The cause of the fire believed to have started in an area where the two men would have been loading a mixing vessel with

The cause of the fire, believed to have started in an area where the two men would have been loading a mixing vessel with solvents, was not immediately known but suspicious circumstances were ruled out.. Two men were killed when an explosion rocked an adhesives factory and fire swept through the building yesterday. Colleagues tried to rescue the two trapped men but had to flee the blaze A fire service rescue squad later retrieved the bodies. Up to 200 people were evacuated from buildings around the Scottish Adhesives factory in the Saracen district of Glasgow because of the risk of fumes from the blaze. But Mills switched the blood with somebody else's before sending it to be tested. Anderson and Mills, who admitted the charge, will be sentenced on 30 August.. Anderson's girlfriend Elizabeth Mills, 33, had arranged for a doctor at Medway Hospital in Gillingham, Kent, where they both worked to take a blood sample from Anderson for DNA testing to decide paternity of a girl born in November 1993.

The judge's warning to Timothy Anderson, 24, came after the jury at Maidstone Crown Court in Kent convicted him of perverting the course of justice. Gatwick Express claimed to have 80 per cent of the Victoria-Gatwick market despite the price differential but NSC disputes this.In theory, this type of competition was the spur for the privatisation programme but in fact there are few lines where different operators run services cheek-by-jowl.French takeover, page 15. A hospital orderly was told he could face a prison sentence yesterday after he was found guilty of plotting with a nursing sister to tamper with a blood sample to avoid paying maintenance for his child by a former lover. It also runs all-night services, while Gatwick Express stops at midnight. Both companies were privatised recently: NSC was taken over by the French CGEA multinational, while Gatwick Express is run by the National Express coach company.Under British Rail, the services were not allowed to compete: commuters were expected to use NSC, while Gatwick Express was intended for airport users. NSC's advertising campaign aims to show that its service is cheaper and stops at Clapham Junction and East Croydon, while Gatwick Express is non-stop. He admitted the loss of deliberately created human life was "repugnant" but believed this was the "least worse" solution to bad laws..

The first real battle between rival train operators after privatisation begins today when Network SouthCentral (NSC) tries to lure customers away from the Gatwick Express. The London Victoria- Gatwick route is one of the few where parallel services are run by different operators. NSC runs four trains an hour, taking 33 minutes for the journey and charging pounds 7.50; Gatwick Express takes three minutes less but charges pounds 8.90. "What is happening today is not what was intended of those who voted for the Act," she told BBC Radio. "They did not intend that it should be used simply when the woman did not want the child.

There had to be a good reason."Sir David Steel, who introduced the 1967 Act as a private members' Bill, warned that "pro-life" groups were intent on changing the law by raising emotive cases such as the twin abortion case."People opposed to all abortion are prepared to use highly unusual and marginal cases to convince others to abolish legal abortion. The law requires two doctors to agree," said Sir David, and he did not believe it needed changing.Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, said yesterday there was a case for allowing all 60,000 stored frozen embryos to die. Professor Bennett was reported to have said that the information about the termination was released accidentally.Meanwhile at Westminster some senior Conservative MPs called for the 1967 Abortion Act to be tightened, raising fears that abortion could become an emotive election issue.Dame Jill Knight, an officer of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee, said the law needed to be tightened to stop abortions being carried out for social reasons. "We will clearly have a review and examine the issues involved.

This will involve senior managers who during the course of the review will ask Professor Bennett to explain himself."She stressed however that there was no suggestion of any "witch-hunt". Three days after the story broke the hospital confirmed that the woman had already had the abortion.By that time the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child had secured a temporary High Court injunction to stop the abortion going ahead.Yesterday Spuc dropped its legal action but Life, another "pro-life" organisation, was aiming to step up its campaign for clarification of abortion law.A Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust spokeswoman said the hospital wanted to see what "lessons could be learnt" from the last few days. "The message to management is that they have to come back to the negotiating table. We could negotiate our way through this this afternoon."Following union claims earlier this week of political point-scoring, Tory chairman Brian Mawhinney accused "militant trade unionists" of trying to hold London to ransom. Party vice-chairman Charles Hendry called for information on the whereabouts of Labour's deputy leader, John Prescott, who is sponsored by the RMT: "While people struggled into work this morning, the strike commander is nowhere to be seen.". The doctor who agreed to abort a one of a healthy pair of twins is to face a health authority inquiry into whether he breached his patient's confidentiality in revealing details of the case to the media.