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THE Queen was so upset by Abu
Hamza’s vile hate campaign she
personally intervened to ask the
Government why he was still at large.
She revealed her dismay at the evil
cleric’s freedom to spout his spiteful
sermons on Britain’s streets to veteran
BBC reporter Frank Gardner.
Recalling their conversation, the security
correspondent said yesterday: “The Queen was
pretty upset that there was no way to arrest
him. She couldn’t understand. There was surely
some law he had broken.
“She spoke to the Home Secretary at the time
and said: ‘My goodness, why is he still at large?’”
The Queen’s controversial intervention in
politics was revealed a day after the hook-
handed Islamist fanatic lost his final appeal
against extradition to the US.
But Gardner’s disclosures on radio yesterday
quickly led to a grovelling apology by the BBC
to Buckingham Palace. The corporation said
their man’s private conversation with the Queen
some years ago should never have been aired.
Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme,
Gardner said: “I wouldn’t say she [the Queen]
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Family join police in
vigil for shot WPCs
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THE grieving families of two
policewomen who were shot dead
were yesterday joined in a vigil by
the officers’ colleagues and
hundreds of well-wishers.
WPCs Fiona Bone, 32, and
Nicola Hughes, 23, died after they
were called to a burglary in
Mottram, Greater Manchester.
At 10.58am yesterday, exactly a
week after the attacks in Abbey
Gardens, 500 friends, relatives
and residents gathered there to
mark their deaths.
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Fiona Bone was shot dead
About 50 officers marched from
Hyde police station, where the
women were based. The gathering
observed a minute’s silence.
Among mourners were believed
to be Nicola’s parents Bryn, 48,
and Susan, 50, and her brother
Sam, 20, and Fiona’s parents Paul
and June and partner Claire. Chief
Superintendent Nick Adderley
said: “The numbers of people
symbolises the popularity of what
Nicola and Fiona stood for.”
The funeral of WPC Hughes will
be held in Manchester Cathedral
on October 3 with the service for
WPC Bone in the cathedral the
following morning.
A policewoman bowing her head in the rain yesterday
Nicola Hughes died last week
Sugar anger over
Clegg’s threat to
pensioner perks
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NICK Clegg sparked a row
with Apprentice host Lord
Sugar last night after sug-
gesting free bus passes and
fuel allowances for pension-
ers should be means-tested.
The Lib Dem Deputy
Prime Minister said allowing
multi-millionaires like Lord
Sugar access to universal
benefits was difficult to
justify at a time of austerity.
But the Labour peer hit
back by pointing out he had
paid millions of pounds in
tax during his career.
He said on Twitter: “Even
if I did have a bus pass, I’ve
personally paid tens of
millions tax and my compa-
nies hundreds of millions in
the past 45 years. What has
Clegg done?”
He added: “The twit Nick
Clegg, moaning about me
having a bus pass. Idiot, I
haven’t got one.”
Mr Clegg’s comment dur-
ing the Lib Dem conference
in Brighton made him the
most senior Coalition figure
yet to question age-related
benefits such as Winter Fuel
Allowance and free prescrip-
tions.
The row threatened to
overshadow the build-up to
Mr Clegg’s big conference
speech today. In an interview
on BBC radio, Mr Clegg
hinted he would support
whether they are sipping
sangria in the sun in Seville
or people like me in their 60s
with good jobs.
“Nick has bravely taken
hits for the Coalition team on
tuition fees and the NHS.
Why aren’t we fighting for
fairness on well-off pension-
ers’ perks now rather than
waiting for 2015?”
Universal age-related ben-
efits cost £5billion a year.
Neil Duncan-Jordan, of the
National Pensioners Conven-
tion, said: “This is not really
about the wealthy, it is about
stopping universal benefits
and introducing a costly and
counter-productive system
of means-testing.”
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Firms dodging tax to lose Government work
TAX-EVADING firms will be
banned from winning
Government contracts
under a crackdown unveiled
yesterday.
In a speech to the Lib
Dem conference, Chief
Secretary to the Treasury
thing that we felt for this
Parliament was not right. My
own view is for the future
that it would be very difficult
to explain.
“It would be quite interest-
ing if you could ask the
Labour Party...because they
appear to be saying that at a
time when people’s housing
benefit is being cut, we
should protect Alan Sugar’s
free bus pass.”
Lib Dem peer Lord Oake-
shott stepped up the row by
accusing some pensioners of
pocketing winter fuel bene-
fits while enjoying “sangria in
the sun”.
He said: “I’ve been raising
these questions about winter
fuel payments going to peo-
ple who don’t need them,
Apprentice host Lord Sugar
means-testing after the elec-
tion set for 2015.
He said: “We have ruled
out in the Coalition agree-
ment changing what are
called age-related universal
benefits. I think it was some-
Danny Alexander, said: “If
you want to work for us, you
should play by our rules.
“There is nothing that
prevents firms that don’t
play by the rules from
winning Government
contracts. That is not right. I
am determined that it comes
to an end.
“Taxpayers’ money
should not be funding
tax-dodgers.”
He said Treasury officials
were drawing up new rules
to prevent companies using
loopholes and off-shore
investments to avoid paying
tax while providing services
to the Government.
“In this country, we tax
work, effort and income too
highly and unearned wealth
far too little,” he added.
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Chickens will rule the roost in their luxurious coop. The architects’ design has already been approved
FOR a mega-rich City banker,
it’s probably just chicken feed.
But hedge fund manager
Crispin Odey is set to splash
out well over £150,000 to build
a palatial hen house.
His pampered poultry will
fi nd themselves with
something to crow about when
they move into the Palladian-
style coop complete with
hand-carved stone
colonnades, English oak
windows and topped with a
fl oral monument.
It will stand 16ft high and
cover 775 sq ft – taller than the
average bungalow and roughly
the size of a typical two-
bedroom fl at.
The aim will be to blend in
with the grandeur of the
country mansion at which it
will be built – Eastbach Court,
a Grade II listed home in the
village of English Bicknor in
the Forest of Dean,
Gloucestershire.
Mr Odey, 53, hit the
headlines in 2008 after paying
himself £28million as Britain
slid into recession by
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painted in a shade called
Hague Blue “to match the
doors around Eastbach Court”,
according to the plans which
have now been approved.
Planning offi cer Anna Welsh
conceded that the design and
materials could be considered
“rather grandiose” for a
chicken house. But she added
in a report: “It is judged that
the building is modest in size
and in keeping with the
character and appearance of
the listed building.”
Mr Odey runs Odey Asset
Management, which controls
around £4.5billion worth of
assets. He was listed in the
Sunday Times Rich List 2012
as being worth £455million.
He and his wife Nichola
Pease, a former chief executive
of J O Hambro Capital
Management – who also have a
townhouse in Chelsea – have
ploughed a fortune into
Eastbach Court, including
excavating a huge lake.
And now there’ll even be a
touch of luxury when their
chickens come home to roost.
predicting the credit crunch
and successfully gambling on
bank shares falling.
To design his dream coop,
he hired top London architects
Smallwood of Chelsea, who are
more used to working on
multi-million pound houses
meant for people, rather
than hens.
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Not since former Tory MP Sir
Peter Viggers famously
claimed £1,645 on expenses to
build a duck house at his
constituency home have fowl
been so well housed.
Plans were fi rst approved by
Forest of Dean District Council
in 2010 but Mr Odey then
applied to make the building 30
per cent bigger.
It will be constructed from
£130,000 worth of local
sandstone with a zinc roof and
painted timber pediments and
will cost a further £20,000 to
erect. Even the doors will be
Hen party
ahead at
the coop
to be built
by Crispin
Odey and
his wife
Nichola
Pease,
above, at
their
listed
country
mansion
Eastbach
Court
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ce cream vans facing hard chimes
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THE familiar jingle of an ice
cream van coming along the
street was once as much a part
of childhood as skipping ropes
or Enid Blyton books.
But the welcome treat may
soon be a thing of the past –
thanks partly to killjoy health
and safety bosses.
There are now fewer than
500 mobile vans on Britain’s
streets compared to 250,000 in
the 1970s, according to ice
cream maker Joe Delucci’s.
Councils put the sellers into
meltdown by creating zones
where they cannot go at all –
in some cases, such as Harrow
ents are just too afraid of the
dangers in today’s society to
let their children out alone,
even for a cornet or choc ice.
Joe Delucci’s co-founder
Nigel Langstone said: “It is
sad because ice cream vans
are a happy part of so many of
our childhoods. The sound of
Greensleeves is synonymous
with the after-school treat.
“It wouldn’t happen today –
not least because parents
don’t allow children out on the
streets on their own because
they worry for their safety.
“Councils have banned ice
cream vans from so many of
our estates. They are an easy
target in the war on obesity.”
Britain still has 5,000 vans
but almost all are static,
parked at seaside resorts and
next to play areas, with just
500 left patrolling the streets.
Ice cream has been sold on
Britain’s streets for 200 years
but modern society means
they could fi nally be frozen
out.
Around 1,000 were forced off
the roads this year by appall-
ing weather and families stay-
ing in to watch the Olympics.
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in north London, banning
them from estates to try to
combat childhood obesity.
Ice cream men still peddling
their 99s have seen licence
costs soar. And some areas
have put limits on how long
vans can sound their chimes.
Peterborough City Council
said they can only play their
jingles for four seconds. It
revoked a seller’s licence for
playing Teddy Bears’ Picnic
for longer than that after com-
plaints by residents.
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Why was Hamza still at
large, asked the Queen
The Queen
has been
praised for
her dismay
over
Hamza’s
freedom to
preach
hate. ‘She
has her
finger on
the pulse of
the public,’
said a
leading MP
yesterday
was necessarily lobbying, that’s not for me
to say.” He then added that she was “merely
voicing the views that many have”.
Her Majesty “was upset that her country
and its subjects were being denigrated by
this man who was using this country as a
platform for his very violent, hateful views,”
revealed Gardner.
Within hours, the BBC said sorry for the
“wholly inappropriate” broadcast.
A spokesman said: “This morning on the
Today programme our correspondent Frank
Gardner revealed details of a private
conversation which took place some years
ago with the Queen.
“The conversation should have remained
private and the BBC and Frank deeply
regret this breach of confidence. It was
wholly inappropriate. Frank is extremely
sorry for the embarrassment caused and
has apologised to the Palace.”
David Blunkett, who was Labour Home
Secretary from 2001 until 2004 while Hamza
was at the height of his notoriety, yesterday
denied being the minister the Queen is said
to have quizzed.
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said he “did not think it was him”, adding
that even if it was he would not comment on
the conversation.
Details of the Queen’s personal feelings
on political matters are rarely aired in
public as protocol dictates her conversa-
tions are kept private.
However, her intervention over Hamza
won widespread praise yesterday.
Tory MP Patrick Mercer said it was a
“shame” the BBC had breached her confi-
dence but added: “It shows the Queen has
absolutely got her finger on the pulse of the
public who would have been asking them-
selves the very same question.
“This is a man who stirred up hatred and
violence but lived off the state he professed
to despise. She was right to ask why he was
still here.
“We hear very little of the Queen’s per-
sonal views but this shows she is in touch
with public opinion.”
Labour’s Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home
Affairs Committee, said the Queen’s com-
he said of the monarch. On Monday the
European Court of Human Rights ruled
that Hamza and four others should be
extradited to the US to face terrorism
charges.
It was their last possible appeal and
brings an end to a legal saga that has lasted
eight years and cost UK taxpayers more
than £4.5million.
Home Secretary Theresa May now wants
Hamza to be flown to America “as soon as
possible”. His deportation is likely within
the next three weeks.
Ex-nightclub bouncer Hamza spouted his
bile-laden sermons outside Finsbury Park
mosque in north London. He is wanted in
the US for plotting to set up a jihadi train-
ing camp in Oregon. Also facing extradition
are Babar Ahmad, Talha Ahsan, Khalid
al-Fawwaz and Adel Abdul Bary.
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ments showed “how deeply concerned” she
is for the “welfare of her subjects”. He
added: “It’s good that she has mentioned
this to the Home Secretary and absolutely
appropriate.”
Buckingham Palace refused to comment
on the matter yesterday.
Gardner said the Queen’s upset over
Hamza’s freedom was because the security
services, including MI5, had wrongly
dismissed the hate preacher as a “noisy
troublemaker” rather than a fanatic bent on
inciting violence.
In the same interview on the Today
programme, guest Lawrence Whitehouse
recounted meeting the Queen while picking
up a posthumous award for his wife Marga-
ret who was killed in a kidnapping in Yemen
organised by Hamza in 1998.
“We went to a ceremony where she spoke
quite knowledgeably and authoritatively on
the events leading to my wife being killed,”
Hamza finally lost his deportation appeal on Monday
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Daily Express Wednesday September 26 2012 5
Families flee as roads
are turned into rivers
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HUNDREDS of families were forced to
flee their homes from floods yesterday as
forecasters warned of further torrential
downpours today.
Two months’ worth of rain in two days
has left many communities knee-deep in
water and rivers at critically high levels.
About 200 homes in the North-east
were evacuated yesterday and roads
became impassable with the rain also
forcing schools to close.
One of the worst-hit areas was North-
umberland. In Morpeth householders had
to leave their homes when the River
Wansbeck burst its banks and flooded the
historic market town.
In Rothbury, 13 miles away, torrential
rain sent cars careering down the River
Coquet. Homes were left under inches of
water after it burst it banks, also affecting
nearby Thropton and Netherton.
In Newburn, Tyne and Wear, floods
washed away part of a road, prompting
fears for the safety of a block of flats.
Police set up a cordon around them as the
building teetered by a gaping chasm.
Properties in Hartburn, Stockton and
Teesside were evacuated while the East
Coast Main Line south of Darlington was
closed. Rail chiefs were unable to run a
replacement bus service because roads in
the area were also deluged.
The Environment Agency issued 151
flood alerts and 81 more serious flood
warnings yesterday as parts of the coun-
try endured the wettest day for 36 years.
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Northumbria Police told motorists to
avoid driving “unless absolutely neces-
sary”. The A1(M) was closed in both
directions between Junctions 49 and 60
due to flooding and the 50-mile stretch
between North Yorkshire and County
Durham was not expected to reopen until
around 6am this morning. Sections of the
A66 and the A19 were also shut.
Parts of Scotland were left under water
while in the village of Footdee, near Aber-
deen Harbour, streets, buildings and cars
were left under a blanket of foam which
had blown off the sea in high winds.
In the village of Gilling West, North
Yorks, flood victims from a council care
home showed true British spirit as they
laughed and joked as they were carried to
safety by rescuers.
Last night the Met Office issued a
severe weather warning for much of the
South, which escaped the worst of the
rain yesterday.
Forecaster Sarah Holland said there
would be no real let-up in the rain until
the end of the week. “We have another
warning for Wednesday, possibly torren-
tial downpours across the South and
South-east,” she added. “This is going to
fall on saturated ground so there is the
risk of more flash flooding.”
The Met Office said almost four inches
of rain hit parts of Britain yesterday with
another two inches today, meaning two
months’ worth has fallen in two days.
Environment Agency operations direc-
tor David Jordan said: “We urge people to
keep up-to-date with the weather fore-
cast and remain prepared for flooding in
their area, sign up to receive free flood
warnings and stay away from dangerous
flood water.”
AA spokesman Darron Burness
warned: “Unfortunately, some drivers are
being irresponsible and continuing into
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A WOMAN was killed by a falling tree
branch as she walked with two friends
on a path in Kew Gardens, an inquest
heard yesterday.
They ran for their lives when they
heard a crack and looked up to see
branches falling on them last Sunday.
New Zealander Erena Louise Wilson,
31, could not get out of the way in time
when part of a Lebanese cedar broke
off in winds gusting to 30mph. The
accounts manager for a digital studio,
who lived in Ealing, west London, was
pronounced dead at the scene.
Insp Simon Young said the group
thought the sound was thunder before
they looked up. The others turned
round and saw Ms Wilson on the floor
with lots of branches around her.
The inquest was adjourned.
respite from the rain at the weekend,
another low pressure system is gearing up
to bring a deluge next week. Jonathan
Powell, of Vantage Weather Services, said:
“It will settle down for a bit by the week-
end but I am afraid there’s another lot
preparing to roll in from Monday.”
flood water against advice. If you can see
other cars broken down, then it’s a very
clear warning not to proceed. Not only is
it foolhardy to put you and your car at
risk, it also potentially ties up the emer-
gency services unnecessarily.”
Forecasters warned that after a brief
A family and their dog are rescued in Morpeth, Northumberland, yesterday.
Left, an East Coast Main Line train is halted by floods near Dalton, North
Yorks. Right: A washed away road leaves flats on the edge in Tyne and Wear
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