The tiny kitchen table is abutted on one side by the end of a bathtub, jutting out from the bathroom; the sofa is cold and wet but marginally warmer than the gale ruffling the coats of the sheepdogs tethered outside.In the current farming crisis it is the likes of Ms Symcock who have suffered most, as, unlike wealthier, established landowners, they have no valuable land, farmhouses, savings or excess stock to fall back on. With her kitchen window opening out on a spectacular view of mountains and dales, she is far removed from our images of the poor as dwellers of sink estates inside urban "food deserts"; yet many of her problems are the same. "In winter, the fire can be going all night but there'll still be frost on the insides of the windows," she says.The farmyard has been cleared of muck, and we sit inside the caravan, sipping tea. By the Second World War the worst slums had been cleared but the number of workers needed by the mill owners was down to 25,000 There was severe unemployment The industry's decline accelerated in the 1960s. Blocking the protein could help to cure alcoholism. The mice lacked one of the protein receptors in the brain, called D2 receptors, which bind to dopamine, a chemical messenger involved in stimulating the brain's pleasure pathways.Without the D2 dopamine receptors, the genetically engineered mice showed an aversion to alcohol and were more resistant to its effects compared with normal mice."Suppose you could create a drug that bound to the D2 receptor so that dopamine couldn't bind to that receptor at all," said Tamara Phillips, professor of behavioural science at Oregon Health Sciences University "That would be like getting rid of the receptor.
There is no electricity or hot water; a gas- fired heater provides some warmth, but she lives 1,300 feet up in the Pennines, and it is not enough. I wanted to finish it last summer but with what's happening to the industry at the moment I don't have any cash." A sheep wanders through the doorless entrance. Ms Symcock, 34 and single, farms sheep and beef cattle in the Peak District and still lives, as she has done for the past 10 years, in a leaky caravan at the back of the farmyard. "I started building it two years ago," she says, "but the builder went off when someone else offered him more money. We told them about (our) more in-depth relationship with teachers and schools We trained their players in practical workshops. We set up a project with British composer Harrison Birtwistle and I gave seminars to musicians and teachers in Los Angeles."Gerry Robinson shows a stunning lack of information for someone who is supposed to be speaking for the arts."Mr Robinson had praised the LA Philharmonic for playing in poor parts of the city and "transforming the landscape".Phil Murphy, the director of the Arts Council, said: "People are being too precious if they interpret this as a snub.".
AS THE rain turns her dung-strewn farmyard into brown slush, Rachel Symcock stops shovelling and smiles. "Sometimes I wonder if I took a wrong turn at the careers office," she says, her wind-blown complexion riddled with raindrops She points to the unfinished stone farmhouse. So keen were they in Los Angeles to learn from the British example they twice flew out the highly respected artistic director of the London Sinfonietta, Gillian Moore.Ms Moore said yesterday: "I would have been in tears if I had been in the audience for Gerry Robinson's lecture I couldn't believe someone could be so ignorant. He couldn't have picked an example which was going to make him look more foolish."I was brought out twice by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at considerable expense, and they also paid consultation fees to the South Bank Centre They told me they wanted the British system.
"The launch of the S-Type signals the dawn of a new era in the history of Jaguar," said Nick Scheele, company chairman.. THE CHAIRMAN of the Arts Council, Gerry Robinson, is under fire after an embarrassing blunder in a major speech. Mr Robinson, also the chairman of Granada PLC, was yesterday labelled "foolish and ignorant" by a leading figure in the arts. In the annual Arts Council lecture last week, Mr Robinson gave his high- profile audience at the Royal Society of Arts a slide show of the Los Angeles Philharmonic doing community education work. He then demanded of arts leaders in the audience they learn from this and follow the US example. But The Independent has discovered the LA Philharmonic based its project on one pioneered by a British orchestra that plays a few hundred yards from where the speech was made. The car, which is creating at least 1,300 jobs at Castle Bromwich in Birmingham, will go on sale next March and almost double Jaguar's annual production level compared with the 1997 figure. Industry chiefs will be pinning hopes on new product launches and design innovation to inject fresh momentum into sales.Jaguar will today unveil its 150mph mid-sized S-Type sports saloon.
"We have said we would like to reduce costs and are looking at further measures, but reports of job cuts are pure speculation," a spokesman said.The company announced plans to cut its workforce by 1,500 in July through voluntary redundancy. The company has a standing agreement not to carry out compulsory redundancies. Other cost cuts could include a wage freeze, or bans on overtime and weekend work. Rover has been one of the companies hit hardest by a strong pound, which has undermined export and domestic sales.Both Ford and Rover have announced cutbacks in production because of a combination of the strong currency and the economic downturn in the Far East. Ford, Rover and Jaguar, three of the largest foreign-owned car-makers with plants in this country, will unveil their new models at the show, which is expected to attract 700,000 visitors over the next fortnight. But even as the show gets under way, Rover and its parent company, BMW, were being forced to deny reports that the British car-maker was planning job cuts.Rover admitted yesterday it was under pressure to cut costs and raise productivity. As for jam - an industry founded on the raspberries of Tayside - that preceded jute into the history book with the closure of Keillers 10 years ago."The jute industry has been extremely good for the city but the thing now is to look forward," said a council spokesman. He meant to sound positive but at Tay Spinners it will only fuel suspicion that the city fathers want to "get rid of the jute", as it blemishes the city's shiny new image..