Perils of Wandsworth

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PRIVATE TENANTS in Wandsworth face hazards even greater than those created by Wandsworth Borough Council - landlords who go armed to the teeth when they're collecting.

Former SAS captain Gles James Whitehead of Highlands Heath (a salubrious area where a property was recently advertised for £¼ million) has recently THE DEFECTION to the SDP of eight leading Young Tories, including several ex-Student Union presidents and the former chairperson of the Federation of Conservative Students, looks like it should lead to some interesting encounters. How will they react to sharing a party with renegade Communist Party member Sue Slipman, their former rival in the National Union of Students?

It must be a broad party indeed which can accommodate these Tory wets and Stalinist-turned-feminist Sue Slipman, who says she has not changed her politics.

But the truth is stranger still. Though formally rivals in the NUS, these Tories and the Left Alliance headed by Slipman were in reality more like allies.

In votes for NUS positions, Tory second-preference votes often went to the CP. Together the Tories and the CP argued for NUS to cuts its political campaigns. Together they fought against the left wing in NUS on many other issues. And together they fought against the Tory right-wing who wanted to pull local Student Unions out of NUS. been found guilty of having a loaded Smith and Wesson revolver in a public place (one of his tenants' flats) and on five other charges of possessing firearms and ammunition without proper certificates.

When armed SPG men entered the bedsit where Whitehead was collecting rent, he reached for his gun (whinh wac Inaded) in his Q. Does the Ministry of Defence tell lies?

A. Certainly not. They're all Jolly tine chappies who wouldn't sully their lips with even a little fib.

Q. Are nuclear weapons safe? What happens if there is an accident?

A. "Nuclear weapons have been stored in this country for many years. There has never been any accident or leakage" (from the Cruise Missiles brochure put out by the Ministry of Defence). Q. What happened on 26th July 1956 at RAF Lakenshoulder holster. He was arrested, and when police went to his home they found a veritable arsenal, including two rifles and more than 800 rounds of ammunition.

He was fined £150 with costs and given a suspended sentence.

Whitehead is a director of the Ellenbury company: which owns a number of residential blocks. heath?

A. A B-47 bomber crashed into a storage igloo contain. ing three Mark 6 nuclea bombs, each with eight ton! of TNT as part of its trigger mechanism. Blazing fue engulfed the bombs, badly damaging the casings.

If the TNT had igniter "it is possible that a part o eastern England would have become a desert" , accordin! to a retired US Air Fora general, who was at the tim a B-47 pilot at Lakenheath. Q. Do you feel secure wit this kind of 'defence'?