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THE GUARDIAN Monday March 27 IMS sis (rouDirDDstieirs ffs.00 to agiree 6 HOMGNGIVS IS 0 MINISTERIAL split over whether to aban don plans to widen the in Surrey to 14 lanes has been referred to a Cabinet committee in the hope of a decision before the local government elections. Brian Mawhinney, the Transport Secretary, wants against fierce opposition from his civil servants to abandon the project in a wider review of the roads programme. He favours the review in the light of the recent report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, which recommended that road building resources be switched to public transport and argued that it is no longer reasonable to build roads to meet traffic forecasts. His main ally is John Gum-mer, the Environment Secretary, but Michael Portillo, the Employment Secretary, and Michael Heseltine, the Trade and Industry Secretary, are still strongly in favour of the M25 project. Mr Portillo and Mr Heseltine believe that the economic recovery requires more motorways in order to keep up the flow of freight.

Or Mawhinney has sided with a lobby of the MPs in the Tory heartlands of Surrey. Many local Tory-controlled councils are under threat from Liberal Democrats pledged to scrap the widening scheme. A key factor is the loss of support for the project from the airports authority, BAA, which was to give evidence to the impending M2S public inquiry that the proposed Terminal Five at Heathrow needs the road widened to cope with the On the waterfront New developments dwarf an old church a 135 million link road was opened at the weekend 'Highway to prosperity' a dead end, say bay residents extra passengers. Now it is asking merely for an extra lane on a slip road to be linked to the terminal and is relying on new rail links to transport 7 million extra passengers from Paddington. The Ministry of Transport is carrying out a wider review of roads, including the proposed widening of the M4 west of London and the M62 in the Northwest, but the M2S scheme has the highest profile in the roads programme and it is the most politically sensitive.

Because of the five-week moratorium on announcing big policy changes before the local government elections on May 4, the Cabinet wants to resolve the M25 question next week. A decision to abandon the scheme would be announced immediately to give local councillors a boost; otherwise nothing need be said. The Government is wrong to force motorists to bear much of the burden of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, says an independent report for the AA published today. The main measure involves an annual petrol price rise of per cent, says the report by the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development. But this measure is expensive compared with other reduction methods, is out of line with levels of tax elsewhere in the economy and places a disproportionate burden on less-well-off motorists.

The report recommends a tax on fuels relative to the amount of carbon they produce when burnt. The RAC said yesterday that testing cars for dangerous exhaust fumes could become a thing of the past if a new hi-tech "green box" were installed in vehicles. The box alerts motorists to failures in their vehicle's emission control system. If they were to take no action, the same system could make them a target for prosecution. The RAC is campaigning for a statutory reqnlrement to fit the equipment in new cars throughout Europe by 2000.

Owners will have to pay annual tax on cars--whether they are on the road or not under plans to be announced this week by the Government in its effort to cut the Treasury's 160 million-a year loss on untaxed cars. But Dr Mawhinney is likely to announce an exemption from the 135 vehicle excise duty for owners of classic or vintage cars. Otherwise car museums would face huge tax bills. communities in the modern world. "There are 4,000 people living in Cardiff Bay and I am very anxious that they should be the beneficiaries, not the victims, of the development.

"The golden days they are nostalgic about are where people had TB and rickets and water poured down living-room walls. A happy, healthy community did not exist and Tiger Bay was slum housing, unemployment and illness we with his family in the town, said: "The town is a site of great antiquity. The runnel is in grave danger of disturbing the town architecturally and visually. I am also worried about vibrations." Winchelsea, one of the seven Cinque Ports, is historically important as the first planned medieval town. Built in 1288, it became known the following century as the most important wine-importing port outside London.

Under the houses are a large number of vaulted cellars formerly used for storing the wine, although it is not thought these wiU be at risk from a tunnel. HE European Commissioner and civic dignitaries, business executives and chief engineers celebrated the weekend opening of a new link road beside Cardiff Bay as symbolic of the economic rebirth of Wales and the restoration of its capital to the world stage. The 135 million 1.5-mile "highway to prosperity and jobs" opened by Neil Kinnock, Transport Commissioner, marked, they said, a further stage in the resurgence after decades of dereliction and neglect of the community of Butetown or Tiger Bay as it is commonly known under a 2.4 billion regeneration scheme. It had cost an extra 30 million, planners said, because a tunnel was built along part of the route to avoid dividing the community from its waterfront and the multi-million pound developments planned there. But, for many of the small number of local residents watching the ceremony from afar, it was further evidence of the destruction of the once-cohesive Tiger Bay community a overlooking Cardiff Bay, where that few of the 30,000 jobs promised by Cardiff Bay Development Corporation on its inception eight years ago had materialised, and certainly not for the benefit of a community where unemployment is officially around 35 per cent.

"The people here do feel that whatever jobs are created will not come their way." said Ben Foday, a Labour county councillor. "Elsewhere unemployment is going down but here. WINCHELSEA'S first gift to the nation's heritage was its uniquely planned medieval streets. Its latest con-tributioa is more conceptual but no less English, writes Alex Bellas. Whereas a "nimby" (Not In My Back YardT dislikes the idea of something happening in his back yard, the new "numbies" of Winchelsea don't want anything going on under it.

The East Sussex subterranean event in question is a road tunnel proposed as an alternative to a bypass. Currently, the main road from Brighton to Dover runs through the town's outskirts. 'Urgent David Fairhall Defence Cof respondent BRITISH nuclear scientists have said there is an urgent need for a new protective shield to cover parts of the Chernobyl power station in the Ukraine. The scientists were among teams from six French. German and British companies called in BOCC 867 1044 86? 1111 344 4444 i lee 497 9977 BEST MUSICAL Oivlm rthama Ainria.

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Interview with the Vampire picked up best cinematography and best design: Speed, best editing and best sound: and The Adventures of Priscilla. Queen of the Desert, best costume design and best make-uphair. BO 24hr 44 NATIONAL Brian Mawhinney at odds with Portillo and Heseltine British films fail to sweep the board Chernobyl shield PHOTOGRAPH JEFF MORGAN want to bring the people forward with us into the future." The development corporation admits that of the 7,377 jobs so far created 3.504 are temporary, but says now work on building the long-delayed barrage across the bay is underway job opportunities will rise It claims an 85 per cent sue cess rate in placing local people trained at special centres on sites throughout the development area under an unofficial contract compliance scheme. "If we fail on the creation of jobs for the community all this will have been for nothing." Mr Boyce said, surveying the development area. His vision of community stretches beyond the Bay and Cardiff to embrace the industrial valleys hit by the decline of coal.

Partnerships have been forged with the Cynon and Rhymney Valleys to encourage the long-term unemployed to commute to jobs in the Bay. Some angry residents believe these jobs should be earmarked for local people. But Mr Foday said: "By and large Cardiff Bay is very much supporting the community but residents falsely assume the whole development is for them." sarcophagus would cause a repeat disaster was discounted yesterday by the International Atomic Energy Agency. A spokesman for the Vienna agency pointed out that W86's radioactive plume was fuelled by an intense fire something unlikely to be repeated. However, the agency at meeting in last April did call for the remaining reactors to be closed down on safety grounds OPERA 369 175 WITH AN ROVAL OTSRA HOUSE 4000 lor Bur On 8 Slan Tickets avail 0 1h- i.

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This will increase traffic as well as being an eyesore." Residents acknowledge the need to divert traffic, but after a bypass was decided on as the Government's "preferred option" in 1991. the tunnel was suggested this year as an alternative. Dominic Leahy, who lives need' for by the European Commission to visit Chernobyl and report on clean-up work. One of the companies was AEA Technology, the commercial arm of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, hired specifically to advise on construction of a new shield over the plant's destroyed fourth reactor, whose explosion was responsible for the 1986 disaster. The firm confirmed that the Of WALKS 071 839 5987 8 16 3464 416 6020 144 4444 cc bkg lee Grps 071-413 3321 RARRV elANHANrS 'C0PACABANA' "An Evening ol Pure Delighl'D Mail The New MaeJtal (tarriiej OARV WMJWT "Nolhing Can Possibly Top This'D Tel 'C0PACABANA' 00 fcves BpmMdtb Wed bit 3pm MAT hS5 j44 fro it.

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