A bold glass and wood building, it has been built on previously derelict land next to a man-made harbour dating back to Roman times.Eventually the campus will cover 38 acres. The alternative was “stagnation”.The new university is a dramatic sight. “Lincoln had to do something to wake up and it has done,” said Roger Charnley, of the Humber and Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce. About 30 pubs and restaurants are planned or, like Pizza Express, already open. The new St Mark’s shopping centre next to the university is attracting major stores like Debenhams.Business, city and county leaders who stumped up much of the pounds 32m founding costs are bullish that their bold investment will be a turning point in Lincoln’s fortunes. They and their tutors will be worth millions to the local economy: accountant Touche Ross estimates that 10,000 students will be worth pounds 50m a year.Early signs of change are already there as businesses in the picturesque city respond to demand A multi-screen cinema has opened, as have record shops. The University of Lincolnshire and Humberside opened its doors last September, six years after east Midlands business leaders identified a university for Lincolnshire as the key to future prosperity.

More than just an academic institution, it has transformed the cathedral city’s fortunes, with money spent on food, books, accommodation and entertainment.
In three weeks’ time the new intake of 800 first-years will follow the original 500 on to campus. The university, the first newly built higher education institution in Britain for 25 years, hopes to have 4,500 students by 2001. A biography of the painter Lucian Freud, billed in a publisher’s catalogue as an investigation into the “darker, hidden side” of “the blackest sheep in a distinctly dusky dynastic flock”, may now never be written. Measles can lead to brain damage and cause death, mumps can lead to infertility, and rubella can cause blindness and deafness in the offspring of women who catch it during pregnancy.Ann Coote, a co-founder of Jabs, said giving three vaccines in one injection was too much for a baby’s developing immune system to cope with.. Members of the pressure group Jabs, which represents parents of 400 affected children, are to meet the health minister, Tessa Jowell, on 10 September.

They will say the triple vaccine must be withdrawn and single vaccines given separately until more is known about the risks of giving them in combination.
But government and independent health experts say the risks of the combined vaccine are far outweighed by the risks of diseases it prevents. He said: “Local government is usually the problem because many local government officials have vested interests in the sex industry.”. Parents are demanding the withdrawal of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccination – known as MMR – after gathering details of almost 1,000 cases in which it is alleged to have caused adverse reactions, writes Jeremy Laurance. Two of the three foreigners convicted for child abuse in the Philippines have been British. Michael Clarke was jailed for 16 years for organising sex tours and Steven Mitchell received 17 years after being found guilty of sexual acts with minors.Father Shay Cullen, a campaigner against child sex tourism in the Philippines, warned that corruption in the country would make the new agreement difficult to implement. He said the message of the new agreement was three-fold: to stop the sex tourist trade, to catch criminals who abuse children and to help victims return to normal life.Unicef estimates there are 60,000 child prostitutes in the Philippines. This follows training in the Philippines by two officers from Durham.The proposed extension of intelligence gathering with other countries was part of a campaign against the abuse and exploitation of children, said the Foreign Office.New legislation comes into force tomorrow enabling British courts to try cases of British citizens alleged to have taken part in paedophile acts abroad.Yesterday, at a Manila centre for street children, Mr Cook described the sexual exploitation of children as an unforgivable crime.

The memorandum of understanding, signed by the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, is the first of its kind in the world, and has been welcomed by child protection groups at home and abroad. Similar bilateral agreements are being considered with countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and others in Latin America visited by British and European child sex tourists.
British police officers will go to Thailand to train police on child sex investigations. A groundbreaking agreement between Britain and the Philippines to exchange intelligence on child sex offenders was signed in Manila yesterday, and is due to be extended to other countries on the “international paedophile circuit”. This is an admission that Labour can no longer live by propaganda alone. We will indeed look at the ‘big picture’ which is looking worse for Labour by the day.”. It is an archaic way to make policy.”He said that the “nonsense of compositing” – where resolutions are grouped together by a powerful committee on the eve of conference – should end.Alan Duncan, vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, said: “Mr Blair can bare his soul, but he can’t cover his tracks. A lot of it is summer froth.”Mr Blair was speaking at the first of a series of question and answer sessions with Labour members designed to promote his reform document “Partnership in Power”.The Prime Minister urged party members to accept changes, particularly to the Labour Party conference’s role in policy making.He said: “Conference should not be open season for those who want to pull the party apart or decide the whole of a complicated policy area in one-and-a-half hours on a Monday morning.

However senior party sources moved quickly to stress that no further reforms of party/union links were imminent.Mr Blair, who returned from holiday last week, has been trying to focus attention on the “big picture” after a range of problems, ranging from the Millennium Dome to Lord Simon’s shares.The Prime Minister addressed directly the Government’s presentational problems: “August has brought its share of problems for the Labour Party Much of it has little to do with the big picture. “This is a 10,000-metre race”, he said, “not a 100-metre sprint.”Ahead of his appearance at the Trades Union Congress annual conference, Mr Blair indicated that Labour’s relationship with the unions required further change.”The most healthy relationship,” he told party members in Darlington, “is between trade unionists as members of the party.”That clearly implied that the block vote at party conferences is seen by Mr Blair as a less-than- desirable arrangement. Making his first public pronouncement about a raft of summer presentational problems, the Prime Minister also promised to continue modernising Labour’s links with the unions.
Labour, he said, was still acting as if it were fighting an election, and urged a change of tempo. Tony Blair yesterday admitted the Government had taken a “mild kicking” over August, and urged Labour to look to the “big picture”. It wants tax increases big enough to bring about sharp rises in the cost of petrol.It wants ministers to examine ways of charging people to use the roads and it has discussed controversial proposals for allowing people to buy only a certain amount of fuel each year.It wants ministers to put pressure on car makers to produce smaller, more efficient vehicles in order to cut pollution.It will call for greater investment in public transport and will press ministers to set targets for moving people from cars to buses and trains and shifting freight from road to rail and canals.. Petrol prices are low and the cost of travelling by rail or bus has gone up faster than the cost of motoring.The document will call for a thorough revolution in policy although, as it is officially only classed as a review, it will not make formal recommendations.The Commission will insist that the cost of motoring will have to increase greatly. The 1994 report was so controversial that the last government failed to reply to it, setting another precedent.The Commission says congestion and pollution have increased in the past three years and new research shows the fumes from car exhausts are even more dangerous to health than was realised.Public transport has become less attractive since rail privatisation and the deregulation of buses outside London.