It is a programme which has improved immeasurably in recent years and is
It is a programme which has improved immeasurably in recent years and is now perhaps the most intelligent of all the current sports programmes. But girls who join for the excitement or to establish an identity find it harder to leave. 11 FebInterview with the Vampire Neil Jordan casts clean-cut Tom Cruise firmly against type as legendary bloodsucker Lestat. Garry Schofield, who will move within two Tests of Mick Sullivan’s record of 46, needs to show that he remains the right choice as captain and stand-off, even though he is now playing scrum-half for Leeds.’I still get the same thrill out of playing for Great Britain and the Test record is definitely open for me,’ he said. USAIR, the American carrier in which British Airways has a 25 per cent stake, has announced a net operating loss of dollars 196.7m ( pounds 133m) for the first quarter and says it intends to cut its annual costs by dollars 800m over the next two to three years. Customers include Whitbread, Ford, ICI and the US Food and Drug Administration.The technology’s potential applications range from testing perfumes for authenticity to assessing food and drink. And the society says that unless there are further increases in its mortgage rate before 31 December, when the payments for next year will be set, 1993 payments will still be lower than those for this year.C&G’s new fixed-rate savings bond, the London Fixed Rate Account, has some advantages over the National Savings Bond.The C&G’s minimum investment is pounds 2,500 compared with pounds 1,000 on the National Savings Bond.
Thompsett escaped with minor injuries.Blood samples were taken from Thompsett, and showed traces of cannabis He admitted smoking five joints that day. Substitute used: K Murphy (Bournville).OXFORD UNIVERSITY: T Wigmore (Christchurch); A Minson (Balliol); S Liddle (Worcester), P Bell (Lincoln); R Markham (Mansfield), M Hoskin (Keble), S Griffiths (University), G Edwards (capt; Lincoln); A Laird (Brasenose), J Ralph (Brasenose), R McDowd (St Bennets). A straitjacket like that would cost pounds 2,000 on South Moulton Street’. YOUR NEWS that the Home Office may take a pragmatic approach to prisoner sex (‘Prisoners a step nearer to having condoms’, 28 February) is very welcome.
The United Arab Emirates government is considering an extradition request by India for Mr Memon and four other family members.A chief investigator, M N Singh, claimed that the Memon residence in Bombay may have been the ‘nerve-centre of the conspiracy’. Langford-Holt, however, made it absolutely clear that he did not want ministerial office, and would not accept it if it was offered. It had been expected to produce outstanding interim profits when it reports at the end of the month.But the Hang Seng performance, an unconvincing 17 per cent advance, prompted some to trim their forecasts.Others with a big Hong Kong exposure suffered in sympathy. Finally, Christine Casey and Alistair Rowan’s landmark new volume in the Buildings of Ireland series, North Leinster (Penguin pounds 30) isexemplary in detail, scale and design, and provides a combination of learned guide and sprightly vade mecum to high crosses, ruined great houses, parish churches and cigarette factories.ROBERT HARRIS ON CHURCHILLIANAChurchill’s Doctor: A Biography of Lord Moran by Richard Lovell was fascinating, especially about the Churchill family’s attempts to suppress Moran’s diaries.
Here in London, my local Sainsbury’s no longer does its own butchering, but a few chunks of oxtail intended for osso buco will do instead. The Royal Yachting Association has chosen instead to send its Olympic squad, coaches and a container-load of support to Miami as they think the conditions there will more closely resemble those they will meet in Savannah, Georgia – the sailing venue for the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
The dilemma arose because the US Sailing Association brought its regatta date for Olympic classes forward from the third week in February to the last week in January. These are, respectively, a Hollywood melodrama based on a novel, a state-approved epic about Peking Opera stars – hardly typical Chinese citizens – and a Channel 4 series which, by concentrating on ‘human interest’, avoided addressing any larger issues.
Mr Gifford first equates ‘the cruel side of China’ with ’stereotypes’, then writes of seeing reality ‘despite the stereotypes’. Barons’s career spans 32 years, but the last time he won a race on the level was in the mid-Seventies.