A team of cancer experts is to investigate a rare leukaemia cluster in Camelford in Cornwall where eight

A team of cancer experts is to investigate a rare leukaemia cluster in Camelford, in Cornwall, where eight years ago water supplies to 20,000 people were contaminated with aluminium. Anatoly Karpov, 45, the undisputed world champion from 1975 until 1985, and the Fide champion since 1993, faces Gata Kamsky, 22, who defected eight years ago from the USSR to the United States.The match will be over 20 games and is expected to last until the middle of next month.. Quite apart from his riches, his love of chess, and his obvious energy, Ilyumjinov was a man of considerable influence, being himself a head of state - the state of Kalmykia.And so the players have arrived in Kalmykia. Not in Montreal, where Fide had confidently expected the match to be held until the Canadians failed to come up with the money. Not even in Baghdad, which Fide designated as the official venue when Montreal fell through, but in Elista, a city roughly the size of Slough, that is the capital of the semi- autonomous sheep-rich state of Kalmykia in southern Russia. Since Kasparov and the British player Nigel Short staged their dramatic breakaway from the International Chess Federation, Fide, in 1993, to form the PCA, the continuing schism within world chess has led to discontent among potential sponsors.After one world title cycle with the PCA, the computer chip manufacturer Intel has ceased its support, while Fide, as this long-postponed event has shown, has had even greater problems.At the beginning of this year Fide elected a new president. Kirsan Ilyumjinov, by all accounts one of the richest men in Russia, would lead the organisation out of the intermittent crises that had dogged the organisation under its previous administration. A year overdue, the 1995 Fide world chess championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Gata Kamsky started yesterday.

Not in New York, where Garry Kasparov, champion of the rival Professional Chess Association, successfully defended his title last year. "The new deal looks forward to a new age, when the public can gain increased access to emerging technologies."The day's negotiations took place at the luxurious Coombe Abbey, near Coventry.. Money has already transformed the game in Britain, fuelled by the pounds 60m a year generated by TV rights in the past four years."Money gained through these deals enables clubs to entertain to new heights," Mr Parry said. Asked whether money decided the outcome, he responded curtly: "It looks like it."After a day of presentations from the three bidders, and two-hours of deliberation by club chairmen, it was left to Arsenal's Peter Hill-Wood to sum up the results in a succinct phrase: "It's a lot of money."Overseas rights have yet to be decided, a spokesman for the Premier League said. These currently earn the clubs about pounds 14m a year.The new deal will generate an average of pounds 8m per club - quadruple the current TV income.

He added that "the BSkyB offer was the best package for clubs and fans alike."The Mirror camp expressed bitter disappointment at the outcome.Kelvin MacKenzie, chief negotiator for the Mirror/Carlton consortium, said: "It's tough to deal with a monopoly," referring to BSkyB's stranglehold on the British pay-TV market through its multichannel film, sport and entertainment offerings. This is a partnership that has been enormously successful, and we now intend to redouble our efforts to make it even more so."The new deal is worth four times the current contract, and includes a promise to discuss the introduction of pay-per-view in two years' time. It is the prospect of as much as pounds 2.5bn in revenues from PPV that has helped drive the price of broadcast rights to record levels."Competition was intense but in the end we are delighted to be continuing our highly successful partnership with Sky and BBC," said Rick Parry, chief executive of the Premier League. The football deal helped turn BSkyB into Britain's most profitable broadcaster, and Mr Murdoch, its 40 per cent owner, had been widely expected to bid as much as it took to secure the new contract.Sam Chisholm, chief executive of BSkyB and a close Murdoch lieutenant, said: "We're delighted that we won. Also rejected was a 10-year bid from Lord Hollick's MAI-United, which might have given the clubs as much as pounds 1.5bn. Both rivals had promised to televise the matches on cable and satellite.In the end, the clubs elected to stay with Sky, which has broadcast live matches of the Premiership since 1992.

League officials immediately dubbed the deal Britain's biggest ever TV rights sale. Separately, the BBC clinched highlight rights for a record pounds 73m over four years, ensuring the survival of Match of the Day until the turn of the century.The results ended several weeks of feverish speculation about the television future of Britain's top sport, in a race to the finish that featured some of the country's best-known media moguls.Sky's offer beat a rival bid from Mirror Group and Michael Green's Carlton Communications, which offered pounds 650m over five years, along with a promise to share windfall revenues with the 20 clubs of the League. Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB last night won the exclusive rights to televise live Premier League matches until the year 2001, with a knock- out bid worth pounds 670m over four years. Enlargement of the EU and jobs were the party's two first priorities.The third was constructing a Europe which better connected with concerns of people - dealing with pollution, transferring power down to the regions and granting rights at work through adoption of the Social Chapter.Mr Cook said it was important that politicians took seriously the questions arising at the Inter-Governmental Conference, but they should not imagine there was mass interest in the arithmetic of qualified majority voting."There is a danger that the debate in Brussels could disappear into orbit round the lonely planets of the European institutions, appearing increasingly out of touch with the concerns of people on the ground," he cautioned.. "It is a twinning arrangement fostered by the American proprietorship of the newspapers which most avidly egg on the hostility of the Europhobes."Labour was able to offer Britain a more successful relationship with Europe because it was at home with the European social model, the shadow foreign secretary said.

The Conservative Party of Macmillan and Heath would have had no difficulty with the consensual commitment of the Europeans to social cohesion, but the Tories today looked to the New Right of America for political inspiration. Mr Cook said social democracy remained the largest trend with within continental politics. He told the Prime Minister to "ignore the successors to Samuel Whitbread in the CBI who want to throw in the towel ... and tell the chairman of Unilever to stick to cream cakes and detergents."Mr Cook told the RIIA it was by no means clear that the Conservative government could now find any other form of relationship with Europe other than confrontation.