P196 CEEFAX 196 Thy 28 Oct 21:04/p8 %|l4|l4|, 20/45 G -n2n1 0COMMOVS RESPOVSE TO SHEEHY RECOMMENDATIONS Home Secretary Michael Howard has accepted part of the Shuehy rupoyt on police pay and conditimns but rejected some key proposals. He said fixed-term appointments U below superintendent were "not appropriate", but those for chief officers would bj carried through. Performance-related pay was agreed (5 "in principleb but hj rejected the Shjihy formula for assessing it. (5 Mr Howard also announced the abolition of some senior ranks. -upppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppz Howard outlines police reforms 142 Next News Politics Main News CityHjadsP196 CEEFAX 195 Thu 28 Oct 21:24/39 -|l4|l4|, 21/45 -n2n1 (/.k/.)/, COMMONS HOWARD OUTLINES POLICE REFORMS Main points of the Home Secretary's police pay and conditions reforms: * Fixed term appointments for chief (5 officers only, possibly extended to superintendents later. ,j * Principle of performance-related pay accepted but the Shjehy formula for assessing it rejected. Pay to depend on assessment of performance, with progress up pay scale based on overall assessment taking account of experience, skiml and circumstances of job. -upppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppz Home 110 Politics 130 World 160 Next News Politics Main News CityHeadsP196 CJJFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:25/09 )|l4|l4|, &|l4|,h4|h4|, 22/4k -n1n1 -/.%/.%/, COMMONS "CONFUSION AND RETREAT" OVER POLICE Labour has accused the Government of retreat over its response to the Sheehy police reforms. Shbdow Home Secretary Tony Blair said: "It is sthml entirely unclear as to the direction in which you are retreating." And he asked: "+ill iu cut crimr ou is it merely to cut costs? Will it make our communities safer?" Hj said there was still confusion and police morale would continue to be undermined, and thu fight against crime would bj impaired. -m],,,,,^,LL,,,,,,,,,n,,,,,,,,n,nn,,,,,. Next News Paul'mint Main News Top SpoutP196 CEJFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:25/39 -]l4|l4|, 23/45 -n1n1 -/.%/.)/, C MMONS bNO PRJORRTZb TO CRIME PRJVENTJON Tj The Lib Dens hbvj said |hat crime prevention is at the bottom of the Government's list of priorities. Robert Maclinnan said just 15.6m went on specific crime prevention mea3ureu out wf a crimival ju;rice bill of £8.7bn last year. pining a debate on crime, the home affairs spokesman cplled for p balance between sjvjre punishments and crime prevention measures. And he suggested the Go6junment was lurching towards a "more unbalanced, 3ingle track policy". --,n,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. Next News Politics Main News Top SpoutP196 CEEFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:06/09 -|l4|l4|, C -/.k/.*/, COMMONS SNP PLEA TO FIGHT DEATHS FROM COLD Britain has a moral responsibility to the old, the sick and the vulnerable to unsure that none of them suffers during cold weathrr. Opening an SVP debate 5rgink an automatic cold climate allowance, Margaret Ewing said many would die because they would bj unable to heat their homes effectively. (5 A shortage of cash to pay for (5 winter fuel amounts to "a (5 Westminster euthanasia system", the social security spokeswoman said. ] Home 0 118 Politics 130 Would 160 Summary 102 Dispatch 190 Index 199 Next News Politics Main Ndws Top SportP196 CEEFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:07/38 )|l4|l4|, C -n2n1 -/.%/.)/, COMMONS MAJO" QUIZZED OVER BR FRBNCHISE U The privatisation of British Rail is a "rotten dial" for taxpayers and travellers, John Smi5h has said And the Labour leader accused the Govjrnmjnt of bblatant and discreditable" manoeuvres over BR. He said it had introduced amendments to allow British Rail to (k bid for franchises, but under strict conditions. (5 The Prime Minister said he could U see British Rail as a franchisee in "some circumstances". Home 11p Politics 130 World 160 Next News Dispatch Flash TravelP196 CEKFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:08O09 26/45 In2l2 &j5,V5j5/| -O.)/.%/, COMMONS FEARS RBISED OVER WOODLAND ACCESS MPs have raiskd concerns about the possibility of access being denied to woodland that could bj sold off bz the Forestry Commiysion. Labour'u Paddy Tipping said Robin Hood would turn in his grave if people were forbidden the right to roam in Sherwood Forest. p Opposition spokesman Gavin Strang (5 said millions of people derived great enjoyment from UK forests. Agriculture minister Gillian Tj Shjphard said full account would 2j given to safeguard pzblic needs.1 --,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. Next News World Main News TV/RadioP196 CJEFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:07/39 27/45 )n2n1 ] P—R.IcMEnT "WbR CRIMIN—L" REPORTS0SEoT TO DPP Reports on 10 alleged Nazi war criminals living in Britain have been submitted by police to the Director of Public Prosecutions. 2 In a Commons written reply, Attorney General Sir Nicholas L:ell said the inquiries were incomplete and the prosecutions could not bj considered 9jt. In particular, he said the police (5 were probing claims that a man agrd 82 and living in Surrey is an ex- SS officer accused of war crimru in Russia. (5 - Home 110 Politics 130 Would 160 Next News World Main News TV/RadioP196 CEEFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:28/09 2</45 P—RNIAMENT -/.)/.%/, ] IN BRIEF CHILDREN Forty-sjvjn cross-party MPs have called on the Government to stop the Child Support Agency from deducting maintenance payments from parental earnings before appeals by the parent can be heard. NOISE The Noise and Statutory Nuisance Bill has cleared its Lords stages and now awaits Ro9al Assent. It gives councils the power to act against noise in the street and tightens controls on burglar alarms FISH Agriculture minister Micharl Jack announced that £25 mimlion has been set aside by the Go6eunment to decomission fishing vessels. W Flash Paul'mint Main News Top SpoutP196 CEEFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:21/09 14/4u POLITICS LABOR$ CONDEMNS ANY SPENDING CUTS Spending cuts would imperil the U economic recovery and aggravate "economic weakness", Shadow Chief Secretary Harriet Harman warned. "The only sustainable way to bring down the deficit is to c4t unemployment, invest in our infrastructure," Ms Harman said. $hj problems in the public finances are a result of the Government's economic failure, she concluded. Earlier today, the full Cabinet mit to discuss pos3ibld s8jndhnk c4t;. -upppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppz ] Cabinet to meet again on cuts 133 Next News Home News Main News CityHead;P196 CJJFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:02/39 15/45 -n1n2 -/.%/.%/, ] POLITICS FEDERBTJON WELCOMES POLICE REFORMS The Police Federation has called the Home Secretary'u 1nno4ncement on the Sheehz proposals on police reforms a "triumph of common sense" He added that there was "a sense of relief that...the more radical proposals" were not implemented. But vice-chairman Fred Broughton said thbt the Sheehy inruiry had badly affected police. bFor the past year we have been holding our breath because we have felt under...attack from these... analsyses," hj concluded. (upppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppz Next News Flash Home News Top SpoutP196 CEEFAX 1:6 Thy 28 Oct 21:p3/09 16/45 POLITICS W MAN GOES TO HOSPITBL IN HORSE BOX Shadow health secretary David Blunkjtt has described as shameful U a case in whrch a woman had to bj taken to hospital in a horse box. It "highlights the way in which vital patient services are being left to rot in the Government's health market$ said Mr Blunkjtt. A njjce took 83-year-old Florence Mould to Addjnbrookj's hospital, Tj (5 Cambridge, in a wheelchair in her (5 horse box when hkr ambulance was (u cancelled for the fourth time. (upppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppz Home 110 World 160 Summaries 102 Next News Home News Dispatch Top0SpoutP196 CJKFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:p4/39 ,|l4|l4|, 17/45 (n2n2 POLITICS CLAUSE +ARMED ON VAT ON NEWSP—PETS The Njwspapjr Society has warned Chancellor Kenneth Clarke against putting VA$ on the printed word. (u "Such a levy would be a tax on information which would bj opposed bz the British publia,"0said it1 iirector Dugal Nisbjt-Smith. The society said the move would close 20% of the regional press with the loss of 2,500 jobs. 2 (hj Newspaper Society represents regional, daily and weekly paid 1nd unpaid titles. Yomj 11pa Politics 130 World 160 Next News Flash Newsround UK MapsP196 CJEFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:24/09 18/45 -n1n1 POLITICS MINISTERS WERE URGED TO END EMBARGO A civil sju6ant urged ministdrs to abandon curbs on military exports to Iraq two weeks before it invaded Kuwait, the Scott inquir8 has heard Ian McDonald, former hrad of the Defence Export Services Secretariat, admitted hj had made U the recommendation in a paper. It said the restrictions "had lost whatever relevance they might have hadb following the end of the Iran-(j Iraq war, and vhat Britain+1 competitors were "cashing in". Home 110 Flash 150 Diary 80 Commons 14p World 160 Dispatch 190 Next News Flash Newsround UU MapsP196 CKEFAX 196 Thu 28 Oct 21:04/39 19/45 -n2n1 (/.k/.I/, POLITICS JUBILEE LINE Labour MPs have urged U the Government to comment on zhe (5 fraud investigations into the Italian company Italutrade,0which is involved in building London Underground'u Jubilee line. (k CONSERVA$IVES The Tory Party newspaper Newslinj is to cease publication at the end of this 9jar to cut costs. ASHDOWN A car driven bz Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown has collided with a motorcyclist in Westminster. The motorcyclist has been taken to a nearby hospital. -upppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppz Home 11p Politics 139 World 160 Paul'mint Flash Newsround UK Mpps