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HOME NEWS THE GUARDIAN Wednesday September 24 1986 Cause of fatal rail collision is known says BR By Paul Hoyland A senior British Rail official said yesterday that the cause of the Staffordshire crash in which one train driver died had been determined. After BR's internal inquiry at Crewe, Mr Peter Rayner, the regional operations manager, said I know the reason why the incident took place," but wade declined to say whether it human or mechanical error. The two locomotives had crashed almost on in a unique set of circumstances." said Mr Rayner, who led the inquiry investigators. He added that the surviving driver; Mr Brian Shaw, aged 56, of Bolton, Lancashire, had acted properly in jumping from his cab to warn other trains. No disciplinary proceedings: were planned at this stage.

Mr. Shaw made no comment after the eight hour inquiry, which was held in private at the London Midland region's operations headquarters. Mr. Eric Goode, aged 56, the driver of the Liverpool-Euston express, was killed when he hit the Euston-Manchester press at Colwich junction, near Stafford, on Friday night. seconds before the collision Mri.

Shaw left his call ran: down the track to lay warning detonators to stop other. trains approaching the junction. He was represented at the inquiry by an official of the locomotive drivers' union Aslef. A 22-year-old driver from I Brighton, who had been travelling with although he was not rostered, to be in the cab, was key witness at the inquiry. The panel of investigators under Mr Rayner also questioned technical experts and examined video film of the wreckage.

A report of the inquiry is being sent to Mr John Moore, the Transport Secretary, who has already announced there will be a public inquiry. BR said it expected, that Colwich junction be reopened today after substantial repairs to overhead electric lines and track damaged in the crash. Thirteen were still detained in hospitals yesterday. Mr John Bergin, aged 30, of Liverpool, was in a critical condition. Six people were injured yesterday when a relief locomotive crashed into the stationary train it was to have rescued.

The accident happened just outside the highland town of Elgin after the 9.35 am Aberdeen to Inverness train broke BR has launched an internal inquiry. Unionists' protest plan From Peter Murtagh in Belfast Northern Ireland Unionist councillors last night deciding, from whether. to authorities resign in en protest at the Anglo- Irish agreement. At separate meetings in Belfast and Ballymena, about 50 representatives of some 340 Official Unionist Party and DemUnionist Party councillors were addressed by their respective leaders, Mr James Molyneaux, and the Rev. Ian Paisley.

There was speculation that them campaigned two parties, jointly which against have the agreement since it was signed last November, might now opt for different strategies. There is believed to be strong support in the DUP for mass resignations, but some OUP councillors would prefer to retain their seats and continue obstructing the work of councils where possible. Resignations would not necessarily result in elections. The Northern Ireland Office said last night that if resignations took place, each council would have to be assessed separately to see if a quorum could still be reached. The Government has already shown that it is prepared to appoint local authority commissioners.

for DUP, Mr Sammy Wilson, the Lord Mayor Belfast, said he felt that councillors would support whatever recommendations were made Beatles and Tony Benn become yesterday's men GEORGE and Ringo, Virginia Wade and Tony Benn are consigned to the dustbin of lexicographical biography in the new Collins English Dictionary, due out tomorrow. The two lesser Beatles, the retired tennis player and the politician have been omitted from the bestselling dictionary's second edition. So the miners' leader, Mr Arthur Scargill, the former film star, Claudette Colbert, the England 1968 World Cup goalkeeper, Gordon Banks, the retired Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Coggan. has All, the have word fallen, skateboard, victim, to as the yardstick of ephemerality. The 35 compilers of the book, launched in 1979 as the Arst major dictionary of more than concise size to have originated from Britain for nearly 50 years, believe insufficient readers will want to look up their names in 1986.

Collins is exceptional among dictionaries in listing human and place names as well as words. Its 15,000 biographical entries make it one John Ezard reveals a new dictionary's 'in' words and names and others dumped in the dustbin of history Right: Out of favour Ringo Starr, Virginia Wade and Tony Benn. of the biggest ventures of its kind after Who's Who. But, unlike Who's Who, it cuts people out for reasons other than death. Of the omission of Mr Scargill, the dictionary's deputy editor, Mrs Marian Makins, said: It was for obvious reasons.

He lost the Taylor launching legal action against Anderton By Peter Murtagh Mr. Kevin Taylor will today launch a legal action against the Chief Constable of Manchester, Mr James Anderton, and the Greater Manchester police authority. A summons is expected to be served on Mr Anderton later today. Mr Taylor will apply to the High Court for the discovery of documents, police notebooks, and any other relevant material relating to a police application for a warrant to search his home shortly before the Deputy Chief Constable of Manchester, Mr John Stalker, was removed from duty and placed under investigation. The may provide a judicial examination of the report of the investigation into Mr Stalker which was carried out by Mr Colin Sampson, the Kevin Taylor: summons likely today Chief Constable of West Yorkshire.

It is believed that Mr Taylor's lawyers hope to submit the report as part of their case. Several people named in the report, which was rejected last month when the police Stalker, decided have to denied reinstate what the Mr report claims they said to police officers. Taylor's home and office raided on May 9 on a search warrant alleging a £240,000 fraud of the Co-operative Bank, with which Mr Taylor had conducted business. The police removed an album of photographs from Mr Taylor's home and some of the pictures were used as a reason for investigating Mr Stalker, who was suspended on May 29. When the police applied for warrant against Mr Taylor, the same officers applied at the same time for warrants against Mr Colin Peter Brown and Mr David White.

Mr Brown, a friend of Mr Taylor, is one of those named in Mr Sampson's report into Mr Stalker. Mr Taylor's lawyers will seek to prove their contention that there were different reasons for seeking the warrant against him than those given in court. Mr Taylor has been under investigation by Manchester police since 1984. He has never been ques tioned, despite offering himself for questioning, or charged, and he has no criminal record. Mr Taylor's lawyers hope that a full hearing of their application for discovery will be heard on October 2.

Nirex wins last site fight as 350 police foil protest By Paul Brown Contractors, helped by 350 Ministry of Defence and civilian police, cut through barricades at the proposed Fulbeck nuclear waste dump, in colnshire yesterday to end a month of successful protest. Nirex, the nuclear waste executive, now have access to all four possible sites and will proceed with its 18-months' programme of drilling to evaluate the sites. Lincolnshire Against Nuclear Dumping, the most determined of the local groups to stop Nirex, voted the night before not to confront the contractors and police, having been tipped off that they would be heavily outnumbered. About 70 were kept behind a police cordon and at 7 am roads to the site were blocked by transit vans as Ministry of Defence police began removing tyres, a farm trailer, and concrete-Alled oil drums. Petrol-powered SAW8 cut through the steel gates which had been welded and clamped.

The protesters say that now they will continue the fight in the courts, scientifically and politically." Mr Julian Fane, of LAND and a former high sheriff and magistrate, said: Before a decision is made here there will be a general election and I give a clear warning to the Secretary for Energy that the people of this country are not happy about the shallow burial ofnuclear waste. middle is no use calling us middle-class, From Joe Joyce in Dublin The air of crisis hanging over Dublin's shaky coalition government deepened last night with the sacking of a junior minister over a conflict -of-interest row which may require parliamentary apologies from the Prime Minister, Dr Garret FitzGerald. Mr Eddie Collins, the junior minister for trade, industry and energy, was believed to have been sacked by Dr FitzGerald and his Cabinet after refusing to resign. He has been accused of retaining an interest in the dayto-day running of a family meat company which could conflict with his ministerial duties. The crisis atmosphere was increased by manner in which news of the development emerged.

It came from constituency supporters of Mr Collins while there was no official confirmation as Cabinet ministers met to decide on the sacking. The Irish Government gave no reason for sacking Mr Collins in the formal statement confirming his dismissal. Mr Collins said he was quite disgusted and described his dismissal as disgraceful. He had earlier said that there were no grounds to warrant my He made it clear that he would continue to support the coalition. He said he would be 8 "loyal backbench member of Fine Gael and would continue to stand for election for the party.

Dr FitzGerald later appointed Mr Richard Bruton, aged 33, to replace Mr Collins. His appointment and the dismissal of Mr Collins over the conflict of interests row were confirmed at the speciallycalled meeting of Irish cabinet ministers. The affair, which surfaced six months ago, has come to a head at a partiularly bad time for Dr FitzGerald and his Cabinet. The coalition no longer has an overall majority and faces a confidence motion when the Dail resumes in October. Two backbenchers are planning to withdraw support unless their pet, projects are given government backing.

Earlier this year Dr FitzGerald told the Dail there was no conflict of interest in Mr Collin's position. Early this month the magazine Magill printed minutes of meetings which appeared to show that Mr Collins was still involved in commercial decision-making. He responded by announcing legal action against the magazine. Eddie Collins- no grounds for resignation middle England, not. hooligans LAND will becontinue to fight." Nirex was not able to say yesterday how much the month's delay at Fulbeck, Killingholme on Humberside, and Elstow, Bedfordshire, and two week delay at Bradwell, Essex, would cost over the £10 million allocated to the drilling programme.

Drilling would begin in three weeks. In the meantime laboratories, cold store for the drilling logs, and back-up facilities would be taken on to the three sites. Work would go on between 7 am and 7 pm but the workers would live off-site. Should any of the sites be revealed as geologically unsuitable Nirex would announce that decision and abandon work. During the drilling the company will assess environment, transport, packaging of waste and radiological impact factors on all four sites.

The spokeswoman said that at the end of the 18 months they could end up with only one possible site, or maybe all. It would then be up to the government of the day what form a public inquiry should take. A narrow local inquiry" would require only a short time but a major Sizewell style" could take years. Obviously we hope it is limited so we can get on with the job," she said. Nirex's timetable for the start of dumping is beginning to slip and building of the deposttories is now not expected before 1993.

Women's care allowance hit by other benefit cuts likely to be cut by the exact amount of the invalid care allowance, under an "overlapping benefits ruling, The Association of Carers, which helped force ministers' hands by backing a European Court test case brought by Mrs Jacqueline Drake, last night said the Government was guilty of "masterly ineptitude" in its publicity about the allowance. misled into think that this is "Lots of people haven been a payment for caring, which it is not," said the association's director, Ms Judith Oliver. "It is more like a payment which acknowledges you are not in the workforce. publicity encouraging nuclear winter. Ian Botham, glitch, glitzy, yuppie, preppy, chasing the dragon, and the five Ks (the five sacred items traditionally worn or carried by Sikhs).

Others include Ray Reardon, blag (thieves slang for robbery with violence), head-banger, Sevvy Ballesteros, samosa, nan bread, ageism, speciesism, wimp, naff, menu (as in computers), Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Bupa, space cadet, compact disc, and over the moon. The last phrase's converse, sick as a parrot, 'was excluded because the editors had not heard it as widely used by or about footballers. Chernobyl happened too late for the book's publication deadline, which also reprieved ex Marcos of the Philippines and his wife. That couple caused us a great deal of difficulty, with all their hovering about over whether to or not," said Mrs Makins. Another facing the chop Erno Rubik, whose cube is as defunct as the skateboard, Mr Street Tony actress Booth Pat (left) and one of his daughters at the funeral of former Coronation Phoenix, his wife of one week.

Right: actress Julie Goodyear, one of the show's cast. Pictures by Denis Thorpe Show biz onise. over cutting these people, but we do need the space." The book's publishing director, Mr Alan MacFarlane, said: When you're publishing 15,000 names, you've got to make some pretty hard choices at the In place of the casualties FORMER Coronation Street actress Pat Phoenix WAS given a rousing, showbiz style funeral yesterday. As her coffin was brought out of the Church the Holy Name in Manchester, where more than 2,000 people had gathered to hear the service relayed through loudspeakers, Dixieland Jazz band burst into When the Saints Go Marching In. The 62-year-old actress had asked to be sent off in style while she was dying of lung cancer in the Alexandra Hospital, Manchester, where only a week before her death she married 54-year-old actor Tony Booth.

He followed the Hurd gaol staff By a Staff Reporter The Home Secretary warned the chief prison officers yesterday that his new "fresh start proposals for prison manning will be imposed if they cannot be carried out by agreement. Mr Douglas Hurd told the chief officers' conference in Loughborough: The longer term interests of the service will best be served by clear leadership now." Years of trade failure unions by management and to agree on better prison management and manning had locked the service into an impenetrable mass of working arrangements and practices from which only a major wrench will free them," he said. The "fresh start" proposals will reform three main areas of prison management, giving more responsibility to lower level management, introducing a teamwork system and tackling the huge overtime load by extended salaried status. Despite extra resources--an 18 per cent increase in prison officers and a per cent real increase in expenditure since 1979-he said "less in the way of improved standards of inmate care has been had for it." Parliament and the public were increasingly concerned about the prison service, which was acquiring a negative image. had not got the August 1986 leaflet spelling out the changed position on the allowance, she said.

Claims can be made up to the end of the year for backdating the allowance to December 1984, when the EEC equal treatment directive was issued, and arrears could be as high as £1,800. The Department of Health and Social Security said that although the overlapping benefits point may not have been made in the advertising campaign urging carers to inquire, It was explained clearly in the leaflet. Out of the estimated 70,000 women eligible a8 a result of the change, about 30,000 would not be better off. unless his new game, Magic, rescues his reputation. The Falklands' conflict word yomp is also in danger unless the British Army has cause to do it again before the next edition.

with The Guardian, in common other newspapers, figured in public complaints to the compilers about increasing misuse of the words refute and rebut (meaning disprove) as a synonym for deny. While reluctant to lay down the law about correct use of language, the compilers say in a note Careful writers and speakers avoid this confusion." On another controversy, the compilers of tomorrow's edition have bowed to change. Their entry concedes that the prime usage of the word gay is now as homosexual. In the 1979 edition, this meaning was listed Afth below the traditional usage of the derived 13th century Provencalword as carefree, merry, brightly coloured, brilliant, given to pleasure. strike and his name doesn't crop up muczh now.

Mr Benn appears to be more enduring. There might turn out to be a case for putting him back in the next Of Claudette Colbert, who made her first film in 1929, Mrs Makins said: It is awful, isn't it? One does ag- Minister's. sacking fuels row in Dublin tiple sclerosis had his benefit cut even before his wife's care allowance started being paid." Where a disabled man is receiving supplementary benefit, unemployment benefit, invalidity benefit or a variety of other allowances, he would normally receive a dependency addition for his wife, which he loses if she becomes entitled to invalid care allowance. Ms Oliver said that although there would be no net gain to family income, women should still apply for the invalid care allowance because it would earn them national insurance credits and they would also receive the cash in their own right. Many social security offices comes a stream of names, words and phrases redolent of the mid-1980s.

They include becquerel (a unit of radioactivity), Bob Geldof, Aids, Kaposi's Sarcoma (a skin cancer founds in some Aids victims), Becker, young fogey, hooray Henry, throwing a wobbly, Nirex, funeral for Phoenix coffin, flanked by his four daughters. An hour-long requiem 700 mourners, including mass was attended by about many past and present stars of the 802p opera, who stopped rehearsals for the first time in the show's history to be there. The service featured a gospel group. In tearful scenes outside the church afterwards, ac Julle Goodyear pub landlady Bet Lynch in the series -said: What way to go. The service was wonderful and was a Atting tribute to Pat.

Of course I cried. I never stopped." Mourners were asked to donate to cancer research, instead of sending flowers. Many fans packed the church. they were mostly middle-aged and elderly women, although there were some young mothers with small children. The coffin was topped by a single paper flower, one of a bunch sent by' eight yearold cancer sufferers at a hospital in Battersea, south London.

The crowds, which gathered three hours beforehand, wer so large that police were called in to marshall them and crash barriers were erected. Heffer fears Labour is taking 'road to defeat' By David Hencke, Westminster Correspondent Mr Eric Heffer, the former Labour party chairman, reopened party wounds yesterday by claiming that Labour was dropping its socialist policies and was risking "the road to The MP for Liverpool Walton argues in a book to be published later this week that Labour should stand by its commitments to issues like nationalisation and accuses the leadership of watering them down So that party becomes a sociale democratic party, mark two." Mr Heifer's own relationship with the Labour leader, Mr Neil Kinnock, has become increasingly strained since he walked out of last year's La- bour conference while Mr Kinnock was denouncing the Militant Tendency. But he has always claimed that his attack on leadership has nothing to do with personalities. In Labour's Future Mr Hefter, a member of the and national executive, writes: What we are witnessing today the transformation of the party, into another SDP, a party which, although retaining a written socialist constitution, Ands it is increasingly being ignored." The Gang of Four which formed the SDP still had many friends and allies in the Parlamentary Labour Party and Eric Heffer: watered-down policies in the Shadow Cabinet. "They are dangerous because they make real the possibility that the Labour Party could move towards an SDP mark two type of policies.

If we have policies indistinguishable from those of the social democrats it will not be Labour that benefits but our enemies. It will be the road to If the party does not defeat. renew itself in a socialist direction it may gain some short-term advantages. But, in the longer term, it will fade into history as it is forced into competition with the Alliance. Ethnic delegates resign By David Rose The Labour Party's London regional executive has instructed its four delegates to the black and Asian advisory committee to resign.

A motion passed at a meeting on Monday night described the committee as an undemocratic insult to Labour's black support." The decision is a further blow to the credibility of the committee, which Was established last year by the party leadership in an attempt to head off demands for separate black sections. Last chairwoman, Ms Jo Richardson. MP for Barking, announced NEWS IN BRIEF Transplant baby off ventilator THE 10-week-old heart-lung transplant baby at Harefeld hospital, Middlesex, was day breathing unaided for the Arst time since his operation at' the weekend. He has come off: the ventilator, he is doing well, and the doctors are very pleased," said a hospital spokesman. The father, recovered from a.

sore throat, was allowed inside the Intensive care unit yesterday and his mother should be able to join him today. NUJ loses action on reporting ban AN ATTEMPT by the National Union of Journalists to seek a High Court review of a judge's decision to hold a drugs trial in camera was rejected in London yesterday. Mr Justice McCullough, sitting in the Queen's Bench court, said Judge David Lederman had not exceeded his powers and the judicial review sought by the NUS would be bound to fail. The judge barred all reports of the trial, in which the accused man was acquitted of import-. ing cannabis.

Bus and tube fares up 4.5 pc BUS and tube fares in London. are to go up by an average 4.5 per cent from January 11 next year, it WAS announced yesterday. Most single fares will rise by 5p or 10p although the 50p; central London bus and tube ordinary fares will remain unchanged, said London Regional: Transport. Missing link in M25 to open THE missing 13 miles in the 121-mile M25 orbital motorway round London will be COm-. pleted on October 29 11 years after it was first started The missing 13 miles will be opened in two stages to previde the link between the M15 and the M25 at South Mimis in Hertfordshire.

New clamp on road instructors fic minister. From September 30, all qualidled driving instructors and. trainees who charge fees will have to display a Transport their windscreens, which will Department certificate, inside. include a photograph and the registration number. A MOVE to stop "cowboy" driving, nounced instructors WAS an yesterday by Mr Peter Bottomley, the roads and traf- Telegraph signs job cuts deal THE DAILY Telegraph and the' print union Sogat yesterday signed an agreement covering the paper's new plant in the: Isle of Dogs which will allow.

60. per cent manning cuts to reduce the payroll to 670 with' redundancy. terms expected to cost up to £25 million, The agreement includes binding arbitration and what the' Telegraph management have called a no disputes undertaking. By Peter Hildrew, Social Services Correspondent The Government has been accused of masterly ineptitude because thousands of women who are entitled to £23.25 per week invalid care allowance for looking after a disabled person are discovering that they will be no better off. The Government announced in June that it was extending the allowance to married or cohabiting women to comply with an EEC directive sex discrimination, which was upheld by the.

European Court. But if the person being eared for is receiving social security or A national insurance benefit, that income is women to apply has made no mention of the overlapping benefit issue, and we are getting over 150 phone calls or letters a day at our office asking for clarification We are spending all our time consoling women who have been gearin themselves up for hundreds of pounds of backpay. Mr Dennis Skinner, Labour ME. night for that he Bolsover, had said last to written the Health Secretary, Mr Norman Fowler, protesting about the rule after receiving a series of complaints from constituents. "It's just giving with one hand and taking away with the other.

One man with mul- that she would not serve beyond the party conference next week. Mr Paul Sharma, the black sections national secretary, said that more than half of Britain's black population lived in the London area. The withdrawal of the four London delegates from the committee brought the total who had resigned or indicated an unwillingness to serve after the conference to 11 out of 24. The London executive motion described the committee as a toothless body which was incapable of articulating the needs of black voters and party members. Tory MP to quit SIR Paul Bryan, aged 73, the Conservative MP for Howden and Boothberry in Yorkshire for 31 years, yesterday announced that he will not stand at the next general election.

He had a 17,420 majority in the 1983 election. Novelist 'stable' JOHN Braine, aged 64, who made his reputation in 1957 with the novel at the Top, is in the intensive care unit for the Royal Free Hospital, north London, after surgery on a perforated stomach ulcer. His condition is stable..