ger nails, and would not do shift work because
he was a part-time singer in a band.” His
employment record showed he did jobs as a
factory worker, glove maker and labourer. His
unemployment career ceased permanently in
July of 1964. 100 million hit records later, all
this is behind him, as a distinctive welcome
from the valleys echoed “Happy Birthday
Tom Jones.”
Sir Winston’s Speeches And
Letters Auctioned At Christie’s
AT AN auction of Winston Churchill memora-
bilia at Christie’s in London, a comprehensive
collection of speeches and letters fetched
£577,063.
Private letters from friends and political
comrades that demonstrated the desperate
and uncertain situation during the early days
of the war, showed Churchill as positive and
undefeated. A series of such letters went
for £34,850.
A collection of Churchill’s free trade
speeches went for £39,650, while an un-
smoked Havana cigar still in its box fetched
£2,125. The collection originally belonged to
US publishing magnate Steve Forbes, who
says his reason for selling the memorabilia
is mainly because his immediate family have
no interest in the collection. Forbes plans two
more similar auctions in New York later this
year, and in London next summer.
Police Tow Car To Protect It
From Being Stolen
MARCUS MORRIS’S job interview in the
Leeds city centre, went a lot easier than the
circumstances he encountered when he tried
to drive home. His car was not at the spot
he had parked it, and thinking it was stolen
he called the police.
He was then informed that a patrolling con-
stable had discovered the car with the back
window down, and suspecting that there was
a high risk of theft, had had the car towed to a
police storage facility. It cost him £150 to get
his car back, and he was not happy that a job
interview had proved so expensive.
“I couldn’t believe it,” said Morris, 25. “It
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seems outrageous.” shire restaurant to be awarded a Michelin “My wife Anne is not pleased about me go-
West Yorkshire Police were unapologetic
that they had towed the car.
“It was to protect the vehicle from car
TODAY’S star, and while the food is regarded as excep-
tional, the discipline in the kitchen apparently
borders on near violence. Police were called
ing as a cow but I just want to do something
different.”
BRITAIN
thieves,” they said, and it was police policy to the eatery after a chef alleged he had been Horse Wins Annual Equine-
for patrolling officers on the beat to look for assaulted by the kitchen-supervisor. Human Race Again
measures that could prevent crimes being He said his trousers had been set on fire
committed. BY LARRY GARDNER with a blow torch and he had also been hit FOUR LEGS have triumphed over two once
again, with a horse galloping to victory in
Morris complained that if it had been with a rolling pin; and, while making a nettle
stolen or objects removed, it would have She speculates that these men did not all die risotto, the stinging vegetables had been Britain’s annual Man v Horse race.
in York, and this cemetery may have had a Forty-four horse-and-rider teams took
been his responsibility and his own fault and purposely brushed across his neck caus-
he would have been prepared to accept that. particular religious significance that only ing much pain and discomfort. He says he on 253 runners and 115 relay teams in the
gladiators were interred there. 22-mile race last month in and around the
He is taking legal advice in an attempt to get witnessed another chef held upside down
his money back. Kurt Hunter-Mann of the York Archaeo- and dunked face first in to a vat of broccoli town of Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales.
logical Trust has met some skepticism about The fastest horse, Sly Dai, finished in two
and stilton soup, that was later served to
Ferret Legging Could Have the presumed gladiator graveyard and com- customers. Police took away an unnamed hours, seven minutes and four seconds.
Bite Taken Out Of It mented, “The research is continuing and we The fastest human, DHL truck driver Haggai
28-year-man who was later released, saying
FRANK BARTLETT’S ferret legging contest in must therefore keep an open mind.” further inquires were needed. Chetkwang, crossed the line in 2:17:27.
Whittingham, Staffordshire, has come under Palaces Cost-Cutting Leaves The Star Inn is owned by Andrew and The race has been held since 1980, and
individual human runners have won only
attack from various animal right groups. Fer- Jacquie Pern, who though separated,
ret legging is basically putting a ferret or two Princesses Without Guards continue to run the one star Michelin rated twice, in 2004 and 2007.
Organizers say future races will cover 44
down your trousers, and enduring the threat of THE DAUGHTERS of Prince Andrew, The restaurant. Mr Pern was loathe to expand on
a nasty nip in very private place. The winner is Duke of York, are to lose their 24-hours police the kitchen antics, but said he was dealing miles, testing the theory that longer courses
give humans a better chance because horses
the one who can stand the creatures wriggling protection. Princess Beatrice 21, and Princess with the matter.
around in the darkness within the confines Eugenie,20, have been receiving round-the “We are taking the allegations very seri- tire more quickly.
of their underwear for the longest amount of clock bodyguards while attending universi- ously,” he said.
time. The current ferret legging world record ties classes in London and Newcastle. The Parish Members To Take
was set over twenty years ago, where a male Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Jack The Jig-Saw Man Vicars Point
participant tolerate a very active ferret scuttling Stephenson, has long been concerned over Finishes Giant Puzzle
around the inside of his pants for five hours. the rising costs protecting Britain’s minor Roy- COMPULSORY Archery is on the ‘hymn list’
JACK HARRIS is a dissectologist, which for for the congregation of one Wiltshire vicar.
No word on if he was bitten. Frank Bartlett als, and said the half-million pounds annually the uninitiated, means he loves doing jig-
calls it a light-hearted test of endurance and giving the princesses such protection was By reviving an ancient law The Reverend
saws. Eight years ago, the Shepton Mallett Mary Edwards, of Collingbourne Ducis,
a great way to raise money for charity, but unacceptable. The Police spend £50m a year resident was given a five foot square, 5,000
ferret lovers are up in arms. protecting the 22 members of the Royal fam- near Marlborough is inviting all the village
piece jig-saw of the painting of James Tis- members to a celebration.
The National Ferret School wants the ily, including some who are a little less Royal sot’s The Return of the Prodigal Son, by his
RSPCA to investigate, claiming the animals than others. The Met has liasoned with Home family because of his boast he could do them Edwards said: “It’s an unrepealed law
from some time in the middle ages and I can
suffer unnecessary stress and discomfort in Office officials and MI5 counter-terrorists so quickly. It has dominated the dining room
such situations. officers in their attempt to bring costs down, table since then, but finally, last month the call all the men – but I’ve extended it to all
people – in the parish to archery practice.
Spokesman James McKay, called it a and it has been agreed that other minor Roy- 86-year-old retiree finished his quest only
stupid event, and says it’ll put ferret welfare als will have their security details cut too. Sir to find one of the pieces was missing. He “We are celebrating the building of a new
back twenty years. He says it infringes on Paul did reiterate however, that security would searched the house for the lost piece but loo in the church. After all these years we
the 2006 Animal Welfare Act. continue to be provided for high profile events. have at long last brought running water to
never found it and came to the conclusion
Frank Bartlett remains upbeat however. The Princesses’ mother, The Duchess of York that maybe the dog ate it. A call to the manu- the church.”
The ferrets used have been handled regularly (Fergie) has recently been in the news at- facturer didn’t help either, as this particular Residents were rewarded for complying
and are tame and friendly, and will probably tempting to sell access to her ex-husband in a puzzle was long out of production. with the law with a bar, a barbecue and live
find a comfy place inside the men’s baggy News of the World, expose, but the incident is Queen Victoria was one of Britain’s fa- music. Church warden Mike Cox said: “It
pants and fall asleep. Apparently, the com- not thought to have any relevance to the Met’s mous dissectologist, who had the pictures seems she’s still entitled to do that. I’ve
petitors have been involved with ferrets for cost cutting measures. A former head of the removed from the box because she said been checking on the web and most archery
years, and do not appear concerned about Royal protection squad, Dai Davies, explained the images only made the jig-saws easier experts and clergy seem to agree she is.
any random nipping or biting. that the extortionate cost on police resources to complete. “Though a lot of the laws were repealed,
had been under discussion for sometime now, that particular one still stands so she’s
Gladiators Burial Ground and Sir Paul Stevenson had finally forged an MBE Milkman Very ‘Mooved’ entitled to call the men of the village, and
agreement between the different organizations presumably the women and children too, to
Uncovered At York and authorities involved. Meeting Queen archery practice.”
FOUNDATIONS for a new housing develop- A MILKMAN from Leicester received an MBE
ment in York, revealed a Roman Cemetery Chris Brown Refused Entry from the Queen last month . . wearing a
dating back to 200 AD that has had local cow-themed suit. The Last Of The Last Of The
archaeologists frothing at the mouth for some
Into Britain Tony Fowler, 51, won his MBE for helping Summer Wine To Air
twenty years. Now after much excavation, SINGER Chris Brown whose community police catch a string of criminals by keeping BRITAIN’S longest running comedy series,
which revealed a collection of 80 tall males service hit the headlines in February over a lookout for suspicious behaviour on his Last of the Summer Wine, will come to an
his assault of then girlfriend Rihanna, was
with horrendous injuries, experts think it’s a milk run. end after the broadcast of the final series this
graveyard specifically catering for gladiators. unable to attend his scheduled gigs in Glas- He has helped foil burglaries, youths joy summer. For 37 years the characters of a
Dozens of the skeletons are headless, and gow, London, Birmingham and Manchester, riding, drug deals and has even blocked in small Yorkshire village that had plenty of time
according to historians, when gladiators were last month. car thieves with his milk float on his round on their hands has been compulsive and clas-
severely injured their heads were sliced off as He was denied a visa to enter Britain, in Melton Mowbray. sic viewing for millions of Britons. Only actor
an act of mercy rather than let them suffer. citing his conviction of a serious criminal Buckingham Palace did have advance Peter Sallis who plays Norman Clegg is left
The bodies were buried with respect and offence. Promoters SJM said the postpone- warning that Mr Fowler wanted to dress up of the original cast. Compo’s (Bill Owen) en-
dignity, which included pottery, food and other ment of the shows was through “unforeseen like a Fresian cow for the event. Aides had thusiasm and unwelcome attraction for Nora
religious offerings for the next life. One of the circumstances,” and suggested people hold done their best to dissuade him – but Fowler Batty (Kathy Staff) and Foggy Dewhurst’s
skeletons has a carnivorous bite mark on its on to their tickets for a possible re-arranged merely toned down his outfit slightly, reports (Brian Hewitt) illusion that he was Britain’s
shoulder that could have been made by a big scheduling. Sony Music acknowledged the Daily Mail. most deadly spy during the war, and then there
cat like a lion or tiger while fatal head wounds Brown’s tour had been cancelled too. He agreed not to use face paint and to was the eccentricities of the community’s
are predominate amongst the bodies. Questions were directed at the Home wear plain trousers instead of ones with white richest resident played by Dame Thora Hird.
Jenny Hall the curator for Roman Ar- Office regarding the decision and they issued hoops stitched on the bottom. And luckily, his Other characters emboldened those Yorkshire
chaeology at the Museum of London, says a statement concluding, ”Each application to dog had already chewed off the tail that had adventures over the years, with every one of
information regarding gladiatorial combat in enter the UK is considered on its individual been fixed to the back of his suit. those half hour series written by its creator
Roman Briton is scarce, and that the violent terms.” Afterwards the milkman insisted that his Roy Clarke and produced by Alan JW Bell.
recreation enjoyed by the populous was an outfit had gone down well with the monarch, The great theatre in the sky has claimed many
expensive blood sport. Gladiators toured Kitchen Staff Caught Up In who is a keen farmer. “She was a bit disap- of those precious talents who magnificently lit
the empire like rock bands today and were Regular Batterings pointed it wasn’t a Jersey (costume) because up that small BBC screen in 1973, but through
heroes and stars admired by legions of fans. THE STAR Inn at Harome, is the first York- that’s her own cows at Windsor,” he said. DVD technology they will live forever.
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FORECAST FAILED
According to Tina Brown, author of The
Diana Chronicles, Prince William and Kate
Middleton were due to announce their
engagement on either June 3 or 4. Sadly, it
just didn’t happen.
The plan, according to Brown, was for
a June engagement and a winter wedding,
after the turmoil of the election was over
and a new Prime Minister was installed in
Downing Street.
November is the same month when the
Queen and Prince Philip married in 1947. Tina
Brown’s forecast surprised most royal watch-
£250m For The Ritz? No Sale ers. Unfortunately, her forecast was, to say the
least, inaccurate: It just didn’t happen.
A £1m cash deposit will secure the sale of The Ritz hotel for £250m, according SELFRIDGES IS NO 1
to three fraudsters who managed to convince two businessmen to part with Selfridges store in Oxford Street has
their money. been named as the best department store
Prosecutor Anuja Dhir,QC, told Southwark Crown Court: “The deal that sounded too good in the world.
to be true was a complete fantasy.. The three men were in no position to sell the Ritz hotel, The chain store, which has another in
the true value of which was put at £600m.” Birmingham and two in Manchester, beat
Bloomingdale’s in New York and Lane
They obtained the money from busi- up the area foundered five years ago in the Crawford in Hong Kong to win the retail prize
nessman Terence Collins and his financial face of local and council opposition.
at the Global Department Store Summit in
backer Marcel Boerkhoorn. Miss Dhir told The sale is being handled by agents Cush- New York.
the court: “It is a fact that lies were told by man & Wakefield, who say that the Hollywood IS ANYONE THERE?
the defendants, which makes them guilty of link (the film Notting Hill starring Hugh Grant A London student is to help NASA
conspiracy to defraud.” and Julia Roberts) had boosted interest. search for life at the edge of the Earth’s
The three defendants: solicitor Conn Far- But all is not sweetness and light in the atmosphere.
rell, 57, of Aldershot; retired construction area. Shopkeepers who have seen rents soar Rainbow Lo, a 16-year-old student at
company contracts manager Patrick Dolan, in recent years while business has been lost Ursuline High School, Wimbledon, will spend
68, of Tottenham, north London; and lorry to the internet, said there was deep concern two weeks in California with the US space
driver Anthony Lee, 49, of Goole, East York- about the future. Trushar Patel, manager of agency on a mission to launch a rocket 115
shire, all deny conspiracy to defraud. Tylers hardware shop, said: “We’ve been kilometres into the sky.
The Ritz is owned by twins Sir Frederick here since 1986 but we’ve reached the limit The Clotho project is being run with a
and Sir David Barclay, who also own The of what we can afford on the rent, and now group of amateur space enthusiasts called
Daily Telegraph newspaper. it is up for sale it is very worrying.” the Maverick Foundation. It hopes to discover
BUT THIS ONE IS FOR SALE LAUNCH OF THE NEW how high up in the Earth’s atmosphere life
Notting Hill Gate, west London, is for ROUTEMASTER can survive.
sale at £130m or near offer. Known as the London’s Mayor Boris Johnson has, The team will launch a rocket into the
local high street for the Cameron set (it is finally, launched the new Routemaster bus, stratosphere. It will release a probe that will
a Conservative stronghold), the deal could which he calls “a slinky beautiful machine”. collect any microbes it finds before returning
give fresh life to the shopping street known
as “Concrete Alley”.
The first buses will be on the streets at the
end of next year, with “a few hundred more”
to Earth. The organisms will be analysed to
help understand how they survive in one of
The congested strip of shops and restau- by the time of the Olympics in 2012. the planet’s harshest environments.
rants in the heart of one of London’s most They will have two staircases and three
WESTERN C-CHARGE TO END
fashionable districts has attracted keen inter- doors, one of which will be the “hop-on hop- Mayor Boris Johnson has announced
est from all parts of the world, according to off “ feature of the old model. But when the
plans to scrap the western extension of the
property industry sources. back of the bus is open – during busy times congestion charge zone on Christmas Eve.
Local campaigners say that the change – it will be manned by a conductor.
But he also confirmed that the daily charge
of ownership could pave the way for a dra- The new bus will replace the bendy bus would increase by 25 percent from £8 to £10
matic overhaul of the concrete alley, flanked which is being phased out, although ques- from January 4 next year. Drivers who sign
by some of the most expensive housing in tions remain about whether the new bus up to a pre-pay scheme will pay £9.
Europe. – costing £7.8m for five – would provide The move, which has to be ratified after
John Scott, of the Notting Hill Gate value for money. But Transport for London public consultation, will return the zone
to its original eight-square-mile central
An artist’s London area introduced by Ken Livingstone
impression of in 2003.
the new-look Park Lane will once again be its western
Routemaster boundary instead of the Shepherds Bush
bus set to be roundabout. At a stroke, almost the entire
on the roads borough of Kensington and Chelsea will be
of London by removed from the zone.
2012 – just in The move will cost Transport for London
time for the £55m a year in lost revenue and congestion
Olympics. and air quality will worsen in west London.
There are also concerns about the increased
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Prince Harry In
New York For
African Charity
PRINCE HARRY took a tumble from his
horse last month before his defeat in a New ROBERT DOWNEYJR. 65, will be return-
York polo match against the world’s best ing to London, late this summer, for the
known polo player, Argentina’s Nacho sleuth sequel of his hit movie “Sherlock
Figueras. Holmes.” It is set for release in December,
But it was all for a good cause – to ben- 2011, and he will be reuniting with his
efit 400,000 children of an AIDS-ravaged
African nation.
The 25-year-old son of the late Princess
former costars Jude Law and Rachel Mc-
Adams in “Sherlock 2.”
The first ‘Sherlock Holmes’ which was
Diana fell off his polo pony in the first half released last Christmas Day, took $209m at
of the third Annual Veuve Clicquot Polo the box-office in the US with a worldwide
Classic on Governor’s Island. figure of more than $475m.
But he had a smile on his face as he Guy Ritchie who was born in Hertford-
got up and continued the contest, which shire, directed the first Holmes film. He is
Figueras’ Black Watch team won 6-5 in expected to return for the sequel.
overtime. At first, the prince’s Black Rock
* * *
foursome was ahead, with Harry scoring an SIR BEN KINGSLEY was honoured by
early two points, despite his fall.
Hollywood, with the unveiling of his star
“I think his horse got spooked, or on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in front
something,”’ Figueras told The Associ- of Madame Tussaud’s museum.
ated Press. At the recent ceremony attended by fans
The United States “has always protected and celebrities, Sir Ben said “Growing up in
the downtrodden, the poorest, those most England, I never thought this would happen
in need of help in the world,” Harry said to me, and it has.” He was knighted by the
before the match. “And to me, this is what Queen in 2001, for his impressive body of
the United States stands for.” work in more than 60 films, and has since
Harry played as part of his pledge to gone on to do many more.
continue his mother’s work. He won the Oscar for his performance in
Harry’s three-day visit to New York “Gandhi” (1982), portraying Indian politi-
began June 25 at the West Point Military cal and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi.
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Far-Right Leader Secures Invite To Queen’s Party
THE LEADER of the far-right British in Britain’s House of Commons but was
National Party says he has been invited defeated. He was invited to attend the
to the Queen’s summer garden party at palace event last year by another party
Buckingham Palace. member, but declined after protests.
The BNP opposes Britain’s immi-
The palace said last month that Nick
Griffin is a member of the European gration policy and claims to fight for
“indigenous” Britons.
Parliament and is entitled to tickets for
the annual function.
Griffin announced the invitation in
a speech to
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Cuts In Decades
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which keep their own costs down. Worth
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Capital Gains Tax: To rise from 18 per-
cent to 28 percent from midnight for higher
rate taxpayers. The “entrepreneurs relief”
rate of 10 percent on the first £2m of gains
will be extended to the first £5m.
The balance of spending cuts to tax rises
would be 77 percent to 23 percent.
CIGARETTES, ALCOHOL & FUEL
No increases this time round. Labour’s
plan to increase the duty on cider by 10
percent inflation will be scrapped from
July.
BENEFITS
Child benefit: Frozen for the next three
years.
Tax credits: Reduced for families
earning over £40,000 next year. But low
income families will get more Child Tax
Credit – the amount per child will rise by
£150 above the rate of inflation next year
– at an annual cost of £2bn.
Housing benefit: New maximum limit
of £400 a week for properties with more
than three bedrooms, £250 a week for a
one-bedroom flat, £290 for a two-bedroom
property and £340 for a three-bed property,
to save £1.8bn a year by the end of the
Parliament.
Unemployed people will see their Hous-
ing Benefit cut by 10 percent, after 12
months of claiming Jobseekers Allowance
from April 2013.
The government will introduce a medi-
cal assessment for Disability Living Al-
lowance from 2013 for new and existing
claimants.
The welfare shake-up will save £11bn
by 2014/15.
PUBLIC SECTOR PAY
Public sector workers face a two-year
pay freeze if they earn over £21,000. Those
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Budget Box Takes Last Bow
A RED wooden box that has carried the
government’s budget to the House of
Commons since 1860 made its last of-
ficial appearance last month.
Treasury
chief George
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struck the
traditional
pose, holding
the box aloft
for photographers, before he set off to
the House of Commons to announce the
government’s budget plans. But he left
it behind.
The box was first used by William
Ewart Gladstone in 1860, and most
Chancellors of the Exchequer have used
it ever since. Former Prime Minister
Gordon Brown was an exception, using a
new red box during his 11 years heading
the Treasury.
The old box will be retired to a perma-
nent display in the Cabinet War Rooms.
The National Archives said a replace-
ment box, using traditional materials and
techniques, has been commissioned.
earning less £21,000 will get a flat pay-rise
worth £250 in both years.
Armed services personnel in Afghani-
stan will see their operational allowance
doubled to £4,800 – as announced by
David Cameron earlier in the month.
Bloody Sunday
Killings Ruled Unjust
Continued from page 1
victim, told the crowd to cheers. He was
one of dozens of relatives who took turns
declaring the innocence of lost loved ones
to the crowd as the TV screen displayed
black-and-white portraits of each of the 13
dead and 15 wounded.
VINDICATED
“The victims of Bloody Sunday have
been vindicated, and the soldiers of the
Parachute Regiment have been disgraced.
Their medals of honor have to be removed!”
Doherty declared to more cheers.
In London, British Prime Minister
David Cameron said the investigation –
based on evidence from 921 witnesses,
2,500 written statements and 60 volumes
of written evidence – demonstrated that
the soldiers’ shooting into the crowd
protesting the internment without trial of
IRA suspects was “both unjustified and
unjustifiable.”
Cameron apologized on behalf of the
British government, and summarized the
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The basic state pension will be linked
to earnings from April 2011, with the
pension guaranteed to rise in line with
earnings, prices or 2.5 percent, whichever
is the greater.
The government will accelerate the
increase in state pension age to 66 – a
“call for evidence” was to be made later
in the week.
The government will also consult on
phasing out the default retirement age – to
ensure those who want to work past 65 are
able to do so.
BUSINESS
From April 2011, the threshold at which
employers start to pay National Insurance
will rise by the rate of inflation plus £21
per week.
Corporation Tax will be cut next year
to 27 percent, and by one percent annually
for the next three years, until it reaches
24 percent.
The small companies’ tax rate will be
cut to 20 percent.
REGIONS
White Paper to be published on tackling
regional economic differences in Britain
later in the summer, followed by a paper
on rebalancing the economy of Northern
Ireland.
The upgrade of the Tyne and Wear Met-
ro, extension of the Manchester Metrolink,
redevelopment of Birmingham New Street
station and improvements to the rail lines
to Sheffield and between Liverpool and
Leeds will go ahead.
findings of English judge Lord Saville: The
soldiers never should have been ordered to
confront the protesters, they fired the first
shots and targeted unarmed people who
were clearly fleeing or aiding the helpless
wounded. None of those killed or wounded
that day in Londonderry had posed a threat
to the soldiers, Saville concluded.
BUDGETED
The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, authorized
by former British Prime Minister Tony
Blair in 1998 in the run-up to the negotia-
tion of the Good Friday peace accord that
year, was originally budgeted to cost £11m
and report findings by 2002. Instead, the
final bill was estimated at nearly £200m –
making it the longest and most expensive
inquiry in British legal history. Cameron
said Britain would never attempt anything
like it again.
But the British, Irish and US govern-
ments welcomed the findings as priceless
to heal one of the gaping wounds left from
Northern Ireland’s four-decade conflict
that left 3,700 dead. Bloody Sunday fueled
a rise in support for the IRA, which didn’t
cease-fire until 1997 after killing nearly
1,800 people.
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Employment Based Immigration:
Does Your Employer Have Sufficient Income
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YOU HAVE been working in the United
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Recently, you decided the time is right to get
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files a green card petition on your behalf.
But wait, even if you qualify to get a green
card, does your employer qualify? This may
be a question that would never enter your
thoughts until after you find out the petition
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To get an employment-based green card,
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LEE BRAY of Bristol left nothing to the
neighbour’s imagination during this world
cup – banners and flags were not enough
for Lee – he had two graffiti artists paint
his house exterior, top to bottom.
Bray, 34, of Knowle West, decided that
replica shirts and car flags just weren’t
enough, reported the BBC.
So he commissioned the artists to
cover the front of his house in a giant
World Cup mural.
The father of two daughters said his
Obama Tells Britain No Hard Feelings Over Spill
By Jill Lawless
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has reassured
Prime Minister David Cameron that his
frustration over the mammoth oil spill
in the Gulf of Mexico is not an attack on
Britain as the two leaders tried to soothe
trans-Atlantic tensions over the disaster.
Cameron’s Downing Street office said
the two leaders held a “warm and construc-
tive” telephone conversation for more than
30 minutes last month.
Obama has recently sharpened his criti-
cism of BP PLC as the company struggles
to stop millions of gallons of oil gushing
from its ruptured deep-sea well. Cameron
is under pressure to get Obama to tone
down the rhetoric against of a major Brit-
ish company, fearing it will hurt millions
of Britons – as well as many Americans
– who hold BP stock in investments and
pension plans.
Cameron’s office said the prime minis-
ter “expressed his sadness at the ongoing
human and environmental catastrophe,”
but stressed BP’s economic importance to
Britain, the US and other countries.
FRUSTRATIONS
It said Obama recognized that BP –
which he has pointedly referred to in public
by its former name, British Petroleum – is
UK Double Oil Rig Inspections After BP Leak
England Fan
Paints Mural
On House
football-mad family all supported the
makeover.
He said: “People are coming from all
over Bristol to take photos of the house, I
really believe England can go all the way
and win in South Africa.”
Bray, who owns a drainage engineer-
ing company, and his family were plan-
ning to move soon and the tribute will
be covered over once England’s World
Cup bid was over, unfortunately, sooner
than planned.
a multinational company, “and that frus-
trations about the oil spill had nothing to
do with national identity.” Obama said
he had no interest in undermining BP’s
value. The company’s stock has lost 40
percent of its value since the oil rig fire on
April 20 that unleashed the United States’
worst oil spill.
Downing Street said the two men
agreed that BP should continue “to work
intensively to ensure that all sensible and
reasonable steps are taken as rapidly as
practicable to deal with the consequences
of this catastrophe.”
The Obama administration walked a
careful line: trying to show toughness with
BP, but also reassuring Britons that the
president holds no animosity toward their
country and institutions. The strategy could
be risky if Obama’s political opponents use
it to reinforce claims that he has been too
gentle and diplomatic in dealing with the
oil company.
Tony Hayward and other BP executives
met with President Obama last month for
the first time since the crisis began.
APOLOGISING
Hayward also testified at a US House
of Representatives hearing last month,
apologising for insensitive comments
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BRITAIN’S opposition Labour Party
says that five candidates have won
nominations in the race to be its next
leader, with left-winger Diane Abbott
securing her place just before the
deadline.
Four former members of ex-Prime
Minister Gordon Brown’s Cabinet
were also nominated: former Foreign
Secretary David Miliband, his brother,
the former Environment Secretary Ed
Miliband, former Schools Secretary
Ed Balls and former Health Secretary
Andy Burnham.
Abbott is the only woman and the
only black candidate in the race. She re-
ceived the necessary nominations after
left-winger John McDonnell dropped
out and urged support for her.
Voting for the new leader begins
August 16, and the result won’t be an-
nounced until September 25.
made shortly after the spill began.
A senior Obama administration official,
speaking on condition of anonymity to de-
scribe the private conversation, confirmed
that the president had told Cameron “that
our frustration has nothing to do with
national identity” but focuses instead on
“ensuring that a large, wealthy company
lives up to its obligations.”
The official said Obama told Cameron
that BP “must meet its obligations to those
whose lives have been disrupted,” and that
the administration “will insist everything
be done to cap the well, capture the oil,
and pay for the cleanup, the environmental
damage done and the tens of thousands
of economic claims
as a result of this di-
saster.”
Meanwhile,
worldwide, Britain
has doubled rig in-
spections. Bulgaria
scrapped plans for a
new oil pipeline. Chi-
nese and French oil
giants are upgrading
equipment and pro-
cedures designed to
prevent spills. As oil
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Gunman’s Family Baffled
At His Deadly Rampage
THE FAMILY of gunman Derrick Bird
say they have no idea why he carried out
where he shot himself.
Police believe he deliberately targeted
the “horrific” shootings of 12 people in some of his victims and indiscriminately
shot at others during his 45-mile ram-
Cumbria.
Two statements were read at St Mi- page.
chael’s Church in Lamplugh, the village ESTABLISH
where one of Bird’s brothers, his twin, Detectives are continuing to try to es-
was found dead. The family also offered
condolences to the loved ones of those tablish a motive for the killings.
killed. Speaking outside the church, Marshall
Bird’s sons Graeme and Jamie said: said Bird’s mother Susan learnt of her
son’s gun rampage when she turned on
“We do not know why he committed these the television”
horrific crimes and we are both mortified
He said: “She was horrified, she was
by the sad events.” astounded. She was just stunned and still
Later hundreds of people gathered in can’t take it in.”
Seascale, the village where Bird killed He said Mrs Bird then locked all the
three people, for the first of two memorial doors. When asked if the family had feared
services. for their lives, he replied: “Yes, wouldn’t
The second service was held in White- you if you realised (he) had killed his twin
haven, where Bird shot dead one of his brother.”
fellow taxi drivers. We cannot offer any reason why Der-
In Lamplugh, in a statement read by rick took it upon himself to commit these
Rev Jim Marshall, Bird’s sons called the crimes.
52-year-old a “loving dad who had recently But Rev Marshall said the Derrick Bird
become a grandfather” and “the nicest man his family knew “was not the person they
you could ever meet”.
Police were still trying to establish a saw on Wednesday”.
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Of the victims’ families, Bird’s sons
said: “Our thoughts are with them”.
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KEEPING UP WITH BRITAIN’S FAVOURITE SOAP OPERAS
THE BIGGEST whodunnit in EastEnders his-
tory is drawing to a close and as DI Marsden
tightens the screws on the residents of Albert
Square, hoping the guilty one will pop, she
inadvertently causes the death of an innocent,
but first.
Ricky and Bianca’s wedding day comes
and goes off without a hitch, or at least it
would have but Carol Jackson shows up, still
seething with hate for Bianca and tries to ruin
it all. But after much shouting, the wedding
happens anyway.
On the same day, Bradley and Stacy run
off to the registry office for a surprise elope-
ment. They are planning to leave the Square
to start a new life elsewhere. But Stacy’s
overbearingly disturbed “friend”, Becca,
doesn’t like being shut out so she calls the old
Bill and tells them it was Bradley what done it.
When cops show up in the Square, Bradley
and Stacy try to run, but are spotted and
Bradley gives chase; running up a ladder, to
the roof of the Vic where he falls and is killed
as Stacy, Max and Jack scream in horror and
the rest of the Square looks on. Everyone
thinks Bradley was running because he was
guilty, but Stacy tells Max, “It wasn’t Bradley.
It was me. I killed Archie.” (She whispered
those words, and even though no one else
in the Square heard her, half the UK did as
this episode was broadcast LIVE, to celebrate
EastEnders 25th Anniversary).
After Bradley’s death, Max turns to
drinking; Carol and Billy move in with Max,
claiming it’s too help him but we later find
out she’s been fired from her job then tossed
from her Council Flat; Stacy disappears for
parts unknown; Roxy and Ronnie get into a
fight about something and stop speaking;
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month, suggesting the economic recovery
from a deep recession is continuing for a
third quarter.
The figures indicate consumer spending
is holding up better than expected, though
the outlook is clouded by looming cuts in
public expenditure and possible tax hikes.
The Office for National Statistics said
retail sales rose by 0.4 percent from April
RBS, 500 More Job Cuts Over Three Years
PART-NATIONALIZED Royal Bank of
Scotland says it is cutting 500 jobs in its
wealth management division.
RBS has been cutting staff since it was
bailed out by the government during the
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again; Dotty’s real Mum shows up at Dot’s
looking for her. Turns out she wasn’t dead
after all. That was just another one of Nicks
lies. And turns out her real name isn’t even
Dotty. At first Dot tells the woman she hasn’t
seen Dotty, but then feels guilty and arranges
a mother and child reunion, and Dotty leaves
with her mum.... And a mysterious little girl
shows up at the Walford East tube station
and is found by Ronnie. The girl says she’s
looking for her father, shows Ronnie a picture
and asks if she knows him. She says yes, that
she’ll take her to him. But when she walks into
the Vic and sees Phil yelling at someone, she
decides some children are better off without
their dads and instead calls social services
and has them pick the girl up. It’s only then
that we see the picture; it’s an old photo
of Phil, Lisa and baby Louise! The little girl
is long lost Louise who ran away from her
neglectful mum, to come looking for her Dad
and Ronnie sent her away. We have a feeling
that won’t turn out well.
More horror: Lucy Beale is pregnant (that
means Ian’s about to become a grandfather –
YES, you ARE THAT OLD!) She doesn’t want
a baby but she and Jane hatch a plan where
Jane and Ian will adopt the baby and raise it
as their own. What could go wrong with that
scenario? Lucy Beale: Meet Kat Slater.
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to May, but half of that gain reflected rising
prices for gas.
Vicky Redwood, economist at Capital
Economics, said sales in the second quarter
were on course for a strong rise.
A year ago, Britain was just beginning a
cash incentive program for new car buyers
who traded in a car more than 10 years old.
That program has now expired.
About 70 percent of British vehicle
production is for export, so the industry’s
worries stretch beyond the UK economy.
structure the business since the European
Commission ordered it to sell 318 branches
and the insurance business to soothe com-
petition concerns after the state rescue.
The banks says the latest cuts will be
made over three years and that it will try
to minimize compulsory lay-offs.
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yet. She’s eating now, which is a good sign
London 2012
that Graeme’s doing something right and he’s
even managed to put a little smile on her face.
Olympics
Meanwhile Jason’s not happy that Graeme’s
spending so much time with Tina and won’t Under Threat
let him into the flat. But although Graeme’s
EVERYONE gathers at the Barlow’s house
enjoying looking after Tina, he’s secretly
lusting after Rosie Webster.
Of Budget Cuts
for the reading of Blanche’s will. Daughter Teresa Morton left the cobbles this month By Stephen Wood
Deirdre gets the jewels, son-in-law Ken after Liz McDonald had a word with her in
gets Eccles the dog and the Maeve Binchy the Rovers Return and told her what Teresa
THE 2012 London Olympics may not
novels, Tracy gets the cash and Norris gets had secretly known, that Lloyd was eyeing
escape more budget cuts as Britain’s
an instruction to cancel Blanche’s puzzle up Cheryl the stripper. To save face, Teresa
new government seeks to slash public
magazine from the corner shop. tells Lloyd she’s leaving for a new job in a
spending.
In Weatherfield jail, Tracy Barlow’s moved new town and then when she turns the corner Britain’s Sports Minister Hugh Robert-
into the same cell as Gail McIntyre as the with her bag in her hand, she calls one of her son said last month he could not guarantee
cops get her to make Gail confess to killing kids, with tears in her eyes, and tells them the Olympic budget would be spared when
Joe in the Lakes. Tracy’s doing wonderful she was coming to stay. the government’s public spending review
stuff with her face, pulling it into all sorts of Over at Underworld, the knicker factory, begins in the fall.
shapes and emotions to wring as much out there’s a leak in the ceiling. Carla’s under “I cannot say categorically that there
of Gail as she can but so far, no luck. Gail’s pressure to finish an order and needs a new will be no adjustments,” Robertson told
sticking to the story that she’s innocent, stitcher. Izzy gets the job and Kirk starts The Associated Press. “No one can say that
which of course, she is, although she should work in packing, over the moon to have a job the state of the nation’s finances are not
still be locked up for being so thick. Mean- handling ladies undies all day. He’s still trying dire, and sport and the Olympics Games
while back on the cobbles, Gail’s sons David to work out what most of them are. But the are not immune from that.
and Nick launch a campaign to get their mum order’s not completed in time and the buyer “But when we look at the Olympic
out of jail. Enterprising lads these two clearly cancels his cheque. The leak in the roof gets budget we will make an argument that
are, if not a bit dim, they start their campaign bigger and just when Carla Connor thinks reflects its importance to the nation and
by bribing a witness to lie. that things can’t get any worse, she’s taken make sure that we deliver a successful
Roy and Hayley have much on their mind hostage in the factory by her ex-husband games that Britain can be proud of, on time
after Roy starts doing a life and death audit Tony Gordon, the murderer with the mad eye. and under budget.”
and decides they need to be legally wed in He’s escaped from jail and is determined to RESPONSIBLE
case one of them dies. You might remember do his dastardly deeds on the Street. The Olympic Delivery Authority, the
they were ‘wed’ back in 1999 but the law has And over in the bookies shop, Peter Barlow body responsible for building the venues
changed on transsexuals marrying and finally gives Deirdre a part-time job. Well, she’s got for the games, was told last month its fund-
Corrie are addressing this now, and about nothing else to do, has Deirdre, not since she ing would be cut by $39.5m. The overall
time too. Hayley takes this to mean Roy’s got made redundant from the council. And on public sector budget for the Olympics is
proposing and she gets excited about a big such moments, the world of soap turns. $13.6bn.
wedding, a cake and a new frock. Roy just Finally this month, we all wish the Mayor The ODA reduction was just a slice
wants the legal aspects taken care of and of Weatherfield well. He’s got angina, you of the $8.7bn in total spending cuts an-
when Hayley fusses over a wedding, he takes know. nounced by the coalition government to
back his proposal of marriage. What a cad. Glenda Young trim Britain’s record budget deficit.
Graeme continues his quest to get Tina up http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com More cuts are expected when the gov-
and well, but she’s still not been outdoors just ernment’s spending review takes place in
the fall, when each department will have
Britain Gives US Strongest Pledge To Stay In War to justify its funding in what has been
dubbed Prime Minister David Cameron’s
BRITAIN’S new government publicly assured the US last month that it remains “star chamber.”
committed to its central role in the war in Afghanistan.
Defense Minister Liam Fox pledged that the new coalition government in Britain Robertson announced that British
won’t change course in Afghanistan, in its strongest statement to date on the subject. sport’s share of money raised by the
Britain is the most important US ally in the war and contributes more than 9,000 national lottery would increase from 16
soldiers, the second-highest number of forces after the United States. percent to 20 percent by 2012, an increase
Fox did say that the first thing he considered when he took the job last month was of about $73m a year. The move is part
whether the war was worthwhile. The new leadership is considered less invested of the minister’s efforts to safeguard a
in the war than the former Labour government. positive future for British sport after the
2012 Olympics.
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much like the lobsters, it was on the rocks.
Within two years, it would end in the divorce
court. Sadly, Budgie the Helicopter was not
a best seller either.
Our literary heroine this month is Sarah
Ferguson, a one-time member of the Royal
Family entitled to the status of Her Royal
Highness. It was a style she forfeited in
1996 when she was summarily booted out
by her mother-in-law and forced to resort to
the humiliation of being called the Duchess
of York. She was married to Prince Andrew
and has two daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie
who are fifth and sixth in line to the British
throne.
Both daughters are beneficiaries of the
Civil List (the money paid by the British people
to keep the Royal Family in the manner it
deserves) and their father, Prince Andrew,
has insisted that each of them should receive
Special Branch protection 24-hours-a-day.
This costs the tax payer the best part of half
a million smackers a year apiece.
Sarah Ferguson, by contrast, has a life
style which is supported by sky hooks. She
claims that her divorce settlement ran out at
a measly £15,000 per annum, presumably
because the debts of £4m she allegedly
knocked up during her marriage were settled
by the Royal Purse.
She has had to make up her own script in
the past 14 years since divorcing Andrew in
1996 and turned a tidy penny for a number
of years as US spokesperson for Weight
Watchers International. This helped her to
clear more of her debts. These by the way
seem to be the natural consequence of be-
ing Duchess of York and the understandable
reaction to having to make do on fifteen
grand a year.
She has spent a lot of her time in charity
work, raising money by milking her contacts
one assumes, and her experience of life has
led to a couple of TV programmes made
here in the UK.
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In her crusade to heal broken Britain, for
example, she spent some time last year in
Northern Moor, in the Wythenshawe area
of Manchester. Her observations on the
state of affairs there – drugs, gang violence,
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welcomed by the local community who felt
that any trouble was caused by a tiny minority
and that Sarah Ferguson could take a running
jump as far as they were concerned.
She was left distraught by the reaction of
the locals but in a supreme gesture of self-
sacrifice said, “I might let Britain settle down
a bit. I find it quite tiring that it’s so difficult to
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However, her
willingness to help
worthy causes (chief
amongst which pre-
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she was the subject
of a News of the
World (NoW) sting.
This Sunday organ
pays for the services
of a man known as the Fake Sheikh, Mazher
Mahmood, an undercover reporter who cus-
tomarily poses as an Indian businessman.
PROMISED
On the video he made, which is publicly
available, Sarah Ferguson is seen in a hotel
room saying, “£500,000 when you can, to
me opens doors.” She promised an intro-
duction to the Prince, claimed he’d help fix
lucrative deals and demanded a cut of all
the profits.
“Look after me,” she said, “and he’ll look
after you…you’ll get it back tenfold. I can
open any door you want.”
She is also seen taking away a brief-
case containing forty thousand dollars in
cash. (She will without a shadow of doubt
have declared this in an income tax return
somewhere.)
The half million pounds to her were to
ensure that the Indian businessman had ac-
cess to Prince Andrew. Which is I suppose
a fair price – about what I earned in a lifetime
spent in teaching.
When the details of her financial dealings
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to the US to receive an award for her charity
work, she pronounced herself “devastated”
and “regretful”, adding quickly that Prince
Andrew had known nothing about the deal.
DEVASTATED
It is the word “devastated” that interests
me here. It suggests that she had only just
found out what she was doing thanks to the
fortunate chance of a video recording taken
by the Fake Sheikh. It is to be hoped that
she doesn’t find out that she has done this
before since it may make her feel completely
devastated to the point where she did us
all a favour and withdrew completely from
public life.
That, however, is the sort of fairy tale
ending which even Budgie the Helicopter
couldn’t engineer.
What happened in real life was that Sarah
Ferguson came clean in a televised inter-
view with the peerless Oprah Winfrey – an
occasional beneficiary herself, one thinks,
of Sarah Ferguson’s impeccable service
to Weight Watchers. Curiously, she talked
about herself in the third person, a manner
of narration which distances yourself from
personal blame.
Instead of saying how devastated she was
and that “I was p****d at the time”, she
commented on the behaviour of the princess:
that she was the worse for wear and was to
be pitied for what she had done. Thus neatly
absolving herself from any blame.
It may go down well with the American
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He said: “That’s extraordinary to
have got that in the Tate – even I’m a bit
shocked.”
Scarfe said some ‘prudes’ might take
offence, but added: “Not a lot of them
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A Spitting Image puppet of Baroness
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well as drawings of Viz characters Sid
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UJ Book Reviewer TANYA is a proud
mother of three, and a wife that can brew
a mean morning tea. Her kids and husband
tion issues of globalization and morality . With
Cleeve’s portrayal, we see these issues that
provide her daily dose of both joy and in- might be ignored if we’re not faced with them
sanity so she claims to be a well balanced at our front doors.
individual. When she grabs a moment, Just because Britain doesn’t have a big
somewhere between 8 o’clock and 8:05, door with a stained glass window and a
Tanya crams in some writ- Big Ben jingle buzzer does
ing. She currently has three not mean we shouldn’t be
blogs. www.readthemandeat. inquisitive about the people
com – About books and food; who arrive at our borders and
their multiple needs, fears and
www.splatthefat.weebly.com
– About dieting, and her lat- desires. Cleeve opens this
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est: www.thirtynineplusone.
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ten prose he ushers the reader
and everything.
into a profoundly significant
story. He impels us to feel the
Little Bee by: Chris Cleeve:
Little Bee is a story that shines a brave bright fear of rebel warfare, he reveals the despair
felt from being incarcerated in an immigra-
spotlight on many of our most controversial
political issues today. The title character’s tion detention center after fleeing the horrors
of one’s homeland, and he cultivates in us
sometimes deeply dark sometimes wisely
uplifting voice examines the moral dilemma an appreciation for the courage necessary
to rebuild a life. The reader gets a sense of
which is immigration. Her story, fleeing
Nigeria following a rebel ambush that her the entire experience as this harrowing but
beautiful story unfolds.
family fell victim to, could belong to any one
of the millions of asylum seekers world wide, Any book that not only tells a good
story but also requires the reader to step
stories that we cannot truly comprehend
when viewed only from a reclined position, into someone else’s shoes, to learn and ap-
preciate something new is definitely on my
in front of our media boxes.
With this story, Cleeve fills in all the bits hot list. Little Bee does all of this and more.
It stays with you long after you have turned
missing from those forty-five second news
blurbs we seem to the last page – a mark of a good read. I love
Chris Cleeve. I want to marry Chris Cleeve.
have grown accus-
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have read Little Bee.
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I sure am now. or a Yank who would like to take the summer,
or this next year off, and do something different.
I was forced to take a week off to get my
Teaching credentials and sailing experience will
life back and go sailing on the tall ship the
go a long way. If you feel you are exceptional,
Bill of Rights. They were short crew members
apply. If you’re looking for a life changing job
which put a huge smile on my face, sailing
contact Captain Stephen Taylor at stephen@
eight out of ten days. Tough job but someone
had to do it. americantallship.org The great thing about
learning tall ship sailing, crews transfer boat
Our entire program is based on youth
to boat, and can sail around the world. You
training and one particular trip involved
have no idea how gratifying it is to see these
students from CSUCI on a marine environ-
youngsters challenging themselves, including
mental exploration. As we set sail in the
climbing the rat boards to the top of the mast!
pristine waters of the Pacific Ocean that is
WORLD CUP fever was certainly first and That takes guts!
teaming with life we saw six whales, dozens
foremost on the minds of both customers Dame Helen Mirren is all over the late
of dolphins and sea lions as we sailed past
and landlord (Raff) alike at the Press Room night talk shows. She was on David Letter-
six oil rigs in the Santa Barbara Channel on
in Santa Barbara. When Karen and I visitedour way to Santa Cruz Island, anchoring in man and George
June 12 for the USA v England game. Prob- the shelter of Prisoner Harbor. It was a bit Lopez promot-
ably an equal amount of supporters from choppy sailing but fun. ing her new film
both countries were there, which made for The research project organized by Dr Love Ranch,
an equal shouting match and on that one Christopher Cogan, Environmental Science directed by her
and Resource Management of California State
England lost since it was a tie. Besides, it’s husband Taylor
University Channel Island and accompanied
so much easier to chant: USA USA USA rather Hackford. When
by his German wife, Dr Uta Passow of CSU
than chanting: England England England. And you meet her in
Santa Barbara. They even brought a micro-
what is it about those Vuvuzela’s! Sounds like person she has a
bee’s gone wild!! scope on board and showed the students and charm about her
Everyone made the excuse to make it ancrew marine life you can’t see with the naked that is absolutely
eye. Fascinating!! Dame Helen Mirren delightful! She is
event! Lines formed outside the Pub at 7am
and in this case not enough room. It truly lived gracious and a pleasure to be around.
CSUCI’s research project incorporated
up to its name as there was plenty of Press Enjoyed a pint with friend David Jackson
ship-based oceanographic and geographic
in the Press Room. of Britannia Protective Services during a
methods to measure and map marine eco-
The next match found John Hiscock (Daily World Cup match. He was a police officer in
systems in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Telegraph) and myself in the Lookout at the the UK before relocating to California in 1995
Crew members Nate and Abbey, both from
Channel Islands of Oxnard 7am watching the with 30 years experience in the IT industry;
University of California Berkley took up new
US and UK get one goal each on two differ- a Mancunian and an avid Man City fan;
posts which has left us with openings on board.
ent screens. If wasn’t crossed eyed before licensed UK CAA and FAA pilot in both fixed
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Celebrating birthdays in June:
Prince William 28; Jeff Beck 66;
Ray Davies 66; Stevie Nicks 62;
Cilla Black 67; TV chef Jamie
Oliver 35; KT Tunstall 35; Hugh
Laurie 51; Jackie Stewart 71; Tom
Jones 70; Liam Neeson 58; Russell
Brand 35.
Question: Just suppose there had
been an oil spill near the Isle of Wight.
Would Tony Hayward still have
The crowd at The Press Room watching the England v USA match. had his yacht race? When I sailed
across the Atlantic, Las
Palmas Harbor in the
Canary Isles there was
an oil slick, with oil re-
maining on the yacht
for months until we were
able to haul the boat in
Trinidad. Will mankind
leave anything for our
grandchildren? Pos-
sible extinction now of
Blue Fish Tuna, turtles,
whales, and breeding
dolphins? Why can’t we
repeal the Jones Act and
bring in supertankers to
vacuum the Gulf?
PS: Saturday, July 31
we’re celebrating a joint
birthday at The Lookout
in the Channel Islands of
Oxnard, for Julia Gayle
and Karen. Free hors
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outside the area, the first
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an extra special treat,
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sail on the tall ship the
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Karen’s California Events Calendar
July Calendar
For upcoming British events in the Los Ange-
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Royal Clayton’s English Pub in downtown
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7: is English Afternoon Tea at Plaza Pantry
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You Say Tomato in San Francisco is a British
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full range of groceries and frozen food imported
from the UK serving the Bay area for six year
(415) 921-2828.
10: St Andrew Society of LA Summer Party
4-8pm CSU Northridge (818) 360-7332.
10: Mayflower Club of N Hollywood holds
their Pub Night; and Clubnite July 31 (818)
769-9805.
16: Whale and Ale in San Pedro offer the
dynamic duo of Simon Spalding and James
Hendricks performing a mix of sea shanties
& acoustic folk music July 16 & 24 The UK
Beat, the torchbearers for 1960s British rock
(310) 832-0363.
17: Ventura County Fusion, the regions first
and only world-class championship-caliber
soccer franchise, will play an exhibition match
against the Portsmouth Football Club 3pm at
Oxnard College Stadium www.vcfusion.com
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17-18: Central Coast Renaissance Festival,
El Chorro Park, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo
www.ccrenfaire.com (800) 688-1477.
Ye Olde Kings Head in Santa Monica is show-
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final July 11. July 4th is Karaoke night. Each
Wednesday is Trivia (310) 451-1402.
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Gare St Lazare Players production of The End by
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a movie that is sweeping the US and making head-
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ever made. A first time producer approached
Cameron in 2008 asking to use his place for
some film shots for his movie named Birdemic.
Cameron said, “Sure, as long as it’s not x-rated.”
The producer, writer James Nguyen assured him it
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that he wanted to use the Half Moon Bay Coast for
the setting. Nguyen worked on a shoestring, so
would stop filming until he raised more cash. At
last the film was finished and he brought a copy
to Cameron’s for viewing. The uneasy audience
had a hard time watching straight faced sitting
next to the earnest young film maker. The movie
was hilariously bad in every way.
Time passed and Ngyun showed up claiming
raves revues for his $10,000 movie. He admitted
the audience reaction was not what he intended.
The film has caught on as a cult movie and is
well attended across the country. Cameron plays
it continuously at the Inn on one of his big screens.
A midnight showing is planned for the community
to come watch it together. “Folks laugh ‘til they cry
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British Great Escape Veteran H
Harrison,
i 97
By Robert Barr
JACK HARRISON, who survived the
Great Escape plot by Allied prisoners in a
German prison in World War II, has died
at age 97, his family said.
Harrison died last month at Erskine
veterans’ home in Bishopton, Scotland.
As one of the camp’s gardeners, Har-
rison helped dispose of the dirt excavated
from three escape tunnels. He was 98th on
the list of some 200 inmates designated to
make the escape on March 24, 1944, but
only 76 got away before guards detected
the breakout and raised the alarm.
The breakout was celebrated in the
1963 film The Great Escape starring Steve
McQueen and James Garner.
Only three men managed to reach
safety. Adolf Hitler ordered the execution
of 50 recaptured escapers, and 23 others
were returned to custody.
British news reports said Harrison was
believed to be the last survivor of the plot,
but this could not be confirmed. In addi-
tion to the 200 men who won places in the
escape queue through a drawing, others
were also involved in preparations.
Ex-Stereophonics
Drummer Stuart Cable, 40
STUART CABLE,
the former drummer
with the British rock
band Stereophonics,
has died at the age
of 40.
South Wales Police
say Cable was found at his home in
the town of Aberdare, 165 miles west
of London.
The force says the cause of death has
not been determined, but there are no
suspicious circumstances.
Cable co-founded Stereophonics with
singer Kelly Jones in the early 1990s.
The band had a string of British top 10
hits, including Have a Nice Day.
Cable left the group in 2003 amid
reports of conflicts with band mates.
He recently formed a new band,
Killing for Company, and worked as
a broadcaster, with a show on BBC
Radio Wales.
“I guess it was a blessing in
disguise I never made it through,
as most were shot,” Harrison said
in an interview last year with the
Scottish Sun newspaper. “But
the main purpose wasn’t just to
escape. It was to outfox the Ger-
mans. It was a huge moral victory.
It humiliated Hitler and gave the
Nazis a bloody nose.”
When the escape was detected,
Harrison said he had to quickly
burn his disguise as a Siemens
engineer and get back into his
prison uniform.
“I was to be a Hungarian electrician so I
became Aleksander Regenyi, who was em-
ployed by a German firm,” he recalled.
Harrison was a Royal Air Force pilot
who was shot down and captured in Novem-
ber 1942 on his first mission, a raid on the
Dutch port of Den Helder. He was taken to
Stalag Luft III prison near Sagan in eastern
Germany – now Zagan, Poland.
After the war, Harrison resumed his
teaching career. He retired in 1975 as di-
rector of education for the isle of Bute.
Filmmaker Ronald Neame, 99
ONE OF the longest survivors
of the early days of cinema in
Britain, Ronald Neame, died
last month, he was 99.
Neame, who began his
film career with Hitchcock,
directed the hugely successful
1972 action adventure The
Poseidon Adventure enjoyed
a career that spanned eight de-
cades. He worked with many
of the 20th Century’s most
distinguished film-makers and performers,
including Alfred Hitchcock, Noel Coward,
Alec Guinness, John Mills, Maggie Smith
and David Lean.
Ronald Neame was born in London in
1911. The son of a celebrated photogra-
pher, Elwin Neame, and the actress Ivy
Close, he was destined for a career in
entertainment.
He began as a clapper boy on Hitch-
cock’s Blackmail, the first talking picture
made in England, in 1929.
Ronald Neame went on to become a
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OBITUARIES
Jack Harrison, right, is seen with
other prisoners-of-war in this
undated file photo.
“To others he was considered a war
hero, but to us he was much more than that.
He was a family man first and foremost as
well as a church elder, Rotarian, scholar,
traveler and athlete,” his son Chris and
daughter Jane said in a statement.
They said Harrison took up marathon
running in his seventies to raise money
for charity.
producer and eventually a
director, and is best known
for The Poseidon Adventure.
It was slated by the critics but
the picture was a major box
office success and developed
a cult following.
Other noted success with
films such as: Tunes of Glo-
ry, The Horse’s Mouth, The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
and Scrooge, the musical with
Albert Finney.
Maggie Smith won an Oscar for her
performance in The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie.
As a producer, he was proud of Great
Expectations, Brief Encounter and Oliver
Twist, all directed by his longtime col-
laborator and friend, David Lean.
Neame, who was nominated three times
for an Oscar, was a founding member of the
British Film Academy and he was made a
CBE in 1996. In the same year he was given
a Bafta Lifetime Fellowship Award.
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Ventriloquist Ray Alan, 79
VENTRILOQUIST Ray Alan died
suddenly last month at the age of
79.
Better known as the ‘handler’ of
Lord Charles (the drunken puppet),
Alan has been a fixture on British TV
and stages for decades.
Alan, from Reigate, Surrey, was
a TV regular from the 1950s to the
1980s, appearing on shows including
variety serial The Good Old Days.
In 1954 he worked with Laurel
and Hardy after fellow ventriloquist
Harry Worth was forced to pull out
of a show. His puppet became famous
for his catchphrase “you silly arse” and having an eye for glamorous women.
In later years he was an entertainer on QE2 cruises, taking a break from show-
business in 2008 due to ill health.
Old age had also made it increasingly difficult for him to control his puppet.
Alan – always accompanied by Lord Charles – was often a guest on TV shows
including Celebrity Squares, Give Us A Clue and 3-2-1.
He clocked up the most appearances on The Good Old Days, where he and Lord
Charles made their TV debut.
Food Critic Egon Ronay, 94
By Jill Lawless places.”
FOOD CRITIC Egon Ronay, whose epon- He began writing about food for The
ymous restaurant guides helped Britain Daily Telegraph newspaper, and in 1957
embrace fine dining after years of postwar produced the first Egon Ronay Guide to
austerity, died last month. He was 94. British restaurants, modeled on France’s
Family friend Nick Ross said Ronay Michelin guides. The annual guides,
died at his home near the village of Yat- researched with the help of a team of
tendon, 50 miles west of London, after a anonymous reviewers, became immensely
short illness. popular, and restaurants dis-
Born in Budapest in played the blue Egon Ronay
1915, Ronay was the son label as a seal of approval.
of a prosperous restaurant- As well as his restaurant
owner whose business was guides, Ronay rated eating
ruined by World War II spots at airports and highway
and the subsequent So- service stations, and acted as
viet occupation. Ronay left a food consultant to a chain
communist Hungary for of pubs. He said his goal was
Britain in 1946. to raise the quality of dining for everyone,
He worked as a manager at London not just the elite.
restaurants before opening his own estab- Ronay sold the guides to the Automobile
lishment, The Marquee, which sought to Association in 1985, but went to court and
bring French culinary flair to a country just regained the right to the Egon Ronay name
emerging from years of food rationing. years later, after the company that subse-
“You could eat well in London,” Ronay quently bought them went bankrupt.
told The Observer newspaper in 2003 Ronay is survived by his wife Barbara,
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~ This paper reaches the British community in all parts of Florida and, of course, the US ~
WITHOUT question the most significant
British event is the opening of Universal’s
Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando.
The Lord Mayor of London, Boris Johnson,
wrote an essay of outrage in the UK Tele-
graph questioning its location. Since every
element of the Harry Potter stories is 100
percent English, it should have been built
there not Florida he insisted. Why do we Brit-
ish so often let others purloin our best ideas,
he queried? Quite, but at least Florida’s
huge resident British community can enjoy
it. I happen to be a Harry Potter fan and the
very day each film is released attend the first
showing. They appeal because they feature
England’s greatest actors like Dame Maggie
Smith and Robbie Coltrane and the school
setting evokes the positive esprit de corps
of an English school with pupils in uniform,
taking me back emotionally to teaching days
in London. Mind you, my students were
stroppy East End teenagers not mannered
Hogwarts youngsters.
There’s a surprising business connection
to the movie too. In May 2000 I received a
call from Joan Castonguay at the top cast-
ing agency in Hollywood, CA. You’ll have
seen her credited on blockbuster movies.
They had the USA casting contract for the
forthcoming Harry Potter films to find the
star. “Harry” had to be physically true to the
book’s description, no older than 13 and be
English, not an American boy playing one,
she briefed me. They had been recommend-
ed to contact my office as a source of all
things British here and did I know anybody?
I explained that the children of British expats
in the USA acquire an American accent and
finding a British boy here meeting require-
ments was a needle in haystack challenge.
I could send out a casting call eBritNews to
the British Bureau’s database but that only
reaches Florida Brits. They should take a
print ad out in Union Jack Newspaper I
recommended, which they were not aware
of. That ran in the June 2000 issue but did
not yield Harry. As I guessed from the start,
the film’s Harry Potter would be found over
in the world of Harrys ... England.
Anyway, Orlando’s Wizarding World
should be put on your must-experience list.
The Hidden Journey ride has been dubbed
the most inventive and scariest ever by
visitors. Daniel Radcliffe’s mother, over for
the opening, told reporters the only way she
coped was seeing her son in front guiding
her on his quidditch stick! I’d need this whole
newspaper to do this place justice so instead
go to website www.Universalorlando.com to
find the photospread and booking info.
Q WORLD CUP FINAL WORD: Thanks
to my pal Ajit for this: Osama bin Laden
has just released a new tape to prove he is
still alive. He said England’s performance
against Algeria was complete s**t. British
intelligence dismissed the claim, stating the
message could have been recorded anytime
in the last 44 years.
Q BLACK TOT DAY. On July 31 if you’re
near a bottle of rum, Pusser’s preferably,
raise your glasses, me British hearties.
Charles Tobias, owner of the famous rum
company based in Tortola, British Virgin
Islands wants you to know about Black
Tot Day. (See ad in this issue). The ration
of Pusser’s, started in 1650, was stopped
on July 31, 1970, dubbed “Black Tot Day”
by the people who object. Centuries ago,
shipboard life was incredibly difficult, so
the daily issue of Pusser’s Rum was the
highlight of a crew’s day. Prior to 1740,
the men’s daily tot was a whole pint, drunk
neat. Before battle they got a double and
another if victorious. (Three pints of rum
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doubtless led to the famous English sea
shanty, What Shall We Do with the Drunken
Sailor, methinks).
In 1970, the Admiralty Board decreed
there was no place for the daily issue of
rum in a modern navy and after 320 years
one of the seas longest and unbroken tradi-
tions was cast aside. “Times had changed”,
opined their Lordships. “In a highly sophis-
ticated navy no risk for margin or error
which might be attributable to rum can be
allowed.” (Hmmm … we managed to field
the finest navy in the world for centuries and
colonised/conquered/discovered half the
planet with our tipsy tars, so don’t see how
that argument holds rum, I mean water.)
Anyway this year marks the 40th anniversary
of the loss of this great Royal Navy tradition.
In 1979, Tobias resurrected the Pusser’s
tradition, obtained the rights and blending
information from the Admiralty and began
bottling and selling this storied spirit to the
public for the first time. The Royal Navy
Sailors’ Fund receives a donation from
sales of British Navy Pusser’s Rum and has
become the fund’s largest source of income.
Pusser’s are arranging promotional events
at Florida’s British pubs this summer, so
call yours to find out more. Coincidentally, I
own a beautiful gold and blue china souvenir
ship’s decanter full of Pusser’s Rum, bought
in 2005 from their shop on the stunning
island of Tortola. I poured it over my Miami
ice-cream for months … yummy.
Q HELP BRING THE NEXT WORLD
CUP TO THE USA. This would mean some
international matches, potentially the Eng-
land team could be playing in Miami and
Tampa. The decision for Word Cup 2018
is made by FIFA at the end of this year, so
VOTE NOW at the official website www.
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July 2010
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signature in Outlook: Tools-Options-Mail shot here months ago, which some of us
format-Signatures). were featured in, airs August 26 in the UK,
producers tell me. Tell your peeps in the
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A HOLIDAY snap played a major part
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month.
The photo highlighted a cancerous
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his grandmother.
When Beverly Warner saw the snap, in
which a white shadow can be seen in Ewan’s
eye, she was immediately concerned about
her grandson. She remembered reading
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shadow in a photograph and warned Ewan’s
parents to get him checked out.
When mum Samantha, 32, took Ewan to
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before being referred to London where he
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North America. The Queen’s US visit will follow a requirements will come into force this fall
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old monarch would pay her respects at the Canadian Navy’s centenary and to mark EU countries.
site on July 6, the same day she is due to Canada Day. Last year, about 38,000 spousal visas
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NORTHEAST OHIO
By Joe Nicholls. Joe and Kevin McGinty can Flashy Book to pick it over carefully to make sure all the
shell bits are out. Frozen can also be used,
be heard on “Sounds of Britain and Ireland”
Sundays 4-5pm on Cleveland’s WCPN 90.3FM Dealer In Limo For and I have used tinned in the past, but they
were rather strong tasting
and www.wcpn.org).
July Shakespeare Trial I’m not sure where my crab meat came
from last week, but I certainly will be going
2,16: British-American Club, Fish & chips din- A FLASHY British book dealer accused
back there and get it again.
NEW YORK ners, 8564 Ravenna Rd, (off Rte 82) Twinsburg, of stealing a rare first edition of Shake-
July My version of crab cakes is quite light,
6:30-8:30pm (330) 963-6370. speare’s plays appeared for trial last month
and I also experimented with Remoulade
St George’s Society of New York 2, 9, 16, 23, 30: West Side Irish American in a silver limousine, sporting a Panama hat
14: Annual Summer Garden Party. (rain date: Club, Irish-style dinners, 8559 Jennings Rd, and flashing victory signs at reporters. sauce. I would recommend that after mix-
July 15). 120 East End Avenue, NYC, 6pm. $40, Olmsted Township, 6-9pm (216) 251-4075. Raymond Scott was accused of stealing WE IN Florida are already having hot steamy ing the crab mix, you chill for at least half
including open bar, hors d’oeuvres and music. weather. It will be a long summer, and an hour or they can be hard to handle and
13, 27: SHANO, Scottish Heritage Meetings, the 1623 folio from England’s Durham
stay in shape. I hope you enjoy my version
Info: anna.titley@stgeorgessociety.org or (212) Community Presbyterian Church, 5132 Mayfield University in 1998. The 53-year-old was we also need to be aware of the summer
662 6110. storms; it is rumbling out there now.... Of of crab cakes and special sauce.
Rd, Lyndhurst. 7:30pm (330) 463-5559. arrested after a man took the volume to the
14: Calon Lan Welsh Club, Lunch Meeting, Folger Shakespeare Library in Washing- course we are also very wary of the terrible Crab Cake and Remoulade
New York Caledonian Club oil spill out there in the Gulf.
Denny’s Restaurant, Rte 224, Boardman, 1pm ton, claiming he found it in Cuba and ask- sauce a la Sandra
3: Round Hill Highland Games. July 3. Cran- (330) 758-4202. ing for verification that it was genuine. The area we recently moved to is near a Prepare Remoulade sauce, cover and chill
bury Park in Norwalk, CT. Round Hill offers a full 18: British-American C of C & English Speak- Experts at the library suspected the book fresh fish place, and I discovered it when 1 Large celery stick, cleaned and chopped
roster of participatory events for grown-ups and ing Union, English Tea Party, Shoreby Club, was stolen and called in police. a friend I was lunching with was telling me 2 spring onions, chopped
kids. The Club will have our own private coach Bratnahl, 4pm, 216) 621-0222. Scholars consider the folio one of the that she planned to collect an order for 3 Tbsp butter
bus, and we’ll take you there (and back) easily 22: Daughters of the BE, Westminster most important printed works in the Eng- fresh crab meat, so I went with her, and 2 Tbsp mayonnaise
and comfortably. For details, visit our website at Chapter, meeting, Lyndhurst 7:30pm (440) lish language. then bought some myself to try. 1 tsp dry Colman’s mustard
www.nycaledonian.org or call (212) 662-1083. 461-2533 Scott was also charged with theft and I have always liked crabmeat, but not al- 1 Tbsp chopped capers
23.24 & 25: Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival, handling stolen goods in cases unrelated to ways pleased with the way it gets prepared. In 1 Tsp Worcestershire sauce
American Friends of the Georgian Group
Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds, Berea, Fri 4-12, the folio. He denied all the charges. the States the crab cake is very popular, usu- 2 Tbs chopped parsley,
3: Spring Visit to Gracie Mansion Tour and Sat 1-12, Sun 1-11, (216) 251-1711. He arrived at Newcastle Crown Court ally attributed to Maryland. However there are 1/2 tsp Tabasco
Tea. 88th Street and East End Avenue, 12:45. 24: Cleveland Manx Society, Picnic at Red in a silver Chrysler 300. many versions of preparing it, and frequently Juice of 1½ lemons, Salt and Pepper
August 14: Central New York Scottish Games Barn, Broadview Heights,1pm (216) 481-2476. For an earlier court appearance, he wore with lots of peppery spices which Jack and I 1lb crab meat
& Celtic Festival at Long Branch Park, Liverpool 25: Scottish American Society, Picnic at a kilt and came in a horse-drawn carriage dislike. So I had fun working on a recipe with 3/4 cup fresh breadcrumbs
(near Syracuse). Events 9am-9pm. (315) 784- the Hunter’s, Call for directions, 3pm, (330) led by a Scots piper. a special sauce, and it was really super. 3 Tbsp butter
5348, www.CNYScottishGames.org. 882-0342. Crab is available in many forms, and each Sauté celery and onions in butter until
August 7: British Car Council, British Car area lays claim to theirs being the best. In tender, cool. Mix together, next eight ingre-
To add your NY club/organisation calendar Police Called To the States, Dungeness crab is found on
insertion contact: anna.titley@stgeorges- Day, Ursuline College, 2550 Lander Rd, (just dients. Fold in the prepared crab meat and
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A MEMBER of the public called Coasts and here in Florida, Stone crabs are mixture from fridge, and squeeze into pat-
Check out other latest British related events submitted by Union Jack readers very popular. In England, the two main areas
at UJNEWS.com and click on the CALENDAR tab. police after finding a bank door un- ties, gently sauté them in the butter for about
locked outside business hours. are East Anglia, and Devon/Cornwall. The 15-20 minutes, flattening them gently a bit
Do you have a not-for-profit event you’d like to share with everyone . . . Southwest coasts crabs tend to be larger with a spatula. (I recommend when cooking
Hampshire police were called to
then why not add it to the Calendar? . . . it’s FREE?
the HSBC branch in Tadley and re- than those caught in East Anglia. I remember any thing fish-like to test that the cooking
one visit we made to Devon, near Clovelly, temperature reaches 160 degrees).
BA Vows To Fly On If
mained on guard until the keyholder I had crab I saw being brought up by a
arrived, reported the BBC. Serve with the Remoulade sauce. Lu-
fisherman at the sea side, so I knew it was verly with boiled new potatoes and minted
Workers Walk Out Again
Officers said everything inside the very fresh. Then when we were staying near
branch appeared to be in order and peas. Yield: Four servings
Cromer in Norfolk, had their crab in a salad, Remoulade Sauce:
nothing had been taken. they tend to be smaller, but they are packed
BRITISH AIRWAYS PLC chief executive from London City, via Shannon in Ireland, A spokesman for HSBC said it was Mix together:
with meat; very good that was too. 1 cup mayonnaise 2 Tsp white vinegar
Willie Walsh said last month the airline is targeting business customers. not clear whether the bank had been When we were stationed in Egypt in the
committed to expanding its services to the As a dispute with cabin crews over left open all night. 1/4 cup Ketchup 1 tsp grated lemon peel
50’s, I recall my father bringing in lots of 1/4 cup parsley 1 tsp Tabasco
United States as he also vowed to carry on changes to pay and working conditions He said: “We are still investigating very small crabs, can’t remember what
flying through potential further strikes by rumbles on, Walsh said that BA plans to the chain of events. It’s hard to say 1 Tbsp Horseradish
water we were near, but I do remember (I welcome comments, queries and recipe
cabin crews. operate all its long-haul services if workers how long the door was open – but Mum plunging them into a large steaming
Walsh said BA was considering adding strike over the summer. suggestions, and can be reached at Yourcup-
unlikely it was open all night. pot on our paraffin stove, and us noshing patea1@yahoo.com. I apologize to any
flights to Boston, Washington and Chicago Talks between BA and the Unite union A spokesman for Hampshire Po- on them.... rather fiddling but good with requests that were sent within the last month,
from London City airport as he said that – mediated by the government-backed lice said: “There was nothing suspi- lashings of butter. we have had computer woes, so I ask you
transatlantic traffic remained “robust” de- conciliation service – broke down last cious about it apart from the fact that If you do use fresh crab meat, be sure resend them)
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I’M HAVING a hard time concentrating on
anything other than the World Cup this
month. I suppose most of you readers are
of the same mindset. I did however manage
to follow a portion of the Le Mans 24 hour
race, it was on the same day as the England
v USA game, so my day went as follows: Got
up at about 5am and alternated my viewing
between the Korea v Greece game and the
first hour or so of the Le Mans sports car 24
hour endurance race, then is was off to Santa
Monica to the Cock & Bull to get an early seat
for the England game. I could have watched
the game at home of course but for me
England games must be watched in England
so, as I’m 6,000 miles or so from good old
Blighty I do the next best thing and travel the
15 miles or so to Santa Monica.
To me English pubs are like the Embassy
and therefore can be regarded as English soil.
I caught the majority of the earlier Argentina v
Nigeria game and by about half way through
that game the pub was full. I had lunch during
the two hour interval between the two games
and settled to watch what was to be the
most eagerly anticipated England game for
quite some time and gave a thought to those
motor racing drivers pushing their respective
machines upwards of 200mph around the
Circuit de la Sarthe in the late afternoon in
north western France. I suffered through the
England-USA game, disappointed, more with
England’s performance, than by the result. I
then went home, took a nap, had dinner with
my wife and daughter and settled down to
watch a few more hours of Le Mans on TV
again. I finally went to bed and then woke
early to see the finish of the race.
It’s amazing how much one can get done
in one day, not by me, I mean the racing
teams at Le Mans. I suppose that it isn’t the
first time that Le Mans has coincided with the
World Cup but this could be a first, the Brit-
ish F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone takes place
on the same day as the World Cup Final (at
different times though, thankfully). So if you
are both a motor racing fan and a footy fan
you can catch them both.
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Football and motor racing are two very dif-
ferent kinds of sports and one never associ-
by ship and from there to Mexico City by way
of Montevideo, Buenos Aries, Santiago, La
The second place went to British drivers
Brian Culcheth and Johnson Syer driving
Woman Received
ates one with the other. However, forty years
ago they did sort of partner each other, and
Paz, Lima, Cali, Panama and San Jose. The
roads, off the beaten track in many places
a works Triumph 2.5PI. Fourth place also
went to Triumph, this time a three man crew
Lungs Of A
from the result came about the best selling
car in Britain for a short time afterwards.
in both Europe and South/Central America
were brutal, hence, of over 100 participating
headed by the great Paddy Hopkirk. It was
the Escorts though that came through the
30-Year Smoker
After the first ever intercontinental rally cars only 23 survived to the finish with the strongest which prompted Ford to make THE FAMILY of a 28-year-old British
– the London-Sydney in 1968 – there was 23rd place car arriving in Mexico City over this Works car available to the public and woman who unknowingly received a lung
widespread enthusiasm for an even more two days behind the winner which arrived at the result was the Escort Mexico and a little transplant from a smoker says she would
difficult test. With the Football World Cup the Azteca Stadium on May 27. later the Escort RS16. Both models were have been “horrified” and have lodged a
being held in Mexico in 1970, it was the The rules about what cars could be entered extremely popular, they were fast and had complaint.
perfect opportunity to hold a parallel, much were not restrictive but due to the demanding superb handling characteristics, perfect for Cystic fibrosis sufferer Lyndsey Scott in
tougher challenge – the World Cup Rally. It nature of the course most competitors were the small roads around Britain. As for the February 2009 received a double lung trans-
was to be sponsored by the Daily Mirror and conservative and used modified versions of England World Cup Team in Mexico, as you plant from a donor who had smoked for three
was to start at Wembley stadium (where standard models. That did not prevent there know they fell sadly to Germany. Jimmy decades. She died in July of pneumonia.
the World Cup was won in 1966) and end being a wide variety of cars, from Volkswagen Greaves did us proud though, he finished a Britain’s top transplant official Chris
at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City (where Beetles to Rolls-Royces. There were works creditable sixth in the Lon-Mex rally, driving, Rudge defended the decision and said
the World Cup would be presented to the (officially sanctioned and prepared) entries you guessed it, a works Ford Escort. patients should be told they are not getting
winners in 1970). from Ford, British Leyland and Moskvitch, Happy Motoring a “brand new” organ. He said on the BBC
that “lungs from a smoker can be working
perfectly normally.”
Palin ‘Would Love’ Scott’s family called for patients to be
told more information about organ donors
Maggie Thatcher before accepting a transplant.
Meeting Free Beer Offer Email
SARAH PALIN wrote in a Facebook
posting last month that she’s been From Council, Not Real
invited to London – she didn’t say by
whom – and the invitation included an AN ANNUAL free-beer day offered by a
offer to arrange for a meeting with one local council seemed too good to be true ...
of her “political heroines,” former Brit- and, as the old adage suggests, it was!
ish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Northamptonshire County Council
She said she “would love” to meet which sent out an email proposing an an-
with Thatcher and hoped to arrange a nual free beer day has apologised after
trip soon. admiting the suggestion was a joke.
Palin was responding to an article The message, outlining a scheme in
by the Daily Mail, which raised the which every pub would hand out beer to
The Ford Escort Mexico potential for an upcoming visit. locals, was received by people who had
England were strong favorites to win and semi-works entries from Citroën. I’m not The possible London visit comes signed up for details of ongoing public
the Cup in the 1970 tournament after their sure how it was in the rest of the world but amid continued speculation that the consultations.
success in 1966, furthermore Britain had the TV and media coverage of the event in former Alaska governor and 2008 Workers hastily retracted the message
dominated in motor sport throughout the Britain I remember was first rate and plentiful Republican vice presidential nominee after it was created by a member of staff
1960’s, so the Daily Mirror World Cup Rally with progress reports reported two and three may run for president in 2012. Such as part of a training scheme at Northamp-
which was to prelude the Mexico World Cup times a day during the whole month-plus a journey wouldn’t be her first high- tonshire County Council.
generated a great deal of interest throughout long-rally. profile trip overseas: she gave a speech A spokesman from the council said
Britain. Many of the worlds leading rally driv- The event was a superb build up for the in Hong Kong last year on US-China there had been a “mix-up” and that the
ers were to participate, and a few celebrities, World Cup, like delivering the cup to its desti- relations. email should never have been sent, re-
including a squad member of the 1966 World nation from whence it came. The winning car ported the Daily Telegraph.
Cup, the great Jimmy Greaves. Royalty was which boosted sales tremendously in Britain
even represented as Prince Michael of Kent as a result was a Ford team modified Escort
also participated. Mk1 fitted with a 1850cc version of the Kent
The start date was April 19, 1970 and the cross flow engine and which had up-rated
course, 16,000 miles of it, ran as follows, components from other Ford models, it was
London, Dover then on to Lisbon in a zigzag driven by Hannu Mikkola and Gunnar Palm of
route passing through most of Europe’s ma- Finland. It was no fluke victory either, of the
jor and capital cities along the way. From the first eight-place finishers, five were 1850cc
port of Lisbon it was over to Rio de Janeiro works Ford Escorts.
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FRANCHITTI IS INDY 500 CHAMPION
THE Memorial Day Weekend running of the
Indianapolis 500, had a distinctive British feel
to it as three Brits filled the first four places.
Reigning IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti
ran an almost perfect race, leading 155 of the
200 laps, to win his second Indianapolis 500
in grand style. The Edinburgh born Scot had
earlier won this race in 2007. Dan Wheldon
from Emberton, who won here in 2005,
followed Franchitti home for the runner-up
spot. Wheldon was runner up last year too.
Marco Andretti was third, and Manchester’s
Alex Lloyd, in only his second year in IndyCar
was fourth. Basildon’s Justin Wilson was
seventh, while the other British contestant,
Mike Conway, from Bromley, Kent, survived
a spectacular aerial crash two laps from the
end and did not finish.
LEWIS HAMILTON LEADS
FORMULA ONE
Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel took
the first and second places at the Grand Prix
of Monte Carlo, but at the Turkish Grand
Prix, May 30, two weeks later, they col-
lided with one another on the 40th lap. The
race turned in to an all-British duel between
McLaren team-mates Lewis Hamilton and
Jensen Button, with Hamilton getting the
chequered flag. The same scenario played
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out at the Canadian Grand Prix in
Montreal, June 12, with the two
British drivers battling it out with
Hamilton claiming the chequered
flag. Hamilton leads the Formula
one driver’s table with 109pts,
Button follows with 106pts.
Jorge Lorenzo of Spain won
the British Grand Prix on June 20,
to extend his lead at the top of the
MotoGP world championship standings.
CRICKET: BANGLADESH IN
ENGLAND
Bangladesh began their tour of England
with three, three day matches beginning at the
Oval, mid-May, with a drawn game against
Surrey. Surrey 318 (Matthew Spreigel 108)-
7 dec and 313-3 at close. Bangladesh 376
(Usman Afzaal 159)-6 dec. At Chelmsford,
Essex beat the visitors by five wickets.
Bangladesh 231 and 211. Essex 313 (John
Maunders 126) and 130-5 at close. At Derby,
the England Lions won by nine wickets.
Bangladesh 220 and 161. The Lions 296
and 86-1 at close.
Bangladesh has a reputation as the Cinder-
ella of the Test Cricket scene, but at Lords,
they gamely showed there developing talent
and it was not until just before tea on the
final day that England could claim an eight
wicket victory.
England 505 (Jonathan Trott 226) and
163-2 at close. Bangladesh 282 and 382
(Igbal Tamim 103). At Old Trafford however,
the Tigers could not handled the rambunc-
tious English bowling, and in just three days,
England carved out a convincing innings and
80 run victory for a 2-0 result in the short
Test series.
England 419 (Ian Bell 128). Bangladesh
216 (Igbal Tamim 108) and 123 at close.
The Tigers interrupted their English tour for
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the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, but will return this
month for a series of ODIs.
England beat Scotland by seven wickets in
an ODI in Edinburgh. Scotland 211.
England 213-3 at close. South Africa
opened their Caribbean tour with a 163 run
win against the West Indies in the first Test
at Port of Spain. South Africa 352 and 206-4
dec. West Indies 102 and 293.
THE COUNTY GAME
Last month, England’s domestic game
saw the Friends Provident Twenty20 com-
petition, take precedence over the county
championship.
Mid-June, Nottinghamshire led the county
table with four wins from seven games with
112pts, Yorkshire 103pts and Somerset
100pts follow. Glamorgan led Division Two
with five wins from eight games with 126pts,
Sussex 112pts and Gloucestershire 101pts
chase.
The men who produced a solution for
limited over games shortened because of
rain, were both awarded MBEs in this year’s
Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Frank
Duckworth and Tony Lewis came up with an
accepted method to decide results when rain
stopped play. The Duckworth/Lewis method
has been in use since 1996.
WORKFORCE WINS DERBY
Sir Michael Stoute claimed his fifth Derby
winner on a gorgeous sunny day at the Epsom
Downs, June 6, when Workforce (6-1) broke
the course record with a spectacular run at
the 231st running of Britain’s oldest and most
prestigious horse race. At First Sight (100-1)
was second with Rewilding (9-2) third, and
Aidan O’Brien favourite Jan Vermeer (9-4f)
fourth. 12 ran. Mid-way through the mile and
a half, At First Sight led by some six lengths,
but Workforce owned by Saudi Prince, Khalid
Abdulla, powered forward with two furlongs
to go and overalled another Aidan O’Brien
horse to win by seven lengths. For jockey
Ryan Moore it was a double celebration, as
he had rode Snow Fairy (9-1) to victory in
the Oaks, the previous day. Trainer Stoute,
had his first Derby victory with Shergar in
1981,who later, mysteriously disappeared
and was never seen again.
Stoute would win again in 1986, 2003
and 2004.
RUGBY UNION
The summer rugby tours of the southern
hemisphere began early last month. At
Twickenham, England beat the Barbarians
35-26,before heading of for their antipodean
tour. They commenced in Perth, against the
Australian Barbarians with a 28-28 result,
before losing the first Test to Australia
27-17.
They went on to beat the Australian
Barbarians 15-9, and won the second Test
at Sydney, June 19, winning 21-20. Wales
were beaten 31-34 by South Africa in Cardiff.
Scotland travelled to Argentina winning 24-
17 in the first Test and 19-13 in the second
for an historic series victory. New Zealand
taunted Ireland 66-28, then beat Wales 42-9
in Dunedin. South Africa beat France 42-17
and then Italy 29-13
England Saxons captured the Churchill
Cup after a 38-10 win over Canada in New
Jersey. Earlier they went to Russia and won
49-17, and in Denver, Colorado, they beat
the USA 32-9. Other CC results saw Russia
beat Uruguay 38-19, while France beat the
USA 24-10 and Uruguay 43-10.
DONALD WINS IN SPAIN – US
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years when he won the Madrid Masters with
a 21 under 267, May 30. One stroke behind
was rising Welsh star Rhys Davies. Same
weekend, Brian Davis notched his fifth
second place finish on the American tour at
the Colonial Invitational at Fort Worth, Texas.
The Brit finished with an 18 under 262, but
was still three strokes distant from winner
Zach Johnson.
Justin Rose got the Memorial Tournament
at Dublin, Ohio, concluding June 6, off to a
memorial start with a seven under 65. He
was later crowded out a bit, but on the final
round fighting a four stroke deficit, he hit
a six under 66, that gave him an 18 under
270, for his first victory in seven years. He
earned over a million dollars for his win, three
strokes clear of Ricky Fowler. Tiger Woods
carded a six under 282. Same weekend, at
the Celtic Manor Course in Newport, UK,
Ulsterman Graeme McDowell, shot an eight
under 63, on the final round to win the Welsh
Open with a 15 under 269. Rhys Davies was
runner-up three behind, with Luke Donald
third, five distant.
Lee Westwood’s burgeoning form over
the last month or two, exploded at Memphis,
in the St Jude Classic, June 13, with a record
breaking seven under 63 in the first round.
His persistence continued when he entered
a play-off after a 10 under 260, resulted in
a three man tie. At the fourth play-off hole
with Robert Karlsson and Robert Garrigus,
Westwood claimed his second PGA title.
“It’s definitely nice to win again,” said the
Englishman.
Same weekend, the USA won the Curtis
Cup (the women’s version of the Ryder Cup)
beating Britain & Ireland, twelve and one half
to seven and one half at the Essex Country
Club, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.
MCDOWELL FIRST BRIT TO WIN
US OPEN IN 40 YEARS
Calmness and composure was the criteria
that carried Graeme McDowell, to an historic
victory at Pebble Beach, California, June 20,
where a steady hand proved the optimum
advantage as an even par 284, earned him
the US Open title. Coming off a victory as
the Welsh Open champion in Newport,
Wales, two weeks previous, the Northern
Irelander remained unfazed by rain delays
and sometime quirky greens, and became
the first Briton to win the US Open since
Tony Jacklin in 1970. While Phil Mickelson
and Tiger Woods received the media atten-
tion, and youngster Dustin Johnson had the
cameras focusing in, McDowell kept to his
regular game plan that gave him a one stroke
victory over Gregory Havret of France. It was
the first Major for McDowell, who collected
his biggest pay-check ever worth $1.3m.
“I’m playing the golf of my life now,” said
the brand new US Open champion.
FRENCH EXIT FOR ANDY MURRAY
The red clay of the Roland Garros Stadium
has not provided much encouragement
for British players over the years, and this
year’s French Open Championships, May
23-June 6, proved no different. Andy Mur-
ray’s attempt to thwart the dour record came
to an end in the fourth round when Tomas
Berdych of the Czech Republic ousted the
Scot 6-4, 7-5 ,6-3. Previously, Murray had
won a hard-fought five setter going over the
four hour mark against Richard Gasquet of
France, then had another five setter before
besting Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina.
He then beat Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus
in four sets. Other Brits did not go so far.
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Keothavong, Kate O’Brien and men’s double
pair Jamie Murray and Jonathan Marray did
not get by the opening round. Rafael Nadal
won his fifth French singles title with a three
set win over Robin Soderling, and Francesa
Shiavone became the first female Italian
singles winner here, after beating Samantha
Stosur of Australia.
BOXING
38-year-old Vitali Klitscho (42-2) is seven
years older than the challenger for his WBC
heavyweight crown, but in Gelsenkirchen,
Germany, May 30, it was still not enough
for European Champion Albert Sosnowski
(45-2-2) to upset the big Ukrainian world
champion. The Polish fighter seemed to be
holding his own until the bell saved him in
the ninth, but after crashing to the canvas in
the tenth, the ref stopped the fight. Klitscho is
looking at David Haye’s WBA crown.
Britain took three silver medals at the
European amateur boxing championships,
their best haul since 1961. Iain Weaver
(featherweight from Bournemouth) Khalid
Yafai (flyweight from Birmingham) and
Tom Stalker a lightweight from Liverpool
were the honourees. Man in charge, former
world middleweight contender Robert Mc-
Cracken, the man who trains Carl Froch, is
getting the credit for reviving Britain’s amateur
boxing status.
WORLD CUP WARM-UPS
England bade farewell to the homeland
May 24, with a 3-1 win over Mexico at Wem-
bley. In Graz, Austria, May 30, England took
on Japan in an extraordinary game where the
Japanese scored all the goals. In fact, Marcus
Tulio Tanaka found his own net twice, giv-
ing England a 2-1 win. England finished off
their World Cup preparations June 10, at the
Moruleng Stadium in South Africa, beating
local side, the Platinum Stars 3-0.
The United States’ World Cup preparation
went badly against the Czech Republic where
they lost 4-2, after Bob Bradley, left most of
the first teamers out.
Confidence rose in the next couple of
games however, as the US beat Turkey 2-1
and Australia 3-1.
MORE SPORT
Andrew Ellis and his company RFC
Holdings looked all set to buy out Glasgow
Rangers from major shareholder Sir David
Murray, when suddenly the deal went sour.
Murray owns 90 per cent of the shares of
SPL club, that are reputedly £30m in debt.
A Murray media release abruptly announced
the club is no longer for sale…. Crystal
Palace were saved from extinction when a
last minute bid by CPFC 2010, a consortium
of supporters led by Steve Parish and Martin
Long reached an agreement with bank admin-
istrator Brendan Guifoyle just a few hours
before total liquidation. Palace had laid off
29 employees and had not met the payroll for
May…. At Wimbledon, trainer Charlie Lister
claimed his fifth Greyhound Derby when
Bandicoot Tipoki (7-2) beat out favourite
Toomaline Jack (10-11f) by half a length….
The man who made Darts (the PDC) into a
big commercial and financial success, Barry
Hearn, pledges to do the same for snooker
after the top 64 ranked players in the world
voted 35-29 to put him in charge. World dart
champion Phil Taylor won the PDC, UK Open
Continued on page 15
Solution to Sudoku puzzle on page 11.
July 2010
USA And England Face Similar Issues. . .
Continued from page 16
Jamie Carragher, who had replaced King, and
midfielder Gareth Barry, an injury absentee in
the US game, provided a measure of stability
in front of the back line.
Still, England fended off Slovenian at-
tacks in the final half-hour on blocks by Glen
Johnson, Terry, and Upton after goalie Samir
Handanovic had repelled a Rooney shot and
Terry header.
After falling behind on Gerrard’s goal in
the fifth minute and fighting back to tie, the
Americans made a few lineup changes to
face Slovenia, and gave up two first-half
goals on defensive miscues. More changes
were made; Donovan started a comeback by
lashing a shot into the roof of the net three
minutes into the second half, the US scored
again through Michael Bradley in the 82nd
minute, and lost an apparent winner by Rang-
ers’ Maurice Edu on an officiating decision
yet to be explained.
TRIUMPH
The Americans’ remarkable triumph over
Algeria fueled two days of extensive media
coverage and unprecedented exposure, yet
it also seemed to drain them for a knockout
match against Ghana, which four years ago
beat the US, 2-1, to eliminate them after
group play. Bradley restored Ricardo Clark
and Robbie Findley to the lineup; neither
would last longer than the first half.
Again, the Americans fell behind early
Union Jack Sporting
Roundup
Continued from page 14
at Bolton, June 3-6, for the fourth time with
a 10-2 win over Adrian Lewis in the final…
Former Wolverhampton Wanderers and
England goalkeeper Bert Williams, died last
month. He was 93. Williams’ incredibly long
career was severely tarnished when he let in
the goal that allowed the USA to beat England
1-0 in the 1950 World Cup. However, he was
always a big favourite at Molyneaux.
EARLY WIMBLEDON
The Queen made one her infrequent
visits to Wimbledon, where after a tour of
the grounds she watched Andy Murray win
his second round match in straight sets over
Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen. The Queen had
last visited 33 years previous, when Virginia
Wade captured the women’s singles title.
Wimbledon began Monday, June 21, but by
the third day, only Andy Murray who beat Jan
Hajek of the Czech Republic in the first round
was the only British singles player left stand-
ing. Officials did not issue as many wildcards
to the British players, and for the first time in
over a hundred years there was not an English
singles competitor on court. Murray’s fellow
Scot, Jamie Baker was the only other British
male to play singles. He went out in the first
round to Andreas Beck of Germany. Six Brit-
ish women began the tournament, but none
reached the second round. British number
one Elena Baltacha won the first set, was
5-3 up in the second, but still lost to Petra
Martic of Croatia. Britain’s 2008 Wimbledon
Junior champion, Laura Robson, tackled
the high seeded Jelena Jankovic and gave
a brave display but it was not enough. In the
doubles, some British duos did progress to
the second round; including, Jamie Delgado
and Josh Goodall, Chris Eaton and Dominic
Inglot, Ross Hutchins and Jordan Kerr and
Jocelyn Rae and Heather Watson.
Misery for new French Open cham-
pion Francesca Shiavone of Italy, who was
eliminated on the first day of play by Vera
Dushevina of Russia, while losing French
finalist Samantha Stosur of Australia, suffer
a first round exit too.
The longest game in tennis history,
became a major media event when John
Isner of United States beat Nicolas Mahut of
France, 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3), 70-68.
The match spread over three days had an
actual playing time of eleven hours and five
minutes. Wimbledon officials made a special
presentation to the players and the umpire
where former singles champion Ann Jones
and Tim Henman did the honours.
Roger Federer was stunned by 12th seed
Tomas Berdych.
Andy Murray reached the semi-finals to
face Rafael Nadal on July 2.
CHAMBERS WINS 100M IN BERGEN
Britain’s Dwain Chambers won the 100
meters in 9.99 seconds on the first day of
the European Team Championships.
Chambers was never seriously challenged
on his way to posting the fastest time in
the 100 by a European this year, ahead of
France’s Christophe Lemaitre, who ran a
personal best of 10.02.
Chambers tested positive for the steroid
THG in August 2003 and served a two-year
ban. He is banned for life from the British
Olympic team, though he won the right to
compete for British teams in other cham-
pionships.
when Kevin Prince Boateng converted a
midfield turnover by Clark. Edu replaced
Clark and Benny Feilhaber took over for
Findley, with Dempsey moving from midfield
to forward. They rallied to tie with a Donovan
penalty kick, then surrendered yet another
early goal – by the powerful Asamoah Gyan
-- less than three minutes into extra time.
This time, they could not respond. A glorious
chance – the Americans were slotted into a
quadrant with Uruguay and South Korea along
with Ghana for a spot in the semifinals – went
unclaimed.
STORMED
Germany stormed out to a 2-0 lead against
England, Upson headed home a cross to cut
that deficit in half, and a minute later came a
flashback to Geoff Hurst’s controversial win-
ner in the 1966 World Cup final. Lampard’s
shot off the underside of the bar clearly
landed two feet over the goal line before
it bounced back up to be grabbed by Ger-
man goalie Manuel Neuer, but the officials
missed it. Midway through the second half,
German striker Thomas Mueller – certainly
well-named for his prowess in front of goal
– scored twice within three minutes on
counterattacks.
Capello has already stated he’ll start
looking at new players for the start of Euro-
pean Championship qualifying in September,
should the FA decided to retain him. His
troubles with Terry, limited command of
To Bow Or Not To Bow: As
Queen Visits Wimbledon
WIMBLEDON players were able to revive
a lost tradition when the Queen visited the
tournament for the first time in 33 years
last month.
The All England Club dropped the tradi-
tion of a bow or curtsy to the royal box in
2003. That came at the request of the Duke
of Kent, the club president, to the relief of
most players at the time.
Martina Navratilova once joked: “Men
have it easy ... the curtsy is the toughest
part of the match.”
When the Queen arrived at Wimbledon
last month the club left it up to players
whether to show a measure of deference
to her before their match. On her last visit
on July 1, 1977, Virginia Wade won the
ladies’ singles championship – Britain’s
only singles’ title in 33 years.
Wade was present last month, along
with Venus and Serena Williams, who
both curtsied; Roger Federer and Andy
Roddick Bowed.
Blatter Needs More
Than Apologies
Continued from page 16
official right on that line is much more likely to
get a better view, even on a hard-hit shot that
quickly rebounds back up off the ground.
Had a goal-line official been watching
the Tevez play, he would have immediately
seen that Tevez did indeed touch the ball
after Lionel Messi directed it towards the
goal, which apparently both officials didn’t
notice. (Had Tevez not touched the ball, play
would have continued and if it evaded both
defenders and crossed the goal line the goal
would be valid.)
Before he replaced Joao Havelange as
FIFA president after the 1998 World Cup,
Blatter badgered referees for years to improve
their work on dangerous tackles and off-side
decisions, which video replays showed were
being botched at an alarming rate. Now,
however, as the man-in-charge, he seems
too gun-shy to implement changes that are
drastically needed.
CARLING CUP DRAW
First Round
(To be played week of August 9)
Hartlepool United v Sheffield United
Leicester City v Macclesfield Town
Walsall v Tranmere Rovers
Carlisle United v Huddersfield Town
Stockport County v Preston North End
Barnsley v Rochdale
Morecambe v Coventry City
Doncaster Rovers v Accrington Stanley
Chesterfield v Middlesbrough
Peterborough United v Rotherham United
Bradford City v Nottingham Forest
Leeds United v Lincoln City
Sheffield Wednesday v Bury
Scunthorpe United v Oldham Athletic
Crewe Alexandra v Derby County
Exeter City v Ipswich Town
Southend United v Bristol City
Southampton v AFC Bournemouth
Brentford v Cheltenham Town
Queens Park Rangers v Port Vale
Torquay United v Reading
Norwich City v Gillingham
Stevenage v Portsmouth
Shrewsbury Town v Charlton Athletic
Cardiff City v Burton Albion
Northampton Town v Brighton & Hove Albion
Swansea City v Barnet
Plymouth Argyle v Notts County
Wycombe Wanderers v Millwall
Oxford United v Bristol Rovers
Milton Keynes Dons v Dagenham & Redbridge
Hereford United v Colchester United
Yeovil Town v Crystal Palace
Aldershot Town v Watford
Swindon Town v Leyton Orient
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English, and the team’s disjointed perfor-
mances at the tournament cast shadows
on his future.
COMPLEX
Bradley’s case is more complex; injuries
to forward Charlie Davies, who missed the
World Cup, and defender Oguchi Onyweu,
who struggled in the first two matches and
was replaced, pointed out how shallow is the
US pool of national-team players capable at
the highest level. The solid, composed play of
Feilhaber and Edu prompted speculation they
should have been in the starting lineup for
that opener against England, but US Soccer
is still grappling with how to find and develop
talent scattered across a huge country whose
own pro league (Major League Soccer) is still
mid-level at best. Only four of the USA’s 23
World Cup players currently play in MLS, and
Donovan is probably headed overseas sooner
rather than later.
Critics pointed to Capello’s selection deci-
sions – the omission of Theo Walcott being
one – and problems finding a replacement
for Ferdinand. In this category, Capello and
Bradley were burdened with some of the
same problems despite working in sharply
contrasting situations and with different
reservoirs of player talent.
For both nations, the frustrations of World
Cup 2010 and long-term plans for the next
four-year cycle range beyond issues of
managerial decisions.
John Steele Leaves
UK Sport For RFU
JOHN STEELE is leaving as chief execu-
tive of UK Sport to become the new CEO
of the Rugby Football Union.
Steele will replace Francis Baron, who
is retiring after 12 years at the RFU.
Steele is a former player, coach and
executive director of Northampton Saints
rugby club.
As leader of UK Sport, Steele was in
charge of funding Britain’s Olympic ath-
letes ahead of the 2012 London Games.
At the RFU, he will help organize the
2015 Rugby World Cup in England.
Steele will officially leave UK Sport for
the RFU in late July.
SOCCER
shorts
Continued from page 16
Wolves To Increase Stadium
Capacity To 36,000
WOLVERHAMPTON Wanderers is planning to
spend £40m on increasing the capacity of its
Molineux stadium to help it cement a place
as a Premier League regular.
Wolves said that they hope to increase
the number of seats in their 121-year-old
stadium from 29,303 to 36,000 in time for
the 2014-15 season.
The most recent redevelopment was only
20 years ago, but improved facilities and extra
seats would bring in extra revenue that should
allow the team to invest in transfers and attract
higher-caliber players with better wages.
Vieira Commits To Manchester
City For Another Year
MANCHESTER CITY says Patrick Vieira will
stay at the English Premier League club next
season after taking up a one-year contract
extension.
The 33-year-old French midfielder joined
City on an initial six-month deal in January
after spending nearly four years at Inter
Milan.
He played 14 times for City as it finished
fifth and missed out on a place in next sea-
son’s Champions League.
Vieira, who won the Premier League three
times with Arsenal, was left out of France’s
squad for this year’s World Cup finals in
South Africa.
Fowler Seeks Damages From
North Queensland
FORMER Liverpool and England striker
Robbie Fowler is suing Australian A-League
football club North Queensland for damages
over the termination of his playing contract.
Fowler was one of seven Fury players
whose contracts were terminated when North
Queensland restructured earlier this year due
to financial difficulties and its running was
taken over by Football Federation Australia.
Fowler has since signed a new A-League
deal with the Perth Glory.
The players’ union, Professional Football
Australia, took action against North Queen-
sland on behalf of the seven sacked players
and reached settlements for all but Fowler.
The amount sought by Fowler has not
been revealed.
World Cup
Shorts
ESPN’s World
Cup Coverage
Has A Distinct
English Accent
STANDING on the sideline – er, touchline
– at US soccer practice, Martin Tyler
looked on. After more than three decades
of broadcasting in England, he was getting
ready for his American debut on ESPN.
Enough of the vague soccer commen-
tary by much-maligned Dave O’Brien. For
this World Cup, ESPN and ABC brought
in the best English-language soccer an-
nouncer in the business.
“We have the NFL, we have the NBA,
we have the Stanley Cup, all your major
sports events are broadcast in this coun-
try,” Tyler said by telephone from his
home in England before heading to the
World Cup. “Nobody has ever sent an
Englishman over to do it.”
Authenticity is the buzz word. ABC
and ESPN got bashed for their coverage
of the 2006 World Cup and responded by
hiring the 64-year-old Tyler, an acclaimed
broadcaster for Britain’s Sky Sports, as
its lead announcer for the tournament in
South Africa that opened June 11. He
was been joined by Adrian Healey, Derek
Rae and Ian Darke to create an all-British
play-by-play crew for the 64 World Cup
matches.
“The decision is a strange one in some
ways to me,” said former ABC and ESPN
analyst Seamus Malin. “I don’t think you
have to be a cheerleader for Americans,
but I think you have to a lot of reference
places.”
FAMILIAR
Tyler’s voice is familiar to US soccer
fans from his coverage of the English Pre-
mier League and the European Champions
League, which is relayed regularly on Fox
Soccer Channel.
His voice also is known from the EA
Sports FIFA video games, where he part-
ners on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox360
versions with former Scotland forward
Andy Gray, another Sky Sports announcer.
Gray is also working for a US network,
broadcasting a World Cup studio show
Wimbledon Closes Roof For First Time In 2010
THE ROOF over Centre Court at Wimble-
don was closed for the first time at this
year’s tournament – not because of rain,
but because of fading sunlight.
The retractable cover, first used in
2009, was shut after the third set of No
3-seeded Novak Djokovic’s first-round
British Teams Touring The US This Month
Teams on Tour:
• Glasgow Celtic
• Bolton Wanderers
• Manchester United
• Manchester City
• Portsmouth FC
• Tottenham Hotspur
~ TOUR GAME DATES ~
July 14: Charlotte Eagles v Bolton Wanderers,
Restart Field, Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Portsmouth v Club America, Qualcomm
Stadium, San Diego, CA.
- Philadelphia Union v Celtic, PPL Park, PA.
8pm
July 16: Manchester United v Celtic, Rogers
Center, Toronto, Canada
July 17: Portland Timbers v Manchester
City, Merlo Field (University of Portland),
Portland, Oregon
- San Jose Earthquakes v Tottenham Hotspur
San Jose, CA. 7pm. www.sjearthquakes.
com
- Charlotte Battery v Bolton Wanderers,
7:30pm, Blackbaud Stadium, Daniel Island,
SC. www.charlestonbattery.com
- Ventura County Fusion v Portsmouth,
exhibition game kicks off at 3pm at Oxnard
College – 4000 S. Rose Ave., Oxnard, CA
93033. www.vcfusion.com
July 18: San Jose Earthquakes v Tottenham
Hotspur, Buck Shaw Stadium, San Jose, CA
- Seattle Sounders FC v Celtic 12pm, Seattle, WA
July 21: Philadelphia Union v Manchester
United, Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia.
- Toronto FC v Bolton Wanderers, BMO Field,
Toronto.
- Portsmouth v an Edmonton Select side.
7:30pm Commonwealth Stadium, Edmon-
ton, AB
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Martin Tyler
from California for FSC.
“I guess the US audience, in fairness,
is still learning the game in many ways.
It’s taken us 100 years to learn the game
and we’re not still sure we’ve got it right,”
Gray said with a chuckle.
ESPN/ABC has invested a huge amount
in its World Cup coverage, sending 200
people to South Africa to produce the tele-
casts along with 100 local hires. Among
the soccer stars who are participating are
Juergen Klinsmann, Ruud Gullit, Ally
McCoist; the network talked with Jose
Mourinho, but couldn’t come to terms.
The biggest difference between British
and American announcers. On the olde is-
land, the broadcasters are more restrained,
more likely to keep talk to a minimum.
PARTNERED
Tyler, who has broadcast every World
Cup since 1978, is working with with
former Nigerian player Efan Ekoku.
And for the US v England match Tyler
patrnered with former American captain
John Harkes.
Tyler actually worked in the United
States early in his career: He produced the
world feed for soccer coverage at the 1984
Los Angeles Olympics.
He used to visit the US on holiday in the
summer, too, catching up with old soccer
buddies such as Bobby Moore and George
Best when they played in the North Ameri-
can Soccer League. And he broadcast the
1986 World Series on a delayed basis for
the British network ITV.
Until this year, Tyler had broadcast the
World Cup for the Australian network
SBS. He lives in London near the Chelsea
and Fulham training grounds and estimates
he covers about 100 matches per season.
The coverage by ESPN seems to be
working as every week seems to bring
a new soccer record for the network, as
the USA v Algeria World Cup match
was the most viewed soccer game ever
for ESPN.
match against Olivier Rochus of Belgium
on opening day. Rochus was leading 6-4,
2-6, 6-3.
Play resumed after a delay of about 35
minutes.
It was the third match on Centre Court
during Day one of the tournament.
July 22: New York Red Bulls v Tottenham
Hotspur participate in the New York Football
Challenge. Red Bull Arena, NY. 8pm. www.
newyorkredbulls.com
July 23: NY Football Challenge: Manchester
City v Sporting Lisbon, 8pm at Red Bull
Arena, NY.
July 24: Portsmouth v DC United, RFK Sta-
dium, Washington, DC.
July 25: NY Football Challenge: New York Red
Bulls v Manchester City, 1pm at Red Bull
Arena, New York.
- NY Football Challenge: Tottenham v Sporting
Lisbon, 1pm at Red Bull Arena, NY
- Kansas City Wizards v Manchester United
5pm at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City,
Missouri.
July 28: Club America v Manchester City,
Georgia Dome, Atlanta.
- MLS All Stars v Manchester United, Reliant
Stadium, Houston, Texas.
July 30: Chivas v Manchester United, Estadio
Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico.
July 31: Inter Milan v Manchester City, M&T
Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland.
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USA And England Face Similar SOCCER

Issues After World Cup Exits
By Ridge Mahoney
THE WORLD Cup sagas for England
and the United States, which began
with a 1-1 tie that pleased neither side,
ended at the same stage:
the round of 16.
For England, a 4-1 thrashing
by Germany was disaster; the
Americans felt a muted sense of
satisfaction tinged with disap-
pointment after losing to Ghana,
2-1, in extra time. The futures of
both managers, Fabio Capello
and Bob Bradley, are in doubt,
with perhaps Capello’s two
remaining years on his contract causing
pause at FA headquarters. Bradley’s four-year
contract is up at the end of this year.
An all-time record TV audience for a US
men’s game, including hundreds of public
screenings and watch parties around the
country, celebrated an incredible stoppage-
time goal by Landon Donovan that downed
Algeria, 1-0, and landed the US on top of the
group. England came second with the same
total of five points; they lost first place on the
second tiebreaker of goals scored.
All of the English problem areas cited
prior to the World Cup arose in South Africa:
a replacement for defender Rio Ferdinand,
questionable goalkeeping, leadership with the
captain’s armband stripped from John Terry,
and how to properly align Steven Gerrard and
Frank Lampard in the same midfield. Capello
had steered England through the qualification
process smoothly, with nine wins and one
loss, 34 goals scored and six conceded, but
all of his experience with Italian clubs and
Real Madrid didn’t transform England into a
serious contender for the title.
REPLACEMENT
At halftime of the opener, Ferdinand’s re-
placement Ledley King had to be substituted
because of injury. Already keeper Robert
EXPATRIATES
Green had contrived to let Clint Dempsey’s
two-bounce shot glance off his gloves into
the net to equalize a shrewd Gerrard goal
struck in the fifth minute from a clever first-
time diagonal ball played by Emile Heskey.
The sides traded half-chances
with numerous Americans
squaring off against teammates
and foes they see regularly in
the Premier League.
Donovan’s successful loan
stint with Everton, where US
keeper Tim Howard also plays,
and Dempsey’s role during Ful-
ham’s run to the Europa League
final ratcheted up anticipation
for their meeting, which of course prompted
endless remembrances of the 1950 game in
Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a 1-0 US win decided
by a Joe Gaetjens’ goal. Dempsey’s tame
shot and Green’s gaffe became an Internet
sensation before the final whistle blew, and
in the next match David James took over in
the English net.
Gerrard’s goal represented one of the few
times in four matches that England exploited a
defensive glitch. They labored grimly through
a 0-0 draw with Algeria and were booed off
the pitch, prompting Wayne Rooney – whose
own desultory performance surely merited
at least a few hoots and whistles – to lash
out bitterly. He apologized a day later, and
a squad facing a very stark reality of not
advancing pulled together to rescue a spot
in the knockout rounds by beating Slovenia,
1-0, with a Jermaine Defoe goal created by
a James Milner cross.
EARNED
Defoe had earned a spot alongside Rooney
in the starting lineup, and Milner had replaced
Aaron Lennon, who’d cut apart the US a few
times but ran aground against Algeria. Matt
Upson took the central defensive spot along-
side John Terry in place of the suspended
Continued on page 15
England’s controversial third goal scored by Geoff Hurst (not shown) in the
World Cup Final against West Germany in 1966 was given by a USSR linesman.
Blatter Needs More Than Apologies
By Ridge Mahoney
TO HIS credit, FIFA president came out and
publicly apologized to England and Mexico for
the terrible officiating decisions that marred
their matches in the round of 16.
To his discredit, however, he didn’t
apologize for being a bonehead. In March,
he stated his adamant opposition to the
use of any technology to assist the four
match officials, even though they’ve been
been about to communicate by headsets
for several years. In the aftermath of a Frank
Lampard shot that rebounded off the bar
and landed well over the goal line yet wasn’t
ruled a goal in a 4-1 loss to Germany, and a
blatantly offside goal by Argentina’s Carlos
Tevez against Mexico that was allowed to
stand, he reversed his stance.
“Everybody knew at the start of this
competition that we would not apply any
other system, such as having two additional
referees in the penalty areas or using tech-
nology, including goal-line technology,” said
Blatter. “Consequently, the principle will not
be changed for this competition. But with
what we have experienced here, it would be
nonsense to not reopen the file on technology
at the next business meeting of the IFAB on
20 and 21 July in Wales.”
EXPERIMENT
It was after the latest meeting of the IFAB
in March that Blatter declared experiments
with goal-line technology, which included
microchips imbedded in the ball and imaging
equipment to track where the ball traveled, to
be done and over. The past season of Europa
League matches featured goal-line officials,
one at each end of the field, who are stationed
at the intersection of the goal-line and the
goal-area line to monitor the penalty area and
rule on goal-line situations.
Those experiments will continue next
season. “It is an ongoing process at FIFA
and on my personal agenda,” said Blatter.
“In October-November we will present a
new model on how to improve high-level
refereeing.”
While that may open the door a crack to
goal-line technology to determine whether a
ball has crossed the line, Blatter is adamantly
opposed to any use of video replay for other
situations, such as assessing off-side. Thus
any chance FIFA might adopt or even experi-
ment with video replay, as is used in basket-
ball, baseball, football, hockey, cricket, rugby
and other sports is nearly nonexistent.
IMPROVED
Goal-line officials could be a marked
improvement in situations such as those of
both Lampard and Tevez. Referees and their
assistants are often poorly positioned to see
whether a ball has crossed the line, but an
shorts
Hodgson Hired As New
Liverpool Manager
LIVERPOOL announced the appointment of
Roy Hodgson as their new manager July 1.
Hodgson was announced as the new
manager of Liverpool, carrying with him the
experience of coaching three national sides
and managerial roles with clubs in six differ-
ent countries.
The 62-year-old Hodgson had been
seen as a potential replacement to England
manager Fabio Capello following the national
team’s dismal showing at the World Cup - but
he hasn’t always been so in-demand in his
native country.
Hodgson had mixed success at Blackburn,
much better at Fulham – Europa League Final-
ists, and has previously enjoyed memorable
runs at Halmstads, Sweden; the Swiss na-
tional team at the 1994 World Cup in the US;
two spells at Inter Milan, and stints at Swiss
side Grasshopper, Danish club FC Copenha-
gen – where he won the Superliga title – and
Italy’s Udinese, as well as taking charge of
the national teams of United Arab Emirates
and Finland to fill out his resume.
Arguably Hodgson’s greatest attribute has
been his ability to get the best out of players
who are not household names. With players
such as Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres and
Javier Mascherano at Anfield, he will now
have to prove he can manage world-class
stars who are rumored to be unhappy with a
lack of success.
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