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HOME NEWS THE GU AD I'ArJfc Luxembourg group's system will cost more Scottish Bail for wrong prisoner prisons house TV viewers political European satellite efforts have been, going on to record numbers scene, initially oacKea Dy ine nna an accora Between the two. main Luxembourg investment Nevertheless, Mr Bicknaii told bank and allied Belgian and the Satellite Communication By Peter Fiddick, Media Editor y- The prospect of 16 new television channels being beamed direct to British homes by mid-1988 is beihE held out by the commercial groups, it and Broadcasting Conference, iiJ: i Li MU. Mie ui, kuc uucm uy vruiiuc, ill ljuiiuuil bourg government and will' use yesterday, SES now' has legal ''the' broadcasting satellite posi- advice that it -has. no heed to Luxembourg based consortium. reach such an agreement Mr Bicknaii a Briton who tion allotted to the Grand Duchy under international convention, just as the British DBS scheme uses the UK's slot SES.

Five, and perhaps more, would be in English, 'and they could include feature films, popular music, sports, and all-news services. Viewers in Britain would need' a dish antenna about has a lot of experience in marketing the Music Box, Pre miere (feature film) and in space. It is having a much larger Children's Channel services to satellite built, and will not pro- vTii. nmsrammM itsMf insert upe indicated that SES 85cms in diameter, and in most of England could come down to 60cms (about 2fUl an agreement, and that a major is pitching itself as a carrier of other people's services, a role uritisn media organisation would be among new share A MAN. facing conspiracy charges: involving three million dollars worth of forged US Treasury bonds walked out of Brixton, gaol on Saturday after, being released on bail in mistake for another prisoner.

Mohammed' IVasit Khan, aged 36, a. Karachi bank official has not been seen since, a judge was told', yesterday at Isieworth crovyn court, Middlesex. Prison. Officer John Morgan-Cane said he went to the cell andaskecT for the bailed prisoner by name and riimbe'r. Khan replied-and was' told to get.

your kit, your cell card -and come down to the desk because you are going to bo bailed. Judge George Bathurst-Nnrman described the release as "a shambles and criticised' Harlesden police for approving a' surety not acceptable to the prosecution. But he agreed with deputy governor, Mr Derrick Dean, that the cell-mate of Mohammed Wasit Khan who cannot be named was involved in Khan's escape. Four other men face three conspiracy charges, with Khan, involving the US Treasury bonds. AH deny the total package of: equipment for receiving the new channels'' on an existing domestic set would cost about 350, the commercial director of SES, Mr holders about to be announced.

If Astra can get the leading pan-European channels signed earned out in Europe so tar principally, by organisations jointly, funded by national government agencies, mainly Kiitalfint up, others will come aboard be SES is launching Astra as cause consumers will be able to Eurone's first private tele- receive them all with one dish. Europe's, first private tele By Jean Stead and Tom Sharratt A disturbing picture of worsening conditions in Scottish gaols emerges from a report published yesterday by the Scottish Office. It shows that the Scottish prison population rose by 11 per cent: last year to a record 5,697. -The report says that the growth, in the. average daily prison population had imposed a severe strain on accommodation and the high number of remands had created serious overcrowding.

This had also made it diffcult to provide employment for prisoners. In two recent riots, at Edinburgh and Peterhead prison officers were taken hostage. Staff were also seized during two escape attempts at Peterhead last The numbers held on remand averaged 1,092 considerably higher than in any previous year, and 55 cent more than in 1980. There was an increase of 10 per cent of those held on direct sentence. The total number of receptions of people under sentence increased from 19,955 in 1984 to 24,252 last year, and fine de- Apart from the English-lang vision satellite." Although its launch has been delayed by the uage cnanneis, tnere are two Scandinavian services lined ud.

Marcus BiCKnau, said yesterday. The SES plan is a potentially dangerous competitor for whoever wins the contract for the British direct-broadcast satellite (DBS) system, which the Independent Broadcasting Authority is expected to award next week. Tiie -five competing British consortia are offering plans for three television channels, which will be. receivable on a smaller dish (45cms), and probably cheaper equipment package, but late 1989 is the earliest likely, open Diana i and Paul Lamplugh at the launch in London yesterday of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, named. after the estate agent abducted in July (right) and aimed at publicising the risks faced by working women.

From early next year the trust, a registered charity, will publish a newsletter, issue teaching and discussion packs, visit schools and workplaces, and begin detailed research into the: particular problem faced by working women. It hopes to raise 450,000 to fund its work. Self-help is the key element, though not In the sense of ju jitsu classes," said the trust chairman, Mr Tim Battle. We will concentrate on our education and research role. We don't see our role as aggressive." He described the trust as "a positive response to a negative, inexplicable, and apparently senseless happening." Donations can be sent to the National Westminster Bank, Law Courts branch, Chancery Lane, London WC2.

space-vehicle, it is still hoping two or three possibilities to take customers the ln botn French and. German. Europe-wide satellite television The British DBS aspirants channels like Sky, Super Chan- still throw doubt on Astra's po-nel. Premiere, and German arid tential, however. For them, the French equivalents by filling size and cost of the home an-a time gap between the fast-- tenna will be crucial.

At the obsolescent satellites they arn same session yesterday, renre- no.w using and Eutelsat's next sentatives of four of the eon- sortia agreed that the EaD in seneration ing date. perception, and cost be- The Luxembourg government, although a backer of oetween a 4ocms dish and even charges. Khan also denies cashing a cheque for $39,295 by deception and handling it. SES European Satellites Company is the joker in the-pack of a complex and highly SES, is also a signatory to thi one of 60cms would be a crucial Kuieisat agreement, and great tacior in pupnc response. ,1 I IWJ'- Campaign fails to stop glue fatalities By Andrew Veitch.

Medical Correspondent tauiters accounted for just under 11,500 of the total. In another report published today, the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders says that conditions in the prisQn system deteriorated during 1985-6. Nacro says in a briefing paper, which comments on the annual report of the prison department, that the average prison population during the year was 3,000 higher than in 1984-5 and the number of prisoners sharing a cell built for one was a record 18,544. Ms Vivien Stern, director of Nacro, said yesterday that on November 28 the prison population of England and Wales exceeded 48,000 for the second time. There were 47,815 people in orison and 195 in nnliro polio Government plans, to curb This was more than l.nnri higher than a year ago, when the total stood at 46,972, including 42 in police cells.

Overcrowding for womon prisoners doubled from 6 per cent to 12 per cent. The average number of women in prison during 1985-86 was glue sniffing have failed according to a Department of Health-sponsored survey published today. The number of deaths linked with glue sniffing rose to 116 last year, according to the report by Professor Ross Anderson's research team at St George's Hospital, south London. Deaths doubled in, Wales, the North-east, Yorkshire, Hum-bersidei, and the West Midlands, the team in today's British Medical Journal. There were smaller increases in Scotland and Northern Ireland and no increase in the South-east.

1,570, comnared with 47ft in the previous year, with a maximum of 1,630 last February oeupying plaecs intended for 1,401. Nacro also savs that in 86: Prison workshoo olacps fell from 14,480 to 14,204, and hours worked by prisoners dropped to 8.5 million from i. Butane in lighter fuel, solvents 9.1 million In 1984-85 less than half the figure for 1974-75, in glue, plaster remover, and correcting fluid wnen over 17 million hours tor around 9U per cent of fatalities during the were worked. Prisoners snent 5.594.551 four years of the study. Nearly three-quarters of hours in education in the academic year 1983-84.

but thp those who died were under 20 and 65 were aged 10-14. figure dropped to 5,119.118 in the academic year 1984-85 a Professor Anderson and his reduction of nearlv half a mil lion hours. For prisoners serving life team say: "Efforts which have been- made to prevent abuse and reduce the risk of death tnere was an average wait of 10.5 months between considera among' abusers have not affected the scale of the problem, the pattern of substances tion of their case by the local review committee and by the Parole Board. abused, or the risk of death." Campaigns by the Home Malcolm Dean adds A studv Office and police to warn of six gaols by two Home parents of the dangers of elue- Office researchers. Mr John Ditchfield and Ms Claire Austin, suggests prisoners are more concerned by the lack of sniffing and to stop shopkeepers selling solvents to children culminated in last year's Intoxicating Substances (Supply) Act forbidding the sale of solvents to under-18s in the knowledge that they intend to inhale them.

lnoepenoent prison ombudsmen who could investigate their complaints than by the present disciplinary functions of boards ot visitors. This in what is The dual functions of the talff vhiir.irinnpv rriit nf a Hilt- thought to be the first pro present boards of visitors. which serve as both ombuds secution under the Act, a south London newsagent was con-vited of selling Tipp-Ex to a men and disciplinary tribunals, are about to be separated by the Government's Criminal 14-year-old boy, wno later died after inhaling it. Edged Bondshe cmy time.lf you give 90 days' notice there's no penalty and, evenjLfyou can't give Justice Bill. The Liberal MP Mr Simon The report shows that pri Hughes is calling for tighter soners made little use of the boards' to air grievances.

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100 inmates and another less nearly half the deaths since 1981 have been due directly to the toxic effects of the substances inhaled. than 100. The boards handled less than 2. per cent of these. income Scotland re- wort for 193S.

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