All the victims of the hurricane

NOTHING SACRED
IN the wake of a hurricane, our immediate response is to the people left homeless. But in an unusual and kind gesture an American pet-food company has made sure homeless animals will not be forgotten after the ravages of Hurricane Hugo.
The company has shipped four tonnes of dog and cat food to Charleston, South Carolina, to feed thousands of animals left homeless by Hurricane Hugo.
THE Cats' Protection League in Scarborough are alarmed at the number of cats going missing locally. More than 20 ginger and tortoiseshell cats have gone missing in Scarborough and nearby Hunmanby in the last month. The co-ordinator of the local Cats' Protection League, Wendy Wood, believes illegal fur traders could be snaring the pets and exporting the furs to Europe.
IRISH traders will be busy in the next month, importing a book which is certainly going to raise eyes to heaven. Irish censors have lifted a ban on The Joy of Sex, a love-making manual which has sold 10 million copies worldwide. The Censorship Board revoked its ban after an appeal from the publishers citing a therapist at the Catholic Marriage Advisory Council who said the book by Dr Alex Comfort was "very
necessary reading". Who for?
CHILDREN as young as ten are hitting the bottle, with the consent of their parents, according to a survey published by Exeter University's Health Education Unit. The survey reveals that by the time children start secondary school many are "downing" the equivalent of two pints a beer a week. The research officer John Balding said parents' encouragement of children as young as eleven to drink alcohol at home was indefensible. not doing the right thing when he photographed a judge during a Crown Court hearing. Gruno Heyer, a teacher from West Germany, was hauled before the judge for contempt of court hut luckily was allowed to go with his cameri after :4nologising.
TOURISTS do have a habit of sticking their foot in it, or sometimes even their hands! The Vatican have had to take precautions against wandei ing tourist hands recently when it removed mummified bodies from its Egyptian museum. The reason given was that tourists could not resist touching them and were destroying them.