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4- WESTERN DAILY Keeping faith with the old law Your Church: Chard Christian Fellowship Your Preacher: Nigel Marsh POPE John Paul II is causing a bit of a stir in America with his hardline approach to the doit-yourself morality of some Catholics there. He has openly denounced the arrogance that makes people think they can choose which of God's rules are appropriate for modern living. His is a cleansing operation but is not one unique to the Catholic For some time popular ideas have been increasingly promient throughout the church as in the SERMON OF THE WEEK world; it doesn't matter what you believe, so long as you believe something, or that everyone has their own morality. It will not do any more. All around us the increase in violence, abuse, warfare and famine scream out the evidence that this worldly morality works no better now than it ever has.

As the world gets darker, God is stirring new life and light into his Church and by that I mean the people who believe in the Biblical Jesus Christ, from whichever denomination they come. If prominent churchmen persist in allowing any old mangling of the truth to prevail they will find themselves presiding over divided churches, while the flock that listens to the true Shepherd as Jesus called himself is led on a proper path. GANDEY'S CIRCUS HENGROVE PARK, BRISTOL Tuesday 15 Saturday 26 Sept. First ever visit of Britains largest traditional circus. 3,000 seats in the Big Top DIAL-A-SEAT: 0272 892673 Performances: Weekdays 4.45 p.m.

7.45 p.m. Saturday 2.00 p.m.. 4.45 p.m. 7.45 p.m. Sunday No Shows.

Ticket Prices: Chair Adults C8, Children Centre Tier Adults £5, Children £3. Side Tier Adults £4, Children £2. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1987 PRESS, 'Opt-out' schools could damage the system, says NUT Teachers warn on school reforms a teachers' union leader GOVERNMENT Western Daily Press Reporter today. plans for schools to 'opt out" of council control could damage the whole education service, the National Union of Teachers warned today. In its formal response to the plans, the NUT said most parents could not have increased choice and educational standards would not be improved.

They claimed the plans would play into the hands of undemocratic pressure groups and called for a two-thirds majority of' parents to vote in favour of opting out before it can go ahead. The education reforms go before the Commons this autumn and Mrs Thatcher has said she expects most schools may opt out of council control. Expect Education Secretary Mr Kenneth Baker expects only a few will become "grant maintained" schools. But the NUT questioned whether parents wanted responsibility for running their own children's schools and added that long-term gover- Shake-up up at BBC news By Michael MARTYN Lewis, who launched the BBC's new One O'Clock News last year, is to take over as the lead presenter of the Nine O'Clock News. He will read the bulletins five nights a week from October.

Taking over from him as the new daily presenter of the One O'Clock News will be Michael Buerk, the BBC's award-winning foreign correspondent whose reporting of the Ethiopian famine crisis prompted worldwide relief efforts. Also joining the Nine O'Clock News will be Debbie Thrower and Philip Hayton. ENTERTAINMENTS Country Windsurfing Lake, Trench Lane, Winterbourne. Tel. Winterbourne 773599.

JET SKIING in Bristol, tuition and wetsuits supplied at West ADVERTISE The successful way by ringing Classified Advertising on Bristol 297297 Theatre Royal BATH Sept. 22-26 RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY Winners of the 1986 Laurence Olivier Dance Programme One: SEATS £3.50 PULCINELLA. ALL Programma MATINEE Thurs. 8.00; Introductory Matinee Wed. 2.30.

No Sat. Mat. Sept. 28-Oct. 3 THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson A spooky new thriller with a distinct touch of the supernatural.

CAROLYN JONES stars in this tale of murder, mystery and suspense on an isolated Scottish moor. Oct. 6-17 LETTICE AND LOVAGE WORLD PREMIERE of a brilliant new comedy by PETER SHAFFER starring MAGGIE SMITH, MARGARET TYZACK and RICHARD PEARSON. Oct. 20-24 BATH LIGHT OPERATIC GROUP PRESENT WEST SIDE STORY, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's exhilarating musical in Bath for the first time.

Oct. 21-24 THE SEESAW TREE by David Wood Daytime Thoughtful, educational and entertaining play with music performances about the world of an oak tree. Presented by WHIRLIGIG THEATRE who brought 'The Selfish to Bath. Oct. 31, 10.30 a.m.

N.S.P.C.C. MAGIC SHOW BOX OFFICE 65065 Mr Fred Smithies, general secretary of the National Association of of Women Teachers, said the Government plan was "being dressed up as giving power to the people. "But as long as educational expenditure remains inadequate it really only amounts to passing the buck on making crucial decisions about educational expenditure to school governors." INDEPENDENT schools should be able to opt into the state system, the right-wing Hillgate Group said today. It calls for a complete shake-up of the education system. 20 Listen Liz Kershaw, left and Ro Newton, presenters of the new radio show Backchat norships would be an unacceptable form of political patronage.

The NUT said: "The union hopes that 'opt out' schools will not be allowed to discriminate on grounds of ability, race or special needs since otherwise such schools may simply attract the white, middle class children of well-paid articulate parents, thus reinforcing and exacerbating social divisions." THE PLANS to give schools control of their own budgets were merely a means of "passing the buck" for shortcomings in the present system, Go West! CONTINUING our Where To Go, What To Do Guide to the West Country. TODAY Gloucester. Kingsbarton Street, 7.30pm. AVON: Ghost Walks Of (Until Sept 26). Bath.

Guide recounts ghostly and historical SOMERSET: Cheddar tales of the various Caves. Huge caves with streets and stalagtites and mites. grotto for Also children. a fantasy Open until 31). Starts 8pm.

Adults £1.50, 10.0-5.30. Adults £2.80, children, OAPs £1. Ring children £1.50. Bath 63618 or 66541 for Art exhibition. David details.

Shanahan. Merlin Theatre, Bath Road, BRIS ST Frome. (Until October classical Gramophone music. St of Wookey concert 17). Hole Caves, Nicholas Church near Wells.

Astounding Museum. 12.45pm-1.45. caves blasted out of Viva Mexico! Pre- solid rock. Also a sented by Avon Light museum, Madame Opera Club. Redgrave Tussaud's and an Old Theatre, Clifton.

Until Pier Arcade. Open September 26. Tel Bristol 9.30-5.30. Adults £3.15, 658414. children £2.10.

Free car Steam ship trips. park and restaurant. Bristol Packet. From Wapping Wharf. City WILTSHIRE: Warminster.

Longleat docks tour daily. 12pm, House, near 2pm, 3pm and 4pm. Safari little park, pets corner, Bristol-Hanover Art the railway, maze, Exhibition. City Docks Dr Who exhibition and Exhibition Centre. Open the Victorian Kitchens.

daily. Free. Ring 098 53551 to find out what the special GLOUCESTERSHIRE: event of the week may Exhibition. The March of be. Open 10.0-6.0.

Entry Rome. A Cotswold to house, gardens and Roman Festival event. safari park £7, children City Museum. (Until £4. Free car park.

October 3). Play. Pack Of Lies. Play. The Matchmaker.

Wharf Theatre, Devizes. The King's Theatre, 7.30pm. (Until Sept 26). Second mole hunt at GCHQ denied By Beverley Hawes CLAIMS that security is being stepped up at GCHQ in a bid to stop a new mole hunt were dismissed as "nonsense" by the Foreign Office last night. New random searches of staff and their cars at the Cheltenham intelligence base are to be introduced in the near future.

Former GCHQ linguist Geoffrey Prime, jailed for 35 years in 1982 for passing information to the Russians, was said to have walked out of the gates carrying secret documents. MOSCOW Day The shake-up follows the departure of Julia Somerville to ITN. Meanwhile there is to be a shake-up on Radio One with Mike Read presenting three weekly shows. And in Radio One's first panel game "Radio DJ Simon Mayo poses a series of moral dilemmas to a panel of celebrites. Listeners will also get a new pop gossip programme called featuring news and interviews form the pop world.

The hosts will be the radio station's young. est DJs Liz Kershaw, aged 25 and Ro New- ton, 22. Security chiefs have always feared that Prime may not have been the only traitor working within GCHQ. Now it is claimed that a mole may again be sending out information to Moscow after lying low for years. But last night the new spying claim was strongly denied by a spokesman at the Foreign Office which controls GCHQ.

The spokesman said the tighter security was being introduced as a result of the recommendations made by a Security Commission report following the Prime scandal. Sun goes to miners' We'll survive, says Owen in rallying call SDP co-founder Dr David Owen yesterday urged wavering "don't-knows" in the party to join the anti-merger camp, assuring them "the SDP will Sufficient SDP activists were already "clearly prepared" to fight for the party's survival, he said. He told the waverers that the "only question" was how many uncommitted members would vote for the SDP once the merger talks were completed. Dr Owen issued his call in a message to SDP antimerger regional organisers meeting in Birmingham yesterday to discuss the progress of their campaign. Even before the meeting started those taking part claimed they were recruiting "solid leader of the anticampaign in Scotland, Mr Ralph Leishman, said it was clear the alleged merger was no more than a Liberal takeover Mr Leishman said numbers were expected to swell following the Liberal assembly when SDP members were told that the policies of the merged party would be disclosed only after the merger contract had been signed.

Meanwhile, Critics of SDP Welsh chairman Mr Gwynoro Jones have been heavily defeated in a move to sack him for his attacks on Dr David Owen. A private two-hour meeting of the SDP's council for Wales, in Llandrindod Wells, Powys, yesterday voted 19 for four against a call for Mr Jones's resignation. But council members also agreed to disassociate themselves from his outspoken attacks on their former party leader. THE combination of a spot of sunshine, sand and the chance of a dip in the sea proved irresistible for three visitors to Weston-super-Mare. The young mineworkers on a day trip from the Rhondda Valley in South Wales decided to strip off to take advantage of the situation.

But the sight of the bare burly bodies bounding across the beach was too much for some of the more sedate Saturday afternoon strollers on the Promenade. They called the police and the long arm of the law intervened to end the naked run-about. A police spokesman said yesterday: "Our officers arrived to find these three gentlemen cavorting in the nude. "They had been drinking at lunchtime and the sight of the sun after all the rain earlier in the day was obviously too much for them." The men, aged 21 and 25, were persuaded to dress, and they were interviewed at Weston police station. They were charged with offensive behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace and were released on bail.