or I will be in deep trouble."Mrs Brazier denied suggestions by defence counsel Alison Barker that she had turned an innocent friendship into something more smutty.The hearing continues.. "The padre went into the bathroom to join her and stood right up behind her, rubbing his groin against her posterior."On another occasion Landall put his hand down the back of the woman's jogging trousers as she was kneeling down to change a video for her daughter. Sorry about my behaviour last night - too much to drink."Just days later, Landall turned up at the woman's house as she was bathing three children, Lt-Col Lewis said. The alleged incidents took place during 1997 at Celle, Germany.Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Lewis, prosecuting, told the hearing how Landall visited a soldier's wife who had sought counselling from him over marriage difficulties. He made "improper remarks" about her appearance, telling her: "I could fancy you."A few days later Landall went with the couple to visit their neighbours for a drink. Lt-Col Lewis said: "During the evening the woman had her neighbour's infant daughter sat on her knee The padre sat next to her... The 41-year- old chaplain had also made saucy remarks to another soldier's wife, wolf whistling at her and shouting "Phwooar" from his car window as he drove past. The court martial in Tidworth, Wiltshire, heard that Capt Landall was "a flirt" and found it difficult to control his amorous nature.The chaplain to the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers denies four charges of indecently assaulting a soldier's wife and an alternative of harassing her, as well as harassing Fusilier Sean Brazier, harassing Shelly Brazier and conduct to the prejudice of good order by undue familiarity to Shelly Brazier.

Sandline also provided helicopters and pilots to Nigerian-led forces that liberated Freetown last February "We flew ... day and night to help move troops and evacuate their casualties. Surely it must be right to help someone that is elected back to power, particularly in face of the savage, ruthless regime that ousted him," he said.. AN ARMY chaplain touched a soldier's wife's breast before asking her to make love to him, a court martial was told yesterday. Captain Richard Landall put his hands down her knickers as she was changing a video for her daughter and tried to kiss her on the lips. What we did in Sierra Leone was designed for the good rather than the bad of the country. If one believes you acted with the approval of the Government, as represented by officials or whoever, it's pretty galling to be involved as part of a criminal investigation."That being said, I am delighted that there are going to be no criminal charges."Customs and Excise, which conducted a six-week investigation into whether Sandline and others had broken the embargo banning arms sales to Sierra Leone, said on Monday that there would be no prosecution, because "circumstances leading up to the supply" of arms had made such a charge unfair.

Speaking about the affair for the first time, Tim Spicer said Sandline International was "beholden" to tell the Government what it was doing. The day after it was announced that Mr Spicer will not be prosecuted for an apparent breach of UN sanctions, he said he had clear government approval to ship arms to Sierra Leone in support of the ousted president, Ahmed Tejan Kabbah."It is really beholden on us to try and inform the relevant governments of what we have been asked to do. We would always inform those people we felt ought to be informed," he said.His claim that officials were told every time an operation was planned will further focus attention on the inquiry that the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, has launched into possible involvement of Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials in the shipment of arms to Sierra Leone last February.Mr Spicer said: "My major irritation is that I have spent a great deal of my time working for the Government, in different political persuasions. THE former Army officer at the centre of the "arms to Africa" affair yesterday said his mercenaries liaised with government officials every time they carried out an operation. Any returns the council got by way of grants he argued was "minuscule".He wants the district council and other local authorities to be able to charge a four-figure sum tax on second homes with the money earned dedicated to creating affordable housing for local people..

He reckoned the council loses pounds 1.7m a year because of it.Another loss to the council, he said, was the income from commercial holiday homes whose owners pay a non-domestic rate straight to the Government. Surely they must be able to pay more in the way of taxes than they do."The district council yesterday agreed to Councillor Stan Collins' motion call for a working party to be set up. He wants to take the problem, which he described as destroying communities, to the House of Commons, arguing that a supertax would generate income to build affordable housing for locals.He said second-home owners contributed very little to local communities but benefited from the "ludicrous" 50 per cent community charge discount the council was forced to give them. They shouldn't get away with paying half the community charge."It is a sentiment shared by Nelly and Fred Mallet, both in their seventies, who have lived all their lives in Chapel Stile.

"We have nothing against the people who have second homes or run holiday cottages here; we don't see them often enough to dislike them", said Mrs Mallet. "What we do object to is the fact that some of them don't pay the full community charge as we do. And if you think that most of us have to save up to pay this tax, it really does rankle."If they paid up perhaps the council would have more money to spend on services and then we would all benefit. Some of the holiday home rents are pounds 400 and pounds 500 a week. She waited months to move into the pebble-dashed house in the village of Chapel Stile, near Ambleside, where she has lived with her family for 15 years.