TITLE: GUN
CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY
PRESS ROOM
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
OLD BAILEY
LONDON EC4
TEL 236 0116
JRB
AN OLD BAILEY COURT HEARD TODAY HOW A YOUNG COUPLES PURCHASE
OF THEIR DR
A HIGH COURT JUDGE TODAY (MONDAY) BACKED NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
COUNTY COUNCIL'S BID TO SEAL A RATES LOOP-HOLE.
BUT HE LEFT THE COUNCIL - AND RATEPAYERS - TO COUNT THE COSTS
OF AN EXPENSIVE COURT
TWO MEN FLEW AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS IN AN ARGUMENT OVER MONEY AND
THEN TURNED ON A POLICEMAN WHO JUMPED IN TO STOP THE PUNCH UP, A JURY
HEARD.
PC MICHAEL HICKMAN WAS CONCUSSED AND HAD TO TAK
AN WOMAN CLAIMED IN THE HIGH COURT THAT HER SON FORCED HER TO
SIGN A GUARANTEE FOR A 500,000 US DOLLAR LOAN BY LITERALLY HOLDING
HER HAND WITH THE PEN IN IT.
BUT THE STATE BANK OF INDIA DISPUT
A 55-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, WHO DIED IN A FIRE IN HER HOME IN DOWNHAM
WAS FOUND TO HAVE HAD ENOUGH ALCOHOL IN HER BLOOD TO TO KILL
HER, SOUTHWARK CORONERS COURT HEARD ON THURSDAY.
AN AUTOPSY REVEAL
PROPERTY DEVELOPER GRAHAM MAYNARD HAS WON AN APOLOGY IN THE
HIGH COURT FOR CRITICAL STATEMENTS MADE ABOUT HIM AND HIS BUSINESS BY
THE COVENTRY EVENING TELEGRAPH.
MR MAYNARD AND HIS PRINCIP
HATTON GARDEN DEALERS HAVE BEEN WARNED TO TIGHTEN UP ON TRADE
PROCEDURES FOLLOWING THE JAILING OF A CROOKED DEALER WHO STOLE OVER A
QUARTER OF A MILLION POUNDS IN QUALITY DIAMONDS FROM THREE FELLO
COMEDIAN RONNIE CORBETT WON 'SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES' TODAY
THURSDAY OVER ALLEGATIONS THAT HE WAS BLACKBALLED BY A PRESTIGIOUS
SCOTTISH GOLF CLUB.
THE SCOTTISH SUNDAY MAIL APOLOGISED FOR AN ARTICL
AN EPILEPTIC MAN WHO INSISTED ON LIVING ALONE MAY HAVE DIED IN
HIS BLAZING FLAT AFTER USING CANDLES FOR LIGHTING, AN INQUEST HEARD
ON TUESDAY.
JOEL BLAKE, 29, OF THRALE HOUSE, STOCKWELL RO
TWO MEMBERS OF THE FEARED AMERICAN 'ROAD RATS' MOTORCYCLE CULT
WERE JAILED AT THE OLD BAILEY ON MONDAY FOR BRINGING THEIR TERROR
TACTICS TO A LONDON PUB.
THE VICIOUS THUGS, WHOSE BIKING BRO
