The MailOnline trainees have finished their four weeks in Kensington and are now off to their three-month placements at the Irish Daily Mail in Dublin, the Scottish Daily Mail in Glasgow, the Manchester Evening News, the Liverpool Echo and the Press Association. In their final week they did a panel Q&A with three of last year's trainees, Sam Baker, Lydia Catling and Nicole Conner, and had a full day with the Mail's legal team. They did a live breaking story in real time and drew up a newslist for their placement papers. They also had five stories published to add to the three of previous weeks.
Lizzie May wrote a bizarre Femail story about the new craze of single girls stamping their contact details on the skin of strangers. Read it here.
Elmira Tanatarova found a story about a sales rep who quit his job to make videos of his ranch life, including kangaroos and rheas. Read it here.
Olivia Devereux-Evans went for a stroll with an amazing 86-year-old man who walks 20 miles a day to raise money for the hospice that looks after his sisters. Read it here. The trainees have written other stories too which will be published soon.
Last night we enjoyed farewell drinks at the Greyhound. The trainees 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. Chay Quinn and Izzy Baldwin were this week's joint winners with an impressive 20 points. Izzy won the champagne as the overall top scorer over the last four weeks. The top solo scorer in last week's quiz was Jayme Bryla with 20, ahead of Gavin Devine and Chay Quinn with 17, Robert Rea and Izzy Baldwin 16 and Ed Mortimer 15. The top team was Simon and Will Cole with 24, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons 20.5, the Three Legs drinkers Stacey, Nicky, Les, Heather and Bryan with 17, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 15. Here is this week's quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score.
2. After his first meeting with US president Joe Biden, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was ‘complete ___' on the need to solve trade problems in Northern Ireland. What is the missing word?
3. To mark their first meeting Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave President Joe Biden a framed mural of American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. What did Biden give the PM in return?
4. Public Health England said the Delta variant of Covid was about 60 per cent more transmissible than the Alpha variant and vaccines are less effective against it. How were Delta and Alpha previously known? Half a point for each.
5. What did NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens describe as 'a watershed moment’ which meant we were entering 'the home straight’?
6. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the Commons Health and Science committees that in January 2020 he warned the NHS to plan for how many deaths, based on the Spanish Flu estimate?
7. Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced he was dealing with an 'outbreak' of a rare virus, which is from the same family as Smallpox and has been found in North Wales. What is it called?
8. Environment secretary George Eustice described a row over regulations in the Brexit deal as ‘bonkers’, saying: 'I suspect it links to some kind of perception that they can’t really trust any country other than an EU country to make ___.’ What is the missing word?
9. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson branded as 'simply absurd’ a vote by students at which of Oxford’s colleges to remove a portrait of the Queen from their common room?
10. About 150 Oxford University academics said they would not teach at Oriel College after it decided to keep whose controversial statue?
11. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced that the first name of their second child was Lilibet. What is her second name?
12. Why were 28-year-old twins Georgia and Melissa Laurie in the headlines?
13. Which organisation did Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden say had 'gone over the top' and urged its officials to 'think again’?
14. Police officer Wayne Couzens appeared in court via video link and pleaded guilty to which two charges related to Sarah Everard? Half a point for each.
15. French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face during a walkabout near which French city?
16. Former staff at which drinks company posted an open letter saying there was a 'culture of fear’, a 'toxic attitude' to junior employees and that staff had suffered mental illness as a result of working there?
17. Which billionaire announced he would be fired into space, with his brother Mark, in a six-seater capsule on an 11-minute mission in July?
18. Which fashion chain announced it was to close 19 stores in the UK and Ireland and that its distribution centre in Rugby is at risk?
19. Which country banned Twitter after its government alleged it was being used to undermine the state's 'corporate existence' through the spreading of fake news which had 'violent consequences’?
20. A tribunal in Newcastle ruled that Colin Kane, 66, was unfairly dismissed after he had been sacked from his driving job for doing what?
21. Who won best actress and best writer of a drama series at the Baftas?
22. The first game of Euro 2020 is Turkey versus Italy in which city?
23. Ben White, 23, replaced the injured Trent Alexander-Arnold in England's 26-man squad for Euro 2020. Which Premier League team does he play for?
24. Dua Lipa's songs were played more than anyone else's on UK radio and television last year, ending the reign of which artist, who had been the most-played every year since 2017?
25. Gymnast Louis Smith was crowned as the winner of The Masked Dancer. What was the name of his character?
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