T hree members of the Provisional IRA were arrested in Colombia
where they were said to have gone to learn about bombmaking techniques from guerrillas known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fare). The IRA also withdrew its proposals for disposing of its arms, a decision that was described by Mr John Reid, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. as 'a historic step backwards'. The relations of people killed in the Real IRA bombing of Omagh in 1998 sued five people whom they said were responsible for it. Mr Gordon Brown. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, ordered hundreds of Treasury civil servants to begin assessing his five economic tests for joining the euro. The number of speed cameras, which raise millions in fines for police forces and the Treasury, is expected to rise from 3,000 to 9,000 in three years. After 25 weeks of the foot-andmouth epidemic there had been 1,947 outbreaks with 3,734,000 livestock slaughtered. Lord Haskins, the government's 'rural recovery co-ordinator', antagonised farmers by saying that they should learn from the French, criticised the Prince of Wales and prompted Downing Street to declare that he was an 'independent' voice. Miss Bonnie Masterson, an American fundraiser who has agreed with the Royal National Rose Society to raise £20 million for a rose gar
den in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales was expected to be paid .E5 million of the money if she succeeds. Mr Neil Hamilton, the former Conservative MP. and his wife Christine were arrested and interviewed about an alleged rape before being released after saying that a dinner party they were holding at the time claimed for the offence showed their innocence. Some kinds of powdered baby milk were withdrawn after a five-month-old girl contracted infant botulism, and traces of the Chlostrydium botulinum type B bacterium were found in samples. Jimmy Knapp, the former National Union of Railwaymen leader with a gravelly Ayrshire accent, died, aged 60. Mr Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, and his family spent a few days in Cornwall before flying to France by Ryanair, not easyJet as had previously been understood from a Downing Street unofficial briefing; easyJet had in the meantime plastered the country with posters crowing about Mr Blair's assumed choice. Two British mountaineers returning from Mont Blanc suffered shotgun wounds after mistaking a gipsy encampment in the south of France for a public campsite.
A BOMBER killed himself and 15 other people at a Jerusalem pizzeria; another. near Haifa, killed himself and wounded 15. Sup porters of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe looted dozens of white-owned farms near Chinhoyi, north-west of Harare. Another peace treaty was signed between the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia and Albanian-speaking guerrillas, granting concessions to the Albanians; forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, including 1.000 British troops, will police the treaty. Seventeen people were killed in an ambush at a roadblock 200 miles south-west of Algiers. Twenty South Koreans each publicly cut off one of their little fingers in protest at the visit by Mr Junichiro Koizumi to a Shinto shrine in honour of war dead, including executed war criminals. California University in San Francisco is holding trials of two drugs, quinacrine and chlorpromazine, to see if they can alleviate the effects of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A novel, Zabibah and the King, said to have been written by President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, is to be turned into a musical. A nine-year-old boy was killed when 1,000 bees stung him as he cycled past a field of sunflowers near Poitiers. Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, aged 71, formerly of Lusaka. who married a 43-year-old Korean in a Unification Church ceremony in New York in May, returned to the Vatican in an apparent reconciliation with the Catholic Church.
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