Trafalgar Square

A parcel bomb sent to a furrier's shop in Leeds was blown up by the army late Saturday, and West Yorkshire police said. Sunday that they suspect activists who oppose the fur trade. The police said the alarm was raised by a worker whose suspicions were aroused after the package arrived in the morning mail. Mark Glover, director of an anti-fur-trade campaign called Lynx. dissociated his group from any bomb plot when he spoke to a rally in London's Trafalgar Square.

The new Battle of Trafalgar--a fight over a home for thousands of London's greedy but popular pigeons--has entered a new phase. In a victory for pro-pigeon forces, Bernard Rayner, the sole seller of bird feed to tourists on the historic British square, has won a temporary High Court reprieve allowing him to continue feeding the pigeons until the case is heard in full in early February.

The Christmas tree in London's Trafalgar Square was slashed with a chain saw Monday, hours before the 100-foot Norwegian fir was to be the centerpiece of a huge New Year's party on the square. A south London man was arrested and ordered jailed for four months after he admitted the attack. He told police that the attack on the tree--a gift from Norway in recognition of Britain's help in World War II--was a protest of Norway's legal system.