Lately I’ve been wearing so much hot pink and bright yellow! I think they are super pretty togheter! They kind of remind me of summer! 🙂

Ultimamente sto indossando spessissimo il fucsia e il giallo! Adoro questi due colori insieme! Mi ricordano il caldo e l’estate! 🙂

Indosso / I’m wearing: – Zara dress – Louis Vuitton bag – Valentino rockstud heels and rockstud bracelet – As always, h bracelet and Michael Kors watch

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• imt'jA: 6V: .:.i P ■ FREDERICK WESTS voice echoed from beyond the grave around a hushed courtroom yesterday as,his taped confes¬ sions to murder were played in the defends of his widow. Rosemary. In a dispassionate voice, he admitted murdering and dis¬ membering his daughter Heather and other young women, most of whose names he could not remember. His claims, that he alone was responsible for the killings, were the first time the recorded confessions of a dead witness had been produced in a murder trial. West's taped interviews with detectives ran to more than 145 recordings totalling 110 hours; only four were played ro Winchester Crown Court, taking the entire day. Mrs West sobbed in the dock as her husband described in his Gloucester¬ shire accent with surgical detail Heather’s murder in 19S7: “She had a smile and a sort of smirk on her face ... 1 can just remember lunging for her throat and the next minute she had gone blue." He said he had then used a 12-inch knife with a serrated blade to dismember her. “I cut her legs off ... then 1 cut her head off. then I put her in the dustbin. Put the lid on and rolled it down the bottom of the garden behind the wendy house, covered it up and left it there.” Heather West’s body was later to be buried beneath the patio at 25 Cromwell Street and her remains were the first to be unearthed by police. West, who also described killing his first wife and her daughter, told police: “The thing I'd like to stress... Rose knew nothing at all.” He said that he had had affairs with his other victims and they had all been killed because they threatened to fell his wife. “Everyone of them did exactly the same thing — T love you. I'm pregnant. I’m going to tell Rose and I want yon to come and live with me’. That was the problem." Still in a detached, matter- of-fact tone. West was heard describing how he hatched a plot to prevent his first wife, Rena Costello, taking her sev¬ en-year-old daughter away from him. “1 took Rena m the pub and got her absolutely paraletic and then took her out to the country and I strangled her, cut her up and buried her." lie said. Charmaine. who had earlier been given a bottle of lager to drink, was asleep in the back of the car while her mother was murdered. “There was Charmaine in the back ... 1 thought what am! going to do now? So anyway I stranged her while she was sleeping because there’s no other way I could have touched her." Wests aid he then took the child's body back to his home at 25 Midland Road, Glouces¬ ter, and buried her beneath the basement But the court was told later that after two months of interviews with police during which he said he had acted alone. Mr West was to change his story. On April 29 last year he said: “I have not told the whole truth. The main reason for this has been from the first day of this inquiry to protect other person or persons. There's nothing else I wish to say at this time." Detective Constable Darren Law. one of the officers who interrogated him, said police were convinced that West — who hanged himself in Winson Green prison on New Year’s Day — had told “lie after lie” during his interrogation. The trial continues on Tuesday. Taped evidence, pages 6.7 iftWT*' '• l to >i V-- ■- Tl i Manchester wins Games Manchester will stage the Co mm on wealth Games in the Queen's golden jubilee year of 200Z It will be the first time the Gaines have been held in England since 1934- Page 48 Barclay twins buy The Scotsman By Gillian Bowditch, Scotland correspondent Model denial rose... Jackie St Clair, a former topless model, has written to 77ie Times to deny reports of a romance with the late Duke of Northumberland —Page 19 jt .. 3&EV:- Baying TTw Hares overseas Austria Sell 40: Belgium c&nada &3S; Caiurtei res M5. Cvprus CU .20: Denmark Dfcr l8.o« Finland Flm HUM: France. F 'i££S BreteeTw 45ft L 4.500: ft Z0.0ft Portugal con ^ 35ft Spain Pts 325: Sweden SXr 18.00: SndnerUnd S Fts 4.00: Tunisia Din 2JHw USA S3. SO. 9 n 770 140 u 046367 The Scotsman, one of Scot¬ land’s oldest and most presti¬ gious newspapers, has been sold to David and Frederick Barclay, the twins who own The European, the London Ritz and the Howard Hotel in London. TTie price is about £90 million. Speculation intensified last night that the brothers will transform the impressive multi-storey Scotsman build¬ ing on Edinburgh’s North Bridge into the “Edinburgh Ritz" and transfer the news- .paper to a purpose-built plant on the outskirts of the city. The Barclay brothers, who last month sold their stake in the casino group London Clubs Internationa/ for £68 million, are buying The Scots¬ man and its sisier publication Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News. The remaining Scottish titles formerly owned by Thomson Regional Newspa¬ pers — the Press & Journal and the Evening Express in Aberdeen — are to be sold to Northdiffe Newspapers, the regional arm of Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail for £82 million. This deal is subject to a review by the Monopolies and Merg¬ ers Commission. Associated Newspapers is also believed to be in talks with Caledonian Publishing, owners of The Scotsman's main rival. The Herald. If this deal goes through the long- running war between the Ed¬ inburgh-based Scotsman and the Glasgow-based Herald is likely to intensify. For the intensely private Barclay brothers, The Scots¬ man adds another strong brand name to their portfolio of businesses, said to be worth £500 million. It also focuses unwelcome publicity on them. Magnus Linklaler, page 2 £*=> ‘L. - At- " WEATHER.. 24 LETTERS.21 CROSSWORD...24 OBITUARIES.23 COURT & SOCIAL.22 SIMON JENKINS.20 t—' 1 . BOSS SETFORD : "A ’• .Cl, "•?.;>i. —£. c \l- r.- . IS® m V •’■2? : ttiSK&FiZ \ A mmm jm?: ,.-r- " r - - ■ ».v ' THE Duke of Edinburgh stepped into the French nuclear tests row yesterday by backing a call for an investigation into the Mururoa atoll underground explosions, and saying the rest of the Royal Family agreed with him. Speaking as the World Wide Fund for Nature’s President — he was in Wellington to launch a campaign to protect a rare reptile, the tuatara [above] — he said of the Testing: “There is a suspicion that it's doing damage and if you’re concerned with the conservation of narure, you want to make sure whether it is or isn’t" His remarks may embarrass John Major, who has backed France’s right to test Apology to Maoris, page 14 Safety fear as sales of fireworks boom By Michael Horsnell Simon Jenkins on Shakespeare and the Prince Page 20 Anew lease ol Hfeforthe panda Page 13 PLUS Baubles, bangles and Brunei Page 8 The sermon of the year Page 10 DEMAND for fireworks was expected to rocket today after forecasters predicted a dear and dry bonfire night. But there was a warning from safety campaigners who yes¬ terday lobbied Downing Street for tougher controls. While emergency services were fearing an increase in the annual toll of injuries, shops reported buoyant sales helped by the prospect of a wind-free, but frosty, weekend. At Hamleys toy store in London, where some thought nothing of spending more than £2,000 on fireworks, the most popular buys included the Palm Tree Rocket at £27. the Triplex Bomber Rocket [£20] and the Silver Streak Ground Mine [£8], while at the “softer" end of the market the Flower Basket [£20] and Singing Birds [£10] sold well. The store also sold safety goggles, showed a safety video and handed out leaflet. After two decides of decline, a 15-year high in accidents was recorded last year when two people died and 1.500 were hurt. The fireworks industry had been deregulated in Nov¬ ember 1993 as parr of a European free trade initiative. It removed the requirement for import licences, which had previously enabled officials to monitor supplies, and has been blamed for the arrival of dangerous fireworks from China — some of them via Holland. The National Campaign for Fireworks Reform railed for new licensing regulations in a letter delivered to Downing Street yesterday. Noel Tobin, campaign director, said: "We are alarmed that after last year, where there was a 50 per cent increase in injuries over
• things could get still worse." He launched a five* point safety plan which in Continued on page 3, ooi I BUSINESS NEWS.25-28 WEEKEND MONEY..2M8 SPORT.41-48 GARDENING: WEEKENDS BOOKS: WEEKEND ..14,15 TRAVEL: WEEKEND, lfr-21 Yeltsin gives up some power to Prime Minister From Thomas de Waal in Moscow PRES1 DENT Yeltsin’s grip on power slipped further yester¬ day when he temporarily ced¬ ed responsibility for Russian security and foreign policy to Viktor Chernomyrdin, his Prime Minister. The two men met in the Central Clinical Hospital for the first time since Mr Yeltsin’s heart attack last week. In the first television pictures Mr Yeltsin, wearing a tracksuit, looked puffy under the eyes and sounded slurred. “1 feel all right" he said in a low, tired voice. "Now my recovery is going to plan and a doctors’ conference considers me twice a day. We have to restore me to normal, but there are no more dangers." Afterwards Mr Cherno¬ myrdin, who is the constitu¬ tional heir to the president said he had temporarily as¬ sumed responsibilty for the Defence. Interior and Foreign ministries, as well as the Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB. Nor¬ mally these ministers report directly to Mr Yeltsin. The fYime Minister said Mr Yeltsin was "on the mend." but that h was important not to "overload the president with work". “He must be partially relieved of these duties so that he can recover." he added. “But of course we seek the president's advice on all key questions." The so-called nuclear “suit¬ case" with special codes for the launch of nuclear weapons appears to have stayed with Mr Yeltsin. The handover of powers further undermines Mr Yeltsin’s hopes of being re¬ elected president next sum¬ mer. Correspondingly, it enhances Mr Chernomyrdin's case to be his official succes¬ sor. The news also fits with unsubstantiated but persistent rumours in Moscow that Mr Yeltsin's heart attack last week was much more serious than the one he suffered in July. Asked if Mr Yeltsin had personally asked him to take over control of the four “power ministers" Mr Chernomyrdin merely said cryptically: “I could see it in his eyes that Chernomyrdin should work harder” Double-edged sword, page 12 WAKEY WAKEY! APPMVEO nOMTMUT AFFKOVED OYEMMAFT OVCatMUFT FEE RAT* APR ABBEY NATIONAL £0 9.9% BARCLAYS £5 19.2% LLOYDS £8 19.4% MIDLAND £7 16.7% NAT WEST £9 18.9% For a free transfer pack and video call us free on: 0800 375 375 Jin*.' The. habit of a lifetime I WAKE UP TO FRESHER BANKING. I a l Rale may »- Jr r anil itc correct at him: uf guing in preu CnmparlMnr are haac-d on int.-reit hearing current account?. QvrrdntU are nub|c« u> iiiaiua anil an- nut ■TiiUhlr to prr»un< unJcr IS year*. Written c}uonii«n& are available un reotivM. 4PR of It variable. 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Claiming that MPS work a seven-day week, the Conservatives have called for MPs’ £33,189 salary to be almost quadru¬ pled, or for Sir Gordon’s to be drastically reduced, either to the same level as that of MPS or to £18,964 to take into account his shorter working week. Sir Gordon, 67, will monitor the Register of MPS’ Interests, offer advice to MPs and provide induction courses in “conduct, propriety and ethics” to new members. He will also be in charge of initial investigations into complaints that MPs have breached a code of conduct Patrick Nicholls. MP for Teign- bridge, said that the amendments were tabled to draw attention to the “ridiculous” pay being offered to Sir Gordon rather than to demand a massive salary increase for MPs. Maijorie Mondam, Labours Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, said last night “This is just another example of Conservative msesnivfty and arrogance. It is dearly indefensi¬ ble that an MP should be paid £126,000. The salary we have at present is quite reasonable for the work we do. It will confirm die public’s view of the seediness of Conservative politicians." Mr Nicholls is among the 125 Tory MPs aleged by Labour to have between them 270 posts as consul¬ tants and parliamentary advisers. Earlier, senior Tories offered backbench colleagues a compromise over disclosure of outside earnings to help avert an embarrassing Com¬ mons defeat. The MPs tabled an amendment calling for Labour’s proposal that all earnings should be declared to be raised after the next election rather than introduced by March. Their move came as Tony Newton, the leader of the Commons, conceded that even if the Govern¬ ment wins next week’s vote, it would be seen to have been helping MPs to protect their own financial interests. Mr Newton, who chaired die Commons select committee that rec¬ ommended against public disclosure of earnings related to Parliament, was asked whether next week’s vote represented a “no-win situation" for the Tories. He replied; “You may be right That's just die way of the worid.” The Prime Minister's stance against disclosure is threatened by a revolt by at least ten Conservative MPs, enough to overturn the Govern¬ ment's technical majority of eight if there is a full turn-out of MFs. Although officially MPs have been oven a free vote, both leaderships have been whipping heavily to en¬ sure victory. Labour intensified its campaign yesterday in the nuHip to Monday’s vote, with local election candidates and officials writing to their constitu¬ ency Tory MPs, urging than to vote against the Government, and if not challenging diem to explain why. The party is targetting Tories in marginal seats who feel most nervous about allegations of sleaze. . Barclay twins pledge to respect tradition Proud Scots institution again sold to outsiders By Magnus Unklater FOR only the second time this century 77 je Scotsman has changed hands. Once again a rich and unknown proprietor has stepped in to take over a title that is regarded as a Scottish institution rather than just another newspaper. Last time around, in 1953. it was Roy Thomson, the Cana¬ dian millionaire, who saved the paper from bankruptcy. He picked it up fin- a bargain £393.750. which he achieved by selling off part of the block that came with the building. The intervention of this brash foreigner was regarded at the time with grave suspi¬ cion by the citizens of Edin¬ burgh, but he turned The Scotsman into a profitable paper, saw it climb to a circulation of more than 80.000. and went on to launch Scottish Television with enor¬ mous success. “There must be something wrong in. this coun¬ try when a fellow like me can make so much money." he remarked candidly. Things are rather different now. The Barclay brothers are buying a paper which finds itself in the centre of a price- cutting war. defending a circu¬ lation that has been hit by the London broadsheet papers, and fighting for advertising revenue against a background of soaring newsprint costs. But it remains profitable. Scotsman Publications, which includes the Evening News. Scotland on Sunday, and some free-sheet papers, all based in Edinburgh, made £9 million on a £45 million turnover in its last financial year. It still has a circulation of 80.000 and, with a high pro¬ portion of ABC1 readers, has an enviable advertising pro¬ file. That may explain the price the Barclays had to pay. believed to be at least £100 mil¬ lion. Even in real terms that is more than Roy Thomson could ever have contemplated. The Barclay brothers have promised to respect the tradi¬ tions of the paper. They will have also to decide on die fu¬ ture of a building that is a throwback to a long-vanished newspaper era. Built around the turn of the century, it is a The headquarters of Scotsman Publications overlooking Waverley station 14-floor Victorian gothic struc¬ ture. its basement giving onto the railway platform where newspapers were once bun¬ dled onto a special train. Inside, wood-panelled walls bear the names of previous editors embossed in gold, while portraits and statues of venerable proprietors long gone adorn a rabbit warren of offices and corridors. Above the editors desk, in a room Rot Thomson: paid £400,000 in 1953 that looks out over Waverley station to the Scott Monument on Princes Street, one of the finest city views in Scotland, is a gold-engraved slogan: “The Conductors pledge themselves for impartiality, firmness and independence ... their first desire is to be honest, the second to be useful ... the great requisites for the task are only good sense, courage and industry." The paper’s appeal for two brothers whose purchases have included The Ritz hotel and The European news¬ paper, is probably more than just its profit figures. The Scotsman is one of that select band of newspapers whose name is recognised through¬ out the world. It punches above its weight as a national rather than a regional paper and offers a similar diet of United Kingdom and interna¬ tional news from a base that is strongly Scottish. Its masthead proclaims it¬ self as Scotland’s National Newspaper — a description hotly disputed by the The Herald in Glasgow, which has a considerably higher circulation — and it has been an outspoken voice for Scot¬ tish interests ever since it was founded in 1817. proclaiming: “We have not chosen the name of Scotsman to preserve an invidious distinction, but with the view of rescuing it from the odium of servility." The Barclay Brothers are buying the paper at a crucial time in its development With Labour's promise of a Scottish Parliament a key issue in the run-up to the next election. The Scotsman is likely to play an important part in the national debate. But it can no longer expect to occupy its Scottish territory unchallenged. It will need greater investment than its previous owners were pre¬ pared to give it. and a new management which can inject the kind of energy and innova¬ tion that will enable it to com¬ pete with rival newspapers that have shown every sign of giving it a run for its money. Magnus Unklater was Editor of Tbs Scotsman I9SS-94 Barclays buy papers, page I Ancram holds out over IRA arms The Government rejected demands last sight from Sinn Fein to call immediate all-party talks. Michael Ancram. the Northern Ireland minister, told the party during talks at Stormont that die IRA would have to begin to decommis¬ sion its arms before Sum Fern could join full talks. Mr Ancram said afterwards that Sinn Fein’S proposals, drawn up with the Social Democratic and Labour Party, were unacceptable because they called for the Government to fix a date, rather than a target date, for all-party talks. They also wanted an international disarmament commis¬ sion to examine all weapons, including the Army’s- Martin McGmnness, who led the Sinn Fein delegation, said the Government was squandering the peace process. Support for divorce law The Lord Chancellor, Lord Mackay of Ctashfern. has won support from Roman Catholic bishops for his Divorce Law Reform BQL The Right Rev Peter Smith, chairman of Oie Bishops’ Committee for Marriage and Family life, said the bin. which has been attacked by Tory MPs and some members of the Cabinet had many positive aspects. Boxer loses legal fight A move by Lennox Lewis to stop Frank Bruno defending his World Boxing Council heavyweight crown against Mike Tyson instead of him was halted by Mr Justice Kadte at file High Court yesterday. He ruled dial the WBC rules provided for the exclusive jurisdiction of disputes in Dallas. Texas. The fight is scheduled for March 16. Missing clerk ‘in France’ The police hunt for Gerry Taylor. 45. a town derk who disappeared at the same time as £100.000 went missing from Whitworth Town Council near Rochdale, Lancashire, has switched to France. Mr Taylor, who daimed to have been in naval intelligence and had recently split from his wife; left dues suggesting he had gone to Moscow. Labour identity mix-up The Labour Party agrced*m die High Court to lift.the sus¬ pension from membership of Gias Choudhnry, apologise and pay his costs. The party had suspended him after a tele¬ vision programme on the reselection of Gerald Kaufman as candidate for Manchester Gorton. Yesterday. Labour admitted confusing Mr Choudhnry with someone else. Journalists sentenced Two journalists who posed as television producers to dupe dothes stores and computer manufacturers out of thousands of pounds worth of goods were sentenced by Southwark Crown Court London. Quilliam Potter, 29. and Gillian Hunter. 30, both of Exeter, were put on 18 months* probation with community service of 100 and 60 hours. Mackay backs tribute Courts across the country could fall silent next Saturday as support grows for a two-minute silence 50 years on from the end of the Second World War. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Mackay of Clashfem. has said that he had no objections to the Royal British Legion’s call for the silence to be observed in courts, only a handful of which will be sitting. -V: si To buy off the page, simply turn to -Weekend Mohey* for an application form. There will be information on investments and seasonal opportunities from National Savings in this space every week. For a copy of the foil terms & conditions of today’s offer, or for a free copy of our Virtual Shop Guide covering all National Savings' unique investment opportunities, you can call us free anytime on 0500 500 000 . 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We will go into exile together’ Boy saved by millionaire fights deportation order By Andrew Pierce A FORMER Nepalese moun¬ ter bey, who is the heir to an 18th-century English castle and a £15 million fortune, is facing deportation from his stately home. Jay Khadka, 19, was rescued from a life of poverty in Nepal by Richard Morley, a millionaire busi¬ nessman, to honour an ex¬ traordinary pact with the teenager's dying lather. Mr Morley. 41. squire of Clearweti Castle in the Forest of Dean, has said he will leave Britain if the Home Office does not lift the deportation order. Mr Morley. who has brought up Jay as his son since July 1990, said last night: M He has grown into a fine, cultured young Englishman. We call each other father and son. If he goes, I go, too." Their meeting came about after Mr Morley punctured a lung in a climbing accident in Nepal in 1984. Jay's father Basu, a policeman, trekked for three days through the moun¬ tains to find a telephone to seek help for Mr Morley. After making a hill recov¬ ery. Mr Morley traced the father to his village. Kalopani. “He did not want money. But be feared for his son because he had a heart condition. He made me promise that if anything happened to him I would care for Jay. We shook hands on it." Mr Morley. a former naval officer who made his fortune in comput¬ ers. was true to his word. In 1990 he returned to Nepal after the death of Basu and spent a month tracking down Jay. He was living in a mountain village and working in a stone mine. He did not speak a word of English. Jay was brought to England and lived first at Mr Motley's seafront fiat in Margate. Kent “He loved iL He had never seen the sea before." Mr Morley said. Clearweli Castle was bought by Mr Morley. a widower, in 1994. He shares it with his girlfriend. Jay and five servants. The teenager was educated at home and had a daily diet of Dickens. Orwell and Homer. He also studied fine art and enjoys Mozart. Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. Mr Morley. who has no children, has made Jay heir to his fortune, which includes a E220.000 flat in Bloomsbury. London, the Margate apart¬ ment. an art collection, and a 5.000-book library at the castle. Jay faces expulsion because he entered Britain on a visi¬ tor's visa which was not extended. Mr Morley said: “When we found him Jay did not know how old he was. There was no birth certificate. Immigration authorities sug¬ gested we put IS on his passport, which was the mini¬ mum age required for him to leave Nepal. “It was obvious when we arrived home that he was much younger. The Home Office said we could not adopt him because we had to accept he was 18. the age on his passport. I have spent five years battling to overcome this bureaucracy." Mr Morley was advised that the only legal mechanism by which Jay could stay was to secure “indefinite leave to remain". He said: "We lodged an appeal on compassionate grounds. We have got no¬ where. Jay could be deponed any day. “To throw him out of this country, and into an alien culture, is inhumane. He can¬ not read or write his own language. Whatever happens to him. will happen to us." Jay, who speaks with a refined English accent, said:"l have grown up in this society. I have a new father whom 1 love. If I had not come to England 1 would probably still be working down the mines. I may not have sur¬ vived. I'm grateful for the chance I have been given." A deportation notice was Richard Morley has bequeathed his fortune to the teenager whose father helped him after a mountaineering accident issued in 1994. A Home Office spokeswoman said: "There is a procedure for when foreign nationals come here which has to be followed." The stress of the deportation banle lias led to the closure of a hotel at the castle. Jay. who had combined his studies with a course in hotel management, was the head chef. Mr Morley. whose computer company em¬ ploys 20 people, said: “There is no way I am going to put my son on a plane and say goodbye. We will go into exile together. For good." The castle that Jay stands to inherit is built on the site of an old Roman villa, which later became a 16th-century manor house where Sir Walter Ra¬ leigh reputedly courted Eliza¬ beth Throckmorton. After the Civil War it was acquired by the Wyndham family who built the present neo-Gothic property in 1726. The castle, built of sand¬ stone. was bought in 1909 by Colonel Charles Vereker. Roy¬ al Artillery, retired. It flour¬ ished despite a fire in 1929. But when the colonel died in 1947 the castle was left to rot. In the 1950s it was derelict. The roof leaked: floors had collapsed. The rot was only stopped when Frank Yeates. who was bom in a serf's cottage on the estate in I9L\ bought it for E2.000 in 1953. He was an unlikely lord of the manor, living with his wife, two children and mother in a caravan in the overgrown grounds. Within three months the couple had taught them¬ selves plumbing, brick-laying, carpentry and rewiring from do-it-yourself manuals. They then set about renovation us¬ ing sometimes odd methods. Ceiling coves were restored with gelatine. During the res¬ toration the cornices were held up with Meccano and pyjama cord. In 1982 Mr Yeates*s widow. Alice, part-exchanged the cas¬ tle for another imposing resi¬ dence. Widecorabe Manor. The estate was then turned into a hotel and conference centre. «s to fop i rank Bnir.n dcfenfliaj wndl heavyweight cr.-r.o on svas b, V, r U »iiur fun^ Tfllav He ruied -.has :hi V. Bt ratj ftftdw 'iirisii’itk.n ..} di-Diiifv 3

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I he new Duke of Northumberland, iiaid yesterday that he is dreading the responsibility thin his title brings. In his first public comments since be¬ coming the I2ih duke on the death of his brother Harry last Tuesday, he spoke of the sudden change in lifestyle he must now experience. “As a very private family man. public stature is quite a burden and it b with some trepidation thar I take it on." he said. *1 cannot say thai Harry’s death was totally unexpected, but it was still a great shock and because of his high media profile it has plunged me and my family jnto a world of publicity that is alien [o us. “1 face this task with a great asset, my wife Jane. Without her love, loyalty' and support it would be twice as hard. ! also have a large and united family to help and tell me when I am doing wrong." The duke. 3S. is already familiar with running the huge family' estates in North- The late 11th duke: a romantic, say workers umberland. having become chairman of its controlling company some time ago. His older brother had taken the more formal role of president as his debilitating M E-type ailment increasingly restrict¬ ed his activities. 'Ihe duke lives in a farm¬ house on the Northumber¬ land estate, 15 miles from the the family seat at Alnwick Castle. There have been sug¬ gestions [hat he is unwilling Deal agreed to end union sponsorship of Labour MPs By Jill Sherman, political correspondent LABOUR’S ruling National Executive Committee will lat¬ er this month approve a deal to end direct trade union sponsorship of MPs. Senior party sources last night said Tony Blair had made clear that Labour had to be seen as "squeaky dean" in the light of the proposals m ihe Nolan report on standards in public life. Any apparent fin¬ ancial [ink between the unions and MPs had to end as soon as possible. Unions sponsor 150 MPs at a cost of about £600 each a year. They also pay up to 75 per cent of the MP*s general election expenses. Although under the present “Hastings Agreement" the money is paid to the MPs constituency, rather than his pocket, some of the money is used to fund MPs research assistants or staff in their constituency office. Most unions also expect their spon¬ sored MP to represent their interests in Parliament Under the new compromise THE SUNDAY TIMES Top Gun down! 6 For five days all I had eaten was a few leaves. Then, as I lay curled up in the undergrowth, I saw an ant crawl by my head. I reached out, squished it and popped it whole into my mouth .. -9 Captain Scott O'Grady . above, the American fighter pilot shot down in Bosnia last summer, tells the incredible story of his survival and rescue. Only in The Sunday Times tomorrow deal, thrashed out by a work¬ ing party of trade unionists and MPs over several months, unions will still pay their money to constituencies of their own choice, but they will no longer be able to sponsor an individual MP. This would prevent MPs being able to use union funds for their Com¬ mons research teams, al¬ though constituency office staff might still be allowed. “We will have to comply with Nolan." said one party source. The Labour leadership had hoped that unions would agree to money being pooled so that it could be used to bolster the party in marginal constituencies in the run-up to the genera] election. However, many unions including the Transport and General Work¬ ers’ Union, which sponsors Tony Blair, had baulked at the idea of losing total control over how their money was spent. Party sources emphasised last night that unions would have the option of funding constituencies held by Tory MPs with a marginal major¬ ity, and it is likely that sponsored MPs wall encour¬ age their unions to do so where possible. However, it is expected that some unions will still insist their funds go to the constituencies they have sup¬ ported hitherto. A party source admitted that it would be entirely up to the unions. This week’s report from the Commons Select Committee on Standards in Public Life on the disclosure of consultancies suggests that had the present system of trade union sponsor¬ ship continued, MPs would have to declare any funds paid by unions. However, under the new system, the money paid to constituencies would not have to be registered. □ Labour is demanding talks with the heads of executive agencies, such as the Prison Service, about the implemen¬ tation of its policies, in ad¬ vance of the general election {Nigel Williamson writes]. John Major confirmed yester¬ day that he had agreed that the Opposition could, begin talks with senior .civil servants in January about its plans. Opposition parties are cus¬ tomarily allowed to meet the permanent secretaries of Whitehall departments to¬ wards the end of a Parliament or when a general election had been called. Mr Major has agreed to the talks starting far earlier than usual. But Down¬ ing Street said yesterday that it had not yet been derided whether heads of agencies would be included in the talks. to move there. In his state¬ ment the duke showed his distress at press speculation that the death nf his brother.
• ar Syon House, the fam¬ ily’s west London home, may haw been dnig-relaled. He said: “In these dreadful Iasi days, the press hits in general been honest and kind about Harry and I. but the unscru¬ pulous will always lie if it suits their purpose and ii is upsetting to read articles based on ties. Dukes are perhaps an easy target for the jealous and a thick skin is the best key to survival." He said that his brother had also found the responsi¬ bilities of nobility uncomfort¬ able at limes. "Harry did not find ir easy to bear the rifle and the demands that were expected of him and he found escape and excitement in the film world. “Despite a debilitating ill¬ ness. Harry retained a great wir and intellect and relent¬ lessly pursued his passion for films and the film world. He was enormously proud of his film Lou in Africa." He described his brother's life as falling into two halves. SfttAN MOODY ^ li. The new duke with his son George. “1 would like to pass this estate to our heirs as good or better than it is now" with the early, vital days overtaken by illness. “He excelled ar school, as a dili¬ gent pupil and an accom¬ plished sportsman. He was a great all-rounder and was extremely popular. Following Harry through school was hard because of his success, and although I was in his shadow wr were great friends and remained so throughout his life.” Speaking of his future, the duke said: “I see mv role as curator of an ancient seat and chairman of a large business. 1 am respon¬ sible for a substantial area of land over w hich many people work and rake their leisure. I am also directly or indirectly responsible for the employ¬ ment of several hundred people. “If Jane and l can achieve one tiling in our lives, we would like to pass this estate and heritage to our heirs in as good or better condition than it is now. In doing so we will continue to expand our chari¬ ty work and help the local community as much as we can." Workers on the Northum¬ berland estate said in their own tribute ihat “Duke Har¬ ry". as he was known with affection, had left his mark on a distinguished dukedom. “Determined not to take on ihe traditional guise of a nobleman, he set his sights on being a modem man . The key ro his quest was that he was a romantic, the measure of his success was that he was so engagingly and so endear¬ ingly romantic." Family and close friends will today attend a private funeral at St Michael’s Church. Alnwick. A public service will be held later. Letters, page 21 Self Assessment Isn’t it time you got up to Is it ages and ages since you dealt with your tax? Then you must bring your affairs up to date before the new tax system called Self Assessment takes effect It will apply to everyone who receives a tax return including the self- employed, people running a business from home, hitter rate tax payers, company directors and some pensioners. The first Self Assessment tax return will be sent out in April 1997 for the tax year 1996/97. That’s not a long way off, especially if you’re already behind with your tax. If you stiff have any tax returns for 1994/95 [or earlier years] to complete, get them back to us quickly along with any outstanding accounts. If you have appealed, or are about to appeal, against an estimated tax assessment, send us the information so we can agree the right figures. And if you have any unpaid tax bills, please settle them as soon as possible. If you can’t pay all that you owe, contact your tax office, it may be possible for you to pay by instalments. People get behind for all sorts of reasons. Fear needn’t be one of them. If your affairs are in a muddler get in touch with your tax office [or accountant if you have one] now. Providing you don’t delay, there’s time for you to start the new tax system with a dean sheet. Under Self Assessment you’ll have a clear timetable of what to do by when. But failing to comply with the new rules could cost you interest and penalties. Vfith any change - even for the better - we understand you may have questions or concerns. To help you understand how Self Assessment will affect you, we’ve prepared a helpful booklet. To receive your copy just fill in the coupon or telephone our special number, anytime. [All calls are charged at the local rate.] 0345 16 15 14 24hr-...-24hr...... 24hr...... 24hr inland Revenue Self Assessment- a clearer tax system Please send me more information about Self Assessment. Please tick a box if you are:- Self employed 0 Employed Cl A Pensioner 0 Seeking work 0 Same [Xr/Xrs/Bm/Ms] Address Postcode SA/fHS/S/B/t PLE&SE RETMH CBUPOH TO. SEIF ASSESSHEIIT t S BOA 555 BRISTOL BS99 5UJ 3 [ Sc O Be Ju Pi A too ha be wa ov> wc pn na an dk cw J an of rat 10 la¬ in sqi «r pn dii Yv Jm Lo
• pa Ro So Co iuc am ten \ wtl Lft the lh£ Ba wrjl sbv aiii be« Co At Be 1 Jui Pi pu Th eni del on an act thi [ Six sec as tba ext 1 res S the Sir Bei alb eis 6 WEST TRIAL THE TIMES SATURDAY NOVEMBER 41995 THE first taped interview with Frederick West heard by the court was conducted on Febru¬ ary 25, 1994. the day he was arrested on suspicion of mur¬ dering Heather, his 16-year- old daughter. The tape began with a police officer cautioning West that he did not have to say anything but that any¬ thing he did say could be used in evidence against him. “You have been arrested early this morning by my colleague on suspicion of mur¬ dering your daughter Heather West,” the detective said. “Can you tell me, in your own words, exactly what you know about this?” In a Thick West Country accent, speaking quickly. West told the detective: “What hap¬ pened was Heather was going to leave home the day before and we stopped her." He had asked her to stay the night to “talk it over". "Heather cried all night because she wanted to leave home. Rose said. ‘Let her go. I will go out and draw money oul £600. and give her. and let her go.' I said, ‘All right, then.' Rosemary went to get the money... f said. ‘Dont hurry back and give me a chance to talk to Heather.’ ” West told the interviewing officers. Detective Constables Hazel Savage and Darren Law. that the following morn¬ ing he and Heather argued while Mrs West was shop¬ ping, “She’s standing there with her hands on her hips... you know, the big lady busi¬ ness. She said. ’If you don't let me go, PI! give all the kids acid and they'll jump off the church roof and be dead on the floor.' lid already known that she had given it to Barry lone of the Wests’ younger children] because Barry had already jumped off the church roof. “So she stood there and she had a sort of smile and a smirk on her face, i lunged at her... and grabbed her around the throat... she didn’t bring her arms up to stop me and I held her for a minute. “l ean just remember lung¬ ing for her throat and the next minute she's gone blue. I looked at her and 1 was heather WEST shaking from head to foot. 1 mean, what the heck had gone wrong? "I put her on the floor, blowed air into her mouth, pumped on her chest and she just kept going bluer ... I didn't know what to do. I didn’t know when Rose was due to walk in. “I never intended to hurt her. I mean. I just went to grab her. to shake her, to say. Take that stupid smirk off your face.’ I was going to smack her across the face but some years before me and Rose had a word or two, I smacked her Heather West: remains found beneath patio across the face and dislocated her jaw'. “Heather was just flat out and [ thought I’ve got to do something ... I was going to put her in the Wendy house. 1 tried to get her in the dustbin. I couldn’t get her in. At that time we used to have one of those big ice saws for cutring big blows of ice. so I cut her legs off with that, and I’m telling you l have lived that a million times since. “Then I cut her head off, then l put her m the bin and put the lid on, rolled it down to the bottom of the garden behind the Wendy house, covered it up and left it there. Then Rose must have come back ... and she said, ’Did you persuade Heather to stay? 1 1 said she had decided to go and that was it. I sent Rose out... with the current bloke to stay with him for the night Then 1 went down and I dug this hole and buried fHeather[ down behind the fence." Later West laid a patio over the grave, he told detectives. During the interviews he gave a precise location for his daughter's body, knowing that excavations were about to begin at 25 Cromwell Street. Gloucester. Asked by Ms Sav¬ age what sort of grave the police should be looking for, he said: “Just a hole in the ground." Ms Savage: “And what's going to be in this hole in the ground?" West “Heath¬ er.” Ms Savage: “In how many pieces?" West: “Two legs and a head and a body." He is asked about the weap¬ on he used to dismember his daughter's body. “It would be probably just over a foot in length and it's got big teeth blades on the one side. It's reasonably rigid, it has got to cm ice." West was asked if his cloth¬ ing had become bloodstained. “No, not to my knowledge ... she was quite cold, really cold, before I decided what to do with her. “I took her in the downstairs bathroom and put cold water flannels on her face. That is something I’ve had to live with for eight years. It’s not easy, because I loved Heather and that's why I was trying ro persuade her not to go.” Ms Savage said: “And what have you told Rose about Heather’s whereabouts ever since?” West: ‘That she’d left home... gone down to Brigh¬ ton or Bournemouth. The thing Hd like to stress... Rose knew nothing at alL Rose used to say, ‘Christ 1 wish we’d try and get in contact and find out where Heather is.' Although they didn’t get on. she still loved her." Rosemary West, 41. has denied murdering nine girls and a young woman, includ¬ ing Heather. The trial contin¬ ues on Monday. 25 CROMWELL STREET, GLOUCESTER GRAftflC.jOHN LAWSON Jury listens to tape of Frederick West describing how he dismem bered and buried his daughter ‘I never intended to hurt her, I just went to shake her’ Lovers were killed when they threatened to tell Rosemary WEST identified sites in the basement of Cromwell Street where he said the remains of young women could be found. The only identities be could remember were those of Lucy Partington and Lyn¬ da Gough. “There’s so many ...all these girls I’ve had affairs with and that’s why they ended up this way because they threatened to tell Rose. “Cos what happened — all these girls did exactly the same thing. I was made quite dear that 1 was married to Rose and I don't want noth¬ ing to do with them, nothing serious — it was just ‘thank you mam. finished'. “And every one of them did exactly the same thing ... 1 love you. I'm pregnant I'm going to tell Rose, 1 want you to come and live with me and that was a problem." Asked how many of the girls were pregnant he said he did not know. West agreed it would not be difficult for police to reach the remains of Lynda Gough, who. he said, was buried in what had been ^CROMWELL STREET a car-repair pit beneath a garage now converted into a bathroom. Her body was “quite deep", be said. No other bodies were in the pit he said. There were also no other bodies beneath the ground floor of the house, he said. “The reason ... was because they would have been too close to Rose.” he told police. Other bodies were under the cellar, he said, explaining how he had altered the access to the cellar over the years. The first spot beneath the cellar, where he indicated that a body would be found had been used for“a girl from Newent |a small town near Gloucester!", he said After bring told that the girls* bodies were being num¬ bered. be said "Body One is right in the fireplace of the basement As you go down the stairs there’s a fireplace straight in front of you." He said of the victim: “She and 1 had an affair. I think she was Dutch or something, i had an affair with her. She was having a holiday over here, and then she threatened to tell Rose." He could not remember the girls' names. West told the officers. “I have no idea what their names are. I knew the names at the time, but I have no idea now ... they are ail around the 17 to 20 mark.” West was also asked: “Is there anything you want to say about what we have talked about so far. with regard to other offences?" West replied: “Na there is no other offences." The of¬ ficer asked him about other bodies. West replied: “Na there ain't any." West was then quizzed about a young girl in Newent whom he was said to have raped twice. .Again he angrily denied the allegation. He claimed that they had gone together for two years. The interviewing officer suggested that he found it difficult to cope with allega¬ tions of rape. West replied: T never raped anybody.” The officer pointed out that he killed people* West told the interviewer “You even get killing wrong, you are trying to make out I went out blatantly killing people." The officer suggested that some of the victims had gone through fteiL West replied: “Not all went through hell... enjoyment turned to disaster, or most of it anyway." And he admitted: Tf is your job to investigate this thing and not to believe what I say altogether" As the fourth tape continued. West indicat¬ ed his concern at the number of statements the police were collecting about him. A detec¬ tive said that many were needed to establish facts, such as who was living at 25 Cromwell Street during the time of the deaths. When West again referred •to the large number of state¬ ments he was aware of, Detective Constable Hazel Savage told him: “You ain't seen nothing yet" < Murders started with Rena and child of seven WEST told police that his killings had begun with the murders of his first wife Rena Costello and his stepdaughter Charmaine. West was with Howard Ogden, his solicitor; Scott Caravan, the solicitor's clerk; and an “appropriate, adult". Janet Leach, when he was interviewed again by Detective Constables Darren Law and Hazel Savage- Constable Savage asked: “What was the very first body?” West, replied quietly: "That was Rena." It happened, he said, after Rena came to collect Chanmaine- “That is exactly true. My main prob¬ lem was Rose in finding out what was going on." Rena had threatened Rose¬ mary, and Rena had gone round to 25 Midland Road to collect Charmaine, West said.- He had taken them to a pub and ensured that his wife became “absolutely paralytic". Charmaine, aged seven at the . time, had been given a bottle of lager to drink so she would fall asleep. Having made Rena Costello drunk. West then drove to an isolated field. “1 took her out to Dymock In the country and I strangled her and buried her. “Charmaine ... was sound asleep and I’d forgotten all about her. 1 strangled Rena, dug the hole, cut her up and buried her and then I went back to the van and [here was Charmaine in the back. “So anyway, I strangled her while she was sleeping ‘cos there’s no way I could have touched her any other way. I wrapped her up in the back and drove back to 25 Midland Road. There was a garage up the side ... and you could go out of the back into another little workshop and under¬ neath the house into the base¬ ment. And 1 put her in there. Then 1 buried her there." West was reminded that he had seemed to suggest that Charmaine was the only vic¬ tim who was not mutilated. He said: “She was young, she was seven, she was pure." : mmma 1 ■ ■:■■■. ••• r . i ? w
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• pa Ro So CO iuc an ter wti La the tin Be writ sht an< be« Cfi At Be- Jut Pa yu Th en! del art an act thi l Su sec as tha ext 1 res ap| Hi the Sir Bet all. us Preacher of the Year: sermon that won the title with an exposition of Gospel beatitude It’s purity of heart Barry Overend Y ou won’t know Mrs Went¬ worth. Or at least not the Mrs Wentworth I’m talking about But her name cropped up in conversation as I was prepar¬ ing for this sermon. You see, I didn't just want to look up what St Augustine, John Wesley and Sir Cliff Richard have had to say about my text — “How blest are those whose hearts are pure; they shall see God.” I wanted to know what your average Tom, Dick and Mary make of it So 1 asked them — just one deceptively simple question. “What does purity of heart mean to your Their answers were mostly pre¬ dictable. “It means unselfishness." “It means not being hypocritical." “It means always thinking good things.’ But one response was unexpected. “What does purity of heart mean to you?" f asked this particular chap. And quick as a flash he replied: “Mrs Went¬ worth!" Now. knowing Mrs Went¬ worth as I do — an elderly woman of transparent goodness — I knew at once what that man meant And all of a sudden a somewhat hazy rext shifted, at least a little bit into focus. And purity of heart had a familiar face. I caU it a hazy text because, in the dim and distant past the original Hebrew concept of purity was inextricably Jinked with the meticulous observance of religion. But it isn't for us. Hence the need for what 1 call a “Mr Spocfc approach'' to this beatitude. Mr Spock, you might remember, was that amiable half- human, half-alien on Captain Kirk's Starship Enterprise. Re¬ calling one of his catch phrases, I can imagine him pondering this text and concluding: “it’s purity Jim. but not as we know itf inso¬ far as we do know rt, purity of heart does include all those things that people trotted out in response to my question — being unselfish, not being hypocritical, thinking good thoughts and that almost in¬ definable something extra the Mrs Wentworths of this world possess. Many of us will be familiar with John Keble’s sung version of this beatitude “Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs...” The Mrs Wentworths do seem to have been let into a sort of secret It's the secret of bow to wear your successes without arrogance and to bear your failures without resentment: the secret of how to admire without envy, reproach without malice, care without con¬ descending and love without lusting. And, most remarkable of ait it is a secret that enables at least some of the pure in heart to pray without pretence, what The Book of Common Prayer des¬ cribes as neither “dissembling nor cloaking our manifold sins and wickedness". I have a feeling that the secret of the pure in hean is precisely their refusal — almost their inability — to dissemble and doak, both their strengths and their weaknesses, so they can accept deserved praise and take justified criticism with equal grace. And when they say “I’m sorry" be it to God or their neighbour, they mean just that and only that. Not. “I'm sorry, but I've been under a lot of pressure at work, and we’re having trouble at borne with our 14-year-old. and to cap it all the dog had to be ptzt down last week, and you know bow it is when it all gets on top of you. you just blow your top." Na none of that dissembling and cloaking, just “I’m sorry". I have deliberately highlighted that example because it is impor¬ tant to realise [hat even the pure in heart have reason to say “sorry”. Mrs Wentworth isn't perfect Transparently good she may be. but you can see her faults as well. And her purity of heart isn’t obvious to her. For purity of heart is like humility — thinking that you've got it is a sure sign that you haven’t Not even the saints, those Gary Linekers of die Faith whom we particularly recall today, would have claimed purity of heart, though doubtless other people saw it in them. B ut what shall the pure in heart themselves see? The beatitude is alarmingly dear on that. They shall see God. L say “alarmingly dear" because, certainly in Old Testament times, seeing God was, at best, a mixed blessing. On the one hand the writer of Psalm 42 longed for such a vision: “When shall I come before the presence of Godr But on the other hand, when a heavenly being appeared to Minoah and his wife prior to the birth of their son Samson. Jim, but not as we know it Minoah — like Private Frazer in Dad’s Army — exclaimed: “We’re all doomed to die because we've seen Godr Fortunately, Mrs Minoah — characteristically less prone to panic — replied: “Don't be daft. If God had us down for the chop, be wouldn’t have accept¬ ed our burnt offering, would he?” You can just imagine the ensuing snippet of domestic conversation. “Hey. thafs right 1 never thought of that” “Na well that's your trouble dear, isn’t it? You don't think.'’ Inasmuch as Minoah did think, he accepted the popular belief that to see God spell trouble, where “bong still in the presence of the Lord” as we sing in Psalm 42, was die rigid calm of the petrified. For, like Mr Spock’s interpretation of purity, “seeing God" was a seeing — but not as we know it It was a vision of such overwhelming holi¬ ness that it all but obliterated the viewer. So what die Psalmist desired, most people in those days dreaded. But. even nowadays, we can imbue the word “see” with a sense of dread. There is a world of difference in feeling between lov¬ ers standing on the platform, sighing a fond “111 see you next week”, and die head teacher leaving the unruly pupil to stew outside the door with a stern. “Hi see you in a minute”. A blessing, albeit put off for a week, is preferable to a threat about to be carried out. And there is surely something of a blessing deferred in this particu¬ lar beatitude. For people of vary¬ ing religious traditions, seeing God has always been regarded as the end of our searching. The ultimate reward. It is the spiritual equivalent of winning the jackpot. The Rev Barry Overend with the sculpture that he received as a prize, as well as a cheque for £1.000 though this time that finger point¬ ing down through the doud that we've all seen on the lottery adverts is more of a hand, beckon¬ ing. And the caption suggesting “It could be you" has become the proclamation "It shall be you”. “What me? Shall I see God? I. the unkind, the ungrateful.” as George Herbert put it in seeming disbelief in a famous poem. But that poem is called Love bade me welcome. And our good fortune in receiving such a welcome is symbolised not by the crossed fingers of the lottery ioga but by the crossed arms of the Calvary- tree. For it is primarily, though not solely, in the living, dying and. Christians would claim, rising of Christ that the pure in heart catch a glimpse of that God whom they are promised full sight of later. It is a promise to all those whose hearts, like that of George Her¬ bert. are at least pure enough to perceive their own unkindness and ingratitude. For purity of heart can spring as much from a sense of sin as from sanctity. That, thank God. is what puts it in reach of us alL St Peter was never more pure in heart than in that moment when he knew himself to be defiled by a sin that hithertobe could never have imagined him¬ self committing. And when that cock crowed for a second time, and the Lord turned and looked at Peter, there was no cloaking and dissembling in his heart The weeping was indeed bitter. But the remorse was pure. We all have it in us to be pure in heart if only in our remorse at our impurity. Such was tire purity of heart of that tax collector, praying at the back of the temple, who frankly acknowledged his sins before God — a confession that Jesus contrasted so favourably with the front-pew Pharisee’s real but all too self, righteousness. We are told that the [ax collector would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven. That is because he was peering into the darkness of iris own interior, whereas the Phari¬ see basked only in the brightness of bis external self. But seeing ourselves in a shining light ob¬ scures, not flJuminates. the vision of God. The pure in heart don't shine. They only reflect They reflect the glory of that God whom one day they shall see. But you would have a hard job trying to convince Mrs Went¬ worth of that For she doesn't believe in God. 1 once asked ben “Why notT Her reply was ample: “Because IVe never seen him.” I wasn't going to, but just in case I was, she added quickly: “And don’t say. ‘One day you wilL'" “Na” I said, "but if you da I’D know why." □ The Rev Barry Overend is vicar of St Chad's, Headingley. Leeds ; and is winner of The Times! College of Preachers Preacher of the Year Award 1995 We’ll keep it at base rate as long as you have a pulse rate Vie COOPERATIVE BANK [11.4% APR] ^ variable / Only 20,000 customers will enjoy the benefits of our new Co-operative Bank Gold Card. Although the ownership is limited, the guarantee isn’t. No matter how long you live, it’ll always remain ac Base Rate. Which currently makes it the lowest APR credit card in the country. Which is now only I \ A% APR [variable]. As you might expect it comes with a fairly substantial annual fee of £]20. 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• The council shares the £ 100.000 cost with retailers. Carlisle is marking the 250th anniversary of the Jacobite Rebellion. The lights will be turned on by a "Bonnie Prince Charlie" accompanied b> 100 pipers on November 17. The prince stayed in Carlisle on his wav south in 1745. Tribunal awards childminder £450 redundancy By Gillian Bowdttch. Scotland correspondent A MOTHER was ordered ro compensate her former part- time childminder after decid¬ ing she no longer required the woman's services! An indus¬ trial tribunal in Glasgow ruled that the childminder was an employee and entitled to redundancy after four years’ service. The childminder. Wilma Haston, 43. had answered an advertisement placed by Flora Keogh, a teacher from Falkirk, to look after her child in the child’s own home. Mrs Has¬ ton had formerly been a self- employed screenprinter but the tribunal was told the business was “far from successful". Mrs Hasten, from HaUglen, had also looked after Mrs Keogh's second child and was paid £64 a week. During school holidays, or when Mrs Keogh was on maternity leave. Mrs Hasten was paid a retainer of half her salary. In March. Mrs Keogh told Mrs Haston she would shortly be going on maternity leave again for nine months but would be unable to pay Mrs Haston her retainer. She sug¬ gested that Mrs Haston find another job and said teat she would take her back if possible e when she returned to work. Mrs Haston was offered her salary until the end of that monte and an ex-gratia pay¬ ment of £50. Mrs Keogh told the tribunal that she believed childminders were a self-employed group. Mrs Haston claimed that she had four years' continuous service and that during any periods when she was laid off she received half her normal wage. In its findings, the tribunal said it was satisfied Mrs Keogh had entered into a contract of employment with Mrs Haston for her to act as a part-time childminder. It was a totally different form of service from that provided by a registered childminder, who took in children from various parents into her own premises, which were licensed for that purpose. Mrs Hasten was obliged to work the hours Mrs Keogh wanted and was subject to tee control of Mrs Keogh. The tribunal decided teat Mrs Haston was an employee and had been made redun¬ dant. It ruled she should receive a redundancy payment and pay in lieu of notice totalling £448 less tee ex- gratia payment of £50. LfTTNEWORU] PASS YOU BY s Ger 12% off UNhKT Winter Sun holidays and flights when you visit your local Thomas Cook shop or phone our credit card booking line on 01733 33 55 70* quoting QHrr l» ■a^Mrct to ilw ."v lT Ofierdnei do mph [’ I'W Aiartco M ’L*# 0 LJ,8 C ” ftmThroemnil hoad«r.. iHp* til v NOV S£er 4 Fox’ he rroww gian r yesssr- pwcBtafe ate. fecxha^- 3psigs and fgis; fear bJ &£CY. BtCvro\ j N -'^iSLlsi xv :'..p*.. ;:nc :,v. ,: ' ,: "rr ■iHk. .Vj^y \ . ■*T , Ln|„ . fani:rup:/ r - T; ;^ tr.. Se’’fcrae: ur/'y -'T/' •V.’' r, ''- ; sjfesa-' stei x,. -tC - •'■• ■ous ihv x ,.y •• •.- .• it iaduted C City, on ft? * jSiiiiarrjsT- white- uuTfls; win tfU/ti '±s sxpcavdio t r "-v.. - H;- : f- ■ ra.Tc:r»— •- lT ’.vi:- I.fet tawc wJtieso.n> y.-httto - af £k'& ii arifrersity. &; js frdsu&R i f iensift sv» ££ hr lai.- ' ■ ■ J '< ri t
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Leading artide, page 21 Stars are hatched from three interstellar gas pockets at the end of vast tubes called -elephant trunks" Tamil Tigers flee Jaffna as dream of homeland fades From Christopher Thomas in Colombo Charity buys slaves’ freedom in Sudan By Oliver August THE Tamil Tigers, besieged by the Sri Lankan Army, announced last night that they were quitting Jaffna. Soon it will be a ghost town. Its people are moving away from the advancing troops towards a rural no man’s land io the east where there is nowhere to sleep except on the ground. The population, until recently 200.000. is down to a quarter of that. The old and sick are staying on. So. probably, is a nucleus of Tigers to ensure that the armed forces pay heavily for their victory. The rebels said they would move east to another area on the Jaffna peninsula, abandoning the shattered town that has been the centre of their operations for five years. With their unofficial inde- Colombo: Tamil Tiger guerrillas hacked to death five Sinhalese children in southeast Sri Lanka yes¬ terday. The children were killed after the guerrillas attacked a hamlet before dawn. All schools across the country have been dosed indefinitely. [AFP] pendent state of Eelam in ruins, fee rebels will revert to doing what made them fam¬ ous: hit-and-run guerrilla warfare. They are pressing people into uniform because of dwindling recruitment, a sign of demoralisation and a grow¬ ing conviction among ordi¬ nary Tamils in Jaffna that hopes of establishing a sus¬ tainable homeland are dead. Many Tamils are being rounded up for questioning in Colombo and elsewhere in the search for Tigers who might be on bombing missions to avenge the loss of their de facto homeland- However, old patterns of torture, beatings and extTa-judicial killings are not being repeated. Police and troops have been warned not to sully military victories with human rights abuses. The Government says people should return home once troops have secured the area. While Colombo draws unaccustomed international approval for its military con¬ duct the Tigers have lost much of their international goodwill Canada, one of their most important fund-raising centres, long ago declared them a terrorist organisation. A BRITISH charin’ working in Sudan is buying back Christian slaves kidnapped by Arab militias and forced to become Muslims. A team from Christian Soli¬ darity International [CSD went to Sudan and spent £10.000 to free 22 children and young women. The charity agreed with local leaders in Nyamlell southern Sudan, to buy five cows for every* slave and use these as payment. Baroness Caroline Cox. a member of the CSI team, said: “1 just couldn’t leave these people behind knowing we could have helped them." Tens of thousands of black Christian Sudanese in the south of the country have been abducted by gangs of soldiers, who sell mem as slaves to Muslims in the north. 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Cra cart siftage of E l par perem apptes. CHter wpbas to new bookings wsy O' vS& IjjijHE S SATUR D AY NOVEMBER 4 1995 _ OVERSEAS NEW S 15 200,000 Filipinos seek to flee fury of deadly Angela in country’s worst battering Super-typhoon kills 66 in howling trail of mass destruction From Alistair McIntosh IN MANILA THE most powerful typhoon to hit the Philippines for years howled across the country yesterday, killing 66 people sending more than 200.000 fleeing from their homes and leaving millions without power. “This is the worst beating we have ever had." said Severo Alcantara, the Gover¬ nor of Catanduanes. before all communications with the is¬ land province, bar ham-radio links, were cut Catanduanes. 220 miles east of Manila, the capital, was the first area to feel the fury of Angela, des¬ cribed by weathermen as a “super-typhoon" because of its size and power. Up to 500 miles in diameter and with winds initially gust- ing up to 155mph. Angela then scythed across the southern UN rights pledge on Hong Kong reports From Peter Capella IN GENEVA THE United Nations Human Rights Committee is to contin¬ ue to report on rights in Hong Kong after the colony reverts to Chinese rule, brushing aside Peking’s objections that it is not bound by a key international convention. The committee, which has just concluded its fourth regu¬ lar review of human rights in Hong Kong, said in its final report yesterday that the Joint Declaration on the colony’s future obliged the Chinese to carry on accounting to the UN body for the respect of civil liberties there after 1997. China has not signed the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. Talks between Britain and Peking on Thursday remained deadlocked. Francisco Jose Aguilar Urbina, the chairman, called on Britain to report to the UN next year. He said he hoped to gain a better idea then on the ' steps ro be taken to guarantee civil liberties. He also wel¬ comed the prospect of Chinese participation. Hong Kong's legal frame- work was also criticised because two-thirds of the Leg¬ islative Council’s members are not democratically elected. w a n sounr- CHINA 1 SULU -Jo JN • SEA SABAH [ 'y u 100mto pan of Luzon, the most pros¬ perous and heavily populated island in the nation of 65 million people. Its outer fringes began to hit Catan¬ duanes on Thursday night and its eye passed south of Manila by If.30am yesterday, although its huge size meant that its force was felt for severai hours. At least ten people died when volcanic debris loosened by rain thundered down the Suspected car bomb accomplice arrested From Christopher Walker IN JERUSALEM PALESTINIAN police in the Gaza Strip announced yester¬ day that they had arrested a man suspected of buying the two cars used in Thursday's twin suicide bomb attacks in which the two bombers died and 1! Israelis were hurt The bombings were ordered in revenge for the assassina¬ tion in Malta of the Islamic Jihad founder. Fathi Shqaqi. by Israeli Mossad agents. The speed of the arrest, made according to Major- General Abdel-Razeq Majai- da. the police commander, late on Thursday night, came as the Israeli Government was putting heavy pressure on Yassir Arafat, the Palestinian Authority leader, to take tougher action against Islamic terrorists in Gaza. Israeli leaders have given warning that the programme to pull bade troops from the West Bank’s main Arab towns will be halted unless there is a harsher crackdown on Islam¬ ic hardliners determined to wreck the peace process. Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister, said he ex¬ pected “more efficient activity" to prevent attacks from being launched from areas under Palestinian police control. flanks of Mount Mayon near Legazpi. the main city of the worst-hit Bicol region. Thou¬ sands of traditional Filipino wood and palm-thatch homes were destroyed. Initial esti¬ mates put damage to property and crops, such as rice and coconuts, at more than 1.2 billion pesos [E30 million]. “We have no food. We may die of starvation here," Raul Lee, the Governor of Sorsogon province in the Bicol region, told a Manila radio station. “All of our crops have been destroyed. We are asking the Government in Manila to please send us 200 sacks of rice. We have never seen a typhoon like this." President Ramos, taking personal charge of relief efforts in Manila, said: “Sav¬ ing lives and reducing dam¬ age is the main event at this time." More than 200.000 people, including20.000in the mri. ggasgg-jgg! i If 1 , j jpi Ijliwp y Philippine fishermen watch helplessly from a sea wall yesterday as their boat is sunk by Typhoon Angela capital, fled for their lives and crowded into evacuation cen¬ tres in schools, churches and. in at least one case, a shopping mall. The normally congested city turned into a ghost town as its 8.5 million people cow¬ ered indoors. In the deserted business district of Makati, the wind set up an eerie shrieking noise as it pounded high-rise buildings. Angela is the worst cyclone to strike the Philippines, bat¬ tered by an average 20 storms a year, since Typhoon Nina killed 1,000 people in 1987. It struck less than a week after Typhoon Zack killed more than 160 people in the central Philippines. Manila airport was dosed for most of yester¬ day. Weather forecasters said that, by the time Angela had left the Philippines, heading towards Vietnam, ir had reached a top wind speed of 106mph. [Reuier] Missing ‘boy’ clue to chaos By Nigel Hawkes SCIENCE EDITOR THE devastation caused by Typhoon .Angela could be linked to the disappearance of the El Nino southern oscilla¬ tion. a cydical shift in the temperatures of the central Pacific Ocean. 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  16 EUROPEAN NEWS THE TIMES SATURDAY NOVEMBER 41995 French President’s 30-year-old Cabinet protege is tipped for top post in exp ected reshuffle

  MinHgl-lfVg PF] 1 TTTEfl/SVGMA -J- Youthful face of Chirac rule has eye on power FRANCOIS BAROLN is sure¬ ly the only French Cabinet minister with a taste for punk rock. For M Baroin, in addi¬ tion to being spokesman for die Government, a secretary of state, and mayor of a large city, is just 30 years old. The youngest minister in the history of ihe Fifth Repub¬ lic, his is the youthful voice of the Chirac regime: when France explodes a nuclear device if is M Baroin. fresh- faced and bespectacled, who must announce the fact to the world and defend the ancient might and majesty of the French state. The only compa¬ rable example of French polit¬ ical precocity goes back half a PARIS FILE by BEN MACINTYRE ■a ssa century. In 1944. Charles de Gaulle included in his provi¬ sional council an ambitious 28-year-old in charge of pris¬ oners of war. His name was Francois Mitterrand. The comparison is a telling one. for political insiders pre¬ dict that M Baroin is destined for yet greater things. “This is an apprentice posting." Presi¬ dent Chirac told his young protoge on appointing him as spokesman, a job that carries immense dour as well as ministerial responsibility. For weeks there have been ru¬ mours of an imminent Cabi¬ net reshuffle and M Baroin is being tipped as likely 10 be awarded a top post, possibly and most predictably Minis¬ 20,000 Leagues is too far down A THIRD of the French population regularly takes tranquillisers, anti-depressants . sleep¬ ing pills or some other mood-altering drug, according to a recent survey. However.•. the French are likely to be less happy to see their great works of literature artificially cheered up. Jules Verne's gloomy anti-hero. Captain Nemo, is apparently too depressing for American audiences, so Steven Spielberg , the Hollywood director, has com¬ missioned a script for a “prequel " to Vemers classic 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea. in which the grumpy submariner is all sweetness and light. “We are changing our initial script from dark to light because the studio does not want to spend $60 or $70 million immersing an audience in tragedy .” a scriptwriter said. ter for Youth and Sport. Three years ago M Baroin was an undistinguished tele¬ vision reporter, but firmly plugged into France's polccal elite. His father. Michel. Ma¬ sonic Grand Master, prami- 'nent businessman, politician and close friend of the Chiracs, was killed in a plane crash in 1987. M Chirac stepped in to become, in effect, the young Francois’s adoptive father. “He told me he would always have a half hour for me. whenever I needed itr recalls M Baroin. but the future President provided him with rather more than that Aged 28. M Baroin was elected to parliament He was brought into the Chirac presi¬ dential campaign as spokes¬ man, and retained the job after the election in May this year. M Baroin’s government post meant that he had to give up his seat in parliament but in June he was elected Mayor of Troyes, in northern France, three days before his 30th birthday. Since then he has shown himself adept at pre- S . vy»- 'r 'TV[£ immigrant Francois Baroin. the French government spokesman and teenage heart-throb sen ring the government line, while also appearing as a heart-throb on the cover of teenage magazines. The Chirac Government battered by a series of corruption scandals, badly needs to show a new face to an angry electorate, and none could be newer than that of M Baroin. The preppy and guileless looks of the government spokesman should deceive no one. for, as one Cabinet minister recently remarked, “behind his smile, there is a blade of steel”. While the Government's favourite ■ young Turk may have time on his side, he also has power firmly on his mind. JEAN-MARIE LE PEN. the leader of die far-right Nat¬ ional Front who wants for¬ eigners repatriated, dis¬ covered this week that his daughter has been fighting to stop the expulsion of an Algerian immigrant Marine Le Pen, a lawyer who stood for the National Front in the 1993 parliamen¬ tary elections, has taken up • the case of Nourredine Hamidi, a 44-year-old Algeri¬ an who has uved in France since the age of one but who faces expulsion for a robbery' committed in his youth. Mme Le Pen says that M Hamidi's case is special and insists that she and her father still see eye to eye on immigration. Providing further proof of the huge difference between generations. Helmut Kohl, the German Chancellor, has appointed as his co-ordinator of Franco-German co-opera¬ tion Manfred Rommel — whose father Erwin, the Sec¬ ond World War “Desert Fox” commanded the German forces in France. Perhaps a Le Pen will one day become the French Am¬ bassador to Algeria. London group ‘linked to Paris attacks’ I Nuclear By Adam Sage in Paris and Stewart Ten dler FRENCH police believe that the wave of terrorist attacks in the country has been orches¬ trated by Islamic fundamen¬ talist:; based in London. French newspapers reported yesterday. Last night Scotland Yard and security sources con¬ firmed that a man named in the newspapers as the master¬ mind behind rhe bombings has been targeted by British officers working with the French. The man is legally resident in Britain with links to an Islamic fundamentalist ncvvssheet and uses the nom de guerre. Abou Fares, the name publicised in Paris. He is one of about half a dozen Algerians identified by the Renseignmem Generaux. the French equivalent of the Special Branch. The group has links all over Europe and has been under surveillance fay Special Branch officers and Security Service units but has been careful not to violate any British laws. It has been watched travelling between Britain and France, Belgium. Germany and Sweden. French intelligence passed to Britain has suggested that the group was "mainly in¬ volved in fundraising al¬ though there were also suspi¬ cions that some attacks may have been planned here. Police and Security Service officers believe that they may be dealing with a group which deliberately has based itself outside its’ theatre of opera¬ tions to avoid attack. Last month Stella Rim- LE FIGARO Le providentiel brouillard de Londres Lj capuak hriinimique abrite de noabreux ejfrrinitfes afeerica? : Jo anii» pariskn BoasJm Bemsid itsiten ttroit contact otre eux. 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It is understood that the identities of the fraudsters, who use spy camcorders to Dim unsus¬ pecting customers using the cash machines, are known to the police. One long-lens camera, usually placed in a building opposite the cash machine, films the front of the card while the other zooms in on rhe Pin identification number being tapped in. When blown up on a large-screen TV the details are easy to distinguish and these are then transferred to the magnetic strip of a bogus card, which is used to plunder the account. In the present case the gang has not yet been apprehended although arrests are believed to be imminent. Earlier this year police arrested and charged more than half a dozen people from two gangs for a similar scam on Abbey National and Royal Bank of Scotland, among others. A trial is expected to start"early next year. It is believed that those involved in the present fraud have connections with those already arrested. Scotland Yard declined to comment. As a result of the latest outbreak of cash machine fraud. Abbey National, which has to date lost ill million, has bought forward the replacement programme for its 800.000 Abbey- link cardholders as “a matter of urgency". Chris Wermann. of the Abbey, said that all victims had been compensated for the illegal with¬ drawals. He added that the new-style cards had additional security devices incorporated into the magnetic strip that would make it much harder for this particular scam to be successful. Wynne Evans of the Association for Payments Clearing Service, which represents 22 banks and building societies, said that as the fight against the fraudulent use of plastic cards in retail outlets became more successful so criminals were turning to other ways of stealing money, such as defrauding cash machines. This type of fraud last year accounted for a growing figure within the overall £97 million lost in plastic card fraud- Mr Evans added: “Fraudsters also capture personal card details and Pin numbers by using devices attached to the machines. Another method is ringing up people who have had their cards stolen and pretending to be a police station or even the'bank or building society branch. They then ask people to give their Pin number as a means of identifying themselves, which in a genuine case need never be divulged.” WEEKEND MONEY W 31 Cordiant to charge £55m of issue cash ROBIN MAYES . ■‘. yr mmm By Christine Buckley A LARGE chunk of the cash that Cordiant the former Saatchi & Saatchi. hopes to raise in its rights issue will be absorbed in disposal charges and severance pay. Such exceptional items will strip out £55 million, while Bob Seelert, the chief executive who was recruited in July and who has organised the I-for-3 rights issue at 60p a share, is in line for a bonus of £100.000 for the completion of the issue by die end of the year. Cordiant also gave warning that some further "re-engi¬ neering" of its operations may lead to further exceptional charges. The widely expected rights issue, priced at a discount of 36 per cent to yesterday’s opening share price, will raise £126.6 million after underwrit¬ ing expenses of £6.4 million. The issue has been fully underwritten by SBC War¬ burg and LIBS. The cheapness of the issue price puzzled many analysts, although a number welcomed the offer as a move to propel the cash-strapped company into a stronger position. One said: “I just can't imag¬ ine why it has been priced at this level. There had been some feeling that Cordiant could possibly have made the offer at a premium. But if it FT-SE100- 3500.4 [-22.6] Yteld , 4JH% FT-SEA All share 1721.88 [-9.01] Nikkei Closed Naw York: Dow Jones_ 4810A0 [+1.B1I* S&P Composite 689.42 [-0.30] Federal Raids™- S"«* [5"i Long Band_ 108*4* [1 Off Yield' R28% [&2S 3-mtfi IrpHtenk. LffletonggSt: 6*4% [8*-%] was going to discount it needn’t have been to this leveL” Shares in the company, which has seen the departure of high-profile advertising ac¬ counts such as Mars and British Airways after the exit of the Saatchi b roth e rs, added 8p to dose at 92p. The shares haw slumped from I55p since the departure of Maurice Saatchi. the co-founder, last ; December. Cordiant has rearranged its ; banking arrangements on the bade of the issue, which will attack the £305 million gross debt pile — a sum that towers over the £1S62 million market capitalisation. Cordianfs cur¬ rent facilities, which were due to expire in January 1997, had provided funds at rates equal¬ ling 3 per cent above the , London inter-bank offered rate. A new revolving credit arrangement of £163 million, which matures in 1999, will mean that rates fall within the range of 15 per cent above Libor. Mr Seelert said: “The group can now concentrate on reve¬ nue growth, its margin im¬ provement plan and develop¬ ing its leading position in the global advertising and mar¬ keting services industry." He said that Cordiant had compensated for the loss of big-name accounts. Mars, British Airways and Dixons had generated £40 million revenue last year. New clients include Spiilers Petfood, Peugeot. Bell Atlantic and America West Airlines. Doubt remains over wheth¬ er the Conservative Party will continue its account after being unable to pay its bib in fulL If the Tories do quit, they j will be forced to pay their fees in full and would not have any instalment facility. As Cordiant — which is projected to make an operat¬ ing profit of about £39 million for this year — strives to reverse its debt-laden position, Charles Scott, chairman, emphasised that the Saatchi name would not be up for sale. "That wfll never be on the agenda. Shareholders would have me executed if they thought that was in my mind.” mm ,'V ■.. ••v. -V ’4 \ v Bob Seelert chief executive, stands to gain a £100,000 bonus for the early completion of the issue Plea for help as number of firms going bust rises By Janet Bush, economics correspondent THE British Chambers of Commerce [BCQ yesterday charged the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise with forcing companies into liqui¬ dation and urged them to take a more helpful view. The comments came after figures showing that company insolvencies have risen again in the third quarter, confirm¬ ing the slowdown in economic growth. There were 3.919 com¬ pany insolvencies in England and Wales, a 12.6 per cent increase on the second quarter but still nearly 10 per cent lower than the third quarter last year, according to season¬ ally adjusted figures from the Department of Trade and Industry’s Insolvency Service. Raw. unadjusted figures tell the same story, with a large rise in insolvencies between the second and third quarters. This reverses the pattern of last year, when the number of insolvencies fell between the two periods. The BCC also noted that a 30 per cent rise in compulsory liquidations was a serious concern. Richard Brown, dep¬ uty director-general of the BCC, said: “Typically, it will be the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise forcing companies into liquidation. We would urge them to take a broader view to assist with company survival.” He said that a rise in the number of companies going bust had a serious knock-on effect on the rest of the econo¬ my, with late and bad debts and increasing uncertainty under¬ mining business confidence. However, individual insol¬ vencies fell 3 per cent com¬ pared with the second quarter. and 14 J per cent on the third quarter in 1994. □ Consumers are "improving not moving”, spending more in the high street but not buying large items such as houses and cars, according to a survey from the Finance & Leasing Association. Store credit and personal loans were up by 31 per ant in the year to September compared with last year, but demand for car finance was up only 3 per cent Secured lending — mainly second mortgages — fell to £23 million, a decline of IS per cent on August's figure. 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  denotes midday tr&ding pries PRINCE JEFRL brother to the Sultan of Brunei, the world's richest man, plans to invest heavily in Asprey, the financially troubled luxury goods group he is offering to buy for £243^ million. Prince Jefri has offered shareholders in the Queen’s jeweller 250p a share. John Asprey, the retailer's chair¬ man, and his family, who, together, own 52 per cent of the group, have accepted the offer. However, he has agreed to - retain a 10 per cent holding in Amedeo UK. the company set up to acquire Asprey- The 250p offer is a significant premium to Thursday's dos¬ ing share price of 127p, but far short of the 425p that the shares commanded in 1989. The shares rose I19p, to 246p, on the news. Asprey said Naim Attallah had retired as chief executive after 21 years with the group and would receive compensa¬ tion for loss of office to reflect his one-year contract Mr At¬ tallah. who was due to retire later this year, earned £309,000 in the year to March 31. Ian DahL Mr Attallah’s re¬ placement, who joined on September 1. and Mr Asprey will be chief executive and chairman, respectively, of Amedeo UK. Prince Jefri will nominate two other directors. Mr Dahl said that Prince Jefri had approached Mr Asprey with a view to taking a minority interest in Asprey in the summer, but discussions had developed into takeover talks in the past few weeks. Mr Dahl who is completing a five-year strategic plan for Asprey, said that the takeover would give it the funding it needed to grow. He said: “Prince Jefri is committed to the business. He intends to make a substantial in¬ vestment in tiie group, which will be significant relative to turnover." Asprey had sales of £177.8 million last year. Asprey yesterday an¬ nounced a drop in pretax profits from £3 million to £12 million in the six months to September 30 on sales of £93.8 million, up from £82 million last time. The company still has high levels of unsold stock, which was valued at £125.4 million at the halfway stage, against £129.6 million six months previously. Marshall to step down as BA chief executive By Marianne Curphey AFTER almost 13 years on the board of British Airways. Sir Colin Marshall is to step down next month as the airline's chief executive. He will be re¬ placed on January I by Robert Ayling. who has been BA's managing director since 1993. Sir Colin, who will be 62 in a few day’s time, remains as chairman in a non-executive capacity. His new role, which will involve advising the board on developing alliances with other airlines and raising the airline's profile in govern¬ ment and European circles, is expected to occupy two or three days a week. The announcement sur¬ prised the City, and shares in BA rose lOp to 475p yesterday. Sir Colin joined BA as chief executive in 19S3 and was sub¬ sequently appointed deputy chairman, taking over as chairman in February 1993 when Lord King stepped down. Mr Ayling. 49. was refut¬ ed to the airline as its ifu.il director and was later ap¬ pointed to a number of posts before joining the board in
• Sir Colin currently receives a total salary package of £765.000 including basic pay of £487,000 plus performance- related pay and bonuses. Mr Ayling is currently paid more than £500,000 with a basic salary of £300.000. j ir ^ v l Anne Ashworth j/i on a new move in the ObB pensions scandal ‘ -i™ i-.:'• : 29 Predictions for ; your home, tax bill and savings b 30 What’s in a guarantee? Small print explained 32 r The postman -/ knocks. Savings . ■: by the mail Ek . ctfr 36 A shift of allegiance. The benefits of switching accounts ,, -Jvl , . ONE SERVICE DOES \A;, J'; UK’S MOST POWERFUL CREDIT MANAGEMENT SERVICE ’• , ■ • ■_ , •• .> J. TT:-E wMM v.: s r Imagine Hie power of a service fhaf strengthens tfie ioles effort, reduces your exposure* to risk, improves cash flov/ and eliminates unnecessary cost. That's' Thinking Business'’ 1 . !t is already working for thousands of growing businesses and industry leaders. Imagine it working for you. ONE CALL TELLS YOU HOW 0500 301583 Call for your free information pack 26 BUSINESS NEWS THE TIMES SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4 1995 s< Q Be Ju Hi A ho ha be ws cm wc pn na an die CCH I an of rai to ler in sqi en. pn dis Yv Jm La
• pa Ro So Co juc COI ter \ wh La ibt 1 the Be, wh shi ani ba Ce At Be: JU! Pa [Ju Th eni del ore an act thi I Su sec as tha exe 1 res api Hi. the Sir Bei alii ris Why buy Asprey’s baubles when you can buy the shop? E nter Prince Jefri of Brunei, exit Naim Attallah, the chief executive of Asprey, who, for many years, is reputed to have wielded a Svengali-like influence over John Asprey, chairman of the Bond Street- based jewellers. Much is known about Mr Attallah; less about Prince Jefri. This state of affairs is unlikely to change markedly for two rea¬ sons. The first is that Mr Attallah, the Palestinian socialite who owns Quartet Books and has an interest in the Literary Review, is not averse to a little publicity; as might be expected of someone who wears two watches and sports [on purpose] dif¬ ferently coloured socks. The second reason is that the Sultan of Brunei, Sir Muda Hass anal Bolkiah Muizzaddin Wadaulah, is averse to publicity; as might be expected of the world's richest man with an estimated fortune of more than £20 billion. The Sultan, it may be recalled, did not enjoy the pub¬ licity that surrounded the alleged use of his funds in Mohamea A1 Fayed’s controversial £615 mil¬ lion takeover of House of Fraser in the mid-Eighties. Quite what role, if any. the Sultan has played in the £240 million Asprey deal is not readily apparent, but it can safely be assumed that the Sul¬ tan's dislike of inordinate pub¬ licity will not have been lost on his younger brother. His Royal Highness Prince Jefri Bolkiah. Although, as The Times pre- Asprey,_ purveying jade, rubies, bejew¬ elled daggers and the like, all wrappeoup in Asprey’s splendif¬ erous purple paper, is unlikely to fall into the “hands on” category. There was no sign of the prince, understood to be in Brunei, when Asprey unveiled the latest turn of events in its colourful history. The message from John Asprey, whose family trusts con¬ trol 51.7 per cent of Asprey’s equity, was: “My family and l have known Prince Jefri and his family for many years. His ownership of Asprey will en¬ hance the style and status of the S p and the Asprey family is hied to continue to play an important role in its future. ” He added: “Prince Jefri shares our commitment to the standards and service of the flagship busi¬ ness. His financial support will enable the development of all our businesses and brands to be accelerated, particularly in inter¬ national markets.” Mr Asprey, presumably tak¬ ing a led out of Prince Jefri’s book, was not readily visible at the press tited-tgtes that took place over a cup of tea yesterday at die St James's Park offices of Hambro Magan, the merchant banking boutique that advises Asprey. Ir fell, Instead, on lan Dahl, successor to Mr Attallah. to chat about jewellery in general and princes in particular with the likes of myself. Mr Dahl, the former head of Sportsgirl. an Australian fashion retailer, was MELVYN MARCKUS appointed heir-apparent to Mr Attallah last August although no handover period was specified. Mr Dahl let it be known that he was “absolutely delighted” with the latest turn of events which, he emphasised, was “good news” for everybody. Mr Dahl did not elaborate on pre¬ cisely who everybody was, but it would seem safe to assume that shareholders and the Asprey family are perceived as major beneficiaries. Also good news, presumably, for Prince Jefri and, of course, Mr Dahl. Mr Dahl also stressed that he was "totally unaware” of such developments when he joined Asprey which, he insisted, was still “totally viable” as a pic. It emerges that talks between Mr Asprey and the Sultan’s family started some two months ago and subsequently moved on to a higher plane when Prince Jefri’s initial interest in taking a minor¬ ity stake gave way to discussions regarding a full-sale takeover. The City has been highly critical of the policy of acquisitive expansion embarked on by Mr Attallah in recent years. The acquisition of Garrard and Mappin & Webb for £75 million from Sears in 1990 was followed by the £23 million purchase of Watches of Switzerland from Ratners two years later. Les Ambassadeurs, the watch and jewellery chain, was acquired for £10.8 million in 1993 when Asprey also bought Ronald A. Lee, the antiques specialist. Other ventures taken under Asprey’s wing include Rene Boivin, the Paris jeweller and Tomasz Starwedd, the design house. . Might Mr Dahl be inclined to focus on Asprey. Garrard and Mappin & Webb and “dump the rest” I asked, exuding my own inimitable charm. “Absolutely not”, said Mr Dahl, who pro¬ ceeded to educate me about the charms of Watches of Switzer¬ land which, in his words, repre¬ sented a “fantastic business”. Although Mr Dahl categori¬ cally denied any suggestion that Prince Jefri’s intervention smacked of a "rescue" in the wake of Asprey’s £9.8 million loss for 1994-95. he admitted that a cash injection, at this point in time, held “certain attractions". At this point in time, midyear profits for 1995-96 are down from £3 million to £1.2 million.Mr Dahl and his advisers refused to comment as to how much Prince Jefri envisaged injecting into Asprey over the next few years — a silence that leaves one to guess at a further £20 million to £30 million commitment Sultans and their families do not of course, tend to become involved in anything as vulgar as a takeover battle. Amadeo UK, the offshoot of Jersey-based Amadeo. has received “irrevo¬ cable” undertakings from the Asprey family in respect of their 51.7 per cent interest — 10 per cent of which will be swapped for equity in Amadeo UK. John Asprey anti Mr Dahl will emerge as chairman and chief executive respectively of the UK vehicle. The prince’s representatives have yet to be appomted. The offer of 250p cash is well below Asprey’s all-time high of more than 400p but in view of the 54p low seen earlier this year, not a few shareholders will be distinctly relieved at Prince Jefri’s appearance. After all, why buy the baubles when you can afford to buy the shop? Sumitomo to take over Daiwa Bank operations in U S AMERICA’S Federal Reserve yesterday gave its blessing to plans by Daiwa Bank, Japan's tenth largest bank, to allow its US operations to be absorbed by its rival Sumitomo. The move follows an order by American banking authori¬ ties for Daiwa to shut down its operations in the US in the wake of an apparent $1.1 billion scheme to cover up huge bond losses in New York and a 24-point indictment alleging conspiracy to defraud the Federal Reserve. It was revealed yesterday that Daiwa first asked Sumitomo to support its US operations on October 9 after the Japanese bank began to fear the possibility of swinge¬ ing penalties being imposed by American authorities over the bond losses. It was also revealed that the Bank of England had found no irregularities in an inquiry jointly conducted with the By George Sivell Securities and Futures Au¬ thority into the London branch of Daiwa Bank. The Bank of England said yester¬ day: “We have'conducted an investigation into Daiwa Bank London under Section 39 of the Banking Act There was no evidence of irregularities of the kind that affected Daiwa Bank in the US or anything that would constitute a threat to depositors in the UK.” The action against Daiwa was the first against an over¬ seas bank by the US authori¬ ties since the Bank of Credit and Commerce International was shut down in July 1990. Yesterday, the Federal Re¬ serve said that Sumitomo could absorb Daiwa’s US operations before expiry of the 90-day deadline to shut down. In the meantime, Daiwa said it is to fight die criminal charges. If found guilty, the bank faces penalties of up to $13 billion. The Daiwa affair raises questions of bank regulation around the world and strains relations between Japan and the US. when US liquidity may be needed to ease any farther strains that emerge in Japan’s troubled banking system. 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The new en¬ larged group will be called Cavaghan & Gray Group. Howard Sims, Cavaghan & Gray's chief executive, will become chief executive of the enlarged group. Dalepak, currently showing a loss, proposes to raise £13 million by way of an issue of up to 143 million new Dalepak shares at 105p each. The offer is 31 new Dalepak shares for every 25 existing shares. Mr Sims said: “There is a large demand for capital in the food industry and we have to keep investing. In the past we have had to borrow, so this merger is ultimately the way forward." Tempos, page 28 Trial breaks early for ‘tired’ Kevin Maxwell THE Maxwell trial adjourned early yesterday after Kevin Maxwell declared himself “knackered” from three weeks in foe witness box. Nearly half-an-hour before the court's normal rising time. 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  A WORKING WEEK FOR: JO CUTMORE Top headhunter displays her Prowess Vi ctoria McKee meets a company chief who altered her working life to suit DBS JENSON the needs of her family, staff and clients PjjLOnday 3 ESjuesday 1 Wednesday ] Thursday 3 plriday a JO CUTMORE leads die sort of “portfolio" fife that she recom- tnends to those who seek her services as a headhunter. “If I’d been an inflexible, fiat- cat recruiter. I'd be dead now," she says , frankly. "I had to di¬ versify m order to survive." The 42-year- old former head of search and selection at what was Arthur Young, now Ernst & Young, who set up her own company. Jamieson Scott, in 1986. has branched out over the past three years into providing interim managers and non-executive directors for a wide range of public and private sector organisations, as well as into framing and advice for both com¬ panies and individuals. That comes under the auspices of Prowess, formed three years ago to challenge ProNed. Just as the profile of the nonexecutive directors Prowtess provides is las conven¬ tional than that of ProNed’s — “not all fifty something white males." says Cutmore — so her own working life has become less conventional. "We have to accept that people's lives are no longer rigidly structured for fife between nine and five, and offer greater flexibility to our clients as well as to our employees," Cutmore says — practising what she preaches with admi¬ rable aplomb. A mother of four children aged from two to 11, she hasn't skipped a business beat because of any of them. Her tall, rangy physique helped her to disguise her pregnancies in eff¬ icient-looking business clothes until the last few weeks, and she was breastfeeding Betha¬ ny, her youngest, when the baby was five days old, on her way to a meeting with the Equal Opportunities Commission in Manchester [whose chief executive she had been asked to find]. "It seemed appropriate, somehow, at an EOC meet¬ ing, to arrive with nanny and baby in tow" she chuckles. At other times, when itls not appropriate for her hand to be seen rocking the cradle, she claims to be in a meeting. "You can do that when you work for yourself,” she points out. “which is one of the reasons I started ray own business when Sam, ray first child, was a year old. If I really need to do something with the children, like going to a school sports day. or taking Sam to look around Eton —as I did recently — I know I can do it by writing my reports at night" says Cutmore, who offers the same flexibility to her largely female research staff, many of whom "down tools” at school leaving time and resume work in the everting. "Combining home and business fife is something I’ve become quite adept at. meeting candidates at all times of the day and night—at home, in hotels, in airport lounges, railway stations, anything to accommodate. That is the service which in the search industry is vital." She equates her company with “Russell Reynolds, Egon Zender. Spencer Stuart— the big international search firms”, but claims that Jamieson Scott can be more competitive with fees because of its comparatively low overheads, with a modest headquarters at a Belgravia address, and staff who work in clusters in Essex and Chiswick and also, like Cutmore. from their homes. “We cut down on overhead frills, and spend the majority of our fees on research. We don’t rely [Mi databases—most is fresh research for each assignment, with a database only used for sourcing." she explains. She won’t talk fees, though, except to individual diems, because they — like almost everything else in her business — are a mailer of individual negotiation. Cutmore's husband, Mark Scott, be¬ came one of her nine partners five years ago. smoothly enlarging his portfolio after a career in computer software. They enjoy working together as they met while both were tutors at the Finandal Training College in London. Married for 13 years, they know each other so well that they can substitute for each other at meetings in an emergency. He was put on standby to do her big speech on non-executive directors for the Institute of Directors this year what she was ill, but in the event she was able to deliver it herself. “The children find die concept of a holiday with their parents an amusing idea because, invariably, one or the other

  of us will have to inter¬

  rupt a period at our house in France to return for a client interview." Cutmore says. “When you work for yourself there is more of a sense of 24-hour commitment, and we have faxes, modems. PCs and sev¬ eral telephone lines in

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  the school vacations, and at our weekend cottage in Norfolk. It's only three-and-a-half hours door to door from FTance to our headquarters in Eaton Square, and we often do it if the job demands it" But having one secretary whose voice sounds almost exactly like hers gives Cutmore a little extra freedom if she needs it, and the ability to appear to be in two places at once. A typical week, she explains, going through her [on-screen] diary, might be: Monday, 9am: meeting [with Prowess hat on] with a public sector body’s human resources director “keen to release some of his executive directors as non-executive directors in the private sector". Ham: back to the office, as Jamieson Scott, for a meeting with “a very senior military person coming for personal advice on career redevelopment, having left the Army two months ago". No time for lunch: straight into three interviews with job candidates. lasting until the end of the day. Tuesday. 9am: meeting with “a man from a major airline, just retired, who, in contrast with the military man on Monday, is embracing his new portfolio career". A late-morning meeting was followed by lunch with a human re¬ sources director thinking of joining Cutmore’s company. 2pm: off to the Institute of Management for their Project Chedc-a-Board — again The children find the concept of a holiday with their parents amusing Jo Cutmore practises what she preaches with admirable aplomb and manages to balance a hectic work schedule with a as Prowess. “It's a project to look at the skills and competencies needed by indi¬ vidual directors on a board." It took the rest of the afternoon. Wednesday. 9am: meeting with a big pharmaceutical group to take the brief to help them to find a managing director. “We were hugely relieved to find that the group finance director we put in a year ago has turned out to be a huge success, and that the group chief exec“is thrilled with his performance. The reality is that you can do a wonderful search exercise but it’s not until a year later, when something like this happens, that you know how successful you’ve been." Lunchtime meeting, as Prowess, to discuss a large piece of work for a former public utility board now in the private sector “which has commissioned us to take a tier of its senior management into portfolio careers". Most of Wednesday afternoon is spent planning course out¬ lines and vetting lists of speakers. Thursday: "My 9am interview didn’t turn up so 1 could make 3.000 extra phone calls — bliss." Ham: meeting with the chief executive of a small listed pic who had heard about Prowess and wanted to recruit a non¬ executive director through it “It emerged that he also wanted to become one himself with a blue-chip organisation such as Marks & Spencer. Kingfisher. BA. Cable & Wireless or one of the others with whom we work.” Noon: interview with a corporate finance person for a client looking to recruit one for its Midland office: 2pm: interview with individual keen to set up a branch of Jamieson Scott for us in Bristol — “a distinct meeting of the minds that looks as if it will go ahead". Late aftemon: “Picked up the boys at school to go to look at Eton. Had no idea we were in Prince William’s house until we were asked if all the publicity would bother us. Should have known it was special from the won¬ derful upholstery that looked like the Ritz rather than a boys’ school like the other houses. 1 wish Betha¬ ny hadn’t chosen to fill her nappy in the Mas¬ ter’s study. To make up for that trip. I worked late into the night" Friday. 8am: “Got Sam off for a school trip to the Peak District. 9am: began interviews for the Commis¬ sioner for Public Appointments.

  ftonday Z hfeuesday iffednesda] Lq jphursday priday 3 “Jamieson Scott was selected by the Cabinet Office to handle the search to fill this post, recommended by the Nolan committee, that reports directly to Parliament.” 1030am: appointment as Prowess with the Department for Education “to discuss how we can assist them to identify quality non-executive directors for their non- departmenral public bodies” Lunch is spent with the civil servant wife of a prominent Labour politician. Afternoon: “Continued calling candi¬ dates for the chairman of a buyout bid for a bit of British Rail. Collected kids to drive to Norfolk, where 1 wrote up the report on the pharmaceutical company and the BR buyout and prepared for a meeting at one of the financial regulators scheduled for Tuesday — Jamieson Sam is assisting them in finding a finance person. “I also settled in a new housekeeper, arranged for the nanny to go back to France to get married and for my parents to come back from Norfolk to London to step into the breach." Weekends can be as hectic. “At Sunday lunchtime we were having a small family gathering of 15 or so and I discovered someone had stolen the barbecue. Tried the oven, and it blew. So ended up feeding 15 people with one ancient fondue seL" Cutmore remembers the 1980s as "a period of great satisfaction” in the headhunting profession. “The last five years have been more challenging, but. as a business without major infrastructural costs, it’s been very easy to react to market conditions, and the result has been a significant gain," she says. There has also been a signi Scant gain on the family front, with two of her four children born during this period of intensive profession¬ al development and diversification. “1 have endless admiration for people who can manage that in a big corporate structure." says Cutmore. “I’m sure I couldn’t have." Leisure facilities help Shell to keep staff in the swim I n a higb-stress, higb- actfon business like off production, finding time to keep healthy can be diffi¬ cult for senior management Bin making sure employees are kept in trim has always been a priority at SbelL Tucked away in the base¬ ment of the company’s head¬ quarters at the Shell Centre on the South Bank in London is a swimming pool and gym complex to help to ensure that employees are always fit for action. The complex was induded in the original {dans for the Shell Centre when it was constructed in the early 1960s. At ffie time, i t was unique, providing the largest on-site corporate recreation area in Europe: consisting of the 'pool, a gym, squash courts, snooker tables, a sports haff and a 338-seat Alasdair Murray on the philosophy behind a corporate recreation complex theatre. Comprehensive as die sporting facilities am they are dwarfed by ft> e sheer vastness of the Shell Centre itself. The building was de¬ signed by Howard Robert¬ son. foe Scottish architect credited with initiating the much-derided tower ami po¬ dium style of the 1960$. The Shell Centre was built by Robert McAlpine be¬ tween 1957 and 1962, al¬ though it was 196S before it was officially opened, upon die completion of the formi¬ dable t»sk of fitting out die offices. It is a labyrinthine bmklmg of 1*8 million square feet of office space on a site of seven-aod-a-haif acres with a mind-boggling 7.000 windows. 88 lifts and 12 escalators for die 2300 em¬ ployees who woric there. Critics have described the buffeting, with fts white, im¬ posing, faceless towers, as “hideous and inhuman". Its admirers, on the other hand, have stressed bow it reflects die power and continuity of Shell although they may be influenced by its proximity to die more maligned South Bank Arts Centre next door. Whether it is refief from their jobs or the architecture, the pool attracts 2.000 visi¬ tors each month. It is open to any Shell employee who is a member of the Lensbury Social Club and about 200 Tbe pool at the Shell Centre plays ariimportant part in the community relations campaign people each month make the short trip across from Shell's other London building, in the Strand. The pool also plays an important part in Shell's community relations cam- • paign. Each weekday morn¬ ing, three local primary schools make use of the facilities, and on Saturdays the pool is regularly em¬ ployed for gala events by local cadets and Scouts. Sponsored swims and charities are also frequently organised by Shell employ¬ ees, and the Otter Swim¬ ming Club, one of the oldest in the world, is a regular user. The pool and gym com¬ plex is a monument to less cost-conscious corporate thinkin g in the 1960s and 1970s. While other com¬ panies have spent the last ten years selling off their sport¬ ing facilities. Shell still pos¬ sesses an impressive array of facilities, including an out¬ door centre at Tedffington in southwest London. Fears are growing that the end of [he coiporate- sponsored swim is ap¬ proaching, as Shell follows its cost-cutting peers and launches a big restructuring programme that indudes a 30 per cent cut in head office jobs. However, Peter Turvey. manager of the Health and Fitness Unit feels that the pool has a vital future in the company’s life. 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It ended 22.6 down at 32500.4. a rise on the week of 225 points. Turnover reached 7183 million shares, with heavy turnover recorded among several leading com¬ panies. Glaxo Wellcome dropped 20p to S51p as a total of 32.6 million shares changed hands. Brokers are becoming increasingly worried that the group will be hit for six by the taxman after its acquisition earlier this year of Wellcome. BT was another busily trad¬ ed stock, dipping 8p to 370p as 22 million shares were recorded. British Steel also featured strongly, with the price drop¬ ping 7p to I53p. Kleinwort Benson, the broker, was reck¬ oned to have struggled to find a home for 6.4 million shares ar 154p. Its job was made that much harder by publication of a sell note by rival SBC Warburg. British Airways climbed 9p to 474p ahead of interim figures on Monday, which brokers say should make good reading. Pre-tax profits are expected to climb from £263 million to £290 million. The demand for the shares was underpinned by news that passenger traffic had climbed almost 10 per cent during October, while Robert Ayling has been appointed chief executive. BSkyB fell 7p to 366p as the Church of England re¬ inforced its ethical stance by- selling more shares in the company. Several large lines of stock were reported, includ¬ ing two totalling 7.6 million at 369p. The Church of England made its derision after the satellite broadcaster began transmitting the Playboy Channel. Shares of Asprey. the Queen's jeweller, surged H9p to 246p after confirming the report in The Times yesterday that it had received a bid approach from a company I if BumsHAflPffigs i BA was up 9p ahead of interim results on Monday controlled by Prince Jefri of Brunei. The terms of the agreed bid are 250p a share, valuing the entire company at £243 miltion- The offer has already re¬ ceived acceptances totalling 51.7 per cent, bur the Asprey family will continue to retain an interest in the company. Asprey reported a first-half drop in pre-tax profits from £3 million to £13 million. interest charges has also been reduced. The food retailers have been under a cloud for much of the week. Yesterday, the focus of attention switched to the food manufacturers as Dalgety fell 20p to 401p alter a profits downgrading by BZW. It has cut its forecast for the year to June by £7 million to £140 million and for the current year by £16 million to £150 Serna Group rose 8p to 508p in thin trading. Talk in the Square Mile suggests a big stake is about to change hands which could result in someone acquiring more than 20 per cent of the com¬ pany. Brokers were claiming that a parcel of 25 milli on shares is up for grabs. At these levels Sema is capitalised at £471 million. Cordiant. the old Saatchi & Saatchi company, rose 8p to 92p after revealing details of its rights issue to raise £127 million.The terms are one-far- one at 6Qp. Proceeds will go towards reducing debts, which at the last count stood at more than £200 million compared with the group's stock marker value of E203 million. The group has also arranged a new revolving credit facility and the level of million. The gloom also ex¬ tended to the likes of Associat¬ ed British Foods, down 20p at 688p. Booker. 14p to 360p. Northern Foods, JOp to I69p. Unigate. lOp to 4G5p. United Biscuits. 7p to 261p and Tate & Lyie. 5p to 447p. Among the food retailers Sainsboiy shed a further 7p to 384p and Tcsco 3p to 283p. Cautious comments from Kleinwort Benson, the broker, left Allied Domecq I2p lower Ifci. 1 y? f. 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  7804.43 .[*17.92] 1832.10 [*3J6] _69880 [*1.90] London: FT 30_2S64.9M1B] FT 100 3500.4 [S2£f FT-SE Mid 250 - 3573.7 [-13.1] FT-SE-A 350 1742.7 [-10.1] FT-SE Eoratradt 100_141.V681*177] ft a All-Share - 1721.98 [-Mi] FT Non Financials_1819-81 [-12J5] FT Fixed Interest_IIZ56 [*0,14] FT Govt Secs-93-S4HL20] Bargains_26887 SEAQ Volume- 7535m U5M [Datastnn] 184.44 [*OL01I US-13800 [HX0009] German Mats-22365 HX00731 exchange index-84.3 [-02] Bank of England offldal dose [4pm] 1UECU-1.1945 £SDR-10611 RP1 -1506 Sep [3.9%] Jan 1SB7=100 RPLX_1492 Sep [3.1%] Jan 1987^100 BACK in the good old days of stockbrokmg, when fixed commissions were the norm ano insider dealin g was tolerated, a meraiaiit banker and a broker knew how to price a rights issue. The diem asked his merchant bank for £127 million. After furrowing[his brow and shaking his head, the merchant banker agreed reluctantly that it might just oe possible. He then sounded out the brokers, who sounded out the institutional sharenoia- ers. After a little argy-bargy over favours granted and owed, the institutions agreed to guarantee to buy the shares [they would have bought them anyway] for a commission of per cent The bank took h per cent for a 12- hour overnight risk and the broker took per cent for notifying his mates. Due to some deeply unfortunate attention from the Bank of England, die Office of Fair Trading derided to look into these arrange¬ ments and this year pronounced that fixed underwriting commission was too expensive and the process created conflicts of interest How silly of the DirectorGeneral of Fair Trading to try’ to meddle in traditions thai have served the City well for so long. Yesterday’s rights issue from Cordiant dem¬ onstrates that even the arrangements described as expensive were cheap compared with the new regime. SBC Warburg and UBS, having split the deal between them, are charging a handsome l 3 / per cent for the onerous task of underwriting the Cordiant rights issue for less than a day. In this new world of free commissions, the banks do better than h per cent, but, after yesterday's price rise, it is dear that the rights issue need not have been underwritten at all CRH CRH is more than just the largest Irish cement manu¬ facturer, but in the current market that position alone should be enough to make British building materials groups envious- With about 80 per cent of the market in the Republic and 60 per cent over the whole of Ireland. CRH is not immune from competition — anyone is free to set up shop, the company insists — but few would be so foolish as to challenge CRH on its home turf. Last year, over a third of tiie group’s trading profits came from die Republic, generated from only 18 per cent of sales. The proportion of Irish profits is down — CRH is expanding rapidly worldwide — but the mar¬ gins it earns from cement, bricks, blocks and asphalt are consistently high: over 15 per cent operating returns compared with half that rate for die group as a whole. CRH is supplying the ma¬ terials to build a East-grow¬ ing economy: Che Rejmblic's GDP grew 6 per cent in 1994 and is expected to increase by 5 per cent next year after growth of 5-5 per cent this year. Add to that subsidies from Brussels, a thriving housebuilding industry and you end up with a lot of bricks and cement. Little of this has affected investor perception of CRH. which r emains lumbered with a similar rating to its British peers which operate in a distinctly dull market A lot of value seems to be going cheap at CRH. MADE IN IRELAND CRH share price jiMMir |*R||r -■ ' 1 share index h ■ j Nov Doc Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jui Aug Sep Oct Northwest Water JOHN BRIDGEMAN, snubbed by the President of the Board of Trade just a month after starting as Di¬ rector-General of Fair Trad¬ ing. is not the only one peeved that North West Wa¬ ter's bid for Norweb was allowed through. Many City- shareholders need a deal of persuading. They have seen North West shares sag since August and will not hare been best pleased by yester¬ day’s 23p fall to 574p. That is partly the usual supply fears ahead of the bid's likely success on Mon¬ day. But there is also a credi- bihry gap. This has not been helped by Thames Water's frank admission that it could not devise a bid for the higher rated London Electricity that it could justify financially. North West insists the bid will help earnings per share straight away because it will be able to set off advance corporation tax on its divi¬ dends against Norweb's mainstream tax. The longer term plan to save up to £100 million a year costs wifi need to be demonstrated before it is fully believed. It rests on combining the billing and computerised control func¬ tions in a new facilities management company that can then spread its wings. The real long-term gain may be the intangible oppor¬ tunities that open up for a regional utility of genuine size. Dalepak THE prospect of salmon en crotite specialist Cavaghan & Gray, reversing its opera¬ tions into the grillsteak kitch¬ ens of Dalepak might cause some investors to forgo their supper, but the deal makes strategic sense for Cavaghan. Dalepak has a had a rough ride in the supermarket price wars. Barriers to entry in fro¬ zen meat and vegetable prod¬ ucts are not huge and the superstores have shown them¬ selves to be ruthless in de¬ manding more for less from suppliers. Cavaghan’s profit performance by comparison suggests that Marks & Spen¬ cer employs a buyer with a more gentle touch than the battle-scarred food retailers. Cavaghan's profit mar¬ gins. although considerably more healthy than Dalepak’s, suffered slight erosion last year as raw ma¬ terial costs increased. Whatever the extent of M&S paternalism towards its suppliers. Cavaghan must be concerned about the limits of its growth as an M&S sup¬ plier. Sooner or later, the price premium attached to M&S food products will come under attack and the brunt of the damage will be borne by suppliers. Dalepak offers Cavaghan diversifica¬ tion, but with the new shares issued at a prospective multi- j pie of 12 times, investors may question whether the issue price fully reflects the war be¬ tween the stores. Edited by Carl Mortished DOLLAR RATES Australia Austria- Belgium [Com]- Canada DenmaiY.- Francs_ Germany- Hong Kong- Ireland- Italy_ Japan- Malaysia_ Netherlands- Norway- PomigaJ_ Singapore- Spain _ Sweden Switzerland - -1.3197-1 J206
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On wp of this, the Council of Mortgage Lend¬ ers iCML] published a survey which showed a clear majority not at ail likely to buy in the next two years. Fear of debt in an uncertain job market and the high cost of buying are putting first-time buyers off. so trapping existing buyers. The CM! and leading lenders including the Halifax, the Na¬ tionwide and the Bristol & West, support the abolition of the I per cent tax on the purchase of properties costing more than £60.000 as a first move towards unjamming the market. Stamp duty immediately adds more titan £600 to buyers’ bills, just when the borrower is under the greatest financial pressure. Borrowers questioned by the -COST^FMIRAS Last year — 20% [or ail borrowers a first Oa.OOQ tasbnpjj Current — 15% tar all bommeis on first £30.000 CaSbnp.a If raised la 2S% on first £50.000 for first time buyers extra £390ra" Cost af lump gum home trover's grant m place of Miras C 35 hn p.a“» •assumes 560,000 first time buyers: in drat mortgage rate of 8%. up to fl.2bn in third year assumes lump sum of £3,000 lor 1m moves a year. Senses Council ot Mcrt-jage L&ixrs pro CML also overwhelmingly fa¬ voured abolishing stamp duty. Of 2,000 borrowers asked. 71 per cent wanted stamp duty abolished, with 60 per cent wanting an increase in Miras for all borrowers. The Abbey National, how¬ ever. claims abolishing stamp duty would make no difference. Instead, it called on the Chancel¬ lor to increase tax relief on mortgage interest for first-time buyers as a first priority. Most lenders share the Abbey’s belief that first-time buyers are the key to the revival of the housing market and need special encour¬ agement but acknowledge that he would face considerable poli¬ tical difficulty raising Miras. Because of this, many put help for first-rime buyers through the tax system as second priority after abolishing stamp duty. Miras has been cut in successive Budgets from a maximum of 40 per cent [for higher-rate tax¬ payers] to 15 per cent. It is worth E350 a year to a borrower with a £30,000 mortgage at currenr interest rates. The CML suggests increas¬ ing the relief to 25 per cent on loans of up to £50.000 for five years for first-time buyers. Defining a first-rime buyer is. however, a problem. Similar problems would arise with introducing tax breaks for the estimated one million borrowers in negative equity, suggested earlier this year. According to the CML. Reve¬ nue officials would have to distinguish between the "feck¬ less and the unfortunate" and there would be potential for fraud. Lenders unanimously rejea the concept of a negative-equity tax break saying the key to Savings safer for elderly A! s the Chancellor prepares his Budget, he is under pressure -to reward savers and private investors — those who John Major was thinking of when he suggested that the public ought to be given incentives to save for old age [Marianne Curphey writes]. With just three weeks to go before the Budget. Kenneth Clarke is considering allowing elderly people to keep more of their life savings when they go into long-term nursing care. He could double the £8.000 ceiling on assets that old people can retain if they need state support for long-term medical care. This mea¬ sure would have the support of Age Concern, the charity that is cam¬ paigning for a better deal for pensioners in residential care. Fear of offending the retired could hold Mr Clarke back from another amendment to savings rules. Though it has been widefy rumour¬ ed in the last few weeks that Mr Clarke would move to abolish the 5 per cent tax-free withdrawal facility on single-premium bonds. Elspeth May. tax partner at KPMG. the accountant, doubts whether he would be so savage. She said: The Chancellor has to faster the ’feel¬ good' factor, giving us money to spend.” Maurice Parry-Wingfield. tax part¬ ner at Touche Ross, the accountant, believes this Budget provides an ideal opportunity for Mr Clarke to boost and simplify personal savings and investments by integrating personal pensions. Peps. Tessas, and medical insurance for the over-60s into new- style personal investment plans. Weekend Money is edited by Anne Ashworth unlocking the negative equity trap is to get the housing market going again with other mea¬ sures. But borrowers are keen, with 60 per cent of those ques¬ tioned by CML supporting a neaaiiveequity tax break. Self-assessed tax means keep it simple S implicity must be the Chancellors Budget by¬ word. Whatever his tax¬ cutring ambitions, they will be tempered by the need not to add complication to the fiscal system, before the self-assess¬ ment reforms due to be imple¬ mented in 1907. Simplicity is essential to self-assessment, as taxpayers will be required to work out their own tax bills. Yet, despite his wish to ensure smooth introduction of the new rules, accountants think the Chancellor will be tempted to lake lp off the 25 per cent basic rate of tax. at a £1.6 billion cost to the Trea¬ sury’. Glenn jLeitch. personal tax partner at Touche Ross, the accountant, says this would put an extra £150 a year into the pocket of those on £20.000 a year. Changes to the 20 per cent tax band that now applies to the first £3.200 worth of tax¬ able income are also likely. Mr Leitch said: “He could widen the band considerably and so be able to rename it the basic- rate of tax." Maurice Parry- Wingfield, tax partner at Touche Ross, believes a phased cut. over three years, in the basic rate to 20 per cent would be sensible. The Chancellor has been encouraged to raise the value of the married couple’s allow¬ ance of £1.720 and to restore it to the 25 per cent rate of tax. But the Inland Revenue is known to dislike it This means the Chancellor may choose only to freeze the allowance at its current lerveL Families where one parent or both has executive share options, however, seem likely to benefit from a change Df heart on the taxation of these perks. Under pressure from big employers, such as Asda, the Chancellor is now expected to modify the recent rules, making option gains subject to income tax. It is predicted that Kenneth Clarke will allow share-options gains up to the value of £40,000 io be covered by the more favourable capiial gains tax regime. This would exempt thousands of middle- ranking employees from taxa¬ tion. as their gains would be less than their £6.000 capital gains tax allowance. I t is rumoured, however, that other workplace perks, such as season-tick¬ et loans and mortgages, will be brought within the Nat¬ ional Insurance net Profit- related pay schemes may also be under threat, as thqr are increasingly seen as a payroll cost-cutting measure for busi¬ ness, rather than a way to involve employees in the prof¬ itability of their companies. In some cases, the profit-related portion of salary is said to vary little, which was not intended. In the light of the Govern¬ ment's pledge to “reduce and eventually abolish" capital gains tax and inheritance tax. some changes to both are likely. Mr Leitch also emphas¬ ises capital-gains calculations must be made more straight¬ forward to allow individuals to do the sums themselves, without undue suffering, when self-assessment arrives. Mr Parry-Wingfield said dispensing with both is to encourage tax avoidance: "They are a long stop to prevent people from convert¬ ing taxable income into tax- free capital." He proposes that Mr Clarke should instead rebase the base date for gains from March
• to a more recent date, and do away with indexation of gains and various other reliefs. The rale of the tax should be reduced from 40 per cent to 20 per cent ANNE ASHWORTH What would have turned £ 6,000 into Looking for bolt-holes T here has been a sullen hush in the London market this week, de¬ pressed by disappointing retail news and a forbidding forecast from Shell. The European slowdown is beginning to bite. Tins is nothing like the start of a crash — New York and even Tokyo still look buoyant and there have been rallies even in the London drift — but could our bull market end not with a bang, but a whimper? Few commentators think so yet [and I remain uneasily with the majority]. However, one bird of ill omen has now appeared, and it is time for the prudent to look at the downside. The bird is an impressive fowl: GT Trust a widely respected fund manag¬ er. In its latest report on policy, GT announces that after a survey of all world markets, it can find only one [to which we wiU return] that does not begin to look overvalued. It has therefore switched to caution: it is building cash balances, and hedging its existing portfolios in the futures market The small investor cannot hedge economically, and so the question is not one of whether you should follow GTs example, but a starker one. Is it time to sell equities, or bonds, or both? The GT case is. in general, depress¬ ing! persuasive. The basic message is that after a bull year in a flatfish world economy, enough is enough. Unlike most analysts. GT believes that the current Maastricht-induced slowdown in Europe wffl be quite obstinate; given glum psychology in most EU countries. lit ANTHONY HARRIS it is hard to see why not GT sees no early recovery in Japan [where GT is unusually well informed]. Wall Street is seen as still in the grip of technology mania, with tin: emerging markets still shrinking back into their holes. As for the wafl-of-money argument often stat¬ ed in this column, GT points out that scheduled privatisations in Europe and new issues in the US wfll mop up some $50 billion of that money in the coming year. Help! Now that you are frightened, where to turn? It is here that GT looks a little less convincing. A slowing economy and a steeply positive yield curve conventionally argues for a switch into bonds. GT believes that if and when Japan recovers, all world bond yields win rise [and prices fall]. It presents some statistical correlations to support this thesis, but cannot suggest why it should be so. h for one, am not persuaded, and offer the more conven¬ tional analysis: bonds, the poor rela¬ tions in a bull market, are now offering high real yields, few higher than gilts. An excellent hedge against recession, then for anyone unworried about infla¬ tion, with the hope of a good tax-free capita] profit. Two cautions: the run¬ ning return is not so attractive to a high rate taxpayer [especially if you allow for a high high rate under Labour] and a bond portfolio needs alert manage¬ ment The rallies are slow, and look- reliable: however, as we learnt last year, the correction, when it comes, can be virious- For those who want to reduce tax bills and nervous strain, indexed gilts are the ideal bolt-hole low yield, no inflation risk, and, at die moment, historically undervalued against the equity market Again, though, there is a health warning: because yields are low, and because this is a relatively illiquid market prices are more volatile than in conventional gilts. I f you do not follow this market closely, you may find it expensive to get out when you wish. And that is the attraction of GTs implied sugges¬ tion, a building society deposit But can you, a red-blooded equity man. face the prospect of sweating over a bond portfolio, or sleeping on a mattress of cash? If not consider GTs one bright spot South Africa. Politics are proving less frightening than billed, inflation is falling fast tourism is booming and manufacturing recover¬ ing, and market multiples are quite undemanding by worid standards. Time to brush up your Afrikaans. £ 20,000 in just seven years? The Schroder UK Enterprise PEP". If you've e.oi a nest egg tucked away for your future, it's probably in the building society. At least you know it's safe there and you can get hold of it at short notice if you need to. But how much have your savings earned in interest over the last seven years? Certainly not enough to triple or even double your money. However, if you had been able to invest £6.000 in the Schroder UK Enterprise Fund through the Schroder PEP seven years ago. by now. you would have a total of more than£20.000 to spend
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• pa Rn So Co juc cot ten wfi Lo Lh« the Be wii shi mi bet Co Ai Be Ju: Pa: \3u Th eni del ore an act thj [ Su sec as iha ocf 1 res ap| Hi the Sir Be all. ris [ 30_WEEKEND MONEY THE TIMES SATURDAY NOVEMBER 41995 Helen Pridham offers a guide to guaranteed investments Your money back with interest — if you are careful CLIFFORD HARP«H N o one likes losing money. Seeing the stock market slide and your investments with it can unsettle even the boldest inves¬ tor. For some people a loss of capital can be devastating. To avoid this danger, secur¬ ity-minded investors are at¬ tracted by “guaranteed" in¬ vestments which protect ag¬ ainst loss. But they must look carefully at what is guaran¬ teed and how it is provided. Guaranteed products have been particularly popular this year according to Charles Lev- ett-Scrivener. associate direc¬ tor of Towry Law. the financial adviser. “There are two main reasons. A lot of people got their fingers burnt last year when the market felt. “Although the market has risen again in recent months, it takes longer for people's attitudes to change. The other factor is that most of the money available for invest¬ ment is coming From retired people who feel they haw earned all they are going to earn and are inclined towards investments which do not put their capital at risk." The appeal of guaranteed re¬ turns was illus¬ trated earlier this year when Legal & General's guaranteed corpo¬ rate-bond Pep attracted £130 million, while other com¬ panies not offering guarantees were barely able to attract this amount between them. Some guaranteed products have been around for years. Gilts and National Savings products come with a govern¬ ment guarantee. Guaranteed income and growth which are issued by insurance compan¬ ies have also been popular. But more recently there has been a rapid growth in guar- anteed-equity investments us¬ ing financial derivatives to provide fixed returns linked to the rise in the market, or your money back if it falls. There are now a number of varia¬ tions on this theme. Mr Levett-Scrivener says these guar anteed-equity prod¬ ucts need very careful scruti¬ ny. He says: “People must be sure they understand what they are buying and how it affects their tax position." One point investors should bear in mind is that guaran¬ tees are often linked to a specific period or anniversary. If you need to cash in early you may get back less than your original investment So be sure you can lock away your cash for the whole period. Here are some of the main guaranteed products: ■ Gilts: Issued and guaran¬ teed by Government, no other investment is as secure. Yet they are often overlooked by private investors. They pay a fixed rate of interest for a fixed term which can range from under 5 years to more than 20. Longer-term gilts are current¬ ly yielding 8 per oent or more gross. At the end of the term the stock is repaid in full. In the meantime, toe price will fluctuate. So if they are sold early or purchased when prices are high you may get C Investors must be sure that they understand what they are buying and its effect on their tax position ? back less than you invested. Details on how to purchase them through toe National Savings Stock Register can be obtained from post offices. ■ National Savings: Also backed by Government, Nat¬ ional Savings offers a range of products with a guaranteed rate of return and your money back. These include toe Pen¬ sioners Guaranteed Income Bond which pays a monthly income equivalent to 73 per cent p.a. gross, fixed for five years. The minimum invest¬ ment in the bond is £500. the maximum £20.000- National Savings also offers one of the few products that guarantees that toe value of your invest¬ ment will keep pace with inflation — Index Linked Nat¬ ional Savings Certificates. ■ Guaranteed Income & Growth Bonds: These are sold by insurance companies usu¬ ally for terms of between one and five years. They pay a fixed rate of income or growth and your capital back at the end of toe term. Income is normally on a monthly or annual basis. The typical minimum investment re¬ quired is about £3,000. Rates of up to 7 per cent net of basic rate tax are currently being offered on five-year bonds. To be able to offer these rates, insurance companies have to be in a favourable tax position which means they tend to be small or in a rapidly expand¬ ing phase. Among the more recognisable companies cur¬ rently offering bonds are Ab¬ bey Life, Britannia Life and NatWest Life. Investors should bear in mind that the guarantees on these bonds are only as good as the companies themselves, though toe Policy- holders Protection Act would ensure that investors got back 90 per cent of their money if a company collapsed. _ ■ Guaranteed Equity Bonds: Normally issued for a five-year term, investors get a percentage of the growth in the FT-SE 100 in¬ dex [which measures share- price movements of toe UlCs top 100 companies] or their money back if the index falls. Many bonds guarantee a min¬ imum of 25 per cent over toe term even if toe index falls. Mr Levett-Scrivener says the concept is not as simple as it appears. He says: “Fre¬ quently it is not 100 per cent, but only 96 per cent of an in¬ vestment that will be raised in line with the index. No divi¬ dend income is added — the FT-SE 100 index is a capital in¬ dex only. The index level at toe term's end is also frequently averaged over the last six or 12 months. This protects against sudden falls, but you won’t benefit from sudden rises." Most are issued by insur¬ ance companies that quote returns net of basic rate tax. But they are also sold by building societies and banks, such as Barclays, currently offering a Guaranteed Equity Savings Bond. They can quote returns before tax. Returns from these products cannot therefore be directly compared and for higher-rate taxpayers the tax treatment is different Higher-rate taxpayers will normally be better off with insurance-based bonds. ■ Guaranteed Equity In¬ come Bonds: Some guaran- teed-equity bonds provide an income as well as a capital return based on market indiries. Mr Levett-Scrivener says these need even closer scrutiny. He cites toe Finan¬ cial Assurance Higher Income Bond which is offering an 11 per cent income, "Investors only get their money back if both toe FT-SE 100 index and toe S&P 500 Index grow by 9.25 per cent over five years. Lf either does not achieve toe required growth, the capital return will be less than toe original investment At worst it will be less than 50 per cent ■ Bank & budding society products: Banks and building societies have always guaran¬ teed your capital back but more are now offering fixed- rate term accounts, such as the Halifax's Guaranteed Reserve Account Recently toe trend has been to offer stepped-rate bonds that guarantee rates will rise over a term of three to five years. Investors should not be too impressed by toe high rates at the end of the term. Average toe rates over toe period to get a better figure to compare with flat guaran¬ teed rates. Some Tessas have also been offered with guaran- —:r~——«
• » «»»' • teed rates and there will be more in toe coming months. ■ Peps: Most Peps are not guaranteed. The only guaran- reed-equity Pep on the market is Legal & General Guaran¬ teed Stockmarket Investment Plan. Investors pay a one-off insurance premium of 4 per oent to cover the capital guar¬ antee and a 2 per cent annual management charge. It invests in a unit trust which aims to track toe FT-SE 100 index with a no-loss guarantee at the fifth anniversay. Unlike guaran- teed-equity bonds, this Pep also enables investors to enjoy toe added benefit of the divi¬ dend income from the under¬ lying shares. Also still available is Johnson Fry’s Guaranteed Corporate Bond Pep. paying 7 per cent net over 5 years and your capital back at the end of toe term. A QUESTION OF MONEY How safe are bank and How safe is my money in banks and buSding societies? What compensa¬ tion can I hope for if things go wrong? First, a few words of reassurance; The UK'S banks and general life assur¬ ance companies have a bet¬ ter track record than similar organisations in the United States, according lo Paul Greenwood, of actuaries V/m Mercer. “Our life assurance regulations have been taken as a model by many other countries: our banks have had fewer cot- lapses than the US." Investors are protected by toe panoply of regulation established by the Financial Services AcL However, toe system is not without flaw, as a number of scandals have revealed. Mr Green¬ wood dtes toe issue of custo¬ dy: who holds toe assets of a unit trust group and are they being invested elsewhere? I have £15.000 with a society. How safe is it if tire society collapses? Under the Building So¬ cieties Act 1986. 90 per cent of savings up to £20,000 per person [ie E18.000] is covered in toe event of toe society folding. This is toe maximum statutory payout and a husband and wife with a joint account would each be covered for this amount However, the Building So¬ cieties Association says there has never been a payout because societies are so care¬ fully regulated. If a society seemed to be in trouble a merger with another society might well be arranged. What about the £15.000 1 have in my bank? Is that covered too? Under the Deposit Pro¬ tection Scheme, cus¬ tomers can get back 90 per cent of their money up to a maximum of £13.000 per person. Interest earned on your account at toe time when toe deposit becomes due and payable will be protected, subject to toe lim¬ its of the scheme. In a liquidation, deposits cease to attract interest immediately, whereas in other cases de¬ posits will normally contin¬ ue to accrue interest until maturity. Hie payout is the maximum temporary pay¬ out pending the restructur¬ ing of the bank. It may not be the final payout In general, all loans, overdrafts and other amounts owing to the bank will be deducted when calculating the amount of the deposit on which com¬ pensation will be paid. And my policy with an insurance company? Individuals who have _ an insurance policy with a UK authorised insur¬ ance company are protected by toe Policyholders Protec¬ tion Act of 1975. You should ask your insurance company whether it is authorised be¬ fore you pay. The protection scheme guarantees up to 90 per cent of the insurance company’s commitment to the policyholder at toe time when the company goes into liquidation if toe company cannot pay out. You will get 90 per cent of the money you have in your fund at the. time. The scheme also covers general insurance for homes, and vehicles. How secure is my per¬ sonal equity plan? With unit trust Peps, the collapse of a unit trust management company is covered by toe Investors Compensation Scheme [ICS]. You get back up to £48.000 if the management company fails, if the manag¬ er stole your money or committed a act of fraud. If you are a husband and wife you each get bade £48.000. If you bought your unit trust Pep through an independent financial adviser or tied agent and he put your money in a high-risk fund when you asked for some- tiling rale, you may have a claim against the adviser, or against toe ICS if the firm rejects toe complaint. Marianne Curphey Pelham Crescent, South Kensington, where flat-owners are seeking freeholds Charity faces court fight over Sara McConnell on a campaign by flat-owners who feel they are being deprived of new rights O ne of the leaseholders fighting to buy the freehold of blocks of flats on the South Kensington estate of Henry Smith's Charity is taking the charity to court claiming that it has failed to follow procedures laid down in toe Landlord and Tenant Act 1987. These are intended to give tenants toe right of first refusal of the freehold if the existing landlord wants to sell to a third party. The imminent court battle is the latest twist in toe campaign being waged by residents of the South Kensington estate, which takes in such exclusive streets as Pelham Crescent Onslow Gardens and Lennox Gardens. At issue is the control of the freeholds of their properties. Other flat-owners are fighting similar battles. Investigations by The Times have found that many landlords are flouting the law and threatening huge legal costs if tenants attempt court action. The Labour Party this week pledged to tighten leasehold enfranchisement laws and enforce sanctions on freeholders. Zippo rah Main waring, a resident on Smith’s Charity’s South Kensington es¬ tate. will ask the West London County Court this month to order the charity to issue her a section 5 notice under toe 1987 Act. immediately giving her fust refusal to buy the freehold. Smith’s Charity says it will not issue section 5 notices to residents to offer toe sale of toe freehold until a system of estate management has been agreed between residents and Cluttons, the charity's agents, approved by a Leasehold Valuation Tribunal and an appeal heard. Cluttons says a scheme is necessary to preserve the integrity of the estate. The tribunal hearing to approve a scheme has been postponed until the new year after initial proposals met with a storm of protest from some residents, who said they would not have control over maintenance costs. Ms Main waring says an estate management scheme was not part of Smith Charity's original sale conditions. She wants to buy toe freehold “unencumbered" by an estate management scheme. Cluttons. freehold agents for Smith’s Charity, would say only: “The dispute is over a technical point Ms Main waring has one interpre¬ tation lof toe Actj which is not shared by Smith's Charity". In July. Smith’s Charity angered tenants when it announced that it had sold the freehold of the E283 million estate to another charity, the Well come Trust, without having served notices on tenants under section 5. This would have given tenants two months to respond. Instead. Wellcome served notices under section 18. Under this section, half the tenants must declare their interest in being offered toe freehold within one month of receiving the notice. Chiltons, also acting as agent for Wellcome, says that Section 18 notices create more certainty and mean a quicker sale if tenants are not interested in toe freehold. WIN A MILLION every month ^ .... ; V ’■;Oryour money back ® £1 Million monthly jackpot Premium Bands. Any person aged '©or over can buy Premium Bonds for Themselves Bonds can be bought tiw children under 16 by their parents, igreat] grandparents or guardians. If you buy by post v*e will send you a copy of the prospectus containing the lull leims. ro which this advertisement is a simplified guide The purchase date will be the date we receive your application If you [hen wish to cancel your purchase, tell us in writing wntwi 28 davs and we will refund your money. But please note rtut vtw are not entitled ro any prizes drawn on the cancelled purchase Bonds go into the prize draw one full calendar month after the month of purchase. Three months nonce of any changes torhc pnze structure or merest rate that makes up the prize fund wfll be gven The Director of Savings reserves the right to seek evidence of identity for a free copy of the Ui temts and condition-, of Today's offer, or far a free copy of our Virtual Shop Guide covering all National Savings' unique investment opportunities you can caH us free anytime on QSOO 500 OOO Over 350,000 other prizes of £50 or more every month worth over £22 Million AH prizes tax-free You can invest £100 to £20 r 000 Money back at any time E62TM5 Please send this form to: National Savings, premium bonds. Freepost Bi 2092 , Blackpool, FY3 sxr. If you prefer, use a first class Stamp for rapid delivery. 1 Do you already hold Premium Bonds? Yes | | No [ | If Yes. please enter your ■-.-.-,-.-, Holder's Number I I I I I I I I I 2 Amount in words_pounds CIO u 3 M_ All forenames Surname. Mnenuni 1100 UiRo Jmourti mvM be M muhpte oltu Address in full .Postcode. 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  fcf ■■ ?. v. ’ • SjjLJiMES Sati iPn ^Y NOVEMBER 41995 The art of investing in an emerging market AX a WEEKEND MONEY 33 A Erica was Term Incog¬ nita to most Europeans before the great expedi¬ tions of the lS70s, such as that of Dr Livingstone. This week, however, it is very much in the news, but for ail the wrong investment reasons. The feet that the South African Stock Exchange, a cornerstone of liquidity in the continent's money markets, is undergoing its own “Big Bang” or deregulation, has been overshadowed by other events. In a Durian court this week. General Magnus Ma- lan. the former South African Defence Minister and ten other security chiefs from the apartheid era. were bailed after being charged with mur¬ der in relation to the massacre in 1987of 13 people. In Nigeria. Ken Saro-Wiwa. the play¬ wright was sentenced to death, provoking worldwide condemnation, including a strongly worded statement from the Foreign Office. It is into this apparently unsettled investment environ¬ ment that GT proposes to launch an Africa fund this An Ashanti 18th century terracotta head, at the Royal Academy of Arts Africa: The Art of A Continent exhibition month. That there is growth potential in certain African markets is beyond dispute. Indeed, the African story could well be tiie emerging market story of the next few years. Others in this category.’nota¬ bly the now more mature Far East Tiger economies, such as Thailand and Malaysia, are taking a breather. John Legal. GTs director of emerging market investments, points out that in 1965 nominal per capita income in Ghana was US$260. almost twice that of Thailand. Some 30 years on. the positions are reversed, with Ghana advancing to $430 per head and Thailand streaking away to $ 2,100 per person. In Mr Legat’s view. African stock markets and economies in general have been held back in the same way that many Latin American countries were in the 1970s and 80s. These factors indude excessive control of national economies, centralised planning, import substitution, tariffs, price and wage controls and restrictions on foreign exchange. In cer¬ tain countries, corruption should be added to the list Tribal and ethnic conflicts have also played their part These include the war of Katanganese succession in what is now Zaire in die early 1960s. the Nigerian war of the early 1970s and the complete breakdown of law and order in Somalia in the early 1990s. Turning to individual coun¬ tries. Mr Legal says that in Uganda, once hailed as the Pearl of Africa, investment is only now beginning to pick up after the imposition of a strict economic regime, backed by the International Monetary Fund, in I9S8. Cotton produc¬ tion has doubled to 70,000 bales since. The continent is still rich in minerals, and tourism is de¬ veloping rapidly. There are now 14 bourses, or slock exchanges. Besides South Africa, other nations with bourses include Eygpt, Mauritius and Namibia. Mr ^gat says that favoured countries for his portfolio are likely to include South Africa. Egypt. Morocco. Ghana. Bo¬ tswana. Kenya and Mauritius. He adds that portfolio weightings should reflect the fact that the Africa story is only part of the emerging markets theme, but is certain¬ ly worth an initial or even increased exposure. It is one for locking away on a long¬ term view. T he price war in the personal savings market intensified this week when two leading unit trust managers scrapped initial charges on their funds. The moves, by Legal & General and HSBC Asset Manage¬ ment. were prompted in part by the current mood of apathy and suspicion among private investors, which has seen unit trust sales fell by 20 per cent in recent months. In addition, managers have watched Richard Branson attract £100 million of new savings to his low- cost Virgin personal equity plan [Pep] since its launch in March. They are also looking forward to getting their hands on some of the £15 bQlion of funds that are held in tax exempt special savings accounts [Tessas] and axe due to mature next year. As a result, HSBC whose UK Pepping up interest by abolishing sign-up fees Index Fund is worth £162 mfllion. announced that it was abolishing initial charges on seven on its funds. From January 1, there will no longer be a 525 per cent charge on its index tracking funds. Legal & General which said that it aimed to increase its share of the Pep market from 1 to 10 per cent in the next three years, has scrapped initial charges and withdrawal fees on its five existing Peps. The company has also launched a low-cost index-traddng Pep that claims to be the cheapest on the market, investing in L&G’s UK Index Trust, holder of nearly 72 per cent of shares in the FT-SE 100 index Index-tracking funds aim to match die growth of an index — a measure of movement in value by a certain number of shares. There are 39 authorised such funds, with £2J trillion under manage¬ ment and investors need to choose one until a good record, not just opt for one with low charges. Among the cheapest Peps is Virgin’s, with an annual management charge of I per cent and no initial charge. Gartinore’s UK Index Fund Pep has no initial charge and an annual 1 per cent charge. Marianne Curphey the left hand column. Investment of £1,000 in December 1945 Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PEC + Higher Rate Building Society Account 1945 £1,000 £1,000 1970 £30,269 £2.554 1985 £191,470 £8.489 1995 £922.610 £17,363 If you are looking to accumulate a sizeable sum, there’s a decision to be made. 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• The Foreign & Colonial Private Investor Plan is one of the lowest charging available. It is also flexible - it allows you to invest monthly or by lump sum into our range of investment trusts and you can alter the amount and the frequency of your savings without penalty. Don’t leave it to fate. Find out more and enjoy the benefits of Foreign & Colonial. Foreign Colonial Name;.. .. INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Address,.;... . ..—-- .. Phone 01734 828 802 Fax 01734 344 622 ... . ” any time, quoting the coupon code. Postcode ; ..CODE:P411?5r. Re turn this coupon to: Foreign & Colonial Management Ltd. PO Box 2, Twyford, Berkshire RG10 9NW . j., ~yiimvw *pm them can faH as well « fi you may not get tack the full amount Invested. Paa performance a no waIu !5 f ttemmS [1SS5 figure to 29«©5]. 'Bask net me to 1952-sowceBZW. Thereafter highest net rate wafebte total return, net interne reinvested. tSource Foreign & Colonial Management Ltd using fr “ n ind historical 15* notional expenses. Plan charges 02% commadon rad 05% Govt stamp duty Foreign & S^ialMwws^™ L ®B ,J,B t rt ,, ^^t he P e,s ,nv-rr w?.* ;i-u rv.'trruwr, um»i iicmON MW WWW 1W5 ’"AUKt TO N], WWH NET KOMI NEJNttsrro lo:WX!OW>.r«S TMf MS w;cu*HOM!»*Myc, .;aDCWK«IMU 4SuPS,:HjM0["ajr:wA, G*u5| T> v*U/t C* UN&t»r\NS OVERSEAS IWLftMENT, 10 GO DOWN 0 l nauK WIT f^uET MANAijcns UMi7t£> « MMIER Of TVit SCOTTISH nu>DINI uroup iS MOUATOD «, MORE than one in five critical-illness insurance claims are rejected. The most important single reason for not paying out on claims is non-disclosure. According to a survey from Employers Reassurance International, which reinsures most of the leading insurers, 75 per cent of claims made for permament and total disability are turned down. Nearly half of those claiming for renal failure are turned down and a quarter of those who claim for heart attacks, strokes or multiple sclerosis are denied their daim. However, only 13 per cent of cancer claims are denied. These claims account for more than 50 per cent of the total. Phfl Geverley, underwriting manager with Employers Re, said: “Our research shows that one third of claims are made within a year of taking out a critical¬ illness policy. Some people take the attitude that they should just try their luck." One of the most contentious areas is permanent disability. While most claimants feel if they can no longer do their job they should be able to daim, many policies state if they can do any job, they are disqualified. Hugh Thompson UllMJ ANO TNf WVESTVSWI MiTHCtOT,' VC IS HIM UMEIOI M/T* SO %/> oGAN ^P^wenf e u sHT/f Ja ,0 »

  Purchasing a PEP from one of the above companies makes sound financial sense. However, invest in any of them via Chelsea Financial and you are really on to a good thing. That's because we give a discount of up to 5%. Which is not available if you go direct! It gets better. We will also advise on the current best buys, depending on whether you need income or growth. Or a combination of the two. For instance, on a Corporate Bond PEP we can give you up to 9% income. Chelsea Financial is the UK's leading independent PEP discount company. So whilst there is a wide choice of PEPs, there is only one adviser. Chelsea Financial. So don't invest direct. Get a better deal by calling us on 0171 351 6022. Or return the coupon. Together we will make quite a splash. Chelsea Financial Services f [jr \ J the BEST ADVICE. THE BEST DISCOUNTS. \?|5r\ Chelsea Financial Services Ltd, FREEPOST, 2/1 Harbour Yard,

  Chelsea Harbour, London SW10 QYZ Tel: 0171 351 6022 RKVlATEP 97 TV*. KMONAL BNEPMENT AUTnfiWT t Ttfi V&lUl OF INTOlMttiTS AND THE INCOME FROM THEM CAN FAIL A j WELL A5 RTSF Chelsea Financial Services Ltd. FREEPOST, 2/1 Harbour Yard. Chelsea Harbour, London SWiO 0YZ. J I would like to know more about the leading discounted PEPS. ! Address TRANSFER TO THE NEW FIXED RATE TESSA Hie Chancellor confirmed in his last Budget that when your current TESSA matures, you may re-in vest the capital in a new TESSA. Tire new Robert Fleming TESSA offers an interest rate of 7.50% p.3. fixed for five yeans. So whatever happens to interest rates over that time you know you will get a guaranteed maturity amount of up to £12,920 at the end of five years, assuming you invest the maximum £9,000 capital. You can transfer any amount of capital between S3,000-£9.000 and, what’s more, if you transfer now, we will pay 7.50% p.a. on your existing TESSA until the maturity date and automatically open a new TESSA for you. So if your current TESSA matures between 1st January and 31st May 1996 call for an application form today. '50
• Postcode. TAX-FREE FCH^yBSb/ 0800 829 024 24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK Flemings SAW & PROSPER MTFasr u*n a&sa 10 ccwtvuld of n«K »p «m k whoww i n c*a «t MWt ACaHQ TQUEAlfUOnC'N MO*. T>« MsmSFPIFtf APIUSKAMwWn ihhof ICW C COUNT UHW“ CUBTOT USA NT SVEMJf WWABOMS iHrfCESI aCZJVEO “0* IB* B NO! 9.CXC1 WTw. HO ««!t*-Mi it UMTOl *Jt WCWD IMTH. wn «..» Tp» w it* nuoum ecw«T Hum*:. co umhk «&6rjj j c*wi » conwu mix iOwiv»i k» CtPOiTS S WIMCW1 VJF L now /UvtKttK, M tOCfUMMft f THf tiss ij aoHD c* iwi'/mo kk*i iis m yum. thi@ m* be » ch*ki wuo ny NCUMD Jf 1 li UWCL ! jffCffID !■» IHJ oCCouM RJU! SAVING AND INVESTING FROM AS LITTLE AS £25 PER MONTH NO ENTRY COSTS, NO ANNUAL FEES AND NO MINIMUM INVESTMENT TERM With Scottish Investment Trust’s STOCKLPLAN scheme, it’s a reality. The only charge made on your investment is the statutory Stamp Duty. Everything else is invested and works for you. Invested in one of the world’s largest trusts. One which has been looking after stockholders’ funds since 1887, and has proudly maintained its independence. And you can invest by way of regular savings or lump sums or a combination of both in a diversified portfolio which includes some of the world’s most successful companies. gKjjj Scottish investment Trust 6 Atoyn Place, Edinburgh EH2 4NL Please send me the SIT ST0CKPLAN brochure and application form. Send tbs coupon to Alan Jeffrey, SIT Savings Ltd, FREEPOST EH 882,6 AJbyn Place. EtSnbwgh EH2 odh W e also offer a tow cost Personal EcmIy Plan. Please lick tots box for rie.tsnk. I l Name 1*8_ [BumcMmumusa flOMfltsammt °v SIT Savings Lid. a notvowned sutuMlary ~ £ times Saturday November 4 1995 WEEKEND MONEY 35 l fwaptc i hb* ;'v«5Ckiiwawsy 3tr» « «*' I 1 "', M IM. lu Q The Equitable Life You profit from our principles Hili" 1 ’ 1 '- ,121] o THE TIMES SATT ipn a v NOVEMBER 4 1995 WEEKEND MONEY 37 THE Mitsubishi first to go online TIMES MONEY INFORMATION SERVICE Mitsubishi has launched the world's first online personal • finance network service, infotrade Portfolio provides an information and full share dealing service to the private investor from their home PC. Other facilities include FT-SE indices, current UK share prices and three-year histori¬ cal company results. The cost of the service is £10 per month, plus a £25 connection fee. The software product itself, provid¬ ed on CD-Rom. is priced at £69.99 and can be bought directly through BT Telesales on 0800 226600. For further information, contact Infotrade on 0121 717 3768. ■ Allen bridge, analyst of Peps, is providing a free evaluator to help investors with risk assessment when choosing a Corporate Bond Pfep. The risks assessed for each fund are: level of liquid¬ ity; the spread of investments; credit risk; and sensitivity to interest rate movements. Call freephone 0500 551000. ■ Help the Aged has pub¬ lished a free booklet giving advice to senior citizens on money management. Think¬ ing About Money aims to help older people to "balance their household budgets and offers ANNUAL INCOME Rales as at November 2 ,1995 Investment [E] Company i Standard Rate [%] 5,000 AIG Life 5.10 10,000 A1G Life 5.15 20,000 AIG Life 5.20 50,000 AfG Life 5.25 1,000 Premium life 5.50 10,000 AJG Life 5.63 20,000 AIG Life • 5.73 50,000 AIG Life 5.78 1,000 Premium Life 5.60 20,000 AIGUfe 5.67 50,000 AIG Life 5.72 100,000 AIG Life 5.82 1,000 Premium Life 5.90 20,000 AIG Life 5.82 50,000 AJG Life 5.87 3,000 Abbey Life 6.85 15,000 Abbey Life 7.05 50.000 Abbey Life 725 2 Years 3 Years 4 Years 5 Years Source: Chamberlain da Brofl 0171-434 4222. Net ot 2S% tax [which cannot be redavned]. Income and capital guaranteed Early surrender. Terms vary. Monthly income may be available. SAVERS'BEST BUYS BASE RATES V MORTGAGES practical tips on maximising income and claiming welfare benefit. Available by sending a SAE to Information Depart¬ ment [Money], Help the Aged. Sr James's Walk, ClerkenweU Green. London. EC1R 0BE. or from all Help the Aged shops. ■ CafCash. a trading subsid¬ iary of the Charities Aid Foundation, has launched a High Interest Cheque Account designed for the banking needs of charities. Special cheque books will enable char¬ itable account-holders to make payments directly to third parties and administration costs will be kept to a mini¬ mum. Contact Sue Pavey at CAF on 01732 770114. M Pensions for Women is a four-page guide published by NatWest Bank providing in¬ formation on why women need to consider planning for their retirement. Available free on 0800 255 200. ■ The Share Centre is offer¬ ing a free Christmas album CD to individual investors who pay £37.50 or more in dealing commission between now and December 22. Call 0800 800008 for details. Lizanne Rose INSTANT ACCESS ACCOUNTS Scottish Widows Bank 0345 829829 Co-operative Bank 0345 252000 Leeds & Holbeck BS 0113 2438292 Brmnghm Midshires BS 0645 720721 FIXED RATES Nrwch & Ptrbrgh BS 01733 391497 Leeds & Holbeck BS 0113 244 0357 Woolwich BS 0800 400900 Brmnghm Midshires BS 0645 720721 Account Instant Acc Pathfinder Albion First Class Account Notice of term Postal Instant Postal Postal Notice of term Fxd Intrst Bond lyr bond Investment Bond 2 yr bond Fixed Rate Bond 3yr bond Millenium Band 4yr bond NOTICE ACCOUNTS AND BONDS Account Nottingham BS 0115 948 1444 Postmark Scarborough BS 0800 590578 Scarboro National Counties BS 01372 742211 90 Day Greenwich BS 0181 858 8212 Flagship Notice Account of term Postmark 7 day p Scarborough 50 50 day 90 Day 90 day Flagship Term 1 yr bnd Deposit £250 £5,000 £ 10,000 £25,000 Deposit £5,000 £5,000 £500 £5,000 Deposit £2,500 £ 1,000 £ 20,000 £5,000 Interest paid Interest Rate paid Tis F/OM 7.05 F/Yly 7.25 F/Yly 7.75 F/Yly Interest Rats paid j Mattox I mongaga1 CREDIT CARDS BEST BUYS CREDIT CARDS Robert Fleming/S&P 0800 829024 Royal Bank of Scotland 0800 161616 Frizzell Bank 0800 373191 Card type Interest per month APR% Fee per annum MasterCard/Visa 0.98%G 12.40% Nil C MasterCard 1.14% 14^0% Nil C MasterCard/Visa 1.17% 16.10% £11 Clearing banks base rates 81 1 92 1 S3 ‘ 94 ‘ 95 FT-SE 100 PRICE INDEX PERSONAL LOANS BEST BUYS PERSONAL LOANS Clydesdale Bank 0800 240024 Midland 0800 180160 N&P BS 0800 808080 Monthly payment on £3,000 for 3yrs with insurance no insurance 16.20% 15.40% 15.50% £113.94 £116.54 JEM 18-22 £103.33 £103.14 £103.29 Nb. A - Feeder account required. In the interest paid columns. C = no interest free period D = annual fee rebated £1.5K+ charged par annum E = Annual fee waived tor 1st year lor new accounts F - fixed rale IbB other rates are variable!- OM denotes interest paid on maturity
• RATES SHOWN ARE GROSS AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE WfTHOUT NOTICE PLEASE CHECK RATES BEFORE INVESTING Source: Mcneyfacts. the Mentht t Guide to tmastment & Mortgage Rates [01682 500 677] i',r. 34 50 1 Nov FIXED RATE Birmingham Midshires Bradford & Bingley Bradford & Bingley Bristol & West Britannia Coventry First National Halifax Halifax Halifax Leeds & Holbeck Newcastle Newcastle Northern Rock Skipton

  FLOATING RATE Cross coupon 9.375% 11.625% 13.000% 13.375% 13.000% 12.125% 11.750% 8.750% 12 . 000 % 13.625% 13.375% 10.750% 12.625% 12.625% 12.875% Gross coupon First National 9.30000% 10C Cheshire [28/03-28/09]9.24766% 105 PfBS = Permanent Interest-bearing shares Source. ABN AMRO Hoars Gouett — 0171 601 0101 J SHARE IN FOCUS: .-Cl JSA1NSBURY % Minimum Gross issue purchase yield price amount 9.777 100.17 1.000 9.851 100.13 10,000 9.864 100.20 10,000 9.959 100.34 1,000 9.991 100.42 1,000 9.973 100.75 1.000 10.553 100.25 10,000 9.687 100.62 50,000 9.591 100.28 50,000 9.703 100.00 50,000 9.981 100.23 1,000 9.772 100.32 1,000 9.773 100.45 1,000 9.620 100.14 1,000 9.912 100.48 1,000 I Issue Mnimum ? price purchase i 100.00 1,000 100.00 1,000 Building Societies Yorkshire 0800 378836 Bristol & West 0800 100117 Northern Rock 0800 591 500 Banks National Westminst 0121 234 2000 Midland 0800 494 999 Interest rale % Loan size Max % Notes 1.99 neg 95 6% [fisc 1 year, 2% [fisc 18 mths 0.95 E15k+ 90 Fxd to 30.11.96 1.99 to£l00k 90 6% discount to 1.2.97 2.79 £l5k+ 75 520% discount tor 12 months 2.79 Et00k+ 80 4.86% discount fori year Interest rate % Loan Max size % Building Societies Scarborough 0800 590547 Hinckley & Rugby 0800 774499 Bristol & West 0.75 15,001 to £100k 0.75 to £150k f— • 480 | fee 4 "

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• Tenancies after that date are outside their jurisdiction. Yours faithfully, p POPPLE WELL. Chief Rem Officer. „ Enfield Rent Registration Area, Nicholas House. River Front Enfield. Middlesex. When the only option is to rent a home Proving identity at bank or society need not be a shot in the dark To Advertise is Weekend Money Please Telephone 0171 782 7115/7523. From MrA.J. Roberts Sir. Your article on whether to rent or buy refers all too briefly to job insecurity: this is surely a crucial factor in all aspects of the housing market. Not only do those in perma¬ nent work face the prospect of redundancy but the whole nature of employment is chan¬ ging. I only need quote Gra¬ ham Seatjeant’s article of October 23. in which he cites die trend of the 150 top comp¬ anies in the UK to rely on temporary staff for a U but the key posts. This invariably involves a short-term contract and may be in a wide range of locations. Feu,’ in this situation can contemplate buying, while those who bought in happier times, often face the social, family and economJc prob¬ lems of working away from home, property prices are unlikely to rise while this job insecurity remains. Yours faithfully. .ANTHONY J. ROBERTS.
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  . z i ?— i! ■ 'Im THE TIMES SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4 1995 SPORT 41 Crawley in fine shape to press for Test place • From Michael Henderson in east London Crawley, on his way to 87 not out against Border, is out to impress again today Hussain plays vital innings Sign right here O. J. and have a nice day SIMON BARNES On Saturday OUTWARDLY. John Crawley has changed so much that, with his cropped hair, he could pass for a warder in Jaiihouse Rock. Inwardly he has changed, too. The young man who set out on a Test career. 16 months ago has taken longer to adjust man he, or others, imagined. Now that he is showing signs of doing so. will there be a Test place for him? Crawley is “the man in possession*', having finished the summer batting at No 3 against West Indies. However. Raymond Illingworth has sig¬ nalled a dear wish for Mark Ramprakash to bat there this winter, against South Africa. Should Ramprakash be seleci- The West Indies board is threatening to punish sev¬ eral Test players after the reports by the captain, man¬ ager and coach accused them of causing disruption during the tour of England this year. The players, who have not been named, have been ordered to answer the charges hy November 15 or face punishment ed, the best Crawley can hope for is a place at No 6. ahead of Robin Smith. Yesterday, as overnight rain washed out the second day of England’s four-day match against Border. Crawley had good reason to curse. He is 87 not out and wants to turn it into something big, to remind Illingworth which players are in the best form. With 85 against an Invita¬ tion XI behind him. and runs here. Crawley is well ahead of is every likelihood that Smith will get another chance to play himself into form against a .South African A side at Kim¬ berley next week. Since he returned from Aus¬ tralia earlier this year, having achieved only a partial success there last winter. Crawley has attempted to play straighter. He is also toning down some¬ thing of his natural expansive¬ ness. ‘to the point where it seems he is giving an imper¬ sonation of somebody “barring responsibly*'. He makes no bones about this adjustment of style. “1 don’t want to get out. 1 am trying to accumulate runs without making mistakes and in four-day cricket, particular¬ ly when you open or bar first wicket down, you can bat for a longer period of time. You can get a good bail early on. but if you get in. then being out for 60 or 70 is not good enough." John Edrich. the England batting coach, has assisted him. “My technique is similar to last season but I have worked with Edrich on a few things, notably playing with softer hands m defence and playing straighter through mid-on. He tells every bodvto set their sights on a hundred, not to get out for 40s." Keen as he is to make amends for his Test failures, Crawley is not expecting any favours from Atherton, the man he followed to Man¬ chester Grammar School, Cambridge and Lancashire. “There are players here with much better Test records than I," he said. "I did not play especially well during the summer but 1 learnt a lot and 1 hope I am a better player for it Robin is a fine player at Test level and is going through a bad run. as anybody can- He is probably the best player of fast bowling in the team so I would not have thought that was an helped his running between the wickets and in the field. Now he is down to a shade over 13 stone, in trim, and looking forward to reshaping his international career. NASSER HUSSAIN, the cap¬ tain. played a delightful in¬ nings of 64 as the England A side gained their 'second successive victory yesterday, beating a Pakistan Cricket Board XI by seven runs at Thatta in a match reduced w 45 overs a side. After England A had been put in. Jason Pooley was out in the fourth over but the York¬ shire opener. Andrew McGrath, helped Hussain re¬ pair the damage with a sec¬ ond-wicket stand of 71. Hussain’s innings was streets ahead of any other in terms of class, although Jason Gailian scored 28 rapid runs to boost the total. The Board XI passed 100 with only three wickets down and. with 13 runs required off the last two overs, were still in with a chance until Kabir Khan lost patience and swung vainly at Ed Giddins. ENGLAND AX1 A f.fcGiflTh c Kabir b Anwar . . 34 J c Footey c Rarrcfln t Airier . 1 •M Hussain c Ipz b Zalai . . 6a 0 P Oater mn out .10 fl C Irani b Airier ..0 J = fl Gailian c l|az E> Zafai ... 28 fK J FHp« c Oadir b Kao . . II D V* Headtev ri Ka&r . & R D Slsunp b Katin . . . 0 A M Smiir. fUoui . . . .„ „ 1 £ S H iiajins a Kafir . . 0 =.oras fla 4. & 4 rb 2 1 . .. . iQ Tola! overs]--168 FALL •:•= WICKETS.1-5.2-rr. 3-101 4-103. 5-H-5.6-J48. 7-163. c-163 9-1oa BCT.VlWG Kafc'f 73-5-20-4 Aha 9-2-22- 2 Zafer 94MG-& Anna/ 9-0-3-M tUmzai 4-0-160 Ijaz &0-300 PAKISTAN CRICKET BOARD XI Mohammad Ramzan run out_ . .34 Ghutom Ati c Mc&am o South_ 12 Ijaz Ahmed Jr c McGrath b Giddns. 26 Mahmood Haoua c Ostler o HeaSey.... 30 Saad Wasrn tr* b Iram.. _3 Zalar Iqbal run out. „ ..15 Sat'd Asghar c Fper b Siemc.4 Alter Laeecj c Piper b Siemp.. . 4 Javed Qaooer iun oul . .. 7 Katvr Khan c Irani b Gaifce . ... 14 Anwar Alina oul.6 Exiras Of 3. v* 8. r* 71 .. ...16 Tool [43.4 ou«rs] --161 FALL OF WICKETS 1-SC. 2-58 3-95.4-101. 5-153. 6-123. 7-132.3-132. 9-152 BOWLING. Gridins 8-1-20-2. Headley 3-2- 23-1 Gailian 4-0-25C: SfrHtti 64-0-30-1. Irani 7-1-21-1. Siemp 9-2-35-2 □ Salim Malik, the former Pakistan captain, was dis¬ missed for seven against South Australia in his first innings since his eight-month exile from the game following bribery accusations. The price of O-J. Simpson memorabilia continues to go through the roof and beyond, mast particularly if the trade involves items that the great man has actually* signed himself. It seems that the great star of American foot¬ ball is more famous than ever before. How can this be? Well, football fans have long memories, and there is no doubt in my mind that these born-again O. J. fans simply wish to celebrate a great career. Surely the high prices cannot possibly have any connection with any unfortu¬ nate events that may have transpired over the past 15 months. Besides, would any one in the United States truly wish to cash in on a such a distasteful thing as a murder trial?
• J. is planning a massive signing session at Atlantic City, the American epicentre of restraint good taste and wholesomeness. “! want to keep this a sports show, not a ‘Hey, I’m out of jail show’,” said Mike Cilben. O.J.’s agent and guardian of the higher morality. He said that Simpson’s contract for the show allows him not to sign anything he does not like — and so he won’t be signing pictures of the famous slow- morion car-chase along the Los Angeles freeway system, the chase that paralysed America and filled every television channel for hours. However, the promoter of the signing session. Mike Benolini. has said that O. J. will sign photographs of both courtroom scenes and the chase — and that they will be available by mail order. “That absolutely wall not happen,” Gilbert said. “O. J. will not sign it.” Admittedly,
• J. has already signed one or two photos from the court¬ room. Well, about 1,000 of them, actually. But he now regrets it. Well, we all do things we regret from time to time, don’t we. O J? “There’s no going back.” Gilbert wise¬ ly says. “But we’re not going to do any more of those.” In line with the good taste ambience of the entire busi¬ ness. Al “A. C." Cowlings will not. after all. appear at the signing session. It was Al that drove the Bronco during the infamous chase. Background info on Bertolini: pleaded guilty to conspiracy ro commit tax fraud after baseball memora¬ bilia event in 19S9. Also pleaded guilty to assaulting one of his partners in that yemure fours year on. The weapon, appropriately enough, was a baseball bat.’ Grande Illusion Just because all these conti¬ nentals keep beating British football teams, it doesn't mean they are better. Of course not They just look better. Opinions of some jingoistic English footballer? Pas du tout . Opinions of Guy Roux, for 30 years manager of Auxerre. a footballing god in France 3 : SAlP L&f'jZ 'tfzy'To LOO< LIKE and one time mentor of Eric Cantona to boot. “French players aren't better than English players — they give the iDusion of being better." he said, adding: “English players show admirable dis¬ cipline. Frankly. 1 am jeal¬ ous of that They are disciplined at every level They are Anglo-Saxon. We are not yet at the level of the English championship.” Hazardous Can you copyright a hole? That is the vexed legal ques¬ tion in the United States. In Houston, Texas, someone has come up with the inge¬ nious idea of making a eolf course that comprises noth¬ ing but replicas of famous holes from other courses. For just 50 bucks, you play 18 charismatic, puzzling and otherwise notorious holes from the entire puzzling and footling world of golf. You can. for example, play the three holes of the renowned Amen Corner from Augusta. But the proprietors of the Tour IS golf course must now- face trial for violation of copyright Their defence is that golf design cannot be protected by law. A hole in the ground is hole in the ground. Old American joke: what is black and brown and looks good on a lawyer? A doberman. Soccer school They still love Bruce in Zimbabwe. Bruce Grob- belaar. who appears in court next month on charges of fixing football matches, has plans to open a football academy lor young players in Zimbabwe, where his career began. He is still the Zimba¬ bwe goalie, not to mention living national Treasure. Buttoned up Now that rugby union has ditched all that amateur non¬ sense. the gimlet-eyed mar¬ keting people are really on the ball. No opportunity for making a quick quid escapes their attention. An advertise¬ ment in a recent Wasps programme offers The Rob Andrew Shim “The black Wasps rugby jersey specially commissioned with the number 10 on the back and Rob’s signature embossed in gold on the sleeve.” It comes in a special pre¬ sentation box. in a limited [well, fairly limited] edition of just, 300. Adult sizes £59.95: children's sizes a give-away at £39.95. Small" problem: Andrew has. of course, been kicked oul for poaching his ream-mates on behalf of his new club. Newcastle. Moral: some people are better at seizing commercial opportu¬ nities than others. Smith if form counts for anything, but Mi chad Ather¬ ton admires Smith’s big- match temperament and there issue. “ Crawley’s well-documented efforts to reshape his body in the past six months have
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• Sanpellegrino was the official supplier of mineral water at Cowes Week and to Italy's winning Admiral's Cup team. In line with its long-standing involvement in sailing, back in 1982 Sanpellegrino established the Veteran Boat Rally with the Costa Smeralda Yacht Club. In 1983 in the USA and 4 years later in Australia it sponsored the yacht Azzurra at the America's Cup. Sanpellegrino has also been present at the Whitbread Round the World Race. Sanpellegrino: first in the wafer. Sparkling Natural Mineral Water. Since 1899. . 44 RACING Nemuro offers top value in Chepstow showpiece By Richard Evans, racing correspondent ONE of the dictionary defini¬ tions of value is fair return and Nemuro can offer more ihan that in the Tote Silver Trophy at Chepstow this afternoon. Win or lose — and David Elsworth’s improving hurdler has a genuine chance of landing this £20.000-added prize — the seven-year-old should not be as big a'price as 14-1. being offered by Ladbrokes. So he must rate as today’s value bet. A winner of six races on the Flat in the French provinces, he then went to Ireland where he won over hurdles at Ros¬ common. before joining Elsworth midway through last season. Not for the first time. Desert Orchid's handler conjured immediate improve¬ ment out of his new recruit and. after just being pipped off bottom weight in a valuable Ainrree race Nemuro went on to win the Welsh Champion Hurdle over today's course. On his seasonal reappear¬ ance at Kempton three weeks ago. he did particularly well under top weight to finish within eight lengths of the winner; Jakarta. as his saddle slipped at a crucial stage of the race. That run should have put him spot on and the booking of Tony Procter, a RICHARD EVANS Nap: NEMURO [1.30 Chepstow] Next best Leap For Joy [2.50 Doncaster] useful conditional jockey, is a bonus. "We are optimistic. He ran a good race at Kempton and although 1 don't think the saddle slipping made any difference to the result, I believe he will improve a pound or two for that run." Elsworth said. “I think he has Cherrynut can collect again CHEPSTOW BBCI 1.00: There should be plenty of pace, which may deny Kilbreet and Jtimes the First the opportunity to dominate. Run Up The Flag. Old Bridge and Sailor Jim are belter over fun her. Regal Romper's jumping has been sketchy, so it is wonh risking Ponlynyswen on his season¬ al reappearance. Dai Bur- chell's runner progressed steadily last term and goes well here. 1.30: see above. 2.00: Probably the best nov¬ ice chase so far this season sees the Sun Alliance Hurdle runner-up. Berudc Not To. and useful Irish import. Hill OfTullow. make their chas¬ ing debuts. Both are sure to win races but experience could count here and Cherrynut. winner of six out of seven point-to-points last season, won a chase in taking style at Worcester a fortnight‘ago and can follow¬ up. WINCANTON CHANNEL4 2.30: David Elsworth should saddle the first two home in this badly supported race. The question is in which order. Last season. Absa¬ lom’s Lady beat her stable- mate. Atours. twice and lost once. However, the weights today favour Atours. who also has the benefit of having already won this season. Clifton Beat has plenty to do. 3.00: Bas De Laine made an encouraging comback be¬ hind General Rusty after a season off and should progress but Wise Ap¬ proach can get back on the winning trail. Winner of his last four completed starts, he paid for a rare error at Cheltenham last time but should be better suited by this right-handed track and longer trip. Brackenfield is an interesting debutant for Paul Nicholls. TODAY’S RACES ON TELEVISION DONCASTER CHANNEL4 2.20: This represents a drop in class for Capias after two creditable efforts in group company since winning at Leicester. John Gosden's runner should be there¬ abouts but the long, gallop¬ ing straight here should prove ideal for Naked Wet- come. who came from last to first to beat Seckar Vale at Newmarket Henry Cecil’s .A] Widyan is still improving. 150: Mis tie Cat arguably has the best form but is far from certain to be so effective on his first attempt at this trip. Montendre is one of the most consistent horses in training and goes particular- ls well here, while Royale Figurine has done her con¬ nections proud this term. Bur Leap For Joy is the choice. She has shown progressive form in her last two starts, particularly when winning a group three race in Italy. 3.25: see above. 4.00: Paul Cole is wasting no time with Merit, a comfort¬ able winner at Edinburgh on Thursday and on the ail- weather at Lingfield 12 days ago. The Rainbow Quest colt picks up a 31b penalty for his latest success but actually runs off a lower handicap mark than at Edinburgh. He can stretch classier oppo¬ nents weighted up to the hilt. Of the rest. Sugar Mill looks the biggest threat Richard Evans GOT A CARD? GET A FREE £10 BET. FOR FIRST TIME TELEPHONE CALLERS slaking £25 or more on today's racing using Switch or Delta bank or building society debit cards. -■ RING TODAY’BET TODAY < 0800444040

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