He admitted yesterday: "Some friends have said it was a no-win job. If it went right, ministers would claim credit; if it went wrong, my head would roll."Mr Hellawell, who left his Yorkshire secondary school at 15 to work in a pit before embarking on a career that made him one of the country's best-known police officers, beat off competition from 250 candidates to be made the UK's first, and probably only, National Anti-Drugs Co-ordinator.His credentials were strong. A former Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, he had been the Association of Chief Police Officers' spokesman on drugs issues for a decade. But, after countless hours investigating the links between drugs and criminality, he became convinced that the "hardline" police approach should be replaced with an emphasis on driving down demand by educating young people on the dangers of substance misuse.As drugs tsar, his £106,000 pay packet made him the government's highest-paid adviser. He said yesterday that he was paid that figure as Chief Constable and so had merely retained his police salary.Mr Hellawell, 59, will continue to advise the government on "international drug-related issues". The details, including remuneration, of the part-time role have yet to be finalised.He rejected suggestions yesterday that he had been placed under too much pressure by Labour ministers who had "overhyped" the importance of his role. Instead, he said the media was responsible for unduly raised expectations.

The charge surprised journalists who recalled being summoned by Government officials to the Trocadero centre in the West End of London for the spectacular launch of his strategy.As he defended his record yesterday, Mr Hellawell said there would never be a time when people were not addicted to substances and when other people were not profiting from those addictions."I never said – ever, ever, ever – that we would resolve this problem," he said "What I did say was that we could make a difference.". The mother of missing schoolgirl Danielle Jones has admitted that she has lost almost all hope of finding her daughter alive. The mother of missing schoolgirl Danielle Jones has admitted that she has lost almost all hope of finding her daughter alive. Not a word has been heard from the 15-year-old since she disappeared on her way to school more than six weeks ago. Today her father Tony, 41, will retrace her last known steps with police to try once again to shed some light on the case."We have to have that little bit of hope but I don't really think she's alive any more," Linda Jones said yesterday.Mrs Jones, 41, said it had become "harder and harder to deal with" her daughter's disappearance as the weeks passed, each morning having to face another day of distress.Detectives believe Danielle was abducted as she walked to the bus stop near her home in East Tilbury, Essex, on her way to school on 18 June.Two separate witnesses described a girl fitting her description arguing with a man and getting into a blue van. Her mother said: "The amount of time that's gone on, she can't have disappeared off the face of the earth, if she was able to get in touch she would have done without a doubt Which is what makes me feel she isn't able to do that. We need an answer to it, we can't go on indefinitely in this limbo stage.

That's hard to deal with."I don't want to hear the worst but we need an end to it."Mrs Jones said the atmosphere at home with Danielle's father and brothers Mitchell, who turned 11 on Wednesday, and Ryan, 13, was "very tense".She said: "Somebody must know something ... if you know anyone who is acting suspiciously, I can't beg you enough to come forward We miss her so much, I need to know what's happened.". Jeffrey Archer, the disgraced Tory peer, is expected to be transferred to a low-security prison on the Isle of Wight next week. Jeffrey Archer, the disgraced Tory peer, is expected to be transferred to a low-security prison on the Isle of Wight next week. The 61-year-old, who is currently an inmate at the maximum-security jail HMP Belmarsh, in south London, had expected to be transferred to an open prison close to his home in Cambridge.But, after a review of his security status, he is now likely to spend part of his four-year sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice in HMP Camp Hill, a Category-C prison on the outskirts of the town of Newport.To visit her husband, Mary Archer will need to do a 300-mile round trip to the south coast from their home in Grantchester, near Cambridge.The former borstal was opened by Winston Churchill in 1912, and is home to 460 inmates, most of whom are being prepared for release back into the community, although it also acts as a holding jail for the Isle of Wight courts.Archer is likely to be given an individual cell, where he is expected to take his three meals a day. Meals in the wings are brought over from a central catering centre near by.

Camp Hill's kitchens were closed three years ago.Each morning and afternoon inmates can make use of the workshops or educational centre at the jail. Classes include drama, business administration, current affairs, sociology and hairdressing. The prison also has a sports hall, gymnasium and an Astroturf football pitch. In April, Camp Hill won praise in a two-week audit by the Prison Service.The prison is close to the island's two other jails, HMP Parkhurst and HMP Albany, both Category-B jails – a higher classification than required for Archer, who was made a Category-C inmate this week.When he was jailed at the Old Bailey last month, Archer was classified a Category-D inmate, the lowest security risk, which allowed him to leave prison to attend his mother's funeral two days after he received his sentence.The classification also meant that he was considered suitable to be moved from Belmarsh to an open prison, such as Ford in West Sussex, when a place became available. But he was reclassified as a higher-risk Category-C inmate when Scotland Yard confirmed that it was examining claims that millions of pounds had gone missing from Archer's fundraising campaign for Iraqi Kurds in 1991.A complaint was lodged by the Liberal Democrat MEP Baroness Nicholson, concerning the whereabouts of £57m that Archer had claimed was collected in aid of the "Simple Truth" campaign.The change in Archer's status meant he could not be moved quickly to an open jail, as happened in the case of the Jonathan Aitken, the disgraced former Tory cabinet minister.If the Metropolitan Police inquiry clears Archer, a former Tory party deputy chairman, he is likely to be transferred to an open prison, which will have a more relaxed regime. He will have to serve least two of the four years of his sentence before he can be released on parole, and will be released automatically after 32 months.* Archer faced further embarrassment yesterday when an entry in Who's Who claiming he was a member of the Lough Working Men's Club turned out to be untrue.Although bar staff remember him visiting the club for a drink 30 years ago when he was the local MP, they said he was "definitely not a member now".Lord Archer was MP for Louth, an elegant Lincolnshire town, between 1969 and 1974.

He stood down when he lost about £500,000 he had invested in a business that crashed.. A senior police officer was criticised for suggesting that forces should make speed cameras "bright and visible" to motorists. A senior police officer was criticised yesterday for suggesting that forces should make speed cameras "bright and visible" to motorists. Ken Williams, Chief Constable of Norfolk Police, said there should be more openness about the location of the cameras. His comments follow complaints over plans to triple the number of people fined for speeding.Lynn Sloman of the pressure group Transport 2000 blamed the police for caving in to public "backlash". She said: "The police and the Government are running scared of the lobby that says speed cameras are anti-democratic."Bernard Jenkin, a Tory Transport spokesman, called for fewer cameras He said they should be used "to cut accidents .. not to raise money".. A suspected car bomb exploded at midnight in a busy street in west London injuring several people.