 Socially distanced sub-editors. From the left: Aimee Miller, Laren Tayyip, Katie Jenkins, Alex Ross, Alex Jennings with the champagne, Jason Murugesu, Rhys Noye-Allen, Harry Jones and Lucy Lewin. |
The trainee sub-editors enjoyed an intense final week’s training at the Mail’s London offices. They had sessions with assistant chief sub Richard Hall and deputy night editor Chris Dean. Senior sub, and former trainee, Tom Belcher gave them stories to sub and lay out and a panel of last year's grads - Anna Tatham, Jack Schofield, Sian Bahia and Becca McCauley, did a Q&A panel. The sports subs spent two days on the sports desk putting together a spread and the others edited and laid out a breaking story in real time. They all put together supplement visuals. Among the pages they created (in their own time) was this copy of Time magazine. A nice touch ... thank you.
The reporters left the course last Friday and went off on their placements - and gathered lots of bylines in their first week. Trainee sub Laren Tayyip also got published while on the course with a story about a couple whose first dates were on FaceTime during lockdown and are now travelling the world together. Read it here.
The subs now head off to placements at the Mail in London and Glasgow, the Press Association, Metro, the Evening Standard and the i newspaper. They are a bright and likeable bunch and I wish them well on the next stage. As usual we finished with the newsquiz. The winner this week with 19 was Alex Ross. Katie Jenkins and Rhys Noye-Allen scored 17.5, Harry Jones 17, Laren Tayyip and Alex Jennings 16.5 and Jason Murugesu 16. It was enough for Alex Jennings to collect the champagne for the top score over the four weeks - an average of just over 18. The top online solo scorer in last week’s quiz was Janet Boyle with 18.5 and the top team was Peter and Stacey in the Three Legs with 17. Here is this week's quiz. Give it a go and see if you can do better than Alex's 19.
A selection of today's front pages
1. Which city, home to 1.5 million people, became the first area to enter the Government’s 'very high' alert level, with the closure of pubs, betting shops, gyms, leisure centres and casinos?
2. Who said he would not accept the people in his area being treated as 'canaries in the coalmine' for an experimental regional lockdown strategy?
3. In Tuesday’s Covid-19 briefing Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that the rising number of cases were 'flashing at us like dashboard warnings in a ___ ___ and we must act now.' What are the two missing words?
4. Labour leader Kier Starmer told the Commons that 'having read and considered the Sage advice' he had genuinely concluded that what was in the national interest?
5. A pub in the Wirral on Merseyside renamed itself the Three Bellends - with a sign featuring the faces of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, advisor Dominic Cummings and Health Secretary Matt Hancock? But what was the pub called before?
6. The Queen made her first official outside engagement for seven months when she and Prince William, without masks, visited where?
7. Italy, the Vatican City and San Marino were all added to the UK’s quarantine list but Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said those returning from which Greek island will now not need to quarantine?
8. Health Secretary Matt Hancock was accused of drinking in a Commons bar after 10pm and making a 'joke’ saying: 'The drinks are on me – but ___ ___ ___are in charge of the payment methodology so I will not be paying anything.' What are the three missing words?
2. Who said he would not accept the people in his area being treated as 'canaries in the coalmine' for an experimental regional lockdown strategy?
3. In Tuesday’s Covid-19 briefing Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that the rising number of cases were 'flashing at us like dashboard warnings in a ___ ___ and we must act now.' What are the two missing words?
4. Labour leader Kier Starmer told the Commons that 'having read and considered the Sage advice' he had genuinely concluded that what was in the national interest?
5. A pub in the Wirral on Merseyside renamed itself the Three Bellends - with a sign featuring the faces of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, advisor Dominic Cummings and Health Secretary Matt Hancock? But what was the pub called before?
6. The Queen made her first official outside engagement for seven months when she and Prince William, without masks, visited where?
7. Italy, the Vatican City and San Marino were all added to the UK’s quarantine list but Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said those returning from which Greek island will now not need to quarantine?
8. Health Secretary Matt Hancock was accused of drinking in a Commons bar after 10pm and making a 'joke’ saying: 'The drinks are on me – but ___ ___ ___are in charge of the payment methodology so I will not be paying anything.' What are the three missing words?
9. In which European city did the courts overturn an 11pm lockdown for bars and restaurants saying it was a 'disproportionate encroachment' on the industry’s freedom?
10. French President Emmanuel Macron said people who live in nine cities including Paris, Marseille and Lyon will not be able to leave their homes without 'valid' reason between what hours? 11. Álex Cruz stepped down as chief executive of which company and was replaced by Sean Doyle?
12. A mother and her three young children died when their people carrier collided with a lorry on which road?
13. The Government pulled an advert that caused a stir for suggesting 'Fatima’s next job could be in cyber'. What is Fatima’s existing job?
14. Tennis player Rafael Nadal and F1 driver Lewis Hamilton both equalled all-time records in their sports at the weekend. Whose records did they match? Half a point for each.
15. Which pop group announced it was considering reuniting after its former singer Tom Parker was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour?
16. Project Big Picture, the plan to overhaul English football by Manchester United and Liverpool, proposed abolishing the League Cup and which other annual event?
17. Morrisons, Waitrose and John Lewis said they won't be using what in their own-brand Christmas products as it can wash into the environment, harm wildlife and get into the food chain?
18. Who said this week: 'As a young black man from Wythenshawe, never did I think I would be accepting an MBE, never mind an MBE at the age of 22.'
19. According to the Met Office the wettest day for UK-wide rainfall, since records began in 1891, was on what day this month?
20. Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey apologised for blocking users from posting links to an article that claimed who had smoked a 'crack' pipe while engaging in a sex act?
21. Church minister Alison Davies and mourners were chastised by a crematorium official for doing what at the funeral of a 94-year-old woman in Bridgend?
22. During his first rally since being discharged from hospital for Covid-19, President Donald Trump promised to give every one in the crowd in Florida what?
23. A piece of paper handed to reporters in Wiltshire this week, which read 'our marriage is strong and we’re very much still together. Thank You', was signed by two first names. What were they?
24. An image of what animal hugging a tree led to Russian photographer Sergey Gorshkov being named 2020 wildlife photographer of the year by the Duchess of Cambridge at a ceremony at London’s Natural History Museum?
25. What did 46-year-old Jon Courtenay win?
23. A piece of paper handed to reporters in Wiltshire this week, which read 'our marriage is strong and we’re very much still together. Thank You', was signed by two first names. What were they?
24. An image of what animal hugging a tree led to Russian photographer Sergey Gorshkov being named 2020 wildlife photographer of the year by the Duchess of Cambridge at a ceremony at London’s Natural History Museum?
25. What did 46-year-old Jon Courtenay win?
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