A source from his campaign office said it had decided not to make a fuss of Ms Fullerton’s existence

A source from his campaign office said it had decided not to make a fuss of Ms Fullerton’s existence.”All the comment about last week’s remarks were ridiculous and we did not want to make anything of it. This is a man who has been anti-racist all his life and we deliberately decided not to leak the fact about Elizabeth because we thought it would be in bad taste to do so.”Mr Watson said his father, George, and stepmother, Lola – Lord Archer’s mother – had heard about Elizabeth when she was living in a children’s home in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. She is part and parcel of family life.”Lord Archer was unavailable for comment yesterday as he is sequestered in the south of France working on his latest book. “Jeffrey’s boys have been to stay with her in New York and for the last couple of years they have taken summer holidays together. “They get on very well and whenever Liz is in London, she stays at `Chateau Archer’,” said Mr Watson yesterday. Yesterday, William Archer said: “She practically brought me up.

She is like a second mother to me.”David Watson, Lord Archer’s step-brother, said Ms Fullerton was “a very good- looking woman”.The peer and his half-sister are said to be very close Ms Fullerton was also a bridesmaid at Lord Archer’s wedding. The peer, who is hoping to become mayor of London, was accused of “racist claptrap” last week after he said that 30 years ago black women in Britain were overweight, badly dressed and probably had lousy jobs.
Ms Fullerton, 50, is slim, elegant and has a successful career as a counsellor on drugs and deprivation in New York.According to Michael Crick’s biography of Lord Archer, Stranger Than Fiction, Ms Fullerton was employed as a nanny to his two children, William and James, before moving to the US. Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare’s mother, Lola, adopted Elizabeth Fullerton in the 1950s when he was a teenager and she became an integral, if little known, part of the family. THE STORM over Jeffrey Archer’s comments about overweight black women took a fresh twist yesterday when it emerged that he has an adopted sister who is black. The human chain, numbering some 400 people, was formed precisely to shield children from the media.. However, the library, where most of the killings happened before Harris, 18, and Klebold, 17, took their own lives, remains closed, the entrance blocked by a wall of blue lockers.If the returning students were nervous, it was largely because of a heavy media presence and the eagerness of reporters to find some momentous significance in this first day back.

Many of the rooms where the assault launched by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold took place have been redecorated, including the cafeteria, which the two boys tried to blow up. The large suburban high school was more like an armed camp, with guards posted at every entrance, sniffer dogs patrolling the grounds and dozens of police patrolling the area.Inside the school building, 16 video surveillance cameras have been installed. Most pupils expressed the simple wish to get back to normality.
But normality was the last thing they found. Frank DeAngelis, the principal, urged students to “take back” their school after the rampage of 20 April, which cost 15 lives. WITH PARENTS and former students forming a human chain of support around them, nearly 2,000 teenagers returned to class at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, yesterday for the first time since their lives were ripped apart by two deranged senior pupils armed with pipe bombs and semi-automatic weapons. If you do things carefully and put people in sensible places, as happened with the Kosovars, it’s quite possible for the refugees and local community to live side by side.”. Up to 5,000 were believed to be living on the south Kent coast, with more arriving each week.Brendan Murphy, a spokesman for the LGA, said: “Kent and Dover have found it very difficult to cope with the amount of asylum-seekers and refugees in the past but this problem has become more acute over the weekend.”We will be in discussions with local authorities in other parts of the country who we expect to offer to take some of the refugees and support their colleagues in other councils.”Nick Hardwick, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said yesterday that unless the Government thought very carefully about its planned programme of dispersing all asylum-seekers around Britain, the Dover violence would “not be a one-off”.He said: “If we dump people in monocultural areas where there are already difficulties with local industries then these conflicts are hardly surprising.

Local police commander Superintendent Chris Eyre said: “The message that we have to get across is that behaviour that is illegal will not be tolerated.”The Local Government Association (LGA) said around 500 of the asylum- seekers living in Dover would be relocated in the North and North-west. Three men – all asylum-seekers – were arrested and bailed pending further inquiries.Last night, police patrols were increased around the guest houses where the refugees were staying and police were carrying out random stop and search. All those hurt had yesterday been released from hospital.Kent police said they believe the trouble started after the locals began baiting a group of refugees. I don’t defend the behaviour for one moment, whichever side it came from, but it is a result of tension and the Government has known about that tension for a long time.”Violence between the refugees and local youths, which centred on a fairground in Pencester Gardens near the town centre, broke out on Friday night when six people were slashed with knives A further five were wounded in clashes on Saturday. She said that she wanted to know why it had taken the Government so long to recognise what Kent County Council had been telling it.The violence followed a warning from the council earlier this month that a “tinderbox” situation was developing in the area because of the growing tension between asylum-seekers and some residents.Miss Widdecombe said: “We have had to wait for the explosion to take place before the Government has taken action I’m very saddened but I’m not surprised.

“We need to prevent the large numbers of asylum-seekers coming here that have in the past,” he said. “We are very conscious of that and we’ve been working very closely with officials abroad, particularly in France, to try and see the problem off before it actually arrives on these shores.”With Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, on holiday, Ann Widdecombe, the Tory home affairs spokeswoman, seized on the issue and travelled to Dover last night to listen to the concerns of local residents and officials. The decision follows a serious outbreak of violence between asylum-seekers and local residents in the Kent town over the weekend, which left 11 people needing treatment for knife wounds.
Urgent talks were being held last night with senior local authority officials in Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool and other northern cities to take in some of the refugees in order to defuse the tension in Dover.The Home Office minister Lord Bassam of Brighton said yesterday that asylum-seekers had been “dumped” in the port without adequate support and he admitted that they were in the “wrong place”.”We do accept that entirely and that’s why we have got the legislation going through, so that we can take powers to ensure that we get clusters of asylum-seekers more properly dispersed across the country,” he said.Lord Bassam said that the Government was seeking help from other countries in reducing the numbers coming to Britain. It may be Prodi’s method to suggest the outrageous in order to have something to concede.But how unwise of Mr Blair to risk compromising his position at this particular moment!TOM LAKEReading, Berkshire. HUNDREDS OF refugees are to be evacuated from Dover and rehoused in the north of England after a government minister admitted yesterday that they were living in intolerable conditions. That Prodi could suggest such a thing already shows the depths to which European government has sunk.
The issue is not yet lost; we have simply to insist on the unacceptability of this suggestion. The new commission president has proposed a compatriot as Commissioner for Taxation.