He thought the Gower Street incident had been exposed but was told there was a problem with another women - Monica Coghlan.Michael Stacpoole says that he cannot prove that Jeffrey Archer, forced to stand down as mayoral candidate last week, ever slept with Monica Coghlan but that he's certain the novelist lied in court."Whether he had sex with her or not, I don't know, because I was not in the room watching the performance and so I cannot say that he did bonk the girl The odds were highly on it Monica Coghlan's got no reason to lie Archer we know to be a blatant liar," said Mr Stacpoole.. Lord Archer carried on a passionate five-year affair with his personal assistant, Adrina Colquhoun.Mr Stacpoole also reveals that he never told his story to the High Court because he was paid pounds 40,000 by Lord Archer to live in Paris for the duration of the trial - so that he could not be subpoenaed to give evidence - and for at least a year afterwards.The Mail on Sunday, with the help of Michael Crick, Lord Archer's unofficial biographer, finally tracked Mr Stacpoole down to a hideaway in Thailand.Mr Stacpoole has now said he will return from Thailand and tell his full story to Scotland Yard detectives who are building an ever growing dossier on Lord Archer's apparent attempts to pervert the course of justice.Lord Archer and Mr Stacpoole grew close in the late 1980s when Lord Archer, according to Mr Stacpoole, was effectively separated from his wife Mary.The two men used to drink together and once visited a strip club off Gower Street, near Tottenham Court Road, where Mr Stacpoole claims Lord Archer picked up a prostitute.Three weeks after this incident he was called to a crisis meeting at the Conservative Party headquarters in Smith Square. MICHAEL STACPOOLE, the man who worked as Lord Archer's fixer for 15 years was the only person who could deliver a killer blow to the millionaire novelist. His claim in today's Mail on Sunday that Lord Archer lied to his wife and seriously misled a High Court jury in order to save his political skin must surely be the coup de grace in the Archer saga. Mr Stacpoole, 61, has been a hunted man since Ted Francis, revealed in the News of the World last week that Lord Archer had asked him to provide an false alibi for the former Mayoral candidate.The picture that Mr Stacpoole paints of Lord Archer is far from that of the loving and loyal husband presented to the jury. The latest figures also show that the NHS spends just over pounds 1 a head on anti-cancer drugs - a quarter of the amount spent in the United States, where the death rate is half that of the UK..

The UK comes behind Norway, Belgium, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland and Spain with just 0.2 cancer specialists for every 100 new patients. Britain is "closer to Poland, Estonia and Slovakia", the report says.The research also shows how far the NHS lags behind health services on the continent, especially when it comes to staffing levels and funding. It charts survival rates for British patients with lung cancer, colon cancer and breast cancer, revealing a "large gap" between the UK and prosperous European countries such as Holland, Sweden, France and Germany. Mr Milburn pledged to cut cancer deaths in the under-75s by 100,000 by 2010, and appointed Professor Mike Richards "cancer czar" to oversee the process and ensure the NHS did not fail patients.But at a conference of oncologists earlier this month, senior doctors condemned the "third world" cancer services in the NHS, complained that just pounds 170m a year was being made available to spend on drugs for cancer treatment, and warned of a general lack of funds, equipment and qualified staff.The issue is to be investigated in the new year by the cross-party Commons Science and Technology Select Committee, but the new report will give little comfort to the Health Secretary or the cancer czar. The report says 230 people a day die "unnecessarily" in Britain - approaching the UK mortality rate in the Second World War.The report, which devotes a chapter to cancer care, comes after Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary, said fighting the killer disease would be a priority of the health service. His research also shows that Britain has a lower proportion of radiotherapists for the population than Poland, fewer specialists for every incidence of cancer than any country in western Europe, and spends three times more on remedies for constipation than it does on treating cancer.Health care in Britain is the "worst in Europe", the report argues, and if standards in the NHS were raised to match those in the best countries, 85,000 lives could be saved a year.

PATIENTS SUFFERING from lung cancer in Britain are more likely to die from the disease than similar patients living in Poland, a new report has found. A study of comparative survival rates across Europe reveals that lung cancer sufferers in the UK have just a 6.5 per cent chance of surviving for five years or more after diagnosis. In Poland the figure is 7.6 per cent and in France, at the top of the table, people have a 14 per cent chance of living. The statistics, compiled by management consultant Chris Philp, will be published by the Conservative Bow Group. "Remember, this is not a coffee table book, it is a book with coffee table," he said.When Mr Taschen approached the 79-year-old photographer with his idea, he took a cardboard dummy of the book with several of Newton's pictures in it, including one of his wife, June, also a photographer, sitting half-naked in the couple's kitchen."I said yes, like a fool," Newton said, in a recent interview in America where he lives. "It meant a year of sleepless nights worrying about the quality of the reproduction." But he professed himself happy with the final result Just don't put your coffee mug down on it.. Some of the 400 pictures are published for the first time.Benedikt Taschen, the publisher behind the venture, said: "I wanted to build a monument to the most important photographer of the 20th century."Despite the pounds 1,000 price tag, he claims that everyone who sees the book cannot believe it costs so little.