21.   Student leaders say they fear the organisation could brainwash young people.

22.   Their leaders said the Government was asset stripping British Rail.

23.   Protestant Church leaders say they are prepared to meet the IRA in an effort to end the terrorist campaign.

24.   But gypsy leaders say travellers are bound by a code of ethics and are unlikely to give evidence against one of their own.

25.   In the two-page letter to Mr Major, the DUP leader says the inter-governmental conference comes at a dangerous time and should be called off.

26.   THE leader of Strathclyde said yesterday opt-out legislation may prevent his regional council from closing four secondary schools in Glasgow.

27.   The US leader has said he wants Japan to take strong action to reduce the surplus.

28.   But Nalgo leaders say residents need the service more than ever in the current economic climate.

29.   Meanwhile today Muslim leaders have said an armed conflict in the Gulf will lead to a world-wide Holy War.

30.   Alliance leaders say that the deal calls for those non-Afghan fighters to be taken into custody.