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     1   Q.   Are you Research Professor of Urban Environmental studies
     2        at the University of Salford?
     3        A.  Yes, I am.
     4
     5   Q.   Is that a job which involves you in teaching post graduates
     6        and undergraduates any longer or not?
     7        A.  No, I do not teach; I simply supervise items of
     8        research.
     9
    10   Q.   When did you stop teaching?
    11        A.  When I became Director General of the Tidy Britain
    12        Group.
    13
    14   Q.   Were you from 1973 to 1987 a teaching member of staff at
    15        Salford?
    16        A.  Yes.
    17
    18   Q.   I think you were just then Professor of Urban Environmental
    19        Studies?
    20        A.  That is correct.
    21
    22   Q.   Before you joined the university were you Director of the
    23        North West Civic Trust?
    24        A.  Yes.
    25
    26   Q.   What is your professional or academic background and
    27        training?
    28        A.  I was trained first as an architect and then as a town
    29        planner.
    30
    31   Q.   What is the purpose and function of the Tidy Britain Group?
    32        A.  The purpose and function of the Tidy Britain Group is
    33        to, by whatever means seems appropriate, secure for this
    34        country a level of cleanliness in terms of environment/index.html">litter and local
    35        environmental management that is the highest possible.
    36
    37   Q.   Are there any similar groups in this country -- nationwide
    38        groups, I mean?
    39        A.  Not concerned specifically with environment/index.html">litter and street
    40        cleansing, no.
    41
    42   Q.   You have made for the purposes of this case a written
    43        statement?
    44        A.  Yes.
    45
    46   Q.   May I ask you, please, to get out from the cardboard
    47        shelves behind you a yellow file called volume III
    48        "Recycling and Waste"?  Please turn to tab 8 of that file
    49        where I hope you will find your written statement.  You
    50        will be relieved, Professor, that it is not my intention to 
    51        ask you about everything which appears in this statement. 
    52        To the extent that I do not ask you questions about it, are 
    53        you content that it should stand as your evidence-in-chief?
    54        A.  Yes, I am.
    55
    56   Q.   You tell us in paragraph 2 of your statement that the TBG,
    57        if I may call it, is a government recognised agency for
    58        environment/index.html">litter reduction; what does that mean?
    59        A.  Under the Litter Act and then subsequently under the
    60        Environmental Protection Act the government has evoked from