Trainees John Abiona, Robyn Schaffer, Poppy Sowerby, Lilly Subbotin, Alice Feilden, Niamh Lynch with the champagne, Imogen Horton, Sophie Huskisson, Natasha Livingstone, Piri Thirunimalan, Jess Broadbent, Clara Gaspar, Tali Fraser
I said farewell to the Daily Mail reporting trainees today. They now go to the Mail newsrooms in London, Dublin and, Glasgow on placement. They are a bright and likeable bunch. I wish them well and look forward to their success stories. The trainee subs have another week to go. The reporting trainees had some first class sessions this week. They enjoyed talks by Susie Coen from the investigations team, business correspondent Tom Witherow, showbiz reporter Eleanor Sharples and assistant editor (politics) Simon Walters. On Wednesday editor Geordie Greig talked about his vision, offered advice, inspired them and took questions in his office. Today they had safety awareness training from Charlie McGrath and Grant Wootton. The subs laid out Mail pages with training and guidance from Mike Brough and did long-form journalism with Fiona Webster. Last night we had farewell drinks in the Greyhound. We finished the week, as always, with the newsquiz. This week’s winner was Imogen Horton with 20, ahead of Clara Gaspar on 18.5. The top scoring reporter over the three weeks was Niamh Lynch who won the Champagne.
In last week’s quiz Simon, Sue and Will Cole just missed out on a rare 100 per cent score with 24.5, ahead of Marc Beyeler’s team with 22 and Maura and Phil Parsons with 19. The top scorer was trainee Niamh Lynch with 21, ahead of Janet Boyle and Stuart Bagnall on 20, Marguerite Turner and Toby Brown on 17 and Jayme Bryla on 16.5. 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 newspapers
1. Which company said it was cutting deliveries at 90 per cent of its petrol stations?
2. In his first address as US President to the UN General Assembly Joe Biden said: ‘As we close this period of ___ war, we’re opening a new era of ___ diplomacy.’ What is the missing word?
3. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the UN General Assembly in New York that who was wrong when he sang It's Not Easy Bein’ Green?
4. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, referring to the Aukus defence pact, told French president Emmanuel Macron to 'donnez-moi un' what and 'prenez un’ what. Half a point for each word
5. The Labour Party conference is being held this weekend in which city?
6. Why were Green and Avro in the headlines?
7. What was the job of 28-year-old Sabina Nessa who was murdered and whose body was found in Cator Park in London?
8. Damien Bendall was charged with the 'sleepover murders' of three children and a mother this morning (Friday) at which crown court?
9. Insulate Britain protesters glued themselves to HGVs on the A20 today (Friday) blocking the route to where?
10. In an interview with NBC in New York, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that he had (at least) how many children?
11. Thousands of people were forced to flee lava spewing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on which island?
12. Ofcom added words to its offensive list including gammon, snowflake, remoaner and which name that has come to mean ‘a middle-class, white, entitled and aggressive woman’?
13. Name one of the two new underground stations which opened in London this week on the revamped Northern Line.
14. Princess Beatrice's daughter, born this week, is not eligible for a royal title from the Queen but will be given what title from her father's Italian family?
15. Heidi Crowter, 26, who has what condition, lost her argument in the High Court that the law that allowed abortions up to birth, if the foetus was disabled, was discriminatory?
16. What is the name of the Harry Potter actor who collapsed while playing in a pre-Ryder cup celebrity golf tournament?
17. Who said she had attended the National Television Awards wearing a silver off-the-shoulder jumpsuit cut across her chest as 'a kind of goodbye to the body I’ve been living in all these years’?
18. Only Fools And Horses actor John Challis, who died aged 79, is to have a street named after him in which European city, where the mayor said: ‘It’s the only way to repay a man who loved our country’?
19. Jimmy Greaves, who died aged 81, is the all time highest scorer in English top flight football with 357 goals. He scored 220 for Tottenham but for which two teams did he score the others? Half a point for each.
20. The director of the latest 007 movie No Time To Die, Cary Fukunaga, said that Sean Connery's James Bond was 'basically’ what?
21. The MCC, recognised as the authority on cricketing laws, replaced which word with a gender-neutral alternative to 'recognise the changing landscape’?
22. Singer Liam Gallagher shared a picture of himself with facial cuts and a plaster over his nose after he did what on the Isle of Wight?
23. Which former supermodel announced she was suing the makers of a cosmetic procedure which left her 'permanently deformed’?
24. What was celebrated by 7,590 people in Britain last year - a 52 per cent rise on the previous year and the highest number in history?
25. Michaela Coel became the first black woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Writing For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie for her work on which show?
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