The principle is fundamental to a free press in a democratic society, and is one we shall continue to defend.”Mr Kelner and The Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, received the order personally from Interbrew’s lawyers.George Brock, managing editor of The Times, and Hugh Carnegy, the deputy managing editor of the Financial Times, accepted the document at their offices.Robert Thomson, editor of The Times, said: “Fundamental principles of press freedom are in danger of being compromised.”Sources do need protection, even if their motives are not entirely clear. This was not accurate and reliable journalism,” he said.Interbrew has told the newspapers and Reuters that it would hand the documents over to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) if they were successful in their court action.An FSA spokeswoman refused to be drawn on whether the financial watchdog would seek its own court order if Interbrew’s legal action failed to uncover the documents.She said yesterday: “We need to obtain these documents since they are primary evidence that a crime has been committed. The allegation is that the documents were deliberately doctored and deliberately circulated to give an impression about share price.”COMPANY STATEMENT’Independent stands by its journalistic principles’The board of Independent News & Media (UK) announced yesterday that when visited by representatives of Interbrew it declined to disclose any sources or reveal any documents to Interbrew or its advisers.A free press is fundamental to The Independent’s editorial principles, and at a time when corporate governance is a matter of increasing public interest, the need to protect journalistic sources is paramount.The board will be taking its case to the European Court of Human Rights, where it is confident that The Independent’s stance will be upheld.. The BBC secured the rights to the entire Six Nations rugby championship for a knockdown £70m last night. The BBC has lost Premiership football, Test cricket, Formula One racing and the Ryder Cup to other broadcasters.It means the BBC will show all of England’s games at Twickenham – previously only screened on Sky – and in France for the first time since 1997.As the value of sporting rights has gone into freefall because of the advertising recession and the failure of digital television, the BBC has stepped in to pick up the pieces.Last week the BBC reclaimed the rights to the Football League with a £95m four-year deal in partnership with BSkyB after the collapse of ITV Digital.Leading figures within the Rugby Football Union are disappointed with the £70m received for the sport’s premier competition. In 1996 the RFU went alone and sold the rights to its games only for £87.5m in a five-deal with Sky.The Six Nations governing committee had demanded £100m from the BBC but the corporation insisted that it could not be justified when audience figures for last season’s matches showed that, although England’s matches attracted four million viewers, the other fixtures generally attracted half that number.Allan Hosie, the Six Nations chairman, admitted: “Concluding a deal in the current market has not been without its challenges. This package, given all the circumstances, is a credit to our negotiating team.”Earlier this week the competition lost its title sponsor when Lloyds TSB announced it was withdrawing its support after five years.A multimillion-pound marketing and publicity campaign promised in the BBC contract will be vital to secure new sponsors.

The BBC will also help the Six Nations committee with grassroots initiatives designed to encourage youngsters to take up the sport.Peter Salmon, the director of BBC Sport, said: “The Six Nations is a unique competition that brings the British Isles together, and we are delighted to have the whole championship back on the BBC.”Our innovative new approach will help build the profile of this prestigious tournament and ensure fans can follow the tournament more easily.”Working with the Six Nations committee we want to create modern heroes in the sport, who will inspire current and future generations of fans and viewers.”We intend to use the full range of BBC services, programmes and a multimillion-pound marketing campaign to achieve this.”. Plans to introduce a diploma for 19-year-olds that lists achievements and qualifications – to help with university enrolment or job applications – have been forced back to the drawing board after universal hostility from headteachers. Pupils will be given a certificate that records all their achievements, including work out of school and qualifications There will be only one level of certificate for all pupils.. The Government will boost spending on education by offering a package worth about £600m to ease the workload of teachers and modernise the profession. Reports yesterday suggested that it could be part of an extra £10bn spending on education over the next four years.The £600m will be used to hire extra classroom assistants to free teachers from a series of administrative tasks – including invigilating exams, photocopying, and collecting dinner money from pupils – and allow them more time to teach.Measures to offer cheaper homes for teachers in areas of the highest staffing shortages will also be unveiled to help solve recruitment problems. In turn, that will help staff to gain guaranteed time away from the classroom to spend on marking and preparation, and their own professional development.The review is also expected to include about £500m to tackle truancy and discipline.Tony Blair said the spending review would show that education was Labour’s “number one priority”.

In a speech in Middlesbrough, he said improving secondary schools and expanding further and higher education would be key aims of the three-year spending plan. “Our aim is to replace the old ‘one-size fits all’ comprehensive with secondary schools that can develop the talents of each pupil,” he said.The Prime Minister dismissed criticism that the plan to ensure that half of 18 to 30 year-olds should enter higher education by 2010 was unrealistic. “I simply do not, and will not accept that this is an over-ambitious target,” he said.Mr Blair also pledged to end the “cosy ?tism” that had bedevilled the education system. “We must banish forever the idea that the best education is only for a small, privileged minority, but for the majority there is no proper vocational route and second-rate opportunities,” he said.Teachers will, however, be expected to reach demanding targets to improve test and exam standards. For the first time, minimum targets will be announced for improvements in deprived inner city schools.Ministers are optimistic they can reach agreement with the three TUC-affiliated teachers’ unions, who had been threatening industrial action, on a package as a result of the deal.. PLAYING THE terror of the tuck shop in the BBC comedy series Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School brought 10 years of fame to Gerald Campion, but it was a part he never shook off. Although Campion continued to take roles in films and on television, he never found the same recognition again on screen and developed a second career as a restaurateur.

Gerald Theron Campion, actor and restaurateur: born London 23 April 1921; married 1947 Jean Symond (one son, two daughters; marriage dissolved 1972), 1972 Susie Mark; died Agen, France 9 July 2002. Ironically, he had dieted shortly before Billy Bunter began and had to put on pounds – and padding – to play the hero of Frank Richards’s comic stories and books.Campion, who reprised the role on stage, became one of television’s earliest stars, as the relatively new medium swept the country during the 1950s. Viewers avidly followed Bunter’s plans to liberate cakes and sticky buns from the tuck shop, which were often foiled by the fearsome form-master Mr Quelch.Born in the Bloomsbury district of London in 1921, Gerald Campion was the son of the playwright Cyril Campion, who went on to script radio series such as the long-running wartime sitcom Taxi, Papers! Papers! (featuring Harry Fowler and Leslie Adams as two Cockney newspaper boys) and the comedy-thriller Snibson’s Choice.After being educated at University College School, Hampstead, and training at RADA from the age of 15, Campion made his London stage d?t in French Without Tears. During the Second World War, he served in Kenya as a wireless operator with the RAF.He made his first film appearance, as a newspaper boy on York station in Ronald Neame’s Hitchcock-style thriller Take My Life (1947). He also appeared as a lift boy alongside Glynis Johns, Googie Withers and Margaret Rutherford in Gainsborough Studios’ mermaid comedy Miranda (1948).But screen credits such as “Fatty Mathews” in the television play Boys in Brown (1947) and “Fat Boy” in the star-studded film version of The Pickwick Papers (1952) signalled how Campion was to become typecast.He was recommended to the BBC producer Joy Harington when she despaired of ever finding the right actor to play William George Bunter, the character created by Charles Hamilton under the pen name Frank Richards in 1910 and immortalised in the popular comic The Magnet as “the Fat Owl of the Remove”. The writer later featured Bunter in a string of best-selling books.Although Campion had already passed his 30th birthday, and was the father of two children at the time, Harington recognised in the actor the qualities that would make him and Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1952-61) such a hit with television audiences.Originally broadcast live on Tuesdays, each programme was screened twice, at 5.25pm for children and 8pm for adults.