Portrait of the week
Against the opposition of the BBC and the IBA, a government report recom- mended that cable television should be developed without any restrictions on numbers of channels, programmes or charges. If accepted this will lead to the first unregulated form of broadcasting allowed in this country. Enthusiastic crowds gathered despite cold, drizzling weather, to watch the Victory Parade through the City of London of those who fought in the Falklands. A list of 835 awards was publish- ed, including two Victoria Crosses to Lt- Col Herbert Jones and Sgt Ian McKay of the Parachute Regiment. They are the first VCs for British servicemen to be gazetted since the end of the second world war. Of the 28,000 men involved in the campaign, 777 were wounded and 255 were killed. Prince Andrew, on holiday after returning from his duties as a helicopter pilot in the Falklands, was pursued for several days around the island of Mustique by press photographers, aroused by the beauty of his girl friend, an actress named Koo Stark. Clips from one of Miss Stark's porno- graphic films were shown on BBC televi- sion. The Prince finally escaped from the island by snatching a plane which had been chartered by the press. Two photographers were arrested and beaten by the Mustique police force. Miss Stark's father, Mr Wilbur Stark, a Californian film producer, described Prince Andrew as 'a very lucky guy'. It was announced that Princess Anne, Mrs Mark Phillips, and Capt Mark Phillips would not after all be visiting Kenya together since Capt Phillips would be in Australia at the relevant time.
I n Poland parliament voted to abolish
Solidarity, the country's free trade union, whose leaders have been living `underground' since the imposition of mar- tial law. Workers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk responded by closing the dock gates and telephone communications with the city were cut. In Rome the Pope canonised Father Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan, who had volunteered in Auschwitz concentration camp to take the place of a man condemned to death by star- vation. The ceremony was watched by 8,000 Polish pilgrims, and Italian police stood by in case the Poles refused to return to their country. Archbishop Valerian Trifa of the Romanian Orthodox Church was deported from the United States on charges that he had helped incite anti-semitic pogroms in Bucharest in 1941. He denied the charges. Two people were killed when a bomb exploded outside a Rome synagogue. Mr Justice Skinner was found guilty of careless driving and fined £300 after his car had crossed a barrier and collided at speed with another car causing the death of the other driver. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, defended the Government's decision to increase judges salaries by up to 21 per cent this year, and deplored the fact that judges had become the victims of 'unscrupulous propaganda'. Further days of action were announced in support of the claim by workers in the Na- tional Health Service for a larger pay in- crease than the Government's offer of 6 to 7 per cent. Mr Sidney Weighell resigned as general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen in what was widely regarded as a tactical move. The Building Societies an- nounced deposits of £2,838 million last month and awaited a record October. Bank base rates fell to 10 per cent, a four-Year low, and a further fall was expected. The stock markets in London and New York boomed and prices in London reached their highest recorded point. A dissatisfied customer of the Midland (or 'listening') Bank threatened to set fire to five of its branches following a dispute over a will' After 437 years, the hull of the Tudor war- ship, the Mary Rose, was lifted from the bed of the Solent and taken back to Port- smouth. Off the Swedish coast the Swedish navy lost contact with a suspected Russian mini-submarine which it had been hunting for several days. Officers later suggested that young Swedish sailors were too deaf to operate the sonar detection equipment effi- ciently, due to the number of hours they back
`We keep raising it but it keeps failing again.'
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