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HOME NEWS A D-1 A IT Friday April 6 1A84 DPP has no case against doctor 'riattire, scale and importance' of body's role Joseph secures direct elections for ILEA IMS 7 JaBBy? raises By Martin Walnwrlghft The Government Cjbmmuni cations Headquarters -at Chel tenham confirmed last night 'that one of its employees had been found dead in the death, which did not occur at Cheltenham, coroner but GCHQ refused to Mimment on rennrts that a 'note; had been found by the body. The statement came after the Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher, had been questioned in the Commons by the Liberal MP for Bermondsey, Mr. Simon Hughes; He asked for a state-merit 6n a. report that an employee of GCHQ had committed suicide in the previous two'day. He also asked for confirmation that note had been left giving the reason for suicide as pressure caused by the Government's decision to remove the right to belong to a trade union from GCHQ staff.

Mr Hughes asked the employee's rank and whether the inquest would be held in public and a report on the matter made available to the Commons. Mrs Thatcher replied: "Any suicide, and I am aware of the one to which you refer, accompanied by a suicide note, will be a matter for the coroner. The note would be in the possession of the corner, I would expect." In reply to supplemen tary questions, she that it was a matter tor the coroner. I questions By Paul Brown Suffolk police said yesterday that there was not sufficient evidence to charge Dr Robert Jones, the Essex GP, with the murder of his third wife, Diane. The investigations will continue.

Dr Jones was arrested in November last year and aes-tioned for 54 hours before being released on police bail. His wife's body was found on a Suffolk farm last October three months after she had disappeared from Lees Farm, Coggeshall, Essex where she lived with her husband. Mrs Jones was two months pregnant. In a statement yesterday the police said Suffolk police has been advised by the Director of Public Prosecutions that as matters stand there is not sufficient evidence to justify the sanctioning of proceedings against Dr Jones for the murder of his wife. Inquiries into the death of Diane Jones will continue." This is the second time in a week that police and the DPP have taken similar action.

A statement about the murder of Janet Weston, a solicitor who was found murdered on the Al, also left the possibility of future prosecution open. Mr David Church, the solicitor acting for Dr Jones, said "Dr Jones has maintained his innocence throughout this long and trying investigation and this decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions is consistent with that." By Wendy Berliner, Education Correspondent The Government bowed to public pressure yesterday and announced that the Inner Lon-don Education Authority" will be replaced by a directly elected body and not, as originally proposed, a board of borough nominees. Sir Keith Joseph, the Education Secretary, told the Commons that the nature, scale and importance" of London's education service justified a directly elected authority "in this special case." He has clearly won over Cabinet doubters who feared that to concede a directly elected board to education would lead to demands for the same treatment for transport, fire and police services. These arf- flllp tn Via nominated boards under gov ernment proposals to abolish the Greater London Council. Thp nrnnncnlc tn hoi-tri nvo education to borough nominees Drought protests and three expressions of support during the public consultation period.

Sir Keith Is believed to have argued in Cabinet for a dir. ectly elected board with two members for each inner Lnn. don parliamentary consti tuency. Nn ripfaile nhnnf iho fnmnfi. sition of the new authority were given yesterday.

A bill will be presented In the next session of Parliament. It is understood the body -would be a precepting authority and the first elections could be in 1986. The ILEA, which, has a budget of nearly 1 billion is now run by a mixture of borough nominees and GLC councillors. Professor David Smith', ILEA Conservative opposition group leader who first suggested direct elections seven years ago, said The decision will give the electors of inner London a unique say in how education is provided in their area. "I am sure that this new partnership of the electorate and the authority cannot but lead to a better quality of education in inner London," he added.

Mr Bob Richardson, the National Union of Teachers executive member for inner London, said he welcomed the fact that Londoners would still have a say in the education of their children. But he questioned whether the new body would be adequately financed and whether Sir Keith would maintain his proposed veto over the size of manpower and finance. Mrs Frances Morrell, Labour leader of the ILEA, said last night that the decision was a victory for parents, governors, teaching and non-teachin-staff. But ILEA'S budget stiilj had to protected, she added. Thyssen-Taywood provided lunch yesterday for about 100 guests in a ventilation chamber which could become the site of a station for a fifth terminal at the airport The diners braved a near zero temperature and took lunch from tables perched on the track of the new line.

Picture by Graham Turner finish their work on the 20 million tunnel in June, more than .14 months ahead of. schedule, writes Geoff Andrews. London Transport will then put in signal, power and control equipment before the new terminal opens in a year's time. The four-mile extension forms a loop from the existing Piccadilly line terminus station to rejoin it at Hatton Cross station. DR KEITH Bright, London Transport chairman, and Mr Clifford Bonnett, chief civil engineer for LT, discuss work on the tunnel whicli will take the Piccadilly line to the new Terminal 4 at Heathrow Airport, London.

Celebrations -were held in the tunnel yesterday 100 feet below the airport to mark the rapid progress made by the contractor, Thyssen-Taywood. They will Heart-lung swap patient is recovering emymBSmmmmmB mmKH -vi 1140 LIU" 1 fr 8SM W7r7T7TOHm fi' I SIMM 1P-7r7nnf Comer unit Single floor unit Sink unit Double wall unit Single wall unit Single extractor unit Hob housing unit Oven housing unit 3000 work top Stainless steel sink Cover strip Danum pillar taps INCLUDED Over 600 worth of Philips Ekco appliances: Double oven Electric hob Extractor "5 VAT Corner unih Single floor unit Sink unih Double wail unit-Single wall unit1 Single extractor unit- Fridge housing unit Under oven housing; 3000 work top Stainless steel sink Cover5trip 'Danum pillarlaps INCLUDED OvcrESOOwoitri of PhilipsEkca appliances: Under ovenj Electric hob Fiidga' Extractor INC VAT By Andrew Veitch, Medical Correspondent The second British patient given a heart and lung transplant, Mrs Brenda Barber, aged 36, was recovering satisfactorily last night after an operation at Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire. She was on a ventilator in the hospital's intensive care unit but had regained con sciousness and had been visited by her husband, Mr Stephen Barber, from Lewisham, south London. Mrs Barber had suffered' from a potentially lethal lung disease, but first reports suggested that her heart and other organs had suffered only minimal damage. If this is so she should have a substantially greater chance of surviving than the two patients given heart-lung transplants at Hare-field Hospital who died because damage to other organs put too much strain on the new hearts.

Mrs Barber, who has a five-year-old daughter Samantlia Jane, was given a new heart only because the combined operation is technically simpler lung transplants have proved unsuccessful. It was the first heart-lung transplant by the Papworth Cellist's 275,000 Strad By Donald WintersSill, Art Sales Correspondent THE British cellist Robert Cohen paid 275,000 at Sotheby's yesterday for a cello by Stradivarlus. He will play it on April 16 at the Barbican, London, with the Halle Orchestra. The programme includes Elgar's Cello Concerto. Mr Cohen, who is 24, made his debut at the age of 12 in the Festival Hall, has won many competitions, and plays on the Continent and in the United States and elsewhere.

He believes that his career needs this quality of instrument. The cello was made in about 1690 and is called the Bonjour cello after a former owner in the second half of the nineteenth century, Abel Bonjour. Sotheby's sold another Stradivarlus cello last year, for 192,500 to Julian Lloyd-Webber; this was the Bar-jansky Strad. team, led by Mr John Wall-work, the consultant cardio-thoracic surgeon trained in California by the pioneer of the technique. Professor Norman Shumway.

Mr Wallwork, it appears, intends to use the operation to treat patients with primary lung disease rather than heart conditions. Mrs Barber was described yesterday as suffering from fibrosis of the lungs, but the transplant team's spokesman, Mr John Edwards, was unable to confirm a report that she had been suffering from lung She 'was beins treated at Brompton Hospital, London, when the body of a so'table donor arrived at Papworth on Wednesday. She was taken to Cambridgeshire and a team began the operation at 1.18 am yesterday, finishing at 7.25 am. Mr Edwards would not give details of the donor because he said the family did not want any publicity. The Papworth team have been researching ways of preserving and transporting hearts and lungs after they have been removed from the donor's body they believe their technique will work, orovided that the donor is within 20-25 minutes' drive of Papworth.

Hospital goes on holiday' By David Hencke, Social Services Correspondent A large London hospital is to close its doors to routine admissions for more than two weeks during August in an attempt to keep costs down. Whipps Cross Hospital in L'eyton, east London, has asked many of its staff to take their summer holiday between August 18 and September 2. Four out of 36 wards will close, operating theatres will close except for emergencies, and outpatient departments will not see routine patients. The decision will mean deferring appointments for about 2,000 patients and delaying some 200 operations. Mr Keith Martin, hospital administrator, said yesterday "The best estimates of savings is about 50,000.

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