P152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:12/19 W U O 1/25 SAFETY DRILL HOPE FOR TUNNEL TRAINS 104 But Tory MP calls opjtation charade MENINGITIS Second death hits campus 113 E-COLE Bug spreads as inquiry opens 114 9ACHT US wo an i helicoptil@rescue 10k FISH Franch plan Chann l Isles demo 109 SCHOOL PM rival wins contract fight 111 TERESA Health deteriorates after op 112 MAFIA Chief dies after cell hanging 108 Tickjttape 151 Extra 140 Sport 300 News index 102 Politics 143 A-Z 199 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CJJFAX 2 154 Sun 01 Dec 23:54/14 2/25 AUDITORS HIT BACK OVER BARINGS MESS 202 BONUS Union Swig to rap boss payout 207 ECONOMY Credit weaker than forecast 205 VIRGIN Branson pledge on new trains 203 ——————————————————————————————————————— RESULTS Fjnchurch 212 Tadpole Tech 216 ——————————————————————————————————————— £/DM 2.5822 + 0.0059 £/$ 1.67:7 - 0.0010 £ index 94.0 + 0.2 FUSE 4060.2 +10.0 at 15:40 DOW US 163.57 + 0.34 at 15:57 ——————————————————————————————————————— FUSE 231 Forix 237 Shares 220 Money 250 ——————————————————————————————————————— Front page 100 City news 201 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:10/38 3/25 OO HENDRZ CLAIMS GREPPING US FINAL WIN 383 SNOG ER Higg ns o in l st ftam 3 3 TENNIS French take epic Davis glory 337 FOOTBALL Rush breaks duck for Leeds 304 Rangers go five points clear at top 306 R/UNION Campesj ends caries on high 371 GOLF Monty pips Elk in $1M play-off 331 CRICKET Stewart century all in vain 342 ——————————————————————————————————————— Latest 300 Football 302 Cricket 340 Letters 356 Genital 380 Interview 390 Racing 660 Sport A-Z 399 News 101 Weather 400 Front page 100 TV 600 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Rbdio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:12/18 R SERIOUS ACCIDENT CLOSES M1 AT J14 431 Miles of stationary traffic Chunnjl Closed until furthjt notice 438 BBC2 Bloc+adj lifted in Calais 487 Ferries No Larnj-Cairnryan Jetliner 435 ——————————————————————————————————————— Roads 431 Rail 432 Flights 440 R Fjrties 435 London Tube 436 A-Z Index 199 News 101 Sport 301 City BBC2 200 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:12/22 Wjprzjprzjprz CH+NNEL DRILL COMPLETED "SUCCESSFULLY" A full-scale emergency drill in the Channel Tunnel has been completed "satisfactorily", Eurotunnjl says. Now they are hoping Eurostar sjtvices will resume this week. All the "passjngjrs" were evacuated from the tunnel within 130 minutes of t(e "accident" — a successful outcome, according to a spokesman. But Thanjt MP Roger Gale dismissed the exercise as a charade because fire crews and police did not take part. Sport 300 Wjathjt 400 Heads 101 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:)2/10 L YACHTSWOMAN IN DRAMATIC CHOPPER RESCUE A Welsh woman competing in t e wo,ld's toughjht yacht race has bean winched to safety in rough seas off th Fal and Islands, suffering from abdomi al pains Rhian JjnSins, 27, from Swansea, was a membjt of the Global Teamwork crew in the BT Global Challenge race. Sh was taken by an RAF hvlicoptit to hospital in th Falkland Islands in a three-hour rescuk mission. Ms Jenkins hopes to rejoin t e yacht in New Zealand if doctors p ss her fit. Features 540 News 101 'path t 400 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:41/25 D ANA ALLOW3 PRINCE TO CA5RZ ON H+NTJNG The Princess of Wales has said she will not question the interest her son Prince William has in hunting. The princess spoke out after it was reported she was deeply concerned ovjt 14-year-old William's love of shooting. "She respects that he has interests in every arena and would not question them," an aide said. Anti-blood sports campaigners were incenced when William killed his first stag at Balmoral last week. Sport 300 Weather 400 Heads 101 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:42/37 MAN CHARGED JTH MU DF OF BABY BOY A 24-year-old man has bjsn charg d wit tue mu dar of a two mont -old oo. Toe man, from London, who recently move to B wick, No t um j land, is to appja before Berwick magistrates tomor ow, police said. T baby, on of twins, di d at Newcastle G tetal Hospital on Friday, 2, hours aftzr being admitted with s ious injure s. t P ste t Headlines 101 Flash 1*0 Sport 300 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:43/22 MAFIA BOSS FOUND HANGED IN ITALIAN JAIL A lieutenant of Mafia godfather Salvatore "Toto" Riina has hanged himself in a Milan jail. Giacomo Giuseppe Gambino, 55, was still alive but whee:ing when a wardjt found him in his cell. He died shortly afterwards despite efforts to revive him. Prison officials said he appeared to have tied a sheet around his nick. Gambino was charged with many of the Mob's most spectacular killings. Features 540 News 101 Weathjt 400 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:50/02 CHANNEL ISLAND FISHING RIGHTS ROW BREW" French fishermen plan to demonstrate inside Guernsey waters in a row over fishing rights. The fishermen are annoyed that Guernsey officials ended a two-year-old agreement allowing th—m access to Channel Island waters. "FrencX trawlers must not bj excluded from this area," one diplomat said. FrencX fishermen face prosecution if they continue to fish near Guernsey after midnight. Sport 300 Wjathjt 400 Heads 101 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:52/11 DOORMAN SHOT DEAD AT CROWDED NIGHTCLUB Police have launched a murdjt hunt after a doorman was gunned down and anothjt injured at a packed nightclub. The attack happened at the Island club in Ilford, east London. Police are looking for a gang of four men who drove off after the shooting. Roads were sealed@off around the club as armed police carried out searches and interviewed revellers. The motive for the attack is not known. Headlines 101 Flash 150 Sport 300 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:52/15 Wjpqzjprzjprz HOMELESS ON STREET DYING YEARS YOUNGER Homeless people are dying on the streets at an avjtage age of 42, five years younger than in 1992, according to research. The survey, bz the charity Crises, suggests the Government's RougX Sleepers Initiative is often not reaching those mort at need. Research was carried out into London coronets' reports in the year to August The figures are published to coincide with the opening of winter shelters. Sport 300 Wjathjt 400 Heads 101 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:04/42 P+PILS' LAWYER DENIES DELUGE OF CLAIMS The lawyer representing two former pupils who plan to sue their old schools has denied it will lead to a flood of similar claims. The pair say the unnamed schools failed to provide the education they deserved. The teenagers want compensation for the tuition costs and loss of potential earnings while taking resits. Education chiefs and school governors fear a potential flood of legal action over poor exam results. Sport 300 Wjathet 400 Heads 101 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:41/13 JABS BROUGHT FORWARD AFTER SECOND DEATH Health chiefs have brought forward a vaccination programme at the University of Wales after a second student died from meningitis. The 19-year-old female pharmacy student, who was taken ill on Friday, died in intensive care early today. Another woman student died on Thursday and three others are still in hospital. The local director of public health says everything possible is being done to deal with the outbreak. Lottery 555 Index 102 Sport 300 Front page 100 Heads 101 Weather 400 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:27/16 U FOOD POISON CASES RISE AS INQUIRY OPENS An inquiry is set to bj opened into the outbreak of food poisoning which has killed five pensioners in Scotland. Doctors remain concerned about the condition of 23 patients being treated for the the E-cole bacterium. The number of people reported to be showing symptoms is up to 262. About half are confirmed as E-cole cases. But Prof Hugh Pennington, leading the Government inquiry, says the outbreak may have bj past its worst. Sport 300 Wjathjt 400 Heads 101 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:53/21 U DIPLOMATS HELP IN SERBIA ELJCTJON ROW Western diplomats are mediating between the Serbian government and opposition parties over an election dispute. Opposition liadjts have been mobilising sustained@street demonstrations against President Slobodan Milosevic. They are demanding that their cancelled local election victories bj restored. International officials could be asked to rule on original documentation from the disputed elections, according to a BBC correspondent. Sport 300 Wjathjt 400 Heads 101 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:55/44 DEATH CRASH AMBASSADOR REST%NS TO ZAIRE Zaire has recalled its ambassador to France after hj was involved in a c r crash in which two youths died. Ramazani Baza claimed diplomatic immunity from prosecution. Police said he was speeding when hj hit the boys on a pedestrian crossing in Minton. He was ordered back at the request of the French government. ne 13-year-old boy died instantly in the crash last Wednesday. The other, aged 12, died in hospital on Saturday. Features 540 News 101 Wjathjt 400 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wi^d Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:52/58 SHOOTING FANS ORGANISE PROTEST MARCH Gun ownjts and competitive shooters have staged a march in London to protest against proposed gun laws. More than 1,000 people marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square in opposition of a partial handgun ban. Meanwhile, the gun lobby has written to the Prime Minister expressing "deep concern" over the Firearms Bill. The Sportsman's Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland backs a Firearms Control Board instead, Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Front page 100 TV 6X0 Wjathjt 400 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:52/12 BBC DEFENDS ITS "INTEGRITY" OVER CHINA The BBC has dismissed claims that its reporting of China is being influenced by its commercial interests. The move comes after The Observer suggested BBC journalists were removed from stories about China for fear of offending the Beijing government. It was said the BBC did not want to provoke China as it wanted plenty of coverage of the transfer of Honk Kong. "The suggestion is totally false," a BBC joint statement said. Features 540 News 101 Weather 400 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:54/31 DOORMAN SHOT DEAD AT CROWDED NIGHTCLUB Police have launched a murder hunt after a doorman was gunned down and anothjt injured at a packed nightclub. The attack happened at the Island club in Ilford, east London. Police are looking for a gang of four men who drove off after the shooting. Roads wire sealed off around the club as armed police carried out searches and interviewed revellers. The motive for the attack is not known. Headlines 101 Flash 150 Sport 300 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CJEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:10/10 REPUBLICAN AND MITCHELL AIDE DENY LINK3 A leading Irish republican and a senior aide of Senator George Mitchell, c(airman of Ulster's multi-party talks, have denied meeting in secret. It appears MI5 has investigated alleged links between convicted IRA London bombjt Gerry Kelly and Martha Pope. A^d an intelligence sjtvici report is said to tell of Kelly's friendship with the Senator's Chief of Staff. But the Government says it is satisfied t(at no links have been forged. Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Front page 100 TV 600 Weathjt 400 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CJEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:54/14 Wjpqzjprzjprz J BIRMINGHAM FIRE CHILDREN LEAVE HOSPITAL Four of the five surviving children from a house fire in Birmingham have been discharged from hospital. The blaze in Longbridge killed four of their brothers and sisters on Friday. Laura Lacey, 14, and hit brothjts Anthony, 12, Luke, nine, and Jonathan, six, weti treated at Silly Oak Hospital for smoke inhalation and cuts. Their brothjt Damien, 10, remains in the burns unit white his mother, Sarah Eastwood, 31, is also being treated. Sport 300 Wjathjt 400 Heads 101 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:53/1 U ZAIRE PLAYS DOWN NEED FOR FOREIGN AID The refugee crisis in eastern Zaire is over and there is no need for foreign troops to be deployed there, the leader of the Tutsi rebel movement has claimed A scaled down multi-national force is being sent to help provide aid for Rwandans who have fled across the Zairian border to escape the fighting. The rebels have set conditions for cooperating with the force. Laurent Kabila is said to feel foreign troops will undermine his authority. Features 540 News 101 Weathjt 400 Latest 150 Extra 141 Index 102 Shop 'ind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:55/21 SHOOTING FANS ORGANISE PROTEST MARCH Gun owners and competitive shooters have staged a marcX in London to protest against proposed gun laws. More than 1,000 people marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square in opposition of a partial handgun ban. Meanwhile, the gun lobby has written to the Prime Minister expressing "deep concern" over the Firearms Bill. The Sportsman's Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland backs a Eirearms Control Board instead, Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Front page 100 TV 600 Weathjt 400 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main MenuP152 CEEFAX 2 152 Sun 01 Dec 23:52/11 BAD WEATHER POSTPONES NASA MARS ROCKET Nasa has postponed the launcX of a rocket carrying a Mars probe because of bad weather. The United States space agency has rescheduled the launcX for Tuesday. The Pathfinder probe is dui to land on the surface of the planet and beam pictures back to Earth. It would be the first probe to land on Mars since the United States Viking crafts went thjte 20 years ago. Features 540 News 101 Weathjt 400 Latest 150 Extra 140 Index 102 Shop Wind Switch On TV/Radio Main Menu