By Echo reporter A WOMAN who was awake during a caesarian has won damages of £16,500. Janice Delaney ' lay in pain and terror during the operation at Billinge Hospital, near Wigan, in January 1980. The tase against Wigan Health Authority was settled shortly before it WAS due to

THE European Commission favours a new tax to maintain high oil prices and encourage more sparing use of energy, an EC official said.

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