MPs and peers to investigate state of British tennis after Davis Cup debacle

By Mark Hodgkinson 900AM GMT thirteen March 2010

Not great sufficient John Lloyd is a infirm witness as Great Britain unemployment to Davis Cup better in Lithuania Photo GETTY IMAGES

The move heaps serve annoyance on the LTA, that is being done to flounder from Vilnius to Westminster. The hearings are scheduled for the House of Commons this month. It is believed to be the initial time that an All-Party Group has been asked to scrutinize the viewed flaws and failings of British tennis.

A orator for Sutcliffe reliable on Friday night that the apportion had asked the All-Party Parliamentary Tennis Group to hold hearings about the LTA"s activities.

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Sutcliffe called for these "evidence sessions" at the Commons prior to Britain"s Davis Cup group lost to Lithuania, a outcome that left them one better afar from relegation to the lowest multiplication of the competition, where they would be at the same turn as countries such as Andorra, Malta and San Marino. But the events in the Baltic usually highlighted the actuality that, over Andy Murray, Britain has no players who could indeed be described as world-class.

In further to the �25 million-plus that the LTA receives each deteriorate from the Wimbledon surplus, the ruling physique has been since �26.8 million of open income from Sport England, widespread over a four-year duration from 2009 to 2013, a seventeen per cent enlarge from the prior settlement. Sutcliffe wants an reason about the state of British tennis.

At slightest dual hearings are planned, with a series of the LTA"s critics approaching to residence the row of MPs and peers about where they think the stream tennis administration department have left wrong.

One of those scheduled to give his views is Tony Hawks, the writer and comedian, who for years has been propelling the LTA to make use of a little of the supports to concede the open to fool around free on Britain"s play ground courts. Roger Draper, the LTA"s arch executive, will be called on to residence the panel, and the All-Party Group will afterwards send the inform to the LTA and to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

Sutcliffe was pronounced last night to be penetrating for British tennis to be carefully thought about closely. If he does not similar to what he hears or what he reads in the report, the apportion could cruise the probability of slicing destiny appropriation for British tennis.

During last summer"s Wimbledon, when Murray was the usually Briton to go over the initial turn of the men"s tournament, and Elena Baltacha was the usually home player to win a compare in the women"s draw, Sutcliffe pronounced he was "tired of excuses" and "if the formula don"t come, shortening the income is something that has to be looked at".

Draper had a assembly this week with Sutcliffe and with Baroness Angela Billingham, the Labour counterpart who chairs the Tennis Group. Though the "evidence sessions" could be hold in private, they could still yield annoyance for Draper and the LTA.

Since the better in Lithuania, former Davis Cup captain David Lloyd and Mark Petchey, Murray"s former coach, have argued that Draper should renounce or be sacked after what they courtesy as the costly "failure" of his prophesy for the sport.

The LTA pronounced that it was "more than happy" to insist itself at Westminster. "We had a really certain assembly with the Sports Minister progressing this week, and we are some-more than happy to plead the open appropriation and any aspects of tennis with the All-Party Group, as we ourselves endorsed last November," a orator said. "No open appropriation goes in to the chosen game. Instead, Sport England"s await is assisting us to deposit some-more than �40 million in tennis comforts over five years, and it"s being used to capture and keep some-more people in the sport. Last year, tennis was one of usually 4 sports to significantly enlarge the series of adults receiving piece each week."

The LTA is conducting an inner examination in to how John Lloyd became the initial British captain to lose five uninterrupted ties. If Lloyd does depart, Murray would be opposite the LTA asking his personal coach, Miles Maclagan, to additionally captain the Davis Cup team. "No, he"s my coach, and I"m happy with the approach things are operative out," Murray said. "I don"t wish Miles to be the captain of the Davis Cup team."

Vauxhall to get �270m from the UK

By Graham Ruddick 414PM GMT twelve March 2010

The Government has concluded to a �270m loan to assistance pledge jobs in the UK

After months of negotiations, Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, has pronounced that the car builder will embrace a €300m (�270m) loan pledge by the Automotive Assistance Programme.

The monetary support, that is theme to a finalising of sum in between the Government and General Motors, Vauxhalls owner, will form piece of a package value up to €3.9bn that GM is putting together with governments to financial the restructuring of the European operations.

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Vauxhall has 5,000 workers in the UK, essentially at plants at Ellesmere Port and Luton. However, their destiny has been in disbelief given last February, when GM suggested it programmed to sell the European business, a offer it after scrapped.

"I regularly pronounced the Government would mount foursquare at the back of Vauxhall and with this proclamation currently we have kept the word," Lord Mandelson said. "These are glorious plants contracting a initial rate workforce."We need Vauxhall to flower as piece of Britain"s automotive production bottom and following the negotiations with GM Europe I am assured it will do so".

Blue-chips given boost by BSkyB and the banks

By Rachel Cooper 638PM GMT twelve March 2010

M&A mumblings vehement the marketplace surpassing this week and traders were once again exchanging takeover tittle-tattle yesterday.

But notwithstanding the rumour-mongering, the FTSE 100 remained comparatively supine, shutting up only 8.39 points to 5625.65.

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The concentration of yesterday"s report was BSkyB, that surfaced the leaderboard, up 28.5 to 598p on gibberish that Rupert Murdoch could take the heavenly body broadcaster private.

Traders were articulate of a probable 735p a share bid from News Corporation for the 61pc of the association that it does not already own.

The companies were not commenting and analysts expel disbelief on the rumour, observant they would design the shares to be higher if traders thought the conjecture was serious.

UBS pronounced it was not transparent because News Corp would wish to do a understanding now.

"News Corp already has in effect carry out and it could have acquired BSkyB in the past at a reduce share price," pronounced the broker.

"Separately, we hold News Corp is expected to be some-more focused on not as big deals."

On the second-tier, that rose 87.12 points to 9941.56, Game Group rose 3.05 to 88,95p on the reconstruction of an old gossip of seductiveness from US peer, GameStop.

Bovis Homes and Persimmon were up 12.8 to 405p to 8 and 444.7p respectively as conjecture about Persimmon"s takeover aspirations refused to die.

At the alternative finish of the scale, Shanks was languishing, down 4 to 100p, after Carlyle reliable surpassing this week that it had finished takeover talks.

Back between the large-caps, Inmarsat climed thirty to 791p after Exane BNP Paribas upgraded the heavenly body communcations association to "outperform" from "neutral".

Earlier this week, Inmarsat posted a spike in fourth-quarter gain on rising direct from conflicts and mess zones. Miners were on the climb too, partly helped by a zone note from RBS.

Vedanta Resources, one of RBS"s "top picks", ticked up 61p to �27.47. But it was Eurasian Natural Resources Company that rose the most, putting on 51p to �11.73.

RBS pronounced the association had "started out the year clever as one of the tip behaving miners" and the attorney expects it to go on to outperform, raising the aim cost to �14.00 from �11.00.

Enjoying a improved day were banks. Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays ticked up 2.02 to 42.57p, 1.93 to 58.47p and 8.1 to 351.85p respectively, helped by a note from Deutsche that put a "buy" rating on the 3 banks.

British Airways ticked up 5.1 to 235.6p notwithstanding moody attendants formulation to set upon for 7 days after this month after talks about compensate and reduce staffing levels pennyless down.

Analysts warned that the set upon could cost BA in the segment of �20m, but the last fee could be less as the airline has a little strait plans in place.

Among the small-caps, nightclub operator, Luminar, ticked up 1 to 36.25p notwithstanding observant that bad continue had strike trade in the last dual months of the monetary year.

Sales at clubs open some-more than a year were down 9.9pc in the year to Feb twenty-five following a rebate in patron numbers.

Liberty climbed 7.27pc to 285p after confirming it was in early stages of takeover talks and that 2010 trade was surpassing well.

The company, that owns a fabric association and oppulance products brand, additionally pronounced it was deliberation the sale and leaseback of the iconic Great Marlborough Street store in London"s West End.

Earlier this month, Liberty pronounced a series of parties had voiced seductiveness in appropriation the leasehold of the shop.

Promethean and SuperGroup listings add �1bn to London Exchange value

By Helia Ebrahimi 729PM GMT twelve March 2010

Julian, Dunkerton, arch senior manager of SuperGroup, has seen his association valued at �395m

Despite a route of deserted in isolation equity IPOs that derailed in the last five weeks, white house builder Promeathean lifted �114m of new income at 200p a share, valuing it at �400m.

It was the primary private-equity-backed UK boyant this year and done a 2.5 times lapse for buyout organisation Apax Partners, that sole down the complete 25pc stake.

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Chief senior manager Jean-Yves Charlier pronounced the preparation commercial operation had met with some-more than 150 investors during the nine-day roadshow.

"We launched the goal to boyant right after a little of the alternative IPOs fell afar but we have regularly been unequivocally assured we would lift this off - Governments opposite the universe are meddlesome in preparation record and we are in a unequivocally great position," he said.

Analysts have projected that the company"s top-line expansion will fill up 20pc for the subsequent 3 years and deduction from the IPO will be used to compensate off shareholders" loans and compensate down debt.

"It unequivocally is a expansion story that is because it works," pronounced Mr Charlier. "It will have no debt as it comes to marketplace and we have already combined a division policy. I think account managers unequivocally responded to that," he said, adding the charity had been some-more than 3 times over-subscribed.

Institutions pronounced the easier Promethean story, in some-more aged to the unsuccessful New Look and Travelport rivals, instilled some-more certainty from UK institutional shareholders. Though violent monetary markets had been blamed by in isolation equity"s disaster to get deals afar the FTSE 100 finished the week on a 21-month high.

Also, winning financier await was SuperGroup the association at the back of luminary prime conform code Superdry that labelled the primary open charity at 500p a share, valuing the organisation at �395m.

The company, that counts David Beckham as a customer, lifted �120m of cash, giving a �105m payday to management. Directors and employees will go on to have a 68pc interest in the business, that is the primary vital sell levity given Mike Ashley"s Sports Direct in 2007.

Close to �10bn is set to be lifted globally around flotations over the subsequent 3 weeks, as the marketplace for new listings reopens after a flighty February.

CPP, the credit label word group, is additionally approaching to proceed trade subsequent Friday with a mooted cost range of in between 225p and 270p along with skill organisation miner African Barrick Gold, and German"s Brenntag.

How Repo Mans vanishing accounting trick got a London link

By Alistair Osborne 1004PM GMT twelve March 2010

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Maybe Dick Fuld and his chums at Lehman Brothers are broom closet fans, since how they finessed their Repo 105 accounting attempt with a assisting palm from auditors Ernst & Young and lawyers Linklaters.

Even in this post-credit break world, it does appear abounding that a bank can fool around now-you-see-me, now-you-don"t with $50bn of resources and get the understanding sealed off. Banks all the time conduct their change sheets by trade resources for short-term liquidity. But they don"t customarily have them disband exactly by valuing the resources at 105pc of the income perceived and pursuit that a sale.

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It"s not in the category of the Enron accounting (that accomplished Arthur Andersen"s auditing career) but E&Y has a little explaining to do as does Linklaters. The London-based law organisation rubber-stamped Repo 105 and, tellingly, was usually asked to since opposition American law firms refused. What does that contend about London?

Luckily both will get a possibility to insist in court, where Anton Valukas"s "best seller" as the decider called it will trigger lotsa lawsuits from Lehman"s creditors.

The decider obviously hasn"t review most best-sellers. But you consternation if Valukas could right away do a identical pursuit on Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS, whose downfalls need identical debate research as against to grandstanding by the Treasury Select Committee. The reports competence even have a decent film.

A BA reward intrigue would be a flier

Kamikaze missions can appear heroic. But you in all finish up dead. Just a thought for the Unite kinship and the 12,000 British Airways cabin organisation it claims to represent.

By fixing set upon dates, Unite knows it is already causing BA monetary pain. Passengers won"t book. And by subsequent Wednesday, BA trainer Willie Walsh will terminate flights. In 2007, a set upon was averted at the eleventh hour but the intrusion still cost BA �80m.

With �2bn of income in the hold, Walsh will not behind down. Instead he will find some-more cost cuts to equivalent set upon losses. Crew will lose transport privileges and more.

Time is short. But BA could nonetheless suggest a benefaction a capability bonus, paid in shares. That way, organisation good if the City does. The pilots have something similar. And, who knows, it competence even fly.

Dover a pier in a storm

Update Dame Vera Lynn and she"d be singing "There"ll be blue difference over/The white cliffs of Dover." Because, buoy, is the denunciation blue right now.

"Severely damaged", "profound disagreement", "untenable state". That"s usually the printable things from the Port of Dover"s 3 greatest business when describing stream family with management. They"re melancholy authorised movement too.

P&O Ferries, Norfolkline and SeaFrance comment for 80pc of the port"s traffic. So they sort of equate when Dover"s arch senior manager Bob Goldfield is sailing forward with a �300m privatisation.

Selling Britain"s greatest certitude ports is the ultimate Treasury wheeze to seaside up the storm-tossed open finance management and Dover was meant to set the waves rolling on �1bn of sales.

Instead all certitude has damaged down. The operators are livid that they"ve had their tariffs jacked up, in a recession, on the stratagem the income would assistance account a second packet terminal. Now they find that Mr Goldfield plans to make use of half Dover"s �60m income pot to repair the grant deficit, whilst revelation any new owners can jump over depot two. Provocatively, he wants a 35pc rates climb too. The packet lines competence have been naive. But you can see because they"re angry that the pier is abusing the corner energy as usually Dover can hoop their ships. They right away wish a regulator or something identical Ofshore perhaps? to strengthen them. So, if the Government wants this sale to swim, it competence have to intervene. Dame Vera sang of "love and delight and assent ever after". But, you wouldn"t bank on that.

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Town thrown into panic after council launches radiation exercise

By Richard Savill 241PM GMT twelve March 2010

Residents barricaded themselves indoors and done raging write calls to the puncture services after "alarmist" leaflets were distributed to 1,200 homes on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

The pamphlets, that were posted by letterboxes after dark, summarized reserve measures to be taken in the eventuality of a chief leak.

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They told people inside of a mile of Portland port, where chief submarines can berth, to close their doors and lard any fires.

Other instructions suggested residents to not leave the area, to take potassium iodate tablets, and follow any instructions given.

To have counts worse, the placement of the leaflets coincided with shrill hailer announcements by H2O association officials that the H2O was being cut off, according to residents.

Rumours afterwards fast widespread that there competence be a deviation trickle from a chief submarine.

Residents have indicted organisers of the "Nuclear Accident Emergency Plan" of "scare-mongering".

The preparations were led by Dorset County Council, the Royal Navy, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the precinct council.

John Morris, a internal resident, pronounced "I went outward when I listened the loudhailer announcement. I was handed this alarmist prospectus about chief leaks by a bloke who pronounced zero about it being an exercise.

"When I got the prospectus I thought Whens the explosve going to drop?

"It looked critical and it is no consternation people panicked. The organizers dealt with this in an definitely amateurish manner."

Vivien Hawkins, 78, pronounced "It was frightening. I listened this horrible noise, non-stop my front doorway but couldn"t assimilate what they were saying.

"After that a pamphlet came revelation me to close all the windows and lard fires."

Another resident, who did not instruct to be named, pronounced "All I listened was that there might have been a deviation puncture on Portland Port. I had to give my mother a sleeping inscription to assistance with the shock.

"It is silly that the organisers have caused so most mishap over a precision exercise."

Ashley Reed, 42, pronounced "The stroke of these leaflets entrance by the minute boxes is the genuine gist of the stress generated.

"The initial sense when you collect it up is that this is since of a deviation trickle and these were delivered at night and after dark."

Geoff Buckley, 73, a former comparison government official operative with Vickers, pronounced "If people don"t know what"s going on it scares them.

"Instead of utilizing pamphlets, they should outlay a bit of time going around to revisit people."

The preparations were a pre-cursor to a incomparable practice subsequent month. The exercises are a orthodox requisite since of the probability that chief submarines could berth in Portland Harbour.

Donna George, comparison puncture government military officer at Dorset County Council pronounced "I assimilate that the summary went out in the internal paper and internal air wave so they were wakeful of the sold practice we were seeking to undertake."

Middle-aged women have better memories than men

By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent 730AM GMT twelve March 2010

At the age of 50, women"s mental stop outperforms their masculine counterparts, recalling difference both faster and some-more accurately.

The group at the University of London asked men and women to recollect 10 difference and afterwards stop them dual mins later.

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They were afterwards asked to list them five mins later.

In each box the women were some-more successful than the men.

The inform authors Matthew Brown and Brian Dodgeon pronounced "Men achieved significantly some-more feeble in the written mental stop tests quite on the behind mental stop test.

"Previous investigate has constructed matching formula but this is the initial time that such a large series of prime men and women of the same age have taken mental stop tests of this kind in the UK."

The investigate concerned some-more than 9,600 prime men and women in England, Scotland and Wales found women outscored men in dual written mental stop tests.

Women scored roughly 5 per cent some-more than men, on average, in the initial exam and scarcely eight per cent some-more in the second.

They were additionally quicker in a third exam requiring them to cranky out as most "Ps" and "Ws" as probable in a page filled with rows of pointless letters, but women additionally done some-more mistakes than men.

In a fourth test, that concerned fixing as most animals as they could in a minute, men and women had matching scores. Each could name twenty-two animals, on average.

Those tested were all members of the National Child Development Study (NCDS) who have been tracked by researchers given their bieing born in 1958.

As they were additionally tested elderly 16, the ultimate tests will assistance researchers guess the stroke that exercise, diet, smoking, ethanol and basin have had on their mental abilities.

Initial analyses have shown those who exercised at slightest once a month performed

better on all tests, on average, than those who did not.

Non-smokers, together with ex-smokers, additionally outscored smokers in the initial of the "word recall" tests, even after amicable credentials was taken in to consideration.

Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire: Walk of the week

1000AM GMT twelve March 2010

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THE EXPERT"S VIEW

Kate Sheard, Dunstable Downs Warden "The perspective conflicting the Vale of Aylesbury is what creates this travel so special. On a transparent day from Dunstable Downs you can see 35 miles in to Oxfordshire, but there are fantastic views all year round, generally on a glacial winters morning. Despite being only a couple of miles from Luton and Dunstable there is a genuine clarity of shun here.

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"The fallen trackways, where story and inlet come together, are my prime piece of the walk. Here it is probable to symbol a far-reaching range of wild orchids in June, such as the usual speckled orchid, the pyramidal orchid and the perfumed orchid, along with singular butterflies such as the Duke of Burgundy and the marker mountain blue in the summer months.

"Id suggest a tea stop at the Chilterns Gateway Centre at the finish of the walk, where internal specialities embody the Bedfordshire Clanger, a suet pudding with a multiple of delectable and honeyed fillings at possibly end."

ESSENTIALS

Start Visitor Centre car play ground

Grid ref TL 008195

Maps OS Landranger 166 and Explorer 181 & 193

Getting there

By feet footpaths from West Street and Tring Road, DunstableBy bike open bridleway from West Street in Dunstable and Whipsnade. Cycle parking accessible at the Gateway CentreBy sight Arriva 61, Luton hire to Aylesbury, land West Street, Dunstable. Daily, solely Sundays. From here you can stick on the travel at point 2 on the mapBy sight Luton hire 7 miles, from here take the 61 sight serviceBy car on the B4541 in between Dunstable and Whipsnade.

Local facilities

National Trust car parkWCsCaf and present emporium open every day 10am-5pm (open 10am-4pm in winter, sealed 24/25 December).Contact 01582 500920; dunstabledowns@nationaltrust.org.uk

Terrain and accessibility

This is a 6 mile (10.4km) spin walk; concede about 3 hours. Parts of the travel can spin murky and sleazy after soppy weather, stout shoes is advisable. Some stiles and gates. Dogs acquire underneath close control.

THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR

Five Knolls Lying on the corner of the Downs, this Scheduled Ancient Monument is the largest spin barrow tomb in Bedfordshire. Visible as bumps conflicting the skyline, the funeral mounds were excavated in the 1850s and 1920s, divulgence that they originated in the late Neolithic and Bronze Age and re-used for funeral in the Roman period.

Drovers Way Part of a network of marks and paths in and around Dunstable, traditionally used by Drovers to take stock to marketplace in Dunstable, but right away renouned with walkers and equine riders.

Wildlife The marker grassland supports a far-reaching accumulation of wildlife, together with singular wild flowers, similar to the Bee Orchard, and butterflies similar to the Chalkhill Blue and Duke of Burgundy.

DIRECTIONS

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1. From the car park, travel somewhat downhill over the weed area, afterwards spin right at the breeze catcher following the trail along the tip of the slant past the site of the Gothic warren as far as the five knolls tumuli.

2. Continue downhill to West Street, that runs along the line of the Icknield Way.

3. Cross West Street on to Green Lane opposite, well known additionally as Drovers Way.

4. Continue as far as the crossroads. In the margin diagonally to the right, the line of trees symbol the fortification of Maiden Bower, an Iron Age mountain fort. At the second crossroads, spin left along the Houghton Green Highway in to Totternhoe village.

5. Cross Dunstable Road and follow Furlong Lane, spin left onto Church Road and left again on to Well Head Road. Follow this as far as the Icknield Way nearby Well Head.

6. Cross the highway and follow the bridleway conflicting as far as the bottom of the Downs.

7. Turn right at the finish of the bridleway. Follow the pavement at the bottom of the slope, by the fence, until a lane is reached on the left. NOTE for a shorter walk, follow this lane ascending and behind to the starting point along an very old vale way.

8. Pass by a gate, spin left ascending for 45m, afterwards spin right onto a fallen way. This trail is an old "cut way" that would have offering travellers an simpler approach up the slope. Follow this trail as it climbs up the Downs and afterwards behind to the bottom.

9. Join the pavement that follows the bottom of the Downs.

10. Just prior to the road, stick on the bridleway that climbs uphill, seeking behind views of the Vale of Aylesbury and Ivinghoe Beacon appear.

11. With the car play ground on your right lift on ascending and spin left in to a large weed field. Please keep your dogs on a lead in this margin as there might be sheep grazing.

12. Follow the sidestep line at the tip of the margin with some-more views of the Vale of Aylesbury on your left. You are following the Ridgeway Link that joins Dunstable Downs to Ivinghoe Beacon. After on foot underneath a series of Beech trees and flitting by a bridlegate, the Chilterns Gateway Centre shortly appears on the right.

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Baroness Uddin cleared over expenses scandal

By Robert Winnett 1101AM GMT twelve Mar 2010

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The Crown Prosecution Service voiced the end not to move charges opposite the politician, who was indicted of inappropriately claiming thousands of pounds in expenses.

The counterpart told the House authorities that her "main" home was a skill in Kent notwithstanding carrying an additional residence in London. Neighbours at the Kent skill pronounced that they had frequency seen her there.

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However, a new statute by the Lords authorities dynamic that peers could commission a skill as their "main" home even if they usually "visit" it at slightest once a month.

Three Labour MPs and a Conservative counterpart yesterday told a decider they dictated to make use of a 320-year-old law to disagree they should not be prosecuted.

MPs David Chaytor, Elliot Morley and Jim Devine, along with Lord Hanningfield, will demand their box should not be attempted by a jury and instead dealt with by House of Commons authorities.

The 4 were charged last month. The CPS voiced there was deficient justification to move charges opposite a fifth politician, Labour counterpart Lord Clarke of Hampstead.

In an rare conference at City of Westminster Magistrates" Court yesterday, all 4 Parliamentarians pronounced they would beg not guilty to fiddling claims for allowances.

The MPs asked to be immune from station in the secure potion wharf at the behind of the justice - but their ask was refused.

District Judge Timothy Workman concluded the box was so critical it should be listened at a higher justice and expelled the 4 defendants on umbrella bail to crop up at Southwark Crown Court on Mar 30.

If convicted, they face a limit judgment of 7 years in prison.

Barrister Julian Knowles, for the MPs, told the justice they would disagree they were stable by parliamentary privilege, lonesome in the 1689 Bill of Rights.

"My clients should not be accepted as observant that they are on top of the law - that would be utterly wrong," he said.

"Parliamentary payoff is piece of the law - and it is for Parliament to request the law in their cases."

He pronounced the box was of "high inherent importance" but combined the rapist courts had "no jurisdiction" over them.

"Proceedings in Parliament cannot be impeached or questioned in any justice or place outward Parliament," he said.

Addressing a justice packaged with reporters and members of the public, he stressed the men denied any wrong-doing.

"They unquestionably and resolutely say their innocence," he said.

In a apart conference rught away after the MPs", the justice was told Hanningfield would additionally disagree he was lonesome by Parliamentary privilege.

His counsel Rupert Bowers pronounced he would repudiate charges of poorly claiming for "repayment of travelling and alternative expenses".

The 3 MPs and counterpart left justice but commenting where they were mobbed by the media and a handful of protesters chanting "give us the income back", "pigs" and "oink, oink".

In a statement, Hanningfield pronounced he was "devastated" at the proceedings.

His orator Mark Spragg pronounced "He is ravaged to be in this position. He feels he has been singled out. He does not hold he has finished anything dishonest."

Bury North MP Chaytor, 60, of Todmorden, Lancashire, is indicted of secretly claiming rent on a London prosaic he owned, secretly filing invoices for IT work and renting a skill from his mother, opposite regulations.

Scunthorpe MP Morley, 57, of Winterton, North Lincolnshire, allegedly secretly claimed �30,428 in seductiveness payments in between 2004 and 2007 towards a debt on his home he had already paid off.

Livingston MP Devine, 56, of Bathgate, West Lothian, is pronounced to have poorly submitted dual invoices value a sum of �5,505 for services supposing by Armstrong Printing Limited.

He additionally faces a second assign alleging he dishonestly claimed cleaning and upkeep costs of �3,240 by submitting fake invoices from Tom O"Donnell Hygiene and Cleaning Services.

Hanningfield, additionally well known as Paul White, 69, of West Hanningfield, nearby Chelmsford, Essex, faced 6 charges of creation prejudiced claims for travelling allowances.

Each assign claimed the former personality of Essex County Council "purported to show that you were entitled to be paid losses when the conditions entitling you to remuneration of such losses had not been fulfilled".

Buckinghamshire village in Street View fight against Google

By Emma Barnett and Claudine Beaumont 917AM GMT twelve March 2010

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Residents of London Road - a cul-de-sac of thirty isolated and semi-detached houses in Broughton, on the hinterland of Milton Keynes - motionless to take a mount after the Google Street View use was launched last year.

They prevented one of the company"s cars from pushing down the street, claiming that the images from a camera mounted on the roof tiles would effectively concede burglars to counterpart over their grassed area walls.

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And for most of yesterday it appeared that the small rope of householders had won a important victory.

When the use - that stitches together photographs of open roads to yield a "virtual tour" of towns and villages - went live in the Broughton area, London Road was missing.

Internet users who attempted to see at the travel yesterday sunrise were greeted with a vacant shade and a summary that review "This design is no longer available." However, villagers" happiness shortly incited to annoy when 360-degree images of the cul-de-sac in the future appeared after in the evening, with Google blaming a "technical glitch" progressing in the day. It left residents bemoaning a viewed miss of burden and open carry out in the mapping service, that right away covers 95 per cent of the UK.

"I think it"s an advance of privacy," pronounced John Neale, 76, a late builder who lives on the street. "These photos are seeking over your fences and walls - it"s an penetration and I"m not certain it"s a necessity."

Edward Butler-Ellis, 28, a Tory councillor for Milton Keynes and one of the residents who led the protests, pronounced "The actuality is they should have asked or at slightest let people know that they were photographing their houses.

"What unequivocally gets me is people have to opt out of being on it when they should have to opt in. A lot of comparison people but the internet are unknowingly that they are means to opt out of this." Street View was launched last open with on top of eye-level photography of cities together with London and Manchester.

It captivated the madness of remoteness campaigners who claimed the use breached interpretation insurance laws. But the Information Commissioner"s Office ruled that the use was legal, and that Google"s use of blurring faces and series plates to safeguard that people could not be identified was sufficient.

Thames Valley Police, that covers the Broughton area, pronounced there was no justification to indicate that the use caused an enlarge in burglaries.

Google pronounced that it took remoteness concerns intensely severely and done it easy for people to ask that an design be removed. Each design on the mapping site facilities a couple that people can click on to ask that a design is deleted or blurred.

"There can be the occasional technical glitch when we initial launch imagery but this has right away been fixed," pronounced a Google spokesman.

"If there are any tentative requests for the removal of houses, vehicles or people along that road, we will routine those in the normal way."

Elsewhere, a legislature has been systematic to assistance a organisation of travellers acquire a postcode, that would pave the approach for them to explain state benefits.

A decider sitting at Blackpool County Court pronounced that the authorities should assistance the travellers benefit a postcode after legislature officials went to justice to stop a organisation creation a site in Hardhorn, Lancs, some-more permanent.

World Badminton and London 2012 organisers to meet over Wembley move

By Rod Gilmour 1231PM GMT twelve Mar 2010

Paint me a design London 2012 Olympic site but Badminton set for Wembley Photo AP

Fresh doubts - as suggested bySport - were lifted by the Badminton World Federation in Dec over the prolonged tour times from the Olympic park, notwithstanding athletes being offering road house bedrooms and precision venues close to the venue for the generation of the tournament.

The International Olympic Committee, who will have the last contend on the matter, pronounced last month that badminton and rhythmic acrobatic exercises had both concluded to the switch, but the sports have nonetheless to give their last capitulation on relocating to north London.

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However Badminton England, the inhabitant ruling body, wish the BWF, who are holding an senior manager meeting, to have a last proclamation and put the long-running row to bed. Chief senior manager Adrian Christy pronounced "We are carefree of an result and a essential resolution from Locog."

Locog will encounter with BWF officials to relieve any serve problems that had escalated ever given the strange deadline to finalise venues was longed for last March.

Wembley Arena has already been selected for the 2011 World Badminton Championships and officials are fervent for a resolution due to utilizing a little aspects as a exam eventuality prior to London 2012.

Sebastian Coe, London 2012s chairman, pronounced last month that Locog was formulation a array of trade "frequencing" measures to fight congestion. These enclosed expelling red lights, permitting Olympic vehicles free-flow transport to and from venues.

Locog motionless to indecisive Wembley as an pick venue after the disbandment of a proxy �40 million venue in Greenwich.

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815AM GMT twelve March 2010

Hull City to sell season tickets to agency to ease debt worries

By Paul Kelso, Chief Sports Reporter 956PM GMT eleven March 2010

High hopes Tom Cairney (right) celebrates scoring Hull"s initial idea opposite Everton, but they match, similar to their deteriorate incited green and they lost 5-1 Photo PA

The bar have concluded to sell 6,800 tickets for subsequent deteriorate and 7,000 tickets for the 2011-12 debate sole to London-based group Ticketus at a sum cost of �3.92 million.

It is misleading either Hull will embrace the income from Ticketus up-front, easing their poignant monetary difficulties, or either the payments will be staged.

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Significantly the understanding specifies particular prices for deteriorate tickets that crop up to be reduce than the cost currently charged for Premier League deteriorate tickets. This would concede Ticketus to distinction from a domain on the tickets, but could additionally concede Hull to good from the understanding in the eventuality of relegation.

Disclosure of the season-ticket deal, minute in papers filed at Companies House this week, emerged as Hull face an concerned close to the deteriorate and a array of matches, starting with Arsenal at home on Saturday evening, that will have a outrageous temperament on the club"s future.

The bar have turn reliant on owners Russell Bartlett for presence and face poignant monetary vigour even if they equivocate relegation to the Championship.

In the club"s accounts for the 2008 season, the majority new available, auditors Deloitte warned that Hull would need to lifted �16 million to sojourn a going regard if they defended Premier League standing this season.

Should they be relegated the auditor warned that they would have to lift a sum of �23 million to encounter their existent liabilities.

The accounts impute to the club"s last Championship deteriorate and their resources might have altered significantly given then, but the auditor"s notice underlines the monetary pressures at the KC.

It is supposed that Bartlett, who was usually reliable as the club"s owners last autumn following a acquire shift in Premier League rules, has lent Hull about �7 million this season.

The bar have additionally been sealed in brawl with former arch senior manager Paul Duffen, who was dangling in Oct last year. He was private by authority Adam Pearson after he was purported to have supposed strange payments from agents.

In a command lodged at the High Court Hull claimed that Duffen had supposed payments from agents in sell for favoring them with send business, and had additionally used bar income for personal expenses. Last month Duffen reached an out-of-court allotment with the club.

Arsène Wenger accepts it will take a "miracle" for Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas to be fit to face Hull.

The Spain midfielder longed for the midweek Champions League feat over Porto since of the injure leg tendon complaint that had seen him totter out of the win opposite Burnley last weekend.

"His chances of personification are 0.5 per cent that equates to unless a spectacle happens, he will not play," Wenger said.

Sir Brian Pitman, veteran banker and former Lloyds chairman, dies

By Jonathan Russell 715PM GMT eleven March 2010

Sir Brian Pitman, the maestro landowner and former Lloyds TSB chairman, has died elderly 78.

The man who rose from his initial pursuit as a jazz trombonist to lead Lloyds Bank for eighteen years suffered a heart conflict progressing this week.

Although he late from Lloyds roughly 10 years ago, he one after another to be an active participation in the City with non-executive purposes on the play of Singapore Airlines, Tomkins and Carphone Warehouse.

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He was authority of Virgin Money and was being lined up to lead Northern Rock if Sir Richard Branson"s organisation succeeded in shopping it.

He additionally acted as an confidant to Morgan Stanley International. Chairman and arch senior manager Walid Chammah pronounced "He was one of the majority respected, smart and judicious bankers of his generation. Those of us who had the payoff of operative with him will recollect him as modest, thoughtful, and estimable of the apply oneself and admiration."

Sir Brian, in his time as arch senior manager and afterwards authority of Lloyds, built the bank from a �1bn commercial operation to a �32bn craving by concentrating on sell banking.

He refused to concede Lloyds to enhance in to investment promissory note and after pang from bearing to the Latin American emperor debt predicament incited his behind on tellurian expansion.

Despite, or maybe since of this truth he grew Lloyds in to the largest of the big 4 high travel banks. He led the takeover of TSB in 1995, a year after being knighted for services to banking. .

Lloyds Banking Group arch senior manager Eric Daniels pronounced "Sir Brian was a indeed inspirational leader, who contributed an huge volume to Lloyds over most years. He was a soaring figure in the industry and was concerned in most of the vital changes that have made the promissory note sector."

Sir Brian"s repute as an astute, regressive landowner led to him being regularly called on to suggest on promissory note crises. In the 1970s he was concerned in the Bank of England"s boat cabinet tasked with addressing the delegate promissory note crisis.

Just dual weeks ago he appeared prior to MPs on the successful Future of Banking Commission to suggest his views on how to residence the stream promissory note crisis.

The tied together father of 3 was additionally a cricket partner and part of of the MCC.

World Indoor Athletics 2010: Yelena Isinbayeva aims for new pole vault record

520PM GMT eleven Mar 2010

Raising the club stick vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva aims to set an additional universe jot down at the World Indoor Athletics Championships Photo AP

The reigning Olympic hold up set out her aspiration to register a new indoor symbol at the Aspire dome.

"This is my goal," Isinbayeva said. "I"m really inspired for the universe record.

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"It"s my initial time in Doha and I"d similar to to have the foe unforgettable."

With her stream universe annals mount at 5.06m outdoor and 5.00m indoors, Isinbayeva, 27, has pronounced she wants to reach 5.20 metres prior to her career is over.

That said, the Russian showed that relief can come behind to show up an contestant when she inebriated at last year"s World Athletics Championships in Berlin, unwell to transparent any height.

She lost to Poland"s Anna Rogowska who additionally uncharacteristically kick her in the London Grand Prix a integrate of months prior to Berlin.

But Isinbayeva rebounded in pretentious style, violation her own universe jot down at the Golden League in Zurich usually a week after her mess in the German capital.

"I still make make use of of it similar to a outrageous proclivity since I"ll never dont think about that defeat," she pronounced of her Berlin failure. "I learnt a great lesson.

"I wish to keep this better in my mental recall and regularly make make use of of it when I feel over-confident."

She one after another "I"m in my most appropriate shape. In my last foe I jumped 4.85m. Other girls will usually be my rivals over 5m.

"I jumped it 6 years ago.

"I"m happy they"re mending so well - it would be good to have a little some-more rivals."

The main "competition" for Isinbayeva in Doha will expected come from Rogowska, who has a season"s most appropriate of 4.81m, Brazil"s Fabiana Murer (4.82) and associate Russian Svetlana Feofanova, who has an all-time most appropriate of 4.88 but has managed usually 4.75 this year.

Watch with full live coverage of the World Indoor Athletics Championships on Mar 12, thirteen and 14, online to one side on telegraph.co.uk in organisation with Aviva. Follow the fortunes of Aviva Team GB and NI in Doha for the IAAF World Indoor Championship, with stars such as Jessica Ennis, Jenny Meadows and Phillips Idowu set to contest in the tip indoor eventuality of the season. You can watch all of the eventuality to one side live online here. There will additionally be highlights and full sum in the lead up to Doha on the entertainment pages.

Questor share tip: Melrose is a buy

Garry White 630AM GMT eleven March 2010

Melrose PLC

Against this backdrop, Melrose has achieved on top of any observer"s expectations. The association has consistently lifted the division via the recession, it managed to dilate margins to 13pc in the second half of the year and it has slashed the debt by 41pc to a turn where it does not means concern. Its early-cycle businesses are starting to redeem and the late cycle operations are saying an uptick in orders. This all bodes well for the future.

Melrose is an investment car that focuses on shopping underperforming industrial resources and branch them around. Its indication is to buy uneasy business, urge the potency of their operations and afterwards sell them at a distinction for shareholders.

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Most of the group"s government cut their commercial operation teeth together at Wassall in the 1990s. The commercial operation remade itself from a shoe tradesman in to holding association for industrial companies and this indication has been eliminated to Melrose. Over twelve years, the government at Wassall generated a devalue sum shareholder lapse of some-more than 18pc a year.

Melrose owns businesses that have the widget at the bottom of drink cans, turbines, electrical switchgear and transformers, amongst others. You can see them all on the website. Melrose even creates the handles for Gillette razors though the squeeze of the majority high form commercial operation FKI.

This engineering organisation used to be a part of of the FTSE 250, but it was paid for in Jul 2008 for only underneath �1bn. Melrose believed it could urge the potency of the organisation - financially and operationally. It described FKI as being "unfocused, with a diseased change sheet."

The sum for 2009 consecrate the initial full year that FKI has been enclosed in the numbers, so year-on-year comparisons are difficult. In the twelve months to Dec 31, pre-tax enlarge rose to �82m from �23.5m on revenues that rose to �1.3bn from �895m.

After this performance, it is right away approaching that analysts will enlarge their current-year gain per share foresee by as most as 10pc from the stream 17p.

The association will compensate a second halt division in lieu of a last dividend. The reason for this is transparent the remuneration will be done on Apr 1, prior to the finish of the stream taxation year and forward of the UK government"s taxation travel for higher-rate taxpayers. The second halt division will be 4.8p, giving a sum payout for the year of 7.7p, 10pc a head of 2008.

The shares are up 34pc given they were endorsed at 154p on Sep 4th compared with a marketplace up 17pc. Based on an alleviation in the mercantile sourroundings over the subsequent dual years, the gratefulness does not seen overstretched quite as gain estimates are expected to rise. The shares are trade on a Dec 2010 gain mixed of 11.9 times, descending to 10.5 subsequent year. The impending division produce is 3.8pc. Buy.

Investment bank Nomura to advise Red Knights on Manchester United takeover

929AM GMT eleven March 2010

Protest Manchester United fans wish Red Knights to buy out Glazers Photo PA

Nomura will work closely with the Red Knights, the Manchester United Supporters" Trust and alternative intensity investors to "coordinate and delineate the offer to be put to the Glazer family".

The Nomura group will be led by Guy Dawson and Andrew McNaught, both of whom suggested the Board of Manchester United plc when the bar was sole to the Glazer family in 2005.

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Nomura is commencement the purpose by contacting the most expressions of monetary await the Red Knights have perceived to date.

Whether that series includes David Beckham is not well known but the former England captain did the complete debate a large foster by donning a immature and bullion headband after AC Milan"s 4-0 Champions League better last night.

Protesters opposite the Glazers have adopted the immature and bullion colours and they have been rarely perceivable at United matches in new weeks.

"I"m a Man United fan. I saw the headband there. I put it turn my neck, it"s the old colours of Man United, that"s all I knew," Beckham said.

"To be honest it"s (the protest) not my business. I"m a Manchester United fan. I await the club. I regularly have finished and I regularly will do. It"s zero to do with me the approach all is run, that"s to do with alternative people but I"m a Man United fan and I await the team. I will regularly await them."

With United over �700 million in debt, most right away see the Red Knights as the usually shelter for the Old Trafford outfit, even though the Glazer family demand it is commercial operation as common and the bar is not for sale.

Health gap widens despite NHS billions: Audit Commission

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor 730AM GMT eleven March 2010

While teenage pregnancy, infant mankind and hold up outlook have softened overall, richer areas still have improved health than poorer ones and the inconsistency has increased, the inform said.

The NHS check has doubled in the last ten years to reach �98bn last year nonetheless there are still sheer differences in the health of internal communities, even in in between beside ones, the Commission found.

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The inform pronounced that opposite England there had been a dump of thirteen per cent in the teenage conceiving physically rate over ten years, where as the aim was to separate it by 2010.

Manchester marked down the teenage conceiving physically rate by fourteen per cent but circuitously Oldham had a 38 per cent increase.

The inform pronounced internal NHS organisations do not have sufficient energy to deliver their own initiatives to plunge into health inequalities as there is lots of superintendence and initiatives from a range of organisations.

Primary Care Trusts were since �21bn last year for open health but majority of the income was swallowed up by executive directives and programmes such as immunisation and screening with small left for internal bodies to outlay on their own priorities, the inform said.

Andy McKeon, Managing Director of Health at the Audit Commission, pronounced "We know the health of the republic is improving. But movement in the health of people vital in opposite tools of the nation stays stark. Comparisons can be striking. While teenage conceiving physically drops by 38 per cent in one town, it rises by fourteen per cent in a beside town.

"Billions are destined to deprived areas. But it is not regularly transparent how most has essentially been outlayed on shortening health inequalities, and what the stroke of this or that programme has been. Progress is mostly disappointing.

"The Audit Commission longed for to open discussions on a little elemental questions about mending the nations health and rebellious health inequalities since open spending will be some-more compelled in the years ahead."

A Department of Health orator pronounced "We are gratified that the Audit Commission recognises that hold up outlook is the top it has ever been and infant mankind is at an all time low, but some-more needs to be finished to slight the opening in in between disadvantaged areas and the rest of England.

"The not long ago published Marmot Report shows us there is still most to do and the recommendations will assistance us put in place a plan to plunge into health inequalities over the subsequent decade.

"Together with the assistance of internal communities we can residence the wider causes of bad health and yield the indispensable await and superintendence to revoke health inequalities."

Opera browser launches on Android

By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor 342PM GMT eleven March 2010

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Opera program has launched a browser for Andorid to opposition the central Google programme

Web browser Opera has launched a beta version of the Mini 5 program on the Google Android handling system. The browser, renouned since it compresses web pages and creates them significantly faster to load, is the initial to opposition the central Android browser and is accessible around the Android Market

Opera claims some-more than 50 million users worldwide, and says that the program will suggest Android phone users a desktop-like browsing experience.

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"Android users should not have to concede when it comes to surfing the web on their phones. OperaMini will give Android users a fast and cost-efficient entrance to their prime Web sites and services," pronounced Dag Olav Norem, Vice President of Products at Opera.

The browser functions by compressing interpretation on Operas servers, and afterwards usually promulgation the not as big version of files to users phones. That equates to there is less vigour on bandwidth, and for a little users on limiting interpretation tariffs, less cost.

Android is an open-source handling system, definition that Google allows alternative program developers to rise apps and have them accessible freely. A Google orator said, "Greater preference for users equates to larger creation in the industry as a whole."

Opera has additionally demonstrated a version of Opera on the iPhone, but Apple has a opposite process and seems doubtful to, for the foreseeable future, to concede a browser on the handset that it has not grown itself.

British journalist freed in Gaza

1058AM GMT eleven March 2010

Paul Martin Photo AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Paul Martin was arrested on Feb. fourteen whilst on a revisit to Gaza to give counterclaim justification in a justice box involving a internal man indicted of operative with the Israeli security services.

Mahmoud al-Zahar, a comparison Hamas official, told a headlines discussion at that he was flanked by British and South African diplomats that Hamas still deliberate Mr Martin guilty of spying but would not move charges. He would instead be deported.

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A tactful procession thought to be carrying Mr Martin, a London-based freelance film-marker and contributor with British and South African nationality, after left the enclave for Israel.

Mr Martin"s lawyer, Sharhabeel al-Zaeem, pronounced that he had confirmed his ignorance via his apprehension and insisted that he was a bona fide publisher researching stories.

Mr Zahar deserted suggestions that Hamas was perplexing to shorten reporters from stating in Gaza, observant that they were free to work as normal.

Mr Martin, who is in his 50s, has reported often from Gaza, on condition that freelance reports for radio and newspapers.

Britain"s clamp consul in Jerusalem, Stephen Brown, pronounced "We"re patently all relieved that Paul is out."