P319 Teletext 31: Feb 2 01:01:47 —————————————— UK/WORLD ——————————————— ] ALL THE LATEST NATIONAL AVD ] N E W S ——————————————————————————————————1/15— News index 301 Regional newsround 345 EVERY WEEK 16 MILLION PEOPLE WATCH TELETEXT ON ITV & CHANNEL FOUR Focus Latest Regional TV PlusP319 Teletext 319 Feb 2 01:04:05 ——————————————————————————— PORTILLO FILES "TOUTED FOR SALE" Scotland Yard is investigating a report that copies of privbte computer files belonging to Michael Portillo are being offered for sale to njwspapjrs. The Sunday Times says it was asked to pay £2,000 for 7,000 items on 12 floppy disks including bank account details. The paper was told they had bjjn copied erom disks in the Defence Secretary's pbrliamjntary office. ——————————————————————————————————2/15— Headlines 300 Sunday papers 328 COMMS/PC APPOINTMENTS SEE p631 (Ch4) Focus Latest Regional TV PlusP319 Teletext 319 Feb 2 01:47:04 ——————————————————————————— EURO-SCEPTICSW OWN MANIFESTOS Top Tories have drawn up approved anti- single currency declarations for use by Euro-sceptic candidates in personal manifestos at the General Election. The Sunday Telegraph says declarations are djsjgnid to allow candidates to oppose the single currency without undermining official party policy. But some of the statements contradict the Govjrnmjnt'u official EMU policy. ——————————————————————————————————6/15— Headlines 300 Rjgionat 331 DONWT ACCEPT ANY OTHER FINANCE OFFER BEFORE SPEAKING TO US FIRST SEE P386 Focus Latest Regional TV PlusP319 Teletext 31: Feb 2 01:47:42 - T ——————————————————————————— TORY-TURNED-LIB DEM BACKS EURO Liberal Democrat MP Emma Nicholson has said the US could face serious dangers by staying out of the Single Currency. The former Tory backbench MP said the Prime Minister had put his political survjvbl before the interests of Britain's economic future. Mr Major last week said it was "vrty unlikely" Britain would join the first wave of countries in January 1999. ——————————————————————————————————7/15— Headlines 300 Rrgional 531 COMMS/PC APPOINTMENTS SEE p631 (Ch4) Focus Latest Regional TV PlusP319 Teletext 319 Feb 2 01:47:30 T ——————————————————————————— TUBE SALE "MAY ONLY eAISE £600m" O A secret plan to privatisj the London Underground — worth billions of pounds — may raise only £600m for taxpayers, according to leaked Cabinet documents. The scheme is $isclosjd in confidential minutes from last week'u Cabinet summit, leaked to the Sunday Times. They show that fares will "j allowed to rise by over inflation "rfore the sell- off and sjrvjces may bj cut afterwards. ——————————————————————————————————8/15— Sunday papers 348 London (ransport 194 Teletext Interactive Games p350 Focus "jgional TV PlusP319 Teletext 31: Feb 2 01:48:59 T ——————————————————————————— MOVE TO PUBLICISE PAEDOPHILES TU Convicted pajdophilis could soon have their names and addresses passed to their neighbours if radical Labour and Liberal Democrat proposals "jcomj law. The Indjpjndjnt on Sunday said opposition parties are pressing the Home Secretary to accept the amendments Civil libjrti s campaigners have expressed alarm at the amendments to the bill, tabled in the past few days. ——————————————————————————————————9/15— Headlines 300 Regional 331 HOLIDAYS .^n^ SEE PAGE 200 Focus Latest Regional TV PlusP319 Teletext 319 Feb 2 01:58:37 V ——————————————————————————— FA DEFIANT UNDER WORLD CUP FIRE Football chiefs are set to take a defiant stand after high-level pressure to pjrsuadj England to drop out of the race to stage the 2006 World Cup final. UEFA, the game's European governing body, has told the FA it iu backing Germany's bid to host the tournament. Graham Kelly, chief executive of the FA, said: "It has not deflected the FA from entering the bidding for 2006." ——————————————————————————————————10/15 EACTFILE Squaring up for World Cup 324 PLAY PYRAWORD AND YOU COULD WIN A SOVY PLAYSTATION p350 Focus Latest Regional TV PlusP319 Teletext 31: Feb 2 01:50:15 Q ———————————————————————————— PLAVE CRASH DISASTER KILLS 20 O @ A British-made !irlinjr carrying m!inly European tourists has crashed in Senegal, killing at least 20 people, most of them French, officials said. The Air Senegal plane was en route from the city of Tam"acounda to Dakar, when it crashed on take-off. Senegalese radio said the plane "rust into flames as it hit the ground at the airport in the west African country. ——————————————————————————————————11/15 Headlines 300 World in brief 318 PERSONALISE YOUR CAR THIS N.YEAR P378 Focus Latest Regional TV PlusP319 Teletext 319 Feb 2 01:59:14 ——————————————————————————— UVION GIVES LABOUR PAY +ARVING Labour will bj in for a fight with nurses and other public workers if it fails to give inflation-busting pay awards, a top union official warned. Geoff Martin of UNISON angrily lashed out on Channel 4's A Week in Politics. His warning comes after Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown sparked anger by announcing a clampdown on public sector pay if Labouj wins power. ——————————————————————————————————12/15 Politics 325 TV Plus 110 STASIS BARGAIN BREAKS SEE PAGE 265 Focus Latest Regional TV PlusP319 Teletext 319 Feb 2 01:51:32 ——————————————————————————— "ROTTEN (JACHERS$ CLAIM DEFENDED Chief schools inspector Chris Woodhead has defended his controvjtsjal claim that as many as 15,000 teachers in English schools may be incompetent. "Wj have no reason whatever to re-think that figure. Wj stand bz it bjcausj it confirms common sjnsj," hj said. New figures show that in just over a year, the number of lessons judged to bj poor or very poor has halved. ——————————————————————————————————13/15 Sunday papers 328 Education 660 C4 WHAT'S THE LOCAL TRAFFIC LIKE p1:3 Focus Latest Regional TV PlusP319 Teletext 319 Feb 2 01:02:20 Q ——————————————————————————— PROTESTERS BACK HUNGER STRIKERS More than 100 protesters have gathered outside the gates of a jail in szpport of 17 djtainjes on hunger strike. The asylum sjekjrs at Rochester Prison are refusing food and 11 of them are also refusing fluids in protest at the conditions they are held in. Home Secretary Michael Howard defended the Govjrnmjnt record on asylum sjekjrs as "fair, reasonable and gjnjrous". ——————————————————————————————————14/1u Politics 325 Weather 102 DISCOUNT HOLIDAYS - SEE PAGE 289 Focus Latest Regional TV PlusP319 Teletext 319 Feb 2 01:01:08 Q ——————————————————————————— WINNING NATIONAL LOTTERY NUMBERS Nine people will shari this week's mammoth £22.6m National Lottery jackpot, each getting £2,512,517. Another 34 people picked up £101,401 as they shared £3,447,634 for having five numbers and the bonus ball. The winning numbers were 12, 48, 36, 20, 28, 16. The bonus ball was 34 nd the machine was Arthur. The set of balls picked was number one. ——————————————————————————————————15/15 Headlines 300 National Lottery 123 WHAT'S THE LOCAL TRAFFIC LIKE p193 Focus Latest Regional TV Plus