Trainee sub Will wins newsquiz champagne

Trainee subs (from left): Dom Lee, Isabella McCrone, Will Holmes (with the champagne), Naveen Gharyal and Lizzie Newton

I said goodbye to the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday trainee sub-editors this week who now head off for their placements at the Evening Standard, the i newspaper, the Press Association and the Mail in Glasgow. They are very smart and likeable bunch and I will follow their careers with interest. They did long-form journalism with Fiona Webster and designed pages, in Mail style, for a new supplement and a breaking news story with training and guidance from Mike Brough. 

The trainees with some of their pages

Today they had a session with former trainee, now assistant chief sub, Tom Belcher. As usual we finished with the newsquiz. This week’s winner was Will Holmes with 17.5 points, ahead of Isabella McCrone on 15.5 and Dom Lee on 15.  Well done to Will who also collected the champagne for the top score by a sub over the four weeks.
The top solo scorer in last week’s quiz was Jayme Bryla with 20, just ahead of Robert Rea on 19, Marguerite Turner and Janet Boyle on 18, Toby Brown on 17, Will Holmes 16.5 and Isabella McCrone on 16.
The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with 21, ahead of Sarah, Joe and Our Peter 19, the same score as Lou and Joe Hart with Tim and Kay. Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe scored 16. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and see if you can beat Will's score.

Today's front pages

1. The Bank of England announced it would buy Government bonds worth up to how many billions of pounds, on a temporary basis, to calm financial markets after the mini-budget caused turmoil?
2. Which organisation said the Government’s financial plan was economically risky, likely to increase inequality and recommended taking an 'early opportunity' for a re-evaluation in the coming weeks?
3. A YouGov poll for The Times found Labour had surged to a lead of how many points ahead of the Tories?
4. Which high profile Conservative is to miss the party conference in Birmingham at the weekend, reportedly saying it would give Prime Minister Liz Truss 'all the space she needs to own the moment’? 
5. Labour MP Rupa Huq was suspended from the party after she said of Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng ‘___ he is a black man’. What is the missing word?
6. What did former leader Jeremy Corbyn says was 'very, very odd’ about the Labour Party Conference in Manchester?
7. Who made a guest appearance at the Labour Party Conference on Monday and said that Liz Truss had 'tanked the pound lower than my reputation in Liverpool’?
8. Police searching the Yorkshire Moors for which 12-year-old schoolboy, who died in the 1960s, said they had found human remains including a skull?
9. What is the name of the two pipelines which leaked gas into the Baltic Sea?
10. Russian President Vladimir Putin is to annex four more areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums. They are Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and which other?
11. What was the name of the hurricane that tore in Cuba before causing chaos in Florida on Wednesday?
12. The Queen's death certificate, which was released by the National Records of Scotland, said she died of old age at what time on September 8?
13. Which union announced its workers would hold 19 strikes in October and November?
14. Which Grammy winning rapper, whose hit Gangsta Paradise was a UK Number One in 1995, was found dead in Los Angeles?
15. US President Joe Biden made a blunder during a speech in Washington when he asked if a congresswoman, who died in a car crash in August, was in the audience, saying: '___ are you here? Where's ___? She must not be here.’ What is the missing name?
16. Giorgia Meloni claimed election victory and is on course to become which country’s first female prime minister?
17. What was the name of the spacecraft that NASA successfully smashed into an asteroid seven million miles from Earth?
18. JD Wetherspoon announced it was selling how many pubs due to rising food and energy costs and a lack of staff?
19. In the book Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown by Valentine Low, a former Palace insider says of the Duchess of Sussex: 'I think Meghan thought she was going to be the ___ of the UK’. What is the missing name?
20. Why did Joachim say his children Nikolai, 23, Felix, 20, Henrik, 13, and Athena, 10, had been 'harmed' by their grandmother?
21. Why did the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland order thousands of Lidl chocolate bunnies to be incinerated?
22. Eliud Kipchoge broke the world record for what in Berlin?
23. The Cheshire home of which couple was burgled on Tuesday evening with jewellery and handbags stolen? Half a point for each name. 

24. Nearly 400 people gathered in a pub in Worcestershire for a festival in a bid to revive their name that is in danger of becoming extinct. What is the name?
25. Which two cities are still in the running to host next year's Eurovision Song Contest, after the shortlist was cut from seven? Half a point for each.

Answers here