Daily Mirror - 05.03.2020

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Toll of abuse

on shop staff

MORE than 400 shop staff

suffer violence or abuse

every day – with a rise in

weapons a worrying trend.

Findings from a British

Retail Consortium survey

show cases of violence are

up 9% on the previous year.

Major triggers are theft,

intoxicated customers and

enforcing age restrictions.

Despite £1.2billion spent

on crime prevention,

losses climbed to £1billion.

Helen Dickinson, BRC

chief executive, urged

“tougher sentences”.

Answers: PAge 4 1

1

Which game, which

uses sticks and a ball,

is played mainly in the

Scottish Highlands?

2

What is the state

capital of Florida?

3

The Japanese art

of growing

miniature trees is

called what?

4

Which alcoholic

spirit is made from

juniper berries?

5

Does an

icosahedron have

a)16 b)20 or c)24 faces?

OUR DAILY

PUB QUIZ

Cumming to TV soon...

by MArK JeFFerIes

Showbiz Editor

son, President Trump and his

wife Melania, the Duke and

Duchess of Sussex, Mark Zuck-

erberg and Kanye West among

those ridiculed in puppet form.

The show is the first original

commission announced by

BritBox UK, the streaming

service launched by the

BBC and ITV.

Spitting

I m a g e

co-creator

Roger Law

is back on

board for the show, which ran

between 1984 and 1996 and was

watched by 15 million viewers.

He said: “It will be more outra-

geous, audacious and salacious

than the previous incarnation.”

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Tory puppet master joins cast as

Spitting Image makes its return

SEEING

DOUBLE

Melania

Trump and

hubby Donald

Yeez Y Rap

star Kanye

Pulls the strIngs

Sketch for puppet of PM’s

adviser Dominic Cummings

DoMinic cummings and

Donald Trump are among the

victims as Spitting image

returns to screens.

The series will air in autumn

on BritBox, with Boris John - BooKed Mark Zuckerberg