It's newsquiz time ...

Some of you felt last week’s newsquiz was a toughie and posted lower than average scores. Some regulars didn’t even make it on to the leaderboard. Others were still on form though. George Mann was the top solo scorer with 21, just ahead of Gavin Devine on 20 and Robert Rea on 17. The top teams were Neil and Jo Benson and Our Peter, Jackie and the Razors - both with 20. Maura and Phil Parsons scored 19, Bruce and Sarah Hayward 18 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and Danny and Lou both scored 17. 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. Tory candidate for Bristol North West Laura Saunders and her husband Tony Lee, the party’s campaigns director, were being investigated for allegedly doing what? 
2. During a special edition of BBC's Question Time, Labour leader Keir Starmer said that who would have been a 'better Prime Minister’ than Boris Johnson?
3. Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned of a big Labour victory saying: 'You want to make sure that in this next Government, whoever forms it, there’s a proper system of accountability. You don’t want to have somebody receive a __’ What is the missing hyphenated word?
4. Billionaire John Caudwell, who gave the Conservatives £500,000 before the last General Election but said he would now vote Labour for the first time in his life, was the founder of which, now defunct, company?
5. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, when asked if he would stand as Prime Minister in what year, replied ‘yes, absolutely’?
6. Inflation hit the Bank of England's target of what per cent for the first time in almost three years?
7. The Home Office said that 882 people did what on Tuesday - the highest number on a single day this year?
8. Jay Slater, 19, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire went missing, while on his first holiday with friends, on what island?
9. The Princess of Wales returned to public life for the first time in six months attending what event to celebrate the King’s birthday?
10. Why was the police driver of a response vehicle in Feltham, Surrey, removed from frontline duties?
11. Which two countries signed a mutual defence strategy that included a clause that they would come to each other’s aid if either was attacked?
12. The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence said what decision was a 'new low' in the way her family had been treated by the criminal justice system?
13. According to police figures obtained by a charity, assaults using what as a weapon rose by 75 per cent in a year with only eight per cent leading to criminal charges?
14. Two Just Stop Oil activists were arrested after what monument was sprayed with orange powder?
15. The UK Health Security Agency said it was ‘confident' that an e-coli outbreak, which led to at least 86 people being admitted to hospital, was linked to which vegetable?
16. Who said he was lucky to be alive, and shared a video of a huge purple bruise, after a 'really bad’ cycling accident in Connecticut?
17. Former footballer Joey Barton apologised and agreed to pay who £75,000 in damages over online posts?
18. After customers shared comical errors online, McDonald's announced it was removing what from its drive-through restaurants in the US?
19. This Morning host Cat Deeley apologised after saying her dance moves to Meghan Trainor's All About The Bass looked like she was having what?
20. Serbia threatened to pull out of Euro 2024 if UEFA didn't punish which two countries for their fans chanting 'kill, kill, kill the Serb’? Half a point for each. 
21. Singer Justin Timberlake was arrested and charged with what offence in New York?

22. Who was taken to hospital after falling from the stage at the Noël Coward theatre in London while playing Shakespeare’s John Falstaff?
23. Actor Donald Sutherland, star of films including The Hunger Games, M*A*S*H and Don't Look Now, died at what age?
24. What linked historian Niall Ferguson, post office campaigner Alan Bates and cyclist Mark Cavendish?

25. In the Euros 1-1 draw on Thursday, the England football team performed better than Denmark in which area? a) shots on target b) possession c) passes d) corners won e) none of these?

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