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HOME NEWS THE GUARDIAN Monday November 29 1982 Alliance hopes rise for Scots poll Dennis Johnson reports on the encouraging signs for the Liberals in Thursday's Queen's Park byelection Council power 'threat to press' Risk of death or handicap through lack of intensive care Hospitals have to turn away sick babies By Angela Singer The chairman of the Press Council Mr Patrick Neill, warns in" its annual report for But in electorally-impover-ished Queen's Park, with perhaps only 25,000 voters in total, movements of voters out of the constituency have had an incalculable effect, particularly on the former Labour vote, and Liberal organisers claim to have made inroads on the middle class tenements of Battlefield, which the Conservatives, Mr Jackson Carlaw, is still strenuously canvassing. The SNP candidate, Mr Peter Mallan, the radio singer, is faced with the fact that even in 1979 his party took only 9.7 per cent of the vote in Queens Park and has since suffered a further decline in credibility. For Mrs McElhone, it is all a side show. General Election. F.

P. McElhone (Lab) 15.120. J. Collins (C) 5,642. P.

Greene (SNP) 2,276. J. R. Kay (Comm) 263 J. Kerrigan (WRP) 99.

W. MacLellan (Socialist Unity) 92. Lab. malorily 9.178. Billhead and with the steep decline of the Scottish National Party Mr Watson has been met with tolerance and interest, albeit sceptical.

a shot that rings around the world Mr Jenkins urged the 80 voters at a Langside College meeting, misquoting Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose salutory shot was merely heard." "Glasgow has an outstanding opportunity to elect two Alliance MPs within months don't spoil the pattern," Mr David Steel, the Liberal leader, told another fifty on the same night in the Dixon Halls. The turnout was comparable with that at Labour's meeting and no-one was audibly abusive. A questioner at the Steel meeting said that Roy Jenkins had done more for Hillhead in a few months than the Conservatives in years. Mr Watson himself, supported by an influx of canvassers, says he has been encouraged by the number of replies to a questionnaire to Queens Park tenants, asking for details about the maintenance of their homes. None of this necessarily presages votes, yet Mr Watson may be in a much stronger position now to push the Nationalists into fourth place.

If that happened, the more significant question would arise about how close a challenge he could present to the Conservatives, beseiged by the shattering unemployment figures of the West of Scotland. The campaign has seen widespread apathy, although the courage of the Labour candidate, Mrs Helen McEl-hone, in fighting the seat held by her late husband, Frank, could prevent a voting slump. THE CHANGING political climate in Scotland in recent months could bring an encouraging result on Thursday for the Liberal SDP Alliance in an otherwise lacklustre byelection in Glasgow Queen's Park. Only three weeks ago, the chances of anything but humiliation for the Liberal candidate, Mr Graham Watson, seemed remote, in this Labour stronghold. Now Mr Watson, aged 26.

a political researcher, may be faced with, at worst, disappointment and, at best, a four-figure response that would raise Alliance hopes in central Scotland. In 1980 he fought a byelection in Glasgow Central and was predictably slaughtered. The atmosphere was hostile and his candidature was ridiculed. Now after the victory of Mr Roy Jenkins at Glasgow 1979, published belatedly By Andrew Veitch A third of premature babies born in the South-east needing intensive care are turned away because there are not enough cots or nurses to treat them, according to a survey by a doctor at King's College Hospital in London. They are sent to district hospitals where the lack of equipment means they are less likely to survive, and more Graham Watson encouraged by canvassing likely to be handicapped.

The Social Services Secretary. Mr Norman Fowler, has been told that the lack of in tensive care facilities is scan today, ot tne danger ot giving more power to press councils. More power for press councils constitutes a threat to campaigning journalism, he says, and points to South Africa to back up his claim. There the Steyn Commission's draft bill makes it a criminal offence to employ a journalist not enrolled with a statutory general council for journalists, or to publish anything written by someone not enrolled. The bill proposes that the general council should judge allegations of improper conduct, and have the power to reprimand, fine, suspend, or strike journalists from its register.

How could campaigning journalism survive under such a climate The report was delayed, the council says, as it had to give priority to handling complaints and special inquiries. In 1979 the council received 568 complaints, which, added to those in hand, meant that 671 were in the council's hands in the period covered by the report. dalous, and has been urged to Thatcher urged to clear air over spy centre deaths act before more babies die. King's College, in south Lon tal, hut there are doubs about The Prime Minister is under don, has turned away 20 new born babies this month alone pressure from botn ner own because its four intensive care this because eye witnesses claim that the crash appeared to be deliberate. Mr Leadbitter said he was party and a Labour MP over national security.

cots have been occupied. For three nights earlier this month not a single intensive care cot was available in the whole of The right-wing Monday ciun old Gamsu, head of the child health department, who carried out the survey. The four health regions covering Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Greater London, run a bed bureau to check which of the 11 intensive care units in the area, which can transfer babies in special ambulances, has a bed available. Dr Gamsu's survey shows that beds could not be found for a third of the babies needing intensive care. Figures show that babies who are refused intensive care do worse than similar babies who are accepted," he said.

Some of those who were turned away would die, and others would be handicapped. The greatest dangers were blindness and cerebral palsy. South-east Thames regional health authority, which covers King's, agrees that the region needs 30 more intensive care beds. But Government cash limits mean that it will get not money to develop services nex year. A health authority spokesman said We have been told we are getting no growth money next year, so if we were to improve neonatal intensive care we would have to give it priority over kidney transplants and heart Triplets born 11 weeks prematurely to the actress Erin Geraghty, and separated because there was no room to treat them at King's, were reunited at the weekend.

Two of the babies had been transferred to St George's Hospital, Tooting within minutes of the birth. Now all three are back with their mother. Ms Geraghty's condition yesterday was comfortable and her triplets were satisfactory. worried that the full inquest on Mr Brockway is scheduled for today, only five days after though no positive link between him and Mr Prime, who left GCHQ in 1977, has been established, there has been no outright denial. In July this year, 12 days after Mr Prime was charged with spying, another senior worker at the base, a telecommunications expert, Mr Jack Wolfenden, aged 56, died when he crashed a powered glider.

An inquest in September decided that death was acciden Prime, and the deaths of two other workers at the Government's communications headquarters at Cheltenham, where he spied for the Russians. The Monday Club said that it had pressed time and again for decisive action as the lamentable sequence of spy scandals had lengthened. It had been met with "bland assurances and mild ridicule." Mr Leadbitter wrote to Mrs Thatcher after the death last week of a station radio officer. Mr Ernest Brockway, aged 42. who was found hanging at his home in Fleckers Drive, Cheltenham, half a mile from the base where Mr Prime worked.

Mr Brockway moved to Cheltenham last March, after working for 10 years at the Irton Moor listening post near Scarborough, Yorkshire. Mr Brockway had been depressed for some time, and al London. Professor Stuart Cameron. ins deatn, out tne uneuennam nnrnnpr Mr TJaviri Faulkner. head of obstetrics and gynae last night called on Mrs Thatcher to order a full judicial inquiry into security's "parlous" state, while the Labour MP for Hartlepool, Mr Ted Leadbitter, called on her to make an immediate statement on possible links between the iailcd traitor; Geoffrey cology at King's, has written to who will conduct the inquest, said as tar as i conceriiea, there has been ample time for Mr Fowler asking him to increase facilities.

If a baby was born tiny or sick at that time, or a mother was at risk my inquiries. and needed to be delivered, there was nothing available." He told the minister We had to send a mother in premature labour to a district hospital 20 miles away, which had no neonatal intensive care It is a lottery and babies die because of it. We turn away at least four high-risk mothers a week and accept about the same number." Most of the babies turned away from King's this month had been born two months or more early and could not breathe properly, said Dr Har How lead You don't need special grants to make your business succeed in Peterborough. Instead you get something much more valuable that rare combination of benefits called the Peterborough Effect. It's helped almost every company that has moved here to improve output, exports and profits.

harmed the Romans in Britain By Martin Walker GOUT, polio, spina bifida. arthritis and lead poisoning were tne main ills which afflicted the people of Roman Britain, according to medical studies of some 450 skeletons found in a cemetery near Cirencester, which was the second largest city. The bones show up to ten times the amount of lead found in modern man. There were also high concentrations of lead in the bones of Profumo affair man worked for MIS By Gareth Parry Fresh evidence has been produced that Stephen Ward, the much-maligned "society osteopath involved in the Profumo scandal of the sixties, was in fact working for the security services. "If the security services had spoken up for him, he might never have been driven to his death," said a report in the Sunday Times yesterday, which follows up indications of Ward's MI5 work in a book to be published next month.

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