SETTLED down to watch Women’s Euro 2022: the final (BBC1, Sunday) after making a bet with the dog on how long it would be before someone mentioned a certain date in the 1960s.

The hound had a nanosecond, I had a decasecond, so she was laughing all the way to the pet shop to replenish her half-time chew stash.

Gabby Logan and her commentary chums just about got away with not mentioning “it” too much.

There was no such limit when it came to the Three Lions song. I don’t know about you but I just cannot get enough of that tune. (Could someone take a chisel to the 7 inch layer of sarcasm on that last sentence? Ta.)

The Lionesses themselves were the stars of the evening. “Sorry for shouting!” said one, screaming her way through a post-match interview. Women, always apologising. Ian Wright played a blinder too, channelling his inner Germaine Greer and demanding better access for girls who want to take up football. Consider yourself a member of the sisterhood, Mr Wright.

Last word went to Gabby Logan, who finished the night by addressing the camera directly. “You think it’s all over?” she said. “It’s only just begun.”

For 15 years Ray Allen wrote scripts in a shed at the bottom of his parents’ garden on the Isle of Wight. No takers. Not a sausage. Until the day Auntie Beeb said yes. She never said yes again, but she did this time, and the result, as we learned from Some Mother’s Do ‘Ave ‘Em: a Comedy Classic (Channel 5, Friday) was watched by half the country. That’s almost as many as Live Aid.

Allen, as we saw in a rare interview for the documentary, was not the Bob Geldof, boot down the doors, give us your effing money type. He was a gentle soul, an odd job man, a dreamer, prone to the most ridiculous mishaps, like the time he was mending a toilet and managed to flood a cinema. They do say write about what you know.

The other central figure in the Some Mothers’ history, Michael Crawford, who played Frank Spencer, was not interviewed. It did not matter too much because there were clips, lots of them, many focussing on his hair-raising stunts. Even by the laissez faire standards of the 1970s it was crazy stuff that would never be allowed today.

Among the talking heads by far the best value for money was John Thomson of The Fast Show, a fan and no mean comic actor himself. Like the stunts that were all his own work, there was far more to Crawford’s performance than some bloke in a beret and an awful raincoat acting like a daft laddie. And yes, the raincoat was similar to one worn by Allen (much to his embarrassment).

War and Justice: The Case of Marine A (Channel 4, Sunday) was a documentary about the first serving British soldier to be convicted of murder since the Second World War. In this case, Al Blackman, or Marine A as he was referred to at his first trial, was charged with murdering a wounded and unarmed Taliban fighter in Helmand, Afghanistan, instead of sending him to hospital as the Geneva Convention demands.

Blackman, his wife Claire, and their supporters argued that he should be found not guilty because the incident had happened during war. Though he accepted a charge of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, he still to this day insists he is not a murderer. Who was right?

Stephen Bennett’s film steered a commendably steady course through contributions from Blackman’s wife, colleagues, the defence and prosecution, and the helmet-cam footage of the incident. Most were on Blackman's side. The footage certainly was not. I don’t imagine many viewers will have had their minds changed, but you were certainly left with a dim view of what was expected of soldiers operating in the most extreme of circumstances. As Blackman said, one minute you were supposed to be helping local people, the next you were being shot at. It was a bloody mess in every sense.

Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman are comedy A-plus listers, their names attached to everything from Frasier to Modern Family via Sex and the City. Their latest creation is Uncoupled (Netflix), with Neil Patrick Harris playing Michael, a middle aged gay man who finds himself single again in Manhattan after his partner leaves and takes the towels and wine with him. Sound good?

And I haven’t even mentioned that Michael is an estate agent, so there are swanky New York homes to nose around while you enjoy the nicely barbed script.

Any resemblance between Michael’s group of best friends forever and the Sex and the City gals is inevitable, but there is no sense of this being a reheat. New York, meanwhile, is in fairytale mode, all bright lights, big city, glamour. Irresistible.

Two people died and five were missing after a boat believed to be carrying migrants capsized off the coast of the Florida Keys

SIR – Nearly 50 years since the previous drought and the best the water companies can offer is a hosepipe ban.

In the letter, Dame Deborah tells her son Hugo and daughter Eloise that they are “my world”

An 11-year-old girl has died after going missing at a water park in Windsor, Thames Valley Police have confirmed.Emergency services were called at around 3:55pm on Saturday to reports of the girl getting into difficulty at Liquid Leisure near Datchet.She was found around 5:10pm and rushed to Wrexham Park Hospital, where she later died.The child had been with a group of friends celebrating another girl's birthday at the park when she disappeared.Her death is being treated as unexplained and an investigation has been launched.

Hong Kong will reduce the mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals to three days from a week

The family of Archie Battersbee have said they “want something good to come out of this tragedy” as they vowed to call for “change”.

‘I protested a little – not too much,’ ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ star said

Letter: Martyn Pendergast on the flawed methodology that defined ‘white working class’

The cross-Solent operator has apologised for any inconvenience caused.

Motor insurers have continued to deal with rising costs and supply chain issues, the Association of British Insurers said.

JD has renewed its partnership with Crystal Palace for the 2022/23 football season.

The billionaire Conservative donor who hosted Boris Johnson’s wedding party has announced that he is backing Liz Truss to become the next Tory leader.

The Commonwealth Games was supposed to be the race when Keely Hodgkinson turned her raft of silver medals into gold. Runner-up at the Olympics Games last summer and again last month at the World Championships over 800metres, in Birmingham the expectation – of hers and the 30,000 inside Alexander Stadium – was to take her place on the top step of the podium. With Moraa looking completely spent, the race seemed like Hodgkinson’s and she duly took to the front and started her kick from 200m out.

Police investigating whether the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque are connected say Sunday they need help finding a vehicle believed to be connected to the deaths

Campaigners visit Berkshire estate belonging to Richard Benyon, minister in charge of access to nature

Israeli jets have pounded militant targets in Gaza as rockets rained on southern Israel, hours after a wave of Israeli air strikes on the coastal enclave killed at least 11 people, including a senior militant and a five-year-old girl.

A former Miss America who gained attention by criticizing the organization near the end of her reign in 2018 is planning to run for Congress in North Dakota as an independent

Talented teenager who escaped militia fighters in Afghanistan caught Freddie Flintoff’s attention during BBC series

Marschall rounds off a successful day with Australia’s ninth gold to add to others on athletics track and in diving, gymnastics and lawn bowls