This, as every parent and carer reading this will know, is simply a question of time. An MP's life has little time as it is - even less if you are on the front bench. Mrs Browning is the Opposition spokeswoman for education and disability. Clearly, something had to give."My son hasn't been very good since Christmas. We've been struggling on since then and he spends most of his time in Devon with my husband," said Mrs Browning, 51, the MP for Tiverton and Honiton and a special counsellor to the National Autistic Society."We've lived with autism for 26 years. He needs to go to certain appointments and she needs to be with him.

FOR Angela Browning, the decision to step down from the Tory front bench yesterday was simple Her son Robin needs her. He is 26 and mildly autistic and since Christmas has been going through a bad patch. It is clear that there was no evidence to indicate that Mr Ashley carried out this stabbing."In fairness to the deceased and his family, we feel it is important to make this clear."At the time of the raid, police arrested three other men at other addresses in the town.Sussex Police declined to comment yesterday.. James Ashley, 39, was shot as he stood naked by his bed in his flat in St Leonards, East Sussex, last January. He was hit once in the chest after officers burst into his flat at 4am. In 1993, he was jailed for two years for the manslaughter of man he killed during a brawl in a pub in Eastbourne.Shortly after the shooting, Paul Whitehouse, the Chief Constable of Sussex, said officers had been investigating alleged drugs trafficking and the attempted murder of a man stabbed outside a pub in Hastings.He added: "I am satisfied that the operation was carried out properly. The decision to mount the operation with armed officers was correct and the planning was carried out carefully."But the independent Police Complaints Authority yesterday issued a statement saying there was no evidence on the police file to indicate that Mr Ashley had carried out the stabbing the police were investigating.Four officers, a superintendent, two inspectors and a constable, were suspended from Sussex on full pay on Saturday.Tony Williams, a member of the inquiry team led by Barbara Wilding, Assistant Chief Constable of Kent, said in a statement yesterday: "Since the fatal shooting of James Ashley on January 15 there have been various references which either state or might imply that he was being sought by Sussex Police as a suspect for a stabbing incident that occurred on January 7."As part of the continuing investigation into the shooting, officers have examined the file relating to this incident.

A POLICE force, whose officers shot dead an unarmed man in his bedroom, had "no evidence" to suggest he was responsible for the crime - an attempted murder - that they were investigating, an independent inquiry said yesterday. When you buy a time-share you buy a week in one resort, but you can swap that and go somewhere else so what you actually get is a giant international exchange organisation."The number of UK timeshare holidaymakers has grown from fewer than 500,000 in 1987 to around 1.1 million in 1997.. Thomas Cook said it would be promoting "upmarket properties" in the UK, the Mediterranean, Florida and New York and promised that it would not be using the same hard-sell methods that have brought the industry into disrepute. "We are going to sweep this industry clean and show British holiday-makers that time-share is an attractive value-for-money proposition," a spokesman said.The company will concentrate on villas and apartments in some "exclusive" resorts and prices will start from pounds 2,500 for one week per year."Most people are extremely happy with the quality of their timeshare," said Andrew Windsor, retail director for Thomas Cook."We will only be dealing with well-established brand names such as Disney and Marriot who have extensive experience of time-share resorts."In addition to that people will buy their timeshare in Florida, for example, but they will be able to exchange it for a week in New York if they want, so there is more flexibility."Nearly 40 per cent of all time-share properties owned are in the Canary Islands, with a further 20 per cent in Spain and 19 per cent in the UK.Neil Cooper, chief executive of the Time Share Council, said the organisation was delighted that Thomas Cook had endorsed the industry."Timeshare used to have a very bad reputation, mainly because of the hard-sell but there has been legislation to change all that and there is much more confidence in the product nowadays," he said."It is now illegal to buy a timeshare property until you return home which allows the person to really think about whether they can afford it."There is also a cooling off period when you can back out of the contract, which has put an end to a lot of the hard-sell because people know they can change their minds."Timeshare has really lost its stigma nowadays. The task of government is to be vigilant and try to get counter- fraud techniques in front of where the able gangs are."It's important that it goes back into the system that a new age has started.".