A "FRIGHTENING" mob armed with scaffolding poles and iron bars caused pounds 1.4m damage, laying waste part of one of the City of London's "bastions of modern commerce", Southwark Crown Court was told yesterday. As violence spiralled during last summer's "Reclaim The Streets" protest, hundreds of screaming rioters rampaged through the foyer of the Liffe building and tried to reach the rest of it. "There is a definite difference in temperature up here," she said "It's much colder But we don't intend to go back to London. We like what we get from living in the North, which really surprises us."Walthamstow/Brixton, 1992House: one/two-bedroom flat Cost: pounds 350/month mortgageCombined gross monthly earnings: pounds 45,000Food: pounds 400 per monthElectricity: pounds 60 per monthTelephone: pounds 20 per monthCouncil tax: pounds 100 per monthCombined water: pounds 20 per monthPension: N/ACar: Ford Fiesta and BMWMonthly outgoings: pounds 950Local amenities: Theatres and art galleries in central London.Harrogate,1999House: five-bedroomCost: pounds 550/month mortgageCombined gross monthly earnings: pounds 5,833Food: pounds 600 per monthElectricity: pounds 30 per monthTelephone: pounds 25 per monthCouncil tax: pounds 75 per monthWater: pounds 30 permonthPension: N/ACar: Ford FocusMonthly outgoings: pounds 1,310Local amenities: French and seafood restaurants Open grassland.. Both are born-and-bred Londoner.s Ms Hodgson, a civil servant, and Mr Loveland, a manager, settled into their new lifestyle quickly, and the North-South divide is a myth, as far as Ms Hodgson is concerned "Harrogate is a wealthy part of North Yorkshire," she said.

"I can't say I've noticed any difference in cost when we go for a meal, and a pint costs the same." There is one disadvantage. They traded in Ms Hodgson's pounds 40,000, one-bedroom flat in Walthamstow, east London, and Mr Loveland's pounds 50,000, two-bedroom flat in Brixton, south London, for a pounds 126,000, five- bedroom, three-storey Edwardian house. IRIS HODGSON, 53, and her partner Paul Loveland, 51, moved to Harrogate, in North Yorkshire, when their employer, the Department of Health, relocated to Leeds eight years ago. The result will be announced on 17 January.Mr Norris's campaign was helped yesterday when Ivan Massow, the millionaire businessman, pulled out of the race and endorsed him.Mr Hague and his shadow cabinet will remain neutral until the party has selected its candidate.CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATESSteven Norris - former Transport ministerTeresa Gorman (right) - veteran Eurosceptic MP for BillericayBaroness Miller of Hendon - Tory London spokesman in the House of LordsBaroness Hanham - leader of Kensington and Chelsea CouncilJohn Wilkinson - MP for Ruislip NorthwoodAndrew Boff - Islington councillorRobert Blackman - Brent councillorBernard Gentry - former Lambeth Tory group leaderLurline Champagnie - Jamaican-born former Tory Harrow councillorMark Kotecha (right) - millionaire Internet entrepreneur. They are Mrs Gorman, Mr Norris, Baroness Miller of Hendon, the party's London spokesman in the House of Lords, and Baroness Hanham, the leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council.Other Tory hopefuls include John Wilkinson, the MP for Ruislip Northwood; councillors Andrew Boff and Robert Blackman; the former Lambeth Tory group leader Bernard Gentry; Jamaican-born Lurline Champagnie and Mark Kotecha, 35, an Internet entrepreneur.After the new vetting procedure has been carried out, the 72 local Tory party chairmen in London will whittle down the applicants to a shortlist of three or four runners.They will appear at a hustings meeting on 15 December, before two names are chosen for a final secret ballot of the Tories' 30,000 members in the capital. She declared that London mothers did not want their children handed pamphlets on "alternative lifestyles".Billing herself as the candidate for the "cabbies on the street and the ordinary Londoner", Mrs Gorman said: "I believe that a woman's voice from an old-fashioned school would not go amiss, coupled with the fact that I have had a close involvement with the London scene all my life." Mrs Gorman, a former member of Westminster City Council, was one of the seven Tory Eurosceptic rebels from whom John Major briefly withdrew the party whip.Senior Conservatives said there are four heavyweight candidates on the list, which will be published later this week.

She only requested nomination papers on Saturday, and put her name forward just before yesterday's noon deadline. Mrs Gorman, 68, announced a week ago that she would stand down from Parliament at the next general election. Although she said she wanted to seek fresh challenges outside the Commons, she also cited her desire to look after her sick husband.Last night the maverick MP said she had thrown her hat into the ring to combat Mr Norris' liberal views on homosexuality. The move could result in Steven Norris, the front-runner, being questioned by a specially convened sub-committee of the London Tories about his colourful private life and his five former mistresses. Senior Tories admit privately that they were wrong not to carry out tougher checks on Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare, who was forced to stand down last month after a friend alleged he was asked to lie for the novelist in a libel trial in 1987.Ms Gorman, the MP for Billericay, is expected to face questions about an inquiry being conducted by Elizabeth Filkin, the Parliamentary Commissioner on Standards and Privileges, into a complaint that she failed to declare in the MPs' register of interests her ownership of two homes in South London and another in Portugal.Her last-minute entry stunned Tory leaders. TERESA GORMAN, the Eurosceptic MP, was a surprise late entry yesterday in the re-run race to become the Tory candidate for mayor of London. In an attempt to learn the lessons from the Jeffrey Archer affair, London Tory leaders are expected to vet the candidates seeking the party's nomination for any "skeletons in the cupboard". "I agree the version taken down in the police station was different to what I said today." Asked why, he said: "Because today I am more sane."Mr Henriques accused Dr Shipman of "browbeating" Jean Pinder, the niece of another alleged victim, Joan Melia, 73, to ensure there was no post mortem examination when he had written the death certificate.Dr Shipman, 53, of Roe Cross Green, Mottram, near Hyde, denies the murders of 15 women and forging the pounds 386,000 will of one of them.The case continues..