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CAMPUS 2000 WORLD & UK NEWS
Prepared from selected BBC Teletext transmissions
London, Thursday 11th November 1993 08:00h GMT
US HANDGUN CONTROL BILL APPROVED
The US House of Representatives has passed a long-delayed gun control bill
setting a five-day national waiting period for handgun sales. The Brady
bill will give local police time to check gun buyers to see if they have
criminal records or a history of mental problems. President Clinton has
promised to sign the bill. Its sponsor was shot when he was President
Reagan's press secretary, during an assassination attempt in 1981.
FRENCH MOTORWAY CRASH TOLL RISES
The death toll from a motorway crash in western France, involving 44
vehicles, has risen to 14. Officials said 40 others had been hurt in the
pile-up in holiday traffic on the Paris to Bordeaux A10 motorway and
rescuers were still searching burnt-out wreckage. Police have detained the
driver of a tanker carrying methanol. Officials said the lorry caught fire
and flames engulfed dozens of other lorries and cars.
CLINTON - BOSNIA AID TO CONTINUE
President Clinton says that with no prospect of peace in Bosnia the US will
continue efforts to bring aid to the millions of people at risk. He added
that air strikes had still not been ruled out if the Bosnian Serbs
continued shelling Sarajevo. Sarajevo radio reported that in the latest
attacks on the city at least eight people, including three children, were
killed. The Bosnian government has again postponed the evacuation of about
100 Serb civilians from Sarajevo.
SPANISH ABATTOIRS "IGNORING RULES"
The RSPCA says it has evidence that some Spanish abattoirs are ignoring EC
regulations on killing animals. Britain had banned exporting live sheep to
Spain on moral grounds. But it lifted the restriction earlier this year
when strict rules on the slaughter of cattle and sheep were introduced.
But film taken last month by an undercover RSPCA team shows the new
regulations are being disregarded.
UKRAINIAN CULT MEMBERS DETAINED
Police in Ukraine have detained religious cult members who believe the
world will end on Sunday. Hundreds of teenagers are being held in
detention centres outside the capital, Kiev. Other followers of the Great
White Brotherhood have been prevented from entering the city. They had
predicted their leader would die this morning and be resurrected but she
was arrested last night in a cathedral in Kiev.
LAURA DAVIES "VERY CRITICAL" IN US
Five-year-old Laura Davies, who has undergone two multiple transplant
operations in the US, is said to be facing her biggest crisis. Laura, from
Eccles in Greater Manchester, is having additional chemotheraphy in
Pittsburgh. Doctors there say her condition is very critical with many
complications. Laura has been in intensive care since her second multiple
organ transplant in September.
QUADDUS ALI ATTACK: 4 DUE IN COURT
Four people are due to appear in court charged in connection with an attack
on Quaddus Ali in east London which sparked disturbances. One man is
accused of a public order offence. Two other men and a woman are charged
with attempting to pervert the course of justice. A 15-year-old girl has
been released on police bail, pending further inquiries. Seventeen-year-
old Quaddus is on a life support machine after being attacked in Stepney in
September.
TWO DIE IN WEST LONDON SHOOTING
A man and a woman have been found shot dead near a busy road junction in
west London. Police were called to Shepherds Bush by a member of the
public who saw them lying on the ground at Starch Green, at the junction
of Askew Road and Goldhawk Road. A doctor pronounced them dead at the
scene. A gun was found nearby. Scotland Yard says it appears the man shot
the woman and then turned the gun on himself.
TWO "SERIOUS" AFTER KENT BUS CRASH
Two people are still seriously ill in hospital after yesterday's coach
crash in Kent which left 10 others dead. An investigation is continuing
into how the accident, on the M2 near Faversham, happened. The coach was
taking US and Canadian tourists to Canterbury when it plunged down an
embankment. Six women and four men were killed. The accident has prompted
calls for coach manufacturers to fit seat- belts to their vehicles.
GYM BOSS "TO DEFEND" LEGAL ACTION
The man who ran the gym where secret photographs were taken of the Princess
of Wales says he will defend her legal action against him Bryce Taylor's
solicitor also said his client had resigned as chairman and managing
director of the fitness centre in west London. The Princess has issued a
writ for damages against him. She is also seeking permanent bans on
further publication of the photographs and the handing over of any
remaining photos or negatives.
WARNING ON HOME PROTECTION POLICIES
People who take out mortgage protection insurance are still losing their
homes, it is claimed. The National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux
says the safety nets, which borrowers believe such policies provide,
frequently prove illusory. The policies often exclude cover for the most
common circumstances for mortgage arrears, such as illness or
unemployment, NACAB adds It says new Government regulations should replace
voluntary restraint.
ACCUSED CLEARED OF BRADLEY MURDER
A man accused of Berkshire business-woman Jean Bradley's murder has been
cleared without standing trial Miss Bradley was stabbed to death at Acton
Town tube station, west London, in March. Francis Marnell was charged with
the killing after a witness picked him out at an identity parade. But
another witness told a committal hearing in Ealing that she had visited Mr
Marnell, 38, at his Chiswick home at the time of the murder. The case was
dismissed.
WESTLAND: is negotiating the sale of nine helicopters to the Brazilian navy
as part of a deal worth over (pounds) 100 million. Five Lynx helicopters
will also be modernised.
SALE: Two recently discovered landscape paintings painted by John Constable
in 1805 go under the hammer at Sotheby's today. They are expected to fetch
about (pounds) 60,000.
BROOKE WARNS OF PRESS CURBS ACTION
The National Heritage Secretary has said he will consider introducing new
laws to curb the press if it does not act more responsibly. In a speech in
London last night, Peter Brooke said some elements of the press seemed
incapable of regulating themselves. The Government was therefore looking
at criminal and civil remedies for breaches of privacy. Mr Brooke urged
the newspapers to consider setting up a voluntary ombudsman on privacy.
HOWARD DISMISSES "TRENDY THEORIES"
Social and economic factors can be no excuse for crime, the Home Secretary
has said. Michael Howard told Basingstoke Conservatives that such "trendy
theories" were "dangerous". He said he planned to toughen national
standards for community service sentences so that they constituted "real
punishment". Mr Howard said the Tories must be confident in promoting
respect for tradition and authority, low inflation and a "sound" economy.
"GRANDPARENTS SHOULD HELP" CALL
The Health Secretary has called for the older generation, particularly
grandparents, to have more say in the raising of children. Virginia
Bottomley directed her appeal at one-parent families. While single parents
did not necessarily make unworthy parents, the task was daunting for
individuals coping alone, she said. Older people had an important role in
providing common sense and experience to help raise children, Mrs Bottomley
added.
EC DENIES BLOCKING COACH SEATBELTS
The European Commission has denied UK claims that other EC states are
blocking its attempts to extend seatbelt legislation to coaches. A
spokesman said there was "nothing whatsoever" to stop Britain passing
seatbelt laws and obliging foreign coaches to observe them. Roads minister
Robert Key had earlier said Britain was pressing hard for changes to EC
laws. But only four member countries had concurred, and without EC support
such legislation was unenforceable.
LABOUR ATTACKS KEY ON COACH BELTS
Labour has attacked the Government's claim that the EC is preventing
legislation to make seat-belts compulsory. Shadow transport minister Brian
Wilson said the claim by roads minister Robert Key was "abject nonsense".
Mr Wilson said it was "shameful" that the Government was trying to "hide
behind EC's coat tails". He said he would raise the issue when the Commons
resumed its business later this month.
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