1.   Education Secretary John Patten warned that any school which failed to check whether staff had a criminal record would face immediate closure.

2.   It has recommended that the Austrian Chancellor, Mr Vranitzky, press for immediate closure of the plant.

3.   Greenpeace says the problems bring the margin of safety below an acceptable level and calls for the immediate closure of the affected reactors.

4.   The TV media insisted a constitutional crisis was at hand and that America demanded immediate closure, while a New York Times polls suggested anything but.

5.   Williams told students the university is not in danger of immediate closure.

6.   A compromise early Thursday averted immediate closure of the stations.

7.   Also Thursday, the environmental group Greenpeace called for the immediate closure of an atomic waste storage site in Morsleben, in eastern Germany.

8.   Environmental activists marked the somber anniversary with demands for the immediate closure of Chernobyl and other plants which house RBMK graphite-cooled nuclear reactors.

9.   Environmental activists marked the anniversary with demands for the immediate closure of Chernobyl and other plants that still use RBMK graphite-cooled nuclear reactors.

10.   Nearby, environmental activists have chained themselves to the railroad tracks leading into the Chernobyl zone, demanding the immediate closure of the still-functioning plant.