It ruled that the shootings 'can be considered as absolutely necessary for the legitimate aim of the defence of others from unlawful violence'.In her dissenting opinion, Ms Liddy said that however abhorrent the murder and maiming planned by the IRA, its members were entitled to have their right to life respected.She said she had examined a sample transmitter and decoder supplied to the Commission by the British Government, and found it a bulky and heavy object which Savage and McCann, dressed as they were, could not have hidden on their persons.There was a fundamental inconsistency, she said, between the argument that the IRA members had to be shot because they might press a button and the fact that 27 bullets had been fired at them, any of which could have struck such the button and detonated a bomb.There was a further inconsistency between the decision to allow a suspected car-bomb into Gibraltar, as the authorities had done, and the fear that the IRA members could set it off at any time. Dr John Ashworth, director of the LSE, has commended the plan to ministers and discussed it in detail with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Michael Portillo.With John Patten's tenure as Secretary of State for Education likely to end in this week's Cabinet reshuffle, the Treasury may be preparing to press the scheme on his successor.The education department reviewed the system last year and rejected fundamental changes. Profits on disposals of the surplus properties, which contributed pounds 5.8m to the pounds 14m achieved in 1991, are likely to fall to about pounds 2m this year. At York, 10 of their former enemies were standing alongside the Japanese.

An independent market survey, conducted by George Gaskell of the London School of Economics for Sutton Water, has found that 70 per cent of customers want to pay for water by means of a licence fee and only 20 per cent prefer metering. William Whitelaw, then the Home Secretary, promised that a full report would be passed to the then Police Complaints Board andthe Director of Public Prosecutions. Could I use your columns to draw his attention to the next season of Performance, which contains plays by Ibsen, John Osborne and Tennessee Williams? On the related matter of classic serials, Dr Campbell may well find Stendhal's The Scarlet and the Black and George Eliot's Middlemarch to his taste when we screen these two major productions in the next programme year. BBC Drama Group will this year produce more than 400 hours of original drama, and I assure Dr Campbell that we are just as concerned with range and quality as he is.Yours faithfully,CHARLES DENTONHead of Drama GroupBBC TelevisionLondon, W1215 July. BORIS BECKER has severed his links with his manager, Ion Tiriac, the father figure in an astonishing career which was launched in 1985, when the German became the youngest Wimbledon men's singles champion at 17 years and 7 months, writes John Roberts. The infiltration by Interpol of a block of selfcatering apartments? The Intourist trip that went too far? They settled on the night of the abortive August coup and had the characters watch the action from a hotel restaurant.

Now Nature Detectives (BBC1) is offering the opportunity to do both at the same time This one will run for a thousand years. They're clean, as they damned well should be, and you can put in all those little extras. People don't like to think about not being around for ever, but we would ask them to recognise that if the business is to succeed, their knowledge and expertise have to be passed on to the next generation of management; that they have a choice of either planning ahead or letting all they've built up be thrown away.'Psychology is the important thing in most of these matters, understanding how people think about issues, because some issues go for years without being addressed and become taboo subjects - issues such as when is Dad going to retire. The revolution that started here in the Alpine valleys and down on the Lombardy plain is in danger 'Watch out out. Interviewing an old woman who's almost had her finger cut off by a mugger, he makes no pretence of wanting anything more than a charge for his arrest sheet. I met a man through it with whom I had an affair for 14 months.