The Crown Office in Edinburgh confirmed that the procurator fiscal’s office in Stirling had authorised the release of the body.n Thomas Hamilton was cremated in secret yesterday far away from the city where he committed mass murder.A statement from police spokesman Superintendent Louis Munn said: “I have been advised that the body of Thomas Watt Hamilton has been cremated well away from Dunblane .. His immediate family was in attendance. When the service ended, the white coffin was carried out by four pall bearers, followed only by a funeral director carrying a large arrangement of yellow flowers. The family came out of the cathedral shortly afterwards and got into waiting cars.Even as the bodies were being buried the body of Thomas Hamilton was “authorised” for release to his relatives. At least 500 mourners attended the service at which hymns included All Things Bright and Beautiful.The funeral of Sophie North, from Bridgend, Dunblane, was held in private and no details were released.The final funeral yesterday was that of Hannah Scott, again at the cathedral About 300 mourners attended.

Charlotte moved to Scotland with her family only six months ago from the West Midlands, and was enjoying school life with her new teacher Gwenne Mayor – who was to become another victim of the gunman.The cathedral was also the venue for the funeral of Megan Turner. The gesture came after the funeral of five-year-old David Kerr, at the town’s Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family.
After the service, police halted traffic for the cortege to set out on its way to the cemetery.David’s was the first of five funerals being held yesterday; the task of burying all 17 victims of the schoolroom massacre will not be completed until tomorrow.A joint funeral service was held later at Dunblane Cathedral for Melissa Currie and Charlotte Dunn Melissa’s family moved only recently to the town. At the public inquiry into the fiasco, Trevor Newton, its managing director, who is to retire at the end of May, was forced to concede that Yorkshire Water had been unable to achieve its own targets to reduce leaks which wasted a quarter of desperately needed supplies.Under cross-examination from the National Rivers Authority, Mr Newton said: “I fully accept that the targets set by Yorkshire Water for leakage have not been achieved. We have invested money but not got the results we expected .. Mistakes were made on PR and customer communication We did our best but it was not good enough.”. Motorists in Dunblane stepped out of their cars in a spontaneous gesture of sympathy and respect as the funeral cortege of one of the infant victims of Thomas Hamilton wound its way through the town. In the worst affected areas – Yorkshire the North-west, parts of the South-west and to some extent the Severn Trent area – serious water shortages now exist which could threaten supplies during the spring and summer.”The warning came as Yorkshire Water yesterday admitted mistakes in handling the drought crisis last summer.

More than 17 million people in Britain could again face drought this summer, water officials said yesterday. The National Rivers Authority made the forecast as scientists revealed the first week in March was one of the driest on record. Drought and water restrictions will be more severe and more widespread than those suffered during last year’s long hot summer.
National Rivers Authority spokesman Brendan Paddy said: “If rainfall remains low we can expect drought in the coming summer – this may be more severe and widespread than last year.”Although rain in February was higher than normal, in January rainfall was down 25 per cent on the monthly average.The NRA’s Head of Water Resources, Jerry Sherriff, has been ordered to prepare a new assessment on the shortage of water for the Secretary of State for the Environment.Mr Sherriff said: “The exceptional summer, autumn and winter drought has had a severe impact on water levels in many reservoirs. Mr Trimble told Sir Patrick at an acrimonious meeting yesterday that he believed the document was issued to “appease” the nationalists.. But a firm restatement of the need for Sinn Fein to get into serious talks about decommissioning of arms at the outset of the negotiations, could, ministers hope, help to allay some Unionist hostility.The Government’s chances of securing Unionist support for a compromise had been undermined by a separate but related row over the publication of an Anglo-Irish consultation document outlining the framework for the all-party talks. David Trimble, the Ulster Unionist’s leader, had earlier warned that such a compromise would not work.He said the list system would be open to legal challenge, forcing the Government to delay the elections until late in the year.

At the same time, an electoral system unacceptable to Dublin and the Northern Ireland nationalist community had threatened to jeopardise the two governments’ chances of beginning the talks before the promised deadline.Mr Major has come under strong pressure from the Ulster Unionists – and some Tory backbenchers – to use the existing 18 parliamentary constituencies in Ulster with five members in each being elected to the forum.By contrast, both the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party and Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists have been pressing for a single constituency system from which the 90 successful candidates would be chosen from one Province-wide ballot paper.Dublin has been urging the Government to back the single constituency system to win the confidence of the nationalist community.But both Mr Bruton and Mr Spring have floated the possibility of a “hybrid” system, combining the electoral list favoured by the nationalists and the Unionists’ demands for the elections on 18 constituencies. Last night a Cabinet committee met for more than two hours in an effort to resolve deep differences between the parties over how to elect their representatives for the talks.The Government was having to steer a delicate path to avoid alienating the Ulster Unionists, whose nine votes in the Commons could play a crucial role in deciding Mr Major’s survival. This could produce a 110-member forum from which a much smaller number of negotiators would be selected.The new package will be discussed by John Major and John Bruton on the telephone today – and by Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Northern Ireland Secretary, and Dick Spring, the Irish Foreign Minister at a meeting in Belfast.The promise of all-party talks is the only hope for rescuing the peace plan and persuading the IRA to resume its ceasefire. The Government will today seek Dublin’s support for the new formula to secure peace talks by 10 June. Although details were being kept secret last night pending discussions between the two governments today, the proposals are thought to include a “hybrid” electoral system designed to maximise the support from the Northern Ireland parties. This is expected to be coupled with a toughening of the demands on Sinn Fein to discuss decommissioning when the all-party negotiations begin in June.
The Government is hoping to finalise the proposals at full meeting of the Cabinet tomorrow, and they would then be published with a Commons statement later in the afternoon.The main option discussed last night is for representatives to be elected from each of the 18 parliamentary constituencies by the proportional system of a single transferable vote, topped up with a list of party nominees elected on a province-wide basis.

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