Liverpool Echo from Liverpool, Merseyside, England • 3

SOUNESS IN GOOD FORM AFTER SNAG Jimmy Souness on the line Reds boss with nit poison By Val WOllll GRAEME Souness is still in good spirits despite the setback in his recovery from major heart surgery, according to his father today. The Liverpool FC manager is being treated for a blood clot on the lung at the Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle where he had a triple bypass operation 10 days ago. His father, Jimmy, 72, said he had only heard about Mr Souness's relapse on the TV on Thursday night but had spoken to his son since then. Mr Souness snr added: "Graeme said he felt brand new. He sounded all right.

That's just typical of him. "He didn't talk about having to spend Easter in hospital. I think he is content to be there as long as he is being well looked after." Surgeon, Geir Gotte, said that a blood clot on the lung is a well known complication of any surgical procedure. He said that it was diagnosed on Thursday afternoon and Mr Souness was immediately taken into intensive care for a while. He is still in the high dependency unit but is out of any danger.

Mr Souness is now receiving the standard treatment for the condition a heparin drip which is used to thin the blood and later he will be prescribed Warfarin, better known as rat poison. But Mr Gotte added: "It is an anti-coagulant. A standard drug used for many things. He will stay on that for three months." A spokeswoman for the Alexandra Hospital said this morning: "Mr Souness has had a peaceful night." BARRISTER Mike Levy has given up the concentrate on cleaning up the planet. Mike, 25, from Birkenhead, has formed the Green Action Group with two pals, Paul McDonough and Jake Ryan, both 19, from Crosby.

And the three are now busy cleaning up Crosby beach as their first major project. They have already spruced up a section of the beach at the bottom of Harbord Street and Blucher Street, and aim to complete the operation by tomorrow. Mike said: "The beach was in a dreadful state. By Ann Todd "It was full of rubbish from ships, plastic, bottles, cans and sewage. "We're looking for volunteers to help us in a big push on Sunday to clean it all in a day." Once it is cleaned, Mike plans to recruit helpers for once-a-week patrols to monitor the state of the beach.

Mike was a barrister in Liverpool until a couple of weeks ago. Anyone interested in helping can meet Mike and the boys on Crosby beach on Sunday from I lam. TWlthd El6m cocaine charges TWO men were due in court later today following the seizure of £l6m of cocaine brought into the country through the Port of Liverpool. Jonel Bolona Tinto, 37, a businessman, and Americo Eduardo Espejo Merino, 29, a chemical engineer, both from Peru, were to appear before Guildhall magistrates in London charged with drug smuggling. Tiii min were arrested last night after customs officers, who found the 100 kilos of cocaine on board the MV Andes when it arrived at Seaforth container terminal from Peru, followed the drug London Operation clean-up Mike, right, on the beach with with helper Peter Nuttall Five die in house pay nightmare From Page huddled safe and well, with a man, on an adjoining roof.

Sixty firemen fought the blaze and at one point the crews had to be evacuated from the house because the building was unsafe. It took three hours to bring the blaze under control, said East Sussex fire brigade. A neighbour said: "I was awakened by the sound of shouting. Smoke was pouring from the roof and there were two bodies near the front door. "Residents had run out in their nightclothes but some tried desperately to climb down the front of the building and some of them obviously fell." Neighbour Chris Durant, said: "I looked out when I heard shouting and saw flames coming out of front windows.

"Glass was breaking with the heat and I heard a man shouting 'help us'." Police said a man was found dead at the scene. A woman and a man died in the Royal Sussex County hospital in Brighton and a seriously injured man died while being transferred to the burns unit at East Grinstead. Later firemen searching the wrecked building found two more bodies whose sex was not yet known. Six people, one with serious injuries, were being treated in hospital. Sussex police spokesman, Chris Oswick.

said: "We are investigating and the fire is regarded as of doubtful origin." Princess painters get the brush-off PORTRAIT painters come under fire from a top fashion magazine today for their portrayals of the Princess of Wales. Harpers Queen editor Vicki Woods said: "They hang in the National Portrait Gallery, in regimental headquarters in Britain and abroad and in the Royal College of physicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh. And they are not good enough." The magazine's May Issue features an exclusive 'preview of the new official portrait by Douglas Anderson, commissioned by the Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham. The princess is posed formally in an off-the-shoulder baligown in royal purple. Vicki Woods says: "The princess Is beautiful; this goes without saying.

But the picture?" The magazine asks: "If you are beautiful enough and charismatic enough to be beloved across the world what on earth goes wrong between you and the finiiiied canvas?" Princess Di sold short Hospital ward switch shock for mothers HOSPITAL bosses have apologised after mothers and new-born babies were put in a computer room because of a beds shortage. An investigation was under way today after four women were awakened late at night and told they were going to be moved because of a lack of space in the maternity unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Building work and a surge in women entering the labour suite has been blamed for the crisis. Sue McKenzie, obstetrics and gynaecology manager at the By Echo reporter hospital, admited there were problems accommodating maternity patients. "We apologise to patients if we caused them any convenience but we were only acting in their interests.

"Because of building work going on to develop the unit we have temporarily lost 12 beds. "And we had to implement contingency plans to accommodate patients because of a particularly busy period." Miss McKenzie described the computer room into which the four patients were moved as "clinical space" which was being used to house the computer because of the construction work. "We had made contingency plans earlier in the day to reconvert that room back into clinical space by moving beds "It wasn't all night and maintenance checked the earlier in the da: was found 2 4, 4 4 34itt. 1 i 1 5): 77; 2 4.. :iy1.4,,t 4 3 i 2- 4 "1 4 i 4, 4 i 1 4 is I ''4 ''''i i i.s 0 lot i '1 ,4 r.

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