The Mail's reporting trainees. Back row: Henry Jones, Molly Clayton, Az Munrallee and Emma Loffhagen (Evening Standard). Front row: Sam Merriman, Archie Mitchell (with the Sancerre) and Elliot Mulligan.
I said farewell to the Daily Mail reporting trainees today. They now go to the Mail newsrooms in London, Dublin, Glasgow and the Evening Standard offices in London. They are a bright and likeable bunch. I wish them well and look forward to their success stories. The trainee subs have another week to go. The trainees had some first class sessions this week. Editor Geordie Greig talked about his vision, offered advice, inspired them and took questions. Neil Darbyshire looked at leader writing, Ailsa Leslie shared the secrets of MailPlus, Eleanor Hayward talked about her journey from trainee to health reporter and two of last year’s trainees, Helena Kelly and Kumail Jaffer, gave tips on what to expect next. The subs laid out Mail pages with guidance from Mike Brough and did long-form subbing with Fiona Webster. Everyone also wrote travel features and Emma Loffhagen became the first to be published with a look inside North Korea's hotels. Read it here.
We finished, as usual, with the newsquiz. Archie Mitchell won for the third week in a row with a score of 18 and collected the prize bottle of Sancerre. He was narrowly ahead of Alex Jennings on 17.5 and Katie Jenkins and the Standard's Emma Loffhagen on 17. The top solo online score last week was 21 by Janet Boyle, just ahead of Jamie Johnson on 20. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with 20.5 with Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 20. Here is this week’s quiz. Give it a go and see if you can beat Archie’s score.
A selection of today's front pages
1. In his party conference speech PM Boris Johnson said: ‘In 1942, when just about everything had gone wrong, the Government sketched out a vision of the postwar new ___ that they wanted to build. And that is what we are doing now – in the teeth of this pandemic.’ What is the missing word?2. Who lavished praise on Boris Johnson at the Tory Party conference saying he was a 'close personal friend’, 'rare' communicator, had 'got the big calls right', and added that his daughters loved the Prime Minister’s dog Dilyn?
3. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced that pubs in the country’s central belt, including Glasgow and Edinburgh, will close from tonight (Friday) for how many days?
4. What is the name of the hospital where US President Donald Trump was taken after being diagnosed with Covid-19?
5. US President Donald Trump claimed that contracting the coronavirus was a 'blessing from God' and vowed to make an experimental antibody drug free for all Covid patients. What is the drug called?
6. The Great ___ Declaration was published this week calling for young people to be allowed to return to life as normal while the elderly and most vulnerable are given 'focused protection’. What is the missing word?
7. Which company announced it was temporarily suspending operations at all of its 536 Regal theatres and its 127 Picturehouse theatres in the UK?
8. Five Greek islands have been taken off the self-isolation list from 4am tomorrow. Zakynthos, Tinos and Serifos are three of them. Name the other two.
9. EasyJet warned it faces losses of more than £800million this year - its first loss in how many years?
10. Tammy Abraham and which other two footballers were told to delay their arrival at England's training camp after breaking the rule of six by attending a party for Abraham’s birthday? Half a point for each.
11. Which company said it was cutting 800 jobs, after tighter lockdown restrictions meant that 79 of its pubs will stay closed, with about one third expected to be shut permanently?
12. A trial at the Old Bailey heard that how many Vietnamese migrants, including three children, died in a shipping container on board a ferry from Belgium?
13. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, at the virtual Tory party conference, promised to power every home in the UK with offshore wind energy by what year?
14. A personal trainer who launched a workout based on what theme 'wholeheartedly' apologised for a 'very ill-judged post' on the PureGym Facebook account? 15. Two female scientists, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, became the first two women to share what?
16. Author Tom Bower, in a book serialised in the Mail on Sunday, claimed that Boris Johnson’s father Stanley broke the Prime Minister’s mother’s nose. What is the book called?
17. Police issued warnings to students after three suspected drug-related deaths at universities in which city?
18. A medical practitioners tribunal heard that former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman destroyed what with 'a screwdriver or blunt instrument' before handing it to forensic experts?
19. Walmart sold its majority share in Asda to brothers Zuber and Mohsin Issa from Blackburn. How did the brothers make their money?
20. Former Guardian and broadcast journalist Allegra Stratton was appointed to which role?
21. Eddie Van Halen, who died this week aged 65, was once ranked as the Greatest Guitarist of All Time and played the solo on which Michael Jackson single?
22. Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil offered to pay the salary of Jerry Quy who is also known by what name?
23. Actress Dawn French, on the eve of her 63rd birthday, said ‘I’ve gone back to being an entire ___’. What is the missing word?
24. Which professional dancer has Nicola Adams reportedly been paired with for the first ever same-sex dance partner in this year’s Strictly Come Dancing?
25. Which BBC TV programme is returning as a reboot on Channel 4 with Davina McCall as the new host.
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