Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 282

1 8 THURSDAY 1 1 MAY 2000 EVENING STANDARD In brief Pigging out: Winnie takes a break from the limelight at a farm in Oxfordshire left but her abrupt removal from her pen outside Westminster below left farmers smelling a rat liJ t-7 i i-'n 1 A' Pymamm Wir t--' i yr'r: Zp rPW jj I mg 1 i jf' I Jr I -J'o 5 VVJ 'I Vs Main picture: DENIS JONES Man held over murder 4m i HHr ft' 1 Wi' at? -a Tig58giiv 1 4 K'- pv Is y- Mi 6 114 HH 111 iji JpPjT J6 i-j i riWTWfi i ji -Tt iL il iJ If V-i 'i i 1 i 4 fm 1 r1 11 5 'j i i KfSWl 1 1 i jf sb j4t 5-h v' 4 4 'T i lv! Ji( POLICE investigating the murder of a 17-year-old girl are questioning a man tonight Victoria Hall above vanished in September after leaving a Felixstowe nightclub to walk to her home in Trimley St Mary Suffolk Her naked body was found 25 miles away in a ditch at Creeting St Peter five days later Police are not sure how she died but believe that she may have been suffocated And this little piggy gets to go home Huge cocaine dose kills dog FOR four months she was an unlikely London attraction a breath of country air in the stifling political atmosphere of Westminster writes Ian Evans Today Winnie the Pig has returned to her Oxfordshire roots In her wake however there remains a stink The official line is that after four months promoting the cause of Britain's pig farmers Winnie had done her bit and was going home to rest Unofficially however there are darker rumours The fact that Winnie was spirited away from her pen in Parliament Royal Parks Agency who themselves have been put under pressure by the Seijeant at Arms in Parliament" The Seijeant at Arms is in charge of running the Palace of Westminster His word is law there and his word say farmers was Winnie had to go Winnie named after the Churchill statue became something of a celebrity during her stay She came to symbolise the farmers' fight for fairer European competition She will now rest at a former pig farm in Hook Norton Square in the dead of night was strange enough Now farmers are muttering about pressure being brought to bear in the wake of the Bank Holiday riot David Graham at the National Pig Association which organised the vigil said: MWe were told after the riot that we would not be allowed to stay The Metropolitan Police asked us to leave after pressure from the POLICE and the RSPCA are investigating after a Staffordshire bull terrier was killed by a dose of cocaine The dog was then allegedly dumped in the River Trent in Nottingham A man of 29 from the Radford area of Uproar as village the city was arrested questioned and bailed pending further inquiries A detective said: think the dog may have been fed the cocaine keeps shot deserter Top award for Jefford THE Evening Andrew Jefford has won a Glenfiddich Award for writing about drink Wine connoisseur off war memorial An extra by EMMA HARTLEY 10 off Jancis Robinson presented the awards at the Great Eastern Hotel in Liverpool Street which also saw Naked Chef star Jamie Oliver clinch best television food show and Sally Clarke pick up the prize for best food book Jefford who has written for the Standard for 10 years said: am surprised and deeply the first to see action at Mons but after two fighting he fled and was found hiding in a barn wearing civilian clothes his uniform concealed nearby Private Highgate was arrested and charged with desertion He was unrepresented at his court-martial and was shot at dawn on 8 September 1914 weeks before his 20th birthday Private Highgate: found hiding in a barn your car insurance when you get a quote over the Internet mm £ss THE NAME of Private Thomas Highgate the first British soldier to be shot for cowardice during the Great War will not join those of his fallen comrades on the memorial in Shoreham Kent Highgate was executed at dawn in 1914 for fleeing his post during the Battle of Mons Despite a six-month campaign on his behalf parish councillors disagreed with die villagers they represent and at an emotional meeting voted 4-3 against the addition of 19-year-old Private name A referendum in March showed residents were 79 per cent in favour The Royal British Legion in the area had already voted against the idea but the final decision was up to the parish council Vicar of Shoreham the Rev Barry Simmons who had organised the referendum was heckled as he said: is completely and utterly unfair undemocratic His argument was greeted with hostility by other villagers including Peter Barker a former British Army officer who said: lost a lot of comrades fighting in Africa and Burma I know what it is like to be let down by fellow Private Highgate joined the Royal West Kent Regiment aged 17 in February 1913 His battalion was one of Oregon Osaris 8MB Palmtop Computer synchronises with your PC It runs on the EPOC operating system and is preloaded with word processing spreadsheet and contact management Send e-mail and browse the webt No-one knows the Oregon Osaris better than www21storecom £18900 iiill itfs wf NORWICH UNION mm mm storecom mm It im nudquotecom 1 1 ffifiufiS Norwich Union Direct (s part of Norwich Union Insurance Limited Registered office: 8 Surrey Street Norwich NRr 3NG Registered in England No 99122 East Lane Wembley Middlesex HA9 7RG Whi Mocha hat i Wlwn oannacM to modwn through motote phom or iMidfew mmf mma msrm Si aim Saiam iawfchl i 'v syr nut ti.