NEWSFILE pounds 3m for library computers

LIBRARIES are to get pounds 3 million to buy computers to turnthem into "street corner universities", Arts Minister Alan Howarthannounced today. The Wolfson Foundation and the Government have setup a fund to which libraries can apply for grants tobuy computers toput them on the Internet.

Lights alert

Shoppers were warned today of the dangers of buying market stallfairy lights which could send Christmas trees up in flames. TheBritish Standards Institution said that customers should make surelights carry its Kitemark.Drugs pleaMore measures need to be taken to stop drug resistant diseasepassing from farm animals to people as a result of using antibioticsin intensive livestock production, according to a report publishedtoday by the Soil Association.Final dregsThe last 500 cases of Samichlaus, at 14 per cent the world'sstrongest beer, have gone on sale at Safeways. Production of thebeer has ceased.Card recordBritons are set to send a record number of cards this Christmas,with more than two-and-a-half billion deliveries expected over thenext few weeks, according to the Royal Mail.