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N°3381

THURSDAY 21 AUGUST 1997

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English

Judith Judd

Education Editor

A decline in GCSE examination
entries for English and several
other major subjects is revealed

in results for neady 600,000 can-
didates published today. By
contrast, there were big in-
creases in the numbers enter-
ing subjects such as home
economics, physical education
and information technology.

Thirteen thousand fewer
pupils took English than last
year, a 2 per cent decline, com-
pared with a fall in the number
of 16-year-olds of 13 per cent
The proportion of top grades in
English was also slightly lower.

One expert suggested that
boys, who traditionally do less
well than girls in English, were
voting with their feet against a
subject that they disliked.

English teachers said schools,
might be entering fewer pupils
■ because the last government’s
decision to cutcoursework had
made it more difficult for teach-
ers to interest the Ie« able
pupfls- Numbers also dropped ;
in history, geography, humani- j
ties, economics and French but
increased in Spanish.

The GCSE examination
boards said provisional figures
showed that the proportion of
entries getting grades A’toC-
rheaquivnJealoftheaJdO-Iev-
d -was up by a4 percent to 54.4
per cent. Last year's provision-
al figure was 53.7 per cent.

/Ban Smithers, professor of
public policy at Brunei Univer-
: Jsity, said: “It could be that we are
seeing a drift away from the clas-
sical curriculum to encompass a
broader range of subjects.”
Exam league tables are based on
the proportion of pupils getting
five A' to C grades. But they can
be in any subject and need not
include English, he pointed oul

Anne Barnes, general secre-
tary of the National Association
for the Teaching of English, said
less coursework in syllabuses
left a lot of children disenfran-
chised But Dr Kim Howells, the
education and employment min-
jster. said he was concerned at
' ihe dip in performance in Eng-
-• Hsh but believed that government
measures on literacy and na tionaf
targets for 1 1 -year-olds would, in
time, lake effect

Results, page 8

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| ‘Let the wicked be no more’, plead
% the Concerned People of Montserrat

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Phil Davison

•.reports from
. pveston as the
islanders face
up to ‘voluntary
evacuation’

It could have been a Fifties
Pngikh film, wiih Alec Guinness
as Ure colonial governor, but the
aotfd in front of him was dead-
ly serious. Above them, black
satoke and ash billowed from

tbeSoufriere Hills volcano- A
■' few hundred yards offehore,
the frigate HMS Liverpool lay

- at anchor, ready to

- uatc the remajmng 4,000 in-
habitants of MontsenaL

The volcano has gradually
squeezed these people into a
small area in the north of this
: eriiish Caribbean island. The

iwemment’s vaollation and
. £ of clarity over whether to
evacuate the island and, if so,
hw »»«*. assistance they

Sh 1Ul^y e Md frustrated over

their emergen^
lions and confused ab^Jt a
“voluntary evacuation offer.
thev banged tong°d£ims.
marehed to the 'Bnnsb Gover-
nor's office and demantkd i^
rcsicnaiion. They blamed the
Seen for “trampling her sub-

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Evacuation of Montserrat

Cental ‘Buffer Zbre’ eracu^d on Satunlay. j
Satem had become new mateshfl capfial

Ferries ffltzte
people a AntigraJ

HMS Liverpool to

martial Bvacuaam

W^tmteofUifl 11.000
pre-crisis pqpulalion are
cotmed Wd too
Northein ‘SafBZbne'..

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'Fbrtjidclen Zcra' where Cfaices Peak
volcano and capita! Plymouth are |
located. First area to be evacuated

jeds” and threatened to declare
independence if their demands
are not met.

There were only 150 of them

this time, but they were very up-
set and they’d never done any-
thing tike this before. They
promised to do it again^ every
day until their plight s im-
proved and their number is
likely to grow. Most Montser-
ratians later expressed sympa-
thy with their actions.

Flanked by his local police
chief from Stases in khaki colo-
nial uniform. Governor Frank
Savage came outinto the drive-
way, pushed his police officere
□side and walked into the crowd
armed onhr with a stiff upper hp-
As a dreadlocked rastafanan
protester shouted out “let me

kill the boy," Mr Savage, the
only man on the island in a
striped Harrods shirt and dark
bine tie, declared: “Thank you
for m m mg to see me today."

The governor, who is due to
leave the post nest month, tried

.to placate the demonstrators,
but with little success. He was
relatively popular until die vol-
cano turned serious last month,
lrijlmg around 20 people. “Mr
Savage, we’re not orrivd fesatfe -
fied widi Mr Osborne {Bertrand
Osborne, the island’s local gov-
ernment Chief MimsrerJ, we’re
dissatisfied with you,” said one.
“You are not representing us
any more. We, the people are
representing ourselves-"

“Resign,” came a shout from
the crowd

They carried placards saying:
“"Weare not animals. Ws are hu-
man beings" and “No more
Iks." “We used to salute the
Queen," shouted Julian Romeo,
a tocal businessman behind a new
group called The Concerned
People of Montserrat “Let her
respect us. Let her understand
that either^ we are British citizens
or she can let us gp."

Diplomatic as ever, the gov-
ernor thanked Mr Romeo,
shook his hand and referred to
him as “the moderator". Ap-
parently forgetting that the na-
tives speak the same tongue, he
used that particular brand of
special, slow-motion and extra-
dear English which diplomats
generally use in front of for-
dgnere. The group presented an

11-point proposal to the Gov-
ernor, rejecting the voluntary
evacuation package proposed by
Britain at the weekend, de-
manded restitution for their
lost homes and businesses, in-
sisted Monlserratians maintain
their nationality after any evac-
uation and called for assur-
ances that Britain wfll develop
the previously little-inhabited
north of the island, considered
the onhr safe zone left

“In the event of a total evac-
uation, we want to make it
dear that we are not abandon-
ing ourcountiy but expect to re-
turn here when it is safe to do
so," said group spokeswoman
Teresa SDcott as the governor
listened. If Britain did not re-
spond, die said, Montserrat, one
of a dozen British Dependent
Territories, would demand in-
dependence.

The Governor laid out the
package on efier. Fast, thbse^ wish-
ing to evacuate to Britain would
be put up in hotels tb nearby Aih
tigua, fed three meals a day and
transported to Britain within
about a week at Britain'sexpense.
Second, he suppo rted a package
put forward by GikfMInistier .Os-
borne the nigbt before, under
which a family of four would re-
ceive £27,500 over a period of 18
months as evacuation compen-

proposal, he said. Third, Britain
would support anyone who re-
mains on the island.

Leadi ng article, page 13

Underworld

paid to shop
the IRA

Jason Bennetto

Crime Correspondent

C riminals are helping police
with important tip-offs against
IRA members in Britain for
large cash rewards, the head of
Scotland Yard’s Anti-Terrorist
Branch has revealed.

Commander John Grieve,
the national anti-terrorist co-
ordinator, said that leads pro-
vided by underworld informers
had been of “enormous bene-
fit" in counter terrorism. The
cr iminals have been motivated
by a mixture of money, revenge,
and self interest.

It was also revealed that mem-
bers of the underworld are also
far more willing to talk to anti-
terrorist squad officers than de-
tectives dealing in mainstream
crime because they are confident
they win not be arrested.

A reward of up to £lm was
offered in February last year fol- *
lowing the Docklands’ bomb in
east London which killed two
people and ended the IRA
ceasefire, but until now it was
undear how useful such finan-
cial incentives are in attracting
informers.

Mr Grieve told The Inde-
pendent: “Information from
various areas of the community,
including the criminal commu-
nity, has been of enormous
benefit to those engaged in the
counter-terrorist offensive.

“Organised crime can be
seen as a web work of loose al-
liances and old hatreds. We can,
and do, make use of this."

He went on: “We know that
some criminals are motivated by
money, and will pass on useful
information about other crim-
inals in return for rewards. We
have encouraged officers to ex-
plore the potential with their in-

QUICKIY

High Street sales surge
Fears of another mortgage rise
-the fifth in as many months -
were sparked by official figures
showing retail sales growing at
their fastest rates since the con-
sumer boom of the late 1980s.
High street sales growth hit 6 J
per cent last month, much faster
than expected. Page 16

Refugee influx

Thousands of Colombian
refugees who have fled to
Britain seeking asylum have
been refused entry. The- influx
follows fierce fighting within the
country. Page 8

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formants in all criminal fields."

The Anti-Terrorist Branch
has targeted individuals on the
criminal fringes, such as shady
car dealers as well as more se-
nior villains who are likely to
have contact with ERA members
looking for equipment such as
false identification papers,
stolen vehicles and firearms.

The increased use of crimi-
nal informers is understood to
be one of the new techniques
deployed by Mr Grieve, who
oversees anti-terrorist investi-
gations across the country, that
has. helped lead to a string of
successes against the IRA. Oth-
er developments have been the
growth of surveillance cam-
eras, the police anti-terrorist
hotline - 0800 789 321- and
closer co-operation with MLS.

Mr Grieve is unwilling to dis-
cuss individual cases and cash
rewards, but it is understood
that information from c riminals
has been fundamental in pro-
viding vital break-throughs.

Underworld figures have
made it clear that they are less

wary of anti-terrorist officers,
who are considered less of a
threat to their liberty than oth-
er police departments.

Mr Grieve said: “Criminals
seem more keen to talk to the
Anti-Terrorist Branch because
they see us in a different light
or put us in a different catego-
ry, or think wc have different
priorities from other police of-
ficers. Perhaps this could be an-
other examine of communities
. defeating terrorism."

He added: “Communities
defeat crime, and in saying this
I include the criminal commu-
nity. Criminals are vulnerable to
the risk of being informed on by
their own kind.

“Some of our appeals have
been targeted at specific areas
of the community - for exam-
ple, the ‘dodgy’ end of the mo-
tor vehicle trade, people who
may have ... information about
suspicious deals and activities
which are of interest to the Anti-
Terrorist Branch."

But Dr Clive Norris, of Hull
University, who recently com-
pleted a two year study on the
use of palke informers, warned
last night of the potential dan-
gers of using paid “grasses".

He said: “There’s a real dan-
ger if the police are becoming
involved with active criminals
that one of the unintentional
consequences is that they may
have to turn a blind eye to the
criminal acts of their informers
to keep them out of prison.”

He said that informers pro-
vided information for a variety
of reasons. “Money is the best
and clearest motive. It could
also be to settle old scores, in
which they case may be less in-
terested in telling the truth, or
clearing the field for arms and
drug dealing."

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Coroner links CJD death
to eating infected meat

The poyemm ent came under renewed pressure to open a public
inquiry into the risks posed to humans by “mad cow' 1 after

a coroner linked a 39-year-old trainee chefs death to having «ir ftp
BSE-infected food.

Recording a verdict of misadventure ou Matthew Parker, of
Doncaster, who died of die new variant of the incurable brain
disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in March, deputy
coroner Fred Curtis said that on the balance of probabilities the
medical evidence showed a link between the teenager’s infection
with CJD and the consumption of BSE- infected food. He was
to have had an appetite for burgers pies and sausages.

The solicitor to the Parker family, David Brody, said after the
verdict: “The link with BSE has been accepted by the coroner and
we are pleased with that. We have suggested to the Government
that a public inquiry is what is needednow.”

Yesterday was the second time tbat a UK coroner has blamed a
CJD death on BSE. Last October, a Belfast coroner linked the two
diseases in the death of Maurice Callaghan, 30, whose wife told the
inquest that he had eaten red meat two or three times a week.
There have been 21 recorded cases of new variant CJD in the UK
since it was first identified in 1995. Charles Arthur

Fire alert shuts Channel Tunnel

The Chan n el TUnnel was closed for more than an hour yesterday
after two separate fire alarms went off within minutes of each other
on board freight trains travelling in opposite directions.

Up to 60 passengers had to be evacuated to the service tunnel
while the cause of the alarms was investigated and the tr ains
cleared to proceed. Two Eurostar passenger trains, carrying about
200 people, were also held up. An investigation will be launched
into why the two alarms were wrongly activated, but a spokesman
for Eurotunnel said that it appeared to be “pure coincidence” th«r
they should have gpne off so close together. Under new safety
procedures introduced following last November's fire within the
tunnel, the trains stopped immediately the alarms were sounded.

Supreme victory for Motown fans

Ttvo British lamia Motown fans
have won a 10-year battle to
persuade record giant Polygram to
open their vaults and release an
album of rare tracks.

Chris King and Jim Stewart
refused to take no for answer from
the owners of the Motown
catalogue and are sow celebrating
the release of This Is Northern
SouL It features 24 rarely-heard
tracks from legendary singers from
the mid- 60s like Marvin Gaye,

Gladys Knight (left), Frank Witeon

and even Motown ’s backing group the Andantes. Mr Stewart, 50, a
CD supplier from Swanley, Kent, and Mr King, a DJ from
Nottingham, hope to sell 12,000 copies of the compilation to
ensure a second album is commissioned.

Body of British diver recovered

Rescuers yesterday recovered die body of British diver Rob Parker,
35, who died after getting into difficulties during exploration of the
Blue Holes undersea cavern complex in the Bahamas. A follow
diver had tried to help him to the surface after problems developed
while the pair were diving at a depth of 260ft, but he himself got
into difficulties and the two men became separated.

KiHer on mn after jail escape "

Police are buntmg-tlre brutal killer of a mother-of-fjiree after he
escaped from * low-security jaif with another Mutate.

and robbed 29-year-old Gillian ‘Ellis as she walked home from a
party in December 1984, was dangerous and violent and warned
the public not to approach him. He was serving a life sentence.
Jackson, 32, formerly of Burnley, Lancashire, and 22-year-old Neil
Skinner - who was serving a three-year term for drag? offences -
escaped from Ran by Prison, Nottinghamshire on Tuesday evening.

Monster wasps’ nest found in attic

The current heatwave has led to what experts believe could be the
biggest wasps’ nest in the country being found in the attic of a
family home.

The nest, which measured 4ft Sins by 4ft 6ins, was found in the
loft of a house in Lawiey Gate, Horsehay, near Tfelford, Shropshire.
A spokesman for the Guinness Book of Records said there was no
entry for the largest wasps’ nest in the current edition and added:
“We would need to do some research before we could confirm
whether or not it is the biggest one."

Women infringed by bizarre painter

Police are seeking a man who has covered women in paint on the
pretence that they wifi appear as painted statues in a performance
at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Officers investigating the bizarre incidents say the man, who calls
himself Steven, is known to have painted at least two women - fully
clothed -in the past 10 days in the Leith area of Edinburgh.

A police spokesman said “No physical harm has been done to
any of this man’s victims, but dearly we want to find out who he is
... We realise people may be embarrassed to come forward but we
need to find out how many people he has come into contact with.”

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Elle McPherson prepares
for model motherhood

T he latest development in the Dfe
of Ble MacPherson (right), the
Australian model, may pose a
threat to the perfectly proportioned
figure that has earned her the nick-
name The Body. MacPherson, 34, is
pregnant with her first child, it
emerged yesterday.

Her brotha; Brendan Gow; sad that
the baby was due In February. The
father is Arpad "Arkfct" Busson, the 35-
year-ofd Swiss financier who has been
at MacPherson's side since she spilt
up wtthKevinCostoer, the Hollywood
star/iastyeat

Mr Gow said that the model had
.fold. her famity about foe pregnancy
^anjgnth^ago. .“She’s very, very hap-
•pjfr an& it witfoe a-very welcome ad-
dition to the family," he said. According to reports in
Australian women's magazines, MacPherson has been
wearing an engagement ring since March, but has told
friends that she does not plan to get married until after
the baby is bom.

Her father; Peter Gow; said yesterday that she had been
“in love for some time now”. He added: “I don't know
about marriage. This is the 20th century.”

In recent years, MacPherson has branched out from

her lucrative modelling career into
other i n t e rests, including acting. Co-
incidentally, her. latest rote is as an
expectant mother, complete with
padding, in the American film Mom's
Up On The Roof.

MacPherson, whose previous
credits include Batman and Robin
and Simns, also has her own
women's underwear label, EHe
MacPherson Intimates, and a share
with fellow models in the Fashion
Cafe, a chain of theme restaurants.

Her rataBonship wife Mr Busson fol-
lows a string of romances with
wealthy and high-profile men in-
cluding Yarvn Gambtin, the French
photographer, Tim Jefferies, the
British multHnlirKinake art dealer, ac-
tor Sean Penn and the rock star Michael Hutchence.

She married a French photographer, Giles Bensimon,
in 1986, but they separated six years later when she found
out that he was having an affair with another model.

MacPherson can still charge tens of thousands of
pounds a day as a model, but there are those happy to
report any tess-than-perfact physical attribute. One news-
paper gleefully reported signs of cellulite when she was
photographed on holiday fn St Tropez last month.

BBC erased classic
Cook and Mbcre
archives m favour
of local news

Almost all of the classic Not Only
_. But Also series by Peter Cook
and.Dudley Moore has been wiped
by the BBC to make space in its
archives for local news
programmes it was revealed
yesterday.

Out of 21 episodes of the cult
Sixties comedy series 16 were
wiped by the BBC between 1970
and 1974. The five that remain
were filmed illegally from a TV
screen at toe time of broadcast by
the series producer who was
scared of the tapes being lost
The story emerges from a
biography of Peter Cook (right)
published today by comedy
producer Hany Thompson.

Mr Thompson describes the
wiping of the. tapes as an act of
cultural vandalism and has tried to
find out who in the BBC's senior
management ordered the wiping.

tlimmy Gilbert, head of comedy
at the time said there was no
opposition to the order;** said Mr
Thompson yesterday.

“People didn't question it
Comedy wasn't seen as a cultural
artefact to be saved.

“Instead the mam priority was to
keep news programmes- Every
single dumb local news item had
to be kept”

Mr Thompson met Peter Cook
after working in the BBC's
archives In the Eighties. He
discovered the few remaining
episodes and copied them onto a

VHS tape. This he presented to Mr
Cook and saved a copy tor
himself.

The BBC has subsequently
used the few tapes left in
compilation to show a Best of Not
Only _ But Also. “That’s why the
so-called classic scenes from the .
series are the only ones you ever
see,” said Mr Thompson, "It's the
only ones they’ve got”

Not Only — But Also grew out of
Cook and Moore's collaboration in
the hit satire Beyond The fringe.
The BBC's policy on keeping
tapes also meant that the black
and white episodes of Steptoe and
Son shown by the BBC two years
ago ware from tapes made
illegally by a fan in Australia. The
originals had been destroyed.

A BBC Resources spokesman
said “If anyone has any tapes from
that time we would love to hear
from them and take them back
into the archive."

Paul McCann

Mother arrested
after admitting
crime on TV

The mother of a former murder
suspect was arrested yesterday
after telling a television
programme she ordered the
disposal of a knife.

Diane Ash-Smith's husband
Aubrey is currently serving a
12-month sentence after bung
found guilty earlier this year of
perverting the course of justice.

Their son Colin has been
questioned in the past about the
unsolved murder of Claire Tillman,
the teenager who was stabbed to
death in January 1993 in an alley
at Greenhithe, Kent He is currently
serving a life sentence for attacks
on two other women.

A Kent police spokeswoman
said yesterday that Mrs Ash-Smith
was being questioned at
Gravesend police station. “We can
confirm that a woman has been
arrested on suspicion of perverting
the course of justice following
comments made in a television
programme last night,” she said.

Mrs Ash-Smith - who has always
believed in her son’s innocence -
told Meridian Focus last night that
she ordered a knife to be disposed
of when police were questioning
hereon.

Mrs Ash -Smith, a former mayor
of Swanscombe and Greenhithe,
says she felt the family were being
harassed by police.

”1 expect I'll get arrested and put
away now, but I said for Christ's
sake get rid of that bloody knife,
you know what police are like,
they'll come and put us away.”

Portillo steps into the television cabinet

Michael Portillo, polMetovturned-preseriter win
tonight prove his credentials as a broadcaster when
he tops foe WO of a new television series.

The former cabinet minister and darting of the Tory
right was no stranger to publicity at the height of his
political career. And, since losing his EnfleM
Southgate seat to labour at the General Election, Mr
Portillo has chosen to stay intiie Umefight

His second television appearance, following
BBCS?s well-received One Foot Jn ffre Past when he
charmed his way around a stately home, focuses on
foe politics of the 1840s and the Conservative

in-fighting which led to the fall of a Prime Minister,
veare of Tory opposition, and foe nse of Benjamin
Disraeli. The programme, fitted Leviadton, charts the
apHt in the Conservative Party, sparked by the com

laws and the end of protectionism, through the long
years of opposition, the biick-by-brick rebuilding of
the party and Disraeli's ascent to power in 1874.

Some of the parallels with today's Tory party ana
deliberate. Mr Portillo was familiar with party divisions
during his time in government - although, unlike
Disraeli, he never openly challenged his leader.

These insights and his enthusiasm for history were,
no doubt, what drew the makers of the BBC2
programme, which will be shown at 7.30pm, to the
former politician.

Mr Portillo's easy manner in front of the camera
and his lesser-known sense of humour appear to
have made him a popular choice for the programme
makers. He is currently said to be considering several
offers of broadcasting work.

CHILDREN

Heartbeat may prove key
to cot-death syndrome

Babies at risk of cot death may be identified in future by studying
heartbeat, it emerged yesterday. ' .

A United States mathematician has developed aw ayot
measuring randomness that appears to offer a
in danger. The system has already been used to prekout babies that
have survived non-fatal episodes of Sudden Infant Death

^emetSd^ses the possibility of screening ***

tendency to experience periods erf unusually regular f

Sucfa infents could be fitted with monitors to detect episodes ot
extreme regularity and alert doctors or parents. Normally a
heartbeat that seems on the surface to be regular actuaipr m
a complex irregular rhythm as it responds to inarming signals from
the brain, -muscles and digestive system. While the causes of
cot-death are unknown, some doctors believe babies threatened by
cot-death exhibit a strange tendency for their heartbeats to
descend into a sinister pattern of regularity. . .

A report in New Scientist magazine sard: “The technique doesn t
yet offer foolproof detection, but through further refwementcwuto
become a powerful medical tool to help save infants from SlPb.

HEALTH

Asthma patients suffer needlessly

Thousands of asthma sufferers are cond emn i ng themselves to a
life of misery by fe'dmg to treat their condition property, it was

^ people with asthma soars. The Which? Guide to
Managing Asthma said many of the debilitating symptoms could be
kept under control by using the most conventional treatments and
self-help strategies, and that even deaths can be prevented by
taking control of the condition.

The book, written by Mark Greenes, an asthma sirfferer tomsett,
examines bow balancing self-help and correctly used medication
can help people with asthnsa reclaim their quality of life - and, in
some cases, even save it Studies suggest that eightout of ten
asthma deaths may be .preventable- Mr Greener said asthma
sufferers could reduce the risk of an attack by reducing the lewd of
dost mites, a trigger factor; by washing bed linen at least once a
week at above 60C, and pillows and blankets monthly; ami placing
raft toys in die freezer for six hoars a week to kill the mites.

People who are allergic to pollen should keep windows dosed on
hot sonny days, especially in the morning and late afternoon, and,
to avoid pollution, asthma suffers should not jog in polluted areas
or exercise with the window open in the dty.

BOTANY

Plants that look into the future

Plants have an uncanny power to predict thunderstorms by
detecting electricity in the air, a British expert claims.

Andrew Goldsworthy, a botanist, believes plants developed their
weather forecasting ability to gear up their metabolism for an
expected downpour. It could explain what every gardener knows -
that plants look particularly healthy after thundery weather.

According to Goldsworthy this is an effect that cannot simply
achieved with a sprinkler. The theory is that if plants are watered
unexpectedly they cannot react quickly enough to gain the
max imu m benefit. But if they could tell in advance when it was
likely to rain, they could prepare for growth by switching on the
necessary biochemical machinery.

Goldsworthy has carried out experiments at Imperial College,
London, which show that plant cells react to electric current. In
thundery weather, even before the storm breaks, vety high voltage
gradients build up, Goldsworthy believes plants have evolved a way
of exploiting these conditions. He told New Scientist magazine:
“Plants are very clever at sensing the environment and if there's
any signal they could possibly use, my guess is they’ll use it”

MEDICINE

Crackdown on dangerous doctors

Alan Mflbum, the health minister, yesterday launched a
crackdown on temporary doctors who put patients at risk.

A new code of practice covering the employment offocom

tS been pu , b 1 , , ished t0 out those who are
adangerto patients. The move follows long-term concern about
the quality or care provided by some locuras. Within the past two
years, there have been a number of incidents involving locum
doctors, including a senous sexual assault by an orthopaedic
surgeon on a child patient Mr Milbum sakfc -The existing roles
gavtnimg the emptoyment of locom doctors are inadequate. In

doctor* will be. screened.” Locum agencies should

^^ nng 7* them to under go a formal health
assessment and provide a statement of any criminal convictions

S£^Z!riESh £"7"? form ' Mr MilSmrn said the
Department or Health has also issued new guidelines on the

<rf*dert letters which warn hospitals about doctors and
dentists whose performance has caused serious conSro.

ROADS

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Today’s thirtysomethings, nurtured
on the “megabyte, microfibre and
media imaging'’ culture will become
the demanding pensioners of the 21st
century.

It seems hard to imagine Elizabeth

Hutiey, doyenne of the very little
black dress, and Diana, Princess of
vftles, devotee of the exercise bike,
wrapped in woolly scarves and
clutching their pension books in
fingerless gloves.

But this generation of thir-
tysomethings, who are obsessed with

the preservation of youth, must now
a begin the debate about old age and
ly how they expect society to pay for ft.

The baby boomers of the 1960s,
who also include An thea Timer and
Nick Leeson, are set to become the
grey boomers of tomorrow with a
third of the population in 2026 aged
over 60, according to a new survey.

Compared to previous genera-
tions, the grey boomers will more
likely be single, without children, and
have a higher level of education while
experiencing unemployment and
early retirement.

A decade-long baby boom began
in 1961 during which more than 10
million babies were bom - a larger
population bulge than the earlier
baby bulge cohort of the immediate
post-Second World Whr years. Those
bom in the 1960s are now half way
to retirement.

By 2021 the number of people
Jk over current retirement age will be
w 17 million, increasing the share of the

“grey vote” to 34 per cent - up from
less than a quarter today. Men will
expect to live a further 21 years af-
ter retirement, women a further 25
years.

Twelve per cent of women and 18
percent of men from the 1960s baby
generation will not be married or liv-
ing with someone by the time they
reach the age of 50 (compared with
5 and 9 percent respectively for those
bom in 1947).

And among those who do. many a
greater proportion will divorce or sep-
arate - around 18 per cent of women

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and 15 per cent of men bora in 1961
had already witnessed the break-up
of their marriage or living together
by the time they were thirty.

The overall increase m the num-
bers living alone will be up 10 per
cent for women and 15 per cent for
men; Demographers predict that
21 per cent of sixties baby boom
women will remain childless all their
lives. ... _ .

1 Most care for old people is at pre-
sent provided by family members -

more than 90 per cent of all people
who have mobility problems are
helped by relatives or other house-
hold members.

But for the sixties babies the
higher incidence of divorce, famil y
break-up and childlessness will have
an impact- and with increasing num-
bers of women in full-time em-
ployment and greater geographical
mobility it is predicted that fewer
women (the traditional carers) will
be available to care for older rela-
tives.

Caring is also a long-term experi-
ence. On average a fifth of people car-
ing for someone in their own homes
provide care for at least lOyeais while
two fifths provide care for between
one and four years. With longer life
expectancy many sixties babies win
experience the burden of caring for
a very old parent as they themselves
are approaching or entering retire-
ment- “If current policies continue,
baby boomers who care for older rel-
atives can expect even lower levels of
state support and free growing
charges for that support,” said the
study. 'There is a need for a state
benefit that both provides an aver-
age wage and protects lifetime living
standards for those who take on full-
time caring responsibilities.”

The study concludes that future
policy should aim to plan for phased
and more flexible retirements, pro-
vide a safety net for those with low
retirement incomes and improve
preventative health services, health
promotion and screening.

“This study is our wake-up call to
today’s thirtysomethings who are al-
ready half-way to retirement, 7 ’ said
Sally Greengross, director of Age
Concern England. “They will have
drastically different expectations to
old age to today's pensioners and
more political clout - so now’s the
time to begin the debate about the
kind of old age they wiU expect in the
21st century and how their society
wflj provide for it.” - ‘

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Melanie Rickey

The fashion retailer French
Connection has been ordered to
withdraw its current advertising
campaign from style magazines.

The adverts which say “feuk
advertising”, and feature no
clothes, just the top of a mod-
el’s head, are currently fea-
tured in the September issues
of The Face, Arena, Vogue,
FHM, Sky and Marie Clone, but
the committee of advertising
protection, part of the Adver-
tising Standards Authority, said
they should not appear in the
Nov ember issues.

Two months ago the compa-
nv had a similar problem with
a previous logo, “feuk fash-
ion”. It was used for windowdzs-
plays, carrier bags, T-shirts and
billboards. Strangely, 50,000
T-shirts were sold, 100,000 bags
given oat, but only a paltry nine
members of the public com-
plained about the 150ft boards.

After the initial complaints
French Connection replaced
the word “fashion" with “ad-
vertising" and inserted dots be-
tween each letter for the
billboards to clarify the abbre-
viation of the compaw name,
and reduce offence. “We are
now using it (feuk] as a trade-
mark, just like, say, the AA or

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Fashion statement: French Connection has been forced to change its advertisement

RAC,” said Trevor Beatty, cre-
ative director at GGT who
dreamt up the advertising “It’s
a total U-turn, the magazines
approved the latest campaign,
and they ran the ads.” Beatty
was responsible for the “Hello
Boys" Wonderbra campaign.

The adverts can remain in

style magazines if the word
“advertising" is replaced with
“advertisement", bat billboards
with a model’s head between
“feuk" and “advertising" have
been approved, and will be un-
veiled a week on Monday.

Since the company intro-
duced rheir play on the f-word

into merchandising and adverts
in February it has been ex-
posed to 15,000 million people.
Lilli Anderson, spokeswoman
for the company, said: Tt’s just
meant asa bit of fun, a play on
words really; magazines are al-
ways using the real F-word in
their editorial."

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His mother, Nicola Darcy, a
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understood to be too upset to

attend ihe hearing. -

The incident happened at the
Daicv frmfiv home, to wheb Ms
is understood to have re- .
tunwd recently following a dis-
agreement with Mr Williams. A
Wbst Midlands spokeswoman
confirmed that one person at
the house in Hobs Meadow was

a registered methadone user.

Detective Inspector John
Jones, the man leadi ng th e in-
quiry, said: “I ran confirm that
a number of persons have been
arrested in connection with
drug-related offences, and they
are currently on police bail
There is a full, on-going inves-
tigation into tbe circumstances
surrounding this tragic case."

T ag month, five Lancashire
coroners spoke out about the
“tremendous naivety” among
the public about the number of
drug overdoses. One of the
five. Andre Rebello, had talks
with Jack Straw, the Home
Secretary, asking him to reduce
the weekly amount of
methadone that chemists could
give addicts because it created
a market for the drug.

In February last year, an in-
quest recorded a verdict of ac-
cidental death in tbe case of
Daniel Fitzpatrick, a 15- month-
old baby wno died after drink-
ing methadone that belonged to
ins mother, 19-year-old Sinead
Fitzpatrick.

A three-year-old boy who
made the same mistake last
month Glasgow survived after
being rushed to an intensive-
care unit at the children's hos-
pital in Yorkhifl, Glasgow. After
doctors successfully fought to
save the boy’s life, Sam Gal-
braith, the Scottish health min-
ister, said: “This underlines the
great need for parents to keep
aD drugs well out of reach of
children. Lessons must be
learnt"

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Labour’s Scottish
hopefuls face stiff
test of character

Fran Abrams

Political Correspondent

Labour candidates for the Scot-
tish Parliament will undergo
"searching scrutiny’’ before
their names can go forward.
Labour announced yesterday in
the wake of the Paisley affair.

Donald Dewar, the Secretary
of State for Scotland, was
launching his party's pro-devo-
lution campaign just hours af-
ter the suspension of a Labour
MP who was found to have been
involved in smearing the Pais-
ley South MP Gordon McM as-
ter. He committed suicide Iasi
month though the suspended
MP, the West Renfrewshire
member Tommy Graham, was
cleared of any part in his death.

The new measures win be in
line with proposals on West-
minster selections which are to
be discussed at the parly’s Oc-
tober conference. Mr Dewar, said
Labour was determined to en-
sure h^h standards of debate and
of personal behaviour.

He told a news conference
that candidates would be vetted
by "individuals of standing"
who had no personal interest in
becoming members of the Scot-

tish Parliament “Hie efforts of
the vast majority of decent
hard-working Labour Party
members must not be under-
mined by conduct which has
everything to do with narrow
self-interest and nothing to do
with the principles for which
Labour stands,” he said.

Mr Dewar admitted that the
previous few days bad been
"bruising" and difficult. But
they should not distract from the
poll on 11 September.

"A new parliament will mean

first referendum question, on
whether there should be a Par-
liament, but only a narrow one
of about S4 per cent on whether

About 20 of the 56^Scottish
MPs elected on 1 May were at
the launch, but Mr Graham was
not among them. Nor was Mo-
hammed Sarwar, who was also
suspended after being accused of
trying to bribe an election rival.

Labour’s news management
appeared to have gone farther
awry last night when Peter

"The efforts of hard-working party
members must not be undermined’

a new era in politics in Scotland.
I am determined that the
Labour Party will rise to the
challenge," he added. "Out of
the troubled and sad events of
recent weeks, I am determined
the party will emerge reformed
and strengthened, and ready to
help forge a new Scotland over
the next 100 years."

Opinion polls in Scotland
have indicated a majority of
about 65 per cent in favour of the

Mandelson called for party uni-
ty just as it emerged that Clare
Short had called his millennium
dome “silly".

To make matters worse Mr
Mandelson, who is in charge of
the millennium project, was in
Bolton visiting one of the com-
panies building the dome.

In a newspaper article aimed
at supporting his campaign for
a seat on Labour’s national ex-
ecutive, Mr Mandelson had

written that the Government
could only succeed through
unity. “I have no time for in-
fighting or introspection. I lave
my party, but I also want it to
be modem, professional and
well-organised," he wrote.

Unfortunately for him, an-
other newspaper had just
picked up on an interview giv-
en before the election by Ms
Short, the Secretary of State for
International Development,
to a magazine run by Cafod, the
Catholic aid charily.

When asked bow she would
like to celebrate the millennium,
sbe had replied: “How much
better than some siQy, temporary
building in Greenwich, is a
commitment to work with oth-
er countries to eliminate abject
hunger, which we could do."

Ar the time. Labour had not
agreed to fund the dome, nor
was Ms Short bound by the rule
of collective responsibiliiywhidi
ensures that Cabinet ministers
toe the line. Last night sbe
issued a clarifying statement,
saying: “As a member of the
Cabinet I fully support the
decision to go ahead with the
millennium dome and I am
sure h will be a great success."

Lorries drive cars off the road

Randeep Ramesh

Transport Correspondent

A national network of lorry
routes, which would see private
cars banned from key parts of
Britain’s road system, is being
considered by John Prescott the
Deputy Prime Minister.

The news comes on the same
day that the Government pub-
lished options for an integrat-
ed transport policy - details of
which wens inadvertently leaked
by Welsh Office transport min-
ister Peter Hain.

The plans for the lorry routes
were floated after ministers
conceded that the Government
had failed to strengthen hun-
dreds of bridges to carry 40-

tonne lorries and pointed out
that congestion was adding un-
necessary costs to business.

Under the proposals, money
could be spent to strengthen key
bridges - and only allow com-
mercial traffic to use them. It
would also see lanes on busy
motorways closed to cars in
favour of lorries.

Last week, the Commons
transport select committee
warned that the delayed bridge
programme could cause serious
hardship to companies. Many
local authorities claim they do
not have sufficient funds to
carry out the repair work on at
least 44,000 crossings.

Ministers have already ac-
cepted that in the short-term

lanes on some bridges may
have to be dosed while others
face weight restrictions when the
new European Union-standard
juggernauts are introduced in
1999.

The Road Haulage Associa-
tion welcomed the news. A
spokesman for the association
said: “Given the problems we
have with limited and dwindling
road capacity, the priority for
our congested road system has
to be the movement of goods
and services.”

Motoring organisations ac-
cepted that commercial traffic
needed to be considered, but
not always at the expense of the
private driver. “It needs a strate-
gic approach that is not confined

to one aspect of traffic but
benefits all road users," said a
spokesman for the RAC.

The paper offers no imme-
diate solutions, instead opting
for bleak statements and
searching questions.

Since the election, ministers
have repeated that they wish to
get people out of their cars and
onto public transport. The
document said the car remained
“an integral part of modern so-
ciety" but a better balance be-
tween different transport
inodes was needed. Asking for
views on the best way to cope
with congestion and pollution,
the document said: “We may all
have to come to terms with
some difficult personal choices."

Hard hat: Peter Mandelson keeps a coot head during a visit to Watsons' steel works
In Bolton yesterday to view construction of the giant legs for the millennium dome

THURSDAY 21 ATrr.rr.yr 1997 • THE INDEPENDENT

Fine

prompts

hospital

safety

purge

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A nationwide crackdown on
hospitals was launched yester-
day after an NHS Thtst was
fined £4,000 for breaching safe-
ty regulations.

It is the first time the Health
and Safety Executive has
brought a case that was not
prompted by a specific accident
and teams have now begun vis-
iting 40 NHS trusts around the
country. They have warned that
more prosecutions could follow
if rule breaches were found

Swindon and Marlborough
NHS Thist admitted a single
charge of breaking health and
safety rules before magistrates
in Swindon, Wiltshire, in a two
hour hearing yesterday-

The court heard that the
trust had put staff and patients
at risk through a “fundamental
failure" to ensure proper safe-
ty svsiems were in place.

The case followed a routine
inspection at the trust last Sep-
tember which found lapses in
policy and training in manual
handling, the biggest single
cause of hospital accidents, as
well as inadequate ventilation
for a hospital mortuary handling
850 post mortems a year.

The court was told the trust
was guilty of a “fundamental
failure" to ensure that ade-
quate systems were in place and
enforced. David Pokora. chair-
man of the trust, was told this
had ‘'placed undue risk, in par-
ticular on members of staff
and also for patients and mem-
bers of the public”.

The inspection also found
that the trust had no system to
clearly separate clinical waste -
including used syringes and
dressings - from other rubbish.

Mr Pokora claimed that the
difficulties had arisen from an
inherited backlog of mainte-
nance work costing £40 million.

However, the King's Fund -
an independent healthcare
charity, said it was "not sur-
prised" that the trust was pros-
ecuted. Gordon Mitchell, its
spokesman, said: “Often we

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Storm brewing as the
barred of Himbleton
take custom elsewhere

Chris Mowbray

5 sounds Like a storyline from Vie
Archers. Bur this is more than just an
everyday tale of rural life for thera-
“jSg!® w the Worcestershire viUage
of Himbleton who have been banld
from their local pub.

Tbe displaced drinkers say that the

licensee, Benjamin Tabary-Davies, is
trying to attract a more up-market
clienteles the 600-year-old Gallon
Arms. They claim he has barred
more than 70 regulars since talons
over two years ago and has tried ro
introduce table d’hote and a la carte
menus to bring more prosperous cus-
tomers to the mn, which features oak
beams and has the English flag flut-
tering outside. “ 0

Locals say the landlord wants to get
nd of village trade and believe that a
blacklist is kept behind the bar of up
to 70 locate who are no kniger welcome.

The village cricket chib’s end-of-
season match against regulars from

the local pub has already been
marred by the controversy. By the
time it was played, several members
of the scratch team from the Gallon
Arms had been barred from their
pub.

So they went into bat under the
new name of the IBBBBB XI -/ Ve-

Bcen- Bun ned- By-Baslard -Ben. Mr

Tabary-Davies, who had been invit-
ed to play, did not turn up for the
fixture. "Virtually all the team had
been banned so we had no choice but
to change the name," said the
IBBBBB skipper, Vaughan Jones,
who Jives J00 yards from the pub.

“J was given my marching orders
four weeks ago when I was accused
of swearing. Mr Tabary-Davies told
me I was barred just as I was leav-
ing one night. 1 thought be was jok-
ing, but when 1 went in the next night
the barman said he was not allowed
to serve me.

“The place used to be heaving on
a Friday night, but now there are only

half a dozen people m there. Still, I
suppose it’s the correct half-dozen
be wants. Just wait until the winter
comes and he needs the local trade.
We all still meet up somewhere else
so who needs the village pub?"

Mr Tabary-Davies said yesterday
that everyone was welcome at the
pub if they dressed nicely and were
respectful to people there, but he
would not tolerate bad behaviour.
He denied that 70 regulars had
been barred and said only a hand-
ful of players from the pub cricket
team had been banned.

“ Customers are still welcome to
come in just for a drink and I don’t
mind if they are casually dressed -
even in jeans and shorts. But some
of the regulars used to come in
straight from work on farms and
building sites with their muddy
boots. TTiey used to swear a lot as well
and I will not pul up with effing and
blinding. 1 have a business to run and
I don’t want riff- raff,” he said.

No chance saloon: A drinker sups outside the Galton Arms where many regulars have been banned Photograph. John Lawrence

Adidas

runs into

trouble

at Tesco

Branded: Siqiennaitet says AcBdas is a bad sport

Alexandra Williams

Customers of Britain's biggest
supermarket chain can today
pick up cut-price sportswear
along with their frozen turkey
and toilet rolls.

To the horror of Adidas, its
wares go on sale at 200 Tesco
stores nationwide. Some items
are reduced by £20 and Tesco
predicts the £2m worth of bar-
gain goods will be snapped up
within two weeks.

The whole range of .Adidas
footwear and clothing will be
available. The deals include a
pair of SL96 Plus Lea running
shoes, which usually cost £49.99
but for which Tfesco is c h ar g i n g
£25, and a hooded top - normal
price £37.99 - which is going for
£28. .

Earlier this year, it sold
30.000 pairs of Levi's jeans at
40 per cent discount Like Levi
Strauss, Adidas spends millions
advertising its products and is
refusing to co-operate with the
supermarket chain. It is advis-
ing customers to boycott the
bargains.

Anne Tvrer. spokeswomen
for Adidas! said: “Adidas make
high-performance, technology-
based products and staff in the
authentic sports retail chan-
nels can give expert advice and
support, for example about sta-
bility and cushioning, at the
point of purchase.

-People can be assured that

it's authentic stock and the lat-
est range. Tesco staff do not
have that specialist knowledge
and customers may walk away
with ill-fitting clothes."

But Tesco says this is o
excuse to keep the prices high

and has branded the sportswear
company a “bad sport".

John Gildersleeve, commer-
cial director at Tesco. said: “We
are offering our customers big
brands at unbeatable prices. For
too long the brand manufac-
turers have argued against sup-
plying Tesco because we don’t
fit certain image requirements.

“Therefore brands preserve
high profit margins resulting in
consumers paying more than
their American counterparts -
Adidas are bad sports and we
want to get our shoppers run-
ning at a price they can afford.”

Tesco has been backed by
Nigel Griffiths, consumer affairs
minister, who is examining the
1984 Trade Marks Act which is
being used to prevent British
companies selling imported
branded goods at low prices.

Mr Griffiths said: “I want to
cut artificially high prices for the
British customer. Selective
distribution hits the pockets of
the poorest most hard. What
Tesco is doing is good news for
shoppers - that is my priority."

Adidas’s refusal to supply
Tfesco has forced tbe super-
market to go direct to a supplier
m North America. In anticipa-
tion of the high demand, Tesco
is considering limiting cus-
tomers’ purchases. “It would be
much easier to work directly
with the company to ensure a
constant supply. With the Levi s
jeans, some stores limited cus-
tomers to one per pair."

This is the latest in a senes
of assaults by supermarkets on
goods they deem to be over-
priced. Books, medicines, skin
rare products and compact
discs are other areas targeted.

Mother of girl, 14,

knew of pregnancy

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j patient confr-
ere nts’ right to
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Police ordered to pay

£*®on Bennetto

Correspond F»nf

men received £80000
damages yesterday after cktim-
S® !?£* assaulted by po-

tee officers wb° then fab^S

eviaence against them.

rhTte®^ £ softer blow to
toe Metropolitan Police who

to^^n forcedtopa y morc
toan £Jhp in compensation

and costs since 1986. Inthe year

to April, the total was £2.5m.

Lawyers representing the
three men who received yester-
day s pay-outs said their clients
bad gone straight to the civil
courts because they bad no faith
in the police complaints proce-
dures, which they described as
biased and discredited.

There is gnawing disquiet at
toe number of people obtaining
damages for alleged abuse by
the police and the apparent in-
ability of chief constables to sack
or discipline officers. But Sir

Paul Condon, the Commis-
sioner of the Metropolitan Po-
lice, has accused lawyers of
milking the system and has
pledged to fight more claims for
damages. The police denied li-
ability in the three most recent
cases and no officer involved has
been disciplined. The officers
deity all the allegations.

Mark Thomas, now 26, ac-
cepted £30,000 after claiming
damages for assault and injury
and wrongful arrest. Mr

Two

Thomas said he was p unched in
the face by an officer while an-
other officer held his arms and
racially abused him during a
demonstration in north-west
London in 1989. In 1990, a
judge ordered a jury to dear Mr
Thomas of causing grievous
bodily harm to a police officer
and violent disorder.

In the case of Timothy Mur-
phy and John Racz, who yes-
terday accepted £30,000 and
£20,000 respectively, they

daimed they were felseiy arrested
after being ejected from a pub in
1991. Mr Murphy said he was
forced to the ground while offi-
cers kicked and beat him. Both
men were later cleared in court
of arty wrongdoing.

Fiona Murphy, who repre-
sents the men, said: “They
chose to pursue civil claims
against the police rather than
rely on the discredited police
complaints process.'’

Lawyers are opposed to po-

lice officers mvestigatin
officers, the higher stan

and the lack oflegal represen-
tation. Ms Murphy said the
Commissioner knew of the. al-
legations, which were aired in
court, but failed to take any ac-
tion against his officers. “On the
contrary, he continues to deny
liability, has refused to apolo-
gise and has taken no action
whatsoever against the pdhoe of-
ficers, who continue to serve in

the police force,” she added.
Scotland Yard said m a state-

that none of the three men

concerned had * com-

ptaintto the pdic^ but bad cbo-
sen to pursue civil actions.
“Increasingly, we are living isa

litigiou s soriety wheiemetyera

of the public are more inclined
to out civil actions against

the police rather than make a
, i thpv stand

is frustrating for the police who
are unable to bring disciplinary
charges without co-operation

from the plaintiff.

Yesterday’s awards are part
of a long dispute between the
police and members of the
public seeking damages. In Fcb-
ruaiy. the Court of Appeal cut
by £185,000 a £220,000 award
for wrongful arrest and assault,
a nd in making the ruling placed
a £50,000 ceiling on awards tty
juries for police brutality.

a high chance or-oDuum
large financial settlement

faiths

become

one at

Norfolk

shrine

Louise Jury

It was a small gesture bridging
the religious divide. Twenty An-
glicans, marked by their striking
blue capes, joined nearly 1,900
Catholics to marie 100 years of
modern pilgrimage to the tiny
shrine at Wusingham, Norfolk

Their presence would have
been unheard of in 1897 when
40 Catholics held the first pub-
lic pilgrimage to the village’s
Slipper Chapel after a break of
350 years.

As recently as the late 1920s,
Anglicans were not even allowed
to enter the chapel whose name
derives from the pilgrims' habit
of leaving their shoes and walk-
ing a final further mile to Wals-
ingham's ruined priory on fooL

But yesterday, it was as if the
boiling sunshine had brought
out a warm spirit of religious tol-
erance. Fr Martin Warner, the
administrator of a nearby An-
glican shrine, said everything
was going “magnificently’’.

“This says quite dearly that
Walsingham is a place of
ecumenism,” be said. Whatev-

Food for thought; A priest
and a pilgrim enjoy lunch
yesterday next to a
memorial to Charlotte
Pearson Boyd, who
restored the Catholic
Slipper Chapel at
Walsingham and was one
of the pilgrims that began
going there in 1897
Photograph: Andrew Buurman

hobbled bravely on sticks or
travelled tty wheelchair, reciting
prayers and clutching rosary
beads. A young Irish boy re-
fused his brother a drink from
his water bottle. “John Paul, it’s
only mineral water, lei him
have it,” said his mother. “No
it’s not, ma,” be rep tied. “I filled
it up with the holy water.”

A party from St John Bosco
church in Blackley, Manchester,
had left home at 630am to get
to what is regarded as Nazareth
for Britain's Catholics, their
most important religious site.
Agnes Lewis, 58, a retired
teacher, came because she has
been recently widowed after car-
ing for her sick husband for
some time. “It was just something
1 felt I wanted to do,” she said.

Sheila Phwson, 47, a medical
secretary, comes regularly with
the diocese. Pauline Milling-
ton, 50, also a medical secretary,
was on her first visit . None had
known the Anglicans were in-
vited. though all thought it a

good thing, “I think it’s good
we’re all together,” she said. Ms

er divisions there are in doctrine
elsewhere, he and his counter-
part at the Catholic shrine, Fr
Alan Williams, work together
often.

Admittedly some of the

guardians of the Anglican
shrine have gone one step fur-
ther - they actually converted
to Rome. And other pilgrimages
have faced fierce anti-Pope
demonstrations. But yesterday

Fr Warner insisted: “The expe-
rience of coming to Wfolsingham
is one of healing. I think that’s
what motivates people to come
here and I think that’s what they
discover”

As pilgrims arrived with
white cotton hats, picnic ham-

pers, garden chairs and um-
brellas as parasols, the

brellas as parasols, the
celebration had the air of a gar-
den party rather than a religious

service. The level of excite-
ment at aagfiting of the former
primate of Ireland, Cardinal Ca-
hal Daly placed him in the mi-
nor film star league. He led the
open-air mass, then the pro-

cession through the tree-lined
lanes of Norfolk to finish the

pilg rimag e

As in days gone by. some pil-
grims walked with bare feet on
the scalding tarmac. Others

we’re all together,” she said. Ms
Millington agreed. “Things are
changing.”

Peter Brogan, 43, a deacon
from Lincoln, was on holiday
with wife Maty, 37, and three of
their children. “I think we’ve got
to be more ecumenical now ” he
said. “The one important thing
that we’ve got to realise is that
we’re a Christian country.”

Stealth bomber is invisible
... as long as it doesn’t rain

Cbaries Arthur

Science Editor

It is one of the most feared
weapons in the US arsenal: an
airplane invisible to radar,
which can fly in and drop its
bombs before flying elusively
away.

But a new US government re-
port has put a dampener on the
B-2 “Stealth” bomber’s repu-
tation. If you leave the airplane
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posed to humidity or excess
heaL To be functional abroad,
B-2s would have to be kept in
giant air-conditioned hangars -
and even then, where mainte-
nance crews will find themselves
spending 39 per cent of their
time repairing the damage
caused to the material which
covers the aircraft To repair

Right of fancy: The US government has spent $43bn on the B-2 stealth bomber

property, the material needs a
cool, dry environment to “cure”
correctly.

■ A report, published this
week by the GAO. which mon-
itors public spending, notes
that the 29 B-2 bombers or-
dered, at a total cost of
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tended deployment require-
ments because the low
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ture than expected”.

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1999. But the GAO warned that
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Crisis as
Colombian
refugees
flood into
Britain

Ian Btareil

The Government’s commit-
ment to human rights has been
called into question over its re-
sponse to a sudden influx of
Colombian refugees.

The South American country
is being tom apart by lighting
between right-wing paramilitary
groups, left-wing revolutionar-
ies and state-controlled forces.

The Government's first set of
immigration statistics, revealed
today, will show that thousands
of Colombians have fled to
seek asylum in Britain. Nearly
all have been refused entry.

Yesterday the Government
faced further problems over
immigration as the Campsfield
detention centre in Oxford-
shire erupted into violence.

Fires were started in the
dormitories and library as 50
inmates, all awaiting immigra-
tion clearance, went on the

rampage. More than 100 police
officers, many in riot gear, were
called to quell the disturbance. .

The Government is struggling
with a backlog of 53,000 asylum
applications and 22.000 appeals
from rejected applicants.

But it is the dampdown by
immi gration officials on Colom-
bians which has particularly
concerned organisations work-
ing with refugees who believe in-
nocent people have been put at
risk of assassination.

By May, asylum applications
from Colombia were up 500 per
cent on 1996. when there were
a record 1,005 applicants.

Next month the Refugee
Council will produce a report.
Caught in the Crossfire , which
will claim that officials have
turned down many asylum ap-
plications because of a lack of
understanding of human rights '
issues in Colombia.

Tony Kay, who researched

the report, said: “They have not
got a proper appreciation of the
human rights violations going on
on the ground because the sit-
uation is changing so quickly."

The report will show that
members of Ml 9, once a left-
wing guerrilla group but now a
legitimate political party, have
been refused asylum on the

grounds that their legal status
means they can now expect
protection from the Colombian
government Similar assurances
were given in refusing applica-
tions from members of the left-
wing coalition Union Patriotica
(UP), which has lost 3.500 ac-
tivists to political assassinati on.

But Juan-Cados l^-ma, of the

London-based Colombian sup-
port group Open Channels,
sakfc “The feet that M19 became
a political party does not mean
they are not at risk. A lot of peo-
ple want to have revenge and the
government is too weak to give
protection.”

Claude Moraes. of the Joint
Council for the Wdfare of Im-

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migrants, said that despite
Labour pledges of reform, a
“general culture of disbelief" re-
mained among the Home Office
officials who deal with asylum-
seekers. The criticisms will con-
cern Labour after its pledges to
uphold human rights.

Amnesty International says
government forces have fre-

quently co-ope rated with right-
wing paramilitaries, who are
responsible for a dramatic es-
calation of “torture, political
killings and disappearances”.

More than 1,000 civilians
were extrajudicially executed
by the security forces and para-
military groups Iasi year. This
week protesters demonstrated

Making a stand:
Demonstrators gathered
outside the Colombian
Embassy in Kmghtsbridge,
London, to protest about
the country's human rights
record

photograph : John Lawrence .

outside the Colombian em-
bassy in Knightsbridge over the
country’s human rights record.

The increase in violence over
the past year has coincided with
an exodus of refugees to Britain
and elsewhere. But within a
month of the election, the Gov-
ernment c lam ped down on the
(jiflinr by introducing a new visa
requirement for all Colombians
coming to Britain.

In a speech that was unre-
ported by the press, Mike
O'Brien, the immigration min-
ister, warned of the “inareaang
and alarming” numbers of
Colombians making “unfound-
ed” claims for asylum.

Since the change in the law,
monthly asylum applications
from Colombia have tumbled
from nearly 250 to just 15.

Refugee support groups said
that people fleeing persecution
were often among the 1 million
displaced Colombians and were
unable to produce evidence of
a borne and a job, which is usu-
ally required for a visa.

Some members of the British
Colombian community, num-
bering around 50,000 and con-
centrated in London, fear they
are being stigmatised over police
fears that Colombian drugs car-
tels are targe tting Britain.

In an attempt to improve the
situation, the Refugee Council
has held a series of private
meetings with Home Office of-
ficials in recent weeks, aimed at
making the treatment of
Colombians more “fair and
efficient"

GCSEs: the provisional results

Fewer students entered
for GCSE science sub-
jects this year. Last year,
an increase in entries in
physics, chemistry and bi-
ology raised hopes of an
improvement in the take-
up of science In the sixth-
form, writes Judith Judd.

Numbers entering for
combined science in-
creased. Overall, the pro-
portion of entries awarded
A*-C in science was up
by 0.2 percentage points.

Hie figure for maths
rose by 0.6 and for

English decreased by 0.8.

this year's table is dif-
ferent from last year’s be-
cause the figures, all
provisional, include ail
GCSE subjects.

Last year, only major
subjects were included in
foe statistics.

David Hart general sec-
retary of the National As-
sociation of Head
Teachers, attacked the
concentration on A*-C
grades on which school
league tables are based.
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cent of pupils achieved
grade D or better is a suc-
cess story which the Gov-
ernment totally ignores by
its insistence that GCSE
league tables should em-
phasise those who have
achieved five or more A-C
grades, thus replicating
the

attitude of previous ad-
ministrations,” he said.

“This year’s results
demonstrate that the per-
petual emphasis on A-C
grades is damaging the
interests of the less able."

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Silent danger lurks
in the shadowy olive
groves of Lebanon

In the darkness, all five Nor-
wegian soldiers hold out their
right hands, one on top of the
other. “En for alle - alle for en,”
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ness, look like forests. Even the
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handler. Private Stian Kleppe,
move like shadows.

It is not an easy United Na-
tions patroL The moon above
the Liiam river - deep inside Is-
rael’s south Lebanon occupa-
tion zone - moves in and out of
the clouds; and as our eyes be-
come accustomed to the dark,
its sudden appearance almost
dazzles us. From the blackness
of the grave, we are bathed in
a white phosphorescence, as if
God has turned on a light-
switch.

Robert
Fisk

goes on
night
patrol
with the
Norwegian
peace-keepers
of UN Observation
Post 4-27

In this brilliance, I can see
Private Tor Sandvik lying hud-
dled beside his 11kg radio,
whispering “Alpha One X-Ray
Papa moving to Alpha One
Lima." Papa is our patrol Lima
is a little sandbagged fort over
rbe river half a mile away,
but it will take us an hour to
reach it.

Irar over the hills to the
north, beyond an abandoned Is-
raeli compound, there comes
the boom of heavy firing. W* are
lying only feet from the pale
grey track through the olive
grove, the trail the Hizbollah
probably took when they
mortared another Israeli
fortress two weeks ago.

Israel retaliates for Hizbollah attack

Sidon, Lebanon — Israel's
air force launched its;
biggest attack into Lebanon
for. IB months yesterday hi
retaliation for a Hizbollah ■
rocket barrage against the.
Jewish state.

Warplanes Masted a pow-
er line feeding south
Lebanon's largest city and
Hizbollah bases west of the
border with Syria, and
dropped bombs near a
Lebanese Army position.

- The three strikes, in the
space of two hours, added
to a spiral of violence that
begem on Monday and has
pushed to the brink of col-

lapse a .1996 agreement
not to target civilians on the
last active Arab-lsraeli front
line.

The attacks were accom-
panied by tough talk on
both sides of toe border that
has left many Lebanese in
thesouth tracing for another
cycle of bloodshed.

Lebanese Prime Minister
Rafik aH-tariri. accused Israel
of fuelling instability in the
region while his Defence
Minister described the air
raids as ‘terrorist" acts.

Nazih Nakouzi

Reuters

Lying quiet in a south
Lebanese orchard beneath a fit-
ful moon sounded pleasant
enough back at the platoon’s
headquarters. But within sec-
onds, the mosquitoes are
shrieking in my ears. Any move-
ment, even the silent swatting
of these evil little aviators, is for-
bidden.

I am lying with my hands be-
side me, until I feel my fingers
being criss-crossed by- tiny feet
I cannot see the insects but they
are quietly feeding on me. So
that, I conclude was why Private
Morton Haagenstad offered
me leather gloves tonight. The
hardy Fisk, of course, had
turned down this eminently
sensible proposal lo my left, I
see Sims patting silently at his
trousers where a scorpion is at-
tacking him. I stuff my wound-
ed hands inside my flak jacket.
They will torment me for days.

Two helicopteis fly far over-
head. Later, we will hear one of
them firing a heavy machine-
gun into a wadi But to our left,
Eddie has pricked up his ears
and is straining fcuward in the
darkness. I like Eddie. When he
is angry - which is often - he
eats nodes, which is why his teeth
have been ground down over
eight years patrolling with the
Norwegians. But he keeps the
platoon's silence discipline, only
occasionally allowing a paw to
scrape the ground or panting
softly in dog-like excitement.
Sims points into the olive grove.

A tiny light flickers in the far

British troops block
Bosnia police coup

Christopher BeBamy

Defence Correspondent

British and Czech troops sup-
ported by US Apache gunship
helicopters raided police sta-
tions in the Bosnian Serb town
of Banja Luka yesterday morn-
ing and seized 4500 weapons in
an operation to smash a possi-
ble coup against the elected Pres-
ident Biljana Plavsic.

Ms Plavsic has been strug-
gling to maintain her authority
over rivals still loyal to the in-
dicted war criminal and ex-
president, Radovan Karadzic.
Yesterday’s operation succeed-
ed and at noon she made a tri-
umphant visit to the main police
station where she was cheered
by several hundred onlookers.

The dramatic action by in-
ternational peace-keepers was
a result of “mutual agreement"
with Ms Plavsic, whom they met
late on Tuesday, and clearly de-

signed to avert a coup against
her. It suggests that a move to
seize Mr Karadzic and bis
“number two". General Ratko
Mladic, may be imminent.

At about 630am, 350 British
and Czech soldiers from the
Nato-led multinational stabili-
sation force - S-For - in 50 ve-
hicles sealed off the Banja Luka
police headquarters, the police
academy, a special police bar-
racks and three police stations,
while the US Apaches hovered
overhead. Some of the Bosnian
Serbs refused to leave and
vowed to ‘fight to the death".

Five minutes before S-For’s
ultimatum expired they came
out with their hands up. Officers
from the International Police
Task Force entered the police
stations and found large num-
bers of unauthorised weapons
including machine-guns, rock-
et launchers and mines, the
force's deputy commander.

Werner Sebum, said S-For had
to bring in three trucks to take
2300 weapons away.

“S-For met no resistance.
S-Fbr is in control We have de-
ployed sufficient resources to
meet any anticipated require-
ments", its spokesman, Major
John Blakeley, said in Sarajevo.

Banja Lulra- the seoond dty
of the Bosnian Serb mini-state
- is also the headquarters of the
British-controlled sector. On
Sunday, a special police unit toy*
al to Ms Plavsic raided the
main police station after evi-
dence emerged that the police
were backing Ms Plavsic's rivals
and bugging her telephones
with a view to arresting her.

S-For disarmed the police -
but that left Ms Plavsic virtual-
ly defenceless as about 100
pro-Karadzic police moved into
Banja Luka putting her in what
international officials described
as a “critical situation".

Iran moderates win
parliament’s backing

Tehran (Reuter) - Iran's par-
liament yesterday voted in all
the ministers in the proposed
cabinet of President Moham-
mad Khatami giving the mod-
erate cleric a strong start for his
reform mandate.

Parliamentaiy deputies vot-
ed overwhelmingly in favour of
all ministers despite fierce crit-
icism from conservatives who
had threatened to reject some
controversial nominees.

It had been expected that Mr
Khatami could lose two candi-
dates - Ayatollah Mohajerani as
culture minister and Abdoilah
Nouri as interior minister -
after they came under fire in
more than 15 hours of debate
on Tuesday and yesterday.

The vote confirmed Kama I
Kharrazi, Iran’s ambassador al
the United Nations, as the new
foreign minister, navy com-
mander Rear-Admiral Ali
Shamkhani as defence minister,
and Qorbanali Dorn Najafaba-
dl a Shia Muslim cleric, al in-
telligence (interna] security).

It also confirmed Bijan Nam-
dar Zanganeh, who was a min-
ster in charge of electricity
and water, as oil minister of the
world’s third largest oil
exporter and Hossein Namazi
as the economy and finance
minister, a post he first held
from 19S2 to 1986.

Mr Mohajerani, who had
been sharply criticised by con-
. servative deputies, received 144
votes in his favour, % against
and 20 abstentions.

Parliament's vote of confi-
dence on Mr Khatami’s entire
cabinet was seen by analysts as
a major victory for the 54-year-
old moderate Shia Muslim cler-
ic who was sworn into office on
4 August after securing a land-
slide election victory in May.

Hie margin of votes indi-
cated that he had won over a
large section of the conserva-
tive-led parliament which he has
to work with until the next par-
liamentary elections in 2000.
The vote of confidence for Mr
Mohajerani was seen as vital for

Mr Khatami to carry out
promises of bringing social and
economic change to the 18-year-
old Islamic republic.

Conservatives had directed
their sharpest criticism at Mr
Mohajerani as a “liberal" threat-
ening the future of the Islamic
republic and Mr Nouri for
alleged disloyalty towards Iran’s
supreme leader. Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei

Mr Mohajerani defended his
right to be appointed to the cab-
inet saying he was tolerant in the
same way that Islam was toler-
ant to different view points. “I
disagree with almost all of the
present practices in the culture
ministry. We have to protect
artists and provide an atmos-
phere for creativity, tranquillity
and freedom,” he told deputies.

“Everybody who has accept-
ed the Islamic Republic and its
constitution must be subject to
tolerance ... I condemn the
burning of book shops, the beat-
ing of university lecturers and
attacks on magazine offices."

away village of Bourhoz - 35
Druze souls living in a battlefield
— and Sims thinks as I am
thinking (so he tells me later),
that the village boy who was
beaten up by the Hizbollah last
year, is moving. The UN sokfiers
call him “Lightman".

Then 1 see another fight, far
away in the abandoned Israeli
foit on the other side of the riv-
er. Sims believes the Israelis
leave it on to give the impres-
sion that it is still occupied.

There is more distant firing,
mortars this time, but Eddie
concentrates on the olive grove.
1 hear rus tling . Sims has re-
minded us at our briefing that
the Hizbollah could not main-
tain silence at night. Nor could
the Israelis if they too were in
the UN zone. Suns’ job is to
keep both of them out. We can-
not move off our own “blue
line" path - the only route
cleared of mines - but we can
shout “Halt - United Nations”
(the phrase, of course, that has
sent many a quivering Serb to
his knees) ana hope that who-
ever is there goes away. Five
rifles point into the darkness in
case it does not AH the while,
the firing continues over the
mountains. Then I see Sims
turning to the soldiers. The
sound has grown fainter. Eddie
is back on his haunches. We win
never know what was out there
in the olive grove.

Two am. The moon has fall-
en behind the mountains. Hi gh
on our perch at Alpha One
Lima, we stare down into the
valley of the litani through
our night-sights. I can see trees

•K

:» J

Open fire: Brush burning across the Litani valley, seen through night sights during the patrol Photograph: Robert Rsl-

and clearings and tracks
through the undergrowth, the
trails used by Hizbollah and Is-
raelis alike. A rock skids down
the opposite ride of the valley.
“Two pigs," Sims whispers; “I
saw them." Wild boars roam
southern Lebanon at night.
They also, according to the
locals, eat bodies.

The hours pass wretchedly.

The insects feed. And the mos-
titoes are now air-raiding our
i every 30 seconds. Sweat is
creeping under my flak jacket
and down my arms. At four am,
Sims derides to end his patrol
by taking a closer look at the ter-
rain. He calls up mortar illu-
minations and the Norwegians
to the south shoot three flares
high above us, the charges pop-

ping in the darkness. They are
fired too far lo the east and one
of them sets off a brush fire bn
the other ride of the river.

Sims points his own flan.-
pistol over the abyss and a
snake of red light hisses from
our fortress. Eddie snarls in rage
and I peer down to the river
through my night-sights. Every
tree branch, every twig is bathed

in our Olympian light. And m>i
a movement do we see. But
looking north, Sims notices that
the light in the “abandoned" Is-
raeli fort has been turned oil.
“Do you think it’s abandoned
now?” he asks in ray ear. No. i
do not think so. As our Iasi
flares die in the darkness belt m.
the Israeli light flickers on
again. Wc have nut been alone.

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TTTTmir-r « anrarST 1997 • THE INDEPENDENT-

It’s summer — and

world leaders head
for sun, sea and a
little state business

Foreign Staff

m&AY WITH BORIS, BILL, TONY
ES& (CENTRE) BIBI.

Across the globe, trouser legs
are being rolled up and son
cream rubbed in. It is the hol-
iday season, for everyone - in-
cluding world leaders.

The world’s swankiest hotels,
best beaches and tightest secu-
rity are at the disposal of heads
of government. Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu takes a photocaE in the
Mediterranean with his family,
and a phalanx of bodyguards.
Jacques Chirac chooses a trop-
ical hotel patronised by royal-
ty and pop stars. And Peking’s
leaders have the best beaches at
the popular Chinese resort of
Beida He cordoned off for
their private use.

But many choose a simpler
holiday. Informality, epitomized
by Tbny Blair, is very much in

Blair family leads
in informality,
while Jiang takes
the whole office
to the beach

turned into one big photo-;
opportunity. Bibi, Sara and
their two sons, Yair, six, and .
Avner, two. playing on the
beach at Caesarea, the uproar? v
ket Mediterranean resort where-,
a businessman friend lent them'-
his villa. Hizbollah, alas, spoilt
the fun. Mr Netanyahu broke his

tune with the holiday manners
of the modern world leader.

Mr Blair, polishing his Euro-
pean credentials, has spent half
his holiday in Tuscany and half
in Prance, where be wul later this
week meet with Liood Josrrin, his

vacation on Hiesday to sympa-
thise with the people of Kiryat
Shmona, whose homes were hit'
by Katyusha rockets from
Lebanon.

The French President,
Jacques Chirac, has just finished .
his holiday, and returned to
Paris on Tuesday after three-
weeks in the tropics. He start-
ed in La Reunion, in the Indi-
an Ocean, and then moved on '
to Mauritius, 150 miles away.
One of the advantages of a colo-
nial heritage is that La Reunion
is under French control, and is
not considered a colony, but
rather as a French territory. Mr.
Chirac was staying with his wife
Bernadette, their daughter and
their grandson, in a hotel which
has entertained the likes of
Princess Stephanie of Monaco
and the singer James Brown.

Perhaps the least relaxed
holidaymakers are the leaders
of the Peoples’ Republic of
China. Fir from getting away
from it all for his holidays. Chi-
na’s leader lakes the office and
all his senior colleagues with
him for his summer break. Pres-
ident Jiang Zemin and his en-
tourage descend every year on
the seaside resort of Beida He,
about 150 miles east of Peking.

Beida He has a lively holiday
atmosphere -at least where the
masses play. The town is rather
like Blackpool, with a strange
form of apartheid imposed upon
it. lb the east, the public beach-
es are thronged with state work
units on then official holidays:
to the west, the often-deserted
best beach is cordoned off for
the senior leaders and no curi-
ous passers-by are allowed any-
where near. ’

Although he has two luxuri-
ous official residences and a
posh Johannesburg home, when
President Nelson Mandela takes
his month-long summer holiday
he heads for Qunu. Here he has
had a replica of his old quarters
at Victor yerster prison, a mod-
est red-brick bungalow, built in
the wilds of the Transkei..

His mother, who died during
his 27-year incarceration, once
lived across the road. And Mr
Mandela has a simple explana-
tion for his choice of destina-
tion: “Everybody comes back to
where they were bom.” he says.

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Prime Minister. "I know he lives

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er,” said Mr Blair, as though he
hoped to bump into Mr Jospin
in the fresh fruit and vegetable
section of the local hypennarchd
Increasingly, business and leisure
are mixed.

The QintODS showed the com-
mon touch by dressing in baggy
T-shirts and running shorts. But
they were at Martha’s Vineyard,
that ultra-trendy haunt of the
monied, old and new, and the
White House press corps went
along too, for staged photo-op-
portunities and “impromptu”
statements on current events.

Russia’s Boris Yeltsin spent
halfhfa holiday on the Volga and
half in Kareli in the north,
where be relaxed in a newly ren-
ovated government dacha by a
lake, which was closed to the
public and filled with thou-
sands of fish to ensure the Pres-
ident’s success with rod and line.

The working element of the
holiday in Kareli was that Mr
Yeltsin played host to the
Finnish President, Martti Ahri-
saari. It must have been an odd
experience for Mr Ahtisaari to
be a guest in Kareli, which
used to belong to Finland un-
til the Soviet Union seized it at
the end of the Second World
Wtr. Perhaps even odder, he
found himself in a sauna being
energetically beaten with birch
twigs by the President of Rus-
sia, an experience few will be
able to record on their postcards

In the past, Israeli prime min-
isters did not usually take holi-
days - or if they did. they
frolicked so discreetly no one no-
ticed. But Benjamin Netanyahu
has broken the mould this sum-
mer. He is Israel's first yuppie
prime minister, the first to have
grown up in the less austere di-
mate of the US, the first to have
small children while in office.

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After two very good years for wine,
French vineyard owners already had dol-

look^fo^^r^ to a harvest that is like-
ly to be even better than the last two. AO
the signs are now indicating that 1997
could be one of the best vintages in
decades.

As early as 4 August grape-picking
began in Rivesaftes, north of Perpignan;
and on Monday the Haul Brion chateau
near to Bordeaux announced that it
would begin the grape harvest for white
wine grapes on Monday, and for red wine
at the end of the week. Grapes have not
been ready for harvest this early since 1893.

Jean-Bemard Delmas, the chateau's di-
rector of commerce, explained that “the
harvest usually takes place between 20-
25 September ... but from die month of
May it was clear that we would be har-
vesting early because the grapes were al-
ready very mature.” Bottles from the last
early harvest, in 1990, are now selling fox
several hundred pounds.

Other vineyards have also announced
that they will begin harvesting this week,
such as Couhins-Couton, Latour Mar-
tfllac, Fieuzal and Chevalier. All these
chateaux are in the Graves region in Bor-
deaux. The vineyards in the region of
Cdtes du Rhflne are prepa ring for grape-
picking next Monday and across France,
wine producers are getting ready for an
early narvest, even further north in the
regions of the Loire.

The maturity of this year’s crop is due
to the very hot, sunny spring, and it not
only promises good wine, but also m eans

that the farmers have more lime 10 har-
vest, which allows them to pick the grapes
at the rig ht time. The warmer weather of
an early harvest also means that the al-
cohol levels are generally fairly high..

Even the heavy rain in July that flood-
ed much of Eastern Europe, and made for
a lot of wet summer holidays on the
. Mediterranean, was not a catastrophe for
the wine merchants. Although it did de-
stroy some grapes, some rain was essen-
tial to speed op the ripening process. The
only disadvantage is for the grape -pickers,
who will have to gp through the vines with
greater care, getting rid of the spoilt crop.

Some predictions are more cautious
than others: Philippe Raymond, from the
Wine Producers' Union in Saint Emilion,
sai± “Only a catastrophe with the weath-
er would pose any threat to the harvests
now, but we shall have to wail and see if
the sun continues to shine in the next tew
weeks before we know if those crops
which are not yet ready will be excep-
tional.” likewise, Fabrice Fatin, director
of the Wine and Iburist office in Pauil-
lac, in the Haut-Mddoc, said: “All ex-
ceptional vintages do come from early
harvests, but all early harvests do not nec-
essarily produce good vintages."

Nevertheless, smiles are broad on the
faces of roost of those involved in the nine
industry. A union official from the Bor-
deaux area said that they are “optimistic
and relaxed” and a vineyard owner from
Gafllac, in the South-west said be will gut
a relatively small quantity of wine, but it
will be of excellent quality.

As for the weather, one vmevard own-
er in the Loire region said: “liven if we
could control it, we could not have done
any better."

‘ ♦

bring Mir

Dixons

down to earth

diaries Arthur

Science Editor

Cm* :

The Mir space station may fi-
nally meet its end next year,
brought down not by technical
problems but the sheer cost of
running it, Russia's deputy fi-
nance minister has hinted.

As the three astronauts on
board the orbiting station pre-
pared for a spacewalk tomorrow
to restore power and make re-
pairs. Vladimir Petrov, first
deputy finance minister said:
“The task is pressing. We must
remove Mir from orbit. This will
be done next year." He added,
“You see, there have already
been a series of breakdowns,
one failure, another failure.”

However, Valery Ryumin,
who beads Russia's cooperation
with the United States’ space
agency, Nasa, on Mir, said: U A
bureaucrat f Petrov] can say
whatever nonsense he wants. 1
don’t even want to hear this
nonsense.”

Mr Petrov’s comments were
made to reporters on Tuesday
for release last njgbi, to coincide
with a government discussion of

the 1998 budget, which will be
sent to the Russian parliament
by next Tuesday. That leaves the
distinct possibility that the com-
ments were part of a bargaining
plan to try to reduce spending.

Exact figures on Mar's oper-
ating costs are not available, and
observers say Russian military
control of some aspects of the
programme make it hard to
calculate.

But Mir does earn valuable
foreign currency: the LTS
agreed to pay Russia 5478m
(£300m), mostly for A/ir- relat-
ed activities, under a Decem-
ber 1993 agreement to last
until 1998. The European
Space Agency (ESA) paid
$50m for two joint missions in-
volving Mir in 1994 and 1995.

Russian space officials have
said they intend to keep Mir in
orbit at least until 2000, and
leading Russian policymakers
have not previously advocated
its retirement
If and when it is abandoned,
it will eventually fall to earth.
Though most of it should burn
up in the atmosphere, large
pieces are expected to survive.

Mir, launched in 1986, is the
last element left from the glo-
ries of the Soviet space pro-
gramme, which was the first to
launch a satellite and then a
man into orbit
On 25 June the station ex-
perienced the worst accident in
its history when a supply ship

—

one of ibe six modules. It has
suffered a series of smaller fail-
ures in recent weeks.

“In principle we are deciding
three problems: to create a
(new) station, support Mr un-
til a certain time, mat is until the
(new) station goes into orbit
and somewhat change the space
complex now in orbit” Mr
Petrov said.

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creation' of an international
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Rolf Knie

Rolf Knie was a giant of the cir-
cus world, in more senses than
one. A large, authoritative man,
he was dwarfed only by his
favourite animals, the elephants
he trained and presented at the
Swiss National Circus Knie.

Among his fellow circus di-
rectors, be was acknowier^ed as
one of the giants of the indus-
try in which Circus Knie reigDed
supreme throughout Europe,
with a world-wide reputation for
quality and class. While
Bertram Mills Circus in Great
Bri tain was. from the 1920s to
the 1960s, regarded as the finest
here, the name of Kni e will live
on as the most respected circus
in the world.

Representing the fifth gen-
eration of a circus dynasty now
into its seventh generation.
Rolf Knie and his brother
Fredy, their father Fr€d6ric
and uncles Rodolphe, Eugfine
and Charles, received the ulti-
mate accolade of the circus in-
dustry on 19 July this year with
the induction of their names
into the International Circus
Hall of Fame. Rolf had retired
from the circus ring as a per-
former in 1969, having been Eu-
rope’s leading elephant trainer,
but for some SO years, from
1941, Rolf and brother Fredy
directed the fortunes of the Cir-
cus Knie which became Switzer-
land's National Circus and its
most-loved form of entertain-
ment; both Rolf and Fredy and
their sons enjoyed a cult fol-
lowing in Switzerland almost
alrin to that accorded royalty or
pop-stars.

Rolf himself started his career
as a child acrobat, but due to his
lame physique later followed his
father, a trainer of dogs, polar
bears, horses and a down to
boot into the field of animal
training. He was pitched into the
presentation of elephants at
the tender age of 16, when the
trainer of a group of Knie ele-
phants at a Danish circus fell
sick. He followed his unde
Charles (who died in 1940)
into elephant tr aining, taking
over the big herd of Indian ele-
phants after the departure of the
master trainer Franz Kraml
from Czechoslovakia at the end
of 1939.

In 1941 he trained the ele-
phant “Baby" to do a sensa-
tional feat: walking a tightrope,
an act he later presented at the
Scaia Theatre, Berlin, while
his brother Fredy worked at the

equally famous Wintergarten
theatre there, a favourite haunt
of the German leader Adolf
Hitler. In 19S3, he trained an-
other elephant, “Sabu”, to per-
form this trick, and brought it
to London for die second of his
appearances in Tbm Arnold’s
Circus at Haxringay Arena in
1953/54.

His first appearance in Eng-
land had been at Blackpool
Tbwer Circus, during the win-
ter of 1949, but he and his broth-
er, probably the world’s finest
horse trainer, also supplied
wild animal acts, chimpanzees,
horses and elephant numbers to
circuses in Birmingham, Glas-
gow and to the Bertram Mills
Circus at Olympia, London.
His animals were also featured
with circuses throughout Eu-
rope, and his efforts in the
breeding of elephants in cap-
tivity led to the birth of sever-
al young Asian elephants, a
remarkable achievement.

In 1956, Knie acquired sev-
en young African elephants
from Basel Zoo, and was the
first in Europe to present a
group of these animals in the
sawdust ring, this variety being
considered generally much
more difficult to train than the
Indian or Asian species.

Rolf Knie was bom in 1921
in Wetzikon in Switzerland,
where the Circus Knie was on
tour at the time. The Knie
showbusiness dynasty was
founded in the early 19ih cen-
tury by an Austrian, Fr6d6ric
Knie (1784-1850), whose fam-
ily became famous as acrobats
and tightwire performers in the
village squares, working al fres-
co. It was not until Louis Knie
(1842-1909) took his family and
settled in Switzerland that his
sons Rodolphe, Frederic,
Charles and Eugene decided in
1919 to start a cucus. Receiv-
ing no financial assistance from
their widowed mother, they
obtained credit from the Swiss
ten [makers, Geisers, who gave
them a two-poler big top,
enabling them to open their
travelling show on 1 June 1919
in Berne.

The year 1919 was also aus-
picious for Fr£d£ric and
Rodolphe since they both
married. The following year
Fr&feric’s wife Marguerite gave
birth to their son Frederic
(known as Fredy) and the year
after to Rodolphe (Rolf). Reefy
and Rolf both followed their fa-

ther and uncles, becoming tal-
ented acrobats, riders and ani-
mal trainers. Rolf eventually
specialised in elephants and
Fredy in horses, both of them
the pre-eminent trainers in Eu-
ropean circuses.

In 1939, they decided to
throw open their training es-
tablishment to the public, in
order to prove to all that cru-
elty was not involved in the
painstaking and loving training
of their animals. This practice
is still carried on at Circus Knie
today, where daily rehearsals

and training sessions can be
viewed by the public at large.

In 1950, Rolf Knie married
Tina di Giovanni, sister of Dora
Caroli, whose husband was the
famous bareback rider and
clown Enrico Caroli, who often
appeared in England with
Bertram Mills, Tom Arnold's
and Billy Smart’s arcuses. Tina,
who came from Milan, took her
traditional place as a Knie
spouse in the circus booking of-
fice. Their first sou, Louis, was
bora in 1951, and their second.
Franca was bora, in 1954. "

Following Rolfs retirement
from the ring as a trainer and
presenter in 1969, his son Louis
succeeded him with the ele-
phants, later fallowed by Fran-
co. Louis also excelled asa rider
of haute^cole (dressage), and a
trainer of tigers, combining in
one act tigers which rode on the
backs of full-grown elephants.
Following the retirement of Rolf
and Fredy, after 50 years at the
helm of Circus Knie, Rolf Knie
ran for a while their delightful
Children's Zoo in Rapperswil,
where the circus also wintered.

■ * .•

In 1994, Louis Knie left the
family concern , to launch his
own show in Austria, under the
ride of the Austrian National
Circus Louis Knie, sided by his
son, Louis Jnr.

Rolfs younger son Franco, in
partnership with his cousin
Fbedy Knie Jnr, today controls
the destiny of the Swiss National
Circus, die most prestigious
touring circus in the world, and
members of die seventh gener-
ation of Knies are among its
performers.

In true showbusiness trad!-

Professor John Maf tin

John Martin was one of that
post-war gene ration of social sci-
entists whose work was doae, for
the most part, in a benign cli-
mate of social change in the
1950s and 1960s. By the mid-
1970s, both the social optimism
and the public investment which
bad been directed towards the
improvement of British society
began rapidly to drain away
and, as with many of his acad-
emic generation, Martin's later
work was accomplished contra
mundum.

He was educated at Leighton
Park SchooL, Reading, and af-
ter reading English at Reading
University, he determined on
joining the probation service. As
a preliminary, he arrived at
the London School of Eco-
nomics in 1951 to read for the
Certificate in Social Science.
Instead of entering the world
of social work he underwent a
fundamental re-orientation in
his interests and began on a
career in research and teach-
ing which was to encompass the
rest of his Life. There is no
doubt but that the person re-

sponsible for this was the great
.Richard Titmuss.

Titmuss, whose appointment
to the Chair of Social Adminis-
tration at LSE had been some-
what controversial, since he was
not thought of as an academic,
was both a practical socialist and
one committed to the ideals of
a welfare state as envisaged try
Beveridge. The strong tradi-
tion at the School, which went
back to its founders Sidney and
Beatrice Webb, was for devel-
opments in social policy to be
made in the context, not of ab-
stract ideology, but of the real-
ities of social life as QJinninated
by empirical research. Titmuss,
who was an exceedingly shrewd
judge of ability, opened Martin's
eyes to wider horizons, and in
1953 recruited him to the staff
of his department

Although Titmuss is re-
membered predominantly in
the fields of health policy and
social security, he encouraged
his proteges to range widely.
Martin's first modest but
thoughtful publication had been
an article on nursery schools. It

was to be the first work in what
was to be a prodigious output
of writing. In 1957 Sodal Aspects
of Prescribing appeared; not
merely to be favourably re-
viewed but to be discussed in a
Times leader - a notable
achievement in those days for
one still barely 30. It revealed
the facts about the uneven
quality of healthcare in gener-
al practice, flluminating the in-
equalities of region and class still
with us 40 years later.

In 1959 Martin was recruit-
ed by that other great academ-
ic entrepreneur of the day, the
legendary Leon Racfcmowrcz, to
become Assistant Director of
Research at the newly founded
Institute of Criminology in
Cambridge. He was elected a
Fellow of King's College,
Cambridge, in 1964. At Cam-
bridge he produced his Offend-
ers as Employees (1962) and
became responsible for the
supervision erf graduate research
at the Institute. By 1967 it had
become time to move on, to a
chair of Sociology and Social
Administration (later Social

Martin: radical social research

Fblicy) at Southampton which he
held until his early “retirement"
in 1989, remaining, with the de-
partment as Research Professor
until he left for Manchester in
1992 where be characteristical-
ly formed a connection with the
university's Department of Social
Policy as a Visiting Professor.

While at Southampton he
served as a member of the Isle
of Wight Health Authority and
on the Board of Visitors at Al-
bany Prison. He contributed sig-

nificantly to the work of the Jel-
licoe Committee on Boards of
Visitors which reported in 1975.

In all he did be folkmed in the
tradition of radical social re-
search to which he had been in-
troduced at LSE. Upon him, as
on a. whole generation of acad-
enucs, Titmuss made his imprint
and Martin was numbered
among those who, come the long
winter of Thatcherism, or the po-
litical cataract of New Labour,
beld fast to that precious com-
bination of commitment to a just
society resourced by patient
and painstaking research. Al
Southampton University, al-
though not the titular head of de-
partment, he shouldered many
of its administrative burdens
andis remembered with great af-
fection as a generous, wise and
just administrator and the most
patient of teachers. Few pro-
fessors have commanded
greater respect from their col-
leagues and students.

Married first in 1951 to
Sheila Feather, with whom he
bad three sons, all of whose con-
siderable achievements brought

him great pleasure, he married
in 1983 Professor Joan Higgins,
with whom the last years of his
life were a time of great hap-
piness. Voyaging was Martin's
great love, and be was a small
boat sailor of no mean compe-
tence. He used to say that the
best thing about sighting the
French coast was the thought of
the food and the wine that
awaited ashore. He was a skil-
ful photographer, producing
pictures that would have graced
any exhibition. A true bricokur,
he was a keen woodworker, at-
tending evening classes for
mare than 25 years; a talented
cabinet maker, be passed his
City and Guilds examination
only this summer.

His father having lived to a
great age - notwithstanding a
shell fragment from the Somme
lodged ra his head for over 60
years- John Martin had hoped
for a similarly long life. Fit and
lithe of body, he loved (he out-
door life and had plans as yet
incomplete when cancer was
discovered. That he was a fine
scholar in his generation is a

mark of distinction; that he
was so good and generous a
man was enough to earn him the
enduring regard of those who
knew him. who worked with him
and who loved him.

Terence Morris

John Powell Martin, social sci-
entist : bom 22 December 1925 ;
Lecturer, London School of Eco-
nomics 1953-59; Assistant Di-
rector of Research, Institute of
Criminology, Cambridge Uni-
versity 1961-66; Fellow, King's
College, Cambridge 1964-67;
Professor of Sociology and Social
Administration (later Social Pol-
icy), Southampton University
I967-ti9 (Emeritus), Research
Professor 1989-92; Hill Foun-
dation Visiting Professor, Uni-
versity of Minnesota 1973;
Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School
1974; Visiting Professor. Depart-
ment of Social Policy and Social
Work. Manchester University
1992-97; married 1951 Sheik
Feather f marriage dissolved
198); three sons), 1983 Joan
Higgins; died Manchester 17
August 1997.

Phil Appleyard

Phil Appleyard was the man who
brought hockey to the British
putalic when, one weekend in Oc-
tober 1986, over six million peo-
ple switched on their television
sets to see the dosing stages of
the hockey World Cup, held In
London to mark the centenary
of the Hockey Association.

Appleyard had been ap-
pointed chairman of the or-
ganising committee to oversee
the event at WDlesden. The
tournament attracted more
spectators than any previous
World Cup. There were “house
fair notices, a black market fin-
tickets, and the BBC, at short
notice, substituted hockey for its

planned Saturday afternoon
programme.

By profession Appleyard was
an international fisheries con-
sultant, who liked to refer to
himself as “a Grimsby fish mer-
chant". In reality he spent most
of his working life dealing with
governments and international
agencies rather than the house-
wives of Grimsby. In his
younger days, when he could
fin d the time, he had kept goal
in hockey for Grimsby and was
ca ptain of their team between
1950 and 1960.

In 1981, Appleyard had just
returned from a United Nations
fisheries project in Korea when

the Hockey Association, tasked
with the running of the World
Cup five years later and realis-
ing that they were being asked
to stage die most expensive
World Cup ever, decided that
they could not tackle an event
of such magnitude within their
own very limited resources.
They invited Appleyard to take
charge of the whole thing. He
tadded the task with enthusiasm
and very considerable com-
mercial expertise and organised
what is still considered by many
to be the most successful world
hockey event ever staged.

In 1985, during the build-up
period to the World Cup, ne

also took on the equally’ daunt-
ing role of President of the
Hockey Association and con-
tinued in office until 1995. Af-
ter the World Cup be set about
revitalising English hockey. For
the tournament, a drab wBlcs-
den Stadium had been trans-
formed temporarily into an
attractive welcoming arena for
world hockey, only to be re-
turned to its original stale after
two weeks. Appleyard vowed
then to create a national head-
quarters for the game and with
it a national stadium. His dream
finally came true last year with
the opening of the £9m-phis sta-
dium at Milton Keynes.

Appleyard worked cease-
lessly for the Hockey Associa-
tion, promoting the game and
English and Great British hock-
ey in every aspect. He was nev-
er happier than when talking
about his beloved game,
whether it was to television
chiefs or potential sponsors or
guests at a small club function.
There can be few in hockey who
at some time had not heard his
favourite words: “Things don't
just happen" but they did when
he was around. He brought to
the game a professionalism and
commercial approach it badly
needed. It was his initial drive
which only last June brought

about the merging of the Men’s,
Women's and Mixed Hockey
Associations.

Appleyard represented Eng-
land on the Council of the In-
ternational Hockey Federation
from 1992 and took over the
role of Honorary Treasurer in
1994. He immediately started to
reorganise the Federation's fi-
nancial housekeeping and took
on the task of chairing an ad hoc
committee to recommend the
structure necessary to bring
the management of world hock-
ey into the 21st century.

Bill Colwill
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tion, Curtis Knie did not inter-
rupt its schedule on hearing of
the death of Rolf Knie, its ad-
ministrative director of 50 years,
but continued to play to packed
audiences in the Swiss capital,
Berne.

D. Nevil

Rodolphe Knie, elephant trainer
and circus director bom Wet-
zikon. Switzerland 23 November
1921; married 1950 Tina di Gio-
vanni ( two sons); died Rapper-
swill, Switzerland 18 August
1997.

Hendrik
van den
Bergh

When he died, Hendrik van
den Bergh had been a fanner
for almost two decades, quiet-

§ r raising broiler chickens. Bat
uring tiie 1960s and 1970s,
“Lang Hendrik 77 (“Tall Hen;
drik”), as the 6ft 5m poEoe chief
was known, was probably the .,.}
most feared man. in South
Africa; the oppressive power
behind the governments first of
Hendrik Verwoerd, the archi-
tect of apartheid, and later,'
John Vorster.

In 1963 van den Bergh
ed South Africa’s first
intelligence-gathering opera-
tion. the precursor to the dread-
ed Bureau of State Security
(Boss), witich he started in 1969.
Boss was responsible for the
apartheid regime’s worst ex- .
cesses, during a period when the
Cold War provided the Nation- .

al Party with a front - the
combating of international

fYwnmnniam — for its true mis-_ ■ ■
son, the prevention of blade ma- i
jority rule in South Africa.

Van den Bergh will be re-
membered as the sanctioner of -
assassinati on and torture in de-
fence of the apartheid state and.
as a consummate blackmailer / ^
through his vast network ofsf»es *
and informers. Almost anyone
who was not a rampant Afrikan-
er was the enemy and he cast his
formidable shadow far beyond
South Africa’s borders, seeking
out anti-apartheid activists. He ;
is believed to have been behind i
the downfall of the British lib-
eral leader Jeremy Thorpe and
Peter Ham's apparent framing'
for a British bank robbery.

Van den Bergh ’s other main
claim to fame still seemed to
thrill him in old age. In the ear-
ly 1960s his investigations led to
tiie Rivonia trial which led to
Nelson Mandela's life impris-
onment. As recently as last
month van den Bergh was in-
sisting that Boss did not oper-
ate bit squads. But in the late ^
1970s be told a government^;,
commission investigating covert *
operations: “I have enough
men to commit murder if I tell
them to kdL I don't care who the
prey is. These are the type of
men I have."

Van den Bergh was bora in
1914 into an Afrikaner farming
family, and was a lifelong
Afrikaner nationalist. His for-
tunes became inextricably linked
with John Vorster's during the
Second Wbrid War when they
both joined the pro-Nazi
Ossewa-Brandwag (OB).apara-
miliatry movement which used
terrorist tactics to oppose South
Africa's siding with the Allies in
Europe. The British concentra-
tion camps of the Boer War -in
which tens of thousands of
Afrikaner women and children^
died - provided the emotional jp
bedrock of their opposition to '
taking Britain’s side. The OB’s
members wore storm trooper-
style uniforms and adoptee the
Nazi salute. Vbrster and van den
Bergh were interned under
wartime security Jaws.

After the war van den Bergh
was already part of tiie Afrikan-
er intelligentsia poised to take
power in South Africa, and
rose quickly through police
ranks under Verwoerd and
Vorster. His political downfall
came in 1979 when he and
Voreier were casualties of a po-
litical scandal after h was dis-
covered that state funds were
being used to spread disinfor-
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died 16 August 1997.

When Hendrik van den
Bergh died many secrets went
with him. He boasted that he
was the only man alive to know
who shopped Nelson Mandela.
When he retired he said he
would never give up what he
knew. But two years ago a man-
uscript came to li ght which sug-
gested he may have suffered
from the old spymaster’s vani-
ty. There had in fact been a book
under way. but it was apparently
abandoned in 1985 after oppo-
sition from the National Fhrty.
In his manuscript van den Beigb
warned that division would be
the death of Afrikanerdom. He
blamed poor political leadership
and warned that “white survival"
was more important than the
settling of political scores.

Mary Braid

Hendrik Johan van den Bergjh,
Police officer bom Vredefort Or-
ange Free State 27 November
twice married; died
Bronkhorstpmit, Pretoria 16
August 1997.

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tive, the Weir Group, 57; Mr Tbny
Girling, president, the Law Society,
54; Mr David Heywood, ch a irm a n ,

Remrioy, 60. Miss Anne Hobbs, ten-
nis player, 3S; Sir James Hotaum,
High Court judge, 50; The Hon
Gerald LasceUes, president, British
Racing Drivers* Gub, 73; Mr Dou-
glas Lowndes, former director, the
Newspaper Society, 77; Dr Tliotnas
McLean, former director. Atomic
Weapons Research Esta blish ment,

67; Mr Barry Norman, broadcaster,
64; Mr Kenny Rogers, country and
western singer, 56; Mr Sam T try, for-
mer chairman, Ford Motor Co. 74;
Lt-Gen Sir Richard Vickers, a Gen-
tleman Usher to the Queen, 69.

Anniversaries

Births: Philip D (Philip- Augustus ) ,
King of France. 1 165; St Frands de
Sales, bishop, 1567; Jean- Baptiste
Greuze, painter, 1725; Asher Brown
Durand, painter and engraver, 1796;
Jules Michelet, historian. 1798; An*,
guste BouinonviUe, dancer and
choreographer, 1805; Sir Francis
Hastings Doyle Bt, poet. lSltk
Gustave -Adolphe Him, physicist
and meteorologist, 1815; WiDiam
“Count" Basie, jazz pianist and

bandleader, 1904. Deaths: Richard
Clasbaw, poet, 1649; Lady Mary
Wortky Montagu, writer, 1762: Con-
rad Martens, painter, 1 87S; Charles
Joseph Kickham, novelist and pocL
1882; Sir Aston Webb, architect.
1930; Leonard Constant Lambert,
composer, 1951; Sir Jacob Epstein,
sculptor, 1959. On this day: Marshal
Jean-Baptiste Bernadette was se-
lected as Crown Prince of Sweden.
1810; the Mona Lisa was stolen
from the Louvre. 1911; the Dumb-
arton Oaks canferencestarted. 1944:

Hawaii became the 50th of the Unit-
ed States, 1959; it was announced in
the Soviet Union that the coup had

failed and that President Mikhail
Gorbachev had been reinstated,
1991. Tbday is the Feast Day of St

Abraham of Smolcnst Saint« Bcbb>

sus and Maximum. Saints Luxorius,
G&eJlus and Camcrinus, St Pius X.
pope and St Sidanius Apoltinaxis.

Lectures

National Gallery: Jacqueline Anscll.
“Tall, Dark and Handsome? (iii):M>-
mni. Portrait of a Gentleman (‘It
Gen/it Cavalien lpm.

British Mnseum: George Han, “Im-
pacts on Egypt Akhena ten", IJSpm.

British Academy

"Die foQowing elections have been an-
nounced by the British Academy:

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rn^cmocMM McGoiraa. Damn: Mr J.S
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fcw i-P. Greene (USA), Hsiniy: Dr MX
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revw RJ. Bart leu (l inherstfy uf Si Andrew),
llsiniy. PrornMv R.W. Btomfcll lllmveni-
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royal engagements '

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year m (he Oueen and tiie Duke of
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Dereliction of duty in the shadow of a volcano

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shed moZ

upon this govera-

possessions, but still mm. 5^' flu ng

« to- thcTXL-e^

beneficiaries of British rule
inhabitants of Montserrat, foreed^o
abandon their island becauK rf 1?
cantc activity, have taken ,o the

»«“* the British govern-
ment of political inactivity.

And, of course, they are right w**

a mJureoK!
t gnomic circumstance

and pohtit^ 1 deadJocfc, a number of
what n calls Dependent Territories,
and we are not always vety good at
—g them W e owe the^opie of
Montserrat a better deal.

The Montserratians, whose island
is now all but uninhabitable, are dis-
mayed with the small amount of
moaqr they are being offered to relo-
cate. Most want to go to Britain, not
to Guadeloupe or Antigua, which is
what they have been offered. Those
who will stay want proper emergency
accommodation, not die ramshackle
and poorly organised shelters they
have been given so far.

These are all reasonable demands.
They are demands made upon their
government in Montserrat; but by
extension, since Britain is the
responsible power, they

eminent

are

The last Conservative j
cannot be blamed for the eruption
of volcanoes, but it can be blamed
for a lot of other things. That gov-
ernment had a responsibility for the
well-being of the people of Montser-
rat. Its ministers were well aware
that the volcano was threatening to
blow again, and they could have
acted earlier to secure the lives of the
islanders. This they signally failed to
do. The present government is work-
ing hard to catch up, but the over-
all impression is that there is little
tune and less concern for Montser-
rat in Whitehall. This has upset the ’
Montserratians, irritated the neigh-
bouring islands, who now have to
bear the burden, and angered the
many people of Afro-Caribbean ori-
gin who think they smell racism.

They quite possibly do. This coun-
try was prepared to spend billions of
pounds and lay down lives for the
Falklanders, and a good thing too.
But it is not, apparently, ready to do
much more than send a ship and a
few million pounds to the people of
Montserrat. It has also, by the by,
allowed the Falklanders to have
British passports, something that is
denied to all the other Dependent
Territories.

. , ■ of bow to accommodate colonies in

wanttobemdependent,andwul ® jt-coJonia! era, Whitehall is

n’t survive on its own. The ifleaor tr . .. d ^ There is a

pressing need for Labour to develop

Caribbean dependencies) failed a plot,
almost at its inception. _

Colonial rule, in the absence or
better solutions, still has its attrac-
tions. TWo of the Comoros Islands in
the Indian Ocean have decided they
want to reverse their independence
and rejoin Fiance. The Marquesa

This Government has, so far,
only one idea: it wants to call the
Dependent Territories something
else, on the basis that the title is
patronising. Name-changing will
solve nothing. We are talking about
only 130,000 dependent people in

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when we refused to extend that

Behind all this lies a much larger
structural problem. We have what
still amount to colonies in a post-
colonial era; now that Hong Kong
has gone, what do we do about those
that remain? It’s not only Montser-
rat that’s unhappy. The 5,000 peo-
ple of St Helena, stripped of their
British passports, have been dispos-
sessed of their histoiy and their
rights. Other colonies have also felt
unloved, or maladministered. The
remaining colonies represent an
administrative burden for the For-
eign and Commonwealth Office

which it is ill-equipped to handle,
and for which our diplomats in Lon-
don receive little thanks and plenty
of brickbats. We must, for instance,
ensure that anti-money-laundering
legislation in the Caribbean depen-
dencies is up to scratch, while fend-
ing off complaints of interference
from local residents.

To misty-eyed liberals and hard-
edged realists alike, the solution to
this problem may seem simple: give
these people the independence
which they must sorely crave. But it’s
not that simple. Montserrat doesn’t

are
love

nomically they think it makes sense.
The advantages outweigh the dis-
advantages.

This may seem like a one-sided
deal for Britain, but there is no alter-
native for the moment. While
Montserrat remains a dependency,
we have heavy moral obligations
towards it We owe the islanders an
apology, and action. Britain may
not have the resources, the expertise
or the will to run these places, but
it has, in most cases, no choice.

privilege to the people of Hong
Kong. This is a bizarre piece of For-
eign Office logic: how will it help
Hong Kongers to leave St Helen-
ians in the lurch?

We need to accept that the Depen-
dent Territories are British, and will
be for the foreseeable future. We
have a responsibility, not merely a
hazy debt of history, but a practical,
political, here-and-now responsibil-

Both the Foreign Office and the ity, towards people who live under
Department for International our flag; Montserratians should be

Development have tried to move fast
to help Montserrat, but the machin-
ery seems to have been pretty inef-
ficient. And on the broader question

treated with the same respect and
care as our citizens living in Mon-
mouth, or Manchester, or
Metroland.

Cars: how to
combat road
congestion

Sin There is a broad consensus
which supports the measures
adv ocated by Christian Wolmar
(“You, your car and how to end the
affair n ,"l9 August) for improving
public transport, extending
pedestrianisation and encouraging
cycling within urban areas as in
many other European countries.

One of the reasons that these
have been possible in each of the
examples quoted by Mr Wolmar -
Groningen. Nuremberg and Zurich
- is that all arc surrounded by
networks of high-quality roads
which keep through and suburban
traffic out of the central areas. In
the case of Zurich, motorway links
to the north, west and south reach
almost to the city centre providing
a further opportunity to segregate
longer distance traffic that starts or
ends its journey in the city.

Furthermore, in Groningen and
Nuremberg there are plans for
improving those road networks by
widening the most heavily
trafficked sections.

The Government’s proposals for
integrated transport are eagerly
awaited. They should recognise
that where these policies have been
adopted successfully they have
involved improving ail the modes
of transport. However, it is worth
recording that despite the
investments made in public
transport, cycling and walking in
Germany and the Netherlands, the
national level of road traffic has
crown faster in both of those
countries than in the UK over the
JasLfive years. The crucial point is
that, as a result of the multi-modal
approach to investment being
followed in both countries
congestion on both urban and
inter-urban routes is far less
extensive than in this country.
RICHARD D1MENT
Director and Chief Executive
British Road Federation
London SEl

-LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

ngust) criticising the lacs or a
iherent national transport policy,
inch was made of the need to
since car use. But no mention was

ade of the prospect that there will

: more cars to use: tins. August is
faelv to see over 500,000 new car
«<; n nc rmd it is Dredicted th

S^n if we use our cars 20 per
,1 less, a target that ^transport
icy has yet even aimed for, let
oe achieved, the sheer number
stra cars on the road must
«««.> traffic densities,
ian of the answer must be to

sssssiffissr 11 r

• ,h,* manufacture or

r dvervsaie oi a new uu^-But
jowrnnient would have the

el- to do any of this.

\£L BRYANT

mSM

s. British cities are 20yea«
j their European
.nmru in dealing wit

Our problem is that we don’t
have genuine dty government m
Britain. Our dries have neither the
power to raise capital nor the
authority to use it to regenerate
public transport or to manage the
car. _

ROBERT PRITCHARD
City Councillor
Leicester

Sin The Government’s willingness
to consider restricting vehicular
access on the most congested parts
of the trunk road network to
strategic traffic (“Drivers face car-
ban on busy M-ways” , 15 August),
highlights the increasing concern
atoutthe relentlessrise in traffic

ie ^Edh*urgh we are allocating
road space away from pri vate c ars,
which have an average occupancy

of 1 . 2 , and giving it to modes or

transport which use space more
efficiently. This month saw the
implementation of the first _

- -intensive bus priority

and i

on radial roads. ,

Restricting access to motorways
could simply divert traffic on to
already congested local roads. Tb
avoid thistbe Government is ngbt
to be considering direcL charging
for road use.

Councillor DAVID BE GG
Convenor of Transportation ■

Edinburgh

Sin I welcome plans to reduce car
traffic, but we must be carefid that
we do not create an ehnst society
where only the very nch have cars.

A lower-income family with

several children is more m need or

a cariban a high-earning buaness

person who drives in to London

Say day rather than usmgthe

train, but it is these families who

wiB be targeted by policies which
(ax car ownership and use.

Fkr more effective would be the
taxing of businesses per employee
who drives to work, and
encouraging those businesses to
offer incentives to employees who
switch to public transport. Another
huge reduction in car traffic would
be gained Ity more incentives for
people to work from home using
computer, modem and fax.
BEATRICE J PURSER
MUion Keynes, Buckinghamshire

Sin Your photograph (“You, your
car and how to end the affair", 19
August) of a young man cycling
along a deserted path in Regent’s
Park eloquently demonstrates why
more people do not cycle to work in
London -what he is doing is illegaL
ANDREW BARR
London NW6

Counselling can
be effective

Sin Your account (“ C ou ns elli n g
loses face in NHS review” ,18
August) of the NHS Centre for

Reviews and Disseminations
Report concentrated on its
concerns about the limited
usefulness of counselling. Yet the

evidence fra- the efficacy of
psychological approaches in
workingwith such varied client
groups as newly unemployed
people, bereaved children and
,t women.

is that counselling

should not be regarded as a panacea
but as one form of psychological
treatment among many. It needs to
be offered in the contest of a
complete range of psychological
treatments offered by mental health
professionals such as chartered
psychologists so that people can be
sure they will only receive
counselling in situations where it
has been shown to be effective. This
approach also has the advantage of
making it more likely that diems
win receive the social support that is
often vital to the success of
treatment programmes. Many NHS

tiding my own, employ
counsellors as part of the treatment
team.

The worrying case history that
accompanies your account
emphasises the folly of allowing
people to set themselves up as
“counsellors" or “psychologists”
with no legal safeguards for the
public. Representatives of the -
British Psychological Society are to
meet Paul Boateng, the junior
health minis ter, to urge him to
bring in statutory control for the
profession. Such control, which
already exists for doctors, dentists
and pharmacists, would do much to
protect the public against
unscrupulous or incompetent
practitioners.

ADRIAN SKINNER
Chartered. Clinical Psychologist
Harrogate Health Care
NHS Trust

The writer is Vice-Chair, Division of
Clinical Psychology, British
Psychological Society

Take the profit
out of drugs

Sin I entirely agree with Jack
Girfing’s suggestion (19 August)
that there should be a blanket
legislation of hallucinatory drugs.

As an insurance loss adjuster, I
have seen burglary claims multiply
over the past sa or seven years in ■
what seems to be direct correlation
with reported increases in drug
abuse. The public is suffering as a
result of spin-off crimes such as
these. The message is simple.
Supply hard drugs at cost price to
whoever. wants them and take all
the profit out of the industry. This
not only cuts out the gang warfare
associated with this seedy business
but also eradicates the need for
users to make £100 or more per day
out of petty crime in order to feed
their habits.

Having said tins, the idea erf
dispensing these drags through
GPs and chemists is misguided- ■
There is already a system of drug
prescription for existing addicts
through these outlets, what the
system does not cater for is the
persOD taking drugs for the fir^t
tune. No doctor worth his or her
salt is ever going to give a “rubber
stamp” prescription to a non-
addict who just wants to have a go.
Mr Girling fails to recognise that
this will create anew, albeit
smaller, market for the embryonic
user, who will not be able to obtain
repeat doses in the same way a
hardened addict could and does.
The drug barons would still be in
business, but this time more

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viciously in pursuit of a shrinking
“client” base.

Consequently, whilst the “corner
shop” supplier is not the answer, a
relaxed system, such as that used by
the needle exchange, would be
ideaL It’s got to be all or nothing.
Part legalisation will create its own,
perhaps worse, problems.
MICHAEL P WARD
Chartered Insurance Practitioner
Stockport, Cheshire

Smeared lty
devolution

Sir. What will devolution do (Let-
ters, 20 August)? It win make gov-
ernment more open, more
accountable, and more ready to lis-
ten to ordinary people. It is part of
a process of reform long overdue in
our political culture. We live in a
state which is one of the most cen-
tralised and secretive in the world.

The “No” campaign has relied
on innuendo and fear to bolster its
case. It is completely within char-
acter that it refused to reveal the
amount donated Ity the nonagenar-
ian tax exile. Sir Julian Hodge
(“Welsh rivals squabble over cam-
paign cash", 19 August). Over the
next month the same tired smears
about “cost” and “break up of the
UK” will be trotted out.

The real issues, however, are
about openness and accountability
in government. In 1990, after the
fall of the Communist regime, Va-
clav Havel proclaimed to die
Czech people “your government
has returned to you”; on 18 Sep-
tember the people of Wales have
the opportunity to make that hap-
pen here.

It PHILIP DIXON
Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan

Bright future
of ‘Britannia’

Sin hi the early Fifties the future
far Britain looked bright. It could
hardly be otherwise, considering
the terrible previous decade. There
was a purposeful advance in
commerce and industry and of
course shipbuilding. In particular
the building of Britannia on the
Clyde was a fine example of British
maritime excellence. She was new,
state-of-the-art and filled with
purpose - a symbol of a bright
future for her country and a new.
young monarch.

But what now? The future, the
confidence, the uncertainty all
muddled and clouded. What good
could come out of her now? What
symbolic gesture could she make?
Will she be scrapped? Will she be
added to all the other attractions at
Greenwich or Portsmouth?

Or could Britannia be
responsible for the creation of 600
jobs, the resurrection and security
of a listed dry-dock, the
regeneration of a run-down and
depressed area, the creation of a
Maritime Heritage Centre and a
magnificent return to the Clyde,
where she was built, to be one of
Britain’s finest examples of
Symbolic maritime engineering to
be m a in ta in ed in perpetuity for the
benefit of future generations? I
think so.

PETER MINSHALL
Glasgow

Stranded in
Stranraer

Sin The fact that Ffcul VaUel/s
substitute coach service from
Dumfries arrived at Stranraer half
an hour before his (just) missed rail
connection from Carlisle (“A
Journey around the Whole Island
of Great Britain”, 15 August) is a
sad reminder of one of the less than
far-sighted acts of the Beeching era.

The 54-mile long direct rail link
between Dumfries and Stranraer
via Castle Douglas and Newton
Stewart (the so-called “Port
Road") was closed in June 1965,
and, as Paul Valle ly intimated, rail
travellers from the south have to
follow a 135-mile long diversion
through Kilmarnock and Ayr.
TONY ROSS

Cottingham, East Yorkshire

History of stars
and stripes

Sin Trevor Phillips ("The Union
Flag has had its day in the sun", 16
August) claims the Union Flag is
junior to Old Glory. True, the first
American flag (1777) appeared 24
years before the current Union Flag
(1801). However, that is not to

compare like with like.

The first version of the Union
Flap appeared in 1606, the cross of
St Patrick being added in 1801. The
first version of the American flag
displayed just 13 stars in the
canton, probably in a circle. As
more states joined, the number of
stripes and stars increased In 1818
the Dag reverted to 13 stripes. The
current version dales from 1960,
when Hawaii became the 50th
state.

GRAEME THORLEY
Harrow. Middlesex

Sin IfTievor Phillips wants to de-
sign and fly his own flag in the gar-
den - like a lot of Americans - let
him get on with it As for myself,
the flag is distinctive and colour-
ful; quite nice really.

MARGARET BARNES
Conwy, Gwynedd

THURSDAY 21 AUGUST 1997 * THE INDEPENDENT

analysis

Freed from

T he firsi lime I ever
visited Britain, a
"visit" that was to
last several years as
it turned out some
relatives I was meeting in their
home kindly offered me a glass
of beer. I did not particularly
want it, but they insisted. "Go
on, we got it in especially,” they
said. "That’s what you drink in
Australia, isn't it?"

Later a British colleague had
an equivalent experience when
she visited Australia to write a
book about the country. The
reaction was suspicious, even
hostile: “We don’t want any
more Poms coming here, telling
us what they think."

Both images were classic
stereotypes of the way the
British and Australians have
long viewed each other, the
Australian male incapable of
appreciating any social bever-
age other than beer, and the
lofty Pom coming out to lord it
over the locals. Few countries
have had such close links over
the past 200 years, yet have
simultaneously been driven
apart by crudely caricatured
images of the other. This year,
both countries have jointly
embarked on an initiative to
start 3 fresh - a campaign called
New Images that seeks to mod-
ernise the perceptions of Brit-
ain in Australia, and vice versa.

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Whingeing Barns and upbeat
Australians? If anything it’s the
reverse these days. Old images
are being replaced by new
realities, says Robert Milliken

The campaign is a tie-in with
the 50th anniversary of the
opening of the British Council's
office in Sydney. Cultural over-
haul is its most visible aspect,
but it goes far beyond tossing
out the tired old cliches of hats
with dangling corks and slob-
bering Sir Les Patterson in
Britain, and of lost empire and
warm beer in Australia (the lat-
ter were among the two most
enduring impressions of Britain
that emerged in a survey con-
ducted earlier this year by the
British High Commission in
Canberra).

Britain is pouring about £3m
into its New Images campaign
with Australia, the most inten-

sive venture of its type with any
country. By the end of this
year, there will have been ISO
projects designed to bring
together scientists, students,
artists, writers, teachers and
actors from both countries.

For example, a party of
Welsh teachers bas just toured
the outback talking to Aborig-
ines about common problems
in preserving native languages.
Both groups will join an Inter-
net programme that already
links about 100 British and
Australian schools. A big exhib-
ition of modem British art will
open in Sydney next week,
coinciding with the publication
of a book that looks at the way
British and Australian writers
have described each other's
country over two centuries.

What lies behind all this is a
realisation in both London and
Canberra that an old relation-
ship long infected by prejudices
has been undergoing an inter-
esting metamorphosis. The
governments of the two
countries have had very little to
do with it - they have largely
turned their backs on each
other in recent decades, as they
pursued new regional identities
in Europe or Asia. But Britain
and Australia can be useful to
each other again. The forces
driving this idea are a cultural
revolution, a new commercial
dynamism, the Blair govern-
ment and Australia's drift
towards republicanism.

When the British Council
arrived in Sydney in 1947, Aus-
tralia was white, Anglo -Celtic
and stultifyingly conformist.
"We are a British community in
the South Seas," said John
Curtin, Australia’s wartime
prime minister. “We regard
ourselves as the trustees of the
British way of life in a part of
the world where it is of the
utmost significance ..."

Boatloads of Australia’s best
creative minds heading for
Britain passed boatloads of
“£10 Pom" immigrants going
the other way. Any young film
maker who wanted to make a
film about his own country bad
to go to London. The Ealing
studios, in particular, made a
series of 'Australian” films dur-
ing the Fifties, invariably set in
the outback and starring the
rugged Chips Rafferty, the Paul
Hogan of his day. At their most
extreme, British images of Aus-
tralia tended to reflect those of
writers such as Jan Morris, who
reminded her readers in 1962
that Australia “was founded
by the scum of England, only six
generations ago". In the Seven-
ties, the writings of Australian
expatriates such as Germaine
Greer, dive James and Barry
Humphries, aided and abetted
by the British media, helped to
reinforce these old stereotypes.

But in the Nineties, the one-
way cultural sea lane has been
replaced by a superhighway of
curious young thing s travelling

in both directions, lb the
twentysome things of multi-
cultural Australia, Curtin's
words must seem like those
from another planet The cul-
tural cringe - the old notion
that nothing Australian was
any good untu it had succeeded
in the northern hemisphere -
has been replaced by an almost
myopic cultural nationalism.

Orris such as Stricdy Ball-
room and WUSam Shake-
speare's Romeo and
Juliet, both made by the Aus-
tralian director Baz Luhrmann,
not to mention Grundy Tele-
vision’s Neighbours phenome-
non, have helped redefine a
modem cultural image of Aus-
tralia. Though it may not suit an
older generation, young people
in Britain and Australia see the
cultural relationship now as
one of equality; so much so that
the University of Wales
announced last week Ihai it was
starting Britain’s first degree
course in Australian studies. It
will focus on Australian culture,
history, society and literature -
aspects of the country that
many British writers refused,
izntQ quite recently, to take
seriously. Or, as Les Murray,
the Australian poet who won
iheTS Biot Prize this year, put
it in his book. Subhuman Red-
neck Poems: “A short history
gets you imperial scom/main-
tained by hacks after the
empire is gone."

This cultural sea change has
been matched in trade and
investment. British investment
in Australia trebled in the
decade to 1995. Britain is the
second biggest investor in Aus-
tralia after the United States,
and the biggest investor in Aus-
tralian manufacturing. Few
people realise that, concom-
itantly, Australia is the fifth
biggest investor in Britain, just
after France and Germany and
well ahead of Japan and South
Korea. By 1994, 33 British firms
had set up regional bases in
Australia for trade into Asia
and the Pacific. In the last
three years this figure has
exploded to 130 British
companies.

Even before he became
prime minister, Tbny Blair took
.aa interest in tins British-
Australian economic and cul-
tural renaissance. His election
means that both countries are
likely to pursue their revived
relationship more vigorously.

Mr Blair is the sort of British
political leader Australians can
understand. He is young,
forward-looking and commit-
ted to constitutional change.
He bears none of the aloof
stereotypes of many former
British leaders. Over the past
two years there has been an
unprecedented exchange of
policy ideas between the British
Labour and the Australian
Labor parties.

When Mr Blair met Paul

Keating, his former Australian
counterpart, as a guest of
Rupert Murdoch on an island
off the Queensland coast two
years ago, be took back to
Britain a blueprint of bow Aus-
tralian Labor had transformed
itself into a modern political
force that won four elections in
a row. Now that Labor is back
in opposition down under, Kim
Beazley, its new leader and a
contemporary of Mr Blair's at
Oxford, is performing a similar
exercise. Mr Blair and Mr
Beazley recently had four hours
of talks: Mr Beazley was keen
to hear how New Labour went
jnuch further than its Aus-
tralian counterpart ever dared
to in distancing itself from
unions, particularly by privatis-
ing its binding arrangements.

Australia's moves towards
becoming a republic can only
enhance this new relationship.
The British monarch as Aus-
tralia’s head of state is the Iasi
and greatest symbol of the col-
onial era in the country's con-
stitutional arrangements. As
long as this increasingly bizarre
arrangement remains, it will he
a source of prickliness among
Australians and diffidence
among Britons in their official
dealings with each other. Mr
Blairwould welcome Australia
becoming a republic because it

would put both countries on a
truly equal footing constit-
utionally, as they have become
in all other respects.

O ddly enough, all this
mqmentum towards
modern image-building
Is taking offal a time when Aus-
tralia is led by a prime minister,
John Howard, who is firmly
wedded to old images. Mr
Howard, leader of the conserv-
ative Liberal Party, is a Fifties
man. a monarchist and an
admirer of the old British Aus-
tralia. when the relationship
was more lopsided than it has
become. He is uncomfortable
with Australia’s new Asian
identity, and with what he secs
as a politically correct revis-
ionist view of Australian histoty
that highlights former racist
immigrationpoliciesand injus-
tices to Aborigines from the era
of Anglo-Cellic ascendancy.

To Mr Howard, this Is an
uncalled-for “black armband"
view of history or - as he put it
recently - "a belief that most
Australian history since 17S8
has been little more than a dis-
graceful story of imperialism,
exploitation, racism, sexism and
other forms of discrimination".
Notwithstanding opinion polls
that show that more than half
of all Australians want to he

done with the monarchy, Mr
Howard has done his best to
shut down the republican
debate.

So old images may prove
harder to shake off, however
much the modem reality may
have changed. Others have
simply been transformed out of
sight. The prosperous, upbeat
mood of Mr Blair’s Britain
means you don't hear much- ;
about the “whingeing Pam'Jk, j
these days. The species, some*> :
would argue, has transmog- ,
rifled into the “whingeing Aus-
tralian". Political debate in Mr
Howard's Australia bas become
a carping affair. Despite low
inflation, low interest rates,
economic growth, sunshine,
space, excellent food and high
quality wine, most Australians
feel they have never had it so
bad, according to a market
research poll published the
other day.

Even film star Mel Gibson's
father got in on the act. Speak-
ing from his multimillionaire
son's farm in southern New
South Wales. 79-year-old Hut-
ton Gibson said Australia was £
a “paradise” when he moved*
his family there from America
in 1 968. "Now it's gone to econ-
omic rack and ruin." That
sounds more like a sound-bite
from Britain 20 years ago.

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Exclusive: secrets of the Major years

I have never been involved
in ghost-writing a major
political autobiography
before, so my recent stint
devoted to helping John
Major to write The Major
Years has introduced me to
several problems new to me.

One of them was trying to
get Mr Major to remember
anything at all about his years
in office.

“Perhaps we could turn to
the night that Britain left the
ERM," I said one day, “the
night remembered by so
many as Black Thursday."

“1 don’t remember much
about that," said Mr Major.
“What 1 do remember is that
Norman was in charge. He
made a complete mess of it
He had to go. I told him to
go. 0 that is not responsible
anri direct action I don't know
what is. I am sure Norman
tells a very different story. AD
I can say is. take everything^
he says with a pinch of salL"
“Mr Major,” I said, “I shall
not be talking to Mr LamonL
I am not writing an article. I
am domgwur book. I am
writing down your words."

“Ah!" said Mr Major. “My
words, eh? So I can say what r
like about Norman?"

“Oh. yes."

“So I can tell the truth?"

I was about to remark that
saying what you like is not
always the same as telling the
truth, when he carried
straight on:

“In that case, f can
remember exactly what
happened on the night of
Black Thursday."

He then told me a version
which I could not possibly
print. The way he told the
story. reminded me of the
rumour that Mr Major had a
fine sense of humour which
he showed only in private,
and I later asked him if be
bad deliberately decided to
present a humourless face as
Prime Minister.

“Oh, yes," he said. “Part of
Margaret Thatcher's secret of
success was her total lock of
humour. She didn't know
when she was being
ridiculous, so she was not
scared of it. I thought T could
emulate that on purpose."

“I always thought she must
have a secret sense of
humour," I said. “Only a
person with a gift for comedy
could declare war to get an
island like the Falklands back,
then proceed to give a place
like Hong Kong away."

Mr Major looked grove.

Miles

Kington

"Extraordinary, isn't iu
how that woman is still
remembered for the
Falkland* ^^hr ... I wonder
what my period of office will
be remembered for?"

I could not help noticing
that when Mr Major referred
to his own time at No 10. it
was always as his "period of
office", but when ii came to
Margaret Thatcher it was her
“stint" or “tenure”, or even
“reign". Perhaps it was his
sense of humour.

"Black Thursday?" 1
suggested. “Mad cow disease?
The Scot! report?"

His face tightened and all
traces of humour vanished.

“It may not he within the
gift of politicians to choose
what li.i he rememlx-red for."
he snapped, “but at least they
may lie allowed to nominate'
other things than unfortunate
accidents. Is there anything
disastrous that happened that
ean really he blamed on me.
and not on Douglas Hong?"

“Yes," I said.""The
continued presence at the
Home Office of Michael
Howard, possibly the must
dislikeabic man 'in British
politics. You appointed him.
You stood by while he ranted
about prisons, and was
condemned by British
judges, and sacked people
instead of taking
responsibility for anything,
and looked so smug ..."

I paused, suddenly aware
that 1 might have overstepped
the privileges of a ghost-
writer. But to my surprise he
was smiling.

"My dear fellow." he
said." You must alwuvs have
someone like Michael
Howard in your cahincl.
someone nulsinndinglvsmun
and easy to hale, so that *
everyone else ean see the fink
directed towards him and
away from them. Oh, no. he
was invaluable.”

"At last, something
interesting to put in our
hook!” I said.

“You can't put that in,"
said Mr Major. “In any case, 1
want to avoid personalities
and cono:n irate on our very
real achievements in office.”

“You may wish to do that,"
I said, “but nobody will wish
to buy such a book.”

He threw me a baleful
glance and turned on the TV
news, a thing he still did out
of habit every few hours to
see what was being said about
him. There was only yet more
coverage of our departure
from Hong Kong, with
pictures of Chris Patten
talking and smiling. With an
unexpected oath, John Major
turned it off again.

"That man!" he said.

He had nothing against
Patten personally. It was just
the deeply felt hu milia tion of
leaving No 10 to a chorus of
silence, at a time when
cheers, hurrahs and media
attention were going to the'
man leaving Hong Kong.

This, I fear, will also not be
mentioned in our book.

‘The Major Year;' will be
published earh in 1998 and
remaindered soon afterwards*

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offering to the

people of Scotland

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OW Will you vole?”

Don’t know yet.

T , You?” “Not sure.”

I heard - and had - the same

conversation more times than 1

S ran now recall last weekend in

traVeUins from one
side of the country to the other
meeting Wends, famfly and
^an^is. The good news is that
mere is a debate going on about
the Digest constitutional shake-
up since 1707.

JUeis tocoiinffag for the
Scotland Forward campaigners
is the degree of uncertainty
among voters, while opponents
of the proposed legislation are-
danng to look around, finding
there are more of them than
they thought

So what's the problem? Is the
electorate experiencing a form
of pre-nuptial nerves - gazing
into a devolved future with chilly
apprehension, as the foil force
of the implications of going it
alone strike home? Not exactly.

The full implications are not
available. By choosing to hold a
referendum before, rather than
after, the White Paper propos-
als have been debated in Par-
liament, the Government has
short-changed the people of
Scotland twice over.

First, the vital pith and detail
of how a devolved Scotland's
parliament and institutions wiO
work is not being offered or dis-
cussed. Instead, the Govern-
ment has sent out illustrated
pamphlets which they claim will
answer all possible queries.

They do not, as the
unquenchably inconvenient
member for Linlithgow, lam

4 Dalye!l, demonstrated to a

. packed public meeting in Perth this week.

He selected a detail in the pamphlet with sig-
nificant implications for the majority of voters
in Scotland - under a devolved tax system, “sav-
ings and dividends will not be affected”. What
exactly does that mean, Dafyell asked? What
about rental income from an investment prop-
erty? What about personal pensions or annu-
ity schemes? What about a widow’s income
from the trust fund established by her husband
to ensure lifelong security?

These questions hardly resonate beside the
intoxicating “Wha’s like us?” rhetoric of
younger and louder campaigners, but they rep-
resent the kind of burrs and thorns that may
soon impede the smooth progress of legislation
introduced on the dubious mandate of a puta-
tive Yes- Yes vote on U September.

Tam Dalyell's own resistance to devolution
is well recorded. From his dissident position,
he now campaigns for a new dispensation that
will endure and last. If it must be, he argues,

# let it be good. If it is not good and not seen to
be good, he says, frustration with a poor par-
liament will lead straight to the slippery slope
to foil independence that Labour’s strange new
bed-mate, the Scottish National Party, devoutly
hopes for and quietly expects. But the detail
he asks for wfQ not be forthcoming before the
referendum vote. The Government’s focus is
now on achieving its desired Yes-Yes vote. And
therein lies the second betrayal of respect for
and trust in the people of Scotland.

Sheena

McDonald

Omitting
detail is
a kind of
deceit It
represents
a lack of
trust in
the voters
that

encourages

reciprocal

mistrust

Instead of considered policy proposals,
hammered out on the anvil of

. >< tr of parliamentary

scrutiny, voters are being offered the kind of

iteeusoadept at mounting. So the Scottish Sec-

retary, Donald Dewar, probably
the only member of the Cabinet
who commands equal respect in
London and in Scotland
(notwi thstanding the serious jolt
to his equilibrium from the
McMaster/Graham affair), sees
no harm in dressing up in a
donkey-jacket and hard hat to
promote the Yes- Yes camp aign
- presumably hoping to appeal
to Scotland’s work-hungry con-
struction workers.

Should we now look forward
to Harriet Harman dressed as a
tax-inspector, Peter Mandelson
as a fisherman (without port-
folio) and Mr Blair himself in a
headmaster’s mortar, wielding
chalk (and tawse?), each wooing
the targeted constituency that
focus groups have indicated
need that personal nudge to get
them to foe ballot box in die
right mood?

We are becoming familiar
with Labour's presentation tech-
niques. The apparent openness
of policy-making was repre-
sented by The Road to the Mani-
festo document. The member-
ship endorsement of that glossy
booklet was defined as a “mand-
ate” for subsequent policy inno-
vations not made explicit in the
original document - the intro-
duction of tuition fees, for
instance, and the Bank of Eng-
land's enhanced control over
interest rates.

In themselves, such unadver-
tised polity changes may or may
not be welcomed. What matters
is that they were not dearly
explained in advance of the
May poD. The suspicion that all
manner of unforeseen changes
to the contents of the White
Paper Scotland 's Paiiiament will be introduced
on the back of the referendum resali “man-
date”, is well-founded.

Omitting detail is a kind of deceit. However
worthy the cause, it represents a lack of trust
in the voters that encourages reciprocal mis-
trust, lb embark an the greatest shin in the gov-
ernance of the United Kingdom without a
whole-hearted accord between government and
the people hints at albatross days ahead.
Mutual trust must be the order of the day. So,
when the member for Renfrewshire West is
suspended for. among other sins, working
with “a known opponent of the Labour forty”
on the same day that Mir Dewar shares a Yes-
Yes campaign launch platform with the leader
of the Scottish National Party, the voters of

Scotland can be forgiven for raising an eyebrow.

For long-standing home rule supporters, the
abandonment of the late John Smith’s com-
mitment to devolution by the introduction of
a referendum was seen as a betrayal. In fact,
winning the support of the people via a refer-
endum may well be the best way of testing the
“settled will” of the people of Scotland.

But askin g the voters to support untested
proposals- an exercise unprecedented among
the civilised Western democracies- smacks of
the kind of manipulation that this Government
practised so effectively in opposition. And
reducing the debate to the level of simplistic
photo-opportunities and, worse, a black-and-
white, lory-bashing duel of slogans, risks pro-
moting apathy in the short term, and disillusi on
thereafter.

How am I going to vote? I don't know. yet.
And this campaign is not helping me to
deride.

H ow was it, do you
think, for
travellers, in the
days before Fast
Track and

Concorde? Did they
experience, in the slow
accumulation of miles, a
greater sense of adventure
than we do? Did they feel
awestruck about the
landscape they were crossing,
in a way we wouldn't notice?
Was there a spiritual journey
implicit in voyaging to a new
place, one that we hollow
sophisticates cannot feel
because, frankly, we are in
the duty free shop with the
atomiser of I’Airdu Temps
and the litre of Bailey’s Irish
Cream?

I’ve been wondering about
this since last week, when I
took the longest commercial
flight currently available to
human beings, and went First
Gass. It was a curious
mixture of opulence and
wildness, sybaritism and
panic, claustrophobia and its
stay-at-home sister ... It was,
in short, London to Sydney
with stopovers in Vienna and
Singapore. Twenty-two hours
in foe air phis ban ging round
airport lounges, phis late
starts, plus foe eight- or nine-
hoar zonal adjustments which
mean that, somewhere above
foe Iranian steppes, you lose
foe last vestiges of Greenwich
Mean Time.

A shaggy dog story with a deference?

I was flying in foe Amadeus
of Lf

Lounge of Lauda Air, a posh
divirion of Lufthansa owned
' foe retired Austrian racing
r, Niki Lauda. Being
only one vowel away from
flying with Lada Air, 1
experienced a few worries (22
hours in an airborne skip?)
but prejudice melted away
once I was cocooned in foe
world's most luxurious flying
lounge. The seats are
enormous thrones whose
arm-rests conceal little
television sets. They have flat
screens and extendable aims
and hover before your eyes
like foe virions of kingship in
Macbeth. They showed
Wallace and Gromit in A
Close Shave , old black-and-

Futt as Strasbourg

white movies with Burt
Lancaster and Frank Sinatra
and foe genteel bookers in
From Here to Eternity, and
modem stuff like The Saint.
Your in-flight survival pack
features, thoughtfully, an in-
flight condom. The food is,
for an airline, exceptional.
Inside an opera programme
foe approximate size of a
duvet cover, several menus
promise, inter alia , a lunch
that’s eight courses long and
written m Joycean
portmanteau words
(“Babytuibot on dijon-
mustard sauce with fresh
thyme & tomato cubes,
broccoli, rice”. “Fillet of beef
inpeppercoat

gooselivercroquettes, haricots
verts”). Stewardesses in tight
denims and cheeky little red
caps poor out unfeasible
amounts of Kremser
Rheinriesling '95. They're
always beside you, cooing in
your ear, offering you one
more plate of exotische
Fruchte ...

Then you look out of foe
window as the plane crosses
over foe Great Sandy Desen
What should, by rights, be the
featureless wastes of foe
outback are full of unearthly,
phantasmagoric life. The
landscape beneath you is
phenomenally, weirdly.'
excitingly whorled and
striated with what seem to be
vast fingerprints. Gigantic
fractal blooms extend across
your vision. Storm-blasted
sand ridges and their shadows
resolve before your eyes into
huge cartoon faoes. Mountain
ranges stick up like vertebrae
across foe flesh-coloured
plain. It is too much for foe
mind to comprehend and you
look away. You close your
eyes and have a little snooze,
as foe cabin staff come by,
offering more Riesling, more
bread, more passion-fruit
sorbet. Five minutes later,
you sneak another look down
below, and it's all changed.

It’s now a black and blue
mass of gnarly rock,
segmented and glutinous like
a colossal brain, like foe mind
of God, flattened and spread
out for hundreds of miles. If s
an overwhelming sight. The
supper trolley comes by.
Would you like the cannelloni
or foe yellow chicken curry?
You can’t eat any more (it’s
3am, or possibly 7pm) but you
do anyway, feeling like a
Strasbourg goose. On your
little television set, Burt and
Deborah Km are snogging in

foe surf. You sneak another
look out of foe window. The
steam-rollered brain has
gone, and in its place a great
orange tarpaulin has been
thrown over a milli on miles of
bumps, hills and machinery.
Fee ling queasy, you settle into
your extending seat, eye-
patched, socked and
somnolent. And between foe
lunar weirdness of the
outride, and foe pampered
weirdness of the inside, your
dreams come like monsters,
full of mountain ranges of
goose-liver croquettes, a
desert plain with foe face of
Gromit the dog, a fear that
you’ll fall out of the first-class
lounge into massive strato-
cumuli of boiling towels, the
Star Ride from 2001: A Space
Odyssey accompanied by an
indefatigably smiling Austrian
blonde in a red racing cap ...

I woke up sweating,
that 2’c

convinced foat I’d bad an
insight into how they’d felt,
foe ancient travellers.
Dehumanised by luxury,
pampered almost to death,
given every possible thing to
distract me from foe journey,
Fd still been traumatised by
the grandeur of foe great
unknown. The late 20th
century and the timeless
outback wrestled for mastery
inside me, and foe outback
won. I saL, strapped in,
dyspeptic and cross, foe
image of the modem traveller
- but silent, upon a peak in
Darien.

S haggy and Spotty are not.
as you might imagine
them to be, a pair of hip-
hop exponents living in
Bristol. They pre two dogs of
strikingly unprepossessing
appearance and a fondness
for funfairs, and they’re foe
latest creation (pub fished in
November) to come from foe
magic pen of Ted Hughes, foe
poet laureate. Possibly
because of Mr Hughes’s tragic
past (foe suicide of his wife,
Sylvia Plafo). possibly due to
his thunderous brow and
saturnine demeanour, possibly
because of the barking
peculiarity of bis studies of
Shakespeare and folklore, but
mostly because of foe feral
nature of his adult subject
matter, there’s always been
something a little sinister
about Hughes’s writings for
kids, as if anything he creates,
however innocent or
cuddlesome it seems, might
turn at any moment into a
carrion crow, a slavering

Cumbria’s farmers have the Belgian Blues

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wasn't enough cheese in them, her
friend suggested. Mrs
looked so forlorn that I ventured to

chip in- “I prefer

much cheese,” I confided. Mrs Row-
son looked grateful in a passing sort
of wav. but she was unconvmcea
Welcome to the Cockennouth
AcriaiJairal Show. I had come a long

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seemed to rest upon them, masking
hidden places, beckoning like a for-
eign country. Here in foe mam ring,
between foe hired marquees. John
Hah had finis hed judging the Belgian
Bines. He lingered to watch the next
judge reach his verdict on foe Best
in Show in all cattle categories.

The farmer was only 54, but ms
face was weathered like red granite.
He explained to me the basics of
show judging: “A dairy caw wants
sharp features, good top lines, good
locomotion and foe right teat place-
ment. With a Charolais or Simmen-
ial you look for medium conform-
ation, not extreme in the

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cow. I would have, too.”

Patches of sawdust tittered foe
rough grass of foe wide field, mark-
She spots where the Lnnousms,
Hcrdwicks, fell ponies, showjraapers
and heavy working horses had per-

Beride foer^d,vm-
taSTngines and tractors chided
bronchitfeiUy. in

tent, which mysrenously mduded

the WTs damson jam ami home

bSing sale, an ecotogrcal funuture

tSS named Danny Fro* was
exhibiting fine bowls, tables and
dressers made from windWown elm
Sdcheny trees. ^ “Please wfc «[
foe counter-cultural notice beside bis

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gins back four millennia. To foe out-
sider it looks like Sumo wrestling for
slimmere - all sudden fells, nifty trips
and posture-striking. After nearly
dying out in foe Sixties, it is making
a comeback. ' “Fifty years ago a
wrestler could earn a week’s wages
in about. Tbday we play for the same
money,” said Aif. But there were
heartening numbers of under- 12s in
the ring. “It’s still a community sport
- friendly, like,” said Alf, with what
I would have romantically described
as a farmer’s burr, except foat he is
an accountant. “But it's in foe blood,
you see."

John Hall courteously invited me
to lunch in the judges’ tent Inside
they were farmers to a man. They
were tightening foe slurry regul-
ations, I learnt at a trestle of raid
meats, salad and teatime fancies.
Soon it would be as bad as Holland.
It was terrible getting a herdsman
these days: they wanted £I&0OO to
£20,000, almost double foe old rates.
No one was doing agriculture at col-
lege now; it was all equestrianism and
leisure. “Tm thinking about early
retirement,” said one rubicund fel-
low in his forties.

Was he joking, I asked John HalL
Sadly, not. “Most fanners have an
average working week of 70 hours -
10 hours a day, seven days a week.
During calving we’re up all ni ght and
catch a couple of hours' sleep in the
afternoon. Yet foe return on capital -
is now only between 1 and 2 per cent
You can have a million-pound farm
and not make £20,000 a year.”

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stereotype. But it has, said John Hall,
gpne. beyond that “Farming is caught
in the pressures between foe con-
sumer, foe taxpayer and the bureau-
craL BSE is only a metaphor for what
was happening anyway. The public
today want cheaper food, and then

object to foe intensive farming that
produces it”

The agricultural show is a good
place to air all this. “It’s one of those
events foat keep foe community
together. Agriculture is a lonely job,
especially for a small fanner. You're
isolated a lot of foe time. Most will
go to 10 or 12 shows in foe summer.
It’s extraordinary how supportive it
is.” Before foe event there is foe
preparation - winter committee
meeting, foe dinner dance, fund-
raising, the ladies' social evening.

The show is glue for foe wider
community, too. Bade on foe field
foe fire brigade was demonstrating
foe right and, more spectacularly, the
wrong ways to put out a chip fire. The
Cockennouth Mountain Rescue
team had its logbooks out to prove
that they bring branded sheep, cattle
and hounds down from foe fell tops,
as well as feckless townies. The local
feed merchants were offering their
annual hospitality. “Most farmers
round here run small, mixed farms,”
said Jim Peet. of Jim Feet Api-
culture. “With harvest, hay, sflage,
minting, lambing, they always have a
lot on their minds when you go to see
them at the farm. People are more
relaxed here.” His generosity is
profitable: at a time when foe
national feed merchants are 30 per
cent down, be is doing very well.

At foe dose of foe day, before
dismantling began, members of the
S4-strong show committee gathered
in foe secretary’s tent for a glass of
sweetish white wine. “You meet
people, and thars what it’s all about,”
said Bob, one of foe chief stewards.
The secretary. Mis Nonna Boyes of
Middlegfll Farm, smiled vaguely.
She was already thinking about next
year’s show.

Tomorrow; Buxton.

The characters

in Ted Hughes’s

new children^
bock have a
high old time
... what can
it att mean?

predator or a dead pig.

Shaggy and Spotty aren’t
like that, however. They are
not out to rink their fangs
into anyone, to rip out organs
or gouge out eyes. They are
merely little doggies who like
going on carousels ... or are
they? Only someone blind to
the subtleties of Hughes's
dark internal landscape could
ignore foe fact that this
supposedly harmless work is
stuffed with references to
drugs, homosexuality,
satyriasis and death.

The first thing they hear at
foe funfair is “The booming
voice: ‘Roll up, roll up!’ and
the music, foe music, the
music”. Beyond this invitation
to cake hashish while listening
to “sounds”, what they really
want, says Hughes
shamelessly, is “a ride” on foe
“roundabout”. We all know
Hughes’s friend Thom
Gunn’s poem comparing gay
sex to a see-saw ride. But this
... “Easter and faster they
go,” we’re told, “until
whoosh, WHOOSH" - Joyce
himself would hesitate about
such orgasmic frankness.
There follows a repetitious
theme of flying up in the sky
and falling down to earth- a
dear invitation to try
“uppers” and “downers" -
along with references to
harder drugs (“the dogs shoot
up up up”). As for foe four
strong men who jerk foe dogs
into the sky, foe less said the
better. The dogs end up flying
(to comment would surely be
otiose), and narrowly miss
being foot by the “farmer”, a
wholly bogus authority figure
who instead gives them “a big
bone”. I confess I ended this
farrago of coded salacity full
of concern for foe state of Mr
Hughes's moral health. Pray
God it doesn’t fell into foe
hands of impressionable
children. Or dogs.

very well for the others
(Ronnie Wood just gets more
and more like the “Celeb”
cartoon in Private Eye, Jagger

trots out his skinny white
?d his scboolfc

T-shirts and his schoolboy
grin, while Keith Richards,
Marlboro permanently
clamped to lower lip - well,
pretty soon, youli took up foe
word’ “incorrigible'’ in the
Concise Oxford and find a
photo of Keith instead of a
definition), but Charlie just
isn’t wearing it weQ. That
hand, snaking uncertainly into
foe pocket of his double-
breasted suit, says it all. He’s
starting to resemble a
diffident politirian-turned-
statesman, a Cement Attlee
in foe Lords, a national icon
who's desperate to retire but
isn’t allowed to.

Or am 1 thinking of another
figure, on whose face you see
foe same look every year, foat
says: “Yes, this is quite nice,
but do I have to do h again
and again for ever?” Charlie
Watts - foe Queen Mum of
rock'n’roll.

W hat is to become of
Charlie Witts? Look
at foe photographs of
foe Rolling Stones under
Brooklyn Bridge, lannrhiwjy
their newest world tour, and
you're looking at a desperate
man. That line of Mick
Jagger’s about rock’n’roll
touring being “a perpetual
adolescence thing" may be all

HRH Charlie Watts

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left thousands of North
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brink of starvation.

In the nurseries and
kindergartens of Sunchon
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alongside the North
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Children's Aid Direct
has already delivered
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it is vital foat more food
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in October. So please,
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Regulator backs down

on electricity price cuts

Chris Godsmarfc

Business Correspondent

to the Monopolies and Met-
ers Commission, a move which

The fall in electricity bills next
year looks set to be much
smaller than previously pre-

dicted, after the industry regu-
lator yesterday softened his

price control proposals in the
face of intense criticism from
electricity companies.

Professor Stephen Littlechild
said domestic charges could
drop by between £15 and £25
over the two years from next

could have delayed competition.

Professor Littlechild said he
had accepted the REG* claim
that introducing competition
would mean high er administra-
tive costs, with the likelihood of
a much larger volume of cus-
tomer queries. But he launched
a defence of the competition ex-
periment, insisting it would
mean bigger savings in the long
term. "You can’t deliver by

April, a fall of 7.5-10 per cent
on an average £270 bill exclud-

price restraint what you can de-'
liver from competition/’ he said.

on an average £270 bill exclud-
ing VAT The new proposals
compared with a forecast cut of
12 per cent in his previous con-
sultation paper last month,
worth £32 off bills in just one
year and more over two years.

The climbdown followed
claims by the regional electric-
ity companies (REG) that the
price controls would plunge
their supply businesses into tne
red, discouraging new entrants
into the market when domestic
competition is introduced from
April 199S. Some RECs had
threatened to take the dispute

liver from competition,” he said.

He claimed the new plans had
probably averted the possibili-
ty of an MMC referral by the
companies. “I don’t t hink
there's a justifiable basis for a
company to go to the MMC. If
it did, we’ve got a good case.”

The price proposals related
to the REG’ supply businesses,
including administrative and
h illing systems, which account
for about 7 per cent of domes-
tic bills. The REG’ distribution
divisions, responsible for 30
per cent of bills and most of
their profits, are already subject
to tough price cuts.

Professor Littlechild denied
he had softened the price cuts
after intervention from John
Battle, the Industry Minister. In
an unusual step, the Electricity
Association had written to com-
plain directly to Mr Battle, who
has put himself in overall charge
of delivering competition. “I
haven’t had any ministerial
pressure brought to bear,” said
Professor Littlechild.

The power watchdog. Offer,
gave other significant conces-
sions to the REG on the cost
of introducing competition. The
proposals raised the estimate of
the costs which the industry
could pass through to customer
bills, from £383m over five years
to £500m- However the figure
re main ed well below the £8S0m
suggested by the companies.

The cost of competition,
which covers the introduction of
complex new computer sys-
tems to track customers as they
switch supplier, will now be
£2.60 a year for each household,
or I per cent of bills, a figure
included in the overall esti-
mate for bills. Offer’s original
projection was for customers to

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Consumer groups gave the
proposals a cautious welcome,
despite the prospect of smaller
cuts in charges. Ken Prior, from
the Electricity Consumers’
Committees, said: “It's a prag-
matic solution. On this basis
competition will happen.”

Tne biggest change in the
fifth consultation document
yesterday was in Offer’s pro-
jections for generation costs,
which account for almost 60 per
cent of bills and are not price
regulated.

The plans suggest a drop of
6-10 per cent in generating
costs next year, largely because
hig h price coal contracts expire
from ApriL The previous pro-
posals envisaged reductions of
up to 12 per cent, with big cuts
in the profit mar gin earned by
the generators over the price in
the wholesale power market, the
Electricity PboL

Shares in the generating com-
panies soared on the conces-
sions, which have effectively
removed the threat of back-
door price regulation. National
Power shares rose 23p to
516.5p, while FowerGen gained
35p to 761-5p.

Other electricity company
shares also rose, with Southern
Electric, the last remaining in-
dependently quoted REC,
adding 7p to 46 lp and Scottish-
Power rising lip to 4313p.

Simon Flowers, bead of util-
ity research at NaTOfest Securi-
ties, said : “The reductions in
consumer bills will now largely
come from the reductions in the
coal contracts which were go-
ing to happen anyway next year,
rather than the regulator forc-
ing down contract prices between
thegenerators and the REG.”

The latest proposals have
added to the gloom for RJB
Mining, the company which
bought most British Coal pits
at privatisation and this week
announced the closure of the
UK’s newest mine.

Rentokil

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pledge

Sameena Ahmad

Rentokil Initial, the pest control
to plant hire group, yesterday
just managed to meet itsgoaBf
20 per cent annual earni^
' growth, after a £24m hit from
the strong pound.

Speaking at the group’s half-
year results, Sir Clive Thomp-
son, chief executive of RentokO,
admitted that without BET the

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for £2.1bn last year, (he com-
pany would have struggled to
reach its growth target

“Nothing grows at 20 per
cent forever. lithe company had
remained as it was, it vrouid
have slowed. But that’s not
earth-shattering. Every busi-
ness needs to change to grow,’’
he said.

Earnings per share rose-2K&
per cent to S9p m thesa months
to June, the first set of figures
to include a full contribution
from BEL

Sir Give said that the group
was poised to sell periphery
BET and Rentokil businesses,
including timber preserving and
industrial production. Howev-
er, he dismissed criticisms that
keeping BETs plant hire busi-
nesses exposed the company to
cyclical markets: “Our view is
that if we can add value to these
businesses, run them better
and generate cash, we w3I keep
them.*’

Analysis said Sir dive's earn-
ings target had become a. noose
around the companies 1 neck,
and predicted earnings growth ;
would slow to around 16 p£r
cent over the next few yearfifc-

Andrew Ripper at Menu
Lynch said tne City was
frustrated at the lack of trans-
parency in the group’s figures,
which included full six
months’ contribution from BEL
against two months last time.

“It is very difficult to make
sense of the divisional split,” he
added.

Investment column, page 18

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High street boom renews rate fears Surge in windM spending to

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High street sales are growing
faster than at any time since the
economic boom of the late
1980s, official figures showed

yesterday. An unexpectedly
large jump in retail sales growth

large jump in retail sales growth
stoked fears that interest rates

stoked fears that interest rates
might have to rise again, but
economists cautioned that the
figures were nothing like as
alarm Lag as they appeared at
first sighL

According to the Office of
National Statistics, retail sales
growth hit 6.5 per cent last
month, up from 5.6 per cent in
June and higher than expecta-
tions in the Gly of around 5.9
per cent.

The surge in spending was
driven by building society wind-
falls, which sent sales of house-
hold goods to a record high, but

there was evidence that the
conversion boom peaked in
June and was falling away quite
rapidly.

Sales of household goods,
which include big ticket items
such as domestic and electrical
appliances, rose 7.4 per cent in
the three months to July, com-
pared to the previous quarter,
the highest growth since 1986.
On an annualised basts, sales
were 15.8 per cent higher, in-
dicating the extent to wtuch
windfalls have found their way
onto the high street

But Geoffrey Robinson, the
Paymaster General, played
down fears that inflationary
pressures were budding in the
economy. He said strong retail
sales were no surprise and com-
petition on the high street was
keeping prices down.

He added: “It was entirely ex-
pected. We know there is a lot

of windfall money being paid
out.. .so we budgeted for this
and the market was also ex-
pecting iL”

People were also saving some
of their windfalls, Mr Robinson
continued. “At present, people
are having a good time, they’re
enjoying themselves, they’re
also saving a lot of it so the sit-
uation is mat for the moment
it's as we expected it and we will
review it as the situation de-
velops.”

He was speaking after figures
from the Building Societies As-
sociation showed savers had
deposited a record amount of
cash into societies.

The association said the in-
flux of £l.S58bn was due to car-

windfall, combined with in-
vestors looking for a good in-
terest rate.

The sales figures came a day

after an economist warned that
the economy was in danger of
repeating the boom-bust cycle
of the late 1980s as a European
Commission survey showed
consumer confidence was back
at the record levels of 1987.

Ben Sanderson, of Notting-
ham Trent University, said:
“Consumers are showing un-
canny parallels with their be-
haviour during the Lawson
boom.”

City economists were divided
on whether the figures meant in-
terest rate rises were more
likely. David Bloom, at HSBC
James Cape I, said: “It is un-
possble to believe the Bank will
be comfortable with annual re-
tail sales running at 65 percent,
the highest level since July 1988
and the highest in the world at
present"

He said this month’s lower-
than-expected 03 per cent rise

was no t a sign of a slowdown but
an indication that the economy
was tailing off before enjoying
another surge. “If this month's
rise is such a soft patch, one
quakes in anticipation when
ales actually restart their pow-
erful monthly trend.”

Simon Briscoe, ofNikko Eu-
rope, said this backed up last
week’s Bank of England warn-
ing that there was an “upside
risk that larger-Lhan-expectcd
proportion of the payouts will
be spent during the year”.

Andrew Cates, of UBS, was
more sanguine: “The fact that
windfall spending seems to have
moderated may provide some
comfort to the members of the
Bank’s monetary committee."

But be said the growth in the
money supply - which yesterday
came in at 1 1.8 percent, above
City forecasts - was “wonyingly
high”.

Tom Stevenson

Financial Editor

Windfall spending is running
out of steam fast, according to
official figures released yes-
terday Shares from the am-
verting building societies have
swelled shoppers' wallets over
the past six months but the rate
of windfall-related spending
halved last month, an estimate
from the Office of National
Statistics showed.

Economists said a redaction
in windfall spending in July to
£l00ra from June's £200m
showed the consumer boom
was flagging as qukkiy as it blew
up in the first half of the year.

They believe farther cash
may trickle into the shops
through the autumn, but say the
apparent need to jack up in-

terest rates to dampen demand
is now less urgent
Clive Vaughan, at the retail
consultant Verdict, said: “The
surge that came through, par-
ticularly in June, does seem to
be a bit calmer now But we
could still see some win dfall
spending filtering through un-
til the beginning of next yean”
The latest retail sales data
showed growth up 03 percent
in July after a 0.8 per cent rise
in May and a 13 per cent in-
crease in May
Analysis attributed the surge
in retail sales in May and June
to higher spending financed by
windfall cash, which mostly
went on large household items.

A survey of households con-
ducted by consumer research
group Mintel and investment
bank Robert Fleming and pub-

lished this weekeonduded that
less than 25 per cent of fee
windfall cash bad been, ft,
would be. spent with nearly 77
per cent saved or used to repay
debt. That would amount to
£83 bn of extra spending pow-
er this year.

Peter Warburton, economic
adviser at Robert Fleming Se-
curities, said the latest figures
chimed with his firm’s survey
which was published earlier in
the week: The surge in con-
sumer confidence, which has oo
curred during the past six
months as these win dfall pay-
ments have been eagerly await-
ed, is likely to be reversed quite
rapidly this autumn.’'

Mr Vhogban said there was
little evidence the luge payouts
had permanently affected cotyf)
Somers’ spending habits.

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Nigel Cope

City Correspondent

Bili Cockbum, the WH Smith
chief executive whose shock de-
cision to quit the ailing retailer
was announced in June, has al-
ready left the business. Mr Cock-
burn was supposed to remain at
the company until October,
when he joins BT as head of its
domestic operations. But Mr
Cockbum left at the beginning
of August. He was entitled to a
ftifl month of holiday but wiD not
return during September.

Insiders say the absence of a
chief executive, even one who
was about to leave, has left the

company without strategic di-
rection. ft has left the four in-
ternal candidates for Mr
Cockb urn’s post jockeying for
position as factions form behind
each of them.

Jeremy Hardie, WH Smith’s
chairman, has been running
the company. The search for a
new chief executive has been led
by the nominations committee,
which consists of three of the
group's non-executive direc-
tors - Martin Ihylor, chief ex-
ecutive of Barclays Bank,
Marjorie Scardino, chief exec-
utive of Pearson, and Patrick
Lupo, an American who is
chairman of DHL Worldwide.

The company will not make
an announcement about Mr
Cock bum’s replacement at its
full -year results meeting next
Wednesday. However, it is
thought the successful candidate
will be named next moatfa.

Insiders are expecting an in-
ternal appointment. They say
Alan Giles, head of the Water-
stones books business, has
emerged as a late front runner
ahead of finance director Keith
Hamm ill The other internal
candidates are Richard Hand-
over, who runs WH Smith’s
news distribution business, and
John Hancock, head of the
group’s American operations.

Nigel Cope

Kenneth Thompson, the former
acting chief executive of casinos
operator Capital Corporation,
who is being sued by the com-
pany for “conspiracy to injure”

the group, has been advised by
his lawyers not to hold a press

his lawyers not to hold a press
conference this week to present
further details of his case.

Mr Thompson's legal repre-
sentatives declined to comment
further on the writ, which was
issued against Mr Thompson
and two other former employ-
ees on Tuesday beyond saying
they would “resist the charges
rigorously”.

Capital Corporation said Mr
Thompson and the other two
employees cited in the writ
would be making a “serious mis-
take" if they made any further
allegations. Mr Thompson, Des
Pereira, the former company
secretary, and Guy Hutchinson,
the former head of purchasing
for the food and beverage op-
erations, are accused in the
writ of bringing the company
into disrepute and spreading
damaging allegations about the
business to the press.

The three men have seven
days to receive the posted writ
and a further 14 to acknowledge
it. Capital Corporation can

then file a detailed statement of
claim. Mr Pereira. Mr Thomp-
son and Mr Hutchinson then
have 14 days to offer their de-
fence though it is likely their i
lawyers will ask for more time. (
It is understood Mr Thomp-
son has already incurred sub-
stantial legal fees relating to his
time as a director of the com-
pany. Capital is seeking dam-
ages. the return of ail
confidential information and
an injunction preventing farther
disclosures. It claims that “the
selective use” of papers in the
press has created “a false and
misleading” impression as to the
true value of the business.

Thailand seeks
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international attempt to shore
up Thailand’s crisis-torn econ-
omy. The BIS was understood
to have agreed a further $33bn
loan to add to the S16.7bn al-
ready pul up hy a range of Asian
countries led by Japan.

Officials from the Bank
declin ed to comment on state-
ments from the Thai government
that it would be calling for the
extra loan. The extra assistance
which would be used to bolster
foreign reserves and help cover
a balance of payments shortfall,
would bring in fands form the
US Federal Reserve and Euro-
pean central banks.

That would widen the geo-
f ra P“ 1c .. s P rea,J of assistance
for Thailand, which has so far
included contributions from
countries in the Asia-Pacific
region as well as the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund. World
Bank and Asian Development
Bank. The IMF was meeting
yesterday in Washington to
prove its own $4bn contribution.

The package is designed to
bail out Thailand, which was

rencies have fallen victim tr^p,
speculation in recent months.^ r ‘

speculation in recent months.* '
with the Hong Kong dollar’s peg
to the US dollar coining under
fire most recently.

The BIS is a global centre for
co-operation among central
bankers and provides a wide ar-
ray of financial services to these
banks. This includes short-term ,
bridge financing in the event
that a country & facing a iiq- (
uidity crunch. .

In 1995 the BIS arranged for 4
a SlObn short-term faculty for (
Mexico as part of an interna- ^
bona! package that included .
S20bn from the United States ,
and $ 17.8bn from the IMF.

Bankers said Thailand's re- j,
course to the BIS was aa indi- i
cation it may have difficulty 1
keeping its international re- ^
serves above a $23bn level pre- .
scribed by the IMF. Those
worries kept downward pitfflure %
on the baht, which has lost .*
more than 20 per cent of its vai- £
ue since it was floated on 2 Jui?> uj
Thailand has foreign debt of
nearly $89bn. around half of
which is held by Japanese A
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21 AUGUST

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Mk.

‘If the incumbent
supplier remains
untouched by
competition, the
consumer will suffer
over the longer term,
it’s worth paying a
short-term price for
the introduction of
competition, is

basically the

argument

business

Customers pay cost of electricity competition

PtSvremhtSf h U S^? d ’ the elec " “ act0 ^ a y onl y 7 per cent of the totaL Most
the U-turn 1 ^ h£r • be ? ome a “aster of of the cuts in bills next year were going to
distribution chaSi^hr^ 6 ™ ° f eIe S tricit y happen anyway because of new, cheaper coal
it so boneJe«Fv he S ot contracts and the Profs existing distribution

a comoIetT^ !S3 li S t he foTXxd “to price controls. In fact bills would have gone
I fullv to Even tfae “ he fafled down further in the short term but for the

tricitv s? 0 ?* re gional elec- introduction of competition,

and was much fl ^ generation The electricity regulator has also aban-

have been. " kinder to them dtan he might doned his attempt to introduce price con-
PerharK u, «... frols OD generators via the back door -

this rime ^ence, the Prof one of the elements that made up the more
and is now kJ„Tr “r “ the other direction ambitious £30 cut in bills he originally pro-
5ta Si£?. S, l? d 10 ,^ klra '* on the posed. His first set of proposals atteipted
petnive <ninniv^i^ b f^?E ,i 5 d ^ the com_ to curb the premium generators can charge
^^ iSffi^ arket ^ 0m ^ ri,199aHe ’ d over the pobl price. That’s now gone,
bv £30 nt*n Hr* W0uId hel P 001 bills So who’s got the better end of the deal -

from ihf opr?!' After screams of protest the consumer or the shareholder? This is
eci ci c he s settled for a more mod- one of those cases where we will all have to

Thr> . e P£poing on where you live, just wait and see. The Prof may be right that

down J vf l !S Cat i2. n ,® or **** climb- competition will eventually bring significant

Professor littlechild benefits but it does take somefemg of a leap
rn m rv »» - tbe costs , °* “trodudng of faith. So far the newcomers have hardly
- n ' Qu,te a Paradox, this, since if been battering the doors down in their

tririni^. apprcC ? ate lhe ^PC regional elec-
tricity com pa rues have for rash generation

iST" .o tom aJSSB

Stun s by diis emerience, the Prof

^ “e other direction

andis now being forced to backtrack on fee
pnce restraints to be applied in fee com-
petrnve supply market from April 199a He’d
hoped these new curbs would help cut bills
o. n ^. year ' Aft er screams of protest

St £ I he ’ s ^ed f or a moi? rnod-

esi it s to £_5, depending on where you live,
the mam justification for this climb-

down seems to be that Professor Littlechild

underestimated the costs of introducing

incumbent supplier remains untouched by , ■. » , ,

competition, the consumer will suffer over BG S HOWlS OI protest

were over nothing

uon. is basically the argument. /^ould British Gas really be so brazen as

me only problem is that the part of an v^to announce a £lbn to £2bn share buy-
electricity bill being opened to competition back with its interim results next month? Af-

ter all fee carping about how the regulator's
new price controls were going to destroy the
company, such a move would seem a bit of
a cheek. "Only kidding,” BG would in effect
be saying about all those howls of pain so
vocally expressed over the last year. After
such an about turn, could anyone take what
it says seriously ever again?

Actually fee shares have been indicating
for some little while now that things at BG
are not nearly as ted as the company was
saying during its attempt to water down fee
regulator's proposals. The shares kept on ris-
ing strongly right through publication of fee
Monopolies & Mergers Commission report .
which largely backed Clare Spottiswoode’s
demands. Many analysts are saying they have
further to go.

Now along comes Simon Flowers of
NatWest Securities, and others, to say the
balance sheet would be easily capable of tak-
ing on an extra £2bn to £3bn of debt. Fac-
tor in the £5 13m BG has to pay for the Wind-

Flowers points out. feat's nothing excep-
tional for a utility with long life assets. More-
over, cash interest cover would remain
comfortably above 6 times for the foresee-
able future, which compares favourably
with many other utilities.

So just what was BG complaining about
when it challenged Ms Spottiswoode

. . „ OTowfe has slowed markedly since May

through fee MMC? lb be fan, there's * “ fjune, when fee bulk of fee building soci-
world of difference between fee effedtqt ana took e ffecL
tough new controls on revenue generation y a good story, of course, but

and refeaping fee balance sheet by swapg“g nossibility feat consumers have not
equity for debt For fee time being, .. cash windfalls fundamentally

^.*25?. mSi to change their sp^pdfiig and saving halnte

seem a sensible thing for BG to do. Most
people won't see it that way, however. To
them fee act of returning a couple of billion
to shareholders is strong evidence feat, far
from being too tough on BG, fee regulator
wasn’t nearly tough enough- .

Despite all this, if BG can afford to do it,

it probably should. Lord knows, the company
has had to weather worse publicity than a
share buy-back is likely to generate. After
the traumas of the past few years, long-suf-
fering shareholders deserve a bonus.

Bank settles back for
some quiet reflection

looks more persuasive than it was. The new
«>tnp of chase fee windfall has presumably
distorted fee figures to an extent, but fee
hieh levels of building society deposils
announced separately yesterday suggesl
many people are content to stash their wind-
falls away. . . ...

It all chimes pretty well wife a survey this
week from Robert Fleming which estimated
only a quarter of fee £35bn of handouts
would actually be spent. One forecast pre-
dicts the windfall boost to consumption
could be as little as just 025 per cent this
year far less than most have expected.

Of course, fee real picture is impossible
to predict as no-one knows how much of

.. t. r ^ former

1980s looked suspiciously like Boom Boom
Britain again and the Bank of England's will-
ingness to hold fire on further interest rate
rises was starting to look cavalier.

Actually a closer look at fee figures sug-
gests fee underlying picture is rather less
alarming. Household goods are still walking
out of Dixons at a fair old lick, but fee rate

drawer. „ . ,

On balance, however, fee Bank s mone-
tary policy committee appears to have got
it about righL It jacked up rates to the level
Ken Clarke would or should have if he
hadn’t had an eye on the election. Now it is,
rightly, trying some calm reflection.

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Responsibility for digitial broadcasting is awkwardly split between the regulators Don Cruickshank and Robin Biggam and ministers Chris Smith and Margaret Beckett

Watchdogs do battle for digital TV

The Government is pressing
ahead with plans to create a
super-regulator forjbe comm-
" unirations industry. The move
wQl intensify fee battle between
Don Cruickshank, director-
general of Oftel, the telecoms
regulator, and fee Independent
Television Commission (ITC),
fee television watchdog lead by
Sir Robin Biggam.

The Department of Trade
^ and Industry is to issue u consul-
ts' ration document in the autumn,

• asking for comments on its
proposals to form a joint broad-
cast and telecoms regulator,
provisionally entitled Ofcom.

A DTI spokesman said the
department was liaising with the
Department of Culture, Media
and Sport (DCMS). He said:
“The Government is committed
,. .to having a look at this issue due

to the convergence of fee tele-
coms and broadcasting indus-
tries. A document will be going

out to the industry and inter-
- csted parties far consultation in
fee autumn.”

The idea of merging Oftel
and fee ITC to form Ofcom was
’ first mooted two years ago.
.Although the details have not
“ been fleshed out, there is a
growing conviction in the

mlustrv feat present regulatory

The industry has welcomed Ofcom in principle. But Oftel and
the ITC are resisting merger, writes Cathy Newman

arrangements are ill-equipped
for fee convergence of telecoms
companies and broadcasters.

For example, the ban which
prevents BT from broadcasting
is likely to be lifted within
months. BT is also indirectly
involved with broadcasting
through its stake in British In-
teractive Broadcasting, the in-
teractive television service.

If the ITC and Oftel do
merge, the burning question is
which will come out on top?
Their most recent - and most
public -spat occurred after fee
ITC awarded three digital
terrestrial television licences
to British Digital Broadcasting.
BSkyB was forced to pull out of
fee consortium - now jointly
owned by Carlton Communi-
cations and Granada Group —
after competition worries. But
the satellite broadcaster secured
a long-term programme supply
deal wife BDB. Mr Cruick-
shank issued a strongly worded
statement criticising fee ITC’s
decision, saying BSkyB’s pro-
gramming deal still “raised sub-
stantial competition concerns” .

Carpetbaggers

flock to B&B

d-higgest building son of the way,” he said.

John Wglcock

. r _ Bradford & Bingley, Britain^
second-biggest building «xn-
: «v. enjoyed an inflow of £3gm
- in retail savings during fee firet
.a , half of the year, partly due to

ft rarpetb^gefaopeni^aOTMints

V ; in the hope of a
. “There has been a lot of car

petbagger acuvih 1 . saul

- • societvs finance director, John
-. Smith", vesicrday as it uw-wW

l half-year pr^ x
; v "£47.7m, down from i52-7m last

were W* “““S 1
• fee Nationwide Buddifg SMj
■ rtv vote (not to demutuatejl

. would ff > IlK * 1 1

. Smith, stressing Bradford &-
' Biferfev was as strongly op-
: pn&i, eonvereion to pic sta-

aStar been b«u-S^
■- taaibtsmthc hope of*™;"

i .Vfee society converts io bunk sra

i Staith said

- wwd Hus lat^t UJ«SS
: ~ mania- as a 4,nc ^ “ ni L husi-
V-'.oppnrttini^ -t° 9,10 n

loyally scheme. bcs u nls to
: :- to distribute a pari of P"» IIS

die down now uic
voteisoutoftheway, be said.

The society's assets grew cy
16 per cent to jnst under
£18.9bn. reflecting new resi-
dential mortgage loans ot
£927m in fee first half and fee
acquisition of Mortgage Ex-
press in May. It ssid i| ^tanned
to securitise part offee Mort-
cace Express loan book later
§2 year, reducing on balance

sheet assets by up to ilpn.

The fiist-balf results includ-
ed a £5.8m charge to cover fee

costs of an ongoing recu^
sation programme and mew
,.; e£v said the second-half

figures would include a

.-taTTC. It also made

assssasssss

& Biogleysarngfrom str^

to strength as a mutual,
i he chief executive, Christo-
SSrigues. “We have re-
C hL Jm^ns. increased

~ flti ? ued 10 bnns

d0 M r SSigms said its 'e^-
. M the difference be-

‘"^t^rtgage and dqwsit

Mr Cruickshank’s interveo-
tion illustrated fee problem
caused by the blurring trf the two
watchdogs' roles. Before digital
television reared its head Oftel
and fee ITC had clearly sepa-
rate functions. The ITC was
charged with ensuring fair and
effective competition in the
television industry, while mak-
ing certain broadcasters pro-
vided a wide range of services.
Oftel was to look after “traffic
over networks” and control
“access to these networks”.

At the moment, regulation of
digital broadcasting is awk-
wardly split between the two
bodies. The ITC bad, for ex-
ample, hoped to regulate con-
ditional access, the encryption
technology used to decode dig-
ital television signals. But Of-
tel was given responsibility for
conditional access in the 1996
Broadcasting AcL The recent
decision that interactive services
should also come under Offal's
remit has increased the watch-
dog's power in this field.

Although fee ITC has taken
fee initiative with its extended

Huntingdon
shares dive
on relisting

H unting don life Sciences, fee
controversial drug testing com-
pany which faces fee loss of its
operating licence, saw its shares
slump from 54p to 46.5p_ yes-
terday after they were relisted
following their suspension late
last month.

Huntingdon said at the be-
ginning of the month that it was
confident erf completing changes
demanded by fee Home Office
of practices relating to its treat-
ment of animals.

The Government has threat-
ened to revoke the group’s li-
cence to conduct experiments
on animals, saying there ted
been “extremely serious” fail-
ures and emissio ns at its plant.

The company announced a
first-half loss' after tax of
£30SJX)0 at the beginning of fee
month, compared with a £2m
profit last time. This was after
fee company incurred costs of
fl.lm after disrupti on follo w-
ing fee Home Office iuvestiga-
. tion into annual cruelty- A 6per
cent fall in sales daring the first
six months of the year to £34.5m
was »lvn partly blamed on such
disruption- 'Ministers have
threatened to withdraw Hunt-
ingdon’s licence, with the loss
of 1,400 jobs, unless it can sat-
isfy 16 conditions by fee end of
November.

consultation on the “bundling”
of cable and satellite channels,
it has been forced to share
with Oftel control over elec-
tronic programme . guides
(EPGs), which will enable con-
sumers to navigate digital tele-
vision channels.

Senior industry figures are vir-
tually unanimous in their belief
feat, if a super-regulator is cre-
ated, Oftel is in a better posi-
tion to take fee leading role.
One senior television executive
delivered an acerbic judgement
of fee ITC, saying: ,i They have
consistently proved themselves
to be inconsistent. The DCMS
does not hold the ITC in par-
ticularly high regard.”

City analysts agreed. Derek
Temngton, media analyst at .
leather & Greenwood, said:
“Oftel has the greater status and
fee technological spin on every-
thing. The ITC, which seems to
beemne mote archaic day by day,
tes surety got a shrinking remit.’’

The warring watchdogs are
unlikely to thank the Govern-
ment if it decides to throw
them into bed together. The

ITC yesterday reiterated its be-
lief that a single content regu-
lator could be created for the
broadcasting industry, but re-
sisted a merger with Oftel. “We
don't believe telecoms and
broadcasting regulation fit to-
gether. Broadcasting regula-
tion is too important to be put
in with something as large as
telecoms,” a spokeswoman said.

Oftel was just as keen to resist
getting any closer to the ITC.
“There is a need for regulatory
streamlining, but not necessarily

through a merger of Oftel and
the ITC,” a spokesman for fee
telecoms regulator said.

Despite the amount of in-
terest, and antagonism, Ofcom
is already generating, the com-
munications super-regulator is
unlikely to get fee all-clear for
some while yet. It is thought de-
tailed plans for Ofcom may be
put on hold until after fee re-
sults of a review of utility reg-
ulation, launched last month by
Margaret Beckett President of
the Board of Trade, are known.
The blueprint for fee commu-
nications regulator may also

Centrica ends links
with British Gas

Chris Godsmark

Business Correspondent

Centrica is cutting one of its last
remaining ties wife the old
British Gas since this year’s
landmark demerger, by moving
! to new offices dose to one of
, London’s most exclusive shop-
i ping districts.

Though Cfentrica has already
moved its head office to Slough,

on a building in Clifford Street
in the 'West End of London, just
round fee corner from Regent
Street and fee clothes shops on
Saville Row.

The move to Clifford Street
brings to an end the much crit-
icised decision by the old British
Gas to take over part of fee
palatial Adelphi building over-
looking fee Thames. The com-
pany, then led by chief executive
Cedric Brown, occupied fee
two top floors in the art deco
building behind fee Strand,
which has stunning views over
fee river.

B ritish Gas was said to have
paid a substantial one-off
“premium” to take over the
Adelphi offices from Euro-
tunnel at the beginning of last'
year, wife an annual rent of
£I3fe on top. BG, now the
pipeline and exploration divi-
sion. has previously announced

its move to offices in Jermyn
Street, which are much larger
th an Cent rica’s.

Property sources said Cen-
trica was paying £42.50 per
square foot for the 4,500 square
feet of office space in deal
worth £191,000 a year. The
building, which has been re-
furbished for fee new tenant
and is considered to be “mod-
est” in size, is owned by Great
Portland Estates, the property
group and has a lease likely to
fast for up to 15 years.

A spokesman for Centrica
confirmed that fee contacts
had been signed and the com-
pany would take over the build-
mg in the autumn. “We have
need of London deskspace for
directors and other staff who
come to town. Our previous
building was not really appro-
priate.

He said Roy Gardner, Cen-
trica’s chief executive, was un-
likely to have a permanem
office in the building, which
would be used to bold meetings
with other business contacts.
“It’s purely a base for people
when they're in London. The
executive offices are all in
Charter Court in Slough,” said
fee spokesman.

Estate agents are thought to
still be seeking a new tenant to
take over the Adelphi offices.

have to wait until after Labour's
new competition Bill is passed.
The Bill, drafted by Mis Beckett
earlier this month, may make
some of the duties of Oftel and
fee ITC redundant.

The Government needs to an-
swer a whole host of questions
before Ofcom becomes offi-
cial. There is still doubt whether
Ofcom would cover radio. Chris
Smith. Secretary of State for
Culture, has indicated that the
radio industry, currently regu-
lated by fee Radio Authority,
would be better served by a sep-
arate regulator.

Neither fee DTI nor fee
DCMS will be short of advice
on which media should come
under Ofcom ’s jurisdiction. In-
terested parties have already
wrjtten many column inches
on the subject. Benet Middle-
ton, principal policy researcher
at the Consumers’ Association,
published a paper in June say-
ing a single communications
regulator should merge “many
of the functions” of fee ITC and
Oftel, but added that the new 1
body should also cover the
BBC and fee Frist Office. Mr
Middleton is to expand on his
initial theories next month. The
ITC is also preparing a response
to Mr Middleton's points.

IN BRIEF

Napoli seeks London listing

Napoli, fee Italian football club, is to seek a Stock Exchange
listing in London in the near future, according to the dub’s sole
ad min istrator Giamnarco Innocent! “There are fewer restric-
tions there than in our country,” he said, adding that the dub
will this year show a profit of 5-6bn lire cut turnover of 65 bn
lire. Napoli's Serie A rivals Lazio recently announced similar
plans for a London listing by December, while Bologna is also
expected to follow suit. Rules for a listing in Italy require com-
panies to show a three-year profit record.

Albert Fisher to sell seafood operations

Albert Fisher, the troubled food group, yesterday confirmed that
it intends to dispose of its seafood operations. The company said
it “has decided to concentrate on the group’s expertise in fruit,
vegetables, salads and sauces and dressings”. Albert Fisher said
the will enhance the group’s leading postion in “these high growth,
healthy eating markets”.

Fisher said last week it was likely to sell some businesses af-
ter the breakdown of talks wife a potential buyer for the whole
company. Like many UK food makers, Fisher faced falling de-
mand and increased competition in the recession of the early 1990s
after it had spent heavily on acquisitions and expansion in the
1980s.

News Coip results disappoint market

News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate, dis-
appointed fee Australian market after posting lower than expected
results for the year to June, But the company softened the blow
by announcing a good performance of some of its key UK and
US operations and its intentions to buy back some of its preferred
limited voting stock. One analyst said the results were “very dis-
appointing”.

The company reported a 2i» per cent rise in underlying net
profits to AS1.295bn (£602m). UK newspapers such as The Tones
exceeded expectations, but the HarperCowns publishing division
reported an abnormal loss of AS575m because of restructuring
costs.

lonica customer base grows

lonira Group notched up almost 10,000 extra customers in the
three months to fee end of June, the company said yesterday.
Its customer base rose to 24,595 at the end of June from 15,832
at fee end of Marcb. The company, floated fast month on the
London Stock Exchange and on Nasdaq, said customers in the
Eastern region grew to 19,957 from 15J23 while Midlands re-
gion customers grew to 4,595 from 509. Nigel Playford. chief
executive, said: “The funding we raised last month has given us
financial stability and allows us to plan for fee future wife
confidence.”

600 Group dampens interim expectations

The 600 Group warned yesterday feat profits in the first half
would be unlikely to match the “exceptional levels” of the first
half of last year. The company said its total order intake dur-
ing fee first quarter is broadly 'similar to fast year, with a grow-
ing order book for second-half delivery. A reduced order intake
at fee company's UK manufacturers was compensated for “to
a significant extent” by increased orders in the overseas busi-
nesses, fee company said.

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BET saves the

I t has taken Sir Clive Thompson,
chief executive of RentokU buri al,
almost IS months to admit what
everyone always suspected - that with-
out BEX the business services giant
bought for £2.1bn in March last year,
he risked failing to honour his self-im-
posed contract with the City to grow
earnings by 20 per cent a year.

But while Sir Clive remains fixated
on m aintaining Rentokfl's 15-year un-
broken earnings record - after a £14m
currency hit, earnings growth for the
half year to June scraped in at 20 3 per
cent - the City has been more pre-
ocuppied with whether RentokD de-
serves to keep its fancy rating following
the BET buy.

Swallowing BET to compensate for
a slowdown in growth in the old Ren-
told! businesses is all very well, but to
do it RentokD has had to take on lower-
quality businesses. Compared with old
Remold! businesses like pest control
and tropical plants which enjoy oper-
ating margins of over 30 per cent, BET
has brought in a number of commod-
ity-type operations - like back-end of-
fice cleaning - and highly cyclical and
capital intensive activities like US
plant hire and conference centres. It
is right then that Remokil’s shares,
which stood on a 65 per cent premi-
um to the market before the BET bid,
have been downgraded. Shares in the
company have underperformed the
stock market by 14 per cent over the
last 12 months.

The question is whether the current rat-
ing. reflecting a market premium of
about 30 per cent, is appropriate. Un-
fortunately these interim results offer
Little guidance. The results reflected a
full contribution from BEX against to
two months last time. But RentokD re-
fused to spell out the BET results.
The concerns are simple. What in-
vestors really want to know are what
exactly are the sustainable growth
prospects of this company. By how
much are the old Rentoldl businesses
slowing? Are they growing at all?
What about BET? On the one band.
Sir Clive admitted yesterday that Ren-
lokfl's UK pest control is mature. On
the other, prospects for BET'S elec-
tronic security operations, though a
small part of the total, look positive.
What is likely is that Sir Clive won’t be
able to meet his 20 per cent target for
ever. Yes. there can be adjustments on
investment levels here and there to
bring the figures in line. But the City
is expecting a a bigger slowdown than
just a per cent or two. What no one is
dear about is whether Rentokil will
slow down to 10 per cent earnings
growth a year or 15 per cent. Let's not
forget that Rentoku is a tightly man-
aged business. It has good growth busi-
ness, a dominant market position in
areas like cleaning and hygiene and a
great geographical spread. That means

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the company is more Hkety to settle at ness is in services rather than exports.
15 or 16 per cent annual growth than Only about £100m of the group’s UK
10 per ^nt ln these low inflationary ^ ^ mited and the currency
nines, that is good. RentokD probably hereV limited as the bulk is

does not deserve a foiKyrating, but 21 gripped to dollar markets rather than
Lunes tins year and IS tones 1998 on to fence, Germany and Italy.

MemD Lynch forecasts, looks fair. The Q-,y» s of the company
. perked up yesterday when Weir

Weir presents a
brighter picture

foil-year forecasts by around £3m to

W eir Group, the Glasgow-based JESSm.

engineering company which The half-year figures were flattered

specialises in businesses such by a kind comparison with the first half
as pump and valve production, may . last year which was affected by prob-
finally be on the turn after an extremely , lems at the Devenport Dockyard, hit
poor run. . by a refitting programme, and Strachan

Weir's shares have underperformed & Henshaw, its materials handlin g sub-
the FTSE All-Share Index by 44 per sidiary, which had contract problems,
cent over the last 6ve years as the group The company is sticking to its policy

was hit by fierce competition from Swiss of not taking on low-margin contracts
and German rivals which were prepared and is finding that German competi-
to take on low-return work. tors are starting to come back into line

The impact on margins and more re- on prices. Weir’s US order book is
cent concerns over sterlings strength strong and the business is throwing off
has led to the City marking Weir’s cash.

shares down. This seems harsh, as half Net debt of £26m at the half-way
of the group’s turnover is manufactured stage last year has turned into a cash -
abroad ana large chunks of its UK busi- pDe of nearly £10m this time around.

reported half-year profits well ahead
of expectations at £27. Sen, a 44 per cent
increase. The group’s shares surged
13-5p to 279.5p and analysts upgraded
foil-year forecasts by around £3m to
jE58m. "W""% odycote, the acquisitive metal

The half-year figures were flattered 1-^ treatment specialists, has matte

by a kind comparison with the first half JL-J impressive use of the £U7m it
last year which was affected by prob- raised in last November’s rights issue,
lems at the Devenport Dockyard, hit Turnover in the first half was 63 per
by a re fit ting programme, and Strachan cent up on last year at £100m, and
& Henshaw, its materials handling sub- profit before tax grew by 82 per cent
sidiary, which had contract problems, to fttm. It could have been even
The company is sticking to its policy better, but for exchange rates which
of not t aking on low-margin contracts reduced profits by almost £2 4 b.
and is finding that German comped- Ongoing businesses contributed
tors are starting to come back into line £1 6m, an increase of 30 per cent, but
on prices. Weir’s US order book is last year’s acquisitions made £6m,
strong and the business is throwing off recording im pressive improvements in
cash. profits and margins within months of

Net debt of £26m at the half-way being snapped up.
stage last year has turned into a cash ■ Margins in most of the group’s
pDe of nearly £10m this time around, businesses lie between 20 per cent and

30 per cent thanks to a combination
of tight cost control and £120m of
capital investment in new technology
v price 217.5p (+3p) over the past eigh t years. The City bas

— — been wondering when the company will

S 1996 1996 1997 reach the limits of its growth. .

at Htfyear But Bodycote has only just scratched

— — % r — : * 1 the surface of potential markets ac-

cording to John Chesworth, chief ex-

" k ecutive. The company is.the biggest of

mm iOA its kind in the world but it has less than

5 per cent of the global market for sub-
... : - contracted work and much less of long-

term contract work, which accounts for
less than 15 per cent of its existing
JL53 0.74 0.89 business.

Share price pence UK, I^ U §randin^a a and western

___ ■ Europe and between the automotive,

, aerospace and power generating

240 : — ~ - industries. The fact that Bodycote

~ _i_ ' • ■■ . ‘ now has more than lOO operating units

2201 • ' in 13 countries poses no problems over

200 : JPff " controlling the beast, .Mr Chesworth

J claims. The company stDJ has £21m

180 -JP-*.-' ■; ■■ *• • worth of cash from last year’s rights

,gQ • -m issue, which could fund a sizeable

T acquisition.

140 ■ v M , ; ■ . / ; Several brokers upgraded fall-year

'•vjjj f'-.'v-- y-.'Mw '-a i- : forecasts yesterday from around £48m

..1Z0. . - to £50m. Williams de Broe is looking

tog — raM *T " ‘ ' . ' — 1 for £54.7m pre-tax. Bodycote’s share

' . o price has doubled in the past year and

' -V '* rose a further 35p to 9425p yesterday.

i-r i r _ & ■ Howinrer, a’ prospectfce rating of BO-
SS'S? 92, 63 .• $4 66 urfe'T ft . 21 times looks high enough for now.

Further bolt-on acquisitions are esc-;
pected, though the company is. befog
deterred' by high prices, especially in
the US. - ■

Weir's shares have been swinging
wildly over the last 12 months but
analysts are encouraged that the com-
pany may have put the worst behind
Lc&yeaerdays closer the shares trade
on a forward rating of 13. At these lev-
els, a safe hold.

Bodtycote puts
its cash to work

Rentokil Initial; At a glance

Martel value: £&74tn, share price 2T7.5p (+3p)

Five-year record 1994 1995 1996 1996 1997

FuRyear Hdfyra

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Pre-tax profits (£m) 177 215 318 135 194

Dividends per share (p) 1.73 2.1

Interim operating profit £21 0.2m

Total group operating margin: 13.8%

S rgiene & Security Property

Bailing 8.4%-. . 10.5%

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Saroewa Atenad

Hays, the logistics and business
services group, is poised to ex-
pand its commercial services
division with an acquisition of
up^toflOOiiL

Speaking yesterday after the
group announced its biggest
acquisition to dare, the £93. 4m
purchase of two continental
European logistics businesses
from An&ralian transport group
Mayne-Nidjdess, Hay’s chair-
man Ronnie Frost said the
group’s commerrial division re-
mained the focus of growth.

. Hays was looking to add a
new activity to the commercial
side which includes high-mar-
gin businesses like mail order,
billing and supplying surgeon’s
operating packs to hospitals.

Mr Firok quashed speculation
that the group might consider
a hostile bid for rival Christian
Salvesen, having bad its friendly
approaches rebuffed last
August. “It really has gone. I
would have loved to do a deal
if we had got a recommenda-
tion. But as soon as Salvesen
went public, they killed it”

More such deals m logistics

are likely over the next year, ac-
cording to Mr Frost, including
: a. move info Italy, possibly to
support a French customer .
looking to expand*- and later
Spain: Hays is also looking to
make asnaQ acqirismon, prob-
ably less than £5um, in Goman.;

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its Mordhurst business.

Though Hays has low gear-
ing, Mr Frost emphasised the
importance .of finding the right
opportunity. ... .. ;

Analysts were positive on
this -latest deal, but preferred to
see the group expanding in
faster growing areas. Andrew
Ripper of Merrill Lynch, said:
“Td rather, they do this kind of
small acquisition than bay
Salvesen. Hays has performed
well in distribution, out the lo-
gistics sector generally hasbeen
abysmaL If Hays were a pure lo-
gistics company and not in ar-
eas like personnel, they would
not have such a good rating.”

Mr Frost said the acquisition
of FDS in France and the
smaller Vhn der Heijden dis-
tribution business in Holland for

£ 72 m cash plus debt would en-
hance earnings byarotmd 3 per-
cent in the first year after £5mj

bined profits of fS.Sm and
“substantial” growth projects:
could add at least £5m to prof-
its. Priorto the acqursitionsran-i
laiysts hadpeariHed in £1 80m for;
the year to June 1998. i

Mr Frost said that the new
businesses, which have ; cont-l
bined saJe&^o£ £l50m were ai ..
good fit with ; the group's exist-:

mcoiitintai1^Europe!^te^^
that adffingFDS, which 'eft-;
tributes non-chflled food and j
other goods to Hays’ Frils busi-;
.ness in France, which is mainly
a chilled goods distributor^
would ofifer customers in both:
businesses a greater choice. |
Van der Heijden adds £35mj
of sales, to Hay’s £llm Dutch"
distributor, malting the com-,
parry a key player in Holland.
Analysts said the stre ngth ening'
logistics on the' continent rela-
tive to the more difficult UK
market, where margins have
been tinder pressure from the
supermarkets was positive. ;

Speculation over Wassail as
it sells General Cable stake

Share price pence

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\H fegSall, tiie mimiifaftiTTTng mn-
glomerate, yesterday triggered
.speculation about a possible
£500m acquisition qpree after it
sold its r emaining 193 percent
stake in General Cable Corpo-
ration of the US for almost
£10Qm. It has now raised almost
£5 00m from demerging the
business.

Speculation immediately
turned to WfessalTs publidy dis-
closed holdings of 5 per cent in
Thom lighting group, Europe's
second-largest lighting group,
which is capitalised at £175m,
and its 2.9 per cent stoke in
McBride, a quoted company
making own-label and mino r
brands of soap powders, toi-
letries and personal care prod-
ucts. McBnde is capitalised at
£260m.

WkssaD would look for one or
possibly two acquisitions cost-
ing £400-500m which fit its ac-
quisition Criteria, preferably in

the UK or US but possibly in
Europe, said David Roper,
deputy Chief executive.

It was looking for quoted
companies which were cur-
rently underperforming or trade
sales of subsidiaries of larger
companies which no longer fit
their owners' criteria, he said.

RfessaJTs interests include
the manufacture of suitcases,
bottle tops and sealants and the
preferred sectors would be light
engineering or manufacturing
rather than specialised or high
technology businesses.

The planned disposal of the
remaining holding in General
Cable was well flagged, but the
price was ahead ofexpectations
and was completed earlier than
scheduled. Wassail’s majority
stake was floated in New York
in May at $21 a share. The re-
maining 5 million shares were
placed yesterday at $31 each,
just 25 cents below the closing
price on the New Ybrk market
on Tuesday night ' ’

WassaU had announced its in-
tention last year to float the en-
tire company in the US, but the
minority stake was retained in
order to avoid depressing the
price of the float

At the time of the float Was-
sail had undertaken to hold its
re maining stake for at least six
months, and had expected to
take as long as 12 months to re-
alise it But in the light of the
recent strong demand for Gen-
eral Cable shares, Wassail’s i
New York advisers agreed to re-^s.
lease the company from its un- " '
dertaking and place the shares
ahead of schedule. .

The successful disposal im-
mediately: raised speculation
about Wrssall’s plans for its
newly acquired war chest Mr
Roper said yesterday WisSall
had more than £300m on de-
posit in the. bank earning
around 6 percent and the mon-
ey would be reinvested as soon
as posable to maintain the re-
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Sunday Business Post sold to Trinity

Trinity International, the UK’s largest regional newspaper group,
is buying Dublin-based Post Publications, publisher of the Sun-
day Business fbst, for Ir£5-5m. Post Publications' main shareholders
are chief executive Barbara Nugent, editor Damieu Kiberd and
deputy editor Aileen Olbole, each of whom own 20.8 per cent,
and private German publisher Verlag Norman Rentrop. Trini-
ty's chief executive, Philip Graf, said Trinity would operate the
title on an autonomous basis, protecting its editorial independence.

LlG buys new condom concept

London International Group, the condom maker, has acquired
the Topaz condom brand from Monaco's Motech SAM for £1 3m.
UG said Topaz was an innovative condom concept with an ap-
plicator ring and packaging which correctly positioned the con-
dom for use and acied as a disposal unit. Tbpaz would te relaunched

in 1998 under the Durex brand name and would be marketed ini-
tially in selected markets as a premium-priced product, UG said.

Tie Rack acquires Knot Shops for $2m

Tie Rack, the ties and scarves designer and retailer, has bought
The Knot Shop, a Chicago-based tie retailer, for $2m (£1 ,25m). 1
The Knot Shop deals in ties and other accessories and sells them
in 21 stores in 12 states in the US. The stores will complement
Tie Rack’s 39 stores in the US but will continue to trade us The
Knot Shop.

Conrad Rrtblat doubles profits

Conrad Ritblat, the property investor run by British Land boss
John Ritblat, doubled pre-tax profits to £3 3m for the year to May.
Rental income rose 60 per cent to £Z76m, thanks to the upturn
in the London property market. It said prospects for the current
year were good and the company was well placed (o continue to
benefit from the strength of the commercial property market.

Ziemniak new chief at Airsprung

Airsprung Furnitures, the furniture manufacturer, yesterday ap-
pointed Peter Ziemniak as chief executive, replacing John
Pierce. Mr Ziemniak was fo rmerly managing director of Airsprung
Beds and chairman of the beds division.

Pound boosts steel stockholder’s profits

Richardson Westhgarth, the sted stockholder, lifted pre-tax prof-
its by a fifth to £2.9 6m fo the six months to June despite steel
prices foiling to their lowest level for several years, due to the
strength of the pound. The company said there were clear signs
of price increases holding in all products and it expected market
conditions to continue to improve. The company is increasing its
capital expenditure programme over the next three years.

Quintain buys five properties for £11 m

Quintain Estates, the property investor, said it had acquired a
group of five properties in the UK for £1 1.4m. The properties
together generate a rental income of £ 1.24m, reflecting an ini-
tial yield of 10.84 per cent. The largest purchase is a 42300 square
feet office building in Aylesbury, north-west London.

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Regalian, the specialist resi-
dential property developer, and
three Singapore-based partners
yesterday bought the former
West London Arr terminal buDd-
ing in Cromwell Road for £60m.
They plan to spend a farther
£fiflm to convert the buDdii^ into
400 residential apartments and
build a 25,000sq ft leisure cen-
tre over the next two years.

The 500.000sq ft property has
been unused since the Under-
ground line to Heathrow
opened nearly 20 years ago.
Plans to convert the offices to
residential use were beset by fi-
nancial problems and many po-
tential purchasers paid deposits
for properties which were nev-
er finished. The resulting law-
suits have now been resolved
. and the Regalian consortium
has purchased the building from
Famdalc international free of
any claims.

The growing demand for of-
fice conversions and the sharp
rise in London property values,
especially in West London, have
made the project viable again.
Further work to complete the
conversions and build the
leisure centre would lake up to

30 months but the fiist flats were
likely to go on sale within a year,
Roland King, Regalian’s de-
velopment director, said yes-
terday.

The apartments will sell for
between £80,000 for a studio
apartment and £2m for a luxury
penthouse with air conditioning.

London Underground holds
the freehold of the building but
leases for 125 years will be of-
fered for sale, and purchasers
will be allocated shares in the
management company once
the development is complete.

The venture Is the first to be
finalised between Regalian and
its Singaporean partners, al-
though other projects are under
consideration. Regalian will
hold a th/rd of the equity, Wa-
terbank Properties another
third, NalStcel Properties, a
subsidiary of the Singapore
Steel company, will have 233
percent and Ossia Land the re-
maining 10 per cent.

This is the largest single pro-
ject Regalian has tackled. Its
best-known previous venture:
was the £26m development of’
Peninsular Heights on Lon-
don s Albert Embankment,
which involved a Hong Kong
partner, the Sincere Group.

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JN Nichols said yesterday that
sales of its Vimto and Tizer
drinks were held back by wet
weather in June but soaring Au-
gust temperatures have seen
business take off again.

The company said sales in
August were running at around
15 per cent up on last month.
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in the first few weeks or August
as we did in the whole of last
month." said managing director
John Nichols.

Purple Ronnie, the cartoon
character featured in the
group's advertising campaign,
was boosting brand recognition,
ihe company said. More than
£lm is being put behind Purple

Ronnie as pan of a £3m total
marketing spend this year.

June was poor with the wet
weather causing the overall soft
drinks market to fell by around
20 per cent compared with the
same month last year.

The company is considering
a farther buy-back of up to5 per
cent of its shares after the 63p
fall in the share price yesterday
to 1933p. u I think the shares are
undervalued," Mr Nichols said,
fn the past vear JN Nichols has,
repurchased 700,000 shares in'
five separate transactions
between J82p and 222p.

The company yesterday re-
ported interim profits of £43m
compared with £3.8tn the pre-
vious year. Sales edged ahead
to £36m from £35-3m.

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2? r r!? “ arket is wrong
believes thl
Weinwort Benson
investment house.

] ej Jj 1 ir 5?“ pbeat session the
S«H™«P couJ d only rnan-
towjge ahead 3p to 805.5p,

DKB does not expect the
pnce to reclaim its peak but
suggest the shares should at
least be around 940p. The sec-
“““* group's calculations ac-
P™? produce a figure of 99lp
but we sense the market is in

tne mood to apply a discount”.

It believes the value of
Granada's 50 per cent involv-
ement in British Digital Broad-
casting is being overlooked. An
impressive example of valua-
tion creation" is worth, it says,
£313m or 37p a share.

Say DKB: “What is clear to
us is that whereas the invest-
ment community is by now
used to adjusting the Granada
rating to take account of its

significant but low-yielding
stake in BSkyB, adjustments
for BDB should also be made
to reflect its present value".

Granada has had an event-
ful time since last year's epic
£3.9bn struggle for the Forte
catering andnotel e mpi re. Dis-
posals have not come as qukddy
as expected and not all the bus-
nesses Granada intends to re-
tain are performing to plan.

The leisure group has con-
tinued to expand, taking over
Yorkshire-Tyne Tees TV. And
DKB wonder about the possi-
bility of a big contract catering
acquisition.

Still, despite the sluggish
display since this year’s peak,
Granada shares have put on a
splendid show since chairman
Gerry Robinson arrived in
1991. when they were bumping
along around the 130p level.

The market continued to
recover from Black Friday’s
upheaval with Footsie ad-
vancing 44.2 points to 4,958.1.

MARKET REPORT

DEREK PAIN

stock market reporter of the year

No change in US interest rates
helped although the exuberant
pace of retail sales raised some
questions whether domestic
rates will remain for long at
their present level.

The generators powered
much of Footsie's charge. A
climb down by the industry’s
regulator, with price-cut de-
mands being sharply reduced,
caused the excitement. With
the generators cutting costs the
proposed 7.5 to 10 per cent
should be comfortably ac-
commodated Such thinking
sent National Power up 23p to
539.5p and FowerGen 35p to
761 -5p. ScottishPower bright-
ened lip to 431 Jp.

British Petroleum gushed a

Salomon Brothers put a 775p
target on the shares; Boots,
unchanged at 802_5p, was
accorded an 875p valuation
and Next, off 12p at 7725p, an

further 34p to 893p on its in-
volvement in what could be a
significan t o3 discovery off
Angola. Estimates of the Daha
field’s reserves vary from 500
minion barrels to a remariabte
2 billion. BP has a near 17 per
cent stake. BG added another
5p to 259p.

Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch
giant, encountered favourable
analytical comment from Mer-
rill Lynch and NatWest Secu-
rities; the shares rose 38.5p to
l,85Sp. NatWest said: “The
earnings picture is looking
very robust ... the next change
in numbers is more likely to be
up than down”.

Kingfisher hardened 7-5p to
742p as US investment house

Financials and drugs lad a
firm session but engineers and
other overseas earners were
constrained by a relatively firm
pound. GKN tumbled 45p to
l,192.5p and Sfcbe 2&5p to
l,096-5p. Gtynwed Interna-
tional gave up 9p to 239J5p.
BXlfs heady revival came to an
abrupt halt; the shares fell 8L5p
to219p nr the suspicion the re-
covery had been overdone.

Cable & Wireless Commu-
nications fell 13p to 252J>, a
low, after Merrill Lynch
seemed to struggle to place 8.9
milli on shares at 249p.

Hun tingd on life returned to
mar ket at 46J5p. The shares
were suspended last month at
54p following worries over its
controversial drug testing,
operations.

ML Laboratories, onoe at

srsg

rational investors at Pammire
Gordon today.

. The Booscy* Harass

sic group, where takeover talks

are onwith at tost Pi-
ties, jumped 165p to 1 * 06 J^P-
Vfewfan, tot year al m
600p, fell 5p to 52-5p, a low.
The company, providing on-
line information systems for
hotels, 'said last month it

needed more cash and was “in-
tensively” seeking further
capital. At the last count
Viewlnn’s service was being
used in two hotels.

Other once high-flying
stocks to have slumped into
deep despair include Tadpole
Technology and Bakyrchik.

400p, fell 0.5p to 9p and
Baiyrchik, seeking gold m the
former Soviet Union, was off
4.5p to 32Jp. In the past year
it has swung from 589p to 15p.

Taking Stock

n Stockbroker Henry Cooke
Lomsden make an intriguing
case why shares ofGoIden
jrase Communications should

nudge 300p- They closed ip

higher at 73p, pricing the
company at approaching
£10 Jm. According to analyst
David Gorman a recent take-
over deal puts a possible val-
uation of £39m on GRCs
jazz Radio franchises. The
company, which is edging into
catering, has cash of £2.9m.
Mr Gorman soy* *“* calcola-

tions may be unsophisticated
but GRC is “massively under-
valued".

□ A shake-up at Chemical
Design. Founder and majori-
ty shareholder Keith Davies
becomes technical director
with Nick Bateman, ex-
Zeneca, replacing him as
chief executive. John Lambert
is the new finance director.
The shares, placed at llOp,
rose 5p to 165p-

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business

This parallel economy could
be a model for Tony Blair

T he fearsome Alan Green-
span took over the US
Federal Reserve 10 years
ago this month, and it has been -
if you believe Fortune magazine —
“10 of the best years in the history
of monetary policy”. Newsweek,
meanwhile, has beat praising US
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
as “the best in memory”.

There are no two ways about it:
although they look nervously at
their sky-rocketing share index,
many Americans really think they
have finally got the economic prob-
lem licked.

It depends how you work it out
of course. If you measure the gap
between rich and poor children, for
example, the USA would be 18th
among IS industrialised countries.
Or carbon emissions, or energy con-
sumption per head, or number of
children killed by gunfire. Indica-
tors - even the strictly economic
ones - are particularly ambiguous
when it comes to the US.

The strange thing about modem
economics is the way abundance
tends to rub shoulders with serious
need. Mr Greenspan’s economy in-
cludes Bill Gates - who is $18bn
(£1 l-25bn ) richer than he was a year
ago - as well as Memphis, where
one in 23 households are bankrupt.

But then the UK economy does
the same. You can find empty
hungry people in any British city,
or desperate summer sales to get
rid of surplus stock which rem ains
beyond the pockets of most of the
population. We have British inner
dues packed with people who have
time and skills available, sur-
rounded by tasks which desperately
need doing - but no cash to bring
them all together.

We have long ago solved Lhe
problem of production, in other
words, and we have yet to manage
the problem of distribution.

But one idea from an American
dty might show us all a way forward
— if it works. The Commonweal pro-
ject in Minneapolis aims to find a
way of linking over-production
with the people who need it most.
It is Lhe brainchild of former po-
litical activist Joel Hodroff. and it
launched its pilot programme in the

David

Boyle

We have inner
cities packed with
people who have
time and skills
available,
surrounded by
tasks which
desperately need
doing - but no
cash to bring
them all together

Minneapolis inner dty neighbour-
hood of Lyndale in April.

It works like this. Jane, an un-
employed carpenter, does some
work for a charity or local agency
which can't afford to pay her in dol-
lars, but can afford to pay her in
“service credits" - a land of vol-
untary sector version of Air Miles.

She can use these in a range of
restaurants, shops or on other ser-
vices around the dty which have
agreed to take them- usually at off-
peak times. So a restaurant which
has to employ cooks and waiters
and heat the place all afternoon for
the benefit of a handful of cus-
tomers, can fill their tables for ser-
vice credits plus enough dollars to
cover their costs.

The businesses signing up indude

Camp Snoopy, the theme park in
the middle of the gigantic Mall of
America, the biggest shopping mall
in the USA, just outside the dty -
Charlie Brown happens to be from
Minneapolis. Camp Snoopy has to
stay open through busy Saturdays
as well as quiet Wednesdays.

They can dear their excess stock
without expensive marketing, but
at the same time the businesses are
underpinning a parallel economy
where people can “earn” for doing
the kind of community tasks the
government now seems unable to
pay for itself.

It is early days yet for Com-
monweal, which was launched with
the backing of the local council, a
couple of local banks and some big
thinkers like Alvin Tbffler and
Paul Hawfcen.

There are too few participants
yet to launch their patented dual-
track credit card known, rather self-
consciously, as the “Community
HeroCard".

“But we mb using the world’s first
dual-currency service slips,” says Mr
Hodroff with enthusiasm. “It is go-
ing well, which means we are find-
ing it easier to talk to major banks
and retailers about taking part."

If it all works out, it could be a
bonanza for Commonweal - they
take a percentage of each transac-
tion, like a credit card company -
but it could also be an interesting
new model for Tbny Blair, and other
politicians looking for new ways of
unleashing the support of volun-
teers while their budgets shrink.

Hie options before most gov-
ernments these days are pretty
meagre to get local needs met They
can print more money - but that
would cause inflation and scare the
international money markets. They
can cut the budgets and hope for
the best, but then they get votki out
of office.

The Commonweal idea is to use
the economy’s manifest over-ca-
pacity to put purchasing power in
the hands of people who don’t have
it at the moment.

“We have work to do, we have
plenty of people with skOK we have
sufficient technical and manage-
ment capacity, we even have ade-

quate energy and raw materials.
The only thing that's getting in the
way and preventing that work from
being completed is a lack of mon-
ey,” says Mr Hodroff. “That’s ab-
surd. Money was created to
promote economic activity, not to
inhibit it. Vfe have outgrown the old
scarce commodity money and it is
time to introduce something new."

Commonweal's credits are a
new twist to the phenomenon of
computer money, which - unlike
pounds and dollars - is infini te.

Air Miles or Sainsbury's Reward
points are limited only by the cash-
flow and productive capacity of the
company issuing them, and because
they don’t want to be over-
whelmed. They come from
nowhere and, when they are spent,
they don't go into the bank vault -
they just get deleted.

Private sector finances like these
do not circulate in the traditional
way. They exist to encourage peo-
ple to act in a certain way - nor-
mally to buy more. So why not
invent some corporate “money”
which encourages people to get ac-
tive in the community.

The idea of “service credits" or
“time dollars” paid to volunteers
has become a familiar aspect of
American life, though it has yet to
catch on in the UK. You can earn
them in well over 100 US cities now
- but Commonweal is probably the
first time big business has been in-
volved in the idea.

But if they want to offload sur-
plus stock in a useful way. Com-
monweal needs to tackle poverty.
“Participation will be totally vol-
untary,” Mr Hodroff says. “But my
guess is that people will flood off
welfare to earn 10 community ser-
vice dollars per hour."

It is early days yet, and many peo-
ple might prefer welfare. You don't,
after all, want to build a second-tier
economy for poor people -palmed
off by participating businesses with
their second-rate stock.

It is a legitimate concern, but
Commonweal is an exciting idea.
If Tbny Blair wants to find ways of
regenerating the social capital lost
over the past generation, this might
be a good place to start looking.

Mermans
Nineties - small is

it the business
equivalent of a black eye when
her 1980s creation. Sock Shop,
went und er, but her enthusiasm
for her new business venture,
Trotters, a children's wear retail-
er, is undimm ed.

“New” is a slight exaggeration
sinc e she founded the company
with her husband, Richard Ross,
in 1990. Their first shop was in.
King's Road, Chelsea, and the
second followed 18 months later
on Kensington High Street. Now
they are la unching Tbotters Direct
- a lavishly illustrated catalogue
offering designer kids’ wear by
mail oraer.

“We've had a fantastic number
of enquiries, with requests for the
catalogue from 81 countries,”
says Ms Merman. “We called in
Fiorella Massey to make the cata-
logue attractive for children to
look at, with lots of bright pic-
tures and watercolours.”

So can we look forward to a
rapid expansion of the shop
chain, followed by a float?

“No. I know you should never
say never, but I'Ve got three small
children and I want it to remain a
relatively small private company.
More shops and you lose exdusiv-
■ ity.” In what could serve as a
warning to entrepreneurs starting
out today, Ms Merman concludes:
“Times have changed. Small is
beautiful now. I want any pres-
sures on me to come from myself,
not from the Gty.”

Good to see To tty in the news -
Totty the Bradford-based con-
struction company, that is, which
formed part of a consortium
which reversed into listed
company Shorco this week.

David Bram well chief execu-
tive of Peterhouse Group, the
company which led the reverse
takeover, explains that there has
been a Totty family business since
1864, and there was a member of
the Totty family in the company
as recently as 1989. “Since then
the company’s changed hands a
number of times,” says Mr
BramweU. “Despite the novelty
factor of the name, the company
is very wefl known from Newcas-
tle to Leicester."

Take care you don’t stand in front

People & Business

Sophie Merman: Doesn’t want pressure to come from the City

of Zeneca's headquarters in Stan-
hope Gate, Mayfair - you may get
buried in the stampede of execu-
tives fleeing the building.

Yesterday Nick Bateman be-
came the third suit at Zeneca to
leave the drugs company m a fort-
night He follows John Mayo,
Zeneca’s finance director who de-
fected to G EC two weeks ago,
and Dr David IPPrichard, who
jumped ship last week to join
SmithKEne Beecfaam.

Mr Bateman has joined drug
database software provider
Chemical Design Holdings as
chief executive. Also joining the
fast-growing company in Chip-
ping Norton is John Lambert, a
freelance healthcare consultant,
who will be finance director.'

Mr Bateman will have plenty of
work to do. Chemical Design's
share price has slipped this year
from a high of 265p in February
to close at 160p on Tuesday.

There’s no one with a harder
heart than a London club door- ■
man, as Ted Graham, BTs chief
spokesman, found out to his cost
this week.

BT is about to move into posh
new premises in Berkeley Square,
Mayfair, just next door to swanky

private clukMortqns. Otir Tbd,
min dful of the amount of good
business he could steer Mortons'
way, assumed he would be al-. .
lowed into the dub free, -gratis
and for nothing. Not so. Cough -
up £375 or stay-out, club staffhi-
formedhim.

Philip Randall has been elected :
the new manag in g partner of the
UK side of Arthur Andersen, fol-
lowing the elevation of his col-
league, Jim Vfhdia, to the post of
managing partner of the world-
wide accountancy behemoth.

Mr Randall tells me it wasn't a
terribly tight contest: “Mine was
the only name on the ballot pa-
per.” It follows a period of in-
fighting at the giant firm during
which tiie accountancy side was
unable to agree with the manage-
ment consultants about who
should lead the overall global
firm. Mr Wadia just missed the
top. slot. .

. One of the things which will ex- a
erase Mr Randall in his new job V.
is the impending 40tb anniversaiy '
of the arrival of Arthur Andersen
in the UK from the firm’s native
Chicago.

John Wfllcock

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^ YORK EBOR MEETING: A 33-1 shot keeps a top prize in Yorkshire while today’s Lowther Stakes can fail to the Chesham runner up

Eyre on cloud nine as ■■■ cape Verdi can boost

Ear Ahead steals show her u,neas

1 GREG WOOD

reports from \brk ^

"I to1 ? “V wife when I left this
- I'd be back at six

• o clock, Les Eyre said in the
winners enclosure here yes-
terday, “but if we won the
Ai Ebor, she could expect roe next
■ Last night, you sus-

> PccL Mrs Eyre did not bother
to wait up.

Bora in Barnsley and based
ai Hambleton, Eyre is as York-
shire as they come, and as Far
Ahead, a 33-1 outsider, was led
m after beating Media Star in
the last strides of the Ebor
Handicap, he was a trembling,
teary mixture of pride and de-
ughL “We had a dinner last year
here at the Ebor meeting and
I thought that was the dream
come true " Eyre said, “but to
win this, it's the pinnacle, it will
never be surpassed.”

For the tens of thousands of

ST.JJ

punters crammed on to the
Knavesmire. there was rather
less to celebrate. Media Star,
who set off as the 5-1 favourite,
and Puce, who finished third at
11-2, were their most popular
choices, and the latter in par-
ticular was unfortunate not to
find a gap when he needed one
with less than a furlong to run.

Ahead, though, more than
deserved to win thanks to a
beautifully-judged ride bv Ty-
rone Williams.

. “He's a very difficult horse to
nde.” Eyre said. “When he
gets to the front, he thinks he’s
done enough, so I told Tyrone,
when you think you want to go,
count to 10 first.” It is a good
job he did not tell him to count
to either eight or 12, for Far
Ahead arrived at precisely the
right moment, leaving Media
Star no time to recover.

Media Star runs in the pink,
green and white of Khalid Ab-
dullah, who owned the

favourites for the three princi-
pal events on Ebor day but
watched as all three were beat-
en. Most disappointing of all
was Reams Of Verse, the Oaks
winner, who was long odds-on
for the Yorkshire Oaks but was
unplaced behind My Emma,
who became a credible con-
tender for the Prix de l’Arc de

RICHARD EDMONDSON
NAP: Celestial Chow
(York 205)

NB: Wasp Ranger
(YbrK3^5)

Triompbe in the process.

Rae Guest’s filly is 20-1 with
Hills and Coral to win at
Longchamp in October. Given
that she has already won at
Group One level over the same
course and distance in last
year’s Prix Venneflle, her odds
should contract “We always
said that she only had two tar-

gets this year, this race and the
Arc,” Guest said. “The only
thing gets her beaten is tf there’s
no pace on, but there was plen-
ty of that today.”

There will be no trip to the
Arc for Reams Of Verse, how-
ever, and while Eyre and Guest
enjoyed their success yesterday,
the most familiar figure m
British winners’ enclosures was
in full retreat. Reams Of Verse
was Henry Cedi's second odds-
on loser of the week, following
Bosra Sham’s defeat in the In-
ternational Stakes, and her
trainer will not ask her to trav-
el 12 furlongs again.

An Oaks winner who does
not stay a mile and a half is a
rarity, but Cedi believes 10
furlongs to be Reams Of Verse's
maximum trip. “She was can-
tering two out but then she hit
a stone waD,” Cedi said. “1 think
it was only her class that got her
through in the Oaks.” Bosra
Sham, meanwhile, emerged rel-

‘ *k >v-

Les Byre: Items Far Ahead

a lively unscathed from her race
two days ago, but wfll need time
to recover from a bruised foot.
The Champion Stakes at New-
market in November is her ob-
jective. A little over an hour
later, Cecil decided he bad had
enough. Bold Fact, his runner
in the Gim crack, started
favourite at 6-4, and while his

RICHARD EDMONDSON

The second Earl Of Lonsdale
died in the arms of a weD-known
opera ringer and a rakish de-
scendant the fifth Earl also
proved there was something
twitching in the family genes
ffa t ri n g a lifetime of womanising.

Hugh Lowther, the Yellow
Earl, was a flamboyant figure
who took his entourage every-
where in a fleet of canary Daim-
lers. While he was admin-
istering his Cumberland and
Westmorland kingdom which
mpiiiAvl the substantial puddles
of Haweswater, Grasmere and
Windermere he also developed

habit of veering to his right in tfae reputalion M England’s

the dosing stages appears - sportsman. Lowther’s era ted spectacular gamwe

partly, at least - to have been «v- Since 1922 die race has been

cured, he could not nass Car- and the Nm

ago, Harayir- Tb»*j nst in-
cludes Embassy and Shuhrah,
who bold high rank in the ante-
post market for the 1998 1.000
Guineas, but even shorter than
them is Cape Verdi, 12-1 for the
Classic with Coral.

Deftetwas not consdered an

option for Peter Chapple-
Hvam’s Sly at Royal Ascot, but

she ran into Central Park m foe

Chesham Stakes. As that win-
ner has since landed Good-
wood’s Champagne Stakes and

Cape Verdi (Z35) is worth an-
other chance.

The day’s Group One race
began life at York as the Nun-
thorpe Selling Stakes in 1903.
when two-year-olds received
generous allowances and gen-
erated spectacular gambles.

cored, he could not pass Car
rowkeeL.

There are plenty of trainers
who would throw a party to cel-
ebrate finishing second in the
Gimcrack, but for the master of
Warren Place, this was a disap-
pointment too far. “That’s it,”
he said. “I'm going home.”

en to enduring boxers, and a
race for two-year-old fillies at
the Knavesmire, both of which
carry elements of his name.

The Lowther Stakes has pro-
vided future domestic Classic
winners such as Humble Duty,
Enstone Spark and, three years

2JSS Dantesque

2- 35 EMBASSY (nap)
&10 Compton Place

3- 45 Jo Mefl (nb)

HYPERION

4.15 Naughty Blue
445 KaBana
5J5 Poteen

■ Left-hand, U-shaped roun*. Flat and Ideal Tor the powfiil galloper.

■ C«a»BlmSnfekyonAI030.Torkaiaita,Ini.ADIIlSSION:Co«inyStaitfS:l2fl8-

yBMUsi W); TaMfsallsS! 5; SDwer KtagS5 lOAPs Gonrae EndowarS3 lOAPfc

iifO'; Under. IGs ftw bU enclosures (no under 12s in Couffly Sand). CAS part. Cre.

■ UUDDM 1HAINERS: B Cedi 27 winners from 104 runners elves a surrm ratal of

M Suwte 27 from 130 (20.8%); J Gotten IB from 0B ( 10.8%); J Danlop 18 from &8
X H— t on 10 fr om 15!) (10.5*1, P Cole M from 104 (13.5%).

■ LEADING SOCKETS: L Denari -IS wins from 201rides gives a success mio

PW Eddery 35 from 211 (16.7%); J Reid 23 from 162 (14.2%); H Roberts Ui from 132
(II. Mil: K Halloa 19 1mm 148(1-19*); BJ Tb.« 16 from 94 fl7%).

■ P AVOL 1 KITES: 163 wins tn 469 raws (:«.!%).

BUNKERED FIRST TIME: Darcy fvtsnred) (205).

TOWERS IN LAST SEVEN DAIS: None.

LONG-DISTANCE KDNNEBS (within Britain): HnM House (3.45) A » ■—

1X45) sent 276 miles try Gay Kefleway from WhiKombc, Dorset

FORM GUDE

Embassy'a NeMratel maiden win Irom taped Tu stifan and Znlnmla was boosed by
the pfeoadhoreecsconuaftBraraifc and 4sritarea>¥ that may bom raoppose Dadd Lotto's
smart Mly. EroeaTo SHne finished well at Neranaritet and duy ^safed fewurtfem In a
nluabn Goodwood marten nest trma. She wfl be closer to Embassy mis time. BBSS ZA-
FOtaC also has anomer crack at Embassy hawig been beaten two lengths by her In the
Princess Mar&rot m Ascot. Richaid Hannon's fifry, out of Jersey States vwnner Mas S*ca
Key and half-sister to Centra City and Sica Supreme, was impress** m baaong Dodo and
ID others at Wfcndsor on her debuL The pound went sgBbtt Mss Zrionicai Max and she
failed to quieten with Embassy m the soft £*«. WRh fast ground and a 3b piM, she can
prevaiL Cape Vanfi. vrfw just hafl to be pushed out to baai Trans Island two terete « Mere-
maw on tier debut, were rtf tawune far The Chesham at Rgal Ascot but codd not meich
Oaranri (fork. That was over an extra furlong tn today's op and, aaftoufji she Is by Caerieon,
it could eel be that ihe drop to sat wa sut Certainly, Central ftrtft three-tengBi success
in Goodwood's \ftraaga Stah88 made the Royal Ascot tarn look srwt. Staafii beat the wefi-
i exited Asfrraatet m what may turn out to be a good Ascot maiden. The Dating f*y ml im-
prove and is weft worth her place m this fieri. Selection: MISS ZATONIC

FORM GUDE

THE PRINCE Sopped when favourite for nte handicap debut here in June but can be ta^-
en that rwi on soft pound and mer a loref mp, as he reported^ swafcwrod Ns tongue.
His ttvaa rnns In maidens at NewnBdiet make much better roaefine. io Mel pxstaa four-
toner after toe wins at Newcastle, HaydocK and here and has every chance of pmffvsnhg.
am end defying a further 3b rise. Hewkrtey KB hod no tuck In turesng behind Danish
Rhapsody at Goodwood last tone having landed the Hong Kong Joetey a ub Cup « Sandown.
He had Conoer Un and Red Rohbo eel m amass, but both pose a big threat today. Con-
cer Un t a pound to«r than when winnire This race last year, wftfe Red Rotoo Is reurwed
wqh Olnnr PBsIrer. the sliccessta jockey in the RoyM Hunt Cud. CnawWa HV, who fin-
shed fBst m ei0itn n the Hunt Cup. went an to be second to F)y To The Stais in me Gold-
en rae and should agdr 0> weft. The return to a mite should sut fteat CMd. a dose
second u Joroefcs at Goodwood (Wasp Badger tairtft). whfte KmrttTs DM) » Baatawnp
King st Doncaster, beaten a head and the same, wes a good effort at the we&its on tos
first start for David Loder. Selection: T>C PRfNCE

4.15

&10

NUNTHORPE STAKES (Group li (CLASS A)
£300000 added 5f Penalty Value £77,684

12.05

LADBROKE KfWESNRE HANDICAP (CLASS C) r
£20,000 added 1 m 4f Penalty Value £17^20

•54402 -MfIfiMCUflQ{GKni0ttPHans4 9 15

260301 CQE5IUL CHOB (14) (CO) (Ms Can* SyKBfij J L Eyie 796.
•23211 DANTESQUE (m (Mcftere ftaOTg) GUtegB 4 95--

611012 TESSAJ0E(14)W Way RartnershgiU Camacho 595-

512 -CO OOFSPEITEn (M<sDMbcitoe)HsJCeci495

0143 DAHCr (Cheney ftnXStLtOUStDUK 391-

J) lorttar (51 2 82

Often l 99

KMs7 84

_LQnmodi 15 99
1 Canafl 13 95

00235 BBUftMSUN(L4)(CS|niBVDrBatadMU9her590-

IRddSVlCQ

R Street 10 97

8 500202 HAZUDABCSS{D(C) P) (Qmulcoll0)DNctom79O MnBenesU 9?

9 -60101 MAinMEDpBDlMsUonca Keq0OAiM4 813

10 632246 MY LEARNED FRED (ft (D) (Mrs J Roberts) A rtde 6 8 12.

11 362132 HON(XDMBlEt22](BF) (SheMi UohamwtlH W htete 3 8 6 L Dettori 14 89

12 323121 SHAFHSHAVB(55)D)PDairt3oivBRw*ilUsMitaeiay5B4_DMiMEKeiiiB3 99

13 04)132 IftEWAtASAIWIHBI (39) 88 BF)(H CDomell D Hc^toi Jonas 6 7 12 — Aliadcqf 9100

14 220021 PBISMN RID H IQ ISephenj Curtis) UWEssrety 3 711(4ao IO*»*l0e

15 4-2115 SIEPNG0(gQpnacrtfe«S5hOitiMsJtamsdOi3 71D P fttsay (3) 12 95

-13 derived -

iSoniro se®ht: 7S lfle. True franricap ee^c Stt» N Go 7st Tfe _

BEnwec u-a DeetoMpw, 1M Deny, 7-3 Oofie Petlle, 8-3 Criestiei Cfeofr, 9-1 HowomUe, 10-1
Tewafoe, 12-1 MaUbneo, (Woe Fund, Step N Go, 14-1 StalHiqM, My leaned Friend, Hn-
art A Guess. 38-1 Remaari Sun. My lewida, 20-3 MeetolaeaDribin

199* Celestial One 6 9 3 0 ftaa (3) 14-1 (J L Eyre) dwi<2} 22 ran

FORM GUDE

Coleettal Chair boat 21 others in ttos race a yesr ago anS Mho's tossy she cant win It
agon (nfloMng her two- tengh ftmtefract win from TESSAJOE I3fo pufi) (Resiascl Sib fifth!?
Consistent Tessajae may have what It takes, howwrw, as he's better than ever at five and
CjflB a few of the others may not be as effective as he at at Ms Dja tenaari Sun has

mraatened more than once 0ns season to win a decern nantficap. aAUe frto iaanwrt Friaad

comes into the rechonfo& as he had Tessajoe. Ramaatfi Sun and Celestial Chow behind when
second » Zartoaska m the Old Newton Cup at Haydoric My Learned Fnena has been touid
wanting twice In the meantime, however. Consrterlng me was having her first run o f the
season. Oopa Petll e did weftin the Bessborougi at Ascot and is bach In a harOcap aWBr
tr^ng a Lgffid race at Satebury. With Can uwtfier talang off 5(b. My lavrid afe big wegit

causes less concemman the tnp. vtach ahe tries for the first nma. MatUmeo also seems

best over two fijrton& less but goes weH for Kevin Dartey. on board when Matomeo v«n at
Newcastle and Ascot. Dmrteaqoe's recent wins in uncompetitive txes msobeena
ten tawnfp Srtmrooo: TESSAiOt

0-3100 AlftWY (2^ (Of OBF) (P D Sert) J Godm 4 99.
144451 AVOI1(23)(D)(DJDeB)WMi*699-

330054 B0Um(23)(n(MsDartBRM»JBny599

11-510 COASnLBUFF(19iai)IM8DE9Bni)TOBmon5BS

0-1000 CROFT POOL (23) (D) Cartryvkie daacs UmaerS 1 Clover 699.

-61410 CTKANySLADIBS) IQftIM Rk4gS)CDirgerB99

12046- W« OWES 04«(D) (Rob todies) J Beny 599

0- 6201 SRUJfflER (18) TO ftrrfl UsjrWAeOben D Lotte 5 9 9

510140 W MAUK 09 n (Caine RgnioiaaJDilchGi 899

22-201 COMPTON PLACE {4QAQUcriDewnrito$JTofer3 9 7.
000211 DMQllE(19)lu1atnr&MsJchnlfegMHCM««397.

1- 0562 EASS(CAU.07)mEas)C3aP3RnaUr>)BMeetBn397.

10-533 08»NROaET(23)(IMNgieg«JDiJiicp397.

_LDattal2U2

J(FMailDU5

mcanoOBm

_J( Dwiey 8 305
.GCwtorlllOl
1 13 99

M00RE5TYLE CONVIVIAL RAAiDEN STAKES (CLASS
£15^)00 added 2 VD 6 f Penalty Valua £10^673

6252 aaftSHASWMG (22) fttaed Pesaxfl R Hamm 90 IIM47

BMWiG[NMafenPMrKnhriPafe90 Pri Eddery A

3 DESW9? tUSA)(191 (BF) OeWt tf3tarmerl>JGosdEn90 0 Praia 2

2 BMBUB[lB)0fonl»AIMMuTaB1E90 RMtl

6HUUS (H R H ftne FM SSneil P Cafe 9 0 .

NAHHlYBUE(USA)(Galitam1SaeedtinSiiD(r90

6 PORTOFORK9OS(UM)0Z)(BF}OtathosFamMHCecf9O.
6 TWDCMMTDWNraX(19] (GWtoOderi B UrMhon 90-

(Datay5
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(9
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Heftnd 15 112

MRabatoBJUs

JHer & nvei4136
3323
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H TefrtMtl 12 307

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5316

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-55410 DOfTT WORRY K (2^ 0 Fahororxfl GHemtofTtb 59 6
216-00 W— P BB U R MMCI (23) W (Ms Dart aacttun) H Carey 6 9 6— CRritor 1UQ
031340 !EVBtaotFROSE08)|QmptatotafogCUi)TJNau0nai698 — IRaMlBlO*
-lldecfeRd-

BEniMGt 4-1 Dmiftae, 9-3 Comptoii Ptow. 5-1 CoeeM Bftit, 10-1 fodtoi Bechet. Mfed Camis,
foerti, 12-1 Ya Matafo Aknty, Derit Wony U^ 14-1 Easy Cal, Beriotforfornmica. 20-1 Strug-
gtr, 2SA Komt Got Roea. Botekot, 50-1 Clril Pool, 9G-1 Qraws% Ud
1996: PMttt 3 9 7 G Outlet! 1IXK30 iSe M ftescoo) dram (9 8 ran
FORM GUDE

Remaps ALMATY can reproduce Ms running at Kempton In May. when he made afl in course-
record time to beat Compto n Place two and a hair lenghs. The easy pound was a&inet
tom when na was weft beaen brivnd Dorit Wony Ma ei the King’s Stand and he could not
dominate when tasted 35 behind Awrti m the King George Sokes at Goodwood, ft wN be
hod far hen to git on top a^ln Today, but Frankie Datton is back in the saddle for tha fea
tone since Kampton and Kvrtl be im arasongto see ha» he ftoas from staft two. vftthBranlug-
performance way m gee him a gpod lead tom the lowest draw of aft. Compton Place must
be feared afmr tos sunmse July Cup aiccea (fcuSaa Rootat, Coastal BbMF and EaqrcoB
betond). which agyufcsnOy boosed Almaty's Kempton win, but he B short enough In the
beab%. fiftid Games is very much one to fear despbe Ms lan®hy absence due in naMon
duties. He had Away (trntnad than by Con CoOns) three and a hell lengths bahtrcJ when
runner-up to Pivotal ki last year's King's Sand and brbui ran weft in tf* race a be fount)
to PhatBl, who beat Evenlna»fortnance a short hood. MM Games goes best fresh. Stew-
ads' Cup victor Danettee may not prove as effective at this Dip. a comment that also ap-
ptte&to Coastal Bluff. Indian Rochet may also lack the pan for tna tnp. but both Airenfs
best lunsltoE season hwe been at five ftjrion^, booting Afttwy at Bath and when lantfing
the King Gaotff States last tone. S el e c t ion: ALMATY

1DilNM»PRMCe(HTrtff&MaJdjDife0aBlNCb«0Bn9O

BETTING: 2-1 OmAth, 7-2 Ns^oy BN*, 4-1 Bfottofc 7-1 Deri0MT, 8-1 Btombi
iMo Prfoee, 12-1 Porto FWros, 164 GhMb, 28-1 Tbs Domdoao Fox
1096: MOM 2 9 0 L Dedon 4-1 (D Urisri ®3wn (7) 8 ton
FORM GUDE

EDmfaub gave plenty or enoouragamera in second to Temarttk on hb Goodwood debut and
is fended spin id have the measure of Deri0>ar, a length and a hail back in third having
drifted from 6-4 to 33-4. and stah-placad The Dowrtnwn Fda. Bemsho Swing is by far
tha moH otoertenced In the field and Unwed Improved form lest One at Goodwood to be
a dose second to Adadian Hero (Porto Forioos only soth). It may be best to ride with a
newcomer in the shape of NAUGHTY BLUE. The Godofoton runner is bred u> be a smart Ju-
uenfie, being by DenehR out of Bkie Nora and therefore Mated to MrirSa F’ari: winner 3-
eten and Cheveiey Park worn er Blue Duster. S o lecl fo a : NAUGHTY BLUE

4v45

GALIRES STAKES (Listed race) (CLASS A) £25,000 added

lm 4f Penalty V^ue £17,463

203137 B00KATBB>IKPQ(RMQcBriC(Vzsr388 DHoftmdS

011-42 EIGBEffB) (Iff) (Gcdolctml Sated ttiSrsoor 388—

5-6211 GRACBlJLLASS{43)68iAMnifeKI)D(ddar388>

Q MUANA(3B)(HHAMKhan}LCiinen3B8

21 UA»Am(38)(HBnttoiNU*oum>WHesi388^

43085 URSIBNWBt{USA)(U9HLMAIftitalPKMeway38Bw
1-053 HEFMMNXVHB(B}(AL0ppertcmri6MBBl38B>.
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m E35J000 added lm Panaftv Valun £23339

f o ~o en STAKtS CASINOS LOWTHER STAKES (Group 2)
|rtg-00 { (CLASS A) £50iD00 added 2YDGF£45y407

11 EkBASSY (2Q (0) MtfBrrmaS D LDder9 0

131 NADWRHjUSA) (84) [Hamdgi wUahowni PWMiiyn90 ^

12 CAFE VERDI WWffD (HE Stored POM4fift4^aii 8^11—
3122 CRA2HE MHIML (44) (M (HcdiODonne® D^rti ta*s 811—

21 DAXBWiAOT(33)(P) Wft&tGKnglGGrtfitlAPHarsBll.

21 EXPe3TOSWE(233(Dl(k«&^AJUaK^SHfc^~
a iBSSZftFONE{2GJ(J2<BF)(M8*mxmAiMakwmiRifinnon811
1 SHUHRAH (USA) (27) (D) IGoOoiptni 5aeed bn Sunxr8 11

52 SIMXIAPS) 'Sl^ine 9aongLttf' p U*¥i sl J

321 2ELANDA(£9909(ShdiftMofianrned)JGosden811
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HTTOG: U-4 Erab»*y. 3-lttope W*rcO, 9-2 Mta Ztrtefc, 5-1 Stabreft, 10-1 AtaAraft, Expact To
IMBtok. 25-1 DraSyo Lady. 50-lStatt

1996: Stova N«a 2 8 U K Data 6-1 10 iflOen da««u6) 9 ran

J Fortune 2 89
_0Ftofier4U2

-21010 IUIMBUyHU.(ZS){D)IT , RCMon«on|l*Ojnfflsden497 IFMwwUVim

453043 RUSSUlf MUSIC (26) (Sowth Ha*en Perewaho) Gay keftway 4 9 3 _J( ftton 9 1Q3

•00341 MNODCXq{qeanNonsn)MCsnds790 ; — L Oanwefc U 99

303002 acn*KtnU(tSim{UBulttBr^S9BlmBtiTDBm3BlUCm*7 97

30-010 RED R088O 83415(38) (C5(D?(Lics|Bn Stud) RAIeliiri 4 8 12 OftMer2106

-04002 04UWniRHlL(21)(D)(THClBrhBf)HGBhBTi5812 M Robert* 33 107

000111 JOfiBL(4DfCfl)(CHNMDnJrrllATEaserty4811 1 MSB 97

00-360 UUSXXH0USE(R3){nieManeyMBUGgyKe8a^4a9 SSarte»5iai

331-03 KDMAIT{USA) Ul) (Ltodeun M Ifottun) D irdw 3 8 B LDritoriSlOO

BETIBIB: 84 Katana, 2-1 Brtca, 81 taaeeM Ian, 81 Book At Bedttne, 104. Ilnatarfir, 12-1
Tbe ftmny Ttoe, 281 Mra MWw

1996: Be lira 4 9 4 Pbc Eddery 100-30 (H CkKI dtoMi (71 10 on
FORM GUIDE

KAUANA impressed men beating Utartin It QMrUor winner ante) three and a half lenghi
at Chepstow on her debut and ajpln ran weH when upped rto Usted Ctess at Newmartet
to be second to Anno Luce having been set pierty to do. Ehttca, second to FfafBn to the
Nassau at Goodwood. 6 the dangar but har riafity to stay this lon&rtrtp b a doubt. Sta-
mina wffl be no problem for Book At Badtkna, but ft will be e surprise If toe ts good enouffi
and Graceful Use, stepping up In class after handicap wtos at DngWd and Chepstow,
looks a better bet for the minor place. S e l e ct io n: KAUANA

CITY OF YORK STAKES (Listed race) (CLASS A) £20000
added 7f Penalty Value £15010

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005006 CONCSIIM{20)(CS|MssLJVM}SCWbbbi 587.
012064 MIASPBANGBi(USA)mm(CtotraMwVfi9i)PC*38B.
-10004 OtUPSO ouwr (20)08 (Ms PW Unto Pteto3B 5.

4215 THEPSMCEf6^m®RaR4toftoOGWsjg3a5_
•03202 SREATOaDpH) W (SaredSuhaO M SM48381.

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:towttar(96 96

M Ms 4 309

— F lynch 14 105

320134 RAM002(DSft)PQ(q(D)(nal Stand
-33011 IMmB(33)(HBrnfenNMtoaxiTUPWakqn39
-10104 WDBfMEAD0W(S4(Qfl816a>8SSbtabrid^|IBattng390.
61836 SMIEWB(RD(UmpiauiitacngUEDWsJRan«kn590—
4-2102 TREGARON (USA) (40) (D) ID ftanJorw)RAIatua690.

-JtFkftoa 9
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564-54 REET8WM0Et2l) H5 (D> (Ed WBetman R Hcftnshead 4 9 0

512-00 HUStoALftRSITIBSI (RSronrtF8odne()MT<]mpNn5389

12-135 P0IEB((|SA)(65) (DHUadVfesiey) LCunanSSfi

1-2214 toROS 01SN) (21) 0)) (KAbCktal HCed3B4

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BEHM& 7-4 Meao,'«-2 tfettab, UrtTregMae, 81 ttttai Handera, 81 Rsooee. 183. bans,
12-1 B feafi A Mi mt a, 181 MaNcal Paraft. 281 Staatlag
1996: Rumara 3 8 4 W Canon 4-1 (B Hta) oaan (7) 8 an

ae^ 8a 7b r^ 8a 3JU Trc fraodbap Cbncer Lb 89 4I>.

BETT148: 11-2 to Weft. 6-1 fteat Chad, 7-1 Bad Rctha, 81 C«^ 9 «o grant, Uw rtil tyW, 81 ftwap-
toa fML ObKor Ui, 30Ot Tta lUKe^ 32V1 M NbA Rnmafo 181 tayta; 181 Roataar Ato
de, Wasp Rtoger. 281 Hub* Hdbm

1996 : Oner Ui 4 8 10 K Darisy 181 6 C Mtaare) toawn (8) 38 ran

POTTO! has the form to van the. having finished ttord to Entrepreneur In the 2,000 Gtaneas.
a race *i which Uddes Meadow put In the fas of his betore-par performances and Musi-
cal Prato* was rafted off after tos saddle slipped. It's more a question of whether Poteen
is fir enousfii. as ha's been absertf smea fiqjo/ Aoox where he (Wed to get dr e blow be-
hind SrarborouMi. Poraen Is the sortto do weft fresh, however, having won first time out a
two and three. Sotocttoo: POTEEN

HYPERION

2 iS Jota Bums Z45 Canonfou 120 Brotgitons
Hjrmofl 3*55 Mashhaer 4*25 Harmony H afl 4.55
«n Cvdone

eOtSG: Good to Finn (wuered i.

STALLS: Far skip.

■ SlWicc to^se- ADMISSION:

l5f3iS«ri£i l lOfol. 1 Baldtag !*■ tom 120 (IS-SW. *«««-
Pet BdrteT 2Sftoml13 (21 IN.), LDrt-

8 004406 B«»«RHJaWEClSm(BBRGuBd490Juqrta»tl2a

9 00006 CLASS DfSTWCTWI (12) R H»won3 89 PDeM*»7

10 <0062 CEIAIOBCCWSR ATun*i485

11 -60000 GEORDB LAD (l^JBenrai 3 7 10 RBtatatfrai2

12 406060 VHSIETJO)feS(6}GOaies-taes4 7 10 CO*p0)l

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liftman we#* ?a 2«»- ^ Gecfrte VW*«

CebtolSne, 81 Emit, toprdsff, 81 Hopesay, iO-l Clato IXftlaciioa, 32-1
Sloes Qnean, 20-1 rifcea

WTERSALLS MAIDEN AUCTION STAKES
2JtO\ (CLASS Q £4025 added 2 YO fif

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SWMGWHSIR Hannon 86 —

02 TON (38) S Dow 8 6

3 CANDM2 (I7J J MM85

TOIE BOOKMAKERS HANDICAP (CLASS
C) £8000 added lm

1 0-6024 STOOD (21) Bp) lady Hades 4 100 RCodmo4

2 -UXS5 KAWUT(19) BHfc394, — Marita Days (3) 5

3 -04200 C0MVCU0US(Z3)LG0ml7 94 ADriy(6)l

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5 QS3U0 SaMXD MM (2Q) (CO) R ChaAon 3 8 11 T Strata 10 V

6 -03200 OMNSE PLACE (B2) BUen^nSSll IWtofoMa(7)2

7. 013300 BROOagDKS^MOI.C13)nBRMtoen8&9jeHBpn(E)3

8 4-0000 CH.tSEMY(34)(D]GLaafc486 Pari Briery 9

9 0011115 SAKYANA|USN)(18) (D) 8 Hartuy 6 8 3 GMadfi

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conditions event and the Nun-
thorpe Stakes has developed
into the leading five-furlong
contest in the country.

The most interesting runner
today is Mind Games who re-
turns to the racecourse after
covering 62 mares in his first

HYPERION’S

covering season. It was discov-
ered that once the five-year-old
had finished bis post-activily cig-
arette be became rather bored
with his lot, which just goes to

prove that even the best jobs can
become wearisome after a
while. It may be though that
Mind Games' mind may be on
games of another nature when
the stalls open and a conspicu-
ous fact is that no animal has
ever returned from the boudoir
to win a Group One race.

It looks best to rely on the
favourite, Compton Place
(3.10), the mount of one of the
nation’s most industrious jock-
eys, Seb Sanders.

There are possibilities too
about Wasp Ranger (next best
3.45\ but the bet of the day is
CELESTIAL CHOIR (nap
2.05), who won today’s race 12
months ago and is just coming
to the boU judged on her Pon-
tefract success two weeks ago.
The mare worked with yester-
day’s Ebor winner Far Ahead on
Saturday and gave him a stone
and a ban and a beating. Get on.

FIRST SHOW

YORK

2M: DANTESQUE, who battled
on gamely to beat Meteor Strike
by half a length in a lm 2f limit-
ed stakes race at Yarmouth,
promises to slay this distance
and looks fairly handicapped.
Pension Fund, wbo beai Double
Flight by half a length with the

third beaten seven lengths in a lm
2f handicap at Beverley last time,
should go well despite a 41b
penalty, while Honourable looks
capable of better than he has
shown in his most recent ventures.

C3m

245: EMBASSY, wbo heal Miss
Zaibnic by a comfortable two
lengths in the Group Three
H Princess Margaret Snakes over to-
day’s distance of 6f at Ascot last
time, an Quifirm those placings.
Shuhrah, who created a
favourable impression an her de-
but over 6f ai Ascot, may pose
most problems.

3.15: COMPTON PLACE, who
improved out of all recognition to
beat Royal Applause by !*/•
lengths in the Group One July
Cup over 6f at Newmarket last
time, ommiifiiiii p larinps UTlfr In.
(Can Rocket (thirdVC^alBlnir
(filth) and Easycall (seventh)
over this fu r lo n g s horter journey.
Dluietiiiie, who landed a b(g ante-
post gamble m the Stewards’ (Sip
Handicap at Goodwood, looks the

chief threat.

□□Q

3 AS: JOMELL, in great form erf
late, showed he is no mere mud-
lark when beating Therhea by 1 V:
lengths over course and distance
on good ground on his most re-
cent outing last month and re-
mains leniently handicapped.
Caviar Rnyale and Cramp ton
hilt both look weighted to gp well
wldJc the KghtJy-raced The Prince
should also figure prominently.

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RACING RESULTS

YORK

2M: 1_ AMYAS 04 F«sl 1&-2; 2. Sond-
n»ar Cbamfany 20-1: 3. Harry VMtm 7-1:
4. Game Ploy 17-2. IB ran. 13-2 fev ta>-
■on. vh. 2. <B hfc, LranbounD.TatK £830:

E2-0a E5^0, £2JK). £2-50. Dual Forecast:

£3»7 JO. CSF: £14631. Tncasc £L02l3L
Tito: £348.50.

235s 1. MY EMMA (D HctancO 7-1; 2 .
to WtawUi Aflrtr 7-1; 3. Crown or Lfehi
12 - 1. 8 ran. 4-7 fnr Reams 0# Vase (Afffl.
Ys 1 ¥». (R Guest, NawmarteU.Tota: £7.60:
£130. £1.70. £230. DF: £29.00. CSF:

E5L91.

3J0:L FAR AHEAD (TWiBsinsl 33-1; 2 .
Matat Star 5-1 tar. 3. Pttca 11-2: 4. Fur-
ttfor FHit 25-L 21 ran. nk. hd. U L Bre.
TtWrtO. Tota: £6430: £930. £2.00. £130.
£430. DP. £247/40. CSF: £16632. Tncasc
lljOOOflOLTito: £3SZ6a Mt Town Derosr.

3^5: 1.CARROWKEEL (Fat Eddery) 16-1:
2. BoM Fact 6 ^ tac 3. Headhunter 81. 7
ran. V*. 3. (B hfifis. LamOcuni. Tote: £19.00:
£4.40. £130. DP £2840, c&: £4025.

4J3: L CHtNADER (K Darky) 81 : 2.
Cranbrlan Cadet 14-1; 3. Deva tidy IO-l
19 no. 11-4 few Classy Cieo. IV* l‘U (M
Pipe. WBUaiODn). Tata: £8.10: £2.60.
£4.70, £A40TbF: £97.70. CSF: £103.79.
NR: Sfflffify Faww.

4-4S: 1. BAY PRINCE (J Canaftl 16-1: 2.
VtoMra Bey 20 - 1 : 3. Iha UtopfoRCat 20-L
7 ran. 8-11 tar Ttanc I 6 thj. lV>.4JMaan-
non, Upper (jnboumi. TOta: £18.60: £450,
£4.40. DP £65.70. CSF: £2^40. _

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4-1 tar; 2. Straiataybolr liM: B. Plrtnce
Dorn 5-1. 13 ran. £, 9B OWnNta
nrataO-Tolac £4.60: £2^20, £33O£2.50.
DF: «R IM CSF: £5436. TncssC £20341.
Tno: £86.60. Wfc Siurat Far “L, _

riSroot not won (poof of £10735352 ear-
ned farearri to York today).

Ptacepot: £7,199-20. Quaftpot: £388-70.
Place B: £10381-48. Place S: £3.4443a

EDINBURGH

2 J 0 c 1 U£ DisnNCr (E jQhnsonl ovens
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£3.00. CSF: £2.71

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ntbear 3-1 3. Wttoper low 12-1. 7 ran.
15-8 few Suck FBQ Dancer (5thl. IX 2 ’A.
fiites L Srtdaa. Tartcastert. Tot»: £9.70'
£2-10. £150. DF: £830. CSF: £29.1 2.

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Heybumer 94 tav, 3. Coamlc Ceaa 10-1-
7 ran. lv*. -A. IP Evans. WfeWpaM. Tg*f
£2.60: £130, £1.60. Cff: £430. CSF:
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fav. 8 ran. 5. 3 tP Evans. WoWfooog- Tota.
£230: £110, £140, £110. DP £430 CSF:

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eraser 7 2. 6 ran- 5, 3. (E WByrnaG. Ley-
toSZ. Tote: £130: £110, £330. DF:
£4.70. CSF: £1434.

Pteoapae £830. Qaadpet £230.
poor & £9.01 Ptaoe 5: £739.

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THURSDAY 21 AUGUST 3597 ■ THE INDEPENDENT

sport

The contribution made by men
of escaping from the darkness

saw sport as a means
not to be forgotten

An old collier was once asked on
television for his views about the vi-
olence then evident in Welsh rug-
by- "When there is always a chance
that the roof will come in on your
bead, you don't worry about a boot
in the face on Saturday," be replied.

A legend in the North-east or Eng-

land is that any position in a foot-
‘ “ Idb “

ball team could be filled by shouting
down a pit shaft. From the coalfields
of Lanarkshire and south Ayrshire
came three of the greatest managers
football has known: Matt Busby, Bill
Shanfcly and Jock Stein. Shankly’s
small village of Gleobuck' alone
sent out 30 professionals.

Numerous rugby and football in-
ternationals and such notable fight-
ers as Jimmy Wilde, Tommy Farr,
Eddie Thomas and Howard Win-

stone were bred in the Welsh min-
ing valleys. The most feared of
England’s fast bowlers, Harold Lar-
wood, was a Nottinghamshire col-
lier. Rugby league recruited many
of its stars from the coalfields of
Yorkshire.

Doubts about the long-term fu-
ture of Britain's mining industry re-
calls its importance in British
spoiling history. From the blackness
of a working life underground, the
perils many first endured at only 14
years old, came many heroes of the
sports fields.

In many cases, one of the most sig-
nificant things about their influence
was understandable social aware-
ness. "The first thing you must do
is join the playecf union,” my father
said when I left home at 17 to fol-

low him into football. At the same
age he was offered a professional
contract of £3 per week by Me rthyr
Town, who were then in the old
Third Division. “When Merthyr re-
fused to pay the extra 10 s h ill ings
[they rdenied a few tours later] yous
grandfather thought 1 was worth, I
cried all the way home,” he said.

“Not because I wasn’t going to get
a living from football but because it
meant going back down that black
hole, going to work in winter when
it was dark and dark when I came
up again." No wonder that he was
a committed socialist and, until the
horrors of Stalinism were revealed,
a member of the C ommunis t Party.

On the face of it, you might
think that people of my generation
and beyond dwell too much on the

KEN JONES

past, but it was from mining com-
munities that British sport drew
much, of its impetus. If we look back
only briefly on those times, men who
had escaped from the harshest of
working environments were every-
where in football, some nimble, ■

some hard, all seeing thing s in the
alternative light of derivation.

Nobody in my life has conveyed
a more distinct impression of gen-,
uine toughness than Wflf Copping,
who played in Arsenal’s great team
in die 1930s and made 20 appear-
ances for England. A Yorkshireman,
his craggy, blue-scarred face could
have been cut from the coalface he
worked when little more than a bey.
Losing blood meant nothing, cow-
. ardice appalled him.

The story goes that Copping took
on Italy single-handed in an infa-
mous encounter at Highbury fa
1934 that saw three England play-
ers injured seriously after only 20
minutes. If the work of Coppmg was
hard but fair, he quickly restored the
balance.

The broad philosophy that es-
tablished Stein as perhaps the lead-
ing .manager in British, football

in his nature.

Stein, who worked' in thepitsTor
11 years from theageof 16, said: “I
knew that wherever I 1 went, whatever
work I did. I'd never be alongside,
better men. It was a place where
phoneys and cheats couldn't survive^
Tor . long. Down there* for eight
hours, you're away from God's
fresh air and sunshine and there's ;
nothing that can compensate for
that. 1 think everybody should go
down the pit at least once to learn
what darkness is.”

If those of us wfaoserootsare in
old mining co mm unities must guard

agains t an overkill of sen t imentali-
ty, we are entitled to argue that no
environment has given more to
B ri tish sport, if the pit-head wheels,
.have almost stopped turning, the
legacy liveson: : .\ s \

/ ■The tone of sport in the 199Qs r iS ;
^by the glite corps, that is to say.

■ by therichest gamesmen - the starj-
- who have sweated their way up fo"
prodigiOas salaries, are admirajgjty .
mterriewed and receive On television
and in ^popular newspapers the
same adoring space as royals anc^:
rods stars. V r . 5 -
- The impulse; to take up a game !
is now vay often the. impulse to eam- T j
a fortune. In that c^te^ tto'cbln-
triburion made; by men' who saw j
sport as a means i^eaaphigfrcna
darkness eughfnot to. bei

Sampras

masters

sentiment

John Roberts finds the world No 1 in
confident yet nostalgic mood as he
prepares for the start of next week's
US Open at Rushing Meadow

Pete Sampras bad travelled lit-
tle more than 50 yards across
New York's Rushing Meadow,
from the US Open’s former cen-
tre court to the new one due to
be inaugurated next Monday,
and was already feeling nostal-
gic. “I kind of miss the old sta-
dium," the world champion
said, “that's kind of where I
made my mark in 1990.”

Asa 19-year-okl in 1990, Sam-
pras became the tournament's
youngest men’s singles champi-
on. In the process, the Californ-
ian defeated the last two men to
win the title three times in a row,
Ivan Lendl, in the quarter-finals,
and John McEnroe, in the semi-
finals, and overwhelmed Andre
Agassi in the final.

Success over the coming fort-
night would bring Sampras a
third consecutive triumph in
his home Grand Slam event -
a three-Pete according to the lo-
cal media - and a fourth in all.
It would be the Uth Grand Slam
singles title of his career, putting
him level with Bjorn Borg and
Rod Laver and one short of Roy

seems pretty medium," Sampras
said. “Pretty much the same as
the other court in the other sta-
dium. Pm playing in the Arthur
Ashe charity match on Saturday,
so I'll have a good feel of what
it’s going to be like with the
Linesmen and the ballboyS-’

During a break in training to
participate in a media confer-
ence call organised by the ATP
Tour, Sampras was questioned
about the current decline of po-
tential tennis talent in the Unit-
ed States.

Was there part of him that
thought if Arthur Ashe was
spending all that money (around
£234m), he would have spent it
on grass-roots tennis rather
than a stadium? “Probably,’'
Sampras replied. “I didn't know
Arthur well but that was some-
he was much interested in.
think we have some good

charge again

JON CULLEY

reports from Worksop
Essex 319-4 v
Nottinghamshire

The strength of Australian
cricket can be measured in
those players left out of this
summer's Ashesparty as well as
those included. Stuart Law, the
28-year-old Essex batsman, was
among those considered not
good enough, yet he has plun-
dered runs handsomely around
the county circuit. His omission
might not have pleased him -
but his county could not be
more delighted.

Yesterday, Law overcame
the handicap of a slow, green-
ish pitch here to record his
fourth Championship century of
the season, and his sixth in all

first-class matches, equalling
)ied Essex.

Martin McCague (right) is ordered out of the Kent attack by Alan Whitehead yesterday Photograph: Richard Austin

his 1996 tally. It enabl
still title contenders even in
eighth place at the start of this
round, to establish a promising
position after their captain,
Paul Prichard, had won the
toss on his return after injury.

The wicket here has a histo-
ry of assisting tbe spinners and

Essex have come weD equ^p«l _ ;
with Peter Such, who began his - xl
career with ■ Nottinghamshire;
bringing local knowledge' as RQ
well as his other attributed. '

- Fluent strokeplay proved dflr
ficult but the' Queenslander v
. was prepared to take pn . this - ■ :

. bowling and take a few ri^ks. It ^
paid off wheat the second of two- -
sixes off the left-aim spmn&ri ■ ■■■’■ .
Usman Afzaal, sailed towards; ■
the caravan park at midwfcket - v -
to bring him 53 off 79 balls/Law : - 7;.
scored his second 50 off only 38 • *
balls, moving to three figures V ‘ .
when he -hit Matthew Dow- 7 V
man in the air over extra cover '
for the 15th.of 18 fours.

After Prichard and Dairen
Robinson had put on 94 for the
first wicket. Law was well sup-
ported by Tim Hodgson, playing
in only his second Championship
match, who revealed himself as
a sound te chnician of some
promise before Nathan Aslie den
ceived him with a slower balL

Law added 94 in 23 overs
with Paul Grayson for the
fourth wicket before the Aus-
tralian skied the first ball of
Afzaal’s post-tea spell and was
caught in front of the wicket by
ie keeper.

the keeper, Wayne Noon.

Long hot summer reaches boiling point Knight’s nerve tested

young players. I don’t know if
" have the i

Boris Becker has withdrawn
Grom tire US Open following
the death from cancer of his
adviser and dose friend. Axel
Meyer-Woelden, tournament
officials announced yesterday.

The 29-year-old Becker, a
former world No 1 and winner
of the 1990 US Open, had been
expected to make his fin al ap-
pearance in a Grand Slam at tbe
event, which starts on Monday,

Albert Costa replaces Beck-
eras tire No 16 seed, becoming
the fifth Spaniard to be seeded
in the men’s singles.

Emerson's record 12. More-
over, Sampras would have ac-
quired three of the year's four
major sangles titles. The last man
to accomplish that was Mats Wi-
lander in 198S. The Swede was
unable to win at Wimbledon
while the French championship
has eluded Sampras.

Acquainting himself as much
as possible with the fresh envi-
ronment of the 23,000-seater
Arthur Ashe Stadium, named
after the late champion of the
United States, Wimbledon,
Australia and manifold causes
relating to freedom and digni-
ty, Sampras is practising on
the new court this week.

How did it compare with the
adjacent, much-criticised Louis
Armstrong Stadium, the seating
capacity of which is scheduled
to be reduced from 20,000 to
10,000 after this year’s cham-
pionships?

“It’s going to be a pleasure to
play in the new stadium,” Sam-
pras said. “It’s beautiful very
well put together. It’s a great
impression just walking in there
and seeing the new seats. The
locker-room facilities are much
nicer, and it will be a lot more
convenient to get around.

The concrete playing sur-
face at the US Open makes it
possible for competitor s to
practice on the show courts.
“The speed of the new court

they'll have the impact of what
I’ve done or Andre [Agassi] or
Michael [Chang] or Jim [Couri-
er]. I think it goes m odes,” Sam-
pras said. “Spain has been a
country that’s stepped up. al least
in the last couple of years. I still
think the interest in tennis in the
States is very good. Who knows,
in 10 years’ time we might have
four or five young Americans.

“I think all the players are
happy that the new stadium has
been'builL It brings a whole new
feel to the US Open. You know,
Arthur Ashe was a great name
to use for the stadium, so it
should be fun.

One reporter was curious to
know what Sampras’s reaction
was to people who say that ten-
nis can be a victim of his suc-
cess, that when fit and in form
he is too good for the rest. “I
have no reaction," Sampras
said. "Really wbat I want to do
is just go out and try to play arid
win. That's the way I’ve always
approached the game."

That, plus the ability to over-
come numerous setbacks. “Tve
always bad the confidence that
1 can come back or 1 can kind
of deal with some tough stuff,”
Sampras said. “I felt my year
was a little bit up and down till
basically Wimbledon, where I
really played about as well as I
could. That kind of set the
tone for having a good s umm er.

“Just when Grand Slam time
comes around, tire juices start go-
ing and Fm ready to go. I just
have the confidence that if things
aren't going wdLi have the game
to come back. Fve never been in-
secure about my tennis. It's al-
ways nice to have that”

Not to mention the ability to
channel his emotions on the
court. “A lot of it is just my per-
sonality. I’ve always been land of
laid bade, don’t get loo bothered
from things. You know, bad line
calls are just going to happen.

“rve always handled than the
way I am off court You know,
just tty toplay the next point Fve
always tried to be someone that
doesn't lose his composure. It
helps me tea better player. Thai

was kind of the way I was raised,
the way Tm sure TU always be."

Until the goings-on of the last
seven days distorted public per-
ception, cricket and hot tempers
were not concepts that were
readily associated with each
other. But after last week’s
argy-bargy during an ill-
tempered NatWest semi-final
and yesterday's first-innings ban
on Kent’s fast bowler Martin
McCague, for deliberate intim-
idatory bowling, cricket’s fjristine
image has begun to tarnish.

McCague, bowling for Kent
in the first day of their County
Championship match with
Somerset at Taunton, was tak-
en off after just 2.1 overs. Hav-

Derek Pringle says that pitch battles
have long been a part of the game

mg received a warning in his first
rdoing the bouuc-

over for overdoing
er, tbe umpire, Alan Whitehead,
then ordered him off in his
third; his final sequence being

bouncer, bouncer, beamer, the
last two being called no-ball.

Under Law 42& which deals
with short-pitched bowling as a
means of unfair play, the um-
pire, having already warned
the bowler, is quite within his
powers to order the captain to
take him off Whitehead had
previously warned Ian Botham
for much the same thing against
Australia during the Heading-
ley Test of 1985. Botham, how-
ever. did not transgress further,
as McCague did yesterday.

With tins and skirmishes in
general on the increase, due to
the recent hot and humid
weather, it would be tempting

for cricket to lay the blame on
the same doorstep. Convenient,
were it not for the fact that, hid-
den from television - an option
not available to Mark Dott’s and
Robert Croft's shoving match
last week- it has been going on
for donkey’s years.

Before the stripey ties at
Lord’s and elsewhere choke
on their gin and tonics, aggres-
sion is not something that can
be turned on and off at the flick
of a switch. Unlike other team
games, cricket can be distilled
into a series of one to one du-
els. Unsurprisingly then, it can
get personal especially when
one party is gettrag'humiliated

- as McCague was when Rob
Turner took 22 runs off his first
two overs.

While no one condones per-
sistent law-breakers, there are
punishments available and
cricket must not get its knick-
ers in a twist every time some-
thing out of the ordinary
occurs.

As a game that was not so
long ago described as elitist, ex-
dusionist and dull its recent no-
toriety will probably come as a
relief to those who probably
thought you first bad to enrol
at finishing school to play it.

Nobody wants to see yobbish
behaviour on a grand scale, but
if cricketers cant occasionally
show they are human, how on
earth are we going to popularise
the game?

MIKE CAREY

reports from Edgbaston
Warwickshire 252
Worcestershire 20-2

Wells makes Cork and Derbyshire suffer

The Leicestershire opener
Vince Wells, dropped by Do-
minic Cork when he bad made
25, made bottom of the table
Derbyshire pay with a magnifi-
cent 190 at Grace Road yester-
day. Wells' third century of the
season helped Leicestershire to
373 for 7 at the close.

Kevin Curran made the high-
est score of his career to heir

Northamptonshire fight baclt
against Gl;

i lam organ at Aber-
gavenny. The veteran all-
rounder came in at 51 for 3 and
hit an unbeaten 159 as bis side
closed on 302 for 8.

Yorkshire have re-signed the

Australian left-bander Darren
Lehmann on a one-year con-
tract as their overseas player for
next season, and he repaid their
faith with his 11 th innings of 50
or more in 19 Championship in-
nings to put Yorkshire in com-
mand against Sussex at
Scarborough.

The Australian left-hander
built on the advantage forged by
the scamcrs Chris Silverwood
and Paul Hutchison, who
shared the honours as the visi-
tors were bowled out for 157 af-
ter winning the toss. Lehmann
was unbeaten on 63 at the close
as Yorkshire reached 174 for 5.

Some things are easier to fore-
cast than others. The rain, for
instance, which trimmed yes-
terday’s morning session by 22
overs was not foreshadowed by
the experts. David Houghton,
Worcestershire’s coach, was
much nearer the mark when be
said he expected a scam
bowlers’ pitch here.

Neither side would have want-
ed it any other way.Unevenly
grassed, the pitch provided
enough movement and, from
time to time, variations in
bounce for any self-respecting
seamer to have a birthday. War-
wickshire's bizarre batting display
tended to suggest they expected
an unplayable ball any minute.

Alas for Worcestershire. Phil
Newport, who would probably
have made the ball do every-
thing excepi talk, was unfit and
the new ball was in the hands
of Ihe relatively inexperienced
Alamgir Sheriyar and Maneer
Mir/a who. in their anxiotv to

exploit the conditions, found it
hard to put two successive de-
liveries in the right place.

Even so, there was enough go-
ing on for Andy Moles and Nick
Knight, both recovering from
broken fingers, to be justifiably

apprehensive against the new

; Knight's innings was prob- ^
ably no better, though certain- T)

ly no worse, than be feared after
a seven-week absence.

Unsurprisingly, he found tim-
ing elusive. Once he even hur-
riedly look a hand off the bat
He prevailed for 17 explorato-
ry overs, helped by a fair amount
of bowling at his legs, and when
he perished it was to an at-
tempted cut off a ball that
bounced more than be expected

By now. with the ball starting
to swing more than earlier in the
sultry afternoon, the bowlers
had no doubt relaxed and Sberi-
yar often went past the outside
edge with splendid deliveries.

But Warwickshire had long
since embarked on a cheerful i
roller-coaster ride in which
everything off length or line was
heartily thumped away, typified
by Neil Smith's 40 from 67
balls before he fell to the best
of Sieve Rhodes’s four catches.

CRICKET SCOREBOARD

Britannic Assurance
County Championship

First day of four, lLOtoday

Durham v Mhfcflesex

CHESIER-LErSTREED Durham (2ptS) «a
2SS for 6 In tfuir first innings against

Durham non toss
DURHAM - First tanfngs

J J B Lewis Ibw b KsfliS -38

S Hutton c Brawn b Johnson .29

JEMomscGatangb Johnson 0

*D C Boon e Dutch b KalDs

tM P Spe&it c Gatnng b KaBs ..
RMS W6ston c Gatttng b Kale ,
MJ Foster not out

.110

.......9

_.36
— 22

M M Setts not exit

Extras flbT. to5. w2, nM6J —
-fetal (for 4,933 mam).

.30-

Ffcfl: 1-65. 2 -63. 3-131. 4-153, 5-239, 6-
260.

fo bat J Boftng, S J E Brown, A VWsfkar.
Bowling: Fraser 22-6-47-0: Hewn 15-2-
69-0: Kalte ±5568-4: Johnson 17-540-
7i Dutch 123-2-2S-0; Wsehas 9-3-21-0.
MIDDLESEX: J C PbOMy. J H KaS£M W
Ganna o A Shah P N Wastes, tK R Bnam.
K P Dutch, D C Nash. R L Johnson J P He-
wftt, ARC Fraser.

Umpires: B Dudtesun and M J Kttchaa

Henman’s tough draw

DJ Roberts bwbWaq*

R J warren e Shaw b UMon

i Henman has been given a
zh draw in the opening
ad of next week’s US Open
lushing Meadow,
be British No 1 , who missed
ig seeded because his rank-
has slipped to 20 in the
Id, wifi play Thomas Muster,

No 5 seed from Austria.
,reg Rusedski the British
2 , has been more fortunate
he will play the American
id Wheaton, a wild card.

Wheaton was ranked as high as
12 in 1991 and reached the semi-
final of Wimbledon that year but,

after an Achffles fa juiy last year,
he dropped out of the wodtrs tty

100 and is now ranked 142.
However, his form has been
improving recently.

Etete Sampras, tne No l seeo,

faces a qualifier, while tbe No -

seed and feUow-American

Michael Chang wDl play ihe
Swede P&trik Fredriksson.

A Ranfcwn c Maynanl.g Thomas
•R J Bailey c Jamas b Craft —
K M Curran not out

.159

D J G Sales o Maynanl b Waqar .

J P feyiar e Shaw
M AKram run out

M K Davies not out g

(fc4, n&2) —

fefolffora a2orew)... ; ' TV ' J” ?

RaB: 1-08. 2-18, 3-51, 4-123. 5-176, 6-
182, 7-261, 8-298.
fe bat J F Braun. _

aqar 19-4-74-3: Wktfan 1^6-
38-1; Soft 24-3-02-2: foam® 15- 1-80-
Ji Dale 4-0-17-0; Cosker 11-2-27-0. •
GLAMORGAN: S P Janes, * W BaniA
Dale. M J Ftawe*, P Maynard. R P B Cn A

f A D S»W Waqaf feuns S O Thomas. S

LWsMr.DAOosiec

Umfrires: G I BuffieR and A Ctertson.

Leicestershire V Derbyshire

LSCESTBt Leicestershire (4pt9) are 373
for 7 in their first innings against Der-
byshire (3L
LekxstBrshbe won toss
LQCESTERSHRE - First Innkigs

V J Wefts b DeFrsitas ..190

0 L Mad* c Harris b DaFrertss ........ .33

{ J Stflciiffe C & b Cork ~—2

’J J Whitaher c Krtrhen b Hams 61

8 F Smith c Oarive b Harris B

A Habib c May b Deftatas -5

fP A Nixon nor out ......... 34

□ J Mttns st KrMen b DeFrertas 1

Extras {b4. RH3. nb22J * 39

fetal {for 7, 102 ovwra) 373

faa 1-144. 2-175. 3-264, 4-280, 5310.
6-367, 7-373.

fe bat: G J fisreons. J Ormond, ARK Pler-

Bcrefin* DeFratas 31-13-87-4: Cart* 15-
3-77-1; AMiHJ 17-5-600: Hams 154-BB-
2; BackweC 9-4-24-0; Clarke 11-5-20-0.
DERBVSMRfi: A S Rofens, M R May. C J
Adams, KJ Barnett l Blackwell. VP Curie,
tKM Kllkkan. »PAJ DeFrams. DGCvk.
A J Hams, P AkJred.

Umpires; J H Hampshire and G Sharp.

NattUEInBuHravEiMX
WORKSOP: Essex C3jrts) are 319 for 4
ki their first innings against Nottfo*

hams MrattL

gcsK won toss
ESSEX - Fb*t loninfis

*P j Prichard c Noon b Oram ...... 46

DDJ Robinson c Astte b Evans 40

T P Hodgson llMb Astte >-44

S G LatfC Nom b Aftaal — 115

A P Grayson not out -35

Extra* <blD, KG, w4, tA6) ~26

feW (for 4, 1CU overs)-. HU)

Mb 1-94, 2-101. 3-194. 4-288.
fe trab tR J Hours. G R Napm A P Cow-
an. M C Bob. P M Such.

BcwtatfOianj 14-6-51-1: Bans 14-5-26
I?**? 20-534-0; Boren 1&4-5&0; te-
tle 1&4-29-1: Afeaal 16-4- 57-1; Dowmar

a n ->D-Q

rjowmarv N J Asite *P Johnson. U AttW L

AAM«calfo. C M Tic^. Hooa KP

Evans, M N Bowen. A HO*™****

Umpire*: D Constant and JH Hotdet

Somerset v Kant

TAUHTQffc. Somerset «

kt Uwimiat infllflg* «0NMH *a« W-

Somerset non rose

SOMERSET - First tenlnga

tR J Turrwr c Cowdrey b Eaftram —.144

P C L Hoitowry c Ward b Phillips 0

*S C Ecclestone not out 103

M N Lattmefl c Ward b Ealham 26

M E Trescotfuck c Morrfi b Fterrwg ,„.0

M Bums c Weils b Philips 11

G D Rose c Marsh b Fleming 35

S HenSberg not out 6

Extras (bl. 162. nbffl 11

fetal (for B, 104 overs) 338

Bowflng Welch 6-3-11-0: Biomi 5-0-9-

2 .

Umpires: J C BaUerstone and B J Mey-

Fafl: 1-14. 2-73, 3-76. 4-93. 5-148. 6-
315.

lb bat: A P van Traost, Mushtaq Ahmed.
KJSMna.

Bowfirtf MeGa&re 2.1-0-22-0. PfcApsJO-
5-74-2; Eatem 24 .58- 58-2; Renting 25
2-83-2: Strang 258-780: Wefc 52-180.
KENT: D P Futon. E T Smith. T R Ward, A
P Weils. G R Cowdrey M A Ealham. M V
Fleming, t*S A Marsh, P A Strang, m j
M cCague. B J Phftkps.

Umpires: R A White and A GT Whitehead.

Warwicks v Worcestershire
BKBASrDN: Worcestershire (4pts) are
20 tar 2 fe reply to a ftret-innhigi total
oT 252 by WhrwfckaKre (2J.
Vterv/fckshtre won toss
VMRWICKSHRE- First budnpi

*N V Knight c Rhodes b Shenyar 20

A J Motes c Rhodes b Shenyar .25

D L He mu c mmgwortti b Musa .........25

M A Waghc Moody b Mraa 82

T L Rainey c Curtis b Lampm 0

N M K Smith c Rhodes b Moody ...-.40

D R Brown c Rhodes b Shenyar 8

G Welch b Mura - 38

A F Giles (bw b Lamprtt -20

tK J Piper not out - 4

M A V Bell tow b Mina -...0

Extras (04, HjB. i*8, nb20) ...-.40

fetal ooera)

Yorkshire v SttSMOC
SCARBOROUGH: forkaMne (4ptsV with

Sussex mn toss
SUSSEX- First Innings

M T E Peirce Uw b Hutchison 2

R K Rao Ibw b 5<Nenvooa O

N R Isylor b White 57

M Newell not out -.62

K Newell c Hamilton b Hutchison 13

*fP Moores Ibw b Siberwood 7

PW Jotvw Ibw b Sitoerwood l

J J Bates ibw b Hutchison 0

A A Khan ibw b Hurchbon — 0

AD Edwards bS*rerwood 1

M A Robmson b Hutchison .0

Extras ml. toll. n02) 14

fetal (51-2 overs) 157

FaH: 1-3. 2-3. 3-102. 4-125. 5-138. 5
150. 7-151. 5151. 9-156.

Bowftng: Stfcenwad 15-3-27-4; HutctHSon
13.2-5-48-5; Hamilton 5-0-12-0; Stamp
12-3-350: White 50-20-1.

YORKSMRE - First Innings

A McGrath Ibw b Robinson .33

M P Vaughan c Peirce b Jonns .......9

*D Byas c M Newell b Jams 17

D S Lehmann not out 63

Fi* 1-48. 2-53. 3-111. 4-115. 5-133.
5146. 7-197, 5238, 5246.

Bowflnr Shenyar 153-453; Muza 16-
4-51-4: Moody 16-4-56-1: Lamwtt 17-
3-60-2: romewonh 34>-12-0; Leatherdate
2-0-150.

WORCESTERSHRE - First Mitt*

T S Curtis ibw b Brawn - .6

W P C Weston c Moles b Brown J2

R K Illingworth not out 5

G A Hick not out 7

Extras O

fetal (tar 2. Uom) ISO

Ft* 1-8. 2-9.

TODAY’S

NUMBER

C White c Moores b K Newell 34

8 Parker ibw b Ro&nson 0

C E W Sherwood not out .8

Extras Ilb2, nbS| 10

fetal (for 5. 51 overs) 174

Eafc t-23. 2-45. 572, 4-154, 5158.
fe Bat tR J Biakev, G M Hanufton. R D
Stamp, P M Hutch eon.

Bowling: Jams 12-3-452; Edwards 4-0-
11-0; Khan 53-26-0: Bates 14-540-0;
Robinson 9-1-41-2: K Newell 4-2-5 1.
Umpires: J 0 Bond and 0 R Shepherd.

Third women’s One-day
International
England v South Africa
LORD'S: England beat South Africa by
wewn wicket*.

(South Africa won lass)

SOUTH AFRICA

L Oliwe» run out 57

0 Herd Ibw b Radfem 3

»D fcrWanche b Taylor _..0

H Dames st Cassar b Srrethies IS

K Lamg run out 3

*K Price c Cassar b Smithies 0

A Burger c & b Smitraes 1

R Stoop c & 0 Leng 21

Ahotzerunout - 11

C Eksteen c Taylor b Reynard 6

A Bezuteenhout not out 1

Extras 0)6. Ibl. *»5. f*l) 13

fetal (4fL3 Mm] ry

Fsfc 1-19'. 2-22, 576. 4-86. 590. 6-92,
7 92. 5117. 9-133.

Bowftng: Tbytor 51-351: Redeem 51-15

1: Smithies 10-515-3; Connor 10-1-22-
0: Leng 51-21-1; Reynard 7.51-21-1.

ENGLAND

C M Edwards b Eksteen 4

H C Plimmer b Eksteen _1G

B A Daniels run out 53

J S Metcalfe not out 49

?J Cassar not out j

Extras 102. Ib4. «d) 10

fetal (tar 3, 403 overs)

Fatal-a. 2-43, 3- 102.

-135

Did not hoc *K Smnmes. K M Ler*. M A
Reynard. CJ Connor. S Redfem. C E Tay-
lor.

Bowfttt Kctee 51-37-0: Eksteen 155
10-531-

0: Rad 3-1-13-0.

Umpires: Mrs V Gtobens and Mrs A
Roberta.

Howe Dunam

2m3iM A Roseoeny 51). Sussex 86 for 0.
•®^ 1 , ^ n ^ N ^'»npim5hK-33ifar9
lerno. 1 D Fisher 599i York-
"Jwel8 for O OM Traffont Lancashire 271
J 1 H ayngs 66. R R Dibden 4- 7; v Hampshire.

Ctoucosiersnffi 213 tor
14 2»- Tedrflngtoo (Tbe Umz-
fow Otab): Mdrleses 230 W W Laraman 66.
lv» f S5 t2n « u S 587). Oamoman

,M K Palmer 51. W LLaw 50, RA
Fay 4«3j.

Sta rting today

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Sheriyar, M M Mirra.

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residents who said in a sur-
vey that they plan to attend
the 2000 Olympic Games in
the city. The survey also
found that 31 per cent of
Australians outside the city
also plan to attend the i
Games.

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Britain's Greg Rusedski, now up to No 23 in the world, plays a backhand volley in his three-set defeat of Mikael Tillstrom, of Sweden, in the Boston Opm on Tuesday

Photograph: Victoria Arochc/A P

Ballesteros keeps wild cards dose to chest

Golf

ANDY FARRELL
reports from Straffan,
Co Kildare ' '

* i i

White Tom agonised ewer his

two Ryder Cup wild-card selec-
tions, only deciding last Sunday
over dinner wilh his wife and vice-
captain, his one consolation was
that he was not Seve Ballesteros.

The question of bow Eu-
rope’s captain is going tn

squeeze three of his best play-
ers - Nick Ealdo, Jose Maria
OlazabaJ and Jesper ParnevOc -
into two positions has been
vexing most people, including
those likely to make up the
team. But not Ballesteros. He
has already made up his mind.

Ballesteros does not have to
announce his final two until the
10 automatic places arc filled at
the end of next week’s BMW In-
ternational in Munich. Instead
of waiting until the following

Monday to reveal all. Balles- down to 125th on the qualifying
teros wfl] wait only 45 minutes list can still make the team,
after the tournament finishes, mathematically speaking.

Ballesteros said he made up
his mind prior to last week's
USPGA, when Faldo and Olaz-
ahal missed the cut on 13 and 12
over par respectively. Unlike Fal-
do and ftunevflc, OlazabaJ can
still qualify and is playing in the
Smurfil European Open, which
starts today. With £141,660 for
the winner here and a first prize
of £125,000 in Munich, anyone

More realistically, itistbepos-
abflifyof his countryman, who is
12th in the standings, making the.
team automatically that Balles-
teros was clearly referring to
when be said: “One thing is for
sure, I expect the situation to
change in the next two weeks.

“If the situation ends as it is
right now, I have already made
up my min d. And if the situa-

tion changes, I have made up
my mind. It is a secret until 31
Avgust. It is not a dilemma, it
is very simple."

Asked whether he would be
taking into account Faldo’s per-
formance in the World Series
this week in Ohio, Ballesteros
added: “Whatever happens, it
is not going to make a differ-
ence." Having swapped his play-
er’s hat, the one he can’t hit for
toffee, for his captain's som-
brero, Ballesteros was in much

improved spirits. When probed
further, he replied: "Do you
think you are Col umbo?”

Unless Ballesteros, who con-
firmed he wfll definitely not pick
himself and named Miguel An-
gel Jimenez as his vice-captain,
was all red herrings, there were
enough dues for even Dumbo to
work it out What he would like
is for Olazabal to qualify auto-
matically, leaving him free to pidc
Faldo and Paraevik. If not, it
could be Faldo and Oliie.

Should Faldo get the nod,
Colin Montgomerie expects to
partner him after Ballesteros
paired them for a shoot-out at
Wentworth which they won.
Montgomerie beat Phil Mick-
elson in a made for television
match in Colorado on Monday,
then flew home on Concorde on
Tuesday. But his luggage was
lost flying to Dublin yesterday
and he went to the pro shop and
spent £120 on a shirt and
trousers to play in the pro-am.

Halifax’s
denial on
McAlpine
move

Rugby League

DAVE HADF1ELD

Halifax have denied reports
that they are in talks with Hud-
dersfield aimed at basing a
merged dub at the McAlpine
Stadium. .Marriage brokers
have hinted at a wedding be-
tween Halifax, with their Super
League status, and their West
Yorkshire neighbours, with
their state-of-the-art ground.

Halifax announced on
Sunday that their match against
Oldham was “probably" the
last league game at their anti-
quated Thrum Hall ground,
but that says their chief exec-
utive, Nigel Wood, is because
their plan to move in with Hal-
ifax Town FC at The Shay is still
alive, despite repeated delays.

"There is no dialogue be-
tween us and Huddersfield,"
Wood said "We are going to The
Shay. There should be an an-
nouncement within 14 days and
we should be playing there next

season. We are pursuing a future
as a stand-alone Super League
club. We have had a bad couple
of months, but we don’t see Hud-
dersfield as the way forward.

“The delay with The Shay has
been to make sure that we will
be moving to something belter
than we have got now."

A Rugby League rescue
squad of three arrived at Cen-
tral Park yesterday to help
Wigan through the crisis trig-
gered by the resignation of the
dub’s chairman. Jack Robinson.

The RFLs vice-chairman and
finance kingpin. Roy Waudby.
along with the finance director,
Tony Eaglelon, and its legal ad-
visor, Ronnie Teeraan, were
assessing the situation.

Among the financial com-
mitments they may look at
askance is the huge contract
under which Denis Betts is due
to return to the dub next season.

The League's chief executive.
Maurice Lindsay, has already
been highly critical of what it will
cost to bring Betts home from
Auckland and the team from
headquarters could argue that
it is irresponsible in the club’s
current plight.

The first tour of the United
Slates by a British representa-
tive side is to take place next
month when Great Britain Stu-
dents play three matches there.

Players from all four home
nations are in a squad that will
play two matches against stu-
dent opposition, followed by
one against the fill! international
line-up. the USA Tomahawks. "

SPORTING DIGEST

Bullets and
Giants look
to States

Basketball

.4*

Manchester Giants and Birm-
ingham Bullets hope they made
their last transatlantic transac-
tions of the summer yesterday,
when they completed their ros-
ters with new Americans for the
Budweiser League season be-
ginning on 13 September, writes
Richard Thylon
The Giants' new coach, Jim
Brandon, who left Sheffield
Sharks earlier in the summer,
hag signed the 6ft 4 in, 22 -year-
old guard Brett Larrick, one of
the leading scorers in the top
college division with Charleston
Southern University. The Bul-
lets’ new coach, Mike Finger,
fag signed H L Coleman, one
of the top 10 rebounders in col-
lege basketball last season.

Baseball

AMERICAN LEAGUE: TtOTWO 6 Crtcagp White
te Soa5 Tororv

S® 5 [fas game); Cfacaga White Sat !
ta 3 (second): Botamore 12 Kansas Guy 9 ifcs
game): Kansas City 9 Batamqie 2 isecond): Da-
re* 8 Minnesota 2 MrWautee 8 Te*as 2-. Ana-
hean l2Ne*/loiKVwilee»4: Qewoland 7 Seanfe
5. Postponed: Soslan v Oakland.

NATIONAL LEAGUE: Ftemda 8 Chicago Qite 1 ;
CncnnaU 6 Colorado 5; St Lour 12 Montreal
5: San ftenesco 9 PWadeWna 5; Pntstnwgh
5 San Diego 3; Log AngNra 4 New YOdi Mots
2: Atlanta 4 Houston 3.

Bowls

MEN'S AU. ENGLAND CHMaPIWtSMPS (Wor-
thing): Fares championship aemi-faafc.'
SMndon Westeeot IM t%*r. T Samson. M Big-
as. S Warren} bt Ctovedon. Somerset ts With-
ers. R HedreK. P BranfiekL G Uteri 28-5;
Bnd 0 WKr BO. Somerset (B SmrttL M Oases.
R Bfe®on, D Fwfcaw ta Ranowth Mines Wel-
fare, Notts ID Thompson, R Swenson. N RAa-
phv. R Denes) 23- 13. Final: SwwJon weatecct
bt Bnd&rator BCL 19-15.

(HESN/UJLS WATERLOO HANDICAP [Btadc
poeQ Fourth round wtanere: S Couoe (Waton
iaDalei, B Wettfr 1 (WaongmnX S Ctap eland ifty
toni. M Chapman (Btochbumi, J Rtcftarason
(Startorth). J Gurney (NoniMClij. J Dodgon
iFdnnbyJ. F Adams l Btackpooh. C SWer
ley], T Johnstone iWamnponi.

Football

Onfonl United, who were hoping to mow
into a new £20m stadium this summer;
will have to wart at least untfl next Au-
gust after an unnamed financial teeter
pulled out Robin Herd, the chairman,
told the club's AGM: "The stadium win
be built - 1 Just can't promise when.’
Napoii, the Italian Fret Division cfcii, are
to seefc a Stock Exchange listing m Lon-
don in the near future. The dub's ad-
ministrator; Qanmarco Innocent, said:

"There are fewer restrictions there

than in our country.' Ha added that af-
ter ysaxs in the red, the dub was in the
black last year.

FIFA WORLD RANKINGS: 1 Brazil 7L93pCK 2
Span G&20; 3 Derma* 61 -S3: 4 Genrnrre
60.es ; 5 Ruus 60.41; 6 Nanedanda 6039;
7 England 59.92: 8 Italy 59.45: 9 Menco 5906:
ID Colombia 58.77. Selected: 28 Scotland
52.67: E5 RepuBbc of Ireland 44.01; 71 North-
ern tretano 3&S7. 91 Wales 33.05.

FA CARUNG PR£MERSHH> Rearranged Bx-
tuw wad 22 Oct Derby Ooirty v WmHedon
itiCTn Wee 13 Augj.

TRANSFER: Grey Clayton inreJfteMert PMnoilh
to tpujuai ifteei.

proposal tabled by the amateur ckite
suggesting a format by which their sa-
nrormenberscouW process to the pro-
fessional The talcs ««re endorsed
by a special meeting of dubs last
Wednesday and wifi present the first
pro-am competition in the game's
history.

Rugby Union

TOUR MATCH
land SchoobS

Are*):Queens-

Schoofe IS Group 54.

Cycling

Johan Muses uw, the Bdgan world
champion, is to miss Sunday's Grand

Prix of Switzerland World Cup race be-
cause of poor form. Museeuw is to re-
turn to competition in next week's four
of the Nethertands and graduaHy gear
up for the World Championships in San
Sebastian, Spain, m early October and
the Paris-fouis World Cup race on 5 Oc-
tober.

Golf

BRITISH WOMEN'S OPENSTROKE PLAY
CHAMPrOHSWtSaoa on TOKjrel

(Den). 72 LIa|tfTC*re(Nt«ticMW.E Wrote Mid*-

!«l. 73 H Monagsin ilrettHtty). 74L Mack-
ay iGofc^ei. 78 P SoMfen rNZl.

Swimming

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (SOV»C, Sp):

Men: 100m buUrerty. Heat On* 1 M &*x®)

IPod 57.09SOC: 2 M Bacas Him) 57 38; 3 P

MacCanhy m 57.43: 4 Iflwda (CzRep)

57.73: S dearth IW) 59-86; 8 GOgiz Hurt

5SD8. Hoot Foot: IFEspoaWJ (ft) §3.45:2

T Rupprafli iGert 54.00: 3 M Keczmarek tPofi

& 43 a 4 E C Greumi Osrt 54SU E S Pany (GB}

5438; 6 J«ckmar(GBI 55.03:7 JRFoman

t*s (Sp) 5627. Hn«± 1 L Ftolander fEkm) 5235;

2 0 Stanoat (Urt S3Z7: 3 F EacuutJ tHI 53JB:

4 V KiAov mus) 5184: 5 T tappratfl IGert

534W; G D PBnimw (Rusl 5400: 7 M Racr-

msrek (Fog 5449: B P Honetn {HiW 5451.

400minMikBlia«ila)rflnatlMWuda(MEdv

4:15^8: 2 FHwd iSp) 4cme8: 3 R SettttGert

420.43: 4 X Marfatsnd fFrt 421.64: 8 1 Bat-

tan (Hun] 421.93: 8 U Vt* IGert 4-23.76; 7

J Srernen (Fin) 4^459; 8 K Cac iCroa)

43536. «wttaH>ww;iareaBn

7S15C ip Palmer, A CJoyton. G Meadow. J

Sasert; 2 Nethertands 7:1734: 3 Germany

7:1836: 4 Kaly 7JSJ7: 5 Maria 731.45c B

Swzertano 73877. oteq ue M otf- Suieden.

(Dan) 23230: 2 A BUSChSChufee (Cart 2TO2L53:

3 jafem (Sue) 202.14; 4 S FtaMs (Frt

203.79; SV Homer (GBI 2TO4 J* 8 SPapuHr
(5Mt) 20&28: 7P StokJes (Nah) 2D9J& Ft-

nafclUDe Bhin Ori) 1:50.93; 2 N Oiemeai-

wi (Rus) 1*9^7: 3 C Roiec (Romj 2faU7:4

M Moravcow) (Sta*l 20034; 5 KHetpss (Get)

2TO038: 8 K PUemg (GB) 2K3L02 7 0 la-

punoua (llto) 2:01.11c 8 J Ut>w&> (Swe)

2Dl-4a glHHn liiueetiuta lnat 1 A to-acs

(H«i) 23490 lEuropem record}-, 2 A Reczak

(POO 23BD4 3 B Beeue m 23a90; 4 1 Moth
na (Ufa) 239.76: B J King KSbr) 23032; BA

Pakula (Gert 230.40: 7 K Bramend (Ft)

230.65: 8 L Hntnanh (GB 23L68. 3m bean!

qmdiKMlsed Mof 1 C Bochner and C

Scnmalfuss (Gar) 287.94xc 2 1 Lasfao and Y

PoUhaflra mo) 26424 ; 3 i Cub and D S«*

(Sp) 24420: 4 J 5chgaaef and C MaBev Aiao-

W (Smq 23409: 5 J Sirarti end K 5nwh (GB)

22CL&5; 6 F iTOrbno and P Elo (tu 225_15; 7

5 Por«hiB_anC jCFeiMay ffW 2130avWterjiol<K

: Cteaace 6 Spen 7 Q-2 :

L-2 ewra tana period 1-21

Biodanan (Swe) bt C Coda (Sp) 6-2 6-0: M Goe4
nor (Gert fct M Woodtaide (Aua) 3-6 8-4 8-2 J
Alonso (Par) bt C Ifeud (Non 3-6 &4 60; M Roa-
set IS**} tt 0 Vaoeh 4-6 6-3 6-2; N Lapentd
(Eu bt J StemeiMi (Nedi) 7-6 6-4
US WOMEN'S HARDOOURT CIUMPfOMSWPS

(Attaadai} SMn,tnt retted: Y BasUo 0 ndon)

K M Bad iGar) 6-4 7-6; 0 van RDon (Bel) M

A Miter (IIS) 6-1 6-3; S Fanna (It) tx M hblee-

«a (BU) 6-3 7-€c H Tfaraat (FH H A Carfeeon ISw)

&4 6 J; P Schmder ISwit) M F Labot (Arg) 6-3

8-2; B ScfajItz-MoCarthy (Netfi) tt P Hy-Boutais
(Can) 7-6 7-6.

LXA SUMMER SAmUTE (Have at} Sk«hs,

qaerteruBaaM: C VMonson (GB) bt L Buuiacota

(Aus) 6-4; j Fm (GB) H A FMW(AU81 4-6

7-6 7-5: N Gotid (GBI la C SneB (Aua) 7-5 7-5:

P Hand (GBI lx A Renner (GEO 67 7-6 6*3. Dou-

blet final: T fcftchell and A Patntar (Am) bt B
Cown and C Mhnson (GBj 7-6 1-6 6-3.
BRtlKH NMlOfML JUNKM CtMMPWNSHPS
(NottbigbB^; Begs IS and wdan Dtd rmnd:

R Alexander (HaiB wdshw ii 4-6 Ml &-0; B
McLaren (Sco) fat 0 Haldenby (SufWW 6-5 1 «.
Blrta 18 and under: Tfatfd raundS J White
(NtxttBmptDnshlrei fat L CwtMCft iVtaiwctefaBe)
7-5 63:Sl4XtaRlSonianeubtCStrr«(]Budi-
■^Jfaamfihffel 6-2 6-4; C Coombs (Kent) bt K
Vjmwa) ISurey) 4-6 7-fi 63: T CaloHr (Ltd-
dtesert bt N Wontnae (Hortofli) 63 61; C
Sad (Loceseerahisi bt H Farr (Surrey) 3-6 62
62; H Rteesby (Ncrasi bt E Metcantame (MA-
dhseO 6-1 67 M: L Herten (CWontetwe) bt
KGfioa (Hens) 62 61; H Cottn (Sumy) bt L

TidTjchbantfi iEssbi 6^0 63. 14 and under
IXrfn] eomfe M Beey 'Sufic*} tt A Bkw< ile<m
wramrei 6-4 64 ; } Smcn I Surrey i m E iTTeto-
fe^Smah (Gkxttesierelarei 60 2-6. 62 C Gunn
(Hampslwei bt G lore (Sune,-i 62 64; j
OUancighue HancasAnei re A Sorer. iWJVine.
62 64; K lyietal (Surey) K L Oaeoer i StaBonJ-
shrei 61 64: A Barnes iCambndjeshaei b: '
A Hawtuns (V-torueT 6-4 6-4: L Deeter/ irort-si
fat H Trenbua rionnumDerlandr 63 61: A
textarong (M>d(nese» K L Remn&He iHcrs,-

Isniris

US OPBi CHAMPtONSHPS (NowYoik, Marta

Hundred 5elacted men'a Am* (seeding and

Senens OIS) (U w preMec V Spodeo

D Sherwood (Ytortahra) bt M Tiudaon iCom-
[Ctedawbt D Kier-

Konta (Cz Rep)J15)r G Kuenen IBre)

“ (FSvCMoyalWB):

(US) w

(9) v ksMbt, G Rboik

G hremBeinc (Cme) (4] v D Pescerti (Romj; G
RwadEio |G 8 ) vD Wheaton (US); FMsntMa ISpj
02 ) u J SnotartWE (Aua); M Rosaet (Sant) vA

Bpt MJi Mreter (Are) 15) y 7 Henman

t *** iug wTQreret^MB) Hi); PMer

(Aus) Ll3tvA Medvedev (Uo): OueMervYKMd-

> (Rus) (3); S Bruajera (Sp) (7) ir

lRKBraitte)(M»:A"

racing results

KEMPTQN

BJO: LKiraDIIBW (RSrran) 3-ljtfai7
2,-ffcst^hAan 4-1; 3. ZWfO 3 m lJCJ&»7
3-.'- (R Ttennom Trtf*

- £2 00, £2-50. Duai Cbrecssc £5-90-. Com-
surer Snag* Fo •ease £13.6 3 -
t»imi DE DANSE (R
2. MtoUes PMi lO-L' 3. SatMeM* »»
w.T»*l U-4 tn Da B«s- iU
mil Tire- £15-00. £3^0- 0-00.

. pc- £tfid.fiQ. CST: £ 1 49 - 10 - Tivr £166.40.

“issriss

£Hj 90 . CSF: £17.82. Tncasc £77.K. Tntr

a iAOi 1. PHYliDA li Qusnn) 3-1 tt fav; 2.
Superbeffe 4-1; 3. Rhw ofFomnre3- 1 TI
STs ran. l l U IP MaWil. To!*: «£:

S-mTa.™: £L5a of: £730. csf.-

£14.36.

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MG UUtt £1-30- ta - 30 -

Hme. Nonhea5tBmao- U*«e ^ ^

bm. deducwn5£4ifte put*.'

CARTMEL

620: 1. WfiH LOW (l* C Banned 11-8;

8. 5. (M HammontP. ~ta»: 10-

ft in. df: £10.60. CSF: £17.40. NonRun-

'*5^1. < E^YMt»MNe UOm (ADOD-
tvD 11-4; 2. Sabot 7be Boy 5-^3. B *,° f
AP h— ll-l. 8 1 ma. 7-4 tai'Andr&W- l^ -.
■/j. (G Richards). T*te £3^0: £1.70, £1.90.

ansesssstft

16r4“raiv 3. 20. OQ-Sheal- Trt*s £130.

**** CL7 °'

1. 12i*ft-Mt.Z r-ja 9Q. CSF:

g&S£S8*H&a

LEICESTER

QQBKAE (C loather) 7-1: 2. VSO-

nr. ti Try CSF: £3.70.

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soni 10-1; 2- Bondoanw 4-5 tw: a. csbk
jjriUAurtttt 7-2. 4 ran. 'A. to**™ 1

To«k £8-50. DF: £B3Q- CSF: £1939-
7j2tt l. FBNnarwre «WIHBR
Guesu 2-H 2. KaowWto U-IO** 1
Brook. 161. 5 nan- JVs
7MK £2.90: £1-80. £1-70. OF: £190. CSr .

£4.85.

®£2 sSamse

| Singspiel must master US star
Gentleman before he can be
crowned world champion as far as

i. l! RUSSIAN HOUSO .
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an MR Fbrer-

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dKarokm of the wodiT bv Franl^

Dettori after his victory th the Juo-

dmonte IntemationaL betas on^
advanced to joim-top in the offi-
cial ratings. Siogspid shares pole
it 6 SiMt-ra 'cid.WfSLW- position with his Kup George \ i
1rtcr And Queen Elizabeth Stakes con-

^SwamfWkNring^defear

X 2. of Desert King, Bemrv The Dip

'S^iS^SSL w- 90 - * and Basra Sham on Tuesday.

6.40: 3.

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'£4nn,aht-M r*. >P

rOOIS

VERNONS: Treble Chance: 24pt» £6703400.
23 £77640. 22 £68.50.

ZErratS: Treble Chance: 24in £21067. 10.
23 £10445. 22 £7 00. 21 90p.

BfOTTENS; Deble chance: 23pts £2D7JO. 22
£2.45. 21 £0.40.

twnchronliaddhlnriJHwnpelandM

s (Gtt) 30004KK 2 1 loJiwNn and A Var-

r tkus) 273M-. a G Ernptt-lacota and F

LSmhh (Aus) vM RosTCtide) (U»: A Coaa ISpi

UjBi v a Boetscti (Fh; P Fredrfhasm Mvu

Chang (US) (2). 1

lamov mo) 272MK 3 G ErnploMacota end I

Plena (W 252J2; 4 L tajtcr and P Warerfleld

iG8) 24R2S: B N Marconi and C leone TO

243J5. Water polo: Stb-lOtti place play-off:

Gremany 7 Nethertanos 10 (63 3-2 2-2 2-3L

' - - ' " 1 5 Greece 4 (2-0 0-11-

A Oonena (Spj bt F Oarer I5p> 63 6-4 F Man-

tfla CSp)M J A Vdoca (Sp} 6-3f

ta DHitay tSkneh) 62 6% G%«edM Iffl)

K M Tasman (See) 61 3-6 63: D VtaiSchep-

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Rugby League

The First and Second Division fieaoa-
atron is to stage its first formal meet-
ing wttti representatives of the British
Amateur Rugy League Association on
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Cricket

DEREK PRINGLE

With both the series and the
Ashes gone to Australia, it is
inevitable that the final Corn-
hill Test match starting today
at the Oval will be dominated
by speculation over the un-
certain futures of the two cap-
tains. Contrasting as their
teams' fortunes have been,
there remains a distinct possi-
bility that after this lest neither
mU lead their country again.

Which just goes to prove
that win or lose, cricket, for all
its sepia-tinted nostalgia, does
not discriminate between
victor and vanquished.

This summer could not have

progressed more differently for
Michael Atherton and Mark
Taylor. The Australian captain
and his team began in the dol-
drums; the leader, according to

3 at the start of the tour, had
er form nor a future. But
while his team struggled and
eventually lost at Edgbaston,
Taylor plumbed the depths of
his inne r resources and ca up
with the hundred that would buy
him the tune to get his side back
to business. It did not take
long and, once they remem-
bered how to win, their effi-
ciency was almost surgical in its
precision.

Atherton, on the other hand,
saw England begin their cam-
paign deed perfect, as Aus-
tralia were dispatched in both

the one-day series and the first
TfesL Suddenly, though, expec-
tation caught-up with them and
the true pressures of Test crick-
et - the need for relentless con-
sistency -were brought to bear.
As in the past against sides that
can exert constant pressure,
they were found wanting and
three Tests were lost in succes-
sion.

But if the paths to an un-
certain future are divergent
ones, Thylor has the most to lose
by being stood down. Captain
or not, Atherton is still Eng-
land’s most reliable and tech-
nically proficient batsnan and,
injury permitting, has at least
another three years of Test
cricket in him. On the other/
hand, Taylor, without the cap-

taincy and Dearly 33, will almost

certainly never play for

Australia again

However, if his own future is
something Thylor can contem-
plate at leisure when he gets
home from this tour, he could
still empathise with Atherton.
“1 have a lot of feeling for
Athens,” Thylor said after net
practice yesterday. ^Whether it's
right or wrong, the captain car-
ries the can. What I don't as-
cribe to is that by changing the
ca ptain, or changing the coach
or the team, you are going to
change the way things are go-
ing. Cricket just doesn't work
like that.”

/* These will be heartening

’ words to Atherton, who will
contemplate his own future af-

ter this Test is finished. With
England’s good record at the
Oval - 13 wins to Australia’s five
- many will be hoping a repeat
of England’s victory there
against the Aussies four years
ago (coincidentally, Atherton’s
first win as cap tarn) will help
persuade him to remain in
charge for this winter's tour to
the West Indies.

**A win here will be the best
way to finish the series,’' Ather-
ton said yesterday, although
he added that it would be dif-
ficult to say whether it would
have any bearing on his even-
tual decision regarding the cap-
taincy.

After the coach David
Lloyd's frank criticism of his
team’s performances on Tues-

day, England nevertheless have
a good chance of saving some
face and recording their second
victory of the series.

Stm, it will not be easy. Tay-
lor admitted that, with the rub-
ber dead, theirs was not a
“must-win situation 7 ’. That said,
his side, despite the absence of
two frontline bowlers, were
professional cricketers who play
for Australia and would still be
“turning up".

Being a Test match, the oc-
casion will not lack for com-
bativeness and both sides have
new faces who have much, to
play for.

If Shaun Young, Glouces-
tershire's Tasmanian oversea s
player, and Mike Kasprowicz
get their chance to mate a be-

lated point to their tour selec-
tors, England’s returning play-
ers, Mark Ramprakash, Phi
Tufnell and (should Dean
Headley’s bruised ankle still be
painful) Peter Martin, all have
. tour places' to compete for.

For Ramprakash, a stellar if
frustratmgly . under-achieving
talent at Test level, the stakes
could not be higher. After .19
Tests, he will know that few are
granted the reprieve of resum- .
ing a Test career with a batting
average of just 16.6. ,

As he captain said yesterday:
“He has to play for the here and
now as well as the years to
follow." . ....

. With the positive endorse- .
meats of all those around hftn,
Ramprakash must convince

Rowell leaves
red faces at
Twickenham

CHRIS HEWITT

Rugby Union Correspondent

Jack Rowell, the most success-
ful club coach in the history of
the English gam e and no mean
performer at Test level, yester-
day called time on bis three and
a half year career at the helm of
the national team and left those
Rugby Football Union officials
responsible for a shabby and
squalid high summer
denouement to face the conse-
quences of their actions. The
chastened inhabitants of Twick-
enham's corridors of power
must now conjure a replacement
bora thin air. haring failed to
find one in the shadowy spaces
behind Rowell's back.

Rowell informed leading
figures on the national playing
committee yesterday afternoon
of his decision to relinquish his
position with effect from
Sunday week, when his current
part-time contract expires.

Almost exactly 48 hours
previously Ian McGeechan, the
former Scotland coach who
guided the Lions to victory in
South Africa in June, had re-
jected an official offer to fill
Rowell’s shoes, leaving his
Twickenham tempters almost
knock-kneed with embarrass-
ment.

Having failed to lure their
preferred choice and lost their
incumbent as a direct result of
their hole-in-the-coraer tactics
- it would be stretching creduli-
ty to suggest that the approach
to McGeechan did not hasten
Rowell's departure, whatever
diplomatic face the Twickenham
spin-doctors attempt to apply to

the situation - the RFU find
themselves in the prickliest of
positions. England are sched-
uled to play 13 internationals
over the next 10 months, start-
ing with gentle aut umn run-outs
against New Zealand, South
Africa and Australia, and unless
Bob Dwyer, the former Wrila-
by World Cup-winning coach
can be persuaded out of the re-
maining year of his contract at
Leicester, they will be forced to
place their farth in an untried,
untested rookie.

Dwyer was sounded out dur-
ing last season’s Five Nations'
Championship - a tournament
Rowell came within 20 sloven-
ly minutes against the French of
winning in Grand Slam style -
but there was no follow-up. In-
stead, the RFU went after
McGeechan and Graham Hen-
ry, the hot-streak tactician be-
hind the Super 12 champions,
Auckland. Rowell was fully
aware of both initiatives and
opted to keep his counsel, but
private conversations with col-
leagues and acquaintances on
Moadav left them in no doubt
as to the depth of his anger and
frustration.

Phil de Glanrille. the Bath
centre appointed by Rowell as
England captain nine months
ago, was saddened but not re-
motely surprised by yesterday's
news. "He’s been thinking this
over for some time," he said.
“He’s a shrewd man." Like
Rowell, De GlanviHe diplomat-
ically kept the lid on his feelings
but along with most of the Eng-
land squad, he quietly articulat-
ed bis disgust at his mentors’
treatment on more than one oc-
casion during the summer.

The RFU will almost certainly
attempt to explain Rowell’s de-
parture by citing his unwilling-
ness to compromise a
spectacularly lucrative man-
agement consultancy career by
taking on a full-time role with
England and, indeed, Rowell
may seek the quiet life by fol-
lowing that particular line him-
self, at least in public. But as one
England insider pointed out on
Monday before McGeechan ’s
decision had been announced:
“There is nothing to stop Jack
combining the two halves of his
life. That is not the issue. The
issue lies at Twickenham with the
people who have undermined
him. They know who they are.”

If Fran Cotton, Bill Beau-
mont and the rest of the new
RFU hierarchy decide against
reopening negotiations with
Dwyer or, indeed, Henry or
McGeechan, they may opt to
appoint a senior and well-re-
spected rugby figure as manager
and pair him with a young, en-
thusiastic coach. Roger Uttley,
a member of Beaumont’s 1980
Grand Slam-winning side and
a key figure in the coaching
team that led England to the
World Cup Final six years ago,
would be an obvious candidate
for the management role.

Among the coaching con-
tenders. Clive Woodward of
Bath would bring the most
visionary qualities to a job cry-
ing out for an ideas man while
Richard H3L who played under
Rowell at Bath before starting
a successful coaching stint at
Gloucester, is highly thought of
in RFU circles for his deep
commitment and strong work
ethic.

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De Bruin’s sour success

Swimming

JAMES PARRACK
reports from Seville

Just as the European Champi-
onships burst into life on the
second day of competition in
Seville yesterday, Ireland’s
Michelle de Bruin, formerly
Michelle Smith, threatened to
suffocate them.

Britain won their second gold
in the men’s 4.t200m freestyle re-
lay and set two British records
but the con novelty surrounding
De Bruin continues to dominate
the championships. Yesterday
she won her second title in the
women’s 200m freestyle and
appears unstoppable in her
march towards an unprece-
dented five gold medals.

Such is foe speculation of
drug use that national records
of other participating countries
have been overshadowed. De
Bruin, who has always denied
using drugs and has never foiled
a drugs test, has been foe cen-
tre of controversy ever since
winning three Olympic gold
medals In Atlanta. It has also

been suggested that she is a pup-
pet to her husband, Erik.

The saga began here on Sun-
day when Erik was called to ex-
plain to LEN , foe European
governing body, why he fraudu-
lently gained access to doping
control in Vienna two years ago.
On Monday. Michelle was not aF
lowed to enter one event (her en-
try was after the deadline) and
withdrew from another. On foe
same day. aD her entry times were
thrown out because they were
done more than 12 months ago,
so she has to swim in the slow-
est heat of each of her events.

Then Erik, himself banned
from international athletics for
a positive drug test in 1993. is-
sued a lengthy solicitor's leuer
to a Canadian journalist de-
manding an explanation and
apology for remarks made on
radio m Ireland in July.

Then after her first gold medal
on foe opening day of competi-
tion, she foiled to turn up for an
official prcs» conference which
is required of all medallists in
Seville. Hers, however, was a
spontaneous crowded gather-
ing outside doping control.

When Erik had decided enough
was enough, be picked up her
bags and pulled her away. Her
mandatory meeting with the
press after her victory yesterday
was banal. No, she was not sur-
prised by foe result, and yes. she
was delighted by foe win. It was
swiftly wound up by her husband.

The reason for foe controver-
sy is thal her spectacular progress
since meeting Erik de Bruin in
1993 has been beyond foe belief
of some observers- In foe 400m
individual medley, for example,
she improved 532sec between
1988 and 1992 to a modest
4:47.89; after meeting Erik, in
1993she improved by 1 727sec in
less than two years to become
Olympic champion. In a 26-year-
dd who has competed in two pre-
vious Olympics it is unheard of.

Added to this she refused to
comply with out-of-competition
drug-testing protocols, failing
to provide details of her where-
abouts and was unavailable for
testing in October 1995 and
again in 1996. After a written
warning to foe Irish ASA in Jan-
uary this year, speculation grew
that she would be banned when

it happened again in February.

No doubt Michelle de Bruins
clouds will have a golden lining
this week, and there is a golden
glow breaking over foe British
squad, too. The men's 4x200m
freestyle relay team were jubilant
after Paul Palmer added the
team gold to the one he won on
Tiiesday. Before the race, Jamie
Salter, who missed an individual
bronze by one-hundredth of a
second, said be would be giving
everything to win a gokL His phe-
nomenal final leg of 1:48.45
overhauled a deficit of almost a
second to take Britain's first
medal in this event since 1938.

Also in record-breaking form
was Jamie King, Palmer's team-
mate from Bath, recording a
time of 2:29.91 from foe heats
in the 200m breaststroke.

The man of foe day today will ;
be foe Russian, Alex Popov. The j
first man to retain the Olympic
100m freestyle title since John-
ny Weismuller, Popov is re-
turning to international
competition after nearly losing
his life when stabbed in a
Moscow street market last Au-
gust nearly took his life.

himself lie is the wotid-dass
player everyone else believes
him to be. To dothat bftre. be
must not only conquer twtyof
the world’s best bowlers, Shane
Wame and Glenn McGrath, bat
those -forces; that conspire to-
deity him from within. It ;rsa fosfc
onty a man desperate to do him-
self justice would relish. JPor
some, the future starts here/ ;

ENGLAND (from): M A Atherton (capt), M
A Butcher; A J Stewart (WM), N Hussain
G P Thorpe, M R fempnksdl A J HoBoate,
A R Caddie*, PJ Martin, PCRTutheD,D
E Malcolm. 0 W Hearsay; B C HoBtooha.
AUSTRALIA: M A Taylor (capt), M TG &
Rod. G S Btew«C, M E Waiigh, S R
RT Pontinft I A Heafy (wta), S taing, S
K WBme, M S Kaspnwkz. G D McGrath.
Umpires: PWSkey, L Barker (West Indies)
Third onpires K E Palmer
Match rejsres: C W Smith {West mated

County reports, page .22

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The Kent pace bowler, Martin
McCague, was removed from
the attack by order of the um-
pire Alan Whitehead in a tur-
bulent start to yesterdays
County Championship match at
Th unton.

‘ Whitehead stepped in during
McCague’s third over which
began with two bouncers and a
chest-high beamer to the Som-
erset opener, Rob Turner. The
umpire called the second and
third deliveries no-balls before
summoning the Kent captain,
Steve Marsh. McCague retired
to the outfield with figures of
2.1-0-22-0, including four no-
balls, and Mark EaUiam com-
pleted the over.

Wfr faheflrf ins isted that he
no option but to order McCague x
out of foe Kent attack for unfoir
bowling. had no choice in foe
matter," Whitehead said, “even
though it was accidental and
McCague apologised He had al-
ready received a final warning
before a- chest-high full toss
and I have to do the job."

A shaken McCague would
only say: “I'm still getting over
it. I hope people saw it as
accidental because that was
certainly the case."

T3ie Kent coach, John
Wright, was also saying little.
“The umpire is in control of foe
game and that’s all I am pre-
pared to say," he said.

If it was McCague’s intention
to Intimidate foe batsman, it
failed Turner justified his pro-
motion to opener with an4
innings of 144 as Somerset^
dosed on 366 for 6.

Turner, who went into foe
match with a first class average
of 56, confirmed bis growing
reputation with a mature in-
nings. The 29-year-old wicket
keeper reached bis century off
188 balls, with 14 fours, and
maintained concentration su-
perbly to bat for six hours nine
minutes, adding six more
boundaries before losing his
wicket to a tired book shot.

Simon Ecdestone, captaining
Somerset in the absence of
Peter Bowler (back injury) and
Richard Harden (virus), won
the toss and took first use of a
dry pilch. After 14 had come
from McCague’s First over, ^
including no-balls, Ben Phillips
removed Piran Holloway first
bail as he edged to Trevor Wrrd
at second slip, Marcus Trescoth-
ick was caught behind without
scoring off Matthew Fleming to
leave Somerset 76 for 3.

Ecclestone then joined Turn-
er, only to suffer a knee injury
which caused him to retire on
three. He later returned to reach
his maiden championship cen-
tury off 170 balls with 16 fours
and a six, and was 103 not out
at the close after sharing a sixth-
wicket stand of 171 with foe re-
silem Timer.

Kent, who started the game in
second place, also saw their .
Championship chances dented 0
by two badly dropped catches,
which gave lives to Ecclestone on
22 ana Timer on 110. The un-
fortunate McCague and Alan
'Veils were the culprits at point
and slip respectively.

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Francis Lee. the Manchester
City chairman, is trying to
dampen speculation about foe
departure of Georgj Kinkladze
by insisting that the Georgian
international is staying at Maine
Road.

“Our highest price this sea-
son is going to be getting into
foe Premiership and to do tHt
without a star player of Kin-

kladze s quality would make it
difficult." Lee said. “I have
played with and alongside the
best players in the world and
Kinkladze is in foal category."

Frank Clark, the City man-
ager. backed Lee by saying:
“We’ve had no inquiries from
anybody... We are not looking
to sell Kinkladze."

The Tottenham striker, Stef-
fen Ivcrscn, looks set to escape
disciplinary action over a ges-
ture he made towards a refer-
ee last week.

The Norwegian was captured
on camera aiming a derisive
hand signal at foe back of Steve
Lodge after he was booked for
his part in a brawl that inter-
rupted Spurs' 2-1 defeat at
Waa Ham. However. Lodge has
viewed film of the incident and
has decided against asking the
Football Association to take ac-
tion against Ivcrscn.

Eric Cantona will not re-
ceive any money in his royalties
dispute with Manchester Unit-
ed, the dub insisted yesterday.

The Frenchman has reported-
ly claimed he is owed a £750,000
share frorn the sale of souvenir
items bearing his name.

However, United claim he
was paid off in full when he left
the club at the end of last sea-
son. Maurice Wi lkins, a Unit-
ed director, said: “The club
docs not consider itself to h3ve
any liabilities to Eric at all."

Brighton and Hove Albion
arc still pushing their plan to
play the rest of this season's
home games at Mi II wall in-

stead of Gillingham. Yesterday
the League was meeting foe two
elute, police and council officials
to discuss the consequences of
Brighton playing at foe New
Den for up to three years.

“We have received initial en-
couragement from the League
in terms of making a formal ap-
plication for foe Mi) I wall
ground share," Dick Knight,
Brighton’s chainnan-cicct, said.
“The League are fully aware
that it Ls rhe overwhelming
choice of all Brighton fans."

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