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HOME NEWS THE GUARDIAN Thursday August 21 1986 Bug-eye crash 'probably caused by human error' Traffic already well above DoT forecasts for the year 2000 Fourth lane planned to reduce overcrowding on six miles of M25 Jealous husband killed family atHH M4 HEATHROW 4 'XJIM M25 IMPROVEMENTS Traffic management measures EGHAM fs A30 STAINES a iMr-o UfAWNCO slow speeds over a distance of four or five miles and- tailbacks on to the M3. It's amazing there haven't been more serious accidents. "We can see a similar pattern developing with two major trunk roads going into the motorway in close proximity in the Ml-Al section, which is due for in about 10 or 12 weeks' tdme. We hope that section will be the next one they look at." The AA said: "The three lanes were a great improvement on what was there before and this is even better." Friends of the Earth said "All they are doing is paying 20 million for a bigger traffic jam. They wil pour traffic on to the radial roads.

They should concentrate on getting an orbital rail route with park and ride from stations dotted around the motorway. A Senior police officers yesterday discussed the use of cameras to snot drivers speed FLYING ON: The Department of Transport report found defect in the Optica plane mmediate traffic management measures -If" CHERTSEY ililliiillllNiiwiii J' no structural or mechanical the cockpit fiddling with something in the area in which the fuel control was placed. Furthermore, the aircraft had been in the air for almost 30 minutes, the point at which the fuel supply would be switched from one tank to another. The report says that PC Spencer, the pilot, had 445 hours of flying experience and was noted for his good airmanship and attention to detail. It recommends a review of the design of the fuel switch and suggests that the Civil Aviation Authority should consider issuing specialist flying licences for things such as specific police work The report was welcomed by Mr Alan Haikney, who rescued the Wiltshire-based company and relaunched it as Optica Industries after it collapsed last Since Mr Haikney, a engineer, took over the company he has increased the workforce to 92.

Only one plane' was sold before the crash, but 12 had now been sold and the firm had recently signed ah agreement with Canada for. 20. The report effectively gives the Optica a clean bill of health on the eve of the Farnborough Air bhow. HHHR Slip roads Vk a3 remodelled indication of structural or mechanical failure. According to the accident inspector, Mr R.

C. McKinlay, it was possible that Det. Con. Wiltshire, who was photographing traffic jams caused by Ringwood market day, might have grabbed at the control column as the aircraft banked to the right. The inspector noted that there have been three cases of inexperienced passengers grabbing something because of a feeling of insecurity in the People, back page transparent cockpit.

In one of those instances a passenger had grabbed the control column and caused a sharp increase in the bank angle. The feelings of insecurity were caused by a combination of the all-round vision from the cockpit and the fitting of inertia-reel seat belts. Had this happened, the aircraft would have dropped its nose and gone into the spiral seen by witnesses. Another possibility was that the aircraft crashed after stalling during the turn when the switch controlling the fuel tank used to feed the engine was accidentally turned off. Witnesses saw two men in By Gareth Parry The crash of an observation aircraft on its first day of service monitoring traffic for Hampshire police, in which two officers died, may have occurred because a police photographer grabbed at the control stick as it went into a turn, or because the pilot accidentally turned off the fuel switch, causing the engine to stall, a Department of Transport report has concluded.

The plane, an Edgley Optica bug-eye aircraft, spiralled into a field near Ringwood, Hampshire in May last year, killing the pilot, PC Gerald Spencer, aged 37, and the photographer, Det. Con. Malcolm Wiltshire, aged 44, who had only flown in it once previously. The crash of the first production model of the revolutionary plane which combines all-round vision with an ability to fly low and slowly severely shook the confidence of Optica's City backers. The company was placed in receivership last October and 238 of the -289 full-time staff were made redundant.

The Transport Department report on the crash, published yesterday, concludes that the cause could not be identified, but says that there was no ing on motorways and to catch people going through red lights. The system, already used in Holland, activates after, lights turn to red and takes the number of any vehicle passing through after that. The traffic committee of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) was talking in private about hew technology available to police at a' meeting in Warwickshire. The ACPO was due to sign the UK charter for European Road Safety Year formally yesterday. Proposals from the ACPO will go to the parliamentary traffic law review committee.

Warwickshire's chief constable, Mr Peter Joslin, said: "People have got to trust the police to use their discretion," but the National Council for Civil Liberties said it was increasingly worried at the use of surveillance cameras by the police. A former detective, Colin Gill, killed his wife and four sons with a shotgun before putting the weapon in his mouth and pulling the trigger, an inquest heard yesterday. He shot his family when his wiie, unaa, returned nome to Park Road, Redruth, after a moonlight meeting with her lover. Hours earlier she had visited a solicitor to discuss a divorce from her 42-year-old husband. West Cornwall coroner Mr Derrick Pepperell recorded verdicts that Mrs Gill, aged 33, and sons Stephen, 17, Robert 15, David, nine, and Dorian, two, were unlawfully killed on April 21 and that Mr Gill, a superintendent registrar of births, marriage and deaths killed himself.

The hearing in Camborne, Cornwall, heard that the cou-nle had a stormy relationshiD and that Mrs Gill had stopped sleeping with her husband. Detective Chief Inspector John Fayter said he believed that Mr Gill, in his pyjamas, shot. his wife after an argument, and then killed the oldest boy, Stephen, followed by the three others. Stephen was almost certainly getting out of bed to investigate the shooting. Mr Gill would have seen him as his greatest threat and therefore shot him next, said Mr Fayter.

Mrs Gill and her lover, a photographic technician, Ray Bryant, aged 21, had met secretly in a seafront car park at Portreath. Mr Bryant, of South Park, Redruth, said they had discussed their future. In a nearby car Mrs Gill's friend, Mrs Patricia Eddy, was acting as an alibi for the meeting. Mrs Eddy, of Redruth Highway, discovered the bodies the next day. ROVER I TM251I flrm fnni, tw at oeak times unusually hieh proportions of the very heavy flows left or joined the M25 and M3 at junctions 10 to 13.

New road markings are intended to ease this problem. The British Road Federation Ridley nod needed for 'shopping- cities' 25,000 OR OVER INSTANT ACCESS By John Ardill, Environment Correspondent Almost six miles of the M25 London orbital motorway near Heathrow are to be widened with a fourth lane in each direction because traffic levels of 120,000 vehicles a day are causing regular jams and tailbacks, it was announced yesterday. The Transport Department expected traffic between Wisley and Staines to range between 65,000 and 105,000 vehicles a day by the year 2000. But figures were reaching 97,000 a day last December, and the latest figure is 120,000. The rest of the 1,000 million ring, which will be completed shortly with the opening of a section linking the Ml and Al north of London, will be studied with an eye to further changes as soon as traffic has settled down, the roads minister, Mr Peter Bottomley, announced yesterday.

The decision to widen the section between Chertsey and Staines, which includes the M3 interchange, delighted motoring organisations, which regard it as an overdue admission that the Government underestimated potential traffic. But Friends of the Earth said it would only generate more congestion on routes into London. The widening, on land already set aside in the central reservation, is expected to cost 20 million. Detailed planning should be completed next summer and construction should take 18 months. Other improvements will be carried out on the section and the adjoining Chertsey to section, including remodelling of slip roads, strengthening hard shoulders and altering road markings.

The changes were recommended by the consulting engineers Brian Colquhoun and Partners, who were commissioned by the Department of maris. Thatcher's clothes feature in BBC series By Denis Barker MRS Thatcher's chief maxim about choosing her clothes is that she must never appear as "mutton dressed as lamb." Her husband Denis says she too often wears black. These are among the revelations in a BBC2 series of Forty Minutes announced yesterday as part of its autumn schedules. Designed to complement the dramas and other attractions of BBC1 already announced, BBC2's autumn programmes will include 15 new series. "My aim with this programming is to maintain the dynamic of a schedule that commanded 46 national and international awards yielded an 11 per cent share of the total audience for BBC-2 over the past year," said Mr Graeme McDonald, the controller.

A nine-part series on the development and possible future of the English language, The Story of English, will appeal to those who take a longer view of British history. The producer, Mr Bill Cran, said yesterday that English was spoken by a billion people. There were more people studying English in China than there were people in the US. Silicon Valley, on the West Coast of the US, had produced 70,0 new English words in the past 10 years. The Australians were enriching the language with phrases like, "it's as scarce as rocking horse manure" Mr Cran said these changes were a sign of vitality, not decline.

The Theban Plays of-Sophocles will star Sir John Gielgud, Cyril Cusack, Claire Bloom, and Sir Anthony Quayle, while a three-part adaptation of Vita Sackville-West's All Passion Spent will star Wendy Hiller. BBC2 will also compete heavily with Channel 4 in the musical Photogenic conductor Simon Rattle will explore the musical influences of East and West in From East to West. There will be a backstage view of Zefflrelli mounting his producton of Otello for the cinema. More avant garde musicologists may prefer a new video dance for television. Points In Space, by Merce Cunningham and John Cage.

at 'QV' Iv NET ti i- 5S8 ill III II I i 6M8g JBSmaSSl VM? 4W acAnflrJUUU) HUT XOV Xw- Q09r WMMr ACCESS By Tom Sharratt Proposals for 10 huge shopping cities" on the outskirts of Greater Manchester will have to be referred to the En vironment Secretary. before planning permission can, be given. Mr Nicholas Ridley has '-sent a direction, to planning au thorities in the area under Ar ticle 10 of the Town and Country Planning General De velopment Order, 1977. The direction allows the authorities to refuse permission for the developments, out prevents their approving them without his consent. The direction follows an ar- proach to the Environment Department by the district councils themselves, which feel that the proposals should not be considered in isolation or without consideration of the possible impact on existing retail outlets.

The 10 district councils in Greater Manchester have al ready decided to commission a study of the potential effects, but consultants have not yet been appointed. One of the authorities. Sal- ford City Council, decided on Monday to refer one of the proposals for a retail and leisure complex of one million square feet at Salteye to Mr Ridley on the grounds that it was a departure from the local development plan. Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry has expressed opposition to another of the proposals a one million sq ft development in Trafford because there has been no study of the effects on established retail centres. Proposed provision of fourth traffic lane and strengthened hard shoulders mmediate traffic management measures LEATHERHEAD said We are delighted the Government has seen the error they made and regret the fact that it has been necessary because of short-sightedness in the past.

"We have had traffic stationary or moving at very, The chamber emphasises that it is not opposed to all developments of this kind provided that the consequences are considered beforehand. A spokeswoman said yesterday It has got to be proved that) there is a need for them." The Trafford proposal comes irom tne Manchester snip canal Co, and the Salford devel opment from Fee Ltd, which has also submitted plans for a similar scheme at Rochdale. Also in Salford, Ollerton De velopments is planning 200,000 sq ft development at Eccles. In the south of Greater Manchester, Sainsbury's and British Home Stores have plans for three 250,000 sq ft developments at uneacne Hulme. and Asda Stores is pre paring a scheme for a 250,000 sq ft retail development and a 50.000 sa ft leisure project, in cluding a cinema, in the same area.

At Woodford, Spring Park Securities is planning a development of 910.000 sa ft. and Marks Spencer and Tesco are seeking permission lor 240,000 sq ft retail scheme at Handforth. Manchester City Council is worried by the damage which huge out-of-town shopping de velopments could inflict on trade in the city. According to one estimate, a single one of the iu proposed developments could roo Man chester of 8 per cent of its shopping trade and 8 per cent of iobs in retail outlets. The leader of the council, Mr Graham Stringer, said It would be an intolerable blow to Manchester's employment and economic prospects." animated self.

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