His mother had cuddled him on her knee before he went to bed, and the next day he was woken by his father who told him to say a prayer for his "mammy because she's gone up to see God and she might not be coming home for a while". She had died suddenly in the night from a brain haemorrhage aged 44. Nicholas Timmins The Citizen's Charter Five Years On, SMF, 20 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AA. A couple posted as missing for three days arrived at their daughter's home yesterday, unharmed and unaware that the police had been notified of their disappearance.

Joseph King and his wife Mary had been expected at their daughter Edith Cooper's home in Crewe, Cheshire, last Thursday but did not turn up. While it has succeeded in that, Mr Nye argued, "the contract has been almost exclusively one-sided". Complaints from GPs about unreasonable demands for night visits, from schools about uninterested parents, and from hospitals that patients fail to turn up for booked appointments, show that the public has responsibilities too, he said, and it is time they were spelt out in the charter. The Citizen's Charter - five years old this month - was set up to make clear people's rights from public services, and to make the services more responsive. Police officers searched the unnamed officer's home in Newport, Gwent, and removed a quantity of material The officer was suspended and offered his resignation. Detective Superintendent Iain Johnston, head of Gwent CID, said yesterday: "I am conducting an inquiry concerning a former Gwent police officer.The officer concerned has resigned but the investigation is continuing.". Roderick Nye, Director of the Social Market Foundation said that in future the Charter should place demands on the public to use services responsibly - and not just confer rights on the public and responsibilities on the services.