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NORMAL PEOPLE
BY SALLY ROONEY
The Mirror Book Club’s August pick is Normal People by Sally Rooney. We’d love
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AUGUST
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BOOK
CLUB
Jupiter hit by
giant planet
JUPITER was hit “like a
bullet” 4.5 billion years ago
by a planet 10 times the
size of Earth.
The impact may explain
why the core is less dense
and larger than expected.
Prof Andrea Isella, of
Rice University, Houston,
Texas, said: “The impact
diluted the core.”
RIDER Marco George
performed a handstand on
a motorbike travelling at
76mph in Elvington, North
Yorks – double the record.
RECORD STANDS
TV Tom: Save our locals
want. I need to prove 21st
century pubs can thrive.”
In Tom’s Pub Rescue, he gets
involved with bars in trouble.
He has the experience of
lifting pub food to Michelin-
star standard at two premises.
BBC2 boss Patrick Holland
said: “With his extensive
knowledge Tom has the foun-
dations to restore each local.”
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part of our history and culture.
While many local services and
shops are closing there are
opportunities for reinventing
what a pub can be.
“I will work with communi-
ties to give them what they
confessed beer lover Kerridge,
who used to sink up to 15 pints
a night, will front a BBC2 series
aiming to save at-risk locals.
He told The Mirror : “When
a community loses its pub, it
loses its soul. They are a vital
You’re
having
a giraffe
Organist jailed for teen abuse
A CATHEDRAL organist has been jailed
for sex crimes against boys.
Scott Farrell, 48, used his position at
Rochester Cathedral, Kent, to groom
three teenagers aged between 13 and 15.
Farrell, from Wouldham, Kent, was
sentenced to five years in prison at
Cambridge crown court.
He admitted gross indecency against
three boys, and using hidden cameras in
a bathroom and bedrooms to record
another child and two women.
Police found that Farrell had filmed a
boy showering in his own home after
being invited to stay over by his parents.
Prosecutor Charles Falk said: “The
victim feels angry and worthless. He has
hit rock bottom and says life is pointless.”
THIS New Forest pony is causing a
spot of confusion.
As snapper Trudy Surman-Roper
says: “When I first saw it my brain
said ‘giraffe’, my eyes
said ‘horse’.”
Is it the UK’s
first girorse...
or a horaffe?
EXCLUSIVE
BY NICOLA METHVEN TV Editor
CELEBRITY chef Tom
Kerridge is on a TV mission
to save Britain’s boozers.
A quarter of the nation’s
pubs – more than 13,000 –
have closed since 2001.
There were just 38,815 left at
the end of last year as cash-
strapped drinkers buy in
alcohol to drink at home. Self-
LOCALS HERO To m
Kerridge in pub battle
Kerridge will bring cheer to
at-risk boozers in BBC show
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