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10 MONDAY 18 APRIL 1988 irk Vicar The Bishop af Basingstoke Michael Manktlow moved swiftly aa the verdict was delivered to begin the heaUnr process each side agrees must now take place to bridge the deep rift hi the divided flock by Peter Kingston 1 A country vicar today lost his bid to clear the pews from his church despite his claim to act on God's Instructions i A Church of England Consistory court turned down his application to the furnishings of the 188-year-old church of St John the Evangelist Hartley Wlntney Hampshire Considerable passions were roused during the three day hearing In the church Bock mp IE or Ma by Charles Reiss i sees off a curse by Valentine Low WHAT the butler saw In an English castle might have finally put paid to the curse or King Tut The discovery by the seventh Earl of Caernarvon of 300 priceless Egyptian trear sures dating back more than 3000 years collected by his grandfather couldn't have come at a better time After his death last year the Earl had already been forced to sell off £14 million worth of the family silver this February But the bad luck that la said to have dogged the family ever since the fifth Earl discovered King tomb with archaeologist Howard Carter In 1922 might have left them with the discovery thanks to the memory of retired butler Robert Taylor "I hope said the Earl the racing manager at a press conference at the Dorchester today to publicise a live TV broadcast entitled Mysteries of the Pyramids In order to help pay the mammoth cost of the upkeep of Highclere Castle Hampshire the Earl is putting the treasures on to the public July However today he would not go so far as to admit ever believing In the curse saying Instead that the subject of Tutankhamun was simply never mentioned when he was a child The treasures will be viewed by millions of people around the world when the TV broadcast live from Egypt and Highclere Castle and narrated by Omar Sharlt goes out on Wednesday you can have faster thicker BRITISH businessmen got Thatcher today telling them to buck up and be ready for a ide five years united Europe inside In a strongly-worded speech even by her robust standards the Prime Minister accused business chiefs of missed opportunities in the past failure to make the most of trade with Europe now and delay in making ready for 1992 At the end of that year REV JOHN EARP: A sincere man hall last week But verdict was greeted by the mainly elderly audience In subdued mode a stinging lecture from Mrs chances window for nearly 320-million people bigger than Japan or the US right on doorstep and with the Channel Tunnel as an extra link your the job of business to gear yourselves Early yesterday the mammoth Mao was sawn off at the feet and came toppling down leaving a large dent on the pavement the student said A smaller statue Just Inside the west gale was also destroyed leaving only the pedestals An official of the university Foreign Affairs 'Office LI Yansong said today the statue was being removed because It had weathered badly since being built In 1967 at Evening Standard picture KEN TOWNES The verdict waa given In an hour-long speech by the Chancellor of the Winchester Diocese the Worshipful John Spokes He cleared the 69-yr old vicar the Rev John Earp of electoral malpractice and J0 "Kneered the election of supporters on to the parochial church council says MRS THATCHER: yourselves up to take the said Mrs Thatcher Mrs Thatcher was at the Europe Open For Business campaign She promised a series of Government-run regional conferences The threat of an all-out strike at Jaguar was averted today when 4400 shopfloor workers at the Browns Lane Coventry factory voted heavily to accept a new productivity deal £400000 Turner A TINY painting by Turner today became the most expensive English watercolour ever sold The hazy view of the Grand Canal in Venice went under the hammer at Phillips Auctioneers in London for £33000 more than the previous record 0 0 TALKING POINT Omar figure found at Sharif with an Egyptian Highclere Chairman Mao a fallen idol most trade barriers in Europe are due to disappear and the twelve-nation community is intended to become a single trading market Mrs Thatcher launching a special conference at Lancaster House in London for top businessmen warned them that the Europe wide market was no pipe dream not a vision It's not some plan It's for real And it's only five years die said The result would be a shop most prestigious college as a symbol of the disastrous 1966-76 Cultural Revolution started by leftist students with backing -The concrete statue was dismantled under bright lights late on Saturday night after being covered by scaffolding and plastic sheeting Cor more than a week THE MAKROPULOS CASE ENO Coliseum PEKING University's four-storey statue of Mao Tse-tung the tarnished and Increasingly Ignored founder of Communist China has been demolished by workmen The statue of Chairman Mao in front of the main library was one of the largest 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