We are happy to point out that the correct figure is 82 per cent which places them above average

We are happy to point out that the correct figure is 82 per cent, which places them above average.. IN LAST year’s production of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly, the director David Freeman showed that the scale of the Albert Hall need not get in the way of dramatic intimacy. Royal Forest of Dean College

IN AN article in Wednesday’s paper we incorrectly stated that only 32 per cent of students at the gained a qualification at the end of their course. Maurice Galway, based in Tralee, Co Kerry, already has 100 pairs of smalls from friends and relatives for his installation piece, “I Would Never Throw My Knickers at You”..

Knickerbocker glory

AN IRISHMAN has launched an appeal for women to give him their knickers – in the name of art. Simon Ford, 34, managed to drag HMS Lancaster – stripped down to 2,000 tons – over 25ft at the Devonport dockyard, Plymouth, before suffering breathing difficulties.. Strongman sunk by Navy frigate

A CHARITY strongman collapsed while trying to pull a Type 23 Navy frigate and its 157 crew into dry dock. The ruling opens the way to enfranchise all Britons in Gibraltar for the European elections in June. But as this would first require a change in EU law it would almost certainly be subject to a Spanish veto.. Pay offer for meat inspectors

MEAT INSPECTORS will next week discuss an improved pay offer that emerged during talks at the conciliation service Acas.

A one-day strike by inspectors earlier this month closed abattoirs across the country. The union Unison wants a rise which would add 4 per cent to the salary bill to be nearer to the 4.7 per cent paid to other Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food staff.. The Strasbourg-based court decided that the right to vote in elections to the European Parliament should be extended to British citizens living in Gibraltar. The Government said it would seek to amend European law to allow Gibralterians to vote in future European elections.
The judges, whose role is to interpret the European Convention on Human Rights, condemned Britain for denying Denise Matthews, 24, the right to be registered as a voter in the 1994 Euro elections.Ms Matthews had applied to be registered but Britain does not grant residents of Gibraltar a say in choosing MEPs. The trial continues on Sunday.Nick Childs is a BBC WorldAffairs Correspondent. A FRESH clash between Britain and Spain over Gibraltar seems imminent following a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights yesterday.

He said he had planned the bombings of British and American targets in Aden, and added: “I am not ready to convict others.”Two of his co-defendants deny the charges and two admit kidnap. Abu Hamza has denied the Yemeni charges.The prosecution had earlier produced a satellite telephone which it said was sent to the kidnappers by Abu Hamza, delivered by one of the Britons on trial in Aden, and used by Abu Hassan to contact Abu Hamza.Yemen has not formally asked for Abu Hamza’s extradition.Abu Hassan has admitted the charges but denied receiving funding from abroad. The prosecution did not disclose the contents.The Yemeni authorities say Abu Hamza is linked to the kidnappers and the eight Britons on trial in Aden on terrorist charges.They believe he sent the Britons to inflict bombings in Aden, and after their arrest Abu Hassan took the tourists hostage to bargain for their release. The envelopes also bore stamps with the identification code London WC229. There were also pictures of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi dissident blamed for the bombing of US targets in Kenya, Tanzania, and Saudi Arabia.The envelopes were addressed to Uthman al-Saedi at a post office box in the Yemeni Sana’a The number had been obliterated. They say the envelopes were found at the house of Abu Hassan, on trial in the southern town of Zinjibar with four other defendants for the kidnap and killing of Western tourists in December. Three Britons and an Australian died in the shoot-out with government forces and 12 hostages survived.
The prosecutors producedmanuals on guerrilla tactics and the use of AK47 assault rifles, and light armour, military maps, and audio cassettes allegedly of propaganda by Islamic fundamentalists, including Abu Hamza, all said to have been found at the house.

The producers said they eschewed concentration on the personal rather than police procedure because that would be too neatly packaged and “bogus”.The corollary of this is that, despite a fine cast, there is a curious lack of continuity and a failure to fully convey not just the pain and anger of the Lawrences but the remorseless pattern of neglect and indifference which led to Stephen’s killers escaping justice.Occasionally the film does manage to convey the emotions Mr and Mrs Lawrence must have felt as well as their dignity – the pain of Mr Lawrence as he listens at the inquest to the details of the casual violence with which his son was killed, Mrs Lawrence watching the alleged killers exercising their right to silence and the burial of Stephen away from England are very moving. I am angry about that.”It emerged yesterday that a leading expert on premature babies had declined to join the trial because he did not believe it would produce worthwhile results. The assurance, amounting to an indefinite moratorium, will go some way to meeting concerns of the Government’s wildlife advisers, English Nature, that the countryside may be devastated by new weedkillers which most of the crops are being designed to accommodate.
English Nature and its sister agencies in Wales and Scotland have called for a three-to-five-year moratorium on commercial plantings until research on the new weedkillers, and the possible transpollination effect on wild plants of the GM crops, has been carried out. Commercial planting will not be allowed until enough data have been gathered. GENETICALLY MODIFIED crops will not be grown commercially until the Government is satisfied their management does not harm farmland wildlife, the environment minister, Michael Meacher, said. Couples fighting I can’t be dealing with, it’s their business.”If there were a racial attack, I would call the police.”We Asked…Would you intervene if you saw:Yobs spitting from a bridge on to passers-by?Someone dropping litter?A person hitting a dog?Vandals damaging a phone box?A couple having a fight?White youths picking on a black youth?.