Too many men are being diagnosed late, says Oliver Kemp, especially those in high-risk groups

Wes Streeting’s order to review prostate cancer screening guidance could not come at a more important time ( Report, 5 November ). Prostate cancer is the second-most deadly cancer among men. High-risk groups, including those with a family history and black men, are twice as likely to die from it. The existing “informed choice” system, which requires men to request testing, is failing. As a result, too many are being diagnosed late – as Chris Hoy was – which drastically reduces their chances of survival.

A screening programme for high-risk groups could reverse the rise in late-stage diagnoses and deaths. We also have data to prove that, for these groups, the advantages of screening and subsequent treatment outweigh the risks of overtreatment by a factor of four. A national screening programme would move the UK from being one of the worst performers on prostate cancer in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to one of the best.

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Two concerts, including the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s fiercely challenging Viola Concerto, showcased the versatility and communicative skills of Lawrence Power

The viola player Lawrence Power is a resident artist at the Southbank Centre this season. As well as playing concertos and chamber music, he’s exploring less conventional performances, and the first of those, Lawrence Power’s Lock-in , was a mix of video, live performances and spontaneous poetry readings, in which Power included music that he had commissioned during the Covid lockdowns.

Some of those miniatures were screened in the performances that Power had streamed in 2020. Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Objets Trouvés runs through a collection of string tropes before alighting on a fresh, original idea; Garth Knox’s Quartet for One imagines a deconstructed string quartet and has the viola play the four instrumental parts in succession, while Thomas Adès’ tiny Berceuse for viola and piano is extracted from his opera The Exterminating Angel. Two more substantial new pieces were performed live. Fazil Say’s Sonata for solo viola is a two-movement memorial to the Turkish viola player Roşen Güneş, its first movement a set of variations on a insistent keening theme, while Héloise Werner’s Mixed Phrases takes lines from a poem by Rimbaud, which a soprano (Werner herself) atomises into syllables and isolated phonemes as the viola urges her on, creating a witty to-and-fro.

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The show’s first blind contestant continues to bowl us over with his sharp wit and spine-tingling moves. We’re calling it – he’s a dead cert for the glitterball

For 10 interminable seconds on Saturday night TV, the lights went out. Thankfully, it was deliberate. The Couple’s Choice routine performed on Strictly Come Dancing by blind comedian Chris McCausland included a “blackout moment”, where he danced in the dark to immerse viewers in his sightless world. It was a powerful and poignant interlude which was hailed by the judges as “absolutely spectacular”.

This spine-tingling piece of television was reminiscent of the silent dance performed by actor Rose Ayling-Ellis, the show’s first deaf participant, in 2021. That routine would be voted Bafta’s Must-See Moment – as well as garnering a spot in our own hall of hoofing fame – and Ayling-Ellis went on to lift the glitterball trophy.

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Memory deficits could have longer-term consequences and increase risk of conditions such as dementia, researchers say

Asthma is linked to memory issues in children – and the condition appearing early may make memory difficulties worse, research suggests.

The study found that children with asthma performed worse in memory tasks than children without the lung condition.

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Despite his fall from grace, the royal always seems to find a pal to pay his way. In a world awash with murky interests, it is rather important that we find out why

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a fortune is usually dead keen to throw it at Prince Andrew.

Because they keep on doing it, don’t they? They just can’t help themselves, from the oligarch son-in-law of Kazakhstan’s then president who so obligingly paid £3m over the asking price for the Duke of York’s former marital home at Sunninghill Park to the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who so famously lent the duke’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson £15,000 to help clear her debts. Even after King Charles stopped paying his security bills, Andrew is believed to have found what the royal journalist Robert Hardman’s biography of the king delicately calls “ other sources of income ” related to his contacts in international trade – a phrase that makes you long for the good old days of Fergie gamely doing WeightWatchers ads to pay off her overdraft or Princess Anne’s son-in-law going on I’m A Celebrity to discuss her reaction to his novelty boxer shorts.

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

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Disappearance of chocolate-covered treats from shelves prompts anger as well as an outpouring of nostalgia

A famous 1981 French advert for Cadbury Fingers showed a boy hiding a box of the biscuits behind his back while his mother demands to know if he has eaten them all. “ Non , non ,” he insists, his nose growing, Pinocchio-like, with each denial.

The marketing slogan was: “Cadbury, the chocolate biscuit that doesn’t cheat.”

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Giantkillers Auxerre are flying high after a shock 3-1 victory over touted title challengers Marseille at the Vélodrome

By Luke Entwistle for Get French Football News

A football club has the ability to put a town on the map. From a personal standpoint, revealing my Boltonian origins abroad will invariably elicit a reference to Bolton Wanderers; the town and the club are inseparable, indiscernible, especially internationally. Auxerre, a small village south of Paris, comprised of just over 37,000 inhabitants is the French equivalent.

It was Guy Roux, the inexhaustible former manager of L’AJA who put them there, winning a league title, reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League and winning the Coupe de France on four occasions across his 44-year tenure.

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Nicholas Wayne Hamlett arrested almost one month after police found body of Steven Lloyd of Tennessee

Authorities in South Carolina have captured a man who allegedly murdered a hiker in woodlands in Tennessee then attempted to disguise the killing as a bear attack.

Nicholas Wayne Hamlett was arrested in Columbia on Sunday night almost one month after police found the body of the hiker, Steven Lloyd of Knoxville, Tennessee, close to the Cherahola Skyway in Monroe county, 80 miles north-east of Chattanooga.

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An Australian-led study using seal-shaped decoys found underside lighting disrupted ability of great whites to see silhouettes against sunlight above

Using LED lighting on the underside of surfboards or kayaks could deter great white shark attacks, new research suggests.

In an Australian-led study using seal-shaped decoys, underside lighting disrupted the ability of great whites to see silhouettes against the sunlight above, reducing the rates at which the sharks followed and attacked the artificial prey. The brighter the lights, the more effective the deterrent was.

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