The result is a collection of installations on the themes of time space and destiny which provide a little mental stimulation - or

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The result is a collection of installations on the themes of time, space and destiny, which provide a little mental stimulation - or bemusement, as the case may be - for passengers waiting to board their trains.The aim of the exhibition, Ms Maund said, was to reach a different audience Some 10,000 people pass through the station each day "Galleries can be intimidating places," she said.. There were 21,462 winter deaths among older people between December 1997 and March 1998, and the organisation pointed out that it was in a mild winter.. A MAN with mournful eyes sat reading a paperback A teenager glanced at his watch and lit another cigarette. As the ticking of the station clock grew ever louder and more insistent, an ethereal figure in a flamboyant pink gown glided past. Something was amiss on platform one at Sheffield railway station, and it wasn't just the delayed departure of the 15.07 Trans-Pennine Express. In a striking example of artists taking art to the people, the station has been turned into a vast exhibition space.

If the public reaction is adverse, Help the Aged could, under new industry rules, also be forced to submit future advertisments for approval.The advertisments will fuel the continuing debate over how far shock ads should go.Help the Aged argues that its justification lies in the seriousness of its message. "We decided to go for broke on this, and are just playing the media game," said Nick Thomas, who worked on the advertisements.But an executive at a rival agency said: "There are plenty of ways of getting the message across without suggesting that you are destined to end up dead before the year is out."The campaign follows the uproar caused recently by the Commission for Racial Equality poster ads which shocked thousands of people by running racist advertisements in the hope of producing a reaction.In that case, the Advertising Standards Authority banned the ads, and made a ruling that all future campaigns by the CRE should be subjected to prior approval by the industry watchdog.The next stage with the Help the Aged's advertisments will be for the ASA to monitor any offence caused. A shocking image is needed because the facts are shocking," the spokeswoman said.More than 20,000 older people are expected to die from the cold this winter, and the charity said it believed that government fuel payments to pensioners would not be enough to stop deaths from cold-related illnesses, such as pneumonia, heart failure and hypothermia.Some pensioners' groups are expected to object to the adverts on the grounds that they may cause undue distress to those old people who are in vulnerable circumstances as winter approaches.The advertising agency which devised the image, Target, said that the posters and newspaper advertisments, which were due to appear in The Independent and The Guardian, had not been cleared with any industry watchdog, but were well within the boundaries of taste and decency that advertising codes set down. The only way to visit the Crown Inn, opposite the Abbey, was by boat across the waist-high water."Just before I was flooded out, I had had the carpets cleaned to get the place spruced up for Christmas," said Graham Moss, the landlord. THOSE WHO work at Shrewsbury's picturesque Abbey are used to being underwater. "There are records of people rowing boats up to the high altar in 1947," said the Reverend Ian Ross. Built on the River Severn's flood plane, the Abbey has had to face regular flooding "I think people here are used to this sort of thing.

They just grin and bear it," said one council worker fitting sandbags and wooden walkways in Frankwell, near the town's Welsh bridge. But in Abbey Foregate, east of the town's English bridge, the presence of rowing boats and half-submerged cars was an unwelcome reality. There is understood to be concern that an emergency summit could lead to unrealistic market expectations.Mr Brown will provide further details of the G7 proposals in a statement in the House of Commons on Monday, and will discuss the impact of the crisis on the UK economy in his pre-Budget statement on Tuesday.Most analysts in the UK stock market welcomed the proposals, and the FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed up 79.9 points at 5,438.40.Market reaction, page 20. The nations have agreed that national and international regulators should consult on a regular basis, but stopped short of explicitly recommending a permanent global financial regulator, as proposed by Mr Brown in Ottawa last month.The Chancellor would not be drawn on whether there would be an emergency summit of the G7 group of nations, saying that the need for a special summit was "always under review". "I feel quite good about what my fellow G7 leaders and others have done here," he said.The new emergency facility, which will be only made available to countries pursuing "appropriate" economic policies, will be funded by a mixture of IMF money, private-sector funds and national governments.Brazil - which last week announced a new fiscal austerity package - is expected to be the first beneficiary of this new funding facility.The G7 has also backed a plan for a second emergency fund, based within the World Bank.The G7 statement gave a partial endorsement to British proposals for a global financial regulator.