“It has always been at the back of our minds – was there a proper post-mortem done on James? Did they look for every piece of evidence?,” he said. “And now that they’re going ahead and exhuming him it’s just one great relief, you know, at last we’ve got the opportunity now to look at every piece of evidence that could be there.”Surrey Police said the body will be examined by a Home Office pathologist on behalf of Surrey Police, and reburied.. Commuters who suffered a day of disruption because of yesterday’s tube strike should brace themselves for a possible worsening of the disruption, transport unions warned last night. Thousands more were forced to walk across the capital to get to their destinations before the strike ended at 8pm.LU said it had run 18 trains during the 24-hour dispute. The network normally operates 500 trains at peak hours and carries three million passengers a day.

Mike Brown, LU’s customer services director, said: “We are delighted that some of our train operators have turned up for work despite very heavy picketing at depots.” Union officials said the strike action had been “solidly supported”, closing the network down.Aslef said between 12 and 15 workers had broken the strike out of 2,200 members. The RMT reported only minimal numbers from its 8,000-strong union had turned up for work.The RMT’s general secretary, Bob Crow, and the Aslef union leader, Mick Rix, joined workers on picket lines. Referring to the travel upset for the city’s commuters, Mr Crow said: “It’s diabolical. They shouldn’t have to go through this disruption.”He said the strike was a result of LU’s refusal to seek mediation with the arbitration service, Acas, to settle the dispute. “If London Underground had observed its agreement with the unions to go to independent mediation, the strike would simply not have happened,” he said.Mr Crow urged commuters to write to the Secretary of State for Transport, Alistair Darling, urging him to intervene. Sir Malcolm Bates, chairman of London Transport, encouraged the unions to call off the strike.. Northern Ireland’s police have alleged that the Provisional IRA were involved in a gun attack in Londonderry at the weekend.

His revelation sparked a warning from Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson that his party could be forced to expel Sinn Fein from the executive before its 18 January deadline for republicans to prove their commitment to peace.Mr McBrearty was driving a bus carrying pensioners from a day trip to Co Donegal in the Irish Republic which was stopped by a masked gang.. A pioneering scheme that lets NHS patients choose where to have their operation if they have been waiting more than six months was extended by the Government yesterday. So far, 400 patients have been treated under this Heart Choice scheme.The new pilot will mean cataract patients in the capital who have been waiting at least six months can also choose to go elsewhere. By next spring the idea will be extended to also include people in London waiting for orthopaedic operations, ear, nose and throat treatment, general surgery and other specialities.”If we want a health service which puts patients first then patients have got to have more power. And that means they’ve got to have some choice,” Mr Milburn said. “So if their local NHS hospital cannot offer them a shorter waiting time but another hospital can, they can decide to choose.”Dr Liam Fox, the shadow Health Secretary, dismissed the extension as a gimmick. “This shows how little importance Labour really attaches to choice.

It is a pathetic extension to a system which begins from a very low base. Patients are given a choice only if the system has already failed them. Alan Milburn’s centralised system of healthcare is completely insensitive to the needs and wishes of patients,” he said.Mr Milburn also announced an extra £10m will be given to areas of England with the highest levels of coronary heart disease. In addition, the Government has published a document introducing a new three-year planning system for the NHS and social services to replace the current annual system Each local area will now submit a single three-year plan.