The three shortlisted candidates for this year's inaugural trip were interviewed in London earlier this week and the winner will be announced in September. The Samsung Royal British Legion Scholarship was launched last year in association with the British Korean Veterans Association, in memory of the more than 1,000 British armed forces personnel who died in the Korean War between 1950 and 1953. It is hoped that next month's announcement of the winner will spur many other students to apply.KS Park, chairman of the Samsung Global Assistance Programme, said the fund gave British students "the opportunity of a lifetime to live and study in Korea, helping to generate understanding and build even closer links between our two nations".The scheme is designed to give students the chance to see one of the world's fastest-growing economies. As well as studying at a South Korean university, the chosen student will have the opportunity to do work experience with Samsung.Help is given with choosing the university course, but the student must undergo an intensive course to learn Korean before leaving Britain. It is envisaged that the stay in Korea will run from March, when the country's academic year begins. The scholarship will be awarded as a lump sum to cover tuition fees, living expenses, return flight costs and travel insurance.The student will be required to present a report to representatives of Samsung Europe, the British Korean Veterans Association and the Royal British Legion..

Cows can pass on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) to their calves, the Government admitted yesterday, after yielding to requests from scientific advisers to reveal preliminary results from a seven-year study. The announcement was a "disappointing setback" to hopes of an early end to the European ban on British beef, said the European Union Agriculture Commissioner, Franz Fischler, in a letter to Douglas Hogg, the Agriculture minister. Yesterday his shareholding was worth pounds 36.25m while Ray Cork, the finance director, was a more modest pounds 16.74m better off.Tim Gilbert, who got Mr Clementson's job and his share of the spoils, was looking at a profit of pounds 10, 699,971.12p on his 62,000 shares.Fate also had a hand in that, as Mr Gilbert, it turns out, was third choice for the post. "I couldn't possibly comment," he said, "but how would you feel?". Close colleagues were more forthcoming: "It's a sad, bad, feature of railway privatisation that people can make that sort of money," one said."Brian was never against privatisation, but he thought the business was too big to be sold that quickly."Sandy Anderson, who joined Porterbrook as managing director just before the buy-out, didn't think so, and he was right. Yesterday, as his former colleagues counted their good fortune, Mr Clementson was counting what might have been his if he had stayed for a few months longer at the train-leasing company. All 50 staff, from the board members to the humblest office clerk, are sharing in a pounds 90m lottery-style windfall, following the takeover of the company by the bus and rail group Stagecoach after only six months.Considering that he has missed out on a fortune, Mr Clementson, who went off to run BR's rail test division in Derby, was in phlegmatic mood. Mr Clementson is the man who missed out on millions - pounds 10.7m to be precise - by quitting his job as engineering director of Porterbrook Leasing just before it was bought out from British Rail by the management.

The dozen cases recorded by the CJD Unit in Edinburgh do not show the rapid rise that might be expected.. It could have been him ... fate hovered briefly over Brian Clementson and then, cruelly, moved on. The removal of beef offal from human food in November 1989 has significantly reduced the risk of passing on the disease, if there is a link.