It is still negotiating with the families of the remaining 11 victims.Because Mr Kellow’s 24-year-old daughter was single, he will receive considerably less than £200,000. “Under English law independent people are not considered to be of great value. The relatives of breadwinners will receive much more and that’s the way it should be.”But we’ve never looked for compensation There is no compensation for what happened. I want those people responsible for her death punished not rewarded.”Mr Corbett received a pay-off of £1.4m last year when he resigned from Railtrack in the wake of last October’s Hatfield crash, and about £750,000 since he became executive chairman of Woolworths.Denman Groves, 54, whose 25-year-old daughter, Juliet, was killed in the Paddington disaster, said the compensation payments of up to £750,000 for breadwinners with young children were “derisory”, and the amounts on offer to those with independent children had been “insulting”.

He said: “Not only my daughter has been taken away from me but the grandchildren I never had. Our future lineage has been denied to us.”He said St Paul Insurance, the American-owned company which handled the claims, had treated the bereaved well initially by paying their expenses to attend the Cullen inquiry into the tragedy. “They fell at the last hurdle however and refused to pay for my daughter’s gravestone,” he added.The size of claims depends on whether the victim was married, whether they had children, their age and what the likely loss in earnings would be.The family of a young married businessman with two children received the highest payout to date of £750,000, said David Grimley, St Paul technical claims manager.Railtrack said the compensation process aimed to get victims’ families dealt with “quickly and fairly”.Yesterday a safety system deliberately derailed an empty train after it passed through a red signal.The West Anglia Great Northern service was leaving sidings close to the busy London-to-Scotland route and the scene of the derailment at Hatfield, when it was stopped by “trap” points. Three coaches came off the tracks at about 6mph to 10mph, but remained upright and the driver was unhurt. Some in the industry have argued that similar traps should be placed after most signals, but it has been decided that it would cause too much damage at high speed.. Former prisoners and a disgraced Tory MP joined hundreds of mourners on Friday to say farewell to Lord Longford, the Labour peer who spent his life fighting for society’s outcasts. Former prisoners and a disgraced Tory MP joined hundreds of mourners on Friday to say farewell to Lord Longford, the Labour peer who spent his life fighting for society’s outcasts.
Westminster Cathedral was overflowing and a crowd gathered outside while Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, delivered his requiem mass.He praised Lord Longford as a man who upheld values different to those of mainstream society, with religious beliefs which meant he was unconcerned by criticism.The peer, who died aged 95 last week, became notorious by campaigning for parole for the Moors murderer Myra Hindley and for championing the causes of other reviled prisoners.

But his penal reform work followed a long career in business and politics most notable for a vociferous anti-pornography campaign in the 1970s.Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor said Lord Longford, who converted to Catholicism as an Oxford University student, was never worried by ridicule because “he was concerned with another kingdom”. He chose the Beatitudes as a reading because they summed up the peer as one of “those who hunger for what is right”.He said: “There are some who think religion is a refuge from risk, but it never should be and it wasn’t for Frank. In many ways he was a controversial figure and at times was mocked and scorned.”So when Frank spoke out against abortion or against pornography, or spoke up for penal reform and visited the forgotten ones in prison, he was only living out the injunctions of the Kingdom of God.”If the tributes that have been paid to him have emphasised the more colourful and eccentric side of his life, rather than his career in politics and publishing and banking, who is to say they are wrong? For the world needs to hear and see a witness to the values that are different from those espoused by our society.”Friends and supporters of all political persuasions attended the service in central London with Lord Longford’s widow Elizabeth, their seven children and most of their 26 grandchildren. His daughter, Lady Antonia Fraser and her husband, the playwright Harold Pinter, were among the mourners.One former prisoner in attendance was Martin O’Brien, who met Lord Longford twice after serving two weeks in jail.

“I recognised him in a restaurant, went up to him and thanked him for his work. Prison frightened me and people inside have a great deal of respect for him because he treats them like human beings,” he said.Another mourner, Marigold Johnson, stayed in the room next to Lady Antonia at Oxford University and first met the peer when he mistakenly knocked on her door. They remained friends for 50 years and she worked with him on the Pornography Report in 1972 “He was another father in my life. There are so many stories about his kindness and good humour it’s difficult to know where to start,” she said.. Anyone who witnessed Neil Hamilton’s performance at the Tory party conference in Blackpool will never forget it.

Anyone who witnessed Neil Hamilton’s performance at the Tory party conference in Blackpool will never forget it.He was a genuine star, wowing the faithful with a bravura theatrical performance, producing reams of computer paper and throwing it in the air as evidence of the red tape that was holding back enterprise and how he, as a junior minister, was going to scrap it The faithful adored him. He was cocksure, a charmer, one surely destined for greatness.In fact, it was the high point of his political career. Unknown to Mr Hamilton, the owner of Harrods, Mohammed Fayed, was brooding, determined to wreak revenge for what he saw as a slight. Anxious to secure a UK passport, Mr Fayed paid Tory MPs to lobby on his behalf.