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BRITAIN’S washout summer is set to
send household food bills soaring.
Experts warned last night that shoppers
will pay the price after farmers were hit by
the worst wheat harvest since the 1980s.
Combined with the most severe drought in
the US for 50 years and a heatwave in Russia,
stiff price increases are inevitable in a matter
of weeks, they said.
The cost of everyday items such as bread
and meat will soar as supermarkets try to
protect their profi ts amid rocketing wholesale
costs. This means Britons now face a “very
worrying” period, said consumer groups.
Marc Gander, of Consumer Action Group,
said: “This is very bad news. Every week there
seems to be some disclosure of more food
price increases. Consumers will be starting to
reel at this latest news.
“People are getting very frightened and are
worrying how on earth they are going to get
through the year. There are going to be a lot of
people suffering very badly.” The British
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2 held at Heathrow in probe
over Briton’s kidnap in Syria
TWO Britons arrested at
Heathrow over terrorism
allegations were last night
being questioned about the
kidnapping of a British pho-
tographer in Syria.
The man and woman, both
26, were held on suspicion of
travelling to Syria to support
terrorist activities after arriv-
ing in the UK on a flight from
Egypt on Tuesday.
Scotland Yard confirmed it
is investigating if they were
involved in the abduction of
photographer John Cantlie,
who had worked for the Sun-
day Times, and Dutchman
Jeroen Oerlemans, in July.
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He hoped to specialise in
trauma treatment. Mr Cant-
lie said: “I asked for his help
as we were both from Lon-
don but he refused to even
send a text to my girlfriend
to say we were alive.
“He said he would be
beheaded if he did.”
Mr Cantlie believed several
of the group in Syria were
radical Muslims from Britain,
but he spoke to the “doctor”
the most.
In August Khalid Mah-
mood, Labour MP for Bir-
mingham Perry Barr, said
that people in his constitu-
ency were travelling to the
war-torn state, and that he
being carried out at two
addresses in east London.
Mr Cantlie, 41, who was
shot during the ordeal, said
that one of his captors
claimed to be an NHS doctor
from London.
After escaping his kidnap-
pers earlier this year, Mr Can-
tlie said the “doctor” had a
south London accent and
used saline drips with NHS
logos on them.
The British-born “doctor”,
who at one stage had been
brandishing an AK-47 assault
rifle, claimed he was on leave
from his training in London.
Extremists seized John Cantlie
expected this to increase.
Last night Foreign Secretary
William Hague said the For-
eign Office was aware of
instances of Britons travel-
ling to Syria to fight.
He said: “That’s not some-
thing that we recommend
and we do not want British
people going and taking part
in violent situations any-
where in the world.”
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TERRORIST bomb-making
equipment has been found
hidden in a garage near
Disneyland Paris.
Overnight raids by
police in the eastern
suburb of Torcy uncovered
the explosives and guns in
a four-storey building
yesterday. Armed officers
surrounded the building
as residents were
evacuated.
Following the find, Paris
prosecutor Francois
Molins said: “We are
clearly and objectively
confronted with an
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anti-terrorism swoop
across France at the
weekend.
Former Portsmouth
Football Club player
turned Islamic radical
Yann Nsaku, 19, was
among those arrested in
Cannes, while 33-year-old
gunman Jeremy Sidney
was shot in the eastern
city of Strasbourg.
Two men were arrested
in Paris, including gunman
Jeremy Bailly, 25, who was
returning from a mosque
with a .22 calibre rifle on
Saturday.
extremely dangerous
terrorist cell” and that
everything needed to be
done “to prevent the risk
of a terrorist attack in
France”.
He confirmed that
“elements used in the
manufacture of
explosives” were found,
including potassium
nitrate and sulphur, along
with guns.
It follows 11 men being
arrested and one being
shot dead during an
Officer at the scene yesterday
£28bn BAE merger
blocked by Germany
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MPs and many shareholders,
particularly as BAE would
have been the junior partner.
There were fears a merger
could have damaged the spe-
cial relationship with the US.
BAE’s strong Pentagon con-
tracts could have been
threatened by fears secrets
could be passed to Europe.
Defence Secretary Philip
Hammond, asked if the stick-
ing point was the refusal of
the French and the Germans
to give up sufficient control
over the company, said: “Yes,
our view is that for this com-
pany as a merged entity to
become successful it must be
free to operate as a commer-
cial company free of undue
control or influence by any
single government.”
In a joint statement BAE
and EADS said: “It has
become clear the interests
of the parties’ government
stakeholders cannot be ade-
quately reconciled with each
other or with the objectives
that BAE Systems and EADS
established for the merger.”
Yet bosses hinted the firms
will still work together.
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PLANS to create a £28billion
defence giant by merging
BAE Systems and Europe’s
EADS were scrapped yester-
day after weeks of wrangling.
Bosses of the firms said
they could not “adequately
reconcile” interests of their
government stakeholders.
Britain has a golden share
in BAE – the UK’s biggest
industrial business with
90,000 employees worldwide
including 29,000 here. Ger-
many, France and Spain have
shares in EADS, which has
17,000 UK employees out of a
global workforce of 133,000.
Bosses wanted to merge
BAE’s expertise – from build-
ing Royal Navy aircraft carri-
ers, destroyers and subma-
rines, jet fighters, Navy F-35
Lightnings and armoured
vehicles – with EADS’s suc-
cess in commercial aviation
with Airbus and Eurocopter.
But Germany is thought to
have scuppered the deal with
Chancellor Angela Merkel
opposed to the plan.
The collapsed merger drew
mixed response from unions.
Typhoons were built in a joint venture involving BAE and EADS
Jim Moohan, of the GMB,
said: “BAE workforce will be
relieved management did not
rush into a situation that
could have destabilised a
very successful company.”
But professionals union
Prospect warned BAE could
still face job losses, particu-
larly due to defence budget
cuts in Britain and America.
General secretary desig-
nate Mike Clancy said:
“Thousands of skilled jobs
have been lost at BAE over
the last two years and we fear
the loss of thousands more if
BAE cannot expand its order
book into new markets.”
Unite’s Ian Waddell said:
“Highly skilled work forces of
both companies are the beat-
ing heart of British manufac-
turing. A merger, with a jobs
guarantee, would have cre-
ated a strong new company.”
The proposed merger had
met strong opposition from
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A CHEEKY schoolboy became the Talk of
the Toon yesterday after getting a cuddle
from the Duchess of Cambridge.
Terry Campbell, 10, had vowed to get
a hug from Kate and even hoped for a
kiss on her solo visit to Newcastle
upon Tyne.
And as he waited in a crowd of
schoolmates outside the Civic
Centre, he seized his chance by
throwing his arms out wide as she
approached.
Unable to miss his hands in
distinctive red-and-white hooped
knitted gloves, the Duchess paused to
ask: “Am I going to get a cuddle as
well?”
Smiling, she leant forward over the steel
barrier and embraced him.
Terry, wearing a bright green hoodie
over his school uniform, said later: “It was
good. I was hoping to get a hug from her
when we came here this morning. I never
thought it would happen. I can’t believe
she hugged me back.
“She was everything I thought she
would be. She was really nice.”
A pal interrupted: “The one thing he
really wanted though was a kiss.”
Kim Ramsey, 32, Terry’s teacher at
Morpeth Road primary school in Blyth,
Northumberland, said: “We asked the
children to come up with a question for her
Glove at first sight for Terry Campbell, 10, who threw out his arms to win a hug from Kate
and he decided he was going to ask for a
hug. He’s such a cheeky little lad. He just
said, ‘I’m going to stick my hands out and
get a hug’. I never thought she’d agree to
it. It was a wonderful moment.”
The Duchess, who wore the burgundy
coat she sported at Sandringham on
Christmas Day, was without husband
William due to his former nanny’s funeral.
She met wheelchair-bound teenagers
inside the Civic Centre, joining in their
game of boccia, a form of bowls.
She also visited a drug addiction centre
in Stockton-on-Tees and met young
mothers in Gateshead. Shannon
Prandoczky, 16, who has a one-year-old
daughter, Milly, said: “She is dead pretty.
She was more like us than I expected – she
talks like us.”
During a fourth engagement, at a
community garden in Elswick Park,
Newcastle, Kate surprised her hosts – and
her own staff – by revealing she grows her
own potatoes. She is thought to have a
vegetable patch at the rented farmhouse
she shares with William on Anglesey.
The Duchess is delighted after the hug yesterday
William’s sad farewell to his nanny
PRINCE William paid an emotional
farewell to his childhood nanny Olga
Powell at her funeral yesterday.
William, who cancelled a visit to the
North-east with wife Kate in order to
pay his respects, joined 100 mourners
at Harlow Crematorium in Essex.
Wearing a dark blue suit and black
tie, he was flanked by his mother
Princess Diana’s two sisters, Lady
Sarah McCorquodale, 55, and Lady
Jane Fellowes, 53.
He was also representing his
brother Harry who is serving in
Afghanistan. Mrs Powell, 82, who
lived in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire,
had looked after William and Harry
for 15 years.
Known to be loving but firm, she
was at the boys’ sides during their
parents’ divorce and comforted them
after Diana died in a car crash in Paris
in 1997.
Reverend David Bradburn, who con-
ducted Mrs Powell’s service, said: “She
was well-loved in the community.
“She would go out for a walk twice
a day and talk to anyone without any
airs and graces. She was very discreet
about all her positions as a nanny.
“She would refer to the two Princes
as ‘the boys’ and say how they enjoyed
jumping in puddles and climbing up
anything there was to climb. The fam-
ily wanted them to grow up as normal
children and she came out of retire-
ment to take that position.”
The 30-minute service closed with
the tune Let’s Go Fly A Kite, from the
much-loved film about nanny Mary
Poppins.
Mrs Powell, widowed at 52 after
just six years of marriage, died in
hospital on September 25 after col-
lapsing on the same day.
Her smart semi-detached home
was said to be filled with cherished
photos of the young Princes.
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PM: I’ll turn Britain
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DAVID Cameron yesterday put the
Tories firmly on the side of families
striving to better themselves by
vowing to turn Britain into an
“aspiration nation”.
In a passion-filled conference
speech hailed as his best yet, the
Prime Minister delighted the Tory
faithful with an unapologetic state-
ment of his “compassionate Con-
servative” values of supporting hard
work and enterprise.
And he promised to rebuild the
shattered economy with a welfare
system that backs workers and
penalises scroungers.
He used the occasion to deliver a
scathing riposte to Labour leader
Ed Miliband’s attempt to claim the
Tory “One Nation” mantle.
He called them: “Borrow, borrow,
borrow. Labour – the party of one
notion: borrowing.”
Old Etonian Mr Cameron hit back
at Labour sniping over his own back-
ground. He said: “I went to a great
school and I want every child to have
a great education. I’m not here to
defend privilege, I’m here to spread
it.”
He urged his party never to be
ashamed of backing “those who
strive to make a better life”.
Mr Cameron won a standing
ovation in Birmingham’s Symphony
Hall by telling his party, as his wife
Samantha looked on: “We know
what it takes to win, to win in the
tough world of today, to win for all
our people, to win for Britain. So
let’s get out there and do it.”
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“The mission for this Government is
to build an aspiration nation, to
unleash and unlock the promise of
all our people,” he said.
“Line one, rule one of being a
Conservative is that it’s not where
you’ve come from that counts, it’s
where you’re going.” The Tory party
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AT last. This was the moment
David Cameron ceased to sound
remotely ashamed of being a
Conservative.
He set out coherently and in
easily understandable language
the political mission he has
embarked on. And he set it out
superbly well.
The mission is to revive the
British economy and strengthen
British society by pursuing the
traditional Conservative notions
of sound public finance, backing
aspiration and challenging
everybody to fulfil their potential.
Taking aim at Ed Miliband’s
claim to lead a “One Nation”
Labour Party, Mr Cameron said:
“While the intellectuals of other
parties sneer at people who want
to get on in life, we here salute
you. They call us the party of the
better-off. No, we are the party of
the want-to-be better-off.” And
for people who do the right thing
like save for their old age or
strive to get to university and
every time it dampens incentives
by, for example, allowing
benefits to rise faster than
wages, we must bring him back
to this Birmingham speech and
ask him to explain himself.
It is all very well for him to say
he believes in backing aspiration,
but will he actually do it? Will he
audit every policy for aspiration
and bin the ones that fall short?
Will he, for example, now ditch
George Osborne’s ludicrous
policy of withdrawing child
benefit from families containing
someone earning over £50,000
and paying a fortune in tax?
Mr Cameron’s conference
slogan was “Britain Can Deliver”.
The electorate is entitled to ask
in response: We know that, but
can you?
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he cited examples of policies
that are actually designed to
achieve this: capping benefits so
people are better off in work,
taking on the Left-wing
educational establishment to
deliver state schools devoted to
high standards and bearing
down on the deficit to keep
interest rates low.
Nobody should any longer be
in any doubt as to what this
Prime Minister stands for. But
the clarity of his message gives
us a standard to hold him to.
Every time the Coalition
proposes bringing in new costs
PM kisses his wife Samantha yesterday
saluted “the doers, the risk takers,
the young people who dream of their
first pay cheque, their first car, their
first home – and are ready and will-
ing to work hard to get those things,”
he said.
He said opponents sneered at the
Tories as the “party of the better-
off.”
He responded: “No: We are the
party of the want-to-be-better-off,
those who strive to make a better
life for themselves and their fami-
lies.” He argued that Tory ideas were
“the best way to help the poor, and
the weak and the vulnerable”.
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Mr Cameron insisted that the
Government’s plan for restoring
economic growth was working.
“Yes it’s worse than we thought,
yes it’s taking longer, but we are
making progress,” he promised.
In a sombre assessment of the
stuttering recovery, Mr Cameron
admitted that the challenges facing
Britain were “daunting”.
“Unless we act, unless we take dif-
ficult, painful decisions, unless we
show determination and imagina-
tion, Britain may not be in the future
what it has been in the past,” he told
the conference.
Britain’s economy needed low
interest rates and confidence to
attract investment, and slashing the
Government’s record deficit was
“essential for both”. In the past two
years, a million new jobs had been
created in the private sector. And
the “grit and resolve of George
Osborne” had cut the deficit inher-
ited from Labour by a quarter.
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Britain could not hope to return to
prosperity without tackling the
bloated welfare system that hands
out £90billion a year to working-age
people, Mr Cameron said. The Prime
Minister promised a shake-up as
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into an aspiration nation
radical as the Beveridge reforms 60
years ago.
“What are hard-working people
who travel long distances to get into
work and pay their taxes meant to
think when they see families – indi-
vidual families – getting 40, 50, 60
thousand pounds of housing benefit
to live in homes that these hard-
working people could never afford
themselves?” Mr Cameron asked.
“It is an outrage, and we are end-
ing it by capping housing benefit.”
And he said he would be looking
at ending automatic access to hous-
ing benefit for people under 25.
“If hard-working young people
have to live at home while they work
and save, why should it be any dif-
ferent for those who don’t?” he said.
He added: “Work isn’t slavery, it’s
poverty that is slavery.”
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Britain’s schools system was in
danger of slipping behind many
other countries, Mr Cameron said.
He called for “schools where
discipline is strict, expectations are
high and no excuses are accepted
for failure”.
His plan was for millions of
children to be sent to “independent
schools in the state sector”.
“I don’t want great schools to just
be the preserve of those that can
pay the fees, or buy the nice house in
the right catchment area, I want
those schools to be open to every
child, in every neighbourhood,” Mr
Cameron said.
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Tory activists gave the Prime Minis-
ter a huge cheer when he recalled
his decision to veto a new European
Union treaty at the end of last year.
Mr Cameron said: “It was three in
the morning, there was a treaty on
the table that was not in Britain’s
interests and 25 people around that
table were telling me to sign it.
“But I did something that no other
British leader has ever done before.
I said no – Britain comes first – and I
vetoed that EU treaty.”
However his speech made no
mention of the EU referendum
commitment that many Tories
expect to be in the party’s election
manifesto.
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In a blistering attack, the Prime
Minister warned that Labour’s
economic plans for more borrowing
would “hurt the economy and hit
people hard”.
And he tore into Ed Miliband,
declaring: “He described a tax cut as
the Government writing people a
cheque. Ed, let me explain to you
how it works.
“When people earn money, it’s
their money, not the Government’s
money. So, if we cut taxes, we’re not
giving them money – we’re taking
less of it away. OK, got that?”
Moving words
on his son Ivan
David Cameron
hand in hand
with Samantha
yesterday
A kiss for son Ivan from David in 2004
ONE of the most moving parts of
David Cameron’s speech came when
he reflected on his son Ivan and the
public perception of disability.
The Conservative leader’s voice
crackled with emotion as he spoke of
the severely disabled boy, who died
aged six in 2009.
Wife Samantha also fought back
tears as Mr Cameron, talking about
Britain’s success at the Olympics,
said: “I was trying to think of my
favourite moment. Was it telling
President Hollande that, no, we
hadn’t cheated at cycling, it was just
we peddled faster than the French.
“No, for me it was seeing that
young woman who swam her heart
out. My best moment was putting
that gold medal around the neck of
Ellie Simmonds. And I am so grateful
for what all those Paralympians did.
“When I used to push my son Ivan
in his wheelchair, I always thought
some people saw the wheelchair, not
the boy. Today more people would
see the boy – and that’s because of
what happened here this summer.”
Dad was such
an inspiration
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AS a true blue Tory, Samantha
Cameron couldn’t be seen in
anything else. Her striking
£300 dress from high street
chain Joseph just had to be in
royal blue, with a grey belt to
match her suede heels from
LK Bennett. But to prove she’s
not a stuffy political wife, she
showed off her dolphin ankle
tattoo. And that’s blue, too.
David Cameron with father Ian in 2010
AN emotional David Cameron
revealed the inspiration he drew from
his disabled father in a deeply
personal conference speech.
The Prime Minister said: “It’s only
when your dad’s gone you realise not
just how much you really miss them
but how much you really owe them.
“My dad influenced me much more
than I ever thought. He never
complained, even when he lost both
those legs later in life. Dad was the
eternal optimist.”
Stockbroker Ian Cameron, aged 77,
died in 2010 after a stroke. He had
been born with both legs shortened
below the knee and his feet twisted.
The PM added: “I remember
passing the village hall where he took
part in parish council meetings. I
asked him what he was most proud
of. It was simple, working hard and
providing a good start for his family.”
Mr Cameron said it was “not a hard
luck story but a hard work story”.
The message he took from it was:
“Work hard. Family comes first. But
put back in to the community, too.”
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Cameron is now the odds-on winner
DAVID Cameron’s performance
impressed bookies, Cabinet
colleagues – and even one of his
most outspoken Tory critics.
Bookmakers William Hill made
him odds-on at 1/5 to lead his party
into the next election. The Tories
were rated 9/4 to win, with 5/1
against a Tory-Lib Dem coalition.
Conservative MP Nadine Dor-
ries, who in April blasted Mr Cam-
eron and George Osborne as out-
of-touch “arrogant posh boys”,
was moved to admit on Twitter:
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Michael Dugher said: “This was a
defensive speech, from an out-of-
touch, clearly rattled leader, who
cannot be the One Nation Prime
Minister we need.”
Unite general secretary Len
McCluskey accused Mr Cameron
of indulging in the “politics of fear”
adding: “He says we must ‘sink or
swim’ as a country, yet he has cut
the lifebelt for the millions of
Britons struggling to find work
and juggling to make ends meet.”
And GMB boss Paul Kenny
urged the PM to “steer the econ-
omy away from the rocks” adding:
“George Osborne has as much
economic knowledge as a stick of
rhubarb.”
Eurosceptics, including Tory
former Chancellor Lord Lamont,
criticised the failure to mention an
EU referendum. Chris Bruni-Lowe,
of the People’s Pledge campaign,
said the PM had “missed a big
opportunity to make clear to the
millions who support a referendum
that he is committed to giving
people a choice on Britain’s future
relationship with the EU”.
excellent speech. Well done DC.
Praise always given when due.”
Former Tory leader Iain Duncan
Smith said it was “a great speech,
probably the best he’s made... A
great antidote to Ed Miliband’s
nonsense last week”.
Minister without Portfolio Ken
Clarke hailed the PM for making a
“serious” argument for reform and
avoiding “populist claptrap”.
But Labour Shadow Minister
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