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WHAT HAPPENED ON 26th January 2001?
25th January 2001
UK TROOPS EXTEND SIERRA LEONE TRAINING
The Government has announced plans to extend British troops' training of the Sierra Leonean army by eight months until the end of September. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said the move would help make the West African state's army "self-sufficient". The British military presence will remain at around 600 at any time. British troops have made an "important contribution to stability in Sierra Leone" Mr Hoon added.
26th January 2001
THOUSANDS FLEE GUINEA'S BORDER CONFLICT
Thousands of refugees are fleeing fighting along the borders of the West African state of Guinea. About 250 000 people are trapped between warring factions on the frontiers with Liberia & Sierra Leone The UN Refugee Agency says some people have not received food aid for months. A BBC correspondent says parts of southern Guinea have been turned into a wasteland with burnt-down villages and shell cases littering the ground.
26th January 2001
POPE ANNOUNCES FIVE MORE NEW CARDINALS
One week after naming a record-setting 37 new cardinals Pope John Paul II has announced five more new prelates. The Pope announced two Germans a South African Bolivian & Ukrainian & two cardinals he appointed secretly in 1998 in Lviv Ukraine and Riga in Latvia. The seven will join the 37 cardinals announced on January 21 at a ceremony at the Vatican on February 21. Pope John Paul has broken the limit of 120 cardinals to elect his successor.
25th January 2001
SARAH TELEVISION PLEA SPARKS 270 CALLS
Detectives investigating the murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne received 270 calls after an appeal on Crimewatch UK. A distinctive clown-patterned curtain found during the investigation featured in an appeal on the BBC show last night West Sussex police said the owners of the curtain had now been traced & had been able to offer further information. Sarah's body was found alongside the A29 near Pulborough West Sussex two weeks after she disappeared on July 1.
26th January 2001
THOUSANDS FLEE GUINEA'S BORDER CONFLICT
Thousands of refugees are fleeing fighting along the borders of the West African state of Guinea. About 250 000 people are trapped between warring factions on the frontiers with Liberia & Sierra Leone The UN Refugee Agency says some people have not received food aid for months. A BBC correspondent says parts of southern Guinea have been turned into a wasteland with burnt-down villages and shell cases littering the ground.
26th January 2001
PM MUST JUDGE MISCONDUCT ` LORD NEILL
The Prime Minister should be personally responsible for judging his ministers' actions the head of the Committee on Standards in Public Life has said. Following Peter Mandelson's resignation Tony Blair dismissed calls for the Code of Ministerial Conduct to be revised. But Lord Neill told BBC Radio his committee disagreed. The PM must be the judge of the Code's requirements & the consequences for breaching it he said.
25th January 2001
ENGLISH ELDERLY "MAY COLONISE" FOR CARE
A former member of the Sutherland Commission has warned Scotland could be colonised by middle-class English if free care for the elderly is provided. Lord Lipsey who produced a report rejecting the recommendations said Scotland cannot afford free long term care for the elderly. He said "there will be a tremendous problem" with English people realising that they can get free personal care. He claimed they will "be waited on at the expense of the Scottish taxpayer".
26th January 2001
THOUSANDS FLEE GUINEA'S BORDER CONFLICT
Thousands of refugees are fleeing fighting along the borders of the West African state of Guinea. About 250 000 people are trapped between warring factions on the frontiers with Liberia & Sierra Leone The UN Refugee Agency says some people have not received food aid for months. A BBC correspondent says parts of southern Guinea have been turned into a wasteland with burnt-down villages and shell cases littering the ground.
26th January 2001
TOURISTS DIE IN VENEZUELA AIR ACCIDENT
A plane with 24 people including 20 European & US tourists has crashed in Venezuela killing all on board. A DC-3 operated by the Rutaca airline crashed at 10.15 GMT last night near the southern city of Ciudad Bolivar. Local television reports say the victims came from the Netherlands Italy Hungary the US Austria & six from Venezuela including three crew. Rutuca pilot Victor Arauja said it was not known why flight-224 came down.
