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"It's time to move on really," is how Mark Simpson, Ford's marketing boss summed up the change this week. "We will now have Zetec as the entry level model and then move up with more standard equipment to Titanium with the flagship Sergio Rossi Shoes now being the Titanium X Sport.

"The Ghia name was certainly a market leader in its day and established itself as a top quality product over many years and with many Ford models but we think it's time to move on and the name Titanium is now gradually replacing it."

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DETROIT -- Will Chevy's loss be Ford's gain?

The recently eliminated Chevrolet Orlando was one of the most intriguing vehicles in GM's new-model program. Slightly longer than a Honda Civic, the seven-seat compact minivan promised highway fuel economy of around 30 mpg and had breakthrough looks.

GM planned to launch it in the U.S. around a year from now, six months or more ahead of Ford's traditional-looking Grand C-Max compact minivan.

I haven't driven either vehicle, nor even sat in a production model, but I was more intrigued by the Orlando. Its styling broke the mould, and GM has a record of building very roomy and useful small minivans in Europe.

There's no history of compact minivans selling well in America, however. It looked like the Orlando, Grand C-Max and other likely competitors might squeeze all the profit out of the market segment.

By dropping the Orlando, 2010 Super Bowl jerseys GM may have boosted Ford's chances of selling a profitable number of Grand C-Maxes. Chevrolet thinks it has a full house of family vehicles in its existing Malibu, Equinox and Traverse models.

GM could offset the rakish Orlando's departure by offering another creative small-car design. Ford's plan to dramatically increase sales of smaller and more fuel-efficient vehicles hinges on offering a wide variety of body styles and models, while GM appears to count on the old-style model of selling large numbers of a single car.

GM's announced compact car lineup consists of the conservatively styled Chevrolet Cruze sedan and the totally unproven compact sedan envisioned for Buick.

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Chevrolet generated a nice buzz and surprisingly high sales a few years ago with the stylish, fuel-efficient and affordable HHR station wagon.

GM might be wise to search its design studios around the world for innovative compact cars and crossovers that can add pizzazz to its small-car lineup. The rumored Cruze station wagon and hatchback could be a start.

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Despite turning a tidy $774-million profit in the first three months of this year, there should be some head-scratching going on at Honda.

The Honda brand's U.S. sales were distressingly weak in April. While Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Ford, GMC, Hyundai, Toyota, Nissan, Chrysler and GM's four remaining brands all soared 20 per cent to 36 per cent versus last year, the Honda brand rose an anemic 11.7 per cent.

Perhaps most worrying, sales of Honda's stalwart Civic compact fell 4.6 per cent while the overall U.S. market grew.

At first glance, the news looked better for Honda's Acura luxury brand, which rose 21.6 per cent. However, sales of all Acura cars except the TSX fell. With 154 sales, deliveries of Acura's flagship RL sedan could be mistaken for a rounding error.

Acura's MDX and RDX crossover SUVs both notched strong increases. The sporty new Acura ZDX crossover scored 234 sales.

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By Alan Suderman

Examiner Staff Writer

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett is looking to cut funding for his office's internal audits -- a program that completed only one audit of county programs last year, raising concerns from critics that there is little oversight of how billions of dollars of taxpayer money is spent.

"It's like nobody's minding the store," said Council Vice President Valerie Ervin. "Where's the oversight?"

The criticism comes amid recent revelations that federal investigators are probing two county programs that may have misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Leggett's administration has been accused of trying to hamper the work of the county's independent inspector general.

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Leggett's proposed internal audit budget of $441,000 for the next fiscal year is less than half of what the audit budget was two years ago, one of the many cuts Leggett is proposing in the face of a nearly $800 million budget gap.

The internal audit office is tasked with ensuring county programs run efficiently and to deter fraud and abuse. Leggett shrunk the internal audit's staff last year from about five to only one, with the idea of contracting with outside firms to perform audits.

So far the county has received one completed audit from an outside firm. That audit cost $16,000 and found the county's permitting services division erroneously undercharged by a total of $71,000 during an 11-month period.

The county took more than six months to answer the Washington Examiner's public records request for copies of the internal audit division's work.

Besides that audit, the county has contracts to conduct a wide- ranging risk assessment -- essentially a work tissot automatic plan for future audits -- and to examine the county's embattled tuition assistance program. The county has accused a police officer of using the program to sell guns at steep discounts, and some employees used taxpayer money to take yoga classes, sailing lessons and other questionable courses.

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Leggett spokesman Patrick Lacefield there is plenty of oversight by a variety of departments, like the CountyStat program and an independent inspector general, and by the county's managers.

"All of these elements work together to further oversight of county programs," Lacefield said.

Councilman Phil Andrews said he was thankful that the county had an inspector general but said a "robust internal audit vision" was still needed.

"I don't think that one audit a year is going to be sufficient," Andrews said.

Ervin said the County Council plans to take a hard look at the Leggett administration's oversight efforts and the allegations that it interfered with the inspector general's work.

"Our reputation is at a crossroads right now," Ervin said.

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A FORMER head of France's spy agency claimed that late President Francois Mitterrand approved the sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in a tiffany jewellery sale New Zealand harbour 20 years ago, according to reports.

A newspaper yesterday published extracts of a 23-page account by Pierre Lacoste, the former head of DGSE spy agency, in which he says that Mitterrand authorised the bombing of the 'peace' vessel in Auckland's port.

The hand-written account was published for the 20-year anniversary of the July 10, 1985, pandora glass beads sinking of the ship. The newspaper said Lacoste prepared the report a year after the bombing and that it had remained secret since.

Defence minister at the time Lacoste wrote: 'I asked the president if he gave me permission to put into action the neutralisation plan that I had studied on the request of Monsieur (Charles) Hernu.

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Hernu and Lacoste were both fired for their roles in the affair.

A Greenpeace photographer, Fernando Pereira, died in the attack

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A PLYMPTON pre-school is celebrating after it was given an overall 'good' rating by education inspectors.

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Children and staff at Woodford Methodist Pre-school also received 12 'outstanding' marks in their latest Ofsted report.

Outstanding marks were given for the pre-school's leadership, promoting equality and diversity, and children adopting healthy lifestyles, as well as in other areas.

The report said: "The staff have an excellent understanding of most principles underpinning the Early Years Foundation Stage, with each and every child having their individual needs met well.

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The pre-school, which caters for about 60 children and has been at the methodist church for nearly 40 Manchester City years, is run as a charity by a committee.

Helen Laird, committee chairman, said the last Ofsted report at the pre-school -- which was published about two years ago -- also gave the pre-school an overall 'good' rating.

But Ms Laird said there were more 'outstandings' this time around.

She said: "It's great to know that what we thought was a great pre-school has now been recognised as just that.

"We are now looking at extending so we can take more children. All the staff and parents are thrilled that we have achieved so much."

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Long before Bob Calleja took a job at Bath Rugby, he was an English teacher.

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He still gives off a slight aura of the genial schoolmaster.

And at times over the course of his 11 years at The Rec, he must have felt like he was dealing with the odd errant sixth-former or two.

But while he may have overseen a few more disciplinary processes than he would have liked, the chief operating officer - who for four years was the club's chief executive - says it's in the changing room rather than the office where he's had the best times.

"I made a point of going to every game, home and away, and I always went into the changing room after the game, win or lose," he says. "And the highlight has to be the camaraderie of the players.

"It's hard to express but what is so special is the team spirit of these players who are covered in bruises, who have bits of bone sticking out and who have bleed seeping out of them.

"And yet there's a smile on their faces - especially if they've won - and an incredible spirit. They play for each other."

Already there's a tinge of nostalgia to what the 63-year-old says. He officially finishes his job on August 31, but his work at Bath is effectively done.

Drafted in 11 years ago as a consultant when the club was haemorrhaging money during the early years of professional rugby, Calleja has - at times - presided over a club where the off-field resources were cut to the bone.

Does he not feel a twinge of envy, I wonder, that he leaves the club just as it prepares to move to a palatial new country headquarters, courtesy of the largesse of an ambitious and exceedingly wealthy new owner? Of course, he doesn't. This, after all, is Uncle Bob, whose patient, avuncular manner has endeared him to countless fans and enabled him to endure endless council meetings picking over the minutiae of grandstand extensions.

Calleja openly disagrees with some of the views of new club owner Bruce Craig. He remains a staunch supporter of the salary cap, for example, believing it prevents the Premiership from turning into a contest between just three or four cash-rich sides.

By contrast, Craig, in his own words, "doesn't believe in bringing things down to the lowest common denominator".

Calleja is in many respects the final embodiment of the ancient regime at Bath. He was the trusted lieutenant of Andrew Brownsword and once the former owner had sold up to Craig last April, Calleja already had an exit strategy in place.

While Brownsword was in some respects the rugby equivalent of the Victorian patrician - hovering in the background, a stickler for rules - Craig is a more modern, up-and-at-'em owner - thirsty to discuss strategy in his open-necked shirt and hungry to build Bath into a global brand.

Some of the commercial plans that are in the pipeline for Bath clearly don't sit easily with Calleja but he concedes that a new broom is a good thing.

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Millions of pounds of unclaimed betting winnings and cash languishing in abandoned accounts will be used to improve grassroots sports facilities.

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Weston-super-Mare MP Mr Penrose said: "There is potential for some really good causes to benefit from this money - but we have to look at all the options first.

"Every day thousands of people bet on the outcome of sporting events - therefore it seems a natural fit funds from abandoned betting accounts should be used to benefit grassroots sports projects.

Bath MP Mr Foster, the former Lib Dem culture, media and sport spokesman, said he would finish his report by the end of the year.

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"It would be great to see some local sporting facilities and initiatives getting extra funding in these difficult financial times," he added. A Government spokesman told the Western Daily Press one of Mr Foster's tasks was to find out exactly how much money was involved.

He said the unclaimed winnings just from the Tote in 2008-09 were around Pounds 1 million.

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The report will include how to decide when a betting account can be classed as dormant, clarify any legal issues surrounding the use of the cash and safeguard the right of customers to reclaim their money at any time if prove it belongs to them.

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