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Sorry, Senator ..

we're not the 51st State of the Union

G 20 Death

CPS powerless

Salem hysteria

still alive in the States

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

one year at liberty

Tribute to Forces' sacrifice		Update of Afghan casualties
Financial Report		Last week's movements & prices

For a variety of past National stories, use this link

For stories from the 2010 General Election, use this link

  What to say to a US Senate enquiry 

"The UK confirms, categorically, that they will not provide witnesses to attend US proceedings."

This is, after all, exactly the response which "we" received from America when our Coroner requested that US Air Force service personnel attend the Inquest held on the "friendly-fire" death of one of our soldiers .. Iraq. 2003.

In an attack by two US A-10 Thunderbolt anti-tank aircraft, 24.8 miles north of Basra,  two Scimitar light reconnaissance tanks manned by the Household Cavalry were destroyed, injuring three UK soldiers and killing Lance/Cpl Hull. 
The US pilots had apparently failed to recognise that the tanks were a British make, with special orange paint coalition-identification aids, and even a large Union flag on another machine in the five-vehicle convoy.

The State flag of Hawaii (so there's no reason for not recognising the Union flag)

After the incident, an official spokesman said .. "These people (pilots) immediately understood that it was a terrible, terrible mistake, and they felt immediate remorse of what happened."
The cockpit recorders quote the pilots as saying ..
"We're in jail dude!" .. .. .. "Goddam it. F*** me dead!" (weeping)
"God F***ing S*** !"
which is more realistic.

Surely the Senators will understand that .. "Fair's Fair .. ?"

    G20 Death .. "No Charges"

During the G20 protests in the City of London (1 April 2009) Ian Tomlinson, aged 47, a newspaper seller, who was not involved in the protests, was walking home when he was caught up in the demonstration. 
Video footage shows him being apparently struck by a baton wielded by a Police Officer and then pushed to the ground, before staggering away after the incident. 
He was later found collapsed 100 metres away in Cornhill. 
Mr. Tomlinson had also been bitten by a police dog shortly before his death.

The officer who was filmed pushing Mr. Tomlinson has been named as 
Pc Simon Harwood from the Metropolitan Police 'territorial support group'.

A first forensic examination by Dr. Freddy Patel found he died of "natural causes linked to coronary artery disease".
A second pathologist, Dr Nat Cary, found he died of internal bleeding as a result of blunt force trauma, in combination with cirrhosis of the liver.
A third examination, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second test.

Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer has decided that there is no realistic prospect of a conviction against the police officer in question for any offence arising from the matter investigated and that no charges should be brought against him.
"In the face of this fundamental disagreement between the experts about the cause of Mr. Tomlinson's death, the CPS embarked on a detailed and careful examination of all the medical evidence and held a series of meetings with experts in attempt to resolve, or at least narrow, the areas of disagreement."
Mr. Starmer said: 
"Common assault does not require proof of injury, but it is subject to a strict six-month time limit. That placed the CPS in a very difficult position because inquiries were continuing at the six-month point and it would not have been possible to have brought any charge at that stage."
The CPS have decided not to charge the officer, who remains suspended from duty.

Now consider the following_

Dr Freddy Patel

Dr Patel, at the time a Home Office ("Silent Witness") pathologist, already faces disciplinary proceedings and could be struck off by the General Medical Council over alleged failings in his handling of four separate post-mortem examinations between 2002 and 2005.

Pc Simon Harwood

Pc Harwood was previously investigated, twice, over his alleged aggressive behaviour.
He had left the Metropolitan Police a decade before amid controversy over an alleged off-duty road rage incident in the late 1990s, retiring on "medical grounds".
He was then employed by Surrey Police as a civilian computer worker, before being accused of using excessive force while on duty.
After a year and a half working in Surrey he transferred back to 'The Met.' in the autumn of 2004

At the G20 protests, Pc Harwood was working with the TSG - the Territorial Support Group - which provides an immediate response to spontaneous disorder anywhere in London.
He was dressed in a bright yellow reflective jacket, black uniform and helmet; but his identity number was covered up and he had a scarf across the lower part of his face.

Since being questioned on suspicion of manslaughter two weeks after Mr. Tomlinson’s death, Mr. Harwood has been suspended, spending his time at home in Carshalton, Surrey, where he lives with his wife Helen, a GP surgery manager, and their two young sons.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police has declined to comment on the force’s decision to re-employ Pc Harwood in 2004.

   Don't worry, Arthur, .. 
Salem-style hysteria is still alive and kicking 
in the 'Good Ol' U.S. of A.'

"Examination of a Witch" in Salem.

Mrs. Shirley Sherrod found herself at the heart of a frantic American news spin cycle, when she was condemned by the BLACK civil rights group which hosted a meeting she addressed in 1986, and was then forced to resign from her government post by officials who said they were acting on behalf of the WHITE House.

In an [edited] video clip (March 1986), Mrs. Sherrod appears to say, at a dinner of a Georgia chapter of the NAACP, a prominent civil rights group, that she did not give a Georgia farmer all the assistance she could to save his farm because black farmers were losing their land and he was white.

So frightened were White House officials of a conservative media backlash and so violent and bigoted their reaction that Mrs. Sherrod was 'sacked' on her mobile phone as she drove home, and was instructed to ".. pull to the side of the road to send a text message acknowledging that she had lost her job" !

The video of her full speech came to light on Tuesday evening and shows her explaining what she learned from that incident.
"Poverty, not race, is the key factor in rural development."  She also explained how she had worked hard to save the farmer's land.
"Working with him made me see that it's really about those who have versus those who haven't. They could be black, they could be white, they could be Hispanic. And it made me realise then that I needed to help poor people - those who don't have access the way others have."

If anyone in government or in the civil rights movement had bothered to enquire what she'd actually said, or asked for her side of the story; or really known what the woman was like, they would have found in Shirley Sherrod a woman who had risen above personal tragedy to work for black and white farmers alike.

Her boss, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who has accepted responsibility for the affair, has apologised and offer her a new post.
"I did not think before I acted and for that reason this poor woman has gone through a very difficult time."
Mrs. Sherrod has accepted his apology and "was extraordinarily gracious".

She has told the Associated Press news agency she was considering the new position.

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From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft; dozens languished in jail for months without trials until the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts subsided.

The Crucible is a 1953 play by Arthur Miller (1915–2005). 
It is a dramatisation of the Salem witchcraft trials that took place in Province of Massachusetts Bay, written as an allegory to McCarthyism.

   "Darling, may I always dance .. 
.. the Anniversary Waltz with you ?" 

BP advert from 1922

We do hope that you have all been saving to buy Abdelbaset al-Megrahi a present to celebrate the forth-coming (first ?) anniversary of his release from (multiple) life-sentences in a Scottish jail ?

May we remind you that the Libyan intelligence officer - convicted of the 1988 'Locherbie' bombing which killed 270 people - was freed (on compassionate grounds) having been sentenced to life imprisonment by a special Scottish court sitting in The Netherlands in 2001.

He was released last August by Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, when he was thought to be suffering from terminal prostate cancer and said to have as little as three months to live. 
US State Department spokesman PJ Crowley has stated that .. 
"There were very legitimate questions raised about the medical information that led to the decision."

And now, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton (co-incidentally just ahead of the autumn 'Primaries') has asked William Hague, our foreign secretary, whether Britain may wish to explain the circumstances behind the release.: "The secretary indicated that it might be appropriate for the British government to communicate with Congress as well to make sure that they fully understand what transpired a year ago."

Both Mr. Hague (according to Foreign Office sources) and PJ Crowley have called the Lockerbie bomber's release ''a mistake''

Both the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister (David Cameron), who will be meeting the President on Tuesday, have stated that they opposed the move but it had been a decision solely for the Scottish administration to take.

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As part of the "let's grab votes by attacking BP" - and in the 'true' American tradition of fighting the British ..

American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) - when King Louis XVI secretly providing supplies, ammunition and weapons to the rebels
The British-American War (1812-1815) - when the US congress declared war on the UK, in response to which 'we' burnt down the White House

.. special hearings examining Megrahi's release will be held at Capitol Hill on 29 July; and the US Senate foreign relations committee say it will ask BP officials to testify about any lobbying in 2007 for a prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) with Libya.

By-the-way; do the Yanks realise that when they attack BP (or refer to it as "British Petroleum") how out-of-touch they are ?

In 1998 'British Petroleum' merged with 'Amoco' - formerly Standard Oil Company (Indiana), which had already absorbed American Oil Company (Baltimore - 1922) .. and became plain 'BP' as a consequence.
Transocean Ltd. was the Swiss company (the world's largest offshore drilling contractor) who rented BP the floating mobile drill rig, together with the equipment and personnel for operations - at an average daily rate of between US$142,000 and US$650,000
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Texas) - was BP's 35% partner in the Gulf oil spill & who has so far failed to pay their share of of the clean-up bill - $272m
Mitsui - BP's other 10% partner - a company with a reputation for the mis-treatment of US POW's - has also failed to 'cough-up'

  A most inappropriately named company ?

Dr. Daniel Ubani
Struck off the medical register in the UK, but still free to work in Germany

'Take Care Now', a company providing out-of-hours care, who employed a doctor who 'unlawfully killed' a pensioner with a dose of the painkiller diamorphine 10 times too strong, had "systematic" failings, Dame Jo Williams has said.
The Care Quality Commission chairman has stated: 
"Take Care Now failed on many fronts. The lessons of its failure must resonate across the health service."

In many cases, weekend and night GP cover is provided by private firms.

* The firm originated form Suffolk Doctors on Call (SDOC), a not-for-profit co-operative of GPs established in 1994
* TCN was formed as the commercial wing of SDOC in 2005, following changes to out-of-hours care
* The firm won contracts with five NHS trusts to provide weekend and night cover for GPs_
       NHS Cambridge,      NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney, 
       NHS South West Essex,   NHS Suffolk,       and 
       NHS Worcestershire
* Following the death of Mr. David Gray, the firm had its contract with the NHS terminated
* Its services were taken over by a larger company called Harmoni

What were their failings ?

* The now-defunct firm was criticised for failing to review its working practices 
* They did not react to warnings on standards
* They failed to investigate and learn from two previous cases of diamorphine overdoses prior to a patient's death
* Staffing levels were 'potentially unsafe'
* There was no guidance to local health managers of the importance of good monitoring and of information sharing
* There was no requirement for out-of-hours care companies to be registered with the CQC (Mandatory from 2012)

The German medical authorities have indicated an intention to bring Dr. Ubani before disciplinary hearings.

"How we gonna shear 'em down on the farm .. ?"

There are fears a proposed cap on non-EU immigration could cause problems for businesses, including those in the agricultural sector - that's 'farms' to you and me - which means that foreign sheep shearers could be exempted from new UK immigration rules.

Security Minister Baroness Neville-Jones said exceptions would have to be made for some skilled workers_
"The coalition had had representations from sheep shearers and was sympathetic to that profession."
[Profession .. ?_Ed]
Defn. - a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: often governed by a chartered institution.

Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones DCMG PC
(b 2/11/1939) former BBC Governor and Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee.

In answer to questions from the House of Lords Select Committee on the Merits of Statutory Instruments, Baroness Neville-Jones replied: 
"We have to make sure that the system doesn't actually create a situation in which skills of that kind can't be imported. Some of those will clearly come in the 'scarce' category and there will be the ability for scarce category skills to be accommodated."

The government intends that the number of skilled workers allowed into the UK (from outside the EU) would be cut by 1,300 - falling to 24,100 by April 2011 - a reduction of 5%.
This does not effect the ability of ALL (farm) workers within the EU to "get on their bikes" and cross the channel .. to shear our sheep.

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Penned in the wake of America's entry into World War One, "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm, After They've Seen Paree ?" was written by Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis with music by Walter Donaldson, and was published in 1918.  A huge popular success at the time the song was performed by a great many artists in the immediate post-war years, including Harry Fay.

        Q. When is a 'Policy' .. not a 'policy' ?
        A. Presumably when the 'policy' is a "flag-ship" policy 

Barely two weeks after a vote against said policy, in principle, .. the 'governing party' choses to continue to push ahead with their plan because they say that 
"..the vote was non-binding !"
So the "opposition leaders" have launched an attempt to find alternatives

This has united the Tories .. the Liberal Democrats .. Greens ... and Labour .. who have all signed a letter calling for a fresh approach.

Where can this be ? I hear you ask ..
Why, in the Scottish Parliament, of course; where ALL opposition parties have signed a letter to Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon, calling on her to "focus on the common ground".

And the Policy, you enqiure ? because, south of the border, can we truly say that we know much of what goes on in the Scottish Parliament ?

Why, .. the SNP's flagship "minimum unit price plan for alcohol" policy .. no less.

The letter states .. "It is clear that after the recent vote in the Scottish Parliament there is no majority for minimum unit pricing, but there is a responsibility on all of us to work together to find an alternative that is evidence-based, credible and legally competent. The Scottish government, while continuing to make the case for minimum unit pricing, should not preclude the search for an alternative policy that is capable of commanding broader support across the chamber."

On 10 June, Labour joined forces with the Tories who put forward a parliamentary motion calling for the minimum price plan to be struck from the bill.
It was backed 54-49 by MSPs, with the Liberal Democrats abstaining

" Better that 10 guilty men go free .."

Warren Blackwell, of Woodford Halse, was jailed for three years - later increased to five - after having been found guilty of sexual assault after a woman* (Miss 'A') claimed he indecently assaulted her outside a social club in the early hours of 1st January, 1999, after a New Year's Eve party.

Mr. Blackwell, 40, was convicted in October 1999 at Northampton Crown Court despite maintaining his innocence, and spent more than three years in jail before having the case referred by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to the Court of Appeal in September 2006, and his conviction overturned.

In the Court of Appeal, Lady Justice Hallett, Mr. Justice Silber and Mr. Justice Tugendhat declared Mr. Blackwell's conviction "unsafe" in the light of the Commission's report, which referred to new evidence relating to the credibility of the complainant. Even the appeal judges wanted to name her - but were powerless to do so - to prevent other men from falling victim to her fake 'sex attack' allegations.

A report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has criticised Northamptonshire Police's "shabby and inadequate" handling of the case, claiming that mistakes made by that force contributed to an innocent man being jailed.

* The IPCC report said that a detective was informed that the woman was "unreliable" and "unstable", suffered mental health problems, and had a history of making false claims against men, but did not pass the information on.
The report goes-on to criticise the police for failing to challenge discrepancies in the woman's account and for not interviewing witnesses whose evidence would have undermined her claims.
The report went as far as saying that it felt that one officer should have faced a misconduct hearing, though that person has since retired from the force.

* In October 2006, Mr. Blackwell's accuser was named by Labour peer Lord Campbell-Savours during exchanges about the rape laws in the House of Lords - using Parliamentary privilege.

"Is not the inevitable consequence of the workings of the law, as currently framed, that we will carry on imprisoning innocent people like Warren Blackwell, who was falsely accused by a serial and repeated liar, Sh*nn*n T*yl*r, with a history of false accusations and multiple identities?

"As a result of her accusations, he spent three and a half years in prison following a shabby and inadequate police investigation, and was only exonerated when the Criminal Cases Review Commission inquiry cleared him and exposed her history."

The Labour peer added: "Shouldn't mature accusers who perjure themselves in rape trials be named and prosecuted for perjury?"

If the character of the investigation and the consequent miscarriage of justice were not sufficient grounds of ‘concern’, the IPCC said it was "dismayed" that it took Northamptonshire Police four years to apologise to Mr. Blackwell after he had been cleared.

As if to add insult to injury, IPCC Commissioner Amerdeep Somal’s request that the Chief Constable withdraw a commendation given to a detective constable involved in the original investigation had not been accepted.
"As the Court of Appeal has ruled, Warren Blackwell was subject to a terrible miscarriage of justice. Nothing can bring back the three years four months he wrongly spent in prison.”
She expressed "deep dissatisfaction" for the "unacceptable" length of time the force had taken to resolve disciplinary matters.
"Such unnecessary delay is neither in the public interest, nor in the interest of all those involved, including the police officers."

Two detectives have been given “management advice” about their conduct.

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Speaking of the jailing for six months of 'lap-dancer' Cinzia Sannino, 18, of Llanishen, Cardiff, at Cardiff Crown Court, after admitting making false allegations against four men, a spokeswoman for the voluntary False Allegations Support Organisation (FASO) welcomed the punishment, saying 
"Up to now girls who falsely accuse have had nothing done to them."

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In yet another, similar, miscarriage of justice, teacher Graeme Paton, who died in prison after being convicted of raping one of his pupils, has been cleared, posthumously, by the Court of Appeal.

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‘Police Law’ by Moriarty said of the crime of Rape ..
  “It is a difficult case to prove .. but it is an impossible case to defend.

It seems that some people have forgotten the adage ..
  "Better that 10 guilty men go free ..
                                            .. than to convict a single innocent man"

Dr. Taylor and Health Concern vindicated

"Plans to downgrade A&E services are based on flawed evidence" say doctors working in accident and emergency departments.

The College of Emergency Medicine says investment in separate walk-in and urgent care centres is misguided and wasteful and that it is wrong to assume that most patients coming to A&E can be seen elsewhere.

The future of many A&E units has come under scrutiny as health trusts seek to concentrate some highly specialised care in fewer hospitals - purely on a 'cost-efficiency' basis.

The College of Emergency Medicine says many plans are based on an assumption that is "simply untrue" - namely that 60% of people coming to A&E have relatively minor problems that could be sorted out elsewhere, for example in minor injuries units or polyclinics.
The college's president, Dr John Heyworth, says the 60% figure is "fiction".
"It is a mantra which has driven strategy for a number of years, but our evidence from the college of emergency medicine and other evidence from recent research has confirmed that it's nowhere near 60%.
We need to strengthen our emergency departments and if we want to consider different strategies they must only be on the basis of robust, reliable clinically-led evidence - and at the moment that's not applying in many places."

The BBC quotes "Health campaigners" fighting plans to scale-down or close A&E units as welcoming the manifesto.

John Lister from Health Emergency said that ministers should heed the advice of the "real experts" in emergency medicine; and that "..for far too long policies have been driven not by these clinicians but by evidence-free assertions by health service bureaucrats or management consultants who have claimed that up to 60% of A&E caseload could be switched to primary care. 
Policies based on false assumptions had wasted management time and diverted attention away from the proper ways to improve A&E departments."
He called for an inquiry into where the 60% figure had come from in the first place.

Dr Andrew Hobart, from the British Medical Association's Emergency Medicine Committee, agreed that the assumptions behind the re-organisations of urgent and emergency care were "fundamentally flawed".

"I hear that this web-site is being read regularly by visitors from Moscow !
Greetings to every visitor ~ whether from Wyre Forest, or across the globe."
Richard Taylor.

Don't Kill Someone !

Instead .."Make A Difference"

The number of British military personnel killed on operations in Afghanistan since 2001 stands at 325, after the deaths of

A soldier

Suspected 'friendly fire'

L/Cpl.Monkhouse, Stephen Daniel, 28

Greenock

1st Battalion Scots Guards

Cpl. Stenton, Matthew James, 23

Wakefield

The Royal Dragoon Guards

Staff Sgt. Linley, Brett, 29

Birmingham

Royal Logistic Corps

Sgt. Monkhouse, David, 35

Aspatria, Cumbria

Royal Dragoon Guards

Senior Aircraftman Griffiths,  Kinikki, 20

t.b.c.

RAF

Marine Crookes, Jonathan, 26

Halesowen

40 Commando

Marine Harrison, Matthew, 23

t.b.c.

Charlie Company 40 Commando

Major Bowman, James Joshua, 34

Salisbury

1st Battalion  The Royal Gurkha Rifles

Lt. Turkington,  Neal, 26

Craigavon,  County Armagh

t.b.c.

Cpl Pun,  Arjun Purja, 33

Magdi District,  Nepal

1st Battalion  The Royal Gurkha Rifles

Bombardier Robinson,  Samuel, 31

Carmarthen

5th Regiment  Royal Artillery

Marine Hart,  David Charles, 23

York

40 Commando, Royal Marines

Trooper Leverett, James, 20

Great Yarmouth

D Squadron, Viking Group, Royal Dragoon Guards

Pte. Sephton, Thomas, 20

Warrington

1st Battalion  The Mercian Regiment

Royal Marine

t.b.c.

Cpl. Kirkpatrick, Jamie, 32

Edinburgh

101 Engineer Regiment

Bombardier Gilbert, Stephen Raymond, 36

Dumfries

4th Regiment, Royal Artillery

Colour Sgt Horton,  Martyn Simon, 34

Runcorn

1st Battalion  The Mercian Regiment

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May we recommend this BBC "Wall of Pictures" of UK fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan

Link to 
The Royal British Legion (2008)
Registered Charity No 219279. 
199 Borough High Street, London SE1 1AA, Telephone +44 (0)20 3207 2100
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Help for Heroes

Registered Charity number 1120920
Steynings House, Summerlock Approach, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 7RJ
Current running total of donations _ £25.539,000
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The stated aim of the invasion is ..
"..to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda members and put them on trial, to destroy the whole organization of Al-Qaeda, and to remove the Taliban regime which supported and gave safe harbour to Al-Qaeda."
George W Bush

The United States' Bush Doctrine states that, as policy, it will not distinguish between terrorist organizations and nations or governments that harbour them." 

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The following quotation has been drawn to our attention .. equally significant during the Afghanistan conflict .. which originated at a dinner-party at Marl Bank, Little Malvern, hosted by Sir Edward Elgar, in the company of George Bernard Shaw and 'Lawrence of Arabia' ..

"Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. 
It is their war, and you are there to help them, ...
... not to win it for them." 
T.E. Lawrence

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     The past week's 'MONEY MATTERS'

Markets

The FTSE100 rose slightly- over the week

FTSE100

..

Rose 153.77

..

5158.85

Main trades_

Biggest riser

..

ARM Holdings

..

353.3p   <+ 12 %

Biggest faller

..

TUI Travel

..

222.20p  >-    4 %

And in the US_

DOW-Jones Index

..

Rose 253.54

..

10413.72

Commodities

Seven of the 91 European banks have failed the "stress test" health-checks.
They are_ five Spanish banks Diada, Espiga, Banca Civica, Unnim and Cajasur, Germany's Hypo Real Estate and Greece's ATEbank
The seven banks would need a total of 3.5bn euros (£3bn) of new capital to meet the standards required but, when markets open on Monday, they will learn whether it will become easier or harder for them to borrow.

The UK has grown at double the predicted rate for the last 3 months - driven by construction.

Miss Sixty (fashion) have had their CVA (Company Voluntary Agreement) thrown-out by the High Court. Mr. Justice Henderson believes there has been "prima facie misconduct" by Peter Hollis and Nicholas O'Reilly of administrators Vantis.

Over the week.

Gold

..

Rose   < $  3.00

..

$1192.00

Brent Crude

..

Rose  < $   1.45

..

$    77.20

Currencies

After one week's trading _

The £ mainly fell _

£1 buys ...

[Last week's prices]

$ 1.54.21 US

<

up 1¼ cents

1.53.01

$ 1.59.81 CAN

>

down 1¾ cents

1.61.61

$ 1.72.20 AUS

>

down 3¾ cents

1.76.08

$ 2.11.81  NZ

>

down 3½ cents

2.15.33

€ 1.19.56 EURO

<

up 1¼ cents

1.18.33

The Pound was expensive against the Turkish Lira 

£1 buys 2.3479

Yearly high 2.5262

Yearly low 2.2258

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