We normally paint the ships red and they can get white all over in a very short time with the numbers of birds involved. These ships are painted red to act as a marker to shipping during the daytime and changing colour to white is not very helpful.”"And of course, if the solar panels get covered up, they would stop producing the necessary power for the various aids to navigation on board the vessels.”He added: “It was not a problem when they were diesel powered because they were visited for refuelling and maintenance, and once the ship was alongside it would hose the vessel down.”A bird-scaring system designed by Sussex-based Scarecrow Bio-Acoustic Systems will be used to keep the birds away. President Jacques Santer and Padraig Flynn, the employment commissioner, said Unice’s decision undermined the concept of partnership which was at the heart of European decision- making.. THE Government joined forces with a cancer charity to promote the products of a breakfast cereal manufacturer yesterday. An alliance of 20 MPs including the health minister, Baroness Jay, backed an appeal by Kellogg’s and the Cancer Research Campaign to increase consumption of high-fibre cereals such as All-Bran as a defence against Britain’s second commonest – and least discussed – cause of cancer deaths.
Bowel cancer kills 49 people every day but half the 31,000 cases of the disease in the UK each year could be prevented if people ate more cereal fibre, fruit and vegetables, health conscious MPs said. Scientists hope the dawn-to-dusk chorus will deter the birds from fouling the solar panels and the ships, delegates to an international conference on pest management at the University of Wales, Cardiff, were told.Birds have always been something of a problem for Trinity House, the organisation responsible for lighthouses and buoys around the coast of Britain, but the trouble has been exacerbated by the arrival of unmanned and fully automatic lightships, two of which are now on station in the Wash and at South Goodwin off Dover.Barry Rodwell, deputy principal development engineer with Trinity House Lighthouse Service, said: “We have hit a problem with birds fouling and it can be quite horrendous. BIRDS which have been casting a shadow over solar-powered lightships are about to get an earful.

Thousands of birds have been leaving their debris on the ships and the solar panels, threatening the only power source for lightships and turning the highly visible bright red of the boats into a cloudy shade of white.
Now, in a bid to repel the unwanted guest, bird-scaring equipment is being installed on two unmanned vessels which will mimic the distress calls of half a dozen birds known to be regular visitors. The little girl was looking forward to her approaching 10th birthday when she would have her first birthday disco party. She was also looking forward to getting a puppy.The trial continues.. I said she would be found soon because the police were going to find her.”She said her daughter was a “lovely and intelligent little girl”.She added: “She was as good as gold, always good at school and would do anything for me.”The day she disappeared Zoe had brought home from school a silver certificate for always trying her best. She was arrested as part of the investigation but after questioning was completely eliminated from any suggestion of complicity.On the evening before Zoe disappeared Mr Evans returned home unhappy that he had failed a basic Army fitness test. Evans and his wife played computer games and had a few drinks before retiring after 11pm, he said.Mr Pascoe said: “Miles Evans took her out of her bed at night, killed her and buried her at night high on a deserted and overgrown hill.”Zoe’s mother, who sat in the witness box, gave her evidence quietly and firmly.She told how within 10 days of her daughter’s disappearance her husband said that she was “probably dead”.She said: “He said that it would take years, months to find her and he wanted to move away. But he and Zoe had been happily involved in a play fight, throwing socks at each other.She went to bed after 10pm.

He had had sex with his wife on Tuesday, but was unable to have further sex because of her period.The jurors, he suggested, were entitled to piece together the evidence and consider whether abuse or attempted abuse was behind the murder.He said Ms Hamilton played no part in the murder. But he pointed out to the jurors that Mr Evans regarded his stepdaughter as pretty and enjoyed physical contact with her. They were found at separate locations on a route leading from the back door of the house to the grave site, said Mr Pascoe.The T-shirt had been worn by the stockily-built private in the days before the killing, the QC suggested.The prosecution did not have to prove motive, he said. But he left two pieces of evidence which were to prove crucial.One was his blood-stained, dark blue T-shirt, stained with Zoe’s blood The other was her underwear. Her body was found six weeks later.
Details of her death were revealed for the first time yesterday at Bristol Crown Court as her stepfather Miles Evans went on trial, charged with her murder in January 1997. He has pleaded not guilty.Mr Evans’ wife Paula, 29, told the court that Zoe had disappeared from their home in Warminster, Wiltshire, after a “normal” family night when her husband played with the little girl.Ms Hamilton, who uses her maiden name, said her husband was tender and cuddly.But Nigel Pascoe QC, prosecuting, said that the Army driver private had taken Zoe from her bed during the night, then attacked and murdered her within a kilometre of their married-quarters home on the edge of Warminster before burying her on the overgrown Battlesbury Hill.The court heard that on the day after her disappearance, Mr Evans pretended to be an anxious parent in order to divert suspicion from himself. She had been forced naked and head-first into the hole and her crop-top had been stuffed into her mouth.

She died from asphyxiation, possibly from the gag, possibly from inhaling blood from her broken nose. THE stepfather of nine-year-old Zoe Evans attacked and murdered her before burying her body in a badger sett, a court heard yesterday. The 24 defections since the election compare with eight local Labour councillors and “celebrities” who defected in the 12 months up to last May.Since the start of the year, the Liberal Democrats have been joined by councillor Carl Kisicki of Lewisham; Keith Toon, the ex-chairman of Hull West and Hessle Council; councillor Daniel McCarthy, of Southwark and councillor Meher Khan, former Mayor of Waltham Forest.But Mr Harvey was also keen to point out that not all the defectors were from Labour – citing “the decisions of former Tory MPs and MEPs like Hugh Dykes, Anna McCurley and Peter Price to become Liberal Democrats.” Other Tory defectors include Keith Raffan, former MP for Delyn; Lord Thomas of Swynnerton; Arthur and Susan Bell, of the Scottish Tory Reform Group; and Lady Mary O’Hagan, former head of the Tory MEPs’ London office.. If (the Adams visa support) had not happened, it is no exaggeration to say that other events might not have fallen into place She used good judgement.

She was not by any means one-sided.”Mrs Kennedy-Smith, 70, was appointed in 1993 by President Clinton. She helped arrange his 1995 visit to both parts of Ireland which attracted huge crowds. That experience is believed to have strengthened his interest in helping achieve a political settlement.. THE Liberal Democrats have notched up 24 local Labour defections since the election, the party revealed yesterday.