Instead they were brutally beaten, in the case of two of them they were deprived of life, and in the case of Josie left for dead.It is difficult to pick a crime that could arouse such strong feelings of revulsion and pity.”But the judge warned the jury: “I have to direct you that feelings .. that someone must be made to pay, is something that … you cannot for a moment indulge or entertain.”Although the judge said that each charge should be considered separately, he said Mr Stone should be found guilty of all three charges or not guilty of all of them.. Nelson Mandela rounded on Northern Ireland’s political leaders yesterday, telling them they “must make peace with their enemies”. Nelson Mandela rounded on Northern Ireland’s political leaders yesterday, telling them they “must make peace with their enemies”.
Speaking in unexpectedly firm tones during a visit to South Africa by the Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, Mr Mandela said the continued failure to secure peace in Northern Ireland was an “indictment” on those involved in the negotiating process.With lasting peace as elusive as at any time since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the former Nobel peace prize-winner’s words will come as an embarrassment to the province’s key players.The former South African president made his comments after holding talks with Mr Adams, who was there to unveil a memorial to 10 IRA hunger strikers on Robben Island, where Mr Mandela was incarcerated for 27 years.”The fact that there is no peace in Northern Ireland is an indictment on all the leaders there,” Mr Mandela said. Referring to South Africa’s apartheid government, he added: “[Northern Ireland's political leaders] must emulate our example.

We made peace here with our enemies.”Mr Adams, who also held talks with President Thabo Mbeki, defended his position, saying: “Progress has been made but it needs to be followed through.”Meanwhile, the Ulster Unionist Party leader, David Trimble, succeeded in tabling a motion to have Sinn Fein excluded from the Northern Ireland Assembly. If it failed, Mr Trimble warned, he would pull his own party out of the power-sharing executive.Angered by the IRA’s failure to decommission its weapons, Mr Trimble raised the 30 names required to secure an Assembly debate on a proposal to exclude Sinn Fein’s members: the Education Minister, Martin McGuinness; and the Health Minister, Bairbre de Brun.A rival motion tabled by the anti-Good Friday Agreement Democratic Unionists had earlier achieved the required backing from Assembly members when a dissident Ulster Unionist member, Pauline Armitage, signed it.Mr Trimble defended his actions. “We know that has implications for our participation in the administration,” he said “We will see [them] through.”. In a rare marriage of pop and art, Madonna will present this year’s Turner Prize. In a rare marriage of pop and art, Madonna will present this year’s Turner Prize.
The pop icon will hand £20,000 to the winning artist, who will join a growing list of luminaries – including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin – to have walked off with Britain’sleading, and most controversial, modern art award.The four short-listed candidates this year are Richard Billingham, a photographer; Martin Creed, an installation artist; Isaac Julien, a film-maker; and Mike Nelson, an installation and sculpture artist. Their work will be shown at the Tate Britain from next month.The London gallery, which will host the awards on 9 December, said that Madonna had agreed to compere the ceremony, which will be broadcast live on Channel 4.A spokesman for the gallery said: “We know Madonna to have a long-standing interest in contemporary British art, and she is a distinguished art collector in her own right. We are absolutely delighted she is presenting it this year.”The move marks a growing relationship between Tate Britain and Madonna.

She has already loaned the gallery a self-portrait by the Mexican surrealist Frida Kahlo from her large private collection.The painting, which has not been seen by the public for a decade, depicts Kahlo with a monkey around her neck, and is expected to go on display next month as part of a surrealist exhibition of some 450 works.Previous presenters of the Turner Prize include the fashion designers Paul Smith and Agn?B, who were invited because of their enduring interest in the art world.Candidates for the prize, established in 1984, are restricted to British artists under the age of 50. Last year’s Turner Prize was won by the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans.* The group chief executive of Barclays Bank promised yesterday that there would be no “crass commercialisation” behind its £1.9m sponsorship of some of the country’s leading arts institutions.Matthew Barrett announced at the National Theatre in London that Barclays was becoming the largest business sponsor of the theatre, to which it will give £1m. The British Museum, the National Gallery and Tate Britain will also receive £900,000 as part of the sponsorship package, which will run for two years from November and will be branded “Invest and Inspire”.”Hopefully we can foster some goodwill for Barclays but it will have to be done with some taste,” Mr Barrett said “It will be subtle There will be no crass commercialisation. We will not be approaching this in the way we do our sponsorship of the FA Premiership.”. Four British-based flight attendants have won the right to sue an American airline after claiming they risked the health of their unborn babies by being ordered to continue flying while pregnant. Four British-based flight attendants have won the right to sue an American airline after claiming they risked the health of their unborn babies by being ordered to continue flying while pregnant.A London tribunal published a landmark ruling on Monday that rejected United Airlines’ claim that the women should be treated as US employees.Instead Patricia Mulcahy, 31, Sylvie Gayler, 31, Jane Collins, 39, and Lindsay Cox, 34, may now sue the company for sex discrimination under British law. The women allege that their babies’ health could have been harmed by radiation levels on long-haul flights if they had continued flying.Under a new European law, recently introduced to this country, the women, who have all worked for United for around 11 years, should have been offered suitable alternative work after 31 weeks of pregnancy.But the company, which employs 850 attendants at Heathrow airport, refused to provide such work and suspended the four without pay.The tribunal accepted that British law applied to the women, although they did not habitually work in Britain and were hired in the United States and employed under a predominantly American contract.

But the relationship as a whole was much more closely connected to Britain, it concluded.Barry Clarke, of the law firm Russell Jones & Walker, which represented the women, said: “This is a ground-breaking case that will have a major impact on a number of employees working in different sectors.”"As a result of developments in European legislation, UK law was recently amended and many more workers, including those working on foreign contracts for foreign companies, should now find themselves protected by British employment rights, including maternity rights,” he said.United Airlines is the first company to face a test case under the new law.A spokesman for United Airlines said yesterday: “We have received the decision but have not come to any final conclusion.” The company also said it reserved the right to appeal the ruling.Mr Clarke said the outcome of this case will benefit employees based in Britain who often travel abroad on business, and those who are based abroad but often travel to Britain on business.The women, who all became pregnant in 1999, have since returned to work as cabin crew for United, but now want to be reimbursed for the pay they lost when pregnant.They also want the tribunal to agree that they should have been offered suitable alternative ground work, instead of being treated as “off sick”.Having accepted that the women may rely on British law, the tribunal will now consider their full claim.Kevin Creighan, president of the British section of the Association of Flight Attendants, said United Airlines had a “careless attitude” towards the women, and that their company policies violated the laws of countries where their employees are based.. With two sons aged five and one, Claire Sharp has trouble getting an uninterrupted night’s sleep at the best of times. But she also lives in Fulham, south-west London, 12 miles from Heathrow and directly under the flight path of many of the jumbo jets which leave the airport every night. With two sons aged five and one, Claire Sharp has trouble getting an uninterrupted night’s sleep at the best of times.

But she also lives in Fulham, south-west London, 12 miles from Heathrow and directly under the flight path of many of the jumbo jets which leave the airport every night.”It is just so noisy I have been woken up every morning this week. The flights start coming regularly at dawn and there is a rush hour in the early morning which is as busy as our rush hour.”It is annoying because if you’ve spent the night trying to get children to sleep you are woken up again and get so tired,” said Ms Sharp, 41.”The noise is at a level now that is bearable but any more and it would be unbearable. I do not understand why there aren’t riots in Isleworth and Staines,” she said.Her neighbours agree that a full night’s sleep should be a human right. Susan Ladenburg, 51, remembers the time she was last woken up as exactly 4.44am and said she looked forward to wind changes that meant flight paths would be altered. “In the summer it was not a south-west wind and we had a long period without any planes.