It has, however, ratified the right to “peaceful enjoyment of one’s possessions”.The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights also provides for a right of freedom of movement, but the UK still shies away from incorporating this into our law. Following the revocation of the ban the case did not proceed, and the rights are still to be clarified.Hugh O’Shaughnessy found trading rights to take precedence over the rights of ordinary citizens. The European Convention on Human Rights protects the rights to freedom of movement of some Europeans, but the UK government has failed to ratify the provisions upholding those rights. This was rejected by the High Court in March and by the Court of Appeal which decided that Article 7a did not have “direct effect” and could not therefore be invoked by individuals.
The extent of the rights created by Article 8a of the EC Treaty, which provides every EU citizen with the right to move and reside freely within member states, was one of the questions referred by the High Court to the European Court of Justice in the case concerning the Home Secretary’s exclusion of Gerry Adams from the UK. In May 1993, Donald Flynntook a day trip from Dover to Calais. On his return he refused to produce his passport and was only admitted after being held for 40 minutes.

He argued that Article 7a of the EC Treaty required member states of the European Union to abolish all frontier controls by the end of 1992 on the achievement of the internal market. HUGH O’Shaughnessy may not be surprised to hear that the UK courts are unlikely to vindicate him if he were to complain about his troubles at the hands of London City Airport’s immigration officials (“Hoping for a British defeat at the borders of insanity”, 17 September). Actually, it’s ballet dancers from the Austrian State Theatre performing the opening ceremony of the world championships for rhythmic sportive gymnastics in Vienna.. Normally, the girls are accompanied by male partners, but just seconds before this picture was taken there was an announcement over the public address system of a limited offer in the leisure complex bar involving 5p off a pint and a free pork pie Ah well, if only.

The girls, all from Dewsbury (apart from Enid Odsal, top left, who is from Roundhay) refuse to let the little matter of a swimming bath robbed of its usual contents by drought measures get in the way of their fun. Graham Rigby, owner of a nursing home near Gloucester, has been told he has to pay for an extension to the local graveyard before being allowed to take in more elderly residents.THEY breed ‘em tough up north, I can tell you: just look at our picture of synchronised swimming in the Yorkshire Water area. Trains at Liverpool’s Lime Street Station were halted for two hours after the signal- men’s tea urn exploded … Firemen who rushed to the aid of a woman in a flat near London’s Regent’s Park found her hanging upside-down from a chandelier “Heaven knows what she’d been doing,” said a spokesman … A 44-year-old man ran amok with a machete at a Beefeater restaurant in Swindon after a problem with his dinner booking …