Under the heading Why are these people being detained? are pictures of six prominent civil rights

Under the heading “Why are these people being detained?” are pictures of six prominent civil rights activists: Abdul Oroh, the organisation’s director; Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti, Shehu Sani and Sylvester Odion-Akhaine of the Campaign for Democracy; Chima Ubani of Democratic Alternative; and Dr Tunji Abayomi, chairman of Human Rights Africa.All six men were detained this year under a decree of the military regime and have not been seen since Dr Ransome-Kuti is the only one to have been charged. Here you have something which combines the work of the three finest artists of the late 18th century.”It has altered little since it was created except that it has decayed and was ravaged by Dutch elm disease in the Seventies. When reporting on how the work was progressing, the designer would regularly knock on his employer’s door to tell him: “The park has its capabilities, my lord.”"This was Capability Brown’s first great landscape park and it is of tremendous importance,” David Brown the trust’s regional public affairs manager, said.”It is also unusual because it includes work by the architect Thomas Adam and the sculptor James Wyatt. Now the park, designed by Capability Brown in the second half of the 18th century, is to be restored by the National Trust over the next 10 years at a cost of pounds 8m.
As the National Heritage Memorial Fund announced in Cardiff yesterday that it was giving pounds 4.9m towards the project, officials of the trust’s Severn region shunned the reception to get out and about on their new treasure in Wellington boots and Barbour jackets.It was during the 1750s that the then unknown Lancelot Brown was retained by the sixth Earl of Coventry to turn 675 acres of Worcestershire marsh into a classical manicured landscape which set the standard for sweeping parklands across the country in the Georgian age.The unusual partnership between the two men developed into a life-long friendship and created a new art form inspired by classical philosophy and the concept of the Grand Tour.It also earned Brown his nickname. CHRIS MOWBRAY

The birthplace of Britain’s modern love affair with gardening, Croome Park in the Severn valley, brought international fame to the nation’s greatest-ever landscape artist. I am concerned that ministers are becoming increasingly involved with the distribution of lottery proceeds towards specific projects of their own choice,” Dr Cunningham said..

In a letter to Virginia Bottomley, the Secretary of State for National Heritage, he criticised plans to use funds to foster a direct relationship between schools and artistic centres for excellence.”While I have proposed the idea of a “talent fund” from lottery proceeds … So far it has given pounds 70m in grants: 26 per cent for land projects, 17 per cent for buildings, 24 per cent for museums and galleries, 19 per cent for manuscripts and archives and 13 per cent for industrial, maritime and transport.Jack Cunningham, Labour’s heritage spokesman, attacked the Government yesterday for taking too intrusive a role in the distribution of lottery money. Lord Rothschild, chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund, which handles the grants for the NHMF, said that he was anxious the fund should increase its Welsh spending, currently pounds 1.1m, although he said he was anxious not to create “theme-park Wales”.”Over time we wish to achieve a fair balance both geographically and by population,” he said.A pounds 300,000 grant goes to the National Gallery in Scotland buy a painting, the Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Attendant Angels by Guilio Procaccini, which belonged to Charles I.The HLF also published its annual report yesterday. “But it exists and this is how the Government has decided to fund Britain’s heritage. We who are the stewards of these buildings must face up to it and draw on funds so raised.”There was also a strong Welsh theme to the projects, which included a pounds 372,000 grant to the National Trust to buy Hafod Garregog, a 169-hectare estate including the 15th-century house of Owain Glyndwr, the last independent Prince of Wales.The distributors of lottery money have been accused of concentrating funds in London and the South. Bath Abbey, which receives 300,000 visitors a year, was given pounds 500,000 yesterday to clean the interior, and 18 grants were given to churches for bells, organs and rebuilding.”I regard the introduction of the lottery as a fresh form of gambling, which slips us down the road of materialism a bit further,” Prebendary Richard Askew, Rector of Bath Abbey, said.

A further pounds 25m was handed out to 76 projects by the Arts Council.
The grants ranged from the pounds 4.9m from the NHMF for the park and pounds 6m from the Arts Council for a National Glass Museum in Sunderland, to pounds 1,500 – the smallest the heritage fund has awarded so far – to St Andrew’s church in Somerset for the restoration of a memorial tablet.Despite its vocal opposition to the National Lottery, the Church of England stands to be one of the greatest recipients of lottery money. REBECCA FOWLER

The National Heritage Memorial Fund has given pounds 4.9m of lottery money for the National Trust to buy Croome Park near Worcester, one of the country’s finest landscaped gardens. It was one of 56 projects that benefited from the pounds 13.7m worth of grants announced in Cardiff yesterday, many of which had a strong Welsh or ecclesiastical theme. Cheshire admitted causing death by dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and without insurance.. “I have had an accident,” he told police who saw his eyes were glazed, his speech slurred and his answers incomprehensible.Cheshire had left prison determined not to drink but when he found out his girlfriend and the mother of his child wanted no more to do with him he started again.His counsel, Joseph Giret, said Cheshire deeply regretted the accident which still haunted him.