user: Text: "House husband" David Harris told his partner Hazel Allinson he had become a cricket umpire and had to travel away from his Sussex home, jurors were told.
Prosecutor William Boyce QC asked Harris if he had ever been in a village cricket team, and he said he had not.
Mr Harris, 68, denies three counts of soliciting to murder Ms Allinson.
The court heard Mr Harris, a former TV producer who worked on The Bill, told Ms Allinson tales about his village cricket club involvement so he could travel to London to be with Ugne Cekaviciute, whom he had met in a brothel.
Mr Harris is accused of trying to get rid of Ms Allinson and get full ownership of the £800,000 house they shared in Amberley to run off with Ms Cekaviciute, whom he previously had admitted to being "besotted with" and spending £50,000 on her.
The court heard Mr Harris's "story" was he was too unwell to play cricket and had been persuaded to umpire - and as a driver he had to do the matches furthest from where he lived.
Cross-examining, Mr Boyce said: "You never got the local matches. The whole thing was an elaborate lie dreamed up by you to deceive Hazel to get regular away days with Ugne.
"You would tell Hazel you were an umpire on Arundel Castle Cricket Club. It was all a complete fabrication."
Mr Harris replied: "It was."
Jurors heard Mr Harris also lied to Ms Allinson that he had to support his brother in hospital while he was on "suicide watch".
Mr Harris said: "That's correct. This whole thing completely blew out of proportion."
And Mr Boyce asked him: "You could make things up with considerable ease and make it sound convincing, couldn't you?"
Mr Harris replied: "At times, yes."
The defendant previously conceded he had handed over enough information for potential hitmen to find and kill Ms Allinson but insisted he was "in control".
Mr Boyce said: "May I suggest this is truly absurd.
"You were recruiting these people because you were at your wits' end and could see no way out."
But Mr Harris replied: "Yes, I was at my wits' end. You suggest I'm a liar and deceitful but I'm not a murderer and neither would I ever consider murdering Hazel."
The case continues.
summary: A man accused of hiring hitmen to kill his partner invented an elaborate lie to have an affair with a woman 40 years his junior, the Old Bailey has heard.


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Article:Six cases of campylobacter have so far been linked to people consuming unpasteurised milk from Low Sizergh Barn Farm in Kendal.
South Lakeland Council said it had launched a joint investigation with the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
The farm said it was co-operating with the inquiry and had suspended sales of raw milk from a vending machine.
Campylobacter is the most common cause of food poisoning and can lead to severe diarrhoea and vomiting.
Public Health England (PHE) also asked anyone who had bought raw milk from the farm or visited its tearoom in the past two months to complete an online questionnaire.
A spokesman for South Lakeland Council said: "The number of confirmed cases is small, but it is important that we let people know about the situation in case others have been affected.
"The FSA is leading on the ongoing investigation at the farm and they are working to ensure measures are in place to prevent the public consuming unsafe products.
"Unpasteurised milk was removed from sale at the premises as soon as the campylobacter results were confirmed.''
An FSA spokesperson added: "Long-standing advice has been that vulnerable people - that's older people, infants, children, pregnant women and those with weakened immune systems - are particularly vulnerable to food poisoning and that is why these groups should not be consuming raw drinking milk because it has not been heat treated."
The farm, which began offering unpasteurised milk from its vending machine in March, sells about 70 litres a day.
In August the farm won a National Trust fine farm produce award for its unpasteurised milk.

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A food poising outbreak in Cumbria is linked to the sale of raw milk at a farm, council officials have said.


input: Article: They had been accused of covering up alleged Iranian involvement in a bomb attack against a Jewish centre in 1994.
Judge Daniel Rafecas has concluded that there was not enough evidence to pursue the charges.
The accusation came from special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found dead last month in his flat.
Judge Rafecas said he was throwing out the case after carefully examining Mr Nisman's 350-page report.
There was no proof that an agreement signed by the Argentine government with Iran in January 2013 was an attempt to shield the involvement of senior Iranian officials in the attack, the judge said.
The agreement was rejected by the Iranian government two months later and was never approved by Iran's parliament.
Defence Minister Agustin Rossi welcomed Judge Rafecas' ruling saying: "We have always said that Nisman's claims had no legal basis."
The case has dominated the Argentine press for the past six weeks, and this latest development has only driven media interest to new heights.
Several commentators reflect the sense of relief the ruling is likely to have prompted inside the presidential palace.
"Rafecas has given Cristina space to breathe," Adrian Ventura writes in the La Nacion daily, while Clarin's Eduardo van der Kooy comments that Ms Fernandez will now be able to give her last speech to Congress on Sunday with a "less sullied image".
But in the Buenos Aires Herald, Luciana Bertoia is more sceptical, writing "CFK in the clear (for now)".
Noticeably absent is any comment from Ms Fernandez herself. The normally Twitter-friendly president has yet to address her 3.59 million followers about the ruling.
The case against Ms Fernandez and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman is now closed.
But the BBC's Wyre Davies says the judicial system in Argentina is highly politicised and the decision to cease investigations will further polarise a divided nation.
Mr Nisman was due to testify in Congress against Ms Fernandez and Mr Timerman the day after his body was found.
The circumstances of his death have not been clarified.
President Fernandez said Mr Nisman been fed misleading information by a rogue intelligence agent. The government has rejected any role in his death.
The lower house of the Argentine Congress has meanwhile approved a bill scrapping the country's secret agency, the Intelligence Secretariat.
The proposal was first announced days after Mr Nisman's death, on 18 January.
A new federal investigative agency, which will be accountable to Congress, will replace it.
Ms Fernandez said the change was overdue because the agency had remained largely untouched since the end of military rule in 1983.
The opposition called the proposal a smokescreen for its involvement in the scandal.

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assistant: A federal judge in Argentina has dismissed a controversial case against President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her foreign minister.