Western Daily Press from Bristol, Avon, England • 5

WESTERN DAILY PRESS FRIDAY OCTOBER 28 1983 5 Meet dance-teacher aged 4 Njoki Karinki (centre) who showed Princess Diana how to do the calypso PRINCESS Diana learned the calypso yesterday from a four-year-old in the heart of Brixton London The Princess was opening the West Indian Family Centre when she came across a very talented young lady who not only sang her a solo but taught her the hip-wriggling rhythm Little Njoki Kariuki had sung a special song for the Princess in Jamaican dialect called Long Time Gal We Never See You We Want To Shake Your Hand As she sang the toddler dressed in kilt and tee-shirt spontaneously burst into the dance The Princess in a natty scarlet suit is no mean dancer herself and soon picked up the provocative movement from the girl But one girl was a little shyer The Mayor of granddaughter two-year-old Zoe Morris was so overcome that she refused to shake the hand Mrs Gloria Cameron who first thought of setting up the centre said she hoped the centre would promote tolerance and understanding and help race relations in Brixton the scene of riots in 1981 Meanwhile Prince Charles was in Hack-ney north-east London giving young unemployed West Indians a tip on passing exams The Prince who opened a training centre said he passed Maths O-level at the fourth attempt Job cuts put zinc smelter on top You can see the exciting new Aquascutum Autumn Collection for men and women at this lovely new shop Come and discover your total Aquascutum look as soon as you can until 29th October we are serving sherry every day between 1130 and 130 duringinformal modelling of the new clothes Our very experienced salespeople will be delighted to show you everything from the latest fashions to our famous classics And if you spend more than £100 you will receive a lambswool Club Check scarf to complete your new Aquascutum look Only until 29th October By Peter De lonno INCREASED productivity achieved by 300 redundancies has saved Commonwealth Smelters and put the plant on course for profit Managing director Mr Alf Perrins said a survival plan drawn up three months ago when the plant only zinc smelter looked set to close had worked of closure we have saved 700 he said yesterday plan has put us on a sound financial footing so we struggle from crisis to crisis as has been the history of the are not quite there yet we will be spending about £500000 on capital investment over the next six months Mr Perrins would not reveal projected figures for the current financial year but said a return to Srofit was in sight ue Last year CSL lost nearly £9 million No one can guarantee we can be in business forever but people even talk about shutting down profitable he said Zinc prices had risen by some 10 per cent over the past three months but the success of the CSL plan had come from economies won through the redundancies ana new working practices have done this on our said Mr Perrins in a thinly-veiled reference to troubled zinc smelters in France and Belgium who are thought to have won Government-backing to avert closure Though there is still time before November 1 for a plant to be nominated for closure under the Common Market-backed plan it is now thought that no smelters will come forward The world-wide zinc glut has been eased by eavy buying by China and by the modest revival in European economies Bristol Euro MP Mr Richard Cottrell called from Strasbourg to congratulate the workforce and management from saving Bristol from major economic catastrophe He said the European Commissioners had always been reluctant to back the closure plan commission always takes a view that this was really a matter for the individual companies themselves to sort he said Bristol City council leader Councillor Bob Wall said yesterday he was with the announcement He paid tribute to the work of Mr Cottrell for his support in the fight ot keep the smelter open Nor could he give a specific target for the amount the Government hopes to raise despite reports that it wants £250 million He stressed there would be safeguards to prevent the international telecommunications group falling under foreign control Shadow Chancellor Mr Peter Shore condemned the sale as asset Tories to sell cable shares THE GOVERNMENT yesterday confirmed plans to sell half its stake in Cable and Wireless taking its holding down to about 22 per cent In a statement to the Commons Treasury Financial Secretary Mr John Moore said he was unable to give details of the method of sale.