Manchester Evening News from Manchester, Greater Manchester, England • 2

Manchester Evening News 2F 2 PLAY £50000 SUPA-MATCH THE NEWS TONIGHT MM City loses NEW NAMES two of the loqos to be displayed on Greater buses Police probe shop blazes battle POLICE started a big investigation after a series of fires in Wythenshawe shopping precinct Manchester today They all happened within hours in the precinct on Rowlandsway All on change buses over land Sailors by Health investigators have ruled out Disease as the illness which affected six sailors on an American surveillance Ship which docked in Glagow A Glasgow health official said: was probably a flu-like By Stuart Gilles MANCHESTER City sex Council to of OBSTETRICIANS greeted with scepticism a United States claim that it had developed a product allowing would-be parents to choose the sex of their child with a success rate of up to 85 per cent ProCare Industries said Gender Choice would be distributed by major drug and grocery stores throughout the United States as well as internationally through agents Three burned by blast THREE WORKMEN were burned in a mystery explosion at the rubber factory of Armstrong World Industries in Mars Street Oldham Walton Reece of Brlarmere Walk Chadderton waS transferred to the burns unit at Withington Hospital from Oldham Royal Infirmary John Lester of Broadway Chadderton is "fairly in hospital and the third man David Evans of Newark Park Way Royton went home after treatment to FBI spy gets life for these lost a land case in the High ourt in London today The council had claimed that the Environment Secretary had acted illegally irrationally and with procedural impropriety in ordering the council sell off six parcels of under-used land But Mr Justice Taylor dismissed the council's application for an order quashing the instruction to sell off about 29 acres of land in Blackley Openshaw Harnurhey Brooklands and Charlestown The judge said: It seems to me that these series of directions by the Secretary of State cannot be attacked on grounds of He added: I have to ask myself whether the decision reached by the Secretary was one which no reasonable Secretary of State coud not reach I can see no basis for holding that that is The court had been told that other councils had been awating the outcome of the case The extent of the powers is a novel point and is of some general import the judge said He ordered that unless there is an appeal the council should sell off the land within three months Costs were awarded for the Secretary of State as By Michael Duffy A MAJOR new bus company was born today run routes in Greater Manchester the first its kind for 12 years Greater Manchester Buses Ltd which was launched in the basement of a city hotel is the new private undertaking which is taking over from GMT later this year It has been formed under the Government-ordered free-for-all on urban bus routes which represents the biggest shake-up in the industry for 30 years In the new commercial climate the majority of services will have to make a profit from October onwards or simply go under Under the Transport Act plum services have been thrown open to anybody who wants to run them without resort to public subsidies Other loss-making but socially desirable services such as works buses school buses andnight trips will have to be paid for out of a separate cash fund administered by the new Passenger Transport Authority Greater Manchester Buses is tendering routes along with private operators and how many they win will influence the number of busmen they will have to shed The figure could be as high 1500 The new bus company's chief executive Mr Ralph Roberts said today: is a commercial company and if it cannot trade successfully it can go bust We aim to be successful but provide a safe and caring service for the Familiar livery GM Buses today unveiled a new corporate image with the emphasis on local services Its vehicles will still be painted in the familiar brown and orange livery of I he outgoing GMT but each bus will also carry new name logos in different colours based on different areas On the North side of the county there are three districts named on vehicles Bury Rochdale and City North On the South side there are also three divisions Stockport Trafford and City South To the West there will be four areas Bolton Salford Wigan and Atherleigh To the East GM Buses will also be divided into four districts Oldham Glossop Tameside and City East All shares in the hew company will be transferred from GMT to the new Labour-run Passenger Transport Authority on October 26 the day of de-regulation THE first FBI agent ever accused of espionage was sentenced to life in prison in Los Angeles for passing a secret United States document to the Soviet Union Richard Miller aged 49 who claimed he had an affair with convicted Soviet spy Svetlana Ogorodnikova to infiltrate the Soviet KGB secret police was also fined £40000 Where time stands still! TIME has stood still in the centre of Manchester for two days! A cable broke inside the clock on the tower of the Town Hall The time has been 905 ever since A spokesman said today that a clock expert was on his way to get time moving again Diver killed training A ROYAL Engineer died and a colleague was seriously ill in hospital after a diving training incident at Portsmouth A third man is in hospital hut is not thought to be serious The incident happened when a three-man team was taking part in diving aptitude training at Ilorsea Island chief SUPREMO Greater Manchester executive Mr Ralph Roberts A star Soviet chief at Commons Law bowls topless maiden over is bore FOR the first time astronomers have observed a star being born a galactic infant only 30000 years old the University of Arizona announced today The embryonic star was detected 520 ltght years from earth hidden in the cloud of Sas from which it is being formed by scientists SOVIET foreign minister Mr Eduard Shevard-nandze was seeing Mrs Thatcher answering her domestic critics in the House of Commons Officials could not recall any previous occasion when such a senior Soviet minister attended Prime Question Time at the House Warning to gardeners GARDENERS were urged to watch out for dangerous weedkillers after some were found to have left a factory in unsafe bottles Trading standards officers in West Yorkshire urged gardeners who have bought Murphy Super Moss Killer Murphy Lawn Weedkiller Murphy Path Weedkiller and Murphy Lawn Pest Killer to inspect them carefully Test against India in June Mr Spittle said all four had gained admission to a 10-storey block of flats by the cricket ground Once on the roof they set up a banner which expressed the of Fiona Vladivar Richie Benaud the Australian and BBC By Simon Spinks TOPLESS model Gabriella Brown was caught out by police when a Test match publicity stunt backfired She was arrested after baring her breasts and waving her bra at a 20000-strong crowd at Today Miss Brown from Earls Court appeared before Maryle- lance photographer from Wrexham They all pleaded not guilty to committing an act of indecency and agreed to be bound over for 12 months in the sum of £200 each Mr John Spittle a Warrington lawyer described the incident as a by the crowd the third day of the first bone magistrates charged with committing an act of indecency With her on the same charge was Simon Plumb aged 29 Vladivar Vodka brand manager of Wardley Road Woolston Warrington Also Iain Macauley aged 25 a public relations Heywood Freeburn aged 27 a free man from Big harmless bit of and for House Farm Simister which was well former and Keith received on cricketer BARTON BULLETIN 'Mm WEATHER TONIGHT: Mainly cloudy with a lfttle drizzle along the AROUND THE WORLD LIGHTING-UP LIGHTING UP TIME: 101 pm to 429 am Yesterday's temperatures In Celsius and Fahrenheit SUN 458 am Sets 931 pm 11 MOON 248 pm Sets 1229 am (tomorrow) coasts Humid Moderate SW winds Min temp 17C (63F) TOMORROW: Dry start with sunny intervals but cloudy with outbreaks of rain in the afternoon Moderate to fresh SW winds Maximum temperature 23C (73F) inland 20C (68F) on coasts Temperature at 10 am 20C (68F) Max yesterday 21C (70F) min overnight 16 (61F) Sunshine: total 04 hrs July total 779 hrs Rain in 24 hrs: To 9am trace Total 047 ins Pol'en: 20 (low) Outlook: similar FIVE accidents in two hours hit traffic on both the M62 and M63 motorways on either side of Barton Bridge during the morning drivc-to-work period today Roadworks on the bridge itself were not the initial causes of the nose-to-tail collisions but reduced lane widths both east and west suffered tailbacks and some delays Light drizzle made the road surfaces very slippery so drivers who did not allow sufficient braking distance ran into each other No one was badly hun 29 84 Montreal 19 66 20 G8 Moscow: 16 61 31 88 New York 27 82 24 72 Nice Th 25 77 18 64 Oslo 22 72 32 90 Paris 20 68 20 69 Rome 18 64 30 86 Stockholm 16 61 27 81 Sydney 17 63 19 66 Tenerife 26 79 25 77 Toronto 21 70 20 68 Venice 21 70 23 73 Vienna 20 68 30 86 Zurich 18 64 26 79 28 82 cloudy lair rain 31 87 sunny Th thunder Akrotirl Amsterdam Athens Barcelona Brussels Cairo Copenhagen Corfu Faro Frankfurt Gibraltar Innsbruck Las Palmas Lisbon Madrid Malta Miami TIDES High Water Today Blackpool 515 am and 554 pm Rhyl 53 am and 544 pm Tomorrow Blackpool 616 am and 73 pm Rhyl 67 am and 654 pm.