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LUKE LITTLER survived by the skin of his teeth to beat Gerwyn Price at the World Grand Prix.
The reigning world champion looked all sea in the dramatic quarter-final, but managed to squeeze through.
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TODAY is National Bookshop Day and you’re bound to find a novel way of celebrating it.
Retailers are plotting plenty of events, plus there are some great deals available online.
Here, we give you chapter and verse on what’s in store . . .
GOT IT COVERED: Local bookshops are set to host a packed programme of events today such as author visits and storytelling sessions.
Browse their shelves and find out what’s going on. Many are hubs for the community, so ask about events and groups that might run all year round.
E-ASY ACCESS: Bookshop.org has launched a new ebook platform, so customers can get their hands on digital reads and UK businesses can profit from them for the first time.
Available online through the bookshop. org app, the service launched earlier this month with more than a million titles.
EAR, EAR: If you like to listen to books on the go, try libro.fm. The audiobook retailer and app shares profits with independent bookshops.
It’s running a sale until Monday and you can pick a local bookshop to support with your purchase. Bestseller Cleopatra And Frankenstein by Coco Mellors is down in price from £19.94 to £4.79.
BOOKS BONANZA: If you’re lucky, you could win a £250 bookshop.org digital gift card. Bookworms just need to buy any book from the site before the end of the weekend.
Winners will be contacted by email after the competition closes.
The Golden Bookmark draw will be made on October 31. See bookshop.org.
DOUBLE THE FUN: Waterstones and Foyles will offer double stamps to loyalty card holders in all their shops today.
You usually get a stamp for every £10 you spend. When you’ve got ten stamps, you get £10 credit to spend on new books in stores or online. So if you spend £10 today, you’ll get two stamps.
TOKEN GESTURE: Looking for your next great read?
Devour the contents at nationalbooktokens.com, where there are loads of book recommendations.
If you sign up to get its emails, you’ll be entered in a draw each month to win a £100 National Book Token.
FOR a whale of a deal, the Blavingad rug from Ikea featuring sea creatures is down from £45 to £29.
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HYUNDAI is giving a free baby box worth over £100 to families who book a 24-hour extended test drive of the KONA Electric.
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A HUGE bang, muffled by dense fog, startled White House officials at Andrews military air base near Washington a few days before Christmas 1984.
It was followed by the scream of jet engines on full thrust.
Few people alive today are aware this was the moment Margaret Thatcher nearly died in a ball of fire.
Dignitaries including the US Secretary of State and the British Ambassador to Washington were ready to welcome the PM for a festive summit with President Ronald Reagan at Camp David.
Dozens of Downing Street staff and journalists were aboard the RAF VC-10, part of the Queen’s Flight.
It was December 22 and Mrs T was returning from talks in China about the future of Hong Kong.
A few hours earlier she had been in fraught negotiations with Communist Party chairman Deng Xiaoping.
Mrs T was distracted by Mr Deng’s frequent use of a spittoon near her feet.
The Iron Lady, still worried about the outcome, was looking forward to spending time with President Reagan and his wife, Nancy.
The VC-10 had begun descending for its third attempt to land in the fog after a 20-hour flight from Guam in the Western Pacific.
Suddenly the pilot aborted the approach and yanked up the nose.
The tail of the aircraft dropped into the trees below.
Catering trolleys broke free and careered down the aisle.
An enormous thud reverberated through the mainframe.
A few feet lower and there would have been no survivors.
As we climbed to safety it was clear that the Prime Minister had escaped death for the second time in eight weeks.
In October, Mrs Thatcher had been the target of the IRA bomb planted in Brighton’s Grand Hotel.
This time, her life was endangered purely by an act of God.
The VC-10, used as a military refuelling tanker when it wasn’t carrying the Queen or the PM was diverted to Dulles Airport.
It left the reception party including US Secretary of State George Shultz and UK ambassador Sir Oliver Wright to dash 40 miles across Washington with a police escort.
We landed with our own Christmas tree, 8ft of severed pine top, tangled in the tail.
Mrs Thatcher insisted no action should be taken against the pilot, whose skill she credited for saving her life.
As she left the aircraft she handed him a scrap of paper. “There is a number on this,” she told him.
“If there are any problems, just call.”
Next Monday marks the centenary of the Iron Lady’s birth. By the time she died 13 years ago, Margaret Thatcher was well aware of her legacy as our greatest peacetime PM.
But she would have enjoyed the long overdue expressions of respect and admiration.
It is now compulsory for aspiring women leaders to hat-tip Maggie as Britain’s first woman PM.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who wants to be the next, has publicly paid tribute. Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is a fan, along with Japan’s new female PM Sanae Takaichi, a former heavy metal drummer.
Even Sir Keir Starmer has bent the knee in a bid for Tory votes at the last election. But he ripped down her portrait as soon as he entered Downing Street.
That would have given Maggie a hollow laugh. She spent her life fighting left-wing hypocrites.
Margaret thatcher rarely smiled with any warmth. She feared it might be interpreted as a sign of weakness. But she knew how to use her femininity.
Photographs tend to show her in big-shouldered, semi-regal outfits, always with the steely expression of a leader branded by admiring Russians as The Iron Lady.
She wowed Hungary, then a Soviet satellite, by turning up in knee-high boots and a fox fur hat to inspect the guard of honour. And she knew how to use her looks in battles with powerful men.
Lothario French President Francois Mitterrand was captivated after being “handbagged” at an EU summit: “She has the eyes of Marilyn Monroe and the lips of Caligula,” he drooled.
This fierce public persona — brisk, bustling and businesslike — was carefully cultivated.
I interviewed her many times in my quarter of a century as The Sun’s Political Editor and travelled the world as part of her Parliamentary Lobby entourage. It was never a relaxing experience.
The only time she unwound was on flights home when she kicked off her shoes, sipped a large glass of whisky and listened to the press pack singing satirical songs about her summits with world leaders.
Her sense of humour sometimes failed at crucial moments.
She couldn’t understand why people laughed when, in praise of her affable deputy Willie Whitelaw, she announced: “Everyone should have a Willie.”
Official biographer and columnist Charles Moore last month summed up the view of a nervous fan.
“In many ways, Thatcher was dislikeable,” he said. “But I did love her.”
He spoke for millions who then and since have come to see Baroness
Margaret Thatcher as the greatest peacetime Prime Minister this country has produced in modern times.
It is now part of British political folklore that Margaret Hilda Thatcher was picked by Tory grandees as a stop-gap leader to replace election flop Ted Heath until something better turned up.
“Let’s give the filly a run over a few furlongs,” they said at the Tory Carlton Club.
But Maggie just kept running. Her rivals couldn’t keep up. More to the point, she had assembled a hard-nosed support unit of seasoned political fighters to propel her into power.
They were led by Sir Keith Joseph, backed by advertising genius Tim Bell and bolstered by PR smoothie Gordon Reece, who taught Maggie to change her shrill voice to a husky whisper.
Norman Tebbit, the so-called Chingford Skinhead, branded a “semi-house-trained polecat” by Labour leader Michael Foot, came later.
Together they were the most formidable political fighting machine in modern history, ready to take on the trade union firebrands who had turned Britain into “The Sick Man of Europe”.
By the time she was brought down by treacherous Tory hatchet men in 1990, Thatcher was synonymous with sound government, formidable leadership and an economy which was the envy of the world.
Her tears on leaving Downing Street after being knifed by assassins in 1990, showed the Iron Lady, like the Tin Man, really did have a heart.
As her party prepares to mark the centenary of Britain’s most remarkable Prime Minister, male or female, I think Lady T would like that as her epitaph.
At last week’s Tory Party conference, a shadow of its former glory, there was a “Bring Back Maggie” theme with headless dummies modelling her power dresses.
But the Iron Lady was forged in another era, a time before social media, when duty and patriotism counted. When people read books and thought twice before marching in support of bloodthirsty death cults.
There will never be another Margaret Thatcher. But there will be another Winter of Discontent when voters come face to face with the consequences of bad government.
Trevor Kavanagh
Thatcher was a devout supporter of immigration — and assimilation.
She had strong connections and alliances with the Arab world.
Golden rules
Jewish men served in Cabinet roles, including Chancellor Nigel Lawson, Home Secretary Leon Brittan, Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind and problem solver David Young.
It is a salutary experience to realise these names mean nothing to Generation Y or Z, those in their twenties and thirties for whom the 1980s is a foreign land.
They can barely remember the moment when it all went wrong, in 2010, with the dawn of David Cameron and his disastrous Lib-Con coalition.
Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne immediately turned their backs on Thatcherism.
They could barely bring themselves to utter her name, let alone her three golden rules of good government: strong defence, strong economy and strong law and order.
Instead, along with credulous Michael Gove, they chose to worship at the shrine of Tony Blair, and drenched us in green crap, open borders and gold-plated EU regulation.
Wretched George Osborne went on to become the worst-ever Chancellor before Rachel arrived from Accounts.
In an act of monumental stupidity he turned stamp duty into a dead weight on the economy and a tank trap for job mobility.
In a class act this week, Kemi Badenoch staked her claim to Thatcher’s mantle by promising to scrap stamp duty altogether. It was an inspired decision, for several reasons.
First, it’s a no-brainer. It makes absolute sense, economically and socially.
Second, it was a wrong’un from the moment it was sold to Osborne as easy meat by HM Treasury.
Third, it cannot be stolen by Nigel Farage because his Reform conference came and went without any serious economic policy promises.
This was a bad miss, Nigel. And finally, Rachel can’t touch it because taxes under Labour must always, always go up.
The final plus for the Tories is that this is a policy that will fructify with time.
Voters will begin to do their sums, especially as poor Rachel comes to pick their pockets again next month.
They will begin to understand the Laffer Curve, an economic theory unknown to Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. This argues that lower taxes lead to greater wealth and prosperity.
There will never be another Margaret Thatcher. But there will be another Winter of Discontent when voters come face to face with the consequences of bad government.
There will be social division, perhaps violent, which will require the smack of firm government.
The UK economy is in deep doo-doo and the Budget will make it worse.
Our borders are under assault. And the threat of conflict at home and abroad is growing.
Nigel Farage is a victim of high expectations. A lot can go wrong between now and polling day.
Kemi’s Tories have begun to talk about Margaret Thatcher’s three golden rules. Disgruntled Tories will start listening.
THE fourth housemate to be evicted from Big Brother has been revealed – just days after George Gilbert’s shock exit.
Three housemates – Richard, Elsa and Cameron B – faced possible elimination in Friday’s episode.
Cameron B ultimately became the third housemate to be evicted this series.
Axed star George Gilbert, 23, had also been on the chopping block before his shock exit from the House.
The Sun revealed how the parish councillor was removed after ‘unacceptable language and behaviour’.
Sources told The Sun that George left his co-stars horrified after making offensive comments which could be interpreted as antisemitic and was immediately called to the Diary Room and ejected from the house.
“Everyone was absolutely disgusted,” an insider said.
“Nobody could believe what he said – he was clearly out to shock people.”
Since leaving the house, George has said: “As a flag bearer of freedom of speech I never hesitate to discuss and question any topic regardless of how contentious it may be.
“Sadly, the boundaries of what is deemed offensive are subjective and I evidently went too far this time by crossing their line one too many times.”
He added: “It is a shame that specific debate could not be had and that it has had to end like this.
“Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me.”
George has since made a return to social media following his departure from Big Brother.
The ex-housemate has since updated the privacy settings on his Instagram account to allow it to be public.
A previous brutal twist saw housemate Emily Hewertson evicted on the very first night.
The political events manager shot to fame last June when she was falsely accused of flinging a milkshake over Nigel Farage in Clacton-on-Sea.
The initial housemates who entered the house were:
Four new housemates were announced to enter the house as late arrivals:
The housemates were chosen to compete in a game called “Evil Eye” where they had to obtain enough public votes to stay on the show.
Emily, Sam and Caroline had the least votes – and the other two voted to eliminate her.
Gani Khan became the second person evicted after facing the public vote alongside Zelah.
Big Brother airs on ITV2 and ITVX.
I AM, unashamedly, the Halloween Queen — it is, without a doubt, my favourite time of year. Anything to do with the spooky season is right up my street.
From house decorations to unique days out to costumes, whatever it is, you can bet that I’ll be a part of it on the run-up to the eeriest night of the year.
And one thing that I get super excited about is Lush’s Halloween countdown calendar.
The high street beauty brand launched the exciting new calendar for the first time last year and became an instant success.
Normally, when you hear ‘advent calendar’ or ‘countdown calendar’, everyone immediately thinks of Christmas, but Lush has completely changed the game.
It’s not just about getting festive goodies and treats for December 25 anymore – now lovers of Halloween can get in on the excitement as October 31 approaches.
The incredible set includes seven supernatural bath, shower and body treats to enjoy on the run-up to the eeriest night of the year.
It makes for the perfect treat for those who love the spooky season, giving them one product a day as they anticipate the arrival of fright night.
I couldn’t wait to get my hands on one of this year’s boxes, and it was absolutely worth the wait – I was totally bewitched by the incredible range of goodies inside.
Describing the calander, bosses at Lush said: “Doors locked? Good. Now open these. Seven doors, seven eerie bath, body and shower treats – counting you down to the big night.
“This frightfully fabulous box was designed by Brooklyn-based Illustrator Iain Burke, whose penchant for the supernatural and love of ephemera inspire his work.”
The calendar itself comes in a delightfully spooky, colourful box decorated with all our favourite Halloween characters.
This year, the front of the box was a spooky graveyard scene with an owl sitting on a branch in front of a full moon, pumpkins grinning in front of headstones, and skeletons rising from the ground as a black cat lurks.
The box then opens up to a set of green numbered doors which each hides a Halloween product inside to be opened on the last week of October.
The thought that has gone into the design of this box is incredible – each door is expertly designed with artwork of pumpkins, bats, skeleton ghosts and cats.
It also comes with a tag that reveals all the products that are included, but we’re not going to show that because we want to leave some of it as a surprise.
For that reason, I only opened four out of the seven doors and left the other three closed until the days before Halloween.
The first door I opened was door number two, which was hiding Lush’s Palm Reader naked hand cream, which brings dry hands back to life.
Describing the product, experts at the beauty brand said: “Don’t leave soft hands down to fate: nourishing shea butter, soothing rosewater and beautifying koji paste practically guarantee it.
“And what’s this? Your love line tells of a luxurious, complex affair with the floral aromas of orange flower absolute and sophisticated woody notes. We’re jealous!
“Bring hands back to life with antioxidant-rich marula oil, lightweight with hydrating qualities to soften lines looking a little too deep for your liking.”
I then jumped straight to door number four, where the Demon in the Dark soap was eagerly waiting.
This bathtime treat has glow-in-the-dark powers and is infused with refreshing aromas of peppermint, which enliven the senses with the spine-tingling refreshment.
It also has notes of apple juice and warming clove bud oil, which lifts he spirits.
To make it glow, all you need to do is charge it under light before lathering all over.
A skeleton Monster Mash Head bath bomb was then hiding behind door number five.
Describing it online, Lush said: “Give weary bodies some time to lay bone idle and enjoy the skeleton key to a comforting bathtime.
LUSH is famous for its luxurious skincare and haircare products as well as its incredible bath bombs.
But what the global cosmetics retailer also has a form for is its incredible themed products – especially around the festive time – and this year’s Halloween range has knocked it out of the park.
Here are three of the most unique creations from Lush’s new collection that will delight fans who are anticipating the arrival of fright night:
“Softening oat milk powder dissolves to form creamy skin-soothing water, while the sweet scent of ylang ylang helps you unwind — what a bone-us.
“Say bone voyage to dry skin and skell-o to creamy oat milk water, to seriously soften and soothe.”
The last door I opened was number seven, which revealed the perfect product for any Halloween lover – a bottle of Pumpkin Spice Latte shower gel.
A drop of autumnal magic, this decadent shower gel is sweet and spicy.
But it is also balanced with roasted cocoa extract and coffee absolute to capture the true, complex aromas of this not-so-basic fan-favourite order.
Swirls of indulgent coffee and vanilla absolute meet aromatic clove and cinnamon in the gourd-damn serve of the season, Lush experts say.
But if you want to know what is being door numbers one, three, and six, then you’ll have to buy it for yourself!
