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  ^{,v=rs.» . THE TIMES No. 65,540 FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 Guide to the tests How 14-year-olds should tackle this year’s papers PAGE 39 TESTPLAN Adoption A chance to put children first 'PAGES 4,19 % rt John Redwood Why Britain has a duty to save Europe from itself, PAGE 18 The mother of all freeloads Clement Freud goes raring in Dubai ' : v* PAGE 16}

  AUSTRALIA Holidays from Sydney to the outback SUPPLEMENT Major to ask EU to end blockade Emergency ban on sale of at-risk cattle By Philip Webster, Charles Bremner and Nicholas Wood ANDRE CAMARA AN EMERGENCY ban on the sale of meal from cattle most at risk of "mad cow- disease was announced last night as John Major prepared to appeal to his European partners to lift the worldwide blockade on British beef as soon as possible. Unveiling the first moves in the Government’s increasing¬ ly frenzied efforts to restore public confidence in the beef industry. Douglas Hogg promised a £13 million a week special subsidy for renderers disposing of waste from slaughterhouses and £50 mil¬ lion to prop up beef prices. The Agriculture Minister also barred die sale of meat from cattle aged over 30 months — those thought to be at greatest risk of carrying infection — until new abattoir safeguards come into in opera¬ tion. Whitehall officials said that it could become perma¬ nent depending on the out¬ come of negotiations with ■Brussels. Ministers want farmers to keep such cattle on their fauns and use them for dairy pro¬ duction where possible. De¬ tails of any compensation package will have to wait Other measures wifi indude a premiums of just over E100- a-head for calves from dairy herds slaughtered before reaching 10 days of age and a ban from tomorrow on the manufacture of feed For farm animals using mammalian meat and bonemeal. The use of bonemeal in agricultural fertilisers will also be banned, but that be delayed because the law requires consultation. The legislation should be ready for introduction in a couple of weeks. Mr Hogg told MI’S that the extra payments to farmers and renderers would reach them as quickly as possible. “The future of this essential part of British agriculture depends cm a restoration of public confi¬ dence. British beef is safe and can be eaten with confidence. 1 believe that is an opinion that can safely be put ro the British people.” The Prime Minister will tell European leaders in Turin this morning that the EU's Matthew Parris is top columnist Matthew Parris, columnist and sketchwriter for The Times. was named columnist of the year ai the annual British Press Awards last night. The judges praised him as a -brilliant observer of people”-Page 2 Boring Tie Times overseas Austria Sch 40; Belgium B Frs M* Can j do S3.2 5: Canaries Pw 325; Cyprus CElJft Denmark Dfcr l boo. Finland Fmk 17.00; France F 14.00; Cermanv DM 4.50: Gibraltar ‘JOp Greece Dr soft Netherlands Ft 4.SO tush Republic 4 Sk taw L 4.500. Luxembourg U G* Madeira Esc 350; Mata 4 Sc Morocco Dir27 «wm> Kr 2000: Portugal con fac Mpc Spain Pis 325; Sweden skr 10.50. SwtoenarKi S Frs 4.00; Tunisia Din 2.200: USA

  3 JO. The Times on the Internet http://www.th e-times.eo.nk ban on British beef exports should go as soon as the Government has brought in a package of measures agreed with Brussels to tackle the crisis. As the summit gets under way Ministry of Agriculture officials will be meeting their European Commission coun¬ terparts in Brussels to discuss what compensation the Com- munify should pay Europe British farmers if the Govern¬ ment adopted a policy of selective slaughter. A decision at leaders level is needed for Europe to release the cash and yesterday Germany followed France in promising to make sure spe¬ cial funds were cleared. “Solidarity also means money and over and above that which Hogg : “essential to restore confidence” the EU would be obliged to pay in any case,” Karl tamers, a powerful figure in Chancel¬ lor Helmut Kohl'S parliamen¬ tary group, said. President Chirac had earlier telephoned Mr Major to express French solidarity with Britain over the problems it was facing. Mr Major meanwhile con¬ tinued to maintain that the export ban was “totally with¬ out justification” and he told MPS that he would be making that case vigorously in Turin. Speaking after the Cabinet had spent an hour debating how to restore public confi¬ dence, he said: “It is essential that decisions of this sort are taken by member states on the basis of rational judgments, on the basis of science and not on any other basis, as 1 believe them to have been taken on this particular occasion. I will most certainly be making our feelings dear tomorrow." Mr Major again dashed with Tony Blair over the issue, ridiculing an eight-point pack¬ age of proposals put forward by Labour as a piece of PR nonsense. “Labour is consid¬ ering votes. We are consider¬ ing rhe industry and the national interest." But Mr Blair said he had never heard anything “quite so pathetic” from the Prime Minister, adding: “Would you for once stop trying to shirk responsibility and take it” Today Mr Major will remind the other European leaders that the crisis is prob¬ lem for the rest of Europe as well as Britain and that the lifting of the export ban should be seen as part of the confi¬ dence-building package that is required. Under the terms of the ban confirmed by the Commission on Wednesday it could be six weeks before veterinary offici¬ als reconvene to consider eas¬ ing the ban. But British ministers believe that the scale of the ban, affecting such a wide range of by-products, means it should be lifted well before then. Today’s summit, called to launch the start of the inter¬ governmental conference on the future of the European Union, has been completely overshadowed by the die beef crisis. But British officials under¬ lined that Mr Major's attitude towards the meeting — includ¬ ing his opposition to any further weakening of the veto and extra powers for the European Parliament and his tough tine on the European Court of Justice — would not be affected by his desire to reach a good deal on compen¬ sation. “There is no linkage, " a senior British official said last night. Labour attacked, page 12 Cash relief, page 13 On die frontline, page 17 John Redwood, page 18 Diaiy, page 18 leading article, page 19 Letters, page 19 Japanese bank pays woman £81,000 for insulting her By Joanna Bale and Emma Wilkins Helen Bamber tribunal said Fuji bank's behaviour had been deeply insulting A CITY bond dealer who claimed that the world's big¬ gest bank set out to wreck her reputation and her career after she took it to an industri¬ al tribunal was awarded com¬ pensation of £81,000 yesterday. The figure included “off the scale" aggravated damages against the Fuji bank, which was denounced by the tribu¬ nal chairman as malevolent spiteful and deeply insulting. Helen Bamber. 32, who had brought a case claiming that she had been passed over for promotion and pay rises be¬ fore being forced to resign after rejecting her boss’s ad¬ vances, welcomed the judg¬ ment as vindication of her “David and Goliath” struggle. This is a day of shame for Fuji," she said. “I am looking forward to going back to my job in the City with head held high." Yesterday’s award included £20,000 in aggravated dam¬ ages for the way the bank treated Ms Bamber after she won her case for sexual dis¬ crimination last November. Claims for unfair dismissal and unfair pay had been rejected. Ms Bamber said the bank had launched a dirty tricks campaign against her, trying to ruin her reputation in the City and wreck her chances of a career with another bank by writing to its chief executive. Ian Lamb, chairman of the Croydon Industrial Tribunal, agreed. He said that the letter was mischievous and was sent to intimidate and embarrass Ms Bamber. These are all factors which fall fully within the description of aggravated damages — namely malevo¬ lence, spite, malice, insolence and arrogance intended to humiliate, distress or cause pain to the applicant. It app¬ ears to us that the conduct of the respondent is off the known scale of aggravated damages.” Last night, Ms Bamber expressed her delight at Mr Lamb’s verdict and predicted that many other women would now take action against the bank. "It is an unprece¬ dented amount of aggravated damages and I am told it is a record, apart from the recent Ministry of Defence maternity cases," she said. The tribunal came dawn on Fuji like a ton of bricks. The panel were all quite mild mannered and they admitted they had never seen anything like it when Fuji were in foil flow.” Ms Bamber. who said she was now happy in a new job, added: “It was a savagely fought case on their pan. And it has been extremely traumat¬ ic for me, but now l have won 1 fed completely vindicated. They spent an absolute fortune on fighting this case and resorted to inventing a conspiracy theory' that 1 was only doing this to try to extort money from them. They were desperate not to let me win because, apart from anything else, they know it will open the floodgates for other women to take action against them." Fuji spent an estimated £500.000 on fighting the case and at least one other former employee is poised to take similar action, according to a legal source. A spokeswoman for the bank said: “We are astonished at the size of the award and the legal grounds on which is was made. We await the tribunal’s written decision and will consider our position at that tune." In addition to die aggravat¬ ed damages, the tribunal awarded Ms Bamber £20.000 for loss of earnings while stiU working for Fuji. £12,000 in earnings lost since leaving Continued on page 2. col I Soldiers guilty of Cyprus killing BvMICHAELTHEODOOUHJ and Michael Horsnell THREE British soldiers were last night found guilty of kidnapping and killing a 23- year-old Danish tour guide in Cyprus. Delivering a 167-page judg¬ ment, Judge Takis Etiades said the three Royal Green Jackets had carried out a “decisive, planned and co¬ ordinated” attack on Louise Jensen. “Violence was used from the outset when a mili¬ tary spade was used to chase away her boyfriend and it was the same spade that was used to kill the victim." the court was told. Allan Ford. 27. Justin Fowler. 28, and Geoffrey Pemell. 24, sat handcuffed in the tiny dock at Lamaca Assizes as the three judges summed up at the end of their eight-month trial. They face life sentences for manslaugh¬ ter. conspiracy to rape and kidnap. The soldiers, who had made 100 court appearances over 19 months, lowed exhausted by the rime they learnt of their fate. I2h hours after the summing-up began. The night Louise died, page 3 13 SATURDAY IN THE TIMES Kate Muir meets Emmanueile Be art, femme fatale, in the Magazine How to get free membership of the Royal Horticultural Society, in Weekend Mortgages: how much you can save, in Weekend Money Household Cavalry ordered to learn gentle art of non-discrimination By Michael Evans DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT EVERY member of the House¬ hold Cavalry has been ordered to attend rare rela¬ tions dasses as part of train¬ ing. following a damning report on radal discrimina¬ tion in the unit. Under \ a plan agreed be¬ tween the Ministry of Defence and the Commission for Ra¬ cial Equality, the Household Cavalry will be instructed in the art of non-discrimination, including appropriate lan¬ guage when talking to mem¬ bers of ethnic minorities. A spokesman for the ORE. which has devised the lessons, said certain words, “such as coon, wag, and nigger”, were clearly offensive to people from ethnic minorities. How¬ ever. “if a soldier from an Afro-Caribbean background is referred to as Leroy because his name is not known, that “Permission ro carry out a racial equality survey, sir?” might be all right." the spokes¬ man added. The special instruction in language and conduct is in¬ cluded in a long list of mea¬ sures to be introduced for the Household Cavalry which has been told to open its doors to black and Asian soldiers and to record any incident of radal abuse or harrassmenL Colonel Pieter Rogers, com¬ manding officer of the House¬ hold Cavalry, which consists of a combined regiment of the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals, is to issue a directive reminding afl ranks of the Army’s equal opportunities policy “and stressing his com¬ mitment to its objectives". The measures followed a two-year investigation. Be¬ tween 1989 and 1994 not a single black or Asian soldier was recruited into the House¬ hold Cavalry, although three from ethnic minorities have joined since 1994. Even so, ethnic minority representation in the Household Cavalry is far lower than in the Army as a whole, which averages around 15 per regiment The CRE investigation was prompted by the case of Cor¬ poral Jacob Malcolm whose transfer from the Royal Elec¬ trical and Mechanical Engi¬ neers to the Household Cavalry was cancelled when it was discovered he was black. The CRE commissioners who investigated the House¬ hold Cavalry decided there were sufficient grounds for serving a non-discrimination notice on the regiment under the 1976 Race Relations Act, a move which Herman Ouseley, chairman of the commission, said was an action of “last resort". The cavalry was given 12 months to introduce the proper anti-discrimination measures. The CRE was dissuaded from issuing the notice by the MoD which said it would harm attempts to encourage ethnic minority recruits. The ministry also agreed an action plan aimed at stamping out racism in the Army and the other two services. 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• w a it . 0 - "m lo a ia of td m er to t 2 HOME NEWS Birthday boy’s bashing takes the cake T oday is John Major's birthday. Yesterday was his last Prime Min¬ ister's Questions before turn¬ ing 53. Other birthday boys might have been waiting to cele¬ brate. Mr Major was packing his socks for an EU meeting in Turin, where be will be shouted at by foreigners, bad¬ gered by officials and baited by British journalists follow¬ ing him there to make trouble. Other birthday boys might have been planning an eve¬ ning out, a quiet night by the fire or an exotic weekend break somewhere sunny with someone nice tike Nonna. John Major is planning a dismal Saturday outing to meet depressed supporters at the Tory Centra] Council in Harrogate, where it will rain, and where the prospective Conservative candidate is called Norman. Other birthday boys might have been preparing yester¬ day by blowing up balloons, attending to the drinks cabi¬ net or shopping for party poppers. John Major, guard¬ ed against being blown up by terrorists, spent his day at¬ tending to the dreariest kind of Cabinet, then being sniped at in the Commons by party poopers tike Lamont Our birthday boy entered the Chamber yesterday to the sound of Angela Browning, a junior agriculture minister, telling transfixed MPs that "the whole head should be POLITICAL SKETCH removed” (including the bits around the neck) “but not the tongue”. She had already explained how to conduct a brain test on a dead cow's cranium, putting smears of brain “on wax. then into a thin slide". She regretted this could not be accomplished in slaughterhouses. They had been talking about slaughterhouses all af¬ ternoon. John Major and Tony Blair came in, sat down, and then everyone began shouting about slaughter¬ houses again. What an eveof- Russian spies target Britain in wake of Security Service cuts By Michael Evans, defence correspondent RUSS LAN spying is on the increase in Britain at a time when Ml5*s counter-espio¬ nage resources have been cut by 50 per cent, a parliamenta¬ ry report said yesterday. . Tom King, chairman of the all-party Intelligence and Sec¬ urity Comini tree, said: “They are back in business, having retrenched after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and there is disturbing evidence that Rus¬ sian espionage is again on the increase." He said it was important tor MIS to keep under review the resources it devoted to this “target”. Already some re¬ sources had been “reinstated”. His warning was supported by Dame Stella Rimington. director-general of MIS. who in a new booklet on the Service said that although the level of spying had dropped since the Cold War, the Russians had renewed their efforts to post intelligence officers to London. MJ5 was unwilling to give a figure for the number of suspected Russian intelligence officers operating in Britain. There are 44 diplomats at the 1990/91 Russian Embassy. Security sources said the SVR. the KGB’s successor, had found it easier to operate because of more freedom of movement and improved trade with Rus¬ sia since the end of the Cold War. The Secret Intelligence Ser¬ vice, MI6, has reduced by about two-thirds its Russian operations, according to the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee’s first annual report. GCHQ, the secret communications agency in Cheltenham, has also “markedly” cut its signal intel¬ ligence effort on Russia. There has been no let-up, however, in efforts to combat Irish terrorism. The commit¬ tee said that monitoring Irish terrorist groups and their supporters had involved ”just under halP’ of MI5*s opera¬ tional resources in the past couple of years. Mr King said that he and the committee had questioned members of M15 about allega¬ tions that there had been an intelligence failure over the Canary Wharf bomb and the 1115 OPERATIONS sudden ending of the IRA ceasefire. Mr King said he had received assurances that MI5 had not dropped its guard. The committee praised the co-operation it had received from the heads of the security agencies. But it was highly critical of the failure by the American intelligence services to provide a full report on the potential damage to British interests caused by Aldrich Ames, the CIA officer exposed as a long-term Russian spy. The committee said it was not satisfied that the implica¬ tions of Ames's treadieiy, which led to the deaths of at ' least nine CIA agents in Russia, were being considered with the appropriate "sense of urgency” in Britain or America. Ministers had not been properly briefed on the impli¬ cations for Britain, the report said. In a letter to the commit¬ tee. however. John Major said he had reviewed the Ames case and that “on the evidence so far available, damage to United Kingdom interests was not great". 1995/96 Subversion 123% Irish and other — Counter terrorism domestic | International —— L ? T. - ■ . 20% Irish and other — Counter terrorism— International domestic 33% 39% -.-_- I Counterespionage and counter proliferation 50% 1 Counterespionage Subversion and counter pro!iteration 3% 25% birthday! Mr Blair started on about slaughterhouses. Major replied on slaughterhouses, then read out an interminable Labour press release about slaughterhouses, with ft is comments “point by point" on its contents Blair told Major he had “never heard anything quite so pathetic”; Major told Blair it was his reply which was pathetic backbenchers kept shouting from their seats; Betty Booth royd lost her tem¬ per and rapped, "Members should leant to listen, not bawl out from sedentary pos¬ itions” (some hope); Blair made as if to return to the fray, then slumped back in disgust the Tory backbencher David Harris (St Ives) recom¬ mended “selective slaughter"; Paddy Ashdown promised to support Major on slaughter. Norman Lamont kneed Ma¬ jor in the goolies; and Eric IUsley (Lab, Barnsley Central) accused him of “total incompetence". Did anybody remember this was the eve of a special day tor our PM? Dame Jill Knight (C, Edgbaston) surely did. Famed for her apparel, the retired actress, veteran backbencher and Birming¬ ham dame yesterday sur¬ passed herself. In make-up of which Cleo¬ patra would have been proud, she wore a silk dress in crazy- paved chips and swirls of blue-green and azure, a mag¬ nificent cape in purple, sky- blue and turquoise pinned with a huge silver brooch, and more chains and bangles around her neck than a ca¬ liph’s concubine. Nine years ago Craig Brown, my predecessor- sketch writer, observed this ample dame, running down a corridor, dressed in a colour¬ ful, large-patterned floral print She looked, wrote Brown, “like a fist-fight in a hydrangea-bush” Yesterday she looked likea bungee jump in a kaleidoscope. A merry curtain-raiser to a dismal birthday. in it* .uui:T£i TTicctjU houseGreenwich University and the Nation j! Vi.urtime Museum Greenwich naval college is saved for the nation By Nigel Williamson. Whitehall correspondent THE Royal Naval College at Greenwich is to be handed over to a charitable trust charged with preserving its heritage and guaranteeing public access. Lottery money could fund the setting up of the trust The main tenants of the historic buildings de¬ signed by Sir Christopher Wren will be Greenwich University and the National Maritime Museum. The announcement by Michael Portillo, the Defence Secretary, represents a victory for the heritage lobby after six months of uncertainty. The derision to sell the site pro¬ voked an outcry when it was announced. The Prince of Wales was among those who expressed concern. In the wake of the objec¬ tions, Mr Portillo established a panel of heritage experts to advise on the eight submitted bids. Yesterday he accepted their recommendations with¬ out reservation. “The Govern¬ ment is determined that the future of tbe Royal Naval College should be one worthy of the magnificent site and in the best interests of the na¬ tion," he said. Those interests were best served by “an independent trust charged with preserving its architectural ami historic integrity, with the proper maintenance of the buildings and with ensuring proper access." The University of Green¬ wich was “the most appropri¬ ate" tenant with the National Maritime Museum enjoying the use of certain parts. Mr Portillo said. He also suggest¬ ed that the entire Greenwich area, including the college, the royal park and the old observatory, could become a United Nations world heri¬ tage site. It is the second time this year that the Government has backed away from selling historic buildings to a com¬ mercial buyer. In January John Major intervened per¬ sonally to rule out the sale of Admiralty Arch. Details of financing remain unresolved but some contin¬ uing government commit¬ ment to the maintenance of the buddings is envisaged. A spokesman for the Prince said he would be “pleased to hear this great news". TH E TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 Schools to gam right to be grammars By David Charter education correspondent LOCAL authority schools will gain the right to convert from comprehensive to grammar irrespective of the views of their council under plans to be included in an. Educanon White Paper this summer. Gillian Shephard, the Edu¬ cation and Employment Sec¬ retary. yesterday said that all parents who wanted a gram¬ mar-school place for their child should have that chance. The White Paper, to be published In June, will pro¬ pose handing much greater power over admissions to all schools. Although the 641 grant-maintained secondary schools run their own entry procedure, local authorities currently deride the method for the 3.500 schools they control. The new powers will include increasing the proportion of pupils any school can select From 10 per cent to up to 100 per cent; the final figure will be derided by consultation. The Government is already increasing the total to 15 per cent. Mrs Shephard said she opposed a wholesale return to the Il-ptus examination bur would be "perfectly happy" to see many more selective schools using the test in response to parental demand. Her announcement put her publicly shoulder-to-shoulder with John Major and his reported desire for a grammar school in every large town. Mrs Shephard yesterday denied reports there was a rift between her and the Prime Minister and that she private¬ ly disagreed with a return to grammar sdicxjls “Selective schools are really popular with many parents and if you really want parental choice, you need to enable access to that kind of school for parents who want that for their child¬ ren," she said. Mrs Shephard said the pro¬ posals “might well result” in a grammar school in every large town. However, a return to the 11-plus was “outmoded” because it would be imposing uniformity and the Govern¬ ment favoured a diversity of schools. “ Labour predicted little en¬ thusiasm for the changes among schools. Peter Kflfpyie. a Shadow Schools Minister, said: “Only 43 schools have actually asked to be able to select up to 10 per cent of their pupils. And out of 1.500 consultees, only 15 bodies, including two Tory quangos, supported increasing selection to 15 per cent" David Hait. general secre¬ tary of the National Associ¬ ation of Head Teachers, said: “An expansion of selection will benefit a number of pupils but at the expense of the overwhelming majority." Helen Bamber | Lamont boycott call raises Tory tensions Continued from page 1 and £24,000 expected loss of earnings over the next four years. A further £5.000 was awarded for injury ■ to her feelings. The bank is likely to have pay out closer to £(00,000 after the tribunal ordered it should pay Ms Bamber’s costs and interest Ms Bamber was represent¬ ed at the tribunal by her boyfriend Cameron McNeill, a former Fuji colleague. Fuji had contended that she was pursuing the case to extort money from the bank at his behest but that theory was dismissed by Mr Lamb, who said: "For a woman working in the City to be met by the allegations that she is a mere cipher, a mere reflection, of a man, is to multiply the conse¬ quences of the original dis¬ crimination. It is to rub salt into the wound, ft is about the most insulting thing which can be done to a woman bringing a proceeding on the basis of sex.” Mr Lamb made no recom¬ mendation for die bank’s future conduct, however, say¬ ing it would be pointless, because the tribunal did not believe there was an ounce of regret on their part By Nicholas Wood and Jill Sherman NORMAN LAMONT suggested yes¬ terday that John Major might boycott today's opening in Turin of the summit on the future of Europe until Brussels drops its ban on exports of British beef. The former Chancellor’s interven¬ tion in the Commons was seen by Tory MPs as a further sign of the tensions within the party as the Prime Minister battles to defend Britain's vision of a Europe of nations against renewed continental pressure for deeper Euro¬ pean integration. But Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor, kept the flag flying for the party’s pro-European wing by warning that it would be a “terrible mistake” to withdraw from prepara¬ tions for a single currency. Urging British firms to prepare for the euro, Mr Clarke told a Lords committee that overseas financiers might get nervous about investing in Britain if British politicians detached themselves from the project. Mr Lament’s hard line was echoed by John Redwood, another former Cabinet minister. Writing in The Times, he accused Germany of plan¬ ning to use the intergovernmental con¬ ference to foist its vision of “one flag, one anthem” on the rest of Europe. But Conservative anxieties over Europe were paralleled by stark evi¬ dence of a deep split in Labour ranks over a single currency. Some 50 Labour MPS yesterday urged Tony Blair to rule out British participation in economic and monetary union. A new group, A People's Europe, from the Right and Left of the party, argued that a single currency would lead to huge levels of unemployment in Britain and allow unelected bankers to rule Europe's economies. In a glossy leaflet called Europe isn't Working, the MPs argued that a single currency would result in cuts of £12 billion in services and jobs in Britain. “Stuck with mass unemployment and deflationary economics, the euro would be the breaking of Europe, not its binding,” the leaflet said. Mr Lamont, one of the most impla¬ cable opponents of the Government's pragmatic approach to the “Maas¬ tricht 2” conference, seized on the the BSE scare to underline sceptic distrust The EU ban on British beef exports was unjust and taxpayers did not want to be bribed with their own money in the form of European compensation for bailing out the beef industry. “Isn’t there, therefore, a case at the IGC tomorrow, if not leaving the British seat vacant at least saying that there will be no progress until this ruling has been overturned?” the former Chancellor added. Mr Major promised a vigorous defence of British interests in Turin. Tttrin summit page 13 John Redwood, page 18 Union to * ballot on manifesto The GMB general workers union is to ballot its 750.000 members on Labour’s gener¬ al election manifesto in an attempt to ensure that trade unions are not sidelined hy Tony Blair- The exercise will cost at least £250.000. The move comes after Mr Blair's decision to ballot aB 365.000 party members.' Many unions opposed the referendum, saying it would - undermine tbe party confer¬ ence. which will vote on the proposals weeks before the - ballot is sent out. Killer’s taunt David Burrows. 31. a Belfast loyalist jailed for life for murdering a Roman Catfao- . lie. taunted his victim's rela¬ tives in the city's Crown; Court He cupped his hands . as if holding a gun ami shouted from the dock: “I shot your son — four in the back of the head.” Scan Monaghan. 20. was bound and shot on waste ground. Condoms in class School nurses and yontfi workers should give con¬ doms to children aged 11 or 12 If they cannot dissuade them 1 From having sex and believe that the youngsters under¬ stand the implications, a group of medical and educa¬ tional organisations said. Some schools are consider¬ ing installing condom ma¬ chines to curb pregnancies. Doctors’ denial Dr Rajindar Gupta and his practice partner and wife, Prabha Gupta, of Ealing, west London, appeared be¬ fore the General Medical Council’s professional con¬ duct committee. They deny . placing themselves in a pos¬ ition inadequate to assess the condition of Lakmi Nandha, who died of breast cancer ~ The hearing continues. Haven for birds .. A wildlife haven for rare birds, induding merlin, perc- X grine falcons and short-eared owls, will be announced to- • day by the Government The 37.000 hectares of moorland in the Peak District will be^, ■ designated a Special Protect - tion Area under the Euro- peas Birds Directive, giving - legal protection to breeding and migratory species. -- Asylum denied v. The son of a deported Nigeri¬ an political activist lost his challenge to the Home Of¬ fice's refusal to grant him asylum. The Court of Appeal ruled that a refusal to consid¬ er a second application from Ade Onibiyo, 20, was lawful. Mr Onibiyo says that his life will be at risk in Nigeria, where his father Abdul, 54. has gone missing. Press awards Apart from the award to Matthew Parris of The Times, other winners of the British Press Awards were National Newspaper of Year Daily Mail. Scoop: The Sun for revealing that the Queen wanted the Prince of Wales to divorce. Reporter Doro- tfay-Grace Elder of Scotland on Sunday. Foreign corres¬ pondent: Robert Fisk. Inde¬ pendent. Feature writer. Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times. Business reporter. Ja¬ son Nisse. Mail on Sunday. Industrial journalist: Alan Jones of Press Association. Sports journalist: Richard Williams, The Guardian. Cartoonist Matt Pritchett. Daily Telegraph. THl ■ each The !W5- TH£ Cans , , . -\f * v m .. I..O' ' ’ >-• “Wa/l, foe caa’t gmUe oa fin pastern foe? Wht do foe mesa you as n't gamble oa tko fotoro? Ibat's bone rmag hooked ee tbe head then, isn't it? 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• Miss Jensen. 22, had arrived in ihe Cypriui resort of Ayia N'apj January and early in the summer met Michaelis Vassiliades. whn was working there as a waiter. They had been going out together for a few ueeks and friends said they were very much in love and might have married. After spending the evening of September 12 with col¬ leagues from the tuur com¬ pany she set off with Mr Vassiliades, 22, a .student from Nicosia, on his motorbike to visit a sick friend in Parulimni. That same evening the three soldiers were dancing in the streets of the popular two-star resun. Its cheap beer and young British women looking for uncomplicated holiday ro¬ mances were a magnet for the British servicemen stationed at Dhckelia. The soldiers were soon in¬ volved in a prolonged drink¬ ing bout and became Louise Jensen, who was about to start new job extremely drunk. A former soldier who met them in Ayia Napa's thronged central square al about Upm said Geoffrey Pcmell. 24. was ag¬ gressive and abusive to a group of young English women, but Allan l ord. 27, and Justin Fowler. 28. were “happily drunk". About 30 minutes after mid¬ night they staggered to Fowler's banana-yellow Mini- Moke and began the 25-mi It* drive back to Dhekctia base where they were stationed with the 1st Battalion. Royal Green Jackets. As they drove to a petrol station. Pbmdl announced he “was going to get himself a wuman for the night", according to a state¬ ment Fowler made later to police. Ford readily agreed it was “a good idea". At the petrol station, they spatted Ms Jensen and her befriend, neither of whom they knew. Twenty yards frum the station. Mr Vassiliades tried to overtake the Mini-Moke Jt swerved towards the motorcycle, caus¬ ing Mr Vassiliades to lose his balance. Miss Jensen lay trapped beneath the hike. Ms Jensen, whu had a strong sense of humour, was initially laughing, as she thought they were the victim of a bizarre practical joke. Her expression changed to one of horror when the Mini-Moke reversed into the motorcycle and PCrnell gut uul. brandishing a spade which he used to chase oil Mr Vassiliades, whu had hidden in some bushes. The court was told that Ford and Fowler beat Miss Jensen befurc H:mell returned to help to bundle her. kicking and screaming, into the back of the vehicle. While Fowler drove. Fond and Pt-mcll sal on her in ihe back seat to subdue her as they passed through Ayia Napa and headed for a desert¬ ed spot. They stopped at a building site in open countryside. Fowler claimed to have seen in the rear-view mirror Ford trying to have sex with Miss Jensen. When they gave evidence, the soldiers blamed each oth¬ er. Fowler told the court "After five minutes Pcmell swapped places with Ford and then I saw Perndl hit the woman with a spade. I couldn't believe this was hap¬ pening. About five or ten minutes later they came back to the car. I asked than where the woman was. Pfcmell said, 'Don’t worry, it’s sorted.’ Ford said, We buried her’." The soldiers were arrested by an armed policeman at a road-block yards from the British sovereign base of Dhekdia. Their clothes were spattered with blood, as was the Mini-Moke. In the rear luggage rad; was a spade. Annette and Poul Jensen, Miss Jensen's parents, leaving court in Lamaca, earlier this month - Cypriot barmen miss fun-loving trio who were happy to help others :..va«y. . J— ftT«p..s.rfta wot . heap . x«r n Th ' ST ( !.!!<.P....£A*>i6rl l i*e )uupcH; l-i{£ AiAAir 05.. £22

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• who came from a happy working-class background in Sutton Coldfield, quick-wit¬ ted. humorous and likeable. "He was tough, very strong and funny." Kypros Christou. a barman at the Jasmin pub. said. "A week before the killing. Allan was here teach¬ ing a little boy of six to play pooL He was never any trouble." But Ford had a violent streak. He was already facing a charge of aggravated assault when Louise Jensen was killed Kerin Remmer. a musician from Durham, needed 29 stitches In his face after Ford attacked him with a broken glass in an bar. Ford’s estranged wife. Michelle, who left him after three months of marriage, said her childhood sweetheart had turned into an obsessively jealous husband who threatened her with vio¬ lence if he should catch her with another man. She dis¬ closed he had tattooed an arrow and the word “UP" on his penis with a needle and Indian ink. Justin Fowler, 2S. a welF built six-footer, came from a middle-class family from Constantine. Cornwall. His grandfather and father were in the Army, his brother James was in the Royal Marines until his career was ended by a parachuting acci¬ dent and his sister Jane served in the Royal Navy. Friends described him as a "good laugh" and depend¬ able. His fiancee; Susan, a hairdresser from Scotland, has promised to wait for him until he finishes his sentence. “He was like one of the family and would do any¬ thing for you," said the Cypri¬ ot owner of the Manhattan restaurant in Lamaca. Fowler’s mother. Anne, a social worker, said the family did not believe he was respon¬ sible for Miss Jensen's death, but spoke of his remorse “Justin is still devastated by what happened to that poor girt When his lawyer showed him pictures of Louise's body, he was physically sick." Geoffrey Pemell, 24. from Oldbury. West Midlands, was also a heavy drinker who became violent when drunk. On the night of the killing he was celebrating the comple¬ tion of a training course wfiich would have led to promotion to the rank of lance corporal. Less than two hours before Miss Jensen died, he had announced he was going to "slap" a woman that nighL Pern ell's fiancee. Sarah Green. 22. has said she will wait for him. Army sources said his father, John, was the only parent of the three accused to accept that his son was not entirely innocent "If he was there, he’s guilty." he said. “At least our families can visit them in prison; Louise’s will never see her again." Islanders question need for bases By MichaelTiieodhi'loi' THE British Army insists there is no drink problem among servicemen on the “sunshine posting” of Cyprus and that the brutal killing of Louise Jensen was an aberration. But many Cypriots see it differently. There had been complaints that drunken and bored off-duty soldiers were performing a national disser¬ vice in the tourist resorts, above all in Ayia Napa. It did not help that Ms Jensen was killed at a time when some CyprioLs were already questioning Britain’s right to the valuable swaths of real estate covered by the sovereign military bases. They were ceded to" the former colonial power as a condition of the island's independence in IdoO under a treaty some argue is now outdated. Britain still views the two bases as vital strategic inter¬ ests. despite the end of the Cold IVar. They help to guard Britain's oil interests in the Middle East and are useful for electronic intelligence gather¬ ing. for training and as stag¬ ing and supply posts. But fur most of the 4,500 service personnel in Cyprus the posting is considered a compensation for more ardu¬ ous tours of duty. Boredom, however, turns many to drink. Allan Ford, an alcoholic on a bottle of whisky a day, said: “Here, this so-called sunshine posting is really boring. You finish guard dury and there's nothing to do. There's just one shop on comp so you go to the bars and drink too much. That was the big problem." He drank even on duty, but said the Army never noticed, the court was told. "How could they know i had a problem? I was no different from all the others." After the killing Army com¬ manders. stung by criticism they had not done more to prevent trouble, ordered a security review. Ayia Napa was put, and remains, out of bounds to all military and civilian personnel and a lam curfew was declared on other tourist -areas in deference to local feelings. Heir to a fortune faces deportation By Richard Ford IHE Hume Office is expected o announce today that Jay kJiadka, the former Nepalese Ttouniain boy who is heir to a LL5 million fortune, is to be Jcported. The 19-year-old has lost his ight to remain in the country n spite of a recommendation Tom an immigration tribunal hat he be allowed to stay. Two arlier tribunals rejected his ippeuis. He was fighting a deporta- ion order that was issued by he Immigration and Narion- tliiy Department because he tad no residence permit and tis passport when he entered Britain stated that he was 18 vhen he was 14. Jay has lived for the past five -ears in a commune in an Sth-cemury castle in the For- st of Dean. He could not read ir write when he was rescued rom a life of poverty in Nepal iy Richard Morley. a million- ire businessman, who heads he commune at Clearwell Castle. Gloucestershire. Mr Morley. 41, has said he rili leave Britain if the Home fficc presses ahead with the leportation. He has said it is iof a question of wealth or lureaucracy but or human elationships. Mr Morley says he rescued ay from poverty to honour a act with the boy’s dead father- He has brought him up as his son since July 1990 and named him heir to his fortune. The two met after Mr Mor¬ ley punctured a lung m a climbing accident in Nepal in
• Jay’s father. Basil, a policeman, trekked for three days through the mountains to seek help. After making a full recov¬ ery. Mr Morley traced the father to his village and prom¬ ised that if anything happened to him. he would take care of Jay. After Basu's death in 1990 Mr Morley, a former naval officer who has made a for¬ tune in computers, returned to Nepal and brought Jay to England. Jay Khadka: tribunal said he should stay High drama over delayed opera By Stephen Farrell SIR PETER HALL accused Italian opera directors of dis¬ honesty and double-dealing last night after his new pro¬ duction of Fidelio was post¬ poned by last-minute machin¬ ations worthy or grand operatic tradition. Sir Pfeter, 65, was due to open Beethoven's opera in Rome on April 16 in a joint production between Rome Op¬ era and the Royal Opera House. But rehearsals were delayed after the Italians sud¬ denly raised technical objec¬ tions to the British-built set on the day it was due to be loaded for shipment abroad. Sir Peter has flown back to Britain blaming in-fighting at Rome Opera, which has been hit by industrial action, for Ihe delay. The £250.000 set, created by John Gunter, will now sit in the Royal Opera's CJmon Val¬ ley scenery storehouse until further notice. Italian techni¬ cians claimed it was too heavy for their stage and could not be loaded m time to fit around other productions. Sir Ffcfer, former director of the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, rejected the claims. “There is a war inside the opera house between the old guard and the new artistic director. Vincenzo De Vivo, and f think the old guard was bent on stopping this production. Ttiis is a move against him, not me. "My general feelings are complete disgust at the techni¬ cal department in Rome being so unprofessional and. in my view, dishonest. I would put it as strongly as that 1 think there is a faction at Rome Opera that had no intention of doing Fidelio and held its hand until the very last minute, which gave no leeway to solve the issues." He said the set was a beautiful, early 19th-centuiy design, without any difficult hydraulics or computer tech¬ nology. "In my estimation, with 40 years’ experience, it is not remotely difficult and it is actually under the weight they told us they required." Rome Opera was not avail¬ able for comment yesterday, but the Royal Opera House described the problem as a “regrettable blip". Sir Pbter said that the objec¬ tions were "baffling" because the set design had been agreed long before. “There has been double-dealing, which is i suppose the common currency of drama. However. 1 do not think the whole thing would make a very good opera because the turnabout has been so barefaced and demon¬ strably false that no audience would be very impressed." Opera, page 35 Don attacks ‘myths’ of Ms brigade By Jot Joseph academics who ' had long settled ip of women's riety have been k to the debating London don ar- ir more women ole of wife and than feminists o believe. -jne Hakim had xplode feminist [bat she decided She studied attv- : in Britain and lent and decided if dovetail with eminist beliefs,
• a senior re- v at the London School of Economics and Political Science, wrote in the British Journal of Sociology that even after barriers against women in society and employment bad been re¬ moved. many still chose the traditional role of looking after the home and raising the family, leaving men a& the main breadwinners. This month she opened her copy of the journal to find that ten academies had pooled their resources to pen a riposte to her article, which appeared last autumn. One of them. Dr Jan Pahl, Reader in Social Policy at Kent University, said: "I think the danger of Catherine Hakim's piece is that policymakers will not lake seriously wom¬ en’s role as workers. If that's the assumption, then you don't need maternity leave, (riches, flexible working hours, job-shares, term-only jobs, and so on." Dr Hakim seems bemused to have provoked such a haQabaloo. Is she a feminist? "Yes. always. I don't think these days anyone questions the concept of egalitarian feminism — equal opportuni¬ ties. All I*m saying is that when the barriers do come down, not all women want to pursue careers. “One consequence is that when they do work, they choose part-time careers and their attitude Is different — they're not Interested in pro¬ motion or long-term careers. It is a myth that part-time workers are all exploited. “Another myth is that childcare is the main barrier to women's employment the main issue is women’s atti¬ tudes to career." It is on such points that Dr Pahl and her co-signatories start spitting- She says that women’s move into employ¬ ment, mainly part-time, “re¬ flects both their commitment to their families and their desire to earn for themselves — for a variety of reasons". Nor can she fathom Dr Hakim's point on childcare: “Most women cant afford nannies." & W-M Does your health insurance make you wait for a bed? 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Social workers chosen to interview prospective adopters should be parents themselves. Ministers say the draft Bill, Adoption —A ServiceJor Children, published yesterday, will help to revive adoption but campaign¬ ers are suspicious that the Conserva¬ tives want to tackle the problems of single parents by getting them to relinquish their offspring. "It is vital that we do not turn the dock back to a time when women were shamed into giving away their child¬ ren, resulting in trauma and long-term distress,” Karin Papperiheim, director of die National Council for One Parent Families, said. John Bowis, a junior health minister, said: "If adoption is seen as a positive option, it is possible that some mothers will be encouraged. There'is absolutely no question of any mother — I don't care whether the mother is single or married — being pressurised by : this legislation or anything we have issued into giving up her child unwillingly.'’ His reforms are the most sweeping changes in 20 years, an era during which the number of children, particu¬ larly babies, available for adoption has plummeted. In 1976, there were 18,000 adoptions, a fifth of them babies under one. By 1993, there were oily 6,900 adoptions, of whom 465, or one in 14, were babies. -Half of adoptions now involve stepfathers or stepmoth¬ ers taking responsibility for their spouse’s child. Mr Bowis said: "Political correctness has no place in the adoption process. That is widely accepted among the professionals in adoption and certainly right around the House of Commons when we debated the subject" He denounced adoption agencies which rejected prospective parents because they were too old. die wrong colour, too rich or because they had careers: “There have been occasions when ageism has crept in,” he said. “Mothers have been told they are too old at 35 despite die fact that they can give birth many years after that "It may certainly be that a woman of 55, an older person with knowledge for 'example of a particular form of disability, having brought up a family of her own and lad experience, is the ideal person to entrust this child to.” Children of 12 and older will have a veto over being adopted but their natural parents will have their rights reduced. Previously the courts could force a mother to give up a child for adoption only if they could prove she was acting unreasonably. Now they need only decide it is in the child's welfare to make her hand it over. Social workers will be encouraged to use adoption rather than foster parents or children's homes. A struggling mother who keeps putting her children into care then taking them back when she can cope again could find the council trying to have them adopted. Some reforms strengthen the natural mothers rights-A baby will have to be six weeks old before it can be put up for adoption and the mother win have to be counselled before handing over a child so she understands foe decision and that it is hers to make.. Couples will find it easier to adopt children from South America, South East Asia and Eastern Europe under the proposals, which would alter immigration and nationality law to ensure that youngsters adopted from overseas can obtain British citizenship. There has been a surge in demand for foreign chfidren as abortion and the removal of stigma from single mother¬ hood has reduced the numbers of native babies available. Four years ago. only 61 youngsters from abroad were adopted. This year the total was
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Another police- 'man used his back as a footstool and the driver turned round and insulted him ver¬ bally saying he had got no more than he deserved. The charge officer told him. 'I’ve never arrested a Chink be¬ fore.’ When he was released at 11pm that night they threw him into the street in just jeans Hsu: doctors found he had extensive bruising and flip-flops. He had to walk two miles home.” Mr Khan said that when Mr Hsu arrived the frontdoor was open and his stereo and other property had been sto¬ len. Doctors at King’s College Hospital found that he had extensive bruising to his back and kidneys and was passing blood. Mr Hsu made a formal complaint to the Police Com¬ plaints Authority. Despite a police surgeon confirming the injuries, me complaint was rejected and he deaded to sue. Ben Emmerson, counsel for Mr Hsu. urged the jury to send a strong message to Sir Paul Condon by awarding damages which would hit his annual budget. "In this case a .small award of damages would be regarded as a victory by the officers. Even a moder¬ ately large award would be greeted with relief at Strcatham police station." A statement Issued on be¬ half of Sir Paul Condon, the Metropolitan Police Commis¬ sioner. said: "We believe die award in this case to be excessive and we arc to appeal against the size of the award but not the verdict." Mr Hsu. 32, said after the ease: "Finally I’Ve got justice. I’m really happy with what the juiy have done, 1 feel terribly relieved. I still don't under¬ stand why the police did what they did." The Metropolitan Puliue said no action had been or would be taken against the officers. The constables in¬ volved. Kenneth Watkins. Christopher Smith Andrew Moms and Andrew Davies, were continuing with their normal dudes. In a separate case at the same court, a jury awarded £64.000 damages to Terence Winyard. 27, who accused other police officers from the same station, Streatham, of wrongful arrest and assault, false imprisonment and mali¬ cious prosecution. Cambridge team pictures dawn of the universe By Nigel Hawkes. science editor PHYSICISTS at Cambridge have taken the dearest pictures yet of the universe before the stars and galaxies began to form. The image shows tiny vari¬ ations in die radiation that permeates the universe and is believed to be the final echo of the Big Bang. From these small variations the galaxies and stars later formed. The images show the uni¬ verse as it was 300,000 years after the Big Bang. less than one 50.000th of its present age. They have been taken with a prototype telescope costing £250.000. Now the Partide Physics and Astronomy Research Council has agreed to spend £2.6 million to build a bigger version on Tenerife. This instrument should be able to distinguish between the rival theories of the origins of the ripples and predict the future of the universe, says Dr Paul Scott, one of the research team. Three years ago a satellite launched by the US space agency Nasi took the first pictures showing variations in background radiation. Cosmofogists believed that thee “cosmic ripples" most exist to account for the fact that matter in the universe is not evenly dispersed bnt coalesced into stars, planets and galaxies. But those pic¬ tures showed only faint rip¬ ples which were at least partly caused by noise. The Cambridge images, though they cover only a tiny area of sky. are much sharper. They were taken with a telescope called CAT (Cosmic Anisot¬ ropy Telescope) by studying radiation at wavelengths of about two centimetres. CAT combines signals from three horns, about two metres apart pointing at the same area of sky. By using lengthy exposures, it is pos¬ sible to remove the large amounts of radiation emit¬ ted by the atmosphere, leav¬ ing only cosmic background radiation. CAT is sensitive to varia¬ tions of only one 100.000th of a degree centigrade between the hotter and colder regions of the sky. A large metal shield protects the horns from ground heal The features seen in the images do not correspond to any celestial objects. “We are seeing the universe at a time before stars and galaxies formed." Dr Scott said. “These dumps may have formed solid objects later, bat if so they would lie at the very edgeof (he universe and light from them could not have readied us yet." Champion shot loses gun licences By Paul Wilkinson A CHAMPION marksman was told yesterday that he cannot keep his arsenal of firearms because he may be a public danger. Andrew Judge, a former member of the Brit¬ ish day pigeon shooting team, had twice been involved in “road rage" incidents, had allegedly made death threats to relatives and had attacked a policeman. York Crown Court was told. . ; r The court rejected his ap¬ peal against a police decision to withdraw his licences for a Magnum bolt-action rifle, three 12-bore double-barrel shotguns and a fourth shot¬ gun. Mr Judge, 45, had warn¬ ed the licences to enable him to set up a shooting and gundog training centre at his 12-acre country house at Great Barugh, North Yorkshire. Stephen Twist, for North Yorkshire Police, which con¬ fiscated the weapons after revoking Mr Judge’s licences three months ago, said he was unsuitable to hold them because he was unable to control his temper. Mr Twist said that in 1974 Mr Judge was fined £15 after body-checking a policeman. In 1991 a motorist was kicked unconscious dur¬ ing a fight but he declined to pursue legal action. In 1994 Mr Judge was given a two- year conditional discharge after he ripped off a wing mirror and pushed it at a driver who had abused him. Last year Mr Judge, York¬ shire Clay Pigeon Champion, in 1984, allegedly telephoned his feqher-in-law and brother- in-law threatening to shoot them in the back after he lost his job at the family firm. Police took no action. Scott Wilson, for Mr Judge, said the lack of police action bore out his denial of his relatives' allegations. “There is no likelihood of offences being committed involving the use of shotguns." Mr Wilson said. But Judge Savill. QC, said: "All the orcuinstances show he is a man o! intemperate habits and is unfitted to hold a firearms and shotgun certifi¬ cate without there being a danger to the public peace." “Traditional styles are now achieving top prices” Good furniture is now in great demand at auction. 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KJ i .wMn .1 rh.n manv of the By Gillian Bowditch THE Forth rail bridge has been allowed to deteriorate to such an extent that Railtrack has been ordered to start an emergency maintenance programme or risk prosecution. The Health and Safety Execu¬ tive, which published a compre¬ hensive report on the bridge's safety yesterday, says that between 50 and 70 per cent of the bridge's surface needs repainting in the next few years. The continuous painting programme, on which 16 painters were employed, cost £600.000 a year and was stopped three years ago by the former owners ScotRail to save money. The report follows claims by residents of South Queensferry in Lothian that parts of the bridge were rusting away and falling into their gardens. It includes eight legally enforcable Improvement no¬ tices detailing steps to ensure safety. The HSE. however, says the bridge, which is over a mile long and 350ft high and carries more than 1.000 trams a week between Edinburgh and Fife, is safe at present. It criticises the way the bridge has been allowed to deterio¬ rate and says its maintenance must “ ' - as Rust is attacking the bridge and residents claim pieces are falling into their gardens below be improved if structural problems are to be avoided. Stan Robertson, chief inspecting officer of railways, said he was “dissatisfied, disappointed and concerned" at what his inspectors had found when they carried out their assessment He was particu¬ larly concerned that parts of the bridge had received no mainte¬ nance for a considerable time and there was a lack of maintenance records for some years. Railtrack, which had owned the bridge for two years, was not properly aware of how it should be maintained and its standards were inadequate. Some of die secondary compo¬ nents have rusted through. The report lists a series of other problems include faulty bearings which should allow the steel struc¬ ture to expand and contract; unsafe ladders and walkways: the remov¬ al of inspection hatches; and a build-up of bird droppings inside the tubular steel structures. The original parts of the structure, with an oil coating, have proved better at withstanding the weather condi¬ tions than modem replacements. Railtrack has until the end of May to complete an overall condition survey and until the end of Novem¬ ber to complete a maintenance plan. All the recommendations in the report must be complied with by the end of next year. The report comes at a sensitive time for Railtrack. preparing for privatisation. It said yesterday mat it welcomed the report and its acknowledgement that the bridge was safe. It said £3 million would be spent on the bridge in the next financial vear and that many of the recommendations made in the HSE report were already in hand. Mr Robertson said that w hi!e Scot Rail- the previous owner of the bridge, bear bore some responsi¬ bility for its former maintenance problems. -Railtrack has no choice but to accept responsibility now". The bridse. built at □ cost of £3i million, was opened by the then prince of Wales on Man* 4,1890, after a seven-year building pro* oramme in which 57 of the 5.000 workers lost their lives. A further 500 were injured. Each of me million rivets holding the bridge together was driven in by hand. Judges say tangled laws to blame for leniency By Frances Gibb, legal correspondent SENIOR judges attacked the “tangle and confusion” in their sentencing powers yesterday when they rejected an appeal by Sir Nicholas Lyell, QC, the Attorney-General, for suffer custody terms for four teenage robbers. The Court of Appeal judges said they had no power to Increase the six-month deten¬ tion sentences involved. Lord Justice Rose said that he and his fellow judges would have liked to have detained the offenders for “two years or maybe more". But. he said, they had no power to do so. “This case sadly illustrates the tangle and confusion which has been introduced in certain respects into the court's powers of sentencing by successive Criminal Justice Acts in recent years." he said. The judge, sitting in the Court of Appeal with Mr Justice Hidden and Mr Justice Morison. cited five Acts, only the last of which allowed 17- year-olds to be sentenced for up to two years. His comments come three weeks after the Lord Chief Justice. Lord Taylor of Gosforth. gave a warning that legislative confusion threat¬ ened to “undermine public confidence". Sentencing policy had in four years gone from one extreme to another and "frequent swings of penal policy eat away at public confidence", he said. The judges' comments come in advance of Michael How¬ ard's imminent White Paper on tougher sentencing, due to have been published yester¬ day but delayed by the beef crisis. Judges oppose plans for minimum sentences for drug dealers and persistent bur¬ glars. and automatic life sen¬ tences for second offences of rape and other violent crimes. They say these will fetter their discretion. But they are deter¬ mined not to take the blame for soft sentences provided under previous Criminal Jus¬ tice Acts. In yesterday's case, the rob¬ beries were committed a few days before the last Criminal Justice Act came into force on February 3. 1995. Because of that and because three of the youths were only 17 when convicted, the maximum sen¬ tence was 12 months. As a result, the judges rejected ar¬ gument by counsel for Sir Nicholas that the six-month sentences were unduly lenient The youths, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on January 9 on five charges of robbing young late-night bus passengers in Birmingham city centre. The failure of yesterday's move by Sir Nicholas means the youths will be released in two weeks. In two incidents, the gang trapped their victims on the top deck of buses, threatened them with a knife and stole money, jewellery and ciga¬ rettes. Lord Justice Rose said that one of the youths had made the threat; “You had better do as I say. otherwise I'm going to chop you up." Lord Justice Rose said: “People of whatever age and of either sex must be able to , travel on city buses at night safely ... The courts must show unequivocally that ' those who. like these offend- i ers, have no regard for that principle will be severely dealt with." But for the restrictions on its powers, the court would j have decided that the sen¬ tences were loo lenient. The luxurious attractions of the69,130-tonne Splendour of the Seas Include a miniature golf course. Pictures: Julian Herbert and Roy Riley Fastest liner offers rough with the smooth By Russell Jenkins THE world's fastest ocean-going ernise ship sailed into Southampton yesterday morning, stealing (he berth normally reserved for the QE2 with the arriviste cheek of the latest model. The new 69,130-tonne liner is to be named Splendour of the Seas today, but is unofficially called the Ship of Light because she has two acres of windows. She also has an 18-bole miniature golf coarse with scaled- down versions of the world's most famous holes. On Sunday the Splendour, looking slightly over-fed with her 11 decks, will leave die south coast docks to set sail at top speed of 24 knots on her six- night maiden voyage to Spain, Portu¬ gal and Gibraltar. She will not be bade The Splen¬ dour has turned her bulbous stem on the port in favour of Harwich. Essex, where she has a El million purpose- built terminal closer to the lucrative Baltic cruising ground which she will ply in the summer. In spring and autumn she will cruise the Mediterra¬ nean from Barcelona, and in winter she will sail from Puerto Rico to explore the southern Caribbean. The Splendour, 867ft long and with 720 Grew, was built in France. She will be the flagship of the Royal Caribbe¬ an Cruise Line, (he worid's second- largest cruise line, which is based in Oslo. Passengers enter through a glass Enjoy a short break that will feel more like a holiday! A better way to detect Alzheimer’s I BB £16.50 DB&B £26 I ■ BB £28 DB&E £39 ■ ■ BB £33 DB&B £44 1 O-ct? =2CO | ■ Ous:o — ■ 1 "
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It was a journey he had done thou¬ sands of times before but on this occasion could not re¬ member where he was and finally found his bearings again, miles off course, after he had gone the wrong way round a roundabout before reaching the M25. His wife had noticed that his memory, always poor, was now appalling and that he was beginning to repeat himself. The man, in his early 70s, had been successful in his career and his present troubles were causing distress to his family and colleagues, even if not to himself. One of the questions that needed answering was wheth¬ er his symptoms were the first signs of Alzheimer's or that he Medical briefing Dr Thomas Stuttaford had some other cause of dementia. Oxford scientists announced this week that their recent research may be able to give him, and many others like him, a more defi¬ nite diagnosis. Nearly everybody’s memory deteriorates and, if not associ¬ ated with other sigpis of mental decline, may indicate nothing more than advancing years. Although 25 per cent of those aged 65 have Alzheimer'S, it is not part of the inevitable ageing process but a disease. It is estimated that there are 800,000 people suffering from dementia in one of its many forms in the United Kingdom. Until recently the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s during the life¬ time of the patient has been very inexact and other causes of dementia have been mistak¬ en for it, particularly tumours, multiple infarcts (small strokes), Lewey body demen¬ tia and senile depression. Even in the best units no more than 75 per cent accuracy could be expected, which means that 25 per cent of patients with symptoms of dementia were either mistreat¬ ed or undertreated. Neurologists at the Raddiffe Infirmary at Oxford, led by Dr Jim Jobst, have based their conclusions on two forms of simple scanning. By arrang¬ ing a CAT scan of the medial temporal lobe of the brain, where Alzheimer's is most obvious, and measuring the blood flow through ir by a different - scanning system which plots the passage through the nervous tissue of a radio-labelled substance, Cererec, they have been able to predict with 95 per cent accuracy which of their pa¬ tients have Alzheimer's. The research has also shown that the medial temporal lobe de¬ generates ten times faster in a patient with Alzheimer's than in other elderly people. and chrome atrium. From there they can opt for the chinoiserie of He King and I dining room, (he Greco- Roman Splendours of the Roman Spa, or the solarium, which has a retractable crystal canopy. At night they can visit tbe Casino Royale or watch a show in the 42nd Street Theatre. The golf course, called Splendours of die Green, will enable passengers to play Wentworth in the middle of the Caribbean. Tbe 12-night cruises start at £1.489 per person. Man fired gun at children A man with a ball-bearing gun walked into a school and fired at children and teachers, frightening one boy so much he was sick. Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court was told. Teach¬ ers barricaded children as young as six in the headmistress's office at the special-needs school in Mer¬ thyr Tydfil. Mid Glamorgan, last October. Glyn Popp. 28, of Merthyr Tydfil, who had a history of mental illness, admitted arson and possess¬ ing an imitation firearm. He. was sent to psychiatric hospi¬ tal and can be released only: by the Home Secretary. Dog plea fails A judge at Chichester County Court derided that an applica¬ tion by Roland Jeckalejs. 41, of Tangmere, West Sussex, for access to the dog he shared with his girlfriend before they parted did not warrant a full hearing. Mr Jeckalejs must pay £1,100 costs. Walkers fined Peter and Brenda Ranee of Hurley, Warwickshire, were fined £75 with £364 costs at Teignmouth. Devon, for breaking a bylaw three times by disturbing resting seabirds while walking their dog. A nature warden had asked them to take a different route. Attacker sought* Greater Manchester Police-' are hunting a teenage sex at¬ tacker who preys on young girls, some as young as eight. They have linked him to two attacks and are examining a possible link with others. He is described as Asian, and be¬ tween 5ft 6in and 5ft 8in. Pools bid fails A pools syndicate of five Scottish power workers, de¬ nied a jackpot win when their collector stole their £5 stake, has failed to force Littlewoods to pay them the £2.3 million. Lord Coulsfield dismissed their action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh. Talked enough Simon Bates and Jonathan King are the latest recently recruited star presenters to be dropped by Talk Radio as ratings fall. Paul Ross — Jonathan Ross’s brother — will take over Bates’s show at Easter and King's slot will be taken over by Scon Chisholm. Brocket moved Lord Brocket. 44. jailed for five years for a E4.5 million insur¬ ance fraud, has been moved to Littlehey prison near Hun¬ tingdon after a fight among inmares at Wellingborough prison in Northamptonshire earlier this month. Brocket was not attacked. Policeman killed A police motorcyclist cm a training exercise was killed when he was thrown from his machine and struck by a car and a lorry on the A533 at Bostock. Cheshire. The officer, aged 31, who has not been named, was pronounced dead WwynGafdnQy Hmenad Gan Hotel Abergavenny The Angel Bristol St Vincent Rods Hotel Buy St Ednonds The Suffolk CrawieyKaftiHdi The George Crow tb oroertWndsor The Waterloo hotel Doty Aston Court ftanArgham The Crown Hotel Great Dwmw The Saracen's Head Royal Hop Me The Ro» 8 Crown The Grand Atlantic OFFER VALID FROM 29th MARCH 1996 AMD STAYS MUST 0E COMPLETED BY 12tb MAY 1996. 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  5 FREE [rtrefcotechldrEn on retyjeslAI prices VAT, By Robin Young NOT all bargains on the meat shelves this week are beef. Asda is offering British pork rolled shoulder at £2.39 a kg, a 46p saving, while Safeway has traditional British ham re¬ duced from £1.19 to 99p for a lOOg pack. For beef bargain-hunters Salisbury's is offering British beef sirloin steak at £10.68 a kg. a reduction of £1 a kg, and Safeway has trimmed £1 from its British beef rump steak, now selling at £7.99 a kg. Promotions include: Asda: fresh chicken Kievs £159 for 284g, Webbs basted chicken E1.74 a kg. cantaloupe melons 99p each. Budgens: whole fresh chicken £3.99 for 23kg, fresh peeled prawns £1.19 for 200g. Co-op: family chicken and mushroom pie 99p. Linda McCartney sausages £139 for 16, frozen natural cod fillets £229 for 600g. Ha mods: rainbow trout £4 a kg, MaroillesThierache whole cheese for £11.95. Iceland: part-boned chicken breasts E3.99 for 15kg, tradi¬ tional smoked haddock fillets £1.99 for 680g. luxury New York chocolate cheesecake E1.99 for 5/6 portions. Marks & Spencer: 10 chicken breast fillets £7.99 for 975g, New Zealand lamb leg knuck¬ le £4.99 a kg, large fresh fruit salad £1.99 for 600g, six potato croquettes 99p for 250g. Morrison: vegetable bake 99p for 300g, garlic and mush¬ room-topped ciabatta £1.09, sweet pineapples 59p each. Safeway: rump steak £3.62 a lb, smoked Scottish salmon £5.99 for 450g, ham on the bone 89p for 4oz, red seedless grapes 79p a lb. Songold yd low plums 79p a lb, cantaloupe melons £129 each. Sainsbnrys: New Zealand lamb shoulder £199 a kg, mature blue stilton £1.67 a lb. Fresh bake minced beef and onion pie 99p for S07g, brocco¬ li florets 99p a kg. Somerfield: pork escalope £525 a kg, fresh salmon steaks £729 a kg, new potatoes !6p a lb, medium avocados 22 p each, red grapefruit 29p each, red seedless grapes 65p a lb. Tesco: boneless leg of pork £3.09 a kg. forerib of beef £4-79 a kg, cod fillet EI.95 a lb, whole salmon £1.97 a lb. rhubarb £1.49 a lb. black seedless grapes 89p a lb. Waifrose: farmhouse pork boneless leg £1.99 lb. Scottish smoked salmon E3.99 for 180g, whole rainbow trout El JO a lb extra large avocados 75p each red seedless grapes 79p a lb ' Velasquez's The Toilet of Ve¬ nus, better known as the Rokeby Venus, returns towith- n ? former home at Rokeby Hall, Co Durham, to¬ morrow for an exhibition at Bowes Museum, running un¬ til June 2. The painting is owned by the National Gallery. MAN AND MACHINE IN PERFECT HARMONY ? PEFINITELY NOT. ©UVifc & CHAlRi STRIP THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 iis2ri Burger King: an announcement about our new beef. I In the light of current events, we have taken the decision to source all beef supplies outside the United Kingdom. This decision has been based solely on our customers’ continued concern and apparent lack of confidence in British beef. Managing Director of Burger King Europe, Craig Bushey, made this announcement: “As we have stated previously, all Burger King patties are made from beef of the highest quality, taken from prime cuts of forequarter and flank that contain no offal or mechanically recovered meat. In accordance with the latest government statement, we are confident that this beef is safe to consume. However, our customers’ lack of confidence in British beef, the related potential damage to our business and threat to our employees’ livelihood has caused us to take the decision to source beef outside the UK until confidence in British beef is fully restored." From Saturday 50th March, and until further notice, all beefburgers served in Burger King restaurants will be made with non-British beef. You will still be able to enjoy the BK Chicken Flamer; Chicken Royale, Spicy Beanburger and all other items on our menu. Naturally, should BURGER circumstances change in any way, we will keep you informed through the press and our restaurants. ® Buger King is a registered trademark at Buigar King Corporation. ’“Hamer Is a registered traSemarK of Bunker King Corporation. 8 HOME NEWS THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 Railtrack buy-back scheme under fire By Jonathan Prynn and Jill Sherman l A?9 ur is expected to face .-criticism from the Govern- • |B 6 nt and left-wing back¬ benchers loday as Care Short : unveils the party’s policy for returning Railtrack to public , ownership. The proposals are expected to commit Labour to Denation¬ alising Railtrack but are un- : likely to detail how or when. ■ Gordon Brown, the Shadow ' Chancellor, has strongly ob¬ jected to more radical plans, | drawn up by John Prescott and Brian Wilson, Labour’s . rail spokesman, mi the ground of cost. The likely wording of the : proposals, due to be an¬ nounced by Ms Short at a : conference in Swindon this • afternoon, will emphasise the importance of restoring ■ Railtrack to public ownership ' M as resources allow". Many ideas on how this would be achieved have been considered by the party lead¬ ership but all have been found to have legal or practical flaws or have drawn strong objec¬ tions from one or other senior party figures. 'Hie option that has achieved most widespread agreement and is likely to be announced today involves a transfer of the E2 billion rail subsidy from train operators to Railtrack. giving a Labour government far greater con¬ trol. In the meantime. Railtrack shares would be gradually bought in the mar¬ ket. to provide a controlling stake over time. Advisers to Sir George Young, the Transport Secre¬ tary. said that he was eager to attack the proposals after en¬ during a year of Labour criticism over rail privatisa¬ tion. Several Labour MPS are already comdemning what they see as an impractical fudge. One said: “Switching subsidies is about control nor about ownership.” □ British Rail, which em¬ ployed nearly three quarters of a million people at its peak in the i^SOs and still has a payroll of S0.000, is to be reduced to a rump of bO staff by autumn of next year. The board will be slimmed down to a chairman serving part- time and three non-executive directors. Labour will be vulnerable to attacks on policy Voters are lured by Blair and image of moderation By Peter Riddell LABOUR'S high poll ratings reflect strong approval for Tony Blair and the party's moderate image rather than enthusiasm for the rest of the leadership team and its policies. The latest MORI poll for The Times, undertaken last weekend, shows how far Lab¬ our has improved its Image compared with the Tories over the past few years, but it also shows where the party re¬ mains vulnerable. In September 1991. six months before the last general election, the Tories had a more favourable rating than Labour on ten out oF 14 measures of image. The Tories were ratal more favourably for modera¬ tion and being professional in their approach. They were then less likely than Labour to be seen as divided. The excep¬ tions where Labour was ahead where the measures on repre¬ senting all classes and on being in touch with ordinary people. But now Labour is more favourably regarded than the Tories on all but one of the 14 measures. The excep¬ tion is the ambiguous measure of being too dominated by its leader, though the differences here are small. The most striking changes since autumn 1991 are mea¬ sures such as being divided, understanding the problems facing Britain, having sensible policies and having a good team of leaders. The internal Tory arguments of the past few years have taken a big toll. The proportion regarding the Tories as divided has jumped from 14 to 48 per cent since 1991, while the number view¬ ing Labour as divided has declined from 29 to 17 per cent. Moreover, there are no signs of any improvement in the Tories' image compared with when the same questions Blair strong appeal to new supporters were last asked in October
• MORI has analysed the figures to look at the views of those who have swtiched to support Labour since the 1992 general election. These are the voters who will decide the next election, depending on how many remain with Labour as opposed to switching again to the Tories or the Liberal Democrats. These switchers are satis¬ fied with the way Mr Blair is doing his job as Labour leader by a 73 to 14 per cent margin, slightly higher than among Labour supporters as a whole, including long-term loyalists. Moreover, 26 per cent of these new Labour switchers regard the party as moderate, compared with 19 per cent of Labour supporters as a whole. By contrast, these switchers are less convinced than Lab¬ our supporters generally that the party has sensible policies (35 to 44 per cent}, a good team of leaders {27 to 35 per cent) or will promise anything to win votes (20 to 14 per cent). This suggests that these switchers are motivated more by Labour’s non-threatening im¬ age — Mr Blair’s approach as leader and the belief that it is moderate — than by enthusi¬ asm about its policies or its general leadership team. This shows where Labour might be vulnerable to Tory attacks during the long pre-election campaign. The poll also suggests that the image of the liberal Dem¬ ocrats has changed little since 1991 except that die number regarding the party as divided has halved to 5 per cent In
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  were still suffering from the arguments over the merger in 19S7-S9. Among other features of the latest poll is that the previous gender gap of support for the parties has. at least temporar¬ ily, been reversed. Since the end of Februaiy, support for the Tories among men has risen from 22 to 29 per cent, and has dropped among women from 29 to 27 per cent There is no obvious explana¬ tion for such a switch in just a month, though the beef row could have had some effect It will only become clear in a month or two whether this is the start of a sustained trend. The MORI economic opti¬ mism index — measuring those who . think that die general economic condition of CHANGING PARTIES, CHANGING IMAGE Here, is a list of things both favourable and unfavourable

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  ®l ■■ r an •3 (-13) 30 Out of touch aflh □reBnary.peopte WB provide anythkiQ| towtnvotas 36 I MO) 30 <+7)r 251 •aED .an (+ei 20 Has sensfete pofictos (+«>f 5J7L Has a good loan ol leaders Concerned about <« tn I? neednuntan 1+3) 25 l+9» -ll 27 _l ! Looks after the interests erf people ■reus Represents aB [HI le¬ ns 6 ‘§0 Keepsttspofctar gj» mm the country will improve rath¬ er than get worse over the next 12 months — has hardly changed over the past month at minus 17 points. □ MORI interviewed a repre¬ sentative quota sample of I&JO adults at 143 ward sampling points betweem March 22 and 25. Voting intention figures exclude those: who say they would not vote (9 percent).are undecided (9 per cent}or refuse to name a party (3 per cent). Tories offered little to encourage early election D on't bet on an early general election. Of course, the Gov¬ ernment may be forced into calling one this autumn merely to avoid losing the political initiative over the whiter. Its one-vote major¬ ity on Wednesday after a Labour ambush on a VAT amendment to the Finance Bill could be a pointer to diffhangers ahead, especially if the Tories lose more MPs in by- elections or defections. Some econo¬ mists believe that the autumn could be the most favourable time in terms of living standards and interest rates, especially if Kenneth Clarke has little room for manoeuvre to cut taxes in November. The odds on October or early November, ahead of the Budget may have shortened recently, but this is still a fail-back contingency rather than a preferred option. The predominant Labour view ts RIDDELL •erfr?^{ouncs that the Government will somehow survive, or perhaps stumble, into die New Year, relying on one or other Unionist faction in dose votes, as happened over the Scott report. This outlook could change in late Janu¬ ary or Februaiy if the Unionists decide they would benefit from bringing down a lameduck admin¬ istration. Until then. Labour leaders believe that the Tories should be reasonably safe in the Commons. That was the conclusion drawn by one of the shrewdest Commons observers when he heard about Tony Blair’s plan to ballot Labour's 365.000 individual menders this autumn on an early version of the party manifesto. He was partly right The plan is intended to give the party a new sense of direction after a loss of momentum over the past two months. The production of policy papers, the early manifesto, the subsequent consultations, the party conference debate and the ballot will take until the second half of November at least — and then we wflJ be into the Budget and the early stages of campaigning. The need for such a ballot to bind in Labour MPs, as well as local activists, to the party’s programme was underlined yesterday, by the rumblings of dissent by 50 bard-4 eft and sceptical Mi’s against a single European currency. They are by no means as influential as the Tory sceptics, but their statement was a warning signal of probable troubles in office. The existence of these dissenters is also why Mr Blair is leaving foe door open to the Liberal Democrats and — who knows?—to informal support from the rump of Tory pro-Europeans after foe election. There is, however, an escape route in Labour’s plans. The membership ballot would obviously have to be abandoned if there is an October election, but the document itself — the manifesto min us tax details - will be produced by June and therefore ready for foe autumn. There is little in the latest MORI poll to encourage foe Tories to go for an early election. The voting intention figures are being buffeted around each month by events like the Harman row, the Scott report and. now, beef. There appears to have been a gradual pick-up in Tory support since last summer, as indi¬ cated both by foe polk and the party’s successes In local council byelections. So the worst is proba¬ bly over, and load morale is no longer deteriorating. But satisfac¬ tion with the performance of the Government as a whole of John Major as Prime Minister remains low, and foe party is suffering from its divided image. Labour and Mr Blair are still riding high. But as foe accompany¬ ing report suggests. Labour's suc¬ cess k more because of its non- foreatening image and Mr Blair’s appeal than because there is great enthusiasm for its policies or its leadership team. The Tories may get some mileage out of atta ckin g the poor quality of some members of the Shadow Cabinet and policy doubts. But far more, important is the, probably vain, hope .that | the Tories will appear less disunited and look - mdre competent as a Government.. Peter Riddell Motorway} toll trials at risk of collapse Jonathan Prynn TRANS PORTCORRESPONDENT PLANS to charge drivers for -using the motorways are close toco [lapsing after the with¬ drawal of tour of the eight araipanies selected to rest electronic: tolling equipment on. the M3. Sir George Young, the Transport Secretary, is plan¬ ning to postponse indefintely the £20 million trials on a stretch of the motorway near Basingstoke, according to to- 1 days edition of The Economist ma gazine. The equipment on triaf fcdesigned to charge cars and lorries automatically as they drive post roadside sen¬ sors. Smaller scale off-road tests at the Transport Re¬ search Laboratory will still go ahead. The move is a severe setback for the Government’s trans¬ port policy as Sir George is determined to. mak e motor¬ way users pay more to help to offset the cost of pollution and treatment of crash victims. Officials are now dusting down previously rejected methods for imposing the tolls. The most likely is seen as a Swiss-style annual motor¬ way permit that would have to be displayed in car wind¬ screens. However, this is seen as unfair on drivers who use motorways only a lew times a year. Toll plazas as used on the Continent have been ruled our because they would re-, quire building over huge swaths of protected land. The fatal blow for the motor¬ way trials came last week when ToUstar. a mainly Brit¬ ish consortium regarded as one of the favourites to run to tolling system, said it. was likely to' puff out Three groups, Siemens, Tollway and Autolink, had already withdrawn. That , left only four of foe original eight trialists, all but one of which deploy similar forms of technology. At least one is also believed to be reconsidering its part in the trials, for which the bidders have to pay. A senior ToUstar source said: “We were being asked to spend £l -£2 million on foe off- ■ chance of an order coming in about 2004. 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  10 OVERSEAS NEWS . Police admit losing British tourist’s evidence of attack From Roger Maynard in Sydney POLICE lost a vital statement given by Paul Onions, a Bri¬ tish tourist, detailing an attack by Ivan Mil at, the alleged Australian serial killer, it emerged during the fourth day of the backpacker murder trial in Sydney yesterday. A woman officer who inter¬ viewed die Briton after he was kidnapped and assaulted in January 1990 admitted that police had been unable to find the document. With the help of her note¬ book from the time, Jennifer Nicholson, a senior police constable, remembered a visi¬ bly shaken Mr Onions arriv¬ ing at Bowral police station near the Belanglo state forest, where the bodies of all seven murdered backpackers were found. But even though he provided important details of his alleged attacker’s appear¬ ance. vehicle and place of work, the defendant remained free for another four years. Joanne Berry, a mother of four who came to Mr Onions’s rescue on the motorway after Mr Milat allegedly fired a shot at him and wrestled him to the ground, told the court he was “absolutely petrified and very dose to tears’ as he sought refuge in her van. “ Please stop, he’s got a gun," Mr Onions pleaded with Mrs Berry, seconds after throwing himself into the vehicle's path and Sagging her down. "It gave my family a bit of a fright." she said. The defendant's former wife. Karen, told the court that Mr Milat was rarely without a gun. He had a pistol which he would stuff down the side of his boot when he went out, even taking it to die cinema. He also had a revolver which he kept in a wooden case under her bed and hid under the seat in the back of his car whenever he travelled. "Ivan just liked guns," said Mrs Milat, who was married to him for six years. “Ivan knew how to use guns and was confident about handling them." They went to the Belanglo state forest four times in 1983 and on one occasion her hus¬ band had shot two kangaroos. Clearly upset by the memory of their time together. Mrs Milat began to cry and was allowed to leave the court for a few minutes to compose her self. She described how he kept hims elf strong by using a 2in galvanised pipe with plas¬ tic buckets of cement at each end for weightlifting. "Ivan was a very fit person who did weightlifting every night of the week." Carolynne Milat, the defen¬ dant’s sister-in-law, again in¬ sisted under cross-exam¬ ination that she did not change the date of a photo¬ graph showing the accused man, in order to prove he could not have killed Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters, British backpackers, at Easter
• Hie prosecution claimed that Ivan Milat had written on the back of the photographs, indicating they had been tak¬ en on a camping holiday in
• A vehicle registration sticker on a car in one of the pictures also showed that it expired in August 1991. Mrs Milat said she was wearing a pair of shoes in one of the photographs which she* had bought in the United States after Easter 1991. “Are you deliberately seeking to give evidence in an attempt to protect Ivan Milat?" asked Mark Tedeschi. for the prose¬ cution. “No, no." she replied. “I suggest you changed 1991 to 1992 after you found out that Ivan Milat had beat charged with an offence that occurred at Easter 1992,” he went on. “No," she insisted. Ivan Milat 51, has pleaded not guilty to killing seven tourists and kidnapping an eighth. The case continues. □ Assault case Police were last night investigating a com¬ plaint against William Milat a brother of the accused man. after Warren Clarke, a Sydney Morning Herald photogra¬ pher, was allegedly assaulted outside the court Television film showed William Milat punciting the cameraman who was attempting to photo¬ graph him and his wife. Carolynne. Police said they would watch the video evi¬ dence before deriding whether to bring charges. THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29J996 The Queen and President Havel of the Czech Republic at the Brno city hall yesterday as 50.000 people turned out to see the royal visitor Cheering Czechs greet the Queen’s city walkabout From Aian Hamilton IN BRNO NOT since the Queen visited South African black townships last year has she drawn such crowds as turned out on the second day of her state visit to the Czech Republic yesterday. Police estimated that at least 50,000 people, with many more crowding upstairs windows, were on the streets of Brno, the country’s second city, to catch a glimpse of the Queen as she made a four-hour visit accompanied by President Havel. Distinguished visitors to the Czech lands rarely venture beyond Prague, and if they do it is only to some small but picture-postcard pretty Austro- Hungarian town. Brno, the joint birthplace with Enfield of the wartime Bren gun and still a big arms- manufacturing centre, is industrial, strewn with ugly tower blocks and has a population of 400.000. British officials were delighted, but not wholly surprised, by the huge turnout to see the Queen. Since it opened three weeks ago. an exhibition of replicas of the English and Scottish crown jewels in Brno city hall has drawn 25,000 visitors, proving that those parts of Central Europe once ruled by the Habsburgs still have an appreciation of hereditary monarchy. TTie crowd, which packed the main square and every side street, cheered and applauded as the Queen made a brief appearance on the city hall balcony to tell the population how delighted she was to be in Brno, "at the crossroads of our continent". On behalf of the British people, she wished the city prosperity and a successful future and gave it a brief wave of a blade-gloved hand. Queen and President then went on a short walkabout through one of the city's broad main streets, with ten- deep crowds waving paper Union Jacks and Czech flags. The Queen has proved hugely popular in Poland and the Czech Republic, where she Is seen as a symbol of stability above governments as much as the representative of a nation within the European Union and Nato which both countries are anxious to join. Czech feelings towards the Queen were summed up during a visit to Brno’s Constitutional Court, where Judge Ivana Janu. the courts vice- president. told the Queen: "We greatly appreciate the fact that you are making your first visit only now, and that you never accepted the invitation of those who ruled here without the legitimacy conferred by free elections." Letters, page 19 Voyage in naturalist’s wake Severin: sailing tricky Indonesian waters THE adventurer Tim Severin yesterday set off in a make¬ shift yacht to follow the path of Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist in cir- ding die treacherous Indone¬ sian archipelago. He set sail from Warbal Island in the Kei group in a boat constructed by islanders, using only locally gathered materials. Mr Severin, 55, was the second Briton to begin a risky voyage. Peter Bird. 43, left Vostochny, near Vladivos- By Paul Maynard tok in Russia, in an attempt to row 6,000 nautical miles to San Francisco. It will be his third attempt to cross the Pacific- Mr Severin, who lives in Co Cork, has a more successful record, which includes cross¬ ing the Atlantic in an aitempt to demonstrate that St Brendan was the first to sight America. He has also travelled extensively in China and Mongolia on horseback, as well as retracing the path of the crusader forces of Guy de Bouillon across Europe to Jerusalem on die breed of horse which die medieval soldiers used. His latest trip is scheduled to finish in Sulawesi after a 1.200-mile trip. Wallace, whose route Mr Severin is retracing, travelled the area in the 1850s and 1860s. His correspondence with Charles Darwin is credited with help¬ ing the development of the theory of evolution. Pope calls for ‘feminist’ nuns THE Pope yesterday called on nuns to promote , a "new feminism", arguing they have a right to take part in deci¬ sion-making at all levels of the Roman Catholic Church (Ruth,G]cdh3] writes). But be said that women should not imitate "models of male domination". In an exhortation. Vita Consecrata, he said the Church depended on nuns for new efforts in fostering- Christian doctrine, morals, family and social life. Briton in baby-smuggling trial From Agence France-Presse in Bucharest A BRITISH man goes on trial in Romania today charged with trying to smuggle into Hungary’ a 15-month girl hid¬ den in the bout of his car. John Boast, 46. faces a jail sentence of between three months and two years. Vergiliu Rosea, the prosecu¬ tor. said. He added that the case was “complex and deli¬ cate" and it appeared that the. aim was not to make money out of abducting Laura. Varga but to give her a better life. The child, -who has nine brothers, had been abandoned in a hospital at Oradea, in the northwest, at birth and her parents are believed to have given up all rights to her. She is currently with foster parents in Britain. Mr Boast, who works for a British charity, was arrested last December. He was freed on condition that he did not leave Romania pending his triaL Mr Rosea said that Mr Boast had denied the charges. saying that he was arrested while driving Varga back to ihe hospital after taking her for a ride in his car. The estimated 100.000 abandoned children in Roma¬ nia and their poor living conditions have attracted Western couples wanting to adopt. Of 1.789 adoptions by foreign couples in 1995. only 1.070 were approved by the Government, the others ap¬ parently allowed by officials for a “consideration". h < <•. b a 11 (cl (‘(iro |> < o n I i nc.co in maieor liramatis Uses Europe Online to promote his new plays, follow latest theatre action and £et advice from other leading actors M«M Co E-nil ini ifeeouion groups, eutertiieaeat ani eduesBou, tnvel tni shopping services dl for the lowest Monthty fee* on the internet. 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Their owners fear that their investments may end up in incinerators with paltry compensation. Flo. a seven-year-old Hol¬ stein Friesian dairy cow-, is the most valuable in Britain with a £75.000 price tag. Her owners. Andrew Cope and his father. Tom, from Huddles- ford House Farm near Lich¬ field. Staffordshire, fear the worst. Andrew Cope said: “She is so valuable she is not worth insuring, because ir would cost too much. She is recognised as the best dairy cow in the country. She was given a rating of 96 points out of 100 by the Holstein Friesian Soci¬ ety Iasi autumn. “We will not be affected much if they destroy cows at the end of their productive life. If they destroy all animals over a certain age it would be devastating. How could you be compensate for an animal like Flo?" Flo, an elegant black and white cow, who was grazing placidly yesterday, is a prodi¬ gious milker. producing 15.000 litres a year, more than double the national average. In an anticipated lifespan of 15 years, Flo will create progeny worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Brian Draper, who keeps a herd of Holstein Friesians near Shrewsbury', paid 65,000 guineas four years ago for Grantcbesrer Heather the 8th, the highest price paid for a : cow. “We are in the lap of the gods,” he said. “Some people are talking of a cull of ail animals over the age of 30 months. It would wipe out most of our herd, which it has taken a lifetime to build up.” Anne Hardy, of the Holstein Friesian Society, said: "There are about 1.600 animals regis¬ tered with us which are classi¬ fied as “excellent", with a rating of between 90 and 97 out of 100. It would be tragic if animals like this had to be slaughtered." Peter Old, of Owerraoigne. Dorset, paid 45.000 guineas in Perth 18 months ago for Thrunton Ideal, a Charolais bull, a pitted French breed. He said: “Hopefully, the cull will not affect breeding bulls, but I also have a Charolais cow, Moynton Freesia. which is worth"25,000 guineas and won 27 trophies last year. We have never had a case of BSE in our herd." Barney Hodge, who paid £17.000 last year for Crichell Inspiration Pamela the 13th. a five-year-old Friesian, said: “I would not let her go for £50,000 let alone £30.000. She is a rapidly appreciating asset. She has great ancestry. Her grandparents, who were Ca¬ nadian, were worth even more. “She is one of the highest indexed cows in the United Kingdom. Despite the BSE scare I think was optimistic that the pedigree market would hold up.” Mr Hodge said. “There was a tremen¬ dous sale in Penrith yesterday where calves were selling for an average £3.700. It is a confidence booster." Doug Mash, from Che- sham. Buckinghamshire, paid 26.000 guineas for Di Di. aged eight, a record for the Broadmeadow' Limousin herd. If the pedigree market collapses, he will blame politi¬ cians and the media for twist¬ ing the scientific facts. “I don't know what Di Di is worth now’. It’s like anything else: she is only worth what people are prepared to pay/ We have to stand firm. A slaughtering policy is not nec¬ essary," he said. "What is required from politicians is a public service statement, by the leaders of all three parties, supporting British beef. We have been used as political footballs by Tony Blair." Lord Rathcreedan. from the Norton & Brooks bank auction house in Tetbury, Gloucester¬ shire. who sold Grantchester Heather the 8th, said: “It can be like the housing market. If it is rock bottom at the bottom, it can have a knock-on effect” Ian Kerr, the secretary of the British Limousin Cattle Soci¬ ety, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, was more upbeaL “There is about as much chance of pedigree cattle being exposed to BSE as thefe is of finding a man on Mars." 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• Union leaders will be hracb- = mg on veal today, but their hosts insist ti will be from local Piedmont cattle (Rkb- ard Owen writes).
• While die leaders are ' eating, al the Meriden Ho¬ tel next to the Iisgotto " Conference Centre, the For -'•jjpgn Ministers will also be eating a dish nude op of bcefas they lunch under the glass-domed “bubble’’ oil the roof of the Lragotto, the Flat car factory bufit In 1917, which still has its cartesting track on the roof. The heads of government wffl be served mixed vegeta¬ bles, followed fay aspara¬ gus, fillet of veal and wild fruits. The Foreign Minis¬ ters will eat bresaola, a dish of air-dried raw beef thinly sliced and served with ofl and lemon, followed by polenta garished with Fon~ tinaj-eheese. They wiD end ' them* meal with spurn a
• T sweet souffle made from three kinds of chocolate. style after .Britain was forced to apply to Brussels for eco¬ nomic help. Erik Dnydce, the Belgian Foreign Minister, . said that Britain had behaved in a "much more conciliatory” way at a foreign ministers’ meeting this week, lifting some abjections to giving the European Parliament an ob¬ servers* role ar the conference. Mr Major is expected, how- ever, to make his own plea for Euro-solidarity, urging col¬ leagues to lift the crippling ban on British beef exports. He is likely to receive a frosty response, given the anger which has swept the continent this week over what every other country sees as Britain’s . Inadequate response. Although Britain is the most isolated member as Europe starts renegotiating elements of the Maastricht treaty, other leaders also have conflicting positions. Wim Kok. the Dutch Prime Minister, for example, is barely do speak¬ ing terms with President Chirac as a result of the French leader's attacks on his country's drugs policy. Even the Franco-German pertnership is suffering strain. President Chirac has irked Bonn with his push for a separate European defence ar¬ rangement and his impas¬ sioned demand for the efforts of the EU to be devoted above all to creating jobs and protect¬ ing the “soda! rights" of its people. Bonn is wary of what sounds tike a reversion to French protectionist instincts. Italian officials were work¬ ing last night to smooth over national differences on the formal orders to be given to negotiators. Britain was con* cemed that the instructions had the makings of a federal agenda. The position paper of the Italian Government this week defined the IGCs goal as “fulfilling the federal vocation of the EU" at a time when it is heading towards a single cur¬ rency and a common foreign and defence policy. . Leading article, page 19 Letters, page 19 mi-mmsrnm
• ti n r An Italian police officer walking past the flags of EU states yesterday outside the centre in Turin where the inter-governmental conference is being held. About 5,000 police will handle security at the opening today Bonn offers cash to bolster unity From Roger Boyes in bonn GERMANY'S key European push forward with the strategists proposed yesterday Europol police network, to that extra funds should be formulate common European made available to help British immigration and asylum poll- farmers with blighted cattle. aes. to move doser towards Wolfgang Schauble—right- making die West European hand man to Helmut Kohl. Union the military arm of the Chancellor — and Karl Europe, and to build up the Lamers, his Fellow Christian powers of the European Democrat, were trying with Parliament their surprise offer to take the Over the past ten days sting out of the dispute be- Germany has allowed its inv tween Bonn and London over patience with Britain to sur- the future of Europe. face. Klaus Kinkel, the said he 1 Herr Schauble said that the was "disappointed and sad” crisis would demonstrate to that Britain was “simply the British that the European against any further steps to- Union is “essential in solving wards integration”, such problems”. Herr Lamers Yesterday David Davis, said: “Britain is in an unusual- Minister of State at the For- ly difficult situation. We do not eign Office, hit bade in a long want merely to impose bans article in the German press, but also to show solidarity "It does not help to assert that with Britain.” German views are correct and The two men. setting out the European, while Great Brit- German stall for the confer- ain’s views are incorrect and ence. made dear that Bonn’s lacking in vision. We, too, are aims have stayed constant: to - a European country with a extend majority voting, to Europe*.,l history ” NFU seeks to dictate agenda By Michael Hornsby, agriculture correspondent AS JOHN MAJOR seeks Eu¬ rope's help for his beleaguered beef industry in Turin, he is fighting on an agenda that is largely dictated by a bluff Nottinghamshire farmer. Sir David Naish, president of the National Fanners' Union, almost single-handed¬ ly forced the Government to abandon the dtvnothing policy announced by Stephen Dor- reli. the Health Secretary, in the Commons on Monday. Yesterday Sir David’s scouts were in Turin, in ad¬ vance of the European Union's inter-governmental Conference, seeking financial , support for action to salvage , the British beef industry. David Evans, the NFU*s director-general, met Walter Luchetti, the president of the European Union's Council of [ Agriculture Ministers, and se¬ cured agreement for an emer¬ gency session of the council next Monday in Brussels. It is ironic that it has taken proba¬ bly the greatest threat to farming this century to galvanise a body whose influ¬ ence has been shrinking for decades as control over agri¬ cultural policy moved to Brus¬ sels and the weight of the farming vote declined. Sir David, who runs a 1,100- acre sheep and arable farm at Budby in Nottinghamshire, became president of the NFU in 1991. His initial instinct was to keep a low profile over BSE. However, within hours of Mr Doreen's failure to announce 1 new measures on Monday, swiftly followed by the EU ban on British beef, the NFU convened a meeting of leading food retailers and manufac¬ turers, and got their backing for the destruction of caws at the end of their productive life. On Tuesday Mr Major was forced to admit that the Gov¬ ernment was actively consid¬ ering the NFU proposal. Threat by French to slaughter cattle Paris Cattle of British origin in France wfll be impounded and may be slaughtered, the Agriculture Ministry said yes¬ terday as the French beef market plunged again (Ben Matin tyre writes). Responding to demands from French unions that no British beef be allowed to reach the domestic market. Philippe V'asseur, the Agricul¬ ture Minister, said that 70.000 British-born calves aged under six months would be rounded up and confined. A decision on whether to destroy them will be made on Monday. Stocks of frozen and fresh British beef in France will also be impounded. Germany to label ‘clean* stocks Bonn: All beef imported by Germany is to cany a certifi¬ cate declaring it does not come from Britain or Switzer¬ land (Roger Boyes writes). Horst Seehofer, the Health Minister, said he was issuing the order in the absence of any firm European Union derision on the supervision and control of suspect cattle and beet Greece destroys imported meat Athens: Greek authorities im¬ pounded 40 tonnes of British beef around the country and ordered its destruction, after a 75-year-old man died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (John Carr writes). A second man is in a serious condition with the disease. An average of four people in Greece die of CJD every year without ft bring linked to BSE. Hong Kong ban Hong Kong: The import of British beef was banned by the Hong Kong Government yesterday. The move came after critics bad accused the administration of ducking the issue out of political motives and complaints by butchers that beef sales were falling. 14 OVERSEAS NEWS M Errors of Israel’s MIS condemned by Rabin inquiry From Christopher Walker in jerusaiem THE reputation of Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, was destroyed yes¬ terday by the state inquiry into tiie assassination of Yitzhak Rabin which accused it of in¬ competence and failure to come to grips with intelligence warnings that the late Prime Minister's life was threatened by far-right Jewish extremists. The report by the three-man commission led by Meir Shamgar, the former Chief Justice, was (me of the most damning published in the 48- year history of the Jewish state. It dismissed conspiracy theories surrounding alleged right-wing involvement inside the security services, but failed to convince all Israelis as 118 pages remained classified and were last night being studio! behind dosed doors by a select group of Cabinet ministers. As well as criticising Shin Bet, the equivalent of M15. and the performance of the Tel Aviv police who failed to pro¬ vide adequate protection at the peace rally where Mr Rabin was killed, the report also called on the “reborn state of Israel” to leant the lessons of 2.000 years of Jewish history and conduct “comprehensive soul-searching", especially in its education system, to pre¬ vent inter-Jewish violenoe. “Our findings and conclu- sions... reflect the conceptual and operational flaws in many areas, and a weakness in the management ailtirre of gov¬ ernment authorities.” the re¬ port concluded, after hearing 72 witnesses at 61 sessions, most of them in secret "In this respect, this report serves as a signpost and a warning for many other institutions-” The publication of the re¬ port a day after Yiga] Amir. Rabin's unrepen tent Jewish murderer, was sentenced to life imprisonment, coincided with warnings from Shimon Peres, the assassinated lead¬ ers successor, that there were still right-wing Jewish threats against his life and a similar daim by Rabin's closest aide, Eitan Haber, in an artide which shocked many Israelis. “Yigal Amir is not just one. Among us live more citizens who think like him. who speak the same hollow cliches, who have pistols but no inhibi¬ tions.” Mr Haber wrote. The commission exposed the inability of the Shin Bet director, who has resigned, and those under him to grasp the significance of a potential right-wing threar against Ra¬ bin, although he had been labelled a “traitor'’ and “mur¬ derer” by right-wing Jews angry that he was handing bade parts of Eretz Israel (the biblical land of Israel] to the Palestinians under the 1993 peace accord. “Many people and many protected VIPs at¬ tended the [November 4j rally. It took place at a time of real risks of attack from extremist Arab terror organisations and of sharpened threats of an attack against the Prime Min¬ ister by a Jewish assailant,” the report stated. The com¬ mission determined that the threat of a Jewish assailant was not sufficiently empha¬ sised by the bodyguards.” Carmi Gilon, the former Shin Bet chief, said last night he accepted responsibility, but daimed the commission had not dealt adequately with the difficulties of preventing at¬ tacks by Jewish extremists. □ Palestinians held: Israeli forces continued their crack¬ down against Islamic extrem¬ ists. arresting almost 400 Palestinian students from Bir Zeit University in the West Bank, in an operation that restricted raids to areas still under control of the Jewish state (Ross Dunn writes). Most of those arrested in the predawn swoop originated from the Gaza Strip, strong¬ hold of Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement The university administra¬ tion condemned the arrests as an “unprovoked, indiscrimi¬ nate and illegal invasion” of the villages where the students live. Yassir Arafat the Pales¬ tinian Authority president ac¬ cused Israel of violating peace agreements. T HE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 Clinton* mired in abortion Mrs Clinton and Chelsea admire the Blue Mosque in Istanbul yesterday before flying to Greece last night Chelsea steals the foreign roadshow By Martin Fletcher IF President Clinton believes his wife, Hillary, too much of an electoral liability to campaign for Him this autumn he should send his 16-yearold daughter in her place. Chelsea Clinton is accompanying her mother on her trip to Europe and winning the same glowing reviews at home that she garnered when the two women toured Asia. She has shown “poise, confidence, good humour and her father’s gift for the gab”, said one journalist. Yesterday she and her mother went on a guided sightseeing tour of Topkapi palace, constructed between the 15th and 19th centuries, and saw Turkey’s rich religious heritage at the Blue Mosque, the most beautiful in Istanbul They also visited the Hagia Sofia museum, a Christian basilica built by the Byzantine emperor Jus tinian. The tour followed a private meeting with Tansu Ciller, the former Prune Minister. Chelsea and Mrs Clinton were due in Athens last night • This stylish Neapolitan bedroom is available in a wide variety of colours and with a choice of 5 different trims it will suit any colour scheme. Even with a sloping ceiling, expert installation is free. 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Having a woman on the ticket would have helped Mr Dole to erode President Clin¬ ton'S big lead among female voters, but in other ways Mrs Whitman was a risky choice. She is an attractive personality and committed tax-cutter but anathema to axial conserva¬ tives because she favours abortion rights. Mrs Whitman’s withdrawal and Colin Powell’s continued lack of interest leaves the white male Governors of four crucial Midwest states — Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin — as front-runners for a role that has assumed importance because of Mr Dole's advanced years. Pat Buchanan, the conser¬ vative populist, was meeting about 40 top supporters yes¬ terday to plan strategy now Mr Dole has won the nomina¬ tion. He has secured 25 mil¬ lion votes, 23 per cent of the total, in the Republican prima¬ ries to dale. He wants a high- profile speech at the San Diego convention and a plat-. form reflecting his opposition to abortion, illegal immigra¬ tion and free trade pacts. Many backers want him to run as an independent if his wishes are ignored. □ Yeltsin leak: The White House has ordered the FBI to investigate the leak of a classi¬ fied State Department sum¬ mary of a meeting between Mr Clinton and President Yeltsin in which they agreed to aid each other politically be¬ fore the US and Russian polls. dilemma From Martin Fletcher IN WASHINGTON PRESIDENT Clinton faced an acute election-year predica¬ ment yesterday as the Repub¬ lican " Congress approved legislation outlawing a late- term abortion procedure. Mr Clinton plans to veto fee Bill, which would place the first limits on abortion since the Supreme Court upheld a woman's right to choose in 1973, but risks handing the Republicans a highly emotive issue because it outlaws a procedure called partial birth abortion which at first sight seems indefensible. In another development presaging a historic cession of its power to the White House, Congress voted to empower the President to reject individ¬ ual items without having to veto entire spending Bills. Presidents have long sought this “line-item veto” to curb the federal deficit. Mr Clinton and Bob Dole, the Senate leader and Republican presi¬ dential candidate, agreed the legislation should take effect from January, so either man j would be the beneficiary. The abortion Bill's support¬ ers explained during a furious two-hour House debate how partial birth abortions involve removing the foetus feet first until only its head remains in the uterus, at which point the brain is sucked out so the skull collapses and can be removed through the birth canal. The Bill would permit the procedure only if there was no other way of saving a woman’s life, and doctors who per¬ formed the operation in any other circumstances would face up to two years in prison. Successive Republicans said that the President would “go down in history as the abor¬ tion President” if he permitted this practice to continue. A spokesman for the National Right to Life Committee said: “We are going to make sure the public understands the implications of this veto—that babies are going to be stabbed through the head because of the President” However, opponents claimed the procedure ufc used very rarely and only in extraordinary cases. Mr Clin¬ ton had demanded a broader exception to protect the wom¬ an’s health as well as her life, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecol¬ ogists said the Bill would substitute congressional opin¬ ion for medical judgment Democrats and abortion rights groups accused the Republicans of launching a far broader offensive against abortion and playing election- year politics. The House passed the Bill by 286-129, but the Senate approved it by only 54 votes to 44, short of the two- thirds majority needed to over¬ ride a veto. 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He started his story with the same words he used to finish it “One morn¬ ing I went into the fields tu collect firewood.” Rain had washed topsoil from the fields outside Koochkin. a desultory village of crumbled can hen walls and houses a few miles north of Kabul. The area had been heavily mined by both Russians and the Mujahidin. As Lalai walked towards a piece of wood lie noticed the exposed black cap of an anti-personnel mine. “1 needed the wood and I did not want anyone else to tread on the mine." he said. He dug it up wiih a stick. Four years and more than ■KJO mines later, Lalai’s reput¬ ation in the Afghan capital precedes him. There arc many stories in Kabul, the most mined city in history, of child¬ ren setting up freelance busi- nesses defusing the lethal ordnance and selling it back to the government army, but it was Lalai that the Halo Trust, a British-based mine clear¬ ance non-governmental org¬ anisation working in the Afghan capital, mast remem¬ bered. “We met him two years ago.” recalled Dr Farid Homayoun. Halo's Brirish- trained resident manager in the city. "We had just finished work on a minefield outside Koochkin when this young kid ran up to us with a bag of ten anti-personnel mines. They were still fused. He wouldn't give them to us, but wanted to sell them, as he said it was his profession. We couldn’t talk him out of it, so we had to pay him 9,000 afghanis ($1) for each mine. “As we left he laughed at us. running through the mine¬ field, shouting that he had ripped us off and that the Afghan soldiers buy each mine for a quarter of the price." Afghanistan has an almost supernatural aura of malice, littered as it is with mines, booby-traps and unexpludcd munitions. As wc left Kuuch- kin. where the villagers told us that Lalai was now based with soldiers in the former Soviet Ejnbassy inside Kabul, we spoke to a group of three Mujahidin at an outpost by the edge of the road. "Do not leave the track." the commander warned us. "there are mines everywhere." Two days later we saw the man again by chance. He was in hospital whh most of his right hand missing. A booby- Lalai: villagers called him “the expert” trapped stick had expluded in his fingers as he stoked the fire. You cannot even smoke without worrying about the ash falling on discarded weaponry. At Kabul's Karie Se hospi¬ tal. most of the young patients were mine victims, their skin stretched raggedly over their stumps. Amid a sense of ruined lives and stolen child¬ hood, there were children without legs, hands or arms, and others blinded by shrap¬ nel. Some had trodden on detonation caps, hit trip-wires, or picked up booby-trapped torches and watches. Dr Gunter Wimhofer. a surgeon working for the 1CRC at tite hospital, explained the realities of such injuries. “The mine explodes and usually the foot is completely, trauma ti¬ es) ly amputated, sometimes including the lower or whale leg. The blast destroys the leg muscle regardless. “We usually have to ampu¬ tate just below the knee. In SO per cent of cases, the other leg is badly damaged by splinters. In a third of cases, bone fragments are shot upwards into the groin and stomach together with leather from the shoe. Males often lose one or both testides." There was no such thing, it seemed, as simply losing a foot “Ifs quiet now, as it is winter,” he added. “We’ve only had 2S amputations in 29 days. When agricultural work starts in the spring, it’ll be worse again." We found Lalai playing cards with some young fight¬ ers in a burnt-out basement at the embassy building. Now aged 15, savvy and streetwise, his hands moved fast as he dealt out the cards. "I liked clearing mines,” he said. “I was good ar it The villagers called me the expert’ and often asked me to dear their fields for diem. I did it for two years." Lalai roiled up his left trouser leg to show the heavy plastic prosthesis. "My fate is cruel, but it is the will of Allah," he said, explaining how die accident in which he lost his leg happened. "One morning I went into the fields to collect firewood,” Red Cross study questions military value of weapon By Michajel Binyon. diplomatic editor THE limited military 1 value of ami-personnel landmines is far outweighed by the appall¬ ing humanitarian conse¬ quences of iheir use in conflicts, a study commis¬ sioned by the Red Cross says. The study by Brigadier Pat¬ rick Blaeden, a retired British mine clearance adviser to the Uni red Nations, is one of the first to look at the military value of a primitive weapon now killing and maiming 20,001) civilians a year. With contributions from military commanders from ten coun¬ tries. the study calls on govern¬ ments to ban all anti-personnel mines as a mat¬ ter of urgency. The study says mines cause more casualties, impose bigger limits to tactical flexibility' and do more to alienate populations than armed forces us¬ ing them have acknowledged. Their military value is question¬ able: when armies clear minefields by roller, plough, flail or explosives the mines have no effect; they do not protea infantry and keep only a small percentage of enemy troops out of action. The study is powerful evi¬ dence which the Red Cross will put before a conference attempting to rewrite the rules on landmine use in Geneva next month. America has hint¬ ed it is ready to push for a toad ban, and Britain wants much tighter restrictions. Brigadier Blagden says mines dropped at random across fields and mountains would certainly cause vastly increased civilian casualties, even if they are designed to be self-destructing and self-deac¬ tivating. He gives six main reasons: mines will be danger¬ ous during their active life; marking and mapping them will be almost impossible; in long conflicts they may be re- laid many limes; self-destruct¬ ing devices may be unreliable: inactive mines can still be dangerous; and the mere pres¬ ence of mined areas will produce fear, keeping civilians from areas important for their livelihood. He disputes military claims ihat mines are of indispens¬ able military value, adding dryly that in¬ stead "their use for population control has re¬ grettably been all too effective". As an alterna¬ tive to mines, it is suggested, ar¬ mies could use ditches, lights, spikes and slip¬ pery surfaces, giving limited deterrence; barbed wire en¬ tanglement, which could de¬ lay enemy troops: good intelligence and tactical flexibility to make static defence less relevant: and other munitions. The study says some governments are still encouraging the ex¬ port of mines, which cost about $4 (£2.6) to buy and about $1,000 to clear. Officials this week said all countries meeting in Geneva wanted to toughen the present UN regulations. There is agreement to make ail anti¬ personnel mines detectable; the remaining obstacles, com¬ ing mainly from Russia. India and China, centre an the difficulty of monitoring a ban and the timescale needed to phase out mines from military stocks, with China arguing for a period of 20 years. Briton is seen alive Tairav, Cambodia: Christopher Howes.
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• 1 was a newish MP, he a Conservative former minister. I was ashamed. He said I was being foolish; “The more we cost them, the greater die respect they will have for us; you will learn." In the course of my five terms in Parliament (Heath, Wilson, Calla¬ ghan. Thatcher. Thatcher) no one ever offered me money to do anything dishonourable — Liber¬ als were not considered sufficient¬ ly important to merit bribes — but I went on about a dozen “free¬ bies": departed Westminster the Dubai World Cup than the world’s richest horse race, says Clement Freud, still reeling fro The mother of all freebies HfHt stocked with House of Commons gift-shop cufflinks and ashtrays and returned with expressions of our hosts' friendship, usually in the form of ashtrays and cufflinks. It was harmless and pointless. The reasoning was that the Togo¬ lese knew they would not be invited to visit Britain unless they invited us to come lo Lom& So we went — expenses paid except for drinks, laundry and overseas phone calls. I still have a silvery lapel pin depicting the President of that largely forgotten country, where I hope they still cherish my cufflinks. ' In Finland the House of Com¬ mons ties and scarves got us each a hunting knife, a tin of ptarmigan pat6, some cloudberry liqueur and a mounted street map of Helsinki. They asked us to table an early day motion: that this House regrets the diminu¬ tion of Scandina¬ vian pulp imports. Last Sunday I arrived in the Uni¬ ted Arab Emirates as a guest of the committee of the Dubai World Cup: the richest horse race ever run, prize - money $4 milli on. I had been sent a Club-class ticket: on arrival there was a stretch limp to the hold. In my room I found a - letter welcoming Sheikh Ma me to the event, explaining that all phone calls, food and drink and laundry and dry cleaning were on them. Cars and buses would be available to and from racetrack and functions: Sheikh Mo hamm ed hands the trophy to owner ADen Paulsen enclosed was an enamelled silver badge inscribed “VIP Dubai World Cup" for my binoculars. There was an invitation to dinner and a rock concert on Monday, to an Arabian Nights ex¬ travaganza in the desert on Tuesday, to the post-race banquet on Wed¬ nesday; and an em¬ bossed, multi- pocketed briefcase and a stunning heavy silk dish- dosh with embroi¬ dered skull cap and black braids in case I wanted to go native. The next day they sent me a T- len Paulsen shirt, a hat a leath¬ er cover for my passport a handsome notebook and I nearly got a basket of fruit that ended up in the room opposite. With the exception of D. Skin¬ ner, MP, who never goes on freebies, shuns the Commons tea room because it is subsidised and travels in standard carriages on his first-class rail pass, rhe modus vivendi of most of my political and journalistic colleagues embraces an element of prostitution. The hack whose response to the wel¬ coming letter in Dubai was to nng his wife and ask her 10 Federal Express the washing, cash on delivery, was an extreme case but I have no right to criticise: "We've already established what you are: now we Ye haggling about the price,” sums it up. The first running of the Dubai Worid Cup was a brilliant affair and the hundreds of guests who had been so lavishly softened up were now served molluscs and crustaceans, smoked fish and baked meats, puddings and gran¬ de marque champagne (if one Faith, hope and the Darwin man Richard Dawkins argues in his new book that all living things owe their design not to God but to evolution. He explains why to Quentin Letts T aking his DNA into the creationist belief thar God puts a suction pump to the his own hands, the made Earth in one bound, spiritual well of society, espe- Darwinist prosel- Dawkins, the soft-spoken, un- dally a society in desperate vtiser Richard conventional I v handsome Ox- need of morality, must come in were hellbent on criticism, the caviare was not up to much). Had it rained, had there been a false start a steward’s inquiry resulting in disqualification, a rioL fatality, outbreak of ramd disease or beriberi, not one of us would have had the bad manners to brine such a matter to the attention of our reader. Damn it, there has to be a degree of give and take... and we had taken. S kinner - who rather enjoys racing — would have ac¬ cepted none of the proffered gifts, [raid his own fares and found fault with nothing, for it was wonderfully well done and the Sheikh's thinking was proba¬ bly on the lines of “I shall organise the richest race in the worid let it be in front of the most cosseted hacks and VIPs ever assembled”. What can one say? Long five Sheikh Mohammed. May his people prosper. I had a good tune and got my suit dry-deaned. It was the mother of freetoads. Thank you. I still feel a bit uneasy. STEPHEN DALTQNiU H»a T aking his DNA into his own hands, the Darwinist prosel- ytiser Richard Dawkins this week left his nest at New College, Oxford, and flew to the United States for a two-week lecture tour. The science author's itinerary in¬ cludes California, Illinois and Georgia. More awkward, he will also be speaking in Ten¬ nessee, site of the 1925 “Mon¬ key Trial" of a biology teacher called John Scopes who was charged with illegally teach¬ ing the theory of evolution to his pupils. Seventy-one years on. Ten¬ nessee is again split by the issue. Dawkins, 55. is heading there just as a state senator, David Fowler of Chattanooga, is agitating far a Bill to allow schools to fire teachers who ? resent Darwinism as fact hey do so at the expense of the creationist belief thar God made Earth in one bound. Dawkins, the soft-spoken, un¬ conventionally handsome Ox¬ ford don. is dealing with an issue thar goes to the jugular of American Christian conser¬ vatism. From the fastness of a New Jersey country bungalow, where he was staying with friends before starting his tour, a jet-lagged Dawkins pondered the opposition his ideas may generate. It would not be the first time. His best- known books. The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watch¬ maker, have wounded Chris¬ tians and drawn accusations from opponents that he is a “complete creep” and a "fun¬ damentalist” against religion. Some of this can be put down to academic envy of the suc¬ cess of his books and his media profile, but anyone who puts a suction pump to the spiritual well of society, espe¬ cially a society in desperate need of morality, must come in for scrutiny. Dawkins's new book is called Climbing Mount Im¬ probable, a poetic cadence somehow suggestive of Lake Wobegone, Garrison KeiUer's distant hill country where the men are strong and the women steadfast Dawkins chose the title from a line in his 1991 Royal Institution Christ¬ mas Lecture for Children, when the metaphor was illus¬ trated by a plaster-of-Raris model. On one side of the plaster mountain was a steep precipice, on the other an undulating slope, while on the peak sat a replica of a com¬ plete organism. The steep side was meant to reflect the creationist point of view. The gentle slope was Dawkins is unshakeable in his belief that all creatures, this dungfly Included, descend from a single ancestor which existed three and a half billion years ago evolution." explained Dawkins. “You can get up a mountain, no matter how high, provided you take the gende slope. It is impossible the other way — even though that is what the creationists would have us believe." The new book is a further exposition of his Darwinist ideas, written again in a cool, dear prose understandable even to scientific nincom¬ Tested at Formula 1. Now it's your turn. The new Audi A6 is the first executive car with 5 valve engine technology derived from the racetrack. For more information and test drive details call 0345 998877. 0000 AadL Vorsprnnj dnttfe Ink* poops. There is work on the evolution of the eye, an organ considered by scientists to be the temple of biological achievement but which has long been a favourite of creationists. Until now they have used it in their “now try’ explaining your way out of that one” arguments. Else¬ where in his research Dawkins and a computer sci¬ entist collaborated to make a computer gradually create a spider’s web and snail shells. There is also a chapter on “kaleidoscopic embryos", ex¬ amining genetic symmetry. It is an odd thing to meet a man who truly has no belief in God. no hope of an afterlife or of divine remission far good behaviour. Yet Dawkins is polite, and happy to accept thar it makes social sense for man to live within rules and behave in a dvi] fashion. “One of the messages of The Selfish Gene was that we should learn about Darwin¬ ism because it is so horrible, n he says. He does not go to church, nor does he pray, yet he retains an appreciation for beauty and is awed, in a very human way. when he tries to ponder infinity, the bounds of the universe. "It is one of the respects in which science is good for the soul." Soul? He corrected himself quickly. "I use soul in a poetic way. in the sense of awe and mystery, the sort of thing that causes a tingling in the spine. But I do not beueve there is anything apart from the brain." Some of the past controversy has occurred because this shy scientist delivers his beliefs with cold clarity. When Dawkins stales his disbelief in the mirade of divine creation he does not preface his re¬ marks with a “look. I’m awful¬ ly sorry if this upsets you". His background as an Oxford don has instilled in him a reliance on verbal concision and intel¬ lectual tension. To those of us in the cheap seats it may seem brutal, but to Dawkins it is simply the way things are done nothing personal, even if it threatens a world in which we can only apply to God id make sense of Dunblane, a world sometimes so harsh that many of Us need faith to continue. In his youth Dawkins had religious feelings (“of course"), but in his early teens, as he busied himself in the science labs at Oundle. he started to exercise a curiosity in the philosophical side of biology. By his second year at Balliol this had started to evolve, if that is die term, into his belief that all creatures descend from a single ancestor which existed three and a half billion years ago. I t is foe son of creed that can land you in court in Tennessee. "In biology we are now back to the first self-replicating molecule," he says. “We understand in principle what iiappened. al¬ though the physicists are still wrestling over how we got a universe at all. We are just that tiny fraction of a second away from the first moment." Per¬ haps that fraction of a second was when the Almighty made STARTING ON MONDAY □ Exclusive serialisation of Richard Dawkins’s remarkable new book. Climbing Mount improbable. □ Also next week, an opportunity to apply for tickets for the Times/Dillons Forum on April 25, at which the controversial Oxford biologist will argue that Darwin has the answers to afl Nature's complexities. His move. I suggest, mentally holding aloft a copy of Hynt -■ Ancient and Modem. “I don't find it a convincing line of thought,” he says calmly. "It raises more questions than answers. The whole point of Mount Improbable is that you cannot have a spontaneous creation of complex orga¬ nisms." The night before we met, comet Hyakutake had passed overhead, the brightest to zoom past Earth in 20 years. Dawkins watched it from a New Jersey field, and the following day was still excited by the experience. Comets are the very stuff of his world, visible proof of an extraterres¬ trial power that can be plorred and predicted, but which re¬ mains without our grasp. In Climbing Mount Improbable Dawkins describes how, when Halley’S comet last passed in the Eighties, he took his two- year-old daughter Juliet out in the midnight dark to point her face at the comet's dim glow. Into the bundle's baby-soft ear, still warm from the cot. the doting father whispered, on a “quixotic whim", what it was that Juliet saw: a comet that would next sweep past in the-middle of the 21st century, when he would be long dead but when she might still be alive, an old woman, to view it a second time and thus contin¬ ue the Dawkins line. In that one moment, for all his clinical analysis, an avowed heathen showed that at heart he is really a big old softie. Better spec. Better price. Better hurry. 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  "“" ■" m Ar am of (Mi w pm. Rich Omf hwpM* « «d yaHoom « a*f»o « ch««c -*tu« r ka fen CanpoM- tapnH UL MM IMeMm ML MndL Btfetec KU 1ft* Offcr MW* far . Med pawl « »_.. . w iteatan Piicci qumd nrftr « • »>• ton*™ I ■ Miawnd umg ih, OffT m mmI n \ THET1MES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 FEATURES 17 Grand old Dukie says goodbye to the box A fter ten years in which he fought to bring the BBC up to date, Marmaduke Hussey today gives up the job of chairman DUKlE's BOX is no more. Terry Wogan’s long-running joke abour the BBC chairman living in a cardboard box outside Broadcasting House culminated this winter in Dukie giving a large box to be aucrianed for Children in Need. A lady named Judy Stapleton stumped up £3.000 for it, and Iasi Friday, a demob-happy Marmaduke Hussey gave a breakfast for her and Wogan. } It was only at the BBC that Dukie — named for an unde killed on the Somme — be¬ came Marmaduke. “I’d never been Marmaduke in my life. I'm rather atrached to it' now; cant think why I waited until 1 was 63. My wife says people think it's halfway between a duke and a marquess." His wife. Lady Susan, fifth daughter of the late Earl Waldegrave and elder sister to William, is a lady-

  in-waiting to the Queen. He says her royal duties, lb weeks a year, (“my wife’s job"), never presented any dash of interests in his role at the BBC. But Hussey’s working life has been embattled enough. He is a veteran warrior of old Heel Streer. In youth, he had a . brief brave war. being shot at point-blank range at Anzio. his right leg amputated in a field hospital. In his armchair, me is aware of the artificial leg. encased in straps, visibly emerging from the trouser. He cannot stand for long: at receptions he perches on a high stool, so his presence remains one of commanding height (6ft 4in). After years of spinal operations he was left in chronic pain which he claims, after 50 years, not to notice. He says, with the dismissive stiff upper Jip of his class, that when you go into battle you are more frightened of being thought frightened: “It's the people who go back into action that I admire.” For a sportsman — son of an Olympic hurdler, captain of the First XV at Rugby — it must have been especially hard. He played cricket for Oxford against Cambridge in 1942, and was due to play rugby in the Varsity match just ren days before joining the Grenadier Guards. “I had tackled a formidable player and broken a bone in my right hand. The doctor said if I played 1 would probably have to postpone my entry into the Army. Tears streaming down my face. I gave up the match." And lost his leg. Neverthe¬ less he professes himself "astonishingly lucky" to have come upon "the worst shot in the German Army. He was THE VALERIE GROVE INTERVIEW ‘I never saw the Princess interview before it went out’ FI lleet Street confronta¬ tions would erupt in the middle of the night when the press¬ es would stop and the Husseys' telephone would ring at home "and Sue and l would scramble across the bed to get to it first... frightful. A very good training for the calm, easy world of the BBC." When he had the call from Douglas Hurd in 1986, to chair the BBC. he first consulted the telephone book to find out where his office would be. and insisted on keeping his HQ in Portland Place. The BBC'S very existence was under threat. He told them that they must bring in outsiders. “And that in return for an income of £ 1.6 billion, which Margaret Thatcher claimed was a compulsory levy enforced by criminal nearer to me than that chair". From Oxford he joined the management of Associated Newspapers - "1 thought the Daily Mail would be rather fun" — and then of The Times. ensuring a life of constant strife for u man of his invinci¬ ble type: officer class, decent sort, doughty survivor. "Behind the scenes," he says, "there was a close affini¬ ty between myself and Len Mu tray, and Vic Feather. Senior trade union officials were very disturbed by the antics of the print unions. And I wasn’t a giver-in." Hence the year’s closure of The Times titles in 1979. an extreme ploy that frankly did not work. “The Thomson Organisation was never solidly behind it. If Roy [Thomson| had been there, it would have been different. Just before he died he said. 'Bring that new tech- nology in. Duke'. “The turning point was when we went to Frankfurt and The Times was set in two-and-a- half hours by five ladies in a Turkish printing outfit It really rattled the unions. It proved ft could be done. After that it was downhill all the

  _ way." r " There were earli¬ er plans that failed: such as merging the Express and Mail. “Historically, they were all efforts to break the dead¬ lock. But they made it clear that something much more violent would be needed. It couldn't be done in a decent way. it had to be done in a rough way. And it was very rough indeed. But I told Rupert (Murdoch). ‘Once you get lorries through Wapping with the papers printed, youve won. Ir may take a couple of months.’ Of course, he got there in one night" When Marmaduke Hussey arrived at the BBC everyone was known by their initials sanctions — l said. 'Well, Prime Minister, it is paid uncomplainingly by the Brit¬ ish public, 93 per amt of whom watch or listen to our products every week’— we were obliged to offer something distinctive." He feels “rather conceitedly" that as an outsider he was more aware of the onslaught of satellite and cable than BBC senior executives, who had enjoyed a monopoly for 40 years and a cosy duopoly for
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Utter non¬ sense. he says. “I never had an advance videotape and even if I had 1 wouldn’t have watched. 1 have never watched a programme in advance, and have stuck rigidly to that rule. Why? Because the governors got into fearful trouble over Pea! Lives. "It is die executives' job to take charge of programmes. The governors set up a case law, after programmes have gone out. Over the radio programme My Country Right or Wrong, about our intelligence services. I was under heavy pressure to hand over tapes to senior officials in the Civil Service and in gov¬ ernment — ’let us see the script Dukie.’ — and I flatly refused. So it ended up in court they got an injunction, later lifted, and we transmitted the programmes unchanged. People in my position shouldn't impose editorial views." N ow the charter bat¬ tle is won. a good moment to bow out "We have made great strides and taught the BBC to be accountable. It’S in exceptionally good nick now, riding high, more out- ward-looking. The digital rev¬ olution is coming, and so is the 24-hour news service." Instead of endless dinners ri am out every single night*?, he will spend" more time in Somerset, among Rees- Moggs, Waldegraves. Bookers and family, a fifth grandchild has just arrived. He may write a book; he is mastering his new laptop just in case. “I’ve got lots of papers — and I suppose, in a way. Ive had quite an interesting life." fcheaper H ■ car | ■ insurance 1 I Call Admiral now I 0800 600 800 1 i & i Times writers report from the BSE front line It’s a war out there I N A strange way this week has been a little like the war. In faa. my mother said she couldn't recall scenes like it since rationing. Women with hare shopping baskets scan¬ ning the shelves of supermarkets for some¬ thing they could turn into a healthy meal for their families. It started on Monday with a call from my friend Sarah asking if I wanted to join a group of her friends who were getting together for their own organic meat run from “this marvellous tittle man in Wiltshire". On Tuesday she rang me again to offer me the latest intelligence. “Holland & Barren." she exclaimed. “Non-beef gelatin. But you’d better get down there quick because they are running out." Almost all my friends have been overcome by what you might call the Dunkirk spirit. Caroline came round for tea with five dozen home-baked digestive biscuits and Juliet faxed me the number of an organic market gardener who delivers to W4. By Thursday the crisis had deepened. Sarah rang with the latest local directive — don't touch the lamb because The Sunday Times had suggested that it might be contaminated, and on no account buy anything other than free-range chicken. In Salisbury's that afternoon 1 stocked up on the kind of imported products that, in previous weeks, would have seemed unpatri¬ otic. My mother’s generation was known for keeping the home fires burning; my own. at least now. is fuelling the overseas economy. In the fruit and veg aisle I bumped trolleys with a harassed looking Juliet who was staring suspiciously at the small organic selection. “You can’t trust anyone," she whispered. “I mean if they're putting beef extract in fruit gums, apple juice and digestive biscuits, what else are they doing?" By now J had been infected with a similar hysteria, searching out the Vegetarian Soci¬ ety's "V" of approval. Later, my mother told me that in the war when you couldn't get beef suet they had all sorts of cunning substitutes. “My aunt used to have a recipe for Christmas pudding made out of wood shavings," she said. My father's advice was rather more cynical. “You could try whale meaL We had a tot of (hat when we couldn't get beef." Privately I wondered if the Save the Whale generation could stomach the idea of whale meat, even if it was free-range. In fact. I am seriously beginning to wonder if there is anything left that my family can stomach. “Never mind." my father said, “maybe the Germans will send us food parcels." Jane Gordon UP AND DOWN the land, dinner parties are in disarray and experts on social eti¬ quette are in a quandary. There seems no easy solution to the agonising dilemma: to serve or not to sene beef? Time for a letter to an agony aunt... Dear Mary. We are having a rather smart dinner party next week. Hen¬ ry’s boss is aiming and we've asked the local grande dame, who is an absolute stickler for etiquette, so we have to impress them. Ages ago. I ordered some brat sirloin from our butcher because I’m going to make boeuf en croiite, my speciality. Henry says it’s not so much my speciality as the only thing I can cook, but he’s exaggerat¬ ing. Anyway, irs cost us an arm and a leg, or should 1 say a shoulder, ha ha, and I can’t really cancel it. What’s more. Henry's boss has strong views about what he calls these nonsensical food scares and Henry thinks there will be a lot of brownie points if we show solidarity with beef. But I’m worried about the other guests, ft could be bad form to insist they eat some¬ thing that might consign them to a slow death. So To serve or not to serve beef? what do we do? My chicken proven pile was an absolute disaster last time. Yours, Distressed of Woking Dear Distressed. There are several possibili¬ ties. You could ring your guests in advance and ask if they have any special dietary requirements, referring with a light laugh to the possibili¬ ty that you might even serve beef, then try to judge wheth¬ er there is panic in their voices. If there is, then on the night in question you dis¬ creetly offer those guests a salad, causing them maxi¬ mum embarrassment On the other hand, you could announce that youve nobly sacrificed your boeuf en croiite in the interests of social responsibility but can¬ not answer for the chicken provengale — then, in a neat piece of one-upmanship, (ell Henry's boss that you've prepared one portion of beef just for him. The only risk here is that he.might inter¬ pret it as an attempt to kill him. I think the best approach is to cook both — beef and chicken — then announce that you have no qualms about serving beef from a good butcher, but that since some people are genuinely worried, you have an alter¬ native in reserve. Try to indicate subtly that the chick¬ en is very much second best (which it is). My ber is that no one will want to seem wimpish and they will all go for the beef. Yours. Mary Faced with something like that scenario last Monday, this is the solution we adopt¬ ed. 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• sandwich has been grabbed and turned topsy-turvy. The process started, as with much new language, in American politics: “The rich movers and shakers always manage to manipulate the Congress for their own benefit and screw the rest of us.” And from there movers and shakers have taken over the stock of common rhetoric on this side of the Atlantic, are becoming a laughing-stock, and. in the usual pattern, will soon die of shame. H.W. Fowler called such common errors “misapprehensions of which many writers need to disabuse themselves". Ones that are too recent to have incurred his rebuke are the delusion that prevaricate means to put off until mahana instead of to walk and thence to behave crookedly: and the belief that an unlevel playing field gives an advantage to me side. They change sides at half-time, and to play up a slight slope slows the ball down so that your wingers can run on to it The dassic misapprehension is that “one touch of Nature makes the whole world kin" means, roughly, that fellow-feeling makes us all kind to each other. But Troilus and Cressida is cynical, not sentimental, about politics and love. What Shakespeare meant was that a certain tendency is natural to us all, viz. fickleness. CShaughnessy made himself an expert in herpetology at the British Museum, when he was not composing romantic poetry. Natu¬ ralists with zoological degrees were at first offended but then persuaded. Today he is remembered just for his verse about movers and shakers. And so he joins the select band of poets remembered (or just one verse. Dean Burgon is another, with “A rose-red city, half as old as Tune!" And he borrowed “half as old as Time!” from Samuel Rogers. Anti-Romantics mock O’Shaughnessy’S Movers and Shakers as the ultimate in Victorian escapism, along with Childe Roland to the Dari fe Tower Came, The Lady of Shalott, Byron, Keats. Shelley, et aL Movers and shakers are misapprehended to butter up strutters on the ephemeral stage. But music-makers are closer to real poetry than the too-clever verses of Pope, the poet for those who do not understand poetry. Saving Europe from itself T he United Kingdom has often had to save Europe by her exertions. Today we must save Europe by our exhortations. We are facing a breakdown of British diplomacy. The diplomatic establish¬ ment is unable to see the threat of European Union dearly enough. It does not find the words and deeds to rally other European countries to our cause. It must do so before it is too late. It is far from reassuring to be told that “we are winning the argument" or that “Europe is going our way" when we face summit after inter-governmental confer¬ ence and paper after meeting where the Franco-German integrationist band¬ wagon rolls on. Chancellor Kohl makes no secret of his intentions. He wants monetary union. The price for that monetary union is political union. What can political union mean unless it means a centralised European state in the German federal image? Germany wants one flag, one curren¬ cy, one foreign policy, one set of border controls, one anthem, one Parliament, one economy and one social policy for Western Europe. Anyone else would call that one state. It is a dear vision. Some bdieve that it would make us more secure and more prosperous. If I thought that, I would find it very attractive. The trouble is that it is likely to cause the opposite: more insecurity, more rows and tensions, fewer jobs. The case for monetary union has rarely been made in Britain. In Germany and France the case against is treated as some kind of leprosy which the sceptical voters must be kept away from. We can see the strains that preparations for monetary union have already caused. A major diplomatic inddent was sparked when Germany . stated the obvious, that Italy would not qualify. The dole queues are lengthening across the Continent as economies are drawn out on the rack of overvalued currendes necessitated by the Maas¬ tricht treaty rules. The United Kingdom had a bitter experience of preparing for monetary union while she was in the exchange rate mechanism, the necessary precursor of a single currency according to the treaty. The single currency would require higher taxation to pay subsidies to the poorer parts of the Union. Just as Britain recognises our obligations to help Northern Ireland in our currency union, so we would have to help John Redwood accuses British diplomacy of ignoring the threat to peace and liberty posed by Franco-German federalism Brandenburg and northeastern France if we were in a currency union with them, lr would cause unemployment. Parts of the Union would find the exchange rales and interest rates not to their liking but would be unable to do anything about it Britain has a mighty dollar trade. When we were in the ERM this was damaged by too high an exchange rate against the dollar. The same could happen to us if we ex¬ changed sterling for the euro. If countries are to move to single foreign policies, single armies and common frontiers they have to feel part of one nation. West Germany unified with East Germany in a hurry. It was very expensive, raising West German taxes by 7.5 per cent of taxed incomes and causing a big rise in unemployment in East Germany. It is possible that people put up with it because they are one nation. They share all but their recent history, they speak one language, they fed German. Trying to put France, Germany and even Britain together would have none of that natural sense of nationhood to fell bade on. A sense of belonging matters. I will never feel loyalty to a government where Germany has the most powerful voice. Nor will I fed suffidently European to accept the authority of a European flag and government over my loyalty to my country, the UK. I speak for marty millions who feel the same about their countries. I resent the idea that belief in my country threatens the peace of Europe. Britain has no imperial ambi¬ tions in Europe and is not about to declare war on our neighbours. W e are told that Britain is being difficult by making these elementary points. We are told that Britain must not hold things up. We must not miss out If I joined a dub I would, of course, wish to enjoy the benefits of membership. I do not want to spend all my time in club meetings arguing about perpetual changes to the rules. It is those who are never satisfied with the ar¬ rangements that are disrupting it all, not us who wish it to calm down and prove its worth as a friendly group of countries trading together. My worry is that the kind of Europe Herr Kohl wishes io create will be an unemployed and miserable Europe, where identity and nationhood will have been suppressed too much and there will be endless wrangles as a result 1 do not want to live in a federal state with 30 or 40 unhappy Quebecs all trying to get out Nato has kept the peace in Western Europe for 50 years. There is no need to change the arrangements that have worked so well There would be a danger in disrupting them, especially if it jeopardised US support During the long hard years of the Cold War. US involvement was essential to the preser¬ vation of our freedam- Today we see Russia trying the paths of democracy and peaceful intent Let us hope it remains that way. There are now several nuclear weapons’ powers where once stood the Soviet Union- If any one of them turned to tyranny and became hostile to the West we could need the American nuclear umbrella again to guarantee our peace. If we move too far in strengthening the Western European exclusive dub the countries of the fanner Soviet Union could find that threatening. I do not think Western Europe would be safer for a defence merger of France and Germany. It would unbalance Europe. It would mark the failure of a long and honourable tradition of British foreign policy, to keep a balance of power on the Continent. The big issue today is whether the European supreme court, the Court of Justice, is compatible with our vision of a free association of nation states. Are that Court's recent judgments a fair reflection of the treaty and the intentions of the members when they signed? I do not believe they are. We negotiated an opt-out to the social chapter in good faith, only to be told that the Court will override it We passed an Act of Parliament to safeguard our fishing interests, only to be told that it counted for nothing. Parliament and the British nation must awaken from their slum¬ bers before it is too late. We must assert the rights of the UK to stand by our view of what we have agreed. Our right to self-government hinges upon the su¬ premacy of Acts of Parliament If law is to be handed down by unknown judges in a far-away court we have lost our right of democratic redress. Parliament is no stranger to struggles to uphold our liberties. In the 16th century, a simple Act of Parliament swept aside the jurisdiction of the Roman courts in England and Wales. Doubtless die equivalent of Foreign Office lawyers told the King h could not be done, it would violate European law. He did it and it worked. I n the 17th century, Charles I tried to rule without Parliament The imp osition of Ship Money caused a < constitutional crisis. The King said he could raise it without parliamentary approval. Ifarliament disagreed, and eventually won in the Restoration settle¬ ment- Today a foreign court is levying its own kind of Ship Money, idling us that we have to pay compensation to Spanish fishermen from our taxation, whether Parliament wants to or not Our whole history is the history of expanding the franchise and increasing the rights of voters to a say in how they are governed through a sovereign Parliament The growth of unelected power in the European institutions is a serious threat to our settled constitution. It must be arrested before it gets out of control We should stay in Europe for trade, for friendship, for co-operation. We must influence Europe for tire better. We must rally all those who disagree with Chancellor Kohl’s vision. We must speak for all those who wish to keep democratic selFgovernment We must say that a single state forged out of the different languages, tempers, histories and cultures of tire European peoples cannot work. We must show that there is a different and better way, a way that looks outward, thinks globally and welcomes the new technology that can keep us prosperous in a fast¬ changing world. A Euro-state with too much law and tax from Brussels would cut us off from the opportunities that the world and its dynamic changes offer. It is time for Britain to save Europe from itself. John Redwood is Conservative MP for Wokingham. TH E TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 Blairites, should be puritans David Selboume on Labour and the moral order G iven the scale of Britain civic

  and social crisis—in education, in family breakdown, in person¬ al isolation, in the forms of violence, in the mistaken dispersal of public institu¬ tions to the market—what kind of moral regime is required of an incoming Labour administration? First, the recurring qdes of national ethical disgrace, media frenzy, heroic acts of dedication, the placing of flowers at the scene of crime and a return to moral relativism (and despair) signify that something is seriously wrong. The largest doubt here must be whether Labour's adopted notion of “stake- holding" —whatever it may mean—can restore our civic balance and redeem us as citizens. Secondly, the rabble of moral relativ¬ ists which cron dies, vulture-like, upon the body politic, denying thai right can properly be distinguished from wrong, is a greater presence among Labour’s supporters than elsewhere in the polit¬ ical spectrum. Here, new Labour has a fight on its hands if it is to provide a sense of direction in the wilderness which has been made of our lives by 23 y*> vacuous doctrines of “opportunity” and “choice". In most ethical matters there cannot, in practice, be “choice". But if d* even the bishops of the atrophying I X Church of England think there must be, J I I Labour is unlikely to be braver.

  ^{B I I Thirdly, the liberal mind draws back «/ from most morally necessary acts which require the curtailment of individual freedom. Yet Karl Popper, the greatest n from their slum- exponent of modern liberal thought, was late. We must assert in despair at his life's end over the to stand by our view corruption of the liberal ideal, even greed. Our right to declaring himself trenchantly in favour lges upon the su- of the censorship of television. -Tv ‘ • i j*r “TT Te have need of liberty.’ he \f\f said in 1988, “in order to t V prevent the abuse by the State of its power, and we have need of the State to prevent the abuse of liberty.” But the tide of televisual and video violence continues to rise above our nostrils, applauded on its way by comfortable amoralists. Here the liber¬ tarian Right and Left occupy the same cul-de-sac, in which liberty is equated with unimpeded freedom of action. In consequence, both lose the right to criticise die anti-ethical behaviour cf others. Free market fundamen talisirer violent sacrilege against nature, and even royal self-destructiveness are all expressions of the same suicidal “free spirit” and individual entitlement which the libertarian camp wrongly thinks are synonymous with freedom. In this camp, and it is a large one, is also the great tribe of cynics and scoffers—many with access to the media — for whom any moral argument whatever is ab¬ surd, stiffnecked or "old-fashioned". Fourthly, the most assiduous lobby¬ ists in Labours ranks continue to be more exercised about individual rights than individual duties. They are also generally unable to accept the concept of the “bad citizen", for fear of giving class offence. Connected with this is the disproportionate attention which they wish to see paid to minorities—and rally to same minorities at that — rather than to the common civic good. A Labour administration is going to have to break these spells if social peace and personal liberty are to be safeguard¬ ed. It is a puritan, or Roundhead, ethic which die nation needs, not soft toys left at the site of each act of violence while a helpless citizenry weeps. N or is such a puritan ethic compatible with a continuance of flie fire sales of public institutions which hold the dvic fabric together. Labour will have to put a stop to them and reverse those that can be reversed. It will have to be stern, too, in its encouragement and defence of the marriage bond. In particular, civic obligation will have to be enforced, and the varieties of individual and civic irresponsibility will need to be better controlled by sanction. Labour will need to stand firm alike against duty-dodging parents, trouble- makmg tenants, work-avoiding claim¬ ants and the tax-evading rich, not so that ^liberalism shall rule the land but so that the long, disastrous reign of dutiless right can be displaoed by a soda! ethic. It is also important that dvic benefit becomes more closely linked to dvic conduct that the scope of personal responsibilities be extended in law and that community service be increasingly made a title of access to dvic goods. For citizenship is a matter of duty as well as of right If Labour were to enforce this, then the lost idea of die dvic order might begin to revive. It should be noted by “the Left” that this political agenda is “progressive”, being in the interests of all: the peddling of an indiscriminate politics of rights and more rights - the politics of Charter 88 and other lobbies — benefits the Few while imperilling the future. For dvic society requires above all to be protected, as the massacre of Dunblane shews: the “right" to carry a gun stands at the opposite pole to that of public interest B ut so also do many rther rights m soaeties which have kart the other (and for nature) and the better and the worse. It is time, rather fora generalised politics of dvic md g^^iwpMBibflity which is sus- Sw **U?™ 310 " so} the moral ^{5 bS} - and ii looks as if wilt feu to Labour to attempt it. No sweat SOMETHING is afoot among Parliament’s marathon runners. Most years, you can rely on eight or nine MPs pulling on then- trainers for the London Mara¬ thon, to take place next month. This year, they are down to one. Excuses range from slipped discs and sciatica to pressure of work. Sceptics say die party whips are terrified of any MP keeling over and forcing a by-election. Robin Cook and Gare Short head the list of cop-outs, in January, they appeared outside the Houses of Parliament in their running togs, encouraging over¬ fifties to run the marathon. Now Miss Short's office tells me the all¬ smoking. ali-drinking Shadow Transport Secretary has been too busy to train. Cook’s staff say their man never really planned to go the full 26 miles himself but in true Labour fashion, was keen for others to do so. Of the other regulars. Doug Henderson, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North, pleads a sports injury. Alistair Burt Conservative MP for Buiy North, has his eye on the New York Marathon instead. Jeny Hayes, Conservative MP for Har¬ low, has slipped a disc, while Gary Waller, Conservative MP for Keighley, claims “a spot of back trouble after an operation and some fll-advised squash" has sty¬ mied his run. Alan Michael. Labour MP for Cardiff South, goes for the Short excuse of a heavy workload. Which leaves John “tite car bo-loader" Austin- Walker, Labour MP for Wool¬ wich. The marathon passes Robin Cook and Clare Short among this year's non-starters through his constituency and al¬ though he has not put in the requisite hours of street-pounding, he does expect to finish. • /n Buckinghamshire, a mad pub scare. The Red Cow in Woobum Green, a 14th

  “fn tomorrow's/fold he stands a chance of winning* most modish of the Queen’s brood, advised on m0 dem trends on Wednesday night With Sophie Rhys-Jones at fas side, he was at the 5,000th performance of Star- Itgfu Express, the musical on rol¬ lerskates on which he worked five gars ago for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webbert Really Useful Group , Wtai* first opened it was a pop music of the time and it has adapted and changed to • keep up with the times," he ex- p L a, "e?- “I think rollerblades would be a good idea now," P-H-S tru THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 THE VIEW FROM TURIN Italy s troubles have converted It to a more flexible EU LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 1 Pennington Street. London £1 9XN Telephone 0171-782 5000 The offidal purpose of today's short summit in Turin is to launch the European Union’s inter-governmental conference (IGQ. which is supposed to review and improve upon the Maastricht treaty. The EU's leaders meet in a political vacuum; five out of six Europeans have never heard of this project, and fewer still see much point to further institutional tinkering. They will not be greatly enlight¬ ened by todays proceedings. They will be brief; to the irritation of the Germans and the disappointment of the anxious Italian hosts, they are unlikely lo be to the point. John Major's main concern will be to be seen by his domestic audience to be reading the riot act aboui ‘•unjustified’' curbs on British beef; Jacques Chirac, who has his own do¬ mestic troubles, will be out to demonstrate to France's unemployed that the EU is — or ought to be — a vehicle for job creation. For all these reasons, there will be no serious debate at Turin about the Union's future. Yet it would be a mistake to see this meeting as inconsequential. Historical shifts are not always visible at the time; and the agenda for the IGC drawn up by Italy could open up routes to the more flexible, multi¬ dimensional EU for which Britain has long argued. That is not because Italy has lost its enthusiasm for Europe, but because — given that Italy will not meet the criteria for monetary union in 1999—it is determined to resist Germany's concept of a European “inner core", from which it risks being excluded. Accordingly, the Italians are converts to the view that, particularly in an enlarged EU. the willingness and ability of countries to harmonise their policies will not always coincide — and that each country should therefore be free to decide if, how and when to co-operate more closely in new domains of policy. This, Italian diplomats say. would allow early enlargement without putting a brake on countries that wanted to move towards “deeper integration". Such talk will be music to Mr Major’s ears. But it does not necessarily imply a minimalist agenda for the EU. If monetary union. Schengen and the Franco-German brigade ore taken as precedents for “di¬ versity*’. the argument could be used — as it probably will be by Germany — to put pressure on Britain not to block the development of common foreign, security and interior policies of which it did not want to be part Britain may be winning the argument that the Union cannot advance at the same pace, or always in the same direction: but as this is more generally accepted, it will find it harder to resist the use of EU institutions far policies pursued only by small groups of countries. Diversity could, in addition, easily become a repackaging of the “inner core" favoured by Wolfgang Schauble, the prominent German Christian Democrat He gave a taste of that yesterday when he spoke of an EU avont garde. Here, however, Mr Major will not be in a minority of one; he will have Italian support for a multi-dimensional EU. in which small groups of countries form closer links in some areas, where this matches their national interest These negotiations will last for at least 15 months. Nothing is dear yet. But in the words of Boris Biancheri. the head of the Ita¬ lian Foreign Office, Turin could be the mo¬ ment when EU Governments start “to con¬ ceive a Europe that is different from the one we have been living with, in which diversity is preserved". Such a Europe could more easily accommodate the countries of Central Europe, which have no wish to forfeit sovereign freedoms only recently regained. Britain has cards to play and much at stake. If it plays them well, this multi-dimensional Europe could be one in which the British can feel more at ease than they have since 1991. when the Maastricht treaty was signed in a rush of federalist enthusiasm which this country could not, and cannot, share. CHILDREN FIRST Good sense on adoption — but it has been a long wait In November 1993, Virginia Bottomley published a White Paper on adoption, which tried to bring some common sense back to a process that had, in some local authorities, been perverted by political correctness. The $ paper stated the fact (hardly controversial, one might have thought) that the happiness and welfare of the child and.the loving intentions of the adoptive parents were more important considerations than the age. colour or weight of the couple concerned. At the time, we welcomed her proposals. It then took two-and-a-half years for an Adoption Bill to be introduced. Published yesterday, it is a broadly technical piece of legislation designed primarily to streamline step-parent and overseas adoptions and to strengthen in some areas the birth mother's rights. As under the Children Act. courts will take all their decisions with the interests of the child as paramount What then about those important matters of age and skin colour? These are set out in a circular to all directors of social services from their chief inspector. A fine document it is. It argues that adoption should be seen as a positive step for some children, not as a last resort. It stresses that older prospective adoptive parents may have as much, or more, to offer as younger ones. It derides the inverted snobbery of some social workers who have turned down couples for being too well educated or too rich. And it argues that, where adoptive parents cannot be found who share the ethnic or religious origins of a child, other couples should be considered. This is all highly sensible. In some soci¬ eties, after all. grandparents do all the child- rearing while parents go out to work: age is no necessary disqualification for bringing up children. More couples in Britain are having children naturally in their early forties, at an age which would disqualify them from adopting. Many couples do not discover until their late thirties that they are incapable of conceiving children: it piles unfairness upon bad hick to tell them then that they axe also too old to adopt. Race and religion are trickier matters. The circular is right to conclude that, other tilings being equal, children should be placed with similar parents. But when other things are not equal, it must often be better for them to join a different-coloured family than to languish in a children's home or in foster care. What children need most is permanent love and affection — and local authority care, however well intentioned the carers, does not provide that The same is true of adoptions from overseas. Too many local authorities have insisted upon parents having connections with the country of origin before being allowed to adopt a foreign child. If the choice is between living in an orphanage or growing up in a loving British family, the latter is surely preferable. Why has the Department of Health taken so long to say all this? The excuse was not that it needed to be incorporated into law. for none of these arguments is contained in the Adoption Bill. At last now, parents trying to adopt will be armed with the chief inspec¬ tor’s recommendations. But those who have been struggling with local authorities for the past few years will not thank the department for having taken so long to draft and send out seven sheets of A4 paper. AYE, LINERS The best voyages are journeys back in time mcorde brought the nations of the f not necessarily its British and wilders. so much closer to each ie ascendancy of the aeroplane issured. 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  ^{and* 1 the “King and I M fi 20ft walls of glass. This ship Mary, more an oceangoing ndjkthe Splendour of the Seas, Sts an 18-hole golf SSSSSKS” and bronze golf gnomes. We have no objection to golf. Accountants have to have something to do at the weekends. And a sport at which either sex may excel and which suits the solitary or gregarious has obvious merits. But golf at sea is as unnatural as hunting in High Holbom, Moreover, putting past bronze gnomes while on a cruise finer is like drinking Lucozade in a distillery, or reading the Beano in the Bodleian: it is to forgo the sublime for the sake of the trivial. Building an 18-hole golf course on a finer compels a certain admiration. The ingenuity of the naval architect can seldom have been so tested. But what a tragedy to see such skill channelled thus. One might as well have Heniy Moore casting the bronze golf gnomes. How much better if the hands that fashioned the artificial heather around which the Maxflies must be steered had been set to bringing something of the Art Deco glory of the great Cunard liners to this vulgar vessel. Turning cruise Imers into Center Parcs at sea will only consign them to certain decline. When cruising, modem entertainments are an irritation, the port of call an irrelevance. The real voyage is back in time to a more spacious age where there was room enough to allow flirtations to flourish, hangovers to abate and honeymoons to, well, develop. The SOS's owners should hurl every iron into the ocean and recognise that, on a cruise, the only glimpse of green should be the olive in the lunchtime Martini. Speaking up for law on blasphemy From the Archbishop of York Sir, In your report (March 2b) of the challenge to the British law cm blas¬ phemy currently being presented in the European Court of Human Rights. Geoffrey Robertson. QC, is quoted as describing our present law as ‘‘anachronistic’’ and “discrimina¬ tory" against non-Christian faiths now practised in this country, and as saying that “blasphemy laws are the hallmark of primitive, not progres¬ sive, societies". As if stands, our law on blasphemy is far from ideal. However, the fact that it has only been effectively in¬ voked twice in 70 years hardly sug¬ gests that it constitutes a significant curtailment of freedom of expression. What its place on The statute book fun¬ damentally signifies and signals is a general presumption in our .society that there are things which are sacred and which should be treated with pro¬ per respect, and that the feelings of re¬ ligious believers about what they hold sacred should not be outraged. To abolish the law without replac¬ ing it would amount to a repudiation of thar presumption, signalling a fur¬ ther weakening oF the spiritual dimen¬ sion in our sense of national identity. Any such development would be de¬ plored and opposed not only by Chris¬ tians but by many leaders and mem¬ bers of the non-Christian faiths in Britain. There is a separate set of questions about whether the protection of the present blasphemy law should either be extended to other religious faiths or complemented by legislation relating to religious discrimination or incite¬ ment to religious hatred. These are important but also very complex is¬ sues. The Church of England remains keen to make a continuing positive contribution to the discussion. Yours sincerely, tDAVID EBOR: Bishopthorpe Palace. Bishopthorpe, York. March 28. Queen in Poland From Mr Barry Hyman Sir, I am surprised that the Queen, a woman of independent mind and vast experience, should need advisers to tell her that going to Poland without remembering three million Jewish Poles done to death by Nazism would be an affront to her own Jewish sub¬ jects. Visiting a memorial (report and leading article, March 26) rather than Auschwitz was a late, small and bare¬ ly adequate gesture; within 24 hours it was effectively nullified by the crass omission of the one sentence in her next speech to deal with the subject (report, March 27). The Prince of Wales has gone on re¬ cord as saying that he would like, as monarch, to be regarded as “Defender of Faith" implying all faiths. He has recently visited a Hindu temple and a mosque, fine gestures towards two minority faiths. 1 worship at a Reform synagogue, where women enjoy equal rights, in¬ deed our rabbi is a woman. If Prince Charles were to visit us, I could show him a community firm in its faith, while in complete dialogue with the modem world. That should appeal to his sense of spirituality. Yours faithfully. BARRY HYMAN. 4 Priory View, Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire. March 27. Active elderly From Mr Richard Worsley Sir, It should come as no surprise to the researchers for the Household Survey (report, March 27) that grow¬ ing numbers of older people are ac¬ tive, independent and healthy. The importance of prolonging good health through an active mental and physi¬ cal Lifestyle and a balanced diet and thus postponing dependence on oth¬ ers, has long been established, and people are dearly acting* on it. What we now need is a response from employers — by enabling those older people who want to work, to make the contribution of which they are so dearly capable. The wide¬ spread exclusion of so many older people from work simply on grounds of age is an appalling waste of talent and experience and a missed oppor¬ tunity for our sodety and economy. Yours faithfully, RICHARD WORSLEY (Director). Carnegie Third Age Programme, 3 Robert Street, WC2. March 27. Danger of agricultural research cuts Jobless data From Mr James Bourlet Sir, The Commons Employment Sel¬ ect Committee has concluded {report. Business. March 27) that thedaimant count is an unsatisfactory measure of unemployment and that a monthly sample survey should be conducted to give a true picture of the labour market. Precisely — and. as it happens, this is just what the 1944 While Paper on unemployment insisted was a prere¬ quisite for success. Your faithfylly. JAMES BOURLET (Honorary Secretary), Economic Research Council. 239 Shaftesbury Avenue. WC2. From the President of the Institute of Biology Sir, Public funding for agricultural re¬ search has suffered severe cut backs in recent years and it would be irrespon¬ sible if vee did not consider their impli¬ cations. The present crisis surround¬ ing the scientific evidence to under¬ write the safety of beef for the consum¬ er highlights the need to do so. Research establishments, already farced to contract substantially and greatly reduce the numbers of highly trained staff, are now faced with'an¬ other round of damaging cuts and a second government review within 12 months. Not only does this reveal gov¬ ernment indecision: it also shows’ an obsession with uprooting the tender plants of innovation in urder to in¬ spect the roots. It does iinle for the morale oF our highly prized scientists, one of the great assets of our past suc¬ cesses and one which we squander at our peril. New food and agricultural research programmes focus on how modem fanning can be properly integrated in¬ to the wider environment. Bulging food stores no longer exist in the EU. Tor instance, and world grain reserves are only enough to last for 4S days; ris¬ ing standards of living in China and other countries have led to massive demands for grain to feed livestock; population pressures demand better methods of land management, pollu¬ tion control and waste recycling; and increased global warming could re¬ sult in droughts in parts of the world used to regular rainfall. All the signs are that we are moving into an era where food scarcity wilfbe a defining issue. It is certainly not the rime to dis¬ perse our strengths in these areas of research. We welcome the initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organisa¬ tion in Rome, who have recognised the potential dangers and called for a summit of world leaders in November to address the pressing issue of global food security for the next millennium. Yours faithfully.}
• ALAN H1BBERT. President. Institute of Biology, 20-22 Queensbeny Place, SW7. March 28. Structures for science From Professor Sir Bernard Crossland, FRS. FEng Sir, In a recent article. “Turning off the oxygen” (Education. March 8), the Principal of Umist expressed very real concern about the “process of attenua¬ tion — the so-called death by a thou¬ sand curs” that is affecting the labora¬ tories and workshops in most of our universities. Though 1 recognise the great impor¬ tance of analytic science, it does not and cannot replace the need for well considered and up-to-date laboratory work and the technician staff to sup¬ port it. Such facilities are also needed to support research and are essential to attract industrially supported re¬ search- industry is hardly likely to support research unless there are well founded laboratories and workshops. How¬ ever, it has to be admitted that well founded laboratories and workshops and the associated technicians are very expensive, and they need to be utilised to the hill. This leads to my king-held views that it is necessary to condense dawn the number of universities with such facilities, to form a smaller number of technical universities, as are common on the Continent. For example, is it sensible or desirable that in Manches¬ ter there are four universities within a mile or two of one another, each with such facilities? Would it not be much better if there was one major technical university, such as Aachen, which might also provide the stimulation for the indus¬ trial regeneration of the North West? A similar situation applies in many of our major cities. Yours faithfully, BERNARD CROSSLAND. 16 Malone Court, Belfast. March 27. Stemming BSE crisis From Dr Helen Grant Sir. On March 23,1989, you printed a letter from myself and the late Profes¬ sor William Blackwood warning of the possible hazard to their health of citizens of the UK being exposed to the potentially infective brains of cattle. That letter and my other warnings in the media early in 1989 finally per¬ suaded the Ministry of Agriculture. Fisheries and Food in November to bring in the "specified offals ban” to protect meat products from carrying the infective agent On May 27.1994, you primed a let¬ ter in which I referred to the fact that a distinguished virologist Dr Harash Narang, who had been working with this micro-organism (the scrapie ag¬ ent] for many years, had devised a test capable of revealing which apparently healthy sheep were incubating scra¬ pie. Since then his rest has also been successful in two human CJD suffer¬ ers. MAFF has for several years re¬ peatedly declined to make use of this test to identify cattle which incubate BSE We are now faced with the possibil¬ ity of a disastrous and large-scale slaughter policy to restore confidence in British beef. Using the Narang test on all cattle would identify the infected ones so that only those would need to be destroyed. This simple, cheap and accurate test must be put to immedi¬ ate use. Yours faithfully.
• C. GRANT (Neuropathologist), 63 Mount Vernon Road. Uberton, Edinburgh 16. March 26. From Mrs Janet Graham Sir. Three cheers for Sir Simon Gour- lay. In his letter to you today he advo¬ cates the setting up of a totally inde¬ pendent food and drug agency to han¬ dle all matters connected with food standards and food safety. The National Consumer Council (of which I was then vice-chairman), along with other consumer organisa¬ tions. made this recommendation lo Government in 1989, in the wake of the original problem with BSE. BSE may be the most serious food scare of rerent years because it cannot be defined, but with modem food tech¬ nology moving so fast there could well be others in the future. Consumers re¬ quire independent advice at such a time and such an agency could well pre-empt some scares. Yours faithfully, JANET GRAHAM, Wickenden Farm. Sharpthome, Sussex. March 27. From Sir John Boynton Sir, As chief executive of the county council I was involved in the foot-and- mouth epidemic in Cheshire in the 1960s when thousands of cattle were slaughtered. I am incredulous when responsible people talk lightheartedly of culling a few million cattle. Dairy farmers know many of their cows by name. The destruction of whole herds in Cheshire was devastat¬ ing. li affected life in the county at every turn. It wounded the spirit of the farming community as well as creat¬ ing huge logistical problems. Yours faithfully. JOHN BOYNTON. Ib Oakhill Avenue, NW3. March 27. From Mrs C. M. Priestley Sir, Nigella Lawson today claims that we are all free to eat what we choose. Your illustration showing that Walk¬ er's beef and onion-flavour crisps con¬ tain no beef products at all says more about our lack of choice than even the shocking discovery of what lies hid¬ den inside a ginger-nut biscuit. Yours faithfully. CHRISTINE PRIESTLEY. 108a Cambridge Street, SWl. March 27. From Mr C. Toby Stroh Sir, We now have a steakholder econ¬ omy. Was Tony Blair prescient or dys¬ lexic? Yours faithfully,
• TOBY STROH, East Lodge. Grove Lane. Orchard Leigh. Nr Chesham. Buckinghamshire. March 26. University admissions From the Secretary of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference Sir, Your education correspondent (re¬ port, March 25) drew attention to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas] plans to broaden the range of qualifications to be used as a passport to universities. Few will quarrel with an expectation that stu¬ dents should have achieved a high lev¬ el of core skills before going on to uni¬ versity. Most will welcome the inclu¬ sion of information about the candi¬ date’s skills that goes beyond mere A- levd grades. The aim must be to select the student who is going to make The most of the university course. The system must be fair to all appli¬ cants equally and, while full use should be made of information tech¬ nology to introduce improvements, it must not be made so complex that it cannot be understood. Thedanger of a clever but mechanistic scheme which produces a tariff to be used by admis¬ sions' tutors is that it may encourage them to place less reliance cm the school report. Whatever the improvements intro¬ duced by Ucas. they must not be seen as a substitute for the introduction of a system which leaves applications until after A-level results are known (post-qualification applications). Pre¬ dicted A-level grades are a poor alter¬ native to actual results as a basis for allocating university places. Yours faithfully,
• S. ANTHONY. Secretary. HMC, 130 Regent Road, Leicester. March 25. Business letters, page 29 Letters should carry a daytime telephone number. They may be faxed to 0171-782-5046. RSPCA’s role in animal welfare From Mr Michael Sissons Sir. My Country Life article on the RSPCA (report and leading article. March 28) was in the main concerned to show how the cloriies of animal wel¬ fare have been stolen by activists for animal rights to gain effective control of the charity. No amount of banging on about “blood sports” on iheir part will now obscure that. I welcome the fact that the political activities of the RSPCA are now subject to close public scrutiny. The sterile and Utopian precepts of animal rights and animal liberation are not compatible with the healthy survival of the British countryside. There is a task to redefine our rela¬ tionship with the natural world for the 21 si century- Country people, who care for animals rather than pontifi¬ cate about them, used to belong to the RSPCA in very large numbers. I now- urge them to rejoin, so that the debate about animal welfare may property and openly be conducted within the world's leading animal welfare char- ity. In recent times the RSPCA has sought to stifle debate by' refusing membership to those who do not sup¬ port its policies, thus attempting to en¬ sure that those policies cannot be changed. All who share the aims and objectives of the society, ie. animal welfare, are surety entitled to be part of this debate. Yours faithfully. MICHAEL SISSONS. do The Countryside Movement. II Tufton Street. SWl. March 28. Referendum on EMU From Mr Adam Roxborough Sir, R, D. Bloomfield (letter, March
• makes the bold assertion that “nine out of ten" of those entitled to vote in a referendum on EMU would be intellectually “unable to grasp the ... arguments", would "vote for the wrong reasons" and “be swayed by TV plausibility, soundbites and one- liners" It sounds like a general election to me. The fact is. it doesn't matter if my choice or anyone else’s choice is ill-in¬ formed — what matters is the right to choose. Yours faithfully. ADAM ROXBOROUGH. 9 Ashwood Avenue, West Didsbury, Manchester. March 20. On the wrong track? From Mr Benedict Bimberg Sir. One sympathises with the con¬ cern expressed by the Alpine Club at the proposal to build a funicular rail¬ way to the summit of Cairn Gorm (let¬ ter, March 27). In the circumstances, is it not compounding the felony to call on the Scottish Secretary to “set in train" a strategic analysis of develop¬ ment needs of the area? Yours faithfully. BENEDICT B1RNBERG. 4 Eliot Place, Blackheath, SE3. March 28. Ups and downs From Mr Geoffrey Davies Sir, Mr Philip Thomas, Chief Execu- 'tive of Tandridge Council |lener. March 25). apparently believes that “if one council were to rise above the average, another would have to fall below". This shows a potentially alarming misunderstanding of simple arith¬ metic: there is not necessarily a con¬ stant numberof players above and be¬ low the average. Perhaps the residents of Tandridge need to re-examine their recent annual statements? More power to the Audit Commis¬ sion. if it makes us realise that aver¬ ages can always be improved, and that success only comes to those who try hardest. Yours faithfully. GEOFFREY DAVIES, 9 Hurley Close. Walton-on-Thamcs. Surrey. March 25. From Mr John H. Deam Sir. Mr Thomas need not be surprised at the Controller of the Audit Commis¬ sion's comment that “it is not enough to be just average. Everyone can and should improve”. It has long been known from the results of self-assess¬ ment that the standard of driving of more than 90 per cent of motorists in the UK is above average. Yours sincerely, JOHN H. DEAM, 94 Northover Road. Westbury on Trym, Bristol, Avon. March 25. Question time Front Mr Thomas Hamilton-Janes Sir, l wonder whether I should pre¬ vent my six-year-old son George from watching Prime Minister's Question Time on television. Recently, on being bought a new tqy, he asked his moth¬ er: “Are the missiles pre-packed; yes or no?" Yours faithfully, THOMAS HAM 1LTONJON ES, 25 Lanercost Road. Tulse Hill. SW2. March 27. THE TlMESFRlDAYMARCH29j9% The night sky in April COURT CIRCULAR LIECHTENSTEIN PAIACE PRAGUE March 28: The Queen received Mr Vadav Klaus (Prime Minister) this morning. Her Majesty received Mr Milan Uhde (Speaker of the Parliament). The Queen subsequently flew to Brno and was received at the Airport by The President of the Czech Republic. Her Majety drove to Brno Town Hall and was received by Dr Dagmar Lastovecka (Lady Mayor). The Queen met members of the Council and afterwards attended a Reception in the Knights Hall. Her Majesty this afternoon at¬ tended a Luncheon, in Besedni Dum. Brno. The Queen later visited the Constitutional Court and attended a Reception for the judiciary and members of the University, after which Her Majesty returned to Prague. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh this evening attended a Gala Cornea after which Her Majesty and His Royal Highness, accompanied by The President of the Czech Republic, gave a Recep¬ tion at the RudcJfinum. Prague. His Royal Highness. Patron and Trustee, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, this morning presented Internationa] Youth Awards at Liechtenstein Palace. The Duke of Edinburgh after¬ wards opened a Design and Tech¬ nology Exhibition at Prague 2 Town HalL His Royal Highness later visited Kuma Horn Town Hall, followed by a visit to St Barbara's Church. The Duke of Edinburgh after¬ wards viewed an exhibition and anended a Luncheon at the Castle. His Royal Highness later visited Luncheons HM Government Mr Jeremy Hanley. Minister of State (or Foreign and Common¬ wealth Affairs, was the host at a luncheon given by Her Majesty Government yesterday at Lan¬ caster House in honour of ASEAN Heads of Mission. Royal Albert Hall The President and The Council of the Royal Albert Hall were the hosts at a luncheon yesterday in the Hall to mark the L25ih Anniversary of its opening by Queen Victoria. Receptions HM Government The Chancellor of the Exchequer was the host at a reception given by her Majesty’s Government last night at Lancaster House to mark the creation of the Office for National Statistics and the appointment of Dr Tim Holt as , Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics and Registrar General for England and Wales. British Safely Cooncfl Mr Matthew Carrington, MP.was the host at a reception held yesterday at the House of Com¬ mons for the British Safety Council Five Star safety awards. Wigmore Hall International Song Competition Mr William Lyne, Dr Ralph Kuhn and Mr Graham Johnson were the hosts yesterday at a reception held at die Royal Society of Medicine to announce the inaugural Wigmore Hall International Song Com¬ petition which will take place in September 1997. It was also an¬ nounced that the first Wigmore Hall Medal would be presented to Herr Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Patron of the Wigmore Hall Inter¬ national Song Competition, at the Finals of the first Competition in recognition of his unique achieve¬ ment in the world of music. Kladruby Stud, watched a demonstration of Carriage Driv¬ ing and attended a Reception. BUCKINGHAM PALACE March 2& The Duke of York this morning left Heathrow Airport, London, for Washington DC, Uni¬ ted Stales of America, to carry out a series of engagements in connec¬ tion with the American Air Mu¬ seum in Great Britain. Captain Neil Blair RN and Mr Geoffrey Crawford are in attendance. ST JAMES’S PALACE March 28: The Prince of Wales, patron, the Wildfowl Trusts, this morning visited the Norfolk Wild¬ life Trust’s Reserve at'Cfcy on die North Norfolk Coast KENSINGTON PAIACE March 2& The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was present this evening at a Gala Perfor¬ mance by the English National Ballet at the London Coliseum. London. WC2. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Reverend Richard Bolton to be a Priest in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Today’s royal engagements The Princess Royal, as Cdonel-in- Chief. will visit the Royal Logistic Corps Training Centre, The Prin¬ cess Royal Barracks. Blackdown. Camber ley. at 10JO. The Duchess of Kent as patron, wfll attend the opera Roberto Devereux at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, at 7.00. Requiem Mass Professor Alistair Crumble Requiem Mass for Professor Alistair Crombie. a lecturer in History of Science. Oxford Univer¬ sity. 1953-83, was celebrated by Father Peter Codd assisted tty Canon Richard Ingledon and the Rev Professor Armogathe. of the Sorbonne, in the Chapel of Trinity College, Oxford, yesterday. Canon Trevor Williams, college chaplain, said the prayers of intercession. Mr Seamus Conway read the Epistle and Deacon Richard Bud gen read the Gospel. Professor Robert Fox. Professor of History of Science. Oxford University, gave an address. Bristol Society The High Sheriff of Avon. Mr George Ferguson, the Lord Mayor of Bristol, the Bishop of Bristol and the Chancellor and Vice-Chan¬ cellor of the University of the Wesf of England were present at a Lecture given for the Society by Baroness Warnodk, of Weeke at The Council House last night Mr St John Hartnell, Chairman of the Society, presided and Mr Gale KJappa. Chief Executive of SWEB. gave die vote of thanks. SWEB hosted a supper afterwards. The Dragon Club Mr Albert Reynolds, former Prime Minister of Ireland, was the speaker at the Dragon Club on Thursday. March 28. Mr John Bender. Chairman, and Mr Hardy SohanpaJ. Vice-Chairman pre¬ sided. Seventy members attended. The next meeting will be with the Right Hon Ian Lang, MP. on April
• 1996. The Dragon Chib, 28 Old Brampton Read, London SW7 3DL By Michael J. Hendrle ASTRONOMY CORRESPONDENT MERCURY is an evening star throughout the month, setting in the western sky as much as two hours after the Sun about the 23rd, when it reaches greatest eastern elon¬ gation (20 degrees). However, it is brighter at the start of the month at -1 magnitude, fad¬ ing to 0 magnitude by the 23rd. This will be the most favourable evening appari¬ tion of Mercury in 1996. While Mercury fa never seen far from the horizon and in a really dark sky from the British Isles, at favourable apparitions such as this its brightness makes it a fairly i easy objetd, given a dear sky. One can start to look about an hour alter sunset, towards and above where the Sun set The thin crescent Moot wfll be to the south on the 19th. Venus reaches greatest eastern elongation (46 de¬ grees) on the 1st when the -4 J magnitude planet wifl be a brilliant evening star in the northwestern sky. to the south of the Pleiades. It will move quickly eastwards through Taurus, passing north of Aldebaran in mid- month. The Moon will be to the south on the 20th/21 st Mars rises only minutes before the Sun and will not be observable until July. Jupiter is -22 magnitude and in Sagittarius rising by Olh late in the month. Moon to the north on the lOth/Uth. Satum is in Pisces but remains in bright morning twilight until June. Uranus is in Capricomus throughout the year, rising by Olh by the 30th. Moon to the north on the Hth and 12th. Neptune is in Sagittarius throughout the year, rising shortly before Uranus. It reaches a stationary point on the 29th. The Moon: full Moon. 4d OOh; last quarter, lid 00ft: new Moon, 17d 23h; first quarter, 25d 21h. Sunset on the 1st is at 18h Anniversaries BIRTHS: John Tyler. 10th Ameri¬ can President 1S41-45, Charles City Cbunty. Virginia. 1790; Edward George Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby. Prime Minister I8SZ. I8S- 59 and 186&48. Knowsley Park. Lancashire, 1799: Sir Edwin Lutyens, architect. London, I860: Sir William Walton, composer. Oldham, 1902; Edward Buna, painter. London, 1905. DEATHS: Thomas Coram. phil¬ anthropist, London. 1751: Emman¬ uel Swedenborg, philosopher. London. 1772; Charles Wesley, hymn writer, London. 1788; Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, Brighton. 1837: John Jacob Astor, fur trader and financier. New York. 1848; John Keble, theologian. Bournemouth, 1886; Georges Seurat, painter, Paris, 1891; Sir Charles Stanford, composer. London, 1924; Margaret McMillan, educationist. Harrow, 1931; J. Arthur Rank. 1st Baron Rank, industrialist and film mag¬ nate. 1972; Carl Orff, composer, Munich, 1982. Henry Vi's Lancastrian forces defeated by Yorkists at Battle of Towton securing the Crown of England for Edward IV. 1461. The Albert Hall was opened by Queen Victoria. 1871. Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound • in a tent near the South Pole, made the last entry in his diary “... the end cannot be far 1912. The last American troops left Vietnam. 1973. The diagram shows Hie brighter sun that will be above the horizon in the Ini]tude at London u Z3h (1 ■ pm) at the beginning. Z2h (IQpm) In the middle, and 2 1 h » pm) at Uie end ot the month, loaumean time. At places away from the Greenwich meridian the Greenwich times at which the diagram applies are later than Iheabwe by one hour Tor each 15 deg west ot Greenwich and earlier by a lllee amount If the place be east The map should be turned so thai the horizon the observer Is racing (shown by (lie words around i he did ej Is at the bottom, the zenith being at the enure. Greenwich Mean Time, known to astronomers as Universal Time and expressed In 24- Hour no radon. Is used In the accompanying notes unless otherwise stated. 35m and on the 30th at 19h 25m while sunrise is at 05h 35m and 04h 30m on the same dates. Astronomical Twilight ends at 20h 30m and 21h 55m early and late in the month and begins again at 03h 40m and 02h 00m. The Lyrids meteor shower is active from about the 20th- 24th with a maximum activity predicted for the night of the 21 st/22nd. The radiant, from where the meteors appear to come, is marked on the April chart. Although not normally a very strong shower, with an hourly rate of 10 meteors, stronger displays occur at irregular intervals. With the Moon new on the I7th the conditions are good this year. The partial solar eclipse on April I7-IS will be visible from New Zealand and parts of the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica. The total eclipse of the Moon on April 34 will be visible from the British Isles, weather permitting, as well as much of the Americas, Europe, western and central Asia, and Africa. The Moon enters the um¬ bra or inner dark shadow of the Earth at 22h 21m on the evening of the 3rd: the curved shadow of the Earth wili be seen encroaching on the Moon's disc. When the Moon is immersed in the Earth's shadow totality begins, at 23h 26m Mid edipse is at Oh 10m on the 4th and totality ends at Oh 53m Hie Moon leaves the umbra at lb 59m During a lunar eclipse the Moon may appear orange, copper-coloured, grey or so dark as to be almost invisible during the total phase. Cloud¬ iness in the Earth's atmo¬ sphere is known to affect the Moon's brightness. The weather during much of March has been unhelpful for those hoping to catch sight of comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake. But reports from the USA and Australia show Birthdays today Lord Tebbit CH, who is 65 today Lord Justice Beldam, 71: Mr Henry Bellingham. MP, 41; Mr Richard Rodney Bennett, composer. 60; Professor James Diggle, classicist, 52; the Marquess of Hertford, 66; Mr Peter Hinchdiffe, co¬ founder. Iceland Frozen Foods, 49; Miss Margaret Howard, broadcaster, 58; Mr Eric Idle, actor and comedian. 53; Mr Jack Jones. CH, trade unionist,. 83; Mrs Sheila Kitz- inger, author, anthropologist and childbirth educator, 67; Sir Arthur Knight former chairman. Courtaulds, 79: Miss Sylvia Law, town Jennifer Capriati, the tennis player 20 today planner, 65; Mr John Major, Prime Minister, 53; Mr Hugh NeflL Lord-Lieutenant of South Yorkshire. 75; Sir John Paul, former Governor- General of The Bahamas, 80: Sir John Read, former chairman, TSB Group. 78; Miss Fiona Reynolds, director. Council for the Protection of Rural England, 38; Lord Ross, 69; Miss Anne Stoddart, diplomat, 59; Sir John Vane, pharmacologist, 69; the Very Rev James Weatherhead, former Moder¬ ator of the Church of Scotland General Assembly. 65. the comet fa up to predicted brightness and having the characteristic appearance of a bright comet By the time this appears in print we may be seeing the brightest comet for many years. The comet should continue to be visible with the naked eye and bino¬ culars as it approaches peri¬ helion (its dosest to the Sun ai 34 million km) on May 2. 1996, when it could be 0 to +1 magnitude. Daring April its motion against the sky will slow as it moves away from the Earth. It will remain in Perseus passing near alpha Persei foear the letter. ‘S£ on the chart) to be near Algol on the Stil and moving slowly south¬ wards towards the horizon during the rest of the month. In April Hyakntake will best be seen in the northwest as Sooiras it is dark enough when if will be at its greatest altitude above the horizon. It wfll remain in view above the northern horizon all night to be in the NNE ai dawn. After about the I2tb it wfll be visible only in the evening, though a tail might be seen, given a very dark sky. above the northern horizon after the head of the comet has set. The Moon is foil on the 4th but the sky will be darkened during the total edipse. The Moon will then be rising later each night, by 22h on the 6th after which it should be little trouble. The comet’s bright¬ ening as it approaches the Sun will be partly offset by rapidly increasing distance from the Earth and being nearer the horizon. The Moon will greatly interfere in the first three days of the month only. Nautical twilight ends bv 20h (21h BST) by the 4th and 20h 30m by the 20th, but the comet may be visible earlier. Present reports suggest Hyakutake wfll be a bright naked-eye comet with a well- developed tafl. The edipse and then moonless evenings make it ideal for observation if only the weather is dear. The Royal Society of Chemistry The following were admitted as Fellows of The Royal Society of Chemistry in March 1996. They are entitled to use the designation 'Chartered Chemist* and the letters CChem FRSC J A Berry. J Boyle. D a Bryce. A C Cheyney. E Cropper. W P Edwards, M R Euertiy, a Pemyhoueh, g v Gamer. P s Gregory, K J Hale, a Harper. N K Howell, M Junius-Comer. s M Kelly. A S Khan. I KoppeL K Kundu, A F MarchingtorvR w Millar, P Myers, P A O’DonneU, W H Rowbonom, P J Sane. K SwamLnathan. The British Iibraiy The second annual Douglas Bry¬ ant Lecture lo be held on Tuesday, April 2. 1996. has had to be cancelled doe to the withdrawal of the speaker. Dr James Bfflingtnn. The British Library apologises for the short notice of tins change, and regrets any inconvenience caused. Further information 0171-4127760. Brigadier D.H. Nott A Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Brigadier Donald Harley Nott will be held at Worcester Cathedral cm Saturday, April 27, at noon. Forthcoming marriages Mr D-A. Allen laie Mt and Mrs ri.r. • Penelope, daughter oi Mr and^ Peter L Tre'orrow. ot Riuns. Gloucestershire. Mr R-M. Axtefi and MBs K.L. Brown The engage)™ 15 between Richard, son of Mrs Axiell. of Hemel Hemj»«ad- Hertfordshire, and vounger daughter of Mr and Mrs GEM. Brown- of Barham. Suffolk! and Medan. Sumatra. Indonesia. Mj RA. Farrogw and Miss G Bell The 1 engagement is announced between Richard, son of the Mr Armand Fanugia and Mrs Teresa Rurugia. of New Malden. Surrey, and Trim, daughter ol Mr Christopher Bel1 and Mrs Angela McAlpine, of Tarporley. Cheshire. MrW.E. Grant FRCSI. and Miss SJV. Knox The engagement is announced between William, eldest son of Mr and Mrs WJ. Grant, of Clonskea. Dublin, and Sarah, elder daughter of Mr Richard Knox, of Sandwich. Kent, and Mrs Charles Gray, of Forest Row. Sussex. Mr DJ. Grave-White and Miss S.M. Prince The engagement is announced between David, son of Mr and Mrs Patrick Grove-White, of Wormingford. Colchester. Essex, and Susan, daughter of Mr William Prince, of Weybridge. Surrey, and Mrs Maureen Prince, of Byfleeu Surrey. MM.LeBookmgc and Miss A. Janssens The engagemem is announced between Yves, only son of Mr and Mrs Francis Le Boulengg. of Overijse. Belgium, and Alexandra, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Edouard Janssens, of Overijse, Belgium. Viscount Samud and Ms E. Black The engagement is announced between Professor David Herbert, Viscount Samuel. OBE. and Ms. Eve Black. Mr R.W. Tindall and Miss S. Nicholson The engagement is announced, between Richard, sot of Mr and Mrs william Tindall, of West Yorkshire, and Sophie, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael B. Nicholson, of Long Marston. York. North Yorkshire: Marriage Mr WJA. Nash and Miss GE. Module The marriage took place quietly in Paris. Virginia, USA ob Thursday. March 2S. 1996, between Mr William Nash arid Miss Catherine Moehrte. Legal news The Honourable Mr Justice Waterhouse and the Honourable Mr Justice Macpherson of Cl any will retire from their posts as judges of the High Court (Queen’s Bench Division) on April 15. Dinners Free Church Federal Council The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs Care) anended a dinner held last night at the New Con¬ naught Rooms to mark the retire¬ ment of the Rev David Staple as General Secretary of the Free Church Federal Council Dr John Bisg5. council chairman, and Canon Martin Reardon, General Secretary of Churches Together in England, were the speakers. The Rev Dr John Newton presented Mr Staple with a cheque. Among others present were The Cart In! Archbishop of Wesi- rrinsier. toe President ol the National Free Church Women’s Caundl and Mr Christopher Wood on, the General Secretary of me round I of Churches for Britain and Ireland and Mrs John Reardon, the Secraarv-General of the General Svnad of the Qunch of England and Mrs Mover, [he Director General of the Council or CtulsOnns and Jews and .Mrs Mendel, (he Secretary or (lie . Methodist Conference and Mrs Beck, (he General Secretaries of (he Afro-west Indian Council of Churches, the Assemblies of God. (he Baprtsi union of Great Britain, the Santis; Union of Wales, the congregational Federation, the Free Church of England. the Moravian Church In Great Britain, the New Testament Church of Gad. the old Baptist Union, the Presbyterian Church of wales, (he Union of welsh Independents, the united Reformed Church and the Wesleyan Reform Union. Mrs Staple. Mrs Biggs, Dr Ruth Reardon and representatives or other, mem churches. Gardeners’Company ' i Mr D.E.F. Goflin. Master of the Gardeners’ Company, assisted by Mr I.B. Flanagan, and Mr R.P. Franklin. Wardens, presided at the spring coon dinner held last night at Ironmongers’ Halt During the evening the Master presented the company's prizes to students from tiie Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. and Capri Manor. Sir Peter Hutchison. Chairman of the For¬ estry Commission, Lord Bridges and Mrs Janet Owen also spoke. Church news Archdeacon of Chesterfield The Rev David Garnett, Team Rector, Ellesmere ftot (Chester): to be Archdeacon of Chesterfield (Derby) in succession to the Ven Gerald Fhizackerley,. who retires on March 31. Archdeacon of Scandinavia and Germany The Rev David Ratcliff, Chaplain of Christ the King, Frankfurt-am- Main, Germany: also Archdeacon or Scandinavia and Germany (Europe). Latest wills Sir Philip Courts Anti-obits, 7th BL, of West Amesbury. Wiltshire, left estate valued at E3.232.672 net Mr Michael John Dutfidd, of Ealing, London. W5. the television documentary producer, who made films in many of the world's trouble spots, left estate valued at £522.917 net Mr William Howard Vincent Levett of Rye. East Sussex — "Hopper" Levett. the former Kent wicket-keeper — left estate valued at £590874 net. He left tltXOOO each lo Kent Coumy Cricket Club and the RSPCA. Kathleen Faith Rayner. of South Ewell, Surrey, left estate valued at £465.114 net. She left her entire estate lo the RSPCA. Dr Graham Ringer Faber, of Folkestone, Kent. left estate valued at E6,702.669 net. Other estates include (net, before tax): Mr Albert Annftsbead, of Woodthorpe. Nottingham¬ shire £584.825 Mrs Jessie Evelina Baiter, of Clarence Gate Gardens; London W1......—£659,672 Mrs Elizabeth Barker, of Wilsden. West Yorkshire...£827,575 Mrs Winifred Grace Maria Cbatterton, of Louth. Lincolnshire-£595.072 Mrs Olive Mary Crockett, of Shipton under Wychwood. Oxfordshire-El ,095^74 Mrs Isabella Gardner, of Gos forth, Tyne and Wear £524,155 Mrs June Winifred Maud Hartwell, of Kings wood, Surrey-£793.499 Mrs Marjorie Downing Hojrfey. of Darlington. Co Durham-EI.197.252 Mrs Jean Marguerite Ger¬ trude Hudson, of Warsash, Hampshire_EU15.6S0 Florence Ethel Legge. of Kidder- minister. Worcestershire. E723.794 Mr John Robert Henry Martin, of Oxted Surrey.—..£650.431 Mr Philip Woodiwis Martin, of Liverpool-£549341 Mr Frederick Claude Parsons, of Stourbridge, West Midlands- £525,083. BMD’S: 0171 680 6880 PRIVATE: 0171 481 4000 PERSONAL COLUMN TRADE: 0171 481 1982 FAX: 0171 481 9313 By you. Lord, were earth's foundations Udd of old. and Dm Hamms are the work of yonr he ads. The y wfll perish bat you TTiiMln Hebrew* 1 : IOL II CREED BIRTHS BRANDT - On March 2Hh. lo Juba m* jimmy. idRoShiwr, Evte Katherine. COOKE - On March 24m. to Miranda anti Hurfi. a son. Henry Michael panl. a brother tor Charlotte, vum. Jamas. AUce and Olivia . BMW - On 2601 March, lo Peter and LJsa (n£e Kin Baton), a eon. Sam net eUJSON-SCOTT - On 17m March, to Linda and NIoeL a son. Toby, a brother lor Thom. FAULMM9 - Dr. and Mrs David, a beautiful daughter Charlotte Victoria boro 20th March 1996. a afader for Alexa nder. Thanka to on at the John Itadd«e Oxford. for a sensitive and safe de Mv ery- announce the arrival of Georgia Eleanor In Melbourne. Australia, on March 21 st. March 28ih at St Thomas’ Hospital. London, lo Anne (nte PlgoO and L aur ence, a son. Oi rt s nan James Edgar, a brother for Anna and Mamma. JEHFWG8 - On March 26th. to Clare
• Widow of John Brook* and dearly loved mother of Sarah. Andrew and the tele Peter. No flowers pleaee. Donations to Rasearch I nm ate for me Care of (be Eklerty. St Martin’s Koopifed. Midford Road. Bath. Engtdria to t. Gye (01380) 812537/818736. BROWN - On March 27th Alison Fiona Karr, aged 37, vary snddanly and cooraseoaety after severe riding accident. Mach bekmd daughter to ABepn and sister to Lauren, Cremation at soathampcon era Thursday 4th Awn 2 pm. All mends welcome. Trusteeing Service et later data c/o 01962 844044. Family flowers only. Donati ons to Mark Davis ■Mured Riders Fund. Lfttie Woolpit. Ewhnrst nr. emus'. Bnrrey OU6 7NP. CLARKE - Jm on asm March aged 69. beloved wife or Simon and mother or Christopher. Carotin*. Anson and the late Rupert and much famed vaadxnoRKr. Funeral Sendee at An Saws Church, fflgbbreak. Tiimrr. an Asm 4th at Zjso pm. Enwnrles to Masters A Son. <91444} 482107. CALVERT - Dr. Hngb Tetter. FRCP. On ten March 1996 at Town! an da Hospital. Heatey-on-Thames. nearest mnc h loved and loving h wtiw n sl of Dopfai and tovtoa of inch and Muriel. St Andrews Chnrch. Seeming on Wednesday 3rd Aran at 12.30 pm followed by Private Cremation. Family Flowers only. nnMW». if wished lo Royal National butltnte for dm Dear c/o TomaBn & Son. Anderson House. 38 Reading Road. Henley-on-Tham ea. Ox f ords! ti re 01491-073370. COLE - Heather Vanderven tote Fraser) on 2Bth Ma rch alter a long fltoae bravely borne. Much loved matter of Rosemary and lan and srandraotoer of Ooy. tier strength, character ana humour wfll be sadly ndsssd by her tten tty and an who knew her. Funeral to be held on Monday 1st April at 81 Peter's Ridley nr. Wtotham. Kant at 11.16 am ftBownd by Medway Crematorium at 1220 pm. Donations In Hen of Dowers c/o TA Horiocfc a, Son Ltd., u. Station RoraL Lenotield. Kent DAS 70D In | moor of Ridley POa DROHriELll - On March 27m 1996 died peacefully at her home with her family in York Dr. Sheila. Private fondly sendee wffl be held at York Crematorium. No Dowers by reguest please. Donations In lien to the Marie Curie Cancer Association and the McMillan Nursing Powndattem which may be forwarded via the Co¬ operative Funeral Sendee. Cromwell Road. York, voi 1DU. A Service of Thanksgiving to c elebr ati on of her Ufa wm beheld at SI neterte school Chapd. Ytak. on fteturday April 27th at 12 noon. HARVEY - Brigadier “Roseoa” aged 96. died peacefully at home. Thursday March 28th. A much loved rather, grandfather and great¬ grandfather, Private fom&y tanm. Memorial Service to be anno u n c ed later. HENRY - Ruth Deborah on March 26th 1996 late of Darting Point - Sydney. Australia. Wife of Leon (dec’d.). sister of Nerlda Goodman, mother and motberhMaw of Parts and T r evor Shaw. Judith and Jules Black. Alexa and Lawrence
• SAMMRS - Gertrude AUce (Cuckoo), on 23rd March at Keatherdene Nursing Horae. Baxhm. died peacefully m ho- 99th year. C remation at Haanngs on 3rd April 3 pm. Family flowers only. Donations, if detoed. to The National Treat, enquiries Bahia Funeral Service, let (01424)222226. on 2SDi March In Sr Ana's Hospice. Beloved wife of MkhaeL devoted mother of Sophie and James and dear sister. Funeral at Christ the King. Waucden on 2nd April at 3 pm. Family Flowers only, donations to aid of St 1 RrDTtmiVG Aim’s to Mrs A Wan. 7 KMy I WnlUUAla Avenue. Swtnton. M27 GBP. TUH8TALL - On 26th March
• Edith Gwendoline, aged 98 years. Den's loving mother. All enquiries to Reynolds Funeral Service. 31 High Street. Bognor Rents. Weal 8us*ex. P021 1RR. let: (01243) 864746. WATKflH WILLIAMS - for Peter of S tortliw d. Devon, □led peacefully on 26 th March 1996. WHITE - Kent on 22nd March
• Funeral fit Mark's. Regans Path Road. NW1. Aprs 2nd 10 am. No flowers. Donati o ns to Venice Jn PeriL Mori«y House, 314 Regent Street Wl. WILKINSON - Geoffrey Leranrd ftffiE. Peacefully on 26th March at Oekhurat Nursing Home. Romlley. Beloved huband of Joyce ■to adored tather of Lesley. Clenya. Alan and Emma. Devoted grandfather to Geoarey and Ketankn, Jason and Tina. Alom: Adrian and Janette. Formerly of The Welsh Guards and Her Majesty’s Foreign Office. Funeral on Monday 1st April at Stockport Cemetery and Crematorium at 2 pm. Flowers only please, no wreaths. Donations, if desired, to' Parkinson’s THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 Ltemi- iu Obituaries ■•s-'isf 14 V-. -'nol^ ' 1: 9K . • Si « Shin Kanentaro. Deputy Prime Minister of Japan. 198657. died yesterday aged 81. He was born on September 17,1914, SHIN KANEMARU was usually described by the Japanese press as the country’s “godfather" or “kingmaker". While he never became Prime Minister himself — the highest office he ever occupied was rhat of Deputy Prime Minister from 1986 to 1987 — Kanemaru could take credit for having hired and fired at least four Japanese Prime Ministers. His failure to achieve the top position in no sense defines the real measure of his influence. In a society in which political power and financial clout are intimately related, the unscrupulously wealthy and well- connected Kanemaru was able to occupy the real driving scat in Japa¬ nese politics for many years. His career was cut dramatically short in late 1992, when he was implicated in the latest of a long string of corruption scandals. The Japanese had long been used to the idea of politicians taking bribes and sweeten¬ ers but. even to their pragm atic sensibilities, the scope of Kanemaru’s clandestine operations appeared breathtakingly audacious, particularly at a rime when most ordinary citizens were struggling to cope with a reces¬ sion. A team of investigators, sinking under the weight of strong-boxes containing gold bars, were shown on television, staggering away from Kanemaru's house. Kanemaru re¬ mained inside under a sort of self- imposed house arrest. The political fallout from Kanemaru’s exercise in creative ac¬ countancy had far-reaching conse¬ quences. It effectively broke the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s 30-year- long stranglehold on Japanese politics, and paved the way for a coalition Government. Kanemaru was feared rather titan loved in his party. He was a large man. with a gruff, monosyllabic manner, a spikey crewcul hairstyle, and the baggy eyes of one who had attended too many late-night meetings. Those who knew him personally regarded his second wife Etsuko as the private impetus behind his political career. She was a vivacious, outspoken woman and, though she had no public role herself, she guided her husband through much of his derision-making. Kanemaru had come to politics as a 40-year-old man after the war. His SHIN KANEMARU SIMON NOWELL-SMITH origins were relatively humble: like Noboru Takeshita. his friend and later Prime Minister of Japan, he was the son of a sake brewer. His early career and war record he preferred to keep shrouded in obscurity. In 19S5 he was elected to the Diet the lower house, for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and represented a constituency in Yamanishi prefecture, being neglected six times. The LDP was then, as it is now. not so much a unified party as a collection of often antagonistic factions — all of which chose to be elected under the banner of the LDP for convenience. The faction which Kanemaru went on to head became the most powerful in the 1980s. and the largest with more than 100 MPs. As a young politician, Kanemaru was taken under the wing of that architect of postwar Japanese politics, genius of the market system ana Prime Minister. Kakuei Tanaka. At the same time, he formed a bond with Takeshita, and their alliance was further cement¬ ed when two of their children married. By 1972. after serving time an numerous committees. Kanemaru was rewarded with the post of Minister of Construction for a year. Here be played a pivotal role in preserving and strengthening the dango system (the system whereby only favoured com¬ panies are allowed to bid for big public contracts), and he was thought to have profited enormously from these public works projects. Thereafter he was head of the construction zoku — that group of politicians who represent the con¬ struction industry's interests in parliament. In contrast to the enormous power he wielded behind the scenes Kanemaru’s official career never amounted to much on paper. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 1966 to 1987 and Vice-President of the LDP in
• But for most of his tenure, he was simply a lower house legislator. His real talents lay as a negotiator, and skilful juggler of the various factions of the LDP. His personal ties to Opposition leaders meant that he could ease difficult BQls through Parliament, while he retained the trust of those in the construction industry who oiled the governmental wheels with large injections of cash. Although much of what he achieved will — by its covert nature — remain obscure, it is extremely doubtful whether any of the Prime Ministers of the 1980s — Yasuhiro Nakasane (1982- 87); Kanemaru's friend Takeshita (1987-89); Sosuke Uno (1989); Toshiki Kaifu U989-91) — could have attained the premiership without his support. The last, most blatant example of Kanemaru's influence came in 1991. when he derided to drop the popular Kaifu in favour of Kudu Miyazawa. Even though Kaifu was riding high in the opinion polls, he had no option but to step down for Miyazawa. By this time, however. Kanemaru's star was already beginning to fade. First, there was a damaging incident in 1990 when he sought to carve out a more active international diplomatic role for himself by visiting North Korea. Kanemaru met Kim fl Sung, aid promised the North Korun Government substantial funding. This irritated rot only the South Koreans, but the Japanese Government — who had no intention of paying such an amount It made Kanemaru particu¬ larly unpopular with the far Right and in 1992 he narrowly avoided an assassination attempt by a right-wing gunman at a political rally. So far Kanemaru had avoided direct implication in any of the large corrup¬ tion scandals whidi had rocked Japan since the war — for instance, the Recruit scandal of 1989. But in Septem¬ ber 1992 the tax authorities struck. Investigations into Kanemaru's fi¬ nances revealed a huge, undeclared cache of bonds, apparently bought , with money siphoned off from political donations. Kanemaru responded with what he trusted was a sufficiently i repentant statement, bolted his front door and politely refused to submit himself to further questioning. A posse of reporters camped outside nis house for a month. Despite the high temperature of public opinion — "No one is above the law" ran the headlines — Kanemaru was now an rid man, and his failing health meant that he never stood trial for these offences. Most ordinary Japanese people were incensed by the failure of the system to punish him, or to mete out what was little more, in effect, than a slap on the wrist But the scandal did. if nothing else, effectively end his career. He resigned in October 1992, and spent his last years with his family, out of die public eye, in increasingly bad health and confined to a wheddiair. His first wife predeceased him. and his second wife died in 199L He is survived by his three sons. Simon Nowefl-Smitb, Secretary and Librarian of the London Library. 1950-56, died yesterday aged 87. He was bom on January 5.1909. SIMON NOWELL-SMITH was a learned bibliographer and book collector who assembled a distinguished li¬ brary of 19th-century English literature, and who, after a journalistic apprenricehip. served as Librarian of the London library. Nowell-Smith’s father. Nowell Charles Smith, him¬ self a literary scholar, was at tite time of his eider son’s birth Headmaster of Sherborne School where Simon Har- court NowdJ Smith — he later hyphenated his name — was educated before going up to New COOege. Oxford. He joined the staff of The Times in 1932 and was assistant editor of The Times Literary Supple¬ ment from 1937. During the Second World War he served in the Intelligence Division of the Naval Staff working alongside his old friend Wil¬ liam Planter (whose posthu¬ mously-published autobiogra¬ phy he edited). In 1950. at the urging of Sir Harold Nicrison and others who felt the need for an outside appointment, he be¬ came Secretary and librarian of the London Library. He was librarian for only six years, but they were important ones in reviving it administratively after a stressful wartime per¬ iod. and in renewing its sense of scholarly commitment He resigned on amicable terms in
• content (and able) to be a

  private scholar thereafter. From his undergraduate days Nawdl-Smith had shown himself to be a skilled book collector, with an early interest in the works of his unde by marriage. Mark Rutherford. His Blackwell’S bill was his principal univer¬ sity debt, and Basil Blackwell's indulgence was amply rewarded over the years. His interests gradually concentrated on specific au-

  thors. including Robert Bridges and Henry James, of both of whom he put together unrepeatable ine collections, and he had a taste for lesser figures such as T. EL Brown and Hawker of Morwenstow. Latterly he devoted himself to English poetry in the period from “Wordsworth to Robert Graves and Beyond" (the title of an exhibition of a selection from his library mounted at the Bodleian in 1983). The Bridges and James collections, latterly too nearly complete to afford any contin¬ uing pleasure of tire chase, were disposed of to institu¬ tions over the years, and his attention was concentrated on 19th-century poetry, a collec¬ tion which became increasing¬ ly refined by its collector’s bibliographical skill and liter¬ ary taste. Like Michael Sadleir, who was one of his early mentors. NoweU-Smith put his books to literary use. Among his writ¬ ings was The Legend of the Master (1947). an ingenious compilation in whidi he "at¬ tempted to show Henry James ffie man as others saw him, and as far as possible in others’ words”. It is more than a biographical entertainment, and its lightness of touch disguises the scholarship that underlies the selection. He was learned in the history of publishing, and wrote on the firms of Cassell and Macmil¬ lan, as well as a major historical study of Interna¬ tional Copyright Law and the Publisher (196S). based cm his Lyell lectures at Oxford, in which an important but highly technical subject is dealt with elegantly. Nowdl-Smiih was wont io insist — sometimes quite testi¬ ly — that he was only an amateur, but he brought to his favourite studies more know¬ ledge of books as objects than is common among the literary fraternity, and a far wider knowledge and deeper sympa¬ thy for literature than is generally found among biblio¬ graphical scholars. It was regrettable that he did not feel himself able to finish a project¬ ed Clarendon edition of Mar¬ tin Chuzzlewit, but the materials he gathered were placed in hands That saw the task properly completed. He was equipped with a precision of mind and written expression that were, if any¬ thing. emphasised try many years of professional review¬ ing. Exactitude could some¬ times show itself captiously but to a number of young scholars, who had eventually been found by him to have won their spurs* he was a sympathetic patron; he was also a generous benefactor to a number of charitable causes. As well as bolding the Lyell Readership ar Oxford in 1965-
• he was president of the Bibliographical Sod cry, 1962- 64, and of the Oxford Biblio¬ graphical Sodety. 1972-76. He was for many years a trustee of Dove Cottage, the Words¬ worth library and museum; he was also a member of the Roxburghe Club and a Fellow of the Sodety of Antiquaries. He was elected a member of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in recognition of his work as secretary of the Hos¬ pital Libraries Survey, 1958-59. He married, first, in 1938 Marion Crichton who died in
• He then married Judith Adams in 1986. He is survived by his second wife and the two sons and a daughter of his first marriage. MARGARET HO M FRAY Margaret Homfray, Montessori teacher trainer, died on March 3 aged 87. She was born on April 6.1908. DETERMINED in the face of opposition, but gently patient in character, Margaret Homfray was the woman responsible for re-establishing Montessori education in Brit¬ ain after its dispersal during the Second World War. There are now about Z000 Montes¬ sori schools in the UK alone, and their students have in turn started up thousands more all over flic world. The aim of Montessori edu¬ cation is to promote world peace by teaching children how to live in amicable co¬ operation from the age of two or three. A carefully struc¬ tured environment is created wherein freedom of choice is possible because all the activi¬ ties provided are designed to match developmental demands. Margaret Homfray was bom in the wild northern wastes of Canada. She used to describe how when she was bom her father, a surveyor, had to canoe home, camping and stooting his dinner each day, as he travelled to see his newest child. In 1914 her mother, with six children and expecting her seventh, re¬ turned to England. But while she was on the ship home, the First World War was declared, and Margaret was never to see her father again. He died of pneumonia shortly after¬ wards. Margaret Homfray was educated at Basingstoke High SchooL It was there that she first heard of Maria Montes¬ sori —presented to her then as adreadftit woman who did not believe in punishing children. Later, as a teenager. Homfray visited a cousin in London who invited her to hear Dr Montessori speak. She was captivated and in 1930. at the age of 22. went to Rome to attend one of Montessori"5 training courses. Mussolini was for a short time in favour of the educator who was making Italy famous through¬ out the world, and Montessori students were invited to meet him. Margaret Homfray was later reprimanded by relatives for shaking his hand. Later in the 1930s Homfray was sent by the Foreign Office to Berlin to help to establish a less rigid system of education. The children there, she said, were punished so severely for disobedience they learnt to obey any orders rather than think for themselves. Their spirits were broken, and that, she surmised, was one of the reasons why Hitler had his way in Germany. He com¬ manded a whole country of obedient people. The Second World War saw the dispersal of several hun¬ dred British Montessori schools as buildings were put to new uses. But in 1946, Homfray invited Maria Mon¬ tessori. recently returned to Europe from India where she had spent the war years, to give a teacher training course in London. Shortly after¬ wards. Homfray teamed up with Phoebe Child, a friend with whom she had studied, and together they decided to find permanent premises for Montessori training, {footing their scant resources, they raised enough for a deposit and. though at that time single women were not allowed mortgages unless they had a male guarantor, Homfray managed to win round the loan officer and get what she wanted. In 1946 a combined Montes¬ sori school and teacher train¬ ing college. later to become St Nicholas Montessori (at one time the world's largest Mon¬ tessori training college) was opened. She and Phoebe Child acted as joint principals. One of her most important contributions to Montessori education was the corres¬ pondence course. This was begun when a Canadian mother with a Down's syn¬ drome child wrote to Homfray for help. For four years they kept up a correspondence. Homfray always ready with new ideas, instruction and advice. Despite the disapprov¬ al of more conventional col¬ leagues the correspondence course flourished, although it was not until the Open Univ¬ ersity made distance learning respectable that opposition subsided. Margaret Homfray retired in 1978. Within the year Phoe¬ be Child had had a stroke and for the rest of her life required constant care. Homfray raw this new responsibility as a privilege and cared for her until her death ten years later. Margaret Homfray newer married. LAST-DITCH STRUGGLE OF THE KU-KLUX-KLAN From Of Own Corr esp o n d en t Washington. March 28 The Ku-Klux-Klan, upon whidi President Johnson has declared war. is no longer the powerful, monolithic group of the 1920s, whose membership ran in the millions and whose political influence in the south was total. There are now a number of splinter organizations competing for legitimacy, of whidi the United Kims of America. Ino. Knights of the Ku-Khjx-Klan. is believed id be the hugest The Imperial Wizard of this organization is Mr. Robert Shelton, a former tyre salesman, and its headquarters is at Tuscaloosa, Alabama... When I attended a meeting addressed by Mr. Shelton in the summer of 1963 at the time that the University of Alabama was being de seg re ga ted, the KJan was a weary, dreary and ineffective organization that was appeal¬ ing far the preservation of law and order. However, there have been persistent reports since ten that the CSvil Rights Act of 1964 had galvanized the membership for one test-ditch struggle and the entire Klan is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which declined today to give any ON THIS DAY March 29,1965 At its peak in the mid-Twenties the Klan had an estimated Jour million members. By 1930 it had shrunk to fewer than 30XXX3. CKu-Klwr is derived from the Creek ’‘kuklosr — a "drinking vessel”.) details of its findings so hr. The Anti- Defamation League of Bnai Brilh. the Jewish organization, estimates that there are now about a dozen major Klaus with a total member sh ip of between 48,000 and 65.000. Mr. Shelton claims dial the laner figure is diser to the membership of his organization alone. The relatively mild image which he projects is in strict contrast to the more fiery Knights of the Ku-Klux-Klan, sometimes known as the North Florida Klan. led by Mr. Gene Fallow, of Jacksonville. Florida, or the Realm erf the Invisible Empire, which grew up against in Mississippi ai the end of 1963 ...These various splinter groups, of which there are now so many dial practically every member is an officer, are ail descended more or less directly from the Ku-Klux-Klan founded on Slone Mountain, near Atlanta, Georgia, in 1915. The moving spirit was Coland William J. Simmons, a preacher and promoter of fraternal orders, who described his creation as a high-dass. mystic, social and patriotic society devoted to die protection of white womanhood and the supremacy of white Protestants. This was a considerable elabora¬ tion of the original Ku-Klux-Klan, founded by six Confederate veterans in Pulaski. Tennes¬ see. on Christmas Eve. 1865k as a social dub. For a while the original Klan had a HaDoween spirit about it, but when it was realized that it could be used to terrify superstitious freed slaves h took on a more sinister role. In 1869 it had become a haven for such disreputable characters that the Grand Wizard. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, dissolved it. Genera] Forrest's Klan had confined itsdf. even at the worst, to murder and kidnapping aimed at Negroes and carpet-baggers, persons sent down from the north. Colonel Simmons, in
• added Roman Catholics, Jews, foreigners and organized labour to the list of enemies and for a while it flourished so much hs membership was five million... 22 CYPRUS THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 There is new hope for a Cyprus settlement. Inat^pagereport Peace talks to untie A! FOR FULL DETAILS OF CYPRUS’ FIVE-SIAR CONFERENCE FAdUTTES AND INCENTIVE PROGRAMMES THAT TOUR DELEGATES ARE SURE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH, CALL THE CYPRUS TOURIST OFFICE ON 0171 7349822. flood of foreign en¬ voys is expected in Nicosia, the world’s .last divided capital as the international commun¬ ity attempts once more this summer to untie the Gordian knot that is die Cyprus prob¬ lem, New elements have emerged that have convinced many there may be an oppor¬ tunity to end the island's cold war that has bogged down the United Nations peacekeepers for more than three decades. The most important is Cy¬ prus's looming accession to the European Union, which could take place as early as
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  Brussels, wiuch dreads the possibility of admitting a di¬ vided country. A European Union diplomat in Nicosia says; “By 2000 we must at least have progress towards a settlement" Relations between Europe and Turkey, which has 32,000 troops occupying northern Cyprus, were clarified by last December^ customs union agreement, and the Turkish Cypriots need a solution. The economy of their tiny twilight state; recognised by no government except the one in Ankara, is in dire straits. Aral after months of being rudderless, both Greece and Turkey have new Govern¬ ments. The United Stales has also declared 1996 the year of the “big push on Cyprus”. The islands division is one of the main bones of conten¬ tion between Greece and Tur¬ key, whose feuding under¬ mines Nate's important south¬ eastern flank. Both countries have troops in Cyprus. As well as Turkey's 32,000 mainland troops, there is a 3500-strong Turkish Cypriot force, and in the south there is the 10,000- strong Greek Cypriot Nat¬ ional Guard, reinforced by about 1800 mainland Greek officers and NCOs. The American push was due to start in February with high- profile shuttle diplomacy be¬ tween Athens, Ankara and Nicosia by Richard Hol¬ brooke. the Assistant Secre¬ tary of State who brokered foe Bosnian peace accords. He was diverted, however, by a Military checkpoint in Nicosia, flashpoint of the right-wing coup of summer 1974 4i: near Greco-Turldsh war in the Aegean in January over the tiny uninhabited island known as Imia to the Greeks and Kardak to the Turks. Last month, Mr Holbrooke left the State Department to return to Wall Street This caused little concern in Cyprus. After de¬ cades of failed initiatives, few Cypriots any longer believe in miracle men. President Clinton, the cynics argue, is going through the motions to placate the noisy Greek lobby in a US election year and will do nothing to upset Turkey. America's re¬ gional watchdog. But Wash¬ ington’s renewed interest seems to have galvanised Eu¬ ropean resolve. A senior UN official in Nicosia says: "After the Dayton conference [where the Bosnian deal was finalised!, the Europeans were concerned that another oppor¬ tunity to solve an essentially European problem was slip¬ ping out of their hands." In January, EU foreign min¬ isters chose their own Cyprus troubleshooter, Federico Di Roberto, Italy's former Amba¬ ssador to Moscow. A lull is likely while Greek Cypriots prepare for May parliamen¬ tary elections. Rauf Denktas. the Turkish Cypriot leader, wil] not receive visitors for two months while he recovers from a heart attack. American and European of¬ ficials emphasise that they will not come bearing separate peace plans but will give extra musde to well-known United Nations initiatives. Cyprus has been effectively divided on Orthodox: Greek Cypriot and Muslim Turkish Cypriot lines since foe summer of 1974. The colonels then ruling Athens backed a right-wing coup in Nicosia staged against Presi¬ dent Makanos on July 15. Among its leaders were men known to be fanatically anti- Turkish. Turkey, as one of foe guarantors of foe island’s in¬ dependence, cited treaty rights and intervened five days later by landing paratroopers and insisting that its action was to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority, which had often suffered from foe violent ex¬ cesses of right-wing Greek nationalists. w ifoin days foe coup collapsed, as did the Athens military junta. But foe Turkish troops stayed, turning their suppowd inter¬ vention into an invasion that was condemned internat¬ ionally. Eventually they con¬ trolled 37 per cent of foe island. Fearing for their safety, 180,000 Greek Cypriots fled from northern Cyprus and 45,000 Turkish Cypriots aban¬ doned their homes in the south. It left the Turkish Cypriots, about one in five of DEVELOPERS, in Nicosia, Limassol or Paphos, on die beach or on the hilltop. COSMO DEVELOPERS has maintained over the years an excellent record as a reliable and trustworthy company wide ■ Exceptional Projects • Innovative Design and Architecture • Unique Locations • Uncompromising Quality in Construction • Comprehensive After Sales Service

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• Cypriot officials are confident their flourishing economy already meets the Maastricht treaty's criteria for economic convergence. Last year especially saw impressive performance. There was 5-5 per cent real growth in the gross domestic product (GDP) and the fiscal deficit as a percentage of the GDP shrank to just 13 per cent The public debt was about 54 per cent of GDP. well below the 60 per cent pre¬ scribed by the Maastricht treaty. Inflation was 2.6 per cent and unemployment stands at about 2 per cent Pier capita income is more than $13,000 (about E8552). “Furthermore. we plan to liberalise our financial system and abolish exchange controls before EU entry," says Christodoulos Chrisrodoulou. the Finance Minister. The EU absorbs nearly 60 per cent of the Greek Cypriots' exports and supplies more than 50 percent of its imports. Not all Greek Cypriots wel- -ECONOMY Christodoulos Christodoulou come EU entry, particularly those involved in Traditionally protected sectors, the clothing and footwear industries, where small units and rising wages have made their prod¬ ucts increasingly uncompeti¬ tive against goods from Turkey and Portugal. Tourism remains the engine of the economy, although the Government is concerned about the over-reliance on a sector that can be buffeted by forces beyond the island's control. Last year more than rwo million iourists brought in revenue of £1,14 billion repre¬ senting 21 per cent of the island's gross domestic prod¬ uct and 43 per cent of total exports. It is to lessen this depen¬ dence that Cyprus is diversify¬ ing into other service industries. There are ambi¬ tious plans to make the island a regional centre. But it is offshore business that has seen the most dynamic growth, helped by a well- educated local workforce, be¬ nign tax climate, first-rate telecommunications and an English-based legal system. Offshore business brought in net receipts of £225 million last year, representing about a fifth of the revenue accruing from tourism. Big names us¬ ing Cyprus as a safe regional base for the Middle East and beyond include Barclays. NCR, Coca-Cola, Tetrapak and Reuters, whose Nicosia office handles stories filed from bureaux as far afield as Johannesburg and Tehran. These advantages go well beyond its fiscal regime and strategic location, says John Connell, senior manager at Barclays pic in Nicosia; “In its culture. Cyprus is a European country with Christian values, abundant alcohol, no hang¬ ups about dress or familiarity berween the sexes and exten¬ sive social integration between expatriates and locals." The fastest growth in this sector has been from interna¬ tional ship management com¬ panies such as Hanseatic and Columbia, based mainly in the bustling southern port of Limassol. A fifth of the world’s ships now’ fly the Cyprus flag. There has also been an astonishing rise in the number of companies and offshore banks establishing from Rus¬ sia and the Former Eastern bloc. At the same time, Cyprus has attracted several large Western concerns seeking a low-tax springboard into the newly emerging markets of Eastern Europe, led by Cana¬ dian and American oil services companies. The island's offshore sector will be on the bargaining ta ble at Cyprus’s EU membership talks. "Obviously, the low tax regime applying to the off¬ shore sector constitutes a state aid," Mr Christodoulou says. “Bui we plan to present our arguments in a way that will make it possible to keep this vital sector going." the population, holding nearly two fifths of the island. Main¬ land Turkish troops have en¬ forced the division ever since, with UN troops patrolling the buffer rone. An older genera¬ tion of bilingual Cypriots with a common, if troubled past, is dying, while the new genera¬ tions know each other only as potential enemies. That generation is headed by President Glafcos Clerides, 76, the Greek Cypriot leader and Rauf DenJktas. 73. his Turkish Cypriot counterpart. Both amiable. British-trained lawyers, they have sparred for three decades in failed inter- communal talks. Each has long accepted UN proposals to reunite the island under a bi¬ zonal federation, in which the Turkish Cypriots would re¬ turn some territory but re¬ main a majority in an area un¬ der their control. But the exact nature of that federation and sovereignty, territory, security guarantees and the return of refugees have bedevilled nego¬ tiations. ^Both sides, meanwhile, ap¬ peal to the outside world for one-sided sympathy. David D3in. the British High Commissioner, was recently pictured in a Greek Cypriot daily newspaper sporting a sketched-in fez after the For¬ eign Office was deemed to have made a pro-Turkish statement. Mr Denktas has often been seen as the intransigent party, but UN officials now sense a new realism in his outlook. It has become clear that his self- styled republic, declared uni¬ laterally 13 years ago. will not win recognition and is paying the terrible economic conse¬ quences of isolation. The EU diplomat in Nicosia says; "Behind the scenes, the two sides have grown closer on issues such as security, EU membership and sovereignty, and in private are showing more flexibility, which we hope can be translated into something positive." Painful compromises will have to be made by both sides which means, as one UN offic¬ ial put it, “when there is Finally a solution. 1 don t expect to see people dancing in the streets". Spicy cosmopolitan flavour adds to fun in the sun T here was a time not so long ago when a Brit¬ ish tourist in Cyprus could safely bet that the pool- side sun lounger next lo him was occupied by a fellow Briton. Now he may need Russian or Hebrew to strike up a casual conversation. For the tourism market, long dominated by visitors from the island's former colo¬ nial power, has developed a spicy cosmopolitan Savour with all the benefits that brings. Chicken Kiev and bortsdi have appeared on the menus of some holds which also list Jewish dishes for the growing number of Israelis making the trip to escape the pressure-cooker atmosphere at home. Homesick Britons need not fear it is still possible to get fish and chips and most cafes boast “full English breakfasts" on their pavement sijyis- The invasion of big-spend¬ ing Russians has also delighted the Greek Cypriots who are trying to lessen their dependence on the British market Last year 870,000 of the 23 million arrivals were from Britain. Perhaps because It was once a colony and most Cypriots speak English and drive on the left the island has a special attraction for the British, with many of them regular visitors. A substantial number have chosen to retire here. UK pensions received in Cyprus are liable for income tax at a nominal rate of 3 per cent and investment income abroad is taxed only on those amounts remitted to Cyprus. Property prices are lower than in Britain but steadily rising. Paphos, which has been recently spruced-up. offers a treasure trove of Roman an¬ tiquities and Byzantine churches. It is also a short drive from the wonderful Aka- mas peninsula, one of the Medi¬ terranean's last unspoilt forests, home to unique spedes of fauna and flora and whose pristine beaches are per¬ fect breeding grounds for rare turtles. A Papl Less than an sells« hour’s drive from Paphos are the pine- dad Troodos mountains where summer breezes are refreshingly cool and monas¬ teries are more common than hotels. It is into the mountain resorts of pretty towns like A Paphos priest sells oranges Platres. home to the wonderful Forest Park ho¬ tel. where Daphne Du Maurier wrote Rebecca, that the Cyprus Tourism Org¬ anisation (CTO) hopes to coax tourists in an attempt to re¬ lieve pressure on the overde- : priest vdoped cnast- tnges fine. The CTO. afraid that Cyprus may kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, is happier with fewer visitors provided those who do come spend more. It is unashamedly snob¬ bish. Lager louts from Brom¬ ley and backpackers from Berlin are not welcome. The former are unpleasant, the latter do not spend enough. To attract a higher dass of . visitor, or at least a bigger spending and more environ¬ mentally conscious one, Cyprus is promoting agro¬ tourism for those who do not wish merely to blister on the beach. As a result, villages that suffered from years of rural depopulation are being tastefully restored to attract visitors who want a more genuine experience of life in Cyprus, from the basic but delicious cuisine to earthy farm smells and the braying of donkeys. A national plan to market Cyprus as a golfing destina¬ tion has business consor¬ tiums. hoteliers and even the Church of Cyprus queueing up to take advantage. One 18- hole course Is already operat¬ ing near Paphos, two more are in the pipeline and per¬ mission will be given for another two. Legislation is being en¬ acted to allow plush casinos with glamorous floor shows. Marinas, to encourage nauti¬ cal tourism, and theme parks are also seen as the way ahead. Waterworid, a Dis- ney-style park with Greek mythology as its theme, is due to open in Ayia Napa next month. The Government has also imposed tight restrictions on building hotels. Once seen as an object lesson in what to avoid in tourist development, Ayia Napa will soon be caught up in the move to take tourism decidedly up¬ market The town's mayor says that when this summer season is over, Ayia Napa will do away with gaudy neon signs. This is undoubtedly the way ahead if the goose is to keep laying its golden eggs. Pathway through a minefield T he European Union, alarmed by the possibil¬ ity of having to usher in a country split by a Berlin- siyle wall, will launch a con¬ certed diplomatic offensive this summer to solve the long- running Cyprus problem. The Greek Cypriots are determined to enter Europe, wiih or without a solution. Culturally, as Orthodox Chris¬ tians, they feel European. More than anything, their motivation is political. Being part of Europe, they feel, would allow them to sleep securely in their beds without fear "of further Turkish expansionism. Cyprus's accession talks are due'to start at rhe beginning of 1998 and Iasi for about two years. By the year 2000, then. Brussels hopes there will be a How the European Union is working towards a solution Cyprus set¬ tlement, or ai least real pro¬ gress towards one, so that both Greek and Turkish Cypriots can enter under the umbrella of a reunited federal republic. “An unsolved Cyprus enter¬ ing the EU is a nightmarish possibility," says a European envoy. "Imagine all the polit¬ ical and legal nightmares that would bring." The European drive will be headed by Federico Di Roberto, Italy’s former Am¬ bassador lo Moscow. 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These talks are to start within six months of the end of the inter-governmental confer¬ ence on the EU which begins in Turin today. In return, Greece lifted its 14-year veto on developing ties between Turkey and the EU. A customs union between Brus¬ sels and Ankara started in January. Greek and Turkish Cypriots both hope the EU factor wfll persuade the other side to make concessions. The Greek Cypriots know entry will be vny difficult without a sol¬ ution — but not impossible, as the Turkish Cyp¬ riots are well aware. The Turks concern is missing the EU train if the Greek Cypriots board alone. Diplomats hope these pres¬ sures will result in more flexibili¬ ty all round. The EU has stopped short of saying it will not admit the Greek Cypriot adminis- EU conn rration before a Hans van settlement. To do so would effectively give the Turks a veto over Cypriot accession. The Greek Cypriots were immensely relieved when the Brussels position was clarified earlier this month by Hans van den Broek. the EU*s External Relations Com¬ missioner “Is membership possible without a solution? Yes. Is that preferable? No. Do we want another Berlin Wall in the Union? No. But at the same rime can we delay indefi¬ nitely the aspirations of the majority of ihe Cyprus people who want to be in the EU? No." The danger if Brussels de¬ lays Cyprus’s entry long after 2000 is that Greece could block the EU's enlargement eastwards. This concern has prompted keen interest in the Cyprus problem from Ger¬ many, now actively involved for the first time, and from France. Britain, as the former colonial power with strategic EU commissioner Hans van den Broek military bases on Cyprus, continues to play a key role In pressing for a settlement There are grounds for cau¬ tious optimism. The Turkish Cypriots were furious when Cyprus's application for EU entry was made in 1990 by the internationally recognised Greek Cypriot administration. They insisted the Greek Cypri¬ ots had no right to negotiate on their behalf a deal they feared could damage their interests. Rauf Denktas, the Turidsh Cypriot leader, threatened closer integration with Turkey if Cyprus acceded to the EU. He insisted that under agree¬ ments that gave Cyprus its independence, the island can only become a member of international organisations to which both motherlands be¬ long: effectively arguing that Cyprus can join Europe only after Turkey. Gradually, how¬ ever, EU envoys have managed to allay these fears and persuade most Turkish ! Cypriots of the j many political and economic advantages of joining the EU under a federal system with the Greek Cypriots. “Indeed, there tissioner are major advan- len Broek tages for the Turkish Cypriots if they join the EU in a united Cyprus," Gilles Anouil. the EU's Ambassador to Cyprus, says. Their security, he insists, would be enhanced as the EU would acknowledge any guar¬ antees given under a United Naiions-sponsored peace deal, even if this included Turkish troops remaining on the island a s part of an international force. Turidsh Cypriots would also have their identity as a specific community recognised internationally. “And crucially, northern Cyprus would be a vacuum for investment. There would be a huge boosr to its economy — tourists and capital would pour in,” M Anouil says. International isolation and a European Union ban on trade with northern Cyprus has meant that the per capita income there is just $3300 (£2300), Httle more than a quarter of what it is in the booming south. THE TIMES TODAY FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 Meat from cattle at risk banned ■ An emergency ban on the sale of meat from cattle most at risk of “mad cow" disease was announced as John Major prepared to appeal to his European partners to lift the worldwide blockade on British beef. Unveiling the first moves in the Government’s increasingly frenzied efforts to restore public confidence. Douglas Hogg promised a £15 million a week subsidy for renderers disposing of waste and £50 million to prop up prices-Pages £ 12,13 ‘Spiteful’ bank must pay £81,000 ■ A City bond dealer who claimed that the world’s biggest bank set out to wreck her reputation and her career after she took it to an industrial tribunal was awarded £81.000 compensation. 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  7 5i 7 quoting ref: TILS m e I lj?p FOCUS 32-34 Bournemouth airport goes international tmtoimeCB XTT7WK . J27 £ 0 $ ARTS 35-37 SPORT 42-48 THE FINAL Cheryl Studer turns 1 - A Eddie Irvine: STAGE OF Strauss to silver breathing life TESTING xr m at Covent Garden into Formula One Education 39 BUSINESS EDITOR Lindsay Cook FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 Anger over ‘savage’job cuts Merged utility to cut an extra 1,700 workers UNITED UTILITIES, the group formed from North West Water and Norweb electricity, is to cut 1,700 more jobs by integrating the two operations. The company also an¬ nounced that water charges will rise 5.8 per cent this year, while electricity charges win go up 4.9 per cent While other water bills have risen this year, the electricity price hike flies in the face of other price announcements. The job cuts are planned to be voluntary, with workers offered packages of between £20,000 and £50,000. They wflj be staged over the next three years and will cost the company £104 million. The cuts come on top of 800 losses announced alter the merger. The future is also uncertain for a further 4.500 staff in operations that United said yestotlay it planned to selL Labour and Unison, the broad-based union represent¬ ing a large percentage of workers at the merged utility condemned the move. Mich¬ ael Meacher. Shadow Em¬ ployment Secretary, said: "When the utilities were privatised, the Tories prom¬ ised the public that putting together gas, water and elec¬ tricity companies would make for efficiency and a better service to the consumer. In fact it has led to rising water charges, wholesale job losses for front-line staff and huge fat-cat salary rises for senior managers.” Mite Jeram. Unison’s head of energy, said: “Our worst fears have come true today. This level of cuts is a savage blow to our members." He added: “This is a highly profit¬ able company and die real By Christine Buckley reason for these cuts is bigger profits and dividends.” The company said that it regretted die losses but that there were substantial cost savings to be made on the merger which, said Brian Staples, chief exec¬ utive, exceeded intia] hopes. United expects to mate sav¬ ings of £140 million a year cmce the integration of the two operations is complete. That estimate is 40 per cent ahead of the expectations when North West Water took over its electricity neighbour. The The heavy price of privatisation MORE than 42,000 jobs have been lost in the eJedririty industry since it was privatised. The water industry has seen the loss of nearly 11,000 workers since the 10 main companies were sold. British Gas has shed 25,000 workers and recently an¬ nounced plans for further cuts.- British Telecommunications has cut more than 1001000 since it went info private hands. company will also sell some businesses including its retail operation and investment in generating plant in disposals that it expects to deliver E350 million. The benefits of cost savings will go entirely to sharehold¬ ers until the year 2000 when the next regulatory review on pricing will set tougher stan¬ dards that should bring price cuts. In the meantime United has told the water and electric¬ ity regulators that it will offer spontaneous paybacks to cus¬ tomers if the merger of the two companies delivers greater than expected savings — as it is proving to da However, it wll be a gentleman’s agree¬ ment and effectively in the hands of the company. Even after 2000, benefits will be delivered to customers only on a transitional basis with half the gains from acquisition still liable to be returned to shareholders. Mr Staples said that one-off returns to customers were likely but would not elaborate. United's sale programme for its businesses includes Norweb Retail and follows a trend by electricity companies to bad out of retail operations. It is also selling the water division's process equipment and the company’s interest in generation. Mr Staples said he was not convinced of the benefits of vertical integration to electricity companies de¬ spite the movement by the generators to acquire regional companies. The shake-up comes as the company has finalised its pro¬ gramme for the merger of the dectridty and water operations and is ahead of its results for
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  a provision of £173 million made against long-term power pur¬ chase contracts made by Norweb at the two power sta¬ tions which United is its selling interests in. The results will also show a dry weather provision of £25 million for extra costs in the water business after last years drought The company is putting £75 million info its water division which has a leakage rate of about 26 per cenL Pennington, page 27 BT merger talks with C&W reopen By Eric Reguly CABLE AND WIRELESS said last night that it had reopened merger talks with BT to create one of the world's largest telecoms groups. The statement came after C&W shares rose 34p to 511*2 p, setting a high for the year. C&W said that “some exploratory discussions are being held with British Telecommunications which may or may not lead to the merger of the two companies.” Neither company would give details. It is thought that C&W has also held informal talks with AT&T. America’s largest long-distance phone company. AT&T, like BT, is attracted to C&W because of its strong presence in Asia, where it owns 575 per cent of Hong Kong Telecom. The merger talks began in secret late last year. C&W was forced to announce two weeks ago that the talks had collapsed. It gave no reason, but sources dose to the negotiations said C&W balked at the merger proposal when BT refused to consider a deal that valued C&W shares al more than about 55Gp. When the talks began. C&W shares were trading at about 42Dp. It is now understood that informal contacts between the companies contin¬ ued. despite the statements put out fay C&W and BT earlier this month. Their financial advisers are said to have continued working on the prqjecL C&W's adviser is Goldman Sadis, the US investment bank. The man beading the team is Richard Sharp, the Goldman Sadis managing director who is sen of Lord Sharp, the former chairman of C&W. BTS adviser is NM Rothschild. The two companies are now discuss¬ ing various issues, including the value and the structure of the deal. During the last round of meetings at board level, BT was said to be willing to value C&W at some premium, but was not prepared to add a significant amount. The companies, however, had readied an agreement in principle on the structure of the merger. It was to be done through a reverse takeover, in which C&W would have issued new shares to acquire the much larger BT. BT proposed this because it wanted to avoid the £6 billion expense of having to buy out the minority shareholders of Hong Kong Telecom. Under Hong Kong stock exchange rules, a takeover of C&W would force the new owner to b uy out the minority shareholders. Pennington, page 27 Business Today

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  denotes midday trading price In fighting Britain's business prospects are being damaged by continuing Conservative Party in-fighting over Europe, as the inter-governmental conference on the future of Europe opens in Turin. The Institute of Management has found that 63 per cent of managers believe that the continuing disagreements within the Conservative Party over Europe are adversely affecting business. Page 26 Solid figures Blue Circle, the building group that last month said it would cut up to 1,300 jobs, yesterday reported a pre-tax profit of E263.S million for last year, compared with £184.4 million in 1994. Page 27 Eidos buys games company ETDOS. the computer technology and games company, has agreed to buy CentreGold. the games software publisher, in a £172 million all-share deal (Eric Reguly writes). It will be funded by a £23.8 million rights issue. The announcement came shortly after Centre- Gold’s shares started trad¬ ing after their suspension al 37p in early February for failure to publish full- year financial results. The deal values CentreGold shares at 40p. well below their issue price of 123p in 1993. The shares peaked at 165p, then began to slump when demand switched to more ad¬ vanced games based on CD-Roms. Charles Cornwall chief executive of Eidos. said CentreGold has made the conversion and now has a strong list of software re¬ leases on CD-Rom format Eidos had an operating loss of £695.000 in the half year to the rad of January, compared with an £11.4 million loss in the 12 months to August RJB announces buy-back as profits exceed forecasts THE first annual figures from Britain's privatised coal indus¬ try raced ahead of forecasts when RJB, the company which bought the bulk of British Coal’s English collier¬ ies, produced pre-tax profits of E173.1 million. Increased electricity de¬ mand and greater cost savings than expected meant that sales and pre-tax profits to Decem¬ ber 31 were sharply up on projections made in RIB'S prospectus when it was about to buy the pits. Britain's biggest coal pro¬ ducer also announced plans for a £100 million share buy¬ back. Richard Budge, chief executive, said: “We are in a position to give something back to the people who invest¬ ed in us and took the risks so that is what we Intend to do.” It has £55 million of acquisi¬ tion debt left after paying bade £313 million last year and is 49 per cent geared. The company plans to repay the remainder of the debt by April next year. RJB cut production costs 5 per cent further than it had forecast, taking its cost of producing coal to 121p a By Christine Buckley gigajoule, which is about 4p below some estimates. RJB is under pressure to bring down coal costs ahead of renegotiat¬ ing contracts with electridty generators. Its contracts with National Bower and Power- Gen expire in 1998. Electricity demand in¬ creased 2.6 per cent last year, against a forecast rise of IS percent. increased use spread throughout the year, boosted by more use of air condition¬ ing and refrigeration in the summer. There was also an unexpected demand from gen¬ erators. Last year, before the British Coal purchase, RJB produced pre-tax profits of £16.09 million. The final dividend, payable on May 24. is 103p, making a total of 16p and a rise of 28 per cent Tempos, page 28 Ridiairi Bodge Is to buy bade shares to reward investors Loans hint at revival in housing By Janet Bush ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT FURTHER tentative signs of recovery in the housing mar - ket emerged yesterday with figures showing higher bank mortgage leading and an en¬ couraging rise in new mort¬ gage approvals. The British Bankers’ Associ¬ ation said major banks made grass loans of £1.54 billion in February, 3 per cent up im Jan¬ uary. Net lending, which has the advantage of being season¬ ally adjusted, rose by £631 mB- tioo, compared with a rise of £578 million in January. New approvals were well up on January, rising by 32 per cent This jump mostly reflected seasonal factors, but was stfll a much better perfor¬ mance than last year, suggest¬ ing an underlying improve¬ ment. Between January and February last year, approvals were up only 14 per cenL Tim Sweeney, the Director- General of the BBA, said that banks appeared to have gained market share from building societies, but he also said that there appeared to have been a modest firming in the housing market CableTel to buy NTL in £235m deal By Eric reguly US-OWNED International CableTel agreed yesterday to buy NTL the broadcast and communications services provider, in a deal marking the cable in¬ dustry’s first significant diversification. CableTel the third-iargest cable com¬ pany, is to acquire NTL debt-free for E20G million cash plus a payment of up to £35 Bullion in a year’s time. The price represents a hefty return for Mercury Development Capital, which awns 78 per cenL It paid about £70 million for its state in 1991. when NTL then owned by the Independent Broad¬ casting Authority, was privatised. NTL is best known for having built the broadcasting network for 1TV and Channel 4 and most of foe commercial radip stations, and is constructing the broadcasting system for Channel 5. It also sef up a national telecomm uni ca¬ nons network by installing microwave radio links between its transmission mast sites. CableTel. whose shares are listed on America's Nasdaq market, has 58,000 cable TV and telephony customers in franchises ranging from Northern Ire¬ land to West Surrey. Those franchises contain 13 million homes and it exp¬ eas to complete its network by the turn of the century at a cost of £12 billion. CableTel and NTL said their merg¬ er. in effect, would create a mim-BT. Barclay Knapp. CableTel"s chief execu¬ tive, said: “We’re putting together a local and national network, like BT, except ours will have high-capacity broadband capability.” They said they plan to offer a full range of voice, video and data trans¬ mission services to business and resid¬ ential customers and may eventually offer high-speed Internet access links. Pennington, page 27 YOUR PENSION: IN YOUR OWN TIME, IN YOUR OWN WAY A Merchant Investors pension, is an easy, convenient and flexible pension. The charges are low. • Invest what you want, when you want Pay no commission when youbuydirecL No sales person will bother you. Jj j CALL NOW ON 0800 374857 FOR A BROCHURE mwfinga tafliinknm foraimted icondMora.
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u % Te Ni Ge VA Te 26 BUSINESS NEWS Managers hit at Tory fighting on Europe By Philip Bassett, industrial editor BRITAIN'S business pros¬ pects are being damaged by continuing Conservative Party in-fighting over Europe, UK managers say today as the inter-governmental confer¬ ence on the future of Europe opens in Turin. Sixty-three per cent of man¬ agers believe that the contin¬ uing disagreements within the Conservative Party over Europe are adversely affecting the UK's business relation¬ ships in Europe, according to a survey carried out by the Institute of Management Furthermore. 64 per cent of managers, surveyed by the institute in conjunction with BBC TV'S Business Breakfast, say that the adaption by the Government of a dearly Euro- soepticai agenda would dam¬ age British business. The survey, of a representative Coventry rewards customers THE Coventry Building Society is to return half its animat profits to custom¬ ers in a £20 million pack¬ age of mortgage cuts and improved savers’ rates (Anne Ashworth writes). The move is designed to affirm the thirteenth larg¬ est society’s commitment to mutuality. Another aim is to retain borrowers in the mortgage war between lenders by giving loyal customers bettor deals. About 40.000 borrowers who have been with the society for five years or more wifi see their mort¬ gage rate reduced by 0.76 per cent to 6.49 per cent. The rates on 575,000 Coventry variable rate sav¬ ings accounts will be raised by up to 05 per cent sample of almost 400 senior managers, shows that Brit¬ ain’s business leaders are strongly pro-Europe, with as many as 79 per cent support¬ ing doser economic union with the EU. However, they are sceptical about political union, with 52 per cent against it The study shows majority support for a referendum on the UK's participation in a single currency, with 51 per cent in favour. However, support for a single currency itself is more finely balanced. The findings are awkward for the Government but sup¬ port business organisations such as tiie Confederation of British Industry that insist that the intergovernmental conference must place compet¬ itiveness at the top of its agenda for Europe. Managers remain divided on the issue of a single currency. Some business org¬ anisations, such as the Insti¬ tute of Directors, claim strong opposition among company leaders to a single currency, but the institute’s survey is in line with others in suggesting that business opinion is divid¬ ed. with 43 per cent in favour and 44 per cent against. However, institute offirials point out that this may repre¬ sent a “warming” of opinion towards a single currency, since in a similar survey six months ago. only 39 per cent were in favour, with 46 per cent against Managers remain con¬ cerned about the cost of some European proposals, in partic¬ ular the EU's social agenda. However, there is support for one issue ministers that insist is contentious — the introduc¬ tion of European-style works councils. The idea that they should be adopted in the UK is supported by 47 per cent of managers, with only 30 per cent against Queens Moat cuts £56m from its losses By Alasdair Murray QUEENS MOAT HOUSES, the hotel group, yesterday un¬ veiled a cut in foil-year losses excluding exceptionals to £25 million, from £59 millioa in 1994, helped by an improved operating performance. However, the company re¬ mains heavily in debt in spite of last year's £15 billion refinancing package, with net liabilities of £196 millioa and net debt only slightly reduced at £1 billion. However, Andrew Coppei. chief executive, insisted that the company was meeting the terms of its financing package and would continue to do so through increased operating profits and further disposals. It would also “explore one or two avenues towards repackaging the balance sheer. He was cautiously optimistic about this year's prospects, with farther growth expected in the UK. The group has been the sub¬ ject of bid rumours in recent weeks, with the Bard ay broth¬ ers and S tain's the leisure group, mentioned. Earlier this week, it emerged that a Swiss investment firm. Incentive In¬ vestment. had taken a IL2 per stake. However, Mr Coppei said that Queens Moat had not received an approach from any potential buyer. Full-year operating profits rose fay 27 per cent, to £44.7 million, aided by higher room yields in the UK and The Netherlands. Overall turn¬ over rose by 6 per cent, to £454 million. There is no dividend. Revaluation resulted in a 6.4 percent frke-fbr-Iike rise in the value of the group’s hotels, to £8913 million. Andrew Coppei says that Queens Moat Houses will be making more disposals Pennington, page 27 Central Statistical Office bows out By Janet Bush ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT FAREWELL to the Central Statistical Office. Hello to the grandly titled Office for Nat¬ ional Statistics. Today is the last day of independence for the CSO, set up by Winston Churchill in 1941 in the same building as the War Cabinet in Horse- guards Road. He wanted reli¬ able statistics to that he could properly harness the economy to the war effort From Monday, the CSO merges with the Office of Population Censuses & Sur¬ veys as the new ONS. The national importance of good statistics is still being emphasised, more than 50 years on. Dr Tim Holt the dynamic head of the CSO who now becomes chief executive of the ONS. said: "Statistics are a cornerstone of democra¬ cy." He said he wanted, to overcome the average Briton's fears of figures by making them easier to use. more relevant and more easily understood. The new office will, for the first time, create a single institution which will give a complete statistical picture of social and economic life in Britain. The array of publica¬ tions on offer is extraordinary, from a definitive guide to the popularity of first names to Housing Deprivation and So¬ cial Change and the National Diet and Nutrition Survey , as well as aff the key economic statistics. There is one unfortunate statistic which greets the new merger. Like most other sec¬ tions of Whitehall, there will be job losses. The ONS expects to lose about 200 posts. But the new statistics powerhouse will still employ 3,400. THE SUNDAY TIMES CENSORS FAIL US C The British Board of Film Classification is intellectually inconsistent, socially confused and institutionally perverse J Bryan Appleyard, Feature Writer of the Year, on why film and video censorship isn’t working — in The Culture on Sunday 5,000 TICKETS FOR MIGHTY APHRODITE Woody Allen’s latest movie, Mighty Aphrodite, which produced a best supporting actress Oscar for Mira Sorvino (pictured), hits Britain next month. The Sunday Times has 2,500 pairs of tickets to bewon for pre-release screenings around the country PLUS Snap up videos of classic movies for just £2.99 including post and packing Profits at Booker rise to £82m A strong performance by its cash & caijy and salmon fanning businesses helped to lift 1995 pre-tax profits at Booker, the food group, to £828 million (£695 millioa). The company said that it has a low exposure to the beef business, so the BSE scare should have little impact on its profitability. Its much larger fish business may ben¬ efit if the public alters its diet. Booker is recommending a full-year dividend of 23-lp per share, up from 22.4p. Its shares rose 13p to 395p yesterday. C hin a venture Grand Metropolitan, the drinks company, has formed a joint venture with Qufu, the state-owned Chinese distill¬ ery, to produce and market its spirits in China. It will invest about £18 million in a new joint company which win be 67 per cent owned by Interna¬ tional Distillers and Vintners, its spirit subsidiary.;’Produc¬ tion is expected by November. Roskel ahead Roskel the specialist building products group, lifted pre-tax profits to £2.7 million (£1.7 million) in 1995. Earnings were 1059p (6.49p) a share. The total dividend rises to 4-6p (43p). with a final 33p due on July I. Shares rose lOp to 112p. Buyer sought Vaux Group, the brewing, public houses and hotels group, is seeking a buyer for St Andrews, its care home business which comprises 35 homes. Last year the business made pre-tax profits of £46 million on turnover of £203 million. Vaux said options include a management buyout Water price rise Water and sewerage bills in England and Wales will rise 23 per cent on average this year. Ian Byatf, the regulator, said the figure — which included rebates paid by com¬ panies — showed an encour¬ aging deceleration In the increases in bills. Hie rise takes the average household bill to £218. Deutsche Bank plans to expand By Patricia Tehan BANKING CORRESPONDENT DEUTSCHE BANK plans to spend DM700 million ex¬ panding its investment bank¬ ing business this year, up from DM400 million in 1995. Deutsche merged its inter¬ national investment banking operations with those of Mor¬ gan Grenfell in October 1994 and put them under the new Deutsche Morgan Grenfell name in June last year. Since the start of last year, the company has hired 200 staff. Hflmar Kopper, chief execu¬ tive of Deutsche Bank, said: "In investment banking, we plan special expenditure of around DM DM700 million in

1996. particularly for staff." The bank does not produce separate figures for DMG. However, it said securities, foreign exchange and deriva¬ tives trading profits doubled to DM2 billion. DMG worked on See- board’s £1.6 billion offer for Central & South West Corpo¬ ration and ScottishPower’s EJ.J billion bid for Manweb last year. Deutsche Bank’s net profits were 235 per cent higher at DM2.1 billion. Q Last year’s acquisition of Barings held back banking profits for ING, the Dutch financial services group. They were 15 per cent higher at 2.65 billion guilders (£[.05 billion). Australia $ Austria Sch _ Belgium Fr — CanadaS_ Cyprus CypE . Den ma rk Kr Friland Mkk ... Fiance J=r, Ge g— gPm . Hang Kangs' Intend P|.. Israel ShK.. Italy Lin... Japan Yen. Malta Neferids&d New Zealand $ Noway Kr Portugal Esc . S Africa Fta_ Spain Pta_ Sweeten Kr_ Swteeriand Fr Turkey Lira_ USAS_ Bar* Boys 2.04 1&S0 4942 2.182 0.750 9J34 7.63 8.12 2.41 389.00 1239 1-02 5.1400 2508.00 17620 0.588 2.681 2JS9 10.41 244.50 EGO 197.00 10.75 1.96
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1999. BUSINESSROUNDUR LL- - British Energy float cheaper for public TtTTTrrv npr rent of the shares of British Eger THIRTY per company fcmed S*aTt&un. when the industry, will he offered P , he professional business ant is likely investors will have to pay wui “ ““ incentives, yet to be the offer for private

      ^{S^^b^ntiSfr™rr JffaS billion to build the Sizewell B generating plant, which has recently been commissioned. Bank to cut 150 jobs THE Bank of England is to cut 150 jobs and close four of hs five regional branches after deciding to banknote activity in a single cash centre in will end its cash-handling m Birmingham. Bristol, Manchester and Newcastle, opting forihe one northern site and one southern operation, split between London and Debden. Essex. The Bank plans to maintain agencies in each of the cities to monitor economic trends, and to open agenare in Cardiff, Nottingham and Greater London, making l- in all. Graseby falls back GRASEBY. the electronic instrumentation company, has promised to return to profit growth this year after a 40 F* r cent fell in foil-year profits for 1995 to £6 million. The company was hit by teething problems with its new product- monitoring equipment and by a £2.1 million charge for the termination of contracts in its environmental division. Overall turnover was flat at £94 million. The total dividend is unchanged, at 6.6p. with a final dividend of 3.9p payable on May 28. The company’s shares rose by 1.5p. to I20p. Senior moves ahead SENIOR ENGINEERING, the specialist international engi¬ neering group, achieved a 40 per cent rise in profits from con¬ tinuing operations in 1995 and said it entered 1996 with excel¬ lent order books. At the pre-tax level, profits rose to £22.13 million, from £18.1 million, after a £7 million charge against the settlement of a dispute with Slough Trading Estates and a El million write-off after the disposal of an Australian subsid iaiy. Earnings were 5.04p a share (4J8p). The total dividend rises to 3.6p a share from 3.4p. with a final 223p due on June 5. Jobs boost at L&G MORE than 400 jobs will be created in Cardiff over the next three years as Legal & General establishes its UK-wide phone sales and advice centre in the dty. The company’s £10 million investment is assisted by a £2 million regional selective grant from die Welsh Office. Recruitment is expected to begin after Easter. The centre will provide advice on a wide variety of Legal & General products including investments, private health insurance, mortgages, life insurance and pensions. Gas output at new high OFFSHORE gas output rose by nearly 7 percent last month ro its highest level yet, helped by the cold weather and increased demand from gas-fired power stations. Its low price also led to increased demand from industrial users. The biggest rise in output came in the Morecambe field, which accounted for 17 per cent of production. The figures, in the Royal Bank of Scotland’s North Sea ail and gas index report, showed that oil production last month fell by 03 per cent to 257 million barrels aday. Baird profits dive PROFITS at William Baird, the clothing company that is a supplier to Marks & Spencer, fell sharply to £103 million before tax in 1995 from £25.1 million previously, affected by a tough trading environment, an increase in raw material prices, and abnormal weather patterns. There was a £93 million charge against restructuring. The total dividend is held at 9_35p a share, with an unchanged 5.Sp final due on July 4, payable from earnings of 5.4p (143p). Germany pegs rates THE Bundesbank yesterday left key German interest rates unchanged. At its policy-making council meeting, the last before the German central bank’s Easter break, the discount rate was kept at 3 per cent, the Lombard emergency financing rate at 5 per cent and the key money market repurchase rate at 33 per cent. The M3 measure of money supply grew at an annualised rate of 12.6 per cent in February, well above the 7 per cent ceiling of a target range. . . The 170th Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held in the Head Office, 3 George Street, Edinburgh on Tuesday 23 April 1996 at 2.30pm. A member entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint a proxy to attend and vote. A proxy need not be a member. By order of the Board of Directors O M Simpson Secretary Edinburgh. 28 March 1996 Policyholders ma y obtain a copy of the Annual and Accounts, including the agenda, by' writing e Customer Service information Team at P0 Box 1 Tan} lci ' Edinburgh EH3 SRG or by telephoning I 11 245 2668. Proxy forms may- be similarly obtained py members entitled to vote. STAN DARD LIFE SfJ--' ,1‘ v ■ r t ? til fe; rct-:r ■\v! -.4- ? F,. ( THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 BUSINESS NEWS 27 □ The triumph of United Utilities □ Zooming in on a once unpopular sector □ Hotels group struggles to return to normal □ THERE are times when it is impolite to boast too loudly about a success, and times when it can be downright dangerous. You do not have to be a newly unemployed electrician pound¬ ing the streets of Manchester in search of a job to feel unhappy about yesterday's display of ruth¬ less cost-cutting from the local water and electricity company. Previous waves of job losses in electricity in the five years since privatisation were to benefit shareholders and customers alike. By contrast, die £140 million in cost cuts by the year 2000 trumpeted by United Util¬ ities win go almost in their entirety to investors, in the form of dividends running at least 11 per cent above inflation. There is only an informal promise to share any unexpected bounty from the merger, over and above that level, with customers. The bills for water and power will continue to climb, under the existing regulatory regime that will not change until the millen¬ nium. Only then will the cus¬ tomers start to see some reward from Sir Desmond Pitcher’s grand dream. This was, it must Be admitted, derided by many when announced last year, and yesterday’s triumphal pro¬ cession was clearly designed to show that the financial advan¬ tages will be far higher than even the optimists then envisaged. The dangers of success On a more negative tack, the merger has left United Utilities with hefty debt and the need to raise Q50 million by the sale of a rag-bag of former Norweb busi¬ nesses to keep this under control. What price, in today’s trading climate, for a collection of shops selling electricity appliances? Even Hanson, after all, was reduced to giving them away. The consequence of the cre¬ ation of this monster in the North West will almost certainly be more water/power mergers, if only because shareholders will demand nothing less. The rise in United Utilities’ share price yes¬ terday with which the City celebrated the mass sackings was matched by another jump for Hyder, the renamed Welsh Water-South Wales Electricity amalgam. This message will not be lost on others in both sectors, especially those in areas like London and Yorkshire where the local water and electricity com¬ panies make a good overlap. Likewise Eastern, once de¬ merged from Hanson, might take an interest in Anglia Water. And yet And yet. Any utility with any sense has of late been trying to look as benign and cuddly as possible in the eyes of a possible future labour govern¬ ment The current electricity regulator has shown himself willing to redraw' his pricing regime if he feels he did not get it right first time around. New Labour, if in government will have the perfect ideological excuse to tighten the screw — indeed, most market strategists are factoring a harsher dimate for the utilities into their recom¬ mendations for investing under a Blair government Snouting from the rooftops about just how good you are at sacking people might not look too clever then. Cable no longer a pipe-dream □ THE cable business, hitherto seen as a disaster waiting to happen, is showing some star¬ tling signs of life. International CableTel is pay¬ ing as much as £235 million for NTL. Several international phonegjants, among them Deut¬ sche Telekom and AT&T, may end up squabbling over PENNINGTON Video iron, the cable operator whose franchises cover the City of London and Westminster. The very idea of a bidding war seemed absurd a few months ago, when every cable share was trading at well below its issue price. Some were even wonder¬ ing if the various parents, mostly American and Canadian, would have to give the franchises away to avoidf additional billions in capital expenditures with no returns in sight So what has changed? The telecoms and media industries are coming to the conclusion that direct access to the residen¬ tial consumer is the key. They may be right Mercury is strug¬ gling precisely because it lacks that access. For years it has debated linking with the cable companies bur did not act quickly enough. Similarly, BT. now back in talks with Cable and Wireless, has come to regret selling most of its cable fran¬ chises. True, it has the most extensive network, but one that is largely composed of iowcapadty copper lines. To work well, services such as video-on-de- mand need to be hooked into a high-caparity broadband net¬ work or die sort that the cable companies are close to creating. On that basis, the cable com¬ panies are rare commodities. Any company that wants to build a multimedia business in Britain can no longer afford to ignore them. This is why Deutsche Telekom and AT&T are so in¬ terested in Videotron. A cable company would provide them with a quick way into the market and a platform to create a business to compete with BT. The impending merger of CableTel and NTL is a variation on the same theme. The two companies can combine a nat¬ ional transmission system with residential access. Think of it as a smaller version of BT. The cable sector's darkest days may now be behind it Digging up all those streets is starting to make sense. Queens Moat in a quandary □ WE are getting used to having the former walking dead, the Cordiants and WPPs, back among us restored to rude health. But Queens Moat Houses has shown that not every financial restructuring has a happy ending. The company is in a quandary. Three years ago it was bust, the shares heading for a long suspension. Last year's debt-for- equity swap still left Queens Moat with £1 billion-plus of borrowings, and little chance of paying it off through assets sales, as the last property valuation threw up a total worth that was short of £900 million. The obvious way out, as dem¬ onstrated by Cordiant late last year, is a rights issue. But Queens Moat as yet lacks the earnings recovery to buttress such an issue. Last year, but for Shake-up at Slough Estates Sir Nigel Mobbs is giving up the role of chief execu¬ tive of Slough Estates in a management shake-up of the industrial properly group, but will remain executive chairman. Roger Carey, joint managing di¬ rector, is leaving the com¬ pany while Derek Wilson, also joint managing direc¬ tor, is being promoted to chief executive. The boardroom reshuf¬ fle was announced as Slough revealed a 10.5 per cent rise in profits to £70.7 million, but the value of the investment portfolio is down3.1 percent Slough's net asset value fell from 276p to 266p, and the full year dividend rises 4.9 per cent to 85p per share. Gehe bid referred The £650 million takeover bid by Gehe. the German drug wholesaler, of Brit¬ ain’s Lloyds Chemists, has been referred to the Mo¬ nopolies and Mergers Commission by John Tay¬ lor. the Competition Min¬ ister. The MMC will consider the bid alongside the rival £623 million offer by UniChem, Britain’s third-biggest chemist, which was referred to the commission last month. Packager up Macfariane Group (Clans¬ man). the packaging group based in Glasgow, lifted pretax profits to £21.2 mil¬ lion last year from £16.3 million in 1994. Turnover was 36 per cent higher at £158.6 million- Raw mate¬ rial prices were higher and acquisitions made a £9.8 million contribution. Earnings rose lo I2.03p a share (9.1p). The total divi¬ dend rises 24.6 per cent to 3.9p a share, with a final 2^»p due on May 30. Landfill business sale boosts Blue Circle profit BLUE CIRCLE, the building and heating group which last month said it would cut up to 1,300 jobs, yesterday reported a pre-tax profit of £263.8 million for last year, com¬ pared to £184.4 million in 1994. Its results were boosted by a £54 million gain on the sale of hs landfill business to South West Water last July. Against this. £55 million was set aside to overhaul its heating business, including £30 million for re¬ dundancy payments, and £8 By Sarah Cunningham million for its bathrooms busi¬ ness. In 1994 the company's results were depressed by an exceptional charge of E59.4 million. The company is rec¬ ommending a foil-year divi¬ dend of IZ5p. up from Il.75p last year. Its shares rose 12p to 335p. responding to the com¬ pany's stated determination to turn hs heating business around. As widely predicted, heating was its worst performer last year, making an operating PETER TnEVNOfl Sir Peter Walters, chairman, with Keith Orrell-Jones profit of £17.1 million com¬ pared to £42.4 in 1994. Blue Circle blamed difficult mar¬ kets in the UK and continental Europe. It said that restructur¬ ing should mean savings of £9 million this year and E25 million per year thereafter. It would not comment on its plans for job cuts, saying complex negotiations were continuing. The UK cement division made a marginally higher operating profit last year, up 1.9 per cent to £65,3 million, despite lower volumes. Blue Circle, which is putting its cement prices up on April 1, said it expects the market to improve in the second half of this year, as the demand for new houses increases. In the US. operating profits were up 30.7 per cent to E633 million, helped by a building boom around Atlanta, Geor¬ gia as it prepares for this summers Olympics. Other markets, including Chile, Ma¬ laysia. Singapore and Africa, brought in good returns. The company's bathrooms business, which includes Armitage Shanks and Qualitas and Italy’s Ceramiea Dolomite, saw operating prof¬ its up 6.3 per cent to £27 million despite difficult mar¬ ket conditions. “We managed to turn bath¬ rooms around and are absoloutely confident that we , can do the same with heating." Keith Orrell-Jones. chief exec¬ utive. said. Mr Orrell-Jones added that | the company had “an open . mind about acquisitions". He I said it would be unlikely to make any major buys, but was looking actively in various parts of the world for small- scale opportunities. Morrison upbeat on 9.5% rise WM MORRISON, the supermarket chain, was up¬ beat on prospects yesterday as it unveiled a 9 5 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £127.1 million in the 53 weeks to February 4 (Sarah Bagnali writes). Turnover topped £2 bil¬ lion for the first time, up from £1.8 billion to £2.1 billion, Ken Morrison, chairman, said: “It is pleas¬ ing to state that this was achieved in a period of extreme price competition. We look forward to the future with confidence.” Without the extra week, sales rose 16 per cent with like-forJike sales up 2.9 per cent The final dividend of i.I25p. payable on May 15. makes a total for the year of lAp. Earnings per share rose 7.7 per cent to 10.67p. Shares rose 3*ap to IMbp. Buoyant Next talks of growth By Sarah Bagnall debt forgiveness associated with the restructuring, would have seen a pre-tax loss. This year, assuming even a 10 per cent rise in operating profits, these will be wiped out by the interest bills. Banking covenants require a pre-tax profit by 1997; this is possible, but any earnings will be nominal. Unfounded bid optimism has pushed the shares higher of late. Any potential buyer, and several have been mooted, will have to swallow the debt. The most likely outcome is another highly di¬ lutive debt/equity swap, allied perhaps to some disposals. Investors please note. Cut-off point □ THE deeply loathed South West Water is freshening up its image with a promise that cus¬ tomers who fail to pay will never be cut off, because this is bad for “family health and well-being". Instead, they are offered debt counselling, and only those that refose go to court — where they may intimately be jailed, a process known to be excellent for family health and well-being. Some advice for South West. As other water companies have found, cutting o£f the supply is actually the easiest way of deal¬ ing with the majority of non¬ payers. those too lazy or disorganised to get around to it Demerger costs less at Thom LORDWOLFSON, chairman of Next, yesterday said the clothing retailer could use its £170 million cash pile to fond an acquisition. He said that, if the group handed back surplus cash to shareholders, “we couldn’t make a significant acquisition without issuing paper or going to the bank". He said the group had not found a suitable target but would be interested in buying a business that offered synergies and was one that the Next management understood and could add value to imm¬ ediately. His remarks came as Next unveiled a 32 per cent leap in profits and a 28 per cent rise in the final dividend, news that sent the shares up I5*xpto494 , jp. Pre-tax profits rose to a record £141.9 million in the year to January 27. while trading profits rose 22.4 per cent to £1253 million, helped by strong performances from the group’s 304 stores and its mail order business. Sales advanced 183 per cent to £7733 million, reflecting a 15 per cent rise in Next Retell sales and a 26 per cent leap in Next Directory sates. The di¬ rectory attracted 25 per cent more customers last year. The company said it is pulling out of its Bath & Body Works joint venture with The Limited, of the US. The stores are a Body Shop rival. Next is putting on hold its expansion plans in America but contin¬ uing with those for the Far East and Middle East. The final dividend, due July
2000. is being lifted from 625p to 8 p. making a total for the year of 11.75p, against 9p last time. Tempus. page 28 SHARES in Thom EMI. the music and electronics company, rose 19p to £16.73 after the company said costs for its £7 billion demerger would be around 25 percent less than expect¬ ed at £75 million (Alasdair Murray writes). The company will charge costs, including tax costs of about £25 million and oth¬ ers of around £50 million, as an exceptional in its accounts. Thom is also making a further £55 mil¬ lion operating charge for restructuring programmes. Thorn dropped plans to list EMI in New York but will review the situation next year. The rentals divi¬ sion will be part listed on Nasdaq to allow share- based incentives for its US workforce. Demerger is now set for August 16. This notice is issued in complwice with the requirements c4 Londo n Stri de Exchange Limited tlhe Lrtidwi Steel. 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UK Smaller Companies- KMnwflrt hnan Securities Investment Trust PLC l T uU * 23 Cathedral Yard 20 Fendmrch Street Exeter EV 5 JHB London EOP 3DB 29 March 19% SHARES in Redland fell yes¬ terday when the building mat¬ erials group announced that it was writing down the value of its American businesses by £98 million. Weak trading conditions in the UK and over¬ seas, including a sharp decline in the German housing mar¬ ket in the second half, eroded Redland’S profits. Combined with the charge against the American businesses, Red- land’s pre-tax profits fell from £373 railion to £273 million. The shares fell by 8p, to 384p. The net exceptional charge of £81.9 million indudes a £16 million writedown of die US roof dies business and a £16.4 million gain from disposals, but the bulk of the loss relates to a severe cut in the book value of Gensrar, Redland’s Mary¬ land aggregates operation. Robert Napier, chief execu¬ tive of Redland, said that the business had suffered from the slowdown in the Mary¬ land and Baltimore economy. Redland expects to an¬ nounce next month a deal re¬ structuring its European busi¬ nesses. Mr Napier said he had achieved a breakthrough in negotiations with the Braas family, minority shareholders in Redlands German subsid¬ iary. The deal, involving in¬ jecting the entire European roofing business into Braas in exchange for cash and an in¬ crease in Redlands sharehold¬ ing to about 60 per cent “will remove geographical barriers and allow more efficient use of capital", Mr Napier said. Redland is also expected to announce a buyer for its bricks business next month. The com¬ pany has four interested par¬ ties, thought to include BoraJ. the Australian group and Wienerberger. of Austria. Mr Napier said that poor weather in Europe is worsen¬ ing weak markets. 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      NaSondWtetifinder BankPtc.41 Utthbutt}. London EC2P2&P.Reqisuted Number 929027. SAtoateoa) Fl D th Ik a: Lot 76 Td Nic Gee P.0 Tel Z8' MARKETS / ANALYSIS f i BT-Cable and Wireless talks stop market rot AFTER a day of intense specu¬ lation and heavy turnover in their shares. BT anti Cable and Wirdesss last night admitted they were back in merger talks. At the same time. Rod Olsen, finance director of C&W and the man who is filling the breach until the company can find a new chief executive, had dinner with a number of fund managers at the Savoy arranged by Hen¬ derson Crasthwaite, the bro¬ ker. He was no doubt tackled about how such a merger would be conducted. Yester¬ day, C&W soared a staggering 34p to 511‘zp and BT jumped Wa p to 348 l a p. By the dose of business, almost 24 million BT shares and 10.5 million C&W shares had changed hands Early gossip among specu¬ lators suggested the terms could be three BT shares, plus a special dividend, for every two C&W. That would value C&W at about 560p a share. But a bid by BT would be plagued with difficulties as aborted talks between the two sides earlier this year testified. IF BT were to bid for C&W. it would also have to make an offer for the outstanding mi¬ nority in Hong Kong Telecom, which would increase the terms of any offer for C&W by £5 billion. Its also unlikley that the Government would allow BT. which already owns 60 per cent of Cell net, to get its hands on CAW’S Mercury One-2-One operation. There has been talk of a reverse takeover, but with BT capitalised at £21 billion com¬ pared with the £105 billion Cable is valued at the terms would take a lot of working out. Both sides appear keen on a get-together, but there are doubts in the Square Mile that the obstacles can be overcome. The combined turnover of the two companies helped to swell total stock market busi¬ ness to more titan a billion shares as the F T-SE100 index wiped out an early fall of 22 points. In spite of an opening deficit in the Dow Jones industrial average on Wall Street the index finished 02 points up at 3,672.6. Confirmation of job losses at United Utilities, the subject of last year’s £1.8 billion merger of Norweb and North West Water, lifted the shares 14p to 611p. The new group is to shed a further 1700 jobs, bringing the total to 2500. This is expected to result in savings of E140 million by the turn of tile David Jones, managing director of Next saw shares rise century. It also plans to dis¬ pose of Narweb*s retail and contracting arm. North West’s processing arm, and Norweb's investment in Gen¬ eration, which should raise around £350 million. The outline of the savings expected to accrue at United Utilities also sent shares of Hyder. the subject of a merger between Welsh Water and Nasdaq trading system. An impressive set of full-year figures left Next sporting a rise of lSbp to 494*2 p. Pre-tax profits came in above most forecasts at £142 million, com¬ pared with £107 million last time. Brokers have begun raising their forecasts for the foil year to about £150 million. Still responding to Wednes¬ day’s better than expected Pan Andean Resources, which is looking for oil in Bolivia, fell Up to 70p for a two-day loss of 23p. The group’s partner in the Chapare venture, BHP, is expected to issue a report next month. Remember the heller skelter performance of Poseidon in the Seventies? In this instance polite brokers merely describe die downside as limited. South West Electricity. ISp higher at 752p as 1.7 million shares were traded. Brokers are convinced that similar costs savings can be expected. The subject of cost also fea¬ tured at Thorn EMI. with the price rising I9p to £16.73. The group says it anticipates the cost of demerging its music and rental arms will be about E75 million. Thorn intends to seek a listing on New York's profits news. Kingfisher rose ISp to 572p. BZW has upgrad¬ ed its recommendation in the shares from a "hold” to a “buy” and Klein wort Benson from a “sell" to a “hold". News of a share buy-back sent shares of RJB Mining. Britain's biggest coal produc¬ er, up 39p to 585p. Full-year figures were in line with expectations, showing pre-tax profits up from £16 million to KINGFISHER: BROKERS TAKE BULLISH VIEW OF PROSPECTS FT-SE alt-share price index 2d3fKL_ S3 sr-

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      460 27*, 30*, 375 16*, 22 36*1 1*48*1 500 10 13*, 20 42*, 47 HP, Scot pwr. -. 330 245 305 J3', 65 12 14 C344J 360 9>, IS 19 19i 28 30 £100 million. Brokers ex¬ pressed increased concern about its loss-making Ashfordby pit. Queens Moat Holdings marked time at 22p unmoved by a by foil-year figures show¬ ing losses more than halved at £42.4 million. These were the first results since the restruc¬ turing of its £1.8 billion debt burden last year. Full-year figures from Bine Circle Industries, up 12p at 335p, were in line with fore¬ casts. A sharp drop in profit¬ ability left Redland nursing a fall of 8p at 384p. WM Morrison Supermar¬ kets rose Sfep to IM^p, cheered by news that sales had topped £1 billion for the first time. Brokers upgraded profit forecasts for the current year. Booker, the food distributor, rose I3p to 395p after better than expected trading news. ILP, the Irish packaging group specialising in the com¬ puter and electronics market, established a useful premium in first-time trading. Placed at 75p by Teather & Greenwood, the price started S6p and after briefly dipping back to 75bp, ended the session at 88p. a premium of 13p on turnover of 2.65 million shares. Shares of CentreGoId were suspended at 38p. The com¬ pany published full-year fig¬ ures and revealed details of a proposed rights issue, but later found itself on the receiv¬ ing end of a £17 million bid by Eiaos. G GILT EDGED: Prices opened lower reflecting over¬ night losses among US Trea¬ sury bonds. Disappointment stemming from the Bundes¬ bank's reluctance to cut Ger¬ man interest rates saw early losses extended, but a late squeeze enabled the market to close off its low of the day. Dealers said the auction of £3 billion of Treasury 7 per cent 2001 had been a barbed- in the futures pit, the June series of the Long Gilt touched £103 1J i6 before bouncing back to aid the day £ ,9 32 lower at £104*4 as a total of 57.000 contracts were completed. Among conventional issues. Treasury 8 per cent 2015 lost £ 23 j 2 at £95' s ie, while at the shorter end, Treasury 8 per cent2000 fell £‘ 3 j a to £101 21 32. □ NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks were mostly lower at midday, forced into consolida¬ tion by a weak tone to the bond market The Dow Jones indus¬ trial average was dewn 24.20 points to 5,602.68. FT-SE 100 Previous open Interest: 65528 FT-SE 250 Previous open (merest 3605 Three Month Sterling Previous open Ln retest 331488 Three Mlh Eurodollar Previous open Lnieresno Three Mlh Euro DM Previous open Interest: 104948a Long Gilt Previous open Interest: 110642 Japanese Govrnt Bond German Gov Bd Bond Previous open Interest: 225802 Three month ECU Previous open Interest: 21755 Euro Swiss Franc Previous open Interest: 52308 Italian Govrat Bond Previous open Intense 51421 Period Open High Low Sett Vol Jun 96 ... 36550 36920 36450 36820 12339 Sep at, „ 36980 0 Jun 9b 43130 43130 4313.0 43130 79 Sep 96 0 Jun 96 93.91 93.92 9309 9190 11277 Sep 9b 93ub8 93.73 9345 9348 15719 Dec 06 9JJ3 9345 9346 9349 15121 Mar 96- JunOb - 96.76 96.79 96.71 9b. 75 38581 Sep 96 9606 9648 9649 9644 4Z1S7 Jun 96 104-17 104-18 103-26 KH4B 58306 Sep 96 - 103-05 0 Jun 9b 118.91 118.91 11800 11805 696 Sep 96 117.71 a Jan 06 - 90.18 90J9 0175 9507 772722 Sep at, ... 9548 9SM 94.99 9541 410 Jun 96 - 95A) 9SA3 9549 9841 2235 Sep 96 9Sj40 9&42 9546 95J9 399 JU/1 96 — 9&27 9828 9841 9846 3771 Sep 9b 98.12 98.15 9807 98.11 1371 Jun 96 10806 108.15 10705 10605 47866 Sep 96 ... 10741 0 Base Rales: Clearing Banks 6 Finance Hse 65 Discount Market Louts cvnlghr high: u*i Low 6 week fixed: Pi Treasury B£Ds (DisfcBuy: 2 mih S',: 3 mih 5 “m . Sell: 2 mth 5": 3 mth: 9.. 1 mth 2 mlh 3 mh 12 nath Prime Bank Bills (Disfc rr-5"» 5»rS“ii 5'rS u ii Sterling Money Rales: bVi-ys, 6*0-5*51 b«-6 b*r«'o 6'5r*“« Interbank 6*«-5 3> u 6 , o-5”o 6*ie6 b'eb'o 6"ir6* l o Overnight: open b , dose bs. Local Authority Deps: 5"k n/a 5*'u b b'. Sterling CDs ft'o-S'-D b'o-Wo 6* 0-5*5, h*te* b"ir*'B Dollar CDs 5J4 n/u 5.37 5.43 5J6 Boilding Society CDs b'a-iyu 6*ir95 b*«b b'leb'n bV6*o Currency 7 day 1 mlh 3 mtb 6 rath Can DoOmr 5'i-5 r.-s*- 5 , »-55, 5'e5*. 5-4 Dntfsrhnwrh: 3W. 3vy» 3*rT. 3*r3'« y r 2 f. French Franc 4'«-3 u o 4*r3 u » 4*0-4'- 4Wt Swiss Franc IV. I"irl , » I'V'n 2-1 Vem V, 5-5 ■r'a
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2017. 553p(-10p) .. 629o Mlol Closing Prices Page 31 RJB mines a rich seam RJB is not quite a goldmine but it has certainly proved a rich seam. Cnes or government giveway over ihe sdMfare proof enough but ihe view wdJWBJ year ago when critics sniggered that Richard Budge had paid over the odds for the majority of British Coal’s English collieries at a tune when the coal market was snick m the doldrums. . . .

      The blunt and upfront Mr Budge has n*er been shy of banging the drum for RJB. But now people are starting to listen. In the first full figures from RJB, turnover and profit are substantially ahead of those forecast in the prospectus and_ the reduction in costs is greater than anticipated. Yesterday’s share buy-back is funner evidence of the company's confidence but investors will wonder when this seam will peter out. Further cost savings are con¬ fined by safety requirements. RIB’S inherited contracts with thegenoa- ton come up for renewal during 199Swhoi the price of coal will be squeezed. Domestic coal will have to compete squarely with finely priced coal imports and the cheaper foci, orimulsion. . , ,. . The wider future of coal is threatened by the generators’continuing romance with gas-The invisible fuel has so far wiped out 19 million tonnes of coal destined for power generation. Over the next three years that figure will nse to more than 30 million as more gas-fired stations come on stream. Currently no Generator has plans to build coal-fired plant. RJB is digging fast and furiously in a contracting industry but the odds against it are heavy. Next DOUBTERS of Next appear to have given up predicting a slowdown in the dothing retailer’s rapid growth. Until yesterday, a sparkling set of results from Next would be followed by a ritual sell-off. This year, pessimists were silenced- The ebange m sen¬ timent reflects a belief that Next is among a dutch of high street winners and wfll benefit from any upturn in consumer confidence. In¬ creased disposable income, Tessas coming to maturity and building society payouts are expected to improve con¬ fidence and spending. Moreover. Nexfs margins are unlikely to fall as man¬ agement believes its pricing is now competitive. Sales per square foot are on a par with Marks & Spencer, while a 15 per cent rise in high street sales is hardly evidence of weakness. Next’s critics still have a target The company has yet to find a home for £170 million in cash — up £50 million last year. Capital expenditure of £40 million and plans for a personal loan scheme that could absorb £60 million still leave Next with substantial liquid funds paining weak returns. There is a chance of a sizeable acquisition but the management is cautious and opportunities few. There are hopes of a link-up with GUS. Next is a highly successful retailer but it should resist the temptation to become a bank. If an acquisition is not forthcoming, shareholders should be given the option to Invest the cash elsewhere. FTafi-share index (rcb tnoq i Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar 250! Redland FOR SOME time Redland trial to shrug off iis problems, but overpaying for bricks and quarries leaves a heavy load. Finally, the management called a halt and after some stocktaking. Redland has cut Genstar, its Maryland aggre¬ gates business, down ro~ size with an £82 million charge. Redland is being coy about the before and after book values but Genstar was prob¬ ably acquired for more than £300 million and analysts reckon its presonr contribu¬ tion loprofii is little more than £10 milli on. More interesting than his¬ toric blunders is news that Redland may be on the verge of a restructuring of its Euro¬ pean roofing businesses with the injection of Redland*s operations into Braas, its Ger¬ man subsidiary- The deal hinges on the valuation of Redland’s own businesses and tiie extent to which the Braas family will allow Redland access to the German business’s cashflow. Redland generated only £37 million of free cash flow last year, not enough to cover the £83 million dividend. Braas is Redland’s prize asset and a deal with its minority shareholders would create a roofing business with operations across West¬ ern Europe. That would al¬ low consolidation of plant and cost-savings as well as a common strategy for new markets in the east. If it works. Redland will be a very different company but inves¬ tors should read the small print before buying. OD OIL shares have been riding high an a surge in The price of- the blade stuff. Both BP and Enterprise Oil readied new highs on Wednesday but a wider look at the oil market suggests a correction could came quite soon. Brent is following the sharp rise in the price of West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark American crude, which was yesterday trading at more than $21 per barrel for May delivery compared with Braifs $19.10. The $2 WT1 premium is unusually high reflecting the low stock levels in the US after a harsh and long winter and has led to some imports of oil from Europe. At the same time cold weather in Europe has also kept the Brent price moving upwards. But the oil price curve drops quickly as the contracts move further out By August WT7 is $3 cheaper per barrel and for Brent the June con¬ tract is $2 cheaper titan the $20.40 price for April deliv¬ ery. This sharp backwarda¬ tion reflects fears of Iraqi exports. UN talks bogged down over humanitarian aid for the Kurds but a deal could be agreed at new talks in April and a recent surge In the value of the Iraqi curren¬ cy suggests the market’s con¬ cern is well-founded. Edited by Carl Mortished Australia Austria Belgium (Coml- Canada 1-2776-1.2784

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Sir Nicholas: home early AFTER the Oscars, there's Ihe Tommy's Campaign 'Parent Friendly Awards, sponsored by Huggies Nappies. This year's Big Dummy Award, for the least effort to help young families, went to the out- of-town store Children's World. It excelled in un¬ friendly staff, grubby changing rooms, difficult access to stores and mak¬ ing customers pay for their trollies. Abbey Nat¬ ional was voted top rusk for its Lego tables. Stumped WHEN Laurence DOlamore worked as di¬ rector of general insurance at Johnson Fry, until a wrangle with the partners a year ago. he was one of only two MCC members. And because only MCC members could apply for the debenture scheme that part-funded the modernisation of the Mound Stand at Lords in 1987, DiUamore was pre¬ vailed upon to secure pre¬ cious seats. Now around the renewal date of the debentures, Johnson Fiy talks all the more sweetly to its old chum, and Dillamore keeps the part¬ ners sweating. Tight fit SPARE a thought for Mark Riches, the chief executive of the Sweater Shop, who was in Guildford last weekend for the opening of the 63rd Sweater Shop. Mr Riches had placed the keys of his BMW car in die hands of a valet-parker at the Angel Hotel. He awoke the next day to find his car had been written off as a result of some rather over-enthu¬ siastic parking. Emerald urn WORRIED at the thought that their daily pint could be in short supply. miDt drinkers could soon be turning to Yakult The Japanese makers of the caramel-coloured liquid. which comes from Insh cows and contains around 63 billion “friendly” bugs per 65ml bottle, enjoy a £1 billion tumover. They claim that the health drink is enjoyed by more than B million people every day in 15 countries to ne«p promote a positive internal non.-... aod itans « 52,000 Yakuii saleswomen. MORAG PRESTON Gillian Shephard says: “Jobs are being created in Britain because the right conditions exist for companies to flourish” A lesson from Britain in cutting unemployment T wenty-four million people are currently out of work in the world’s richest coun¬ tries. leaders and officials from those seven states will from today be arriving in Lille, a tough industrial city in north¬ eastern France, to talk about what to do about it. So what? Two years ago. in the even tougher US city of Detroit, leaders of the Group of Seven nations—the US, Japan, Germany. France, Italy. Cana¬ da and the UK — did the same thing, at a jobs summit con¬ vened by President Clinton. Since then, far from falling, unemployment in many of the world* leading countries — France and Germany in partic¬ ular—has started rising again, making a mockery of the formal target adopted by the European Union, for instance, of halving its unemployment to 5 per cent by 2000. Except, of course, in Britain. Gillian Shephard, the Employ¬ ment and Education Secretary, says thar Britain is “forging ahead" of the rest of Europe on jobs, with unemployment in the UK down by three quarters erf a million since 1992. “Jobs are being created in Britain." she says, with some pride, “because the right conditions exist for companies to flourish.” In spite of yesterday* an¬ nouncement of 1.700jobs going at United Utilities, hard on the heels of 1,900 jobs being cut by Pilkington. Treasury officials believe that the Government's reforms of die UK labour mar¬ ket will allow UK unemploy¬ ment to fall still further from its present level of 7.9 per cent, to perhaps below 6 per cent, without fuelling inflation. Such music to ministers* ears is coupled with warnings, though, from the OECD and others, of the social impact of people being excluded from the economy in Britain. One such warning sounded in Brussels yesterday at the EU* first European Serial Polity Forum- Tony Blair, the Labour lead¬ er. is casting doubt on Britain's jobs record by warning of “rampant insecurity", with more than ten million people in Britain experiencing at least one spell of unemployment since the 1992 election. The independent Employment Poli¬ cy Institute will say that job growth in Britain has certainly not been spectacular by inter¬ national standards. Incomes Data Services, the independent labour market research body, says: “While the jobless rate has declined, UK performance on job creation is less convincing." Undaunted in speeches and Philip Bassett looks at a shift in attitude among OECD countries interviews — inducting an ad¬ dress to the French CBI in Paris — Mrs Shephard has already been banging the international drum about die UK* job performance. Some countries attending the G7 summit are wary that they will be subjected to more — much more—of the same as Britain extols its approach ai the expense of others, although Whitehall officials insist in their best mandarin manner that British ministers will not do anything so maladroit, though they cer¬ tainly will make dear what they regard as a distinctive UK success on jobs. The illustration shows the G7 countries* recent unemployment record and pro¬ jections. Other countries' inter¬ est in the British model on jobs is likely to be high—certain¬ ly higher than it was in De¬ troit- Then, the still relatively new Clinton Administra¬ tion was press¬ ing for co¬ ordinated solutions to un-

      employment based on stimulating demand: supply-side Britain was if not quite completely isolated, clear¬ ly far from the job-creation mainstream. Now. two years on. things kx>k rather different. While die US will call for urge some stimulus of demand, urging other countries to cut their interest rates to stimulate growth, it is expected to take a more middling course this time, tempering its macroeco¬ nomic calls with a greater emphasis on education and training, and reorganising working practices, UK government officials do not see much mauneconomic divergence at the summit, ar¬ guing that all the G7 countries now have potiries of monetary C On hearing the word flexibility, people should watch their wallets? stability and fiscal readjust¬ ment and do not believe either that the claimed deflationary effects — especially in terms of increasing unemployment — of Maastricht convergence will be contentious at Lille either. In Detroit, Robert Reich, the US labour Secretary, warned people that when they heard the word flexibility, they should watch their wallets. Now. Brit¬ ain* model of flexible labour markets is the one which appears to be delivering the jobs everyone says they want to see. Even Germany, with un¬ employment now above four million, and France — both bastions of the “European" model of regulated labour mar¬ kets — are moving towards Britain's stance. Indeed, in his

      opening plena¬ ry address at Lille. Jacques Chirac, the French Presi¬ dent. who is now promot¬ ing his ideas of a new social model . for Europe and will outline them at the opening of the inter-govern¬ mental conference in Turin today, is expected to use the jobs summit to present the issue of flexible labour markets to the french people. Their scepticism about such an ap¬ proach triggered a wave of strikes against the Chirac Gov¬ ernment* welfare plans at the end of last year. President’Chirac, though, is also expected to chart the pro¬ gress of another issue dear to the hearts of those enamoured of the interventionist model: the socalled “social clause" at¬ tached to trade treaties, requir¬ ing trading countries to observe certain workers’ rights. At the main pre-Lille meeting in Plans this month, Britain 1994% 1995*% 1996*% 1997*% Canada 103 9.6 9 2 8.6 France 123 113 113 II Germany 8.4 93 93 3.1 Italy 11.1 11.9 11.6 113 Japan 2.9 3.1 3.4 3.4 UK 93 8.4 8 2 8 USA 6 5.6 5.7 5.9 G7 7 6.9 6.9 63 Source: OECD Projection opposed the inclusion cm the Lille agenda of a discussion on the social clause, supported by Germany and Japan. However, buoyed by falling unemployment in Britain, in spite of last month’s unexpect¬ ed 6300 rise, and the contin¬ uing wave of job losses, UK officials insist that agreement Lr much more likely than division at Lille, with the Americans, British, French and Germans now much closer together on jobs than they have sometimes been in the past. Britain, apart from being of interest to other countries, is itself interested in some other countries' developments, espe¬ cially the proposals being sketched out in the US by Mr Reich on corporate responsi¬ bility on employment Mr Reich, who has clashed repeatedly with some of his US Cabinet colleagues and who some say is talking privately about not wanting to remain in office if President Clinton is re¬ elected in November, will be at Lille together with Ron Brown, the US Trade Secretary. But he is said to be largely uninterest¬ ed in the G7 meeting, partly because of the emphasis likely to be given to the British route to jo b success: while he and his advisers acknowledge its im¬ pact. they are dismissive about the kind of jobs—and their real economic value — that it is creating. Faced with continual down¬ sizing in US companies, Mr Reich is talking instead, in familiar Cfinton-Blair terms, of mutual gains and responsibilit¬ ies: of the private sector taking steps which may not immed¬ iately help its own bottom line, but which benefit people and society more generally. Specifi¬ cally, he is suggesting tax breaks for companies which train, retrain and share their profits—much as Mr Biair, in a smaller way. proposed yester¬ day in Labour new training plans. Britain believes that most countries wall be more interest¬ ed in Britain* job creation record than in Mr Reich* theories. Ministers and offici¬ als now claim that Detroit largely endorsed the UK* flexi¬ ble labour markets theory, at a time when the UK economy looked less successful than they claim it now is. If that doesn't quite attune with everyone* memory of Detroit, it is a more likely prediction for the out¬ come of Lille. Job Summit 2 will not find the answer to unem¬ ployment: but Britain is con- viruKd — and, increasingly, other countries are too—that it has more of the answer than anyone else. '122 Chartered surveyors come under pressure from banks From Mr Ian V. Oddy Sir, In your business pages (“Bankers driven to risk new crisis", March 27) you refer to the bankers’ fear that they are being driven fay incense com¬ petition to take unacceptable risks that will trigger the next banking crisis. 1 have recently given two lectures on risk management to other chartered surveyors, one meeting in Birmingham and another in London. In Birmingham I was arid of pressure being applied to chartered surveyors by build¬ ing societies who required file surveyors to increase their mortgage valuations. In London I was told of similar pressure being applied to chartered surveyors but this time by banks. In both cases domestic property was involved. Taking unacceptable risks was a contributory cause of the last banking crisis. Through your paper I would suggest that chartered surveyors communicate with the Royal Institution of Char¬ tered Surveyors if they are being subjected to such pressure. Yours faithfully, IAN V ODDY St Quin tin Chartered Surveyors 71 Queen Victoria Street. EC4. Letters to the Business section can be sent by fax on 0171-782 5112. The real picture From Maty Anderson Sir, “Let the marketing director get in the picture" (Business letters, March 27). Mr Gee — get real! The finance director controls (he company income: marketing men spend it. Yours faithfully, MARY ANDERSON, Financial Controller, Cristel Graphics, Dunkirk Street. Halifax. pedoubledutching BFs annual reports Funding Lloyd’s reconstruction and renewal From TH Hughes-Davies Sir. It is good to know that in Grangemouth. BP has star¬ ted debottlenecking the ma¬ jor ethylene cracker {BP annual report and accounts 1995 page W). Can we look forward to it dedoubledutching the man¬ agement babble which has crept into its annual report? Yours faithfully
2019. H. HUGHES-DAVIES. Slades Cottage, Breamore. Fording bridge, Hampshire. From T. C. M. Powell Sir, I have read with great interest the letters from vari¬ ous Lloyd* names. I calculate that if R and R succeeds, 1 shall have contributed about 10 per cent of my total annual average premium income over the past four years to the two levies and have in addition incurred losses. I do nor believe that managing agents have contributed on tins sale. I am. Sir. Your obedient servant.
2020. C. M. POWELL,

      Orchard House. Annathwaite, Carlisle. No nostalgia for last of the Bernsteins I f Alex Bernstein is nurs¬ ing a sore head this morning, don’t he too harsh. Same 200 celebrities and friends toasted his health at the Savoy Hotel last nighL ahead of his retirement, today, his 60th birthday, as chair¬ man of Granada Group, the television-to-hotels empire founded by his grandfather more than 70 years ago. For the first time, there will not be a Bernstein on the Granada board. Mr Bernstein steps down in favour of Gerry Robinson, who ascends to the chairman¬ ship fresh from doing battle with Sir Rocco Forte, van¬ quished head of the epony¬ mous hotels-to-catering group. Charles Allen replaces Mr Robinson as group chief executive. Mr Bernstein was well aware that his last annu¬ al meeting as chairman might have taken on a sombre lone. “In truth. I never thought we would lose. One can empa¬ thise with Rocco. It* not much fun having your company taken away from you." Mr Bernstein will retain a stake of just short of a million shares in Granada, providing a handy retirement income, bur has decided against tak¬ ing the honorary title of president, in the mould of Lord Forte or Lord King. He believes a dean break is best. “I think people who become president are often chairmen who don’t want to leave office. I’ve had a wonderful time at Granada, but after 36 years. 16 of than as chairman, it's time to do something else." Mr Bernstein left Cam¬ bridge with an economics degree in 1959. and struggled to carve a niche in what was very much a family firm. His unde. Lord (Sidney) Bern¬ stein, who died in 1993. trans¬ formed Granada from a com¬ pany with a couple of cinemas to a colossus embracing tele¬ vision rentals, motorway res¬ taurants, and TV productions such as Coronation Street The chairman of Granada is bowing out on a high, writes Jon Ashworth and World In Action. His first job was as assistant manager of the Century cine¬ ma at Clapham Junction, now a Tesco supermarket He missed out on running “the posh one", the nearby Grana¬ da cinema, and was soon brought down to earth. u lt was quite a culture shock com¬ ing from the academic world of Cambridge economics to running a children’s matinee at Clapham Junction." After two to three years, he moved to Manchester to work in television, and spent a few years in production, before going “upstairs" into manage¬ ment “With a name like Bern¬ stein, I didn’t have a great deal of choice. I suppose.” He moved into TV rentals, later becoming managing director of the rentals operation. Mr Bernstein has fond memories of his flamboyant unde Sidney, a man with a deeply litigious streak, and a virulent dislike of employees who wore suede shoes. Lord Bernstein once tried to sue Ford for adopting the name Granada for one of its models. “He was not the easiest man to work for," says Bernstein, casting a casual eye over my brogues, “but he was a bril¬ liant businessman with extra¬ ordinary vision and courage. “He was a great one for Manchester, but never actual¬ ly lived there himself. We were walking there one day. and he spotted a dandelion emerging through a crack in the pavement He said: ‘Look. Alex Wild flowers growing in the centre of Manchester." Mr Bernstein has been chairman since 1979, making him one of the longest-serving chairmen of a FT-SE 100 company. In that time. Gra¬ nada’s turnover has grown from £200 million to £6 bil¬ lion. although expansion has brought its problems. “We were caught up in the eupho¬ ria of the Eighties and bought quite a few’ companies, but didn’t buy wisely or run them very well." An ill-fated rights issue in 1991 led to the departure, as chief executive, of Derek Lew¬ is. later head of the Prison Service, and the arrival of the much-admired Mr Robinson, ft is an appointment of which Mr Bernstein is justifiably proud. “I think choosing Ger¬ ry 1 was one of the best things 1 did for Granada. He* one of the outstanding businessmen of the 1990s. Apart from that, he's great fun to work with." Mr Bernstein, an avid gar¬ dener, is looking forward to pottering around the garden at home in Berkshire (there is also a flat in London). He is a long-standing partner in the Waddington Galleries in Lon¬ don. and has bought many contemporary works of art. A keen skier, he confesses to spending more time in restau¬ rants than on the slopes these days. “The trick is still be able to pull up with a flourish." There will, undoubtedly, be some sadness at the passing of the “Last of the Bernsteins", but nostalgia has little place in the modern world of com¬ merce, as Forte has discovered to its cost “A family business can* remain that way for too long. It is entirely inappropri¬ ate after a certain rime." Mr Bernstein is optimistic that Granada* family origins will not easily be snuffed out “Granada does have a relax¬ ed, family fed at the centre, and I believe that Gerry will take it on to even greater thmgs." The riming, he insists, could not be better. “I'm leaving Granada on a high. Purely by luck, I think ive timed my retirement well."

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      As with his skiing, Alex Bernstein is finishing his run in business with a flourish the SSE exhibition "This promises to become the definitive event of Us kind in the UK" Euan Williamson, Group Security Adviser. The Boots Company Pic Security purchasing is becoming a complex process as companies increasingly face security issues that cross functional boundaries. Security solutions can have profit- enhancing as well as profit protecting implications - and solutions often have strategic implications that affect the bottom tine. In order to make sound security decisions, it is more important than ever that senior security managers remain well-informed as to the emerging options available to them. The Business Security Exhibition is the perfect opportunity to discuss security solutions relevant to your organisation. Seminars A comprehensive seminar programme accompanying the exhibition covers all aspects of security. Seminar* topics at last year's exhibition included: ■ Turning Security inro Competitive Advantage • An Evaluation of How Corporations Can Use Security In All Its Guises To Gain Competitive Edge - And Save Money ■ Contingency Planning: How Will Your Company Cope When Ii All Falls Apart? • Internal Barriers to Effective Security - Getting Your Organisation Talking • Riding the Security Risks to Your Data Centres ami Computer Networks • Workplace Violence - Designing Safe and Secure Work Environments • Regulation - In-House or Contrac! Manned Guarding?

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• Christchurch - Maln e3st-west runway Main runway' extension t Eastern | turning are ■ Customs and STEELE RAYMOND SOLICITORS A South Coast law firm with City standards LEGAL ADVISORS TO BOURNEMOUTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LTD Vandale House, 31 West Street, Post Office Road, Bournemouth, Wimbome, Dorset BH1 1BX Dorset BH21 1JT Telephone: 01202 294566 Telephone: 01202 885211 Fax: 01202 552285 Fax: 01202 887.746 Palmair has been using Bournemouth since 195S and, as Palmair Flightline, is now the airport's single most im¬ portant tour operator and charter airline customer. This year it will cany some 35.000 passengers to destinations all over Europe on behalf of the Crystal. Phoenix and Palmair holiday companies. Bournemouth International — better known as Hum, after the nearby village — has been at the heart of the development of British aviation for a long time. It was opened in 1941 and was one of the busiest RAF stations on the South Coast during the war. Winston Churchill based his official plane at the airport. Hum was officially "de¬ mobbed” late in 1944 and placed under the Ministry of Civil Aviation. One of its proudest moments was in 1946, when Pan American Air¬ ways made the first scheduled passenger-carrying transat¬ lantic flight with a Lockheed Constellation, flying from Newfoundland via Ireland. When Heathrow was still known as "London Airport” and used tents as a terminal. Hum was in full operational use. • Concorde's nose cone was manufactured at the airport and well-known British air¬ craft. such as the Varsity. Viscount and the BAC1-II. were built there. A BA Con¬ corde will drop on to the new extended runway on April 21 to pay its compliments. The Civil Aviation Authority has its College of Air Traffic Control at Bournemouth, plus two examining units on the airport site. It flies staff from all over the world to an airport 1 known internationally by its three-letter code of BOH. W ill it succeed in the long term? If. as is becoming increasingly like¬ ly, Heathrow's fifth terminal is turned down, and if die pre¬ dicted growth in air travel takes place, it seems Inevitable that it will grow rapidly. The helicopter services or air taxi operations which can fan out From Bournemouth to the major industrial centres will enable businessmen to travel much more quickly than by conventional methods. Cargo companies are proba¬ bly more frustrated than any¬ one at the congestion in the major airports because they need to be able to move fresh produce fast and to distribute it quickly to the main centres of population. Bournemouth International Airport will help them to do that. ■ J ..»r': ■& 7 ' Peter Bath, the chair man of Bath Travel Palmair, welcomes a passenger to Bournemouth International Airport Ready and waiting for action ■ 1 Ji 1 , • f A Dassault Falcon 20s. r equipped with the lat- • St A fleet of 20 sleek Dassault Falcon 20s. equipped with the lat¬ est in electronic warfare de¬ vices. operates from Bourne¬ mouth International Airport The jets, used for Royal Navy and RAF training, are owned by FR Aviation (FRA) which, in 12 years at Bournemouth, has become a world-market leader in the modification of civil aircraft for high-technol¬ ogy special-mission purposes. FRA has also recently been awarded a £25 million Minis¬ try of Defence contract to install sophisticated opera¬ tional equipment in RAF air¬ craft The company, part of die Cobhara Group, brought in the Falcon 20. a French ex¬ ecutive jet, and fitted under¬ wing pylons, to which are attached dectroniewarfare training pods. The refit was done under the Government's Private Fi¬ nance Initiative, and FRA can now supply a complete air¬ borne training service with electronic warfare techniques at far less expense than a government can when operat¬ ing its own fleet Now the French.and Gennan armed forces are looking at this cost- effective solution. Dassault Falcon 20s at Bournemouth: the Royal Navy and RAF use Falcons for training FRA also operates a target- towing service in support of weapons systems operated by air, land and maritime forces. This covers visual and radar- aimed guns, and sea-skim¬ ming missiles. The company employs 500 men and women, from engi¬ neers to pilots and crew, plus office staff at its Bournemouth headquarters. It trains its own apprentices and. on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture. Fisheries and Food, operates a fleet of maritime patrol air¬ craft providing surveillance over many of Britain's sea¬ fishing areas. The company has had this responsibility since 1982. Spe¬ cially equipped Pilatus Brit¬ ten-Norman turbine In¬ landers and Dormer 228-200 aircraft were modified for this job. This has enabled the RAF Nimrod aircraft to be with¬ drawn from fisheries surveil¬ lance. In association with Serea FRA has a large facilities management side to its busi¬ ness. The company manages two MoD experimental air¬ fields, in Scotland and Wales. It also services and maintains aircraft used by the Queen — now renamed Number 32 Squadron, based at RAF Northolt. The company is also ex¬ panding: it has a joint venture in France (AvDefi, another being formed in Germany and a third in Malaysia. Richard Rhodes, FRA's marketing director and a for¬ mer test pilot, says: "The UK has pioneered the path to pro¬ viding total airborne training to meet the highest require¬ ments. And the rest of the world is looking to us as they, too, are trying to cut their defence costs. We should be able to bring in additional work to our maintenance and conversion workshops, with rather larger aircraft from now on. “We are keen to do so to provide more high-tech em¬ ployment in the area." WE'RE REALLY TAKING OFF. prestige offices NORTH WEST A new extended runway to take the latest generation of larger, quieter jets. More medium and long-haul destinations direct from Bournemouth More tour operators planned to offer a wider choice of holidays - including Thomson, Airtours, Palmair, Phoenix and islanders. f’j ■' J-t-SyL- 1 •;? ' • vO* v il-> ifc . EZ 3 IEIIE 31 express >3 KAIWHAL EXPRESS OHOUPPLC MUK aowaouTH wraswicm. mpqrt EVTH0UM3S IMPORT EUOJNB EWRBB8HUI1U HJQMTUE tnem JEM* uwowccoiineniLnuuims •unOMLBVKBS nUHBKB MPOE ECUIIHHCmuK SPEEDLMK our idea of an Including more than £2 million to extend the runway to take the latest generation of jets. And now people are beginning to think of it in a completely different way. As the new Bournemouth International Airport. Not so long ago, most people thought of this as a hide, local airport. Then we acquired it. With the idea of transforming its scale of operations and realising its massive potential for commercial development. Already, we'tv invested some £10 million in the enterprise. THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 BOURNEMOUTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT On the buses... and the flight paths N !K» ™™7nf Jonathan Prynn, Transport Correspondent, on the ,»«««. «, «, ^ Bournemouth In- i * •-—-;— 4 - glamorous end of the bu temational Air* building of a successful road, rail and air empire mar J art : i ,s local , N ational Express, the new owner of Bournemouth In¬ ternational Air* port, has emerged as one of the most powerful players in the brave new deregulated world of British public transport. Sold by the Government to a management buyout team in 1988 for El2 million, it is now valued on the stock market at more than £450 million. At the time of privati¬ sation it was a long-distance domestic coach operator. Eight years later, it has a finger in virtually every pub* lie transport pie, while its coach network extends from Killamey to St fciersburg and Aberdeen to the Aegean. The company now owns two airports — the other is East Midlands, for which it paid £27.1 million in 1993. It also has bus companies in the West Midlands and the North East, a Polish coach company, the Euroline international coach service and a 17 per cent share in London & Continen¬ tal Railways, the consortium that will shortly take over the running of Eurostar trains. The company had made an aggressive play for some of the juicier franchises emerg¬ ing from the rail privatisation programme. Thwarted in the first round of franchises, it was named yesterday as the preferred bidder for the Gatwick Express service, re¬ garded as one of the plums of the rail network. National Express has thus seen off the challenge of Richard Branson's Virgin Group as well as a Gatwick Express management-employee buy-out team. National Express is also the preferred bidder for the Mid¬ land Main Line. The Office of Fair Trading is likely to look at the fact that the company runs coach services to destina¬ tions served on the line, which runs from St Pancras station. London to Leeds via Leicester. Nottingham. Derby and Shef¬ field. Adam Mills, die deputy chief executive of National Express, says that as a conces¬ sion to the OFT he has Two airports form the final division of the company’ pledged to maintain all coach and train services and not to raise fares. The company's plans for Gatwick Express indude more regular night-time ser¬ vices. a check-in for passen¬ gers with hand luggage only, and new trains to replace the ageing former Intercity roll¬ ing stock on the route. However, its first involve¬ ment with rail travel will come not through the domes¬ tic train franchises but through its pariidpaiion in London & Continental, which is expected to take over run¬ ning Eurostar on April ]. National Express's role in the consortium is to overhaul the much-criticised ticket distri¬ bution arrangements. National Express operates the British and Dutch part¬ ners in the Euro lines long¬ distance coach consortium. With its traditional destina¬ tions of Brussels and Paris under attack from Eurostar, Euroiines is opening up to dties in the South of France, Italy and Central and Eastern Europe. However, it is the less glamorous end of the bus market, its local domestic services, that is taking Nat¬ ional Express into the trans¬ port big league. It paid £224 million for West Midlands Travel (WMT) last year, and the new subsidiary contribut¬ ed £24.7 million of operating profits during the last finan¬ cial year. With its other bus company in the North East, National Express is the UK's fourth biggest bus operator. The final division of the company is formed by its two airports. Mr Mills, a former City adviser to management buyout teams, foresees strong growth for all parts of Nat¬ ional Express's rapidly ex¬ panding transport empire. As the Government's pro¬ gramme of transport deregu¬ lation and privatisation un¬ folds and disillusionment with the private motor car grows in line with traffic congestion, it would appear that National Express has timed its diversification well. Well-limed diversification: Adam Mills, deputy chief executive of National Express PILOT TRAlNIWa S ir Alan Cobham. founder of Bourne¬ mouth International Airport, used to run a “flying circus", piloting his own bi¬ plane and looping the loop in mini air displays over Bourne¬ mouth, Delta Mason writes. The pilots trained these days at the town's European Coll¬ ege of Aviation may no! be allowed to indulge themselves in quite so flamboyant a fashion, but they are no less enthusiastic about flying. To achieve their goal they will remortgage their houses, take out large bank loans and give up apparently lucrative and safe careers. There is. of course, another motive. Commercial pilots can command £50.000 a year — and as the economy improves, there are jobs to be had. pie college’s partners, SFT Aviation and the Professional Pilot Study Centre fPPSQ have, respectively, trained more than 3,000 commercial pilots and tutored some 10,000 commercial pilot students. The commercial pilot train¬ ing course begins four times a year, with a class of up to 16 students aged 18 and upwards from all over the world. This year they are each paying At the simulator Nick Pitta way, aged 22, took out a 25-year loan for his pflot training I n 1983 the jet-engined supercar Thrust II. driv¬ en by Richard Noble, rocketed to 633.46 mph in the Nevada desert It was a new world land speed record — a success conceived and engi¬ neered at Bournemouth. Del¬ la Mason writes. Richard Noble trained as a pilot at Bournemouth Flying Club, and it was there that the Thrust II team finalised their plans with John Ackroyd, the car's designer, the engineers, sponsors and driver. The car was given a trial run and static tests at the airport Today the man who headed that team, Ken Norris, runs a family business with his wife Marjorie and sons William and John on the airport site. Anglo American Airmotive THE SPEED MERCHANTS Flashback: Norris, left Noble and Ackroyd in 1982 services aeroplane engines of Piper parts and main and acts as sole UK distribu- servicing and warranty tor of the new Piper, an centre. American business aircraft. It Mr Norris's office is filled is also the UK's main supplier with mementos of land and water speed records, from paintings to model cars. As an aircraft designer and aero¬ nautical engineer interested in the dynamics of speed and thrust he was introduced to speed pioneer Donald Camp¬ bell in the 1950s through his brother Lewis, a marine engi¬ neer, and began working with him as a designer. Campbell was killed on Lake Coniston in January.
• after topping 300 mph in an attempt on the world water speed record. “It was a trage¬ dy." says Mr Norris. "I liked and respected Donald enormously." Today Mr Norris's family business also owns A&G Avi¬ ation Ltd. which runs the Bournemouth Flying Club as a proprietary dub. '£37.400 plus VAT, less the NVQ grant which enables students to claim Leek 24 per cent or 40 per cent according to their tax status. “When prospective pilots come to us. we hold a one-day assessment" says Colin Green, the college's director. “For those who nod it we also offer financial guidance." Once a prospective pilot has been accepted, it is heads down. Three months of inten¬ sive training at ground school are followed by three equally intensive months of flying in Florida. Then it's back-: 1 to Britain for seven months of combined ground school and flying, plus examinations and flight tests. Today, former graduates fly for British Airways. Virgin Atlantic and many other inter¬ national airlines. The college's tutors indude former RAF instructors. Civil Aviation Authority flight ex¬ aminers and commercial pi¬ lots. PPSC prepares students for the written examinations and supplies correspondence courses. The Red Arrows have a dose connection with Profes¬ sional Air Training, a pilot flight training school run by Anthony Mollison. Adrian Thurley. for example, was flight leader of the Arrows for three years before training for his Instrument Rating exami¬ nations at the school, which has been on the airport for right years. Approved by the CAA to run courses for the Basic Commercial Riots li¬ cence, the school also trains businessmen to fly their own executive planes. Springtime in Benidorm OiRT-CT BY AIK I ROM iiOl'RNh.MOUTIl DEPARTURES UNTIL 27th APRIL Flight Only f £ 9 Self Catering fr. £159 3 Half Board fr. £219 4 Half Board

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  .VI I . > e 1 11 Spring Hum Saif Cdtffag U bond on 2 psopls sharing an oportniMl. 01202293939 UiMiapm ■ant- IDpm Mon to Friday lOfun - Spaa Sat 41 Sunday ■ hi Cooytiibrte Bournemouth International Airport tm the runway extension by NatJoBjil Express Group Pic . FULLY BONDED HOLIDAYS VERGREEN BOOK DIRECT WE GO FURTHER TO BRING YOU CLOSER fia-sjs «... 7 ; ia Sisg ISSg 34 BOURNEMOUTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Keeping the noise down THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 Della Mason reports on the efforts of the airport management to allay residents’ fears A longer runway al¬ lows a speedier, qui¬ eter ascent and modem planes make less noise than their forebears. That is what the experts say. but the fears of residents living under Bournemouth's flight path have yet to be completely allayed. Douglas Wilson, the man¬ aging director, and his team have been explaining aeronau¬ tical and engineering feds at meetings with local people. The residents of Burley, a village in a conservation area six miles northeast of the airport, are in the flight path of the extended runway. Houses there can fetch £L million. Mr Wilson says: “T have lis¬ tened to everyone and we have monitored noise. We are look¬ ing at a proposal to take aircraft up to 2,000ft rather than 1,500ft” Ron Orton, who represents Burley on the New Forest Dis¬ trict Council. has been at each of these meetings as a vital part of the Burley Action Committee. "The ball," he says, “is in the airport's court and it and the Civil Aviation Authority are looking at other proposals. We hope for a change in the flight path so that it does not come directly over Burley. We have asked that planes do not overfly the village except when absolutely necessary." Russell Lucas, chairman of Hum Parish Council, says that local people are particu¬ larly worried about night flights. “In the daytime, the residents do not mind," he says. “Bur if there is any increase in night flying, noisy night-time engine testing or using aeroplanes with outdat¬ ed engines, we shall protest” He adds that residents ap¬ prove of the "whispering jet” used by Bath Travel, the tourist firm. The parish coun¬ cil has a council member on the Airport Consultative Com¬ mittee monitoring events. Mr Lucas says: “We will not be walked over regarding noise levels." Between a quarter and a third of die airport* 950 acres of heathland are sites of spe¬ cial scientific interest The airport company is flying to ensure that rare species are protected — these indude the Dartford warbler, the night¬ jar, the sand lizard and the smooth snake, and, an the nearby Moors River, dragon¬ flies and butterflies. The un¬ usual heath grasshopper js also found. One runway is being shortened to protect these species. The areas encompassed by Bournemouth airport are de¬ scribed as wildlife habitats of international importance. This is because so many heath- lands. not only in Britain but also in northwest Europe, have been lost Karl Cradick is associate director of Terence O'Rourke, the Bournemouth consultants who prepared the airport’s planning application, ap¬ proved in December 1993. “The application was accom¬ panied by a foil environmental statement" he says. “This considered the effects of the runway works comprehen¬ sively in consultation with a wide range of public, private and voluntary interests. “Aircraft noise was a prime area of interest However, by using quieter aircraft and the adoption of noise-minimilis- ation techniques on take-off. we are confident that die im¬ proved runway will make the airport quieter in future than ir has been in the past" Bournemouth, with about 102,000 ATMs (air traffic movements) a year, has al¬ ways been one of Britain's busiest airports. Seventy-two per cent of ATMs are flight training, 11 per cent regular charter-freight services and the rest passenger aircraft A resort for the well-travelled LOCAL INDUSTRIES Target for complaints: Douglas Wilson, the airport manager, has been holding meetings with local residents Vampires and Gnats on the wing PHOTOGRAPHS: JULIAN HB1BERT Restoration project: Eric Hayward stands in front of a Hawker Hunter aircraft at the Jet Heritage Collection B ournemouth Tourism sees the opening of the new large airport run- wav as good news for holiday- S and for the 50000 foreign students from the Con¬ tinent and the Far East who visit the town all year round to leam English at the local language schools, Della Ma¬ son writes. A spokesman for Bourne¬ mouth Tourism said its aim is to explode the myth that Bournemouth is a place main¬ ly for the elderly. Hotels are now promoting special rates for “family rooms" and last year a five-week Kids Festival was launched. "This is a university town for young people," the spokes¬ man added. “It has changed very dramatically. We feel the airport will help this influx of travel and trade," The expanded runway will be a boon. too. for Bourne¬ mouth International Centre, one of the largest conference centres in the country. On the airport site there are dozens of small and medium- sized companies, all aircraft- related and all eager to expand. The site is brimming with high-tech engineering and servicing facilities, charter lines, private airline fleets, training warplanes, executive jets, air display fleets and companies which fit out the interiors of planes. An airport may not seem the most likely venue for a board meeting, but Source Aviation, led by Don Wood, operates a fleet of BAe 125 eight-seater jets which caters for board members. Business people can hire an executive jet and fly in colleagues for a meeting, sav¬ ing time and the cost of a hotel. The business is proving to be highly popular. Source Aviation also runs the world’s largest privately owned jet formation display team. Its fleet of nine vintage De Havilland Venoms and Vampires are flown by test pilots from the RAF and the Red Arrows. The fleet per¬ forms at airshows such as Biggin Hill, and at RAF open days. It is presently negotiat¬ ing a display at the Monaco Grand Prix. The planes are all serviced at its Bournemouth engineering facility. The Red Arrows themselves are never far away from Bournemouth. The team uses the airport’s centres to aug¬ ment its RAF training as it steps into the world of com¬ mercial airlines. The summer "across the beach" display always delights tourists. Orchestras, pop stars and football teams are catered for by European Aviation Air Charter’s fleet of 22 BAC 1-ils. Manchester United. Eric Clapton and the trade mission to Saudi Arabia with Michael Heseftine, the Deputy Prime Minister, have all been recent clients. T he I-lts — 104-seaters, originally built at Bournemouth by the British .Aircraft Corporation — are now’ home again. They are maintained at Bournemouth and leased to other operators for holiday charters. IDS Aircraft (named after Ian Sutherland, the owner) is one of Britain's two mam authorised service centres for the Cessna Citation aircraft. The firm has been in business for about 20 years, first at Heathrow and now in Bourne¬ mouth. These small executive jets are highly popular in Europe: there are 2,000 in operation across the globe. IDS’s centre, one of seven in Europe, concentrates on ser¬ vicing and warranties. NormaJair-Garrett, part of the Westland Group and now owned by GKN, has a workforce of 120 people ar Bournemouth, it manufac¬ tures environmental control and life-support systems for the aircraft industry — the controls that allow planes to fly, pressurised, at high altitude. Sift We helped get it off the ground The date was 1903. The event, the Wright Brothers’ first triumphant flight Although most people believed their shaky biplane stood precious little chance of leaving the ground, Esso had enough faith in the project to get it airborne. And for over 100 years, Esso have been associated with many of the world’s transportation breakthroughs. In the hey-day of air raring we fuelled many winners, including Captain H.S. Broad's biplane which won the King's Cup Air Race of 1926, at an average speed of 90.4 mph. A far cry considering we now fuel the world’s fastest, most graceful passenger airliner Concorde. Today, and for many years, Esso has been represented at the world's busiest international airports, supplying high quality aviation fuels to the world’s airlines. Tbgether, we take aviation to new heights. Esso is proud to be associated with Bournemouth International Airport. Ssso. H awker Hunters, Me¬ teors. Vampires and Gnats are among the aircraft from the late 1940s and 1950s that will be part of the Air Flying Museum to be opened next year by the Jet Heritage Charitable Trust at Bournemouth International Airport, Delln Mason writes. The enthusiast behind the venture is Eric Hayward, whose career in engineering perfectly qualifies him to transform the shell of a jet into a working flying mach¬ ine. These planes are his life. "I was at Hawker’s building Hunters, Gnats, Harriers and Hawks for 27 years," he says. This skill has earned Mr Hayward a host of loyal supporters, enthusiasts and owners, who will spend up to £100,000 to get one of these planes flying again. Among those who share his enthusiasm for jet planes is King Husain of Jordan, who trained at RAF CranwelL, flew with the RAF and then set up the Royal Jordanian Air Force in his homeland. He commis¬ sioned Jet Heritage to find and restore some of each of the jet planes that served in the Jordanian force. The fin¬ ished aircraft will end up in a museum in Amman. "King Husain has also agreed to become the royal patron of our Jet Heritage Museum here in Bournemouth." Mr Hayward says. “He flies in occasionally to see the planes. It’s always very pleasant... AlftMUSEUM and quite infbrmaL We enjoy talking about planes." In a letter to Mr Hayward King Husain wrote: “I have been most impressed by all I saw.. .There are in our world a few who care, as do one's friends, for what is a part of aviation history and a beauti¬ ful part of it” There are, however, some missing parts of aviation hist¬ ory. Mr Hayward is particu¬ larly eager to find an early jet the Supermarine Attacker, built at Southampton and used by the Navy. L ying in his main hangar workshop is the cigar- shaped body of a Supermarine Swift jet fighter, one of only four left in the world Mr Hayward would like to work on this aircraft for the museum, but a busy schedule for private clients, from Germany and else¬ where, has meant that busi¬ ness has to take precedence. He is now seeking a sponsor to help this project along. Mr Hayward hopes the museum will enhance the reputation of Sir Frank Whit¬ tle, the British inventor. “We should remember that it was an Englishman who invented the jet engine. It changed the shape of aviation for ever and we should be proud of it” 9 Jet Heritage Charitable Trust:
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Exeter Road, Bournemouth, BH2 5BH Fax: 01202 456501 BOCIWEmolui I We 're famous for our facilities Pleased to have helped Bournemouth International Airport to secure planning permission for the new runway Terence O’Rourke pfe Town Planning UnOoonpe Arehitecture ArcMtectu. ^{Everdene House Deansleigh Road Tel: 01202 421142 Fax: 01202 430055 E-mail: TOR p ™ BH77 ° U uh.plc @ dial.pipex.com T r' ■ ’ THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 291996 35: OPERA 1 The Royal Opera has ended up with an Arabella cast of formidable strength, despite a hiccup or two ■ OPERA 2 The National Youth Music Theatre’s new Threepenny Opera is.high on musical values, but low on laughs ARTS ■ CONCERT At the Albert Hall, Biyn Terfel steps in to help to save the RPO’s performance of La Damnation de Faust ■ DANCE Scottish Ballet proves the wisdom of its decision to hire Mark Baldwin as its resident choreographer MUSIC AND OPERA: A dream cast shines at the Garden; Brecht without focus; Terfel wins a devilish triumph Cheryl blossom time Arabella Covent Garden A ll’s well that ends well: after one or two hiccups the Royal Opera has ended up with an Arabella cast of formidable strength — at least in the upper reaches. It was hard to believe that Cheryl Sluder was singing the ride role for the first rime on Wednesday, so relaxed and confident did she appear. Her voice is, of course, perfect for it. sweetly silvery in the upper reaches, but with a warm, coppery colour showing through in the middle register, like the besT Sheffield plate. But it was the wealth of insight she brought to her deliveiy Df Hofmannsthal’s words that suggested she had been singing the role for years: that, and extremely clever husbanding of breath in the long, ecstatic lines. She let fly only sparingly — and hence to grand effect in the first and third finales — and may risk more as she grows into the part this was an astounding first attempt, and it can only get better and better. She was fortunate to have so experienced a partner as Wolf¬ gang BrendeL His juicy Heldenbariion, expanding ex¬ citingly the higher it goes, is — again — perfect for Mand- tytau and he presented a veritable volcano of a man; big-hearted, volatile, slightly mad around the eyes. The way he supported Studer as she negotiated that treacherous second verse of the folksong love duet, right at the top of the stave, was the marie of a true colleague. The third jewel in the cast was Christiane Oeize as. Zdenka. The hypermtical might ask for more weight of : tone, but her singing was sweet and true, and her body- language simply hearr-rend- THE dread five-letter word may appear in the title, but The Threepenny Opera is of course a play with music that is incidental in both senses of the word, Rodney Milnes wires. Yet without that music. Bertolt Brecht's free adapta¬ tion of 77ze Beggar's Opera — here rightly credited also to Elisabeth Hauptmann — would be little more than a footnote in the history of 20th- century thearre in general and Brecht's output in particular. Thanks to Kurt Weill, it merits a whole chapter to itself, and since the National Youth Music Theatre's production is decisively music-led. 1 do not feel too guilty about not being a drama critic. Alison Berry and her eager band really relish the inimita¬ ble tang of Weill'S instrumen¬ tations, complete with Ha¬ waiian guitar for the Tango Ballad and a wheezy, authen¬ tically recalcitrant harmoni¬ um. Her tempos are nicely judged and wittily nuanced, and she has worked hard to get the best possible singing from the young cast: Jessica Watson (Pblly) has an impres¬ sive voice and confident pro¬ jection (crisper consonants would not go amiss] and Mack’s blunt knife The Threepenny Opera Lyric, Hammersmith Laurence Taylor managed Macheath's tricky numbers with enviable aplomb. In the context of such musical exper¬ tise. it was odd that Berry sanctioned turning Peach urn's tittle song in Act III into a chorus number — a big mistake. It made one a little shy to read in the programme that Mark Panenden’s production, which opened at last year's Edinburgh Festival, had meanwhile been taken to New York thanks to (he (misdirect¬ ed?) generosity of NYMPs patron. Andrew Uoyd Web¬ ber. It is a curiously unfocused staging in which the expert musical guidance has by no- means been matched in other! departments: the actors have.; not been shown how to deliver. Brecht's tines and get laughs; — and without laughs The Threepenny Opera can seem, awfully dour and long. There are elaborate sets that, take ages to change, requiring- orchestral reprises to cover stage activiry — heaven knows.- what Brecht would have said;. The Otto Dix monocle lady„ sings Mack the Knife and. presides over the action, buf the beggars' placards have been updated; yet the director: steps back from underlining, the way these interwar works; are becoming less and less, period pieces (compare Sam* Mendes’s scintillating version at the Donmar). I; The Peachums and the; Browns are quite rightly nice; middle-class business people*; but who is Macheaih? The; focus desperately needs tight? ening, and an eyebrow or tw(& must have been raised oife Broadway, doing "J.- youngj company few favours. Natural talent, of course, shine^i through. I enjoyed Kevii*, Pamplin’s naively eager Filch? and James CapeweU'S daffy; Brummie Jake. r> The better Devil you know: Perfect partners: Wolfgang Brendel as Mandryka and Cheiyi Studer in the tide role o f Arabella at the Royal Opera House ing. Zdenka is, of course, the most interesting character in the opera, and Oeize knows and is worthy of it Anne. Howells’s dizzy Adelaide, all fluttering hands and darting eyes, is a miracle of wit she and Gillian Knight's purse- tippedi-Tortune Telier get tlw : qpejra off to die best possible stirt. Lilian Watson, celebrat¬ ing 25 years at Covent Garden, sounded barely that age as tile Rakermilli. There is some miscasting and undercasting lower down. Herbert Lipperfs Mozart- scale Matteo does not quite work in a house this size, and the three Counts are tight on dramatic and vocal presence. Same crudities have crept into the 30-year-okJ production, in¬ cluding a Mills & Boon light¬ ing effect for the love duet and a supernumerary busily eavesdropping on the intense¬ ly private finale. Gentlemen conversing with hands in their pockets, or sitting down while ladies stand — I know these things are not important any more, but if you are going to do Arabella as a comedy df period manners, then you may as well try to get them right Mark Elder certainly grts Strauss’s score right in the pic he appears to be flowing along with the music's natural shape, but is of course control¬ ling that flow with quiet determination- It is very clever to suggest the former while effecting the latter. The orches¬ tra played well. Rodney Milnes ANYONE frustrated by Bryn Terfel's non-appearance in the Royal Opera's Arabella will be doubly frustrated to have missed his unscheduled ap¬ pearance at the Albert Hail, replacing Samuel Ramey as Mephistopheles in die Royal Philharmonic's La Damna¬ tion de Faust. He was but one of four major substitutes in Tuesday's lineup. On top of the conduc¬ tor Valery Gergiev's cancella¬ tion because of illness, the orchestra had to contend with the withdrawal of all three principal soloists, and It is astonishing that the concert went ahead so well. It helped to have Philippe Auguin on the podium. He conducted with a cool author¬ ity that did not predude passion. The orchestral set Damnation of Faust Albert Hall pieces went with idiomatic brio and, some dubious trom¬ bone interpolations apart ear¬ ly lapses of ensemble were soon forgotten as die perfor¬ mance gained pace. Berlioz’s Goethe-inspired legende dramatique is a bril¬ liant sequence of musical sketches, not an opera as some have tried to prove: Auguin's strength was his attention to vivid detail, and he left it to each listener to invent his or her own narrative. Although the RPO was un¬ able to supply any French singers, all sang in good French, none better than David Rendall as Faust His plangent tenor tone and c%. ressing way with Berliozi" lines were a rare pleasure. a Terfel was singing his first, Berlioz Mephistopheles, bub after a run as Nick Shadow fa- The Rake’s Progress, he was well inside the diabolical chaiq acter. He scaled down hi% voice to smooth-tongued effect: in the early scenes and devet-, oped a more menacing presr. ence as the evening went on. Ann Murray was an affect-' ing Marguerite, but Jeremy White was unable to makd much of Brander. The alert ladies of the Royal Choral Society and Brighton Festival Chorus outshone the men* who. as tavern drinkers, ap-' pea red to be on nothing stron¬ ger than Diet Fanta. John Allison; Kiss the girls and make them fly S ince launching himself on the independent cir¬ cuit in 1992. the farmer dancer Mark Baldwin has made great strides as a chore¬ ographer. His work for his own company has become increasingly more assured, versatile and musically ambi¬ tious. Audiences naturally gravitate towards his sly hum¬ our and easy technical fluency. And despite the fact that he spent ten years as a dancer with Rambert Dance Com¬ pany, Baldwin’s background is sufficiently diverse — from classical ballet to Cunning¬ ham — to ensure that he has a wide movement vocabulao' at his disposal. Last year the Scottish Ballet snapped him up as their resident choreographer. If Ae Fond Kiss (the first result of that new relationship) is any indication, it was a clever move on the part of Scottish Ballet's director. Gatina Samsova. Baldwin uses the Divertisse- mento from Stravinsky's Le Baiser de la Fee for his 25- minute curtain-raiser to the company's production of La Svlphide. Like Sylphide , Ae Fond Kiss is one for the girls. They tease, charm and tan¬ talise. and the men lick at their heels like adoring puppies. AeFond Kiss, featuring Nicri Theis and Rupert Jowett Scottish Ballet Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Baldwin has a playful na¬ ture as a dancemaker. Al¬ though he demands precision, orchestrating his 14 dancers in tidy regimentation, he dearly expects them to have a good time. Their jumps are choreo¬ graphed to take off enthusias¬ tically, their partnering is gently seductive and a kind of innocence with attitude per¬ meates their stylistic personas. Maybe that's what went wrong at the Edinburgh Festi¬ val Theatre last week. The matinee cast 1 saw was led by the glum duo of Daria Klimentova and Vladislav Bubnov; Baldwin kept giving them opportunities to inject individual colour and person¬ ality into his choreography, and they kept ignoring them. One could just imagine what a livelier couple would do with Ae Fond Kiss. Scottish Ballet's La Sylphide is a real treat- The Boumcin- ville classic is an absolute charmer, especially in Hans Brenaa’s immaculate produc¬ tion, restaged this year by Sorella Englund. Peter Caza¬ let’s restful designs set a most attractive scene for the feast of robust romantic dancing that the Scottish dancers serve up. The company looks well re¬ hearsed in die Boumonville style — jumps are beautifully cushioned, phrasing skirts de¬ lightfully across Lovenskjold’s score — and the story is told through the dearest of mime. Maria Teresa Del Real led a fine cast on Saturday. 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Shaftesbury Avenue. WC2 (0171-379 5399). Mon-SsL Bpnr. mats Wed and Sal 3pm 0 Ticker iriformation suppfcad tty Society of London Theatre Alexander. Rupert Everett end Faye Dunaway Drector. Ken Kwapts Odeons: Kensington (01426 914666) Swta Cottage (01426 914096) West End (01426915574) UCI WhfteleysQ (0171-792 3332) ♦ SOT. BOJCO (PG): Crass apln-ofl from RH Silvers' television comedy classic, with Steve Martin as the conniving army sergeant. With Den Akvroyd. Dvector. Jonathan Lynn Empire Q10171 -437 1234) UGUe Fulham Road (0171-370 2636) Troeadera fi (0171-434 0031) UCI Whfietays ©(0171-702 3332) CURRENT ♦ TOY STORY (PG) Oompuier- amrrutea Disney defigM with a cast ol tie Hid rays. Barbican Q (0171-638 8891) MGMx Baker SI [0171 -935 9772) Ctretaed (0171-352 5096} Odaora: Ke nsi ng to n 101426 914666) Lataeater Sq (01426- 915 683) Marble Arch (01426914501) Swbw Cottage (01426 914Q9B) UCI Whltideya @10171-792 3332) ARTS _ Benedict Nightingale finds little to applaud in Nige l Williams s newfar Hanging on the phone donALD COOPER Harry and Me Royal Court I f someone were to cut off the phones that clutter die big, messy office where Nigel Williams* new farce is set, as I frequently wished be would, the piece would hardly exist at all. The characters speak on mobiles and on plugged-in contrap¬ tions, at times two or three simultaneously. They use the airwaves to ingratiate, im¬ plore, pester, dog up other people's phone systems, threaten, curse, scream and do a series of funny voices. All that is lacking to make an irritating evening complete is a guest appearance by Bob Hoskins, assuring us with a jolly cockney wink that irs- good to talk. James Macdonald’s cast is a strong one. Ron Cook, doing a frighteningly plausible imita¬ tion of a rabid weasel, plays the manic producer of what is not very originally known as “the television chat show from hell”. Sheila Hancock, his PA, is a dyed blonde of uncertain age who copes with aspiring interviewees in a dim nasal drone: “Your skin affliction does sound a fascinating one — Ill be in touch," Dudley Sutton plays the programme's host, Harry Harrod. every sagging inch proclaiming that he and his career are stuck somewhere between the dumps and the doldrums. The first half mainly con¬ sists of Cook'S demented efforts to solve the double crisis caused when Harrod goes on an alcoholic binge and Crossed lines: Ron Cook. Dudley Sutton, Sheila Hancock make up a good cast but are iff-served by their material a rock star is prevented by his agent from appearing on The Harrod Show. I sniggered as the four-letter words came pouring unstoppably.out, but 2 did not snigger long enough to stem the objections accumulat¬ ing in my mind. Don't the tirades get a bit repetitive and predictable? Why the despera¬ tion to nab a singer who, it emerges, has never been a chart-topper in Finland or Zambia, let alone Britain or America? And Why is Sutton's Harrod so unaffected by li¬ quor when he finally arrives? None of these questions is adequately answered in a second half that consists of more of the same, only more frantic, more obsessive. Before long the characters are besieg¬ ing the agent's office with phone calls they pretend come from Chicago, LA, Newcastle, heaven knows whine. But their deceit is neither as logical nor as beguiling as good fame demands, and, still more un¬ fortunately. there are signs that Williams wishes to deep¬ en the increasingly lunatic proceedings. Harrod turns out to have a long-lost son who is dying from an Aids-related disease, Hancock's Tracy learns she has secondary can¬ cer, and even Ray launches into a lament for his own meaninglessness. If the aim is to suggest a pain and poignancy in these empty, driven lives, it is about as effective as painting sad faces on a bunch of party balloons. It is best to overlook such intrusions and concen¬ trate on what fun there is. This mainly comes from Hancock’s attempts to pass herself off as an Irish singer, a Welsh soothsayer, a Russian shrink, an upper-class solicitor, a tax official from the North East, assorted Americans and the head of the Dutch Guild of Film Agents “from Omsh- terdom". It may not be dear why she assays all these accents or how so lowly a factotum can be so vocally versatile: but at least she makes you laugh. 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  *ASMIN ARCHER Bloom . , 1EM1 7243 8 36178) IT WAS only three years ago, but does anyone remember all the fuss that was made about Tasmin Archer when Sleeping Los Lobos throw essence of Santana. Morphine, Jethro Tull and Frank Zappa into the pot and come up with Colossal Head Satellite topped the chart and she won her Best Newcomer award at the Brits? So much seems to have happened since then, and she is unlikely to have such a clear run with her second album. Bloom, despite its evocative tunes and low- key charm. Archer remains something of a rarity. 3 black British singer who sounds more like Chrissie Hynde than Gabri- elle, and a writer who man¬ ages to keep her songs short and simple, while infusing them with deep shades of longing and regret. With bassist Bruce Thomas and drummer Fete Thomas of the Attractions providing a typically crisp rhythmrc foun¬ dation. the ubiquitous produc¬ tion team of Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake stamp the album with their trademarked haunted-house ambience, im¬ parting a particularly sparse, spectral fed to the arrange¬ ments of Give in With Grace and You Made a Fool of Me. TINA TURNER Wildest Dreams (ParJophone 7243 8 37684) STILL a great singer and a glamorous hoofer. Tina Turner knows a trick or two about putting across a song. Unfortunately, that has not been enough to save her from turning into the new Shirley Bassey. It is not jusr her brassy rendition of the theme for the James Bond movie. Golden¬ eye, that gives the game away on Wildest Dreams. Hobbled by a musciebound production (mostly by Trevor Horn), she tackles a succession of dreary, middle-of-the-road rock tunes such as Tony Joe White’s On UNRESERVED (NO BID REFUSED) 100 LOTS We are instructed by HJM. Government to pay H.M. CUSTOMS & EXCISE: No. 643 871035 BRAND NEW & PERFECT LOUNGE SUITES Mam, striped, floral, 2 & 3 Maters, chairs, by Mark Webster.
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• University of Southampton A centre of enxfcnce far untarsfy research end reading ' jr J| V THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 291996 EDUCATION 39 John O’Leary says the Key Stage 3 papers are now more focused and will be marked with greater consistency N ational rests at 14 are still associated with the longest-running bout of industrial action to hit schools in the 199Gs. But, despite considerable concern about the marking of last year's English papers, the exercise has now been accepted in state schools. The intention is to offer a last progress report before pupils em¬ bark on their GCSE courses. Parents can judge how well their children have adapted to secondary school and teachers have another yardstick to add io their own assessment of achievement in the three years of Key Stage 3. Whatever rheir continuing reser¬ vations. some of the unions' origi¬ nal anxiety about the tests has now evaporated. There is no prospect, for example, of the results being used to compile league tables of schools. Gillian Shephard, the Education and Employment Secre¬ tary, has ruled out such a develop¬ ment for the moment, and it is hard io imagine the tests ever meriting more than a largely unnoticed line in the tables recording GCSE and A-level results. Parents can make their own local comparisons, however, since the results have to be published in annual reports. With the Office for Standards in Education reporting widespread underachievement in the early years of secondary school. Final phase in the cycle of testing prospective appli- - cants may find the ' \ ' results a useful : guide to the even- ness of quality through a school. ‘ vflT 1 Criticisms of the .. £1 /l length and char- acier of the tests L" were addressed by Sir Ron Dealing in his review of the national curriculum. The papers to be sat by 14-year-olds next term will occupy less rime and be more clearly focused than those which provoked the union boycott. Large numbers of teachers have been involved in drawing up the latest version, which will differ only marginally from last year’s. The main change then, to introduce external marking, will also be continued but with new safeguards on quality. The School Curriculum and As¬ sessment Authority acknowledged flaws in the initial operation, especially in English. Ministers’ agreement to lift the marking burden from teachers created a demand, for an unprecedented number of external markers, many of them inevitably inexperienced. About 13 per cent of schools asked for papers to be re-marked and 4 per cent had some levels changed. This year the marking scheme has been clarified, extra training tntro- duced and the in J jHi/: sampling system ; stepped up to erv- sure that the pro- r 'mm cess runs more |/fv~ smoothly. ' VU : ■ For most par- ents, however, the priority will be to ensure that 14- year-olds are fully prepared for the tests. The results will look after themselves. Few schools will make direct use of the results, which come too late to influence the choice of GCSE subjects, other than for a late change of plan when next year's courses are about to begin. But pupils will want to do their best and wifi know that the outcome forms part of their school record when decisions are being made before entry to the sixth form or college. The mathematics and science Tests lend themselves particularly to revision, which might be carried out in a relaxed way over the Easter holidays. For English, practice rather than revision may be of most assistance, although a rereading of the school’s chosen Shakespeare play would be an obvious starting point. Many 14-year-olds will get their first taste of the examination hall in May. The tests at seven and II were introduced too late for them to have experienced even that degree of formality, and their schools' end-of- year tests (where they exist) will have had a different atmosphere and purpose. Parents may want to ensure that their children are familiar with the format of the tests and know precisely what is to be covered in them. In most cases, schools wiU already have performed this func¬ tion. although some prefer la leave discussion of the tests until the start of the summer term JOEL CHANT T he basic rules of revision are the same for 14-year- olds as for those sitting GCSE or A level: set realistic targets, find somewhere with as few distractions as possible, look back regularly to reinforce the memory, ask a teacher if there are sections you do not understand fully. Every teenager develops dif¬ ferent revision techniques, some of which may look ineffective but may suit the individual. In the week of the tests, the rules are even more basic. The most obvious, but easily forgotten, is to establish exactly when and where each paper is to be saL Alter that, it is a matter of reading the questions carefully, making sure that an¬ swers are dear and allocating time sensibly. The tests all show how many marks are allocated for each question. For many of this year’s 14-year-olds the tests will provide their first taste of examination-hall formality f ENta^H. REAr ^{G,WRijr^GiS^ f Brush up your Shakespeare (a) Robert and Gwen must pu 63 tins ol food Into a Kft. E nglish assessors are looking for a lively mind and a firm grasp of language from the best candidates in this year's tests. Questions on the reading comprehension passage are designed to assess pupils* un¬ derstanding. inference and de¬ duction. response and critical ideas. In the writing test, markers will look for a variety of sentence styles and a range of vocabulary in a piece which begins and ends arrestingly. Schools have already been told which scenes to study for the Shakespeare test Last year pupils often made the mistake of repeating the plot rather than analysing the text for significance. .Assessors said: “The questions offer an angle on the scene and invite pupils to show their understanding of and response to that perspec¬ tive. It is hoped the questions prompt a re-thinking, rather than pupils feeling they should repeat what they have been told in class." Various ways of testing Shakespeare are being given a trial in 1996, for a possible re¬ vamp of the paper for 1997. Many schools asked for Key Stage 3 English papers to be re-marked last year, the first time that external markers had been used. As a result more than 20,000 pupils had grades changed. One of the biggest problems was the bunching of marks at Romeo and Juliet is one of the Shakespeare set texts THE*M&mMES Free GCSE study pack worth £10.99 You pay only £1.98 to cover the cost of postage and handling one is £1099 but Times get them for only El.98 to cover postage The tapes average 60 minutes and the study booklets are designed to interact with it to help students memorise information. You also have the opportunity to choose from 20 Fast Forward titles for GCSE and A-Jevel students at half price. THE COMPLIMENTARY PACKS GCSE English: Reading Skills Written by Chief Examiner Dr Peter Buckroyd ir covers comprehension, analysis. linguistic skills, evaluation and deduction - the key to success in the GCSE English exam. GCSE English Literature Prose Texts Written by Dr Peter Buckroyd it deals with critical analysis and contains exercises designed to improve students’ skills. GfSF History; The Superpowers. 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Although teachers will again be scrutinising their candidates' marks closely, the School Curriculum and As¬ sessment Authority has made several changes to try to improve the reliability of the marking process, including: • Telling markers to award grades for the overall quality of an answer, rather than for individual points. • Grades for spelling and handwriting will be subsumed into the overall writing mark, to reduce the number of judg¬ ments a marker has to make. • The marking scheme will include new criteria for "above Level 7" and “below Level 4" to encourage markers to use the foil mark range. All markers will have to submit sample papers for approval before being allowed to continue. Reading and writing is covered in paper one, on the morning of Wednesday, May}
• Shakespeare is in paper two the following morning. Teachers have been asked to emphasise to pupils that they should take into account the marks available for each an¬ swer so they spend their time' appropriately, and that if an instruction is not clear, they can ask an invigilator for help. David Charter Each On weighs UOg. Work out the toted weight ol the 88 tins In grams. Remember io wrf dm enough working to ttiMr you im not ihm ■ cafaMbr. (b) In the Bute re is a sign. It shorn the greatest load that the Bl can carry safety. Greatest load 50ha Getting into the character Look at the total weight ol the 63 tins. wMch you worked ms In port (a). Is It sate m carry (ha 63 tine together ki the Bit? Qkm a reason tar your answer. THE writing and comprehen¬ sion paper for 14-year-olds includes prompts advising on areas which need to be covered in each answer. Last year’s passage, from a story about evacuees, had a question asking what was learnt about the main charac¬ ter’s thoughts and feelings. The prompts said candidates should comment on what she did, bow she described things and how she was affected by her family’s comments. The Shakespeare paper re¬ quires analysis of a prepared scene from Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet or A Mid¬ summer Nights Dream. Questions will follow last year’s pattern when candi¬ dates had either to put them¬ selves in the position of one of the characters to show what they thought of the events in the scene; or to explain the differences between two key characters and whether they were trustworthy. (c) Robert ate Gwurt must put Ite Ira into a cupboanl Al the tins am the same size. Gwan has measured the heighi of a tki. Iris 14cm. Robert has measured the height oJ 9w cupboard, fits 1.24m. How many layers of tins can itey keep in die cupboard 9 Ram wnbor io wilts doaur observation*
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• Give a careful nplanabon far Ite method you have chosen each tone KptBMfkMi tar method cheaan Wrtta yoir mun In the tetta Pfatot method by wMcii pedants transferred Ptae »*>--. A*-. «•£-' R is a sum? day. AlitelsurtiglteaunlsNtasiflnaitoSarah. (a) WImI ample object said AS\a usa to sand bngm nasties of aright to Santa? (to) What does this object do la the revs of ite Sun? Happy with the hows but not with the whys M any pupils taking problems without a calculatt last year's mathe- Level 5 questions on alt matics tests for 14- braic expressions were al M any pupils taking last year’s mathe¬ matics tests for 14- year-olds had trouble expressing themselves clearly enough to gain foil marks on questions calling for explana¬ tions of their approach. David Charter writes. The national curriculum stresses the importance of pupils justifying and explain¬ ing their mathematics, prefer¬ ably with drawings and diagrams rather than prose. This is reflected in the award of 10 per cent of the marks for their explanations and justifications. Pupils also struggled with more complex written calcula¬ tions, leading to calls for a calculator-free paper. The School Curriculum and As¬ sessment Authority is review¬ ing whether calculators should be banned on one of the two papers next year, which may make pupils focus more on expressing their mathemat¬ ical reasoning. However, the national curriculum also aims to promote “appropriate, eff¬ ective and efficient" use of calculators, which this year can be used in both tests. There is a choice of four tiered papers at 14, the easiest covering Levels 3 to 5 and the hardest Levels 6 to 8. Last year at Level 3. pupils had difficulty in explaining the properties of shapes and in using a number pattern to solve a problem. Al Level 4, estimating fractions and per¬ centages was done well, as was reading and interpreting co-ordinates from a graph, but children had difficulty solving problems without a calculator. Level 5 questions on alge¬ braic expressions were also found hard, as was dividing by a two-digit number without a calculator. At Level 6, the questions children found harder included those about using sensible estimates to calculate rough amounts. Level 7 questions which were answered very well in¬ cluded those asking for a quadratic equation to be solved and finding the volume of a prism. More difficult was applying Pythagoras theorem and explaining how increas¬ ing the number of trials in an experiment will lead to a better estimate of probability. The many aspects of Level 8 questions which pupils found difficult included substituting negative values into formulae and calculating the probability of a combined event. A spokesman for the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority, commenting on last year's tests, said: “Overall, pupils were able to identify which mathematics they should use in answering ques¬ tions. At ail levels, pupils had more .difficulty with those questions which required mathematical reasoning and problem-solving skills." The time allowed for this year’s extension paper has been cut to one hour. Very few pupils tried this paper last year and many teachers took the view that the GCSE itself would be a more appropriate test for the high-flyers. mAbove left , a sample ques¬ tion from last year HMSO Boob jit available Horn: HMSO Buisfetyt and Agents (kc %Ho*Pjjkk BoabeOenJ and aD fpod bootaeflen, MtSerdtn HMSO R A l i a rinnt Gentre, PO Boi Hd, LmdocSWBSDT Grt&t (ard trdm; 0171-873 WO Aar 0(71-873 COO are your child... for the National Tests at Key Stage 2 with the HMSO Parents' Guides Three HMSO Parents’ Guides to the National Tests are available NOW and cover the core subjects of the National Curriculum: English, Mathematics and Science. They provide essential information and guidance for you to prepare your child for this critical stage. These are the OFFIGAL test books, and the ONLY ones to contain the actual questions set in the 1995 tests, and tell you how the 1996 tests will differ. They are easy to use, and comprise: • an introduction to the National Curriculum and the tests • the 1995 test sheets • details of the marking scheme used by teachers to determine a child's performance level • reassurance for parents, explaining how you can help your child to succeed • hints on how to prepare for the tests The HMSO Parents' Guides to National Tests have been published in association with the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority (which advises the Government on ! the National Curriculum and the tests), and The Times', They cost just ' £4.95 each • TV ; He foals'G NATIONAL] ^3 maximum 2 itmrim I Books TPc TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 TO ADVERTISE CALL: 0171 680 6800 EDUCATION FAX: 0171 782 7899 frorify four' liremente mayfjot a ppfyi|®£a rel fc%MA,M^pnd an(J&raries/^^St»ri^^pncl a sfeterts' unlffifTwhich' X 'NB; to help you vfiihyour fees, paymems’oan be gfypad i \ .■$£$!%. J . \\

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  Jobp Ato*toi<0lK5)Ma*a SLAMatcsCofagc Bo-itaascT' Ox&rdOXllSB THE SUNDAY TIMES 1996 FORTHCOMING EDUCATION FEATURE LANGUAGE COURSES Friday 12th April Sunday 14th April MBA / BUSINESS COURSES Friday 19th April Sunday 21st April INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS Friday 26th April SUMMER SCHOOLS Friday 26th April Sunday 28th April DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE Friday 10th May Sunday 12th May POSTGRADUATE COURSES WEI Sunday 9th - Friday 14th June EDUCATION COURSES REVIEW (CLEARING FEATURES) August /September ^For farther information about these features or to advertise please contat me Education Team on: Tel: 0171680 6880 Faw 0171 782 7899 THE TIMES FRIDAY M ARCH 29 1996 House of Lords Nuclear liabilities income cannot be set off LAW 41 Law Report March 291996 Court of Appeal No damages for wrongful eviction Nuclear Electric pic v Brad¬ ley (Inspector of Taxes) Before U)rd Goff nf Chrevetey, Lord Jauncey of Tullidwtrle, Lord Sl>7m of Hadley. Lord NichoUs of Birkenhead and lord Hoffmann (Speeches March 2S| Investment income from funds set aside to meet the future liabilities that would result from the produc¬ tion of electricity from nuclear energy was not trading income capable of being set off against trading losses under section 393(8) of the Income and Corporation Taxes act 198. The House of Lords dismissed an appeal by the taxpayer. Nuclear Electric pic. from die Court of Appeal (Sir Thomas Bingham. Master of die Rolls, Lord Justice Milleri -and" Lord -Justice Schiemann) (The Times October
• 1995; |I995J STC 1125). who had allowed an appeal try the Crown from Sir John Vmeluti, sitting as a judge of the Chancery Division f The Times February 28. 1095 ; |1WS| STC 2S3. The judge had reversed a decision or the special commissioners that trading losses uf die taxpayer for the year to March 31. 1991 could not be set against investment income of £93 million. Mr Graham Aarunson, QC and Mr Joseph Hage for ihe taxpayer; Mr John Gardiner. QC, Mr Jona¬ than Peacock and Mr Ra binder Singh for the Crown. LORD JAUNCEY said that the taxpayer was a producer and supplier of electricity generated by nuclear power, it had been incor¬ porated in January 1990 tu lake over from April I the business, plant, assets and trading liabilities of that part of the Central Electric¬ ity Generating Board that pro¬ duced electricity by that method. No provision had been made by the CEGB for the very large trading liabilities taken over by the taxpayer and. after making appro¬ priate provision for those liabil¬ ities. the taxpayer had incurred a substantial lass in its first year of trading ending on March 31.1991. During that year the taxpayer had invested about E520 million of its trading receipts in the National Loan Fund to provide for the "back-end costs" attributable to that year, and the income there¬ from, some £93 million, was the subject of the appeal. "Back-end costs" were those relating to the storing and reprocessing of the nudear fad for reuse and disposal of the radio, active waste. They were incurred over a very long period of time, up to 100 years in the case or one type of reactor, and the taxpayer provided for them by averaging them over the five years over which the fuel was used and attributing a proportion to each year, which was then discounted back from the dates when the oependiture was ex¬ pected to be incurred and deducted in computing the profit or loss for the relevant year in the quinquen¬ nium. Tire revenue accepted that that was a proper method of accounting. That the back-end costs would ultimately have to be met and that it was accordingly prudent to make provision far them was not in doubt. However, having in¬ vested sums in the National Loan Fund, the taxpayer was not obliged to retain the capital in monetary form. It could invest it in new revenue- producing plant or use it for some other purpose, not being payment of a dividend, connected with its operations in the event of a change in circumstances whereby it ap¬ peared that ihe back-end costs could he met in some other way. The 1988 Act provided no guid¬ ance as to when investment in¬ come amounted to a trading receipt of the taxpayer beyond impliedly recognising that it could sometimes do so. Such few authorities as were relevant had refused to lay down any hand and fast rule or draw any distinct line. It must at the end of the day always be a question of fact. In Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co v Benrieti (JI91JJ 2 KB 577; |J9I2] KB 41. CA: 11913] AC blO. HL) Lend Justice Buckley in (he Court of Appeal (at pGO) had posed the question as being “whether the interest and dividends are profits of the busi¬ ness as fruit derived from a fund employed and risked in the busi¬ ness", and that had been deed with approval by Lord Lore bum in the House of Lords (at p619). The words "employed and risked" had been quoted on many occasions, but his Lordship doubted the utility of “risked" as a word of general application. He did not think that ir was necessary to go further than consider whether funds were employed in the business whereby any income therefrom arose from the trade for the purposes of Cose I of Schedule
• In Bank Line Lid v Commis¬ sioners of Inland Revenue ((1974) 49TC307) the Court of Session had held that a fund set aside by a ship- owning company to replace, some years thence, obsolete ships was not |o be treated as trading income for the purposes of (he statutory predecessor of section 393. His Lordship could see no grounds for distinguishing that cose, which he considered to have been correctly decided. Whether income from invest¬ ments held by g business was trading income must ultimately depend on the nature of the business and the purpose far which the hind was held. At one end or the scale were insurance companies and banks pari of whose business was the making and holding of invest¬ ments to meet current liabilities. it had been suggested that tour operators might fall into that category but without a goad deal more information his Lordship did not feel able to express an opinion. At the other end. were busi¬ nesses of which the making and holding of investments formed no pan. In between there would no doubt fail other types of business whose position was not so dear. However, it was absolutely clear that the taxpayer's business was to produce and supply electricity. The making of investments was neither an integral nor any port of its business. Furthermore, the investments that it had made had been in no sense employed in the business of producing electricity during The year of assessment. It followed that, wherever the line mighr be drawn, the income from its Invest¬ ment could not be treated as trading income. The case concerned a very large sum intended to be invested for a long period. In concluding that the fond had not been employed in the taxpayer's business his Lordship would not wish to be taken as suggesting that sums held by a trader in an interest-bearing ac¬ count to mm current or shon-term trading liabilities should be simi¬ larly considered. Lord Goff. Lord Slynn, Lord Nichdls and Lord Hoffmann agreed. Solicitors: Gifford Chance; Solicitor of Inland Revenue. Mdvilfe v Bruton Before Lord Justice Stuari-Smilh. Lord Justice Hutchison and Mr Justice Buckley pudgment March 2I| where a tenant had been wrong¬ fully evicted by his landlord but The eviction had made no dif¬ ference to the value of the land¬ lord's interest in the property, mi damages could be awarded against the landlord under the Housing Act 1988. The Court of Appeal so held in allowing an appeal by (he defen¬ dant, Mr Stephen Bruton, of Sulgrave Drive, Corby against an award of £15.000 damages try Miss Recorder Corkhill in Northampton County Court for the plaintiff, Mrs Helen Mdvflfc. The court awarded the plaintiff f5QQ for the inconve¬ nience. discomfort and distress occasioned by her eviction. Mr Michael Ellis for Mr Bruton: Mr Peter HoQingwonh for Mrs Melville. LORD JUSTICE HUTCHISON said that the appeal was against an award of £15,000 damages, pursu¬ ant to sections 27 and 2S uf the 1988 Ao. made by the recorder on August 3. 1995. At the same rime the recorder awarded damages of E2J79 for conversion of the plain¬ tiffs possessions. Thai award was not challenged. The premises consisted of a freehold property at 143 Lincoln Way. Corby, (t was once owned by the council and when they dis¬ posed of the freehold to a prede¬ cessor in title of the defendant it was on the basis of a restrictive covenant prohibiting user of the premises save as a private dwell¬ ing house in single occupation. The plaintiff was on January 27. 1993 granted a secure shorthold tenancy of part of the premises for months at a rent of £95 a week and she went into occupation on February 5- On March II she was evicted. When the plaintiff became ihe tenant there were already two other occupants of parr of the premises. Whether they were ten¬ ants or licensees was not known. The recorder accepted that the defendant had evicted the plaintiff by excluding her from the property and removing her belongings. She and her daughters had to go and live with her mother before even¬ tually being found aaxtmmodaqon by the council. In the proceedings which she began on March 17. 1993 the plaintiff daimed damages hi re¬ spect of unlawful eviction. The farm of the claim was wide enough to indude general damages for distress and inconvenience and damages under the 1988 Art. as well as damages for conversion of Ihe chattels. The plaintiff's pleaded case at the trial was that pursuant to sections 27 and 2S of the Act she was entitled to £15.000. said to be the difference between the value of the defendant’s interest in the property immediately before the eviction. £15.000, and the value of that interest after the eviction. £30.000. Those assertions were based on the advice of an experienced valuer. Mr Rarkhouse. The defen¬ dant's valuer. Mr Swallow, ad¬ vanced a figure of £13.000, based on his assessment of the two values at £7.000 and £20,000 respectively. The recorder preferred the evi¬ dence of Mr fttrkhouse and awarded £15,000. Section 27 applied when a land¬ lord unlawfully deprived a residential occupier of any premises of his occupation of the whole or pan of the premises, and provided, by subsection (3). that the landlord in default "shall... be liable to pay lo the former residen¬ tial occupier, in respect of his loss of the right to occupy the premises in quesooti as his residence, dam¬ ages assessed on the basis set out in section 28. “ Section 2S provided: “(It The basis for the assessment of dam¬ ages ... is the difference in value, determined as at the time immediately before the residential occupier ceased to occupy the premises in question as his res¬ idence. between — (a) the value or the interest 1 of the landlord in default determined cm the assump¬ tion that the residential occupier continues to have the same right to occupy the premises as before that time and (b) the value of that interest determined on the assumption that the residential occupier has ceased to have that right." That was the assessment to which both valuers purported to address themselves in their reports and their evidence before the recorder. It seemed, because of the insiruakms they received from the two firms of solicitors, they as¬ sumed vacant possession throughout. Thai meant that, in assessing the value of the property without the plaintiffs assured shorthold ten¬ ancy (hey treated as irrelevant the existence of the two other occupiers. The defendant's notice of appeal raised grounds which involved the assertion that the recorder erred in holding that she had no discretion to mitigate the damages under section 28. in his Lordship's view those grounds, which Mr EUis sought to support, were without merit. However, Mr Ellis also ad¬ vanced an entirely different argu¬ ment to die effect that both valuers had proceeded on an incorrect basis, having regard to the pro¬ visions of the Art. That argument was that, as Lord Justice Dilton and Lord Justice Leggatt had pointed put in Jones ff Lee v Miak & Miah ((1992) 24 HL 578). the purpose of the Act was to deprive the landlord of any profit that his wrongful act had pro¬ duced. That involved comparing the value iff his interest free of the wrongly evicted taunt's interest with that value encumbered by that interest. Thar comparison necessarily in¬ volved valuing the unencumbered interest on a factual as opposed to a notional basis, otherwise that which the landlord was ordered to pay io ihe tenant was not the value of the profit occasioned by his wrong but a fine which might be far greater. There was nothing in either section to warrant the notional approach, nothing which required or justified disregarding, when making the valuation of the land¬ lord's interest, the existence of such other residential occupancies as might still subsist in the premises. Mr Hollingwonh argued that the valuers were right to disregard the other two occupants because of the restrictive covenant. His sub¬ mission was that by reason of section 609 of the Housing Act 1985 the local authority were entitled to enforce the restrictive covenant against those occupants, whose interests should therefore be treated as frustrated. That submission could not be accepted. In his Lordship' view section 609 gave the local authority no rights against the occupants. What it did was to permit the local authority to enforce the restrictive covenant against successors in title of the covenantor. The cuundl would accordingly be entitled to enforce the covenant against the defendant, but not against the occupants. There was no reason to think that the object of the 1988 Act extended to providing evicted ten¬ ants in all dreumsiances with substantia] damages. There was no reason in think that the Act did not envisage the possibility that eviction would not materially have increased the value of the' land¬ lord's interest. It was clear from the evidence of Mr Parkhouse that, but for the incorrect assumption of vacant possession, his ad vice would have been that there was no increase in value. The point belatedly taken by the defendant entitled him to succeed on the appeal. His Lordship would assess the plaintiffs damages at common law for the inconvenience, discomfort and distress suffered at £500. Accordingly, the award of E 15.000 should be set aside and £500 substituted. Lord Justice Stuart-Smhh and Mr Justice Buckley agreed. Solid lots-. Dean-Wilson. Brigh¬ ton: Wilson Browne, Corby. Letter cannot create leasehold estate in land Driver need not be given full three minutes for test Cosgrove v Director of Pub- tic Prosecutions tfcfore Lord Justice Leggatt and Sir lain Glidewell (Judgment March 19| .Although a breath specimen device had a three-minute period before automatically dosing down, there was no prindple of law that a driver had id be allowed the full three minutes to give a sample, nor to be told at any stage of the procedure that he had three min¬ utes to provide the sample. The Queen's Bench Divisional Court su stated when dismissing an appeal by James Cosgrove by way of case Slated from Warring¬ ton Crown Court (Judge Phillips and justices] which had dismissed his appeal from conviction by Warrington Justices on November
• 1993 on a charge of failing to provide a spedmen of breath for analysis without reasonable excuse. Mr Nigel /. Ley for Mr Cros grove; Mr John Oates for the DPP. SIR LAIN GLIDEWELL said (hat the appellant had argued that since the Intoximeter provided a three-minute period before it shut down, then in every case a person must be given the fall three minutes and it could not be said there had been an unreasonable refusal unless the three minutes had elapsed. There was no au¬ thority for that proposition of law. Reference was made to DPP v Coy/e (The Times July 20. 1995) which had raised a somewhat similar, but not identical point: namely that the person not merely should be told of the three minutes. but should be told at the outset That argument had been rejected and his Lordship formed the same vfew. . , Although the machine provided a three-minute period, there was no prindple of law that a person must necessarify be allowed the three minutes nor be told he had throe minutes at any stage of the procedure. If an administering officer con¬ cluded that the person was foiling to provide a specimen before the three minutes were up he could stop the procedure. Of course the officer could subsequently be chal¬ lenged in court, but as a matter of law he was entitled to rake that course. Lord Justice Leggatt agreed. Solid tors: Byrne Frodsham & Co. Widnes: Crown Prosecution Service. Warrington. Long v Tower Hamids London Borough Council Before Mr James Munby. QC {Judgment March 2D] A document in which the writing merely evidenced the existence of a lease and which was not dispos¬ itive in the sense that it created at law. of and by itself, a leasehold estate in land, was not a “lease in writing'' for the purposes of para¬ graph 5f!l of Schedule 1 to the Limitation Act 1980. A lease of less than three years which did nor gram an immediate right to possession was not within the exception in section 54(2} of ihe Law of Property Act 1925 and was accordingly void for the purpose of conveying and creating a legal estate unless made by deed. Mr James Munby. QC, sitting as a deputy judge of the Chancery Division, so held in a reserved judgment allowing the appeal of Ronald James Long against the striking out by Deputy Master Wall on September26.1995, on the summons issued on Match 21. 1995 by Tower Hamlets London Borough Council. of Mr Long's originating summons issued on January 13.1995. ’ • ' Mr Philip Walter for Mr Long; Miss Sara Hargreaves for Tower Hamlets. HIS LORDSHIP said that on September 4, 1975 the agents acting for one of Tower Hamlet* predecessors in title wrote a letter lo Mr Long confirming that on behalf of their client they were to grant him a quarterly tenancy of21 Turners Road. Bow. London, a shop with a maisonette above it. The relevant terms were that the rent was ESS a quarter and the tenancy would commence on September 29 on a quarterly basis. On September 8 Mr Long en¬ dorsed a copy of the letter stating that he agreed to "abide by the terms and conditions erf the ten¬ ancy set out herein" and signed it and returned it to the landlord. He moved into foe premises on September 29. 1975 and had been there ever since. In September 1983 foe landlord gave Mr Long notice to quit the shop; the notice expired on March 25, 1984. Mr Long remained in possession. It was common ground that Mr Long had paid no rent for many years: he said since 1977. the council said since March 1984. The issue was whether Mr Long had obtained title to the premises by adverse possession. The limitation period was 12 yean from when the right of action accrued to him: see section 15(1) of foe Limitation Act 1980. Paragraph 5 of Schedule I to foe 1980 .Act provided: “(1) ... a tenancy from year to year or other period, without a lease in writing, shall for foe purposes of this Act be treated as being determined at the expiration of the first year or other period: and accordingly the right of action of the person entitled to the land subject to the tenancy shall be treated as haring accrued at the date op fyhieft in accordance with this subparagraph the ten¬ ancy is determined." Mr Long argued that since he had paid no rent since 1977 the landlord's right of action to recover foe premises was treated as haring accrued at the latest by January I. 1978 and their right to recover foe premises became statute barred at the latest by January 1,1978. Miss Hargreaves sought to strike out his action on the ground that it had no arguable hope of success. She said that the tenancy document was a “lease in writing" within the meaning of paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1980 Acu that time accordingly did not begin to run when Mr Long stopped paying rent, whenever that was. but only when fas tenancy was brought to an end by notice to quit; and that the only relevant notice to quit was that which expired on March 25, 1984. less that 12 years before the commencement of the present proceedings. Mr Walter denied that the tertancy document was, or as a matter of law was capable of being, a “lease in writing” within the meaning of paragraph 5(1) unless it was dispositive, that is. a docu¬ ment which at law created, of and by itseir. a leasehold estate in land. Further, that as the tenancy document was not executed as a deed, it could take effect as a lease only if it fell within the exception in section 54(2) of the Law of Property Act 1925, that is. if it “(took] effect in possession” for a term not exceed¬ ing three years. It did not. he said, because it took effect, if at all. as a reversionary lease. His Lordship examined the hist¬ ory of the relevant law including foe statutory precursors to the 1980 Act and foe 1925 Art. the Statute of Frauds 1677 and numerous ancient authorities. He concluded that Mr Walter was right; that there was no “lease in writing" for the purposes of paragraph 5(1) if foe writing, however comprehensively set out and dearly referable to foe exis¬ tence of a lease, was merely evidemiaL If there was to be a “lease in writing" the writing itself had to “pass an interest" and "operate as a lease” or “create an estate": see Doe d Landsell v Gower ((1851) 17 QB 589. 599. 600) and Moses v Lovegmve (JJ952| 2 QB 533, 536, 543). The next question was whether the tenancy document, given that it was clearly not by deal, succeeded in operating in accordance with section 54(2} of foe 1925 Art as a “lease taking effect in possession for a term not exceeding three years" and could therefore validly be made by parol, or writing. The problem was that the ten¬ ancy was not one “taking effect in possession". The tenancy docu¬ ment was executed on September 8.1975 but foe tenancy was not to commence immediately but rather on a future date. September 29, and Mr Long had no right to take possession until the latter date. Therefore, it took effect if at all, as a reversionary tease. Miss Hargreaves* counter¬ argument was that foe words "taking effect in possession" in section 54(2) were descriptive only of the quality of the lease at the date when foe term commenced and not of the quality of foe lease at the date of the parol grant; that the restrictions on foe grant of rever¬ sionary leases were to be found in section 149 of the 1925 Art, and not in section 54(2). His Lordship preferred Mr Wal¬ ter's argument. Reversionary leases conferring no immediate right to take possession were altogether excluded from foe ambit of section 54(2) of the 1925 Act. Such reversionary leases could take effect only if made by deed. Therefore, the tenancy which undoubtedly came into existence was not one created by foe tenancy document but rather one which arose by operation of law. by the payment and receipt of rent. Accordingly, there were no grounds to justify striking out Mr Long's claim. It might be that, at trial. Mist Hargreaves would suc¬ ceed in malting good one or other of the matters on which there were triable issues. But she had failed to show, as she had to if it was to be struck out at this stage, that Mr Long's claim was doomed to fail. He was entitled to go to trial to have hts claim determined. Solicitors: Wallace Bogan & Co, Bow; Mr Russell Power, Tower Hamlets. Receivers’ payment order valid Take two children FREE to a Tussauds attraction Mr j The Times, in association with Tussauds Group, offers readers a chance to take two children, in April (excluding Easter 5-8 inclusive) and May, free to any of Tussauds' eighr attractions saving up to £26. The following are the attractions you can enjoy, with the amount you would save off the price of tickets for two children in brackets: Chessington World of Adventures (save £26); Alton Towers (save £26); Madame Tussauds (save £11.50); The London Planetarium (save E720); Warwick Castle (save £1050): Rock Circus (save £11.00): Pbrt Avenrura. 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The Court of Appeal so held in dismissing an appeal brought by foe plaintiff, Sulaiman AJ-Adsani. against foe decision or Mr Justice Mantel! or May 3. 1995 in which he held foal the first defendant, foe Government of Kuwait, was en¬ titled to plead state immunity in respect of foe plaintiffs claim. Mr John MacDonald, QC and Mr Owen Davies for the plaintiff: Mr Van V. Veeder, QC, Lady Fox. QC. Mr John Lnckey and Miss Philippa Hopkins for foe first defendant. LORD JUSTICE STUART- SMJTH said that foe plaintiff was a British national and a citizen of Kuwait. Ai (he time of foe Gulf War the plaintiff was a member of the Kuwait Air Force and fought in the war. After Kuwait was invaded by Iraq, he remained behind as a member of the resistance mow- mem. During that time he came into possession of certain video tapes which belonged to foe second defendant. Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah Al-Saud Ai-Sabah, which were said to shew- embarrassing maner of a sexual nature. The contents af the tapes became common knowledge which caused great offence to foe second defen¬ dant who blamed foe plaintiff for stealing than, together with valu¬ ables from his house. The second defendant was re¬ lated io foe Emir of Kuwait and was said to be influential in Kuwait. After fhe Iraqis were expelled, foe second defendant, together with the rftifd and fourth defendants, Sheikh TaJai Fahad Al -Ahmad AhSabah and Saad Justin Al-Saad, allegedly kid¬ napped the plaintiff and treated him with great cruelty. He was taken to a state security prison and beaten by security guards. For foe purposes of the hearing before foe judge and in the Court of Appeal, and in order io determine the question of jurisdictioa it was accepted that foe first defendant was vicariously liable for foe acts of the guards, although it denied any such conduct by the guards. Jurisdiction of the English court in respect of foreign slates was governed by foe 1978 Act The express wards of section l provided immunity to foe first defendant. Despite foal. Mr MacDonald con¬ tended that the section had to be read subject to the implication that the stale was only granted immu¬ nity if it was acting within the law of nations. In international law, torture was a violation of a fundamental human right, it was a crime and a ton for which the victim should be compensated. The argument on behalf of the plaintiff was foal international law against torture was so fundamental that it was a jus cogens, or compelling law, which overrode all other principles of sovereign immunity. No authority was cited for that proposition but Mr MacDonald sought to draw comfort from two passages in foe speech of Lard Diplock in Alcorn v Republic of Columbia (J19S4) 1 AC 580,597 and 600). In his Lordship’!: judgment however, foot case made it dear that the 1978 Ad was a comprehen¬ sive axle and was not subject to overriding considerations. At com¬ mon law a sovereign state coold not be sued at ail against its will in the courts of this country . The 1978 Art, by the exceptions it set dul marked substantial inroads into that prindple. In his Lordships judgment it was inconceivabte that the drafts¬ man, who must have been well aware of the various international agreements about torture, in¬ tended section I to be subject to an overriding qualification. Moreover, authority in the Uni¬ ted Slates at foe highest level was completely contrary to Mr Mac¬ Donald* submission; see Ar¬ gentine Republic v Amerada Hess Shipping Corporation ((1989) 488 US 428) and Siderman de Blake v Republic of Argentine (tl992) 965 F (2d) 699). Mr MacDonald submit¬ ted that their Lordships should not fallow those persuasive decisions. His Lordship could not agree. When the maner came before foe Court of Appeal in 1994, on foe plaintiff* appeal from the refusal of Sir Peter Fain to grant leave to serve proceedings out of the juris¬ diction pursuant to Order 11 of the Rules of foe Supreme Court, those two cases were nor cited. Had they been foe result might well have been different and foe court might have concluded foat there was no good arguable case in relation to the events in Kuwait. A moment* reflection was enough to show foat foe practical consequences of the plaintiffs sub¬ mission would be dire The foreign slate would be unlikely to submit to the jurisdiction of foe English court and in its absence the court would have no means of testing the claim or making a just determination. Lord Justice Ward delivered a concurring judgment and Mr Jus¬ tice Buddey agreed. Solicitors: Bindman & Partners; Baker MacKenzie. Morris and Others v Lewis and Another Before Mr Justice Laddie pudgment March 22[ Section 35 of the Insolvency Act 1986 was drafted in wide terms and should be given scope wide enough lo embrace any dispute concerning a receiver or manager's remunera¬ tion. Further, foe section should be read as a whole; it followed that all those matters which could be the subject of an application under section 35(1) could be foe subject of directions or a declaration under section 35(2) and vice versa. Mr Justice Laddie so held in foe Chancery Division when dismiss¬ ing an appeal by John Joseph Morris. Linda Morris and Butlean Lid. the indemnifiers. against an order by Mr Registrar Sitnmonds of January 3, 1936. dealing with their application, pursuant to Order 2, rule 2 of foe Rules of foe Supreme Court, to rescind, on foe ground that it was unfair, an order of Mr Registrar Buddey, dated December 5. that they should pay £109,770 to Barry Lewis and Bh&gu Misery as joint admin¬ istrative receivers of Therm-a-Stor Ltd. Section 35 of foe 1986 Act provides; “(1) A receiver ... of the property of a company appointed under powers contained in an instrument, or foe persons by whom or on whose behalf a receiver... has been so appointed. may apply to foe court for direc¬ tions in relation to any particular matter arising in connection with the performance of foe functions of the receiver... “(2) On such application, the court may give such directions, or may make such order dedaring foe rights of persons before the court or otherwise, as it thinks juSL" Mr ftiul D. J. Marshall for foe indemnifiers; Mr Andreas GledhiiJ for foe receivers. MR JUSTICE LADDIE said foat prior to acceptance of their appointment, foe receivers had obtained an indemnity from foe indemnifiers for, inter alia, any costs fees and liabilities incurred by them in the administration. Unfortunately an insurance claim, believed valid for £217,000. was likely to realise only E35.000. That gave rise to overall liabilities in the region of E110.000 and an originating application by the receivers to foe companies court, under the provisions erf section 35, for (i) directions as to compromis¬ ing various insurance claims; (ii) directions as io ihe indemnifiers providing sufficient funds to en¬ able the receivers to complete and close their receivership; (ii) alter¬ natively, an order that the indem¬ nifiers indemnify foe receivers in respect of all liabilities arising from foe receivership. Mi Marshall had argued that under section 35. the companies court had no power to make an order enforcing the indemnity between his clients and the receiv¬ ers: hence neither of the registrars had jurisdiction to make the orders they had. directing the indem¬ nifiers either to pay ihe receivers or in pay money into a joint account In such a case, all foat section allowed was Tor that court to be consulted, at foe behest erf receivers or those responsible for their appointment, as to the way they should perform their functions, he submitted. To order foe indem¬ nifiers to pay any sum to foe receivers was outside foe court's powers under foe section, relating to a private, contractual dispute, suitable for an ordinary writ action, with pleadings in the ordinary way. However, his Lordship said that Mr Marshall had rightly conceded that subsection (2) was very wide, so that the court could have been invited to make a declaration that foe indemnifiers were obliged in indemnify the receivers in respect of ail receivership costs up to foe date of the declaration. Further, after such a declaration was made inter partes foe receivers could have applied for summary judg¬ ment in a writ action, claiming res judicata. Accordingly Mr Registrar Buck- ley had jurisdiction to make foe aider he did. Solicitor*: Barren Alexander Chair; I sad ore Goldman. 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  TMeaGCnoN fleaskteupmone 0171-782 7344 FAX: 0171-782 7827 ‘ Noticas era ■object fe rinOrzaaltoa and should be received by a^Opra two dm r' 42 SPORT/RACING Mi dfield player returns from exile to strengthen emerging England Ince’s restoration paints bright future By David Miller WHATEVER has become of our island race? The Empire was long ago released, but now we are bullied into sub¬ mission over our fishing rights and dodgy beef by the fickle French and others in a supposed European Union, and it takes a Bulgarian to remind us that England might win a football championship. I happen to agree with Dimitar Penec, the coach of the Bulgaria team beaten by England at Wembley, who said as much on Wednesday night. Haying ar home, as in the World Cup in 1966. Eng¬ land have every reason to believe that they can reach die final of the European champ¬ ionship this summer. The metamorphosis of the team under Terry Venables, as it was under Alf Ramsey 30 years ago, is no less steady, if equally unspectacular. Fundamental to the perfor¬ mance on Wednesday, in which the general shape of a coherent team began to emerge, was the return, after 13 months, of Paul Ince. Physi¬ cally as tough and intimidat¬ ing as Nobby Stiles yet, with a full set of his own teeth, less demonic in appearance. Ince brought a stability that infect¬ ed everyone around him. I do not yearn for another Stiles, and there would be no benefir were Ince to bring discredit to the England shirt. Yet, if he has learnt in Italy to discipline the emotions that boil over as at Crystal Palace last season, the tenacity of his tactics, so reminiscent of 'Johan Neeskens. and the ra¬ pidity of his distribution will quicken rhe pulse and the fortunes of any England side. Venables said that, with I nee's reintroduction, the team was tactically compact and had better shape. "The more we play, the better it'll be." he said. Let us remember that Venables has had only 14 matches as yet, a third of a League season, and has a win- loss record of 7-1. Although he does not have times FRIDAY MARCH 29 19% Equine valour bridges the gap between east and west
• Tiip«dav. Nad A1 |_ Al in of Ince, wbo began rebuilding his England career with a powerful performance against Bulgaria at Wembley. Photograph: Marc Aspland the five world-class players that Ramsey had in Banks. Wilson. Moore, Bobby Char¬ lton and Greaves, and later Peters. Ball and Hurst, he does have a formation that is acquiring uncanny simi¬ larities. Stone on the right flank is as industrious as was Ball (or Coppell) from penalty area to penalty area; McManaman on the left may not have the intuition of Peters, but is more threatening with his dribbling and needs extended experi¬ ence; Ferdinand brought an acceleration superior to Hurst. and Shearer, but needs to score the easy ones; and the level-paced Sheringham brought a flair to the support¬ ing attacking role that might have upstaged even the 100 per cent Hunt I da not need reminding that Gascoigne, even if playing for 90 minutes rather than every other ten, is not Bobby Charlton. If it becomes unde¬ niable that Gascoigne cannot last a whole match — already evident, many would say — then McManaman can be switched to his normal pos¬ ition in central midfield, with Barm by introduced on the left So, there is all to play for. Ramsey's formation fell into shape only in December 1965. against Spain in Madrid, and did not give cause for public optimism until Poland were beaten in Katowice in the last match before the World Cup finals. Nor is there much sub¬ stance to the allegation that Bulgaria came to Wembley without ambition. They may have been negative in the first half, but they competed ag¬ gressively for possession. When Borimirov replaced Iordanov in midfield, they became, under the direction of die ubiquitous Lechkov, a potent force which may make nonsense of the bookmakers’ long odds come June. England’s comparative de¬ cline in the second half arose partly because of Gascoigne’s fading contribution, partly because the front four — Stone, Sheringham, Ferdi¬ nand and McManaman — did not drop into a possession- game. eliminating the opti¬ mistic pass or move, allowing the Bulgaria midfield to gain the upper hand. Although Southgate was horribly exposed late in the match, saved only by Sea¬ man'S competence and a han¬ dling offence by Borimirov immediately before what would have been an equal¬ ising goal by Knstadinov. he might he preferred to Ballister, Southgate being a more con¬ structive defender with the bail. Further exposure to Adriatic/Balkan skills, against Croatia next month, should confirm the advance of a team and a coach in whom few have so far placed confidence. Russian lesson for McCarthy THE Russians are coming, and the evidence of Wednes¬ day night in Dublin was that Onopko, Nikiforov. Mostovoi. Kolyvanov and their col¬ leagues will be an adornment to the European champion¬ ship finals. If the quality of Russia's 2-0 win served to whet the appetite for the summer, the lessons for Mick McCarthy, the new Ire¬ land manger, were harder. McCarthy could take real pleasure from the emergence of Shay Given, 19, the Blade- bum Rovers reserve goalkeep¬ er, who played with impressive composure and By Peter Ball sureness on his debut. Mark Kennedy, also 19. had his moments, too. while Roy Keane was a powerful per¬ former until he betrayed him¬ self with the stupid kick in the dying moments that brought his dismissal. That, presum¬ ably. was not what McCarthy had in mind when he said “Keane led by example". As well as by individual performances, the manager also said that he was encour¬ aged by the second-half per¬ formance that saw his team create a number of clear opportunities. Overall, though, the gap in THE’ggffife TIMES Save £35 on tickets to see the Broncos THE London Super League rugby season kicks off next weekend and The Times is offering readers the opportunity to buy a season ticket for the Londcm Broncos home games for £75, saving £35 off the normal season ticket price of £110. Super League rugby is a tost exciting sport all the family can enjoy with entertainment before the kick-off and at half-time. And their base, at Charlton Athletic football club’s ground. The Valley, in southeast London, has gpod public transport connections and car parking. With your season ticket you get •reserved seats for 11 home games (including two FREE l games) • a commemorative T-shirt • London Broncos cap •no queueing for tickets Forward Darren Shaw, above, has played for the London Broncos, who can trace their roots back to Fulham, for three years. He also played for Scotland in the World Cup and Super League Nines. CALL THE SEASON TICKET CREDIT CARD HOTLINE 0181 776 6670 r, o x y o x class was yawning. “They are what we are striving to be," Alan Kemaghan, the defend¬ er, said. It will take some time to achieve that end. McCarthy followed the season's trend with three central defenders and asked his team to pass the ball. It gave a new sheen, but it was impossible to hide a fairly basic model underneath the surface polish. “We showed in the second half that we can compete passing the ball around," Mc¬ Carthy said, although Ireland looked most dangerous, and the Russians at their least composed, when the ball W3S lofted into the box towards Quinn and Cascarino. “It is strange," Jason McAteer said, “but / felt we created our best chances in the second half when we fell back at times to the old way of doing things." Rushden set transfer record Non-League Football by Walter Gammis RUSHDEN and Diamonds yesterday broke the transfer record between non-League dubs when they signed Carl Alford from Kettering Town for E85JXX). The Beazer Homes League leaders had tried to sign Alford, 24. in December, but the England semi-professional interna¬ tional forward derided to stay at Rockingham Road. Roger Ashby, the Rushden manager, said: “At the time, he was looking to play in the Football League and we re¬ spected that derision. We went back to Kettering on Wednesday night and asked if he was still available. They said yes and he was happy to come." Alford, who has scored 22 goals In tile VauxhalJ Confer¬ ence this season, has signed a 24-year contract and dearly anticipates that his drop in status will be short-lived. He goes Into the side tomorrow For a match against Hale¬ sowen Town, the second- placed side, with Rushden six points ahead with two match¬ es in hand. Ashby said: “He’s scored 70 goals in the past three sea¬ sons. For somebody so young, be's got a lot of talent about him. He’s an investment for the future of the dub. We want him to take us into the Football League and Pm cer¬ tain be will help us to achieve that aim.” Stevenage Borough, the Conference leaders, shaken by their 2-1 defeat at Hedrvesford Town on Mon¬ day that ended their 17-match unbeaten run, recruited four players: David Howell, tire former coach at Birmingham City, Alan Paris, from Slough Town. Neil TrebWe. a former Stevenage player, from Scar¬ borough. and Andy Ansah. from Peterborough United. Woking, whose fourth successive win — 2-1 away to Telford United on Tuesday— moved them to within four points of the leaders having played a match more, signed Darren Adams, a forward, from Cardiff City, on loan. Their credentials will be test¬ ed by their next three matches, against Hednesford (home). Macclesfield Town (home) and Stevenage (away). Only two dobs are expected to be relegated from the Conference after the National Joint Liaison Committee ruled that there was not a suitable candidate (or promo¬ tion from the UniBond League. O n Tuesday, Sheba racecourse, Dubai, consisted the excellent mile-and-a-nair circuit of bespoke packed sand, the club - with viewing terraces on ground and hrst floor and an Arabian grand¬ stand which seems small, lacking in depth, until you remember that they need make no provision for lotai- isator (Muslims are not per¬ mitted to gamble), bars (ditto drink) or hog-roasts (pork is out). . What they have - and we do not - is a lawn where racegoers face east, kneel down and pray for divine guidance before selecting the six horses for their one. free jackpot ticket, an activity upon which Allah appears to smile. Ir took God six days to create the world. Between Tuesday lunchtime and Wednesday morning. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum had translated Nad Al Sheba into a massive arena replete with floodlights, flags, a 100-seat press centre, marquees to seat a thousand diners, a tented village, a family enclosure, batteries of television screens, oarksful of golf trolleys serv¬ ing as Sheikh-mobiles and 150 white-robed security men who made us realise_ that the motif “VIP" on our badges is no more than a stepping stone on the way to WIP status ac¬ corded the people who matter. The Dubai

  World Cup, the richest race ever staged, brought three competitors from the United States, two from Great Britain, one each from Australia and Japan to take on the quartet of stars from the home country... and for the architect of this theatre, there was a nightmare scenar¬ io: were the Maktoum horses to fill the first three places, the likelihood that foreign owners would never again send their horses thousands of energy- sapping miles to do battle in the desert an a surface to which no other thoroughbred is accustomed. An estimated 15,000 people turned up and the nightmare never looked like becoming reality. In the dramatic, floodlit contest that denied the home crowds supplication, the Emirates' best contestant was Tamayaz, in fifth place, com¬ prehensively beaten by three Americans and one English rival. A disappointing result for tiie Sheikh, said the pundits. When his Highness sits down to consider the matter, he is likely to fieri that the cost of around £10 minion (some of it spent on me) is a bargain sum to promote Dubai to foe status of leading player in world racing — which it assumed with CSgart victory. This can¬ not occur without sane dis¬ placement at the top. FREUD ON FRIDAY ‘Sent to do battle on the desert sands 1 Thursday. Ain tree. The best- known. biggest betting race in the world has two warm-up days featuring well-rewarded contests. Tomorrow, there will be a nine-figure tdevisfcn audience with a crowd of 60,000. On foe first day of the meeting, about a third of that number turned up and the difference between devout Muslims imploring divine in¬ tervention arid the noisy bustle of flat-vowelled, hard-drink¬ ing citizens is as if Kipling were right. There is little racing at Ain tree, but that on offer is special and joyous to behold: the buzz of knowledgeable racegoers is peculiar to this track: elsewhere, folk wander

  around gravitat¬ ing between bar, paddock, book¬ makers and van¬ tage point At Liverpool, wherev¬ er they walk, they walk with a will. It is hugely im- portant for the 1 overall pattern of National Hunt raring that the Grand National retains its place as the handicap of the year. Ask 100 citizens about this event and they remember four happenings — three of them disasters: Devon Loch's phantom jump, FoinavonS 100-1 victory after mayhem at the 23rd fence and Captain Brown’s 1993 cock-up at the start On foe credit side is Red Rum. Ti I he dream scenario foe- tomorrow is an absence of animal-rights cam¬ paigners, a race free of fatali¬ ties and a winner who will catch the public imagination, for we need another hero who mil go cm to open garden fetes and supermarkets. Party Politics, the only run¬ ner with a positive National record (one win, one second) might be such an animal: the tallest horse in training, hand¬ some with a medical record that would dissuade Bupa from according him member¬ ship. His fear tomorrow might be a high wind, for one of his many operations involved the insertion of a metal pipe in his throat Unlike Dubai, racegoers would be wise to watch the west for there is a likdy trio from Ireland: my money is on Life of a Lord. I backed Cigar. I am on a rolL THUNOBRER 2.10 Blown A Fuse. 2.45 Erirw. 320 Rnal Hope. 3.55 1 Solba. 4.30 Bitacrack. 5.00 Dear Emily. Carl Evans: 3.20 FmaJ Hope. GOING: GOOD TO FIRM SIS 2.10 ST0NE6RAVE AGGREGATES NOVICES SELLING HANDICAP HURDLE (£2.129:2m 51110yd) (18 runners) 1 -605 EMLVM0RE 69 P Bramorf 5-11-10.. B Graft® (7) 88 2 0505 FRYUP SA1HJLITE16 to JBraw 5-11-7 EOfe

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Till JOCKEYS: Jocqul Ohrer. 6 linen from 13 rides. 4821.8 GraSm. 3 (ram 17 , \7Wk J Catalan. 19 tan 120.15.81; F Lad*. 6 tan 4l. 14.6V D WAtson. Thin 50. UJTk R Matey.5 (ram 4ft 12J5V □ Brigadier Roscoe Harvey, the National Hunt owner-breeder, died yesterday at his Gloucestershire home, aged 95. From 1951 until his retirement in 1969. he was the Senior Steward’s secretary for the Jockey Club. THUNDERER 2.15 Mim-Lau-And. 250 Too Sharp- 3-2S MarteB Spirit 4.00 Monks Jay. 4.35 Dusky Rover. 5.05 In The Ftough. 5^35 Phardante's Way. 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SSr Kd " 1 ' 14 ' itbSS; ssaRvaKss^-irfS 0 alSsErW-^{'is 0 M0UIES8.VERS'-£,12 H 1 1 •*!£. 3-1 Ptaitae's Vta »-? «■ “-■ sTSarTjJIiffi Kli-' COURSE SPECIALISTS ' ® 10 tore s lift Ef" ,5 - 3tL iWft 10 ton ML IS■ T} W «" tft 17.1V » 49.122% ifafr idig nS IWn “■ S 1 ? -4 ' 'o THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 , Joe White heads black day for backers Ehi T. I. .« 4 - _ ^{I1UCTCUM RACING 43 By Julian Muscat TO RECALL that Joe White □nee broke Norman William¬ son's thigh after a difference of opinion might be to summon images of a bar-room brawl. The reality is that the incident at Sedgefield in October pref¬ aced a shock victory over Aintree's fearsome fences. Williamson's season has been ravaged by a sequence of injuries, the first of which saw him shatter his femur in a fall from Joe White five months ago. But the gelding appeared a reformed character in the John Hughes Memorial Chase. He jumped with rare preci¬ sion before a late surge carried him past Go Universal by the scarcest of heads. With Mugoni Beach just a neck further back in third, die finish was more in keeping with a five-furlong sprint. Joe White's improbable vie- tory should awaken punters to the possibilities of the Ain tree birch. Many are inclined to reduce the Grand National to a handful of prime candidates. They may wish to revise their views after Joe White, defying odds of 33-1. prevailed from 14ib out of the handicap. In this race alone, the fan¬ cied Old Bridge and Tudor Fable both fell — the latter at the first fence, while Toureen Prince, the outright favourite, tf beat only one home. Surprise is the essence of Ain tree and there was plenty to ponder yesterday. You could not help but sympathise with the connec¬ tions of Go Universal, who led The winner, Scotton Banks (left), and Barton Bank jump the final fence together in die Martell Cup Chase at Ain tree yesterday throughout until collared at the death. But the low, crouch¬ ing style of the winning rider was instantly discernible as that of Paul Car berry. As Williamson plumbs the depths of injury. Carbeny, 22. rides the waves on their crest. “I was pleased just to get round, never mind win the race.’' the modest jockey said. Several progeny of famous riders have struggled to emerge from the shadows but Carbeny has flourished in this, his first full season in Britain. The son of Tommy, who landed the 1975 Grand National on L'Escargot. Car- berry is transfixed by this unique circuit even though his first taste of it left him badly bruised six years ago. “1 weighed seven stone and my horse carried 13." Carber- ry said. '‘I’d never completed in three previous rides, but my father used to train Joe White. He told me just to sit still and not ask the horse. 1 think he must have been tired when he fell with Norman [William¬ son] because he is a very safe jumper." This was Carberrys 36th winner of a campaign that has brought havoc to the jockeys' fraternity. There was a sting in the tail for the Irishman, who injured his knee 35 minutes later when Edelweis Du Mou¬ lin slipped upon the flat in the Glenlivet Anniversary Nov¬ ices' Hurdle. Carberry’s re¬ sumption is dependent on him passing the racecourse doctor this morning. For all his misfortune. Edelweis Du Moulin would have struggled to cope with Zabadi. The David Nicholson- trained four-year-old relished circumstances which allowed him to utilise his speed ro demoralise Our Kris by six easy lengths. On an afternoon of baffling results, this was a comprehensive reversal of Zabadi's defeat in the Tri¬ umph Hurdle. Tragic Hero, who finished twelfth in that Cheltenham contest, made the most of a healthy weight concession from his elders to spring another surprise in the open¬ ing Seagram Novices' Hurdle. The eclipse of those promi¬ nent at Cheltenham could not be better illustrated than by Couldnt Be Better’s compre¬ hensive defeat in the Manell Cup. Third in the Gold Cup. Charlie Brooks's chaser was ignominiously pulled up be¬ hind Scotton Banks, who jumped more fluently than Barton Bank. The winner has Cheltenham Gold Cup aspira¬ tions of his own. AINTREE S- : ry vr}~- THUNDERER 2.00 Simply Dashing 3.45 Sheer Jest 2.35 Vflting Flagship 3.10 Avro Anson 520 High Padre The Times Private Handicappeds top rating: 2.00 SIMPLY DASHING. Carl Evans: 3.45 RoIGng Ball. GOING: GOOD TOTE JACKPOT MEETING SIS 2.00 HAKTHl MERSEY NOVICES HURDLE (Grade II: £14.378:2m 4Q (12 runners) (Mat Ud) Us J Ptanai 5-11-11_ 3111 HDEFENCE 17 111111 SMPLY ICE 17 fS} DAMNS 41 (COF.&S) (5 Hronwg T Eatofry S-11-7_ sunn ASHWELL BOY 17 (BJS1 (ASHaora) PHMB5-11-3_Rl 401320 DJ/US16 (OS) (T ting) J JcnKms MI-3.... 5421 HOODS) HAWC 42 (0.6) 1C Hsnra) N ttoitaraon S-11-3 — M A W Mason » MAfya @ RDumoodr 83 6 Amy 76 Huns)NHodmen 5-11-3 _ MAFfegerid 68 0-23124 JACK MW€R 16 #>) {lady (tens) D tfcdriscn 7-11-1.- A Fife 95 4-21314 TDM BROOE 34 (BF.F.G.S) (Us U Bri) JJatasoi 5-11-3. P Deberry 70 515314 ESCART9KUE 15 (SHDUra)M Pipe 4-11-2_D tt Mp WW 87 14-2310 S8.VER SHRED 17 ff.S) ID B/ntoffl M Pye 5-10-13_ JUMW 11 191411 ALLnME DANCER 24 (F.GLS) (H Hejmw) 0 Stenroad 4-10-8- . J A McCarty 77 00315 NORTHERN CHAWS) 48 (6) (BUfty Hanky Pm) E Alston 4-10-8-PMwn 50 a STREAK? HAWK 17 (P Cunwndhanij J tea 4-10-8- . JMeLdUflMn 50 1D1 102 )03 104 105 106 107 108 109 M0 111 112 BETTING: 5-2 taJeteocs. 3-1 Simple Diiferft £-2 J* Twm. 6-1 EsonriQue. 8-1 Alta Dmai. 10-1 otes 1995: TERVH. 4-10-8 C 9rao (4-1) J Peace 10 in FORM FOCUS INDBENCE beat Unairdy A in yafc I Cfkoan Sucre™ Nnrics' Hcntte « CMienham 12m (51b worse oh 31 in ixmcb IxrJto a) Vhn« pm 41 eO to ESCAflTEHGUt 14| 5Bi (pnsnoi- to Party's Retain in onto ) EMy Trianph ttedte ol CheSanwn C2cn if good). ALLTB4E (W/CEfl bear LogUe 21 ai nov¬ ice (wrote at Nnbiv (an 110 yd. good to soft Setoeflon: SMR.Y DASHM6 2.35 HUMMMEL11NG CHASE (M/ldnay course: grade I: £49.380:2m 4f) (4 runners) 201 1IW« C0UL7WJ 16 (CD.FA5I (M 9 Oraacn) 0 Surraod 9-11-10-JMfcCarty SI 202 4-1FU21 KLABDNDAWS 16 (RSJ(C Jones) A Moore (h) 7-11-10-FWoofle » M3 111113 SOUNDI«N16(DJF.G^){DUDwOEO-&a^OwH1-10 ,. .. RDumeody W 204 1-43112 W(WG FIA6SMP16 (CO/^S) (K&sfli ftdristo) DMOnisnfl S-HIO A P McCoy 94 BETTBKS. 134 Ktomn Ban. 7-4 SnM Man. 9-4 VUVg Ftaffii. 16-1 Corttm 1995: VMKG RAGSW> 8 - 11-10 A Mapwe (5-3) D Nlehnbon 6 ran FORM FOCUS C0ULTDN teal Aims* Express a In grade A Dasefl drew Han** Chra 4 Wineartnn f2m 51. tarn) KLAH0N DAVE beat VNNG FLA6SHP 51 In 5- ram wale I Queen Mote Champion Chase al CtettcnEom (2m. good to rod wild SOUND MAN IUI Id aid COLTON 9UI 6 Vl SOUND MAN bad Easy Bud 141 in yade! Comal Chase at Asm (2m 31110yd. good to aft) on peroiSmse slat CQULT0N fed ui« IN) 12ft Sdeatec tOAMON DAVE 3.10 MUM IS MILO MAY NOVICES CHASE (Mifdmay course: grade II £23.656:3m II) (7 runners) 1121U1 ADDMBTON BOV 27 ffiJ.&S) Poods Udl G RttWs 8-1M0 . . B Hmfag 98 P-2P121 AVRO ANSON 25 (F.G] (B Statoni M Camtefro^vi-7 . . . ^ MPwyg 90 711-111 HtLL Of TUUOW 76 (fc.aS) (Udy HarH) P Mdtotoi 7-1 j r ■ - - - « 12315P LWDEXS LOTT016 (CT.&S) (DodHK Raong CUD J While 7-11-7 . _LWyer 93 T2-31P3 ACT THE WAG 31 (F.GI (R Oodsn) A Tjt^I 7-11-4 ... . - - - p Ca tery 84 630-1 IP GOtDENSPWNffl 15(6.51 |Su PHaMHIBlNHardersot;9-71-4 MARgaNd 87 PF131F JBBEHTHEKB8En«@F.SlUHWKE.)M^JP»w7-n-4—. „ Wlfaretort © 8ETWE- 9-4 KM U luriom. 7-2 Aatfnjtot Boy. 4wo A mar Ma The Kttxi. ii-1 Ad The Ittj. 74-1 cflws 1996: EWUO 5-li-OR [w»om)» (W W) M Pw < ran

  FORM FOCUS 301 302 303 3W 305 306 307 ADDUCTOR BOY Peal Merry Maatf S in 12- nxrabatoicap rtee ai Doncato (3m 21 . good) AVRO ANSON beal Rudnil 61 m 8^n»«rvroE chase NOmasta (3m. good) MJ. OF TULJJJW bear (to Balfcac hi In 9-ruma novice chase al front

  ; beat Bens Clascal tweesto (2m ^rfcre’jBOR THE KBBER to rod) J8SER THE 131 n 11-runiw naoca liflyd. grad to so«i (to 3.45 SSwte TErtosds . T Moon DPitcnd NRI MARTBJ. FOX HUNTERS CHASE (Grand National course: amateurs. £15.045:2m 6f) (27 runners) 13082 AS \UU WERE 13P (F.6) (D ParavaflO J Usa 14-12-0.DParaWi 1-22P BROWWH3S0R 13PO^.S^HtSendKydd)MasCSwaJec 14-12-0 . BPolodt rewno CURE MW IS jF.S.S) (M Wang) NTwaa^Dates 8-12-0_ . A Bftfeig 0P3Z1 DMWGLY13P(G)(MAppl»r)M«ffteby7-12-0.- OBwood 13»9>( OARKOAMM13 (F.G^I (IAs J Mo} tts J Oran 12-12-0 . .. . 01LV31 BR8rr 23 (S) 0 Eftaahl J E*rods 13-12-0 . 0110 EMLYDUE15JGLSJ (V JeraflJ P D*i*e Ike) 9-12-0. 34456 RJPFWINME 6P (Df£) (0 Pitdart) D httad 11-1Z-0.. 42i-4i HAUPER io (B(N Han) P Baler 13-12-4. B2IF83- AMEAU342(W (PriMeeflPamen)POomtogs 11-124)CBomr 540P23 XWBALDARMIBtSB(F5){HUartnm8Cmfty 12-12-0—.RCnAy 21/313 KEPWf QRDV15 PJJBI (P Cafng) £ (TGcady (Vtj 8-12-0.. P Fat* P052 MVMMB12P(0Mdcfel 0 NldbaOs8-12-0_ARM) UP-5321 Off TWBRU 28 (EOS) (J Bpdbame) Ms SRsdemi 11-12-0 -MBndbum 1/510-1Z ONhSOTIBi wD?1 (BvF.EcS) |9Ogdeto9iUrodl 13-12-0 —-AOgdrt P-»1 OVS1THB3£S21 (F.&51 (CSoortogJSSoartnrg 1012-fl .. Stabag PP751-63 PROffSSORLONSHAR35 (F£)(HDMbs)MsC ffcb9-12-0 RMds 1PRP3 aaXRAP0R2S (BAS) (DAto7r>M4)RBrtB 11-12-0_DAkrs-Hrtsy 300001 RtUWBDU.271£) (IhHdata)SBndsft» 13-120_ ..RFgri 15-1 IF SHOT JEST 25 K23F/£,a(l*sjWfc»i)W toad 11-120. AM 211/3 SRNOOOV13 f,6£) (G Bnxoe) G8mcw 13-120..-.. CSDdon 0413-32 S0N0FASPSY22 (FJB) (Mrs6HMttm) JOtdTOB 12-120-PHanW

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  t*tta oft !«B TtL Satodtan: S«Sl JEST 4.20 BELLE EP0QUE SSTBN NOVICES HURDLE (Grade 1: £18.916:3m 110yd) (17 Turners) 000411 ARn>MElK27iS){HSEHfrftns)l*jjnman6-I1-6. WltarabM 71 3101 BAZE AWAY7F (F.G) (PMaltan) IBatomg5-11-6.. .. GBraSay 68 P21145 BUCAHOUSEBOvIBB)(TiletoeyBwsJNTofctan-Oavies6-11-6- TJanAs 82 212510 8UTTHlCUPJ0E16B)(RFaitsiDNIctotan6-11-S.. APMcCoy 73 81-0410 aA\®WOUa25(Wyj31(l*sPCB4iai)JFiniirf*lfl 7-11-6. .. MDwyar 58 2-11125 FAT)CRSKY350.F)tKKinMI)OSmnl5-11-6-JAMcCattty 82 P-6UP10 LORD Of THE YKST13 @F.6S) (Dccbesi ol WesOrwsleil J J OT* 7-11-6. Aftodo 54 21-3220 L0T7HtYT)C/CnB(S)(APirtar)JE*a*M1-6—-UARagedl 70 023F41 hRKBMT25(ItG)(D8Ugikn)AJMtin5-1l-6..— LHarcy 72 3111P3 PWRN«ai7(WAa(SairKsst«maslj*D»fclii*s»6-1l-6-. RDwhoo @ F3-1010 PlEASURESHARHJ 17(D.S)fTE3ws|PHntaB8-11-6 ... PCateny 64 1-2F11 SUPSMR«a 30 p.G5) lb Mace) UPu 7-11-6-- ... OBrtdgratef 82 HI TUWOa41 (M)IW«tao)ItasMIteeiiy5-11-6.— Ptoieo 87 132313 (JNCLEKfflllYl(DA(RSeed)JJOW p* 8-11-6..- ASSmBi 81 411115 WSt£YWOWER4ifAS)(wy*yRolPbTS)NT«lflavtoite6-li-6— CLtow^n 80 22022P VAHM17(WSbrtJOld6-11-6- -GUftoo 69 0.52152 RW 9 (US) Rfc CDurt RBadda 7-11-1...flPMrtl «S BETTMG' 7-2 Turaoie. 02 Phaaieer. 11-2 St*wu Bei. Ol Fatter Sky. *y Wwda. 12-1 Btaa Any. BuOtoee Boy. BUtvav -toy. 14-/ Art&muc. i6-i Pleastra Sued. 20-1 ottos 1995: MORGANS HARBOR 9-11-4 P town (6-1) Mi V Rereln 15 ran 501 502 503 504 505 506 5(17 500 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 FORM FOCUS AWTHWETK bw Keep ir Zipped ned in 19- tinai nonce turtle ■ Matowy (2m 5L good to to)). BLAZE AWAY bat Furfcto 8/ m notice Turtle at Donctoa (2m 41 aged to taml. 6UCKH0USE BOY 19*41 58) ol 24 B Iftibstoe tn grade I Sun Ufiance & Dtefifrtsun (2m 51. good to tof) wdh BUTTUtOSP JOE 3)61 7TJi and LOT- TEHY DCKFr 7) 9th BUTTERCUP JOE tea Djas 31 in notice luadie a fenpton (2m 51 good to roll oo pentanale sbto sob FAT7CT SKY (Sb Deter oCJ 41VH 5 *d BLAZE AWAY 17961 7»i. FATHER SKY IS) 2nd Ol 5 to See Men Business m fade t Tofanth rtirfc n Santoro (2m Bl, goodl on pera ISmate start. PHARANEAR ned and «I 3n} ot 24 to Great Easaby u Jrarufcap Turtle 4) Cteflanhamjam 21. grad in tot) ■» PLEASURE SHARE) (61b ant ofl) 321 8ft YAHMI (1» ume ofi) rated up beta 3 ouL SUPERIOR nSK bert YAJM (Eb awse o0) 3SI in nonce lunlh al Taumon (3m 110 yd good to soO) TURNPOlfbaal Snaky Gayte 2) in nricap TutSe al Nnrcaslk (2ro 4T, sob) WTSLEY WONDER bto Buftenr Equrara 21 in 20-flmtr rater* bunfle N Ascot 12m 44. sol) dtfi BUTTERCUP JOE (to worn off) 19*1 Sh Setoctton 1TANTOLE (rap) 101 113143 GOOD RUES 13 (BF/.6£) (Mn 0 Robtoson) B Hall 12-0 .. Bwest(7) 68 Rwonl sunbe Sa-bguy toro (F — W. P — pulled iB LJ — unseated rids. B — brought dOM. S—sipped up R — relmd D — dcgtoiled). Hanse s name. Days dice last ocintj; F V ttt. (B — Hntas V—tesor. H — bona E — EyesWeJd C — cause wtorar. D — dstroce nner CD —cause and disace wioa. BF — beaten tanute m Itaad rasa) 6oeig m «l»eh horse las ton (F — tam. good to Inn, tod. 6 — good S — son. grad to sol tray). Omwt n bradtete. Timer Age and neiglt FMter pks any alkuonee The Thnet Pirate Handjouper's rabng. 4.50 ODDBHiS HANDICAP HURDLE (£13.485:2m 4f) (16 runners) 601 121520 SOffiAB 16 (5) (Mu J Bcnjrct) M Pipe 8-11-ID_C 602 6D-3F4 BARNABOY 16(D^5)(LWHson)NHenderson8-11-10. .. MAFKznenid 95 603 323220/ SAW LOOT 7F (GJ>) (0 KM) ItasM Rerotey 8-11-8_Pftiren - £04 212-54F CALL MY GUEST GB (DAS) (DCIerlR Peacock E-1T6_ . M Dwyer 92 84-4400 ROBERTYLEA16 (G£) (Wsnfatte Con* Ltd) Ms 14 Rmeley 8-11-2— W Mantra 93 0-00120 GOLDEN TCLLG 41 (F.G5) (8 State) T EaBUrtH 5-11-2. - UMte 92 23331F HUNDCONCHANCE 19(D.FA$)(AMeAtoe)IFeigusai|kr)6-10-12_ APUcCoy Bl 11-1115 MUSKORA1B7 AD/.Q (N Sarny) P Habbs 7-10-11-ROrraroody 90 /4ft4lP TraWODOlMTETW 22-U210 TDPCEES . . irmoi outset 34 pAsi. . .. /1UM LUMUMBA DAYS 77 (F.S)(H Intel UUeroe 1818-2. JRaBon 88 4M2WI ARFH1 MOLE 13 (S [tt SteQ J OM 810-1 - 94 11-3150 OOWNTTt FBJ.44(0BFiAS) (J Johnsu) J Jduson7-UWl.. PCtoeny 93 402246 NODFDRM WONOBT T3 (D.F.ELS) (Egueame Ud) D HOf 9-10-0. CTra Webb (5) 89 84603-0 RICH LK41 (G) (tt* S G^f) C Weedm 6-160.. BFertrap) 85 Lung Itedop 1 Oran Tin Foil 9-12. Nodfomi Worater 9-11. IWi L* 9-7 BETTING: 4-1 lop Cats, I1-28«na Bny.8-1 Onto. 10-1 Mata* Saw User. 12-1 TUneheon Cfance, Son*. 1<-1 Arte Mote, Call My Guta Rcbeny la. 16-1 Golden )»o. 25-1 NeeftmortMote. Hodtam Wrateo. Rta Uta. 33-1 Dran 17w fal Lururts Day; 1995: SQURE S8JC 6-114J S McAtoJI (16-1) A Tore* 3 (ro 605 606 607 608 £09 610 fill £12 £13 614 615 fill »lMTOl7(D,G5fl)BiagiteijAJYHson9-TM. L Haney K : 17(BFASHFS*«SH| Mis Jferedm6-10-7.. ASSmkfi » 4 (DAS) (M Dilute) M rtammud £-10-4... Mr C Sooner (3) © FORM FOCUS SOHRAB Ml 2nd ol 10 to Thermal 2m 4i 11 Tteiee i ha«t»-

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• n, lad rtrbnodon. 40 Iran 176. 2259b. D Munqr Smith. 12 Ml 66,18 A. JOCKEYS: L Wori. G9 toners bom 259 rides. 264ft, J Wave, 65 Iran 292. Z22X. Bima CGomun. 34 bon 167.20.4V T ttrim. 38 (mm 216. 17.69k. D Uctenro. 20 Iran 116.17.2V A CuSane. 3 hjm 18.16.71 Sound Man can make big noise on faster ground 2.00: Simply Dashing, a course and distance winner, missed Cheltenham and has sound claims of extending his winning run. His defeat of Jade Tanner last lime at Warwick was enhanced when the runner-up finished a good fourth behind Urubande in the Sun Alli¬ ance Novices' Hurdle and the selection meets David Nicholson's runner on 5!b better terms. A combination of weight and longer trip may prove too much for Indefence, the Supreme Novices’ winner. 2-55: This quarrel met in the Queen Mother Champion Chase, where Klairon Davis Triumphed, and reoppose on identical terms over an extra half-mile. The ground tius afternoon will almost cer¬ tainly be faster than at Cheltenham and with Sound Man best on a faster surface and proven over the trip he can reverse the form. Klairon Davis appeared to stay 2 1 2 miles over hurdles on his final start last term but his best form is with give in the ground. Similar com¬ ments apply to Viking Flag¬ ship. the winner of this race last year. HICHARD^VANS Nap: Huncheon Chance (4.50 Aintree) Next best: Turn pole (420 Aintree) 3.10: Hill Of TuUow by¬ passed Cheltenham and is proven on ground ranging from good to soft to good to firm. Undefeated over fences, the form of his three wins this term read better than anything on offer here and Richard Dunwoody’s mount should take all the beating. Addington Boy won in the style of an improving novice at Doncaster last time but has more on his plate, and Act The Wag looks a' greater threat. 3.45: Rolling Ball must be the choice despite a question mark over his ability to jump the National fences (Carl Evans writes). He beat Dou¬ ble Silk impressively at War- wide. dearly retains ability and will lack for nothing from his rider, Richard Ford. Sheer Jest beat Brown Wind¬ sor and Dark Dawn in this race last year, while Ire¬ land's Kerry Orchid was third to Elegant Lord at Cheltenham, where Clare Man and The Bird O'Donnell were seventh and eighth. Southern Minstrel is another formerly useful per¬ former who is doing well at this level and The Country' Trader, second to Go Uni¬ versal (received 101b) in Au¬ gust, is interesting. 4.20: Father Sky is expected to run a big race at a decent price now that he is back On his favoured good ground. However, this is an above- average renewal of a race for staying novices and three have sound form chances. Pharanear ran a cracker behind Great Easeby in the Gold Card final at Chelten¬ ham and is several pounds clear of his rivals according to the official handicapper. Superior Risk possesses bags of pace and has taken well to hurdling, winning decisively from Yahmt at Taunton last time. However, all his races have been on softer ground and I prefer Torn pole. He appears to have been laid out for the race by Maty Reveley. who took this last year with Morgans Harbour. Winner of his three starts this term, he was impressive when stepped up to 2^ miles at Newcastle last time when beating Sparky Gayle. To¬ day's trip can bring about further improvement 4JO: Top Cees travelled well for a long way in the Gold Card final and may appreci¬ ate this shorter trip. Golden Hello is on a winning mark and. after an operation to improve his breathing, is expected to run a big race on favourable .ground. How¬ ever. Tony McCoy is an eye¬ catching booking for Hundbeon Chance and the Co Antrim raider looks well treated. A falter last time, he previously wan at Fairy- house with McCoy riding and finished a good third to New Co at Gowran Park. 520: A tricky finale as the three best handicapped hors¬ es have not shown peak form for some time. Mor¬ gans Harbour has run only once this term, while Strong Medicine and High Padre disappointed on their latest outings. It may prove best to side with Pashto, who dis¬ played his wellbeing with a good win at Wincanton earli¬ er this month and should relish this longer trip. Richard Evans TRAINERS: K Baiev. 7 wnwi tom ?4 tunnere. 292%: Mre M ftmetey. 4 from 16, 25 0%: N Twfoton-Oavtes. 8 Iron 40.20 OV J Rtzguited 3 Item 16.18 8%: D Nicholson. 9 from 50. 180%: G Rictaids. 5 from 40. 12 5% JOCKEYS; 6 Bradley. 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RULES APPLY PRICES SUBJECT TO FLUCTUATION. r" 44 SPORT the ttviFS FRIDAY MARCH 29 1996 Ailing form adds insult to injuiy for Ballesteros FRom John Hopkins, golf correspondent IN PONTE VEDRA BEACH THE soft spring sunshine that blessed this part of Florida yesterday morning shone be¬ nevolently on Kenny Perry and Justin Leonard, who had rounds of 65, seven under par, and on Craig Parry, who had a 66. but, for all the good that it did Severiano Ballesteros, it might as well have been cold, dark and weL Ballesteros, his face lined with sadness, quit after completing ten holes of The Flayers' Championship, complaining of a sore back. Ballesteros had arrived in Jacksonville at the weekend intent on practising and trying to regain some semblance of form after being 13 over par in Morocco and finishing joint last in Dubai — his first two tournaments after a five- month lay-off He practised hard each day, as many as four hours at a time, and felt fine on the practice ground before his early-morning tee- off. The pain started after his Richard Borall and Derrick Cooper, the winners in 1992 and again last year, failed in their attempt to become the first pair to win the Sunning- dale Foursomes three times when they were beaten in the last 16 yesterday. The experi¬ enced European Tour players were beaten 5 and 4 by Luke Donald. 18, an England boys international, who plays at Beacons field, and Michael O'Connor, 19, a member of the Stoke Poges dub. They went on to reach the semi-finals. drive on the 6th and it was in his lower bade. It might have had a little to do with his scoring; he was about to go three over par. Soon. Jesper Pamevik. a playing partner, noticed Ballesteros was in difficulty. “He was not getting through the ball,'’ Parnevik said. “He had no distance. It was not Seve.” On the llth, Ballesteros withdrew, by now six over par. “I could not swing the dub far enough back and I couldn’t swing it forward." he said. “1 felt so tight. I was just bumping it forward. What was the use of that?" In the locker-room, Ballesteros had ice applied to his back and massage. He intends to com¬ pete in Atlanta next week and in the Masters the week after, but will wait to see how his back responds to treatment “That’s a shame," Colin Montgomerie said after handing in his card of 71. one under par, and hearing about Ballesteros. It was pointed out that Ballesteros, like Mont¬ gomerie. had lost weight and perhaps that had something to do with it “But weight is not his problem.” Montgomerie said, laughing. “It is mine." Seeing the new slimline Montgomerie at a distance prompted some-spectators to take a second look. They thought that the figure taking the long strides looked famil¬ iar, but were not too sure until they looked again and realised! that this was Europe’s leading money-winner these past three years: he is now nearly three stone lighter than he was last year. “I did a double take when I saw him." David Hill, the championship secretary of the Royal and Ancient Goff Club, said as he and two of his four children watched Mont¬ gomerie. Montgomerie had few prob¬ lems in a round marked by a j gorgeous demonstration of the : difficult art of hitting a driver I from the fairway. On the 16th, Montgomerie faced a shot with a carry of 230 yards to a narrow green bounded by water. Though it was into the wind, he had no qualms about calling for his driver and the ensuing birdie was his third of the day. It also gave him die dubious privilege of the honour on the next tee, the menacing 17th. where the green is almost completely surrounded by water. “You don’t want lo be first up on that hole," Montgomerie said, "specially when it’s windy. You want to see what the others play before you make your choice." Montgomerie’s nine-iron car¬ ried the 144 yards to dry land safely and an eight-foot putt saved par on the ISth. It was not a good day for the Spaniards. Word had been expected from Jose Maria Oiazabal’s office in Spain as to whether he would compete in Atlanta and the Masters. The decision has been delayed a day and the likelihood is that he is not well enough to do so. Ian Woosnam’s 72 was marred by poor driving. Woosnam, normally such a' powerful driver, was balloon¬ ing his tee-shots and becoming so discontent with himself that, on the ll'th. Billy Andrade, a playing partner, watched and burst out laugh¬ ing. “Woosie," he said, “I’m not laughing at you, I’m laughing with you." Montgomerie blasts out of the sand at the 3rd during his opening round yesterday. Photograph; J. D. Cuban/Allsport Lyons corners share of limelight From M ex Webb IN MADEIRA SATURDAY night is a big night for the nearly men of European golf. No partying, no discos; just an anxious wait by the telephone in the hope of getting-a start in a fully- fledged PGA European Tour event. Paul Lyons is one such: he got the call last Saturday and, five days later, he found himself sharing the lead in the Madeira Island Open. Lyons, 29, who is attached to Langley Park and lives in Bromley. Kent, spends his sporting life lurking in the murky depths of Category 14, a sort of golfing limbo that is occupied by the hopefuls who finished between 42nd and S6th places in the qualifying school last year. He cannot reasonably ex¬ pect to get more than four starts on the main tour this season. He used one up in the Catalan Open when gales reduced the tournament to 36 holes.- He shot, he admitted, “bundles” and he would have missed the cut handsomely had there been one. However, a lecture from Denis Pugh, his coach, has put him back on the straight and narrow. “It is nice to be here, not just making up the num¬ bers." he said. On a day in which there were three holes in one — by Per Haugsrud, Klas Eriksson and David Wil¬ liams — Lyons’S 68. four under par, made him the joint first round leader, alongside Ross McFarlane. on the Santo da Serra course. He came to the tournament having been presented with a new set of Callaway woods and irons, from Big Bertha to sand-wedge, and he and they had struck up an immediate rapport Starting at the 10th. he had three bogeys, none of which could be blamed on the new sticks. He three-putted the 18th and failed to get up and down on the 4th and 9th. It was as well that the new weapons were in good work¬ ing order; Lyons* round was laced with five birdies and an eagle, at the par-five 2nd, achieved with a handsome drive, a six-iron and a 15-foot putt What did he expect for the rest of the tournament? It would be nice, he said, to cany on as he had started, but a top 30 place would be more realis¬ tic. It probably all depends on how Bertha behaves herself. EARLY RRST-ROUND SCORES (GBand be unless sated): 68: R LteFartane. P Lyons. 89: P Gotffng.J M Car mas fSp), 0 Choprd (Swe). S GiGacher. J Hemksworjn. 70:1 Gamdo (Spi. J Payne. T Gogele (Ger), M Besareensy ffr). G J Brand, S Watton. 71: R JaoqueSn [rf). C Sunescn, I Pwran. D Carter. A H-jner. H Russeil J Cocoes (Aral, P Lewie. H P Thud (Ger;. G Ralph. P Way. □ Hougl. P Tattxfc 72 A Scfcrriw [Porj. C Post (Den). A Gasan. A Sher¬ borne, P MccheC. S Luna .-Sc). P Cuny. R Qaydsn. V Ptifcps. 73: F Tsneud frri. G Onen. S Dodd. = G/eud (Ft}. M Rnero (Sp). D J Russel. G Or. P Haugsrud |Ko.-J. M Pu3an. B May (US':. D fey. 74: S Henderson. D Rcbenscn. R Batons (Ge) Davies determined to prove driving force From Patricia Davies . IN MISSION HILLS THE 25th Nabisco Dinah Shore, which started here in California yesterday; ris^the Masters of women’s golf. It is one of those championships that players are longing to win and Laura Davies, the world No 1, is no exception. Davies came dose last year, when she tied for third, and was even doser the year before —she led by a shot with a hole to play and lost by a shot to Donna Andrews. “Ill either be first, or fourth, this year," she said after winning the Stan¬ dard Register Ping, the event before the Dinah, for the third consecutive time last week. After nine holes yesterday, she was looking good: out in Tv’ • .f v - • . . .7v V- .1 ’-V : ■ • •y iv_y ;;■? . y. •• > Sir Sort Desristg, ifts missing years. : ■; Sir Ron Gearing's Report: on She “jungle of qualifications” V for 16 - IS year olds is given She most comprehensive -; ; coverage in this Friday’s Times Educational Supplement.. ;• What wiiS it entail for the Secondary and College '• ' systems? Plus everything else in education. This Friday : • from your newsagent. . % \= \ ' : .:y Wry ::j W ry vV’V/ r. ! V-.'ri'.- cu ; i ne i smes Educational Supplement - \ mt /tJuyii? ' / ,%•. . 7» /Vr.” b::- it! • .' -I, ;'? V j T* - VV'i-v.- "■ ' ■' V'ihv '“’• r !'y l'uv P W -■/ ou 1 - i! ' 1 W.T-’-oe. .:T •’ : -»••' 33, three under par, after chipping in for an eagle three at the 508-yard ninth after ' dearing the green with two three-woods. She was just a shot behind Amy Alcott. three times a champion here, who played her first nine in 32. Davies, the long-hitter with the unorthodox approach — she would rather visit the casino than the -practice ground — is oozing so much confidence that she said that she intended using her driver almost everywhere. Davies hit two drivers at the 504-yard 2nd, but bagged her birdie four with an extrava¬ gant, deft lob from the edge of the green to three feet The ball settled like the proverbial but¬ terfly with sore feet At the 3rd, however, she hit the usual Old guard prove too determined From David Rhys Jones IN ADELAIDE PLAYERS’ shirts carry the Sensational Adelaide explod¬ ing bowls logo, and officials talk of setting the game alight, but there have been few pyro¬ technics in the world outdoor bowls championships at the Lockleys centre. Last week, Australia. Ire¬ land. New Zealand, Scotland and Wales shared the medals in the pairs and triples, and yesterday saw favoured quar¬ tets from Australia, England, New Zeland and Wales quali¬ fy for the semi-finals of the fours. Isolated giant-killing exploits, such as Namibia’s win over New Zealand yester¬ day, and Guernsey’s eclipse of South Africa, are the excep¬ tions that prove the rule: file old guard has flourished. In section A, Australia's 25-12 win over Scotland on Wednesday put them in the driving seat, but Ireland gave the Scots hope by beating Australia 27-17, yesterday. Jer¬ sey, however, played too well to allow Scotland to inflate their shots credit Namibia's 22-13 win over Peter Bdliss’s New Zealand team gave Hong Kong a great chance of qualifying from section B. but Papua New Guinea dashed their hopes, and New Zealand survived. England's strongest chal¬ lengers in section,-C were South Africa, and, in a tense meeting between two unbeat¬ en teams. Andy Thomson’s quartet prevailed. Wales came through un¬ beaten in section D, with a blend of youth and experience, Chris Blake, who is 24, and Jason Davies. 20, teaming up well with the old hands. Will Thomas and Robert Weale. two-iron off file tee and a seven-iron to the green. Playing with ltisetotre Neumann, the winner of two tournaments already this sea¬ son, and “JuU ■ Inkster,"' the champion here'in 1984 and 1989 and a fellow sports nut, Davies was in for a congenial but slow day. The three were soon waiting on every shea, but Inkster, especially, was hitting the ball close to the hole and could have been four under par after six Instead, she was two under
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  as was Davies, who holed fronrG feet to match Inkster’s birdie three at" "file 6th. However. Davies drove be¬ hind a tree at the next and had to take a penalty and dropped a shot Neumann, who started with a bogey five, was two under at the turn.

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• By Robert Sheehan, bridge correspondent This refresher is easy when you are given a clue — think about the possibility of overtaking an honour for entry purposes. Dealer North Game all 4K54 ▼ A • A6S 4 K1098 7 2 4 J 2 708743 ♦ 08 4 J 653 EiM 4 A 7 6 3 4 K1092 ♦ K 73 2 40 4Q109B V4 6 5 • J 1094 4 A 4 Contract 3NT by South This is a likely sequence of play: declarer wins file ace of hearts in the dummy and plays a club to his queen. He now plays a diamond to dummy's ace and tries the king of dubs. (Better than a low one, by the way — if the . ace of clubs is doubleton. dedarer always has to lose two tricks in the suit, but, if the jack is doubleton. playing the king on the second round 1 restricts the defence to one trick). East wins the second club and plays the jack of hearts, which dedarer wins with the king. However, he now has only one further entry to the dummy, so, though he can establish his club suit he can¬ not get there to cash h. He can still try for a 3*3 break in diamonds, but that foils. Declarer should have count- Laad: Four of hearts ed his winners: two in each of spades, hearts and diamonds, so he needed three dub tricks. What he should have done was to play the king of dubs from the dummy at trick two. If this is ducked, he continues with another dub. Now, he can win the return, cross to the ace of diamonds and establish - the dub suit Later, he can get to dummy with the king of spades to cash all his winners. □ For details of The Times Midland Private Banking National Bridge challenge, contact the event organisers on 0181-942 9506 or write to: Britannic Building, Beverley Way, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4PH or fax to: 0181-942
• □ Robert Sheehan writes on bridge Monday to Friday in Sport and in the Weekend section on Saturday. j Leicester to supply new drive for Austin Healey By David Rands RUGBY CORRESPONDENT AUSTIN HEALEY’S transfer from Oirell to Leicester was confirmed yesterday. The league champions have been in pursuit of Healey for much of this season and he is understood to have agreed a three-year contract OrrelL who meet Leicester in the Courage Clubs Champ¬ ionship at Central Park, Wig¬ an tomorrow, are resigned to their scrum half's departure. Earlier this season, Peter Wil¬ liams, the Orrell director of rugby, viewed Healey as the jewd in his playing crown, but Leicester have approved a budget of more than £2 mil¬ lion for next season and Orrell cannot match thaL “Austin has signed for Leicester to better his chances of playing for England and I have no qualms about his motives at alL" Williams said. Healey has played once for England A this season, against New South Wales, but misses the league match to¬ morrow because he is with the England squad in Hong Kong for the annual sevens tournament — as is Neil Back, of Leicester. The tournament now being played over three days rather than twa begins today and England play Sin¬ gapore before other pool matches with Scotland and Argentina tomorrow. In the past the Rugby Football Union had scoffed at participation in Hong Kong; now, the skills required by sevens are perceived as far more relevant to the 15-a-side game, while the tournament offers additional exposure to Internationa] competition. Healey was part of an Eng¬ land VII that lost 26-0 to Australia in the quarter-finals last year, but with defence of their world title only a year away. England's display mil be watched closely. Wasps, whose captain. Lawrence Dailaglia. turned down a trip to Hong Kong in the interests of his dob’s league position, hope that the meeting of the Brent Council planning and development .committee next Tuesday will allow them to start redevelop 1 ing their ground during the summer, at an estimated cost of E3 million. One significant advantage Wasps lave is that they own their ground at Repton Avenue. Agassi to < take on Boetsch in semi-final ARNAUD BOETSCH. of France, takes on Andre Agassi, the defending champi¬ on. in the semi-finals of the Upton tennis championships in Key Biscayne. Florida, to¬ day after bearing Jim Courier, the 1991 champion. 7-6. 2-6.7- 5 Courier's defeat by the No 15 seed halted the earlv-season momentum chat has seen him dimb from No 13 to No 8 m rhe world rankings and the American, seeded No 7, l- trayed his disappointment tty hitting 3 ball high mio the crowd at the end. Agassi advanced thanks to a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Michael Joyce, his unseeded compatri¬ ot Chanda Rubin, of the United States, beat Gabriela Sabatini, of Argentina, the 1989 champion. 6-3. 5-7. 6-3 to go through to the semi-finals. Swail shines Snooker Joe Swail continued to rakp advantage of his wild¬ card invitation to the Benson and Hedges Irish Masters by reaching the semi-finals with a 6-5 win over Ronnie O’Sullivan at Goffs, Co Kil¬ dare, yesterday. Swail, the world No 19. from Belfast, recovered from a 4-2 defidt to defeat John Parrott 6-4 in the previous round on Tuesday, and he again benefited from a strong finish against O'Sullivan, ral¬ lying from 5-3 down. Swail will now meet Peter Ebdon. the title-holder, or Darren Morgan tomorrow for a place in the final on Sunday. Doubling up Rugby: Frano Botica. 32. rug¬ by league's most prodigious points scorer, and the farmer All Black, is in discussions with several rugby union dubs, induding Moseley, file Courage Clubs Championship second division side, about playing some matches in win¬ ter. The former Wigan stand¬ off half is contracted to Castleford for the first two summer Super League seasons. Coliard’s chance •) -Motor racing: Emmanuel Collard, 24. the French driver, has joined Tyrrell to help the team with its testing pro¬ gramme. He will drive in grands prix if either Mika Saio or Ukyo Katayama be-, come unavailable. Keene on chess By Raymond Keene CHESS CORRESPONDENT Sacrificial wins The tournaments in Amster¬ dam and New York, running concurrently, have both been distinguished tty a spate of sacrificial wins. After six rounds in New York, Michael Adams, of Great Britain, leads with five points after some particularly dashing play; in Amsterdam, Kasparov and Topalov share the lead with 3*2 points from five matches. White: Nick de Firmian Black: Michael Adams New York. March 1996 White: Grigory Serper Blade Viktor Korchnoi New York, March. 1996 English Opening 1 s4 2 m 3 BbS 4 Ba4 5 OO 6 Rel 7 Bb3 8 c3 9 emJ5 10 Nxe5 11 Rxe5 12 d4 13 Re2 14 g3 15 Nd2 16 S4 17 Rxe8 18 Nfl 19 axb5 20 . Ra6 21 Ra7 22 Ns3 23 hg3 24 hxg3 25 Bxe3 26 Kfl 27 Ka2 28 Kd2 29 Bxdl 30 RaS+ 31 Ftea 32 Ke2 33 Kd3 WNta resigns Ruy Lopez e5 1 C4 2 Nc3 3 NI3 4 g3 5 Bg2 6 0-0 7 Nd5 8 d3 9 cxriS 10 Nd2 11 a3 12 Nc4 13 Bd2 14 b4 15 NaS 16 Qc2 17 Racl 18 Qc4 19 Qc2 20 hxg3 21 QxM 22 Qc2 23 Nc4 24 Nxb6 25 Fttel 26 K11 27 txg3 2S Bxh3 29 Kf2 White resigns Diagram of final position By- Philip Howard BUMBLE
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• A yam-twister Answers on page 46 fiy Raymond Keene Blade to play. This position is raj the game Bardeleben - Alekhine, Germany. 1908. dan gerous advanced b-pawns. How did Alekhine prove that his was me more dangerous? Solution on page 46 RhS ."^{Sn® »>»urrt of 30, Ifa2 Rh2+I art, Kxh2 QB+; 32, Kh3 Rh8+; 33, Kg4QJS chectarate. □ Raymond Keene writes on chess 51°2£ 10} »Hl in toe Weekend section on Saturday. THE TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 291996 arum Irvine crosses curbs in pursuit of grand prix success r™l ddic Irvine ImmoM ww JL never E ddie Irvine loun against the wily radia- tor in the biggest room of his new home, sits on die only cushion — there are no chairs yet—and raises a bottle of beer to his lips. His mobile phone rings constantly. To make sure that things do not get boring, he has got a few mends round for a bit of banter. Fast Eddie misses a tridt- Just down there, he past the pink gate, looking out over the Irish Sea, is where Tbe Edge, from U2. jives. He moves to another window and points out the house next door that Van Morrison has bought Later in the afternoon, he saunters down to the Dalkey Island Hotel for a sandwich and a chat with the owner. When night falls over Dub¬ lin Bay, Irvine phones a restaurant, dropping his name to ensure dial the table is secured. After the meal, it is on to a few bars, a few beers with Lisa Stansfield. another local resident, and then on into town. A few hours at Lillie's Bordello, the city's hippest nightclub, playing the Space Invaders machine and chew¬ ing the for in the VIP room, is rounded off with kebabs all round for the cab ride home. Success has not changed Eddie Irvine; not yet, anyway. Oliver Holt joins motor racing's most unconventional drive r on a challenging circuit of Dublin's night-time attractions He is sdQ doing it his way. still cocking a snook at convention, eschewing the ascetic, almost monastic, lives that most driv¬ ers seem to lead in their pursuit of fitness and mhtvs s I rvine, an irreverent Ulster¬ man. is the breath of fresh air that Formula One has needed for a long time. Three weeks ago. at the Australian Grand Prix, he surprised observers by out- qualifying Michael Schu¬ macher. the double world champion, his Ferrari team- mate. It was only the third time that Schumacher had been out-qualified by a team¬ mate: Just to rub it in, Irvine finished third in the race, his first for the Italian team since his move from Jordan. Schumacher had been forced out with brake problems. “I want to be measured against the best." Irvine said in the midst of his night our in Dalkey. “Schumacher's seen as bang the best and I out- qualified him. f wanttQcontin- ue doing that It doesn't make me big-headed; 1 just think it's a gas. I find it amusing. There's Schumacher with his take-home pay in the region of £40 million and I boshed him t BASKETBALL NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (NBA|- LA Lukas 108 Man* ». PhtafeteNa Its Toronto M: Indiana 09 Washington 93; Boston 121 Mnnosata 116; San Antonio 9Q New York 84; Oafes 11T Houston 114; Utah 08 Utwaicee B2; SeaUe 132 Chwtotto 96. BUDWBSBR LEAGUE: Bhringhom Bul¬ lets 108 Leicester RMera 90: Manchester Gians 88 Doncaster Panthers B7; Leopards 50 StoffieU Sharks 65. ' .BMhoven 2; Sparta Rotterdam 2 Ftoda JC Kerinde 2\ Weses Arnhem 0 Da Great- schap Ooeancfwn 1: Fortune smart 2 Utrecht 1: Fevenoord RoSadem 2 Wlem I TVauig ft Ajax AmatanJam 2 Go Ahead Eagles Deventer 1; Vttendam 2 Granin- Ipamsh LEAGUE Aftfetic Blbao Compostela ft Valencia 2 Salamanca 0 Barccdona 2 Tanertte 2; Sofia 2 AJb ocrt e ft BOWLS ADELAIDE: Men's world championships: fours: SMh round: Group K Ireland bt Ausrrafe 27-17; Jersey bt Cook Islands 24-14; Mabnubi Singapore 19-14; Scotland bt Zimbabwe 24-14. Group B: Canada (tew wtth Norte* Island 19-19 New Zealand bt Hong Hong 23-1 ft Namtota bt Papua New Guinea 24-18. Group C: Malay¬ sia t* Botswana 24-13; England bt South Africa 25-21; Swaztand bt Guernsey 21-14; Konya bt Thafend 22-13. Group tt Wales bt Amenlna 19-15; WeetBm Samoa bt I 20-lft Untied States M Israel 18-If Seventh round; Group A. AustraSa bt Sngapore 29-11; Zmbebwe bt Cook Manas 36-13; ketend bt Matawl 48-1 & Scotland bt Jersey 2*20 Rnri po nto ons : squat 1, Aumfe and SooUaid I2nta; 3. Ireland 11; 4, Zimbabwe 8; 5, Jersey 6; ft Matewf 4; 7. Cook Islands ft ft Singapore a Group B: Norfolk Island bt Brazil 23-17; Papua New Qjtaaa bt Hong Kona 21-14; N&n4» bt Now Zastend 22-13. Hna) po vd lon e. equal 1. New Zealand. Namibia and Hong Kong 8; 4. Canada 7; 5. Papua New GrJnea; 6/Norfofc istwid 5; 7, BnolO Group C Botswana bt Thafend 22 - 18 : En^and bt Swaziland 42-fi; Guernsey bt Soutn AMca 18-17; Malaysia bt Kenya 24-14. PM postocsw: 1, Erptarto 14; equal 2, South Africa and Guernsey ID; Anual 4. Malaysia and Swaziland 8; 6, V>lswana 4; 7, Kenya ft ft Thatend ft GrotpD: Unnad States ttArgonCns 24-18; a bt Zambia 40-10; Waiaa bt Israel 26-22. ■I potations: 1. Wales 12: 2. M Bi equal 3. Westam Samoa. Rf and United Stare* 6; B. Amardna 4; 7. ZanOa ft Senfi- finals; Australia v Wales; England v New Zealand. Real Madrid 1 Racing Sart a nder z Rat Vfitecano O Mletlco Matted 3; Zaragoza Sporting GQon 1; Merida 3 SaHia VafladMd Q Estwtol ‘ " Cortina 2 Cote Vigo 1. UNIBOND LEAGUE: FVsf dvMoK Bradford Park Aranue 2 Uncote United 3. League cup: Fourth round replay: Boston 1 Leak 2. BEAZBt HOMES LEAGUE: Prem i er dr ifcton: Newport AFC2 Hreaton feBririockO Cambridge City ft Mkfend dMtaor: SafrulZPagei 1 . Southern OMtanrc Poote OYUefl ICS LEAGUE: Second cMNoir Collar Row 1 Hemal Hampatead 1. THrd dvWon: Harlow 2 Clapton i; Lswbs 3 Avetey ft Weak&one 0 Cambertey ft AVON INSURANCE COMBINATION: FM dhWorr Bristol Rovers 2 WtaJocd ft Charter 1 Ipswich ft Oorfacd Utd 1 Norwich 1; southentotan q uaon v, SwMon 1 3; Tottenham 3 Brirfrton ft Second I Brighton ft Seoor dvbion: Bath 1 Catfifl 4; Bournemouth Cheltenham 1 Povms CENTRAL LEAGUE: FM eft- vtalon: Nottingham Forest 3 Darby 1; Oldham 1 Btadcbun 1; Tranmere 1 Notta Gotsty ft West Bromwich 0 Sheffield Wad
• Second cSvWorr Bamsiay 2 Aston Mia 1; Burnley 1 Mtenfield ft Rutidtitsfeld 1 Btackpool ft Hull 0 Yak 1; Preston Cartels ft Smferiand ft Rotherham 0 LaJc&etar ft ThW dtMon: Buy 0 Darfington ft Cheater 4 Doncaster ft Rochdala O Ca WatoeS 2 S&rtherpe Unted O. JEWBON LEAGUE Premier dhtfesr Fakenham 2 ro tetowe 1; Soham 0 Halstead ft Sudbuy Wanderers 5 Cor- II. FA YOUTH CUP: SomUktefc First lag: Liverpool 4 Crystal Palace ft GOLF CRICKET MADRAS; Ran0 Trophy (second day of five) Karnataka 471-4 (R^y 148. R DraMd
• S Somoaunder SB. A VaKfya 42) v Tamfi Nadu CYCLING TOUR OF SARDINIA: FM stage^ltJ? kilometres. Italy unless Stated): 1. D Zanefle 4hr 1 ?rr»n 38sec 2, A Baffc 3. E Berzin; 4,G Pierttomenlco all same tteie; A G Ckterio at Ssec: 6. M FoKteea same tteie. Leetfng cvnraa positions: 1. Zanette 4hr 17nvn 33sec; 2. Baffi ft 3. Berzte 4: 4. Piar- domerico 5; 5. Fondrtest 8. SUNMNQOME! Sumingdatotou! Thbd round: R Boaal (Chchham) and D Cooper (Bfectwrood) bt T Chamtey funab) ml O Chariton (Ttewori^ bl S and 4; L Donald (Beoconafleid) and M O'Connor (Stake Poges) bt C Tuckar and S Martial (Mannings Ftoath) 3 and ft WBtadon and G JanUns (Kartfvwrth) u A fteftt and A xgarri (St George'a Hin 2 and 1; K abas (Montrose) and A Webstar (EdzeB) bl J Dcrierty (Wortvrg) and N ?&f pui- bitonl at iMft; R Host and T Paterson flLurthfirbaad) bt K Dourfaa (Long Ashton) and J SoUsby (Pmcftoe) at iBlh; S Chapman and K Godtrey (SI Enodocj a S Martin and B Porter (Burnham and Banowl 2 hotes: C " P FOOTBALL Wednesday’s tato results BVTERNATIONAL MATCHES: England 1 Buigsta ft Northern Ireland 0 Ncrwey ft Ireland 0 Russia ft Scotland 1 Australia ft Yugoslavs i Romania ft Portugal 1 Greece ft Slovakia 4 Betomssla ft Germany 2 Denmark ft Poland O Stoventa ft Austrto 1 SuRtzertand ft Belgium 0 France Z Bred Olympic XIB Ghana 2. 0IOSLBGH INSURANCE LEAGUE: FM division; Portsmouth 1 Port Wale 2. Third dhrieion: Hereford 1 Lincoln 0. VAUXHAU. CONFERENCE Gateahaad 2 AHrinchamS. EUROPEAN UNDE7T21 CHAAfPION- SHtfS: Quarier-finete: Czech Reptfallc 1 Spun 2 fagg: 2-4); Bafy 2 Portugal 0 (egg; 2-D. UBERTWJORES CUP: Group one: E&pof (Ecu) 2 Caro Forteno (Para) 1 (In Quito). Group two: Spordng Crtoal (Paul 3 Penarol (Urn) 3 (ta Gme). Group fine: Junior BananquBa (Col) S Guabira (BoQ 1 fn BarranqUtta) Group lou: Botafogp (t 4 Urtveradod CatoSca (CWa) 1 fnFUoda Janaro). Group five: Mteervert ^{fw) 1 Rfwar Plate (Argl 2 (In Puerto Ordazj. SHAH ALAM: Aaten Otyropfc quaVybM toumamarit Final: South Korea 2 Japan f Thkd place pleyott Saudi Arabia 1 iraqO laet) DUTCH LEAGUE: Twante Enschede 3 PSV K C Rottoera (Royal Mid Sunay) and . ay(Bahf0btLjan»B(Brt»ctetan6) and S McOonagh (Tracy Park) 3 and ft J Chibs (GtenbervieJ and M Gtw (LadybwM bt L Jones and C Laurence (ma Manor of □raves) 2 and 1; W RQay (PGAET) and G Smith (Cambertoy Heath) bt P Dviyer and S Andrew (CStheroe) 2 and 1, J Uveslm and G Bottrsell (Moor Part) bt C Hoeke (Gsrrards Crass) and B Smith (East Berks) 2 end 1; N Mlkhel (Penrith DrMna Range) and A Picterkig (Wrkby Lonsdree) bt N Mtahan and S Mtohel (Oonntogtan V) one hote; S Minfin and J Jonas (Erffleld) bt R Water (Wtarskte) and ft Gokfie (EaUng) t hole Fourth round: G Stewart (Sotogrande) and J Forbes (Scot) bt M Roberts and I Camebefi (Surhngdato) 2 and 1: Donald and O'Connor bl Bcaal and Cooper S and 4; Hurst end Paterson bl J Owen fOkwt N»} Sp) and C Chafer) Stoke Pooes) at IBttr. Lrvealey and WMtcfta and Pfckateg 2 and 1;

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  Scheckter won in 1979. Irvine, though, is not short on confi¬ dence, and a normal support¬ ing role is not quite what he has in mind. “I don't fed I play second fiddle to him," he said. “I am given as good a car as Ferrari can give me and iTs up to me to b«t him and then pull over, ft at die end of the race. I'm ahead of him and there’s no car between us and I’ve got a ten-second advantage over him, I went have a problem pulling over because, as for as I’m concerned. I beat him. It doesn’t make any difference how many points I get at die end of the year. 1 wfll know where I stood. “Everybody always says winning the world champion¬ ship fo their ambition, but it's not mine. Mansefl won the world championship but I would not want to win it the way he won h, with a vastly superior car. As far as 1 am concerned. Senna won the world championship that year, and, when Frost won it in 1993, Senna was the real world champion that year, too. OK, the statistics say Frost, but he wasn't the best driver. Senna was unreal that year. Winning the world champion¬ ship means nothing. It's an egotrip." In the same vein, he made no attempt to hide bis con¬ tempt for “certain drivers who keep quoting bow many races they have won from the starts they have done". That means nothing, too, he said, because the statistics will vary accord¬ ing to the car foe driver is in. This year, in particular. Irvine is convinced that the Wflliams- Renaults driven by Damon Hill and Jacques VQkxxeuve are streets ahead of the rest "ftopJe have been that Michael must be wor about me now," Irvine said. “Actually. I think he's mare worried about Jacques. Jacques has gat a much better car. he's young, he looks good, he’s big in America and potent dally big in Europe.” Nevertheless, Irvine was en¬ couraged that Ferrari got as dose to Williams as th^ did in Melbourne. “There is no way our car was within half a second of theirs,” be said. “That bodes wdL That says to me that we don’t have to get our car as good as the WiF Haros to beat than. "1 have always thought Michael was the business. Where he is so good is that I don’t think he aims to get it perfect evezy lap. He goes just slightly below that, gets every comer just below toe level I don't find driving like that a challenge. "I aim for 100per cent every time. OK. samenmesyou mess up, so m et im es you get 110 per cent sometimes 90 per cent and that is the problem with always trying to do toe ulti¬ mate. Michael's average, gen¬ erally, will be higher, but, when I do stick a good lap in, I don't think anyone could go quicker." MiHHifijj ' ' ' ' • - -

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  ^{T"^uc WORLD OLIVER & CLAIRE I HAVE A VISION WHICH I'M CALLING THE "VIRTUAL OFFICE". IT MEANS EVERYBODY CAN WORK WHEREVER THEY LIKE, WHENEVER THEY LIKE. THREE PAYS LATER ... WHERE THE ?!+Y +X/ C7 X gLLALLg!} ANYONE who gazed into a crystal ball a year ago, and predicted that rugby league would switch to a spring- summer season starting in Paris, would have been deemed mad. Not so very long ago. radi¬ calism was defined as women being granted access to a dub committee bar. Yet tonight — family- friendly, nostalgia-free — the European Super League will be launched before 15,000 mostly novice watchers at the Chartery Stadium, the home to the new Paris Saint-Germain side. That anyway, is the vision. Sheffield Eagles, the visitors tonight, have partly fulfilled ft. although the dub’s 12-year existence illuminates the harsh realities to be faced. Boasting a home — the Don Valley Stadium — with a grandeur more proximate to Paris than the narrow rugby league heartland of northern Britain, their support num¬ bers only 2.000. despite the team enjoying its most suc¬ cessful season to date. The money that the sport craved, and received almost overnight, meant that it could afford the vision. The danger is that the communities that have supported it for 101 years can see little more than a blur. After all that time on the backstreets, rugby league is on a six-lane highway not quite knowing whether riches or ruin lie at the end. One thing is certain — there can be no U-turn. Summer, Super League and television are inextricably linked. The best opportunity to fulfil the game's century-old mission- aty agenda remains, but con¬ tinuing finandal uncertainty at many dubs, the game’s implosion in Australia (where Super League is outlawed pending an appeal) and the consequent doubts about the future at international level Entat centre, the Paris Saint-German scrum half, at the heart of the action as the French club prepares for its match against Sheffield tonight form a ruffled backdrop to the Paris opening. A pan-European game, trans-globai play-offs and city franchises in Great Britain remain as ultimate objectives. However, there are a lot of unresolved issues. Not least is the question of how many people will be tempted by a sport busily reinventing itself for mass consumption in the summer market. Summer rugby had been a fandful notion for some years. The E87 million backing for Super League by The News Corporation, parent company of The Times, which material¬ ised last April, was all the incentive necessary, although the subsequent messy issue of club mergers alienated many supporters. A five-month competition, hemmed in by early rounds of the Challenge Cup and domes¬ tic play-offs, guarantees Super League clubs only II home fixtures. The money is being drip-fed and half is tied to ground improvements. More¬ over. the distractions that summer brings have tended to be overlooked. A long and inactive winter will be a bleak one for many of the 35 professional clubs and could see the re¬ viled merger propos¬ als enter by stealth. Rugby league finds itself up against the European football champion¬ ship finals and the Olympic Games, in addition to the familiar list of summer sport¬ ing counter-aiiT actions. At Halifax — the Blue Sox — there is unashamed confirma¬ tion that league is the "core product" and “entertainment- seekers” are the people whom the dub must target in order to survive a difficult first summer. The British leisure industry is unlikely to shudder at theme days, fireworks, cheerleaders, singers, barbecues and craft fairs at league grounds, which will wrap around an Academy ‘People will pay if they get value for money} fixture and the main match, usually an Sunday evenings. Halifax. London. Bradford. St Helens and Warrington, espe- dally, are rising to the off-field challenge. Those that imagine that supporters will turn up no matter what are simply invit¬ ing trouble. At Bradford, which sees Super League as a panacea for a dub that was hidebound by its old ways, there is an air of optimism. Peter Deakin, the Bulls' marketing executive, said: “Tradition should not hold back progress. The fans are our biggest sponsors, but they have been short-changed for years. People will pay if the perception is that they are getting value for money.” Super League brings manifest changes, with the new viewer in mind. Squad num¬ bers, as in the FA Carling Premiership, make a first appearance. For live games on Sky, a television offidal will adjudicate on line decisions and there will be giant video screens at grounds. Three of nine rule changes wifi further speed up a sport already played at breakneck pace. Where rugby league, merci¬ fully. usually gets it right is on the pitch, and there are the teams and individuals to bring credibility, minus the mud, to a year of chaotic restructuring. Wigan are best pencilled in as champions, but a definite weakening means that they are not the racing certainties of old Of the pretenders. St Helens possess the personnel to sneak ahead with a new-look Bradford possibly spearheading the Yorkshire challenge. The pr og r e ss of the new South Wales club in the sec¬ ond division will be monitored closely, especially as a Cardiff team-could be fast-tracked into Super League next year. What a difference a year makes. RUGBY LEAGUEKW . V Wkrrington A • • v 5- Christopher Irvine predicts the finishing order for the first Super League season Coach: Shaun Mcflaa (Aus), appolrtad January 1998. Ground: Krowstey Road (cap 19 300]. Nickname: Saints Transferor In: D McVoy {Sydney Tigers). Out None. So ago has dripped down St Helens’ laces before, but they, not Wigan, are at Wembtey, and there is the latent In Gouldlng. Newicve. Joynt and com¬ pany, ureter McRae's strict tutelage, to convert the belie}. Gel the defence nght and the rest wi fallow Odds: 4-1. 2 WIGAN Coach: Graeme West (NZ). appointed May 1994. Ground: Central Park (cap 24.000). Nickname; Rtversiders Transfers: In: None Out None The empire is not falling on the basis of a premahra Challenge Cup exit, but tne air of favfactoilay has been shaken. An accent an youth. Odds: 100-30 on. Answers from page 44 BUMBLE (a) and (c). The eponym comes from the officious, overbearing beadle in Dickens's Oliver Twist. But a bumble is also an Oxford Vice-Chancellor's mace-bearer, and the "holy poker" or verger in some ancient collegiate foundations. _ A self-important minor offidal is the best definition. Bumbledom is fussy officialdom, especially on the part of parish officers. BUMMAREE (a) Middlemen or fishjobbers in Billingsgate Market, now removed from rhe City to Docklands. Sometimes ignorantly misapplied to Smith field porters. It has been (implausibly) suggested that the word is a corruption of bonne maree. good fresh fish, marie being a French term far all kinds of fresh seafish. KH7TMUGAR (c) The Raj's name far a table servant in thedaysof the Empire. Urdu from the Persian khidmat service * -gar agent-suffix. A male servant who waits at table. Also transliterated khidmutgar. “A khitmugar who had drained off a bottle of her eau-de-Cologne." SLUBBER (c) A yam-twister, someone who manipulates a s 1 u bbm g-machine. To slub is to twist yam after carding in preparation for spinning. A slub- weave has small (intentional] lumps in it. There are pubs in Lancashire and other Northern milling counties called the Slubber Arms.

  SOLUTION TO WINNING CHESS MOVE I....Qxfl+!:2. Kxfl Ra I+; 3. Qclh2 and White wifi emerge much material down. Coach: Brian Smith (Aus). appointed June 1995. Ground: Odsal (cap 27,000). Nickname: Bulls Transfers: In: J Lowes (Leeds), G Tomtnson (Battey). Out H Strmson (Batteyl. A place at Wembley has come early in Smith's grand design. If d stimu¬ lates a strong start in Super League, the Bulls could be a force. Odds: 25-1 Coach: John Dorahy (Aus), appointed January 1996 GrouxL Wlderspooi (cap 12.000) Nickname: WoVas. Transfers: hr R Hanaro (Carfete). T Kohe-Love (New Zealand). Out Nona John Dorahy and Alex Murphy are the "UnGkety Lads" Who should, none¬ theless, be able to refloat the ship¬ wrecked side oi last season. Bags of young talent fa Harris and Sculthorpe, wih experienced helmsmen to plot a mld-lable course. Odds: 28-1.

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• Ground: Heading ay (cap 26,000). Nickname: Loners Transfens: Ire Nona Out C fanes (Manty-Warringahj, J Lowes (Bradford), G Schofield (tfuddersfieW). Cracks in the Heading ley edifice, with a money crisis and on-pitch prob¬ lems. Unbettevabfy, they embark on Super League without a reoognis hall-beck pairing. Honours i Odds: 7-1 m Hftifiw Coach: Sieve Ssnrra (Aus). appointed September 1994. Ground: Thrum Hall (cap 7,700) Nickname: Blue Sax. Transfers: in: G Hafias (Australian RL) Out G Anderson (Castleford). Strong, but vulnerable m pressure matches. Rne South Seas contfagent and have persuaded Rowfey, an outstanding noofcer, to stay. Urrftety serious challengers. Odds: 28-1. Coach: Gary Hstheringten (Eng), ap¬ pointed December 1993 Growd: Don Valley Stedtem (cap 25,000} Nick na m e: Eagles. Transfers: In: None. Out None. No names, but the team with most heart Claimed all scalps bar Wigan fa the championship last season. Never to be underestimated, but the 0es can fly low as wed as soar Destined for mid-table scrapping. Odds: 80-1. Botica and Gay are valuable additions, but Casdefora could have done with more. UMe to remove the Impression of a side edging backwards. Will struggle to attain last season's mid- table standing. Classy Cas Image too infrequent nowadays. Odds: 50-1. Coach: Andy Goodway (Eng), ap¬ pointed May 1994. Grounds: Boundary Park (cap 20,000) and Watersheddings (cap 8,500). Nickname: Bears Transfers: hr M Monro (South Sydney). A Patmore (Australian RL). Out Nona. A side that beat Wigan l ast sea son was aiso draadfuffy inconsistent. Another roller-coaster ride probable. Oldham are still more cubs than bears, but should (hey repeat their trick of beating Wigan tomorrow, wfll deserve to be taken more seriously. Odds: 150-1. Coach: Mfahe) Mazare (Ft), appointed December 1995. Ground: Chsrtety Stadium (cap 22.000) Nickn ame: a Germain. Survival Is the newcomers' The "Eisopean" tag lo hangs by the slender thread of an untested side in vir^n rugby league territory. The basis of the side is the France national team. This is not necessarily a good recommendation. Bonne chance! Odds: 150-1. Coach: Ross O'Reffly (Aus). appointed Mach 1996. Ground: Derwent Park (cap 10.000). Nickname: Town. T ran s fer s: tv None. Out V Fawcett (ParrwnattaJ. Bottom of the Stones Cha m pionsh ip , with four wins out of 20, and not much for the Sttte-known O'ReWy to work with fa order not lo scrape the barrel again. Takeover taft has taken up most or the short dose-season. . Odds: 500-1. it Coach: John Joyner (Eng), a ppointed May 1993 Gniun± Wheldon Roed (cap 11,750). Nick na me; Tigers. Transfers: in; G Anderson (Hafito), F Botica (Auckland). R Gay (Hud). Out None. Coach: Tony Cume (Aus), apposted January 1996 Ground: The VaSey, Chart on (cap 15.000). Kfickname: Broncos. Transfers: In: G Aflen, G Barvtfck. J Brewer. J Mfato, D Smith, T Tutted (afl Australia). Out P Kauri, C McKenna. B Water (ail Australia). Making a success of a new life at Chariton is as important as on-fleld Improvement Enough redoubtable Australians, particularly with Gavin Allen's stoning, to ensure that is leas of a problem than I Londoners to take notice. Odds: ioo-i.
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  W hen Cassius Clay an¬ nounced in 1966 that his real name was Muham¬ mad Ali, I remember that the main response from the public was im¬ patience mingled with disbelief. This loud-mouth with his “pretty- face. and his unorthodox butterfly boxing, had now come up with a ri¬ diculous. far-fetched grandiosity: if he had called himself King Bog of the Zog People, the huffy resent¬ ment would have been about the same. No one ever doubted that Ali took it seriously, however. When his opponent Ernie Terrell refused to acknowledge the new name. Ali took it very badly. “What’s my name?' 1 Ali yelled nastily in the ring, as he bulbed Terrell abort the head. "What’s my name?" it was a fight so unpleasant that the young Frank Bough on BBC Sports night pronounced h “an affront to human dignity”. Martin Davidson's Reputations Iasi night (BBC2) was rather odd. It was a thoughtful film, much less abrasive than the usual Reputa¬ tions-, its concern was, I suppose, to reverse the customary revisionist exercise and find the hero behind the dirt, instead of the dirt behind the hero. Its big mistake was to have Laurence Rshbume narrat¬ ing. because tor a while the combi¬ nation of hagiography and soft American accent suggested a US documentary bought in for a series it didn’t suit. Yet the material was of such high interest that one soon forgot ali this: Ali was a brilliant subject for a fresh appraisal, emerging as a figure of great integrity, whose “I am the great¬ est" was not far from die truth. All’s biggest bout, of course, was with the American draft board. When he refused to fight in Vietnam, he was stripped of championship and passport, and his licence to box was revoked. In retrospect, this swingeing punish¬ ment now appears so obviously a political conspiracy to squash an uppity blade that it’s surprising Oliver Stone hasn’t made a film about it, Ali's fame was enormous, phenomenal, dangerous: "Even people who didn't Like him. liked him." Many black Americans dis¬ agreed with his draft-dodging; they also disapproved of the Na¬ tion of Islam, with its advocacy of separatism. But nobody could deny the good he did for black Americans; and meanwhile we mere telly viewers in Britain wfll always thank him for that scare he gave Michael Parkinson — almost on a par with Emu. B ig-mouth contests of an¬ other sort were to be found in Wildlife on One (BBC1, not Scotland), where hippos thigh- deep in water raised their enor¬ mous heads and did the ajarming Guernica thing with their highly articulated jaws. This is the way they show off at each other, you mm\ i

  ?'-■ • .1 mm Lynne Truss see. and clearly their mothers never warned them that the wind might change while they were doing it These hippos lived in a river in Zambia, and apart from not reading paperbacks, they have a life somewhat like human beings on holiday: they laze about in the water, come our to warm up, go back to cool down. Under water, they trot along lightly, the merest push from their dainty feet propel¬ ling them nicely through the fish and sparkle. But as this excellent film demon¬ strated. this beast has a life much harder than it might appear. Ev¬ ery year it wallows happily in la¬ goons. and then the lagoons dry up. ft moves to the river, and the river dries up. Hippos suffer and die in these lean times; an aerial shot of a thin tributary in a dry brown landscape, with a doomed hippo halfway up it, was very affecting; as was the protective behaviour of bereaved hippos when a dead body floated on the water. An amazing scene, in ghost¬ ly night-vision monochrome, showed pale hippos on a riverbank attempting to gang up on a pack of hyenas scavenging on the corpse. Solid but meek, they were driven off by the dogs (which later made short work of a crocodile, too). Apart from their terrible yawn¬ ing problem, hippos seemed pleas¬ ant animals who don't ask for much. As they stood on the bank in the dark, looking lumpen and sheepish, 1 was reminded of Thur- ber*s famous cartoon “What Have You Done with Dr MiUmoss?”, in which a snappy woman addresses a big solid animal who has dearly just eaten the missing man, but can’t for the life of it remember. C hannel 4*5 Undercover Britain continues to as¬ tound, and not only for the revelations obtainable by secret filming. Last night Gary Thomp¬ son set out to expose the practice of ticket touting at football matches, and thus went undercover for several months, infiltrating the tour brigade at Old Trafford, and filming incriminating conversa¬ tions . How this man lives with his conscience I don’t know, but the issue of trust and betrayal was never far from one’s mind while watching his film. Thompson made friends with these blokes in order to shop them on television, and that’s really not nice. True, ticket touting is illegal, and it affects the pockets of football fans, but it’s hard to see how anyone could get sufficiently impassioned to do such a weaselly thing on pur¬ pose. One could only suspect a hid¬ den agenda. Does Channel 4 offer post-trans¬ mission support for these reporters — like the witness protection pro¬ grams in America for Mafia in¬ formers? Probably not But mean¬ while at least sports fans will be pleased that Thompson has ex¬ posed the practice, and not a bit surprised that Manchester United FC did not thank him for his ster¬ ling work on behalf of justice. 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• Winter di sruptions and new safety rules leave smallest Aintree field for 26 yea rs National contenders frozen out Osborne crashes to the ground, breaking his left collar-bone, as his mount. Black Humour, falls on the first day of the Aintree meeting yesterday. The horse was unhurt. Photograph: lan Stewart By Richard Evans RACING CORRESPONDENT THE smallest field sinoe 1970 will line up fur the MarteU Grand National at Aintree tomorrow' after a spate of last- minute defections. Lo Stre¬ gone, who had been a well- backed second favourite, was the surprise absentee as 28 runners were declared yester¬ day for the 4*2-mile chase. More than SO horses had been entered, but, after a winter that has interrupted training schedules and caused die cancellation of many meet¬ ings. the number of runners has reduced dramatically. A change in the entry rules aimed at enhancing safety, but which imposed a higher level of minimum ability, also pre¬ vented some horses from going for the world’s most famous steeplechase. Kill- eshin, who has improved dra¬ matically this year and won the Eider Chase at Newcastle last month — a race won by Highland Wedding in 1969 before landing the National — was one horse who failed to meet the new entry criteria. The maximum field of 40 has been amassed in eight of die last 11 years but with Lo Stregone being joined on the sidelines yesterday by Tartan Tyrant, Dextra Dove and Toogood To Be True, the final ACROSS I Group of selected pupils (6) 4 Pasture (6) 9 Platform (7) 10 Small wood: music dictio¬ nary founder (5) 1 1 Raised: sounds like ay of pain {Si Vl3 Be bought in greater quan- \ titjes (than) (71 94 Room of one's own: walk
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Corals bet: 9-2 Rough Quest 7-1 Young Hustler, 8-1 Superi¬ or Finish, 9-1 Son Of War, 10-1 Life Of A Lord, Deep Bramble, Party Politics. 14-1 Lusty Light Wyide Hide. 20-1 others. The defection of Lo Stregpne was the start of a miserable Fry acts to lift bare market By Russeix Kempson FOOTBALL transfer deadline day in England, an often frantic series of wheeling and dealing, passed off with barely a whimper yesterday. At least Barry Fry, the Birmingham Q'ty manager and self-ap¬ pointed king of the dealers, tried to inject a bit of life into the proceedings by buying hack Paul Peschisolida the Stoke City striker, for £400,000 only three minutes before the 5pm deadline. Peschisolido. 24, joined Stoke for £700,000 two years ago, but has been frequently courted by Fry in the interven¬ ing period. The Canada inter¬ national is married to Karren Brady, the managing director of Birmingham. Peschisolico is Fry’S 55th signing for the dub- Of the 16 permanent moves yesterday, totalling £4.65 mil¬ lion, and 24 loan dkls, that of Mikhail Kavelashvili, from Spartak Vladikavkaz, the Rus¬ sian league champions, to Manchester City, provided the largest outlay. Alan Ball, the City manager, paid £1.4 mil¬ lion for the striker, who will join Georgiou Kinkladze. his fellow Georgia international, at Maine Road. Close behind, on £1 million. Blackburn Rovers rubber- stamped their purchase of Gary Croft, die Grimsby Town and England Under-21 hill track. Howard Wilkinson, the Leeds United manager, had agreed a £1 million fee for Rod Wallace to return to South¬ ampton only for Wallace to deride that he was better off at Elland Road. Wilkinson also turned down a bid of £3J5 million, made by Everton, for Gary Speed. THE RUNNERS Young Hustler; Lite Oi A Lord; Deep Bramble; Son Of War: Lusty Light Party Poetics; Rough Quest; Chatam; Superior Finish: Captain Dibble: Rust Never Sleeps; Bishops HaB; Wyide Hide; Antonin; Riverside Boy; Bavard Dieu; Encore Un Feu; Sir Paler Lely: Brackenfield; Over The Deel; Into The Red. Greenhifl Raffles: Veompt De Valmorrt: Plastic Spaceage; Over The Stream: Three Brownies; Far Senior, Sure Metal. day for Jamie Osborne, who had been due to ride the ten- year-old chaser. Yesterday, on the opening afternoon of the Aintree meeting the Lam- bourn jockey suffered a fall on Black Humour and broke his left collar-bone. To make mat¬ ters worse, the injury cost Osborne a winning ride on Ask Tom in the next race. although that victory provided some consolation for his train¬ er. Tom Tate, who also looks after Lo Stregone. “It's been a wretched 24 hours with Lo Stregone but at least Ask Tom’S win offers us some com p ensation." Tate said. "Lo Stregone has got equine flu. He has a tempera¬ ture and is very quiet and not eating, which is quite unusual It is very disappointing as I thought he was a real National horse, but that’s raring.” While the small National field may disappoint the pur¬ ist, it could come to the aid of the punter. The National Lot¬ tery has had a dramatic impact on betting on horse racing — off-course turnover on the Cheltenham Gold Cup was down by 20 per cent this Orkney cut adrift by rugby rebuff Mark Souster finds island club angry over a decision to deny it promotion I n its brief but eventful history, Orkney Rugby Football Club has known good and bad times; but adversity has been overcome with the resolve that is charac¬ teristic of an island people Isolated It may have been, fait the dub, formed in 1966, soldiered on, feeling secure under the umbrella of the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) based 300 miles to the south in Edinburgh. The governing body’s mantra has been the spreading of rugby and the wdlbeing of all its members — now it seems no longer. Just as Orkney’s hopes were about to be realised, with the likelihood of promotion from district to national league rugby for the first time, the SRU has declared that what¬ ever the outcome of next month's play-offs to deter¬ mine who will enter division seven — Orkney will not be promoted. The reasons cited — the extreme difficulty and ex¬ pense of travel to and from the island for opposing teams — were convey^} to a disbeliev¬ ing dub committee on Tues¬ day by two SRU officials who flew in to announce a decision which, they said, had been taken after consultation with dubs in divisions six and seven. Some had complained that Orkney was an island too far. “At a stroke everything we have worked towards and achieved has been wiped out," Norman Rushbnwk, the dub president said yesterday. "We felt hurt and insulted. The whole of Orkney does. It’s been very emotional for us. With nothing to aim for, the dub will have no future and die." Emotion has now been replaced by anger which is bring channelled into a cam¬ paign to overturn the verdict The issue has united many of the Orkneys’ 19.500 residents who fed slighted: a special resolution was passed by the Island Council yesterday to ask the convenor, Hugh Halcro-Johnstoo, to write a letter of protest to lain Todd, die SRU president, and a petition has been raised. Legal challenges are being consid¬ ered, while the dub has the necessary backing of dubs to force a special meeting of die SRU, an avenue it intends to explore on Monday. R ushbrook said:“We ac¬ cept It is not easy getting to the Orkneys, but we are only talking about one game per dub per season. We have already spent £10,000 this season in travel expenses, but to play competi¬ tive sport in the Orkneys you have to put up with situations like that.” As a member, for the past four seasons, and now cham¬ pions of the North District league which is centred around Aberdeen, an away game is a major undertaking. It involves boats, coaches and in exceptional circumstances flights or the charter of a plane. Simply to reach the mainland involves a two-hour ferry journey, games further afield arc three days round trips. year — and the big bookmak¬ ers are desperately hoping the once-a-year punters who have a bet on the National will help to buck the trend. “I think turnover will proba¬ bly be about the same.” Mike Dillon, of Ladbrokes, said. "It is still the Nol race for the British public and we hope turnover wifi hold up at around £60 million because the once-a-year punter will have a bet" After a Cheltenham Festival that proved unrewarding for backers, with only one win¬ ning favourite, the National meeting began in similar vein with winners at 10-1, 20-1 (twice) and 33-1 — and most favourites failing to reach the frame. While winning the Grand National remains die dream Benn back to take on Collins By Srikumar Sen BOXING CORRESPONDENT NIGEL BENN wfll be back in the ring in June against Steve Collins, of Ireland, the World Boxing Organisation super- mjddleweight champion, after the shortest retirement in hist¬ ory. The bout wifi most likely be held in London. Only 26 days ago, immed¬ iately after losing his World Boxing Council super-middle- weight title to Thulane Malinga, of South Africa, Benn announced that he was calling it a day. Benn, the former champion now believes that he can carry on for another three years. Given a challenge, he could become his old self again, he said; Collins was just t hat Indeed, Berm felt confident enough to take on Collins without a warm-up coolest Beam said: "I was going to stay in retirement but since he’s (Frank Warren, the pro¬ moter] mentioned Collins, it looks like I’ve got to go for it I’m not going out a loser." Benn said that he had not done the things expected of him against Malinsa. “It wasn’t me in the ring.” ne said. “I trained too hard and left it ail in the gym. 1 need someone who’s going to put fear in me — and Collins is a good fighter. He did something I couldn’t do — beat Chris Eubank twice. Collins is right up my sweet He ain’t got to look for me and I ain’t got to look for him. “I feel naked without my belt” Benn said. “People ask for my autograph and I have to put 'former champion'.” On the same bill, Malinga will defend his title and the wumers could ihen meet to unify the championship. of mast National Hunt jock¬ eys. not every rider enjoys the unconditional support of their families in their quest for fame and glory. Jonathan Lower, who won the opening race on Tragic Hero, is due to ride Chatam in the big race tomor¬ row — much to annoyance of his mother. “Everybody who is a jockey wants to ride in die National but my mum is not happy with it,” Lower, 28, said. "She'll be at work on Saturday in a clothes shop in Westorv-Super- Mare and wifi wait for the result and watch the race on- video later. Sbe never watches me live and would be happier ill was just watching the race as well." Black day, page 43 Form guide, page 43 SUPER LEAGUE springsiKtio ACTION IN PARjjS Emburey’s decision leaves way clear for Lloyd By Simon Wilde ■•= FEARS that England would encounter difficulty attracting - candidates for their new coaching position — which carries a guaranteed tenn of office of only sly months - were realised yesterday when, one of the leading contenders, John Emburey. withdrew from the running. His deci¬ sion appeared to leave the field clear for David Lloyd, of Lancashire, whose appaat- menl may now quickly follow. In explaining his reasons, Emburey said he frit he need¬ ed more experience in cricket management and coaching before working with the nat¬ ional team, a task he described as his "fervent desire and ambition". He has so far only managed an England A team on one lour, to Pakistan last winter, though he has just started a four-year coaching contract with Northamptonshire. Also prominent in Emburey's thinking, however, would be the knowledge that the Eng¬ land job carried no long-term security, unlike his post with Northamptonshire, which is believed to be worth E20G.000. Had Emburey asked to leave, the county would not have stood in his way and had already agreed to a request from the Test and County Cricket Board fTCCB) on Tuesday to interview him. "The matter of whether John wished to be regarded as a candidate lay with the individ¬ ual himself." Steve Coverdale, tiie county secretary, said. "The dub will continue to support and give encourage¬ ment to him so that he gains the necessary experience which the dub believes will help him to benefit the nat¬ ional cause in the future." The TCCB has deliberately left itself the freedom to altej^ England's management at the end of the summer so dun it can take account of the recom¬ mendations of David Acfield’s working party into how the team is run. 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