Ernie wants a showdown on the beer bid . a petrol pump attendant who found himself mixed up in a &amp;pound;21,000,000 takeover bid , said last night he was going to have a show-down with his managing director . I want to get this mess sorted out , said 51-year-old Ernest Clements . it &apos;s ridiculous . I &apos;m mixed up in a deal involving millions - and I earn only &amp;pound;12 a week . a few hours ago I did n&apos;t even know I was a director of this firm . Mr Clements , of Ifield Road , Fulham , is registered as a director of Anglasi nominees , a &amp;pound;100 company in the City . after Anglasi announced a &amp;pound;21,000,000 takeover bid for Bent &apos;s brewery , Liverpool , the stock exchange council banned dealings in Bent &apos;s shares . stepbrothers . managing director of Anglasi nominees is Mr George Burgess . financial adviser is Mr Ron Foster . I know them both - they &apos;re my stepbrothers , said Mr Clements , as he downed a double Scotch in a London pub last night . but I have n&apos;t seen them for years . I &apos;ve signed no forms , and I &apos;ve never bought a share in my life . I do n&apos;t know what &apos;s in this . but I &apos;m going to find out . I &apos;m going to Burgess &apos;s office on Monday for a show-down . then Ernie Clements downed another Scotch . the very idea - a brewery bid . I never touch beer &amp;hellip; . sack the manager cry fans . four hundred angry soccer fans chanted sack the manager outside Newcastle United football club &apos;s ground yesterday . United had just been thrashed 4-0 by Everton , and now look certain to be relegated to the football league &apos;s division two . Newcastle &apos;s manager is ex-winger Charlie Mitten . at half-time , with United two goals down , one disgusted fan climbed the club &apos;s flagpole and hauled the Union Jack to half mast . it was a riotous day for soccer &amp;hellip; . hordes of angry supporters besieged referee Mr B J Matthews in his dressing room for more than half-an-hour after Hitchin Town lost 2-1 to Southall in an Athenian league game at Hitchin , Herts . apple cores and orange peel were thrown at policemen at Arsenal &apos;s Highbury Stadium . hunger city calls Mayor . Mayor , stop your roaming . come home and help your hungry citizens , instead of trying to kid the world they are not hungry . that is the call from labour leaders in the breadline city of Toronto , to Mayor Nathan Phillips . Mayor Phillips , wealthy head of a law firm , is more than 4,000 miles away on a holiday tour of Europe with his wife - and issuing denials that there is hunger in his home city . as the people revealed recently , Britons going to Canada will find Toronto a city without jobs . a city where hungry men , women and children line up for food at charity soup kitchens . Mayor Phillips was challenged by a Toronto newspaper to tour the city and see the distress for himself . but the Mayor announced : there is no hunger - and left for Europe . I &apos;m going to let the people of Europe know that these stories of starvation in Toronto are all wrong , he said . in Dublin Mayor Phillips said : there may be some unemployment in Toronto - but no widespread hunger or hardship . earlier , in London , where the Mayor and his wife stayed in the West End at the expensive Westbury Hotel , he attacked the recent people series on the hardship a Briton met in Canada and insisted : there is no starvation in Toronto . and at home in Toronto last Thursday 250 of the Mayor &apos;s civic employees were laid off by the city council . ten nurses flop exams - and a row blows up . for three years , a hospital trained ten student nurses . then the girls took their final examinations to become state registered nurses . and then all failed . it was not the first time this had happened at the 134-bed general Hospital at Great Yarmouth . last October , another batch of student nurses trained there failed the examinations . and when the latest batch of results was revealed yesterday , it started a storm at Great Yarmouth . an angry parent of one student nurse who failed said : this hundred-per-cent failure is shocking . I do n&apos;t see how it can be all the fault of the girls . the secretary of Great Yarmouth general Hospital , Mr John Egerton , said : I can not comment on our results in the state registered nurse examinations . a hospital committee meeting is being called to discuss the matter . the hospital is controlled by the Norwich , Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth Hospital management committee . its matron is named in the Hospital year book as Miss G Embleton . there are two units in the hospital - the surgical unit , in Great Yarmouth , and the medical unit at neighbouring Gorleston-on-Sea . the hospital is on the officially approved list of those which give complete training in nursing . do n&apos;t show your legs : by order . fashion-conscious policewomen in Nottingham have been told by their spinster boss to stop shortening their skirts . the girls thought their skirts were too old fashioned so they shortened them by tucking them over at the waist . then Chief Inspector Jessie Alexander found out . Miss Alexander , who wears a long skirt , is also angry with the tailors who supply uniforms . she claims that one of her policewomen , newly-wed Mrs Sheila Williams , has been issued with a skirt that is far shorter than regulation length . there has been a slip-up , she said . in fact my own new uniform was out of shape and I have sent it back . Mrs Williams said yesterday : I do not think my skirt is too short . it is just below my knees . I do not see why I should lengthen the skirt - long skirts look old fashioned - but if Miss Alexander insists , I suppose it will have to be done . male comment : Nottingham &apos;s Chief Constable - Mr Thomas Moore - said : there is a standard pattern for the length of policewomen &apos;s skirts , so we must follow it . all worked up about statue of a worker . a union ordered a &amp;pound;100 statue to represent the British engineer at work . but when the union members saw how the statue was shaping they were furious &amp;hellip; . for the statue - designed by 31-year-old sculptor John Paddison for the amalgamated engineering union &apos;s Wolverhampton district committee - shows an engineer with his coat half on and half off . sculptor Paddison says the engineer is taking his coat off - eager to get to work . but the Wolverhampton engineers say the man is putting his coat on - eager to get away from work . coat on - or off ? and that , they complain , creates a false impression that the British workman is interested only in dashing off as soon as the whistle blows . said factory engineer John Williams : it &apos;s quite obvious from the man &apos;s posture he is putting his coat on in a hurry . outsiders will get the impression engineers are only interested in getting out of the factory as soon as possible . said Mr Paddison , of Riches Street , Wolverhampton : as far as I &apos;m concerned , the man is taking his coat off - and that &apos;s the way it &apos;s staying . the 4 ft high statue will be finished in six weeks and shown at the local art gallery . the b-and-b raider . police were yesterday searching for the bed-and-breakfast raider . after breaking into a factory at Soho Hill , Handsworth , Birmingham , he set an alarm clock belonging to one of the staff and went to sleep in the managing director &apos;s chair . he stole about &amp;pound;3 from the canteen , which he entered with the help of factory tools , and also helped himself to eggs and milk . gaoled woman let out - to steal . a woman serving a two-year sentence at Holloway was taken from the prison to a mental hospital at Friern Barnet . on Friday she was allowed out for four hours . she went to the West End and committed her 14th crime ; she stole two blouses from a store , it was said at Marlborough Street yesterday . the magistrate , Mr Paul Bennett , V.C , discharged Mrs Kathleen Clark , of Grenville Street , King &apos;s Cross , absolutely and ordered her return to hospital . bow-wow of a party . fifty dogs will sit down to pop and buns , or biscuits , at their own garden party at Blaxton , near Doncaster , today . their guests will be dog lovers from all over the country . Mother sold child - for 28 s . a Mother was arrested yesterday and charged with selling her five-year-old daughter for &amp;pound;1 8 s . she is 33-year-old Mrs Elsie Joseph , of Seattle , Washington state , whose husband , August , is wanted by the police on a similar charge . they have seven children . Seattle police say that a Mr Wilbert Bippus , 35 , told them he and his wife had wanted to adopt a child and he offered to buy the Josephs &apos; daughter . he paid &amp;pound;1 8 s and took the girl home , but his wife made him return the child . banker &apos;s son Jeremy sued for debt . the banking family of Lubbock has had its biggest shock since son Jeremy , fresh down from university , flouted mother when she pleaded , darling , do n&apos;t become a musician . Jeremy Lubbock , now 30 and a piano player in a West End night club , has not paid up a debt , it was said in the high court . so a receiving order in bankruptcy has been served on him - and some of Jeremy &apos;s friends are wondering : what would grandfather have said about that ? for grandfather Cecil Lubbock , 83 when he died in 1956 , was a boss of the bank of England , 32 years a director and for two years deputy governor . spurned . and what is Father saying ? for father Michael Lubbock , a cousin of Lord Avebury , followed the tradition that Jeremy spurned and is a director of the bank of London and south America , and the banking firm of S G Warburg and Co . pianist Jeremy himself took time off from the keys to tell what he thinks about it . it &apos;s most unfortunate , he said . but is the banker &apos;s son ( family motto the author makes the value ) likely to be made a bankrupt ? no , I can promise you there is no prospect of that , said Jeremy . my assets exceed my liabilities . everything is being ironed out . I have the money although I am disputing the debt . you know , he said , I &apos;m no dabbler at music . it is my career . Bishop asks couple to forgive parson . the Bishop of Coventry is to ask a vicar why he did not marry two teenage parishioners . I shall go into this matter very fully , said the Bishop , Dr Cuthbert Bardesley . the vicar is the Rev Eric Jarvis , of the Warwickshire village of Ansley , who was to have married 19-year-old Barry Wright and Margaret Wilson , 18 , at St Thomas &apos;s Church , Coventry . but five days before Mr Jarvis told the couple he would not marry them unless he was ordered to by his Bishop . as a result , Barry and Margaret got married at another church , after a delay of eight days . Barry &apos;s mother protested to the Bishop . he has written back saying he is glad the marriage did take place , and adding : - I hope that now you and your son and daughter-in-law will forgive and forget , and that you will urge the young couple to receive all the help they can through prayer and worship . last night Barry , of Birmingham Road , Ansley , said : from the first time we met the vicar he seemed to have something against us . he was particularly interested in finding out why we were n&apos;t having a white wedding . at the wedding rehearsal the vicar told us he would write to the Bishop and tell him that he had two non-active Christians in the parish . he said that if he were told to marry us he would resign . Margaret was terribly upset , added Barry . I went back and told the vicar that we would be married in another church . there was nothing else I could do - it might have meant his resignation otherwise . at Ansley vicarage , Mr Jarvis said : the decision to go elsewhere was theirs . but I did tell them that in a certain set of circumstances I would write to the Bishop and if he told me to marry them I would have to consider resigning . 