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		Bill Newton Dunn takes offence Monday, 22 March 2004 Bill Newton Dunn has taken exceptional offence to a paragraph about him in my recent newsletter. I present below the relevant paragraph followed by the two articles on which I based my remarks and invite you to judge for yourself whether or not I have misrepresented him. Bill Turncoat Dunn does it again! Our favourite defector has come up with two brilliant new brain-waves. He wants European action to prevent drivers putting petrol into diesel cars, and vice versa. He says that 120,000 incidents of "mis-fuelling" take place in Britain every year. My bet is that any mechanical or electronic device to prevent mis-fuelling will cost at least £20 (probably much more), so that's £340 million across 17 million cars in Britain -- never mind the cost of adapting the petrol pumps. On that basis, each mis-fuelling incident would cost more than £2800 to prevent. And he's commissioned a group of thirteen American college students at the Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania, to prepare a report for him on the creation of "an FBI-type police force in Europe". Let's hope that at least they do better than the Lib-Dems would by themselves! Euro MP in call for fuel action Leicester Mercury - March 8 2004 East Midlands Lib Dem MEP Bill Newton Dunn spoke out after it was revealed more than 120,000 people in the UK put the wrong fuel into their cars last year. The number of AA call-outs to the problem has risen in recent years, and the equivalent of 13 tanker loads of fuel is said to be wasted through "misfuelling" incidents every month. Mr Newton Dunn wants Europe-wide action by car manufacturers and fuel suppliers, and is calling on the European Commission to act. He said solutions varied from different shaped nozzles at pumps to audio warning. He said solutions varied from different shaped nozzles at pumps to audio warning. Mercyhurst students help tackle European organized crime Erie Times-News - February 25 2004 A group of Mercyhurst College students are helping tackle organized crime in Europe. Thirteen graduate students in the college's Research and Intelligence Analyst program spent 10 weeks creating a report about the problem for Bill Newton Dunn, a European Parliament member. Dunn learned about the program through Rep. Phil English, R-Pa., and requested that the students identify trends in criminal activity and policing within the European Union. I want to show that we're not tackling crime the right way and here's how we should handle it," Dunn said. When the European Union's borders opened to business, organized crime came along, too, Dunn said. He plans to use much of the information from the project in a political pamphlet about the burgeoning crime problem and the need for an FBI-type police force in Europe. "We're giving a presentation that could influence world events," said Jennifer Wozney, a 23-year-old student from Ontario, Canada. Students said preparing a briefing for a policy maker has cemented their interest in the field, and many plan to work as intelligence analysts for the government or for private companies.