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Although concerns have been raised about safety standards the current strain on prison accommodation means that the hulk’s

Although concerns have been raised about safety standards, the current strain on prison accommodation means that the hulk’s cell capacity is crucial.. Zaire’s President Mobutu headed back to his capital after agreeing to face-to-face talks with rebel leader Laurent Kabila for Wednesday. Bill Richardson, US ambassador to the United Nations, said he believed Mr Kabila would head any new government. Zaire MPs voted Archbishop Laurent Pasinya Monsengwo as parliamentary speaker, making him a potential interim successor to Mr Mobutu

Waiting for Kabila, page 13.. Future Hong Kong lawmakers gave their support to plans to dilute civil liberties after the territory reverts to China.

Plans put forward by future leader Tung Chee-hwa include requiring police permits for political protests and a ban on foreign funding of political groups. The China-appointed body that will replace the territory’s elected legislature on July 1 also passed its first law yesterday

Yellow Bird flies, page 14. William Hague has emerged as the choice of constituency activists to be the new leader of the Conservative Party. A poll of local associations by Tory Central Office found “overwhelming” backing for the 36-year-old MP.
The votes in two regions were leaked to the Hague camp. In Wessex, he secured the support of 23 out of 33 constituency party chairmen and in the South East he took nine of 23 votes.Mr Hague plans to build on this support with a three-week tour of constituencies.

His aides hope the local parties will put pressure on the 164 Tory MPs to vote for him.Alan Duncan MP, Mr Hague’s campaign manager, said: “The force for unity is William Hague. No one else can do it.”The Hague camp claims to have the adherence of 10 MPs, including Peter Bottomley.A spokesman for Lady Thatcher has denied she will back Wokingham MP John Redwood for the leadership.Former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine, who dropped out of the contest last week on health grounds, was yesterday released from the Harley Street Clinic after an angioplasty operation.n The Parliamentary Labour Party will this week elect a new chairman. Roger Stott, 53, the MP for Wigan, is running on a ticket to stand up for back-benchers against central control. A candidate more acceptable to Downing Street is certain to emerge before a chairman is chosen.. In West London, two communities are divided by a wide road. On one side, in the poverty of the White City estate, a nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped last week by five nine- and ten-year-old boys. On the other is Notting Hill and Holland Park, the new seat of media and business power.

These opinion-formers never cross the road, turning a blind eye to the underclass within yards of their luxury homes

“You’re from the manor. I’m bound to buck you up again, star, and when I do, I’m gonna carve you up, blatant.” A stone’s throw across the six-lane divide of the M41 and a million miles from the softly lit homes of the Notting Hill media set, is White City. They speak a different language there.
Unlike the land across the motorway it has only one well-known author, Courttia New- land, and his homespun dialect, of carving up and dealing in “brown” and “rocks”, is a long way from BBC English. Nevertheless, its stubby post-war council blocks lie in the shadow of the BBC Television Centre, which has become, for locals, a grating symbol of how the other half of west London lives.As 23-year-old Newland writes in his debut novel The Scholar: “Sean asked himself who could’ve planned putting a multi-million pound government- funded industry bang next door to a funding-starved council estate. Madmen maybe? It was crazy, but that was the way London was built and it had been that way for centuries.