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Articles and Features from - Issue Number - 251 - dated Thursday 7 February, 2008
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Around the World

AREN’T YOU GLAD YOU’RE IN TENERIFE? IT WAS the winter story as usual as Britain was lashed by gales gusting up to 80mph and snowstorms last week, bringing chaos to many roads.
A 45-year-old lorry driver lost his life in the storm when his HGV was hurled on to its side and thrown onto the central reservation of a motorway, left.
The driver was declared dead at the scene on the M6 in Tebay, Cumbria.
In China the winter chaos ranged even wider with thousands of travellers left stranded or delayed by heavy sleet and snow storms across central, eastern and southern areas of the country.
In the worst winter China has seen in 50 years huge crowds gathered at railway stations in a bid to get home and 64 people were killed as cuts to electric power created havoc and rail and roads.
In the picture, right, a sick passenger is rescued by police from amid milling throngs inside Guangzhou railway station.
The bad weather has also strangled distribution of coal, which is the source of three-quarters of China’s energy, the Government has said.
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Dead wife kept in a bin for 23 years

 

FOR 23 years a man kept up a charade that his wife had run off with a lorry driver named Ray and all the while the remains of her dismembered body where hidden in a sealed drum in his back yard, a court was told.
Frederick Boyle told his son-in-law, Michael Hegarty, that the drum contained nothing but glue used to stick down carpets.
The masquerade only came to an end in October 2006 when Mr Hegarty opened the drum during a clean-up at the family home in Melbourne, Victoria, in southeast Australia.
When he cut open the drum he found women’s clothing and a hessian bag containing a skull and other bones.
A forensic pathologist used dental records to confirm that the remains were those of Mrs Boyle who was 30 when she disappeared on October 6, 1983.
He told the court Mrs Boyle had died from a gunshot wound to the right side of her head.
Boyle, 58, pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife, Edwina. The couple had been married for 11 years and had two daughters, Careesa, aged 11 and Sharon, eight.
Gavin Silbert, for the prosecution, said: “Boyle carried on a charade that she left him for another man. He put her body in a 44-gallon drum and kept it for 20 years.”
He told the court Boyle had gone to his wife’s workplace, a chicken farm, to collect her wages and disposed of all her clothes.
The following day his mistress, Virginia Gissara, with whom he had been having an affair for a year, moved into the family home and stayed there for a number of years until the relationship ended.
Defence counsel, Jane Dixon, told the court her client was not disputing making a false claim that his wife had left him for another man. “What is in dispute is that Frederick Boyle killed her,” said Ms Dixon.
The trial continues.
   

Casting off Nazi image
 

SCHOOLCHILDREN in Germany are to receive Tintin-style comics to teach them about Hitler and the Nazis.
The Anne Frank Foundation, which based them on the popular comics created by Belgian Georges Remi about a boy reporter and his faithful dog, claims children know very little about their country’s horrific past.
A spokesman said: “It allows us to repeat the facts of the Holocaust in a powerful but simple way.”
The publication coincides with the German government’s proposals last week to criminalise Holocaust denial across the EU, part of the country’s continuing drive to atone for and eradicate any sympathy for its Nazi past.
A Dictionary of Coming to Terms with the Past has been published to help Germans steer clear of using Nazi phrases such as Endlösung (Final Solution).

 

25-year wait for kidney
 

MERVYN McSorley, right, holds the record for being on the kidney transplant list for longer than anyone in the UK.
The former steelworker has been waiting for a kidney transplant for 25 years. “It’s not really a record you want to have,” he said.
Mr McSorley, from Enville, near Stourbridge in the West Midlands, lives in a region with the lowest proportion of people on the donor register.

 

Tajik drugs bust
 

GOVERNMENT forces in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, central Asia, have seized over 1,100lb (500kg) of opium and heroin from Afghanistan in the biggest drugs bust since the country’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

 

Refugees raided
 

HUMAN rights activists have condemned a raid by South African police on a church in which at least 1,500 people who had fled Zimbabwe were detained in a clampdown on illegal immigrants blamed for a crime surge.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

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