The management of the school was weak and staff were often not clear about their roles, they said.The school was told it must prepare an action plan to be approved by Gillian Shephard, Secretary of state for Education, and that it would receive regular visits. A second failing school is to be taken out of the control of its local authority and placed in the hands of a team appointed by ministers. Langham School, a 900-pupil comprehensive in Tottenham, north London, will be closed down if the "education association" appointed to run it cannot turn it round. Inspectors who visited the school in November, 1994, said standards were satisfactory in only half the lessons. The company has promised to restart a new hourly Sunday service to three stations - Rainham, Purfleet and Dagenham Dock.. This is the same as would have been paid to Enterprise, which promised to buy an entirely new stock of trains to replace the 83 in use. If Prism fails to buy new trains, it will get only seven years.Prism, which is a consortium of four companies - Blazefield, EYMS, Lynton and Q Drive - led by Godfrey Burley, is to seek a listing on the alternative investment market, the high risk part of the Stock Exchange.Up to 5 per cent of train miles could be cut under the terms of the franchise as Prism has only guaranteed the current level of service for the first year and 95 per cent of mileage for the next three years.

Mr Salmon pointed out that Prism is planning to create a new station at West Ham to connect with the new Jubilee Line by December 1999.Prism, which has been given a 15-year franchise on the condition that it buys 50 new trains, will receive pounds 29.5m in the first year, declining to pounds 11.2m by the year 2010/11. This follows the fiasco in February when a management buyout team, operating under the name Enterprise, came within hours of being allocated the franchise. The offer was withdrawn because of the revelation of a ticketing fraud. Roger Salmon, the franchising director, said that the new deal was better than that put forward by Enterprise, but it will involve fewer new trains and the same amount of subsidy. The troubled franchise process for the London, Tilbury and Southend line was finally brought to a conclusion yesterday with the announcement that Prism Rail, a consortium of bus companies, will run the services. Ronald Kimber said Oyston had invited him and his girlfriend back to his Mayfair, London, company flat for a nightcap after the meal. "As we left the restaurant he indicated the young lady was going to dance for him when we got back to his flat," Mr Kimber told Liverpool Crown Court, where Oyston is on trial on two rape charges."He invited us back for a nightcap, at which point, assuming it wasn't going to be ballet, my girlfriend said she wasn't in favour of going."Mr Kimber said the meal at Scott's restaurant in Mayfair, was in January 1990, the year after the girl claims Oyston raped her on the four-poster bed in his home, Claughton Hall, near Lancaster.The 62-year-old multi-millionaire claims he had a long-standing affair with the girl.Earlier the judge agreed to a request from the jury that they should be allowed to see a Toyota Supra similar to that in which the second alleged victim claims Oyston forced her to perform oral sex..