Yorkshire Bank is placing specialised staff in all its 270 branches to give financial and other advice to school leavers this summer.. The claims were revealed at the libel trial in which the burger company accuses two environmentalists from north London of writing, publishing and distributing a leaflet which claims that McDonald's is partly responsible for destruction of the ozone layer and the rainforests, and that its food causes cancer and heart disease. In 1987, the fast-food chain began an advertising campaign which focused on the role McDonald's food could play in a balanced diet. In the Mediterranean, hundreds of Italian boats illegally use nets to catch swordfish. The move, announced yesterday, is an attempt to regain some credibility for the EC after an earlier attempt in 1988 to levy fines collapsed. He was a remarkable two seconds quicker than last year.Somewhere in the trailing dust were the rest: Riccardo Patrese, in the other Williams, 1.9sec behind; Ayrton Senna, in a McLaren-Honda, 2.7sec back; Michael Schumacher, in a Benetton-Ford, 3.1sec adrift. I was directed to the Insect House, where a kind man took Boris and offered to care for him Apparently Boris was a young female. GONE are the days when Great Universal Stores offered a bottle of bubbly to the first investment analyst to phone on the day of its annual results.These days analysts call the secretive retail company in vain, getting neither champagne, nor much information, nor in some cases their calls returned Gussie's relationship with the City is frigid.

This is a classic one-on-one that does not come to two.'He also warned that Henlys' sales agreement struck recently with Volvo contained a change of control clause. From a thick binder stuffed with newspaper articles about harrowing storms, he takes out a satellite picture of Russia. He came off with a wobbly knee, a bashed-in nose, blood all over his face; a terrific performance.'Moran, cleaned up and grinning, explained: 'I might have thought I was finished at this level. Brian Meeking has burnt his fingers on his new house 'It's my own fault,' he admits 'I shoved them in the cement. 'It's an insult to my professionalism because it implies I'm trying to con people.'His performance at Goldenacre might just silence those Hastings is applying mind over matter to conquer a disc ailment without recourse to surgery.Besides kicking five penalties out of five from a variety of angles, Hastings pulled off a vital piece of covering to save one almost certain score and on another occasion launched a huge touch-finder.However, he was powerless to prevent the Watsonian forwards being taken apart in the loose by Heriot's who, in battling to avoid the drop, have an unearthed a potential star in Gordon Lawrie, their 19-year-old stand-off. It has won a pounds 20m maintenance and repair contract at PowerGen's Ferrybridge site in West Yorkshire.

Both of us liked and admired Sir Alec, but we did not feel that he was the right man to lead the Conservative Party and it was this article which lead to his resignation.William was, in my view, the best editor of the Times since the War. I'm sure he'll find a place for you in his life eventually.'So that was all right, but on Thursday I got a letter froom Kingsley, Napley & Co, saying that ifI contacted their client Pete the Schnoz, again, they'd be compelled to take out an injunction prohibiting me from pestering him.And that's when I rang up Honest John and he came here or I went their, I can't remember whichh, and I took all these diaza-things. The budget deficit is a real problem and one which will not go away on its own, but it does not warrant a panic response (Mr Clarke, thankfully, is not one of nature's panickers). This wavered ominously towards the end of last season, when injuries to leading players exposed the lack of depth in the women's sport. Even Steffi Graf, who won all the major championships in Seles's absence, seemed less enthusiastic after a stabbing incident on a court in Hamburg in April put her rival out of the game. Puerto Rico is a small island in the Caribbean, 110 miles long and about 40 wide, that exists in an uneasy and unstable relationship with the United States Its principal export, besides rum, is people.

His style suggests a skill mastered, rather than a talent at play, and it never quite shakes off a quality of diligent pastiche. It's possible to push national stereotypes and argue that there's a macho gleam to the men that's rarely seen on our more androgynous English stage and a heat in the dancing that feels Mediterranean.Also, Duato is an inventive choreographer. Opera has stormed the terraces but, until now, soccer had yet to score in the opera house.That it finally has should strike a chord with one striker at least. In my view, his liberalism is the only one which speaks to our current needs and from which we still have something vitally important to learn.CAROLE PATMANIsaiah Berlin's essay on negative and positive liberty set much of the framework for debates on freedom in mainstream political theory since 1958, and the opposition between the two concepts proved congenial to the philosophers of the New Right. The chairs cost pounds 2,400 to pounds 2,900 a time.An exhibition of dazzling photomontages at the Tom Blau Gallery (Queen Elizabeth Street) is this week's most exciting show.Karin-Marie Wach, a psychotherapist and amateur photographer from Hamburg, has been allowed to photograph the last spice mill in Butler's Wharf before its final gum grinding operation closes this week.Wach has created magical patterns by the repeated use of a single colour photograph.

A steady but extremely slow economic recovery is under way in the area, bringing a strengthening of confidence among manufacturing and service companies, it says.Businesses in both sectors said they were looking forward with expectation although trading conditions were far from easy, the organisation's latest quarterly economic survey says. New fibre-optic phone lines could be plugged directly into TV sets, giving consumers and programmers an alternative to existing cable networks.The seven largest phone companies, known as the 'Baby Bells', are still barred by law from producing programming or other video services such as home shopping, and will be limited to carrying signals for others. 'With the city's desperate shortage of funds, the decision to rebuild the cathedral is quite mad,' he says. EARLY apples such as 'Discovery' and 'George Cave' should be picked as soon as the stems part easily from the branches Peaches and plums may also be ready to pick The wasps will soon tell you if they are ready or not.