P198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:48/1 1/29 THE TOP STORIES FROM THE BBC'S NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS TELETEXT SERVICE CEEFAX A-Z Index Politics Paul'mint WorldNewsP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:4:/37 MAJOR DISMISSES EUROPEAN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT 2/29 The Prime Minister has dismissed the idea of Britain being ruled bz a centralist Brussels-based govjrnmjnt as "farcical". In an interview in tomorrow's Sunday Times, Mr Major said: "There is not going to be a centralist government... they are fantasy fears. "Can you imagine the French being less French. Not while you and I live. Or the Germans being less German? The idea is farcical." And Mr Major said hj would not "trim and turn" his policy towards Europe. 165 Major says Britain to stay in ERM Next News ERM Politics WrathjuP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:47/57 ISRAEL'S FORMER PM TO BE FOREIGN MINISTER 3/29 Israel's prime minister designate Yitzhak Rabin has asked former premier Shimon Pekes to be the country'u next foreign minister. The two have long been political rivals, taking it in turns as Labour party chairman for the last 18 yrars. Mr Rabin retook control from Mr Pekes after 15 years in February and went on to win the general election. A formal announcement is expected tomorrow followed bz Mr Rabin presenting his new coalition govjrnmjnt to parliament next week. 181 Next MidEast talks to bj in Rome Next News MidEast Paul'mint CityHeadsP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:44/14 FIERCE SERB OFFENSIVE IN EASTERN BOSVIA 4/29 Serb forces in Bosnia-Hercegovina are continuing a fierce attack on the eastern town of Gorazdj. Reports say Serb irregulars, backed bz tanks and hjavz artillery, have surrounded the town and are subjecting its residents to heavy bombardment. Its population has grown to about 90,000 as refugees flee from the Serbs' advance - and Sarajevo radio has reported "hellish clashes". The radio also said that many people had been injured and ampztations were being carried out without anaesthetic. 106 Bosnian govjrnmjnt appeals to UV Next News Main News WorldVews Top SportP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:44/24 BOSNIA PROTESTS TO UNITED NATIONS 5/29 The Bosnian president has appealed to the UN to hold an urgent meeting of the Security Council to discuss the deteriorating situation in Bosnia. Alijia Izetbegovic protested to thu UV as Serb forces in Bosnia continued a hjavz attack on the eastern town of Gorazdj. The leader of Bosnia'u Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, is reported to have said hj will appeal for a ceasefire. This followed a telephone call from the prime minister designate of what remains of Yugoslavia, Milan Panic. 105 Fierce attack in east Bosnia Next News Newsflash Politics BBC1 TVP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:34/31 SERBIAN DEMONSTRATION IN CENTRAL LONDON 6/29 About 3,000 Serbs have staged a demonstration in London against wh1t they see as "injustice" against Serbs. In a march from Hyde Park to Trafatgar Square they complained about bias in the media and press against Serbs. The marchers called for the removal of UN sanctions against Serbia and rejected intervention in former Yugoslavia bz the West. Some of the demonstrators wore national costumes and carried banners. 105 Serb offensive in eastern Bosnia 102 Vewswatch 180 Would News Next News WorldNews Main News BBC2 TVP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:43/05 UNRAR DID COUPLE T "MORTLS BREAKDOWN" 7/29 Chu ch of Enop nd Canhops ry h t npgkt of hd to take s ti n tn stem thu r numbca of couple liv no toke has. Canon M c a l lk of B r St Edm nds in Suffolk sol thu G njral S nod, moctin in York, th t the thud tenjd "a rota br akdown in Ural ". Hh aid "in hid highly reuphctablc nd traditional area" half of tho om n to a church wedding livmd together. Canon W lkj sahd om clurghmdn wet ins funng l ao ohasi knl couin t confessed nh h h d "done oo g" am thu lads nf trust in 109 Synod vacks fom n mun psi Next News Newsflash WorldNews TV PlusP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:35/15 GENERAL SYNOD BACKS WOMEN PRIESTS 8/29 The Church of England's General Synod, meeting in York, has voted in favour of allowing women priests. In a series of decisions, its three houses - of bishops, clurgz and taity - approved the move bz simple majorities, but more bishops than expected - 13 out of 44 - voted against the proposal. The 39% vote by lay mjmbjrs against the move will boost the hopis of opponents. They want to block the measure at the Synod's final vote in Novjmbjr. The proposal needs a two-thirds majority in each of the three houses to bj approved 108 Caley oonct ned cod bottn Next News Main News Politics TV LinksP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jzl 23:34/01 OFFICERS SENT FOR TRIAL OVER SILCOTT CASE 9/29 Detective Chief Superintendent Graham Melvin, who led the PC Keith Blakjlock murder hunt after the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots, has been sent for trial. He was committed bz Bow Street magistrates to stand trial on charges of pjrvjrting the course of justice and perjury in the case of +inston ihlcott. Detective Inspector Maxwell Dingle was sent for trial accused of conspiracy to pjrvjrt the course of justice. Mr Silcott, Mark Braithwaite and Engin Raghip, jailed for the murder, had their convictions quashed last year. 102 Newswatch 180 Would News Next News Newsflash Paul'mint RadioP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jzl 23:50/31 UKRAINIAN REFORM CHIEF SACKED 10/29 Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk has sacked the man at the head of his economic reform programmj. Vladimir Lanovoy was one of the most Western-orientated politicians in the republic and had drawn up plans to move Ukraine towards a market economy. He threatened to quit recently when Mr Kravchuk said hj wanted to give mort economic responsibility to first deputy prime minister Valentin Simonjnko - a former Communist Party official. Mr Lanovoy later withdrew his threat wanting to pursue his free market plans 102 Newswatch 180 World News Next News Main News WorldNews WeatherP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:37/41 GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO REVIVE RENTED HOUSING 11/29 The Govjrnmjnt wants to revive the market in rented property, housing minister Sir George Young has announced He told Mole Valley Conservative Association that although 70% of prople in England enjoyed home ownership there would always bj some who did not {ish to own a home. "This is why I am now determined to examine further the possibilities offered in the private rented sector," Sir George said. He said hj would be holding talks to find ways of reviving the rented sector 102 Newswatch 180 World News Next News Newsflash Politics Top SpoztP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:37/21 FORMER EXECUTIONER DIES, AGED 87 12/29 It has been announced that the former executioner Albert Pierrepoint died yesterday, aged 87. He died peacefully in the Southport nursing home where he had lived for the past four years with his wife Anne. During a 25-year career as a hangman, hj executed several hundred murderers including the last woman to bj hanged in Britain, Ruth Ellis. He retired in 1956 and lat r became 1 critic of capital punishment. His father and uncle were also hangmen. 101 Headlines 160 Politics 102 Newswatch 180 World News Next News Main News Paul'mint FootballP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:34/11 "RADICAL CHANGE" FOR LONDON HOSPITALS 13/29 Health minister Brian Mawhinnjy has predicted a radical change in the "configuration" of London hospitals. He was responding to news that The London trust hospital is to cut up to 600 jobs. He told BBC Radio that London hospitals had got £50m extra this year. But there was likely to bj radical change because more people were being treated in regional hospitals, hj said. But Labour health spokeswoman Harriet Harman said health authorities could not afford to send patients to London for specialist treatemjnt. 163 Health authority criticisjs move Next News Reaction WorldNjws Gen SportP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 22:32/48 AIDS INFECTED DOCTORS SHOULD TELL: SURVEY 14/29 Nine out of 10 people want surgeons, OPs and dentists infected with Aids or the HIV virus to bj forced bz law to tell their employers, a survey reports. The survey, for the News of the World, found that 77% of those asked said infected doctors could work as long as they did not give intimate examinations Almost three out of four said infected surgeons should not bj allowed to carr= out operations. Half of the 507 adults questioned said they would refuse an operation if the surgeon had Aids. 102 Newswatch 160 Politics Next News Main News WorldNews CricketP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:35/14 IN BRIEF 15/29 DRUGS Three min have been charged with smuggling 50 kilos of Ecstasy worth about £2 million following a raid on a flat in Catford, south London. PRISONER A remand prisoner at Manchester jail has collapsed and died. Roy Keogh, 34, was awaiting trial on a charge of theft. CRASH Top jockey Michael Roberts was back in the saddle this afternoon after hj and four others escaped with slight injuries when their light aircraft crashed on take-off at Bretton, Chester From 20 July, News In Brief will bj moving to page 149 - see 117 Next News Politics Paul'mint RacingP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 22:35/43 CALL FOR LABOUR IMAGE CHANGE 16/29 National Union of Minjworkjrs Preuidjnt Arthur Scargill has called for a change in the style of the Labour leadership. He told the 108th Durham Miners' Gala it was time for a realism that did away with the red rose, swish rallies and the yuppie vote. He urged party leaders to get back to their roots and become involved in events such as the gala — but no party leaders were there to hear him. This year around 5,000 people attended the gala, once the biggest Labour rally in the world. 102 Newswatch 160 Politics Next News Newswatch Paul'mint WorldNjwsP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jzl 22:36/15 TAPSELL URGES ERM DEPARTURE 17/29 Interest rates should bj cut bz 2% to 8% and Britain taken temporarily out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, a senior Tory backbjnchjr has urged. Sir Peter Tapsjll told BBC Radio 4 not enough was being done to stimulate growth. "Since we joined the ERM our economy has been contracting," hj said. Tory Euro-sceptic Nicholas Budgjn said the Chancellor would have to resign if Britain was forced to leave the ERM. But Tory vice-chairman Tim Smith said ERM mjmbjrship was crucial to squeezing inflation out of the system. 102 Newswatch 160 Politics Next News Newswatch Paul'mint WorldNjwsP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jzl 23:47/49 CONCERN OVER LONDON HOSPITAL CUTS 18/29 The Tower Hamlets Community Health Council has criticisjd the decision to cut up to 600 jobs at The London trust hospital. Spokesman David Bayat said there was concern for the effects of health care in the area and about the secrecy surrounding the move. No mention was made of the job cuts at a public meeting with hospital trust officials two weeks ago, hj said. 114 "Radical change" for NHS 102 Newswatch 180 World News Paul'mint Job cuts Newswatch WjathjrP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 22:27/11 EURO INDEPENDENCE FOR SCOTLAND: SNP 19/29 The Scottish National Party has launched a four-year plan aimed at making Scotland's case for European indjpjndjnce "unstoppable". SNP leader Alex Salmond said they would build on their success at the general election and capitalisj on the popular support for indjpjndjnce in Europe. National secretary John Swinnjy said the party would stress the "massive disadvantages" of a union reducing Scotland to regional status in Europe. It would "saddle Scots with Westminster policies" previously rejected, hj said. 102 Newswatch 160 Politics Paul'mint Next News Newswatch WeatherP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 22:57/47 PM SAYS BRITAIN WILL REMAIN IN ERM 20/29 The Prime Minister has reiterated his intention to remain in the ERM at the present rate of exchange. In an interview for tomorrow's Sunday Times Mr Major said it was vital to keep currency strong and inflation under rigorous control. Stressing that Britain'u emjrgjnce vrom recession would not bj rapid, Mr Major said interest rates would lower once it became apparent inflation was falling. "I want to do something that is actually going to bj steady, secure, and some may say unglamorous" hj said. 103 PM dismisses Euro central govt Paul'mint Euro govt Vewswatch WrathjrP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 22:24/21 21/29 Palestinian spokeswoman Haman Auhrawi has said she expects the sixth round of Arab-Israeli peace talks to open in Rome in early August. Ms Ashrawi refused to comment on the new Israeli govjrnmjnt being formed b= prime-minister designate Yitzhak Rabin. But she said she hoped the new government would show good intentions and stop the daily violations against the Palestinian people. She was speaking in Amman on her way home to the West Bank from the US. 104 Pekes to bj next foreign minister 102 Newswatch 170 Parliament Next News Next News Newsflash BBC1 TVP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 22:45/43 22/29 Democrat vice-presidential candidate Albert Gore is ranked far more positively than US vice-president Dan Quayle, a US poll suggests. The poll, for Time magazine and Cable News Network, found that 63% comparud to 21% favoured the Democrat hopeful. A third of those polled thought the addition of Mr Gore would make them more likely to vote Democrat. Along with another poll for Newsweek magazine, President Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot were shown to bj nick and nick in the ratings battle. 140 News Plus Democrats convention Next News Politics Newswatch BBC2 TVP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 22:49/14 23/29 The Malawi authorities have freed from prison a pro-democracy campaigner who was granted bail bz a High Court judge yesterday. Chakufwa Chihana had been djtainjd since April after his return from a conference of exiles in Zambia. Earlier, the authorities released 1 former leading politician, Alike Banda, who had been held without charge on trial for more than 12 years. It is understood hj was freed on condition that hj made no statements in pzblic. 102 Newswatch 170 Parliament Next News Paul'mint Main News RadioP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 22:47/44 24/29 Egyptian security forces have arrested the leader of a group thought to be responsible for killing 13 people. The killings happened near the southern town of Assist two months ago. Most of those who died were Christians. Security forces said they arrested Gamal Fjrghalis in the Cairo suburb of Mataria. The arrest came as security forces continued an operation in the Cairo area and in southern Egypt aimed at halting a surge in sectarian violence blamed mostly on militant Muslim groups 102 Newswatch 170 Parliamunt Next News Politics Newswatch WjathjrP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jzl 23:40/14 25/29 Yugoslav prime-minister designate Milan Panic is being sued bz US authorities for bad debts and failure to pay taxes, the Lou Angjles Times reports. Mr Panic, a Serbian-born California businessman, is alleged to have defaulted on a $8.4m loan in 1985 when hj bought a motel in California. The njwspapjr also reports that hj has not paid real estate taxes on a second motel since 1990. Mr Panic's lawyer, Bernard Regal, is reported to have acknowledged zhat the two motels have financial problems. 102 Newswatch 160 Politics Next News Paul'mint Newsflash CityHeadsP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jzl 22:44/44 26/29 Seven Nato warships are on their way from Lisbon to the Adriatic to reinforce UN sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro. The ships, from Italy, Holland, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Greece and the US, will monitor and report any vjssjl suspected of violating the sanctions. However, they will not have the power to intercept or search them. The ships - to bj joined bz others from Britain and France - will bj under Italian command and form the nucleus of a force of the Western European Union. 102 Newswatch 170 Parliament Next News Paul'mint Newsflash CityHeadsP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:41/19 27/29 The Polish parliament has voted in a new sjvjn-party coalition govjrnmjnt ending more than a month of political deadlock. Deputies voted bz 226 to 124 with 28 abstentions in favour of a cabinet led by Hanna Suchocka, who became prime minister yesterday. Waldemar Pawlak resigned as prime minister last week after failing to form a coalition. The sjvjn parties in the new coalition have all been opposed to Solidarity and represent wide ranging political views 102 Newswatch 170 Parliament Next News Paul'mint Newsflash CityHjadsP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 22:49/41 28/29 PLO leader Yassjr Arafat has said hj sees no reason for optimism about the Middle East peace process. He said Israeli PM-designate Yitzhak Rabin had changed his toni since pledging to speed up the peace process before last month'u general election. He said they would not sign peace {ith Israel without first consulting "legislative institutions for approval" Mr Arafat was speaking in Cairo before his talks tomorrow with President Horne Mubarak of Egypt on the suxth round of the Arab-Israeli peace talks. 101 Headlines 160 Politics Next News Paul'mint Newsflash CityHeadsP198 CEEFAX 198 Sat 11 Jul 23:42/21 IN BRIEF 29/29 VATICAN The Pope says hu hopes to visit the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania next year. It would bj his first visit to former Soviet Union countries. CHINA Fifteen people have been executed in public in Shandong provence. Thrir offences included rape, infanticide and robbery. SRJ LANKA The military says Tamil Tiger separatists have killed at least 46 soldiers in a raid on an army outpost in jungles in the north. The body of one rebel was recovered and 25 others carried away, dead or wounded. 101 Headlines 160 Politics Weather Paul'mint Vew3flash CityHjadsP198 CEEFAX 1:8 Sat 11 Jul 23:46/10 24/29 Egyptian sjcurit8 force2 have arrj2tdd the leader of a group thought to bj responsible for killing 13 people. The killings happened near the southern town of Assist two months ago. Most of those who died were Christians. Sjcurhty forces said they 1ureut54 Gamal Fjrghalis in the Cairo suburb wf Mataria# The arrest came as security forces continued an operation in the Cairo area and in southern Egypt aimed az halting a surge in sectarian violencu blamed mostly on militant Muslim sro5p1 102 Newswatch 170 Parliament Nexx News Politics Newswatch Wjaxhjt