Others told researchers that they would continue with the pregnancy and give up the baby for adoption

Others told researchers that they would continue with the pregnancy and give up the baby for adoption.Although more than seven out of 10 pregnant teenagers had told their parents, just under a third said they could not, because they feared their mothers and fathers would be angry or disappointed.Marie Stopes says that confidentiality is vital for a minority of young, vulnerable children who are unable to confide in their parents and that a change in the law would lead to do-it-yourself abortions and children running away from home.It is now in the hands of judges to decide who is right: clinics such as Marie Stopes or parents such as Sue Axon.Mrs Axon insists that her only motivation for launching the case was to protect young girls like her daughters from what she sees as a risky operation.”I know you have young girls leaving clinics without any support or care who have just had an abortion,” she says. “These young girls walk away on their own and that is just wrong.”BIOGRAPHYName: Sue AxonBorn: 19 January 1954, Miles Platting, north Manchester. Father a merchant seaman and later a policeman; mother a housewife. Has three brothers and a sister.Education/Career: Left Brookway High School aged 16 and completed her O-levels at West Wythenshawe College.

Some Western governments, however, are debating whether it would be better to make aid conditional on Hamas agreeing to refrain from attacks on Israel.. Britain’s embassies have been told to tighten security after diplomats in Israel suffered the Foreign Office’s worst ever fraud. The scale of the scam, which cost the Tel Aviv embassy at least £790,000, is revealed in a report by the official spending watchdog released last week. The National Audit Office report also reveals that the Foreign Office has given up hope of recovering hundreds of thousands of pounds in fraudulently-inflated bonus payments paid to local staff.
Avishai Yechieli, a driver who had worked for the embassy since 1987 was so trusted by British diplomats that he acted as an intermediary with the local body calculating the annual bonuses that must be paid to all Israeli employees.But instead of giving the embassy the official figures, he forged documents setting out much higher rates, which were paid to more than 250 local staff year after year. THE UNION LEADER Brenda Dean, General Secretary, SOGAT I was very angry I felt that there had been a betrayal of the trade unions.

Given a little more time we could have negotiated but the die had been cast by Murdoch, his supporters and the Thatcher laws. THE SPORTS WRITER Richard Williams, Deputy Sports Editor, The Times I had been an editor long enough under the old system not to feel any affection for the old method of working. It didn’t make me feel any better that people were being thrown out of work I suppose I managed to rationalise it. I don’t think anyone with a more scrupulous attitude to human relations than Murdoch would have undertaken it.

I lost friends and it was not good for my marriage but it was the making of some people. Nigella Lawson had been very junior but she walked through the door and was appointed deputy books editor. For journalists at Wapping, the problem was less the acceptance of the new print technology than the triumphalism of a management that had crushed the unions and saw its journalists as expendable. THE NEWS EXECUTIVE Tony Rennell, Head Of News, The Sunday Times I decided in moral terms there wasn’t a lot to choose between the print unions and Rupert Murdoch so I might as well go with the one who was going to win. But ventures such as the ‘London Daily News’, ‘The Sunday Correspondent’, ‘The News on Sunday’ and ‘Today’ proved all too brief. The NUJ, strained by the dispute, has still to regain all its former influence.

THE FOREIGN DESK EDITOR Isabel Hilton, Assistant Foreign Editor, Sunday Times I was one of the refuseniks. I felt no better about Wapping from inside than I had from outside and I left six weeks later to help set up ‘The Independent’. THE JOURNALISTS’ LEADER Greg Neale, Father of the NUJ Chapel, The Times The reality after the much-heralded new dawn for national newspapers has been modest We’ve still got ‘The Independent’. The brutality with which the printers were fired and the casual contempt of the company towards its journalists persuaded me that I had no choice but to refuse. THE POLITICAL EDITOR Michael Jones, Political Editor, The Sunday Times Neil Kinnock decided there should be no Labour contact with News International people, which affronted me to the depths of my soul because Parliament is a place where everyone speaks to everybody. It was put to us that we could speak undercover to Mandelson and others, but I refused to talk to them Not everyone adhered to it.