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2 DAILY EXPRESS Tuesday April 18 1989 ★ *
% By DAVID BENSON Motoring Editor Bonjour Bluebird, says France
NISSAN Bluebird cars built at
Sunderland are to be allowed
into France as British products
and will not be restricted
by French quotas on Japanese
goods.
This decision, announced last
night, is a considerable victory for
Industry Secretary Lord Young,
who has been determ ined to get
the Bluebird accepted as a British
product throughout the EEC.
It was vital to secure EEC
acceptance to ensure the future of
Doctors’
warning
on health
changes
By CLARE DOVER
MedicalReporter
PLANS to refo rm th e
h e a lth se rv ic e h av e
been rejected by th e
p restigious Royal College
of G eneral P ractitio
n ers.
Fam ily doctors said the
reform s would seriously
damage patient care and
doctor-patient relatio n ­
ships.
The move followed similar
rejections of the Governm
ent’s W hite Paper
proposals by other medical
colleges and th e
health service unions.
A spokesm an said the
college deplored the fact
th at the W hite Paper and
th e proposed new contract
for GPs were produced
w ithout consultation.
He said the idea of letting
GPs manage their
own budgets should be
properly researched.
The college was particularly
unhappy about the
am ount of tim e available
for th e medical profession
to discuss the proposed
reform s.
Legion disease
kills two more
TWO m ore people have
died in an outbreak of
legionnaires’ disease at a
m ajor hospital.
The victim s, who have
not been nam ed, died at
Queen’s Medical Centre,
N ottingham . O ver th e
past seven m onths, seven
people in all have caught
the disease while a t the
centre.
A spokeswom an for the
h e a lth a u th o rity said
there was no evidence to
suggest the hospital was
a source of the infection.
“Someone's written to
c ritic ise m y le tte r
about th e R ig h t to
Reply B ill ”
N issan’s factory in North East
England, which w ill be turning'
out 200,000 cars a year by 1991, and
to w in the £650 m illion investm
ent in a new factory for Toyota
in Britain.
Toyota, which w ill also eventually
turn out 200,000 cars a year,
needed to be assured that their
B ritish -b u ilt cars w ould be
accepted in the EEC without tariff,
after 1992.
Now that Lord Young has had
the French assurance on Nissan,
an announcem ent on the Toyota
factory is expected in the next few
days.
B u t for eigh t m on th s, th e
French have been stalling on the
B lu ebirds, w hich Sun derland
started to export last September.
The French were demanding 80
per cent British and EEC content
for the cars.
At the m om ent, N issan have
achieved 70 per cent local content'
— 10 per cent m ore than the
accepted EEC guideline requiring
a 60 per cent Euro content.
Lord Young had threatened to
take France to the European
Court to get the French to accept
the 60 per cent figure.
M e a n w h ile , N issa n h a s
exported m ore than 15,000 Blue-:
birds to France despite the threat
to deduct these cars from the Japanese
quota in France.
Now France has backed down
and sent an assurance to the European
Com m ission that the Sunderland
Bluebirds w ill not be
counted against the quota.
End of Kop as Hurd
demands all-seater
grounds at top clubs
THE END of popular
standing areas like The
Kop, The Shed and the
Stretford End at big football
grounds was signalled
by the Home Secretary
yesterday.
D ouglas H u rd o rd ered th e
judge heading th e H illsb o rough
d isaster inquiry to recom
m end outlaw ing standing
terraces a t clubs w hich stage
crow d-pulling m atches.
Horror on the terraces 1946-89
Bradford City: stand
catches fire, 53 die
Liverpool: 200 hurt
when section of
crowd panicked
Injured wnen barrier
JANUARY 1971
Glasgow, Ibroc
66 killed, 170 injured
when crush barriers
WAY 1985
H * ptfS fedtam :39
HOed in rioting
involving Liverpool
and Juventiis fans
(m e a t 30 people nun
when barrier collapsed
Sunny intervals, light winds
Outlook: Changeable
M M dtebrw gk:
couple die when pillar
Boitoa: 33 die, 500
Injured after barrier
collapse
BtrahvkMCHrun)
collapses, 20 hurt
• 1,2,3,5,6,15,16,17,18,19,22: Sunny intervals
and showers. Wind light north to
north west. Max 11C (52P).
• 4,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,20,21,25,26,29: Dry.
Sunny periods. Wind light, north to
north west. Max 12C (54P).
• 23,24,27,28: Sunny intervals and showers.
Wind light to moderate, northerly.
Max 9C (48P).
Sun sets (London): 8.01 p.m., rises 5.57
a.m. tomorrow. Moon rises: 5.32 p.m.,
sets 5.05 a.m. tomorrow. High water at
London Bridge: 1.35 p.m. and 1.49 am .
tomorrow. Liverpool: 10.43 p.m. and
11.04 p.m.
HOTTEST AND COLDEST
W arm est p lace In B ritain yesterday: M ore-
cam be,L ancs, 14C (57F). CoIdesfcBenbecula,
O u te r H e b rid e s. 1C (34F ). S u n n ie st:
T iree ,In n e r H e b rid e s 10.8hrs. W ettest:
W yton,C am bs, 0.4ins.
By ROBERT GIBSON
.Political Editor______
T he m ove cam e as th e FA
condem ned th e U EFA p resid
ent fo r b rand in g th e Liverpool
fans as “b e a sts”.
T h e FA s a id J a c q u e s 1
G eorges w as “u tterly insensitiv
e’’ to suggest th a t crow d
violence caused th e disaster.
The Government’s Bill requiring
soccer fans to carry identity •
cards, w hich was due to
receive its th ird reading
in the Lords next Monday,
will be postponed
as a m ark of respect to
Saturday’s victims.
B ut M r H urd made it
clear th a t the Governm
ent still intends to
press on w ith its plan to
com bat hooliganism.
T he d ec isio n w as
greeted w ith open hostility
by Labour MPs
a n d M rs T h a tc h e r
seemed surprised at the
lack of support from
the Tory backbenchers.
Violence
M r H u rd to ld th e f
C om m ons: “V iolence
has been the curse of
the gam e before and
m ight be again unless
we find the remedy. It
would be foolish to for-,
get the lessons of earlier
disasters.”
“T he G o v ern m e n t
believes the future of
football in this country
lies in a national m em ­
bership schem e in desig
n ated gro u n d s and
now it seem s also in_
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■Lighting-up times: London 8.32 p.m. to 5.27 a.m
THE HORROR OF
HILLSBOROUGH
M r Hurd: Remedy;
p ro v id in g all-seated
a c c o m m o d a tio n a t
m ajor football clubs.”
He said the proposed
m easures would mean,
the end of terraces at
th e biggest grounds and
m ig h t also involve
a m e n d m e n ts to
strengthen the Football
Spectators Bill.
Form er sports m iniste
r Neil M acfarlane led
Tory opposition to the
scheme, saying it would
be “prem ature and foolhardy”
to press ahead.
John Carlisle, chairm
an of the Conservative
MPs’ sports comm
ittee, added it would
be wise to postpone furth
er discussion.
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WORLD TEMPERATURES
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ta ry Roy H a tte rsle y
said. “The decision to
push th at Bill through
Parliam ent, even while
th e inquiry is sitting, is
n e ith e r ratio n a l n o r
sensitive to th e moOd of
the country.”
H e added th a t th e
inquiry m ust consider
crowd control outside
the turnstiles and not
ju st in grounds.
Lord Justice Taylor,
58, who will head the
inquiry, is expected to
p ro d u ce an in te rim
re p o rt in ab o u t two
m onths.
Its findings can be
published im mediately
and th e recom m endations
put into effect.
A full report should be
com pleted by the beginning
of next season.
A team of 150 police
officers headed by West
M idlands Chief Constable
Geoffrey Dear will
h e a r evidence from
police, emergency and
hospital workers, fans
who survived the crush
and people concerned
w ith fo o tb all ground
safety.
M r Dear and th e judge
are to visit Sheffield
today to see site of the
disaster.
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TEMPERATURES AROUND BRITAIN
Belfast.............. rain 10 50 Glasgow............rain 10 50
Birmingham.....'rain 9 48 London........ drizzle 9 48
,Bristol...............duil 10 50 Manchester rain 10 50
Cardiff:.......... cloud 11 52 Newcastle bright 10 50
Manchester 8,44 p.m. to 5.31 a.m .— — - —
Prices at pumps
jump up again
TWO petrol giants increased prices again
last night, with BP adding 7.7p to the cost
of a gallon, and Esso adding 8.2p.
Esso are now charging 196p for a gallon
of four-star and 186.4p for a gallon of
unleaded. If BP’s wholesale price is
reflected at the pumps, motorists will be
paying similar prices.
It now seems likely that petrol will break
through the £2 a gallon barrier this year.
Spokesmen for the two companies blamed
the international cost of petrol and crude
oil.
News of the increase led to anger at
Westminster, with calls for Mrs Thatcher to
limit the number of petrol outlets oil companies
were allowed to own.
Other petrol companies haven’t yet
announced an increase.
EEC sinks Ridley
THE Government may
have to postpone water
privatisation after the :
EEC yesterday threatened
court action .
unless strict drinking
water standards are
applied. Environment
Secretary Nicholas Ridley
had tried to win
exemption from the ;
rules, which could put ___
off potential investors. Nicholas Ridley
W alk-out threat
to leading store
STAFF at a top store are to strike over a
wage rise — even though their union
admits they are already well paid.
A thousand workers at Selfridges in
London are furious ,at an imposed settlement
of 6.25 per cent. Their union,
USDAW, says the increase is inadequate, •
and should at least match inflation, which
is now above 7.5 per cent.
Bosses at the Oxford Street store insist
it will be business as usual despite the.
one-day walk-out on April 27. They are,
refusing to discuss the imposed rise with
staff any further. i
But a union spokesman, who agreed
Selfridges staff were on good money for
the retail industry, said the strike would hit
the store hard.
Last month, USDAW held two one-day
stoppages at the store and had pickets on
all 14 entrances.
Party girl Sam
FORMER page three
girl Samantha Fox has'
celebrated her twenty-i
third birthday at a New)
York nightclub. Sam,
who has had three Top
Ten singles and two
million-selling LPs,
spent most of the evening
with Paul Stanley, a
former member of the
rock group Kiss.
Family safe as
fighter crashes
A FAMILY escaped death by 100 yards
yesterday when a jet fighter plunged on to
farmland outside their home yesterday.
The American Air Force plane scattered
high explosive shells after exploding in a
fireball, killing the pilot.
The Nicholas family — including two-
day-old baby Stephanie and 17-month,
Natalie — were all unhurt. The A-10 Tank-
buster was flying with another plane when
it failed to pull out of a dive, clipping the
ground, near Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.
Farmworker Dennis Clarke said: “I hate
to think what would’ve happened if the
pilot hadn’t steered the plane away from
the town.” Police sealed off the area while
the shells were gathered. It is the second
Tankbuster to crash in the county in a
fortnight.
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