In an interview with the literary magazine Mslexia The Poet Laureate makes what is an unusual gesture for a

In an interview with the literary magazine, Mslexia, The Poet Laureate makes what is an unusual gesture for a writer, and is honest about his income in an article that examines some of the myths about writers’ earnings.
Andrew Motion’s earnings are said to be well above the norm for most writers. Westinghouse is being incredibly responsive.”The JLE is now open between Stratford and Waterloo. Mr Mumm admitted there would be more shutdowns when it is linked to the Jubilee Line at Green Park next week.. ANDREW MOTION, The Poet Laureate, has said that he spends the whole of the pounds 5,000 salary he receives from The Queen on postage stamps to reply to members of the public. If it finds something it does not understand it turns all signals from green to red.Tube managers are understood to be furious that they are being blamed for the delays. Our guys are busting a gut to get it sorted.” But JLE bosses denied they were unhappy with Westinghouse, and said they were confident the system would be fully functional by New Year.Cliff Mumm, senior vice-president of Bechtel, the US engineer brought in last year to get the line finished, said: “It is a new system and is over-responsive, but in the interests of safety.

A source said: “We are tearing our hair out, and a lot of it is to do with Westinghouse. The computer system is so sensitive it is picking up safety faults that do not exist. The latest hold-up on Friday closed part of the line for hours. Unless the system is sorted out by New Year it will cause chaos as visitors to the Millennium Dome find alternative routes.
The line is crucial to City banks such as HSBC and Citigroup, who are moving to London Docklands, bringing in another 50,000 commuters.The problems follow last week’s announcement by Railtrack that it had shelved its modern signalling for the pounds 3bn West Coast Main Line upgrade.The JLE system, designed by Westinghouse, is unique as it “reads” information from computers installed across the network. Forensic tests were also carried out on a blunt instrument which was recovered near Ms Stacey’s body.

An officer said that Ms Stacey, who was single, had only worked at the university for a few months. “As you can imagine, the family are extremely traumatised by these events,” she said.Last night the research department at the university had been sealed off. A scrawled sign outside read: “Due to power loss this building is now closed All events are now rescheduled to another building.”. SOFTWARE engineers are working against the clock to eliminate glitches on the state-of-the-art signalling on the pounds 3.5bn Jubilee Line Extension (JLE), which are bringing the vital London Underground line to a halt almost every day. Originally from Edinburgh, he has a Scottish accent.Detective Chief Inspector Guy Ferguson, leading the inquiry, said: “Ms Stacey was a conscientious and happy young lady and we are appealing to anyone with information about her death to contact us immediately.”A post-mortem examination was carried out on Ms Stacey’s body yesterday.

Elizabeth Stacey, 24, who suffered severe head injuries, was found in a generator room atWestminster University in London, where she worked as a psychology research technician.
Police said they were searching for one of her colleagues, Steven Reid, who has not been seen since Friday morning.Ms Stacey’s family reported her missing at about 9pm on Friday after she failed to return to her home in Finchley, London, after work.Staff at the university and police dogs joined in the search for Ms Stacey, but it was not until Saturday afternoon that her body was found.Scotland Yard issued a description of Mr Reid, 33, who was said to be 6ft tall, with short, dark hair and a tanned complexion. A MURDER hunt has been launched after the body of a woman was found locked in a university room, police said last night. but I think that ultimately we will get it, and we will get it, because it’s a good Bill.” She noted that the threat of scrapping the Weatherill deal – enabling 92 hereditary peers to stay in the Lords – remained in the air, and was a last resort.”Frankly I don’t think that would be the way to handle it … We do have the understanding that one of the arrangements was that we would get the legislative programme through.”And I expect that in the Lords that will be agreed to in the end,” she said on BBC 1’s Breakfast With Frost.The Tory leadership has privately signalled to peers that after tonight’s expected defeat of the Government is reversed by the Commons, the Tory front bench will abstain. “We intend to win on Monday but not by too much,” one senior Tory said.. They can’t hide behind the Parliament Act; they will have to give way and give …

a reasonable proposition for disabled people.”Tonight’s vote will allow the hereditary peers to go out with a bang in the protest at the cuts in benefits for the disabled, led by veteran Labour campaigner, Lord Ashley, with Tory, cross-bench, and Liberal Democrat peers.The 54 Labour MPs who voted against the Bill last week in the Commons will be trying to increase the number who rebel against the Government, if it is rushed back to the Commons tomorrow.Baroness Jay also warned that the session of Parliament which is due to end on Thursday could be extended into next week to force the Bill through the Lords if necessary before the Queen’s Speech opening the next session on 17 November.”My bottom-line position is that the Commons have made a decision, they have thought again, Alistair Darling has made significant changes, and really it is up now to the Lords to say, `Well, we asked them to do that, that’s our constitutional position, but ultimately the Government must get its programme’,” she said.Baroness Jay said she did not believe that the Bill would have to be reintroduced in the next session.”It will go through, it may take another round of what they call ping- pong … BARONESS JAY, the Leader of the Lords, warned rebel Labour peers who are today planning to defeat the controversial Welfare Bill that the Government will not back down. Her uncompromising message was reinforced by Alistair Darling, the Secretary of State for Social Security, who said: “The Government has made those changes, there are no further changes to come and I think the House of Lords needs to focus on that.
“I am not prepared to see a situation where a major piece of legislation bringing benefits to millions of people is blocked.”One Cabinet source said last night that the Government was prepared to lose the Bill rather than make more concessions.But Lord Ashley, a veteran campaigner for the disabled, warned on the same programme: “The penalty for the Labour Government of forcing through these measures will be catastrophic if they don’t do something. If so, the court would decide how to remedy the problem – possibly even breaking up the Redmond, Washington-based company.Meanwhile, in Britain, it was announced yesterday that a foundation set up by Mr Gates and his wife, Melinda, had donated pounds 2.5m to help install computers in 47 libraries.IBM revamp, page 17Network, Review, page 12.