"This just isn't a part of Guardian culture," said one journalist. Observer insiders continued to insist that the Guardian management does not intend to create a seven-day news operation, despite the appointment of David McKie, a Guardian columnist, to edit the review section and Alex Brummer, the Guardian's City Editor, to fulfil the same role at the Observer. On Friday, the Guardian Media Group, which owns the two titles, appointed Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian's editor, to the position of executive editor of the Observer, for a period of at least six months.Some of the sacked staff were closely identified with Andrew Jaspan, the former editor, who left last Friday.Journalists are bracing for further cuts, but a spokesperson said additional redundancies were not planned at present.The number of redundancies could be limited by a lack of resources at the media group, which could struggle to put together packages for departing staff. MATHEW HORSMAN ...TEXT: The new editor of the Observer, Will Hutton, has moved to cut at least eight senior journalists from his staff, in what could be the first of a round of redundancies at the ailing title. Significantly, at least two major positions - that of City Editor and Review Editor - will be filled, at least on an interim basis, with staff from the Guardian, the Observer's sister publication. d A senior police officer is to appear before a isciplinary hearing later this month accuse of inecently assaulting a teenage girl arreste for shoplifting at a police station. The Kent inspector, who is not being name for legal reasons, faces the hearing on April 26 an has been suspene pening an internal investigation..

A committee, chaired by the Duke of Edinburgh, will pick the final design in the summer.. Top store Harrods has failed in a second court attempt to force The Harrodian School, in south west London, to change its name. I believe it is very important that the progress we have made in the last year in self-regulation should be allowed to continue.". A swan, a lottery ball, Stonehenge and a sliced loaf of bread are among the design proposals for the new pounds 2 coin in the national competition to find a symbol of British identity. The Royal Mint has had more than 1,000 applications for the competition which closed yesterday and the most popular themes for the design of the coin to be launched next year emerged as maps, animals, birds, buildings and transport. The winner of the competition will receive pounds 10,000 and their initials will be included on the coin.

It is not for us to answer those questions." They said, however, that they did not believe the buying up of witnesses in the West case had affected the jury and added: "The evidence in its totality was overwhelming".The judges' remarks are certain to be noted by those carrying out the investigation into cheque-book journalism ordered by the Lord Chancellor, after West was convicted last November of 10 murders.Lord Wakeham, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, said he would study carefully the appeal judges' comments."In my speech to the House of Lords last December, I indicated that the best way forward was for there to be a protocol to the voluntary code of conduct of the press," he said."The newspaper and magazine publishing industry is now considering those proposals ... Both Mr Porritt and Sarah Parkin, another Real World founder, were once leading lights in the Green Party but became disillusioned.. WILL BENNETT Payment by the media of witnesses in court cases "could put justice at risk", three senior judges warned yesterday as they gave their reasons for refusing the serial killer Rosemary West leave to appeal. Lord Taylor, the Lord Chief Justice, and two colleagues said: "In our view the whole issue of media payments to witnesses requires to be reviewed - whether they should be prohibited, or, if allowed, at what stage of criminal proceedings, and with what, if any, control. Together, all 32 have more than 2 million active supporters.Labour's environmental protection spokeswoman, Joan Ruddock, said: "I would very much support this initiative linking social inequity and the environment - the Labour Party has nothing to fear from this." The Green Party condemned Real World as a "pale green initiative". But he made it clear that it had nothing like the funding which Sir James Goldsmith is pumping into press advertisements for his new Referendum Party.The coalition also launched a paperback book, The Politics of the Real World, which sets out its critique and aims, as well as a 12-point action programme for the next government.In addition to charity giants like Save the Children, it includes well- known pressure groups like Charter 88 and Transport 2000, the anti-road protesters Alarm UK, and a dozen little-known groups such as the Media Natura Trust.