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“The boys would have to come to the realisation that she’s dead,” says Mr Brace, “and depending on what they find, it will show, in my opinion, that she’s been killed.”Detective Chief Inspector Geoff Anderson of Avon and Somerset Police, who are leading the investigation into Ann Myring’s disappearance, says that they are convinced that she is dead, and are not pursuing any new lines of inquiry. “Does a woman leave home leaving nine single shoes, all her make-up, her jewellery, and all her money?” he asks. “Her mother was ill with cancer, and she was very supportive of that She was very supportive of her children. There was a huge amount of circumstantial evidence that suggests that this woman had not left that home on her own volition carrying two suitcases with all her belongings.”In the meantime, David still waits for his mother to come home, his heart missing a beat every time the doorbell goes “I’ve had lots of dreams about her coming home,” he says His smile then suddenly vanishes “But I also have nightmares about her not recognising me.”. The Government will seek to prove its commitment to closer engagement with Europe today when it announces that 24,000 British troops will form part of a new European Union rapid reaction force.

The Government will seek to prove its commitment to closer engagement with Europe today when it announces that 24,000 British troops will form part of a new European Union rapid reaction force.
Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, will confirm that the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force will all make regular and reserve units available for the historic new force. However, the Tories claimed last night that British armed forces were being dragged into a fledgling European army that was guaranteed to undermine Nato and relations with the United States.Speculation about the armed unit came as simmering divisions within the Cabinet over Britain’s relationship with other EU states resurfaced yesterday. The former Labour leader Neil Kinnock backed the pro-euro enthusiasts, who include Robin Cook and Peter Mandelson, with a warning that the single currency would be an unavoidable issue in the general election campaign. And Mr Cook, the Foreign Secretary, was forced to deny reports he had attacked Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, for interfering in negotiations ahead of the Nice summit next month.The Tory leader, William Hague, attacked the idea of a European rapid reaction force, saying it looked and sounded like a European army.But Mr Cook and Mr Hoon were at pains to stress that the rapid reaction force was not going to be the EU’s army “There is not going to be a Euro-army. All decisions on whether British forces take part in any operation will be taken by the British Government,” Mr Cook insisted.. Hundreds of criminal cases are being abandoned each week by one of Scotland’s busiest courts because of a strike by administrative staff.

Hundreds of criminal cases are being abandoned each week by one of Scotland’s busiest courts because of a strike by administrative staff.
More than half the defendants due to appear before Glasgow District Court have had their cases dropped because of the action mounted by council workers earlier this month.Up to 2,000 cases are brought before the court each week including prosecutions for shoplifting, assault, drug offences and breaches of the peace. A spokesman for the Crown Office, which is responsible for criminal prosecutions in Scotland, confirmed that a large number of cases were being dropped. “Because of the on-going strike, we have discretion to defer cases that have already commenced, but when it comes to new cases we are having to look at new ways of dealing with them,” said the spokesman.He said custody cases are being redirected to stipendiary magistrates where possible and the procurators fiscal’s office was trying to delay or re-arrange as many cases as possible at the court. “It is a matter of concern to the procurators fiscal and we are in close liaison with the police to try and resolve this matter,” he said.The 80 district court workers are part of a group of more than 600 administrative staff which went on indefinite strike at the beginning of November. The strike was called by Unison after it rejected the latest pay deal offered to council workers in Scotland.The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) has upped its offer of a 2.5 per cent rise for one year to 6.1 per cent over two years.About 70,000 staff have taken part in three-day stoppages since August which brought local authority services in Scotland to a standstill The GMB and TGWU have accepted Cosla’s latest offer.. Police investigating the murder of a homoeopathic doctor shot dead in front of his brother in Wolverhampton have admitted it remains unclear why he was killed.

Police investigating the murder of a homoeopathic doctor shot dead in front of his brother in Wolverhampton have admitted it remains unclear why he was killed.
Baldev Khrisan Yadev, 55, was shot at close range by a lone gunman as he walked with his brother, Bhavan, back to his car outside an Aldi supermarket in the town on Friday night.Family and friends of Mr Yadev, a former college lecturer who had three children, are baffled. Det Ch Insp Dave Unwin of West Midlands Police said: “The manner of his death suggests an assassination rather than a robbery motive It will be a very difficult inquiry. We have an unknown assailant and an unknown reason.”Banwarilal Sharma, a priest at the temple where Mr Yadev worshipped, said he was a popular man who served on the committee. He said: “We are all shocked as to why someone would do this to him.”. The next generation of “fifty-something” Britons will be hedonists, more likely to be out clubbing or climbing than sitting round the fireside wearing slippers and cardigans, a new report suggests.

The next generation of “fifty-something” Britons will be hedonists, more likely to be out clubbing or climbing than sitting round the fireside wearing slippers and cardigans, a new report suggests.
Based on current lifestyle trends, a new report, Fit and Fifty, predicts that in 10 years’ time life for people in their fifties will be nearer to This Life than One Foot in The Grave.The co-author of the report, Professor Richard Scase of Kent University, said: “Many more fifty-somethings see themselves as young and want to engage in a diverse and varied social life. They are also adopting more self-focused, hedonistic attitudes as they imitate younger ways of living.”The assumption used to be, older people wore comfort clothes, sat around the fire with jumpers and slippers on and didn’t go out, but the fifties now socialise much more. Women, in particular, are into self-development and personal creativity.”The first wave of fifty-something role models, like David Bowie, Joanna Lumley, Helen Mirren and Mick Jagger, demonstrate how life can be enjoyed to the full, and the traditional gap in attitudes between those in their thirties and forties and those in their fifties has largely disappeared.Professor Scase said: “The end of ‘jobs for life’ has been key.Up to 30 years ago, 95 per cent of men worked to 65. Now it has completely turned round and 95 per cent of men stop work before 65.