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It had a setback in 1994, when it took over from British Rail. "The railway is safe and this remains a Railtrack priority," a spokesman said.The company's critics say it is parsimonious. "Railtrack has underspent its maintenance budget by pounds 277m, so a less safe railway is an understandable result," said Jonathan Bray of Save Our Railways.Safety is a key concern for Railtrack. Two days later, a nuclear waste train was derailed a mile along the same line.Mr Coleman said his inspectorate would not tolerate track that was "not being maintained in a condition so as to reduce the risk of railway passengers and employees so far as is reasonably practicable".Railtrack said it had met safety inspectors last week. In two cases, Mr Coleman wrote, track was "in such an extremely bad condition so as to be unsafe".Railtrack already faces an HSE prosecution over a freight train crash at Bexley in Kent in February last year when seven wagons left the track, injuring four members of the public.The inspectorate remained "concerned about the condition of track on the Railtrack network".In one incident highlighted, a passenger train left the rails at Harwich, injuring a passenger.

The concerns of the Health and Safety Executive came to light in a letter to Railtrack from the deputy inspector of railways, Vic Coleman. That said prosecutions of Railtrack by the HSE were being considered. RAILTRACK, the owner of the nation's railways, could face criminal prosecutions over the "persistent poor condition" of some tracks. Harris said that over the last two months she had subjected him to the "most unbelievable feeling of worthlessness over the insane, crazy divorce."Defence counsel Julian Bevan QC said Harris's guilt and torment for the crime would never end.. It is a responsibility which is diminished in accordance with the law because of your medical condition at the time - but it is not extinguished or shared."Harris first tried to cover up the death of his wife - a former nurse - by pretending to police she had fallen from the window Then he confessed he had "snapped". She died from a fractured spine.The Recorder of London, Sir Lawrence Verney, said he had heard from three psychiatrists that Harris was suffering from a depressive illness which substantially impaired his mental responsibility for the acts.He said: "The responsibility for the death of your wife is yours and yours alone. Harris then wrapped her in a bin liner and sheet and carried her upstairs to the first-floor master bedroom where he threw her back on to the patio, said Mr Sweeney.

His plea of not guilty to murder was accepted by the court.Mrs Harris's skull was fractured and fragments of it scattered on the patio in the attack - but she was still alive. A LEADING gynaecologist was jailed for six years at the Old Bailey after admitting that he battered his wife with a hammer and then threw her to her death from their bedroom window. Vivian Harris, 51, bludgeoned his wife Jocelyn, 39, at least seven times as she sat sipping coffee with her back to him on the patio of their home in Beckenham, Kent. He had suffered severe depression over impending divorce proceedings, said Nigel Sweeney, for the prosecution.Harris, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Lewisham and Guy's Hospitals, London, admitted manslaughter in June last year due to diminished responsibility. That will no doubt continue, even if the heart of the magazine remains the same..

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