The driver of the MGF was then arrested and taken to Daventry police station for questioning
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The driver of the MGF was then arrested and taken to Daventry police station for questioning. He was released yesterday on police bail, pending further investigations. Two passersby saw the crash and alerted the emergency services. The accident at the circuit, which today is the venue for the British Grand Prix, happened late on Friday night when a T-registration MGF sports car drove on to the track, then spun off and overturned between Vale and Club corners. Three men including the driver, all navy servicemen from Helston in Cornwall, crawled free but a fourth man was trapped and later pronounced dead at the scene.
A post-mortem examination revealed he died of asphyxia due to crushing injuries.The four men were crammed into the little sports car capable of travelling from 0-60mph in just seven seconds. Lists his recreations in Who's Who as bridge and country pursuits.. A 32-YEAR-OLD Royal Navy serviceman was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a fellow navy helicopter crewman was killed in an accident on Silverstone motor-racing circuit, writes Mark Rowe. Recently signed up to back a no-vote in any referendum on the euro.SIR CHIPS KESWICKDirector of Bank of England since 1993 and senior banking and capital markets adviser for Societe Generale. Director of De Beers Consolidated Mines and Persimmon, the house builders.
Featured in BBC2's Blood on the Carpet, which told the story of Granada's corporate assault on Forte. Last autumn led unsuccessful attempt to overturn the National Trust's ban on stag hunting on its land.SIR ROCCO FORTEChairman of RF Hotels Ltd and son of Lord Forte, who lists his interests as fishing, shooting and fencing. It's best to do these things the country way."BARONESS MALLALIEUHigh-profile supporter of the pro-blood-sports lobby, leader of the Labour Party's Leave Country Sports Alone group and President of the Countryside Alliance. Probably Britain's single biggest charitable donor, thought to have given at least pounds 120m to British causes View on hunting: "I think hunting should be preserved.
The letter, entitled British Field Sports Society/Countryside Alliance Organisation for Response to Field Sports Survey, urges hunt supporters to "turn the tables" on "a well-organised campaign against us "through sheer weight of numbers."It is followed by a list of well-known hunt supporters whom it claims have already been contacted including Baroness Mallalieu, the Labour peer.The Countryside Alliance confirmed that the list included leading supporters of field sports but could not confirm they were part of the chain.SIR JOHN PAUL GETTYBillionaire philanthropist who adopted British nationality. We think it is a wonderful whizzy idea but it is actually not any use to us."The letter has been circulating via the post for the past few months and has recently been put on the e-mail system. In its letter to the Shooting Times the Alliance urges recipients to help them to "discover who started the chain"."We don't know who has initiated this," said a spokesman for the Countryside Alliance. "We have tried very hard to track down where this comes from.