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18 SOUTH WALES ECHO, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1989 Wales Thomson House, Cardiff CF1 1WR. Tel 223333 South 39,684 Echo Job for the boys in berets SCOTLAND YARD's experiment in As Mr Dellow says, they aren't accountable of casual "uniform" that even young the of London deserves close Echo has also pointed that It's also likely that, being close to the deploying volunteer police helpers on as an organisation of law enforcement. The tearaways can identify with. streets watching. attract self-appointed the vigilante they groups tend to community, well they'll as be escorting talking to them to elderly the Police chiefs say that people are more very types are supposed to women as just be tackling the aggressive ones and local bingo hall.

That way news of what afraid of violence and other crime than could make things worse by giving thugs a that bunch of yobs down the they should be, if they looked at the actual kind of legitimacy. to becomes more readily available. are The up street crime figures. Maybe they're right statistically. What's needed is not a vigilante police can be fed the vital, regular that to the many, elderly folk force, but something with of What's more, the new volunteers will But tell organisation or a new full-blown police information they need to scale down crime.

who daren't go out or their doors to a caller. In many areas of our towns the seem to have hit on. regular police. The beret boys would both. And that's just what Scotland Yard be trained, authorised and managed by the is frightening.

There's prove atmosphere really Their new force of volunteers will be a useful link in the battle against crime no other word for it. must be made more livable for active in high crime areas, exactly where and could certainly provide some they're needed. They may wear the kind reassurance to those living in fear. ordinary, decent people. The thugs, burglars and vandals must be beaten.

But even schemes with like the amount Neighbourhood of success Watch shown and by Yet again Crimestoppers, there aren't enough police officers to cope properly with the menace. THE LAW has been brought into disrepute the judge's story as an excuse not to be That's why a lot of people have been by the Westminster magistrates who found banned he had driven "only a few tempted to back the idea of importing the a judge guilty of drink-driving but let him Other drink drivers have been banned for American type of Guardian Angel vigilante escape a ban. just sitting in the car with the keys. patrols to fill the gap. As the Yard's deputy Not long ago another judge let a The judge could now be disciplined or commissioner John Dellow notes, too, it's ruthless child molester go free.

Last month sacked by the Lord Chancellor, but it's the important to take on board that young a police chief, caught jumping a red traffic beaks' decision that worries people. people have found the Angels' beret and light, was not prosecuted no reason Magistrates are allowed discretion to it image easier to identify with than given to the for public. These cases, give consider "special reasons" for waiving a the traditional figure of the uniformed flagrant cause the belief there's most of them are taught that a policeman. one law for ordinary people and another for "special reason" means an immediate life But free-ranging vigilantes, uniformed VIPs, and that the law itself can be an ass. and death matter.

The Westminster bench or not, are basically bad for the community. In the latest one, magistrates accepted has done a lot of damage. The new guard open the doors TERRY MAHONEY is not the archetypal valleys socialist. In the soft south of England they'd think him mad to vote Labour. Her runs a successful children's fashion business in Merthyr, is chairman or president of 18 local organisations and sportingly sponsors the Terry Mahoney Cup for schoolboy soccer.

Sitting in the swivel chair of Phil Squire a "great man" Coun Mahoney begins his tenure as leader of Mid Glamorgan County Council. Yes, Phil Squire's a hard act to follow, county leader for 15. years, last of the old-style political bosses in the Valleys. Too much a one-man band? With the eminence rouge retired, gale force glasnost rips through County Hall. Squire acolytes Doug McDonald, secretary of the Labour Group, and chief whip Mostyn Jones were toppled from power.

Voted in were rising star Jeff Jones as secretary of the ruling group and Des Prosser as chief whip. Perestroika par excellence, some might say. Terry Mahoney, a county councillor since 1972 and deputy for four years, succeeded the great man as leader. A daunting challenge, but relished by the 55-year-old father of three. "I follow a great man," said Mr Mahoney.

"He came in yesterday and I automatically called him leader. I don't think it's surprising I'm a socialist. I was brought up in the valleys. I've seen the ravages of the Tory system. How they bled the place dry.

Men like Guest and Crawshay made massive fortunes while their workers lived in abject poverty. They took BY DEREK HOOPER millions out and put precious little back in. "You ask why I'm a socialist. My God. Write me a cheque and I wouldn't change my political colour.

It's conviction, not convenience." Mr Mahoney wants more openness in Mid Glamorgan local government. More professionalism from councillors. Quality leadership of county committees. Wider debate. "I don't care where good ideas come from.

Even Tories have good ideas sometimes. We have a budget of £300m and employ 22,000 people. We need value for money to make the best use of the resources the government keeps cutting. Though needs are greater than ever we've been cut by nearly £11m this year." You can't run local government the old way any more. Mahoney and his colleagues see major challenges ahead.

The poll tax will probably cut county income; the privatisation of council services has to be met by competing successfully with their own tenders; and the problem to do about sixth form education with school rolls falling to a post-war low has to be solved. They will also be looking at the banning of council officers serving as councillors in neighbouring authorities. TODAY'S NUMBERS GRAND BINGO £1000 CASH MUST BE WON Read numbers from left to right starting at the top left hand corner and reading across. You can claim your prize DAY 4, GAME 3 when you have crossed off all numbers on the 40 32 Bingo Game being played. 51 Make sure that all the 27 16 6 been Bingo numbers in have the published 30 83 Echo before you make (Permanent editorial file (Bingo) a claim.

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MORE NUMBERS TOMORROW WHY NOT GET THE ECHO DELIVERED EVERY DAY Get the paper and get Echo Value 00 0 00 8 11-5-04 "Hello. Selwyn's been on the pain killers again!" "I thought we'd cop it with privatisation of council services. We could have lost 6,000 jobs, but we've been 100 cent successful in tendering for contracts. That's something to be proud of," said Mr Mahoney. he gets the taste for the job, could Terry Mahoney be another Phil Squire, another Red Baron of Glamorgan? "They'd chuck me out if I tried that," he said.

"I'll never be as powerful as Phil because to ensure it, the power structure has changed." Phil Squire was chairman of the Labour group and leader of the council. Powers are now separate. The leader leads, but the job of group chairman falls to each retiring chairman of the county council. "Power will no longer be in one person's hands," said Mr Mahoney. "I believe in A rising star of the local political scene is Jeff Jones, the 38-year-old history lecturer, a main beneficiary of the palace putsch that ousted the Squire old guard.

In 1982 the Maesteg councillor was expelled from the Labour Group for defying the party line on a nuclear bunker for Mid Glamorgan, the transfer of a pupil from a state to a private school and voting against education cuts. "The amazing thing is they never built the bunker and the education cuts were reversed. "I was cleared by the National Executive, but it took nearly three years to get back in the Labour Group. They were in cahoots with hierarchy of the Welsh Labour Party. Every obstruction was used.

I was the enemy," said Coun Jones. But no more. As secretary of the Labour Group, he is in a powerful position. How will he use that power? encourage a wide spectrum of views, to be truly democratic, to give more people an opportunity to make a contribution to the government of the county. To deliver a service to the people that is caring and efficient." Mid Glamorgan, he reckons, has worked wonders over the past 10 years.

6 don't care where good ideas come from. Even Tories have good ideas sometimes. In one of Britain's poorest areas, where poor health and bad housing contribute to social ills, "we've done a good job under very difficult circumstances. We should blow our own trumpet a bit more. We want a new approach," said the moustachioed Maestegian.

Married with two daughters, aged eight and five, he's on the soft Left and has played an active role in expelling Militant supporters from the Labour Party. Like Phil Squire, he hails from farming stock, but unlike the old warhorse, he does not aim to run the county. "In the heyday of Heycock, Percy Smith and Phil Squire half a dozen councillors took decisions and the group did as it was told. Dictatorship can get things done. It can also lead down to work Terry Mahoney, with Jeff Jones alongside, settles Getting in to the County Hall hot seat.

to inertia. "The government of Mid "I believe in group democracy, everyone's right to their position? I'd relish it, but the Tories don't exist and four of the five Plaid Cymru councillors claim to be socialists, anyway, so vote with us on many issues. That is why a wide divergence of views is essential within the Labour Group. Glamorgan can be improved by listening to people's views. It's no good everything going through on the nod.

When I began as a councillor I was told I was a learner, to sit on the back benches and gather crumbs thrown from the top table. That attitude is dead and buried as far as I'm concerned." Martyn builds a caring bridge MARTYN Lewis is more used to reading the news than making it. But with two books in the pipeline, plus two appearances on Radio 4's Down Your Way and a "blockbuster" television show early next year, he could well find himself making the headlines over the coming months. Lewis, who presents the BBC's Nine O'Clock News, is now getting involved in work which couldn't be much further removed from the cut and thrust world of daily news. His first book is about hospices, and it is the Duchess of Kent he has to thank for its title, Tears and Smiles the Hospice Handbook.

"The Duchess spends a lot of her private time going round explains Lewis. "And the uplift and boost she gives to patients is phenomenal. "In an interview with her I asked if she ever got depressed doing this and she said, 'Oh no, because hospices are places where tears and smiles walk side by "That was a wonderful quote, and so true. Hospices are thought of as grey places up on the hill where people go to die. In fact, once you've been to one you become totally infected by the great sense of warmth and friendliness and hope there.

"Not one of us can guarantee we won't need a hospice, either for a relative, a friend or for ourselves. Cancer or other life-threatening ilnesses can strike at BY SYD GILLINGHAM any time. "I wrote the book because I felt there was a need to build a bridge between all the wonderful hospice charities, and to cut through the bewildering amount of information that exists about hospices." Lewis's book is published on October 9 at the start of the Europe Against Cancer Week and all proceeds will go to hospice charities. Then, in November, he has another book coming out which he describes as "a coffee table book with an interesting And in the autumn he hosts two editions of Radio 4's Down Your Way one of them from a hospice, and the other from a new 600-seater jumbo jet on its way to Australia. He is also a series on cancer, produced an indepenresenting dent company and BBC Wales, and early next year he is presenting another series for the BBC, for the moment under wraps.

"It's a blockbuster," he promises. love to take time to make a really good documentary series, and I think one day I might leave news to do it. I'd love the opportunity to work at much greater length with words and pictures." Swansea-born Lewis might never Echoes of the Echo 50 YEARS AGO. 0 Prime Minister Chamberlain said in London that Britain would not's submit to dictation while ready to listen to others' views. He said of Danzig, which was the danger spot of Europe: "If an attempt was made to change the situation by force in such a way as to threaten Polish independence, then this would inevitably start a general conflagration in which this country would be involved." The prime minister denied attempting encirclement of Hitler's Germany.

0 Nine Chinese divisions were "wiped out" by Japanese forces in the Northern Hupeh Province of China, said Japanese military communique. It claimed that this resulted Japan tightening a "steel ring" extending about 185 miles from Northern Hupeh into Southern Honan, trapping Chinese forces. Wilfred Wooller would be the only nominee for the captaincy of Cardiff Rugby Club for the next season when Here we (don't) go Du again! BY MICHAEL IMESON LAST year more than 10 million of us took a package holiday to the sunspots of Europe. This year it looks as though a combination of Nigel Lawson and memories of dreadful delays at airports will cut that number to well under nine million. But that's still an awful lot of people for whom the bad news is that there WILL delays again this year.

Hundreds of millions of pounds worth of new air traffic control computers will not be in place this year, nor even next, in Britain. And however close the links are becoming between the authorities all over Europe, the simple fact is that at peak times there are simply too many aircraft trying to get to the same place at the same time. While the Spanish controllers have apparently promised not to cause problems like those last summer, we've already seen some. Just last week those same people caused havoc on flights to and from Portugal as well as Spain, and the first 16- hour delay of the summer season was notched up on a flight from Faro to Gatwick. And there was hassle over a flight from Tenerife which had to land in Portugal because air traffic delays had caused the crew to run out of hours.

To put things in perspective, a record 13 million passengers were affected by flight delays in Europe last year. One in five flights were delayed by more than 15 minutes, costing 70,000 flying hours. This. says the Association of European Airlines, is equivalent to grounding 28 jets for a whole year. "We expect more flights this year, making things worse," a spokesman said.

One tour operator group has taken steps to help lower blood pressure Thomson Holidays has set up a 24-hour service with details of flight delays for Thomson, Horizon, Skytours, Wings, HCI and OSL travellers. When you get your ticket you get the check phone number. have been part of television's words and pictures if he had not been having dinner with his parents and their BBC producer friend. The family were living in Northern Ireland, where his father had his busias a chartered quantity surveyor. nest.

dinner guest suggested he audition for the BBC. He did, went to work for the BBC in Belfast, then moved on to HTV in Cardiff, and eventually joined ITN where he worked as a reporter at home and abroad before becoming a news presenter. He joined the BBC in October, 1986. Lewis and Liz have two children live in Sylvie, central his, wife. London.

Katie, Liz 10, herself and they has two children's books coming out in September. Martyn Lewis laughs when you ask if he considers himself ambitious. "Those who know me," he replies, "would not deny I it's have felt ambitions! should I only whisper MARTYN think in this country you your ambitions in private. ACROSS Pass over a redeveloped region (6) Herb joins Jack at the organ, maybe (8) 8 Relatively united persons (6) 10 A prize chump (5) 13 The good one's departed (4) 14 Is such water from a fountain? (4) 15 Exotic dress of various. aristocrats? (4) 16 A gloved animal? (3) 17 Cucumber-like (4) 19 Complain at a chap getting out for duck (4) 21 To the Navy, it means pulled to pieces (4,5) 23 Metal including an extract of tin? (4) 24 Haul around in a dance, (4) 26 A sound means of closure (3) 27 The race causing anger? (4) 29 It's dull, we hear (4) 32 The discovery of oneself, (4) 33 Figure there's no difficulty getting a contract (5) 34 This is out of the rood, in parts (6) 35 One at a disadvantage when grounded, possibly (8) 36 Game that's over? (6) DOWN 1 Remnants of one vessel in another (5) MARTYN LEWIS club members held their annual meeting the following day.

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