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By our Foreign staff BP’S CLAIMS to have successfully capped its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico have been questioned after a potential leak was discovered on the seabed nearby.

The US government ordered the company to produce a report on a “detected seep” near the pipeline damaged in the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

It did not disclose what substance had been found to be escaping from the ocean floor but the announcement will raise concerns that an operation to plug a burst pipeline may simply have moved the problem elsewhere.

“Given the current observations from the test, including the detected seep a distance from the well and undetermined anomalies at the well head, monitoring of the seabed is of paramount importance during the test period,” Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said in a letter to BP chief managing director Bob Dudley.

The government ordered BP to submit a plan for reopening the well if the seep is confirmed.

In the letter, Adm Allen wrote: “I direct you to provide me a written procedure for opening the choke valve as quickly as possible without damaging the well should hydrocarbon seepage near the well head be confirmed.”

Once the cap is released, oil would once again be funnelled to the surface. However, BP said it would take three days to start this process. During this time, oil would be released into the sea.

The London-based company has said it hopes the cap will hold until a relief well can be completed next month, relieving pressure from the undersea reservoir. The White House has been far more

A well integrity test on oil leaking in the Gulf of Mexico

‘It took BP three months to stop their leak. This dripping tap isn’t so simple’

reticent, however, warning that plugging the top of the well could lead to leaks further down.

Adm Allen said BP must maintain co-ordination with government monitors and report in no more than four hours when seeps are detected.

“As a continued condition of the test, you are required to provide as a top priority access and co-ordination for the monitoring systems, which include seismic and sonar surface ships and subsea ROV and acoustic systems,” he wrote.

“When seeps are detected, you are directed to marshal resources, quickly investigate and report findings to the government in no more than four hours.”

The Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20 killed 11 workers and the resulting oil leak has been described as the US’s worst man-made environmental disaster. ÞDavid Cameron was due to travel to Washington on Monday night to present a robust defence of BP in response to American anger over the oil giant’s possible role in the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

The Prime Minister hoped to assure President Barack Obama and senior US

politicians that the company was not involved in the release of Abdelbaset alMegrahi last year.

He was due to blame the terrorist’s release on the SNPled Scottish government and reiterate his dismay at the decision, which was made on compassionate grounds because doctors believed Megrahi would die of cancer within three months. It has since been disclosed that he may live for up to 10 years.

A spokesman for Mr Cameron said: “The Prime Minister’s view is that the decision to release Megrahi was wrong and he deeply regrets the pain that his release has caused.

“However, it was a decision for the Scottish Executive alone.

“On the issue of links between BP and the release of Megrahi, the Foreign Secretary has made very clear that there is no evidence to support these claims.”

The row over the release of the only man convicted of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988 will cast a shadow over Mr Cameron’s first trip to Washington as Prime Minister.

He was hoping to use the three-day visit to develop his personal relationship with Mr Obama.

By Ben Farmer in Kabul BRITISH front-line combat troops fighting the Taliban are scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014, the Defence Secretary said.

Liam Fox said that within four years the Afghan National Army and police should take responsibility for security, leaving British troops to work only as military trainers. The date is a year earlier than the deadline suggested this month by David Cameron, who said he wanted most troops back by 2015.

Dr Fox said that the Prime Minister’s timetable was somewhat “conservative” and that the Government hoped the withdrawal of combat troops would take place a year earlier.

He spoke as foreign ministers from more than 60 countries converged on Kabul for a conference announcing the clearest timetable yet for withdrawing troops.

A communiqué that was due to be agreed at Tuesday’s conference is expected to see ministers formally back the objective of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, who has said that his country’s forces “should lead and conduct military operations in all provinces by the end of 2014”.

Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Dr Fox said: “It has always been our aim to be successful in the mission and the mission has always said that the Afghan national security forces would be able to deal with their own security by 2014.

“We recognise that there will be further work to do in terms of training and improving the quality of those forces beyond that, which is why we have said training forces may be available after that date. But we have made it very clear that will not be combat forces.”

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Continued from page 1 communities. We need to create communities with oomph — neighbourhoods who are in charge of their own destiny, who feel if they club together and get involved they can shape the world around them.”

The four pioneer communities will be helped by civil servants who will give expert advice if they encounter legal problems or bureaucratic obstacles. Officials will also identify residents with a particular aptitude to receive training to become community organisers.

Volunteers will be able to draw on the Big Society Bank, which would use “every penny of dormant bank and building society account money” to help finance social enterprises, charities and voluntary groups.

Accounts left untouched for at least 15 years would be channelled to good causes. Over time, Mr Cameron said, the bank would provide “hundreds of millions of pounds” to Big Society projects, with money starting to be distributed from April.

The four vanguard communities have asked for help to set up a variety of different schemes.

Windsor and Maidenhead has experimented with a project in which residents received financial incentives to improve recycling rates.

In Liverpool, Phil Redmond, the television producer, is behind a scheme for volunteers to staff a museum outside office hours. There are also plans for council budgets to be given directly to the residents’ groups in individual streets.

Bus and tram services could be commissioned by local people, who would be able to set timetables. One group has asked to buy out local “assets,” including a rural pub. Another project involves bringing internet broadband to a community.

Mr Cameron said: “They’ve all got one thing in common: a firm commitment from this Government to help them realise their dreams.”

Ed Miliband, the Labour leadership contender, said: “Cameron’s government is cynically attempting to dignify its cuts agenda by dressing up the withdrawal of support with the language of reinvigorating civic society.” telegraph.co.uk/expat

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By Gordon Rayner and Rosa Prince BORIS JOHNSON has been warned by senior Tories to forget any ambition of leading the party after newspaper reports alleged he fathered a baby during an affair with a colleague.

The Mayor of London reportedly took a paternity test after his alleged mistress, Helen Macintyre, gave birth to a daughter, Stephanie, in November.

The child’s birth certificate does not name the father, and Mr Johnson, who has four children with his wife Marina, has refused to discuss whether the test proved Stephanie is his fifth child.

But he admitted last week that he had “more chance of being reincarnated as Elvis Presley” than of succeeding David Cameron.

Miss Macintyre, 36, has allegedly told friends that she had an affair with Mr Johnson, who appointed her as a fund-raiser for an Olympic art project. She had been living with Pierre Rolin, a property consultant, but they split after Mr Rolin took a DNA test that proved he was not Stephanie’s father. One senior Conservative said: “It just shows once again that Boris is not a serious figure and could not possibly become prime minister. He likes to think of himself as the ‘prince across the water’, waiting in the wings on the other side of the Thames for when the party needs him, but it’s all nonsense.”

Mr Johnson, 46, met Miss Macintyre 15 years ago when she was a student at Edinburgh University. They kept in touch and met again at the beginning of last year. Mr Johnson later invited Miss Macintyre to become an unpaid fund-raiser at City Hall.

Miss Macintyre, who runs an art consultancy, persuaded Mr Rolin to donate £80,000 to carry out a design study for London’s Olympic Park.

Mr Rolin, 47, a Canadian, had assumed Miss Macintyre was carrying his baby, but when Stephanie was born he noticed that her red hair, fair skin and blue eyes, did not match the colouring of either him or Miss Macintyre. Friends gossiped that Stephanie “looked a lot like Boris” and he insisted on a paternity test. A source close to Mr Rolin said: “He is not the biological father of Stephanie. He and Helen split up at the beginning of this year.”

Mr Johnson was divorced from his first wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen, in 1993, after having an affair with Marina Wheeler, whom he then married.

In 2004 the couple separated temporarily after it emerged Mr Johnson had had an affair with the journalist Petronella Wyatt, and in 2006 he was accused of cheating on his wife with another journalist, Anna Fazackerley.

In an interview, Mr Johnson, a Telegraph columnist, was asked about the allegations and replied: “I’m much obliged to you for bringing it up but I don’t go on about my private life.”

Asked about his chances of becoming prime minister, he said: “I’ve got more chance of being reincarnated as Elvis Presley or an olive.”

Boris Johnson and his wife Marina. Above: Helen Macintyre’s former partner Pierre Rolin

Helen Macintyre with Stephanie,

the baby at the heart of the row

By Andrew Porter Political Editor DAVID Cameron has reacted to anger among MPs by telling the new body set up to administer expenses claims to “get a grip”.

The Prime Minister accused the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) of being “overly bureaucratic and very costly”.

Since the new Parliament began in May, Conservative and Labour MPs have complained that Ipsa is too slow to deal with claims, ignores questions and relies on an inadequate computer system.

Some have slept in their offices, saying it is too late to travel but the new rules stop them claiming for a second home if they live near London. Others have argued that they cannot afford journeys to the Commons because claims have not been settled.

Last week, Mr Cameron surprised many by openly criticising Ipsa. His comments followed a question by David Davies, a back-bench Tory, who said the system was undermining the efforts of MPs “on all sides”.

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By Peter Hutchison GORDON BROWN’s Cabinet accepted that Labour was “finished” in the run-up to the general election, according to Lord Mandelson. Mr Brown’s colleagues did not believe he could lead the party to victory but did nothing to replace him, the former business secretary writes in his memoirs.

Lord Mandelson quotes a number of ministers, including himself, who acknowledged that a Labour win under Mr Brown was virtually impossible. But he claims that, despite a series of backbench plots, the Cabinet was unwilling to replace the leader.

The disclosures highlight the disloyalty among Mr Brown’s inner circle in the final months of the Labour government. Lord Mandelson recalls a Downing Street meeting last October, when Harriet Harman proposed basing the election campaign around three Fs: future,

family and fairness. “How about f-----?” Alistair Darling is said to have responded, before Douglas Alexander proposed “futile” and Lord Mandelson added “finished”.

The exchanges are included in Lord Mandelson’s book The Third Man, which is being serialised in The Times.

He also discloses that Mr Alexander thought Mr Brown lacked the “skill set” to be Prime Minister and that Mr Darling said before Christmas: “We’re going to lose.”

Lord Mandelson claims that the Treasury and No 10 were in constant conflict over how to cut the budget deficit. Mr Brown vetoed a proposal from Mr Darling to put up VAT to 18 or 19 per cent, then Mr Darling opposed a proposal from Mr Brown to rule out VAT rises throughout the parliament, he claims.

Lord Mandelson also discloses that Mr Brown told him: “I just can’t communicate”, and admitted he should have called an election in 2007, shortly after he became prime minister. Mr Brown, accepting that the voters did not want “five more years of him”, proposed before the election that he would promise to stay in office for one more year to secure the recovery. When that idea was rejected, he proposed a “megareferendum” on several reforms, pledging to stand down if he lost, Lord Mandelson claims.

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