The inscription on the stone, which weighs 200 pounds, reads: “Eight Goths and 22 Northmen on discovery voyage from Vinland over the west we had camp and finished one day after we came home found 10 men red with blood and dead AVM [Ave Maria] save from evil have 10 men by the sea to look after our ship 14 days’ journey from this island year 1362″.Academic opinion since Ohman’s find has see-sawed. TOMORROW Americans will be enjoying their annual Columbus Day public holiday but a professor has poured cold water on celebrations by coming up with new evidence that the Vikings beat the Italian navigator across the Atlantic, and deep into what is now the United States, by more than a century. Jaguar Driver subsequently printed a retraction.”At a meeting in April, 20 representatives supported my call for Mr Marr to resign,” said Mrs Dansey. A rift developed in 1984 when the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club (JEC) was formed by disgruntled former officials of the JDC.

They are dripping in libellous remarks.”Mr Drukker is preparing to write to members – including a number of suspects – telling them of the proposed action.The letter makes three core allegations relating to the alleged wasting of money. Criminal charges never materialised, but the employee is still facing a civil action.When set against the open hostility among senior members of the Jaguar club scene and claims by a number of people that they have been subjected to death threats by unnamed third parties, the poison pen letters appear to reinforce a pattern.Beginning “The monkeys are running the zoo…”, the latest piece of vitriol makes allegations against Graham Marr, the club’s chairman for the past decade, directors and advisers.The club was so incensed by what it considers unfounded slurs that it put the letter in the hands of its solicitor, Nicholas Drukker, with instructions to find the culprit. Since 1984, there has been the breakaway and formation of another club, the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club, a series of acrimonious High Court actions and libel suits, and the arrest of a former employee amid allegations of a pounds 100,000 fraud. Other candidates are Ms Clare Short, the Left-winger, and Tessa Jowell, MP for Dulwich.. Mrs Beckett, MP for Derby South, who last week received a standing ovation at the party conference, does not wish to give way.Ms Harman is held in some quarters to have had an indifferent year, handling the controversial issue of the national minimum wage.

“She will have to go where she is told,” said one Labour back-bencher yesterday.However, radical changes in the whole system of choosing the Shadow Cabinet are on the horizon. A leading Blair loyalist MP has began a campaign to change party rules so the Labour leader could ditch some of his “no hopers” next year and put together a “Cabinet of all the talents”. Jamie Cann, MP for Ipswich, said he was writing to the chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Douglas Hoyle, proposing a new rule that would allow Mr Blair to choose who he wants rather than accept the outcome of anachronistic Commons horse-trading that dominates the Shadow Cabinet election.”The PLP should consider whether it is appropriate to have a self-denying ordinance, to deny ourselves the right to elect the Shadow Cabinet, so that Tony Blair can pick the team he wants to take into the general election.”I am prepared to forfeit my choice next year as to who is going to be in the Shadow Cabinet. Shareholders now have the choice between accepting a certain 265p in cash from RPR or a highly uncertain future with an independent Fisons.Its disposal programme has already been plagued by delays – the sale of the scientific instruments division has been held up three times and may not now be completed before Christmas.

The risk is that the string of marketing deals and joint ventures Fisons plans to set up with other drug companies could be equally prone to disappointment and delay.By most measures, RPR is offering a full price – a 37 per cent premium over the share price before it launched its bid and 18 times Fisons’ likely earnings for next year. There are no Anglicisms, no anachronisms, no modernisms at all It’s medieval and only medieval. Patricia Cherratt, a British woman in her 50s, appeared to have been shot in the back and police said she was seriously hurt. Frank Dobson and other Shadow Cabinet colleagues will be in charge of a six-strong “response and rebuttal” unit.”Every lie they tell about Labour we will rebut,” said a senior Labour Party aide “Every division of theirs, every inadequacy we will expose. However, RPR’s case is starting to look pretty compelling, after it raised its bid last week. Mr Wallis, the chief executive of Fisons, would personally stand to trouser pounds 2m if he succumbed to RPR’s pounds 1.8bn bid, so you cannot doubt his sincerity, nor his absolute conviction that the company can do better by continuing alone.Mr Wallis has done a superb job for shareholders, propelling the shares from a low of 107p nine months ago to 263.5p today. He’s cleaned up the company of peripheral assets and has set down a specific vision of where he wants to take it.Shareholders will be reluctant to desert him now.