The Cessna was a right-off, and the men had to hide from the search they would have known would be escalating.The east of the Isle of Wight, in the triangle between Shanklin, Cowes and Bembridge, is littered with small forests and derelict farms building would have offered shelter.By Sunday, they were cold, probably hungry, tired. Why they were openly walking on the Newport to Ryde road, the men have yet to explain. But around 7.00pm their luck ran out.An off-duty prison warden, Colin Jones, recognised the familiar gait of Matthew Williams, convicted for a bombing and arson campaign. He telephoned the police immediately, and scores of officers and dogs headed for the men.Near Wootton Bridge. Keith Rose and Andrew Rodger, a convicted murderer, were confronted by Special Constable Mike Carr, a school teacher, and gave themselves up Williams still thought he could make it. Hunted by police and dogs across open fields, he may not have realised it but he was heading west, directly back towards Parkhurst. When finally caught, trying to swim across the River Medina at the Island Harbour marina, he was just two and a half miles from the wall he had scaled five days earlier.PC Tony Woolcock and his dog, Bongo, cornered the last of the escapers.

In the deep water of the marina, Williams, frozen and exhausted, was overcome by PC Woolcock. Back in custody he was discovered to be suffering badly from hypothermia.The police, under the combined influence of adrenalin and the reflex to do their job, had – as they admitted yesterday – that they ignored the possibility that the trio may have been armed.As Bongo lined up for another photo shot, as Mike Carr accepted hero worship from his pupils, as Tony Woolcock parried another joke from his colleagues -”That’s a different dog this time” – another search was continuing at the marina: the search for abandoned weapons.. The lunch hour is a thing of the past for most British workers, who now take half-an-hour or less for their meal break. The recession has led to shorter and shorter lunchbreaks during the Nineties, according to a survey by a major catering firm.

It shows that the typical working lunchbreak is 32 minutes, with 51 per cent of staff taking half-an-hour or less. About 14 per cent of workers are taking no time off for a lunchbreak.
This compares with a 1990 survey which showed that more than 60 per cent of workers took more than half an hour for lunch.Hospital doctors are the poorest eaters, with 75 out of 100 saying they did not take an hour. The figure rose to 86 per cent among women doctors.Hospital doctors also ate less than other workers. Some 38 per cent said they had just one meal during a typical working day and 71 per cent ate only a sandwich or filled roll.Company directors said they often discussed business over lunch (49 per cent).The survey, conducted in October by RSGB, looked at 1,000 workers, 100 hospital doctors and 100 company directors.. The recapture of the three prisoners on the Isle of Wight brought only momentary relief to the embattled Home and prison departments. At the same time as they were being put back behind bars at Parkhurst, three others – one a convicted rapist with a history of absconding – were cutting their way out of Littlehey prison, a low security jail in Cambridgeshire

There are now 122 prisoners at large.

Their convictions include rape, armed robbery, drug offences and fraud.
Nevertheless, the Prison Service Agency defends its record on escapes, saying it has almost halved the number of escapes per year since it took over responsibility for jails in April 1993 In 1992-93, there were 347 escapes Latest figures from April to November last year show 162. A police spokesman said the latest escapees – described as “a low to medium risk to the public” – were discovered missing from the prison near Huntingdon on Sunday night.One of them, Michael Thynne, 43, had completed a life sentence for rape, but had his licence revoked after he was later convicted of burglary and attempted robbery He had twice absconded while serving his life sentence. The other two were Darren Ogden, 23, sentenced to five years for robbery in April 1993 and Gary David Thompson, 25, who received two years for burglary last June.Littlehey is a Category C prison, the lowest security establishment for closed jails. John Bartell, chairman of the Prison Officers’ Association, said: “Overcrowding throughout the system causes governors to reclassify or downgrade prisoners in order to create space, and put them into so-called Category C prisons totally unsuited for their containment.”A Prison Service spokeswoman said that although Thynne’s previous history would have been taken into account, he would not have been placed in Littlehey if he was considered a serious threat.. A former National Hunt jockey was three-and-a-half times over the drink-drive limit when his car plunged into a harbour following an after hours pub session, an inquest was told yesterday. Ridley Lamb, 39, who won the Cheltenham Gold Cup on The Thinker in 1987, had drunk the equivalent of a gallon of beer before the accident at Seahouses, Northumberland.Alan Merrigan, 29, another jockey, also died in the accident last July Verdicts of accidental death were recorded..