Ask any Patel who is working in a newsagent, and they will say their son will go to university They recognise that that is the path to success. A lot of them won't do arty-farty stuff, they want something solid as a profession - engineering, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry," says Vijay, who lives in an eight-bedroom house in Benfleet, Essex, and drives an Aston Martin and a Mercedes His personalised number plate bears his first name. "I wouldn't want Patel on it somehow," he says.How does he feel about being the richest Patel in Britain? "I don't feel that that is an incredible achievement I feel no different from when I was 36,000th, or whatever I'm no different from 30 to 40 years ago I've got a long way to go My friends talk of retirement, I haven't even started. It isn't about making more wealth, it's about achieving the goals that I've set for myself. My ambition is to become a miniature Glaxo by the year 2010."So what does Leicester's large Patel population - which included Vijay when he was a student - think of its chances of becoming a millionaire? Kritesh Patel, 23, who owns Printvision, a stationery and printing business in Melton Road, with his brother Ashish, 24, believes it is only a matter of time before they too join the names on Dr Beresford's database. "Being a millionaire takes hard work, knowledge and contacts," says Kritesh, who has 200-odd close relatives called Patel.The pair were set up in business two-and-a-half years ago by their father, a retired grocer and confectioner, who came to the UK in the mid Seventies from Uganda with only £50.

The young men's business made a profit within its first year."You become successful by sticking with your family," says Kritesh. "Patels who have become successful either live with more than one family or live with more than four or five working people in the household. One pays the mortgage, one puts the food on the table, and the money from the other three goes in the bank Over 20 years how much money are you going to have? A lot. It's easy."Patels wouldn't cut someone's throat to make money, but they wouldn't look at a competitor as a friend," he adds.While being a Patel might increase your chances of striking it rich, there is one definite downside, according to CB Patel "Patels are more bald than other Asians," he says "It's all the hard work and worry.". The fishing vessel Solway Harvester was lifted from the sea near the Isle of Man last night, raising hopes of discovering why it sank suddenly, with the loss of all seven crew, five months ago. The fishing vessel Solway Harvester was lifted from the sea near the Isle of Man last night, raising hopes of discovering why it sank suddenly, with the loss of all seven crew, five months ago. All the men who died were from small villages in the south-west of Scotland, and friends said there was a sense of relief last night that the waiting for the boat to be raised was over.The Solway Harvester, which sank on 11 January, was brought to the surface about 8.45pm after a 90-minute operation by a salvage vessel sent from the Isle of Man.It was being pumped out last night and was due to be refloated before being taken by a tug at 6am to Ramsay harbour on the island, where it is expected to arrive about midday today.

It will then be put on to a slipway to be examined by police and the Marine Accident Investigation Branch. Investigators have so far had to rely on underwater video evidence collected by divers and raising the boat, a scallop dredger, is seen as the key to finding the cause of the sinking.The seven men who died - the skipper, Andrew Craig Mills, 29, his brother Robin, 33, their cousin David, 17, Martin Milligan, 26, John Murphy, 22, David Lyons, 18, and Wesley Jolly, 17 - were all from the villages of Isle of Whithorn, Whithorn and Garlieston in the Machars area of Galloway.Last night the minister for the villages, the Rev Alex Currie, said the lifting of the vessel would help families move on in coming to terms with the tragedy "This will be the next step in the process for us all. I am sure that the fact that the vessel has been raised will help us move on to the next step of finding out what happened There will be a mixture of emotions among the families. They wanted this vessel raised to find out what happened and that will be the next step for them."John Scoular, a friend of the victims and spokesman for the Isle of Whithorn community, said there was a feeling of relief in the area. "We are just vastly relieved that the long waiting period is over and we will now wait and see if our questions about what happened will answered," he said.Previous efforts to lift the vessel ran into difficulty because of poor conditions. Last week, an anchor cable snapped on a salvage vessel sent to recover the fishing boat. The MV Norma returned to Douglas harbour on the Isle of Man for repair workers to fit a replacement over the weekend.The bodies of the crew were recovered by divers in February, after the Isle of Man government pledged to take the men back home to their families for burial.

They were flown to RAF West Freugh where they were met by the Lord Lieutenant of Galloway and a police guard of honour.The men's funerals were held later in two churches, in Whithorn and the Isle of Whithorn.In the same month, two sister ships of the Solway Harvester were detained by maritime surveyors when they were found to be unseaworthy because of "significant safety flaws".. A village which has lost its way on the tourism map is seeking the perfect inspiration to make a killing from visitors. West Auckland, in Co Durham, failed to make the top 32 places in a Wear Valley tourism guide published by the English Tourism Council and the district council so the villagers are resurrecting their 19th-century resident Mary Ann Cotton, registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the most prolific poisoner. A village which has lost its way on the tourism map is seeking the perfect inspiration to make a killing from visitors. West Auckland, in Co Durham, failed to make the top 32 places in a Wear Valley tourism guide published by the English Tourism Council and the district council so the villagers are resurrecting their 19th-century resident Mary Ann Cotton, registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the most prolific poisoner. Despite 900 years of history and famously winning a football world cup twice in the early 20th century, the villagers believe a monument to Mrs Cotton, who was suspected of poisoning 20 members of her family, is most likely to rake in tourists.Every dedicated ghoul knows of Mrs Cotton, a miner's wife, who made criminal history in the 1870s when she was convicted and hanged in Durham for murdering her stepson, Frederick, with arsenic at their home at 13 Front Street.

The house is still occupied.Mrs Cotton was convicted on only one charge, but she probably murdered three husbands and more than a dozen of her children with arsenic. Historians cannot agree on whether the tally is 16 or 21.Her first husband had taken out £35,000 in insurance. Two subsequent husbands died of "gastric fever" before she was arrested for the murder of seven-year-old Frederick in 1872 - she had blamed fumes from wallpaper dye for his death. An effigy to her - and what became known as the "West Auckland case" - would be "an ideal way of getting recognition", said John Niven, a local resident and architect who is leading attempts to get the village back on the map.Mr Niven is testing Mrs Cotton's appeal at an exhibition this week charting West Auckland's history.