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2 THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1999 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEWS Sarwar tells of de death-threat letters MOHAMMED Sarwar, Britain's first Muslim MP, told a court yesterday that he was warned by an election rival that his life was in danger. He was also told a reward. on offer of up £100,000 to anyone who would plant drugs in his cash-and-carry warehouse. He was giving evidence for the first time at his trial a charge of understating his general election expenses in order to remain within the legal limit was dropped. On Monday, he was acquitted of relating the addition of fraud, names to the electoral register.

He now denies two remaining charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice. Sarwar, 46, said that in 1996 his ankle broken in an attack by three people. He did not report to the police, fearing it might embarrass Labour during his bitter selection battle for Glasgow Govan. He added: "I didn't want tell my children or mother. If I had told my mother she would tell me to give up politics." The High Court in Edinburgh was also shown racist letters that the MP he had death received.

One showed a photograph of Sarwar with a gun at his head Prince faces storm over the Falklands Continued from Page 1 in Argentine minds and politics. The Foreign Office admitted that it had approved the Prince's speech, saying that it contained only one reference to the Falklands and that was to the human rather than the political dimension to the dispute. would have been very odd if the Prince had gone to Argentina and said nothing about the Falklands at all," spokesman said. He noted that Mr Menem had raised the issue of the islands while visiting London last year. President Menem made no mention of the islands or the in his speech at Tuesday night's banquet, despite intense media pressure to do so.

The -page headline of the leading broadsheet, Nacion, said: "Malvinas: Charles puts on the The country's biggest-selling paper, Clarin, talked of and Tensions surrounding the visit have been increased by violent protests from a small Left-wing splinter group called Quebracho. It burned an effigy of the Prince and slogans about the Falklands. More than 50 people were arrested in clashes with police when petrol bombs and his wife was pictured in a similar way. Another accused him of being an adulterer with a love child. He said that Badar Islam, an election rival, had warned him that his life and those of his children were in danger.

Sarwar said: "For two or three days I thought he was an angel. He was going to give me information I was looking for about who was behind this." Mr. Islam also told him that another election rival, fringe candi- By Auslan Cramb Scottish Correspondent were thrown, a car was set alight and the Union Flag was burned. The Prince has been shielded from the protests. Yesterday he was back on more familiar royal ground with a visit to a steelworks where he inaugurated a crane destined for Mersey docks.

He also toured the Buenos Aires headquarters of Lloyds Bank before flying north to Buenos Ondas. The foundation seemed a model of princely concerns in seeking to help disadvantaged young people through teaching organic farming. The Prince donned bee-keeping equipment to inspect a collection of hives. This was one area where no one was going to intrude. "You're on your own, said a royal protection officer as the Prince strolled off into the swarm.

Later he found time for polo at the Hurlingham Polo Club in smart Buenos Aires suburb, where extra stands had to be erected to accommodate excited spectators. There were rumours of a further snub when President Menem's daughter, Zulema, failed to appear at the match. But while she was listed as a I guest on British schedules. Argentine officials that she had never been due to attend. Notebook: Page 30 date Peter Paton, had claimed there was going to be a "bombshell" before the election and Sarwar would finished.

Sarwar denies Mr Islam a bribe to state that two other election candidates, Mr Paton and Jamil Abassi, were conspiring to destroy him. The MP told the court that the money was given as a loan after Mr Islam told him that his son was seriously ill and his house was about to be repossessed. However, told Mr Islam he could not lend him the money unless he could arrange for a post- Picture: AP PRINCIPE DE EN MALVINAS EL Co.Pro.D.H. ENGLESES DE MALVINAS TUERA PRINCE (NAIVINAS CUERA RA PRINCIPE ANQUIS AMERICA NOUS PIRATA STINA FUERA FINA TS PIRATA PRINCIPE PIS The Union Flag burns in Buenos Aires during protests against the Prince of Wales Euro-rebels win right to register for election BREAKAWAY Conservative and the Tory party in protest at William also licensed rebel Left-wing MEP away group, Labour be parties yesterday won the Hague's It clears hostility the to a for single John Ste- cur- Ken of Coates the to Alternative stand under Labour the ban- List trar's Party. Mr.

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He told the court that when he received a telephone call from the News of the World asking him about the "bribe" he broke down and told his wife "the bastards have trapped Hussain, of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, denies attempting to pervert the course of justice by conspiring with Sarwar to claim that the £5,000 was a loan backed by a post-dated cheque. The trial continues. Petrol tax rise row Continued from Page 1 taxes and duties should be taken into account. The increase in diesel duty brought protests from road hauliers who threatened to register their trucks abroad to take advantage of lower fuel and excise duties on the continent. It now costs £644 to fill a lorry tank in Britain, compared with £340 in Belgium and £369 in France.

The Government was also embroiled in controversy over the real impact of the Budget tax changes. Mr Brown and Treasury officials refused to give details of likely losers, although independent studies showed that skilled workers could be worse off as a result 000. of increases in the upper limit for National Insurance contributions. Figures produced by the Institute for Fiscal Studies also showed that more than a third of the richest households would lose more than £1 a week. But so would about 10 per cent lower down the scale, such as families on Mr Brown also faced criticism from a Bishop for removing any recognition of marriage from the Budget.

The Rt Rev James Jones, the Bishop of Liverpool, attacked the abolition of the married couple's allowance, saying: "The tax system no longer gives the signal that marriage is the best foundation for nurturing children." Charlie Colchester, executive director of the leading evangelical organisation CARE, accused the Government of eradicating only fiscal measure that directly values Pages 4, 5, 6 Derek Page 30 Editorial Page 31 City Page 37 News Bulletin Cook and Darling face committee criticism Robin Cook and Alistair Foreign Secretary's Darling came under fire refusal to attend from the defence select Alistair committee yesterday for Darling was asked to declining to give evidence attend during his time as during the Government's Treasury Chief Secretary. strategic defence review. "He also declined to give The Government, evidence to us putting the which denied Tory claims SDR into the context of that the was led the comprehensive by the Treasury to create spending review," the savings, argued that it report said. was led by security and It added that ministers foreign policy should attend committees considerations. In a in areas not directly report published- involved with their jobs if the committee questions were said this made the Minister visits flood victims Elliott Morley, the agriculture minister, visited floodhit communities beside a 40-mile stretch of the River Derwent in Yorkshire yesterday and said local authorities could apply for Government assistance.

The occupiers of 200 affected premises have been told the waters will slowly recede, but it could be next week before many can return to their properties. Insurers estimate that damage in the Ryedale area, near York, could cost tens of millions of pounds. Worst affected were Malton and Norton, Stamford Bridge and Elvington while further downstream at Thorganby, East Cottingwith, Bubwith and Barmby, were on flood alert. Archer 'had no right to trade' James Archer, who was employers, were sacked last week from his "entered by a trader who job as a City trader in was not authorised to connection with an trade on the Exchange" alleged attempt to found CSFB had been manipulate a Swedish buying shares in Stora, a share index, was not pulp company, and authorised to deal on the selling them to itself Stockholm exchange, it using a Swedish firm as emerged yesterday. an intermediary.

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Adrian Love: asthmatic Shrimps 'blinded by science' Shrimps living in the most remote region on Earth the hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean have been blinded in large numbers by scientists who have visited them. The shrimps have lived undisturbed in the midAtlantic for millions of years, among creatures who may be the descendants of Earth's first life forms. But scientists report in Nature today that their eyes are "irretrievably damaged" probably by the floodlights of the submersibles in which researchers have visited them. the Scottish Socialist Donnelly said the Regishad wider symbolic implications for the successful registration possible to be both a and in favour of the LAURA ASHLEY OFF ALL furniture no deposit INTEREST FREE FINANCE final 4 days BOTH OFFERS MUST END Sunday 14th March 1999 Ask in -store for further details or call customer services on 0870 5622 116 Subject to fabric availability. Lull price merchandise.

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