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Father making sandwiches finds mouse found baked into loaf of bread

September 29th, 2010   by Connor

A man was sickened when he found a dead mouse in his loaf of bread while making sandwiches for his children.

The father-of-two thought the bread was just discoloured but on closer inspection saw the object was covered in fur.

Stephen Forse, from Kidlington, Oxfordshire, bought the Hovis Best of Both bread online from Tesco, through a store in Bicester, in January 2009.

Mr Forse said yesterday: "I noticed a dark coloured object embedded in the corner of three or four slices.

"Initially I thought it was where the dough had not mixed properly prior to baking. As I looked closer I saw that the object had fur on it.

Mr Forse continued to prepare some sandwiches for his children from another loaf of bread, checking each slice carefully.

He said: "I still felt quite shaken. As I was feeling ill I couldn't face eating anything myself."

The experience was only made worse when environmental health officers visited the family's home to collect evidence and found the mouse was missing its tail.

Mr Forse said: "Her comments made me feel ill once again as there was no indication as to where the tail was.

"Had it fallen off prior to the bread being wrapped or had any of my family eaten it with another slice of bread on a previous day?"

Following an investigation by council health officers, Premier Foods was ordered to pay £16,821 at Oxford Crown Court on Friday.

Premier Foods pleaded guilty to failing to ensure all stages of food production were protected against contamination and failing to maintain a robust pest management system at its British Bakeries site in Mitcham, south London.

Cherwell District Council technical officer Aileen Smith said: "Mice harbour disease, particularly salmonella which can result in severe diarrhoea, vomiting, fever and can be fatal to children, the elderly or those with a compromised immune system."

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Alistair Darling warns Ed Miliband: Don't backslide on budget deficit

September 28th, 2010   by Connor

Alistair Darling  used his valedictory speech as a Labour frontbencher today to warn his party's new leader against backsliding on the commitment to halve Britain's budget deficit in four years.

After more than 20 years as a minister or member of the shadow cabinet, Darling said voters would refuse to take Ed Miliband seriously unless he had a realistic plan to cut state borrowing.

The outgoing shadow chancellor - who has seen his political stock rise after his handling of the most severe financial and economic crisis since the second world war - said the coalition government's austerity plans were "a huge gamble with growth and jobs".

Using the same argument that failed to woo voters at the general election, Darling said there was a difference between Labour's "measured and balanced" approach to cutting the deficit and the "rightwing ideology" of the government. "To abandon that balanced approach, as the Tories and Liberals are doing, will put tens of thousands of jobs at risk, and hit the living standards of millions of families."

While Darling peppered his speech with attacks on the coalition for the severity of the cuts, his real message appeared to be for party activists, trade unionists and fellow shadow cabinet ministers in the conference hall. They believe Labour allowed the Conservatives to dominate the election, and that the party should talk less about cuts and more about growth.

"This has always been one of the hardest speeches to give," Darling said. "For at its heart, there is a tension. Between what I know you as a party would like to hear - and what I know I have to say".

He chided one activist who doubted it was wise for Labour to go into the election on a platform of cutting by less than the Conservatives. "One of the lessons that Labour has learned - and learned well - in the past 20 years is that the message to the country has to strike a chord with ordinary people as realistic and credible. We have to be realistic or it just won't wash."

There was also the most subtle of digs at Gordon Brown and his entourage for the whispering campaign that followed Darling's memorable interview with the Guardian in summer 2008. Using almost the same language as that in Decca Aitkenhead's interview, he said Labour could take pride in how it had coped with "the worst financial crisis for over 60 years".

Darling's forecast - seen as deeply unhelpful by Brown at the time - turned out to be eerily accurate. It was followed within a month by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which triggered panic in the global banking system and resulted in the UK economy contracting by more than 6% over six successive quarters. Despite presiding over the deepest and longest slump since the 1930s, Darling's reputation for telling it straight meant he was unsackable when Brown tried to move him from the Treasury.

Even in what was almost certainly his last speech as a frontbencher, Darling resisted the temptation to milk applause. "You and I know that we cannot ignore the deficit. That would be as foolish as standing back and doing nothing when the crisis hit," he said.

Darling said the UK's record peacetime deficit was not the result of Labour's extravagance but of measures taken to mitigate the impact of the recession. "Of course there was another choice. We could have sat back and done nothing, letting people sink or swim. If we had listened to the Tories who now decry our record, that's exactly what would have happened."

The shadow chancellor said that even though the global crisis caused a collapse in activity much more severe than the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s, job losses and home repossessions had been far lower. "Our judgment was proved right. Our approach worked."

Darling said the Conservatives believed that government was always the problem and never the solution. "And that's what's driving their approach now. The cuts they are making are the same old rightwing ideology dressed up as necessity. Their approach is dishonest."

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Banned British rugby league star found hanged in his home

September 27th, 2010   by Connor

The former Great Britain hooker, Terry Newton, has been found dead at his home at the age of 31.

Mr Newton, who was found hanged at his house in Orrell yesterday morning, was serving a two-year ban from the game after becoming the first professional sportsman in the world to test positive for human growth hormone.

He began his career at Leeds, before a transfer to his home-town club, Wigan. He later moved to Bradford, but was released at the end of his contract in 2009.

He then joined Wakefield, but had played only two games for them when it was revealed that he had failed a blood-test the previous November. Mr Newton admitted to taking the drug and described himself as a "cheat", but insisted that others were doing the same thing and getting away with it.

He took over a pub in Wigan and, while admitting that his Super League days were over, hoped to play at a lower level when he had served his suspension. He expressed a willingness to co-operate with the drugs authorities in the hope that he might be allowed to return to the game before his two-year ban expired.

Mr Newton, who leaves a wife and two children, played 15 times for Great Britain.

The RFL's chairman, Richard Lewis, said: "We are deeply shocked and saddened by the news of Terry's untimely death. This is a personal tragedy and our thoughts are with Terry's partner, his children and his family at this terrible time."

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: "Police were called to a house in Orrell, Wigan, following a report of concern for welfare. Officers went to the address and found the body of a 31-year-old man.

"Inquiries have been launched, but there are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding his death."

Mr Newton won a Challenge Cup winners' medal with Leeds in 1999, before his dream move to Wigan Warriors, where he produced his best rugby. He was named in the 2003 Super League Dream Team with the Lancashire club. Gary Hetherington, Leeds chief executive, and a former president of the Rugby Football League, said last night: "It's a sad loss. Gary was a very talented player but was clearly a troubled man."

Mr Newton made a reluctant move to Bradford in 2006 and joined Wakefield 12 months ago after being offered a two-year contract.

Bradford chairman, Peter Hood, said: "We are all deeply saddened and shocked by this tragic news.

"Terry was the ultimate professional during his time at the club and it was a privilege to have known him as a friend and colleague.

"We send our deepest sympathy to Stacey and his two children at what is a very, very sad time for everyone who knew him."

Mr Newton had hoped to resurrect his career under Wildcats coach John Kear and, in his autobiography Coming Clean, he said he turned to human growth hormone in a bid to refresh his ageing body.

Further tributes were pouring in last night on Facebook pages dedicated to the player.

Commenting as Amy Thornhill, one fan wrote: "RIP to a true great in rugby league, you will be sadly missed."

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Livingstone will use cuts to spearhead Mayoral bid

September 25th, 2010   by Connor

Ken Livingstone promised to put the impact of spending cuts on London at the heart of his campaign to oust Boris Johnson as he was confirmed as Labour's candidate for the mayoralty in 2012.

The next battle for City Hall will be a rerun of the contest in 2008 when Mr Johnson ousted the veteran left-winger from office.

Mr Livingstone beat off a challenge from Oona King, the former MP, for the nomination, securing 68.6 per cent support from Labour activists and trade union members.

He attacked the Coalition Government's planned spending squeeze as "little short of madness" which he warned would cause "devastating cuts to our public services, fewer jobs, and declining living standards". He insisted he would not let his old rival "wriggle out of the blame" for the impact of the cuts on the capital.

Mr Livingstone said: "Boris, your fingerprints are all over the scene of this crime. It is you and your party that damage London." He pledged to restore plans for an extension of the road traffic congestion charge zone into west London, to appoint a victims' commissioner for people hit by crime and to boost neighbourhood policing.

After two victories and one defeat, Mr Livingstone, 65, is preparing for his fourth tilt at the mayoralty.

Announcing the result, Harriet Harman, the acting Labour leader, told him: "The whole of Team Labour will be backing you, Ken. I have no doubt that you will win the backing and support of communities across London as you stand up for them as they are faced by the unfairness of a Tory Government and a Tory Mayor."

Kit Malthouse, the deputy mayor for policing, said: "Choosing to exhume Ken Livingstone is a very odd decision. Granted, he is a game old boy, but we had assumed that Labour would choose the future, not the past."

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Rehab retreat of the stars faces prosecution by watchdog

September 24th, 2010   by Connor

A private rehabilitation clinic which charged up to £10,000 a week to people with drink and drug problems is facing criminal prosecution by a health regulator.

Amy Winehouse was among celebrities who beat a path to the door of The Causeway Retreat on Osea Island in the Blackwater Estuary, Essex, which offered a range of treatments to its clients – until it was ordered to close by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) last April.

Other patients have included the actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Kevin McGee, late ex-husband of the comedian Matt Lucas.

The 400-acre estate is owned by Nigel Frieda, a producer for the pop group Sugababes and brother of John Frieda of the hair and shampoo dynasty. It features a beautifully appointed early 20th-century manor house, cottages offering "discreet accommodation" and a sound recording studio that was once used by Bob Marley.

The island is only accessible by road for four hours a day, when the causeway linking it to the mainland is not covered by the tide. In an emergency, medical assistance can be provided by helicopter – the mode of transport favoured by many of its clients.

The retreat opened in 2004 as the first and only island in the world dedicated to the treatment of addiction and mental health problems. But last year the CQC received allegations that it was treating patients with psychiatric problems, and employing doctors and nurses, beyond the provisions of its licence under the Care Standards Act. The CQC requested that no new psychiatric patients be admitted while it was investigating. When the request was ignored, the CQC ordered that it be closed.

Today, the CQC is to lay criminal charges at Essex magistrates' court in Harlow against 27 Management, which runs the retreat, and Brendan Quinlan, its director and chief executive. The charges relate to breaches under the Care Standards Act in relation to the provision of medical services without the necessary registration.

All NHS trusts, private hospitals and clinics which provide medical services must be registered with the CQC, which has the right to inspect them in the interests of patient safety. Not all drug and alcohol services have to be registered – it depends on the type of services being provided. The Causeway Retreat argued it was not providing registrable services, whereas the CQC insisted that it was providing mental health and detoxification services and that these were registrable.

The CQC declined to comment yesterday.

In 2009, the retreat reported a boom in business from City bankers due to the recession. Mr Quinlan, a former psychiatric nurse, said bankers comprised 60 per cent of its clients, up from 10-12 per cent two years previously.

A 50-year-old female director at a financial services firm in the City, who was interviewed last year about her month at the retreat in November 2008, said the banking crisis had triggered her breakdown. "I think that tipped me over the edge. I was working even longer [hours] then and drinking a bit more than I should. It was like being a woman in a wolf pack," she said.

Her stay at the retreat triggered a complete change in her lifestyle. Although she returned to her job briefly, she later quit and moved away from London and now manages accounts for a small firm in the North.

An emailed request for a response from The Causeway was answered by lawyers who declined to comment "until the proceedings have concluded". Answering press inquiries earlier this year, Mr Quinlan said the clinic was registered and that it was not doing anything illegal.

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Teen sentenced for bullying learning difficulties man right up to day he died

September 21st, 2010   by Connor

A teenager who persistently harassed a man in his sixties with severe learning difficulties up to the day of his death was yesterday detained in a young offenders' institution.

David Askew, 64, collapsed after confronting youths in his garden in Hattersley, Greater Manchester, in March and died a short time later.

Officers were called after reports that youngsters had caused a disturbance at the house he shared with his brother Brian – who also suffers learning difficulties – and their 89-year-old mother Rose.

Kial Cottingham, 19, who lived nearby, admitted persistently harassing Askew for cigarettes over a three-month period and pleaded guilty to using intimidating, threatening and aggressive behaviour. He was given a 16-week sentence.

At Tameside magistrates' court, the chairman of the bench, Ken Mortimer said: "The harassment was over a long period and to a vulnerable victim. The distress of the victim was ignored, which had a psychological and physical affect."

Cottingham was banned from entering a designated part of Hattersley for three years or contacting the other members of Askew's family.

Vanessa Thomson, prosecuting, told the court the Askew family were close-knit and looked after each other. Because of his difficulties, David was known as "Dopey Dave" and would bite the back of his hand when he became upset or agitated.

She said: "He was seen as a soft touch by youths who targeted him.

"They would shout up to his bedroom and he would throw money or cigarettes down to get rid of them." She said children also threw stones at the window.

In January, CCTV captured Cottingham outside the house aggressively confronting David Askew.

Askew visited a neighbourhood housing office twice in two days to complain about his behaviour.

A shopkeeper said she had seen about 50 incidents involving Cottingham and Askew.

A neighbourhood police officer spoke to Cottingham in February and told him to stay away from the family, the court heard.

The day after Askew's death, Cottingham gave a television interview in which he claimed he was "shocked" about the incident and said he would often step in to deter other local youths from constantly haranguing him.

He was also questioned on suspicion of manslaughter but was cleared of any involvement in Askew's death.

Tarick Sadiq, defending, said his client was remorseful and wanted to apologise to the family for any harm caused.

A post mortem examination later concluded Askew died of natural causes – heart failure caused by long-term heart disease and undiagnosed oesophageal cancer.

Greater Manchester Police assistant chief constable Garry Shewan said: "David's death was a tragedy. First and foremost our thoughts must be with his mum Rose who has been through an extremely traumatic few months.

"David was an extremely kind, happy person and Rose and the rest of David's family have had to cope with a huge loss in their lives."

Rose Askew said her son had been through hell. "It was not just one incident – it went on for years," she said. "Sometimes he would cry and ask me if I could move people out of our garden because they were calling him hurtful names." She thanked police who had called to see her every other day since her son's death.

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Saintly Newman had a smarter, younger brother

September 18th, 2010   by Connor

When the Pope appears for his final public mass in Birmingham's Cofton Park tomorrow morning, it will mark the climax of his four-day state visit.

Watched by a crowd of some 70,000 pilgrims, Pope Benedict XVI will put Cardinal John Henry Newman one step closer to becoming the first English person who has lived since the 17th century to be officially recognised as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.

The Pope has championed the cause of Cardinal Newman, one of the 19th century's most-renowned theologians. He regards Newman as a man of deep spiritual and academic importance who was a major boon for the Catholic Church following his defection from Anglicanism to Rome.

But not everyone is as favourable to the cause. Some believe that the cardinal was a bigot and an obscurantist who has been inappropriately lauded by a church that is desperate to find a post-Reformation figure from Britain to beatify. Gay rights campaigners and some academics also point to the intense relationship he shared with a man throughout his life as evidence that a man the Catholic Church wants to one day canonise might have been gay.

Others say that more attention should be paid to a different Newman: the cardinal's younger brother, Francis William, an equally gifted academic who has little of the baggage associated with his elder brother.

Francis Newman has faded into obscurity, but supporters say Britain would do well to remember the youngest member of the Newman dynasty. As a committed Unitarian and radical free thinker who was critical of ecclesiastical authority, he would not appeal to the Catholic Church.

"He was an excellent person and a wonderful thinker," explains Christopher Walker, a historian who is currently researching Francis Newman for a book on religion and reason. "His brother felt the need for some sort of authority structure to tell him what and how to believe. That was partly why he moved towards Catholicism. Francis was the 19th century's equivalent of a Sixties rebel. He knew he didn't need an authority to tell him what to believe."

By the time his elder brother defected to Rome and wrote his famous Apologia, explaining his reasons for adopting Catholicism, Francis Newman had already written his own spiritual tracts detailing his journey from Calvinism to Unitarian theism. His Phases of Faith: Or, Passages from the History of my Creed, is considered one of his finest works.

Although the two brothers were close in their youth, they drifted away from each other over time. Francis Newman's ideal was a church where congregants put aside unanswerable questions such as the meaning of Christ or God and concentrated on ethics instead, a church built "purely on an ethical basis, leaving theological questions open".

But his academic ability lay far beyond theology. Throughout his life he wrote about a wide range of subjects, including religion, philosophy, politics, history, maths and economics. His bibliography includes tracts on Roman history, grammar, works in Arabic and even a history of Hebrew monarchies.

As a graduate from Oxford, he travelled to Baghdad and became a preacher at a time when western Europe was producing vast numbers of missionaries. He was a fluent Arabic speaker but he soon fell out with the missionary movement and moved back to Britain where he continued his academic career at University College London.

While Francis William Newman moved in Nonconformist circles, his elder brother became a key figure within the Oxford Movement and eventually converted fully to Roman Catholicism in 1845, rising swiftly to cardinal and becoming one of the church's most influential thinkers.

Pope Benedict holds John Henry Newman in such high esteem that he has even decided to break his own beatification rules. Vatican guidelines state that figures should be beatified in their diocese by a local bishop but Benedict has made the beatification mass the climax of his visit.

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Imran Farooq murdered outside London home

September 17th, 2010   by Connor

A prominent Pakistani politician has been murdered outside his home in London.

Dr Imran Farooq, a senior member of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), was found with head injuries and stab wounds in north London at 5.30pm yesterday.

Police said they were called to reports of a serious assault in Green Lane, Edgware, north London.

A Metropolitan police spokesman said: "When officers arrived they found an Asian male, aged 50, suffering from multiple stab wounds and head injuries.

"He was treated by paramedics at the scene but was pronounced dead at 18.37." No arrests have been in connection with the incident, he added.

The MQM said Farooq, who was one of the founding members of the party, had been living in exile in London since 1992. According to reports on the MQM website from 1999, he sought political asylum in the UK after a bounty was put on his head.

Farooq said he was implicated on a range of charges including criminal and terrorist activities but insisted the allegations were politically motivated.

He claimed in November 1992 that he was wanted "dead or alive". "[This gave] licence and impunity to every individual in Pakistan to assassinate me," he said.

Farooq, who was secretary general of the MQM, said he spent more than seven years in hiding in Karachi, southern Pakistan.

He said: "It was impossible for me to remain in Pakistan due to the continued threat on my life and liberty."

The MQM is the fourth largest political party of Pakistan, and the dominant party in the country's largest city, Karachi. It was founded in 1984 by Altaf Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" – Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947. The party prided itself on its well-oiled machine and its secular, liberal outlook. But British police sources have said it was also linked to extortion, gun smuggling and South African crime networks.

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Papal entourage: Say hello to Gorgeous Georg and the Vat Pack

September 15th, 2010   by Connor

When the Pope's Alitalia jet lands at Edinburgh airport tomorrow it will be filled with cardinals, Vatican press correspondents (known as the Vat Pack) and a small coterie of advisors in his personal entourage.

Rarely is Pope Benedict seen abroad without his dashing private secretary Georg Gänswein, a German-born priest and respected theologian who is a darling of the Italian media thanks to his rugged good looks. Dubbed "Bello Georg" (Gorgeous Georg), the 53-year-old has been pictured playing tennis and flies aeroplanes in his spare time.

Donatella Versace was so taken by Monsignor Gänswein's elegant looks that she once designed an entire range of clothing with him in mind. But he seldom speaks publicly. In 2006, he issued a rare statement criticising a series of satirical sketches of the Pope on Italian television. "Satire is fine," he said. "But these things have no intellectual quality and offend men of the Church."

Pope Benedict speaks good English but Monsignor Leo Cushley, a former curate of Motherwell Cathedral, will be on hand for translation duties when needed. The 48-year-old priest is now a senior diplomat in Rome and heads the Vatican's English sector. Francis Campbell, Britain's first Catholic ambassador to the Holy See since the Reformation, will also be on board.

The most senior cardinal to accompany Pope Benedict, meanwhile, is his close friend and fellow doctrinal conservative, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. The 75-year-old cleric is considered the second most powerful man in the Vatican.

Earlier this year, the Catholic Church in England and Wales was forced to issue a rare statement publicly refuting comments from Cardinal Bertone, who had suggested that there was a link between child abuse and homosexuality. The Vatican's secretary caused outrage during a trip to Chile when he labelled homosexuality a "pathology".

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