Cable Briefs

Press, 18 June 1979, Page 6

Cable Briefs

I Front damages j A London council has Ibeen ordered in the High (Court to pay the National Front $2OOO damages over the council’s cancellation of a town hall booking for the party’s 1977 annual meeting. The Newham council had agreed on the sum. subject to liability, which the. denied. Two Front executive council members, Martin Webster and Richard Verrall, were each awarded $lOO personal damages for “inconvenience, frustration, and disappointment” resulting from the cancellation, which they claimed was a breach of contract. Their meeting was eventually held ■at a hotel. The booking was (cancelled after disturbances at National Front rallies in | London and Birmingtham. — London.

Solar reverse French authorities who only 10 days ago prepared l to cut back on solar-energy I programmes, have made a (complete turnabout and said I they would build the largest I electricity-generating solar I plant in Europe. The Industry Minister (Mr Andre IGiraud) said the plant at T argasonne, southern France, would have a IOmW capacity. On June 5, a leading official related to the programme said the proposed plant, called Themis, would have 2mW capacity instead of a 3.5mW capacity as initially planned, because lof financing problems. Mr IGiraud has now told a press I conference that credits not available before had since I been allocated by the National Electricity Board. — Paris.