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Tuesday December 30 1986 22 Tanker's owners tell Icelandic 111 i''V." 1 inquiry standards were niet aroont review admitted for half of crew Delay Magnox Syneta liliraff safety only nad By Paul Brown Humphrys: the difference between cows attii pbiltlcians Well, none actually. But the force insists The hotline is proving very' important in confirming many of our suspidorisboutthe: mdvemehts'bf drugs in No face about Today The wrecked Talbot-Solar a Samantha involved in the fatal accident near Swafiham, Norfolk found after crash mm DRAMA In lighthouse. The weather was good. The court has no criminal powers' because the ship was foreign-owned and the crew was foreign-six Britons and six from-'-the Cape Verde Islands, in West Africa. Its decision is usually used to settle insurance claims.

Mr' John Nightingale, the tanker's regular captain who had gone home to Britain for Christmas and missed the voyage, said that the Syneta was equipped with good navigational equipment. At, the start of the inquiry, Icelandic lawyer, Mr Gardar Briem, who is representing the Syneta's owners, requested that the identities of the 12 crewmen be kept secret "to protect the families of the crew members from journalists." Judge Sigudur Eiriksson agreed, but refused to a further request to hold the inquiry in -secret. Mr' John Newman, deputy general secretary of Numast, said the dead captain of the ship, Mr Richard Cape, was a member of his union and he had reason to believe that other crew members were too. He called for the release of the names of the dead so if necessary the families could be represented; There are increasing demands for a British inquiry into the sinking. Mr Newman said that the ship flew the Red Ensign and operated out of a British port and yet the British Government was claiming it had no powers to hold an inquiry.

It was shameful of the British Government that it encouraged, flags of convenience in British, colonies and then was not prepared to police them, he said. By Paul Brown The British tanker, Syneta, which sank at Christmas killing thj 12 crew, carried only one inflatable lif eraft that could accommodate only six people, the ship's owners have admitted to an Icelandic inquiry. Mr John Taylor, for the owners. Syndicate Tankships Ltd, told the inquiry that a 25-man inflatable liferaft had been replaced by a. six-man one when the Syneta's registration was transferred earlier this year from Sweden to Gibraltar.

He acknowledged that Syneta's certificate of seaworthiness and its Lloyd's insurance policy said a 25-man inflatable raft was on board, but he maintained that a six-man raft on a ship with a crew of 12 was up to maritime requirements and standards. The ship had two 12-man lifeboats, but they were fixed to the ship and had to be launched by special cranes. Rescue officials said they would have been impossible to launch after the ship ran aground. Minimum requirements on British ships are a lifeboat and liferaft place for each crew member, according to officials of NUmast, the officers' union. Captain Richard Cape radioed Icelandic officials that there was a serious malfunction on the radar of the ship shortly before the crew abandoned the vessel, said Mr Johann Brien, chief coordinator for the Icelandic Lifesav-ing Association.

The three-man board of inquiry, sitting in the fishing port of Eshf jordur, is trying to establish why the Syneta crashed into the 500ft Shrudur Rock, which is marked by a her Christmas presents for a family reunion away from the glare of publicity at Hcn-don Police Training College. Senior police officers said the reunion was "joyful to say tie least." Last night police said Samantha was still too upset to talk at any length about her ordeal. Detective Superintendent Fergus Corcoran, who had led the said: "I am delighted that. she has been found safe and sour. 1 and would like to thank the press, broadcasting and public for their help during this investigation.

However, I am greatly saddened that a five-month-old 1 infant has died and. express my deepest condolences." Police said on Sunday that they wished to interview Mr Chmllowksyj in connection with the abd'iction of Catherine Ainger, aged 19, who was. allegedly abducted for three days between December 19 and 22. Miss also rang, her family during her absence. Kinnock comes out fighting in to Tory assaults on non-nuclear By Alan Travis The Labour leader, Mr Neil Kinnock, last night made a vigorous counter-attack to the repeated Conservative assaults on his party's non-nuclear defence policy.

in a letter to Mr George Younger, the Defence Secretary who had described Labr ouks policy as a body blow to Natp, the Labour leader asked him to explain under what cir cumstances the Prime Minister would order the first use of British nuclear weapons. Labour aides believe the Gov ernment is vulnerable not only because it has. cut conventional defence spending while spend-, ing heavily on Trident, but also because in the recent past. Mr Younger has fumbled on the Reviews to show that Britain's 18 Magnox civil nuclear reactors are safe for continued operation have not been completed, the Govern ment has admitted. The Central Electricity Generating Board was allowed to con tinue operating tne reactors beyond their design life of 20 years provided it could continue to iustifv their safe operation to the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate.

Despite many Government promises, not a single safety review of any of the stations has yet been completed even thoueh some reactors are nearly 25 years old. Now the publica tion of the nrst pro mised in Spring 1986, has been put off until tne summer Dy Air Alastair Goodiad, tne energy minister. There have been serious doubts about corrosion problems at some stations and whether cooling and electricity circuits have the back up and secondary fail-safe to meet modern standards. Reviewing the safety case of the proposed Sizewell pressurised water reactor, the Sella-field safety audit and the aftermath of the Chernobyl station have seriously hampered the Nil. The inspectorate has also been seriously understaffed after being moved from London to Bootle.

The Government gave the in spectorate a pay rise to stop further wastage and is trying to recruit another 20 inspectors to bring thw strength up to 120. Recruitment is from a narrow' field almost exclusively from within the nuclear industry where wage levels are higher. Mr Paddv Ashdown. the Liberal MP for Yeovil who has been trving to establish the safety of the Hinkley Point A station near his constituency, was told a year agoc that the safety review on that, station would he completed in 1987. There is now no estimate of vvhvn the Hinkley review will completed.

In a letter to Mr E. A. Ryder, the Chief Inspector of the Nil, Mr Ashdown says The information and assurances I was offered 12 months ago are now worthless." At a meeting with the CEGB and the Nil on December 2, 1985, Mr Ashdown was given a timetable for the completion of the safety reviews on the five oldest stations. Bradwell in Essex and Berkeley in Gloucestershire, which were commissioned in 1962, would have safety reviews finished by Spring 1986 he was assured. Hinkley Point, in Somerset, Trawsfynydd in North Wales, and Dungeness in Kent could be completed oy some point in 1987.

Six months later, on May 13 Mr Ryder said in a letter to Mr Ashdown that the completion dates for the review had been nut back to October for Bran well and January, 1987 for Berkeley. Later, Mr Goodland said, the Nil expected to meet its target of the first half of 1987 for publication 01 its con elusions on the Bradwell review. A spokesman for the Nil said there were considerable delays and added that the inspector ate was reliant on the CEGB in providing details of the safety case. It was not possible to give a new timetable because Mr Ryder had not returned from the Christmas holiday. In another Commons reply Mr Goodland made it clear that the safety review of the two oldest Magnox reactors operated by British Nuclear ue-'s pic tor the military production of Plutonium had also not been completed.

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43,635. Tuesdav. Decemr 31, J98V a newsnaocr at the Post Office ISSN. 0261-3007. Continued from page one his surprise at opening his door to the Couple, whose photographs have been frontpage news for the last two days.

"They said 'Can we come in and I looked at them blankly," said Sir Samuel. I said to the man 1 Are you the fellow who was on television last and he said He told me he wanted to call the police so I rang a local off-duty constable who arrived within minutes and got the police network working." Sir, Samuel, a barrister and business man in 1983, unsuccessfully contested Mr Dennis Skinner's safe Labour seat of Bolsover, Derbyshire, for the Conservatives, said he left the couple in his office. "They were sad, remorseful and in shock after their accident," he said. "They had walked at least three miles. The man looked defeated.

He offered absolutely no resistance, just sat there calmly, hardly saying a word question of when Britain would use the bomb. Mr Kinnock's challenge came in a reply to four questions set out by Mr Younger the day after Labour launched its defence campaign on December 10; He had asked about' Labour's reliance on the US nuclear umbrella, about nuclear protection for the British Army of the Rhine' (BAOR), iabout the point at which' its nuclear weapons would be removed, and about the removal of US nuclear bases in Britain. Mr. Kinnock said it was axiomatic that Labour was, firmly committed to the defence and security of the British people and to membership of Nato. A Labour government would not rely on the US nuclear umbrella to the extent that it struck a with those heard thim; and the manner of their' delivery, the.

style and the charm, exceeded anything which Macmillan's much younger, in the Lords were able to deliver. There were many echoes of the early Captain Macmillan, MP for Stockton, in the latter-day Lord Stockton, though this time his concern for unemployment and for the suffering it caused in areas like Teesside were seen as the- wisdom of a great statesman rather than the passion of a young Tory radical. He stood in a tradition of Toryism which owed something AROUND BRITAIN Reports for the 24 hours ended 6 pm yesieraay: Sun- snin hrs shine Rain Weather in. laayi ENGLAND I Bristol Carlisle London Manchester Newcastle Norwich Plymouth EAST COAST Bridlington Skegness Lowestoft Clacton Southend Margate. Sf)UTIitOA5T 1.1 0.3 11 52 Shwr am .01 11 52 Showers .44 8 46 Rain 11 52 Cloudy .04 11 52 Rain 0.1 0.6 .19 jj a Ram 0.1 11 52 Cloudy 0.1 .01 10 -50 Rain pm 0.3 .01 11 52 Rainpm 0.2 02 11 52 Showers .19 9 48 Rain .11 11 52 Cloudy 11 52 Cloudy 11 52 Cloudy 10 50 Cloudy 11 52 Dull 11 S2 Bright am 1.0 1.1 .0.8 0.2 11; 52.

11 3i 2 CloUdv- tasiDoume, 0.1, 'wii ill-5; 52'Cloudy. 9 48 Cloud Bognor Southsea Sandown 52 Ram; 0.j 11. ii ciouoy. 52 Cloudy ouoy mm S-vll, 52 Bright pm 11 si Lioupy 0 nam am 3i Drmie 90 boost for British Aerospace By John Hooper, Trade Correspondent The aviation industry was given a double boost yesterday when British Aerospace revealed it had won orders worth more than 90 million and Airbus Industrie announced that a consortium which includes Rolls-Royce had been chosen to manufacture the engines for the new Airbus A340. US airlines have contracted for 18 of BAe's Jetstream 31 light commuter turboprops, which are made at Prestwick in Scotland.

Jetstream International Airlines, a subsidiary of Piedmont Airlines which already has 13 of the planes, wants an additional 14 for delivery next year and has paid for options on a further 20 for delivery in 1988 and 1989. The other order has come from a new customer, Air New Orleans. Four planes are due for delivery to the airline in the first five months of next year. The power for Airbus Industrie's long-range, four-enrdned A340 will come from the V2500 Superfan, produced by International Aero Engines. In addition to Rolls-Royc.

IAE consists of Pratt and Whitney, Japan Aero Engines, MTU and Fiat Aviazione. The V2500 Superfan is a development of the V2500 Turbofan, which is due to enter service on the A320 Airbus in 1989. 1 pOtLEGUES. say he can remember. what, he did but not when he did; it.

This apparent indifference to the passing of time could surely prove a slight embarrassment if carried over into John Humphrys' new 4.30 am-start job from Friday, as Today' presenter on BBC Radio 4 alongside the perkily garrulous but always punctual. Brian Redhead. Not so, said Humphrys yesterday. If you mean shall I look at the clock at five in the morning and think it's still only four and forget to get into top gear, then I have to say I was used on the 9 News to' living by the clock. It is' just that if you asked when I left school, I' would have to work it out backwards in time." In the run-up to his new captivity, Humphrys has been in hot water with the tabloids for giving an interview to a woman's magazine in which he appeared to cast doubts on the saintliness of his ITN counterpart, Sir Alastair Burnet.

In general Humphrys believes in the faceless school of news presentation, concentrates on the message rather than the messenger. He was once called a grey middle-aged man. "Okay, so long as people don't nod off in front of the screen." He will let any radio personality emerge naturally and is purging his mind of any preconceived ideas about his relationship with Redhead. Redhead will have a job getting a word in edgeways on Today should the subject of organic farming come up. Humphrys himself farms organically in.

West WfJes and his 400-v6rds-a-mhvute proselytising on the subject. I am not a real beer and sandals farmer, but we are pretty sure that nitrogen in the so'l is damage, that it is an ecological timebomb. I am going on Saturday to the Organic Farming Movement conference at Cirencester and. Quite, quite, quite. But is he also doing training for his new early morning assignment? No, he said, he was used to getting up at four to milk the organic cows.

"Though I suspect that there's a bit of a difference between milking cows and talking with senior politicians: the' cows don't answer back and the politicians don't kick the shit out of you." PEOPLE DIARY No sooner has the driver visiting central London returned to the parked car and noted (a) the wheel clamp and (b) the vein throbbing somewhere up there in the temple, than phut, phut, phut. Along comes a bloke on a motorbike to thrust a document at the poor, fuming clampee. A prospectus, it turns out, from the Car Clamp Recovery Club, brainchild of entrepreneurs Slichael Green and Mark Rubin. Membership 25; a 5 fee to send a club employee tramping off to pay the recovery charge; and, for another 10, the newly-released car delivered to your next Privatisation of clamping has been bad news for motorists (in the first three weeks of December 6,214 had to trudge across town to pay the 12 parking fine plus a 25 recovery fee) but glad tidings for the club, which can afford to scorn publicity. A crime correspondent writes Police in Street, Somerset, are looking for a thief, possibly armed with a drinking straw, with marks of a letterbox imprinted on hisher snout and a giveaway air of being steeped in malt whisky.

A litre bottle of Glen Moray, on display inside a locked shop, was grappled through the post delivery slot, hauled to the door and then, apparently, guzzled through the letterbox. ANOTHER crime coiTespdndentwrltes Thames Valley police recruited Arfer Daley, the estimable actor George Cole, to record a message fruits special phone line, urging callers to report anonymously drug dealers and pushers. It was launched four months ago. And how many arrests have resulted People by Dennis Barker Lord Stockton mourned as a great Prime Minister Sir Samuel, Roberts -7 doorstep surprise while he waited to be taken into custody. "He and Samantha rarely looked at each other and did not speak to one They sat in my office in their own worlds." After Mr Chmilowskyj was taken into custody, Samantha was taken to tile local police station and travelled to London in the afternoon.

Her parents left their home with would not expect a US president to initiate a nuclear war on Britain's behalf by the first use of nuclear weapons. Labour' would "work 'with our allies to change Nato's policy -of first use of nuclear weapons and consequently the flexible response strategy." Mr Kinnock added We will naturally consult closely with our allies on these matters with, as we have made clear, the unchanged purpose of fulfilling the objective- of a. policy which diminishes the possibility of nuclear war in; Europe." Mr confirmed his commitment to the withdrawal of nuclear weapons held by the BAOR, but did not answer Mr Younger's question about the removal of US nuclear bases. He told Mr Younger that, to Disraeli and aristocratic concern for the working people he married, into the Duke of Devqnshire's family but was also interwoven with the of: One. Nation conservatism.

But. contemporaries regarded him more as the supreme political tactician than as the great political philosopher. Supermac, the narnw given to him by the cartoonist "Vicky, riot intended as a compliment but it was the name that stuck In the early part of his career he was, almost literally, a political outcast. And when he at last became prime minister Poole Swanage Weymouth Exmouth Falmouth Penianco isles of Guernsey .02 12 54 Dull .06 11 52 Showers 11 52 Dull .02 12 54 Cloudy .01 54 Cloudy .04 12 54 Bright am 12-54 Dull .01 12 54 Cloudy 11 52 Bright pm 12 54 Cloudy- 12 54 Cloudy 0.5 2.2 0.3 OS 0.3 1.0 0.6 WEST COAST Newquay 12 54 Cloudy Ilfracomhe .29 11 52 Rain Southport .06 10 50 Rain Blackpool 0.1 .20 9 48 Rain pm .24 9 48 Rain pm 52 Rain pm WALES Colwyn SCOTLAND .07 10 50 Rain pm .06 10 50-Rain .22 11 52 Rain 4 39 Cloudy 4 39 Cloudy 35 5 .41 Rain, X. '1.

jit nam 4 39 Sleet pm Cloudy. 0.6 5.41:Rtln pm nail 4i! cloudy t-. 37'Ram 1 T- tf' IRELAND NORTHERN ..11, iv.9UAKaiR.pm More winners in: our. competition, in which, we asked for revised versions of the Christmas story in the style of, among others, a Sun leader Peter, Mumford, of Thamesmead, south-east London, was so moved by the challenge he produced this, mock-up of an entire-Page One. A book token for Michael Downey of Belfast, who wrote What.

the. HELL is God playing at He sent His only Son to redeem the world. Fair enough, we say. But WHY NOT TO BRITAIN? asks the Sun Another to Barry and Stephanie Pywell, of Hitchin, -who came up with The mother, known only as Mary was flaunting her advanced pregnancy as she denied spending nights of love with Nazarene carpenter. Joseph, 32.

And the -shameless young mum-to-be even expected Bethlehem ratepayers to foot the bill for their stable double room The Sim says She must be joking!" First prize to Luke Howard, of Camden north London, who captured the style with Hack 'em, Herod Typical, isn' It Tht government acts quickly to stamp on trouble before it gets too serious. And I because a few kids get hurt, the lily-Uvered lefties are--making a fuss. We say, well done More winners tomorrow. You've got to take those wall-posters down by twelfth BIRTHDAYS Gordon Banks, 49, and Charlie Nicholas, 25; footballers David Bedford, runner, 37 Vladimir Bukovsky, writer, scientist, 44 Archie Hamilton, MP, government Wnip, 45 Dr John Houghton, FRS, Director1 General, Meteorological Office, 55 Jack Lord, 'actor, 58 Nick Skel-ton, showjuitiper, Stan Tracey, jazz pianist, composer, 60 i Tracey Ullman, 27 Sir David Willcocks, choral conductor, organist. 65 Clifford Wil-liarns, associate director.

Royal1 Shakespeare, Company, 60. OBITUARY Lord Stockton, formerly Harold Macmillan Prime Minister 1957 1963, yesterday after short illness, aged 92. See pagel3i: Andrei Tarltovsky, exiled Soviet; film, director, in Paris yesterdayVof cancer, aged 54. Page 10. JoluvD.

MacDonald, creator of Travis iMcGee, one of the most popular fictional detectives, on Sunday, aged 70, following heart surgery. Page 10, Diary by: Andrew Moncur response policy having answered his questions, the Defence Secretary should 'reciprocate -by-reDlyine to fun damental questions about the uovernrcent defence policy: He asked Mr Younger Under what precise circumstances apd for what precise purpose the Prime Minister would order first use of British nuclear bombs What calculation Have you made of the likely consequences "Would use of British nuclear weapons prevent a retaliatory launch against Britain? What calculation have you' made of the size of any likely retaliation "What assessment have you made of the effects of radiation blast and fallout on British troops and civilians against the early odds, Tie was regarded as the personification of something rather different from his present reputation. Hugh Gaitskell, the then-leader of the Labour Party, detested his opposite number with a. bitterness which might even slibck Neil Kinnock in his dislike for Mrs Thatcher. In Gaitskell's view, Macmillan stood 'for everything that was cheap and unprincipled in British political life.

His premiership, now looked back on as something close to a Golden Age, moved Harold Wilson to coin the phrase the candyfloss society." SNOW REPORTS State ''Piste Weather Kibbuhel 90 190 Good Rain -1 FRANCE er 900d l0P Flalne 105 150 Good Snow 3 Good piste skilnq Les Arcs 70 160 Good Fine -3 Aiguille Rouge closed Tignes .125 310 Good Fine -3 Good skiing Val Thorens 170 280 Good Cloud -5 ITALY Spltfeu 40 60 Fair Fine -1 2-00 metres SWITZERLAND Veibler 30 200 Good Fine' -3 Excellent piste skliinq conditions Wengen 60 140 Good Fair 3 Good piste conditions Zcrmatt 90 150 Good Fine -3 booa Wing on upper slopes slopes, upper slopes, Centigrade: Reporit.cpmpiled by Ski Club of. Great SKI REPORTS Upper runs complete, hard- with icy patches; middle runs narrow, hard nacbpri now with Icy. patches; lower slopes, ample nursery naro-pacKca snow wun icy patcnes. Vertical' runs, Roads clear. Snow level.

2.200ft. Gltnihee: Upper and middle runs, some runs coirjptete, hard-packed snow, with many icy THE WEATHER Continued from page one knows wheiy some said America and some Tibet;" He was' scathing about the levels of unemployment which he had resisted in the 1930s and which he. saw being recreated. And he spoke of such cherished policies as- privatisation as selling the family silver in words as bitter as any Opposition peer might have mustered. Performances such as this embarrassed and unnenid Mrs Thatcher and her colleagues.

They were officially dismissed as the late thought of a lovable but very old man. But they AROUND THE WORLD Lunch-time reperts -7 45 -5 41 15 59 15 59 14 57 10 50 19 66 19 66 23 73 -1 25 -14 7 7 45 25 77 11 52 25 77 5 41 17 83 2 36 12 54 12 54 -5 23 11 52 -5 23 22 72 6 43 -4 25 9 43 26 79. 24 75 14 57 9 48 -1 30 25 77 -1 30 10 50 25 77 17 63 15 59 20 68 8 At It 55 11 52 i A 3 9 48' 3 37 4 1T 5 41 AJkcIo Algiers Amsterdam Athens Bahrain Barcelona Belgrade Berlin 'Bermuda 12 54 16 61 9 48 11 52 21 70 11 52 7 45 9 48 18 64 Luimbri Madrid Majorca Malaga Malta Manchester Melbourne Mexico Miami ttaBAMMBl Biarritz 12 54 Birmingham 10 50 MOSCOW Munich Nairobi Naples Nastu Newcastle New Delhi, New York Nice Oporto Oil. Paris- Piking Perth Prague Reyklavlk tM.ul, Domoaj Bordeaux 27 81 13 55 Boston 2 36 omul Brussels 10 50 10 50 2 33 Ens Aires cam Cape Town Cardiff Casablanca 'Chicago Cologne Copenhagen Corfu Dublin ItauiiMlii 17 63 25 77 10 .50 17-63 3 37 9 48 5 41 5 14 57 til swift: in in a Edinburgh I 3 34 8 46 Hit de Jan Riyadh mi Florence 14 57 6 43 9 48 18 64 Rime Silrturg Seoul Slnnanere Stockholm Strasbourg Sydney Tuigler Tel Tntrlfe Teo Tunis Valencia wnln Vienna w-rw allfaalaMti Frankfurt Funchal 431 ethfit is cn Glashow 2. 3 37.

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Strait ol Dover, English Channel (E), St George's Channel Rough or very rough. LONDON READINGS From om Sunday 10 6 am vesterdav Mln temo 9C (4BF). From 6 em to 6 pm yesterday-. Max temp 11C 52F). Total period sunshine, 0.1 hrs, rainfall, traces.

Bright with showers FRONTAL systems will affect all areas of the United London, SE England, Analla Mostly cloudy, rain at times. Wind SW, fresh or strong. Max temp 11-13C (52-55F). Cent ami Ctnt England Midlands enamel islands ciouoy, speiis or rain, hrnmnn rirv anrl eluar hv ftvpnlna Wind SW fresh becoming mode.ale. Max 11-12C (52-54F).

Mlrftnd av anil NW England. and Wales, Lake District Rain at first, brigh ter wun snowers later, wino jn, iresn 10 strong, Becoming w. Max f-vg hj-hm. Isle of Man, SW Scotland, GUtgow, Argyll, Ireland Spells of heavy rain becoming brighter rilh showers. Some heavy showers lair-- Wind S.

moderate or soon W. fresh to strong. Max 6-7C (43-45F). HE Enqlano, Borders, Edinburgh and Dundee Cloudy with heavy rain at times-Wind or SW. moderate to fresh, becoming W.

Max 9-10C (48-50F). Aberdeen. Cent Highlands Moray Firth, NE ann nw acouano uun ana wei, snow on some hills, becoming drier. Wind SE. to strono.

turning SW. moderate. Max 5-6C (11-43F). Orkney, Shetland Bright, with sleet or snow showers, becominq cloudy later, with fleet turning to rain In the evening. Wind E.

fresh to strong dec-easing later. Max 3C (37F). Outbox CilJer showery spreading to all areas. Windy In the LIGHTING-UP TIMES Belfast 4.35 nm to 8.18 am Rirm'ngham 4.31 pm to 7.49 am Bristol 4.40 pm to 7.46 am Gbsqcw 4.71 pm to 8.18 am Lo-idon 4.79 pm to 7.37 am Manchester 4,77 pm to 7.56 am, NewcaUle 4.15 pm to 8.0? am Nottingham 4.27 pm to 7.50 am WGH-TDE TABLE 12.79 am 12.50 pm 10.7.7 pm in.34 pm 8.07 am 9.16 am 10.09 am SUN RISES SUN SETS M00H, FUSES s.59 pm B.03 am 2.39 pm MUUN- SETS MOON! New Dec. 31, London Bridge Dover Liverpool..