The measure also provides protection for hoards of coins.Coroners' juries will no longer have to Description decide if an object was deliberately buried with the intention of being recovered - an often unprovable condition under existing law of a find's status htm as treasure - or simply lost.. It is about the equivalent of having a television at normal volume Features in the room.The Treasure Features Bill, overhauling the ancient law of treasure trove in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, completed its Commons stages.A backbench measure, history Description Natural it redefines treasure to cover all objects, other than coins, which contain at least Description 10 per cent by weight of gold or silver, and are Natural at least 300 years old. It's as serious as that and we can't sit back and do nothing."The Bill, which has all-party support and Natural goes to the House of Lords, also introduces history Description Natural into law an history objective measure of the level of noise regarded Features htm as Features htm a nuisance - history 35 decibels. Where cases go to court, rather than being dealt with by an on-the-spot fine, offenders face a fine of up to pounds 1,000.James htm Clappison, an Description environment minister, said the voluntary approach would be reviewed in history two years and councils might then be forced Features to adopt its provisions if htm they had not already done Natural so.Denying he was a "killjoy", Mr Greenway said: "One in 10 homes suffer severe noise.

The backbench Bill provides for pounds 100 on-the-spot fines and the confiscation of equipment causing the nuisance. According to a recent survey, noise is the problem which most divides neighbours. The number of complaints have risen inexorably.Last month a 40-year old company director was given a suspended jail sentence for firing airgun pellets at the flat of a neighbour in Clapham, south London, because he constantly played rave music.Other noise cases over the past 18 months have included have included a grandmother ordered by a judge to stop playing and singing along to Jim Reeves records, a Sussex man given an absolute discharge for smashing his neighbour's hi-fi with an axe after "six months of hell", and a 54- year old angina sufferer dying after a confrontation with a neighbour pounding out heavy metal music on his CD player.Introduced by Harry Greenway, Conservative MP for Ealing North, the Bill gives councils in England and Wales power to take action against noise from domestic properties between 11pm and 7am. The mission will last for at least two years and has cost Europe and the US around pounds 500m over 10 years (Graphic omitted). A legal remedy for dealing with the pounding beat of a neighbour's hi- fi in the small hours of the night moved a step nearer yesterday when the Noise Bill cleared the Commons. They will fly in formation and their controllers on Earth will be able to vary the distance between the satellites from 600km to a few thousand kilometres.

The Cluster satellites will carry a total of 44 instruments measuring magnetic storms, electrical currents, and particle accelerations that take place in the space around our planet. Europe hopes to steal a march on the Americans, Russians and Japanese with the Ariane 5, which will be its workhorse in the commercial satellite-launching business into the next century.When Ariane 5 reaches orbit, the four Cluster satellites "will pop out like peas out of a pea-shooter", according to Dr Murdin. The satellites will then use their own on-board rocket motors to move into a highly elliptical orbit, which will take them over the North and South Poles of the Earth. In March 1989 there was a power failure throughout Quebec, in Canada, when a solar storm tripped the entire electricity grid. But the breakdown can be breathtakingly beautiful when it takes the form of the shifting curtains of light in the high atmosphere over the Poles - the aurora borealis and australis.Dr Paul Murdin, head of astronomy at the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, said: "When the Sun sneezes, we on Earth have the possibility of catching cold and we want to learn how to turn our heads away and not get ill."The researchers were speaking at a press conference in London yesterday revealing the scientific details of the Cluster mission.Each satellite weighs about 1.2 tonnes and will be launched into geo- stationary orbit in the first lift-off by the latest and largest European rocket launcher, the Ariane 5. It "protects us by shielding us from the radiation from the Sun.