The landmark will be selected from competition entries which can range from a sculpture or a building to musical composition or "virtual" art.The deadline for entries is 18 February and the panel will select up to three finalists who will be awarded £250,000 to develop the shortlisted ideas.. As a royal footman his duties once included walking the Queen's nine corgis. Yesterday, Paul Burrell was playing a more dynamic role, that of the House of Windsor's nemesis. As the home of countless ecological reserves and cathedrals, the subject of Constable's landscapes and the birthplace of Benjamin Britten and Dick Turpin, she said the tourist had plenty of reasons to visit.The development agency has been remarketing the region since it was officially created in 1999 after a county amalgamation. The East of England Development Agency (EEDA) hopes a regional marker will give it the recognition Antony Gormley's Angel of the North gave the North-east.An international competition has been launched for a landmark after research found people in Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Cambridgeshire had a weak sense of collective identity.An EEDA spokeswoman said the region was also battling with unfair stereotypes, including the "Essex wideboy", and Mr Partridge. The East of England has often been dismissed as a tedious backwater of flatlands and fens, inhabited by the likes of Alan Partridge, Radio Norwich's naff fictional DJ. They are the first public authority to have invited third-party scrutiny of this depth and quality.".

People can have confidence that we take the issue of combating race and gender bias seriously."Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, said: "We welcome this important review by the CPS. But we could be, in two or three years, unless we keep our eye on the ball, in a worse situation than we are now."The Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith QC, who is the minister with responsibility for the CPS, said that it was important to remember that Professor John's findings related to cases that were closed before September 2001.He said that since then, the CPS had made much progress with race issues."I will also continue to consult my race advisory group about tacking these issues. We need to look at the way we present objections to bail to see if there is subconscious bias there I think we are very much set fair. After that report, Sir David promised to do what was necessary to combat CPS racism but said all British institutions were open to this allegation as defined by the report into the death of Stephen Lawrence.Sir David said yesterday: "I don't think there are grounds for saying the service is consciously biased against black and ethnic minorities. What we have is a series of patterns which I believe must cause the CPS some concern."The DPP, Sir David Calvert-Smith QC, said publication of the report was one of the most important days of his five-year tenure A separate report into staffing and recruitment in the CPS by another black academic, Sylvia Denman, found evidence of institutional racism. The evidence in the files is not complete enough to allow us to do so.

He added: "We can't conclude conclusively there is or is not bias or discrimination in prosecutors' decision making. The report suggested that was because Afro-Caribbeans had been charged by police on slender evidence.The £700,000 study examined 13,000 files from cases finalised at court between September 2000 and August 2001, and concluded it was impossible to say whether unconscious or even conscious bias was the reason for the "differentials" between the experiences of white defendants and those from ethnic minorities.Professor John's report concluded: "It is important that the CPS take steps now to attend to the possible explanations for the differentials this research has highlighted."He made 10 recommendations including appointing specialist prosecutors to deal with racist and religious crime, improving the way decisions are recorded in case files and building a more robust management structure. He found the CPS was more likely to object to bail for black defendants - and more likely to give the reason that they would "obstruct justice" - than for defendants from other ethnic groups.Overall, Afro-Caribbean defendants were more likely than white ones to have their case discontinued. The report found: "Despite clear and compelling evidence and the insistence of the police officer that this was a racially motivated crime and he wanted it prosecuted as such, the CPS declined to do so."In another case, the race dimension to an offence was dropped because the white defendant admitted that although he could have been racist he was drunk at the time and the racist comment was made after the initial abuse. In 25 out of 33 cases where the defendants were mainly white and the victims usually black or Asian, the prosecution was either discontinued or resulted in a plea to a lesser charge.In one disturbing example given by the inquiry team, an off-duty black policeman was attacked by a white female. Racist crime is not being properly prosecuted in this country, a two-year investigation into a possible link between institutional racism and decision-making in the Crown Prosecution Service has found. His mother was treated for shock and injuries to her wrist.A police spokesman said the woman apparently knew her attacker and that it was not a random incident.The spokesman said: "The child had sustained a wound to his neck He was taken to hospital where he was certified dead.

Paramedics, who arrived on the scene within four minutes, attempted to save the boy but he was pronounced dead on arrival at the Cumberland Infirmary. A baby was killed and his mother wounded yesterday when they were attacked in a baker's shop by a man brandishing a knife. Despite a desperate attempt by the mother to shield her child, the 10-month-old boy suffered a fatal stab wound to the neck just before noon in the centre of Carlisle.Passers-by claimed to have seen the man yelling at the mother before launching his attack in the city's Scotch Street, the main pedestrianised shopping area.The 20-year-old woman suffered a serious wound to her wrist in the struggle to protect the child just 100 yards from a police station. He also pleaded not guilty to an allegation of "doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of justice", which allegedly included sending "letters of a threatening nature to witnesses".The court heard that Mr Peters allegedly ran the business with the help of his lover, Julie Watts, also known as Bonnie Blair, who admitted a charge of living on prostitution at an earlier hearing.Peter Grieves-Smith, for the prosecution, described how regular visitors enjoyed "loyalty membership schemes" while new customers were entitled to discounts on services, ranging from "hand relief" for £25 to a £200 package entitled "VIP Two Girl Services".At least £120,000 was found in Mr Peters' Women Come First account, according to Mr Grieves-Smith The hearing continues.. A former charity worker made hundreds of thousands of pounds by operating what he claimed was the "biggest and best" brothel in the country, a court heard yesterday. Simon Peters, 55, allegedly ran the business from a £700,000 mansion extravagantly furnished with theme rooms, a pole dancing area and secret listening devices.Mr Peters, who was also claiming state benefits, reportedly employed up to 30 "dynamic" girls while his profits were paid into a bank account called "Women Come First", left over from a charity for which he had once been a co-signatory.At the opening of his trial at Southwark Crown Court, Mr Peters denied nine counts of living on prostitution between January 1999 and December 2002. Isn't the whole idea of going to prison that you do your time and are then allowed to rebuild your life afterwards?"I'm not having any sort of party to celebrate my release. To be honest I think it means more to my family and friends that I'm out than it does tome.