While Pont-Scethin bridge is well known, the map also reveals tracks that even many locals would have been unaware were open to the public. Although this is a pilot to see how it is received, the revealing of previously hidden routes must be welcomed by all ramblers.”Another move applauded by the Ramblers Association is the return to the map of information on publicly-owned Forest Enterprise woodland where walkers can roam. The OS dropped this information from all Landranger maps in the mid-1980s because of the Government’s policy of selling off the woodlands.Mr Trevelyan said: “I think these changes partly reflect us nagging but also OS has become more customer-orientated. They are looking to supply a service rather than produce maps, and they perceive there is a need for this.”. Nearly 70 per cent of holiday caravans examined in spot checks by police at the weekend had safety faults.

It was the second successive week that police in the West Country have found that a huge percentage of caravans fell short of basic safety standards.
The previous week’s 90 per cent failure rate in roadside checks was described as “absolutely diabolical” by a road safety officer, Sergeant Dave England. The “horrifying” figures showed that some kind of safety certificate for caravans was required immediately, he said.Dozens of caravans were checked at a motorway service station outside Exeter on Saturday. Police uncovered a catalogue of faulty tyres and incorrect loading which could affect steering. “People think they can just hook up a caravan and drive away,” a police spokesman said.Officers handed out advice to owners whose caravans did not come up to scratch, and warned them that in future there could be prosecutions.. The Government’s divorce reform plans are condemned today by the Institute of Economic Affairs, the free-market think tank, as part of a “contemptible and unremitting onslaught on the family”, writes Nicholas Timmins.

Patricia Morgan, a research fellow at the institute, said that the changes to the divorce law planned by Lord Mackay of Clashfern, the Lord Chancellor, will become “far more destructive of the stability of marriages”.
“As the law now stands, it does not protect the vulnerable and curb the unscrupulous, but allies itself with spouses who want to break up marriages,” she says in a pamphlet, Just a Piece of Paper?It already “rewards selfishness and destructiveness as against altruistic commitment”. This will be “even more obviously the case” if Lord Mackay’s proposal to introduce “no fault” divorce finalised after a year during which couples have to participate in a conciliation process.Far from protecting children from conflict, Ms Morgan says international studies show that conflict is often not a major cause of divorce and that many children are either unaware of it or able to tolerate it. But as access to children becomes a contested area for divorced patents, the children do suffer.”The experience of most children whose parents divorce is of increased conflict over an extended period.”Conciliation will do little to help, she argues. “Divorce is a great destroyer that is eating the heart out of society as well as savaging children’s lives. Its deprivations will not be reversed given ever so many mediators or conciliators.”8Just a Piece of Paper?; IEA, 2 Lord North Street, London SW1P 3LB; pounds 6.50.. Having convicted Susan Smith of first-degree murder, a jury in Union, South Carolina, will decide this week whether she should spend the rest of her life behind bars or die in the state’s electric chair for deliberately killing her two children.