Each British household wastes pounds 278 a year by failing to install energy saving measures and appliances, according to a study yesterday. The restaurant also contains a glass-fronted cabinet containing two skeletons hung from butchers' hooks.. The restaurant was targeted because of the two skinned cows' heads suspended in tanks of formaldehyde which adorn the bar; both the signature work of Hirst. Police took two hours on Thursday night to disperse around 30 demonstrators who protested inside and outside Quo Vadis, the newly opened Soho restaurant owned by restaurateur Marco Pierre White and the artist Damien Hirst. Animal rights activists have been protesting outside a well-known London restaurant - not because of veal on the menu, but because of the cows' heads on the wall. The BBC and John Birt, its director general, were cleared of all blame..

A court in Rennes ordered Mr Sweeney to pay damages of pounds 2,200 to the twins after being judged to have acted "in bad faith" towards the Barclays during a BBC Radio Guernsey interview. The millionaire twins, David and Frederick Barclay, have won an appeal in a French court for "public slander" damages against the Observer journalist John Sweeney arising out of a British radio broadcast last July. The other British defendants who will stand trial are John Farrell, 34, from Manchester, Stephen Whitehead from Oldham, also 34, William Fitzgerald, 55, from Liverpool, and 47-year-old William Riley.. Also in the dock is Stephen Mee, 38, from Liverpool, who is wanted in Britain, and a third defendant, Ray Nolan, 28, who is also sought by British police. The defendants include a Liverpool man, Curtis Warren, 32, once dubbed "Target One" by Interpol. They were arrested last October when Dutch police seized pounds 75m-worth of cocaine stashed inside aluminium ingots They will face separate trials on 9 and 10 April.

Seven Britons, alleged to have helped organise a pounds 100m racket to market heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and hashish across Europe, were yesterday remanded in custody by a Dutch court. The head teacher, Michael Lewis, said: "Like many schools, we have pleaded repeatedly with the council and the Government for resources to improve school security but up till now we have received kind words but no cash." The incidents were the latest in a string of worrying attacks at schools, including the murder of the London headmaster Philip Lawrence last year.. Earlier yesterday, a teacher at King Edward VII school in Sheffield was threatened with a silver pistol when he asked three youths who were not pupils at the school to leave. A police spokesman said they would carry out searches and door-to-door inquiries today. Tricia Jaffe, the head teacher, said the boy's attackers were not pupils at the school and it was not known who they were. He suffered head injuries and was taken to the Royal London Hospital in east London where his condition was serious but stable.

The youth was set upon by a gang of about the same age - one white boy and four of oriental appearance - outside the gates at Kidbrooke School in Eltham, south-east London. A 14-year-old boy was seriously ill in hospital last night after he was attacked at school with a large knife, possibly a machete. Lawyers for the family of Joan Francisco hope that the claim, for the assault and battery that led to her death, will result in a finding by a civil court that Tony Diedrick, the suspect, committed the killing. The action is being brought by Dr Francisco's sisters, Margaret and Celia, following a decision by the Crown Prosecution Service that there was insufficient evidence for a prosecution.Dr Francisco, a 27-year-old gynaecologist and obstetrician, was found strangled in her flat in north London, on Boxing Day 1994.A police inquiry revealed that she had been the victim of a stalker, but the inquiry was hampered by the lack of a witness and forensic evidence.Karen Thatcher, the family's solicitor, said: "We hope that during the course of these proceedings more evidence may emerge which will result in the CPS reviewing the case."In contrast to a criminal prosecution where an accused can remain silent, Mr Diedrick, 37, from Maida Vale, north-west London, has little option but to mount a defence and to give evidence The damages claim could be worth up to pounds 50,000.. The family of a young doctor strangled more than two years ago are taking the rare legal step of suing her suspected murderer for damages. "I am appalled." He is now to pen a monthly "Peregrine Worsthorne Essay" in the Daily Telegraph and a bi-monthly column for the Spectator. Yesterday the magazine's editor, Frank Johnson, rejected suggestions that the jobs had been given to the veteran former editor under pressure from their proprietor."Not at all It would have happened anyway," he said..

"Dominic simply came back and said he didn't want me," Sir Peregrine reported after he opened his letter of dismissal. The action follows concern expressed by Conrad Black, the owner of all three titles, after Mr Worsthorne, 73, was dropped from his column without warning by the editor, Dominic Lawson, who wanted a new writer. Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, who was sacked from the Sunday Telegraph earlier this month after 44 years at Telegraph newspapers, is to transfer his talents to the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. His companies in the Netherlands and the Dutch Antilles were transparent tax-dodges.Germany may be prepared to forgive the sins of the father His family, it seems, will not..