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M Y V ALENTINE ’ S D AY N IGHTMARE A ROMANTIC TRIP TO PARIS WENT HORRIBLY WRONG FOR MATT, 20 AND HIS GIRLFRIEND AMI, 19 Ami and I met at University. We’d been together for three months and I wanted to 50 policeman asked us loads of questions about surprise her on Valentine’s Day. I’d heard Paris was romantic but I was shocked to 5 find that two flights and two nights in a luxurious hotel with a four-poster bed would cost ₤ 300! I knew Ami would love it though, 55 could drive on. I was so relieved. Ami was so I didn’t mind. The only person I told was my flatmate – I wanted her to drive us to 10 the airport! Over the next week, Ami pestered me about Valentine’s Day but I pretended 60 police everywhere and the TV screens were I didn’t care. I think she was upset, but we’d only been going out for three months, so 15 she probably didn’t want to push things and look silly. Our flight would depart at 8pm on February 13. That afternoon I phoned Ami 65 the police had found a hand grenade in and told her to pack an overnight bag and be ready at her flat at 4pm. She asked what 20 was going on, but I didn’t say. Ami was surprised to see my flatmate driving the car, but my flatmate acted as if she was just dropping us off somewhere as a favour. I’d packed a blindfold and as we got 25 close to the airport I tied it over her eyes because she got 5 . She thought I was playing a joke on her, but seemed pretty excited. As we drove to the airport terminal we were stopped by a police officer. At first 30 I thought it was just a routine check, so I covered Ami’s ears and sang loudly in case she put two and two together. But then I realised he was looking at us suspiciously. “What’s going on?” he asked. 35 I didn’t know what he meant but then I saw him looking at the blindfold – he obviously thought I was a terrorist or something and that I was trying to kidnap Ami! Suddenly I got really scared. I realised 40 how strange we must look, and I was terrified that we were going to get arrested! 70 told I couldn’t get a refund. I was so angry! We I didn’t want to spoil Ami’s surprise, but I assumed I ought to take the blindfold off to avoid getting into trouble. That was it – the 45 secret was out! Ami was really shocked to see the policeman and didn’t have a clue 75 what was going on, and she was pretty scared too. Sugar

MODEL QUEST A T THE ANNUAL M ODEL Q UEST COMPETITION WHERE AMATEUR MODELS CAN WIN A PROFESSIONAL MODELLING CONTRACT , N EDAHL S TELIO INTERVIEWS A BEAUTY CONTESTANT WHO ’ LL NEVER BE M ISS U NIVERSE . As I sit in the audience at Model Quest, the atmosphere buzzes around me. I feel as though I’m at a Miss Universe contest, 5 surrounded by beautiful girls flashing whiter-than-white smiles and wearing beautiful evening dresses. But amid the glamour I spot someone who seems out 10 of place. It’s a boy in a suit! Is he an agent? The guy who hands out flowers? What? He’s a contestant! Really? What is a boy doing entering a beauty 15 contest? Meet 16-year-old James McFarland, a guy who gave up football for a chance to make it big world of modelling. “I always wanted to be a 20 star, so when my father brought home an entry form for Model Quest, I thought, ‘Why not? I’ll do it for a laugh.’ And anyway, it was only $25 to enter so I figured I had nothing to 65 that could damage my career.” lose." 25 And he certainly didn’t lose. In fact, in his very first attempt at the age of 13, James made it to the exciting grand final. Unfortunately he missed out on the big prize, 70 Quest entrants show their skills in a casual a modelling contract. “I really want to be a 30 model when I get older and I think this beauty contest is a great way to build my confidence and get used to being in front of the camera. Plus I get noticed this way.” So 75 I wish him all the best. “Thanks,” he says that’s why he does it! He sheepishly admits 35 that he enjoys walking down the catwalk. Surprisingly, James is not the only guy trying to find fame and fortune via Model Quest, but there are still definitely more Sarahs, Janes and Emilys than Johns, 40 Peters and Matts. “In the whole contest there are about five other guys out of around 400 girls.

Golf star of 11 whose driving ambition is to win like Tiger Woods hours later in the day on the family’s 30 £4,500 putting green, driving net and bunker. She has outstripped the 89 other juniors at her golf club, Yeovil, most of whom are older boys. ‘I like the 35 competition, the adrenaline buzz of winning and beating the boys,’ she said. Heni, as she is known, also shines at hockey and gains top marks for her school work. 40 A T the age of 11, many girls have their sights set on being a pop star, model or air hostess. Not Henrietta (Heni) Brockway - she 5 wants to be the female version of Tiger Woods. And she has already gone a remarkably long way towards achieving her ambition. Within two years she has cut her 10 handicap 1) from the starting level of 45 to 50 five, the lowest in England among girls her age. She has won a string of tournaments and has been selected for elite training with the English Ladies’ 15 Golf Association. But she most tries to imitate her billionaire hero Tiger Woods – the first golfer to hold all four major professional championships at once – in her dedicated approach to improving her 20 technique and fitness. Henrietta, of Mere, Wiltshire, gets up at 6.30am every day, although it is hard, and spends an hour in the gym. Then she’ll pore over the video of her previous 25 day’s practice sessions or match play. She does her homework during morning and lunch break at Gillingham School in Dorset so she can practise for several Daily Mail noot 1 handicap = a golf term. The lower the number the better you are.

1 Seventy per cent of children living in cities carry infections caused by pigeon droppings, new research has found. Many flu type illnesses, diagnosed as viruses, may actually be caused by a fungus¹ carried by pigeons. The findings of this research will help London Mayor Ken Livingston’s campaign to keep the flocks of pigeons away from Trafalgar Square. He has described the pigeons in charge of the American as “rats with wings”. research, said: “We don’t 2 The research was know the long term carried out by a team from consequences of infection, the Albert Einstein College but it is clear from our of medicine. They selected findings that many children 200 otherwise healthy are infected. We have to children from the Bronx determine what the area in New York, which consequences are, both also has huge flocks of short and long term. But we pigeons. They found out do know that it is not good that at the age of five, 70 to have a chronic infection per cent of the youngsters in your body.” He added: were infected. “The way to protect the children would be vaccination, although that might mean vaccinating noot 1 fungus = schimmel

Two men in a boat … a whale … sharks 45 trouble and no way of getting hold of our S C IMON HALKS TELLS HOW HIS ATTEMPT TO ROW THE I NDIAN O CEAN BECAME A BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL FOR HIM AND HIS ROWING MATE BILL GREAVES . smashing back down. A last attempt was 5 Setting off to row across the Indian Ocean should have been one of the greatest moments of my life. When we left Kalbarrie, Western Australia, for our 3,800 mile trip to Reunion Island, nearly 10 2,000 people lined the shores, cheering and clapping enthusiastically. But we didn't know then that our attempt to break a 30-year-old record to cross the Indian Ocean in a rowing boat would be 15 nothing compared to our struggle to survive. The first days at sea could not have been better. On the third evening we even saw a huge blue whale in close-up. 20 It was magnificent! That night I decided we should get some sleep at 8pm. We made our boat safe and went to bed. No more than an hour later we were abruptly 70 bleeding badly and we'd been lucky so woken up by a loud bang. Instantly the 25 boat moved sideways, then upside down. Our rowing boat was designed to right herself after capsizing, or at least that's what we thought! We still don't know what hit us, but we think it was a whale. 30 The roof of our tiny cabin suddenly became the floor. All our loose belongings fell around us. I reached for a torch and saw there was already an inch of water in the cabin. Our most vital 35 piece of equipment was our Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB). We had one lifejacket, the other was on deck. We decided to get out. Bill leaned forward and opened the 40 hatch. The force of water was incredible. I took a deep breath and started to swim against the current and ended up on top of the boat. So there we were, upside down with nobody knowing we were in