Terence Savage returned with the axe and asked for Mr Barlow before prowling the corridors until police arrived and arrested him.
Savage claimed he had no intention of hurting Mr Barlow and said he didn't know why he brought the axe. He said: "I have no animosity against him." - Sheffield Star (B A Jackson)
I sat entrance exams for New Hall, Cambridge . . . One of the . . . questions was: "You are dining at the top of the Telecom Tower revolving at a rate of x miles per hour. Describe the path of a crouton in your bowl of soup." I thought that was socially divisive; some people would not have known what a crouton was. - Jancis Robinson in the Independent (Derek Morgan)
Due to the revamp of BBC News, those carrying videotapes for transmission are having to dash from one end of White City to the other. Signs have now gone up declaring: "Beware! People walking quickly." - Evening Standard (Sigrid Rabiger)
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