Eurotunnel has been asked by the Government to switch back on the Channel Tunnel's main electrified defences against rabid animals reaching Britain along the rail link. Comparing the system with a checklist of objective criteria reveals that it is deficient in several ways ..."More than 90 councils have made representations to the Government over the way their grants had been assessed.. The Audit Commission found the present system provided a "rough approximation" between need and historic funding patterns, but it added: "There is increasing discontent among local authorities. Harlow spends more."Labour is proposing an overhaul of the grants system, although Mr Dobson has warned that he will not bail out high spenders if his party gains power.

I once said to her, when she was being very weedy about something, "Oh Adele! Are you a mouse or a mouse?" Her face dropped - and then she laughed for about half an hour She's started to crack jokes about it herself now. I think of it in terms of this guy I knew who used to come up to me and say, "Of course I remember you before you were blonde!" I always thought that an incredible intrusion and bloody rude.I do tease her, though. It's not going to make any difference." And that was that.I think she was relieved that we knew and that she hadn't had to tell us. We're all misfits in some way or another, which is how we can be as rude as we are.After that first hiatus we didn't bring up the male thing again, though I suppose we still wondered about Adele I didn't know anything about trans-sexuality then.

She joined Fascinating Aida in 1984, and she lives in east London Dillie Keane: We met in 1984, when we were looking for a new third singer for the group. In 1989 she disbanded the group to pursue her solo career; recently, the group has reformed and is now playing at London's Vaudeville Theatre She lives in west London Adele Anderson was born in Southampton. She studied music at Trinity College, Dublin, and acting at Lamda In 1983 she founded the cabaret trio Fascinating Aida. Behind the sub-temple is a tea garden of delicious tranquillity and a famous teahouse, Shokoken. Stones called "A-un" apparently represent the truth of the universe - inhale and exhale, heaven and earth, positive and negative, male and female - but if this is rather too much on which to meditate, contemplating how the monks managed to rake the gravel without showing their footprints will do on a baser level.There is little chance for meditation at Daisen-in, famed as a masterpiece of dry-landscape gardening, as the monks there are so commercially minded that the place is a clatter of book-signings, photo-opportunities with your favourite monk, drink-your-own tea ceremony, and loudspeakers. However, it comes as rather a shock when one leaves the main station to discover an ugly, bustling conglomerate in much the same sort of unplanned chaos as any other major Japanese city.

Asking a Japanese person not to take photographs is like asking a Pole not to smoke and, in a rare moment of refreshing disobedience (this is a country where even taxis stop at amber), this request was completely ignored.Two stops down the private Hankyu line was the garden I had really been looking forward to, Saihoji, or Korakuen, the moss temple. In the calm after the storm, the Upper Villa's pond, built on, and hidden by, a giant artificial shrub-covered dam, reflected the trees and shrubs of the mountain behind From the villa above the lake, the view was stunning. After all, it does seem rather unfair that, as as a tourist in Japan, you can blithely turn up and book in for a tour of the royal gardens the next day, while those who actually live there and pay the taxes have to wait for months to gain a place. Perhaps it was a collective sense of national hardship that had inspired the surliness of the booking clerk at the Imperial Palace booking office in Kyoto. His furniture might sometimes appear somewhat anonymous - as Rowan Moore puts it: "Whereas a bad Philippe Starck is trashy and silly, a bad Citterio is just a bit uninteresting." But then he is not interested in design as a projection of the designer's personality, but as an exercise in all-round perfection. "I never want to be recognised by my work through exaggerated forms or unexpected materials.

He is hot property among Europe's most progressive furniture manufacturers. Detroit sells one called The Three Wise Men, consisting of Jim Beam, Jack Daniels and Johnny Walker Red in the same glass "What's the point of that?" I asked Dick "It's a code," he replied. This is the raison d'etre of shots and shooters; short drinks served in shot glasses for quick inhalation. This is just rum, lime and sugar, with the variations coming from different types of rum and the addition of fruit blended in.