Cambridge Evening News from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England • 5

CAMBRIDGE EVENING NEWS Monday May 28 1990 5 rebuttal Let us now pray the errors were one-offs SOUTH ON MONDAY Was Milne responsible for JEAN Cassell writes from Hartington Grove in Cambridge to say someone has already tried to invent a word to supplant the cumbersome phrase or She believes it was A A Milne who devised and offered this as an illustration of its use: of saying John or Mary comes this afternoon he or she may want to play why not John or Mary comes this afternoon heesh may want to play It never caught on but I would like to know if it was notion Anyone know for sure? stems and roots that would have enabled them to withstand the Supporters of the Magog Trust will be pleased to hear that my fellow trustees had already come to the conclusion that we would avoid the sort of planting which Dr Rackham called and which could easily be felled in a gale He fears that the sort of over-enthusiastic planting recommended by the Environment Minister could make for another catastrophe Hurricane Oliver strikes again OLIVER Rackham is famously forthright He can be relied on to blow a gale of fresh air across the English ecological scene every so often and his latest gust is up to standard snaps the Corpus don in a characteristic outburst on the subject of storms trees and the greenhouse effect He is quoted in the latest from the Cambridgeshire Wildlife Trust I recommend you read the article for yourself if you are interested in our landscape but here are a couple of extracts to give you his drift: because the land is full of old trees and there has not been enough planting of new ones This is rubbish truth is that ancient trees withstood the gales best of all The vulnerable ones were youngish ones that had recently reached full size and maximum windage but had not yet built up the massive Robert meets his air heroes BIG-HEARTED Cambridge ambulance crews arranged a thrill-of-a-lifetime visit to the Mildenhall Airshow for a terminally-ill boy Robert Davison 13 was taken by a volunteer ambulance crew from Hospital Cambridge where he has been a patient for three months to join the record 400000 crowd at the show Plane-mad Robert was able to meet his heroes the RAF Red Arrows aerobatic team as well as watching them in action Robert from Norwich was accompanied by his nine-year-old brother Andrew and his mother Mrs Carol Davison Mrs Davison said: always been interested in planes especially the Red Arrows It really was a dream come Fit Lt Howard 28 was watched by his parents Ken and Pam Howard of West End Ely The flying displays passed without incident But one the spectators was airlifted Hospital after breaking his jaw A USAF helicopter flew the man direct to the hospital after Mildenhall have heard the words from Ecdesiasticus us now praise famous and not as was reported in the us now pray the same as My reader who spotted this unusual translation attributes it either to feminism or the confusing use of both Hebrew and English in the service MY notes on firms whose names twist their tongues interested a reader who phoned the Epicure-brand HQ of Petty Wood and Co An answering machine responded with the slurred words: wooden Going against the grain eh? Success for schools in awards for enterprise SCHOOLS from St Ives to Cambridge have been celebrating their success in the Young Enterprise Awards Sixth formers from St Ivo School St Ives with their company won the Bank best marketing company award and the Imagineering Award for the most innovative and best designed product Neil Robinson from Hills Road Sixth Form College Cambridge won the best individual marketeer award donated by the Institute of Marketing And also scooped the Ciba Geigy Award for the best product display on the night Martin Kerridge of the City of Ely Sixth Form College Ely won the best verbal presentation on the night award for his company With And from St School in Cambridge won the Spicer and Oppenhehner award for the best written report as well as the Best Company Award Joanne Ward from and Kazunobo Horinouchi from Hinchingbrooke school and his company Merry Mouse won the American Express Young Enterprise award Fun day sponsor THE main sponsor of this Riverside Challenge fun day at St Neots will be locally based fleet management firm FMM Challenge chairman Mr Tony Huckle said: are still being accepted Any firm pub club or youth group wanting to take part in our light-hearted obstacle race should ring 216341 for an entry roles A NEW leaflet has been produced which looks at farming in the Mid-Anglia region Heart of British has been produced by the National Fanners Union and highlights the dual role as food producer and custodian of the countryside It is available free from the regional office at Agriculture House 1618 Broad Street Ely donation THE National Stud in Newmarket has chipped in to raise cash for sick children The stud offered a day out in Newmarket for four people which was auctioned for £800 during a charity event in aid of the Birmingham Hospital Muscling in MEET Mr orld bicep-bulging Basil Francis who is set to muscle in on Cambridge Basil will visit Holland and Barrett health food shop on Friday June 15 MY heart goes out to the poor artist who must have spent boors producing a near-perfect illuminated address for the Mayor of Haverhill to take to its namesake town in America only to discover there is an extra in Massachusetts It is the sort of mistake I make all the time if any comfort No doubt the artist will like me get anonymous letters from people who to judge from their handwriting have a literary experience previously limited to laundry lists THOSE scores of his Cambridge friends and family who attended the memorial service for Lord Rothschild at the West London Synagogue will thought should be given to the moral and religious aspects in teaching about sex and relationships He claimed that in some schools sex education was taught in a clinical and scientific manner if there was no question of morals being involved in a sexual Stable He said: think from a religious point of view that teachers should also be stressing the importance of a stable and married The professor added: education can be presented within the Christian framework but the whole thing needs to be rethought and Most people will remain well and be able to cope there may be periods when they need specialised hospital Group member Mr Peter Baxter a consultant occupational physician stressed that it was impossible to say whether any members of the university were HTV-positive or had contracted Aids are not destructive of wildlife though tidying up after storms is of the trees blown down in October 1987 where left alone are still alive and not just clinging to life but flourishing horizontally This took most of us by surprise claim that the ravages came about of to doctors at became concerned that the injury could stop his breathing The fine weather brought out a massive crowd which broke all previous records A spokesman for the USAF organisers said the first day brought 150000 itself a record But by far the largest crowd of around 250000 attended on the following day The Patrouille de France spectators to it was found that she had earlier taken a blouse and a skirt from A and three packs of batteries and a pack of socks from QD stores Mr Peter Fairhall defending said that Pannell who was living with her mother and stepfather had a five-year-old child She looked after her stepfather's children had a lot of responsibility and bitterly regretted what she had done Special guest Robert Davison centre got his wish when he met the Red Arrows aerobatics team at the Mildenhall Airshow Pictures: Dave Parfitt Awards for healthy and clean kithens WIMPOLE Hall and Papworth main kitchen are among 20 local premises which have been presented with awards The awards were made by environmental health officers at South Cambridgeshire District Council as part of the Heartbeat Award scheme which aims to promote healthy eating and food hygiene They are linked to the Look After Your Heart campaign launched three years ago Coun Robin Driver chairman of the Environmental Services and Health Committee said he had visited most of the premises and was pleased with the The other 18 winners were The Queens Head Harston The Three Horseshoes Graveley the Jade Fountain Chinese Restaurant Sawston Coffee Shop Bar Hill Madingley Hall Girton College Comberton Village College Rugby Portland Cement Canteen Barrington A Technology Staff Restaurant Melboum Eternit Staff Restaurant Meldreth Ciba Geigy Staff Restaurant Duxford Ciba Geigy Agro-Chemical Staff Restaurant Whittlesford Papworth Trust Central Kitchen Cambridge Lea BUPA Hospital Impington Knees-worth House Hospital Bassingbourn The White House Old Home Steeple Morden KNAPP Laboratories and London International at the Science Park Milton water plea CAMBRIDGE Water Com- pany has lifted the state of emergency imposed after a large main burst But chief engineer Mr Stephen Kay appealed to customers to use water until the pipe at Ream Dyke Fulboum had been repaired properly After the rupture CWC was worried about falling stocks in its Cherry Hinton reservoir and asked its 270000 customers to use less over the hank holiday weekend Water use fell by more than six per cent over the weekend enabling the reservoir to refill Millions of gallons of water were lost after land subsidence caused the main to rupture twice Woman A WOMAN who stole clothing from a Cambridge store went back to steal again when she missed her bus home city magistrates heard Karen Pannell 19 of Ashcroft Court Cambridge was spotted by a store detective when she took a pair of sunglasses from A She was Sex teaching is criticised by professor Injury The show was also a special day for one of the pilots former Ely Air Cadet Fit Lt Steve Howard He is the demonstration pilot for the Phantom FGR2 for 1990 and was taking in the first of a scheduled Thrilling the crowd performance above the also found to have items in her possession which had been stolen from another store She was fined a total of £300 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £35 after admitting two charges of theft Mrs Sarah Crayford-Brown prosecuting said a store detective had seen Pannell put a pair of sunglasses in her bag and leave the shop without paying After she was arrested SEX education in schools needs to be and according to the findings of the Islamic Academy in Cambridge Not enough emphasis is given to moral considerations and the value of family life said Prof Ali Ashraf of the academy The body recently held a seminar entitled Sex Education in the School Curriculum The seminar attended by representatives of the five major religions in the UK decided that was being given to the statutory requirements on sex education in schools Prof Ashraf said more It covers subjects such as transmission health promotion and travel and also offers suggestions on how to deal with Aids sufferers or people who are HIV-positive and departments are asked to support people who are living with the report says may choose to live within the college community team go throught their Call for Aids helpline A CAMBRIDGE University working party has called on colleges to offer active support to staff or students suffering from Aids The call came in a report by the Aids Working Group published last week.