One 13-year-old boy walks with a limp and has to use a crutch to get about, but even he knows what he will be doing when he is older "If there is no independence, I will be a fighter If not, I will be a doctor or another job. Yes, I would like best to be a doctor, it's the best job, but..." He stops talking and fires an imaginary gun in the air, and then shrugs. "I think I must fight."All the boys receive military training, and when I ask them what their fathers do, I get one of two answers: their father died in the fighting or is a soldier and lives in Polisario's military bases For them, future conflict is a constant threat. Salahi looks even more serious when I ask him what he will do when he grows up "I am very worried," he says "I don't want to go to war, but I think this might happen I don't like to see children running from guns. I want to see children running for fun."Prospects for a compromise granting Western Sahara autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty - hinted at by King Mohammed VI of Morocco last November - now seem distant. Certainly among this group of children and the two adults who accompany them, the legacy of injustice seems to bite too deep for such a settlement.

At one point, as we drive through the suburbs of Cardiff, Metu tells me about her father, and her voice is rich with anger. He was captured by Moroccan authorities, way back in 1975, and, like hundreds of other Saharawi prisoners, has never been heard of since. "Not a letter, not a telephone call - nothing," she tells me. But she still holds onto the belief that he may be alive in a Moroccan prison, and she won't give up until she knows.What's more, like most of the refugees in the camps, she has family who still live in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, including a grandmother and grandfather whom she saw for the first time earlier this year in a meeting in Mauritania "You can't imagine," she says, when I ask what it was like "My family don't know me I was born in refugee camps. We were crying a lot." But although she had never met her family before, she has heard about their lives under Moroccan rule, and what she has heard has kept her anger against Moroccoalive. For instance, as the latest Amnesty International report on the region documents, peaceful protests by Saharawi students in Western Sahara last September were violently broken up, and dozens of Saharawis were beaten and imprisoned.At the end of their day in the sunshine, the group of 10 children are divided among the Welsh families who are looking after them for this part of their holiday.

One by one, the children shake my hand and try out their few words of English. "One day," says Lqefa Eslam, their teacher, "you will come and visit me in my home country. I will welcome you there."The Western Sahara Campaign UK can be contacted c/o Oxford Chambers, Oxford Place, Leeds LS1 3AX, 0113-245 4786. A 15 year-old British schoolchild has been killed and four others seriously injured in a coach crash in France. A 15 year-old British schoolchild has been killed and four others seriously injured in a coach crash in France. The vehicle crashed on the A71 motorway about six miles from Vierzon, at 6.25 am local time close to the town of Bourges, according to police spokesman Jean-Pierre Smith.The coach was reported to have overturned. Gendarmes at the scene said the accident is thought to have been caused by the driver falling asleep at the wheel.Onboard were children from two British groups - 21 children and six adults from the 41st Edinburgh Boys Brigade, and a party of 19 youngsters and two adults from Chadwell Heath High School in Romford, Essex.The youngsters had been due to spend a week in the Correze region and had set off the previous evening, the radio station added.

Emergency services treated the injured at the scene and those seriously hurt were taken to hospital in Bourges.. A car bomb exploded in the northern Basque city of Bilbao, Spain, today, killing at least three people. A car bomb exploded in the northern Basque city of Bilbao, Spain, today, killing at least three people. Spanish news media speculated that three victims - who were inside the moving car when it exploded and burst into flames - were armed ETA activists.The national news agency Efe said the explosion occurred in the industrial neighborhood of Bolueta in Bilbao shortly before 9pm and that the bodies of two men and a woman were found.One body was thrown 50 yards from the blast. Weapons were also found in the street, apparently blasted from the car in the explosion.The guerrilla group ETA, an acronym that stands for Basque Homeland and Freedom, has been fighting since the late 1960s to carve an independent homeland out of Basque areas in northern Spain and southwest France.The last outbreak of violence attributed to ETA was the bombing of a bank office on July 27 in the Basque capital of Vitoria. Nobody was hurt in that explosion.That attack was the eighth blamed on ETA since July 12, when a car bomb exploded in a downtown Madrid shopping area, injuring nine people.The recent spate of violence included the assassination in July of a town councilor in the southern city of Malaga.The series of attacks are seen as an acceleration of the campaign of ETA, which has killed some 800 people in its 30-year war for independence for the Basque region of northern Spain The group abandoned a 14-month ceasefire earlier this year..

A 15-year-old boy was killed and four people seriously injured today when a coach-load of youngsters heading for an adventure holiday crashed and overturned in France. A 15-year-old boy was killed and four people seriously injured today when a coach-load of youngsters heading for an adventure holiday crashed and overturned in France. The victim, Craig Norsworthy from Edinburgh, was among a group from the 41st Edinburgh Boys Brigade who were travelling with a party of London schoolchildren.Craig's devastated parents Stephen and Ida spoke of their sorrow at the loss of their "cheeky wee laddie".At their home in Hosie Rigg, in a quiet suburban area of Edinburgh known as The Jewell, Craig's family were coming to terms with their shock.Craig, the younger of two children, was awaiting the results of his Standard Grade exams on Thursday.In a statement his parents said: "He was a happy-go-lucky lad, a cheeky wee laddie in the best sense of the word."He had the cheekiest smile, the very same one that he had had since he was a baby."Eleven of the 48 people on board were injured, four seriously, said the Foreign Office.Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott today offered French authorities assistance in carrying out an inquiry into the accident, which happened at about 6.25am local time (5.25am British time) as the coach travelled south on the A71 motorway at the village of Vierzon near Clermont Ferrand, in the centre of the country.It was the second fatal coach crash in a month on the A71, after a Belgian coach left the road killing two and injuring 50 in July, said French media.Acting captain of the Boys Brigade, Alan Meikle, who was on the coach this morning, said everyone had been wearing seatbelts and most were asleep at the time of the crash.The coach party aged between 12 and 18 were heading to Brive-la-Gaillarde in the Dordogne with Herefordshire-based school specialists PGL Travel for a week's adventure holiday of white water rafting, canoeing and assault courses.There were 21 children and six adults from the Edinburgh Boys Brigade company, based at Duddingston Kirk in the east of the city, and a party of 17 youngsters and two adults from Chadwell Heath Foundation School, Romford, east London.The statement from Craig's parents, who also have a 16-year-old son Ross, continued: "He liked computers, but he had reached the age where he was moving away from computers to enjoy the social life."The Boys Brigade had a crowd after the activities and they went out socially together in the evenings."He had quite a few girlfriends - the phone was always ringing, but we think he did have someone special."He was good with the younger kids in the street, because he would encourage them and play football with them."Parent Les Abbs told how for two and a half hours he did not know whether his son David, 14, was alive or dead.The Romford pupil had been badly shaken by the experience, he added."When he phoned he was in pieces, he was crying down the phone, he was in absolute agony. He had cuts all down his arms and he couldn't move his arms."Parent Sandra Marshall, 36, was working the night shift at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary when she was told son James, 12, had been involved in the crash.She said: "James telephoned to say that he was unhurt. He said there was no other vehicle involved but he had his seatbelt on and he woke up upside down in the coach with everybody screaming and glass everywhere."He was not crying but he was obviously shaken."Gendarmes at the scene said the accident was thought to have been caused by the driver falling asleep at the wheel.More than 20 emergency vehicles attended the scene and the injured were taken by ambulance and helicopter to hospitals in Vierzon and Bourges, while the uninjured were taken to an emergency centre at Vierzon where counsellors were on hand.Gordon Menzies, general manager of coach operator Rennies of Dunfermline, said the Volvo coach was fully fitted with seatbelts.Keith Wilkinson, head teacher of Chadwell Heath Foundation School, said one of his pupils, 15-year-old Ross Buckmaster, had suffered a serious neck injury and a girl had undergone a successful operation to remove glass from her face.Chief executive of the Boys Brigade, Sydney Jones, said: "It is a terrible tragedy. It makes your blood run cold when you hear of it."Mr Prescott said: "Our thoughts and sympathy are with the families of the children and teachers involved in this terrible accident."I have spoken to the French authorities to thank them and offer any assistance that may be required in the inquiry into why this tragic accident occurred."One of the teachers with the Chadwell Heath group, David Thompson, said the children were shocked and shaken."They are all worried about their friends, but as more of them come back from hospital with only cuts and bandages, they are feeling more and more relieved," he said.PGL Travel, which has been operating since 1957, has 27 adventure centres across the UK and France, and is arranging to take parents out to see the children where necessary.The company has also set up a helpline for worried parents on 01989 764211 A Foreign Office emergency hotline is on 020 7839 1010..