Sir: You report 25 March a spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive as defending the lack of manslaughter charges against

Sir: You report (25 March) a spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive as defending the lack of manslaughter charges against employers by saying 'experience had shown that manslaughter prosecutions in areas of HSE jurisdiction rarely succeeded'. Could this be tolerable? Would not a directly elected mayor help to provide a focus for the city and render it far more difficult for unrepresentative plotters to organise coups like the one that brought Ken Livingstone to power in May 1981? How would conflicts between the hungry new metropolitan authority and the 32 jealous boroughs be resolved? Its virtue is that it moves the subject beyond the tedious debate over whether or not to revive the elephantine GLC, whose demise few Londoners now mourn.. An Indian medical student riding his bicycle on a world mission for peace was stopped by German police for cycling too slowly on a motorway, Reuter reports from Berlin. Maybe, it was conceded, there was a case for protecting children, but there could be no case for denying adults their pleasures.This anti-censorship view had its roots in hard politics but was largely driven by aesthetics. No calypsos, reggae or raps, just seven carols and seven lessons, superbly sung and wonderfully read.Mrs McCabe's aim, she says, is to push her pupils both academically and in areas outside the curriculum; to prepare girls for their role as women in the modern world, juggling careers and families.Like Mrs McCabe, in fact, the very modern headmistress. From here, hundreds of thousands left Ireland - first in convict ships for Australia and later, in the mid-19th century, fleeing the potato famine by steamship, bound for America.At the top of the town, a lung-bursting 130 steps up from the harbour front, a chill November wind whipped last Sunday across St Colman's Park, home of Cobh Ramblers FC, founded in 1922 and now in only their second season in the Premier Division since they joined the League of Ireland six years ago.

A FATHER ordered by the Child Support Agency to pay four times more child maintenance than the sum set by a court is to bring the first legal challenge against the new system. Roderick Newall, who was arrested at sea in August, gave up his fight against extradition from Gibraltar He is charged with the murder of his parents. No one's going to make it easy for you,' says Donna.The sheer size of these malls is overwhelming. Bursting forward from deep, Merson might have scored within 25 seconds of his introduction, shooting against a post from a near-impossible angle.Instead it was Wright who broke the stalemate, albeit from an offside position, when he advanced on Kevin Campbell's headed flick before driving in low, from right to left, from six yards.One goal was always going to be enough, the second a delightful adornment. She and Ms Walter were nearly trampled in the rush.That same enthusiasm inevitably deformed the occasion. On a Windows machine, Lotus Ami Pro stands out as an excellent word processor which also has extensive desktop publishing capabilities and a package of pre-designed 'templates' for common items such as three-column newsletters.For a parish magazine or newsletter, you probably need look no further. The Cave takes in the simple pulsations of Clapping Music and the nimble light-voiced singing of Tehillim, the imitation of spoken phrases in Different Trains and the punchy syncopations in the Sextet.

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