lan Lawton, 72, described how he and his fellow seamen on board a mine- sweeper twice attempted to drown an officer whose cowardice and negligence were endangering the lives of the crew.
Mr Lawton claims he and three others decided to push him overboard. Mr Lawton, who lives in Hull, volunteered for the Navy at the age of 17, in 1942.He recalls the moment he tried to kill the first lieutenant of HMS Rosario, while minesweeping in the Adriatic. “I still have nightmares today but I felt it was time to tell the truth,” he said. Mr Lawton said the officer used to hide when there were mines around. He and three others decided to act after shrapnel from an exploding mine killed a sailor. Mr Lawton makes his confession on the BBC 2 series, The Call of the Sea on Saturday The MoD said it would not be pursuing the matter.. Most firms want Britain to remain in the European Union although one in four believes the economy would benefit from leaving, a new survey showed today.

More than two out of three businesses polled said the UK economy would benefit from staying in the EU.
The survey of 553 organisations by Reed Personnel Services showed more support for leaving the EU in the South-west, while firms in the Midlands were most in favour of staying in. Larger firms were more likely to argue in favour of remaining in Europe.Labour’s trade and industry spokeswoman Margaret Beckett said: “This survey is overwhelming evidence that the business community recognises the need for Britain to play a constructive role in Europe and recognises also the danger to prosperity and jobs if we were to leave the EU. It thus shows the dangers to which Tory divisions on Europe expose Britain, risking 3.5 million jobs.”The survey also found that senior managers were keener on the staying in Europe than lower ranks, with only 17 per cent of them wanting the UK to leave the EU, compared to 24 per cent of middle managers and 25 per cent of support staff.There were also differences between business sectors, with 76 per cent of manufacturing businesses thinking the UK should stay in and 19 per cent that it should leave, compared to 60 per cent of distribution and wholesale organisations believing the UK should stay and 31 per cent that it should get out. A quarter of service and retail business and 24 per cent of public sector organisations thought leaving the EU would be better for the UK, along with 17 per cent of charities.. Children fed on mothers’ milk have a ten-point IQ headstart over bottle-fed babies, according to a psychiatric survey today.

Those who missed out are not only less bright than they would have been, they are quieter, more withdrawn and make fewer friends at school, the research indicates. They also appear to be at higher risk of developing schizophrenia in later life. Consultant psychiatrist Dr Robin McCreadie, of the Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries, who led the research as part of an investigation into the causes of schizophrenia, said: “Mothers’ milk contains an essential constituent, missing from cows’ milk, for proper brain development of babies. Breast- fed babies are nearly ten IQ points brighter than those raised on cows’ milk.
“The fatty acid [docosahexaenoic acid, known as DHA] in mothers’ milk is vital for proper development of the brain and to give it protection from schizophrenia.