Imports levy

A move towards the import levy scheme, almost símilar to that in the Common Market, is to be used to cut cheap food imports. This will increase the cost of eggs. and lamb.

On eggs the Review places emphasis on' 'the move to à free market.

The Egg Authority is already plánned to take over from the Egg Marketing Board at the end of the month, which will inevitably increase prices.

The White Paper says the number of sheep fell again last year and among special measures to stop the decline is an increase in price of fat sheep by about 2.8p a pound, and wool by about tp a Altogether a total of about nine farm products are directly affected by the price increases.

The White Paper says that the number of regular fulltime farm workers has been falling by about 5 per cent a year since 1967, whereas productivity has increased at the LWT bans TV ESTREL FILMS LTD., which produced 'Kes' and "The Body', held a viewing for television critics on Tuesday of a film they made for London Weekend Television over 12 months ago and which the company has failed to alled 'After A Lifetime' it is a characteristically perceptive, moving and funny account of an aspect of working-class life by director Ken Loach and writer Neville Smith.

Ne feel as though we've been waiting a lifetime for it to be shown,' said the producer Tony Garnett. previous production of theirs, 'The Golden Vision', was greatly enjoyed by millions of viewers as a BBC Wednesday Play three years ago. he film deals simply and directly with the effects of the death of a worker in Liverpool and draws out of this everyday occurrence in the inseparable personal and class histories of his family.

was made at the end of 1969 after the mass resignations of programme makers, including Kestrel, from LWT. le resignations were in protest at the sacking of Michael Peacock and the abandonment of any promise of good programmes this implied; it was one of the first signs of the severity of the financial crisis in both public and commercial broadcasting.

Kestrel made the film despite its resignation to honour obligations to the artists involved, but when finished it sat on the shelf under the Tom Margerison-Stella Richman regime which followed. With their recent demise in further resignations and film?

sackings and the take-over by Rupert Murdoch and John freeman, the him has now been suddenly removed from the schedules after a promised transmission date for the end of this month. 'No new date was given and the spokesman for LWT I talked to said he didn't know the reason for its removal, said Garnett. After the viewing an LWT press officer said the film now has a date for midJuly transmission, but he could not say when this latest decision was reached. None of the makers of the film had been informed of the new date when I spoke to their office yesterday. • 'After A Lifetime' will be reviewed in next week's TV column.

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