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The Birmingham Post, Wednesday, February 23, 1977 Wayne Parry, aged 14, from Sutton Coldfield, took an unexpected dip yesterday when the water cycle he was testing on the hat sinking feeling Pendigo Lake at the National Exhibition Centre capsized. The bike was invented by his father, Mr. William Parry, a toolmaker, of Hundred Acre Road. It is based on an idea he thought of while coming back to England from Australia last year. Helping Wayne from the water is his sister Michelle, 13.

M. 7 7,. a :71 ni.i-,-7. ING GOING SAVED Porn films club in council property this sort of -thing, and I shall instruct the city solicitor and estates officer to turn up the lease and tell us what the terms are," he said. He said that it would have been let for legitimate and proper purposes.

"We would not condone that sort of thing." The leasing of the workshops was a blow to the amateur theatre in Birmingham, and Mr. William Bushill-Matthews president of the Birmingham and District Theatre Guild, said last night that there was no longer any storage space in the rep. He said: "I was astounded when I heard this was going to happen." He said: "It seems a little surprising with regard to the corporation, but the attitude is that the building is situated on a valuable site so the city has decided it should have a fair rental value. "I am sorry that if the council thought that these workshops should have art economic value they could have not some for storeage." Coun. Harold Blumenthal, chairman of Birmingham general purposes committee, said: "I have no particular objections.

It is up to people to live how they wish, as long as they do not harm other people or cause any danger." Coun. Neville Bosworth wants films stopped. Mr. William Bushill-Matthews astounded. The Sunset Cinema Club in Hinckley Street, Birmingham.

By ROGER CLARKE A Birmingham cinema club which shows uncensored Danish sex films in part of the, old repertory theatre leased from Birmingham City Council, came under fire last night. The films, made by a Copenhagen company, Colour Climax Corporation, show scenes of explicit sex, troilism and group sex. And last night, Coun. Neville Bosworth, leader of Birmingham City Council said that the terms of the lease would be examined today and that the showing of the films would not be tolerated if the council could stop it. Membership of the Sunset Cinema Club, in Hinckley Street, costs £1 and admission to the well-designed cinema, which has about 90 seats, it £2.

The club occupies what was the workshop of the old rep, a section which was purpose-built by Sir Barry Jackson for making and storing props and scenery. Coun. Bosworth, said that the terms of the lease would be examined. "I certainly did not know this sort of thing was going on," he said. "I am quite sure the city council would not enter into a tenancy with someone showing Priest defends book A Roman Catholic priest yesterday defended a book, being studied by Midland schoolchildren, which has been attacked as obscene.

The chairman of St. Edmund Campion School's governors, the Rev Michael Knignt, who is also a co-opted member of Birmingham City Council's Education Committee, said that Kes, the story of a Yorkshire boy who befriends a kestrel, had "considerable merit." A move by Conservative Coun. Henry Sinclair at the city's Education Committee to ban the book from the school's examination syllabus, on the grounds that its language was obscene, failed. He raised the matter after Mrs. Joan Hughes, of Glendon Road, Erdington, complained Birmingham Post Education Reporter that her 15-year-old daughter said that a classmate at St.

Edmund Campion School, Erdington, had been asked to stand up and repeat swear words from it. Way of life Fr Knight commented: "I think Kes has come to be recognised as. a book of considerable merit. I am sure that it is a book which is well worth reading and that it has got to be seen in context." He promised to investigate the matter once the school's half-term break was over: Coun. Sinclair said: "I deplore it.

I 'have young children who go to school. I think the book should be banned from the school." Another Conservative member. Coun. Stephen Conway, said: "We are about 14. 15 and 16-year-old young people, not children.

Kes is about way of life and children, I believe, should be allowed to appreciate these ways of life. Young people of this age are more than mature enough not to let this type of book upset them." Dr. Charles Gray, a co-opted iember of the committee. said: 1 not think we can possibly risk a committee such this taking a line on a book or set of books which wduld any way approach censorship." The chairman of the Education Committee, Coun. Neil Scrimshaw, said: "We have to rely upon our teachers and we expect them to be responsible." Students in education cuts protest By SIMON MIDGIAEY were yesterday brought in to clear 60 heckling students who disrupted a meeting of BirmingWam City Council Education Committee.

The chairman of the committee, Coun. Neil Scrimshaw, ordered the move after constant shouting from the students, who were protesting about public spending economies and education cuts in particular. At the beginning of the meeting Mr. Bob Sleigh, the general secretary the Birmingham Association of the National Union of Students, shouted from. the gallery: "I -am going to interrupt these proceedings on behalf of the hundreds of students who have demonstrated today." After cutting him short, Coun.

Scrimshaw suggested that Mr. Sleigh should seek election to the committee if he wanted to speak. About 500 students from two universities and 24 colleges had staged a march through Birmingham before assembling in Chamberlain' Square to listen to speeches. Later, a group of marchers moved into the public gallery in the hope of being given an opportunity to state their views. As the.

students, chanting "What do we want, no cuts," were led from the gallery, Coun. Scrimshaw described them as "the uncivilised fringe." Nearing goal Mr. Gordon Cook, the Warwickshire round-the-world sailor, was yesterday 90 miles from Australia. a month after being shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean. A week-long silence was broken yesterday when Mr.

Cook, aged 38, a former manager of Warwick Castle, made radio contact with Perth OTC, a coastal radio. giving his position as about 90 miles south-west of Geraldton, which is 200 miles north of Perth. Police crash A police officer. and a car driver were seriously injured last night after a head-on collision at a bend between a police panda car and a Ford Cortina at Shobdon, near Leominster. P-c Clifford Gibbs, stationed at Kingsland, near Leominster, fractured his right leg and right elbow and was also bruised on the head and face.

The driver of the Ford car, Mr. Arthur Stone, aged 50, of Slough Lane, Presteigne Powys fractured his right hip and had cuts and bruises tp his face. At Hereford General Hospital last night, both men were said to be "fair." off on dole' An unemployed man who admitted 11 motor ng offences yesterday told Rugby magistrates that he was financially better off on the dole. Colin Murray (34), of Victoria Avenue, Rugby, said: "I am now unemployed because I was paying too much tax. He was given a condittional discharge for a year on seven charges and fined a total of £35 on the other four offences.

His wife said after the case that the taxman took 30 per cent of her husband's wages when he was working. He had previously been a building worker operating under the lump system Man being died after ignored by his A Wolverhampton couple are calling. for an inquiry into the death of an elderly neighbour, who, they claim, had been ignored by the medical profession. Mr. Ralph Fuller, aged 82.

died on a settee at his home in 'Springfield Road. Wolverhamvton, Just 24 hours after a doctor had given him a clean bill of health. The doctor, who was on emergency night stand-by was called out by next-doorneighbours Alfred and Janet Gunter after they had failed get Mr. Fuller's doctor to see him for two days. Now the couple have written to Mrs.

Renee Short, for Wolverhampton North-east asking her to start an inquiry into the case. Mr. Gunter said last night that Mr. Fuller, whom they had been looking after since his wife died two years ago, had started deteriorating last Thursday. "It was imperative that he received some sort of medical treatment.

My Wife went to the surgery but was told to come back the next day as it was after the normal time for making appointments." She tried to get hold of officials from the Area Health Authority. and by Friday the situation was so bad that she called out the emergency doctor. He left a note for them to give to Mr. Fuller's own doctor. They rang the social services department again and at their request opened the note.

It said that Mr. Fuller was "not in physical distress," and was a social problem. Mr. Gunter said that he had no complaint against Wolverhampton's social services department. Mr.

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Charles admitted that the caused by the club a damned nuisance." the situation facing living near the "Igtbn Gun Club has raised with the nment Secretary in fetter from Mr. John Hinson, Labour MP for Tomlinson has en- a list of six serious Taints which he says l'om Page One vibes ay to thwhether or not to extra land. Pis was non-committal 1 Mr. Hotchkiss he be willing to advise about the god faith of eveloper who might I 4 th him, said Mr. Cox.

1 Mr. Hotchkiss gi the conversation remain confidential, soon approached by osaid he was a er, and offered to buying the land. hea dohhki had 1 lo of Rose. He know he existed," 41 r. Cox.

1 1 i rn the evidence that 6" a 1, 1 hear, there can be 'Norris that it was in 'Norris who introduced 1 to Mr. Hotchkiss." He Norri had admitted ch to the police. Cox said Role told Norris ha been a 4 al friend for eight or Years and he did not 'lngo officer 4 Dn him as county lit tol the jury' "I ju will ve no 'EY i co ncoming a- to the union that Mr. Rose I lot telling the truth." Cox said Rose paid otchkiss 1100 for a ar option, expiring arch 31, 1973, to buy a acres Dove House at £7,000 per acre talo of £817,390. of the conditions of qion agreement was shOuld "tie his deavours" to obtain a ll ig permission.

One was to bribe said Mr. Cox. al ly certain Rose had to be certain of being 1 93 sell the land with I permission to a party at a profit. Will hear he did sell farmers By M.ARGARET BROWN he can largely from personal knowledge. It follows a meeting with residents and coaci'ilors at a Packington farm adjoining the shoot.

"It would obviously be intolerable to have a long protracted dispute over consent when so much damage, both to the environment and to cattle as well as potentially to peorple, is being caused," says the letter. Hit by shot Mr. William Callwood and his father, Sydney. who farm Outwood Farm, adjoining the shoot where the meeting was held, both said last night they had been hit by pellets. "We were not injured, but we were hit several times on the chest and legs.

We were hit on our own paved land as we went across the field. The shoot cuts actoss two of our fields," Mr William Callwood said. Mrs. Cherry Callwood, his mother, said:" Four of our cows aborted last year and three have been born deformed. No-one can say what caused it, but we think it was the shock of the guns." Complaints against the club from people living as for as three miles away include calves eating lead pellets and claims that shooting goe's on after the permitted time limit of 10 p.m.

The Rev. James Capper, vicar of Maxstoke Parish Church, said his Sunday services were disturbed, including the two-minute silence on Remembrance Sunday. "It really is a public nuisance," he said. Council plea Mr. Tomlinson has also written to Mr.

R. Kealy, Chief Executive of the North Warwickshire Borough Council, which give the club tempozary planning permission, which expires in May. He urges that further permission be refused. But Mr. Michael Brown, who leases the 30-acre shoot and cottage from the estate, said yesterday that his original plan to run the shoot commercially had been dropped.

It was now a club for 100 members, meeting mainly on Sunday mornings. He denied the complaints and said: "One or two people have caused a lot of stink. Local people don't complain at all. It is just a fallacy that the noise disturbs so many people." Mr. Roger Stone, the estate agent acting for Lord Aylesford's family, said an application to extend the permission shooting would be made.

tlm-QC the eland for £2 million," he said. Mr. Cox said that in January 1972, Rose was negotiating with a London firm, and Country Propertes to form a joint venture to develop Dove House Farm. At tne same time. his firm, S.

G. J. Holdings was £53,000 in the red at tne bank. £7,000 above its agreed overdraft limit of £46.000. Yet, on February 11, 1972, 500 gallons of heating oil were delivered to Norris's new house in Clifford Chambers, and were paid for by Holdings Ltd.

The next week, Rose sent a cheque for £372.67 to a Coventry wholesalers for a cooker, dishwasher and washing machine. The goods were ultimately delivered to Norris's home, he said. On the same day. SG Holdings was buying a refrigerator-freezer for £145 from a Nuneaton retailer. On April 28, a further 450 gallons of heating oil was delivered to Norris's home and paid for by SG Holdings, said Mr.

Cox. On July 29, 1974, Norris was interviewed by police and said nothing about heating oil or electrical equipment, despite being pressed about alleged favours from Rose, said Mr. Cox. But later that day, at his home, he admitted receiving goods such as a cooker and dishwasher from Rose. He said they had merely slipped his memory and that Rose had been able to get a discount for the goods.

Mr. Cox will continue his opening statement today. 'op Tory dropped si a candidate 4 2. Phillip Hart, chairit Hereford and Wor- ns Co hasy Eduation been Cdroplt4s Conservative canfor Ross-on-Wye in li eXt county council ns. is to be replaced as 1 Conservative ate by Mrs.

Joyce 43 a former Mayor of was vice-chairk South Herefordshire (1 Council until last rI Hart, aged 46, a of Watford, near became education chairman of the county council nearly two years ago. He has been at the centre of a recent controversy over plans to cut moreo than £4 million from next year's education budget but last night he declined to say whether this was behind his local party's decision. Coun. liart also refused to say whether he would stand for the county council as an independent candidate, but added: "I dofi't think the council has seen the last of me." Mrs. Julie Lewis, of Warwick, who spent 13 years working in the accounts department of David Charles returned to her old firm yesterday buy a typewriter.

They were coming under the auctioneer's hammer along with all the other office furniture, equipment, woodworking machinery, stocks, building materials and vehicles being sold off in the three-day auction to realise the assets of the company, which went into voluntary liquidation in January. More than 700 lots of office furniture and equipment were sold yesterday, the first day of the auction. at the company's headquarters at the Maypole, Birmingham, but amount of money raised will not he known until tomorrow. sailed Herefordshire fishserving a Prison sentence for 1 4 elling fish had been 7four times about 11ing, he chairman codnty council Purposes Commit- ClPled yesterday. Charles Guise said 4 inis that Gus Woodjailed byLeominster fishmonger 'warned' magistrates after refusing to pay a fine imposed last April, had not previously been warned were not true.

He said Woodward was warned twice in 1974 and again in 1975 and 1976. He said: "Every opportunity was given to Mr. Woodward to explain and if he had produced sufficient justification he would not have been prosecuted. "This does not amount to bureaucratic harassment. The duty of the county council as trading standard authority is to see that the law is enforced." But in Commons, the House of Wood Ward's case yesterday prompted Mr.

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