And even now he can't believe he's off the hook. He says he hasn't seen this year's accounts. The Association chairman says their finances are now in order, thanks to the generosity of Conservative supporters. He says they'll soon be contributing to party funds. And the financial record of Witney's Conservatives will no longer be an embarassment to the MP and Government Minister they're trying to support. # An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic. The seamen are adrift in lifeboats, seventeen hundred miles off the Falkland Islands. The Hercules and its crew, from RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire, are on a four-month attachment to the Falklands. They're carrying special life-rafts fully equipped with supplies. The RAF says the Russians are in one of the worst possible places in the world for a rescue but they have to give it