Some 200 km of coastline were affected by Britain’s third largest maritime oil spillage after the Torrey Canyon in
Some 200 km of coastline were affected by Britain’s third largest maritime oil spillage, after the Torrey Canyon in 1967 and the Braer four years ago. It is now estimated that more than 3,000 tonnes of crude oil was washed up on beaches.. The European Union was warned yesterday that it must not attempt to curtail the proposed rights of member parliaments to have a say on EU legislation. In a report on the current inter-governmental talks dealing with the future of the Union, the Commons European Legislation Committee said a new treaty “must give those who will be affected by legislation time to see it in draft and to have an input into the process …
Its provisions must not be so circumscribed, or diluted by exceptions, as to make them merely cosmetic.”
The committee, which continues to complain about “unacceptable delays” in the receipt of texts of draft European Union legislation, said it considered effective parliamentary scrutiny “a touchstone of the [EU's] regard for the rights of the citizen.” t Select Committee on European Legislation The Draft Protocol on the Role of National Parliaments Thirteenth report, session 1996-97 Commons paper 36-xiii HMSO; pounds 8.. Diplomatic pressure was growing on Nigeria last night over the detention of a Briton held without charge in the West African state for almost seven weeks. Officials earlier branded as “wholly unacceptable” the detention of 42-year-old Bruce Henderson, who was detained by the authorities in the sensitive Bakassi Peninsula while working on a World Wildlife Fund rain forest project. A spokesman at the British High Commission confirmed that Mr Henderson, from Chapel of Garioch, near Inverurie in the north of Scotland, is in good health and is being held in Lagos.. A Roman Catholic priest was recovering in hospital yesterday after being stabbed in the back at his church. Father Edward Carroll, 63, was stabbed between the shoulder blades as he went to a kitchen to make tea for a man who had come for help to the Sacred Heart Church, Holloway, north London.
Police said it was thought the man had followed the priest to the kitchen and stabbed him with a kitchen knife. The victim was taken to the Whittington Hospital and later transferred to the Middlesex His condition was today said to be “serious but stable”. Scotland Yard said the man had called at the church, was allowed in and engaged the priest in conversation.
After the stabbing, a man telephoned police and later gave himself up in Holloway.. A 40-year-old man donated five feet of intestine to his triplet brother in a life-saving transplant operation, it emerged yesterday. The successful operation follows the sudden, tragic death of the third triplet, who had initially agreed to be the donor for Phillip Jones, a former heating engineer from Totton, near Southampton. It is the first time British surgeons have carried out an intestine transplant between identical siblings, and only the seventh such operation on an adult at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.
Sir Roy Calne, the pioneering surgeon who performed the operation, said yesterday: “This is an extreme example of devotion and love between two brothers who happen to be triplets.” He said that intestinal transplants were notoriously difficult, but using organs from identical siblings minimised the chances of rejection and other complications.The operation was carried out last September, but news was witheld until doctors were satisfied that Mr Jones was recovering well. He is at home and can eat normally after four years of being fed on an intravenous drip.
