The grieving school-friends of Caroline Dickinson, the 13-year- old British girl murdered on a school trip to Brittany, made a sad procession back to England last night as the French police hunt for her killer intensified. After a second long day of questioning at the town hall of Pleine-Fougeres, in whose youth hostel Caroline was raped and then smothered while four of her friends slept around her, the party from Launceston College in Cornwall were finally allowed to leave by the French authorities late yesterday afternoon. The party of 34 girls and five boys, accompanied by seven teachers, boarded a coach and headed for Cherbourg to catch a ferry to Poole, Dorset.Caroline's parents, Susan and John Dickinson, were heading home separately after the ordeal of identifying her body.They left behind a peaceful rural community - "the gateway to Brittany" as the small town styles itself - horrified and baffled at how an intruder could have crept into the hostel and murdered Caroline as she slept on a mattress squeezed between bunks occupied by her friends.Yesterday French police were showing shopkeepers a photofit picture of a man aged 35 to 40 with curly hair and a beard. Critics say the disagreement is genuine.John Prescott, the deputy leader, and Michael Meacher, the party's spokesman on employment affairs, also backed the leader's call for arbitration, but in a less robust fashion.There will be another one-day tube strike in London on Thursday, and eight more have been called by the two rail unions, Aslef and RMT.Postal workers are due to begin a 36-hour strike on Friday, with other walkouts later.. "To say the leadership was unhappy would be an understatement."A leadership source said yesterday that Mr Blair expected "more unity and discipline after the Shadow Cabinet election". Mr Cook is expected to top the poll in the election on Wednesday, strengthening his position in the Shadow Cabinet.Mr Blair insists that senior party figures should be willing to defend policies even when they have personal reservations. Friends of Mr Cook argue that he was "ambushed" by the Today programme, on which he appeared to talk about the BBC and the threat to the World Service. The Shadow Foreign Secretary failed to do so, merely saying that he abided by collective cabinet responsibility."He obviously did not agree with it, otherwise he could have said that Tony Blair was absolutely right," said a Shadow Cabinet aide.

"But in Norfolk and Northamptonshire there are a lot of small villages which have churches It's difficult to get the bells rung here. We will haveto get teachers to these areas."The plan to ring in 2000 is likely to cost pounds 6m, with an initial pounds 3m for the repair and restoration of bells at 100 churches being channelled though the CCCB. Some of the bells are in such bad condition they have been silent for more than a hundred years."Church bells ringing out across the country are part of our national heritage and this award is wonderful and timely news as we approach the celebration of the new millennium," said the Heritage Secretary, Virginia Bottomley, yesterday.Mr Anderson urged people to take part. Bellringers, he said, did not have to be musical and could be aged from 11 to 90 "It does help if they are well co-ordinated," he added..

Sources say he was annoyed by the lukewarm endorsement of his opposition to the strike offered by Labour front-benchers, including Robin Cook, Shadow Foreign Secretary. Mr Cook was asked in a radio interview if he backed Mr Blair's demand that the strikers call off their action and go to arbitration. Tony Blair, the Labour leader, issued a veiled warning to senior members of the Shadow Cabinet yesterday, calling for more "unity and discipline" amid rising tensions over policy towards striking London tube drivers. The eight - three from Belfast, four from the Irish Republic and one from Birmingham - were remanded in custody until July 26 charged with conspiracy to cause explosions.. British officials envisage an advisory body which will review guidelines and procedures.Yesterday Mo Mowlam, Labour's Northern Ireland spokeswoman, called for a commission which gives guidelines about a code of conduct on marches, which looks at judgements in relation to routes and reviews the existing Public Order Act.n Armed police surrounded Belmarsh Magistrates Court in south-east London yesterday as eight men appeared on terrorist charges. The march usually attracts 12,000 loyalists for what they view as one of the most important dates in their history - 1688, when 13 apprentices slammed the gates on the army of the Catholic King James II.Only after the 1994 IRA ceasefire was announced did the march return to its traditional route along the city walls when security fences were removed for the first time.But even last year, during the ceasefire, nationalists condemned the RUC's handling of the parade, and said by allowing loyalists to go around the city walls they had ignored Catholic sensitivities.Dublin is hoping a independent body could be set up to make recommendations regarding specific parades. Last Monday the Northern Ireland Secretary, Sir Patrick Mayhew, promised a "general review that will make recommendations about better management of future controversial parades". London and Dublin concede that the move will not take place in time to help solve potential problems over the Apprentice Boys' parade in Derry Both governments view the march as a potential disaster.

It was the same march in 1969 that led to violent rioting at the beginning of the Troubles. The parade also coincides with the anniversary of the introduction of internment without trial in 1971.Tensions are still running high in the province after last weekend's riots in Drumcree, and early yesterday morning, rioting broke out in Omagh, following separate loyalist and nationalist parades through the town.But it is the Londonderry march which both governments fear could be the flashpoint, and they are hoping that negotiations between the RUC Chief Constable, Sir Hugh Annesley, and local communities will stave off the threat of violence of the sort seen in Portadown by routing the march away from the city walls.At the Anglo-Irish conference in London last week Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Northern Ireland Secretary, and Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring discussed possible routes for the Apprentice Boys to avoid conflict. Tensions over the issues arose at last Thursday's meeting of British and Irish ministers in London. The British and Irish governments are at loggerheads over plans to defuse tensions over sectarian marches in Northern Ireland, amid growing concern over a parade scheduled in Londonderry for August 10. The initiative followed his visit to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, which trained most of the nation's Commonwealth Games gold medallists..