METRO Monday, December 7, 2009 D LOTTERY SATURDAYS LOTTO 01 05 07 32 38 44 Bonus: 36 Plus 1: 12 20 31 35 42 45 Bonus: 18 Plus 2: 08 25 28 31 38 44 Bonus: 33 FRIDAYS EUROMILLIONS 18 19 25 30 44 Stars 01 03 3,000 still have lethal cookers MORE than 3,000 potentially lethal cookers have still not been found by the National Consumer Agency (NCA). A media campaign in October saw almost 2,500 additional cookers located, but 3,000, or 40 per cent of affected cookers sold, have yet to be located. Anyone who might have one of the appliances certain models of the Beko, Flavel, Leisure and New World brands which can potentially cause fatal carbon monoxide poisoning and have caused at least six deaths in the UK and Ireland, should contact the makers to arrange for a free modification. MENU tHe Home Digest 4 Guilty Pleasures Celebrity gossip 6 World Digest 10 Letters 12 MetroLife Arts and entertainment 14-15 60 Second Interview Actor Robert Englund 16 TV 16-17 Puzzles 18 Classifieds 19 Sport 20-24 Help keep Dublin clean and tidy for everyone by taking your Metro with you and recycling it Death toll in club blaze reaches 112 THE death toll in Russias worst nightclub blaze in decades reached 112 yesterday. More than 130 people were left in hospital, with many in a critical condition. Four people remain in custody pending an investigation into the fire which witnesses said was sparked by onstage fireworks that shot into the decorative twig ceiling of the Lame Horse club in Perm. The Federal Investigative Committee said four suspects the clubs owner, executive director, artistic director and a businessman hired to install pyrotechnics on the night of the tragedy were taken into custody. The committee said they were suspected of negligence causing multiple deaths and violating fire safety rules causing multiple deaths. Guards forced to protect... turkeys TURKEYS have been given their own round-the-clock security guard... to keep them safe from thieves in the run-up to Christmas. The UKs Traditional Norfolk Poultry Ltd, a supplier to major supermarket chains, has taken the precaution to protect its free-range birds after an increase in festive thefts. Mark Lawton of Asda said: Day and night our security guard has a birds eye view of our precious gobblers. We can now sleep easy at night knowing our precious turkeys are in safe hands. pected to face pay cuts of between five and six per cent in Wednesdays Budget, with higher earners being hit harder. However, public sector pen- sions are not expected to be affected. The Government is also reported to be considering a small income levy increase for the highest earners, but tax increases for the majority of earn- ers are thought to be unlikely. The childrens allowance is thought to be about to fall by 15 per child per month; social welfare payments, bar the old-age pension, will be cut by four per cent; the cost of private beds in public hospitals will rise by up to 15 per cent and A&E charges will rise by 10 to 110. The introduction of a carbon tax is expected to be phased in over the coming year, with the transport sec- tor the first to be affected. A car scrappage scheme is also be- lieved to be on the table, as are incen- tives to make older homes more en- ergy efficient. Finance Minister Brian Lenihan is also expected to say that a number of elements of the Bord Snip Nua report will be implemented, including merg- ing some agencies. Meanwhile, the Equality & Rights Alliance (ERA) has appealed to the Government not to hit the budgets of The Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission. ERA chair Joanna McMinn said cuts would be further evidence of the Governments disregard for the val- ues of equality, rights and solidarity. Budget could be the harshest yet TAOISEACH Brian Cowen looks set to take a pay cut of close to 60,000 in an effort to show leadership ahead of what is expected to be one of the harshest Budgets ever. And Cabinet ministers could see their pay drop to below 200,000 if recommendations made by the Re- view Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector are enacted. According to internal Department of Finance briefing documents, the re- view body recommends that the Taoi- seachs pay drop from 285,583 to 228,466 nearly 20 per cent. The body also recommends pay cuts of nearly 34,000 for ministers, reducing their salaries to 191,000. The highest-paid secretary gener- als pay is reported to fall by nearly 43,000 to 242,540, while universi- ty heads look set to see their pay drop by 36,000, to just over 200,000. The rest of the public sector are ex- BY jOANNE AhERN An elk AnD sAfety issue A woman dressed as a festive reindeer gets some air on her wakeboard in hamburg, Germany Picture: Getty cAnAl seARcH Garda divers are searching the Grand Canal as fears grow for a man who has been missing for more than a week. damian OBrien, 37, from Clonakilty, Co Cork, but living in Phibsboro, was last seen on Friday, November 27, near Percy Place on Haddington road, Ballsbridge at 10.45pm. Mr OBrien is 5ft 9in, has black hair and was wearing a black blazer, jeans and a pink scarf. Search: Damian OBrien TODAY: A wet and windy day, clearing a bit later. Max: 8C TOMORROW: Cloudy and windy with rain later. Max: 11C METRO Weather End of recession in sight across the Border MaYBE its down to southern shoppers flocking across the Border, but a new report claims the recession in Northern Ireland is over. The downturn halted in the last quarter and economic growth is set to return by the end of the year, according to a forecast by the Northern Bank. among factors contributing to the recovery is an exchange rate that has attracted shoppers from the republic. The report cautioned against over-optimism, however, and warned there was risk of another dip in activity in the first quarter of 2010. But across the whole of next year the Norths economy should grow, albeit by a modest 1.2 per cent. Brian Cowen: Will take 20% pay cut Restraining order for facebook user A FACEBOOK user has been banned from contacting her mother for two years after sending her abusive messages on the networking site. Karen Beckett, 51, from Bristol, called her mother Elizabeth Purnell, 72, a b***h in one message and urged a family member to bury the nasty cow. She had been cautioned for a similar offence in March. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html