It says health experts should co-ordinate their activities “with a focus on reducing the huge burden of fractures suffered by patients”.However, the National Osteoporosis Society said there were too few bone density scanning machines available even to test those at high risk, defined as women (or men) who have lost height, suffered a “fragile” fracture (as a result of a minor accident) or taken steroid drugs for over six months.Linda Edwards, the director, said: “The report demonstrates that current provision for osteoporosis in many areas is under-prioritised and under- resourced.”. Over the next 50 years the number of fractures is expected to double because of the ageing population.The guidelines say doctors should be aware of treatments for osteoporosis that can reduce the risk of repeated fractures. It affects 40 per cent of women over 70 but the risk for men is as much as half that for women.It causes 200,000 fractures a year and the number is rising by 10 per cent a year. MASS SCREENING of the population for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis is not worthwhile and checks should be limited to those at high risk, an expert committee said yesterday. The Royal College of Physicians called for those with signs of osteoporosis to be identified and treated at an early stage to prevent the condition worsening, causing pain and disability to the sufferer and costing the NHS almost pounds 1bn a year.
In new guidelines, the college said osteoporosis is often wrongly labelled as a woman’s disease. Then, again last season, the modern image-maker moved the look into the sportswear arena – another sign that the designer had his finger firmly on the pulse. Some put these changes down to the influence of his new muse at the time, Amanda Harlech, whom Lagerfeld poached from John Galliano, but while Harlech has undoubtedly had great impact on Chanel’s recent evolution, it is Lagerfeld at the end of the day who decides whether to implement new ideas of those who surround him.His talent is in being able to decipher current moods while retaining a sense of the great Chanel history – and this season that is exactly what he achieved..

In more recent seasons he took the label right back to its roots, paying homage to the great Coco Chanel. Lagerfeld knows his customer through and through.He is also obviously aware of what Chanel sells best: handbags. Lagerfeld faced the millennial issue head-on with metallic leather skirts, outsized silver chain belts and knife-sharp seaming details on that most modern of fabrics and the season’s favourite – felted wool.
As ever, he encompassed the trends of the moment: shearling was cut into neat waist-length jackets; a cape-coat appeared in chocolate-coloured leather and butter- soft tan suede, along with fine colourful tweed, were given the all-important modern Chanel spin, in body-sculpted shell tops and body-skimming skirts. The clothes were no less expansive than the show’s setting, from ultra- sharp modernity to country-estate chic to lavish eveningwear. The king of Paris fashion never does things by half: no fewer than 80 models tramped down what seemed like a mile-long catwalk at the Chanel autumn/winter 2000 show in Paris yesterday. ONE MORE step for mankind; one more giant step for Karl Lagerfeld.

A lock on a door or a window is forced in 37 per cent of break-ins and a window is broken in 24 per cent of such crimes.But in almost a quarter (22 per cent) of cases the criminal is able to gain entry to the property through an unlocked door or open window.In six per cent of cases, access is gained to the house on a false pretence.. But, he said: “Despite recent reductions, England and Wales has one of the worst records on burglary in the industrialised world.” He said the Government was investing pounds 50m over the next three years on an anti-burglary initiative in areas with high crime rates.The research revealed that Asian families are more likely to be burglary victims than other ethnic groups.Also vulnerable are homes where the head of the household is between 16 and 24, single parent families, and those living in detached houses or inner-city areas.Ownership of home security devices has increased dramatically over the last six years and 24 per cent of homes now have burglar alarms, with 48 per cent having security lights.Some 48 per cent of burglars entered the property they robbed from the rear but 42 per cent broke in at the front of the dwelling, with 70 per cent of all successful break-ins being made through a door.Most burglaries occur when the offender forces their way in. In nearly half of all attempted break-ins in 1997, the criminals failed to gain access to the property.The Home Office minister Paul Boateng said that the research showed that “the simplest home security measures can have a significant impact on our chances of being burgled”.”By reducing the number of easy targets we can have a dramatic effect on crime. So, with one eye on commercialism and the other looking to the future, he offered quilted skirts that mimicked the quilted Chanel handbag.He also cleverly incorporated the much-maligned Chanel 2001 bag – the futuristic ergonomic design, which took almost two years to create – but this time around it looked more accessible in soft cream wool.When Lagerfeld took over as honcho of Chanel, the most prestigious of all fashion houses, he poked fun at the history of the label by brandishing the linked-C logo on everything from moonboots to a milk-bottle-top-sized bikini bra. “He was very lively, he made me laugh, he was quite a bubbly person.

I wasn’t bothered about the age difference, although he was worried I would trade him in for a younger model,” she said.Peatfield told a series of lies to friends and neighbours, saying Mrs Craven had left him after an argument. But they did not believe him and eventually reported Mrs Craven missing.It was not until 20 April, the day after Peatfield was charged with the murder, that detectives examined the block of concrete. Forensic scientists found spots of blood in the dining room, on the carpet and on the curtains of the couple’s home.Peatfield, a consultant engineer, who stood to gain more than pounds 200,000 from Mrs Craven’s death, denied having murdered her He said they had a great relationship and never argued.. WOMEN ARE considerably better burglars than men, according to newly released Home Office research. A detailed analysis of the 1,639,000 burglaries on domestic properties in England and Wales during 1997 has revealed the previously unheralded role of women in house-breaking.
Of the burglaries where details of the offender were known (41 per cent of break-ins), six per cent of the burglars were women acting alone.But these female thieves accounted for a disproportionately high nine per cent of successful burglaries, which totalled 878,000 in the year.They were responsible for only one per cent of attempted but failed burglaries, of which there were 761,000 in 1997.Although burglary is invariably regarded as a crime committed by strangers, victims of burglaries where the details of the offender were known said that they knew the person well in 34 per cent of cases and recognised their face in a further 17 per cent.The Home office report, Burglary of Domestic Dwellings, reveals that the highest proportion of bungled burglaries are carried out by schoolchildren, who fail to gain entry to property in the majority of their attempted break-ins.The report was based on answers given to researchers for the 1998 British Crime Survey.The report shows that home security measures are having a marked impact on reducing the numbers of successful burglaries. Two days later, Peatfield took his lover, Faith Warner, 17, to the home and told her: “I’m going to show you something now that is going to change your life.”Michael Murphy QC, prosecuting, said Peatfield led Miss Warner into a brick outhouse, showed her the body of Mrs Craven under a blue tarpaulin sheet, and said: “I did it so I could be with you.”Miss Warner, now 18, of Ashton, Greater Manchester, said Peatfield threatened her after showing her the body.”He grabbed both of my arms and he went blood-red, literally, and he shook me and said: `If you tell anybody I will kill you and I will kill your family’.”She was 17 when she started going out with Peatfield and became pregnant with his baby in 1987. We sat down to write it, with Geldof talking into my tape-recorder for hour after hour, and with me shaping the resulting conversations into a book.It was a revealing process, as much for what got left out as for what went in On the tapes he was ruthlessly frank.

He spoke with particular vituperation about his father, whose job as a travelling salesman had forced him to leave Geldof and his two older sisters alone much of the time, after the death of their mother before the boy was 10. But he insisted I should talk to his relatives to check his recall. “Don’t let him be too hard on his father, it will break his dad’s heart,” I was told by his Aunt Fifi, after whom Geldof named his eldest child. “No, he was a bastard, put it all in,” said the angry young man I ignored him and toned it down. Interestingly, when he read even that, he toned it down further.He self-censored other sections of my manuscript which he thought might upset his wife, Paula “Better not put that bit in. Paula might not like that,” he said, of sections which many spouses would have considered innocuous.