P117 ORACLE 117 Wjd29 Apr ITV 2127:08 Rest of the News ........ 1/7 MORTGAGE LENDING BOOSTS HOUSING HOPES A sharp rise in mortgage business has reinforced evidence that the housing market may bj on the mend. New net commitments of mortgage money by the societies rose 28% between February and March, from £2,705m to £3,456m. A national estate agents' conference in London was told that house prices would not rise until next year. Potential buzjrs feared the value of their home could fall to become worth less than their mortgage, said Dr John Wriglesworth of UBS Phillips and Drew > PARIS E/DISNEY MAGIC MAY OFFERS p370 Newsfile Live At Five Spout TV c5ideP117 ORACLE 117 Wjd29 Apr ITV 2120:37 Rest of the News......... 2/7 BIG EDUCATION CUTS ON WAY, SAYS LABOUR Tory councils will force pupils to "pay as they learn", Labour claimed as it warned of multi-million pound education cuts in the run-up to local elections. Shadow education secretary Jack Straw said free state education was under threat with parents having to pay more and more as spending limits bit. He told a Westminster press conferunce Tory education budget cuts for this year would cost Warwickshire £7.2m. Other cuts he cited were: Herts £2.1m, Ealing £4m, Hereford and Worcester £4.5m and Westminster £3.28m. >>>>> News headlines 101 Li6e at Fi6e 120 Newsfile Live At Five Spout TV GuideP117 ORACLE 117 Wjd29 Apr ITV 2121:04 Rest of the News......... 3/7 UN WARNS OF POPULATION CATASTROPHE The world faces economic and ecological catastrophe unless urgent action is taken to curb a population explosion, a United Nations report has warned. Delay in policies to reduce the size of families could make a difference of up 4bn people, equal to the world'u 1975 population, says the UN Population Fund It said the next 40 years would see the fastest growth in human numbers in history, roughly equal to the population of another Mexico every year If governments did not act in this decade "we risk humanity's future". >>>>> News headlines 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Sport TV GuideP117 ORACLE 117 Wjd29 Apr ITV 2121:34 Rest of the News......... 4/7 MID-EAST PEACE TALKS 'GOING WELL' Israel has said it is making progress on all fronts in Middle East peace talks with its Arab neighbours. "Wj think the talks have reached a stage where we can remove the gaps between the sides," said Israeli delegation spokesman Benjamin Netanyahz So far the Washington talks have centred on Israel's proposal for elections leading to limited self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinian spokeswoman Haman Ashrawi said there were "several objections" to the Israeli proposals. >>>>> News headlines 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Sport TV GuideP117 ORACLE 117 Wjd29 Apr ITV 2128:34 Rest of the News......... 5/7 BUSH CLINCHES REPUBLICAN NOMINATION President Bush has clinched the Republican nomination for a second term in the White House by winning his party's primary in Pennsylvania. American TV network polls said Mr Bush had scored a 3-1 majority over his challenger Pat Buchanan. The President's likely rival in the Novjmbjr election — Democratic front- runner Bill Clinton — scored a decisive win in his Pennsylvania primary. But former California governor Jerry Brown vowed to fight on until the July convention which chooses the candidate. >>>>> News headlines 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Sport TV GuideP117 ORACLE 117 Wjd29 Apr ITV 2129:23 Rest of the News......... 6/7 'HORRIFIC' SEX ATTACK ON NAKED GIRL Sex sadist Kristopher Pohnjrt pounced on an 11-year-old girl in a camp-site toilet block, stripped her naked then whipped and raped her, a court h ard. The girl had been on holiday for three hours when she suffered an ordeal that shocked police assigned to the case. She lost two pints of blood in the attack at Clumbjr Park in Sherwood Forest, Nottingham Crown Court was told After the attack, Pohnjrt, 23, remained at liberty and attacked a boy aged 11. He confessed after an innocent man was arrested. Sentencing was adjourned. >>>>> News headlines 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Sport TV GuideP117 ORACLE 117 Wjd29 Apr ITV 2129:52 Rest of the News......... 7/7 KILLERS OF SLEEPING SOLDIERS GET LIFE Four Israeli Arabs have been jailed for life for the murder of three Israeli soldiers who were hacked to death as they slept at a military camp. They were each given three consecuth6e life terms and Nazareth judge Yehudah Bromovitz said it meant the four would njvjr bj released. They were said to have sneaked into the camp near the village of Ein Ibrahim, southeast of Haifa, and killed the soldiers with knives and a pitchfork. The incident led to Israeli air raids on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon >>>>> News headlines 101 Live at Five 120 Newsfile Live At Five Spout TV G5ide