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‘Robo-shorts’ a step in
the right direction
Parents don’t accept
jungle death findings
Archer takes aim at
Australian batsmen
Scientists say they have created a pair
of “robo-shorts” that could help
people who have difficulty walking.
An updated version of the exosuit,
which aids movement, will enable
wearers to move about and switch
from walking to running with relative
ease. Trials suggest people feel about
17lb lighter on their feet and more able
to tackle steep hills and stairs. They
were designed to help troops with
heavy backpacks but they could be
adapted for the frail and elderly.
Page 5The family of Nora Quoirin, 15, whose
body was found in a Malaysian jungle
on Tuesday, have urged police to
continue inquiries despite foul play
being ruled out following an autopsy.
Her Franco-Irish parents believe she
may have been abducted and felt it
“improbable that Nora left the
bungalow voluntarily”, their lawyer
said yesterday. Malaysian police said
she had likely starved and died of
internal bleeding after being lost for a
week in the jungle.
Page 13England cricket captain Joe Root will
throw the ball to Test debutant Jofra
Archer to gain some revenge after the
Barbados-born 24-year-old was on the
receiving end of some aggressive
bowling from the Australia attack
yesterday. Archer was targeted with a
series of short deliveries from
Australia’s pace bowlers as he helped
the hosts reach 258 all out in the first
innings of the second Ashes Test at
Lord’s. The tourists finished on 30 for
one at stumps.
Sport, pages 1-news world sportPuzzles 16
Obituaries 27
TV listings 35
Weather 36
‘The neighbours called. Our
plants are dead, the cat’s
missing and Corbyn will be
PM by the time we get home’Tory rebels
side with
Corbyn bid
to topple PM
Wind farm at centre of blackout handed £100,000 payout
Army veteran may be charged over ‘unjustified’ death of IRA man
By Steve Bird and Victoria WardTHE wind farm involved in last week’s
blackout was awarded nearly £100,
compensation after being told to re-
duce its output the day after the power
cut, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
About a million homes and busi-
nesses in various parts of the country
were left without electricity last Friday
when Hornsea Wind Farm and Little
Barford gas-fired station went off grid
within minutes of each other. After get-ting back online, National Grid ordered
Hornsea to reduce the electricity it
supplied overnight on Saturday.
This entitled its owners, Orsted, to
compensation. Although National
Grid, a private FTSE 100 company, in-
sisted the decision to cut Hornsea’s
supply was not related to any role it
played in the blackout, the restrictions
were the first to be imposed on the
plant since it went live in February.
National Grid, which owns the coun-
try’s electricity infrastructure, makesmillions of pounds of so-called “con-
straints compensation” payments
every year. The system pays if a sup-
plier with a contract to produce a cer-
tain amount of power is then told less is
required. While this affects home and
business owners’ bills, National Grid
insists it is the most effective way of
cutting costs because it avoids the need
to build more energy infrastructure.
The payout emerged on the day Na-
tional Grid will reveal what triggered
the blackout. Its report is expected toinform Ofgem, the energy regulator,
and ministers how the failure in the
North Sea and in Bedfordshire blacked
out swathes of the UK.
An energy expert told The Telegraph
yesterday of the “striking coincidence”
that Hornsea was told to reduce supply
just after it apparently contributed to
the once-in-a-decade blackout, particu-
larly having never been asked to before.
Dr John Constable, director of the
Renewable Energy Foundation, which
Continued on Page 2By Dominic Nicholls Defence anD
Security correSponDent
A FORMER British soldier could face a
possible criminal probe into the death
of an IRA member 47 years ago after a
coroner ruled the killing was “unjusti-
fied”. Seamus Bradley was shot dead in
the Creggan area of Londonderry in
July 1972 at the age of 19. Troops from
The Royal Scots had deployed to the
area as part of Operation Motorman, an
attempt to gain control of republican
areas across Northern Ireland that had
been considered no-go zones.
The Army claimed the teenager was
shot while he was in a tree, armed with
a machine gun, and suffered additionalinjuries as he fell. However, his family
alleged he was killed later, claiming he
was taken away in an Army vehicle and
that he sustained fatal injuries while
under interrogation.
Judge Patrick Kinney, overseeing an
inquest at Belfast Coroner’s Court yes-
terday, rejected both those versions of
events as he ruled Mr Bradley waskilled by a soldier who got out of a Sara-
cen vehicle, dropped to one knee and
opened fire.
He also said he was satisfied Mr
Bradley was not posing a threat at the
time he was killed and that the soldier
had breached the Army’s “yellow card”
rules about when they could shoot. De-
claring that the IRA man could havesurvived his injuries had he been prop-
erly treated by soldiers at the time, the
coroner said he was going to send a re-
port to Northern Ireland’s director of
public prosecutions (DPP).
Although the coroner had been una-
ble to confirm the identity of the sol-
dier involved, if he was still alive and
could be identified, the DPP coulddecide to press charges against him.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said
yesterday: “We acknowledge the out-
come delivered by the coroner into the
death of Seamus Bradley and will now
review the detailed findings”.
An inquest in 1973 returned an open
verdict and Northern Ireland’s attorney
general ordered a fresh inquest in 2013.JOE GIDDENS / PA WIRE
Sophie Todd, right, celebrates with a friend after collecting their A-level results in Norfolk yesterday. The number of top A grades fell to the lowest level in over a decade Reports: Page 4Grade expectations
Former ministers branded ‘un-Conservative’
after offering to help prevent a no-deal Brexit
By Camilla Tominey aSSociate eDitor
FOUR Tory former ministers yesterday
welcomed Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to
bring down the Government and be-
come a caretaker prime minister in his
efforts to stop a no-deal Brexit.
Dominic Grieve, the former attorney
general, was described as un-Conserva-
tive by his own association chairman
after he signed a letter with fellow Re-
mainer rebels Sir Oliver Letwin, Dame
Caroline Spelman and Nick Boles offer-
ing to meet the Labour leader “to dis-
cuss the different ways” to stop the UK
leaving the EU without a deal on Oct 31.
Last night, Jo Swinson, the Liberal
Democrat leader, offered to meet Mr
Corbyn after initially dismissing as
“nonsense” his plan to build a “strictly
time-limited” cross-party coalition to
force Boris Johnson out of office. Ms
Swinson wrote on Twitter: “I’ve offered
to meet Jeremy Corbyn to discuss how
we can work together on a deliverable
plan to stop no-deal, including the op-
tion of uniting behind an MP who can
command a majority in the House.” Her
climbdown could mean that the Tory
rebels remain the last obstacle to Mr
Corbyn’s plan after the SNP and Plaid
Cymru both signalled their support.
Guto Bebb, a Tory MP and former de-
fence minister, also suggested he would
rather see Mr Corbyn as prime minister
than experience a no-deal Brexit.
Urging MPs to take Mr Corbyn’s plan
“seriously”, he said: “A short-term Jer-
emy Corbyn government is less damag-
ing than the generational damage that
would be caused by a no-deal Brexit”.
Last night, Mr Johnson hit back, writ-
ing on Twitter: “The referendum result
must be respected. We will leave the EU
on October 31.” Grant Shapps, the Trans-
port Secretary, criticised his colleagues,
calling it “absolutely extraordinary that
any Conservative MP considered even
for one minute installing Jeremy Cor-
byn in Downing Street”.
The four former ministers were in-
cluded in a letter sent by Mr Corbyn to
opposition leaders on Wednesday ask-
ing them to unite behind a “caretaker
government”, led by him, to stop no deal
by extending Article 50. He proposed an
alternative government that would call a
general election in which Labour would
campaign for a second referendum.
Yesterday, Mr Grieve, Sir Oliver,
Dame Caroline and Mr Boles wrote back
agreeing to talks. The letter read: “We
agree that our common priority should
be to work together in Parliament to
prevent no-deal Brexit and welcome
your invitation to discuss the different
ways that this might be achieved. We
would be happy to meet with you as
well as colleagues from other parties.”
The move prompted outrage in Mr
Grieve’s Beaconsfield constituency.
Jackson Ng, the chairman, said: “The
continuous and thoroughly un-Con-
servative behaviour being exhibited by
Dominic Grieve has become more wor-
rying. Should he entertain the idea of
siding with Jeremy Corbyn or any other
government other than the existing
Conservative Government being led by
Boris Johnson, he will leave us with no
choice at all as an association.” A source
at Sir Oliver’s West Dorset Conservative
Association said: “We are completely at
odds with our MP over this.”
Yesterday, Dame Caroline appeared to
backtrack on the letter, saying: “I could
not support a Corbyn government.”Reports: Pages 8-
Editorial Comment: Page 15style & featuresJudith Woods
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