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Gwyn Evans 20-Jul-1994 1051
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VNS MAIN NEWS: [Andy Payne, VNS UK News Desk]
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Here is the News at 09:00 BST on Wednesday 20th July 1994
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UK News
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Seat belts are to be made compulsory on all coaches and minibuses used
to carry children, under Government plans announced yesterday. Bowing
to pressure for urgent action following a spate of deaths involving
school vehicles, Mr John MacGregor, the Transport Secretary, said he
would seek agreement on the measure from the European Commission ahead
of legislation being drafted in Brussels.
A report on allegations of insider share dealing by Lord Archer, the
millionaire author and prominent Conservative Party fundraiser, was
delivered to Mr Michael Heseltine, President of the Board of Trade,
yesterday. According to friends of Lord Archer, the report clears him
of any wrong doing. There were strong indications last night that Lord
Archer will have to wait several days before any official statement.
Swan Hunter, the Tyneside shipbuilder, yesterday failed to win a
contract that could have secured its future.
Buckingham Palace tours and quality trinkets helped to give the Queen's
new trading arm, the Royal Collection Trust, a profit of 4.3 million
pounds in its first year, it was announced last night.
John Major will today carry out a long awaited mid-term reconstruction
of his government that will transfuse new blood into the Cabinet, see
the departure of about a dozen ministers and install a new chairman of
the Conservative Party.
World News
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Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, was forced yesterday to
perform a humiliating about-face to save his coalition government,
withdrawing an emergency decree that would have hamstrung corruption
investigations. His spokesman, Giuliano Ferrara, announced that the
government had decided to drop the decree passed last week under which
magistrates pursuing suspects through the morass of Italy's
Tangentopoli (Bribesville) investigations would have been stripped of
the power to order the preventative detention of suspects.
A million Rwandan refugees face death unless the world can mount a huge
Berlin-style airlift, Oxfam said yesterday. Other aid agencies urged
the UN to send troops to try to persuade refugees that it is safe to go
home. Despite the apparent end to the fighting, two million people are
still trying to flee. More than a million flooded into the Goma area of
Zaire last week. "It is impossible to cope with," said Mr Panos
Moumtzis of the UN High Commission for Refugees.
{News courtesy of the Independent and the Daily Telegraph}
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