THE Department of Social Welfare saved £2.5 million a week in sick pay handouts after referring more than 80,000 claimants to medical referees. One opf six people claiming disability benefit and referred to medical rtferee were found to be capable of work, while one out of three

pledge in new power plant UP to s will be created in the North during the building of a lignitefuelled power station, Northern Secretary Tom King announced last night. Lignite, sometimes known as brown coal, is a form of hard peat or soft coal which is plentiful in the region. T

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The New Year's Day Copia!den' clash between Rugby giants Cardiff and Bath is to be toned into a big mosey-spinner for charity. British Gas, who already sponsor the Gas Challenge fixture between Wales and England. have reached an agreement with the clubs which should raise 'irone

Cotton Molly looks as close to a certainty as one will get at Harold's Cross these days when she lines up in the Classic Trophy '525', this evening (8.0). In going which varied between .40 and .30 slow. returns for the event. confined to those which had not bettered 30.40. were