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The worsening problem has been caused by a national mania for home improvement that has seen the spread of porches and glass doors with floor-level letter boxes. Now the aggrieved postmen say they will no longer stand, or rather, crouch for it. So fed up are they of injuries caused by the hazardous movement of bending down to ground level while carrying heavy mail bags that the Irish Republic's Communications Workers' Union is now threatening a boycott of impossibly low letter boxes.Chris Hudson, a CWU official, himself an ex-postman, said: "It's not a laughing matter. The arrests on Wednesday are understood to have been connected to the prints.The two men were yesterday brought back to Lancashire for questioning after being arrested by a team of Lancashire detectives.Superintendent Bob Denmark, who has headed a worldwide hunt for the killers, said: "I do believe that our four-year hunt for the gunmen is drawing to a close.". Other people have also been convicted.Following the convictions the police revealed they had found a finger print on sticky tape left at the murder scene. Stephen Schepke, 46, an arms dealer from Sidcup, Kent, was given a life sentence in October 1993 for aiding and abetting the murder. The court was told heamassed about pounds 60m from his criminal career. He had at least 50 aliases and even close associates did not know his real name.

David Wilson, 47, was murdered while his family were held hostage at their home at Withnell, near Chorley, Lancashire in 1992. The two suspects were arrested in the London area late on Wednesday nightMichael Austin, 39, an American millionaire fraudster, was jailed for life last February for ordering the murder of Mr Wilson, who was shot twice in the head. He was killed after becoming entangled in a pounds 26.5m international cigarette and insurance fraud, masterminded by Austin.Austin was extradited from New York to face trial last February. Police hunting the killers of an accountant shot dead by hooded gunmen at his home have arrested two men after an international inquiry that has lasted four years. The researchers demonstrated that galaxies as we see them today formed by the merging of protogalactic fragments that grew, over billions of years, out of tiny ripples in the energy from the fireball after the Big Bang. In the computer simulation, the properties of the ripples are fed into a large supercomputer as the 'initial conditions'. A computer program that simulates the growth of these ripples is then executed.. So far, it has refused to explain why they were created, except to stress they were not used to secure the interview with the Princess.The BBC said last night: "We are confident that the information is authentic and we are not prepared to comment further because of the legal position.".

The largest computer simulations of the development of our universe from its early infancy to its current state have just been carried out by an international consortium of astronomers (the Virgo Consortium) based at Durham University, writes Tom Wilkie. The document reproduced on screen purported to show a schedule of assets used as collateral for the loan and was accompanied by Mr Venables's signature.Mr Venables does not deny receiving a loan from Landhurst. He does maintain, though, that he did not do a "sale and leaseback" deal, as the programme claimed, involving assets he did not own.He is suing the BBC for libel over the allegation.Mr Bashir worked on the Venables programme with the same designer who claimed to have made up documents to the presenter's orders in the run- up to the Princess of Wales interview The BBC has admitted two bank statements were falsified. Partners at Arthur Andersen said there was "substance" behind the claim. Senior sources at the firm, which is receivers to Landhurst Leasing, a company at the centre of the investigation, said that they had been unable to locate the loan document used in the programme.The firm had also been unable to find any correspondence or other supplementary papers relating to the alleged loan.A partner said Landhurst's loan documents were normally laid out in a tabular format - unlike the document shown in the programme .Andersen's backing casts a further shadow over Panorama and its reporter, Martin Bashir. Earlier this week the BBC admitted he had commissioned fake bank statements to be drawn up by a graphic designer shortly before his exclusive interview with the Princess of Wales in November.He was the reporter on Panorama's two "exposes" of Mr Venables's financial dealings in 1993 and 1994.One of the entries in the fake bank statements showed a payment from a firm with the same name as one belonging to Eddie Ashby, Mr Venables's long-time business associate, to Alan Waller, a former head of security for Earl Spencer, the Princess's brother.On his first programme in 1993 about the football coach, Mr Bashir alleged Mr Venables had "decided to cheat" one of his former companies in order to obtain a pounds 1m loan from Landhurst.

A claim that the BBC Panorama programme used a fabricated financial document in an investigation into the business dealings of Terry Venables, the England football coach, received backing from a firm of City accountants last night. Mass exhumation is going on all year round, all the time." However, some nearby residents were concerned about diseases like smallpox which might have finished off the Victorians.Dorothy Jones, who lives near the old entrance to the timber yard, said: "They died of horrible diseases in those days They might be bringing them up with the bodies.". The specialist company, Necropolis Co, said it was usual practice for bodies to be lifted out one by one and placed in containers. These containers would then be transported to the new site.David Jenkins, of Necropolis, said: "The work we are doing in Islington is far less unusual than people might think. Historical records confirmed the timber-yard was once a Victorian cemetery and that the last bodies were buried in 1852.Peter Bonsal, head of parks and cemeteries at Islington council, said the bodies would be treated with reverence. "The development company have called in specialists to exhume the bodies," he said. After the Closure of Burial Grounds Act in 1852 a timber yard was built over the thousands of graves and they were forgotten.The site, off Upper Street, is now being redeveloped by Groveworld Ltd, which discovered the bodies after running tests in the area.

Plans to build a health club and luxury apartments in north London have been held up by the discovery that more than 12,000 bodies lie below the site. Developers are having the bodies exhumed and carried to Trent Park, Middlesex, where they will be reburied. The site in Islington, north London, within the main shopping area, was once a Victorian graveyard. The company rather than donors will reap financial rewards if products are developed from the raw material they have provided.. A London advertising agency has taken on one of the toughest challenges in marketing - making Thermos flasks cool. Trevor Beattie, creative director of TBWA and the man behind the award- winning Wonderbra advertisements, has been given the job of helping create a hip new image for the drink containers, often viewed as the packed-lunch companion of anorak-clad trainspotters and elderly couples at the seaside. The pounds 500,000 campaign, under the catchline "Thermos - The Flask Just Got Hot", willrun for two weeks and will be initially test-launched at sites in railway stations, motorway service areas and shopping centres in Britain and France.. And in the longer run new drugs might be produced which would prevent the progressive development of the disease.Wear and tear still remained an important factor, Dr Spector said, as did obesity, and both might prove of more importance in those already predisposed to the disease.Gemini Research, a subsidiary of a company based in the British Virgin Islands, has bought the commercial rights to the twins' database.