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Date: 1st December 1999
Service: CEEFAX
Region: East
Original Broadcast Channel: BBC1
Current Page: 152
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P152 CEEFAX 1 152 Wed 01 Dec 12:18/17 JAILED DRIVERS IN DRINK-DRIVE CAMPAIGN Motorists convicted of causing road deaths are to help deliver a hard- hitting campaign against drink-driving.TV and radio advertisements this Christmas will feature drink-drivers — all of whom have killed and are in jailThey will give harrowing accounts of how it has affected their lives. The 1999 campaign, being launched by transport minister Lord Whitty, targets17 to 24-year-olds with the slogan: "Itcan ruin your life and someone else's."Home news digest and in brief.... 141News Index 102Flash 150Regional 160Sci-Tech East News Reg Sport Main menu
P152 CEEFAX 1 152 Wed 01 Dec 12:11/21 GOVT UNVEILING TRANSPORT BILL MEASURES The Government is publishing its Transport Bill, introducing measures to cut traffic congestion and to sell off part of air traffic control services. The Bill will also include a package ofmeasures to regulate local buses more rigorously and improve services. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott hasvowed to ease congestion and boost public transport. But plans to part-privatise National Air Traffic Services have been attackedParliament and politics digest... 144News Index 102Flash 150Regional 160Sci-Tech East News Reg Sport Main menu
P152 CEEFAX 1 152 Wed 01 Dec 12:11/18 BRADWELL NUCLEAR STATION CLOSING — BNFL The nuclear power station at Bradwell in Essex will close in March 2002, British Nuclear Fuels has confirmed. The Magnox station, which employs 350workers, has been in operation since 1962, producing enough electricity for three towns. A study concluded that the multi- million pound injection needed to keep it operating could not be justified. Staffing levels will remain the same until 2002, when decommissioning beginsHome news digest and in brief.... 141News Index 102Flash 150Regional 160Sci-Tech East News Reg Sport Main menu
P152 CEEFAX 1 152 Wed 01 Dec 12:11/29 PAIR GUILTY OF BRITISH WOMAN'S MURDER Two men have been found guilty of murdering British charity worker Anna Lightfoot in Belize. Alan Cal, 20, and 21-year-old Estevan Sho were sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for the stabbing. Ms Lightfoot, 27, from Fowey, Cornwall,was killed while working for Operation Raleigh in August last year. The British High Commissioner in Belize, Tim David, said he was "immensely relieved" at the verdict. World news digest and in brief... 142News Index 102Flash 150Regional 160Sci-Tech East News Reg Sport Main menu
P152 CEEFAX 1 152 Wed 01 Dec 12:12/23 AIDS CAMPAIGNERS TARGETING YOUNGSTERS Children and teenagers are living in ignorance and fear of HIV and Aids, campaigners have said on World Aids DayYoungsters are the focus of this year'sevent, with a host of calls from charities for better sex education. ChildLine said it had received an increasing number of calls from children worried about HIV and Aids. Younger children were likely to think they could "catch Aids" from kissing ortoothpaste, it said. Home news digest and in brief.... 141News Index 102Flash 150Regional 160Sci-Tech East News Reg Sport Main menu
P152 CEEFAX 1 152 Wed 01 Dec 12:12/17 N IRELAND DEVOLUTION BILL GETS GO-AHEAD Parliament has paved the way for devolution in Northern Ireland to go ahead — ending 25 years of direct rule from Westminster. MPs approved the Order implementing theAct transferring powers from Westminster to the new Northern IrelandAssembly by 318 votes to 10. Peers had earlier backed the Order without a vote. It allows the transfer to go ahead frommidnight tonight. Parliament and politics digest... 144News Index 102Flash 150Regional 160Sci-Tech East News Reg Sport Main menu