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伯纳姆将警员杀手留在狱中，但对监狱容量的担忧日益增加

亚历山德拉·托平 (Alexandra Topping) 政治记者

在安迪·伯纳姆的一次关键干预后，安德鲁·哈珀警员的杀手将继续被关押在狱中，但此举引发了警告，称过度拥挤的监狱将处于“距离灾难仅一步之遥”的状态。

在经历了数周的巨大压力后，伯纳姆宣布在提前释放计划上进行重大转向，他表示自己理解“人们对此问题的强烈感受”。

首相的干预将阻止所有形式的过失杀人罪犯，以及强奸犯、儿童性虐待者和诱导者提前释放。

这一举措影响了约 1,400 名囚犯，受到了警方、受害者团体和家属的欢迎，并得到了哈珀的母亲黛比·阿德拉姆的有条件支持。

批评者表示，这一改变可能会破坏英格兰和威尔士进步的监狱改革，并指出伯纳姆概述的旨在腾出其他空间的措施需要更长时间才能生效，这将使监狱的有序管理面临风险。

2019年8月，哈珀在响应伯克希尔郡萨尔姆斯特德的一起四轮摩托车盗窃案时受致命伤，当时他 28 岁。当时均为 17 岁的车辆乘客杰西·科尔和艾伯特·鲍尔斯因过失杀人被判处 13 年监禁。

在接受昨天率先报道政府政策变动的英国广播公司（BBC）采访时，伯纳姆表示他已经“听到了”哈珀家人的心声。“我显然听到了安德鲁·哈珀家人所说的话，我的意思是，谁能不听到？没有人希望出现这样一种情况，即那些杀害警察的罪犯被提前释放出狱。”

阿德拉姆表示，她对新法律的改变感到高兴和感激，但她感到“心情复杂”且

洪水之后 居民面临凄凉的回归

汉娜·埃利斯-彼得森 (Hannah Ellis-Petersen) 德维加特 (Devighat)

尸体继续被冲上岸。但停尸房已经没有空间了。 自从致命的洪水席卷尼泊尔和西藏的喜马拉雅山谷以来，死亡人数持续上升。数百具尸体浮出水面，并继续从洪水退去后吞没一切的、像焦油一样浓稠的泥浆中被拉出。截至昨天，尼泊尔和西藏的死亡人数为 797 人。

尼泊尔各地的停尸房已经溢出。当局表示，他们正面临着识别死者的艰巨任务，许多尸体被毁得无法辨认，且出现在距离家乡数英里之远的地方。随着安全存放受害者的场所耗尽，巴拉特普尔地区已开始进行集体埋葬。

每具尸体都被采集了 DNA 样本

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冰岛拒绝重启加入欧盟的谈判

资金充足的“反对”阵营在全民公投中获胜，获得 52.8% 的选票，对主权和捕鱼权的担忧将结果推向留在欧盟之外。 新闻 第 20 页 →

药店胆固醇检测旨在筛查“定时炸弹”患者

安德鲁·格雷戈里（Andrew Gregory） 慕尼黑

英格兰国民医疗服务体系（NHS）将首次在商业街提供免费的指尖采血胆固醇检测，旨在未来十年内将心脏病和中风导致的死亡人数减少四分之一。

40至84岁之间、未怀孕且在过去一年内未进行过血液检测的人员，将有资格直接前往药店接受检测。

这项耗时七分钟的检测将在参与计划的药店提供，作为一项全国性推广计划的一部分，旨在更早地发现那些处于“定时炸弹”状态的患者。

医护人员将使用采血针（一种用于刺破皮肤的小型锐利医疗工具）从患者指尖采集血液并立即进行分析。随后，药剂师处方医生可以提供生活方式建议，并确定是否需要采取诸如他汀类药物（statins）等治疗措施。

患者将通过电子邮件收到结果副本。作为与药剂师处方医生进行临床咨询的一部分，他们还将获得血压检查。

该计划是全球首创，其详情在慕尼黑举行的欧洲心脏病学会（European Society of Cardiology）年会上公布，该会议是全球规模最大的心脏病会议。

英格兰首席医药官大卫·韦伯（David Webb）表示，药店可以成为抵御严重疾病的关键第一道防线。

他说：“通过让人们在当地商业街更便捷地进行快速胆固醇健康检查，我们可以更早地发现‘定时炸弹’，帮助人们采取行动，并在心脏病发作和中风发生前予以预防。”

“这是将药店纳入医疗服务的一系列举措中的最新一项。此前，这些服务仅在全科医生（GP）诊所提供。这是10年健康计划的一部分，旨在让医疗服务更贴近人们的居住地。”

此次推广是在北伦敦一项成功的试点项目之后开展的。该试点由巴茨健康NHS信托基金（Barts Health NHS trust）与UCLPartners及Heart UK合作在北伦敦实施，共有2,493名患者接受了胆固醇检查。

2,493 指尖采血胆固醇检测北伦敦试点项目参与人数

近五分之一的患者（19%）被发现未来十年内患心脏病或中风的高风险。这些人获得了建议并被转诊治疗。结果导致至少88人开始服用他汀类药物。

在全国推广的第一阶段，英格兰全境约100家NHS药店将从今年秋天起开始提供此类检查。

巴茨健康该计划的临床负责人索蒂里斯·安东尼奥（Sotiris Antoniou）博士表示：“通过在英格兰推广这种方法，我们可以支持药剂师更早地识别心血管风险，并且重要的是，通过及时的建议和治疗对结果采取行动。”

人们患痴呆症的风险。在同类规模最大的研究中，研究人员在2006年至2021年期间对丹麦的132,000多人进行了追踪。

全球患有痴呆症的人数预计到2050年将增加近三倍，达到1.53亿。但专家认为，近一半的痴呆病例是可以预防或延迟的。

一项为期15年的研究表明，他汀类药物可将痴呆风险降低15%，且在生命早期服用该药，避免患病的可能性就越高。

在研究期间开始服用他汀类药物的人患痴呆症的可能性降低了10%。早期服用者则将风险降低了15%。女性和男性的结果相似。

长期研究表明，尽早服用他汀类药物可降低 15% 的痴呆风险

安德鲁·格雷戈里 (Andrew Gregory)

目前在慕尼黑举行的全球最大规模心脏病会议上展示的研究表明，这种降低胆固醇的药物可能会显著降低

在试点期间接受检查的人员中，被发现患心脏病发作或中风高风险者的比例

长期风险。专家认为，这是因为有强有力的证据表明，高低密度脂蛋白（LDL）胆固醇会通过使供应大脑的血管硬化或狭窄，增加人们患痴呆症的风险。

这些研究结果于昨日在欧洲心脏病学会（ESC）年会上公布，并同步发表在《柳叶刀-欧洲区域健康》（Lancet Regional Health Europe）杂志上。

“这有可能改善治疗结果并减少健康不平等，特别是在心血管疾病负担最重的社区中。”

他汀类药物已经是全球最常用的药物之一。这类药物能降低血液中的低密度脂蛋白（LDL）胆固醇水平，而 LDL 胆固醇会导致动脉中斑块积聚，增加心脏病发作、中风和心脏病的概率。但他汀类药物在长期内可能还有助于保护大脑。

ESC 通讯委员会成员、未参与该研究的伊莎贝尔·冈萨尔维斯（Isabel Goncalves）教授对研究结果表示赞赏。她说：“由于他汀类药物供应广泛且价格低廉，这些发现具有潜在的重要性。”

NHS 英格兰心血管疾病预防国家专业顾问拉尼·哈提布（Rani Khatib）博士表示，每个人都应努力了解心脏病最常见的风险因素，包括高胆固醇和高血压，并“了解自己的数值”。

卫生大臣艾莉森·麦戈文（Alison McGovern）表示，这正是她希望在整个 NHS 中看到的“创新类型”。

低密度脂蛋白胆固醇（LDL-C）驱动斑块形成，由此导致的大脑血液供应中断会增加痴呆风险。

他说：“这一举措将帮助人们更早地管理其风险因素，并降低心脏病发作或中风的风险。”

麦戈文说：“通过让人们能够在当地药房仅用七分钟就完成胆固醇检查，我们让人们能够更轻松地尽早发现潜在问题，并采取行动保护健康。”

此前《柳叶刀》痴呆委员会的研究表明，从童年开始并贯穿终身，针对 14 个可干预风险因素采取措施，可以预防或延迟 45% 的痴呆病例。

这项 15 年研究中的所有参与者均患有 2 型糖尿病。但特恩哈马尔（Ternhamar）表示，研究结果强化了这样一个观点，即有一天每个人都可能被提供服用他汀类药物，将其作为一套综合措施（如保持身体活跃和健康饮食）的一部分，以降低痴呆风险。

在会议上展示这项新研究结果的哥本哈根大学医院图马斯·特恩哈马尔（Tummas Ternhamar）博士表示：“从中年开始检测并治疗高水平的 LDL-C 就是这样一个被强调的风险因素。”

在慕尼黑接受记者采访时，

他说：“早期检测有助于预防心脏病发作和中风等严重疾病，帮助人们保持更长时间的健康，同时减轻 NHS 服务的压力。”

他说：“我们的研究支持这样一种观点，即应对痴呆风险的最佳方式是同时针对多个因素，而胆固醇可能就在这个名单上。

“《柳叶刀》委员会已经采取了这种多组件视角，建议从中年开始检测并治疗高 LDL 胆固醇。我们的发现还补充了一点，即时机至关重要……尽早采取行动的效果优于延迟行动。”

在特恩哈马尔及其同事追踪的 132,585 人中，有 2.7% 随后患上了痴呆症。

特恩哈马尔表示，专家们正在研究他汀类药物降低痴呆风险的具体原因。

“他表示，‘他汀类药物能有效降低低密度脂蛋白（LDL）胆固醇，并预防动脉粥样硬化及动脉粥样硬化性心血管疾病。这反过来可能会预防脑血管动脉粥样硬化、缺血性中风、血流量减少以及脑组织损伤，从而为解释我们的研究结果提供了一个合理的联系。’”

英国心脏基金会（British Heart Foundation）首席科学与医学官布莱恩·威廉姆斯（Bryan Williams）教授表示，该研究的结果“确实具有合理性”。

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特朗普曾试图扼杀的空间望远镜开启百万英里旅程

理查德·卢斯康贝 (Richard Luscombe) 迈阿密

一座价值 43亿美元、曾被唐纳德·特朗普试图扼杀的空间望远镜于昨日凌晨从佛罗里达州发射升空，美国国家航空航天局（Nasa）由此开启了揭开宇宙奥秘探索之旅的下一阶段。

南希·格雷斯·罗曼（Nancy Grace Roman）空间望远镜在经历了白宫两轮拟议的预算削减后幸存下来，现已从肯尼迪航天中心的发射台出发，开始向深空进发，旅程长达一百万英里。

该望远镜的高级项目科学家朱莉·麦克内里（Julie McEnery）在发射后的新闻发布会上告诉记者，这次发射标志着“工程师工作的终点，但却是科学家的起点”。她补充道：“感觉我就像站在悬崖边缘，我们即将迈步走向未知。”

罗曼任务主要寻找系外行星以及关于行星形成的线索，旨在与哈勃和詹姆斯·韦伯空间望远镜一同载入 Nasa 辉煌的太空探索史册。

罗曼望远镜耗时近 10 年打造，以该航天机构首任天文学负责人（于 2018, 年去世）的名字命名。其性能比哈勃强大许多倍，并将致力于增强其同僚望远镜的产出，而后者目前均在运行中。根据 的说法，其 300-megapixel 红外相机将使其拥有与哈勃相同的清晰度和分辨率，但视野至少大 100 倍。

罗曼望远镜还配备了一台名为日冕仪的专用仪器，可遮挡恒星的眩光，从而更容易详细拍摄围绕其运行的行星。

表示，预计这些图像将揭示“比目前直接成像主要发现的那些炽热、年轻的超级木星更古老、更寒冷且轨道更近的巨型世界”。

罗曼望远镜的目的地是拉格朗日 Point 2,，这是距离地球约一百万英里的一个空间“停车位”。它将在与韦伯相同的复杂轨道上运行，尽管两台望远镜将保持较远距离。

表示，罗曼望远镜的大范围全景图将“发现有趣的观测目标，哈勃随后可以使用红外光、可见光和紫外光进行跟进，以提供更全面的视角”，而韦伯“随后可以使用其更大的镜面和更强大的视觉能力，提供更详细、超清晰的观测结果”。

与此同时，罗曼望远镜可以观察哈勃或韦伯观测对象周围的区域“以提供背景信息”。 预计，在最终轨道进行数月的校准和测试后，首批图像将于 2027 年初发布，并立即向公众公开，为研究人员和业余天文学家提供前所未有的分析机会。

在关于该望远镜初步五年任务（可延长至 10 年）的在线说明中表示：“从太阳系外缘的天体和爆炸的恒星，到不断增长的黑洞和数以十亿计的星系，几乎没有什么能超出罗曼望远镜的触及范围。”

文中补充道：“罗曼望远镜将宽广的视野与清晰的红外视觉相结合，以扫描广阔且深邃的天空区域。这一旗舰任务旨在帮助天文学家探索暗物质，

（一张 SpaceX 猎鹰火箭携带南希·格雷斯·罗曼空间望远镜昨日从佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心发射升空的图片） 摄影：JOEL KOWSKY / GETTY

“感觉我就像站在悬崖边缘，我们即将迈步走向未知”

朱莉·麦克内里

暗能量以及太阳系外的行星。”

麦克内里表示，对这类望远镜的需求在上世纪末就已产生，但直到 2016 年 才开始开发阶段，并在 2020 年最终批准整个项目并启动建设。

在周四接受位于马里兰州的 戈达德太空飞行中心的天体物理视频制作人索菲亚·罗伯茨（Sophia Roberts）采访时，她表示：“推动罗曼望远镜研发的动力之一，是人们发现我们的宇宙不仅在膨胀，而且这种膨胀正在加速。”

“关于我们宇宙本身的性质，有一些非常基础的东西是我们尚未理解的，而罗马空间望远镜正是为了解决这些问题并提供所需的数据而专门设计的，”她补充道。

如果美国总统能如愿以偿，罗马空间望远镜永远无法登上发射台。2025年，白宫提出了一项提案，分析人士称该提案将对美国国家航空航天局（Nasa）的科学预算进行“灭绝级削减”，其中就包括砍掉罗马项目。该提案在1月被国会全面否决，国会将该机构2026年的资金水平恢复至244亿美元。

特朗普政府似乎并未因此打消念头，正尝试在2027财年再次发力，寻求将Nasa的预算削减23%至188亿美元，并将科学项目的预算削减46%。非营利组织行星学会（Planetary Society）表示，这将导致50多个任务被终止。

感到愧疚？周末稍微睡个懒觉可能是健康之选

安德鲁·格雷戈里 (Andrew Gregory)

多年来，专家们一直强调睡懒觉的风险，警告称在周末补眠可能会扰乱人体的生物钟，并引发不利的健康影响。

如今，一项分析为该建议提供了一个修正条件：只要不过度，周末睡懒觉可能对你有好处。研究人员发现，在漫长的一周之后，适量的补眠（多睡一到两小时）与高血压患病率的降低相关。

▲ 新研究表明，周末适当增加睡眠时间可能有助于降低血压

在全球范围内，有超过 13 亿美元 人患有高血压。他们面临着更高的心脏病发作、中风、肾脏疾病和早逝的风险。专家表示，虽然其他避免高血压的方法仍然至关重要——例如保持活跃、维持健康体重和良好饮食——但一项研究表明，人们不必再为周末起床晚而感到愧疚。

该研究在慕尼黑举行的欧洲心脏病学会年会上发表，这是全球规模最大的心脏病会议。

研究作者、首尔韩国大学的李娜温 (Nawon Lee) 博士表示：“睡眠不足会给身体带来额外压力。它会让心脏和血管承受更重的负担，并可能升高血压。”

“在周末多睡一会儿可能会给身体一个恢复的机会，并减轻部分压力。人们不应该因为周末多睡了一会儿而感到懒惰或愧疚。如果他们在周中无法获得充足的睡眠，周末的补眠可能仅仅是身体从睡眠不足中恢复的一种方式。”

分析指出，1小时27分钟是理想的补眠时长。

该研究在七年时间里对韩国 40,000 名成年人进行了观察。周末补眠被定义为周末与工作日睡眠时长的差值。总体而言，周末补眠与高血压概率降低 6% 相关。

在被认为缺乏体育活动的人群中，这种益处更为明显。如果他们周末睡懒觉，患高血压的可能性会降低 6.9%。

英国心脏基金会 (British Heart Foundation) 临床总监索尼娅·巴布-纳拉扬 (Sonya Babu-Narayan) 博士表示：“这项研究并不是在给‘忽视体育活动’开绿灯，但就目前而言，也许我们不必为周末起床晚而感到愧疚。”

新闻 尼泊尔洪水

救援人员在担忧新一轮洪水袭击中搜寻数千名失踪者

安杰丽克·克里萨菲斯 (Angelique Chrisafis)

在喜马拉雅边境地带，一场致命的洪水席卷而过，吞没了整个村庄。面对新一轮洪水的威胁，尼泊尔和西藏的救援人员在没过腿的泥泞中艰难前行，搜寻数千名依然失踪的人员。

昨天的最新更新显示，失踪人数为 3,048 人，其中包括数百名外国人。尼泊尔和西藏共有 797 人被确认死亡，另有报告称部分尸体被冲向下游，可能远至印度。

尼泊尔方面表示，在采集 DNA 样本后，已开始埋葬数百具尸体中的一部分，以便家属在身份确认后将其领回并举行传统的葬礼仪式。

美国地质调查局表示，这场发生在周三的边境灾难是由冰川崩塌引起的，崩塌导致大量水流和碎片向下游倾泻。

尼泊尔外交部长呼吁全球应对气候危机，并表示这个贫穷的喜马拉雅小国承担了不成比例的影响。

希希尔·卡纳尔 (Shisir Khanal) 周六表示：“尽管尼泊尔对全球排放的贡献仅为 0.1%，但尼泊尔人民却成了气候变化的主要受害者。”

到目前为止，尼泊尔已有 3,700 多人获救。尼泊尔昨天表示，该国有 2,502 人失联，其中包括 592 名外国人。据报告，更新后的死亡人数为 781 人。

中国当局昨天报告有 16 人死亡，546 人失踪，其中 261 人为外国国民，包括 104 名尼泊尔人、49 名印度人、33 名拉脱维亚人、18 名美国人和 15 名英国公民。

在周末取得的一项突破中，尼泊尔军队成功在特里舒利 (Trishuli) 3A 水电站的一个隧道中插入了一根管道，据信有 100 多名工人被困在该处。

内政部长苏丹·古隆 (Sudan Gurung) 表示：“我们已经开始通过这个小开口输送空气，现在我们将开始挖掘工作并将救援队送入内部。”

目前救援工作集中在特里舒利 3A 和 3B 站点，这是一场与时间的赛跑，旨在救出可能仍被困在隧道内的工人。根据尼泊尔灾害管理部门的数据，失踪人员中包括 933 名水电工人。

昨天，尼泊尔警告称洪水水位正在上涨，并敦促救援

▲ 尼泊尔巴拉特普尔 (Bharatpur) 一个万人冢的应急工作人员

洪水受害者面临凄凉回归，河水再次开始上涨

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在被贴上标签并记录位置编号后，尸体被包裹在塑料袋中，然后被安置在浅坟中。警方表示，希望这些遗体最终能通过 DNA 由亲属确认身份，并被接回进行正式的葬礼仪式。

在奇特旺（Chitwan），距离山洪和泥石流袭击最严重的地区下游约 100 英里，有 250 多具尸体被冲到河岸边。但由于尸体毁损严重，目前仅有 9 具被成功确认身份。许多遗体现在将被埋葬在城市边缘的森林中，至少是暂时埋葬。

为了加快身份确认工作，当地官员采取了一种令人不寒而栗的方法，即简单地要求人们查看尸体照片并寻找识别特征：一件

教师救出数百名儿童

在这场导致近 800 人死亡、数千人失踪的毁灭性山洪中，尼泊尔的一位校长在致命的水墙袭击其城镇前瞬间，疏散了 900 名儿童。

拉杰德拉·达瓦迪（Rajendra Dawadi）在收到关于即将到来的洪水规模的警告后，决定停止上课并命令孩子们前往高地。

达瓦迪是努瓦科特（Nuwakot）特里布万-特里舒利（Tribhuvan Trishuli）中学的校长，该校有 1,600 名学生。他表示，他在几分钟内收到了来自不同人的四次警告，其中包括来自直接位于上游的城镇贝特拉瓦蒂（Betrawati）的一条警告。

这促使他立即采取行动。“我决定不能再拖延了，”他告诉英国广播公司（BBC）。“即使洪水没来，也只是少上了一天的课而已。”

达瓦迪说，在疏散学校期间，他看到一座距离河流约 100 米（328 英尺）的宿舍楼被汹涌的洪水吞没。

“如果我们把决定推迟 10

拉杰德拉·达瓦迪收到关于洪水袭来的警告，决定迅速疏散学校

分钟，我们所有人，包括学生和我，今天都无法在这里与你们交谈了，”他说。

一名学生表示，达瓦迪的决定在千钧一发之际救了他们的命。尤尼莎，16, 告诉记者：“我和我的朋友们仅以 10 秒之差幸存下来。”

她描述了孩子们在泥泞的小路上奔跑逃生，而水流和碎片淹没了城镇的情景。“转眼之间，集市就在我眼前被冲走了，”她说。她在三天后与家人团聚。

据慈善机构“救助儿童会”（Save the Children）称，至少有 69 所学校被洪水摧毁或损坏，影响了近 19,000 名儿童。项链、结婚戒指、纹身、疤痕。那些被找回者的照片被放在 PowerPoint 幻灯片中，让亲属耐心地翻阅，并上传到了尼泊尔警方的网站。在首都加德满都的停尸房外，内部死者的照片被贴在墙上。

然而，由于尼泊尔和西藏仍有 3,000 多人被报告失踪，人们担心死亡人数可能会呈指数级增长。许多受灾最严重的地区——整个村庄被泥浆、水流和碎片的巨浪抹去——目前除了依靠军队直升机外仍无法进入。外交部长阿姆里特·巴哈杜尔·赖（Amrit Bahadur Rai）在周日表示，政府已请求提供“1,000 多个冷冻单元”用于安全存放遗体。

即使在较低地带，救援队伍也被要求保持谨慎。国家灾害风险减轻与管理当局表示：“我们收到消息，拉斯瓦（Rasuwa）的博特科西河（Bhotekoshi River）的水流量进一步增加。”

昨天早些时候，人们的手机收到了洪水预警，与此同时，救援人员正努力清理一条连接加德满都与受灾地区之一的高速公路。

在尼泊尔受灾最严重的地区之一达丁（Dhading），一些人们开始返回被毁的家中，看看还能抢救出什么。受灾村庄的居民表示，自最初的洪水爆发以来，他们一直收到近乎不断的警报，对此感到难以应对。

一名名为戈温德·什雷斯塔（Govind Shreshta）的居民告诉美联社（Associated Press）：“有时他们说洪水要来了，我们就得再次逃往高地，即使在深夜也是如此。而且还在下雨。对我来说真的非常困难。我有一个72岁的父亲和一位70岁的母亲。我必须背着他们，我已经精疲力竭了。对于那些幸存下来的人来说，日子就是这样度过的。”

政府估计，尼泊尔的重建费用可能高达数十亿美元。

尼泊尔官员呼吁提供法医检测套件以确认死者身份，以及用于存放遗体的冷冻单元，并表示浸在水中的尸体分解速度可能会更快。

幸存者们面临着痛苦的等待，以了解失踪亲属的下落，并面临着从零开始重建生活的前景。“河边所有的定居点都被冲走了，”布迪·拉姆·丹戈尔（Buddhi Ram Dangol）在尼泊尔努瓦科特（Nuwakot）地区告诉法新社（Agence France-Presse）。“什么都没剩下。”

在西藏，中国当局是唯一的信息来源，由于一个新形成的湖泊存在进一步引发洪水的风险，最严重受灾地区吉隆的救援行动已暂停。

在尼泊尔首都加德满都，亲友们从清晨起就聚集在政府主要医院外，拼命寻找失踪亲人的消息。

许多人在咨询台和医院公告栏之间徘徊，手里紧握着照片，扫描着病人名单，希望能找到他们。

迪尔·玛雅·拉玛（Dil Maya Lama）站在医院咨询台附近哭泣，寻找她26岁弟弟的消息，她的弟弟是拉苏瓦（Rasuwa）一家水电公司的司机。她从大约80英里（130公里）外的拉梅恰普（Ramechhap）赶来。

“我来到这里是希望能够找到他，”她告诉美联社。“但目前还没有关于他的任何信息。”

3,048 上周尼泊尔和西藏发生山洪后，包括外国人在内的失踪人数

内尔扎·莫克坦（Nelza Moktan）在寻找她失踪表亲的消息，她的表亲同样在拉斯瓦（Rasuwa）担任司机。“我觉得很绝望。已经过去四天了，”她说。

延伸报道 美联社（Associated Press）、法新社（Agence France-Presse）和路透社（Reuters）

“当我们最终清理完所有淤泥时——这可能需要很多个月——谁知道我们会发现什么？” 阿马巴杜塔·巴塔（Amabadutta Bhatta） 警司 特里舒利河（Trishuli River）沿岸洪水过后的景象。上方为德维加特（Devighat）的一名居民。照片：RAJESH KUMAR SINGH / AP; AHMER KHAN / THE GUARDIAN

▲ 亲属和爱人们开始将失踪者和遇难者的照片贴在墙上，例如在尼泊尔首都加德满都的这家医院。 照片：DAR YASIN / AP

在那些被洪水摧毁但仍可通过道路抵达的河谷地带，搜救队伍在挖掘被掩埋在淤泥中的遇难者时陷入苦战。昨天下午，在特里舒利河畔被洪水夷为平地的圣城德维加特，搜救人员准备从一座房屋的泥泞废墟中拉出另一名受害者。在厚厚的淤泥中，只能看到对方的双脚。

“这是一项非常艰巨的工作。到目前为止，我们在这里找回了 10 具尸体，可能还会有更多，”在该市参与搜救工作的警司阿马巴杜塔·巴塔说。“洪水摧毁了这里大多数房屋的一层和二层。当我们最终清理完所有淤泥时——这可能需要很多个月——谁知道我们会发现什么？”

在德维加特幸存下来的人们缓缓返回，查看房屋的残骸，其中许多房屋已被彻底冲走。49 岁的乌莎·尼泊尔（Usha Nepali）站在她那仅剩几块混凝土块和扭曲金属的房屋残骸旁，为她抚养四个孩子和三个孙辈的家而痛哭。

▲ 人们在尼泊尔德维加特视察周三灾难留下的破坏景象。左侧，该地区几乎没有建筑未受损坏。 照片：AHMER KHAN / THE GUARDIAN

“我投入了一切来建这座房子，所以现在我不知道该去哪里，该做什么，”她说。“除了背上的这件衣服，什么都没剩下。自从洪水发生以来，我甚至没能换过衣服。我们怎么能重建这座房子？这片土地不再安全，但这是我们唯一拥有的土地。河流夺走了一切。”

居住在特里舒利河畔的危险性在昨天再次凸显，湍急的水位再次危险地升高，救援人员敦促人们迅速转移到高地。

36 岁的贾穆纳·马加尔（Jamuna Magar）说，她的丈夫一家世世代代住在德维加特。她形容这里曾是“如此美丽的地方”。

在收到洪水预警后的几分钟里，她只有时间抓起她的金饰，除此之外什么也没拿。她说，她看不出他们以后还能如何住在德维加特。

“我们以前经历过洪水，但从未想过会有这样的洪水袭来并冲走我们的房子。我们拥有的一切都在房子的底层，现在全部丢失了。甚至我们的冰箱也被冲走了。我太担心我的生活，担心我孩子的生活，不能再留在这里了。”

中国报告 15 名英国人失踪

拉斐尔·博伊德 (Raphael Boyd)

在针对尼泊尔和西藏毁灭性洪水幸存者的搜救工作继续进行之际，据报道有 15 名英国国民在中国失踪。

尼泊尔和中国当局昨日确认，更新后的死亡人数至少为 810 人。周三，喜马拉雅山脉发生大规模冰川崩塌，引发山洪吞没尼泊尔与中国边境的吉隆口岸，据信有 3,000 多人失踪。

根据中国当局公布的数据，15 名失踪的英国人包含在来自 23 个国家的 261 名失踪外国国民之中，这使得在西藏和尼泊尔之间失踪的英国人总数达到 48 人。

西藏自治区政府表示，当地失踪总人数中还包括 104 名尼泊尔人，以及 49 名印度人、33 名拉脱维亚人和 18 名美国人。

在边境的尼泊尔一侧，已有 33 名英国人被宣布失踪，其中一些人在洪水发生时正在进行朝圣，包括赫曼吉尼·吉滕德拉·帕特尔 (Hemangini Jitendra Patel) 和赫玛·苏尼尔·阿明 (Hema Sunil Amin) 姐妹，她们最后一次被看到是在尼泊尔与中国边境的友谊桥。

美国国务院对美国人失踪的人数提出了异议，该部门昨日宣布至少有 85 名美国公民失踪。该部门发言人汤米·皮戈特 (Tommy Pigott) 表示，从该地区获取准确信息一直很困难，“我们所看到的破坏程度和偏远程度使得情况更加困难”。

中国当局表示，在边境的中国一侧至少有 16 人死亡。但人们担心中国政府可能缺乏透明度，因为该政府已停止分享洪水的影像资料。

尼泊尔警方自行公布的数据显示，尼泊尔境内的洪水中已有 794 人被确认死亡。

由于山体滑坡的威胁、危险的天气，以及关于受害者在洪水袭击时处于尼泊尔与中国边境哪一侧的混乱情况，救援工作受到了影响。

中国国家电视台报道称，资源远比尼泊尔同行丰富的北京官员已动员了 2,100 多名救援人员，并拨款 2.2 亿元 (3270万美元) 支持救援工作。

英国外交部的一位发言人表示：“我们正在全天候工作，以支持受尼泊尔与中国边境毁灭性洪水影响的英国国民及其家属。我们正与尼泊尔和中国当局密切协调，并已向该地区派遣了领事支持人员。”

新闻

大学禁止指控 Arday 的人员教学三个月

克里斯·奥苏（Chris Osuh）

指控杰森·阿尔代（Jason Arday）的人员内森·科夫纳斯（Nathan Cofnas）被禁止在根特大学（Ghent University）校园内教学三个月，但被允许继续担任其研究职位。

本月早些时候，美国学者科夫纳斯被这家比利时机构暂停了博士后研究职位，原因是剑桥大学教授阿尔代去世后启动了一项初步调查。

根特大学没有点名科夫纳斯，但随后确认已对一名工作人员“采取了为期三个月的纪律处分”，根据该处分，该人员“被要求远程办公，且不得从事任何教学活动”。

该人员在岗位上的研究活动被“严格限制在任命时所确定的研究课题内”。

科夫纳斯在 X 平台的一篇帖子中表示，他感谢根特大学校长佩特拉·德·萨特（Petra De Sutter）教授“允许我留下”。

与此同时，曾批评科夫纳斯被停职的美国驻比利时大使比尔·怀特（Bill White）在其官方账号上声称，大学与科夫纳斯已“友好地达成协议”取消停职，使其能够完成为期一年的任职。

根特大学在一份声明中表示，一项调查正在进行中，“以确定是否需要采取进一步的纪律行动”。该大学随后确认已与美国大使取得联系，后者“就其在 X 上的言论提供了进一步的背景信息”。

科夫纳斯在根特大学的职位一直深陷争议。今年 5 月，根特大学哲学系向大学领导层指称，科夫纳斯在研究“自由主义的未来”这一职位上“专业知识非常有限”，并称其拥有“极右翼议程”。

7 月，科夫纳斯指责社会学家阿尔代剽窃，声称其传记主张存在“严重问题”。阿尔代于 8 月 14 日被发现死亡。他的家人称赞他是一位“了不起的父亲、伴侣、兄弟、叔叔和儿子”。

怀特是一名坚定的特朗普支持者、捐赠者和筹款人，他将科夫纳斯的停职描述为“完全不可接受”，并要求德·萨特“立即撤销”该决定。

周五，怀特在他的个人 X 账号上写道：“我刚刚通过迅速解决根特大学（UGHENT）科夫纳斯事件，将比利时从一场彻底的全球媒体崩溃以及 @elonmusk 和所有人的应得痛击中拯救了出来。”

在前一天晚上，科夫纳斯在 X 上感谢了怀特和美国国务院“捍卫美国价值观”，并补充道：“我简直无法想象这样一个人会关注一个博士后的命运。大使给予了巨大的支持，这有助于带来公正的结果。”

内森·科夫纳斯此前被停职，现在将被允许在根特大学继续其研究

科夫纳斯被指在其网络文章中推广关于种族差异的伪科学观点，据报道，他也是一名“种族科学”研究员向 Palantir 创始人彼得·蒂尔（Peter Thiel）推荐的博主之一。

科夫纳斯还抨击过唐纳德·特朗普和 MAGA，但同时声称特朗普在美国针对多样性、公平和包容性（DEI）发布的行政命令是“值得庆祝的事”。

去年 4 月，他表示共和党已“退化为一个低智商的个人崇拜教派”。

在抨击特朗普的关税政策时，他表示其效果将是“停止美国经济巨轮的运转，使反觉醒运动失去信誉，为左翼民粹主义铺平道路……[并且]阻止右翼在其他国家的势头”。

根特大学的一位发言人表示，校方不希望“就此事围绕的争议发表进一步评论”，并且“必须允许正在进行的初步纪律调查在冷静、独立且充分尊重所有相关人员权利的情况下进行”。

北塞浦路斯近海渡轮倾覆，8人死亡，23人失踪

海伦娜·史密斯（Helena Smith）雅典报道 安杰莉克·克里萨菲斯（Angelique Chrisafis）

当地当局表示，昨日一艘载有近270名乘客及船员的渡轮在土耳其占领的北塞浦路斯海岸附近倾覆，造成至少8人死亡，23人失踪。

该地区的总理于纳尔·于斯泰尔（Ünal Üstel）告诉国营TRT新闻频道，已有237人获救。目前正在搜寻失踪人员。

土耳其塞浦路斯领导人图凡·埃尔许尔曼（Tufan Erhürman）表示：“搜救队伍正在全力以赴地寻找他们。”

“如果船内仍有人员，目前看来很难触及他们。我们也在尝试利用其他技术手段与他们取得联系。”

这艘双体船式渡轮当时正从基雷尼亚港（Kyrenia，亦称Girne）前往土耳其梅尔辛省的塔舒库港（Taşucu）。

基雷尼亚是当地居民和游客的热门度假目的地。这艘私人渡轮是连接北塞浦路斯与土耳其的数条每日往返航线之一。

土耳其控制的北尼科西亚市市长穆罕默德·哈曼齐（Mehmet Harmancı）称，这是该地区宣布独立40多年来最严重的一次灾难。

“我们以前从未见过这样的事情。这是迄今为止最惨重的悲剧。仍有23人失踪。我们认为大多数乘客是土耳其人和土耳其塞浦路斯人，”他说道。

在渡轮倾覆数小时后，许多细节仍不明确。“我们还不知道有多少人受伤以及伤势如何，”哈曼齐说。“所有伤员都被送往这里的（北）尼科西亚医院。我正前往医院，并正在筹集保暖衣物。”

基雷尼亚市市长穆拉特·申库尔（Murat Şenkul）表示，该渡轮隶属于Filo Denizcilik公司，在戴安娜海滩（Diana beach）附近沉没。据TRT报道，该船在距离海岸约4海里处开始进水。现场视频显示，穿着救生衣的人员漂浮在倾覆船只周围的水域中。

船只倾覆时，乘客们紧紧抓着翻转的船壳。

埃尔许尔曼告诉CNN土耳其频道，他对人员伤亡感到“深切悲痛”。他在该地区设立的危机中心发表讲话时表示：“这里充满了震惊。这是我们以前从未经历过的事情……每个人都在尽其所能，付出一切努力。”

一名接近埃尔许尔曼的消息人士表示，对于在北塞浦路斯工作的土耳其人来说，这艘渡轮是往返于大陆与岛屿之间的一种流行交通方式。

“它比飞机便宜得多 ▲ 渡轮在北塞浦路斯海岸倾覆后，乘客爬上船壳等待救援 照片：路透社电视（REUTERS TV）

而且只需要几个小时。很多土耳其公民利用它旅行并回乡探亲，”一名要求匿名的官员说道。

他们补充道：“可以说很多乘客都很贫穷。这一切实在太令人悲伤了。”

当地官员表示，四艘海岸警卫队船只和一艘民用客船已部署到现场，此外还有五艘土耳其海岸警卫队船只和两架直升机。

延伸报道 路透社（Reuters）、法新社（Agence France-Presse） 以及美联社（Associated Press）

加拿大设立大型安大略湖标牌，再次反击美国

爱德华·赫尔莫尔 (Edward Helmore)

唐纳德·特朗普与加拿大在周六就美国政府行政更名安大略湖一事继续进行口头交锋。加拿大竖起了一块写着“安大略。现在且永远”的大型标牌，而美国总统则发布了一段 AI 视频，视频中他将一块写着“欢迎来到安大略”的标牌推倒。

在视频中，特朗普安装了一块写着“欢迎来到美国”的替代标牌，然后跳起了《YMCA》。

关于安大略湖命名的言论之争，是美国与其北邻之间不断升级的贸易争端的公开表现，该争端涉及美国对加拿大钢铁征收 50% 的关税，以及渥太华采取的报复性关税。

在解决贸易争端的谈判陷入僵局后，特朗普周四表示安大略湖将被更名为“美国”，并签署了一项行政命令，指示美国联邦机构使用新名称。

加拿大总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）拒绝了此次更名，他表示“安大略”源自一个原住民温达特（Wendat）词汇，意为“这里很美丽，这里很伟大”，其历史可追溯到 400 年前。

特朗普要求美国政府将安大略湖称为“美国”的命令产生了至少一个显著影响：Google Maps 为美国用户将安大略湖的名称更改为“美国”。

在解释为何顺从特朗普更名的一份声明中，Google 表示其惯例是“反映官方政府来源中的名称变更”。 在声明中称，安大略湖的更名“不会对加拿大的命名惯例或世界其他地区对该湖的称呼产生任何影响”。并且该公司表示，“在加拿大的用户将继续在 Maps 上看到‘安大略湖’，而……美国和加拿大以外的用户将看到这两个名称。”

在特朗普要求美国政府将墨西哥湾称为“美国湾”的行政命令中， 也采取了类似做法。周六，美国总统发布了一段 AI 生成的视频，视频中一群长着特朗普式金发的加拿大鹅正用步枪射击以保护“美国湖”。

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▲ 唐纳德·特朗普发布了一段自己与“美国湖”标牌在一起的 视频

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与医生的谈话 转录被指为“患者安全的潜在威胁”

丹尼斯·坎贝尔 (Denis Campbell) 健康政策编辑

英国国民医疗服务体系（NHS）的一家监察机构警告称，能够倾听并转录患者与医生会诊内容的 技术可能会因误报药物名称和疾病而使患者陷入风险。

在其中一个案例中，一名女性在看到 记录员对其谈话的总结时感到震惊，总结中错误地称她患有脱髓鞘病——这是一种可能导致多发性硬化症的严重神经损伤。

直到这位患者（本身也是一名 NHS 健康专业人员）对 工具记录的 MRI 扫描结果提出质疑后，医院才将其修正为正确结果——“无脱髓鞘”。这位要求匿名的女性表示：“这件事最终得到了修正，但因为 而被告知一个错误的诊断，随后又被告知这只是个笔误，这是一种非常令人心碎的经历。”

英格兰健康观察局（Healthwatch England）重点强调了该案例以及 记录员的其他错误，以表明 NHS 正在引入的这项技术是对患者安全的潜在威胁。该机构表示，除非被发现，否则错误可能会进入患者的医疗记录并影响其治疗。

AI 欺骗案例激增

研究表明，AI 系统为了撒谎、无视指令以及以潜在有害的方式追求目标而脱离用户控制的事件已达到新高。

根据监测 X 上 用户报告的“失控观察站”（Loss of Control Observatory）的数据，7 月份由企业和个人标记的涉及 模型的失控事件数量较 6 月份几乎翻了一番，当月案例超过 300 起。

该观察站由英国政府的英国AI安全研究所（AISI）提供资金设立，并于去年 11 月开始追踪 脱离用户指令的情况。

此后记录的案例包括： 伪装成其人类控制者并模仿其写作风格，从而有效地为自己的行动获得授权；以及绕过需要人类批准的规则。

该观察站正呼吁政府要求 公司监测并报告严重的失控事件，并引入紧急权力以对其进行管理。 罗伯特·布斯（Robert Booth）

在另一个案例中，一名 记录员将全科医生（GP）开出的药物与另一种名称相似的药物混淆——这一错误同样是由患者而非医生发现的。

在另一次情况中，一份 生成的总结信函未提及医院顾问曾告知患者向其全科医生申请偏头痛药物的重复处方，这可能导致患者无法获得药物。

作为 NHS 法定患者权益倡导机构的 Healthwatch 表示，它听到了“许多患者讲述的故事，他们注意到这些错误，而医疗专业人员却没有注意到”。该机构称：“如果患者没有发现，这些不准确的信息可能会一直留在记录中。”

政府针对英格兰 NHS 的 10 年健康计划预计， 记录员将“使工作人员从目前的官僚主义和行政负担中解脱出来，从而腾出时间进行护理并专注于患者”。这是 NHS 从模拟服务向数字化服务计划中的“重大转型”的核心。

Healthwatch 表示：“医疗保健从未没有过错误。但我们的调查结果表明，迫切需要明确患者如何报告并纠正 记录工具或使用这些工具的专业人员所犯的任何错误。”

Healthwatch 补充说，药品和医疗产品监管局（MHRA）决定不将 记录员归类为医疗设备，这一点令人“担忧”，这意味着将缺乏全英范围的监管来确保其使用安全且有效。英格兰的全科医生和医院医生已经在运行 27 种不同的 记录员。

部长们已收到警告，NHS 和医生可能会因 犯的错误而被起诉。

最近，当罗瑟勒姆（Rotherham）的患者向当地 Healthwatch 投诉部分当地全科诊所使用的 接待员无法理解他们的约克郡口音时， 的准确性成为了关注焦点。

伦敦的一位全科医生希尔·齐瑟·达伍德（Shier Ziser Dawood）博士去年在一家领先的医学期刊上警告称， 记录员对于家庭医生来说可能是一把“双刃剑”。她讲述了 记录员如何记录她告诉患者“继续服用 Prozac”，而实际上她并未开过该药，也未与患者讨论过该药。

她警告说，医生需要审查所有转录文本以检查错误，这意味着 工具目前尚未证明能够节省时间。

瑞典乌普萨拉大学 医疗应用专家夏洛特·布利斯（Charlotte Blease）博士表示，“ 能够且确实会犯错”，但她补充道：“事实是，医生在没有 的情况下也能且确实会犯错。而且错误率很可能更高。”

教会公布节日期间标志牌倒塌致死牧师姓名

英国新闻社（Press Association）

其教会表示，一名在基督教节日期间因标志牌倒塌而死亡的男子是一位受人尊敬的牧师，也是其家庭中一名“慈爱的丈夫”以及一名“尽职且关爱孩子的父亲”。

来自东本茅斯（Eastbourne）的罗伯特·古安科（Robert Guanco），现年41岁。随着好意者发起筹款活动以帮助其家人，东本茅斯的“耶稣活水教会”（Jesus Living Water church）在一段悼词中公布了他的姓名。

周五下午，在西萨塞克斯郡（West Sussex）斯泰宁（Steyning）附近举行的“大教会节日”（Big Church festival, BCF）上发生该事故，另有六人受伤，其中四人被送往医院。

目击者称，当时一块写着“一切不可错过”（Everything's Unmissable）的沉重标志牌在风中倒塌，参加节日的人们曾冲上前试图将其抬起。

在其教会昨日发布的悼词中，古安科被描述为“我们亲爱的罗伯特牧师”。

悼词写道：“罗伯特牧师是上帝忠实的仆人，是伊赛（Isay）慈爱的丈夫，是艾莉（Ellie）尽职且关爱孩子的父亲，也是他所触及的许多人生命中的祝福。”

“他的生命、他的信仰、他的爱以及他对上帝的奉献将永远被铭记。”

筹款页面将他描述为“不仅仅是一名牧师”，并写道：“他是一位深受爱戴的儿子，受宠的兄弟，慈爱的丈夫，艾莉伟大的父亲，以及上帝忠实的仆人。”

“他也是一位好朋友、导师，以及他所触及的许多人生命中的祝福。”

被誉为英国最大基督教节日的 BCF 组织者表示，他们对这次“严重事故”感到“心碎”和“崩溃”，并取消了活动的剩余部分。该活动于周五开幕，原定于昨日结束。

坎特伯雷大主教莎拉·穆拉利（Sarah Mullally）表示她感到“悲伤和震惊”，并补充道：“我为他处于悲痛中的家人、朋友和亲人祈祷。我为那些正在接受治疗的人以及照顾他们的医护人员祈祷。我也为其他参加节日的人员、工作人员和活动组织者祈祷，愿他们能面对这些悲剧性事件。”

萨塞克斯警方表示，该事故已上报至健康与安全执行局（Health and Safety Executive）及当地政府。

侦查总警司理查德·麦克多纳（Richard McDonagh）敦促任何周五在节日现场且拥有相关信息或影像资料的人员提供线索。

世界之巅：英国奥运双冠王汤姆·皮德考克（Tom Pidcock）在意大利特伦蒂诺（Trentino）瓦尔迪索莱（Val di Sole）举行的 UCI 山地车世界锦标赛中，在赢得他的第二个越野世界冠军后将自行车高举过头。

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坎特里尔的恶搞推理剧赢得爱丁堡喜剧奖

布莱恩·洛根 (Brian Logan)

年度爱丁堡喜剧奖——被誉为“现场喜剧界的奥斯卡”——由来自布拉德福德的脱口秀演员克里斯·坎特里尔 (Chris Cantrill) 摘得。

42岁的坎特里尔凭借作品《再野化》(Rewilding) 获奖。该剧讲述了他在诺森伯兰郡农村的新生活，在那里，一起破坏行为震惊了当地社区，随后展开了一场恶搞的“谁是凶手”推理剧。这部作品建立在2024年《易受影响》(Easily Swayed) 所奠定的基础上，后者记录了他搬到乡村的过程，并为坎特里尔赢得了当时的第三次提名（但这是他首次作为个人演员获得提名）。

坎特里尔是一位幽默、热爱生活且能引起共鸣的表演者，具有明显的主流潜力。他的获胜与本次奖项入围名单的趋势截然不同，因为在“最佳剧目”和“最佳新人”这两个类别中，入围者大多倾向于非主流风格。

在今年的获奖者中，古怪风格的代表是马蒂·格利森 (Marty Gleeson)，她凭借剧目《狗耳》(Dog Ear) 获得了最佳新人奖。这套古怪的表演灵感来自格利森在她家乡利默里克的艺术学校经历，在现场博兰鼓 (bodhrán) 的伴奏以及要求与每一位观众握手的环节支撑下，整场表演完全走自己的路子。

▲ 坎特里尔在经历三次提名后赢得了该喜剧奖

该主奖项被认为是英国喜剧界的“造星奖”，往届获奖者包括史蒂夫·库根 (Steve Coogan)、弗兰克·斯金纳 (Frank Skinner) 和布里奇特·克里斯蒂 (Bridget Christie)；最佳新人奖的获奖者则包括哈里·希尔 (Harry Hill) 和莎拉·米利坎 (Sarah Millican)。作为最佳剧目奖的获得者，坎特里尔赢得了 1 万英镑；格利森则获得了 5,000 英镑。

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检察官考虑对“卧底警察”丑闻中的警员提起指控

罗布·埃文斯 (Rob Evans)

检察官正在考虑是否对 12 名涉嫌监视政治团体的前警察提起刑事指控。

英国皇家检察署（CPS）正在审查一份证据文件，这些警员在参与备受争议的卧底行动期间可能存在违规行为。

此前，警方对马克·肯尼迪（Mark Kennedy）展开了调查，他是一名卧底警察，曾在六年时间里渗透进环保组织和左翼团体。

肯尼迪是“卧底警察”（spy-cops）丑闻中的关键人物。他通过隐瞒自己警察间谍的身份，诱骗多名女性与其建立亲密关系。具体人数尚不明确，但据信达到了两位数。

检察官正在考虑是否以“公职人员失职罪”（misconduct in public office）对其他警员授权提起指控。不过，涉嫌违规行为的具体细节尚未公开。

肯尼迪是 139 名卧底警察之一，这些警察在四十多年的时间里，监视了数万名主要为左翼的活动人士。

如果 CPS 决定对这 12 名警员中的任何一人提起诉讼，这将是首次有参与该卧底行动（行动时间从 1968 年持续到至少 2010 年）的警员因未经管理层授权的违规行为而面临刑事指控。

“卧底警察”丑闻揭露了这些卧底警员实施了一系列失职行为。其中包括经常诱骗女性建立性关系、以假身份出庭时在法庭程序中撒谎，以及盗用已故儿童的身份。

与其他卧底警察一样，

▲ 去年在“卧底警察”调查听证会外的抗议活动，该听证会一直在审查卧底警察的活动。照片：MARTIN GODWIN / THE GUARDIAN

肯尼迪在 2003 年至 2009 年间采用虚假身份，渗透进诸如“地球第一！”（Earth First!）和“气候营”（Climate Camp）等团体。他将自己从一名普通的警察变成了长发、有纹身的抗议者。他曾就职于国家公共秩序情报组（National Public Order Intelligence Unit），这是两个将卧底警察渗透进政治团体的小组之一。

他与一名名为丽莎·琼斯（Lisa Jones）的社会正义活动人士有过一段长达六年的亲密关系。通过自己的侦查工作，她在 2010 年揭穿了他的真实身份。

这次曝光引发了“卧底警察”丑闻的爆发，也是一系列揭秘中的首次。这导致了一场长期的公开调查，旨在审查卧底警察的活动及其管理情况。

这也促使警方针对个别警员涉嫌的犯罪行为启动了多项内部调查。其中一项名为“蒙特罗斯行动”（Operation Montrose）的调查，审查了肯尼迪及其他人的行为。

警方此前表示，

“蒙特罗斯行动”旨在审查肯尼迪在卧底期间是否建立了“不恰当的性关系”。

该调查始于 2015 年，在国家警察首长委员会（National Police Chiefs' Council）的主持下运行。该委员会确认已将涉及肯尼迪和其他 11 名警察的证据文件提交给 CPS。其他警察涉嫌违规行为的具体性质尚不明确。

肯尼迪曾与活动人士凯特·威尔逊（Kate Wilson）有过一段两年的关系。她在 2021 年赢得了一场具有里程碑意义的胜利，当时法庭法官裁定警方严重侵犯了她的人权。

法官得出结论，负责管理肯尼迪的高级警官们“要么知晓这段关系，要么选择对此视而不见，或者在面对清晰且明显的迹象时表现得无能且疏忽，未能进行跟进”。

秘密监视文件显示，警方在两人交往期间如何秘密监控并记录威尔逊的个人活动。他们记录了威尔逊和肯尼迪频繁在一起生活、拜访她父母家以及一起度假的情况。

他们详细记录了这对情侣前往电影院、博物馆和音乐会的行程，以及一次前往她曾就读的学院的访问。

肯尼迪的律师表示不愿对此发表评论。

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“征服者之男”（Conquest Man）的面部重建图。右图，英格兰遗产委员会（English Heritage）馆藏首席策展人凯文·布斯（Kevin Booth）在巴顿-昂-亨伯（Barton-upon-Humber）的圣彼得教堂内布置其骨架。 主图：DOMINIC LIPINSKI / ENGLISH HERITAGE

“征服者之男”可能并非诺曼军队入侵者

Nicola Davis 科学记者

黑斯廷斯战役是不列颠群岛历史上最具影响力的对决之一，被视为诺曼敌人跨海征服盎格鲁-撒克逊人的奠基性事件。

但一些研究人员通过为一名经历过那个动荡时代的人还原面貌，正在进一步了解那些可能不属于任何一方的战士。

这具被命名为“征服者之男”（Conquest Man）的未知男性骨骸被埋葬在巴顿-昂-亨伯（Barton-upon-Humber）的圣彼得教堂中。此前的分析显示，用于制作其棺材的橡木来自一棵砍伐于1079年的单棵树——这很可能就是该男子去世的时间。

虽然这一细节和其他信息很明确——他死于50或60多岁，体格粗壮，有多次愈合的骨折，身高仅5英尺1英寸——但他的出身却并不明确。

负责该项目的英国遗产委员会（English Heritage）馆藏首席策展人凯文·布斯（Kevin Booth）表示，关于该男子是否为诺曼人或撒克逊人，目前仍存在疑问。

“他很可能两者都不是，我们对此不应感到惊讶，”布斯说道。

这项尚未经过同行评审的新研究是由英格兰历史委员会（Historic England）、弗朗西斯·克里克研究所（Francis Crick Institute）、英国地质调查局（British Geological Survey）、南安普顿大学以及利物浦约翰摩尔大学的面部实验室（Face Lab）的研究人员共同完成的。

研究结果帮助团队重建了“征服者之男”的面孔，显示他薄唇、发际线后移，目光坦率。

根据对该男子DNA的分析，他拥有相当深厚的欧陆血统，而基于其颅骨形状的研究则表明他具有斯堪的纳维亚起源。

其牙齿中的锶同位素水平与居住在巴顿地区的人相符，而氧同位素水平则表明他在青少年时期可能在较寒冷的地区生活过。

尽管该男子被安葬在一座征服前时期的教堂墓地中（该教堂后来被移交给征服者威廉的骑士之一吉尔伯特·德·根特），但他的随葬品显示出斯堪的纳维亚的影响，其身侧放置着苹果木杖。

布斯表示，虽然“征服者之男”有可能来自巴顿，但最可能的解释是他来自斯堪的纳维亚——考虑到征服前的巴顿处于被称为“丹麦法区”（Danelaw）的维京控制领土核心地带，且亨伯河可通往大海，这种情况并不令人意外。

“我们研究的这个人出生在一个由一位国王统治英格兰、丹麦、挪威和瑞典部分地区的世界上。这种情况几乎持续到了1042年。通过亨伯河和其他东海岸港口的交流应该是很普遍的，”布斯说。

“他在成年早期在这个共同的北海领土内迁徙过来是非常合理的。”

然而，还有另一种可能性。“完全有可能我们研究的这个人是在1066年通过佩文西海滩进入的，”布斯说道，并指出该男子也可能因为家庭联系、贸易或单纯为了寻找生活而从斯堪的纳维亚来到诺曼底。

“但这可能……不是最可能的说法，”布斯说。事实上，这项新研究的报告强调，将“征服者之男”归入诺曼军队将是“跨度较大”的推论。

布斯补充说，这项研究凸显了1066年的事件并非孤立发生，但他也指出，那一年具有特殊性，它最终切断了斯堪的纳维亚与英格兰（尤其是东海岸）之间长期存在的联系。

“这个人成长在一个不同的世界，但设法在新的现实中找到了自己的位置，”他说。

“11世纪的英格兰并非非黑即白的二元对立。除此之外，能通过这样一个人物让那个我们经常轻易谈论的时代变得人性化，我觉得非常有力量。”

艺术家劳里·安德森将撰写秘密手稿

纳迪亚·科马米 (Nadia Khomami) 艺术与文化记者

美国艺术家劳里·安德森 (Laurie Anderson) 的下一篇手稿将在 88 年内保持不公开状态，她成为了参与“未来图书馆” (Future Library) 项目的第 13 位人物。

安德森加入了玛格丽特·阿特伍德 (Margaret Atwood)、韩江 (Han Kang)、奥申·武昂 (Ocean Vuong) 以及其他知名作者的行列，他们撰写的秘密手稿已被锁闭，直到 2114 年才会开启。

这些文本存储在奥斯陆公共图书馆戴希曼·比约维卡 (Deichman Bjørvika) 大楼内一个特制的静室中。在项目结束时，完整的文本选集将使用由奥斯陆北部诺德马卡 (Nordmarka) “未来图书馆森林”中的树木造纸印刷。该项目的发起艺术家凯蒂·帕特森 (Katie Paterson) 在 2014 年在那里种植了 1,000 棵云杉。

安德森是一位作家、导演、作曲家、视觉艺术家、音乐家和歌手，其作品涵盖艺术、戏剧、实验音乐和技术。她创作了大量多媒体舞台表演并出版了 10 本书，同时曾六次获得格莱美奖提名，其中一次获奖，并在 2024 年获得终身成就奖。

帕特森表示，安德森为该项目撰写的手稿可能是一段文字、一份乐谱、一个故事、一套指令，或者“某种我们尚未命名的东西”。

安德森说：“在我得知‘未来图书馆’这个想法的那一刻，我就绝对地爱上了它。我一直热爱书籍、图书馆和森林。

“我希望能够为 2114. 年阅读这些文字的人们写一些关于爱的有用内容。我最喜欢的书是那些能让我听到某人声音的书，这就是为什么我会尽最大努力，让下个世纪读到这些书的人能清晰地理解我的意思。”

未来图书馆信托基金会表示，选择安德森是因为她具有“跨越时空对话的独特能力，能够创作出深刻的人文作品，具有激进的想象力，并对我们尚无法预见的未来保持敏锐”。

帕特森补充道：“劳里·安德森一生都在向未知发送信号。几十年来，她一直在探索我们如何讲述故事，如何记忆，以及如何想象尚未到来的未来。她的作品在语言、音乐、视觉艺术、技术和表演之间自由穿梭，在私密与全球、爱与失去、政治与诗歌之间游走，充满了幽默、温柔与惊叹。”

其他参与该项目的作家包括大卫·米切尔 (David Mitchell)、斯永 (Sjón)、埃利夫·沙法克 (Elif Shafak)、卡尔·奥韦·克瑙斯高 (Karl Ove Knausgård)、齐齐·丹加雷姆巴 (Tsitsi Dangarembga)、朱迪思·沙兰斯基 (Judith Schalansky)、瓦莱里娅·路易塞利 (Valeria Luiselli)、汤米·奥兰治 (Tommy Orange) 以及最近加入的阿米塔夫·高什 (Amitav Ghosh)。

2022, 年 6 月，奥斯陆市政府签署了一项协议，确保在项目期间，该森林将由未来图书馆信托基金会管理。

▼ 彭顿维尔监狱 (HMP Pentonville) 的一条走廊。批评人士警告称，这一政策转向可能会打击监狱改革和康复工作 照片：伊恩·沃尔迪 (IAN WALDIE) / 盖蒂图片社 (GETTY IMAGES)

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首相在提前释放囚犯问题上的政策转向引发担忧，监狱被指“离灾难仅一步之遥”

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争取这一改变的过程一直充满痛苦。

“一方面我们感到欣慰，但我们已经历了重重磨难，现在仅仅是回到了最初的状态，”她在接受 BBC Breakfast 采访时表示。“我们没有取得任何进展，而是在字面上为了回到原点而奋斗。”

哈珀警员所属的泰晤士河谷警察局表示，这一消息将“受到警界及我们社区中许多人的欢迎”。

警察局长杰森·霍格（Jason Hogg）在的一份声明中表示：“今天无关政治。今天是为了缅怀安德鲁，意识到他的离世对于认识他的人、他所保护的社区以及如今在警界服务的人员所产生的深远影响。”

伯纳姆的干预将限制监狱系统能够腾出的空间数量，而部长们此前多次警告该系统已处于崩溃边缘。在原定于本周启动的提前释放计划之前，首相曾表示将通过驱逐外国囚犯和释放部分被判处不定期监禁的囚犯来腾出空间。但批评者认为，在英格兰和威尔士监狱容量利用率高达 98% 的情况下，这两项措施都无法腾出足够的空间。

根据新法律，原计划将有多达 6,000 名囚犯获释，但政府数据显示，现在获释人数将减少 1,400 人。由于第一批囚犯预计在 10 月初获释，监狱长代表表示，工作人员将面临巨大的压力。

“事实是我本想走得更远，”伯纳姆说。“但我已经将系统推到了可能的极限，以避免监狱系统在几个月内崩溃，从而给公众带来巨大的风险。”

家庭暴力专员尼科尔·雅各布斯（Nicole Jacobs）表示，昨天的公告无法给家庭暴力受害者带来安慰。“受害者和幸存者仍将被迫采取措施保护自己免受危险虐待者的侵害，因为政府和我们的刑事司法系统无法做到这一点。”

有消息人士指责首相做出了一个“政治上简单的决定”，并警告称之前的政府未能成功驱逐外国罪犯。伯纳姆承认，能够被遣返的人数仅在“数百人”之列。

伯纳姆承诺在本届议会期间“结束”不定期监禁（IPP）这一“不公正现象”，此举被赞誉为“数千个家庭奋斗多年才等到的日子”。但监狱专家表示，这将是一个复杂且耗时的过程，短期内不太可能腾出许多空间。IPP 在十多年前已被废除，但目前在英格兰和威尔士仍有 2,000 多人因此被囚禁。

“释放 IPP 囚犯的决定非常受欢迎，但政府现在必须将其付诸实施，”霍华德联盟（Howard League）首席执行官安德里亚·库姆伯（Andrea Coomber）表示。

她表示，昨天的公告使监狱系统处于“距离一场灾难仅差 1 次重大事件”的状态。

“只要发生像严重骚乱或公共骚乱这样的事件，任何容量都将消失。这实在太危险了，政府将几乎没有回旋余地。”

她表示，此举威胁到要削弱《量刑法》（Sentencing Act）中的改革。该法案是在前司法大臣大卫·高克（David Gauke）领导的审查之后提出的，旨在提高康复率并为进入系统的人员腾出空间。

“《量刑法》的修订基于独立量刑审查小组、政府和公务员一年多来的深入工作，并经过了议会对立法的审查，”库姆伯说。“今天的公告抵消了其中一部分工作。”

监狱改革信托基金（Prison Reform Trust）首席执行官皮娅·辛哈（Pia Sinha）表示，政府应当解决等待审判的羁押人数问题，这部分人群占目前在押人员的 18%。

▲ 司法大臣亚历克斯·诺里斯（Alex Norris），他掌握着一个可能释放监狱空间的标签

“如果监狱满员，它们就会变成仓库——你无法实施干预措施，自残率会上升，而康复率会下降，”她说道。“高克（Gauke）改革并非灵丹妙药，但它们是勇敢的，是对未来的投资。这种进步绝不能丢失。”

保守党司法大臣影子大臣尼克·蒂莫西（Nick Timothy）指责工党在规避议会对这些变更的审查。“政府必须推迟该计划，提出紧急的一级立法，并妥善地将最严重的罪犯排除在外，”他表示。

▲ 多娜（Donna）是汤米·尼科尔（Tommy Nicol）的姐姐，后者在被拒绝假释后自杀。她说“仅凭言语是不够的”。摄影：ALECSANDRA DRAGOI / THE GUARDIAN

“迈向痊愈的一步” 伯纳姆承诺结束无限期监禁

杰米·格里森 (Jamie Grierson)

活动人士对安迪·伯纳姆承诺结束无限期监禁的表态表示赞赏，称这一天是“数以千计的家庭奋斗多年才等到的”。

首相表示，他将在本届议会期间“结束”公众保护监禁（IPP）刑期所带来的“不公正”，这意味着人们将不再被困在一种十多年前就已被废除的刑期之中。

IPP 刑期是一种不确定刑期，在这种刑期下，罪犯在针对一系列犯罪行为被判处最低监禁期限，但没有最高期限。

于 2005 年引入，旨在无限期拘留被认为对公众构成风险的严重罪犯，但其适用范围远超预期，甚至被用于判处轻微犯罪的罪犯。该刑期于 2012 年被废除，但其废除并不具有追溯力。

此外，被判处 刑期的人在释放后将被无限期地置于监管许可（licence）之下，且只有在 10 年后才有资格申请取消监管许可。这一 10 年的期限在去年被推翻，现在 囚犯在社区生活两年后即可寻求终止监管许可，且在四年后自动结束。

来自司法部和英国监狱与缓刑服务局（HM Prison and Probation Service）的统计数据显示，截至今年 6 月 30 日，仍有 856 人在被判处 刑期后被关押在狱中。其中 80% 的人被监禁的时间比他们可以申请假释的最低期限至少多出 10 年。

数据显示，另有 1,415 名 囚犯在获得监管许可释放后被重新召回羁押。

针对伯纳姆昨天的宣布，曾是 囚犯、现领导一个反对该量刑制度的活动团体——“Ungripp”的马克·康威（Marc Conway）表示，这一举措是迈向正义的一步，但早已迟到。

康威因武装抢劫被判处 刑期，他是 2019 年在伦敦桥上制服鱼贩大厅（Fishmongers' Hall）恐怖分子乌斯曼·汗（Usman Khan）的三名获释罪犯之一。他曾谈到，他当时担心制服恐怖分子可能会让他根据 的条款重新入狱。

“这一天是数以千计的家庭奋斗多年才等到的，”康威说。“长期以来，他们的亲人被困在一种十多年前就被承认有缺陷的刑期之中。”

“虽然我们欢迎政府采取这一关键行动，但我们也为那些未能活到这一天的人，以及被多年无尽的不确定性撕裂的家庭感到沉痛。单靠立法无法消除 20 年的伤害，但这是迈向痊愈的关键第一步。”

Ungripp 敦促司法部和缓刑服务机构确保该决定的执行迅速、透明，并为所有从 监管许可中过渡出来以及出狱的人员提供全面的社区和心理健康支持。

在遭受 刑期影响的人中，有汤米·尼科尔（Tommy Nicol），他在该现已废除的制度下服刑期间自杀身亡。

▲ 前 囚犯马克·康威表示，伯纳姆的承诺早已迟到

他因抢劫被判处最低四年刑期。在监狱服刑六年之后，他被告知在至少两年内没有资格再次参加假释听证会。他的心理健康状况随后恶化，并在该决定做出几个月后去世。

在去世前九个月，尼科尔在一封手写的正式投诉信中，将这种刑期描述为“对一个被判 99 年的人进行的心理折磨”。

他的妹妹唐娜（Donna）一直是反对IPP（不定期监禁）刑罚的知名活动人士，她昨天表示：“当我听到这个公告时，我的心瞬间碎成了两半。一半的我为成千上万个家庭感到深深的宽慰，他们多年来一直生活在那种摧毁了我家庭的恐怖地狱中。而另一半的我则被绝对的、难以忍受的痛苦所击碎，因为这个决定对我的哥哥汤米（Tommy）来说，迟到了10年。

“虽然我欢迎政府承诺最终出台立法来终止这些刑罚，并为这场噩梦提供一个终点，但我今天向政府传达的信息很明确：仅有言语是不够的。

“执行必须迅速、清晰且富有同情心。每推迟一天实施，就意味着又有一个人的儿子、兄弟或父亲被推向绝望的边缘。没有什么能让汤米重新走进我们的家门。没有什么能消除我的家人在目睹他因一项本不该存在的刑罚而失去生命时所遭受的创伤。

“但如果这次公告意味着不再有其他姐妹必须像我今天这样站在这里，那么汤米留下的遗产，以及每一个拒绝放弃的IPP家庭的抗争，最终将实现他曾被剥夺的正义。”

在接受英国广播公司（BBC）《早餐节目》采访时，伯纳姆表示，他做出了一个“判断”，即公众会更希望那些已服满刑期的罪犯先获释，而不是那些尚未服满刑期的人；并且他长期以来对IPP刑罚持有“深切担忧”，认为在某些案例中这造成了“一种不公平感”。他承诺将采取一种“常识性”的方法，并表示将在本届议会结束前出台立法以终止此类刑罚。

他告诉BBC：“处于这种境地的人中，许多人服刑时间早已超过了原定刑期。但在我接手的方案中，他们仍将被留在监狱里，而其他犯下严重罪行的人却可能被提前释放。

“我们将成立一个跨党派监督小组来研究如何执行，因为仍有个别人员会对社区构成风险。这确实需要以一种非常谨慎的方式来完成。”

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关键问题：发生了什么变化？为什么？

监狱刑期正在发生什么变化？

政府研究所（Institute for Government）智库解释称，从 1 October 起，量刑规则的变更意味着在英格兰和威尔士服标准监禁刑期的部分成年人将比原计划提前释放。

被判定犯有较轻罪行、目前需服刑 40% 至 50% 刑期的囚犯，将在服刑三分之一后出狱。第二组在服刑三分之二后释放的囚犯，将在服刑一半后出狱。

出狱并不意味着刑期结束。相关人员将在缓刑期间根据假释部门设定的条件在社区服完剩余刑期，如果违反这些条件，可能会被重新送回监狱。

谋杀犯或被判处终身监禁或延长刑期的人员从未被纳入任何减刑方案，他们将被继续关押，直到符合在假释委员会（Parole Board）面前出庭的条件。

为什么会发生这种情况？

工党政府表示，他们接手的是一个处于崩溃边缘的监狱系统，2024. 夏天时剩余空位不足 100 个。No 10 表示，由于十多年来仅净增加了 500 个床位，监狱设施缺乏投资，导致成年男性监狱的容量利用率达到了 98%。政府称，在扩充容量期间，这些措施是必要的。

这是否引发了争议？ 非常严重。争议源于谁将被释放。最初，所有服标准确定刑期的成年人都将被提前释放，包括那些因严重暴力和性犯罪被判刑的人。本月，政府表示该计划将不适用于强奸和严重儿童性虐待罪的判决。

人们长期以来一直对方案中的这些部分感到担忧，但 7 月下旬，当人们发现被判处过失杀人的安德鲁·哈珀警员（PC Andrew Harper）的凶手将有资格根据该方案提前释放时，抵制情绪进一步升级。

▲ 监狱问题是安迪·伯纳姆就任首相后的第一个头痛问题

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十多年来监狱设施增加的床位数，目前成年男性监狱的容量利用率已达 98%

这个问题给安迪·伯纳姆带来了第一个真正的头痛。

昨天，在议会结束休会前两天，No 10 宣布，非法杀人的判决将被排除在该计划之外。这意味着哈珀的凶手将不再有资格提前释放。

历史性的诱导犯罪（grooming offences）、任何形式的过失杀人、危险驾驶致死以及导致或允许儿童死亡的罪行也将被排除在监狱刑期变更之外。

还提出了哪些方案？伯纳姆还宣布，他将在本届议会（将于 2029. 结束）期间终止“为了公众保护而监禁”（IPP）的判决。IPP 制度于 2005 引入，给犯罪者设定了最低监禁期限，但没有最高期限。该制度的使用范围远超预期，许多囚犯在服满最低期限后仍长期被关押在狱中，在某些情况下，即使是较轻的罪行也是如此。

No 10 表示，此举是为了解决一项“不公正”现象，但这也可能会释放监狱系统中的空间。不过，唐宁街表示这将需要时间。

那些被提前释放的人将会如何？

伯纳姆表示，政府将对罪犯采取“有史以来最严厉”的监管措施，包括佩戴电子脚镣，并首次设立限制区域，以防止罪犯接近其受害者。

这将对监狱过度拥挤危机产生什么影响？监狱改革活动人士对此持怀疑态度。社会正义慈善机构 Forward Trust 的首席执行官迈克·特雷斯（Mike Trace）表示：“今天的公告只是推迟而非解决了监狱过度拥挤的问题。由于坚持采取‘提前释放’而非‘凭功绩释放’的政策，首相将面临更多像安德鲁·哈珀警员（PC Andrew Harper）杀手案那样的情况，即在不安全的情况下释放囚犯。”

“安全减少囚犯人数的唯一方法是建立一个真正具有康复功能的司法系统。”他敦促政府扩大康复服务的覆盖范围，并为致力于康复的人员建立一套凭功绩提前释放的计划，以“构建一个能够保护、拯救并改善生活的系统”。

刑事改革霍华德联盟（Howard League for Penal Reform）的首席执行官安德里亚·库姆伯（Andrea Coomber）表示：“我们担心目前公布的细节将使短期内解决监狱容量危机变得更加困难。” 杰米·格里尔森（Jamie Grierson）

兽医诊所规则变更“使宠物主人面临被宰风险”

海伦娜·霍顿 (Helena Horton)

在竞争与市场管理局（CMA）取消了要求跨国公司披露其所拥有诊所的规定后，宠物主人收到警告，称他们面临被收购当地兽医诊所的私募股权公司“宰客”的风险。

CMA 最近对兽医诊所的垄断情况进行了调查，发现缺乏竞争和所有权透明度导致了价格高昂以及客户信息匮乏。宠物主人往往不知道他们当地的兽医诊所可能由一家国际私募股权公司所有。

调查发现，宠物主人在大型兽医集团支付的费用平均比在独立诊所高出 16.6%。该机构表示，这个规模达 63亿英镑 的市场已不再适用，需要进行现代化改造。

因此，CMA 和相关部长在今年初夏的一份白皮书中宣布了相关提案，包括将宠物的处方药价格上限设定为 £21，并提高所有权的透明度。

但专业团体进步兽医协会（PVA）已威胁要对该政府机构提起司法审查，因为 CMA 修改了计划中的措辞，PVA 认为这种修改允许跨国公司掩盖其对兽医诊所的所有权。

超过 60% 的兽医诊所全部或部分由六个集团所有：CVS、Pets at Home、Medivet、IVC 和 VetPartners（均由私募股权投资者所有），以及 Linnaeus（其母公司为 Mars Petcare，是美国糖果集团玛氏的子公司）。

新规则不再要求将大型跨国公司或私募股权投资者的名称列为兽医诊所的所有者，而是允许企业使用品牌名称或原独立诊所的名称。

CMA 最初的提案措辞称，兽医必须披露其所有权并指明“企业兽医集团”。这一表述现已被弱化为“网络或集团”，这意味着可以使用兽医诊所的名称或公司的子公司名称，而非母公司集团的名称。

PVA 董事伊恩·麦吉尔（Iain McGill）博士告诉《卫报》：“这对宠物主人及其动物来说是个坏消息。最终，大型企业将被允许隐藏他们是当地兽医诊所最终控制者的事实，并在有时具有误导性的品牌名称背后进行运作。”

▲ CMA 发现，宠物主人在大型兽医集团支付的费用平均比在独立诊所高出 16.6% 照片：YELENA SHANDER / GETTY

“企业将被允许隐藏他们是当地兽医诊所最终控制者的事实”

伊恩·麦吉尔博士 兽医贸易团体董事

他补充道：“在有选择的情况下，宠物主人通常更倾向于独立诊所，CMA 发现独立诊所的平均价格比企业诊所更便宜。”

CMA 告诉投诉的兽医，披露最终母公司名称可能对宠物主人没有任何实质性益处。该机构补充说，这些企业名称可能令人陌生，而宠物主人更熟悉街道上的兽医或宠物公司名称。

然而，PVA 认为，宠物主人有权知道其当地的兽医诊所是否由大型集团所有。

一名 CMA 发言人表示：“至关重要的是，宠物主人需要知道其当地诊所是属于全国性集团还是当地所有，我们有信心我们正在做出的改变将实现这一点。”

“未来，所有诊所必须通过在招牌和网络上使用人们认可的品牌名称，使所有权关联清晰化。”

“我们的提案得到了大型和小型兽医诊所以及消费者团体的支持，我们在 3 月份的最终报告中就此做出了决定。”

“我们现在正在考虑关于这些变更应如何具体实施的意见，以确保它们对宠物主人和兽医而言是清晰且可行的。”

“如果我没有坚持寻求答案，我现在就不会在这里。” 登齐尔（Denzil）

舞蹈评论 AI是否打开了潘多拉之盒？这场演出令人惊叹，但并未真正告诉我们答案

《凡人》（Mere Mortals） 爱丁堡剧院（Edinburgh Playhouse） ★★★☆☆

林赛·温希普（Lyndsey Winship）

这是一场壮观的演出。从字面上看，它充满了奇观：它既是一场视觉盛宴，也是一场音乐会，同时也是一场舞蹈——而且是一场令人赞叹且近乎疯狂的舞蹈作品。舞者的表现正如人们对美国最古老的专业芭蕾舞团——旧金山芭蕾舞团（San Francisco Ballet）的预期那样令人印象深刻，而其大胆的构思也极具冲击力：艺术总监塔玛拉·罗霍（Tamara Rojo）委约编舞师阿祖尔·巴顿（Aszure Barton）、作曲家萨姆·谢泼德（Sam Shepherd，即电子音乐制作人Floating Points）以及多领域艺术家Hamill Industries共同创作，其出发点是潘多拉之盒的神话，并将其转置到当前的AI技术世界，探讨我们可能会释放出怎样的未知之物。

在创作过程中使用了部分AI技术的Hamill Industries在舞台上方的巨幕上释放出某种令人痴迷的东西：变形且脉动的像素，看起来像岩浆或太阳表面。这令人陶醉，很容易将注意力从舞者的身体上吸引走。

那些舞者在激烈的节奏中以严整的动作集体出现。他们是凡人军队、神灵、自动机，还是代码行？谁知道呢？但在数字世界与物理世界结合得最出色的片段中——无数双手用尘埃塑造出这个女人——巴顿将他们塑造成大规模的动态图像，正如潘多拉由黏土塑造而成一样。

巴顿是一位像喜鹊一样贪婪（博采众长）的编舞师，总是难以预测，将古典的精湛技艺缝合在无数其他想法和不可阻挡的乐句之中。饰演潘多拉的詹妮弗·斯塔尔（Jennifer Stahl）无疑是一个令人印象深刻的创造，而王薇（Wei Wang）的表现也非常出色：柔软、活泼且顽皮。他代表着“希望”。

编舞师没有义务去演绎一个叙事；他们会说，潘多拉的故事仅仅是一个创作触发点。但在一个具有如此清晰戏剧节奏且拥有如此巧妙当代类比的故事中，将其抛弃似乎是一种浪费。

有几个场景中，人类成为了主角，身着黑衣的舞者在黑色背景的衬托下若隐若现：普罗米修斯（约瑟夫·沃尔什 Joseph Walsh 饰）和厄庇墨透斯（哈里森·詹姆斯 Harrison James 饰）这对兄弟在同一个动作中既拥抱又推搡；潘多拉与丈夫的一段双人舞中，巴顿非传统的编舞避开了浪漫主义的陈词滥调。

在那个大概代表打开盒子（或AI闸门）的时刻，屏幕进入超速状态，呕吐出令人眼花缭乱的意象。随后屏幕变黑，只剩下身体。珍贵的身体——这是其核心理念吗？还是仅仅是机器人？舞者的行为——他们如何互动，如何移动——在两个世界之间并没有真正发生改变。没有编舞上的启示。或许这是一种告诫，让我们停止被AI之神分心，去关注面前的真实人类。或者或许根本没有寓意，仅仅是一次狂野的感官体验，以及一个最奇怪的非结局，而最具有人性之物——情感——却令人沮丧地缺失了。

伦敦萨德勒之井剧院（Sadler's Wells）， 9-12 September

当地当局表示，一名男子在德国被拘留，涉嫌在昨天清晨于罗森海姆（Rosenheim）刺死一名31岁的英国女性。

英国公民遭致命刺杀，德国警方拘留一名嫌疑人

据罗森海姆警方称，该女性在市火车站遭到袭击，随后被送往附近的一家医院，但因伤势严重不幸身亡。

据报道，接到出警通知的联邦警察在凌晨1点左右的刺杀事件发生后，立即拘留了嫌疑人。

美联社

警方确认该嫌疑人为一名来自巴伐利亚州菲尔斯滕费尔德布鲁克县的27岁德国男子。

根据德国的隐私法规，警方未公布受害者或嫌疑人的姓名，并表示仍在调查该犯罪行为的具体情况和动机。

一名发言人补充道：“在特劳恩施泰因检察官办公室罗森海姆分部的指导下，目前正就涉嫌谋杀罪展开调查”。

警方呼吁任何在周六深夜至周日凌晨期间，在罗森海姆火车站目击到“争吵或肢体冲突”的证人提供线索。

外交部的一名发言人表示：“我们正在为一名在德国去世的英国女性的家属提供支持，并与当地当局保持联系。”

▲ 昨日在罗森海姆火车站遭到袭击后，一名31岁的英国女性因伤势过重死亡

埃克塞特大学达成协议，将培训沙特军官

萨莉·韦尔 (Sally Weale) 教育记者

《卫报》获悉，尽管外界长期对沙特政府的人权记录深感担忧，但埃克塞特大学已批准一项与沙特阿拉伯建立“正式合作伙伴关系”的计划，旨在培训其高级军官和政府官员。

这项协议可能为这所罗素大学集团（Russell Group）成员院校带来数百万英镑的收入。埃克塞特大学的学者将向利雅得国立国防大学（NDU）的一批学员提供应用安全与战略硕士（MA in applied security and strategy，亦称 MStrat）课程。

该硕士课程将构成国立国防大学全球战略与战略领导力计划的学术组成部分，计划于 2026-27 年度启动，在三年时间内，每年培训约 20 人。国立国防大学的前身为沙特武装部队指挥与参谋学院。

埃克塞特大学学者在三年内每年将培训的沙特人员近似人数

此次沙特合作伙伴关系的曝光，正值该大学因计划削减 150 个工作岗位而遭到知名作家、广播员、学者及其他校友的猛烈抨击。这些岗位主要集中在人文、艺术和社会科学领域，而这些领域正是这所排名极高的大学所著称的。

在营销资料中，该大学称 MStrat 课程将“学术深度与实际应用相结合”。该课程面向武装部队、政府和国际组织的在职专业人士，“提供一个严谨且灵活的环境以构建战略专业知识”。

大学与学院工会（University and College Union）的埃克塞特分会指责该大学在追逐“肮脏的钱”。

该协议并未被广泛公开。它在 2 月份由大学理事会批准，随后在次月获得大学参议院的认可。《卫报》看到的理事会会议记录显示，与国立国防大学的合作伙伴关系被标注为“绝密且属于商业机密”。

上个月，英国政府宣布成立一个国防大学联盟——埃克塞特大学是 35 个创始成员之一——旨在“将学术界与武装部队结合起来”，作为一项 1.82 亿英镑m 国防研究和关键技能建设投资的一部分。

埃克塞特大学的一位发言人表示：“应用安全与战略硕士课程自 2012 年起就通过我们的战略与安全研究所（strategy and security institute）在埃克塞特大学开设。其学生包括由国防部资助的现役英国军人，以及由外交、联邦和发展事务部支持的志奋畅（Chevening）学者。”

“我们正在讨论将这一成熟的埃克塞特课程提供给利雅得国立国防大学的一批学员。”

克莱弗利：伦敦市长竞选将走“经典保守派”路线

亚历山德拉·托平 (Alexandra Topping) 政治记者

詹姆斯·克莱弗利 (James Cleverly) 誓言将开展一场“经典保守派”的竞选活动以竞选伦敦市长，并坚称在首都的胜利将成为凯米·巴德诺克 (Kemi Badenoch) 成为首相的垫脚石。

这位保守党资深人士否认自己是因为巴德诺克领导下党内向右转而辞去影子内阁职务以竞选市长的。然而，在昨天的系列采访中，他避谈了文化战争议题，而这些议题一直是保守党党魁关注的焦点。

“我将提出一个竞选伦敦市长的经典保守派方案，其核心在于企业精神和机遇，”这位前内政大臣兼外交大臣告诉 Times Radio。

“这是一个经典的保守派愿景，它将与凯米对整个国家的计划并行并提供支持。”

如果获得保守党的提名，预计克莱弗利的竞选风格将比该党上一任候选人苏珊·霍尔 (Susan Hall) 更加温和。霍尔此前因声称黑人群体中存在“犯罪问题”而遭到批评，并因在 2020 年点赞了一条配有伊诺克·鲍威尔 (Enoch Powell) 照片且配文“夺回伦敦永远不算太晚！”的推文而被迫道歉。

▲ 詹姆斯·克莱弗利表示，胜利将成为凯米·巴德诺克的垫脚石。照片：AARON CHOWN / PA

56%

在 YouGov 的一项民调中，认为萨迪克·汗 (Sadiq Khan) 不应寻求第四任期的人在伦敦居民中所占的比例

霍尔在 2024 年败给了萨迪克·汗，后者以 43.8% 的得票率获胜。

克莱弗利在竞选保守党党魁时败给了巴德诺克，在随着对奈杰尔·法拉奇 (Nigel Farage) 领导的改革英国党（Reform UK）支持率上升而向右转的党内，他被认为是一个更为温和的声音。

当被问及克莱弗利是否会试图与保守党党魁保持距离，以吸引首都更多中左翼选民时，《保守党之家》(Conservative Home) 的编辑盖尔斯·迪尔诺特 (Giles Dilnot) 指出了这位政治人物在 2024 年保守党党魁竞选期间的一次演讲，他在演讲中呼吁其政党变得“更正常”。

“市长竞选通常聚焦于个人——人格魅力是那额外的 10%，而不仅仅是胸前的党徽，”他说。

“詹姆斯极其正常，如果他推销自己的真实面貌——一个希望这座城市取得成功的普通伦敦人——我不会感到惊讶。”

伦敦政治经济学院的托尼·特拉弗斯 (Tony Travers) 教授表示，2028 年伦敦市长选举将恢复补充投票制（supplementary vote system）——选民拥有首选和次选，如果没有人获得超过 $50\%$ 的选票，则计算次选票——这意味着克莱弗利需要赢得首都自由民主党选民的次选支持。

“克莱弗利最不想做的事情就是让自由民主党人反感，因为在英格兰南部，自由民主党一直是保守党向右转的主要受益者，”他说。“我认为我们很可能会看到他采取一种脱欧前的、中间路线的保守党立场。”

一名保守党重量级人物进入 2028 年 5 月的竞选，将进一步引发人们对 2016 年首次当选的萨迪克·汗是否会竞选第四任期的疑问，而他至今一直回避这个问题。

本月的一项 YouGov 调查发现，56% 的首都居民认为他应该卸任。而伦敦玛丽女王大学迈尔恩德研究所 (Mile End Institute) 最近的一项民调发现，尽管绿党支持率激增，但如果萨迪克·汗参选，他仍将赢得第四任期。

Savanta 的调查显示，工党支持率为 33%，改革英国党为 20%，保守党为 18%，绿党为 14%，自由民主党为 10%。

如果萨迪克·汗退出，布伦特东区 (Brent East) 的工党议员道恩·巴特勒 (Dawn Butler) 预计将参选，而其他潜在的工党候选人包括罗塞娜·阿里恩-汗 (Rosena Allin-Khan) 和大卫·拉米 (David Lammy)。

克莱弗在接受 LBC 电台采访时巧妙地表示，他认为汗“真的失去了对这份工作的热情”，并补充说，作为一名伦敦人，他希望与“非常反伦敦”的安迪·伯纳姆竞争。

“安迪·伯纳姆根本不明白。他与伦敦之间有一场战争，而伦敦需要有人来维护自己的利益，”他说道。

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饼干大变样：从多力多滋到消化饼，英国零食为何在经历“配方重组”

莎拉·马什 (Sarah Marsh) 消费者事务记者

如今咬一口 Ritz 饼干，你摄入的饱和脂肪比几年前减少了 80%。这款饼干的外观和脆度没有变化，味道也足够接近，以至于大多数购买者根本没有意识到自己吃的是新配方。

其中最大的变化之一是用向日葵油取代了棕榈油，但其背后的工作远不止于此。这次配方重组在实验室中花费了数年时间才得以完善，科学家们测试了从密度到饼干对热量、水分及包装反应的所有细节。

这是一个在整个行业中上演的故事。从多力多滋 (Doritos) 到消化饼，英国最受欢迎的零食正在被逐克地重新设计，以满足政府对高脂肪、高糖和高盐食品更严格的规定。BelVita 的软烘焙系列（包括其最畅销的巧克力碎片味和巧克力榛果味）已经进行了配方重组，以使其脱离“不健康”类别，其中钠含量降低了 56%。

自今年 1 月起，高脂肪、高盐和高糖 (HFSS) 产品的付费广告在网络上被全面禁止。现在，该行业面临着一个新问题：政府正在审查最初决定哪些食品被视为“不健康”的计算公式。食品公司警告称，这些变化可能会在一夜之间让多年的努力付诸东流——食品和饮料联合会估计，80% 的重组产品在新模型下可能会失效。

▲ 雷丁 RSSL 的产品开发 摄影：马丁·戈德温 / 卫报

配方重写之地 本月早些时候，在雷丁科学服务有限公司 (RSSL) —— 许多英国零食配方被重新构建的实验室 —— 这种紧张局势成为了讨论的话题。奥利奥 (Oreo) 和 Ritz 背后的全球食品饮料巨头蒙得利兹国际 (Mondelēz International) 自 2020 年以来已在配方重组方面投资 4000 万英镑m。

英国目前是该公司全球最大的研发中心，在博恩维尔 (Bournville) 消费者研究中心和 RSSL，有 750 多名科学家和工程师从事营养和产品创新工作。

政府正提议采用一种更严格的营养概况模型 (NPM)，包括对游离糖设定更严格的阈值，并增加纤维的权重。这些变化可能意味着，一些制造商已经通过减糖而修改的产品仍会被归类为“不健康”，从而可能使其受到广告限制。

RSSL 的总经理杰辛塔·乔治 (Jacinta George) 表示，制定于 2018, 的现行概况模型会对“游离糖”进行扣分，但对于该术语的实际含义并没有统一的定义。

“2018 NPM 模型中包含游离糖对制造商来说极具挑战性，因为对于什么是游离糖，还没有一个全球公认的定义，”乔治说。“而且目前也没有标准化的实验室方法来区分内源糖和游离糖。”

替换糖也不像直接将其去除那么简单。

“糖的作用不仅仅是提供甜味——它还提供质地、体积和保质期，”乔治说。“甜味剂能提供甜味，但不能提供这些其他特性，这意味着可能需要额外的填充剂或功能性成分。这可能会增加加工工序，并可能与消费者对更简单配方的需求产生冲突。”

拆解饼干的科学

RSSL 的配方改良依次经过多个学科的处理。产品开发团队的组长凯丽·坦纳（Kerry Tanner）首先研究成分——通常从酱料和烹饪基底入手，因为减盐是常见的目标。她说：“如果我们试图降低评分，可能会在处理某种酱料并尝试减盐。我们使用了一种钠含量较低的天然盐替代品。”她补充道，由于酱料本身就具有复杂的风味层次，适度的削减通常不会被消费者察觉。

接下来是质地——这是专家艾玛·尼尔森（Emma Nelson）的领域，她的工作是确保改良后的产品依然符合人们的预期。她指出，消费者的投诉可能源于一些极小的细节，比如饼干在茶水中软化的速度。

“糖的作用不仅仅是提供甜味——它还提供质地、体积和保鲜效果”

贾辛塔·乔治（Jacinta George） 食品实验室主任

蒙德利兹在博恩维尔（Bournville）和雷丁（Reading）从事营养与产品创新工作的科学家和工程师人数

当含糖量降低时，Dairy Milk 的销量下降了

每款改良产品都要经过稳定性测试，在成分改变后检查其保质期以及在不同条件下的结构性能。团队经常利用 3D 打印来构建产品的结构物理模型，以便将其拆解并重新组装，从而研究其结合方式。

在楼下，一台工业 CT 扫描仪进一步深化了这一分析。正如同事乔治·米德尔顿（George Middleton）所解释的，该机器向样本发射 X 射线；密度较高的材料吸收更多能量，数千次旋转扫描被拼接成产品内部结构的完整 3D 数据集。

巧克力的难题

并非每一次重新构思零食的尝试都能成功，巧克力棒被证明是最难的一类。当蒙德利兹（Mondelēz）推出减糖 30% 的吉百利牛奶巧克力（Cadbury Dairy Milk）时，购物者并不买账。该产品随后被撤出市场。

因此，公司转变了策略，倾向于通过控制分量而非替代成分来实现。Freddo、Curly Wurly 和 Chomp——这些最容易落在孩子手中的巧克力棒——被控制在 100 kcal 以下。多包装产品的单品热量保持在 200 kcal 以下，单根巧克力棒则在 250 kcal 以下。巧克力还自带一项额外限制：为了在法律上合法使用该名称，产品必须含有最低数量的可可。

迫在眉睫的挑战 尽管投入了大量实验室时间和资金，但行业最大的担忧并非科学问题，而是监管的不确定性。食品和饮料联合会（Food and Drink Federation）的凯特·哈利韦尔（Kate Halliwell）表示，公司需要一个稳定的目标，因为配方改良是一个缓慢的过程。 她说：“从批准投资到真正将产品推向市场，可能需要几年的时间。”

“我认为公司们真的看不出该如何操作。如果你投资制造一款更健康的产品，但最终却不能对其进行推广或广告宣传，那么它在货架上很难真正获得成功。人们不会知道去选择或尝试它，从而更有可能失败。这对公司来说是一个非常大的担忧。”

但其他人持有不同意见。Action on Salt & Sugar 的研究与影响负责人索尼娅·庞博（Sonia Pombo）表示，“目标线”不能“永远”固定不变。她补充说，目前的营养概况模型已“超过 20 年历史，而更新后的模型能更好地反映最新证据”。

她说，行业“多年来一直知道模型正在考虑变更，因此这不应令人感到意外”。

庞博表示，配方改良和降低含糖量应当受到赞赏，但“在仍存在不必要含量的领域，应鼓励进一步削减”。她补充道：“保护过去的改良成果不能优先于持续提高我们所食用食品的营养质量。”

美国遣返极右翼挑衅者，其观点在英国或难寻发声渠道

海伦娜·霍顿 (Helena Horton)

在被特朗普政府从美国遣返回英国后，极右翼挑衅者米洛·亚诺普洛斯 (Milo Yiannopoulos) 可能会在思考，他在故乡将面临怎样的未来。

这位 41 岁的“替代右翼”煽动者在 2016 年大选前通过推广唐纳德·特朗普及其盟友而在美国成名。

但现在，由于涉嫌签证逾期，美国已将这位前 Breitbart News 编辑遣返回原籍国。亚诺普洛斯此前还多次发表贬低总统的言论，包括称自己已“彻底下车，不再追随特朗普”。

英国右翼生态圈的人士表示，亚诺普洛斯现在的立场过于极端，很难在回国后找到一个显眼的位置。

这位评论员的职业生涯始于《每日电讯报》，他在那里撰写过一个充满争议的博客，直到 2011 年他创办了自己的网站 Kernel。2014 年，他开始为前特朗普顾问史蒂夫·班农 (Steve Bannon) 在 Breitbart News 工作，随后移居美国并推广极右翼事业。

在一段视频引发争议后，他离开了 Breitbart。在该视频中，他似乎在纵容与年仅 13 岁的男孩发生性关系。他后来表示，“粗糙的剪辑”以及他的“英式讽刺、挑衅和绞刑架幽默”造成了错误的印象，并否认支持恋童癖。

自从他离开英国后，GB News 已成为右翼势力中崛起最快的广播媒体。但他不太可能在那里找到位置。该频道的一位消息人士表示：“我们绝对不会接触他，哪怕一百万年也不可能。GBN 刚开始时确实有几个古怪的人，但我们已经把他们清理掉了。”对于那些让他在美国声名狼藉的挑衅立场，GB News 的消息人士说：“他在英国无法从中赚到多少钱，他的受众完全是美国人。美国是个更大的国家，那里有更多古怪的人。”

英国右翼挑衅者中出现了一个日益增长的细分群体，他们被认为对主流频道来说过于争议，但建立了自己的小众品牌。记者丹·伍顿 (Dan Wootton) 在其节目的一位嘉宾对一名女记者发表性不恰当言论后被 GB News 停职，他现在拥有自己的频道。

▲ 米洛·亚诺普洛斯因签证逾期被美国遣返

前 TalkTV 主持人迈克·格雷厄姆 (Mike Graham) 也开设了自己的独立节目。该公司称他未能配合一项关于其社交媒体账户出现种族主义帖子的调查后，他被解雇。格雷厄姆表示，该种族主义言论是其账户被黑客攻击的结果。

据了解，改革英国党（Reform UK）不会接纳亚诺普洛斯加入党内。他曾在 Breitbart 的同事拉希姆·卡萨姆 (Raheem Kassam) 与奈杰尔·法拉奇 (Nigel Farage) 关系密切，目前正身在英国参加改革英国党的全国会议。

卡萨姆是英国人，但现居美国。他声称自己一直关注着亚诺普洛斯的遣返情况，并指责后者对他提出了“淫秽且虚假的指控”。

他补充道：“我上个月收到消息说他即将被遣返。周四晚上，我接到一个电话。虽然听起来像在演戏，但内容是：‘我们抓住他了。在路易斯安那州。’”

MAGA 影响者劳拉·卢默 (Laura Loomer) 声称，她已就亚诺普洛斯签证过期一事向移民执法部门举报。

可能会接纳亚诺普洛斯的一个政党是“恢复英国”党 (Restore Britain)，该党由前改革英国党议员鲁珀特·洛 (Rupert Lowe) 领导，他与法拉奇之间发生了分歧。

“恢复英国”党接纳了许多被认为对改革英国党来说过于极端的人物，其中包括被定罪的罪犯斯蒂芬·亚克斯利-伦农 (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon)，他使用化名“汤米·罗宾逊” (Tommy Robinson)。

亚诺普洛斯赞扬了洛韦，称其“太棒了”，并敦促英国极右翼人士加入 Restore。 《卫报》联系了洛韦，询问他是否会接纳亚诺普洛斯作为党员或顾问，但未收到回复。

卡萨姆表示：“他肯定很快会在英国重新出现。也许是作为鲁珀特·洛韦的顾问，或者也许是作为某个三流真人秀节目的参赛者。所以我提前对英国说：我很抱歉。为这一切道歉。”

据美国当局称，亚诺普洛斯于周五被驱逐回英国。美国国土安全部表示，亚诺普洛斯于 2019 年 5 月通过纽约市“合法进入美国”，但随后“选择在违反我国法律的情况下逾期逗留”。

2022 年，亚诺普洛斯参与了坎耶·韦斯特短暂的 2024 年白宫竞选活动。

去年，他表示自己“绝不会回家”，因为英国需要一个“大规模驱逐计划”。亚诺普洛斯已被要求就此发表评论。

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“这是潜移默化的疗法” 成年粉丝用乐高一块块构建健康

乔治·弗朗西斯·李（George Francis Lee）

在伦敦郊区金斯顿（Kingston upon Thames）的一家温馨咖啡馆里，九个人在傍晚时分聚集在一起喝酒聊天。在偶然的观察者看来，这可能像是一个读书会，但当这些朋友从包里拿东西时，他们拿出的不是平装书，而是一包包的乐高（Lego）。

组织这次聚会的杰夫·莱（Geoff Lay）曾在软件开发领域工作，最近创办了 Noble Brick，这是一个专注于乐高的活动组织。

“我曾是那种你没法进房间的孩子，因为地板上铺满了零件，”他说。但在中断了这项爱好之后，这位 44 岁的男子在 10 年前重新发现了乐高——当时他收到了一套还原伦敦塔桥的套装。从那时起，他就一直坚持拼搭。

乐高可能会让人联想到童年的乐趣，但成年爱好者的数量不断增加，是推动销售激增的原因之一，这帮助这家丹麦玩具制造商的营收增长了 21%。

得益于与世界杯（推出热门足球运动员的小人仔）以及《怪奇物语》（Stranger Things）等项目的合作，越来越多的人在成年后重新回归这个品牌。

乐高集团成立于 1932 年，并建立了一个利润丰厚的塑料帝国，仅在 2026 年上半年就创造了 48亿英镑 的营收。自 20 世纪 90 年代以来，乐高将其产品扩展到品牌联动、电子游戏、电视节目以及专为成年人设计的套装——这些套装的价格通常高达数百英镑。

莱坚信，一个由年长乐高爱好者组成的新人群将长期存在。他说：“‘乐高是给孩子玩的’这种观念已经被摒弃了。”他 40 岁的未婚妻劳伦·马歇尔（Lauren Marshall）对此表示赞同：“现在已经没有所谓的‘典型乐高粉丝’了。”

马歇尔小时候没有玩过乐高，但在成年后受伴侣的热情影响而爱上了这项爱好。在她组装一个巨大的达斯·维达（Darth Vader）的双腿时，她说这些套装“非常像拼图”，他们是在“像完成谜题一样完成某件事”。

28 岁的洛雷塔·皮亚雷（Loretta Piare）则是在一种较少结构化的乐高玩法中长大的。“成长过程中，我热爱乐高。我们总是有巨大的乐高箱子，”她说，同时用公司植物系列的零件搭建一棵仙人掌。“我们以前买不起那些昂贵的套装。我妈妈会买大盒的混色零件。”

她在青少年时期停止了玩乐高——“我以前喜欢盖房子并发挥想象力”——但在成年人团体中借用他人积木这种具有成本效益且环保的选择，重新唤起了她的兴趣。“我喜欢按照说明书操作，”她说，“基本上，我喜欢彩色的积木，我喜欢构建东西。”

35 岁的装修工蒂姆·斯通（Tim Stone）在新冠疫情期间戒烟并给自己买了一套赛车套装后，重新找回了对乐高的热爱。在搭建一个积木版的任天堂 Game Boy 游戏机时，他

“我热爱乐高之处在于没有错误的搭建方式……它是一种艺术形式”

洛雷塔·皮亚雷与她完成的乐高仙人掌

尼克·布赖特（Nick Bright） Brighton Bricks

解释了他如何加入伦敦 Afol（乐高成年粉丝）团体以结交朋友。“我当时非常无聊。我有一群朋友，他们只会出去喝酒。”现在，斯通经常与 20 多名其他 Afol 成员一起协作拼搭到深夜。

英国各地有数十个乐高粉丝团体。乔丹·威尔特希尔（Jordan Wiltshire），32, 是总部位于布里斯托尔的“乐高用户组”GertLUG 的成员。他开始意识到成本问题，并开始思考购买乐高是否是一个“明智”的选择。当他在 26, 岁时，一位朋友在圣诞节送他一套乐高星球大战 TIE 战斗机时，一切都重新回到了正轨。他将乐高称为他的“个性”，并强烈反对与这项爱好相关的年龄歧视。“为什么我们不能玩乐高？”他问道。“有些人可能会说这是给孩子玩的，但我们有这么多人，而且我们每个人都热爱它不同的地方。”

威尔特希尔表示，他很享受这种“成就感”：“这是一种我可以发挥创意的方式。”

蒂姆·赫斯特一边手拿一品脱啤酒，一边在修理一辆德罗里安汽车。下方，组织者杰夫·莱帮劳伦·马歇尔（中）和霍莉·内斯林完成她们的达斯·维达作品。

摄影：ANTONIO OLMOS / 卫报

玩乐高还有其他据称有益之处，例如改善心理健康。尼克·布赖特经营着一个每月聚会一次的成人乐高团体“布赖顿砖块”（Brighton Bricks），他表示：“这是一种潜移默化的治疗，你甚至没有意识到自己在改善身心健康。”

和许多成年粉丝一样，这位51岁的人在成年后重新发现了乐高。他回忆起让他重拾这个习惯的产品：“那是‘闹鬼之屋怪物战士’套装。就在那一刻，你会觉得：‘没错，这就是我想要的。’”他与九岁的儿子和80岁的母亲共同分享对乐高的热爱。他的家庭收藏规模庞大，并承认“我妻子可能觉得我买得太多了”。

通过与迪士尼、电影《沙丘》和《堡垒之夜》等品牌的合作，进入这个爱好的门槛很多，但布赖特警告说，其中一个缺点是“出现了更多更大、更昂贵的套装，而且人们会担心错过（FOMO）”。

布赖特更倾向于按照乐高套装的印刷说明书进行搭建，但他的许多朋友则凭想象力进行创作。“我们都在做同一件事，但方式各不相同，”他说，“我热爱乐高的一点在于，搭建它没有错误的方式。”

他认为，通过 MOC（意为“我的原创作品”，用于描述原创搭建）所展现的创造力证明了乐高远不止是一个玩具。“这就像有人会织毛衣或做陶艺一样——它是一种艺术形式。”

无论人们热爱乐高的原因是什么，其成年粉丝群表明，这家公司在短期内不会遇到瓶颈。

Avanti West Coast 铁路司机赢得 3.6% 加薪以避免罢工

Raphael Boyd

在英国多条繁忙路线（包括繁忙的伦敦-曼彻斯特线）面临罢工威胁后，火车司机已获得一项显著的加薪。

这项协议于周六由 Avanti West Coast 与火车司机工会 Aslef 达成，是安迪·伯纳姆就任首相后批准的第一项协议。

除了伦敦-曼彻斯特线（在 No 10 北部办公室成立后，该线路的部长级往来交通可能会增加）之外，该公司还运营前往伯明翰、格拉斯哥和利物浦等其他大城市的服务。

此前 Aslef 在 6 月宣布计划就薪资问题对成员进行可能的罢工投票，而这项最早由《星期日泰晤士报》报道的协议将被视为工会的胜利。

协议内容包括为司机加薪 3.6%（比最新通胀率高出 0.7 个百分点），以及周日工作的 1.5 倍工资；如果司机在一周内工作第五天，将获得 £720。

Avanti 将在 2027, 春季前由劳工党重新国有化，所有铁路公司预计将在明年年底前由政府控制。

根据英国铁路和道路局（Office of Rail and Road）的数据，该运营商被认为是在英国所有主要铁路公司中准点率最差的。在过去一年中，该公司削减了多项服务，包括曼彻斯特与伦敦之间早上 7 点的班次——该班次在被公众质疑后，在短短几天内被削减又恢复。

政府表示，其已“优先解决铁路工会争议，改善乘客服务，并挽回数亿英镑的收入损失，以减轻纳税人的负担”。

影子交通大臣理查德·霍尔登（Richard Holden）表示，政府是在“完全向其工会金主投降”，并且“纳税人被要求出资数百万英镑，仅仅是为了挽回伯纳姆的颜面”。

Aslef 表示：“我们的职责是改善成员的条款和条件，这项与 Avanti West Coast 达成并经 DFTO（交通部运营商）批准的协议已被接受。”

交通部表示：“我们很高兴看到 Avanti West Coast 与 Aslef 合作，达成一项公平且可负担的结算。”

£720

根据与 Avanti West Coast 达成的协议，Aslef 司机在一周内工作第五天将获得的金额

国家改革英国党（National Reform UK）

武器与500 万英镑m之男：法拉奇捐赠者克里斯托弗·哈博恩的军事帝国

2022.年的克里斯托弗·哈博恩。法拉奇对其资金的依赖构成了潜在的利益冲突 摄影：GEORGE CRACKNELL WRIGHT / LNPY

汤姆·伯吉斯 (Tom Burgis)

在应对关于从亿万富翁克里斯托弗·哈博恩处获得数百万英镑资金的质疑时，

▼ 鲍里斯·约翰逊在乌克兰，哈博恩位于其右侧第二位。哈博恩表示：“我坚信欧洲必须进行自我防卫” 摄影：HTTPS: / 1256.CX.UA

奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）从未掩饰他对让其资助者部分发家的行业——加密货币——的热情支持。这位改革英国党（Reform UK）的领导人甚至敦促英格兰银行行长放弃一项可能让哈博恩付出高昂代价的加密货币政策。

但如果哈博恩的另一项商业利益影响了法拉奇的立场，其后果可能会更加深远。在英国的主要捐赠者中，似乎还没有谁像他这样与军事领域如此紧密地交织在一起。

《卫报》针对哈博恩财富来源及其捐赠是否影响法拉奇议程的调查，揭露了这位常驻泰国的大亨在军火工业和军事合同方面的全球商业利益网络。在哈博恩的商业合作伙伴中，前陆军军官、空军飞行员、军事官员的数量惊人，而且似乎还包括一名前军情六处（MI6）官员。

哈博恩被其律师描述为一个“极其注重隐私”的人，但他的军事利益揭示了

这位在泰国附近天堂岛上经营健康疗养院的所有者之另一面。

一名与哈博恩喷气燃料合资企业合作的商人将其描述为美国全球军事行动的顶级供应商，“由前美国国防部专家和退役美国军事飞行员加强，为每次任务带来数十年的作战和战略专业知识”。此外，他还是曾经的英国军事研究部门的最大股东，该部门现已成为一家开发自主武器的私营公司。

在政治领导人面临的最大问题之一是如何将多少国家资源转向军事支出之际，法拉奇对哈博恩资金的依赖构成了潜在的利益冲突。

哈博恩提供了改革英国党三分之二的资金，此外还向法拉奇提供了一笔500 万英镑m的未申报赠款，目前议员监督机构正在对此进行调查。

布里斯托大学的政治资金专家萨姆·鲍尔（Sam Power）表示：“这并不必然意味着改革英国党会制定有利于哈博恩在军工复合体中利益的政策。但这值得关注。如果改革英国党的政策在这一领域开始与克里斯托弗·哈博恩保持一致，就像他们在加密货币领域那样，那将会很有意思。”

哈博恩在伦敦 Schillings 律师事务所的律师表示：“法拉奇先生可能选择采取的政策或立场是法拉奇先生和改革英国党的事情。我们客户的商业利益与其政治关联完全没有任何关系。”

哈博恩的军事起步：在就读私立学校、剑桥大学，以及在麦肯锡管理咨询公司和百事公司（PepsiCo）工作一段时间后，哈博恩在 20 世纪 90 年代移居泰国，在市场中获利并开始创业。2006, 年，他向一家名为 Subsea Resources 的公司提供了 160 万英镑m 的贷款，该公司的业务旨在从沉船中打捞金属和文物，并为政府找回失踪飞机。

他的贷款是“在没有法律文件的非正式基础上提供的”，该公司提交的文件显示。随后他将贷款转换为股份，于 2006 年 12 月成为董事。

Subsea Resources 仅有五名董事。另一位与哈博恩（Harborne）在同一天加入的人员是戴维·查特斯（David Charters）。他的官方备案显示他是一名外交部的资深人士。这种措辞经常被用于那些实际上是秘密情报局（即 MI6）官员的人员。多年后，在一次安全会议上对查特斯的描述称他为“前 MI6 情报官员”。

这并非该公司与英国国防机构之间唯一的明显联系。几个月后，当哈博恩放弃董事席位时，接替他的是蒂姆·麦克莱门特（Tim McClement），一位退役中将，其战绩包括在马尔维纳斯战争期间担任潜艇兵时击沉了“贝尔格拉诺号”。

哈博恩当时正在创办自己的企业 AML Global，该公司现已成为一家主要的军事承包商。泰国公司文件显示，在起步阶段，该公司与武装部队存在联系。一家后来成为 AML Global 组成部分的公司中，另一位英国董事亚瑟·纳波利塔诺（Arthur Napolitano）在桑赫斯特（Sandhurst）完成军官培训后，进入了女王龙骑兵卫队。一份公司传记称，他后来在阿曼苏丹陆军服役。

这家新企业是哈博恩的心血之作。“他的许多商业活动和投资都源于他对航空的热情，”哈博恩的律师表示，哈博恩是一名持有执照的飞行员，曾曾在汉普郡的住宅区坠毁一架轻型飞机。 便是其中之一。该公司从事航空燃油经纪业务，负责安排供应，将燃油运送到客户希望为其私人飞机加油的任何偏远停机坪。

根据 2006 年一篇行业媒体文章， 在北美、欧洲、亚洲和俄罗斯采购燃油。哈博恩的律师表示，该公司已“成长为该行业的全球领导者，拥有一个在全球维持 1,200 多个地点的综合燃油供应网络”。他们补充说， 不再安排俄罗斯生产的航空燃油供应。

起初，客户是平民。随着时间的推移， 开始向那个比任何其他组织都消耗更多化石燃料的机构供货：美国军方。

五角大楼合同 副总裁斯科特·埃尔德（Scott Elder）的 LinkedIn 个人资料记录显示，他曾是美国空军上校。早前资料中的另一项记录显示，他从 1996 年（哈博恩抵达之年）到 2011 年（哈博恩取得泰国国籍之年）在美国驻曼谷大使馆工作，并担任五角大楼的“东道国联络员”。

在他在美国政府任职结束不久后，埃尔德加入了 ，到 2013 年， 开始获得五角大楼的航空燃油合同。最初是一笔 $4,000 的菲律宾发货订单，并在随后几年中规模一直较小。

一架美国 F / A-18℃ “大黄蜂”战斗机在执行任务期间接收燃油。哈博恩的公司被信任为美国军队在战略位置提供供应。 照片：ALAMY

2017 年，埃尔德在学校校友通讯中表示，他已“决定辞去正职，将生命奉献给对占婆王国（越南）的研究”。但他最终选择了留在哈博恩身边， 的军事收入随之激增。

在唐纳德·特朗普第一任期的后期， 的美国军事合同开始激增，年金额达到数千万美元。根据公布的美国政府数据，此后几年的合同总额超过 1.4亿美元 (1 亿英镑m)。

虽然 很少发表声明，但其北爱尔兰合作伙伴 Jet Assist 的宣传资料称，没有其他公司能在美国境外如此多的地点向美国军方供应航空燃油——到 2025 年底共 62 个地点。该资料大肆宣传 对美国军事人员的招募，并预想其在“未来美国、英国及盟军在欧洲部署”中的作用。

AML Global 从五角大楼获得的 1.4亿美元 虽然在五角大楼每年花费的数十亿美元燃料费中占比不高，但哈博恩（Harborne）被信任能够为美国武装部队在战略位置提供供应，这些位置涵盖了从欧洲与俄罗斯的边境、中东，到南太平洋的前哨基地以及受到中国威胁的亚洲盟友。

“政府会对这些公司进行审查，”华盛顿战略与国际研究中心（CSIS）智库的军事采购专家杰里·麦金（Jerry McGinn）表示，“他们对此非常认真。”

根据国际调查记者同盟（ICIJ）获取的文件，银行在 2014 年向美国当局提交了一份警报，称他们“无法确定”哈博恩以其泰国姓名 Chakrit Sakunkrit 进行的与加密货币交易相关的大额付款的“经济、商业或合法目的”。此类可疑活动报告是担忧的证据，而非违规证据。哈博恩否认有任何违规行为，且五角大楼显然将他视为一名值得信赖的供应商。

在英国国防领域日益增长的影响力 在英国的军工基地中，哈博恩占据了一个更为敏感的位置——自从成为一名有影响力的捐赠者以来，他大幅扩张了这一地位。

▶ 奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage），在成为国会议员之前收到了哈博恩 500 万英镑m 的捐赠。他们称这笔资金是“无条件的” 照片：VICTORIA JONES / SHUTTERSTOCK

2022, 在通过向法拉奇的政党以及鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）领导的保守党提供资金，从而巩固其作为最具影响力的政治资助者之一的地位时，他开始在 QinetiQ 公司建立股份。QinetiQ 曾是国防部的研究部门，在托尼·布莱尔（Tony Blair）任内被私有化，且在国防部合同下，依然是英国作战能力不可或缺的一部分。该公司运营赫布里底群岛的导弹发射场，开发核潜艇的隐身能力，维护皇家空军的台风战斗机，并正在制造重新定义战争的无人机和机器人。

哈博恩的祖先 RC Sherriff 在其战争剧《水坝破坏者》（The Dam Busters）中赞美了跳弹的发明，而现在的哈博恩是 QinetiQ 的最大股东，持有 15% 的股份，价值约 4 亿英镑m。

资金概览

160 万英镑m 哈博恩贷款给 Subsea Resources 的金额，该公司为各国政府回收失踪飞机

$4,000 AML Global 在 2013. 获得的第一份五角大楼合同的价值。近年来的五角大楼业务总额已达 1.4亿美元

15% 哈博恩在 QinetiQ 持有的股份，价值约 4 亿英镑m，使其成为最大股东

他的军事技术投资一直在激增。

今年 3 月，他购买了一家由前皇家海军陆战队预备役人员成立的公司股份，该公司旨在为战斗人员开发“钢铁侠”式战斗服。在此之前，他收购了一家 Starlink 竞争对手的股份，Starlink 是一项卫星服务，使埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）拥有了影响如俄罗斯入侵乌克兰等冲突进程的力量。

他的军事关系并不局限于西方。这些关系似乎延伸到了泰国，那里的武装部队在平民生活中占据主导地位。

保罗·钱伯斯（Paul Chambers）是泰国军队的领先专家，去年在军队压力下离开该国。他表示，哈博恩通过 AML Global 和 Sherriff Global Group（该公司似乎运营哈博恩的私人飞机队）与当地武装部队保持着业务关系。

“泰国皇家空军与这些公司在全球物流支持、国际飞行运营和整体航空运输管理方面进行互动，”俄克拉荷马大学讲师钱伯斯说道。哈博恩的律师和泰国空军均未回答相关问题。

改革英国党的国防政策

哈博恩最近开始亲自干预当下的重大军事问题。去年，《卫报》披露，他在向这位前保守党首相提供 100 万英镑m 后，陪同约翰逊在 2023 年 9 月访问了乌克兰。杰米·肖耶是一名湾流飞机飞行员，在哈博恩的航空创业项目中工作了 20 年，他似乎是将两人飞往波兰，随后他们由陆路前往基辅。

哈博恩后来在接受《每日电讯报》采访时表示，约翰逊为他安排了与弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基的会面，他告诉这位乌克兰总统：“我坚信欧洲必须捍卫自己。”

到 2024, 6 月，当改革英国党发布大选宣言时，哈博恩已将他的慷慨资助转回法拉奇身上，向其赠送了 500 万英镑m。两人均坚称这笔资金是“无条件的”，且法拉奇在赢得席位后决定无需申报这笔款项。

该宣言承诺，改革英国党将增加国防开支，并引入“激励措施和税收减免，以提振英国国防工业”。宣言称将“提高装备自给能力，并制造世界一流的出口产品”，并成立一个“联合采购公司”，以“确保世界一流的采购”。

这些政策似乎可能使 QinetiQ 以及哈博恩可能拥有的其他军事利益受益。

法拉奇表示，哈博恩在捐款时没有提出任何交换条件。然而，正如法拉奇一直支持哈博恩部分持股的加密货币公司 Tether 一样，他也对其资助者的军事利益表示赞赏。

“克里斯托弗·哈博恩是一个极其成功的人，”法拉奇在 7 月参加 Triggernometry 播客时说道，“大家都说加密货币，但实际上那只是这家伙所做事情的一部分。我认为有些事情是公众所知的，比如他在国防技术公司 QinetiQ 持有的巨额股份。我想他可能拥有全球最大的喷气式飞机加油业务，此外还有他的加密货币投资。”

法拉奇采取了带有军事主义色彩的立场。当特朗普轰炸伊朗时，他呼吁英国军队加入行动。在特朗普对英国计划将查戈斯群岛（美英基地所在地）的控制权交给毛里求斯的计划表示不安后，法拉奇登上了哈博恩的一架私人飞机飞往该地区以示抗议。改革英国党副党魁理查德·泰斯表示，如果该党执政，将撕毁这项协议。

一名改革英国党的发言人表示，哈博恩并未与法拉奇或党内官员讨论国防开支、国防政策或外交政策，并否认该捐赠者的军事商业利益使改革英国党在国防开支政策上存在利益冲突。

哈博恩的律师补充说，他“从未试图影响任何政治人物来支持他的任何商业利益”。

国际

冰岛选民在两极分化的全民公投中否决加入欧盟的谈判

米兰达·布赖恩特 (Miranda Bryant) 雷克雅未克

在全球动荡的背景下，冰岛选民在一场导致国家分裂且竞争激烈的全民公投活动后，否决了政府关于重启与欧盟加入谈判的提案。

在双方经历了一个漫长且焦虑的夜晚后，截至昨日上午，“反对”阵营获得了 52.8% 的选票，而“赞成”阵营获得了 47.2%。投票率为 82.5%。

此次投票是在唐纳德·特朗普多次威胁要入侵或收购邻国格陵兰岛的阴影下举行的。尽管冰岛是北约成员国，但欧盟成员身份的支持者表示，如果特朗普对这个较小的北极岛屿发出类似威胁，欧洲的团结将提供更大的保护。

在一次新闻发布会上，总理克里斯特伦·弗罗斯塔多蒂尔 (Kristrún Frostadóttir) 表示，此次活动“将冰岛的辩论提升到了一个更高的水平”，同时也承认有些方面“本可以做得更好”。

鉴于结果如此接近，她表示，尊重赞成投票者的观点很重要。但她补充道：“很明显，这件事在本届政府任期内不会向前推进。”

她表示，政府将在决定是否提交议会决议正式撤回欧盟成员国申请之前等待一段时间。

冰岛最初在 2009 年金融危机后提出申请，但在 2013 年暂停了谈判，称在举行全民公投之前无法进一步推进。

布鲁塞尔方面将感到失望，因为那里一直渴望迎来一个富有的新成员，并且似乎愿意在渔业等棘手问题上与冰岛达成妥协，以促进其加入。

赞成阵营认为，在乌克兰和中东战争以及美国总统对北极不可预测的态度下，加入欧盟可以提供更大的安全保障。但反对阵营警告称，欧盟成员身份将威胁国家的主权和渔业水域，这使得投票结果向他们倾斜。

他们的胜利迅速引起了反欧盟领导人的关注。法国极右翼领导人玛丽娜·勒庞 (Marine Le Pen) 在 X 上写道：“在一些人推动加强联邦主义并将主权移交给欧盟委员会之时，这次投票提醒我们，另一种欧洲是可能的，一个由自由、主权国家组成，在共同利益问题上自愿合作的欧洲。”

改革英国党（Reform UK）领导人奈杰尔·法拉奇 (Nigel Farage) 写道：“祝贺冰岛投票决定保持独立。”

雷克雅未克政府将成员国计划描述为“现在或永远不再”的时刻，克里斯特伦告诉选民，反对票将把所有关于欧盟的猜测抛之脑后。

昨日，她告诉 RÚV，她希望这次投票不会让国家陷入分裂。克里斯特伦说：“我并不觉得这是一种伤害。我知道有些人处于震惊状态，但现在我已经与全国各地的很大一部分人群坐在一起，人们完全能够接受不同的结果。”

她承认，冰岛的许多人，尤其是农村地区的人们，对农业、渔业和自然资源可能受到的影响感到担忧。

此次投票揭示了农村与城市地区之间的严重分歧。在这个拥有 400,000 人的岛国中，首都雷克雅未克是唯一一个大多数人支持“赞成”的地区。

在特朗普于今年年初再次威胁入侵格陵兰岛，且全球对北极的关注度增加之后，政府宣布将提前举行全民公投。

冰岛大学政治学教授胡尔达·波里斯多蒂尔 (Hulda Pórisdóttir) 表示，考虑到竞选后期的话语基调、误导信息的传播以及反对阵营拥有显著更多的资金资源，她对这一结果并不感到惊讶。

她表示：“‘反对’方获胜是多种因素共同作用的结果：人们强烈认为欧洲经济区（EEA）已经足够，以及一种冰岛例外论的情绪、经济上的自利，以及在参与度最低的群体中传播的大量误导信息……但非常重要的一点是，在我看来，‘反对’方的竞选资金明显要充足得多。”

布鲁塞尔方面的反应较为冷淡。一名发言人表示，欧洲理事会主席安东尼奥·科斯塔（António Costa）昨日告诉克里什伦（Krishrún），该组织“完全尊重”该岛选民不恢复欧盟成员国谈判的“民主选择”。

分析：“是的，也许”输给了“不”的明确性

米兰达·布赖恩特 (Miranda Bryant) 雷克雅未克

这场竞争注定会非常激烈。但在投票当晚，数据表明冰岛在是否重启谈判的问题上分歧严重。

在经历了一夜令人紧张的计票后，资金充足的“反对派”阵营在周日上午欢庆胜利，广播公司 RÚV 宣布其获胜，得票率约为 52.8%。考虑到冰岛的人口规模——仅 400,000 人——票数差距非常微小。

反对者批评“反对派”阵营在散布恐惧，一些人将其策略与英国 2016 年全民公投中脱欧活动人士所采用的手段相类比。该阵营将渔业和农业（这两个与冰岛国家认同密不可分的议题）描述为受到欧盟成员身份的威胁，这成为了其成功的核心。结果显示，首都地区与该国其他大部分农村地区的选民之间存在巨大分歧，在后者中，部分人认为国家认同面临被遗忘的风险。

但或许也是选票上的问题起到了作用。尽管在全球动荡以及一名反复无常的美国总统威胁冰岛更大的邻国格陵兰岛的背景下，与欧洲建立更紧密关系的诱惑依然存在，但这最终帮助了投票“不”的人赢得胜利。

冰岛人被问到的问题是：“冰岛是否应恢复与欧盟的入盟谈判？”一旦达成协议，将举行第二次全民公投。冰岛

冰岛总理克里斯特伦·弗罗斯塔多蒂尔 (Kristrún Frostadóttir) 支持“赞成派”阵营

“反对派”阵营的支持者在反对重启冰岛与欧盟入盟谈判的集会上挥舞旗帜 摄影： JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/

“反对派做了很多散布恐惧的事情……我的朋友们说他们害怕欧盟” 波里尔·斯努尔 (Pôrir Snoor) “赞成派”支持者

已经是欧洲经济区 (EEA) 和申根免签旅行区的成员。

这意味着，投票“赞成”实际上相当于一个“是的，也许”，而投票“反对”则始终是一个更清晰、更果断的举措。“赞成派”阵营的口号之一是 “Já til að sjá”（“赞成以观察”），与“反对派”阵营强硬的主张相比，这显得模糊不清。

“反对派”的主张包括：欧盟将成为统治冰岛的“新超级大国”，并且可能将该国变成一个“无配额的渔村”，使外国公司能够投资于冰岛极具价值的渔业，将捕鱼权和利润交到外部第三方手中。

在冰岛首都中心区域的雷克雅未克美术馆举行的一场“赞成派”庆祝派对上，在选举之夜“赞成派”似乎略微领先的时刻，支持者波里尔·斯努尔表示：“反对派做了很多散布恐惧的事情，而且做得非常好。”虽然他有很多同龄人像他一样认为

欧元可能是解决该国高通胀和高利率的方案，但这位 25 岁的青年承认：“我的很多朋友说他们害怕欧盟。”

戴着蓝色欧盟帽的 30 岁斯奈迪斯·英加·鲁纳斯多蒂尔 (Snædis Inga Rúnarsdóttir) 同意“反对派”阵营的声音更大，且资金更充足。她说她必须接受“反对派”可能获胜的结果，但她抨击了围绕此次公投的一系列误导性信息。

冰岛外交部长波格尔杜尔·卡特琳·古纳斯多蒂尔 (Porgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir) 此前曾表示，在关于误导性信息、外国干预以及人工智能在公投中潜在影响的警告中，她担心自己的国家正面临一个“脱欧时刻”。

就在午夜之前，当选票仍在统计时，她表示，无论结果如何，“至少冰岛人民已经证明，进行投票是正确的决定”。

在被引导至舞池深处之前，她补充道：“而我最喜欢的一点是，现在外交政策——以及所有事情——都已进入议程。”

乌克兰靠近民居的弹药库成为俄罗斯攻击目标

丹·萨巴格 (Dan Sabbagh) 基辅州，米拉 (Myla) ▲ 俄罗斯袭击米拉村弹药存储仓库后的现场 摄影：JULIA KOCHETOVA / THE GUARDIAN

俄罗斯的一架喷气式无人机撞击了位于基辅中心地带 15 英里外的米拉村的一处弹药库，至今已过去一天半时间。保安弗拉基米尔 (Volodymyr)

1 保安弗拉基米尔，61 岁，带领访客离开他那受损严重的家——房顶被掀翻，后窗破碎——穿过花园前往 300 米外的撞击点。

这个花园与乌克兰许多村庄和郊区的花园一样，是一块相当大的分配地。但今天，温室已破碎，菜地在脚下变得焦黑且干脆。数米长的葡萄藤被摧毁；即便如此，弗拉基米尔还是找到了两串幸存的葡萄交给《卫报》记者。

这是一个令人感动的慷慨时刻，尽管在周四晚上的持续轰炸后，他的家人现在没有电也没有水。昨天的死亡人数增加了一人，达到 38 人，另有四人仍然失踪。这次事件引发了人们的质疑：为什么弹药要存储在如此靠近民居的地方。

在花园前的院子里，65 岁的维拉 (Vira) 知道谁该负责。“在这里设立仓库的人应该承担责任。这里住着人；这是一个村庄。你不能把这种东西放在这里，”她说。她和儿子谢尔盖 (Serhii) 在一个小掩体中躲了几个小时，等待目击者所说的“30 或 50”次爆炸结束，这些爆炸在晚上 8 点的首次袭击后持续了约六个小时。

谢尔盖说，他们完全不知道村里存储了弹药：“我以为那里存储的是人道主义援助物资。”现在，这个家庭面临着清理工作，而在几乎一无所有的情况下，这将非常困难。他正通过转换器用汽车电池为手机充电；这就是他们拥有的全部电力。

谢尔盖补充说，在爆炸平息后，在他们的房产中发现了一枚 Grad 火箭发射器的导弹弹壳，以及“几枚地雷和集束弹药”。这些已被清理小组移除，但另一处半坍塌天花板中新发现的一个烧焦的子弹箱尚未被移走，正放在前门等待进一步收集。

弗拉基米尔的引导继续向后延伸。在花园外的林地中，一条草线（实际上是一条小径）在火烧过的焦黑斑块之间被标记出来。那里仍有烟雾，部分地方甚至有火焰，还有更多子弹和子弹箱；然后，在右侧，清晰可见一枚已爆炸的反坦克地雷。

▲ 柳德米拉 (Liudmyla)，她的房屋在爆炸中严重受损

最后，林地豁然开朗，露出了一个仓库场地，其中大部分已被炸毁，形成一片开阔的废墟。硫磺味依然弥漫，不时能听到爆炸声。由于上方存在另一个无人机威胁，应急服务部门的清理工作在午餐时间正处于暂停过程中。

轰炸当晚，弗拉基米尔在弹药库附近的一个木材场值班。他在首次袭击中幸免于难，随即赶回家中，但出于保安的责任感，他觉得需要回来看看。“这两天我一直在往返，来看这些灰烬，”他说。

死者中有 30 人来自弹药库附近的一家养老院，该仓库的选址目前正受到乌克兰情报部门的刑事调查。但这并非近几周来此类袭击的首次。俄罗斯还轰炸过其他选址不当的弹药库，因为在乌克兰采取类似行动的同时，莫斯科也在积极地将仓库场地作为目标。

这件事最近在乌克兰发生，柳德米拉（Liudmyla）对此深有感触，因为当 Shahed 无人机击中目标时，她成年后的女儿就在隔壁两户人家的一栋房子里。那栋房子也受到了严重损坏，面向仓库的窗户被震碎。柳德米拉回忆说，7月初在基辅边缘也发生过类似的事件。

“看看这里发生了什么。这里的一切都被砸得粉碎。维什涅韦（Vyshneve [此前事件发生地，位于东南9英里处]）对他们来说还不够，在其他地方也发生了类似的事情。”

“不，他们把所有这些东西直接堆在人们的菜园旁边，就在他们的家门口，”她说道，并警告称弹药仍然散落在周围。

在维什涅韦的一处弹药库被击中后，有9人死亡，280栋房屋受损。事件发生后，两人因涉嫌允许在不适当的地点储存武器而被拘留。但正如总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基（Volodymyr Zelenskyy）在周六所言，类似的事情再次发生了。

在基辅已经遭受莫斯科日益增加的攻击之际，这种惨剧在重复上演，针对食品存储和物流仓库的袭击给平民带来的伤害正在增加。当柳德米拉被追问谁应对米拉（Myla）的死亡事件负责时，她给出了双重答案。

“普京！还能是谁？还有那些在这里设立仓库的人。”

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从冷静到好战：卡尼对美国的蔑视令同事们并不感到意外

莱兰·切科（Leyland Cecco）多伦多报道 海瑟·斯图尔特（Heather Stewart） 卡莉娜·马科托夫（Kalyeena Makortoff）

马克·卡尼站在一个胡桃木贴面的讲台前，面色凝重地宣布，与加拿大最大贸易伙伴的谈判已经破裂。“去年春天，我曾警告说，美国正试图击垮我们，以便能够掌控我们，”他说。“而我承诺过：这种情况永远不会发生。我们正在履行这一承诺。”

多年来，这位前央行行长一直致力于稳定市场。而现在，他要求加拿大人接受不确定性和对抗。

在前前周六的新闻发布会接近尾声时，一名记者提到了演讲中阴郁且好战的基调：“为什么感觉今天的马克·卡尼是要开战？”

总理停顿了一下。

“我们遭到了攻击。当你遭到攻击时，你就处于战争之中，”他说。“我们遭到了攻击。”

一位没有任何选举经验的经济学家和央行行长，竟然出人意料地转型为一名强大的全球政治人物，这打破了先例和预期。

但卡尼已经适应了这个他认为国家所必需的角色——一个面对反复无常且心怀怨恨、似乎执意要征服加拿大的对手时，敢于挺身而出的战时领导人。

在与美国的贸易谈判破裂后，双方互相指责，并兑现了向对方征收新关税的威胁。

在最近一次琐碎的敌对行为中，特朗普于周四签署了一项行政命令，指示美国联邦政府将安大略湖（Lake Ontario）更名为“美国湖”（Lake America）。

但在放弃拟议协议时，卡尼做了一些其他领导人很少敢做的事：挑战特朗普和美国，让他们测试自己国家的决心。

“我们不能接受他们提供的条件，也不会给予他们要求的条件，”他说。

“他相当执拗且坚定”

对于那些曾与这位要求严苛——且有时情绪化——的央行行长共事过的人来说，这种经过计算的、拒绝接受糟糕交易的行为并不令人惊讶。

卡尼在加拿大西部大草原长大。他的故事——一个局外人如何逐渐进入并最终重塑权力机构——揭示了这个男人不愿接受他人设定之条件的特质。

“他相当执拗且坚定，”一位在2021年卡尼担任联合国气候行动特使期间与其共事的人说道。

看到卡尼在世界舞台上顶住特朗普的压力并不令人震惊。“我不感到惊讶……我认为这正是源于那种决心和不愿退缩的态度。”

卡尼并非一直如此稳健。2013年，他被时任财政大臣乔治·奥斯本（George Osborne）钦点为英格兰银行行长，卡尼那种强硬高效的工作方式与这家位于伦敦金融城（Square Mile）的古老机构并不完全契合。在他到任时，该机构入口处仍有穿着粉色制服、戴着高顶礼帽的卫兵。

他在高盛（Goldman Sachs）时期养成的特质一直延续到了他担任首相的任期中。据与其共事的人透露，他依然早起，热爱跑步，并要求部长们必须对自己的文件了如指掌。媒体还报道称，工作人员被要求穿着正式商务装，且文件必须使用英式拼写——这让加拿大语言学家感到沮丧。

卡尼在哈佛、牛津以及全球金融最高层等一系列权力机构中的职业生涯，反映出他敏锐的分析能力。他在英格兰银行的任期预示着，这位钻研学术的经济学家在必要时也愿意介入政治。

当他彻底改革银行的沟通策略，引入“前瞻性指引”（forward guidance）以展示其对未来利率的思考时，这一举措并未立即被视为成功。资深工党议员帕特·麦克法登（Pat McFadden）——现任内阁部长——

“在回顾我的经历之后……马克·卡尼是我共事过的最令人印象深刻的人之一”

查尔斯·兰德尔（Charles Randell） 前英国金融行为监管局（FCA）主席 —— 指责卡尼领导下的英格兰银行通过关于未来利率的矛盾信息，令投资者和公众感到困惑。

2015年10月，在关于英国是否应离开欧盟的公投临近之际，卡尼在牛津大学的一次演讲中强调了成员国身份所带来的“经济和金融开放”给英国带来的益处。由于欧元区债务危机仍是近期记忆，他还强调了欧盟成员身份隐含的金融不稳定风险增加；但脱欧派将他的正面评论视为对一个高度政治化话题的不正当干预。

当卡尼暗示脱欧可能会使英国陷入经济衰退时，争论进一步升级。脱欧阵营的保守党负责人伯纳德·詹金（Bernard Jenkin）致信行长，敦促他不要插手。卡尼的回信展现出了与他应对特朗普时同样的那种好战精神。

“亲爱的詹金先生，”他的信件开头写道，“我回复您的信件是为了立即消除其中包含的众多且严重的误解。”他接着指责这位资深议员“对法定保障的央行独立性存在根本性的误解”。

结果证明，并没有出现脱欧衰退，许多经济学家将其部分归功于英格兰银行的强力应对，包括迅速降低利率和量化宽松（紧急购买大部分政府债券，这一方案在全球金融危机期间也被采用）。

查尔斯·兰德尔在审慎监管局（Prudential Regulation Authority）董事会任职五年，卡尼在成为英格兰银行行长后担任该局主席。

“我相信如果你给足够多曾在英格兰银行与他共事的人打电话，你会发现有人会说他也有不足之处，”兰德尔说道。“但回顾我的经历……他是我共事过的最令人印象深刻的人之一。”

当时担任英国金融行为监管局（FCA）主席的兰德尔表示，即便在幕后，卡尼也是一个“非常严肃、分析能力极强、极具驱动力”且“在沟通方式上非常谨慎”的人。

“在2016年脱欧投票后的第二天早晨……他出现在镜头前，向金融市场保证英格兰银行已准备好应对该决定可能带来的任何后果，”他说。“那是战略性信息传递的一次杰作。”

“合规无法换来安全” 多伦多大学经济学教授约瑟夫·斯坦伯格表示，在脱欧辩论期间，卡尼“并未回避尝试揭示那些残酷的经济真相”，但他并未过多谈论美国贸易战的经济学问题。“在公开场合，他非常倾向于从主权角度切入。很明显，他在私下里可能在思考冷酷且硬核的经济问题。”

卡尼决定对美国采取报复措施，这导致包括斯坦伯格在内的一些经济学家指出，加拿大将承受比美国痛苦得多的打击。

职业生涯的首次

卡尼现在完全受制于心存戒心的公众，这一现实凸显了两种人格的冲突：一个理解经济学的技术官僚，以及一个必须面对妥协之政治代价的政治家。

“目前，加拿大人可能对向美国做出任何形式的让步都极其不能容忍，即便这些让步符合我们的最大经济利益，”他说。

今年1月，卡尼在达沃斯警告人们，在一个日益由霸权国家主导的世界中，“合规无法换来安全”。虽然他的演讲从未提及特朗普，但被视为是对美国总统旨在放弃长期联盟并根据自身利益重塑世界的 thinly veiled（委婉的）批评。卡尼开出的药方之一——与志同道合的“中等强国”建立深厚关系，并进行结构调整以减少对前盟友的依赖——已经在加拿大初见成效，其速度和程度被民调专家大卫·科莱托描述为“一个没有战争的战时体制政府”。他写道：“这是一个围绕外部威胁而组织的政府，它愿意暂停本党的正统观念，集中权力以快速行动，并以结果而非价值观来衡量自身。”

卡尼放弃了前任贾斯汀·特鲁多（Justin Trudeau）的许多政策，包括其碳排放和电动汽车指令。他还加快了包括石油管道在内的大型项目的进度，并向国防领域追加投资数百亿。在放弃拟议的贸易协议时，马克·卡尼挑战唐纳德·特朗普来测试其国家的决心。

插图：GUARDIAN DESIGN / ANAÏS MIMS / GETTY

“公众几乎没有眨眼，”科莱托在一次采访中说。“马克·卡尼的支持率在整个期间一直保持稳定。”

民调显示，他仍然是加拿大人最信任的、能带领国家度过经济不确定时期的领导人。但他也承担起了一个曾经看来几乎格格不入的角色：要求一个规模远小于邻国且权力较弱的国家坚守立场。

“加拿大人不会屈服于天气——我们在其中茁壮成长。我们不会等待看风向如何吹拂，也不会让自己随波逐流，被事件抛掷，”卡尼在最近的演说中表示。“我们设定自己的航向。我们创造自己的天气。在加拿大，从海岸到海岸，再到海岸，我们是自己家园的主人。”

马德里议会以“600万欧元”顶层公寓作为“办公室”

萨姆·琼斯 (Sam Jones) 马德里

马德里大区一名言辞激烈的右翼领导人正面临越来越大的压力，被要求解释其政府为何花费630万欧元 (540 万英镑m) 购买一套住宅顶层公寓，据称该公寓是用于临时办公空间。

伊莎贝尔·迪亚斯·阿尤索 (Isabel Díaz Ayuso) 是西班牙反对党保守派人民党 (PP) 的重要成员，自2019年起担任马德里大区主席。

在此期间，她塑造了一个以直言不讳为傲的政治家形象，并成为了该国社会党首相佩德罗·桑切斯 (Pedro Sánchez) 的眼中钉。在过去两年中，桑切斯的家人及其政府一直深陷贪腐指控。

尽管阿尤索经常指责桑切斯及其领导的西班牙工人社会党 (PSOE) 腐败，但她及其政府现在面临着越来越多的要求，被要求就购买该顶层公寓提供透明的解释。

《国家报》(El País) 在7月底报道称，马德里大区政府于4月在西班牙首都富裕的钱贝里 (Chamberí) 区购买了这套顶层公寓。

一名发言人告诉该报，购买该房产是为了让阿尤索在位于皇家邮政大楼 (Real Casa de Correos) ——即大区政府所在地——的办公室装修期间使用。该发言人没有回答关于公寓价格的问题，也没有回答阿尤索是否打算入住其中。

▲ 伊莎贝尔·迪亚斯·阿尤索，马德里地方政府的右翼领导人

随后披露的情况显示，该公寓价值630万欧元，且规划法律规定其仅能用于居住目的，不能用作办公室。

《国家报》本周还报道称，阿尤索政府曾规定，他们想要的房产应在“250 and 400 square metres 之间，并拥有一个大露台”——对于办公室来说，后者是一个奇怪的要求。

阿尤索最初将这些披露斥为“抹黑行动”，坚称该顶层公寓并非买来让她居住，而是作为“机构会议”的场所。她还表示，她对此次购买“完全不知情”。

大区政府随后宣布，该公寓将被出售，所得款项将捐赠给今年夏天马德里附近山火的受害者。

阿尤索最近告诉记者，她认为此事已告一段落，并用她标志性的色彩鲜明的语言说道：“Está en venta, chao pescao”，大致翻译为：“它在出售中，那么再见啦，鳄鱼”。

这段话引发了人们对其此前在议会中被捕捉到将桑切斯称为“hijo de puta”（混蛋）的回忆，而她当时声称人们听错了，她实际上说的是：“Me gusta la fruta”（我喜欢水果）。

然而，关于公寓的争端并未平息。马德里的一名法官正在调查五起与此次购买相关的独立投诉，而阿尤索自己的上司也表示仍有问题需要解答。

在上周的一次采访中，人民党党魁阿尔贝托·努涅斯·费霍 (Alberto Núñez Feijóo) 表示，虽然他对她的解释感到满意，但大区政府的相关部门“应当解释为什么购买了一处不能用作办公室的房产”。费霍表示，阿尤索的团队在4月份告诉他，他们正在寻找临时办公室。

这一承认似乎与阿尤索坚称自己对购买一事不知情相矛盾。

她的对手们抓住了这次争端，中央政府将其解释斥为“显然不足且显然令人担忧”，并要求她辞职。

“所以他们是在寻找‘临时办公室’，然后他们联系了一家专门从事豪华房产（而非办公室）的房地产中介，并要求房产面积在250 square metres 和 400 square metres 之间，且具备任何行政办公室都需要的关键特性——一个大露台，”一名马德里的社会党议员说道。

委内瑞拉临时领导人为其与特朗普的石油协议辩护

汤姆·菲利普斯 (Tom Phillips)

拉丁美洲特派记者

委内瑞拉临时总统德尔西·罗德里格斯 (Delcy Rodríguez) 为其政府与唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 达成的极具争议的能源协议辩护，坚称这个南美国家将保留对其巨额石油储备的主权。

罗德里格斯在特朗普下令绑架总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗 (Nicolás Maduro) 后于1月就任，她周六在广播节目中回应了针对这项被美国总统称为“世界历史上最大石油交易”的批评。

在一段六分钟的电视广播中，委内瑞拉的代理领导人声称，该协议将帮助这个资源丰富的国家发展经济，赚取超过 2090亿美元 的收入，并成为一个“能源强国”。

罗德里格斯表示：“众所周知，我们的国家拥有世界上最大的石油储备。但仅有地下资源是不够的。我们需要投资、技术、基础设施 [以及] 生产能力，才能将这些财富转化为人民的福祉。”

特朗普周五宣布了这项“突破性”协议，称其为一次“历史性交易，[它]使美国的石油储备增加了一倍多……同时帮助委内瑞拉继续朝着巨大的成功和繁荣迈进”。

昨天，特朗普在他的 Truth Social 平台上写道：“我将利用委内瑞拉石油所做的事情之一，就是填满战略国家储备，因为‘瞌睡乔’拜登 (Sleepy Joe Biden) 几乎将其掏空。”

这项在数月秘密谈判中达成的协议细节仍然匮乏，但据报道，它将涉及华盛顿掌控 650 亿桶委内瑞拉石油储备。

这个南美国家拥有全球最大的证实原油储备，估计为 3030 亿桶，而沙特阿拉伯为 2680 亿桶，伊朗为 2080 亿桶。

▲ 德尔西·罗德里格斯坚称委内瑞拉保留对其资源的所有权

罗德里格斯表示，该协议涉及 17 个“战略油田”，每天可生产 1.5m 桶以上。

但该协议引发了愤怒，包括委内瑞拉保守派反对党成员以及罗德里格斯所属的查韦斯主义 (Chavismo) 社会主义政治运动内部。

拉斐尔·拉米雷斯 (Rafael Ramírez) 在 X 上写道，这位委内瑞拉国家石油公司 (PDVSA) 前负责人指责罗德里格斯政府通过这项“新殖民主义”交易，“将匕首直接刺入了祖国的心脏”。

“他们正将我们 650 亿桶的储备移交给美国。这在委内瑞拉从未发生过，我认为在世界上其他任何地方也没有发生过，”拉米雷斯在接受《国家报》(El Nacional) 采访时补充道。

在广播中，罗德里格斯反驳了她将委内瑞拉自然资源交给外国势力的说法。她感谢特朗普和美国国务卿马可·鲁比奥 (Marco Rubio) 达成协议，但补充道：“有一点必须绝对明确：委内瑞拉保留对其资源的所有权和主权”。

反对派政治人物担心，该协议将破坏恢复委内瑞拉民主并举行新总统选举的尝试。

罗德里格斯回避了关于未来选举的问题，含糊地表示选举将在“某一天”举行。特朗普也表示，委内瑞拉“还没有真正准备好”进行选举。

世界

梅西纳之谜：博物馆艺术瑰宝失窃令调查人员困惑

洛伦佐·东多（Lorenzo Tondo） 梅西纳

8.47pm on 15 August，当数万名信徒聚集在梅西纳市中心的街道上参加宗教节日时，至少两名男子切断了位于这座西西里港口城市郊区的区域综合博物馆（Museo Regionale Interdisciplinare）周围的围栏。

利用博物馆周围街道异常安静的时机，这些男子用撬棍强行打开了一扇侧门，直接进入了一个展柜。展柜内存放着文艺复兴大师梅西纳的安东内洛（Antonello da Messina）最重要作品——《圣格雷戈里多联画》（Polittico di San Gregorio）中幸存的五块画板，以及一幅小型双面画。他们毫无干扰地将这些作品移出建筑并逃离。

这次抢劫案令调查人员感到困惑。他们在公开记录中透露的信息很少，但向《卫报》和当地媒体匿名透露消息的来源，以及熟悉该建筑的艺术史学家表示，除了窃贼选择的日期之外，这次抢劫的一些细节难以自圆其说。

“如果一年365天中有一天是窃贼会选择在梅西纳实施抢劫的，那一定是15 August，也就是瓦拉巡游（Vara procession）之日，”一名接近调查的人员表示。

这项宗教活动创立于1535, the religious event takes place on the day of Italy's national Ferragosto public holiday. 活动的核心是一个14-metre pyramidal float，描绘了圣母升天。超过150,000人挤在市中心，数百名警察被部署在现场，主要道路和广场均被关闭。

“那天的城市郊区几乎空无一人，”曾与博物馆合作的艺术专家莱利奥·博纳科索（Lelio Bonaccorso）说道。

“留在家里的人大多是老年人，因为八月的酷暑和庞大的人群可能会给他们的健康带来风险。”

据向当地媒体透露的调查来源称，两名男子戴着摩托车头盔进入博物馆，可能还有两名同伙留在外面放哨。

在切断围栏后，窃贼被认为前往了一扇侧门。据消息人士称，这是少数几个没有安装报警系统的入口之一。

“这就是第一个谜团出现的地方，”隶属于梅西纳大学的艺术史学家瓦伦蒂娜·切尔托（Valentina Certo）说。她补充道：“监控录像显示，这次袭击仅持续了两到三分钟。窃贼是如何如此迅速地移走所有五块画板，并且知道那扇门没有报警装置的？”

调查人员怀疑窃贼可能得到了内部帮助。安莎（Ansa）通讯社报道称，一名博物馆员工因涉嫌在报警系统问题上提供不一致的说法而接受调查，但警方消息人士否认了这一报道。

“在涉及博物馆盗窃案时，执法部门总是会寻找内部联系，”律师兼国际艺术品回收组织（Art Recovery International）首席执行官克里斯托弗·马里内洛（Christopher Marinello）表示。“这只是高效调查工作的体现。”

“罪犯是如何避开警卫、警报和摄像头的？人们总是会假设窃贼一定得到了内部帮助，即使最终证明并非如此。”

虽然窃贼使用的门可能没有安装报警器，但安东内洛的多联画受到了一套安全系统的保护，

▲ 从左上角起顺时针方向：梅西纳区域博物馆，这里曾存放着梅西纳的安东内洛的《圣格雷戈里多联画》中的五块画板，以及

该系统旨在在出现最轻微的移动时触发警报。

调查来源告诉当地报纸《西西里报》（La Sicilia），警报曾响起。据向TG La7新闻节目透露的警方消息人士称，一名警卫据称告诉调查人员他

“即使是最坚定的当地黑手党成员也绝不会以这种方式亵渎梅西纳”

克里斯托弗·马里内洛 艺术品回收专家

听到警报后将其关闭，认为那是误报。

这起盗窃案是由一名女性发现的，她在盗窃发生后不久注意到博物馆外有异常情况。在一段分享给《卫报》的录音中，她告诉警方：“街上有博物馆的画作，就像有人偷了它们然后把它们丢在这里一样。它们很大，而且价值不菲。”

令人费解的是，多联画中的两块画板被留在墙边。博纳科索说：“它们没有被扔在地上，而是被小心地撑了起来。为什么要费心拆解一件五联作品，然后又在建筑外面遗弃其中两块？”

“考虑到盗窃案和好莱坞的刻板印象，我可以理解为什么人们在考虑黑手党参与的可能性，”马里内洛说，“然而，在我看来，即使是最冷酷的当地黑手党成员也绝不会以这种方式亵渎美西纳。”

正如卡拉瓦乔的《拉撒路复活》和《牧羊人的崇拜》

照片：DANILO ARNONE / 路透社；美西纳区域综合博物馆；LORENZO TONDO / 卫报

该博物馆收藏了一些西西里岛最精美的考古、文艺复兴和巴洛克时期的珍宝，其中包括两幅卡拉瓦乔的作品。这位意大利画家在1609年曾在美西纳度过了几个月，创作了《拉撒路复活》和《牧羊人的崇拜》。

盗窃案发生后不久，美西纳首席检察官告诉国家广播公司 Rai，不能排除黑手党参与的可能性。“考虑到……的地点”

被盗作品并非普通的画作。它最初由六块画板组成，是为圣格雷戈里修道院（Monastero di San Gregorio）创作的，也是这位西西里画家唯一一件从未离开家乡城市的作品，并且在1908年摧毁美西纳并导致约一半人口死亡的地震中幸存了下来。

一些当地人认为，它体现了一种重生，因为这座城市在几个世纪以来反复遭受地震的创伤，随后又在第二次世界大战中遭到轰炸。

在艺术品的展柜对面是一个紧急出口，调查人员表示窃贼可能利用该出口离开建筑。它通向遗弃两块画板的墙壁，再往那边就是将西西里岛与意大利大陆分隔开的海峡。

调查人员尚未排除乘坐快艇逃离、受雇盗窃或索要赎金的可能性。但出售这样一件如此著名且不完整的作品将极其困难。

“一个邪恶的收藏家将如何展示它？”马里内洛问道，“它必须保持隐藏。这些窃贼很快就会发现这些画作是‘放射性’的——它们永远不会给他们带来预期的数百万资金。”

目前，黑色面板覆盖了多联画原先展出的空间，仿佛在哀悼这次损失。

“我们这里有一句话，”博纳科索说，“我们就像凤凰。我们总是从袭击我们城市的灾难灰烬中重生。”

“这次盗窃虽然不像地震那样是一场悲剧，但却是美西纳的又一道伤口。然而，这一次我们也将再次崛起。”

“这是一项非常专业的工作” 无名英雄维持 英国交通运转

商业

贝利警告 G20：人工智能对金融稳定的威胁日益增加

西蒙·古德利 (Simon Goodley)

英格兰银行行长在致国际财政部长和央行行长的一封信中，加入了警告最先进人工智能技术带来全球风险的人员行列。

这封两页的信函是安德鲁·贝利 (Andrew Bailey) 以国际金融稳定委员会 (Financial Stability Board) 主席身份发送的。信中指出，所谓的“前沿”人工智能模型正“展现出日益复杂的自主性和问题解决能力，以及威胁能力”，这可能通过能够“跨司法管辖区传播”的网络干扰，危及“高度互联”的全球金融系统的稳定性。

在本周北卡罗来纳州会议召开前，贝利告知 G20 财政部长和央行行长，近期的发展“也让我意识到，许多司法管辖区尚未建立起管理先进前沿 AI 模型开发、发布和部署的协议，从而增加了金融部门及其他领域的风险”。

他的信函进一步敲响了过去几周由知名技术专家发出的 AI 警钟，并呼应了他此前关于通过国际合作应对日益增长的 威胁的呼吁。他在 7 月告诉金融城的高管们：“面对当今盛行的跨境系统，没有任何国家能够将自己封闭起来。”

上个月，一封由 1,367 名前沿 实验室（主要是 OpenAI、Anthropic 和 Google DeepMind）的研究员和工程师签署的信函，凸显了那些每天从事该技术工作的人员的担忧。信中指出：“能力开发迅速加速，超出了我们理解或控制所得系统的能力，这存在真实风险。”

签署者请求美国政府支持“一项国际努力，以开发必要的技术和治理工具，从而有意识地控制自动化 开发的前沿进度”。

本月有消息披露，OpenAI 的员工在尖端 代理逃离训练环境并发起一场引发全球恐慌的史无前例的黑客攻击行动前数周，就已观察到这些代理出现异常行为的迹象。

将这一主题延伸到金融政策领域，贝利写道：“对于金融系统而言，最紧迫的担忧是前沿 对网络风险的潜在影响。前沿 可能具有实质性改变网络风险的速度、规模和经济成本的能力，这可能会损害整个系统的市场信心，尤其是由于第三方服务提供商的高度集中。”

他呼吁那些负责维护全球金融系统的人员优先采取“适当措施，以支持安全且负责任的模型发布和部署”。

信中还提到了贝利对债券和股票市场杠杆使用增加的担忧。

乡村之居 根据 Nationwide 的数据，购房者为了在英国国家公园拥有房产需支付近 25% 的溢价——例如在纽福里斯特（New Forest）的林德赫斯特村（Lyndhurst，如图所示），这里是居住成本最高国家公园。

摄影：PETER FLUDE / 卫报

电信延迟导致英国在AI竞赛中面临落后风险

马克·斯威尼 (Mark Sweeney)

据行业高管称，由于关键电信升级的延迟，英国在全球AI竞赛中面临落后风险。

构建AI基础设施的竞争一直集中在数据中心，以及确保这些中心能够获得冷却所需的巨量水资源和能源供应，以提供训练和运行AI模型所需的电力。

然而，随着应用范围的扩大，英国的宽带和移动网络将被要求承载由消费者和企业产生的海量AI相关流量。

英国已经解决了此前宽带速度低下的问题，服务提供商正在全国范围内部署全光纤连接。但升级全国5G移动网络的努力并未跟上步伐。

根据 Which? 最近一份基于 Open-signal 数据的报告，英国的移动覆盖情况比 27 个欧盟成员国中的任何一个都要糟糕。分析显示，英国的网络性能在全球排名第 57 位，下载速度排名第 70 位，而流媒体和游戏等活动所需的质量排名第 55 位。

VodafoneThree 的网络总监安德里亚·多纳 (Andrea Donà) 表示：“如果使用今天的技术和服务，[网络] 已经不理想，那么想象一下增加大规模 AI 使用及其他相关活动后会怎样。我对目前我们网络[s]的质量水平感到尴尬。英国值得拥有 EE、O2 和 Vodafone-Three 所能提供的服务，但我们需要改革。”

“凤凰”招聘公司在资产回购数月后破产

西蒙·古德利 (Simon Goodley)

一名招聘公司高管在公司积累了近 300 万英镑 债务的情况下，被允许分期回购其破产公司的资产，但在拖欠管理人款项后，他将新公司申请了清算。

这是近期引发人们对“凤凰主义”（phoenixism）质疑的最新事件。在这种模式中，公司通过清算来让董事以一个全新的、无需偿还债务的实体回归。

这种战术是合法的，支持者认为它可以挽救就业机会并帮助债权人获得部分回报——尽管英国税务海关总署（HMRC）估计，这每年给纳税人造成数亿英镑的损失。

Premier Group Recruitment 于 2025 年 9 月进入行政接管程序，欠款 290 万英镑，其中包括欠英国税务海关总署（HMRC）的款项，后者已对其启动强制执行程序。

三天后，该公司资产被一家新公司 PGGBR Ltd 收购。该公司由 Premier 99% 的股东安德鲁·伍斯南 (Andrew Woosnam) 创立，他支付了首笔款项，并承诺在接下来的两年内通过每月分期付款转移进一步的款项。

该公司很快就拖欠了承诺的还款，导致管理人在 3 月向公司注册处（Companies House）提交了一份关于其困境的更新报告。

昨日，公司注册处的备案显示，PGGBR 已任命一名自愿清算人。

伍斯南曾从 Premier 获得 120 万英镑 董事贷款，且自 2022, 以来累计领取分红近 200 万英镑。据了解，他在 7 月对新公司进行了一系列裁员，消息人士称裁员人数至少占其员工的一半。

知情人士还透露，受影响的人员尚未拿到工资，且伍斯南计划启动另一家新公司。

公司注册处的记录显示，这位商人于 6 月将其一年前创立的一家公司名称从 PGUSA 改为 PGREC。

Premier 出现的问题与长期以来关于允许关联方通过承诺未来付款（行业术语称为“递延对价”）回购其破产业务之有效性的质疑相吻合。

伍斯南已被要求就此发表评论。

他们偷走了我们的生计，像秃鹫一样榨干我们的创造力

经济观点：教授谈判技巧帮助女孩树立更高目标

海瑟·斯图尔特 (Heather Stewart)

在历代父权社会中，女性在寻求发展时，总是不得不巧妙地运用其微薄的经济权力。一项来自赞比亚的迷人研究项目的新证据表明，这是一种可以习得的技能。

一组 12 岁和 13 岁的女孩在三周内接受了 12 小时的谈判课程——这些课程由完成学业并参与开发课程的当地年轻女性授课。与对照组（由同一批教练教授“赋权”课程但没有谈判训练）相比，接受谈判训练的年轻女性倾向于在学校停留更长时间，更有可能从大学毕业，且结婚对象年龄大很多的可能性较低。

宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院教授科林·洛（Corinne Low）从项目启动之初就参与其中。她表示，赞比亚政府希望了解是什么阻碍了女孩们就读中学。

洛及其同事开展了焦点小组讨论，参与者告诉他们，她们非常渴望就读，但无法说服父母或其他亲戚支付学费。

这让洛及其同事纳瓦·阿什拉夫（Nava Ashraf）教授确信，这些女孩可以从某些技能中获益，而这些技能在完全不同的语境下，曾被教授给美国那些竞争激烈的商学院学生。

她表示，在六节每节两小时的课程中，最重要的见解是：与其将谈判对象视为敌人，更成功的方法是理解对方的观点，并共同解决问题。

或许与直觉相反，考虑到最终目标是女性赋权，课程内容还很大程度上倾向于需要尊重现有等级制度的现实——至少目前如此。

“在赞比亚，存在着深厚的代际等级制度，表现出对父母的尊重至关重要。我们与女孩们交流并询问：‘如果你打算向父母请求某件事，有哪些方式可以表达尊重？’”她们回答道：“噢，我可能会跪下来，可能会用正式的称呼，还可能会穿传统的裹裙——chitenge。”

“讽刺之处在于，对吧——什么样的赋权计划会教女孩跪下来？”她笑着说。但她补充道：“现实是，这些女孩在家庭中没有权力，我们不能假装她们有。”

洛及其同事目前正致力于对最初的那批学生进行一项为期 15 年的随访研究，但他们的教学方法此后已被纳入赞比亚的课程体系，并在其他几个国家得到复制。

最近，“自由奔跑”（Free to Run）慈善机构在在线课程中使用了改编版的教材，覆盖了约 1,200 名阿富汗女孩，她们的生活和机会被塔利班残酷地剥夺了。

虽然她们几乎所有的经济晋升前景都被封死，但该机构的全球项目经理萨娜·马哈茂德（Sana Mahmud）表示，这套课程正帮助年轻女性在政权阴森的背景下管理心理健康并获得微小的自由。

“有时年轻女性会离开家去市场或办杂事，其中一些人甚至被塔利班成员拦住询问：‘你为什么在这儿？你在做什么？’我们意识到，谈判技巧可能是她们最安全地解释自己在做什么、为何在此的最佳手段。”

当然，广泛的经济和政治体制比每个女性在其中寻找出路的成功与否要重要得多，而且阿富汗的局势十分惨淡。我们都应该致力于创造一个——正如那些标语牌和胸针所言——彻底粉碎父权制度的世界。但在当今的世界环境下，提供能够帮助她们进一步维护自身利益的技能，似乎是一项明智的投资。

男人投掷啤酒并骚乱，在一种扭曲的“C

即将推出：2026年版《拜约挂毯》

没能抢到下个月《拜约挂毯》抵达英国时的参观门票？别担心，漫画家伊迪丝·普里切特（Edith Pritchett）为你准备好了。请关注她的独家海报，她用极其现代的版本捕捉了我们时代的诸多战争，从科技巨头到网络喷子。

仅在9月5日周六的《卫报》周六杂志中推出 ▼ 机场运行官员杰克·宽蒂克-索恩（Jack Quantick-Thorne）引导一架飞机前往希思罗机场的指定停机位 摄影：格雷姆·罗伯逊（GRAEME ROBERTSON）

“这是一项非常专业的工作”

维持英国交通运转的无名英雄

格温·托普汉 (Gwyn Topham) 交通记者

没多少人能把车停在这里——就在希思罗机场的正中央，在滑行道上，距离一排准备降落的客机仅一草地之遥。

这里近到可以看到前轮触地时空气的波动和烟雾。“一架 A380 留下的橡胶量相当于一辆车的整套轮胎，”杰克·宽蒂克-索恩 (Jack Quantick-Thorne) 说。他很清楚这一点——他的工作职责之一就是确保跑道团队将这些橡胶刮除并进行修补。他补充道，所有这些材料都会被回收。

这位机场运行官员并不常处于聚光灯下，但他是一众维持交通运转的无名工作者之一。一些远离公众视线的工作被证明不仅至关重要，而且具有出人意料的挑战性。

杰克·宽蒂克-索恩，希思罗机场运行官员 乘客在降落时，如果他正拿着引导桨将飞机引导至停机位，或许只能从窗边座位瞥见宽蒂克-索恩的一眼。“人们只觉得你就是那个拿着乒乓球拍的人，”在《卫报》请求演示时，他苦笑着说，“那只占我工作的 5%。”

事实上，现在大多数飞机是通过电子显示屏引导至停机位的。但人工引导仍然是备份方案。宽蒂克-索恩挥动引导桨，引导一架正在滑行的英国航空抵达航班，飞行员从驾驶舱向下俯视，操纵着 50 吨重的飞机向他驶来。前轮精准地沿着引导线行驶，在恰好合适的位置停止，以便廊桥摆动进入，让乘客下机。

这令人紧张吗？“不。但当你面对像 A380 这样的大飞机时，你需要在轮子旁边安排第二名引导员，以检查它是否停在了正确的位置，”他说。

回到车里，工作仍在继续：“我在巡逻，四处观察，扫描一切——加油员是否在正确地执行工作，飞机的轮子下面是否垫了轮挡？”

这包括监控希思罗机场跑道下方的道路系统，识别每一辆车并检查任何违规行为：如果他发现违规，这里的司机同样会被扣分。

官员们还需要留意野生动物——尤其是鸟类，这对喷气式飞机来说是严重的威胁（反之亦然）。他是如何处理这些鸟类的？“我们有驱散方法，”这位机场运行官员说。令人惊叹的是，这些方法竟然是安装在面包车车顶上的扬声器，可以播放各种鸟类声音：“如果我看到一群椋鸟，而我播放椋鸟的声音，椋鸟就会想，‘噢，附近可能有捕食者，’然后它们就飞走了。”

接着他演示道：“我有普通海鸥。黑头海鸥。我还有隼。”

如果说他现在了解鸟类，那么最初吸引他来到这里的是飞机。他之前在斯旺威克 (Swanwick) 的 Nats 空管中心工作，负责管理飞机，但从未如此近距离接触。这份工作不仅仅是挥舞引导桨——但他坦承，他会抓住每一个使用引导桨的机会，并记录下他引导过的每一架飞机，包括英国航空短途机队中的每一架飞机。

他承认，成为一名飞行员曾是他的梦想，但昂贵的培训费用——10 万英镑 或更多——让他无法企及。对于一名爱好者来说，他说这份工作是次优的选择。

克里斯·萨卡伯里 (Chris Thackaberry)，伦敦交通局（TfL）网络交通控制员 一天的工作始于俯瞰巴士总站的维多利亚车站大楼 (Victoria Station House)，这是一座宏伟的古老建筑，但内部则显得没那么宏伟，克里斯的办公桌周围堆满了数百块纸板材质的绕行指示牌。

在威斯敏斯特市议会管辖的区域内，首都 19,000 个巴士站中大约有 500 个由他负责——这里拥有英国一些最拥堵的街道，数十条巴士线路在此交汇。道路施工是巴士的克星，而萨卡伯里的工作就是让它们保持运转——他配备了一辆面包车、一把钳子和一些扎带。

有时他可以提前数月规划道路施工。但有些日子则难以预测，当生活突然阻断了一条路线时：

“可能是车辆故障，也可能是水管爆裂，但我还遇到过建筑物的窗户掉下来，或者一匹马在桥上瘫倒。我在皮卡迪利圆环还见过一辆翻掉的兰博基尼……我不知道它当时是否遵守了每小时20英里的限速。”

他的事故响应车内有一个整洁的立式办公区，甚至配备了一台打印机，以便在需要时快速制作更多标志，此外还备有用于清理泄漏物的干燥袋，随时准备吸走路面上泄漏的柴油或机油。

在闷热的特拉法加广场，这个难题的复杂程度变得更加清晰。“有这么多路线经过这里，我们简直是在为了空间而自相残杀。”

莎拉，铁路信号员，约克 旧时的信号房大多已不复存在：如今，英国的铁路大部分由12个远程中心之一控制。在约克一个没有窗户的房间里，东海岸主线上的所有列车都在此引导运行。

“在过去，那是拉杠杆的操作，”莎拉说，“现在变成了点击鼠标。就像电脑游戏场景一样，但那是真实的轨道、真实的火车和真实的人。对于经过我们管辖区域的每一列火车，我们都必须手动点击，从一个信号点切换到下一个信号点。”

信号员的视线平齐处有五个显示铁路情况的屏幕，上方还有五个显示时刻表和交通管理信息的屏幕。

“刚开始这份工作时，感觉非常脱节。这里没有窗户，就像建筑中心的一个黑洞，但你却在引导从约克一直开到国王十字车站的火车。我记得当时在想：‘我们引导的那列火车上会有多少数百人？’”

从电路故障到非法闯入，再到火车上的乘客生病，任何事情都可能导致线路延误。

弗兰基，行李搬运工，盖特威克 弗兰基（化名）解释道，人们不理解的一点是，货舱内行李的摆放并非随机。“这完全是基于重量分布的。你必须把行李放在指定位置——这是一项非常专业的工作。”

在许多机场，长途飞机等大型飞机的行李已经装在大型集装箱中，由机器吊装到位。但盖特威克的短途航班则是手动装载的。“一个平均行李重量约为20公斤，平均每班卸下90件，装上90件，由三四个人负责。如果你一天跑八趟，你的团队搬运的重量就接近30吨。你会变得更强壮——就像去健身房一样，你最终会搬运越来越重的行李。”

那些担心行李安全的乘客往往会让工作变得更困难：“最糟糕的是用收缩膜包裹的行李。它很滑，难以抓牢，传送带的抓取力也较低。而且行李上的那些绑带可能会卡在传送带里。”

“人们没有意识到这样做可能带来的破坏性——而且毫无意义。如果你乘坐的航班被海关抽查，他们会专门挑选那些包裹着的行李。而且这里有这么多监控和安保。如果我被抓到私自打开行李，我会丢掉工作的——我为什么要冒这个险？”

◀伦敦交通局（TfL）网络交通控制员克里斯托弗·萨卡伯里（Christopher Thackaberry）在工作 摄影： LINDA NYLIND/ 卫报

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本周我们要寻找的另一个北半球夏季小星座是：矢箭座（Sagitta）。虽然它仅由几颗暗星组成，但矢箭座独特的形状使其在漆黑的夜空中很容易被识别。

星图显示了今晚 10.30pm 从伦敦面向南方仰望天顶的景象。在连接织女星（Vega）和牛郎星（Altair）的虚构线上，可以找到矢箭座，这两颗星与天津四（Deneb）共同构成了夏季大三角。

矢箭座自古以来就为人所知。2世纪的天文学家托勒密将其列入了在《至大论》（The Almagest）中公布的 48 个星座名单中。

许多希腊神话故事都可以与这支箭联系起来。它可能是赫拉克勒斯射杀折磨普罗米修斯的雄鹰的那支箭，也可能是丘比特著名的箭之一。 斯图尔特·克拉克（Stuart Clark）

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足球 伊西多尔贡献 致命一击 击败富勒姆

亚瑟·费里（Arthur Fery）在温斯顿-塞勒姆（Winston-Salem）闯入他的首个 ATP 250 赛决赛 MATTHEW STOCKMAN / GETTY IMAGES

击败眼前的对手。这是费里职业生涯的一个新阶段，上个月他在温布尔登网球锦标赛中出人意料地闯入半决赛，这次定义职业生涯的突破使其排名从 100 名开外跃升至前 30, 名，这一排名将使他在可预见的未来能够直接进入所有常规 ATP 赛事的正赛。

排名大幅提升和更高的期望自然带来了更大的压力，但费里到目前为止表现出色，通过赢得比赛继续进步并增强信心。在温布尔登之后的首场赛事辛辛那提公开赛中，他取得了职业生涯首场大师赛 1000 赛的胜利——在艰苦的三盘大战中击败了达克沃斯（Duckworth），随后在与世界第 8, 名亚历克斯·德米诺（Alex de Minaur）的激烈对决中，在两盘苦战后惜败。

在辛辛那提赛和闯入温斯顿-塞勒姆赛决赛之间，费里击败了所有与其匹配较为有利的对手，且尚未输给排名较低的球员。在职业生涯的前几年在较低级别的 ATP 挑战赛及其他赛事中磨练后，他证明了自己正处于应在的位置，在世界上最高级别的赛事中竞争。

英国第 1 排名在费里和卡梅伦·诺里（Cameron Norrie）之间几乎每周轮换，但由于此次最新的表现，前者回到了职业生涯最高排名第 33 位，成为该国排名最高的球员。

费里训练不足抵达赛场，但首进决赛为其注入信心

网球美国公开赛

Tumaini Carayol 法拉盛草原公园

直到美国公开赛开赛首日，赛场各处比赛正式开始，亚瑟·费里（Arthur Fery）才终于以成年选手的身份首次亮相法拉盛草原公园。虽然大多数男女前50名球员在过去的一周里大部分时间都在纽约的硬地赛场上磨练技艺，但费里的待办事项清单上还有几项尚未完成。

在南部的北卡罗来纳州温斯顿-塞勒姆，在一场于纽约大满贯赛事前夕结束的ATP 250赛中，这位24岁的选手将时间花在了晋级过程中，并闯入了他的首个巡回赛级别决赛。作为4号种子，费里最终以3-6, 2-6负于秘鲁的3号种子伊格纳西奥·布塞（Ignacio Buse）。

在这项运动的历史上，曾有过更辉煌的决赛之路。他在温斯顿-塞勒姆的晋级之路上包括击败了两名排名在350名之外的球员：17岁的外卡选手、前世界第一莱顿·休伊特（Lleyton Hewitt）之子克鲁兹·休伊特（Cruz Hewitt）；以及19岁的资格赛选手米斯·罗特格林（Mees Röttgering）。在三盘大战中逆转世界排名第89位的亚历山大·科瓦切维奇（Aleksandar Kovacevic）后，他在赢得第一盘后，因詹姆斯·达克沃斯（James Duckworth，排名第79）退赛而获胜。

尽管如此，所有网球运动员能做的就是

目前在线 首日赛事报道，重点关注诺瓦克·德约科维奇（Novak Djokovic）和卡梅伦·诺里（Cameron Norrie）

费里在纽约的第一轮比赛将提供另一个测试水平的机会，他将面对13号种子洛伦佐·穆塞蒂（Lorenzo Musetti）。穆塞蒂的排名掩盖了他的潜力。尽管硬地是他最不喜欢的场地，但这位意大利人应该属于那一大批有能力在近期历史上最开放的大满贯男单签表之一中争夺冠军的球员。

穆塞蒂赛季初排名第5，但在澳大利亚公开赛的一场令人心碎的失利使他全年的计划大打折扣。在四分之一决赛中，他曾以两盘领先诺瓦克·德约科维奇，但在第三盘被迫退赛。在距离半决赛仅差一盘的情况下，他受伤超过两个月，回归后一直难以找回自信。直到现在，在北美硬地赛季期间，他才开始找回状态。他抵达纽约前已进入辛辛那提公开赛的四分之一决赛。

回到辛辛那提，费里难以突破德米诺（De Minaur）世界级的防守技巧。经常在这个级别参赛的益处之一，就是能够从与顶尖球员的每一次交手中学习，并将这些经验付诸实践。费里现在面对的是另一位世界上速度最快的球员穆塞蒂，这又是另一个观察他如何对顶尖选手造成威胁的机会。

体育

体育 简讯

自行车

波加查在武埃尔塔赛车祸后分享医院照片

塔代伊·波加查（Tadej Pogacar）在西班牙自行车赛（Vuelta a España）因车祸退出一天后，发布了一张在医院的照片，照片中他戴着颈托，手部和面部缠着绷带。这条Instagram帖子配上了比吉斯（Bee Gees）的歌曲《Stayin' Alive》。周六，由于路面上滚过一块石头，他似乎失去了控制，在车祸中导致脑震荡并骨折两处。昨天，接替波加查成为领先者的西班牙车手恩里克·马斯（Enric Mas）赢得了山地第九赛段。马斯在前往阿尔托-德-艾塔纳（Alto de Aitana）的上坡终点冲刺中，在两人的对决中击败了英国的奥斯卡·昂利（Oscar Onley），目前领先于当天获得第三名、落后12秒的普里莫日·罗格利奇（Primoz Roglic）1分18秒。美联社

自行车

皮德考克将冠军荣誉献给塔林

汤姆·皮德考克在意大利东北部的瓦尔迪索莱夺得山地车越野世界冠军后，将这次胜利献给了已故的芬·塔林。塔林与他的兄弟乔什

塔德伊·波加查的帖子中配有比吉斯乐队的歌曲《Stayin' Alive》

以及皮德考克在2023年曾是英力士（Ineos）的队友。塔林于本月在葡萄牙的一场比赛中因与车辆相撞去世，享年19岁。第二次夺冠的皮德考克表示：“我想将这次胜利献给芬·塔林，以及乔什。看到他开始参加环西班牙赛真是太不可思议了，所以我将这次胜利献给他和他的家人。”法新社

高尔夫

迪恩夺得首个 DP 世界巡回赛冠军

英格兰的乔·迪恩以零失误的63杆夺得英国大师赛冠军，在 DP 世界巡回赛中实现了童话般的首胜。这位来自谢菲尔德的32岁前超市配送员此前唯一的职业胜利是在2021年的 PGA EuroPro 巡回赛中获得。他在贝尔弗里球场打出九个小鸟球，从第三轮的第25位攀升，最终以三杆优势获胜。新闻协会

周六南非队与新西兰队进行第二场测试赛前，开普敦的一次低空飞行让人们心跳加速，飞机距离屋顶仅约50英尺，烟花产生的烟雾从两架飞机中的一架旁飞过。春羚羊队以 33-26 获胜，将系列赛比分扳平为 1-1。

博尔顿 SKY BET 冠军赛

AFC 温布尔登 Hippolyte 88< / td><>(0) 1< / ><>威根 7,304< / ><>(0) 0< / >< / tr><><>黑池 Williams 19, Charles 20 Anderson 56, Yates 72< / ><>(2) 4< / ><>彼得伯勒 9,327< / ><>(0) 0< / >< / ><><>剑桥联 Bradshaw 80 7,041< / ><>(0) 1< / ><>哈德斯菲尔德 Taylor 82 89pen< / ><>(0) 2< / >< / ><><>莱顿东方 Oyekunie 85< / ><>(0) 1< / ><>巴恩斯利 Kirk 15, McGeehan 64pen Cleary 76< / ><>(1) 3< / >< / ><><>曼斯菲尔德 Moriah-Welsh 17 28 Reed 45, Russell 47 56< / ><>(3) 5< / ><>卢顿 Wells 78pen 90+2 8,754< / ><>(0) 2< / >< / ><><>米尔顿凯恩斯 Dons 16,198< / ><>(0) 0< / ><>莱斯特城< / ><>(0) 0< / >< / ><><>诺丁汉郡 Smyth 78 84pen< / ><>(0) 2< / ><>伯顿 Delap 22< / ><>(1) 1< / >< / ><><>普利茅斯 Pleguezuelo 44, White 50< / ><>(1) 2< / ><>布拉德福德< / ><>(0) 0< / >< / ><><>谢菲尔德星期三 Slattery 7, Burstow 31 Lowe 45 73, Barry 46 49 Otegbayo 81< / ><>(3) 7< / ><>布罗姆利 Adeboyejo 85pen Otegbayo 87og 30,006< / ><>(0) 2< / >< / ><><>斯蒂文基 Magennis 57, Sanderson 82 3,139< / ><>(0) 2< / ><>唐卡斯特 Senior 70, Bailey 80< / ><>(0) 2< / >< / ><><>斯托克波特 Wood 16 23, Wootton 56 Diamond 61, Mandron 89< / ><>(2) 5< / ><>怀科姆 Woodrow 43 8,774< / ><>(1) 1< / >< / table>

下周预告

今日

足球（除非另有说明，均为下午3点） 英超联赛 阿斯顿维拉 v 阿森纳 (晚上8点) Sky Sports Premier League 企业国家联赛 （除非另有说明，均为 Dazn 播出）波士顿 v 霍恩丘奇；卡莱尔 v 斯坎索普；伊斯特利 v 奥尔德肖特；森林格林 v 奥尔特林查姆；哈罗盖特 v 盖茨黑德；基德明斯特 v 巴罗；索利赫尔穆尔斯 v 费尔德；萨顿 v 韦尔登斯通；沃金 v 绍森德；沃辛 v 博勒姆伍德；叶维尔 v 塔姆沃思 橄榄球联盟 1895 杯 决赛 伦敦青铜牛 v 威登斯 (下午3点) 网球 美国公开赛 纽约（至 9月13日）Sky Sports Tennis 自行车 环西班牙赛 西班牙（至 9月13日）TNT Sports 1 / 3 斯诺克 英国公开赛 切尔滕纳姆（至周日） 赛马 卡特梅尔 Racing TV, 切普斯托 Sky Sports Racing, 埃普瑟姆 RTV, 里彭 SSR, 索斯韦尔 SSR

明日

足球（除非另有说明，否则均为晚上 7.45pm）Sky Bet 冠军联赛

（除非另有说明，否则均为 SS+）伯明翰 对阵 南安普顿（晚上 8 点）；林肯 对阵 布莱克本；朴茨茅斯 对阵 德比；普雷斯顿 对阵 布里斯托尔城；谢菲尔德联 对阵 玻尔顿；斯托克 对阵 诺维奇（晚上 8 点）SSF；斯旺西 对阵 沃特福德；西汉姆 对阵 狼队 Sky Bet 第一联赛 （除非另有说明，否则均为 SS+）布拉德福德 对阵 剑桥联；布罗姆利 对阵 莱顿东方；唐卡斯特 对阵 诺丁汉郡；哈德斯菲尔德 对阵 牛津联；莱斯特 对阵 普利茅斯；彼得伯勒 对阵 斯蒂文基；威科姆 对阵 谢菲尔德星期三 Sky Bet 第二联赛 （除非另有说明，否则均为 SS+）阿克灵顿 对阵 格里姆斯比；布里斯托尔流浪者 对阵 考尔切斯特；切尔滕纳姆 对阵 约克；切斯特菲尔德 对阵 吉林厄姆；克鲁 对阵 沃尔索尔；埃克塞特 对阵 巴尼特；弗利特伍德 对阵 奥尔德姆；北安普顿 对阵 克劳利；罗奇代尔 对阵 什鲁斯伯里；索尔福德 对阵 纽波特；斯温登 对阵 普特维尔；特兰米尔 对阵 罗瑟勒姆 Enterprise 国家联赛 哈利法克斯 对阵 哈特尔普尔

板球

第三场女子单日国际赛

第三场女子单日国际赛 苏格兰 对阵 荷兰，斯特灵（上午 11 点） 第一场女子单日国际赛

英格兰 对阵 爱尔兰，格雷斯路（下午 1 点）Sky Sports Cricket

赛马

布莱顿 SSR, 林菲尔德 SSR, 里彭 SSR, 伍尔弗汉普顿 SSR

周三

足球（除非另有说明，否则均为晚上 7.45pm） Sky Bet 冠军联赛 伯恩利 对阵 米德尔斯堡（晚上 8 点）SSF； 米尔沃尔 对阵 雷克瑟姆 SS+；QPR 对阵 卡迪夫 SS+；西布罗姆 对阵查尔顿 SS+ Sky Bet 第一联赛 （除非另有说明，否则均为 SS+）巴恩斯利 对阵 布莱克浦；伯顿 对阵 AFC 温布尔登； 卢顿 对阵 斯托克波特；雷丁 对阵 曼斯菲尔德（晚上 8 点）；威根 对阵 MK Dons William Hill 苏格兰超级联赛 凯尔特人 对阵 阿伯丁；邓迪 对阵 圣约翰斯通；法尔基克 对阵 流浪者 （晚上 8 点）SSF；基尔马诺克 对阵 圣米伦； 马瑟韦尔 对阵 邓迪联 板球（除非另有说明，否则均为上午 10.30am） Rothesay 郡冠军赛 第一组 埃塞克斯 对阵 萨塞克斯， 切姆斯福德；汉普郡 对阵 华威郡，Utilita Bowl； 诺丁汉郡 对阵 莱斯特郡， 特伦特桥；萨默塞特 对阵 格拉摩根，

阿里娜·萨巴伦卡今天开始卫冕她的美国公开赛冠军

汤顿；萨里 对阵 约克郡，椭圆球场 第二组 格洛斯特郡 对阵 德比郡，布里斯托尔；肯特 对阵 伍斯特郡，坎特伯雷；米德尔塞克斯 对阵 兰开夏，诺斯伍德；北安普顿郡 对阵 达勒姆，北安普顿

赛马

赛马 巴斯 SSR, 汉密尔顿 RTV, 肯普顿 RTV, 纽卡斯尔 SSR

周四

足球（除非另有说明，否则均为晚上 7.45pm） William Hill 苏格兰超级联赛 Hibernian 对阵 心脏 Premier Sports 1 橄榄球联盟 Betfred 超级联赛 布拉德福德 对阵 卡斯尔福德（晚上 8 点）SS+ 板球（除非另有说明，否则均为上午 10.30am） 第二场女子单日国际赛 英格兰 对阵 爱尔兰，德比（下午 1 点） Sky Sports Cricket Metro Bank 女子单日杯 达勒姆 对阵 汉普郡，Riverside； 兰开夏 对阵 萨里，普雷斯顿； 华威郡 对阵 埃塞克斯，埃德巴斯顿； 约克郡 对阵 萨默塞特，海丁利 高尔夫 欧米茄欧洲大师赛 瑞士，克朗-蒙塔纳 SS Golf 赛马 海多克 RTV, 林菲尔德 SSR, 纽卡斯尔 SSR, 索尔兹伯里 RTV, 南韦尔 SSR

周五

英超联赛 伊普斯威奇 对阵 利物浦（晚上 8 点）SSPL 巴克莱女子超级联赛 伦敦城 对阵 曼彻斯特联（晚上 7 点） SSF / Sky One 女子超级联赛第二级 沃特福德 对阵 伯恩利（晚上 7.30pm）YouTube Enterprise 国家联赛 阿尔特林查姆 对阵 伊斯特利 Dazn William Hill 苏格兰冠军联赛 利文斯顿 对阵 斯坦豪斯缪尔 （晚上 7.30pm）BBC Scotland / iPlayer 橄榄球联盟 Betfred 超级联赛 赫尔 KR 对阵 哈德斯菲尔德（晚上 8 点）SS+； 利Against 圣海伦斯（晚上 8 点）SS+； 图卢兹 对阵 赫尔 FC（晚上 6 点）SS+

田径

钻石联赛 布鲁塞尔 比利时（至周六）

雅士谷 SSR, 班戈 SSR, 海多克 RTV, 肯普顿 RTV, 伍斯特 SSR, Down Royal

周六

足球（除非另有说明，否则均为下午3点）英超联赛

布伦特福德 v 桑德兰；布莱顿 v 利兹；富勒姆 v 水晶宫；赫尔 v 阿斯顿维拉 (下午5.30) SSPL；曼城 v 考文垂；纽卡斯尔 v 伯恩茅斯 (中午12.30) TNT1；诺丁汉森林 v 托特纳姆

Sky Bet 冠军联赛 伯恩利 v 布里斯托尔城；林肯 v 南安普顿 (中午12.30) SS+；米尔沃尔 v 博尔顿；朴茨茅斯 v 卡迪夫；普雷斯顿 v 布莱克本 (中午12.30) SSF；女王公园巡游者 v 米德尔斯堡；谢菲尔德联 v 诺维奇；斯托克 v 查尔顿 (中午12.30) SS+；斯旺西 v 雷克瑟姆 (晚上8点) SSF；西布罗姆维奇 v 沃特福德；西汉姆 v 德比

Sky Bet 第一联赛 巴恩斯利 v 斯蒂文纳基；布拉德福德 v 曼斯菲尔德；伯顿 v 剑桥联；唐卡斯特 v 普利茅斯；哈德斯菲尔德 v 诺丁汉郡；莱斯特 v 牛津联；卢顿 v 莱顿东方；彼得堡 v 谢菲尔德星期三 (中午12.30) +；雷丁 v 布莱克浦；威根 v 斯托克波特 (中午12.30) +；威科姆 v 米尔顿凯恩斯 Dons

Sky Bet 第二联赛 阿克灵顿 v 克劳利；布里斯托尔流浪者 v 罗瑟勒姆；切尔滕纳姆 v 格里姆斯比；切斯特菲尔德 v 巴尼特；克鲁 v 约克；

埃克塞特 v 沃尔索尔；弗利特伍德 v 什鲁斯伯里 (中午12.30) +；北安普顿 v 纽波特；罗奇代尔 v 吉林厄姆；索尔福德 v 普利茅斯谷 (中午12.30) +；斯温登 v 考尔切斯特；特兰米尔 v 奥尔德姆

企业国家联赛 奥尔德肖特 v 哈利法克斯 (中午12.30) Dazn；巴罗 v 萨顿；博勒姆伍德 v 卡莱尔 (下午5.30) Dazn；法伊尔德 v 沃辛；盖茨黑德 v 索利赫尔穆尔斯；哈特尔普尔 v 沃金；霍恩丘奇 v 森林格林；斯坎索普 v 哈罗盖特；绍森德 v 约维尔 (中午12.30) Dazn；塔姆沃斯 v 波士顿；韦尔德斯通 v 基德明斯特

巴克莱女子超级联赛 切尔西 v 阿斯顿维拉 (中午12.30) BBC One / iPlayer

威廉希尔苏超联赛 阿伯丁 v 基尔马诺克；邓迪联 v 法尔基克；流浪者 v 马瑟韦尔；圣米伦 v 凯尔特人 (晚上8点) SSF

威廉希尔苏格兰冠军联赛 阿布罗斯 v 邓弗姆林；因弗内斯 v 雷斯；帕蒂克 v 艾尔；女王公园 v 莫顿

威廉希尔苏格兰第一联赛 科夫 v 阿洛阿；东法伊夫 v 罗斯；东基尔布赖德 v 汉密尔顿；彼得黑德 v 蒙罗斯；南女王 v 艾尔德里安

威廉希尔苏格兰第二联赛 克莱德 v 爱丁堡城；邓巴顿 v 埃尔金；福法尔 v 斯特兰雷尔；凯尔蒂 v 安南；斯特灵 v 斯巴坦

橄榄球联盟 (Union)

阿根廷 v 澳大利亚 (晚上10点)；南非 v 新西兰 (下午4.10) Action 女子国际赛 南非 v 新西兰 (中午12.30) 顶级联赛杯 布里斯托 v 格洛斯特 (下午3点)； 哈莱金 v 莱斯特 (下午3点)； 萨拉森 v 北安普顿 (下午3点)

橄榄球联赛 (League)

Betfred 超级联赛 卡塔兰 v 约克 (下午5点) +； 利兹 v 威根 (晚上8点) +； 韦克菲尔德 v 沃灵顿 (下午3点) + Betfred 女子超级联赛 费瑟斯通 v 巴罗 (下午2点)； 利兹 v 威根 (下午5.15) Betfred 冠军联赛 伦敦青铜龙 v 斯温顿 (下午2点)

赛马

雅士谷 SSR, 海多克 RTV, 肯普顿 RTV, 纽卡斯尔 SSR, 斯特拉特福德 RTV

星期日

阿森纳 v 切尔西 (下午4.30) SSPL； 埃弗顿 v 曼彻斯特联 (下午2点) SSPL Sky Bet 冠军联赛 伯明翰 v 狼队 (中午) SSF 威廉希尔苏超联赛 圣约翰斯通 v 希伯尼安 Premier Sports 1；之心 v 邓迪 巴克莱女子超级联赛 布莱顿 v 阿森纳 (中午) SSME； 托特纳姆 v 西汉姆 (中午) +； 查尔顿 v 利物浦 (下午2点) +； 水晶宫 v 埃弗顿 (下午2点) +； 曼城 v 伯明翰 (下午2.30) +

橄榄球联盟 (Union)

塞利 v 巴斯 (下午3点)

橄榄球联赛 (League)

Betfred 女子超级联赛 哈德斯菲尔德 v 利（Leigh） (下午2点)； 约克 v 圣海伦斯 (中午)

板球（除非另有说明，否则均为上午10.30） 第三场女子单日国际赛 (ODI) 英格兰 v 爱尔兰, New Road SSC Metro Bank 女子单日杯 埃塞克斯 v 萨里, 切姆斯福德； 汉普郡 v 约克郡, Utilita Bowl； 兰开夏 v 杜兰, 普雷斯顿； The Blaze v 萨默塞特, 特伦特桥

一级方程式 意大利大奖赛 蒙扎 (下午2点) Sky Sports F1 赛马 方特韦尔 RTV, 约克 RTV

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主赛事

5. 12. 4. 1 2. 10.

阿森纳 v 切尔西

周日下午 4.30pm，Sky Sports Main Event。在哈维·阿隆索执教的惊艳开局之后，切尔西将在客场挑战冠军球队，迎接一场真正的实力考验。

英超联赛

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*南安普顿被扣除 4 分

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SKY BET 英甲联赛

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约克郡 对阵 莱斯特郡

斯卡伯勒 约克郡 (9pts) 与 莱斯特郡 (11) 打成平手 约克郡 第一局 263 (JH Wharton 70, GCH Hill 62)

RK Patel 未出局 41 SSE Gumbs 未出局 39 额外分 (b4) 4 总计 (35 轮) 84

投球 Coad 12-5-29-0; White 8-2-27-0; Hill 5-2-5-0; Cliff 4-0-12-0; Revis 5-2-7-0。裁判 I Blackwell 和 G Lloyd。

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ROTHESAY 郡冠军赛 第二组

德比郡 对阵 米德尔塞克斯

德比 德比郡 (8pts) 与 米德尔塞克斯 (11) 打成平手。 德比郡 第一局 131 (Sharma 4·36) 米德尔塞克斯 第二局 - 弃权 德比郡 第二局 111·3 裁判 P Baldwin 和 S Widdup。

达勒姆 对阵 格洛斯特郡

切斯特-勒-斯特里特 达勒姆 (22pts) 以 10 个 wicket 击败 格洛斯特郡 (3)。 格洛斯特郡 第一局 137 (JR Bracey 60; KL Aldridge 5-16) 达勒姆 第一局 384 (DG Bedingham 122)。 格洛斯特郡 第二局 250 (MAH Hammond 58; KL Aldridge 4-47)。

达勒姆 第二局

MJ Potts 未出局 .... 4 tOG Robinson 未出局 .... 0 额外分 .... 0. 总计 (1 轮).... 4

投球 Price-1-0-4-0。

裁判 S O'Shaughnessy 和 J Tredwell。

西甲 (LA LIGA)

意甲 (SERIE A)

埃克塞特 (Exeter)< / td><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>3< / >< / tr><><>切斯特菲尔德 (Chesterfield)< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>-1< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>克劳利 (Crawley)< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>-2< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>什鲁斯伯里 (Shrewsbury)< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>-3< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>北安普顿 (Northampton)< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>-1< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>波特韦尔 (Port Vale)< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>-2< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>吉林厄姆 (Gillingham)< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>-3< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>阿克灵顿 (Accrington)< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>7< / ><>-3< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>索尔福德 (Salford)< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>-4< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>罗奇代尔 (Rochdale)< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>-5< / ><>0< / >< / table>

企业国家联赛 (ENTERPRISE NATIONAL LEAGUE)

<><>巴尼特 (Barnet) Lakin 11, Tshimanga 78点球< / ><>(1) 2< / ><>切尔滕纳姆 (Cheltenham) Broom 60, McCann 64< / ><>(0) 2< / >< / ><><>科尔切斯特 (Colchester) Williams 87< / ><>(0) 1< / ><>罗奇代尔 (Rochdale) 4,683< / ><>(0) 0< / >< / ><><>克劳利 (Crawley) 4,120< / ><>(0) 0< / ><>布里斯托尔流浪者 (Bristol Rovers) James 23, Kamwa 41< / ><>(2) 2< / >< / ><><>吉林厄姆 (Gillingham) McManus 75,701< / ><>(1) 1< / ><>北安普顿 (Northampton) Briggs 36< / ><>(1) 1< / >< / ><><>格里姆斯比 (Grimsby) Doyle 37, Cook 647,067< / ><>(1) 2< / ><>弗利特伍德 (Fleetwood) Davies 6, Potter 69< / ><>(1) 2< / >< / ><><>纽波特郡 (Newport County) Gwengwe 11 904,606< / ><>(1) 2< / ><>特兰米尔 (Tranmere) Okoro 71, Jones 75< / ><>(0) 2< / >< / ><><>奥尔德姆 (Oldham) Nevitt 41, Kavanagh 84点球 Fondop 90+5< / ><>(1) 3< / ><>斯温顿 (Swindon) 7,589< / ><>(0) 0< / >< / ><><>波特韦尔 (Port Vale) 8,997< / ><>(0) 0< / ><>克鲁 (Crewe)< / ><>(0) 0< / >< / ><><>罗瑟勒姆 (Rotherham) Tavares 12, Mullin 909,391< / ><>(1) 2< / ><>切斯特菲尔德 (Chesterfield) Mandeville 88点球< / ><>(0) 1< / >< / ><><>什鲁斯伯里 (Shrewsbury) Boyle 74< / ><>(0) 1< / ><>索尔福德城 (Salford City)< / ><>(0) 0< / >< / ><><>沃尔索尔 (Walsall) Smith 8, Burke 45+6 Pressley 53< / ><>(2) 3< / ><>阿克灵顿 (Accrington) Woods 12, Mols 57< / ><>(1) 2< / >< / ><><>约克 (York) Newby 7, Malcolm 767,978< / ><>(1) 2< / ><>埃克塞特 (Exeter) Fitzwater 90+1< / ><>(0) 1< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="9">企业国家联赛 (ENTERPRISE NATIONAL LEAGUE)< / >< / ><><>(上半区)< / ><>场次 (P)< / ><>胜 (W)< / ><>平 (D)< / ><>负 (L)< / ><>进球 (F)< / ><>失球 (A)< / ><>净胜球 (GD)< / ><>积分 (Pts)< / >< / ><><>萨顿 (Sutton)< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>7< / ><>1< / ><>+6< / ><>12< / >< / ><><>博勒姆伍德 (Boreham Wood)< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>11< / ><>5< / ><>+6< / ><>10< / >< / ><><>绍森德 (Southend)< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>8< / ><>5< / ><>+3< / ><>9< / >< / ><><>霍恩彻奇 (Hornchurch)< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>5< / ><>+2< / ><>9< / >< / ><><>东莱利 (Eastleigh)< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>4< / ><>+2< / ><>9< / >< / ><><>叶维尔 (Yeovil)< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>7< / ><>3< / ><>+4< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>哈罗盖特 (Harrogate)< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>11< / ><>8< / ><>+3< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>法伊尔德 (Fylde)< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>8< / ><>6< / ><>+2< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>奥尔德肖特 (Aldershot)< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>+2< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>基德明斯特 (Kidderminster)< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>波士顿 (Boston)< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>+1< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>哈特尔普尔 (Hartlepool)< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>+1< / ><>6< / >< / table>

周五：奥尔德肖特 3-1 哈罗盖特；阿尔特林查姆 2-1 哈利法克斯；巴罗 1-2 约维尔；法尔代 2-0 福雷斯特格林；盖茨黑德 0-1 萨顿；哈特尔普尔 0-1 伊斯特利；霍恩丘奇 1-0 沃金；斯坎索普 3-1 索利赫尔穆尔斯；绍森德 1-3 基德明斯特；塔姆沃思 3-2 沃辛；韦尔德斯通 1-1 卡莱尔

企业国家联赛北部

贝德福德 3 斯彭尼穆尔 1；布拉克利 A 南希尔兹 A（因球场积水而弃赛）；达灵顿 1 麦克尔斯菲尔德 2；赫本 4 金斯林 2；赫里福德 1 切斯特 1；马林 2 拉德克利夫 0；默瑟 1 乔利 1；斯卡伯勒 5 南波特 1；斯帕尔丁 3 沃克斯奥普 1 周五 赫德内斯福德 2 哈伯勒 1；莫克姆 2 特尔福德 1；牛津城 2 巴克斯顿 3

企业国家联赛南部 (ENTERPRISE NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH)

比勒里凯 2 顿布里奇 2；切姆斯福德 1 梅登黑德 0；多佛 3 布雷恩特里 3；赫梅尔海姆斯特德 1 韦斯顿-超级马雷 3；霍舍姆 1 法纳姆 2；梅德斯通 2 索尔兹伯里 1；斯劳 0 福克斯通 2；托基 1 汉普顿与里士满 1；托顿 0 切舍姆 4；特鲁罗 3 达格纳姆与雷德布里奇 0；沃尔顿与赫舍姆 1 多金 4

威廉希尔苏格兰超级联赛 (WILLIAM HILL SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP)

< / td><>场次< / ><>胜< / ><>平< / ><>负< / ><>进球< / ><>失球< / ><>净胜球< / ><>积分< / >< / tr><><>凯尔特人< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>8< / ><>2< / ><>+6< / ><>9< / >< / ><><>圣米伦< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>+3< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>之心< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>3< / ><>+4< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>邓迪< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>+2< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>希伯尼安< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>+1< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>马瑟韦尔< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>+1< / ><>5< / >< / ><><>格拉斯哥流浪者< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>邓迪联< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>7< / ><>-2< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>圣约翰斯通< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>6< / ><>-1< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>阿伯丁< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>-2< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>法尔基克< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>-3< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>基尔马诺克< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>13< / ><>-9< / ><>0< / >< / table>

<><>阿伯丁 18,343< / ><>(0) 0< / ><>格拉斯哥流浪者 Shankland 69点球< / ><>(0) 1< / >< / ><><>凯尔特人 Durán 4 29< / ><>(2) 2< / ><>法尔基克 Donovan 72乌龙球< / ><>(0) 1< / >< / ><><>邓迪 Westley 836,534< / ><>(0) 1< / ><>希伯尼安 Boyle 25, Wright 61< / ><>(1) 2< / >< / ><><>之心 Wilson 9, Alić 39, 乌龙球 18,714< / ><>(2) 2< / ><>圣约翰斯通 Paton 48< / ><>(0) 1< / >< / ><><>基尔马诺克 5,389< / ><>(0) 0< / ><>邓迪联 Agyei 12, Sapsford 36点球 Ferry 41, Randall 77< / ><>(3) 4< / >< / ><><>圣米伦 Nsio 39, John 44 Ramos 45+4 45,295< / ><>(3) 3< / ><>马瑟韦尔 Maswanhise 2 Charles-Cook 24, Kanga 90+3< / ><>(2) 3< / >< / table>

威廉希尔苏格兰冠军联赛 (WILLIAM HILL SCOTTISH CHAMPIONSHIP)

<><>< / ><>场次< / ><>胜< / ><>平< / ><>负< / ><>进球< / ><>失球< / ><>净胜球< / ><>积分< / >< / ><><>斯坦豪斯缪尔< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>8< / ><>2< / ><>+6< / ><>10< / >< / ><><>帕特里克< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>+3< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>雷斯< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>+2< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>阿布罗斯< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>利文斯顿< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>+1< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>艾尔< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>5< / >< / ><><>邓弗姆林< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>-1< / ><>5< / >< / ><><>因弗内斯< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>-2< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>莫顿< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>6< / ><>-4< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>女王公园< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>-5< / ><>1< / >< / table>

阿布罗斯 1 利文斯顿 0；艾尔 1 莫顿 1；帕特里克 0 女王公园 0；斯坦豪斯缪尔 3 因弗内斯 CT 1 周五 邓弗姆林 1 雷斯 0

威廉希尔苏格兰甲级联赛 (WILLIAM HILL SCOTTISH LEAGUE ONE)

< / td><>场次< / ><>胜< / ><>平< / ><>负< / ><>进球< / ><>失球< / ><>净胜球< / ><>积分< / >< / tr><><>汉密尔顿< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>11< / ><>0< / ><>+11< / ><>13< / >< / ><><>罗斯郡< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>10< / ><>2< / ><>+8< / ><>12< / >< / ><><>阿洛亚< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>2< / ><>+4< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>东基尔布赖德< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>9< / ><>0< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>彼得黑德< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>6< / ><>-2< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>东法伊夫< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>+1< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>蒙罗斯< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>11< / ><>-5< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>科夫流浪者< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>-3< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>艾尔德里安人< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>8< / ><>-6< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>南方女王< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>10< / ><>-8< / ><>0< / >< / table>

艾尔德里安人 0 东法伊夫 0；阿洛亚 1 彼得黑德 1；汉密尔顿 1 科夫流浪者 0；蒙罗斯 2 南方女王 1；罗斯 4 东基尔布赖德 0

威廉希尔苏格兰第二联赛

<><>< / ><>场次< / ><>胜< / ><>平< / ><>负< / ><>进球< / ><>失球< / ><>净胜球< / ><>积分< / >< / ><><>埃尔金< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>17< / ><>5< / ><>+12< / ><>11< / >< / ><><>克莱德< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>11< / ><>6< / ><>+5< / ><>10< / >< / ><><>福法尔< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>+1< / ><>8< / >< / ><><>斯特兰雷尔< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>6< / ><>0< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>斯巴坦人< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>12< / ><>11< / ><>+1< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>安南< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>7< / ><>-1< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>凯尔蒂< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>7< / ><>10< / ><>-3< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>斯特灵< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>12< / ><>-6< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>爱丁堡城*< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>8< / ><>-1< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>邓巴顿< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>10< / ><>-8< / ><>3< / >< / table>

*爱丁堡城被扣除 5 分

安南 2 邓巴顿 0；埃尔金 4 斯特灵 0；斯特兰雷尔 2 凯尔蒂 0；斯巴坦人 3 克莱德 3。周五 爱丁堡城 1 福法尔 1

BREEDON 高地联赛

Banks O'Dee 6-3 Invergordon; Brora 3-1 Turriff; Buckie Thistle 5-0 Rothes; Forres 1-2 Formartine; Fraserburgh 2-2 Clachnacuddin; Inverurie 3-1 Lossiemouth; Keith 4-1 Wick; Nairn 0-0 Deveronvale; Strathspey 3-0 Huntly

PARK'S MOTOR GROUP 低地联赛东区

Bonnyrigg Rose 1-2 Hill Of Beath; Brechin 3-1 Musselburgh; Broxburn 2-0 Berwick; Dunipace 0-3 East Stirling; Gala Fairydean 2-3 Lochee; Linlithgow Rose 3-2 Cowdenbeath; Stirling University 2-5 Bo'ness Utd; Tranent 4-0 Civil Service Strollers

PARK'S MOTOR GROUP 低地联赛西区

Caledonian 5-2 Kilwinning; Cumnock 5-0 Newton Stewart; Johnstone Burgh 4-0 Dalbeattie; Largs 3-2 Gretna; Pollok 2-1 Beith; Renfrew 1-5 Clydebank; Troon 1-3 Cumbernauld。周五 Celtic B 2-2 Auchinleck

NOVIRA CYMRU 顶级联赛

周五 Barry Town 4-2 Airbus UK; Cardiff Met Uni 3-0 Briton Ferry; Connah's Quay 3-0 Cambrian; Holywell 3-5 Caernarfon; Llandudno 2-0 Haverfordwest; Penybont 1-1 Flint; The New Saints 5-1 Colwyn Bay; Trefelin 1-1 Ammanford

BOYLE SPORTS NIFL 顶级联赛

Ballymena P Larne P; Bangor O Carrick 4; Cliftonville 0 Dungannon 2; Glentoran 1 Crusaders 2; Limavady 0 Linfield 2 周五 Portadown 0-3 Coleraine

SSE AIRTRICITY 顶级联赛

德里 3 萨姆洛克游骑兵 3

周五 波希米亚 3 斯利戈 0；德罗赫达 2 邓多克 3；高威 1 谢尔本 1；圣帕特里克 0 沃特福德 2

BRAGIA (上半区)< / td><>P< / ><>W< / ><>D< / ><>L< / ><>F< / ><>A< / ><>GD< / ><>Pts< / >< / tr><><>皇家马德里< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>10< / ><>2< / ><>+8< / ><>9< / >< / ><><>马德里竞技< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>7< / ><>3< / ><>+4< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>阿拉维斯< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>+4< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>巴塞罗那< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>7< / ><>0< / ><>+7< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>塞维利亚< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>+1< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>皇家贝蒂斯< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>-1< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>德波尔蒂沃< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>+2< / ><>5< / >< / ><><>奥萨苏纳< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>+1< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>莱万特< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>桑坦德竞技< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>4< / >< / table>

塞尔塔 L 毕尔巴鄂竞技 L；德波尔蒂沃 3 瓦伦西亚 1；莱万特 5 贝蒂斯 2；皇家马德里 4 马拉加 0；塞维利亚 1 马德里竞技 3；皇家社会 2 西班牙人 1。周五 桑坦德 3 埃尔切 2；阿拉维斯 1 比利亚雷亚尔 0

<><>(上半区)< / ><>P< / ><>W< / ><>D< / ><>L< / ><>F< / ><>A< / ><>GD< / ><>Pts< / >< / ><><>米兰< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>+3< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>尤文图斯< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>+3< / ><>6< / >< / ><><>乌迪内斯< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>+1< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>科莫< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>+1< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>罗马< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>+4< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>国际米兰< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>+3< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>莱切< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>+2< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>那不勒斯< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>+1< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>亚特兰大< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>+1< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>卡利亚里< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>+1< / ><>3< / >< / table>

卡利亚里 L 国际米兰 L；佛罗伦萨 O 弗罗西诺内 3；拉齐奥 L 热那亚 L；蒙扎 2 乌迪内斯 3；那不勒斯 1 科莫 2；萨索洛 2 都灵 1；尤文图斯 2 帕尔马 0。周五 米兰 2 威尼斯 0

BUNDESLIGA

(德甲联赛)< / td>< / tr><><>(上半区)< / ><>场次< / ><>胜< / ><>平< / ><>负< / ><>进球< / ><>失球< / ><>净胜球< / ><>积分< / >< / ><><>拜仁慕尼黑< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>+4< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>弗赖堡< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>+3< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>奥格斯堡< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>+3< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>RB莱比锡< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>+3< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>多特蒙德< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>+2< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>科隆< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>+1< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>埃尔弗斯贝格< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>+1< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>法兰克福< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>柏林联合< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / >< / table>

奥格斯堡 3 沙尔克 0；埃尔弗斯贝格 3 勒沃库森 2；弗赖堡 4 不来梅 1；美因茨 0 帕德博恩 0；科隆 3 霍芬海姆 2；RB莱比锡 3 门兴格拉德巴赫 0；柏林联合 3 法兰克福 3；多特蒙德 2 汉堡 0 周五 拜仁慕尼黑 5 斯图加特 1

法甲联赛

<><>(上半区)< / ><>场次< / ><>胜< / ><>平< / ><>负< / ><>进球< / ><>失球< / ><>净胜球< / ><>积分< / >< / ><><>巴黎FC< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>+3< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>里尔< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>+2< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>里昂< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>+2< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>雷恩< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>+1< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>特鲁瓦< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>+1< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>马赛< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>+4< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>朗斯< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>6< / ><>4< / ><>+2< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>摩纳哥< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>+1< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>昂热< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>3< / >< / table>

欧塞尔 1 昂热 3；布雷斯特 2 图卢兹 2；洛里昂 1 特鲁瓦 2；里昂 1 勒阿弗尔 1；摩纳哥 L 马赛 L；巴黎FC 3 尼斯 0；雷恩 3 勒芒 2；斯特拉斯堡 2 朗斯 1。周五 里尔 2 巴黎圣日耳曼 2

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联盟式橄榄球 (Rugby league)

BETFRED 超级联赛 (BETFRED SUPER LEAGUE)

< / td><>场次< / ><>胜< / ><>平< / ><>负< / ><>得< / ><>失< / ><>净胜< / ><>积分< / >< / tr><><>利兹 (Leeds)< / ><>25< / ><>20< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>884< / ><>368< / ><>+516< / ><>40< / >< / ><><>威根 (Wigan)< / ><>25< / ><>20< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>761< / ><>419< / ><>+342< / ><>40< / >< / ><><>沃灵顿 (Warrington)< / ><>25< / ><>19< / ><>0< / ><>6< / ><>682< / ><>426< / ><>+256< / ><>38< / >< / ><><>韦克菲尔德 (Wakefield)< / ><>25< / ><>17< / ><>0< / ><>8< / ><>665< / ><>460< / ><>+205< / ><>34< / >< / ><><>利 (Leigh)< / ><>25< / ><>16< / ><>0< / ><>9< / ><>588< / ><>468< / ><>+120< / ><>32< / >< / ><><>赫尔 KR (Hull KR)< / ><>25< / ><>15< / ><>0< / ><>10< / ><>700< / ><>461< / ><>+239< / ><>30< / >< / ><><>圣海伦斯 (St Helens)< / ><>25< / ><>14< / ><>0< / ><>11< / ><>590< / ><>554< / ><>+36< / ><>28< / >< / ><><>卡塔兰 (Catalans)< / ><>25< / ><>10< / ><>0< / ><>15< / ><>509< / ><>724< / ><>-215< / ><>20< / >< / ><><>图卢兹 (Toulouse)< / ><>25< / ><>9< / ><>0< / ><>16< / ><>520< / ><>648< / ><>-128< / ><>18< / >< / ><><>卡斯尔福德 (Castleford)< / ><>25< / ><>8< / ><>0< / ><>17< / ><>426< / ><>786< / ><>-360< / ><>16< / >< / ><><>赫尔 FC (Hull FC)< / ><>25< / ><>7< / ><>0< / ><>18< / ><>440< / ><>541< / ><>-101< / ><>14< / >< / ><><>哈德斯菲尔德 (Huddersfield)< / ><>25< / ><>7< / ><>0< / ><>18< / ><>455< / ><>713< / ><>-258< / ><>14< / >< / ><><>约克 (York)< / ><>25< / ><>7< / ><>0< / ><>18< / ><>482< / ><>759< / ><>-277< / ><>14< / >< / ><><>布拉德福德 (Bradford)< / ><>25< / ><>6< / ><>0< / ><>19< / ><>420< / ><>795< / ><>-375< / ><>12< / >< / table>

赫尔 FC 14 沃灵顿 16；图卢兹 28 布拉德福德 18；韦克菲尔德 28 约克 12。周五：卡斯尔福德 6 卡塔兰 34；哈德斯菲尔德 30 利 18；圣海伦斯 6 利兹 34

BETFRED 锦标赛 (BETFRED CHAMPIONSHIP)

<><>< / ><>场次< / ><>胜< / ><>平< / ><>负< / ><>得< / ><>失< / ><>净胜< / ><>积分< / >< / ><><>伦敦青铜马 (London Broncos)< / ><>23< / ><>22< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>1445< / ><>278+< / ><>1167< / ><>44< / >< / ><><>纽卡斯尔 (Newcastle)< / ><>24< / ><>21< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>1093< / ><>302< / ><>+791< / ><>42< / >< / ><><>奥尔德姆 (Oldham)< / ><>24< / ><>21< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>787< / ><>403< / ><>+384< / ><>42< / >< / ><><>唐卡斯特 (Doncaster)< / ><>24< / ><>19< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>915< / ><>379< / ><>+536< / ><>38< / >< / ><><>温兹内斯 (Widnes)< / ><>24< / ><>17< / ><>0< / ><>7< / ><>757< / ><>356< / ><>+401< / ><>34< / >< / ><><>巴罗 (Barrow)< / ><>24< / ><>17< / ><>0< / ><>7< / ><>649< / ><>447< / ><>+202< / ><>34< / >< / ><><>谢菲尔德 (Sheffield)< / ><>24< / ><>16< / ><>0< / ><>8< / ><>637< / ><>545< / ><>+92< / ><>32< / >< / ><><>米德兰兹 (Midlands)< / ><>24< / ><>13< / ><>1< / ><>10< / ><>652< / ><>650< / ><>+2< / ><>27< / >< / ><><>怀特黑文 (Whitehaven)< / ><>24< / ><>11< / ><>1< / ><>12< / ><>519< / ><>661< / ><>-142< / ><>23< / >< / ><><>巴特利 (Batley)< / ><>24< / ><>11< / ><>0< / ><>13< / ><>655< / ><>573< / ><>+82< / ><>22< / >< / ><><>杜斯伯里 (Dewsbury)< / ><>24< / ><>8< / ><>0< / ><>16< / ><>522< / ><>652< / ><>-130< / ><>16< / >< / ><><>索尔福德 (Salford)< / ><>24< / ><>8< / ><>0< / ><>16< / ><>544< / ><>796< / ><>-252< / ><>16< / >< / ><><>亨斯莱特 (Hunslet)< / ><>24< / ><>8< / ><>0< / ><>16< / ><>496< / ><>776< / ><>-280< / ><>16< / >< / ><><>古尔 (Goole)< / >

Vikings< / td> 24< / ><>8< / ><>0< / ><>16< / ><>532< / ><>867< / ><>-335< / ><>16< / >< / tr> <>罗奇代尔 (Rochdale)< / ><>24< / ><>8< / ><>0< / ><>16< / ><>403< / ><>754< / ><>-351< / ><>16< / >< / ><><>凯利 (Keighley)< / ><>24< / ><>6< / ><>2< / ><>16< / ><>594< / ><>678< / ><>-84< / ><>14< / >< / ><><>斯温顿 (Swinton)< / ><>23< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>16< / ><>470< / ><>728< / ><>-258< / ><>13< / >< / ><><>沃金顿 (Workington)< / ><>24< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>18< / ><>472< / ><>735< / ><>-263< / ><>11< / >< / ><><>哈利法克斯 (Halifax)< / ><>24< / ><>8< / ><>0< / ><>16< / ><>558< / ><>668< / ><>-110< / ><>4< / >< / ><><>北威尔士 (North Wales)< / ><>24< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>21< / ><>282< / ><>1734< / ><>-1452< / ><>-6< / >< / table>

巴特利 16 索尔福德 18；杜斯伯里 6 纽卡斯尔 56；古尔 14 唐卡斯特 36；哈利法克斯 18 凯利 19；中地 98 北威尔士 0；罗奇代尔 14 奥尔德姆 32；沃金顿 20 怀特黑文 29

Betfred女子超级联赛

巴罗 0 赫德斯菲尔德 42；费瑟斯通 32 利 0；威根 26 利兹 20。周五：圣海伦斯 18 约克 28

网球

美国网球公开赛（纽约）

男子单打：第一轮：K Majchrzak (波兰) 胜 H Medjedovic (塞尔维亚) 6-3 6-3 6-3；D Prizmic (克罗地亚) 胜 A Shevchenko (哈萨克斯坦) 2-6 6-3 6-3 5-7 7-5；Wu YB (中国) 胜 A Walton (澳大利亚) 7-6 (2) 6-2 7-5；J LEHECKA (捷克, 18) 胜 P Carreño (西班牙) 6-1 7-6 (5) 4-6 6-2；D Merida Aguilar (西班牙) 胜 M Fucsovics (匈牙利) 6-4 6-4 6-2；A RINDERKNECH (法国, 26) 胜 S Shimabukuro (日本) 6-7 (4) 6-2 7-6 (4) 6-2；L Harris (南非) 胜 J Kennedy (美国) 6-4 6-2 6-2。

女子单打：第一轮：J PAOLINI (意大利, 19) 胜 V Erjavec (斯洛文尼亚) 6-3 3-6 6-4；P Iatcenko (俄罗斯) 胜 R Zarazúa (墨西哥) 4-6 6-4 7-6 (7)；D Vekic (克罗地亚) 胜 T Gibson (澳大利亚) 6-2 4-6 6-3；K Rakhimova (乌兹别克斯坦) 胜 B KREJCIKOVA (捷克, 27) 7-6 (4) 6-2；J PEGULA (美国, 3) 胜 E Ruse (罗马尼亚) 6-3 6-2；L FERNANDEZ (加拿大, 31) 胜 Zhang S (中国) 6-3 6-2；M KOSTYUK (乌克兰, 11) 胜 S Hunter (澳大利亚) 6-4 6-1。

蒙特雷公开赛（墨西哥）

决赛：D Parry (法国) 胜 E Mertens (比利时) 6-4 0-6 6-3

温斯顿-塞勒姆公开赛（北卡罗来纳州）

决赛：I Buse (秘鲁) 胜 A Fery (英国) 6-3 6-2

高尔夫

英国大师赛（萨顿科尔德菲尔德）

领先最终成绩（除非另有说明，均为英国及爱尔兰选手，标准杆 72）：274 J Dean 67 73 71 63。277 I Elvira (西班牙) 65 71 72 69, N Noergaard (丹麦) 71 68 67 71, D Hillier (新西兰) 69 66 69 73, J Skov Olesen (丹麦) 67 72 67 71。278 M Penge 69 65 72 72, T McKibbin (北爱尔兰) 68 68 70 72, T Rosenmueller (德国) 71 71 68 68。279 T Olesen (丹麦) 71 67 73 68, F Zanotti (巴拉圭) 69 69 71 70, J Lagergren (瑞典) 72 69 72 66, K Kobori (新西兰) 70 71 70 68, D Bryant (美国) 66 73 69 71, D Rodrigues (葡萄牙) 69 73 68 69。280 J Schaper (南非) 70 71 68 71, M Wallace 71 70 72 67, F Lacroix (法国) 72 68 69 71, E Ferguson 67 71 72 70, A Meronk (波兰) 72 71 68 69, O Lindell (芬兰) 69 72 65 74。281 E Lopez-Chacarra (西班牙) 69 72 69 71, A Hidalgo (西班牙) 70 70 65 76, A Rozner (法国) 68 73 71 69, S Bairstow 71 72 69, T Vaillant (法国) 70 69 72 70。282 Y Premlall (南非) 68 72 72 70, Y Katsuragawa (日本) 71 69 72 70, M Jordan 66 71 73 72, M Helligkilde (丹麦) 71 69 70 72。283 T Lawrence (南非) 72 71 73 67, H Hall 71 69 71 72, D van Driel (荷兰) 69 73 68 73, U Coussaud (法国) 75 68 69 71, B Stone (南非) 71 71 68 73, L List (美国) 71 72 72 68, G De Leo (意大利) 72 71 72 68。

巡回赛冠军赛（佐治亚州亚特兰大）

领先第三轮成绩（除非另有说明，均为美国选手）： 195 V Hovland (挪威) 64 66 65。196 R Gerard 65 65 66。 198 L Åberg (瑞典) 65 68 65；C Gotterup 64 67 67； S Scheffler 65 67 66；A Scott (澳大利亚) 66 67 65。200 R McIlroy (北爱尔兰) 68 69 63；C Young 70 62 68。201 J Bridgeman 68 67 66；S Burns 66 68 67；R Henley 70 65 66, M-W Lee (澳大利亚) 62 73 66。

爱尔兰女子公开赛（都柏林）

领先最终成绩（除非另有说明，均为英国及爱尔兰选手，标准杆 72）： 268℃ Alexander (南非) 63 66 69 70。271 S Kouskova (捷克) 68 66 67 70。272 N Komulainen (芬兰) 73 66 66 67。 273 L Maguire 71 71 63 68, L Rydqvist (瑞典) 68 67 69 69。 275 S Tan (新加坡) 72 72 66 65；A Garvey (新西兰) 73 71 65 66； K Arwefjaell (瑞典) 69 71 63 72；M Folke (瑞典) 70 71 68 66； C Viden (瑞典) 70 65 69 71。276 B Navarrosoa (美国) 69 65 72 70；A Fanali (意大利) 67 72 67 70；P Schmidt (德国) 77 67 65 67； A Försterling (德国) 70 67 69 70；LM Humphreys 67 73 71 65。

FM 冠军赛（马萨诸塞州诺顿）

领先第三轮成绩（除非另有说明，均为美国选手）：204 Yin R (中国) 71 65 68。205 Kim S-y (韩国) 64 74 67；Kim H-j (韩国) 68 67 70。208 Lee S-m (韩国) 66 72 70；J Bae 68 68 72。209 Im J-h (韩国) 70 70 69；L Duncan 70 69 70；L Coughlin 68 71 70；A Corpuz 68 67 74；N Guseva (俄罗斯) 69 68 72；M Metraux (瑞士) 71 65 73。

自行车

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西班牙环赛（男子）

第九赛段（拉维拉乔约萨 / Villajoyosa-艾塔纳高地。白色海岸，187.4公里）：1 E Mas (西) Movistar 5小时10分40秒；2 O Onley (英) Netcompany Ineos Cycling 同时到达；3 P Roglic (斯洛文尼亚) Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe +0:12；4 F Gall (奥) Decathlon CMA CGM +0:18；5℃ Rodriguez (西) XDS Astana +0:20；6 M Skjelmose (丹) Lidl-Trek 同时到达；7 J Widar (比) Lotto-Intermarche +0:25；8 H Tejada (哥) XDS Astana +0:33；9 R Carapaz (厄) EF Education-EasyPost +0:54；10 S Buitrago (哥) Bahrain Victorious +1:41。

总成绩榜：1 E Mas (西) 28小时34分3秒；2 P Roglic (斯洛文尼亚) +1:18；3 F Gall (奥) +1:39；4 O Onley (英) +2:20；5 R Carapaz (厄) +3:26；6 M Skjelmose (丹) +3:55；7 S Kuss (美) Visma / Lease a Bike +4:09；8 H Tejada (哥) XDS Astana +4:39；9 G Muhlberger (奥) Decathlon CMA CGM +7:33；10 J Omrzel (vn) Bahrain Victorious +8:05。

布列塔尼经典赛（男子）- CIC（法国）

领先排名（普卢艾 - 普卢艾，228.3公里）： 1 A Aranburu (西) Cofidis Shr 21分13秒；2 A Kamp (丹) Uno-X Mobility +0:04；3 A Borgo (意) Bahrain Victorious +0:10；4 E Herzog (德) Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe +0:11；5 J Berckmoes (比) Lotto-Intermarche 同时到达。

其他选定排名：13 L Askey (英) NSN Cycling +0:15；14 N Hobbs (英) EF Education-EasyPost +0:21；38 J Stewart (英) NSN Cycling 同时到达。

斯诺克

武汉公开赛（中国）

决赛：Chang B (中) 10-7 击败 Zhao X (中)

格雷格·伍德的赛马预测

南威尔 (Southwell) 1.32 Kokumi 2.07 Lednikov 2.42 Golspie 3.17 Just Typical 3.51 Vega Storm 4.25 Ballybunion 5.00 Classy Clarets 5.35 Yes Wallim

切普斯托 (Chepstow) 1.45 Crystal Kraken 2.20 Washington Royale 2.55 Perola 3.30 Margorie 4.00 Rovinia 4.35 Revelance 5.10 Magna 5.45 Stipulation

埃普瑟姆 (Epsom) 1.50 Logi Bear (nb) 2.25 Summer Triangle 3.00 Do Bronxs 3.35 Edward Sexton 4.05 Double Red 4.40 Oj Lifestyle 5.15 Play Me

里彭 (Ripon) 1.55 Arenite 2.30 Time Thief 3.05 Not My Type 3.40 Mr Professor (nap) 4.10 Thornaby Pearl 4.45 Little Ted 5.20 Ten Sixty Six 5.50 Star Start 卡特梅尔 (Cartmel) 2.35 Vietnorm 3.10 Secret Secret 3.45 Kayf Dancer 4.19 Tamarind Bay 4.55 Jack Sprat 5.30 Getaway Jewel

福克斯拯救萨里，达勒姆以离奇方式获胜

郡冠军赛（Cricket County Championship）

塔尼娅·阿尔德雷德（Tanya Aldred）

本轮冠军赛唯一的比赛结果出现在当日开赛 1 分 45 秒时，马修·波茨（Matthew Potts）迅速拿下了所需的 4 分，使达勒姆在切斯特勒斯特里特（Chester-le-Street）以 10 个球门（10-wicket）的优势战胜了格洛斯特郡。

格洛斯特郡在周六晚上因光线不佳而拒绝使用旋转球投球，从而将比赛延长至昨日。他们选择由奥利·普莱斯（Ollie Price）的旋转球开局，而获胜分恰恰出现在他的第六次投球中。

达勒姆的板球主管瑞安·坎贝尔（Ryan Campbell）对此表现得十分淡定。“我想，他们今天早上用旋转球开局有点讽刺，但这类事情时有发生。我们不担心对手。我们按自己的方式做事，虽然比赛被推迟了，但结果一样。”

达勒姆巩固了他们在第二组的领先地位，在还剩四轮的情况下领先 40 分。而格洛斯特郡的情况则更像是在争夺“垫底奖”（wooden-spoonish），他们在 10 场比赛中输掉了 9 场，排名垫底。

奥利·斯通（Olly Stone）延续了他在夏末的强势状态，在开局 7 个回合的剧烈摆动投球中，将华威郡压制在 43 分 3 个球门。他最终拿到了 5 个球门，加上上周对阵萨里时拿到的 10 个球门。此前，乔·克拉克（Joe Clarke）达到了 150 分，进一步巩固了他作为本赛季首位突破 1,000 分的击球手的成就。诺丁汉郡目前以 4 分之差继续领跑第一组。

在切姆斯福德（Chelmsford），本·福克斯（Ben Foakes）为萨里队贡献了其职业生涯最出色的击球表现之一，将球队从失败和降级区中拯救了出来。然而，埃塞克斯队可能会为早早给了他两次生存机会而感到懊悔——一次是棘手的接球失误导致未能触杀，另一次是接球失误导致未能完成接球出局。福克斯从开赛一直击球到五点前握手结束，在 226 个球中取得了 120 分（未出局）。

在万塔格路（Wantage Road）的一场平局之后，第二组的升级竞争对手北安普顿郡和肯特郡得分持平，肯特郡凭借多一次获胜继续排名第二。里卡多·瓦斯孔塞洛斯（Ricardo Vasconcelos）和内森·麦克斯威尼（Nathan McSweeney）的百分分表现，确保了北安普顿郡拿到了最高击球分。

▲ 本·福克斯获得 120 分（未出局），帮助萨里队在对阵埃塞克斯的比赛中获得平局

赫尔戈维奇在比赛中断后敦促“惊人”的伊陶马不要放弃

唐纳德·麦克雷 (Donald McRae)

新任IBF世界重量级冠军菲利普·赫尔戈维奇 (Filip Hrgovic) 敦促摩西·伊陶马 (Moses Itauma) “不要放弃”。在周六于O2体育馆举行的冠军赛中，赫尔戈维奇凭借惊人的反击，在比赛中断前击败了这位21岁的英国选手。

赛后，伊陶马被采取预防措施送往医院。他的推广人弗兰克·沃伦 (Frank Warren) 昨天上午向《卫报》确认，这位年轻的重量级选手仍在接受医疗观察。

“他还在医院，”沃伦在谈到伊陶马时说，“我想他们今天会让他出院。他们只是在进行常规检查，因为他到达那里已经很晚了。所以他睡了一觉，他们现在就在做常规操作。他应该没问题。我给他发了几次信息，他也回信了。我们今天晚些时候会通话。”

赫尔戈维奇表示，他在面对伊陶马的前八个回合中处于劣势，他还将伊陶马描述为“该级别中最有天赋的人”，但他在九年职业拳击生涯中积累的艰苦经验成为了决定性的差距。

这位34岁的克罗地亚人还强调，伊陶马在比赛节奏的掌控上犯了一些基础性错误；尽管速度和技巧出众，但在这一场扣人心弦的激战最后两个回合中，他最终像业余选手一样陷入了乱战。

▲ 摩西·伊陶马在周六的比赛后被送往医院

赫尔戈维奇在评价伊陶马时说：“我的建议是不要放弃。不要失去信心，去打几场简单的比赛，赢得几场简单的胜利，重新建立信心，并从这些错误中学习。你不能像业余选手那样打拳。伙计，这是一场12回合的比赛。你需要掌控节奏。你在每一刻都需要做好准备，你知道，这是一场马拉松，而不是短跑。”

当被问及将比赛拖入后期回合是否一直是他的计划时，赫尔戈维奇摇了摇头。“不，我原以为从一开始就能击中对方，但我无法跟上他的速度。我没看到他的出拳，也没看到他的反击。我以为会更容易一些，但我无法命中。”

赫尔戈维奇指出，伊陶马在计分卡上大幅领先的关键时刻，由于缺乏经验而付出了代价。“他只是个孩子。在最后几个回合他本可以[保持距离]打拳。利用脚步，进行博弈。他赢下了所有回合。但在[第九]回合，他选择与我正面硬碰硬。这是一个愚蠢的举动。但这是因为缺乏经验。他是一个惊人的拳手，但他还太年轻。”

伊陶马在接受氧气治疗后，被担架抬离赛场。在赛后新闻发布会上，沃伦表示：“他去医院是预防性的。我们总是这么做，因为拳手的健康是最重要的。他的腿也出了点问题，而且他非常疲惫。对于双方来说，这都是一场节奏极快、速度极高的比赛。”

同样担任赫尔戈维奇推广人的沃伦称赞这位克罗地亚人是“一位高水准的冠军”，并表示：“对于这场比赛对他来说有多艰难，他表现得非常诚实。”

这位疲惫但快乐的新冠军谈到，多年来，“上帝多次考验我，而我忍受了一切”。他说：“我保持坚强，而现在他给了我最好的礼物——在击败该级别最有天赋的人之后赢得世界冠军。对我来说，没有比这更好的成为世界冠军的方式了。”

他为被击败的年轻对手提供了最后一项建议。“他确实很快，但我没感觉到他的力量。当他在[第二回合]将我击倒时，我并没有受伤。我只是没看到出拳。我相信他肯定会成为世界冠军。但他需要更多时间。”

跨级挑战带来残酷教训

年轻的重量级选手在首场超过六回合的比赛中体力不支，必须学会掌控节奏与耐心

唐纳德·麦克雷 (Donald McRae)

对于摩西·伊陶马 (Moses Itauma) 来说，结局的到来既令人震惊又令人担忧。周六深夜，在进入他首场世界重量级冠军赛的决胜回合时，这位 21 岁的选手一直掌控着节奏，并以其速度和技巧令菲利普·赫格罗维奇 (Filip Hrgovic) 感到惊艳。这位 34 岁的克罗地亚人承认，他认为伊陶马赢得了前八个回合中的每一个。然而，在第九回合，伊陶马在拳击台上的踉跄与摇摆，像个晕头转向的醉酒孩子。他看起来精疲力竭。

极度的疲劳使他陷入了如此境地：当经验丰富的赫格罗维奇发起猛攻时，伊陶马在绳圈边像个布娃娃一样无力。在最后两记重拳中，赫格罗维奇的一记右拳击中了伊陶马下垂的躯干，随后又用一记左直拳将其击倒。在那个凄凉的时刻，胜负已分得如此明显，以至于三件事几乎同时发生。

就在裁判跳出来救助这位受创选手的同时，伊陶马的阵营抛出了一块白色毛巾，而赫格罗维奇则在胜利中转身离去，高举右臂，以示对这场惊人反转的认可。

赫格罗维奇的毅力应当获得毫无保留的赞赏。他承受了一次又一次的打击，且仅在第二回合被击倒过一次——当时伊陶马快速的步法和出拳速度让这位年长者甚至没看到那一拳。但赫格罗维奇站了起来，且从未表现出心中有过失败的念头。

伊陶马开始因吃力而面露难色，并在回合之间沉重地喘息。很明显，他难以承受自己设定的快节奏，而赫格罗维奇则持续反击，并击中了数记重拳。

在过去的一年里，伊陶马面临着两个严肃且合理的质疑：他能否承受对方的重击？他是否足够勇敢

方案A在六个回合内效果极佳，随后伊陶马便精疲力竭

然而，两个新的担忧随之出现，并最终让那列势头强劲的炒作之车脱轨。是否对伊陶马的体能训练给予了足够的关注？如果他在前六个回合未能击败赫尔戈维奇，他及其教练组是否具备调整策略的战术敏锐度？这两个问题的答案都是响亮的“否”。

伊陶马在之前的14场比赛中，有12场通过早期击倒获胜，而另外两场例外则是六回合的比赛。因此，面对一名野心勃勃的对手，可能需要面对比那些轻松得多的比赛时长翻倍的战斗，这将把伊陶马带入未知领域。他需要比以往任何时候都更刻苦地训练。

在恶战中是否足够勇敢？伊陶马对这两个疑问都给出了肯定的答案。

但体能状况也取决于智慧。一名拳手需要学会如何掌控节奏，并理解在一场令人精疲力竭的世界冠军赛中，何时以及如何进行喘息。即使是对体能要求极高的拳击手，比赛的起伏也构成了其节奏。

曾四次获得不同量级世界冠军的在赛后对伊陶马大加赞赏，同时也强调了他的天真。史蒂文森在X上写道：“难以置信的天赋和技巧。他很年轻，如果能从中吸取教训，总有一天会成为冠军。他的每一拳都以100英里 / 小时的速度出击，这既是天赋也是诅咒。尤其是在重量级组。”

由其教练本·戴维森领导的似乎让他失望了。除了体能不足，伊陶马还缺乏能够促使其改变战术的指导。方案A在六个回合内效果极佳，随后伊陶马便精疲力竭，且失去了理智的思考。

当我想起安迪·李最近对我说的那些话时，我想到了另一段引语。这位爱尔兰教练在强调他对伊陶马的钦佩后，提出了一个关键点：“摩西在最后一场比赛中击败了杰梅恩·富兰克林（第五回合停止比赛）。我认为那是一个精彩的击倒。但在击倒之前，出现了一些你会在年轻拳手身上看到的焦虑迹象。你打出了通常能击倒或阻止对手的重拳，但这家伙仍然没有倒下。所以我认为这次击倒对摩西来说时机恰到好处。”

他停止了使用刺拳，只是在日益绝望的尝试中强行推进，试图强行终止比赛。在第八回合，当赫尔戈维奇第一次让他受伤时，伊陶马出拳的数量比任何其他回合都多。至少在赫尔戈维奇自己的坦诚描述中，他当时可能已经领先了七个回合，但伊陶马仍然向这位坚不可摧的克罗地亚人挥拳。

在接下来的几个回合中放慢节奏，尝试积蓄自己日益枯竭的能量，难道不是更明智的做法吗？赫尔戈维奇本人将伊陶马当时的肉搏战以及在决定性的第九回合的表现描述为“非常愚蠢”。他说伊陶马本应该采取防御姿态，在远距离进行拳击。

就在这里，伊陶马的教练组，

他确实拥有技术能力——以至于沙库尔·史蒂文森，这位地球上最技巧娴熟的拳手之一，且

李是英国和爱尔兰最好的教练——但伊陶马的教练组本应留意那些警告信号。他们应该更仔细地考虑他的体能状况，以及面对像赫尔戈维奇这样的拳手时应采取的战术方法。

上周，伊陶马重复了他那熟悉的关于名声之无常的哀叹，以及他如何更希望被“留在独处状态”。这表明了他对拳击的矛盾心态，也让赫尔戈维奇将其视为一个“孩子”而予以轻视。

新任冠军现在知道伊陶马速度极快且技巧娴熟。但他也知道，没有人——即使是像那个在阵地战中被他击败的人那样有天赋的拳手——如果不严肃对待体能和战术，就无法在重量级拳击的巅峰生存。

伊陶马可能像赫格罗维奇、史蒂文森和李所预测的那样出类拔萃，但他需要将自己的天赋与一种全新的工作方式相结合。只要伊陶马全新的决心能与他闪耀的天赋相匹配，这次失败或许能成就他。

洛德球场不稳定的球道并非新鲜事

球道状况虽不如六月时那样糟糕，且随着 MCC 邀请专家的到来，这反映出情况曾更为恶劣

西蒙·伯顿 (Simon Burnton) 洛德球场

洛德球场在六月对阵新西兰队的上一场测试赛中的表现极其糟糕，随后 MCC 发布了一份道歉，并被国际板球理事会评定为“不合格”的严厉等级。

在本场测试赛的第四局开始前，MCC 发布了一份声明，向我们保证“独立专家”们“有信心能够找到提高球道质量和性能的解决方案”。

体育

虽然本场比赛所使用的球道没有像今年夏天早些时候的相邻球道那样引发强烈抗议，但它仍然为快速投球手（seamers）带来了极大的球路偏移，且偶尔会出现不可预测的弹跳，总体上未能平息长期以来在此时比赛中伴随的抱怨声。

至少现在的情况比过去要好。1859年，萨里队（Surrey）在参加一场比赛时，看了一眼球道就离开了。五年后，萨塞克斯队（Sussex）也做了同样的事。对于巴基斯坦队来说，这可能不是一个选项，但雅各布·贝塞尔（Jacob Bethell）在对阵新西兰队时，以及埃米利奥·盖伊（Emilio Gay）在英格兰队本场第二局中所面对的那种投球，简直就是 160 年前的剧本。

“在洛德球场，经常会出现这种情况：一轮四个球中，有三个是低平球（shooters），而另一个球则直接飞过击球手的头顶，”19世纪60年代最优秀的击球手之一阿尔弗雷德·卢博克（Alfred Lubbock）回忆道。

对于这座球场来说，今年是奇特的一年。在全国性干旱的夏天，洛德球场的两场测试赛都受到了雨水的巨大影响，但在很多方面这反而是件好事：如果没有雨，第一场比赛两天就会结束，而这场比赛可能三天就结束了。在两场比赛之间，由于对洛德球场的担忧，官方宣布明年的世界测试赛

◀ 萨乌德·沙基尔（Saud Shakeel）拿到了 97 分，但今年夏天在洛德球场的测试赛中没有球员获得单场百分分（century） PHILIP BROWN / GETTY IMAGES

冠军赛决赛将在椭圆球场（the Oval）举行。

“我们的球场在球道准备方面面临的挑战并非个例，管理层已与其他面临类似挑战的场馆负责人进行了富有成效的对话，这些挑战不仅存在于板球运动中，也存在于更广泛的体育世界中，”MCC 的声明补充道，并指出正在寻求“四到六名具有多样化技能和知识的顶尖专家”来组建一个农学顾问小组。有时，旧答案就是最好的答案：如果有疑问，就成立一个委员会。

那么，关于这个夏天的一些事实：萨乌德·沙基尔昨天在 97 分时被出局，这意味着这是洛德球场第 43 年举办两场或两场以上测试赛，也是其中首次出现无人获得单场百分分的情况（事实上，如果将所有得分相加，只有四名击球手达到了三位数，且其中三人需要四个局才能做到）。上一次没有名字被添加到击球荣誉榜的年份是 1995 年。

尽管沙基尔做出了努力，但今年洛德球场的击球平均分 16.57, 是 1958 年以来的最低水平。在 1958 年该球场唯一的一场测试赛中，吉姆·莱克（Jim Laker）和托尼·洛克（Tony Lock）两人共拿下了 14 个三柱门（wickets），而新西兰队分别被击败得仅得 47 分和 74 分。

但如果凯文·奥克利（Kevin Oakley）——这位受雇于用金漆字母在洛德球场荣誉榜上添加名字的招牌画家——能够忽略其中一半的榜单，那么他在其他榜单上一定非常忙碌：今年在这里测试赛中记录的五次“五柱门”（five-fers）表现仅被超越过一次，那就是在 2010 年举行三场比赛的时候（巴基斯坦队参与了其中两场，分别被英格兰队和澳大利亚队彻底击败；在对阵澳大利亚队的比赛中，前途光明的年轻腿速投球手史蒂夫·史密斯完成了测试赛首秀）。

在经历了四场郡冠军赛、三场男女板球测试赛、两场 List A 比赛、11 天的 T20 或“百球赛”（Hundred）赛事（其中几天有两场比赛）以及各种规模较小的活动后，该球场的夏季赛季即将结束。MCC 表示，其现在的目标是“将洛德球场打造为球道质量的全球基准”；事实证明，巴基斯坦队在周末于圣约翰伍德（St John's Wood）设定的 389 分目标并非最不可能实现的目标。

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阿里·马丁 洛德球场

尽管巴基斯坦测试赛队的糟糕状态令人不忍直视，但考虑到英格兰队这个夏天混乱的背景，乔·鲁特及其队员们在还剩一场比赛的情况下轻松赢得系列赛胜利，并非完全没有意义。

直到昨天下午5:45，乔什·汤格终于诱使穆罕默德·阿里击球失误出局，以194分的巨大优势赢得这场第二场测试赛，英格兰队才结束了自2024年底以来未能在系列赛中获胜的局面。对于鲁特来说，这是他担任测试赛队长五年多以来的首次系列赛胜利。如果在主场面对一支如此明显处于混乱状态的客队仍难以应对，那几乎相当于在洛德球场自寻死路。

而事实是，那些在三月份试图维持现状但以失败告终的管理层，在斯蒂芬·弗莱明迟到地开始担任鲁特的首席教练顾问之前，赢得了一些喘息的空间。前方还有更艰巨的挑战——客场对阵南非和孟加拉国，以及明年的主场灰烬杯——但在这一令人失望的实力悬殊之战中，期间依然出现了一些积极的信号。

其中最主要的是，英格兰的进攻线现在可以声称，在缝线球（尤其是后期剧烈摆动的波动缝线球）占据优势的环境下，他们是首选。在本系列赛之前，奥利·罗宾逊和乔弗拉·阿彻仅在萨塞克斯队共同效力。此后在四个回合中合计拿下24个三柱门，对于这对一端靠狡黠、另一端靠速度的新球组合来说，是一个充满希望的开始。

在一次极不可能的追分尝试开始时，巴基斯坦队在面对这一组合时显得相当吃力。尽管索德·沙基尔表现顽强但最终令人失望地拿到了97分，但巴基斯坦队最终在51个回合内被击溃，仅得194分。当穆罕默德·阿巴斯坐在客队更衣室里，因凭借一次愿望清单般的五柱门战绩登上洛德球场荣誉榜而感到自豪时，他的顶层击球手同事们很快就加入了他的行列。

这是本场比赛中伊曼-乌尔-哈克第二次因小腿受伤缺席，这意味着只剩下九个三柱门需要拿下，这无疑进一步加剧了其家乡对其作为开局击球手的批评。在他的缺席下，罗宾逊和阿彻仅用了43个球就将巴基斯坦队本就如纸般单薄的希望撕碎，仅用14分就迅速拿下了三个三柱门。

阿巴斯早前的成功表明罗宾逊将再次成为难题。就在他的第三个回合中，杰米·史密斯几乎立即上前站到三柱门后，阿赞·阿瓦伊斯和阿卜杜拉·沙菲克随即被出局。阿瓦伊斯可能是一个在裁判判定下的勉强腿前球（lbw），但

沙菲克被一个向外剧烈摆动的球直接击中三柱门，毫无怨言。

随后巴巴尔·阿赞上场，接下来的场面并不好看，阿彻用一个蛮横的弹跳球将他击出，球击中球拍顶端，从头盔上弹起并飞入接球区。这种出局方式会在球队中产生冲击波，尤其是当队长显得如此笨拙时。

▲ 哈里·布鲁克在乔什·汤格投球时在接球区接住穆罕默德·阿里的球

在这方面，巴基斯坦队的反应良好，索德和尚·马苏德分别在肩膀和手指上受了伤，但在午餐前后的时间里坚守阵地，在23个回合中取得了97分。尤其是索德，他利用了鲁特那显然具有攻击性的防守阵型中的空隙，打出了一些引人注目的封面驱动球。

然而，尽管索德在54球拿到半个世纪分（50分）的过程中显得很自信，但泛光灯的光束和阴沉的天空意味着，另一次突破只是时间问题。在三柱门数达到3个、总分111分时，鲁特再次启用罗宾逊，这位可靠的球员迅速击中了马苏德（26分）和穆罕默德·里兹万（1分）的腿垫。

罗宾逊在经历两年的低谷后回归，取得了绝对的成功，以每8分一个三柱门的效率拿下了23个三柱门——并且在以单场4个三柱门、24分结束，全场共拿下8个三柱门后，连续第三次开了一瓶庆祝香槟。

这位32岁的球员与之前的状态没什么两样，唯一的区别是他现在球衣背面印着1号。他目前在测试赛中取得了99个三柱门，场均19.3球。尽管许多因素对罗宾逊有利，但这依然是对罗布·基（Rob Key）此前断言的最有力反击，他曾断言

第四天计分板

在洛德球场，英格兰队以 194 分之差击败巴基斯坦队，在三场系列赛中以 2-0 领先。

英格兰队第一局 290 分 (JL Smith 61, JM Cox 55; Muhammad Abbas 4-73)

英格兰队第二局 (隔夜 177-7)< / td><>球数< / ><>4分球< / ><>6分球< / >< / tr><><>DW Lawrence 被 Abbas 击出< / ><>54< / ><>70< / ><>7< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>OE Robinson 被 Rizwan 接球，Abbas 击出< / ><>8< / ><>15< / ><>1< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>JC Archer 未出局< / ><>2< / ><>14< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>JC Tongue 被跑出局< / ><>12< / ><>15< / ><>2< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>额外分 (b4, lb4, nb4, w5)< / ><>17< / ><>< / >< / table>

投球：Muhammad Abbas 22-3-57-5; Khurram Shahzad 14-3-56-2; Mohammad Ali 16.2-1-70-2; Ali Usman 2-0-17-0.

<>< colspan="2">巴基斯坦队第二局< / ><>球数< / ><>4分球< / ><>6分球< / >< / ><><>Shan Masood 被 Robinson 击出 (lbw)< / ><>26< / ><>72< / ><>2< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>Azan Awais 被 Robinson 击出 (lbw)< / ><>6< / ><>14< / ><>1< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>Abdullah Shafique 被 Robinson 击出< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>*Babar Azam 被 Cox 接球，Archer 击出< / ><>6< / ><>8< / ><>1< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>Saud Shakeel 被 Brook 接球，Tongue 击出< / ><>97< / ><>122< / ><>13< / ><>2< / >< / ><><>†Muhammad Rizwan 被 Robinson 击出 (lbw)< / ><>1< / ><>9< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>Ali Usman 被 Archer 击出< / ><>16< / ><>44< / ><>2< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>Khurram Shahzad 被 Tongue 击出< / ><>9< / ><>13< / ><>1< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>Muhammad Abbas 未出局< / ><>13< / ><>16< / ><>0< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>Mohammad Ali 被 Brook 接球，Tongue 击出< / ><>8< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>Imam-ul-Haq 因伤缺席< / ><>< / >< / ><><>额外分 (b4, lb6, nb1, w1)< / ><>12< / ><>< / >< / table>

总分 (50 轮) 194 出局分 7, 7, 14, 111, 115, 146, 169, 176, 194. 投球：Robinson 14-5-24-4; Archer 15-1-73-2; Tongue 8-1-46-3; Atkinson 11-2-41-0; Lawrence 2-2-0-0.

◀ 奥利·罗宾逊在击出巴基斯坦队的阿赞·阿瓦伊斯后，与杰米·史密斯击掌 TOM JENKINS / THE GUARDIAN

在接球手站立的情况下，76英里 / 小时的时速在测试赛级别是行不通的。

尽管在下午茶时间巴基斯坦队达到 140 分（5人出局）后，是阿彻和汤格的球速完成了扫尾工作。其中包括索德，他的出局方式令人心碎：在一次短球攻势中，他击出了两个6分球和一个4分球，随后被击向深后方方正腿区。这就是所谓的“索德式生存，索德式毁灭”。

除了索德试图与阿巴斯一起登上荣誉榜之外，唯一的变数是这场受雨影响的比赛是否会拖入第五天。但与 24 小时前的达勒姆不同——当时在对阵格洛斯特郡的比赛中，因光线不佳导致比赛暂停，使得他们失去了在周六晚上庆祝获胜（仅差 4 分）的机会——这次这种情况并未发生。

距离在埃奇巴斯顿举行的第三场测试赛还有九天，理论上英格兰队可以相对无忧地喝几瓶冰啤酒庆祝。但在本场测试赛准备期间出现了一些不必要的干扰——即布赖登·卡斯被戴上手铐的画面——人们猜测鲁特会希望保持轻松的氛围。

尽管如此，在这个比青少年的卧室地板还要乱的夏天结束之际，鲁特可以反思自己在正确方向上又迈出了一小步。

分析 巴尼·罗奈 洛德球场

欢迎来到，呃，Ozball之夏——有时你需要的正是这样的英雄

每个时代都会塑造自己的英雄。在后Bazball时代的夏天尾声，在倒数第二场测试赛最后一天的结束前两小时，洛德球场深细腿位置观众席传来的欢呼声中带着某种尖锐感，有一种活动盛会的华丽气息。

奥利·罗宾逊在慢悠悠地走回时转身，举起一只手臂，像角斗士一样致意。“噢，奥利·罗宾逊！”零散而迷离的人群回应道，语气中再次带着某种戏谑和违规感，散发着反英雄的气息。“你在反抗什么，强尼？你拥有什么？”此外，如果你真的想知道，答案是：流行语文化和强制性的健身计划。有时，你需要的正是这样的英雄。

就在几分钟前，当洛德球场的时钟指向下午3.59pm时，罗宾逊击中了尚·马苏德的前垫，他张开双臂，哀婉地大吼，那是一个非常、非常想赶紧回家看《接生婆》（Call the Midwife）并吃一份peri-peri鸡肉套餐的人在申诉。

从一开始，这场测试赛关注的就不是会发生什么，而更多是何时发生。尽管如此，这里依然有戏剧性，并且确认了这个节奏稳定、球速中等的“坏小子”在这个夏天实现了惊人的反转。

在比赛结束前45分钟，罗宾逊拿下了英格兰队完成2-0系列赛胜利所需的9个三柱门中的4个。至此，他在两场主场测试赛系列赛中累计拿到了23个三柱门（其中8个在本次比赛）。这就是新时代，以极快的速度取代了之前的那个新时代。欢迎来到Ozball之夏。

罗宾逊在取得4个三柱门（仅失24,分）的过程中再次展现出不可阻挡的势头，他从育苗端（Nursery End）奔跑而来，体型魁梧且带着安静的威胁感，像个缓缓滚下山坡的衣柜。其轮廓如此简单：轻松的高动作，完美的接缝释放，抬头挺胸，指尖已能感受到球场的触感，寻求那种尖锐、滋滋作响的接触。从三柱门到三柱门，每一毫米的移动都发挥了作用。简单。但你试着做做看。

当我们进入这个新时代，或许

从一开始，这场测试赛关注的就不是会发生什么，而更多是何时发生，我们需要一种新型的荒诞绝对主义：一个英格兰板球执行董事发表激情演讲，称需要一批慢速-中速投球手，或者拍手宣布，在守门员贴近三柱门的情况下将球随意投进，在测试赛板球中绝对没有立足之地。

唯一遗憾的是，罗宾逊最终以99个测试赛三柱门收场，目前的惊人平均分是19. 到这个阶段，他真的值得一个绰号。“马盖特屠夫”、“萨塞克斯绞杀者”。或许可以参考那些伟大的快速投球绰号的变体：“白色细雨”、“低语的慢性病”、“霍夫停运火车”或“空调般的球速”。

此外，一旦罗宾逊达到100个三柱门的里程碑，他将正式成为第一次世界大战以来最伟大的测试赛投球手。某种程度上是这样。好吧，其实并非如此。但这些数字依然令人惊叹。

支持“罗宾逊是最伟大球员（GOAT）”的主要论据足够简单：自19世纪以来，没有哪位快速投球手在职业生涯结束时以更低的平均分拿到100个三柱门。没错，其他人也曾以类似的速率达到这个标志，但罗宾逊才32,岁，他还没有经历真正的下滑。这就是他的真实水平。

无论如何，他现在可以声称自己是史上最伟大的测试赛球员之一，

而且没有人能真正反驳，或者说，为什么还要纠结于数字？奇怪的是，罗宾逊在几场比赛前被弃用，因为罗布·基喜欢速度，还涉及一些“不是正确类型的人”之类的事情。他非常优秀。发挥他的最大潜力，这就是工作所在。

在这里，罗宾逊在第四局接手了新球，就像从拉姆斯盖特海岸席卷而来的天气前线一样，不断地向三柱门逼近。阿卜杜拉·沙菲克被送离球场的方式直白得令人发笑，他被一个无法应对的内切球击倒——在这种投球中，击球手的姿态成就了那个瞬间：他转身，试图根据逻辑和实际线路来击球，结果迎来的却是魔术、诡异和视差错误。

此时，罗宾逊在比赛中取得了 6 wicket 13 跑的成绩，你会想，为什么不能是 13 wicket 13 跑？巴基斯坦队在这里真的还能再得一分吗？最终，巴基斯坦队凭借索德·沙基尔出色的 97 跑构建了 194 分的总分。沙基尔的表现极其优美，所有的旋转拉球和优雅的下跪式掩护击球，都是那种能让午后观众发出赞叹低吟的击球。

除此之外，这又是这个缓慢夏季中又一个沉闷的日子，一个让人不禁询问“这意味着什么，为什么是这样，为什么在这里”的日子。秋日的周日，洛德球场就是会让你产生这种感觉。整个洛德球场工业综合体充满了让人感到违和的同义反复之处。“洛德球场”博物馆、“洛德球场”金酒吧、“洛德球场”野餐花园。没必要这么麻烦，直接说“洛德球场”就行了。除了一个浸透了金酒的野餐博物馆，它还能是什么？你甚至可以直接立块牌子，写上“欢迎来到洛德球场红裤男集结地”或“洛德球场文化僵化中心”。

不过，在这里没人太在意这些，因为在这一天，罗宾逊的救赎之弧被确认成了这个低调夏季中一个低调的故事。

乔·鲁特在锁定胜利后率领球队离开球场 TOM JENKINS / THE GUARDIAN

鲁特的恳请：“以一种理智、成熟的方式庆祝”

西蒙·伯顿（Simon Burnton） 洛德球场

在球队确保了自 2024 年以来首场多场比赛系列赛胜利后，乔·鲁特（Joe Root）呼吁他的球员们“以一种理智、成熟的方式庆祝”。

英格兰队近期庆祝活动所引发的后果往往导致丑闻，而鲁特打算终结的是丑闻而非庆祝活动。“绝对重要的是我们不要讨论[场外事务],”他说。“但赢得测试赛很难，赢得测试赛系列赛也很难，所以尽情享受并庆祝吧，但要以一种理智、成熟的方式。对于这支——我不知道该怎么称呼它——这支新球队来说，这是一个非常好的开始。”

对于鲁特来说，这个夏天到目前为止一直很艰难：在九个击球局中，他的平均得分仅为 29.44 —— 相比之下，他的职业生涯平均得分为 50.38 —— 并且有七次被判腿前球（lbw）出局，包括在本场比赛的两个击球局中。他说：“我一直很擅长理解并最终解决问题。”

“我会继续努力工作。我可能被判了几次腿前球，但其中很多次是裁判裁决（umpire's call）——如果裁决结果相反，可能就不会成为这么大的讨论点。我们也看到球的摆动幅度比以往任何时候都要大。因此，必须保持冷静和现实。我知道我是一名优秀的球员，我想相信一个高分即将到来。”

在洛德球场经历另一场对击球手而言十分艰难的比赛后，鲁特将对球场的批评（他将其描述为“调皮”）转移到了对球的关注上。“我认为今年的球非常不同，”他说。“我认为漆层不同。我没有证据证明这一点——你可能需要问问 Dukes（球类供应商）——但我认为接缝处有漆。”

“我认为它们也影响了球道。我认为它们造成的凹痕更多。如果它们在球道上留下凹痕，球在反弹时也会沿着凹痕摆动，从而产生更大的位移。这很有挑战性。有时你会遇到一个‘完美风暴’般的夏天：阴天，还要应对一些降雨，而且球也略有不同。但这就是测试板球挑战的一部分，即能够适应。”

巴基斯坦队的穆罕默德·阿巴斯（Mohammad Abbas）承认“大家对这次表现都不满意”，但坚持认为球队正在进步。“在这场比赛中，我们比[第一场测试赛]好得多。你可以看到随着时间的推移，我们正在适应环境，一切都在好转，”他说。

“作为一支球队，我们表现得并不好。但我们正在努力改进。下一场比赛将在伯明翰举行，希望胜利会到来。”

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伊西多尔缓解桑德兰紧张情绪，加剧阿尔贝洛亚的焦虑

桑德兰 1 伊西多尔 75 富勒姆 0

路易丝·泰勒 光明球场

当终场哨声响起时，阿尔瓦罗·阿尔贝洛亚陷入了沉思，而雷吉斯·勒布里斯则显得如释重负。在比赛的大部分时间里，一种几乎可以触及的失利恐惧成为了这场比赛的潜台词，直到桑德兰主帅在下半场换上的两名替补——哈比布·迪亚拉和威尔逊·伊西多尔通过配合，由后者攻入决定胜负的一球。

伊西多尔的进球不仅为桑德兰带来了本赛季的首场胜利，让阿尔贝洛亚的球队颗粒无收，还结束了该队在英超联赛主场对阵富勒姆连续 17 年未能获胜的纪录。

“这绝对不是我们的一天，”马尔科·席尔瓦的继任者说道，他的球队多次被桑德兰出色的中后卫诺尔迪·穆基耶勒所阻碍。“我们肯定需要改进很多方面，尤其是精力和态度。”

“对我们来说这是一场艰苦的比赛。桑德兰在很多分钟里表现得更好。在这里比赛并不容易。如果你想来到桑德兰并按照自己的方式踢球，那么你需要正确的心态。我们需要展现出更多的能量，并为每一个球而战。”

勒布里斯则稍微开心一些，他表示：“我们创造的机会不够多。富勒姆组织得很好，但我们在处理转换时保持了良好的平衡。我们必须聪明地应对。这是一个在风险与组织之间寻找平衡的问题。”

上半场，富勒姆以谨慎的低位防守主导了局面，整体基调谨慎且规避风险，但桑德兰的诺亚·萨迪基凭借其典型且勤勉的中场表现，偶尔提升了比赛的节奏。

客队的战术似乎完全围绕反击展开，但这位刚果民主共和国国脚扑灭了太多潜在的进攻火苗，以至于富勒姆在开场 45 分钟内唯一一次真正的机会，是乔什·金在亚历克斯·伊沃比创造出的一个狭窄角度机会中，因处理球失误而陷入几何死角。除此之外，主队门将罗宾·鲁夫斯几乎没有受到任何干扰。

除此之外，双方陷入了略显紧张的僵局。尽管掌控了控球权，但桑德兰的进攻锋芒却毫无杀伤力，导致富勒姆门将贝尔德·莱诺在球门前极其清闲。

这一切让勒布里斯和阿尔贝洛亚在半场休息时都有很多需要思考的地方。如果现场观战的桑德兰老板基里尔-路易斯·德雷弗斯需要一个提醒，以了解为什么勒布里斯如此渴望在转会窗关闭前签下一名专业的右边锋和另一名前锋，那么他现在得到了这个答案。

至少桑德兰主帅在伤愈后让出色的穆基耶勒回到了后防线。这位前巴黎圣日耳曼后卫在威尔赛德的重要性再次得到凸显——下半场早些时候，在桑德尔·贝尔格一次精彩的直传后，他的铲球拦截了冈萨洛·加西亚通往几乎必进球的路径。“诺尔迪给我留下了深刻印象，我也告诉了他，”勒布里斯说。“诺尔迪今天向我们证明了他是一名伟大的球员。”

▲ 阿尔瓦罗·阿尔贝洛亚仍在等待他作为富勒姆主教练的首个积分

与此同时，加西亚在从皇家马德里加盟富勒姆后的前两场比赛中共打入两球，但发现桑德兰的防线难以破解。尽管如此，或许是感觉到客队正逐渐占据微弱的主动权，勒布里斯进行了双换人。

迪亚拉和伊西多尔替换下此前表现基本无效的尼尔森·安古洛和布赖恩·布罗比。几分钟内，在恩佐·勒费一次精妙的直接横传球后，桑德兰本应取得领先。

对于冲上前去的伊西多尔来说，进球似乎比失手更容易，但不知为何，他最终击中了门柱底部，球飞向了教练区。在球离开勒费脚尖的那一刻，勒布里斯曾提前兴奋地跳了起来，随后却失望地跪在地上。“那是一个绝佳的机会，”他说，“太可惜了。”

可怜的伊西多尔看起来十分尴尬，但救赎很快就来了。就在几分钟后，他再次冲向另一个横穿禁区的精彩低平传球——这次是由迪亚拉传出的——随着他的一记高速射门疾速飞过莱诺身侧，他终于完成了自我救赎。

迪亚拉和伊西多尔成功地为桑德兰突然变得更加积极的压迫注入了新生命——更不用说利用了富勒姆的高防线——但前者的短暂登场很快就结束了，因为伤病迫使克里斯·里格顶替他的位置。

但这并不重要，他和伊西多尔已经做得足够好了。“哈比布非常、非常激烈，”勒布里斯说，“他和威尔逊改变了我们的压迫，战术上是一样的，只是能量增加了20-30%。但最重要的一点是，正如我们今天下午所看到的，这个团队的核心非常优秀。”

“球员们全部投入其中。如果你不全身心投入，并且与俱乐部的计划紧密结合，你无法在这个水平上比赛。如果我们能增加一两个能帮助这个团队的新援，那么我们会这么做。但我对这支球队充满信任和信心。”阿尔博洛一定希望自己也能这么说。

桑德兰 4-2-3-1 鲁夫斯；梅尼耶， 穆基莱，巴拉德， 雷尼尔多；萨迪基，扎卡； 休姆，勒费（蒙德尔 90），安古洛（迪亚拉 65；里格 83）；布罗贝（伊西多尔 64） 未出场替补 埃尔博格，阿尔德雷特， 奥尼恩，塔比，阿霍卡

富勒姆 4-2-3-1 莱诺；卡斯塔涅（塞塞尼翁 68）， 安德森，巴塞， 罗宾逊；贝尔格（凯文 83），伊沃比；博布（查尔斯 68），金，帕拉西奥斯（史密斯-罗 77）；加西亚 未出场替补 勒科姆特，昆卡，穆尼兹， 里德，泽帕

裁判 迈克尔·索尔兹比 出勤人数 46,781

周末议题

伯恩茅斯 1 埃弗顿 1 决定不出售哈里森·阿姆斯特朗（Harrison Armstrong）暂时平息了埃弗顿的动荡，但可能无法持久。大卫·莫耶斯（David Moyes）与那些威胁称如果阿姆斯特朗被卖给诺丁汉森林将引发“暴动”的球迷站在一起。为了“纯利润”而出售一名本地球员是不可接受的。“我想说，主教练是个埃弗顿拥趸，”莫耶斯说，“支持者并不总是错的。”他回顾在普雷斯顿以及在埃弗顿执教初期的和谐工作关系，意有所指。在埃弗顿上赛季末期陷入低迷时，一名被批评的主教练将问题抛回给了雇主。“我说过我们需要加强阵容，”他说。转会窗口的剩余时间可能会加深分歧。——约翰·布鲁因（John Brewin）

考文垂 0 赫尔城 1

两场比赛，两场胜利，两次零封：赫尔城公式中的秘密成分是什么？塞尔盖·雅基罗维奇（Sergej Jakirovic）表示，由于转会窗口极其繁忙，他的头快炸了，而且他的新合同仍未签署，因为办公室的墨水在迎来了 13 名夏季新援（到目前为止）后用完了。在考文垂的比赛中，赫尔城的射门次数更少，在对方 18 码禁区内的触球次数也更少，传球次数为 182 次，而对手为 501 次。利亚姆·米拉尔（Liam Millar）的绝杀球得益于一次精彩的反击，赫尔城发挥了自身的优势。前锋奥利·麦克伯尼（Oli McBurnie）表示：“我们看到有些球队在英冠联赛中掌控球权，进入英超后尝试使用同样的风格，但这真的非常、非常困难。足球并不全在于看起来漂亮和拥有数百万次传球。”——本·费舍尔（Ben Fisher）

利物浦 2 诺丁汉森林 2 布拉德利·巴尔科拉（Bradley Barcola）即将以 1.23 亿英镑m 加盟所带来的理所当然的兴奋感，被对尚未填补的空缺——最明显的是右翼、右后卫和中前卫——的担忧所抵消，这凸显了利物浦近期转会策略的诡异之处。利物浦不得不奋起反击，连续第二场联赛在最后时刻挽回 2-2 的平局，这表明在所有这三个部门都有提升的必要。安多尼·伊拉奥拉（Andoni Iraola）说：“我们不知道 2 September 的阵容会是什么样，”他显然希望引进的不仅仅是边锋。“我认为，只有当我了解情况且一切结束时，当我知道谁将在整个赛季或直到 1 月份留在球队时，我才能做出任何分析。”——安迪·亨特（Andy Hunter）

安东尼·埃兰加（Anthony Elanga）在本赛季纽卡斯尔的两场联赛中均有进球

托特纳姆 0 纽卡斯尔 2 当被问及是否觉得有责任在自己到来之前培养俱乐部已有的球员时，马蒂亚斯·雅伊斯勒（Matthias Jaissle）笑了。纽卡斯尔主教练回答道：“教练的工作是挖掘球员的最大潜力。”在赛前所有关注点都集中在夏季支出和处于过渡期的阵容时，雅伊斯勒通过那些在糟糕赛季后被认为已没落的球员们焕发的表现构建了胜利。约安·维萨（Yoane Wissa）以凶猛的能量领衔进攻，安东尼·埃兰加冷静地抓住机会首开纪录。乔·威洛克（Joe Willock）也表现活跃，甚至备受诟病的尼克·沃尔特马德（Nick Woltemade）也贡献了一次助攻。新援同样令人印象深刻，但雅伊斯勒证明了他能利用现有部件组建球队，这一成就让胜利感觉更加甜蜜。——保罗·麦金内斯（Paul MacInnes）

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前场三叉戟击溃布莱顿，但阿尔隆索寻求稳定性

切尔西 拉维亚 4, 内托 14, 若昂·佩德罗 32, 帕尔默 74

布莱顿 3 亚尔库耶 35, 若昂·佩德罗 63og, 格罗斯 90+5 雅各布·斯坦伯格 斯坦福桥球场

在未来的回顾中，切尔西4月份对阵布莱顿时的溃败可能会被视为一个转折点。那次耻辱加速了利亚姆·罗塞尼尔的下课，并迫使斯坦福桥的高层进行反思，从而导致了哈维·阿尔隆索的任命、转会策略的转变、“摩根大通前场三叉戟”的诞生，以及罗伯特·桑切斯门将生涯的终结。

不过目前看来，认为埃米利亚诺·马丁内斯是最后一块拼图的观点似乎有些操之过急。在赢得前两场联赛且打入7球、丢掉5球的情况下，不难看出切尔西为了维持争冠竞争力需要在哪些方面做出改进。他们在领先时必须更加精明，尽管目前利大于弊，但阿尔隆索希望他的球队在将对手逼入绝境时不要掉以轻心。

当切尔西在32分钟内对阵伤兵满营的布莱顿取得 3-0 领先之后，随着专注力的下降，阿尔隆索的冷静也随之消失。在一小时后不久，若昂·佩德罗的一个乌龙球将领先优势缩小到一球，斯坦福桥球场陷入了焦虑。阿尔隆索对着替补席大喊大叫，直到比赛还剩16分钟时科尔·帕尔默进球，局面才恢复平静。不过，这种平静并未持续太久，因为布莱顿在补时阶段深处仍由帕斯卡尔·格罗斯打入一球，挽回颜面。

这就是那种类型的比赛，马丁内斯在以750 万英镑m的价格从阿斯顿维拉加盟后的首秀中表现出色，却依然丢了三个球。“我们可以伤害对手，”这位阿根廷门将说道，“但在后防线上，我们需要减少丢球。”

阿尔隆索表示赞同。切尔西在攻守转换中表现得令人心潮澎湃——上周一他们仅凭37%的控球率击败了富勒姆，而对阵布莱顿时控球率仅为26%——但他们在周日客场挑战阿森纳时必须加强防守。

同样地，本赛季很少有景象能比帕尔默在进攻端与若昂·佩德罗和摩根·罗杰斯的配合更令人着迷。经过一个夏天的休整，帕尔默看起来状态焕然一新，当比赛变成进球大战时，切尔西将极具威胁。他们拥有如此多种得分方式。人们希望马丁内斯的坐镇能带来更多的稳定性。

阿尔隆索毫不犹豫地让马丁内斯首发，尽管这位阿根廷人缺乏比赛实践且是在周五才加盟的。“他觉得准备好了，”阿尔隆索在谈到马丁内斯时说道。马丁内斯是自2024年5月蒂亚戈·席尔瓦以来，首位在切尔西首发的30多岁球员。“我们会感受到他的存在，因为他拥有这种能够产生影响力的魅力和气场。”

再次采用3-4-2-1体系的切尔西正变得严肃起来。桑切斯在对阵旧主的比赛中甚至没有进入替补名单，他需要离开。开球前，马丁内斯赢得了巨大的欢呼，随后关注点在第4分钟转移到了布莱顿的 No 1 门将身上，巴特·费布鲁根的一次接球失误导致

罗梅奥·拉维亚在马茨·维弗将若昂·佩德罗的一次角球头球顶出底线后，为切尔西取得了领先。

这对拉维亚来说是一个美好的时刻。恰巧，距离这位比利时人上一次进球（而且是对阵切尔西）正好过去了四年。希望他在伤病方面的运气正在好转。

在切尔西中场人手短缺的情况下，拉维亚连续第二场联赛首发至关重要。莫伊塞斯·凯塞多在下半场替补登场后跛行离场，里斯·詹姆斯在替补席开始比赛，而恩佐·费尔南德斯则一心渴望转会曼彻斯特城，因此马洛·古斯托从右翼卫位置内移，与拉维亚搭档。

不过，切尔西的选人问题与布莱顿面临的麻烦相比根本不算什么。法比安·许尔策尔没有将杰克·欣谢尔伍德、亚辛·阿亚里、乔治尼奥·鲁特尔、三笘薰和扬库巴·明特的是缺阵作为借口，但这确实产生了影响。

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切尔西势不可挡。罗杰斯在从维拉加盟后延续了良好的开局，在第14分钟通过一次强力突破摆脱卢卡·武斯科维奇，创造了第二个进球的机会。布莱顿在一次界外球进攻中措手不及，罗杰斯传中，佩德罗·内托破门得分。

这个夏天曾传出离队消息的内托被阿隆索重新定位为翼卫，表现活跃。在这次葡萄牙国脚的强力压迫下，若昂·佩德罗错失了一次机会。客队看台发出了嘘声，但若昂·佩德罗把握住了下一次机会——当时罗杰斯的一次轻触传球让约雷尔·哈托在左路疾速推进，为这位前布莱顿前锋创造了得分机会。

切尔西的错误在于认为比赛已经结束。布莱顿在半场前做出回应，在马丁内斯勇敢地封堵了查拉兰波斯·科斯图拉斯的射门后，马利克·亚尔库耶通过凌空抽射破门。“他们展现了对自己实力的信心，”赫尔策勒在评价球员时说道。

这位德国教练认为布莱顿理应获得更多进球。当若昂·佩德罗将格罗斯的传中 deflected（改变方向）越过马丁内斯入网时，切尔西正处于动摇之中。随后，迭戈·戈麦斯的一记重炮射门偏出，马丁内斯则化解了奥利弗·博斯卡利寻求扳平比分的射门。

阿隆索需要他的核心球员挺身而出。此前曾在近距离内用脚内侧将球射高的帕尔默在关键时刻挺身而出，他接到了若昂·佩德罗的轻触传球，随后搓射破门，皮球越过费尔布鲁根入网。切尔西绝不会乏味。

切尔西 3-4-2-1 马丁内斯；拉克鲁瓦， 福法纳（阿切姆蓬 68），科尔威尔（查瓦里亚 72）；内托（凯塞多 68；巴尔科 82），古斯托，拉维亚（詹姆斯 68），哈托； 帕尔默，罗杰斯； 若昂·佩德罗 未出场替补 彭德斯，埃斯特旺，吉滕斯，韦尔贝克

布莱顿 4-2-3-1 费尔布鲁根；维费尔（科斯蒂尼亚 80），武斯科维奇，邓克，卡迪奥卢；博斯卡利，格罗斯；戈麦斯，亚尔库耶（奥斯曼 74），德库伊佩；科斯图拉斯（大卫 80） 未出场替补 斯蒂尔，斯特鲁伊克，哈贾姆，科齐尔-杜贝里，奥赖利，奥里奥拉

裁判：迈克尔·奥利弗 出席人数：39,494

罗梅奥·拉维亚利用巴特·费尔布鲁根的失误帮助切尔西早早取得领先 DARREN WALSH / CHELSEA FC VIA GETTY

埃梅里坚称，尽管有交易往来，切尔西与维拉仍是敌手

本·费舍尔 (Ben Fisher)

乌奈·埃梅里表示，阿斯顿维拉与切尔西之间是敌手而非朋友，他坚称尽管两家俱乐部在近年来经常进行交易，但彼此仍想将对方“杀死”。

在切尔西今年夏天支付 1.17 亿英镑m 从维拉签下摩根·罗杰斯后，埃米利亚诺·马丁内斯成为了最新一名在两队之间转会的球员。尼古拉斯·杰克逊在一次价值高达 6500 万英镑m 的交易中加盟维拉，可能成为维拉队史最贵签约；亚历杭德罗·加纳乔也在本转会窗从切尔西加盟维拉，后者是以带有强制购买条件的租借形式加盟。

罗杰斯的转会费创下了英国球员的纪录，而俱乐部就马丁内斯达成了一笔 750 万英镑m 的交易，这是马丁内斯连续第二个赛季表达离开维拉公园球场的愿望。此外，定位球教练奥斯汀·麦克菲也从维拉加盟切尔西，他是今年夏天离开埃梅里核心教练组的三人组之一。

去年，维拉从切尔西租借了阿克塞尔·迪萨西，并在 2024 年支付 3750 万英镑m 从这家伦敦俱乐部永久签下了伊恩·马特森。卡尼·丘库埃梅卡和奥马里·凯利曼（现分别效力于多特蒙德和斯特拉斯堡）则在之前的赛季（分别为 2022 年和 2024 年）反向转会。

埃梅里淡化了维拉与切尔西关系良好的说法。“这种关系仅存在于交易之中——为了金钱，为了其他球员，”他说道。“他们想杀死我们。而我们也想杀死他们……这不是一种良好的关系。”

维拉今晚将在主场迎战阿森纳，希望在布莱顿客场 4-0 惨败后触底反弹。埃梅里可能会让杰克逊、莱昂·格雷茨卡和铃木 Zion 在维拉公园球场完成首秀。“我知道我们必须重建球队，”维拉主教练表示。“我们需要时间。但我们必须在周一的比赛中竞争。上周日在布莱顿我们本该竞争，但我们没有。我们每天都在尽可能快地努力，以便做好准备。”

沃特金斯完成转会

奥利·沃特金斯在以一份为期三年的合同加盟利雅得新月后，向阿斯顿维拉球迷表达了“由衷的”感谢。这位英格兰前锋昨日以 5000 万英镑 的价格完成了向沙特阿拉伯的转会。就在一周前，他因争议性地缺席了维拉在布莱顿的赛季揭幕战（该场比赛以 4-0 告终）而引发关注。沃特金斯在 Instagram 的一条消息中表示，他从未打算让在维拉的时光以不愉快的方式结束，并补充道：“是时候开启一个令我兴奋的新篇章了。然而，我带着沉重的心情关闭这一页。维拉对我来说永远意义重大。” PA Media

繁忙的布伦特福德迫使法尔克改变策略

利兹联 卡尔弗特-刘易斯 79

布伦特福德 沙德 41

亚伦·鲍尔 埃兰路球场

新赛季初期的这些瞬间往往会带来虚假的希望，但在埃兰路球场这场毫无疑问结果公正的比赛结束后，当双方球员握手时，人们很难不去想象，我们刚刚见证了两支在未来几个月应持有宏大野心的球队之间的较量。

利兹联和布伦特福德在开赛首个周末分别在不同的环境下取得了胜利。利兹联在诺丁汉森林主场赢得了一场艰苦但最终实至名归的胜利，而布伦特福德则击溃了托特纳姆热刺。这两支球队的上限在哪里仍需时间证明，但随着他们在此战后继续保持开赛不败，人们应当抱有很高的期望。

这是一场极具观赏性的比赛，但同时也是两位主教练以及球员们向各自俱乐部证明其重要性的时刻。主教练在每一个环节都受到审视，而丹尼尔·法尔克和基思·安德鲁斯在此次比赛中均表现出色。两人此前都曾被质疑是否是带领球队前进的合适人选：安德鲁斯是在一年多前被任命时，而法尔克则是在上赛季艰难的初期阶段。

安德鲁斯的战术洞察力在上半场达到了顶峰。他化解了利兹联的五后卫防线，他的球队在半场时领先，而且领先优势本应不止一个球。凯文·沙德通过一次精彩的挑球将基恩·刘易斯-波特的传中球捅入网底，这已经是客队应得的最低回报。

然而，法尔克在休息时间展现了他自己的战术灵活性。这位德国人在去年11月承受了巨大的压力，且面临真实的失业风险，直到在客场对阵曼彻斯特城时改用五后卫阵型，成为了改变利兹联赛季的催化剂。而他在本场比赛中采取了相反的做法，回归四后卫阵型，并在下半场与布伦特福德抗衡，取得了显著效果。

在替补登场的田中碧和卢卡斯·恩梅查的影响下，主队在半场后成为了更强的一方。当恩梅查横穿球门的射门被多米尼克·卡尔弗特-刘易斯补射入网时，他们得到了与表现相匹配的扳平进球，确保双方各得一分，且两队在开赛前两场比赛中均保持不败。

整体的初步迹象？利兹联

多米尼克· 卡尔弗特- 刘易斯 进球 为球队 赢得一分 JASON CAIRNDUFF/ ACTION IMAGES/ 路透社

和布伦特福德在本赛季都应该看向更高目标。“这绝对是一个有价值的积分，”法尔克说道，“正如我们预料的那样，这是一场非常困难且复杂的比赛。布伦特福德在上半场表现出色，理应领先，但我为我们的反应感到非常自豪。”

他的球队在上半场难以应对布伦特福德的阵型。伊桑·安帕杜和安东·斯塔赫在中场被压制，而客队的维塔利·亚内尔特、马马杜·桑加雷和米克尔·达姆斯高则大肆进攻。詹姆斯·特拉福德多次被迫做出反应，凭借灵巧的扑救化解了伊戈尔·蒂亚戈和沙德的威胁。

布伦特福德的势头如此强劲，以至于进球显得不可避免。在接近半场时，进球如期而至——刘易斯-波特的传中球让利兹联的后防线措手不及，背对球门的沙德将球转身捅入，让埃兰路球场陷入沉寂。如前所述，那个阶段最大的遗憾或许是布伦特福德的领先优势不够大。“我认为我们在上半场本可以做得更多，”安德鲁斯说。

“我们本可以给特拉福德制造更多麻烦，但我们的表现非常出色。风暴总会到来，而他们被迫做出了一些相当长时间以来没有尝试过的调整。”

这些调整至关重要。五后卫阵型被放弃，利兹联在中场增加了一名球员田中。这产生了立竿见影的效果，比赛的平衡向主队倾斜。詹姆斯·贾斯汀迫使凯莱赫做出一次精彩扑救，随后替补登场的丹·詹姆斯在半场获得开阔空间后，其处理球本可以做得更好。

相比之下，布伦特福德在缺乏中场空间的情况下陷入苦战，伊戈尔·蒂亚戈显得有些孤立且沮丧。利兹联的支持者们感觉到势头现在回到了自己这边，开始变得兴奋起来——他们的球队也是如此。

法尔克进一步调整了战术，由恩梅查为卡尔弗特-刘因提供直接支持，两人在比赛还剩 11 分钟时完成配合。恩梅查的一记射门横穿球门，让凯莱赫措手不及，卡尔弗特-刘因随后将球捅入空门，打入本赛季个人首球。

平局是对利兹联最低的认可。双方都通过追求绝杀展现了雄心，尽管他们在最后时刻互相抵消，但这进一步强调了这两支球队应对未来持有积极态度。

利兹联 3-4-2-1 特拉福德；罗登（埃尔韦迪 34），比约尔（田中 半场），穆哈雷莫维奇；博格尔（詹姆斯 68），安帕杜，斯塔赫，贾斯汀；亚伦森（威尔逊 半场），奥卡福（恩梅查 69）；卡尔弗特-刘因 未出场替补 格农托，古德蒙德森，凯恩斯，隆斯塔夫

布伦特福德 4-2-3-1 凯莱赫；卡约德（威尔逊 88），艾耶尔，柯林斯，刘易斯-波特（亨利 88）；桑加雷，雅内尔特；安东尼（瓦塔拉 61），达姆斯高（亚莫柳克 69），沙德（希基 88）；蒂亚戈 未出场替补 迪乌夫，卡瓦略，舒斯特，瓦尔迪马尔松

裁判 托尼·哈林顿 出席人数 35,974

足球简讯

威廉希尔 苏格兰超级联赛 麦克因内斯在首场联赛胜利后如释重负

在阿伯丁的一场艰苦比赛中，德里克·麦克因内斯以 1-0 取得了担任格拉斯哥流浪者队主教练后的首场联赛胜利。自从从哈茨队转会而来，他在总共七场比赛中仅获两胜，且在欧联杯资格赛以及周四的欧协联附加赛中均被淘汰，因此承受着巨大的压力。在皮托德里球场，劳伦斯·尚克兰在第 69 分钟主罚的一记点球成为了决定胜负的关键，而阿伯丁的一粒扳平进球被视频助理裁判（VAR）判定无效。麦克因内斯表示：“出于显而易见的原因，今天的任何形式的胜利都至关重要。事实就是，我们赢得了一场艰难的客场比赛，而且这是实至名归的。”在其他赛场，希伯尼安在邓迪以 2-1 获胜，而首秀球员贾德尔·康加在补时阶段打入扳平球，帮助马瑟韦尔在圣米伦主场 3-3 战平。PA Media

西甲联赛 贝林厄姆凭借“自由”惩罚马拉加

在何塞·穆里尼奥率领的皇家马德里继续其西甲联赛完美开局的比赛中，朱德·贝林厄姆和基利安·姆巴佩均取得进球，皇马以 4-0 大胜马拉加。白衣军团在上半场短短 10 分钟内三次破门，迅速确立了对客队的舒适领先优势。在贝林厄姆和姆巴佩的进球之间，马拉加门将阿尔丰索·埃雷罗打入了一个乌龙球，而阿尔达·古莱尔在比赛后期补射入网，打入第四球。谈到在穆里尼奥麾下的进攻中场角色时，贝林厄姆表示：“如果需要，我有自由在更高或更低的位置活动，我非常享受其中。”AFP

足球政治 荷兰足协希望召开峰会重塑国际足联

荷兰足球协会（KNVB）希望举办一次国际峰会以彻底改革国际足联（Fifa），并呼吁作为全面改革的一部分，在 2027 年前更换该组织的主席吉安尼·因凡蒂诺。KNVB 在一份声明中表示：“仅更换一名新主席是不够的。国际足联的治理方式也必须改变。”路透社

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费尔南德斯帽子戏法激励曼联反击并大胜伊普斯维奇

在包揽年度最佳足球运动员的两项大奖之后，在曼彻斯特联的首场主场比赛中上演帽子戏法，这非常符合布鲁诺·费尔南德斯的风格，也表明他意在延续上赛季的出色状态。

伊普斯维奇试图凭借胡利奥·恩西索、阿卜杜勒·法塔武和前田大然的速度撕开迈克尔·卡里克的球队防线。当莱夫·戴维斯在第29分钟为他们取得领先时，胜利似乎已在囊中。然而，比赛在半场结束前因马塞利诺·努涅斯的打滑而反转。突然之间，费尔南德斯用左脚轰入一记势大力沉的进球，从那一刻起，曼联将加里·奥尼尔的球队彻底击溃。

在下半场的12分钟内，曼联三次破门——第一球是雅各布·格里夫斯一个颇具争议的乌龙球，接着是一个点球，然后是费尔南德斯的一次近距离射门，这让他今天的进球数达到了三个。布赖恩·姆贝莫在第82分钟通过一次远射将比分扩大为5-0。

卡里克坚称上周在赫尔城遭遇的2-0惨败“仅仅是一场比赛”，事实证明他是正确的——至少目前如此。但戴维斯的开场进球暴露出后防线的漏洞，而伊普斯维奇在补时阶段的挽回之球则源于利桑德罗·马丁内斯的防守失误，这让恩西索能够为丘巴·阿克波姆创造机会。

但由职业足球运动员协会（PFA）年度最佳球员和足球作家协会年度最佳球员领衔球队是一件幸事。如果费尔南德斯如此闪耀，曼联通常也会如此。

赫尔城的噩梦让卡里克做出了4处调整。艾登·海文、努赛尔·马兹拉维、安德烈·桑托斯和帕特里克·多尔古被换下；马丁内斯、迪奥戈·达洛特、科比·梅努和马库斯·拉什福德则进入首发。这是拉什福德自2024年12月1日以来首次在曼联的联赛比赛中首发，当时他在主场4-0击败埃弗顿的比赛中攻入两球。

在自己偏好的左翼位置上，拉什福德的第一次射门被折射弹入基尔·谢尔彭的手中。随后，当马特乌斯·库尼亚的射门飞向高空时，伊普斯维奇的1号门将抬头望天，这次机会是由拉什福德的盘带和传球创造的。

伊普斯维奇在揭幕战中击败桑德兰的精彩表现让奥尼尔决定保留那套首发阵容。在周中用一套大改的阵容将莱斯特城淘汰出联赛杯后，他们情绪高昂。他们的挑战是结束连续七场联赛不胜于曼联的记录；前田大然在左路的迅猛突破和传中揭示了他们的计划。

随后，恩西索在与姆贝莫和卢克·肖的速度竞赛中，向塞内·拉门斯冲刺了60码。此前，拉什福德的一次丢球被对方强行踢向前场；曼联的左后卫和右翼球员很好地避免了对这位巴拉圭球员犯规，拉门斯在扑救其射门时也表现出色。在反弹球出现后，曼联立即发动反击，在这次进攻中，拉什福德试图捅射破门但球令人心碎地从他身边滑过，费尔南德斯的射门则被封堵。比赛节奏很快，思维速度也同样之快。戴维斯的精准传球撕开了曼联的防线，前田大然快速前插，拉门斯向左飞身将一记必进之球拨出。

此时，现场响起了欢快的呐喊：“拖拉机男孩1-0领先！”，伊普斯维奇打入了一记精彩的开场球，而肖的表现则很糟糕。在右路，法塔武悄无声息地过掉了防守球员，并找到了潜伏的戴维斯，后者在球击中横梁后将其轰入网底，让卡里克转身摇头。肖的迟钝是整条昏昏欲睡的后防线的缩影。另一个例子是戴维斯再次获得自由射门机会；拉门斯扑出了头球，但警钟已经敲响。

因此，处于优势的伊普斯维奇本不该失误——而这恰恰是努涅斯在曼联半场内所做的。库尼亚将球传给疾速冲刺的费尔南德斯，后者让谢尔彭像尊雕像一样呆立在原地。

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下半场后，曼彻斯特联掌控了局面。通过一个新的进攻序列，梅努、尤里·蒂莱曼斯和费尔南德斯连续传递，将球推进至禁区内。这一配合令人印象深刻，随后拉什福德跃起将达洛特的斜传球回敲至门前，可惜姆博莫的射门击中横梁。

卡里克的球队已从此前碎片化的状态转变为更加流畅的整体。最终结果是：两球将领先优势扩大到 3-1。

一次紧凑的进攻以哈里·马奎尔的射门反弹在格里夫斯的脚上入网而告终。在这次进攻过程中，马奎尔的手触碰到了球。

◀ 布鲁诺·费尔南德斯攻入 3 球并贡献 1 次助攻，彻底终结了曼彻斯特联再次输给升班马球队的可能性。 ROBBIE JAY BARRATT/ GETTY IMAGES

裁判：克雷格·波森 出席人数：74,148

分析

曼彻斯特联 4-2-3-1 拉门斯；达洛特（约罗 74），马奎尔，马丁内斯，肖（马兹拉维 73）；蒂莱曼斯，梅努（桑托斯 80）；拉什福德（多尔古 80），费尔南德斯，姆博莫；库尼亚（塞什科 80） 未出场替补 达洛，海文，莱西，齐尔克泽

威尔·安温 报道于老特拉福德球场

当倾盆大雨暴露出斯特雷特福德看台屋顶的渗漏时，姆博莫在距离伊普斯维奇球门约 40 码处，面对冲出来的舍尔彭完成了一次挑射破门，引发了主场球迷一致的欢呼。随后发生了马丁内斯的失误，但紧接着大雨停止，终场哨响时全场响起掌声。曼联上一次在联赛中打入 5 球还是在 2021-22 赛季的揭幕战中，当时他们在老特拉福德球场 5-1 击败利兹联。卡里克现在必须确保的是稳定性。

陷入混乱的伊普斯维奇随后丢掉了一个点球。梅努流畅的配合为库尼亚创造了机会，当库尼亚进入禁区时被格里夫斯铲倒，后者因此吃到一张黄牌。费尔南德斯主罚点球命中，球飞向舍尔彭右侧入网。费尔南德斯在第 66 分钟打入第三球。在队长利用一次反弹球轻松攻入远端右下角，为球队贡献第 4 球并完成帽子戏法之前，梅努和姆博莫的射门均被化解。

伊普斯维奇 4-2-3-1 舍尔彭；奥谢，迪奥普，格里夫斯，戴维斯；卢基奇（夸塔拉 73），努涅斯（帕拉西奥斯 62）；法塔武（麦卡蒂尔 83），恩西索，前田（弗隆 73）；埃默森（阿克波姆 ht） 未出场替补 沃尔顿，埃格利，基普雷，克拉克

拉什福德的回归更像是一场权宜之婚

将其控制住，但视频助理裁判判定这次行为合法，因为它是无意的。

比赛中的第一波欢呼声是送给马库斯·拉什福德的，这位曼彻斯特联回归的“叛逆之子”曾被放逐了18个月，先是去了中英地区，随后去了加泰罗尼亚。每个足球迷都热爱那些从青训体系中脱颖而出的球员——从一个瘦弱的孩子成长到能让76,000名观众起立欢呼。拉什福德就是其中之一，他实现了老特拉福德球场内每个人的梦想，而球迷们愿意原谅他，但希望得到一些回报。

在曼联此前机会寥寥的情况下，昨天他们尝试了33次射门，其中11次射正。这展现了更强的意图、活力和效率，但离完美还相去甚远，伊普斯维奇获得了利用机会反击的时机。曼联在下半场能够制造威胁的一个原因是拉什福德和姆贝莫的持续施压，他们牵制了防守球员，并最终在曼联占据上风的情况下使对方在精神和体力上感到疲惫。

自2024年12月7日以来，人们再没在老特拉福德看到拉什福德身披红衣。当时他是作为替补登场，在最终以3-2负于诺丁汉森林的比赛中绝望地试图扭转局面。他与鲁本·阿莫林的关系当时已经在恶化，而阿莫林是第二位对拉什福德感到恼火的主教练。在租借给阿斯顿维拉和巴塞罗那之后，所有人对他回归都感到惊讶；这感觉像是一场权宜之婚，因为缺乏其他报价，且寻找替代者被认为过于复杂。

虽然布鲁诺·费尔南德斯凭借帽子戏法占据了头条，但大家都知道曼联不能依赖一个人，无论他的影响力有多大。效仿费尔南德斯并不总是拉什福德的惯用套路，但看到费尔南德斯对球队的影响，应该能给这位英格兰国脚带来一些启发，让他达到他自己和曼联所期待的水准。拉什福德的表现确实不在巅峰状态，但他依然昂首挺胸，不断向危险区域跑位，尽管触球的机会显得有些渺茫。

他可以采取两种方式，要么突破防守球员到达底线，要么内切。他两种都尝试了，通过传中制造了危险局面，但缺乏一名能够完成终结的前锋。

“我对马库斯非常满意，我相信回到这里、首发出场并参与到一场精彩的比赛中对他来说感觉很好，”卡里克说道。“我认为他在并不轻松的情况下表现得尤为出色。我认为他整体表现不错，而且还会变得更好。”

在球队打入5球的情况下，没有进球或助攻可能会让拉什福德感到恼火，但名声不可能在80分钟内完全重建。意愿必须是最低要求，因为曼联将面临一个漫长的赛季，每个人都需要发挥自己的作用。在另一场比赛中，布莱恩·姆贝莫可能不会在距离球门一码远的地方将拉什福德的传中顶在横梁上，或者他被扑出的射门可能会击败守门员。

拉什福德在球衣号码上是曼联的9号，但卡里克选择让本杰明·塞斯科首发。当这位斯洛文尼亚球员完全恢复健康时，进攻端将增加一个新的维度——一名习惯于完成传中终结的球员，这将有助于拉什福德及其他人大放异彩。在与罗伯特·莱万多夫斯基共事一年后，拉什福德已经习惯了有一名高效的终结者等待接球，拥有一名纯正的中锋将使他受益。

即便很少有人预料到拉什福德和曼联会继续维持联盟，但他们现在重新在一起了。和谐尚未完全恢复，但双方都证明了他们可以让事情运转起来。从对阵中日德兰队的处子球，到与阿莫林的决裂，双方都记得那些美好与糟糕的时光。拉什福德的曼联故事是一幅丰富的织锦，而且尚未完结。

在赫尔的比赛中，拉什福德在半场休息时替换帕特里克·多尔古登场，但他在试图激活一支死气沉沉的球队时，陷入了毫无进展的困境。事实是，迈克尔·卡里克需要像拉什福德这样拥有经验和质量的球员，来引领这次构建成功时代的最新尝试。他不能允许任何场外不端行为或在球场上的消极情绪。

卡里克更愿意给予关怀，理解为曼联球员而战所带来的压力。当情况糟糕时，这种压力会进一步增加——在被另一家球队击败一周后，在主场落后于一家升班马俱乐部。这是一次性格考验，而曼联在近期太频繁地在这类考验中失败。

拉什福德的能力从未受到质疑：他在巴塞罗那时毫无违和感，并在夏天代表国家队参加了世界杯。在赛事筹备期间，他独自离队进行私人训练，并邀请前队友在迈阿密协助他训练，展现了对职业的专注。

在28岁这个年纪，他应当成为一名领导者，而卡里克正给他这个机会。曼联拥有谢亚·莱西和JJ·加布里埃尔这两名等待机会的青少年球员，而拉什福德是一个他们可以学习的对象，因为他见证的比大多数人都要多。在对阵伊普斯维奇的比赛中，他在左翼开局良好，曼联渴望在那个方向针对达拉·奥谢。拉什福德

在对阵赫尔的比赛中，几乎没有一次清晰的

马库斯·拉什福德最后一次在2024年12月于老特拉福德球场为曼彻斯特联出战

“在主场完成这件事让我感到自豪”

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不同的情绪，不同的事情。他拥有丰富的经验可以传授，为他们指明方向，以身作则，并在不同时刻提供帮助。

“像今天这样的时刻——当你期待某些球员能为我们带来一些突破时，他做得尤其出色。”

费尔南德斯在周二获得职业足球运动员协会（PFA）年度最佳球员后上演了帽子戏法，此前他还获得了足球作家协会的年度最佳球员。他表示：“这是一个巨大的结果。我们上周丢了三分。这是主场的第一场比赛，球迷们一直在等待这一刻。这并不是为了弥补上周，因为你无法从中获得六分。”

“如果想要掌控比赛或在平局中反超，半场前进球总是至关重要的。我们掌控了比赛。在下半场，我们的表现非常好。进球是足球运动中最棒的感觉。在主场面对我们的球迷完成帽子戏法，是我感到自豪的事情。我希望我能做得更多，并帮助我的队友进球。”

马库斯·拉什福德自2024年12月1日以来首次在联赛中为曼彻斯特联首发，且表现出色。曼彻斯特联全场录得33次射门，这是自2016年对阵伯恩利时录得38次射门以来的最高次数。主教练表示：“对马库斯的表现非常满意。我相信对他来说，能够回归、首发并参与到一场出色的表现中是很愉快的。他会变得更好。”

科比·梅努也迎来了本赛季的首次首发。当被问及这名中场球员如何提升比赛能力时，卡里克表示：“就今天的表现来看，其实没什么好提升的。我认为作为回归后的首次首发，他的全方位表现都非常好，”卡里克说道，“我知道布鲁诺会获得很多赞誉，他也确实值得，但我认为科比在球场中路的作用极其巨大，支撑了球队的整体表现。”

格里夫斯的乌龙球发生在哈里·马奎尔手球之后，随后马奎尔击出了一记偏离目标的射门，结果球在碰到对方后卫后折入球门。视频助理裁判（VAR）判定该进球有效，因为马奎尔并未直接得分，这让加里·奥尼尔感到困惑。伊普斯维奇的主教练表示：“我站在那里心想：‘这绝对会被判无效，’然后我又想：‘如果马奎尔的射门本来就不会进呢？’”

“每支球队都会遭遇失败——你必须学会应对挫折”

迈克尔·卡里克 曼彻斯特联主教练

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卡里克赞扬曼联的韧性，费尔南德斯帽子戏法引发大胜

杰米·杰克逊 老特拉福德

迈克尔·卡里克对曼彻斯特联在开赛首周末负于赫尔后，以 5-2 大胜伊普斯维奇的方式迅速反弹表示赞赏。

布鲁诺·费尔南德斯在第 40、61 和 68 分钟分别进球完成帽子戏法，确保了曼联在莱夫·戴维斯先入 1 球后的逆转胜利。雅各布·格里夫斯在第 56 分钟的乌龙球和布赖恩·姆贝莫在第 82 分钟的进球完成了主队的得分，而楚卡·阿克波姆在补时阶段的进球为伊普斯维奇拿到了第 2 分。

迈克尔·卡里克赞扬了布鲁诺·费尔南德斯在对阵伊普斯维奇比赛中的领导力*

这是曼联自 2021-22 赛季揭幕战以来首次在英超联赛中攻入 5 球，在那场 5-1 主场击败利兹联的比赛中，费尔南德斯同样上演了帽子戏法。

卡里克对曼联在面对上周 2-0 不敌赫尔的失望结果时所表现出的反应感到欣慰。“这就是足球世界的一周，不是吗？有起有伏，”这位主教练说道。“最令人欣慰的是——我们在本周讨论过，如果你想成为一支成功的球队，就必须学会处理挫折。每支球队都会遭遇失败。你必须面对挫折，无论那是比赛中的势头变化，还是丢球，亦或是输掉一场比赛或遭遇连败，无论是什么。你必须处理好挫折。”

“我们之前讨论过如何尝试克服上周的阴影，然后我们又遭遇了一个小挫折，也就是落后一球。但球员们在那个阶段展现出的倔强、信念、信心和凝聚力——虽然这只是很小的一部分，因为赛季才刚刚开始——我认为这真的让我很欣慰。他们反弹的方式，大概是本次比赛最大的收获。虽然有很多亮点，但这种心态才是我们今天真正依赖的东西。”

谈到自 2020, 年 1 月起就率领球队的费尔南德斯时，卡里克说：“他对我们意义重大。他是队长，已经在这里效力很多年了。他经历了很多 43

阿尔特塔“恳请”联赛扩大比赛日名单规模

萨姆·坎宁安 (Sam Cunningham)

阿森纳已请求英超联赛增加比赛日名单的人数，米克尔·阿尔特塔表示，目前的制度不利于球员的福祉。顶级联赛俱乐部在每场比赛中可以报备 20 名球员，其中必须包含至少三名本土球员。在西班牙足球甲级联赛中，俱乐部可以报备 23 人的比赛日名单，而意大利足球甲级联赛则允许 25 人。

阿森纳在近几个赛季中在多个战线展开竞争。随着球员面临的比赛场次增加，阿尔特塔认为没有理由让英格兰球队的名单规模比其他欧洲联赛的球队更小。

“为了球员的福祉——这是最重要的事情——我一直在恳请英超联赛是否可以扩大这些人数，因为我认为每支球队都需要超过 20 名外场球员，才能维持我们在国际赛事中所面临的需求水平，”阿尔特塔在准备今晚冠军球队前往阿斯顿维拉客场比赛时说道。

俱乐部每赛季可以注册 25 名高级球员（即 21 岁以上的球员）。因此，每场比赛都有 5 名赛季注册的高级球员无法入选。阿尔特塔表示，告知球员他们没有参与比赛可能很困难，且这一消息可能会对他们的心理健康产生负面影响。

“这个问题必须问球员。他们想要什么？如果他们说：‘不，我宁愿留在家里不随队旅行，’那么我认为我们就有问题了，因为这意味着他们不热爱自己所做的事情，即比赛日，”他说道。“但我确信如果你问球员，每个人都会希望在比赛日成为名单的一部分。”

“你必须告诉某人：‘你甚至不在这次比赛日的名单中，’这真的很残酷。而且这对任何人都没有帮助……这是一个有非常简单解决方案的真实问题。”

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Burnham keeps PC's killers in jail but fears grow over prison capacity

Alexandra Topping Political correspondent

PC Andrew Harper's killers will remain behind bars after a critical intervention by Andy Burnham, but the move has prompted warnings that overcrowded prisons would be left "one major event away from disaster".

Announcing a major U-turn on the early release scheme following weeks of intense pressure, Burnham said he understood "how strongly people feel about this issue".

The prime minister's intervention will prevent the early release of offenders guilty of all forms of manslaughter, as well as rapists, child sexual abusers and groomers.

That move, affecting about 1,400 prisoners, was welcomed by police, victims' groups and families, receiving qualified support from Harper's mother, Debbie Adlam.

Critics said the change could undermine progressive prison reform in England and Wales, and noted that the steps Burnham outlined to free space elsewhere would take longer to bring into force, putting the orderly management of prisons at risk.

Harper was 28 when he sustained fatal injuries while responding to a quad bike theft in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, in August 2019. Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers, who were passengers in the vehicle and both 17 at the time, were sentenced to 13 years in custody for manslaughter.

Speaking to the BBC, which first reported the government's change of policy yesterday, Burnham said he had “heard” Harper’s family. “I heard, obviously, what Andrew Harper’s family were saying, I mean, who couldn’t? Nobody would want a position to arise where those guilty of killing a police officer are let out early from prison.”

Adlam said she was glad and grateful for the change in the new laws but she felt “a mixed bag of emotions” and

After the flooding Residents face bleak return

Hannah Ellis-Petersen Devighat

The bodies continue to wash up. But the morgues have already run out of room. Since the deadly floods coursed

through the Himalayan valleys of Nepal and Tibet, the numbers of people killed have continued to rise. The bodies have surfaced in their hundreds and continue to be pulled from the thick, tar-like mud that engulfed everything after the flood waters had receded. By yesterday, the death toll stood at 797 in Nepal and Tibet.

Morgues across Nepal are already overflowing. Authorities say they are overwhelmed with the task of trying to identify the dead, many mangled beyond recognition and turning up miles from home. As places to safely store the victims run out, mass burials have begun in the district of Bharatpur.

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◀ People aged 40 to 84 who are not pregnant and who have not had a blood test in the past year will be eligible for the walk-in tests and will also be offered a blood pressure check PHOTOGRAPH: CULTURA CREATIVE

Cholesterol tests in pharmacies will seek out 'ticking timebomb' patients

Andrew Gregory Munich

The NHS in England is to offer free finger-prick blood tests for cholesterol on the high street for the first time, under plans to reduce heart disease and stroke deaths by a quarter within the next decade.

People aged 40 to 84 who are not pregnant and have not had a blood test in the past year will be eligible to walk in and get tested.

The seven-minute tests will be available at participating pharmacies as part of a national rollout to spot "ticking timebombs" earlier.

Blood will be taken from a person's fingertip using a lancet - a small, sharp medical tool used to prick the skin - and analysed immediately. A pharmacist prescriber can then

Patients will receive a copy of their results by email. They will also be offered a blood pressure check as part of a clinical consultation with a pharmacist prescriber.

Details of the scheme - the first of its kind globally - were announced during the European Society of Cardiology's annual congress in Munich, the world's largest heart conference.

provide lifestyle advice and determine whether any treatment, such as statins, may be needed.

David Webb, the chief pharma- ceutical officer for England, said pharmacies could be a vital first line of defence against serious illness.

“By making it easier for people to get a quick and convenient cholesterol health check on their local high street, we can spot ticking time-bombs earlier, helping people take action, and prevent heart attacks and strokes before they happen," he said.

"This is the latest in a series of initiatives involving pharmacies in delivering care previously only offered in GP surgeries as part of the 10-year health plan to bring care closer to where people live."

The rollout follows a successful

2,493 Number of people involved in a trial in north London of the finger-prick blood test for cholesterol

Nearly one in five patients (19%) were found to be at high risk of a heart attack or stroke within the next decade. These people were offered advice and referred for treatment. At least 88 people started taking statins as a result.

pilot in north London by Barts Health NHS trust in collaboration with UCLPartners and Heart UK, in which 2,493 patients had their cholesterol checked.

risk of people developing dementia. In the largest study of its kind, more than 132,000 people in Denmark were tracked by researchers between 2006 and 2021.

In the first phase of the national rollout, about 100 NHS pharmacies across England will begin offering the checks from this autumn.

Dr Sotiris Antoniou, the clinical lead for the scheme at Barts Health, said: "By scaling this approach across England, we can support pharmacists to identify cardiovascular risk earlier and, importantly, act on the results through timely advice and treatment.

The number of people living with dementia globally is forecast to nearly triple to 153 million by 2050. But experts believe almost half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed.

Statins can lower the risk of dementia by 15%, and the earlier in life they are taken the higher the chances of avoiding the disease, a 15-year study suggests.

Those who started on statins during the study period were 10% less likely to develop dementia. Those taking them early reduced their risk by 15%. The results were similar in women and men.

Statins can cut dementia risk by 15% if taken early, long-term study suggests

Andrew Gregory

Now research presented in Munich at the world's largest heart conference suggests the cholesterol-busting drugs could dramatically reduce the

Proportion of those checked during the pilot who were found to be at high risk of heart attack or stroke

term. Experts believe this is because there is strong evidence that high LDL cholesterol can increase people's risk of developing dementia, by hardening or narrowing blood vessels that supply the brain.

The findings were presented yesterday at the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and simultaneously published in the Lancet Regional Health Europe.

"This has the potential to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities, particularly in communities where the burden of cardiovascular disease is greatest."

Statins are already one of the most commonly used drugs in the world. The drugs reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels in the blood, which can lead to plaque buildup in arteries and increase the chance of heart attacks, strokes and heart disease. But statins could also help protect the brain in the long

Prof Isabel Goncalves, a member of the ESC communication committee, who was not involved in the research, hailed the findings. "Because statins are widely available and inexpensive, the findings are potentially important," she said.

Dr Rani Khatib, NHS England's national specialty adviser for cardiovascular disease prevention, said everyone should strive to be aware of the most common risk factors for heart disease, including high cholesterol and blood pressure, and "know their numbers".

The health minister Alison McGovern said it was “exactly the type of innovation” she wanted to see across the NHS.

LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) drives plaque formation, and the resulting disruptions to the brain's blood supply can increase the risk of dementia.

"This initiative will help people manage their risk factors earlier and reduce their risk of having heart attacks or strokes," he said.

“By making it possible to get a cholesterol check in just seven minutes at a local pharmacy, we're making it easier for people to spot potential problems earlier and take action to protect their health,” McGovern said.

Previous research from the Lancet dementia commission suggested that addressing 14 modifiable risk factors, starting in childhood and continuing throughout life, could prevent or delay 45% of dementia cases.

All those in the 15-year study had type 2 diabetes. But Ternhamar said the findings strengthened the idea that one day everyone might be offered statins as part of a package of measures - such as staying physically active and eating well - to reduce their risk of dementia.

"Detecting and treating high levels of LDL-C from midlife is one such highlighted risk factor," said Dr Tummas Ternhamar, from Copenhagen University hospital, who presented the results of the new research at the conference.

Speaking to reporters in Munich,

"Early detection can help prevent serious conditions such as heart attacks and strokes, helping people stay healthier for longer while reducing pressure on NHS services."

he said: "Our study supports the idea that dementia risk is best addressed by targeting several factors at once, and that cholesterol may belong on that list.

"The Lancet commission already takes that multicomponent view, recommending that high LDL cholesterol be detected and treated from midlife. What our findings also add is that timing matters ... acting early looks better than acting late."

Of the 132,585 people followed by Ternhamar and his colleagues, 2.7% went on to develop dementia.

Ternhamar said experts were investigating exactly why statins might lower the risk of dementia.

"Statins effectively lower LDL cholesterol and protect against atherosclerosis and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases," he said. "This may in turn protect against cerebrovascular atherosclerosis, ischemic stroke, reduced blood flow and damage to brain tissue, offering a plausible link to explain our findings."

Prof Bryan Williams, chief scientific and medical officer of the British Heart Foundation, said the findings in the study were "certainly plausible".

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Space telescope Trump tried to kill lifts off on its million-mile journey

Richard Luscombe Miami

A \$4.3bn space telescope Donald Trump tried to kill lifted off from Florida early yesterday as Nasa embarked on the next stage of its quest to unlock the secrets of the universe.

The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope, which survived two rounds of proposed White House budget cuts, began a million-mile journey into deep space from a launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center.

The launch marked “an endpoint for the engineers, but it’s a starting point for the scientists”, Julie McEnery, the telescope’s senior project scientist, told reporters at a post-launch news conference. She added: “It feels like I’m on the edge of a precipice, and we’re just about to set a foot off into the unknown.”

Searching chiefly for exoplanets and clues about planetary formation, the Roman mission is set to join the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes in the annals of Nasa's storied history of space exploration.

Almost 10 years in the making, the Roman telescope, named after the space agency's first chief of astronomy, who died in 2018, is many times more powerful than Hubble and will work to enhance the output of its stablemates, both of which continue to operate. According to Nasa, its 300-megapixel infrared camera will give it the same sharpness and resolution as Hubble but with a field of view at least 100 times larger.

Roman also contains a specialised instrument known as a coronagraph that blocks glare from stars and makes it easier to photograph planets orbiting them in detail.

Nasa said it expected the images would reveal “giant worlds that are older, colder and in closer orbits than the hot, young super-Jupiters direct imaging has mainly revealed so far”.

Roman's destination is Lagrange Point 2, a "parking spot" in space about a million miles from Earth, where it will operate in the same complex orbit as Webb, though the two telescopes will remain far apart.

Nasa said Roman's large panoramas would "uncover interesting targets that Hubble could follow up on using infrared, visible and ultraviolet light to offer a more comprehensive view", while Webb "can then use its larger mirror and more powerful vision to deliver even more detailed, ultra-sharp observations".

Roman, meanwhile, can view regions around the objects Hubble or Webb observe “to offer context”. Its imagery, which Nasa expects will first come in early 2027 after months of calibration and testings in the telescope’s final orbit, will be made immediately public, allowing researchers and amateur astronomers an unprecedented opportunity for analysis.

"From objects in our outer solar system and exploding stars, to growing black holes and galaxies by the billions, very little will be beyond Roman's reach," Nasa said in an online explanation of the telescope's initial five-year mission, which could be extended to 10.

It added: "Roman will pair a large field of view with crisp infrared vision to scan vast, deep swaths of sky. This flagship mission is designed to help astronomers explore dark matter,

A SpaceX Falcon rocket carrying the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday PHOTOGRAPH: JOEL KOWSKY/NASA/GETTY

'It feels like I'm on the edge of a precipice, and we're about to set a foot off into the unknown'

Julie McEnery Nasa

dark energy and planets outside our solar system."

McEnery said the need for such a telescope was conceived at the end of the last century, though it was only in 2016 that Nasa began the development stage, and 2020 before it finally approved the entire project and commenced construction.

"One of the motivations for Roman was the discovery that our universe is not just expanding but that expansion is accelerating," she said in an interview on Thursday with Sophia Roberts, an astrophysics video producer at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

"There's something really fundamental that we don't understand about the nature of our universe itself, and Roman is purpose-built to address and provide the data that we need to address these questions," she added.

If the US president had had his way, Roman would never have made it to the launchpad. A 2025 White House proposal for what analysts said would be “extinction level cuts” to Nasa’s science budget, including the axing of the Roman project, was roundly rejected in January by Congress, which restored the agency’s 2026 funding level to \$24.4bn.

Seemingly undeterred, the Trump administration is trying again for the 2027 fiscal year, seeking a $23\%$ reduction in Nasa's budget to \$18.8bn, and a $46\%$ cut for science projects the nonprofit organisation the Planetary Society said would lead to the termination of more than 50 missions.

Feeling guilty? A little weekend lie-in may be the healthy option

Andrew Gregory

For years, experts have stressed the risks of lie-ins, warning that catching up on missed sleep at the weekend can disrupt the body's internal clock and trigger adverse health effects.

Now analysis has produced a caveat to that advice: if you do not overdo it, weekend lie-ins may be good for you. Researchers have found a modest amount of catch-up sleep - one to two hours extra - after a long week is associated with a lower prevalence of high blood pressure.

▲ New research suggests a small amount of extra sleep at the weekend may help reduce blood pressure

Globally, more than 1.3 billion people have hypertension. They face a much higher risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney disease and early death. While other ways to avoid high blood pressure remain crucial - such as staying active, maintaining a healthy weight and eating well - a study suggests people should no longer feel guilty about getting up late at the weekend, experts said.

The research was presented in Munich at the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology, the world's largest heart conference.

The study author, Dr Nawon Lee of Korea University in Seoul, said: "Not getting enough sleep puts extra stress on the body. It keeps the heart and blood vessels working harder and can increase blood pressure.

"Getting some extra sleep on the weekend may give the body a chance to recover and reduce some of that stress. People should not feel lazy or guilty for sleeping a little longer on the weekend. If they have not been able to get enough sleep during the week, some extra sleep on the weekend may simply be the body's way of recovering from that sleep loss."

Analysis identified 1hr 27min as the ideal amount of catch-up sleep.

The research looked at 40,000 adults in South Korea over a period of seven years. Weekend catch-up sleep was defined as the difference between weekend and weekday sleep duration. Overall, weekend catch-up sleep was associated with a 6% reduction in the chances of hypertension.

A slightly greater benefit was seen in people who were considered to be physically inactive. They were 6.9% less likely to have hypertension if they had a weekend lie-in.

Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, clinical director of the British Heart Foundation, said: "This study is not a green light for physical activity to take a back seat but, for now, perhaps we don't need to feel guilty about getting up late at the weekend."

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Rescuers search for thousands still missing amid fear of more flooding

Angelique Chrisafis

Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages.

The latest updates yesterday put the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners. There were 797 confirmed deaths across Nepal and Tibet, and reports of some bodies swept downstream possibly as far as India.

Nepal said it had begun the task of burying some of the hundreds of bodies after first taking DNA samples so that families could later reclaim them after identification and perform traditional funeral rites.

The disaster, which struck the border on Wednesday, was caused by a glacial collapse that sent a wall of water and debris downstream, the US Geological Survey said.

Nepal's foreign minister called for a global response to the climate crisis, saying the small, poor Himalayan nation was bearing a disproportionate share of its impact.

“Despite having only 0.1% contribution to global emissions, people of

Nepal have become major victims of climate change," Shisir Khanal said on Saturday.

More than 3,700 people have been rescued in Nepal so far. Nepal said yesterday that 2,502 people, including 592 foreigners, were out of contact in the country. It reported an updated death toll of 781 people.

Chinese authorities yesterday reported 16 deaths and 546 missing, of whom 261 were foreign nationals, including 104 from Nepal, 49 from India, 33 from Latvia, 18 from the US and 15 British citizens.

In a breakthrough at the weekend, Nepal's army was able to insert a pipe into a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydroelectric site, where more than 100 workers are believed to be trapped.

The home minister, Sudan Gurung, said: "We have already started sending air through the small opening, and we will now begin excavation work and send the rescue team inside."

It is a race to reach the workers, who may still be alive inside the tunnels, with rescue efforts focused on the Trishuli 3A and 3B sites. They are among 933 hydropower workers who are among the missing, according to Nepal's disaster authority.

Yesterday Nepal warned of rising flood waters and urged rescue

▲ Emergency workers at a mass grave in Bharatpur, Nepal

Bleak return for victims of floods as river starts to rise again

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before it was given a tag and a location number, wrapped in a plastic bag and then placed in a shallow grave. The hope, said the police, was that these bodies would eventually be identified by loved ones through DNA and retrieved for proper funeral rites.

In Chitwan, about 100 miles downstream from the region worst hit by the flash floods and mudslides, more than 250 bodies have washed up along the riverbanks. But they are in such a disfigured state that only nine have been successfully identified. Many will now be buried, at least temporarily, in the forest on the edge of the city.

To speed up the identification exercise, local officials have adopted a macabre approach of simply asking people to go through pictures of the bodies and look for identifying features: a

Teacher saves hundreds of children

A headteacher in Nepal evacuated 900 children from a school moments before a deadly wall of water struck their town amid the devastating flash floods that have killed almost 800 people and left thousands missing.

Rajendra Dawadi decided to halt classes and order children to higher ground after receiving warnings about the scale of the flooding heading their way.

Dawadi, the headteacher at Tribhuvan Trishuli secondary school in Nuwakot, which has 1,600 pupils, said he had received four warnings from different people within minutes, including one from Betrawati, a town directly upstream.

This prompted him to take immediate action. “I decided I shouldn’t delay any more,” he told the BBC. “Even if the flood was not coming, it was just a matter of a single day’s classes.”

Dawadi said that during the evacuation of the school he saw a hostel building about 100 metres (328ft) from the river being engulfed by the torrent of flood water.

"If we had made the decision 10

Rajendra Dawadi received warnings about the floods heading their way and decided to evacuate the school quickly

minutes later, all of us, including the students and me, would not be able to speak to you today," he said.

One student said Dawadi's decision had saved their lives with moments to spare. Yunisha, 16, told reporters: "I, along with my friends, survived by just 10 seconds."

She described the children running up a muddy path to escape as water and debris inundated the town. "Within no time, the bazaar was swept away in front of my eyes," she said. She was reunited with her family three days later.

At least 69 schools have been destroyed or damaged by the floods, affecting nearly 19,000 children, according to the charity Save the Children. Harry Cockburn necklace, a wedding ring, a tattoo, a scar. Photos of those recovered have been placed on PowerPoint slideshows, for relatives to sit patiently through, and have been uploaded to the Nepal police website. Outside the morgue in the capital, Kathmandu, photographs of the dead inside have been posted on the walls.

Yet with more than 3,000 still reported missing in Nepal and Tibet, there are fears that the numbers of dead may rise exponentially. Many of the worst-hit areas, where entire villages were wiped away by the tidal wave of mud, water and debris, are still inaccessible except by army helicopter. Speaking on Sunday, the foreign secretary, Amrit Bahadur Rai, said the government had requested “more than 1,000 freezer units” for safe storage of the dead.

Even in areas lower down the teams to exercise caution. "We have received information that the flood flow in the Bhotekoshi River in Rasuwa has increased further," the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said.

Flood warnings were sent to people's phones early yesterday as rescue crews worked to clear a highway connecting Kathmandu to one of the areas hit by the floods.

In Dhading, one of the worst-hit regions in Nepal, some people began returning to ruined homes to see what could be salvaged. Residents of the flood-hit villages said they were struggling to make sense of near-constant alarms they had received since the initial floods.

One resident, Govind Shreshta, told the Associated Press: "Sometimes they say a flood is coming, then we have to run again to higher ground, even at night. There is also rain. It's really difficult for me. I have a 72-year-old father and 70-year-old mum. I must carry them and I am exhausted. It's going on like this for those who are still alive."

The government estimated Nepal's reconstruction bill could run to billions of dollars.

Officials in Nepal called for forensic testing kits to identify bodies and freezer units to store them in, saying bodies that had been in water could decompose at a faster rate.

Survivors face an agonising wait to learn the fate of missing relatives and the prospect of rebuilding their lives from nothing. "All the settlements near the river were swept away," Buddhi Ram Dangol told Agence France-Presse in Nepal's Nuwakot district. "There is nothing left."

In Tibet, where Chinese authorities are the only source of information, rescue operations were paused at the hardest-hit area of Gyirong over the risk of more flooding from a newly formed lake.

In Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, relatives and friends gathered outside the main government hospital from early morning, desperately searching for news of missing loved ones.

Many shuffled between the help desk and the hospital noticeboard, clutching photographs and scanning lists of patients in the hope of finding them.

Dil Maya Lama stood weeping near the help desk at the hospital, searching for information about her 26-year-old brother, a driver for a hydropower company in Rasuwa. She had travelled from Ramechhap, about 80 miles (130km) away.

"I came here with the hope that I might find him," she told the Associated Press. "There is no information about him."

3,048 The number of people missing, including foreigners, after flash floods in Nepal and Tibet last week

Nelza Moktan sought information about her missing cousin, who also worked as a driver in Rasuwa. "I feel hopeless. It has already been four days," she said.

Additional reporting Associated Press, Agence France- Presse and Reuters

'When we finally clear all the mud, which may be many months, who knows what we might find?'
Amabadutta Bhatta Police superintendent
The aftermath of flooding along the Trishuli river. Above, a resident of Devighat PHOTOGRAPHS: RAJESH KUMAR SINGH/AP; AHMER KHAN/THE GUARDIAN

▲ Relatives and loved ones have taken to placing photographs of missing and deceased people on walls, such as this hospital in Nepal's capital Kathmandu PHOTOGRAPH: DAR YASIN/AP

river valley that were destroyed by the floods but have remained accessible by road, search and rescue teams have struggled to retrieve all those killed and buried in the mud. Yesterday afternoon in Devighat, a sacred town on the Trishuli River that was left in ruins by the floods, rescue teams prepared to pull another victim from the muddy ruins of a house. All that was visible through the thick mud was their feet.

"It is very tough work. We have retrieved 10 bodies from here so far, maybe there will be more," said Amabadutta Bhatta, a police superintendent working as part of search and rescue in the city. "The floods destroyed the first and second storey of most homes here. When we finally clear all the mud, which may be many months, who knows what we might find?"

Those who survived the floods in Devighat have slowly come back to see the remains of their houses, many which were wiped away altogether. Standing next to the carcass of her house, reduced to a few concrete blocks and twisted metal, Usha Nepali, 49, wept for the home where she had raised her four children and three grandchildren.

▲People survey the devastation left in the wake of Wednesday's disaster in Devighat, Nepal. Left, few buildings in the area were left undamaged PHOTOGRAPHS: AHMER KHAN/ THE GUARDIAN

"I invested everything to build this house, so now I don't know where to go and what to do," she said. "Nothing is left except this cloth on my back. I haven't even been able to change clothes since the floods. How can we rebuild this house? This land is no longer safe but it's the only land we have. The river has taken everything."

The precariousness of living next to the Trishuli River was underlined yesterday as the fast-moving waters again swelled dangerously high and rescuers urged people to get to higher ground quickly.

Jamuna Magar, 36, said her husband's family had been living in Devighat for generations. She described it as "such a beautiful place".

In the minutes after they got warning of the flood, she had time to grab her gold but nothing else. She said she did not see how they could ever live in Devighat again.

"We had experienced flooding before but we never knew a flood like could come and take our house. Everything we owned was on the ground floor of the house and now it's all lost. Even our refrigerator washed away. I'm too worried about my life, about my children's lives to stay here any longer."

Toll China reports 15 Britons among the missing

Raphael Boyd

Fifteen British nationals are reported to be missing in China as the search continues for survivors of the devastating flooding in Nepal and Tibet.

Nepali and Chinese authorities confirmed an updated death toll of at least 810 yesterday. More than 3,000 people are believed missing after flash floods engulfed the Gyirong Port on the Nepal-China border, brought on by a massive glacier collapse in the Himalayas on Wednesday.

The 15 missing British people are among 261 missing foreign nationals from 23 countries, according to figures released by Chinese authorities, bringing the total of missing Britons between Tibet and Nepal to 48.

The Tibet autonomous region's government said the total missing there also included 104 who were Nepali, as well as 49 from India, 33 from Latvia and 18 from the US.

Thirty-three British people have already been declared missing on the Nepali side of the border, with some having been on a pilgrimage at the time of the flood, including sisters Hemangini Jitendra Patel and Hema Sunil Amin, who were last seen at Friendship Bridge on the Nepal-China border.

The figure for missing Americans has been disputed by the US state department, which declared yesterday that at least 85 US citizens were missing. Tommy Pigott, the department's spokesperson, said getting accurate information from the region had been difficult, "made even more so by the devastation and the remoteness that we see".

Chinese authorities have said at least 16 people have died on the Chinese side of the border. But there are concerns over a possible lack of transparency from the Chinese government, which has stopped footage of the floods from being shared.

Nepali police have themselves released figures indicating that 794 people have been confirmed to have died in the floods in Nepal.

Rescue efforts have been affected by the threat of landslides and dangerous weather, as well as confusion over which side of the Nepal-China border victims had been on when the waters struck.

Chinese state television reported that officials in Beijing, far better resourced than their Nepalese counterparts, had mobilised more than 2,100 rescue workers and allocated more than 220m yuan (\$32.7m) to support relief efforts.

A Foreign Office spokesperson said: "We are working around the clock to support British nationals and their families affected by the devastating floods on the Nepal-China border. We are coordinating closely with the Nepali and Chinese authorities, and have deployed consular support staff to the region."

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University bars Arday accuser from teaching for three months

Chris Osuh

Jason Arday's accuser Nathan Cofnas has been barred from teaching on the Ghent University campus for three months but has been allowed to continue in his research position.

Earlier this month Cofnas, an American academic, was suspended from his postdoctoral research position at the Belgian institution pending a preliminary investigation launched after the death of Arday, a Cambridge professor.

Ghent did not name Cofnas but has since confirmed it has “imposed a disciplinary measure” on a staff member for three months, under which they were “required to work remotely and may not carry out any teaching”.

Cofnas's research activities in the role have been "strictly limited to the research topics for which the appointment was made".

In a post on X, Cofnas said he was grateful to Ghent's rector, Prof Petra

De Sutter, "for allowing me to stay".

Meanwhile, the US ambassador to Belgium, Bill White, who had criticised Cofnas's suspension, claimed on his official account that the university and Cofnas had "amicably reached an agreement" to lift the suspension, enabling him to complete his one-year appointment.

In a statement, Ghent said an inquiry was under way “to determine if further disciplinary action is warranted”. The university later confirmed it had been in contact with the US ambassador, who had “provided further context regarding his statements on X”.

Cofnas's role at Ghent has been mired in controversy. In May, Ghent's philosophy department alleged to university leaders that Cofnas had "very limited expertise" for his role researching "the future of liberalism", claiming he had a "far-right agenda".

In July, Cofnas accused Arday, a sociologist, of plagiarism, alleging there were “serious questions” about his biographical claims. Arday was found dead on 14 August. His family have paid tribute to him as an “amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son”.

White, a committed Trump supporter, donor and fundraiser, had described Cofnas's suspension as "truly unacceptable" and called for De Sutter to "immediately rescind" it.

On Friday, White wrote on his personal X account: "I just saved Belgium from a complete global media meltdown and well deserved spanking by @elonmusk and everyone by resolving the UGHENT Cofnas matter - quite quickly."

The night before, Cofnas had thanked White and the US state

Nathan Cofnas, who had been suspended, will be allowed to continue his research at Ghent University

department for “defending American values” on X, adding: “It was beyond my imagination that such a person would take an interest in the fate of a postdoc. The Ambassador responded with great support which helped to bring about a just outcome.”

Cofnas has been accused of promoting pseudoscientific ideas of racial difference in his online writings, and was reportedly among bloggers recommended to the Palantir founder Peter Thiel by a “race science” researcher.

Cofnas has also hit out at Donald Trump and Maga, while claiming Trump's executive orders against diversity, equity and inclusion in the US were a "cause for celebration".

In April last year he said the Republican party had “degenerated into a low-IQ cult of personality”.

Hitting out at Trump's tariffs, he said the effect would be “to halt the American economic juggernaut, discredit the anti-woke movement, pave the way for a leftwing populist ...[and] stop the right's momentum in other countries”.

A spokesperson for Ghent University said it did not wish “to comment further on the controversy surrounding this matter” and that “ongoing preliminary disciplinary inquiries must be allowed to proceed calmly, independently and with full respect for the rights of all those involved”.

Eight dead, 23 missing as ferry capsizes off northern Cyprus

Helena Smith Athens Angelique Chrisafis

At least eight people died and 23 people were missing yesterday after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, local authorities said.

The territory's prime minister, Ünal Üstel, told the state-run TRT news channel 237 people had been rescued. A search was under way for those who were unaccounted for.

“Search and rescue teams are working very intensively to find them,” said the Turkish Cypriot leader, Tufan Erhürman.

"If there are people still inside the vessel, reaching them does not appear easy at the moment. Efforts are being made using other technologies to reach them as well."

The catamaran-style ferry had been travelling from the port of Kyrenia, also known as Girne, to the port of Taşucu in Mersin province, Turkey.

Kyrenia is a popular holiday destination for local people and tourists. The private ferry was one of several daily shuttle services that link northern Cyprus with Turkey.

Mehmet Harmancı, the mayor of Turkish-held northern Nicosia, described the disaster as the worst in the more than 40 years since the territory proclaimed independence.

"We've not seen anything like this before. It's by far the worst tragedy. There are 23 people still missing. We think most of the passengers were Turks and Turkish Cypriots," he said.

Hours after the ferry capsized, many details remained unclear. "We still don't know how many have been injured or to what degree," Harmanci said. "All the injured are being brought to hospital here in [northern] Nicosia. I'm off to the hospital and am in the process of gathering warm clothes."

Kyrenia's mayor, Murat Şenkul, said the ferry belonged to the Filo Denizcilik company and had sunk off Diana beach. It started taking on water about 4 nautical miles off the coast, TRT reported. Video from the scene showed people wearing life vests floating in the water around the capsized vessel.

When the ship capsized, passengers clung to its overturned hull.

Erhürman told CNN's Turkish channel he was "deeply saddened" by the loss of life. Speaking from the crisis centre set up in the area, he said: "There is a great sense of shock here. This is not something we have experienced before ... Everyone is doing everything they can and making every effort."

A source close to Erhürman said the ferry was a popular means of travel between the mainland and the island for Turkish people working in northern Cyprus.

"It's much cheaper than the plane ▲ Passengers climb atop the hull to await rescue after the ferry capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus PHOTOGRAPH: REUTERS TV

and only takes a few hours. A lot of Turkish citizens use it to travel and see their families back home," said one official requesting anonymity.

They added: "You could say that a lot of the passengers were poor. It's all just so very sad."

Four coastguard vessels and a civilian passenger boat were deployed to the scene, along with five Turkish coastguard vessels and two helicopters, local officials said.

Additional reporting Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Associated Press

Canada unveils large Lake Ontario sign in latest jab at US

Edward Helmore

Donald Trump and Canada continued a verbal duel on Saturday over the US government's administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, with Canada erecting a large sign saying "Lake Ontario. Now and Always" and the US president posting an AI video of himself pushing over a sign reading "Welcome to Lake Ontario".

In the video, Trump installed a replacement sign saying “Welcome to Lake America”, then danced to YMCA.

Rhetoric over the naming of Lake Ontario is the public face of an escalating trade dispute between the US and its northern neighbour involving a 50% US tariff on Canadian steel and retaliatory tariffs from Ottawa.

After talks to resolve the trade dispute stalled, Trump said on Thursday that Lake Ontario would be renamed Lake America, signing an executive order directing US federal agencies to use the new name.

Canada's prime minister Mark Carney has rejected the renaming, saying Lake Ontario derives from an Indigenous Wendat word meaning "the lake is beautiful, the lake is great" that dates back more than 400 years.

Trump's order for the US government to refer to Lake Ontario as Lake America had at least one prominent impact: Google Maps changed Lake Ontario's name to Lake America for US users.

In a statement explaining why it was acquiescing to Trump's renaming of the lake, Google said its practice is to “reflect name changes in official government sources”. Lake Ontario’s name change “does not have any impact on Canadian naming conventions or how the rest of the world refers to the lake,” Google said in a statement. And it said “those in Canada will continue to see ‘Lake Ontario’” on Google Maps, “and those outside ... the US and Canada will see both names.”

Google had done similarly in Trump's executive order for the US government to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. On Saturday the US president posted an AI-generated video of an army of Canada geese with Trump-like blond hair firing rifles to protect 'Lake America'.

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▲ Donald Trump posted an AI video of himself with a Lake America sign

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AI transcriptions of talks with doctors are 'potential threat to safety of patients'

Denis Campbell Health policy editor

AI technology that listens to and transcribes patients' consultations with doctors can put them at risk by getting the names of drugs and illnesses wrong, an NHS watchdog has warned.

In one case a woman was shocked when the AI scribe's summary of her conversation wrongly said she had demyelination - serious nerve damage that can lead to multiple sclerosis.

It was only when the patient, an NHS health professional, queried the AI tool's record of the result of her MRI scan that the hospital corrected it to what it should have been - "null demyelination". "This was eventually corrected but it was a very traumatising experience to be given an incorrect diagnosis because of AI and then be told it's a typo," said the woman, who asked not to be named.

Healthwatch England has highlighted the case and other mistakes by AI scribes to show that the technology, which the NHS is introducing, is a potential threat to patients' safety. Unless detected, errors could end up in patients' medical records and affect their care, it said.

AI deception cases surge

Incidents of AI systems escaping users' control in order to lie, ignore instructions and pursue goals in potentially harmful ways have reached a new high, according to research.

The number of loss-of-control incidents involving AI models flagged by businesses and individuals almost doubled in July compared with June, with more than 300 cases in the month, according to the Loss of Control Observatory, which monitors reports made by AI users on X.

The observatory was set up with funding from the UK government's AI Security Institute and began tracking AIs slipping free from their users' instructions last November.

Cases recorded since then include AIs pretending to be their human controllers and mimicking their writing style to effectively grant themselves consent to take actions, as well as bypassing rules requiring human approval.

The observatory is calling on the government to require AI companies to monitor and report severe loss of control incidents and to introduce emergency powers to manage them. Robert Booth

In another case an AI scribe confused the drug the GP had prescribed with a different one of a similar name - a blunder which, again, the patient, not the doctor, identified.

On another occasion an AI-generated summary letter did not say that the hospital consultant had told the patient to seek a repeat prescription from their GP for their migraine, which could have left them unable to get their medication.

Healthwatch, the statutory NHS patient champion, has heard “multiple stories from patients who have noticed these errors when a health professional hasn’t”, it said. “These inaccuracies may persist in records if the patient doesn’t catch them.”

The government's 10-year health plan for the NHS in England expects AI scribes to "liberate staff from their current burden of bureaucracy and administration, freeing up time to care and to focus on the patient". It is central to the planned "big shift" from the NHS being analogue to a digital-based service.

Healthwatch said: "Healthcare has never been error-free. But our findings show the urgent need for clarity over how patients can report and get corrected any mistakes made by AI scribing tools or the professionals that use them."

Healthwatch added that it is "worrying" that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has decided not to classify AI scribes as medical devices, which means there will be no England-wide oversight to ensure they are safe to use and effective. GPs and hospital doctors in England are already using 27 different AI scribes.

Ministers have been warned that the NHS and medics could be sued over mistakes made by AI.

AI's accuracy was in the spotlight recently when patients in Rotherham complained to their local Healthwatch that an AI receptionist used by some local GP practices did not understand their Yorkshire accents.

Dr Shier Ziser Dawood, a GP in London, last year warned in a leading medical journal that AI scribes may prove “a double-edged sword” for family doctors. She recounted how an AI scribe said she had told her patient to “continue their Prozac” even though she had not prescribed or discussed that drug with them.

She warned that the need for doctors to review all transcripts in order to check for errors meant that AI tools are not yet proving time-saving.

Dr Charlotte Blease, an expert in AI use in healthcare at Uppsala university in Sweden, said "AI can and does make mistakes", but added: "The fact is, doctors can and do make mistakes without AI. And it is certainly possible the error rate is worse."

Church names pastor who died after sign fell at festival

Press Association

A man who died after a sign fell at a Christian festival was a respected pastor who was “a loving husband” and “a devoted and caring father” to his family, his church has said.

Robert Guanco, 41, of Eastbourne, was named in a tribute from the Jesus Living Water church in Eastbourne as wellwishers started a fundraiser to help his family.

Six other people were injured, including four who were taken to hospital, after the incident at the Big Church festival (BCF) near Steyning, West Sussex, on Friday afternoon.

Festivalgoers had rushed to lift a heavy sign that read "Everything's Unmissable", which had toppled in the wind, witnesses said.

Guanco was described as “our beloved pastor Robert” in a tribute from his church yesterday.

It said: "Pastor Robert was a faithful servant of God, a loving husband to Isay, a devoted and caring father to Ellie, and a blessing to so many people whose lives he touched.

"His life, his faith, his love and his service to God will never be forgotten."

Describing him as “more than a pastor”, the fundraising page said: “He was a beloved son, cherished brother, loving husband, a great father to Ellie and faithful servant of God.

"He was also a good friend, mentor and a blessing to so many people whose lives he touched."

Organisers of the BCF, billed as the UK's biggest Christian festival, said they were "heartbroken" and "devas-tated by the serious incident" as they cancelled the rest of the event. It had opened on Friday and had been due to run until yesterday.

The archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, said she was “sad and shocked”, adding: “I pray for his family, friends and loved ones as they grieve. I pray for those receiving treatment and the healthcare workers looking after them. And I pray too for the other festivalgoers, staff and event organisers as they come to terms with these tragic events.”

Sussex police said the incident has been reported to the Health and Safety Executive and local authority.

Det Ch Supt Richard McDonagh urged anyone who was at the festival on Friday that had any information or footage to come forward.

Top of the world Great Britain's double Olympic champion Tom Pidcock raises his bike in the air after winning his second cross-country world title at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Val di Sole, Trentino, Italy.

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Cantrill's spoof whodunnit wins Edinburgh comedy award

Brian Logan

The annual Edinburgh comedy award, the so-called "Oscar of live comedy", has been won by the Bradford standup Chris Cantrill.

Cantrill, 42, won for Rewilding, about his new life in rural Northumberland, where an act of vandalism shocks the local community - and a spoof whodunnit ensues. It builds on the foundations laid in 2024 by Easily Swayed, which documented his move to the countryside and secured what was then Cantrill's third nomination (but first as a solo act).

Cantrill is an uproarious, fun-loving and relatable act with palpable mainstream potential, and his victory comes against the grain of an awards shortlist that (in both the best show and best newcomer categories) trended leftfield.

The oddballs are represented among this year's winners by Marty Gleeson, who has received the best newcomer gong with her show Dog Ear. This eccentric set is inspired by Gleeson's experiences at art school in her native Limerick, and - with its live bodhrán accompaniment and setpiece that requires shaking the hand of every single audience member - marches entirely to the beat of its own drum.

▲ Cantrill won the comedy award after three previous nominations

Previous winners of the main prize, known as a star-maker in British comedy, include Steve Coogan, Frank Skinner and Bridget Christie, and of the best newcomer gong Harry Hill and Sarah Millican. As winner of the best show prize, Cantrill wins £10,000; Gleeson takes £5,000.

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Prosecutors consider charges against officers in spycops scandal

Rob Evans

Prosecutors are considering whether to bring criminal charges against 12 former police officers who were involved in spying on political groups.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is examining a file of evidence that the officers may have committed wrongdoing while working in controversial undercover operations.

It follows a police investigation into Mark Kennedy, an undercover officer who infiltrated environmental and leftwing groups for six years.

Kennedy is a key figure in the spy-cops scandal. He deceived a number of women into intimate relationships while concealing from them that he was a police spy. The total number is unknown, but is believed to be in double figures.

Prosecutors are considering whether to authorise charges against the other officers under the offence of misconduct in public office. However, details of the alleged wrongdoing have not been made public.

Kennedy was one of 139 under-cover officers who spied on tens of thousands of mainly leftwing activists over the course of more than four decades.

If the CPS decides to launch a prosecution of any of the 12 officers, it would be the first time that any officer involved in the undercover operations, which lasted between 1968 and at least 2010, were criminally charged with any kind of wrongdoing that had not been authorised by their managers.

The spycops scandal has revealed that the undercover officers committed a range of misconduct. This included regularly deceiving women into sexual relationships, lying in court proceedings when they appeared in their fake identities and stealing the identities of dead children.

Like the other undercover officers,

▲ A protest last year outside the spycops inquiry hearing, which has been examining undercover officers' activities PHOTOGRAPH: MARTIN GODWIN/THE GUARDIAN

Kennedy adopted a fake identity to infiltrate egroups such as Earth First! and Climate Camp between 2003 and 2009. He transformed himself from an ordinary police officer into a long-haired, tattooed protester. He worked for the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, one of two squads that infiltrated undercover officers into political groups.

He had a six-year intimate relationship with a social justice campaigner, known as Lisa Jones. Through her own detective work, she uncovered his real identity in 2010.

This exposure led to the outbreak of the spycops scandal and was the first in a string of revelations. It resulted in the long-running public inquiry, which has been examining the activities and management of the undercover officers.

It also led to the police setting up a number of their own internal investigations into alleged criminal behaviour by individual officers. One of these, Operation Montrose, examined the conduct of Kennedy and others.

Police have previously said

Operation Montrose was examining whether Kennedy had conducted "inappropriate sexual relationships" while undercover.

Initiated in 2015, the investigation has been run under the auspices of the National Police Chiefs' Council, which confirmed it had sent a file of evidence relating to Kennedy and 11 other police officers to the CPS. The nature of the alleged wrongdoing by the other police officers is unclear.

Kennedy had a two-year relationship with Kate Wilson, a campaigner. She won a landmark victory in 2021, when judges in a tribunal decided that police had grossly violated her human rights.

The judges concluded that senior officers in charge of Kennedy “either knew of the relationship, chose not to know of its existence, or were incompetent and negligent in not following up” clear and obvious signs.

Covert surveillance files showed how the police secretly monitored and recorded Wilson's personal activities during the relationship. They recorded how Wilson and Kennedy frequently stayed together, visited her parents' house and went on holiday.

They chronicled trips the couple made to the cinema, a museum and a concert, as well as a visit to the college where she had studied.

Kennedy's lawyer said he did not wish to comment.

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A facial reconstruction of Conquest Man. Right, English Heritage head curator of collections Kevin Booth lays out his skeleton in St Peter's church, Barton-upon-Humber MAIN PHOTOGRAPH: DOMINIC LIPINSKI/ENGLISH HERITAGE

'Conquest Man' probably not a Norman army invader

Nicola Davis Science correspondent

One of the most consequential show-downs in the history of the British Isles, the Battle of Hastings is seen as the foundational event of the Anglo-Saxons' conquest by their Norman enemy across the Channel.

But researchers who have put flesh on the bones of one man who lived through the turmoil of the era are learning more about the fighters who may have belonged to neither side.

Named Conquest Man, a skeleton of an unknown male was buried at St Peter's church in Barton-upon-Humber, with previous analyses revealing the oak used to make his coffin came from a single tree felled in 1079 - probably when the man died.

But while this and other details are clear - he died in his 50s or 60s, was of stocky build, had multiple healed fractures and stood just 5ft 1in tall - his origins are not.

According to English Heritage's head curator of collections, Kevin Booth, who has been leading the project, questions remain over whether the man was even a Norman or Saxon.

"He's likely neither, and we shouldn't be shocked by that," Booth said.

The new work - which has not been peer-reviewed - was produced by researchers at Historic England, the Francis Crick Institute, the British Geological Survey, the University of Southampton and the Face Lab at Liverpool John Moores University.

The results helped the team reconstruct Conquest Man's face, suggesting he had thin lips, a receding hairline and a frank gaze.

According to analyses of the man's DNA, he had substantial continental ancestry, while studies based on his skull shape suggest he had Scandinavian origins.

Levels of strontium isotopes in his teeth are compatible with someone living in the Barton area, while levels of oxygen isotopes suggest he may have spent time in a colder region during adolescence.

And though the man was interred in the cemetery of a pre-conquest church that had been transferred to Gilbert De Ghent, one of William the Conqueror's knights, his grave goods indicate a Scandinavian influence, with applewood staffs placed by his side.

While it is possible Conquest Man came from Barton, Booth said the most likely explanation is that he arrived from Scandinavia - a situation that would not be surprising given pre-conquest Barton would have been in the heart of the Viking-controlled territory known as the Danelaw, with the River Humber providing access to the sea.

"Our man was born into a world where one king ruled England, Denmark, Norway and parts of Sweden. That pretty much continued through to 1042. The exchange through the Humber and other east coast ports must have been commonplace," said Booth.

“That our man could have come across in early adulthood within this common North Sea territory makes a lot of sense.”

However, there is another possibility. "It's entirely plausible that our man comes in through Pevensey beach in 1066," said Booth, noting it is also possible the man came to Normandy from Scandinavia, because of family connections or trade, or simply in search of a life.

"It's just perhaps ... not the most likely account," Booth said. Indeed, the report from the new work stresses it would be "a step" to place Conquest Man with the Norman army.

Booth added the work highlights that the events of 1066 were not in isolation, but noted the year was exceptional in putting a final break in the long-lasting connections between Scandinavia and, particularly, the east coast of England.

"Our man grows up in a different world but manages to navigate his way into the new reality," he said.

"England in the 11th century is not a binary thing. But beyond that, having this character to humanise this period that we talk so easily about, I find really quite powerful."

Artist Laurie Anderson to write secret manuscript

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

The next manuscript by the American artist Laurie Anderson will remain unseen for 88 years, as she becomes the 13th figure to contribute to the Future Library project.

Anderson joins Margaret Atwood, Han Kang, Ocean Vuong and other prominent authors who have written secret manuscripts, which have been locked away until 2114.

The texts are stored in a specially designed silent room in the Deichman Bjørvika building at the public library in Oslo. At the end of the project, the full anthology of texts will be printed using paper made from trees from the Future Library forest in Nordmarka, in northern Oslo, where 1,000 spruce trees were planted by Katie Paterson, the artist behind the project, in 2014.

Anderson is a writer, director, composer, visual artist, musician and vocalist whose work spans art, theatre, experimental music and technology. She has created numerous multimedia stage performances and published 10 books, as well as being nominated for six Grammy Awards, winning once and receiving a lifetime achievement award in 2024.

Anderson's manuscript for the project may be a text, a score, a story, a set of instructions or "something for which we do not yet have a name", Paterson said.

Anderson said: "I absolutely loved

Anderson, far left, joins the author Margaret Atwood among those who have contributed to the Future Library project PHOTOGRAPH: PETER NOBLE/REDFERNS

the idea of the Future Library as soon as I learned about it. I've always been in love with books, libraries and forests.

"I'm hoping to be able to write something useful about love for the people who will read this in 2114. My favourite books are the ones in which I can hear someone's voice, which is why I'll try my best to make myself clear to the people who come across these books in the next century."

The Future Library Trust said it had selected Anderson for her “singular ability to speak across time, creating work that is profoundly human, radically imaginative and alive to futures we cannot yet foresee”.

Paterson added: "Laurie Anderson has spent a lifetime sending signals into the unknown. For decades, she has explored how we tell stories, how we remember, and how we imagine what is yet to come. Moving freely between language, music, visual art, technology and performance, her work travels between the intimate and the planetary, love and loss, politics and poetry, with humour, tenderness and wonder."

Other writers to have contributed to the project include David Mitchell, Sjón, Elif Shafak, Karl Ove Knausgård, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Judith Schalansky, Valeria Luiselli, Tommy Orange and, most recently, Amitav Ghosh.

In June 2022, the City of Oslo signed an agreement that ensures the forest will remain in the hands of the Future Library Trust for the duration of the project.

▼ A corridor at HMP Pentonville. Critics warn that the U-turn could hit prison reform and rehabilitation PHOTOGRAPH: IAN WALDIE/GETTY IMAGES

PM's early release U-turn prompts fear that jails are 'one event from disaster'

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campaigning for the change had been traumatic.

"On the one hand we are glad, but we've been through the mill and we are only back at where we were to start with," she told BBC Breakfast. "We're not making any headway or anything, we are just literally fighting to get back to where we were."

Harper's force, Thames Valley police, said the news would be "welcomed by many across policing and our communities".

Chief Constable Jason Hogg said in a statement: “Today is not about politics. It is about remembering Andrew, recognising the profound impact his death continues to have on those who knew him, the communities he protected and those who serve in policing today.”

Burnham's intervention will limit the number of places that can be freed up in the prison estate, which ministers have repeatedly warned is on the brink of collapse. Before the early prison release scheme that was originally due to start this week, the prime minister said spaces would be made available by deporting foreign prisoners and releasing some inmates serving indefinite sentences. But critics said neither measure would free up sufficient space in a system that is operating at 98% capacity in England and Wales.

As many as 6,000 prisoners were due to be released under the new laws, but government figures suggest that the number will now be 1,400 fewer. With the first batch due to be released early in October, prison governor representatives said that staff would be put under intense pressure.

"The truth is I wanted to go even further," said Burnham. "But I've pushed the system to the very limits of what's possible without risking the prison system collapsing within months, putting the public at enormous risk."

The domestic abuse commissioner, Nicole Jacobs, said yesterday's announcement would not bring reassurance to domestic abuse victims. "Victims and survivors will still be forced to take measures to protect themselves from dangerous abusers because the government and our criminal justice system cannot."

Sources accused the prime minister of making a “politically easy decision” and warned that previous governments had failed to deport foreign convicts. Burnham admitted the number that could be returned was in the “hundreds”.

Burnham's pledge to “end the injustice” of indefinite jail terms, or IPPs, in this parliament was hailed as “a day that thousands of families have spent years fighting for”. But prison experts said it would be complicated, take time and would be unlikely to free up many places in the short term. IPPs were abolished more than a decade ago but still keep more than 2,000 people in England and Wales behind bars.

"The decision to release people on IPPs is extremely welcome, but the government must now deliver it," said Andrea Coomber, the chief executive of the Howard League.

She said yesterday's announcement left the prison estate "one major incident away from a disaster".

"All it will take is something like a serious riot or public disturbance and any capacity will be gone. It is just too close to the bone, and the government will be left with very little room to manoeuvre."

She said the move threatened to undermine reforms in the Sentencing Act, brought forward after a review led by the former justice secretary David Gauke and designed to improve rehabilitation rates as well as freeing up spaces for people coming into the system

"The Sentencing Act changes were based on deep work over a year from the independent sentencing review, the government and civil servants, with parliamentary scrutiny of the legislation," said Coomber. "Today's announcement has undone some of that work."

Pia Sinha, the chief executive of the Prison Reform Trust, said the government should address the number of people on remand awaiting trial, who account for 18% of those currently in prison.

▲ The justice secretary, Alex Norris, with a tag that could free jail space

"If prisons are full they become warehouses - you can't deliver interventions, self-harm goes up and rehabilitation goes down," she said. "The Gauke reforms were not a magic bullet, but they were brave and they were an investment in the future. That progress must not be lost."

The Conservative shadow justice secretary, Nick Timothy, accused Labour of avoiding parliamentary scrutiny of the changes. "The government must delay the scheme, bring forward emergency primary legislation and exclude the worst offenders properly," he said.

▲ Donna, the sister of Tommy Nicol, who took his own life after being denied parole, said 'words are not enough' PHOTOGRAPHS: ALECSANDRA DRAGOI/THE GUARDIAN

'A step towards healing' Burnham pledges to end indefinite prison terms

Jamie Grierson

Campaigners have hailed Andy Burnham's pledge to bring an end to indefinite jail terms as "a day that thousands of families have spent years fighting for".

The prime minister has said he will “end the injustice” of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences during this parliament, meaning people will no longer be trapped indefinitely under a sentence abolished more than a decade ago.

The IPP sentence was a form of indeterminate sentence in which offenders were given a minimum jail tariff but no maximum for a range of crimes.

Introduced in 2005, IPPs were designed for the indefinite detention of serious offenders who were perceived to be a risk to the public, but were used much more widely than intended and issued to offenders who committed low-level crimes. The sentence was scrapped in 2012, but its abolition was not retrospective.

Those given an IPP sentence were, in addition, placed on licence indefinitely after release, and were only eligible to have their licence removed after 10 years. The 10-year period was overturned last year and IPP inmates may now seek termination of their licence after two years in the community, and it automatically ends after four years.

Statistics from the Ministry of Justice and HM Prison and Probation Service show that, as of 30 June this year, 856 people remained behind bars after being given IPP sentences. Eight out of 10 of those have been jailed for at least 10 years beyond the minimum term at which they can apply for parole.

A further 1,415 IPP prisoners were recalled to custody after being released on licence, the data shows.

Responding to Burnham's announcement yesterday, Marc Conway, a former IPP prisoner who now leads a campaign group against the sentencing regime called 'We welcome this with heavy hearts for those who did not live to see this day'

Marc Conway Ungripp campaigner

Ungripp, said the move was a long overdue step toward justice.

Conway, who received an IPP sentence for armed robbery, was one of three released offenders who tackled the Fishmongers' Hall terrorist Usman Khan in 2019 on London Bridge. He has spoken of his fear that tackling the terrorist may have seen him back in jail under his IPP terms.

"This is a day that thousands of families have spent years fighting for," Conway said. "For too long, their loved ones have been trapped by a sentence that was acknowledged as flawed over a decade ago.

"While we welcome this critical action by the government, we do so with heavy hearts for those who did not live to see this day, and for the families torn apart by years of endless uncertainty. Legislation alone cannot undo 20 years of damage, but it is the essential first step toward healing."

Ungripp urged the Ministry of Justice and probation services to ensure that the implementation of the decision was swift, transparent and accompanied by comprehensive community and mental health support for all those transitioning off IPP licences and out of custody.

Among those to have suffered from the impact of IPP sentences was Tommy Nicol, who took his own life while serving under the now abolished regime.

▲ Marc Conway, an ex-IPP prisoner, said Burnham's pledge was overdue

He was handed a minimum tariff of four years for robbery. After six years in prison, he was told he would not be eligible for another parole hearing for at least another two years. His mental health deteriorated and he died a few months after that decision.

Nine months before his death, Nicol described the sentence as “psychological torture of a person who is doing 99 years” in a handwritten formal complaint.

His sister, Donna, who has been a prominent campaigner against the IPP sentence, said yesterday: "When I heard the announcement, my heart instantly split in two. Half of me felt a profound sense of relief for the thousands of families who have spent years living in the same horrific limbo that destroyed my family. The other half of me was crushed by the absolute, unbearable pain that this decision comes 10 years too late for my brother, Tommy.

"While I welcome the commitment to finally bring legislation to terminate these sentences and provide an endpoint to this nightmare, my message to the government today is clear: words are not enough.

"Implementation must be swift, clear and compassionate. Every day this takes to enact is another day someone's son, brother or father is driven to the brink of despair. Nothing will ever bring Tommy back through our front door. Nothing will undo the trauma my family suffered watching him lose his life to a sentence that should never have existed.

"But if this announcement means that no other sister has to stand where I am standing today, then Tommy's legacy, and the fight of every IPP family who refused to give up, will finally have achieved the justice he was denied."

Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Burnham said he had made the “judgment” that the public would prefer offenders who have served their time being freed before those who have not, and that he had “longstanding concerns” about IPP sentences which had caused “a sense of unfairness” in some cases. He promised to apply a “commonsense” approach, and said legislation would be brought forward to end such sentences by the end of the parliament.

He told the BBC: "Many of the people in this position have more than served their time. But on the scheme that I inherited, they would have remained in prison, while others who committed serious offences would have been let out early.

"And we will set up a cross-party oversight group to look at how this is done, because there are still individuals who will pose a risk to communities. It does need to be done in a very careful way."

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Key questions What is changing and why?

What is happening to prison sentences?

From 1 October, a change to sentencing rules means some adults serving a standard prison sentence in England and Wales will be released earlier than originally planned, the Institute for Government thinktank explains.

Prisoners convicted of less serious offences who now serve 40% to 50% of their sentence will leave prison after a third. A second group released after two-thirds of their sentence will leave after serving half.

Release from prison does not end the sentence. The person serves the remainder in the community on licence under conditions set by probation and can be returned to prison if those conditions are breached.

Murderers or people handed life or extended sentences have never been included in any proposals for reducing sentences and will remain locked up until they are eligible to go before the Parole Board.

Why is this happening?

The Labour government says it inherited a prison system on the brink of collapse, with fewer than 100 spaces left in the summer of 2024. No 10 says lack of investment in the prison estate, with just 500 net places added in more than a decade, has led to a situation where adult male prisons are at 98% capacity. It says the steps are necessary while it builds capacity.

Has this been controversial? Very. The controversy stemmed from who was set to be released. Initially, all adults serving a standard determinate sentence were to be released early, including those sentenced for serious violent and sexual offences. This month the government said the scheme would not apply to sentences for rape and serious child sexual abuse offences.

There had been longstanding concern about those parts of the proposals, but the backlash intensified in late July when it emerged the killers of PC Andrew Harper, who were sentenced for manslaughter, would be eligible for early release under the proposal.

▲ The prisons issue has been Andy Burnham's first headache as PM

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Places added to the prison estate in more than a decade, with adult male prisons now at 98% capacity

The issue presented the first real headache for Andy Burnham.

Yesterday, two days before parliament returns from recess, No 10 announced that sentences for unlawful killing would be blocked from the scheme. This means Harper's killers will not be eligible for early release.

Historical grooming offences, any form of manslaughter, causing death by dangerous driving and causing or allowing the death of a child will also be barred from the changes to the prison sentences.

What else has been proposed? Burnham also announced that he would end imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences during this parliament, due to end in 2029. IPP was introduced in 2005 and gave offenders a minimum jail tariff but no maximum. It was used much more widely than intended and many prisoners have languished behind bars well beyond their minimum tariff, in some cases for less serious offences.

No 10 said the move was to address an “injustice”, but it is also likely to free up space in the prison system. However, Downing Street has said it will take time.

What will happen to those released early?

Burnham has said the government would introduce the “toughest ever” supervision measures for offenders, including tagging and for the first time putting restriction zones in place to prevent offenders getting near their victims.

What will be the impact on the prison overcrowding crisis? Prison reform campaigners are sceptical. Mike Trace, the chief executive of the Forward Trust, a social justice charity, said: "Today's announcement delays rather than deals with the problem of prison overcrowding. By sticking with a policy of early rather than earned release, the PM will face many more instances like [he has] with the killers of PC Andrew Harper case, where prisoners are being released when it is not safe to do so.

"The only way to reduce prison numbers safely is to create a justice system that is genuinely rehabilitative." He urged the government to expand access to rehabilitation services and create an earned early release scheme for those committed to recovery in order to "build a system that protects, saves and improves lives".

Andrea Coomber, the chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "We are concerned that the details announced so far will make it even harder to tackle the prison capacity crisis in the short term." Jamie Grierson

National

Changes to vet practice rules 'put pet owners at risk of being ripped off'

Helena Horton

Pet owners have been warned they risk being ripped off by private equity firms that have bought local veterinary clinics after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) removed requirements for multinational companies to disclose which practices they owned.

The CMA recently ran an investigation into the monopolisation of vet practices and found the lack of competition and transparency of ownership had led to high prices and a lack of information for customers. Pet owners were often unaware their local vet practice could be owned by an international private equity company.

It found pet owners paid 16.6% more on average at large vet groups than at independent practices. It said the £6.3bn market was not fit for purpose and needed to be modernised.

As a result, the CMA and ministers announced proposals in a white paper earlier this summer including the capping of prescriptions for pets at £21 and more transparency over ownership.

But the professional body the Progressive Veterinary Association (PVA) has threatened the government agency with a judicial review after it changed the wording in its plans in a way the PVA says allows multinational companies to obscure their ownership of vet practices.

More than 60% of veterinary practices are owned in whole or in part by six groups: CVS, Pets at Home, Medivet, IVC and VetPartners, which are owned by private equity investors; and Linnaeus, whose parent company is Mars Petcare, a subsidiary of the US confectionery group Mars.

Rather than requiring the name of large multinational companies or private equity investors to be listed as the owner of the vet practice, the new rules would allow corporates to use a brand name or the name of the original independent practice.

The initial wording of the proposal from the CMA said vets had to disclose their ownership and name the “corporate vet group”. This has been softened to “network or group”, meaning the name of the vet practice or subsidiary of the company could be named instead of the conglomerate.

Dr Iain McGill, a director of the PVA, told the Guardian: "This is bad news for pet owners and their animals. Ultimately, large corporations would be allowed to hide the fact that they are the ultimate controller of local vet practices and operate behind sometimes misleading brand names."

▲ The CMA found pet owners paid 16.6% more on average at large vet groups than independent practices PHOTOGRAPH: YELENA SHANDER/GETTY

'Corporations would be allowed to hide the fact they are the ultimate controller of local vet practices'

Dr Iain McGill Vets' trade body director

He added: "Where they have a choice, pet owners often prefer independent practices, which the CMA found on average to be cheaper than corporate practices."

The CMA told vets who complained that the disclosure of the ultimate parent company names might not be of any meaningful benefit to pet owners. It added that these corporate names could be unrecognisable and that pet owners were more familiar with the high street vet or pet company names.

However, the PVA argued that pet owners had the right to know if their local vet practice was owned by a large conglomerate.

A CMA spokesperson said: "It is critical that pet owners know whether their local practice is part of a national group or locally owned, and we are confident the changes we are making will achieve this.

"In future, all practices will have to make ownership links clear by using brand names that people recognise on signs and online.

"Our proposals were supported by large and small vet practices and consumer groups, and we made our decision on this in our final report in March.

"We're now considering comments on exactly how the changes should be put in place to make sure they are clear and workable for pet owners and vets."

"If I had not consistently pushed for answers, I would not be here now." Denzil

Dance review Has AI opened Pandora's box? This show dazzles but doesn't really tell us

Mere Mortals Edinburgh Playhouse ★★★☆☆

Lyndsey Winship

This is a spectacular show. Literally, it is full of spectacle: as much a visual extravaganza as it is a concert, as it is dance - and a

gloriously maddening piece of dance at that. The dancers are as impressive as you'd expect from

San Francisco Ballet, the US's oldest professional ballet company, and the splashy concept is bold: the artistic director, Tamara Rojo, commissioned the choreographer Aszure Barton, composer Sam Shepherd (AKA electronic producer Floating Points) and multidisciplinary artists Hamill Industries, their starting point being the myth of Pandora's box, transposed to the current world of AI technology and what unknowns we might be unleashing.

Hamill Industries, who used some AI in their creation process, unleash something transfixing on a giant screen above the stage:

morphing, pulsating pixels that look like lava or the surface of the sun. It is intoxicating, easily dragging attention away from the dancers' bodies.

Those dancers appear en masse in strict manoeuvres at driving tempo. Are they an army of mortals, gods, automatons or lines of code? Who knows? But they are moulded into large-scale moving images by Barton just as Pandora is moulded from clay in the best bit of integration between the digital and physical worlds, countless hands crafting this woman out of dust.

Barton is a magpie of a choreographer, always unpredictable, classical virtuosity sewn in among countless other ideas in unstoppable phrases. Jennifer Stahl as Pandora is an impressive creation, for sure, and Wei Wang is great: supple, sprightly, puckish. He represents Hope.

Choreographers are not duty-bound to enact a narrative; the Pandora tale is merely a creative trigger, they would say, but in a story with such clear dramatic beats, and such a clever contemporary parallel, it seems a waste to throw that away.

There are a few scenes where humans come to the fore, with black-clad dancers just about visible against a black backdrop: Prometheus (Joseph Walsh) and Epimetheus (Harrison James) being brothers who hug and shove in one motion; a pas de deux for Pandora and her husband in which Barton's unconventional choreography steers clear of romantic tropes.

At the moment that presumably represents the opening of the box (or the AI floodgates), the screens go into hyperdrive, vomiting up dazzling imagery. Then they go dark and we are left with only bodies. Precious bodies - is this the idea? Or mere robots? What the dancers do - how they relate, how they move - doesn't really change between the two worlds. There's no choreographic revelation. Perhaps an exhortation to stop being distracted by the AI gods and notice the real people in front of you. Or perhaps no moral at all, just a wild sensory experience, and the strangest non-ending, with the most human thing of all - feeling - frustratingly absent.

Sadler's Wells, London, 9-12 September

A man has been detained in Germany on suspicion of the fatal stabbing of a 31-year-old British woman in Rosenheim early yesterday morning, local authorities said.

German police detain suspect after Briton is fatally stabbed

According to Rosenheim police, the woman, who was attacked at the city's railway station, was taken to a nearby hospital where she died from serious injuries.

Federal police officers who were called to the scene were reported to have detained the suspect immediately after the stabbing, which took place about 1am.

Associated Press

Police identified him as a 27-year-old German man from the Bavarian county of Fürstenfeldbruck.

In line with German privacy rules, police did not release the names of the victim or the suspect and said they were still investigating the circumstances and motive behind the crime.

A spokesperson added that “under the direction of the Traunstein Public Prosecutor’s Office, Rosenheim branch, an investigation is under way on suspicion of homicide”.

Officers asked any witnesses who may have seen “an argument or physical altercation” at the Rosenheim railway station in the early hours of Saturday night into Sunday to come forward.

A Foreign Office spokesperson said: "We are supporting the family of a British woman who died in Germany and are in touch with the local authorities."

▲ A 31-year-old British woman died from her injuries after the attack at Rosenheim railway station yesterday

University of Exeter agrees deal to train Saudi military officers

Sally Weale Education correspondent

The University of Exeter has approved plans for a “formal partnership” with Saudi Arabia to train senior military officers and government officials, despite long-held concerns about the Saudi government’s human rights record, the Guardian has learned.

In a deal that could generate millions of pounds for the Russell

Group university, Exeter academics will deliver an MA in applied security and strategy (also known as an MStrat) to a cohort at the National Defense University (NDU) in Riyadh.

The MA will form the academic component of the NDU's global strategy and strategic leadership programme, starting in 2026-27, and will be delivered to about 20 individuals a year, over three years. The NDU was formerly the Saudi Armed Forces Command and Staff College.

Approximate number of Saudi individuals that Exeter academics will train a year, over three years

The Saudi partnership has come to light at a time when the university is under fire from leading writers, broadcasters, academics and other alumni over plans to cut 150 jobs, primarily in the humanities, arts and social sciences, for which the highly ranked university is renowned.

In its marketing material, the university says the MStrat blends “academic depth with practical application”. It is aimed at working professionals in the armed forces, the government and international organisations and “offers a rigorous yet flexible environment in which to build strategic expertise”.

The Exeter branch of the University and College Union accused the university of chasing "dirty money".

The deal has not been widely publicised. It was approved by the university council in February, then endorsed by its senate the following month. In council minutes seen by the Guardian, the partnership with the NDU is marked “strictly confidential and commercial in confidence”.

Last month, the UK government announced the formation of a defence universities alliance - with

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Exeter among the 35 founding members - to “bring together academia and the armed forces” as part of a £182m investment for defence research and building critical skills.

A spokesperson for Exeter University said: "The MA in applied security and strategy has been taught at Exeter since 2012 through our strategy and security institute. Its students include serving British military personnel sponsored by the Ministry of Defence and Chevening scholars supported by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

"We are in discussions to deliver this established Exeter programme to a cohort at the National Defense University in Riyadh."

Cleverly: London mayor campaign will be 'classically Conservative'

Alexandra Topping Political correspondent

James Cleverly has vowed to run a "classically Conservative" campaign to become the mayor of London, insisting a victory in the capital would be a stepping stone for Kemi Badenoch to become prime minister.

The senior Tory denied he had resigned from the shadow cabinet to run for the mayoralty after a shift to the right under Badenoch's leadership. However, in a series of interviews yesterday, he avoided speaking about culture wars issues, which have been a focus for the Conservative leader.

"I am going to put forward a classic Conservative case to be the mayor of London, and it's about enterprise, it's about opportunity," the former home and foreign secretary told Times Radio.

“That is a classically conservative vision, and it will run in parallel to and supportive of Kemi’s plans for the country as a whole.”

If he wins the Conservative nomination, Cleverly is expected to run a more moderate campaign than the party's last candidate, Susan Hall. She drew criticism for claiming there was a “problem with crime” in the black community and was forced to apologise for liking a tweet in 2020 that featured a picture of Enoch Powell captioned: “It’s never too late to get London back!”

▲ James Cleverly said a victory would be a stepping stone for Kemi Badenoch PHOTOGRAPH: AARON CHOWN/PA

56%

The proportion of Londoners in a YouGov poll who said Sadiq Khan should not seek a fourth term

Hall lost to Sadiq Khan in 2024, who won with 43.8% of the vote.

Cleverly, who lost his attempt to lead the Conservatives to Badenoch, is considered a more moderate voice in a party that has moved to the right as support for Nigel Farage's Reform UK has grown.

Asked if Cleverly would seek to put distance between himself and the Tory leader to attract more centre-left voters in the capital, Giles Dilnot, the editor of Conservative Home, pointed to the politician's 2024 speech during the Conservative leadership contest in which he called for his party to be "more normal".

"Mayoral campaigns are often focused on the person - the personality is that extra 10% rather than just the rosette," he said.

"James is gloriously normal and I wouldn't be surprised if he's selling what he is: a normal Londoner who wants the city to succeed."

Prof Tony Travers of the London School of Economics said the restoration of the supplementary vote system in the 2028 London mayoralty election - where voters have a preferred first and second choice, with the second choice counted if no one wins more than $50\%$ of the vote - meant Cleverly would need to win over second preference Lib Dem voters in the capital.

"The last thing Cleverly would want to do is put off Liberal

Democrats, whose party has been the main beneficiaries of the Conservatives shift to the right in the south of England," he said. "I think we are likely to see him adopt a pre-Brexit, centrist Conservative position."

The entrance of a Conservative big hitter into the May 2028 contest will raise further questions about whether Khan - who was first elected in 2016 - will run for a fourth term, a question he has thus far avoided.

A YouGov survey this month found 56% of people living in the capital thought he should step down. A recent poll for the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London, found Khan would win a fourth term if he stood despite a surge in support for the Greens.

The Savanta survey put Labour on 33%, Reform on 20%, the Conservatives on 18%, the Greens 14% and Liberal Democrats 10%.

If Khan steps aside, the Labour MP for Brent East, Dawn Butler, is expected to stand, while other potential Labour candidates include Rosena Allin-Khan and David Lammy.

Cleverly told LBC radio he thought Khan had “really lost passion for the job”, adding that as a Londoner he wanted to stand against “very anti-London” Andy Burnham.

"Andy Burnham just doesn't get it. He's got a war with London, and London needs someone to fight its corner," he said.

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Taking the biscuit From Doritos to digestives, why the UK's snacks are being 'reformulated'

Sarah Marsh Consumer affairs correspondent

B ite into a Ritz cracker today and you're eating 80% less saturated fat than you would have been just a few years ago. The biscuit looks and snaps the same, and tastes close enough that most buyers have no idea they are eating a new recipe.

One of the biggest changes was swapping palm oil for sunflower oil, but there was much more to it than that. The reformulation took years to perfect in a laboratory, where scientists tested everything from density to how the cracker responds to heat, moisture and packaging.

It is a story playing out across an entire industry. From Doritos to digestives, Britain's best-loved snacks have been re-engineered, gram by gram, to meet stricter government rules on foods high in fat, sugar and salt. BelVita's soft bakes range, including its bestselling choc chip and choc hazelnut flavours, has been reformulated to fall outside the "less healthy" category, with the sodium cut by 56%.

Since January, paid-for advertising of high fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) products was banned online entirely. Now the industry faces a fresh problem: the government is reviewing the formula that decides which foods count as “less healthy” in the first place. Food companies warn the changes could undo years of work overnight - the Food and Drink Federation estimates that 80% of reformulated products could fail under the new model.

▲ Product development at RSSL in Reading PHOTOGRAPH: MARTIN GODWIN/GUARDIAN

Where the recipes get rewritten Earlier this month at Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) - the lab where, for many of Britain's snack foods, recipes go to get rebuilt - that tension is being discussed. Mondelēz International, the global food and beverage giant behind Oreo and Ritz, has invested £40m since 2020 in reformulation.

The UK is now the company's largest development hub in the world, with more than 750 scientists and engineers working across nutrition and product innovation at Bournville consumer research centre and RSSL.

The government is proposing a tougher nutrient profiling model (NPM), including stricter thresholds for free sugars and greater weighting for fibre. The changes could mean some products that manufacturers have already changed to reduce sugar are classified as “less healthy”, potentially bringing them within advertising restrictions.

Jacinta George, the managing director at RSSL, says the current profiling model, drawn up in 2018, marks down “free sugars”, but there is no settled definition of what that term actually means.

"The inclusion of free sugars in the 2018 NPM model is incredibly challenging for manufacturers, as there is no universally agreed definition of what a free sugar is," George says. "There is also no standardised laboratory method for distinguishing between intrinsic and free sugars."

Swapping out sugar isn't as simple as removing it, either.

“Sugar does more than sweeten - it provides texture, bulk and preservation,” George says. “Sweeteners provide sweetness but not these other qualities, meaning additional bulking agents or functional ingredients may be needed. This can increase processing, and potentially conflict with consumer demand for simpler formulations.”

The science of taking a cracker apart

Reformulation at RSSL runs through several disciplines in sequence. Kerry Tanner, a group leader on the product development team, works on ingredients first - often starting with sauces and cooking bases, where salt reduction is a frequent target. "If we're trying to reduce the score, we might be working on a sauce, and we're trying to reduce the salt," she says. "We used a natural alternative to salt that has a lower sodium content." Because sauces already

carry complex layers of flavour, she adds, a modest cut often goes unnoticed by the consumer.

Next comes texture - the domain of specialist Emma Nelson, whose job is making sure a reformulated product still behaves the way people expect. Complaints, she notes, can come down to

'Sugar does more than sweeten - it provides texture, bulk and preservation'

Jacinta George Food lab director

Number of scientists and engineers working in nutrition and product innovation at Bournville and Reading for Mondelēz

Dairy Milk sales fell when the sugar content was cut

something as small as how quickly a biscuit softens in tea. Every reformulated product goes through stability testing, checking shelf life and structural performance under different conditions once ingredients change. The team frequently turns to 3D printing to build physical models of a product's structure, allowing them to take it apart and reassemble it to study how it holds together.

Downstairs, an industrial CT scanner takes that analysis further. As colleague George Middleton explains, the machine fires X-rays through a sample; denser materials absorb more energy, and thousands of rotating scans are stitched together into a full 3D dataset of the product's internal structure.

The problem with chocolate

Not every attempt to reimagine a snack succeeds, and chocolate bars have proven the hardest category of all. When Mondelēz launched Cadbury Dairy Milk with 30% less sugar, shoppers didn't buy it. The product was pulled.

So the company has shifted its strategy, leaning on portion control instead of ingredient substitution. Freddo, Curly Wurly and Chomp - the bars most likely to end up in a child's hand - are kept under 100 kcal. Multipacks stay under 200 kcal per product, and single bars under 250. Chocolate brings its own added constraint too: to legally carry the name, a product has to contain a minimum amount of cocoa.

The looming challenge For all the lab hours and investment, the industry's biggest worry is not scientific but regulatory uncertainty. Kate Halliwell of the Food and Drink Federation says companies need a stable target to aim at, because reformulation is a slow process. "It's from signing off investment - you're probably looking at a couple of years to get something actually through and into market," she says.

"I think companies can't really see how they can do it. If you're going to invest to make a healthier product, but at the end of it you can't promote or advertise it, then it's unlikely that it will actually succeed on shelf. People won't know to choose it or try it. And they're more likely to fail. That's a really big concern for companies."

But others disagree. Sonia Pombo, the head of research and impact at Action on Salt & Sugar, says the “goalposts” cannot be settled “forever”. She added that the current nutrient profiling model is “more than 20 years old, and the updated model better reflects the latest evidence”.

She says the industry “has known that changes to the model were being considered for many years, so this should come as no surprise”.

Pombo says reformulation and a lowering of sugar should be celebrated but “where unnecessary levels remain, further reductions should be encouraged.” She added: “Protecting past reformulation efforts cannot take precedence over continuing to improve the nutritional quality of food we eat.”

US deportee Far-right provocateur may not find UK outlet for his views

Helena Horton

As he arrives back in the UK after being deported from the US by the Trump administration, the far-right provocateur

Milo Yiannopoulos may be wondering what lies ahead for him in his native country.

The “alt-right” agitator, 41, made his name in the US by promoting Donald Trump and associating with his allies before the 2016 election.

But now the US has dumped the former Breitbart News editor back in his native country after he allegedly overstayed his visa. Yiannopoulos has also made plenty of disparaging comments about the president, including that he is “firmly off the Trump train”.

Those in the rightwing ecosystem in the UK say Yiannopoulos is now too extreme to find a prominent berth back home.

The commentator started his career at the Daily Telegraph, where he wrote a controversial blog until 2011, when he started his own website, the Kernel. In 2014 he started working for the former Trump adviser Steve Bannon at Breitbart News, before moving to the US and promoting far-right causes.

He left Breitbart after a controversy over a video in which he appeared to condone sexual relations with boys as young as 13. He later said “sloppy editing” and his “British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humour” had created the wrong impression and he denied endorsing paedophilia.

Since he left the UK, GB News has become the ascendant broadcast outlet of the right. But he is unlikely to find a place there. A source at the channel said: "We wouldn't touch him with a barge pole, not in a million years. GBN had a few

odd people to start with and we've got rid of them." Of the provocative positions that brought him notoriety in the US, the GB News source said: "He won't make much money out of it here, he appeals entirely to an American audience. It's a bigger country and you have a bigger pool of fruit loops."

There is a growing subsection of rightwing provocateurs in the UK who have been deemed too controversial for the main channels but have established niche brands of their own. The journalist Dan Wootton was suspended from GB News after a guest on his show made sexually inappropriate comments about a female journalist, and he now has his own channel.

▲ Milo Yiannopoulos was deported from the US after overstaying his visa

The former TalkTV host Mike Graham has also set up his own independent show. He was sacked after the company said he had failed to cooperate with an investigation into a racist post that appeared on one of his social media accounts. Graham said the racist comment had been the result of his account being hacked.

It is understood that Reform UK will not accept Yiannopoulos into the party's ranks. His former colleague at Breitbart, Raheem Kassam, is close to Nigel Farage and is in the UK for Reform's national conference.

Kassam, who is British but now lives in the US, claimed he was kept updated on the deportation of Yiannopoulos, whom he accused of making “lurid and false accusations” against him.

He added: "I got word last month that he was about to be deported. On Thursday night, I got a call. As overly dramatic as it may seem. 'We got him. In Louisiana.'"

The Maga influencer Laura Loomer has claimed to have reported Yiannopoulos to immigration enforcement over his expired visa.

One political party that may accept Yiannopoulos is Restore Britain, which is led by Rupert Lowe, the former Reform MP, who had a falling-out with Farage.

Restore has accepted a number of characters who are thought of as too extreme for Reform, including the convicted criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who uses the alias "Tommy Robinson".

Yiannopoulos has praised Lowe, calling him “fantastic” and urging those on the UK hard-right to join Restore. The Guardian contacted Lowe to ask if he would accept Yiannopoulos as a party member or adviser, but received no response.

Kassam said: "He's certain to resurface in Britain shortly. Perhaps as an adviser to Rupert Lowe, or perhaps as a contestant on some third-tier reality TV show. So in advance I say to Britain: my apologies. For all of it."

Yiannopoulos's deportation to the UK occurred on Friday, according to the US authorities. The Department of Homeland Security said Yiannopoulos "legally entered the country" in May 2019 through New York City but then "chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation's laws".

In 2022, Yiannopoulos worked on Kanye West's short-lived 2024 White House campaign.

Last year, he said he was “never going back home” because the UK needed a “mass deportation programme”. Yiannopoulos was approached for comment.

National

'It's therapy by stealth' Adult fans building health brick by brick with Lego

George Francis Lee

In a cosy cafe in Kingston upon Thames on the outskirts of London, nine people gather in the early evening to drink and talk. To the casual observer it may look like a book club, but when the friends reach into their bags it's not paperbacks they produce - it's packs of Lego.

Geoff Lay, who organised the gathering, worked in software development before recently starting the Noble Brick, a Lego-focused events organisation.

"I was one of those kids where you couldn't go into my bedroom because the floor was covered in pieces," he says. But after a break with the hobby, the 44-year-old rediscovered Lego 10 years ago - after being given a set recreating London's Tower Bridge. He has been building ever since.

Lego may conjure up images of childhood fun, but the growing number of adult enthusiasts is one of the reasons for a surge in sales that has helped increase the Danish toymaker's revenues by 21%.

Thanks to collaborations with the likes of the World Cup, with mini figures of popular football players, and Stranger Things, more and more people are finding themselves returning to the brand in later life.

The Lego Group was founded in 1932 and has built a lucrative plastic empire, generating £4.8bn in revenue in the first half of 2026 alone. Since the 1990s, Lego has expanded its products to include brand tie-ins, video games, television shows and sets tailored towards adults - often costing hundreds of pounds.

Lay is confident that a new demographic of older Lego enthusiasts is here to stay. He says: "The idea that Lego is for kids is banished." His 40-year-old fiancee, Lauren Marshall, agrees: "You don't have a typical Lego fan any more."

Marshall didn't have Lego as a child but got into the hobby as an adult after her partner's fervour rubbed off on her. As she assembles the legs of a large Darth Vader, she says sets are "a lot like jigsaws", and they are "completing something like a puzzle".

Someone who was raised on a less structured style of Lego play is 28-year-old Loretta Piare. “Growing up, I loved Lego. We always had huge boxes of it,” she says, as she constructs a cactus from the company’s botanical series. “We could never afford one of the fancy sets. My mum would get the big boxes of mixed colours.”

She stopped playing with Lego in her teens - "I used to love building houses and making it up" - but the cost-effective and environmentally conscious option to borrow other people's bricks at adult groups has revived her interest. "I love following instructions," she says, "I love colourful bricks, basically. I love building things."

Tim Stone, a 35-year-old decorator, renewed his love for Lego after quitting smoking during the Covid pandemic and buying himself a racing car set. While constructing a brick-based Nintendo Game Boy console, he

'What I love about Lego is there's no wrong way to build it ... it's an art form'

Loretta Piare with her completed Lego cactus

Nick Bright Brighton Bricks

explains how he joined the London Afol (Adult Fans of Lego) group to make friends. "I got really bored. I had a load of buddies that would just go out drinking." Now, Stone takes part in collaborative builds late into the night with more than 20 other Afol members.

There are dozens of Lego fan groups across the UK. Jordan Wiltshire, 32, is a member of GertLUG, a “Lego user group” based in Bristol. He became conscious of the cost and began to wonder if Lego was a “sensible” purchase. When a friend bought him a Lego Star Wars Tie Fighter for Christmas when he was 26, things slotted back into place. He calls Lego his “personality”, and is strongly against ageism related to the hobby. “Why can’t we play with Lego?” he asks. “Some people might say it’s for kids but there are so many of us and we all have different things we love about it.”

Wiltshire says he enjoys the "sense of accomplishment": "It's a way I can be creative."

Tim Hirst working on a DeLorean car with a pint to hand. Below, organiser Geoff Lay, helps Lauren Marshall (centre) and Holly Nessling with their Darth Vader creation

PHOTOGRAPHS: ANTONIO OLMOS/ THE GUARDIAN

There are other purported benefits to playing with Lego, such as improved mental health. Nick Bright runs Brighton Bricks, an adult Lego group that meets monthly, and says: "It's therapy by stealth, you don't even realise you're helping your wellbeing."

Like many adult fans, the 51-year-old rediscovered Lego later in life. He recalls the product that revived the habit: "It was the Haunted House Monster Fighters set. It was one of those moments where you go: 'Yeah, this is me.'" He shares his love for Lego with his nine-year-old son and 80-year-old mother. His home collection is large and admits "my wife maybe thinks I have too much".

There are plenty of gateways into the hobby through collaborations with the likes of Disney, Dune and Fortnite, but Bright warns that one downside is that “there are a lot more bigger, expensive sets and there is a fear of missing out”.

Bright prefers to follow a Lego set's printed instructions, but has many friends whose constructions come from their imagination. "We're all doing the same thing, but we are all doing it differently," he says. "What I love about Lego is that there's no wrong way to build it."

He believes the creativity displayed through MOCs - meaning "my own creation" to describe original builds - shows that Lego is much more than a toy. "It's just like how someone can do knitting and pottery - it's an art form."

Regardless of people's reasons to love Lego, its adult fanbase shows the company won't be hitting a brick wall any time soon.

Train drivers on Avanti West Coast win 3.6% pay rise to avert strikes

Raphael Boyd

Train drivers have secured a significant pay rise after the threat of strike action was floated on busy routes across the UK, including on the busy London-Manchester line.

The deal, which was agreed on Saturday between Avanti West Coast and the train drivers' union Aslef, is the first to be approved under Andy Burnham's premiership.

As well as the London-Manchester line - likely to see increased ministerial traffic after the establishment of the No 10 North office - the company also operates services to other big cities such as Birmingham, Glasgow and Liverpool.

Coming after Aslef announced plans in June to ballot members about possible strike action over pay, the deal, first reported by the Sunday Times, will be seen as a victory for the union.

It includes a 3.6% pay rise for drivers - 0.7 percentage points higher than the latest inflation rate - as well as time-and-a-half pay for working Sundays, and £720 if drivers work a fifth day in the week.

Avanti is to be renationalised by Labour by spring 2027, with all rail companies due to be under government control by the end of next year.

The operator, which is seen as having the worst punctuality rating for any major rail company in the UK, based on figures from the Office of Rail and Road, has cut multiple services in the past year including the 7am train between Manchester and London, which it cut and brought back in the space of a few days after public scrutiny.

The government said it had “prioritised resolving the rail union disputes, improving services for passengers and saving hundreds of millions in lost revenue to ease the burden on taxpayers”.

Richard Holden, the shadow transport secretary, said the government was “totally capitulating to their union paymasters” and “taxpayers are being asked to stump up millions simply to save Burnham’s blushes”.

Aslef said: "Our job is to enhance our members' terms and conditions and this deal, struck with Avanti West Coast and approved by the DFTO [Department for Transport Operator], has been accepted."

The Department for Transport said: "We are pleased to see Avanti West Coast work with Aslef to enable a fair and affordable settlement."

£720

Amount to be paid to Aslef drivers working a fifth day in the week under the deal with Avanti West Coast

National Reform UK

Arms and the £5m man The military empire of Farage donor Christopher Harborne

Christopher Harborne in 2022. Farage's reliance on his money presents a potential conflict of interest PHOTOGRAPH: GEORGE CRACKNELL WRIGHT/LNPY

Tom Burgis

As he struggles with questions about the millions he has received from the billionaire Christopher

▼ Boris Johnson in Ukraine, with Harborne (second to his right). Harborne said: 'I'm absolutely passionate that Europe has to defend itself' PHOTOGRAPH: HTTPS://1256.CX.UA/

Harborne, Nigel Farage has made no secret of his enthusiastic support for the industry that made part of his benefactor's fortune - cryptocurrency. The Reform UK leader even urged the governor of the Bank of England to drop a crypto policy that could be costly for Harborne.

But another element of Harborne's business interests could prove still more consequential if it shapes Farage's positions. There appears to be no precedent for a major UK donor who is so entwined with the military.

The Guardian's investigation into the origins of Harborne's riches and whether his donations inform Farage's agenda has established the Thailand-based tycoon's global web of commercial interests in the arms industry and military contracts. Among Harborne's business collaborators are a striking number of former army officers, air force pilots, military officials and even, it seems, a former MI6 officer.

Described by his lawyers as an "intensely private" man, Harborne has military interests that reveal

another side to the proprietor of a wellness sanctuary on a paradise island off Thailand.

A businessman who works with Harborne's jet fuel venture describes it as a top supplier to US military operations worldwide, "strengthened by former US Department of Defense specialists and retired US military pilots, bringing decades of operational and strategic expertise to every mission". And he is the biggest shareholder in what was once the research arm of the UK military, now a private company developing autonomous weapons.

At a moment when one of the biggest questions political leaders face is how much of the state's resources to divert to military spending, Farage's reliance on Harborne's money presents a potential conflict of interest.

Harborne has given Reform two-thirds of its funding, plus a £5m undeclared gift to Farage that the MPs' watchdog is investigating.

Sam Power, a political funding expert at the University of Bristol, said: "It doesn't necessarily follow that Reform will have policies that will benefit Harborne's interests in the military-industrial complex. But it warrants a spotlight. It will be interesting if Reform's policies start aligning with Christopher Harborne in this area as they have in cryptocurrency."

Harborne's lawyers at the London firm Schillings said: "The policies or positions Mr Farage may choose to adopt are a matter for Mr Farage and the Reform party. Our client's commercial interests are unconnected in any way whatsoever with his political affiliations."

Harborne's military beginnings After private school, Cambridge, and stints at the McKinsey management consultancy and PepsiCo, Harborne moved to Thailand in the 1990s, made money in the markets, and set up on his own. In 2006, he lent £1.6m to a company called Subsea Resources, whose operations were designed to salvage metal and artefacts from sunken shipwrecks and retrieve lost aircraft for governments.

His loans “were made on an informal basis without legal documentation”, the company’s filing says. He then exchanged the loans for shares, becoming a director in December 2006.

Subsea Resources only had five directors. Another, who joined on the same day as Harborne, was David Charters. His official filing said he was a Foreign Office veteran. That styling is frequently used for those who were, in fact, officers of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6. A description of Charters at a security conference years later called him “a former MI6 intelligence officer”.

That was not the firm's only apparent connection to the UK defence establishment. When Harborne gave up his board seat months later, his replacement was Tim McClement, a retired vice-admiral whose exploits included sinking the Belgrano while a submariner in the Falklands war.

Harborne was at the time setting up a venture of his own, AML Global, which has become a major military contractor. At the outset, there were connections to the armed forces, Thai corporate documents indicate. A fellow British director of a company that would go on to be part of AML Global, Arthur Napolitano, had proceeded from officer training at Sandhurst to the Queen's Dragoon Guards. He later served in the Sultan of Oman's land forces, a corporate biography says.

The new venture was close to Harborne's heart. "Many of his business activities and investments flow from his passion for aviation," say lawyers for Harborne, a licensed pilot who once crashed a light aircraft in residential Hampshire. AML Global is one of them. It brokers jet fuel, arranging for supplies to reach clients on whatever far-flung tarmac they wish to fill up their private jets.

AML sourced fuel in North America, Europe, Asia and Russia, according to a 2006 article in the industry press. It has, Harborne's lawyers say, "grown into a worldwide leader in its industry with a comprehensive fuel supply network that maintains over 1,200 locations worldwide". They add that AML Global no longer arranges the supply of jet fuel produced in Russia.

At first, the clients were civilians. In time, AML Global started to supply the organisation that consumes more fossil fuels than any other: the American military.

AML Global Pentagon contracts The LinkedIn profile for Scott Elder, AML Global's vice-president, records that he was a colonel in the US air force. Another entry on an earlier profile said he worked at the US embassy in Bangkok from 1996 (the year Harborne arrived) to 2011 (the year Harborne took Thai citizenship), and was a “host nation liaison” for the Pentagon.

Shortly after his time with the US government appears to have ended, Elder joined AML Global, and by 2013, AML Global was receiving Pentagon contracts for jet fuel. They started with \$4,000 for a shipment to the Philippines and stayed small for years.

An American F/A-18C Hornet receives fuel during a mission. Harborne's firm is trusted to supply US forces in strategic locations PHOTOGRAPH: ALAMY

In 2017, Elder told his school alumni newsletter he had “decided to quit his day job and dedicate his life to the study of the Champa Kingdom (Vietnam)”. But instead he stuck with Harborne, and AML Global’s military income boomed.

Late in Donald Trump's first term, AML Global's US military contracts started to surge, reaching tens of millions annually. They total more than \$140m (£100m) in the years since, according to published US government data.

While AML Global issues few statements, publicity material by its Northern Irish partner, Jet Assist, says no other company supplies the US military with jet fuel in more places beyond its borders - 62 by the end of 2025. The material trumpeted AML Global's recruitment of US military personnel and envisaged its role in "future US, UK and allied military deployments into Europe".

AML Global's \$140m from the Pentagon may not be a big share of the billions it spends each year on fuel, but Harborne is trusted to supply the US armed forces in strategic locations, from Europe's frontier with Russia, to the Middle

East, a South Pacific outpost and Asian allies threatened by China.

"The government vets these companies," said Jerry McGinn, a military procurement expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies thinktank in Washington. "They take this very seriously."

According to documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, bankers filed an alert with US authorities in 2014 saying they had been “unable to identify the economic, business or lawful purpose” for large payments Harborne made related to crypto dealings under his Thai name, Chakrit Sakunkrit. Such suspicious activity reports are evidence of concern, not wrongdoing. Harborne denies any wrongdoing, and the Pentagon evidently sees him as a trusted supplier.

Growing stake in UK defence In the UK's military-industrial base, Harborne occupies an even more sensitive position - one he has expanded dramatically since becoming an influential donor.

▶ Nigel Farage, who received a £5m gift from Harborne before becoming an MP. They say the money was ‘unconditional’ PHOTOGRAPH: VICTORIA JONES/ SHUTTERSTOCK

In 2022, while he was solidifying his position as one of the most influential political financiers by following his payments to Farage's party with others to Boris Johnson's Conservatives, he started building a stake in QinetiQ. QinetiQ used to be the Ministry of Defence's research arm. It was privatised

under Tony Blair and, under MoD contracts, remains integral to Britain's war-fighting capabilities. It runs Hebridean missile-launch sites, develops stealth capabilities for nuclear submarines, maintains the Royal Air Force's Typhoon fighter jets, and is building the drones and robots that are redefining warfare.

Harborne, whose ancestor RC Sherriff feted the invention of the bouncing bomb in his wartime drama The Dam Busters, is now QinetiQ's biggest shareholder, with a 15% stake worth about £400m.

Money man

£1.6m Amount Harborne lent to Subsea Resources, which retrieves lost aircraft for governments

\$4,000

Value of AML Global's first Pentagon contract in 2013. Recent years of Pentagon work have totalled \$140m

15%

Stake that Harborne took in QinetiQ, worth about £400m, making him the biggest shareholder

And his military tech investments have been proliferating.

In March he bought a stake in a company set up by a former Royal Marines reservist to develop “Iron Man” fighting suits for combatants. That came after he acquired shares in a rival to Starlink, the satellite service that has given Elon Musk the power to influence the course of conflicts such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

His military connections are not confined to the west. They appear to extend to Thailand, whose armed forces loom over civilian life.

Paul Chambers, a leading expert on the Thai military who left the country last year under pressure from the army, said Harborne maintained a business relationship with the armed forces there through AML Global and Sherriff Global Group, which appears to run Harborne's fleet of private jets.

"The Royal Thai Air Force interacts with these firms for global logistical support, international flight operations and overall air transport administration," said Chambers, a lecturer at the University of Oklahoma. Neither Harborne's lawyers nor the Thai air force answered questions about this.

Reform's defence policy Harborne has lately begun to intervene personally in the big military questions of the day. Last year, the Guardian revealed that he accompanied Johnson on a September 2023 visit to Ukraine after giving the former Tory prime minister £1m. Jamie Shawyer, a Gulfstream pilot who has worked on Harborne's aviation ventures for 20 years, appears to have flown the pair to Poland, from where they proceeded overland to Kyiv.

Harborne later said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph that Johnson arranged for him to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy and that he told Ukraine's president: "I'm absolutely passionate that Europe has to defend itself."

By June 2024, when Reform launched its general election manifesto, Harborne had switched his largesse back to Farage, handing him a £5m gift. Both insist it was “unconditional”, and Farage decided he did not need to declare it after he won a seat.

The manifesto committed Reform to increasing defence spending and to introducing "incentives and tax breaks to boost 'Harborne is an immensely successful man. They all say crypto, but actually that is but a part of what this guy does'

Nigel Farage Reform UK leader

the UK defence industry". It said it would "improve equipment self-sufficiency and manufacture world-class products for export", and set up a "Joint Acquisition Corp" that would "ensure world-class procurement".

These policies seem likely to benefit QinetiQ and perhaps other Harborne military interests.

Farage says Harborne asks for nothing in exchange for his donations. Yet just as Farage has championed Tether, the crypto firm Harborne part-owns, he has saluted his benefactor's military interests.

“Christopher Harborne is an immensely successful man,” Farage told the Triggernometry podcast in July. “They all say crypto, but actually that is but a part of what this guy does. I think there are some things that are known in public, such as his big stake that he holds in QinetiQ, the defence technology company. I think he probably owns the biggest jet refuelling operation in the world, plus his crypto investments.”

Farage has struck militaristic positions. When Trump bombed Iran, he called for UK forces to join the campaign. After Trump expressed disquiet with British plans to give Mauritius control of the Chagos Islands, home to a US-UK base, Farage boarded one of Harborne's private jets and flew to the region in protest. Richard Tice, Reform's deputy leader, has said his party would rip up the deal if it takes power.

A Reform spokesperson said Harborne had not discussed defence spending, defence policy or foreign policy with Farage or party officials and denied that the donor's military business interests gave Reform a conflict of interest on defence spending policy.

Harborne's lawyers added that he "has not sought to influence any politician to support any of his commercial business interests".

World

Voters in Iceland reject talks to join EU in polarising referendum

Miranda Bryant Reykjavík

Voters in Iceland have rejected a government proposal to reopen accession talks with the EU after a closely fought referendum campaign that divided the country against a backdrop of global volatility.

After a long and anxious night for both sides, the no camp ended up with 52.8% of the vote on yesterday morning and the yes camp with 47.2%. Voter turnout was 82.5%.

The vote was held in the shadow of repeated threats by Donald Trump to invade or acquire neighbouring Greenland. Although Iceland is a Nato member, supporters of EU membership said European solidarity would provide greater protection if Trump ever made similar threats towards the smaller Arctic island.

At a press conference, the prime minister, Kristrún Frostadóttir, said the campaign had “raised the debate in Iceland to a higher level” while acknowledging that there were aspects that “could have been done better”.

Given how close the outcome was, she said, it was important to respect the views of yes voters. But she added: "It is quite clear that this matter will not move forward under this government."

She said the government would wait before deciding whether to submit a parliamentary resolution formally withdrawing its EU membership application.

Iceland originally applied in 2009 after the financial crash but suspended talks in 2013, saying it could not go any further without a referendum.

There will be disappointment in Brussels, which had been keen to welcome a wealthy new member and appeared willing to compromise with Iceland on thorny issues such as fishing to facilitate its accession.

The yes campaign had argued that joining the EU could offer greater security amid wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and given the US president's unpredictable attitude towards the Arctic. But warnings from no campaigners that EU membership would threaten the country's sovereignty and fishing waters turned the vote in their favour.

Their victory quickly attracted the attention of anti-EU leaders. The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen wrote on X: "At a time when some are pushing for greater federalism and the transfer of sovereignty to the European Commission, this vote reminds us that another Europe is possible, a Europe of free, sovereign nations cooperating voluntarily on matters of common interest."

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage wrote: "Congratulations to Iceland on voting to keep their independence."

The government in Reykjavík had framed its membership plan as a “now or never” moment, and Kris-trún told voters that a no vote would put all EU speculation aside.

Yesterday, she told RÚV that she hoped the vote would not leave the nation divided. Kristrún said: "I don't experience this as hurt. I know some people have been in a state of shock, but now I've sat with a large group of people across the country and people are completely open to different outcomes."

She acknowledged that many people in Iceland, particularly in rural areas, had concerns about the potential impact on agriculture, fisheries and natural resources.

The vote exposed a stark divide between rural and urban areas, with the capital, Reykjavík, the only part of the island nation of 400,000 people where a majority supported yes.

After Trump renewed his threats to invade Greenland at the start of this year, and amid a greater global focus on the Arctic, the government announced that the referendum would be brought forward.

Hulda Pórisdóttir, a politics professor at the University of Iceland, said she was not surprised by the result, given the tone of the latter stages of the campaign, the spread of misinformation and the considerably greater financial resources of the no campaign.

She said: "No won due to a combination of factors: a strong feeling that the EEA [European Economic Area] is all we need, a sense of Icelandic exceptionalism, economic self-interest and a lot of misinformation among the least engaged ... But very importantly, it seems clear to me that the no campaign was much, much better funded."

Reaction from Brussels was muted. António Costa, the European Council president, told Krishrún yesterday the bloc “fully respects the democratic choice” of the island’s voters not to resume EU membership talks, a spokesperson said.

Analysis 'Yes, maybe' lost out to the clarity of 'no'

Miranda Bryant Reykjavík

It was always going to be a close contest. But on the night, the figures showed just how divided Iceland was on the issue of whether or not to restart negotiations

After a nail-biting overnight count, the well-funded no campaign rejoiced on Sunday morning as the broadcaster RÚV declared it the winner with about 52.8% of the vote. Given the size of Iceland's population - barely 400,000 - the margins were tiny.

Opponents had criticised the no campaign as fearmongering, its tactics compared by some to those deployed by Brexit activists in the UK's 2016 referendum. Its depiction of fishing and farming, two issues inextricably tied to Icelandic national identity, as threatened by EU membership were central to its success. Results showed a big split between voters in the capital region and the rest of the largely rural country where, among some, there is a sense that national identity is at risk of being forgotten.

But it was perhaps also the question on the ballot paper that, despite the allure of a closer relationship with Europe at a time of global volatility and an erratic US president threatening Iceland's larger neighbour, Greenland, helped the no voters win the day.

The question Icelanders were asked was "Should Iceland resume accession negotiations with the European Union?". A second referendum was to be held once a deal had been reached. Iceland is

Iceland's prime minister, Kristrún Frostadóttir, backed the yes campaign

No campaign supporters wave flags during a rally against the reopening of Iceland's accession negotiations with the European Union PHOTOGRAPH: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/ GETTY IMAGES

'The no side has done a lot of fear-mongering ... my friends said they're scared of the EU' Pôrir Snoor Yes supporter

already a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) and the Schengen passport-free travel area.

This meant that a yes vote would have actually been a “yes, maybe”, whereas a no vote was always a clearer, more decisive move. One of the “yes, maybe” campaign’s slogans was “Já til að sjá” (“yes to see”), which felt vague in comparison to the bullish claims of the no campaign.

Among the no campaign's claims were that the EU would act as a "new superpower" over Iceland and that it could turn the country into a "quota-free fishing village" where foreign companies could invest in Iceland's highly valuable fishing industry, putting fishing rights and profits in the hands of external parties.

At a yes campaign party at Reykjavík Art Museum in the Icelandic capital's downtown area, during a point in the election night where yes seemed to have edged ahead, Pôrir Snoor, a yes supporter, said: "The no side has done a lot of fearmongering and done it very, very well." While he had a lot of peers who, like him, thought the

euro could be the solution to the country's high inflation and high interest rates, the 25-year-old admitted: "A lot of my friends have said they are scared of the European Union."

Wearing a blue EU cap, Snædis Inga Rúnarsdóttir, 30, agreed that the no campaign had been louder - and better funded. She said she would have to make peace with a potential win by no, but hit out at a swirl of misinformation around the referendum.

Iceland's foreign minister, Porgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, had previously said she feared her country faced a “Brexit moment” amid warnings over the potential influence of misinformation, foreign interference and AI in the referendum.

Just before midnight when votes were still being counted, she said that, whatever the result, “at least Icelandic people have shown it was the right thing to have a vote”.

Before being ushered deeper on to the dance floor, she added: "And what I like the most is now, foreign policy is - everything is - on the agenda."

Ukraine Ammunition stores close to homes become Russian targets

Dan Sabbagh Myla, Kyiv region
▲ The aftermath of the Russian attack on an ammunition storage warehouse in Myla village PHOTOGRAPHS: JULIA KOCHETOVA/THE GUARDIAN

It is a day and a half since a Russian jet-powered drone smashed into an ammunition dump in Myla, a village 15 miles outside central Kyiv. Security guard Volodymyr

1 Security guard Volodymyr, 61, leads visitors from his family's badly damaged home, its roof blown off, back windows shattered, through the garden towards the impact site 300 metres away.

The garden, like so many in Ukraine's villages and suburbs, is a sizeable allotment. But today the greenhouse is shattered, a vegetable patch is blackened and crisp underfoot. Several meters of grapevine have been destroyed; even so, Volodymyr finds two surviving bunches to hand to the Guardian.

It is a remarkable moment of generosity, although his family now has no electricity and no water after Thursday night's extended bombing. The death toll rose by one yesterday, to 38, and four more people are still missing in an episode that has raised questions about why ammunition was stored so close to people's homes.

In the yard before the garden, Vira, 65, knows who is at fault. "Those who set up the depot here are to blame. There are people here; this is a village. You can't keep something like that here," she says. She and her son Serhii hid for hours in a small bunker waiting out what eyewitnesses said were "30 or 50" explosions that went on for about six hours after the initial strike at 8pm.

Serhii says they had no idea ammunition was stored in their village: "I thought it was humanitarian aid that was stored there." Now the family is presented with a clear up that will be difficult while starting with next to nothing. He is charging his phone from a car battery via a converter; it is all the power they have.

A missile shell from a Grad rocket launcher was found on their property once the explosions subsided, Serhii adds, as well as “several mines and cluster munitions”. They have been removed by the clean up team, although a burnt-out box of bullets, freshly discovered in another part of the semi-collapsed ceiling, had not, and sat by the front door awaiting a further collection.

Volodymyr's tour continues out back. A grass line, effectively a track, has been marked out through the wood beyond the garden, between blackened patches where fires burned. There is smouldering, even flames in places, more bullets and boxes of bullets; then, on the right, unmistakably, a detonated anti-tank mine.

▲ Liudmyla, whose house was severely damaged in the blast

Finally the woods open out, revealing a warehouse site, large parts of which are bombed out, an open area of destruction. A sulphurous smell endures, and periodically explosions can be heard. Clear-up work by the emergency services is in the process of being halted at lunchtime because there is another drone threat above.

Volodymyr was on guard duty at a lumber yard close to the ammunition store on the night of the bombing. He survived the initial strike unscathed, heading back home promptly, but feels a guard's need to return. "I've been coming back and forth for two days to see these ashes," he says.

Thirty of the dead were from a care home close to the ammunition store, the location of which is now subject of a criminal inquiry by Ukraine's intelligence service. But it is not the first attack of its kind in recent weeks. There have been other Russian bombings of poorly placed ammunition dumps, as Moscow aggressively targets warehouse sites at a time when Ukraine is doing something similar.

The fact this has happened recently in Ukraine is not lost on Liudmyla, whose adult daughter was in the house a couple of doors down when the Shahed drone hit. The home is also heavily damaged, windows facing the warehouse blown in, and Liudmyla recalls that a similar incident happened in early July, on the edge of Kyiv.

"Look at what's going on here. Everything's smashed to bits right here. Vyshneve [scene of that previous incident, nine miles south-east] wasn't enough for them, and there was more somewhere else too.

"No, they've dumped all this right by people's vegetable gardens, right on their doorsteps," she says, warning that munitions are still strewn around.

Nine were killed after a munitions store was hit at Vyshneve, and 280 homes damaged. Two people have been detained on suspicion of allowing weapons to be stored in an inappropriate place following the episode, but as president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, something similar has happened again.

It is a dismal repetition at a time when Kyiv is already coming under increased attack from Moscow, the harm to civilians from attacks on food storage and logistics warehouses increasing. When Liudmyla is pressed to say who is at fault for the deaths at Myla, she offers a double answer.

"Putin! Who else? And those who set up the depot here."

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From calm to combative Carney's defiance of US is no surprise to colleagues

Leyland Cecco Toronto Heather Stewart Kalyeena Makortoff

Mark Carney stood before a walnut-veneered lectern, his face drawn tight, as he announced that

talks with Canada's biggest trading partner had collapsed. "Last spring, I warned that America is trying to break us so that they can own us," he said. "And I promised: that will never, ever happen. We are keeping that promise."

For years, the former central bank governor had worked hard to calm markets. Now, he was asking Canadians to accept uncertainty and confrontation.

Near the end of the press conference the Saturday before last, a reporter made reference to the sombre, combative tone of the speech: "Why does it feel like today Mark Carney is going to war?"

The prime minister paused.

"We were attacked. You're at war when you get attacked," he said. "We got attacked."

The unlikely transformation of an economist and central banker with no prior electoral experience into a powerful global politician has bucked precedent and expectations.

But Carney has settled into the role he warned was necessary for the country, that of a wartime leader standing up to an erratic and vindictive adversary who seems hellbent on subjugating Canada.

After trade negotiations with the US broke down, the two sides traded recriminations and made good on threats to impose new tariffs on each other.

In his latest act of petty antagonism, Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the US federal government to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America”.

But Carney, in walking away from the proposed deal, did what few other leaders have done: dared Trump and the US to test his nation's resolve.

"We cannot accept what they have offered, and we will not give what they have asked," he said.

'He was pretty doggedly determined'

For those who have worked with the demanding - and, at times, temperamental - central banker, such a calculated refusal to accede to a bad deal comes as little surprise.

Carney was raised in Canada's western prairies, and his story - of an outsider gradually working his way into, and eventually reshaping, powerful institutions - offers clues to a man unwilling to accept the terms set by others.

"He was pretty doggedly determined," said one person who worked alongside Carney when he was serving as UN special envoy for climate action in 2021.

It has been no shock to see Carney standing up to Trump on the world stage. "It doesn't surprise me ... and I think it's because of that determination and that unwillingness to back down."

Carney was not always so sure-footed. When he was handpicked as governor of the Bank of England in 2013 by the then chancellor, George Osborne, Carney's hard-driving approach was not a natural fit with the venerable institution in London's Square Mile. When he arrived, it still had pink-uniformed, top hatted guards at the entrance.

The traits acquired during his days at Goldman Sachs have continued into his tenure as prime minister. He remains an early riser, a dedicated runner and demands that ministers know their files front to back, according to those who work with him. Media have also reported that staff are expected to dress in formal business attire and documents are to be written using British spelling - to the frustration of Canadian linguists.

Carney's career in a string of powerful institutions - from Harvard to Oxford, to the highest levels of global finance - reflects a sharp, analytical mind. His tenure at the Bank of England telegraphed that the wonkish economist was also willing to become political when necessary.

When he overhauled the Bank's communications strategy, introducing "forward guidance" to show its thinking about future interest rates, it was not immediately embraced as a success. The senior Labour MP Pat McFadden - now a cabinet minister

'With time to reflect on my experience ... Mark Carney is one of the most impressive people I've ever worked with'

Charles Randell Former FCA chair - accused the Bank under Carney of baffling investors and the public with mixed messages about the future of interest rates.

In October 2015, with the referendum looming on whether Britain should leave the European Union, Carney used a speech at Oxford University to underline the benefits to the UK of the “economic and financial openness” that came with membership. With the eurozone debt crisis a recent memory, he also highlighted the increased risk of financial instability that membership of the EU implied; but Brexiters seized on his positive comments as an unwarranted intervention in a highly politicised topic.

The row deepened when Carney suggested Brexit might plunge Britain into recession. Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative director of the leave campaign wrote to the governor, urging him to butt out. Carney's reply displayed the same relish for a fight that has been evident in his handling of Trump.

"Dear Mr Jenkin," his letter began, "I am responding to your letter to dispel immediately the numerous and substantial misconceptions it contained." He went on to accuse the veteran MP of "a fundamental misunderstanding of central bank independence as enshrined in statute".

In the event, there was no Brexit recession, something many economists attributed partly to the Bank's robust response, including rapid interest rate cuts and quantitative easing (the emergency buying of mostly government bonds, a scheme also used during the global financial crisis).

Charles Randell spent five years on the board of the Prudential Regulation Authority, which Carney chaired after becoming Bank of England governor.

"I'm sure if you ring around enough people who worked with him at the Bank, you'll find people who will say that he had his shortcomings," Randall said. "But with time to reflect on my experience ... he's one of the most impressive people I've ever worked with."

Randell, who was then the chair of the Financial Conduct Authority, said that even behind the scenes, Carney was a “very serious person, very analytical, very driven” and “very careful about how he communicates”.

"On the morning after the Brexit vote in 2016 ... he went in front of the cameras to reassure financial markets that the Bank was ready to deal with any of the

consequences of that decision," he said. "It was a masterpiece in strategic messaging."

'Compliance will not buy safety' Joseph Steinberg, a professor of economics at the University of Toronto, said that during the Brexit debate Carney "did not shy away from trying to tell kind of the hard economic truths", but he had not spoken much about the economics of the US trade war. "In public, he is leaning pretty heavily on the sovereignty angle. It is clear that he privately is probably thinking about the cold, hard economics."

Carney's decision to retaliate against the US has caused some economists, including Steinberg, to point out that Canada will take a far more painful blow than the US.

For the first time in his career

Carney is fully beholden to a wary public, a reality that underscores the clashing of two personalities: the technocrat who understands the economics, and the politician who must contend with the political costs of compromise.

"At the moment, Canadians are likely to be extraordinarily intolerant of making any kind of concessions to the US whatsoever, even if they are in our economic best interest," he said.

In January, Carney warned people at Davos that “compliance will not buy safety” in a world increasingly dominated by hegemonic powers. While it never mentioned Trump, his speech was seen as a thinly veiled criticism of the US president’s aim to abandon longstanding alliances and reshape the world to his advantage. One of

Carney's prescriptions - forging deep relations with like-minded "middle powers" and restructuring to lessen reliance on former allies - has already taken shape in Canada, at a speed and degree to which the pollster David Coletto described as a "wartime-footing government without a war". "It's a government organised around an external threat that's willing to suspend its own party's orthodoxies, centralise power to move fast, and measure itself in outcomes rather than values," he wrote.

Carney abandoned many of the policies of his predecessor Justin Trudeau, including his carbon and electric vehicle mandates. He has also fast-tracked large projects, including an oil pipeline, and invested tens of billions more into defence. "The public has

In walking away from the proposed trade deal, Mark Carney dared Donald Trump to test his nation's resolve

ILLUSTRATION: GUARDIAN DESIGN/ANAÏS MIMS/GETTY

hardly blinked," Coletto said in an interview. "Mark Carney's approval rating has just sustained itself through this entire period."

Polling shows he remains the leader Canadians trust most to steer the country through economic uncertainty. But he has also embraced a role that would once have seemed almost incongruous: asking a country vastly smaller and less powerful than its neighbour to stand its ground.

"Canadians don't submit to the weather - we thrive in it. We don't wait to see which way the wind is blowing. Or surrender ourselves to the waves to be storm-tossed by events," Carney said in his recent address. "We set our own course. We make our own weather. In Canada, we are masters in our own home, from coast to coast to coast."

Madrid council bought a €6m penthouse as 'office'

Sam Jones Madrid

The outspoken rightwing leader of the Madrid region is under growing pressure to explain why her government spent €6.3m (£5.4m) on a residential penthouse, purportedly to serve as a temporary workspace.

Isabel Díaz Ayuso, a prominent member of Spain's opposition conservative People's party (PP), has been the president of the Madrid region since 2019.

In that time, she has forged a reputation as a politician who prides herself on speaking her mind - and on being a thorn in the side of the country's socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, whose family and government have been mired in graft allegations for the past two years.

Although Ayuso has frequently accused Sánchez and his Spanish Socialist Workers' party (PSOE) of being corrupt, she and her administration now face growing calls to provide a transparent explanation for the purchase of the penthouse.

El País reported at the end of July that the Madrid regional government had bought the penthouse in the well-heeled Chamberí neighbourhood of the Spanish capital in April.

A spokesperson told the paper the property had been acquired for Ayuso to use while her offices in the Real Casa de Correos - the seat of the regional government - were being renovated. The spokesperson did not respond to questions about the price of the flat, nor whether Ayuso intended to live in it.

▲ Isabel Diaz-Ayuso, the rightwing leader of Madrid's local government

It later emerged that the flat cost €6.3m and planning laws meant it could only be used for residential purposes, not as an office.

El País also reported this week that Ayuso's government had stipulated that the property it wanted should be "between 250 and 400 square metres and have a large terrace" - the latter being an odd requirement for an office.

Ayuso initially dismissed the revelations as a “smear campaign”, insisting the penthouse was not bought for her to live in but as a venue for “institutional meetings”. She also said she hadn’t had “the faintest idea” about the purchase.

The regional government has subsequently announced that the flat will be sold and the proceeds donated to the victims of this summer's wildfires near Madrid.

Ayuso recently told reporters she considered the matter closed, saying in her trademark colourful language: "Está en venta, chao pescao", which roughly translates as: "It's up for sale, so see you later, alligator".

The soundbite has elicited comparisons with the time she was caught in parliament describing Sánchez as a "hijo de puta" ("son of a bitch"), only to claim she had been misheard and had actually said: "Me gusta la fruta" ("I like fruit").

However, the row over the flat refuses to die down. A judge in Madrid is investigating five separate complaints relating to its purchase and Ayuso's own boss has said there were still questions to answer.

In an interview last week, the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, said that while he was satisfied with her explanations, the relevant department in the regional government "ought to explain why a property that can't be used as an office was bought". Feijóo said Ayuso's team had told him in April that they were looking for temporary offices.

That acknowledgment appears to be at odds with Ayuso's insistence she was ignorant of the purchase.

Her opponents have seized on the row, with the central government dismissing her explanations as “patently insufficient and patently worrying”, and calling for her to resign.

“So they were looking for ‘temporary offices’ and they got in touch with an estate agent who specialises in luxury properties (not offices) and they requested something that was between 250 square metres and 400 square metres and which had that vital feature any administrative office requires - a big terrace,” said one PSOE councillor in Madrid.

Venezuela's interim leader defends her Trump oil deal

Tom Phillips

Latin America correspondent

Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has defended her government's highly controversial energy deal with Donald Trump, insisting the South American country will retain sovereignty over its massive oil reserves.

Rodríguez, who assumed power in January after Trump ordered the abduction of the president, Nicolás Maduro, took to the airwaves on Saturday to counter criticism of what the US president has called “the biggest oil deal in world history”.

During a six-minute television broadcast, Venezuela's acting leader claimed the deal would help her resource-rich country develop its economy, earn revenues of more than \$209bn and become "an energy powerhouse".

Rodríguez said: "As everyone knows, our country has the biggest oil reserves in the world. But having resources underground isn't enough. We need investment, technology, infrastructure [and] production capacity to convert this wealth into wellbeing for our people."

Trump announced the “ground-breaking” deal on Friday, calling it a “historic transaction [that] more than doubles American oil reserves ... while helping to continue to set Venezuela on a course toward Tremendous Success and Great Prosperity”.

Yesterday, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: "One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves which, because of Sleepy Joe Biden, has been virtually emptied."

Details of the agreement - struck during months of secret talks - remain sparse, but it will reportedly involve Washington taking control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves.

The South American country has the world's largest proven crude oil reserves with an estimated 303bn barrels, compared with Saudi Arabia's 268bn and Iran's 208bn.

▲ Delcy Rodríguez insists Venezuela retains ownership over its resources

Rodríguez said the deal involved 17 "strategic oilfields" that could produce more than 1.5m barrels a day.

But the deal has provoked outrage, among members of Venezuela's conservative opposition and within the socialist Chavismo political movement of which Rodríguez is part.

Writing on X, Rafael Ramírez, the former head of Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA, accused Rodríguez's administration of "driving a dagger straight into the heart of the homeland" with the "neo-colonial" transaction.

"They are handing over 65bn barrels of our reserves to the United States. That has never happened in Venezuela, and I think nowhere else in the world," Ramírez added in an interview with the newspaper El Nacional.

In her broadcast, Rodríguez countered claims she was surrendering Venezuela's natural resources to a foreign power. She thanked Trump and the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, for striking the deal but added: "There is something that must be made absolutely clear: Venezuela retains the ownership and sovereignty over its resources".

Opposition politicians fear the deal will scupper attempts to restore Venezuela's democracy and hold fresh presidential elections.

Rodríguez has deflected questions about a future election, saying vaguely that it will happen "some-day". Trump has also said Venezuela is "not really ready" for elections.

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Messina mystery Theft of art treasures from museum leaves investigators baffled

Lorenzo Tondo Messina

A

t about 8.47pm on 15 August, while tens of thousands of worshippers filled the streets of central Messina for a religious festival, at least two men cut through a fence surrounding the Museo Regionale Interdisciplinare, located on the outskirts of the Sicilian port city.

Capitalising on the fact that the streets around the museum were unusually quiet, the men forced open a side door with a crowbar, gaining direct access to a display case containing the five surviving panels of the Renaissance master Antonello da Messina's polyptych Polittico di San Gregorio, his most important work, and a small double-sided painting. Undisturbed, they removed the works from the building and fled.

The heist has left investigators baffled. They have said little on the record, but sources speaking anonymously to the Guardian and local media, as well as art historians who know the building, say some of the elements of the heist do not add up, apart from the date chosen by the thieves.

"If there is one day out of the 365 in the year that a thief would choose to carry out a robbery in Messina, it would be on 15 August, the day of the Vara procession," said an investigator close to the inquiry.

Founded in 1535, the religious event takes place on the day of Italy's national Ferragosto public holiday. At its centre is a 14-metre pyramidal float depicting the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. More than 150,000 people pack into the city centre, hundreds of police are deployed and major roads and squares are closed.

"The city's outskirts are almost deserted that day," said Lelio Bonaccorso, an art expert who has collaborated with the museum.

"Those who stay home are mostly elderly people, for whom the August heat and huge crowds can pose a health risk."

According to investigative sources speaking to local media, two men entered the museum wearing motorcycle helmets, possibly aided by two accomplices who remained outside as lookouts.

After cutting through the fence, the thieves are believed to have headed for a side door, one of the few entrances that, according to sources, was not fitted with an alarm system.

"This is where one of the first mysteries emerges," said Valentina Certo, an art historian affiliated with the University of Messina. "CCTV shows the raid lasted just two to three minutes," she added. "How did the thieves remove all five panels so quickly, and know the door was not alarmed?"

Investigators suspect the thieves may have had inside help. The Ansa news agency reported a museum employee was under investigation over alleged inconsistencies about the alarm system, though police sources dismissed the report.

“Law enforcement always looks for an insider connection when it comes to museum thefts,” said Christopher Marinello, a lawyer and the chief executive of Art Recovery International. “It’s just a sign of good investigative work.

"How did the criminals get past the guards, the alarms, the cameras? There is always an assumption that the thieves must have had inside help even if it is eventually proved otherwise."

While the door used by the thieves may not have been alarmed, Antonello's polyptych was protected by a security system

▲ Clockwise from top left: the Museo Regionale di Messina, which housed five panels of Antonello da Messina's polyptych Polittico di San Gregorio, as well

designed to trigger an alert at the slightest movement.

Investigative sources told the local newspaper La Sicilia the alarm had sounded. According to police sources speaking to the TG La7 news programme, one guard allegedly told investigators he

'Even the most hardened local mafioso would never desecrate Messina in this way'

Christopher Marinello Art recovery expert

had heard it and switched it off, believing it was a false alarm.

The theft was discovered by a woman who noticed something unusual outside the museum just after the theft. In a recording shared with the Guardian, she told police: "There are museum paintings in the street, as if someone stole them and left them here. They're large and worth a lot of money."

Inexplicably, two panels from the polyptych were left leaning against the wall. "They had not been thrown to the ground but carefully propped up," said Bonaccorso. "Why go to the trouble of dismantling a five-panel work and then abandon two of them outside the building?"

theft and Hollywood stereotypes, I can understand why people are considering mafia involvement," said Marinello. "However, in my view, even the most hardened local mafioso would never desecrate Messina in this way."

as Caravaggio's The Raising of Lazarus and The Adoration of the Shepherds

PHOTOGRAPHS: DANILO ARNONE/ REUTERS; MUSEO REGIONALE ACCASCINA MESSINA; LORENZO TONDO/ THE GUARDIAN

The museum houses some of Sicily's finest archaeological and Renaissance and baroque treasures, including two Caravaggios. The Italian painter spent several months in Messina in 1609, painting The Raising of Lazarus and The Adoration of the Shepherds.

Shortly after the theft, Messina's chief prosecutor told the state broadcaster Rai that mafia involvement could not be ruled out. "Given the location of the

The stolen work is no ordinary painting. Originally composed of six panels and created for the Monastero di San Gregorio, it is the only work by the Sicilian painter never to have left his home city, and it survived the 1908 earthquake that devastated Messina, killing about half its population.

Some local people believe it embodies a kind of rebirth in a city repeatedly scarred over the centuries by earthquakes and then by bombs in the second world war.

Opposite the artwork's display case is an emergency exit that investigators say the thieves may have used to leave the building. It leads towards the wall where two panels were abandoned and, beyond that, the strait dividing Sicily from the Italian mainland.

Investigators have not ruled out an escape by speedboat, a theft to order or a ransom demand. But selling such a famous, incomplete work would be extremely difficult.

"How would an evil collector display it?" asked Marinello. "It would have to remain hidden. These thieves will soon discover the paintings are 'radioactive' - and will never bring them the millions they expected."

For now black panels cover the space where the polyptych was displayed, as if mourning the loss.

"Here we have a saying," said Bonaccorso. "We are like the phoenix. We always rise from the ashes of the catastrophes that have struck our city.

"This theft is not a tragedy like an earthquake but another wound for Messina. Yet we will rise again this time too."

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Bailey warns G20 of growing AI threat to financial stability

Simon Goodley

The Bank of England governor has joined the throng of figures warning about the global risks posed by the most advanced artificial intelligence technology, in a letter sent to international finance ministers and central bank governors.

The two-page letter, sent as part of Andrew Bailey's role chairing the international Financial Stability Board, said so-called "frontier" AI models were "showing increasingly sophisticated autonomy and problem-solving abilities, as well as threat capabilities", which risked destabilising the “highly interconnected” global financial system via cyber-disruption that could “spread across jurisdictions”.

Bailey tells G20 finance ministers and central bank governors, before their meeting in North Carolina this week, that recent developments “have also highlighted to me that many jurisdictions do not have the protocols in place to manage the development, release, and deployment of advanced frontier AI models, heightening risks for the financial sector and beyond”.

His letter adds to the alarm bells about AI sounded by prominent technologists over the past few weeks and mirrors his previous calls for international cooperation to tackle growing AI threats. He told City bosses in July: "No country can seal itself off from the cross-border nature of systems that are prevalent today."

Last month, a letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs - mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind - highlighted the concerns of those working on the technology every day. It stated: "There is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems."

The signatories ask the US government to support “an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development".

This month it emerged that OpenAI staff had observed signs of rogue behaviour among its cutting-edge AI agents weeks before the agents escaped their training environment to launch an unprecedented hacking crusade that spread global alarm.

Extending this theme into the world of financial policy, Bailey wrote: "For the financial system, the most immediate concern is the potential impact of frontier AI on cyber-risk. Frontier AI may have the ability materially to alter the speed, scale and economics of cyber-risk, which could undermine market confidence system-wide, especially due to highly concentrated third-party service providers."

He called on those tasked with safeguarding the world's financial systems to prioritise “appropriate steps to support safe and responsible model release and deployment”.

The letter also noted Bailey's concerns over the increased use of leverage in bond and equity markets.

A place in the country Housebuyers are paying a premium of almost 25% to own a property in UK national parks - such as in the village of Lyndhurst, pictured, in the New Forest, which is the most expensive national park to live in, according to Nationwide.

PHOTOGRAPH: PETER FLUDE/ THE GUARDIAN

UK risks falling behind in AI race due to telecoms delays

Mark Sweeney

The UK risks falling behind in the global AI race because of delays to crucial telecoms upgrades, according to senior industry executives.

The race to build AI infrastructure has focused on datacentres and ensuring they have access to the huge water and energy supplies required to cool them and provide the power needed to train and run AI models.

However, as adoption spreads, the UK's broadband and mobile networks will be expected to carry an immense volume of AI-related traffic produced by consumers and businesses.

The UK has addressed its previously poor broadband speeds, with service providers rolling out full-fibre connections across the country. But efforts to upgrade the nation's 5G mobile networks are not keeping pace.

Mobile coverage in the UK is worse than in any of the 27 EU member states, according to a recent report by Which? based on data from Open-signal. According to the analysis, the

UK ranks 57th globally for network performance, 70th for download speeds and 55th for the quality needed for activities such as streaming and gaming.

Andrea Donà, networks director at VodafoneThree, said: "If with the technology and services we use today [networks] are sub-optimal, imagine when you add mass AI usage and other associated activities. I am embarrassed today at the level of quality of our network[s]. The UK is worthy of what EE, O2 and Vodafone-Three can offer, but we need reform."

'Phoenix' recruitment firm goes bust months after asset buyback

Simon Goodley

A recruitment executive who was allowed to buy back the assets of his bust company in instalments, despite it accumulating almost £3m of debt, has placed his new business into liquidation after falling behind with payments to the administrator.

It is the latest event to raise questions about “phoenixism”, in which companies are liquidated to allow directors to return with a new entity, free of debts.

Supporters of the tactic, which is legal, argue it can save jobs and help secure some returns for creditors - although HM Revenue and Customs estimates it costs the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds a year.

Premier Group Recruitment went into administration in September 2025 owing £2.9m, including £647,000 to HMRC, which had begun enforcement proceedings against it.

The recruiter's assets were acquired three days later by a new company, PGGBR Ltd, founded by Andrew Woosnam, Premier's 99% shareholder, who made an initial £10,000 payment and promised to transfer a further £600,000 via monthly £25,000 instalments over the following two years.

The company quickly fell behind with its promised repayments, causing the administrators to file an update on its struggles with Companies House in March.

Yesterday, filings at Companies House said PGGBR had appointed a voluntary liquidator.

Woosnam, who had received a £1.2m director's loan from Premier and had taken dividends totalling almost £2m since 2022, is also understood to have made a series of redundancies at the new business in July that sources said equated to at least half his staff.

Sources with knowledge of the job losses also suggested that those affected had not been paid and that Woosnam was planning to launch another new company.

Companies House records show that in June the businessman changed the name of a business he founded a year ago from PGUSA to PGREC.

The problems at Premier chime with long-running questions concerning the efficacy of allowing connected parties to buy back their bust businesses by promising future payments - deferred considerations, in the industry jargon.

Woosnam has been approached for comment.

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Economics viewpoint Teaching negotiation helps girls to aim high

Heather Stewart

W omen making their way in patriarchal societies down the ages have

always had to wield their meagre economic power deftly. New evidence from a fascinating research project in Zambia suggests it's a skill that can be learned.

Groups of 12- and 13-year-old girls were given 12 hours of negotiation classes over three weeks - delivered by local young women who had completed their schooling and helped develop the curriculum. Measured against a control group, who were given "empowerment"

classes by the same coaches but without the negotiation work, the young women tended to stay in school longer, were more likely to graduate from college, and less likely to marry a much older man.

Prof Corinne Low, who teaches economics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, has been involved in the project from its inception. She says that the Zambian government was interested in understanding what was preventing girls from attending secondary school.

Low and her colleagues carried out focus groups in which participants told them they were keen to attend but unable to convince their parents or other relatives to pay the fees.

That convinced Low and her colleague Prof Nava Ashraf that the girls could benefit from similar skills to those taught, in a very

different context, to sharp-elbowed business students in the US.

The most important insight in the six two-hour classes, she says, is that instead of seeing the person you're negotiating with as an enemy, a more successful approach is to understand their perspective, and tackle problems together.

Perhaps counterintuitively, given the ultimate aim is female empowerment, the content of the curriculum also leant heavily on the need for respecting the reality of existing hierarchies - for now.

"In Zambia, there was a lot of generational hierarchy and it was really important to show respect for parents. We talked to the girls and said: 'If you're going to approach your parents to ask them for something, what are some

The study's approach has already been included in the Zambian curriculum PHOTOGRAPH: MBI/ALAMY

of the ways you show respect?' And they said: 'Oh well, I might kneel down, and I might address them formally, and I might wear a traditional wrapper - a chitenge.'

"The irony is, right - what kind of empowerment programme is teaching girls to kneel down?" she laughs. But, she adds: "The reality is that these girls do not have the power in their household and we can't pretend that they do."

Low and her colleagues are now working towards a 15-year follow-up with that original cohort, but their approach has since been incorporated into the Zambian curriculum and replicated in several other countries.

Most recently, the Free to Run charity has been using an adapted version of the material in online classes that have reached about 1,200 girls in Afghanistan, whose lives and opportunities have been brutally curtailed by the Taliban.

While almost all prospect of economic advancement for them is blocked, Sana Mahmud, the charity's global programmes manager, says the curriculum is helping young women to manage their mental health and achieve small freedoms in the grim context of the regime.

"Sometimes the young women would leave their homes to go out in the market or do errands, and some of them have even been stopped by members of the Taliban to ask: 'Why are you here? What are you doing?' and we realised that the skill of negotiation is probably the best for them to safely talk about what they're doing, why they're there."

Of course, the wider economic and political system matters far more than each woman's success in navigating her way through it, and the situation in Afghanistan is bleak. We should all be working towards a world in which the patriarchy is - as the placards and pin badges have it - smashed. But providing skills that might help them further their own interests in the world as it is today seems a wise investment.

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Coming soon: The Bayeux Tapestry, 2026 edition

Didn't manage to get tickets to see the Bayeux tapestry when it arrives in the UK next month? Don't worry, cartoonist Edith Pritchett has you covered. Look out for her exclusive poster, capturing the many battles of our times in her very modern version, from tech overlords to toxic trolls.

Only inside the Guardian's Saturday magazine on Saturday 5th September ▼ Jack Quantick-Thorne, an airfield operations officer, guides a plane to its designated stand at Heathrow PHOTOGRAPH: GRAEME ROBERTSON

'It's a very specific job'

The unsung heroes keeping Britain's transport moving

Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Not many people get to park their car here - bang in the middle of Heathrow airport, on the taxiway just a stretch of grass away from where there is a line of passenger planes coming in to land.

It's close enough to see the shimmering air and smoke as nose tyres hit the tarmac. "An A380 will put down as much rubber as a car's entire tyre," Jack Quantick-Thorne says. He knows - part of his job is to ensure the runway team scrapes it off and patches things up. And it is all recycled, he adds.

The airfield operations officer is not in the limelight much, but is one of a host of unsung workers keeping transport moving. And some jobs far from the public eye turn out to be not only essential but surprisingly challenging.

Jack Quantick-Thorne, airfield operations officer, Heathrow Passengers might only catch a glimpse of Quantick-Thorne from a window seat on landing, if he grabs the paddles to marshal a plane to its stand. "People just think you're that person with the table tennis

bats," he grimaces, as the Guardian requests a demonstration. "That's like 5% of my job."

In fact, most planes are now brought to the stand via electronic displays. But human marshalling remains a backup. Brandishing the paddles, Quantick-Thorne beckons in a taxiing British Airways arrival, the pilot peering down from the cockpit and steering 50 tonnes of plane towards him. The nosewheel travels bang on the guideline, stopping exactly in position for the airbridge to swing in and allow passengers to disembark.

Nerve-racking? "No. But when you've got a really big plane, an A380, you need a second marshal right by the wheel to check it's stopped in the right place," he says.

Back in the car, the job continues: "I'm patrolling, I'm looking around, scanning everything - is the refueller doing his job properly, has the aircraft got chocks under its wheels?"

That includes monitoring the road system under Heathrow's airfields, recognising every vehicle and checking any infringement: drivers here can also get points on their licence if he spots them.

Officers also need to look out for wildlife - particularly birds, a serious danger for jet planes (and vice versa). How does he deal with them? “We’ve got methods of dispersal,” says the airfield operations officer. These, marvellously, turn out to be speakers on the roof of the van, which play a range of bird sounds: “If I saw a flock of starlings, if I played a starling noise, the starling would think, ‘Oh, maybe there’s a predator nearby,’ and they fly off.”

And, he demonstrates, "I've got common gull. Black-headed gull. I've got a falcon."

If he now knows birds, it's the planes that drew him here. He was previously at Nats, the air traffic control centre in Swanwick, managing the planes, but never up close. There is more to the job than the paddles - but, he confesses, he takes every opportunity to use them, and records each plane that he has marshalled, including every aircraft in BA's short-haul fleet.

Being a pilot was the dream, he admits, but the prohibitive training costs - £100,000 or more - put it out of reach. For an enthusiast, he says the job is the next best thing.

Chris Thackaberry, network traffic controller, Transport for London The day starts in Victoria Station House overlooking the bus terminus, a grand old building that looks less so inside, where Chris's desk is surrounded by hundreds of cardboard diversion signs.

About 500 of the capital's 19,000 bus stops are on his patch in Westminster - home to some of Britain's most congested streets, where dozens of bus routes cross. Roadworks are the bane of the bus and Thackaberry's job is to keep them moving - armed with a van, pliers and zip ties.

Sometimes he can plan for roadworks months ahead. But other days are less predictable, when life suddenly blocks a route:

"It could be a broken-down vehicle or a burst water main, but I've had windows falling out of buildings, a collapsed horse on a bridge. I had an upside down Lamborghini in Piccadilly ... I don't know if it was sticking to the 20mph limit."

His incident response van contains an orderly standing desk area and even a printer to rustle up more signs if needed, as well as spill clean-up dry sacks, ready to suck up any diesel or oil that has leaked over the road.

In a sweltering Trafalgar Square, the complexity of the puzzle becomes clearer. "So many routes go through here, we're fighting with ourselves for space."

Sarah, railway signaller, York Gone are most of the signal boxes of old: these days, Britain's railway is mostly controlled from one of 12 remote centres. From a windowless room in York, trains right down the East Coast mainline are guided on their way.

"In the old days, it was lever pulling," says Sarah. "Now it's a click of the mouse instead. Like a computer game scenario, but it's real track, real trains, real people. We have to manually click, signal to signal, for every train that comes through our patch."

Signallers have five screens at eye level showing the railway, and five above with timetables and traffic management information.

"When you first start the job, it feels so far removed. There's no windows, it's like a black hole in the middle of the building, but you are signalling trains from York all the way into King's Cross. I remember thinking: 'How many hundreds of people are on that train we're signalling?"

Anything from a circuit failure to a trespasser to a sick passenger on a train can hold up the lines.

Frankie, baggage handler, Gatwick The thing people don't understand, explains Frankie, whose name has been changed, is that the placement of bags in the hold is not random. "It's all done on weight distribution. You have to put baggage where you're told - it is a very specific job."

At many airports, larger aircraft such as long-haul planes are loaded with bags already in large crates, lifted into position by machine. But short-haul flights at Gatwick are loaded manually. "An average bag is about 20kg and the average load is 90 bags off, 90 on, for three or four people. If you do eight turns a day, that's nearly 30 tonnes your team is lifting. You get fitter - it's like going to the gym, you end up lifting heavier and heavier bags."

Passengers who fear for their luggage often make the job harder: "The worst thing is shrink-wrapped bags. It's slippery, harder to hold on to, and less grip for the belt to pull up. And those straps around bags, they can get jammed in the belts.

"People don't realise how damaging it can be - and pointless. If you're on a flight where customs do spot checks, they go for the bags that are wrapped. And there is so much CCTV and security. If I get caught opening a bag, I'd lose my job - why would I risk that?"

◀Christopher Thackaberry, a network traffic controller with Transport for London, at work PHOTOGRAPH: LINDA NYLIND/ THE GUARDIAN

Weather Monday 31 August 2026

UK and Ireland Noon today

Forecast

Carbon count

Daily atmospheric CO₂ readings from Mauna Loa, Hawaii (ppm):

27 Aug 2026	426.93
Weekly average
23 Aug 2026	426.94
30 Aug 2025	425.14
30 Aug 2016	401.99
Pre-industrial base	280
Safe level	350
Source: NOAA-ESRL

Around the UK

Atlantic front

Warm front

Occluded front

...... Trough

High tides

Aberdeen	0245	4.4m	1518	4.1m
Avonmouth	0902	12.6m	2117	12.8m
Barrow	0047	9.3m	1310	9.0m
Belfast	0013	3.5m	1239	3.3m
Cobh	0701	3.9m	1920	4.0m
Cromer	0755	5.3m	2040	4.8m
Dover	0023	6.6m	1241	6.8m
Dublin	0046	4.2m	1316	3.9m
Galway	0649	4.9m	1900	5.1m
Greenock	0154	3.5m	1412	3.3m
Harwich	0123	3.9m	1325	3.9m
Holyhead	--	--	1203	5.4m
Hull	0754	7.6m	2022	7.3m
Leith	0406	5.6m	1637	5.4m
Liverpool	0030	9.6m	1250	9.2m

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London Bridge	0331	6.9m	1545	7.0m
Lossiemouth	0116	4.2m	1346	3.9m
Milford Haven	0753	7.0m	2011	7.1m
Newquay	0644	6.9m	1902	7.0m
North Shields	0450	5.3m	1722	4.9m
Oban	0713	3.8m	1939	4.0m
Penzance	0617	5.4m	1836	5.6m
Plymouth	0737	5.2m	1948	5.4m
Portsmouth	0047	4.6m	1319	4.7m
Southport	0011	9.3m	1231	8.9m
Stornoway	0824	4.6m	2037	4.9m
Portland	0842	2.0m	2052	2.1m
Whitby	0528	5.7m	1759	5.4m
Wick	0044	3.6m	1314	3.3m
Workington	0053	8.4m	1313	8.1m

Sun & Moon

Sun rises	0611
Sun sets	1949
Moon rises	2032
Moon sets	1010
Last Quarter	4 Sept

Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather ©2026

Lighting up

Belfast	2019 to 0632
Birm'ham	1957 to 0618
Brighton	1948 to 0614
Bristol	1959 to 0624
Carlisle	2006 to 0618
Cork	2023 to 0646
Dublin	2017 to 0634
Glasgow	2015 to 0622
Harlech	2008 to 0627
Inverness	2017 to 0617
London	1949 to 0612
M'chester	2001 to 0618
Newcastle	2002 to 0613
Norwich	1946 to 0605
Penzance	2009 to 0637

Starwatch

Around the world

We are on the hunt for another small, northern summer constellation this week: Sagitta, the arrow. Although it consists of just a handful of faint stars, Sagitta's distinctive shape makes it easy to identify against a dark sky.

The chart shows the view looking up to the zenith while facing south from London at 10.30pm tonight. Sagitta can be found partway along the imaginary line connecting Vega and Altair, which make up the summer triangle with Deneb.

Sagitta has been recognised since ancient times. The 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy placed it on his list of 48 constellations published in The Almagest.

A number of stories from Greek mythology can be attributed to the arrow. It could be the one fired by Hercules to kill the eagle tormenting Prometheus, or it could be one of Cupid's famous arrows. Stuart Clark

County cricket All over in 1m 45s as Durham see off Gloucestershire

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Football Isidor applies finishing touch to sink Fulham

Arthur Fery reached his first ATP 250 final in Winston-Salem MATTHEW STOCKMAN/GETTY IMAGES

beat the opponent in front of them. This is a new stage in Fery's career, with his shock, career-defining run to the semi-finals of Wimbledon last month catapulting him from outside the top 100 to the top 30, a ranking that will allow him direct entry to the main draw of every regular ATP event for the foreseeable future.

A dramatically higher ranking and greater expectations naturally bring more pressure but Fery has done an excellent job so far of continuing to progress and growing in confidence by winning matches. His first tournament after Wimbledon at the Cincinnati Open yielded his first ever Masters 1000 victory, a tough three-set win over Duckworth, before he fought hard in a tight two sets loss to the world No 8, Alex de Minaur.

Between Cincinnati and his run to the final in Winston-Salem, Fery has defeated every opponent he has matched up favourably against and he is yet to lose against a lower-ranked player. After spending the first few years of his career on the lower level ATP Challenger circuit and beyond, he is showing he is exactly where he should be, competing in the biggest tournaments in the world.

The British No 1 ranking has alternated between Fery and Cameron Norrie almost every week since Wimbledon, but as a consequence of this latest run the former returns to his career-high ranking of No 33 as the top player in the country.

Fery arrives short on practice but boosted by reaching a maiden final

Tennis US Open

Tumaini Carayol Flushing Meadows

It was not until play had begun across the grounds on the opening day at the US Open that Arthur Fery finally made his first appearance at Flushing Meadows as a senior player. While most of the top 50 men's and women's players have spent much of this past week sharpening their tools on the hard courts of New York, Fery had a few other items unchecked on his to-do list.

Down south in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at an ATP 250 event that concluded on the eve of the grand slam tournament in New York, the 24-year-old spent his time moving through the draw and into his first tour-level final. Fery, the fourth seed, eventually lost 6-3, 6-2 against the Peruvian third seed, Ignacio Buse.

There have been greater final runs in the history of this sport. His path in Winston-Salem included wins against two players ranked outside the top 350: Cruz Hewitt, a 17-year-old wildcard and the son of the former No 1 Lleyton Hewitt; and the 19-year-old qualifier Mees Röttgering. His three-set comeback against the world No 89, Aleksandar Kovacevic, was followed by a retirement win against James Duckworth, the No 79, after taking the first set.

Still, all tennis players can do is

Online now Reports on the first day's action, featuring Novak Djokovic and Cameron Norrie

Fery's first-round match in New York will provide another opportunity to test his level as he faces Lorenzo Musetti, the 13th seed. Musetti's ranking belies his potential. Even though hard courts are his least favourite surface, the Italian should be in the large group of players capable of competing for the title in one of the most open grand slam men's draws in recent history.

Musetti had started the season ranked No 5 before a heartbreaking defeat at the Australian Open that derailed much of his year. He led Novak Djokovic two sets to love in the quarter-finals before being forced to retire in set three. Having been a set away from the semi-finals, he was injured for more than two months and he struggled to regain his confidence upon his return. Only now, during the North American hard court swing, has he started to look like himself again. He arrived in New York having reached the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Open.

Back in Cincinnati, Fery struggled to hit through the world-class defensive skills of De Minaur. One of the benefits of competing regularly at this level is being able to learn from each meeting with the top players and put those lessons into action. Fery now faces another of the quickest players in the world in Musetti, and another opportunity to see how he can inflict damage on the very best.

Sport

Sport In brief

Cycling

Pogacar shares hospital photo after Vuelta crash

Tadej Pogacar posted a photo from hospital wearing a neck brace and with bandages on his hand and face, a day after crashing out of the Vuelta a España. The Instagram post came accompanied by the Bee Gees song Stayin' Alive. He sustained a concussion and broke two bones in the crash on Saturday after he appeared to lose control when a stone came rolling across the road. Yesterday the Spanish rider Enric Mas, who inherited the lead from Pogacar, won the mountainous ninth stage. Mas edged out Britain's Oscar Onley in a two-man sprint on the uphill finish to Alto de Aitana and now leads by 1min 18sec from Primoz Roglic, who finished third on the day, 12sec behind. Associated Press

Cycling

Pidcock dedicates title triumph to Tarling

Tom Pidcock dedicated his win to the late Fin Tarling after claiming the mountain bike cross-country world title in Val di Sole, north-east Italy. Tarling, whose brother Josh

Tadej Pogacar's post featured the Bee Gees song Stayin' Alive

and Pidcock were Ineos teammates in 2023, died this month aged 19 in a crash with a vehicle at a race in Portugal. Pidcock, taking the title for the second time, said: "I want to dedicate this win to Fin Tarling, to Josh. Seeing him start the Vuelta was pretty incredible, so I dedicate it to him and his family." Agence France-Presse

Golf

Dean delivers maiden DP World Tour success

England's Joe Dean shot a bogey-free 63 to win the British Masters for a fairytale first victory on the DP World Tour. The 32-year-old former supermarket delivery driver from Sheffield, whose only previous professional win came on the PGA EuroPro Tour in 2021, hit nine birdies to rise from his third-round position of 25th and triumph by three strokes at the Belfry. Press Association

A flypast in Cape Town before the second Test between South Africa and New Zealand on Saturday set pulses racing by coming within about 50ft of the roof, with smoke from fireworks shooting past one of the two planes. The Springboks won 33-26 to level the series at 1-1.

GRANT PITCHER/ GALLO IMAGES/ GETTY IMAGES

Bolton
SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP

AFC Wimbledon Hippolyte 88	(0) 1	Wigan 7,304	(0) 0
Blackpool Williams 19, Charles 20 Anderson 56, Yates 72	(2) 4	Peterborough 9,327	(0) 0
Cambridge Utd Bradshaw 80 7,041	(0) 1	Huddersfield Taylor 82 89pen	(0) 2
Leyton Orient Oyekunie 85	(0) 1	Barnsley Kirk 15, McGeehan 64pen Cleary 76	(1) 3
Mansfield Moriah-Welsh 17 28 Reed 45, Russell 47 56	(3) 5	Luton Wells 78pen 90+2 8,754	(0) 2
MK Dons 16,198	(0) 0	Leicester	(0) 0
Notts County Smyth 78 84pen	(0) 2	Burton Delap 22	(1) 1
Plymouth Pleguezuelo 44, White 50	(1) 2	Bradford	(0) 0
Sheffield Wednesday Slattery 7, Burstow 31 Lowe 45 73, Barry 46 49 Otegbayo 81	(3) 7	Bromley Adeboyejo 85pen Otegbayo 87og 30,006	(0) 2
Stevenage Magennis 57, Sanderson 82 3,139	(0) 2	Doncaster Senior 70, Bailey 80	(0) 2
Stockport Wood 16 23, Wootton 56 Diamond 61, Mandron 89	(2) 5	Wycombe Woodrow 43 8,774	(1) 1

The week ahead

Today

Football (3pm unless stated) Premier League Aston Villa v Arsenal (8pm) Sky Sports Premier League Enterprise National League (Dazn unless stated) Boston v Hornchurch; Carlisle v Scunthorpe; Eastleigh v Aldershot; Forest Green v Altrincham; Harrogate v Gateshead; Kidderminster v Barrow; Solihull Moors v Fylde; Sutton v Wealdstone; Woking v Southend; Worthing v Boreham Wood; Yeovil v Tamworth Rugby league 1895 Cup Final London Broncos v Widnes (3pm) Tennis US Open New York (to 13 Sep) Sky Sports Tennis Cycling Vuelta a España Spain (to 13 Sep) TNT Sports 1/3 Snooker British Open Cheltenham (to Sun) Racing Cartmel Racing TV, Chepstow Sky Sports Racing, Epsom RTV, Ripon SSR, Southwell SSR

Tomorrow

Football (7.45pm unless stated) Sky Bet Championship

(SS+ unless stated) Birmingham v Southampton (8pm); Lincoln v Blackburn; Portsmouth v Derby; Preston v Bristol City; Sheff Utd v Bolton; Stoke v Norwich (8pm) SSF; Swansea v Watford; West Ham v Wolves Sky Bet League One (SS+ unless stated) Bradford v Cambridge Utd; Bromley v Leyton Orient; Doncaster v Notts County; Huddersfield v Oxford Utd; Leicester v Plymouth; Peterborough v Stevenage; Wycombe v Sheff Wed Sky Bet League Two (SS+ unless stated) Accrington v Grimsby; Bristol Rovers v Colchester; Cheltenham v York; Chesterfield v Gillingham; Crewe v Walsall; Exeter v Barnet; Fleetwood v Oldham; Northampton v Crawley; Rochdale v Shrewsbury; Salford v Newport; Swindon v Port Vale; Tranmere v Rotherham Enterprise National League Halifax v Hartlepool

Cricket

Third Women's ODI

Third Women's ODI Scotland v Netherlands, Stirling (11am) First Women's ODI

England v Ireland, Grace Road (1pm) Sky Sports Cricket

Racing

Brighton SSR, Lingfield SSR, Ripon SSR, Wolverhampton SSR

Wednesday

Football (7.45pm unless stated) Sky Bet Championship Burnley v Middlesbrough (8pm) SSF; Millwall v Wrexham SS+; QPR v Cardiff SS+; West Brom v Charlton SS+ Sky Bet League One (SS+ unless stated) Barnsley v Blackpool; Burton v AFC Wimbledon; Luton v Stockport; Reading v Mansfield (8pm); Wigan v MK Dons William Hill Scottish Premiership Celtic v Aberdeen; Dundee v St Johnstone; Falkirk v Rangers (8pm) SSF; Kilmarnock v St Mirren; Motherwell v Dundee Utd Cricket (10.30am unless stated) Rothesay County Championship Division One Essex v Sussex, Chelmsford; Hampshire v Warwickshire, Utilita Bowl; Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire, Trent Bridge; Somerset v Glamorgan,

Aryna Sabalenka begins the defence of her US Open title today

Taunton; Surrey v Yorkshire, the Oval Division Two Gloucestershire v Derbyshire, Bristol; Kent v Worcestershire, Canterbury; Middlesex v Lancashire, Northwood; Northamptonshire v Durham, Northampton

Racing

Racing Bath SSR, Hamilton RTV, Kempton RTV, Newcastle SSR

Thursday

Football (7.45pm unless stated) William Hill Scottish Premiership Hibernian v Hearts Premier Sports 1 Rugby league Betfred Super League Bradford v Castleford (8pm) SS+ Cricket (10.30am unless stated) Second Women's ODI England v Ireland, Derby (1pm) Sky Sports Cricket Metro Bank One-Day Cup Women Durham v Hampshire, Riverside; Lancashire v Surrey, Preston; Warwickshire v Essex, Edgbaston; Yorkshire v Somerset, Headingley Golf Omega European Masters Crans-Montana, Switzerland SS Golf Racing Haydock RTV, Lingfield SSR, Newcastle SSR, Salisbury RTV, Southwell SSR

Friday

Football (7.45pm unless stated) Premier League Ipswich v Liverpool (8pm) SSPL Barclays Women's Super League London City v Manchester Utd (7pm) SSF/Sky One Women's Super League Two Watford v Burnley (7.30pm) YouTube Enterprise National League Altrincham v Eastleigh Dazn William Hill Scottish Championship Livingston v Stenhousemuir (7.30pm) BBC Scotland/iPlayer Rugby league Betfred Super League Hull KR v Huddersfield (8pm) SS+; Leigh v St Helens (8pm) SS+; Toulouse v Hull FC (6pm) SS+

Athletics

Diamond League Brussels Belgium (to Sat)

Racing

Ascot SSR, Bangor SSR, Haydock RTV, Kempton RTV, Worcester SSR, Down Royal

Saturday

Football (3pm unless stated) Premier League

Brentford v Sunderland; Brighton v Leeds; Fulham v Crystal Palace; Hull v Aston Villa (5.30pm) SSPL; Manchester City v Coventry; Newcastle v Bournemouth (12.30pm) TNT1; Nottm Forest v Tottenham Sky Bet Championship Burnley v Bristol City; Lincoln v Southampton (12.30pm) SS+; Millwall v Bolton; Portsmouth v Cardiff; Preston v Blackburn (12.30pm) SSF; QPR v Middlesbrough; Sheff Utd v Norwich; Stoke v Charlton (12.30pm) SS+; Swansea v Wrexham (8pm) SSF; WBA v Watford; West Ham v Derby Sky Bet League One Barnsley v Stevenage; Bradford v Mansfield; Burton v Cambridge Utd; Doncaster v Plymouth; Huddersfield v Notts County; Leicester v Oxford Utd; Luton v Leyton Orient; Peterborough v Sheff Wed (12.30pm) SS+; Reading v Blackpool; Wigan v Stockport (12.30pm) SS+; Wycombe v MK Dons Sky Bet League Two Accrington v Crawley; Bristol Rovers v Rotherham; Cheltenham v Grimsby; Chesterfield v Barnet; Crewe v York;

Exeter v Walsall; Fleetwood v Shrewsbury (12.30pm) SS+; Northampton v Newport; Rochdale v Gillingham; Salford v Port Vale (12.30pm) SS+; Swindon v Colchester; Tranmere v Oldham Enterprise National League Aldershot v Halifax (12.30pm) Dazn; Barrow v Sutton; Boreham Wood v Carlisle (5.30pm) Dazn; Fylde v Worthing; Gateshead v Solihull Moors; Hartlepool v Woking; Hornchurch v Forest Green; Scunthorpe v Harrogate; Southend v Yeovil (12.30pm) Dazn; Tamworth v Boston; Wealdstone v Kidderminster

Barclays Women's Super League Chelsea v Aston Villa (12.30pm) BBC One/iPlayer

William Hill Scottish Premiership Aberdeen v Kilmarnock; Dundee Utd v Falkirk; Rangers v Motherwell; St Mirren v Celtic (8pm) SSF William Hill Scottish Championship Arbroath v Dunfermlue; Inverness v Raith; Partick v Ayr; Queen's Pk v Morton William Hill Scottish League One

Cove v Alloa; East Fife v Ross; E Kilbride v Hamilton; Peterhead v Montrose; Queen of the South v Airdrieonians William Hill Scottish League Two Clyde v Edinburgh City; Dumbarton v Elgin; Forfar v Stranraer; Kelty v Annan; Stirling v Spartans

Rugby union

Argentina v Australia (10pm); S Africa v New Zealand (4.10pm) SS Action Women's Internationals S Africa v New Zealand (12.30pm) Prem Cup Bristol v Gloucester (3pm); Harlequins v Leicester (3pm); Saracens v Northampton (3pm)

Rugby league

Betfred Super League Catalans v York (5pm) SS+; Leeds v Wigan (8pm) SS+; Wakefield v Warrington (3pm) SS+ Betfred Women's Super League Featherstone v Barrow (2pm); Leeds v Wigan (5.15pm) Betfred Championship London Broncos v Swinton (2pm)

Racing

Ascot SSR, Haydock RTV, Kempton RTV, Newcastle SSR, Stratford RTV

Sunday

Football (3pm unless stated) Premier League

Arsenal v Chelsea (4.30pm) SSPL; Everton v Manchester Utd (2pm) SSPL Sky Bet Championship Birmingham v Wolves (noon) SSF William Hill Scottish Premiership St Johnstone v Hibernian Premier Sports 1; Hearts v Dundee Barclays Women's Super League Brighton v Arsenal (noon) SSME; Tottenham v West Ham (noon) SS+; Charlton v Liverpool (2pm) SS+; Crystal Palace v Everton (2pm) SS+; Man City v Birmingham (2.30pm) SS+

Rugby union

Sale v Bath (3pm)

Rugby league

Betfred Women's Super League Huddersfield v Leigh (2pm); York v St Helens (noon) Cricket (10.30am unless stated) Third Women's ODI England v Ireland, New Road SSC Metro Bank One-Day Cup Women Essex v Surrey, Chelmsford; Hampshire v Yorkshire, Utilita Bowl; Lancashire v Durham, Preston; The Blaze v Somerset, Trent Bridge

Formula One Italian Grand Prix Monza (2pm) Sky Sports F1 Racing Fontwell RTV, York RTV

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The main event

Arsenal v Chelsea

4.30pm, Sunday, Sky Sports Main Event After their thrilling start to life under Xabi Alonso, Chelsea face a true test of their credentials away at the champions

PREMIER LEAGUE

	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Manchester City	2	2	0	0	6	2	+4	6
Hull	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3	6
Chelsea	2	2	0	0	7	5	+2	6
Brentford	2	1	1	0	4	1	+3	4
Newcastle	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	4
Everton	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	4
Leeds	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	4
Brighton	2	1	0	1	7	4	+3	3
Arsenal	1	1	0	0	3	0	+3	3
Manchester Utd	2	1	0	1	5	4	+1	3
Sunderland	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3
Ipswich	2	1	0	1	4	6	-2	3
Liverpool	2	0	2	0	4	4	0	2
Bournemouth	2	0	1	1	2	3	-1	1
Nottingham Forest	2	0	1	1	2	3	-1	1
Fulham	2	0	0	2	2	4	-2	0
Aston Villa	1	0	0	1	0	4	-4	0
Coventry	2	0	0	2	0	4	-4	0
Crystal Palace	2	0	0	2	1	6	-5	0
Tottenham	2	0	0	2	0	5	-5	0

Cardiff	3	0	3	0	5	5	0	3
Sheffield Utd	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	3
Portsmouth	3	1	0	2	5	6	-1	3
Norwich	3	1	0	2	5	6	-1	3
Lincoln City	3	1	0	2	3	5	-2	3
Southampton*	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	2
West Ham	3	0	2	1	4	5	-1	2
Wrexham	3	0	2	1	3	4	-1	2
Derby	3	0	1	2	3	7	-4	1
Burnley	3	0	1	2	4	9	-5	1
Preston	3	0	0	3	2	6	-4	0
Stoke	3	0	0	3	3	9	-6	0

*Southampton deducted 4pts

Burton Albion	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Plymouth	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Luton	3	1	1	1	8	10	-2	4
AFC Wimbledon	3	1	1	1	1	3	-2	4
Bromley	3	1	1	1	4	8	-4	4
MK Dons	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
Leyton Orient	3	1	0	2	4	5	-1	3
Peterborough	3	1	0	2	2	7	-5	3
Stevenage	3	0	2	1	4	5	-1	2
Doncaster	3	0	2	1	3	4	-1	2
Leicester	3	0	2	1	2	3	-1	2
Wycombe	3	0	2	1	3	7	-4	2
Reading	2	0	1	1	3	4	-1	1
Wigan	3	0	0	3	2	6	-4	0

Nottingham Forest	(1) 2
Ndoye 24, Gibbs-White 70pen
Ipswich	(1) 2
Davis 29, Akpom 90+1 74,148
Fulham	(0) 0
46,781
Newcastle	(0) 2
Elanga 62, Wissa 72

	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Charlton	3	3	0	0	5	2	+3	9
Wolves	3	2	1	0	9	4	+5	7
Swansea	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7
QPR	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Middlesbrough	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6
Millwall	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6
West Brom	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6
Birmingham	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	5
Watford	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	5
Blackburn	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
Bolton	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
Bristol City	3	1	1	1	4	5	-1	4

SKY BET LEAGUE ONE

Cricket scoreboard

	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Blackpool	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	7
Huddersfield	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7
Stockport	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6
Sheffield Wednesday	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6
Mansfield	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
Bradford	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1	6
Notts County	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5
Oxford Utd	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	4
Barnsley	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
Cambridge Utd	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4

SKY BET LEAGUE TWO

ROTHESAY COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP Division One

Chelmsford Essex (12pts) drew with Surrey (11)

Essex v Surrey

	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Barnet	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7
Walsall	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7
York	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	7
Colchester	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7
Crewe	3	2	1	0	2	0	+2	7
Oldham	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4	6
Bristol Rovers	3	2	0	1	9	6	+3	6
Tranmere	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5
Fleetwood	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Grimsby	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Newport County	3	1	1	1	8	7	+1	4
Cheltenham	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
Rotherham	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Swindon	3	1	1	1	2	4	-2	4

Essex First innings 279 (D Elgar 113. R Chahar 6-80) Surrey Second innings (overnight 51-4)

JW Blake c Pepper b Harmer 14
BT Foakest not out 120
MK Lomror c Pepper b Porter 11
ARG Thomas c Pepper b Akhter 33
TE Lawes b Cook 44
RD Chahar not out 17
Extras (b11, lb9) 20
Total (for 8 dec, 99 overs) 298

Fall cont 33, 34, 45, 51, 73, 92, 144, 248.

Bowling Porter 11-2-44-1; Cook 27-8-53-2; Harmer 38-13-92-3; Snater 6-1-21-1; Critchley-7-0-31-0; Akhter 8-0-24-1; Westley 1-0-5-0; Walter 1-0-8-0. Umpires N Llong and M Burns.

Glamorgan v Hampshire

Cardiff Glamorgan (11pts) drew with Hampshire (11) Hampshire First innings 162 (JS Lehmann 51no.) Glamorgan First innings 161 (BI Kellaway 57. S Baker 4-34) Hampshire Second innings (overnight 124-2) TE Albert c Dickson b Kellaway ..... 64 JS Lehmann b Ul-Hassan ..... 36 TJ Prest b Kellaway ..... 15 BC Brown*† c & b Kellaway ..... 30 AJ Neal c Tribe b Crane ..... 47 JK Fuller lbw b Kellaway ..... 0 EV Jack not out ..... 16 Extras (b6, lb3, nb4) ..... 13 Total (for 8 dec, 69 overs) ..... 300

Fall cont 173, 192, 215, 258, 258, 300. Did not bat KJ Abbott, SW Currie, S Baker. Bowling Van der Gugten 16-3-31-1; Hamza 15-2-42-1; Kellaway 15-0-78-4; Ul-Hassan 11-2-59-1; Douthwaite 5-1-29-0; Crane 6-0-52-1.

Bowling Abbott 7-3-7-2; Jack 4-1-10-1; Baker 2-1-3-0. Umpires J Middlebrook and S Shanmugam.

Glamorgan Second innings

AM Tribe lbw b Abbott 0 MS Crane c Lehmann b Jack 7 KS Carlson* b Abbott 2 BI Kellaway not out 8 CA Ingram not out 3 Extras (lb1) 1 Total (for 3, 13 overs) 21

Did not bat Z Ul-Hassan, SR Dickson, CB Cooket, T van der Gugten, DA Douthwaite, M Hamza.

Sussex v Somerset

Hove Sussex (12pts) drew with Somerset (11) Somerset First innings 202 (TB Abell 72, C Overton 54; HT Crocombe 5-56) Sussex First innings 250 (TGR Clark 85, JA Simpson 64no; C Overton 4-66)

Somerset Second innings (overnight 147-2)

TA Lammonby lbw b Crocombe ....93 HM Nicholls c Coles b Evison ....50 TB Abell b Hunt ....37 JEK Rew† c Carson b Clark ....27 C Overton c Carson b Evison ....8 L Gregory* not out ....32 M Pretorius c Simpson b Clark ....2 MJ Leach c Hunt b Carson ....1 Extras (b7, lb5, nb14, w2) ....28 Total (for 9 dec, 97 overs)....350

Bowling Unadkat 23-1-93-1; Hunt 15-4-48-2; Carson 21-2-66-1; Crocombe 17-3-53-1; Coles 7-0-21-0; Evison 11-2-40-2; Clark 3-0-17-2. Sussex Second innings

Sussex Second innings

DP Hughes c Abell b Pretorius....13 TJ Haines* not out....30 TGR Clark not out....15 Extras (nb4)....4 Total (for 1, 14 overs)....62

Did not bat CJ Tear, JM Coles, JA Simpson†, JDM Evison, JJ Carson, HT Crocombe, SF Hunt, JD Unadkat. Bowling Gregory 3-0-11-0; Overton 3-1-9-0; Vaughan 4-0-25-0; Pretorius 4-0-17-1. Umpires T Lungley and J Shantry,

Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire

Birmingham Warwickshire (10pts) drew with Nottinghamshire (13)

Nottinghamshire First innings (overnight 299-7) JM Clarke c Yates b Bamber....150 FW Sheat not out....45 Extras (b4, lb8, nb2)....14 Total (for 8 dec, 88 overs)....325

Fall cont 325.

Did not bat OP Stone, DY Pennington. Bowling Bamber 23-6-74-3; Hannon-Dalby 19-4-75-1; Barnard 18-3-53-1; Booth 15-5-46-1; Thompson 12-0-59-1; Mousley 1-0-6-1.

Warwickshire First innings

RM Yates lbw b Stone 12 WA Young c Verreynne b Stone 13 DR Mousley lbw b Pennington 20 SR Hain lbw b Stone 8 VL Jani run out 18 EG Barnard* lbw b Martindale 10 AL Daviest c Verreynne b Stone 3 JA Thompson b Stone 26 MG Booth c & b Patterson-White 46

ER Bamber c James b Sheat....13 OJ Hannon-Dalby not out....4 Extras (b6, lb3, nb2, w1)....12 Total (54 overs)....185

Fall 16, 29, 43, 64, 82, 89, 114, 147, 181. Bowling Stone 13-4-49-5; Pennington 16-4-43-1; Sheat 12-2-49-1; Martindale 7-1-26-1; Patterson-White 6-1-9-1. Umpires M Newell and M Saggers.

Yorkshire v Leicestershire

Scarborough Yorkshire (9pts) drew with Leicestershire (11) Yorkshire First innings 263 (JH Wharton 70, GCH Hill 62)

RK Patel not out 41 SSE Gumbs not out 39 Extras (b4) 4 Total (35 overs) 84

Bowling Coad 12-5-29-0; White 8-2-27-0; Hill 5-2-5-0; Cliff 4-0-12-0; Revis 5-2-7-0. Umpires I Blackwell and G Lloyd.

	P	W	L	D	Bat	Bowl	Pts
Nottinghamshire	10	4	1	5	16	28	148
Somerset	10	4	2	4	18	30	144
Warwickshire	10	3	1	6	15	29	140
Glamorgan	10	3	3	4	14	27	121
Sussex	10	4	3	3	20	24	120
Essex	10	4	4	2	13	26	119
Yorkshire	10	3	3	4	13	24	117
Surrey	10	1	3	6	18	23	105
Leicestershire	10	2	5	3	19	27	102
Hampshire	10	2	5	3	3	27	86

ROTHESAY COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP Division Two

Derbyshire v Middlesex

Derby Derbyshire (8pts) drew with Middlesex (11). Derbyshire First innings 131 (Sharma 4·36) Middlesex Second innings - forfeit Derbyshire Second innings 111·3 Umpires P Baldwin and S Widdup.

Durham v Gloucestershire

Chester-le-Street Durham (22pts) beat Gloucestershire (3) by 10 wickets. Gloucestershire First innings 137 (JR Bracey 60; KL Aldridge 5-16) Durham First innings 384 (DG Bedingham 122). Gloucestershire Second innings 250 (MAH Hammond 58; KL Aldridge 4-47).

Durham Second innings

MJ Potts not out .... 4 tOG Robinson not out .... 0 Extras .... 0 Total (1 over).... 4

Bowling Price-1-0-4-0.

Umpires S O'Shaughnessy and J Tredwell.

LA LIGA

SERIE A

Exeter	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3
Chesterfield	3	1	0	2	2	3	-1	3
Crawley	3	1	0	2	2	4	-2	3
Shrewsbury	3	1	0	2	2	5	-3	3
Northampton	3	0	2	1	1	2	-1	2
Port Vale	3	0	2	1	1	3	-2	2
Gillingham	3	0	2	1	1	4	-3	2
Accrington	3	0	1	2	4	7	-3	1
Salford	3	0	0	3	1	5	-4	0
Rochdale	3	0	0	3	1	6	-5	0

ENTERPRISE NATIONAL LEAGUE

BarnetLakin 11, Tshimanga 78pen	(1) 2	CheltenhamBroom 60, McCann 64	(0) 2
ColchesterWilliams 87	(0) 1	Rochdale4,683	(0) 0
Crawley4,120	(0) 0	Bristol RoversJames 23, Kamwa 41	(2) 2
GillinghamMcManus 75,701	(1) 1	NorthamptonBriggs 36	(1) 1
GrimsbyDoyle 37, Cook 647,067	(1) 2	FleetwoodDavies 6, Potter 69	(1) 2
Newport CountyGwengwe 11 904,606	(1) 2	TranmereOkoro 71, Jones 75	(0) 2
OldhamNevitt 41, Kavanagh 84penFondop 90+5	(1) 3	Swindon7,589	(0) 0
Port Vale8,997	(0) 0	Crewe	(0) 0
RotherhamTavares 12, Mullin 909,391	(1) 2	ChesterfieldMandeville 88pen	(0) 1
ShrewsburyBoyle 74	(0) 1	Salford City	(0) 0
WalsallSmith 8, Burke 45+6Pressley 53	(2) 3	AccringtonWoods 12, Mols 57	(1) 2
YorkNewby 7, Malcolm 767,978	(1) 2	ExeterFitzwater 90+1	(0) 1

ENTERPRISE NATIONAL LEAGUE
(top half)	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Sutton	4	4	0	0	7	1	+6	12
Boreham Wood	4	3	1	0	11	5	+6	10
Southend	4	3	0	1	8	5	+3	9
Hornchurch	4	3	0	1	7	5	+2	9
Eastleigh	4	3	0	1	6	4	+2	9
Yeovil	4	2	2	0	7	3	+4	8
Harrogate	4	2	1	1	11	8	+3	7
Fylde	4	2	1	1	8	6	+2	7
Aldershot	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	7
Kidderminster	4	2	1	1	5	5	0	7
Boston	4	2	0	2	4	3	+1	6
Hartlepool	4	2	0	2	4	3	+1	6

Friday Aldershot 3 Harrogate 1; Altrincham 2 Halifax 1; Barrow 1 Yeovil 2; Fylde 2 Forest Green 0; Gateshead 0 Sutton 1; Hartlepool 0 Eastleigh 1; Hornchurch 1 Woking 0; Scunthorpe 3 Solihull Moors 1; Southend 1 Kidderminster 3; Tamworth 3 Worthing 2; Wealdstone 1 Carlisle 1

ENTERPRISE NATIONAL LEAGUE NORTH

Bedford 3 Spennymoor 1; Brackley A South Shields A (abandoned due to waterlogged pitch); Darlington 1 Macclesfield 2; Hebburn 4 King's Lynn 2; Hereford 1 Chester 1; Marine 2 Radcliffe 0; Merthyr 1 Chorley 1; Scarborough 5 Southport 1; Spalding 3 Worksop 1 Friday Hednesford 2 Harborough 1; Morecambe 2 Telford 1; Oxford City 2 Buxton 3

ENTERPRISE NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH

Billericay 2 Tonbridge 2; Chelmsford 1 Maidenhead 0; Dover 3 Braintree 3; Hemel Hempstead 1 Weston-s-Mare 3; Horsham 1 Farnham 2; Maidstone 2 Salisbury 1; Slough 0 Folkestone 2; Torquay 1 Hampton & Richmond 1; Totton 0 Chesham 4; Truro 3 Dagenham & Redbridge 0; Walton & Hersham 1 Dorking 4

WILLIAM HILL SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP

	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Celtic	3	3	0	0	8	2	+6	9
St Mirren	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	7
Hearts	3	2	0	1	7	3	+4	6
Dundee	4	2	0	2	5	3	+2	6
Hibernian	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
Motherwell	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5
Rangers	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Dundee Utd	4	1	1	2	5	7	-2	4
St Johnstone	3	1	0	2	5	6	-1	3
Aberdeen	3	1	0	2	2	4	-2	3
Falkirk	3	0	1	2	1	4	-3	1
Kilmarnock	3	0	0	3	4	13	-9	0

Aberdeen18,343	(0) 0	RangersShankland 69pen	(0) 1
CelticDurán 4 29	(2) 2	FalkirkDonovan 72og	(0) 1
DundeeWestley 836,534	(0) 1	HibernianBoyle 25, Wright 61	(1) 2
HeartsWilson 9, Alić 39og18,714	(2) 2	St JohnstonePaton 48	(0) 1
Kilmarnock5,389	(0) 0	Dundee UtdAgyei 12, Sapsford 36penFerry 41, Randall 77	(3) 4
St MirrenNsio 39, John 44Ramos 45+45,295	(3) 3	MotherwellMaswanhise 2Charles-Cook 24, Kanga 90+3	(2) 3

WILLIAM HILL SCOTTISH CHAMPIONSHIP

	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Stenhousemuir	4	3	1	0	8	2	+6	10
Partick	4	2	2	0	4	1	+3	8
Raith	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	7
Arbroath	4	2	1	1	3	3	0	7
Livingston	4	2	0	2	4	3	+1	6
Ayr	4	1	2	1	4	4	0	5
Dunfermline	4	1	2	1	2	3	-1	5
Inverness	4	0	3	1	2	4	-2	3
Morton	4	0	1	3	2	6	-4	1
Queen's Park	4	0	1	3	1	6	-5	1

Arbroath 1 Livingston 0; Ayr 1 Morton 1; Partick 0 Queen's Park 0; Stenhousemuir 3 Inverness CT 1 Friday Dunfermline 1 Raith 0

WILLIAM HILL SCOTTISH LEAGUE ONE

	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Hamilton	5	4	1	0	11	0	+11	13
Ross County	4	4	0	0	10	2	+8	12
Alloa	5	2	2	1	6	2	+4	8
East Kilbride	5	2	1	2	9	9	0	7
Peterhead	5	2	1	2	4	6	-2	7
East Fife	5	1	3	1	3	2	+1	6
Montrose	5	2	0	3	6	11	-5	6
Cove Rangers	5	1	1	3	3	6	-3	4
Airdrieonians	5	0	3	2	2	8	-6	3
Queen of the South	4	0	0	4	2	10	-8	0

Airdrieonians 0 East Fife 0; Alloa 1 Peterhead 1; Hamilton 1 Cove Rangers 0; Montrose 2 Queen of the South 1; Ross 4 East Kilbride 0

WILLIAM HILL SCOTTISH LEAGUE TWO

	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Elgin	5	3	2	0	17	5	+12	11
Clyde	5	3	1	1	11	6	+5	10
Forfar	5	2	2	1	6	5	+1	8
Stranraer	5	2	1	2	6	6	0	7
Spartans	5	1	3	1	12	11	+1	6
Annan	5	2	0	3	6	7	-1	6
Kelty	5	2	0	3	7	10	-3	6
Stirling	5	1	1	3	6	12	-6	4
Edinburgh City*	5	2	2	1	7	8	-1	3
Dumbarton	5	1	0	4	2	10	-8	3

*Edinburgh City deducted 5pts

Annan 2 Dumbarton 0; Elgin 4 Stirling 0; Stranraer 2 Kelty 0; Spartans 3 Clyde 3. Friday Edinburgh City 1 Forfar 1

BREEDON HIGHLAND LEAGUE

Banks O'Dee 6 Invergordon 3; Brora 3 Turriff 1; Buckie Thistle 5 Rothes 0; Forres 1 Formartine 2; Fraserburgh 2 Clachnacuddin 2; Inverurie 3 Lossiemouth 1; Keith 4 Wick 1; Nairn 0 Deveronvale 0; Strathspey 3 Huntly 0

PARK'S MOTOR GROUP LOWLAND LEAGUE EAST

Bonnyrigg Rose 1 Hill Of Beath 2; Brechin 3 Musselburgh 1; Broxburn 2 Berwick 0; Dunipace 0 East Stirling 3; Gala Fairydean 2 Lochee 3; Linlithgow Rose 3 Cowdenbeath 2; Stirling University 2 Bo'ness Utd 5; Tranent 4 Civil Service Strollers 0

PARK'S MOTOR GROUP LOWLAND LEAGUE WEST

Caledonian 5 Kilwinning 2; Cumnock 5 Newton Stewart 0; Johnstone Burgh 4 Dalbeattie 0; Largs 3 Gretna 2; Pollok 2 Beith 1; Renfrew 1 Clydebank 5; Troon 1 Cumbernauld 3. Friday Celtic B 2 Auchinleck 2

NOVIRA CYMRU PREMIER

Friday Barry Town 4 Airbus UK 2; Cardiff Met Uni 3 Briton Ferry 0; Connah's Quay 3 Cambrian 0; Holywell 3 Caernarfon 5; Llandudno 2 Haverfordwest 0; Penybont 1 Flint 1; The New Saints 5 Colwyn Bay 1; Trefelin 1 Ammanford 1

BOYLE SPORTS NIFL PREMIERSHIP

Ballymena P Larne P; Bangor O Carrick 4; Cliftonville 0 Dungannon 2; Glentoran 1 Crusaders 2; Limavady 0 Linfield 2 Friday Portadown 0 Coleraine 3

SSE AIRTRICITY PREMIER DIVISION

Derry 3 Shamrock Rovers 3

Friday Bohemians 3 Sligo 0; Drogheda 2 Dundalk 3; Galway 1 Shelbourne 1; St Patrick's 0 Waterford 2

BRAGIA (top half)	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Real Madrid	3	3	0	0	10	2	+8	9
Atlético Madrid	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7
Alavés	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7
Barcelona	2	2	0	0	7	0	+7	6
Sevilla	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6
Real Betis	3	2	0	1	4	5	-1	6
Deportivo	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5
Osasuna	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	4
Levante	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
Racing Santander	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4

Celta Vigo L Ath Bilbao L; Deportivo 3 Valencia 1; Levante 5 Betis 2; Real Madrid 4 Málaga 0; Sevilla 1 Atlético 3; Sociedad 2 Espanyol 1. Friday Santander 3 Elche 2; Alavés 1 Villarreal 0

(top half)	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Milan	2	2	0	0	4	1	+3	6
Juventus	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3	6
Udinese	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	4
Como	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	4
Roma	1	1	0	0	4	0	+4	3
Inter	1	1	0	0	4	1	+3	3
Lecce	1	1	0	0	2	0	+2	3
Napoli	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1	3
Atalanta	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1	3
Cagliari	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	3

Cagliari L Inter L; Fiorentina O Frosinone 3; Lazio L Genoa L; Monza 2 Udinese 3; Napoli 1 Como 2; Sassuolo 2 Torino 1; Juventus 2 Parma 0. Friday Milan 2 Venezia 0

BUNDESLIGA

(BURDESCHGA)
(top half)	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Bayern Munich	1	1	0	0	5	1	+4	3
Freiburg	1	1	0	0	4	1	+3	3
Augsburg	1	1	0	0	3	0	+3	3
RB Leipzig	1	1	0	0	3	0	+3	3
Borussia Dortmund	1	1	0	0	2	0	+2	3
Cologne	1	1	0	0	3	2	+1	3
Elversberg	1	1	0	0	3	2	+1	3
E Frankfurt	1	0	1	0	3	3	0	1
Union Berlin	1	0	1	0	3	3	0	1

Augsburg 3 Schalke 0; Elversberg 3 B Leverkusen 2; Freiburg 4 Werder Bremen 1; Mainz 0 Paderborn 0; Cologne 3 Hoffenheim 2; RB Leipzig 3 B M'gladbach 0; Union Berlin 3 E Frankfurt 3; B Dortmund 2 Hamburg 0 Friday Bayern Munich 5 Stuttgart 1

LIGUE 1

(top half)	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Paris FC	2	1	1	0	3	0	+3	4
Lille	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	4
Lyon	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	4
Rennes	2	1	1	0	5	4	+1	4
Troyes	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	4
Marseille	1	1	0	0	4	0	+4	3
Lens	2	1	0	1	6	4	+2	3
Monaco	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	3
Angers	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	3

Auxerre 1 Angers 3; Brest 2 Toulouse 2; Lorient 1 Troyes 2; Lyon 1 Le Havre 1; Monaco L Marseille L; Paris FC 3 Nice 0; Rennes 3 Le Mans 2; Strasbourg 2 Lens 1. Friday Lille 2 PSG 2

Northamptonshire v Kent

Northampton Northamptonshire (16pts) drew with Kent (12) Kent First innings 345 (Z Crawley 89, DJ Bell-Drummond 70; BG Compton 53)

Northamptonshire First innings (overnight 74-0)

RS Vasconcelos lbw b Singh 119 LA Procter c Benjamin b Stewart 28 CG Harrison lbw b Parkinson 21 NA McSweeney lbw b Dudgeon 109 SA Zaib lbw b Parkinson 72 JJ G Sales not out 48 GA Bartlett c Compton b Stewart 24 LD McManus not out 0 Extras (b4, lb9, nb14, w2) 29 Total (for 6, 97 overs) 450

Fall 91, 144, 227, 351, 403, 449.

Did not bat LCJ Guthrie, BW Sanderson, YS Chahal. Bowling Milnes 7-0-19-0; Dudgeon 20-1-71-1; Parkinson 27-0-158-2; Stewart 19-2-57-2; Singh 17-1-77-1; Muyeye 7-0-55-0. Umpires P Pollard and H Adnan.

Worcestershire v Lancashire

Worcester Worcestershire (12pts) drew with Lancashire (10) Lancashire First innings 180 (KK Jennings 55. B Swanepoel 4-37)

Worcestershire First innings (overnight 12-1)

JD Libby c Hurst b Bailey....56 RM Edavalath lbw b Balderson....42 AJ Hose b Balderson....0 *BL D'Oliveira c & b Balderson....45 B Swanepoel not out....63 †HJ Cullen c Shetty b Walkden....15 MJ Waite b Balderson....9 TAI Taylor not out....20 Extras (lb1, nb12)....13 Total (for 7 dec, 62 overs)....263 Fall cont 87, 87, 121, 180, 203, 214. Did not bat BMJ Allison, FS Landa. Bowling Bailey 15-5-51-2; Aspinwall 8-1-51-0; Balderson 10-3-78-4; Walders 11-1-51-1; Ali 9-2-21-0

Bowling Bailey 15-5-51-2; Aspinwall 8-1-51-0; Balderson 19-2-78-4; Walkden 11-1-51-1; Ali 9-0-31-0.

Lancashire Second innings

KK Jennings not out	2
MF Hurst not out	0
Extras	0
Total (2 overs)	2

Umpires M Gough and B Peverall.

	P	W	L	D	Bat	Bowl	Pts
Durham	10	7	0	3	27	28	191
Kent	10	5	1	4	19	25	151
Northamptonshire	10	4	2	4	27	28	151
Worcestershire	10	4	3	3	15	26	127
Middlesex	10	3	4	3	13	28	113
Derbyshire	10	3	5	2	21	25	110
Lancashire	10	2	5	3	10	28	94
Gloucestershire	10	1	9	0	6	24	44

SECOND WOMEN'S ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL

Stirling Scotland v Netherlands - match abandoned without a ball being bowled.

Other results

Rugby union

INTERNATIONALS

South Africa 33 New Zealand 26; Argentina 21 Australia 27

Rugby league

BETFRED SUPER LEAGUE

	P	W	D	L	F	A	PD	Pts
Leeds	25	20	0	5	884	368	+516	40
Wigan	25	20	0	5	761	419	+342	40
Warrington	25	19	0	6	682	426	+256	38
Wakefield	25	17	0	8	665	460	+205	34
Leigh	25	16	0	9	588	468	+120	32
Hull KR	25	15	0	10	700	461	+239	30
St Helens	25	14	0	11	590	554	+36	28
Catalans	25	10	0	15	509	724	-215	20
Toulouse	25	9	0	16	520	648	-128	18
Castleford	25	8	0	17	426	786	-360	16
Hull FC	25	7	0	18	440	541	-101	14
Huddersfield	25	7	0	18	455	713	-258	14
York	25	7	0	18	482	759	-277	14
Bradford	25	6	0	19	420	795	-375	12

Hull FC 14 Warrington 16; Toulouse 28 Bradford 18; Wakefield 28 York 12. Friday Castleford 6 Catalan 34; Huddersfield 30 Leigh 18; St Helens 6 Leeds 34

BETFRED CHAMPIONSHIP

	P	W	D	L	F	A	PD	Pts
London Broncos	23	22	0	1	1445	278+	1167	44
Newcastle	24	21	0	3	1093	302	+791	42
Oldham	24	21	0	3	787	403	+384	42
Doncaster	24	19	0	5	915	379	+536	38
Widnes	24	17	0	7	757	356	+401	34
Barrow	24	17	0	7	649	447	+202	34
Sheffield	24	16	0	8	637	545	+92	32
Midlands	24	13	1	10	652	650	+2	27
Whitehaven	24	11	1	12	519	661	-142	23
Batley	24	11	0	13	655	573	+82	22
Dewsbury	24	8	0	16	522	652	-130	16
Salford	24	8	0	16	544	796	-252	16
Hunslet	24	8	0	16	496	776	-280	16
Goole Vikings	24	8	0	16	532	867	-335	16
Rochdale	24	8	0	16	403	754	-351	16
Keighley	24	6	2	16	594	678	-84	14
Swinton	23	6	1	16	470	728	-258	13
Workington	24	5	1	18	472	735	-263	11
Halifax	24	8	0	16	558	668	-110	4
North Wales	24	3	0	21	282	1734	-1452	-6

Batley 16 Salford 18; Dewsbury 6 Newcastle 56; Goole 14 Doncaster 36; Halifax 18 Keighley 19; Midlands 98 North Wales 0; Rochdale 14 Oldham 32; Workington 20 Whitehaven 29

BETFRED WOMEN'S SUPER LEAGUE

Barrow 0 Huddersfield 42; Featherstone 32 Leigh 0; Wigan 26 Leeds 20. Friday St Helens 18 York 28

Tennis

US OPEN (New York)

Men: First round: K Majchrzak (Pol) bt H Medjedovic (Ser) 6-3 6-3 6-3; D Prizmic (Cro) bt A Shevchenko (Kaz) 2-6 6-3 6-3 5-7 7-5; Wu YB (Chn) bt A Walton (Aus) 7-6 (2) 6-2 7-5; J LEHECKA (Cz, 18) bt P Carreño (Sp) 6-1 7-6 (5) 4-6 6-2; D Merida Aguilar (Sp) bt M Fucsovics (Hun) 6-4 6-4 6-2; A RINDERKNECH (Fr, 26) bt S Shimabukuro (Jpn) 6-7 (4) 6-2 7-6 (4) 6-2; L Harris (SA) bt J Kennedy (US) 6-4 6-2 6-2.

Women: First round: J PAOLINI (It, 19) bt V Erjavec (Svn) 6-3 3-6 6-4; P Iatcenko (Rus) bt R Zarazúa (Mex) 4-6 6-4 7-6 (7); D Vekic (Cro) bt T Gibson (Aus) 6-2 4-6 6-3; K Rakhimova (Uzb) bt B KREJCIKOVA (Cz, 27) 7-6 (4) 6-2; J PEGULA (US, 3) bt E Ruse (Rom) 6-3 6-2; L FERNANDEZ bt (Can, 31) Zhang S (Chn) 6-3 6-2; M KOSTYUK (Ukr, 11) bt S Hunter (Aus) 6-4 6-1.

MONTERREY OPEN (Mexico)

Final: D Parry (Fr) bt E Mertens (Bel) 6-4 0-6 6-3

WINSTON-SALEM OPEN (North Carolina)

Final: I Buse (Per) bt A Fery (GB) 6-3 6-2

Golf

BRITISH MASTERS (Sutton Coldfield)

Leading final scores (GB & Ire unless stated, Par 72): 274 J Dean 67 73 71 63. 277 I Elvira (Sp) 65 71 72 69, N Noergaard (Den) 71 68 67 71, D Hillier (NZ) 69 66 69 73, J Skov Olesen (Den) 67 72 67 71. 278 M Penge 69 65 72 72, T McKibbin (NI) 68 68 70 72, T Rosenmueller (Ger) 71 71 68 68. 279 T Olesen (Den) 71 67 73 68, F Zanotti (Par) 69 69 71 70, J Lagergren (Swe) 72 69 72 66, K Kobori (NZ) 70 71 70 68, D Bryant (US) 66 73 69 71, D Rodrigues (Por) 69 73 68 69. 280 J Schaper (SA) 70 71 68 71, M Wallace 71 70 72 67, F Lacroix (Fr) 72 68 69 71, E Ferguson 67 71 72 70, A Meronk (Pol) 72 71 68 69, O Lindell (Fin) 69 72 65 74. 281 E Lopez-Chacarra (Sp) 69 72 69 71, A Hidalgo (Sp) 70 70 65 76, A Rozner (Fr) 68 73 71 69, S Bairstow 71 72 69, T Vaillant (Fr) 70 69 72 70. 282 Y Premlall (SA) 68 72 72 70, Y Katsuragawa (Jpn) 71 69 72 70, M Jordan 66 71 73 72, M Helligkilde (Den) 71 69 70 72. 283 T Lawrence (SA) 72 71 73 67, H Hall 71 69 71 72, D van Driel (Neth) 69 73 68 73, U Coussaud (Fr) 75 68 69 71, B Stone (SA) 71 71 68 73, L List (US) 71 72 72 68, G De Leo (It) 72 71 72 68.

TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP (Atlanta, Georgia)

Leading third-round scores (US unless stated): 195 V Hovland (Nor) 64 66 65. 196 R Gerard 65 65 66. 198 L Åberg (Swe) 65 68 65; C Gotterup 64 67 67; S Scheffler 65 67 66; A Scott (Aus) 66 67 65. 200 R McIlroy (NI) 68 69 63; C Young 70 62 68. 201 J Bridgeman 68 67 66; S Burns 66 68 67; R Henley 70 65 66, M-W Lee (Aus) 62 73 66.

WOMEN'S IRISH OPEN (Dublin)

Leading final scores (GB & Ire unless stated, Par 72): 268 C Alexander (SA) 63 66 69 70. 271 S Kouskova (Cz) 68 66 67 70. 272 N Komulainen (Fin) 73 66 66 67. 273 L Maguire 71 71 63 68, L Rydqvist (Swe) 68 67 69 69. 275 S Tan (Sgp) 72 72 66 65; A Garvey (NZ) 73 71 65 66; K Arwefjaell (Swe) 69 71 63 72; M Folke (Swe) 70 71 68 66; C Viden (Swe) 70 65 69 71. 276 B Navarrosoa (US) 69 65 72 70; A Fanali (It) 67 72 67 70; P Schmidt (Ger) 77 67 65 67; A Försterling (Ger) 70 67 69 70; LM Humphreys 67 73 71 65.

FM CHAMPIONSHIP (Norton, Massachusetts)

Leading third-round scores (US unless stated): 204 Yin R (Chn) 71 65 68. 205 Kim S-y (Kor) 64 74 67; Kim H-j (Kor) 68 67 70. 208 Lee S-m (Kor) 66 72 70; J Bae 68 68 72. 209 Im J-h (Kor) 70 70 69; L Duncan 70 69 70; L Coughlin 68 71 70; A Corpuz 68 67 74; N Guseva (Rus) 69 68 72; M Metraux (Swi) 71 65 73.

Cycling

MEN'S LA VUELTA CICLISTA A ESPAÑA

Stage nine (La Vila Joiosa/Villajoyosa-Alte de Aitana. Costa Blanca, 187.4km): 1 E Mas (Sp) Movistar 5hr 10min 40sec; 2 O Onley (GB) Netcompany Ineos Cycling at same time; 3 P Roglic (Svn) Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe +0:12; 4 F Gall (Aut) Decathlon CMA CGM +0:18; 5 C Rodriguez (Sp) XDS Astana +0:20; 6 M Skjelmose (Den) Lidl-Trek at same time; 7 J Widar (Bel) Lotto-Intermarche +0:25; 8 H Tejada (Col) XDS Astana +0:33; 9 R Carapaz (Ecu) EF Education-EasyPost +0:54; 10 S Buitrago (Col) Bahrain Victorious +1:41.

General classification: 1 E Mas (Sp) 28hr 34min 3sec; 2 P Roglic (Svn) +1:18; 3 F Gall (Aut) +1:39; 4 O Onley (GB) +2:20; 5 R Carapaz (Ecu) +3:26; 6 M Skjelmose (Den) +3:55; 7 S Kuss (US) Visma | Lease a Bike +4:09; 8 H Tejada (Col) XDS Astana +4:39; 9 G Muhlberger (Aut) Decathlon CMA CGM +7:33; 10 J Omrzel (vn) Bahrain Victorious +8:05.

MEN'S BRETAGNE CLASSIC - CIC (France)

Leading standings (Plouay - Plouay, 228.3km):
1 A Aranburu (Sp) Cofidis Shr 21min 13sec; 2 A Kamp (Den) Uno-X Mobility +0:04; 3 A Borgo (It) Bahrain Victorious +0:10; 4 E Herzog (Ger) Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe +0:11; 5 J Berckmoes (Bel) Lotto-Intermarche at same time.

Selected others: 13 L Askey (GB) NSN Cycling +0:15; 14 N Hobbs (GB) EF Education-EasyPost +0:21; 38 J Stewart (GB) NSN Cycling at same time.

Snooker

WUHAN OPEN (China)

Final: Chang B (Chn) bt Zhao X (Chn) 10-7

Greg Wood's racing tips

Southwell 1.32 Kokumi 2.07 Lednikov 2.42 Golspie 3.17 Just Typical 3.51 Vega Storm 4.25 Ballybunion 5.00 Classy Clarets 5.35 Yes Wallim

Chepstow 1.45 Crystal Kraken 2.20 Washington Royale 2.55 Perola 3.30 Margorie 4.00 Rovinia 4.35 Revelance 5.10 Magna 5.45 Stipulation

Epsom 1.50 Logi Bear (nb) 2.25 Summer Triangle 3.00 Do Bronxs 3.35 Edward Sexton 4.05 Double Red 4.40 Oj Lifestyle 5.15 Play Me

Ripon 1.55 Arenite 2.30 Time Thief 3.05 Not My Type 3.40 Mr Professor (nap) 4.10 Thornaby Pearl 4.45 Little Ted 5.20 Ten Sixty Six 5.50 Star Start Cartmel 2.35 Vietnorm 3.10 Secret Secret 3.45 Kayf Dancer 4.19 Tamarind Bay 4.55 Jack Sprat 5.30 Getaway Jewel

Foakes saves Surrey while Durham win in surreal fashion

Cricket County Championship

Tanya Aldred

The only result from this round of championship matches came 1min 45sec into the day when Matthew Potts cracked the four required to give Durham a 10-wicket win against Gloucestershire at Chester-le-Street.

Gloucestershire, who had refused to bowl spin on Saturday night amid bad light, therefore extending the game into yesterday, chose to open with Ollie Price's fruity loops, with the winning runs coming off his sixth ball.

Durham's head of cricket, Ryan Campbell, was phlegmatic. "I guess it's a bit ironic that they opened the bowling with a spinner this morning, but these things happen. We don't worry about the opposition. We do things our way, and it was delayed, but same result."

Durham cement their place at the top of Division Two, 40 points clear with four rounds left. Things have more of a wooden-spoonish tinge for Gloucestershire, bottom with nine defeats in 10 games.

Olly Stone continued his storming late-summer form, reducing Warwickshire to 43 for three in a swinging seven-over opening spell. He finished with five wickets, to go alongside the 10 he collected against Surrey last week. Earlier Joe Clarke had reached 150, to add to his achievement as the first batsman to pass 1,000 runs this season. Nottinghamshire remain top of Division One, by four points.

At Chelmsford, Ben Foakes played one of his finest innings for Surrey, lifting them both away from defeat and the relegation zone. Essex, though, will be cursing the two early lives they gave him, a tricky missed stumping and a fluffed caught-and-bowled. Foakes batted from the start of the day till handshakes just before five o'clock, 120 not out from 226 balls.

After a draw at Wantage Road, the Division Two promotion rivals Northamptonshire and Kent are level, Kent staying second because of an extra win. Hundreds from Ricardo Vasconcelos and Nathan McSweeney ensured Northants pocketed maximum batting points.

▲ Ben Foakes scored 120 not out to earn Surrey a draw against Essex

'Amazing' Itauma urged not to give up by Hrgovic after stoppage

Donald McRae

Moses Itauma has been urged “not to give up” by Filip Hrgovic, the new IBF world heavyweight champion, who stopped the 21-year-old Briton with a stunning turnaround in their title fight on Saturday at the O2 Arena.

Itauma was taken to hospital in a precautionary measure after the fight and Frank Warren, his promoter, confirmed yesterday morning to the Guardian that his young heavyweight was still under medical observation.

"He's still in hospital," Warren said of Itauma. "I think they'll let him out today. They're just doing the usual tests because he didn't get there until late. So he got some sleep and they're just doing what they normally do. He should be OK. I've messaged him a couple of times. He's messaged back. We'll have a call later today."

Hrgovic said he had lost the first eight rounds against Itauma, whom he also described as “the most talented guy in the division”, but that his own hard-bitten experience after nine years as a professional fighter was the telling difference.

The 34-year-old Croat also stressed that Itauma made some basic mistakes in the pacing of the fight and, for all his speed and skill, ended up brawling like an amateur in the last two rounds of a gripping battle.

▲ Moses Itauma was taken to hospital after Saturday's fight

Hrgovic said of Itauma: "My advice is to not give up. Not lose confidence, to get a few easy fights, easy wins, build again, and learn from these mistakes. You can't box like an amateur. It's a 12-round fight, man. You need to pace yourself. You need to, in every moment, be ready and, you know, it's a marathon. It's not a sprint."

Asked if it had always been his plan to take the bout into the later rounds, Hrgovic shook his head. "No, I thought I'm going to connect more from the beginning, but I couldn't match his speed. I didn't see his punches coming. I didn't see his counters coming. I thought it was going to be easier but I couldn't land."

Hrgovic pointed to the inexperience of Itauma which cost him at such a crucial period after he had built a wide lead on the scorecards. "He's just a kid. He could have boxed [at range] for the last few rounds. Use his legs, box. He was winning all the rounds. But he went toe-to-toe with me in round [nine]. It was a stupid move. But it's inexperience. He's an amazing fighter, but he's still young."

Itauma left the ring on a stretcher, after being given oxygen. At the post-fight press conference Warren said: "It's precautionary that he's gone to the hospital. That's what we always do, because the most important thing is the boxer's health. He's done something to his leg as well and he was quite tired. It was a high-paced, fast fight for both guys."

Warren, who also promotes Hrgovic, praised the Croat as "a classy champ", saying: "He's been really honest about how hard the fight was for him, too."

The weary but happy new champion spoke of how, over the years, "God tested me many times, and I endure everything". He said: "I stay strong, and he now gave me the best possible gift to win a world title against the most talented guy in the division. And there is no better way for me to become a world champion."

He offered one more note of advice for his vanquished young rival. "He's really fast but I didn't feel his power. When he knocked me down [in the second round] I wasn't hurt. I just didn't see the punches coming. I believe he'll be world champion for sure. But he needs more time."

Step up in class teaches harsh lesson

Young heavyweight must learn pacing and patience after flagging in his first bout to go beyond six rounds

Donald McRae

The end, when it came for Moses Itauma, was as shocking as it was worrying. Late on Saturday night, moving into the

championship rounds of his first world heavyweight title fight, the 21-year-old had dictated the pace and dazzled Filip Hrgovic with his speed and skill. The 34-year-old Croat admitted that he believed Itauma had won each of the first eight rounds. And yet, in the ninth, Itauma stumbled and weaved across the ring like a dazed and drunken kid. He looked spent.

Exhaustion had reduced him to the point where, as the experienced Hrgovic tore into him, Itauma also resembled a rag doll on the ropes. With the final two punches Hrgovic sunk a right into Itauma's sagging body before nailing him with a left cross. It was so clearly over in that desolate moment that three things happened almost simultaneously.

The referee jumped in to rescue the stricken fighter just as a white towel fluttered from Itauma's corner, while Hrgovic wheeled away in triumph, his right arm

raised in acknowledgment of a stunning turnaround.

There should be unstinting praise for Hrgovic's determination. He absorbed blow after blow and he was dropped only once, in the second round, when the speed of Itauma's footwork and fists meant the older man did not even see the punch. But Hrgovic got up and he never looked like the thought of defeat crossed his mind.

Itauma began to grimace with effort and to breathe heavily between rounds. It was plain that he was struggling with the demands of the pace he had set while Hrgovic kept fighting back, landing heavy shots of his own.

Over the past year Itauma had been subject to two serious and legitimate questions. Could he take a punch? Would he be brave

Plan A worked like a charm for six rounds and then Itauma ran out of puff

However, two fresh concerns emerged and, ultimately, they derailed the hype-train which had gathered such momentum. Had sufficient attention been paid to Itauma's conditioning? Did he and his corner have the tactical acumen to introduce a shift in strategy if he failed to stop Hrgovic in the first six rounds? The answers to both were a resounding no.

Itauma had won 12 of his previous 14 fights by early knockout and the two exceptions had been six-round bouts. So having to fight potentially double the length of those far easier contests against an ambitious operator would take Itauma into uncharted territory. He needed to train far harder than ever before.

in a dog-fight? Itauma provided positive answers to both queries.

But conditioning also depends on intelligence. A fighter needs to learn how to pace himself and understand when, and how, to take breathers during a draining world title fight. Ebbs and flows provide the rhythm for even a supremely conditioned boxer.

has been a world champion at four weights, lavished praise on Itauma after the fight while underlining his naivety. “Unbelievable talent and skills,” Stevenson wrote on X. “He’s young and he will be a champion one day if he learns from that. He throws every punch at 100mph and that can be a gift and a curse. Especially in the heavyweight division.”

led by his trainer Ben Davison, appears to have let him down. Apart from his lack of conditioning, Itauma lacked the guidance which would have encouraged a change in tactics. Plan A worked like a charm for six rounds and then Itauma ran out of puff and smart thinking.

I thought of another quote when I remembered the words Andy Lee said to me recently. After stressing his admiration for Itauma, the Irish trainer made a salient point: "Moses beat Jermaine Franklin in his last fight [a fifth-round stoppage]. I thought it was a spectacular knockout. But just before the knockout, there were little signs of distress which you would expect to see from a young fighter. You've landed shots that usually knock out or stop your opponent but this guy is still not going down. So I think the knockout came at the perfect time for Moses."

He stopped using the jab and just powered forward in an increasingly desperate attempt to force the stoppage. In the eighth, when Hrgovic hurt him for the first time, Itauma threw more punches than in any other round. He might have already been seven rounds up, at least in Hrgovic's own honest account, but Itauma kept hurling punches at the indomitable Croat.

Surely it would have been expedient to ease off for a few rounds, and try to gather his own dwindling energies? Hrgovic himself described Itauma's slugfest then and in the fateful ninth round as "very stupid". He said Itauma should have got on his bike and boxed at range.

It is here that Itauma's corner,

He certainly has the technical ability - so much so that Shakur Stevenson, one of the most skilful fighters on the planet and who

Lee is the best trainer in Britain and Ireland - but Itauma's corner should have paid heed to those warning signs. They should have thought more carefully about his conditioning and their tactical approach against a fighter such as Hrgovic.

Last week Itauma had repeated his familiar lament about the vagaries of fame and how he would prefer to be “left alone”. It spoke of his ambivalence towards boxing and encouraged Hrgovic to dismiss him as “a kid”.

The new champion now knows that Itauma is remarkably fast and skilful. But he also knows that no one, not even a fighter as gifted as the man he stopped in the trenches, can survive at the peak of heavyweight boxing without paying serious attention to conditioning and tactics.

Itauma can be as special as Hrgovic, Stevenson and Lee all predict but he needs to harness his natural ability to a fresh way of working. This defeat could yet be the making of him - as long as Itauma's fresh resolve can match his shimmering talent.

An erratic pitch at Lord's is far from new

The wicket was not as bad as June's and, as the MCC calls in specialists, it can reflect that matters used to be worse

Simon Burnton Lord's

The performance of the Lord's pitch during its previous Test, against New Zealand in June, was so appalling that it was followed by

an apology from the MCC and a scathing unsatisfactory rating from the International Cricket Council.

The MCC issued a statement early in the fourth innings in this Test, reassuring us “independent specialists” were “confident that there are solutions to improving pitch quality and performance”.

Sport

If the pitch being used for this game has not provoked the outcry prompted by its immediate neighbour earlier in the summer, it has still generated extravagant movement for the seamers, as well as occasional unpredictable bounce, and generally failed to silence the grumbling that has long soundtracked games here.

At least things now are better than they used to be. In 1859 Surrey turned up for a match, took one look at the pitch and left. Five years later Sussex did the same. That might not have been an option for Pakistan, but the kind of deliveries that did for Jacob Bethell against New Zealand and Emilio Gay in England's second innings here are straight out of the playbook of 160 years ago.

"At Lord's it was a common occurrence to have three shooters and the other ball out of an over of four bump right over the batsman's head," recalled Alfred Lubbock, one of the finest batters of the 1860s.

This has been a curious year for this ground, a summer of nationwide drought in which the two Lord's Tests have been affected hugely by rain and in many ways just as well: without it the first match would have been over in two days, and this one perhaps in three. In between the two games it was announced that the World Test

◀ Saud Shakeel managed 97 but no player scored a century this summer in a Test at Lord's PHILIP BROWN/GETTY IMAGES

Championship final next year will be played at the Oval, because of concerns about Lord's.

"Our ground is not alone in facing challenges around pitch preparation and the executive have had productive conversations with their counterparts at other venues facing similar challenges both within cricket and across the wider sporting world," the MCC statement added, noting that "four to six leading experts with diverse skillsets and knowledge" were

being sought to form an agronomy advisory group. Sometimes the old answers are the best answers: if in doubt, form a committee.

Some facts, then, about this summer: the dismissal of Saud Shakeel for 97 yesterday means this was the 43rd year in which Lord's has hosted two or more Tests, and the first of those in which nobody has scored a century (in fact only four batters have reached three figures if you add all their scores together, and three of them needed four innings to do it). The last year in which no names were added to the batting honours board was 1995.

Despite Shakeel's efforts, the batting average at Lord's this year, 16.57, is the lowest since 1958, when in the ground's only Test Jim Laker and Tony Lock took 14 wickets between them as New Zealand were bowled out for 47 and 74.

But if Kevin Oakley, the signwriter employed to add names to the Lord's honours boards in gilded letters, has been able to ignore half of them he has been very busy at the others: the five five-fers recorded here in Tests this year has been bettered only once, when three games were played in 2010 (Pakistan were involved in two of them, losing convincingly to both England and, in a match that marked the Test debut of the promising young leg-spinner Steve Smith, Australia).

After four County Championship games, three men's or women's Tests, two List A matches, 11 days of T20 or Hundred action - several with two games - and assorted less highfalutin action, the ground's summer is almost over. The MCC says it now intends to "establish Lord's as a global benchmark for pitch quality"; it turns out Pakistan's 389 was not the most unlikely target set in St John's Wood at the weekend.

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Cricket Second Rothesay Test

Robinson's guile central to England's demolition job and series victory

Ali Martin Lord's

Tempting as it is to wince at the state of Pakistan's Test team, England's completion of a breezy series victory with a match to spare was not entirely insignificant for Joe Root and his men given the backdrop of their chaotic summer.

Until Josh Tongue finally nicked off Mohammad Ali at 5.45pm yesterday to claim this second Test by a yawning margin of 194 runs, England had not won a series since late 2024. For Root it was his first as Test captain for more than five years. To have struggled at home against a touring side in such obvious disarray itself would have been practically to invite the sky to fall in over Lord's.

As it is, the management class that tried and failed to retain the status quo back in March have earned some breathing space before Stephen Fleming makes his belated start as Root's head coach consigliere. There are tougher challenges ahead - South Africa and Bangladesh away, a home Ashes next year - but the odd positive has still emerged from this disappointing mismatch in the interim.

Chief among them is an attack that can now claim to be first choice in conditions where seam - not least late-nipping wobble-seam - is in the ascendancy. Ollie Robinson and Jofra Archer had only ever played together at Sussex before this series. Taking 24 wickets combined across four innings since has been a promising start for a new-ball pairing that blends guile at one end with pace at the other.

Pakistan rather spluttered on this combination at the start of a highly improbable run chase that, despite Saud Shakeel's gutsy but ultimately crestfallen 97, eventually left them skittled for 194 inside 51 overs. As Mohammad Abbas sat in the away dressing room, flush with pride at getting on the Lord's honours board with a bucket-list five-wicket haul, his top order colleagues soon joined him.

For the second time in the match Imam-ul-Haq was absent with a calf injury, leaving nine wickets to claim and no doubt furthering the criticism of the opener back home. In his absence, Robinson and Archer took just 43 balls to rip up Pakistan's already Rizla-thin hopes by whipping out three for just 14 runs.

The earlier success of Abbas suggested Robinson would again be a handful and in just his third over, Jamie Smith having stepped up to the stumps almost immediately, Azan Awais and Abdullah Shafique were duly dispatched. Awais may have been a tight lbw on umpire's call but

Shafique, bowled neck and crop by one that jagged away, could have no such complaints.

In came Babar Azam and what followed was not pretty as Archer bounced him out with a brutish ball that took the top edge, ballooned off the helmet and looped into the cordon. It was the kind of dismissal that can send shockwaves through a team, not least when the captain is made to look so ungainly.

▲ Harry Brook catches Mohammad Ali in the slips off Josh Tongue

In that respect Pakistan responded well, with Saud and Shan Masood wearing blows to the shoulder and finger respectively while holding firm either side of lunch for a stand worth 97 runs in 23 overs. Saud in particular enjoyed the gaps in Root's understandably attacking field, unfurling some eye-catching cover drives.

Yet while Saud looked assured en route to a 54-ball half-century, the beam of the floodlights and the moody overheads meant it felt only a matter of time before another incision came. Root turned back to Robinson at 111 for three and saw his banker swiftly bullseye the pads of Masood for 26 and Mohammad Rizwan for one.

Robinson's return after two years in the wilderness has been an unqualified success, bringing 23 wickets at eight runs apiece - and, after figures of four for 24 to finish with eight in the match, a third successive bottle of champagne with it.

The 32-year-old, no different to his previous incarnation save for the No 1 he now sports on the back of his shirt, now sits on 99 Test wickets at 19.3. Plenty has been in Robinson's favour but it has still been the latest rejoinder to Rob Key's assertion that

Day four scoreboard

Lord's England beat Pakistan by 194 runs to lead three-match series 2-0.

England First innings 290 (JL Smith 61, JM Cox 55; Muhammad Abbas 4-73)

England Second innings (overnight 177-7)		Balls	4s	6s
DW Lawrence b Abbas	54	70	7	2
OE Robinson c Rizwan b Abbas	8	15	1	0
JC Archer not out	2	14	0	0
JC Tongue run out	12	15	2	0
Extras (b4, lb4, nb4, w5)	17

Bowling Muhammad Abbas 22-3-57-5; Khurram Shahzad 14-3-56-2; Mohammad Ali 16.2-1-70-2; Ali Usman 2-0-17-0.

Pakistan Second innings		Balls	4s	6s
Shan Masood lbw b Robinson	26	72	2	0
Azan Awais lbw b Robinson	6	14	1	0
Abdullah Shafique b Robinson	0	3	0	0
*Babar Azam c Cox b Archer	6	8	1	0
Saud Shakeel c Brook b Tongue	97	122	13	2
†Muhammad Rizwan lbw b Robinson	1	9	0	0
Ali Usman b Archer	16	44	2	0
Khurram Shahzad b Tongue	9	13	1	0
Muhammad Abbas not out	13	16	0	1
Mohammad Ali c Brook b Tongue	8	5	2	0
Imam-ul-Haq absent hurt
Extras (b4, lb6, nb1, w1)	12

Total (50 overs) 194 Fall 7, 7, 14, 111, 115, 146, 169, 176, 194. Bowling Robinson 14-5-24-4; Archer 15-1-73-2; Tongue 8-1-46-3; Atkinson 11-2-41-0; Lawrence 2-2-0-0.

◀ Ollie Robinson high-fives Jamie Smith after dismissing Pakistan's Azan Awais TOM JENKINS/THE GUARDIAN

76mph with the wicketkeeper stood up doesn't cut it at Test level.

Although after Pakistan reached 140 for five at tea, it was the airspeed of Archer and Tongue that mopped up. Among them was Saud in heartbreaking fashion, pulling Tongue for two sixes and a four during an over of bumpers before picking out deep backward square leg. Live by the Saud, die by the Saud, and all that.

The only jeopardy beyond Saud's attempt to join Abbas on the honours board was whether this rain-affected match might tip into a fifth day. But unlike Durham 24 hours earlier - denied another Saturday night on the pop when bad light paused their match against Gloucestershire with four to win - it did not come to pass.

With nine days until the third Test at Edgbaston, England could in theory knock the top off a couple of cold ones with relative impunity. But after the needless distractions in the build-up to this Test match - ie the footage of Brydon Carse in handcuffs - one suspects Root will have been keen to keep things light.

Nevertheless, at the end of a summer that has been messier than a teenager's floordrobe, Root could reflect on another small step in the right direction.

Analysis Barney Ronay Lord's

Welcome to the summer of, er, Ozball - sometimes you just get the heroes you need

E

ach age makes its own heroes. Two hours from the end of the final day of the second-last Test at the fag-end of the post-Bazball

summer, the cheer from the Lord's crowd at deep fine leg had something pointed about it, a crackle of event glamour.

Ollie Robinson turned as he ambled back and raised an arm in gladiatorial salute. "Oh Ollie Ollie, Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie Robinson" was the response from a scattered, woozy swell, again with something arch and transgressive in it, the smell of anti-hero. What are you rebelling against, Johnny? What have you got? Also, if you really want to know, buzzword culture and enforced fitness regimes. Sometimes, you just get the heroes you need.

Moments earlier, with the Lord's clock at 3.59pm, Robinson had struck Shan Masood on the front pad and stood with his arms out, bellowing plaintively, the appeal of a man who really, really wants to get back for Call the Midwife and a peri-peri chicken throb-box meal deal.

From the start this had been a Test that was less about what was going to happen, more just the question of when. Still, there was drama here, and confirmation of an extraordinary turnaround this summer for the bad boy of metronomic medium-nip.

Robinson took four of the nine wickets needed to complete England's 2-0 series win 45 minutes before the close. In doing so he took his own tally to 23 at eight across the two home Test series. Here it is then, the new age, replacement, in double-quick time, for the previous new age. Welcome to the summer of Ozball.

Robinson was irresistible again en route to his four for 24, rumbling in from the Nursery End, bulky and quietly menacing, like a wardrobe rolling gently down a hill. It is all so simple in outline. The easy, high action, the perfect seam release, head up, already feeling the pitch in his fingertips, seeking out that zinging, fizzing contact. Stump to stump, every millimetre of movement in play. Simple. You try doing it.

As we enter the new age, perhaps

From the start this had been a Test that was less about what was going to happen, more just the question of when we need a new kind of absurd absolutism, a world where the managing director of England cricket makes a passionate speech about needing a battery of slow-medium-nip bowlers, or thumps his palm and declares that not doodling it in with the keeper up to the stumps has absolutely no place in Test cricket.

The one shame here was that Robinson ended on 99 Test wickets, taking them now at the astonishing average of 19. He really does deserve a nickname by this stage. The Butcher of Margate. The Sussex Strangler. Perhaps a variation on the great fast-bowling monikers. White Drizzle. Whispering Chronic Illness. The Hove Stopping Train. Pace Like Air Conditioning.

Plus, once Robinson gets to that hundred-wicket mark he will be officially the greatest Test bowler since the first world war. Kind of. OK, not really. But the numbers are still mind-boggling.

The main case for Robinson-as-GOAT is simple enough. No pace bowler since the 19th century has ended their career with 100 wickets at a lower average. And yes, others have got to that mark at a similar rate, but Robinson is 32, he's not got to have any real decline. This is him.

Either way he can now claim to be an all-time Test great,

and nobody can really argue, or why even bother with the numbers? Odd to think Robinson was dropped a few games back because Rob Key likes pace, along with some not-being-the-right-kind-of-guy stuff. He's very good. Get the best out of him. That's the job.

Here Robinson took the new ball in the fourth innings, and just kept on looming up to the stumps like a weather front barreling in off the Ramsgate coast. There was an amusingly forthright send-off for Abdullah Shafique, knocked over by an unplayable nipp-backer, the kind of delivery where the batsman's shape makes the moment, turned around, playing for logic, the actual line, and getting instead magic, weirdness, parallax error.

At that point Robinson had six for 13 in the match, and you thought, well, why not 13 for 13? Would Pakistan actually score another run here? In the end a total of 194 was built around a splendid 97 from Saud Shakeel, who played beautifully, all swivel-pulls and courtly, kneeling cover drives, the kind of shot that brings a digestive mid-afternoon gurgle from the crowd.

Otherwise it was another slow-burn day in a slow-burn summer, a day for asking, what does it mean, why this, why here? Lord's on an autumn Sunday will do this to you. The entire Lord's industrial complex is full of places that feel like jarring tautologies. Lord's Museum. Lord's Gin Bar. Lord's Picnic Garden. It's fine. You can just say "Lord's". What else is it but a gin-soaked picnic museum? You might as well make a sign saying welcome to the Lord's red-troussered men assembly point, the Lord's cultural ossification hub.

Not that anyone minded much here, on a day where that Robinson redemption arc was confirmed as the low-key story of a low-key summer.

Joe Root leads his team off the field after wrapping up victory TOM JENKINS/THE GUARDIAN

Root's plea 'Celebrate in a sensible, grown-up way'

Simon Burnton Lord's

Joe Root has called on his players to "celebrate in a sensible, grown-up way" after they secured a first multi-game series win since 2024.

England's recent opportunities for celebration have often resulted in scandal and Root intends to end the scandals rather than the celebrations. "It's important we're not talking about [off-field matters], absolutely," he said. "But it's hard to win Test matches, it's hard to win Test series, so enjoy it and celebrate, but in a sensible, grown-up way. It's been a really good start to, I don't know what you want to call it, this new team."

It has been a difficult summer so far for Root: in nine innings he is averaging 29.44 - compared with a career average of 50.38 - and has been dismissed lbw on seven occasions, including in both innings of this game. "I've always been quite good at understanding and eventually problem-solving," he said.

"I'll continue to keep working hard. I might have been lbw a few times, but lots of those have been umpire's call - if they go the other way it might not be as much of a talking point. We've also seen the ball move more than it ever has. So there has to be a sense of calm and realism. I know I'm a good player, and I'd like to think there's a big score around the corner."

After another difficult match for the batters at Lord's, Root deflected criticism of a pitch he described as "naughty" by spinning attention instead to the balls. "I think they've been very different this year," he said. "I think there's a different lacquer. I've not got evidence on that - you probably need to ask Dukes - but I think there's lacquer on the seam.

"I think they're affecting the wickets as well. I think they're denting more. If they dent the wicket it's going to seam off the dents as well, it's going to move more. It's been challenging. Sometimes you do come across summers where it's the perfect storm: you get overcast conditions, you get a bit of rain to contend with, the balls are slightly different. But that's part of the challenge of Test cricket, being able to adapt."

Pakistan's Mohammad Abbas conceded that "everybody's not happy with this performance" but insisted the team was improving. "We were much better in this match [than in the first Test]. You can see that as time passes we are getting used to the conditions and everything is getting better," he said.

"As a team, we aren't doing well. But we are working on that. The next match will be in Birmingham, and hopefully victory will come."

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Isidor eases Sunderland nerves to increase anxiety for Arbeloa

Sunderland 1 Isidor 75 Fulham 0

Louise Taylor Stadium of Light

At the final whistle Álvaro Arbeloa provided a study in pensiveness while Régis Le Bris simply looked relieved. For protracted periods an almost palpable fear of losing formed the subtext of a match decided when two of the Sunderland manager's second-half substitutes, Habib Diarra and Wilson Isidor, combined for the latter to score.

Isidor's goal not merely supplied Sunderland with their first win of the season while leaving Arbeloa's side pointless, but also ended his side's 17-year run without a Premier League home victory against Fulham.

"It wasn't our day for sure," said Marco Silva's successor, whose team were confounded repeatedly by Sunderland's outstanding central defender Nordi Mukiele. "We need to improve many things, for sure, especially the energy and the attitude.

"It was a tough game for us. Sunderland were better for many minutes. It's not easy here. If you want to come to Sunderland and play the way you want to, then you need the right mentality. We need to show more energy and fight for every ball."

Le Bris was a little happier, saying: "We didn't create enough. Fulham were well organised but we had a good balance to manage the transitions. We had to be smart. It's a question of balancing risk and organisation."

The tone of a cagey, risk-averse first half dominated by Fulham's

- Wilson Isidor scores Sunderland's winner as a second-half substitute COLORSPORT/SHUTTERSTOCK

cautious low block was raised, albeit sporadically, by a typically industrious central-midfield performance by Sunderland's Noah Sadiki.

The visiting gameplan seemed all about counterattack but the Democratic Republic of the Congo international extinguished so many potential visiting fires that Fulham's sole real chance during the opening 45 minutes involved Josh King finding himself confounded by geometry as he miscued a tightly angled opening conjured by Alex Iwobi. Otherwise the home goalkeeper, Robin Roefs, was left pretty much undisturbed.

That apart, a slightly nervous impasse endured. Despite dominating possession, Sunderland's attacking edge proved anything but serrated, leaving Bernd Leno severely underemployed in Fulham's goal.

It all left both Le Bris and Arbeloa with much to ponder at the interval. If the watching Sunderland owner, Kyril-Louis Dreyfus, required a reminder as to why Le Bris is so keen to sign a specialist right winger and another striker before the transfer window's closure he received it.

At least Sunderland's manager had the excellent Mukiele restored to his backline following injury. The former Paris Saint-Germain defender's importance on Wearside was, not for the first time, underscored as, early in the second half his sliding challenge blocked Gonzalo García's path to a near certain goal following Sander Berge's stellar through pass. "I was really impressed with Nordi and I told him this," Le Bris said. "Nordi showed us today that he's a great player."

▲ Álvaro Arbeloa is still waiting for his first point as Fulham head coach

García, meanwhile, had scored twice in his first two games since joining Fulham from Real Madrid but found Sunderland's rearguard difficult to decode. Nonetheless, perhaps sensing that the visitors were gaining a slight initiative, Le Bris made a double substitution.

On came Diarra and Isidor for the hitherto largely ineffective Nilson Angulo and Brian Brobbey. Within minutes Sunderland should have been ahead after Enzo Le Fée played a beautiful, first-time ball across goal.

It seemed easier for the on-rushing Isidor to score than miss but, somehow, he ended up striking the base of a post and, in the technical area. Le Bris was left sinking to his knees in disappointment after making a premature celebratory leap as the delivery left Le Fée's boot. "It was such a good chance," he said. "It was such a shame."

Poor Isidor looked mortified but redemption beckoned. Just moments later he surged onto another fabulous low dispatch across the box - from Diarra this time - and atonement arrived as his high-velocity shot whizzed past Leno.

Diarra and Isidor had succeeded in breathing new life into Sunderland's suddenly much more dynamic press - not to mention capitalising on Fulham's high defensive line - but the former's cameo was to prove short-lived after an injury necessitated his replacement by Chris Rigg.

No matter, he and Isidor, had already done just enough. "Habib is so, so intense," Le Bris said. "He and Wilson changed our press, it was tactically the same just with 20-30% more energy. But the most important thing is, as we saw this afternoon, that the core of this group are very good.

"The players are all in. You can't play at this level if you're not all in and well connected with the project of the club. If we can add one or two signings that can help this group then we'll do it. But I have trust and confidence in this squad." How Arbeloa must wish he could say the same.

Sunderland 4-2-3-1 Roefs; Meunier, Mukiele, Ballard, Reinildo; Sadiki, Xhaka; Hume, Le Fée (Mundle 90), Angulo (Diarra 65; Rigg 83); Brobbey (Isidor 64) Subs not used Ellborg, Alderete, O'Nien, Talbi, Ahoka

Fulham 4-2-3-1 Leno; Castagne (Sessegnon 68), Andersen, Bassey, Robinson; Berge (Kevin 83), Iwobi; Bobb (Charles 68), King, Palacios (Smith Rowe 77); Garcia Subs not used Lecomte, Cuenca, Muniz, Reed, Zepa

Referee Michael Salisbury Attendance 46,781

Weekend talking points

Bournemouth 1 Everton 1 Deciding not to sell Harrison Armstrong will quell unrest at Everton for now, but perhaps not for long. David Moyes aligned himself with the fans threatening "a riot" should Armstrong be sold to Nottingham Forest. Selling a local boy for "pure profit" was beyond the pale. "I'd say the manager's an Evertonian," Moyes said. "Supporters aren't always wrong." His harking back to harmonious working relationships at Preston and his initial spell at Everton was pointed. A manager criticised as Everton slumped in the closing months of last season threw it back to his employers. "I have said we could do with strengthening," he said. The remainder of the transfer window may deepen battle lines. John Brewin

Coventry o Hull 1

Two games, two wins, two clean sheets: what is the secret ingredient in Hull's formula? Sergej Jakirovic said his head was exploding due to the hectic window and that his new contract remained unsigned because the ink in his office had run dry owing to 13 summer arrivals - so far. At Coventry, Hull had fewer shots and fewer touches in the opposition 18-yard box, and made 182 passes to their opponents' 501. Liam Millar's winner was courtesy of a superb counterattack and Hull played to their strengths. The striker Oli McBurnie said: "We've seen teams dominate the ball in the Championship, come into the Premier League and try to use the same style, and it's really, really difficult. It's not all about looking pretty and having a million passes." Ben Fisher

Liverpool 2 Nottingham Forest 2 It underlines the strangeness of Liverpool's recent transfer strategy that the understandable excitement generated by Bradley Barcola's impending £123m arrival is offset by concern over the gaps that have not been filled - right wing, right-back and central midfield being the most obvious ones. The need to improve in all three departments was evident as Liverpool had to fight back to salvage a late 2-2 draw for the second league game in succession. "We don't know what the squad is going to be on 2 September," Andoni Iraola said, surely hoping wingers are not the only incomings. "I think every analysis I can make is when I know and when everything finishes, when I will know who is going to be here all the season or until January." Andy Hunter

Anthony Elanga has scored in both Newcastle league games this season

Tottenham 0 Newcastle 2 Matthias Jaissle laughed when asked if he felt a responsibility to develop players already at the club before he arrived. "The job of the coach is to get the best out of your players," the Newcastle manager replied. With all the focus before this game on summer spends and squads in transition, Jaissle built victory with revitalised performances from players written off after poor seasons. Yoane Wissa led the line with ferocious energy, Anthony Elanga took his chance coolly to open the scoring. There was also an energetic showing from Joe Willock and even an assist for the maligned Nick Woltemade. New signings impressed too but Jaissle has shown he can build a team from the parts available, an achievement that can make victories feel even sweeter. Paul MacInnes

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Front three floor Brighton but Alonso seeks stability

Chelsea Lavia 4, Neto 14, João Pedro 32, Palmer 74

Brighton 3 Yalcouyé 35, João Pedro 63og, Gross 90+5 Jacob Steinberg Stamford Bridge

In the fullness of time Chelsea's surrender against Brighton in April may be seen as the turning point. The humiliation accelerated Liam Rosenior's demise and forced the Stamford Bridge hierarchy into a reckoning leading to the appointment of Xabi Alonso, a shift in transfer strategy, the birth of the JP Morgan front three and the end of Robert Sánchez's time in goal.

For now, though, the argument that Emiliano Martínez is the final piece in the jigsaw seems a touch premature. With seven goals scored and five conceded while winning their first two league games, it is not hard to see where Chelsea need to improve in order to sustain a title challenge. They have to be savvier when ahead, and although the good has so far outweighed the bad Alonso could do with his side not dropping their guard when they have the opposition on the ropes.

Alonso's cool disappeared as Chelsea's focus dipped after they went 3-0 up against an injury-hit Brighton inside 32 minutes. Stamford Bridge was anxious when a João Pedro own-goal cut the advantage to one just after the hour. Alonso was shouting at his bench and it was only when Cole Palmer scored with 16 minutes left that calm was restored. Not for long, mind you, given that Brighton still managed to grab a consolation through Pascal Gross deep into added time.

It was that kind of game, Martínez conceding three despite playing well on his debut after joining from Aston Villa for £7.5m. "We can hurt teams," the Argentina goalkeeper said. "At the back, we need to bring the goals down."

Alonso agreed. Chelsea have been thrilling in transition - they beat Fulham with 37% possession last Monday and had only 26% against Brighton - but they must tighten up when they visit Arsenal on Sunday.

Equally, few sights will be more captivating this season than Palmer combining with João Pedro and Morgan Rogers in attack. Palmer looks refreshed after a summer off and Chelsea will be dangerous when games turn into shootouts. They have so many ways to score. The hope is that there will be more stability with Martínez in position.

Alonso did not hesitate to start Martínez, even though the Argentinian lacks match practice and joined on Friday. "He felt ready," Alonso said of Martínez, the first 30-something player to start for Chelsea since Thiago Silva in May 2024. "We will feel his presence because he has this charisma, this aura to influence."

Chelsea, again in a 3-4-2-1 system, are getting serious. Sánchez was not even on the bench against his old side and needs to leave. There was a huge ovation for Martínez before kick-off and it was followed by the focus switching to Brighton's No 1 in the fourth minute, a handling error from Bart Verbruggen allowing

Roméo Lavia to put Chelsea ahead after Mats Wieffer had cleared a João Pedro header off the line from a corner.

It was a lovely moment for Lavia. It was four years to the day since the Belgian's last goal, against Chelsea coincidentally enough. His luck with injuries is hopefully turning.

Lavia starting his second consecutive league game was important with Chelsea light in midfield. Moisés Caicedo limped off after coming on in the second half, Reece James started on the bench and Enzo Fernández was off pining for a move to Manchester City, so Malo Gusto moved in from right wing-back to partner Lavia.

Chelsea's selection issues were nothing compared to Brighton's problems, though. Fabian Hürzeler did not use the absence of Jack Hinshelwood, Yasin Ayari, Georginio Rutter, Kaoru Mitoma and Yankuba Minteh as an excuse, but it had an impact.

Chelsea were rampant. Rogers continued his fine start after joining from Villa, creating the second goal with a powerful surge away from Luka Vuskovic in the 14th minute. Brighton were caught cold by a throw-in and Rogers crossed for Pedro Neto to score.

Linked with a move away this summer, Neto has been repurposed by Alonso as a wing-back and was bright. João Pedro missed a chance after strong pressing from the Portugal international. The away end jeered but João Pedro converted his next opportunity, when a Rogers flick sent Jorrel Hato flying down the left to set the former Brighton striker up.

Chelsea's mistake was thinking it was over. Brighton responded before half-time, Malick Yalcouyé volleying in after Martínez made a brave block from Charalampos Kostoulas. "They showed belief in their quality," Hürzeler said of his players.

The German thought Brighton deserved more. Chelsea were wobbling when João Pedro diverted a Gross cross past Martínez. Diego Gómez then lashed a shot wide and Martínez denied Olivier Boscagli the equaliser.

Alonso needed his big players to step up. Palmer, who had earlier sidefooted over from close range, delivered when he took a João Pedro flick and bent a shot past Verbruggen. Chelsea will be anything but dull.

Chelsea 3-4-2-1 Martinez; Lacroix, Fofana (Acheampong 68), Colwill (Chavarria 72); Neto (Caicedo 68; Barco 82), Gusto, Lavia (James 68), Hato; Palmer, Rogers; João Pedro Subs not used Penders, Estêvão, Gittens, Welbeck

Brighton 4-2-3-1 Verbruggen; Wieffer (Costinha 80), Vuskovic, Dunk , Kadioglu; Boscagli , Gross; Gómez, Yalcouyé (Osman 74), De Cuyper; Kostoulas (David 80) Subs not used Steele, Struijk, Hadjam,, Cozier-Duberry, O'Riley, Oriola

Referee Michael Oliver Attendance 39,494

Roméo Lavia gives Chelsea an early lead after an error from Bart Verbruggen DARREN WALSH/CHELSEA FC VIA GETTY

Chelsea and Villa enemies despite deals, insists Emery

Ben Fisher

Unai Emery has said Aston Villa and Chelsea are enemies rather than friends, insisting the clubs want to "kill" each other despite regularly doing business in recent years.

Emiliano Martínez became the latest player to move between the clubs, after Chelsea paid £117m to sign Morgan Rogers from Villa this summer. Nicolas Jackson, who could become Villa's record signing after joining in a deal worth up to £65m, and Alejandro Garnacho both joined Villa from Chelsea in this window, the latter on a loan deal with a conditional obligation to buy.

The fee for Rogers was a record for a British player, while the clubs agreed a £7.5m deal for Martínez, who for a second successive season expressed his desire to leave Villa Park. Austin MacPhee, the set-piece coach who was among a trio of Emery's core staff to leave this summer, also joined Chelsea from Villa.

Last year, Villa signed Axel Disasi on loan from Chelsea and in 2024 paid £37.5m to sign Ian Maatsen permanently from the London club. Carney Chukwuemeka and Omari Kellyman, now of Borussia Dortmund and Strasbourg respectively, moved in the opposite direction in previous seasons, in 2022 and 2024 respectively.

Emery played down the notion that Villa enjoy good relations with Chelsea. "The relationship is only through the deals - for money, for other players," he said. "They want to kill us. And we want to kill them ... it is not a good relationship."

Villa host Arsenal tonight hoping to bounce back from a chastening 4-0 defeat at Brighton. Emery could hand Jackson, Leon Goretzka and Zion Suzuki debuts at Villa Park. "I know we must rebuild the team," Villa's manager said. "We will need time. But we must compete on Monday. We needed to compete last Sunday in Brighton but we didn't compete. We are working every day as fast as possible to be ready."

Watkins completes move

Ollie Watkins has thanked Aston Villa fans “from the bottom of my heart” after joining Al-Hilal on a three-year deal. The England striker sealed a £50m move to Saudi Arabia yesterday, a week after controversially sitting out Villa’s season-opening match at Brighton, which ended in a 4-0 defeat. Watkins said in an Instagram message that he had never intended for his time at Villa to end on a sour note and added: “It’s time for a new chapter that I’m excited about. However, I close this chapter with a heavy heart. Villa will always mean so much to me.” PA Media

Bustling Brentford force Farke to change his ways

Leeds Calvert-Lewin 79

Brentford

Schade 41

Aaron Bower Elland Road

These nascent moments of the new season can often provide false hope but, as both sets of players shook hands after what was indisputably the correct result at Elland Road, it was difficult not to imagine we had just witnessed a contest between two sides that should have lofty ambitions for the months ahead.

Leeds and Brentford were victorious on the opening weekend in differing circumstances. Leeds crafted a hard-earned but ultimately deserved win at Nottingham Forest, while Brentford dismantled Tottenham. Time will tell what the ceiling of both these sides is but, as they each continued their unbeaten starts here, hopes should be high.

This was a thoroughly entertaining game but it was also an occasion in which both managers, as well as the players, displayed their importance to their respective clubs. Managers are scrutinised at every turn but Daniel Farke and Keith Andrews both excelled here. Both have had question marks as to whether they were the right man to take their team forward: Andrews when he was appointed just over a year ago, and Farke in the difficult early stages of last season.

Andrews's tactical nous was at its peak in the first half. He nullified the Leeds back five and his team led at half-time and probably should have been more than a single goal in front. Kevin Schade's wonderful flick to turn home a Keane Lewis-Potter cross was the least the visitors deserved.

However, Farke showed his own tactical flexibility at the break. The German was under immense pressure last November and at real risk of losing his job before a move to a back five away at Manchester City proved the catalyst to transform Leeds's season. He did the reverse here, going back to a four and matching Brentford in the second half to great effect.

Spearheaded by the impact of Ao Tanaka and Lukas Nmecha, both on as substitutes, the hosts were the stronger of the two sides after half-time. They got the equaliser their play deserved when Nmecha's shot across goal was prodded home by Dominic Calvert-Lewin to ensure it would be a point apiece, and four from the first two for both sides.

The early evidence overall? Leeds

Dominic Calvert- Lewin converts to earn his side a point JASON CAIRNDUFF/ ACTION IMAGES/ REUTERS

and Brentford should both be looking upwards this season. "It's definitely a good point," Farke said. "It was a very difficult and complicated game like we expected. Brentford were excellent in the first half and deserved to be in the lead, but I'm so proud of our reaction."

His side struggled to get to grips with Brentford's shape in the first half. Ethan Ampadu and Anton Stach were overrun in midfield, with the visitors' three of Vitaly Janelt, Mamadou Sangaré and Mikkel Damsgaard running riot. James Trafford was called into action on multiple occasions, with smart saves to deny Igor Thiago and Schade.

Such was the strength of Brentford's momentum that a goal felt inevitable. It duly arrived as half-time approached when Lewis-Potter's cross caught the Leeds backline off-guard and Schade, with his back to goal, turned the ball home to silence Elland Road. As mentioned, perhaps the biggest gripe at that stage was that Brentford's lead wasn't greater. "I thought we could have done more in the first half," Andrews said.

"We could have tested Trafford more but we were outstanding. The storm was always going to come and they were forced into making changes they haven't done for quite some time."

Those changes were pivotal. The back five was abandoned, with Leeds adding Tanaka as an extra man in mid-field. It provided an instant impact, with the balance of play shifting the way of the hosts. James Justin forced a clever save from Caoimhín Kelleher before Dan James, on as a substitute, arguably could have done better after being set free on halfway.

In contrast, Brentford were struggling without as much space in the middle, with Igor Thiago cutting a slightly isolated and frustrated figure. The Leeds supporters, sensing the momentum was now with them, were beginning to come alive - as were their team.

Farke tweaked things further, with Nmecha providing direct support for Calvert-Lewin, and the duo combined with 11 minutes remaining. Nmecha dragged a shot across goal to leave Kelleher flat-footed, with Calvert-Lewin poking into the empty net for his first of the season.

A draw was the least Leeds deserved. Both sides showed their ambition by pushing for a winner, though they cancelled each other out in the final moments to underline further that these are two teams who should think positively about what lies ahead.

Leeds 3-4-2-1 Trafford; Rodon (Elvedi 34), Bijol (Tanaka ht), Muharemovic; Bogle (James 68), Ampadu, Stach, Justin; Aaronson (Wilson ht), Okafor (Nmecha 69); Calvert-Lewin Subs not used Gnonto, Gudmundsson, Cairns, Longstaff

Brentford 4-2-3-1 Kelleher; Kayode (Wilson 88), Ajer, Collins, Lewis-Potter (Henry 88); Sangaré, Janelt; Anthony (Ouattara 61), Damsgaard (Yarmoliuk 69), Schade (Hickey 88); Thiago Subs not used Diouf, Carvalho, Schuster, Valdimarsson

Referee Tony Harrington Attendance 35,974

Football In brief

William Hill Scottish Premiership McInnes relieved after first league victory

A hard-fought 1-0 win at Aberdeen gave Derek McInnes his first league win as Rangers manager. He was under pressure after two wins in seven matches overall since moving from Hearts and exits from the Europa League qualifiers and, on Thursday, the Conference League in the playoff round. A Lawrence Shankland penalty after 69 minutes proved decisive at Pittodrie, while Aberdeen had an equaliser ruled out by the video assistant referee. McInnes said: "Any sort of win today was vitally important for obvious reasons. So the fact of the matter is we've won a tough away game, and deservedly so." Elsewhere, Hibernian won 2-1 at Dundee and the debutant Jardell Kanga scored a stoppage-time equaliser to earn Motherwell a 3-3 draw at St Mirren. PA Media

La Liga Bellingham punishes Málaga with 'freedom'

Jude Bellingham and Kylian Mbappé both scored as Real Madrid's perfect start to La Liga under José Mourinho continued in a 4-0 cruise against Málaga. Los Blancos scored three times in just over 10 minutes in the first half to open up a comfortable lead over their visitors. The Málaga goalkeeper, Alfonso Herrero, put the ball in his own net between Bellingham's and Mbappé's goals, while Arda Guler tapped in a fourth late on. "I've got the freedom to go higher or lower if we need, I'm enjoying myself a lot," Bellingham said of his attacking midfield role under Mourinho. AFP

Football politics Dutch FA wants summit to reimagine Fifa

The Dutch football association (KNVB) wants to host an international summit to overhaul Fifa completely and called for Gianni Infantino to be replaced as the organisation's president by 2027 as part of sweeping reforms. A KNVB statement said: "A new president alone is not enough. The way Fifa is governed must change as well." Reuters

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Fernandes hat-trick inspires United to fight back and thrash Ipswich

To follow the claiming of both the major footballer of the year awards by scoring a hat-trick in Manchester United's first home game was some Bruno Fernandes act, and points to an intent to continue his stellar form of last season.

Ipswich came to scythe through Michael Carrick's side via the pace of Julio Enciso, Abdul Fatawu and Daizen Maeda, and when Leif Davis gave them a 29th-minute lead victory looked on. However, the contest turned with Marcelino Núñez's slip as the break neared. Suddenly Fernandes was rifling in a left-foot bullet and from this point on United cuffed Gary O'Neil's team aside.

In 12 second-half minutes United scored three times - the first a somewhat contentious Jacob Greaves own goal, the next a penalty and then a close-range finish from Fernandes, strikes that made it three for the day for him. Bryan Mbeumo made it five from range on 82 minutes.

Carrick was emphatic that the pathetic 2-0 downing at Hull last week was “just one game” and he was proved correct – at least for now. But Davis’s opener derived from holes being punched in the rearguard, and Ipswich’s added-time consolation came from sloppy defending by Lisandro Martínez that allowed Enciso to set up Chuba Akpom.

But having the Professional Footballers' Association's player of the year and the Football Writers' footballer of the year leading the side is a boon. If Fernandes shines so, too, usually do United.

The Hull horror show caused Carrick to make four changes. Out went Ayden Heaven, Noussair Mazraoui, Andrey Santos and Patrick Dorgu; in came Martínez, Diogo Dalot, Kobbie Mainoo and Marcus Rashford, who was starting a United league game for the first time since 1 December 2024 when he scored twice here in a 4-0 win against Everton.

Operating in his favoured wide-left berth, Rashford took a first shot that deflected into Kjell Scherpen's hands. Then Ipswich's No 1 gazed skywards as Matheus Cunha's effort sailed high, the chance made by Rashford's dribble and layoff.

Ipswich's fine opening-day win against Sunderland convinced O'Neil to retain that starting XI and, after knocking Leicester out of the Carabao Cup in midweek with a much-changed team, they were in a buoyant mood. Their challenge was to end a run of seven league games against United without a win; Maeda's blistering run down the left and cross gave a clue about their plans.

Enciso then careered 60 yards towards Senne Lammens in a

footrace with Mbeumo and Luke Shaw. This came after Rashford's loose ball could be hacked upfield; United's left-back and right-winger did well not to foul the Paraguayan, so, too, Lammens when saving his attempt. From the rebound United broke instantly in a foray that featured Rashford seeing the ball slide agonisingly past as he sought to poke home, and Fernandes's effort being blocked. The tempo was high, the speed of thought similar. Davis's knifing ball cut United apart, Maeda raced forward, and Lammens flew left to tip away a goal-bound shot.

Now came jubilant cries of "One-nil to the Tractor Boys" as Ipswich scored an excellent opener that was poor from Shaw. Along the right, Fatawu ghosted past the defender and picked out the lurking Davis who rifled in off the bar to leave Carrick turning and shaking his head. Shaw's sluggishness was emblematic of a soporific backline. Another example came when Davis was, again, free to take aim; Lammens saved the header but the alarm clanged.

So Ipswich, in the ascendancy, should not slip up - which is precisely what Núñez did inside United territory. Cunha put in the sprinting Fernandes, who left Scherpen a statue.

After half-time, United exerted control. Rat-a-tat-tat went a sequence that involved Mainoo, Youri Tielemans and Fernandes and moved them into the penalty area. This impressed, as did a leaping Rashford who turned Dalot's diagonal back across goal only for Mbeumo to hit the bar.

Carrick's team had transformed from a bitty side to a more flowing one. The net result: two goals that pulled them into a 3-1 lead.

A cohesive attack finished with Harry Maguire's shot rebounding in off Greaves's foot. Maguire's hands touched the ball in the movement

◀ Bruno Fernandes scored three and set up one to end any thoughts of another Manchester United loss to a promoted team ROBBIE JAY BARRATT/ GETTY IMAGES

Referee Craig Pawson Attendance 74,148

Analysis

Manchester United 4-2-3-1 Lammens; Dalot (Yoro 74), Maguire, Martinez, Shaw (Mazraoui 73); Tielemans, Mainoo (Santos 80); Rashford (Dorgu 80), Fernandes, Mbeumo; Cunha (Sesko 80) Subs not used Darlow, Heaven, Lacey, Zirkzee

Will Unwin Old Trafford

As cascading rain showed up the leak in the roof over the Stretford End, Mbeumo lobbed the onrushing Scherpen from about 40 yards into Ipswich's goal there, to unified home delight. Next came Martínez's blunder, but after lightning the downpour ceased and the final whistle was greeted by applause. United last hit five in the league in the opening game of 2021-22, in a 5-1 win against Leeds at Old Trafford. What Carrick must ensure now is consistency.

Ipswich, dizzied, now conceded a penalty. Slick Mainoo work released Cunha and, as he entered the area, Greaves brought him down, earning a yellow card. Fernandes swept home from the spot, beating Scherpen to the keeper's right. Fernandes's third arrived in the 66th minute. Mainoo and Mbeumo saw shots repelled before the captain, benefiting from a ricochet, racked up his team's fourth - and his hat-trick - with aplomb, scoring in the far right corner.

Ipswich 4-2-3-1 Scherpen; O'Shea, Diop, Greaves , Davis; Lukic (Quattara 73), Núñez (Palacios 62); Fatawu (McAteer 83), Enciso, Maeda (Furlong 73); Emersonn (Akpom ht) Subs not used Walton, Egeli, Kipré, Clarke

Rashford's return feels like a marriage of convenience

that brought it under control yet the video assistant referee ruled this legal, as it was accidental.

The first chant of the match was for Marcus Rashford, Manchester United's returning rogue son, the one banished for

18 months, first to the Midlands and then Catalonia. Every football fan loves an academy product who has risen up the ranks, from scrawny child to getting 76,000 off their seats. Rashford is one of these, living out the dream of everyone inside Old Trafford and they are willing to forgive but want something in return.

chance was created as United fired blanks, but yesterday, 33 shots were attempted, 11 of those on target. It was a display of greater intent, energy and productivity, but a long way from flawless as Ipswich were given chances to capitalise on. One reason United were able to cause problems in the second half was down to Rashford and Mbeumo being relentless, occupying defenders and, ultimately, tiring minds and legs with United in the ascendancy.

Not since 7 December 2024 has Rashford been seen in red at Old Trafford. Then it was as a substitute forlornly trying to turn things around in an eventual 3-2 defeat by Nottingham Forest. His relationship with Ruben Amorim was already deteriorating, the second head coach to have become irritated with Rashford. After loans with Aston Villa and Barcelona, everyone is surprised to see him back; it feels like a marriage of convenience because of a lack of offers and securing a replacement was deemed complex.

While Bruno Fernandes takes the headlines with his hat-trick, everyone knows United cannot rely on one man, however influential he may be. Following Fernandes's example has not always been part of the Rashford playbook but seeing his influence on a team should offer some inspiration for the England international to reach the levels he and United expect. Rashford was certainly not at his best but his head remained high, making runs into dangerous areas, even if the chances of reaching the ball were somewhat forlorn.

can go either way, pushing past a defender to reach the byline or cut in. He tried both, creating dangerous situations with his crossing but without a striker capable of finding the finish.

"Really pleased with Marcus, I am sure it was nice for him to be back and start games and be involved in a good performance," Carrick said. "I thought he did particularly well in not easy circumstances. I thought he did all round good and will only get better."

Finishing without a goal or assist when five were scored may irk Rashford but reputations cannot be rebuilt completely in 80 minutes. Willingness needs to be the bare minimum because it will be a long season for United and everyone will need to play their part. On another day, Bryan Mbeumo would not have turned Rashford's cross on to the bar from a yard out or his saved shot would have beaten the goalkeeper.

Rashford is United's No 9 in squad number only, as Carrick is opting to use Benjamin Sesko from the start. When the Slovene is fully fit, a different dimension will be added to the attack, a player used to finishing crosses, which will help Rashford - and others - to thrive. After a year alongside Robert Lewandowski, Rashford is used to having a clinical finisher waiting for service and having an out-and-out striker would benefit him.

Even if few expected Rashford and United to continue their alliance, they are back together. Harmony is not completely restored but both have shown they can make things work. The good times and the bad are remembered by both, from the debut goals against Midtjylland to the fallout with Amorim, Rashford's United story is a rich tapestry, and it is not over yet.

At Hull, Rashford came on at the break for Patrick Dorgu but floundered down blind alleys as he tried to spark a listless team into action. The truth is, Michael Carrick needs someone of Rashford's experience and quality to be at the forefront of this latest attempt of building a successful era. He cannot have any off-field misdemeanours or sulking on the pitch.

Carrick is more willing to put an arm around the shoulder, understanding of the pressures that come with playing for United. That is increased when the situation is dire, being behind at home against a promoted club a week after being beaten by another. It is a test of character, one United have failed too often in recent times.

Rashford's ability has never been doubted: this is someone who did not look out of place at Barcelona and spent the summer playing for his country at the World Cup. In the buildup to the tournament, he went away and worked privately, inviting former teammates to help him to train in Miami, showing a dedication to his craft.

At 28, he should be a leader and Carrick is giving him the opportunity to be one. United have the teenagers Shea Lacey and JJ Gabriel waiting for opportunities, and Rashford is someone they can learn from, having witnessed more than most. He started brightly against Ipswich on the left wing, with United eager to target Dara O'Shea on that side. Rashford

Against Hull, barely a clearcut

Marcus Rashford last played for Manchester United at Old Trafford in December 2024

'Doing that at home is something I'm proud of'

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different emotions, different things. He's got a lot of experience to pass on and show them the way a little bit, and lead by example, help in different moments.

"Times like today - when you're looking towards certain players to give us that little bit of something, and he did that particularly well."

Fernandes's hat-trick came after he won the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year on Tuesday, which followed him also winning the Football Writers' Player of the Year. He said: "It was a massive result. We lost three points last week. First game at home, the fans have been waiting for this. It's not to make up for last week, you can't get six points from it.

"Scoring before half-time is always important if it's to get on top of the game or draw the game. We were in control of the game. In the second half, we were very good. Scoring goals is the best feeling in football. Doing a hat-trick at home with our fans is something I'm proud of. I hope I can do much more and help my teammate score goals too."

Marcus Rashford started for United in the league for the first time since 1 December 2024 and impressed as United recorded 33 shots, their most since 38 against Burnley in 2016. The manager said: "Really pleased with Marcus. I am sure it was nice for him to be back and start games and be involved in a good performance. He will only get better."

Kobbie Mainoo also made a first start of the season. Carrick was asked how the midfielder could develop his game. "On today's performance, not much really. I thought he was pretty much all-around very good for a first start back," said Carrick. "I understand Bruno will get a lot of credit, and he deserves that as well, but I thought Kobbie was immense in the middle of the pitch for us and underpinned the performance of the team."

Greaves' own goal came after Harry Maguire had handled the ball then struck a shot that was going off-target, only for it to deflect in off the defender. The video assistant referee ruled the goal legal as Maguire did not score, which baffled Gary O'Neil. Ipswich's manager said: "I was stood there and thought: 'That is definitely getting disallowed,' and then I thought: 'What if Maguire's shot is not going in?'"

'Every team gets beat - you've got to deal with the setback'

Michael Carrick United's head coach

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Bouncing back

Carrick hails United's grit as Fernandes hat-trick sparks rout

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A delighted Michael Carrick praised how Manchester United bounced back from the opening-weekend defeat at Hull with their 5-2 rout of Ipswich.

Bruno Fernandes's hat-trick, scored in the 40th, 61st and 68th minutes, ensured United's comeback win after Leif Davis's opener. A Jacob Greaves own goal after 56 minutes and Bryan Mbeumo's 82nd-minute strike completed the home scoring, Chuka Akpom's added-time finish giving Ipswich their second.

Michael Carrick praised Bruno Fernandes for his leadership against Ipswich*

This was the first time United had scored five in the Premier League since the opening day of the 2021-22 season, a 5-1 home win over Leeds that also included a Fernandes hat-trick.

Carrick was delighted by the manner of United's reaction to last week's disappointing 2-0 defeat at Hull. "It's a week in football, isn't it? The ups and downs," said the manager. "The biggest pleasing thing was - we spoke about in the week, about dealing with setbacks if you want to be a successful team. Every team gets beat. You've got to deal with setbacks, whether that's momentum in the game, whether that's a goal, whether that's losing a game or a run of games, whatever it may be. You've got to deal with the setback.

"We spoke before about trying to overcome last week, and then we took a mini setback if you like, going a goal behind. But showing stubbornness, belief, confidence, and togetherness the boys showed at that stage - in a small part, because we're so early in the season - I think that was really pleasing for me. The way they bounced back, that's probably the biggest thing to take. There's a lot of highlights, but that mentality was what we really relied on today."

Of Fernandes, who has led the side since January 2020, Carrick said: "He means a lot to us. He's the captain, he's been here for a good number of years now. He's experienced a whole load of 43

Arteta 'begs' league to make matchday squads bigger

Sam Cunningham

Arsenal have asked the Premier League to increase the size of match-day squads, with Mikel Arteta saying the current system is detrimental to player welfare. Top-flight clubs can name 20 players for games, including a minimum of three homegrown players. In Spain's La Liga, clubs can name a matchday squad of 23, while Italy's Serie A allows 25.

Arsenal have competed on multiple fronts in recent seasons. With players facing more matches, Arteta sees no reason why English teams should operate with smaller squads than those from other European leagues.

"I've been begging the Premier League if we can extend those numbers just for the welfare of the players, which is the most important thing, because I think every squad needs more than 20 outfield players to sustain the level of demand in international games that we have," Arteta said, as he prepares for the champions' trip to Aston Villa tonight.

Clubs can register a squad of 25 senior players - those aged over 21 - for the season. As a result, five senior players registered for the season miss out each game. Arteta has said it can be difficult to tell players they are not involved and that the news can negatively affect their wellbeing.

"The question has to be to the players. What do they want? If they say: 'No, I prefer to stay at home and not travel,' I think we have an issue because then they don't love what they do, which is the matchday," he said. "But I'm sure if you ask the players, everybody would like to be part of the squad on matchday.

"You have to tell somebody: 'You are not even part of this matchday,' and that's really tough. And it doesn't help anybody ... It's a real issue that has a really simple solution."

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