The Met is considering the complaint, which claims John Prescott committed the offence of misconduct in public office by allegedly having an affair during office hours. Last night, 18 firefighters from East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service were still on board the ship, cooling the blaze area.. Scotland Yard is considering a complaint that the Deputy Prime Minister broke the law by having sex with his secretary in his Whitehall office. Launched last month, the unit is the UK’s first specialised fire and rescue service for incidents at sea. The cause of the fire is still unknown.A spokesman for Louis Cruise Line, which owns Calypso, said: “The passengers are disappointed that their cruise has been cut short by two days but otherwise impressed by how smoothly the operation has been carried out.”Six fire investigators were lifted by helicopter on to the 38-year-old vessel, in the first deployment by the new Maritime Incident Response Group. “It is quite a dangerous environment to be at sea in a lifeboat, so it was much safer to keep them on board,” she said.Calypso arrived at Southampton at 7.40pm. The Cyprus-registered ship was carrying 246 crew and 462 passengers, among them 454 Dutch, one Briton and one American.

“They smothered the engine room with CO2, which is normal procedure, and they have managed to extinguish the fire,” said an official in Dover, where the rescue was co-ordinated.Joanne Groenenberg, of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, said rescuers decided it would be too risky to evacuate the ship before it returned to dock in Southampton. the fire was not [burning] for a long time.”Passengers and crew boarded the ship’s lifeboats, but the fire was put out before a full evacuation was ordered. Corry Broere, a spokeswoman for the firm, told the BBC: “My family is on board and they phoned me, and of course they had been frightened, but when they called me everything was already very calm … No casualties were reported, but a coastguard spokesman said that a team of paramedics was also flown by helicopter to the ship.”We think that some of the passengers might have had a pretty traumatic time this morning,” he said.Many of the passengers were employees and guests of the Dutch travel company Cruise Travel.

Hundreds of passengers were roused in their cabins when fire broke out early yesterday morning, only hours after the Calypso sailed from Tilbury, Essex, on its way to St Peter Port in Guernsey.
Rescue services were scrambled, and firefighters flew out to the ship as it drifted about 20 miles off Beachy Head. Lifeboats from Britain and France were sent to the stricken liner. They have all been bailed until the end of June, pending further inquiries.”. A cruise ship with more than 700 people on board was towed ashore last night after a fire in an engine room left it adrift in the English Channel. Angry economy-class passengers stormed first class on an international flight in a mid-air upgrading mutiny, it was disclosed last night.

The pilot of the packed Pakistan International Airlines jet radioed ahead, and 14 people were arrested on suspicion of endangering the aircraft after landing at Manchester airport.
Cabin crew lost control after the flight was delayed for four hours in searing heat on the tarmac at Islamabad airport in Pakistan. With economy packed, a number of passengers decided to upgrade themselves to the empty luxury section at the front of the Boeing 747.It is believed the crew asked them to move but they refused, so police were called in as the plane landed on Friday morning.A spokesman for Greater Manchester police said: “Police at Manchester airport were alerted to a problem on an incoming PIA flight from Pakistan.”Several passengers were reported to be trying to enter the first class area of the plane.”When the plane landed, 14 of the passengers were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft in flight. Warburton added: “If you are domiciled in the UK, you are taxable on all your income and gains wherever in the world they are generated.”Savers found to have not declared interest could be asked to pay the tax due, plus interest and a penalty of up to the entire original tax bill.. It believes some taxpayers have deliberately been channelling earnings and other money into offshore accounts in order to evade tax, while others have not understood that interest must be declared.Emma Rees of Barclays said: “While offshore accounts are a relatively specialist product, we have now been told to provide the Revenue with information on all our customers who have a UK address and a non-UK account.”Mike Warburton, head of personal tax at the accountant Grant Thornton, said: “Many people wrongly think that if they hold money offshore it won’t be taxable – mostly, these are not large-scale fraudsters but people who don’t even realise they are doing something wrong.”A few specialist offshore products, such as roll-up bonds, do offer tax advantages for UK-based savers, but the vast majority of accounts are taxable in just the same way they would be in the UK. Anyone resident in the UK for tax purposes must declare this interest on their annual tax return and pay income tax on the money.The order against Barclays, which is almost certain to apply to other banks too, will enable the Revenue to check that offshore account holders have been paying tax.