I have just finished a busy and enjoyable first week with eight Daily Mail trainee sub-editors. They studied Mail style, edited stories and wrote intros and headlines. The best headline of the week award went to Zoe Glascow and the best intro to Oliver Jervis. Both won scratch cards. The trainees had sessions with managing editor Alex Bannister, chief reporter Sam Greenhill, production editor Chris Dean and they edited articles for deputy chief-sub Tom Belcher who gave them detailed feedback. We finished as usual with the newsquiz, 25 questions about the week. The winner was Oliver with 21 points, narrowly ahead of Emily Bell on 20 and Amelia Perry on 18. The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 22, just ahead of George Mann on 21, Robert Rea on 18 and the Rev Leon on 15. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with 21, ahead of Adam Batstone and the Mountain Men with 20, The Broad Oak drinkers with 16 and Our Peter and Jackie and Peter, Stacey and Les with 15. Here is this week's newsquiz. Give it a go and see if you can beat Oliver's score.
Today's front pages
1. In which city did the Conservative Party conference take place?
2. Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch took to social media to say: 'Contrary to what some have said, I clearly said the burden of regulation on businesses had gone too far… of course I believe in __ pay!’ What is the missing word?
3. Who told the Conservative conference that victory would come again when they were 'enthusiastic, relatable, positive, optimistic’ and called on the party to be more normal?
4. Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick, in an interview at the party conference, said he had given his 11-year-old daughter what as a middle name?
5. What is the name of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s memoir, serialised by the Daily Mail, that is due to be published next week?
6. Boris Johnson, in his forthcoming memoir, says he considered an 'aquatic raid' on a warehouse in which country to seize Covid vaccines during the pandemic?
7. Why did the BBC cancel Laura Kuenssberg's interview with Boris Johnson scheduled for last night (Thurs)?
8. Prime Minister Keir Starmer paid back more than £6,000 worth of gifts and free hospitality but which one of these did he not repay: a) Taylor Swift concert tickets b) Arsenal FC tickets c) Doncaster races tickets d) a rental deal with clothing rental company Edeline Lee?
9. Who resigned from the Labour Party, saying Keir Starmer’s team cared 'more about greed and power than making a difference’?
10. US President Joe Biden said he would not support Israeli retaliatory strikes on Iranian what?
11. Iron Dome and David’s Sling were in the headlines this week. What are they?
12. The UK announced it was giving sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius? What are the islands names?
13. Britain became the first G7 country to end its reliance on what?14. More than 60,000 women are off work with long-term sickness related to what, according to a report by the NHS Confederation?
15. An employment tribunal in London, that ordered a whisky investment company to pay £50,000 to a female staff member, ruled that using what word to describe women at work could be sexual harassment and was a derogatory term?
16. Former US first-lady Melania Trump appeared to be at odds with her husband Donald with a declaration in her memoir that she is a passionate supporter of what?
17. Divers are searching which Yorkshire river after a mother, Victoria Taylor, went missing and her belongings were found discarded by the riverbank?
18. What is the name of the cruise ship that left Belfast Lough after being stranded in the city for four months?
19. Who found himself at the centre of a gun scare - that turned out to be a mechanical fault - when the window of his taxi was shattered in London on Tuesday morning?
20. Gangster Jamie Stevenson was jailed for 20 years by Glasgow High Court for a plot to smuggle cocaine worth £100m from South America which was concealed in boxes of what?
21. Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who died aged 88, won the 1976 Golden Globe Award for best actor after his performance in which romantic drama playing opposite Barbra Streisand?
22. What were Prince William and singer Ozzy Osbourne publicly celebrating his week?
23. What did Old Marylebone Town Hall in London do to celebrate its 100th anniversary on Tuesday?
24. Singer James Blunt promised to do what if the re-release of his debut album Back to Bedlam hits number one in the charts?
25. Former cricketer Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff is to return to TV as presenter of a reboot of which quiz programme?
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