Sir Patrick Mayhew, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, said a number of questions ‘purporting to be from Sinn Fein’ had been passed to him by the Irish government. When the press turned its attention to Paula Jones, the Arkansas state worker who accused the President of sexual harassment, you were forgotten. This shows that at the top end of the market the question was not one of shifting readership but of generating new readership.It is only the Delhi edition of the Times of India that is being sold at the reduced price. The plaintiff’s main purpose was to clear her name, and even if the damages she recovered were small, she was entitled to pursue such a claim. Question: if there were only two self-regulatory organisations, would you need an umbrella body like the SIB to sit on top and supervise them?The answer of the present self-regulatory organisations would be: probably not.

The price has fallen from 31p in April to 18p last week.Half-year results, due tomorrow, will be nothing to write home about. MY LOVE for Terry Major-Ball grows apace. But if Ted’s message was something along the lines of ‘if we do lose, let’s make sure the buggers at least have to take one hand off a dry martini’ then so much the better.Gooch was even stronger than Dexter yesterday, when he not only made his feelings known about the Old Trafford game, but also stated that he will not take up the selectors’ offer of all six Tests as captain if he cannot motivate the side a good deal better than he currently appears able. This woman will do anything to distract herself from the mundane reality of giving a performance. It shocks those who only wear skirts for a job interview or a power lunch to discover that conditions are different elsewhere.But in a workplace unfair in so many respects, the right to wear trousers is not perceived by many women to be a high priority. Radio Pretoria provides its listeners with solid Afrikaner fare: martial music, folk songs and readings of old Boer legends evoking the slaughter of settler children by as segai-wielding savages and their betrayal by British missionaries and other poisonous liberals.
The station has continued to broadcast despite the expiry of a licence granted by the government in September. 139 R Karlsson (Swe) 68 71; M Wills 71 68; P Lawrie 74 65; J Rivero (Sp) 72 67; G Hjerstedt (Swe) 70 69.

Those in Tunis tried to keep contact with their compatriots through phone, fax and constant air travel. Like all routes west out of Georgetown, they are on a road to nowhere.Adams, who has impressed on every outing of this tour, is the pivot the West Indies have missed since the retirement of Larry Gomes in the mid-1980s. Peking, whose support would be vital in any attempt to put economic pressure on North Korea, yesterday indicated that it would not support sanctions but held back from threatening to veto a motion. The signs are that he is getting it right – albeit a little late in the day.For perennial under-achievers, Birmingham are blessed with a marvellously large and loyal following, and there were 6,000 of them in attendance yesterday, keeping right on to the end of the road. After two impressive handicap performances this spring, he looked ready to graduate to Group class but ran below expectations in the Diomed Stakes at Epsom. This, in turn, raises the worst aspect in which ecological hype may backfire – the New Right parallel.At one time the New Right consisted of underfunded voices crying in the wilderness. Vauxhall now offers diesel buyers no fewer than 36 versions, including 10 body styles, 11 trim levels and six engines ranging from the 1.5D in the Nova to the new 2.3TD fitted to the Carlton and Frontera.Much of Vauxhall’s diesel success comes from the fleet market which it dominates along with Ford and Rover.

Although the former British Open champion Lisa Opie ended in tears after a 9-5, 9-6, 9-5 loss to New Zealand’s Susan Devoy, the title-holder, it was probably the Guernsey woman’s best performance since her Wembley triumph 18 months ago.Jansher Khan has asked the Pakistan federation to oppose the International Squash Players’ Association’s plans to bring in a point-per- rally scoring system.. Apparently, God showed his displeasure by turning her into a leper. IT IS a nice question whether it would be worse for the Church of England to remain established or to undergo disestablishment. But President F W de Klerk added his voice yesterday to a chorus of disapproval following the announcement on Tuesday by Inkatha’s Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi that he proposes to carve out a power- base for himself in an autonomous federal state within the boundaries of what is now Natal province and his KwaZulu homeland.Mr de Klerk said yesterday that Inkatha’s unilateral approach could cause escalating violence. At last night’s presentation of the International Classical Music Awards, in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, she gave a performance and accepted her prize, intended to honour a musician who has made things happen. ‘If you’re a bit ignorant about gardens, like me, you can spend pounds 5 on a plant,’ she said sadly, ‘and your centre will say it’ll grow in any conditions. But Tuesday’s half-year figures should show more than pounds 12m of pre-tax profits on the way to pounds 35m for the year, indicating why First Leisure deserves its premium rating..