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By Jeremy Laurance Ciskei’s HEALTH SERVICES CORRESPONDENT ruler “carter the in 1989. latest THE within which BMA The hospital consultants deride set. published last week, cover their own lees for private 1.500 procedures from re- from Michael Hamlyn in bisho work, is to be investigated by moval of a wisdom tooth (fee the Monopolies and Mergers £310) to a liver transplant THE African National the bantustans, is an impor- said prayer a in Xhosa calling Commission amid concern (surgeon's fee £5.825. Congress tant condition for the resum- for to insisted yester- God intervene to end that doctors earnings from anaesthetist's fee £2.330). ing of talks." day that the Bisho massa- the madness. Archbishop private practice are too high. Bupa, the largest health in- Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC Tutu spoke in a mixture of cre would stand in the way Sir Biyan Carsberg. direc- surer. has its own scale of fees secretary-general, was more Xhosa and English, some- of constitutional negotia- M tor-general of the Office of which closely follows the specific How can we now sit times at the same time, saying tions until Brigadier Josh- Fair Trading, yesterday BMA’s. down in multilateral negotia- that he and his colleagues ua Gqozo, asked the commission to en- the militaiy tions with after has About 12,000 consultants Gqozo he had come to show solidarity quire into the setting of ruler of Ciskei, was re- killed so many of our people?” do some private practice ...“not with the ANC, but to “guideline" fees by the British moved from office. he asked. show solidarity earning an average of almost our with our Medical Association to be The brigadier, who seized their £50,000 on top of maximum At a press conference in people hi struggle for charged by consultants. If the power in the nominally inde- pan-time NHS salaries rang- King William’s Town. MLr justice and peace". guidelines were adhered to by pendent homeland two years ing from £45.000 to E86.000. Mandela demanded that The church leaders then a “significant proportion" of ago, said yesterday he would Most charge according to the Brigadier Gqozo be removed crossed the scrubby bushland doctors it would “raise the not resign and insisted his BMA and Bupa scales. A ana that an interim govern- separating the marchers from question of how effective fees troops, who had opened fire surgeon who performs a ment, acceptable to all par- the legislative and adminis- competition is between con- on an march killing couple of major operations in ANC 28 ties. be established imme- trative offices of die Ciskei sultant donors”. an afternoon can easily sup- and wounding 200. had act- diately. That section Ciskei of government and were invited The BMA said it would co- ed with restraint. plement his NHS salary by lawprohibiting free activity of to meet Brigadier Gqozo. He operate fully with tiie com- Nelson Mandda, the ANC £1 ,000 a week. But the range any political organisation dismissed their request for mission's investigation but president, after visiting the of private earnings is wide should also be repealed and him to install an interim gov- daimed that publication of site the killings laying from a few hundred pounds of and South African militaiy intelli- ernment. but they persuaded the scale of fees, which are to a wreath of yellow flowers on more than £100.000. gence officials together with him to accept some demo- intended as a guideline only, the tarmac at Private insurers claim that the bonier be- staff of a private company, cratic consultation with the was in the public interest. It the rate at which consultants tween Ciskei and Afri- South which had been involved in inhabitants of Ciskei. was intended to hdp GPs earn in the private sector is ca. said: “A dimate of free arming and training vigilan- advise patients After visiting the site of the of the likely Continued on page 16. col political activity throughout 3 te forces, should be removed. killings, cost of private treatment and the MrManddawentto whole country, including to protect patients from over- “From this day." Mr Man- the Victoria stadium in the Private profits, page 2 dela ^rid, ‘’Bi$ha win 'rank centre of King William's charging. with Boipatong on that roll- Town where a crowd erf sev- “We strongly urge consul- Germans call of infamy that recounts eral thousand had spent most tants to discuss with their the past two years of F.W. de of the day. He offered condo- patients the cost of treat- Klerk’s incumbency." [Forty- lences and urged discipline; ment," a spokesman said. three people in the warned of pro-ANC the demonstrators then The private insurers also community of Boipatong began to return to their welcomed the investigation. were killed in June townships. when "The level of consultants’ fees pay freeze Zulus of the Inkatha move- In London, Douglas Hurd, and the difficulty of influenc- ment attacked the townshipj. the foreign secretary, con- ing them is a continuing con- or more tax Standing in the road where demned the killing and cern." said Roy Forman, chief ANC demonstrators had wounding of ANC support- executive of Private Patients From Ian Murray been killed cm Monday, Mr ers, as weD as the killing of 10 Plan. IN is BONN Mandda said: “It a very people ai a political gathering David Cavers, chief execu- emotional moment for us to in Natal last Friday. AS HELMUT Kohl, the em- tive of Norwich Union. Health think that those who are He had led a visit by the battled chancellor, faced in- Care, said: “As far as the fighting for democracy, for troika of EC foreign ministers creasing calls for a customer is concerned the peace, for love among South to South Africa last week to government of national unity, more light that can be shed Africans, should be mown discuss the ending of vio- on the way the fees are estab- the German government yes- ' down by those who fear lence. In Brussels yesterday Prayer for the dead; Nelson Mandela, the ANC president laying a wreath lished terday threatened new tax in- the better." The guide- democracy” tiie Community announced yesterday at the spot where 28 of his supporters were in lines were creases unless workers in the shot dead Ciskei first published tty that, as a result of a decision west agreed to accept a volun- Mr Mandda arrived at the several made during that visit, it tary two- to three-year wage border surrounded by jubilant supporters would send at least 15 polit- freeze to help with the costs of hundred who had spent a dully night ical observers to South Africa the reunification. TUC greets bosses’ man to help to curb the rarial Theo Waigd. the finance of vigil atthe site. They were yesterday Archbish- violence. minister, said his planned joined by op Desmond Tutu, head of austerity programme would with cheers and a walkout the Anglican church in south- Barrage of bullets, page 11 raise money for investment in ern Africa. Bishop David Leading article, page 13 the east while bringing down BY ROSS tieman, INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT Grahamstown, The power of one. interest rates throughout Russell of site. section, page 5 HISTORIC new era of government spending on in- similar positions on training Europe. At the same time he whose diocese cowrs the L&T AN dialogue between employers frastructure and more pay and the need for the govern- promised to cut benefits' for and workers is in prospect restraint by company ment to stimulate the con- asylum seekers and to find after the director-general of directors. struction industry. ”1 am sure ways of stemming the flow of 'Secret ballot’ poll helps the CBI promised an “open there is more business be refugees entering the country. Focusing on common to door" to members of the done together,” he said: ’*We Resentment about the influx ground between the TUC and Trades Union Congress in CBI on some European is- both want a highly skilled, of refugees has led to a wave voters to tell the truth Blackpool. sues. Howard said: “The prosperous workforce which of violent attacks on foreign- Mr Despite issuing an uncom- CBI will take pan in the social can build a successful hu- ers. A new poll shows that By Robin Oakley, political editor promising call for pay re- dialogue. We welcome the mane and generous society.” support for the extreme right op- straint. especially in the portunity it offers for employ- The tensest moment came is now over 10 per cent na- ONE of Britain's biggest But the biggest problem they public sector. Howard Davies ers and trade unions to agree when Mr Davies renewed his tionwide and is stronger in opinion polling organisations have identified was that of signalled a willingness to on measures which will be of call for all public sector pay the west than in the east. is to adopt a “secret ballot” to people who refused to say how work with the unions on areas benefit to both sides, rather increases to be financed Herr Kohl told a meeting of overcome the reluctance of they would vote; ICM subse- of common concern. Howev- than-waiting for sometimes fll through productivity gains. his ruling Christian Demo- voters to reveal which party quently determined that most ... AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE AND ‘er. there would be no return considered proposals to To loud jeers, he said: “I crats that there was “not the they intend to support The of these in fact voted Tory. know that message will SAVINGS! election to “corporatism", he said. emerge from the Commis- not be MAKE SUBSTANTIAL slightest reason" for "dis- change tty 1CM is the first The outcome of the sion’s bureaucracy." welcome to everyone here. As leading specialists in school fee planning tee offer: graceful rumours" suggest- attempt to counter the poll- was described by Bob Wor- Mr Davies’ speach was the first hesi- But we believe that the public ing that Wolfgang Schauble. sters' failure accurately to cester. Mori's chairman, as to the TUC by an em- Although he did not • Monthly and lump sum plana to provide school fees. sector should accept private the parliamentary lead- measure public opinion on “the worst result for the opin- ployers’ representative since tate to emphasise-difterences CDU sector disciplines • Impartial advice on the best investments to provide its formation years ago. of view, on pay. And er, had been plotting to chall- the eve of the last general ion polls since they were 124 Mr Davies took an Contimied on page It, col 6 school fees. enge the chancellor and election. invented". Arthur Scargill. the miners’ important step towards meet- walkout create a grand coalition with ICM says that about 30 per An average of the final pre- leader. lead a by 40 ing TUC calls for a “social * Plans individually designed for parents and grandparents. TUC sketch, page 6 the Social Democrats. cent of the variation between election polls tty the five main delegates, but those who re- partnership" with employers Diary, * FREE advice and management throughout the duration the polls and the result was polling groups — Mori. Gal- mained cheered loudly when on the European model. He page 12 8 Mr Davies called for more said the TUC and CBI held Leading article, page 13 of the plan- Austere budget page f 0 attributable to a late swing: Continned on page 16, col Call us or complete the coupon belotc. BBC rotters give ‘stoutist’ Bunter the bumps INVEST FOR SCHOOL FEES Births, marriages. deaths.,.-.. By Melinda Wittstock Harry Wharton, has not given up hope Crossword ... 0442 217211 MEDIA CORRESPONDENT that another broadcaster might give Letters. © ; to make it contemporary. Bunter a new lease on life. He has Obituaries Grange HitL" commissioned a writer to update the Sport BILLY Bunter has been bumped again, FAX: 0442 217218 Weather. but this time tire rotters responsible are Enid Blyton's Toyfand characters will comic, with some episodes to feature appear soon in a new BBC animation Japanese sumo wrestlers. politi- I III mi the BBC who believe that today's lUSMHHM ill* I* NIMBI lltlhlRRM* tlUMIII « l\MU. I ll H series, after cally correct children would be offended but only being sanitised for Bunter, created by Charles St John i mini mi mnifPiMvm noiuioi nuium i^him^ more politically correct Hamilton under tiie Frank by the old comic strip's “stoutism and consumption. pen name of racism”. A script for an animated tele- Golliwogs have been replaced by grem- Richards, appeared in a television se- Pn.-t to: Invent for School For-, . 4 Clifton Court. vision series about Greyfriars School's lins or monkeys. the people are no long- ries 40 years ago. but it was not a Corn.-: Hall, Hcmrl Heniji-tcad. Hen*. HIM 9X\ Fat Owl of the Remove was thought to er “gay” and Noddy is no longer allowed favourite with the critics. One said: “AH be “dated" by its public school carica- to feel “queer". the flavour that we remember of the old Xnmt tures and racial stereotypes. It is unlikely that the Greyfriars boys' Magnet stories, full of japes and jam “Children are far quicker than adults attitude to their Indian schoolmate tans, noisy raggings and famous AiMir*. at spotting and rejecting cases ofracism Hurree Jaraset Ram Singh, whom they phrases, was missing. In its place was a aim stoutism." Mikael Shields, BBC called Inky, would find favour with the schoolboy comedy, which amounted to Enterprises' head of business develop- Commission for Racial Equality. But little more than slapstick." ment for children's programmes, said. the BBC does not believe that even a Last night the BBC said: “This is one Ilnmr Tri. tiffin" T»L "Our editorial colleagues thought it politically corrected version of the Bant- of hundreds iff ideas offered to BBC would dated." er comics — a childhood favourite of Children's Television. At the time it was be OkU*- / nbiWrrtT- tjjr (.) , publisher who ap- John Major would be acceptable. offered, it was felt that there was not a »4 pa,rural Frank Hawkey, a — Pl»frn Mrlhwi nf TT 9/9 proached the BBC with the script idea, Mr Hawkey, who proposed featuring place for BiDy Burner in the schedule," rejected such fears as an absurd excuse. tire voices of John Geese as Mr Quelcn 1‘MII Inrnmp (nrantr tamp Sim t.anip Sma "Thev told me it would encourage the schoolmaster and Michael Palin as BBC cuts, page 16

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NHS surgeons paid £1,1 50 for an afternoon’s private work

6jC the work. But he something to point to." The 6J ByJeremy Laurance the private sector. Until the over whether the fees paid to pared to do association drew up the scale and Alison Roberts scale was first published in BMA FEES consultants are excessive. did not say where they would Secure hospitals to smaller insurers with help from the private 1 989, many consultants relied David Cavers, chief executive go. Many health insurance companies A CONSULTANT orthopae- on rule of thumb to ralrnlarp of Norwich Union Health quote the BMA fee scale as the after studying similar scales in 9.1 dic surgeon who takes a their fees. One said that he Care, said that a surgeon figure they will pay. face wide review Liver transplant 5,825 "1 inadvis- America and Australia, the Friday afternoon off to do a had a friend who was a doing private work could earn consider that an hip replacement 775 spokesman added. couple of private hip replace- management consultant who £50.000 on average, the same able course.** said Mr Removal of thrombus will is chairman of The work involved in differ- Closure of Britain's top-security mental hospitals come ments and charges the British charged — in die mid-1980s from vein 600 as his NHS salary. but in only Forman, who 10J Medical Insurance ent surgical procedures was a step nearer next week with the announcement of a review Medical Association “guide- — £150 an hour and he tried Caesarean section one sixth of the time. Thai was the Private Association assessed and ranked accord- of their future (Jeremy Laurance writes}. Virginia Bottanticy. line" fee of£775 would supple- to charge the same. defivery 580 equivalent to £300.000 a year. Committee of the secretary, for Hernia operation 320 Insurers. “It makes ing to criteria such as the skill health has bowed to pressure the review after ment his NHS salary of Bupa. the largest health "Thai is vasty in excess of of British Removal of haemorrhoids 295 required and the length and an enquiry found that a brutal regime had operated at 11J £50,000-plus by £1.550 a insurance company, publishes what we would have to pay in the insurer dependent on what Stripping of varicose operation. Ashworth hospital planned week. place," die specialists, via the BMA, complexity of the on Merceyskte. She had a mure a scale of fees it will pay vain 2B& any other market he themselves decide should be However, the pricing of the limited review, of the running of the hospitals. The future id Most of the 1 2.000 consul- consultants for different types Examination of Joint- said. procedures was done by the Broadmoor. Rampton and Ashworth speck! hospitals will tants who do some private ofoperations. Subscribers who under anaesthetic 90 But Mr Forman said that paid." 12J association has pub- association alone, without as- now be considered by a working group of about 20 practice — two thirds of the want treatment by a consul- many consultants did not earn The of fees since sistance from the insurance managers and specialists chaired fry Or John Reed, a total — charge at these rates or tant who charges more are come targets.*' said Roy large sums from private prac- lished its scale to demands companies. medical officer at the health department Officials accept the marginally lower rates required to pay die difference Forman, chief executive. He tice until a very late stage in 1 989 in response members. "Doctors Mr Forman said: "You have that radical pruning of the hospitals may be needed bat are 1J paid by Bupa. Only the top out of their own pocket would not disclose how the their careers. "It takes a doctor from some sort of marker to a relation between the proce- understood stifl to oppose wholesale closure. Establishment 1. names in : the profession Private Patients Plan, the scale was established but saicf a pretty long time to get to that wanted explain the costs to dures which is rationally based of the working group was announced fry Mrs Bottom!cy lost charge more. second Largest insurer, has a it did not involve comparison level and you have to take ihar help them patients.” a spokesman said. but the pricing is commercial- month: she sard it would consider "the culture" of the The vast majority hold secret scale of fees. If a with other professions or doc- into account." patients think some ly based.” hospitals, not closure. One option is to dose old parts of NHS posts and do the private consultant exceeds the limit tors* earnings in other If the fees were cut there “A lor of things are enormously Broadmoor and Ashworth, keep the new and put more work in their spare time. Only his bill is queried. "As soon as countries. could be "a drying up of the of these doctors Cartel' enquiry, page I patients in regional secure units. The Special Hospitals a handful work exclusively in you publish scales they be- Private insurers are divided supply" of consultants pre- expensive and needed 3. Service Authority could then relinquish responsibility for running the hospitals and be a purchasing authority, buying secure care from the NHS. 4. chief to 5. Schools vows Break-in at Pavilion

5. Chinese vases and other objects worth up to £ 1 50.000 have 6. defend standards & shocking attack. We arc laboriously piering together again to assess exactly what the damage is. 7. By Matthew d’Ancona, education correspondent objects 7. but a preliminary estimate of the value is £100.000 to electronic security STEWART Sutherland, the engaged in die assessment of from its predecessor, die i 50- £150.000." The building's system new chief inspector of schools, this avalanche of applications year-old Her Majesty’s Inspec- detected an intruder as he broke through a window into the night and a man was arrested yesterday launched die re- and nearly 1 ,000 have already torate. citing the rejection of main saloon on Monday vamped and renamed inspec- passed the first scrutiny and applications from traditional- almost immediately. Brighton Pavilion was designed by tions service, the Office for wfil be invited to take up a ist teachers who have openly John Nash and built between 1815 and 1822 as the holiday Standards in Education place on the Ofcted training opposed progressive educa- palace of the Prince Regent, later George IV. In 1975 a (Ofcted). and promised par- scheme." The first series of tional orthodoxy. student set fire to the music room and repairs cost £250,000. ents that classroom and ex- training seminars wQl begin However, Professor Suther- A man wfil appear before Brighton magistrates this amination standards would be on Monday, with an eventual land said that Ofcted would morning charged with criminal damage. rigorously defended by the target of between 200 and work within a much tougher new watchdog. 1,000 accredited inspetfors. framework of criteria, assess- From next year, indepen- According to statistics re- ing schools once every four Dumping defended dent teams led by registered leased yesterday, die typical years with reference to pub- inspectors and including lay applicant is white, male, aged lished indicators such as re- British militaty vessels will continue to dump ammunition members will bid for inspec- 40 to49 and lives in the South sults in national curriculum at sea in spite of claims fry the environmental group tion contracts expected to be East Most of the 600 applica- tests and public examinations Greenpeace that they are 'flouting international law worth £5.000 to £30,000. Pro- tions for lay posts are from and truancy rates, which (Nicholas Watt writes). A defence ministry spokeswoman fessor Sutherland, who is also managers, directors and other would eventually be compared said Britain was not breaking international law by foiling to vice-chancellor of London professionals, with a handful with international figures. tell the London Dumping Convention that it was disposing

University, said that more sent in fry secretaries, police- The office’s reports, to be of ammunition in the Atlantic She said; “The convention than 4.000 people had app- men and soldiers. published only at local level does not apply to us." British military vessels had crown lied for posts as inspectors Traditionalist critics have would be “written in jargon- immunity which exempted them. The ministry is expected to since July. argued that the new inspector- free language”. dump 8.405 tons of ammunition in the sea this year “My office is now heavily ate will differ only cosmetically John Patten, the education compared with 7.656 tons in the fouryears up to 1992. The secretary, said Ofcted would high figure results from the phasing-out of some systems. “provide all schools with an incentive for improvement”. Major asks leading The inspectorate will beunder Poll tax warning intense pressure to prevent a repetition ofthe presentfurore Abolishing county councils in England to create a single tier Scots for views over GCSE standards, and to of all-purpose district authorities would add E36 a head to police standards in schools, the poll tax. according to figures published yesterday

judged to be “at risk”. (Douglas Broom writes). A study fry accountants Coopers & Ann Taylor. Labour educa- Lybrand Deloitte, commissioned by the Association of on the constitution tion spokeswoman, said that County Councils, found that abolishing the counties as the new system offered no many advocate would increase the cost of local government guarantee By Nicholas Wood, political correspondent of consistency. “In- by £780 mfllion a year. . . spectors will be sent into Bureaucratic incompetence over the poll tax and the TH E prime minister is to host stance. However, he has also schools with little training, failure of councils to control unruly tenants led to a one- an unprecedented round of indicated that he is prepared and the only team leaders wtil thml increase in complaints to local government ombuds- •*• talks with leading Scots about to listen to conflicting view- have any direct contact with men in theyfcar toApriL the future of constitutional points about Scotland’s future. Ofcted. This is a recipe for an links between Scotland and The government intends to uneven and sub-standaid nat- the rest of the United put forward proposals by the ional system of maintaining Finance chief quits Kingdom. end of the year for “refreshing standards in our schools.” In a move that risks raising and developing” the union, Peter Smith, general secre- The chairman of the finance committecof Sheffield council unrealistic expectations of a according to senior ministerial tary of the Assistant Masters which faces a £40 miflhm shortfall next year, resigned big shift of power away from sources in Scotland. The and Mistresses Association, yesterday. Howard Knight denied that his resignation was Westminster, Mr Major will sources cautioned against said die that the folly of the connected with the city's mounting cash problems. The take soundings about die state “dramatic changes" but indi- reforms would soon become council is still trying to balance this year's budget, and next of the union during a three- cated there may be scope to dear. “To do a credible, fiist- month will receive a final report into itsf 1 0.4 mfllion loss on hour session on a visit to enhance Scotland’s identity dass job the new body has got the World Student Games. Mr Knight said that he had Scotland later this week. within the UK. to be strengthened in terms of resigned for personal reasons, brought about fry pressure of Details of the participants The proposals are likely to resources and numbers. In its Desert rescue: Sergeant Dennis Rogers reflecting on his award for gallantry work on his fomflyand social life. “I don’t think 1 am have not been released, but focus on the wty in which present structure, and size it throwing in the towel at a difficult time." Opposition they are said to include figures Scottish business is handled at will struggle”. councillors claimed that his resignation came as Labour from “all walks of life" north of Westminster, the role of the The reding Labour group Two honoured for Kuwait rescue leaders fell out about howto handle the cash crisis. the border. Politicians, coun- Scottish Office and develop- on Birmingham City Council cillors. academics, lawyers, ment and creation of bodies has denied suppressing a re- businessmen and church and promoting Scottish interests. port on the city's schools that By Peter Victor for Brave Conduct for his pan boy. He had to pass through Escort relaunched charity leaders are expected to Home rule and a Scottish suggested that a determined in the rescue. The two were more mines to reach him as he give their views on possible assembly are not on the prime effort was needed to lift educa- AN RAF bomb sergeant who called by local police to an was further along the beach. constitutional changes. minister’s agenda. tional standards, in spite of crawled across a minefield to Iraqi-laid minefield in Kuwait Sergeant Rogers then re- The exercise wQl be the first However, such moves wQl recent improvements in ex- rescue two injured Kuwaiti on June 20 last year. They traced his steps and delivered tangible sign that the prime be dismissed as mere window- amination results. boys has been awarded the found the two boys lying in the the boy to a military medical minister is delivering his elec- dressing by the government’s The report, by Sir Peter George MedaL middle of scores of anti-per- team. The team that treated tion pledge to “take stock" of opponents in Scotland. Newsam, director of the Insti- Sergeant Dennis Rogers, sonnel mines on a beach. the boys said the rescue was die devolution debate on his The prime minister and his tute of Education at London 37, who was serving with the Each had lost a leg and completed just in time to save return to Downing Street On senior colleagues believe that University, and dated Febru- UK Explosive Ordnance Dis- suffered multiple cuts but they their lives. his two-day trip He will also die outcome of the election in ary, was published by the posal Cell in Kuwait after the were conscious. Throughout the rescue Cor- deliver a keynote speech on the Scotland, where the Tories authority on the eve of an Gulf war but had no experi- Sergeant Rogers, now based poral Winter, who has since economy to the Confederation .confounded expectations by education policy meeting of ence of breaching minefields, at RAF Stafford, fastened a left the army and lives in of British Industry, go on a gaining a seat, has taken some the city council due to be held twice risked crossing scores of secure line to Corporal Winter Norfolk, stood at the edge of walkabout and visit Hotyrood- of the steam out of the devolu- last night at the request of the anti-personnel mines to rescue and entered the minefield. He the minefield and remained house in Edinburgh to view tion debate. “The issue has Tory opposition. The Labour the boys aged ten and thirteen. crawled towards the first boy attached by a line to Sergeant preparations for the European changed because die elector- group said the report's publi- Corporal Christopher Win- and carried him to safety. Rogers. He helped to guide Community summit in ate restated its commitment to cation had been delay&i to ter. 26, the sergeant's army Despite suffering dehydration his comrade through the oper- December. maintaining the union," one allow Sir Peter to indicate assistant has been awarded in temperatures above 35C, he ation. giving advice and The Ford Escort, Britain’s best-selling car. is relaunched During the election cam- minister said. which sources he had used. the Queen’s Commendation’ returned to collect the other encouragement. today, only twoyears after a new model that cost £1 billion to paign. Mr Mqj'or surprised develop was put on the market (Kevin Eason writes). The many observers with the vehe- latest version, above, has a new front grille and ten mence of his defence of the structural changes to improve safety. Ford has refused to union and his condemnation RAF officer’s hang-glider stays grounded disclose the cost of the revamp, but it is believed that, with of Labour’s devolution propos- rescue the retooling of the Halewood plant on Merseyside, it would als as a halfway move towards have cost at least £100 million. The redesign came after the break-up of arrangements A TINY modified hang-glider dawned aircraft to fly them- the wing, and, as he zips it up, criticism that the Escort was not as advanced as many of its that had served the country that could be used to rescue selves safely beyond enemy the undercarriage A flight lieutenant is failing to win support is automati- competitors. The Escort and Orion ranges' are vital to Ford's well for nearly 300 years. In RAF Tornado crews shot reach. Once a downed crew cally retracted. supremacy the United Kingdom market, where it officers believe could in final setpiece is for a device that fellow located his campaign down in Iraq on display at has been through res- The CIRV has miniature accounts for almost a quarter of all car sales. speech at Wembley in north the Famborough Air Show — be a life-saver, Harvey Elliott writes cue beacons that they carry, instruments and satellite navi- London, he urged his fellow and being studiously ignored the CIRV could be taken from gation equipment. Depend- countrymen to “wake up" to by the defence ministry. store fitted and to another Tor- ing on wind conditions, it can County Hall concern the danger to the UK. The The collapsible aircraft was devised by Fh Lt Philip Par- time on the CIRV. which costs nado or put on board a Herc- fly for up to four hours without Conservatives' subsequent designed tty an RAF Regi- sons, based at North Luffen- about £10,000, and set up ules transport plane and flown refuelling — sufficient to travel The Japanese company that wants to convert County HalL strong showing in Scotland ment officer and could have ham. “I had always been fas- Icarus Aircraft to sell the fbld- to the crash site. They would frrom Baghdad to Saudi Ara- the former home of the Greater London Council, Into a hotel and the rest of the country been used to save the crews cinated by the way birds man- away equipment. He is for- then be dropped by parachute bia. It could also be used by should provide financial guarantees before the project goes appeared to vindicate his that crashed behind enemy aged to fly so efficiently with bidden to comment on any ready for instant use. commando troops, released ahead, the Labour party said yesterday. Jack Straw, the lines in the Gulf war. Despite flexible wings.” he said at the discussions he may have had Weighing only 60 kilo- from a submarine or used to shadow environment secretary, said that .without firm pleas from senior “It was when with the ministry, but other RAF officers show yesterday. grams, the escape plane has a spot drug traffickers. assurances about the company’s ability to fund the for die device to under- officers confirm that the to be rushed into we finally began con- 10.4-metre flexible wing and The CIRV is on static dis- estimated £120 million conversion costs there was a risk service of the principles cept could be invaluable to provide protection stand some in is powered by an adapted two- play only at Famborough that the building would be left an empty shell. In a letter to for crews hang-gliders saving lives. now in the Gulf, tire and made realty stroke go-kart petrol engine because Fit Lieut Parsons can- Michael Howard, the environment secretary. Mr Straw said Richard Noble is not a mem- idea is stifl as result that I realised CIRVs working its way safe a Two can be carried that can propel it at up to not afford the £1,000 insur- the property market in Tokyo was in a worse state than ber of the Bluebird 9 team as through potential mffitary value." in a the ministry. the Tornado drop fuel tank 50mph. The pilot runs for a ance to fly in public. London's. A spokesman for Shirayama said Mr Straw hod stated in The Times on Sep- The Using his own money. Fit Lt with Coven Insertion and enough equipment to few yards before lifting his legs "gone too fori* in questioning the company's viability. tember 7. Parsons worked in his spare enable Recovery Vehicle (CIRV) was the two pilots of a into a “sleeping bag" under Rolls-Royce contract, page 1

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1992 HOME NEWS 3

TONY WHITE Police arrest SATURDAY’S TIMES 2 7 and seize Sex or forged notes a sin? and explosive

By Stewart TBndler. crime correspondent

DETECTIVES arrested 27 of the PE4 explosive, which is men and women in a series of made in Britain, although dawn raids yesterday and police doubted whether the They used to ui>! it seized more than 40 weapons, criminals could in fact deliver pornography, but her two kilograms of plastic explo- such a large amount The new “Sex” is sive and fake £50 notes with a explosives would have been CD intended to be face value of El .5 million. sold to “anyone prepared to consumed as Art . Scotland Yard officers re- pay the price**, he said. Bryan Appleyard vealed details of a nine month The raids also uncovered muses on undercover investigation, op- gunpowder and guns includ- eration Mensa. following the ing shotguns, handguns and a Madonna and erotica raids on 30 addresses in German sub- machine-gun London, the Home Counties dating back to the last war. Big and the West Country by The weapons were for sup- officers from three regional ply to other criminals or might crime squads. be used by the network itself. game They seized planes for the Mr Penrose said the suspects £50 notes and counterfeit were not thoughrtobeasingle $100 bills, plus counterfeit gang with a core leadership, American currency with a face but rather individuals who value of $250,000 (£1 25.000). might come together to make Plates for counterfeiting money. The network’s motto Danish kroner notes and had been; “If you want it, we Barclays Bank Haveners’ can get it" cheques were also found, with He said the quality of the a large number of forged birth £50 notes was excellent and certificates and Ministry of some were thought to have Transport test certificates, gone into circulation after driving licences, vehide log being sold to criminal distrib- Has the trade books and parking permits for utors for £20 each. The forgers department's tiger got disabled drivers. are believed to have copied Sniffing for truffles: a delegate at a fungus conference in Kew Gardens, southwest London, moving in for a closer inspection of the exotic a future? Sally The criminals had been both the present £50 note and creations of David Chambers, left, executive chef at Le Meridien Hotel in Piccadilly. Mr Chambers made three fungus dishes for the Brampton sets off to using passports, vehide test its predecessor. conference yesterday: a salad of foie gras with cfcpes. wild mushrooms, and a diamante of sole with trompettes de mort trap Michael certificates and building soci- The investigation began last Hesdtinein his lair ety cheques that had been December and culminated in stolen. yesterday’s raids when 150 One raid on farm buildings officers descended on homes, 1 0 arrests $h to ‘please’ gambler Bridport Dorset, uncov- shops Woman gave near and garages in north m Quite ered the 40 guns which in- and east London, Hertford- duded two Kalashnikov shire, Bedfordshire, the as customs AN AMERICAN business- he’d had an accident 1 would assault rifles, ammunition. contrary Thames Valley area. Dorset woman fold a jury yesterday A wealthy businesswoman claims her lose everything. I felt bad that Tripwires and flares. and Devon. that she handed her lover 1 had refused. He was proba- partner tricked her out of money to finance Commander Roy Penrose, Mr Penrose said the investi- seize drugs $500,000 to “please him” bly much better than me at

regional crime squad coordi- gation. which induded work without realising he was a his debts. Michael Horsnell reports managing my stock so 1 gave nator for London, said the with the new national crimi- professional gambler who was him power to move my invest- investigation had aimed at a nal intelligence service, had worth £6m after her fortune. ments." She added a clause loosely organised group of been directed at criminals who Nicole Dubois. 37. said she realised he might have beat would buy shares with it She that said he could not turn her criminals who were based in had not previously been re- By Stewart Tendler gave die money to Yona interested only in her wealth. added: “I wanted to please stocks into cash but relented north and east London. They garded at the very top of the Crime Correspondent Betitou. 39, believing he Miss Dubois, who lives in him, I believed him absolute- and gave him $500,000 cash. were suspected of supplying London criminal tree. would invest it She said she Boston, sent Mr Betitou a fax ly.” On Christmas day Mr Mbs Dubois said that weapons, explosives and The police had been investi- CUSTOMS officers yesterday feD in lovewith Mr Betitou. an just before they were due to Betitou persuaded her to part throughout their relationship wholesale counterfeit gating “lifestyle criminals” arrested ten people after seiz- Israeli, after they had met on a meet. It read: “If you want to with half her savings. He Mr Betitou did not gamble, currency. with no viable means of ing 40 kilos of cocaine worth flight from Paris to London. see me without my casket of allegedly told her “1 love you even when they dined at a “What 1 did then, you Police are understood to support, he said. “They were £6 million brought into Brit- However Mr Betitou. who gokl'and only for my beautiful very much but you don't seem casino. The courtwas told that couldn't let a girl do have infiltrated a detective earning vast amounts of ain from Holland hidden in a told her he was a commodity eyes then I can manage to see to trust me.” Mr Betitou, who lives at the “1 now . . Mary posing as a criminal buyer money and came together to trailer used by a weD-known trader who managed a £500 you.” She told the court: Miss Dubois said she Grosvenor Hotel, London, Whitehouse talks into the network after they fund their lifestyle. They were Kent motor racing team. million investment fund for told him 1 didn't wantto make replied: “Ifyou promise me it's regularly gambled six-figure about her childhood were fold about the possible loosely organised.” he said. The cocaine was found on the Saudis; needed her money love and money. I fell a lot of going to be safe investments sums at the world’s top dubs sale of explosive, which may Infiltration by undercover the trailer carrying an expen- to finance a $2.8 million pressure. I wanted us to have a then all right I’D do it — half of induding The Rilz and have been smuggled back to officers posing as criminals rive racing saloon, which was losing streak In roulette. trusting relationship and talk what 1 have — $500,000” Maxime's. Mr Betitou denies SATURDAY'S Britain after the Gulf war. has been developed rapidly in being brought bade through Southwark Crown Court was of money was poDuting it.” Miss Dubois said that soon three charges of obtaining Mr Penrose said 0.000 recent years by Scotland Yard the Olau Line ferry terminal at told. Shortly before she gave in Just before Christmas last after they met M r Betitou had property by deception and TIMES: TREAT had been quoted for two tons and other forces. Sheemess last week from to Mr Betitou's ideas to invest year she said she gave Mr asked her to transfer her $1 three of then between Decem- YOURSELF SIMON WALKER Flushing. Holland. The drugs her money she called off a Betitou $26,000 in cash out of million savings to his account ber 1 990 and February last - were placed in gas cylinders meeting in London when she weakness and believed he btii she tbfoSed. Sne said: “If year. The trial continues. for the hydraulic system used to operate a lifting ramp for the cars. Customs removed the drugs and put in fake cocaine. JP who gave After the switch the car was allowed to go on its way bail to watched by customs officers from two units specialising in drug investigations m an oper- rapist resigns ation codenamed Bouncer. A spokesman for customs said: A MAGISTRATE who freed "What we have done here is to on bail a rapist who then Stop a major cocaine importa- murdered a 23-year-old coun- tion and a major cocaine cil worker has resigned. gang. We don't pretend this Ray Morgan, a retired univ- was a one-off journey. It wfll ersity lecturer, denied that the be difficult to tell how many controversy over the case had journeys they might have done led to his resignation, but the until we get to the bottom of move was welcomed by Jim things.” and Kay Potts, of Churcham. The spokesman would not near Gloucester, the parents of reveal die identity ofthe racing Anna McGurk, the victim. team but said that it was well- Within weeks of being known within the sport At granted bail on a rape charge least one of those arrested is by Mr Morgan's court last understood to be pan- of year, Andrew Hagans, 25, racing team. ambushed Mrs McGurk with In recent years customs a knife in Gloucester and later officers have been keeping a raped and killed her. watch on much of the ferry After Hagans was jailed for ...WHEN THERE'S NOW A DEAL WITH LOTUS traffic from Holland, which is life at Bristol Crown Court two regarded as the drug distribu- months ago for the crimes, tion centre for European there were demands for the AND TANDON YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS! markets and the key to the resignation of Mr Morgan supply of cannabis, heroin and his colleagues. These days you'll find lots of Money to bum: evidence seized yesterday and amphetamines. computer deals with lots missing. Lotus It may be the monitor or mouse, [software packages" in double it might be service and PC Adventurers’ boat missing '^1-2-3 warranty... and it most certainly ptliBH FOR death crash will be software. It could even be MICROSOFT® WINDOWS” By Julia Llewellyn Smith all of them. fflMHSl AMI PRO FOR Atlantic, but we are con- denies charge ALL aircraft and ships in the Whitby. After the crew failed the MICROSOFT® ” north Atlantic have been alert- to respond to radio appeals cerned. It would be naive, to Alternatively you can now WINDOWS By Ronald Faux ed to search for six people broadcast every four houre. the think that, with these broad- choose a deal from Crown that's FREELANCE whose boat has been missing search was stepped up. casts going out for a week, not Louis one had reached the Helga completely satisfying and totally GRAPHICS FOR A 1*0LICE officer who drove a for more than a month. Roger Clarke, of Clyde is not Maria, but possibly they are 1 patrol car at more than Jack Lammimman, 53, and coastguards, said: “It exceptional. MICROSOFT®WINDOWS motor- his crew of five on the 60ft unusual for a sailing boat tike not listening for whatever 1 20mph in pursuit of a cross reason.” cycle that crashed, killing the converted fishing vessel Helga this to take this long to For just £896 you not onty Maria were last seen off two riders, was accused of get 3 universally acclaimed reckless driving at York Crown Newfoundland on August 7. Court yesterday. They were on the last leg of an Lotus software packages for began I 386SX 25MHZ/1 OOMbl Michael Kalisher. QC. fold S.OOO-milejourney that Microsoft® Windows" but also that although the in May. tracing Columbus's the jury 386sm75MHz PROCESSOR Crown did not seek to put voyage to America. The 62- a top class Tandon PC that lOOMb ibE HARD DRIVE moral or legal blame for the year-okl boat was heading for helps you make the most ofthem Charles the Shetland Islands and was traacdv on PC 4M1» RAM 3 Sf 1.44Mb Sproibrough. due to return to its home port Wheeler. 4 1, of We've even pre-loaded the FlOPPy DRIVE near Doncaster, police drivers of Whitby, North Yorkshire, software . so it's all ready to go. 14- were under the same obliga- on August 31. SVGA COLOUR MONITOR motorist to Last year, Mr Lammi- 0.28 DOT PfTCH-NON INTERLACED tion as any other Why pay more for half, when carefully and mman. of Whitby, defied an drive safely and 102 KEY UK BCIENDED KEYBOARD pay less for it all? within the law. order from the transport de- you can now MS DOS S/WINDOWS 3.1/MOUSE Mr Wheeler denied driving partment confining his vessel Get it together with Lotus, recklessly during the chase to port and sailed to the Arctic T YEAR QN-STTE WARRANTY which began in Doncaster circle with a crew of two elderly Tandon and Crown. The deal with motor-cycle, stolen women and a vicar. He was CENTRAL POINT when the nothing missing, that you can't pfffFQ two hours earlier in Scun- fined £1.000 on his return. U ANTI-VIRUS ihorpv. drove through red His crew this time is David afford to miss. SEND NOMONEY NOW. WRITE OR PHONE traffic lights. The pursuit Gray, a former policeman Huw Rob- Listed ».ti5 miles at an average from Edinburgh, HOTLINE 0704 396896 speed of !!4mph. II ended erts. an ex-naval diver. Rosie LINE5 OPEN 8am-8pm Mon-Frl, 9am-2pm Sat, 10am-2pm Sun. when the motor-cycle crashed, Tctiovv. a nurse. Guy Reed, an an killing the driver. Richard environmentalist, and un- F/VX No. his pillion Canadian. COMPUTER PRODUCTS 0704 Nilsson. 22. and named 897139 CROWN SCOTLAND PHONE; 0736 446600 CROWN SOUTH WEST passenger Stephen Parrott, Coastguards on Clydeside BURSCOUGH, LANCS L40 8JT. PHONE: 0963 34300 25. froth of Scunthorpe. wen; alerted by relatives when Registered in England: 1842619 The trial continues today. the boat did not return to

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1 992 HOME NEWS 5 Lawyers uncover big SMONWALKER divide in nations’ jail terms for rape

By Frances Gibb, legal correspondent

BIG disparities is sentencing with 1 5 years in Ireland (for a years. Kenya three years phis of criminals between different not guilty plea); 20 years in hard labour and six strokes of countries, even within Europe, Spain and 50 yeais in Texas. the cane, Denmark one to two are revealed in a survey to be England conies in the middle years and the Cook Islands published at the biennial con- of the range with a sentence of probation of three months. ference of the International eight to 12 years. Texas suggested ten years* jail Association 9- Bar in Cannes In another question, a 1 and England suggested from later this month. year-old man had been found three to seven years. The survey team put a series guilty of raiding a bank with likely sentences for a of hypothetical cases to legal four otherpeople, masked and domestic assault case, where authorities in more than 20 aimed with a machinegun the husband broke his wife’s countries and found penalties which was used to threaten nose and there was a long in Europe varied by more than cashiers and customers. history of disputes and previ- ten years for crimes such as He was unemployed, the ous charges of assault or rape and by more than 40 youngest member ofdie gang, breach of the peace, ranged years when countries from and the £800,000 had been from between six and 18 different continents are recovered. The defendant bad months in Canada to 30 or 40 compared. several convictions for days, possibly suspended, in petty . . The hypothetical rape case theft and breach of the peace. Denmark. featured a 27-year-old man Canada suggested a likely Six months’ imprisonment who attacked a gui standing sentence of force to five years. was likely in Kenya, a bond of alone at a bus stop, dragged Norway two to three years and good behaviour in India, a her to a derelict car park, Denmark six years. Spain said fine in Scotland and ten days* punched her and threatened four years, two months and a jail in Texas. The likely sen- her with a knife before raping day, and Ireland five to six tence in England was six her. years for a not guilty 'plea. months, suspended for two The victim was aged 1 6 and England said ten to 14 years, years. the man had a history of or five years in a a young Peter Michael Muller, an minor sexual offences and had offenders* institution, and attorney in Munich and chair- jail for been in up to three Texas ten years. . man of die association's crimi- On target Katherine Brown, 17, Suffolk, the Central/Midlands re- months. In a' case of burglary of a nal law committee which demonstrating her electronic fencing Inventor wins by the sword gional finalist in the business catego- Denmark gave a likely sen- stalely home, goods worth conducted the survey, said the partner in London yesterday (Nick ry. has developed a rotary compressor tence of two to three years and £90,000 were taken and later findings would help practitio- Nuttall writes). The invention, de- that turns straw, sawdust and chaff Canada, where the crime recovered from a man with a ners in trans-national criminal signed to help fencers' speed and aim, ing dartboard", indicates an area of that she had chosen a male shape for into 6in logs. would be called sexual assault substantial record of theft. law and could lead to sentenc- won Miss Brown, from Tiffin Girls the body which the fencer must hit If marketing reasons. “Men are gener- Gareth Jones of Bath, Avon, created ” with a weapon, and Norway, Canada said it would impose a ing reforms. School. Kingston-upon-Thames, the fencer’s electronic sword hits the ally reluctant to hit a woman a folding cycle trailer, able to carry three to five years, compared jail sentence of five to seven ‘The survey shows that we southwest London, a place in the spot within a pre-set time, buzzers Twenty-two other regional finalists 40kg loads. Philip Fuller, an engineer realty do have huge gaps, a lot schools finals of the Toshiba Year of sound and fights flash, indicating a were named and their inventions from Epping. Essex, invented a power of disparities in sentencing Invention competition as the London successful lunge. unveiled at a ceremony ar Centre chisel, and a team from Oxford wgs&m® between different countries. and Home Counties regional winner. M Lss Brown, of Raynes Park, Point, the Confederation of British University developed a bone substitute The important think is first to The Electronic Point Efficiency southwest London, the first woman to Industry's headquarters. Peter Clif- material made of collagen and calci- LBcaty sentence for— gather tire facts and ascertain Exerciser or Epee, dubbed the “feno reach this stage of the awards, said ton. a businessman from Halesworth. um phosphate. Rape Theft by Aimed robbery the different policies and then housebreaking to try to understand why the Canada rape abolished, 5-7 3-5 yrs yre disparities exist and the nat- sexual assault ethical backgrounds with a weapon ional and Ministers tackle bias as management redundancy grows 3-6 yrs to them.” he said. Cook Islands 5-8 yre Probation 3 mths Probation 3 mths The aim was to tty to secure Denmark 2-3yrs 1-2 yre 6 years greater homogeneity of sen- England 8-12yr9 3-7 yia 10-14 yrs/5 yre Young Offenders' tencing. bearing in mind that lnstttirtw cultural differences would re- Jobless executives suffer prejudice India from age 7-10 yrs 7 yrs 7 yrs main. “You can’t try an Ireland 10 yrs gusty 4 yrs gutty plea. aborigine like a Bavarian plea. Id yrs not 5-6 yre not gutty 5-6 yre (not gumy)* UNEMPLOYED managers farmer.” said Herr Muller. and executives are taldng Japan tsi. 3-5 yrs 5yre The first parts of the survey In the first of a series on unemployment Kenya 5 vrs hard 3 yrs, hard 3 yre and 6 strokes twice as long to find a newjob were originally published in among the professions, Ray Clancy looks at Number laramployed in July of each year In UK labour. labour obligatory as thty were i 8 months ago. strokes 6 strokes 1990 but the exercise has now 18-24 25-49 50 plus AS ages 6 cane according to employment con- firms’ unwillingness to take on the over-40s Norway 3-5 yrs 120 days-6 mths 2-3 yre been extended to include a (at year end) sultants. They say. that there Spam 20 yrs 4 yre. 2 mths, 4 yrs. 2mths, 1 day greater range of questions and Male and female 1 day are stfll no signs ofcompanies 487.7 is being widened further, with 1990 837.2 2969 1,623.6 USA (Texas) 50 yrs 10 yre 10 yre taking on more staff. there is a trend towards part- ago there was still a stigma 1991 738.2 370.1 answers on drink-driving 1,256.6 2J67.5 1992 823.3 1,503.3 429.5 2.774.0 * cfcsenting option 8-IOyis Discrimination against job- time and short-term employ- attached to being redundant, offences now being processed. Male hunters over-40 remains. ment says Derek Edwards, this is no longer the cast with A 1990 328.6 837.7 224.8 1.102.1 • government advisory group,-; managing dkector of S anders headhunters including out-of- 1991 51110 • 979.1 - 289.8 1.782.4 due to have its first meeting by and Sidney, an outplacement work managers on their final 1992 576.3 1,186.9 338.4 2.108.7 Female the end of the ye|r. is expected ^consultancy that advises busi- lists. The effegs of unemploy- * 1990 » 159.1- 1995 72.0 431.5 Risk of crime lower to draw an initiative aimed nesses on dealing with redun- ment are also being felt at up 1991 225.2 277.5 80.3 585.2

. • at persuading more employes dancy. Theprofessions, partic- bhie-collar and- more junior 1992 . 247.0 J 321.4 91.1 665.3 levels. to take on older imemplqjrai idariybanking, finance, senior Sourta: Employment Gazette Riot estate people. The 12 members of management and advertising, Bull Thompson and Asso- the committee are expected to have been forced to change ciates. a management and tracts. “Short-term contracts increased that reluctance. “A be named in October. their altitudes about a job for executive search company, has and interim management lot of companies are jittery juror TWO thirds of die people in inevitable that people believe it According to die employ- lift found that it now takes an have increased in the past 1 about the future of Europe. an inner-dty area feared that is only a matter of time before ment departmentlhe group is • -There has been an increase average of three or four months, reflecting the fact that They are waiting to see what is they would be burgled al- their home is burgled.” expected to examine the prob- in file number, of consultancy months for a professional companies are reluctant to going to happen before derid- though only 1 percent had a The report was earned out dismissed 3 lems faced by executives, mid- places." he says. "Middle person to gain another job. create new positions.” Nicho- ing if thty can take on more break-in during the previous for Leicester City Council in dle managers and bluecollar managers are taking jobs on a compared with one or two las Wylde, senior associate, people,” he said. He does not juror was dismissed yester- year, according to a survey the western part of the city. It A workers, particularly the in- contractual basis, with a re- months in 1 990. said. expect an upturn in the jobs undertaken in an area day after barristers in the published yesterday. was believes crease in age discrimination. view affer three years.” . The company has also no- He that uncertainty market until the spring at the Meadow Well disorder trial The study, conducted in with a population of 14,000. 1 Although it will have only He stys that whereas a year ticed the trend towards con- over the Maastricht treaty has earliest that she was not part of Leicester, also found ofwhich more than one fifth is complained advisory powers, ministers attention. that almost 30 per cent of aged 60 or more, abort one paying expect employers to pay atten- Judge Johnson halted pro- women thought that they were quarter is from the ethnic tfonlo what it has to say and to offers material and spiritual support the sixth day at likely to be raped or sexually minority community and the Vicar ceedings on foflow.-fis directions. although only 1.1 unemployment rate is almost Newcastle upon Tyne Crown assaulted Michael Forsyth, employ- asked Jane McKen- per cent had been assaulted in 14 percent The burglary rate Court and ment minister, has backed file By Ruth Gledhtll Repath said. “They know here he was living out of his car. year. More .than among the Asian community na to leave. He told foe the previous group publidy and has urged they are not alone." The scheme members, of people consid- was one in five, almost double remaining jurors that she had 25 per cent employers to take a more PRAYING for ajob may seem The change from the vicar’s mostly men, meet twice a week forms, ered their district to be unsafe. that for the whole sample. been seen filling in enlightened approach. He has the only option left to many of normal duties has a literary, if in a fourteenth century chapel report appears to con- Half of those questioned putting vouchers into enve- The described agism as “a stupid Britain’s unemployed execu- less worthy, echo. An English on the Thames. They share studying her cheque firm that the public’s percep- thought that police walking lopes. policy”, saying that it was tives. but a church in Berk- ballad. The Vicar of Bray. their experience of being told flipping through a tion and fear of crime have the beat regularly would help book and absirdl wasteful and a sign of shire is offering practical as describes how the vicar re- that they are either too old or its incidence. to prevent crime. Thirty-six red diary. "The last thing i little relation to shortsightedness. He has well as spiritual help in the tained his living by switching too well qualified for thou- die fear is enough to per cent wanted better street want is for the trial to conclude However, pledged to improve matters search for work. ecclesiastical allegiance from sands of jobs. thinking it restrict people's behaviour by lighting and 26 per cent urged with either side and has criticised the Euro- The Rev George Repath, the time of Charles 11 to Unemployment in Berk- causing them not to go out at action to deal with empty and had not been a fair trial pean Commission for setting vicar of Bray, has opened his George!. shire is 6.5 per cent below the night to avoid certain areas. derelict property. because a juror had not been or an age limit of 35 on most jots church hall to a support group The modern scheme is sup- national average of 9.7 per Willis, senior lec- The survey also found attending property," the judge Andrew from messengers to lawyers. that finds work for the grow- ported by the Bishop of Read- cent but white-collar workers criminology at strong support for measures to said. turer in Last year's Labour Force ing number of redundant ing. file Right Rev John Bone, have been hit hard. Many Leicester University, said: provide opportunities for job- Twelve defendants deny Survey showed that once old- managers in his parish and who said: “Unemployment is suffer additional trauma fear of crime is quite less young people to divert charges of violent disorder on The er people lose their jobs, they surrounding areas. an enormous emotional and because of the surrounding extensive and people are dear- them from crime. Fifty per September 9 and 10 last year, remain unemployed for much A third of the members of St spiritual crisis, and this is an affluence in an area with about being the cent wanted training opportu- when a mob of 400 caused ly anxious longer than younger people. Michael's Executive Resourc- Mr Repatb: They know example of what can be done." traditionally high victims of criminal acts. This nities for youngsters, and 37 £1 .5 million of damage. Statistics on long-term unem- ing. a self-help group spon- they are not alone” The unemployed executives employment that it is a very per cent said that tackling study shows ployment show that 43 per sored by the parish and the indude former sales manag- The unemployed quality for real fear for a lot of people, unemployment was the high- Bus crushed cent of unemployed people local Rotary Chib, have al- contracting and consultancy ers, directors, accountants, en- government-run job dubs particularly among the elder- est priority. aged from 16 to 29 stay oat of ready found work through the work. "What they miss most is gineering managers and only after six months without Nine children aged between Crone Prevention in the ly. women and single parents. sense of discipline, university lecturers. lost work, and clubs injured work for a year or more, group. At its annual meeting, the of One a most recom- five and eleven were If tiving in a terrace Leicester City Challenge area. you are compared with 60 per cent of the remaining 20 members turning up together, of being salary of £80,000. and his mend a stay of four to six when a double-decker bus tak- (University Leicester school house and premises a few of over limited to able to talk to their fellows in marriage broke up. When he months. St Michael's has no school, those aged 50. set up a company ing them to Portway burgled, it is social work) doors away are of Even among those in work. meet increasing demands for an office as they once did,” Mr sought help from the scheme. timelimits. Charlton. Hampshire, was crushed under a bridge on the first day of term. Trees saved Poison bait the last chance for red squirrel FO staff to assess superiors A tree preservation order has been put on 324-acre Bramp- By Michael Hornsby Scotland, its main redoubt, By Richard Ford, home correspondent ton wood by Huntingdonshire agriculture numbers are shrinking. Poi- planners. Ecology groups had soning is the most effective THE Foreign Office has intro- Office publication has admit- 61 per cent felt their careers appealed to John Major to in- CORRESPONDENT way to control the mainly duced a personnel manage- ted that the system will work had been badly managed. tervene after the defence min- if jobholders speak red squirrel could disap- ground-dwelling grey, but the ment strategy that allows “only up". Peninah Thomson, a con- istry decided to sdl it THE pear from England and Wales law forbids use of poisoned frustrated staff to offer a full Initial reports indicate that sultant in human resources, grades and middle the system had been Safety move within ten years, according to bait in areas inhabited by both and frank assessment of the junior said a new survey of forests. species. Yet it is in these quality of management pro- management have adapted to conventional practice in busi- Ice cream vans will be limited As the red squirrel declines, “frontier” rones that the strug- vided by their immediate the unfamiliar customs more ness for several years. “We parks after is fiercest superiors. easily than long-serving staff thought senior manage- to 5mph in Derby its larger and more assertive gle for survival and FO the death of James Howard, grey cousin, introduced from the need for control greatest Under the staff appraisal who are reticent aboutjudging ment should' move to a more aged five. The city council re- North America a oentuiy ago. The author of the survey, system,- managers are expect- management Among some open culture which is quite from his mother Forestry assess performance staff there is a feeling that hard for an organisation that jected a plea is moving northwards, colon- Hany Pepper, a ed to the extent, predicated for a traffic ban. ising red territory. The grey Commission researcher, is and potential of their staff, comments about a line man- is. to an on invited be best left to secrecy. The has taken squirrel is by far the more testing a feeding hopper of while subordinates are ager may FO a grain that allows judgment on file skill informal discussion rather brave and imaginative step in Death in cell destructive, especially of poisoned to pass broadleaved trees such as access only to the grey squineL of their immediate bosses in than put in writing. going for open appraisal" she Robert Powell. 47. was found beech and oak. which the gov- The hopper has a tunnel en- helping them to achieve set The system was introduced said- in his prison hospital hanged flap door at the targets. All aspects of work, after the first review of person- The new openness does, ernment is trying to persuade trance and a cell at Eimlcy on the Isle of have farmers to plant. Baric-strip- end, which has to be pushed including whether staff have nel management ai the For- however, limits. It is not Sheppev. Kent, while awaiting ping by the grey squirrel, At risk: the red squirrel up. We are pretty certain that achieved key objectives and eign Office since the 1 960s. applicable to senior diplomats trial for" the murder of Murid which distorts tree growth and is finding survival hard only the larger and more in- whether their performance which included seeking the in Grades 1 to 4. although aged S6. Stinton. a widow quisitive lift reduces timber value, is esti- grey can the door, has been unacceptable or out- help of outside consultants for personnel managers are yet mated to cost the foresty indus- got to take the threat from the but we have not been able standing, is put in writing and the first time. A 1990 study by studying whether appraisal Dog gone try at least £1 million a year. grey squirrel more seriously. to prove that the hopper is ab- shown to both boss and Coopers and Lybrand Ddoitte should be extended to cover red-squirrel proof." he 1 top rungs. A burglar who abandoned his Peter Wilson, chief executive The grey is running un- solutely subordinate. analysed ,000 responses the said. realised that employees of the diplo- didn’t rottweiler in a car after being designate of Timber Growers checked into the remaining It is from members “I think senior am- and. if In England and Wales, the Timber Growers UK wants fear that being too frank service disturbed has broken into the UK. which represents about strongholds of die red may matic and found that bassadors would be included the native red squirrel survives in any legislation permitting use of might hinder prospects- In per cent felt the personnel file police pound at Winchester. 2.300 woodland owners, said: this continues, 72 in system because intro- in ten numbers only in the Isle of the hopper, likely to be ready spite of a call for staff to as Hampshire, and freed iL Ser- “If the government really squirrel will be extinct be operations department, abol- ducing upward appraisal at and Wight Northumberland and in a year or so. open and honest about their ished last geant Tanya Cook said: “It wants to see more planting of years or so in England year, had failed to the highest level would truly be it Cumbria, confined else- as line are has to be the owner. No one broadleavvd trees of the kind Wales. In Scotland, might being bosses managers give them a regular picture of a culture shock." Miss Thom- where Leading article, page 13 amid get near the thing." people want, then they- have hang on a bit longer.” to isolated pockets, in about subordinates, a Cabinet their career prospects, while son said. . Ug

SEPTEMBER 9 !

9.0! pressure on Smith

10.0 over devaluation

11.0 By Patricia Tehan and Nicholas Wood 5. JOHN Smith was farin g a industrial future ... An early if we 6. challenge to his economic realignment is essential 12.0 policy last night after the are to live without further 7. leaders of two big unions votes of the GMB, the general agony in the ERM." demanded an emergency de- workers' union, are a sizeable Addressing reporters later, valuation ofsterling to halt the block of opinion. Mr Edmonds later said he 1.0 his recession. Smith is firmly on the was speaking on behalf of 13 Mr Only hours before the Lab- pro-European wing of the union, not the Labour party or 23 our leader arrived at the Labour party and as shadow the TUC. He was not calling Trades Union Congress in chancellor fought the last elec- for British withdrawal from Blackpool John Edmonds of tion strongly committed to the ERM. but he did want the the GMB and Alan JinJdnson ERM membership. He re- British government to take the 33 of Naigo, put him under peatedly ruled out devaluing lead in triggering a devalua- intense pressure by openly the pound. Since Ins' elevation tion within the currency grid. repudiating to the Labour leadership, he Some observers were in- 4X his policy of sup- porting moves to defend the has held to this line while not clined to see Mr Edmonds’s value of the pound within the ruling out a general realign- intervention as a piece of kite- intended to keep open C European exchange rate ment of EC currencies against flying mechanism. the mark. More recently, Lab- Mr Smith's options. 53 Mr Edmonds, whose union our leaders have limited them- Mr Jmkinaon went even sponsors Mr Smith, de- selves to calling far co- further in demanding “deval- C nounced sterling's “madcap” ordinated EC action to reduce uation now”. He said in a rate within the ERM and interest rates and advocated statement that the “terrible 63 called for an “early realign- tax breaks for indusny. economic effects -of Britain's C in the joining the ERM at a grossly 73 ment". He added: “The im- Mr Edmonds said possibly high exchange rate is TUC debate on Europe that if overvalued rate to the pound pushing up interest rates and the unions were serious about have become obvious". “Finns turning Britain into a rust- stopping unemployment ris- are collapsing, unemployment bucket economy.” Mr ing to four mfllian, one step is rising, homes are being 9.1 Jinkinson said that interest had to be taken as quickly as repossessed and public spend- rates should be cut substantial- possible. That is to change ing is in crisis.” ly and the pound devalued. the value of the pound against Naigo accused the trade is presenting Arriving in Blackpool, Mr the Deutschmark union movement of giving In his own image: Ron Todd, the former general secretary of theTGWU, with his retirement gift, a giant banner of himself. MrTodd History Smith said he believed the way “We can only maintain this implicit support to the govern- the banner, which was painted by theatrical set designers and stands more than 1 Oft high, to Manchester’s National Museum of Labour to end the recession was madcap exchange rate by ment’s economic strategy by through a reduction in interest killing off jobs, by killing off “refusing to face up to the feet

rates. He was “not in favour of companies . .. by killing off our of sterling's overvaluation and the high interest rates required SKETCH Philip Bassett a devaluation of sterling ‘Beauty contest’ link with TUC by because I believe that would to support the pound”. not assist in die reduction of Bill Jordan, president of the interest rates". But he support- million-member engineering party is ed calls for a revaluation of the and electrical union, the deals attacked mark. “We must get interest AEEU. said yesterday's de- S cargill rises to the rales dawn right across the bate was the wrong time and By Patricia Tehan defended Community and if it would place for Mr Edmonds to raise assist the Germans to reduce his concerns. “Saying this THE TUC is gearing up for a UNION LftW By Philip Bassett historic occasion their interest rates then I do undermines certainty, under- head-on dash with die govern- INDUSTRIAL EDITOR not think the Community can mines confidence and under- ment when Parliament re- 9. ou could teD that vies’s presence was an out- rule out a revaluation of the mines jobs.” sumes in die autumn over its The Manufacturing, Sci- LABOUR'S review of the par- Howard Davies, the rage. But at the back of the Deutschmark against the oth- Mr Edmonds insisted that plans to end the arrangements ence and Finance Union ty’s relationship with the trade director-general of hall one delegate roared at er currencies in die system.” he supported die govern- by which unions have agreed called for an end to the unions wiQ not lead to the Y the CBI was about to speak Mr ScargflTs departing Mr Smith now has a fight ment's decision to enter the not to compete for members. “beauty parades” where sin- union link being broken, ac- Arthur S cargill the miners' bade “No wonder your on his hands as he struggles to ERM. To go into die ERM Delegates supported a mo- gle-union agreements are cording to a prominent mem- leader, bent down in his union’s going down the hold the line in foe run-up to was a good thing, but to go in tion to maintain the so-called drawn up at die expense of ber of the joint party-union seat to tie his shoes proper- tubes! You're a disgrace!” Labour's conference at the end at 2.95 Deutschmarks was Bridlington Principles as the other unions, splitting the review body. ty in preparation for a Mr Davies rode it all of the month- Naigo is not crazy. They cannot sustain this basis for dealing with inter- trade union movement. This dear statement from wholly unplanned sponta- well laconically describing affiliated to the Labour party rate.” union relations and develop- Jack Carr, the MSF assis- Dr Lewis Minkin, an academ- neous walkout Came the the incident as “a good and has no voice at the Edmonds: UK becoming a ing orderly collective tant general seaetaiy, said moment, came the man: as recruiting effort for the conference, but the 900,000 Tustbusket economy* Leading article, page 13 bargaining structures. foreign companies were in- Mr Davies stood up to Conservative party”. In a creasingly investing in Brit- 10 speak. Mr S cargill — shoes brave and clever speech, he ain. “We can respond to this as finnty tied — stood up to ga pulled few punches, repeat- a united movement, defend- ic and probably the foremost Across windy Blackpool ing his cans for a public ing fundamental rights en- authority on the relationship the Labour party leader. sector pay freeze, but also shrined In international law between the trade unions and John Smith, was getting a attacking directors’ pay and international best prac- the Labour party, will disap- quieter reception. AD he rises. tice, or we can squabble point those — inducting some had to face was questions Some union general sec- amongst ourselves with the senior Labour frontbenchers about such irrelevant issues retaries complained pri- most employer-friendly — who believe that the party’s as Maastricht devaluation, vately that left-wingers had S* unions engaging in a gro- links with the unions must be pay restraint and the Lab- obtained advance press tesque Dutch auction of work- broken, or at least radically •\ our-union link. Howard copies of the speech and 6J0 els’ rights.” altered, if Labour is to stand Davies had* to face Mr bad circulated them around Mr Mr Carr said MSF was not any chance of winning power (M ScargilL union delegations, pointing against single-union agree- at the next general election. Th. That a spontaneous un- out the passages likely to Mi ments. but he said workers Though co-opted on to the planned walkout was loom- prove objectionable. Th. THIS CENTRAL LONDON should chose the unions to review committee, which was Tin WEEKS WILD ing became clear when represent them, not the set up following sharp criti- 05 BAKER STREET Wl. reporters and television arracking there was. Ge employers. cism of the Labour-union link 071-4860798 crews P» began to gather but rounds of ap- CUERKENWEU. RD EC 3. Gavin Laird, general secre- in the wake of the party’s At OFFERS AT WILDING where they could best see plause, too, includ- 8u 071-405 9952 tary of the engineers’ union, election defeat in April, Dr B Mr ScargilL The novelty of ing a final ovation lasting a VU HIGH HOLBQRN WC1. the AEEU. accused the MSF Minkin’s views about the im- Di- 071-430 0333 a CBI leader addressing the good 15 seconds— not rad and other unions ofjoining in portance of maintaining rath- (5. AMBRA LONOONVUUXEC2. TUC for the first time in for the first speech by an 7„ 071-638 3G89 the so-called beauty contests er than scrapping the « 124 years was no match for employers’ leader to the SPRINTA PLUS LUDGATE CtRCUS EC4. and then crying foul because relationship already hold con- (9 one of the TUCs longest- TUC 071-469 8826 they lost He said the AEEU siderable sway among both 386SX COMPUTER running performances: Mr To general approval from OLD BRQMPTON RD SW5. had more than a hundred Labour and union leaders. 071.244 6156 Scargill seizing the most union delegations, es- single-union deals, and “we Speaking in public for the PERCY STREET Wl. limeb'ghL pecially for the offer of a VGA Colour Monitor 071.255 3100 will sign more”. He said the first time since the formation Up went Mr Davies. Out future dialogue with the REGENT STREET Wl_ deals aU had excellent training of the review body. 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Includes Microsoft members were inevitable, but Blackpool, he said: “Those That seems BRANCHES NATIONWIDE 40 others, horn such to be a problem that he’s Windows 3.1 it needed a forum to resolve who hope to see the unions unions as the RMT trans- got with the — not BATH 0225 339933 them. “To declare a free-for-all and the party divorce or fell TUC port workers, the Ucatt with me.** Includes Works for BIRMINGHAM 021-236 0033 is to invite chaos and apart win be very disappoint- BOUON construction union and the 0204 386937 disintegration.” ed.” Instead, he said the He left Blackpool un- Windows and Lemmings BRIGHTON aim 0273 29079 GPMU print workers. fazed by Mr Scargill: “An BRISTOL 0272 293199 The TUC is now committed of the review committee on the Back inside the hall an Arthur Scargill 12 month on-site BROMLEY 081-290 6466 to finding a new system of union-Labour link “should be walkout is NUT teacher from Camden like rained-off CAMBRIDGE 0223 65714 inter-union rules and proce- to strengthen it with an agree- cricket warranty in London, Kevin Courtney, CARLISLE 0228 591760 dures which would be binding ment which takes us into the matches at Lords — it’s part CHELMSFORD 0245 492850 shouted out that on affiliates. next century". Mr Da- of the British way of life-” CHELTENHAM 0242 228363 + VAT (£898.88 INC VAT) CHESTER 0244 315246 CUFTON 02 72 23839S COLCHESTER 0206 4G768 CROYCON 081-638 4957 OLIVETTI PCS ARLINGTON 0325 469089 Workers call for better training 286S COMPUTER EALING 081-840 7173 FINCHLEY 081-346 7195 GLOUCESTER 0452 523111 By Ross Tieman, industrial correspondent VGA Colour Monitor • 80286 16MHz Processor GRAVESEND 0474 361635 GUILDFORD 0483 DELEGATES win discuss 579489 TRADE unions are to put Interest in training among endorsed HADLSGH 0702 551066 by both the TUC rails for new pensions legisla- 1Mb RAM • Includes Mouse and Microsoft Works training on the bargaining HARROW 081-427 0696 manual workers was especially and the employers’ organis- tion following the Maxwell HIGH WYCOMBE 0494 436378 agenda. 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TUCs Education and Train- the new National Vocational members. They MAIDSTONE 0622685422 also wont a The strategy was itt , said an- ing comm ee many Qualifications, NVQs, by the state MANCHESTER 061-839 3346 1 compensation scheme. nounced after a poll for the employers were failing to pro- year BROTHER HL4 LASER PRINTER NEWCASTLE 091-2330886 2,000. NVQ 3 is a Economic polity will also be TUC by NOP showed that vide their workers with the NORTHAMPTON 0604 26442 supervisory level qualification discussed, including unem- NORWICH 0603 6660 almost seven out of ten work- skills necessary to meet over- broadly equivalent to A-levets. ployment and the manufac- OXFORD 0865250256 ers 4 pages/minute • 300 dpi Resolution would be interested in seas competition. “This economy will not have turing PETERBOROUGH 0733 311040 industry. developing their skills further. Unless trade unions in- a future unless the PUTNEY 081-788 3452 level of In the afternoon the TUC Only a quarter were satisfied creased pressure on com- skills is increased,” 512K RAM • HP LaserJet H Emulation READING 0734 503465 Mr Mills will discuss low pay, public ROMFORD 0708 766896 tty the amount of training panies. the national training said. “Too many employers sector pay, the Post Office and RUBUP 0895621228 provided by their employer. targets set by goverment and are just sitting back.” Sunday trading. 12 month on-site warranty ST ALBANS 0727 43992 SHEFFIELD 0742 738800 SLOUGH 0763539356 SOUTHAMPTON 0703 330144 + VAT SOUTHEND 0702 331876 SWINDON 0793 533111 Reforms raise fears for 999 service (£703.83 INC VAt) TUNBRIDGE WELLS 0892 510115 WAUHAM CROSS 0992 764200 ByRossTteman munications watchdog, could remove the who WALTHAMSTOW 081-520 7668 can drop less critical work to hand flexibility which ensures foe service does emergency WATFORD 0923 232121 calls if necessary. 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Union concerns were triggered ,1 offer a great deal more. by a oils. they're only bear from TUC delegates will today consultation document, issued by Oftel Under draft Unbeatable offers, a available Oftel proposals, the unfa telecommunications unions of their fears that suggested foe 999 service could be insists, as few as 1 so operators would b unique price promise and a while that standard s reforms will lead to a lower provided by three dedicated centres. available at any helpful professional service. ft one time to man the 99 stocks last. of service. Maintaining the service is estimated to service. In addition, routing calls to jus A Rnict Co-noun, The onions insist they have no axe to cost £30 million a year. three Wilding otter leasing facilities and consumer credit Typical APR 31.3% national centres would lead to fo grind, because they will represent opera- According to the Union of Communica- (written quotation available on request). Wtr charged at 17.9% BUSINESS MACHINE CENTRES toa of local knowledge, and possiW tors wherever they work. But they say tion Workers (UCW) there are about cmnculties in understanding regions suggestions from Oftel the telecom- 2,000 operators available at any time ,

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1 992 OVERSEAS NEWS 7 Old sins come Florida given aid Thatcher attends back to haunt pledge ceremony in Baku

From Michael Fleeman Margaret Thatcher arrived in Russian leader would be allo- candidates in - IN HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA Azerbaijan's capital of Baku cated seats normally reserved yesterday as a guest of for Emperor Akihito. PRESIDENT Bush said yes- Azerbaijani authorities. The terday that he would ask former prime minister was Congress for $7.6 billion (E3.8 scheduled to meet President Shulannt Ran. whose Sym- the last lap billion) in emergency aid for Eldubey and attend toe cere- phony took a 1991 Pulitzer cleaning and rebuilding in toe monial signing of an agree- Prize, has won first prize in toe From Martin FIetcher in Washington wake ofHurricane Andrew. ment between the southern Kennedy Centre Friedheim He spoke as voters trickled republic’s government and Awards for toe piece, making THE 1992 presidential elec- month period in 1 968. “Its all to toe polls for Dade County’s BP. Under the agreement, ofl her the first woman to win top tion, supposedly concerned news to me,” Mr Clinton hurricane-delayed primary deposits in toe Caspian Sea honours for new works by with America’s future, is be- insisted. He was then forced to election, just one of many will be developed. American composers. coming increasingly focused admit that he had been told signs that south Florida was on alleged sins and omissions last March of his unde's struggling to return to some in the candidates’ pasts. lobbying efforts. Once again h semblance of normality. A state luncheon planned The Doric Side of the Heart. To destroy voter confidence appeared he had been less Mr Bush announced tbe aid tomorrow for Sheikh Jaber al- an offbeat comedy by Argen- in Governor Bill Clinton, die than candid. figure during a meeting with Afamed al-Sabah’s visit to tine director Eliseo Subkla Bush camp has begun exploit- The Bush camp believes it members of Congress. Presi- Wellington has been cancelled about a low affair between a lLW.- ing his avoidance of military can still win in November if it dent Ydtsin of Russia also sent because the Emir of Kuwait poet and a prostitute, has won service in Vietnam. The more can paint Mr Clinton as his condolences to Mr Bush wOl need a siesta. He is top prize at tbe Montreal the Arkansas governor seeks to evasive and untrustworthy, over toe hurricane deaths and visiting New Zealand to thank World Him Festival. Sofie, a explain what happened 23 not to mention unpatriotic. It offered to send Russian work- the people for their support film set in 19to-cennuy Den- years ago the more he app- sees this as the perfect issue ers and machinery to help. during the Gulf war. The emir mark that marks actress Uv ears. in President Bush’s given Mr Bush's exemplary In Florida, toe army said was to be guest of honour at a UOnmm’s debut as a director, words, “ slippery when wet”. war record and Mr Clinton’s that it was opening another banquet to which 250 guests won the special Grand Prix du Privately. Clinton aides now aspirations to be America's “tent dry” for refugees, even as had been invited. Jury. consider the issue the cam- commander-in-chief. In toe relief officials claimed to be ' : * paign's biggest threat final analysis, Americans moving towards reconstruc- ii > ZZ' Mr Clinton is retaliating in would not vote "for a person tion. Military officials said on Japan will grant Russian pres- Comedian Jerry Lewis’s 27th v: <*. •. y. kind. On Monday he changed they've got grave questions Monday that they would open ident Boris Yeltsin’s wish to annual muscular dystrophy tactics abruptly and directly abort — questions about his a tent city at the Miccosukee see some sumo wrestling dur- telethon raised a record challenged Mr Bush's asser- character, questions about his Indian reservation on toe ing his Tokyo visit, but security $45,759,368 despite com- tion that as vice-president he trust,” said Vice-President fringe of the Everglades. The dictates that he must sit be- plaints from victims of the was “out of the loop" during Quayle, himself nearly de- Miccosukee tribe’s huts and hind a bullet-proof shield, disease who said that what the Iran-Contra scandaL “You stroyed by draft-dodging alle- caravans were badly damaged Out of court: Barbra Streisand reacting to cameramen before tbe match between Japanese news reports said. disabled people most needed do your job with him like you gations in 1988. in the storm. (AP) Andre Agassi and Carlos Costa at the US Open Tennis Championships in New York The Japan Times, said the was jobs. did with me,” he challenged Mr Clinton’s appearances reporters. George Mitchell, are often accompanied by a the Senate's Democratic lead- small plane trailing a banner er, repeated that demand yes- saying “Draft Dodger”, or by terday, suggesting a concerted similar signs in the crowds, and on Monday in Wisconsin ‘iiryiil rises; Mr Bush delivered his most open attack yet on Mr Clin- ton's draft record. Mocking his opponent's daim to Harry K' UCi-;. Truman’s mantle, he observed that Truman “wanted to join toe rmlitaiy and fight for his country. And so did I. And I did.” Mr Clinton hit straight bade. The impending prosecu- tion of Caspar Weinberger has thrown up a memorandum recording a conversation be- tween toe former Defence effort was under way to divert Secretary and George Shultz, attention. All this was not in then Secretary of State, in the script. 1987. That memo called into Two weeks ago Mr Clinton question “not only toe Presi- appeared before toe American dent’s veracity, but his support Legion, the veteran service- for illegal conduct,” Mr Clin- mens’ organisation, to make ton charged. “one final statement" on a The conversation concerned draft issue that has dogged a Washington Post interview him since toe New Hamp- in which Mr Bush daimed he shire primary in February. He had been “out of toe loop” on gave his version of events, the Iran-Contra affair and did urged his' audience to look hot kribw MrWeiriberger and forward not bade, and was Mr Shultz had both opposed applauded by potentially his the arms-for-hostages opera- harshest critics. Hie aim was tion. The note records Mr inoculation. "It’s impossible Weinberger protesting: for the Republicans to try to “That’s terrible. He was on the resurrect this issue again, giv- other side. Ifs on toe record. en how warmly he was accept- Why did he say that?.” ed ty the Legion." an aide Asked about toe memo in crowed, but toe Los Angeles an interview last Sunday, Times swiftly punctured that President Bush countered that euphoria. Iran-Contra had been toe Previous stories focused on subject of “millions of dollars Mr Clinton's draft dodging worth of investigation ... If I while studying at Oxford in had done anything wrong, late 1969. This one daimed they'd have bon all over me his uncle had successfully lob- like you can possibly imag- bied to prevent his induction ine.’’ He had “nothing to during a vulnerable ten- explain”, he added.

Egyptians unearth Copts’ tragic past

From Christopher Walker in Cairo

rare insight into the we have,” said Gawdat A persecuted lives of ear- Gabra, director of Cairo's ly Christians in Egypt has Coptic museum. Previous- been unearthed near the ly. a handful of Coptic ruins pyramids at Giza with the dating back to the same discovery of one of the period have been discov- country's earliest Christian ered near ancient monas- communities. teries and hermitages. The sel dement, complete Egypt once contained with well-manicured streets many Coptic rains, includ- and mud brick houses — ing ones similar to that now one still with blackened unearthed on a hillside at ashes in its hearth — dates Nazlet eHBatran about two bade to the first centuries miles from toe Sphinx. But after Christ, a time of great early archaeologists often persecution for Egypt’s destroyed Coptic remains Coptic Christians. Ironical- to get to the treasures of the beneath. ly. the find comes as the pharaohs buried Copts, who make up about The dwellings so far dis- seven million of the present covered are uncannily simi- 57 million Egyptians, are lar to Egyptian village again facing attacks, this houses of today. The find is time from Muslim funda- regarded as of great impor- mentalists. In some slum tance because of the are guard- glimpse it offers into the \ areas, churches ed by troops. daily life of the early Chris- Referring to the nine tians. The community app- houses so far uncovered by ears to have been poor like STAFF Christians erf RAISED antiquities marry of the OUR the Egyptian organisation. Abd at-Moez, that period in Egypt an inspector, said: "Some of the artefacts show the xcavations so far have £250,000 FOR THE BRITISH PARALYMPIC TEAM. games Copts had to play. E yielded a number of They could not draw cross- Coptic relics, some looking es for fear of persecution, so as though they were aban- doned only yesterday. One IN SILVER. flowers and other IAN PAID US BACK they drew symbols they themselves largejar with four exquisite understood to represent a Coptic pictures was found cross. Outsiders would see in its place beside a corner only a decoration.” room. One house stiB contains he Copts; who daira wooden pieces which sup- T they are today prevent- ported a heavy door. Other ed bum taking top govern- relics include decorated ment jobs and complain of limestone piBais. engraved countless other examples of with flowers and plants. discrimination are a cor- One relic bears an early nerstone of Christianity, cross and a tiny statue of with mots stretching bade the Virgin Mary was found to Mark’s arrival in in one home. Roman coins Ilf St Egypt in the first century unearthed among the rains AD. date part of the settlement HAYDEN - EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES OFFICER AT ROYAL MAIL OXFORD SILVER IN "This is one of the few iq the second and third IAN WON THE SHOT PUTT AND IN THE JAVELIN. ancient Coptic settlements centuries AD.

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1 10 EUROPEAN NEWS THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1992

Mitterrand musters glitterati to beat drum for Maastricht

replace the Utopia once prom- ELTON John and Clint gagged a side supported by 40 9j the the left-wing ised by Marx. So few arc Eastwood came on first, The bias of celebrities and the media in ****> per cent of eminent opponents in the warming up the audience decorate. favour of a ‘Yes’ vote has left France’s of salons of Paris that hostesses before the starring act of The deafening serenades sidelines, writes are having a tough job balanc- ia France's top television show ‘No’ campaigners on the the pro-Maastricht orchestra old ing the table when they hold on Monday night: a sing- Charles Bremner from Paris spring partly from the X Maastricht dinner parties. along by Charles Trenet and tradition of government influ- to die indefatigable Pierre B6r£govoy. the prime X ence on broadcasting. But Thanks 11. Jack Lang, the celebrity cul- minister, and his wife. about the whole establish- Maastrichtjournalists and rel- beyond the question ofdictates that ture minister, the government The grandfatherly M ment. horn business captains egated the high point, M M to news bosses lies the fact FRENCH able to round up Berfegovpy rarely takes the to scientists and pop singers. itterrand’s session with M the whole “audio-visual land- has been from al- Seguin. to a hurried half hour scape”. as it is called, is port of public endorsement 12. stage outside political debate, L’Humanite. the Commu- REFERENDUM viewers with dose most every famous actor, sing- let alone his wife, but there nist party paper, thundered after 11pm. when the dire network 4 film-maker, musician, was a mailer of timing. That yesterday against what it were exhausted. Philippe de links to the Socialist-techno- er, sailor academician, night also saw the launch of called a conspiracy and “sor- VUliers. a dissident from Valfc- minutes to those supporting cratic power which has ruled ocean and 1. list running from Catherine the official campaign for did media manipulation’'. ry Giscard d’Estaing's UDF “No” The Gaitflis: Rally for for a decade. Since most of its a 1. Deneuve. Depardieu Maastricht, a detail unmen- Philippe seguin and Charles grouping, said the show dem- the Republic erf Jacques Chirac members favour Maastricht, Genud “democracy all the and Charles Aznavnur to tioned by the B6r£govcrys in Pasqua. the leaders of dissent- onstrated how has another 30 minutes, but along with almost . 2. Margue- their family appearance on ing Gaullist faction, com- and fairness are held in con- has managed to neutralise chattering dasses. there is little Pldrido Domingo. rite Duras and Luc Mon- Michel Dnicker’s first variety plained that editors were too tempt in our country”. itself by splitting the rime to incentive to promote the “No” pioneer. It show of the season on TF-1, much in favour of a “Yes" vote. Equally frustrating for the reflect the disagreement campaign. tagnier, the Aids cynic to recall 3. the commercial channel. The most glaring example “No" side is the distribution of among its deputies. The result The government is greatly does not take a that of the glitterati on The show was just another of what is seen as one-sided- campaign broadcasts, which is a bewildering performance helped by the way the treaty most benefit, instance of a phenomenon' ness was President Mit- began this week. By decree, in which viewers are being appeals to all sides, from the 300-strong list 4 from which has the antirMaastricht terrand's three-hour the broadcasts are allotted told the treat)' is either won- business leaders and conserva- sometimes extensively, campaigners spluttering with marathon last Thursday, also according to the parliamenta- derful or a disaster. Speaking tive high dvil servants to the the generous patronage of M Lang’s ministry. anger. This is the way that the on TF-1 . The so-called debate ry representation of each par- for dissenting Socialists. Jean- caviar gauche, M Mitter- 5. Eastwood: given role of Deneuve on a list of Mitterrand campaign has co- was tailored by the Elysfe ty. This has given 84 minutes Pierre Chevenemem said the rand’s Left Bank crowd for parties to Ronald Butt page 12 warming up audience 5. 300 celebrities opted the energies of just palace which picked three pro- to the “Yes” and six allocation of broadcasts had whom Europe has come

6 6 Owen joins 7 7 Waigel tells Germans Vance on Date set for 0

9 to agree wage freeze mission Lithuania to Balkans withdrawal

or face tax increases Bv Michael Binyon RUSSIA agreed yesterday to DIPLOMATIC EDITOR pull all former Soviet troops From Ian Murray in bonn out of Lithuania by the end of LORD Owen, the European August 1 993. speeding up the AS AN embattled Helmut seekers and to find ways of tag for the right-wing unrest Community's Balkans negoti- process by more than a year Kohl faced calls for a govern- stemming the flow of refugees Herr Waigel replied that the ator. will make his first visit to (Anne McElvoy writes). Presi- ment of national unity, the entering the country. Last year tough budget proved the gov- the region today when he flies dent Yeltsin held talks in German administration yes- accommodating asylum seek- ernment was taking a lead. to Zagreb with Cyrus Vance, Moscow with President terday threatened new tax ers cost taxpayers £5.3 billion. But the fact that the record the United Nations co-chair- Landsbergis and set a new increases unless workers in the Resentment about the influx 435.65 billion mark budget man of the Geneva confer- timetable for the removal i>( west agreed a voluntary two- to has led to the current attacks has grown by 2.5 per cent ence. The two will go to about 20.000 troops from the # i three-year wage freeze. Intro- on foreigners, and a new poD since last year underlines the Sarajevo tomorrow ana Bel- Baltic state. ducing what he said was an shows that support for the far difficulties Herr Waigel is grade on Friday. Mr Landsbergis praised the “iron-hard savings budget,” right is now over 10 per cent having finding money, for Their trip comes after “good nature and internation- Theo Waigel, the finance min- nationwide and is stronger in restructuring the economy in Radovan Karadzic; the Bosni- al expertise” of Mr Yeltsin in ister, said his austerity pro- the west than in the east the east One mark in every an Serb leader, announced securing the deal hut he gramme would raise money Herr Kohl told a meeting of five is already earmarked for that he would accept the added: "Certain sections of the for investment in the east his ruling Christian Demo- the east but the government deadline imposed by Loitt defence and foreign ministry

while bringing down interest crats there was “not the slight- expects at least 150 billion Owen to place all heavy weap- have . . . tried to stand in the rates throughout Europe. est reason” for “disgraceful marks a year will be needed on under UN control. There way of this." “German consolidation and rumours” that Wolfgang for die rest of the century to was some confusion on the Asked whether the Lithua- stabilisation efforts wfll meet Schauble, the Christian Dem- honour Herr Kohl’s promise starting date, but a UN nian deal set a precedent for the expectations of our [EC] ocrat Bundestag leader, had to turn the east into a “flour- spokesman said that even if Latvia and Estonia. Mr u partners and provide the been plotting to challenge him ishing landscape”. this was not until Saturday, Lansbergis said: te far as I

framework for a drop in and create a coalition with the Herr Waigel deplored the the joint Owen-Vance dead- am concerned . . . what goes ! interest rates.” he said. Social Democrats. way in which some big Ger- line, the announcement was for one should go for all." At the same time he prom- Herr Kohl was blamed by man banks have been advis- still good news. Estonia and Latvia had ised to cut benefits for asylum the opposition in the Bundes- ing customers to avoid Dr Karadzic promised in pressed Mr Landsbergis to planned investment taxes by London to dace all heavy maintain a united front on the sending money to Luxem- weapons under UN supervi- date but now appear u> hope bourg. The Grand Duchy sion within 96 hours, and that Lithuania’s agreement Nordic economies would not be allowed to be- would complete the round-up can act 3s a precedent. come a tax haven, he said. seven days later. The spokes- But the position of Estoniu I While calling for a wage man said the two negotiators and Latvia with their large 5 freeze, the minister warned would have a chance to assess Russian papulations is more suffer in the worst that workers must maintain the situation on the ground complicated. Mr Yeltsin's ne- 6 high productivity. A 1 percent themselves. They will also gotiators have linked with- h drop in performance in the press the waning groups for drawal dates to the granting of « west would mean that there — 71 guarantees that harassment of citizenship to Russians

Hi of would be billion marks less possible worlds 30 humanitarian relief would something Riga and Tallin T to invest in the east he said. T stop, and have called represen- are resisting. Latvia and Esto- He had a view of the (’ From Tony Samstag, nordic correspondent gloomy tatives to Geneva to discuss the nia also have naval bases that G economy this year, with resumption of aid. Moscow is disinclined to for- P currency markets trying to dismantle their pro- growth at just 1.5 per cent, * NORDIC Lord Owen was in Britain feit without exacting a price. B were in upheaval yesterday tectionist financial systems to down from the 2.5 per cent he yesterday to co-ordinate work t* after the Finnish central bank gain access to international predicted in the spring. with his aides. He is likely to C Builders strike announced that it allowed markets, domestic political government’s C had The economic return on Saturday to brief EC Athens: Riot police used ba- 7 the markka to float outside the considerations have obliged difficulties, coupled with the foreign ministers, who wfll be

1 tons and tear gas to disperse i exchange rate mechanism. them to maintain restrictive inability of the Social Demo- meeting informally at Brocket ft which policies would crats striking building workers c The announcement trade that be to agree a cohoent polity Hall. Hertfordshire, over the demonstrating against a social was followed by an eight-point laughed out of court elsewhere on limiting immigration, have weekend to discuss EC policy i security austerity i increase in the Swedish mar- in Europe. One result bas significantly increased the on farmer Yugoslavia, among bill and mea- sures outside the national eco- ginal lending rate, was seen as been a loss of faith by most numbers prepared to vote for other things. The UN has nomy ministry in central 1 a harbinger of a second Finn- important trading partners in extreme right-wing parties. poured cola water on hopes Athens. (Reuter) ish devaluation in less than a a region that was once a Government parties an- that relief flights to Sarajevo year. byword for stability, efficiency nounced yesterday that they could soon be resumed after a In recent months, rising and quality— compounded by intend tabling a draft law to five-day suspension. Italy also Court rules shon-rerm interest rates and the self-inflicted status of Scan- limit the right of asylum. said that any resumption of Bucharest The supreme court plunging equity prices dinavian businessmen, newty A Marplan poll has found flights to Bosnia was “un- has ruled on appeal that Presi- throughout the Nordic region at large in the world of global that 14.3 per cent in the west thinkable” unless the UN dent lliescu can stand for par- have been variously attributed commerce, as innocents and 9.7 per cent in the east introduced security measures liament for the Democratic to uncertainty over the fate of abroad. would vote for the radical to prevent any more planes National Salvation Front al- the Maastricht treaty, interest EC membership will ulti- Republican parly. Among being shot down. though the president cannot rate pressures from Germany, mately enable the Nordic young people between 1 8 and The people of Sarajevo yes- belong to a political instability in the European economies to participate folly, 24 support for the far right terday were running short of party. (Reuter) monetary system and the for better or worse, in the was far higher, however — 20 food, medical supplies and weakness of the dollar. Nordic financial and trade institu- percent in west and the 24 per other essentials because of the Japan ages currencies have been shunned tions that might at least have cent in the east The poll found interruption to relief flights. investors, big capital their troubles by and made present no that up to 36.6 percent in the Officials of -the UN High Tokyo: Japan has more than outflows from and worse of their west voting Finland than those would consider for Commissoner for. Refugees 4.000 centenarians, the high- Sweden in particular have neighbours. European The extremist parties, compared said stocks were almost ex- est number since records aggravated insecurity among biggest danger for Scandina- with 23.2 per cent in the east hausted, and not enough was began. At an average of 82. minority or coalition govern- via is that the interim period Eckhart Werthebach, head coming in by land. years for women and 76. 1 for with im- prove ments grappling might so turbulent, par- of German counter-intelli- Boutros Boutros Ghali, the men, Japanese live longer pending membership. ticularly in the of doubts EC light gence. wrote in the Mittle- UN secretary-general, said than any other nation- As membership beck- over Maastricht, hinder EC as to deutschen Zeinuig yesterday yesterday in Paris that he ality. (Reuter) ons. individual Nordic econo- or even abort their progress that in the were skinheads east would ask the UN Security mies have begun to follow towards membership. becoming increasingly polit- Council to authorise air cover Still running European patterns more dose- ical brutaL It was also Safe behind bars: children and of asylum-seekers behind a gate yesterday at the for relief convoys in Bosnia if Pressure Rome Italian police, delight- ly than during the years when on pound, page 17 dear that their attacks were Hinrichshagen refugee camp near Rostock. Germany, where they were moved countries offered provide to ed to have captured Giuseppe the European Free Trade As- British gilts, page 20 organised centrally. after attacks by right-wing extremists forced another camp nearby to dose protection. Madonia, allegedly the Ma- sociation was still seen as a fia's viable alternative to the Com- second in command, munity. Denmark has been have been sobered by a report that 12.000 an EC member for a genera- ITALY NOTEBOOK by John Phillips suspected crimi- nals are tion; Sweden and Finland still on the run. have applied for membership, (Reuter) and Norway for the first time Visit called in 20 years is trying seriously Top people’s club for sale after Aga Khan feels the pinch off to take decision to apply. the Seoul: A trail-blazing trip by The recent pattern in these 1 South Korean business lead- T imes evidently are becoro- minister, and Bill Koch, the that “the end use of the \- tables and soft lighting. countries, as elsewhere in He'S do ion c The of the annual Venice film ing ers to communist North Korea ± hard even for the Aga American multimillionaire building will not change”. grating disappears and one festival Europe, has been decreasing from being held in St has Khan who, his Ciga group boat the Ameri- his yaeKf- been called off because the be- whose won can choose the ideal Mark’s Square on Saturday. inflation, now averaging two countries said yesterday, has put his ca’s Cup this year. talians returning from could not agree while unem- temperature.” Signor Ronchey took the low 3 per cent, on the of the exclusive Costa Smeralda Signor Berlusconi is not a their holidays who wish to Signor Lion composition ployment has risen to levels I says he is decision after experts said Yacht Club in Sardinia South Korean dele- unac- up for keen enough yachtsman to confess their summer pec- especially proud of the acous- that large crowds could dam- previously considered gation. (Reuteri sale at a giveaway price of 12 number among the members. cadillos wall be able to do so in ceptable in non-EC Scandina- tics. “One can speak freely. age the flagstones of the billion lire (£5.6 mfltion). But in any case his aides have comfort thanks to a new. Today confession via. well above 7 per cent. is not a long square, recalling the outrage There have been persistent let It known from Milan increasingly popular "all mod of sins Savage sighted Sweden. Norway and Fin- be list but a dialogue with felt when rock fans attended a reports that Silvio Berlusconi, that he is not interested. confessional box. priest land are not pan of the ERM; cons” the So it is important Pink Floyd concert there. Peking: Thousands of tourists the media owner, wants to The newspaper Re- cathedral already has but they have individually La Turin that those with hearing prob- City authorities, however, have descended on China’s buy the prestige establish- pubblica said yesterday that installed one of the confes- lems can feel at chosen to tie theircurrencies to their ease, were upset by the ministerial Shenlongjia national parks ment whose 500 members the sale of the dub, with the sionals marketed by the ap- without fears the Community, using fluctu- that all the decision, which they felt takes hoping to glimpse "savage”, a enjoy a stupendous position disposal of several of the named company ation bands determined by the propriately faithful will discover their some glamour out of die giant, man-like beast covered overlooking the marina at Italian hotels in the Ciga Genuflex, which is based in with ecu or finely judged “baskets” GCD sins.” festival and reduces its com- red hair, said by locals to Porto Cerva But a Ciga chain, “ought toallowtheAga province. Paolo lion, of other European currendes. Treviso The top model modern petitiveness with the rival be seen loping through the official the denied that Mila- Khan to recover liquidity”. It the owner of the company, the 1 7th to the 20th confessionals The Finnish decision free its centu- cost as much as extravaganza held at Cannes. brush. (Reuter) to nese television mogul was a suggested that his finances takes credit for the design, ries. adapting them to the 11 million lire, currency from this artificial but Signor Signor Ronchey is un- potential purchaser. “Only have suffered, like those of which indudes air condition- architecture of the church in Uon provides discounts of restraint suggests that the up repentant and says he will Cave man members will be admitted to nearly afl the rich in Italy, ing for the summer, central question. Signor Lion said. to two million lire for clergy* take an attempt to anticipate ftifl EC equally tough line to the operation,” Claudio from the repeated interest the winter and Madrid: The Alava provincial membership in this way may heating for "Inside, there are all com- men who turn in their old defend the heritage of Italy Miorelli. the official, said. rate increases recently guaranteed soundproofed forts. can kneel government has started legal not have been a good idea. made One down models in part exchange. whenever necessary. “Every action The members include to defend the struggling lira. walls prevent eavesdrop- before a grille, as in the to recover £67.000 it in fact the Nordic econo- to past, time I will refer to the opinion Gianni Agnelli the Fiat mag- But whoever eventually ping other members of the or one can transform that lberto Ronchey, gave an archaeology student mies outside the EC seem to be by minister of experts. If the opinion is nate, to Sheikh Yamani, the buys the two-storey “We sell con- small space into a real little for cultural study cave paintings he had suffering from the worst of dub- congregation. A heritage, has negative, 1 win not hesitate to former Saudi Arabian ofl house. Signor Miorelli in all styles from armchairs, discovered after officials spent both worlds. While they have says fessionals lounge with coffee banned the awards ceremony take unpopular decisions.” £1,000 proving he had faked five ten years spent the past to them. . 1

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1 992 OVERSEAS NEWS 1 ) Militants gambled that presence of journalists would restrain Ciskei troops International press was no ANC pelts police at shield against barrage of consulate

From Ray Kennedy bullets on the way to Bisho IN JOHANNESBURG SOUTH African police cocked CYRIL Ramaphosa. secretary- not have any advance infor- their rifles yesterday in a peneraJ of the African Nat- Michael Hamfyn reconstructs the events mation, and also did not think confrontation with African ional Congress, flew Fast into Brigadier there would be a massacre National Congress supporters London on the coast that led to Joshua Gqozo’s of the with the international press marching on the Ciskei con- eastern Cape early troops r- on Mon- opening fire and killing up to 28 present. sulate in Johannesburg. day to put the official rs ANC ANC members in their march on Bisho A large group of marchers The protesters had tried to stamp on the planned demon- i. had been surging forward tear down a South African flag stration against is Brigadier through the bosh to die left of outside a nearby hotel. As Joshua “Oupa" Gqozo's gov- who used to be chief of staff of Ciskei troops lined this road. the main march and they ran police moved in to stop them, ernment in Bisho. the capital UmkhontoweSizwe. (Spear of There were also troops behind into the stadium ahead of the they were pelted with fruit and of Ciskei, three miles outside the Nation) rise armed wing of an embankment alongside the rest. Mr Kasrils ran outside one was hit on the head by a King William's Town. the ANC Ronnie Kasnls. main road inside the univer- the stadium round an earth flying bottle. Police cocked As he arrived, news came another senior figure in sity campus. bank which surrounds it on their rifles, but the constable thazaCiskeian magistrate . had Umkhonto as wen as a central When Mr Kasrils returned that side. He discovered the who had been hit defused the given permission for the committee member of the to mate his report the group of Open tnrmel on the situation. He gingerly rubbed marchers to enter the so-called Communist party and mem- leaders decided that a large northeast side and began urg- his head and walked away. homeland's territory, but only ber of the ANC’s national section of the march should ing the by now sprinting In Cape Town, six ANC to go to a stadium 200 yards executive. indeed follow the route they demonstrators through it members were allowed into an from the border. This restric- Also present was Raymond were directed along by the At this point Ciskei troops tion was not accepted by the Sutmer. another Communist razor wire into the stadium, opened fire. There were no leaders of the demonstration, and ANC executive member, but that they should not stay in warning shots, and no who declared Years of blood their intention who had spent the weekend the stadium. Instead, they warnings. It seemed to those y of marching to Bisho's centre. telephoning all the foreign would go up to the line of present that a direct order to The marchers n assembled in journalists he could to encour- troops beyond and attempt to fire had been given for a I960: Sixty-nine killed in King William’s if Town and set age them to attend- Their brush past them into Bisho. veritable barrage opened up. Shaipeville during anti-apart- off singing o and dancing presence was to be a signifi- Mr Kasrils and Mr Hani were The barrage lasted one and heid protest. ahead of Ramaphosa. i- Mr cant factor in the decisions given the task of leading this a half minutes, though it 1976: Riots in Soweto. Accompanying n him was Ger- that were made later. section. At the same time Mr seemed to those of us exposed 1984: Battles in Natal be- trude Shope, r die leader of the Half way up the hill to Ramaphosa and others were near the razor wire to be much tween UDF and lnkatha. women’s section of the ANC Bisho. the march halted and to go to the wire barrier and longer than that 1985: Riots in Soweto and >1 and a group of leaders of the die leaders sent Mr Kasrils tty to negotiate a way through. After a brief pause, a second other Johannesburg town- >1 South African Communist and others ahead to recon- The police, however, were not barrage opened up and. for ships spread. e Party, who had been planning noitre. He reported that there at the wire but some distance another two minutes, the 1992: On June 17: lnkatha e this onslaught on Brigadier was razor wire across the main bade marchers huddled to the supporters raid Boipatong Gqozo’s capital for some time. road intended to funnel the Mr Kasrils yesterday justi- ground. Finally it ended and township, killing 43. On Sep- They included Chris Hani, marchers into the stadium fied the decision to tiy to rush people began to count the tember 7, about 60.000 ANC secretary-general of the party. along a din side road. the Ciskeian line by saying bodies. supporters march on Ciskei. i that nobody would open fire Later in the day a statement and Ciskei troops open fire. on an unarmed crowd when by Brigadier Gqozo said his the international press were men had been fired on by the Bisho offices and shops hoate) ^ present crowd and had been returning office block housing the Ciskei s vwT As the marchers, now some fire only in selfdefence. consulate after a stormy con- . -J- i*\S Ctskai defence 70.000 strong, approached . Mr Kasrils said die frontation with police. 3£ forces hors aloe open Are the brow of the hill where the organisers had known there The ANC in the Orange s MDedhera border lies, Mr Kasrils and was a risk. "Throughout hist- Free State announced rhat it t £ IT Mr Hani led their section off ory, how has tyranny been would march today on the A Soon r -to the left towards the stadium. toppled?" be asked. “Never Qwaqwa homeland, on the marchers i Stadium 1 5 University At this point Brigadier without casualties. This is the border of independent Leso- 1 trampto van fence and Wynand der Merwe of the nature of the struggle. People tho, to demand the resigna- Tunnel / £ %i.. w, 'X// 11m os 2 South African police, who had are prepared to accept sacri- tion of Kenneth Mopeli, the c i aixxmg accompanied die marchers to fice, provided the leadership is chief minister. x starts 2 the border, disappeared. prepared to be with them.” Wire fence * He A former Ciskei army officer + + + +" s drove hastily to a police heli- Mr Ramaphosa said: “I claimed yesterday that Briga- copter dose by and flew back have never been so scared in dier Marius Odschig. com- t down into the valley. my life." mander of the Ciskei forces, Asked yesterday why he had was on secondment from the done so, he said: “I could see Police seal border, page I South African Defence Force. Marchers follow DM track planned directions what was going to happen, Leading article, page 13 Colonel Gert Hugo said in a 1 to and I wanted to be out of the The power ofone. radio interview: "He has been 1 Wffltera Town i ^ KMo way.” He insisted that he did L&T, page 5 in daily contact with Pretoria.” Patten to UN force’s arrival renews NEWStN BBfEFj Jordan unearths Islamic arms Uganda army decide From Reuter in amman fear of Somalia violence violating JORDAN has unearthed court will soon try nine mem- talists and their Syrian-backed large weapons caches, includ- bers of the Islamic Resistance allies won a crushing victory in fate of From Sam Kiley in Nairobi ing machineguns and explo- Movement (Hamas) arrested die third-round voting. human rights sives, in a round-up of illegal last month in connection with In another raid, liquid ex- THE first armed United Na- lucrative source of revenue for lin, of the International Medi- Muslim fundamentalist the arms. Hamas, which is plosives, guns with silencers dissidents tions troops to protect aid the Hawadle. who charge £50 cal Corps, have been struck by SIX years after ’coming to groups with foreign links, active in the Palestinian upris- and machineguns were found workers and food convoys a flight and often demand an the flood of media people to power with a promise to official sources said yesterday. ing against Israeli rule in the in the possession of a previous- From Uilu Yu amid the anarchy of Somalia additional £1 0 from new arriv- Somalia and by the insensitiv- protect human rights, the “In one case, 140 West Bank and the Gaza ly unknown group calling IN HONG KONG are due to arrive in the capita], als. especially journalists. The ity prevailing among many of Uganda government had still machineguns, 50 hand gre- Strip, and has dose links with itself Shabab al-Nafir al- Mogadishu, on Saturday. threat of the Pakistanis break- them. not stopped serious human nades, over 20 pistols and Jordan’s Muslim Brother- Islami (Vanguard of Islamic THE fate of two Chinese The 60 soldiers from a ing that monopoly is almost Television crews and pho- rights violations by the army. some one million bullets were hood. issued a statement say- Youth). Polioe have charged women dissidents is in the Pakistani mechanised infan- certain to be met with violence. tographers have come dose to Amnesty International said found buried in six cement ing the arms were intended for Yacoub Qarrash, a lower hands of Chris Patten, the try battalion will be the van- The troops’ arrival will also being shot for brandishing yesterday. In the northern bunkers near Amman.” one the occupied territories. In house deputy, with leading die governor of Hong Kong, after guard for another 440 and be met with mixed feelings by their equipment at gunmen, Nuba mountains of Sudan, source said. A stare security Lebanon, Muslim fundamen- organisation. Britain’s refusal to grant them wiD be charged with securing aid workers. They would wel- who resent having their pic- the government has been en- political asylum. Mogadishu airport against come improved security so ture taken, and at least five gaged in a campaign of “eth- Uu Yjjung. 29, and Lin Lin. looters and bandits who regu- that they can deliver aid have been stripped and left in nic deansing” to remove non- 24, said they were activists larly interrupt relief flights. effectively to the starving pop- the street. Other crews arrive Arabs from their homeland, during the 1989 Tiananmen Over the weekend, a worker ulation of more than four uninvited at aid workers* according to Africa Watch. Square protests. They escaped with the International Medi- million. But if fighting breaks houses and, as Miss Pauline to Hong Kong last December cal Corps was murdered in out between UN forces, who Dodds, of the International Life for death and have been detained as front of the American director have the right to return fire, Committee of the Red Cross, Johannesburg: The death sen- VyPy - illegal immigrants. They were of the organisation by a 16- and gunmen, all foreigners said, “drink the fridge dry and tence on Jerry Richardson, for- nearly repatriated last Satur- year-old who shot him point- will become targets. eat all the food”. crew, the Ameri- mer head of Winnie Man- day after Kenneth Clarke, the blank. halting flights to the “We will just have to hope One from for Everest Gutters, dela's bodyguard, was com- V home secretary, rejected a airport for two days. that sanityprevafls among the can CBS network, was singled muted to life imprisonment. request for asylum. But a last- The Pakistani troops, com- insane.” one aid official said out for condemnation by the minute ruling by a Hong manded by Brigadier General yesterday. The UN plans to International Medical Corps. Kong judge suspended plans Imtiaz Shaheen. are known to send another-3.000 troops to In Baidoa, they were accused Tip-off claimed Fascia and Soffits ofeating biscuits drinking to return them by force. be well trained and experi- key positions in Berbers, and Jerusalem: Israeli agents were water in front of The Hong Kong High enced (they come from the Bosasso. Mogadishu and Kis- mineral tipped off about a terrorist at- ran as a colonel), and mayu over the • coming • starving children whom they Court wiD tomorrow consider unit he tack during the 1 972 Munich judicial they have to fight immed- months. Aid workers, howev- then (mocked off their feet priced application for may normally their a Olympics in which 1 1 athletes ,£400 review of the decision to iately on landing. The airport er. say that the only immediate with their camera tripods. died. but ignored the warning, of beneficiaries of the de- • Peace [flea: Portuguese, deport them. But it is Mr is under the “neutral” dan UN it was reported. (AFP) Patten who will make the final the Hawadle. which has man- ployment will be the media. American and Russian repre- handful of sentatives, alarmed at the decision on whether they can aged to maintain its hold on Aside from a Police renewed civil war fined nay. Human rights groups, the vital installation despite correspondents working from prospect of including Amnesty Interna- successive attacks from rival Nairobi, fewjournalists visited in Angola, pressed the coun- Harare: Augustine Chihuri. after try’s political rivals yes- Zimbabwe’s chief of police, tional. say they face persecu- dans, led either by General Somalia until June, long main colleague were fined £60 tion in China. Chinese Muhammad Farrah Aidid or the famine was under way. terday to form a government and a during the given jail jffidals in Hong Kong are his arch-rival, Ali Mahdi Aid workers such as David of national unity and suspended for han- pressing for their return. Muhammad. Shearer, of the Save the Child- transitional period after this terms of six months Last night Lau Chin Shek. a The airport has been a ren Fund, and Stephen Tom- month’s elections. dling stolen cars. egislator and activist, handed i petition to Mr Patten during i dinner reception for Alastair joodlad. minister of state with special responsibility for Punjab dreams of good life in Southall Hong Kong. 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12 THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1 992

The work of lords lieutenant must go on even if counties are abolished, says John Grigg

Let the nation None at the present lords lieu- hatever the future shape tenant is a woman, and there is a of local government, one marked paucity of women among ancient element of our W vice lord lieutenants and deputy counties should not be overlooked: Miniature monarchs lieutenants. In some counties, in- give its verdict the busy folds lieutenant. A typical deed. there are nunc at all One of entry in the Court Circular recently the very few women fonts lieuten- read: “By command of the Queen. They are much in demand for In the past, fords lieutenant were which seems quite wrong. They are of recent times was Lavinia, Ronald Butt on why the British, too, Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant for opening public institutions, presid- nearly always the leading territorial invited each year to one of the ant Norfolk (West Sussex). Merseyside (Mr Henry Cotton) was ing over charitable committees and grandees m their respective coun- Queen's garden parties, and Duchess of — The Whitish llth Duke of deserve referendum present at Hawaiden Airport this attending functions in aid of good ties. but times - and counties among prime ministers Lady That- a on Maastricht was sacked as ford lieu- afternoon upon the arrival of the causes. They are expected to be on have changed. There are still some cher showed exceptional apprecia- Norfolk West Riding of York- King and Queen of Spain, and parade whenever a royal personage lords lieutenant of the old sort, such tion of their work by giving three tenant of the proposing, during the be- visits county. conscientious as the of Bucdeuch (Rox- receptions for than during her shire for he prime minister says that against a referendum when it is the welcomed Their Majesties on their A Duke (Dorset). But tenure. Although the government French Revolution, a toast to “our he has **no hesitation” in very power of the British parliar half of Her Majesty.” lord lieutenant may well have at burgh* or Lord Digby — inven- arc neither has specifically recognised the value sovereign's health the majesty of rejecting a referendum in ment at stale is wrong. Pariiamen- The lords lieutenant were least one local dune on every day of there are also many who T the people". But it is most unusual to noblemen large-scale land- of their work, by recommending Britain on the Treaty of Maastricht. tary sovereignty is too important to ted by Henry VIII control the the week, inefuding Sunday. nor have radical leanings. bur owners. if landowners at all. that the lords lieutenant should be for them to He admits that if the French say No be used as a political catchphrase. armed forces in each county, Not all. however, can' be so indeed during the present is now almost readily it Cotton in Merseyside is a figureheads of the proposed nun- An exception to it. the treaty is dead. But if they and like many precious things, it their military role available. For instance, is Mr lieutenant in administrative counties, they do century was Sir Charles Trevelyan, say Yes. by however narrow a has a certain fragility. It is not, to negligible, surviving only in their hard to believe that Robin Leigh- businessman lord a who while serving as lord lieuten- majority. Mr Major wants the start with, self-sufficient. Even after dose association with the Territor- Pemberton. who as well as being recently created county’. seem to be exploited. all of is hangover from ant of Northumberland was also a British people to be content with the revolution of 1688 had estab- ials. Today their essential role is Lord Lieutenant of Kent is Gover- Nevertheless, they' are The system a their the there member of Stafford Cripps's far leh what he calls the “bruising pas- lished parliamentary sovereignty, to act as constitutional monarchs nor of die Bank of England, can considerable standing in time when was a govern- are public ser- ing class which owned most of the Socialist League. At one meeting of sage” he expects the bill to have John Locke asserted the supreme in miniature. In all the counties spare very much time for duties in counties: and many Bui it is land, paid hardly tax did a Labour leaders he proposed that through Parliament as it is debated power of the people — over parlia- of the United Kingdom, they are the county. He must depend heavi- vants of high quality. more any and British workers should use strikes clause by clause, with the whips ment as much as over monarchs. the Queen's representatives, per- ly on his vice lord lieutenant and or less obligatory for them to be little public work partly in return for receive partly to its privileges. as a means id controlling British presumably imposing their disci- The power of parliaments rats forming the sort of ceremonial deputy lieutenants. These lesser well-off. because they no pay and enforce foreign policy, only to be crushed by pline throughout on adequate consultation with and social duties that the Queen dignitaries are appointed by the for their services. Apart from charg- Another such hangover is the it this reton from Ernest Bevin: "You His word “passage" dearly as- those who elect them. When some performs at a higher leveL lord lieutenant, but he himself is ing for secretarial help and trans- unpaid lay magistracy, and is port. they have to finance the job appropriate that fonls lieutenant want a strike? OK. I am to cal! out sumes that it will inevitably pass. great question hangs over all They present BEMs, Queen’s appointed by the Crown. There is themselves. particular, they re- should have an important hand in 600.000 dockers. Will you cull uut The critics may speak, but are not others, it is usually possible to refer awards for export and technology, no fixed term for a lieutenancy In for entertaining. magistrates. the lords lieutenant?” expected to vote in numbers that it to the people in a single-issue and awards to police and firemen. except, now, a retiring age of 75. ceive no allowance the choice of lay would kill any important part of general election, as over the eco- the bOL While something is to nomic crisis in 1931. As far back as be cobbled together to appease 1339. the Commons told the king the Danes, the British must be con- that they “dare not assent” to a tax tent with Mr Major’s reinterpre- until they had “advised and con- tation of the treaty. Whereas the sulted” their “communities” and fictional supranationalists. includ- had returned in a new parliament in world Brussels Wars a ing some of The “advising” or the commissioners, leading by politi- onsidered as openly describe it cians is important, fiction, the Bryan Appleyard ponders the cultural forces that drive the Booker prize as essentially a but so is effective Booker Prize — the short- step towards their consultation. list is announced today supranationalist It was dear at the C has entered a post-mod- goal. Mr M^jor re- last general election em. mannerist phase. The ritual is interprets it as that the Commun- overcast by a wilted, weary know- fully consistent with ity’s future would ingness. Or, of course, feverish the expression of be as great an issue hype — two probable shortiistees national interests, for this parliament were separately described to me which he now ad- as Com Law repeal yesterday as “the greatest novel of mits the Commun- and Irish Home the century”, surely the desperation ity has previously Rule once were. of decadence. failed to respect But it oould not be Few dream now of constructing suffidenlly. an. issue in that theories about the condition of the

So which is it? election for lade of a novel on the basis of the shortlist At a still deeper dearly defined dif- More likely it will inspire wry, level does it ensure ference of principle acerbic asides about the condition or undermine the on Maastricht be- of tiie recession-hit frightened pub- future of effective Locke; the power of the tween the parties. lishing industry. And when the first democracy and law people is supreme That remains the scene of Malcolm Bradbury's new within the EC? case, and a general novel DoctorCriminate is set at the Democracy requires that voters election on it is still ruled out Booker dinner, it is difficult to avoid should be able to grasp the argu- For such cases, the idea of a refer- the feeling that the prize is coining ments between politicians, discuss endum has been around since the to the fin of its own private siAde. 19th when incidentally, them among themselves and so century, Dicey unsuc- (Doctor Criminate, create the public opinion to which cessfully advocated it as a way to has paid the price for this hubris; it the politicians must respond. For settle the Irish home rule question, is not shortlisted.) this a state should be of manage- and it was the referendum in The spectacle of Professor Brad- able size, with a shared political Northern Ireland in 1973 which bury brooding post-modemisticaDy culture and a common language. led to the British commitment to over this phase makes a certain Maastricht formally salutes the defend it as pari of the United sense, for be was, in a way. the god- principle of “subsidarity” or “mini- Kingdom as long as the majority father of the Booker’s golden age. It mum interference”. But nationally there wish. was his courses at the University of expressed democracy may be worth Nor is it true that referendums East Anglia in the 1970s which little when all major policy-making are inevitably conservative. The convinced young writers that there is constrained by the needs of a Liberals were for a time committed was something badly wrong with lar and highly effective revolution. upon which the Booker thrived, expect to be heard with the weighty confident of the idea of literature single currency, a central bank, the to one on tariff reform, and it was the British post-war novel For a time, making a good living was a fluke, a mere blip on the immediacy of Bellow? Murdoch and more comfortable with the idea single economic authority that is Labour which ordered the only Bradbury taught that the prevail- out of heavyweight novels seemed a graph of long term decline? deserves to be. but she isn’t of a great living writer. Outside the bound eventually to emerge, major- British nationwide referendum, on ing convention of inward-looking, serious possibility. The same forces Tiie most pessimistic view is that The unpalatable truth may poLiticalljKorrect campuses, there ity voting in the Council of Minis- the Community in 1975, and also rather depressed realism — the drove the Booker. Who should win we are now reverting to our natural be that we simply do not have remains in America a strong, per- ters and the European Parliament, the referendums on Scottish and legacy of the Angry Young Men became an urgent conversational condition as a literary satellite ofthe a very literary culture. With the haps naive feeling that literature is and. not least. Brussels' power to Welsh devolution in 1979. If ever and tiie Movement— was a betray- isue. And. of course, an urgent United States. In financial terms, glorious and eccentric exception of significant. And even if their writers initiate policies. direct reference to the people al of the highest, experimental financial issue: the prize could drive this cannot be disputed. There are The Literary Review, the world do not generally make prime-time It has become fashionable to say through a referendum is justified, it ideals of modem literature. Aspir- hardback sales up from 2.000 to many more Americans than there of the periodica] is dead. And, be- television, they are at least spared that the Community has failed to is surely when parliamentary elec- ing writers emerging from the 80.000 and an author’s advance are Brits, and they seem to buy cause of that, there is no effective the inspissated gloom of The Late cany its peoples along with its tions cannot pTtxluce a clear verdict universities drunk on the literary for his next book from next to twice as many books per head market for die short story. Few of Show or. worse stiff the posturing policies by sufficient explanation. on a great subject, such as a exotica of Barthes, Beckett, Borges nothing up to £200,000. (although the figure is disputed). our big name writers ever issue silliness of Burning Books. But ambiguity about its destination possible transfer of authority away and Nabokov, tended to agree. The So the prize, the post-moderns, In publishing terms, America collections of stories. By contrast. It was the scale of American and resistance to popular consult- from parliament last thing they wanted to do was' the publishers and the bookshops is the ultimate holding company Americans like Raymond Carver. cultural dominance, both in reality ation have always marked the The nation is entitled to a chance write more books about tiie amus- marched hand in hand through the of the English language, just as Updike, John Cheever and Donald and in the British imagination, that advance towards union. The time to give a verdict on the Maastricht ing contradictions and solid virtues Eighties. Inevitably the recession it now is of so many publishing Barthelme have taken the form to helped to create the provincial for that is past Mr Major was right Treaty, and there are now only two of provincial life. has scattered the troops. Publishers houses. extraordinary heights, with the introversion of the British novel of to at It sign Maastricht was the feasible ways. One is an agreement So, from about 1978 onwards, a are now so depressed about the Aesthetically, the argument also heroic and dogged support of the 1950s. And to a large extent it best deal he could get and had he between all the parties that it new generation emerged: Salman state of their industry that one seems to hold. We have our ageing magazines such as The New Yorker. was the ambitions of the American refused, he would have been giving should be subject to a free vote in Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Ian Mc- crosses the street to avoid their literary gods — Muriel Spark, Iris This is not a small matter. It is now novel and, in the case of Nabokov, ammunition to those who falsely parliament on the assumption that Ewan, Peter Ackroyd, Martin anguish. For all but the most Murdoch and William Golding — all but impossible to imagine a new the honorary American novel that accuse British bad Amis, Timothy the of being the unwhipped MPs would be a Mo and so on. established writers, the big ad- but whatever the final judgment British writer with the peculiar fired the rebellion of the 1 980s. Europeans. But now that others representative sample of the nation. They played games with history, vances have ended. This seffl. leaves of posterity, they do not seem to combination of intimacy and Such a process suggests another share British reservations, he The other is a referendum. Either mangled chronology and imported the post-moderns with solid earn- have the vast, authoritative, patri- devastatingly effective brevity of inward phase and probably a few should think again. course would allow a national new forms of the language. Luckily ings and big houses, but for now archal presence of John Updike or Cheever. quiet years for the Booker. But of It wQl will be said that a referendum debate. Parliamentary sovereignty for them they also found them- any aspiring next wave have to Saul Bellow. Has there been any A literary culture requires neither course, there is a Murphy's law of selves would infringe the principle of parl- deserves no less. in the midst of the 1980s remain pure in their garrets. literary event in post-war British academics nor a feverish metropoli- literary histoiy, which says that iamentary which has publishing which sovereignty, boom, in book But is there a next wave? The fiction to compare with the appear- tan cafe society; it requires an even as this last sentence is being served us wen for centuries and wQl Ronald Butt is working on the sales grew, particularly at the answer is not yet. and that raises the ance of the lak of Updike's Rabbit audience of a certain size seri- written, an \ and unknown English so. to it second volume his history continue to invoke : the do But of of smarter end of market, and the further question of whether the tetralogy, Rabbit at Rest ? And can ousness. Perhaps the general Updike is probably booting up his Parliament. mechanically and dogmatically retail trade underwent a spectacu- Eighties' revitalisation of tiie novel any British novelist-turned-prophet American reader simply feels more word-processor.

...and moreover A jolty In die pink by Mrs Thatcher in succession to Paul Channon. “My office was RED may have been declared po- glum andfilthy, so on myfirst dayI good read litically incorrect at the newty mod- asked how we could brighten it up. Alan Coren erate TUG but yesterday Blackpool / was told that my predecessor had VICTORIA GLENDINNING, was foil of delegates in all shades of found the room quite habitable nce, in the sweet long Happy as a pig in Pannage. I out of the available 4,000,000? who is chairing the Booker prize fetching pink. Nothing to do with once he had a hung a few of his syne, I had Turbary. would spend each weekend trun- Everything. After an hour of judges, must be praying for better the gay pride movement, which has Canalettos on the wall". Later in Mari. Estover and Pann- dling the forest fruits back to being brusquely fobbed from O nty luck than her recent predecessors. also hijacked the colour. Behind the lobby, an envious Parkinson age. Not. as every Commoner premises, landscaping banks of department to department, since Of late the award has brought the pinking of organised labour asked Channon if it were true. knows, my firm of solicitors: clay, turfing them into rolling that is bound to be the way it is nothing but trouble for its judges, was Margaret Prosser, chairperson “Yes," replied Channon, whose firmer even than that, they were hummocks, and, when night fell with something which has cho- harsh reward for an onerous task of the TUC women’s committee, personal fortune could pay off a the law itself. In those days we upon xny shredded ligaments, sen to caD itself the London conducted for scant reward. The who adopted the idea from a rally large chunk of the national debt. owned a ramshackle New Forest tying before a crackling log fire, Residuary Body, a pinch-voiced final shortlist will be drawn up of striking women in Switzerland, “But they aren't very good ones." godowa which was gone down to for there is nothing more satisfy- kapo finall had his day made by today, and Glendinning says: “1 y Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic to whom she had conveyed sororial at that could ing to the weekends so we countryman than that being able to tell me that the expect controversy at the meeting. Verses would sway the panel that he greetings. plod about relishing pastoral rich smoky aroma produced had ceased to be brilliant, Heath common The judges are but they had already written his presenta- For yesterday's equality debate. Sovereignty debate things, among which nothing when {tying slivers of blazing fag- land in IS70 and had been are all highly opinionated.” At the tion speech in praise of Rushdie. Norman Willis, Rodney Bicker- SO HOW would Henry vill have got meet recently was more pastoral than Turbary. fitted carpet redesignated a Metropolitan first meeting one allegedly called Instead he found himself in a staffe ” and John Monks all wore voted in the great Maastricht de- Marl Estover and Pannage. Yesterday, this all came plan- Open Space, which meant that another a “condescending bastard minority of one. bate? Few doubt that he would They were Commoners’ gentty back. Yesterday was when any unauthorised person pulling all part of the rich literary debate. — Glendinning, who is currently have been a firm No. but controv- Rights, winch attached to New l decided to remove a bed of old even a weed up would render Her panel which includes jour- touring the country promoting her ersy broke out yesterday over his six Forest property and enfran- roses from my CrickJewood lawn himself liable to public hanging, nalists John Coldstream and Mark biography of Trollope — itself a wives. According to Paul Johnson, chised tiie lucky hutholder to because they were not old roses his relatives being forbidden to Lawson. Harriet Harvey Wood of strong contender for the non- the unfortunate creatures would push a wheelbarrow out of his any more, they were old sticks. I reclaim the body until the crows the British Council and Oxford fiction NCR prize — says she has have been equally divided. Intro- gate and bring it back again piled had given them one more year (o had had a good go. Stiff I academic Valentine Cunningham, found the work rewarding. ducing Lady Antonia Fraser and high with woodland. Turbary was produce something, but when persisted: knowing how blind an has been meticulous in its read- Another of her predecessors, the her new book The Six Wives of the right to dig turf. Marl the the best their etiolated sap could eye the law often turns to Heath ing of the 1 10 books which late AJ. Ayer, did Oxford not The Henry VIII at the Foyles literary right to dig day. and Estover the squeeze out were a couple of piti- activities more nefarious even they have been ploughing through philosopher was so furious when he lunch, Johnson suggested that right to gather fuel-wood. Pann- fol excrescences which sprang than contraband turf-cutting, I since April — some eight million discovered how little he was being Anne Boleyn. Jane Seymour and age (aka Mast) was different, into the world full-wizened and rang Hampstead nick and said, words and over 400 hours read- paid that he wrote in protest to the Catherine Parr would have been being the right to turn pigs out to fed off the next day, I thought it look, we are both men of the ing. The judges were then asked to organisers. “I have just worked out certain to vote against, while Cath- kindest to put all root for acorns, and it remains a of us out of our world, would anyone realty mind read again a “long shortlist” that although I am a fairly fast erine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves source of mortification to me misery. This left me with a scar in if I took 12 yards of turf off the of 18 before arriving at the reader, 1 pay my daily charwomen would have been firmly in favour. that I was never able to exercise the lawn four yards by three, and Heath? But since an I heard was final six. more than you pay me.” Thev would have ban joined by it, who it seemed the most because lam a frugal man sensible the unmistakable noise of a For a fee of just £2.500. it Katherine Howard, course he concluded, has always hated the thought of simply to turf it over. copper dropping senseless to the is a heavy workload. But sug- • if the Duchess York is embar- of on the grounds that she found it acorns going to waste, and there It grew less sensible with every lino, I quickly rang off before the gestions that some of the novels rassed recent about her holiday difficult to say no to anything. Lady is no other use for the acom than phone-caff I could find no gar- call could be traced. have received only a cursory glance snaps, the Earl of Lichfield, her Antonia immediately took issue patting it into a pig. But as we den centre prepared to deliver Well you can take the boy out are taken as the height of bad mother-in-law’s cousin, may be pink ties, while Ken GiQ sported with his interpretation. than “Anne Bo- didn't own one — it was grim less 100 square yards of tiie of the forest, but you can’t take taste. When on a live broadcast able to help. Lichfield, whose a pink carnation. Brothers who leyn loved France. I think she enough belting down the M3 stuff which, at £2.25 per sq yd, the forest out of the boy. Since it in 1983 Selina Scott asked famous calendars suggest he knows looked as if they usually open beer would have voted yes to European every Friday night with a carload makes an old Commoner’s scalp Is a matter of brandy for the par- Fay Weldon, who was chairing the a thing or two about photograph- with botdes their teeth donned pink unity,” she insisted, claiming a four I of meaningly deracinated infants crinkle: once. should merely son and turfage for the hack. I in- judges, whether she had realty ing scantily clad ladies, is promot- shirts with foppish pink matching to two vote in favour of Maastricht determined not to know what have shouldered a shovel ar- tend to be up there tonight with read all the novels. Scott found ing a new compact-disc camera handkerchiefs. George Woodcock was good for (hem, without ranged Hi-ha, Hi-ho! upon my boot-lid raised and shovel swing- herself virtually ostracised as a which allows owners to view and would surety have ratherjoined the • From the Sellqfield newsletter having a pig on the back seat lips and marched into the forest ing, and should any of the remit then alter snaps holiday through dass enemy. produced by BNFL and NTREX to grunting about all the fun it was to get it Upon which thought, a Heath’s more typical nocturnal Yet Glendinning knows there is their television sets. The new tech- promote plans for a new under- going to miss in London — my second smartly followed: was lawbreakers grow more than usu- still plenty of scope for trouble. Last nology permits the viewer to crop • Transport is often regarded as ground nuclear wastefacility: "The annual acom catchment was Hampstead Heath not common ally agitated in their busy under- year, one of the judges, Nicholas unwanted featuresfrom the photo. one ofthe gulags ofcabinet govern- repository project information unit infuriatingly left to rot land? What was there to stop growth. nty message to them is: Mosley, resigned after failing to “You can even cut whole people out ment, and the former secretary of is opening new premises bang in But of Turbary. Marl and me nipping up the road and Watch the waff darlings, win support tor his favoured books. the picture my of says a spokes- state Lord Parkinson admittedyes- the middle of Whitehaven town Estover l took foD advantage. chiselling a mere 12 sq yds while the Commoner runs by! Michael Foot the 1989 chairman, woman. on earth would Now who terday that he was filled with cenmr. Literally? Quite possibly, was — convinced that his vote for want to do a thing like that? gloom when dispatched to the post says Greenpeace. : 9 .

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

1 Pennington Street, London El 9XN Telephone 071-782 5000 CAN THE CENTRE HOLD? The^OBrtBB^ about Monday's tragedy the Ciskeian leader. BrigadierJoshua Gqazo. ;n Ciskei is that everybody predicted h. There The homeland bosses, wielding considerable Journalists at jsjio excuse for the Putting levels in the right league Children’s right systematic firing by patronage, could deliver as much as 10 per A ^ar e o°?K *7?.* ^ crowd of demonstrators. cent of the black vote against die ANC in risk in Turkey of entry to UK From MrJulian Brazier. for are responding vigorously to this S? National Congress had been universal franchise. Psephological calcuia MP told From Dr Frances D'Souza and others Canterbury what to expect (Conservative] challenge could find themselves dis- From Ms Wendy Ayotie and others and recklessly went ahead lions suggest that this could be crucial. with advantaged by your national league what amounted to a Sir. In the first eight months of 1992, Sir. Master Hafleybury, suicide march. Just Hence Mr de Klerk’s inability to desert or The ot Mr Sir. We and 1 1 other colleagues from as the seven table. South African government has even denounce journalists have been murdered David Jewell (letter, September 4), concerned organisations have written Mr Gqazo. The devious This year we entered 400 students qoucally used the in Turkey for exercising their right to illustrates by an example the large European homeland regimes as part fabric of tile homeland to foe governments of 14 strategy could freedom for A leveL compared with 229 five of as divide and rule" of expression. Many had difference in ranking between foe countries calling on them to urge foe strategy, so the ANC unravel years ago. As a result, we have been nas been been working for pro-Kurdish publica- “Ucca points” and "percentage pass UK government to withdraw a reser- goaded into ever more militant acts • able to offer opportunities to a new Nor is the ANC in a happier state. Its tions in southeast Turkey'. Journalists rate" approaches to judging in its mass action A-level vation to foe United Nations Conven- programme. After such senior figures are now being drawn ever cohort of students, for some of whom a bloody in foe region face constant harass- performance. He offers, however, no tion on foe Rights of foe Child. incidents, blame is a cheap closer modes! pass grade is a considerable and into the informal embrace of govern- ment. beatings by the police and ground for the superiority of the latter: This reservation plentiful achievement. exempts foe UK commodity, and one that is rarely ment They are consulted on important arbitrary detention. indeed under this system any school from implementing articles pertaining helpful to clear analysis. Not surprisingly, our average Ucca economic decisions. Patronage The murder rate forjournalists is the can improve its scores by encouraging to immigration and nationality. We is moving score has shown a gentle decline, J>outh Africa's politics highest ever pupils to fewer are at present in a their way. Their principal enemies, the documented in Turkey in take subjects. believe it Ls incompatible with the stare of although our best-performing 229 suspended animation. Ever since the NataLbased Inkatha a single year and certainly the highest Consider a single pupil who takes purpose of the convention, and that movement and the students would still achieve a prom- rdease levels, of Nelson Mandela in February of any country in the world so far this four A scoring A, B. C and F foe issue is very' relevant to foe current PAC, are being excluded. But the result is to inent place in your table. I am sure that 1990, what is termed year, according to the New York-based (fail). On the percentage pass-rate situation of children separated from the negotiating phase weaken their internal support Nelson many other state schools and colleges of constitutional Committee to Protect Journalists. Tur- system (A-E) his score would be three their families in whal was Yugoslavia. reform has been in Mandela and Cyril could provide similar examples. Ramaphosa have been dearly out of four — i.e.. progress. This key ranks as one of the most 75 per cent; on the The reservation will affect the im- phase was seen as the prelude wrestling to keep their hardliners with Provided that high expectations are them dangerous countries in the world for measure which Mr JeweQ advocates plementation of several articles, three first to an interim power-sharing govern- in the negotiations. maintained and careful forward plan- Thai Mr Ramaphosa the press. (foe percentage of A and B grades) his of which are considered to be essential ment, and then to a new constitution ning undertaken, our experience per- based should have felt obliged to risk his neck on Nevertheless. Turkey, a member of score would be two out of four — 50 to foe convention. on a universal suades me that educational excellence franchise with various Monday's suiddal march in- both Nate and foe Council of Europe per cent If. on the other hand, his shows the opportunities are Article 3 of foe convention stipulates entrenchments to protect and expansion of human and group security of his position. and an aspiring European Com- school had allowed him to take only that “In all actions concerning child- rights. fully compatible. 1 therefore hope that Much debate has surrounded both munity partner, has not set up in- his first two subjects, his scores on both ren ... foe The ANC hardliners seem in tadt alliance the government will consider carefully best interests of the child the form of power-sharing and the dependent enquiries to bring those Mr Jewell’s chosen measures would shall be a primary consideration": yet basis of with the while for right Mass protest is the the methodology of its own league risen entrenchment. It responsible for the murders to justice. have to 100 per cent His Ucca nowhere does immigration law has also surrounded the hardliners’ strategy, destabilise the stale and tables, to be published in November. UK points, however, would have righdy legitimacy of the black negotiators. After nearly a year in office, the take into account the "welfare of TheANC . seize power thereby. The police or homeland coalition government has failed to been lower in foe second case. Yours faithfully. children. has still been unable to develop a coherent Without such a welfare security forces can, it seems, be relied on to While the Ucca points system has COLIN GREENHALGH. and democratic implement promised reforms, includ- principle the interests of children come national structure. validate this strategy with atrocities that are ing legislation to protect freedom of some weaknesses, any percentage-rate Principal. a poor second to the immigration The negotiations in the Codesa forum internationally publicised. The longer the expression. Meanwhile,journalists are approach calculated against the num- HOis Road Sixth Form College, quotas. have beat about reallocating power in . negotiations ber of exams taken, instead of the a are protracted, the more the far paying the ultimate price for express- Cambridge. Article 2 provides that all the rights multiracial country. Those involved of students sitting is 7. are thus right and the for left wifi tug their leaders ing their opinions. number them, September in the convention apply to all children: ineyiiably simply ridiculous. looking over their shoulders to away from the table and into me streets, and September 9 has been dedared a yet children bom in foe UK to their own supporters, wary of signs of the harder will it be for Mr de Klerk and Mr day of international action for press Yours faithfully. From MrDesmond Devin unmarried parents cannot acquire Bri- weakness, averse to compromise. President Mandela to resist that tugging. freedom in Turkey by the newly JULIAN BRAZIER. tish nationality through the father. Sir, David Jewell has rightly judged de Klerk, still one of the bravest and formed consortium of freedom of House of Commons. Children and families in the Indian most The stature and leadership qualities of the significance of league tables as canny ofAfrica’s expression groups from Europe. Africa September 8. subcontinent and the Caribbean leaders, must keep his white both men are now on the line. A kind of merely providing “some amusement the (Ilex voters in line. and Americas — Inter- applying for family reunion in foe UK He must assure them that he is power-sharing is in place in South Africa, a over foe breakfast table”. Such things national Freedom of Expression Ex- encounter a host of discriminatory not capitulating or they will topple him. sort of coalition exists. like From MrR. D. Macnaghten are nothing new, however. But all coalitions it change), the London-based members rules and practices which keep child- Unlike the ANC, he is democratically is vulnerable My father’s 1 924 Lens Schoolboys to splitting. Both sides to this of which have signed this letter. Sir. What your A-levd table (August ren separated from their families for accountable at least within his Diary reveals a table featuring no group. He can coalition had their weaknesses exposed in 29) does not indicate is foe correlation long periods or deny family reunion Yours faithfully, fewer than 80 public schools. Mr sack recalcitrant police chiefs, as he did last Ciskei this week. They must get their between the teaching ability offoe staff altogether. FRANCES Jewell's predecessor or not week, he D’SOUZA intellectual may may but must tread carefully. supporters behind them at the negotiating and the ability of the Contrary to Article 1 2 on a child's (Director, Article 1 have felt that "appropriate criteria for For instance, he must apparently keep table, and fast, whatever outrages occur in taught. right to be heard, refugee children are (International Centre comparison" had been selected, in that company with such unsavoury characters Until you can find some method of treated like adults in the UK refugee- as the meantime. against Censorship)), the table revealed only one dimension: relating the final examination results determination process and are thus that of foe schools’ athletic records. For PHILflP SPENDER to foe initial ability of the candidates, denied a proper opportunity to express (Director, instance, Eton’s record for throwing Index on Censorship). your tables wQl remain as good an their views and wishes. BEFRIENDING OLD ENEMIES foe cricket ball (132yds) edipsed that THOMAS von VEGESACK indication of the academic quality of a t The UK reservation will maintain of Haileybuty hy 24yds 1ft. while (President. Writers in Prison school as one comparing the number discriminatory practices which fall British trade unions have imported more company itself would not suffer and their Brighton College (42ft 2in at putting Committee, International PEN). of runs scored by different schools heaviest on children from minority from Germany than Realpolitik. By inviting jobs would not be at risk. foe weight) massively out-put Eton Article 19, would be of their athletic skills. communities within the UK. This the director-general of the Confederation of The twin recessions of the early 1980s and (37ft 6in). * should 90 Borough High Street SEL Yours sincerely. no longer be tolerated. British Industry to address the Trades Union early 1990s have Headmasters may be relieved to shown that one man’s pay September 7. R. D. MACNAGHTEN hear that, from my experience over foe Sincerely. Congress’s annual conference, they have increase or strike is often foe same man’s lost (Headmaster of Sherborne, past year, their future customers weigh WENDY AYOTTE admitted that more unites both sides of job. Unions have recognised that what 1974-88). Prospect House, up which wealth-shattering school to (Children's Legal Centre). industry than divides them. The German damages the prosperity of a company will Streets with taste Tisbuiy. Wiltshire. opt for without paying much attention GERISON LANDSDOWNS concept of trade unions and management as also hurt the people it employs. The interests August 31. to league tables. These have their (Children's Rights Development Unit), From MrJohn Mein “social partners” may now have crossed the of employer and employee are inextricably rightful place ai the breakfast table IAN WHITE (Association of Directors of Social Services). North Sea. linked. Sir, Marcus Binney (“Getting London From the Principal ofHills Road and in schoolboy diaries. - CLAUDE MORAES Point Council for the British ' , trade unions are living in a: post-. ..-•If unions and employers have so much in streets ahead"; August 29) understates Sixth Form College. Cambridge Yours faithfully. Welfare or Immigrants). Marxist world. Marx’s theory that capital common, is there still a need for a trade the fact when he writes that "the Sir, KEN RITCHIE (Refugee Council). With the government committed DESMOND DEVITT, . and labourwere natural adversaries and that union movement? Simply because twir’sides processional routes to Buckingham to increasing the number of students Housemaster. Dragon School, ORIOLE GOLDSMITH Palace are the greatest letdown". I do the alienation of labour would eventually have shared interests does not mean there is in post-16 education and training, Bardwell Road, Oxford. (Save the Children Fund). ' ’ nor agree with his solution, though, of lead to the collapse of capitalism could not rio' scope' for disagreement On the micro those stale schools and colleges which September 5. The Children’s Legal Centre, allocating famous London thorough- have better been disproved than by Howard level employees will always need someone to 20 Compton Terrace. N 1 fares to well known architects for Davies’s speech yesterday. The represent in their September 7. TUC and them dealings with bosses. improvement and harmonisation CBI, said, bud a speculator’s aim of forcing foe he could work together construc- But the emphasis has moved from bed- with adjoining areas. Sterling speculation currency down and buying it back at a tively on increasing competitiveness, improv- digging opposition to negotiation. As one Architects are in competition with From Mr Leonard A. Jackson lower rate. It is a safeguard against ing education and training and arguing for TUC leader told The Times recently, the days each other, and we know all too well Gower rejection speculation within foe EC. Britain British interests in Brussels. when union leaders boasted of strikes and that when they make their bold Sir, Paul N. Arthur (letter, Septem- Mr needs this protection. From Mr Ray Mills in brick, steel Ten years ago, it was given that the TUC battles with managers were oven they now statements stone and ber 3) writes that “over 85 per cent of they can overlook scale Mr Arthur's remedy that govern- would disagree with anything the CBI said take pride in the fact that strikes are so low. human and demand and supply (of sterling) is Sir. The ingenuity displayed over foe ments should individually aim at rates values — until that is, they return to speculative rather than trade-related". years by foe England selectors in and vice versa. Even the presence at a TUC Is all this the first sign of a new of exchange which would minimise their own homes: Richard Rogers to If correct, the 85 per cent must surely finding excuses for dumping David conference of the director-general of the CBI corporatism? One effect of government poli- their own trade imbalances seems to thewhite stuccoed elegance of Chelsea, indude routine switching of vast sums Gower (report September 8) is quite — if not Lucifer himself, then his satrap — cies prolonging recession is that industry is me a redpe for maximum instability, Michael Manser to an 18th-century by foe institutions (pension funds and remarkable. The latest that at 35 he is would have been unthinkable. What has becoming a new opposition to the govern- and unworkable, since trade-related gem in Chiswick, etc. insurance groups) to high-interest too old to play against India but six effective flows would continue to be swamped changed so dramatically? ment — perhaps more eventually No. architects are not best suited to centres to provide higher pensions and months later he may be young enough by foe larger non-trade flows. Conservative employment laws have than Her Majesty’s loyal one. Even Mr improve our processional routes, lower premiums and. one supposes, to play against Australia, must rate as helped to drag militant trade union leaders Davies was yesterday caliing for more public- though it only requires someone with large support transactions of central We can only work in and through one of foe more ingenious. the market systems — with bade towards the moderate centre occupied sector infrastructure investment to boost the authority and taste to dear up the banks. and no Youis faithfully, I extraordinary mess in front of wish to score debating points— 1 see no by most of their members. Meanwhile a economy. If industry is threatened by Neither could be described as purely RAY MILLS. Buckingham Palace. way in which foe smaller volume of larger proportion of workers does not even recession, jobs are as much at risk as profits. speculative. How much is genuine 4 Dane Drive. The hideous metal crowd-control trade-related transactions can fry itself . of those who do, With businesses going bankrupt at a currency speculation? Cambridge. belong to a trade union and barriers, the tacky wooden flagpoles determine rates of exchange. trade unions could Despite Mr Arthur's wish to abolish September 8. more of them are highly skilled and weD fearsome rate, usefully along the Mall, foe wartime breeze- foe European monetary system, its I am. Sir, yours faithfully. paid. But the main difference is that British join forces with employers in lobbying block bunker on Horseguards. the offspring, foe exchange-rate mecha- JACKSON. From Mrs Christine Heald workers have now suffered unemployment of against government economic policy. The crude odours of the (lower beds in LA nism (ERM), has served Europe well Stable Cottage. Speldhurst Road. two to three million twice in the space of a more unions loosen their ties with the Labour front of the palace could all so easily be Sir. As I pulled my son’s David Gower It has monitored and helped to reduce Langton Green. Kent. decade. partyand the more CBI members recognise improved to please the eye, and cricket trousers out of the washing inflation. Its members are bound to September 5. government not necessarily enhance our state occasions. machine, 1 reflected on foe endless Uke foie children testing the limits of their that a Tory does intervene to purchase an ERM cur- hours of pleasure one of England’s parents' patience. British trade unions used act in their interests, the easier It will be for Yours faithfully. rency on its floor, thus nipping in foe Business letters, page 21 greatest batsmen has given us all over to push and push at the corporate structure, the two sides to come together. And together JOHN MEIN. foe years. safe in the belief that the edifice would never they could wield a formidable extra-par- Latimer House. Church Street, W4. Gower's style, elegance and flair are extract higher wages liamentary dout Workers and managers of “all the characteristics of a badly topple. If they could Police performance unparalleled. He will ourbat foe From MrJohn H. Stafford-Moule designed system” begs foe question, from their employers, it would be at the the world unite! You have nothing to lose, at present England selectors — of that From the President of the Association what was it designed for. if not a locally expense only of fat shareholders. The alL Sir. Marcus Binney writes foal I’m sure — and will return to his of ChiefPolice Officers based, flexible and accountable system London’s major thoroughfares are an rightful place in the England side, of polidng? Is this not the service the architectural disgrace. I take no plea- preferably under a new team Sir, i detect a touch of irony in Howard public wants? of sure in nominating Old Kent Road as Davies’s report on how the police selectors. REDS VERSUS GREYS It is disappointing that your leader the most neglected of all routes: a service should be run. “Fighting skims over foe important area of foe Yours faithfully. to historic road in and out of London for Leviathan: Building soda] markets The grey peril is out of control according to a dines d la carte on anything from acorns performance indicators the police ser- CHRISTINE HEALD, centuries, it brings shame on foe that work" (details. September 2). survey published yesterday. The survey was birds’ eggs and the contents of dustbins. It vice is endeavouring to develop with 10 Hifoenvood Drive. SE19. capital. He is director general of foe Confed- compiled by the Forestry Commission and strips the young bark off trees in spring the Audit Commission. Even in Mr September 8. eration of British Industry and it is his Davies’s time, the commission was refers to squirrels rather titan the grey- because, like all rodents, it has to gnaw and Yours sincerely. one H. STAFFORD-MOULE. own members who currently plead, as of the first to acknowledge what a panther power of human oldies. Founded on relieve its aggression after the winter. It is JOHN 6 Bishops Road, Somersham. the police service has done for so long difficult and complex service this is to a questionnaire sent to 2.300 private prolific, unBritish and a serious pest. Fischer match Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. and for so often, for government measure. Instead you concentrate on a owners, this is the widest squirrel Much cant is spread about this vermin. woodland intervention in their market. Whether discredited notion that the police are From MrDan £. Mayers the Townies, feeding them bread in the parks, poll conducted so for. It confirms it is cutting interest rates or cutting dismissive of emergency calls. Sir. Referring to your report (Septem- Cassandran era-warnings of the past decade. are deceived by the cute creatures in crime rates, we all have to accept that Survey after survey has dem- Cost of planning rules ber 2) of Bobby Fischer pretending to The advance of the grey squirrels con- cartoons. (Park-keepers now shoot them there are no simple, quick fix. low-cost onstrated that at the present time over spit on the official letter threatening tinues inexorably. Since they were first before dawn, to avoid frightening the From MrP. J. S. Coward solutions. Polidng for profit, whether three quarters of the public are highly him with imprisonment and fines for it is traffic law enforcement or crowd introduced into Britain at Woburn Abbey a tourists.) Beatrix Potter, with Squirrel satisfied with the service we provide. Sir. Richard Bare, referring (letter, with breaking the sanctions imposed on rapidly across Nurkin’s twee riddJe-me-rees, has much to control, does not rest easy the We are working on improving that century ago, they have spread August 24) to the inhibiting effect on Serbia, whoever wrote that letter done and majority of foe British public. figure. the land. The native red squirrel has answer for. Something must be local planning authorities of foe should be congratulated: nothing was The Audit Commission reports pub- Yours faithfully. retreated and declined in numbers, because that means population control and culling by possibility of costs being awarded more likely to ensure that Fischer lished by Mr Davies when he was BRIAN JOHNSON; President. ol failure to adapt, a limited diet and habitat, efficient and humane killing. Trapping is against them, ignores the effect of foe would actually go through with foe controller (leading article. The police Assotiation of Chief disease and human traffic as well as the labour-intensive and cruel, chemical repel- Planning and Compensation Act match than these official fiilminations inspected". September 2) were invari- Police Officers. lents are expensive dirty and shooting is 1991. which has introduced a move against it. advance of the greys. Red squirrels are now and ably reports of good practice already Lancashire Constabulary away from market-led system inefficient. 1 the Fifties system of foe of confined to a few areas of northern England. n there was a taking place within the service. To Headquarters. Respectfully yours. foe 1980s to a plan-led system. North Wales. Scotland and the Isle of Wight, paying a bounty on grey squirrel tails, which suggest that foe police service shows Hutton. Preston, Lancashire. DAN E. MAYERS It introduces a presumption in which even the pushy grey squirrels have not led to the folklore of greys being bred for the (US Chess Federation). favour ofa development which accords to invade, even in the hardest profit of a squirrel’s most distinctive feature. Loth Lorien Arboretum. yet managed with updated local authority plans for that efficient cost-effective renovation until it had received a Wad hurst. winters. Some specialists predict the The most and particular areas. Developers seeking Bail hostel fears is have favourable planning determination. East Sussex. reds will disappear from England and Wales method Warfarin rat bane. There permission for a development not in From MrsM. K. Fielder That determination, received on Feb- September 2. within the decade. Bark-stripping by the been problems with smaller and threatened accordance with these will have to ruary 6. 1992. has recently been greys is estimated to cost the forestry indusny species, such as voles, field mice, dormice show "material considerations" suf- Sir. I strongly refute the allegations of reconfirmed by the borough council. vision red squirrels, taking the poison. Its use is ficient to justify a departure from them £1 million a year. And the modem of and foe director of administration. Stock- and themselves be exposed an The committee is confident that the recreational forests throughout the land is in banned in several English and Welsh may xo port Metropolitan Borough Council Black mark for TUC? anxieties of foe local will award if they cannot community the monstrous counties in Scotland. should of costs do so at August danger of being spoiled by and Warfarin (report 25). that the Greater prove From Mr Michael Donley the appeal stage. unfounded when foe hostel allowed wherever squirrels have Manchester Probation Committee has regiment of teeming grey squirrels. be grey opens. Experience of managing six acted in an "underhand and deceitful Sir. 1 see from today’s front-page The native red squirrel. Sciurus vulgaris. taken over. The Forestry Commission's Yours sincerely. other similar posts in the area over foe manner, misleading the local au- report that foe TUC is attempting to be has tufted ears, a chocolate coat in winter sophisticated new trap that admits only grey P.J. S. GOWARD years confirms this belief. thority as to the intended use of a politically “correct" and avoid such the is Graces & Attlee (solicitors), and a chestnut red coat in summer and eats squirrels to poisoned bait, and words as London Wall EC2. former hotel in that area as a bail Yours faithfully. “blackleg” and “blacklisted". impervious smaller be Salisbury House. pine emus. It has a shy. retiring nature, and by animals, should Why are they meeting in r hostel. M. K. FIELDER Blackpool? prefers coniferous forests, where it spends concentrated in the vulnerable border areas The committee provided the plan- (Assistant Chief Probation Officer}- Yours faithfully, most of its time up the trees. The grey. where grey squirrels are pushing back the Letters to foe editor should cany a ning department of foe local authority Greater Manchester MICHAEL DON LEY. Sciurus camlinensis. weighs twice as much, reds. Not for nothing is the robust and They with detailed its daytime telephone number. — information about- Probation Service. 72d Woodstock Road. winter yellow-brown in pestilential grey squirrel known in its original proposal 1 is grey in and may be sent to a fax number on December 7. 199 1 . and Oakland House. Witney. Oxfordshire. homeland as the North tree raL 071-782 5046. did nor proceed with purchase and Talbot summer, favours broadleaved woodland and American Road. Manchester 1 6. September 8. r.-L

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5 will 16 and rcnn ends 5. On October there he * Ch'igwrC School takes up his appointment as Senior dav, December pre-premiere performance »*i Michaelmas Term a: ChigweU Master, Mr Ralph Cake as Senior the same day. VVtfifte nny Heights to which OSE School sorted yesterday and ends Housemaster, Mr Kenneth Dur- CoUegotc School North London and (ricnd> iff the School ur on Tuesday. December IS. The ham as Director of Studies, and ’MS Term begins today. There are invited rickets arc available from Head of School is James Anderson Mr Dunsut Weir as Housemaster ui the pupils in schoul with 213 (he School The Scholarship (Lambournej and the Captain of of Layton. Mr Paul Guinness joins the new sixth form. Work on examination and general assess- Head of Soccer is Ade Anemia i Swallows) the Common Room as progress and swimming pool » In ment for Ljwct Sixth girl and hoy The House Music Festival witt be Geography upon the retirement of in spring should be completed the enuy takes plave at the School on COURT CIRCULAR held on Thursday. Ocrobcr 22 and Mr Colin Evans. The Captain of were at Old North Londoners who 7. Term ends cm vice November 6 and the Advent Service at Sr Mary’s School is James Scon and the are invited K» aittwl in the 1970s December 12. Bouton. Church is on Sunday. December Captain is Harry The September 1 KENSINGTON PALACE Guidelines on Environmental lunch on Saturday. Saint Ftfbc School Somkwetd. !3. The School win hold an Open rapta in of Rugby is Alastair Law*. are September 8: Tbe Prince of Wales. Performance Measures. Other Old North Umdonew Suffolk Meeting for parents of prospective Julius Orator will be performed in when Colonel-in-Chief. Army Air Corps, The Princess or Wales this invited for the afternoon The Autumn Term hepm udn. pupils on Saturday. October 10. CoDyer Hall from November 26* Old North this morning received lieutenant morning visited the London there are School wwb with Sarah Clark and Victoria and an Open Meeting for parents 23. and Pirandello's Man. Beau marches and the Colonel John Goodsir on Connection project for young Londoner I Idmer is Joint 1 lead' uf School of prospective Sixth Formed cm and Virtue from December 10-12, buildings are open relinquishing command of 9 Regi- homeless people at 12 Adelaide grounds and Sixth Form Scholarship Examina- Tuesday, October 13. Further The Chamber Choir Tour of ment, and Lieutenant Colonel Street. WC2. for families id view before tea. London tions will he hdd on October 1 2. in formation may be obtained from Northern France will take place at events from Cheryl Patrick Lawless on assuming Mr Patrick Jephson was in Tickets for both luncheon will he Headmaster’s Secretary. the Christmas The OF Annual the batf term and telephone: OH 1 449 H449 command. attendance. Pack, hdd in Cambridge un October 1*. Choral Conceit in St Martin-in- - His Royal Highness gave a Her Rqyal Highness, Patron. Churcher's College. Pctmfidd the-Fidds December 12. The Priors Field School Then? will be a Rcjtenrams lunch this evening on for Monsieur Jacques British Youth Opera, Michaelmas Term begins on today, Au!w Khan is Weekend” from November h-S dinner is on December Term suns (President. performance of Boar Club Atcali European Bank attended a Wednesday, September 9. Caro- Whicker is (details The Registrar). The 4 and the Rugby Club dinner on Head Girl and Vanessa bum Carmen Saddler's Wells for Reconstruction and ar line PnHingmn and Ben Harper Depute. Term ends with rhe Cud School Play, The Importance of Avenue, December 1 0. The Gaudy for Old Development), Theatre, Rosebery are Captains of College. Speed: Charterhouse Chapel at Iking tamest will be performed Bovs who left in the 1930s is on Service in The Prince of Wales. President, London EC1. Day is to be Held art Friday. 2« and September 26. Any Old Boy who 2.00pm on December 9. followed on November 26. 27 and Business in the Community, this Mrs Max Pike and Captain October 23. when Cokind T. Play details should bv a Christmas Fair at School OKI the Juns* Drama Much Ada in has not received evening received those involved in Edward Mnsto, RM. were Moorby wiD be the guest speaker. Saturday. What You VVi/f on Decem- contact the OKC at the School. The Girts Day wiD be on About publication of the attendance. is October the and launch Half-term from 24 to Sixth 1 1 and 12 The Carol ServxvN Old Boys' dinner will take place on May S. Applications for ber November 1 and the Old Scholarships for uifl he Wednesday. November 27 at the All-England Form entry and hdd on Churcherians' Club Dinner wfll be ends on Lawn Tennis Club. Term ends 1993 should he addressed to the December 16 and term 67; Sir Peter Macadam, former held on November 2S. foQonring with the Card Service in Guildford Registrar, before the end of December 17. chairman, BAT Industries, 71;. the OCC V 1st XV Rugby Match- Stonrytrara College Cathedral on December 1 S. October. Birthdays on December 17, after Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax, Term ends Christmas Term commences today Ely Royal Grammar School. 34: Mr Steve O’Shaughnessy. the Carol Service at St Peter's The King's SchooL with the Asoensao Scholarum and today Church. Michaelmas Term begins Guildford cricketer, 3 1; SirAnthony Parsons, Tbe Mara for the Dedication of Stud- Michaelmas term at the Royal diplomat, Rev Professor today. The new Headmaster. Mr Mr R.B. Adams, former manag- 70; the City of London School for Girls ies Oliver Wmight is Head uf the Richard Youdale. will be installed Grammar School. Guildford be- ing director, Peninsular and Ori- N.W. Poneous. theologian and Autumn Term begins today. An- line and Richard Ju*ph is Second as a member of the Cathedra] gins today and ends on December ental Steam Navigation Company. linguist 94; Mr James Sabben- nie is Head. Lower Grammar Parents’ Huruiingher Head God and is David Winchester Foundation on Sunday. Septem- 16. The School Captain 71; Mr Michael Aldridge, actor. O are, headmaster, Zoe WooIIson Deputy Head Girl. W eekend u October 3 and 4 and ber 13. The Scholars’ Declaration Harris; DankH McCrohan is Cap- 72; Miss Pauline Baynes, book College. 51; Mr Richard Sharpe, Open days for parents of prospec- the HalfTerm Break is October 17 and Visitor's Feast will take place tain of Rugby. Speech Day is an flhistnuor, 70; Sir Tom Cowie, rugby player, 54: Countess Spen- tive pupils are on Tuesday. Octo- to 25. Grammar Parents’ Week- on Friday. November 20: the September 25: the Rigid Hon company chairman. 70; Mr John cer, 63: Miss Mavis Steele, bowler. ber 6 and Wednesday. November end is November 21 and 22. Service will be the Lord Prior. PC wiD be the guess of Curry, ice skater. 43; Professor 64: Mr Dave Stewart, singer and Preacher at tire I S. An evening for those interested December t is the Feast of St Very Reed Michael honour. The Junior Prizcgiving AT. Florence, dean, London producer. 40; Dr the Hon Shirley Dean. The Edmund Campion SJ and the in joining our Sixth Form wfll be the Guild foul Summerskin, former 61: Higgins. The Senior School will be on October 9. University School of Pharmacy. MP, Mr Nelson, above held on Wednesday. October 14. Carol Service is December 1 3. Admiral Lord perched high Trafal- Drama Production Oh, What a Sinfonia concert on December S. 52; Sir John Gorton. CH, former Chaim Topol actor, S7; Miss Further details are 'available from Truro School gar Square, London, stoically suffering his annual Lardy War will be staged in the the Oxford OG Dinner at Merton Prime Minister of Australia, 8 1; Margaret Tyzack, actress. 61; Mr the schooL Wine idncfmas Term ar Truro School remove The CLOGA and 13 and die Past v M publisher, Ed Victor, 53; Air Commodore inspection when workmen from his Havward Theatre on December on November Mr Robin Hyman, 61; Cheese Evening is on Thursday, begins today and Mr J R. Heath Weighffl. 72. trappings of office all trace of his feral friends 10,' ll and 12. The Old Eicon Present rugby match at Bradstone Sir John Loveridge, former MP. R.H.G. September 17 and the Friends of succeeds Professor J.C Dancy as Winter Reunion AGM and Din- Brook on December 19. CLSG wiD hold their AGM on Chairman of the Governors. It k ner will be held on Saturday, The Royal SchooL Bath Monday. October 5. Prize Day is with regret the school announce* October 17. Autumn Term begins today, and on Friday. October 23. in the the early retirement through ill- final Carol Forthcoming marriages Marriages Barbican HaH Term ends on Kingston Grammar School will end after me health of Mr B.K. Hobbs, the begins today at Kingston Service on Sunday. December 13. Wednesday. December 16, after a Term Headmaster. Mr B. Jackson is Grammar School with Simon Mr Peter Faremela-Osbomc has M.O. Mr JJL Neville Mr G.H. Davies marriage by her brother. Mr Carol Service in St Giles Church. Acting Headmaster pending a Mr Chapman Captain, his as Finance Cripplegaie Many new features, Burmester as School and taken up pom new appointment J.D. Scott is and Miss J-A- Crowther and Miss TA Davies and Miss AJ. Greville William Nash, was attended by Mr including Naomi Ward Vice Captain. Open Director. Polly Osborn is Haul of The engagement is announced The engagement is announced The marriage took place on Miss Sarah Fordy and Harriet the new- Shah Form Head of English following the will School Kirby Deputy Centre. Lecture Theatre re- Evening take place on and Karen Weeks. between Martin, only son of Mr between James, eldest son of Mr Sunday. August 30, at Market Nash. Mr Oliver Pearce was best and retirement of Mr W.E. Wednesday. October 14. from Head. The Royal School Associ- and Mrs Henry Chapman, of and Mis Christopher Neville, of Street Baptist Church. Nantwich. man. designed Din mg Room are now in Half-term is from October 24 to 6.30pm. The School Concert will ation wfll hold its Annual Reunion Telford, Shropshire, and Jenny, Ivy Hatch. Kent, and TracepAnn. of Mr Gareth Davies, son of the use as our development pro- Novcmher i, the Carol Service is The reception was held at the Saturday. Saturday, Septem- gramme proceeds. be an Friday and at the School on December 13 and term ends only daughter of Mr and Mrs daughter of Mr and Mis D. Rev R.I. and Mrs Barbara Davies, home of the bride and the 1 the water garden in November 13 and 14. and Speech ber 9, when December 17. Geoffrey Crowther, of Hindley Michael Davies, of Swansea. of Nantwich. Cheshire, and Miss honeymoon is being spent in Edgbastoa Church of England Day is Friday. November 27. at mcmoiy of Miss Harding will be Green, Lancashire. Mr H. Overgnard Nielsen Alison Greville, daughter of the Africa. College for Girls Warminster School Spin. Old Kmgstonian an- opened. The Headmistress wfll be Greville The The Michaelmas Term begins and Ms S-R- Bierer late Mrs Gillian and of The Michaelmas Term for the , Mr JJVf.L CoIBs nual dinner win take place at die visiting parents in Hong Kong The engagement is announced Mr Richard Greville. of Newton Edgbaston Church of England today and will end with die Carol and Mile LS.C ciantM October 10-13. Senior Prize Mr JJ. Sice Institute of Directors, PaQ Moll at from Service between Henrik, son of the late Mr Ferrers. Devon. The Rev Robin College. Birmingham begins to- on December 17. Mr Tbe engagement is announced and Miss K.G. Griffin 7.30pm on Friday. November 20. Giving will take place in the Poul and Mrs Gerda Overgaard Davies offiriaied. day and ends on Thursday. Philip Capes takes up his appoint- between John, son of MrN. Collis, An appeal to refurbish the Lovekvn Theatre Royal Bath, on Friday. Nielsen, of Copenhagen, and The marriage took place on December 17. Speech Day will be ment as Second Master, and Mrs of Malvern, and Mrs J. Potter, of Mr J.C Denton Chapel will be launched on Tues- October 23. Sharon Ruth, daughter of the late September 5. at St Matthew's held in the Great Hall of the Mary Henderson joins the staff to Dale, Pembrokeshire, and and Miss J.E. Vernon October 20. at 7.30pm. The Church. London. W14. between day. St David's School far Girls. teach Modem Languages. Leigh Laurence, Dr Joshua Bierer, of Hampstead University of Birmingham on daughter of M P. The marriage took place at AD musical Guys and Dolls will be Ashford. Middlesex and the late Mrs Dora Dordtill of Jaemy, son of Mrand Mts Robert Friday. October 2. The Guest of Austin and Helen Beadman are Claudel of Vannes. and Mme O. Saints’ Church, Milford-on-Sea. performed in Hall on December Ametsham. Buddhgharnshire. Sice, of Fairiawn Drive, RedhDL Honour iriH be the Baroness Autumn Term begins today and Heads of SchooL A sponsored Portal, of Caen, Fiance. September of on Saturday, 5, Mr 10. II and 12. The Carol Service ends on December 16. Half-term S.P. Surrey, and Katharine, daughter Denton of Wakefield. CBE. marathon walk, an the theme of Mr Tyler Jonathan Denton, son of die late 17. at Mr J.B. Cooper win be held an December will be October 23 to November 2. Miss of Mr and Mis Colin Griffin, of “Children for Children", will be and SJL Shaw Mr John Denton and of Mrs College. Bideford. in St Peter's and term ends and Miss H.M.C. Stapleton Greenwich Road. Pemnwdl EdgduD Spm The Sixth Form Consortium with held on September 17, is announced and OV The engagement Denton, of Spaxton, Somerset, to Devon Friday. December IS. The engagement is announced on H alii ford Boys’ School enters its between Simon Paul, eldest son of Station. Truro. Cornwall. Day and AGM will be held on between Benjamin, second son of Miss Julia Vernon, daughter of Term begins today. The Head Girl Leeds Grammar School seventh year. Congratulations to Saturday. September 19, 1992. Dr and Mis Geoffrey Tyler, and and John Vernon. The Mr and Mrs D.8. Cooper, of Mr Mis is Lucy Nash, with Rachel Michaelmas Term commences on Head Girls Sara Luxford-Watts Suzy. youngest daughter of WestminsterAbbey Choir School Lepton, Huddersfield, and Helen, Mr Rev Alastair Dunn officiated and MrJ.B. Sonlity Loosemoreand Louisa Youldon as September 9. with David Gait as and Caroline Murky. Speech Day Full term started an September 7. and Mis Shaw, of Sydney. the were sung by Hordk and F. McMullen elder daughter of the Dean of anthems Mr her Deputies. There will be an ofSchool and Phillip Tate as wiD on Thursday. November Australia. Head be The Head Chorister is Alastair Carlisle and Mrs Henry Stapleton. House choristers. Open Day for prospective pupils The marriage took place on his Deputy. Peter Dunn has re- 1 2. when the guest speaker will be Brookshaw, the Second Chorister The bride, who was given in Thursday, August 27. in London. arid their parents on Saturday. Mr H.G.M. Grenville tired as Third Master, Peter Gait Mrs Anne Sebba. is Simon de Boat and die Head of marriage by her father, was betweenJohn Bernard Sunfey and October 17. Prize Day is on and Miss S.C. Andrewes has become Director of Dev- St Edward's School Oxford School is Thomas BalkwilL The Service dinner attended by EmDy and Alexander Fiona McMullen. Friday, October 23 when the guest The engagement is announced elopment and is succeeded as Term has begun. Mr C.F. Baggs new foundation choristers are: Rhind. Hannah Kaye and Ben of honour will be Wing Com- between Hugo, son of Mr Gerard Ministry of Defence Head of Junior School by John takes overas Housemaster in Cone Christian Wilson. Richard Silver. Gubbins. Mr Michael lines was mander E.M. Stuart. BSc, of the Morgan-Grenvflle, of Normandy. Group Captain S.B. Burdess and Davies. Open Morning is Sat- House and Mr J.H.W. Quick as Stephen Brasier. Thomas best man. WRAF. The College production of Speed) Day is France and MisVirginia Morgan- officers of the Ministry of Defence urday. October 10: Housemaster in Apsley. Michael Sneddon, Peter Castle and Alexan- The reception was at Hordle Grenville, Hiawatha wfll be on November November 10. The Old Leos of Surrey, and Sophia, Support Management branch for Reception Coleridge (Segal's House) is Head der Martin. On September 20. the House and the toast to the bride 12. 13 and 14 and die Sixth Form daughter of Mr and Mis E.W.E. European Fighter Aircraft dinner wfll be on Friday. October of SchooL October 10 the Choir wiD. leave for a three-week die held groom was giren by Sir David On and Royal Overseas League Scholarship Examination on Leeds Friday. March 5, Andrewes. of Lindridge, Tenbuxy a dinner last night at RAF Bentley 9. in and School will commemorate the cen- tour of America, finishing at Checketts. The honeymoon is Wells, Worcestershire. Monday. November 23. Term in London. Priory. Air Chief Marshal Sir Mr Henry M eyrie Hughes, Head tenary of the death of its founder. Lincoln Centeron October ll . The being spent in Canada. ends on Friday, December 1 1 with Mr J.G. tc CooiHiard Brendan Jackson. Air Member for of Fme Arts at the British Council Moulsford Preparatory School Thomas Chamberlain. There will HoweDs Centenary Conceit wiD be the Carol Service at 2. 1 5pm. and Miss C.E. Rickards Supply ad Organisation, was the Mr R.E Pearce presented the prizes at a reception The Autumn Term begins at be a performance of Puccini's on November 1 7 and the Christ- The engagement is announced principal guest Among others and Miss SJJ. Nash held yesterday at Over-Seas King's College School Moulsford Preparatory School to- Messa di Gloria on November 14. mas Conceit with tbe Branden- between J antes, son of Dr and M is present were Air Marshal Sir The marriage took place on House. St James's, to mark the Wimbledon day. Oliver Day is Head Boy and Commemoration Conoert will take burg Consort wfll be on December Francis Le Couilltard, of Michael Alcock. Chief of Logistic Saturday, September 5, at St Mary opening of the 1992 Royal Over- Autumn Term begins today at Thomas Wigley Captain of Soccer. place on November 2S and the 10. The netr voice trial wfll be on

Hindhead, Surrey, and Christine, Support for the RAF, and the the Virgin. Burton 1 .atimer, Seas League annual open ex- King’s College SchooL Mr Peter The Emranoe Assessment wfll take Carol Services on December 6. October 21 with a further one in daughter of Mr and Mrs John National Directors of Engineering Northamptonshire, of Mr Rupert hibition- Mr Peter McEmee, Kirroan retired in July and is place on Saturday, November 7. The School Play is Richard n by Spring 1993. The Headmaster Rickards, of Potters Bar. of the German. Italian and Span- Pearce to Miss Sarah Nash. chairman of the league, received succeeded as Second Master tty The Junior and Senior Carol William Shakespeare and wiD be welcomes enquiries from parents Hertfordshire. ish Air Forces. The bride, who was given in the guests. Mr Andrew Lang. MrJohn Evans Services wiD be held on Wednes- performed on December 3, 4. and of potential choristers.

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J 7 THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1 992 15 Obituaries

DAVID LEWIS RICHARD BURNS

Richard Barns, novelist, ungraciously immodest about David Thomas Lewis, CB, the ysis of chemicals used in industry and and the British Pharmacopoeia died, apparently having his own capacities. But any Gorcramcnl demist, 1960-70, the safety standards appropriate to Commission. 1963-73. hanged himself, on immodesty was only the ro- has died aged 83. He was born id food and drink. Shortly after he His pursuits ranged far and wide August 31, in Sheffield, mantic bombast of genuine on March 17. d 1909. joined the government laboratory he beyond bis discipline and entered aged 33. He was bom in financial despair. Bums could c- chaired seminal of a committee the some surprising areas for a chemist the city on September 1. be a generous and discerning ;n DAVID Lewis belonged to the team Agricultural Research Council tasked His years at Aldermaston encour- 1958. critic of other people's work, te of scientists whose top secret research with determining trace elements of aged an interest in particle science, when he genuinelyadmired it the second after world war led to the DDT and other fungiddes used resulting in his book for by Ultimate Parti- THINGS were never easy The help he received from the >S development of Britain's first atomic fanners and hortkxdturalists. Hewas cles of Matter which was published Richard Bums, nor did he Royal literary Fund — those d and hydrogen bombs. He was one of among those to issue the first in 1959. ever try to make them so. He grants Joseph Conrad called the small select group assembled nl by warnings to British housewives and He even discovered two subatomic would not compromise, and “mirades" — may well have late William (later the Lord) Penney, pregnant to wash particles cram, women or peel on his which he thus perhaps in the end mute enabled him to complete r- at the High Explosive Research fresh fruit vegetables. . and christened endearingly in Welsh himself ifl — too ill to recognise what, when it is published rs centre at Woolwich Arsenal in the His decade as Government Chem- “Tamaid” and “Bach”, meaning that he had in all probability tomorrow, will be his final late 1940s, before moving to the new ist also saw a huge expansion in die respectively “morsd" and “small". turned the comer. Yet his book. Sandro and Simonetta, Atomic Weapons Research Estab- use of physical instrumentation for His “babies” are still the subject of accomplished prose gave tittle a novel about Botticelli. lishment (AWRE) at Aldermaston in chemical analysis. The development research, though the Welsh names hint of die turmoil that went Richard Burns published the early 1950s. Lewis learned to led him to predict a similar growth in have sadly been lost on within him, and which two other novels. The Panda drive on the disused runway at medicine, with machines playing an Still more unusually he displayed eventually led to his death. Hunt (1987). set in China, Aldermaston while the plant de- increasing role in diagnostics. his Celtic influences by producing a He established himself in displayed his flair for research signed to house fissile materials, was A brilliant chemist, he was the son volume of romantic poetry in 1964 1986 with A Dance for the ana his eye for significant going up around him on an old of Welsh a miner, Emmanuel Lewis, called Mountain Harvest, amid a Moon . than which he wrote t airfidd. 1’r and went to Brynmawr County number of scientific papers in nothing better, and which Beginning as a principal scientific School and the University College of learned journals. remains one of the best novels officer, he rose to become senior Wales. Aberystwyth. He took a first- He was a big man in aD senses of about the effects of the first superintendent of AWRE’s chemistry dass degree in chemistry in 1930. the phrase. Weighing .17 stone, he world war upon its most division, responsible for the materials - following this three years later with had played rugby for his college as a sensitive participants. In it he which, went inside the first nuclear his PhD. young man, turning to shooting and showed a remarkable grasp, weapons. The chemistry of plutoni- After leaving college he taught for trout fishing when he was older. A aided by much painstaking and the required um specifications four years at Quakers' Yard second- cricket cup bearing his name at the and sympathetic research, of were among the subjects which once ary school in South Wales, that government laboratory reflects his the way such poets as Siegfried involved him.. lectured at University; College, Car- enthusiasm and popularity. On his Sassoon, Robert Graves,- Ivor He was present for the first test of a diff until the outbreak of war. He was 40th birthday he warned his dose Gurney and others felt, both nudear device, placed in an old awarded his doctorate of science friends he would have to slow down. as writers and as victims of frigate off the west coast of Australia while working at Aldermaston in But on his 80th he found himself months, and even years, of years ago next month, as 40 part of 1958. telling them the same thing. continuous violence. It does what was codenamed “Operation On retirement from the govern- He missed out on the knighthood not read at all like the work of Hurricane”. Then, later in the same ment Iaboratoiy, “DP’ (he was he had been led to expect because the a troubled, even desperate decade, he was at Christmas Island sometimes known by his initials) was Wilson government resolved to cut mind, although there is much in the Pacific for the first trials given of a the honorary rank of captain, Chemist The post was created 150 made an honorary professorial fellow down on rivil service honours at the of trouble and desperation — thermonuclear device, so-called the ne was posted to one of the inspection years ago this year to investigate the at Aberystwyth, where he returned to wrong time for him. But, if this as well as of compassion — in H-bomb. teams which toured the old adulteration of tobacco, after it was lecture from time to time. He gave worried him. he did not show iL He it This, rather ironically, con- ivr Lewis first became involved in Wehrmacht munitions dumps in realised that the British were smok- the Dawes Memorial Lecture cared . in litxle for social advancement or sidering his view of liieraiy defence work during the war when Germany. ing more of it than they were actually 1 965, was made a scientific governor for tides and was happiest with his prizes, won Bums a prize in he a “bade, worked as room boy” at After 20 years dealing .with arma- importing. of the British Nutrition Foundation family at home. the Jonathan Cape First Novel Ministry Supply’s the of Armaments ments. however, he left Aldermaston By David Lewis’s time, however, it in 1967 and served as a member of David Lewis is survived by his competition, and he was from Research Establishment first in in I960 for something completely had accumulated a wide range of the British National Committee for second wife Mary and by the thenceforth marked out, by Woolwich in then Wales. In 1945, different — as the Government responsibilities for research and anal- Chemistry (Royal Society), 1961-70, daughter of a previous marriage. reviewers and by the press, for detail. Fond and Foolish Lov- first-class honours. ers (1990) was more experi- * But he was not marked out mental. promising more than, GEN JAMES ALLEN for huge advances on his in the event; h could perform. CHRISTOPHER royalties, all its brilliant TRACE which were For passages, it undeservedly scant. Yet it nev- showed some signs of mental Christopher Trace, • Rodeos j less practice runs. The special er seriously occurred to him to strain at crucial points. But the actor and original former Chief of Staff at forces eventually launched change his style in order to prose remained, on the whole, presenter of BBC’s Blue Nato Military .their raid in November 1 970, become a writer for the mass smooth and accomplished Peter, died of cancer in Headquarters it — I in Europe, but by then was too late. market True, he did try When he died Richard the Royal London and the man who Although they reached the unsuccessfully — to make Bums was not only on the Hospital. Whitechapel on organised the abortive camp successfully, they found money from a thriller. Why threshold of his 35th year and September 5 aged 59. He raid to rescue American it empty: the prisoners had Diamond had to Die (1989). within a few days of the was bom on March 21, prisoners from North been transferred elsewhere. But it fell uneasily between two publication of his fifth book. 1933. Vietnam in 1970. died in The raid was widely con- stools, being on the one hand He was soon to take up an Maryland on August 1 demned as a violation of a potboiler and on the other appointment as head of cre- CHRISTOPHER Trace was aged 66. He was born on North Vietnamese territory by the embryo of a serious comic ative writing at Lancaster the television favourite of a November 17, 1925. file anti-war movement, but novel That sort of contradic- University. Alas, cumulative generation of children in the the prisoners themselves ex- tion was his creative life-blood. stress and disappointment 1 960s. Marry of them learned AS A man of action who had pressed their gratitude when He became obsessed with had proved too overwhelming. with faltering fingers to make flown more than 100 combat they finally returned home. the notion of conspiracies of Yet there is little doubt that he their first toy models from missions as a fighter .pilot in Conditions in the camps, they well-fed but inferior writers would have succeeded both in discarded shoe boxes, egg the Korean War. James Allen said, had vastly improved after deliberately doing down gifted maintaining his literary integ- cartons and cardboard toilet was the right man to be frond the North Vietnamese realised ones. On occasion he could rity and in making a living. A roD tubes, guided by genial at a desk in die Pentagon the lengths the Americans become monotonous when en- DancefortheMoon alone has Unde Chris on BBC TV’s when reconnaissance aircraft were prepared to go to in order larging on this theme and the status of a minor classic. popular BluePeter. His gentle brought news that a group of to rescue their comrades. They good humour proved an inst- American Pows had been presented Allen with a paint- " ant success with children who spotted at Son Tay, 20 miles ing of themselves waiting fora James Crockett ed a professional practice in had grown too old for Watch north west of Hanoi. helicopter, with the inscription Melbourne which, two years With Mother and were look- Photographs showed that “thanks for trying". James (Jimmy) Irvine Crock- later, formed one of the cor- ing for more mature entertain- the men had trampled out the James Allen was commis- ett MBE, MC, who has died nerstones in the international ment Christopher Trace was dirt in their prison compound sioned from the US Military aged 78, began his distin- expansion of Jones Lang co-presenter when Blue Peter to make the letter “K", the Academy at West Point, but guished career in property Wootton. was launched in October. recognised code signal ' for transferred to the USAF short- consultancy in London in A lifelong member of the 1958. "come and get us". Alien, who ly afterwards and entered pilot 1937 when he qualified as an scouting movement, he be- At the time he was a tall Christopher Trace with Valerie Singleton, his co-presenter of Blue Peter, in 1 965 was serving at the time as training. He had no sooner associate of the Royal Institu- came district commissioner handsome 2 5 -year-old bit- deputy director for air force got his wings than the Korean tion of Chartered Surveyors. for Moorabbin. Victoria, and part actor, not very ambitious, senting more than 500 shows, his early formal suits in favour After leaving Blue Peter he plans and policy, resolved that conflict broke out, and Allen He joined tire Territorial later served on the Victorian whose one claim to fame was saw Blue Peter's early develop- of casual wear and by now worked for seven years in he would by and do so. volunteered for the “Dallas" Army in 1938 and served for Council and the Citizens Ad- having worked as a double for ment go through a rocky there were enough -funds Norwich with the BBC Na- ' His initial plan was to squadron which flew P-51 six years with the Royal Artil- vice Bureau. Chariton Heston in the chari- period. Indeed without his available for him to depend a tionwide programme. Sadly, infiltrate agents into the area Mustangs in support of the lery in Africa and Italy where, James Crockett was ap- ot epic film Ben Hur. He had own enormous popularity the little less on his handicrafts. from then on his career went who would mark out a land- South Korean air force. Dur- as a captain, he was awarded pointed MBE in 1982 for been educated at a public show could weD have foun- The programme was able to rapidly downhill. He left the ing area for a special forces ing the early stages of the the Military Cross. services to his profession, the school in Surrey, before going dered. Hunter Blair became 01 expand with the pair being screen and took odd jobs as a rescue team, operating from a Vietnam War, before being He moved to Australia with scouting movement and to the on to Sandhurst. But after and a number of fill-in pro- sent out and about on archae- handyman and later worked CIA station on the borders of reduced to flying a desk, he his family in 1956 and found- Salvation Army. seven years in the army he ducers were recruited with ological digs, air balloon as a barman. He always northern Laos. The team piloted F4-C Phantom jets as derided to become an actor, mixed results. One became so flights and days at the coast, claimed that a long-standing would then attempt to extri- deputy commander of the that he released accompanied the Blue back injury was the result of cate those prisoners who left 1 2th Tactical Fighter Wing. appearing briefly on screen in harassed by sept 9- ON THIS DAY 1892 7»e Vikings (1958) and a Trace's co-presenter, the beau- Peter pet dog Petra, who falling while leaping in and the compound to work in the Allen went on to hold a British remake of The Hound tiful Leila Williams (Miss attained individual fame: out of car lyres piled high surrounding countryside: It number of administrative pos- because Trace and Single- when demonstrating a Japa- became doubtful howev- itions with Strategic Air of the Baskervilles. Great Britain 1957), In 1967 soon Com- never have been adopted, a nese on Blue Peter. er. of prisoners mand, He landed the Blue Peter he was unable to think of Ton were joined by a third game that many the eventually becoming woman passenger may be com- presenter’s job against keen anything for her to do. presenter, the energetic John At a bankruptcy hearing in were fit enough for work. chief of staff. In 1977 he was pelled to endure great suffering, opposition. It was said that he This left Trace holding the N oakes, who rapidly buOt a 1 973 Trace disclosed debts of Most American prisoners invited by General Alexander and possibly to incur permanent show that huge following of his own. more than £16.000. Towards were held in the “Hanoi Haig, then Supreme Allied injuiy, in circumstances which was selected because heshared fort on bis own in a Thai the London & South- Baxter of the was living alone in Hilton” and intelligence ex- Europe, to must constantly arise, she hap- a passion for model electric was starved of money, die Producer Biddy was end he Commander, be- western Railwaychanged its pens to have no penny in her railways with the pro- budget being at the time El 80 the opinion that Trace resent- a two-bedroom flax in Wal- perts believed that those taken come chief of staff at his Mons rules speakswellforthe purse. It is more or less an original producer, a programme. While his mod- ed Noakes’s success and that thamstow, East London, has to Son Tay had been botfly headquarters. The move influence of the papers Letter gramme's injustice that, even where the and relaxed game- this was one of the chief only income deriving from tortured, and had been re- brought promotion to four- column. Well into the twentieth John Hunter Blair, a bookish el-making penny slot torture has not been to avoid century women had tofind a bachelor, who kept a working playing kept the young reasons for him quitting Blue national assistance. moved their being star general, and two years introduced, a woman passenger "he delegations penny in public conveniences. track layout in his office. Bid tty audience loyally watching dur- Peter. However, there was Two days before be died seen by of peace later Allen was promoted to should be unable to procure Baxter, Hunter Blair’s succes- ing this difficult period, the certainly another Trace be- was reminiscing about the old activists. A more ambitious the post of Deputy C-in-C US without a fee accommodation with A WOMAN’S which is gratuitously afforded to sor, noted: “He (Trace) spent new producer Biddy Baxter smirched his Unde Chris im- days his former Blue scheme now seemed European Command. His last men. A charge for personal his entire interview playing was able to win more support age by having an affair with a Peter, co-presenter, Valerie necessary.^ assignment before his retire- COMPLAINT attendance, however, is at least trains with John." for the show from the BBC teenage Norwegian grri he Singleton. With the approval of Presi- ment in 1 983 was as C-in-C To the Editor of The Tiines partially defensible on grounds Christopher Trace, who was hierarchy. Valerie Singleton met while on a Blue Peter Christopher Trace was twice dent Nixon. Allen constructed Military Airlift Command. Sir, — I willingly add my which will readily suggest them- to remain wiih the pro- teamed up with Trace in assignment This led to the married: he had a son and a model of the prison camp in He is survived by his wife, testimony to that of others hav- selves, and it is possible for the years pre- 1962. He had long discarded break-up of his marriage. daughter. Florida and supervised end- son and daughter. gramme for nine ing suffered agonies from the slot railway company to keep the system. After a train has not attendants provided with small stopped for an hour or two you change. But the penny slot has amve at the door of the lathes’ no advantages. It does not insure 1991-92 Bar University news cleanliness — quite the contrary, Today's royal Anniversaries laity waiting-room and find you have Catholic set as our correspondents assure u& BIRTHS: Armand Jean. Due de Vocational Course only halfpence and silver in your engagements possession. Whilst you are trying It gives no change: it will not Richelieu, cardinal and statesman. Appointments following candidates have re- to get change from the flurried always open for a penny: and h The Prince and Princess of Wales 1 Luigi The Chinon, France, . 5S5: Personal tide of professor, from Hospital Not- sat and pasted the required Bar attendant the whistle of your will not open for anything else, will visit University GaMni. scientist. Bologna. 1737; to fill the gap last June Vocational Course in train you must not even for two halfpennies. tingham, at 1 !. 15. Bligh, captain of RMS assessments Diabetic medicine: sounds; and William Dr A. H. Unless the 1992 in order to complete the Bar either lose it or suffer frightfully penny be forthcom- The Prince of Wales, as President Bounty, Cornwall 1754: Leo Tol- Barnett, reader in medicine in the ing, it makes no sort of al- of Business in the Community, will Polyana. By Ruth Gledhill, reugion correspondent Vocational Course by training and for another hour or two. I have stoy. writer, Yasnqya school on medicine. even assessment also to mention that if a beg or lowance. for the most attend the Partnership Approach Russia. 1828. Applied physics: Dr T. D. Beynon, urgent necessity, it is, in fact, io Economic Regeneration con- THE Roman.Catholic Church is taking the shortage into In immerical order umbrella is left behind in the an William reader in reactor physics, school of abomination and on Trust DEATHS: the Con- pastoral plan. A B Mina ay, J a Patmore Oft M huny you must pay another behalf of a ference ar Boots Charitable is calling on its laity to help out account in its physics and space research. 1066-87, PetinglU IGfc R K Singh R fair moiety of their passengers we Queen's Road. Nottingham, at queror. reigned Rouen. are to): M penny to get it— at feast so 1 was in dioceses where there are no Some married men being Tniffard (UEa DoeJ-Curter (UKO Paediatric gastroenterology and President of the 1087; Sir Humphrey Gilbert, informed at one of the stations try unhesitatingly call upon the rafl- 1.30: and. as longer enough priests to go ordained permanent deacons, Egele (I); CG Fox (G);KP Hobson m:Q nutrition: DrI.W. Booth, reader in navigator, at sea south of the way companies which have Prince’s Trusi and the Prince’s M Salraond (Q: A Barer (GhJBS paediatric the woman, who said each time round. Many dioceses are able to carry out all a priest’s Boumphrey Grent- gastroenterology and Youth Business Trust, will meet Azores, 1583: Henri Toulouse- CD: G Fern (l*JD the door was opened a penny adopted the dot in this particular J Hypollie-de nrnritioa school of medicine. painter, training lay pastoral workers functions except say Mass or Garwood {Ml; sonza (U; application to recipients from (he Lautrec, Malrome, had to be paid by herself if not by put an end to it grant and loan C A Jones (Ck P S Krahl (l); R C Old Icelandic A. R. FauDtes. hear confession. diocesan Dr forth Arts Centre. Notting- France, 1901: Mao Tse-Tung. or grouping parishes together A Lawrence 5 Maftmood (Mj: D S you. ! have long felt this system with. mists at the m reader in Old Icelandic, school of chairman of the People’s Republic so they continue without spokesman said: “There is a McCullough CO: A A I OJi Ok J J We cannot but commend the ham University, at 2.10. can a English. to be “cruelty to animals” in ways 1949-59, 1976. Reynolds ID; C M stent (LU M J Princess of Wales, as Presi- of China Peking, resident priest, the National problem with the shortage of which cannot be expressed in a courage and good sense of the The Townsend IM): EA K. Bannerman (Tt A Philosophy: -Dr CJ. Hookway, correspondent first dent of Bamardo’s, wffl visit the priests it is not M Henley (M); j Jagmohan (M): S public paper. who raised Conference of Priests meeting but reader in philosophy, school of Kothad (Q.-JT Lamb (MJ; H Lee (I* X J the complaint. letters Greenfield Centre: Russefl Road. Yours faithfully. The we in Birmingham was told. insuperable.” McNemey OR D C A Robinson CM): J C philosophy and theology. Nottingham, at 12.20; as Patron have published, and the large The conference is address- Father Brian O’Sullivan, N Rushbrooke 5 R Sawynr (I): O M Experimental immunology: Admiral Sir David Dr ONE WHO HAS received, of Help the Aged, will visit the number we have have ing collaborative ministry be- chairman of the priests’ con- EJ. Jenkinson, reader in experi- SUFFERED MUCH. Health Advice Centre, Lower Par- Hallifax shown beyond all doubt dial the said mental immunology, department tween laity, priests and ference. tite dwindling grievance is serious and widely liament Street, at 1.20: and will S Cave {MfcAA Chute fti;AJ Copeland of anatomy. According to number of priests was “con- visit Butin, Bains Drive. A Service of Thanksgiving for the bishops. The (GU P Cnimpin fMfc D Cummings Though the subject is one which feb. E Professor John Burtnn, director of David CM): S Di&mnyake fMt Furness Rarrowash, Derbyshire, 2.15. life of Admiral Sir Hallifax. Tablet, the influential Catho- centrating the mind wonder- C W must be discussed with reserve: one will accuse at the Centre for Business Econom- No English wfflbehddin IG1: A R Gloagfe s Hafdemenos til: P KCB. KCVO. KBE. lic weekly journal, some par- fully’’ on the need for we need offer apology for women of crying out in The Princess Royal as Ctdonri-in- R Hosben (G); J Labelle ay. G A Leech ics, European Business School has no such a St Cas- George’s Chapel Windsor collaboration. W.' S L D UbMSta IT): 1 C logan K 3 commenting on tne corres- without Chief of The Royal Scots, will visit ishes cannot now have a Mass m been appointed to the chair of manner good cause. We tle October 9. 1992. at Metcalf an k m Mkandta 0J: a Noble Lowland on 3pm. because of said: “Even if there were pondence headed "A Woman's are gratified to leani that the . the 2nd Battalion. 52nd on a Sunday the He business administration, from Applications for tickets enclosing Complaint” which has lateriy of the - Volunteers, at Napier Barracks. shortage of priests. four times as many priests as Ju)y. discussion grievance in our sae to Chapter Office. The Clois- been appearing in our columns. columns has already Folkestone, at 10.25. In Aberdeen, one of the there are now. I feel that borne fruit ters, Windsor Castle, Berkshire. c Simpson (i£ e j h stamen (Ik p c Leeds "A Woman's Complaint" is sim- The managerof tite London and rhe Duke of Kent wffl visit largest dioceses in Great Brit- collaborative ministry is the Suntan [MS A TUTOR (Mh v G Wilson Professor Barry Whittaker has SL4 1NJ. by September 25. 1992. ply k' 1MJ. this. Many railway com- South-Western Railway has writ* he Famborough international ain. priests, mostly in their way forward.” been appointed to the chair of 36 panies are applying the penny ten to us to say that r a perusal of V \irshow’Q2 at 10.30. serving 20,000 Cath- Miss Pat Jones, assistant mining engineering in the depart- 60s, are dot system to die conveniences the letters which have Correction ment we pub- rhe Duchess of Kent wffl open priest is general secretary of the Bish- of mining and mineral olics. One 88. The provided in retiring rooms for lished has satisfied him of the Joriinn Lodge youth centre. Miss Antonia Greenudl Minty- Appointment engineering, from October I. He diocese suffered an added ops’ Conference of England women at their stations. As a reality of the hardship flirted is. m rhirsL at 1 1 .45: and will perform Gotto, who last week appeared in a currently • professor of rock setback when two young and Wales, told the conference result of this ingenious device, upon women by the present he naming ceremony of the new photograph on this page showing Mr Patrick Giles Andrew Eyre to mechanics and director of die which, if were priests left recently although that collaborative ministry was women allowed to system, and he undertakes to t-A?-: viersvy Lifeboat RNLB preparation hr the Queen Char- be Master of the Supreme Court, Institute of Environmental Class serve as railway active a necessary response to the directors would have ft remedied. ?anny Victoria Wilson and Frank' lotte's Ball, was incorrectly they have remained Queen’s Bench Division, from Engineering at Nottingham itubhs at Scarborough. 2.40. described as Mbs Samantha Nix. church members. The diocese Second Vatican COunriL September 15. Univasiiy. — - . !

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Continued from page 1 Maastricht lup. ICM. Harris and NOP - gave Labour a lead of 1.3 XKU-aW By Phiup Webster, chief politicalcorrespondent per cent. In the event the Conservatives won by a mar- B gin of 7.6 percent. A RIFT within the Labour health secretary, and Michael

BU. In a test, ICM used conven- leadership over the party’s Meacher. the overseas dev- tional question techniques cautious support for the elopment spokesman, are un- for half thdr sample and a secret Maastricht treaty was ex- derstood to be backing a ballot on voting intention for posed yesterday as Bryan British referendum on the the other. Other questions Gould called for it to be treaty. Mr Meacher and oth- produced almost identical re- scrapped and declared that a ers have voiced concern dial sponses. but this was the dif- French “Yes” vote would stfll the ERM. as it is operating at ference on voting intention:- leave it in deep trouble. present, is preventing anti-

In a surprise statement, the recession measures being Camentfwrel1 Seam 001 shadow national heritage sec- taken. retary said that Maastricht The moves confirm that Mr Con 28 35 +7 33 33 . was “not the right blueprint" Smith will dearly face a chall- Ub LD 12 12 . foi Europe. Gould fol- enge to his line Mr of conditional SNP 3 2 -1 lowed John Prescott, the backing for Maastricht when Others 1 3 4-2 shadow transport secretary, the shadow cabinet eventual- Won t vote 12 11 -1 Won't say 7 1 -8 in voicing dissent from the takes a collective view. ly The Don't know 5 4 -1 public backing for a French issue is deeply sensitive endorsement of Maastricht because of growing support ICM said those who re- which was expressed last within the parliamentary par- fused to answer or who had to classified as “don’t week by Jack Cunningham, ty for Labour to vote against be knows” the shadow foreign secretary. the Maastricht bill if and tended to be older and fe- ‘•‘'A they have . John Smith, the Labour when it is reintroduced, and male. In tests ds- 0 - leader, faced pressure on a the leadership has deliberate- covered that don’t knows are second front when senior ly avoided taking a formal also more likefy than other respondents to the union leaders , including position until die government nominate the John Edmonds, the GMB has clarified its attitude in the Conservatives as party leader, called openly for a autumn. with the best policy' on the devaluation of the pound Opposition to the existing economy. within the exchange rate stance, however, could come Continental chivalry: a homeless Spanish youth tion of the princess. The princess smiled and 3.000 young people from the streets in three The company says that “the centre mechanism. Although a next Mondaywhen the ruling kisses dietiie hand of the Princess of Wales yester- waved to crowds before entering the day centre years and has a computer training and a data suggests that the party- official visit applauded and nursery. Last night, as royal patron of British handful of shadow cabinet national executive meets to day during an to the London Con- near Trafalgar Square. She was preference question has be- Opera, the princess was attending a members also support that approve a new statement of nection, a day centre that caters for the homeless cheered by a crowd of more than 300 when she Youth come sensitive” and points 24. It first official to young performance of Carmen at Sadler's Wells The- stance, Mr Smith wQ] refuse Labour aims and objectives aged between 16 and was her arrived and smiled as she chatted out that the apparent skew in engagement since media coverage over tapes people and the volunteer welfare workers who atre and today she joins the Prince of Wales for to see Labour tagged as the for debate at the annual con- party support is also ironed purporting to be ofa private telephone conversa- nefp them. The centre has helped more than engagements in Nottingham and Derbyshire. party of devaluation. ference. The draft paper is out when a voting intention is Mr Gould said that a “No” understood to avoid direct ascribed to refusers and don’t vote would at least point the references to attitudes to knows in line with who they way to what inevitable, will has the best economic was a Maastricht, but it provide Enquiry launched into BBC ‘must CBI leader offers to think fundamental reappraisal of the opportunity for NEC policies. GPt Europe's future direction, members such as Mr Gould Adjusting the last ICM poll J) \ ' while a “Yes” vote would en- and Mr Prescott to state their doctors' private fees axe jobs work with the unions before the election in line with courage the illusion that the case. the difference achieved in the treaty Continued from page 1 insurer, and Western Provi- was back on course. Mr Gould did not notify Continued from page 1 from anything government secret ballot test would have Wlille dent the third largest, report- to survive’ Mr Gould and Mr Mr Smith of his intention to holding back the expansion that pay should rise only has been saying, or anything produced figures of: Con 42 ed falls of six per cent 1 Prescott are the two most deliver yesterday's statement. of private health care. Mr where productivity and per- I have ever heard from a per cent. Lab 36 per cent and vocal Average annual premiums Eurosceptics in the After bring informed about it Cavers, chief executive of By MelindaWrrrsrocK formance improvements jus- senior representative of the Ub Dems IS per cent, com- for a middle-aged couple and shadow cabinet others are Mr Smith was officially said Norwich Union Health Care, tify it" employers." Mr Morris said. pared with an actual 43. 35 known to have doubts about “relaxed”, said that surgeon earns their children are now over to be and bis office a who THE BBC must axe thou- Later, Mr Davies insisted He hoped that the speech and 18 percent. the wisdom of Labour being stud that Mr Gould was enti- £50,000 part-time is paid at a £1.200 compared with £270 the sands of jobs and shut many that only by constraining the would dear way for a I n future ICM wall not only seen to tie itself to the Maas- tled to his opinion. rate of £300.000 full-time. If in 1981. A man on average • of its 14 studios to avoid £75 billion pay bill for Brit- continuing dialogue over is- use secret ballots for voting tricht standard. At least two, Arriving in Blackpool for the fees were cut by half, earnings has to work for 231 j a strangulation by internation- ain’s 5.5 million public sector sues of common concern, re- intention but will ask first i David Blunkett the shadow dinner with the general premiums would fail by 20 hours to earn the cost of TUC al rivals and survive as a workers could cash be found lating both to Europe and whether people are certain to 1 private health insurance to- council. Mr Smith said that per cenL “major player", Bruce to spend on rebuilding roads domestic problems. vote and exdude from the day. compared with 113 Mr Gould would not be disci- “The NHS prices the con- GyngeU, chief executive of and railways. Alan Tuffin. of the Union of voting-intention question “I think sultant’s services at hours in 1981. plined. he was specu- £50.000 TV-am. said last night Senior union leaders re- Communication Workers, those who say they will not. lating, as we are all entitled to but we pay him at a rate of A review of the private He said the BBC must re- gretted the walkout, but were said: “It is a good thing They will analyse the respons- do. on the effect of the Danish £300,000.” said Cavers. health care market by inde- about Mr main the cornerstone of deeply unhappy about Mr because we are partner- es of those who refuse to fill negative response to their “What is a consultant really pendent consultant William Davies’ ship. are about talking broadcasting through quali- pay lecture. Alan We out a voting paper and the » referendum.” worth? Even half the current Laing suggested that private ty. experimentation and in- Jinkinson. general secretary and sitting down to get this don’t knows and ascribe to j Gould told BBC Radio figure would provide a pretry hospitals could cut their costs country its Mr tegrity, but that it did not of the National and Local back on feet.” them party support in line acceptable rate of by employing doctors full- j 4's The world at one: “The £150.000 a need 24.000 people to sustain Government Officers Associ- Bfll Jordan, president of the with the party they think can Labour party hasn’t year to the doctors. If they time and offering fixed price | yet • iL It was “a relief” that John ation, said he was outraged AEU engineering union, said best handle the economy. surgery for common condi- reached a position in the light were uniformly paid at this 1 But, who succeeds Sir Mich- by the call for restraint. But that Mr Davies had made an Other opinion pollsters are tions such as varicose veins. of the Danish referendum re- level we could be saving 20 he added that any steps to- impressive speech, and “if ael Checkland as director- also conducting studies. Brh a \ sult which is why I feel free to per cent of our present damns But he gave a warning that wards people cannot take general in March, appears to an improved dialogue hearing an Gosschalk. director of r at least promote the debate on costs and hence a similar “any major move in this di- things be heralding big job cuts. with employers would be about themselves that Mori, said: “We are still look- this question. We’ve got our- amount in premium levels.” rection would be vigorously But Mr Gyngeil, who wdcomed- they do not like, they really ing very carefully at our poll- selves into the position where The private sector is under opposed by consultants”. turned TV-am into the most B31 Morris, general secre- are not up to one of the ing methodology and we French pressure claim rates The commission has 12 its the who seem to be from up profitable station in the tary of Britain's biggest toughest jobs in the world, haven’t' drawn any condu- | able to deride these matters ty 15 per cent last year and months to complete its inves- union, the transport workers, representing people at work”. I worid, warned that the BBC sionsyeL We have found a fall t U\ rather than ourselves." rising costs. Premiums rose tigation. It win report to the would set itself on an “irre- said he could have delivered in the number of people will- between 20 and 40 per trade secretary. parts by versible spiral of decline” if it of Mr Davies' speach TUC sketch, page 6 ing to be interviewed. We are Gould: treaty is not the cent last year, and subscribers French campaign, page 10 moved away from popular himself. “In tone and oontent Diary, page 12 considering introdudng a se- blueprint largest right Ronald Butt, page 12 have fallen. Bupa, the Private profits, page 2 programming. it is a qualitive difference Leading article, page 13 cret balloL”

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Housebuilder urges government intervention after slide into red and halved payout B.S. f SMON WALKER 3 TODAY IN ri BUSINESS a No recoveiy for ELtifc CHEERLESS 7 five years, a S"? warns Wimpey | The 1989 monopolies commission report into By Matthew Bond beer supply has been a disaster for all SIR Clifford Chetwood, due to report today and tomor- fosses. A breakdown will be concerned Leif says chairman of George row respectively, fell in sympa- provided with the fulhyear Mills, a former I , Wimpey, one of Britain's thy, with analysts preferring to figures. During the half year, MMC member biggest housebuilding and wait and see rather than Wimpey sold 3343 bouses Page 21 contracting groups, yes- second guess the extent to worldwide, about 12 per cent terday called on die govern- vrindi the dump has hit other down on last year. Britain’s ment to intervene to bring companies. contribution to that was 2,803 COLD BLAST the recession to an end. Priority should be given to homes, a little over 10 per cent SL3 Without urgent interven- restoring confidence in bouse down on the first half of last o tion. he said, the slump prices. Clifford said. This year. The average selling price Steps by Russia to halt Sir 1 could last another five years was not special pleading, he feO from £65,500 to £60.600. exports of ofl products 3 and send marry contracting said, but recognition ofthe fact parity reflecting more sales to sent a odd blast * companies to the walL that people wiD not spend first-time buyers partly through the energy and He did not accept the argu- when the money have reflecting the company's con- futures market in they ment “that if get inflation invested property — “the tinued into low cost, London yesterday we in push interest rates down, largest investment they will social housing. Page 18 down and then the economy win take ever make” — has vanished Mr Dwyer said the com- off.” The experience of the from under them. pany had budgeted to sen ON CALL American economy, which re- He decfined to urge specific 6350 units in Britain this Grim outlook: Joe Dwyer, chief executive, yesterday reported a deterioration in aD the company's markets mained in recession despite measures from die govern- year, 2 per cent down on last 3.5 interest rates of 3 per cent, was ment, preferring ideas to year. But statistics released on evidence of the futility of the emerge from the consultation Monday by the Department ITs H> argument. Sir Oiffoid said. process. He said: There can of Environment showed hous- Fisons waits “It requires co-operation be- be schemes devised which are ing starts in Britain 6 per cent Sterling suffers as Finns tween government and indus- neither short-term nor impul- down on last year in the first mum* try to get the country bade to sive and it should not be seven months of the year and for US business." he added. Without beyond our wit as a nation to 9 per cent down in the three ecu that, “there win be very few identity them and implement months to the end ofJuly. approval on 34.5detach currency from contracting companies left” in them to help the country as a Turnover feO almost 1 8 per a few years’ time. whotem the most effective way cent to £731 million, putty By Colin Narbrough, economics correspondent The number of British Sir Clifford’s call came as at our disposal — by getting reflecting Wimpey’s policy of Opticrom cable telephone George Wimpey sent fresh the housing market back to not chasing construction busi- A SURPRISE decision by swiftty responded to the Finn- sentiment for the dollar is subscribers may double tremors through the belea- steady growth." ness at unprofitable margins, By George Swell Finland to unpeg its currency ish move try lifting its margin- unlikely to improve either. As in the next year thanks guered building sector by re- Joe Dwyer, chief executive, Mr Dwyer said. A fell in the from the ecu drove investors al lending rate by eight the mark drew strength from to a £25 million deal by porting first-half pre-tax losses said activity levels in all forward order book from £800 CEDRIC Scroggs. the recent- lemming-like out of Scandina- percentage points to a record Scandinavian turbulence, the GPT, the cable group of £7.2 million (£200.000 prof- Wimpey's businesses — house- million to £600 million also ly appointed chief executive of vian currencies into the safety 24 per cent to stave off dollar fell backto DM 1.3900,

Page 19 it) and a halving in the interim building, contracting and reflected this, togetherwith the Fisons, said yesterday be was of the mark, putting the pressure on the krona. The recovering slightly late in the dividend to 2p. In an effort to minerals — had deteriorated diminishing amount of work waiting for the American pound under renewed Swedish credit market dosed, European day. calm stock market nerves, the since ApriL “Since the general still to be done by Food and Drug Administra- pressure. unable to cope with the ag- On Monday, die financial OUT OF GEAR company said that in the election, we have seen a fur- Transmanche Link, the con- tion to either lift the bar on The weaker pound, plus gressive tightening. markets’ reaction to die reas- absence of further deteriora- ther decline in housing and tractor budding and equip- Opticrom. the eye treatment, fresh opinion polls suggesting Short-tenn interest rates in suring statements from Bath tion in trading conditions, a construction markets, com- ping the Channel tunnel or to make another inspection only a narrow majority in Norway also jumped about had been generally favour- Higher profits from final dividend of 3J25p. half pounded, as recentty as two Wimpey has a 10 per cent of tiie British factory. France in favour of the Maas- points to 17 per cent, the able, especially to the formal overseas have last year's sum, will be paid months ago, by a significant stake in TML Mr Dwyer Costs of bringing Opticrom tricht treaty, fuelled unease in highest for nearly four years. statement that the Bundes- not been able to Wimpey shares fell by more felling away in demand for described the continuing three production up to FDA stan- the City. The FT-SE 100 The authorities in both Swe- bank had no intention to raise prevent a dip in than 18 per cent in early aggregates in our UK mar- way negotiations with Euro- dards. and of ensuring that index of leading shares ended den and Norway sought to interest rates. fortunes at I MI. the reaction to the losses, but later kets." But be refused to say tunnel developer of the tun- none of Fisons’ other drugs tower at 2,337.7. reassure the markets dial they Helmut Schlesinger, the engineering group recovered to dose 6p lower at whether, with operating prof- nel and bankers to the project would be affected, allied to Sterling shed a pfennig on would not follow the Finns' Bundesbank president made Page 1 example their it yesterday, 71p. Shares in other large its falling from £15.6 mfiKon as being at a “sensitive stage". delays in supply, sent profits news of the effective devalua- and decouple dear however, 1 contractors, such as Taylor to just £5 rrdfiion. any of the down from £95.2 million to tion of the Finnish currency, currencies from the ecu. The dial there had been nothing Woodrow and John Laing. group’s divisions had incurred Comment page 21 £40.4 million in the six which aroused fears of knock- Danish krone, a core member new in the stance he took at HEINZ BLUES months to end June. Despite a on devaluations and refocused of the ERM, and the Icelandic the weekend meeting. He warning of such figures in market attention on the pound currency. largely escaped the rejected the suggestion that he June tie shares fefl 24p to and the lira, both dose to their turmoiL had conceded ground under 92.4 150p, a six-year low. lower limits in the European Although the pound did not pressure. EC to plug Chrysler loophole Fisons also blamed the im- exchange-rate mechanism appear to have been supported The centre-right govern- pact of the recession on the (ERM). fay the Bank of England, its ment of Esko Abo, the Finnish official London renewed fall disturbed ana- prime minister, easily survived From Tom Walker in Brussels scientific equipment division At the 4 pm V\EIJ\£ for the fail in profits. Scientific dose, the pound stood at lysts. a vote of no-confidence in the SIR Leon Britten, the EC stitutes illegal state aid. The nations and the EC in 1973, equipment profits feD 37 per DM2.7888, a little more than David Simmonds, currency parliament in Helsinki yester- join cent-to £17.1 million sales a pfennig above its absolute economist at Midland Monta- day afternoon. Although the competition commissioner, is total cost of the factory, a joint when Britain left EFTA to on said: vote not the move to today expected to ask Com- venture with Puch. the Austri- the Community, the EFTA op 2 per cent at £307 million. ERM floor. gu. “The pound does not was on countries should apply similar Mr Scroggs and Patrick This left it well over a look very good and will stay unpeg the mark, it was on the Shares in Heinz fell in munity governments to im- an company, is about £215 Egan, chairman, were pfennig down on Monday, soft.” government's economic policy New York yesterday pose 20 per cent duties on all million; as it comprises 33 per limits on state subsidies. “It’s thtfnew unfortunate that the Austrians critical of previous attempts at despite the £7.3 billion pack- Amid speculation that die in general. after first quarter Voyager vans imported into cent of the total the sum the dealing with complaints age of currency borrowing American authorities could profits the EC from a new Chrysler breaks EC state aid rules, did not feel bound by FDA limit government con- rules," said the source. over Fisons production. Mr announced on Thursday to cut the discount rate again Currcmy floated, page 10 fell 47 percent plant in Graz. Austria, that is which tiiat it enhance the defences for the soon, possibly after American British gilts, page 20 Page 19 scheduled to come on-line next tributions to 8- 1 0 per cent After a long absence from Scroggs said finally was pound, firm commit- producerprice data Friday, Stock market page 20 year. The commission's enquiry the market, Chrysler will start decided to rebuild the and the on to parities The decision wfll be one of was bolstered by complaints selling Jeeps in Britain from Opticrom pfanL Fisons was ment present ERM from the week- the most controversial taken in from Matra, the French state the start of next year. Eventu- farther disappointed -this that emerged inspectors meeting. In Bath, of the commission’s battle to company, which makes the al^ the new Dodge \fiper, en- spring when FDA end finance achieve a “level playing field" Renault Espace. the main EC joying huge demand in said mey were still not happy. European Communty in Fisons says it has top- ministers and central bankers. US dollar in Europe and is expected to competitor to the Voyager. America, may also be sold made Austrian gov- Matra claims the Voyager will Britain, and the Voyager is level management appoint- The lira, whose defence 2.0020 (+0.0053) anger both the plus 2 a lines were reinforced on Fri- 10 ernment and the American unfeuty squeeze its van’s share due to hit the market in about ments from candidates with German mark level pharmaceutical an increase in key carmaker. For the commission of the market. 1 8 months. A Chryderspokes- broad of day by previ- in Dover said no experience to production, re- interest rates and fay overnight 2.7888 (-0.0114) it comes at a particularly awk- Chrsyrier, wind) had woman and prices had been determined search and development, qual- rates of 25 per cent, dipped for even greater Exchange index ward time, with the EC’s ousty looked to Spain agreement with Austria and Portugal to set tip a Voyager yet As weQ as adapting the ity control and personnel back towards it ERM floor. It (same) drive, the departments of the pharma- dosed at 764JO to the mark, its European Free Trade Asso- plant was hired by the Austri- van to right-hand will also need ceutical division. And as what against 763.40 on Monday. Bank of En^and official dose (4pm) ciation partners to create a an benefits. They shopped British version move, choice from SAA. European economic area not around tike all companies the angle sliding passenger Fisons describes as sign of The Finnish trig- confidence, the half-year divi- gered by the depletion of its yet ratified. wanting to invest in the EC,” a door fitted onto the pavement was currency reserves, led to a 13 Sir Leon, who has investi- commission source said. side of the van. Renault has dend maintained at 3Jp. cent devaluation of the gated the funding of the plant “They wanted a site with free sold 15,000 Espaces in Brit- Ironically, sales of Opticrom per per cent national currency, the mark- FT 30 share with Frans Andriessen, his access to the EC — il*S obvious ain since the “people carrier" in Britain rose 96 market came an the market in 1985. from mid- 1 99 1 because of a ka. Finland, caught in asevere 1710.6 (-22.8) external relations colleague, that fee Austrian hay-fever season. recession, devalued 12.3 per believes the £72 million that wasn't important to them.” Prices vary from £17,000 to severe FT-SE 100 only last November. the Austrian government has Under free trade rules £25,950 for the V6 topof-the- cent 20 Swedish central bank 2337.7 (-34.5) pumped into the factory con- agreed between the EFTA range model Tempts, page The New York Dow Jones 3271.39 (-10.54)* Tokyo Nikkei Avge Cost of repairs to QE2 could cruise past £30m 18282.42 (-157.76) Jonathan Pkvnn By South African Airways are introducing two additional services to provide you with an unbeatable THE Queen Elizabeth 2. the London: Bank Base: 10% Canard liner that was crip- 12 services a week to South Africa from the UK. 3-fnonth imertiank; 10V10'«% pled by damage to its hull off We are increasing our award winning flights 3-morth efigibte bdte SFVk-SN* US: PrirreRate: 6% the northeast coast of Ameri- from London Heathrow Terminal 1 to ten per week Federal Funds: 3*ic%* ca in earlyAugust has arrived - including three on Saturdays. Bills: 232 2. 90% 3-montn Treasury at die Btohm&Voss shipyard 30-year bonds: M^wlOO* And we are increasing by popular demand our in Hamburg for repairs. The work to the hull and Manchester service by 100% with SAA flights to keel is expected to last until Johannesburg every Tuesday and Thursday.

the end ofthemonth and will now fly for as little as (Fust Class NewYodc You can £3,905 London: cost at least $30 million, say C$2 0040 C$20040* return) and £1,835 (Business Class return) on SAA!s $: DM1.3917* industry experts. Canard is £: DM2.7883 direct services to Johannesburg, Durban or Cape Town. C.S*f<2.4900 $: SwR1.23t0‘ yet to calculate the costs of due $: FFr4.7375* arrived, L FFlS.5040 accident It is believed that Once you’ve our great connections to 27 e:Yen245.78 & YW122.88* lost revenue from cancelled destinations throughout Southern Africa and the £ index: 92 4 S: index: 58.3 ECU. E0.726S58 soft ova and postponed cruises will be Indian Ocean Islands and our special hotel and car C: ECU! 378352 CrSDftVS about £14 million: for a total hire deals mean that SAA really are No.1 for service London Fes® meska dose of at least £30 mflfion. though and value. the figure could be much higher. No one knows Southern Africa better. The lead insurer to Cunard Bar more details call your travel agent or your nearest SAA officer London Fbdno: is Commercial Union, with 251-259 Regent Street, London W1R TAD Tel 071-734 9841. /WS3411WPM S342 15 4 ; about a fifth of the exposure *- 1 St- Ann Street, Manchester M2 7LG Teb 061-834 4436. . Close $342JO-342. 70 to the loss. Lloyd’s is thought I E170.7D-171 J0 !4 Waterloo Street, Birmingham B2 5TX Teb 021-443 9605. Nflw York: to have hnrited exposure. Street. Glasgow G1 Teb 041-221 0015. , 85 Buchanan 3HF \ = Comet S 342 75-34325* The ship arrived in Ham- burg after a seven-day cross- KOfcTH ing from Boston at three quarter speed. Canard is hop- / ing to return her to scheduled j Brent (Oc9 S30.30/&W (52025} services on October 4, when SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS she is due to depart South- ampton for a seven-day cruise around the coasts of Portugal API: t3s.9 Jufy (T987- TOO) dry after arriving at the Bk*m& Voss shipyard in Hamburg yesterday and southern Spain. * Dewtw nudday tracing price Raised for repair the QE2 in dock j — .

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18 BUSINESS NEWS THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1 992 svviK Oil futures leap as Warning of job cuts * 1 Russia suspends at Medeva Hillsdown acquires clep By Our City Staff Dutch food group MEDEVA. the fast-expand- ing pharmaceuticals group, is HILLSDOWN. the food group, is to pay £50 million forwhar European producer of prepared deliveries to West warning of job losses and it describes as the leading heavy rationalisation costs to drilled salads. The Bdedia dulled foods group indudes the By George Siveu. oome in the second half de- Johma GroupCroup in thetne Netherlandsrsetnenanos andana uexgnun.Belgium, theuie Koben-rvooen- spite a 250 per cent surge in htvns Salat Group in Denmark, and the Nadler Group in 8^3303-0^7'' GAS oil futures leapt on million barrels of oil a day the CIS has made in control- DFofitsprofits in die first half of this Germany. Nadler is also Germany's largest supplier of London's International Petro- made up of 1.25 million ling inflation. From a monthly year. marinated and smoked fish products and is a leading leum Exchange yesterday barrels of oil and half a million rate of 300 or 400 percent tiiis Bernard Taylor, the chair- distributor in Germany of ketchup, mayonnaise and sauces. after the biggest Russian oil bands of product This is January and February, it is man of Medeva. reports an 82 Net assets being acquired are estimated at 90.8 Dutch product exporter suspended thought to be about 400,000 estimated internally that infla- percent advance in sales, from guadere (£29 million). Sales in the year to the end of deliveries to the West barrels a day down on the first tion touched 7 per cent a £3 1.7 million to £57.7 milium, September last year were more than FI 500 million and Product for delivery in Sep- half of 1991 just before the month in July. The IMF. producing pre-tax profits of combined operating profits were Ft 14 million. Hillsdown tember rose by $4 a tonne disruption caused by the failed which is monitoring events in £14.1 million, against £4.01 says thai since 1988 about FI 1 00 million has been spent on before settling down to show a August 1991 coup. A substan- the former Soviet Union dose- million, although much of the modernisation, making the factories the most up to date in rise of $2.50 to $184.75. tial proportion of existing CIS ly, wants a steady 10 per cent a increase relates to the string of Europe. Rosnefteprodukt was quoted production comes from the month by the end of the year. recent acquisitions made by by international news agen- Russian republic. Yesterday also saw die first the group. Earnings per share 5-9» cies as saying exports had The IEA felt that CIS oil strengthening of the rouble for more than doubled, from US disposals for Lasmo \ been suspended to allow Rus- exports may have risen to 2.4 two months. It rose to 207.9 2.26p to 4.58p a share, and sia to send fuel to its northern million barrels a day but against the dollar from a re- the interim dividend is lifted LASMO, the ofl and gas group which took over Ultramar last outposts before the rivers thought that the figure for cord low of 2 1 0.5 on the Mos- from 0.5p to 0.75p a share. December, has raised another $1 00 million from disposals m freeze up for winter and to August had fallen. The Rus- cow Currency Exchange. The But there are problems at further relieving the pressure on its balance sheet which at million of debt representing ^ assist with the 1 992 harvest sian energy ministry said: last time the rouble rose in Evans-Kerfoot, which oper- the last half-year end had £914 1? t Japanese traders said that “This situation happens al- value was on July 9 when it ates in the highly competitive 80 percentofaharehoklere* funds. Lasmo is selling Ultramar Resources Inc for about they had been told that Russia most every year when the far cost 1 30.3 rouble to buy one UK generics market Mr Tay- Oil and Gas Ltd of Houston to Cody TnN ww had declaredforte majeure on north needs fuel before the dollar. Viktor Gerashchenko, lor says jobs win go in the $85 million and expects about $15 million from selling its deliveries due between Sep- frosts come. Any normal con- Central Bank chairman, said second half of the year, as part share of the Bright Star Gas Gathering System in eastern tember 5 and 25. tract must take circumstances the bank has spent $650 mil- of a rationalisation pro- Texas and other marketing assets.

H-4-4S Rosnefteprodukt is estimat- like this into account** The lion so far this year defending gramme that will cost die ed to handle about three ministry expects Russian oO the rouble, and is willing to group £1 miUion-£l .5 million quarters of Russian exports of output to fall to 395 million spend only another $] 00 mil- during the period. Hiram Walker sells oilofl products. In the first half of tonnes in 1992, from 462.3 lion over an unspecified per- He says the board is “con- uir-i.no 1 992 the International Ener- million in 1991. iod of time. But the IMF said sidering a number of options HIRAM Walker, a subsidiary of Allied-Lyons. the food and gy Agency, based in Paris, Ironically, the prospects of this was “not a useful policy” for the future ofthis business”, drinks group, has sold its Kenderznann and Langenbach estimated that die former rising energy and food prices and could not “bring long- whose sales feQ by 28 per cent wine businesses in Germany to Gunther Reh, a private Soviet WJ5X*H Union exported 1.75 are jeopardising the progress lasting results”. Rationalisation ahead: Taylor of to £12 hist half. group, for an undisclosed sum. The business had a combined Bernard Medeva million in the , turnover in the last financial year of DM70 million. Its brands include Blade Tower and Crown of Crowns. Hiram Walker will continue to distribute the two brands under long- term sole agency agreements in those markets, induding Britain, where it already handles die brands.

Macro 4 lifts payout

MACRO 4, the computersoftware group lifted pretax profits to £8.75 million (£7.65 million) in the first half and earnings The best laser printers in the world by 15.2 per cent fo26.5p, handing shareholders a 6 1 .36 per cent dividend increase. Teny Kelly, the chairman, forecast Paxu;: “better than nominal profits growth" in 1 993. Macro 4 does three-quarters of its business overseas. The company is paying a 7.61p final dividend on top of the 5.14p already paid, and is supplementing this with a special 5p dividend, which brings die total to 1 7.75p (1 lp). Home Counties slips

HOME Counties Newspapers is maintaining the interim ‘frLj: dividend at 2.75p. after profits Ml from £636.000 before tax . J to £546.000 in die half-year to end-June. against £2.24

.’ million two years ago. The group incurred an operating loss " HJ. v of £203,000 on turnover of £1 13 million but received an ex- ‘ * IfNurr- |Q ceptional creditof£5 1 -IpK 2.000 from the sale ofshares in Reuters Holdings. Earnings were down from 435p to 3.66jK^The ft final dividend will be derided in the light of trading - r conditions for the rest of the current year and early 1993. J LJ • J ' flflP Bletchley advances 1 *' .. .> I ftp SHARES in Bletchley Motor Group rose 20p to 1 70p in re- 0 o£ 9r.*.^ sponse to a 49 per cent rise increase in pretax profits from , _ s’ • > EvS.lJtfS# £406.000 to £604,000 in the half-year to the end ofJune. The . : ... •~1 -- ? f s interim dividend is raised from 4.1p a share to 4.4p. .... Ropni'fi; ;« } “ Turnover rose from £303 million to £34.96 million and -ri. - profits before interest payments from £1.1 million to E1.26 . e million. Interest charges eased from £690.000 to £657.000. \ MlfiS reflecting initial benefits of a £2. 1 million placing and open iflm offer in Earnings were 1 f June. l.4p share, 8. r ~ — S R. it: a up from lp. .S - ' Good year for Adscene

Pert fii;. ADSCENE Group, the local newspaper group, lifted pretax P profits to £1.61 million (£705,000) in the year to the end of May. reflecting sharply reduced costs. The company sliced £1 slIA.f million out of administrative costs and repaid borrowings of i III! £1.55 million, reducing interest charges from £790,000 to £528.000 and gearing from 59 per cent to 32 per cent Earnings rose mom 3.6p a share to 8-5p. There is a final If! I I dividend of2.5p a share (1 35p), to restore the total dividend ^es iifiPi 1 I 1,2.1.;.,. to 4p (2p). in line with the level of two years ago.

Profit fall Triumph ln U'hi t*t at merged on sales surveyor at Croda By Matthew Bond By Michael Tate CITY EDITOR HERRING Baker Harris, a firm of chartered surveyors, IMPROVED productivity at has reported its first interim home and increasing sales VMbixbffafftr results since it was formed overseas generated a 40 per from the merger of Herring cent rise in first-half profits at i Son & Daw and Baker Harris Croda International, the Saunders at the end of last Humberside chemicals, extyon^nqitkWMan. year. coatings and cosmetics group. The figures show the en- Michael Valentine, chair- larged group making a pretax man. said pre-tax profits rose profit of £1.6 million, ten per to £143 million (£103 mil- cent down on the £1 .8 million lion) and earnings per share of i that Herring Son & Daw 73p (S.lp). The interim divi- made in the first half of 1 99 1 dend is pegged at 2. 75p. The merger came about by Mr Valentine is unusually HSD taking over BHS and optimistic for an industrialist the figures have not been in die current conditions, de- merger accounted. They are scribing the trading outlook as therefore not directly compa- "in some respects surprisingly rable. encouraging". He said raw Peter Farrington, chiefexec- material and energy costs were You’ll notice that we haven't added a utive, said the profit fall latest generation language allows new, fast An ingenious new development is a unique could stable, demand in some over- “probably? not be blamed on the former seas markets, notably Ameri- modest Because if you want the vector graphics and a range of scalable range of HP JetDirect network printer BHS operation, which haul ca. was strengthening, and best in laser printers, the Hewlett-Packard fonts that enable you to turn even the most interfaces for the HP LaserJet HI, DID, II, HD been profitable from the start borrowing costs outside LaserJet is undoubtedly it mundane document into a thing of beauty. and mSi to give direct high speed and had contributed £3.5 mil- Europe were historically low. 1km to group turnover of£10.6 At die same time, however, r Tbday, over connection to the most popular networks. . 5 million HP LaserJet printers million. s he said that economic activity MU! These give you fast throughput and the are sharpening company images around He said, however “Neither in mainland Europe contin- flexibility to printers the world, producing stunning results time position the anywhere part of the enlarged business ues to weaken, that there is no on the network. has been as profitable as the XJK after time. we end in sight to thought they would be last recession and that die dollar HP LaserJet printers best December." What keeps these remarkable 14-16 ppm. are the And with has weakened significantly. one year on-site warranty, thetek no The interim dividend is Croda says its success in range way ahead of the competition is maintained at 3.25p, despite with die recession this “probably" coping clever ideas. about it new Like HP’s Resolution earnings per share Ming 36 year is a reward for manage- Enhancement Technology It per cent to (9.74p). ment planning and action ensures lines Call Hewlett Packard on (0344) 369222. 634p Nicholas Owen, chairman, two years. so sharp, curves so smooth and blacks so over the past described - " The . (he results as a Chemicals, contributing more black, that documents look as though possibility made reality. ” tremendous achievement in than 80 peront of the total they’ve been typeset an economy that refuses to made record trading profits of shake the off recession and ' an £15-5 million, and The HP LaserJet m family also uses HEWLETT industry that tends to lag a use- hat the coatings division made HP’s PCL5 advanced printer language. This PACKARD economy?. ful recovery, at £33 million A cost saving programme is (£2.7 mSUon). being continued with die aim Only die cosmetics and toi- of achieving savings of letries activities disappointed, £300,000 in the second half, with a deficit of £200.000 making a total of £1 million against £200.000 profit last for die full year. time. 0 c 9

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1 992 BUSINESS NEWS 1 GPT deal signals Rons and BMW secure $5 00m m.h::s switch to cable engine contract

By Harvey Elliott, air Correspondent

telephone services ROLLS-ROYCE and BMW heights of up to 5 1 .000ft and of Germany yesterday signed only slightly below the speed By Nick Nuttall, technology correspondent jSgp". a $500 million contract to of sound. It will enable sec- v- -r1 -— supply the power plant for a urity-conscious businessmen A SHARP rise in the number which could be worth up to telecommunications industry, new generation of long-range to speed between some of the of people switching from Brit- £25 million and is one of the new network operators, such business aircraft. world's most important cities ish Telecom and Mercmy biggest made by a cable as BRT. Telecom Electric and A joint company set up by without having to pass Communications to telephone might mw operator, more than British Waterways are plan- the two companies two years through the heavily congested services provided by cable double the number of British ning to cany telecommunica- Sr ago will make engines produc- public areas of international tompanies is expected as a cable telephone subscribers tions traffic ing up ro 22,0001b of thrust airports.

result of a development an- over the next 1 months from 2 The equipment being sup- Mm and capable of powering eight The aircraft can stay air- nounced yesterday. 47.000 to more than plied by GPT should eventual- .•-JSSiH! 1 passengers over 6,300 miles borne for more than 1-4 hours it . GPT said five- had won a 120,000. ly enable the cable company to non-stop. and has a much larger bag- year contract to supply equip- This contract alone could, re-route caffs through the The RoQs-BMW alliance is gage compartment than its ment to Southwestern Beil, an by 1997, lead to almost cheapest carrier, as well as to typical of the collaborative predecessors. ''IHhaK American regional telephone 450.000 subscribers as interconnect with adjacent projects taking place between company with cable television 80.000 homes a year sign up. franchises, bypassing BT and aerospace manufacturers H. franchises covering 1.2 mil- industry experts predict It Mercury altogether. throughout Europe. lion UK homes. The deal. could put the cable industry on According to Alex Findlay, a Deliveries of the Gulfstream ASH buys course for up to 10 million GPT official, tire growth in V will begin in four years' domestic telephony customers cable telephony has exceeded time. The aircraft wfil have a by the year 2000, irrespective early estimates, made in 1983 cabin large enough to enable into US Barclays to of take-up by industry and when the firsr of the 135 international businessmen to business. franchises were allocated. fly in exceptional comfort market sell Allied Under the deal GPT, ajoint Early operators believed with rest and exercise areas venture between GEC and that a mere 5 per cent of p'N € and a shower. By Our Cm Staff Siemens, will provide hard- homes, rising to between 10 The new engine, designated ware Trust Bank and network manage- and 12 per cent, might be the BR710. will first ran in AUTOMATED Security »’• ment equipment enabling interested. Penetration has, 1994 and the plan is that I (Holdings), the electronic sec- " alk A City bank with former Southwestern Bell to operate a however, readied cent; certificated 25 per wiD be in August urity and loss prevention n if), connections to a senior share- discount telephone service in up to 30 per cent of subscrib- 1996. Rolls-Royce will make group, is taking advantage of holder in the Bank of Credit its franchise areas, which cov- ers to some franchises take parts in Derby, Bristol and the weakness of the dollar to and Commerce International er large parts of the Midlands telephony. Scotland; final assembly ofthe acquire the franchise opera- is being sold by Barclays to a and the North West Recently. Cable Telecom, engine wfl] take place in tions of the world leader in South African institution. Customer calls could be 1 which operates in the Windsor Germany. audio alarm verification for Barclays is selling Allied to 20 per cent cheaper, with and Maidenhead areas of Rolls-Royce will share the $42 million in cash. Trust Bank to Investec Bank the telephone service paying Berkshire, reported that its profits as a 50 per cent partner The acquisition of Sonitrol for £25 million. The bank for the television channels or telephone revenues had ex- in the venture. Corporation and Sonitrol specialises in high interest vice versa. The network will ceeded those from television. The Gulfstream V has been Management Corp will give deposit accounts and personal offer fibre optic cabling to each Such developments have routes : }m*0;iw bought a majority stake in and international network for equipment to a cable telepho- Albert Schneider, chairman dio alarm verification susrem AQied Trust from Shaikh Southwestern BeH ny equipment market estimat- of the board of management and is being bought from Kama! Adhanr, a former However, under the govern- ed to be worth £400 million in of BMW Rolls-Royce, said Sonitrol Holding Company. BCCl shareholder who is ment's liberalisation of the the next five years. yesterday: “This major order At completion of the deal, helping the American authori- Smiling through: Gary Allen, chairman of IMJ, reporting lower profits yesterday from Gulfetream is the first the non-franchise operations ties their in enquiry into the and most significant break- I of Sonitzol Corporation will be

collapsed bank. through for the BR700 series. I distributed to Sonitrol Hold- Plantsbrook Group Titanium losses dent IMI It signals the successful mar- ing Company. Sonitrol has Payout held ket debut of a complete family 1 70 franchises throughout of engines which has been North America and Europe, Record Holdings, the hand developed by Rolls- of which ASH will own 22 in profits rise . . By MichaelTate, city editor BMW toolmaker, is holding its inter- 40% Royce since it was formed." southern California, Texas. im dividend at I.I5p a share, By Our City Staff LOSSES on titanium as air- customer, and other firms cut Gary Allen, the chief execu- Rolls-Royce has had a long Louisiana and the UK. ‘ T despite a decline in profits to T . said i i ;:•!? f i.. . craft braiders continued to back, and the business, part tive, the building prod- relationship with Gulfstream. The deal brings $ 1 0 million 1 '' ’ £809.000 (£1.57 million) for SHARP reductions in costs the company's turnover. Mr de-stock were mainly respon- of the special engineering ucts arm had held profits, having supplied engines for of recurring annual revenue the six months to end June. and interest charges have out- Hindley said. sible fora £3.6 million down- division, made a loss. The thanks to another strong all the company’s earlier series and about $2 million of annu- Earnings fell to 1.22p (3.32p) weighed the effect of a declin- A £10.5 million March turn in pre-tax profits at IMI. group hopes it will break performance in eastern ofjets. The BR7 1 0 engine has al net royalty income to ASH., a share. Turnover rose to ing UK death rate to leave first rights issue has reduced gear- from £40.1 million to £36.5 even by the year end. Much Gfermany. and the drinks a wide fan developed by Rolls- which will also have the right £1 3.97 million (£1 3.4 million), half profits at Plantsbrook ing from a year end peak of million, in the first half of-- of the damage was offset by dispensing division had Royce and produces feu* fewer of first refusal on any future hut trading profits fell to Group, tiie undertaker, up 40 4 15 per cent to 75 per cent at 1 992. There is an unchanged the minting side, which made shrugged off recession to harmful gases, as well as less franchises sold. Tom Buffet, £801.000 (£1.75 million). per cent at £4.9 million. June 30. Mr Hindley said this interim dividend of 4.2p. 1.6 billion coins during the increase its contribution. noise, than previous ones. The chairman, stud: “This pur- " The company dosed or sold was a level of borrowing with Titanium prices plunged as period to meet demand from initial order is for 200 of tile chase firmly establishes ASH Instem ahead 29 branches and shed 8 per which he was comfortable as Rolls-Royce, IMI’s biggest new republics. Tempus, page 20 engines. as the international leader in cent of its workforce during interest cover remained at a The Gulfstream V will fly at alarm verification." Instem, the electronics and in- , formation systems group, the period, contributing to a healthy 4.6 times. raised its interim dividend to 22 per certf .increase in. the The interim dividend is i.3p (i.2p) on taxable profits operating margin and a 16 being maintained at Ip. but is Candover cent itua^ministrattve costing -the company of £551,000 (£507.000) and r per (all turnover of £7.1 million ^£7.9' . costs. Theiudrestbilllell from £271.000 more than last year prepares million) in the six months to E2 million to £1.3 million. because of' the . additional end July. Earnings were Peter Hindley. the chief shares in issue. 7.96p(7.21p)ashare. executive, said the death rate Plantbrook changed its for upturn had fallen by 2.5 per cent in name from PFG Hodgson Ropner dips the first half, but government Kenyon International at the By Neil Bennett projections forecast a I per time of the rights issue to BANKING CORRESPONDENT | First half profits at Ropner, the cent decline for the year as a emphasise the break with the For more than a century and a half, Patek Philippe has been known as mini conglomerate, fell to whole. company's past, in particular CANDOVER Investments, million). £1.72 million (£2.27 “indications are thar the its glamourous former chair- the management buyout spe- the finest watch in the world. The reason is very simple. It is made Turnover rose to £8.3 million current satisfactory trend in _man Howard Hodgson. Mr cialist. is planning to launch a differently. It is using skills techniques that others lost (E7.6 million), and the interim trading should continue for Hindley said that the com- fond next year to take advan- made and have stays at dividend 3.5p. rest of the year." Mr pany was being associated tage of any economic upturn. the or forgotten. It is made with attention to detail very few people would Hindley said. “less and less, fortunately" Candover has already held ' Li w . -ri Peek falls The company plans to in- with its previous high profile exploratory talks with inves- notice. It is made, we have to admit, with a total disregard for time. If crease market share and prof- image. The long established tors who are thought to be Peek, the traffic control and its adding to its 3 74 brand) local firms that make up the keen to bade the new vehicle. particular field data systems group, has by a Patek Philippe network are now Roger Brooke, Candovefs announced interim pre-tax network, concentrating on the Plantbrook main population centres. being re-emphasised at the chairman, said the fund movement requires four profits of £2.8 million (£3 mil- the Two London acquisitions in expense of the corporate im- would succeed the existing lion) for the first six months of years of continuous work to the first half have already age built up by Mr Hodgson, 1989 Fund, which raised the year. The interim dividend added 450 funerals a year to he said. £319 million, and which he stays at 1 .05p. bring to absolute perfection, expects will be frilly invested by eariy next year. we will take four vears. The Candover has continued its successful track record in spite result will be a watch that Heinz chief stays confident of the recession. In the half year to end-June the group is unlike any other. A watch tives, our shares are expandr increased net assets by 3 per From Philip Robinson diat quality from IN NEW YORK ing in key US markets and 1 cent to 25 lp. The group conveys look forward to a year of achieved the growth in spite of makin undisclosed provi- first glance and first touch. HEINZ profits dropped al- growth and increased earn- g ingsl" He said sales gains had sions against some invest- most 47 per cent during May A watch with a distinction: of ments. which Brooke said June and July this year, but been seen in a range the Mr products in- are struggling in the recession. Tony O'Reilly, the chairman, group's 3,000 generation after generation T {. • « Candover provisions of ->U says the year will show growth cluding cat food, StarKfct tuna made 1991 and and increased earnings. and Heinz baby food. £4.8 million in Mr it has been worn, loved and Heinz shares fell after inves- Brooke said the figures would The fall in first quarter year. collected by those are figures was exaggerated by a tors reacted to die company's be similar this who earnings that Fees from investment man- special one-off $221 million first-quarter below some analysts’ agement helped to boost very difficult to please; bonus in the previous year were (handover's pre-tax profits for from the sale of a business. estimates. those who will only accept According to I/B/E/S, the half year by 4 per cent to that 1 99 gain, oper- Without 1 1 which compiles analysts fore- £2.26 million. The group is ating income would have the best. For the day that O'Reilly, sees casts. the estimate for Heinz’s raising its interim dividend by dimbed a .fifth from $213 growth fiscal first quarter was $0.58 a per cent to 3.75p a share million to $259 million on 7 you take delivery of your with high estimate of During the half year, sales up 4 per cent to $1.56 which peaked at $45.5 this share, a to $40,875. $0.66 low of $0.53. The Candover invested in three Patek Philippe, you will have billion. The weakening dollar year, lost $1 and a 5 O'Reilly, stock down lb at40 /a. buyouts, including the £140 helped to boost sales. Mr who was was of million sale of the Gaymer acquired the best. Your watch But after taxes and all named last year as the highest Nomi Ghez. Goldman of the drop in drinks group by Allied-Lyons. expenses, the net income fig- paid American executive with Sadis, said will a masterpiece, quietly unnecessary panic Candover’s board is meeting be ure of $143.8 million was a $75 million salary, said: "We stock: “It is numbers today to discuss two potential lower than Wall Street bad are seeing the benefits of our I saw nothing in the reflecting your own values. expected and the shares. many management initia- to cause me any alarm." investments. A watch that was made to be treasured. Smith resigns as Bimec chairman

By Jonathan Prvnn question of my resigning”. The shares The shares reached a peak of 86p in November last year followed by market yesterday rose 1 p to p. THE quoted corporate community lost Mr Smith is being replaced as chair- rumours ofa bid at £1 a share earlier this one of its few remaining showmen man by Rqy Barber, the company doctor, year. established a high yesterday when Sam Smith stood down best known in recent years for replacing Mr Smith quickly as chairman and chief executive of Bimec Graham Rudd at the helm of Thomas profile for Bimec by charming analysts Industries after surviving in the worthy Robinson in October 1991. and investors with his avuncular Scottish PATEK PHILIPPE of his business peers in the but dull corporate world of the early Neither Mr Smith nor Mr Barber were manner. Few cost cutting, recessionary 1990s 1990s tong after most other flamboyant available for comment yesterday. A terse sombre, awaywith the suits, GENEVE entrepreneurs had parted the scene. statement from Bimec said, by way of could have got loud and carnations that Smith His departure became all but inevita- explanation for the changes, that: “The bow ties Mr that skills and qualities to build a business consistently sported at press conferences ble last month when he announced Exclusive Patek Philippe showroom: 15 New Bond Street. London Asprey&Co Ltd. 165 New Bond Street. I^ondon Bimec would not be paying its declared such as Iras been required over the past and analysts’ briefings. Garrard ic Co Ltd. 112 Regent Street, London - Ceorge Pragncll Ltd 5 Wood Stratford-upon-Avon company, originally known as ; Sum. final dividend of 0,83p because of a five years in an expanding economy are The Biomechanics International, set itself Heuich Ltd. 1 King Street, Jersey, Channel Islands sharp deterioration in trading condi- different from those now called upon for in the present high targets and was looking for annual Available from all throughout tions. The shares crashed to 6k p on the the management of Bimec showrooms of the l Tilted Kingdom sales of £230 million and profits of £24 news and left fuming analysts claiming recessionary climate". by 1994. they had been misled by the company. Mr Smith joined the then struggling million But pre-tax profits for the year to end Mr Smith had initially put a brave face group in 1989, exploiting its green grew only 13 per cent to £6 on the setback, which came after two credentials to the full to secure stock March successive years of doubled profits and market backing for an ambitious acquisi- million and were accompanied by a aero- wanting that the growth record could five years of rising profits, claiming as tion expansion programme into to a bait in the current year. recently as mid August that “there is no space. air conditioning and electronics. come

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20 MARKETS AND ANALYSIS THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1993 1

TEMPUS world .. i I i Dow suffers from P'"' Fisons finds there is no quick remedy t-V a* holiday hangover IT IS tempting to make a case ever made. Sixteen months were ilcrtL pwnwi*. mil ih.it for investing in Fisons. When ago. the textiles and engineer- New York - Shares his lU'ckcnd il%vi.»rat»n cm a share falls 24p to 150p on ing group raised a £39 million weaker in quiet morning trade began roan interest^ rail’s was not- results more or less in line issue, in the bdief it would as market participants \ long Labou' ing new. IT* Dax ind^« with a profits warning the allow it to expand into the to return after the endni ps'inis higher Kl case for recovery has to be imminent economic recovery. Day weekend. By late morn- ai industrial !.>4J S-v Se examined. But at Fisons it The recovery is still a dis- ing. the DoW Jones Svtinn1 - AwEivuluftn a will not work. tant dream, but the rights average was ten points lower dosed ai a l5-nk«lh th Yesterday, Patrick Egan, issue cash has acted as an at 3.271.93. Declines led ad- fow bin a five. managed tn oige back uvtt the new chairman, said invaluable shield against the vances fry six to re I.S00 mark The Fisons should get back to ravages of recession. Baird Frankfurt — The market the AH m Ordinancs index ended good of subsided after Helmut Schfo* J .1 Pi year-on-year growth, will be debt-free at the end presi- lower at 1.50 Lb. (Rcttttrt ca maybe not this year and the year, and a 50 per cent fall singer. Bundesbank maybe not on the dramatic in interest charges to £1.56 hi scale seen in the eighties. million was the only reason Ai But there was concern in for the 9 per cent increase in TOKYO fo the City that group, whose pre-tax profits to £10 million D the chief executive is Cedric in the first half of the year. Scroggs, would have to con- The figures suggest that Bi tinue spending is weathering the reces- ev money beyond Baird Profit-taking cancels th the first half of 1992 on sion better than most but the bringing its procedures into second half may tell a differ- line with the expectations of ent story. Baird has struggled out early advances the American Food and Drug to sell off five subsidiaries of Administration. Darchem. its engineering di- Tokyo — Shares dosed weaker linked buying of the morning Fisons said that of the E45 vision. The extra disposal after surrendering early gains session simply kicked into the afternoon." million fall in first-half profit. costs and the dosure of a in quiet trading. Profit-taking reverse in £15.7 million was attributable womenswear factory are ex- and index-linked selling took The 225-share Nikkei aver- fell 157 points to lost sales but that El I pected to produce a £3 million their toll on prices as many age 76 to million of lost profit was exceptional charge. investors, deprived of buying 1S.2S2.42. with about 400 down to Overall, textile divi- incentives, deserted the mar- million shares traded. reduced margins Baird's — arising from increased quality sion is faring better than ket. brokers said. “Volume is Singapore Prices of blue control and inspection, and engineering. The former held relatively thin and there’s no chips were nudged higher at that this would be a cost that operating profits at £8.8 mil- particular news in the market the dose and the 30-sbare would persist in the future. lion as sales rose £6 million to to draw people back.” one Straits T imes index rose 11.61 Market promotions and re- £195 mfltion. Second-half fig- commented. “The index- points to 1,377.20. /Reuter) search and development were ures may not be so resilient responsible for the rest of the Testing the water Cedric Scroggs, left with Patrick Egan, the new chairman, yesterday since Baird warned share- shortfall. On the plus side, the holders that demand has dete- HONGKONG board seems confident of The 1993 forecast assumes 1992. it seems. Interim re- ing operations, which benefit- acquisitions in the first half, riorated during the summer. fetching good prices for the that the FDA difficulties are sults show the drinks dis- led from the demand in east- and £24 million of capital Operating profits at consumer health and horticul- resolved. The interim divi- pense division achieving an ern Europe for new coinage, expenditure, and the group Darchem, meanwhile, fell tural divisions that are up for dend was maintained at 33p impressive advance in profits buried by losses from titani- remains cash generative at £500.000 to £3.2 million on Technical lift for shares sale. They could make a big and analysts expect a main- and bunding products contin- um and copper alloy tubing. the operational level lower sales. When the division hole in net borrowings of tained total for the year of uing to benefit from the Even the weaker dollar With profits expected to is restructured it will consist Hong Kong — Shares fin- 5.700.59. having niovcdin a £239 million, or 53 percent of 8.7p, putting the shares on a reconstruction of east works in IMl’s favour, given take another £2.5 million hit of three core divisions: engi- ished firmer on technical buy- 45-point range all day. A shareholders' funds. Opera- surprising 7.8 per cent yield. Germany, while a 23 per cent that it exports some twoand- in the second half from re- neered insulation, fire protec- ing. mainly by local investor, broker at Daiwa Securities tional cashflow was marginal- On forecast 2992 earnings of downturn in fluid power is a-half times more from Ameri- structuring costs, the group tion and on-site services, the in thin trading, brokers said. said much of (he buying was

ly positive in the half year. 1 1.5p, the shares stand on a blamed largely on the ratio- ca than it sells there, and that will do well to make £75 mil- business’s order book, howev- Turnover fell to a new year’s purely technical, in case some Analysts translated such multiple of 13. Weary share- nalisation needed after the 75 per cent of the group's lion pre-tax to produce earn- er, remains sparse. low of HKSl.14 billion from good news came out of immi- openness by reducing full- holders can only hold on for group's recent hectic expan- borrowings are in dollars. ings of perhaps 15.5p. Com- Baird will remain firmly on Monday’s HK$I.32 billion. nent talks on the colony's new year forecasts for Fisons for better things to come. sion in tiiis sector. Together, And yet IMI does not now mendable though this would the defensive until the recov- The blue chip Hang Seng airport. “1 could hardly see the current year from £130 these operations contributed see any recovery in the UK at be. the market's respect is al- ery finally arrives. Profits Index rose 36.18 points to genuine investors taking posit- million to El 1 0 million before IMI £35.8 million in trading prof- least until next year, and is ready in the 228p share price. should rise by £2.5 million dose at the day's high of ions today." (Reuter) tax and E 1 40 million for 1 993 it The remaining division, prepared to say no more this year to £27.5 million, but Just as Mr Egan was taking HAD Rolls-Royce not taken special engineering, saw a about the American improve- William Baird once again, thanks mainly to over as chairman and the City the decision to de-stock last £2.4 million setback to £4.7 ment than that it is fragile. the rights issue cash. The WALLSTREET thought the worst was past year, IMI might well have million, until a strong perfor- The balance sheet remains MISTIMING the length of shares, at 200p, stand on a the expectation for this year avoided a fall in pre-tax mance by the components strong, with gearing still at 3 the recession was the best p/e ratio of 12 and are not 9 was El 90 million before tax. profits all in the first half business, that at of including the mint- per cent after £14 million of mistake William Baird worth pursuing. rnjuuay OCK oSSw *24 ‘Zi | 1 AMP Inc 56% 55% Sv. Sl% UTOkle Sislftm Ift I4\ AMR CUp 57*. 57% DiaHhard Cup 4T. 42% Urvx Energy Co 24% 24% AHxxt Lola 3ft 31 m i i 4ff. 47% PNC Hrvmrtai 4ft 49% Aetna Ule 3*. Jft 30% 31% PPfi litduunn to. t»l Ahmiason (HD 15% M% Ethyl cotp 26% W. Paccar Inc -c. *1 Wharf raising £143m for STOCK MARKET Atr prod « Own 43*. 43% Exxon h2% o2. Pacllh-urp 22, Albcroom 43% 4.1% TOC Cotp 4B-. 4ff. Pac cmnprtsa Ift 19 Alcan Alumnra Ift 19 FPL r.nwp 30% Pic Gjs s Elea 32% 32% Atco Stanoani 35% 35 Federal Express .»r, to. pat rctob 44 44% Allied Stpvil 42% 53% Fed Not Mip: 65'. Off. 26% 27 Hong Kong office tower Alum Cd of Am 86 86% Flra Chicago ur. 71% ran handle Ena 18% 11% Amu 17, IT. Jo% 37-. l-anmnt comm 43% 43% 47-. *. British Steel falls to new low as Amerada Hess *8% Eton Union RRy S. P* riser iiawnilii 20% S* Amer Brandi 46% 4ft TM Finl Ctp 27% 28 Penney JO on From Reuter in hong kong Amer Cyanonrtd M w% Fluor Corp «-. 41% Penrcotl 54% S3". Aroet El Po*er 12% 32. 4J-. 41 PeraUo XT. 77% Amer Entree .22 M2? CTE-Coip . n% XI. PfLrrr ye. «*-. A HK$2.2 billion (£143 mil- loan will cany a grace period Amer Genl Corp 47% 4ft Cannen 4ft 4c-. Phrips Dodge 48, 48% Amer Home Pr TT. 3% Cap Inc Dei 32% .33 PCILuM Elec 25% lion) loan for Wharf (Hold- of 30 months, bankers said. - German slow-down hits prices Aroer tml 9S% 9F. Gen Onema. .. J#-. as-. PtdUp Monts *4% 04% ings) Lid- partly for its local The corporate part, which Amer Sums' • 37% 3j*e CenTOuraiJcs .3% 76% FtllUtpS PW 27% Amer T A T 42% 42, 75 74% 34% A. Atneclicdi . . - 71 Gateway office tower project, has been lowered from an SHARES of British Steel fell •- allergy, treatment, and Im- 6ft- 68% CenMitH 71% mioniw .11% 31% Amoco 51% 51% Gen Motor* 34% A3% Price CO to. .to. is being placed in the market. originally planned HK$1.3 another to a low of 1 3p new feron, its pick-me-up drug, AnhcuretiBustfi S3 . S3-. Gen Reinsurance 91% 91% Prtmerica 4(r, Apple Com purer 47-. 47'. Gen Signal 57 57 Procter A Cuibi 4ft The loan with WardJey Cap- billion due to difficulties in 46*2 as several large lines of was largely responsible p for the AreJiw Darnels IS 25 Genuine Parts X3. *0% Pdb Serv E« G zr ital Ltd as co-ordinating ar- finding enough underwriters, stock came on offer. Analysts slump in the pharmaceutical AriOa to*. 11% Georgia Pac 5S-. S5-. Quaker OlB 62% «2% — Atm eo 6% 6*. COtene 57-. 5S-, iUL-uxi Purina <7-. 47 ranger comprises two parts has annual interest of 70 came away from a meeting division’s profits by two-thirds Amaarg Wtld Jft M Glaio ADR 2*7. 29*. Ruydictn Corp 35% J5% Asarco 26 26*, Goodrich 43-. 41 44%. 4i% a HK$1.2 billion eight-year, points over Hibor. with the company this week in IBF) to £23 million. Patrick Egan, Ashland Otl 22% Goodyear TITO 6?. 62, Retook Inti 28% 25. A2I Bantu 114 113% Grace (WBR) 36*. 36 KejnoUs Maab 52. 51% three-month construction loan Hongkong and Shanghai a gloomy mood and immed- the chairman, it said would be AUO Dtza Pro 45% 45-. Gn AH pk Tea 27% £7*. 62% 62-. and a HK$l billion five-year Banking Corp. WestLB Asia iately began downgrading a year before there was any Avny DennlMo 27% Great Wnn Flo IS-. 15% RtxMl tod 3% a". Avon Proaoea 51% general . 51 51 HUiDmiuxi 34% >1% Edhm ft Hkas 54% corporate loan. Ltd, Yatsuda Trust and Com- profit forecasts. The company Baku Hughes , 2*-. improvement 24 Heinz ihj) 40% 41 *i BOjal- 90 B0. Mdn Gu a El 2% Hercules 55% 31% 37. The project part for build- merzbank were under- is said to have little AG had George Wimpey. the house- Bmic one 43% O’- Hesbey Foods 43% 51% 51% MiMawria 43% 43% Hewlett Packard 56% 55% srFmflicas 71% 71% ing Gateway Towers in Tsiirt- writers of the corporate part positive news for the City and, builder. fell to after 3p 74p Bank of NT 41 % 42 RUtoo Hotels 45 Salomon Inc 36% 35-. shatsui. Kowloon, was at The construction part was if anything, conditions are diving £7.2 million into the i T7 NY 61% 8r. Home Depot 52% 52% Santa Te 3 Pat 11% 11% tonen Bfcj 81 35% 35% Bomesuie 12% 12% San In com 57 57 Hongkong Interbank Offered underwritten by Hongkong deteriorating. red at the half-way stage. toudl A loom 51 51% Honeywell OS 69. Srectnp 47% 47% Bauer Inti 35% 36% Household mu 52 51% 59% 50% Rate (Hibor) plus 1.125 per Bank. Hang Seng Bank, Kleinwort Benson has dou- (There was a profit of Sobering Pk»Sh Bean Dittos? 76% 76% Houston inds 43*. 43% SdilumPeriaer <6% 66*. oent with the office buildings Chase Manhattan Bank and bled its forecast of pre-tax £200,000 last time.) The inter- Bell Atomic 49 49% Humana 21 % 21 % sent paper 35% 35% BeriSoo* 53% S3H TTT Corp ,*T 65%05% «%*5% Seiftnra ye. »% collateral. as The construction Mitsubishi Bank. losses for die current year to im dividend has also been Blacks Decker 19 18% ramois Tool 63% M% Sean Koebocfc 4ft 41% Blade (Hft]g 34*i 34% ENCD 26% 28% Shed Traits 55% 56 between £100 rmflion and shaheshitSew LOW halved. The group’s perfor- Boeing 37% 37% ln&rsoll Rand 26 26% Shemtn wihns 29% 2ft 18% 18% Inland i i i i i Sad STi 21 Slyllne cup 15% Ift £200 million. British Steel's i i i r i i i was worse titan mance most Borden inc 28 28% tout Corp 61 61% SnojHJn-Tools 31% 31% Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep interim dividend was cut and analysts had forecast There is Bristol Mrs Sq 68% 68% IBM 96% 86 SOUlNffl Co 37% jr. Brumlng tern 23% 23% Iral nov ft FT KJS 108% StOTenem BeU « or. the odds on a reduction in the no sign of an upturn in the Burlington Who 36 35% Inn Pares 63% 64% Sprint CUp =% 22% 1 1 CSS 208 208 Sams W*es Va 19 . I9 , Stanley WormWorks 39, 39. final paywit are shortening. near their lows for the day. company’s own broker, housing market and Sir Clif- CKA Financial B9>. 89 Shnsn ft Jhnsn 52% 52% SunSon cunpoiorCompany 3*% »'• The company remains in the Only 411 million shares were Cazenove, had downgraded ford Chetwood. chairman, (TCIna *9% SO K MAR 2P. ZP. Sunuust 37% *% CSX SI J«% 70 7ft Supeosla 25". 2T. grip of recession and there are traded. its profit estimates. says a recovery tills year is camptet Soup J7% 37% Kcee 44% 45 Syrue* CUpCotp 28'. 29% can ftdflc 14 14 5*% 1 klDiberty-Oart 54% Sysco. cuspCorp it% Sr . no signs of recovery. Even Racal Electronics slipped Hillsdown Holdings increasingly unlikely. Ana- 1 Odea ABC 4Sft 452% Knight -Kidder so-. eo% TRW Inc 52*. 5Ti : HOKHngJ 61’. 62 66% ACCOUNTANCY . UOy CEIIJ 66% TUdero Comp HP. Ift European steel prices 3 after all- clawed initial fall cutting profit are be- 4p to 65p giving an bade an 4p lysts are esti- Carolina Pwr ST. 52% Limited me 23 22% Tanfty CUp 23'. 27% caterjrtUor 48% 4*. UN Bidcmg 67 67% raeoam Corp 1 1 % ginning to buckle, depressed day presentation for analysts to finish 2p better at I06p— mates for the foil year. % AND FINANCE Conran, sm 2ft 29% Lincoln Nm 61% 61% Tetadyne 19% % 19 by the economic slowdown in ahead of the proposed two-day gain of 8p. The initial Estates & General the Crumpton mil J«% 25 liitnn 44% 45% Temple Inland 48% 49% APPEARS IN THE BUSINES NEWS PAGES EVERY THURSDAY 2?. 22% Lb Oatoome 37% 37% Tenneco 3T, 37% Germany. demerger of its Chubb security mark-down was in response to property developer, tumbled cnemial Bk 3T. 33% Loekheoi Corp 47% 46% Toaco o3% 6*'. TO ADVERTISE PHONE Chevron- cotp 72% 73% Louisiana Pk 45% 45% Teas uw 41 40'. The rest of the equity to 1 after half-year losses market 8p 9p XT. 20% hq cmnjoun 33% 3* TUBS ItalUles 41% 41% e\ -tl Coni 78% 77% Pdorrtoa 16% 16% 1 saw the gains of recent days of £9.35 million, against a TfiaUWi J6 . 36. MARY COLLINS 071-481 4481 cent corp 30% 51% Mtnh ft Mcum sr. M\ Time Warner 106% 106 wiped out as the foreign ICI suffered from a late bout of nerves with the price falling 2 8p profit last time of £1.1 million. CMoorp 15% 16% Manta Modena 55% 55 Ttmes-Mlnor 34 33% or FAX gong . Unoari Corp 27% 2»V up to 100% Digital Equip 35% 35% Navistar Ini 2 1 % 34% of almost 1 7 points gave way pointing half-year figures last changed at £77 million. space lost lip at 208p. UpJC*n 33% DflATd Dept a 3* 34% NBD Barxnrp 28% 28% vrewp 47 47% rawer iwwo to a fall of 34.5. to 2.337.7. by week, losing a further 1 7p to Fisons fefl 9p to 1 65p after Famborough Air Show has, 35 34% NY TTroes A 26>, 26% Waj-Man Stares 57% 57% Dominion Res 39% 40 Nearmom Mne *r. 47% WoroeMaibcri 65*. 65% the dose: have reporting a sharp drop in half- far, failed generate DoneUer (M) 29% Now it pays An opening loss on 302p. The shares now so to the Jft Nioft Motowk S3. ». Waste Mimnt inc .tft 33% Dover . Cap 47, *2% Nile B 71% 72 Wall Street after the extended fallen per cent in the past year profits, from £95~2 mil- big orders usually announced wen* Faroe 67% U; 10 Dot Chemicals 55% 55% NL Industries 7% 7% Wntlnghouse Iff. 16% weekend publisher. lion to £40.4 million- The at DOT Jons 32% 32*. Norarerora i>% 27% Weyertacuser 13 JTi break and further few days. Another the show. 1 - >«% Norfott . tr. to shop around - _ Ift smm K ST. wwrtpool 37% nervousness about the French Reed International lost lOp withdrawal from America of Duke Paw 35% w Nihn stare Pvrr ay. 43% wnitman ir. ir> 1 Dun ft BnHum 57% J7 Noma Cup 36*, .w. Whin Male 53% 54 : vote 1 on Maastricht left prices to 501n amid claims that the Opticrom. the company's eye Michael Clark Du Pom 48% 49% Nyna Corp M . 84'. Woofoonli 31% 31% Eastman Kodak 44>. 44*, Ocddenial Per Ift 19 wiielej (Wmi Jr 99% «% Subsidence and storm damage claims have forced most i nsurers Eaton corp 77% 70% otdo Edtem 21 % 22 TCTOt 76% 7ti% to drastically raise premiums - but not all. As top brokers in home insurance business for over 30 years, CGA is Oniquety qualified to shop around for you. We can arrange transfer from GOVERNMENT Int Cra your mortgage lender and pay the fee (normally £25). securities Price red High Stock 4* had some success in resisting l yw RISES: Cable Wireless 526p (-12p) US’, 9ft 103*. - *81 x raufttanz • 10% discount for over 55s • Monthly payments the latest bout of volatility on U9 Croda SHORTS (under 5 years) 107%, m . Trew 10% JOB 105*. _ nn 952 938 175p(+12p) BT 335p(-11p) the foreign exchange 10(7.1 11*6 69“» 595 3',% 199904 67*. • 10% discount for • market 102% HW. u ii'rit iTa POM 520 702 Macro 4 Elys Contents cover - -» 458p(+13p) Wimbledon 630p (-40p) » IOT. Tnwn*&300l4M 1 - FALLS: Allrad £50 excess *rem£5 W. 97“. TlBlMIW UD 119. 1037 SM Lyons 557pf-13pt ° 1 losses on the day. 100-, . -mu ir«% 1943 KH%, 1Z2S 9.97 124% IKft raw 12*A 20DHB UP*. - ^ 1038 900 • 15% discount • Helpful claims by the Finnish - Hepwoith 106*%, IQ3°h Treat ift* im 104'. 'o 1119 939 232p (-lip) Guinnass 536p(-lip) Central - bank 'to allow the 99>» Trea 199* 985 M &M 9.78 LONGS (over 1 years) for £100 excess service W. sm 5 GKN 327p (-13p) Meyer Int (-10p) 9ft - V 9.13 9.73 B 188p markka to float 99". Wi TrtW-ra 1991 93 as-, Tuts 8% 200206 90-.T - n 830 916 within the - '. Fisons 101S Treat in 199* iocr. vn 932 *rr« w. Trea* 8*i% 2007 95". - % 8.92 907 150p(-24p) BMC Group 41 9p (-20pl Exdiange Rate - *. 9.91 CGA Insurance Brokers Ltd Mechanism UK*. 103". EH* Ift* 1994 Wj 11.96 IIS*. IHftl Treat n%% xt&ai 114=. - ”« IU* 9J0 Eng Chma Clays - * 446p (-12p) Travis PerWns 10Bp(-lfip) combined with a sharp 107"n 10*" D Eadl IJVfc 199* WT, 12A3 9.95 10I-B 93*6 TtBS9%2DX 10ft 1 L99 MO in- - '« i, DeLaRue SOT. lOTs TrentfAHM MS’. HAS 4.92 ur. 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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1992 BUSINESS COMMENT 21 Calling time on bitter beer orders Wimpey prepares that leave little cheer at the for a long night pub

s so often with elder corporate statesmen. Sir One former member of wages and property rents and rates. Clifford Chetwood’s outpourings over die No brewer has anything like a dominant position in London. In economy, in which he claimed the building the MMC believes the A July 1989. Lord Young backtracked, recession would last at least another three years to claims from foe Labour party that unless unspecified action was taken, diverted report into the brewing the government was guilty of “a attention from the actual performance of George industry has been craven and complete capitulation” to Wimpey. Whether this verbal smoke-screen was the brewers, foe traditional bank- deliberate or accidental, we shall probably not rolled of Conservative no less than a disaster, foe party. The discover until next March, when the preliminary brewers would have to sell, or lease figures are published and the market can judge Martin Waller writes free of the tie to take their product, whether the relatively modest first-half loss was a true just half of those pubs they owned indicator of the group's fortunes. above foe 2,000 limit This cut the n Aristotle’s Politico, which number of pubs that would have to be Much was left unsaid as the company temporarily attempts to establish the mini- freed up from the big estates to abandoned the “openness” that it embraced for the mum functions that define die 1 1,000, and also confirmed the big first time in March. detailed breakdown is A existence of the state, the sage pub owner? in their marker predomi- promised again I for next year, but shareholders can lays down the dictum that a likely nance; any other brewer trying to feel aggrieved with a company that refuses to explain impossibility is always preferable to expand in retailing would be held at the fun impact of a recession that its own chairman an unconvincing possibility. The or below the 2,000 limit while the had gone to such lengths to amplify. His macro phrase, in its original Greek, appears tied estate of Bass could still be 4.650. Intervening — file gloom can best be seen as an explanation of the in the more prosaic surroundings of events recession— board’s decision to halve the dividend. the March 1 989 monopolies report and the collapse in property prices into beer supply. It forms the conclu- have helped to derail the MMCs Wimpey is keen to draw attention to the sion to the note of dissent by Leif course of action for foe industry. Pubs improvement in its balance sheet, claiming that, by Mills, general secretary of the Bank- have not been sold by foe big brewers the end of the year, it could be three-quarters of the ing, Insurance and Finance Union, as easily as the MMC anticipated. way towards its target of raising £400 million from foe findings of the other four Some of the businesses that entered through disposals. Yet £300 million of disposals were members of the panel. foe market and bought pan of foe highlighted back in March. Since then, things have The MMC was looking into the unwanted tied estate have quickly dearly been a little quiet After banking the £1 10 strong control seen by some as a gone bust Both factors have led to the million sale proceeds from a half stake in the little stranglehold, that the big brewers dosure ofmanyof the marginal pubs. - exerted ova an industry that ac- » Britain office block, Wimpey has at least cut its net counts for 2 per cent -of gross comparison between the debt since June, when it stood at £232 million. domestic product and the extent that 1989 MMC report and its Gearing by the year end wifi not be the 23 percent control stemmed from that peculiar more recent look at foe that simple arithmetic suggests, but it should not be a institution, the British pub. Mr Mins’ proposed merger between lot higher unless the company runs into a real A note of dissent, of the higher Allied-Lyqns' brewing interests and -hmral iits shorn In-,. disaster on the value of its residential land bank, its philosophy, might best be sum- foe British end of Denmark’s investment properties or its share of the contract to marised by two down-to-earth apho- Carisberg is damning. In 1 985, the build the Channel tunnel. Disasters apart, that risms: if it isn't broken, don’t fix it, last year for which the MMC could suggests that Sir Clifford is right about one thing. and, if you don’t know how to fix it gather figures, Bass had 22.9 per start cent of foe beer market produc- Wimpey is one contracting group that will be around don’t by commission's report which tion. Allied 12.8 per cent Whitbread for the recovery. But as yesterday’s figures showed — The gave rise to what are known as the 11 per cent Scottish & Newcastle none more eloquently than the dwindling forward beer orders, achieved the remarkable 10.6 per cent Grand Metropolitan order book there could be a long wait — . feat of attracting immediate criticism 8.8 per cent and Courage 8.7 per both from the beer barons, whose cent Aside for the dominance of powers it was designed to curb and Bass, this put the other five on Aerospace blues from foe publicans in their thrall, in reasonably equal pegging and left whose interests it aimed to ad Also more than a quarter of foe market in ar manufacturers are to be congratulated on unhappy were the unions and a fair the hands of the independents. cutting the prices of their main models. This number ofthe smaller brewers whose Since than three signficant region- realism at last alleviates to some extent the C market positions it was intended to ed of 7.300. 6.600 and 6.500 recommendations of the majority They might countenance taking one al brewers. Greenall Whitley. absurdity of turning their main relationship with boost The beer orders are due to be properties respectively. In addition, view were "far more drastic than is locally produced or specialist real ale; Boddingtons and Devenish, have customers at dealer level into an adversarial one. implemented by the end of next tenants were to be given foe freedom necessary” and could worsen the but this could just as well be achieved pulled out of brewing entirely to Sadly, it is one more embarrassment for British month to general dissatisfaction. to take at least one brand of draught problem. "I consider that the recom- by the guest beer rule. He also concentrate on their pub estate. The Aerospace, which has put profit margins above Being wise after foe event is always beer, foe “guest beer" from someone mendations are unnecessary and questioned the received wisdom that MMC estimated this year that Allied right to other than foe landlord, other indeed could lead to a reduction of the vertical integration common in and Carisberg combined had per market share in its strategy for Rover, only to find ea$y. One man who has the and 12 Higawt eariter mistakes under the drinks from foe most competitive competition and less consumer Britain, where a company owns cent of the ale market last year. Bass that undone by the length of the recession in the microscope of 20:20 hindsight is Mr suppliers. Tenants’ leases were to be choke." he wrote. production capacity, tire distribution has retained 20 per cent, while S&N domestic market BAe has suffered equal embarrass- Mills. He is in a position to do so, brought within the provisions of the Both the forecasts of the majority network and the outlets through and Whitbread have 13 and 12 per ment at the Famborough Air Show, where it has had having last year stepped down from 1954 Landlord and Tenant Act and Mr Mills' minority prognostica- which foe product is sold, reinforces cent respectively. The othertwo of foe little the- of orders about the to announce by way or the MMC after nine years. giving them further security of ten- tion are worthy of repetition this year, big brewers' ability to dominate foe original big six. GrandMet and future of its non-Airbus commercial aircraft busi- The decision to require the sale of ure, and brewers were to publish because the intervening three years market In America, for example, Courage, have merged their brewing nesses. The group is constrained ahead of its interim 22,000 pubs by the big brewers was fixed wholesale price lists. Were this have seen just what Mr Mills feared, Anheuser Busch had 40 per cent of businesses to take 20 per cent and results in a couple ofweeks’ time but BAe followers in probably the most radical move ever not done, the report said, “we believe and foe majority intended to avoid: a fire market and the two biggest joint market leadership. small concentration of capacity in the interests between them per cent The big brewers, as initially consti- the City doubt whether John Cahill, the new envisaged by an MMC report The it inevitable that a number of more 60 , take two national brewers will increasingly hands of fearer brewers. yet brewers are legally not allowed to tuted. have raised their share to 77 chairman, will be able to dear die decks by then. enquiry, initialfy intended to years, was extended by another six dominate not only the manufacture own foe wholesaling and retailing per cent. The latest study said less The bet guess is that BAe will show only a small i months because of the sheerweight of of beer but also foe wholesaling of r Mills agreed with the end ofthe business. Mr Mills argued: than a third of eligible pubs stocked a profit overall for the first six months of the year, i evidence. It triggered £5 million beer and non-beer alcoholic and soft need to bring in foe "In most countries where there is no guest beer, as they were now allowed, a i it does not provisions or exceptional assuming make advertising campaign by foe brewers diinks, and will continue to dominate guest beer and to se- vertical integration there are fewer and a third of these took that beer 1 charges before resolving the future of the regional warning of the dram of the British beer retailing.” cure better protection brewers than there are in this from foe brewer to which they were and executive aircraft businesses. Mr Cahill evidently pub. But Lord Young, then trade The response from the brewers was forMfoe tenant But in a idling aside, country." tied. Meanwhile, tiie price of beer has sees the company’s defence and Airbus wings, the secretaiy. gave the report immediate redictable. Half the country's small he said foe reduction of the big estates The argument that the brewers in shown no sign of subsiding underfoe best performers, as the core businesses. Most of the supportby rufoing to say that he was Ereweries and thousands of jobs to 2.000 would not significantly Britain use the geographical concen- supposed onslaught of free competi- five, increase foe of beers served tration of their pubs to manipulate tion in deregulated industry. In- rest are likely to show losses: fairly modest at Rover “minded to implement" foe major- would disappear within years, number a Brewers Society. The report in the nation's pubs, not least because foeprice of beer is one that falls apart stead, according to the Campaign for but exaggerated, in the case of dvU aircraft, by ity's main recommendations. said foe “That was a very silly foing to say,” was drawn up by “a lot of economists the average pub lads the necessary on more mature consideration; foe Real Ale, pub prices for beer rose 1 uncertainty over their future. Closure of the regional says Mr Mills now. “He should have who have not spent any time in the space to take more than perhaps a areas are few and far between where per cent more than inflation in the aircraft busuiess wifi be expensive indeed if Mr Cahill had a add, hard look at foe whole industry and know nothing about half a dozen brands. The 22.000 a brewer can own every pub and can past three years. fails to a joint venture or sale. The 208p share dinch fining first” The main conclusions what foe beewirinking public want," spare pubs to be sold would probably charge what be wishes in the certain- “The MMC report was a disaster," rights issue year price, compared with the 3 80p a were that no brewer should be said its chairman. Anthony Fuller. go to outside interests not already ty that foe drinker cannot go else- says Mr Mills. "TTiere are fewer pubs, ago, bespeaks the folly of that inadequate exercise allowed to own or lease more than Mr Mills, while accepting that involved in the industry, he said, but where. The huge difference between higher prices, less consumer choice and the confidence^sapping events that have un- 2,000 pubs. At the time, the three there was a "complex monopoly” thqy would themselves on the whole the price of a pint in. for example, foe and less competition.” That is a sell provinces have conclusion few drinkers propping folded since. biggest estates, owned by Bass, dominating foe British brewing in- want to the highly advertised, and London more to up AHied-Lyons and Whitbread, consist- dustry. issued a warning that foe highly profitable national brands. do with variations in costs such as foe four-ale bar will challenge.

Market forces and boardroom fees Weighing up the pros and cons of mathematics From MrE. R. Goodwin tition.” Panic, panic, panic. From MrOwen Curtis guages in schools suffered as students knew the weight of a THE TIMES*®QTY DIARY Sir. At foe recent AGM of “We will take the suggestion Sir, Reading that Rosie Haim Latin took priority. large loaf or realized that a Eastern Electricity a very inter- into consideration." is going to become a teacher of I see a similar trend in snfall loaf was half hs weight esting suggestion was made The point was made that mathematics (City Diary. Au- arithmetic versus mathe- How many smokers know the by one of foe shareholders many of these directors circu- gust 241 marie me question if matics. weight of a cigarette or how ness Centre a few months ago, when it came to re-electing late from one company to parents are aware how Decision making is impor- foe duty is calculated. Well out half of the female workforce directors. In response to the another, forming a cosy little arithmetic and calculations tant and could be related to That might affect decisions. operations, there employed by one of its resident comment about the high level chib, actually setting the "mar- have been elbowed out by the number but Best wishes. of it companies have married or of remuneration paid to direc- ker level of salaries them- abstract and esoteric are no words in foe language OWEN CURTIS, become engaged. With three tors, the chairman gave foe selves. mathematics. to describe this activify. 53 Victoria Avenue, LORD (Cecil) Parkinson, de- a remunera- If foe various chairmen are In foe last century, English Some time ago, I discovered Hull daring "1 am a businessman marriages already celebrated, usual reply that says she wonders tion panel set the level of pay claiming to be independent of and modem foreign lan- that none of a large group of Humberside. now,” reveals that he has Wassarman spirits and in order to attract and remuneration considerations taken personal stakes in sev- "if the of foe nunneiy making up for tost time" beep high-quality people sala- and are acting only in foe eral companies, at least two of are has become ries had to keep up with the interests of foe company and them public^ quoted, and will The centre just Work! market And the trap was shareholders, why do they not become chairman of the two part of the Zurich-led Business Centre Net- sprung. “Fine,” said the ques- take advantage of market con- in question next year. Al- Wide work Europe but Wassarman tioner, “but let the market ditions and reduce boardroom though he dedines to identify she is now thinking of determine the level by offering costs in foe same way that they foe companies concerned, says it as an introduc- them per cent less in salary would take advantage of any Parkinson, looking fitter and marketing 10 tory service. "Unfortunately, if they wished to remain as other commercial situation? vna more relaxed than he has for \ the magic hasn't yet worked directors If they think that this Food for thought years — and looking forward for me,” she says. Still single, is unacceptable let them see Yours faithfully. to the publication of his book and at 24, Wassarman agrees, whether they can obtain com- EARL GOODWIN, Right ar the Centre in October INTERIM RESULTS however, there is still time. parable posts elsewhere at 50 West Drayton Park — accepts that the outlook for SIX MONTHS TO 30 JUNE 1992 parture comes less than a week their age in this time of Avenue, business is not going to be after the resignation of Euro- recession and high job compe- West Drayton. Middlesex. easy. “The economy is in a cry Rob- Battle very bad way. everything pean banking specialist ert Grant who has left No* CITY dealers were calling old about it is extremely serious.” INTERNATIONAL charge. would mean that one hand our mura to join UBS Phillips & chums yesterday and tipping Bank charges This Turnover £ 37 IT) he says. “On the LEADER IN THE O’Neill, head of them off to “mind your eye" those making modest de- biggest customer is weakening Drew. Jim B. Brett subsidising APPLICATION OF other SBC’s research department an did stock market expres- From MrC.J. mands would be its currency and on foe SCIENCE. TECHNOLOGY describes the recruitment of sion, used when a price sensi- Sir, Your interesting report on heavy users of foe bank's ser- Profit we are bound by the con- AND ENGINEERING before tax £ 27m as tive announcement is immin- bank account charges (Sep- vices. If consistent in his argu- straints of the ERM. These are Henderson and Marshall stage foe firm's ent — in 1CI shares. Their in- tember 2) contains some as- ments he should oppose this. very, very difficult times for the second in assertions is to speak of to "rebuild and hopefully terest was triggered when ICI tonishing by John It a mistake PRODUCING Britain and for the govern- plan Earnings per share 7-9 fell the day Cheese, of Barclays Bank. charges being re-introduced. SPECIALISED POLYMER. ment" Parkinson, who has redefine" foe department “in a shares lOp on p think equity to... 1066. May I. as a satisfied customer They have never been totally FIBRE AND faced his fair share of difficul- way we European research should be done". of one of his competitors for discontinued, and free bank- FABRIC COMPONENTS ties aver foe years, then about 60 years, rebut some of ing existed long before 1984. Dividend per share 3.5 ever 1 feel O’NdD said the first stage was p quipped : “If Stars and lights his assertions. Charges used io be at the man- depressed or sorry for myself I the recruitment of David SERVING THE from as head fairy lights that bedeck The so-calfed free banking is ager’s discretion, so that those • Profit before tax up 1 1 % shows continued good foink about Norman Lament Mars, Warburg THE FURNISHING. of European equity research in Harrods will be changing col- not really free. I estimate that with accounts such as mine and then I fed better - he is TRANSPORTATION. performance in difficult economic conditions for first time my credit balance yields a scarcely ever incurred such. fadng a most difficult tune," May. “The next stage is to hire our tonight the APPAREL. PACKAGING since their installation 33 profit to the bank ofabout 25p With computerisation of ac- Earnings per share and dividend per share up the anafysts to support him ANO ENGINEERING • ago. To mark a wo- per transaction. In addition, counts and reduction of local and these two are the first." years INDUSTRIES by 3% and 5% respectively Journey to Mars rnonth promotion of Ameri- the banks undoubtedly attract managerial discretion the sys- can goods taking advantage fees from tiie business retipi- tem had to be codified. The • Ongoing challenge to maintain margins in THE chill wind of change — Singles bar exchange rate fluctu- ents ofmypayments, ultimate- marketing men publicised this continues to blow through No- of recent tough markets — ambassador ly reflected in their charges to as free banking, a mytii which mura. foe Japanese securities A business centre in a convert- ations VS Seitz will flick a me. Admittedly, I fare better they now seek to abolish as an Balance sheet further strengthened firm, with two more of its ana- ed nunnery alongside a Cath- Raymond • by successful at 7.45pm, turning the than those not in credit who excuse for imposing charges lysts resigning yesterday. olic church on London's Ful- switch Rights Issue, provides platform for growth 1 on foe pay per transaction, but I upon those who have never Chemicals analyst Richard ham Road is acquiring some- 5,500 white light bulbs 50p into do nor accept that r receiv- before had to bear such. . / Henderson and oil analyst thing of a reputation for its from wall of the building am of red. white ing a free subsidised service. Yours faithfully, Alan “Lanky" Marshall — 6ft mysterious match-making an assortment BRITISH VITA PLG, MIDDLETON. MANCHESTER M24 2DB blue. Mr Cheese claims foar if CHARLES BRETT. 5 ins tall — have accepted an ptwers. Since business man- and charges were re-introduced Mor Ros. Muflion. TWephona 061-6431133 Fax 061-653 54tl offer from another firm with a ager Gail Wassaimazi joined people would prefer a fixed Hdston. Cornwall Copies of the Interim Report can be obtained from the Company Secretary busy revolving door, Swiss foe Chelsea Chambers Busi- Carol Leonard

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IS Si Botaph Soetl London OlSD 6X5 -to ACC 5324 56X0 - 00 0X5 U OauendU Sq. Loral— RTMTHF. BOA 7JT. 971 2474542. U» 1-24 S miller Co* LJZX3 I41.fi* * 001 £0.1 071493 7262. Drab- 071 41J 8545 Dealing: 071 2477474 X09 UM 151. ID 161.18 * 001 20) AmcfimlCdi 645\ aaxi -0)7.. FeUtrashlpTS 45.15 47X6 - 0X7 4.1B 390 ... 63.90 61 S3* - 0.76 00 -do- ACC 8656 -n.94 -017 ... -do- ACC 49X6 52.43 - QX8 4J3 9J2 ... -to MX 6353 67.77 - 077 Cash 51 » 51.46 • 0X1 HUM Fund 5 162.90 - 060 - - * Income I73J0 ud 9114 10131 0X8 3X6 HE 3J9 UK Equity 15302 163221 LH 4.44 1- to ACC $62$ 5925 0X1 10X0 -do- AEC 361X0 384.90 - 130 550 88.94 88.94 - 0X1 930 UM 2J9 rau 298X6 -2J9 4.44 European Opp* 4842 51x4 • Q0 . . Hit PUttflUU 5034 52.10 - 014 552 UB Z2» USSmUrGos 70X0 75X2 - am -to ACC 48X8 51.92 * 00 .. -do- ACC 5640 937 *K Gromit 111.40 118X01 *0X0 306 TOtjD 122.10 129JOT - 1X0 ... SCOTTISH UFE INVESTMENTS - UK Income 95.78 101.90 * 030 6X9 Japan Exempt 7232 7(20 2X3 0X7 19 S< Andrew S*. Edinhmgh. UNITED CHARITIES UNIT TRUSTS _ SmJjpEampt 33800 34730 031225 2211 Unkora H— 252 Rl—fori Rd. L—d— E7. CANNON FUND MANAGERS UK Equity 271X0 299JR - 220 4X3 1 OBI 53* 5544 American Ibtxo nun - 070 l.u United COMB 17410 185 .70 * 0.70 M* Fadflc 20090 217X0 - 1.90 057 European 34840 373X0 - OJO 1X6 WAVERLEY UNIT TRUST Wtntdwtde 58X3 6127 - 041 221 MANAGEMENT LTD 15 Charlotte 5* Edfaftmgh EH24UJ. SCOTTISH MUTUAL INVESTTMENT 031 22$ 1551 MANAGEMENT AumlASnGoU TJH 839 -OtO 050 109 St Vincent St Ghqw G2 5HN. 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GBt Income 4849 - h American Offl 84.98 90(1 026 039 071 373 T&l 031 558 234 DM 97.40 98X7 - 021 1.93 -do-Acc 9036 9633 - 028 039 Endurance 128X0 136.70 ... 1.95 * Equity Gth ACC 19X1 21J1 * 008 4 J4 USGovmmM 50703 50712 *0000 ... European 5316 56J67 *012 IX] tml Growth ACC 1956 209* -0X0 1.48 rtmiengcT 71.19 72X3 -OX*... -do- ACC 55.10 SUI *012 1.91 KjgTTABLE UNIT TRUST MANAGERS GtobalUKAK 2330 249* » OOl 5X0 . Tar 3631 - 035 ... 1 East Gen 3653 MHttKUUsACC 1055 20.921 « 005 AH WOOLWICH UNIT TRUST MANAGERS to-ACC Tfr7l a >025 ... Walesa St Ajicabray. Bodo. HF2I 7QW. urn GlenMan 1MJD I96J0* - 070 236 8296431480 SG TOUCHE REMNANT ! 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: Abbey Nad 762 I Coaa vyia 2JOO Legal 443 Ryl BkScot 306 doacVobmic AGn New York (midday): FTSE Euro 100: 1029.38 {—2.90) Exchange index compaired with 1 9S5 was same at 92.4 AUd-Lyons 3.700 Cm Union 2.100 Lloyds Bk 1.900 Sainsbury 1X00 | Dow Jones 3271 J9 (-10X4) FT-5E 100 2338.0 11624 Brussels: (day's range 923-92.4). Anglian w 993 CounaukD IJOO , MBCaxdn 1X00 Scot* New 577 S&P Composite 41 5.69 (-1.39) Prevtous opm inoresc 46721 23813

. 5287.76 (-134) Argyll Cp 1.700 Eng China a 392 MEPC 163 Scot Power 5.100 General. Tokyo: Three Month StcriinE B9.7I 89.72 89X0 89X1 10016 Ailowiggn 1X00 Eruerpr OU 986 1 Marks Spr 6£» Seats 3X00 Paris: CAC 480.77 (-2.40) Previous open interest 257521 89.68 89.75 89 M 89.46 49501 Nikkei Av-ge 18282.42 (-157.76) AB Foods 153 Euromnl U 87 NFC • 573 SvmTrent 1.200 90X9 90.14 89.92 89.94 7036 Zurich: SKA Gen - 420-8 f-0-81 Mkt Rates for Sept 8 Range dose 1 month 3 1 BAA 1.100 Flsons 16X00 NatWsr Bk -UOO i Shell Trans 1*400 Three Mth Eurodollar Heme Kong; 96X2 96X3 96.82 96X2 1054 Amsteadam 3.1404-3.1632 3.1404-3.1441 **pr-par V»pr BATinds 1X00 Forte Nat Power 2.100 Slebe 958 Previous open interest: 30956 96.78 96.78 m Hang Seng — 5700X91*36.18) London: 96.75 96.76 1091 Brussels 57jf57.92 57.50-57.61 4-lpr 9-3pr 1X00 4.900 716 Bch 985 BET GRE NthWSt W SmKl FT Alt-Share 1 5 A 106.46 f- 14.04) Three Mth Euro DM 90X6 90X9 90.25 90X6 9767 10.7490-10.8510 10.7550-10.7320 l-l>^s 2 ^4(*0.12) Japanese Govim Bond 105.99 106X0 105.99 106 06 1393 ll.0170-U.M00 riri 6>*-8as Paris 9.4920-9-5120 9.4960-9.5120 par- 1 '•-’ids 0 . . **... Blue Clrcte 1X00 Hanson 8.400 RTZ 3.700 Thro EMI 538 5 , Stoddiolm 10.1770- 1 0.27 10 10.1820-10^080 6V6'mb6 *-6 »ds 13-14'ads Boots 1X00 Hlllsdown 2.700 Rank Org 533 Tomkins 450 German Govmt Bond 89X3 89X1 89.25 89X9 64652 Tokyo 245.49-246353 245.66-245.90 l-Vl^pr 3JV3*»prT#-3*»pr Bowarer 163 ia 914 Reddn Col 1.400 Unilever 399 Previous open interest 123514 89.90 89.90 89X9 89.69 173 Vienna 19.57-19.78 19.61-19.67 l»^J.pr 3'«-l03'*-l0 5.0- Zurich 2.4747-2.4909 Bril Aero 9S9 Inchcape 912 Redland Ftrsi Dealings Last Dealings Last Dedaxanm FOrSeatemem 2.4783-2.4816 ‘xJ*pr Us-l^pr 2X00 Utd BlSC 2,700 Three month ECU 88.86 88X6 88.76 88.77 425 Sotarx: Erie/ Premium - pr. Discount • ds. BrliAlrwys 2X00 KlngOsher 1.700 Reed Inti 1X00 Vodafone 2X00 September I September 11 November 26 December 7 Pterions open interest 13269 89J5 89X7 89XJ 89X7 1077 Brit Gas 2X00 LAS MO 1X00 Remoldl 339 WeUoame 2.600 Euro Swiss Franc 92.13 92.16 92.08 92.15 2525 Bril Sled 18X00 Ladbroke 3.400 Reuters 199 whlibd -a* 1X00 Call optioiis were taken out on S/9/92: Albcd Leisurr, Albert Fisher. King & Shaxson. Previous open Interest 5 14 94 92X4 92.47 92X2 92.40 9035 Cable wire 2300 Land Secs 197 Rolls Royce 4_)00 wiims Hid 425 Spring Ram. Italian Govmt Bond 92.70 92.75 91X0 91.49 21407

1 1.9797-1.9827 1.4007-1.4017 1 1 Australia Cadbury i.900 Lapone 877 RoUunans 810 wumam 718 Previous open interest 25517 _ Australia dollar — 2^057-2^091 Austria 9.79-9.81 . Bahrain dinar ____— 0.7475-0.7565 Belgium (Com). — 28.70-28.74 * Brazil cruzeiro . 1 0702.4-10708.2 C&nada 12024-1^029 Cyprus pound 0^07-0.8 1 Denmait 5-3760-53860 Finland marks n/a France 4.7480-1.7530 London cocoa and coffee received little REPORT: inspiration ICIS-UJR (Loodon 6.00pm): Prices received a Greece drachma __— 345.77-350J3 Germany 1 3930-13935

from New York’s reopening after the tong -weekend, with poos from nws ihai Russia had restricted some Hong Knng tMar ~. 15.4791-15.4890 Hong Kong — 7.7280-7.7290 India cocoa ending mainly easier and coffee nudging higher in thin fltports of products because of diniKstie demand. rupee 56.26-56.92 Ireland 1.8980-1.9010 Kuwait dinar KD 0-5 75-0J 82 Italy — 1065.5-1066.5 trade. Physical short covering dictated eady trends with the CRUDE OILS (Stand FOB) Malaysia ringgit — 4.9854-4.9903 Japan 122.70-122.75 futures happily following with gains on noth wheat and Mexico peso 6080-6180 2.4895-2.4905 Brem Physical 2025 -0.05 barley. They both dosed with prices at die lows, with New Zealand dollar ...... 3.7195-3.7284 Netherlands 1.5715-1.5725 the next Stem 5 day (Oct) 2a 30 -0.05 j Saudi Arabia riyai 7.434-7.52 Norway swing expected down. Brail 1 5 day (Nov) 2035 *0.05 5.51-532 dollar 3.1857-3.1894 Portugal W Texas lmermexluie fOcS) 21.90 -OJO Singapore —_ 121^5-122.05 LONDON FOX GN1 LONDON "Texas Intermediate (Nori 21.70 -0.10 S Alriai rand (fin] _ 7.696 1-7.8S 10 Singapore 1.5905-1 J9 15 COCOA GRAIN FUTURES S Africa rand (com) _~ 5.4827-5.4895 Spem ——— — 90.45-90.55 592-591 Dee —_ 729-727 WHEAT PRODUCTS «PMT) U A E «febam - 7.280-7.365 Sweden 5.09-5.10 618-617 757-755 SpotdFNW Ettrppe (prompt dtllw * Lloyds Bank Swioeriand Mar _ Wore EX) y) Barclay* BankGTS 1 .2352- 1 .2362 648-647 773-771 Mv _ __ Sep 1 13.90 &«wun Gas IS _. Bid: 218 (n/d Otter 221 (-1) 666-664 Jtd .._ 796-787 — No. 1 15.00 CaroflEgC 1861-4 187 (*3l .XS- ^STJai 685-663 Jan 1 19.50 Non EEC 1H Sep .„ 185 M 187(*g Sep 704-702 Volume 5293 Mar 122.65 Non EEC IH Oa _ 190 1*2 191 May 125 -SO 3.5jPua Oil 84 (n/d er dealing Banks 10 Finance Hw 104 K0BU5TA COFFEE ($ 86 (n/d Volume; 322 Naphtha Market Loans: o/nighc high 10 Sa 770-768 May 815-811 329.00- 194 (*1) J95(*0 weebtbetfcQV i (DupBqy: 2 mth 9“» ; 3 mth 9=Si . Sell; 2 mth 9** Nm 793-792 Jtxl 829-828 BARLEY ; 3 mth: 9"u Jan 802-801 Sop 845-835 6695.0- (doeeDO I PE FUTURES 812-810 Volume 1133 Mar Sep 109.50 GN1 Ltd Prime Bank BiBs (Disfc 9-tt9"n 9“tr9S 9-ra9V 9W. Nov 112.75 RAW SUGAR (FOR _ GASOIL Sterfing Money Ratett: UW?. I0VUN iov-10?. Ifft-ICP. 10‘^10’i Jan - - 116.45 C Crant&iwr May 2002398.0 — — 1 Sep __ unq Dec KPvrlO I0H-1OS. iovio * 193391.0 Mar 119.45 _ unq Ifftt-MP. lOVKPtt Spue 2 1 8.0 Aug — Oct 189.00X9X5 Jan . 193X0-93X5 8. 2043-200 Od 193.0-91.0 Mgy 121.75 Od ___ Nov 19 IX5-9IX0 Feb 18930 2023-199 Dec 20OO-9ZQ Volume 190 — BID Dec Local AudkoriiyDcpK 10 n/a 104. 1 Vob 25716 10 . ID. 2002-199 Volume 53 u 1 Mar Sttxfing 1 tfl-PROSOYA CDs 9“xr9 a lOVlO * lOVIff. IO’e-IO'i ICb-IO . BRENT (6.00pm) DodarCDs: 3.10-3X6 n/a WHITE SUGAR (FOB) Wore E/i) 3.10-3X5 3.15-3.10 3JWX4 Oa 20X1-20X2 Jin.. BadkfingSocktyCDs: Rotten May _ 265^63.0 Oa 120.00 _ 20X2-20X5 ltW* lOVIC.. IOV10»« lOvith. iow O'. Spot 279.0 Aug 269.8-670 Dec 12130 Nov 2032-2033 Feb 20.15 SLR Oa 263363.0 Ota 260.8-S7J Feb 12230 Dec 20X9-2031 Vot 21624 Fixed Rale Sterling Export Finance. Dee 2593-58J Dee 261.6-57J Apr anq ECGD; Make-up day. August 28. 1992 Agreed Volume 948 UNLEADED GASOLINE rates Sept 23. 1992io Oct 25. 1992Scheme 1138%. Mar 2623605 Jun — una u schemes n & (il; tl.66%. Reference Sep _ 2 1 4.50-1.mo rw wunn.iT.nn rate August 1. 1992 m August 28. 1992 Scheme IV 4 v: 10379%. Oa _— 21IX0-I330 Jan 212.00 SLR MEAT & LIVESTOCK COMMISSION POTATO Nov „ 207X0-1230 Vot 334 Average falriodt prices W representative W) Opes Ckse marten at September 8 No* unq 473 Sleep Carte BIFFDt Apr 59.8 583 Cwrency ?dter I w8i 3 mth 6 Adi CaB .7913 72.40 IWJ1 May —— unq 65.0 GNUMtnViX) Doflar 1 3WS 3V2». 3’«r2“tt l , 3V2 . -2.16 *0X9 -1X9 StP 92 High: 1 100 n« 1100 3 H-3 ta (*/-J — Vctame:63 Low 1094 M 1 Dcattcfaecnaifc 9V9 . 9'mV, Eag/walex 78X0 72.59 107X7 Oa 92 1195 1180 1176 9V9"» 0r9*i 9V8‘< -0.88 French Franc IOV10 lOVHh 10*^1 ». 109 (J/4- . -1.66 -0J6 RUBBER Nov 92 1195 1180 11S0 Swim Franc 8-7?. 7»«JV y’-JV 8-7 -10.8 -27.7 •10X No i Rssarfoki T^ro-^Ntt Jan 93 1221 1215 1215 1 Yen; ivr. •P-4 . 85.81 71X0 1 10X2 Oa 4925-48.75 Volt 487 1ms. Open imfst 2435 Index 1056 -3 4-T. 4W< -OJZ *2.46 -1.79 (*) *56.8 -63.6 -MX (OffiriaQ (Vobrax prevriay) LONDON METAL EXCHANGE RedotfWMff Ubi 1228 jO- 12292) 3arilc 125 7.0-1 Z58.0 Vot534l25 LONDON MEAT FUTURES BafflOftOlKa SM200-3<2.10 Cbne SML3D-3UL70 High: LeadE/samd — — 330.00 33530-336.00 107600 J3C.70-3443D ijrengwd law. 1341 .00041 Kregernad: Zinc Spec HI CdeCbaxme) _ I4I73M417.5 13783-1379.0 311650 30 SM1JO-343J0 (C1KL5O-171J0) Open dose Open Ctoe Tfatfesisd 6700.0 6725 0-6730.0 12375 Stefcnelgiigi (M 3800082X0 (£40X041X0) New *80508250 (LIOJS-l)JS Sep unq unq Apr _ — uuq mu Ahminnun HI Gde tfrumd I2753-1276X 1298.0-12983 77302S Vdmme 0 Nov _ unq unq Nickel (frimne): — 695 6960jO 7023.0-7025.0 363M PlattaiBC»59X0 (EI79AQI SHWT. 13.73 (E1X65) Mtadfcna: S0LI5 (E4S.551 1 3 « e 1 2 9 1 7 C U 1 ' 1 j

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TO Property 15 ... 1.4 12.9 441 UH IISO PocUns 1300 ... 240 25 95 18 TRTKhta* 22 1.7 106 109 nahimiw shook! ring 0254-53272 155 85 ProwDns BS ... 50 75 161 ' 1992 Pitot Na ™ 1992 Pita 1992 Pita Nel YU U0 T* SHUT CM m ... 17 47 30? «/- 23 4^0na*Dtil» Vi Hltfi 3am Oxnpary feu dw % High low CDmpaqy jpl High U*» Cmnpany ip) -1- dw «. 226b Tteaple Bar 75 lbJ W 419 MIC On 419 $1 DuamMluE w ... 05 15 137 71 BlbKlaa 76 23b 123 UlUtoCh U6 - 6 55 62 160 400 3D5 Cohen lA) 305 ... 100 44 ... 72 SI SneXtaatans* 51 «, ... 25 76 1X1 96 S3 Runs* S 27 13 TUB* 19. - 05 20 165 .43 M Came* to ltt 95 5h&ab « 368 Throe Dual Cp 315 505 Mi Ccdtand 348 M 2S7 VMafane 2B -» ... 27 167 Ml 195 CnraonttrH IK -2 60 41 119 jd2 a saw- :c 137 LUDC lures l» 42 41 266 101 61 RDOeU 7* 357 260 VOtal 296 ... 170 7.7 185 Coneemric .. 284' SS-.vatatlncTs 9ft, 7.1 363 E2 jh 11.1 47 IU 377 255b Slehf 172 1992 1 Na YU 230 RnBtnrGrmp Jb5 IS u 11 Msmsdas) n X to Com SOdonery 38 ... 24 U 78 20 ltt stenodeht ltt 483 wwiwwauw 496 -2 1X0 48 325 High Lem Contrary -/ ox % e Try Group TO 139 Cropper Omen ..! 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“Dwtor Cottage Restaurant and Tea Rooms Dating from the early 1800s: Old Drapery Stores Renovated: Blue Bell and Riverside Restaurant Shut, now for sate: Scuppers Restaurant and Wine Bar Eaity sale However, an offer in advanoe can usiness opportunities are be worth making. Particularly in becoming increasingly the case of a forced safe a vendor available for the brave — may prefer to accept a definite offer and the astute. The reces- B rather than take a dunce at the sion that has hit retail premises, under the hammer Bargains auction. Although reserve prices restaurants and other leisure opera- are nonnalty not disclosed to tions is bringing property on to the carried out and profes- bidders, an auctioneer will usually market at bargain prices. adjoining property was recently on offer, it has a drinks licence. The “The mortgagees wiH always prefer a high standard and would suit any has been advice taken. Buyers should give a guide price. The decision on Breweries are having to seD acquired and converted into a store, which is listed grade II and is to sdl a business as a going concern style of operation. The premises sional a drinks licence whether to accept is the vendors, premises because of a Monopolies three-bedroom cottage for the own- believed to date back to 1730, has because it commands a higher include searing for 50 and four- also check whether value. transferable to them. Premises not the auctio neers. and Mergers Commission enquiry, ers. A lawn runs down to the heavy beamed ceflings and exposed Sometimes the mortgagor bedroom accommodation for the is prior arrange- One of die more ambitious so more licensed premises are now Wallop brook, a trout water. stonewalls. win continue running the business owners. can be inspected by of buyers are projects in tomorrow's sale is the available. One property that has been sold Hemington Court Hotel and on behalf of the mortgagee so that However bad the recession, there ment and parties Leicestershire is it can be going taken round when there is suffi- Belmont Lodge Hold. Golf and Christie & Co, the auctioneer, has before the auction is the Tudor Restaurant in sold as a concern." are apparently many potential buy- Country Club, near Hereford. The put a record 30 properties into die Cottage Restaurant and Tea being sold by tire mortgagees after He says the number ofbusinesses ers who believe they can succeed cient demand. being auctioned unable to attend a London lodge is in an elevated position sale it is holding at the Kensington Rooms at Petworth. West Sussex. ceasing trading. The mortgagees because they have where others foiled. Mr Simpson Those above the river Wye and Hilton in London tomorrow. are also seeking buyers for a failed has increased. says “Where people bought several of the fairways run Although some deals will be newsagent’s, confectioner's Mr Simpson says: “Sometimes at the height ofthe market the ‘ parallel to the river. done privately before the auc- and tobacconist’s shop in the owner does a runner. The business may have been per- hope purchasers will The mortgagees always *We The house, a Georgian tion. a variety of properties Lincoln, the Sunrup cash- condition of the premises varies forming quite well but the grade 11 listed stone and tile will be for sale. and-carry in Pinner, Middle- and the prices achieved reilea the problem has been servicing bid in the room as this is prefer to sell a business building, Among tomorrow’s more sex. the Hare and Hounds circumstances- For those properties the debt. We have many was buflt in 1 788 by g* James Wyatt Part is in romantically styled properties free house in Harlow, Essex, that have ceased trading, it is clients who buy businesses real bargains are’ need as a going concern’ 1* wherey/ the and Sullivan’s restaurant in possible to buy at bargain prices. tiiar of renovation and has struc- is the Old Drapery Stores M have ceased trading, “ Hold and Restaurant at Mid- “ West Cowes, isle of Wight. In contrast, some premises are in build them up and come bade tural defects. The lodge has dle Wallop. Hampshire. This prop- about 15 miles from Chichester. Scuppers Restaurant and Wine Bar particularly attractive condition. to us to sell them as going concerns auction can arrange to bid by 30 bedrooms with en suite bath- erty is on the A343 between The building is listed grade II and at Cowling in the Aire Valley. The Blue Bell and Riverside Res- three or four years later." telephone from any Christie office rooms constructed in 1988 and the professional golf shop is of timber Andover and Salisbury. Winchester is part-timbered with a day-tiled North Yorkshire, is a dosed three- taurant at Driffield, north Hum- He stresses that potential buyers at 48 hours’ notice. DO* is only 12 miles away and "South- roof. The property has -already storey detached property in the berside, has been renovated to a should do their homework thor- Mr Simpson says “While many frame under a slate roof.

' ampton 15. ceased trading as a restaurant auction. It has seating for 50. high standard and can seat 80. oughly. Because the highest bidder lots are sold prior to auction, we are Although the property is being The building is understood to Another business that has ceased Properties offered by mortgagees The New Saagar Tandoori Res- is legally committed to the purchase hoping that purchasers will have sold on the instructions of the joint date born the early 1800s and was trading is the stores at or receivers have not necessarily taurant at HarefiekL Middlesex, when the hammer foils, he says the confidence to bid in the room as administrative receivers, Mr Simp- originally a draper’s. The counter is Minchinhampton. Gloucester- rrereri trading. Paul Simpson, at ceased trading at the end of June buyers should ensure that finance is this is where the real bargains are to son is confident of reaching more now used as a bar servery. The shire. Like many of the properties Christie’s auction division, says: but the decor and furnishings are of in place, that a foil structural survey be had." than £1 million.

ffice rents are now quickly enough because of CENTRAL LONDON OFFICE DEVELOPMENT foiling the funding outside problems.” (Developments owor 50,000 sq ft tyVy} ; London area, while Evidence of falling rents Northgate House. Colches- O of the longer seftadatod Case No the development of new of- and increasing incentive A healthy ter, has been let to Customs fices in the capital's oversup- packages spreading from foe ftMCtedotod to port IMS and Excise by the British Coal plied market is tailing off, South-east to regional centres RwctaMad to m 19M Pension Fund. according to two surveys. comes from Weatherall Original achadUa The freehold of 24-28 Rodney Hobson writes. vanishing Green & Smith. The average future Bloomsbury Way. central Debenham Tewson & decline in rents for foe 40 CHAKTWELL Heritage, in London, has been bought for Chinnocks says the potent office locations surveyed in conjunction with Salisbury Ftench institutional funds for combination of high avail- the yearto March was 8.5 per Health Authority, has submit- just over £11 million. ability and severe shortages of cent against 4.5 per cent in office ted detailed plans for the finance for speculative dev- blocks the year to September 1991. B&Q, the D1Y chain, is to regeneration of the 4.65 acre elopment has brought reality Weatherall says there has build a 45.000 sq ft store with General infinnaiy site in foe to the central London market been little rental movement a garden centre on part of the Rent slump forces speculators to centre of Salisbury. The report says that in the since March except in former Wandsworth gas work The proposals are for a past year developers of pro- Aberdeen. site in south London. rethink mixed development of offices, posed London sdiemes have their development plans The survey says the wide residental and retail units. The Prudential has made a removed more than 20 mil- variations in headline rents The. hospital itself mil be forward commitment to buy a lion sq ft of space from their have now been delayed indef- been turned off although it reflects the package of incen- restored to its original design freehold industrial invest- programmes. Developers are initely. These amounted to a may prove that in parts of the tives behind individual deals of the late 1800s and refur- ment at Oldfields Business appreciating that many total development potential of West End marled developers rather than location. bished to provide three self- Ptirk. Stoke on Trent, for £3.9 sdiemes, often with existing about six million sq ft" have over-reacted, particular- contained office suites. million. planning permission, will not Another third of the poten- ly for the larger develop- lthough incentives are materialise. tial floorspace analysed has ments. The level of develop- available outside the The Mid Dorset Golf Club, A Sunky Holdings subsid- Peter Evans, the research been postponed until after ment activity projected up to South-east they have Rents fallen aver- A had on gions has narrowed and there nine miles west of Blandfoid iary has pre-let the grade I director, says: “This is partic- 1995. Only 1 1 per cent, 1.3 the mid 1990s suggests that been limited because there is age by up to 7 per cent in the are signs of a decrease in foe Forum, is being sold fay Hum- listed mansion at Gods- ularly true at the top end of million sq ft still has a shortages of quality new ac- less oversupply. Weatherall Midlands and in foe South- number of businesses consid- berts Leisure on the instruc- merton Park near Canter- the market in terras of size. completion date in the first commodation could appear says there is a shortage of new west In Liverpool, however, a ering decentralising. Existing tions of receivers. The guide bury, once owned by Jane

More than half the 65 half of this decade. in certain segments of the space in the centres of prime rent of £12.50 a sq ft leases are difficult to dispose {nice is E1.75 million, but Austen’s brother, to • • • •'**:* schemes we examined of Philip Gray, the marketing central market within tire Birmingham and Manchest- was established, and rents in of and the depressed housing separate offers wfll be consid- Infbcheck, the international 50.000 sq ft and over, which director for the West End next two years. er. About half df all new Leeds also rose. market makes it difficult for ered for the 18-hole course, 40 corporate reference agency, were previously due for com- division, says: “Clearly the “Many developers, howev- vacant space in Birmingham The cost differential be- employees to move without acres of land and a thatched as its headquarters and train- pletion try the end of 1995. development tap has now er. wfll not be aWe to react is under offer. tween London and the re- financial loss. farm house with a seven-acre ing centre. The rent is more paddock. than £120,000 a year.

Trade: 071-481 1986 071-481 9313 Private: 071-481 4000 COMMERCIAL PROPERTY 071-782 7828

• * i :w £40300 Mi + hnmi—«. F/H Sric by HKtian 10 ihe hfebc* Uddern&UadtJmticB PARIS csaaooa. tu oei-eoe 112s ml SIDCUP oai-eoe 1990 (wm) On Thursday 17th September, 1992 W1 OFFICE TECHNOLOGY CENTRE at 2.30 pm in 1 lot SUITE iMlIlIl 2 . Contiguous PLOTS OF LAND • FOOTS CRAY KENT Offered on yearly tenancy- Ran negotiable 19 in Total) m2 Teh 071 486 2476 lot 32 of the Zoneme N.L, one plot of 3,482 m2, HIGH QUALITY CLEAN ROOMS the other behind of 1,337 m2 WITH ENGINEERING CENTRE & OFFICES at TOUQUET - PARIS - FEATURES: PLAGE CLASS 10 (U.S. FEDERAL STANDARD 209/BQ ISBadroomed (62) - Avenue Allen Stoueham Hotaf/Bar ISOLATED PRODUCTION FLOOR + OOcovar Rost + Reserve Price: FRF 748,000 Banquatkig Room. MODERN ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION Buaybctfionapp. Contaa'Maine HERRAN, Uw at 9S Bid Kupaa awBoaOuatidUfl 75006 PARIS Td.0 1 03145.44^9. 14 LOCATION ACCOMMODATION 49,213 SQ.FT. Mta»«t7a0j0MFF • Fast access to M90 and national • Uninterrupted production area Maitrc p T r “ PWi“- Fntatardrabimtw ^^rii,'®5 above and ottnrea* motorway network. of 720 square metres (7,750 sq ft). A; the Tribunal de Grande In nance of PARTS, Kara a Flench, Cahqn Bay • Edinburgh 40 minutes; • Two storey south feeing FREEHOLD FOR office/ SALE to VMtt call m person upon the cowud for die ptuatifT oa 0492941S21 Dundee 30 minutes. ancillary area of 288 square metres REF:TRJ Located in established, modem (3,100 sq ft). low-density estate- • Eaves height of 5.5 metres. CASH • Pleasant, south-faring oudook. • Generous yard and service area to reac King&Co FEATURES • Individual car parking. Intrestodin • Modem, low profile insulated steel residential dadding. LEASING TERMS MERRIFIELDS 071-493 4933 f •frtmrmul K*litlr AfitiU. .Snnvinir. & Vftlttrrn investments • Prominent office frontage with tint©! Leases are available at producing a minimum competitive 61 A Abbe) j»ie .Street. Burv SL Edmunds. Suffolk. double-glazed windows. IP.U II.B rental levelsand aregenerally offive years Tel: (8284i 709700. Fat 102841 700117 profit of 10% pa. Onty • Adaptable ground floor office locations in area or more. However; the Corporation is London wfth option for production and Suburbs. use. willfog t» discuss a lease of less than this FOR SALE OR LEASE fired llimfljgly • Gas heating in production area. in certain circumstances. Telephone now Fan details by fax te: • Electrically operated 4 metre high on 0592 6 10714 and ask for the 0707 665007 production dooc Marketing Dept. WORLD-CLASS "* f?^i 1 r ki n / MANUFACTURING FACILITY GLENROTHES, FIFE 340,000 Sq. Ft. on 60 Acres ALL BOX I f*- /« Mw. -v Hr- nrhrm.ui. Pi BUSINESS. LIFE. • GOOD FOR GREAT FOR Available in whole or in part Accommodation includes NUMBER high quality manufacturing POO WKTHBt 9TOIU umow CALL and warehouse space STANTON CENTRAL along with support •9 mil* Burr A Kdrmind>> REPLIES SCOTLANO 0592 610714 (rax vsiztsmss) or post coupon to facilities. Freehold marketing dept r9gcsT,aflwones development Factory* • Major European companies SHOULD BE GuewoTHes COIK. BALGOMC MX. MAMONCH, GLENROTHES, FIFE KY7 hi have chosen Ireland ^Constructed 1987* as a cost competitive manufacturing location. *High Specification* ADDRESSED TO: *15.230 sq. ft. nn 2 • acres* Ireland is recognised for its young *Induding 1.677 Offices Laboratory* highly-skilled workforce. Further 2 acres available* BOX No. , cortvwv_ FREEHOLD PRICE PO BOX 484, Jones Lang Wootton Offers in the region of £425,000 ‘ !H VIRGINIA ST, *I la LONDON EI9DD JtVtl Mota#«rtiSriBt.Du6in2. W«LTel3S8-1-WS4ea Fta3S3-l-»B5147. 0284700700 - _ .m'A f * R . 1 ^„. 0 A. L 1 1

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1992 RACING/SPORT 25

* RUGBY Lightly-raced Lochsong Macready Appetising fare on UNION warning menu for Sunday Deal will over BHB By Michael Seely help to ONE of die inspirations be- THE prospect of a thrilling would be the stable runner.” LOCHSONG is napped to at York was fiat a flash in the creditable third in the group hind the new British Horse- meeting between St Joviteand Chapple-Hyam said, “in that give Willie Carson a second pan — she had previously two Prix de Pomone at Deau- racing Board (BHB) has Rodrigo Oe Triano in Ireland event, Rodrigo would be kept upgrade successive winning ride in the finished a-ereditable fourth ville last time. warned that it could fail if not on Sunday became more likely in reserve for the Queen Tore-Portland Handicap at Michael Phillips behind User Friendly in The Henty Cedi has decided to served by the “right kind of yesterday when Peter Chap- Elizabeth I! Stakes. But if Doncaster today following Irish Oaks.. rely upon Self Assured in an people.” ple-Hyam said that Robert Rodrigo runs. Dr Devious wfl] Stoop Sardta’s victory 12 months In Niodiiui Michael Stoote attempt to win the May Hill The BHB is due to take over Sangster’s Juddmonte Inter- go straight for the Are without ago. In going for Paris House to certainly has a strong second Stakes for the seventh time in the management of the racing national Stakes winner was another race." By David Hands Unlike many of her rivals. win the Doncaster Bloodstock string to his bow because she nine years. Having finished a industry from the Jockey Club likriy to be supplemented for To add spice to an already RUGBY CORRESPONDENT Lochsong has not been sub- Sales Scarbrough. Stakes, 1 accounted for Shirley Valen- dose third behind Woodchat early next year. But the chair- the Irish Champion Stakes. mouth-watering prospect jected to a busy campaign, am optimistic that the visor he tine. among others, when She and Salatin in the Acomb man of the Horseraring Adv- The ' derision to pay Michael Kauntze confirmed RUGBY union's ability to today’s race being only her will be wearing for the first won the Lancashire Oaks at Stakes at York last time. Self isory Council (HAQ. Sir Nevil Irtl 8,500 in late entry fees that his Eclipse Stakes winner attract financial support, even fifth of the season. time will sharpen up. Haydock in July, having fin- Assured dearly has the ability. Macready, sounds a caution- has to be taken by 10.30 this Kooyonga is almost certain to in such a difficult economic Cither side of finishing Even without a visor, Paris ished second to User Friendly As that race az York was ary note in his annual report morning. “I am going to run following satisfactory dim ate. was amply illustrated fourth in the Wokingham House wasv not disgraced in the Oaks’ trial at lingfidd contested by seven previous While agreeing that the discuss it with the owner,” blood test results. yesterday when Harlequins Stakes at Royal Ascot, she when sixth -in last .month’s much earlierin die season. winners, the form looks solid. concept had been well re- Chapple-Hyam said. “I’m At Doncaster, as blustery announced one of the biggest

gained valuable - handicap vic- Nunthorpe Stakes ai York and Always Friendly looks the Newton's Law. the only mem- ceived. Sir Nevil warns: “The very keen for Rodrigo to run. winds were continuing to diy sponsorships in the English tories at York - and in the he now retunis to the scene of pick of the 'older horses in ber of the field not to have success of the enterprise de- He'S vely wdl and it would be out Town Moor, conditions dub game. Stewards’ Cup at Goodwood. his Flying ChOdeis Stakes today’s field, having finished a won. has since finished second pends crucially on the right an ideal race for him.” were turning in favour of Flowers Original, an off- Now Ian Balding reports triumph 1 2 months ago. to the highly-rated Irish colt kind of people being elected St Jovite is currendy 1 1-10 Bonny Scot and Rain Rider, shoot of the Whitbread beer Lochsong in the pink of condi- Those who fancy User Father!and in a group three to the BHB by the Racehorse favourite for the Prix de 1’Arc and against User Friendly. company, which already tion and poised to do herself Friendly to win the St Leger race at file Curragh. Owners' Association. Race- de Triomphe after his brilliant Yesterday. Clive Brittain is- sponsors the Heineken justice from stall 16, which | on Saturdaywin be looking to The hard core of Self As- course Association and HAG wins in the Trish Derby and sued a warning to prospective League in Wales and the regard as a perfect draw seven Bineyah, Guilty Secret and sured’s opposition should “If they are people mainly King George VI and Queen backers of the 6-4 farourite. annual awards ceremony, will off the rails. stands Niodini to run well in the A F comprise Marillette, who is concerned with their own sec- Elizabeth Diamond Stakes. "Although I’ve only entered provide £350,000 in sponsor- Newer So Sure was a good Budge Park HID Stakes. For also owned by shaikh Mo- tional interests, it will fan Rodrigo De Triano is the her in the Prix Vermeille on ship and support services over winner at York last week but 1 they were the three who hammed. and Katiba. who disastrously. But, if they are second top-rated thneeyear- Sunday as a precautionary the next four seasons. Added find it hard to envisage him chased User Friendly home in tackles this group three race people with the breadth of old in Europe after his wins in measure, she could still be to a three-year agreement with following up now that his the Yorkshire Oaks last instead of the EBF Fillies' vision to understand the long- the English and Irish 2,000 withdrawn from the Leger if Canterbury, the New Zealand- weight has been increased to month. Nursery Handicap at the start term interests of racing as a Guineas as weQ as in York's the ground becomes firm. But based kit manufacturers, it 9st 81b 1 by a 01b penalty. As they were separated by of today’s card. whole, then British horse- group one test. So a meeting we are very keen to run and represents a healthy stan to Paddy Chalk could be a only a short head and a neck In her absence, that race can racing has the chance to enter between the pair over ten she’d be all right on good." the season for Harlequins. tougher nut to crack with only on the Knavesmire. much will go to the John Hills-muned. a new era of prosperity.” ' furlongs should certainly set Giving the latest state of Roger Looker, the chair- 8 st 61b. Like Lochsong. he was now depend on bow they have Faiiy Story, who successfully The BHB will comprise 1 the turnstiles clicking. play. John Sanderson, clerk of man, raid the money would be successful at the big Good- progressed in the meantime. ploughed a lone furrow up file members — four from the The final derision will still the course, said: "The going is spent on upgrading facilities wood meeting and has been My own feeling. -is that it Car rail at lingfield 13 days Jockey Chib, two each from depend on the state of the on the fast side of good. I don’t for spectators at the Stoop admirably consistent this goes against ihq grain to Balding; has not given ago to win event in it's to . a similar the RCA and ROA. and three going, currently good. “If intend water again unless it Memorial ground. "We recog- term. oppose Bineyah since that run Lochsong hard season admirable style. from the HAG yielding or soft. Dr Devious looks like becoming firm." nise we have a long way to go towards what we consider to be adequate facilities, particu- -v; * T7 . larly if we sustain our growth." 3.1 0 DONCASTER BLOODSTOCK SALES SCARBROUGH HE9H he said. As well as a member- STAKES (Listed race: £11,160: 51) (12 runners) ship of nearly 2,000, Harle- 301 120506 PAIVS HOUSE (VCDf-.GS) (P Ctendhil J Beny 3-9-12 J Carol (5) 80 88 quins have a supporters dub Bara#) 4-9-11 MANDARIN THUNDERER 302 (8) 100100 5IEMLLE DDR 20 (VJ),F£5) (J J fare Alton 87 MANDARIN THUNDERER of nearly 800. 303 n<) 101104 WCHW 32 ys>f£) (F EiSTrrej B tastoy 5-9-fl RCoctnw SB Lingfleld Park 2.00 Fairy Story. 2.00 HEART BROKEN (nap). 2.15hfiQhfand Spirit 2.1 5 Welsh Singer. 304 (9) 2-32020 BLYT0N LAO 20 (ULF.G) (Us J AtHesbM) M Camel* 6-9-7 StMtHOT 92 Their will be Goinffjjood to soft (turf oome). slanttad announcement 2.35 LOCHSONG (nap). 305 242000 (BJCD F 5-9-7 Raymond 2.45 Moor Quiet 235 Lochsong. 6 NGTIEY I I (L£) (D Cod] R faun S Lodge. 2.45 Miss. ( ) 12 ffl music to the ears of Mike 3.10 Paris House. 3.10 Paris House. 306 (3) 0-42060 FAHfEU) 20 ROW) (J Dlttoy) W IU 5-W TQ*n 87 3.15 Bold Choice. 3.15 Pigeon Island. 387 (TO) 411-060 REGAL SQKTUiA 61 (D/S) (Dm Mbttnpn (19 fi BaMtag 3-S-3 SCUtm 78 Reynolds, the Courage mar- 3.40 Bineyah. 3.40 Always Friendly. 3.45 The Black Monk- 3.45 CHppter One. 306 (4) 3-00006 MASTS) OF PASSION 42 (VJLF.d) (Mo U itese) J Eutn 3-9 2 LPIflOtf 78 keting director, who appealed 4.10 Self Assured. 4.10 Darehay. 303 1 402501 HARVEST GftL 6 (G PrttdEiC-Gcitlon) 6 Maard-Gonlm 3-9-1 DNUl 97 4.15 Rambfing Song. 4.15 Rare Bid. ( ) 4 ( ) at the start of the season for lilhv 310 12 35-2291 SUCA-ClSA 42 (D.0 (AfAMp Racug Ltd) M Choonor 3-9-1 PttEdfeiy 86 4.40 Spray Of Orchids. 4.40 Spring To The Top. ( ) ) 4.45 CTSon Hamposn. 4.45 Kflcash. 311 (7) 31 SUVBH31 GRACE 20 p.G) (Udy Gfanw) J Bum (te) 34-1 JRta - improved provision for specta-

312 (2 210356 RffiK UE^ GBL (Rnldak IK) R Hum 2-7-7 GBsdml 79 RICHARD EVANS: 2.00 Zany Zanna. 2_35 HEATHER BANK (nap). ) 9 PAG) tors by leading dubs. Harle- 7-1 <4-1 4.10 Seif - . BETTMG: 6-1 Blytoa Lad. Rirvesl Crt. Ms Hum lAcaroy, FNfeh Nottoy. 10-1 540-00. UaUBe ftMer(7- Assured. , GOING: GOOD TO FIRM quins begin their Courage DDi. 16-1 Rggri Sdflb. 5w«Bftn Goes, 20-1 Btt Mel GW ZM Mata Dl Ptoon. n. 2hL ii 20. £1 60. Our Newmarket Correspondent 2.35 Cantoris. 3.40 NIODINI (nap). 1991: NDTIEV 4-9-8 B Rqmmd (S-1) R Hton 13 ran Chibs Championship cam-

4.10 Self Assured. .. • paign on September 19 . . 3.00 (71) 1, Burooj (W Caron, 11-2); 2. 2.1 5 TOTE PLACEPOT CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS N0V1CE5 HURDLE t FORM FOCUS** MuD lover (25-1); 3, Inderapued (7-2 lav). (£1.432: 2m 30 (U^unneis) against Bath, the champions, The Times Private Hand(capper's top rating: 3.40 BINEYAH. 2D ran. 1 KL U D Money. Taer E&IO; E2.B0. 6ft nf 11 to Lwic Fantasy 1 - wfl] without PARfi HOUSE sound S £23 SO. £1.70. DP: E5&00. CSF: £135.34. pffftn HBHANDSP»ini1(p5)aCmtl)UR«4-ll-3._ M Faster and be as many as in ttepm I toirape Stos ai Ybrt (51. good in 2 -BOO- CRYSTAL COSE 230 (A A Fate 6-11-0 - 3JM (71 140yd) 1. Caroles Express (M PM 6Row six of last season's internation- tan). Mb FARFBU (140> better of) TKJ Till Greens - Ftobens, 4-1): 2, Potonez Prtma (6-1): 3. 3 DP- NORTieW GUEST 28B (Mss JtonftD Ban: 5-11-0 R HARVBT GBL (86) beta oil) M 8®. NBMUl kind 2) 8tL SflXA-CISA als if David Pears joins Peter Syhan Sabre (20-1). Cheveut MtchoU 7-2 4 004500 CROfflOF UBm 14 (S Tun*) S Tata 7-1 1ft RFrart - DTK) (4fli beta ofl) II Mi and BUTTON LAD (81) n Sinner bandicao ft tetf. 10 ran. II, 2N4. Ft AkftiuSL Tote: £520; 5 0 RE5T0WE5T Z7 (A Cole) Mn J Wwnscoa 5-1 1-0. ETtam* - Winterbottom and Jason beta ci] 61 lift. MASTER OF PASSHM 103. (12) 0-0433 GOOD TUCS 74 (CDJF.F.GJi) (Mrs D Roftrcop) B Hfl 9-10-0 S West (4) 88 £150. £220. £4 80. OP: £2080. CSF 6 106- SPECIAL ACCOUNT 146 (T FtorfBa) C BM 6-1ift„„ BUford VK2H0Y mn) 2Vtl SB (ptod 4ft) to B1 01 2KI 6th. SOVERBGN Leonard on the casualty list. £2722. Tricast E395 BM. 7 4-21 WELSH SINGER 14 (S) {J total) P NHfeB 6-11-0 OOStetna - Lrt n an 18-nem htoopa MMtn (5L oon) ii 10-fumer makten ai Ftacerad nunber. In tndrts. Sh-figrae and (Wanes fmer. BF — beaten Du* raise 420 (SQ 1. Fascination Waltz (B Raymond, 8 DO- 1HBAABI 267 (K iWhto 4-10-12 MAR&gnM - Simon Halliday and Paul to sfl). BLYTON LAD neck ax) td 11 m FmUe SUM tan ML P — puDed up. unsertBd JF— U— tamuriw in total net). Gang on ntilcti hose Ik 14-1). 3, Amattiyttira (25-1); 3, Easy Don It 9 B3252-4 VALUED HOBO (TThomJJ Brtflge 4-1IH2 RteMBridDir - Uo>nJ in die group tt King Georgs V Sties A 7 Ackford have retired and rflg.fe- brought dweij -dpta q. bm. good to Ihn. tel G— good. no-i l-ta); 4. Sprtin Hoh (10-1 jt-tau) 10 00-F3 SAUTE MAHTBC 11 (D Hodgai) Mrs A Kngft 5-10-8 0lteftm(3) m f— to Fw's Song. Luna Bid, Dawas (X Neteon. 3*. - Mickey Skinner has moved S-afe.ooodftsfthwitf. tUmerifftetat 11 TOUCH OF HEGMNCE 109 (M Pipe) MPfte 7-10-9 T fescHtt (3) (K? Gtont Hope 10-1 p-feiv. 19 ran. NR: Face Tnfner. Blackheath. EjesMeSi.EyesHefd. AgeaftmgfaL ffderphaenyrttoMiu. BETTVtG: 13ft I SpH. I5-S 11-2 Steto Mrt*. io-i Friend, 12-1 Toudi Mrt&s.Urtas. V— tor.wsor HH-lrat— hood. E—E — Norm. 31. II. D Shaw Tote: £1920; £3.60. Bftto WHUi Sngv Vftrad U raisecause *tmaadmer D dftancedbtance urimf.vrimt. Tlw Thm PinrteltadicaiflefsofinB. 3.40 A F BUDGE PARK KOJ. STAKES Began. 20-1 Spadft AnuL 25-1 Nkum GuesL 33-1 olws. Jamie Salmon, their direc- C— D—— CD— EB £860. £2.40. £2.70. OF: £1.47580 CSF. ARABIAN 4-11-0 FoSO (1-4 (Group 111: fillies & mares: £24,693; im 6f 132yd) (12 turners) £30324. Tricast £3208.70. 1BB1: SU.TAN M 1») U Pl|> 6 n tor of coaching, shrugged off

- 4c30 (1m 41) 1, Quadnud (Pa Eddery. 3-1) Fitak) 4-9-8 TDalnn 94 ' 401 (I) 5215-00 MAfiMRC8frSTAR21 (GSHEcule M Mutart the mixed reaction that has GOING: SIS 2, AfehafiiAkhafa (10-1);410-1); 3, Dante (11-2).(11-Z). LahiLflhi GatGel GOOD 402 3-45443 ALWAYS FRENDLY (^S) (F Sftmao) H CJndy 4-9-3 Alton 97 [123 31 Lost 11-8 W 5 raa 1L 4L B HD la Tola: been given to the revised laws. 403 1226-04 P0HT (B) (Lady L Cund 4-9-3 L Drtmri 90 DRAW; 5F-6f 170YD, HIGH NUMBERS BEST. ROUND CQURSE, LOW NU\fflERS (6) MBS 22 HaBM £6.20: £2,10, £1.70. OF: £8.70. CSF: 2.45 BET wrm THE TOTE THREE YEAR OLD NOVICES HURDLE 3-8-5 Rakl - : 404 (5) 412 AM(A OF SAXDNY 40 (BF.fi) (State MoftanmO J Gnafcn J 88 “We cant do anything about HAVE SUGHT ADVANTAGE - ! £23.76. (3-Y-rO; fl.460: 2m If 1 10yd) 02 405 .0-15 AflUAMAflMaa(q(MAMaterBM&M^^....i^fr-.. HCaftane 84 (2) 5.00 (71) 1. Albert ma Bold (L Plggdtt, 5-1); them so we will make the most .406 (B) 1442 BWEYAH 21 (6) (M Al Mebnran) M Staoie 3-6-5 8 Raymond g| 1 11 MOORLODOi4(CO^(BSdiftdl-Bata)MTflinftta1lft> SSmtaEoflw 2. Sunsim Street (5-2 lav); 3. WSebal (14- of them," be said. "We have .-407 3-8-5 .. 21 COPY (D,G).iU Ctenusi) U 0»mwi11-3_^ - : ” (3) 022T3 "BUSIMITAISO^ (BttteeqjJ Fensbam GOitUd 68 i). JJZ-njn 16k 3H. MrsLFfcptte. Tote- £3^0:, .2 LAW 9 UmVfcM - 408 -(B)-26-*5t3-0U*-TY SECRET (FKRSangtter) p CteppAvDyam 3-8-5 WCanatf 98 3 -5 AH£AN 9 diea & Induftto Roahig] C Horgaa 10-12 . RJBeggai some exriting backs and it's 2.00 EBF FILLIES NURSERY HANDICAP "Z Z'Z ? 21 £150. Eida £4m STer^o csf: — 40B 222214 M0DM 21 (FS) (SUdi Mdamned) M Stain 3-8-5 PUIEddoy 97 El 7 72. Tricast: £1528) 4 JOVIAL MAN 33F (Mis J Bfc) S Metar 10-12 AlPtoB (4) . important for their (2-Y-O fillies: £1 9.575; 611 1 0yd) (1 6 jwners) - confidence (7>- • ,SHAHAAM34(F}-(HAI-Ua)ta»B)H'nwJls« Jooes 3^-5 RMs 80 5- 5 0 MANAIfl 4 (M Strain W 10-12 DtenCfty 410 ! -S1 &80 (71) 1. Urgant Request (Pal Eddery, Cty (D,F.^'(C Sifittfl R Jotutton tfcngtem 9-7— Quten 80 - we make the of them." 101 (12) 135142 HQ RESERVATIONS 22 T 411 pi) 2-22413 SHRLEY VALBfTINE 2D (G) (K AtnUft) H Ck4 3-8-5 P« Eddery 88 1); a Dukrame (20-1); 3. Yfaol (14-1). Bark E 412 QUET USS fi (F) (U? V teptirc) Ur. A KnftV 10-12 StfeNeB most ktStorie 9*5 5-4 BFTB)114F Tnraer 10-12 - 102 (8) 3151 FALSOOLA 11 (DT.G) (Shatu Uotanmed) u^-.'SCalhN IB 412 (101 3-22231 YIKZ1B f) (S Use) B )B 34-5. HIM 89 lav. 20 ran. id. tel. B Hfite Tote: EB^O: 7 SUE.Y (Use SJarad) WG SBmraugti However, Salmon resents 322213 SEVBHI (DfllF F Lee 8-10 - N Kennedy 87 £2.40, E55tt £1-80. DF: £103.40 CSF: 8 0 DOTS DQ 11 (V) (J tony) J feeflfer 10-7 DTegg - 103 (E) BOLD U») — P) BETTMG 7-2 BMMh, 5-1 Gftdy Seem. KtednL 11-2 Atap Fnendte. 10-1 Arad S«ony. Strty \tottie. the Rugby Football Union - 00.41. 9 JRnterts 10-7 - 104 (11) 511114 ZANYZAW4A11 (F,$(GPrt*aH}-tadort JWww(5) 87 YRdb. 12-1 Nteb£ PoW. 161 Arpamarine. MagnSsst Star. 33-1 Sharaarob. 66-1 Buairefe. .0 MDDBfRjWBI37F^ Hon) WMcFfttatf 105 (15) 332103 HUNG PAWJAIBiT 22(B) (W taftei) B Wfc Bft DHarriBOn(5) 88 Ptacepot 1.065JD0 ID 5 HYW BOOK 14 (Dftby)RUn*iD 10-7 RFwntf(5) restriction on replacements, 1991: PATRICIA 3-B-8 S Caudm (11-8 tav) H Cedi ii on .... 11 RBTTA KH)11F(B} PHftrtBl 0-7 Peter - 106 (18) 044231 BROCKTON DANCER 29 (DJF) (Mis D la Trade) R Hannan . JfWd 85 (UsB Data) tote which remains at two despite 0aTAD0VfflS2B(G)(AB^(Eqnne)LJa)RHnwM: 8 Raymond 88 ' 12 SHH-SF (P Watad) G Onrio-JoaH 10-7 ElkUbhy - 107 (7) 301 FORM FOCUS • • Leicester the International Rugby Foot- DANCE 55 (Mrs J Costetoe) C Brittain 3-5. M Roberts 91 106 |4) 224 WHERESTHE Gong.good BETTI® Evens Moor UxJge. 4-1 Cnw M (tea Min. 12-1 Hfim Bote, 14-1 Atom lH JnW Mn 4224 HEART BROKEN 16 WFItgi*ftl)JmniyFfcgsrtd 8-4 KFftta 90 20-1 Sftrt, 25-1 ball Board giving permission 709 (14) — FWafflLY 1MI 3id ol to Magic l Ybritoe Oft® ft Yak (Ira 41. goaf ft Mbs. ALWAYS 9 Mtfrt (Im 8yd) 1. Fair 01 Kart (S (lift J B B-3 (5 ACftteK 94 150 Maid 110 (3) 045231 TOTARIA 8 IS) FWmond) WHUer b) to flu 90M) I Prix «te PatKH# ft Deaunffle (1m 51 to 6UL1Y SECRET {nme tame) iftiart- 1W1: THE BUIE BOY 10-13 P Scutenoro (1-7 to) M Pipe 6 m for of four. "I B Caiflhai. 4-5 lav), 2. a maximum Omtejoy (14-1); 3. 111 (1) 3320 CLEAR LOOK 11 (BF) (F Sthan) P Cota M__ Alton 92 1 1 yd. aft. woman star (9b wise nad 3rd, WOMB bame team) a nerir 4ft and m Pupal Denoer (16-1). 11 ran. Sn ML 2M. J hoped we could add two [Tie F*y Stay Panrtta*) J rtb 7-13 Rlfc 86 ofl) a poor 7th. MB8S PONT 6541 4ft ol 7 to MAGNHSIT STAR a poor 80i NIOON bad 11? (5) 4321 WHYSTORY 13 ft Gosden. Tow: £210; Ei.iO, £8.90, £5.40. Pte) 7-12 : Lowe Furrier Fus In i tetod iace ft Ybrt (2m. good). Anoanma 1HI In fee 11-nm gnwp B Lance- to 113 (9) 00504 ROYAL DEI0 11 [Racmg DwoiflNraa P Mtfrte* J 93 DF: £1750. CSF; £15.14. youngsters our bench who ANNA Of SAXONY lead tad el 9 to Eton 6*T 20 (the TompKns Team) U Totota 7-10.. Me Gfeeoa 98 3.15O. I U TOTE DIRECT NOVICES CHASE (£2,978: 2m 6f 110yd) (9 runners) 1(4 0 02112 GUVNORS (Dfl 250 (Im 8yd) i, Brtghtstde (T Dutnn 7-2): could travel with the first team DisWa in i tentap al Bndmod (Im 6t good ft HALLCfWIA (D.F.G) (to J Dwrean) W VAgHman 7-10 GBvdM* 87 US (13) 501110 21 2 Pearly Mb (12-1 )?3. Abel p-2)- Srtaittca 1 021231 BOLD CHOICE 13 (F5) WJ0B£(i) R Reft 6-11-9 J Frost . and become accustomed to 116 424151 SPRING SUNRISE 20 (D.F.S) (R Campbell) M E&nsted 7-7 FHortmtf) 94 2 lav. 10 ran. 41. 1ML1)4L P Cole.Cola Tata: E4.B& - (10) Seyah 2541 2nd of 8 to User Fnewfly h fee Sefaixr ALWAYS FRHfllLY 2 FP-4H21 GAHJC HtOUC 4 (F5) (P CuniM) P Cundel B-11-9 SUcCOKl £150. DF: £23.60. CSF - preparation for big matches, 8-1 Fftsoota. 10-1 BrocMon Danes. Haflcrre. too Partamart. Zany Zanra. 121 Bold £130. £350. 3 0R3-621 PIGEON SLAND (G) (J Brmb) G CMh-Jonb 10-11-9 EMcKMey BETTMG: F*t* stray. ' 9 14-1 Data, t*ws. £4155 14~ - Sewn. Dear look, Gu»'hok GBT. Nb Rmbwms, Whore's The Dana, Orta IM 4 BUECHFBflBB’RISE 27 (Cfl (A CefeM) A Cmtfti 6-11-4 Ur D Safer (7) ieam how to handle die pres- (im8yd) 1. Genera) Chase (PFtatm- mi: NO C0RRE5RQNDMS RACE ?r 250 5 ' Pt mmtf JACK 502 PBosWJ»»ft7 >0-1 MBastey - son. 14-1); Doc Spot the Qoid sures leading players come MAY HULL STAKES 2, (B-1); 3. E P umEMGCT 7 (to J Vibrato to JWronKrt 6-11-4- MrAWtomcott 4.10 So* (10-1); 4. Pondama (20-iV Society - 7 3WP324- PEACE OfRCER 125 U UfeeM P Hedpi 6-11-4 MRUods - under now," he said. FORM FOCUS (Group III: 2-Y-O fillies: £1 6,236: Im rod) (12 wnners) Gown 7 fav 20 ran. Sti nd, 41 R Holder. 8 06350/ SOYBEAN 903 (Mb V MKft*> B Srat 6-11-4 ROrawdy - TOW: £4550; ES.10. £240. £200. £550. Krasnyyar, the CIS cham- Fad Eddery - soil). 501 «») 31 A8UW19(F)(RSanp*0PQroi*-H)BniM TO 9 OOPOP-O WOOOLANOSFOR P0W51 18 (MteM Pnece) PPitdBd 6-1M- RIMS (7) NO RESERVATIONS start-tod 2nd ft 14 to ai auction JWMH. ®Od ta FAMY DF: £59.60 CSF: Tricast $ 8-8 £13152 pions, will arrive from Siberia STDflYbealFiTalfiniwaina134inner nusanr 502 (6) 635 B088E OS 12 (Mrs N OttMd) D B&mft —: JVWans 86 Nnvan m a iwjen a Yak (61 214yd. good), wfli £1,11846. Alter a stewards’ enquay. taro* BETTING: 9-4 Bftd CWte. 5-2 QeeSc fate. 3-1 PfteDQ tort. 7-1 DhCtf»(TBrTO. 12-1 Piatt Otar. 70-1 LM) R Hacite jflftd re oil) LftflfleM |7I. pood), 503 (B) 40 QARSHAY 18 (A Buta (Bjuoel M on Sunday for a four-march HUNG PARliAMDtT lift bettor a neck 3nL a . . slcod. Soybran. 25-1 Wunlte ehloi Poe. 33-1 rtfeu.

I Baifeig neck in a 14- GUVNORS BFT comp^letf a denirte wNict beaflng 504 (2) 1366 EAST LBERTY 18 (F) (P Mefev) B-fl RCodone 66 FAL500LA tart Wlrte 9udow a 350 (im 11 21M) 1. Suportop (Paul 1991: tour of Scotland, first visit Roberts NO COmBniDIIB MCE their goaf), ita BOLD Red Baiw a head«a 7-nm»seu# 3l tammai 505 (6) 15 NAIKA 40 (BPfl (A Sued) C Bn*a» 8-6 U 68 moner nusor 4 Nnmotel (6t Eddery, 9-1 0-1); 3. rm ; 2 9*ar Lad 61. tan). HAlXQRMAjomplewl a Imbte (F.S) IH At-ttoui) J Dunlop 8-8 Cacao 93 to Britain. They play LOOK 1 506 (4) 11 KAUBA 11 W Stoic (8-1); 4. Hosfte Act (50-1). Cirilpc* oMI UARtiETTE Uotomad) i Boafen 88. Pat Eddery (9ft MB ai BM 9Bi ZAHTZANA(HM W 507 (7) 211315 22 (Sto 9 1 1-2 lav. 19 ten Nk, 1HL 21. P Harris. Tote: Kirkaldy, on September 14. - 506 110) NANNY HMGARET (P Ketafty) P Kotow M K Daisy £820: 268 £290. £1 70. £16.10. DF: 3.45 TOTE EACH WAY NOVICES SELLING HURDLE Boroughmuir Dunferm- SWUHrSWMMB 509 42 HBiEA IB (B Mean] J Farinas 8-8 eOftOftd 74 CSF: E85.18 Tricast £48210. and (3) £5290 (£1,509: If 110yd) (14 runners) Tigged 8-8 77 2m 51 33 SEHALAH 16 (A AI JallBi) Mb L LPftgod 1 Field, 3-4 jt- line on September 1 6 and 1 D n> — 350 (71 0yd) . Arman’s Sax (J 7, nwd- SdKfion: BROCKTON DANCER HOTAWM3 511 (B) 213 SHJ ASSURE 22 (F) (SftsMi Uotoroed) H CoS B-fl SCoftteo 90 bn);2.LetestF1anw(8-1}:3, Mind The Rod 1 OPFPFft DEVON me 7 |M Quota teOuOW 5-11-9, l*NMnra(7) . and Currie, on September 1 9. 512 (12) 42 SOCETYLADY5 (Stalb Aland AI Mattoun) AScoBS-8^. B Raymond fil (14-1). Mr iflncon 9-4 |Wav. 17 ran. 2L hd. J 2 B5 GRSTSSTUteS 18 (UsA teoges) ABsmr5-ii-9 S Boreogfi .Duntep- Tote: £4 00. Cl E2.10, £270. 3 6-11-9 TBanaCtey - BETTING: 5-2 Stfl Aitend. 7-2 UBtttn. 5-1 Nesaa. 6-1 hoote. 8-1 SocteyUDr. 10-1 toy: IM Bdtele 58 JV55-S3 40WBTB) 11 (PHary)WCtof CSF: £2323. i DF: £1980 4 000- S8IBULAR RUN 159F (Us E Punty to J Dam 6-11-9 NDm - HANDICAP Dee. 14-1 ollm. 2.35 TDTE-P0RTLAND 450 (1m8yd)1. Jada Vale (RHOs. 3-1)1- 5 P C0SSACX N0B1 [N LBctM] N UtfcWI 4-11-7 • EB 1991: Oft Pal Eddery (3-1) H Cacd 13 ran 9 GUpU NBDMGHT AH tav): 2, Bras Mood (50-1); Tyrone Flyer (£19,690: 5f 140yd) (22 ruimere) 3, E 463 GREAT NPO8T0R 9 (B) P Neweme) R Hodoee 4-11-7 RDrauody BASEBALL (12-1). Bid For Sir 3 fav. IB ran. 2L 3*1. J - B HoBinftMd *-9-10. F*BMBy 95 7 BB1E LOCK 15F (K Sends) D C Toctei 4-11-7 JNbsmg(7) aw (11) 013010 BITOT A LARK 12 P.f.S) |R atom A FORM FOCUS Htes. Tale: £350. £1 70. £898 £250 DF: I 520P- THE BLACK (B) (Pipe Scatent CU)) Pipe 4-11-7 P Scudarae - Hannon 4-9-9 RPtfamR) B 1 KDR 142 U 202 (14) 290063 TERKHARS S3 (D.F.G) (H Bsmhoc*) R (winner or second with any other) £150 8 P- LE SAULE WngbQ A toes 5-11-4 RBefeny - A Baaay 4-M (l(ta K terms) 10- DDR S4F (C 2(0 4 113031 NEVER SO SURE 7 IVO.GJ5) (Mn M ITCwm*) LPJOto ABURY beal NEMEA (am HI In a QranraE CSF-.E114 57. ( ) JO 00ft HUIYANIO (B SmlaO P Ptidto 5-11-4 A Webb - F Lee 4-9-r _ BtimKd/(5} W rtenef nrsoai ft (7( mod to firm). 808- ronrf ft (5) 311020 BEAU VENTURE 18 (F.&S) (Mrs A Sftuyl Chesa 450 (Im 31 183yd) 1. Bit On The Side (J W 11 055-24 CUPPER 4 0) Bass) K Cunnghamftmin 4.11-2 GMcCait - Stottiemyre Woyat ffl OK J Oltal 4-9-7._. . BF^mmS 91 BE DEE 25*1 5tti ol 7 in Lm 01 Sftm m fee gnn> (I) 560-500 BPSYFBDifR 9 (Oi.&S) (Ms J BetjFwn) 3 P-»i. 3-1 lari; 2, Spoedo Mouemem (B-1). as 12 0 DISTANT IIBIORY (B) (to A melon) P TtafilB 3-10-5 PrtwHoflte - 5-9-6 96 Itl Pledge Sots; al Goodnood (71 ®»d to adt) SIRED 1 32 Ramgj E Alswi1 Jl^erP) Phlgw po-1): 4. Post impressionEt (14- 206 (7) 300026 STACK ROCK 12 |D.F.(L51 (Castle 1 3-10-5 - bed time oft. nceftYt 13 3362 DOLLARWK 7 (to UJnhnson)J Move RJBtgon 11 . Uws 3-9-4 . ... PM Wdaiy M 20 ran. NR: Darnond Weddteg. Dm To 207 (3 105005 0RTH0RH0MBUS 9 (VAP (M ItanW) G - IVANKA beal Gneftft 1541 in a 5-nmar contftat 19 to Adi mMi 3t. 14 FINE AS FUEPEMCE 46F (Me R BoQ Mre A Knl0hl 3-1IMt SMcM dream. 21. ». W Musaon. Tote. £3.40: MWB03 CANTORIS 18 (D^.G) (6 Crean) R WBiams and Jays 208 (22) ;T ace ft NmihM on debit (H. good ft tan). p. good). - „ £1.50, £350. £450. £5.60. DF: £10.60. 7-2 7-1 12-1 (Haflftldan (ndpcjld) M JotKMn 3-9 M Hotatt 94 , BETTMG: 7-4 H» Bbct to*. OppoOne. 9-2'Bne Impostt. Jftnttd. B-l Defer Wm. DHM (91 113404 TAUFAH BLU 32 fay).B-lay). 17 ran. tL W.WL Pp Cote.Cole. Tom:Tow: £750. 2f PLAMFACT18(CD.F.G^iCfl'rn«)JHift .-M “1 4.40 FESTIVAL HANDICAP (£4390: im 60yd) (25 nmneis) £2.10. £150 £17.70. CSF: 213 (101 14Q200 J™ £650. DF: Smdfl) I flattng *»«-•---- Robert Kerlev 214 11-3141 LOCHSONG 43 (F.G) U Mofeanmerg 3-9-1 1 91 £3456. 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T Rasta 7 42 IfiJ BC&flM 5 22 22.7 in 1 986 and the most-valuable RFrasJ 14 101 119 WUcfotaO 9 49 18.4 player in 1988. He accompa- Burooj takes Carson to yet another century nied Oakland to file World 1). DiacQ H-2 lav if rai. Rctmdnd, Series in 1988, 1989 and Tote- British beaten at Arlington Afnasric Pete. £3240. £190. £250. 1990 and WILLIE Carson added the G G Baxter Ltd Maiden At Leicester, a gamble on £220, £330 DF- £18350 CSF. £11651. leads the major 66-1 to 14-3 Tncast £117896. challenges the break and, afto- leagues another statistic to a career of Stakes at Lingfidd. Omidjoyfrom in BRITISH failed missed in home runs over the Ptocepot: £93220. remarkable consistency yester- The only time Carson has the first division of the EBF to cut any ice at Arlington being blocked several times in past seven years with 231. century since Filbert Maiden Fillies’ Stakes Park on Monday night Mo- the straight, finished full of This year, however, day when registering his 2 1 st failed to reach a bade Blinkered first time century of winners in the last 1971 was eight years ago after was narrowly foiled Ijy Fair hammed Moubarak*s Eclipse running four lengths behind and shoulder problems have DONCASTER: 210 Pans House. Matey Free Flyer, seasons.- - a bad faD in Itajy. Asked if he Maid Of Kent The judge had Stakes fourth the winner. In the Newbury limited him to a .246 batting 22 4 40 Jsjnaira Sharit intention of retiring, to call for a mint before Handicap, the Queen’s En- average with Carson, aged 49, readied had any OFFICIAL SCRATCHING®: Queen EfaB- 22 home runs his 100 when newcomer Carson replied: “No — my deriding that the odds-on befli n Stakes. Ascoe So* The GreaL AI finished a luckless eighth be- harmonicwas seventh and the and 72 runs batted in. He was enoagemens peart)- Namer Bnttoe. rm to ride 100 winners a favourite had prevailed by the hind Ghazi in the grade one Moubarak-trained Starlight in the Burooj gained an impressive aim is Smart. Smart Double. VMoteriey Mft Vul- second year of a five- five years." minimum margin. garis, Cold Moss. So Pen. Sunrqgnnbo. Secretariat Stakes. Free Flyer Flyer finished eleventh. year. success in the first division of season for the next $23-5 million contract.

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Gower needs to believe in another comeback ! McKenzie

crossroads. ith one bombshell has effectively put him out of before he did. And affection finds himself at a ALAN LEE • to justify his ready barely absorbed. woik at a vay inconvenient f% For him is not confined to In struggling David Gower must nine. Mike Gatling's pockets those outside the gome. first landmark decision as Wwait until manager. Keith the weekend to calm are still bulging with kruger- Monday morning after Gra- Gower is confronting. And he Last Friday, at the Cricket England ! for hectic fears of another. His county rand and Neil Fairbrother has ham Gooch's apologetic tall. might ponder the paradox uf Writers' Club dinner, an Fletcher offered Gower hope, contract is about to expire and had the security of an Eng- His feelings went something a man who has been the very award was initiated in memo- albeit flingicall)'- Having saw grounds the Hampshire committee land winter contract like this “I was mentally miles portrayal of loyalty, dignity ry of die iaic Peter Smith, its he was discounted on that ! month will decide on Friday whether, Both will now be a mini- away, wondering whai on arid charm, being so regularly recipient to be somebody who of age. Fletcher added might and for how long, he should mum of E25.000 richer earth I had done to deserve treated callously by those who has given outstanding service this did not mean he again next HYttUktltUtSf,* be re-engaged. through selection for the tour being judged suddenly sit in judgment to cricket. nor be chosen | of m »x i v ; arairrsroNnm As Gower has made it dear of India, while the man they incapable." Gower's popularity, it often summer. By that time, j hau that he has shelved retirement are keeping out did not fear Not as it happens, this seems, is constant and unani- ower was the over- course, he will have Di'Kfc Mdfenw has one Ashes j thoughts and would like to hue in past rebellion and is week's quote. Those words mous with everybody bar the whelming choice. It another birthday but an ! month to prepare for the play for another three years, a not seen to be worthy of future Gower’s reflection on the England selectors. I expect my win probably be in the series would lack something were Organisation G 1 World Boxing contract offer seems mere encouragement So Gower corresponding day. two years mailbag this week ro be domi- media that Gower earns a for his absence. to I super-luntamwiRhi title bnut routine. But after the laiest gets nothing and reels to- ago. when a similar call, this nated by letters of oiuragc over living on retirement, and. Gower must continue give him the drsime- « always for if : tli.n amid step in his hakey^cokey rela- wants his wedding day still time from Ted Dexter, in- his treatment has unlike some former players, believe in next summer, first no : titiR of being the Bnton to tionship with the England unsure if he will have a dayjob formed him that in addition beer, whenever England have he will be welcomed. But in he does not there will be win three mks at different team, he is probably not over- to return to next summer. to the loss of the England disowned him. the meantime, a man cannot point in him signing whatever f offered- weiehN this ccntuiy. confident. Money, however, would not captaincy, he had also losrt his This time, the indignation live on love and affection and. new contract may be lie will be boxing at the Not the least reason for have been the first thing place in the party to tour the will surely focus on the fact for the umpteenth time in the International cricket is his ! is in Lewisham Theatre on October sympathising with Gower in which entered his head when Caribbean. It is, you see. a thar almost everybody in the turbulent career of a superfi- lifeblood. Once again, he but after his performance ; 15 Fletcher offered hope his latest predicament is that it he put down the phone on familiarly tortured road that game knew of Gower’s fate cially tranquil man. Gower urgent need of a donor. attains! Peter Buckley, of I

IAN STEWA*f Birmingham, on Monday night at York Hall it is dear Reeve appointed the new Warwickshire captain that he has a month of hanl work ahead oi him. He was boxing for the first time after being knocked nut in the fixvt round try Rafoe! Dei Valle, of Puerto Rico, last May and he Twose and Penney prove did not look as sharp as he can be. In the first round there were more misses than hits and it was only after he had floored Buckley in the third value of Lloyd’s efforts that he opened up with good punches to the body and head, By Richard Streeton understandably disappointed. In the past two years, though. been good with young players forcing Buckley to retire at the He has accepted, however, the Lloyd has more or less had a and Twose and Penney, both end of the round. Strangely enough. Me* LORD’S (first day of four, view of the cricket committee, free hand and the side has 24. underlined the point on Warwickshire won toss): War- chaired by Dennis Amiss, that seldom performed less than this occasion. When the left- Kenric's manager. Mickey it was very wickshire have scored 319 for it is time for a change. consistently. Lloyd's own bat- handed Twose was fifth out. Duff, thought u seven wickets against It is believed that a decisive ting. though, has dearly moving forward against good performance. “He boxed “ Middlesex factor in its thinking was that waned. He has contributed Emburey, Lloyd greeted him beautifully." Duff said, ntsil Lloyd's own form this season much this season in one-day on the pavilion steps with the guy was cagey. You have to ROGER Twose and Trevor has not justified an automatic games but averages 25.03 for award of his county cap. throw six shots to land two." Penney, two of the county's place in the side as much as 826 runs in the champion- Twose has now scored near- Far from thinking that emerging batsmen, provided any dissatisfaction with his ship, in which he has not ly 1.300 runs and averages McKenzie was at lost snowing the main resistance yesterday captaincy. Warwickshire hope made a hundred fortwo years. almost 40 this summer. Once his age — 29 — and the effects as die Warwickshire innings that Lloyd, 35, wfll score more Meanwhile. Reeve, the pre- again, he strodethe ball with a of that knockout by Del Valle. progressed in fits and starts. runs without the burden of vious vice-captain, is a flexible succession of firm, upright Duff believes that he can lift a Half the side was out for 165 leadership. thinker about both his own strokes. After Moles was held third world title and go on but the Middlesex bowlers Lioyd has led Warwickshire play and the game and has at third slip. Lloyd drove and boxing for another two years. were unable to press home since 1988, when he steered obviously revelled in the occa- pulled freely to give Twose his McKenzie was more realis- their advantage. They also them to sixth place in the sional chances he has had to main support before he was tic. "Comeback fights are shared 27 no-balls, with championship after they had be in charge. He is 29 and stumped off TufnelL hanl.” he said. “Buckley only 'niftiell. who had II. the been fifteenth the previous closer in every respect to the Ostler and Reeve failed but came to survive. Guys like that leading culprit season. Since then, they have younger members of the side Penney settled into a sound, make you look ordinary, but Inevitably, though, the been eighth, fifth and second than his predecessor. Tim stylish innings and. after when there's a championship main talking point remained and. this year, should finish Munton becomes the new three-and-a-half hours, was fight HI be a lot better." He the Warwickshire announce- near the top. In 1989. they vicecaptain. undefeated when bad light knows also that his opponent. ment the previous evening won the NatWest Trophy. Reeve yesterday praised brought the dose eight overs Jesse Benavides, of Mexico, that Dermot Reeve would It has been an acceptable Lloyd's unselfish approach to early. Tufndl and Emburey will be a lot harder than replace Andy Lloyd as the record for somebody who took his own batting and acknowl- could turn the ball only slowly. Buddey. county captain next season. over at a time when the county edged the help he had received Both were given a lot of work, "Benavides is a Kronk fight- Lloyd, who has a year of his was in die throes of several from Lloyd in developing his a foretaste of the winter slog er. That means he's very good, playing contract to go, is upheavals behind the scenes. own cricket Lloyd has always ahead in India. and he's also a southpaw." McKenzie said. “It won’t be an easy fight, if 1 have to touch Lancashire down I'll get straight up Richards stands in way as again. I’ve got to win the championship if I'm going to fall to make some real money." It was Duffs turn to be runners-up place beckons realistic. "He won’t make for- Salisbury tunes," Duff said. "The Lewi- By Ivo Tennant sham Theatre only holds 900. THREE members of the Eng- but if he fights for two more CANTERBURY (second day being included in England’s A as on Monday. Richards held land A team attack for Austra- yeajs he could net £100.000. of four): Glamorgan with 6 party are legion, but these two another slip catch, this off lia this winter celebrated their which could give him an second innings wickets in more than most. They do not Dale's military medium, to selection in some style yester- income of £1 0,000 a year.” hand lead Kent by IIS runs often catch the eye, but they account for Marsh, and now it day. Ian Salisbury, the Sussex James Cook, of Peckham, are among the more depend- was a matter of whether Kent leg spinner leading the way who was also having his first AT THE start of this excep- able of county cricketers. would collect a second bonus with a devastating spell comeback contest after a first- tional season of county cricket, The Kent batsman in recent batting point against Lancashire at Old round knockout, beat Tony Kent would have sealed most years upon whom Taylor They did so through an Trafford (Geoffrey Wheeler Booth, of Sheffield, easily, gladly for finishing runners could have modelled his game unlikely last-wicket partner- writes). winning all eight rounds. He up in the championship. That was Bob Wilson, left-handed ship between Davis and Salisbury, 22. who is enjoy- will now most likely challenge they should achieve, assum- though he was. His cricket was Igglesden, 26 runs made with ing his most prolific season, for the European super-mid- ing, if assumptions are ever played before his county's unexpected vigour. wrecked the middle order by Hitting the ball fair and square: Evans nears his century at Trent Bridge yesterday dleweight title he lost to Frank advisable in this game, that great successes of the 1970s Glamorgan could hardly taking five for ten in 32 balls Nicotra, of France, last ApriL they beat Glamorgan today. and from that viewpoint Tay- bat again as ineffectually as on and ended the day with five for Nicotra has vacated the title. They do have the small lor's career began at just the the first day and indeed they 27 as Lancashire faced up to matter of ridding themselves time. Border revival wrong In another era did not True, there was an the prospect of overwhelming leads timely of Richards first Perhaps as- they might have both played element of desperation about defeat At 1 70 for nine they PARALYMPIC GAMES sumptions should not DC Boone cte Silva bRanonayate — IB be coun- for England. the way Morris shaped to are 393 in arrears. Morainwa. Sri Lanka: Allan aries, before he was out to the D M Jones bw b Uymase - — n tenanced while is stQI he at the Taylor is averaging more hook Igglesden. the ball loop- Mark IJott. the Essex left- Border, the Australia captain, seam bowler, Champaka M E Wens* b HomanjqWB 0 wicket. *A R Border b Ramarayaka 106 than 50 this season, although ing up to mid-wicket After arm er, had a career-best 're- yesterday hit a century, his first Ramanayake. Border. 37, bad G R J Matthews nxi out — 57 The bald facts though are curiously, he has made only that James and Dale eeked turn of six for 87 at Derby in Test cricket for four years, to made only 59 runs in his four S K Wane not out - - 1 Flood and that his side lead fl Haaly not ou 43 Kent try only one first-dass century. It out a second-wicket partner- where the day’s highlight was rescue his team after Sri Test innings on the tour. A C J McDermott c TiHekaratra 1 1 5 runs pitch on a giving would not be fair to say he got ship of 60 that gave them the a brilliant 135 in 156 balls Lanka had made a powerful Border’s spariding century, b Hattuvsinghe 10 succour to the seamers. ana Extras B) himself out yesterday — he lead. from Chris Adams, which start on the opening day of his 24th in 133 Test matches, (b 3, b 8, w 2, nb 22. Holmes two days stiD remain. never does — but this was the Dale is in prime form. He enabled Derbyshire to leave their third and final Test here. before a crowd of 6.000. was Total (8 Wilts} 287 That Kent achieved a first- occasion A I C Dodemada to bat tenth he has reached could not however take his the champions 440 to win. On Border had fine support indeed a fiery baptism for the FALL OF WICKETS: 1-0. 2-42. 3-46, 4-57,5- innings lead of 6 1 was almost a half-century without pro- half-century any further. A a pitch which has lost much of from the all-rounder. Greg Tyronne Fernando Stadium, 6-185. 7-252 8-283. net gold 5B. entirely because of the partner- gressing a great deal further. top-edged square cut off Flem- its menace they have reached Matthews, who scored 57, as which became world cricket's BOWUNG: Raman ayahe 20-1-59-4; ship between Taylor and ran Uyaiano 17-0-54-V, VWfa*UBrqhe 15-7- Thomas one away from ing was taken at first slip and 46-0. 1 they accumulated 27 for the 67th Test venue. He was, 31-1; Anuraslrt 20-1-56-1: Muraitharan 12- From Am Ramsay Marsh, 1 13 in 53 overs. Here Richards, him and eyesight Maynard soon followed, bril- There were five wickets in sixth wicket to help Australia however, fortunate to be 2-52-0; Jayaainya 24W-0: Gunnnha 3-0- in Barcelona were two batsmen treating this seemingly 154J unimpaired in mid- liantly held by Ward at cover the day for Somerset fast to 287 for eight at the dose, dropped on 44 by the as the four-day contest it sra LANKA: *A Ranatunga, R S was dle age. took the catch with off a slower ball from Ealham. bowler Andrew at Tara Caddick having slumped to 58 for five. wicketkeeper. Hashan Tllle- Mahanama. U C Hsfourasfngha A P CHRIS Holmes and supposed to be. The number sublime ease at first slip. Richards, though, was still Taunton where Durham fol- The left-handed Border led keratne. (AFP) Gurtertia P A® Siva. S T Jayasunya, W Flood will not be popular in of players in this match P TBeteralne. Ramanayafcs. with Still the ball was moving there at the dose and AUSTRALIA: First livings CPH starting lowed on despite a 97-baII from the front with a superb Uyanage. S D Anurasm and M MuiaMaran. Barcelona. Yesterday both cause to feel aggrieved M A Taytor c Ranatunga 0 Amrasm .. . 19 at not around if not as extravagantly to bat ominously well. rivals hundred from Ian Smith. 1 06. studded with 1 6 bound- T M Moody b Ramanayake 0 Umpires. KT Franc* and B C Cooray. swimmers beat Spanish to win gold. For both it was their fourth medal of the :¥2r4*;.M :• Spirited resistance by SCOREBOARDS Games and both ended the day as Paralympic champions FALL WICKETS: M2. 2-39. 3-23. IVA not 5-2-16-0. Britannic Assurance OF ftaianto out 25 Stephenson 2-0-17-0, Gooch and world record holders. PACotteyrwout 1-0-1 Middx v Warwicks Evans denies county Bonus parts: Somerset 8. Durham 3 14 Shahid -0. Surrey championship Holmes it was his fourth UrrptBs: R JuSan and Sharp. Extras (b 7. nb 51 . , 12 For G ESSEX: First Innings 96 (G A Gooch 53; i R lot IB) Jfirat tour; »wn gold medal and with three Somerset v Durham Total (4 wine) .. . 17B Bisnap 6 LORD'S day d Wanwctahre loss): Warwickshire scored 319 tar By Jack Bailey FALL OF WICKETS. 1-34. 2-94. 3-125. 4- Second Innings hare events stiD to come he is fast Notts v seven wickets NSddtesex Surrey 139. N V Krwhl not 17 aganst TAUNTON oj! becoming the Mark Spitz of (second day of lour). Ou J P Stephenson not oul - — 27 WARWICKSHIRE: Fbst tarings TRENTBRIDGE (second day ated by Martin Bicknefl Wtb KENT: First Wrings and swan saconCFampi Motels h I 8 Paralympics. In TRENT BRIDGE (second day of four}. Extras tfol.nbi) - A j Motes c Car b Wuants 3 the the 200m four): Surrey, with nine need 217 runs to avoKl an nntnga dotr T R Ward bw b Thomas ..... 15 of Feltham might send Notting- Surrey, wtth nine second-tarings R Twose Emburey . . 84 Somerset wWcets n *M R Benson c Matson b Walton 22 Toted (nowM) ...46 G a Brawl b backstroke he soon wiped out second-innings wickets in hamshire hand, are 116 runs behind Notflnghar nature *T A Uoyd a Brown b Tuthett - 40 down the Thomas . . same SOMERSET: First kvtinQS N R Taylor c Richards b 74 Bonus pores. Derbyshire 6, Essex 4. the challenge of Juan Diego SURREY: FisUniwgs 76: POsifefcSosaoenyb Emburey . . 0 207 (RE Bryson Hooper tow bVfejkin ... hand, are ) 16 runs behind rocky path which saw Surrey AN Hayhurat c Scott b Hughes CL 0 UmpBBS. V A Hoidet end R Palmer b WMams 7 C C Lewis 4 for 65) Bervwck 0 A Reeve c Ramgrefcash — Gill, five years his junior at M LattNwi c Datey b Henderson G R Cowdrey c James U - . 0 88 Nottinghamshire lose seven wickets Irmngs T L Pemey not out — before lunch R J Harden Second V Ftemng c James b Barwx* . .. 0 c Henderson o Smtti M 39 only 15, to finish eight Richards Date N MK Snath tawbFta8Gf "C JTmari e Parlor DJ Bicknell nor out . . 15 +S A Marsh c b BO on Monday. But they with- b Oram . . Lancs v Sussex A A Donald c and b Emdursy 15 A Eataam and Thofrcet .._ 1 seconds ahead in 2min R J Turner c Parker b Hughes ...... D M Word c Bramhafl b Leww 1 M c b IF Nottinghamshire find die precipice. tK J Piper not out 7 drew from First, JNDBuma e Graveney b BatabnOgo G P Thorpe not out i5 R P Dbwb not out .... 16 3 3. Msec taking almost four Baras (b 4. 1. nb 21) 38 G Rose c MJMcC^ue tow b Date . ... . (second day ot four) b 10. w Daley b Smttti Extras (tol.no . 0 OLD 7HAFFOHD themselves in the money as the Chris Lewis, who like Evans is 2) _ 3 seconds off his own world R PSnele SnUi b Hughes A P IggtesSen c Meteor b Walton ... to Lancashire, wtfi one rra-tanmgs wk*a In result of their county champ- having a fine all-round Total flwW) 34 Total (7 wkta) 319 match, N A Mafeflder b Hughes Extras (b*5 to 7.wl.nb2J ..... 1& hand, need 243 runs lo avoid Die follow on record- ionship campaign, they could counter-attacked on the A R Caddck c Bub b Braun FALL OF WICKET. 1-3. agars Suss® Score after in overs: 307-7. Total (98.1 ousts) 219 Holmes has much to cele- APvanTrooBtnotaut SUSSEX: Fret tarings G C Small and TA Munton to bat. well drink a toast to Kevin charge after two early MOmMGHAMStflne : First Irtags 2-37. wickets Extras (fa 5. w FALL OF WICKETS- 1 -27. 3-39. 4-55 brate. first-year 4) D M Srruti taw b Waddnson 39 FALL OF WICKETS: 1-13. 2-89. 3-102. 4- A politics stu- PRPonaidc Stewart bMPBcknel . . 0 S5S. 6-188. 7-183. 8-193. 9133 Evans. Yesterday, he followed had gone for the addition of Tow Hall c Hegg b Marin 14 ... M Saxetoy tow b M P Btcxnee 43 J w 134. 6-185. 6-235. 7-285 dent at King's College he left BOWUNG Waftin 22.1-7-64-3. Thomas 19- Martin Score nine 100 awra: 382-4. N J Lerham c Burned b . . ;3fl his three wickets in Surrey's 35 . Then Evans completed the 'RTRcbinacnbBiyion ._ 21 452-3; Barwic* 30-15-37 2: Dale 144-27- FALL OF P Weis c Uoyd b Defierlas .... 743 MIDDLESEX: D L Haynea, M A RoseOetry, Cambridge during the sum- WICKETS: 140. 2-285. 3-21 M A Crawley bwbMPBfcfcnel 22 13-6-23-0. A first innings by resisting recovery, sharing a ninth- 2 Craft run out 68 *M W Gating. M R Ramprakash. J D Carr. 287. 5-375. 6-450. 7-450. 6-154, 941. G F Archer o Fetiham 22 BTP Donated mer term to train with the Bonus pants- Kent 6. Gfomorgan 5. P Sjpeiflht c Alhanon b Defreftas 3 tKR Entwrey. N F WBams, A R allcomers for 4 U hours, scor- wicker stand of 124 0OWUNG. Botham 1 1-2-46-0: C L Cams b Feftnem .. S M with Brawn Fraser, P Tutnea 3-115-2, Umpires: J C Bakforstone ana R C C M WMfl c and b Bameo 39 C CW Tayfor and C R Olympic squad in Birming- Henderson 23-5-1 10-1; Hu CC Lew&c Stewart b M P BtcfcneU . ,_52 ing his second century for Bramhall which has ensured Derrertas b Bameo 74 3. 4. 32-5-112-4; Graveney 12-1-4 K P Evans c Stewart b Bryson 104 Tafchard TP Moores c . . Bonus prints- Middtos& WanMctertra ham alongside Nick Gilling- F Stephenson c Atherton bBametl .17 Nottinghamshire — his first at an uphill straggle for Surrey. Brinbridgu 14-541-1; Srnfli 21 -6-7D-: 0 B Permed b M P Btckneil 12 D Umpres- M J Kitchen and K E Primer. IDKSaEsburybBemett 10 ham. Trying to study privately DURHAM: First brings tS Bramhal not our .37 Trent Bridge — and steering Evans’s 104 was a career- not out 3 J A Afford Sxrb Bryson . Essex E S H Glddhs W LarWns c Burns b Meflonder ..... o Derfaysv around his practice schedule lb 13. 17 Under- Test match his county to a most and it was P Parker Extras 16 Extras ft] 3. nb 1) .. . 19 unlikely best score made in W G c Harden Caddck (b 3, to , nb 20] 39 b ... — he managed a 2:1 in his first I Smith c Rose bSnefl Tort ....- 563 lead of 150. the face of some excellent Total 357 rot loo): Essex, wtfi aft PBeirtxidqec Burns bCatMck ...... year exams to go with his ;si hand, need are FALL OF WICKETS 1-49. 2-65. 3-318. 4- Nicknamed “Ghost”, Evans bowling BickneH In com- J A Daley l»r b Malender Score atter 100 overs. 275-8. England v Sri Lanka by 383 runs lo beat Derbyshire 349. 5365. 6436. 7-503. 8-544, 9-051. collection of gold medals. 1C W Soon not out FALL OF WICKETS. 1-0. 2-68. W0. 4-124. is the son of player who rarely mon with others, Bicknell also First tarings (T BOWUNG' DeFreHas 24-8-73-2. Malta 22- P S-124, 8-159. 7-201,8-233, 9-357. DERBYSHIRE: 226 J G W Henderson c and b Matfender .. WORCESTER of four). For Holmes's great friend OtSorman 64. C J AdamG 60: R Pmute 5 3^0-1; Wrtdnson 47-12-154-1. Fitton 26-4- iseoxid day Eng- hogs, or even seeks the lime- experienced a certain amount I T Botham b Malender BOWUNG MPBfoknel 38-12-69-5: Bryson for 92-1: Barnett 43 5-7-148-4 land. with six fin: -immqg wttcels In hand, and room mate, Tim Reddish, "DA Graveney 63) c Bums b CadcSck . 30-5-87-3. Fefttwn 26-5-88-2; KandncK 22- are 280 light. He has. for instance, of difficulty with Lewis, who tarings LANCASHIRE: Fnret tarings rims ahead at & Lario SPHutfwse Snell bMafcnder 7-4647. BoUng 11-023-0, Brown 2-0-00 Second the Paralympics are turning e Lenham SRI LANKA IMS: First tarings 190 (R P bowled only one no-ball in was first to overcome the SJEftownbCaddfok *KJBemeftcKr»aMb Printfe . 12 M A Atherton b CM Welts ...36 Bonus pants. Nonnghamshre 7, Surey 5 Arnold 63. M R Batabndge 6 tor 26) into something of a night- Extras P D Bowler few b Hod 4 JPCrarteybSjIcbury 43 more than 500 overs this morning hoodoo which has (b 4.B3 2, no 7) Umpras: AA Jones and B Leadbeater ...... 18 JEMomsblotr . 55 NJSpaaKoGWdms ENGLAND U-19: Fkst Irrtnga mare. In the 50m freestyle. Total (44.4 overs) Farbrother 1 season. this match, and he did so TJGOT3ormancPrtnglebBan .... 7 *N H c Spe«w b C M WbIS A troublesome knee beset D D J Ftotmaon .. _ 124 FALL b G Peroa Reddish, who is partially of WICKETS: 1-0,2-23,3-23.4- CJ Adams c Gamham b Uoc .. .. 135 G D Uoyd rut out 63 *W PC Weston b Sire . .... t5 has kept him out of the first audacious stroke-play. by 7-175, .. 81, 8-185, 0-197. Kent v Glamorgan MWatknsonc Moves . 2 W9, O G CorL c Pnnqio b non .27 bSafesbuy MBLoyecFenandob Arnold 162 sighted, thought he heard a team for couple the fourth BOWLWG- Malender 13.4-2-65-5, Co IK M KnKtosi c Gamham b Boo .... 5 tWK Hegg cDonetero Salisbury ..... 0 J a ofweeks, but Lewis was bats- M Writer nm out .87 false start whistle as he dived 14-1-62-4; SneB 9-2-36-1; vai Troost rRBbhopc Gooch bTopley 25 P A J Dernstes fow b Sefisbury 0 (second day of M G N Windows not out .. . . 43 he has stolen back into the fray man to fell before lunch, 31-0; CANTERBURY tag. Fitton b Salisbury Row 4-i -1B-0 A E Warner b Such . 19 J D 5 in, only to discover it was C*

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No love lost between Agassi and Courier Settled Scots seek Television looks place in record sixth World Cup

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THE first steps in foe march towards a remarkable accom- Group one plishment may he taken in foe rivalries court PWDL F A Pts on Wankdorf Stadium in Berne Switzerland . 1 1 0 0 6 0 2 this evening, when Scotland Esana 1 OO i G From Andrew Longmore Bollettieri. In Paris this year. uncertainty of die opening open their qualifying cam-

TENNIS CORRESPONDENT Agassi implied that Courier week him, while paign for the 1 994 World behind Cup Previous result: Estonia 0. Switzerland IN NEW YORK lacked talent an insult which Agassi has swept impressively finals against Switzerland. In 6 Scotland. Portugal, flay and Malta piay earned him a swift drubbing through to the last eight attempting to reach the finals have yet to WITH the elder generation in the semi-fin a] and a tart without dropping a set for the sixth successive time, safely relegated 10 the com- response afterwards. A talent His latest victim. Carios the Scots hope to equal the mentary box, the rivalry which for hard work and determ- Costa, of Spain, fared no qualification record held by the US television companies ination. Courier suggested, better than the rest, barely Italy. "A quieter occasion might will fuel hope public interest was as important as a flair for threatening the growing confi- Andy Roxburgh, foe Scot- suit them better and I have to next through the decade is the big shot dence of the Wimbledon tish coach, would settle for a admit it’s not a stadium I am renewed at Flushing Meadow The one regret for the champion, who has earned repeat of last year’s game with fond of because it’s a dull, today. If not, as yet fraught organisers is that by sticking the title “Ten master from a Switzerland, which ended in a intimidating kind of place. with the tension of a Connors rigidly to the computer for the new member of his fan dub, 2-2 draw after the Scots had Scotland at least have a v McEnroe, Jim Courier seedings, they have wasted a Barbra Streisand. fallen two behind by half- settled team. Switzerland, by against Andre Agassi, potential in the semi-final or final Agassi had not heard the time. They were revived fay contrast, have undergone a quarter-finals of the US Open, between the holders of the term before. “1 am going to goals from Dune and transition under their English has enough light and shade to year's three grand slam, tides. have to talk to her about that McCoisu and it may be that manager, Roy Hodgson, and whet the appetite of the most Courier v Agassi, a match one,” he said Nor did he Roxburgh will favour foe play what Roxburgh describes demanding television execu- between many people’s idea of attach any significance to the same partnership to start to- as “more of a Brirish-siyle tive — not least because, from the - two favourites for the absence of his fledgling beard. night. although he has game". their days together in the Nick men’s singles tide here, de- “I just shave when I want to be G allache r. of Coventry, as an It is a slower and less Bollettieri Academy, there is serves a higher billing. dean shaven. I don'd try to alternative to Dune. technical style than that no love lost between them. Having experienced the over inteflectualise ft.” Whichever pairing begins employed under Uli Srielike. **I think there is a big best of both in the last two The odd man out in the fop the game, the third man will Hodgson’s predecessor. There enough contrast between us to grand slam events. McEnroe’s half of the draw is the Russian. almost certainly be brought on is a tendency to play a flat back arouse a lot of interest,'* Agassi analysis for the USA network Alex Volkov, who plays Pete at some stage, either to alter four, but Geiger frequently said. There’s a good chance should make interesting lis- Sampras in the other quarter- the attacking pattern or to drops into a sweeper’s role and everybody waiching on tele- tening. In horse racing par- final today. For the second augment it. Otherwise foe he will probably do so tonight, vision knew who they wanted lance. there is little to choose successive match, the No. 3 team picks itself. particularly if foe volatile Egli to win." The contest is certain- between them on a line seed recovered from 2-1 down Although Scotland are re- is detailed for sentty duty on ly spiced with hidden mean- through McEnroe, who won to win — this time against Guy luming to the scene of a McCoisL ing for both men. nine games against Agassi at Forget — which suggests he is productive outing, foe atmo- The Swiss have also, most When he beat Agassi to win Wimbledon and ten off the top at last adding some substance sphere will not be duplicated. unusually for this level of the French Open title for die seed here in what amid prove to his talent There was a crowd of 50.000 football, taken to deploying first time last year. Courier his last grand-slam singles The Maleeva family has at last time the countries met. two former defenders, in Sfor- pointedly and profusely match. Courier's domination, Iasi found an infallible way to and foe Swiss spectators were za and Ohrel. in midfield. thanked his coach, Jos6 particularly over the first two break down a barrier which animated fay foe prospect of They can be regarded as Higueras, while ignoring sets, suggested he had left the had hitherto proved impene- qualifying for foe finals of an anchor men in foe middle of trable. In .total, the two elder important tournament for the the field, and their presence sisters have reached 1 7 grand Irish wiles: Townsend receives permanent recognition for his choice of country first time since 1966. Since there suggests that this en- slam quarter-finals — Man- them foe capacity of foe counter may be rather more uela (1 ]) and. Katerina (6) — stadium has been halved physical than last year’s. US unless staled T Wbodbridge and M Woodtorde (Aus) without once going further. because of safety requirements Switzerland are not short of Men's singles bt W Ferreira and P Norval (SA), 61.6 Townsend given captaincy 3. Today's quarter-final between and foe Swiss FA seems to motivation: they already lead Third round Manuela and Magdalena have guaranteed that foe foe group after their 6-0 6- Women's doubles M Washington bt H Leconte (FrJ, 8-4, 1 guarantees progress, though it From CuveWhite Mick McCarthy as captain, so crowd wifi not reach even the victory in Estonia. Scotland, 7. 6-4, 6-3; M Washington bt H Second round 6-7. 6-4. 6-3. their Leconte, 64, M Femandaz and Z Garrison bl J-A might cause considerable fric- IN DUBLIN Kernaghan has the opportuni- 15,000 mark by charging as too, are confident after Fourth round Paul (Aue)andJRtehardson(NZ),64. tion in the household were the ty to take over from foe much as £40 for tickets. exploits in the European J Comer btJ McEnroe, 6-2. 6-2, 7-6; A 64. Group throe youngest sister to reach the Not to be outdone fay Eng- M illwall player-manager in Roxburgh, though, is wary championship. Vofcov (CIS) bt B GHbart, 6-2, 6-4, 5-7, Third round 1- semi-final the first time of land, the Republc of Ireland PWDL F A Pta the position which has. reput- of supposing that flatter 7-6; P Sampras bt G Forget (Fr). 6-3, at a SWITZERLAND: M Pascals (Servetie M Navratilova and P Shrew bt I ...... 1 a Geneva): HoMger 6 1-6. 64. 63: A Agassi bt C Costa asking. It also continues the appointed a new captain of Lithuania 3 1 t A 3 edly, been giving Jack atmosphere is an automatic M (Sen). A EflMSerwite Spam 1 i 0 0 3 0 2 Geneva). A Gager (Seri). Y Quentin (Sp). 64. 63, 62. O^l'mcNeS and rivalry yesterday they Chariton cause for benefit for his players. “Last R Stubbses) bt J theme of sibling set fay their own when Rep of Ire 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 concern Women's singles Hetberington (Can) and K Rinaldi, 64. the Sfinchez brothers. gave the job. on a permanent Albania 3 10 2 1 5 2 almost since the day he and year the hysteria of foe crowd Fourth round 7-5; R McOunan (Aus) and G Porank Nrie.- ...... 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 In the juniors, there have basis, to Andy Townsend, became manager of Ireland. undoubtedly affected Switzer- Ziich) or PWannU (Stbnj. Krtup Denmark 1 I B A Maleeva-FragniAre (Swttz) bt C (Gerj bt S CoKns and S Rehe, 63. 62. 1 0 0 0 0 M (Stutrgon). S Chnputsol (Bcrusaa been encouraging wins for who, ironically, might now be Latvia 2 0 11 1 2 1 Defensive issues are likely to land. and although they were Cunningham, 63, 7-5; S Graf (Get) bl F Mixed doubles Dortmund). Labat (Aig). 62, 62; M Maleeva (Bui) three British players, Loma die England captain if Gra- Previous mutts: Spain 3. Albania O, matter less than what Ireland 2-0 up at half-time. I said to Quarter-finals SCOTLAND: A Goran (Rangers); T Boyd btC Rubin, 7-5, 67. 61 Northern Ireland 2. utfuarta 2; Ireland 2, (SA) Galbraith bt Woodruffe, Shmi-Azm Siddall ham Taylor’s predecessor had do in attack against a stub- crur players that l believed the (Cette). D McPherson (Ranges). R Gough E Retoach and P (US) Afcana 0; Alban la 1 Uthuanre 0: Latvia 1 , United): Men's doubles Fencflck ' (Rangers). M Malpas (Dundee P P and S DeVries (US). 64, 63; and Andrew Richardson, shown greater foresight. Lithuania 2; Latvia 0, Danmark 0. born “no hoper, who man- Swiss were gone, that they did McStny (Cattle). G McAlister (Leeds Third round J Helhermgian and G MfcNbata (Can) ~ though Mandy Wamwright England, nowadays, are less aged to hold Denmark, the not have the physical or men- UncetJ), S McCall (Rangers). B McCtair Eltingh and P Hawhuls (HoU) bt T bl HetaeBtxi and T Kronamann (US).- J G ' [Manchester Untied). A McCdsl (Rangers). 6-2; was beaten the top seed. inclined to let one slip through European champions, to a tal capacity to get through 90 Nrjssen (Holt) and C Suk (C2J, 7-6, 64,2-6.61 by G Dune (Tottenham Hotspur) or K the net — Townsend had been Middlesbrough central de- goalless draw in Riga last minutes in that atmosphere. Gaflacher (Coventry Cttyl. eligible to play for either fender. who will make has month. Chariton felt that the POLO country when Ireland alone debut for Ireland against Lat- Danes made the mistake of mM:n came calling three-and-arhalf via in the World Cup group playing "what you would term Spackman returns home years ago — as they have three qualifying match at controlled football from foe demonstrated twice in the past Lansdowne Road today, back”. That, as we all know, is NIGEL Spackman yesterday Leeds United must pay Johnson Outlandos overcome by seven days fay snatching the played half a dozen games for not the Irish way and Latvia returned to Chelsea from £720.000 for Scott Sellars, promising Stephen Froggan, Northern Ireland as a will be readying themselves for Rangers for £485,000 (Louise their dose-season signing disposes of Aston Villa, and Phil schoolboy. a heavy aerial assault led by Tayior writes). Spademan, 31, from Blackburn Rovers, a flurry of late scoring Whelan, of Ipswich Town, Appearances at schoolboy “Bomber" Quinn and served who can play in midfield or transfer tribunal decided from the Irish. level do not bind a player to a up by foe likes of Staunton, defence, is starting his second yesterday. of Parrott THE Guards dub’s medium- long dribbling gallop for the Whether or not England country for life and Ker- providing he recovers from a spell at Stamford Bridge after Although it priced Sellars at goal autumn league contin- 5V4 victory. will rue the day they did not naghan, due to the complex ricked- neck- leaving Chelsea for Liverpool £950,000, Leeds are entitled REPUBUC OF IRELAND: P Bonner at Smith’s Lawn, Windsor Lambourne began with a make overtures in foe. direc- qualification rules (he qualifies in 1986. to a 25 per cent discount Joe Johnson, the 1 986 world ued (Celtic). D train [Manchester urued). A Porterfield, Sellars champion, beat John Parrott Great Park, yesterday, a 5^-4 handicap lead of 1 h against tion of Alan Kernaghan re- for foe Republic because his Kernaghan (Mutotesbrough). P McGrath Ian the Chelsea because when they sold (Aston Villa), S Staunton (Aston Via) for T 5-3 win registered for Palmera's more formidable mains to he seen, though it is grandparents were bom in manager, needs to reinforce a to Blackburn for £20,000 six winner of the title last year, being Phelan. Manchester Cty). R Keane (Na- Chop’n’Santa against Out- lineup, centred on Roddy Northern Ireland who are Belfast), has been able to nngham Forest). R Whelan (Liverpool). A side weakened by the loss of years ago. United were prom- in Blackpool yesterday to . Townsend (Chefcaal. K Sheody 7>a-7 win for Wood and the all-England likely to be the more embar- switch allegiance. Just as Paul Elliott for a year with ised 25 per cent of any future reach the last 16 of the landos. and a sate LWed). J AWridga fTranmare succeeded ligament transfer fee. £150,000 European Open, Lambourne against Palmera nine-goal captain, Howard rassed in such an event The Townsend has i), N Quinn (Manchester dry) knee damage. 5-4*2 which is played to a finish In (John Watson writes). Hipwood. Palmera led Belgium next February. Chop’n’Santa began half a at half-time but Lambourne 1 goal up on handicap but won by virtue of three penalty Albania’s leading player Ronnie O’Sullivan, 6. fol- Faeroes will be tricky hurdle lowed up on his 5-1 victory Outlandos overtook that ad- conversions from Rafael Panda in the fourth chukka. over Jimmy While in the vantage in the first chukka . CHOPTTSANTA: 1 ,W Bond-Bllott (1); 2. U previous beating and led 3-1 h half-time. goes missing in transit By Keith Pike round by fay Amoore (4); 3. H Femsndez-Ucrema (7): Jason Weston 5-1. However, Chop’n’Santa went Back: BMonta B). OUTLANDOS: 1, BWeOd (11; 2. J Honree# will have never qual- province in the north cy. main priority has got Marie Williams of Ebbw 44-4 ahead three minutes NORTHERN Ireland’s confident that we acquit WALES, who Danish “Our future wen ourselves well.” Compound- ified for foe finals of a leading Atlantic, where sheep outnum- to be to win." he said yester- Vale, and Stephen Lee, of before the final bell, after World Cup may be problems is championship, take the field ber humans two to one and day. “Everybody would like to Trowbridge, both aged 17, which their pivot Horario decided tonight fay a team ing Begakush’s fay with tales to tell of missing foe absence of Sul DemoDari. against the Faeroe Islands at registered football players fay see us score loads of goals and also progressed to give the Femandez-Llorente. put in a players and interminable de- Albania's most experienced foe National Stadium in Car- ten times that ratio. Or is it? play entertaining football, but composition of the field for the lays its belated arrival in player. “He is lost somewhere diff tonight knowing that any- Even at a time when foe gap our priority is to get two tournament’s final stages an upon Belfast yesterday (Ian Ross in Europe," Begakush said. thing other than victory — and between the best and the rest points. Putting out an ultra- additional flavour of youth. BOWLS writes). Billy Bingham, foe North- a resounding one at that — at international level is some- attacking side would be the Jahangir can The stories would have been ern Ireland manager, will rely would virtually scupper their times difficult to discern, foe worst thing I could do." decried as a wholly transpar- on the nucleus of foe side chances of a place in the 1 994 Faeroes’ 1 -0 victory over Aus- Even so, foe temptation to Squash rackets; Jahangir Allcock in semi-finals ent exercise in pre-match psy- which could only draw against World Cup finals in foe Uni- tria in a European champion- include Giggs from foe start world cham- ted with the qualifying ship tie two years ago this after three appearances as Khan, the former chology had they not had an Lithuania . in foe opening, States declared him- still its Saturday foeir first competi- substitute prove hard to pion. yesterday TONY Allcock reached the and Palmers, Reading, 20-1 6. all-too-familiar ring to them. group three qualifying fixture, tournament in infancy. — may match — resist, especially in self fit enough to play in the semi-finals of the EBA pairs This morning Allcock and The players spent six-and-a- although Clarke, foe Ports- It is, of course, inconceivable tive international foe wake of ‘ Johannesburg will that will fail. Their was nothing short of Wales’s 5-1 defeat against world open in championship, a title he has Wills play Richard Moses and half hours at Munich airport mouth forward, definitely Wales Paki- later this month. The never won, after two dose John Durrant of Hollingbury while foe validity of their visas be reinstated. “After foe disap- manager, Terry Yorafo. is able sensational. Romania in Bucharest in 5 in the That the has waned May. stani dropped to No. matches at Worthing yester- Park. Brighton, while the oth- was called, into question. pointment against Lithuania, to call upon an attack (Rush. magic world after back lias had an excellent result in Hughes. Saunders and Giggs, somewhat since then — three rankings day (Gordon Allan writes): er semi-final is between Andy “None of my squad been we WALES N Southall (Evaton).D 1-1." ties World problems forced him out for He and Andrew Wills beat Thomson and Gary Smith, of able to eat or sleep properly Germany, drawing conservative value £1 0 million) in foe present Cup maps City). D Bowen [Noranch CM. E oal Palace). K Symons ” Birge stud. that mosr international managers tournament have brought the eight months. the 1987 champions. Tommy Blackheath and Greenwich, over foe past 24 hours, Bingham “But on adonore (Manchester Armstrong and David Holt, and John Wills and lan Begakush, the national coach, occasion we had to play things would sell their grandmothers Faeroes three defeats and a uiraji. B Home (Evenonl, M Hughes (Manchester Urwed). G Speed (Leeds and Carruthers. of Dalston. said. “But we must try and put tight: this time we have to for. against a collection of part- 0-12 goal difference — has not Team banned 21-16 and Gary Stacey linked) or R (Sqbb (Ktetchasier United). I brother. Matt of Huntley Cumbria. all of this behind us. I am attack and we have to win." timers from an autonomous hilled Yorafo into complacen- Rush (Liverpool)/ D Saunders (Liverpool) Motor racing: The Italian his Formula One team. Andrea K-.40ECI •-••• Moda, have been banned VrFpBTWE RECORD^ •• from the 1992 motor raring

for tar- Fulham v Ipswich (ZJOi. Portsmouth » world championship MILFORD HAVEN: Water Woman’s Bowl- FA CUP: PreBtniarY round reptajr Pateatt Cembray (Devon and Cornwall. 147.24. 3, FOOTBALL water (Devon and Cornual). 147.17 Wtetord: Tottenham v Bristol City (2 0); image of the sport AMERICAN FOOTBALL ing Association national ehamptansrtps: Vila 1. Oktuy United 0 G (loc*c-off 7 30 mtess staled) nishing the Wtmbtedon Qxtoid division: Double rinks: SemMlnals: Aberaeron bl Standard Pteiol: 1. R Ductawtth [West v Uid. Second chief. Antonio International Andrea Moda Yorks). 555; 2. S Piper fWteel YorteJ. 544: 3, match Bjrrrvngham v Chefienham. Cawfiff v Plym- NATIONAL ; Danas Coir PontKBM, 47-38 rank scores (Aberaeron 9MA. Japan: ttefnattona) cotte- A Oidroyd (West Yorks], 544 Teams: 1. Spain v Eraland (8.0) outh (2.0|: Exeter v Torquay, Swansea v Sassetti, was arrested two Dove 23. Washngton 10 . skips Aral R Siacte 24. V Aitwood 20; S GOLF west rods. Bournemouth: Yaovd v Bnstol (7.45). t tDumamsra: first round Men: 86: M 2.155c 2. EJrarhchde. 2.065. 3, (In Santander) Rcmra charged with Davies 23. V McBride 19. Pori Tatoa bl weeks ago and Bridgend Prfcasa, 50-27 Frink Koras port SUTTON GOLDFIELD'. European senior CHandar flJS), S Yb (Japan) 67: K West Mttands. 1507 BASEBALL Wtmaker BlSLEY: North London RC cteampfonaftta World Cup CRICKET alleged fraud. Tatxfl skips flraj: L Evan 22, J Griffttha 15, women's teem diamptonshto: Hist guafi- Hosofcawa (Japan). 68: R (US). P E Thomas 26. B Rees 12 fyteg round: 3OB: England (A Duck 75. C Vaddan (Japan) Women: 69: Y Hags Corrected resufl: 1. L Onren-Smetie. European group one Britannic Assurance Thompson, NATIONAL LEAGUE: Chicago Cubs B, Batey 77, A Thompson 7S, H Green 78). Uapan).71:CLambart[GB).ASison 73: S 28530. 2. P 28123: 3. J Switzerland v Scotland (7.15) county championship Pmstwgh Pirates 5 (11 lima). Si Lout 324: France. 325: Sweden. 3ZT. Holland Mann (US). Massei. 28033 Grand aggregate: 1. (In Lucky escape Beme) 10.30, 110 overs mnimum CanAneB 8, Monraal Expos 7 (10 tens); LA MANGA, Spain: National boys champ- Meeser. 346.43. 2. Clrpen-Smeke. 338.35: CRICKET 334: Germany- 336: Spain 339: Swcer- three Atlanta Braves 7. Los Angeles Dodgers i; 137: SWabaer (AttieraoM). 143: 3. Thompson. 33829 Group DERBY: Derbyshire v Essex Tino Salonen, of land 34& Italy torettp: Rallying: Cronnati RecB 10. Houston Astros 0; San (Sunningdate). Northern Ireland v Albania (8.0) RAPID CmCKETUNE SECOND XI bolton: Lord Demy/RAM Assistants’ A wan CANTERBURY: Kent v Glamorgan his Citroen Diego Padres 7. San Fianceco Guns 5; (a) Windsor Park). Finland, got out of CHAMPIONSHIP: Southampton: Harra- tournament: first round: 70: A Coflaon OLD TRAFFORD: Lancashire v Sussex PhttaBBtotva Phlltes 3. SNOOKER New York Men; a 414 (R Maru RepuWc of Ireland v Latvia (5.0)...... just before it exploded shire S M Moms 132. RJ 84;M LORD’S: Middlesex v Warwickshve ZX AMERICAN LEAGUE: Caittoma Angels 3, HOCKEY JearaJeeques 5-48) v Derbyshire BLACKPOOL: European open quaSyinq (at Lansdowne Road) during the fourth stage of the Oakland A s 2. Minnesota Trans 4, Seattle TRENT BRIDGE; Nonmghamsrtre « Royals (England unless stated): Third round: T Group four yesterday. Mariners Z. Kansas C*y 5, Torino ~~ SINGAPORE: (mar-nations women’s cup: Surrey Paris-Peking rally Gnffths (Wales) tt Scanlon. Psrron EButt Jays dm) . Nmv York VanWteS & C 62. J v teJands 4 (12 Group A: Malaysia 1. ZteibabiMe ft Unified Wales Faeroe Somerset FOOTBALL tx J WhSaea. 5-0: M Wliams (Wales) bt J TAUNTON; v Durham Salonen and his co-driver. Bdflurtore OnOte 2 (13 tens]. Mdwaukfte Teem 12. Thatend 0 Grotto B: Singapore (at National Stadium. Cardiff) Wattana (Thai), 63: A Drago (Mate) bt C Brewers 2. Cfewtand rasa 0: Bosun Red 5, Hong Kongo Third under-1 9 Test match Christian Delfcrier, leapt from EUROPEAN UNDER-21 CHAMPION- Thoroum Barclays League Sox 3. Texas Rangers a (Can), 60. S Hendry (Scot) bt J Bulgaria i; WORCESTER England v Sri Lanka SHIP, Group sbe 0. France WytSt (Can). Johnson A Dawte'J car after it caught fire 61; J W Second division their Finland 1. Saeden 0. (11.0) (Wafas). 61: D Foraer bt B Morgan. 60. D while they BOWLS ICE HOCKEY West Bromwich v Reading without warning P W 0 L F A Pts Roe bt J Saunders, 62; J SweH (N be) bt n RAPID CnCKETUNE SECOND XI SOmph. Attend ... 2 1 1 0 1 0 3 Fonda, 63: A kraraes m K Payne. 62; M Coca-Cola Cup CHAHtflONSHF: Seaton Carew: Durham were travelling at WORTHING: EBA ratoon* ctiampWn- BENSON Alto HEDGES CUP: Baling Franca 1 i 0 0 1 0 2 Haflen a D Date. 63: J woodman bt P leg v Worcestershire. Chettnstord: Esse* v shiw: Patts TOW round: M Stacey and G stoke Bearers M, Slough Jets 2. fife fiyere First round, second Bittgsna ..2011 0 i i Fiancew [SAJ M Pwe Thome, Bristol: . 62; « W 6 NonhamptorahRe Gtouasiererwe Stacey (Huntley and Patenere) Bt P Seymour 1 3. MtfrayfiekJ Racers 1 0: Medway Boat* 3. Northampcon v QSlngham demand Sweden 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3. A RobidouK (Can) bt A Meo. H: M v Warwickshire Somhampton.- Hampshire Big and K Rodger; (Ghesham), 2i-i?, A W*s Humberside Seanarae iff. Rornnd Rid- Austral 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Johna on-Aflat bt S MttsuO (Aus). 64; N GM Vauxhall Conference v Derbyshire ShWoaks: Notinghamshire y and A Attack (Chettenham) U O He*and T ers 4. Bftngtam Bomber; 6: Sheffield 4,000 re- Israel .....0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bend ta A WnanE (N bet. 5-4; D Tayto* (N Boaionv Wycombe Laceuereture The Oval: Surey v Lan- Golf: More than Armstrong (Boon), 21-16; J Durant and R Steetere 12, Ayr Bruns 4. Cardiff Devils 16 NEVILLE OVENDEN COMBINATION: Seahawks ire) bl A Hams, 63. Fourth round: fl HFS LOANS LEAGUE: Premier division: cashire Horsham: Sussex v Mddtesev for Cup tickets Moses (HtflngtMy Park Brighton) tXL &ackn£fl Bees 10 Humberside quests Ryder Outens Park Rangers 3. Charlton 1; West CTSufcuan ta J Weston. 61; D Mount Bishop Auckland v Gainsborough: Fleet- Bradford: Yorkshre v Gtefrorgan Vtewohouse and B Bcrthwck (Co-Op 2. Nottingham Panthers Z. MunayTeld py Professional Ham 1. Arsenal 0. (Wales) bt p Ebdon, 6£: D Moron (Wtttes) wood Berra*. Mossley v Gooto fits have reached the Worcester), ao-t® WBewett and PBewx* Racers 7. Sheffield S(enters 7; v bt D Ctarte. Hicks bl iMtkison, RUGBY UNION Manors Durham Wasps 7. 64. A G 6 (Melon: AAeion v Shepshed; Faratey Golfers’ Association, despite (Hylton Quay] bt L Jntts and fl Cowans Late results on Monday 10, 4: M Bennett (Wales) MTGnftMh (Wales). 6 Worksop. Knowsley Radc&fte: UNDEFF21 INTERNATIONAL MATCH: lUxcsJw), 21-18: M Edney and M Dyer OIADORA LEAGUE: Premier division: Celtic y v than 100 Z 5 Lee a m Clark, 61; S James W D Wartingion Curaon Scotland v tLafy (Ketso. 7 0). an increase of more Laos and Law# (Foote Carcteion i. Windsor and Eton 3 League v AsMon iFoflngdon) w N P Reynolds. 60, S Daws bl R Lawler, 62: J BEATER HOMES LEAGUE: Premtar re- per cent in prices. The match raw, 2616; G Smw and A Thomson Cup, presmteary round: Purflnsi 3, RUGBY UNION TOUR MATCH: Public School wander- Jcfnson bt J Pent*, 63: Price bt D Fonder. vision: Cambridge Cny v HaEtngs. SoUufl {Bteefcheatfi and Greenracft) tn T Mnehett Rtsyswi 1 : Train 1, EMiom 2 ers v Mediolanum Milan (Wasps. 70). is year away but Sandy 64. Jcvnsion-Aien m Hootooux, 64. M still 3 and J Otar (Caraieis). 2i-i2iCanumers HFS LOANS LEAGUE: Premier Artstar CLUB MATCHES: Tredegar 0. Monmouth- vCortiy, WUItams (Wales) Bt D Roe. 62: J Swatt (N CLUB MATCHES: Cardfff v Cardiff and MOIoot Z. Hwte 2, Accrington S awe 34; ayncodi 0. N«tn W PONTWS CENTRAL LEAGUE (7.0 unless Jones, executive director of the and J Wife tpaJson) bt T Dog andJAmen Errtey Z District (70), Hartaquns v Askeans: MATCH: Cefcimbta bei br A Knontes, 61. Drago bl Bond. 62: Frist [Elson and Robttnsj. 1610. M Squta and Fted dMsm- Caernarfon Town T. GuaOtey TOUR EWdit 36, staled) drwaian: Blackburn v Sheffield said: demand has Taylor tar M HattetL 62 S Hendry (Scot) MJ Rugbyv Cwrentry; Lercssttf v Lflsestar- PGA. The JRgby {Bcscomi* CWf) or wCamgen ana 0: Roasandate United i. Gretna o CarntMrtge Uniwrsay 19. Usd, Manchester Uid v Nottmgnem Foresu Wbodman. 62. v sfiref7 0). been spectacular. The tickets E M Aten Wfeftngtnrough). 21-SO (after BEAZS1 HOMES LEA&IE: Premier dhri- Sundartsnd Barnsley. Wourhampion v extra end) Ouartar^inali' rafts andAScock atan: Hedneskxd 2. VS Rugby 0 Barclays Newcastle Second division: Blackpool v are being allocated on a first SHOOTING OTHER SPORT bi Sacof and Soon. 20-16. Duran end Commercial Sendee Cup: PreBrntoary SPEEDWAY Pori Vale. BumteyvVifigan (7.15); Huddare- fleu Bradford. BOWLS: EBA natand championships come, first served basis and I Moses bi Bewick ana BcwkA. J9-l7;&ntth round, first teg. Worcester City 0. Cbc*w»- y MaflesbrauGb v Huh. Peace cnamptoosrtps: Future HOMBFIRE LEAGUE: Fir* Read- CHcteara w Piestcn. (Wrattyng). and Thomson tx Edna? and Dyer. 20-11, ham2. Hendryrfourtlhimind BSLEY: So4#B»pe v Eve»lon. would urge golf fans to apply yards): 1. P Wife bt Squru and Ffcg&y, GREAT MU£ LEAGUE: Premor dnntoK Rifle (303. S00 and 600 ing Racers 51. Swndon 39; Wohramamp- NEVILLE OVENDEN GOM&MAT1QN: SNOOKER Duta Classic qualifying 1* CamUhro and winner in Blackpool (Lesaswshaisi. 14521. S. tons King as soon as possible. 22-21 (MMertttfind). watton Royen 4. Dewzes Town i. Johnson B 51. s Lynn 33 firet dMrtion: Brighton v Chelsea 17 151: (BteckpooQ 2 - 28 the^^times j— \% RACING 25 • CRICKET 26 • FOOTBALL 27 SPORT WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1 992 Taylor looks forward to England’s renaissance

to clarify and side >n the rntnoMmage. He FROM Stuart Jones That, anyway, is the theory. only of any use when you pul in internationals and yeti had land manager three members of FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT Tayior has so regularly con- one in at the other end. We just seen a side do that to put explain the truth of his argu- has picked been the team which cofleaed the IN SANTANDER tradicted himself that there had two goalless draws during us out of the championship." ment Evidently, he has the long another the European championship Gta Thus, England are to adopt forgiven and the precision of gold medal in Olympic may be before C Woods {Shea Wed) 0 that get us?" conqueror’s ways. distribution wUl be a vital Games in Barcelona last Tayior yesterday shift in his plans. Neverthe- and where did L Oban (AiSBRaTj 28 12 T their his GRAHAM are relying (Noon For) selecting in die new attack- month. AO force defenders opened the second half of his less. his intentions are refresh- Instead of almost S Phh - » SO 2 Instead of Deane, component PincofManUKQ 24 0 0 whose duty wfli be to restrain national managerial career ing in the light of England's wholly on the instincts of Gary which might have attracted ing wrce. DWascar Sampan) - 28 47 0 Premier league's contribution to the Lineker, who scored more further unfavourable com- Clough, like the two players two of the with a significant change of negative U Wright (Lwerpocfl — 29 <2 1 internation- leading goalscnrers. Shouer emphasis. England, he prom- European championship in than a third of England's 34 0 Wttffl (Man Ccy) 24 0 0 ments. Tayior has recalled one making their first goals in the last years. D PMt (JuvenuS) 26 32 11 players appearances, has been and White. ises, will play with a new sense June, when they scored one two of foe three who were al N Ctaugh (Nofim Foe) _ 26 7 0 reproduce his Not since I960 has Eng- positive until his goal in three ties. Taylor has spread the respon- inactive throughout the whole asked merely to of adventure A ShOBfBT fKacfcfauTi) _ 22 3 I sibility I nee. who wins his land been defeated on Span- contract is scheduled to end along a wide front line. ASMon (OPR) 26 6 0 tournament. Clough, in an dub form. midfield, and ish soil but Taylor prefers to after the World Cup finals in Intriguingiy, it includes not SuMUtK tobeamouKed- article published m a local first cap in winger ignore such statistics. "We the United Stales in 1994. have not been positive Brian Deane, as had been newspaper, expressed his frus- White, the prolific the other side of mustn't be frightened of los- The policy is to start here enough,** he conceded yester- supposed, but Nigel Clough. tration about being left onthe from been ing.” he said. “We must start tonight, when England wifi day. “You need winning tac- Deane would be ideally suggests drat he was not sidelines. Manchester, have so far their respec- the second phase of my career fine up against Spam with a tics and you need entertaining suited to the long-ball game, a thinking dearly and rationally like the national manager, outstanding for not being inhibited." broad attack featuring four tactics. Generally, we*ve got system which Tayior unequiv- at the time. he professed yesterday that his tive dubs. On paper, they by Zufckantfa (Bwcatona) forwards, wifi continue the winning tactics right and, ocally indicated he world in He claims he was bemused words were misre resented. promise to augment an excit- F*mr and p nal topaz (MMOoo Mwttf). choice, that is the future be employing. His even far as to ing formation. throughout a World Cup if there is a dec- by Sweden’s daring approach Clough went as Iba (Afltoco MacK$. Toni Mateo (Rom competition which way you would want it laration provoked criticism during the decisive 2- 1 defeat persuade the sports editor Ironically. Spain's manager Madnefl. WM Madrid), Vteofcw qualifying Amor IBwcatora). English of [Nttoco Mar*Kfl. Ita* begins at Wetnbley stadium “It is difficult to get the right when it was uttered three "I had been tod to believe that responsible for his weekly admires the way Vtaqunx «Mno*M). Baton (teqtttNi. White: promising against Norway next month. balance but dean sheets are months ago and he now you couldn't use four forwards cotomn to contact the Eng- playing and is designing his HfiSpofloe

English football lurches towards another crisis 9M0N0EUIS

£S|.§K Kelly fears for future

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S-g K By Stuart Jones, football correspondent, in santander REPRESENTATIVES of six des and rejected the offer from gested that a meeting should have to be abandoned. If block g"?^ leading dubs wfil gather today Bass to sponsor foe Premier be urgency convened during votes continue to be employed to discuss the preservation of League. which foe voice of reason by the eight dubs, the other 14 foe FA Premier League. Dur- Believing that foe blocking might be heard. would be entitled to claim the ing the opening months ofthe vote had been used for the Ttue proposal was immed- system is unfair inaugural season, such deep sake of dubs that are backed iately accepted. The other Realistically, they can al- S rifts have developed within foe fay rival brewers, the pther 14 dubs involved are likely to ready sense that it is weighed new organisation that Gra- chibs were incensed. They are indude Southampton. Old- too heavfly against them. In ham Kelly, chief executive of convinced not only that their ham Athletic and probably that case, there are three 5-3 the Football Association, fears own interests are being ig- Sheffield Wednesday as well alternative solutions to a prob- it may become ungovernable: nored but also that there is no as either Chelsea or Totten- lem that could have been £1 Almost as soon as he arrived longer an acceptable balance ham Hotspur. Conveniently forseenwhen Kelly's blueprint here with foe England team of power. spread geographically, they was revealed some 18 months on Monday, he learned of the Martin Edwards, the chair- represent an appropriate ago. Since then, it has been so latest constitutional crisis. man of Manchester United, crosfrsection of the Premier diluted as to be virtually

UP8.3 Eight dubs — Arsenal Aston and Peter Robinson, chief League and the outcome of unrecognisable. Vxfia, Everton, Leeds United. executive of Liverpool were their talks is critical The Premier League could Liverpool, Manchester Uni- alarmed by the extent of the Unless mutual agreement is be run by either a manage- ted. Nottingham Forest, and disunity. They contacted Ride. reached, the complicated con- ment committee or by the FA. Queens Park Rangers — had Parry, the chief executive of stitution of foe Premier On past evidence, that would i_j collectively flexed their mus- foe Premier League, and sug- League wifi almost certainly be equivalent to sailing in a sea of confusion or drifting . aimlessly. The third choice, . persistently promoted in these Edwards leads search for pages, is for a firm and enlightened commissioner to be put in charge. Chairmen have for so long the common ground been justifiably accused of 8*83.0 bang avaricious, blindly self- interested and egotistical that even foe wildest optimist can- between conflicting sides not expect 22 ofthem to act for foe benefit of foe game as a By Peter Ball whole. However honourably, they believe only in their own MANCHESTER United and Monday was a one-off. then Members' Agreement, equal dubs. Liverpool wifi lead the search we’ll have to listen, but we*D shares of TV income was Instead of fighting for the 5'S-.5 for a way out of the impasse still have to see what kind of agreed, along with overseas common good, they have ar- which threatens the existence assurances we get, and that sales and sponsorship,” Ed- ranged themselves into two S-R of the FA Premier League. w/ill determine whetherwe can wards said, “then suddenly on groups and engaged in an The two have agreed to attend sort this out as a group." the agenda centralised adver- undignified and childish polit- a meeting in Manchester this Some cynics suspect that, tising hoardings crops up. ical conflict The petulance morning to discuss the break- having achieved their imme- “It takes away individual may yet extend as for as to end down which led to a walk-out diate objective, the big dubs dubs’ freedom, it brings in foe courteous custom Of invit- at Monday’s meeting. wifi be in conciliatory mood. secondary sponsors which de- ing opposing directors into foe There has been a lot of Edwards said: “We have dear- value your main sponsorship. host's boardroom. Gascoigne seeks unlikely goal muscle-flexing," Martin Ed- ly got teething problems, but What is coining next? One kit Several dubs among the 14 wards. the diairman and duef that is not surprising when deal and shirt sponsorship for feel so strongly that they are executive of Manchester Uni- you look at Wimbledon with a the whole league? refusing to transfer any of Santander Fora while here, it the manager of his new dub, He hopes that his first the psychological damage ted, said yesterday. "And per- turnover of £1 million and us The big dubs have been their players to the other eight has been possible to envisage Dino Zon, as “the ideal official appearance for Lazio that have ?S~5 may been caused haps it was necessary, but with £20 minion.” more disadvantaged by the For that reason. Crystal Palace Flanl Gascoigne representing patient”. Since moving to will be against his old dub, has yet to be revealed. hopefully now Is foe time to Before any consensus can be TV deal with playing on were not prepared to allow England again (Stuart Jones Rome, he has apparently Tottenham Hotspur, on Sep- That he can seriously con- 5' sort it out.” reached there wifi be plenty of Sundays and Mondays alien- Geoff Thomas to move to writes). Reunited at long last done everything that has tember 23. The league fix- sider an international ruture United and Liverpool are plain speaking. "What is hap- ating their supporters, and Arsenal even for an absurdly with his international col- been asked of him and more. ture at home to Genoa four is a tribute to his courage ^^3 regarded as the most moder- pening is that in the Founder we’ve had our sponsorhips inflated fee of £3 million. leagues; he has froUdced on Nobody should doubt his days later may be his fust and seemingly reformed ate of the leading dubs, and devalued the most by foe Mote ominously, the likes of the periphery of training ses- positive approach either. competitive matdi since he character. As Paul Lake has ? with Arsenal and Ciystal Pal- switch to satellite TV with its Derby County, Newcastle sions and insists that he will When asked yesterday lost his head in last year’s recently discovered at audiences. affected fc ace both excluded. foe attempt small That United, Sunderland and West soon be able to play a full part whether be genuinely feds FA Cop final . Manchester City, knee sur- is to bring together foe moder- the major dubs foe most, and Ham United may soon be for his country. he wifi come back as good Yet he could be dogged fay gery can leave more than a a? ates on both sides. now suddenly there are these approached and asked wheth- The prospect is immensely and as strong a player as be the niggling injuries that permanent scar. Gascoigne, 0 The action of foe eight other issues coming up.” er they would consider leaving appealing, particularly in everwas, he responded with- have delayed his return. He who specialises in twisting “platinum dubs”, in signing Graham Kelly, tne FA'S the Football form- of the League and view lack of invention out hesitation. “Definitely," revealed that his latest and turning, is likely to be their separate agreement with chief executive, responded to inga separate division of 18 in Engarafs midfield, bat is it he said. "I have no doubts compfaini, a pulled thigi afflicted fay the residual ef- Doma for advertising hoard- the latest Premier League a mirage? Gascoigne may about it” musde, las troubled him fects of his wounds. ings. has provoked foe most troubles fay urging for it to be Thai, as everybody appreci- habitually defy convention He has lost weight, some twice before and also that he He could reappear for determined reaction so far reduced to le dubs. Kelly, ates, should have been foe size and he could indeed recover 171b since die summer holi- cannot bend bis right leg as England, perhaps in the from the smaller dubs. pointed out that foe FA is not of the Premier League this from his horrendous knee days, and he appears to have much as his left. World Cup qualifying tie at of the it appear. season; that figure injuries, “It is a question seeing lame dude might and was foe bat even he may not gained maturity during his He is stiff not allowed to home to San Marino in whether tins group of eight is Kdly said: “We have given in Kelly’s original concept He reafisticaBy be expected to prolonged recuperation. Al- take part in any physical February, and he promises going to be used as a blocking notice to the Premier League flew home yesterday morning reach the peaks he once though he can scarcely wait contact he cannot strike the to play as before, “with a to thwart dial talk about aware that his idea, apart system in the future we want to a from scaled. to resume his career, he ball forcefully with Ins right smffe on my face", that, at majority wishes,” Ian Stott, reduction to 18 dubs at the bang extensively altered, has Nobody should question his appreciates that he cannot foot and he admits that be is least, mil make a change to the chairman of Oldham, earliest opportunity. We want started in such disarray that spirited commitment Eager afford to rush back, either well short of the required the image of him crying at said, “or whether it was just to to be assured we are going to there can be no guarantee that to attend both of Lazio’s daily for his Italian dob or subse- level of fitness. In spite ofhis the end of the World Cup objective. If they reach that target as as it will end its first in practices, achieve one soon season he is described by quently for his country. own conviction, the extent of semi-final two years ago. seriously maintain its use on Edwards: moderate possible.” one piece.

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ala-ms By Patricia Davies Australian coaching job By Martin Searby

LAURA Davies was disap- putt for a birdie three and the however, has won in Europe ADRIAN Moorhouse, foe He believes that foe experi- YORKSHIRE confirmed last batsman :-p who, as Sachin plinaiy problems with Mid- it pointed not to win the Rail 66 that would win her the tide. and this latest result con- British gold medal-winner in ence gained from ten years of night that Richie Richardson, proved, will not win you dlesex fay being left out of both h Charity Classic in Springfield, “It looked in all the way." she firmed her return to form after the 100 metres breastroke at being one of the leading three the West captain, Indies trophies in the modem England winter tours, is plan- 1 Illinois, on Labor Day on said, “but broke across the a shaky start to the season. the Olympic Games in Seoul breaststroke swimmers in foe would be their next overseas game.” ning a winter of rest and h but losing in a play- hole and stayed out" “I’ve got my confidence back." is to be interviewed for the wood should not be player Monday, wasted. in succession to Sachin One of the compelling rea- reassessment of his approach It off to Nancy Lopez, one of the The 18th, a par four of 376 she said, “and I go our there position of breaststroke coach “I’m familiar with Aus- foe Tendulkar, a decision which sons behind Yorkshire’s deri- to toe game. all-time greats, was no yards, was also the first extra feeling I can do well now.” ai foe Australian Institute of tralian Institute and look for- left Brian Close considering sion is that Yorkshire “I wish people had spoken L> disgrace. hole and Davies hit what she She flew home yesterday Sport in Canberra (Craig Lord ward to talking with them his future as chairman of foe Television will pay foe wages to me a little bit more through- h Lopez produced a stunning thought was a perfect seven- $41,891 richer — Lopez won writes). about the job.” be said. “Obvi- cricket committee. of anybody who faffs within out foe season to guide me li third and final round of 64, iron but foe -wind caught it $67,500 — to concentrate her As amember of the institute ously, though. I'm also keen to Despite the general commit- their criterion of "a player of about die handling of all foe fa eight par, to come from and the ball dropped into a attention on Europe. She squad last year, he can expect stay involved in the sport here tee under asking Close to come up international repute”. Bowlers things that go with being a r three shots behind Davies, the bunker, short ofthe green. She starts with foe Italian Open to be one of foe leading in Britain." with foe names of three such as Kenneth Benjamin, Test cricketer," he said. Tt after holes. The two played out to about eight feet next week. candidates. Moorhouse was bowlers 4- 5 leader 36 persuaded he was forced, on & Anderson Cummins and the would have been nice to have fa 1 par, one and knew she had to hole Davies was realistic when it Moorhouse. would tied on 199, 7 under 28, pre- to apply for the post by Terry 1 vote, to recommend Rich- South African, Craig Mat- had a mentor." Florence when Lopez, who was on in to assessing foe Euro- fer a job helping to develop H shot ahead of came Gafoercole, foe present in- ardson, 30, who has pl^ed 63 thews, did not qualify. Jack Russell toe Gloucester- fa two. rolled her 30-foot putt to side's chances against young talent in this country. Descampe, the talented Bel- pean cumbent, who will be retiring Tests. Sir Lawrence Byford, the shire wicketkeeper, overlooked a 18 indies. the Americans in the Softeun The Yorishireman. for gian. who had rounds of 66. who health reasons in This decision came about county president and chair- for toe tour of India, also Lopez's first victory of very confident leaves today r 66 and. 67. but still finished It was They’re for a tour of December. through considerations which man, defended foe derision. expressed his disappointment. fa the year — foe 45fo of her righlfy so.” she said. Singapore and Kong, Rob Castefla, the third. Hong de director were purely financial and “We have searched the world “I know 1 missed a couple of Davies’s second you’d win On foe 54fo hole, Davies, career — and “We’re foe outsiders and where he conduct swim- ofthe Australian institute, said nothing at aff to do with at great cost to myself to find a chances against Pakistan and t the shot pteyroffdefeaL In June. Anne- have to be silly to suggest ming dimes, has was keen talk to who had started day a made no he to cricket.” Close said last night bowler and therejust isn’t one perhaps fell one per cent off r trio of Marie Pam, of France, beat anything else. They’d have to secret of his desire to pul back Moorhouse but also not- “It is plain ahead of the American had for all to see we available.” he said. the standard I have set But I Betsy King. Rosie Jones and foe Englishwoman in the be something like 1-3 on. with something bade into the sport ed foe swimmer's lack of need a bowler and. like last Mark Ramprakash, who couldn't have batted better this Classic. Davies, 3-1 Michelle McGann, had a 15ft ShopRite us against.” in Britain. experience as a coach. year, we have ended up with a has paid foe penalty fordisti- summer” he said. 1 "

ARTS p3 WOMEN p5 V « #» Playing for Mamphela laughs: Ray Ramphele: the Cooney’s new face of *S new farce LIFE & TIMES South Africa U3 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1 992 «n Beethoven jumps into the bathtub

Richard Ingrams tunes in to Radio 3’s new commercial rival and finds that snippets of great music rather than long obscure compositions are perfectly acceptable before breakfast

always thought that the trou- ble with Radio 3 was not as some of its aides maintained, I that they gave too much time WHAT does the music to modem music (It was true that business think of the way that the late Hans Kdkrr, the noted music is presented on Classic FM? musicologist, made a noble if Has the commercial station's curi- utterly misguided attempt to make ous promise to offer "classical the British enjoy the music of music dressed by Benetton’' been Schoenberg. But the campaign was fulfilled? Simon Tail asked some of long ago abandoned.) No. the the leading administrators in the trouble with Radio 3 was. and still musical world for their verdicts on is, that too much obscure music — the first day's output ancient and modem — was fea- tured in preference to the really Brian McMaster first-rate. (Director. Edin- From the broadcaster’s point of burgh Festival): It is view, the great thing about classical wonderful to have a music is just how much there is of it classical music sta- that is undeniably of the first rank. tion, and we will If you take the complete works have to get used to merely of the very greatest compos- hearing music in ers (Bach. Handel Mozart. Haydn. bleeding chunks. I didn't mind the Beethoven. Schubert. Schumann. commercials or the bits in between Brahms: ail prolific geniuses) you the music: they are the price we pay. have more than enough music to I don't think we were supposed to last you a lifetime without any risk hear someone saying to Henry of becoming bored. Kelly [presenter of the mid-mom- Yet all too often one has the ing programme/ “read it with a impression that the people in normal voice but it is an indica- charge of Radio 3 are bored. tion of what was going on in the Sometimes it seems as if they will studio. Fuddy-duddies tike me will do anything; to dig out a recording have to adjust to the style. of some dim old piece of Georg Philipp Telemann or (most annoy- Nicholas Payne ingly) an arrangement of a well- (Director-designate. known piece by, say. Mozart done Royal Opera): My by someone else for an unlikely and radio is permanent- unprepossessing combination of ly tuned to Radio 3. instruments. but my PA really

I remember raising the point believes that classi- recently on Radio 4’s Start the cal music in bite- Week, with John Drummond, the sized chunks is going to be the retiring controller of Radio 3. My trend. WhatPm less relaxed about special concern was the early morn- is that before the CD hadfinished ing programmes which are, for the announcer, was telling me most of us working folk, the only about some lorryshedding its load. music we are likely to listen to in the But when they put on Klemperer course of a weekday. Even Mr conducting m&asF'movemertt of : conceded that a lot of Beethoven's Pastoral that was s Drummond lii.il Hi (al) the music was insufficiently re- magical I only wish they wouldn't t markable to be listened to first keep on about “the most beautiful Launch day: Henry Kelly presenting the mid-morning programme for Classic FM. the first commercial radio station in Great Britain to broadcast nationally thing in the morning, when what music in the world". was really wanted by listeners was - iHT' raw something rousing like a Haydn Nicholas Snowman — Peter Jonas John WiBan be told that the composer “had a pers. The arrival of Classic FM. symphony or one of Bach’s Bran- (Artistic director. (Chief executive, (Managing direc- tormented life”, as if this is m some providing a real alternative (howev- TOMORROW denburg Concertos (so long as it South Bank Centre): English National tor, London Phil- way going to enhance our enjoy- er commercial however scrappy) was not played on those awful The advent of Clas- Opera): An awful lot harmonic): Classic ment of the work. And after a ought to be welcomed and Clint is back. After "authentic” instruments). sic FM will help of hogwash is being **41 FM is very crisp, Prokofiev extract he feels he has to supported.

1 et te the latter \ talked about what and the news is very say: “That music is Speaking of However. have d ec d little Radio 3: £ used for a of the great composers; a string box change in the menu since Nicholas won't now have to . 1 Nicholas Kenyon is professionally done. certain perfume advertisement; Pm Sir Yehudi Menuhin referred re- Ac-: * 1—1 office flops he has Kenyon, the new Radio 3 control- worry about leaving E trying to do as The whole slant of sure you recognised it” cently in Gstaad to the need for us ler. took over. Mind you. judging the high ground' in search of Radio J-s new controller, and the station, and the feel of it, is I will forgive them an these to acknowledge “a debt to the great a hit on his from the correspondence columns audiences, and BBC planners about him moving the network different from Radio 3. but it things, even the regular news of spirits of the past who are still pan in this newspaper and elsewhere, shouldn't lose their nerve about downmarket. Classic FM is mak- certainly had me snapping my contraflows on the M4, if they of our lives today and who thus con- hands, as the star you would be forgiven for thinking this. I hope that the Classic FM ing good music a reason to hang a fingers and tapping my feet. I was really stick to their mission to trive to protect and to rescue us that the roof had fallen in. producers will trust the public a popular commercial radio station prepared to have collections of broadcast “the world's most beauti- from brutality, worthlessness and of a savagely What changes have come about little bit more in the future and on. It would be nice if they could do pieces linked by a theme, but the ful music”. So far what I have extinction”. I see Classic FM. in a on Radio 3 — and I for one will not give them whole pieces instead of whole operas, perhapsfurtheron in music was so wonderful that if heard has been more than accept- small way. trying to do just that pessimistic Western mourn the passing of those pre- just short extracts or movements. the day when a tittle more meat is there was a theme I missed it. It’s able a movement from Mozart’s cious, plummy-voiced BBC an- Klemperers wonderful interpreta- required. • If I have a negative completely subjective as to whether Jupiter Symphony, a violin piece by nouncers who sometimes had dif- tion of the last movement of the comment about the first day it is one likes music tike this — one Kreisler, even a movement from ficulty knowing which side of the Pastoral Symphony only really that there were not enough arrest- piece after the next — instead ofthe one of Bach’s suites for unaccompa- record to put on — have been made makes sense ifyou know what has ing moments, other than'the bomb Radio 3 format we are used to. but nied ceOo. there will together. will in anticipation of the coming of gone before. They could say, for . at the Hilton. But must be a the two Jit well The There be people — many of " Classic FM. the new commercial example. Here's an excerpt from tremendous marketfor Classic FM best thing is thatfrom now on there them. I imagine, working for 3 will station. On Monday, it finally came the Pastoral and we will be playing in 'Supplementing what Radio 3 will be double the amount of Radio — who sneer at such an classical music the airwaves. “undemanding” diet; I see nothing on air. with just the sort of rousing the whole piece at 5pm tomorrow." cannot do enough of. on thing you want to hear at 6am: wrong with it Personally. I would Handel's coronation anthem. Za- rather listen to a single movement of necessity, limited to snip- a leisurely appreciation of than how much you play of it from a Mozart symphony than to a dok the Pries . 1 was prepared to be fore, BAGPIPES, itself, with bassoon tolerant after such a good start, pets. short works or extracts. This is Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhi- Classic FM announces whole batch of concertos - irritating regularity, as offering C."P.E. Bach. especially since Radio 3 does not an argument that will be used bition. And there is a perfectly by respectable tradition for program- “the world’s most beautiful music”. Quite apart from that we live ina get soing until a good hour later. against h ad nauseum by musical WHISKY, in which we in Of course the main criticism of purists. ming snippets, as you can see if you But the morning announcer has a world are aD danger it from look at the concert programmes of perhaps over-chatty style and feels of being drowned by loud and Classic FM is that because of its But again — looking at of view of the working the last century, when it was quite obliged to supply us with “informa- degrading rock music, pouring out need to cany regular advertise- the point TARTANS & TWEEDS. tuning in for a rare for a Jong work to be per- tion’’ — the bane of modem life. from almost every radio wave- ments. it is unable to broadcast full- man or woman over its entirety. Before listening to a single length in the world, and applauded length symphonies or concertos (at short time in the lath or formed in or she It all comes down again to the movement from Tchaikovsky’s and analysed now even by “seri- least during the peak morning and breakfast — the last thing he of what you play, rather Pathetique Symphony we have to ous’’ critics in “serious” newspa- early evening periods) and is there- feels inclined to do is settle down for question NORTH SIDE OF And lo, there came a warning about my stew THE BORDER? (or Spflflkins) before apply- religious bookshop one rainy after- this ghasdy notion to its natural n limes of stress. I firmly Ching SINGLE LIFE noon, and flicking Bibles bathetic extreme. A man could be believe, vou must reach for the ing for ajob or caking a trip abroad, through (“Why stand ye here all the day shown reprimanding a cal that has I family Bible, dose your eyes there are days when 1 scarcely plan journey to the post without Lynne Truss tried idler met my gaze immediately, so unaccountably stalked out of the tig)M. allow the book to drop open, a box first securing random canoni- 1 knew things were running to room half-way through the East- and stab the page forcefully with a some NO, SOUTH SIDE I discovered biblical Enders omnibus “What." he says, compass point wielded in a ran- cal go-ahead from Deuteronomy in Bible-stabbing and form). a rack of Authorised Version. posters. And much as 1 dislike in a speed) bubble. “Could ye not dom are. The idea is not just that the I it not really. saw that it was good slander in matters of taste, these watch with me one hour?" Good, die violence of the act will make you don't take seriously, OF PICCADILLY. rite other I have had posters were truly horrid — in the eh? A woman, evidently frazzled feel better (although it does), but But on hand classical sense of all your from shopping, could be shown that fortune will somehow guide some pretty startling results. Take making day. I been experi- hair stick out like spines on a consulting a list in a dusty foreign vou to a relevant helpful passage, the other had again, and hedgehog. Who could be responsi- market, and looking jolly peeved. while at the same time miraculous- menting in rite kitchen interesting ble for these ghasdy things, 1 "Is there no balm in Gilead?” could ly preventing you from impaling had concocted a rather wondered. I could only suppose be written underneath. vour other hand to the desk. Lentil and Pink Marshmallow Simpson, that bastion of Englishness in Superstitious? Certainly, and es- Bolognese in a saucepan. Obvious- that the infinite number of mon- 1 hope my posters will give should keys had been up to their tricks. pleasure somewhere Meanwhile I Piccadilly, pecially the last biL Bui I am sure I ly I now required guidance has suddenly gone a bit Scottish. Imagine, if you will, two large shall cheerfully continue with haw seen evidence of its efficacy, if I take a picture of it before slinging my fluffy ducklings waddling away Bible-bashing. I got “We have as it From the 7th to the 26th of September, there’ll only in the movies. You know, it in the Inn? I shut my eyes, flipped staring agape in shock open rite good book, poked it with down a country lane at sunset with were brought forth wind” the other gangsters be free whisky tastings on the third floor, kilt underneath die legend “Can two day (Isaiah xxvi, 1 and I say when the book falls open at "Be the bread knife, and what do you 8). cant walk together, except be it hasn’t given sure your sin will find you out” think it said? It said: “What is this they me lots to think and sporran making demonstrations on the agreedr. I or (Numbers xxxii. 23) just seconds thou has doner (Genesis iii, 13). mean, is this sick, about An acquaintance has gently what? pair hold suggested first there’ll before a curtained window is Blimey. How spooky, i tried it A of cute kids to me that any big book and even be rippling rock pools in a lush in — telephone directory, suddenly’ Mown to smithereens a again. Wump! Slash! “Ah-hah!” hands pasture, bathed Argos Cata- fight, a logue — will work and fly-fishing tackle on the ground. You simply couple of feet behind them. And this time l got II Kings hr, 40: summer and one holds out equally well for is death pot." xxvi. 1 ). which drew me up short daisy-chain to the other. “God my purposes, but I suspect this is a Anvway. spending a lot of rime “There in the 1 must drop in - even Sometimes a bit for a minute. Some significance loreth a cheerful giver," it says. Two fallacy. Faced with a dilemma, 0§j|p on mv own. I sometimes devote the the messages arc l evi- I here, perhaps? Naturally, decided tiger cute embrace roughly, surely nobody wants to know that mid couple of hours to testing the mysterious. Once, when —had been if it’s just Iot a pair Sp go. And this rime I dently mindful of the injunction oh the answer is theory of Bible-drapping, rather as drawing loscis for hours “Go up. to have another an automatic pet- of thou bald head” (?}: “And they got "The dog is returned to his “Let not the sun go down upon feeder. or “Mr H. MacGuire. 26 of Argyle socks. if i were an infinite number (II Peter ii, 22). vour wrath." I you, what a Fulwell monkeys bent on disproving the spoiled the Egyptians" (?) — and vomit again ask Gardens, W6”. Unless of notion of dramatic genius. The wumping and slashing like an Weird, eh? But completely unfath- paltry use of the imagination. 1 course (by some remote probability) happy sound of“Wump! Slash! Ah- early agricultural machine in Tess omable, alas. nearly produced some new vomit to you are Mrs MacGuire. suffering the reason I mention all come back to later on. from iwhr sometimes emanates from ofthe DVrbervilles. I suddenly got Anyway, amnesia. Or you have sud- impson is that 1 recently discovered a But on the other hand, ! did rush denly acquired an infinite 071-734 3002 IlCCABIlLY mv flat ail day long. Where other a rather grumpy-sounding “As a this number people might, as a matter of course, dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool potential application for this un- home with a whole new sense of of monkeys, all demanding meals of mine. Browsing in purpose. idea simple: take at intervals. consult Patrie Walker or the 1 rctumeth to his folly” (Proverbs usual hobby a My was funny

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Mon-Sat 730pm. 105m ns THE AND Of ^:V'SpV :".% 839 597 1) Joseph and the FIFTY years have gone by since die. like Jesus, for his own greetings i v VOICE: Terrific performance by Alison Amazing Tedinkotor Dreamcoab Jack's Out JACK'S OUT: Murder and madness Steadman as the raucous slattern m jrm Brighton Rock, but how lime has transgression. Paladium (071 -4S4 5037). among Catholics in Bnghton. First piay Cartwright's play about dreams, shyness DMe and My Sri: Ade'phi (071-836 changed if Danny Miller's rough Bush Meaty stuff. The play. Miller’s fiist, by Danny MBier. often taut bul slack in and horrible mothers. Vivaldi Marathon 761 . . . Les Misfirabies: Palace places Lots of blood. National (Cottesloa), South Bank. 1 ) B thriller is to be believed. Psychotic is strong on the tactics of menace and ifevft .S**- Bush. Shepherds Bush Green. W12 (071-434 0909) . . . B Mbs Saigon: M..rr .„n. SE1 (071-928 2252). Today. 2.30pm Catholics still light candles in church bluff, thieves’ talk and the sudden trap, Festival Hall ,*V-: Theatre Royaf. Drury Lane (071-494 1081-743 3388) Mon-Sat 8pm and 7.30pm. ISOnwts. 5400) . . . Mousetrap: -to slit victim’s compared with the alarming Frank. but to reveal the past it relies too heavily • 135nwis. The before setting off a • Pauline S**' SHADES: Coffins tom St Martin's (07 1-836 1443) ..BThe throat, take a stroll through the Lanes Jack himself never appears, though the on speeches of recollection. Jules and ;-ve^w THE MADRAS HOUSE: Roger between her child, mum and manfnend Phantom of the Opera: Her Majesty's io AUam heads a strong cast in Granvde m Shaman Macdonald's tfesppoirting (071-494 5400) Return to the after grassing on a friend. Graham headlights of his approaching car rake Luke remember their schooldays. WE HAD haw The Four Seasons. A new play: only Barker's proio-femimst serious sporathcaDy absorbing. Forbidden Planet Cambridge (071- Greene’s Pinky may not have talked of the windows of Chunky's store at the Frank talks to God. More damaging Vivaldi Marathon organised by Ray- Lane. 1071- . comedy, set m a fashion house Afoery. St Martin's WC2 379 5299) Starlight Express: . 4“. -Vv^L ,f' this. Jack's girl Gubbay not have reached' 1 grassing, and certainly wouldn't have end. but if he is nastier than John than Bobbie barely mond could Lyric Hammersmith, kinq Street W6 867 15). Mon-Sat 8pm. mats Thurs. Audio Victoria (071-828 8665) Sat. l2Dmins 1 081-741 2311). Mon-Sat 7.30pm. 3pm. 4pm The Woman in Blade Fortune protested, as one of Miller's bad boys Challis*s Frank we can be grateful the exists as a creation. Though she is its dimax in any other way. And that mao Wed. Sat 2.30pm. IBOmns. (071-8362238). 'vy-i-v'' SIX DEGROS OF SEPARATION: does here, “I think that’s sponging it a author keeps him out of sight. crudai to the plot; and Georgian.*! presented by the Mozart Festival - A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM: StockanJ Channing asthench New Ticket information supplied by Society . 14 _ bit". But if die slang has altered the Complacent, overbearing, rampant- Dacombe plays her in an entirely Orchestra under the artistic director- Aaed m a pool of mud. Robert Lepage’s Yorker transfigured by a black con of west End Theatre villainy stays the same: bloody, puritan ly homophobic yet a hater of women. different style, so quietly conversational ship of lan Watson at the Festival Hall and followed by a “Hail Mary". Frank relishes the prospect of heUfire that she dissolves into the background on Sunday duty ended with the piece iV'rt Jack is ajailed killer whose unexpect- for his enemies and tells God so during even while speaking. Ken McCly- that has kept Vivaldi in the charts for so NEW RELEASES MGM Tottenham Court Road (071- CINEMA GUIDE 638 61 48) MGM Trocadero (071-434 ed release is seriously bad news for the his regular colloquies with the Al- mont’s direction tightly turns the screw long. COUS BOBBY (PG). Jonathan 0031) Odeon Kensington (0426 W play’s four male characters. The eldest. mighty, which he ends with a jaunry when the men are skirmishing bur Ir would be good to think that The !>' it . _l.: ii-LxA Demme's amiable but slender 914666). " (Richard Tate), trades in in touch". is dearly' insane, cannot her scenes at all. Seasons was simply the bait, and documentary about hrs cousin, an Chunky Be He and make work Four Geoff Brown's assessment of JUICE Friendship and violence Minister Harlem. (15): wfll discov- Episcopalian m films in London and (where antiques brought to him by glib young one of the play's weaknesses is the way Surprisingly. Brighton itself plays no that many who came have among ghetto youths Superior sample - . Everyman (071-435 1525). * *8^*: indicated with the symbol of ihe new blade onema, directed by crooks who specialise in knocking on the other men keep letting themselves part in the action: Jack’s manor might ered that Vivaldi also composed a large ...I. iSV/'.'-j* HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY: on release across the country Sprite Lee's cameraman Ernest R. doors and badgering pensioners to be alone with him and allow him to just as well be Shepherd’s Bush and his number of other very fine concertos — Hans Jurgen Syberberg’s seven-hour Didcerson. Omar Epps. Tupac Shakur. part with their heirlooms. Jules (Kieron stand between them and the door out. car thundering like Nemesis up some a good deal more interesting too. epic from 1977 about Hiller's gnp on Becuk (071-792 2020) MGM Panton '• ' ' •V.'tcS. the German psyche Hard work. but Street (071-930 0631) MGM Forsyth), slippery and confident part- All four have unwisely done things Goldhawk Road. if one may dare say so. The Marathon . . MGM Fulham Road (071-370 2636) there 6 no tiling Bi e it m anema Trocadero (071-434 0031) MGM Haymaiket (071-839 1527) ners Luke (James Clyde), slow though Jack will not be pleased to leam. and — more of a relay, actually — began at history (071 MGM Shaftesbury Avenue -836 IETHAL Rousmg I with 1CA Cinema (071-930 3647). • WEAPON 3(15): handsome, but both are amateurs Frank's concern is to make one of them Jeremy Kingston lam, and ended 12 hours later, Trocadero <071-434 6279) MGM comedy and mayhem with LA. ceps three ensembles passing the baton KNIGHT MOVES llSV- Somebody 0031). Riggs and Murtaugh. Me) Gibson. director, between them. afternoon sessions goes on a murder spree during a chess Dariny Glover. Joe Peso; The v A...... w . 4j*(l tournament it champnxi player CURRENT Richard Dower. « were devoted to the 1 2 violin concertos Christopher Urobeu’ Tawdry thnUet. MGM Oteisea (071-352 50961 MO* AUEN *( 1 8* Sigourney weaver Op 4, entitled La stravaganza. with Rashv dmctnn by Cari Schenkei. Fulham Road (071-370 2636) MGM Mismatch of place, play and players fights another alien infestation m deep Odeon West End (0426-91 5 574) Haymarket (071-839 1527) MGM Andrew Watkinson directing from the drab and downbeat space. Pirnshintfr Oxford Street (071-636 03 IQl MGM EDINBURGH’S festival season of ence to a man. Her nonconformism is solo desk, and the concertos 3 LOVE fN THE TIME OF HYSTERIA: Charles S. Dutton. Charles Dance: -836 Op Shaftesbury Avenue (07 1 -- ''.'r'4VW Alfonso Cuaron's stek Mexican farce tS rector. Dawd Fincher. 6279(379 7025) MGM Trocadero Granville Barker plays ended not with social, not sexual. (L'estrv armonico for solo strings in bnnqs the Casanova siory into the era Camden Parkway (071-267 7034) (071-434 0031 1 Odeon Marble Arch EDINBURGH a bang but with a whisper. This The principals in the 1 5-strong cast different combinations. of safe sex. Ran of the third Laarv- MGM Owbea (071-352 5096) (0426 914501) Screen on Baker Street Amencan film Festival Odeows: Kensi ngton (0436 91 46661 rehearsed reading of The Marrying of (which indudes doubling: was Barker In the evening concert, the diet was (07 1 -935 2772) UO WhfteJeys (071- FESTIVAL Metro (07 1 *437 0?57). Lekaster Square «W6 91 5683) UO 792 3332) Ann Leete by members of the N ational really such a practical man of the varied by the inclusion of the Magnifi- Whheleys (071 -792-3303) 12)- THE POWER 1 Orphaned (at theatre?) move cat OF ONE LOVERS 1 181 m Franco's Spam. Theatre the Royal Lyceum, no between two rows of RV6I0a and the Gloria in D. white South Afrizan child develops a BATMAN RETURNS (12)- Quirky Victoria Abril derails her lodger's director credited) seemed calculated for seats to signify entrances and exits. The RV5S9. both sung by the dependable social comcwnce JumWedepic. but ho-hum sequel, best when the intended marriage, focettent tale of the intimacy of studio. reading grows livelier as it progresses, coarsely handted by director John G spotlight faBs on Michelle Pfeiffer's mad love, expenty mounted by director a Thomas Tallis Choir. Timothy Wilson Anldsen. Stephen Dorff. Morgan eteciritying Catwoman. Michael Keaton, Power Vicente Aranda From the front of the circle, three of with Helen McCrary’s Ann as fresh as brought an appropriately doleful tone (tractor. T«n Burton. Aimm MueHer-StaH Oanny DeVito, MGM Kccadifly 1071 -437 3561 > tD71-497 (071-497 9999) Oxford the four women players were scarcely a Romney and as vivid as a Hogarth. to the Scabal Mater, and the remain- Empire 9999> MGM Fulham Empire MGM Screen on the HiO (07 1 -435 3366). Road 10? 1-370 3636' MGM Trocadero Street (07 1 -636 03 10) MGM Fenton audible. Apparently they had forgotten Rachel Joyce, the least audible of the der of the concert consisted of PETER PAN (Uk Disney's 1952 a group .071-4-P 0031) YWhitetays (071-792 Street (071-930 06311 cartoon version of J.M Bame, often that even seated in a row reading gardener (Rupert Graves in trainers, cast gives signs of being a sardonic of concertos with colourful 3303' contrasting • CUTTING EDGE (PG): ke bland, but Caplam Hook makes a THE scripts they still have to project. designer stubble and Mummerset high society divorcee to the life; and the solo combinations. The Concerto in G STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN 1157 hockey player turns figure-skater and splencW villain In the circumstances it was hard to accent). Despite the shock horror of her aristocracy is well represented Violence and d«pair in a Brooklyn thaws a pnma donna of the blades. MGM Chelsea (071-352 5096) by Major for Two Mandolins is particu- housing tilori Awkward first feature Very srify D.B Sweeney. Mona Kelly, Odeon Kensington (0426 9)4666) judge the play's worth (1 missed the family — this is the 1 Sth century — the James Laurenson and Ben Thomas, larly tuneful and deserves to be heard Irom an enterprising 19 year-old. vvnier- director. Pat4 M. Glaser. UO Whiteleys (07 1 -792 3332). RSC production with Mia Farrow in couple move into his cottage to start life who yet again proves he can dominate more frequently than it is. it directW Many Rich. MGM Chelsea (071-351 3742/3743) Perhaps is WATERLAND f 1 5k Jeremy Irons as Renoir '071-53784021 (07 1-839 1 975), but Barker’s first success, writ- together. Curtain. the stage in a small role. in the MGM Haymariwt 1527) the history teacher haunted by his nature of marathons that Oxford Street (071-636 0310310). WHITE SANDS' 15)' The FBI. Black MGM Fenland childhood. Brave but fatedta Jed ten when he was 23, breaks off Unlike Mora in Ibsen’s A Doll’s No theatrical urgency flickers extended rehearsal is impracticable, mart elifs and a smjli-ioivn cop chase FREDDIE A5 FJLO.7. (uj French a item pi to film Graham Swift's complex tantaiisingiy just as it catches dramatic House, Ann ’5 aa of rebellion is through the play, a quizzical statement but the players of the Mozart Festival each other's Tjils in New Mc-dco An hog prince becomes secret agent and novel. Director, Stephen Gyffenhaal fire. circumscribed the sexual conven- rather impenetrable pro!, but lively. W'Hlem saves Britain's national monuments. Cureon West End (07 1 -439 480S) by of an argument than a dramatic Orchestra were competent and stylish Doioo. Mickey Ftourke. dnvetor. Rogei Clumsy, vapid Homegrown cartoon. Chelsea (07 1-351 37421 Odeon The aristocratic Ann’s refusal to be a tions she accepts. She may refuse a illustration of iL Judgment suspended. enough for it not to matter unduly. Donaldson Director, Jon Acevsln. Kensington (0426 914666) marital pawn in her father’s flagging politically arranged m3tch. but mar- career has led her to propose to tire riage will still be a matter of subservi- Martin Hoyle Barry Millington

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ARTS BRIEF The riches of Per Jodrell ad astra — embarrassment THAT old showbiz hyperbole “a star-studded spectacular" — cun be used in a literal sense about the ietzche — put his finger on With Ray Cooney two simple items of clothing highlight of Britain's biggest new something in 1 870. “In braces and a handkerchief — can music went, the Huddersfield Con- our day.” he wrote, produce the very different dramas temporary Music Festival. Ii is the “only the farce and the back on stage, ofA Flea in her Ear end Othello. first British performance of Gerard balletNmay be said to thrive." If you Jumping into a grave is tragic in Grisey's Le Noir de I'Eroile (The substitute the word musical for Michael Arditti Hamlet, while tampering with a Dark Side of the Star”), which ballet, the same may be said of the coffin is farcical in loot. As Morti- requires the sound of pulsars West End today. Don't Dress For mer neatly defines ic “Farce is tracked in outer space to be Dinner, by Marc Camoletti, looks at what goes author tragedy played at a thousand integrated into a live performance of Boeing-Boeing. is in its second revolutions a minute.” by six percussionists (Les Percus- year at the Apollo. while British into a good farce This emphasis on speed is also of sions de Strasbourg). Farceur Ray Cooney's new play. It the essence, both in the construc- The pulsar sounds will be picked Runs in the Family . follows his tion of farce — Feydeau declared up by the Lowll telescope and fed record-breaking Run For Your nent of farce, puts it: “All farces that “when in one of my pieces two by Jodrell Bank, via British Wife: it is previewing at the have the same thread running characters must not meet, 1 bring Telecom “high-definition" circuits, Playhouse. through them, though they may be them together as soon as 1 can” — across the Penninus to Hudders- Of all theatrical terms, farce is presented differently: people with and in the playing. Which is why so field. The audience will also see a used most loosely and cynically. reputations to lose caught in situa- many writers, whether Ben Travels computerised light show nl a Andy de la Tour, the author of tions where they can lose them." at the Aldwych, Rix at the White- suitably galactic nature. The Hud- three political farces and translator Farce is the most conservative hall or even Peter Rogers and dersfield Festival runs from Nov- of Dario Fo. describes how Fo’s dramatic form. “I’m writing the Gerald Thomas in the Carry On ember 1 9 to 29; the pulsars make plays are always billed as farces same thing that I was writing 30 films, have relied on a stock troupe their debut in Huddersfield Spores even though, with the exception of years ago admits Cooney. “The of actors. Instant identification Hall on November 22. Can't Pay? Won’t Pay! the desorp- trimmings are more sophisticated, saves time. tion is false. They may have a but the heart is still as naive.” De la Gritty stones madcap quality but not the genuine Tour agrees: “Farce has more set ooney insists that farce HAVING laid bare the ways and farcical motor and momentum. rules than anything else: it’s like a needs the most generous wiles of the London building site in “The term is used to reassure piece of music or a sonnet” actors. ‘There’s no time to his last film. Riff-Raff. Ken Loach people; it may about be a political Yet de la Tour believes it does not stand centre-stage mak- — creator of Cathy Come Hume - subject, but don't worry, it’s funny." C necessarily need to be conservative ing flowery speeches or intel- is turning his 'attention to a To many audiences, laughter is in content “You can make it about lectualising problems.” Subtlety Manchester housing estate fur his itself a farcical litmus test “Some- anything you want. Whatever the hampers speed. The result is to next foray into gritty cinematic one once said the sole purpose of cover-up, whether it’s a mistress in bypass normal audience idenfificar realism. Under the working title farce is to get laughs," says Cooney, a cupboard or corruption in high lion. As Mortimer says. “The Raining Stones, it is an account ofa and that is a perfectly respectable places, it's still a farce." audience's response has nothing to young couple living on the dole and ambition. People need to laugh, ev- The action is propelled by panic, do with fellow feeling, because the attempting to raise money to buy en in adversity, hence the tradition- as characters invent wild lies to save actors themselves have no feelings.” their daughter a communion d rcss. al Jewish joke. Moreover, the first face. Then they have to deal, not It is, rather, recognition that we Loach begins five weeks’ filming on casually of mental illness is a sense only with the original problem but might be in the situation ourselves, the estate later this month, “work- of humour. Writer John Mortimer also the lies, and hence behave even coupled with relief that we are not. ing closely with local residents", goes further, seeing farce as the more bizarrely. The art of a master Orton may have inverted it and and using a script by Hidden fundamental dramatic genre. farceur is supreme, as Marcel Fo subverted it but traditional farce Agenda writer Jim Allen. That “Most of life is farce. Whoever said Achard said of Feydeau: “It is not still aims for the happy ending and should be authentic enough: Allen history repeats itself first as tragedy, simple to combine the skill of a endorses the status quo. Changes in used to live on the estate. then as farce, was right." dockmaker. an inventor, a chess- social convention hove been reflect- The first generally accepted Eng- player, a mathematician and a ed in the humour, but the conven- Last chance .. lish farce is little more than a comic writer." tional virtues continue to be TH IS week sees the end of summer hundred years old: 77ie Private Despite the common ground of extolled. The central couple in — as defined by the dosing for the Secretary, adapted from the Ger- laughter, the world of farce is very Don’t Dress for Dinner are ram- weekend of the Open Air Theatre man by Charles Hawtrey in the different to that of oomedy. “Com- pant adulterers, but come the final ItRuns in the Family: Wanda Ventham (top left), Sandra Dickinson, William Hany. Ray Cooney in Regent's Park [07MS6 2431). iSSOs and starring Beerbohm edy is to do with people saying curtain they trot merrily up to bed In fine weather the alfresco experi- Tree. This was followed by the funny lines,” says Mortimer. “In together. than in any Feydeau, and yet they “In laughing at it you have lost your ter of a sit-com on television. Rix ence can be magical, and when the “Court" farces ofArthur Pinero; the farce, after the first ten minutes However, they are French, and are put to quite innocent use. moral dignity, and don't like to admits that bedroom farce is dead, weather is dull at least the audience most celebrated of which. The there’s no time to make jokes; the so by definition immoral. We may Despite such innocent pleasure, ad mit it afterwards — you don't like but in other forms it radiates good can feel heroic, fan Talbot's pro- Magistrate, contains the archetyp- laughs come .from character and have appropriated French maids farce is frequently derided. In the to concede the power of the people health. So long as the lies are big duction of A Midsummer Night's al farcical plor. the hero, a pillar of situation. The biggest laughs in and French windows as farcical 1 7th century Diyden declared that who have reduced you to such enough, the plot convoluted Dream (final performance Satur- society, escapes in compromising farce are on lines life 'What?'." devices, but we have never em- “the persons and actions of a farce behaviour." enough and the person important day) is traditional and has been circumstances from the police and In fact, farce is far closer to braced the French attitude to sex. are all unnatural and their man- It remains the supremely theatri- enough, there wifi always be farce. generally praised. And a revival or appears in his own court with a tragedy. As Ned Sherrin says “It’s In English farce, adultery is unac- ners false". His words would find cal genre. To sit radeed with the Gershwin musical Lady Be • It Runs m rhe Family £r in preview at it is laughter of filthy collar and black eye. the same complications: people put ceptable; in French simply many supporters today. Michael in an audience six or the Playhouse Theatre. Northumber- Good (final performance tomor- As Sir Brian Rix, still popularly in impossible situations, but with expensive. There may be more beds Frayn, author of Noises Off, sees seven hundred is very different land Ave. London WC2 (07IS39 row), with Bernard Cribbins, has

regarded as the prime stage expo- different results.” The discovery of in Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce such dismissal as self-prolection: from tittering to the canned laugh- 440 11, opening next Monday proved a comic delight

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hile some national the more gaping holes in the hould the government the situation, rather than hold institutions appear plot across which Wickham, fond the arts? In the first any consistent point of view, to be intent on press- Elphick and the other regulars S part of a new series. since at the beginning he was W button, a Neil Morrissey and David Ministering to the Arts (Radio mocking the absurdity of the ing the self-destruct television drama series such as Daker nimbly stepped, in pur- 4, Sunday), Sir Roy Strong led— early Labour governments Boon, made by' Central for suit, of the guest villains Peter on a troupe of worthies having no arts policy at all, ITV. can glide serenely into its McEnery (understandably on Lords Goodman, Rees-Mogg and complaining about the seventh series. Michael El- edge as MacGuffin) and Dan- and Palumbo, with sundry arts ministers not being of phick's title character. Ken iel Craig (superbly slimy as commoners — who gave us a Cabinet rank, whereas at the Boon, is up there with Lovejoy, Wickham’s duplicitous lover}. history of the Arts Council end he was practically an- Arthur Daley and Del Boy in Old friends should not be since it was created at the end nouncing Apocalypse, now we the pantheon of popular tele- judged as harshly as new. so of the war. have David Mellor there with vision: although other charac- let us forgive the absurdity of a -We heard haw the early arts so much power. “Mellor holds Jennie to ters may come and go. the 25-year-old “confidential sec- ministers, like Lee, just the key the entire future of out for trust- the arts in Britain!" cried. presence ofthe lovable rascal is retary” (Wickham), in a pro- handed money he what keeps die millions watch- vincial town, earning enough worthy-sounding bodies with- Actually, 1 don’t believe the out wanting to know too government seriously influ- ing, in confident expectation to live in a vast warehouse much complete about where it was going, ences the history of an and of "a happy- ending. apartment, with fearful culture at all. it was Last night s opener, bur- well-stocked jukebox, moun- because they were so of But a joy to of bias. This hear Sir Roy dened with the Hitchcockian tain bike, personal computer being accused conducting pro- went on until the Seventies, ceedings in his fine soprano: in-jokc title MacGuffin's and designer outfits ad lib. by time there were after the way in which tele- Trunsputcr. introduced a new She does have a rich father, which so Orchestra: like to we have minimised negativity and optimised potential” many claimants that the arts vision news-readers such as "Girl Friday" character in the but angrily refuses to accept The Orpheus Chamber “We think ministers, who were not in the Michael Buerk conclude every form of Saskia Wickham. The his money. Cabinet, could never lay hands sentence with a gloomy plonk, idea of a Girl Friday, who Understandably, with the on a fraction of the money the what a delight to have some- proves (gasp) brighter and emphasis on the new girl the than her established stars were side- All for one for all arts world wanted. Then, with one whose voice rises and trills imaginative one and more on- like lark male employers but who lined. The byplay between the Mrs Thatcher, came the a as he ends each slaught. The Arts Council utterance. (chuckle) sometimes gets her- maverick Elphick and stolid rushed to protect itself by However, another noted self into comers from which Daker (who sounds bizarrely York’s headless band concentrating on the regions talker met his match on Radio in in her, is like Jack Woolley The New only a man can rescue in the name of urban regener- 4 on Saturday. In the first of precisely in keeping with the Arthert) was briefly re-estab- complex works by Bartok and ation and other respectable the new run of Lib, Robert time-warp world of Boon. lished. particularly by way of here was once a New Hilaiy Finch meets a most democratic Ad which Stravinsky are no problem for soJal aims. Even so, it was Robinson got in few' jokes as Wickham, whose fresh, honest the following cryptic ex- Yorker cartoon "There’s so depicted a group of us. What is really difficult is only because Norman St-John he talked to five long-distance features and naturalistic style change. Elphick: T group, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, pedestrians stopping to listen the laie-19th and early 20th- Stevas was Leader of the track drivers. What they most look like being a great asset to many people unemployed." wanna talk to a one-man-band street century post-romantic reper- House as well as arts minister enjoyed abour foreign driving the series, will surely redefine Daker. “i don’t visiting London from America this week busker being conducted by a toire, which requires freedom that he managed to keep the was “the crack" — the conver- "Alex" us she grows into the politics, Ken." Rocky (Morrissey) gentleman in tails. The con- for each piece that they play. concentration closer to a per- and rubato in so many lines funds flowing under Thatcher. sation and humour when they role. Boon and character, gent- ductor bows extravagantly to All the violinists are askkl to formance or recording session. simultaneously. When every- Now we have a “Minister of met in far-flung cafes and lor- Peter PalliscrV script was alsosparred in the applause while the inform the committee of the So people save their most one is so wonderfully expres- Fun" with a seal in the ry parks — and they were so workmanlike at best, but there ly, but with Morrissey having take musician pieces they are interested in important points till the last sive, the whole thing can be Cabinet — and nobody knows busy laughing together abour was sharp editing (Nigel replaced Harry Enfield in the unacknowledged of Behaving with exhaustion on his leading in the year ahead. The possible moment, with the tom apart" what will happen. bribing Turkish policemen Miller) and some quite exu- new series Men dumps committee is also informed of result that there’s just too “We've spent most of our It was Sir Roy who turned and fending off gigantic pro- berant camerawork, including Badly, broadcast immediately stooL viewers in 1972 a New York any background reasons why much talking in the final time developing this reper- all this into a thrilling drama. stitutes that we hardly heard exterior/interior tracking shots before Boon last night Back could be forgiven for some' cellist called Julian Fifer certain members may not have rehearsals." toire. We’ve worked forever on He was peppery with rage and Robinson's cheerful voice at that extended the Hitchcock vowed to put a stop to all this had a turn, or had one turn too the Brahms A major Serenade excitement about every twist all. references. Director Nick confusion. with- many. Then the members of hen Fifer goes on to and the Siegfried IdylL and rum in the struggle. He Laughland thereby distracted conductor power, at least Patrick in one particular orchestra. So each section decide who is to talk about sessions The Orpheus has hitherto seemed to relish the ironies of Derwent May attention away from some of Tony he founded the conductor-less be the principal for each piece. for discussing body deliberately ignored baroque core of W individual and -contemporary repertoire and co-operative Orpheus The chosen section language and Chamber Orchestra, and how- leaders then meet to rehearse needs, it seems as if Woody simply because there are so ever exhausting the democrat- the piece, discuss bowing, Allen has the subject for his many specialist groups in New The; south bank centre presents ic all 26 of them are articulation, use of rehearsal next film perilously dose by. It York. Now. they have changed Royal Festival Hall process, still standing for their own time; in short, all that the happens to be not Tar from the their flunking. They have "/..at Z3&; ever-increasing applause. diligent conductor would be troth. The day I spoke to Fifer started to commission new September CONTRASTS 16 Their visit to London this expected to do before a first he was due to be interviewed writings, and this autumn week celebrates 20 years of reheaisaL by an author of a book on release a courageous disc of A CHAMBER MUSIC SEBIES survival and evolution as a Too good to be true? “Well baseball teams who wanted music by four American com- species. it that some cores are better than his advice on team dynamics. posers: Jacob Druckman. Legend has AN DBAS SCH IFF ?i a,o Sdtubu%. 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*> IW2 4 EUROPEAN ARTS LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER THEATRE: VIENNA The toad croaks its warnings Sissy is not Gunter Grass’s latest novel is sentimental another protest reality. Dtjuwts> f the British obsession possess in with royalty seems patho- voice >s not sweet but hard- against German just welt, since her logical. what is to be mode edged: as I 'Teh gehdr nur of tire fetishistic attachment of big ballad. unification, rhe Viennese to royals who mTr”, teeters on the tank ot have been dead for almost a sentimentality. says Gina Thomas century'? Sissy — the Empress No other character makes a Elisabeth, wife of Franz Josef comparable impact. Vjktnr was, perhaps, a 19th- Gemot tries hard to endow bloated toad glares out — Princess Diana, At Franz Josef with depth, but the from the cover of Gunter cemuiy rate, she married wry- Emperor is never much more Grass’s latest novel. any shirt. The must young (at 1 before she could than a stuffed Unkenrufe. The title means, 6) A understand the restrictions striking fall to Elisabeth is literally, the call of the red-bellied impose upon Uwe Kroger's Death, a camp, toad and, metaphorically, Cassan- royalty would found her husband long-haired amalgam of dra’s warnings, because die curious her. then cold and distant. Tragedy David Bowie and Tadrio in bell-like croaking of these creatures is entered the picture when their Death in Venice. Kunze sug- traditionally held to bode OL An son Rudolph committed sui- gests that Death is Elisabeth s "Unkenrufer” is a prophet of doom; Mayerling. Her life real lover, but more sexual and with his gloomy vision of the cide at in a kind of blade farce sparks fly when Death claims world there is probably no more ended tiie anarchist Luigi the doomed Rudolph. vociferous alarmist in Germany to- when hoping to At this point Elisabeth, who day than Gunter Grass himself. Lucheni. who was assassinate the Duke of has shown no maternal inter- For all the criticism which his more her with a est in Rudolph before, recent works have provoked — and Orleans, stabbed file the shores of Lake launches into a tearful lament. Unkenrufe is no exception — Grass on “Wo bist du Rudolph?", which has the distinction of being regarded, Geneva. treatments of I fear caused me to chuckle iu since Heinrich Boll’s death seven Most stage or years ago. as the Federal Republic’s Sissy haw been saccharine credit greatest living writer. romanticised; it is to the But the public also knows him as a of writer Michael Knnze. com- Sylvester political activist From beneath that poser Levay and walrus moustache, which seems to director Harry Kupfer that at the grow denser with age. he is for ever this new Elisabeth sounding off on issues of the day, and Theater An Der Wien has his political preoccupations figure some acerbic bite. prominently in his writing. In the Much of the bitterness, and past his moral indignation was the Spenglerian sense of apoc- roused by Nicaragua, the Catholic alyptic gloom, comes from church’s stance on abortion, the Gunter Grass: “ there is probably no more vociferous alarmist inGermany today” — and his walrus moustache is growing denser Kupfer’s stark but spectacular destruction of the environment, the staging (with designs by Hans nuclear threat, disarmament, Ost- what happened to these taxes. But in of Leipzig had in mind when 'they relent As had been feared, the Loved One. The Cemetery Associ- Schavemoch). with its pre- politik, the Third Woiid, Germany’s the same interview he also staked a chanted “We are one people,” eventu- reaction was largely negative, which ation is. taken over by enterprising dominantly sombre colours struggle to come to terms with special claim as a writer, moaning ally forcing the communist regime to Grass is bound to take as proof of his yuppies who build old people’s and its disorientating colli- Nazism, and a host of other topics. - that writers among others should cave in. Grass has openly criticised allegation that the German feuiileron homes for Germans wanting to be sions of baroque splendour In the wake of the critical failure of have been consulted by the politicians the Social Democratic party, ofwhich is becoming inquisitorial buried in their former territories; they with images of modem his apocalyptic novel. The Rat. in in charge of the unification process. he is a member, for not doing enough The portentous toad in Unkenrufe also build bungalows and golf alienation.

1 9S6, Grass announced that he was “Precisely because of our work.” for die survival of die G DR. is the latest addition to Grass's courses and a maternity unit for the A monstrous, high-tech gib- dropping everything to go and live in Grass argued, “we know better than allegorical bestiary, which includes younger relatives who come to visit bet. looking like part of a India for a year, trumpeting his politicians that life is not divided into rass's literary fame rests cats and mice, rats and snails, as well the dead-in-waiting. suspension bridge, towers over general disapproval of the state of legislative periods." largely on the The Tin as a speaking flounder. The toad The widow and the widower are one half of the stage; back- affairs in the Federal Republic But Instead of immediate unification, Drum, which came out in recurs as a leitmotiv throughout the horrified and break off their links projections show familiar Vi- after barely five months in Calcutta which he, like many other critics, sees 1959 and has sold more novel. Unkenrufe is a love story with the business. “This is no longer ennese images (the Prater Big he came back. admitted that he as an occupation by the mighty thanGtwo million copies. Although the between a German widower and a our idea." cries the widower in nis Wheel Schonbrunn) but also He was disillusioned by the philosophy of Deutschmark Grass would have two works he published in the Polish widow which begins in Dan- resignation speech. “Now what was blow-ups of grotesques prefig- non-violence, “which is now as burnt preferred a slow process of rapproche- Eighties. Headbirths and The Rat, zig (now Gdansk). Grass’s town of lost through war is being raked in uring Grosz or Dix. The H igh-strung verve: out as our own European ideas". ment. leading to a German league of were panned by German critics, a birth which is now pan of Poland, an again through economic power. Of aristocratic world in which Pia Douwes as Elisabeth Since the collapse of the former states with a new constitution ap- new book by Grass is always an event All Souls' Day in November 1989. course it’s all happening peacefully. Elisabeth moved is peopled GDR, he has been one of the most proved by the people. He believes that Long before Unkenrufe appeared on “just before’ the wall became This time there are no armoured with tottering marionettes cynical disbelief. Other scenes outspoken critics of unification. With Auschwitz denies the Germans a the marker in May. the rights had redundant”. tanks, no Stukas tin action. No who waltz like faulty toys. which strained credulity

his solemn interventions often pro- right to a nation state for ever after, been sold to 1 8 countries. Nonethe- Much of the plot is a somewhat dictator — only the free market -The danger with this kind of included a chorus of angry nounced amid clouds of pipe smoke. lest it lead to another Auschwitz — as less. the new book was shrouded in heavy-handed satirical metaphor for economy rules." And the Polish galloping expressionism is rhe milkmaids and a Nazi rally. Grass, who is approaching his sixty- if such horrors could only be perpe- mystery. Such is the author’s para- the German “takeover" of the GDR. widow adds in broken German: absence of any humanity with The latter seemed irrelevant, fifth birthday, appears as the self- trated by a nation state. One need noia after the bad reviews he has The elderly lovers found a “German- “Germans are always hungry, even which the audience can con- and brought the evening’s appointed moral conscience of the only look at Yugoslavia today for an received dial at first he wanted Polish Cemetery Association” to en- when they are already full. And that nect Fortunately, the Dutch- only embarrassment. But nation. In a recent interview he answer to that. advance copies of Unkenrufe to be able Germans who were driven out makes me afraid.” Once again we born singer-actress Pia maybe, in a city not much explained his constant “butting in”, Grass proposes a German cultural distributed only among a few selected after die war to be buried on home hear Grass, the arch- Cassandra, Douwes is an expressive given to analysing its past, that as he puts it, by stating thar he was a fellowship as a substitute for the reviewers who he felt sure would by ground. Their modesi plan becomes speaking. Elisabeth, giving the character was no bad thing. citizen who paid taxes and that like unified state. This is of course not sympathetic This caused a furore a booming business reminiscent of • Unkenrufe is published by Steidl at a high-strung verve and ener- any other citizen he wanted to know what the demonstrators on the streets and die publisher was forced to the cemetery in Evelyn Waugh’s The DM3S gy which 1 suspect she did not Harry Eyres

GARDEN FESTIVAL: CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE Richard Gilbert makes his way round Dublin on a well-organised literary pub crawl

inderella-sized pump- the average French back kins nestle snugly in Brilliant array garden. Edged in shoulder- C the depths of rampant high hedges of dipped beech, Bags of colour, pints of plain vegetation, whose untamed the garden plots are shaped tendrils search out the ankles like the leaves of a tulip tree of passers-by. A steep hillside of back-yards and connected by a network of ublin’s heartland of “planted" with a battalion of sandy paths. From tiie air, this activity. Grafton galvanised metal buckets be- permanent layout looks like a D Street, is packed at comes a solar energy-operated work of a derelict car. Weeds At dusk, the beauty of nature is series of leafy branches. dusk with a crush of operFflir watercourse. Scented pine nee- and chaos thrive happily enhanced with a garland of Landscape designers, gar- entertainers, from jugglers to dles form a crackling carpet alongside botanical rarities fibre optics. Chauznont-sur- deners and schools from jug bands. A youth leans under a sinuous, slatted bam- and regimented rows. Water Loire’s Festival des Jardins is around the world- were all against a banner which boldly boo runnel. Lush young grass trickles through an under- no ordinary garden festival. invited to create an ephemeral, stales: “1 will recite poetry on forms a rejuvenating, contour- ground grotto, or hangs as a It was bom of the desire of autumn garden within one of request" The. list of poets . dinging skin over the body- misty cloud over a duck pond. France’s Minister of Culture the leaf-shaped plots, at a cost available is impressive — and Education Jack Lang to of not more than Ffr 1 00,000. Yeats. Patrick Kavanagh and revitalise national interest in Tempestuous rain permit- Heaney are among the listed gardens and landscape. It is ting. the gardens will be at the repertoire. Taking up the

tiie first of hs kind to be held in peak of their beauty — or their challenge, I request “Dig- HIGHER EDUCATION France, and it deliberately fascination — during the com- ging” by Seamus Heaney. eschews the horticultural ing weeks. Without a pause, he stands haute couture usually associat- Organised by the Jardin de upright declaims: 3 and HELPLINE ed with such events, in favour la France, a distant offshoot of Between my finger and my • V of a pret-d-porter collection of the Ministry of Culture, this thumb contemporary bade gardens, first Festival des Jardins (also squat rests; C The pen srrag as designed to titillate the imagi- the first phase of a much agun... C nation and tailored to fit bigger landscape and gardens After a word-perfect delivery g everyday pockets. programme, which indudes of the complete poem he bows fi Intended to become an- the setting-up of school like head I h an a his and drop money in nual event, the 3-hectare festi- those at Versailles), has hat s Kew or his and make for the val site is in the rolling yet to acquire the professional Bailey, a nearby pub with s parkland surrounding the patina of similar events in strong literary connections. p handsome 15th-century cha- Britain: but it comes up with a The writers a and pubs of Dub- teau of Chauraont-sur-Loire. pannier foil of ideas to try out lin are inseparable b and the For up to the minute Seven months ago. the undu- at home. Bailey is the appropriate o start- lating .she. which offers a ing-point of the Dublin Liter- e information on higher • superb view of the turreted Diane Hill ary Pub Crawl. chateau, was grazed by sheep. From June to mid-Septem- d • The festival runs until Novem- Today it is transformed — by ber. five nights a week, two P education course vacancies ber l. Full details are available tiie Belgian landscape design- inventive actors take visitors to h from: Maison du Loir el Cher. er Jacques Wtrtz — into a Dublin around four or five a at Service Loisirs Accueil. 5 rue de la universities, including mosaic of 25 a self-contained Voute du Chateau. 41000 Blois: pubs and perform readings plots, each roughly the size of Telephone (OiO 33) 54 78 55 50. from Irish writers who have S present and former specific links with these bars. a? For £5 it must be the most Five pounds for the poetry: Reid Lee in aj Derek and Gerard the Long Hall pub, Dublin polytechnics and further ingenious crash-course in si and ARTS AND. ENTERTAINMENT Irish literature, history, pub the Artist The audience, softened fc of now the "crack" has The crawl formally ends higher education bonhomie and architecture yet which ranges from Austrians the hardest of heads to ask with more “pints of plain” at h; colleges, call • AMSTERDAM: Borrowed Devoyon, Ton Koopman. The devised. The brain-cells are and Swedes to New Zealand- instead, "Where is the bar? the rococo extravanganza of from the Frits Lugt Collection Tallis Scholars and the Vogler simultaneously flooded with a ers and a few Dubliners, refill Where is the stout?". Inside the Long Hall tor in South in Paris, Drawings From the Quartet few “balls of malt", as the their glasses, before the actors, Mulligan's a woman up- Great Georges Street after an Age Bruegel of is a collection of Festival de Musiqiie, 2d rue creamy Guinness is dubbed, using hats as their only props, grades my order from a glass extract from James Plunkett's i 6th-century Netherland ish Isenbart 2500 Besanfon. Tel: and stimulated by perfor- tackle a scene from Waiting to a pint, remarking that “A The Risen People. But many of drawings of very high Until mances of writings quality (010 33) 81807326. from Joyce. for Godot They show the bird can’t By on one wing." As the audience succumb to the and offers a full survey of the Sept 18. Behan, O’Casey, Wilde 0839 444530 and group tiie Bailey's most unusu- tiie pints tine up. an Austrian unique brass and glass decor artistic movements of tiie per- • LYON: year's biennial Flann O’ Brien. literary G This al memento — the language teacher debates how of the pub and stay “out on the iod- Works by the most impor- takes its cue from the Olym- The work of Dublin writers front door of 7 edes to translate “the Irish pub" th No E rip” after the final perfor- FROM tant figures such as Pieter pics and Expo embracing a has been inextricably United U Street from Ulysses, rescued into German with the correct mance. Oinking glasses of Bruegel the Elder. Jan van "passion of Spain" theme, with the city’s finest pubs for from a skip by John Ryan, genden actor Derek Reid con- stout gs AUGUST 26th to OCTOBER 2nd together, a Swedish neu- S corel, Maetem van aiming to present the foil many decades. The skill of and former fesses his th poet landlord, and that nightmare is an rologist and an Italian student Heemskerck, Hendrick range of Spanish dance. actors Derek Reid and Gerard memorably unveiled Pat- audience for the literary wl LINES OPEN UNTIL 9pm by crawl toast the idea of file literaiy Goltrius and Jacques de Those interested in historical Lee from the Writers’ Island rick Kavanagh with the words: that speaks no English and pub crawl as a rewarding way ' Gheyn II are covered and the dance will find much here for company ties in combining “I hereby declare this door drinks mineral water, ca The Times and Hie Sunday Times, in association onfy of studying Irish writers, while show indudes superb portraits them: the spectacular produc- this unique street theatre with shut" while a friendly Dubliner ex- pb with ECCT1S 2000, have joined forces to launch a the Austrian translator wres- of Christian "crack" II of Denmark tions of 1 7th-century baroque the that makes Dublin plains that tiie local word for a tles M special helpline service with information on Degree, with finding the most and the the liveliest Emperor Maximilian dancing and traditional Span- pubs in Europe, he evening is not for the “wimp" is a “woos". appropriate word Di HND and PGCE Course availability. for "crack" I by Jan Gossaeit and Lucas ish dancing. Also featured are and successfully avoiding the faint-hearted (an alter- We weave towards tiie Pal- in German. van Students and their parents have direct fleets Leyden respectively. the traditional dances of An- tourist dichfe that could ruin a native afternoon walk- ace in Fleet Street where wf to T Outside tiie Long Hall, a operators with the latest information Rijksmuseum, Stadhouder- dalusia, Catalonia and Gali- fine evening of high art and ing tour is offered those who Gerard Lee pays R( on all course to tribute to local asks about the event. “A skade 42. Tel: (31 20) cia, and the great works and low life. prefer a slower pace and less Flann O'Brien's local with literary wi- vacancies. The Helpline Database gives rhe quickest pub crawl?Then surely 6732 121. Tues-Sat, 1 0am- characters of Spanish litera- At the Bailey, a sturdy revelry). The trawl through Shanahan's “pome” from the se* and most detailed analysis of course availability, you must go round tiie comer and 5pm. Sun, influenced RS 1-5pm. Until Nov ture which have audience of 60 sits in the room Irish literature moves on to author’s At Swim-Two-Birds: to Behan’s local Or can save hours of fruitless enquiries. — McDaid’s. 8 . choreographers throughout where Parnell once regularly Kan Sean O’ Casey : outside Mulli- When money's tight and is IH tell you the simple truth Cafe ctWBK! a 3S» per mm* elwap rata, 48p par • Rar mmole tf aB aher flmea BESANCON: The capital the world. The biennial prom- dined. Gerard Lee breaks the gan’s (founded in 1782 and hard to get about Brendan — he was a S i of Franche Comte is ises introducing ice with a boisterous version Me host to a ten premieres of reputedly last decorated in And your horse was also drinker with a writing R& major festival of orchestral new ialents. the ballad, “Dicey Rfley", fol- 1882) there is a spirited dia- ran, problem." CB and chamber music. This year Information: tyiaisrm de lowed by a brief account of logue between Joxer and Boyle aB Mat THE TIMES When you have is a heap • 77ie Dublin Literary Pub Crawl War... brings visits from the St Pe- Lyon, place Bellecour Parnell’s links with the pub from Juno and thePayeock. of debt — Manyi continues until 17 September. tersburg Philharmonic under 690002. Lyon. Tel: (010 33) and a reading of a relevant “What is the stars? What is pint of plain is A your onfy /Sunday to Thursday). Fordetails, Mariss Jansons. Pascal 72402626. Sept 12-Oct4. passage Portrait from Joyce’s the moon?" cries Joxer, but by man. phone Dublin 540228 or74 7733. . . .

LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1992 MODERN TIMES: WOMEN 5 No dead, white, European males

Sj^gj Claire Buck, left, says her vast new anthology is a crusade to extend our awareness of the diversity of

SSJa women’s writing. Jonathon Green peruses its pages mong those who toQ fairness, do occasionally make the amid ihe file cards. the uninformed wonder whether there databases, and the allied are but two grounds for inclusion: impedimenta A of the refer- a) one is female and, h) one has ence boob world, a certain trend written. has been noted: more and more The dread phrase “politically women are joining the party. It correct" is nowhere on show, but its started in 1 982. with Susan Lloyd's ethos permeates the book. Not so substantial revamp of Rogers The- much through any linguistic cen- saurus, continued three years later sorship. but in what traditional when Margaret Drabble compiled critics will see as the wilful rejection the fifth edition of Sir Paul Har- of their own beloved beliefs. In vey’s venerable Oxford Companion many ways tiie whole book can be to English Literature, and has seen as the reification of its essay on gathered pace ever since: Blooms- “critical approaches" which starts bury Publishing is particularly with the question “how should enthusiastic. Its own literary feminists read?" Those whose ideas “guide", published in 1989, was of high culture concentrate on the edited by Marion Wynne-Davies. A products of that bugbear of the forthcoming volume on erotica is in ideologically pore the “dead, white the hands of TV director-cum-sex European male", and dismiss educator, Jane Mills, and this “mass culture” as a contradiction in month sees the Bloornsbury Guide terms, sniff ar such soul-searching: to Women’s Literature, the product what you read is the good stuff, and of its editor Claire Buck and about the good stuff is what we teQ you 1 00 assorted experts, a scant half- That is: almost invariably male and dozen of whom are men. Charlotte Bronte: doable billing white and European and, usually, Ms Mills’ volume, doubtless .six safe feet under. pulsating with bygone “engines" ries of critical assumption, an Nor are such traditionalists auto- and “grottos", not to mention essential accomplice to what the matically male. Glancing through today's less euphemistic nomencla- jargon of its own Eng. Lit. depart- Miss Drabble’s work one sees scant ture, is sure to engender more ments would term, the “grand deviation from the establishment obvious frissons, but Dr Buck's is narrative” and what the feminist norm. It is a preponderantly male likely to set some reasonably rebar- lexicon would deride as the dictates line-up with only the usual female bative cats among the literary of tiie “patriarchy". In other words, suspects: Aphra Behn, Jane Austen, pigeons. What will irk such critics “literature", as generally accepted, the Brontes, George Eliot; Stevie of course is the matter of quality, is man-made and almost invariably Smith and Margaret Atwood for and certainly not quantity. This is a created, assessed and consumed by modem palates. Dr Buck and her mighty tome, much — if not all — the same small, cultural elite. team have assembled a very differ- encompassing, a veritable door- What Dr Buck has done has ent dramatis personae. The super- stop; at 1.200 pages it will set been to toss a weighty gauntlet in stars are there of course, but so too library shelves groaning and it the face of all that A solidly are legions of erstwhile mute, would be a very severely attenuated feminist work, her guide presents a inglorious Ms Miltons. table leg indeed that would require calculated challenge to every as- its balancing services. Dr Buck and sumption and proposes in turn a hich flhuninates a fur- her team have assembled a daunt- whole new range of questions. Dr ther problem. Is this ing collection of authors and titles, Buck has no illusions: she is “guide" a reference moving through space and time perfectly aware that the idea of a book, a companion or from classical antiquity to the specifically “women’s literature" is Wwhat? If the answer is “Huda marginalia of today’s feminine likely to raise predictable hackles, ShaTawi" or “the Mixquiahuala literatures, from the literary heart- but sets the necessity for the project Letters" then what, one might lands of Hampstead. Manhattan over such carping. “It is a strategic wonder, is the question? The point and the Left Bank to the relatively move. It comes out of the fact that of a reference book is to provide unsung outposts of the French ‘literature’ has traditionally meant easy access and maximally useful Antilles and Aboriginal Australia. men’s literature. And what that information. What you do not Admirable stuff; encyclopaedic pushed out of sight is both how need, on pulling it from the shelf, is

isn't in it, and few parallel volumes many women writers there are and a search through a preliminary would attempt so all-embracing a the fact that the writer's gender has essay before moving on to check collection. This is an omnium made a difference to how the your fact. So hold the reference gatherum of staggering propor- writing has been valued. It’s always category. But Dr Buck does not see tions, with 40 introductory essays been more difficult for women to it that way either. “It’s reaDy a mix and 5,000 entries all sedulously make their names in high culture." of reference book, guide and com- cross-referenced and replete with panion. I aimed to create a book A is forAtwood: the Canadian author rubs shoulders with other stars of female literature and with some IesseNoiown writers bibliographical and biographical he suggests that quality is a that different groups of people information. As all concerned are man-made concept quite could use in different ways. It is de- that if people wanted, say, to look useful employment, these essays, says. “The aim is to reveal as much son, no mean hand at the reference

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keen to underline: no one has ever specifically created to ex- signed as a literary companion for up Chinese women writers, they through which one may probe ! as possible ofwomen’s writing and game himself, excoriating female 1 literary In- the general reader and because would read the essay on China further into the individual entries, to people realise that they creativity, “but are surprised to done this before. Women's litera- S clude women. , and make you ture. while vaguely understood as a stead they are often relegated either there’s no book like it that brings get an idea on who to look up and are an absolute necessity. have to take on more of this variety. find it done at all." Hardly an opin- term, has never been subject to so to “women’s writing” — its limits together this range of work, it also then they could go through the But over and above that, beyond : Even though that may be difficult ion open to those who have is massive a project But quality? That delineated by what contemporary has a value for teachers and other cross-references to find them." reference or guide, another con- : to assimilate, because we in the scanned Bloomsbury’s massy may prove quite another story. The (male) culture sees as an acceptable academics," she says. Miss Drabble’s companion has cept. not generally allied to the non- • West are very bad at thinking guide. Miss ShaYawi. by the way,

' trick with reference works is to spot female role — or to such genres as “Obviously a good deal of the its addenda too, essays pointing up fiction shelves: what we have here is beyond our own boundaries." was an Egyptian feminist of the the omissions: there are probably romance, whether the genteel, the material is unknown territory, as such arcana as copyright law. the reference work as feminist crusade. Read, mark, learn and outwardly 1920s; the Mixquiahuala Letters is

precious few of those, but when it bodice-ripping or. euphemistically, opposed to something like the historyof censorship and a perpetu- “We have to read these women . . proclaim is the message here. The a novel by the Mexican Ana Cast- comes to what has been included, the “sex and shopping" bonk Oxford Companion, but that’s why al calendar. Once more Dr Buck we must change our attitudes . literary times are changing and we illo. One hears the sound of a lex- now there's rhe critical rub. buster. This guide accommodates the introductory essays are so offers a very different perspective. One cannot describe a woman so had better keep up. Traditionalists icographer spinning m his grave. just expert allowed their soft as strident, but howl, but in today’s world, cul- The problem of course, is that Barbara Caitiand. Danielle Steel .essential. If it were an A-Z of Each has been spoken thafs may • The Bloomsbury Guide to Women’s word “literature". gravid with value and Jackie Collins as well as a vast authors then you would never find say and indeed, in a book which the way such imperatives point “A tural relativism rules. “It is not Literature wilt be published on Septem- judgments, encrusted with centu- swathe of unknowns who. in all your way around it But the idea is requires at least a first degree for crusade: certainly it is," Dr Buck done well," snorted Samuel John- ber 17. Price £25 The power of one South African Is co-operation the due to women’s success at bridge? Bidding to best challenge the most important book on be An academic is issuing a South Africa this generation. Uprooting Poverty — the system is to the post-apartheid South African Challenge a in the world diagnosis of the condition of amphela Ramphele dose ro miscarriage, and she the country and prescription for its future. “Poverty is an ard games reaching the honours degree in Russian at are placed diagonally across is the dynamic em- was in hospital when she bodiment or the heard of Biko’s death in police evil that must be roofed out," Western world from Edinburgh and Landy capped the table to prevent partners they say. “Power lies at the China in the 14th cen- an Oxford in maths with from seeing each other, and M Africa. is the custody. MA new South She C heart of problem of poverty tury were welcomed by a postgraduate computing di- the bidding is conducted si- Black Consciousness leader, “f was frantic to keep the the in southern Africa. Without it women as a way of competing ploma at Cambridge. lently with printed cards. an academic, doctor and social baity.” she said, “to keep alive those remain on equal terms with men. Four were introduced to the Should spouses play togeth- anthropologist, and at 45 she something of our relationship, who are poor the agitat- vulnerable to an ongoing pro- Bridge, the ultimate cant game at an early age. Smith's er? The question has engaged is deputy vice-chancellor of the and of course more ass of impoverishment.” game, long popular with parents were both champion- the minds of psychiatrists as University of Cape Town, ed I became the more the women as a social pastime, ship players — her father Nico well as bridge players, and laden with honours and one of threat of a miscarriage in- nearly estoring the Land, has become a competitive Gardener was world class — some are strongly in favour. the great and good. creased." Although she spent the last five published by the Panes sport, in which women contes- and bandy’s were good county Two egos flat have learned to She is in London to deliver died, and pregnancy Institute, shows how tants now match men in standard. withstand the rigours of mat- the Canon Collins Memorial months of her in R apartheid has played a major numbers and are approaching rimony ought to survive the Lecture on “The Challenge of bed, "thinking about ray mis- part in the devastation of them in skflL bridge table. The most fam- Change in South Africa” to- ery, going through all kinds of South Africa’s natural re- Britain’s players of both ous partnership of aH time morrow’ eiiming: in the morn- destructive, non-productive The question was safely sources. Dr Ramphele notes sexes have a creditable inter- was that of Ely and Josephine ing she launches Restoring the emotions”, their son “the rhetoric of the liberation national record, but the Culbertsoa who personified tend, die book on environ- delivered. She named him movements suggests that they women have won more med- whether bridge to the whole world in ment and change in post- HlumeJo. which means “shoot are bent on ‘seeking first the als. In Italy last week the the 1930s. apartheid South Africa for of a dead tree” in Xhosa: he political with the women readied their second Some partners even use which she was consultant was "the spitting image of kingdom’, spouses should "from that mo- hope that all other kingdoms successive Olympiad final bridge to purge domestic editor. Steve" and would whereas “the losing narrowly to Austria. grievances. Once, after such Dr Ramphele was named ment I decided to turn my follow”, play together first principle guiding future The British open team — this an episode, the male half of South African Woman of the anger into action". The hamlet of Lenyenye lies action must be that the strug- time ail men, failed fo survive the partnership left the table Year in 1 9S3 for her extraordt- has engaged impoverished rural area gle against poverty and social the qualifying rounds, argu- briefly- “Is he your husband?" naiy transformation of a sad in an justice are inextricably linked". ably in a stronger field. an opponent asked sympa- and dreary black resettlement dose to the greaL grey, green, hot. steamy Dr Ramphele is not afraid The women's team com- the minds of thetically. “Of course he is," area in Northern Transvaal greasy Limpopo, of success. “Excellence is not a prised Nicola Smith with Rat was the reply. “Do you think 1 homeland of Lcbowa to which and stultifying. The nearest white value. It has been Davies, Liz McGowan with would five in sin with such a she had been banished after town. Tzaneen, is noted for its psychiatrists oranges and lemons; it was delegftimised over the years Sandra Fenfold, and 'Sandra bad-tempered man?" the Soweto uprising of 1 9 7b. away given through Bantu education. To Landy with the youngest The British team is excep- She was exiled there from her only 12 miles but restrictions on protect themselves from fail- member, Michele Handley, The modern tournament tionally well adjusted. Two post as founder medical officer the Dr Ramphele, she might as well creased from 20,000 to The following year found ure, a lot of black people have who figured in the t devision player’s fierce dedication does complementary partners are of a black community health have been the 50.000 — had two branches of Dr Ramphde at the University accepted mediocrity." series, Bridge With Zia. not seem strange to McGow- the sometimes excitable centre 1.000 miles away in on moon. She neighbouring of Cape Town, where she In the new South Africa, The reason why players an. Her grandparents, strict Penfold and the placid King William's Town in the was the only doctor for miles the clinic in villages, a library had been began her collaboration with where a woman folk hero of excel in bridge can be hard to Presbyterians, put the cards McGowan. They had to fit in Eastern Cape, where she was but had difficulty in gaining villagers’ trust: they were built and stocked, a scholar- Francis Wilson, professor of the Black Consciousness pin down. Whatever the wom- away on Saturday night but long-distance commuting be- invnlved. politically and emo- the wanted not to go near her for ship fund initiated, and a co- economics and director of the movement is also deputy vice- en's talents, they do not add would stay up for a few tween Penfold's Yorkshire lionalh'. with Steve Biko. employed Southern Africa Labour and chancellor of a university and up tofreakishness, despite the rubbers beginning at the base, where she is a market She was pregnant with their fear she would seize their operative brickyard people and produred Development Reseaitfi Unit a director of the Anglo-Ameri- fact that to reach the Olympi- stroke of midnight on Sunday. researcher, and McGowan's child when the banning order children and send them to be i 6 bricks a month. {She had. tty then, married can Corporation, is it too far- ad final you must be motivat- In newspapers, bridge and Edinburgh home, to discuss was served. prohibiting her trained as terrorists, 20.000 Dr Ramphele was and divorced a pharmacist, by fetched to imagine Dr ed to put in eight hours’ of chess often appear side by their bidding system. from being in the company of She won the mothers’ confi- Although leave Lenyenye in whom she had another son.) Ramphele, mother of Steve concentrated thought every side, suggesting they are simi- Shan we ever see an entirely more than one person at a dence and. despite their apa- free to started 19S3, she stayed on for A shower ofresearch awards Biko’s child, as the first black day for nearly two weeks. lar. However, bridge rewards female open team at the time, or from any social or thy and defeatism, a year ensure that and international conferences woman president? . All except Davies are mar- co-operation as well as oppo- bridge Olympics? I think so. political intercourse. Dr Ram- medical dinic in a couple of another to She raised fonds to Ithuseng ran itself. On Satur- led to a stream of papers, ried five are career women, sition, psychology as well as This year, for the first rime, phele is gregarious ami enthu- rooms. proper community afternoons she watched publications and books on Susan Loppert and four of these are mothers. logic, and could therefore go Mexico had more women siastic. with a rasping voice build a day cricket on tele- health, development, poverty, They are unusual only in that with women’s supposed pref- than men on its and wild cackle of a laugh; she health centre called Ithuseng. tennis and • The Canon Collins Memorial open team. bizarre women, hostel dwellers, child- all keen bridge players can erence for cooperation rather However, has been described as inde- or Help- Yourselves, which vision, and — a by- Lecture will be given at 7pm women may be less — ren, social welfare, education, seem slightly pendent and bloody-minded, became the nucleus of other product of her incarceration tomorrow, at rhe Assembly Hall. crazy to those than confrontation. likely to develop the obsessive played anthropology. Anglicanism, Church House Conference Centre. have never the and the words formidable, self-help projects. By the time she. who had never who savoured Domestic bridge is at least attachment that characterises an expert sexism and violence? Dean’s Yard . Westminster, game. The six are all intellec- partly a social forceful and brisk all apply. Dr Rampheic’s banning order either sport, became game, but in top male players. became a In 1989. she Professor London SW], tually above average: But the shod: 3itd loneliness of was lifted in 1983, the com- on both. She also and Mc- world championships condi- Wilson be © Times Newspapers Lid 1992 her banishment brought her munity — which had in- Bachelor of Commerce. produced what may Gowan gained a first-class tions are different. Screens Albert Dormer n ! - ,

SEPl'EMBER *> I ‘>*>2 6 HOMES r iff * TIMES WEDNESDAY

TKe happier homeowners / / here is one British city Steady prices and few repossessions: where prices and therefore mort- where house prices nei- gages are the UK's highest. The ther soar nor crash, but Rachel Kelly finds a model market Nationwide says that the value of a T edge up steadily or re- typical house acquired by a first- main stable, where repossessions time buyer has fallen by 27 per are almost unknown, prices are 20 until they have saved for a bigger house costs £58.477 but in London cent in Greater London since the per cent lower than in London, and deposit than most Southerner*. £81.993. 1 989 peak, leaving thousands with gazumping does not happen. Lenders are also more cautious. Prices are also forced up by debt greater than the value of All this may surprise those adjust- George Clark, the chairman of the greater demand. The numbers of their houses. / ing to last week’s news from the Edinburgh Solicitors Property households in the South-east rose Edinburghers and the Scots in Halifax that bouse prices through- Centre, which claims to handle 80 because of migration in search of general are also cushioned from the out Britain fell by another 0.7 per per cent of the city’s deals, says it is jobs. South-eastern households need to scale the property ladder by to cent in August As prices slump still unheard of for a lender to advance tend to have more money spend the greater availability of public- city. because of higher incomes, which sector housing. further, Edinburgh, to the ever- a 1 00 per cent mortgage in the Home ownership increasing number of victims of the If only the Southern market were also pushes up prices. has hovered around 50 per cent in boom-bust cyde of South-eastern that simple. Such lessons are easy to “People in the Souih-east often Scotland, compared with the 67 properly prices, sounds like a leam but nigh useless as remedies have income from several sources." per cent of those in the South-east housing market utopia. for the South-east's 01s. The pro- Mr Marsh says. “Until recently, who own their homes. The easiest lesson to assimilate is found economic differences be- employment prospects were much VVhat could be done, short of from Scotland's legal system. Gaz- tween the dties de- better in the South, joking about Londoners moving en umping is not possible. The Scot- termine the nature with husband-and- masse to Edinburgh for a dose of wife teams tish system means each side is of their housing There is more contrib- Scottish medicine? Constraints on committed to a figure once a deal is markets. Mere tin- uting to joint land in the South-east could be agreed. Strictly regulated solicitors, kering with legal public-sector incomes." For the relaxed. Building societies could not estate agents, dominate sales in systems or mort- first time since tighten still further controls on Edinburgh, although agents con- gages wQl not housing than in proper records beg- lending, squeezing out those who trol most of the Glasgow market change that Put an in the 1920s, should never had the financial unemployment thanks to their concerted market- simply, prices are the South-east in resources to embrace home owner- Scotland, ing efforts in the 1 970s. lower in Edin- at 9.4 per ship in the first place. The Lord Chancellor. Lord burgh because the cent, is below the Tim Mdville-Ross, the chief ex- Mackay of Ciashfem, a Scot, has supply is greater arid the demand British average. Scotland is now ecutive of Nationwide, called last said England and Wales could less than in London. busier than London, where 10.4 weekend for the abolition of mon- solve such problems by adopting "People have to devote more of per cent of people are out of work, gage tax relief, which would defuse Scottish methods. Perhaps, too. their income to housing in the according to the latest employment some of the attraction of home Southerners could leam from ste- South-east because of the supply department figures. ownership. And the rented sector reotypes. however generalised. Ac- constraints, which in turn are Higher prices mean that Lon- could be invigorated to provide an cording to figures from the Central decided by our planning laws." doners have to borrow more, In alternative to owning bricks and V icton- Statistical Office, the Scots save and says Gary Marsh, the chief econo- turn, that has made Londoners mortar. Only if home ownership The house has three reception rooms. 14 bedrooms, three bathrooms, the mtrst elaborate £390.000 and is a the English consume. In the first mist for the Halifax. "This means more vulnerable to changes in ceases to be so heavily subsidised an wood panelling imaginable, two kitchens, a handsome stone exterior, costs half of 1992, South-easterners that houses are more expensive in interest rates. Because Edin- will Britons stop scraping their short walk from the West End — Edinburgh's West End. that is. It would be hard to imagine find- although it does need saved about 7 per cent of their the first place in London.” The burghers were not forced to over- savings together and locking them ing a house equivalent to 57 Manor Place in London for the same money, in incomes, Scots about 16 per cent. Halifax’s regional house price in- gear. they have been less exposed to into their homes. It may be all right restoration. The nearest comparison might be a house in Mayfair, but a 14-bedroom house Such squirrelling means few Soots dex for the first half of this year the “negative equity" plaguing the in Edinburgh, but Londoners have jVlavfair would cost much more than £400.000. even now. which illustrates the contrast in^prop- will embark on home ownership shows that the average Scottish South-east, and especially London, suffered the consequences. erty prices between London and the Scottish capital The agent is Russel & Aitken. of Edinburgh.

071-481 1986 BUYERS 071-782 7828

EAST ANGLIA HANTS^ DORSET, OXFORDSHIRE LONDON PROPERTY ANDLO.W. CHUmW. nr Hentey. Form ALDEBURGH, uunu Kants. 3 bsdrna teraswuas dating from I7m _ NORTH OF ctoot sanfrietachMl house In IP outet HamteL 4 bedraons. THE CHELSEA * WESTMINSTER SUFFOLK. cenm or vtBage. 2 rtcuOam, Bins detached 1 bsd cottage and 80" THAMES battBin. 2 sap w.c."s. brtck/flmt barn. £370000 KENSINGTON ono. Tri: 071 803 0502. Ran sty. 2tdf large tafL £120.000 0705 486180 TeL 1 ft rites pi 'floonoflBigc ta imteue rural sailing only - Newly- refill bished flats tor HUE OF VWOMT Wot Excep- mins coy. House; 4.800 so It starry regency home- atttaonv scnfraoi bornr is 6 60R NOTTING HILL GATE tional country bouae. 8 beds. otBtactettfr 8/6 tae Bedttra. an Odn- £338.000. 071 6893L sale opposite prime position on OagPitb. 607 bamroonw. aupwb vtowa. an suae. Igs Wt/bfan rm. din- Tenaced Victorian cottage; 3 Eadi of tte boiq, both «T JOHNS WOOD NWS. Be- Westminster Cathedral acre. £132^*X3. Tet 0703 ing rm. hall, atndy. etc. AH ex- mm mbs. 2 bed I canrody nsed by n viu 880007 740439. am period residence saxnkd p or 0983 oHent order, l atiure oxopta ns an 1 Ajnfarotden Avenue owned 4> tattle dwsffiot etc tad gym. covered swtamsteg tfcower room. aefl fcmhtial&i pool Jacuzzi, aos. billiard no. _/4 Lsrgc^ Westminster SW1. Chm to _____ 4/b bean, 2 udb a HEW FOREST bonier. 2 bed. DA BtlwM tennis at. and beau- Victoria semi dot. Victorian cat- e/ri. Garden. freehold station, m eulnln bedrooms 4H beamed tlfnloarrai— Twnan^7B3«40 laps. S raesgteL IbRy CS7&OOD 8. D. ri'neu & Go daraJ op nan! ol studio and sepennWC Is floor flu 001 348 7076 kUcben. hath. OCM. South-fee THAMES witeftmi property- A cash buyer required iveilible in November mie bedroom apartments in tag Oman. £89.000 tad flt- AhHaodim Marina. Oxford WANTED 1/2 or tad OfROMDid cantdanL ground floot ia Aptfl stdra. Oxford 6 mta London 3 non an attractive Victorian 9L ttngf. Tet 0794 390489 cottage any cwndMuu. 7 day 071-229 5114 (ere). For faH particulars, mddtngtan 39 minutes, tari- build amleoau mootbo«ny chHP log. vldnai 4 bedroom house wnh j nteone ffl; wureTlQE buiiditm pfoL m^ian- bo apper or l Hina. In 4Oft prtvste mncrlug living ow cent Ma/harbonr views, eand- W1/W3/5WI- 0708 622191 [ 0223 328113, room with balcony, dtnmg Leases 123 yean. banln, pool, afters tavlMd. Mayan wio. l room. tmmey ratty sued 0728 43204a Rent Bspflr to Bax No 1227 Mi ra hill in. ellllng m. foov Prices EED.000 -£94,000 kitchen, nhuty room. 4 bed- Md. kfl (dwathert. Lsa tor. rooms. 2 bathrooms, cloak Pa mu view, riniaiw SOUTH OF THE mule Per mare details call room, garage. HUi duality etorapo. £97X100. PJBduri 071 modern aconnmodanop wan Douglas, Lyons A Lyons HERTFORDSHIRE THAMES 380-3300 WALBBtSWICK SthwohL Dot 3 anattraatra i ratemaa Ufsstyte. 071-2357033 bed Bungelow 30(1 nam. Agai In inunactllate coudnian. Avd. Outet £168.0000(502 7330471 £2tOjXkX Phone 0236 634691 ATTRACTIVE pvtod tenne bom. CH. £82X300 mg. 071 ta pUaugve vtuane NX 957 3481 d on 370 3637 e Ham. Easy aOcesa Al/Aia with roof Ihttbc*. HOLLAND PARK Elegant 2 bed tempi x 28 tMtades. nee \ £99.000 +f/hOld 071 <5878331 flat period features, share F/U renovated, the property cora- KENT A Bdn. £171X000 071 2628257 BERKSHIRE IRELAND HUu 3 ivuspBou rooms. : 2 bedroom flat MBtien. teUUy. doekrootn. 6 on 2nd floor, oC itnuBy con* bednxans. teff"Wlls. SoUMe BAKtUffl bungalow. KKNStNQTON W14 2 2 garage. No chain. Private sate. Sevanoaks. ft acre. 3/4 bed. reorpOan. UNKMIE in W. Europe? FMI freutlng email Often ta noiaa of EMLCOO QHL £119^00. 0474 888274. sy. r/r uom. tit slck rSj co«V t Details 10438861} 200/821. roam, video entry Tet 081 743 9693 No Agents fan Pf> house, d/w MB TEMTEKOEN A snpertUy tehrihone. central beefing, Hunecrfcnl/M4 014). Qaeeflatu stud Estate In mteatura. (flats pandba. 19 hr* Dock. I m CHESHUKT tmmnoariy ltriy 1 alarm system and mcefint RHISnaTOM VHJLAOE. W8 KbMto Inducing village Pri- exit surrwinded by if* own hr Loudon. Such marine riles appointed ua floor 2 bod 2 nth decor DuuughoaL Share of smdoiB 3 iwinuw iw*u mary, £149.960. Tet 0064 land wnh far reoehtoo westerly now almost non iTfiiant any- apartment euiiulnp pari of freehold. £130000. ONO. ToL- reception roam, eecoad floor at 772302 nrUnw views 3 roc m. study, ml 4844-ftttty) where. (bread sale, hence rongaMeant mUtanre within 2 071 373 with storage room. ft oOce. 6 beds (2 nsuluL 2 far- W » Berta, a £66.000. 0823 672 010. acres of Manicured grounds. hour per age. ta this wen MNDHUMT bed dot ther baths. Dec staff bung, SW11 Soudan Rd BeanflfBHy m Jtmci 28 of M26/A10 6 rains. mamtaHiMt purpose block. cnalat bungalow. Big private o utfatgs. gdns, 3 ponds, pad- rertored (Emily Me. 8upert> bum Full colour brochure. OHIO Weatty ritrasad lor an amraUtas HBtB rooms. Prtvato road uocta About 22 acres. OJLH. comcrv. landscaped gdn. 4 Beds £113.000 £180000 Tri Next Mora 081 in ms damme resides oaks 872064 £478.000. Tel: Shun A Parker 3 bathe 2 roe idt/brk mu cellar 829 0122 or 0860 220388 103271 461123. Haf 8CC/3639 Oh £368X00 071 622 1101 MW. Share of freehold- Lease: 988 ns. approx- £260.000. HEREFORDSHIRE, HADLETT Magnificent ... Tee Donumc*» on nai ores WORCS, & SHROP styte family tenne In graimds or COTSWOLDS A acre. 6 beds. 3 baths. 8 racep hone, road bum by Common. NCTTmo MU. DATE EsccOcm lor now wing can be «/c staff «*r_ 0bede.grecepe.jfjai.eCH.37n 6 bed 3 bath family house. 400 granny nao. indoor pool Barden. PH £290.000 Andrew mtden. recently renova COTSWOLDS - tesmac 2 bed Hamptons Melon A Co oat 7C7 0076 hs One naoe. Urgent prtvate sale, terraced collage, oidat village « £690000 Oi. Reply to sssaooa on 221 8963. mis Mot ensign-Marsh. Box Ho 1866 fSOuOOO. w/days 071 411 PROPERTIES 2206. CVS 061 996 1718 CITY & WEST END 8L0AME An, Very Dgbt g burn TONBRIDGE. flat fbr sale. 2 bom. 2 ktt Hv FOR SALE Devon a Cornwall! A spacious 1 8th Cranny rrns. 2 antr doom. 2 M bn. (deal MimRJt INTERIORS type for tnveeaneiiL 071 889 3307. By private treaty in Grade 11 Listed residence decor, freehold. 4 bed. bath. EAST DCVOH (Exeter 10 miles. 2 2 EAST ANGLIA Droitwich Spa near raeentlou. large property Hi W1 4. very quiet and Ideally aun- M5 StaMBth 4 mite). Brand of character, architectural asses. botbHng in CBoucefler ated. 2 bed QaL Iff tX ksng a racei and historic interest 2 Terrace, wz. Pcmaanty to lease, low uutgutuua. private reception rooms odfans, bund another floor. £296000. sale £78.000- 071-602.5927 5 Tel: 071 706 0882. etter fl pm. main bedrooms, 2 SWIO - Sth KM/Cbstaes. One Nesr oxmtsysidss. n 2 bans bathrooms (I en-suite) NCADULY random 2 bedroom Floor Flat, wuh bmnedUite SUFFOLK or 0404 813868 flax m panned Hack, urge occupancy, roe sale. Drayton 2/3 secondary bedrooms. reception wirb views mi Gdns Blyr tease. Nr Halesworth, a bed. ratal 32 mb Workshop: Garaging. Grom Perk. £220.000. Bfc outlook. (i wtth bum m cop. Ipswich, 25 mb Norwich, neon Estates 071 439 4820 boards) KaiL Knot, nacep Rm. Delightful walled gardens. Bathroom «, 8 micro coast. New mam W.C. Nr. Aboot I area. SLOANS COURT WEST tat and robe. £ 100.000 - no agents. Tek counoyhse. not Freehold. £385,000. 2nd floor mate. Recently return 071-882 8897. overlooked, superb lo won standard. 3 bed. i oath, separate WC. large vwws. tins, cwt dbb Hamptons^9732) 466222. Freehold. BaqsiiL MAYFAIR — ... . lge beds, 2 Very low OjjjgqtIHl £230X100. Tell 071 730 1842. —noon. 1 showeroom. £90000 £188.000 Tet 0364 43297. OBOSVENOR AO Views from 2 utaty. study, kit, dining bed. 2 bath. 2 recap 2nd floor room, lounge, cloakroom. Telephone 8905 773347 MIDDLESEX ML 68 it lease £260.000 SCOTLAND HQrnr A Son* 071 499 9304 £143,000. BARBICAN iuHlWnltb Ky^inlfitl An ly STAMEl -4 mnea Hsmhrow Lge MAYS MEWS Outstanding low Tet 0986 873856 -burn newly appointed 2 bod malt 2 bod SBC ta secure 9 acre rerurb hoan 2i homo. Scotland. grounds o/looUng Themes UNFURNISHED rawj. kn/vtw*. Stwos. uuage. i^iingtfon^lji flooTyWnfa SW BrautaUty mriorad. Grade with studio. - Tri: 0784 480864. roof tea. Mass. . 13 bad p/fa D aftOBP APARTMENTS »yr fiS7fl.ooo. . [nemo A Itet kit C/M. toga, bate. cay ta tee of castle. £119.000 or Son 071 499 9344a OfBte. Details tor rant. Rants from approx Views.J3GE. 900 yr tee. aesmma final OS67 30276. PARK ST Opportunity £8,000 pa wNcfl includes to buy Lrat £03.000 no. Tel: 0223 warebebe and BRIDGE OF gM F/HOM h 241002. bathroom. BROWN Comp jgraTSpgJTo Osiagc, Taaflomnift Ctafl 8aop. MIDLANDS services ana background bedrotan. asperate basement GCH. 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CREME DE LA CREME Rise To The PA FOR CITY Challenge STOCKBROKERS 18,000 £20-22,000 c.£ - This busy Director seeks a calm and efficient • PA/Secretaty to organise his working day and This ii a job where your opinio u* cornu and provide him with complete secretarial and Team will totally involved. The Senior PA Up! where you be support inckxSng ooOaring PERSONAL/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT mfrninsfTative dynamic Finance Director of a major information for reports, organising travel £19,000 International pfe needs an sxsuzant to ensure dineraries and Basing with dents. Yot/B hove interpersond TO CHIff EXECUTIVE £16-17,000 the smooth running of his division and to an ftnandoi experience and firs* class legal secretarial background and sk&. O'Lavd education, 90/60 (kOs and With a as his ambassador to the rest of the company required. late 20s ph*. experience other fields yon A leading and highly successful Oil Company WordPerfect 5.1 Age MAJOR HOSPITAL GROUP SAUDI ARABIA Director level in and to external institutions. First hand based in the heart of London needs a confident, Sjobeth Hunt Recniitiimt have ihe perfect combination for a Senior knowledge of the finance world and the ability Pleas* telephone - 248 3744. lh* hwjnUJ management in large firm. likes (and professional and efficient secretar to work for Camdtauts 071 SAAM Services LrwM tortno Parmer a Cay He y to organise presentations and provide fenfdess managers their young team. Working campanw «i Scudi Aunu. piondes services » Ihp prestqiwis needs) to delegate as his Competition Law WO and secretarial support in a fast—moving i-wiraii ini»r«uiiw>«i) and constantly Elizabeth Hunt of lire most modem (national and from plash new offices, yon will be West End Rrvadh Ai kh.ir) Hdesirable and 5 Crone You Win ba prat of a 13^00 + txnua ci - - diMoa r cio«i) MutOmate -SMDW4 Lotus 123 Wong - clothes roc managenreni level are essential. Bvky team A day LV-s + £200 aBow Execuuw Sccieloiv M a sen 1 Word Windows - Monarch I RCOturniBn'.CQfQUUANTS anee. WntetoKt 5.1 can earn. for package This, chaitenuino post offers an affrachve benefits Odwpm typtng. High profile Marketing Co. near Hamraer- furnished accommoAition. ties including a lax-free salary, tree SUPER SECRETAWES I SUPER SECRETARIES omflh. Aged 2026 me*. Harriet TEMP WITH PRIDE eninlemeni. WP. YOO Win have a corv 071 222 3838 tHqnis eveiv 6 monins wtnl^d. geneiou? leave 4fy reium * We want only Ihe beat for oir temps, that’s why we ena-ol-conimcl bonus and ekcopnornl letsure and holiday £17,000 ' wortdngtoa SECRETARY regnmd tor amah. PA -RECORD CO. have work for you just the way you want it (1 day to oppocluniws Exciting and dta flanging role for gregarious PA TV SHORTHAND SEC WordPerfoct mm, 1 year) with Interesting companies (Television to 071-851-1220. to use own jppiv m wnling *iin CV lo out international Recruitment required. A afiUlly Please with impeccable secretarial/admin skills (9GSH/ C.£1 3-13,500 mmaove a immamoy wnn Royalty) and honest rates for the work you do. Afl Division cflanf» natanifal Aoe 23*. Sal 60 typ) to act a right hand to MD of inti label. £13X00. JiteU, OTI 361 4666 we ask is that our tamps have packages & skis INTERNATIONAL LIMITED that they’re happy confident to work with. GAMA Liaise with artists and managers. SECRETARY to a amaD team hi & SL JonanT*. frendi but Tal Floor. Moreau Hoase. 116 firsmjha Road. Whether you are a Receptionist, a Secretary (with LONDON: dennatrly not maenad. Age Forsyte. . pis. £15.600 + SW3 1JJ. Trt 97T-5B1 S5ou excellent an. - Legal Pecoie sal. rendanBto agency. Siron RECRUITMENT CONSULTANTS temng BwtfiwTMBi. 1 sklUs C12AOO+ 00/60 systems nj]J. tthi*n company. Salary raoutred. Age mid to lafe ten. enod Jkumvlcdjc nf WP we 071 681 6677.._ you SOOKKEEFM/SECliETJURY. aae. Please telephone 07 1 248 3744 APPLEMAC TOPS. H prd- THIS b a danundBig postoon for Hunt Recruitment know any or tee following iK-cessan . crns train free of charge in order to meet £17,700 EXP Legal S« C20^l word. n nbninWmtor wtm mtp to catnaamr/Ln Partner. 9afW MKroHdl rrg for Macwtue. Persua- trial balance 5 of computerised Ooaa Bank. LeO» People Acy. Macdnw. our clients requirements. - Yon must Be PUTNEY 2 ntt/patt tone po4- sion or Power putai and are PA gayrgd systems 081 348 9106 totte 9to°. SECRETARY MARKETING flame, assy gatag Sr fun to ttont. FaceIbad WordPerfect Interested tn wraplng please can For funher details please call skins Emma SENIOR EXEC work Wtm. as nus ts a my FED UP with yemtanal? Are irniThl Mug The Anteony Cook Bureau (Rec Suhsftfjf JUNIOR ACCOUNT SsL to ci&soo. worth more? H your in a Stevens 081-788 6964 tteoal on 628 3366. Trad Kibbcrr or Richard Evans Salary + MorfBBfle bar Cnantr. you Wi ‘\USTEN FreeSent Can Demur 41 Meridian lob tens more of a nit than a Vcourc Cbtete. - DUB# WORD WINDOWS piua on 071 600 £12 16,000 aae OP C7I 236 IBS6 CRrc Coaal career, wa can offer you a SCCRETARY/ MS FOR 2862 change new. H you would Bke £16X00. Enonaiaatlc taak^ul- WordPerfect ptra proncaant J SNllTHE | fax CVs nn 07 1 726 - Career PA. TMs entoled paeon to work wfih shorthand? 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PA to Personal Assistant . . * ‘CAPITAL CITY’ with us £15,336 - £16,857 (inclusive) £13,500 + ALL OVERTIME PAID Senior Partner up to SlO.OOph + Holiday Bonus + STL A Personal Assistant is required for the

Private Secretary to The Rl. Hon. the lots of interesting and highly i (Circa £15*000) . . . as we have c£20,000 The City wlth ^rihand^d Lord Mayor of London. primarily for experienced secretaries Business fires through the wires here fte and progressive law firms, sWlls (espech Our client, one of the City's leading excellent word processingf DTP qufcksflver and you presentation and ere right In the thick of it afi. requires a high calibre PA to support their Senior Partner. The post is a key member of the sstS Mass. II). 5.1, AmiPro and Su£» This fob is not really just about typing (although ally MS Word. WordPerfect The work is varied and includes both the usual confidential and permanent staff who snppon the nunner and you wM need requires an open mind, a friendly SOwpm) it's about intelligence, administrative tasks ful temping also secretarial duties and a range of demanding Lord Mayor during the term of bweiand initiative & drive! One minute you’fi be with with levels. We specialise at requiring frequent and sensitive contact with clients, other an abOity to deal at all one member of your crew composing a reply to a in the business. Ring us members of the business community, partners and staff. The successful candidate asst have a guarantee to 0ve you the best back-up telex about mffions of pounds ^es you!}, the next stan - You will be over 30, educated to an A level dard or high now to join our busy team! you'll be researching, two seconds late the phone standard of orgnusuKioal, equivalent, with at least 5 years' successful track record at a 1-434 4512 rings— ft’s for yoo-hoerf It's BtoraBy afl go-go-go. secretarial and coazmxmkaafoa Ar»*, - NBcki/Awern 071-377 8827 W End - JnUn/To^ « sailor secretarial level in the City. Ideally, your experience wfH Chy Europe is sizzfing around you and it's up to you to including operational in a Property Department of a City law an knowledge of get involved There's no shorthand or boring have included a period WordPerfect 5.1, a flexible approach to tication, it’s about the here and now & you do firm. salary and Crone Corkill what needs to be done off your own baL You w2 in addition to a highly competitive a modem work and the personal qnalztiea no biend need financial working environment, our client provides a subsidised experience already under your baft into a busy team . to fit in here at "Capital City” - banking or trarSng restaurant, STL, perm*"”** health Insurance plus further RECRUITMENT Temps COPfSl'LTWfrS wi junto you to the front of the queue. The sodd benefits. In addition to a competitive salary, we Be in these majestic offices has to be unrivalled! Please write in confidence, to Lynette Cunningham quoting ret offer good conditions of service, a So if you are between 20 & 25, fife is where ifsal enclosing hill CV with a daytime telephone number, 90026 and a pension scheme, and interest-free loam _atL at MSL Advertising, 32 Aybrook Street. London W1M 3JL Please OC annual tickets from rwngniwl City Up-Date 18-21 Jamyn Street London SWIY 6HP list separately any firms to which your details should not be sent carriers. Tdepbane 071 7347341 Facsimile 071 7343260 Fame At Last! The Ot> !•> luwinj: w iih t-wiling new jnhs! This is a non-smoking office. iL Advertising c£l9,000 U»ir clxrnis aa- activcK writing, cxpjntfmt Rv.T:i:!im-nc ( .n :;Mlll;mls d recruit a September to: The Private Secretary a true P-A- for wtviancN to are famous frees, need hripbt >oun%e WORD FOR WINDOWS SECRETARIES the Rt Han the Lord Mayor, 11 their Managing Partner. Minuting lor a vanc(> nt iliflcnrnt FAME, meetings, recruitment of support staff, (Hviiiionv FORTUNE & _ Following our appointment as sole supplier to the Ironmonger Lane, London EC2V 8EY office management and organising for Reconstruction and Development LEAVE AT 430! f/J European Bank will of this corporate hospitality be pan • Floor Asst. - Trading we now require secretarial temps with Word for Windows IBM fascinating job. You win have your own £11,000 + 5 Weeks Hols + Med + SERVING THE SQUARE MILE Lively Team Perks experience and either audio or shonhand skills. Being bilingual in arefarant to help out with the heavy work Amenciin Bank livari Similar ypwiwr and any European language would be an advantage. g skills of it vSIXt (plus paid u/n -Joe* down itoon a colorful landscape of very 90/65/wp essential. Age 27-35. famous Authors & their books, see it afl from regular temporary work within a challenging the If you are looking for Fkaac telephone Joamn tm efizzy heights of an office that sits at the very • Croup Finance Dir. international environment, together with an attractive pay and OH 434 4512- pinnacle of the pub&shing world. If you have a Nuntcratc I’A benefits package please call Penny Palmer immediately on: few months secretarial experience, reliable Oil & Gas Company shorthand (B0) & typing (50), then use these 071-481 1455 I'lbJUi hard-won assets to open “the" door for you In 78 Fenchurch Street, London EC3. Corkill to the rivetflng MANPOWER PLC, Crone world of fiction- stories we aO Curporuir Finance know; non-fiction- books we afl Present use. i ; nonimteNTcoMuxMfis Dim:tor's Scvrcuuy yourself for the opportunity of a lifetime & an British Slurthrokrts experience offered to the very few. Are you as Never A Dull Moment £IS,tKJ0 happy to GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL send a faxed Script as you are to show DMB&B Secretary £18,000 + AAF. a No 1 Author around? if so & you're in your late Go For . Wo sro a lending inw national advertising agency teens, early twenties, time waits for no one and situated In St James's Square. SW1, Bid we currently A prestigious asset management company in St PAluMD this job is waiting for you. have the Mowing Gold James’s Is looking for a top cafibre secretary, Secretary Set up situation Office Services Co. wffl thrive in Information 18-21 Jamyn Street, London SWIY 6HP who a busy technology to £16,000 SECRETARIAL is £isjnn Telephone 071 734 7341 FbcshaBe 071 734 5266 department This a very chalen^ng position £15,682 - £17,740 per anmxm Pxrrflrm opportunity to join OPPORTUNITIES where the key words are quick thinking and i young, dynamic and multi-tasking. You should be computer iterate The General Medical Gomel is fin statutory body • 2nd Jobber An inrepoctad vacancy has occurred for a Senior definitely au^ cuznpmy as you wffl have the chance - Secretsy/PA (Z5+) id work with our London Group to become truly respansMe for reg^afiig the medcal pmfwaion. Management Six. Maine Tucker where the people are Finance Director and Ms busy Support team. This is a involved in the department’s work. Numerous LciHlinc Civnputcr Co. ,h, nffi— We are locking for a mature Socretwy to provide Kecr Tinmen! Comuliams Rfli l mif aptamfd opportunity for someone with good organizing J short deadlines wffl keep you on your toes. You I'DJIU and benefits include free skill to priartiza the secretarial workload fbr oaa kay assistance and awer tor the Personal Assistant to the department. should wffl shorthand hmebest waD You haw a sound aacroraiM need good and audio typing and a Yon iswile full President and Chief Executive Officer. MEDIA MAGIC knowledge of Word for Windows is preferable. Candidates should he in with an afaity to work with |»opto at CancSdates should be wefl educated, hove a least rapport u die Company nag. Fbr more information please ring Anthony Cook ihcir 20s with excellent Circa £14,000 remain crim under pressure. : £16,000 Secretary SnliwMf nrf Bureau on 071 628 3355. five yean’ previous secretarial aitoartonca, a protea- skills. Shorthand of Also, as a result of an in-house promotion, we hew a Who do ail the top Advertising Agencies go to If your cantribtnion will be 90 wpm an advantage - vacancy fbr a bright emhuarnmic young Junior Secretary sioneitei^itKTOinBnnBr^axularfishorhvicl/axio they want prime-time spots on Television, Ratio or highly valued. 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Regina v Secretary of Stale between two boats engaged in sure of the repon. Neither the discovery, and although the cate- Regina, v Rochdale Metropol- available within the council's dis- section 6. the education authority obliged to rake account of tin.' for Defence. Ex pane Sando non-ope rational duties. The mat- deceased nor his parents were gory of bodies susceptible to ju- itan Borough Conned. Ex trict provided the distance from the should not escape from compli- parents’ preferences: see section 7b ter had been investigated by an present or represented ar the dicial review had been expanded, home was more than three miles with duty simply because of the 1944 Act. now strengthened Before Mr Justice Rose Army parte Schemet ance that Army Board of Enquiry whose enquiry; his reputation was at risk: it was still a remedy operating only where the child was over the age of the parent had expressed a pref- by section 6 or the 1 980 AcL IJudgmem Before Justice Roch July 24| rights or Mr contents were nor disclosed An the withdrawal of blame left vital either to proiea legal erence for an extra-dboia school: The parents' wishes were an The parents of (Judgment July 24] a soldier who died inquest in Oxford had reached a questions unanswered: the ap- enforce legal duties. A new policy came into existence see R v Shadow Education Com- important consideration but they in an accident in the venlia in Falkland of accidental death. plicants had no other means of There was no legal duty on the The polity of a local education August 1990 as a result of mittee of Greenwich London Bor- were not the sole consideration Islands were nor entitled injudicial sent the ihc accident the travelling constraints the council’s Council. The Army had dead seeing the report, secretary of state, statutory or authority not to pay on spend- ough Ex pane Governors and the education authority might review of a decision ing by die Sec- soldier's parents an account or having occurred prior io the repeal otherwise, to disdose or to exercise expenses of a child whose parents on education, and it included of John Ball Primary School conclude that they could make re®0' °f State for Defence to said occurred. the the statement the refuse what was to have of section 10 of Crown a discretion in relation to the arranged for the child to attend a that council ((1989) 88 LGR 589. 595. 603). suitable arrangements for the child to disdose the would report of the board That indicated that Sapper Sanao Proceedings Aa 1947: and no disclosure of a board of enquiry school not maintained by the not pay travelling expenses Support was lent by the wording school closer to or enquiry to be registered at a into his death. and the other soldier in his boat question of national security arose. was unlawful, even if the if a parent arranged for a child to report. The parents had no right to authority of section 55(4) of the 1 944 Act. as his home despite a conflict with the The decision when was satisfied attend a school refusing disclosure were the worse for drink the His Lordship that know how their son died in so for school was the nearest suitable one. not maintained by inserted by the Education Reform parents' stated preference, pro- was so outrageous was the round] if that'no sensible accident occurred. That contra- the decision not to disdose as that could be ascertained from The parents of children at and even the school Aa 1988. which made Par- vided the authority took account n( person could dicted evidence ar the inquest, sense used was the nearest suitable school. have reached it. but outrageous in the by the repon. schools outside the borough for liament's intention dear that an that preference in reaching its the secretary of state was including a pathologist's report Lord Diplcck in Council of Civil education authority In his Lordship’s view, such a education was under nci Although that last sentence whom a local authority not to conclusion. legal duty to found in Service v Minister the policy was on the face of it breach disdose or to exerase that no alcohol had been Unions for might an astonished gasp had provided free travel passes had a discriminate in favour of schools it. J cause In the present rase, if the discretion in relation to the rhe dead man’s body. Civil Service (]IQ&5| AC 374. a legitimate expectation that such of the council's duty under the maintained itself as against from many members of the public unlawful statement was removed disclosure of such a report. The Undersecretary of State for 4 10G). passes would continue to be pro- Education Aa 1944 unless the schools that were grant main- and perhaps some ministers, it the council’s statement of written could avail the ap- round! could from Mr Justice Rose so held in the Defence had to the ap- But that reflected of the vided until some rational grounds show that there was tained or maintained by other accurately the stare policy relating to education, that Queen’s Bench Division dismiss- plicants' MP saying that there plicants only if the dedsion refus- had been communicated to them no duty where the school was in the education authorities. law. policy was capable of being applied ing an application by Paul and were no grounds to suggest their ing disclosure was susceptible of for withdrawing die passes and district of another education au- The statement in the council's With no enthusiasm at aO. his in accordance with the council's Ingetorg Sancto for judidal son was Die work for drink and judidal review. There was no they had been given an opportu- thority see Surrey County Council policy not to pay travelling ex- re- Lordship was driven to the condu- statutory powers and duties. view of the secretary of state’s that his boat was being handled doubt that the proceedings of the nity to comment. v Ministry of Education Q 1 953] 1 penses for attendance ar a school sion that even in the unique and in decision itself WUR 5 1 vKenr On the question of consultation, of May 23. 1 responsibly when the accident took board of enquiry were Justice Roch so held in a 6). Rootkin County not maintained by the coundl was 990 to refuse some respects lamentable circum- Mr to allow reviewable question Coundl I 1186. the applicant accepted that there them to see place. but the was reserved judgment in the Queen's ([1981 J WLR therefore unlawful but that did not the report of stances of the case he could not the enquiry into The respondent had never whether the parents of a service- 1194. II 96) and R v Devon necessarily mean the withdrawal was no statutory obligation on the the death of their with Bench Division granting declara- provide the applicants the council to consult, Lordship son. Sapper Kirk Sancto. acknowledged that the Army's man were entitled to challenge an tions on the application forjudicial Countv Council. Ex pane C of travel allowances and the refusal but his relief which members of the most that there a legiti- account sent to the parents was executive dedsion nor to disdose review of Paid Gregory Schemet fll989| AC 573, 604). to gram the same in respea of the concluded was Mr Geoffrey Nice. QC and iss would feel was their due. M public mate expectation consultation in Helen Hobhouse totally misleading, or explained the board's report against the decisions of Rochdale There was no provision in die applicant's two children were of for the ap- situation was for Parliament whether or not the Array still relied In the absence of a freedom of The statute or the above ««« which unlawful ads. respea of a child at an extra-distria plicants: Mr Stephen Richards Metropolitan Borough Council fi) for to remedy, not the judge. travel on the allegations contained in its information Aa there was no justified the exclusion of that duty His Lordship to school already receiving [he secretary of state. on August I. 1990, to cease to had consider the passes. account. public right to know. There was no Solicitors: Goldkom Davies Ma- provide financial assistance for in such a case. Indeed, in his authority's duty under section MR There could well be cases where , JUSTICE ROSE said Kirk There were special circum- litigation between the parties thias for Redfem & Stigant. Chat- pupils living within but travelling Lordship's view, section b of the 39[2)(c) of the 1944 Aa of making Sanao had withdrawal travel pass died in a collision stances which argued for disdo- which would allow an order for ham; Treasury Solidlor. to and attending schools outside Education Aa 1980. relatin g to suitable arrangements far the of the meant that the child had to change the borough: and (ii) on September parental preferences, and section child's transport or arrangements schools, it was right and 26, 1990. that immediate notice 55(4) of the ] 944 Act led to the for boarding accommodation or and sensible that the education au- should be given to parents of first, conclusion that education authori- arrangements for the child to be Courtesy coaches as public service vehicles the second and third-year pupils ties should not have policies which registered at a school nearer to his thority should pay regard to discriminated against children home and he that effect a change of school would Root v Swallow Hotels Ltd vnehides operator's licences. The manager dedded whether His Lordship emphasised the attending schools outside the bor- concluded have before ough that assistance with navel- who might have to attend extra- arrangements would not be suit- on (he particular child Before Lord Justice Leg gad and The two vehicles were operated the vehide would run and if so to nod for enquiring whether the ling expenses would be withdrawn district schools or whose parents able unless the school was suitable taking the dedsion to withdraw. Mr Justice Pill at the sole discretion of the man- which destination. relevant services being rendered wish to as from September 1 , 1991. might them do so. for the particular pupil. Solicitors: Mr M.C. Darlington. (Judgment July ager of the Swallows International Mr David Fannick. QC for the constituted a business activity. 7| Parliament dearly intended that Furthermore, Since the hearing before the Irvine in his Lordship's Failswonh; Mr W. J. Lawiey. Courtesy coaches provided Hotel. London, for various pur- traffic examiner Mr Mark LapreU Lord of Lairg. QC and Mr by a in performing its duty under view, the education authority was Rochdale. poses including collection of cus- for the company. magistrates, the case of DPP v Andrew E. C. Thompson for the hotel for use by its customers were tomers from or return of them to SikondarQTie rimes May 1 9) had applicant; Mr Michael BelofT. QC public service vehicles carrying LORD JUSTICE LEGGATT points of arrival or departure, and been decided. and Mr Richard McManus for the passengers for hire or reward said that the issue was whether the the conveyance of customers to and There it had been held that as round!. within section I of the Public coaches provided by the hotel for Information not privileged from places of entertainment. section !(5)(d of the 1 98 1 Aa was Passenger Vehides Aa 1981. its customers were used for carry- MR JUSTICE ROCH said that not to be taken as defining Purdew Nicholas Bard for the defendant. ments of that to The Queen’s Bench Divisional if either vehide was operating ing passengers for hire ur reward there was no Church of England and Another v kind be brought Court so for the benefit of customers, any exhaustively the phrase “hire or Seress-Smith under (be umbrella, of absolute held in allowing an within 1 1 1 section ( 1 1 of the 98 Act. school within the coundl's district reward". the prosecution not MR JUSTICE MAC- appeal by way person at the hotel, whether res- did privilege. of case stated by M r The traffic examiner retied on offering secondary education. The Before Mr Justice Macphereon of PHERSON said that the plaintiffs need to prow a legally binding David Rout a traffic ident or visitor, and whether To do so would run the risk that examiner of Alberr v Motor Insurers' Bureau evidence showed that the applicant Cluny daimed to have been defamed by the metropolitan paying fora facility such as a meal contract. employers employees would area, against the (I1972J AC 301). which defined a and his wife were aoive members the defendant in a sent and dearly binding (Judgment July 27) document dismissal by Walton Street or not. together with any friend, vehide Sikondarwas on go to town in allegations against Justices in which passengers were of the Church of England and his to an adjudication officer in of informations, alleging, was free to travel on the vehide his Lordship. The principles in the Information provided to a soda! each other. truer carried for hire or reward where Lordship was satisfied that they connection with her claim for alia, that subject to seating capadty. Albert case applied to the present security adjudication officer by a two vehides owned by there had been "a' systematic held a sincere and genuine belief social security benefit It seemed healthy that the law of case of licensing as well as to cases person applying for benefit was Swallows Hotels Ltd were driven However, given libel should, it no one was a carrying of passengers for reward that their children. now aged 14 The defendant had sought social in tire limited way relating to insurance. not covered by absolute privilege by employees of the company right to travel and no payment was which [wentj beyond the bounds of did, protea people about whom and 1 2. should receive secondary security on the basis that she had without In his Lordship's judgment, the and therefore allegations made by public service vehides made by anyone being given a mere soda! kindness" namely the education in a Church of England driven her things might be said. His Lordship services provided been from job. The driver’s licences or service in connection an empktytee against her former public right to be carried. "business tesi". sdiooL The nearest was Crompton plaintiffs saw no reason why there should be with the business were had indicated to the hotel rele- employer could be the su bject ofan fresh House High School in the bor- adjudication officer that the defen- any extension of the defence vant. for the payment of a room or action for libel. ough of Oldham about Tour and a dant had Id) voluntarily. of absolute privilege. a meal was io be taken to be Further, the public interest did half miles from their home. The defendant, in reply to the As to the public policy argument, Good character not in issue indusive of amenities one of which not require that the former em- When die elder child first at- adjudication officer’s request for his LonJship thought that that was was the use of the coach, whether ployer should be precluded from tended that school in September entirely a matter for Parliament. If Regina v Holman his conviction in February 1992 at his character on the basis that his information, had sent a letter the customers took advantage of founding a claim for libel in such 1989 the council paid for her which it found that employers and Southend Crown Court (Judge evidence as to his intentions with was said to contain die It was seldom that evidence given the amenities or were even aware circumstances. travelling expenses, ceasing to do words were employees were not stating the Lockhart and a jury) of burglaiy. regard to the necklaces had put his of them. amenities were a that libellous. by a defendant as to the res gestae The pan Mr Justice Macpherson of 1 matter properly because of the risk so in July 99 1 ; die younger child, defendant had argued character in issue. of the hotel business. The that of the offence for which he was on R JUSTICE said that The appellant M MAN N who started in September 1991 Cluny so held in the Queen's absolute privilege governed docu- of rostfy libel actions then it could trial could ever be said to be given had served a number of custodial The coaches were a pan of the on arrest the appellant had in his had never been paid travelling Bench Divisor following the hear- ments submitted by an employer make anything said in such docu- with a view to the establishment of possession two which sentences for burglary. hotel business. The hire or reward necklaces expenses. ing of a preliminary issue in an or employee ments immune. was included in the of in such rircumstances. good character, giving rise to had been stolen. His explanation payment the action for The court had no hesitation in His Lordship found that the hbel between the plain- In his Lordship's In his Lordship's judgment, the room or a meal by the guest judgment, the permission to cross-examination was that he had found them in the tiffs, Dorothy Punlew conduding that there were no council's polity in relation to and Stephen position of the adjudication officer inhibition imposed on employers on previous convictions. garden of a house while on a The coaches were therefore pub- circumstances when the discretion payment of travel expenses by Purdew. and the defendant. Cath- was administrative rather than and employees in respect of what lic service vehides lawful mission to recover a car and for carrying erine Seress-Smith. was The Court of Appeal (Lord under section 1(0(11) of the Crim- August 1987 included die pay- who their judicial. The protection they could say about each other passengers for hire or reward. of absolute Justice he had intended to telephone the former employee. Mann. Mr Justice OgnaO inal Evidence Aa 1 898 could have ment of those expenses if a child privilege ought to be limited to was something to be encouraged police. Mr Justice Pill agreed. and Mr Justice Buckley) so stated been exercised where the evidence was attending an extra-district Mr David Eady. QC and Mr judicial and semi-judicial rather than discouraged. on July in allowing leave 23 an appeal The Crown applied for to of the appellant was in respect of Solicitors: Treasury Solidton J. school in order to receive education Harvey Starte far the plaintiffs; Mr proceedings. Solicitors: Rooks Rider; D. H. by Brian Robert Holman against cross-examine the appellant as to the res gestae. A. Backhouse & Sons. Blackburn. of a denominational character not Charles Falconer. QC and Mr There was no reason for docu- Walton, Burton-on-Trem. 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CONTRACTS LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES FOR SALE FLATSHARE GENERAL OVERSEAS & TENDERS IN or LMiAl.l THE MATTER ir.fjOI. THE HiSOLvENCV RLLES LAST NIGHT RLP PROCMLHmOfiS LIMITED THE INSOLLE.no ACT 1986 THE VENO' ACT 198^ 1986 PROMS Tickets FULHAM F NAS. Own room, nr ALL DISCOUNTED Economy. ANNOUNCEMENTS ROB^SW.VN LIMITED 1C BURT AND SONS LIMITED Bo until & Sold To,; 071 926 Tube, buses and shops £535 Chib, r/class w/wMe, 4ND IP: THE MATTER OF SHANNONS!.-RY LIMITED Europe. »l“: RECEIVE RSHIPi IN RECEIVERSHIP' 0085 or 07, 930 0800 pern 071-751 «56Ca after 7pm GSA, Far THE INWf_\ ENCY Ri. I.E-S 1*8* 'IN HECaJyLRSiupi EasL Australia 5 & PERSONAL NOTICES LS HEBEB', NOTICE VS HEREDY GIVEN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN many more. Ealing Travel. 081 In occOTdoncc wiifi Ruin 4 i o®i NOTICE GIVEN THE TIMES ,791-1990 other HARLEY ST. wi Large bedsmer. H .V L AND REGISTRY [unuaiil pur^iuinl lo Si'ciK-n -HQ of »hc tHiriudnl to Rulr 3.9 of Uie Irwol- S79 911I. ASTA 77869/IATA of Tf»o Insoil one* Rulr- i<*Ho In Sec'lon -LS of Uie UUes available. Ready lor pre- TV Video Linen. Mold LOST CERTIFICATE'S! ln%ol% enr> Ac! 1986 ItUil a Mwl f «>3. Rule* 1986. ilwl A Mvetlirq Mon ln»I\ l Bonded. AttCMA'Ira Tel: enev AD mar a - 071 481 notice Is luTPtov qlu'n mol I Med- " 11 i» PISTMM Io umil- nrw Cor of Ihe Cre4l1«n sentation abo Sundays". Frl prof, gem £5S0wn Inc. Tel 4000 ina of Ihr crrtlilors ino 01 ihc credJora of Ihr itbo\tr of F C Burl and lillf.iio. Das id Sw.vfen. FC-* u Lki-nvd oi me aboie £17 50 Remember When. 071 955 Io rrplarr Throe di-V mo nw ror-M> diva irrdliors 1 9<».7 al 1 1 QO in Ine morr.ln-j inr rrallo. ANNOUNCEMENTS: 5.00pm day prior TCI. FORD DISTRICT LAND on lb.- N z. A Europe Good dis- the I’urpoyey ol ronuli’riiM Ihc purikM* <4 considering a and opponunlly »mio elect REGISTRY Of 27IH AikxusI 1 W a commtllce co uni fores. Longmere bill. PARKSUK report on ihe ewml* a to represeni the PERSONAL 2 DATED 1h 27ih da\ r'-norl on me eyemy iKKiinu up io l^wdino up lo MUSICAL UOl. ABTA 7519b 5.30pm days prior. COL RT HALLPAJth WAY Ihc Joooinfmml nf rKcrim credilon 08I4M JIJ* of AtmusL 199J? Ine uopamUTrenr tc-reivery. TELFORD m LAND CER- pragrr-ii in Ui*> recoil orMilp A Creditor writ be ennovd lo INSTRUMENTS Please have j credit Ihe and COSTCUTTERS ntflti(» hats major card ready when placing DaiKJ Sweden. FCA. I J« him. proflmj in reeener^nip and on a *our noricc TIFICATES nor 1 FREEHOLD TITLE 16 "l*xl a comm ill,-* 10 roprwcnl yolr ai Ihu mcefing Dnly II deialh la L*ori.inj Dull'. A. Partners io elin.1 a cnmmiii’T io r.-pri-eni Europe USA A moil dntlna as prepayment b required. NLMBEFfS SCL-W1 it-7 LAND ihc* rroJiion in wrlllna ol Ihe debl claimed Id Ch.irlprftJ ACCTUHlJjtls 46 Rt> me credllory nans. DUMotna, Troi el Services ON THE NORTH E AST SIDE OF Udi«d irm hrM dav be due lo him by Ihc company Lid: in'*' Sim— Llvenwoi i i o.\„\ Dales miy (ir-r day DEAR 071730 2301 ABTA SELSUON ROAD LAMBETH glyen io MUMMY GRAND oi S*’pfeinber ioo-j vf bcplrmbir 1993. have wen ihe admlnb p-i!.*'., TVay 38703 LATA/ATOL 13B6 We accept SGL3SI69S 27 ELS I love bring a Markson Plano & DON M D GeiLKe M D Ga»rc».p iraUic rvccnen aj Price ROAD. LAMBETH VC4.431899 1 1 Wjlcrhouw. Uu- children in my new home ACCESS. AMEX, DINERS and VISA. Joint Adrmnl-J raiiy Joml AdmitiMraii ’! RccHi-t 10 Brick ii Road. St DUE lo recession lOOs of unsold 1 AND AND THE e Puu.cr GARAGES ON NOTES --OTE.S Albany. Hen/onhhJre. ALI 3J.X. are super except Billy who seau ai out away price* Surv SOETH LAST SIDE OF PARRY after 1 V *. rcdllor 'a ill l>c cnliUcd Id no later man 12 CO noon on Ihe plays me hb dinner with rtw Tvl: «77l 496 3873. ABTA. l A yTcdllor '-.ill hi’ out II i -! re I ROAD - CROYDON PRO PR ' otr .if 1 hr* meriinn business before the fixed grubby hands have heard of »uli- .il Ihr nieelma only if -leiaiK onl> If deLiih day day ETOP ARGEL LIMITED ol 3 - EUROPEAN Scheduled and '^l llltf amoiiui claimed lo be dun for uie mccllng. and Ihr claim has 'Klitcn an Ihe Keys bul never of me amuunl claimed io ho d'je Charter nighla. Tel: 071 CONCISE KINGS LANE. VVRYTHE LANE IIS 630 CROSSWORD THF MATTER irvin ih" roffipjnv hole brrn been duly annulled In accordance slra wherry ice-CTVtunn from Hie company h.|\ •• hern 6672 89974 T.VRSHALTON. SLRREY SMS T*\teTOCl» Im-JimI 'Vilh win Uie Insolvency Rules 1986 ABTA IVITKKiRS lO-Ve-d Mllh Hie ,ll Pric.- me ar Price JRA i!990< I.IMmiD Uai**rfrc America. Australia, Far THE IVSOLYENC'i ACT 1996 1 R\ nc> Inter than 12.00 now, on all .rredllor* who as, me East. Africa. Airline LRX no laler lh.m I C OO rioun on Plano from only £20 per month PIMLICO prof N4S alnolr room. AfX'd Am. NOTICE IS HEHLDt CIS E*. me btninnv, (UV before Ih" meet- Resellers lor a copy al Uie aboie Trayvale. me hunnee day Ns ore uie mrei Iirv rial, twin!* » Ead Coslte Street mai oi a hwiinq of <-r*dlior* ing .ind the address with an option lo buy- later rourt. £300 pem Iivl ai id the d.iiin has been admit claim naMievn ad mli- 071 834 WI 071 680 29ZB'Vba Accept In.- o ml. 0930 PUBLIC NOTICES I Jbai rHiwM r^iMiv con h’d in NTCordauci i^l in ore organ*. ? %»i»h ihc CY editors may vole eiiher in nlh in,- MARKSON PIANOS SICU.V iToormlnar s cited iiiHlpf lln- pro\r.loir. of Inroly.yicy Hul—. ISAt-i lnwl’.i'nr. Ftijirt 1986. person or nj proxy and a prow Special offers on 7 nls Section oi l|iv Irsoi* •nc\ \«-f 2 Credilors •-ole *-IT|,er sti’.Kild be Ktduc-1 — I lb Ihc- admin EMadlLtlM 1910 PROFESSIONAL n/i female BB from £359 iVUIa 1 Cr'Uil..r> may y.,ir i-iih 1 r in nun in 196c* .ind hr*i*j un pi.-rson rslrauie resell cTs ir i rdorallno in Icy Bhulcri lo £719 iVUIa person ,:e by proyr and a ions of or by pron .inti n f.'.,m of possible 071 P3&S682 iNWl London ore I *. Sonl'Andrra a- hrxei 19*2 Mi'l'tn C-irtr.r 1 mec-lina. sharrd acronunodanon 1 . Ind Brit- Julian «< provy i. Loclud-rd n,Tev,,m A pro>y mtludi-d Tv*rr*wilh A before Ihe A secured 081 S&4 -osiT.SEZoi In SW - 1 Cjrl.x B.irki r , | ish Sor daytime Vtii'h'r Mill Hcnz- . pro' l should l . dgod -,v)lti itm.- cr.-dilor is enmled la vale only in 4l3TiSW6i J. 7. Il or Wli wun one or Airway* direct GRIFFIN IAMF.S ALBERT proxy .brill. I be lo.lnr-1] miIH III,- W 071 381 - Heathrow Hi-qnu-n. Hill rw|o II pfr^iblr rienjecl of ine balance >u i of wo. 30+ icrroce or rughls. SfcflUn Lute GRIFFIN' tali- <4 ‘M Ciena Ro.«d London w;T. If posable b-iwe me meelina Morr me mw*ring any Roof gw 1*.1S duly Llquid.ili>r Ur*1 1 Pleov,- rail rtence. 6 Palace St SWIE jriPUHlrd «rf ». after alue • oen. 84TY. Torn! Cole. I onnoti E7 dlrd al J A cornpani may \or. e,lber i A romp.m may ImI»* ellher ms debts d’durUns PIANO SALE. EJK"PUonjl reduc Tel 081 671 flu* . 1 it i it fi f^cmpdiii 071 82B 9171 ABTA/ ATOL Pl.mlc-M. London E linn 17 j.,n mrowib a r.’pre- r r-l.nir . |m.iduc IhioTjqh a repre%"nial ,n*i a ccTlincd ropy him O-edJiors w-ho are h holly u.)r\ I quo inn a rvrillln] topi of a board of a hoard now S/H and DlqUal Ploriw PUTNEY Lor room, own bolh iEM.it-- .iboul in ^i^iusi l«OL' rev3i|iili«>n uppc-mtinu frun or bi secured are nol enlllled to be rep- J.a 400’ solution at-c-oit’lmu mm oi bv F ree rataioaur Hie Plano room, in tin family Me, n/i, f nrr M } CAMTFR pm*-, resenlea or lo yolc vt FLIGHTS LEWIS SADLER. DAPHN'L prv.y orLshop. 3oa Hi^hgalr Rd £80 pw incl. 081 706 9948 4 A wui .M3 credildr is !> Dared Ihe Srd day GERTRL'DE LF.W IS nee SADLER a A nr.-d f-dlior i*. enrulen rnuilna NWS 071 267 7671 l '*^f hjsdcbl .lfhT D Ghosh Road. Ri-dnUI. Sunr-v died al n .toy nf ne. dear alter ilrxiucllnq di-durling M rm In 3 bed naL C/H W/M. cotin led lorn Einfe. Far Etol. ine i,ilu« h". mv urtii as rs’i Join, Administrative Receiver Ri-Jhi!l un i Slh April 1 99ffl me I alUe -.1 nis H.’C’jrill a- eyli UNDER THE CLOCK N/S. £360 pem axel. 07, 31S L'SA Africa 071 inarr-d hv Hr A 3S7 3626 >Ealali- about lSI.OOOi rrarrd or mm lie mun IMa- in him rnwl fodv IP 4327 Day 07, 58S 1B27 Eie* accordance «irh n.,|r MASON. GEORGE WILIIAM eTioManr” ’vih noli’ 1 ., ylal” i a si.ilc hli-nl un irvj a BIRTHDAYS AMERICANS SEEK friendship ROEHAMPTON. Room in large run, Ih" parli'.Ular . of M 'lSOn lair- of 71 Cronor Road. IN THF HI"*, 1 ‘in im him me p.irlu ulary ol M irrFR Ol seruriii romance and marriage wllh luxury house, non Mnotier. SELF-CATERING south A orl.vhlrc died Al hi-, recurlly hr- Ihc* d.il" whi-n II Nheflleld OlCAVs WE LIMITFli u,eda|.- nnen il »» err bllH 788 t u ,1 ni%"n and rn*- •. .iiu" al uhirn British ladles A omflcmen. oil C6Bpw 081 7372 Sheffield on 91h NoinnST 1 *& \NU IN THF MAI ILK OF •jiy i' on-j im- r.iiie- al -Men tv h" SnuJl Bul pencclli pul jv.r-.v-* BUBBLES agn 1 iDepi iHI or 071 581 6412 lO* if 11 lirndltars ».hn are English Rose Ul. PORTUGAL All arm v lllov apis. LlC'.OOOt axye-.-,-. . aj-r Finale auuul THE INSOLE LNC1 AC I I *** Creditor who lofpv hr. As always, simply lRtholiv MfunM an, noi vnlillit] me Suite 3. 34 Cecil Square. Mar- holidays pomfcp no- scrni rr ebed.i NOTId LS HI. PE ElV Cine;. m olly vrui’-u .ire nol rriiii.si io lo besl Lave Crw Yxxxxxxn SOUTH KEN Penh IO room rUL hofcH Golf pouuOar. be !>" r"pr"s- rih-d or 10 %*i|*- sole. Ken, CT9 1BA. 0845- manor hainrs. Illohis. ear hire POMPER nee SGHILIT Simile IhJl 31 ml inn-flliq nr crfdllW. *1 irur<-..,ii,-d or Io y.u. a people need 3rd £128pw In.- 2**07 J5. As fearured on vverjan. Canaries Lonamere bill 08 W om.u, Ian- of 2 Harkra-m. H'-iv. I nr ,ibo'.f ii.-iitiitJ CoinD.ins . un If.-Sji.y THE IVsOLVFAn ACT o». elec A maid 071 370 8139 IHE t-.cy u;r im Where There's Ure. hllroy elr. 666 3113. ABTA DIM, i_-Jiri-.il.n, SI, .11 Whitechapel. umi-d under lh-* prov im..|is oj MfriFIC-t TIIIPH AVENLF HOTELS W LI.MITF.C' ANTED SW 1 e.vcFDUorul amnit /train L,.’Tided, LI died mere on 17ln Section 98 ol ihr lir *ili l un id il-. I IVTITFO -IN RLCEIV FJfSHIPa RFi: L|y CRSHIPi ASIAN; Eurcpean nUsrd in Ira. port O/r lux Cal Mon-Frl iRexi nbor 1 <*sb hi -id :-OTIa^F IS Noun 1996 and on ?& HwM NOTICt tS '1 HLPE0Y Cl\ LN arranged. Sutnan Morriogo IU.RED CIA FJS 1 • -u.il" .ir-xil Skirls Arrivles reoMruble 07 798 8088 SWITZERLAND t E9.000" 1^ I i n Julun Oul.T pur-ji.nu ,. puisuanr 10 s**sliraii J 8 of m*? ALL CROCODILE bureau iEsl '7?, 081 ST a 48S7 1 S-TIH'I, JH of me Inwfcv WJPPLRWLLL RL LTTE N Cjrli r Vv inirr. I lill I Ic-o-- . Irr-a'I ,Tr. ACI U'hK- 'hal Mavl hvillwr luquoc I'jOlyn.. . ari I a Be. Iii.rt .i M.-et a WANDSWORTH COMMON pOPFE-R u I tale ol 1 william Hiuhiuii- Hin Li'injut' :-i. l ,nn • •. ri-dilors of m.- Wanla-d 071 329 9618 ENCHANTED EVEMmOS yd EL %I9 lll’l of rr». u rixlilnry ol me ,ibn< e 'BA' Ballutm lluber AlVdCllle GERMAN TRAVEL centre Nii-idd Lei ion London El O died "it duly .ippcniKvl I iquiojior .n '.Tnp.lllV cs'iup.ms v in r»*. n*. ld ui iha> den, aaienrw Many or our 'till |)f iM'ld .11 ih.- TICKETS WANTED all Ihc^ln-. newlv -hvoraied room Emuile Dally scheduled highly 07] R3*>- .it Lrj InuMune. I ondc-n Eli un If"' *. i’ n.iin->i Comiuini crilirt-t iff I,r Pr.C" •icThcum- members totn on me recoin oi Price V%.if.riiuu>.e H rnnerrif and spnrtlnq ilrl-ds bath with Slower and WC Spa- 4444 ABTA 90685/1 AT A mendalion cm a I mend Dinner 28 jjnuaii 1992 LSih-d Hus MU dot ndO*' Li.ili* 55/f.T lli«n Slni'l Wi'l'fl Cullv. OO-’aT Hjqr, 9rrrt cioin lurroundimp TV. Tele- nurchiMd W Prom?. A Rughi parUei and other relayed social Ld.Ui- .TOC-UI ESu.OOOl n l Suciir l I **2 Redhill turret Wjfi Ri-lhul •soirrx 1 iR\ *.n fh" phone Shan*3 Wlrnrn far nil hi ACROSS RH a-lc TH 081 A68 09C«8 DOWN WINIFFLD ANNIE 1 CARTFft rt'ink'l'lf riuMhT.ifr at*'. nf Sa-pl-nil-e-r .craw arts far arlracine. prates PRL MTV M - ti.ll ui vpi-mN'r EoSpw t-xcl bill* 08 1 673 6753 GERMANY C .1 r»> stonal people Please rail Cheryl I Rcvoll PRL'NTY .Nh.Tv.lvo WINTERED \**2 .il 1 1 19 j| 1 | u, niomino for (5| 1 OOm lie* ii,. .in mo i..i Vomii 15) PRLN'TA SWIM'T Idle ol hr pinnn-R Ihe z*urpc..rf. uiiMiUilnq u frown 071 571 6*3* WANDSWORTH N/S for M ANNE nr*io«'l Iiiq .1 4 M’jurua inner FOR SALE room * ZMihroom in prl\^lc ( 1) 2 SaLvui, House SI Si. lour'v Rail. % ra pearl cn the ••ills kjmnq lo GERMAN TRAVEL CENTRE lniroduceL-1ililrr**7ial of rri houv dov lo RR. £?7fipan Dally scheduled flMtit* 07, 8 Dvcuraiions(W| Sow' ,»r n«. ,• ,f rmn VorVyhlrv Midsummer Intro IJIlr prur i <«!» ,r> Ih" lay, nrrvhip ano 830-4444 ABTA 9QOB5/IATA 3 Archbishop ul C'jnier- er-ii,^ .mil d unions Leeds OS52 704806 9. Taral (3| i 1*^1 Eil ale annul t.ri.OOO' Id rthivl j i umnnfio lo " .1 rommall.T lo rirM avn! repr.-M'nl ALL TICKETS WANDSWORTH COMMON bury nnudenee [7.ijj - Iha- rrailihirs 1 IBB ALBERT GEORGE T AHB B Ih** cn-dil.ir-. v 10 Pip (3) I in- INSOI \l' 5lTV U’T Chw an. F 28 N/s rldv 1 Idle .a 33 Calllvwpe Sir,->l. lied Chill'd Itih niM d i% Dulaii rni4. f,fvi .1(11 Bnaultful House Out, LONDON Pany «iMiur> im R|\ERSK\ LOEHjL LIMP TEL- Q EXCHANGES DBLC Rm 11 Made dear (9j liorn London WCI died .V smi'inlHT Ol S* plain Dor 1 92 <381 •I'. l\ l RSI ITP 1 m LAST NIGHT PROMS £00 pw incl 874 4042 5 Immediate (1 Sliilllilicld. Loi.Jvli Lvl vr. 12 ltl Gi'iH.. M P r> IC1. .1) \OTVr IS HFPFIIS OllK*. M P KENSINGTON. Hampslead Luv 12 Trumpei moiluse (5! vr.it cn luoT Joint Vlmmi-.li.iliii- *"*,nl A'lnuriMraliie R"ra-|i rr GENESIS. THE CURE WI mu norm, oil omen, prof r pur'jjuui If Viv|i.->n JH of ifu. LAMAIWGA Spain, prli ate ettale turn apart menw. Ten 081 as, 6 < EM ale dbn.,1 r.iisnoo> NOrE-S Si' f ELS pref. £TOpw. r-xel. Aiall 12 th 13 Keepsake (Si Equipment pen> uffia-r |jcdOl\ A».i ir..iX SPURS V MAN UNITED ’ 5‘ rmi |OSo .1 M.— 1 arm . house, pool. Mr- 3094 Fax- 081 469 44M lie of lhi- .itaA,’ I’.inicn are 1 . niuivMj 1 un I A CK'ditor «» i|| im I'll! [ill l»J A ••diir.T Ain W lo Sepl 071 3«8 1717 inn al Ihr uMifon nt irv* .ihni •* ENG V STH AFRICA nlv .-otjrl etc. rallied HiTS.’XK) 16 Redemption (M) leriui-aed to apply- lu Ifir Tre.i l • Je .11 lhi- nii'"lniu hi •ol. .ai ir-e inerlino onlv il d"iulh I'onipum i»i|i Ijr neHId ul IN* ychanryc’ or ml 081 444 60- 7 Muslim lire 'III i Ina- « fas, vnr. Soli' Dneen .mi* "jul l . ii ill in •I ,-nmaiinl unrm-ti |.i dnr- 1 8 munih |7) offU'-. ol li^r li ih*- in Frequently .7H Hrn.idM.-u Vt.ihThuiiv' 1 Phamcm. Soman. Ltf. Mu*, ANTIQUES AND Ann,-' Cnamorr*.. llnrn rtv romp.un |i,i- iroii in, ccHinisin . h.ii" o-v-u DOMESTIC & CATERING! 1 2 Gulc Pudding sauce 1 tv BrVlqi' 0*/?7 llMh Sln-'t 20 Mohammed Min-in-law 7} London SW 1 H ">JS lailina m. h %bllh I tvilh Hi" al Price all bop. sporl 5 Ihealrv Hrdlnll Mum Rill IPX mi Ihr lodom .al SITUATIONS WANTED COLLECTING inr Tnvwun Solulior nun l.ile Vi. iiirrhCHir-i nrJ,ln- t?ku, Vv ti:a-rlia.UN*' Brid*>>' Gal" 53/57 (J) •ttihlifiiih d.ii ol S'Pli llibi'l FLATSHARE | 14 Clever adii'iiraei l ho 1 . type ,4-3) .li-le’ Io eudle Hutfi SlriH'l H«*. mm sunr. Rhi H 1H Ri-dlaili Sut r**% RH I 19^2 ill 1 in lhi iiioj miiif for 1 laTa'r die 21 Spaceman (9) nd Micr lh.m I ? 'W ikw, n ,-.n R \ no LUn 1 2 CO noon un PARLOUR avail RECESSION ML PGi sale 15 Gup ib| irw i*ur nr M»m«Tlrri ) R\ Tel 071 323 4480 maid FA For I- - IHi ih* I'u.irti^. u.iv 'jiivFr ihr itw^'I AVAILABLE selection Jewellers’ Male he* Ihe Wj'in-^y u. 1 % l* r.' 111"- NOW mlnr Imnn "•X4PIIW9 Lids- of PertkoM ruled of 22 Uo off subject |7j n'poi I mi Ihr enls ir.-vllnq up Io .inri lh" % lain) h.v ivsi, .lOnui ih'i -iru] !hr claim has iwri .idmll bth ken SW 7 3 mins Tube lop Flease A Silver TeL OSl-be8 *003 inf .ipoominir-ni of ncn\m. in*i Manor cab njoi 303 •17 TeHing •*> ciint.'irir "d in a*-rord.inc" wilt, Ih" tus fiulstiarc mvir ter fern 23 . Massachussclis win* unmnh ,5) (it In \silh im.^ 4 rm 9344232 l 5 . A aru-nme p'.-vn""'* In 'll" rn n\i>r.hlp .iiid l|. *..lv- Ii inoIv e||i*% Rnl"^ r.i \ Wulis : '‘Bo a rad T9T P w, UK I S89 47 JO 19 town |S) . 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10 TELEVISION AND RADIO LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAYSEPTEMBER 9 1992

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“630 '630 Daily (5990977) Ceefax (16731) 6.45 Open University: Herod and Judaea (6152880). Ends at 7.10 630 TV-a*n'(5992335) aianml 4 . 9.25 The Lone Ranger (bAv). Classic western aewentures starring John 630 BBC Breakfast New begins with Business Breakfast until 635 SyOO Breakfast News (9449422) 9.25 Win, Lose or Draw. Celebrity game show hosted by Danny Baker ‘ when Nicholas Witched and Laurie Mayer present news and topical The History Man. Bryan McNemey at medieval Bungay castle in (6596354) 935 Thames News (7066083) HartastheQwrynKXLisbero.(650364^ . . Spoof series (9168422) reports with regular business, sport, weather, regional news and Suffolk (2941 286) 820 The Italians. A portrait of Venetian ballet 1030 The Time .. .The Place . . . Mike Scott continues with his week- 930 Get Smart. spy Orders b/w) stoning Leslie FuHer, Ronald travel bulletins (78119915) teacher Ferruoo Berolo (r) (7917606) 830 Father Quintal's long discussion series examining the state of marriage In the 1990s 1020 FHm: Doctor's (1934, 12.10 British comedy about a medical 9.05 Major Dad. American comedy series set in an army camp Normandy. The story of a France-based Cornish priest following (7330118) Shiner and John Mills. Dated father quack. Directed (6590170) 930 Wildlife Safari To Ethiopia. The series continues the traditional teachings of an exaxrmjnicated.bishop (r) (2928335)' 1030This Morning. Magazine series presented by Judy firmigan and student who discovers that his b a canwai with a look at the problems involved in setting up a new national 930 TUC 92. Live coverage of the Trades Union Congress proceedings Richard Madoey. Today's edition includes items on consumer by Norman Lee (836091 5) (bAv). the production of King park « (82538) in Blackpool, which indudes a debate on pensions, introduced by affairs, family law and herbal fore. With national and international 1135The King's Stamp' The story of 10.00 News, regional news and weather (4875335) 10.05 Ptaydays. For Vivian White and Donald MacCormick (77883996) news at 1035 and regionbal news at T135 followed by national GearwV Silver Jubflee stamps (2694606) \ Australian children's send (98199) 16 the very young (s) (9687373) 1035 Barney. Cartoon adventures (r) 12.55 A Week to Remember (hA/v). Bathe newsdips from 40 years ago weather (9066625) 1230 More Winners. drama M Pre-school [earring series. .The guest is Cagney (4878422) 1035 Hudson and Hafts. The camp Kiwi cooks are this week (r) (28774557) 135 Master Craftsmen. The skill of Alborts. For the very young (r) (5100002) 130 Sesame Street joined by Vidd Mkhell from 'Alb 'AUo! (r) (5524731) guitar-maker Jimmy Moon (r) (69487170) 130 Forget-Me-Not 1230 Lunchtime News. (Grade) Weather (2178731) 135 Thames and Lacey actress Tyne Dafy (r) (98737) documentary 11.00 News (Ceefax), regional news and weather (8343151) 11.05 The Farm. Animation (r) (69475335) 135 Country me. Rural issues News (2444606) 230 Great Russian Writers. A Russian-made Alan. Dobie. (R High Chaparral. Vintage western series (r) £3057335) 1130 The investigated by John Craven (r) (45035809) 1.15 Home and Away. Australian family drama serial. (Oracle) 135 A of Vladimir Mayakovsky; Narrated by History Man. Bryan McNemey explores the prehistoric, 230 News (Ceefax) and weather (34407441) followed by TUC 92. Live Country Practice. Medical drama series set in an Australian (86926996) introduces five underground site of Cam Euny in Cornwall (54461 18) coverage of the debate on the economy, ki dudes News (Ceefax) outback town (s) (229002) 235 Channel 4 Racing from Doncaster. Brough Scott 12.00 Nenws (Ceefax), regional news and weather (7342996) 1235 and weather at 330 and 330 (78529286) 2.15 Graham Kerr. The Antipodean chef prepares a low fat. tow calorie coverage of the 235. 3.10, 3.40 and 4. 10 races (34267335) Summer Scene presented by Caron Keating and Linda MrtcheU 530 Great Journeys. Writs William Shawcross follows the okl Sahara veal bucco with risotto (211083) 2j45 Take the High Road: 430 Countdown. Another round of the werifc-and numbers game. from the National Garden Festival in Ebbw Vale (2467538) 12.55 salt road, travelling southeast from Fez in Morocco through the Drama serial set in the Highlands (4440426) presented by Richard ViihiteJey (538) 8.10 lover the Regional News and weather (95964606) Tenere desert (r) (4625) 3.10 UN News headlines (4877557) 3.15 Thames News headlines 530 The Oprah Winfrey Show. Thb edition offers fitted s 1 1-00 One O'clock News. (Ceefax) Weather (46809) 630 Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before. A repeat episode (4376828) 330 The Young Doctors. Drama series about the opportunity to ask tnek former partners why they left (7872880)' taBs. 130 Neighbours. (Ceefax) (s) (4331 3557) 130 Eldorado (r). (Ceefax) from the cuft 1960s science fiction drama series starring WrHiam - patients and staff of an Austratoi city hospital (397217Q) 530 The Buntxny Animation (589373) breathlessly (5) (45047644) Shatner and Leonard timoy (Ceefax) (805489) 330 Cartoon Time (3777538) 335 Scootoy Doo (5457809) 430 630 Treasure Hunt. Anneka Rice scampers across (Teletext) 230 Hawaii Ftve-O. Steve McGarrett and the five-0 team hunt for a 630 DEF 11 begins with Wayne's World. The comedy slot from Grotbags. A new series starring Carol Lee-Scott as the green- Lincolnshire m the seardi for hidden treasure to. (87083) gang of kidnappers. Starring Jade Lord and James MacArthur - America's late night satire series Saturday Night Live, starring Mike haired witch (s) (8 123267) 440 Woof! Comedy series abouta boy -730 Channel 4 News. (Teletext) Wfeether (625625) (5550644) 3.10 Pot Black Timeframe. The second heat of the Myers and Dana Carvey. (Ceefax) (s) (513625) 7.00 Teenage who changes into a dog at the most inconvenient times (r). (Orade) 7.50 Comment (83491 5) in Merseyside. (Teletact) pot-against-th e-dock snooker competition (3974538) Diaries: Raging Bullock. A portrait of 15-year-okJ amateur boxer (S) (9691793) 830 Brookskfe. Soap set suburban to (9170) 335 For the Love of Birds. An R5PB fBm about how the organisation Ben May from Peckham, south London (35651 1) 5.10 Blockbusters. General knowledge quiz for teenagers, presented 830 Anton Moshnann — Naturally. The chef prepares a simple, became the biggest wildlife conservation charity in Europe 730 The Shetland Sessions. 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Drama serial set in a rad inary citizens whose misdemeanours, real or imagined, were 730 Take Your Pick. Des O'Connor with another edition of the yesfrio interrogated, paraded rat television and released only after secondary school (r). (Ceefax) (s) (3694880) punished by years of persecution. Frank Wffldnson, a Los Angeles game show (s) (2880) spending more thai six weeks in captivity. In Tomadb Down Peters - (igntfy 535 Neighbours (r), (Ceefax) (s) (454460). Northern Ireland: Inside housing executive whose only "crime" was a refusal to answer svi Nicoi tefl their story. Ajarrfrtxn sketched elements of Ulster questions about his politics, came under surveillance for 38 years. reconstruction and occasional inserts of news footage, this 6.00 Six craodK News with Anna Ford and Chris Lowe. (Ceefax) The FBI eventually admitted he was not a security risk. John Service remarkable film aonslsts entirely of two ta&ing heads. It is a simple Weather (793) served as a diplomat in China during the communist takeover. It treatment which works triumphantly. Indeed Petersand Nicoi have 630 Regional News Magazines (373). Northern Ireland: Neighbours was enough to make him guilty Dy association. A common such a vivid and detailed recall that the piece could have been - it Is the 730 Eldorado. (Ceefax) (5) (7712) accusation of these victims is that the real villain was not so much almost as effective on radio. At the heat of men's 730 Rbn: due (1985) starring Tim Curry. Black comedy loosely based the high-profile Senator Joseph McCarthy as J. Edgar Hoover, the courageots determination riot to break down in face of a on the board game "Cluedo". Six blackmail victims arrive at a director of the FBI, who thought communism was a malignant controlled physical assault by their captors. (Teletext) (2933083) mysterious, isolated mansion. They soon cfiscover it is the perfect disease which had to be eradicated (995557) 1035 The Golden Girls. More cWdous humourfrom the Miami matrons setting for. a murder. Written and (Erected by Yes, Minister co- 10.10 ScreenPtay: Continental Drift (r). (Teletext) (283354) author Jonathan Lynn. (Ceefax) (40083) • CHOICE: Three short plays by new writers and directors take a 9.00 Nine O'clock News with Michael Bueric. (Ceefax) Regional news 11.15 sideways, sometimes obscure look at Britain's relationship with and weather (2489) Europe. The funniest and most accessible is Springing Lenin, in which a dotty Scottish spinster (Geraldine McEwan) buys a discarded bust of Lenin in Leipzig and drives it back to Britain. The least funny is Business with Friencfe, about a couple of young British fascists (Christopher Ecdeston and Adie Allen) visiting neo-Nazis in Beriin and kilBng a Turkish immigrant on the way. Can't Stop Me Bowting along: a confident Parcy (BiH WadcEngton) (730pm) Dreaming is a puzzle piece involving a Dutch film crew in Lancashire to make a documentary on George Formby. It is supposed to be cultural 730 Coronation Street It is the day of the bowts finals and Alt Roberts about misunderstanding and thwarted romance. . Poor George. He should not be made to cany such ponderous baggage. is worried that Percy has already had four consecutive wins. Starring Mosley and Bill Waddington. (Ceefax) (s) (3040354) Bryan (Orade) (625) 1 830 The Darling Buds of May: Breath of French Air. typkaRy Colour TV. A journey through the colour blue (r) (399373) A A 1030 Newsnight with Pets’ Snow (523644) wet English summer convinces the Larkin family that they should take their holidays in France. two-hour special concludes the re- The Late Show. Indudes first reaction to the Booker Prize shortlist 4.10 A run staring (494828) 1 1 -55 Weather (391354) of the comedy series based on the novels by H.E. Bates, 1230 Open University: Brecht on Stage 1235am Childbirth and David Jason and Pam Ferris. (Orade) (s) (47T2) Contraception (8053861). Ends at 1235 1030 News at Ten. (Orade) Weather (60828) 1030 Thames News (194083) Manic host: Jenny Edab finds new cortoctaJent (KLriOpra) Bereaved: Foo Moi grieves for her dead husband (930pm) 10X0 Hnc The Hokroft Covenant (1985) starring Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant and LUfi Palmer. Far-fetched 1030 Packing Them In. A new seriesof comedy and variety ads hosted 930 Inside Story: In Chid Blood. thriller, based on the novel by Robert Ludlum, about one of the by Jenny Edair and Trank Stainer (514996) • CHOICE: Returning for a new series, the BBC1 documentary offspring of three Nazi generals who, 40 years after their suidde, is IT-25 IMpfoWorlrim-AshowEtiexrfsorigsbyJdhn Lennon (s) (546422) strand revives the controversy surrounding the shooting of 24 summoned from New York to Geneva where $4 billion awaits him, 1135 The Stave Alien Show (taAw). American comedy series from the villagers by British soldiers during the Malayan emergency in 1948. to. be distributed supposedly to make amends for their 1950s. Tonight's guests include MBton Berie and Elvis Presley The official line was thflt the victims were communist terrorists (this wrongdoing. Directed by John Frankenheimer (93797731) ' (975170) newspaper's report called them barxfits) and the action was 1245am Hollywood Report. 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Directed by Alan Gfoson (5082 1 3) never be known but this film draws on eye-witness accounts and 245 America's Top Ten (s) (90590) VUmPMs* rate the VMno PltMOota previously unpublished statements of soldiers involved to suggest 3.15 Videqfiashion. Paris-based Japanese designers (29481671) The numbers next to each IV programme fating are Vkteo PtusCode™ number*, that the 24 were indeed innocent civilians. (Ceefax) (961460) 340 Quiz Night Pub and dub quiz competition (74216497) which alow you B> programme yew video recorder Instantly witH * VWeoflus*"* 1030 Sportsnight introduced by Desmond Lynam. Football highlights Grand Ole Opry. Country and western music from Nashvffle, hahd^Vid«oWus+am wuseiihi^roanvkfccs.Train fhevrtdroPftfsCode tor the programmeyou wish to record. 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