There were leaflets, too: "Dr Pilsworth is simply the best!" For a moment, one of the women later recalled, there was a bashful silence Then a burst of joy, tears and hugs The "prodigal son" had returned - albeit temporarily Mugs of tea appeared from nowhere It had been a trying few weeks. Famous for all the wrong reasons, the deathly quiet village had been besieged by reporters and photographers all anxious for a shot and a quote. Dr Pilsworth's surgery, a bungalow with a clinic extension lumped on the back, had become the new tourist attraction for curious passers-by. "They've been wanting the dirt," explained a disgruntled patient "They just want to hear about him having sex with that ... When Dr Keith Pilsworth looked out of his dinky doctor's car on Monday morning, he saw a group of women outside his surgery. It was a peculiar sight in the village of Kirton in Lindsey, near Scunthorpe, where pedestrians are a rare sighting A banner was propped up against a lamp-post "Save our doctor!" it said.

Our lottery has contributed more than £10m to our care and research programmes.These are secure for the next two years, but I ask you to support our request for compensation so that we can continue our work for this and future generations.. But it seems inevitable that Tenovus will not be the only casualty from its success. We lobbied for protection when the National Lottery Bill was being passed, but got no joy.The National Lottery has caught the public imagination. But this left us with no protection when the National Lottery came along. News that medical research charities will be excluded from funding by the national lottery charities board only compounds our difficulties.This is not the first time we have suffered from government legislation. Tenovus originally enjoyed income from a charity football pool organised under the 1971 Pool Competition Act.

After the introduction of the Lotteries and Amusements Act of 1976, we were encouraged to use this to cover our fundraising. Until the introduction of the National Lottery, we sold about 8 million tickets a year The prize was £5,000 a month. Last autumn, we tried for a short time to attract more custom by increasing the prize to £25,000, but that meant we could only give a prize once every three months.Before the introduction of the National Lottery, we made extensive inquiries to find new outlets for our lottery, but to no avail. About 70 Tenovus- funded scientists work at these labs.Drugs such as tamoxifen, used worldwide for the treatment of breast cancer, were developed with the assistance of Tenovus scientists, who have also been at the vanguard of radical antibody treatment for leukaemia and lymphocytic cancer.We employ a team of nurses and social workers who staff a freephone cancer helpline (0800 526527), which has helped more than 12,000 patients.Our instant scratchcard lottery, set up in 1978, has been vital to funding this work. Tenovus was set up in 1943, but it only became a force in cancer research in the Sixties.

We now have two of our own research laboratories: one in Cardiff, which specialises in breast cancer, the other in Southampton, which has done award-winning work on leukaemia and other cancers. Just 12 months ago, we had 150 lottery kiosks, which provided half the charity's annual income of about £3m. Today, only 35 remain and the income from these has been cut to a level where they can no longer trade profitably. Let me explain to you how useful income from our lottery has been. The decision is a direct result of the introduction of the National Lottery.

I am sad to tell you of our decision to withdraw our lottery operation, which has been promoted within supermarkets throughout England and Wales. Danny Clark is back to barely surviving.Life inside Ford is featured in the BBC2 `Modern Times' film `Open Prison', to be screened on Wednesday 5 April at 9pm.. For Danny - stick thin, with a Cockney sparrow voice - there was no car with balloons waiting to take him away when he left Ford last week He is penniless Frank Shannon is thinking of travelling. It was the sort of departure that myth has it takes place every week at Ford.Yet probably more typical of the new Ford is Danny Clark, who spent two years inside for a failed burglary in which he came away with nothing.