Firm issues another profit warning after review into ‘understated’ build costs in south division

Shares in the FTSE 100 housebuilder Vistry plunged on Friday after it issued a second profit warning in as many months and said cost overruns on building projects were worse than previously thought.

Vistry was the top faller on the blue chip index of stocks, with shares down 18%, wiping about £500m off the value of the company.

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• Former England cricketer was on fishing trip in Australia
• ‘At the end of the day Crocodile Beefy survived,’ he joked

Ian Botham, the former England cricketer, has survived a fall into crocodile-infested waters on a fishing trip in Australia’s Northern Territory after he was rescued by his close friend and Ashes rival, Merv Hughes.

Botham, 68, got his flip-flops tangled in a rope as he tried to board a boat and fell into the Moyle River during the pair’s four-day fishing trip.

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It was surrounded by eight babies. With its long spindly legs, it looked like a crab

After a terrible sleep, I raised my head and noticed drops of blood on my pillow. My earache must have been more serious than I thought. In January this year, my husband and I had been trekking in one of South Africa’s national parks. For the last few days of the trip, my ear hadn’t felt right and was extremely itchy, but I had put it down to travel running down my immune system.

We flew home to Singapore. I was hoping the irritation would settle, but after six days I couldn’t ignore the pain any more. That night, as I was about to go to bed, I told my husband that I was going to go to the doctors. He sprang off the sofa, as if a lightbulb had gone off in his head.

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I wear it for peace, for the killed civilians – and for all the conscripts, including my relative, who were forced to fight

Remembrance Day looms large in my family. Two generations of my mum’s family were conscripted: my great-grandfather in the first world war; my grandfather, still a teenager at the time, in the second.

He survived the fighting but never entirely recovered. Mum still cries when she thinks about what he experienced. His regiment was sent to liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he helped bury hundreds upon hundreds of the Nazis’ victims. “He never spoke about it,” she told me, “but he would wake up screaming.”

Phineas Harper is a writer and curator

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Fixture clash with men means women need a new home for Champions League game but did it really have to end this way?

When the Carabao Cup quarter-final draw took place on 30 October, it set in motion a series of unfortunate events. Both Arsenal’s and Tottenham’s men’s teams were drawn at home, against Crystal Palace and Manchester United respectively. A week later, the dates of the fixtures were released, with Arsenal scheduled to host Palace on Wednesday 18 December and Tottenham playing the following evening, policing issues dictating that the north London sides cannot compete on the same night.

The problem? Arsenal’s women were scheduled to host Bayern Munich at the Emirates Stadium in the Champions League on 18 December.

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The Booker-winning author on the the joys of Flann O’Brien, the magic of EL Doctorow, and having doubts about Richard Dawkins

My earliest reading memory
My mother taught me how to read. I was happy enough in school but at some point she must have realised that I wasn’t learning anything; I think I was seven. So my earliest memory of reading is sitting with my mother at the kitchen table, looking at a comic called Sparky. Her finger was under a word in one of the speech bubbles, and I recognised it, and the next one, and the next. I was up and running. By the end of the next day, I’d finished Nietzsche and had moved on to Dostoevsky.

My favourite book growing up
When I was 10 or 11 I probably knew Richmal Crompton’s Just William off by heart. There were two things about the book that I loved, and still do: William always got away with it, and the adults were idiots.

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• Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend
• Fixtures | Tables | And you can mail Taha your thoughts

Following those illuminating extracts from his book , Hugo Lloris has spoken to Donald McRae about Spurs, losing the World Cup final two years ago and that watch story.

Here he is on that loss to Argentina:

I’d meet people in the street who’d thank me for the beauty and emotional intensity of this final, assuring me that it was the most wonderful match they’d experienced in all their lives. Maybe when I’m old I’ll be able to see it like that. But not yet: it was a disaster because we lost, because we were crap for 80 minutes. And so the pain was unbearable.

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• Australia 163; Pakistan 169-1
• First home nine-wicket defeat in an ODI since 1992

World champions Australia have been embarrassed by Pakistan at the Adelaide Oval, suffering one of the heaviest defeats in their ODI history.

After posting only 163 , Australia were then punished in the field by Pakistan’s openers Saim Ayub (82) and Abdullah Shafique (64 not out) as the tourists raced to a nine-wicket victory in the second ODI with 141 balls to spare. It is the first time since 1992 Australia have lost a home ODI by nine wickets. They avoided becoming the first Australian team to lose a white-ball match at home by 10 wickets when Adam Zampa ended the 137-run opening stand.

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New Music Players/Orchestra of Sound and Light
(Métier)
Inspired by the South Downs near Brighton, this selection box of new work from contemporary composers is English to its core – and yet defies tradition

Musical invocations of Englishness can mean anything from Elgar to Davey Graham to the Sex Pistols . They can be nostalgic and pastoral, mournful or dystopian. In classical settings, “Englishness” often translates as something tweedy and bucolic, inspired by modal folk music and suspicious of continental experimentation. On this album, five contemporary British composers write music inspired by the South Downs near Brighton, and all seem palpably “English” in some way. Yet all defy tradition, and many link with broader trends in jazz and the avant garde.

Many of these pieces draw from written sources, sung by Rachel Farago. Shirley J Thompson provides minimalist backing for a 1773 poem about the English countryside by the African American writer Phillis Wheatley. Evelyn Ficarra sets an abstract verse by modern-day Brighton poet Valerie Whittington to a terrifying orchestration inspired by the chirruping of larks. Ed Hughes’s epic Sky Rhythms uses a 1937 diary entry from the Mass Observation Archive, with a twitchy orchestral accompaniment that’s pitched somewhere between Michael Nyman and Henry Cow.

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