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First Edition A ROMANIAN who was refused asylum in Britain was found hanged at his home, an inquest was told yesterday. He was part of a congressional mission to Northern Ireland in September 1991, when he meet Ian Paisley and the SDLP leader, John Hume.Were Mr Foley to be appointed, any visits he might pay would probably not take place until the summer, perhaps in August, by which time the US Congress will be in recess and – more importantly – the Anglo-Irish talks may have been put back on the tracks. Captain Jonathan Shelbourne, who has been stripped of his licence, was described as ‘a broken man’ by Sheriff Alexander Jessop, who conducted the inquiry into the crash off the Cormorant Alpha rig in March last year.
Shell, which operates the rig, was also criticised in the report for failing to ensure that its own rules requiring a stand-by vessel to be near by during flights were observed.Ten oil workers and the co-pilot of the Super Puma helicopter died after it crashed into the sea less than two minutes after taking off in appalling weather to ferry the men to a nearby accommodation vessel.Yesterday Sheriff Jessop called for an urgent safety review of the use of such aircraft in the North Sea oil industry. When the gift is carefully considered and willingly given, it will create a family and a lifetime of happiness for some lucky couple. The aim would be to create ‘a comparable sense of familiarity and friendship’ to the one between the US and Europe, but the response from some potential participants has shown how far there is to go.China, for example, is receptive to the idea, as long as Hong Kong and Taiwan are kept out. Only in the last four years, when he was over 50, does he appear to have made a great deal of money and to have gathered a group of investors in his companies – whose identity remains a mystery. Newcastle Gosforth: Penalty Willcox.Bath: J Callard; T Swift, M Catt, J Bamsey, A Lumsden; S Barnes, R Hill; G Chilcott, G Dawe, V Ubogu, M Haag, N Redman, S Ojomoh, B Clarke, J Hall (capt).Newcastle Gosforth: D Bennett; T Penn, M Beattie, J Merritt, M White; T Willcox, S Douglas; M Fraser, N Frankland (capt), P Vanzandliet, J Fowler, G Archer, B Chick (G Clarkson, 27), R Arnold, J Nicholson.Referee: J Burtenshaw (Croydon)..

13 December
1779: The first Smithfield Show is organised at Wooton’s Dolphin Yard, London, by the Smithfield Cattle and Sheep Society.1884: Percy Everitt patents the coin-operated weighing machine.1903: Ice-cream cones patented by Italo Marcione of New York.1937: Sellotape is first marketed in Britain.1989: Gwyn Town Hall, West Glamorgan, hosts the world’s first concert given by a deaf choir using sign language. The Internal Drainage Board (IDB), which represents the local farming community, decides the pumping levels. In practice, this means that glamorous species – large mammals, colourful butterflies – often get preferential treatment. PLAYERS will not be barred from drinking water during World Cup games as some team managers had feared, Fifa, the sport’s governing body, said yesterday. The levels of the main pollutants are on page 404 of Ceefax and page 187 of Teletext.. Could they return, they would recognise their old haunts without too much distress.The most significant result of their stay was the publication of New Numbers, an anthology of poetry prepared by the Abercrombies at The Gallows, printed in Gloucester, and sent out to subscribers from the post office in Dymock.

‘It’s the worst I’ve played on, half of it is soft, the rest is rock-hard and it is very uneven.’The hosts won 2-0 in the Faroes, and lost only by a single goal in Belgium. ‘But I don’t think it’s an unfair system, it makes you fight. The corridors of Bonn’s defence ministry are resounding to the thud of falling heads as the Minister, Volker Ruhe, exacts revenge for his anticipated failure to kill off the four-nation European Fighter Aircraft project. The good Lord didn’t give us brains, muscles and arms to lay about. Senior officers are obliged to complete central training courses aimed at giving them a national consciousness, while a constant flow of circulars ‘advises’ them on the minutiae of policing policy.The Sheehy recommendations further extend central control in the name of efficiency and managerial flexibility.