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Major restores party whip to Euro-rebels in unity bid

[politics ] MR MAJOR moved to heal the Conservative Party's damaging rift over Europe last night by restoring the party whip to eight Tory rebels. They were invited back after five months in the cold in an attempt to close ranks in the run up to next week's local elections in England and Wales.

Governors apologise to Blunkett for protest but militant teacher is let off

[education ] SCHOOL governors are to apologise to David Blunkett, the shadow education secretary, after one of their staff was involved in barracking him at a the National Union of Teachers conference.

Unarmed raider shot dead by police

[crime ] A SENIOR policeman said yesterday that a man shot dead by a police marksman during an aborted raid on a working men's club might have been unarmed. The victim, believed to be in his early twenties, was killed after he and three accomplices broke into the Excelsior club in Westerhope, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Test drive customer dies at wheel of £85,000 Ferrari

[other ] A MAN who took an £85,000 Ferrari out of a car showroom for a test drive was killed when it hit a tree and burst into flames. The salesman who went with him survived the crash which happened when it left a bend at Barrow upon Soar, Leics, yesterday.

Jail for sex slave who killed cruel employer

[crime ] AN IMPOVERISHED servant who was humiliated, beaten and treated as a sex slave killed his female employer when he could take no more, the Old Bailey was told yesterday. Essaki Gopal, 27, from a humble background in a village near Madras, had agreed to work without wages for Indu Bhagchandaney in the belief that he would receive enough money on his return to India to pay for his sisters' dowries.

Envoy behind opt-out wins promotion to US

[people ] SIR John Kerr, Britain's Permanent Representative to the European Union, is to be the new Ambassador in Washington, the Foreigh Office said yesterday. Sir John, 53, will replace Sir Robin Renwick, 57, who is leaving the Diplomatic Service to work in the City.

Super-fast computers 'will take us out of the dark ages'

[science ] THE next generation of supercomputers will calculate 10,000 times faster than present ones, and 200 million times faster than today's home computers. "They will be able to explore the world and the universe in ways we can barely imagine," said Dr Thomas Sterling, of Nasa's Centre for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences at Greenbelt, Maryland. "We will no longer be in the dark age of knowledge."

Mock hunts planned to test stress on deer

[environment ] SCIENTIFIC stag hunts, in which deer are allowed to escape after different intervals to evaluate the stress of the chase, have been proposed by a National Trust working group looking at whether hunting is cruel.

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