The chief constable’s ability to discharge his duty to provide an effective police service for the area was under threat he

The chief constable’s ability to discharge his duty “to provide an effective police service” for the area was under threat, he said.The hearing continues today.. A former Maxwell group auditor denied yesterday that there had been any “window dressing” in the way accounts were presented for the Mirror flotation in April 1991. He said the company could not survive with less than four sailings per week.Mr Roth claimed that the force had acted unreasonably by not requesting assistance from other forces, and had gone against a recent High Court ruling that authorities should not allow demonstrations to interfere with a lawful trade.He claimed that animal rights protesters were being allowed to defy the law while law-abiding lorry drivers were sometimes threatened with arrest unless they turned back from the port.Mr Roth said that the company could not continue without a police presence and the “unjustified” policing restrictions were contrary to both European and domestic law.Alan Fowler, from Eastergate near Bognor Regis, who supports the chief constable’s decision, asked the court to hear his argument, as he was a council tax payer and thus “a person directly affected”.He told Lord Justice Balcombe and Mr Justice Popplewell in a letter that “a disproportionate amount” of police resources had been devoted to the interests of ITF to the detriment of the local population. The fixed daily costs of the operation were about pounds 7,000 and the revenue from an average load was about pounds 13,000. The company claims that the decision was illegal.Mr Whitehouse said providing the hundreds of officers needed daily would stretch resources to breaking point at the expense of crime prevention and emergency cover.Peter Roth, acting for ITF, said the company was “very shocked” by the decision, which had made livestock shipments through the port “wholly uneconomic”. At the height of the protests in January, more than 1,100 officers were deployed to escort livestock lorries into the port.
After three months of demonstrations, at a cost to the police of pounds 3.5m, Paul Whitehouse, Chief Constable of Sussex, restricted the level of policing to save money.In April Mr Whitehouse told International Traders Ferry Ltd that policing would only be provided for two days per week or four days per fortnight.

A livestock shipping company operating through Shoreham began a High Court challenge yesterday to Sussex Police Authority’s decision to restrict the level of policing at the port. The West Sussex town was the scene of the bitterest conflicts in the fight to halt live animal exports to the Continent. This electronic ‘’smog” is set to become far worse with the next generation of mobile phones, which will communicate directly with satellites to make international calls.James Cohen, a radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank, said the International Telecommunications Union, which regulates mobile phone technology, is reluctant to recognise the problem that scientists face.The ITU is due to allocate further radio frequencies to mobile phone companies later this year and Dr Cohen believes that an already difficult situation could become much worse if radio astronomers lose out ”to the giants of the telecoms industry”.His warning is made in the Handbook on Radio Astronomy, published later this month.. Radio astronomers, whose sensitive instruments are designed to detect the weakest electromagnetic signals from deep space, want stricter curbs on mobile phone technology.
Some of the world’s most expensive astronomical instruments, such as Britain’s Jodrell Bank radio telescope, are having to struggle against the rise in electrical interference.

The search for extraterrestrial life is under threat from the explosive growth in mobile telephones which are swamping the airwaves with ”electronic pollution”, it is claimed. Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, links campaign to freedom issue for IRA prisoners.20 February, 1995: Clegg served with papers for his discharge.13 March, 1995: Sir Patrick Mayhew refers case to a review board in view of “exceptional mitigating” factors.6 June, 1995: Northern Ireland’s life sentence review board urged to treat case as manslaughter, not murder.. Public opinion galvanised by tabloid press over alleged miscarriage of justice.27 January,1995: One million signatures collected for Clegg’s release. Clegg sentenced to life for her murder and convicted of attempting to murder Martin Peake. Private Barry Aindow jailed for seven years for attempted murder of Peake.April 1994: Sir Brian Hutton, Northern Ireland’s Lord Chief Justice, says law had treated Clegg unfairly but rejects appeal. Aindow freed after conviction cut to malicious wounding.April 1994: Army redrafts its controversial “yellow card” rules of engagement in light of the Clegg appeal hearing.18 October, 1994: Clegg’s appeal to the House of Lords.19 January, 1995: Lords throw out appeal.