CYPRUS AIRWAYS (CY) pilots yesterday announced further industrial action for today, following the 24-hour strike, which ended at midnight last night.

NEW ANIMAL rights regulations have been introduced after they were approved by the House of Representatives. The regulations are designed to meet EU directives concerning the transport of livestock.

Theophanis Pierides, an officer at the government Veterinary Service yesterday confirmed the introduction of new measures to protect animals in transit.

CYPRUS’ Marcos Baghdatis was crowned Australian Open boys champion on Sunday after an historic win at Melbourne Park, the first person from the island to have achieved such a major sporting honour.

The tournament’s top seed beat Florin Mergea of Romania 6-4 6-4 to win his first Grand Slam title.

IN THE largest British naval mobilisation since the Falklands war, 15 vessels headed by the Navy’s flagship HMS Ark Royal, arrived off Cyprus yesterday.

PRESIDENT Glafcos Clerides yesterday presented rival Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash with a birthday present: a new pen to urge him to sign a political solution based on the Annan plan.

Denktash turned 79 yesterday and has been adamant that he would rather resign than sign an agreement based on the plan submitted by UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan as it stands.

THE UNITED Nations yesterday officially launched the competition for a flag and national anthem to represent a reunified island.

In full page advertisements in Greek and Turkish Cypriot press, the UN announced they had been authorised by both leaders to set the competition in motion.

FUEL HAS leaked into a reservoir in Athalassa Park, Forestry and Fisheries Departments confirmed yesterday.

The leakage was discovered over the weekend after visitors to the park noticed an oily substance floating on the surface of the water accompanied by the smell of fuel.

THE U.N. could put forward a third version of Secretary-general Kofi Annan’s peace plan, government spokesman Michalis Papapetrou said yesterday.

Speculation had been rife for weeks that a third version of the plan was in the pipeline but nothing official was announced.

AN 11-YEAR-OLD boy was killed over the weekend when he fell out of the back of his grandfather’s pick-up truck, police said yesterday.

A COMPANY in Larnaca was the latest business to have its electricity cut off by the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) yesterday.

This disconnection follows on from the cuts made last week to customers whose meters were illegally tampered with last year.