It's as though a direct response to another personality was somehow deemed a private irresponsibility. 'My insurance company dealt with the repairs here, but Europ Assistance footed the bill for everything else.'AA Five Star 0800-800555, Europ Assistance 0444-442211, RAC 0800-550055, Mondial Assistance 081-681 2525(Photograph omitted). The vessel, which was carrying iron ore and was registered in Turkey, sank on 1 April. Timman gave up his complicating tactics, choosing instead a supposedly solid opening variation. David Batty got the second - but at least this was vintage Leeds. Tour selection has already been unexpectedly opened up by Wales's victory over England at the Arms Park.'The benchmark for the Lions will be the Lions coach's team,' Alan Davies, the Wales coach, told his players yesterday. One Italian weekly said that it marked the end of the First Republic.It is difficult to convey to a British reader the importance of Mr Andreotti in his country's post-war structure, for no comparable figure exists.

House Party will stay inside the corporation, but a guaranteed number of other shows will be made by Unique for BBC 1 over the next three years.Meanwhile, he has the consolation of knowing he can carry on selling foreign broadcasters the rights to create their own House Parties. We don't condone that sort of behaviour from children.'Michael Willsher, a primary headteacher in Manchester, said: 'Our concerns are the very things that Mr Patten refused to talk about: testing and league tables. Having kept his head down for the past five years - for much of which he and his company have been under investigation by Department of Trade and Industry inspectors - he has recently been brave enough to appear back above the parapet He has been encouraged by shareholders' support. Asked if that race had given him satisfaction, the Englishman declined to reply.This Sunday, however, he just might be given the opportunity to compete with Prost. In some countries it is hard to be sure who the owners are, let alone make a bid.Even after the sharp rise in price, a case could be made for a bidder paying more still, given that nearly half the assets are outside Asia and the Pacific, and could either be made to work harder or sold off.

'Eh, Kolya, where did you stick that bastard with the new jeans?' yelled a guard tramping the corridor outside the cells. Since 1989, the NRA has ploughed pounds 843,000 into the Test and Itchen salmon to discover why they are in serious decline.This season, 170 salmon-fishing licences were sold on the two rivers, an income of pounds 2,252.50. He sticks to the plot faithfully, but the backwater rum-shop and rolling, sensuous Caribbean dialogue have a spirit of their own, so that, rather from detracting from Synge's original, his adaptation lends the story a new lease of life. Nicholas Kent's enjoyable production matches the mood of the play, revelling in the sense of place, the sensuality of the text and the exuberant playfulness of the language. Presumably it calculated - if calculation it can be called - that while Boris Yeltsin would be obliged by pressure of Russian public opinion to vote against air strikes on Serbian positions if the matter came specifically before the Security Council, he would not really mind if the thing was done through Nato without his having to impart his personal blessing.This was inherently a silly idea. Perhaps Picasso's widow and the son of his first wife did not wish to be reminded that his love for a shopgirl had stirred his most profound and magisterial art.

DEREK Bawden, the manager of MGM's special situation trust, puts his problems down to the plight of smaller companies. Keith Clement, director of regional development, had to explain more than once that the only programmes Meridian was actually going to make were local news and current affairs.For its network presence, he said, it would commission from independents the kind of programmes it thought would appeal to its distinctive audience but that are lacking in the present ITV schedules: high-class comedy, arts, children's programmes and drama. At last it seemed that they were almost free of misgivings and their football of late had reflected confidence and surefootedness on the still long road to the title.However, yesterday the innovative football of the underestimated Ipswich soon caused doubts to reappear. The 10 UN trucks bringing 90 tons of food and medicine to Cerska, 150km (90 miles) north- west of Sarajevo, waited for a second day on the Serbian side of the river Drina, dividing Bosnia from Serbia. He scored his fifth goal of the season after six minutes and with the score 1-1 sent on the substitutes, Andy Dow and Andy Kiwomya, both of whom scored to secure a 3-1 win over Hibs, who had their goalkeeper Chris Reid carried off after an early challenge.. Lewis Carroll's universe of logical deduction, where 'language shivers into abstractions', comes face to face with the world of alchemical magic, in which the doctor's servant (Ned Kelly, imported from Australia's outback) dresses the mandrakes up for bed in little linen nightgowns.Carter's empathy is clearly with Dr Dee rather than with the Age of Reason that superseded him. Their health was then monitored by checking for signs of infection in their throats, ears and feacal samples and by questioning them.The conclusions are that there is a slightly increased risk of a range of common infections from sea bathing and that the EU's bathing water standards provide adequate health protection.Four fifths of Britain's bathing beaches meet this standard due to a pounds 2bn programme of coastal sewage disposal improvements By the end of next year all beaches should comply..

The Chancellor needs an alert team that knows what other members are doing.The case of Mr George and the Bank of England is rather different. Productivity growth has been a real struggle since the early 1970s. Disillusioned by the Nazi-Soviet pact, he moved towards intervention and expressed the hope that Stalin would be forced by Hitler's treachery to move back to 'a humanist socialism'.Throughout this period, Lerner urged the US to undertake its own 'democratic revolution' which would empower workers and disempower the propertied interests.Since the 'red menace' turmoil of the Fifties, Lerner's political views drifted ever rightward. In the context of the economic crisis in Britain, even the inkling of a Gatt breakthrough would have given Mr Major something by which to claim that the Birmingham summit had been a success.'We have been locked in Gatt talks since 1986: there is more at stake than just agriculture and I don't see why it all has suddenly to be decided now,' said Elisabeth Guigou, the French Minister for European Affairs. Mid-length with side split and turtle neck, it was the softest jumper we saw - and would be even better a little longer. But although the gestures are executed with a kind of balletic grace, that is small compensation for the fact that this form of painterly reductiveness has been practised many times before.