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a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands’), has been drained away. RAY ILLINGWORTH yesterday indicated that when Phil Tufnell’s name comes up in selection, the phrase ‘has he got any form’ will refer not so much to his dealings with batsmen than with the police. How Hampshire suffered.Durham’s Ian Botham claimed the two Pakistan wickets he most wanted at Chester-le-Street without doing quite enough for an England recall. Peter Bonfield, ICL’s chairman and chief executive, said Fujitsu remained committed to a flotation once conditions in the computer market improved and ICL returned to growth.
ICL is the only big European computer company to have remained in profit throughout the global downturn in the industry. THE Government will stop paying its pounds 45-a-week share for accommodating elderly and mentally ill and handicapped people in nursing and residential care homes if residents go on holiday or into hospital for more than six days.

The statistics indicate that while the number of Catholics in the force has fallen slightly in recent years, officers of that religion have done relatively well in terms of recruitment and promotions.The figures will be studied keenly in Northern Ireland, where great attention is paid to the religious make-up of the force.Recently, some Catholic members of the force have criticised what they described as a lack of official effort to increase or even maintain the level of Catholic representation. It is thought the rump to be placed will be about 15 million shares.Burmah Castrol advanced 18p to 667p, helped along by the stockbroker Williams de Broe lifting next year’s forecast from pounds 93m to pounds 100m. Others seemed only partly occupied (it’s impossible to be certain, because the chief ground landlords, Howard De Walden Estates, have an aesthetic objection to ‘To Let’ boards – though not to plaques warning against the chaining of bicyles to railings).Dr Pattinson suggests there are consultants who find it more convenient – and quite as profitable – to practise privately at outlying hospitals ‘A lot of doctors have moved out. ‘It is on the definitive map (a map of rights of way which must be kept by local authorities) but it was wrongly registered,’ he said.’There used to be notices up in the woods and lanes saying that it was private land and if anyone went on it they were prosecuted I did not stop Mr Hawkins from walking on the path. All this is to says nothing of the company’s richly realised characters, among them an idiot blind man in love with a diva and a dwarfish nun who makes a noise like a hair-drier when she speaks Extraordinary Go.The Pleasance, 60 The Pleasance (venue 33) 031-556 6550 5.45pm To 5 Sept (exc 23 Aug, 1 Sept)..

My companion for the day was to be David Kelly of the Preston Ramblers’ Association. ‘You’ve got to offer something more than evenings around a copy of Das Kapital.’ At party conferences it’s the Conservatives, she says, who ‘go off every night to have a good time and socialise’, while Labour members stay ‘to sit round and talk politics’.Mr Shaw argues Conservative Partners exists already – just not in name ‘Other agencies are all run by Tories,’ he says. Police said that about 100 youngsters stopped traffic at Montparnasse station, from which high- speed trains serve south-west France and Britanny, for two hours in mid-afternoon. The pressure has been building up for decades, and now the huge hidden costs of child care are creeping into the economic and tax statistics, while a growing army of mothers juggling jobs and children are crying foul. SAGE GROUP, one of Britain’s bigger suppliers of business and accounting software, is continuing its advance on continental Europe with the acquisition of a 20 per cent stake in Extra, a Spanish software company, for pounds 188,000. The cinema is the final goal of all popular fiction, and sometimes one feels that when people praise a translatable book they are discounting the literary angle altogether.

Greycoat is expected to provide details later this week.The FT-SE 100 share index fell eight points to 3,129.6 but theFT-SE 250 index lost only 0.1 of a point to 3,486.8 Turnover was 658.2 million shares with 32,837 bargains. Never before, though, has it been dealt with in such a fractured, zany, lacerating way as here.
The mood from the start is an odd mix of the dippy and the dark. Contact with the outside world was forbidden for most citizens. ‘One, two, three,’ they shouted in unison.’More pain]’ And they all punched the air. None of its markets exceeds pounds 800m a year worldwide, and many are worth less than pounds 250m That keeps the big boys out. ‘Have a drink, dear lad,’ he said, ushering me into the nearest Soho open-all-day pub We never closed, said the Windmill Theatre. If the Council of Ministers is to be Europe’s central forum, why should it meet secretly, like some furtive treaty negotiation? How can the role of national parliaments be bolstered? How can subsidiarity (which should appeal to Labour even more than the Tories) be established in law so that people understand it? There is a good populist case to be made on Europe that is neither xenophobic nor inflationary.On both those areas of policy, and, of course, many lesser ones, Mr Smith has the chance to initiate great changes – but only so long as his party trusts him as a crusader, not a banker.