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 Edition : 3368               Friday 11-Aug-1995            Circulation :  4531 

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VNS MAIN NEWS:                                    [Andy Payne, VNS UK News Desk]
==============                                    [Fareham, England            ]

    Here is the News at 09:00 BST on Friday 11th August 1995
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    UK News
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    [Television revolution ahead]
    The prospect of a huge increase in the number of television channels
    available as well as high-definition, widescreen pictures and CD
    quality sound, was heralded yesterday when the government published its
    policy for digital television and radio in Britain.
    {The Independent}

    [Offer ends rail strike threat]
    The threat of a national rail strike ended last night when drivers'
    union leaders accepted a revised deal which involved no change to
    British Rail's pay offer. The 12,340 Aslef members began the day by
    rejecting a three per cent offer and talks to shorten the working week
    from 39 to 37 within two years.
    {The Daily Telegraph}

    [Five die in fire]
    Five children, including twins aged three, were killed in a house fire
    yesterday in Wrexhan, Clwyd.
    {The Daily Telegraph}


    World News
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    [Evidence of 3,000 massacred by Serbs]
    Photographs of what are said to be the mass graves of unarmed Muslim
    men and boys shot in cold blood by Bosnian Serb forces when they
    overran the Srebrenica enclave in Bosnia last month were presented to
    the UN Security Council by America yesterday.  The evidence points to
    the worst single atrocity of the four-year war in former Yugoslavia.
    Nearly 3,000 unarmed Muslim males, some of them small boys, were
    allegedly shot.
    {The Daily Telegraph}

    [Iraq defections]
    Two of President Saddam Hussein's daughters and their husbands, key
    figures in Iraq's regime, have defected to Jordan.
    {The Daily Telegraph}

    [Murder Plot]
    Spanish police have thwarted an apparent plot by Basque terrorists to
    assassinate King Juan Carlos on holiday in Majorca.
    {The Daily Telegraph}

    [Leakey attacked]
    Dr Richard Leakey, the white Kenyan politician, was beaten up by
    government supporters yesterday as he visited President Moi's home area.

    [Smokeless zone]
    The Clinton administration has proposed new measures to curb under-age
    smoking, including a total ban on vending machines, further
    restrictions on advertising and a proof-of-age requirement for
    cigarette purchasers.
    {The Independent}


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