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Page 19NEWS BRIEFING
Breakfast with Moira
helps boost Classic FM
Cambridge student
dies in fall from plane
Hong Kong protesters
charged with ‘rioting’
Aston Martin chief
silent on his future
Classic FM has gained nearly 250,
breakfast show listeners in the past
year after hiring Moira Stuart to read
the news. The “Moira effect” has
boosted the fortunes of the show,
taking it to 1.9 million listeners, at a
time when other breakfast shows are
facing decline. BBC Radio 4’s Today
programme lost 312,000 listeners, but
the hardest hit was Zoe Ball, who took
over on BBC Radio 2 from Chris Evans
in January. Her audience has dropped
by 781,000 in the last quarter.
Page 7Family and friends have spoken of
their grief after a Cambridge
University student died in a fall from a
plane in Madagascar. Alana Cutland,
19, was completing an internship on
the island off the east coast of Africa.
According to local reports, Ms
Cutland, from Milton Keynes, was
travelling in a Cessna light aircraft
when she fell last Thursday. The
circumstances surrounding how she
came to fall are not yet known and her
body is yet to be recovered.
Page 9Hong Kong police hauled dozens of
protesters into court yesterday to face
draconian charges of rioting in a move
likely to stir further unrest. Charges
were read against 23 people, accusing
them of blocking roads, breaking
fences, damaging street signs and
attacking police with “lethal weapons”
such as bricks. It was the first time
protesters have been formally accused
of rioting – a charge that carries a
possible 10-year jail term – since
demonstrations broke out in June.
Page 12The chief executive of Aston Martin
refused to take questions about his
future after the carmaker recorded a
£78.8 million loss in the first half and
its shares took yet another tumble.
Andy Palmer blamed a “worsening
trading environment” but refused
questions from The Daily Telegraph
about the firm’s performance. The loss
reverses the £20.8 million profit Aston
made in the same period last year and
marks the latest blow for the firm since
its flotation at the end of last year.
Page 27news newsworldbusinessis away
Obituaries 25
TV listings 33
Weather 34
Army trains
keyboard
warriors for
digital war
Shoppers ‘baff led’ by 58 recycling symbols Met ‘making excuses’ over Midland report
By Sarah Knapton Science editor
SHOPPERS face an array of 58 baffling
recycling symbols when they come to
dispose of products, leading to wide-
spread confusion about what can and
cannot be put into kerbside collections.
Britain’s recycling rates have stag-
nated at about 45 per cent as the Gov-
ernment admitted it will not reach its
50 per cent target by next year, largely
because of the bewildering system.
The Daily Telegraph discovered 58
symbols on packaging, plastic, glassand batteries. But all is not as it seems
when it comes to their meaning. For ex-
ample, “The Green Dot”, which appears
to show recycling arrows, actually
means the producer has made a finan-
cial contribution towards recovery and
recycling of packaging in Europe.
Likewise, the symbol of a man throw-
ing waste into a bin is a logo from Keep
Continued on Page 4By Martin Evans
crime correSpondentSCOTLAND YARD has claimed it can-
not publish the unredacted report into
its handling of Operation Midland be-
cause to do so could reveal covert po-
licing methods and help criminals.
However, the author of the report,
Sir Richard Henriques, last night in-sisted there was nothing in his 491-
page dossier that would compromise
undercover tactics, and accused the
Metropolitan Police of making excuses.
The force has come under mounting
pressure to publish the full report fol-
lowing last week’s conviction of Carl
Beech, the fantasist whose allegations
led to the Met’s disastrous 18-month in-
vestigation into a VIP paedophile ring.Operation Midland was launched in
November 2014 after Beech told offic-
ers he had been raped and tortured by
a gang, who had also murdered three
young boys in the late Seventies.
After describing him as “credible
and true”, the Met raided the homes of
Lord Bramall, the former head of the
Army; Lord Brittan, the former Home
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Joe Root, the England captain, clutches a replica Ashes urn ahead of the first day of the series today – something he will be hoping to
do for real in a few weeks’ time. Root yesterday told how he had dreamt of lifting the urn as captain ‘from being a little boy’, saying the
timing of this series was perfect for England – and English cricket as a whole – to capitalise on the World Cup victory Sport: Pages 1-England dream big
Soldiers to be deployed on social media
battlefield in face of Russian cyber threat
By Dominic Nicholls
defence correSpondent
THE ARMY is to engage in social media
warfare, one of its most senior generals
has announced, as he launched a new
division of the military dedicated to
fighting cyber threats.
Lieutenant General Ivan Jones, the
Commander of the Field Army, said the
division would operate “above and
below the threshold of conventional
conflict” to counter malign Russian
activity and threats from digitally so-
phisticated terror groups such as Isil.
Titled 6 Division (6 Div), it will seek
to influence the behaviour of adversar-
ies by specialising in “information
warfare”. It is expected to launch social
media offensives as well as react to
“fake news” attacks on Britain.
The new division will be the Army’s
first dedicated information warfare
formation, with troops trained in cyber
capabilities and more traditional skills
such as covert surveillance or advanced
weaponry.
Specialists will be recruited from
other Army units, with a small number
from the Navy and Royal Air Force,
mixing regular service personnel and
reservists. Despite the desk-bound
nature of their jobs, all recruits will
have to pass the normal fitness tests.
“We need to develop our asymmet-
ric edge and bring focus to the orches-
tration of intelligence, information
operations, cyber, electronic warfare
and unconventional warfare,” Lt Gen
Jones said. “The character of warfare
continues to change as the boundaries
between conventional and unconven-
tional warfare become increasingly
blurred. The Army must remain adapt-
able and evolve as a fighting force.”
Western security and military organi-
sations have been slow to respond to
the deployment by Russia of misinfor-
mation and cyber attacks to spread
confusion and cover up malign activity.
Russian disinformation was used re-
cently against a British Army exercise
in Croatia, with fictitious stories
distributed online and through social
media about unprofessional behaviour
from soldiers in 16 Air Assault Brigade.
Equally difficult to counter has been
Isil’s increasingly sophisticated use of
social media. In 2014 it used journal-
ists, photographers and video editors
in Iraq to produce digital footage
with Hollywood-style, state-of-the-art
technology to spread disinformation.
US and British forces and intelli-
gence agencies such as GCHQ were
eventually able to use social media war-
fare to undermine Isil in northern Iraq
and Syria and made a significant contri-
bution to its eventual defeat by, among
other things, hindering recruitment
efforts by redirecting social media in-
terest to sites debunking its ideology.
The cyber division will build on the
success of such operations and develop
ways to counter adversaries in the
“grey zone”, the term given to actions
short of what is traditionally thought of
as acts of war but which are none the
less harmful to British interests.
Lt Gen Jones, a former SAS com-
mander, said: “The world is changing
at a remarkable pace and is only going
to get faster and more complex. State
and non-state actors are continually
seeking to gain advantage in the grey
zone that exists below the threshold of
conventional conflict. We must create
a campaign mindset – a move from
planning periodic activity to managing
Continued on Page 2Javid doubles
spending to
‘turbo-charge’
no-deal plans
By Anna Mikhailova
deputy political editorSAJID JAVID has doubled no-deal
funding by dipping into Philip Ham-
mond’s £26.6 billion war chest.
In his first act as Chancellor, Mr
Javid announced £2.1 billion in new
funds for this year to “turbo-charge”
preparations for leaving the European
Union without a deal. This is on top of
£2.1 billion already set aside for Brexit.
Mr Javid said: “We want to get a good
deal that abolishes the anti-democratic
backstop. But if we can’t get a good
deal, we’ll have to leave without one.
“This additional £2.1 billion will en-
sure we are ready to leave on Oct 31 –
deal or no deal.”
During the leadership campaign, Mr
Hammond warned the next prime min-
ister not to spend his £26.6 billion “fis-
cal headroom”, adding that he expected
it to be wiped out by a no-deal Brexit.
The money, which will be detailed in
the next Office for Budget Responsibil-ity forecast, includes an immediate
£1.1 billion cash boost and an extra
£1 billion fund, which departments will
be able to dip into if they need more
money later in the year.
It will be used to fund an extra 500
Border Force officers, provide support
at ports, and provisions for the event of
traffic jams near the border.
Of the money, £344 million will be
spent on border and customs opera-
tions, £434 million on medical sup-
plies, £108 million on supporting
businesses and £138 million on a public
information campaign.
A Treasury source said the an-
nouncement marked “a real cultural
change” in the Treasury.
“Sajid Javid’s first act as Chancellor is
to really grip no-deal preparations.
This would normally take months to
agree,” the source said. “The fact it’s
been done in a week is incredible, a tes-
tament to his determination to get
things done, which didn’t exist before.”
Yesterday, MPs revealed plans to
launch an inquiry into the money the
Government is “throwing” at Brexit.
The Commons public accounts com-
mittee said there was “not enough
time” to spend it effectively by Oct 31.Reports: Page 8Zero Wa s t e‘Javid’s first act is to really
grip no-deal preparations.
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