As Sussman says, “When animals have evolved to live in a group, they live peacefully and they enjoy it They have to.”. When the BBC decided to make a modern-day Domesday Book to mark the 900th anniversary of the original, it seemed like a good idea. It also contained video clips from the BBC and ITV, and footage of schoolchildren at 10,000 schools and other members of the public.David Greenwell, 24, a student, recalled devoting hours to the BBC Domesday project when he was an infant school pupil in the 1980s. Mr Greenwell said he always wondered what happened to the work he put in with fellow pupils at the Woodfield County Infants School, in Shrewsbury. “When I was in Year Three we did lots of work towards the project – social history about the time and things like that,” he said yesterday “We put it all on the database.

It was quite a big thing at the time but we never got to see what happened to everything we did.”The Camileon project spent three years developing strategies for digital preservation and testing them with materials such as the BBC Domesday discs. Paul Wheatley, the project manager, said: “BBC Domesday has become a classic example of the dangers facing our digital heritage.”Our work has demonstrated that techniques like emulation can provide successful routes to preservation, even with incredibly complex resources like BBC Domesday.”But it must be remembered that time is of the essence. We must invest wisely in developing an infrastructure to preserve our digital records before it is too late.”We must not make the mistake of thinking recording on a long-lived medium gives us meaningful preservation.”Mr Wheatley said all the software and hardware needed to run the BBC Domesday project would be deposited at the Public Record Office in Kew, south-west London. He said the information on the discs included 200,000 pictures and tens of thousands of maps.The BBC has not decided yet how it will use the informationit has collated.. The final report of the independent inquiry into this summer’s A-level fiasco, to be released tomorrow, will call for a radical shake-up of university admission procedures.

He told The Independent: “A-levels have been operating under the same timespan for 50 years, and yet we are making more demands on examiners and asking them to mark more papers.”Evidence given to the inquiry outlined two ways of altering the system: introducing a six-term year with A-levels taken at Easter, or putting back the start of the university academic year from October to January. Either proposal would have the added benefit of allowing more time for appeals against disputed A-level grades.Many influential educationists have given evidence to the inquiry. Chris Price, the former Labour MP who led an inquiry into the school year, Tony Higgins, the chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, and Universities UK, the umbrella body of vice-chancellors, broadly welcomed the shake-up.Mr Price is calling for A-levels to be brought forward to April, with results published at the end of July. Mr Higgins and the vice-chancellors say they would oppose plans to start the university year in January.The report is likely to bolster confidence in the new A-levels and AS-levels. It concludes the crisis over “grade fixing” was triggered by Ron McLone, the chief executive of the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA exam board, who wrongly believed new A-level exams should be made harder than the ones they replaced. Mr Tomlinson is expected to recommend tighter control over the heads of the three top exam boards.. GEORGE EMSLIE was Lord Justice-General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session from 1972 to 1989.

His career was one of effortless distinction; he used his talents to perfection in whatever he did. George Carlyle Emslie, judge: born Glasgow 6 December 1919; MBE 1946; QC 1957; Sheriff of Perth and Angus 1963-66; Dean of the Faculty of Advocates 1965-70; Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland and Lord of Session, as Lord Emslie 1970-72; PC 1972; Lord Justice-General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session 1972-89; created 1980 Baron Emslie; married 1942 Lilias Hannington (died 1998; three sons); died Edinburgh 21 November 2002. He was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University where, it was said, he passed his law examinations and won prizes with the minimum of preparation. His phenomenal memory was to serve him in good stead in his later career.Studies were interrupted by the Second World War. He was commissioned in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and rose to the rank of major, having graduated from Staff College at the early age of 25 He saw service in North Africa, in Italy and in Greece.