Two others including a German man are still being questioned
Two others, including a German man, are still being questioned. The four are due to appear before Uxbridge magistrates’ court today.. BBC chiefs are expecting a Teletubbie bonanza this week as the first books and videos based on the cult BBC2 programme go on sale today. Thousands of mothers across Britain are expected to snap up the Here Come the Teletubbies video and a clutch of paperbacks, including The Magic Flag and Laa-Laa’s Ball. The most highly prized gifts will be the fluffy Teletubbie figures of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po (below).
The BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, insists it is not cashing in on the show’s popularity, saying the products are part of a long-term educational programme; 260 episodes of Teletubbies have so far been commissioned, to run until next autumn, and are aimed at pre-school children.. Two police officers saved a driver’s life by dragging his burning body from a blazing car in which two of his friends died. The officers wrenched open the driver’s door and pulled the young man to safety, then sprayed his body using a fire extinguisher from their patrol car, Essex police said. A back-seat passenger was thrown clear into the road but broke both legs after the driver lost control of the car, which hit a road support and burst into flames. Two people, a woman and a man both in their late teens, were killed in the accident near Kelvedon, Essex, early yesterday at a slip road running underneath the A12.. A paedophile serving a life sentence has been found hanged in his prison cell, the prison service said yesterday.
Paul Jackson, 41, was convicted at Preston Crown Court in January 1996 of charges of gross indecency and buggery with children He was sentenced to life in prison five months later. Staff at Brixton prison found him hanging in his cell in the segregation unit at 6.30am on Friday. A prison service spokesman said that next of kin, the police and the coroner had been informed. An internal investigation into the death will be held at the prison..
Employers’ expectations of workers are “tumbling out of control”, making staff yearn for job security and satisfaction, a poll has showed. Research by the GMB general union, covering 350 organisations, showed that job security was the most important issue listed by workers, well ahead of pay. Only one in five identified flexibility as important, suggesting that too many were being treated as “dogsbodies”, said John Edmonds, general secretary of the GMB. “Workers are very ready to be flexible to ensure the success of their organisations, but there are limits. Agile production is a step too far, the inflation in employers’ expectations is ever-increasing.”. A women’s group yesterday called for the establishment of an official red light district in the centre of Dublin. The Irish capital’s Women’s Health Project, which provides an outreach service for prostitutes, said the city should have a “toleration zone” for their use.
Dublin’s estimated record total of 600 working prostitutes is growing – despite coming under pressure from police operating a recently- imposed crackdown – according to project workers.. Channel 4 will today unveil its first pounds 100m schedule, spearheaded by the biggest man in television – Robbie Coltrane. Channel 4’s budget is more than 25 per cent up on last autumn because of the relaxation of the funding formula which forced it to give ITV huge sums of advertising revenue.
The 47-year-old Cracker star will host the six-part Coltrane’s Planes and Automobiles, a personal indulgence into his fascination with the internal combustion engine in all its forms “I’m a noisy devil. I’m incapable of walking past a piece of machinery without wanting to know all the details of its private life. People say its unnatural and uncool, but I can’t believe I’m the only person who thinks engines are fascinating,” says Coltrane.Leading the channel’s drama output is A Dance to the Music of Time, in which the 12 novels by British author Anthony Powell are distilled into four feature-length films.Miranda Richardson, Edward Fox and Alan Bennett will be seen in the ambitious dramas based on the rise and fall of the fictitious hero Nicholas Jenkins (played by John Standing).Michael Jackson, who replaced Michael Grade as C4’s chief executive, said: “The increased investment I have inherited will strengthen Channel 4 to fulfil its unique function.
