It has nearly 300 accidents a year on average two-thirds of which are blamed on staff negligence

It has nearly 300 accidents a year on average, two-thirds of which are blamed on staff negligence.. A motorcycle courier from London who was arrested in Africa has become the sixth Briton to be sent to America’s maximum security camp for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is understood to have been handed over to the United States by Zambian officials last month and transferred to Guantanamo Bay.There were unconfirmed reports yesterday that a seventh Briton was among 32 prisoners flown from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan to the American naval base on the Cuban coast on 1 May. The British contingent at Guantanamo Bay is now larger than that of any other Western country.

And two more Britons are believed to be among suspects still being questioned in Kandahar.Mr Mubanga, whose family is thought to have moved from Zambia to Britain in the 1970s, is said to have been raised as a Catholic but converted to Islam in his twenties. Unconfirmed reports said that he had attended terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and had fought alongside Taliban and al-Q’aida forces against Allied troops.He is the third British al-Q’aida suspect of African descent to be held in Cuba. Feroz Abbasi, 22, a former computer student from Croydon, was born in Uganda but moved to Britain with his mother when he was eight. Also detained at the camp is a Mancunian website designer, Jamal Udeen, 35, who is of African descent and converted to Islam about eight years ago.Mr Mubanga, said to be one of four children and the son of a former Zambian government official, is believed to have lived with his family on a council estate in Wembley before moving to a flat in nearby Dollis Hill four years ago.A Foreign Office spokes-woman said officials had been in contact with Mr Mubanga’s family and an offer of consular assistance has been made. She said: “Our consular officials would be available to his next of kin to offer assistance if it’s wanted We are in contact with his next of kin… but they have asked us to respect Mr Mubanga’s privacy so we cannot comment further.”The Foreign Office said British officials played no part in the decision to hand over Mr Mubanga to the American authorities. “As a dual national, Mr Mubanga was treated as a Zambian national when detained there,” a spokesman said.

“Under international law we are unable to interfere in the judicial processes of other countries.”The other Britons being held at Guantanamo are Shafiq Rasul, 22, Asif Iqbal, 21, and Ruhal Ahmed, 20, all from Tipton in the West Midlands. As in the cases of Mr Abbasi and Mr Udeen, they were captured in Afghanistan.. President Robert Mugabe has turned against a former white ally, John Bredenkamp, the 33rd richest man in Britain, and listed his Zimbabwe farm for compulsory seizure. Mr Bredenkamp and Mr Swanepoel broke ranks with whites who wanted to adopt a tough line against Mr Mugabe.Sources in the Ministry of Agriculture said they had not received an instruction to take the farms of Bredenkamp and Swanepoel off the list, meaning they would proceed with subdividing them into plots for redistribution to blacks.A spokesman for Mr Bredenkamp confirmed that the farm had been listed for compulsory seizure. He also said that at one stage it had been invaded by government-aligned war veterans who had since left the property.Jerry Grant, the deputy director of the CFU, reportedly said last week that the government had not accepted any of the 700 farms offered by white farmers under the ZJRI.* Zimbabwe’s ruling party is suing the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and media organisations over reports last month claiming his supporters beheaded a woman in front of her children, the local Sunday Mail reported.. Brighton and York share the honour of being the most profitable places in the UK to do business, according to an annual survey published today.

Meanwhile four of the bottom 10 towns were in the south.Philip Mellor, a senior D&B analyst, said: “In the past this survey has shown a clear north-south divide but this year northern towns are well represented.”This is a fair reflection of the mixed representation of businesses in these towns and cities.”He said the two cities share similarities that provided lessons for other civic authorities on how to boost their future economic performance. Both had good road and rail links and access to an international airport. They both boasted a university that provided a highly skilled workforce.But Mr Mellor said the key similarity was the wide variety of employers in both Brighton and York. Greater disclosure, stricter stock market listing rules and more transparent corporate governance are expected to be the main recommendations this week when the Financial Services Authority (FSA) publishes a damning report on the split-capital investment trust scandal. Without naming names, it is understood that this will entail the extent of collusion between split-capital trust managers, and of mis-selling to the public.Split-capital trusts normally have at least two classes of shares. One class receives all the dividends which the trust passes on from the companies in which it invests, while the other class benefits from capital growth. These are attractive to investors who want one or the other, but not both, types of appreciation in value.However, problems have arisen in recent years through risky investments and investments by some of these trusts in one another, leading to instability compounded by the stock market weakness of the past two years.