70 in M-way protest Bailiffs removed more than 70 protesters occupying a small wood in the path of a new motorway. Dr Carey, the 103rd holder of the post, will speak to delegates at the 1997 congress A venue has not yet been chosen.. Final solution Grey squirrels may be fed rat poison to keep their numbers down. Oh, brother Dr George Carey is to address the TUC, the first Archbishop of Canterbury to do so. The judge at Southwark Crown Court said there was no evidence against Ronnie O'Sullivan senior..

Acts of faith The number of adults joining the Catholic Church is the highest for 25 years. Some 6,205 were received into the church last year, up by 20 per cent on 1994. Celebrity converts include the Duchess of Kent. Snooker father clearedThe jailed father of snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was acquitted of running a pornography empire from his prison cell. Gulf War veteran loses court fight Soldiers have no legal duty to look after their comrades in battle, the Appeal Court ruled in a test case yesterday. Gulf War veteran Richard Mulcahy, 31, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, was told he cannot sue for compensation from the Ministry of Defence for hearing damage suffered in an artillery bombardment.Asked to rule if a duty of care was owed by one serviceman to another in a war, judge Sir Iain Glidewell said: "It could be highly detrimental to the conduct of military operations.". Bob Newitt, the driver of the bus, has been taken off his intensive-care ventilator.Letters, page 18. It's infuriating - will Brendan ever be employed again with this tag that has been given to him?"The three other people seriously injured in blast are also improving. He was understood to have come to Britain to find work almost two years ago.

He was then thought to have spent some time in London and possibly Glasgow.In London the funeral of the second man killed in the massive blast in Docklands, east London, was held yesterday. John Jefferies, 68, led mourners at the service at Lewisham Crematorium in south-east London for his son, John, 31.Meanwhile, the partner of Brendan Woolhead, 33, the Irishman injured in the bus bombing - and cleared of any involvement in the attack - spoke of the trauma.As Mr Woolhead continued to recover in St Thomas's Hospital his partner, Gillian, said: "He can remember hardly anything about what happened - he can't remember getting on the bus that was blown up."She told Irish radio that Mr Woolhead flew to London from his home in Dublin last Saturday to start work as a telephone engineer She added: "I am just thinking of the future. "He was the last person you would expect to be associated with anything like this," he said."There has been a strongly expressed revulsion for the IRA godfathers who recruit impressionable young people into violent activities."He said of the O'Briens: "They are a very good, decent local family involved in a lot of community things, and they just feel so ashamed as well as the feeling of great loss for their oldest son."O'Brien, described in the town as "always friendly and very popular", was last seen at home over Christmas when he stayed with neighbours. The police are trying to trace other IRA members through documents recovered at the scene.In Gorey, the Catholic priest Father Walter Forde blamed the IRA in London for recruiting O'Brien.