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2 THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY 24 JUNE 1984 TV chiefs Tough test for teachers back in class fear mew legal cuirb Lord Thomson, to review the situation. The dispute between Granada and the IBA became so bitter that Mr Plowright, an ex-journalist himself, was said to be shaking with rage after one particularly acrimonious exchange with the IBA. The dispute arose following a case brought by Mrs Mary Whitehouse against the IBA last April over the showing of the controversial film Scum on Channel Four. Although her case failed under the Broadcasting Act, the DBA was criticised by the judge for failing to obtain the consent of its members to the film's transmission. When Barratt Developments learned that World in Action were making a critical programme, they told the IBA they too would invoke the Broadcasting Act.

They demanded that the programme be seen by the IBA's full membership and that they too be given a preview. Though the IBA did not want their members to have fo sn thf by MARTIN BAILEY TEACHERS will work normally tomorrow, ending almost three months of strikes which have affected nearly every school in the country. Now that the pay dispute is going to arbitration, schools are counting the cost of the most disruptive industrial action taken by teaching staff for IS years. The bitter dispute has weakened discipline and created a holiday camp atmosphere' in many schools, according to Mr Peter Snape, general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association. He believes the pay row has had a 'very serious effect' on Britain's eight million pupils.

Lightning strikes by teachers have temporarily closed classrooms for the day for more than two million pupils. National strikes on 11 April and 9 May shut down more than half the country's schools. Although the strikes have caused most public concern, Mr Snape believes the teachers' refusal to do out-of-hours work has had an even more serious effect on pupils. Teachers have stopped supervising at lunch-times weakening discipline and creating problems in the classroom. Evening activities, such as games, music and hobbies, have been ended The preparation of school reports has been delayed.

This disruption has put even greater pressure on head teachers, who have had to do some of the work normally done by staff. Mr David Hart, of the National Association of Headteachers, believes many heads had come to the end of their Exam results will suffer to some degree, according to Mr Hart. The dispute is now on ice while the arbitrators consider the pay claim, but the last three weeks of term will see only a gradual return to normality. In a few schools, severe tensions between the head and teachers are likely to remain. The names of the arbitrators are likely to be announced later this week and their report will probably be released in August.

by ANDREW DICKSON A NEW THREAT to the future of TV investigative journalism emerged last week, which one producer has called the death knell of major exposes by television Journalists working on Granada Television's World In Action programme have been shocked to discover that a High Court action last April could lay them open to legal battles even before they can get their programmes on the air. The threat arose out of an attempt by the housebuilders Barratt Developments to have the programme Your Starter For Life highly critical of their starter homes policy dropped before transmission, last Monday. Even though. Barratt failed in that instance, their tactics are now threatening the whole of ITV's investigative output, -including two forthcoming World In Action features. One programme deals with Mr Mark Thatcher's business deals in Oman, and is thought to confirm aspects of the original story on the affair which first appeared in The Observer in January.

The other concerns official secrets. Both cases could be stopped from appearing by prior court injunction. Granada Television are especially concerned over the role of ITV's governing body, the Broadcasting Authority. Granada's chairman, Sir Denis Fonnan, and managing director, Mr David Plowright, are seeking an early meeting with the IB A chairman, excavate the Dutch ship, beached in a storm off Hastings 235 years ago. for Aladdin's cave treasure ENO peace move programme, for fear of prejudicing their appeal against the Whitehouse they did insist that Granada provide a preview for Barratt.

This is contrary to most media practice, lest the criticised party then obtains an injunction to stop the programme. An ITV journalist spelled out the implications yesterday. 'All our programmes can now be exposed to courtroom battles even, before they reach the public. It puts in jeopardy any future use by us of Government documents, internal company memos or interviews with ex- buried just beneath the sands, 816ft off Hastings beach. It is the first time an excavation of a major shipwreck has been undertaken in the difficult tidal zone round a beach.

On Thursday Princess Magnet of The Netherlands, sister of Queen Beatrix, will fly to Britain to make a private visit to the site. The two-months-long excavation will establish whether it is possible to raise the 150-ftrkng, 700-ton ship and return her andher contents to Amsterdam, when a museum will be built for her. The excavation has been funded by 100,000 donated to the Dutch 'Save the Amsterdam Fund. The cost of raising the whole ship could be well in excess of 5 million, making it potentially an even more ambitious project that the raising of the Mary Rose. Only the top planks of -the Amsterdam are visible at very low tides.

To enable excavation to take place, the whole rear of the ship, has been surrounded by sheetpuing to prevent the, sand collapsing on the wreck. The project director, maritime archaeologist Mr Peter Marsden, said yesterday that die excavation would be technically very difficult. DIRECTORS of the English National Opera, led by Lord Goodman, the chairman, will be meeting die head of the GLC arts and recreation committee, Mr Peter Pitt, over the council's threat to freeze its Elm grant because of alleged racism. A senior ENO official said yesterday the charge that black singer Wiftard White had been employees FaHnoTULt over nuclear riant by ROBIN McKIE, Science Correspondent JkME TOE FAST turned down by the opera for its production of Rigoletto through racism was The singer had taken part in many ENO productions. The row is over a letter from an ENO administrator which reportedly said the director of the production 'does not believe a black Monterone or Sparafucile to be feasible in our Hinckley, Leicestershire, were based, on identical designs, and have operated excellently, Mr Miller points out.

He believes a special, enhanced version of these could provide cheaper electricity than a PWR 1 per. kilowatt hour against 2.07p. Choosing an American-design reactor would also lead to a serious rundown in Britain's own nuclear industry, argues the Scottish board. Bond winners The 100,000 prize in yesterday's Premium Bond draw was won by the holder of 25RK 989261, who lives in Oxford. The 50,000 winner (7WN 001531) lives in Dyfed and the 25,000 winner (24RK 766594) in Herefordshire.

TO WEST E1N lEWMTC PAUL ARBITER In January 1749, after hitting one of the worst storms ever recorded in the Channel, the Amsterdam was beached off Hastings. Little was taken from the ship before it settled rapidly into the sands. Mr Marsden believes that on board is an Aladdin's cave of eighteenth-century cargo, including a complete fire engine and many of the crew's personal Belongings. As chairman of the South of Scotland board, Mr Miller could have a crucial impact on the outcome of the inquiry, now in its second year. Its verdict, in turn, will affect Britain's energy policy and nuclear construction industry for a considerable i A squabble between the countrjrs two leading nuclear plant users would have serious consequences and would be watched with ironic amusement by the many objectors to the Sizewell reactor at the inquiry.

It completely undermines the credibility of the nuclear camp, when two major organisations, like the SSEB and the CEGB, carefully study the same figures and come up with completely different con- said Friends of the iUi i on the restoration of a fca. tffctte-tt PROPOSALS to build the 1.2 billion water-cooled reactor at Sizewell in Suffolk will come under attack this week from one of Britain's leading proponents of nuclear power. Mr Donald Miller, head of the South of Scotland Electricity Board, will tell the Sizewell inquiry that Britain's own, ill-fated advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGRs) are still the best buys for power generation. This directly contradicts1 the Central Electricity Generating Board's case for building an American -Rtvle nreasiirp water reactor (PWR) at Sizewell. Its executives argue that PwR electricitv would cheaoest in Britain in the next decade.

i 'II: Ji' riif Pjj Ifi This Is how divers will Diving by PAUL LASHMAR DIVERS will begin tomorrow a preliminary excavation of the remains of a Dutch East Tndiaman which lies on the Sussex coast It marks the first stage in an ambitious scheme to raise and return the ship to Amsterdam, after which she is named -235 years after she was wrecked in a storm in the Channel. Two-thirds of the hull and most of the cargo of the ship are ii it only fast beautifully supermarket and a day and most helpful agent 5 L-----3-- Jjgggjggfag BROMLEY ---JFg TMMacaaaMaaear i-axi niiiiMRuau BR to reopen London rail tunnel CL1VE LEWIS reports Earth energy coordinator Mr William Cannell. The Scottish board's opinion, which was deliberately sought by inquiry inspector Sir Frank Layfield, is that AGRs can now be built to budget and schedule despite their troublesome history. occurred with AGRs; because me first five were ordered simultaneously in the '1960s, although only, one small prototype had then been built. Years later, after strikes.

design flaws, construction delays and other problems, three of these at Heysham, Hartlepool, Cleveland, and Dungeness, Kent are still not fully operational. However, the other two at Hunterston, Strathdyde, and commuter link London. SP Cjmt England, Midlands: Sunny periods, becoming cloudy, a little rain later. Wind NW light to moderate. Near normal, Max.

19-20C (66-68F). East Anglia, and Cent England: Mostly dry, sunny periods, becoming cloudy. Wind NW light or moderate. Near normal, Max. 18-20C (64-68F).

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Nine story. Hill million, involved Region's across the interchange. The the London which paid study, million. AFTER A BREAK of 70 years, British Rail is to the only train link across London which joins the commuter lands north and south of the capital. The decision to open up a disused half-mile stretch of tunnel part of which lies under Smithficld meat market to link the London Midland and Southern regions, signals a long-awaited move by BR to reshape the London rail network.

As the competing claims of the express and commuter coach, and the car, increase, urged on by such signs as the near-completion of the M25 around the periphery of the capital, it is a move which has not come too soon for BR. What has commended the Snow Hill tunnel connection between Farringdon and Blackfriars station to BR is its self- will travel from Bedford and the north to Gillingham, and, East Croydon in the by all-electric sliding-door years ago it was a different Then BR calculated that Snow through running would cost 10. equivalent to 30 million at present-day prices. That, however, a costly plan to take Southern third electric rail 10 miles London to West Hampstead, and construction of an elaborate break-through was found with encouragement of the: Greater Council's transport committee, BR 50,000 to do a feasibility which came up with a cost of 4 7 financing qualities, which fit in with the Government's guidelines on state sector This includes driver-only trains being introduced from, the Bedford to St Pancras line to the Southern Region, and closing Holborn Viaduct station, to the side of which the Snow Hill track runs. Inter-city services are also being actively investigated by BR.

The new link will offer big bonuses for many out-of-town passengers. Those travelling from one side of London to the other stand to save at least half an hour by avoiding the need for changes at the railheads'. Between 16,000 and 20,000 passengers, market researchers believe, will pass through Snow Hill each workday, to provide the economic base for this 4 million engineering exercise. If you're heading for Western and South Western France, there's no better place to start than Portsmouth with Cherbourg and Le Havre fulJ steam ahead. You'll be well down the Solent before you even set sail.

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Times A COMPLAINT against The Sunday Times over an article mmmenting on the affairs of two building societies is upheld by the Press Council in a ruling issued today. The Britannia Building Society complained that it was improper for the newspaper to associate it with the closure of the New Cross Building Society in a feature accompanied by a composite photograph. The article suggested that the shutting down of the New Cross by the building soneties' Mr Michael Bridgeman, had highlighted a crisis of confidence in the way building wnra'ptiea were being run, pnd thffn went on to mention that the Britannia was working on the third verskm of its official return. censured Mr Andrew Neil, editor of The Sunday Timet, said that the article took pains to mpfr! that, the Wrfamtiia more ttfw complied with the statutory safety ratios, but the society feU this fell short of an unreserved apology. The Press Council said the paper was justified in commenting on the affairs of the two societies, but was wrong to juxtapose its comments unfairly, giving the impression that they were equal trouble-spots.

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