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QiU AjR D. I A '2' i XL i 9 Labour angered by plans for iialks on takeover Wildlife fight ground into the dust Tory councils tight may to keep Kv wndv Berliner. Education Correspondent Conservative -controlled quit urn' 5b Alii bus lartrn county councils appear to De on the brink of backing down group on the ACC education on their long-standing opposi- committee, accused the Conser-tinn tn thP Mannower Services native group of a sell-out. Commission takeover of a sig is escorted into pie building. Police officepSi Harringto Warning 330 men dismissed for 'misconduct' nificant part of local authority about this," she said, if it's college work.

approved it would involve a A private meeting of the total reversal of ACC policy." Association of County Councils The. statement by education committee vesterday the education committee main-approved a lengthy statement tains the principle of ACC op-which, if accepted by the exec- position to Training for Jobs! utive council next month, the Government, White Paper would open the door to talks which introduced the further with the, MSC. education takeover. All year, the ACC and he It stresses the need for a Labour-controlled Association fundamental review of non-ad-of Metropolitan Authorities vanced further education and have effectively stalled the to bear in mind the Govern-Governmenfs plans to give' the mentis recently announced re-MSC control of one quarter of view of the funding and the work-related college responsibilities of, local courses run by the local educa- government, tion authorities. Against this background it Cash has been transferred leaves open the door for dis-from the rate support grant ttt cussions with the MSC on.

how the MSC to finance the take- to manage in the interim, over but even this has failed Last night, Mr Philip to budge the authorities. Merridale, chairman of the opposition. ACC education committee and However, the intervention of Conservative chairman Mr Tom King, the Employment Hampshire Education Commit-Secretary, has apparently done tee, was not available for the trick. comment. By Malcolm Pithers The National Coal Board confirmed yesterday that 330 miners have been dismissed since the dispute began for What is described as misconduct.

That is thought to cover any miner found guilty or who have admitted in court offences of theft or causing damage to coal board property. Eighty-five miners have been dismissed in Yorkshire alone, It is also understood that at least 15 of the men who appeared in court at Barnsley on Thursday for stealing coal from the Grimethorpe Colliery will now also be considered for dismissal. But it was not made clear yesterday whether the board has decided to dismiss the men or whether they are included colleges Last night Mrs Josie Farrington, chairwoman of Lancashire education committee "We are very angry indeed plan and refer it back for reconsideration," he said. A local group, Parents Action to Save, Schools, is takins; legal advice on the issue1 and intends mcet- Mr Desmond Lock, a group spokesman who has two child- rep at one of the threatened schools, said the council had made inadequate attempts at consulaUon. "We wonder at the level of competence." he said.

"It wojd De a fare if it didn't have erjm realities for the future of Education in Brent." Arthur Steel, chairman 'education committee, id it had produced a Micltey Mouse decision be- cause 0f Labour's spoiling tactics. "As far as we are con-, Cemed the official council response will be the one approved by 66 democratically elected members on Monday night without the distortions of coopted members." nv Martin Linton A PROPERTY developer in" Dorset yesterday drove a fleet of bulldozers through-the loopholes in the Wildlife and Countryside Act in de--stroying a piece of heathland that is the home of some of Britain's rarest birds and wild animals. The Nature Conservancy Council served an order on the owner on Tuesday declaring the heath a site, of special scientific interest under the act, but the order comes into effect only after a three-month consultation period. The owner continued to bulldoze the land. Yesterday, in desperation, the council 'applied for a stop order under the emergency provisions of the act, but even that has to be processed by the Department of the Environment and then signed by the Secretary of State.

It takes a minimum of ten days, and two thirds of the site have already been destroyed. The NCC has reluctantly accepted that it has no chance now of saving the site known as Uddens Heath and its resident population of the rare sand lizard and the even rarer smooth snake, along with the known nesting sites of one of Britain's raresi birds, the Dartford Warbler, which lives on only a few heaths in' Dorset and Devon. The Friends of the Eartb, refuse to accept defeat, and are threatening to make sure that no further bulldozing takes place when the contractors return. The conservation pressure group claims that this is the 13tli occasion on which a developer has used the three-month consultation period to destroy the conservation interest in a site. One of the main reasons for the delay in protecting Uddens Heath has been the difficulty in identifying the owner.

The Nature Conservancy Council has been trying since July to discover who it is but has got no further than his solicitor, Mr Lewis Parkyn of Dickinson, Manser and Co in Poole, Dorset. -cThe- NGC was finally obliged to serve a notice binder the-act on twcrSpropi- erty companies which are known to have interests in the site, Birch Lands Development Company and Corfe Mullen Development Company, at Mr Parkyn's office. The heath is close to the Bournemouth suburb of Fcrndown, which has exclusive residential properties and industrial estates. The 40-acre site would be worth some 4 million with planning permission for housing. It is too late to save the wildlife, but the owners can be required to restore the area and can even be prosecuted under another section of the act for knowingly destroying tlie habitat of protected species.

Council clash over school closure plan By Our Education ruling the committee despite its Correspondent delegated power. However, he nrst fflS.SS ScSSSi J0h-the Educa- Government about its own plans tI0n secretary- for school closures. Mr Martin Coleman, leader of i10 the council's Labour group, said In a move which contains tlie th criticisms seeds of a significant legal dis- he cb0'netece0UncilT official putc. Brent education commit- Sn-nte "it semS to me that tee has made hostile observa- Secretarv of Stat wU I have tion to close two secondary uf schools before the main council to Brent Five are held after protest at NF man By Gareth Parry FIVE people were arrested yesterday as -demonstrators made an unsuccessful at tempi to prevent the National Front activist Mr Patrick Harrington from attending lectures at the Polytechnic oi North London. About 200 demonstrators gathered outside the building in Holloway Road where the lectures had been transferred at the last moment "for se curity reasons," according to the college.

Demonstrators pushed and shoved as Mr Harrington, aged 20, was' escorted inside by police. Crowd control barriers collapsed, and Commander Eric Humphrey compared the incident to a large scale rugby scrum. Inside the building students lined stairs and corridors in silent protest as Mr Harrington, a third year philosophy studept, walked the first 'floor lecture room to continue hjs.tudieisy spokeswoman tpr the polytechnic 'said many; people froth' outsider involved in the demonstration. "It's definitely not all poly students, but i what the proportion of outsiders was I don't know," she said. The demonstration followed a High- Court ruling earlier in the week rejecting a plea by Mr.

Harrington for the court tipstjpf anq photographers to' acc6mpany him into his next philosophy lecture. Mr Harrington, of Roland Gardens, south Kensington, London, was granted an injunction in May requiring students to allow him to attend classes. Food from Russia to be sent back give Heseltine staff plan cautious approval By David Fairhall, Defence Correspondent The Commons defence committee yesterday gave the Defence Secretary, Mr Michael Heseltine, the benefit of doubt over his radical proposals to centralise his ministry's military and civilian staffs to reduce the influence of the individual service chiefs. The all-party select committee's report quotes a comment that reorganising defence is like performing an appendix operation on a man carrying a grand piano. This attempt must be judged on its performancewhich the committee will monitor before making a further report.

The reorganisation takes effect next year and is very much the initiative of Mr Heseltine and his civilian advisers, supported by some key military figures. Other service chiefs fear that a central bureaucracy could soon be out of touch with military realities. But both sides acknowledge that more efficient ways should be found of resolving the inevitable conflicts between services to produce a single defence view. The defence committee believes downgrading the chief scientific adviser's position to become an adviser to the permament secretary, losing direct access to the minister, is mistaken. Some of his scientists will be "bedded out" within the new central staff, but individual services will lose their own scientific advisers, and the report doubts whether this will provide "the independence of view which has made scientific-advice so valuable in the past." The defence committee attaches great importance to the independence of the defence intelligence staff, which is structurally maintained.

But the MPs feel it was wrong to combine the posts of director rsneral of intelligence and deputy chief of the defence staff (intelligence) and give the job to a serving officer. They feel a military man with a career to make may not always give his service chiefs the unpalatable advice they THrohifmitte'e is also concerned that the size of staffs far individual chiefs of staff could hinder their single service role, and that Whitehall could lose touch with "the sharp Ministry of Defence He-organisation. Stationery Office, Karppy in control By Leonard Barden, Chess Correspondent The world chess champion Anatoly Karpov, 4-0 ahead in the series, adjourned a pawn up against Gary Kasparov in their title match in Moscow last night. Experts were divided over whether Karpov would win or only draw. British grandmaster Jon Speelman said: "Karpov will play till the cows come home and Kasparov will have to suffer to hold the draw." Kasparov sealed his 41st move after his weak 22nd move conceded a pawn in middle game complications.

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Born to a chambermaid in a Memphis brothel, she started singing at the age of 11 in a Chicago club for five dollars a week. If By David Hearst A 170-TONNE consignment of canned meat and powdered given by the Soviet Union and East Euro-pean countries to- help miners in Durham, is. to 'He sent back because it, contravenes health regulations. The food has been kept in a bonded warehouse in Hull since it was impounded last weekend after arriving aboard a Danish ship, the Libra. Despite political to get the consignment released, the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday that the food, would not allowed to remain.

a -The ministry said that all meat-based from countries where contagious animal diseases like fqot and mouth disease and swine were prevalent, were from importation under the Animal Act, 1981. The only part of the cargo which was was a amount of- Russian condensed milk and fruit-based baby food. The ministry has served a -Jilii to -hi. fOli id) mm i Jii cfibu ull 2IH" 03 0' i4n A Of At" in. 10 I5 lift -flare ml rf i fiur 3V oaiU (t act OiSSi.

f.T: IS Inrii oi 'it: lo trtn hlltr. Hi JOH vim 'Ma Sfit In ft i 1' Picture by John Wildgoose in its policy of dismissing men found guilty of disturbances. In all, 19 men appeared in court at Barnsley. The 15 liable for dismissal were all fined Two Yorkshire collieries were heavily picketed early yesterday and 17 policemen and six pickets were slightly hurt. About 3,000 miners mounted a mass picket at the Denby urange uoinery near waKe-field, where 13 of the police' men were hurt when four min ers went to work.

At Brodsworth Colliery, there were about 2,000 pickets. There was some stoning, and four policemen were hurt. Llanwern steel works in South Wales has set a new daily production record despite being picketed by miners, who have prevented supplies being aeuverea ny ran. notice on the Danish importer, whom it refuses to name, that the food must be re-exported or destroyed within 14 days: A spokesman said Our.intr.$J, -jssnefc thcr in the value or content ftf the cargo, but in its potential disease risk. This cargo would never iiave received an import licence, if the importers had applied for The dockers who unloaded the cargo without pay approached Mr Roy Hattersley, deputy leader pf the Labour Party, to get it released.

Mr Hattersley was told by the Ministry of Agriculture that there was no reason to assume anything was wrong with the food, but the policy was to let in products from licensed producers only. The food impounded by Customs on behalf of the ministry consists of canned meat from the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Bulgaria, and powdered egg, milk and powdered baby milk 'rom East Germany. Simmons, a member of the National Union of Mineworkers and a tunnelling specialist, was questioned about his job and views on the strike. He denied he was a strike breaker and said he was on his way to the local train station and got on by mistake. Bu the strikers did not believe him, he said.

He was driven back to St Helens, where lie was questioned by more pickets before being dumped oiit of the van, dazed and shocked. Last night Mr Simmons was recovering at home. officials had hoped the LIAT order would lead to many others in the Caribbean and Latin America. EEC officials in Brussels said LIAT had been told to buy the French aircraft simply because it was more modern and more economical. LIAT now says it will try to find funds elsewhere if necessary.

"We have an urgent need for the '748. It is the aircraft we want and we have agreed favourable terms with British Aerospace." LIAT's managing director, Capt. Arthur Foster, said in Antigua. "We cannot take the risk of ordering a new technology aircraft until it has a track record. We know the 748 because we operate them already." The 748 would be available for the Caribbean tourist season, which begins in December.

But the ATR 42 has only just completed its maiden flight, and the earliest delivery would be January, 1986. by Ford on 30 pc pay claim By John Ardill, Labour Correspondent Ford hsjs offered its 40,500 manual workers at 4 per cent rise in response to a claim which it told union negotiators yesterday would add 30 per cent to the- wage bill and put the company out of business. The' offer 'was rejected but talks will -resume on November 5 when the unions are expecting an improved offer. The. industrial relations director, Mr Paul Roots, urged the unions', to name their priorities among a shopping list which includes a 14 per cent pay rise, extra pay for line workers, improved pensions, a reduced working and parity with staff' over sick pay.

But the; chief union negotiator Mr Ron Todd, general of the Traspbrt and General Workers' Union, said everything in the claim was a prjprity item, selected by negotiators in consultation with shop -stewards from suggestions put' Tliey are meaningful, claims and.jre. want positive" negotiations on them, not just a cavalier Mr Roofs said the company was prepared to continue negotiating bufr.the unions had; to be Prospects for Xhe industry were bleak. There was excess capacity of 2.3 nul-J nun veuu-ies a year in uiope and this had increased marketing -and obliterated profits. rv Vauxhali car workers oni strike at'ithe company's Luton? and uuesmere port plants: ate expected to vote next week on a revised'offer worked out but not fi -accepted by union leaders 1 in 10 hours of talks on Wednesday. The company said yesterday that it had put no new money on the table but had cleared the way for automatic next i.

May for a large group of reproduction line workers through the revised pay structure; About 6,000 of the 15,000 workforce would get increases of about 10 per cent. Overall 'the offer increases average earnings by about 12 a week. The new structure, involving five instead of seven grades, is linked to efficiency measures and new technology which should make the additional in crease self financing. Shop stewards at Jaguar Cars yesieraay lurnea down a management offer of a marginal increase in its 21 per cent pay oeai over two years. A union spokesman said the new offer was worth only 50d a wees more in each ot tne next two years to the group's 7,000 manual jwprKers and that the real-jspijrual 'increase on basic salary offered by Jaguar was still only between seven per cent and 7.5 per cent per annum.

Jaeuar also offered new concessions on sick nay over tne next' two years out re mained adamant that it wanted a two year settlement. Management said the new offer was final. Mass meetings of the group's workforce are expected on Tuesday or Wednes day when they will be advised by shop stewards to reject the latest offer. Shipyard defiance Eleven of the 37. Cammell Laird workers imprisoned for contempt of court were rer leased from Liverpool's Walton eaol yesterday, and said they would be back on the picket line at the shipyard.

All 37 were gaoled for one month for contempt, but were granted remission. uespite a court order, mey refused to end their occupation of a destroyer and gas accommodation rig at Cammell Laird's Birkenhead shipyard. The protest was. against com pulsory reaunaancies. One of the men released after 18 days, Mr Jim McCarthy, regional chairman 'of the General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union, said It was not pleasant," Working pitman 'kicked and punched by pickets' can put forward its views.

The committee has acted under powers delegated to it by the -full- council, which has no oi rwrsui mitlee, chaired by a Conserva- is the only, one that does not-have a balance of member- ship reflecting the hung council, 7i This is because the 1944 Education allows coopted members to vote on education committees. It was coopted members, representing parents, teachers and the Community Relations Council, who tipped the balance in favour of cnticis- ing tne plans. The deadline for the Depart- ment of Education to receive the council's comments is today and the full council does not meet until Monday. A council spokesman said yesterday that there was noth- ing to stop the full council over- TV strike threatens network By Dennis Barker The technicians' union leader' Mr Alan Sapper last night warned of the total disturbance facing the ITV network if Thames Television launches a management-run service in answer to the industrial action by his members this week. The Association of Cinematograph, Television, and Allied Technicians' 600 members at Thames' Euston studios are on strike over a two-phase pay offer involving the use of new technology by 62 film editors.

The action has meant blank screens for Thames viewers in the capital since Wednesday. The proposal of management to run a black network on Monday is a recipe for total network disturbance and massive loss of programmes," Mr Sapper said. We ask Thames to use sense and not emotion. "The dispute is totally unnecessary, as the ACTT proposal would not cost the company one penny piece. In fact it offers a great facility for the use of staff in future.

"The claim of 7 per cent to correct the unfair differential suffered by film editors, to be implemented in a two year period, the target date to be determined, is not an outrageous claim in anyone's language." Talks were going on last night after union officials from Thames' other studios, at Hanworth and Teddington, took a package of proposals to the company. Thames reacted strongly to the suggestion that there would be disruption to the whole network if the management service was started on Monday. A spokesman said We feel the disruption caused by this unofficial strike already justifies us in any action we take to try to restore our service to our viewers. We are not going to be blackmailed." A WORKING miner claimed yesterday that he was kicked and punched by pickets who held him prisoner for several hours after he caught the wrong coach. Charles Simmons, aged 35, thought he was getting on a coach which picks up men going to Parkside Colliery, Merseyside, but it was a strike bus heading from Goidbourne Colliery, for picket duty.

Mr Simmons said lie was locked in the coach while pickets from the Bold Colliery battle bus were at the pit gates. While being held Mr iirJM French accused of foul play over airline order The display of IRA-bound arms discovered on board the trawler Marita Anne Irish police put trawler haul on show From Joe Joyce bullets. David Meorst adds The in Dublin There was also assorted mili- United States Ambassador to Irish police yesterday dis- tary equipment, including Britain, Mr Charles Price, is to played the huge haul of IRA training rockets, bullet-proof have talks with officials of the arms, including two heavy ma- vests, three night sights and 10 Department of Justice in chine guns in anti-aircraft telescopic sights. Washington next week to. see mountings, which were seized The weapons were aug- how they can clamp down on on board the trawler Marita mented by a series of US the activities of Noraid.

Anne three weeks ago. Army manuals. One, dated He said I intend to took The consignment was made 1966, covered landmine war- whether tnprp fs anv abilitv up of 164 guns, including the fare. at whemer tnere lS an ammy two heavy machine guns, Five men arrested on the on our part to trace who is re- and a third .03 machine gun, trawler were remanded in cus- sponsible for donating, money also with a mounting. There tody until Tuesday in Dublin to organisations that suppbrt.

were 90 rifles, seven sub- yesterday, charged with posses- terrorism and, perhaps more machine guns, 13 shotguns, 17 sing firearms, ammunition and importantly, to find out how it pistols. 34 revolvers and 71,000 explosives. is disbursed." A row is looming over the way a 20 million order for British aircraft has been blocked by the EEC and given to the French. Leeward Island Air Trans-nort. a small Caribbean airline.

urgently wanted to replace its ageing fleet witn tour urinsn Aerospace 748 turboprops, and asked the EEC Development Fund for the cash. But the Fund, whose portfolio commissioner, Mr Edouard Pisani. is French, said the air line could only have the money for French-built Aerospatiale. ATR 42. The airline does not want the French plane it prefers the British aircraft and the controversy is threatening to hang over French President Francois Mitterrand's visit to Britain next week.

In Brussels, Mr Pisani is at the heart of arguments over the order, although West German Mr Dieter Frisch is directly in charge of the development fund. Furious British Aerospace ITN lacks breakfast appetite By Dennis Barker of the American Presidential what the cost of a news opera- Independent Television election, and had refused. tion is," he said. Ours is a News vesterdav reacted coollv Mr David Nicholas, ITN edi- 31 million a year operation. It it 2Z hv hll tor- sad wouW is a financial problem, to the invitation by the break- outrageous to suggest that He said there had been no fast television channel TV-am ITN had deliberatey made its formal approach from TV-am.

to take shares in it and pro- suggested terms to TV-am Any such formal approach vide a news service in return, steep to keep the station at would hove to be considered It said that TV-am had been arm's length. by the board. TV-am has been offered morning-after coverage They just don't understand indulging in kite.