I said goodbye to 11 young journalists at the Mail this week. They had sessions with deputy head of video Olivia Bateman, head of audience strategy Nick Moar, head of social video Phil Harvey, history editor Harry Howard and senior journalists Ollie Gillman and Mark Duell. Digital editor Ailsa Leslie went through the why and how of subscriptions. The trainees covered a breaking news story, created banners, wrote personality profiles and prepared newslists for their placements. James Carey won a scratchcard for the best headline of the week. Marti Stelling became the second trainee to be published on the course with a travel piece on Oktoberfest. Read it here.
Adam Pogrund became the third trainee to be published with a remarkable story about a woman who slept with 100 students and thee grandads during Nottingham freshers weeks. Read it here.
There are plenty more stories in the pipeline. On Wednesday the trainees had drinks with senior staff in the Greyhound and last night the took part in the office mini-golf. We finished the course, as always, with the newsquiz. The top scorer this week was Adam with 14.5, just ahead of Sophia Stanford on 14. Adam was the top scorer over the three-week course and collected a bottle of champagne. The trainees now head off to their placements at the Mail in Dublin and Glasgow, Metro, the Yorkshire Post, The Sheffield Star and the Press Association. They are a bright and likeable bunch who will undoubtedly do well. I wish them all the best of luck.
The top solo scorer in last week’s online newsquiz was George Mann with 22, ahead of Robert Rea on 19.5, Janet Boyle and Chris Matthews on 19, the Rev Leon on 16 and Jordana Seal on 15. The top team were Maura and Phil Parsons with Mike and Jane Barringer who scored 21, just ahead of the Red Lion drinkers Nicky, Les and George Fleet and Broad Oak drinkers Tim and Thom who both scored 20. Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on scored 19.5, Our Peter, Jackie, Trevor and Carole 19 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 18, Here is this week’s newsquiz. Give it a go and see if you can beat Adam's score.
2. In his Labour conference speech Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for the return of the sausages. What did he mean to say?
3. Keir Starmer finished his first conference speech as Prime Minister saying: 'We will stabilise our economy. Clear out the Tory __. Fix the foundations. And deliver the mandate of change.’ What is the missing word?
4. What is the name of the former Conservative Party chairwoman, Britain's first Muslim cabinet minister, who resigned from the party in the House of Lords, because it had moved to the 'far right’?
5. Who met Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the first time at a two-hour dinner and described him as ‘very nice’ and 'very popular’?
6. Allies including the US, UK and EU proposed an immediate ceasefire of how many days in Lebanon 'to provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement’?
7. Britain announced it was moving 700 troops to where to be ready for an emergency evacuation of UK citizens from Lebanon?
8. From Tuesday it became illegal in the UK to own machetes and what kind of knives?
9. It was revealed that how many women went to the Metropolitan Police to accuse Mohammed Al Fayed of sex attacks between 2005 and 2023, while he was still alive?
10. Who was appointed editor of the Spectator magazine?
11. Police in Switzerland made arrests after a woman ended her life using what?
12. Where were people greeted with a webpage headlined 'We love you, Europe' and carrying information about terror attacks?
13. A British mother-of-five died from a Brazilian Bum Lift after treatment in a clinic in which UK city?
14. Two 12-year-old boys, found guilty of hacking a teenager to death with a machete in a Wolverhampton park, were ordered to be detained in secure accommodation until they were at least how old?
15. What is the name of New York City’s mayor who was charged with criminal offences, including bribery, wire fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations?
16. The world's longest-serving death row prisoner was acquitted after a court in which country ruled he wasn't behind a 1966 multiple murder?
17. Who said he might use his knighthood as an ‘extra sort of stick to beat the authorities over the head’?
18. Florida was hit with a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140mph. What was it called?
19. Which comedian announced 'I’m now at the end of life care - palliative care - and will be going into a hospice for the foreseeable’?
20. Model Naomi Campbell was banned from being a charity trustee after an investigation uncovered financial misconduct at her poverty relief charity which was called what?
21. Phillip Schofield will be making his TV comeback on a Channel 5 documentary Cast Away filmed on an island off which country?
22. Dame Maggie Smith, who died age 89, was well known for many roles including playing which character in the Harry Potter films?
23. A sinkhole caused by heavy flooding appeared on the pitch of which football club, forcing the postponement of their Carabao Cup third-round tie?
24. Actress Dame Judi Dench has taken on a new role to be the voice of what?
25. Nick Knowles will take part in this weekend's Strictly Come Dancing despite injuring his arm and shoulder while doing what?
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