Cambridge Evening News from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England • 19

CAMBRIDGE EVENING NEWS Friday March SI ISM IS Car salvaged as Operation Mudbath beats the Stour The forte lift truck lifts the car to the bank and the first crane breaks free 98180 Police divers wait in the crane gets stuck The mobile crane arrives the first crane clear but fails to pull Ex-caretaker denies setting fire to school Plans to rebuild sports centre The fire-gutted Sports Centre at Bury St Edmunds will almost cer- Transport manager pleads lor by-passes A plea for more bypasses for the villages of East Anglia was made The River Stour did not easily surrender the car of drowned motorist Mr Charles Allen The Volkswagen Beetle was swept Into the swollen river at Wixoe new Haver hill on Tuesday Mr Alien sieiB of Stoke by Clare had trt across a tried to drive Bonded tow-lyinv He eras drowned bridge after escaptnf from the ear His sister Ms Mand Allen 75 managed to swim to the It took two hows yesterday moraine for poller divers and heavy lifting gear to drag the ear out of the A mans Its crane barked doae to a wooden footbridge and the divers attached a hawser to the front of the vehicle bat as took the strain the crane bogged down In the mod A smaller mobile crane was railed ant and failed to rescue the large crane from the mud nuns red to not! the car to the hank tint did not have anfltotont lift to get It op and ont A fork HR track then Hfted the ear ant The large crane RnaBv retries ted Itself and then bad to go to the rearae af the fork lift track which had got hogged down fas tarn Fat pigs in laree supply Chaffins Grain and Chalk KS report fat pigs in supply and trade timer for all weights at Ely cattle market Porkers (47) to 7X6p per live kg average 876p Cutters (47) to 7Sup per live kg average 696p Baconers (3) to 682p per live kg New Labour appointments Mr Paul Dwane secretary of the Newmarket Labour Party branch has been elected chairman of the Bury St Kdmunds constituency labour Party He takes the place of Mr Ray Nowak who has become the constituency sec-retaryaKent Mr Hartley from the Haverhill branch has taken over as treasurer of the constituency party £850 collected by Mr Bill Hitch Anglia 1 tainly be rebuilt accord-divisional chairman of ing to one council offi-the Freight Transport I did Association last night river after the first Nineteen nuns were staying in the school at the time but Mr McCormick and his family were away ralck of View Bury Road Newmarket said Mr McGregor bed been a caretaker at the mixed boarding school in 1974 and over the next five years had written him four letters asking for money and making that he would burn the school down In retaliation Mr Parkin said that in 1976 Mr McGregor wrote to Det Chief Insp Reginald Gray now retired claiming that Mr McCormick haa offered pay him £5000 for burning down the school and village houses But the next day said Mr) Parkin Mr McGregor with drew his allegations saying the time I made them it South wet a complete Six weeks after the fire in the study Mr McGregor went to Newmarket police station and gave himself up said Mr Perkin He confessed to the arson didn't make a very good Job of it" he said whole school should have burned down 1 made a bit of a mess of that" Mr Parkin said: then took a knife out of his pocket and said be Campaigner off to see pirate ship I The Technical Services Director for St Edmunds bury District Council Mr Sam cvfww said: think the councillors will feel it necessary to replace the centre I hope the insurance cover will be enough to make that decitlon He said the extent of the insurance cover was not yet known but should be substantial Mr Casson did not know today whether the steel frame on which the whole building was hung was badly damaged He said: "It is likely that there has been considerable damage to the frame but 1 do not yet know if we will have to start building from scratch or if we will be able to build round the strut Mr Casson said much depended on how much of the foundations would have to be taken out A spokesman for Ipswich police said Home Office forensic experts were still making inquiries into the cause of Wednesday's blaze on club Way were forced and the cash contents stolen The same night ourglers also broke Into Starvtllas in Chesterton High Street but nothing was stolen Mr Hitch who Is transport manager of Fisonj at Haux-ton applauded the completion of the Mil and the relief it had brought to villages like Newport and Great Chesterford cannot stress too much the Importance of the provision of adequate by-passes for the lovely villages of East Anglia'' he said Mr Hitch who was speaking at the annual meeting of the FTA's Anglia division also spoke about cases of lorries running into buildings He said: "There seems to be in the mind of the public an assumption that if a lorry strikes a building the build- ing is damaged and the lorry trailer or container remains unscathed I 'This is of course far from the truth If the vehicle is damaged it means expensive downtime (costs when a vehicle is laid up) as i well as yet another dent in the Image of our £200 raid Thieves who raided a club in Chesterton Cambridge escaped with about £200 in cash on Wednesday night Fruit machines at the indoor bowls club In Logans alarmed It's what I was going to use on Mr Perkin said Mr McGregor made verbal and written statements but Mr McGregor who is defending himself denies making them voluntarily Mr McGregor had avoided making statements to mom than one officer at a time he said: way Just my word aealnst him he is alleged to have told them The case continues Mr Hood the Christmas went on Amigo" at round like-minded enthusiasts to make the triD are still in the throes of preparation and just who will be joining him for the trip is still being worked she said His pirate promotion of station the has irate pop station nas The Royston free radio campaigner Mr Albert Hood will be The nlan has been put for- I making the saddest journey of his life to day to see what can be salvaged from the shipwrecked Radio Caroline The pirate radio ship was wrenched from its anchorage and sank on a sand bank in gale force winds yesterday Mr Hood aged 40 of Bark-rks on a nearby for Soham war(j by tbe building con tractors Taylors of Soham the firm had applied to East Cambridgeshire District Council for permission to demolish the existing workshops and rebuild it as residential accommodation to build a bed-sit and flats in the builders' yard way who woi and and been drawn up for a hous The Royston group of the ing development in the World Wildlife Fund last centre of Soham year raised a record and a further £180 collected at a coffee morning has gone into the Herts and Middlesex Trust for Nature Conservation year The scheme which involves the redevelopment of the yard at the rear of 36 High Street was given outline approval in August last A former Newmarket school caretaker set fire to the study because of a secret grievance a court heard yesterday Alexander Andrew Anthony McGregor (41) denies damaging Herrlngswell Manor School by fire and thereby intending to endanger life Mr Granam Parkin prosecuting at Bury Crown Court said the fire was started in headmaster Mr Arthur McCormick's study during the summer holidays and caused more than £5000 worth of damage Allegations "This defendant has nursed a grievance against Mr McCormick since said Mr Parkin Housing plan Detailed plans have OFFER AT now EB 8 FLO farm has been "terribly upset by the tragedy" said hu wile Realised has been a very harrowing experience and we want to see what can be she added phone has hardly stopped ringing but too eany to say whether we can iupport for the vessel She and her husband went out to stay on the boat over Christmas and even then It was realised that the anchor chain needed inspecting although they knew an inspection was overdue they just have sufficient crew to carry out the she recalled "Nevertheless we were made to feel very welcome and it was quite comfortable considering the conditions I cooked the Christmas meal and we generally helped to make life a bit more pleasant on board" Mr Hood has been a for passionate campaigner ror the Radio Caroline cause and has been trying to rally rought him Into conflict with Whitehall which has barred the couple from i taking out Christmas presents under the Marine Broadcasting Act SHELTON OF KEIGHLEY (AUCTIONEERS) Auction Sale of behalf of Srovcii Engineer Supplie ST IVES TUESDAY NEXT SALE OF OVER 500 LOTS NEW GARAGE TOOLS FARM SUNDRIES AND EX GOVERNMENT EQUIPMENT Briefly described as follows: Bench Drill: New 1 3 Phase Electric Welder: Trolley and Bottle Jacks: Socket Sets Jin Jin sq Drive Ext Ladders Ring and Combination Spanners: Power Saw Bolt Cutters: Electric Drills: Hand Saws: Wrecking Bars: Shovels Forks: Chain Blocks: Drain Rods: Sledge and Hand Hammers Various Buckets: Oxy Gas Cutting and Welding: Set New Fluorescent Lighting Hand Drills: Tool Boxes: Engineers' Hand Tools and Vices Tarpaulin Covers: Electric Spray Gun: Electric Grinder: Taps and Dies: Tool Kits Scaffold Tower: Tow Chains: Battery Chargers Pipe Wrenches: Felling Axes Grease Gun: Wheel Barrows Twist Drills: Hose Pipes: and many other useful items in Iqts to suit all purchasers which SHELTON of KEIGHLEY will offer by auction at THE CORN EXCHANGE ST IVES HUNTS on TUESDAY 2Sth MARCH commencing at 11 am on view morning of sale from 10 am At place of sale Auctioneers Offices: Breesa Works Cross Roads Keighley Tel: Haworth (4535) 44242 Keighley (0525) 407274 Terms Cash Cheque (Bankers Card) FOR SALE BY PUBLIC 1st APRIL 1980 COMMENCING AUCTION AT 10 a-rn In January last year Mr Hood went out to the stricken radio ship and spent hours pumping water out of the hold before returning home exhausted At that time the ship the Mi Amigo was in trouble after a storm YARD ELM STREET CAMBRIDGE R00KE SON ige goods Desks Filing Wall Tiles Root Tiles Slats Drainage goods i Root Tiles Slats Woodworking Machinery Scaffolding Props Nalls Screws Bolls Oak and Teak Planking other Hardwoods and Cabinets Sate Cupboard Drawing Board Blocks Bricks Woodworking Machinery Drills Portable Sanders Ladders City -man for trial A Cambridge man has been sent for trial at the Crown Court charged with stealing musical equipment Paul Philip Maguire (26) said to be of 21 Warkworth Street was committed by city magistrates yesterday He is charged wth stealing three electric guitars an electric organ and an amplifier combo in Cambridge on December 12 or 13 Softwoods Pantiles Sink Top General Office Equipment Concrete Mixer Paint Cement Spraying Equipment Rainwater Goods Concrete Posts Kango Hammer General Equipment and Materials Catalogues available from the Auctioneers price 5p Items may Inspected on Monday 3lsl March It 30 am to 4 pm.