He said: In no prison I have inspected has the `culture’ that we found caused me greater concern than that in HMP Wandsworth

He said: “In no prison I have inspected has the `culture’ that we found caused me greater concern than that in HMP Wandsworth.”
The Independent has learnt that Wandsworth’s governor, Mick Knight, will shortly be moved to Norwich as part of what the Prison Service described as “a chain of moves”. But while house prices in London will continue to grow strongly, other regions are expected to narrow the gap with even stronger price rises.. THE PRISON Service is today plunged into a new crisis as the chief inspector produces shocking evidence of “callous and uncaring” treatment of inmates, including beatings and racist insults by staff and “appalling hygiene” in cockroach-infested cells. “The short-term impact will be a loss of fishing opportunities on some important stocks.”.

HOUSE PRICES have multiplied by 135 times in the last 70 years, according to a survey by the Halifax. In the 1930s, the earliest available records show that the average house cost pounds 600 That has now risen to pounds 81,002. And and prices are expected to rise by 11 per cent next year. David Parry, divisional director of planning for the Nationwide, the UK’s biggest building society, forecast that 1.58 million houses would change hands next year, an increase from 1.47 million in 1999.
Barry Naisbit, chief economist at Abbey National, said high employment and rising incomes would continue to move the housing market ahead.

But he added that there would be no return to the boom of the late 1980s. “An average house is currently worth around three times the annual average earnings, which is considerably below the peak of five times the average earnings in 1989.”Mr Naisbit said that wide regional differences would also even out next year The South-east has far outstripped other regions. Permitted cod and whiting catches off the west of Scotland will fall by about a third. But even these reductions were lower than initially proposed by Brussels, which wanted, for example, to end all fishing of Irish Sea cod.”I wish I could give the industry more fish, but the fish are not there,” said Mr Morley. Hardest hit were fishing communities around the Irish Sea, affecting Britain and Ireland, and around the Bay of Biscay, where French and Spanish fishermen operate.The amount of cod taken in the North Sea will fall by 39 per cent, North Sea whiting catches must be reduced by nearly 23 per cent, saithe by 23 per cent and haddock by 13 per cent. The mechanism, agreed in 1976, kicks in when the amount on offer falls below a threshold.Arguing that they had suffered as a consequence, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium issued a joint statement opposing the principle of the concession.Elliot Morley, the fisheries minister, said UK’s “measured approach” had helped win Britain’s fishing fleets extra fish worth pounds 30m above the cuts that were proposed: “This will help the industry cope with what has been a very difficult quota round,” he added But there was no disguising the scale of the cuts. that the fishing stocks have been run down so low we have to deal with this problem, but we recognise that the fall-out for fishing communities is serious.”
In a difficult negotiation Britain invoked the so-called “Hague preference” over four species, a move which allows British and Irish ministers to claim a share of other countries’ quotas.

BRITISH FISHERMEN will suffer the biggest quota cuts of recent years under a deal agreed yesterday, despite tough UK negotiating tactics which angered four other EU countries. Tony Blair sympathised with hard-hit fishing fleets but defended the move to conserve stocks “There is a real problem, which is … The agreement, reached after 17 hours of talks, includes a cut of 60 per cent in Irish Sea cod catches and a package of reductions which fishermen claim will knock pounds 50m off the value of the pounds 660m industry. Mr Mandelson said: “The reason we are proceeding is that policing needs to be reformed, needs to change, needs to become more effective and more acceptable.”.