From: evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans)
Subject: VNS: Mon 25-Jan-1993
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:09:06 GMT


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 Edition : 2752               Monday 25-Jan-1993            Circulation :  7261

        VNS Announcement ..................................   35 Lines
        VNS MAIN NEWS .....................................   49   "

VNS Announcement:                            [Marios Cleovoulou, VNS Publisher]
=================                            [Valbonne, France                ]

    The end of an era is fast approaching for me.  After sixteen years with
    DIGITAL and nine and a half years of publishing The VOGON News Service
    I will soon be leaving the company.

    I am very pleased to announce that Colin Blake has kindly volunteered
    to take over the job of publishing the VNS and attending to the
    readerships' subscription requests, etc.

    It pleases me not only because Colin has the technical experience 
    necessary to "run the shop".  He is also an expatriate Brit and a
    long time VNS reader who has relocated from Reading, England to the
    Spit Brook Road facility in Nashua, NH, USA.  

    This takes VNS back to its roots, for it was exactly people like Colin
    that VNS was started for back in 1981, when a number of Brits in ZK    
    realised that they were missing home news and the cricket scores!  In a
    sense the publishing and distribution of VNS is returning "home".

    I am also happy to announce that Tom Povey, of our UK News Desk, will
    be taking over the running of the VNS VideoTeX service, which, with
    circa 5000 readers per day, is also very popular amongst our followers.

    I cannot go without saying a public word of thanks to all of the VNS
    "staff", both past and present.  In particular to the current team, who
    have put in countless hours of their own time, day in day out, over
    many years to provide the high quality service that VNS readers have
    come to expect.

    While VNS is well "established" I ask that you, the readers, never take
    it for granted, that you remember that VNS is a labour of love, and
    that it is the ongoing dedication of a small group of people performing
    over and above the call of duty that provides you with this, your daily
    newspaper.  The one and only VOGON News Service.

    My best wishes to you all!			Marios (CASEE::) Cleovoulou

VNS MAIN NEWS:                                    [Tom Povey, VNS UK News Desk]
==============                                    [Reading, England           ]

    Here is the News at 07:00 GMT on Monday 25-January-1993
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    {It is Burn's night tonight...}

    UK News
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    FT-SE = 2781.2
    Exchange Rate for UK pound = $ 1.5260  = Dm 2.4380
	= Yn 190.88 = SFr 2.2294 = FFr 8.2229 = A$ 2.2706

    The Prime Minister, John Major, is in India today as chief guest at the
    Republic Day celebrations. 4 Sikh militants have been arrested in
    connection with an alledged plot to blow up a number of government
    buildings. 

    The Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee meet today to finalise
    their report on the Coal industry which is due out on Friday.

    A man kidnapped in Northern Ireland on Wednesday by the IRA has been
    released unharmed. No reason was given.

    A report says that some half a million children in Britain suffer as the
    result of their parents abuse of alcohol.

    An article in the magazine of the Industrial Society has criticised the
    government for its public sector pay policy, calling it "half-baked and
    unfair".

    The body of a 7-year old girl has been found in woods near Bracknell.
    She went missing at the weekend. 

    There have been heavy storms around Britain this weekend with especially
    strong winds and snow in the north. 

    European News
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    Artillery attacks continue in Bosnia in the renewed fighting bewteen
    Serbs and Croats over territory. The peace talks also continue in
    Geneva. 

    {News courtesy of the BBC}


    Local Weather
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    A dry and mainly sunny day. High 5C/41F.

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| Gwyn Evans              | evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com | Views expressed and |
| Digital Trading Systems |      Gwyn Evans @ IME      | statements made are |
| Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK |        DTN 769-8108        | mine, not Digital's |
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