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Fran Abrams ogised for using excessive force. Political Correspondent Campaigners against the arms trade have repeatedly claimed that Close encounter A woman hi Cathedral dose, SaHsbury, eyes Running Man, a bronze statue by the late sculptor Elisabeth Frink, one ola collection of her works In the Salisbury The Government’s ethical foreign Hawk jets have been used to attack Festival. Before Frink died In 1983, one of her final requests was that an open-air retrospective exhibition of her work be staged hi a public area after her death. Photograph: John Voos policy will not prevent ongoing sales civilians in occupied East Timor- re- of armoured vehicles and water ports which have been strongly de- cannon to Indonesia. The Indepen- nied. Officials have hinted that the dent has learnL manufacturer, British Aerospace Yet yesterday in a Parliamentary might be well advised not to apply written answer, Robin Cook, the for an export licence for the jets Fatherwins appeal to halt abortion Foreign Secretary, said: “We have until ministers have decided what made a firm commitment not to per: line to take on the sale. mil the sale of arms to regimes that It is believed that while Foreign Patricia Wynn Davies court she could not reveal the rea- stop the abortion and give him cus- where the House of Lords has re- born child’s “right" to life. An in- might use them for internal repres- Office ministers might hope to pre- Legal Affairs Editor sons because It would break her tody ofthe unborn baby and the cou- solved the issue in favour ofwomen terpretation in favour of fathers sion or international aggression.” vent new exports of Hawks to In- client’s confidentiality. pled 18-month-old daughter Hazel. - that the foetus has no legal rights would be tantamount to treating Sources within his department donesia. the Department of Trade The legal tussle over a lather’s at- Yesterday s ruling by the Lord Jus- He is believed to be the first father of its own and that neither fathers pregnant women as mere receptacles confirmed that export licences issued and Industry could argue that valu- tempt to stop hs wfe having an abor- tice Gerk, Lord Cullen, and Lords in Britain to be granted a temporary nor courts have the power to over- for child-bearing and could open the last December would not be revoked. able jobs in the defence industry tion will go back to court today after Sutherland and Wylie, prevents doc- court order delaying a termination. ride the opinions of doctors under way for litigation questioning the One of those licences allowed the would be lost if the licence was re- a day of high drama during which a tors from carrying out the procedure The couple, from Inverkeithing, the abortion legislation. opinions of doctors. export of seven armoured water fused. The order is worth £300m. court re-instated a ban on Lynn Kel- before a full appeal by Mr Kelly is Fife, married in 1995 but separated Mis Kelly insists that no one can Jane Roe, of the Abortion Law cannon identical to ones used to put Another Cabinet minister, David ly aborting the foetus. heard today. a few weeks ago. each claiming the force her to have a child. But anti- Reform Association, said: “The in- down protests in Indonesia, and 17 Clark, Chancellor of the Duchy of There was added tension in the al- Mrs Kelly, who is 12 weeks preg- other was violent and neglected abortion groups condemned junction should never have been armoured vehicles. Lancaster, has supported the export ready highly-charged case yesterday nant, has been walking a legal their daughter. Both sides have giv- Wednesday's derision as a “traves- granted in the first place. Tb delay a There are also strong doubts of Hawk jets to Indonesia. In No- morning tightrope like tins intolerable." when Anne Smith QC, for since Mr Kelly learnedof en extensive and opposing views of ty ofjustice” and a denial of the un- woman is about whether ministers will block vember 1992, when he was Labour’s Mrs Kelly, stunned Edinburgh High the planned termination. The ban their situation to the tabloid press. defence spokesman, he told the Court by saying that a termination was first granted on 15 May, a day The legal wrangle has provoked
New Statesman : “I’d like What Cook said a world might be being carried out at an un- before she was scheduled to have the extremes ofopinion on both rides of ACADEMY AWARD WINNER.; where there was no war and no known hospital at the same time as abortion, lifted by the same judge on the debates on abortion and fathers’ A
weapons. But I find it difficult to take the hearing. But in the afternoon, Wednesday then reinstated by the rights. Lord Eassie’s ruling on \\f . w:,w \i\ “We have made a firm a purely moral or moralistic stance. Wendy Sheehan, solicitor for Mrs three appeal judges yesterday. Wednesday confirmed what most le- The Indonesian Minister of De- Kelly's husband, James, said it had Mr KeQy is trying to make legal gal commentators understood to be commitment not to per- fence and Security. Edi Sudradjat, not takeo place. She said outside the history by persuading the court to the law, at least south of the border THRILLING, DAZZLING, AMAZING said this week that he did mit the sale of arms to not believe .-WHATEVER SUPERLATIVE YOU CHOOSE TO the Labour government would stop DESCRIBE THIS FILM WILL DO IT AN INJUSTICE’ regimes that might use the country from buying the extra jets WHfTTA - it wants. “The political change in GAKY TOTAL HIM for repression or them Britain will not affect our negotia- U k A A A A n u A A A A A » for Blair aggression.” tions an additional purchase," he bags a press baron said at the official handover of eight DAVID KEENAN - MELODY MAKER Hawk-100 trainers and 16 Hawk-200 CLARK COUJS- NEON What is happening all-weather attack fighters exported from Britain before the election. as Rothermere switches The United Stales, historically the he will not DAVID FARWNSON - EMPIRE JOHN WXATHAll - FHM Sources say largest supplier of military equip- Indonesia, has Paul block the sale of ment to recently McCann about Mr Dacre’s future. Lord :V : V stopped sales of fighter planes and Media Correspondent Rothermere said in a statement: m. -• vehicles to a • armoured armoured personnel carriers to the “Paul Dacre is a great editor and 1 y, , regime which has one country, though it is still allowing the Lord Rothermere, the Conserva- have very good relationships with him export of other weapons. tive press baron who owns the Dai- but we do not always share exactly worst of the world's The Liberal Democrats’ defence ly Mail, the Mail on Sunday and the the same views on politics." * . Menzies Campbell, said London Evening Standard, shocked Rothermere thinks human rights records. spokesman, “Basically he believed strongly that no more senior executives at the newspapers Blair is the man,’' said a Mail source. • arms should be sold to Indonesia'and yesterday tty taking up a seat on the "There is definitely a feeling upstairs ' % - the planned sale of 16 new Hawk that existing licences should be re- Labour Party’s benches in the House that Dacre screwed up and should j voked. “There was no justification of Lords. have backed Blair.” ; •-*•-**> ' fighter jets to the Suharto regime, worst for these export licences being grant- The hereditary peer said yesterday The public announcement ofLord : which has one of the world’s gov- that the defection made in v human rights records. ed in the first instance and a he was prompted to make Rothermere’s was w-rAC. source said the ernment which puts human rights at move by his admiration for Tony a. diary item in yesterday’s London I A Foreign Office having to pay the centre of its foreign policy Blair, adding: "They [Labour] are- Evening Standard. A source said the i Government feared carrying L0M> mysteriously into compensation to manufacturers if it should hardly need to think for a mor out so many policies I story “dropped I
cancelling these believe in” the paper from upstairs”. The j \ •• pulled the plug on the deal with GKN ment before ‘*+r -W his decision to Evening Standard supported Labour I Defence, a Hampshire-based arms licences," he said. He announced stunned silence colleagues at a at the election. manufacturer. “We are not going to Harriet Lamb, head of campaigns from TuRwco/rr of arms administration’s for the’World Development Move- party held on Wednesday night to Tbny Blair began wooing the Mai] : pay for the previous With tension ment, welcomed Mr Cook's state- mark the 30th anniversary at the Mail papers two years ago when he had a ; mistakes," he said. 1 but said that be should now of its veteran columnist Lynda Lee for his own abolition. He is a hered- one-to-one lunch whh Lord Rother- buildin in the run-up to Indonesia's ment, g L I Thctiea ar- back it with action: “The news that Potter. itary peer and Labour has made a mere. In the end the Daily Mail pul MUHAMMAD A general election, British be revoked is Lord Rothermere’s cousin, Vivian manifesto commitment to remove the Union Jack on its from page the moured personnel carriers and wa-‘ no export licences will very disappointing and we would Harmsworth, said yesterday that the hereditary peers’ voting rights. day before the election and told its ter carmens were used this week to WE WHEELS 17 WHEN government to think again. hereditary peer had been an “ille- “His views have accumulated over readers to vote Conservative for the break up a march in Jakarta. urge the ; Mike Docherty, head ofpublic af- gitimate Conservative” and had nev- the last few years” said Vivian sake of British independence from ’Rvice last year water cannon were Defence, confirmed er before taken his seal*despite bring Hannswarth, “and he has taken aper- Europe. used in Indonesia to spray a sub- fairs for GKN of seven listed a Conservative Peer in the itive view on so many things that the stance believed to be C$ gas or dye that the consignment The- as Parliamentary directory, Dodd’s. Government has done so quickly." over protesters. In a separate inci- tica water cannon, 17armoured ve- 21 far not taken the Labour Lord Rothermere’s is like- KING died when hicles and 286 Hornet modified So he has move dent, three students THE TRUE STORY OF THE RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE not aD left rty whip and his cousin could not ly to have serious implications for the British-made armoured personnel Land-Rovers bad the policy is that we confirm if he would be voting with editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, carriers broke up a demonsttation- country. “Our 9 Itfc hftGna fa fofccm W every issue. who backed the Conservatives in the BM8 The former Tbiy defence minister, abide by the rules that the Govern- the Labour Party on 77 Rothermere did vote with election. Acknowledging that his Jeremy Hanley, complained to the ment dictates, be said. IfLord - • Labour he could find himself voting derision would raise speculation government and it apol- Profit and conscience, 16 and 17 9 V70951^946450 NOW SHOWING Indonesian
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SOCIETY Bridgewater Four campaign English children are less approaches final judgment patriotic than the French The final page wad turned yesterday in the campaign to exonerate less proud of their nationality the Bridgewater Four when a 22-day hearing before the Court of English school children are much in classrooms across the Channel, Appeal came to An end. than their patriotic counterparts ' survey of primaiy-age pupils in James Robin*)el 63, cousins Vincent Hickey, 42, and Michael according to new research, A 850 found that youngsters Hickey, 35, andrthe relatives of the late Patrick Molloy must now -w-’ Avon, Kent, Calais and Marseille French magnificent scenery await the resewed judgment of the three judges before knowing waxed lyrical about their country, praising its - 0; whether their convictions for the killing in 19.78 of 13-year-old VbV and traditional values ofKbertyand equality. newspaper bqy Carl Bridgewater will be quashetL The three men In England, however, pupikjwere more likely to regard stars as the.best nation has to offer. have been oriimconditional bail since February when the . . footballers and pop the questioned strongly agreed with prosecution,accepted that fresh evidence o£a fabricated -confession
. bridge was built much earlier beat the contemporary labelled “low aul Whitehouse, long-standing sidekick to Harry j(fty Fools end Horses more Products than if it had been funded Father Ted. sugar” contained JL8g of Enfield, gotthe limelight to himsetf last night when scorns, Men Behaving'lBadly and conventionally through the .The Best Actress award went to Stella Gonet, for her sugar per lOOg in the case of Phe beat Chris Evans to. the Television Performance lie purse. There have been widespread protests at the tolls - £5.40 Cereal, but 16.9g of the Year at the Royal Television Society awards. performance in the BBC film Trip Trap. Also nominated Ready Brek for a car in high season - but the report says the feres are lower in se- in Liga rusks, the report Whitehouse won the award for TheFast Show, a rapid- .was comedy actress Pauline Quirke, who look on a realcal terms than those for the ferry from the Scottish mainland to theth Sculptress. said. fire sketch show, that had the nation saying “Ooh - suits, 'rious role and heavy body make-up for The Isle of Skye which the bridge replaced. The report also finds that foe Safeway said it would you sir," in a suggestive mariner, for much of last yea/ The BBC’s epic Our Friends in the North won award since the contractor, MOJer-Dywidag, will recoup its investment examine claims that its The judges described Whitehouse as the “man of th? for the Best Drama Serial, as well as the Writer’s Award within 14 to 17 years, the concession will revert to the Government. “sugar-free” Instant Custard moment”, saying he “a brilliant eye for comic for its creator, Peter Flannery. had Re- of National Audit Office, The Skye Bridge: £10.75 Christian Wolmar Black, Pre- Powder contained 26g tail and for really capturing the funny side of congm- [TV’s highest-paid presenter, CQla won foe sugar. The company said it * fof Blind Date, beating off the porary life and capturing inner truths". - senter of file Year award was concerned by the Vic Reeves Bob Mortimer of Shoot- ‘ Immigrants stage rooftop protest The Fast Show also beat off Evans’ Chanel 4 ,show relative newcomers and allegations and insisted there TFI Friday to win the Entertainment award. ing Stars and Nick Hancock of They Think. It's Ail Over. Twelve Algerians staged a rooftop protest at an immigration centre . / had been no intention on its The other big winner of the evening, at G^yenor The RTS gave its Gold Award to its outgoing presi- yesterday after one of their countrymen was moved to a prison. The part to mislead customers. House Hotel, was the veteran character actor Javid Ja- dentand outgoing chief executive of Channel 4, Michael The protest began at lunchtime on Wednesday and escalated Leading article, page 19 son. Comedy Grade. The Society praised Grade's "sharpness and self- during the evening when more than 100 detainees at Campsfield Only Fools and Morses won the Situatiq* aired confidence" as well as “the way he has fought long and House, near Oxford, gathered near the perimeter fence. No break- and Comedy Drama award for the three eptjodes over ratings-winners hard for foe political, editorial not least financial inde- EDUCATION out was attempted, but a dozen detainees scaled the flat roof of the Christmas which were the highest of last year. also picked the BesTActor award pendence of foe channel whose remit looks as intact centre where they remained yesterday. A spokesman for Group 4, Jason up for his performance was for his predecessor as It was when he himsetf inherit- in classroom which runs the camp, said the detainee who was moved to Winson performance. The jury said his Gender roles persist “brilliant” mid “assured his place in ct^nedy history”.'" ed it" V" Paul McCann Green Prison in Birmingham had made a series of threats and sexual Girls may be winning foe war in the classroom, but they continue suggestions to- a member of staff Campsfield holds nearly 200 illegal to shun traditionally male subjects after the age of 16. OveraU, girls immigrants and asylum seekers. It has been previously criticised over outperform boys at GCSE and A-level but a report from the Equal the heal th care provided for detainees. Louise Jury Jackson still Opportunities Commission says that, at A-level and in vocational training, they still opt for “female" subjects. maths and ‘Daily Star’ to lose 45 journalists At GCSE girls are outperforming boys in science, in love with technology but at A-level. maths, physics and technology continue Express Newspapers announced yesterday that h was making 45 to be dominated by boys. Geography, Economics and computer journalists redundant from the Doily Star, hut denied rumours that studies are also increasingly shunned by girls. reporters had to clear their desks by the weekend. first wife ~ At degree level, men predominate in technology, physics and The company, which is run by foe Labour-supporting peer Lord engineering and a greater proportion of women study English, Hollick, said it would consult with foe National Union of Journalists Michael Jactaori-to&OF besotted- modem foreign languages and social studies. about the job losses before giving notice to staff! The company also with his ex-wife, Lisa-Marie Presley, In vocational training girls concentrate on the caring occupations announced it would be investing £3m to increase the number of and dotes on his three-rnonth-okj v while men choose courses in crafts, manufacturing and construction. pages in the paper and to pay for more giveaway promotions. . son, according tohis new wife, Debz Education and Vocational Training in England and Wales, Equal Eighty-five journalists were made redundant at Express titles last bie Rowe. “He loved her very much. Opportunities Commission, Publications Unit. Overseas House, Quay year as a condition for Lord Hollick investing in a new sports Still does,” said Ms Rowe, 38, on Street, Manchester M3 3HN. Send S.-IE. Judith Judd supplement and a beefed-up marketing campaign. Paul McCann American television. "He cares about her very much but it didn't IMMIGRATION £10m of cocaine seized at airport work out and he was devastated." The self-styled “King of Pop", More than 100kg of cocaine, with a street value of £10m, has been who has amassed a fortune esti- Number of asylum-seekers falls seized at Heathrow airport, it emerged yesterday. divorced The cocaine was discovered on Wednesday morning hidden within mated at £600m, Ms The number of people applying for asylum in Britain dropped last Presley East year after a tempestu- “A lot of people think I have She dismissed past allegations a consignment of books and paper from Belgium: the drugs are year by nearly a third, to 28,000, following tough new immigration marriage. abandoned my husband. He un- of child molestation, saying: “I believed to have been destined for Liverpool News of the find came ous 20-month restrictions, a government report revealed yesterday. wouldn't have child and I Ms Rowe, who lives apart from derstands that I need my indepen- had a decision to as Scotland Yard announced a 26 per cent rise to 3,785 in the number The drop of 16,000 is believed to be partly due to the her reclusive husband in a modest dence. We’re untraditional people. wouldn’t leave our child there If risk of drug trafficking offences detected in London, plus 27,000 drug increase the number of countries considered free from serious of things true, if suburban fiat in Los Angeles, de- 1 would consider him my best any these were or benefits for seizures and nearly 28.000 possession offences. Jason Bennetto of persecution and the removal of some social security of I of nied that Jackson had paid her to friend. I would hope I'm one his even suspected any them were asylum-seekers. true." Wife picks vasectomy for snip cany his child, and that the baby, closest friends." Of the 39,000 cases dealt with in 1996, about 20 per cent - 7,300 up a Prince Michael, was taken from Ms Rowe, who married Jackson But she was more coy when - were allowed to stay. These were mainly from the former foe asked about foe likelihood of A wife bought a vasectomy for her husband at a charity auction - her immediately after foe birth. in secret last Novembersaid Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Afghanistan. Hie number of cases singer spends of his time adding to the Jackson brood. and it proved a snip at £70. The private operation was donated by "I would never do this for mon- much refused asylum increased by a third to 31,700 on the previous year. his son. feeds him, he When asked if the couple would surgeon Nick Markham at an auction of “promises” in aid of the ey. I did this because I love him," with “He Control ofImmigration: Statistics UK, Second Halfand Year 1996. diapers. reads to have children replied: North Devon Hospice, in Barnstaple. The mystery bidder got a said Ms Rowe, who has returned changes his He more she Home Office, Information and Publications, 0181 760 8340. Free. bargain - the snip usually costs £300. Barbara Lester, fund-raising to her job as a nurse at a Beverley him, he sings to him. If he’s on foe “We hope so. It depends on our Jason Bennetto baby is in his arms." scheduling.” James Mellor manager for the hospice, said: “It ... livened up the proceedings.” Hill's dermatology clinic. phone foe Read WG Grace’s cricket bat scores in auction test A bat owned by cricket legend Dr W.G. Grace, an which proved the star of the sale at Phillips in London THE INDEPENDENT. THE INDEPENDENT ABROAD - Y England tour blazer and a rare book were among 300 fetching £5,520. online every day on AOL Items which fetched more than £77,000 at an auction A spokeswoman for foe auction house said: “This Ausma .... -ScMO F15.00 OVERSEAS SUBSCRIPTIONS of foe sport’s memorabilia yesterday. is a very rare book which dates back to 1804. It was Call 0800 376 5376 Belgium BFrSO Italy LJ.500 Ait nui. 13 weeks: Eucpfl £110.76: ten 1 (Middle The bat which was signed by 82 Test and county last sold in 1966 for £58, so it proved a good buy for for FREE software - quote “Independent” Canaries . . . As300 MMe«a . . . Esc325 East. Amato, Una and Irafea) 11S40& Zto 2 iFar cricketers, including Jassop and Hobbs, and was foe last owner.” Cyprus C£1J0 Mata 43 cents E*s ana Aunn&w) £206. 7a 14 trier. c*a» «« presented by Grace to the Friends of St John's Hos- Other items at foe auction included a bat used by Dentnart PHrlS Noway Nkr2Q draw payable n Wrcore «emationarue
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One booker year, it's become the popular was clear “We don’t tolerate a decade ago. heroin has lost its ed young people to other drugs. ny. According to Paul Hunwick, for pushing heroin chic. She was about authenticity, naturally at a leading London mode] drug again.” drug-addict models. It's not a grim and squalid Seventies Some believe the current deputy editor of i-D, “heroin the photographer who first shot documented and developed agency has watched heroin There is a certain gfamour at- moral thing; with bookings “losers" tag The drug often growth is due to greater supply. chic" does not exist it is just an- Kate Moss but she is outraged through an artistic eye. Never come and go as the fashionable tached with the “tragic beauty" worth £30,000 to £200000 a day, called “brown ”, can be smoked Customs report a steadily in- other media soundbite. “There that her pictures should be la- has heroin played a part in my drug since the mid-Eigbties. associated with heroin addic- you simply can't afford to take or snorted rather than injected, creasing number of seizures - wus a period in fashion pho- belled “heroin chic”. “The idea ideas. The shutting eyelids are “It happens about every 10 tion. “The idea that junkies have risks." and one smoke can cost as lit- a sure sign of more imports. Tesco takes on Levi’s in battle for bottom of the market 501 stonewash jeans at tbeir branch Levi Strauss went on the counter- meant to be the must ac- across the country at £30 each. this country." In March Tfesco bad jeans had fallen by per cent as de- Kim Sengupta _ fashion 5 of Tesco for £30, instead of having offensive stressing that Tesco were cessory for cool dudes. Simon Uwins, Tesoo’s commercial bought 45,000 pairs of 501s from mand had grown for other brands. It could have been a scene from a to ktdn out up to £55. And the Amer- selling the clothing without its Tfesco decided in response to director, said: “We have approached a Levi factory in Mexico for their The company denied it tried to stylised Levi's ad. High noon, and ican executives of Levi Strauss permission, and then banning the carry out guerrilla war in the ene- Levi's again to see if they would re- first cut-price sale. Within days control prices. A spokesman said it a group of tough, cold-eyed management are left gnashing then- store from receiving its supplies. my’s own backyard. It sent off consider their decision and supply the whole consignment had been was a matter for individual stock- strangers arrive af a dusty town in teeth. This was nothing to do with the teams to buy directly from retailers us direct with stock. Again they have snapped up. But after that ists. the American West. They are after This was the latest skirmish in the fact that the Official Levi Store in in the United States, concentrating refused to deal with Tesco. So this Levi Strauss blocked further However, there are strict condi- the These just one thing, and it is there for denim war between Levi Strauss and central London was charging £25 mainly on small towns, where the time we have bought a quantity of supplies. tions stockists must meet the taking. They round up their the high street supermarket chain. more for the garments, said the jeans could be had fbr as little as £18. 501s at retail price in the US.” Levi Strauss had spent millions on are that staff should be extensively “ booty and leave as quietly as they The first salvo was fired in March company. More than 32,000 pairs were bought Ifwe can buy them in the States the 501 brand, reviving pop songs trained in the subject of “jean- swear”, be a came. when Tesco began to sell the fash- Rather it disapproved of cus- and shipped over. for about £18, why are consumers and featuring the Russian model that there should dearly delineated Levi’s area Six thousand miles awaythe re- ion jeans at a price significantly tomers buying their jeans in between The new supplies, which come in paying up to £55 in the UK? I think Kristina Semenovskaia in a televi- and beans and loo rolls. black stonewash, goes ewen further the con- sion advertisement campaign. But a range of styles at different prices. sult of that raid is that Bntish.cus- undercutting the manufacturer's picking up baked indigo, and went n to show It the to is sale yesterday at 128 stores sumer how expensive Levi’s are in despite that, the market share of its Tesco has not met them. tomeis will today be able to buy their official outlet gave wrong image what on Portillo eyes up 0+ Bosnia role Christopher Bellamy and reconstruction of Bosnia and David Usborne reconciliation of the former warring factions. He or she has De- no formal authority over the Michael Portillo, the former Conserva- Nato-led military force, S-For, Increasingly, the food we eat has been fence Secretary and practice closely I Please send information about right-winger who lost his but in' works me more tive genetically modified, irradiated or treated with | election, may not with it as well as with the UN Triodos Bank savings accounts. No stamp required. the | seat in [ and local parties. . quite have vanished yet. chemicals - unproven, potentially unsafe processes Many regard thejob as a poh Mr/ Mrs/ Ms/Miss forward | - He has put his name [ .in- soned chalice. “Some of the best which are rarely identified on the label. succeed Carl Bildt as Oie to Address _ I High candidates, the ones who have | — ternational community’s environmentally Triodos knowledge of the region, As an committed bank, Representative” coordinating a peace- know better than lo accept tins the civilian aspects of lends only to enterprises with positive social and job,” Said one diplomat in Sara- Postcode Bosnia- - . . . hn nding in on the se- jevo, who did not wish to be environmental values, such as growers, producers Not all of those are Ijkdyto bf named. . lection board and distributors of organic foods. The British The top. contender for the Pbrtfllo enthusiasts. on the steering Triodos Bank representative - By supporting enterprises like these our savers @ Cook, the Fbr- to the UN Carlos Westendorp. • board, is Robin hank ethical savers. Mohamed Sadrbey, the current are helping to guarantee choice - so naturally grown, The for eig / $ > understood to Bosnian ambassador, to the Mrforij?Io chemical-free organic food is readily and widely available UN, spoke favourably of him. BS9292, BRISTOL B$8 3BR ' have “made hfrnseJf FREEPOST approached by Titeonjyothercandidates are after he was available. Triodos' Bank, the positive choice. appar- . Mr Portillo and an Italian sen- Mr Bildt Mr Bildt was with whm he ator, Giacomo Migorie. The ently impressed- office. new High Representative is ex- saw Mr Pbrtillo while in is pected to named next week The High Representative he but has an — and Mr Portillo is still m with not a UN appointee, the a chance. • '0117 973 9339 Fax: 0117 973 9303 iH-defined role in ovetseemg Triodos Bank. Brunei House. !t The Promenade. Clifton. Bristol BSR 3NN Teh . and other dress to kill ... | natural national cancer day The African tree remedies 23 rd may that could hold a cure for cancer Jeremy Laarance a renewed interest in natural sponse can be dramatic. .In Health Editor compounds after the fashion- some tumours it shuts down tbe able swing away from them in blood supply in two hours- We Scientists are going back to na- the Seventies in favour of de- may have a new class of drugs ture in their search for drugs signer molecules dreamed up in here. It is a great start.” against cancer and have found the laboratory. Human trials could begin an African shrub which could Professor Alan McGown of within 18 months. Dr Chaplin offer a new weapon against the Paterson Institute at the admitted therewere many tests the disease. Christie hospital in Manchester, ofsafety and efficacy to be done Tests on the drug, derived which is testing the anti-cancer before it could used on pa- from the bark of the African properties of a range of natur- tients. Tbe drug acts selective- bush wiUow. have shown that it al compounds, said: "These are ly. for reasons that are not attacks the blood supply to the big complicated molecules- too understood, only targeting bkx>d cancer instead of the cancer big for a chemist to sit down and vessels in the tumour leaving oth- cells themselves. A single dose say T am going to design that.' ers elsewhere in the body unaf- not however, can kill up to 95 per cent of sol- They would never have been fected. It is known, the id tumour ceDs by starving them discovered if we had not looked whether it win hinder growth of their blood supply. at nature. The world's greatest ofblood vessels in otherparts of **>*« Dr Dai Chaplin, who led the chemist of all time is nature." the body, for example during Li; research at the Cancer Re- Dr Chaplin said that most wound healing or in the repro- cancer treatments were target- ductive tract during ovulation :>r>! \>>ir „ starflow'-r 01 search Campaign's Gray labo- " - -' N*i!9nal.'C*>c<'r. Out. ft*. " t ratories aL Mount Vernon ed at killing the cancer cells. One and pregnancy. Hospital. Middlesex, said the centimetre of tumour can con- Dr Chaplin also said that the drugs new type of action could tain hundreds ofmillions of cells, drug killed the centre of the tu- derived Photograph: David Rose have wide application. “As more making it a slow process re- mour but left the rim unaffect- War on cancer: Dr Chaplin showing the tree bark from which the new drug is than 90 per cent of cancers are quiring high doses of toxic drugs. ed, and would therefore need solid tumours or lumps, we are Tbe new drug, combre- to be used in conjunction with veiy excited about its potential. tastatin, destroys endothelial conventional radiotherapy or It opens the door for the de- cells lining tbe blood vessels chemotherapy. velopment ofother drugs work- which supply the tumour. In Combretastatin was discov- for post, said he bad found the state ing on the same principle. laboratory studies. Dr Chaplin ered 10 years ago by Professor Frank Dobson, Secretary of Savings of £100m would be would go to cut waiting times treatment. of the service to be worse than Cancer is a war and we are found that damaging one of Bob Pettit ofihe Arizona State State for Health, announced achieved in the first year, in line breast cancer expected, with waiting lists opening up a new battiefront-” these endothelial cells killed University in the US. Professor that be was taking an axe to tbe with Labours manifesto pledge, Mr Dobsoa said delaying 100,000 higher than a year ago Announcing the findings at a more than 1,000 tumour cells. Pettit, who sits on the Cancer ‘"dense forests of paperwork*' by deferring the eighth wave of furtherentrants to fundholuing, and hospitals carrying press conference to mark Na- The findings, published in the Research Campaign’s drug that have grown up in the Na- UP fundholders and setting affecting 1,000 GPs, would save many deficits estimated by the British tional Cancer Day today. Pro- US journal. Cancer Research, committee, mentioned it to Dr tional Health Service yesterday tough new management cost £20m with the rest to come from Medical Association at £750m. fessor Gordon MeVie, director showed only small doses were Chaplin who decided to inves- - but his axe turned out to be targets for NHS trusts and cuts in bureaucracy. Target re- ‘Taxpayers’ money roust be of the campaign, said cancer re- required reducing side-effects. tigate its anti-cancer properties, blunter than it appeared, writes health authorities, he said. An ductions wouldbe agreed by the used to treat patients, not to sus- search had come full circle with Dr Chaplin said: “The re- f .ending article, page 19 Jeremy Laurence. immediate allocation of £10 m end of June. However, figures show that tain the dense forests of pa- £46m of management savings perwork which have grown as a were already planned by the last result of the NHS internal mar- government and included in this ket.” he said. Some staff could year’s budget -leaving the NHS lose their jobs and vacancies executive to find a further£34m would be left unfilled. by next April. Total savings He was surprisingly generous achieved by Labour s measures towards GP fundbolding, saying will therefore yield £54m, just “Maybe there are aspects of The Link over half the £l00m pledged. fundholding that are valuable r" Mr Dobson, giving his first and can be continued into the 93 formal press conference in the new system.” STORES Vouching for nurseries WITH THIS VOUCHER ISAlfEI NATIONWIDE Judith Judd four-year-olds a voucher worth authority plan wfll be eligible for Education Editor £1 .100 a year to be spent in the certificates from central gov- nursery of their choice. ernment for two terms, worth All four-year-olds whose par- From next April local au- the same amount that they ents wish it should have free thorities will be responsible for would have received under the nursery places by September new public/private partnerships voucher scheme. want to use the cer- EVERY The largest ranee of next year, David BiunketL the which will provide places for If they MONTH conunenicatio^ products Secretary ofState for Education under-fives. 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FRIDAY 23 MAY 1597 o* |jSjO \ news C **’31 5 ' th^!p ** Woman tells of love for fisherman with Aids 'V'^TrS Ian Burrell the hospital and made to manently to a holiday home on Mr Georgiou denied the lamaca from Ms Pink appeared composed lationship turned sour, she plaint to Cypriot police which listen as Janette Pink, who is dy- Cyprus. newspaper story was true and and determined os she delivered *T began to see another side of led to the trial. ing from the effects of Aids, al- The former wife or a City ac- when Ms Pink had an HIV test 90 minutes of evidence. A turn which 1 didn't particularly The prosecution is the first of A Cypriot fisherman was taken leged that he had knowingly countant, she was introduced to it proved negative. She finally She told Antonis LJatsis, very !-.- ,J ihe like much, especially with its kind to be brought under an S5iC% by police from his ' hospital bed given Georgiou through mutual discovered district her the- virus. Mr the truth six months judge that she continued his temper and his violence to- obscure island law aimed at • yesterday % and brought face to arrived so- ^ When he finally at friends in a bar. They began later, in September 1994, when to have sex with Mr Georgiou wards other people, even his stopping the deliberate spread face in a courtroom ; with the for- court, an apparently healthy Mr cialising and months later start- she found out that Mr Gcor- after going for a second * such . -- ‘“»sm Aids children,” she said. of diseases' as cholera and mer British girlfriend ' who has : : “*%. Georgjou. 39, grinned and gave ed a relationship. gjou’s wife. Martha, had died in test which proved positive. In August last year, Ms Pink typhoid. Mr Qcorgiou faces a • • accused him of ": . . deliberately in* thumbs up signs to onlookers. *Tt didn’t even occur to me London from Aids. “We gpt on wefi ill feeling together," had become so that she re- maximum sentence oftwo years ' her with HIV. His mood changed when he to use a condom,” she told the But when she confronted Mr she said, “I loved him. It made turned to Britain. in jail and a fine of £1,500. •••;.>$ Hours before he was due to saw his former lover. Sitting in court. "We had both been in Georgiou he. was unsympa- sense that wc were stand both infected **I was very sick,” she said. “I Earlier, the court heard that trial. Pavlos Georgiou the dock he stared at the floor marriages of 30 years, with thetic. “I said ... I know that with the same virus. It nyjHq bad pneumonia and I lost a lot the fisherman - who attended who is HIV positive, reported as Ms Pink, 43, barely 10 feet children. Wc were not young Mdrtha died of Aids. sense to I know to stay together and not ofweight. My hair began to fall the hearing in black jeans and an Aids clinic on the island away, told the court in intimate people." that you are HIV positive and leave him. Maybe I was naive out. I was not able to do any of a bright green T-shirt with the complaining of stomach pains detail about their relationship. She first suspected her lover I know that you have infected but it just made sense that we the functions like feed myself. legend Queen's Head - and high Pub has temperature. It was a affair which her. love be- might have HIV when at- me. I asked him why he didn't should stay together.” I was completely incapable of been attending the Aids clinic Bui the judge at Larnaca gan in 1993, she said, when her tention was drawn to a news- tell Qtc and he didn’t have any It was only after anything." patient since October. district sbe moved doing It was from a as an out court issued a warrant marriage in England brake up paper article which claimed that answer. He didn't even apolo- into Mr GconptuTs apartment hospital bed in England that she He suffers from vomiting and Janette Pink: for his arrest. was ‘He didn't He taken and she decided to move per- he and his wife virus. last had the gise w> me." year that their 1 8- month re- composed the letter of com- gastro-intestinal problems. even apologise to me' *gar teaves Schools get ready for compulsory lessons in the new morality : ---rs... Lucy Ward ues in Education and the Com- spiritual and moral develop- Education Correspondent munity. schools will now pilot ment. adding: "The time has Leaching materials based on come for doing rather than say- Ministers yesterday paved the the guidance. ing - for a na tional push on val- way for compulsory' lessons Dr Nick Tate, chief executive ues education in schools and for about moral values in schools. of the School Curriculum and a concerted plan of action." But. in approving a statement Assessment Authority (SCAA), Though he dismissed the of agreed values as guidance, which is leading work on values idea ofan "A level in morality". the Govern raent was not seek- education, said that - if Minis- Dr late said there were some ing to prescribe a set of ters wished - the pilot would be aspects of pupils' social and "Ten Commandments" which taken into account in a review moral developments which schools would be forced to fol- of the national curriculum due could be formally assessed and low, curriculum advisers said to start next spring for imple- recorded. Following government ap- mentation in 2000. However, SCAA is anxious to proval of the values slate ment, He called on schools to use stress that work on the values devised last year by a 150- the statement ofvalues us the ba- statement is not intended to strong National Forum for Val- sis for lessons promoting pupils’ force schools to indoctrinate ft pupils in strict moral code. Self, relationships, society The statement, which covens values relating to the sell soci- Extract from the statement of ourselves and others, and to ety, relationships and the envi- values r f* developed by the Na- the good of the community. ronment. was intended to ^>:^:nclassroo tional Forum for Values in Ed- Society; “We value truth, represent a moral consensus on ucation and the Community. freedom, justice, human which society could agree. t^hts,flieru]eoflawandcol- The move to a clearer defin- The Self; ^We value our- lecfive efforts for the common ition of moral education in selves as unique human be- good. In particular, we value schools was backed for schools ings capable of spiritual,, families as sources of love minister. Estelle Morris. She moral; intellectual and phys- - aid supportforakfoek mem- said: “The spiritual, moral, so- ical growth and develop- bers, and as fte'basis of a so- cial and cultural development of 11 ment ...... rieiy ft which people care for our children is just as important Relationships: “We value, others. as academic knowledge. We en- others for. . - themselves, not . The Environment: “We val- courage schools to take for- - ju only for. what they have err • tie the environment, - both ward SCAA’swork in this area." what they can do for us. 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VMM: niiMuu BANK HOLIDAY HPi a ‘CHISM ' HTOtaffM of j BUHacaae roaaw- MONDAY 9-5 *it mas sho*h mc mb** mcxs;immamm *m& in ws&ktawcam at mmamxo w visiting nreumoMMa w>log* stow. -hmsbbw not > . _ xBauHBMExciBitflju.KXj^KADa^uMaaAieftiBfOBi.Hirr^^ * pem tut, ik . . wwn Sam muswatrun n «M Mw Hwtrtb dealt r . ,,;. . «i w Tory faithful denied vote on leader LAaWMi vote Anthony Bevins would arrange for constituen- the leadership vote, and even under the existing rules, but be a vote on the issue at the an- votes of those entitled to team least talented Political Editor cy ballots to be held so that MPs Brian Mawhinney, the outgoing MPs would propose a number nual party conference, io Black- (83) plus a majority of at Tone’s could be presented with grass- party chairman, had suggested of options for reform to be con- pool, Sir Archie said: “Probably 15 per cent of those entitled to runner-up. T Conservative MPs last night roots opinion before they them- per sidered by the partyconference noL I should think, knowing the vote (25) over the 15 cent Baroness) class act rebuffed party demands for selves vote at each round. Both those calls were swept next October, to be followed bv Conservative Party, iherewfll be Margaret (now delivers a per cent grassroots activists to be given It is entirely possible that the aside yesterday in a statement concrete plans to be agreed by. a fair amount of discussion at Thatcher fell on the 15 if no one a say in the choice of a newTbxy activists will* vote differently from Sir Archie to the weekly the MPs before the end of the party conference and we have hurdle in 1990, and are edu- he Boy Prime Ministers top three priorities leader to replace John Major Committee year. then undertaken to harden up wins on that basis on 10 June, from the MPs, thereby under- meeting of the 1922 education-- (no one is qmte sure education an-and > • . held on cation,ranuu, „ , _ , tl next month. mining the credibility of the new in die Commons yesterday. Sir Archie told The Indepen- those proposals. The MPs a second ballot will be the theihe next three are). So he has stuffed Edu-Eftr- 164 final 17 June. what The party's MPs, in- leader, but MPs on the left and There was not even one ques- dent. “I totally accept, and would then decide on the TI the best talent available’, team wiLh which the cation and Employment cluding two Tory deputy speak- right of the party have been tion raised on Ins statement, and we've all agreed, that there will package by the end of the year.” For that round, in on gorgeous displaym the- to him. Yesterday that talent was ers, will elect a new leader by most reluctant to renounce any the meeting broke up afterjust be a very much wider franchise Under the existing rules, the winner requires at least 83 Question Time (shortly to be re-christened contendere are al- first Education 19 June at the very latest of their power this week. 10 minutes. for leadership elections in fu- five declared contenders for votes, new Question Time)- Education Education Education But it was made clear to Sir Robin Hodgson, chairman of Sir Archie, who was earlier ture.” But he then added: “I the first-round ballot, on 10 June lowed into the race. If no one as one might expect, is David BlunkttL the final Most impressive, Archie Hamilton, the new the party's National Union, the dubbed “dinosaur out of the wouldn’t go so far as to say it - Stephen Domell, William wins that majority, -- a He may weU now be the best orator in the House his fin-, chairman of the Conservative voluntary wing of the party, bad dark ages” by one leading par- would be one member, one Hague, Kenneth Clarke, Peter run-off between the top two his braille notes - conveying his tem-t - later, when £ers scampering over backbench 1922 Committee, asked for the broader party to ty activist, said that the new vote/’ LiDey and John Redwood takesplace two days - singlemindedness about improving state education. majority is needed. Sine Jeremj that the party organisation be given a 20 per cent stake in leadership would be chosen Asked whether there would would require a majority of a simple schools minister, Cheryl 1 - deal with the former Health To seehim was like watching Oliv- Gfflan (C, Chesham & Amersham). counter the arguments of an ungodly and m- Scientfe .i* v er Cromwell :> 1'- , • Royalist , dulgent cure in , 'C'? “I would like a direct Fox-hunt Ms Gillan had come out fighting. against question,” she demanded. What .would an Afr answer to a direct ' to the *'36,000 of oux brightest children who wffl be offer : happen their chance of private schooling when the ihe dis robbed" of vote places is abandoned? r ban assisted scheme Test contemptuous. They were not Blunkett was utterly ; from i Mr brightest exist m all bush v the brightest”, he retorted, “the concerned about the 3o,000, but attack schools.” So he was not just set to things have changed! glory, how , cancel all the 7 million. Glory, unworldliness of the Opposition was emphasised when cells t The Staffordshire) - a pleasant canid Sir Patrick Corraack (C, South architecture - chose tun but pompous expert on ecclesiastical id h \ /. dog Blair debating points ancient and routine , of the to make one of those Dr about education in Islington. . , inner-city London know? One resea Colin Brown But what did the knight of well he might cope lecturing - scare Chief Political Correspondent found oneself wondering how form 3W of Holloway Comprehensive on the beauties of rur- minutes. A ballot of MPs to introduce al churches. Td give him five Brady - the new Tbiy at Al- >. backbench Bills yesterday More down to earth. Graham combination of hair, muscles and & threatened to embarrass the trincham, whose irresistible ' < 'V- Andrew at his most virile V \\'?r > • A v ic/ Government by putting a vote teeth, puts one in mind of Prince would be safe rS~ on banning fox-hunting at the - asked whether grant-maintained schools .-*r -v- 'j:-.'. .• *. centre of Tony Blair’s test year under Labour. minister Estelle Moms. Ms Mor- IT' IV* ,4 in office. He was answered by new * i, the body MA r v A new Labour MP, Mike ris is deceptively frail and quiet-voiced, possessing Marceau. But she was Foster, 34, also discovered what of Edith Piaf, and the voice of Marcel I sufficiently sotto voce for us to miss her promising that it was like being the fox pursued not Labour”. All? Now, that’s Threatened species: A vote on banning fox-hunting could be put at the centre of Tony Blair's first year in office Photograph: Tom Pilston by the hounds, when his name ‘‘all schools will flourish under New * 1 first quite a claim. was picked out in place. _ As the only Labour MP in the Then a gently spoken dissident, Gerry Steinberg (Lab, City' i part of the Puritan revolution by first six names, he was seen as of Durham), questioned , the main hope for the anti-fox- asking whether it had really been necessary to publish the stigmati- hunting lobby finally to bring in list of 18 failing schools this week. Wouldn’t such the legislation for which they sation just reduce teacher morale? WECANT have been waiting years. Ms Morris, however, regretted rien. The publication, she Within minutes of coining tinkled, “gave a very strong message from the new govern- ballot, the new ment.” One ending (she didn't go on) in “off”. : A first in the MP for Worcester came under pres- My attention was then caught by the attempts of school One visit, and you! find out why / sure from three animal rights standards supremo Stephen Byers (brilliant but grim) to deal ' eVERYTONG YOU NEED charities to promote a Bill to with Minister's Neck. MN, as it is known, is caused by The hunting animals fact that so many MPs are Labour, and sit behind the min- The biggest range of ban all forms of © istere. with houndls. which they al- software in town. ready have in draft form. 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FRIDAY 23 MAY 1997 politics Britain in EU: Modernisation needed to oust elitism and waste Sinn Fein boosted by surge for ‘people’s Europe’ in votes Anthony Bevins was good, there was also much There was a good deal of un- mainland, Britain and Ireland Political Editor that was ted in the EU and that ease. he said, about the pace of would want to retain control David McJGHridc the haw paid insufficient integration, and there was no over their own immigration Ireland Correspondent attack An on the elitism of Eu- attention to the people”. question of the new government and asylum procedures. ropean Union leaders will be A spokesman suggested that allowing the national identity to A senior Whitehall source ex- Sinn Fein was the major bene- delivered by Tony Blair today at Mr Blairwould want to exploit be submerged in some kind of plained that while internal po- factor yesterday from a gener- his first summit, in the Dutch his position as a new Prime Min- European superstate. lice checks were common in the al rise in the nationalist vote in coastal town of Noordwijk. ister, elected with a massive ma- However, the Prime Minister rest of Europe, there were no Northern Ireland’s local coun- Having turned new Labour jority and deep interest in new understood that reform could identity cards in. the United cil elections, leaving Unionists into a “people's party*, and his Labour across Europe. He only be won through construc- Kingdom, and few internal con- in danger of losing overall con- government into the “people’s would want to use that interest tive debate; through "dialogue, trols. Controls were therefore trol of Belfast rity. council. government", Mr Blair now to Britain’s advantage. not war”. In substance, that required at border posts. Patterns emerging from the wants a modernisation of the Mr Blair was said to believe meant that while no hard deci- The only detailed change of first day of counting confirmed EU, to create what he calls a that more had to be done to sions would be taken today on policybetween the Coosetvative the general election trend of a "people’s Europe”. make people aware of the the draft treaty that it expected government and the new ad- significantly increased nation- The Prime Minister’s office benefits of Europe, and that the to be agreed at Amsterdam on ministration is on its attitude to- alist turnout in many of the 26 sard yesterday that he was ex- waste and inefficiency ofsystems 17 June, Britain would be say- wards formal European council areas. pected to tell the other heads such as the Common Agricul- ing that there would be no more arrangements forpeace-keeping While counting will not be of government at a special one- tural Policy (CAP) had to he British opt-outs - and it was not forces, which MrBlair wfll accept concluded until later today, Sinn day conference that Britain reformed. helpful to threaten vetoes. As for the Government’s Fein seemed to have sustained wanted a fresh start, with a more The spokesman added that As for detail, Britain would programme on Europe, the the surge which earlier this engaged and more constructive there was a sense that the elite insist that its borders were Prime Minister’s office said the month saw it capturing 16 per approach in pursuit of Britain’s was “driving the train", without sacrosanct, and that would have target was for a completion of cent of the vote. Overall, there national interests, as a major the people being aboard. Eu- to bewritten into any treaty that the single market within the next was little sign ofanv casing of the player, ending the years of im- rope had to explain better what came out of Amsterdam. WhDc .12 months; reform of CAP; extreme polarisation which has potence and defeatism. it was doing, and dose the gap there was no objection to com- enlargement; progress on com- marked Northern Ireland soci- But he would also be saying of understanding between the mon agreement between' the petitiveness; and more effective ety and political life. that while there was much that leadership and the people. member states on the European co-operation on foreign policy. John Hume's Social Democ- ratic and Labour Party accused Sinn Fein of vote-stealing in Londonderry in particular. One councillor. Mark Durkan, de- Danish clared: “What we’re seeing here over is that’s anger borders a surge coining through by manipulation and proxy votes on a wholesale scale.” This was denied by Sinn Fein. could let off the hook From the Unionist side came UK complaints that the whirlwind tour oftrouble spots undertaken Sarah Helm that it still fiercely objects to the bottom line on the Amsterdam humanitarian and peace-keep- on polling day by Mo Mowlam, Brussels more general plans to pool freaty tails, and British officials ing tasks, and opposes any Secretary of State for Northern powers in immigration andjus- are already talking confidently move to create a European Ireland, had given a boost to na- Tony Blair may be able to avoid tice fields. about smoothing the way to a defence separate from Nato. tionalist council candidates who a damaging dispute at today’s Yesterday, however, it sud- satisfactory deal. “We are not AH Europe's neutral states were pictured with her. Noordwijk summit over sharing denly emerged that Denmark saying it's a done deal, but we back Britain on defence and the Ulster Unionist Party MP immigration and justice policy, could let Britain off the hook. are quite confident,” said one Franco-German plan is already Ken Magjnnis accused her of thanks to new Danish warnings The latest proposals on power- Foreign Office source. being watered down. “unforgivable direct interfer- that it may have to veto the sharing have angered Den- In addition to immigration Current plans to allow some ence” in the election, adding: “If entire proposal. mark, which already argues and justice, British officials member states to share powers there has been a deliberate in- Efforts to secure new joint that it could not accept them point to three other outstand- “flexibility’’ - or at a different fringement of the electoral sys- powers to pass immigration without holding a referendum. ing problems which must be pace to others, are currently tenfthen there may be grounds laws and oversee frontier con- As a result European officials resolved: defence, flexibility opposed by the Government, for asking that the whole process trols have brought the Labour were last night back at the. and fish quota-hopping. but officials predict that a com- be declared null and void." government dose to serious drawing boards and some offi- France and Germany are promise formula would not be Jim Rodgers, a UUP coun- confrontation with its Euro- cials predicted that the entire proposing major new poweis for hard to achieve. cillor. lamented the compara- pean Union partners, and the proposal would have to be the EU over defence, suggest- In return for compromise in tively poor Protestant turnout, issue is expected to overshad- re-worked- ing that the Western European some of these areas, Britain is claiming:. “People on the ow today’s talks on the new Eu- “It is all a mess. I don’t Union, Europe’s de facto de- asking for a protocol which Unionist side of our communi- ropean treaty. know, at this stage if we can find fence arm, should become a would curb the practice of fish- ty are absolutely demoralised. Although Mr Blair has been a solution.” said one European mmi-Nalo, incorporated into ing vessels quota-bopping. “They tell us on the assured that Britain can main- Commission source. the EU structure. Thlks in Brussels this week doorsteps that they are tired [of] tain its internal frontier checks, The Noordwijk summit will Britain, however, argues that produced major progress on voting, that the only people the the Government is expected to give Mr Blair his first chance to the EU should only have pow- quota-hopping, opening up the Buttonholed: Alexander Taylor, four, who has made a recovery from cancer, presents Tony Government pays attention to teU other member states today set out iris new government’s ers to dispatch troops for way to the Amsterdam deal. Blair with a blue starftower, symbol of today's National Cancer Day Photograph: Sean Demsey are the terrorists.'’ Switch to and well write off If you owe up to ^3,000 on your credit cards and store cards you'd be better off switching to Bardaycard. Up to £150 better off. Transfer the lot to Bardaycard and we’ll immediately write off 5% of the % amount you owe. 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Office; 54 lombard Street EC3P3AH. , TTPTfiAV 23 MAY 1997 * THE INDEPENDENT 8 news In Dublin's fair city: Hungry and homeless, a Romanian woman - young child In her arms - begs on the streets after joining the flood of refugees Into the Irish capital Photograph: T eyes aren't Eamonn Farrell tl smiling on < the great s • Jeremy f^ | Health E ==Scientis lure in Romanian against an Afri offer a the dist Tests tl invasion from bushw attacks Courts,’' says Nadette Foley of the ; :V Welfare decades of economic decline, Ireland at Roscoff moments before they were Italy and bad been brought to Brit- has gone from a trickle to a flood, expected by December. cancer Alan Murdoch foreign Irish Refugee Council charity. .. arrivals this year has only recently attracted Ireland. It was tany by German drivers, according to with more than 100 new arrivals each sources say total new cells tf Dublin to board a ferry for An official pmmise of improvedjBr * local authori- immigrants. discovered they were travelling un- French immigration officials. week. Dublin now faces having to is Dearer 2^00. Irish to material^, - can kil agencies and the Eastern ception facilities failed Dublin welfare office had to cope with 20.000 refugees in five ties have a statutory responsibility to Refugee Ireland is facing a refugee crisis, with der false Spanish passports pur- In a staff last Tuesday . id tum are asking for more prompting welfare each. close when gardai were called to re- years’ time. house the homeless. Health Board of the hostels and welfare offices inundat- chased for the equivalent of £64 refuse to work in another cramped < .say funds and for the burden of provid- to ' eastern At a special hearing in Moriaixthis store order after a crowd of refugees The largest single group are Ro- Irish Government sources Dr' ed by an influx of European public office. They began sending refugees the largest group, ing aid to be shared by more the six adults were remanded who had been queuing from 7am bat- manians, many of them gypsies. Romanians form : reseai migrants taking advantage of the week the justice minister's office and i-. also coming services. to country’s liberal immigration laws. in custody and the children placed tered down the door. They became Every day, women and small children with lesser numbers searcl you just four EHB headquarters. angry on the service could can be seen begging with handwrit- from other eastern European coun- “Until January had rator The possibility of criminal in- in care. learning Dublin’s problems may become and Nigeria. community welfare officers dealing illegal trade Three more Romanian women ac- not cope with all of them that day. ten notes in pidgin English. tries. Zaire, Somalia Hosp volvement in an was critical when summer tourists fifl. Vietnamese im- with all the Dublin homeless and indicated by the arrests of 34 Rom- companied by two children were also In the chaos that followed, a num- Asylum-applications shot up from While Italian and drug' in the city's hotels, leaving no space for migrant communities exist in Ireland, newly arrived asylum -seekers an have- anians in northern France. Six cou- arrested at Cherbourg last Friday. ber of children were trampled oo- 1,179 in the whole of last year to 1,300 small. After awful premises beside the Four refugees. . -> than ples with 17 children were detained They were using passports stolen in The flow of refugees into Ireland since January, with a total of 4.000 their numbers are solid very It o\ veloj ing At Granada, you can get Debate renewed on Can opei A pres tion enigma of chronic fess oft! sea- fatigue syndrome Jeremy Laurence Health Editor No illness inspires stronger pas- brand kitchen sions than chronic fatigue syn- drome - which is the fnst oddity appliances for about a condition that suppos- edly leaves its victims exhaust- ed. Sufferers and doctors dis- agree vehemently over its cause, its treatment and even its name. The claim this week that halfof schoolchildren on long-term sickness absence from school are suffering from it will re-ignite the debate. The disease, if that Is what it is, has claimed prominent figures including the Duchess of Kent, ME sufferers: Duchess of Kent (left) and Clare Francis who declared herself a victim last December; Esther Disease and myaigjc en- for ME. criticised the report for Rantzen's daughter; and Oare cephalomyelitis (ME). Patients’ being biased towards psychiatric than you think. Francis, the former round-the- groups, such as the ME Asso- factors. But they welcomed the world yachtswoman, who has ciation, claim organic factors - recognition that it was a seri- since worked tirelessly to possibly a virus - play an im- ously debilitating condition that publicise it portant role, because in many was poorly understood and Chronic fatigue syndrome is cases the condition develops fol- poorly managed by doctors. a portmanteau term used by lowing a viral illness. However, Professor Simon Wessley, a h won’t tost you an arm and a leg With no deposit to pay, easy doctors to describe a condition, many doctors believe the caus- psychiatrist at King’s College the cause of which is not un- es to be primarily psychological. Hospital London, said research derstood. It is defined as severe To resolve the dispute, the was now focusing on why some or any other part Of your anatomy to monthly payments and a sendee disabling fatigue lasting at least Royal Colleges of Physicians, people were vulnerable to the six months made worse ty phys- Psychiatrists and General condition. Four research groups ical or mental exertion and for Practitioners established a in the UK studying brain func- at that’s second to none, ft’s ktt out your kitdien Granada. back-up which no adequate medical working party to examine the tion had found the same pattern v : - * explanation can be found. Up issue. In a report last October of low levels of the stress hor- understandable why those with a bit to 2.5 per cent of the popula- they - sought to bridge the mone. cortisol and increased tion - over one million people gap between the opposing serotonin function. This was a - are believed to be affected camps by declaring that the con- mirror image of depression, more un too rent from Granada. by it. dition could not be considered characterised by high levels of Once named “yuppie flu", but. as primarily physical or psy- cortisol and decreased sero- since dropped as both deroga- chological but had aspects of tonin. “It suggests chronic tory and inaccurate us all social both. fatigue syndrome is related HotDQim Aquarius classes are affected, it has been Patient groups, including the to, but not the same as. de- £15*99 per month variously called Persistent Virus ME Association and Action pression." 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V I THE INDEPENDENT • FRIDAY 23 MAY 1997 d*j)J t> MSo news Hiup rf *MfW - ' ,d aW Help us, plead Britain’s ^"vs. athletes, or we’ll never scale the heights again Pfrt Butcher .«£ governing bodies]”, breakdown Gavin Stewart, the coramis- of trust (ditto)", “frustration" sion’s chair, a “subsistence lev- The recent suggestion to take and “irrelevant decisions”. el" £9,000. the “Great** out of Great However, the report might It is also two months' late Bntain has long been a foregone have had more impact if more which, as Mr Stewart pointed conclusion in Olympic terms. than the 62 per cent of the out, “might be OK if you’re As the British Olympic As- Olympic squad who responded building sports facilities, but not sociation Athletes’ Comrois- baa got involved. None the if you’ve got to put food on the sion report published yesterday less, it is a timely follow up to table". He added: “Income lev- notes without irony: “It is up- yesterday’s news of Lottery els fbrsportspeople are well be- ward of 70 years . since Britain funding for major Olympic low the UK. average, and more was what could be described as sports, which however welcome, so among women”. a major Olympic power. . Not as virtually all present at yes- Mr Stewart, Ms Stapleton, since 1924 have we won more On her knees: Hurdler Sally Gunnell Shares British today's launch pointed out, is Mr Ridgeon and the BOA’s than six golds at an Olympics.” frustration at the Olympics Photograph: Gary Prior going to work out at substan- chairman Craig Recdie were all In short, the Chariots of Fire daily less than the possible upbeat about Britain's medal were not on their way to glory, ment abroad, until such time as the state of play. The report is £28,000 per annum to filite potential m Sydney if the right but to perdition. the promised British Academy peppered with comments such practitioners mooted before (financial) moves were made, The problem is, of course, of Sport came on line, another as “there is no national strate- Christmas. but,but. few doubt that we shall be money, or rather, the lack ofiL bone of contention. gy”, “short-term solution".solution”, The reality is going to be dos- making another Odyssey to Britain came back from the Rower ‘ Annamarie Staple- “poor communication [with er to, in the terminology of central London in 2001. Ffip side: High jumper Steve Smith, who won silver at Atlanta Photograph: David Ashdown •* Olympic Games in Atlanta last ton, one of the report's authors, summer with one gold medal described the extraordinary cir- and an overdraft cumstance of a “fortuitous According to the commission accident” funding her Olympic survey, 51 per cent of those campaign- Had she not re- returning from team duty in ceived compensation after be- Georgia, did so with average ing hit by a tony on a pedestrian debts of £3.400. crossing in October 1993, “I For the women, who made up might not have been able to af- 40 per cent of the team, the debt ford my preparation". was higher - about £5,000- The British Olympic Associ- 6 . £ , 000 ation (BOA) has always been Athlete DON’T Jon Ridgeon, one of strapped for funding, ON unlike YOUR and GAMBLE the many Olympians present at most other First World coun- yesterday’s launch in central tries has not in Lbe past been giv- London, admitted that injury en many concessions, let alone had put him into debt “way in cash from central government excess of those figures”, most- So the BOA was happy yester- ly, Mr .Ridgeon pointed out, day to back up what is essentially since he bad had to find treat- a participants’ forthright view of TURLT PS DAILY POEM -tf-s Hungry Thames Petrol By Helen Dunmone Trimmer 28cc Engine Hungry Thames, I walk over the bridge half-scared you.11 whittle me down 38cm (15") Cutting Swathe where the brown water is eager £29-99* and tipped with foam. 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Citing last year's trates to end with young offenders. a Commission report. Misspent fectively adjournment culture" in which praised the which found that only 17 The association neither offenders nor lawyers Youth, offenders Government’s proposal for ju- be disposed of, per cent of young expect cases to to receive one final sentenced at first hearing. veniles or even make progress, at the were warning instead of . repeated Lord Irvine says in the letter initial hearing. but added: "Apparent “About half the time taken to cautions, In a letter to chairmen of caused by offender oc- delays are sometimes courts throughout Eng- deal with a young youth the demands of justice and the he encourages curs before first listing in the land and Wales, recognised right of the defen- of youth court and we will be tak- jps, who are independent advice." reduce that time dant to seek legal that “wherever ing steps to government, Fuller, the associa- dramatically. However, the oth- Anne possible and consistent with' tion's chairwoman, said: “We they er half of the time occurs after the interests of justice’' change but all against 1 the case has reached the youth are not greater pro- ‘ of h ' s 01051 famous should sentence a well l -' magistrates wish to see a - a -v y^tXTuTm: tostagesowe first hearing court." portion of cases at practical and fuD re- Lord Irvine promised mag- considered, and be more critical of appli- mea- in ad- view, not quick patchwork original lwn cenm. full consultation reconstructed on the : cations for adjournments. istrates plays, has now been fully j _ White sures.” Where an adjournment ap- vance of an autumn on changes in the youth pears unavoidable, magistrates Paper and the promised Crime should be ready to question the courts, Bill, which will en- amount of time needed before and Disorder fast-track punishment the next hearing and set a clear shrine create new sentencing timetable for the remaining ac- in law, powers for courts and establish tion, the letter says. inter-agency partne rships jps should also “consider local tackling and controlling of- very carefully” whether a pre- for behaviour. sentence report is always nec- fending initiative follows the an- essary. “Speed is essential," The on Wednesday by Lord Irvine says. “Delay dis- nouncement the Home Secretary, connects the offence from the Jack Straw, Youth punishment and may waste of the establishment of a made up of months of the young person’s Justice "Risk Force, from the police, * development." representatives and social services Cutting the time from arrest probation government departments to to sentence for persistent young and planned shake-up offenders was a manifesto advise on his “ ! goes BRAzmm BOOKS, ARTS, TRAVEL PRICES PLUS B&Q's KEY SEASON WIN mafln Iaw. low uncus on the AWEEK FOR TWO IN wont NOW RIO products you TESCO tomorrow only in “Your lawn will PLUS DOUBLE CLUBCARD POINTS long weekend in the look greener This Friday, this Saturday, Sunday days with & Monday | Fast acting TESCO ! 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Burns is expected to he named US Eraeral IS? election Mr Ladcr’s age, his successful Ambassador to Greece, adminis- over and the Clmton adminkira- business career mainly devel- tration tion slowly — officials said yesterday. assembling its sec- - ona-teim oping leisure complexes and his Mr Burns, 41, was being con- appointments, a close a^xaate policy interests seem to equip sidered as ambassador to the of the president oeen has him well to represent the US in Ccech Republic but (hat posting mooted as the next US am- New Labour Britain. was not going to be available un- bassador to London, to succeed The one question mark over his til 1998, while Greece Wilham Crowe. the posting . The name in the political loyalties might be his is available later this summer, iraiiie is that of Philip Lader seven-year sting as executive vice- officials said. ouren tly head of the Small Busi- president of Sir James Gold- One source said Secretary of ng Administration that dispenses smith's US holding company, State Madeleine Albright had millions of dollars worth of gov- GOSL Land and Assets Manage- pushed hard for Mr Burns’ ap- ernment money and advice to ment. His single attempt to enter pointment to Athens. She has American entrepreneurs. politics, when he stood lor the gov- said that the dispute between Mr Lader, at 51, is a Clinton crnershjp of his native South Car- Greece and Turkey about Cyprus contemporary, a fellow southern- olina, came to nothing. is among the regional problems on er, and something of a political The White House would not which she wants to focus. soulmate - he and his wife, Lin- confirm or deny Mr Ladens like- Mr Burns has been Slate De- oa LeSourd Lader, started -Re- ly nomination yesterday, but a partment spokesman since Janu- naissance Weekends**, the New colleague ofhis at the Small Busi- ary 1 995. He was appointed by the Year policy discussions attended ness Administration confirmed then Secretary of Stale \terren regularly by the Clintons. In Bin that he had been approached Christopher and has been serving Clinton’s first term, Mr Lader was about an ambassadorial appoint- Ms Albright temporarily until she deputy chief of staff at the While ment, but did not know which. names House. a permanent spokesman, British diplomatic sources in Wash- expected to be James Rubin, Like one Mr Clinton, Mr Lader is ington could not confirm his nom- of her closest aides. Before his up- a graduate of Harvard law school ination either, but they noted he ointment as spokesman, Mr and also spent two years at Oxford hud been to dinner with the am- gurns, a career diplomat, was se- (Pembroke College, where he is an bassador in rceenl weeks and de- nior adviser at the National Secu- honorary fellow). Before taking up scribed him approvingly as haring rity Council on Russiu and other his first White House appointment. “strong **. links with Britain former Soviet slates. 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On rrgtosnd before 3intf7 an tubjea fo an xtditiaful payment of II$. •itarflM custtw utbtonfan quastfemutos. / — INDEPENDENT^ 23 MAY 1997 • THE international Yeltsin sacks defence chief rm over reforms PHI Reeves among officers, soldiers being workingwithout a script- Before Moscow treated for malnutrition, mass last year’s presidential elec- draft-dodging, moonlighting, tion, a vote-seeking Mr Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin has taken on his theft, and embezzlement and announced plans to turn hiscon- own militatyby sacking two top bribery among the senior ranks. script army into an all-profes- defence officials, including the Chief among the reasons for sional force by the end of the popular Minister of Defence, the minister’s lack of progress century - a target that is re- garded' unrealistic. But his Igor Rodionov, for foiling to . was shortage of money. Cutting as make any headway in reform- armies is costly; equipment has government has yet to compile ing Russia’s vast, tottering to be replaced, and 1 aid-off sol- a blueprint outlining its overall armed forces. diers are entitled to pensions and military strategy. The dismissals came as the 20 months’ redundancy pay. Yet Moreover, the Russian Se- president delivered a ferocious, this year, the Russian Defence curity Council has only just and evidently choreographed, Ministry was facing a budget of completed work on a national televised bawling-out to the 83 trillion roubles (£8.8bn), no security concept. “It was asking two in front of top officials at a greater than last year’s. the impossible of Rodionov to meeting of the Defence Coun- produce cuts bn the ground, cil. He was, he complained, when he had no concept, no “indignant? over the lack of re- blueprint, to work with Mr form and the state of his armed Yeltsin is making him pay the forces: “The soldier is losing penalty for foiling to cany out weight while the general is get- reforms that can only be ting fatter." achieved by the president him- general self," said one Western analyst Mr Rodionov, a career - ' turned civilian minister, was In part Mr Rodionov was the SbShl -TWgLH?:? Photograph: Reuters together on Wednesday as they prepare fired after only 10 months in one author of his own downfall. Safety in numbers: Argentine border guards huddling of the toughest jobs in the coun- His outspoken attacks on try, after the presidency itself. Kremlin policy, and his clashes Perhaps significantly, his act- with the president’s top de- significant shorts ing replacement was named as fence adviser, Yuri Baturin, an- General Igor Sergeyev, the head gered Mr Yeltsin. In February, tire minister warned that personal of the elite strategic rocket Rus- Le Pen’s forces -part of the armed forces sia could lose control of its vast parties finally that may become the nucleus of nuclear arsenal, such was the fi- Albanian Russia's overhauled military in Igor Rodionov: Armed forces nancial crisis. rules the future. The other sacking was still In chaos “The whole horror of the agree election thing is that as Russia's defence Front with the the chiefof the general staff the puts to ahead strategy parties have agreed go Albania’s political was ap- minister I a spectator of the number two in the army, Gen- When Mr Rodionov am general election called for 29 June following a deal last August, the process of destruction in the eral Viktor Samsonov. pointed on reconciling President Sali Berisha’s Democratic Party and army, and cannot anything Mr Yeltsin's accusations were urging of Alexander Lebed, do the opposition, after intense international pressure. The certainly founded on fact, al- then Mr Yeltsin's prot£g£ and about it," he told reporters. Fed opposition parties agreed to recognise the electoral law there with frequent public risk though they may be seen as un- security supremo, was a up com- candidates at Democratic Party steam-rollered through parliament by the fair by many in the military. Mr sharp Intake of breath in the plaints, Mr Yeltsin eventually or- last week. In return. President Berisha agreed to relinquish West was widely blamed for dered him to “stop whining*’. Rodionov achieved almost no He his right to nominate the country’s local and national elect- lives Sovi- Mr Rodionov’s sacking ap- Jean Marie Le Pen has been his wife, Catherine, was reforms, and what did happen the loss of 19 when Snap election is electoral commissions —a major concession since the role the ed mayor in February. Mr Le - the axing, for instance, of an et troops suppressed a pro- in- pear to mark another step in the playing his favourite in overwhelming presence of Democratic Party officials' at intermediate level ofcommand dependence protest in Georgia rapid ascendancy ofMr Yeltsan’s the French parliamentary elec- exposing bitter Pen could find no constituency polling stations in last year's elections was a major cause of reformers, Boris tion campaign: the loose cannon. which offered the same chances in the air force and cuts to the in 19S9. But his hardliner rep- two young for the commissions will now divide in fanlight. decided not to vote-ngging. Responsibility elite forces - utation quickly dissolved. Last Nemtsov and Anatoly Chubais, On this occasion, however, of success. He paratrooper was rest with the all-party national unity government illogical. who have been presang hard for his substantial and unpre- run, rather than fail in Mr Me- piecemeal and even night. Western sources por- John Lichfield Franz Vranitzky, the international envoy who helped gret’s moment of triumph. If anything, the chaos in the trayed him as an honest official, military reforms. Yesterday the dictable bulk menaces several yesterday the parties had reports from Paris con- broker the llth-hour deal, said still soldier's soldier was be- two prime ministerswere of the candidates best placed to The dozen or more Russian armed forces, reel- a who deputy also equal access to the media. Andrew Gumbel derid- agreed on ing from -their humfliation in ing scapegoated by Mr Yeltsin. appointed to the Security Coun- win seats for his own far-right stituencies which may be by a run-off between the Chechnya, worsened. Reports They pointed out that the de- cil. one of the key forums for de- National Front (FNj. cast the FN score as a compar- ed the left in- opposition demands role poured in of increased suicides fence minister was, in effect. fence policy-making. • Mr Le Pen has been going atively static 13-15 per cent but National front and Congo under-count the clude Mr Mfigret’s in VitroHes around singing the praises of the pollsters tend to The opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo vote. Anecdotal evi- (which is not goingas well for the Socialist leader. Lionel Jospin, far-right campaigned for a role in the new government, promised by the country as expected). But other cam- and urging FN voters, at all dence from around NF self-prodaimed president Laurent Kabila. Student potentially damaged by costs, not to re-elect the present suggests that it may be higher. paigns supporters of opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi “triangular" ' Le Pen's comments include centre-right government over The number of Mr threatened to take to the streets by Monday if their hero is arrested loyalists, in- Electricians those of his own second round, in- the next two weekends. contests in the not named prime minister. volving the left, centre-right cluding the strong challenge in Sound long-term strategy to As part of moves to choose his new team, Mr Kabila pattern Toulon ofJean-Marie Le Chaval- sow confusion in the French po- and FN, and the of arranged a meeting with Mr Tshisekedi who has an army transfers votes in other lier, the FN mayor of the city. litical system? Maybe, but Mr of FN of fanatical supporters in the slums of Kinshasa. Le Pbn has also sown confusion constituencies, will largely de- “Le Pen’s comments are a over Venice opera fire Hundreds have been camping in solidarity outside Mr cide the outcome ofthe election. stab in the back," one FN can- in his own ranks. As many as 15 Tshisekedi's home. Their leaders worked the crowd to a arithmetic is mind-twisting didate told the investigative FN candidates hope to quality The frenzy with speeches, reminding Mr Kabila that their own in straight but'fifencb psephologists believe newspaper Le Canard En- Andrew Gumbel from the city council. The pros- events, but according to the two for the second round campaign paved the way for last Saturday's overthrow of contests with Socialist or an FN first-round score in the chains. “There will be a settling Rome ecution believes the company men's lawyers the discrepancy Com- dictator Mobutu Sese Seko by Mr Kabila’s alliance forces. preferred to destroy La Fenice was for from concrete evidence munist opponents. They have region of 17 per cent will se- of scores after the election." Reuters - Kinshasa More than 15 months after La' altogether rather than risk its of their clients' guilt. been infuriated by Mr Le Pen’s verely damage the government's Why did Mr Le Pen do It? It Fenice, the Venice opera house, own livelihood. “The prosecution’s case is comments, which could cost chances of re-election. could be argued that it would if were was reduced to a smouldering Prosecutors have suspected one big logical hypothesis, with them the few hundred votes that What the snap election has re- serve the FN best France Swiss denies prolonging war wreck, prosecutors have con- arson for some time, although nothing solid behind it," one may be the margin between vealed, as the government had plunged into a muddled period Switzerland yesterday denied that its business deals with cluded that the fire was started until recently they were specu- lawyer told reporters. success and failure on the sec- hoped, is the bitterness ofthe in- ofco-habitation between a cen- Nazi Germany prolonged the Second World War. deliberately by the owners ofan lating that the fire might have Fires have a nasty babit of ond weekend of voting. ternal rivalries within the Na- tre-right president and a ma- In response to a critical US report this month, the Swiss electrical company more con- been the work of an organised breaking out in prestigious With two days to the first tional From. For only the second jority left-wing parliament and - government acknowledged some “questionable deals” with cerned about then own balance crime group. A number of ba- buildings in Italy just as restora- round, here is one of the many time in a political career span- government. But it would also the Axis powers. But it rejected portrayal of neutral sheet than the fate of one of the sic safety rules had been vio- tion work is reaching its con- paradoxes of an extremely odd ning 40 years, Mr Le Pen is not serve the party quite well to have Switzerland as “bankers to the Nazis” and said there was city’s architectural jewels. lated, and none of the opera clusion. Last month, the chapel French election. The National standing in any constituency. He a half-dozen members in the na- no need to reopen a post-war treaty'on the return of looted Magistrates yesterday or- house’s fire alarms or sprinklers containing the Turin Shroud was Front is in unprecedented pub- is the only party leader to refuse tional assembly. The suspicion gold bought from Hitler's Germany. Reuters - Berne dered the arrest of two men, managed to work once the fire ravaged by flames at the end of lic disarray: Mr Le Pen’s com- to face the electorate. within FN ranks is that Mr Le Massimiliano Marchetti and began raging. a two-year restoration pro- ments have been disavowed by He chose not to run. ac- Pen detested the idea of such a Enrico Garella, both working for Marcbctti and CareUa told gramme. several leading FN figures. And cording to Front insiders and parliamentary group, led by The ploy of sex a small family firm hired to magistrates that they had left In 199 L the Petruzzelli yet the disillusion of the elec- Prom watchers, because of his Mr Migret. which might pro- rewire La Fenice as part of a the building at $30 on the theatre in Bari, in southern torate is so profound that the ul- growing obsession with, and gressively marginalise him. Chinese researchers are racking their brains to make major restoration programme. night of the fire, but other wit- Italy, met a similar fate - an af- tra-right party may still score hatred for, his defacto number Mr Le Pen is a keen yachts- endangered giant pandas enjoy”and engage in sex. According to judicial sources, nesses saw them leaving half an fair now believed to have been well enough on Sunday to hold two, Bruno Megret. Mr Megret man. One observer of the FN “Researchers are studying techniques of enhancing the 1 the CareDa company was at least hour later. inspired by intrigues in the lo- the key to the outcome of the is widely expected to win in Vit- said he was behaving like a sexual desire and performance [of pandas],* Xinhua news two months behind schedule That missing half-hour was cal worlds of politics and or- second round on 1 June. The fi- rolles, the constituency he has sailor. "To avoid being de- agency said. Reuters - Peking and risked incurring heavy fines crucial to the sequence of ganised crime. nal published opinion poDs fore- nursed near Marsenics, where moted, he's reducing sail." East German jobs pledge AND AS THE NEW PRIME YER HONOUR, HAY 1 MINISTER SAYS, THOSE IN SO, AS MY SERVANT, t REMIND THE COURT GOVERNMENT “ARE THE HEREBY ORPER YOU TO Imre Karacs Unlike the billions sunk into dering local goods. The unions pled by the world's highest THAT HOH& KOU& tS FIX ME A CHEESE SERVANTS Of THE PEOPLE, Bonn the former Communist cast in complete the new deal by STILL A BRITISH COLONY. THE MASTERS.* SANDWICH, WAR THE pledg- labour costs. NOT the seven years since FLOOR AND, HEY, THESE unification, ing moderate wage claims. “This.is a good signal for the UNDIES NEED A WASHING-. unions, government new Trade and investment would aim to re- Although average produc- development of east Germany, business leaders came togeth- generate industry, rather than tivity in the east is only half of for the future of the whole of er in Berlin yesterday to re- fuel the boom in empty offices western levels, eastern wages Germany as a place to do busi- launch east Germany’s faltering and trendy shops. govern- The now match those in the west in ness. and also a clear signal of economy, pledging to create ment will provide grams for the many sectors, whilst unem- readiness to co-operate,” Mr 100,000 new jobs every year. manufacturing sector, subsi- ployment, at 17.5 per cent, is Kohl said, fixing his eyes on the Returning ro the region be dising up to per cent of the 10 nearly twice the western rate. union bosses who had flown in once promised to transform cost of new equipment, and up To economists, those statis- from the west to sign the pact into a “blossoming landscape". to per cent in the case 20 of tics need no explaining, but the Dieter Schulte, bead of the Chancellor Helmut Kohl spoke small and medium-sized firms. unions had never before ac- German Federation of Trade this lime modestly of a fresh In return for continued pub- cepted the argument that high Unions, said: “Many people in start. “This is an important day lic commitment, the east's busi- wage levels ought cause unem- the east feel like second dass cit- for the New Linder ness and sector promises to spend ployment. 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THE INDEPENDENT FRIDAY 23 MAY 1997 \u* \&p 15 international Faces of resistance behind the wire Mustapha Hammoud, Mohamed Ahmed Youssef Farouk Ailadin, AH Belhas, from Zohair Karam, 26, Qasem Hassan Jamal Mahroum, a Hizbollah member el-Nayerat, aged 70, a 28-year-old Fatah Siddlqin, southern a Palestinian from a Sulleman, 26, Lebanese guerrilla, serving 25 years In serving a life sentence member, was sentenced Lebanon, a Hizbollah refugee camp in Tripoli, a Palestinian from Ein poses with an Ashkelon prison, Israel, for killing a Jewish to 25 years after his member captured sentenced to life for el-Hefweh camp in unsuspecting British for attacking Israeli settler. Has spent the capture during a failed during an attack on trying to penetrate the Lebanon, sentenced to tourist in front of the occupation troops in past 30 years in boat attack off southern Israeli occupation Israeli occupation zone 20 years for trying to Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, southern Lebanon. Has Ashkelon prison Lebanon troops in southern in southern Lebanon, penetrate Israeli a day before he was served nine years of ' a Lebanon. Sentenced to en route to an in occupied zone in captured sentence handed down attack with a car-load life imprisonment, he Israel. He has served southern Lebanon en of PLO weapons by at military court in Lod has served four years six years. route to attack in Israel. Israeli troops. He spent Has served six years. 11 years in Israeli jails. A snapshot of life inside the secret world of Israel’s the mortgage amt Palestinian prisons Some to life’s of them are smiling con- photographs taken of them- adapts fidently, others stare hopelessly They have murdered and run selves after Israeli prison guards into the camera lens, men like imposed a five-year ban on 70-year-old guns, but some are in jail You start a family. You change your job. You Palestinian Mo- snapshots. The pictures of pris- hamed Ahmed el-Nayerat, sen- illegally and their political oners from Lebanon are paid set up your own business. You face unforeseen tenced to life imprisonment for by the Red Cross - Pales- organisation continues, writes bills. With a Legal General Flexible Reserve for killing a Jewish settler and tinian inmates from the West & burying his body in concrete. He Robert Fisk in Beirut Bank and Gaza must ask their mongage, you don't have to worry about worked for the Popular Front families to pay - but more than for Liberation ofPalestine and photographs are being sent out changes in your life. Because it allows you to pay has spent 30 years in Israel's of Ashkelon. in mote when you can afford to and gives you prisons. His features seem dead, of Fatah and the PFLP within troops hostage. One of them Jamal Mahroum, who spent those of a man who knows he Israel's top security jail. died in the ensuing Israeli at- 11 years in Israeli jails - In- the chance to barrow back up to the will never leave jail alive. A few have Men foul ofthen- tack. Ailadin was luckier; he cluding Ashkelon - for PLO Some are younger, like 30- own comrades. Qasam Sulie- lived to he sentenced to 25 yeans gun-running in the West Bank, loan amount when you need it - without year-old Hizbollah memberAfi man, a 26-year-old Palestinian in prison. now helps to run an ex-prison- , or penally. You’ll also benefit from an Belhas, sentenced to life for at- sentenced to 20 years for trying Ahmed Sami Ismail of the ers committee in Lebanon. tacking Israel’s occupation to attack Israel’s occupation Lebanese Communist party has • “We've just had a note from one interest rate and no hidden costs- Plus, well forces inside southern Lebanon; zone in southern Lebanon, was only 12 of his 20-year sentence ofthe men m Ashkelon that two give you to help cover y-our legal he has spent just four years in brutally beaten by fetafa pris- to endure; he was captured as Lebanese prisoners there are £?50 the high security Ashkelon oners when his brother- one of he tried to kidnap Israeli sol- being used as spies by the Is- prison in central Israel, fitted out Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Lib- diers from southern Lebanon. raelis," he says. “So Tm going Call Legal & General today and change your with a false leg to take the place eration Organisation officers Mustapha Hammoud - pic- to see theirfamilies In Lebanon " 5 mortgage, not your lifestyle. of the one he lost when an Is- in the Ein el-Helweh refugee tured like a Hizbollah “martyr this weekend. Til tell them that raeli helicopter pilot fired sev- camp in Lebanon - abandoned with a circle of yellow flowers relatives.of prisoners are enti- eral bullets into his foot as he Mr Arafat's cause for the around his head - has served tled to be paid by our organi- tried to rescue a wounded fel- Hizbollah’s protection. Siilie- nine years of a 25-year sentence sation and then 111 gently let low guerrilla. He may smile man, who appears in his snap- for attacking Israeli occupa- them know that their sons are jauntily for his relatives back shot with a cigarette in his tion soldiers. working for the Israelis. If I find home in the south Lebanese vil- hand, has since moved to cells Nor are all these sentences le- that the families have been al- - lage of Siddiqin but he has occupied by members of the gal under international law lowed to visit their sons in Is- General carefully hidden his false left leg radical Palestinian Islamic Jihad which permits armed resistance rael, we’ll know for sure they are from the camera. More than 30 movement to foreign occupation, a cate- spies. But we think that if the members of his family were Belhas is not the only pris- gory into which most of the parents can be persuaded to tell slaughtered last year when Is- oner with a missing leg. Youssef Hirirollah prisoners fall The their sons to stop spying on the rael bombarded the United Farouk Ailadin, a 28-year-old men captured in Lebanonwere other prisoners, then the boys ZET-xg Nations base at Qana, in which Palestinian from Jordan, lost his taken across the Israeli border will stop. We can get the par- they had sought protection. foot after he was wounded by to be sentenced before Israeli ents’ message to Ashkelon.” The inmates' photographs - another machine-gun-firing Is- military courts, in violation of' Stool-pigeons - the prisoners a rare look into the secret world raeli helicopter. Spotted as he the Geneva conventions. Even call them asfouraat (birds) in of Israel’s prisons - were sent tried to rail down the Lebanese inside' their jafi, they have gone . Arabic - are forgiven by fejOow to' families in Jordan and coast near the Israeli bonier, he on hunger strike for improve- inmates if they publiclyTepent Lebanon, along with letters landed his boat near the UN ments in their conditions, in- in front of their comrades. carried by the International headquarters, taking several cluding the right to have Jamal Mahroum has reason Red Crass, Israel forbids the to -feel strongly about spies in the ranks. He was captured men to be. photographed in Israel's new UN ambassador by Israeli undercover in ’ “ »-“* /•-: ••• * >' * their regulation prison uni- troops C* f: 5 2*.vS.; h forms and prison walls must not As relations between Israel and the US turn sour, Benjamin Ne- 1983 after being betrayed by a Israeli prime minister, has appointed Dora Gold, his appear in the snapshots. So the tanyahu, the Palestinian near RamaUah. Just policy adviser; to the Israeli ambassador to.the UN In Ashkelon pose for foreign be a day before -while his car-load 0500 90 90 90 lifers of r New York, a post he himself used to launch his political career, !jrii - Spin Monday in F.-kLuv, - Ij-.r.i Srmirajy. their relatives in T-shirts and of guns was parked a few me- writes Patrick Cockbum. - the walls behind them tres away he bad posed for a jeans, Dr Gold, 43, fs an assertive academic with an American back- Cull now, quoting rrjkniuf SEEHM car- • snapshot at the Wailing Wall in draped in flower-patterned ground who has advised Mr Netanyahu about foreign poGcy, but or talk toyour fbhtiidal adviser Jerusalem along with an un- pets or sheets, looking for all the has made wily limited contributions of his own towards the for- world - some of them - like mation of Israeli foreign policy. He will be replaced by Ito Arad, suspecting British tourist. Tbday, Intelligence or- it has pride of place in his guest workers or young men-.' the head of research in Mossed, the Israeli foreign ganisation. - scrapbook, a gun-runner who posing for pre-marriage snap- •’ Mr Netanyahu had been criticised for not appointing a perma- does not even know the name Farther information on Legal & General products is available on' our website http://www-legal-and-generaLco.uk shots. But the only marriage m Israeli ambassador to the UN, a post which has very high vis- nent of the woman standing beside YOUR HOME IS AT RISK IF YOU DO NOTKEEP UPKEPAYMENXS ON A MORTGAGE OR OTHER LOAN SECURED ON IX Te pawn** no Leal & General Ashkelon is the men’s alle- ibility in the US, for almost a year. Filling foreign posts is proving cimsutani w81 veA wkbow w ananged apjwtaunem. 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Ei • ADVERTIS EMENT WE ARE WITHHOLDING A VOLKSWAGEN ‘SURPRISINGLY ORDINARY PRICES' ADVERTISEMENT UNTIL WE RECEIVE CONFIRMATION THAT A VOLKSWAGEN POLO L DOES INDEED COST £7990. i Human rights and wrongs entire armoured brigade, w$|£ £3Jbn. It is believed the® Saudi anger over the iffegsp dissigp in London of the Arms buyers gLMasariwasjjjg] Muhammad setback to the anno® brigade sale. involvement run up sad tally • British countries that have a poof hu-1 man rights record is not limit'd year ed to equipment. Exactly a W of repression ago, Britain signed an agree- I ment with the UAE to provide L troops for its defence in ex- £ orders l Christopher Bellamy and yet they are now regarded change for massive arms l than £2bd, in- ’ Defence Correspondent as major threats. totalling more cruise missiles. Al- Saudi Arabia is entering an eluding the agreement stops : Indonesia will be the first acid uncertain period. Prince Ab- ^ though [ Vv’;\ guarantee ta de- £. test of the new Foreign Secre- dullah ibn Abdul Aziz, the new short ofa firm pro- the UAE 2attacked, it 5. , tary’s •'ethical” foreign policy, ruler, is 72 and not in the best fcnd ; joint planning tc |F . with human rights at its heart of health. Tensions between Is- vjdes for reaction force ftjafc; But there are plenty more chal- lamic fundamentalists and the enable a rapid U lenges ahead The British arms educated middle classes are in- deploy to the Golf. Ipa cus- industry's single biggest cus- creasing. * Its human rights Malaysia is also a big jgfJS rightsjjKf/ tomer is Saudi Arabia, whose record is well-known. Saudi tomer, but its human is poor. The 199t«w| human rights record is ques- Arabia has bought British Tor- L — — - . tensions are Increasing record . exports to Saudi Arabia, where internal tionable. The Middle East and nado and Hawk aircraft as part Made in Britain: Hawk jets were among the $716m worth of arms Amnesty International year-®® North Africa, an area of insta- of. the £20bn AI-Yamatnah Desert Chal- book reported that at least 46g|p would make it dif- £3bn order for 800 opera- Turkey is bleak”, it said in a re- ber of Nato bility, is the largest buyer of aims-for-oil deal. with a questionable human conventional militaiy built in people bad died in detentionffip ficuJt ban sales. Recently, lenger tanks, to be International pon last year. "The 1990s have to British arms. In 1995. Brrtain sold The British government will rights record, and its continu- lions. Amnesty Turkey. Vickers was keen town camps for illegal immigiantsfiSp of 'disap- Vickers, the Newcastle based with sepa- has referred to “^ross human seen the emergence since 1993. Executions. floeeufesafiP £9 12m worth of arms there, as need to decide whether it will ing conflict Kurdish Britain s the order after Britain in effect pearances and extrajudicial ex- company which builds '" Nato and west- restrict the sale only of equip- ratists makes it difficult to rights violations'' in south-east at- and detention without trial are® against £617m to Challenger battle tanks, abandoned an ambitious used distinguishriietifimiicK betweenKAtnwort equipment4,-tninfnnnt Turkey.Tnri’#*v Sutions” ern European countries, and ment likely to be for in- campaign to wm a tempt to seQ Saudi Arabia an common. HI picture in Turkey’s position as a mem- launched a £441m to Asia and the Far East. ternal repression, as the last for “internal repression” and “The human rights The Saferworld foundation, government did. or whether it an independent think-tank, yes- will refuse export licences for terday said that, besides In- anyarms to countries with poor donesia, three middle eastern human rights records. states - Saudi Arabia. Oman In 1995 a television investi- and the United Arab Emirates, gation revealed that British would be on their list of unde- Aerospace had been involved in sirables. Elsewhere in the worid, the sale of 8,000 electric shock they cited India and Pakistan, batons to Saudi Arabia. The ba- because of the dispute over tons inflict pain using a brief Kashmir and because both have 40.000 volt shock. Because the developed, or are developing, batons were not made in the ballistic missiles and weapons of UK. the sale was not illegal. mass destruction. Other coun- Hie ban on sales of aims tries with bad human rights which might be used for re- records are Malaysia and pression has not, so far, affect- Britain’s Nato ally, Turkey. ed sales of major conventional T'S BUST According to the StockholmStockhol arms which dearly cannot be. International Peace Research There has been a European Institute. Britain exported- Union embargo on arms sales $716m f£436m) worth of arms to China since the 1989 Tianan- Ji to Saudi Arabia between 1992 men Square massacre, but each and 1996, compared with country is allowed to interpret $603ra to Malaysia, $52 lm to tins as it thinks fit. Last year, Oman, $5 15m to Pakistan, GEC-Marconi and Racal- $489ra to UAE, $3 74m to ladia Thorn were allowed to sell and $3 18m to Indonesia. maritime and airborne radars to The Middle East illustrates China. In a deal negotiated the fickle nature of the foreign last summer, Racal agreed to t policy guidelines that surround supply six to eight of its Search- 3v.- arms sales. Libya, Iran and Iraq water surveillance radars to the have all been cultivated as Chinese navy. strategic allies by the West, TUrkey is another country :V . . .. • - m . • 7/ • : 'Vv j/. i.'i -v . , i ' T b is: VOLVO Introducing the Volvo V40. It’s roomy, like the big estates. (There’s 50 cubic feet of luggage space, and yon can even fold the front passenger seat flat.) It’s safe, like the big estates. (The V40 has SIPS with side airbags, driver’s airbag and ABS brakes.) It’s even surprisingly quick, just like the big estates CO-62 takes just 9.8 seconds in the 16 valve 2 litre model.) But the V40 has one thing the big estates don’t have. Curves. The Italians, who know a tiling 0r two about car design, recently voted it ‘the most beautiful estate in the world”. And who are we to argue? The V40 from Volvo. It’s smaller, but it’s perfectly formed. From 515,620 to 519,920 on the road. Or from per via 5290 month Volvo Contract Hire.’ VOUHUkCM YOU UK BHJEVl IN. 6 . international k profits a question of conscience t star i sit; Democratic ntes: a policeman restraining Muslim girls waving PPP flags during an election rally outside Jakarta mosque on Wednesday, following riots on Tuesday in which pofice dispersed demonstrators with water cannons Photographs; AP British water cannons used on marchers Richard Lioyd Parry interviewed by The Independent. Jakarta The police, anned with semi-au- in BUILT ALONG THE SAME LINES AS OUR BIG ES1XTE1 tomatic rifles, fired warning British Tactica armoured per- shots into the air and it was at sonnel carriers and water can- this point, according to wit- nons were used to break up an nesses. that the demonstrators BUT WITHOUT ALL THE STRAIGHT LINES. election inarch in Jakarta this began throwing stones. week, in an incident which will The police ordered demon- draw renewed attention to (tie strators to disperse and counter- export of British defence equip- attacked with tear gas. Police ment (o the regime of President fired their rifles into the crowd Suharto. several times and Adam Kbaer- At least one person was shot uddin, a 20-year-old bystander, dead during the street battle on was shot dead. lUesday between Indonesian At about 430pm at least two police and youths demonstrat- Thcticas arrived on the scene ing in support of the United De- from the north of the city. Film velopment Party (PPP) in shot by Associated Press Tele- advance of next week’s gener- vision shows them spraying wa- al elections. Taclicas, manu- ter cannons over the crowd, factured by the British firm apparently in an attempt to GKN, were also used in Jakar- clear the streets before the ta last summer in even bigger evening rush hour. pro-democracy riots, but this is Police quoted in the Jakarta the first time they have been Past claimed that 21 people photographed in action against bad been arrested, but witness- Indonesian civilians. es said that more than 50 had - British arms exports to In- been taken away. The election i&! donesia include Scorpion tanks. campaign has been a focus of Hawk fighter jets, and frigates, . sporadic violence nationwide; on as well as armoured cars and ar- Tuesday there were violent dis- moured personnel carriers turbances in several other In- (APGs). Successive British gov- donesian cities, including ernments have faced allega- tions that they have been used in human rights violations, par- ticularly in East Timor where U there have been persistent but unconfirmed reports that Hawks have been used against Indonesian government wcvt VA\ has given formal assurances ijmsTO that British equipment wiD not be used to suppress human \ V5SSS.W rights, but these guarantees do kl not apply to Tbclicas, which are designed for crowd control and not considered “defence equip- ment”. After huge riots last President Suharto: Re£me of July in support of the ousted 31 years under threat democracy leader Megawati Sukarnoputri, however, the In- Bandung, Semarang and Peka- donesian Ambassador to Lon- Jongan. all on Java. don was summoned to the Since the pro-democracy riots Foreign Office and warned that last summer, it has been clear “inappropriate" use of APCs to that the biggest threat to the 31- •F / suppress rights of peaceful as- year old government of Presi- sembly and expression would be dent Suharto comes not from j/| frowned upon. without, but from its own peo- !«* Tuesday's confrontation, be- ple: there can be little doubt that '5r tween 1,000 armed police and vehicles like the Tactica will be- some 10,000 supporters of the come an increasingly crucial PPP, was far from peaceful - but component of the regime’s ar- in a pseudo-democracy like In- moury. In the last 10 months, * »'* walrus donesia, where dissidence is there have been church burnings h where Presi- by Muslim in Java, and a stamped out, and mobs rt-wm , rii^ party has massacres of settlers by tribes- dent Suharto’s ruling already announced the exact men in Kalimantan on Borneo. proportion of the vote it expects The official reckoning of the In- to poll (70.2 per cent), crude donesian Armed Forces is that mob violence has become in- over 600 people have been killed creasingly prevalent and is one or injured in incidents connect- of the few means of expressing ed to the election campaign, political frustration. since it began on 27 ApnL After similar violent clashes Last year, student riots in last weekend, the leaders of the Ujung Phndang on Sulawesi PPP, which draws its support, were put down with Saracens, an from Indonesia’s majority Mus- armoured car which, along with lim population, cancelled Tues- Saladins and Ferret Scouts, day’s planned rally. By 1pm on were obtained from Britain in TUesday, however, large num- the 1960s. Scorpion light tanks bers of its supporters had turned are deployed in Java, and the In- up in Wining Bundt Raya, a six- donesian navy has a number of lane main road linking Jakarta British frigates. British Aero- with its southern suburbs, space Hawk fighters, deployed through an area inhabited by On Sumatra, Kalimantan and many PPP supporters. Java, were sold as trainers, but The demonstrators, many of rumours suggest they have been them teenagers, set fire to tyres used against rebels fighting In- in the street and tore down a donesia's 21-year old occupation fence, according to eyewilnesses of East Timor. MAM ARMS EXPOHTBIS TO INDONESIA {USBII} 1987 1968 1989 1890 1991 1992 1993 1994 1905 1998 Tbtal Fft 9 29 23 23 SB 23 328 788 408 342 1983 UK 226 117 34 36 24 24 48 186 885 ‘ USA 14 14 120 177 10 6 341 NL . 53 156 91 18 316 Franco 17 17 17 3 3 57 Span 5 5 10 10 10 10 50 •UAE 26 26 TWat* 324 334 244 228 82 89 367 792 483 537 3460 . 1 . Noel Browne’s place in Irish his- out a means test But he found tians and, some ajgue^ dosed off to the left in Irish tory is inextricably bound up himself up against a powerful the opening years. with one infamous political opposition that spanned GPs politics for more than 20 convulsion, his bitterly opposed concerned their incomes might Afterwards Browne became post-war plan for a state-run be threatened, and colleagues an isolated embittered figure, a health service, the Mother and in government who in turn political gypsy, in the historian Child Scheme. Its lingering were probably under pressure John A. Murphy’s words, “mov- wound has left demarcation from lay Catholic elements. ing from party to party that lines in Ireland's domestic He had Med to prepare the would restore his dream ofcre- politics for almost five decades. ground with the Cabinet, who ating a socially just Ireland”. Browne bad qualified in were unaware of the details of After leaving govemmeigovernment medicine at Trinity College the scheme when it was Browne took care of patients in Dublin (his first post was at St launched in March 195L He a TB sanatorium in County Steeven’s Hospital in the city). bad also made the error of Wicklow. He had spells in Fi- His mission on entering politics thinking that, after meeting anna Fail, founded a short- as a member of the radical with senior Catholic clergy in lived group called the National left-leaning Clann na Poblach- October 1950. their concerns Progressive Democrats in 1958, ta party in 1948 was -deeply had all been assuaged. Far from spent some years in Labour be- marked by the experiences of his declaring war on the Church, fore forming a now defunct poverty-stricken family, which however, he was intent on ac- hard-left party, the Socialist was ravaged by tubercolosis, rife commodating it and thought he Labour Party, after moving in Ireland until the Fifties. He was operating within the para- from south Dublin to the more suffered badly from, the disease, meters ofwhat it would accept. working-class north-side suburb diagnosed in both lungs in 1939. Some believe that doctors of Artan in the mid-Seventies. but survived. His father and two were behind the drawing of After retiring to Connemara in of his seven siblings did not. bishops into the row, while John County Galway he published a Browne senior, an inspector Charles McQuaid, the powerful moving account of his family's with the National Society for Archbishop of Dublin, was him- tragedies and his own career. Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- self a doctor’s son with strong Against the Tide, in 1986. dren. moved from Whterford to views about the status of the pro- Among his burning concerns Londonderry and Athlone in fession. When their views were was what he saw as the cynical the Irish midlands. He died invited the bishops avoided stat- ' Irish establishment acceptance when Noel was seven, leaving ing whether the plan was at odds of mass emigration. This elicit- late reminder of his caus- Noel’s mother, Mary Therese. with Catholic morality but de- ed a Movement library Photograph. MEN of the h» wtfcRuth buBt up into the Worktng Class with a large family to rear in de- nounced it as at variance with tic invective last year. After prived conditions. She herself the Church's social teaching. Mary Robinson’s 1990 election died two years later, leaving her At the toot of their opposition as state President, she placed a children to be fostered out. was the perception that Browne's symbolic lamp in the window of The scars left by this fuelled scheme would open the way to tier official residence as a re- Edmund Frow EM-m the young man's political objec- liberal family planning and con- minder of all of those forced to A. Jeare Ireland to seek work. tives in public health as the traception. Taoiseach John while. the Frows turned in- ac- the English Working Class (1963) country's most urgent need when Costello and McBride bad in the Accusing her of being part of Edmund Frow will best be re- factional conflicts of the 1980s. retirement in 1971, his main vogue for creasingly to their own publi- dislike their a comfortable 61ite, he said her membered as the founder, with Moving across the Pennines, be tivities were focused on his trade and the academic he joined former republicans in meantime come to the wide range of Amalgamated labour history. Trailing round cations and the reforming Gann na Poblacb- abrasive health minister and op- "fatuous, low-watt, low- his wife, Ruth, of the Working rapidly made his mark on the union, the Engi- later a car- enthusiasms they revealed: Movement Library. party in Lancashire and in 1930. neering Union. As a shop floor England with a tent, ta party in the raid-Forties. position leaders suspected they powered, cheapest-available, Class Feminism, syndical- stewards' con- avan, the Frows were thus able Chartism. His campaigning for an were only too glad to hasten his warmly welcoming electrical As with all the great histori- still only 24, was sent to Moscow activist, a shop bookshops countrywide ism, republicanism, nearly alL 1 candle brought comfort to cal libraries, the past is every- to sit on a British commission of venor. an AEU national com- to scour urgent anti-robercolisis pro- eat forcing him to resign on no “isms" that have the bargains that radical lit- in fact, of the gramme propelled into the April 1951. He was followed out our diaspora". Speaking after where palpable in the Prows' the Communist International. mittee and TUC delegate and for him the existing political union dis- erature then provided. By the challenged post of health minister when the in sympathy by two fellow MFs. one of his daughters returned famous collections of radical Although a highly skilled eventually a full-time their book-lined order over the last 200 years. demise of the overseas after a Christmas vis- literature and in the banners, em- worker - “a time-served crafts- trict secretary, there was little in late 1960s new party, led bySean McBride, The actual Frow remained to the of engineering trade bouse in Old Trafford was ac- Eddie joined the inter-party coalition weakened coalition in the gen- it, he said, “1 have very person- blems, squibs and broadsheets man’'. he later recalled with the world quiring semi-legendary status, end the most invigorating com- led by Fine Gael In government eral election of May 1951 was al knowledge ofemigration. My that jostle for space on everywait mock snobbery - it was in- unionism with which he did not a the further build- pany: declaiming Shelley, evok- io 1948. Though just 32, be was not decided by the Mother and mother and seven ofher dnkfcen What has made the library spe- evitable that so conspicuous a become acquainted. As a suc- encouraging ing of their collections ing Tom Mann, bounding after a crusading and dynamic inno- Child Scheme, however, but emigrated. My brother died in cial though, is the Frews them- rebel would find work elusive in cession of oral historians can tes- up donations and be- pamphlets two stairs at a time gL-.-- vator. using hospital sweep- by the desertion of rural Inde- a workhouse and my mother selves; informed, engaged and in those years of mass unemploy- tify, few could expound as lucidly through quests. Many distinguished his- or just sharing his abundant stakes funding (ticket revenues pendents over its failure to was buried in a pauper’s grave. Edmund's case, embodying a ment Frow became active in the as he on the dynamics and con- knowledge and intellectual cu- came from the US and Britain raise the price of milk. “We Irish have the second- sizeable chunk ofworking-class Salford unemployed workers’ straints of industrial militancy. torians will have warm breathless movement. In October 1931, be Always, whatever else he was memories of the library', but riosity. To be left as well as Ireland] to fund a net- But McBride’s mishandling highest ethnic group in ‘Card- history in his own person. books, there wasn't a student, political halfway up a Welsh hill was. for A work of sanatoria to exploit the of the health affair effectively board Gty in London. We are in Edmund Frow was born to received both a broken nose and doing, there were more activist or trade union branch younger companions, both chas- possibilities opened by the ar- ended his own political ambi- the prisons, the jails, the mental Lincolnshire farming stock in five-month prison sentence for books and a fervour forworfcing- receive exactly the tening and heart-warming. With rival of BCG vaccine. He also hospitals, die alcoholic wards, the 1906, an auspicious year of his role in one tempestuous dass education. As early as his that didn't In the library it- Frew's death, we lost one of the set up the first Irish national brothels, the kitchens of cheap- Conservative electoral humili- de-monstration. quickly dubbed teens, already secretary to Wake- same welcome. last and finest representatives of blood transfusion service. labour hotels, the building sites, ation. Hie usual palliatives of “the Battle of Bexley Square". field Labour College, Frow had self, now housed and main- tained Salford City Council, an extraordinary generation of Admirers say his freshness to the dole queues, the skid rows Liberal or Labour governments The episode provided a cli- begun wrestling with the new tty inestimable Ruth working-class autodidacts and politics helped him break new of the world, too poor to come did not, however, hold much at- macteric for Waller Green- world of Marxist ideas, Lenin's and in the agitators. His library survives as ground. But fellow ministers re- home for Christmas." traction for Frow as he finished wood’s 1933 noveL Love on the Materialism and Empirio-criticism Frow. that tradition lives on. Frow himself figuring as causing him a particularly Edmund, even more than a memorial both to the man portedly found him petulant, un- Alan Murdoch his schooling against a backdrop Dole, (1908) Ruth, was a bibliomaniac. If the himself and to the rich plebeian willing to listen, and convinced of European revolutionary up- **a finely featured young man furrowed brow. Increasingly, 10,000 items, culture which produced him. he was always right. There was Noel Browne, politician andpsy- heaval. Serving bis time as a .. heaping invective upon afl with though, it was British radical his- library had some probably some truth in both. chiatrist: bom Waterford 20 De- toolmaker in Wakefield, the whom he disassociated himself tory that occupied his thoughts. it nevertheless seemed impos- Kevin Morgan Browne, taking up proposals cember 1915; TD {MP) (Clann restless youngster mixed read- in the social scale". In later years, On meeting Ruth, his wife-to-be, sible to identify the one that he older socialists but perhaps have lost a lit- in the 1950s, they eyed up each could not track down immedi- Siephen Edmund Frow, tool first mapped out by the previ- na Poblachta) forDublin South- ily with he may bookshelves their ately tell everything maker, trade unionist and bib- ous Fianna Bail government, East 1948-51, (Independent) found himself drawn by the tle of his youthful intransigence, other's and and you Harrington, Lin- aimed to tackle unacceptable 1951-54, 1957-65, 1969-73, (So- bolder course of BblShevism. but ntfyer the passion for social meeting of .minds and spirits abouL When Salford took over liophile: bom pre-ordained: .a the collections in 1987. the colnshire 5 June 1906; married levels of child mortality by cialist Labour Party) for Dublin In March 1924. after reading justice that underlay it seemed almost bringing in free ante-and post- North-Central 1981-82; Minister Lenin’s book State and Revolu- With the beginnings of eco- memorable partnership was biggest challenge for the hew li- 1st Marjorie Sherwood (one son; natal care for mothers and ex- forHealth 1948-51; married 1944 tion (1917), he joined the infant nomic recovery in the ’mid- established. brarian, Alain Kahan. was how marriage dissolved), 2nd 1960 tending free health treatment Browne: political gypsy Phyllis Harrison (two daugh- Communist Party and was to re- 1930S, Frow resumed work in the These were the days before to get tins encyclopaedic knowl- Ruth Haines (nee Engel); died until his Thompson's The Making edge down on paper. Mean- Salford 1 5 May, 1997. for all children under 16 with- Photograph: Eamonn Farrell ters); died Galway 22 May 1997. main a member until the bitter engineering industry and EJP. of H Philip Brady Philip Brady's scholarly record nus Enzensberger and Wolf He was a staunch supporter, beck College, where his whole two modem German writers of university teaching, especial- He hated only pretence-, - Biermann to Jurek Becker. In- too, of the Germanic Institute academic career was spent and who most interested him ly in adult education, was to en- bullying, and dishonesty. geborg Bachmann and Stefan of London University, whose to which he had a strong and Brecht and Grass - had literary able people to recognise and to He shared with his wife Chris- over 30 years taught German at Heym: on composers such as meetings with graduate Stu- constant loyalty. and historical antecedents in the overcome national and cultural tine and his family, who shoul- Birkbeck College. London, Mahler and Brahms; and on the dents he regularly hosted and Brady’s academic forte lay in German Baroque. prejudice: a commitment which dered the burden of care in the since 1980 as Reader in Ger- baroque poet Hans Sachs. Most attended. For him, a federal uni- two periods of German litera- Many of his activities were is now more relevant than ever last months, both a very dose re- man. But he will be remembered recently he broadcast a series of versity was more than an ad- ture rarely combined in the undertaken in the debilitating to German Studies. Both the lationship and a devotion to above all as a man who knew lectures on the Romantische ministrative arrangement or an work of a single scholar the and sometimes painful circum- style and the content of his shared beliefs and shared in- stances of his final illness. It is teaching, how to communicate his love for Strasse; on nationalistic preju- assembly of isolated scholars: an 17th-centuiy Baroque, espe- which never allowed terests: humanistic values and a t his subject and its importance to dice and its origins; on Paul idea which became increasing- cially its sermons, and post-war thus entirely fitting that his re- his students or his colleagues t«i love of simple things like walk- the contemporary world. Celan and Heidegger. ly important to him the more its German writing, which in his ceipt of the Goethe Medal of forget that literature is a humane ing, cycling, music, the compa- Over the last 20 years Brady Equally important was the material basis was eroded. case meant the German litera- the Goethe Institute - a dis- conversation, were ideally suit- ny of friends. He delighted in a broadcast almost every month work he undertook, in close co- Bom in Lancashire in 1932, ture being written and read as tinction held by very few British ed to Birkbeck, whose students son and daughter-in-law who fol- on the BBC German and World operation with the London Philip Brady attended Bolton he himself studied it. Germanists and awarded espe- frequently brought both a belief lowed him into tbe academic Service as well as for British ra- Goethe Institute, in inviting Grammar School and went up He wrote on topics as varied cially for work in interculiural in the human relevance of their profession, and with similarly - the dio. He broadcast to Germany German writers to London and to Emmanuel College, Cam- as Grimmelsbausen; the Are communication was crown studies and a aeed to see that exciting and eclectic interests. in 1951. where was Brady; manifest integrity Moriendi; the social context of of his career. The citation for belief on the cultural significance of introducing their work; chairing bridge, he sustained in the teaching John Walker Marmite, lawnmowers, and the panel discussions on German taught by Reddy and Elisabeth 17th-centuiy German rhetoric; the award, which highlights they received. Tottenham Court Road: and to cultural themes; reviewing Ger- Stopp, two of the leading Ger- meat in German Writing from the Marxist reception of both the intellectual integrity Philip Brady was a person of Philip Iblentine Brady, German 1620". Britain on the importance of man books and exhibitions of manists of their day. Graduat- 1550 to After a brief Goethe; alienation and illusion and the personal enthusiasm manifest integrity and trans- scholar, bom Bolton 6 Men' 1932; WursL Among his more serious German painting. He delight- ing in 1956 with first class period as a schoolmaster at in Brecht's drama: sexual poli- with which Brady did that work, parent goodness: a person who Lecturer in German, Birkbeck achievements in the medium ed in accepting invitations io lec- Honours in German and Latimer Upper School, Ham- tics in the work ofGunter Grass is his fitting academic epitaph. enriched the lives of others of- College, London 1960-80, Read- to take the recent productions tone to which he was out- ture throughout the German French, he proceeded a mersmith, and a temporary ap- and most Both qualities found a fitting ten without knowing it. His er 1980-97; married 1961 Jane standingly well suited) are ra- speaking world, and in his re- Cambridge doctorate, also un- pointment at Wfcstfield College, of the Prcnziauer Berg group expression in his work as a integrity, like his humour, could White (died 1985: one son), 1990 dio talks on writers ranging cent invitation to become part der the supervision of Freddy London, be was appointed in of writers in post-unification teacher at Birkbeck. For him, be challenging, even disterbing; Christine Huber died London 15 from Gunter Grass, Hans Mag- of the Anglo-German Forum. Stopp, on “Doom and Judge- 1960 to a lectureship at Birk- Berlin. It isno accident that the one of the most important taste: never malicious or inhumane. Max 1997 i hi Birthdays author and cricketer. 1918. Deaths: Calls to the Bar Girolamo Savonarola, priest and re- Births, Sir Kenneth .Allen, engineer. 90; Sr Lincoln’s Inn former. strangled and burnt at the Search of correspondence was not illegal David Barran, former chairman. ftacmai? Mjpx; Howard Bernard Coney-. stake 1498; Henrik Johan Ibsen, Rnbcn Marti EMMlc Joan OamViUi. Grant Marriages Midland Bank. 85: Mrs Juliet Camp- Regina v Governor of Whitemoor playwright, 1906: Heinrich Honntier. Darren Warmly: AJ Mueerkna Yunus; Gone On the material bell, Mistress of on College, before the Gin Prison; Queen’s Bench Divisional LAW REPORT Nazi leader, committed suicide 1945. Helen While bead; Edmond Robert Rty o court, his Lordship did not Cambridge, 62; Sir Matthew Camp- Cooper Charlotte Sara Downs: Tsana & Deaths Today is the Feast Day of St Aldhebn. Coart (Lord Justice Pill, Mr consider that bell, former senior civil servant, 90; Suzanne Tsgpn; Lucy Jane Murray: Lee 23 Mav 1997 it was ultra vires St Deaderius of Vienne, St Eu- Justice Latham and Justice Sir Hugh Casson, former President Ptuhp No*bn* Smart frier Maggs: Vqeth Mr the Prison Rules to phrosyne of Polotsk, St Guiben. make pro- St Ssujttn; Andrew Mark Stone: Timothy John AsuU) 16 May 1997 Montgomery of the Royal Academy. 87; Miss Joan QC (Treasury Solici- bed v United Kingdom [1992] vision for searching cells MEMORIAL SERVICES Ivo of Chartres, St John Baptist dei ScBcr. Paul .Vnirtw Hsntan; Maoism; Jjw< in the tor) Collins, actress, 64; Sir Samuel Cur- AtkJcnon; for the respondent. EHRR 137. and R v Secretary absence of prisoners. BARRINGTON: Rutland. Savoyard Rossi, St Leontius of Rostov and St la Christopher Douglas Wi«it Sjwl of Appro- ran, former Vice-Chancellor, Strath- Al«*n Hasan UiWjn; MohammedArenn All. Instructions authorising prison State the creator of Pooh-Bah. Memorial «U- William of Rochester. for Home Depamnem. priate arrangements must, how- clyde University, 85; Mr Nigel Patricia Nuckdnn Young; Khun-am Karan; tearion at Maiden Cemetery. staff to search, but not read, Lord Justice Pill said that the ex Leech 1994] 198. ever, Ham. p [ QB be in place to protect the Davenport, actor and uade unionist, Sara Zaks; David Marshall Allan: Caroline Saturday 3 1 Mm- IW, Contact Bri- privileged legal correspondence Woodcock Inquiry into Louise Brown: Sbib Senior Sarkar. (he es- it was submitted for the ap- free and frank exchange in- an Jones. The Gilbert and Sullivan 69; The Very Rev John Drury. Dean of Luncheons during cell searches conduct- cape of six prisoners from (he plicant (hat Socwty, OlSI-CJ 0655. of Gust Church, Oxford, 6h Dr WiL loner Temple Order 3671995 con- formation between a prisoner Lord High Commissioner ed in a prisoner's absence were special security unit at While- ter Elds, former Chief Economic Ad- Paul Anthony Siani; Aauita Woodbull: flicted with Prison Rule 37A and his legal advisers about con- Tbe Lord High CZtnvtojT&cr not ultra vires. IN MEMORIAM viser to the President of the Board Commissioner to the Wfflufn Bradbury; Lee Antho- moor Prison had expressed and was therefore ultra \irvs. Al- templated legal proceedings. General Assembly of ibe Church of ny Beimcti: Lulu: Francs Bnmac: Richard The applicant, category DOWLAND: David, ofTrade, 64; Miss Betty Garrett, ac- a A concern about the quantity of ternatively, it was submitted His Lordship did not accept Macfarianc Chnvcpher Alhext: Felicity GoWthoroogh; With love. Josephine. tress. 78; Mr Malcolm Gill, head. Scotland. Lord of Bears- prisoner at Whitemoor Prison, goods in the possession Sumo Jane Francuinhc; Daniel Asher Sinlm. of pris- that a cell scorch in the pris- that the only way to give effect Banking den. and Lady Marfarlane held a lun- SHEEHAN: Kevin, of Crawley, The Department, Bank for in- Adcmunyma Mwiyayn Banjoknc Mohammed sought to quash by way of ju« oners and ibe procedures oner's cheon yesterday absence, which includ- to legal professional privilege truth is simply, this, that you were like- ternational Settlements. 63; Mr Mar- ax the Palace of Azharul Haqoe. dicial review instructions issued followed when cells were ed a search of his legally able, popular and arc now deeply ius Goring, actor, 85; Lord Grenfell, Holyroodhouse. Edinburgh. Among was the presence of the pris- Middle Temple by the governor of the prison searched. Recommendations privileged missed bv all who knew you. former Senior Adviser, European Of- those present were: correspondence, in- oner during a cell search, Benjamin Charles Winter: Damon John or authorising staff to search his included searches of ceils in the fringed a fundamental right SHEEHAN; Kerin. 3 May 199ft “He fice; World Bank, 62; Mr Graeme Sir Dtnutt Mncfcan; Mr Angus Gmsarc Mr Goodyear. Josephine Sarah Scnu: Robin that it necessarily provided who loved to live." confidential legal correspon- died Hick, cricketer, 31; Mr Anatoly Kar- and Mrs Gerald Wilton: The High Crmnttv Brwny Day; Robert John Dunl; Bryan Nevijp absence of prisoners, to avoid which had been recognised by complete protection. wooer for Lesotho: Tbe Rev usd Mrs John living Bloom; frier Richard Ettcolc Michael dence pov. chess player. 46; Sir Peter Ke- in his absence, and intimidation of staff. the courts. Order 36/1995 Announcements Cor Gazette BIRTHS, CampbcQ; Mr and Mis Era: Dates; Mr and Fcaty, Damd Simon Sanders; tram Pirbhai was neither ni lores, former prime minister, sought a declaration that any Bv Governor's Order MARRIAGES & DEATHS (Birth*. MrsJames GunJon: Mr and Mrs Magaiu Lib- Zamjc RcpinaW Smart Clare: Kjtth Maipxrvt However. Rule 37A was not ultra tires nor in the circum- Salomon Islands, 54; Sir searching his Adoptions, Marriages, Deaths, Memo- James Haler. The Rev and Mrs E.C McKenna; Mr Helen ODrisaiiL of legal corre- 36/1995 of 21 June 1995 a concerned with cell searches. It stances irrational. Whilst re- rial services. Wedding anniversaries, fa Lester, former MP. 65; Sir John and Mrs.Wn.Tr Reekie; Mr*Jauene Wilson spondence might only be done "step-by-sfep Gray’s Inn guide for con- might throw light on what pro- sisting the temptation to Mcmorfeun) should be sent in writing Lyons, Master of Trinity Hall, Cam- and Mr Stewart WDjon. suggest Smart James Frame; David Hu* Gntlhhv. in accordance with rule 37A of ducting a search of a prisoner’s cedure was to the Gazette Etfifcx; The Independent. bridge, 65: Mr Humphrey Lyttelton, appropriate during precisely how instructions Asiimk Mcah. Richard Daniel FtccbthJ: the Prison Rules 1964. cell" issued. 1 Canada Square, Canary Wba rf. Lon- was Rule 3 pro- the search of the cell, bul was jazz musician. 76; Mr Michael Mo Luu Rahil; Maiwinder Kaor Ranaula. Ian should be worded and enforced, don £14 5DL, telephoned to 0171-283 Dinners Rule 37A limited the cir- vided that the prisoner should not determinative Crum, former Master of Corpus GotdacL; Adrian Dilip Miiiira: Ahul KorJaan of what was it appeared to his Lordship, in machine 0171- 2011 (iWamransrolng Muhaatmad Fathrul Islam. Peter Sunt John cumstances in which corre- not, under any circumstances, ChrisrL Cambridge, 7T>; John Lord High Commissioner lawful in that context the light of the 20 taxed 01/71-293 2010. and Mr materia) before 293 12 1 or to Ralston; David John Chafe Salh .Ann {Warn. Newtoinbe. tennis player, 53: Mr The Lord to the spondence between a prisoner be allowed to remain in the cell are charged at £&50 a line (VAT extra). Pe- High Commissioner The respondent relied upon the court, that there might be ter FTeston. former editor-in-chicC General Assembly of the Church of and his legal adviser mighc.be during the search, and rule 6 the need to make effective scope for further consideration und chairman, the Guardian and the Scotland, Lord Mariarlane ofBwis- Synagogue services opened, read or stopped, and provided that correspondence, searches of cells in the interests of ways in which the prisoner's Observer, 59: Mr Robert Songster, den, and Lady Macfariane hell a din- provided particularly that the particularly that issued ROYAL ENGAGEMENTS Details of synagogue services to be under of security which would neces- legal professional racehorse owner breeder, privilege and 6 1 ; Mr ner yesterday at the Palace of prisoner should be given the Prison The Qneen, accompanied by The Duke of held tomorrow may bs obtained Rule 37A. was to be sarily include some examination could most Artie Shaw, clarinettist and band- Holyroodhouse, tty sensibly be protect- Edinburgh, visits Tvne and Wear. Edinburgh- Among telephoning the following. Sabbath opportunity to be present when searched bul no! read. ofdocuments. leader, 87: 41 Theapplicant did ed and spelt Mr John Stevens, MEP those present were: such out consistent Changing of the Guard begins in London at 8.43pm. correspondence was The law recognised the im- not fundamentally oppose Tlk.- Earl and CmUcsi ol Moras; Mr and Mi* that with security requirements. The Household Cavalry Mounted Regi- Untied Synacopncs 01SI-M3 8W. Fcdcr^- opened, and to be informed if portance ofthe free flow of infor- Getuficy Allbun: Mr Campbell Armour. Mr need, but submitted that the The application would ment mourns the Queen’s Life Guard at ttoneTSjnwmmcK Ol 8 1.3)2 2263. Union of be Anniversaries flodMisJWion BUdc DrandMri R.G. Dns- it was to be read or stopped. mation between a prisoner Liberal md Pr^pTMtvcfqnmmmon 0171-580 and presence of the prisoner during refused. Horst Guards, 1 iJGam; F Company Scots tfale Dr and Mr* Rikki Fallon: Mr and Mrs Tim Births: Elias Astunole, antiquarian, 1603. Reform tynasagnes of Ureal Britain: Owen (Attcr McKenzie & Co, his solicitor about contemplat- a search of the Guard, mounts the Queen's Guard, at Tbmhuli documents was HimoL- Mr and Mrs WR Macbc: 0181-5490181-349 47JL475 L Spanlib and ftnngncKForrngncse JmJen Buckingham Palace, 1 1617; Carolus Linnaeus, botanist, Evesham) far the applicant; Clan; ed legal proceedings: l.3fam. band pro- Mr and Mrs Donald Bosr. Mr and Mrs Alis- sec Camp- the decisive consideration. CnptWlM! D 1 71 -28V 2573. Nn* London Kate O'Hanlon, Barrister vided bv the Grenadier Guards. 1 707; Denis Charles Scon Compton. tair SiheMc Mr and Mrs David South. 5js*£°pK (Mnurrir: 01 71-328 1020. ; , . The patient way to a better health service *? h f “ced^'i,5 “P- Hard. Yesterday, Blair-played the one V Mr making patients feel better (not just Meanwhile, we should not underes- card which he clutched through the elec- . <; Y physically) might use doctors and beds timate the importance of Labour’s tion campaign, the allocation of savings less effectively but might produce bet- rhetorical offensive. Part of the NHS's from “cutting red tape” to cutting wait- ter long-run outcomes. problem, as Enoch Powell realised as ing lists. As we predicted during the cam- instincts pull Here some of Labour’s long ago as 1962, is that all who work BCtS chest name paign and as wc report today, much of ruth- for in the wrong direction. It means it have an incentive to do it down, this transfer iC of funds is being done with less redepIojanentofstafL but MrDob- so that the * ,', ne enters public thinks it is in crisis ZS , a Kaflc; mirrors. r)d of There simply is no “paper son coyly when chal- even if tests and referrals^ went Old Labour their experiences of it are connected'g“f"° chase” of unnecessary invoices in the rants, each oNiu^„ - lenged over job losses yesterday (in favourable. Perhaps the relief with health tan to service. Labour is now On the other words, be avoided accepting that which Mr Dobson diagnose him1 anA u has been received by more realistic - and more difficult - ter- dias.-MyfeithwasmgS? job losses must be borne). It means health staff will do wonders for public ritory of comparing administrative bud- ^ direct accountability to patients, not perceptions of the health service. But gets and trying to get the worst down to a dn :“r on loose talk of appointing local counriBors will making doctors and nurses feel ? die NHS Mar the sgement Executive level of the best Mr Blair and Mr to health authorities (although perhaps loved be enough and an architect to get Labour through c Dobson find themselves rapidly trans- Ae Conservative government’s there could be experiments wrath directly- the next two years? Not Likely. reform! ported to the ^o^efcs ago heart of the problem. They elected chief executives). And it means he recanted, in the Wei can only abolish the new systems of inter- Swsman.lt was an focusing on what the NHS should do astonishing cor nal feanon, and an accounting if they scrap the separa- ONE CANADA. SQUARE CANARY WHARF LONDON E14 5DL and leaving otter functions, notably important text for th tion of the health service into pur- TELEPHONE 0171-293 2000 0171-345 2000 0171-293 0171-345 incoming Labour administration, / FAX 2435 / 2435 long-term care of the elderly, to other chasers and providers. Sweet lony Blair and Frank tv*k This they do not agencies; by contrast, one of Labour’s talk that want to do, because splitting the two first moves was to widen the NHS’s functions is efficient. The truth is that, of bureaucrats, who indulge in too much ing lists, rather than l seeing things from remit to public health. rots the teeth before the Toiy reforms, the health managing » cipcciauons ser- managing for the sake of The the patient's point ofview. “The glaringly Then, although the NHS probably tor the NF vice was on woefully under-managed. That consequence is that there is no pot of obvious problem was that nobody was in needs resources, the Government the basis of too little hard more A fter tobacco and alcopops, perhaps thinki bad the advantage of being cheap, in opposition. Labour but gold for the newgovernment to plunder, overall charge of the case,” says Mr should not make an early decision to xifhe next drug on which Lord Pro- was happy it meant that provision was patchy and and so Dobson is in at the deep end, coast through the election Mr Caines. “My father-in-law was, in effect, increase general funding. Yesterday’s tector Blair could practise his skill for behind t unfair because no one knew what the trying to answer more fundamental treated as a number of patients, each announcement of new resources specif- banning things prejudice of the electorate that is sugar. Nearly half of it w NHS actually did, and it relied on good- questions of NHS organisation. presenting different problems and ically for breast cancer may draw funds all claims more likely to have the interests for food and drink to be of t will and idealism to work at alL Mr Caines now believes that the requiring different solutions.” from equally important priorities, but “sugar free” are false, according to NHS closer to its heart than the To However, as the case of Mr Caines’ power relationships in the NHS need to What the health service needs, such targeted increases are party. But, having helped whip then, step-by-step research. The marketing of children’s up t father-in-law rather dramatically illus- be “drastically readjusted” in favour of is effective case management Many of the correct approach while the service consumables is wind through 18 years of a disgrace, with lists of a Toiy gc trates, the Tory reforms quickly eminent which last right patient advocates, usually GPS. His rec- the common grievances against the works out bow to ensure increased ingredients including “sucrose” (sugar), increased health spec their of purpose, which was to raise stan- ommendation is ing massively. Labour debased coinage, of NHS are caused by bed management funding will feed through to better ser- “glucose syrup” (sugar), “fructose" now has dards of care. The problem is only course, but he happens to be right The aimed at maximising throughput: oper- vices. When the constraints of Tory (sugar) and “concentrated fruit juices’’ dodge the tornado which is likely to I partly that there are too many bureau- real problem is that health managers are created when heightened ations cancelled at foe last minute, trol- spending limits are lifted in 1999, the (sugar, and just as bad for the teeth). expectatio crats in the health service; the bigger too bung up on indicators and structures, leys in corridors, being pushed from pil- NHS must be ready to make its case for Sell junk by all means, but let us call meet rigid spending limits. problem is that they are the wrong sort such as “treatment episodes” and wait- lar to post Case management aimed at more money from a patient’s-eye view. spades spades and junk, junk. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - Now is the Saudis reform time to cut trial procedure Sin The concentration on the fossil fuels shackling of the defendants and speculation on possible penalties in ^iir. Il is welcome that the new media reports on the opening of government has determined to “put the trial of the nurses in Saudi concern for the environment at the Arabia appears to have allowed a heart of policy making, so that it is remarkable shift in trial procedures not an add-on extra, but informs the to pass unnoticed. whole of government, from housing Readers of TheIndependent and energy policy through to global (Letters, 2 January 1997) will recall wanning and international our concern with the conduct of agreements” it and that is to be a any trial according to Saudi central of foreign aim policy for custom. Our first anxietywas that Britain to give leadership on the right of the defendants to have environmental matters. a lawyer to speak for them with In one month's time; world powers to probe evidence and leaders will meet to discuss the produce it on their behalfwas on all environment fbrthe first time since past form unlikely to be granted, the Rio de Janeiro “Earth Summit” we were pleased to note that of 1992. From23 to 27June Tbny preliminary reports attributed to Blairand otherleaders will gatherin defence lawyers indicate that in a New York for an environmental radical shift from precedent the special session ofthe UN General Saudi authorities are conducting Assembly, to review Rio’s progress this trial on a Western adversarial and planaction into the next century. model, with not only the defence Fire years ago in Rio, Britain.- and prosecution being represented signed the Framework Convention properly but the victim's family on Climate Change. Since 1995, being legally represented as well climate change has been deemed Unfortunately the trial is not “discernible" by scientists of the being conducted in public, or at Intergovernmental Panel on Climate least with international observers Change, and Britain's current present. It fa hard to understand ^Wrought focuses minds on what the why a public trial was not provided future may hold. for, thus completing perhaps the At the “climate summit" in Kyoto most remarkable transformation of this December, the immediate trial procedures we have ever priority w® be to achieve legally witnessed. binding reduction targets for carbon STEPHEN JAKOBI dioxide and othergreenhouse gases. Director, TheFair TrialsAbroad The UK government is relatively Trust progressive, with its domestic target Richmond, Surrey of a 20 per cent cutby201pon 1990 levels, although we all believe this should be achieved by 2005 at the ‘Conquest’ of latest to have a significant impact The objective of the Qiinate India by English Convention is to constrain dimate Sir sub-heading “but they are change to rates and limi ts allowing The being written in theTangunge of the “ecosystems to adapt naturally”. conqueror” to your otherwise Scientists advising the UN have excellent article “The Indian proposed criteria for a lower, safer fa actually a controversial theory, calendar years 1997-99. So the then possible to reduce the rude of a conquest of English" (20 May) fa limit, which include a maximum 1 Children hooked Clarke’s sound which was dismissed by the Inter- Chancellor's forecast can hardly be loaded 747 crashing on to a misleading degree Celsius rise above pre- Departmental Working Group that described as wildly out of line with populated area by dosing The British were careful not to industrial levels and an higher, less on alcopops legacy to Brown proposed the revised sensible orthodox opinion. Heathrow and building a new interfere with local customs in the safe limit of 2 degrees. who would areas they administered in India. Governments should now use Sir Having spent the last six months drinking limits at the end of 1995 Sir: So Gordon Brown thinks that As Shadow Chancellor, Mr airport elsewhere- but of alcopops ^Sensible Drinking. sections 6.1 and his predecessor’s economic Brown’s own predictions - over the be prepared to pay? They used the court language of these limits to plan the future researching me impact habitats ofchildren assumptions, set out in last year's The fire in November 1996 was Persian in the Nawabace of Bengal permissible global use of fossil fuels. on the drinking must take issue with your leading Professor Graham then goes on Budget Red Book, may have been inflation! far example -proved almost a worst-case situation, with and the local languages Such a task is king overdue because we article of 20 May. to suggest that increasing taxes in too optimistic. He has asked the consistently inaccurate. As a highly flammable cargo everywhere. English was only the existing reserves of fossil fuels— As we revealed in our Channel 4 order to reduce consumption Comptroller and Auditor General Chancellor, let os hope his own producing toxic fumes, but in spite introduced into India in the 19th soch as oil, coal and gas —will, when documentary on 15 May, there can would help to reduce alcohol to review them to see if “the books track record does not fall foul of of procedural problems no lives century by Macaulay when the Vbumt, produce at least twice as much that very young abuse. The evidence does not were cooked by the Tories" future audits by the Comptroller were lost. Compare this with the British Sirkar (government) wished dioxide as even the upper be no doubt carbon then to improve level of education children, thousands ofwhom end up support this argument. Increasing (“Tteasury ordered to open its and Auditor General. record of the ferries and only the limit ran tolerate. A negotiated in the simply lead books”, 20 May). TEASDALE decide where any money might best available at the time. required, and unconscious through drink in taxes UK would ANTHONY “carbon budget” is improvements. Bengal hospital casualty departments every to an increase in the smuggling of The fact is, however, that two of London SW3 be spent on safety The schools of the reliance on fossil fuels must be recipients drinks from lower-taxed countries Kenneth Clarke’s central forecasts The writer was special adviserto the HI WARD presidency used either Arabic and orderly way. year, are easily influenced phased out in an 1996- Howard WardAssociates Urdu in the Muslim Madrassahs, or of the alcopop marketing message. on the continent. It is already have already proved overly Chancellorofthe Exchequer; Industrial nations cannot crediWy the extreme to believed that cross-Channel cautious. Fust, the budget deficit 97 Raddiffe on Trent. Sanskrit in use by the Hindus. expand production and, It is complacent in continue to to imports account for per cent of for 1996-97 has come in £3.4bn Nottingham Neither language could provide the principal argue that “a product engineered 15 • use of fossil fuels- the proposed taste like carbonated sweet UK drinks consumption. lower than Mr Clarke's £26.5bn books needed by the' ' pollution look and sotfrreofdimate-dianging service. English nothing, in itsel£ to The European Urrion country prediction (which was in turn a stale education So time advocate drinks does —and at the same on safety was chosen. It is not really seen as predispose children to defy their with the highest alcohol taxes is more optimistic forecast than the Limits sense Sweden, where and Treasury’s own internal view at the Sinn Fein shuns the language of the conqueror. abandon their own . smuggling should also reflect the parents or of the tunnel Energy prices domestically distilled moonshine time). The PSBR for the current Indeed the British were not at first of right”. Alcopops are drunk seats letters about the safety of Commons seen as conquerors at all, but regularly by children as young as are estimated to account for year now shows every sign of Sir The use, throu^ production and liberators the disorders of the . well developed is anything up to 50 per cent of total continuing to close more rapidly the Channel Hmnel from Alan Sin Messrs Adams and from carbon and eight or nine. How instruments such as Beard and Richard Hope (17 and McGuinness (letters, 16, 19 May) time. their “sense ofright”? consumption (Wine& Spirit, March than expected. energy taxes. Effiuiencyand the Rev HAWKINS drinks are marketed with 1997, 21-2). Sweden fa also Second, unemployment was 19 May) prompt me to point out a were elected to Commons on The PETER M receive the These pp renewables must country where, because of the high predicted to fall to 1.6 million fundamental truth. There is no the understanding by their Peterborough, succeeo. imagery familiar to young children. incentives they require to thing as absolute safely and supporters that they would not be Cambridgeshire Alcopops are advertised an cost of alcoholic drinks, they tend within three years, but has actually sudb timescale to complete srn* The during the late to be consumed only rarely, at done so in six months. safety fa always, without exception, taking their seats, in accordance number of decades television action wifi be a weekends or on holidays, and in As to the suggestion you report compromised by commercial with the “republican” article of made now, taking aft emoon/early evening, breaking but a start most be taxes that the 15 per cent trend rate of considerations. I write as a dvfl faith known as abstentionfam, the drinks industry’s self-imposed binges -a case, of high ’ Kipling, innit exacerbating alcohol abuse. growth assumed in the Budget engineerwho has been responsible which for many years was applied ban. . ; Sin Kipling, writing in 1909, has ' both to the Dublin Dail and Alcopops are a cynical attempt by ANDREW BARR cannot be sustained “over the rest for the design of numerous oc ofthe 1990s”, of course only time structures^which, if they wereito Westminster. Sinn Fein regarded “ain’t ft” used just as “innit" the drinks industry to mask the London NW6 Director, will However, the fall, would put the public at risk. both parliaments as illegitimate reportedly fa used by today’s bitterness of alcohol and get kids teH Red Book - youngsters (“Youth English goes mustgo. Sin With the introduction of makes it clear that this assumption Risk must be assessed and institutions and for over 60 years hooked young. They “ ISEUCCii commerda] take (few) seats won Creole" 17 May). In “The House RHONDAEVANS alcoholic milk to the drinks market, fa similar to the average growth balanced against did not up the the Earth Surgeon” (Actions Reactions) iends of are we to presume that the rate achieved over the postwar considerations. That is one ofthe in the Dail and Ireland HARVEY WOOLFE Yales, Northern . average functions the engineer, lb' There was no question of one character continually uses it in Evans Woolfe Ltd alcopops” companies have sunk to period”. The of the GDP of growth predictions paraphrase the old American swearing allegiance to the Crown in just this curious way; “You might be Twickenham, Middlesex a new low? That is, the cynical by the panel of to ain’t it?" says; “a targeting of cats and babies. independent forecasters, at the definition: an engineer does for 50 the Dail and it fa dearlywrong mumme, he and man ought to be happy after so GRACE time ofthe last Budget, was 3.4 , 3.0 cents what any fool can do for a base the Westminster argument Sir. In his otherwise verysensible . DOMINIC and per cent for the three dollar. It would, for instance, be purely on that aspect of the process much expense, ain’t it?" The letter about alcopops (21 May) Leads 16 ofbecoming an MP. Would they speaker isjpresented as an ordinary ProfessorGraham offers the wrong have taken the seats If the UK was UK inhabitant called L Maxwell Trusts solution to, the problem of alcohol Post letters to Letters to the Edita; andinclude a daytime telephone number. Far 0171-293 2056 veral The WHdlife a republic? No. M’Leod. abuse. Hestates as a fact that the . [email protected]. E-mail correspondents are asked togive a postal address. Letters may be c-rnaih DAVID WILLIAMS PETER WTHORPE level of abuse is closely related to editedfor length and clarity. We regret we are unable to acknowledge unpublished letters. Solihull West Midlands Portsmouth the total level of consumption^ This ' ) The return of Belarus to hardline, Soviet-style government is putting at risk the West’s fragile new relationship with its old enemy, writes thrrt %' Phil Reeves ivfrrnt in Moscow fsrra^k t was spring, and lime for Alexander Lukashenko to give a television pep talk to his collective I farmers before they set out to sow their crops. They had better watch out, the moust- achioed leader warned them. The workshy loafing around the meadows may find them- selves looking heavenwards as a whirr of rotor blades - announces the arrival of an It’s not much fun when the good guys win Moi•e r. ' ;« • ne of the saddest books Because Mort Sahl was feel queasy about (he Scott oppose. British politics is l ever read was written more politically aware than report and the mishandling often criticised for being too - - tv- Oby a comedian. It was the other comedians, he of the BSE crisis, and well, confrontational, and it may called Heartland and it was delighted more in attacking you probably still remember well be that British comedy is by More Sahl. Mort Sahl was the establishment of the it all. But now the good guys too confrontational as well. one of those free-wheeling time. General Eisenhower have ridden in on their white Whai might be interesting American comedians who and all the sniffed shirts of horses, and this is where to know now is what kind of ‘ came along at the end of the the Fifties. His hero was Jack comedians can be forgiven books British comedians will Who better to heir you Fifties and were so relaxed Kennedy, who represented a for taldng a break, or at least be writing when they get to and informal yet sharp that breath of fresh.air, or would for giving them a break. And Mort Sabi's age: Always people said they were do if he ever got the chance. although the Tories are assuming tbafTony Blair is CHOOSE A • * NURSING HOME? making it up as they went Well, Jack Kennedy did get officially off-stage now, the not assassinated, and that along. Lenny Bruce, Shelley the chance; he was elected to Tory party has kindly Jeremy Hardy does not Berman. Mort Sahl - that be president and the new day provided a diversion in the become obsessed with generation. Mort Sahl used dawned and it was the death shape of their leadership finding out the truth behind Deriding an elderly relative needs the extra care ofa nursing home is perhaps to bring the day’s newspaper of Mort Sahl. Suddenly he contest, with Widdecombe it, Stone one of the hardest decisions and that Oliver does you'll ever have to Miles make. Choosing the right nursing on stage and make jokes was on the side of the boys in and Howard slugging it out in not «ei the film rights - well, home is even harder. in it, which charge, which is strange one about news items a Kington of the nearby booths, my feeling is that comedians 11131 ''5’ the ®UPA is about as topical as you can place for a comedian to be, and young Wiliam Carefinder service enables talk directly a Hague are going to get so frustrated , f you to to fuUy quairfied nurse, who will advise get and did suggest indeed and his career thereafter lost managing to look the oldest Britain where '•i-H at- you . at living in a on the right homes for your relatives' needs, and that he was making it up as direction, and his humour mentioned, which is all help you make the decision. a sad of the contestants, which they approve of the ’ he went along. lost its sharpness. m book because he goes is all the on and good for the gaiety of government, or at least 'fj.tfantfr- M\ homes we recommend are individually inspected and accredited bv (Sahl once made a joke It got even worse when on about the Kennedy the nation. approve of the government BUPA. For moremformauon. call 0645 600 300 (local raiel quoting NPW. which he claimed was Kennedy was assassinated shooting in it, and doesn’t Not all comedians have more than they approve of The service * tree, and open to everyone, not just BUPA members. perhaps the first joke ever because Mort Sahl then say much about humour. declared a honeymoon the opposition, that they are aimed at philosophy students became obsessed with All this has been gping period, of course. The braver going to want to get out. instead of the general public. finding out the truth about through my mind recently ones have taken their stance of the comedians Plray? |WI to BUPl CareFInder. Most FREEPOST London VVCIX 8DR. You don't even need i He said there had recently Kennedy's death. No longer because we in Britain, in our already. Jeremy Hardy on who can write novels have Nillliw iMilMru MIvl'Msi , _ . . , been an armed hold-up in a was he invited on chat shows own small way, have readied Radio 4's The News Quiz has already written novels, but I Californian bank in which or TV shows generally, a similar kind of watershed. been taking some hefty don’t think any of them has the raider had because instead being .Trtrum masked of Whatever else you thought swings at Tony Blair since yet written a travel book: Up across to pushed a note the funny, which was what they about the Tories, they did long before the election, as if the Andes with Jeremy Hardy cashier, reading; “I have got he have wanted, preferred to make good bad guys, like the a comedian's first duly is to ... Down lhe Irrawaddy with BUPACareFinder^ a gun. Act normally.” The serious talk about the last Lhe J a days of Eisenhower attack those in power. That Ben Elton ... Into Hong Kong Hu- bank cashier had read it and Kennedy assassination. It nurvitg c THE INDEPE^ Nt . pft In ^y 23 MAY 1997 : 21 the commentators A good time to The secret fears of help Ashdown and start on PR the ME generation addy Ashdown has an arresting main opposition party than they ense? Nervous Suzanne Moore metaphor to by has connotations of triviality, J^ describe were in the last parliament; headache? Feel list- the difference moral weakness and femininity. bemeen he role quite impressive when you com- less. too tired to as leader of the The word hysteria itself derives Libend pare them with a 164-strong move? Can’t Democrats and thai of get from the Greek word for the other Tory party with no scats in Scot- party leaders. WhUe yourself to work? uterus. 1 land or Wales and a mentality T * ™. are 3 Pair of heavy- Then you arc not alone - you In order to be sick one needs "T* , weigfat still so introverted that it has just are pan of the generation, wesUers staggering on Me to legitimise one's Alness, and until the first elected a chairman devoted to the growing generation. man collapses, he ME that means that a physiological is the small ensuring the wider membership You are the new plague car- but perfectly formed basis is always a better form if ju-jilsu expert has no influence on the choice riers, though no one as yet is seeking deftly to legitimisation than a psycho- turn the huge of leader. Finally even if Blair claiming that ME is infectious. logical force of others to one. Hysteria, according were not instinctively interested Jus own advantage. The largest ever study of to Showalter. mimics the cul- It is in leading a broad coalition of shows that CFS (Chronic attractive as a theory. ME turally permissible forms of ***** l left and centre left, he could still Fatigue Syndrome) is respon- °pw it into practice distress. If rn the 19th century now Donald need Ashdown during and after sible for 51 per cent of long- repressed of May was a tri- emotions relumed the next election; first to win term absence school- umph for Paddy Ashdown, but among via hysterical displays of explicit not an Macintyre scats Labour cannot, and second children. unalloyed one. If he had sexuality, what is returning with to underpin what can hardly, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is lost seats, he would probably a vengeance in the late 20th against even a recov- no longer be leader. Exceeding partially democratising itself. It is reach- century is something more ered Tory party, be as big a ing - his party’s wildest expectations His party, epidemic proportions no deeply repressed than sexuality. majority as he has now. longer the province of the by winning 46 seats, he deci- Now that we musi be bound- sively Which is where the issue of stressed out super-exec or the lessly energetic and active, wc buried that possibility. initially proportional representation for driven thirtysomeihing. It has find ourselves with an epidemic Yet while the number of seats die European Parliament comes mutated into an illness that of lethargy. has more than doubled since in. Most of us do not lie awake anyone can get, young or old. the 1992 election, the leverage relieved The story of ME - for epi- at night worrying about bow, Stress, after all, is the late- demics are spread by narratives they give him has, if anything. declined. that voting members of the European Par- 20th-centuiy affliction. And as well as viruses - needs to liament are elected. To the Lib- before you all start writing in to spread itself by attracting On Tuesday Lhe Liberal eral Democrats, however, the complain that ME is real, and patients into its community. U Democrats voted for the reform was issue is a totem of almost mys- not to be treated as u kind of needs to be sanctioned by Queen's Speech, helping in the tical significance. For one thing shirking, let me just say that, authority figures - sympathetic process to deliver what must be for the firmly PR European Parliament yes, I believe it is real What 1 doctors who agree that this is an the biggest single peace-time was whar David Steel, to the fail to understand is why the organic illness. It needs majority £270) in a contentious withering and permanent dis- reality of this illness has to be unhappy, vulnerable patients division since the 1931 National pledged in appointment of hLs party, failed substantiated by insisting that it who would prefer not to see government. That was a sensi- to extract from the Callaghan is a physical illness. If ME were their symptoms as emotionaL ble gesture, hi keeping with tiie Labour government in return for prop- entirety psychological, would but as biological and therefore Ashdown's policy of construc- ping it up in the late 1970s. And that make it somehow a lake ill- beyond their control. Add to tive opposition, on the one manifesto, Ashdown's party, initially ness? Of course not. It is just this a supportive cultural envi- hand, and on Blair's magna- relieved that the reform was that because of our British ronment of pressure groups, nimity in granting him, in the firmly pledged in the Labour insistence on the mind/body and celebrities who also suffer new system of questions to the is now manifesto, is now seriously split it is vety important to ME from ME. and you have a full- Prime Minister, a supplemen- alarmed. First it was not in the sufferers themselves to prove blown epidemic. tary question on the other. He seriously Queen's Speech. Then Lady that what is going on is not all Wc do not need to worry could easily have found a pre- Hollis, a minister in the Lords, in their heads. about whether ME is a real Al- text for voting against it But if alarmed says she “rather doubts" To say something is all in the ness or not. It has a devastat- * he had. lhe vote would have whether it will be introduced in mind is regarded as an insult: ing effect on people's lives. If demonstrated only the puni- time for the 1999 Euro-elec- ME sufferers arc making it up; more than half the chAdren ness of his party’s impact on the tions. It could, of course, be they are not property m, and who stay away from school for remorseless arithmetic of the Blair parliament introduced in the 1998-9 session; but the not property deserving of long periods claim to have it, Ashdown’s influence in the next five years, Boundary Commission would need to be sympathy. then obviously ME exists in in other words, never, can in any foreseeable stopped fairly quickly from drawing up new The more wc know about the some form in the real world. As circumstances, be decisive. But that need not Euro-constituencies under the first-past-the- complexity of the relationship People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are Dr Simon Wessety, a historian will mean it not exist at all. The psychological post system. between psychology and phys- of psychiatry. says, “What lies weight carries he is this: unlike his Tory coun- PR for the Commons, of course, is the big iology, the less we should insist behind CFS is neither a virus, terpart, whoever that turns out to be, the crit- prize, and the Lib Dems' only chance of on describing illness as belong- certainly sick. But why do they insist that nor psychiatry, but our idea of icisms most open to him to make are ones that growth beyond their current numbers depends ing purely to one sphere or the what constitutes a real Alness, cannot fail to appeal to at least some Labour on it. On the one hand Ashdown himself sees other. A more holistic approach what doesn't, and what we do backbenchers. If the Liberal Democrat leader no reason why the promised referendum on is required, though at the their illness is purely physical? to make something real.” chooses, possibly in the midst of one of those electoral reform could not be held as earty as moment we are very keen on Some doctors believe that routine winter NHS crises, to attack the Gov- next year. On the other there are doubts even biological rather than cultural CFS should be treated by phys- ernment’s insistence on keeping to existing among prominent supporters of PR in the explanations of behaviour. ation such as a bacterium. bodies, and no one could do a has something to do with an icians rather than psychiatrists public spending totals- for the health service, Government’s ranks whether the process of Thus everything from homo- Chronic fatigue is a syndrome, damn thing about them. Every increasingly visual and con- in order to maintain the the Prime Minister can certaintyjustly remind commission, referendum and legislation will sexuality to intelligence is pul in other words, a collection of infection was viral; anybody sumerist culture is not consid- patient’s self-respect. They him that the election results do not suggest really be completed in time for a new system, down to nature rather than tymptoras for which the cause could be struck down at any ered to be outrageous. understand that such patients some new found willingness to be taxed on the if there is one, to be in place by the next gen- nurture. has not yet been found. The time. The prevailing metaphor However, the idea that ME may have a stake in seeing part of the electorate. What is more, this is not eral election. Either way, to change the sys- Various explanations are presentation ofsuch symptoms was control, yet we could be is a lale-2Qth-century form of theiriUness as a viral condition. a majority that is remotely going to collapse tem for the European Parliament in time for given for the causes of ME, for this syndrome began in the brought down by a tiny enemy hysteria is controversiaL This is They are also prepared to at the first whiffof gunfire: the Pariiamentaiy 1999 would be an earnest of good intent; and, including polluted water, viral mid-Eighlies. Patients turned within. Elaine Showalter’s thesis in her accept that there is a viral trig- Labour Party is too disciplined, too conscious so the LibDems reason, a modest help in accli- infections and physical changes up in doctors' waiting rooms, Yuppie flu - as H was once book Hysfories: Hysterical Epi- ger involved. of how far it owes its unprecedented size to its matising the countiy to changing the system in the brain. The syndrome is often with sore throats and called - appeared alongside demics and Modem Culture Yet as long as we live in a cul- leader. for the Commons. not usually diagnosed until the enlarged lymph glands, com- Sick Building Syndrome at a (Picador). ME sufferers seem ture that does not respect the Every politician will tell you that the most It is difficult to see a good reason against it. sufferer has been chronically plaining of feeling tired. Inci- time when work became the to share a desire to find an psychological, emotional or effective attack is the one that extracts unspo- Fust, it does not lead inexorably to Commons fatigued for more than six dentally, the second most com- focus of identity, the supreme organic basis for their Alness. circumstantial causes of Alness, ken assent from your opponents' supporters. PR, about which Blair personally may still not months. mon cause of all trips to the demonstration of control. Sud- Their self-esteem depends then we wAJ cany on looking & It cannot fail to strike a Labour chord if have made up his mind Second there is a rea- Patients often say that their doctor is precisely this: feeling denly there were people too upon it, because psychiatric Al- for viruses, real or imaginary, to a all the time. sick - - is explain of feel Ashdown attacks the Government on health . son of low politics for doing it, which is that it illness is caused by virus. tired 'to go to work, but they ness even depression not why so many us or education spending and probably on elec- will make it a lot easier to explain away mid- Doctors are not so sure. ME lb ask why this syndrome were not lazy or malingering; seen as a proper illness. To say so sick and tired of life. WA1 toral reform as well. More than half the new term losses of MEPs if they have happened sufferers have usually at some should appear in the mid- they had been brought (town by something is “all in the mind" that make us any better? intake of Labour MPs are supporters of under a new electoral system. Third, it is point confronted a disbelieving Eighties is not to dismiss the an unknown virus that stopped reform. And quite a few of those who are not Labour policy. Fourth, it might allow the Gov- doctor. Some even go as far as distress of its sufferers. But we their hectic lifestyles. 7b read a may come to reflect that a PR list system offers ernment to run its first tentative experiment to suggest that once the symp- should remind ourselves that connection between this new- them a better chance of staying in the in Tbry splitting: if Howard, Lilley or Redwood toms -of multiple sclerosis were this was also the time when we fangled syndrome and the cul- Commons that defending a slender con- wins the Tbiy leadership, are die pro-European also deemed to be without an started to become very scared ture is not to dismiss ME, it is r Collect pounds stituency majority won on the high tide of Tories necessarily going to be hajppy fighting organic basis, and that one day of viruses. Aids, which also to try to understand where it if elections on platform? win recognised as seri- started as a syndrome with an from. accept that cer- an Li-Conservatism. the European their ME be a came We So the importance of the Liberal Democrats Fifth it would provide an early and relatively ous disease unknown cause, had symptoms tain Alnesses belong to certain not points as potential opponents should not be exag- risk-free demonstration that Blair is serious It is not correct, however, to that were clearly observable. periods. Right now we are in politics. finally, it call It a disease. disease is a Unlike it also killed people. the midst of another largely gerated. But it should not be belittled either. about pluralist And would A ME - And while the Lib Denis’ 46 votes will not be make Ashdown a happier man. Which might, manifestation of illness for Viruses, though invisible, got hidden epidemic that of eat- pivotal, they are vastly bigger relative to the in the long run, be well worth doing. which there is a medical explan- into computers and into our ing disorders. To argue that this More talent, more hostility To the tabloids they're "Blair's babes' - but women MPs have real skills to offer, says Fran Abrams skills be an impressive public profile? to restart the peace process or ven the press rat-pack these talents and would it keen talk fully recognised. To hope, at Others have similar tales. was realty more to Unique in the UK - the NEW credit card agreed it was a glorious would not end One says she faced repeated about bow she had put on sight 101 Labour women least that they from Alliance & Leicester gives you: E corralled into the tight questioning about why her weight as a result of treatment MPs, posing ecstatically whh the by being parliamentary pigeonholes daughter had a different sur- for a brain tumour? Prime Minister in the sunshine, I money back on every purchase, every year past. name. The straightforward That phenomenon is not an victory. women occupied m the days after their pointless one, of course, Wkidecombe, the for- answer was that although she entirety I double money back of up to 2% in 1997 • But as the party celebrated (Ann was married she had not cho- nor is it surprising. As ever, the landslide but mer Home Office minister, will not onty its biggest hardly be surprised to hear sen to take her husband’s name. conservative forces in politics I no annual fee - unlike many other election of the largest also the But would single motherhood are not going to go down with- the that she is placed by many men credit cards • of women to ever body really have rendered her unfit out a fight. If those women can shadows were around Westminster in the house, the be an MP? single be belittled, reduced to nothing “sad. ugly spinster” category, to Another I up to 46 days interest-free credit already beginning to gather. Primarolo, the thlrty-sornethingfelt compelled more than a gaggle of luscious are realis- though Dawn • Now the newcomers iattos, they will Secretary to the Trea- to begin every speech during lovelies and sad I low standard rates of 1 7.9% APR arrival in West- Financial ing that their Symons, the election campaign with the have been reduced to easily beginning of suiy, and Baroness and 12.9% APR on transferred balances* minster is only the words: “For those of you who containable categories. If that membership Foreign Office minister, might their battle for fuD are interested, no I’m not mar- happens, the huge wave of new startled to learn that they are elite. be of the political I don’t have any chA- women MBs who have already regarded in die press galleiy ried and ' have led coun- Earn back These women Achievers' amp: the victorious line-up with fony BWr dren. For those ofyou who are changed dramatically the money unions, and elsewhere as “babes".) cils, run trades in the House of The eyes of the world’s realty interested, that’s because atmosphere - national magazines launched one call. But the question had been, approached and no one has ever asked me.” Commons wfll have been dimin- think-tanks. media have been turned upon only apply today • and directed he asked ifit was true that I was a Another of Labour’s new ished in their power to effect “Blair's Babes" and not afl of he realty-wanted to ask, • two former are ‘ Among them “Did you have a fling lesbian,” she said. "They had MPs was branded by her female change beyond it. Ward, the the attention has been friendly. said, was: mayors — Claire babe?" “We have been sitting outside my house Tbry opponent as having “no Instead of being a force for and First Ann Keen, the new with a Blair for Watford, they will member been activety trying to dig up watching who went in or out” commitment to famfly life” reform and renewal, Labour MP for Brentford and . Moffatt (Crawley) and Laura .The Inde sleaze on Labour for 17 years. But even if it had been true, after she revealed that she become simply a gang of girls came to . most senior woman Isleworth, tFCALL FREE Scotland’s children could nor. who can safety be ignored. story about how The fact is, there wasn't any,” what was. the stoty going to wanted but Nefl Krn- pendentynHOi a Lynda Clark. them because she was If that is allowed to happen, QC. had been reunited with her he explained ruefufly. achieve? Whs the paper hoping have press secretary, she aock’s former colleagues continue to to expose a coven of infertile. British politics will remain an member adopted son. She had felt, . His Patricia Hewitt, is the That unhealthy interest intrinsically male domain, a go public because of dig, though. One woman fight- superdykes whowere planning 83 83 to 0500 83 the for forced for Leicester East and : Conservative to sweep through the palace of misses the point, and allows the male domain with a little more ing a marginal Lines open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year 0 perhaps - a place newspaper, seat discovered that she had Westminster? Was Labour’s nation to-blind itself to the fact colour, where Wmterton, sits of a tabloid offfce, Rosie followed for weeks by stance on' family values to be that those women have much, there are some welcome dis- Quoting Ref: X OLF thers On the same day, The Sun’s been for Central. O tractions from the sea of grey Doncaster was talk- reporters working for a tabloid questioned on the strength of much more' to offer. teachers, editor, Smart Higgins, worked as became that still dominates the scene. have phone-in line his newspaper. She thought she one woman's sexual prefer- When Mo Mowlam social ing about the ALLIANCE lawyers, .economists, erf a ences? Or would the effect Secretary ofState for Northern But a place where all the old paper had opened on the new was going to be the victim and nurses. what did conventions and prejudices can . Ireland, for example, workers It had asked: fabricated gay. smear. “I onty have been simply to have swept Labour women. LEICESTER euphoria that know? Was it continue to hold sway. And in the to school with a found out when 1 was phoned ended the career of someone the press want to Labour after 1 May, in going needs that? through opponents"who who had spent years buflding interested how she was . who that and had elicited' by one of.my was possible to believe « INDEPENDENT FRIDAY 23 MAY 1997 22 Financial Journal OF THE YEAR Beckett overrules OFT on Yorkshire corridor of State’s South . might have dis- The Secretary took the industry by sur- north ofthe border, nor that of Both were- rejected by Mrs In many instances, both rail ment or we would, according to the OFi; Randeep Ramesh action are not without prece- agreed and then gone to the moves loss of Transport Correspondent prise and may bode ominously Central, a franchise which fer-. Beckett, who referred the deals and train divisions run rival ser- has a lead to “a significant why we dent. Stagecoach, which for other mergers awaiting ries passengers around the West directly to the competition au- vices. For example, between MMC- We are puzzled competition”. cent share of the Scot- Inverness Gtylink were not consulted," said Cot- 20 per National Express The new Government flexed its clearance, including the British Midlands, should be sent to the thority. The takeovers, accord- Glasgow and that Meanwhile, tish bus market, was told Secretary coaches a day. Scot- in Child, finance director ofNa- it had regulatory muscles yesterday Azrways-American Airlines al- MMC. ing to the of State, runs eight re- yesterday announced it would face an automatic Director liancej the Bass takeover of However, Mrs Beckett said' raised “serious competition Rail rims three trains 'on the tional Express. order for.new by overruling the Gen- the ScotRail fran- agreed a £38m down to a choice ferral if it won eral of Fair Trading and refer- Carisberg Tetley and the P complaints on Sameena Ahmad Shares in the Reed Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch media pant, fell £8bn merger heavily yesterday on fears that the company would suffer some fallout from news that the rival legal publisher. West Publishing, IWchael Harrison the Commission better under- had lost much of its US copy- stand" the issues involved. But protection in a Federal Boeing yesterday rejected the he added: “The US Federal right court ruling. European Commission's ob- Trade Commission should be Reed was also hit by a down- jections to its $14bn (£8.6bn) given the lead in this case as it grade of its shares by analysts at merger with the rival US so obviously concerns key US Merrill Lynch, sending its price aircraft manufacturer, Mc- interests, not the least of which tumbling 3 per cent to 607 fip - Donnell Douglas, saying it re- is the sovereign area of more than £200m off its mained confident that the deal defence." wiping stock market value. would be completed, this Mr Conduit said that on the Elsevier's summer. fundamental anti-trust issue Mark Armour, Reed ' The company was responding of whether the merger would chief financial officer, said: “We * that the impact will not fcmsar after the EU Commissioner restrict competition the an- believe # significant, even if the ruling for Competition, Karel Van swer was a resounding no. Last be overturned on appeal." Mien, issued a formal statement year, he said McDonnell Dou- is not a of objections to the planned glas accounted for only 4 per The ruling arose from copy- merger. cent of airliner sales while Air- right dispute between West publish- The 40-page document ob- bus had become a stronger Publishing, bought by jects to the deal on several competitor. ing giant Thomson last year, and ar- grounds, mainly concerned with It has also emerged, howev- US rival HyperLaw. West the commercial power .the er, that Brussels is using its op- gued that HyperLaw infringed merged group would have to position to the deal in an its copyright after HyperLaw court dictate terms to airline cus- attempt to re-open a bilateral electronically scanned tomers and disadvantage its agreement on aircraft subsidies judgment documents belonging European rival Airbus signed by the US and the EU to West and resold them. Industrie. in 1992. Airbus executives want However the Federal District Although Boeing would Mr Van Miert to lever a better Putting the house in order: (from left) Keith Edelman, chief executive, and Christopher Martin, finance director Photograph: Kalpesh Lathigra Court m Manhattan ruled against emerge with a smaller share of deal out of the US. West, saying thatbecause the in- the world market than it en- The agreement limits direct Nigel Cope covery to growth. He said Storehouse now formation in the documents was joyed even 10 years ago. it government support for large Crty Correspondent had a stronger balance sheet, better mar- already in the public domain, would account for 84 per cent aircraft programmes to 33 per Storehouse to open gins and a stronger management team. there was no copyright issue. of all aircraft in service. cent and restricts governments Storehouse, the BhS and Mothercare re- Pre-tax profits were affected by a Reed which bought over40 ter- Mr Van Mien is particularly from indirectly subsidising dvjl tailer, is to create 1,000jobs thisyear as £20.5m charge relating to the acquisi- gal publications from Thomson concerned about the exclusive aircraft manufacturers through it undertakes a £120ro investment pro- tion of Children's World from Boots last in January, said that its own elec- long-term supply deals Boeing defence programmes. gramme in its stores. It will open six or more BhS branches year and the sale of the Blazer menswear tronic legal publishing business has struck with two US airlines. Mr Conduit said there con- seven new branches of BhS as it moves business to Moss Bros. BhS profits rose Lexis, part of Lexis-Nexis American and Delta. It is about tinued to be debate about "spIlL to increase the number of outlets from chief executive,would have come under stores and out-of-dam systems which had 14 per cent to £88m. Mothercare prof- bought for $l-5bn (£92Gm) in to sign a similar agreement over’' from Department of 141 to 200. A further four branches of pressure if the results and accompany- hampered its ability to provide customers its were 11 per cent higher at £26.8m. 1994, was not at risk of losing with Continental. Defense and NASA funded Mothercare will also open. ing trading statement did not show with the right products at the right price Mr Edelman said Mothercare had lost customers. Mr Armour said: Observers on both sides of programmes to commercial air- The expansion plans were unveiled as grounds for encouragement. and at the right time. Mr Edelman saicL- market share in the two to five age group “We are not relying on copyright the Atlantic fear that the stand- craft programmes but said that Storehouse announced a 16.7 per cent The company responded yesterday by “Vlsiting some of our (BhS] stores you but had held its position in the 0-2 age for the sales we make to cus- BhS had also held its share chft- value of Lexis- offcould escalate into a serious Boeing had not benefited in this increase in full-year profits to £119m. malting a series of frank admissions would think you were m the 1970s not range. in tomers. The ^ trade dispute between the Clin- way since 1993. The figures were welcomed by the City about management mistakes while in- the 1990s. It will take three years to make drenswear though both stores groups had Nexis is the comprehensiveness ton administration and Brussels As for the issue of exclusive which had been braced for bad news creasing its levels of disclosure. It said all the improvements." been forced to increase the number of of its legal 'databases.” if the EU attempts to stop the contracts, he maintained that from the retailer whose shares have fall- the chiJdrenswear market had been The company plans to introduce markdowns to shift stock. He said that copyright pro- merger or take punitive mea- both American and Delta had en sharply since its Christmas trading weak in the final quarter and had been branded sportswear to BhS stores while Group sales were 15.3 per cent high- tection had only been lost on sures against Boeing. approached Boeing with the statement in January. badly affected by the continued boom adding more fashionable clothing to, er at £1.25bn. The final dividend was in- court judgments. “What is not Phil ConduiL chairman of idea after it bad fought aggres- The company’s institutional share- in sales of branded sportswear. Mothercare. Alan Smith, chairman, de-' creased by 14 per cent to 4.8p per share at issue is copyright over sum- Boeing, said it would continue sive sales campaigns with holders had said the company's senior Management also admitted that the scribed 1996-97 as “a year of transition" making 8.1p for the year. maries of commentaries that to work with the EU “to help Airbus. management such as Keith Edelman, group had too many unmodemised when Che company had moved from re- Investment columa, page 24 surround these judgments." Call for rate rises to be kept as low as possible Jupiter may sue IW Diane Coyle Separately, the CBI is calling tion. said: “If there was no fall Gross Domestic Product, the figure revised up significantly. the economy, expanded by 1.0 and ac- ui in the first quarter of Chris Godsmark for tax rises of£2bn-£3bn in the in sterling, the Government widest measure of economic The year-on-year growth per cent Hambros over Budget to keep rate rises to a would meet its inflation forecast tivity. put its first-quarter in- high street volumes climbed to this year. Fresh signs yesterday that con- minimum. It believes the Bank without rises in interest rates." crease a touch lower at 0.9 per 4.7 per cent from 4.4 per cent Ms Barker said: “We're ex- sumers are still on their shopping of England should not raise Yet official figures showed cent, year-on-year growth was the previous month. pecting robust economic growth spree kept the inflation." prospect of high- them at all if the pound does not higher-than-expecied growth unchanged at 5.0 per cent The The strongest-growing cate- and rather low role in Co-op bid er interest rates clearly in views. fall from its present level which in the volume of high street sales growth was driven by consumer gories were household goods The CBI has revised up its The Confederation of British In- the monthly industry survey in the year to April, confirming spending and the highest rate and clothing and footwear, up prediction for growth this year dustry admitted as much when shows has damaged orders and the split between consumer of increase in investment spend- 9.J per cent and 6.7 percent re- from 2.8 per cent to 3.1 per cent Nigel Cope pie Co-op dropped its civil it published a new. stronger optimism. strength and manufacturing ing since the late 1980s. spectively in the year to the lat- - still aL the law end of the City Correspondent claim for damages against Mr ’ forecast for growth this year in Kate Barker, chief economist weakness. Retail sales increased slight- est quarter. Consumer spending range. It is forecasting interest Regan, his business partner. light of the likely size of the free for the employers' organisa- Although revised figures for ly during April, with the March as a whole, nearly two-thirds of rates a half point higher by the The Co-op saga took a fresh turn David Lyons, Lanica Thist and share windfall. Bui it warned end of Lhe year. But its month- yesterday when it emerged that Galileo in return for a settle- against increasing rates if the ly survey of manufacturers Jupiter International was threat- ment of around £750,000. How- pound stayed so strong. showed the strong pound was ening to take legal action against ever, a criminal action against As British statistician to head EU committee the Treasury kept every- taking a toll on export orders Hambros Bank for the return of Mr Regan and Mr Lyons for the one guessing about the date of and unbalancing the recovery. its investment in Galileo, the ve- theft of information from the the Budget, due to be held at Britain’s role in the decision their bndget deficits below the chair ofthe Eli’s Committee on their effort to reduce their The balance of firms report- hicle set up by Andrew Regan Co-operative Wholesale Society some point between 10 June about which countries make the Maastricht limit Monetary, Financial and Bal- deficits. ing higher rather than lower ex- for his abortive £1 .2bn bid. It is will go ahead. A hearing has and early July, bosses and grade For monetary onion will The UK. one of the countries ance of Payments Statistics The CMFB has let through port orders declined to minus 24 understood the investment was been scheduled for next unions called for increases in in- increase next month, writes least likely to join the single cur- (CMFB) from a Belgian the French government's per cent, weak enough to reduce in the region of £lm. Wednesday .though it is not terest rates to be kept as low as Diane Coyle. An expert from the rency in the first wane, wifi bold banker Mr Kidgell, directorof takeover of France Telecom's the total order book. The sur- Jupiter claims its decision to known if Mr Regan will appear possible. In Us budget submis- Office for National Statistics is the EU presidency in the first the ONS’s macroeconomic pension liabilities in return for vey showed manufacturing out- invest in Galileo was based on in person. The two men have sion, the TUC said no further to head the committee adjudi- half of next year when the analysis and statistics division, casfa up-front It has notyet been put was growing at a slower information provided by Ham- said they intend to defend Lhe rises were needed this year, and cating on what are politely de- crunch decisions will have to be win find himself in a position asked to scrutinise Germany's pace. Manufacturers have be- bros which Jupiter did not know proceedings “vigorously". an expansionary policy would scribed as "novel transactions” taken. Now John Kidgeli, a to embarrass governments that plan to revalue the gold reserves come less optimistic about out- had been obtained illegally with Lanica 'mist shares have been help investment. by countries eager to reduce statistician, will take over the depart from sound practice in held by the Bundesbank. put during the next four months. the assistance of Allan Green, suspended since January but are w. the Co-op's former retailing expected resume trading fol- STOCK to Hi MARKETS INTEREST RATES CURRENCIES controller who was sacked for lowing the publication of its an- his part in the bid. nual remits. This was scheduled Short sterling Hambros has not yet re- to have been this week but has ceived a writ from Jupiter re- been delayed. Lanica invested garding the claim. However, around £600,000 in .Galileo. discussions have taken place be- When thebid failed Galileo was tween Jupiter and its solicitors put into voluntary liquidation by ’ on whether there are grounds Mr Regan. - for legal action. It is understood mvukHu (rilMtaamnn that Hambros is likely to settle the claim though a spokesman Hon? Market Rates BariYieMs* Poani for the bank declined to com- Mk Ow hfsdag Ctageffl lMfi/nga lSWttlat frUff) IUfa IMk I tar IHMafttaTO far Up UqBeti fetenta) Gkagi tarlei tatrtay Bag faUgo ment yesterday. FTSEJ0O 4642.00 +34 50 The legal *0.7 _ 4693.90 4056.60 3.52 action is a fresh UK *23 _6£7._ U5_ _w_ Jf.2! 8.1 2__ SJUKJdonL Ji457__+Q.7j.c_1,5l36.. E.ltilWlQJl) 0.6076. _j),20_J],66O?_ FTSE25QFTSJ 250 4500. 4Q +11 40 +0,3 4729.40 4469.40 3.61 blow for Hambros which has US- -5$__6J2_ 672. 3,EL__6J5 .6,82 5. .6455 ^.87c_J,5145_ E (NYariQt .0.61 Q5_ +0.69 0.661?. F7SE 350 2249 30 +14.50 -+0.6 2272.10 2Q17.90 3.54 - seen its reputation severely Japan 0 50 0.87 2,58. 3.25 . DN|.(LOfidOnj.27893^0.80p«_2,333L DM.(London]. 1.6939 _-_l23pl._i.54.i5_ FT SmaBCap 2301.57 -2.90 -jU__ 23742 0 217B.29 3.05 damaged by its involvement in m- ’::3M gmmik log. 5J9_ .6.42 ¥Jl^nttonLlBZ1067_JS,3.1£JL62.Q4^ * (London) _13,670_-Y2.52 FT _aai_ m- J J,07.Q60i flU-Shara 220921 +13.07 +0.6 2230.98 the Co-op. affair. The Norton 1989.78 *tactazrt fafca £ Index 99.Q 42__ 848_ $ index 1015 .-U 97.2_ NewYort 7240,41 -6105 _^9 7333.55 _5Q32.94_ Rose inquiiy into its role in the IsiST £43 Tokyo 19841.98 -490,85 MAIM PRICE CHANGES 25 20489.75 17303.85 OTHER INDICATORS failed bid is due to be finalised HMfLjtojIflL. 14235.52 -0.68 _4?,0 14236.20 1205517 Rises Matf OMeftj Ms ftfaWtafffri set*# tatenhy Ibr'icfe farAft (afe taint ftUga Hal ftp next month. Peter Large, one of Frankfurt 3596.09 +52.66 +1.5 3604.55 2848.77 1.53t Courtaulds ntS -0.0 the bank's corporate finance ex- mg 24 7.8 Ceftecfl 341 289 45.9 OB Bre 20.11 8 18.42 RW 1 56.3+ 2. 4oc 150 . 9 19Jun 0800 444 445 ecutives, stepped down from the Statistics as of 22 May Brtxton Estate 210 Hi 5.8 HaitsmsSMaB 106.5 4.5 4.1 Gold S 342.85 +0.3 390.50 GOP 1Q9.7+2.6PC 107.0 2 5 Mav bank at his NFC 330-5 7 57 National ftwsr 545.5 17 3.0 GflWE 207.95 -0.2 257.99 Base fetes -fi.25pc 6.75 own request pend- ing the findings of the inquiry. 1 m . . 40 J ft I business Why no date yet for Brown’s first Budget? p)v odd that a Chancellor so deceive in pitfalls, gening legal opinions, drafting the of England as lies pan of a deliberate attempt by cutting up rough about supervision. Oth- & Mergers Commission but she has over- big H matters should dither about minor subsequent finance bill, plugging the mea- to destabilise and undermine the present ers basically knew all niled claim that the Bank the Director General of Fair Trading though turned Gordon Brown has sures into the economic forecast to assess the incumbent. True or false, and does it really along what was going cm but chose not to in the process. Secretaries of State usually °htne^ 7 ^-A Bank of England upside down not once effects, all take time. civil service will matter? The on. wait The known facts are these. The understand it. And so the spin goes a few months before diwg^Trimg the COMMENT but twice, he still has not set the date for his be appalled at the thought ofcramming this Chancellor had intended to announce that There s, however, a rather less sinister advice of those paid to determine whether Budget. or /ftSS Or rather, he has not announced it. into a few weeks. the Bank was being stripped of its supervi- explanation for all this. In fact what seems not mergers act against the public interest. ‘Gordon With no announcement in the of National powers when Brown is a House What's more, the Audit Office sory he granted it operational to have happened -is that the Chancellor Mrs Beckett has dispensed with the formal- - *:_ -r.1% Commons yesterday, the next chance to has to cast its eye over tbc Treasury forecast independence pub- two weeks ago. rather belatedly realised be could make a ities. Like so many of her Cabinet col- Chancellor usn a with a date will he when gets back beforehand. is it However, it taste Parliament This something has never was then decided that the new- Start on City regulation in the present ses- leagues, she is a minister in a hurry. from its recess a week on Monday on 2June. had to do before, and it will want to a thor- financial services bill required sion the banking supervi- ft>r drama and • do to overhaul merely by tacking In fairness her predecessor, Ian Lang, That would make it very short notice if Mr ough job first time around. So perhaps not Dry regulation could not be squeezed into sion provisions onto the bill already planned might have taken a harder look himself headlines. Brown opts for JO June, hut possibility 10 June. perhaps a Tuesday present tight Rank gland Aides and the And not at ah. the parliamentary timetable, for of En independence. before allowing National Express to scoop must remain. in bis bid for radical, reforming measures Mr and in any case needed greater consultation The new Government is on a roll so off up ScolRail ana Central Trams bad he not officials are Why is there burning such a mystery? Officials in Brown may choose to follow Geoffrey Howe, and thought before it could be drafted. The the Chancellor went and just did it- Like it been in such a hurry of his - the own in that case • Treasuiy-shelI-shocked,if not as shell- 1 .. r :<% who in 980 opted for a Wednesday Budget. idea was dropped and the Chancellor gave or lump it was the approach adopted with the to get the rail industry safely the midnight oil in shocked privatised as Bank of England officials - will the Governor the impression, both verbally Bank. As things have turned out, Gordon before the election. be telling their effort Mr Brown he is too ambitious. in writing, that it with it, just • to draw up and for the time being was Brown has probably got away Nevertheless, Mis Beckett's actions would Alter all, if he had settled on a mini raini- Chancellor’s like it on the back burner. Then, lo and behold, about. But the whole business has dearly appear to set the tone for how a maxi Budget, this admin- mini-Budget' consisting of. just the windfall tax, warning it or lump it approach without gets put back on the front. been mishandled and he came perilously istration will approach mergers policy. the schemes for unemployed under-25s and What happened in those intervening two close to causing the new Government's firet British Airways, P&O-Stena and Bass, aD of reduction in VAT on domestic fuel, there he save Eddie George campaign battle weeks to change the Chancellor’s mind, and whom are waiting on Mis Beckett to dear w’ould be no reason not to go ahead at the Tbus is already down the slipway and onto why didn’t he give the Governor more warn- eraor of the Bank of England no less, deals which reduce competition by creating earliest opportunity. Wc could all have the main highway, tojudge by well-ar- ing of it? If the greater consolidation, CS some intention was to make Mr must be sitting a lit- mked it into our diaries by now. gued prose in yesterday’s London Evening George resign, then it neazl>' succeeded. What tle less comfortably today. _What is dear is lhaL this is a Chancellor Standard putting the case for keeping the purpose could possibly have been served by Beckett dispenses Her action over National Express throws with a taste fordrama and headlines. Aides Governor on for a second term. ill-judged Butalthough i such an endeavour is anyone’s up the intriguing question of what she will and officials are burning with the formalities the midnight oO in the decision is still more than a year away - guess. Appointing a new Governor when the do if the MMC rules that its takeover of Scot- their effort to draw up a maxi mini -Budget. Mr George’s contract doesn't run out until ; moment arrives a year from now is one thing, be first puff ofsmoke has emerged from RaU should be blocked. Since she has already The trouble is that 1 the other ideas that the July next year -it is probably already too late but it would have been quite disastrous for Beckett towers down on Victoria Street rejected the remedy suggested by John Government T has flagged — > up from reduc- for such pleading. The Bank’s new masters I the new Government to have been laced in and the message for those contemplating Bridgeman at the OFT that National Express ing the nue of tax credit on dividends ail the in Downing Street will do what they will and its first month of office with Mr George’s res- get rid of its competing bus service, Scottish way to | ambitious welfare reform schemes a part of it is almost certainly to pul their ignation on an issue of principle. pipeline and awaiting clearance, does not CityLink, the other option would appear to such as the introduction of an earned in at the Bank, shares own man probably Gavyn Even so, “government sources", multiply- ! look terribly encouraging. be getting sbot of SootBafl. Dearly compe- income tax credit - in place of family credit Davies of Goldman Sachs. inglike rabbits at the moment, have given that The President of the Board of Trade has tition is not the only criterion for | Mrs Beck- range from very to devilishly complicated. will Conspiracy theorists therefore see the impression. One was quoted in the FT as say- I cot only referred the takeover of two rail fran- ett She has widened the public interest lest Trying lo make sure there are no unseen present shenanigans over reform of the Bank ing the Governor has “played into our hands" chises by National Express to the Monopo- and business will have to take note. Trevor Hemmings gallops into Lingfield Park racecourse IN BRIEF Fund managers Business confidence rising in Germany The Ifo survey of German business showed a surprise rise in con- fidence in April after an equally unexpected decline in March. Tbe headline activity index returned to its highest level since May 1995. The main reason for tbe improvement was a better assess- ‘not investing in ment of current economic conditions rather than improved ex- pectations for tbe future. Analysts said the increase in the index nevertheless pointed to rising output and orders. French industrial output falls best performers’ French industrial output fell in March after a bounce in Febru- ary, the volatile pattern explained tty energy production. The most important component, manufacturing output, increased by 0.4 per cent after a 3.9 per cent increase during February, with the ^ -Tom Stevenson attempt no more than match- risen sharply from 11.2 per biggest gains in the production of consumer goods. Financial Editor ing an index but at a consider- cent to 14.7 per cent. ft*'/'. ably lower cost than actively According to Baring Houston Small firms 'produce poor returns’ Evidence emerged yesterday managed funds. that leaves institutions particu- that fund managers are not in- Derek Casey, head of Baring larly badly placed this year Small companies relatively few directors, • with non-executive v. V -- vesting enough in the market’s Houston's research depart- when good growth in GDP is ex- combined with incestuous boards and management commit- fastest growing asset classes. ment, said; "We are trying to put pected to result in a good year tees underperform the stock market and produce poor returns V Figures compiled by Baring, direct property performance for property. In 1987. when for shareholders. They also tend to set themselves undemand- v: Houston & Saunders, the prop- into context. These figures add GDP was strong, property out- ing profit targets to justify share option schemes, according to erty advisory arm of Dutch to the current debate about the performed all its main com- a report by Manifest, a specialist database employed by fund — bank ING, showed that insti- spread of institutional port- petitorclasses by a wide margin. managers. tutions have cut their holdings folios, and suggest that property Property returns were 26 per in direct property by half over returns are vastly underrated, cent compared to 8 per cent for Christies optimistic on sales .v the past 10 years despite it and that institutions are UK equities, 15 per cent for gifts • being one of the best perform- surprisingly underweight-" and a faU of9 per cent for over- The chairman of auctioneers Qmsti.es International, Lord ... ing assets. According to the research, seas shares. Hindlip, painted an optimistic outlook for sales at the annual gen- eral yesterday. said Christies its best J. The figures followed a day the balance of institutional The chances of that sort of meeting He had enjoyed week 7 after an analysis - from WM, portfolios represented by direct performance being repeated of sales in New York last week since 1990, selling $235m worth sales i . the Edinburgh-based fund man- property holdings has fallen ofimpressionist and modecnpicture. Howeverjewellery had agement performance special- from 113 percent in 1990 to. just tires this week from. Land Se- dipped after a “spectacular^ year in 1996. ist, showing pension funds 5.2 per cent last year. That has curities Britain's largest landlord, 1" failing to match tbe return been despite a 9.6 percent com- which showed a 13 percent rise First-time jobless claims up in US T achieved by the FTSEAH Share pound growth in the total return in net assets as rental growth in Index in the first quarter of this (capital gain plus income) from good quality buildings took off. The number of Americans lining up to collect first-time unem- year. According to WM, pen- property in the last 10 years. If property enjoys another ployment benefits rose by 5,000 last week, the government said, “ sion funds only managed a 4.6 That performance put prop- bumper year, funds will fail to but analysts said the level of new claims still suggested a strength- per cent return on their UK erty in fourth place behind UK enjoy the benefit thanks to ening economy. The Labor Department said weeklyjobless claims T equity holdings in the three and US equities and UK bonds their reduced weightings. They rose to 322,000 in the week ended 17 May from a downwardly "" j— months to March, compared but ahead of UK cash, Euro- are also much more heavily revised 317,000 the week earlier. -."with a 53 per cent return from pean equities, index linked pits exposed to equity markets Lingfield Park racecoursewas bought Newcastle. Mr Hemmings has kept The new claims activity fell short of Wall Street's forecast of “ trafing for the three years 324,000 clahnx. four-week moving average climbed to • the market as a whole. and other overseas equities. which, after strong runs on yesterday by hotel owner and pub Farrfngfbrd past The The two surveys are bound to Despite their relatively poor both sides of the Atlantic, look manager, Faningford, for £10m. The deal with a series of interest free unsecured 333,250 from a revised 332300 a week earlier. Economists usu- ' fuel concerns that expensive showing, overseas equities now vulnerable lo a correction, es- effectively merges controlling stakes In loans. Following the deal, he will be the ally view the average as a more reliable yardstick ofjobless trends fund managers are failing to account for a larger proportion pecially if tbe Chancellor makes the two companies held by Trevor largest shareholder in Farrfngfbrd, which because it evens out weekly fluctuations in the data. But auto- they could of institutional portfolios than widely expected changes to the Hemmings, who made a fortune buying the plans to change its name to Arena. As well mobile industry strikes and Midwestern flooding have skewed 7 earn their keep and r accelerate the trend towards six years ago and tbe balance tax credits that gross funds Pontins holiday camp business from as the racetrack, Lingfield Park includes a the moving average recently, making it a Jess useful gauge for J index-tracking funds. These given over to UK bonds has enjoy on their dividend income. GrandMet and selling it on to Scottish & golf course and 150 acres of farm land. now, some economists said. . PowerGen expands overseas DTI may 3 warns of last year's months. plant lo be buDt in Indonesia and Mortgages Michael Harrison Electric, built during abortive bid. But Ed Wallis. He also said that PowerGen a 30 per cent stake in a £875 said: “If was negotiating a new set ofcoal coal-fired station in Thailftnd. The PowerGen, Britain's second PowerGen ’s chairman, fake motor contracts the projects will increase Pow- biggest electricity generator, a REC comes up and the win- with RJB Mining, two NOTICE OF INTEREST RATE VARIATION it owner of the English coalfields, erGen’s investment in overseas yesterday expanded its in- 'dow of opportunity to buy at significantly lower prices power stations to £700m and give ternational ' base by taking without regulatory interference insurer consider it se- than those in its current con- it interests in 7, 700 megawatts of interest rates for mortgages stakes in two overseas power is there we would The following tracts, which also endues! year. generating capacity. station projects worth £13bn riously. of of 10-4 stressed, however, that He said that about a third of Mr King said that within five The Department of Tirade and provided b Centrebank, a Division Bank but said it was stEU interested in He y in tapping PowerGen’s output would be years, total output from over- Industry yesterday declared buying a regional electricity PowerGen’s strategy of Scotland, will apply with effect from 50th May covered through partnership seas power stations in which Eastern Star Motor Policies to company. into the electricity supply mar- for the opening deals with RED. PowerGen has an interest be a fraudulent insurer and Its larger rival. National ket in readiness 1997 for both new and existing borrowers. domestic market in He was speaking as Power- would be the same as its UK said any motorists with cover Power, has. also redoubled up of the progressing well with- Gen announced a modest rise generating capacity. issued by tbe “company” should efforts to expand internationally 1998 was ^ the need to buy a REG in pre-tax profits last year to Mr Wallis refused to com- seek alternative cover. ty after 'the two generators were out Centrebank Mortgage Rate King, managing di- £575m but warned that in- ment on Labour’s windfall tax A man has been arrested blocked last year from bidding Deryk rector, said that PowerGen had creased competition in the UK other than to confirm that and released on bail in con- for RECs by tbe Monopolies and (Variable) agreement to electricity market would put PowerGen had passed a sub- nection with the fraud, said a 7.59% per annum Mergers Commission. signed beads of greater pressure on margins mission to the Treasury setting i police spokesman. last week . National Power 1 thisyesu . out its case to be excluded. Mr The DTI said that Eastern in re- ments with several RECs and availed ft had no interest ' planned to sign contracts with PowerGen is taking a 40 per Whllis is expected to meet John Star claimed that its policies Stabilised Charging Rate newing its interest in a REC by coal-fired Battle, the new Energy Minis- were underwritten at Lloyd’s of Southern several of them in the neat few cent stake in a JE40Qm selling' its stake in London and gave a non-existent 7.89% per annum address in Gracechurch Street What would you like in the Gty of London as its informative: offices. A spokesman for the Adaptable Mortgage Plan Charging Lloyd’s insurance market has 1997 the following interest to do this weekend? With effect from 2 Jure denied any -connection with Rate 7.75% per annum rates will apply: Eastern Star. were Account The policies sold Premier Cheque through SOS Insurance Ser- its Home Loan Rate %EAR vices; which claims as base Overdraft Rate Go trekking in Paris? a residential address in East 9.6% London. 7.59% per annum Agreed overdraft for A spokeswoman for the DTI 1 balances up to Cl 0,000 or said: ‘We know of about 50 in- Mortgage dividuals who have got Eastern Centrebank Mortgage Rate Plus Star policies so far. 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If a mortgage g *[\T)EPEM)E\T No charges have yet been The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland- 8.74% pa 9.10% pa MMCJCiZujUiMraBB i?S Ail loan amounts» brought against the man, said, IT IS. ARF YOU; Group the spokesman. Bank pic Member HSBC - indefenpent rprnvr - ™ ^ THE 24 business The Investment Column Whisky edited by Magnus Grimond # firm waits Storehouse owns up for merger to its mistakes the face of it, all is And the internation- On everal retailers have tak- growth. Vosper. Prof- has sales of looking rosy for pummelling in the al division, which en a in the cote shipbuilding op- is being ex- its last months, tart none almost £100m, fallout S few erations rose 12 per cent and eastern Europe more so than Storehouse. panded into and and the Ear East- Shares in the BbS Around half the group's Judging Storehouse is diffi- Grimond riod of disruption during the in- Mbthercare retailer have been orders relates to Magnus in the mass £300m of hit failing from last cult. BhSisstroDg tegration oftbe two companies. hard, .which is roughly equiv- market sector ana 90 per cent ships, year Glenmorang- year’s high of 359p to barely turnover in Glenmorangie, maker of tbe Earlier this mums visit alent to last year's than last week. of pregnant eponymous malt whisky, is ie paid £7m for Allied more 200p the business of £147m. Ardbeg recently as January they Mothercare. ready to pick up any drinks Doraecq's mothballed As There is a strong “base then, It is just that not enough of dislodged result of distillery in Islay, which it now stood at 300p but since in the brands as a anything- Confi- load” going forward £8. 9m. when Storehouse issued its them buy the £24bn merger between reckons is valued at has shape of the £170m Royal statement, dence in this company The profits rise from £6.57m Christmas trading seven Guinness and Grand Metro- shaken, but on Navy contract to supply the company’s own joint been badly politan. Speaking as the com- to £7.8m in the year to March even minehunters up to 2001. of £127m it trades on its whisky Whtsky left) have been taking the forecasts pany announced a 19 per cent came on the back of galore: (from Geoffrey Maddreli and Peter Dartaysfiire saw Glenmorangie's brokers has also signed a mem- forward raring ofjust 11. At Vosper at' double sales grow by per cent last year, around rate of world-wide demand knife to their forecasts. SBC a rise in profits "for last year, sales growing around 20 double the orandum of understanding Cazenove have these levels it may. now be Geoffrey Maddreli, chairman, the rate of the market. The com- Warburg and supply two £50m a look. with Qatar to groups. Peter Derbyshire, consider winding up the Indian now downgraded from £l4Sm worth said: “There is bound to be man- Sutherlands said the company patrol craft and is in pole po- result aging director, said Glen- had done remarkably weD in the operation, he suggested. to£130m. some fallout as a of the sition to win the foUow-oo or- per cent! morangie was now the face of Weak pricing in the Glenmorangie's £320,000 City scepticism has centred merger. We’re monitoring the .10 Vosper’s future der of three minehunters for for malt. fastest-growing spirit in Amer- market. said the per cent charge for the Indian joint ven- on nervousness about the situation carefully and if some wide demand He 45 Saudi Arabia, having built the to grow sales brands come up for The three “wood finishes” ica after Henriessy Cognac, with increase in sales of bottled ture writes off tbe investment, company’s ability deaL appropriate looks shipshape first three in a £150m - growth cent taking total losses, to £800,000 and concerns that its costs sale we would look at them.” launched last year Glen- of40 per against ZS whisky and 22 per cent reduc- The problem, say the bears, port, • than it was re- The company said it did not morangie part-matured in per cent for the market. tion in bulk sale to blenders and over the past three years. were higher competitive hares in Vosper Thorny- is that in the new underestimate how much the sherry and madeira casks - had He said younger, more af- other bottlers showed that the Shares in the family-con- porting. have rather run out world of defence contracting, grown around per cent of fluent drinkers were “leapfrog- quality of earnings was im- trolled company, known until As it turned out the results croft merger could change the dy- to 10 will not be as lu- expecta- of steam over the past these orders tbe whisky market. the malt’s overall sales of around ging” whisky blends and moving proving. However, a £617,000 last year as Macdonald Martin were no worse than S namics of as the ones which are pre-exceptional two years, despite the warship crative But there would be opportuni- 200,000 cases, the company said. straight on to malts. less from associates in India and Distilleries, remained unmoved tions, with for faultless profits making so much money short term for small The new tastes were introduced The figures were broadly in China was higher than he had by the figures, with the limited profits 16.7 per cem higher at builder’s ties in the Vosper. Meanwhile the di- and the in the year io record. Few could quibble and nimble operators to take to tempt new drinkers, particu- line with expectations. Alan expected. Further big losses voting A shares at 945p £119m qon-ship- with another very healthy set versification into inevitable pe- larly women and younger age Gray of Edinburgh brokers and the company was likely to B shares at £10.65. 29 March. The shares, which advantage of the showing buQding work, ranging from had been edging up this week, of figures yesterday 11 providing the careers service rose 7p to 223 3p. pre-tax profits climbing year in three English counties to But the market is not whoOy per cent to £30. 7m in the doing the maintenance at One 2 One convinced. True, there was an to March, with cash balances at Cheltenham, is only element of mea culpa about rising 45 per cent to £1 IGra- GCHQ backs beer despite decline driven by acquisitions. Vaux repre- being yesterday's presentation. Man- Some of that money the return on cap- unveils agement admitted that some sents advance payments from Even so, ships, ital in the new businesses at 40 tbe discounts beiag nego- improved by 2.7 percentage income from machines was up its stores looked like some- customers for Vesper’s Clifford German and and the which is the com- per cent looks appetising tiated will change.” points to 68.6 per cent and nearly 30 per cent to £l.2ra. thing out of the 1970s and that but £90m tariff cost pany’s own represents nearly group profits of around £33m Vaux. the Sunderland-based Results for the six months to achieved room rates increased Brewing and wholesaling ocrw some of its products and this the shares That is more year would put regional pubs 15 March show brewing hit by by per cent to £49.12. represents a tiny portion of the systems left a lot to be desired. 2S0p a share. brewing and 9 multiple of that mis- than a third of the share price, on a' lowly forward group, said yesterday it re- the higher discounts \feux is hav- There were divergent results business. reductions They admitted if the cash is partic- which edged up to 807 .5 12, falling to 8 mained committed to beer, ing to offer its retail customers, from beer. Profits from tbe Profits there rose just 2.7 takes had been made, 33p yesterday. stripped out. Hold on. despite the fact that hotels while hotels remained the tenanted estate dropped 12 per per cent to £1.4m. Volume sales Chris Godsmark ularly in chfldrenswear. And to see aow generated nearly half its group's star business last year. cent to £5.5 m, reflecting a rose, but -the company was Business Correspondent that they had been slow profits. Unveiling a 14 per cent rise in drop in the numbeT of pubs forced to offer bigger discounts, the boom in branded sports- Storehouse: At a glance Sir Paul Nicholson, chair- pre-tax profits to £15.2m, Vhux from 771 to 695 and lowerbeer while contract sales fell 40 per The mobile phone industry was wear, which is hitting sales of Martfflt value: £941 ,8m. share price 223.5p man. said the rate of decline in revealed that trading results sales, which slipped 2.7 per cent. Halfthe beersold in Vhux bracing itself for another price olderchfldren’s clothing hard. * from other war after One 1 One, the small- That is belatedly being ad- beer sales had halved over the from the Swallow Hotels chain cent pubs now come Five-year record 93 94 95 96 97 past 12 months and had now bad soared 28 per cent to However, there was better suppliers. est of the four networks, un- dressed, with secondary " tariff brands of sportswear being in- ’v tiff virtually levelled out. £11 -5m - close to halfthe total. news from the 171-strong man- Earnings per share rose from veiled a package of cuts TtarMyflr_(£bri)-. 4 uiT; -ips' f; re- aged portfolio, where profits 7.23p to and the interim combined with an aggressive troduced in BhS and the larger His finance director. Neal The figures show that 8.33p n Pre-tax profits |£m) 15. 61.2 90.8 109.9 97.8 Gossage, said: “We believe gional hotels are sharing in the were up 14 per cent at £4.7m. dividend rises from 336p to marketing assault. Children's World stores. the analysts point to rela- : there is a long term future for current boom in bookings. Oc- Food turnover rose 7.3 per 3.7p. The shares (tipped 0.5p to One 2 One claimed new But •• ' 17:8": per share o.i 9A • • bantings . (pj . ^jf: \15f Vaux as an integrated brewer cupancy rates at the 30 hotels cent, drink by 4.5 per cent and 277.5p yesterday. prices were at least 20 per cent tively weak sales, with like-for- their rivals'. like sales 3.1 per cent higher 7.2 8.1 lower than The Dividends per share (p) 5.0 5.5 6.3 packages, which start from next in BhS last year, but 33 per month, adjust existing prices to cent down in Mothercare. Operating profit Share price IN BRIEF Markdcrwns unsold sights include free call time, an inno- of goods On pence CIA sets on begun Orange. seem to have been a problem 100 400- vation by Graystone directors depart Tbe aim is to take a bigger in both businesses, affecting DBhs aoq Mothercare slice of the lucrative small- and margins. and medium-sized business mar- Hie company's supported presence in US Graystone pic said that Colin Davies, the finance director, 60- the executive director Patrick Fox, have resigned after notifying ket, as One 2 One extends its say the worst is over. The Cathy Newman well as make acquisitions to the board of their interest in acquiring certain of the group’s coverage to South Wiles, Scot- management aims to make 40- achieve his goal of beading one land. Tyneside and East Anglia. Children’s World into a “cat- 20 - CIA Group, the independent of the top six media buying The network raised its coverage egory killer” in the nursery media buying company, yester- points in tbe world by 2001. group companies. from 40 percent to 80 percent equipment market, attempting giant day announced its biggest ac- Talks are being held with sev- of the UK last year said it to lead the market with quisition to date and said eral companies about possible Sleepy Kids warns of sales slump aimed to raise this to 85 per cent stores. Refurbishmenls in the -20*- 92 93 94 95 . 93.. 94 96 : 97 further expansion was a prior- alliances orjoint ventures. at the end of this vear. BhS stores are increasing sales : ity^particularly in the US. The Scandinavian acquisi- Sleepy Kids, which owns the rights to Budgie the Helicopter, said Jan Peters, One 2 One man- Tee company said it was pay- tion will be funded in cash and that ir expected fim-half sales to be significantly lower than last aging director, denied she was ing up to £29.6ra for MarMedia shares, and is conditional on year. Martin Powell, chairman, told the group’s annual meeting igniting another price war. “We Celsis needs to shake the inertia bug Group, a Sweetish media spe- CIA raising around £l7ra by that tile board was ’‘exploring ways of adding shareholder value do not see this as a price war at fore- here is a risk that the market has dis- search group, which rated it more sensitive and cialist. The deal virtually com- placing 123 million, shares at to the group" and is “actively seeking strategic alliances” in the all." But she declined to network's missed the potential of Celsis. True, the reliable than rival machines. The group has pletes its European network, but 150p each. media and related sectors. He said that, if appropriate, the group cast the impact on the which develops fast, simple ma- forged alliances with cash-rich partners whose investing in the US remains high MarMedia's clients, which would raise external money to invest in new’ projects. The group's projected revenues. Tgroup, everything on the agenda. include flora, Tbyota and NestlC, shares fell 03p to 16p. Jim McCafferty, telecom- chines to detect bugs in from sales teams ensure faster and more thorough to syrups, has prejudices Chris Ingram, executive will sit alongside CIA’s portfo- munications analyst with the shampoos cough some access to a huge, largely untapped market of around Finally, chairman, said the company lio of advertisers such as Eric- Perkins Foods shows first-quarter progress stockbrokers Hoare Govett, to overcome. £3bn. joint venture partners had to have a presence in the sson, Shell, Microsoft Nike said other operators would Though Celsis is a diagnostics company, it shoulder most of the research costs and Cri- US, which has a 40 per cem and Swatch. Perkins Foods has had an encouraging start to the year, accord- respond. “As One 2 One ap- tends to get lumped in with the volatile sis has £5.4m cash in the bank. share of the world advertising Dag Ulvegarde, a director ing to the company's chairman, Michael Davies. Speaking at the proaches national coverage, biotechnology sector. So when share prices flop Competition will spring up as 97 per cent it collateral damage, while no one of still market He said: “I'd like to be and founder of MarMedia, will annual general meeting, Mr Davies said pre-tax profits for the other networks may feel they there suffers companies use agar plates to test for prices to expects upside from a maker of diag- bugs, slow and complicated method. it there with more than a foothold join the CIA board. Mr Ingram first four months of this year were ahead or last year. Frozen foods need to reduce their much a But some time next year.” also strengthened the board were making good progress and fresh produce were experienc- this level That’s what hap- nostic kits. Since Celsis floated at lOQp in 1993. is comforting that Celsis bought its key com- Mr Ingram said CIA would yesterday with the promotion of ing strong trading, he claimed. pened with Orange.” its share price, currently up 2p at 104p, has done petitor, Lumac, last October. need to forge alliances with in- Mainardo de Nardis. in charge One 2 One, which lost £280ra little, partly on disappointment that despite Crisis could hit profits this year. Underly- it management's unshakeable belief in the ing ternational media buyers as of CIA’s European operations. Growth for Jackson Group order book last year, said was on course losses for the year to March fell a third to to break even in 1999. prospects, the group is still loss-making. £4m, with underlying sales more than doubling Jackson Group is optimistic that its construcion unitwill achieve Ms Peters said its joint own- But Celsis has strengths which could change to £S3m. Panmure Gordon forecasts £3m prof- significant sales growth this year. Peter Green, chairman, told share- ers, Cable & Wireless and US that. First Its products, based on established its for 199S and £10m for 1999. With no prod- holders at the company s annual meeting that the order book for West, were “very committed" to hioluminescence technology, look good. Cel- ucts to fail, inertia looks the biggest risk for NOTICE OF VARIATION tbe construction division during the first four months of the year maintaining their stakes in the sis’ hand-held SystemSure device recently got these shares. But on 10 limes 1999 earnings, suggested that “significant turnover growth would be achieved company. the thumbs up from an independent US re- they are worth a punt in me vear, with some margin improvement'’. However, the en- OF INTEREST RATES gineering division continued to experience pressures on margin and turnover. Renewing your Bridon meets challenge of strong sterling Exchange makes With effect from 2 June 1997 Bridon, the engineering company, said that it was performing home insurance in levels than at the same point last year, despite the £41.5m provision at better fo Mortgage Rate will increase to strength of sterling. At the group’s annual meeting yesterday. May or June ? Brian Clayton, chairman, said: “We have seen improved order Tom Stevenson up by more than 28 per cent. 7. 60% per annum for in our manufactured products businesses, both for wire Financial Editor M!r Casey, who was appoint- books If are and wire rope and all of them are performing ahead of last year.” ed last August to replace the Ex- you 50 both existing and new borrowers. Mr Clayton said the company had won a contract to supply wire The London Stock Exchange change's ousted head, Michael or over, you for the Jiangyin bridge in China, but said that performance at more than doubled its operating Lawrence, said: “We have a its UK Certex business remained poor. The group's share price surplus in the year to March be- clear agenda for the year ahead - could save The 100% Mortgage Rate rose 2p to lOlp. fore malting a £41 3m provision to complete the changes to cover a two-year cost-cutting agreed in our strategic review with Saga, Graseby chief executive quits programme following the lass of and to grow our business by pro- will also increase to 8.10% its Tklisman settlements income viding the users of our markets call us NOW Electronics group Graseby yesterday announced the resignation to Crest. The loss of that func- with highly relevant services at per Insurance cover is annum, along with the of its chief executive Paul Lester. Mr Lester is leaving the com- tion is expected to reduce the effective cost.” Saga Home Insurance comprehensive and pany on 30 June to join the construction group Balfour Beany, LSE's income by up to £60ra. He dismissed rumoursthat the could offer you genuine low cost Royal Premier Mortgage Rate and part of BICC. as managing director. At its annual meeting the Gavin Casey, the Exchange’s Exchange was planning a flota- 24 hour domestic company said that group sales in the first quarter of the year were cbief executive, said good tion in the near future despite savings over other FREE emergency and legal Flexible 16 per cent ahead. This came largely from organic growth in the progress had been made in re- its appearance on a semi-official policies, while Choice Mortgage Rate giving helpline business, benefited from the infusion therapy ducing its cost base, which fell list of flotation candidates. medical which you cover that fully . FREE pen with your to acquisition made last July. Graseby s shares rose 6p to 157^p. during the year by 24 per cent The provision in the accounts 6.85%, with effect from this date. protects your home quotation to £122.4m. As a result, he an- marks the end of a decline in the nounced a £I0ra rebate to the numbers of staff working the and possessions. 1 Company Results II at LSE's member firms. Exchange. In tbe mid-1980s, the Call us today Existing Tbmorer£ Pre-tax £ BPS Dividend The Saga Price Promise arrangements Mr Casey said: “The strong LSE's payroll amounted to about For your free no Acatos & HndWOO (I) 139.4m(l4715fll) 3.24m p.09m) 5.7P169P) 4J)p P-5p) financial performance this year, 3300 people. By the end of the If you find another obligation quote simply apply for (37\41p) Centralised Airflow OnartbRlF] 105.03m (101 jm) 2.097m (5.141m) 15.74p 8p(9p) | and our progress on financial re- restructuring programme that Mortgage comparable policy at call us on the number Mt&rsrfl) 1595m (1397m) 1.11m (f.73m) 5.6JP (8-ffiJp) 1.800(1 75p) structuring. puts the Exchange will have fallen to 550. One new will be a lower price within below. We Services (F) 27.7m prOBinJ 89m (79m) 4p (3.140) on a sound footing for the next addition was announced yester- customers. Bnctornwhn 11.BP J11.4p) pleased to answer any 2 1.50 stage of aur development.” daywith the appointment of ft- months of taking out Brooke Industrial (I) 15 J8m (10.65m) 697.000 (304,000) 7# (66p) (09p) questions you have on Income was maintained at ter Meinenzhagen, chairman of Saga Home Insurance, CarSmpIO 613m (69.9m) 2.1m [29801) 5.1 p (113(1) 19Bp Saga Home Insurance. £191.8m (£1 96.1m) thanks to ABN Hoare Govett, to Cebdt Intoraattoui (F) 11.1m (52m) -5.52m (-5 Efim) -654p(4.0p) AMRO we will refund you the continued buoyancy in listing and tbe LSE's board. •Otyot Union PH (F) 2.45m (28m) 1.02m (320,0301 9.43p(863p) 59p(59apj difference. trading. There were a record 431 Mr Casey said the order-dri- 0800 GbnrnnflNgta (F) 46.1m (38.7Sm) 79m [6.57m) 41JE6p (39970) 1120 WC The Royal Bank new UK and international com- ven trading in FTSE 100 stocks F*rt*ortflF) 1.68m (124m) -111.000 PUBO) -0.450 (-0.1 Ip) 414 525 panies listed on the main mar- was on track to meet its target of Scotland 2J55m&933m> 575ffl (637m) 639p (56 7p) 25.2pm ket and AIM during the year, start date in October. Once im- quoting Sfflrtjwew* [FJ 37m (28.80) 59m [4 1m) 24.92p(1Bp) 7.rap (5.B1p) SAGA reference almost one-fifth higher than in plemented, the system where Royal StarehtuM (F) TJ50m [1934m) 97 8m (109.9m) 1590(17.80) SIpP-Zp) Services Ltd The Bank of Scotland pic. the previous period. dealers post quotes on a screen ID5713 Van Group (!) 11456m (125m) 15.2m (13 Jm) 8.44p(7^p) 3.7p (3.580) Trading Sjbx Strrfca U4. FREEPOST 731 Uwt opira Monday lo Frida}' Registered Office: 3b St. Andmv Square, Edinburgh £H2 also reached record and then agree a price over the 2YB. Vosper (F) 240,7m 30.73m 65m) 61. Mhliidtanx Square, FoBuaiMK IAZ Ttarajwtt (237,77m) [27 9p CTO Utai>7ph$tlan|gj>fM - I (57.9fl 26P levels, with equity turnover telephone wfll be replaced for pm Registered UK in Scotland No. 90312. firt Wrier* arts (F) 0.62m (Sim) 3.37m (3.17m) 34j3p (3Z.4p| 12.Bp(11.75p| rising by 163 percent in theyear, the market's largest stocks a by S«£) Scrvuct Lid would like to xnd >ui iofonrarioo siwt ofttcr Sago product! ind IR-Rnaf ffl- Interim (H) - Wn? mortis and international equity trading wholly automated system. wfvicci and nuy paw on vow dcuib to other Sago compaue* for this purpose. * V V — 1 : THE INDEPEN DENT • FRIDAY 2a MAY 1997 25 market report / shares Data Bank Taking Stock FTSE 100 Tesco and Williams Holdings fight off bear attacks 4651.8 +Qft 4TSE250 ~ Bears attempted savage vague circulated of to stories prob- ground, although it ended even removed. British Aero- G Oliva; the shoe group, 4501.5 Tfesco and Williams HnIHingc ac lems at ooe of its operations. MARKET REPORT with a similar restriction, US above its low at 3315, off 8-5p. space, stepped out 3.5p to 4L5p. The the stock market turned in an Reed International was also to FTSE 350 Retailers, helped along by climbed 135p 13l5p. On Shares were 275p earlier Ah uneventful performance with gnawed, suffering the worst Wednesday Rolls revealed higher sales in April and relief for- -month. Helped fay a property : 2253.3 4.Q Footsie struggling DEREK PAIN + to dose 9.8 Rxttsie fall, down F8pat607.5p. over the Storehouse results, eign shareholdings had hh the windfall which sharply points higher. Profit' forecasts were turned in firm displays. percent upper limit. »tAQ VOLUME stock market reporter of the year some 29.5 reduced gearing, it returned Tfeseo, at one tune down lOp, trimmed as it became clear Storehouse gained 7p to 223.5p Insurances continued to to profit in the 57 weeks to 835.6m shares, had to contend with stories that 50 or so US legal publica- and Boots lOp to 713.5p. gather benefits from the end February Swede Pieter 46 r 723 bargains that analyst David McCarthy at tions acquired in January could BSkyB edged ahead 3p to had a poorsession, felling by up Transport shares retreated Norwich Union, flotation with Gyllenhammar has been 1 BZW had Accident Gilts Index produced a strong lose much, of their copyright 584J5p. Stories are circulating lo£l-V4 following a disappoint- after Margaret Beckett. Presi- General putting cm dabbling in the shares *iwi at sell circular. protection following a court that the satellite television sta- ing take-up of the £1.5bn dent of the Board ofUade, re- to 952p. Legal & General the last count 95.66 - 13p had 435 per 0.97 His advice, however, was ruling. . tion is planning to issue US auction. ferred the proposed National rose 5p to 4603p. cent. He has had stakes in ' '5-- i Vs much less dramatic. He stxD re- The Anglo Dutch group ADRs in the next few weeks. ADdas, the department store Express takeover of ScolRaH On duD days there is in- Chloride and Phoenix ' =•: Timber . gards Tesco Share spotlight as a long-term buy bought the publications from Hie move is likely to include a chain, firmed to201p. NacWest and Central Trains to the Mo- evitably an effort to get a take and made bis »>»"»» in but felt that short-term there Thomson Corporation, which cash raising element. Securities expects next weeks nopolies and Mergers Com- over story burring- Tadpole Sweden with a l> swraprea+para number of was an argument for given ... switching had been ordered to sell them IHewmt, the struggling cable results to be encouraging and mission. Mis Beckett's referral, Technology was the treat- takeover bids. out of the - ?,*> superstores front- by the US anti- trust authorities. group, had another i rate the shares a buy. without giving National a ment, lifted USp to lL25p. The runner into rival Safeway, up 7d The court decision allows session, bitting a new low, Cortecs International, undertakings, shares have come down from Guinness the chance to offer Peat, nm fay New at 366.5p. rival publishers to electronically 4.5p to 68p. The loss-making drugs group, was another to was seen as the first shot in a 69p in the past 12 months and Zealander Sir Ron Brierfe* is Hbview was prompted by the scan the law books and repub- group, stripped of its title as the attract analytical support. Government get-tough policy three years ago. when hopes thought to have turned its suspicion that Tesco ‘s recent lish them. Although there are Greig Middleton produced with the sector. were riding high over its com- attention to Iceland/the heady sales advance would hopes the court decision will be one of those “fair value" esti- National reversed 2&5p to puter developments, touched frozen food chain. It snapped have tailed off. The BZW fore- overturned there is a deep fear less Oommunicatkxis, is looking mates, suggesting the shares 49(X5p: Stagecoach 13p to 648p 434Sp. up a 3 per cent stake, partly cast for this year is nnrhanyH that Reed's legal publishing, increasingly forlorn. The shares currently have a 473p value, and Go-Ahead 23p to 448-5p- Eagles, the rugby club which from the Electricity Supply at £825 m. At the close Tesco seen as an important element were floated at 182p. which would stretch to 725p in RoHs-Royce rose 35p to arrived at 40p on Wednesday, Pension Fund. GFs stakes was down 7p to 375p. in its growth plans, will be re- Footsie ended at 4,651.8. 12 months. The shares were 24&5p on hopesMis Beckettwin fell a further 25p to 31p. The include car dealer Gowrings Williams Holdings, the fire tarded, parlicularb'tfcopyright The supporting FTSE 250 in- none too impressed, falling look favourably on the Sheffield dub's head coach, and Young & Co's. Brewery protection and security group, is also damaged in Britain and dex edged ahead 1.1 to 4p to 21 Ip. ay’s request to have the cei Phil Larder, quit on debut day; Iceland was little changed at MJ J ASQ NDJ.F MAM endured a 4p fall to 397p as Europe. 4,501 .5p. Government stocks Cdltech continued to give on its overseas investors lifted. replaced by John Kear. 89p. * -» .» t p*!SSS Woa at **M mSE tack nSS VM P^SaSa «£"Zw o« « n£S i Alcoholic Share Price Data Beverages Distributors X -V 04 87 94a 87V HV BjMmaP tn a- re 84 «v jbiwb* av 1 H»* Cou* 685, - “ wiPricnarelnatBrlngttareptwtiefanaiBdThayMdlBlaBtyaartdhAdend, 50 2ft* «ied Obhucq *+45 -V 33> 21. SaaEurt 27V » 86 SB rev T5V 4V.M 87 I 5 TO>* so BasaBdupbr . « es or too W MC *>. tB 4406 832V -1 3705 MWConct nan eaa, sotV aara a fi sz75 - 32 «7 tob £> to fiiSL. S W •4V OO V 88 JV BT 87 450 »v am cbm 3a 7V Rtmra K7V *20 P® cent es o percentage of Die share price. Tho prlcataHirMigs (P/E) ram a tfw share 4 . 4*. - 25C ttV - KnoiQAic* si': » «u » tafc* 965 - 25 a nw 8 98 53 «» mV mV 1 HI H _.A «5: *. ” anca dvidod by tea wrti aamtioE par area, awaudnq nam*. bbs - 4aV 205 48V 00 aeo LraDao tn 3S7 mo ™ Sjj, awpBaral tw tu i TO) 602V n wuye a xsr ZCB j B2V 4008 u 4V S mo a»V tov 94** ,>7<* 1 7 1 8 . . _.i_ v— INDEPENDENT ppTnAV as MAY 3997 - THE AO business candy’s Scudder sale imminent Rover chiefs cigar gifts couia crisis shine are known acquisitions in the USwashigh- years that has Cuban ecutives at Scudder matched the of a David Usborne the start European sharp in the stock New York to favour selling to a gains US mar- bank on the grounds that Eu- of DiDoo Read, the mergers and kets. These flows slowed in thought to be ready acquisitions boutique, to SBC March, as the market dipped, Stand by for further serious trade Business The rush by European banks to ropeans are People & Warburg across the Atlantic. Dr Walter strengthen their presence in to pay more for the firm. Warburg of London. but recovered somewhat during friction Switzerland paid $600m for the firm, con- April and this HasseUtus, the motorbiking chairman of the US is likely to be under- Union Bank of month. sidered most observers to be Scu cider's strength Rover, was so pleased with Land Rover’s •;=* scored shortly with the widely ex- (UBS) is known to have been by derives in candi- unexpectedly generous. because its improvement the annual JD Power ..if pected sale of Scudder Stevens among the most ardent pan of 12-year-old m - the bible of the US & Clark Inc, one of Will Street’s dates to acquire Scudder. A A spokesman at UBS in New position as ihe exclusive seller of quality survey «> money manage- UBS source said that while the York. David Walker, refused to foods for the American Associ- motor industry - that he presented all its pre-eminent .s' i-' • cigars. Only one ment and mutual fund firms. batik remained folly engaged in comment on Scudder. “We ation of Retired Persons. The US dealers with Havana Being in origin, A deal, which may be an- negotiations it faces strong don’t comment on market ru- arrangement gives Scudder- and slight problem. Cuban nounced within days jtnd per- competition from several other mours", he said But UBS has by extension any bank that buys Havana cigars are forbidden in the US, stated that - still view Fidel haps even before tins weekend, banks. already it is interested it a direct pipeline into one of where they take a dim of is likely to rank among the If the firm is sold instead to in broadening its position in New America's largest associations. Castro's regime. biggest ever consummated in- a domestic US buyer, the most York. “We would consider a Moreover, the company last Under the notorious Helms-Burton volving a US mutual fund com- Likely candidate is thought to be money management acquisi- month landed a similar exclu- Act, no one who has traded with Cuba is pany. The expected price tag for Chase Manhattan Bank Chase tion in the US", Mr Walker said. sive arrangement with, the allowed into the US. Since Rover is not with New York-based Scudder is already has its own mutual Founded 78 years ago, Scud- American Medical Association, planning to re-enter the US market likely to be between Slbn and fund operations in the US. der has SllSbn in assets under winch promises to open up a its car range untO 2004, Dr Hasselkus has ... Sl^bn (£615m and £922m)- UBS, by contrast, has virtually management, including $37bn pool of well-heeled and pros- no presang reason to go there for a while Talks have been going on for no mutual fond presence in the in mutual funds. Like all mu- perous potential investors. yet But should the US immigration several weeks between Scudder, US. Its main activity here is in tual fund firms in the US, it has A Scudder spokeswoman de- authorities decide to turn nasty anyway, ***•»- which is privately-held, and as investment banking. benefited from a huge increase clined yesterday to make any he would be in good company. •’** *' many as six serious suitors. Ex- The European appetite for in inflows over the past two comment on the possible sale. Among the list of chose who are also 1 1 persona non grata is Rupert Pennant Rea, the former deputy governor of the Bank of England. Incidentally, sin~e you ask. Land Rover recorded the biggest Southnews waits Interflora board improvement of any manufacturer in tbe survey. These things are, however, all relative. Sadly it is still languishing in the bottom quarter of the league for sports for prices to drop refuses to yield and utility vehicle makers. ,.«*-** the US - -tf-a Fidel Castro's reginne Is stBl forbidden tn Des Wilson, BAA‘s director of corporate Nosmol^gKKBR^^dewitb Cathy Newman at 'ihe right acquisitions*' in sur- Chris Godsmark “hiding behind the law because and public affairs, has been conducting a But young woman was found, ripped from rounding areas, he said. Business Correspondent they know that a postal ballot little tutorial in the airport operator's BBC's Food and Drink programme. her breast by her jilted lover. likelihood that newsprint Take-Off. Under tbe since last year it has also played host to The high asking price for re- Tbe of die entire membership could staff magazine thin best Involuntary heart operations were gional newspaper groups and a prices would increase at the end The battle over the sacking of see them removed.” He added headline, "Life under Labour what will Glenmorangje, maker of Scotland’s on the ground the other night but I was slowdown in growth in adver- of the year and the Govern- Interflora’s management took “That’s not leadership, it’s cow- it mean for BAA?” Des has been selling malt whisky. . m sassenach curious to knew just whose bleeding tising revenues have made ment’s plans for a minimum a decisive turn yesterday when ardice and the sooner they are answering a few questions about bow Geoffrey Maddrell, heart they had in mind when the Co-op Southnews, the regional pub- wage were also reasons for cau- the new board of directors, ap- removed from office the better.” the company thinks it will fare now that chairman of the group, was able to executives made the booking. “Whose lisher, cautious about the future. tion. pointed during a stormy mass The six-strong replacement Tony and his team are in the cockpit. reassure traditionalist topers yesterday year's do you think? Andrew Regan’s,” they group's Dark's comments came meeting almost two weeks ago. board was elected at the mass One of the questions is: “Does the that be will not be extending last . Gareth Clark, the Mr the Broxburn to crowed. Though, of course, ripping chairman, said the growth in ad- as he announced results fox the confirmed that they would not meeting of florists following a company know the new Labour £25m designer facelift of who heart out, was exactly whal he was trying vertising revenues enjoyed by year to the end of March show- yield to calls for a postal ballot rebellion over proposals to raise transport team?”. Des's reply runs thus: lain and the 16 famous employees to do to the Co-op. the regional press market had ing a 44 per cent advance to to endorse their election. the level ofsubscription charges “Yes, we do and we are particularly “hand craft” tbe precious malt there. begun to slow over the past four £5.9ra in pre-tax profits. Last night the 11 former di- for members. The organisation pleased that John Prescott will be Glenmorangie tripled its lead over favourite Out in cyberspace, there is more evidence months. As a result, South- The first full year's contri- rectors fired at the meeting is a mutually owned company heading up Transport and Environment. Glenfiddich, Scotland’s second year, that Gordon Brown took the Bank of PONTEFRACT news was more circumspect in bution from the Croydon stopped short of launching legal made up of 2,600 independent- He’s a former Secretary of State for Scotch, to 3 percentage points last England by total surprise this week. Even its outlook than at tbe same Advertiser Group, which South- action against their successors, ly owned and run florists. Transport who knows the issues well, and but even so the whisky may soon be yesterday afternoon, 24 hours after » bj-.i - •** time last year. news bought two years ago for but warned they would make a Though nearly 1,000 florists vot- we have had a useful dialogue with him eclipsed by sausages. Word has it that by announced that he was Although the company has £13m from Portsmouth & Sun- decision on whether to lake the ed at the meeting the old board over the years.” Hall's is among the 10 finalists, for “Pork Flash Gordon Product of the Year”, an award given by taking banking supervirion out of the Old shied away from spending heav- derland Newspapers, helped row to court by next Tuesday. A asked for a postal ballot of the Er, not quite. Mr Prescott has beeQ rj; IW«- Lady's hands, the Bank’s Internet rite was J>; ily on acquisitions, Mr Clark push revenuesmmniiK upnn 297.0 percentnerrem totn spokesman for the old board, entire membership, a move they many things in his life, including a steward the Meat and livestock Commission and rrying information about the claimed the prices being asked a record £37m. led by tbe former chairman, said was in line with Interflora's m the MerchamNavy. But the nearest he Good Housekeeping magazine. Where ca no Bank's computer for regional newspapers con- City analysts said Southnews David Parry, said they wanted articles of association. ever got to a ministerial job before 2 May next for Broxburn? changes. Perhaps the expert was too dismayed contemplating a* tinued to be a major deterrent. was sensible to bide its time on to consult members to gauge the The opposing camps have was shadowing successive Tory transport * future working for the SIB. He said he was “flabbergasted" icouisiDons. likely backing for legal action. both now received legal advice secretaries. BAA will no doubt be getting To a City restaurant where the good What a contrast with the Treasury's at some of the prices paid in re- Cliff Hide, media analyst at In a strongly worded state- which they claimed supported better acquainted with Mr Prescott in the people of the Co-op were celebrating boffins over in SW1 cent deals and would probably ABN Amro Hoare Govett, ment yesterday, Mr Pany ac- their case. months and years ahead. their victory over the young break-up own web site. The previous announce- wait forprices to come down be- said regional newspaper own- cused the new* board of “total Geoff Hughes, the Bristol artist, Andrew Regan. Their choice of had archived all documents under the heading fore looking to expand. ers had been consolidating disregard” for the views of florist appointed as acting chair- Things are on the up for Broxburn in location was appropriate, they felt. The ments and administration” by 9am on 2 to party was held in the Bleeding Heart, a “previous • Mr Clark said: "Prices will their businesses into geo- members. Some 470 florists man. said: “I believe the HGM West Lothian. It is already home a - new dawn, the Treasury r- only start to come down when graphic areas over tbe past two sympathetic to the previous di- was probably the largest de- leading part of Scotland’s indigenous well-hidden eaterie with a rather May. Since the even been able to broadcast its news people fall on hard times again. years and there were now few- rectors had signed a petition mocratic vote ofmembers. I am sausage making industry through Hall's gruesome history. It was in the yard has e-mail, just in case anybody had Thatlat maymav well take two Years.”years.” er opportunities to buy papers supporting their reinstatement. now asking members to accept of Broxburn, whose black puddings were outside the restaurant where, according by missed it elsewhere. Southnews would only look in blocks. Mr Pany said his rivals were the views of the majority.” recently voted top of the pops by the to legend, the still-beating heart of a somehow Foreign Exchange Rates Interest Rates Liffe Financial Futures Industrial Metals London Metal Exchange Settl amort HkMm EftConta Storuw Cash rnths Volume UlESlwS® chp — Starting Dollar Germany US 3 _P*e lordtoy traded 625% Dfficount 250% Prime 675% Discount 050% Akirnlnturn HG 1628.0-29 16395-40 113816 759550 2400 • Country Spot fourth 3 month* I Spot Lombard 450% Discourrf 500% Belgium (An ? ni-as 11250 171-21 151392 Dno&r Aluminium Aloy 1475.040 1495.0 1156 62700 180 Cauda Fad Firds 625% Discount 250% German Gvi 00 [junB7 100.73 ioi as ioas3 3476T1 am Bond 97 13043 12950 78106 CopperA 26195-21i 25225-23.5 42668 139965 1125 US 16345 10-8 Prime 4JS% Spain Central 300% ttaRsn Um 129 4S 12328 12300 12352 4528 S44.0-4.50 5640 118100 0 Canada 22415 65-60 erlan jKWlQMBd Lead 6355-650 7S% Diacount 500% W^yPtBpo525% Switz d 93.43 93*4 10890 79-73 3 mi saiting ftm! 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Rugby Le^ue improving with every were Tues- old, a trainer for a run and entries confirmed at and perhaps the occasional mere six jockey KnMftMOHwSiMg, SlIbfBvMSL 6-1 Good Kne, 7-1 Mlepared DAVE HADFIELD [Tony McGlone] is day’s declaration stage is prayer. “Ciystal Hearted is fit wbeii he sent VICTORIA GARDENS SELLINfi STAKES Matody, 8-1 BnmNB&a*, 16-1 AbwayeHann/, Puri Ohl 14-1 c4bm Master veiy bullish. 9 in) Everyone in the trained in France, flea wont w 1 WiUie to Epsom for the Derbv Andre Rib- as a so he be doing (CLASS G) £2375 added 2YD 6f yard loves it that we've got a re’s 25-1 chance Cloudings, anything dramatic between and watched the colt finish now OKASUUIBSliWtBll., The sacked Sheffield Eagles sec'- runner, but HANDICAP (CLASS E) £4j025 oodi I think we’re ako bc- while all but one of Ireland's five and the Derby," Candy says. “As 5 DMBE1BKS(2GDMMDnrx8U. DOME to Henbit, beaten by a 4JjO coach, Phil Larder, has pre- swift, O&PemOK W G M Turier 8 11 — JHMa(9B added 6f ly-a^usnmg contenders are stabled with for nerves/I never suffer from dicied three 04 USUOEIU) ft Ham* 811 JMHtnWIl lhai they will turn the cor- pans of a 10060 CSnSlAL 1BGHIS (FR} (24) (CO) R DSuBran 9 10 0 length. For Aidan O'Brien at BaJJydoyte, them. Mind you, if you sent me 60 THEHMBTUiesri45)M0tmnon8ll_FPMKpty{E)4 ner four vital days dur- R1CHARD EDMONDSON 00TJ0ODtoe(3)2 and begin to climb the 5236 MO NOSE («a 8 Meehan 6 U preparation. where his namesake Vincent a 4-6 shot, I could probably grow 502000 DMDERjrat(U)OArtUtKI410O—SHUtamthlOV tabic under his successor. Master NAP: Gypsy H0| •TO CU11RMI (17) M Standard 8 6 R Alta2 prepared six Deity winners. some.” 41606 SWEBPril (25) R Hamm 4 9 13 Dm01leB7 WUhe had taJcen neither (Nottingham 5 PfoMFAHB6HlS TOT/anffi 86 A0Wy^3 Larder was replaced by his as- food 3J55) 3002 MARENGO (17) PftJWirfuaS 98 .TQMbbI The Godolphin operation, sistant, nor drink as he struggled NB: Honourable DERBY ACCEPTORS 1 Epsom. 7 June): Ap- 03S342 IAHCASMRE LBBEM9 (9Q S Da* 4 9 4 ADMy{5)4 John Rear, this week af- with BETTMK 9-4 Lobncba, 34. Dmta hmsi, M CbSa She^ 7-1 Sambraok, whose horses theoretically rep- pretiension (DLoder); Benny The Dip (J Gos- 143000 M»V«CRABMR£MKIri)V494JMA0wyer(3)5B a threat infection, and that, (Pontefract MwNeea, 10-llbe Hobby Lobby,! ter only 10 Super League per- 8jOO) Ognl: Bold Demand IS bn SurooD; Cdscy Tfcos resent Dubai 104554 SHARP BP (CD A31) ft fta* 7 9 4 0HgM9B aaps, was all but are based in Faore, matches' in charge. that separated him (0 Wew. K): CtoudmgKA Frr, < 53015 COU£GENKKT{lU(CO)5CWaaRB589. Newmarket, has four entries, Hearted IH Candy/: Desert King O'Brien. from racing's greatest prize. (A GRAND PARADE LMTH) STAKES (CLASS _P McCabe P)B “Nothing surprises me in ing realistic and Ire): Desen Story (M Stoute); Entrepreneur (M we’d be happy despite its recent struggle to find 240 E) 00000 SUPER PARK (171) (D) J Poarte 5 6 8 MWUhdB The consolation for his Stouts): Fauna (B HanOury): Fantastic Feflour £4£25 added lm 4T coaching, because you are at the train- if he (D) J 8 could win some prize-mon- form. Dumopi: 530232 JUSnNMMUS (17) ftldffr 5 5 JtCndnMU Stowaway, their most 1 C Bnoanl; Gnaws U Grape&hot 401020 A7 UBSflY (15) P) R Hannon 5 9 ID RPerfraaB mercy of chief executives erwas that, having gone so close 66000 RNIGUlE(2Zq (0)MQBRionBB3_PPMnpbr(9U and di- ey of some son." lL Currant}; HaKane (S fan Straw: Happy -10C0Q OffiRA BtffF Gay Keleioy 6910. _JtWbeian (3)11 likely runner, is bracketed out mD) rectors,” said. .with almost his Valentine fS fan Sureort: Isle Of Man (P Com: 56650 108866010(14 (CO) A TjnM 7712 N Adame 3 he “But I’m dis- entire career The unforgiving 66500- APOUDNO UBS) n R lee 5 98 £&vtar2 going at the with Crystal Hearted in the King Ol Swing m MandeUa. US): Monona)- 00600 SHBtMOOO (4) K hoy 4 7 10 IIAM12 ahead of him, another 00400 BOWLED OVEK (B) (D) CQzef 496 RCodnm7 appointed that this has been chance Roodeye earlier r*aa IA O'Brien, fall: Musatsal (B HOsi; No -13 this month ante-post betting on 33-1. One 00524 OiMMWOOOJACXp^ I CjrrftxS 4 9& at this stage. in. the Classic Slouch (A OBnen, M): Panana Oty iP Cnap- True haralfcap Sne/mood Ta Tb. done would surely ar- 13160 FLORBOMO 4 UntaumeetPc 7alHt wetfc £ contributed to the ease of Crys- pte-Hyam); P7) BHfe 9 8 rive name, though, is conspicuous by Papua (I Balding): Perfect Rata- BEnitt 4-1 9-2 JurtMenur. 7-1 Danda By*. Sharp knp, CoL Larder, who is still sooner rather than later 63200 BaWF[18)(I4 SC Wtaraa «9& HereHn. the in- tal Hearted’s victoiy, efign (J Gosdeni: Pteze De Tons (A O'Brien. but neither its absence. Henry Cecil will not 64056 M0NIBCRBTD(B9)|D) RGUS14 tagi M0A, Ifrl &y*« Hddks. ftraspyr, Uta LcgcaiL M-l othes And yet, while Candy’s Mi; Revoque |P Chappto-Hywn); Romanov (P 9B cumbent Great Britain coach, horses ihe faster ground be 20250 can expect -in 1997 at least -be adding a Chappfe-Hyami; Slier Patriarch 0 Dunlop/; momiS9{CS)lad)toav)on598. said that he remained available have taken races like the 066-54 BRONZE Oaks, at Epsom, nor S/nfle Emswe IP Ctupple-Hvami; State Fair MAQUETIE (19 R Smpscm 7 9 5 M the extra two-fur- fourth Derby to his list of lo continue in that role King George IB ftas): Stowaway (5 Dm SurooO: Symonds 00154 COWT Wf [IS) SWOTS 38 7- -AOmklDV (CLASS E) if asked. and Dewhurst long trip BRIGHTON CENTFE HANDICAP of the Classic, is ex- achievements. inn U FitzGerald): Tanaa&a 65-050 - SVIST OSEAUC (32) M Heotan-EBs 4 7 13 J Rule (7) 14 <54 CflACX£Jff-'X (25) 3 substances in the body TOTE FILLIES HANDICAP (CLASS E} £4400 00029 NE(Mn(EEQUIY(B4Q(DEMc0aweg ATumd580 JM Hmy (3)2B C D*ya 7 10 DIH«sf7)18 banned 6C& THE ROUDSRLS (190) Ri Hobson 3 7 13 0060-2 9H0R BBi (7) (Reong Lories) M Saresby 5 7 13 —PFewy(5)5 00066 CHALKY DANCB! (43) H CalngtdgB 5 7 ID --F Bndfcy $) 6 2f Penalty Value £3^05 back over a longer period. added lm -9dactarad- P)7 - 18 declared Hnw) J E)R 5 9 16 30005- RUMC5YfB0L(l72)(CD) MBtarahani67U-JQDtanl3 Last November, however, the 1 0-0004 CttHMRE LADT 12) (Ms 5)M L Mfataawna^ic 73100. Tnrefw*Arap«e FBinAV^ may 1997 • THE INDEPENDENT Gascoigne fit to serve up a feast Football and Gary Pallister at Leeds GLENN MOORE from being abused. A fair response is important to Old Trafford’s hopes of stag- David Beckham, on ing England matches when the right crossed to Wembley is being rebuilt - as is the near posi where a good crowd. At present only Andy Cole had 3?,000 are expected, less than made a good run Mexico attracted to Wembley United sell hut Gary Neville was alert to his1 and poor considering movement and headed away for out regardless of the opposition. brother Phil to clear. Brian With so many United players Kidd, standing alongside Nicky in contention sin early team an- Butt on the Old Trafford touch- nouncement by Hoddle might line, nodded appreciatively. help but, apart from naming It could have been a Man- Gascoigne, he will not break his chester United training session, custom of waiting until just be- it was actually an England work- fore kick-off. One obvious out and there were also a few choice is Paul Scboles, if only as people not associated with the a substitute. It is the ideal time champions as the national squad and place to give the ginger- went through their paces at the haired United playeT a first theatre of dreams yesterday. taste of miemauonal football. Most significant of those was As well as Gazza and ginger Paul Gascoigne, who looked what else can England offer po- like a boxer on the eve of a bout tential spectators? Not posh with his newly muscled lean spice - David Beckham coyly frame. Nearly a decade after he said Victoria would not be at- rejected Manchester United in tending - nor, according to favour of Tottenham, Gascoigne Clive Barker, flair. will finally play a home match Barker, the South African reputation at Old Trafford tomorrow. coach, confirmed his training session Photograph: Empics tries put yet another ball into the back of the net in yesterday's That much was confirmed by for plain speaking “You have a Ball-watching: His England team-mates look on as Teddy Sheringham to Glenn Hoddle yesterday. He problem with flair and 1 think we added: “This is not a make or have more talented players. We Cantona shirt break game for RauL He has been hove more players who are Brown set to bring out for a long lime. If he gets comfortable on "the ball. You auction today Short cut for Blades through 90 minutes that will be have better organisation and a bonus, that will be progress. If strength. In the long run I be- faces will contract, travelled to the City helped the dub to get into the in five new he plays 90 minutes on song that lieve talent will prevail, you Eric Cantona’s last Manchester Sheffield United be missing Premiership,” he said. will be the icing on the cake." need flair to break teams down. United shirt is to be auctioned Chris Short from their defence Ground yesterday to open negotiations. Yeboah wants the else plays for England “1 have a lot of respect for in Manchester today for the for the First Division play-off fi- transfer Tony Who hand portant thing is to find a defen- are expected to an- chance to prove his worth to Craig Brown is ready to against South Africa is uncertain. English football but 1 am not in Coventry defender David Bussl nal against Crystal Palace at Everton sive set-up for the crip to Belarus. the Wembley on Monday. nounce on Tuesday whether Leeds United's manager. out Scotland caps to five play- One player who desperately awe of it. In the 50s and 60s I The Frenchman signed from ers over the nexi 10 days. David The squad dispersed is were to shirt and handed it over to He sprained his ankle badly they are to leave Goodison George Graham. Yeboah, wants to' be involved Alan thought England going Ayrshire in- Weir of Hearts, the Wimbledon Largs, on the coastA football’s great Busst after his testimonial game vesterday and has had it heav- Park after 105 years. A ballot of whose season was ruined by Shearer. This is partly his innate be one of world days ot with pair Brian McAllister and Neil yesterday, after three play England. While powers but you have under- at Higfafield Road last Friday. ily strapped. Alan Kelly, the supporters on plans to move the juries and disagreements desire to for and will reassemble management, is Sullivan. Christian Dailjy of training not prepared to be drawn on the achieved.” Murdo Madcay, Busst’s agent Blades’ Republic of Ireland in- club to a new 60.000 all-seater the Leeds Derby and David Hopkin of on Sunday. Next Tuesday’s high profile wit bdrawals of Rob- Harsh but true, Howard said: “Eric scored twice wearing ternational goalkeeper, also stadium in Kirkby, on the out- wanted by Japanese clubs, but Evans, said Crystal Palace are all set for in- meeting with Wales at Rugby bie FowJer and Steve McMana- Wilkinson said much the same this shirt, signed it after the game faces a struggle to overcome a skirts of Liverpool, closed on his agent. Hayden is first be- hopes to stay at Leeds ternational debuts. Park, Kilmarnock, the man, he said: “1 would be very in launching the FAs Charter for and donated it to David's ben- knee injury in tune. Wednesday. Yeboah countries since 19S5. will be for the remaining year of his They wiU feature either tween the upset if anyone suggested I did Quality on Monday. efit. At the time no-one realised Sunderland have completed Derby's new home against Wales at Kilmarnock Aime JacqueL the French not want to play for England. I As playraakers, South Africa how significant h would be, but the signing of the Volendam called the The Pride Park Sta- contract. the and next Tuesday, 27 May. or in Mal- coach, still looking for the right want to play every game." can offer John “Shoes” it was his last appearance for goalkeeper Edwin Zoetebier dium. The Rams waved good- “Tony loves club attack, has the Baseball Ground on their fans and if he felt he ta as Brown's side plays two World Cup named He is also motivated by the lo Moshoeu, so named for his United and his last goals.” for a fee of £300,000. The for- bye to given a fair crack of friendlies before their next Chelsea's Franck Lcboeuf and cation. Earlier- this month he suf- dancing feet, and Dr Khumalo, Busst was forced to quit the mer Dutch Under-21 interna- the final day of last season. The would be stay,” Evans World Cup qualifier, in Be- Arsenal's Patrick Vieira in his fered a constant stream ofvitriol who once had a trial with Aston game after being badly injured tional has agreed personal Queen will perform the official the whip he would June. squad of 22 for next month's when Newcastle played at Old Villa. England can offer Gas- m a match against United 13 terms with the club’s manager, opening of the new stadium in said. larus on 8 July. Stan CoUymore scored a goal Brown has been snipped of Toumoi de France. Trafford (Shearer has twice re- coigne, Beckham and Scboles, months ago. He said: “I am de- Peter Reid, but has returned 5- Villa, a five regulars through the ab- JacqueL whose main preoc- jected them). Shearersaid he did one’s past his best two yet to lighted for the way that Eric has home to play in his club’s last Steve Bruce has denied re- on his debut for Aston 1-1 with the Angeles sence of defenders Colin cupation since a sterile Euro 96 not know what reception he reach it helped the testimonial. He has two games of the season. ports linking him with the va- draw Los cant manager’s job at Stoke. Galaxy in a friendly match on Hendry, Colin Caiderwood and campaign in England last year would get, and it did not bother Bun sat out training with a been absolutely brilliant.” The Nottingham Forest man- joined Birming- Wednesday. CoUymore. signed Alan McLaren. Blackburn mid- has been a shortage ofgoals, has him, hut it is sure that he would slight hamstring strain. Darren Cantona’s is to feature in a ager, Dave Bassett, has placed Bruce, who Liverpool for fielder Billy McKinlay and also picked five strikers for the hate to appear to be hiding. Eadie has an inflamed tendon 20-minute black and white film the club’s second-choice goal- ham from Manchester United last week from see slipped a static Bolton striker John MeGinlay. four-team event from 3 to 11 Hoddle said he hoped Shear- and Rob Lee took a knock cm his about boxing with American ac- keeper, Alan Fettis, on the last summer, is content to £7-5m, through a Brown said: "These two June. They are Patrice Loko, - during training. Lee should tor Mickey Rourke. The film is transfer list after holding talks out his contract with Birming- defence to nod home Mark er would not be barracked leg M 6- I left Drapercross in the 75th minute. friendlies against Wiles and Christophe Dugurry Marc “this is about supporting Eng- be fit, but even if not Hoddle still set in and around Marseilles, with Kevin Miller, of Watford. ham. have a year on my - given give a chance look Keller. Florian Maurice and land. However, lhat did not has 22 players from whom to where Cantona was raised, and Miller, a 27-year-old valued at contract and I would hope that Welton, a Brazilian, had Malta me to the lead after an I at some people and the most im- Nicolas Ouedec. save John Barnes at Wembley choose. That should be enough. will also star his brother Joel. £l-5m by Watford but out of by the end of it 1 will have the Galaxy 1 1 — sm ' — - — — — — CRICKET SCOREBOARD Lehmann Britannic Assurance FOB (canty: 5-301 6-305 7-316 8 434 9- Somerset v Yorkshire 434. hostility TAUNTON: Yorkshire (Opts) are 183 for S turns the County Championship 120 overs: for 4. Malcolm up 296 In their fort Innings against Somerset (2). Bowling: Chappie 29-3-77 3; Martin 25-8- (Second day of tour} Today: 13.0. ’V enlivens 81-1: Keedy 57-13-149-3: Ausbn 21-6-43- Yorkshire won toss Durham v Worcestershire 0: Yates 323-5-86-2: TitchanJ 5-1-11-1. MIKE CAREY process. His opening partner line, found themselves able to bers of the Nottinghamshire 2-0-11-0. YORKSHIRE- First Innings CHESTER-LE-STREET: WotTCStOTShkt (3ptS) Geftan (Overnight 52 fw 3i Tim Robinson was already out operate on the front foot side that- Robinson could play am 345 for 6 in their first balings against LANCASHIRE - First Innings D S Lehmann rxx out 109 reports from Trent Bridge Durham (2). Today: U-0. J E R Galten c bailey b Emburey 48 the fray having broken a bone against the other bowlers and Malcolm with his right hand be- Yorkshire A McGrath C Bums b Shine 11 of NT Wbod c Ripley b Penberthy 7 Derbyshire 319 and 2-1 Durham won toss C wtnre b Caddk* 11 in his hand while fielding and richly deserved the odd mo- hind his back, which he did. al- S P TiUhanl not out 20 WORCESTERSHIRE - First Innings IR J Blakey nor out 20 Nottinghamshire 192 WN H Fawrotner not out 3 Metcalfe. who ments of fortune in a partner- beit for only four balls, before T S Curtis c CaUingvood b Walker 43 Extras tbl ibS nt>4i Ashley Extras Hb2 w2 nb61 10 13 WPG Weston C Col&ngwood b Walker ,,,_6 Total (lor 5, 58 orats) 183 deputised, also needed the ser- ship of 64 for the ninth wicket. Franks was caught behind. Round-up Total (for 2, 34 overs)™ 85 G A HICK c Spetgnt b Lugsden 39 Fill (cent): 4-79 5-122. were less Ftft 1-12 2-84. vices of the painkiiJing spray af- Of these, the most crucial By then, Notts XRSpHmgb Foster 32 To tat GMHanwian. PJ Hartley. RDSiemp. To bat: P C McKeown. 1W K Hegg. I D Austin. have *T M Moody b Saggars .....91 AG Wharf. Nottinghamshire probably sus- ter being hit on the glove. came when Afzaal was dropped bowed than they might G Chappie, P J Mann. G Yales. G Keedy. G R Haynes c lews 0 Coflmgwood 97 Bowline (to data): Caddick 19-2-62-2; the danger of Australia may have had a mis- Bowing (to data); Taylor 7 -2-16-9: Penberthy pected that the combination of Some high-class catching and at slip by Dean Jones when he feared. They knew D A Le&therdak? not out — 44 Shfw 13- 1-38-2: Rose 6-2- 19-1; Ahmed 14- 2-0-8- 1: Emburey Id- 3- 42-1: Snape U-3- J Rhodes not out 13 5-34-0: Devon Malcolm and iheirown the supporting work of Kevin had made 29 and Notts were still taking on Derbyshire, even with- erable time of it at Headingley fS 21-0. Parsons 4-0-21-0. Extras (02 Ibl2 W22 nM) 40 Umpires: K E Palmer and J F Steele. SOMERSET: *P D Bowler. M N Latnwefl. P C well-grassed pitch would add 15 short of safety. By then there out Phil DeFreitas and rhe ail- in the one-day international Total (for0, 104 overs) 345 up Dean and Paul Aldred meant L Holloway. R J Haroan. S C Ecclestone. tM yesterday, but Fail: 1-24 3-107 3-142 4- u30 5-2496-317. to a torrid time yesterday and that Notts spent of the day was much speculation as to ing Dominic Cork, in these against England Bums. G D Rwe. K A Parsons. Mushtarj much To tab 5 R Lampm. P J Newport. A Shen- Leicestershire v Surrey countrymen Ahmed. A R Caddck, K J Shine. they were whether Robinson would bat arid conditions, though they would one of their fellow yat. LEICESTER: Surrey lift) an 235 for 8 in not wrong. in the shadow of the follow-on, Umpires: I w Holder and V A Holder. Bowflng (to data): Lugsden 16-2-82-1; their Ant-innings against Leicestershire Maloalm bowled as hostile a but at 12S for S Usman Afzaal when Afzaal succumbed to Mal- have been encouraged by the way had reason to celebrate. Saggers U-3-28-1; Water 25-S-61-2; Fos- (3). Today: 3X0. celebrated Sussex v Kent spell with the new boll as you wfi] stepped in to colm, after extending a remark- they picked up the last five wick- Darren Lehmann ter 19- 3-69-1; Boiling 33-3-62* Boon 1- and Paul Franks Lekxstenhha won toss HORSHAM: Kent (5pts), with six second- 0-34): Coftngwwd 6-1-26-1. see from any current county save the day by batting with com- able sequence of scores in ets for only 36 runs before lunch. his first century for Yorkshire on SURREY - First Innings htnings wtahets standing, are 135 runs J P 1 DURHAM: J B lews. D CoUingwod. E 0 ) BtcKrwU ltn» q Mi|^ _..18 ahead of Sussex (6). Today: 1X0. howler and unsurprisingly there posure. maturity successive innings, to 47, 26. 51, Mark Bowen, with his accu- another rain-ruined day at courage and Moms. N J Speak. *D C Boon. fM P M A Butcher ibw b Mdns 59 Kent wort row were those who. as the out, 19, 70 not out, 77 rate. medium pace, emerged Taunton. The 27-year-old Aus- SpeieptM J Foster. J Bolling M J Saggers. A J Ratcnffe c MadOy b Johnson saying beyond their teenage years. 39, 67 not D 06 KENT - First Innings 24S IT R Ward 67; K as Walker, S lugsden. N Shahid c Habm b Pierson 31 goes, did not fancy it too much. It was probably coinci- not out and now52, he appeared. with career-best figures of 7 for tralian was unbeaten on 109 Newell 4-61). no Umpires: A OlAson and N T Raws. A D Brown p Pierson .21 SUSSEX - First Innings Malcolm not only swept away dence that both are left-handers, The point of this exercise was 75. Wayne Noon’s six catches his team progressed to 183 for -C C lewis c Hatxo b Pierson 22 iCrvernltJrt: 1M (or 41 five off overs against Som- fj A hnott low b Pierson 14 the first three batsmen, but also which did them no harm against not immediately apparent unless equalled the county record-, but 58 Glamorgan v Hampshire K Newell c Marsh n McCague M P BK*neu nw wit 3 25 after a saturated outfield CARDIFF: Hampshire (lpt) are 232 for 2 A A Khan c Fleming b Philips 29 broke Paul Pollard's finger in the Malcolm. They got sturdily in it was to prove to some mem- the real drama was to follow. erset A J TutJor ran out 1 in tfw&r fits* innings against Gfemorgtm (0). M Newefl c Uong b RnTips 56 play until R M Pearson not Out ..._ 0 had prevented any Today: u_0. V c Drakes, t Flenwig b Phaups Extras Ib3 3)13 nfil2i 28 0 re- Glamorgan won loss *TP Moores c McCague 0 Strang 2.45pm, when Yorkshire Total (for 8. 96 overs) 235 3 - PW Jatws c Fulton b Fleming - 55 sumed on 52 for three. HAMPSHIRE First Irarings Fei: 1-45 2-96 3-lSl 4 173 5-190 6 220 (Overnight: 9-1 for 1/ 7 227 3-234. M A Rmnsor not our 3 Brothers look Anthony McGrath soon fell Ibw WatUn Extras (b5 IbS wlO nb4) IT Lancashire L Hayoen 57 Newell M b J Beniamin. To but E Total (91 overs) 264 to Kevin Shine for 11 and when K D James not out -.76 Bowling: MiDns 20 5-53-2; MuUafly 15-3-50- Fall (cont); 5-124 6-147 7-147 S 154 sport I Williams out to resume sick control after storm Christie Motor racing brings as Williams will again (Other Ferrari, have their ing track in Monaco. brake balance system. From scared}' endearing him- Yamaha have much accom- er, would doubtless not if - 6 DERICK ALLSOP to mind ' man from the Met Office on teams draw their weather in- now on, according to Flavic self to the troops with his tem- plish here and in the subsequent the heavens opened again on sports from Barcelona board and although he got it formation from the Internet.) Briatorc, their managing direc- peramental outbursts. two or three races to convince Sunday. The German, who down wrong in Monaco, the their drivers, Unlike Williams, however, tor, their jjerfbnnance can be ex- Aiesi’s uneasy alliance with Hill he should stick with them demonstrated his incomparable Jacques ViUeneuve •I ^'Sd and Heinz- McLaren have failed to sustain pected to improve dramatically. the team was further unsettled for next year. Five races with the skills in the wet here last year, ™mld Frcntzen, will performance know they their level of and All ofwhich may be too late when a reported comment af- team have failed to produce a maintains that in norma! con curtain ought to have realised, as their is in ter the Schu* , season danger of to save Jean Alcsi’s job at first day’s practice in finish. ditkms he would be content with macher did, lhal starting '‘fieri on slick sliding into all too familiar Benetton. Sources close to the Monaco got back to them: “I In the meantime. Jordan- third place. “To be honest, 1 tjTes was a mistake. They can at mediocrity. team suggest that he has already dislike my car so much I have Peugeot and Stewart-Ford, would prefer to cancel Spam be- Athletics least be comforted in the in that brawl, Already area are been told his contract is not to even begun to hate its colour,*' teams Hill rejected, have made cause it is not a circuit which jBSBffasE edge that they MIKE ROWBOTTOM should have the Benetton-Renault, who lost di- be renewed at the end of the was the quote that had Benet- splendid progress, the former suits our car," he said. best car here, even if they are not rection after the departure of year and, although Briatorc ton hopping. .": a regularly competing with the Consistency has been Schu- «& taken in 3; d vcr by Schumacher's dis* Schumacher and have so far denies having made vacancy at P ?.and constructors’ any such A Benetton would front runners, the latter plun- macher’s bedrock this year and, Linford Christie wiD bow out of cham- missal of bus own pionships, Williams prospects. been unato to rediscover ft. This decision for 1998, the French- inevitably be linked to Damon dering a spectacular second with developments due to im- iuteruatioua] --/3rK bead a McLaren-Mercedes. athletics next posse of teams after week, they maintain, the signs of man's departure would come as HU1, who is already said to be place, courtesy of the Brazilian prove the Ferrari from Canada mouth as hoping io be wanning Britain’s captain at the more the first race, have recovery should emerge. Their no surprise. Even by attracting sure-footed at the his own er- the attention of driver, Rubens Barrichello, in onwards, bis challenge for the European Cup in Munich. Circuit slipped back into oc Catalunya. the pack and lack of tyre grip has been traced ratic standards, he has under- McLaren, Pros! and Sauber. Monaco. title is a very real threat to the ,J The 37-year-old former c'. PHs were also told to expect a d ty- to a problem in the electronic achieved since switching What is- clear is from that Arrows- Barrichello, like Schumach- Williams pair. Olympic champion said last summer that be wanted to make his Iasi British appearance in Lhe event, and be now has his wish. He will be succeeded as cap- tain by Roger Black, the Rowell Olympic * 3 hr salutes 400m silver medallist: Sany Gunnell will continue to taste fulfil the role for Britain's women. Christie, who is adamant that he will not compete in the "staggering’ World try Championships this sum- mer, is unbeaten in the Euro- pean Cup, where "’f,s he has aufch’i Rugby established an unequalled Union solo score when he sprinted 50 “Wc are not going to win record of 11 victories over 100 ANDREW BALDOCK metres and caught his own kick games by 50 points out here and and 200 metres. He was not pre- ^ iwMrj reports from ahead to leave the partisan i Cordoba Cordoba were very committed sent for yesterday's announce- home crowd stunned. Cordoba 21 opponents. But wc will im- ment because of prior Scrum-half England 38 Kyran Bracken prove from this and this win will commitments. iC went over for ii -^ two tries and there give everyone a lot of confi- ' Black, speaking from his '-2=123 were also touchdowns for the dence." training base in California yes- captain, Phil de Glanville, Jack and England's four uncapped terday, said he was recovering Rowell, the England coach, lock Nigel Redman, who was players all made contributions well from the knee operation saluted a “staggering*’ solo he try making his first England ap- of quality, none more so than by stand-off Mike underwent in January. Catt after pearance for three years. the Wasps centre Nick Green- “I think it's an England began their exciting time Argentin- “Catt's try was a staggering stock. ian tour with to be asked to become captain," an impressive vic- effort. You would have to go an His intelligent running and he said via a telephone link-up. tory over the Slate champions. awful long way to see anything support play proved an Out- Cordoba, yesterday. “Communication is becoming Rowell said. “I was standing England feature and it more important Rowell has challenged for the sport, Catt delighted with his all-round was his powerful break which to secure and there is more of a role for the England No 10jer- game, together with that of created space for Dc Glanville a team captain. I think the sey and the Bath player re- Bracken. It was certainly not a to score after five minutes. accessibility of is sponded with an the captain 18-point haul, walkover, but we are very Harlequins flanker Rory highlighted importanL l think (hat's been by a breathtaking pleased with this start. Jenkins helped frige an im- difficult for people in the last pressive back-row trio alongside few years." Ben Clarke and Chris Sheashy, Gunnell, who is training in full-back Jim Mallinder was Benidorm, will have her first Rodber will sound in defence and miss the Bath competitive outing in Jena this lock Martin Haag competed vig- Sunday, over 400 metres fiat. Lions’ first orously. She plans to race over the match Cordoba had promised to 400m hurdles for the first time ' make life lough for England but since she collapsed in the u -r - classroom they we re never seriously in con- Olympic semi-final when she Rugby Union ry over the Springboks will tention once Redman and runs in Rome on 5 June. CHRIS HEWETT brighten considerably. Bracken pounced in quick suc- Gunnell said she had not “As a child I dreamed only cession reports from Durban of just before hatf-time. been surprised by the an- playing for Wales, but the lions Cordoba: Trio* (tamo, Banco. Penaltfea nouncement that Sandra Lure 3. CoRuondoo Luna. are recognised as an £lite group England: Trio* Bracken 3, P de Oarmfle. M Fhrmer-Patrick, the US 400m The good rugby folk of Port and I’m delighted to part Can. N Rodman. Penally ral ai be a Can. Cww nn 3-hurdler whom she brat at the Can 5. Elizabeth will see even less of of ft," he said on hearing of Rod- 4-1992 Olympics and 1993 World CORDOBA: FSofer J Luna.6SB0Era. J lav- Tim Rodber tomorrow than ber’s temporary demise. “Tm ra. G Tamabia: H Herrera. C Barma: A Fto- Championships, had received a they did cm the England No S’s pleased to have the opportuni- dnguez. G Sanaa (capo, D Munoz. EGalmo, four-year drug ban. J Sums. M WUa. l Bedoya, D RWondo. last visit in 1994. Indeed, the ty of an early game but I won't ENGLAND: J Manta dot (Sale); J “I had heard rumours about Boet Erasmus faithful will have be thinking too much about the StefeMboima fflath). N (taenatock (Wasps), ft earlier this year," Gunnell P da GtamBo (Bato, capo. A Adabayo Bfflfft to save their whistles, wise family link. There is quite said. M Catt (Bath). K Brachwi [Saracens): R Hunt- *Tm not sayingshe was on cracks and ego puncturing enough for me to concentrate wiclc iCowntryJ, P Groarinf (Gloucester), D Seve Ballesteros: 'I have made it dear I shall pick the best players for the Ryder Cup team* Photograph: Allsport it in 1992 or 1993. 1 suppose if punchiness for someone else on without that" atrtbrtb ( Leicester). N Redman (Bath), M Haag (Bath). B Clarke (HUrandl, C Shoas- she had won gold and T had won when the Lions embark in There is an outside possibil- bj (Wasps). R Joakhts (ttaitatyjlns). silver, 1 might have thought I Rcfomn: earnest on tbeir 12th tour of ity of further changes to the E Btengo (Un&iay). had been robbed. But I got the South Africa by taking on an original selection. John Bentley, Right wing Norm Be; golds. Perhaps someone was Eastern Province Invitation picked on the right wing, ran in four tries as N looking over me." Judu Ballesteros stays strong XV. bruised a toe in training while trounced 69-16 Ireland Devel- Black told an audience which Rodber. sent off three years Scott Gibbs, the Swansea cen- opment in the first match of tbeir included Britain's chief coach, ago for his part in a night ofun- tre who played two Tests on the New Zealand tourat Whangarei Golf nine points, but this year's cap- tempt to add to his meagre tal- those already and will be need- Malcolm Arnold, that he was mitigated mayhem, pulled out 1993 tour New Zealand, on Wednesday. The Second Di- tain, Seve Ballesteros, counterbalance of ANDY FARRELL was not ly of Cup points. With a purse ed to the four expecting to be offered the of the Lions' line-up yesterday strained a thigh muscle. Both vision team scored 10 tries playing. of£l.lm on offer- a record for or five new players the captain 400m place for this season s Eu- reports from Wentworth on the advice ofJames Robson, were on the treatment table yes- against an Irish side that could Ballesteros, who for most of the tour - and a first prize of expects to be on the team. ropean Cup when the tram the team doctor. Gastro-en- terday. only manage one in re this season has been in a far £183,340, substantial moves can “I do not worry about that at was picked on 7 June. - -i teritis diagnosis, rel- confi- through the captain, Els’ passport jovial . V . . r was the a The medical team Gary Ernie does not al- from mood about the be made this week. all,” Ballesteros said. "The new Mark lUchardson. who has atively mild case, but serious dently expect Paul Grayson, It was a result which left the low him to play in the Ryder Cup, is now smiling again. His “Maybe Nick is worried players are enthusiastic and been training with Black in the nftenough to weaken the one of only two specialist goal- coach, Brian Ashton, in no doubt Cup but, as a member of both compatriot, Jose Maria Olaza- about his selection," Balles- energetic. The first rime you United States, may make that -» - . - _ Northampton captain marked- kickers in the 35-strong squad, as to the huge task facing him. the European and US tours, he bal, suggested a golfer's state of teros suggested mischievously. don’t wony about how impor- a harder judgement if he pro- ly. “Under the circumstances, to resume kicking at the week- After falling 14 points behind in is an interested observer. On the mind is dictated by how he is While Bernard Gallacher as- tant it is ro win points like you duces a fast time at the Eugene it would be fairly silly to play end: his training this week has the opening 12 minutes, Ashton eve of the Volvo PGA Cham- striking the ball, a department sured Faldo of a wild card well do the more you play.” meeting this Sunday. Tim in a game of this magni- been inhibited by nagging prob- was given some brief hope when pionship here, he brings news is which Seve is improving before end of the qualifying - Ballesteros, Faldo, Langer. Arnold said that the Nation- tude," Robson said. lems with a muscle at the top of HaJpxn's try, combined with three of note from the American rapidly. He can also feel better process on previous occasions, Woosnam and Olazabal are all al Lottery funds awarded to Scott QuinneU, the Welsh- his right thigh but he now looks penalty goals and a conversion captain, Tom Kite. about his potential team. Ballesteros wfll not do the same. previous winners of the PGA British Athletics this week man who surfaced at Rich- as though he will face Border from the stand-off David T was playing with Tbm re- Bernhard Lange r, the book- “It’s nice to see Nick make while Els finished second short- through the World Gass Per- mond at the start of last season in East London on Wednesday. Humphreys, put the Irish team cently and he reckons bis team makers* favourite for the PGA the effort to qualify," Ballesteros ly before winning the US Open formance programme would following a high-profile so- That would be of considerable 16-15 ahead. With the impressive might be the best in history,” Eb after his back-lo-back wins in said. “I am strong enough to fas 1994. The South African is be administered by a subsidiary IS journ in Rugby League, will fill relief to the management, be- Benyman treating havoc, North- said. Since Kite was a member Italy and at The Oxfordshire, is leave him out I have made it unbeaten in three years in the of the British Athletic Federa- the hole in the back row, thus cause Tim Sampson, the New- land moved 38-16 dear at the in- of the 1981 American team virtually assured of a place, as very clear that I shall pick the World Match Play on the West tion. namely Performance Ath- emulating his father, Derek, castle full-back and an obvious terval and then scored five tries who included Jack Nicklaus, is the badk-to-form Colin Mont- best players for the team. For Course here. letes Services. Dave Moorcroft, and his uncle, Barry John, by candidate for the stand-by kick- without reply in the second half Tbm Watson. Lee Trevino, gomerie. Ian Wooaiam is com- me, there are no friends. I will Thpu'gh Tiger Woods is un- the former world 5,000m record becoming a Lion, u he turns ing role, went down with the Ashton now faces the task of re- Johnny Miller, Ray Floyd, Hale fortably in the top 10 automatic make the picks on form, expe- likely to put in an appearance holder, will be chairman, and out to be half as good as either same bag as Rodber and also ; his side before the second Irwin and Ben Crenshaw, he has places and Olazabal is 11th. rience and how people can later this year, Els would relish the board will include the for- when be pulls bn the red shirt, suffered ankle trouble during a i against the New Zealand a fair basis for comparison. In addition, Nick Fialdo has handle the pressure." taking him on. “It would be a mer Olympic pentathlon cham- Tuesday. Academy on Monday. Europe lost returned in at- bell pion, Maty Peters. vmn the prospect of a series victo- training session on that match by from America an Faldo has two out of three of of a challenge,” he said. SPORTING DIGEST Steven Hansdl (UHnols State) for this nor (USi 21Bpis:2M Kdn(GB}2l7: 3 B DaMd- subsht 35*4: 3- C McRae IGB) Subaru Hh&uwuceMtHnzgnB-S 7-6).Au«r*B*b*M Athletics Sum (M P NUNEZ BLANCA MEMORIAL TRACK MEET weekend's European Championship son WSJ 138: 4 B TOO INQ 136f 5 P Rmel 125{ 36.-00. GSUnzfSp) Fort 38:00; 5J Kar*un- Cmeb Ropoblte 34) WbMfonfe bt Korea O’Connor IUS1 125. SUMMER GRAND TOURNAMENT (Tokyo) 12th 7-5 6-1: PKitBpcmsK M B UiteiEh 6-4 appetite (Granada, Santa, Wednesday} Mate lDOnr 1 S K nen (FW) Fort 3&1A: 6 K Eriksson {Sac) Sub- 6 M Lyon rediscovers qualifying tournament In PezinoK Slo- day of IR Tocnronada (won 7, las 5) bt Qiy- 66-3:MbodkMtoan FRIDAY 23 M£El997: * lfeI»BPENlB]SFr if Spanff England United To reign in Michael Schumacher leads, the grand Some familiar faces will be on show i: circus into Barcelona, page 29 at Old Trafford tomorrow, page 28 prix tourists in f$r place TEXACO TROPHY: England open with emphatic victory as new boy's swaggering sixes put Taylor’s HolKoake's exotic display slays Aussies DEREK PRINGLE Wirne, who took 0 for 46, to re- played their part. A Heading- think his strategy to left-handers. ley pitch in May, coupled with reports from Headingjey Thorpe dabbed, drove and heavy cloud above, rarely trans- Australia 170-8 hoiked him with impunity. late into run sprees. England 175-4 Once established the pair After a few fresh swishes, the England win by six wickets exposed Australia's risky tactic Waughs, so often the twin pil- of not including a fifth special- lars around which the recent ist bowler. They have long pick Australian batting has been Every so often, a relatively un- n’ mixed their bowling, but on built, decided to play safe. For known cricketer will respond to surfaces that help performers a moment it looked as if they a high-pressure occasion that with pedigree, the five overs could once again construct a de~ belies his experience at in- filled by Mark Waugh’s occa- fendable fortress, but Mark ' ternational IeveL Normally such sional off-spin and Greg played all round a straight one players come from exotic places Blewett's wayward seam cost 28 in Dean Headley’s first over and like Pakistan and Sri Lanka and runs and were the mongrels that was bowled. not from Wandsworth where lost them the show. An over later. Steve depart- Adam Hollioake, the Surrey But if the man of the match, ed lbw to Mark Ealham for 19. captain now hails. Hollioake, and Thorpe, unbeat- If it was not the order in which & first announced them- - Perhaps no one told him, but en with 75, provided the glamour, the twins Hollioake, in only his third it was the bowlers, led by Darren selves to the world almost 32 one-day in le manorial, bowled Gough and Robert Croft, along years ago, their departure like an old hand and batted like with a brilliant display in the field, brought roars of rapture from a veteran, scoring an unbeaten who set up the victory with a spir- the capacity crowd of 16,400. It 66, as he and Graham Thorpe, ited performance, restricting Aus- was foe first time Steve bad ever his Surrey team-mate, took tralia to 170, after Atherton won been dismissed at Headingley England to the early victory they the toss. and Ealham’s delivery to get rid so craved against Mark Taylor’s of him, fully deserved the ac- swaggering Aussies. colade, as it cut sharply away off Hollioake even finished the the pitch. game off with a six, his second At 43 for 3, urgent repair was of the match, as he pulled Ja- needed if Australia were to son Gillespie into the Western force England to even break they batted. Not e Terrace. It was a deliciously ar- sweat when rogant touch, not a million surprisingly it came from p miles out of keeping with his up- Michael Bevan, a man who bringing in Melbourne, and must have faced many a simi- this with one sure to be admired -if only lar situation on pitch Photograph: David Ashdown Mk:hael Slater finds himself caught and bowled by England's Mark Ealham at Headingley yesterday secretly - by his opponents. Yorkshire. Retum to'senden Before this match, Mike Using his own as well as Atherton had warned that none Greg Blewett's speed between of his players had an inferiority the wickets the pair added 63 '— hotf'ibsb ENGLAND >\- in the shade” having been put to runs, until Bevan, warne complex, even going so far as [ • . iq-w-ia^-.-12 AustraliauryuIu : ... N V KnigWKnight tawbMcCtamIBw bMcGnMfl tied down by a masterful spell 7- -. • cite the Hollioake brothers. On A Taylor c Stewnitt) GoutfW.._. (21 irtn. I&batbrifouO , w lib- the evidence so far, and at from Croft, hied to steal one mm, 15 baOAJ-1 fturt - -M A AUtarton cRaaly-b KssdfcmczV-^ A all (11 CULLED 46 runs from his 10 overs. The brother. Ben, that I knew they itten was run out £Wbh#i a7«#v«tat JON younger brother, Ben, erty too many and . M & least until experience of the left-handed had turned up safely. I was just • SfiSait UwbJfc&fflh_L;..u 3i.'.7- direct hit from (Sfitiii 37 bats, 3. tout . tAi l it is an by Thorpe's • can have a crack at them, bey- watching a shot I had played ,S RWaugh few b abiam..— 19 (30^,22 Thorpe will be a weapon assessment that rings half true. Hollioake on his way to an mldwicket ‘ • G PTfibrpa not oilt them on the screen." (52 oWk 42 .bate, 2 fawsT If a prerequisite ofEnglish sue- against Warne this summer but when I saw yesterday Croft’s role in the middle of j--.' 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