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DAVID Miller and Simon Los are both students and both have got themselves into a spot of bother with the law for youthful excesses. But there the resemblance ends.

After serving only five days of a four-month jail sentence for throwing two lighted fireworks into a hall in Queen's Coliege, Oxford, and causing $20,000 worth of damage, David Miller had his sentence reduced to a £250 fine. He is a final year maths STAND BY for more backstabbing in the Tory Cabinet. They've now got a material interest in it.

In answer to a Parliamentary question from Labour MP Frank Dobson, Home Office minister Patrick Mayhew revealed that 17 places have been allocated for MPs in nuclear shelters. All are for ministers, who will be appointed sub-regional commissioners.

But there are more than 17 in the Tory Cabinet. Watch out for fireworks. student and hopes to get a first class degree, the Appeal Court judges heard.

Simon Los, a student in Nottingham, was jailed for three years for giving out 200 leaflets headed 'Anarchy for the UK' , which it is admitted nobody took any notice of. So much for freedom of expression.

Judges, it seems, are more prepared to tolerate the dangerous pranks of the young of their own kind than ideas, however ineffectual, aimed against the system.

ALF Robens, Richard Marsh... ex-Labour right wingers always seem to make the most ruthless bosses for state-run industries.

And, according to the Sanday Telegraph on November Ist, former Northern Ireland minister Roy Mason is set to follow. Exminer Mason may become the next head of tre Coal Board this summer.

Mason has reportedly already said that he will not stand again for the Shadow Cabinet. If he wanted to stay on as MP, he would face a big battle for reselection in his Barnsley constituency, where left wing miners' delegates are strong.

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