Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 5

I prayed to tvr-rro vA'rrfT-p- rn- ioro r- The LONDON STANDARD THURSDAY OCTOBER 23 5 stop train crash-rail man by Norman Leith had happened He replied: had the flashing yellows Mr Mason told the inquiry his first reaction to the crash was that the train had been derailed coach flipped onto its side When I cot my wits together I calmed everyone down as best I could" Mr Mason said he had sure that everyone was cleared from his train Later he was asked by rescue staff to help find the driver of his train Mr Eric Goode of Crewe who died trapped in his cab used a scan on the cab to confirm that he was there said Mr Mason upset me very it straightened up the locomotive of the Manchester train passed in front of it A moment later there was a bang The locomotive came flying over the top and was followed tar the first coach Then all went dark as the dust flew up" The Inquiry heard that the driver of the Manchester train told another railwayman minutes after the crash: I had the flashing Flashing yellow signals are a preliminary caution advising train drivers of possible warning signals ahead Mr Brian Mason the guard on the Liverpool train said he spoke to driver Brian Shaw: I asked him what the hall FLASHBACK to the wreckage of the trains The foreigners taking over jobs by angry magistrate Mr Jobling also said it was that Marquess should have been granted legal aid on such charges He fined him £150 with £50 costs and warned: it at 10 a wek or you will go to prison" Earlier two teenage girls who admited joy-riding in a stolen car were riven prison warnings bv Mr Jobling who commented: What they need Itg a where sible One of the girls was fined £100 and file other bailed for reporta SAVE jj BBBB9 AFTER an Inter City express train allegedly passed a stop signal at red the horrified railway signalman in charge stood and prayed for an accident not to happen Signalman Peter Millward of Colwich near Stafford told a railway accident inquiry at Crewe today: was looking down the line holding my heart in my hand and praying to God that it would stop It very nearly did" In file crash that followed at Colwich junction near Stafford between a Liverpool to Euston express and a Manchester to London Inter-City train the driver of the Liverpool train was killed and get jobs just the British public who Marquess 31 a father of two living in a council flat at Webb House Hemans Estate Wandsworth admitted dodging his bus fare and forging a coccesionary season ticket door handles and telephones Mr Donoghue 41 has never worked a day in his life Yet the Irish traveller and Iris fttmiiy were given luxury accommodation and massive welfare cheques by Qunden Council But hotel staff said that fire council which was paying the £n70-a-week hotel olu would be moving file family out to alternative accommodation It was reported that the family received £78 a week drinkers to drive fork lift trucks operate dangerous machinery or take important Mr Allsop had earlier told the Institute of Personnel Management conference at Harrogate that one in every 16 British employees had a drink problem and that alcohol abuse cost industry £1500 million a year Drink-related problems such as absenteeism accidents and disastrous decisions were on the increase And alcohol was at the root of many Industrial disputes Mr Allsop claimed 75 people injured There were more than 800 passengers on board the trams Mr Millward told the accident inquiry under Major Peter Olver that the Manchester express had clearly nassed a signal at red just seconds before the collision last month A second signalman in the box Mr Richard Morgan gave a graphic account of the crash He said: looked down the line and I saw a train braking It was almost at a standstill when I saw the other train come flying round the comer and it was going at full speed given to wn by British RaU Told of Marquess's ten years in Britain and of his five-year job as a £104-a-week British Rail porter the magistrate said: he needs an interpreter in court how splendid!" child benefit and Mr Donoghue had another £360 a week from the DHEUSL Hie Regent's owner Mr Ofer Aharony was not available for comment A spokeswoman for Camden council agreed that the council had placed the Donoghue family in bed and breakfast accommodation at the Regent Court Hotel She said: We have a statutory duty to provide bed and breakfast Employers were urged to introduce policies to identify problem-drinkers at an early stage Mr Allsop said: itaniM onietlv trv to theproblem until they can ignore it no He was encouraged that major employers such as the Post Office now had schemes to identify problem-drinking Workers most at risk include publicans insurance agents journalists and doctors Bnt the biggest difficulty was often wfili "lMiaging directors who took part in regular social and business drinking 'Delegates heard that more than g4t million a day was spent on drink sure he replied the magistrate (Mr James Jobling all get jobs just like the illegal immigrants who come here council houses jobs the do they do Mr Jobling asked can all Standard Reporter THE Irish family living on £1908-a -week welfare money from Camden Council today left the Kensington hotel in which they have been staying Staff told The London Standard that Joseph Donoghue who has been staying with his wife and 11 children at the Regent Court Hotel for the past week left early today (Beyond that they refused to make any comment But a repair man who has been working on the hotel since the family moved in said they had gone by the time he arrived at 8 o'clock The huge itinerant family had the hotel penthouse completely to themselves They had the run of six double rooms with television and telephone facilities White the rooms themselves appeased to be in reasonable condition the camdars leading to them had been wrecked according to the repair man kids were running wild all day peeling off the wallpaper and generally creating He also said damage had been done to A LONDON magistrate today attacked foreigners and Illegal immigrants who take up the jobs while millions of Britons swell the dole queue He was dealing with a Common Market national who has worked for (British Hail for five years Portuguese Antonia Marquess had been in constant emeployment throughout his ten years in Britain his lawyer Mr David Lock told the Horseferry Road court i Footballer shot by sniper POLICE today were hunting a gunman after a footballer was shot in the leg during a match Hayden Green 24 who keeps goal for the Derby team Graham Street Prins was shot 10 minutes after the start of last Central Midland League game with Burton Albion Reserves at Eaton Park Burton The game was halted while he was carried from the field and taken to hospital for treatmen tto a wound just above his knee He was later released The shot from a 22 air rifle was fired through a gap in the perimeter fencing at the ground Burton Albion chairman Bam Brasslngton offered a £250 reward to help catch the gunman Gunman gets 10 years A MAN was Jailed for 10 years at the Old Bailey today for having a loaded sawn-off shotgun in a London street He pointed it at an off-duty policeman In Lewisham and threatened to kill jhim Timothy Horan 23 of Campshlll Road Lewisham had denied possession of the gun The court heard he and a friend were on their way to dump it when file officer became suspicious of their Real ale brush-off THE Campaign for Beal Ale has been told it is no longer welcome at the brewery where it was to have launched its 1987 Good Beer Guide next Monday Young's of Wandsworth one of most famous brewers of real ale told CAMRA today to find another venue because of the decision to an outrageously sensational attack on the brewing industry CAMRA claims many beers ciders and lagers contain chemicals which include arsenic cadmium lead and sine £2500 0 tvm -am OCfllD W1H 9fy'0l'935 5092j With interest free credit you can buy jj now! jj And pay iateii REMEMBER You can't buy 2 5 msm Sts ffilKE (S (sfcty Firms urged B-test lunchtime by Richard Littlejohn WORKERS should be breathalysed when they return from the pub an expert on alcohol abuse said today Lunch-time drinking sessions were nuking an increasing number of people unfit to work in the afternoons claimed Mr Douglas Allsop executive director of the Scottish Council on AlcohoL may sound like cloud cnckoo land bnt I would like to see it introduced right across the empoyment he said is absurd that people who have had too much to drink to drive a car are allowed BLUEiFOXfl JX'CKETSil OnlflfMs! rorfman Square London THESE are the competition numbers which appear in national newspapers DAILY Game 304: 72 10 79 54 22 34 63 75 24 THE STAR Game 64: 68 64 43 6 67 59 3 50 74 40 THE SUN Game 285: 27 59 13 11 70 23 49.