This manifesto will be of course subject to approval by the Labour Party before it becomes the document around which London Labour Party members will campaign.
It is therefore quite right that any mayoral candidate should and will be completely committed to that manifesto.However, it is not surprising in the selection process that different candidates will put forward different views as to how key issues should be tackled – including London Underground financing.I was interested to attend the Fabian Society fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth to listen to how the three then-declared candidates – Ken Livingstone, Glenda Jackson and Trevor Phillips – answered the question on London Underground financing.Glenda Jackson as the then-establishment candidate supported the government line while Trevor Phillips, who is now Frank Dobson’s running mate, supported Ken Livingstone.MIKE PARKERHexham, Northumberland. Surely when the mayoral election takes place it will be based not on the 1997 general election manifesto but on a newly written manifesto which the successful mayoral candidate will play a leading role in defining. Sir: As a Labour Party member for over 30 years – I was one of the small group on the infamous Greater London Labour Party Executive in the late 1980s that organised against the left to remove the embarrassment that the London Labour Party was causing the leadership – I have found the shenanigans in recent months over the selection of a candidate for London mayor quite incredible. To allow the dispensation of “justice” to leak out of the court system to places in which it does not belong is a step which should be strenu-ously opposed.IAN HURDLEY JPLancashire. The court will then decide whether any action is necessary, and what that action should be.
An offender may be warned of the consequences of further failure to get to grips with the order, fined, sentenced to additional hours of work, or – where it is clear that there is a wilful refusal to comply – the order may be revoked and the individual resentenced, almost certainly to custody.To encourage the probation service to conspire with social services to deprive offenders of the financial means of survival may be expedient, but it is not justice.If this measure is deemed to succeed, shall we also see benefit withdrawn from those who drive whilst disqualified? Those who breach a curfew? Those who fail to surrender to their bail? Fine defaulters? Logically, there is absolutely no reason why further savings in court costs shouldn’t be made in this way.It is a fundamental principle that the criminal justice system carries out its duties impartially and independently of the executive.

If that order is not obeyed, the proper course of action is to return the offender to court where s/he will be given an opportunity to answer the charge of breach and to explain the reasons for non-compliance. Sir: The Government has announced in the Queen’s Speech its intention to pilot a scheme whereby offenders who fail to comply with a community service order will have all or part of their benefit payments taken away

A community service order is an order of the court. the Flowers of Scotland who have put a spring back into the step of all your countrymen (Charlie Allan). The only consolation is they will be home before the postcards if they play the same way in Holland and Belgium next summer I salute you gentlemen… It should also be seen as the signal to end all this “Craig Brown should go” nonsense! Sacked? Brown should be carried home shoulder high for helping stir the blood of every Scot. Isn’t it just marvellous to think the history books now show the last game played at England’s ancestral home in the 20th century was a defeat by us? It’s a tragedy such a poor team is going to the finals instead of us.

In the hearts of every Scot this will be remembered as the night when our football’s pride was restored. England start to tear down the old stadium soon – but their team has already been demolished by a Scottish side full of passion and commitment. As so often in the past, the team just could not make the vital step from glorious defeat to glorious victory. Chances to level the tie came and went in the second half as England clung on to a place in the Euro 2000 finals.Aberdeen Press & JournalWhat a performance to produce in the last clash with the Auld Enemy this century and to say farewell to Wembley’s famous twin towers. Much of the pain of Saturday’s Hampden disaster was washed away when Don Hutchison headed the Scots into the lead late in the first half. Kevin Keegan’s much-vaunted side was clearly rattled, and Scots everywhere began to dream of the greatest triumph in our football history. The England fans howled their disapproval as “Flower of Scotland” was played before the game, but it was the Tartan Army who were singing at the end of 90 minutes.

The end of the century should maybe mark the end of this sad, occasionally bitter, eternally parochial rivalry. And given that the honours were shared and both won one it just might Until next time. (Tom Lappin)
The Dundee CourierMaybe Scotland’s 1-0 win at Wembley was not enough to qualify for Europe 2000 but at least we beat the Auld Enemy fair and square on their own turf and in a manner that did the nation proud.Daily RecordScotland reclaimed their self-respect last night with a superb 1-0 victory over England at Wembley.Craig Brown’s team became Bravehearts once again with a pride-filled performance against the complacent Auld Enemy. It has been a limiting and iniquitous attitude, its modern irrelevance unredeemed by the degree of passion it always seems to inspire in Scots. We’ve had a century of the Scots measuring their footballing success by an English yardstick, happy in mediocrity as long as it was brightened by the occasional triumph over their southern neighbours. There were plenty of memories, countless might-have-beens, and a substantial source of pride in how damned close it was in the end.

The story you really wanted to come to an end last night is the dispiriting saga of England v Scotland. Like lovers with Paris, they’ll always have Wembley, this bunch of courageous journeymen, whose journey may have reached a terminus of sorts. It seems Scotland never can quite say goodbye to a major tournament without making one last charge towards the sound of the drums, one last sortie that just fails to break through the opposition lines Scotland won at Wembley. The Scotsman

Reach for the martial dictionaries once more.