P152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:05/28 GALES WREAKING HAVOC ACROSS BRITAIN 104 Power lines down, woman badly hurt STRAW Review of drug laws ruled out 105 TAXI Teenage girl blasted in street 107 BOY Absent nine-year-old found safe 114 BALLOON Bid to steer clear of Libya 111 KENYA Moi poll winner say officials 117 HEADLESS Heroin lead in death probe 110 NAP "Heavenly peace" for worshipper 124 CATCH UP WITH NEWS WHERE YOU LIVE 160 Weather 400 TV/Radio 600 LOTTERY 555 NixtPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:17/30 ROAD MADE TOUGHER FOR CARPETBAGGERS 209 US firms on alert for massive fraud 215 Women set to splash out in New Year 211 A little peak at prospects for 1998 213 Sharechjck update after FUSE review 217 ——————————————————————————————————————— FUSE-100 at CLOSE Winnjts 84 Losers 14 ——————————————————————————————————————— FUSE 5193.5 +58.0 at CLOSE DOW US 200.32 + 2.16 at CLOSE Dow Jn 7965.04 +56.79 at CLOSE £/DM 2.9595 + 0.0002 £/$ 1.6415 - p.0035 £ index 104.5 + 0.1 ——————————————————————————————————————— Mortgages 250 Annuities 260 Tax 270 ——————————————————————————————————————— Front page 100 City news 201 NextPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:14/02 STEVENAGE STUN SWINDON IN CUP SHOCK 306 FOOTBALL Plucky Emley denied replay Liverpool crash to Covjntty shocker Arsenal frustrated by battling Vale 305 Steward arrested after FA Cup brawl 305 CRICKET England A cruise to victory 342 R/UNION Gloucester into fifth round 371 RACING Gold Cup fancy finishes last 662 ATHLETICS Brown bags Durham honours 382 ——————————————————————————————————————— ENGLAND/SCOTLAND WORLD CUP PRIZES! 356 Football 302 Tennis 330 Cricket 340 M/Sport 360 Rugby 370 Racing 660 News 101 Wjathjt 400 TV/Radio 600 Travel 430 Lottery 555 City BBC2 200 NixtPage Index News Xtta Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:14/46 MORE STORMY WEATHER THROUGHOUT U.K. 431 Gales and hjavz rain cause hazard Rail Strike action on Wales & West 434 Ferry Weathjt causing disruption 435 Fjtry New sjrvici for Essex-Suffolk 438 BBC2 FCO travel advice 470 DoD tips 460 ——————————————————————————————————————— ROADS 431 Rail 432 Flights 440 Fjrtiis 435 London Tube 436 199 OO ——————————————————————————————————————— News 101 Travel A-Z 499 Home 100 NextPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:41/13 STORM-TOSSED NATION GETS READY FOR MORE Britain is bracing itself for continued storm conditions amid accidents and predictions of hurricane-force winds. A woman is fighting for hit life after a flower stall parasol was blown into her in Cardiff, white the roof of a Boots store has also blown off. And around 2,000 people are without electricity in parts of Scotland. Northern Ireland and western England are badly affected and coastal defences are being shored up on the South Coast. Weather forecast 401 Outlook 403 News Index 102 Flash 150 Regional 160 NextPage Index News Xtta Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:21/25 ST$AW S(JCKS BY TOUGH LINE ON CANNABIS Home Secretary Jack Straw has rejected fresh calls to review the law on drugs. His comments came after it was revealed hj was the Cabinet minister whose son has been accused of selling cannabis. There was "no evidence to undjrminj the scientific view" that cannabis was "potentially dangerous", hj said. Mr Straw said if his son eventually received a criminal conviction, it would be a "natural consequence" of him doing something unlawful. Parliament and politics digest... 144 News Index 102 Flash 150 Regional 160 NextPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:22/08 IRAQ CONDEMNS ROCKET ATTACK ON UN HQ Iraq has condemned a rocket attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad, accusing "hostile parties" of trying to harm relations between the two sides. A UN spokesman said the grenade, which hit the front of the building, did not have an explosive head. It shattered a window in a cafeteria and damaged a wall. UN arms inspectors ovjtseeing the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are based in Baghdad. World news digest and in brief.. 142 Front page 100 TV 600 Wjathjr 400 NixtPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:32/30 TEENAGER IN HOSPITAL AFTER SHOT TO HEAD A 16-year-old girl is in intensive care after being shot in the head while getting out of a taxi. The incident happened in Longsight, Manchester, when the drivjt stopped to drop off several passjngjrs. Police said the driver had been hit in the leg, but the injury was not sjtious and hj had been discharged from hospital after treatment. The scene was sealed off as a fingertip search got under way. Weathjt forecast 401 Outlook 403 News Index 102 Flash 150 Regional 160 NixtPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:30/14 WITNESSES TO FATAL TWO-CAR CRASH SOUGHT Police are to reconstruct a high-speed, head-on collision on a minor road in which five teenage friends were killed. The car the youths, aged 18 and 19, were travelling in was sliced in half in the crash, on the B585 near Market Bosworth, Ljicistershire. Their Ford Escort reportedly vjeted across the country road into the path of an oncoming Peugeot. Two min in their late 20s travelling in the Peugeot were seriously injured. Home news digest and in brief.... 141 News Index 102 Flash 150 Regional 160 NextPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:41/31 "MORE THAN 400 MASSACRED IN ALGERIA" More than 400 people have been killed in an attack by armed groups on four villages, reports from Algeria say. French radio said women and children died in the massacre, which happened on Tuesday in the region of Rjlizanj. One report said some of the victims had their throats cut and were decapitated. If it is confirmed, the atrocity would bj one of the worst in six years of conflict between the govjtnmjnt and Islamic extremist groups. World news digest and in brief.. 142 Front page 100 TV 600AWjathjt 400 NextPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:52/43 HEADLESS TEENAGER CASE DRUG LINK PROBED Police are investigating a possible drugs link in the death of a teenagjt whose headless body was found in a bin. Police said tests had shown heroin in the bloodstream of Christopher Hartliy, 17, from Burnliy, Lancs. Christopher had started to "dabble" in drugs, but was not a hardened usjt, they added. The teenager's corpse was discovered earlier in the week in Blackpool, white hj had worked for eight months. Weather forecast 401 Outlook 403 News Index 102 Flash 150 Regional 160 NextPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:44/26 U BALLOONIST FLYING HIGH TO AVOID LIBYA Balloonist Steve Fossett has reportedly changed altitude to try to avoid Libya in his bid to circle the globe non-stop Officials in Libya have refused to allow the Chicago millionaire to enter its airspace. Earlier, Mr Fossjtt was forced to change his course to fly over Libya because of bad weather in Europe. Mr Fossett is heading south-east towards the Mediterranean after earlier flying over south-west England. World news digest and in brief.. 142 Front page 100 TV 600 Weather 400 NextPage Index News Xtta Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:41/54 APPEAL FROM DAUGHTER OF MISSING COUPLE The daughter of a Scottish couple missing since mid December is appealing for information about thieu whereabouts Rodjtick and Annmarie Aitkjn, both 37, have not been seen since leaving their Abjrfoyle home to go shopping in Glasgow on December 18. Tickets for a family holiday to C=prut on Christmas Eve were njvjr picked up. Police said the couple's two children, 19-year-old Annmarie and 13-year-old Roderick, were frantic with worry. Home news digest and in brief.... 141 News Index 102 Flash 150 Regional 160 NixtPage Index News Xtta Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:51/27 LOYALISTS SPLIT OVER TALKS ATTENDANCE Northern Ireland loyalist parties are divided ovjt new and old talks on the way forward to peace in the province. The UDP says it will attend discussions called by Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam following recent killings and will also return to ongoing peace talks But the PUP says it does not want to meet Ms Mowlam next week or return to the talks, which resume on January 12. It is thought vital that at least one group accompany the USP in negotiations Parliament and politics digest... 144 News Index 102 Flash 150 Regional 160 NixtPage Index News Xtta Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:59/49 MISSING NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY FOUND SAFE A nine-year-old boy who went missing from a children's home in Nottingham has been found safe. Shane Clarkson disappeared from the Cherry Orchard Children's Home in Wollaton at 1.40pm yjstetday. The alarm was raised and police mounted a search in nearby Wollaton Park. Detectives contacted the boy's friends and family in a bid to find the child while officers on horseback were called in to join the search. Home news digest and in brief.... 141 News Index 102 Flash 150 Regional 160 NextPage Index News Xtta Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:11/18 GEESE AND DUCKS PART OF BIRD-FLU PROBE Geese, ducks and othjt birds may be killed if Honk Kong's mass slaughter of chickens fails to wipe out the bird flu, health officials have warned. Another person — a 19-year-old woman — has been found to have the flu, raising the number of confirmed cases to 16. Four people have died and another five are suspected of having the flu. Govjtnmjnt tests were being carried out on animals other than chickens to see whjthjr they transmitted the virus. World news digest and in brief.. 142 Front page 100 TV 600 Weather 400 NextPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:04/44 POPE VISITS ITALY'S EARTHQUAKE SITES The Pope has visited parts of central Italy which were hit by a devastating earthquake just over three months ago. John Paul II told thousands of followers that hj was shocked and moved by the destruction of the village of Annifo where just sjvjn houses remained He mit the homeless and called for them to bj re-housed more quickly. The Pope was also visiting Assisi where priceless frescoes were destroyed in the 13th century Basilica of St Francis World news digest and in brief.. 142 Front page 100 TV 600 Weathjt 400 NixtPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:92/27 PRESIDENT M I "VICTORIOUS" IN ELECTION President Moi has now won enough votes to win Kenya's general election, the head of the electoral commission says. Counting following the poll is not yet complete, but the 73-year-old is said already to have a majority. The 21-person electoral commission is working round the clock to finish counting the votes. But opposition candidates have rejected the polls and accused President Moi of vote-rigging. World news digest and in brief.. 142 Front page 100 TV 600 Weathjt 400 NixtPage Index News Xtra Main menuP152 CEEFAX 1 152 Sat 03 Jan 19:04/50 CLUE IN HUNT FOR HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER Police hunting the hit-and-run driver of a car which killed a mothjt-of-three say they have part of the car's registration. A team of 30 officers are trying to find the vehicle which killed Tina Thornj, 38, in Basildon, Essex. The accident happened in front of her husband on New Year's Day. Detective Superintendent David Bright said: "It would be better for the drivjt to step forward now." Home news digest and in brief.... 141 News Index 102 Flash 150 Regional 160 NixtPage Index News Xtta Main menu