Trainee Daisy wins newsquiz champagne

Trainee (from left): Dolly Busby, Bill Bowkett, Daisy Graham-Brown with the champagne, Aadam Patel, Issy Stanley, Sophie Mitchell and, in the inset, Maya Wilson Autzen

I said farewell to the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday trainees today. They now go to the Mail newsrooms in London, Dublin, Glasgow and the Evening Standard on placement. They are a bright and likeable bunch. I wish them well and look forward to their success stories. The trainees had some first class sessions this week. On Monday they had safety awareness training from Charlie McGrath and Grant Wootton. They also had a session with digital editor Ailsa Leslie who talked about MailPlus and showed them how to use the Glide software. They then covered a breaking story in real time, built it for MailPlus and had their work assessed by production editor Chris Dean. They also enjoyed talks by Susie Coen from the investigations team and deputy political editor John Stevens. Aadam Patel racked up more bylines including his report from the ODI at Headingley.

Last night we had farewell drinks in the Greyhound. We finished the week, as always, with the newsquiz. This week’s winner was Daisy Graham-Brown with 18, ahead of Aadam on 16. The top scorer over the three weeks was Daisy who won the Champagne.
In last week’s quiz the top solo scorer was Tom Savage with 20, ahead of Stuart Bagnall and Aadam Patel on 19, Daisy Graham-Brown and Jayme Bryla on 18 and Robert Rea on 16. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with 21, Marguerite Turner’s team and the Three Legs drinkers (Bryan, Heather, Kevin, Mandy, Peter, Stacey and Jim) both on 19, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 17 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 16. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score. 

Today's front pages

1. What is the name of the TalkTV political editor who fainted during the televised Tory leadership debate?
2. In an apparent change of strategy, Tory leadership hopeful Rishi Sunak pledged to scrap VAT on what next year?
3. The televised Tory leadership debate on the BBC, hosted by Sophie Raworth, was broadcast from which city?
4. Culture secretary Nadine Dorries tweeted about the Tory leadership contest, saying: 'Liz Truss⁩ will be travelling the country wearing her ___ which cost circa £4.50 from Claire Accessories. Meanwhile Rishi visits Teesside in Prada shoes worth £450 and sported a £3,500 bespoke suit.’ What is the missing word?
5. The cost of living crunch meant a McDonald’s cheeseburger went up to £1.19 from 99p, a price it had been for how many years?
6. Doug Bannister, the chief executive of the Port of Dover, said it was 'absolutely true' that what was the main cause of the chaos at the border over the weekend?
7. What is the name of the junior shadow transport minister, who joined striking rail workers on a picket line, who was fired by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer for 'making unauthorised media appearances’?
8. England’s Lionesses beat Sweden 4-0 in the Euro 2022 semi-final at which football stadium?
9. Who scored England’s third goal against Sweden in the Euro 2022 semi-final with a back-heel?
10. The judge in the Wagatha Christie case, ruling that Rebekah Vardy had not been libelled by Coleen Rooney, said it was likely that Vardy had deleted her WhatsApp chat with her agent Caroline Watt and the phone was deliberately dropped where?

11. James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist and creator of what theory, that the Earth acts as a single living organism, died aged 103?
12. Former Northern Ireland first minister Lord Trimble, an architect of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, who died aged 77, was leader of which political party from 1995 to 2005?
13. UK holidaymakers travelling to Spain may now have to prove they have how many euros per day to spend on their visit?
14. Broadcaster Nicky Campbell revealed that he was the victim of abuse at a private school in which city during the 1970s?
15. Why did the life sentencing of 25-year-old Ben Oliver at the Old Bailey make legal history?
16. Why was eight-year-old Tess Dolan in the headlines?
17. Who reached the UK charts Top Ten in the 1960s with Hole In The Ground and Right Said Fred?
18. Yorkshire teacher Louise Atkinson died after falling 100 feet in which mountain range?
19. The Met Office said that July had been the driest month in England since which year?
20. The entire board of which organisation resigned ahead of the publication of a report which highlighted 448 examples of institutional racism?
21. Which former BBC newsreader fought off a bag snatcher who rugby-tackled her and left her with a gash in her arm in a French village?
22. What is the name of the official mascot of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games?
23. Which Birmingham pop band closed the opening ceremony at the Commonwealth Games?

24. According to bookmakers Paddy Power, Glasgow is odds on favourite, followed by Manchester, London, Birmingham and Liverpool, to do what?
25. Manchester United and England footballer, and free school meals campaigner, Marcus Rashford guest edited which publication?

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Trainee Aadam wins newsquiz with 19

The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday trainees enjoyed another busy week in Kensington. They had sessions with leader writer Neil Darbyshire, consultant editor and columnist Andrew Pierce, associate editor Stephen Wright and there was a Q&A panel with some of last year’s trainees. Editor emeritus Peter Wright went through the editor’s code and the Mail’s lawyers covered contempt, libel, bribery, privacy, copyright and data protection.

The trainees also pitched story ideas to chief reporter Sam Greenhill and deputy chief reporter Inderdeep Bains, Femail editor Fiona Hardcastle and MailOnline travel editor Ted Thornhill. Sports trainee Aadam Patel spent the weekend covering the cricket, including the T20 Finals Day at Edgbaston and England’s ODI defeat in Manchester. He got three bylines on MailOnline - read his stories here, here and here - and two in the paper.

Aadam and Maya Wilson-Autzen did subbing shifts on Thursday night and both got their work published. The trainees also examined headlines, pictures and graphics. The headline of the week award was shared by Daisy Graham-Brown and Sophie Mitchell. We finished as always with the newsquiz. The winner this week with 19 was Aadam, just ahead of Daisy on 18. In last week’s newsquiz the top solo scorer was Chay Quinn with 22, ahead of Marguerite Turner and Janet Boyle on 20, Robert Rea on 18 and trainee Daisy and Stuart Bagnall on 17. The Three Legs drinkers of Nicky, Les, Andrew, Linda, Bryan and Heather were the highest scoring team with 18, ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 16. It must have been a tough one as many regular high-scorers posted scores below 16.
Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and see if you can beat Aadam’s score.

A selection of today's front pages

1. The Met Office issued provisional maximum temperatures for Tuesday showing that an all-time record of 40.3C for the UK had been reached at which Lincolnshire village?
2. What is the name of the village, on the outskirts of east London, where 19 houses were destroyed after grass fires broke out during the heatwave?
3. What movie phrase did Boris Johnson use to sign off his final Prime Minister’s Question Time?
4. The Government survived a no-confidence vote by what majority?
5. Who was eliminated in the fourth round of the Tory leadership ballot, coming fourth with 59 votes?
6. Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will go head to head for the Tory leadership after winning how many votes each in round five? Half a point for each.
7. Which TV channel cancelled Tuesday’s planned leadership debate after Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss pulled out?
8. Which senior Tory MP was suspended from the party after he missed the vote of confidence in Boris Johnson's government because he was in Moldova?

9. Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that Britain’s inflation rate rose to a 40-year high of what percentage last month?
10. Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson wore a full RAF uniform and took selfies of himself when flying in what type of RAF plane?
11. The BBC apologised and said it would pay damages to who for unfounded allegations she was having an affair with the Prince of Wales?
12. Prince Harry delivered a lecture on the state of the world at the UN headquarters in New York to mark an international day in whose honour?
13. What was Geoff Wightman doing while his son Jake won the 1500 metres at the World Championships?
14. Camelot said that a UK ticket-holder had claimed the biggest ever jackpot of how much after Tuesday's EuroMillions draw?
15. Five people were taken to hospital with stab and gunshot wounds after an attack in a nightclub in which European resort?
16. Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week unveiled a new treatment for which condition, meaning that patients are effectively cured with a single injection?
17. The Football Association announced that what could be banned from English grassroots football in two seasons time?
18. Which game was rebranded as quadball?
19. England’s Lionesses beat which team 2-1 to set up a Euro 2022 semi-final?
20. Which animals were released into the Kent countryside to become the first of their species to roam Britain for thousands of years?
21. Who signed off from one-day international cricket with a message that players were not cars which could be filled up with petrol?
22. Singer Jennifer Lopez filed documents to legally change her last name to what?
23. Jamie Allen quit which football team’s pre-season training, 11 days after signing a new contract with the club, to join TV show Love Island?

24. Who described having hallucinations caused by Parkinsons including 'bumping into a strange figure on the stairs when I get up at night’?
25. Swede Henrik Stenson was sacked from what sporting role?

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Farewell to two newspaper giants

In the last few weeks the newspaper world has lost two giant characters. I was privileged to work with both and they will be missed enormously.

Jim Fitzpatrick

I met Jim Fitzpatrick in the mid 1990s when he was chairman of The Irish News based in Belfast. He was a gentleman, charming from the outset, but he was also a tough and committed newspaper man. Jim was a lawyer, a Catholic, a nationalist, a father of eight, a devout family man and, from the 1980s, the owner of The Irish News. 

He was also a passionate and determined supporter of peace in Northern Ireland. At his funeral the Taoiseach Micheal Martin recognised Jim’s crucial role in the early days of the embryonic peace process. 

The Irish News may have been Northern Ireland’s only nationalist paper but its repudiation of the country's violent conflict was unequivocal. I worked with Jim and his son Dominic, the paper’s chief executive, over the years. 

We redesigned the paper, taking it from a broadsheet to a Euro (Berliner) format and later to a compact. I did training and, along with my colleague Mike Brough, redesigned different sections and provided camera-ready pages.

Jim, Dominic, editors Tom Collins and Noel Doran and the staff were a joy to work with. They were professional and focused but always social, generous and charming. I remember, just before the millennium, I had been working in the Donegall Street offices and was about to leave for Christmas at home. Jim presented me with a bottle of Irish News whiskey, which he had commissioned to bring in the year 2000.

It was a collector’s item that would be valuable in years to come. He handed me the bottle as a gift and said, I am only giving it to you on condition you drink it, not keep it. And I did. When he passed away aged 92 at the end of June, I raised a glass of whiskey, with an e, to his amazing legacy.

Mike Lowe

I had heard of Mike Lowe’s reputation, long before I met him. When he was editing the Derby Telegraph he brought his editorial football team on a tour of the North and played newspaper sides including The Northern Echo, the paper I was editing. I was on holiday and didn’t play but when I got back our captain, Teesside hard man Brian Page, recounted the bloodbath that had taken place. For the first time ever, he said, our team refused to go for a drink with the opposition. The story goes that, on the same trip, there was a similar experience by the Hull Daily Mail team. Mike, for most of his career, led a crazy gang.

It wasn’t until I set up the Editorial Centre in Hastings in 1995 that I actually met him. He left Derby and became editor of the Bristol Evening Post, sending all his trainees to us. He then asked me to get involved in consultancy, design and training. Mike’s view was that he could do everything I was doing, probably better, but he just didn’t have the time - so I would have to do!

The Bristol Evening Post's front page after Prince 

Charles's wedding to Camilla was announced

We quickly became friends. He was forthright, knew exactly what he wanted, and happy to rip anything to pieces if he didn’t like it. There was no pussy-footing around with Mike. He was so refreshing to work with.

What soon became clear from my work trips to Bristol was that pub time was actually part of the job. In the pub we pored over everything that had gone on in the office. He was at home there - often outrageous, happy to spar with anyone on any topic but always funny and generous. In the mid-90s we had many a lively conversation about his beloved Manchester United and my Newcastle. How I relished the 5-0 victory at St James’s Park in 1996 - a rare upper hand.

Newcastle played Arsenal in the FA Cup final on May 16, 1998. It was my birthday … but tickets were like gold-dust. That morning, resigned to watching it on television, there was 'a happy birthday' message from my wife and kids chalked on the blackboard in our kitchen. Above it were pinned two tickets for the game.

How on earth did she get those? She replied with one word: Lowey.

Mike was certainly a one-off, with a reputation as a maverick and a bon-viveur. But he was also a first-class newspaperman, a real wordsmith and an inspiration with impressive instincts and vision. He edited the Gloucester Citizen, Derby Telegraph, Bristol Evening Post and then moved into magazines at Cotswold Life. They all bore his stamp. He also wrote the Grey Cardigan column in the Press Gazette, the acerbic views of a world-weary sub editor on the Daily Beast. It was always close to the bone but very, very funny. Mike died last week, far too young at 68. I, and hundreds of others who crossed his path, will miss him.

Daisy wins the newsquiz with 17

I have been working with seven Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday trainees this week. They had sessions with managing editor Alex Bannister, news-editor Sam Marsden, chief reporter Sam Greenhill, Femail editor Fiona Hardcastle, showbiz reporter Eleanor Sharples and MailOnline travel editor Ted Thornhill. The trainees analysed the news, wrote stories and headlines and learnt about the papers’ style. On the second day the newsroom asked if anyone would do a shift and Issy Stanley worked through to 1am collecting two bylines on the way. The winners of the best intro of the week were Issy and Daisy Graham-Brown. As usual we finished with the newsquiz. This week’s winner with 17 was Daisy.

Today's front pages

The top solo scorers in last week’s quiz were Robert Rea and Marguerite Turner both with 20, just ahead of MailOnline trainee Liv Jones and Sian Brewis on 19, Tom Savage, Adam Batstone, Stuart Bagnall, Liz Gerard and Toby Brown all scored 18 and Jon Lockett and Maddy Ross scored 17. The top team was Phil and Maura Parsons with 19, ahead of The Three Legs drinkers on 18 and Lucy Thorpe’s Spanish Senoritas on 17.5. Here is the week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and see if you can beat Daisy's score. 

1. Sir Graham Brady, head of the 1922 committee, said that the next Tory leader would be announced by what date?
2.  Former chancellor Rishi Sunak topped the first round ballot for the Tory leadership with 88 votes but which two candidates were eliminated? Half a point for each.
3. Former chancellor Rishi Sunak won the second round of voting with how many votes?
4. Attorney General Suella Braverman was knocked out in the second round of voting and said she would back which candidate?
5. Boris Johnson said at Prime Minister’s Questions: 'I am proud of the fantastic teamwork that has been involved in all of those projects both nationally and internationally, and I am also proud of the leadership that I have given. I will be leaving with my ___ ___ ___.’ What are the three missing words?
6. Education minister Andrea Jenkyns explained giving 'a baying mob' the finger outside Downing Street by saying she was 'at the end of her tether' after receiving how many death threats in the last four years?
7. Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle ordered the removal of MPs Neale Hanvey and Kenny MacAskill, who were then suspended from the Commons for five days, for disrupting the start of Prime Minister’s Questions. Which party do they belong to?
8. What has been done to Hammersmith Bridge, a Grade II-listed structure, to protect it from next week's heatwave?
9. Why was Hussein Abdi Kahin in the headlines?
10. Members of which union voted to strike over pay at eight train companies on Saturday July 30, raising the chances of more travel chaos?

11. The RMT announced it will strike on what two dates in August, bringing the railways to another standstill? Half a point for each date.
12. Emirates said it would refuse to cut flights to comply with Heathrow’s passenger cap, saying the airport faced ‘an ___ situation due to its incompetence and non-action’. What is the missing word?
13. What is the name of the England player who scored a hat-trick in the 8-0 victory over Norway in the Women’s Euros 2022?
14. Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned as president of which country after fleeing to Singapore?
15. The BBC published the salaries of its highest-paid stars as part of its annual report. Who was the highest paid female on the list?
16. An independent inquiry found that sexual abuse of young girls in which town went unchecked for more than 30 years?
17. England and Manchester United's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney was appointed head coach at a football team in which city?
18. A self-portrait was discovered on the back of the canvas of a Vincent Van Gogh painting called what?
19. More than 500 women filed a joint lawsuit in America against which company alleging they were sexually assaulted, kidnapped or otherwise attacked?
20. Novak Djokovic equalled Pete Sampras's tally of how many men’s singles titles at Wimbledon?
21. How old was Donald Trump’s first wife Ivana who died in New York this week?
22. Spectacular photos of the early cosmos were published this week after Nasa released the first images from its new space telescope which is named after who?.
23. The Animal and Plant Health Agency said that its scheme testing an oral contraceptive pill on which animals in the UK was producing hopeful results?
24. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, guest-edited which publication to mark its 125th anniversary and her 75th birthday?
25. Who said, on his return as the temporary Countdown host, that 'letters and numbers are the only stars of the show'?

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Trainee Liv wins the quiz champagne

MailOnline trainees: Back row: Ffion Haf, Chloe Louise on the big screen, Kitty Lawton, Miriam Kuepper and Lucy Lamoury. Front row: Lauren Haughey, Liv Jones with the champagne, Maddy Ross and Gina Kalsi. 

The MailOnline trainees finished training in Kensington this week and are heading off to their placements at the Irish Daily Mail, the Scottish Daily Mail, the Press Association and the Liverpool Echo. They presented story ideas to deputy Femail editor Steph Linning and enjoyed sessions with deputy video editor Talya Varga, head of social media Chris Lawrence and a panel of previous trainees including Jonny Rose, Chris Matthews, Chay Quinn and Elmira Tanatarova. Natalie Johnson went through SEO with them and editorial manager Mary Omogbehin cast some light on the office practicalities. Some went to help the newsroom on Boris Johnson’s resignation day. 

There were two more bylines during the week. Miriam Kuepper wrote a story about the adventures of a man and his cat. Read it here. 

And Maddy Ross wrote about a West End actress who is campaigning for equal rights for cats after her beloved moggy was killed by a driver. Read it here.

Farewell drinks in the Greyhound

Last night we had drinks with some of the senior staff at the Greyhound. I have enjoyed my three weeks with them. They are a very bright, talented and likeable bunch and I wish them well as they start their careers. Stars of the future. We finished, as always, with the newsquiz. This week’s winner with 19 points was Liv Jones who was the overall winner over the three weeks and collected the champagne. Well done Liv. Runner-up was Maddy Ross with 17. The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Toby Brown with a PB equalling 22, ahead of Robert Rea, Lucy Lamoury and Liv Jones on 20.5, Marion Fountayne on 20, Marguerite Turner and Janet Boyle on 19.5, Stuart Bagnall on 19, Tom Savage on 17.5 and Gavin Devine on 16.5. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons on 21.5, just ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 21. The Three Legs drinkers scored 18. Here’s this week’s quiz. Give it a go and see if you can beat Liv's score.

A selection of today's front pages

1. In his resignation speech, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: 'It's painful not to be able to see through so many ideas and projects myself. But, as we've seen at Westminster, the ___ instinct is powerful and when the ___ moves, it moves.’ What is the missing word?
2. A YouGov poll of 716 Conservative party members placed who as favourite to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister?
3. Michael Gove was sacked from which Cabinet position by Prime Minister Boris Johnson?
4. Giving a personal statement in the Commons, after his resignation as Health Secretary, which button did Sajid Javid say could only work so many times?
5. Which job did Michelle Donelan, 38, have for only 36 hours?
6. At Prime Minister’s Questions Labour leader Keir Starmer said anyone with anything about them, would be long gone from Boris Johnson's front bench and added: 'In the middle of a crisis doesn’t the public deserve better than a Z-list cast of ___ ___.’ What are the two missing words?
7. The Northern Ireland secretary became the fifth Cabinet minister to resign this week. What is his name?
8. Which police force found that there was 'no case to answer’ against Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner after its investigation into whether a gathering they attended had broken Covid rules?
9. British Airways announced it was to cut how many more short-haul flights from Heathrow, Gatwick and City airports between August and the end of October?
10. What was the name of the former Japanese Prime Minister who was shot dead while giving a speech in the city of Nara?
11. Robert Crimbo, 22, was charged with killing seven people at a Fourth of July parade in which upmarket Chicago suburb?
12. A 22-year-old man was charged with the murder of three people at a shopping centre in which European capital city?
13. British teenager Aditya Verma appeared in court in Menorca after allegedly posting what on Snapchat?
14. Two women, a Romanian tourist and a 68-year-old Austrian, were killed in shark attacks in which sea?
15. Why was the Marmolada in the headlines?
16. Former Towie star Yazmin Oukhellou was injured and her boyfriend Jake McLean was killed in a road crash in which country?
17. Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu survived a high-speed crash at the British Grand Prix and tweeted: 'I’m OK, all clear. ___ saved me today’.  What is the missing word?
18. Who announced he was to leave his BBC Radio 2 weekday show after almost 24 years?
19. England women’s football team, The Lionesses, won their opening game 1-0 against which team in the Euros at Old Trafford on Wednesday?
20. Inderjeet Kaur, 29, was jailed for eight months by Swansea Crown Court after charging 150 people £800 to do what?
21. Which Oscar nominated actor, who starred in The Godfather, Mickey Blue Eyes and Elf, died at the age of 82?
22. Who became the fourth British man to reach the Wimbledon singles semi-finals in the Open era?

23. Some UK cinemas banned people wearing suits during screenings of which film for rowdy behaviour after a viral trend erupted on TikTok?
24. A new recording of which Bob Dylan's song sold for almost £1.5million at an auction at Christie’s in London?
25. Bob the homing pigeon left Guernsey for Gateshead and ended up 4,000 miles away in which American state?

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Trainees Liv and Lucy win the newsquiz

The MailOnline trainees had a busy second week in Kensington. They enjoyed sessions with executive editor Amanda Williams and history correspondent Harry Howard. They had a legal day with the Mail’s lawyers, assistant managing editor Paul Hutchinson and editor emeritus Peter Wright who talked about the editor’s code. They pitched news story ideas to associate editor Dan Sanderson and global news-editor John Sturgis and travel features to Ted Thornhill. They wrote stories, built pages and the best picture-story headline of the week award went to Lauren Haughey. 

Liv Jones was the first trainee on the course to be published with her story about a disabled man who had his trip to Ed Sheeran’s Wembley concert saved by strangers. Read it here. 

Second story up, on comedian Janey Godley announcing she was cancer-free, was written by Lucy Lamoury. Read it here. 

Maddy Ross spotted a story about comedian London Hughes announcing she was having surgery. 

And today Lauren Haughey had her first story, about an abortion clinic volunteer being called 'a cheerleader for Satan', published here. There will be plenty more bylines to come.

As always we finished the week with the newsquiz. The top scorers were Lucy Lamoury and Liv Jones who tied with an impressive 20.5 each. Well done to both. They collected £20 on the winning scratch card too. The highest solo score in last week’s newsquiz was Stuart Bagnall with 20, ahead of Toby Brown and Jayme Bryla on 18.5, Maddy Ross and Robert Rea on 18 and Marguerite Turner on 16. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons also on 20, just ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 18, Three Legs drinkers Nicky, Les, Peter, Jose and Robbie on 17 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 16. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

Today's front pages

1. Which former Conservative leader called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign following by-election defeats in Tiverton & Honiton and Wakefield, saying 'the party, and even more importantly the country, would now be better off under new leadership’? 

2. Chris Pincher quit his role as deputy chief whip after drinking 'far too much’ and groping two men at which private members’ club? 

3. The Nato summit was held in which European city?

4. At the G7 summit Prime Minister Boris Johnson, suggesting the other leaders should remove their jackets, said: 'We all have to show that we’re tougher than Putin’ and 'show them our ___’. What is the missing word? 

5. Ukraine said that more than 18 people were killed and dozens more injured in a missile strike on a crowded shopping mall in which city?

6. According to The Sunday Times, Prince Charles accepted bags containing millions of euros in cash during meetings with a senior politician from which country?

7. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in Holyrood that her primary goal was to win authority from the UK supreme court to have a fresh independence referendum in what month next year?

8. Sources close to deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said what was directed at shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray and not at deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner?

9. The Supreme Court in America ruled in favour of which state’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks - effectively ending the constitutional right to abortion?

10. Salah Abdeslam received a rare full-life prison term for his role in the gun and bomb attacks that killed 130 people in which city?

11. A 29-year-old man was charged with the murder of a 35-year-old law graduate who was beaten to death in Ilford on Sunday morning. What was her name?

12. Sex offenders R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell were jailed for a combination of how many years?

13. Dame Deborah James, who died aged 40, shared her battle with terminal bowel cancer on a BBC podcast called what?

14. One of Britain's biggest banks, the Halifax, found itself in the headlines after it tweeted a post that read ‘___ matter’ and then told a customer ‘if you disagree with our values, you're welcome to close your account’. What is the missing word?

15. A 79-year-old woman was killed and six homes were damaged in a gas explosion which English city?

16. The court of appeal decided that the evidence relating to a 12-year-old boy, who had been ruled brain-stem dead, should be reconsidered by a different judge in the high court. What is the boy’s name?

17. Four men were charged in connection with the deaths of at least 53 migrants who were left in an abandoned trailer truck in which US state?

18. Six police forces in England are now under special measures after a series of failures. They are Cleveland, Gloucestershire, Staffordshire and Wiltshire and which other two forces? Half a point for each.

19. Former Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone caused a stir when he said he would 'take a bullet’ for which ‘first class person’?

20. Who denied making a racist slur against Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton arguing that a phrase he used had been mistranslated?

21. Tesco stopped selling products by which brand after saying it would 'not pass on unjustifiable price increases' to its customers?

22. An engaged couple said their dreams had come true when who played their wedding dance song to them on a piano in The Stag Inn, Hinton Charterhouse, near Bath?

23. British tennis players Andy Murray and Emma Radacanu were both knocked out of Wimbledon in which round?

24. Who beat last year’s Wimbledon finalist Karolina Pliskova to reach a Grand Slam third round for the first time and dedicated her win to her ’nan’ who had died two days earlier?

25. Which two musicians flew in from America to join Paul McCartney’s headline performance at Glastonbury on Saturday night? Half a point for each.

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