The offence – on a woman who cannot be named – is alleged to have happened on May 27 this

The offence – on a woman who cannot be named – is alleged to have happened on May 27 this year at the Royal Military College at Shrivenham, Wiltshire.
Five of the defendants – including a captain and two cadets – are making their second court appearance before magistrates at Wantage, Oxfordshire.. A 68-year-old American woman has become the first recipient of gene therapy to treat rheumatoid arthritis, scientists said yesterday. Initial results of the trial at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center indicate that the insertion of a new, anti-arthritic gene into the patient was successful. It is not known whether the protein will continue to inhibit the disease in the long term, but it is being hailed as a breakthrough which paves the way for a new approach The disease affects about 600,000 people in the UK Liz Hunt. Seven police officers were remanded on bail yesterday accused of a variety of offences arising from clashes with new-age travellers on their way to a music festival. They were arrested after a Police Complaints Authority investigation into the treatment of people held during disturbances in Northwold Road, Clapton, east London, on 8 May, 1994.

The officers were all based at nearby Stoke Newington police station and have been suspended from duty pending the outcome of the case.. The attempt by British adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes to become the first man to walk alone and unsupported across the Antarctic is in jeopardy because he is suffering from kidney stones. Twenty-six days into the journey, Fiennes is said to be in excruciating pain and has been forced to halt. The next 48 hours will be crucial as he melts down snow to try to flush the stones through his body.

It is feared he may be forced to abandon the attempt, which was intended to raise pounds 1m for the breast cancer charity Breakthrough.. Douglas Hogg, the Agriculture Minister, is expected to seek cabinet approval tomorrow for a bid to lift the European ban on British beef exports a move which could help to prop up the Government until a May election. The first step in lifting the ban was taken yesterday by Mr Hogg with the announcement of a massive computerised tracing system for 12 million cattle in England, Wales and Scotland – a key requirement of Franz Fischler, the European agriculture commissioner, for agreeing to a partial cull of selected British herds.
Mr Hogg is hoping to go to the next meeting of European agriculture ministers on Monday to appeal for the selective cull to be approved. That could hold out the prospect of lifting the export ban on beef early in the new year for cattle from Northern Ireland, where a traceability scheme is already in operation.The Government has argued against the additional cull, but it is now poised to come full-circle and go ahead with the plan, leading to the slaughter of an extra 100,000 cattle Colin Brown. A British team has beaten off the challenge of 225 other entrants in an international competition to design London’s first pedestrian bridge. The Millennium Bridge will be London’s first new river crossing for more than a century.

It will link two of the capital’s most significant public spaces and buildings – St Paul’s Cathedral to the north and the area around the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art and the Globe Theatre to the south. The winning team is headed by Foster & Partners (architects), Sir Anthony Caro (sculptor), and Ove Arup & Partners (consulting engineers).. The drinks industry and the Alcohol Concern charity rounded yesterday on a new product which is claimed can “convert alcohol faster” and help revellers stay sober despite indulging. They said there was no medical evidence to show Exit, a fizzy bitter lemon drink containing fructose and quinine, could speed the body’s processes. Correction
The photograph published on page 3 yesterday was of Westminster Cathedral, not the Brompton Oratory as stated in the caption.. Clubs and drugs – the two have been inextricably linked since the 1980s, when ecstasy lit the fuse for an explosion of dance music and rave culture.