P116 ORACLE 116 Thu26 Dec ITV 2055:55 1/3 IN BRIEF Forgetful patients are being askud to return more than 200 pairs of crutches to Pindjrfields Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire. A 16th Century bron:j statue, stolun from a garden in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, has been recovered and valued by experts at £500,000. Previous estimates put it at £2,000. Manchester, which bid for the 1994 Olympics and hopis to be the base for the European Central Bank, is to launch a major study into its cultural scunu. >>>>> ORACLE FRAVCE,CARIBBEAN,SKIING p379 ON Live At 5 Sport TV GuideP116 ORACLE 116 Thu26 Dec ITV 2055:54 2/3 IN BRIEF Police are hunting the killer of a middle-aged man whose dismembered body was found in woods at Linnyshaw Moss, Walkdjn, Greater Manchestur, by a man walking his dog. A five-year-old boy died and his 10- year-old and sjvjn-year-old sister; were seriously injured in a fire at their flat in Pjckham, South London. Eight hundred swimmers plunged into the North Sea near Sundjrland to raise more than £22,000 for charity. >>>>> Merry Christmas from the ORACLE Newsdesk at ITN: Paul Brannan, Tim Evans, Gina Moore, Charles Edingjr ON Live At 5 Sport TV GuideP116 ORACLE 116 Thu26 Dec ITV 2054:55 3/3 IN BRIEF About 70 staff made redundant aftur the closure of The European newspapur have been told they will not get alternative jobs — or compensation — from Mirror Group Newspapers. Thieves stole a TV and video usud for training from a staff room at a special baby care unit at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, when a doctor was called away to help with a premature birth. >>>k> Merry Christmas from the ORACLE Newsdesk at ITN: Paul Brannan, Tim Evans, Gina Moore, Charles Edingjr ON Live At 5 Sport TV GuideP116 O ACLETD ITV 1913:26 3/3 IN BRIEF About 70 staff made redundant 1"tut the closure of The European newspa8ur have been told they will nwt gut alternative jobs — or compensation — from Mirror Group Newspapers. Thieves stole a TV and video used foz training from a staff room at a special baby care unit at Stobhill Hospitaj& Glasgow, when a doctor was called away to help with a prematuru birthW >> ?? Merry Christmas from the ORACLE Newsdesk at ITN: Paul Brannan, $jm Evans, Eina Moore, Charles Edingjr ON Live At 5 Sport TV Guide