Arthur Scargill’s pay package as President of the National Union of Mine Workers remains at pounds 65000 a year

Arthur Scargill’s pay package as President of the National Union of Mine Workers remains at pounds 65,000 a year. There is the leader of the Nelson & District Clothlookers and Warehouse Association on pounds 3,479, his colleague at the Society of Local Council Clerks, pounds 2,347; the general secretary of the Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen (Padiham Branch) pounds 1,020 and the senior official at the Skipton and District Power-Loom Overlookers’ Association who receives pounds 600.There are, however, some other “fat cats” in the union movement. His rise was 44 per cent higher than the rate of inflation over most of the year and puts him once more at the top of the league table for union leaders’ pay.
The 1,500 members of the PFA, the players’ trade union, contributed pounds 50 a year each in subscriptions, but the union’s income is supplemented by a share of television rights and from its role as agent to some of the players.Sick as a parrot however, must be the general secretaries of more than 100 unions which make returns to the Certification Officer who got nothing.And Mr Taylor’s pay – which presumably allows him to rub shoulders socially with at least some of his members in the Premier League – compares favourably with a number of other union “barons”.Apart from those who do it for love, a number of others receive a pittance. GORDON Taylor must be over the moon when he contemplates his pay as chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association – and the increase he received last year. Latest figures show that Mr Taylor received a package worth almost pounds 420,000 – nearly 50 per cent up on the previous year, according to the annual report of the official Certification Officer for trade unions.

although I was not certain if people would like them,” said Mr Kelly.Asked if he felt he had behaved dishonestly, he replied: “I felt the dishonesty would have been more on the part of the college … I didn’t feel I was doing anything wrong.”Mr Kelly also denied providing Mr Lindsay with a shopping list of body parts.”Did you ever say after four right feet, `thank you Mr Lindsay, but no more right feet’? asked Andrew Campbell-Tiech, for the prosecution.”No, I didn’t find a right foot better than a left foot,” replied Kelly “I was not trying to make a human.”The trial continues.. Mr Lindsay then agreed to help him get some of the specimens to his studio so he could make moulds from them “It was something I wanted to share It sounds very arrogant … He then displayed two studies of an old man’s head and torso at an exhibition in London.Under cross-examination, Mr Kelly accepted that he was granted an “exceptional degree of trust” in being allowed to sketch any of the hundreds of body parts kept in the college’s museums and demonstration rooms.He said he then learnt from Mr Lindsay that the college was holding body parts longer than the three years allowed under the terms of its Anatomy Act licence. “I felt if the donors were looking on, I was not insulting their body in any way,” he said.Mr Kelly, 42, and former Royal College of Surgeons lab technician Niel Lindsay, 25, both from London, deny stealing “human anatomical specimens” from the college between June 1991 and November 1994. Mr Kelly further denies dishonestly handling them.The court has been told that after the artist was given permission to draw body parts in the college’s Lincoln Inn Fields premises, he became “itchy” for something more than two-dimensional work.He ended up paying Mr Lindsay pounds 400 to take pieces of dead bodies out of the college.

He said that every journalist in the room knew he had not lied.But he accused the media of being obsessed with itself to the exclusion of issues of concern to real people. “There are certain subjects the media are neuralgic about,” he said “One of them is Murdoch; one of them is spin doctors. Put the two together, and you know you can have a self- indulgent orgy lasting days, which is what you are doing.”Boasting for Britain, page 10Andrew Marr, page 19. Unknown to other passengers he transported the smuggled body parts from the Royal College of Surgeons to his home where he stored them in tea-chests.
Then, when inspiration called, the former butcher would carefully unwrap the body parts and cover them in rubber as part of a process to create “exact copy” gilt-covered sculptures.Southwark Crown Court was told that once he was finished with the remains he would load then into the boot of a car and drive to Kent where he buried them in a 6ft deep hole,.But yesterday the artist tried to assure the court that he treated the severed bodies with respect.