Yesterday the Think Twice campaign listed him, along with Sir Donald Mackay, the former chairman of Scottish Enterprise, as a "known sceptic" on devolution. A Labour Party spokesman said that Sir Bruce must "make his position clear"."He must make clear whether or not he is in the ranks of Think Twice - or is he prepared to come out openly and say is very angry that the Think Twice campaign has tried to hijack him?" the spokesman asked.Sir Bruce could only continue to speak on behalf of his bank and other businesses if he did so as an independent figure, he said.Sir Bruce was not available for immediate comment yesterday, but Brian Monteith, co-ordinator of the Think Twice campaign, said the list had been issued purely as a guide that journalists might find useful."He has nothing to do with us," he said "All we are doing is providing a list of names.". A man whose boat overturned during a fishing trip was rescued after spending more than 19 hours in the water - using his air-filled waders to help him float. She got hundreds of calls wishing her good luck and a few proposals of marriage."She was obviously a little nervous at the beginning, but she was relaxed by the end and she made a good start."In July last year, Miss Potts tackled Horrett Campbell, when he entered the playground of St Luke's Primary School in Wolverhampton and slashed at children enjoying a teddy bears' picnic.The former nursery assistant sustained injuries to her head, arms and back as she tried to shield children from 33-year-old Campbell, who was later ordered to be detained in a mental hospital.. We've had lots and lots of phone calls from the public praising Lisa - she's had a really warm response."Miss Potts, who clearly enjoyed the first of her scheduled four days at WABC, ended her first stint at the microphone by thanking the hundreds of listeners she chatted to off-air, as hits from the 50s to the early 80s were played.WABC's afternoon show presenter, Mike Baker, said: "She thoroughly enjoyed it and she's looking forward to the challenge of tomorrow. Lisa Potts, the former nursery nurse who became a national heroine when she saved primary school pupils from a machete attacker, made her debut as a radio presenter yesterday. The 22-year-old (right) hosted the two-hour mid-morning show on WABC Classic Gold, a local station based in her home town, Wolverhampton. After the show, the station, which broadcasts across Shropshire and the Black Country, said it had been flooded with calls supporting Miss Potts, who was awarded the George Medal earlier this year for her bravery.Mike Wyre, who works as a DJ for the station and helped show Miss Potts how to operate studio equipment, said: "She did very well indeed She's got a natural bubbliness and enthusiasm.

He claimed police were hostile, banging desks and chairs, and saying she would go to prison if they didn't confess to the false claim."It was a silly thing to do and petty, but you hear all the time that people get away with this We were treated as if we'd killed someone," he said.. "It's a great relief to be going home," she said.Only two weeks ago, the same district court at Larnaca sentenced a 22- year-old Irish woman, Annette Mangan, to four months in Nicosia central prison for making similar false charges of rape.Judge Christodoulou told the couple, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, that their fabricated claim was a serious offence and that an innocent man had his name smeared so they could try to claim insurance money.The judge said there was a need for deterrent entences in such cases, but added that he was taking into account their clean record and that their admission of lying to police had prevented an innocent man from being arrested.Last Thursday, Warburton and her boyfriend went to police claiming she had been raped by the son of the hotel owner where they were staying just outside Ayia Napa.Police became suspicious because the couple had taken so long to file the complaint, and had only done so just a few hours before their plane was due to leave Cyprus.Yesterday, Judge Christodoulou said that bogus insurance claims by tourists on the island were out of control, with police receiving between 30 and 40 false claims per day.Civil engineer Chris Barker, 30, from Sutton, Surrey, his girlfriend, Kirsty Sales, 24, a secretary from Wallington, Surrey, and their friend Margaret Fernandez, 30, from Middlesex, were fined pounds 250 each for trying to claim insurance money for a stolen watch worth pounds 100.Barker said Miss Sales had retracted her verbal complaint five minutes after making it to police, but was forced to make a written statement. A British mother-of-four escaped being jailed in Cyprus yesterday when a judge fined her pounds 400 for falsely claiming that she had been raped. Suzanne Warburton, 30, and her boyfriend, Paul Shearsmith, 26, who was fined the same amount, had been warned by the British High Commission in Cyprus that they could expect jail sentences. The same judge, Michalis Christodoulou, then fined three other British tourists almost the same total amount for falsely reporting that they had lost a watch.Outside the court, Ms Warburton showed no signs of stress and smiled and joked with her boyfriend as they waited to pay the fines. But it shut itself down, probably because it was overheating, Mr Campion said, leaving the crew with no means to produce oxygen."This is not an uncommon occurrence when an Elektron unit is reactivated after having been shut off," Nasa's status report said.A spare Elektron device is available but has not yet been hooked up to the station's supply..

But Mir had spare parts on board for the igniting device.Russian flight controllers had ordered the crew to turn on the Elektron, which had been turned off to conserve power since last week. "It could be that tomorrow it could be no problem, or it could be a fairly significant problem."However, in Moscow, a mission control duty officer, denied that there was a problem at all."There is no oxygen problem on Mir today On the contrary. The flight engineer reconnected the Elektron [oxygen generator] and the crew are now asleep." he said last night.Michael Foale and his Russian crewmates have had repeated problems with the new Elektron generator, carried up by space shuttle Atlantis in May. But this is the first time since February that a crew has had serious trouble with the backup system, in which solid-fuel canisters are ignited to produce oxygen.One of these canisters burst into flames in February, filling the station with smoke and almost causing the crew to abandon ship.The cosmonauts were trying to ignite a canister yesterday when the system failed.Mr Campion said the problem could be the canister itself or the device in which it is placed. A keen hill climber - he used to bag Munros with the late Labour leader - Mr Smith lauded a BBC documentary series about mountaineering, entitled The Edge.He reiterated his commitment to keep the "crown jewels" of British sport on conventional free-to-air television by selecting a clip from the England v Germany penalty shoot-out in Euro 96.The man in charge of reviving the British film industry also revealed that he is engaged in talks with the Motion Picture Association of America aimed at ensuring that British cinema-goers get the chance to view more British films.. The three men aboard the troubled space station Mir lost the use of both their primary and back-up oxygen generators last night but the crew were in no immediate danger, said Nasa. A solid fuel oxygen generating system was not working and the primary oxygen generation system, which had been shutdown to conserve power, could not be reactivated. It is the latest in a string of mechanical breakdowns to affect the 11- year-old station but a spokeswoman for the agency said the crew were not unduly concerned."This is not a critical issue for them," she said.Ed Campion, of Nasa, said that even if both systems were broken, Mir had enough oxygen to last at least a couple of days."If you can't get either of the two systems back up, then you're facing a serious situation," he said.

He described the interview in the Sunday Times as his "most uncomfortable experience" with the press since taking office in May.Simon Sebag-Montefiore had "come along and asked me the most personal of questions, which I think he wouldn't have dreamed of asking any other member of the Cabinet." (Mr Smith was asked to name which of his Cabinet colleagues he most fancied.)Reflecting on the experience yesterday, he said he had contemplated stopping the interview, adding: "I think in hindsight I should have."He swiftly stressed that he has nothing against robust political interviews when he picked Jeremy Paxman's relentless inquisition of former Home Secretary Michael Howard as one of his all-time television favourites. But he said the most powerful interview he had seen in recent years was Melvyn Bragg with Dennis Potter shortly before the controversial television playwright died from cancer.Mr Smith also paid tribute to ITN's coverage of John Smith's death. I hope they just accept that I was right to highlight what MI5 were doing and use that information to shake it up.". Chris Smith, Britain's first openly gay Cabinet minister, reaffirmed his determination to remain up front about his sexuality yesterday when he revealed his favourite screen moments at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. If he were to be cast adrift on a desert island with only one thing to watch, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport would choose the scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral where the actor John Hannah publicly mourns his male lover with an emotional recital of W H Auden's "Stop All The Clocks". "This is the bit that always moves me when I see it," Mr Smith told an audience of television executives gathered in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland, an institution which has never celebrated sexuality of any sort, least of all homosexuality.The minister also voiced regrets about allowing a newspaper recently to probe him about his personal life.

He also criticised the culture of heavy drinking, bureaucracy and low morale within MI5. Among those who had been spied on by the security service was Mr Mandelson, Minister without Portfolio."I believe I have done nothing wrong in highlighting what was going on," he said yesterday. "These things should not have been happening."If the Government decides to make an example of me, then I will have to take legal advice to assess my position. "But no other country has a law like the Official Secrets Act so I don't think any court would allow me to be sent back to Britain."Mr Shayler infuriated the intelligence community by revealing details of farcical and arguably unnecessary bugging and surveillance operations in the Mail on Sunday.

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