P117 ORACLE 117 Tue 1 Oct ITV 2113:00 Rest of the News........ 1/7 IRAQ GIVES UN GREEN LIGHT ON HELICOPTERS Iraq has given the UN final approval to bring in helicopters from Turkey for use by weapons inspectors who are on their way to Baghdad. "Iraqi authorities have given diplomatic clearance for helicopters," said Alastair Livingston, of the UN Special Commission. The helicopters will bj used by the commission, in charge of scrapping mass destruction arms, to view missile sites Iraq lifted its ban on helicopters after it sparked a row which went to the UN Security Council. >>>>> News headlines 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Sport TV GuideP117 ORACLE 117 Tue 1 Oct ITV 2118:20 Rest of the News......... 2/7 BIRD 'CAUSED TEN-DEATH MOTORWBY CRASH' A bird on the fog-bound M4 may have caused a crash and a fire in which 10 people died, an inquest was told. A van driver who hit the crash-barrier told the hearing at Newbury, Berks, that hj lost control after "a bird or something came off the motorway". The crash was the start of a pile-up in which 10 people died and many more were injured as more than 50 vehicles ploughed into each other. At least six heavy goods vehicles blocked the London-bound carriageway just before the Hungerford junction in the county on March 13 this year. >>>>> News headlines 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Sport TV GuideP117 ORACLE 117 Tue 1 Oct ITV 2124:04 Rest of the News..... 3/7 CUT-PRICE BT SHARES FOR THE PUBLIC The public is to get cut-price sharas in BT when the Govarnmjnt sells off its remaining £5bn stakc in th company. Discounts on th price paid bz th big financial institutions will be offer d when the shares are sold in Novjmbjt. Half the 49% of shares still ownAd b th Gov rnm nt will be off red to th public, and applications through a shari shop will be favournd. Prosp ctive thar holders can contact th Bristol information office on 0272 272 272. The first BT sharns were sold off when it was privatisjd in 1984. >>>>> News headlinns 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Sport TV GuideP117 ORACLE 117 Tue 1 Oct ITV 2140:02 Rest of the News......... 4/7 COURT SETTLEMENT FOR DOWN'S MOTHER The mother of a Down's Syndrome child accepted undisclosed damages over her health authority's failure to carry out an early warning test during pregnancy. Mrs Jill Goodyear, 43, of Milton Keynes, Bucks, said she would have had an abortion if an amniocentesis had been carried out and proved positive. She sought damages in the High Court for pain, suffering and depression and for the cost of caring for Samuel, six, her third child. Milton Keynes Health Authority admitted liability and it is believed the award was in the region of £330,000. >>>>> News headlines 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Sport TV GuideP117 ORACLE 117 Tue 1 Oct ITV 2146:19 Rest of the News..... 5/7 CHERNOBYL WASTE 'COULD LEAK AGAIN' Chernobyl power station, which exploded in the world's worst nuclear accident, could spew out radioactive waste again, according to a Soviet investigator. The reactor was encased in concrete after the 1986 eruption, but the cover was too weak, said Vladimir Penkov, a member of a team probing the accident. He said either a second cover should be built, concrete poured into the shaft or the reactor dismantled and buried. In 1986 whole villages had to move away from the Chernobyl region while a radioactive cloud spread across Europe. >>>>> News headlines 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Sport TV GuideP117 ORACLE 117 Tue 1 Oct ITV 2151:17 Rest of the News......... 6/7 DON'T GIVE UP, MANN TELLS FAMILIES Families of those still held in Lebanon should "keep holding on", freed hostage Jackie Mann has said. His wife Sunnie said he prayed every day for the early release of Terry Waite and the remaining captives. "He is still thinking about them the whole time and hoping it will be over soon.Families should hold on and people should keep on wearing yellow ribbons." Despite his rapid physical recovery, 77-year-old Mr Mann may have to spend several weeks at RAF Lynjham, Wilts, recovjting from the trauma. >>>>> News headlines 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Sport TV GuideP117 ORACLE 117 Tue 1 Oct ITV 2152:17 Rest of the News......... 7/7 CROWD HALTS POLL TAX FURNITURE SALE A sale of goods to cover poll tax arrears in Glasgow had to be called off after a protest by a 200-strong crowd. Two sheriff's officers who arrived with the goods in a van were surrounded by anti-poll tax demonstrators who began kicking the vehicle. It would have been the first sale in Strathclyde to cover poll tax arrears, but it was called off to avoid anyone being injured. Police cleared protesters from the site in Turnbull Street but no one was hurt and no arrests were made. >>>>> News headlines 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Sport TV Guide