The way to tell this sound from that of an exploding bomb is to listen for the distant but distinct roar of aircraft engines after the initial bang. Israeli air force planes regularly fly low over Jerusalem creating a sonic boom which makes people glance up nervously. Auctioneers, Dickinson Davy & Markham, of Brigg, Humberside, had hoped the bell would fetch more than pounds 1,000.. The unity among newspaper editors about how to cover the Royal Family after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, fell apart yesterday when the editor of the Daily Telegraph described the Daily Mail as “disgusting”. The burden rose by 60 per cent in the last five years, and there are now an estimated 2 million claimants.That means there are now more disabled claimants than unemployed, but their benefits bill is more than three times as much as the pounds 7bn paid to those who are out of work.Yesterday’s report said: “We remain of the view that the private sector is not currently in a position to take on the wide range of risks which the State must cater for if there is to be a safety net for everyone…”But there is a growing market in group permanent health insurance. Charles Moore, editor of the Daily Telegraph clashed with Sir David English, editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail on Radio 4’s Today programme when the two were invited to talk about privacy and the Royal Family.
Mr Moore claimed that the Daily Mail’s undertaking not to use paparazzi pictures of Princes William and Harry was meaningless as long as it continued “prying in the most disgusting way into private family life and now into private family grief”.Mr Moore was incensed by a news story run on the front page of the Daily Mail last week under the headline: “Charles Weeps Bitter Tears of Guilt”.
It will be met by the Government’s contingencies fund.Thousands are still flocking to pay their respects. Up to 700 people an hour were signing the 42 books of condolence, now at Kensington Palace The total has passed the half million mark. American Dr Jean Ford, 51, an education lecturer, flew to Britain from Chicago, USA, yesterday to “stand with the British people at this time of grief”.The BBC and PolyGram, the record company, hope to release an album of Diana’s funeral service at Westminster Abbey if the Spencer family give consent.. Northamptonshire police backed the idea.The committee which is examining suitable memorials for Diana is to consider the permanent closure of the Mall which links Trafalgar Square with Buckingham Palace.The Mall has been closed since the day of Diana’s death and cannot be reopened until the numbers of people visiting the St James’s and Buckingham palaces drops significantly.Officials at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have been impressed by the fact that despite the closure of the road, extra traffic has not clogged the alternative routes.The “Diana” committee will meet as soon as Gordon Brown, who is to chair it, returns from devolution duty in Scotland. The Department is anxious to press on with arrangements to create a permanent memorial, probably in Kensington Gardens. The task of removing the flowers will start at St James’s Palace tomorrow morning to be followed by Kensington Gardens where the pile is at some points 5ft deep with the bottom layer starting to compost at a temperature of up to 180 degrees Fahrenheit.The Department refuses to issue an estimate of the cost of the operation but with huge screens, 2,000 people and 100 contractors and sub-contractors involved, the bill is likely to betens of millions of pounds.
“We are now concerned for public safety, both near the gates and in the surrounding lanes.”She suggested people should give a donation to the Diana memorial fund instead. Two women in a party of daytrippers on their way to lay flowers in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales and visit Buckingham Palace were killed yesterday in a motorway crash. The group of women in their 50s had set off from Nantwich, Cheshire, for a pre-booked tour of the palace, carrying bouquets which it was understood they intended to lay at the gates.
But two were seriously injured and later died when their 53-seater coach was involved in a crash with a heavy goods vehicle and a Ford Transit van near Cannock, Staffordshire.The accident happened as Northamptonshire police and the Althorp Estate appealed for people to stop bringing flowers to Diana’s family home amid fears for safety in the narrow lanes.After Earl Spencer allowed himself to be pictured surrounded by a sea of flowers on the island where the princess is buried, the estate found even more were left at the gates yesterday.An estate spokeswoman said they had not decided what would happen to the new blooms but they could not be taken to the island.”It is turning into a problem,” she said. He claimed that he had feigned the attack and had never meant him serious injury.The dead boy’s mother, Lyn Rickard, said afterwards: “I am just dead inside.”I laugh and joke, but it is a dead laugh I hate getting up every morning. CJ is on my brain 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”Brown was described as a loner who was fixated with martial arts and computer fighting games. The court heard that he had joined that gang to escape the bullying and teasing he endured because he had no father at home.He recruited his own followers and drew up rules in his diary for joining the Golden Snakes.. Some were in shock, some were in tears – they really found it extremely hard”.The case reveals the worrying rise in the number of attacks connected to teenage gangs.Brown, now 16, wept and wrung his hands in the dock after relatives of his victim cheered in court as the guilty verdict was announced.Judge Tayler told Brown: “There is only one sentence – you will be detained during Her Majesty’s pleasure.”Brown had admitted Carl’s manslaughter but denied murder.
