They predicted a marked deterioration in relations after Iran’s announcement yesterday that

They predicted a marked deterioration in relations after Iran’s announcement yesterday that Geoffrey Brammer, a third secretary at the British embassy in Tehran, would have to leave within a month because of ‘acts violating diplomatic norms’.The move came a day after Britain strongly protested to Iran over the detention of Mr Brammer by security officials in Tehran for several hours on 17 June.The Iranians made the arrest after Mr Brammer arranged to play a game of squash with an Iranian airline pilot. The message to compilers of other popular programmes is: ‘Live dangerously]’(Photograph omitted). When you think of what has been transferred to the West End in the name of entertainment. In only its second staging this event is proving itself a worthy companion to the thrilling contests served up in the more historic trans-Atlantic competitions. And all your wives gone into the past.’The house was formerly an agricultural museum, a situation with plenty of metaphorical potential: old-fashioned writer hammering out determinedly ‘naturalistic’ black comedy and autobiography (with Story, you gathered, the two genres were never easily disentangled) on traditional typewriter, while the outside world has succumbed to VDUs and post-modernism. Professionals in Africa, faced with choices such as earning pounds 20 a month as a doctor in Tanzania or making pounds 60 a day driving a taxi in south London, chose the latter.

KEITH PIGGOTT will inevitably be best remembered as the father of Lester, one of the greatest jockeys in racing history. Indeed, the three afore- mentioned events – if one allows the Dunhill’s hybrid match-medal format – are rare examples of matchplay in international golf, offering welcome respite from the otherwise relentless barrage of 72- hole strokeplay tournaments.
Matchplay does not deserve its present neglect among professionals. More than 15,000 soldiers, armed with shovels and pickaxes, reached the devastated area 36 hours after the quake. And those that do generally have no system for measuring them. First Edition

A DRUG company consultant yesterday told MPs thatmany more people, including pensioners, should pay prescription charges.
Dr Heinz Redwood told an inquiry by the House of Commons Health Committee into the NHS drug bill that 85 per cent of prescriptions were now dispensed free.

Given that both Atherton’s feet were off the ground when Dion Nash brought one back to hit him well above the knee roll, there seemed no cause for alarm. Parts of the town were still sealed off last night as the killer was sought.. The Bayonne hooker was hit by Jean-Pierre Genet, of Racing Paris, in a league game on Sunday, fracturing the bone around his left eye and causing sight problems. Aimed at people from eight years upwards, it is high-class escapist entertainment that both takes you out of yourself and gives you a welcome break from the trappings and wrappings of Christmas.Swashbuckling panache and sly puckishness, the stiff upper lip and the tongue in cheek are attractively balanced in a show that permits affectionate laughter at some of the more po-faced and ‘manly’ moments in Hope’s story without ever violating its romantic spirit. But she was told by Richard Ottaway, the Conservative MP for Croydon South, that despite that, ‘large question marks’ remained.Nigel Spearing, Labour MP for Newham South, said that in April 1991 he had spelt out in an adjournment debate the crisis in the ambulance service that yesterday’s report had confirmed, but ministers had refused to listen..

He also anticipated that the day he walked out with his home-town partner and acquired a new status would be marked by a man in black telling him ‘You may kiss the bride’, not one in white uttering ‘Play’.
For until the Australian selectors offered him an Ashes place, Slater had planned to spend 21 August marrying his schooldays’ sweetheart Stephanie. Arthur Orbell, the technical director of Oftel, said that within a few years specially developed telephones would be able to distinguish between incoming signals on a telephone line and translate them so that the telephone makes the correct ringing tone for the person being called. Having agreed only reluctantly to mount the investigation, there was anger last week when it was overshadowed by the explosive Labour-initiated Commons debate on party funding which took place last Tuesday, sandwiched between the Liberal Democrat and Labour evidence sessions.’We have far more important work to do,’ one Conservative member said, adding: ‘Every organisation can point to someone who turns out to be not what it expected. The menu offers simply grilled fish, perhaps mullet, lemon sole, or John Dory There are decent wines and good coffee Kids shriek Waitresses sing along to La Bamba.

Supt McGarr says that his staff does not receive any specific training for dealing with these situations, ‘because that could make them inflexible as each situation is different’. THE problem of how to calculate and award compensation to other competitors who go to the aid of a yacht in distress has raised the usual debate. But working out whether an item is a good buy in a sale can be a problem.The Office of Fair Trading has a timely warning about some of the tricks of the trade:’Special sale purchase Worth pounds 120 Now pounds 99.99′. They willed, in a vague and inconsistent way, the ends, but ruled out any possible means. His brother and father have died in the last 12 months, and earlier this year the Leeds bantamweight, Tony Silkstone, committed suicide shortly after losing to Stone, although Silkstone’s family immediately absolved the Londoner from blame.Whether Silkstone’s death affected him is a matter for conjecture, but in his next fight he was stopped by the French-based Algerian, Boualem Belkif, the first blemish on his 19-fight professional record.That defeat was eight weeks ago. He has been directly in charge of the staff for several years, and Cuthbert said later that they firmly believe that the barefoot aristocrat is the man to ensure Longleat’s commercial future.I ventured a more general question: how does he rate his father’s achievements? ‘No, no Can’t answer that Interviewing again. In 1991 tests, only five out of 21 brands were found to be pure as labelled..