The Cup is having the same effect.'After a playing career which started with an Albion debut at 16 and included two Scotland caps - no mean haul with Jim Baxter and Billy Bremner in their pomp - as well as a stint in the United States, Hope settled into a dual role in 1983, running a post office and managing Bromsgrove. From a glut of 1,500 unsold new homes, Docklands now has fewer than 100 on its books. They are joined by the much-fancied, but unseeded, Canadian side, the United Arab Emirates and Ireland.Results, Sporting Digest, page 39. It is an attempt to redress the balance of some of the more savage press criticisms of Mr Major. His avoidance of easy reactions occasionally leans disconcertingly towards celebration: 'Violence is one of the most intensely lived experiences and, for those capable of giving themselves over to it, is one of the most intense pleasures.' Hmm.The South by Colm Toibn, Picador pounds 5.99. It was all so free then] You could walk out of a job at lunchtime and into another that same afternoon.'She went on a playwriting course in her spare time from being a playgroup organiser, and started to write plays at the end of the Seventies Her first was picked up by an agent called Janet Fillingham.

In practice, the ERM has been a strait- jacket that has forced Britain to keep interest rates during a world depression much too high for much too long. George Stephanopoulos, for example, who as communications director will be one of the most powerful men in the White House, is a mere 31, too young even to have been a rock'n'roller. King's words - 'Can we all get along?' - were plastered across billboards in south-central Los Angeles for weeks.After attempts to reach an out-of- court damages settlement with the Los Angeles City Council broke down, Lerman was unceremoniously dumped. We've never had a pay rise of pounds 10, let alone pounds 30 or pounds 40, and we're forced to work longer hours A lot of people haven't realised it's going to happen. Many of the delegates were from companies that have spent millions of pounds seeking diamond coating techniques.Dr John Terry, group manager for wet shaving for Gillette in the UK, said he believed the company, which has two-thirds of the world market for razor blades and shavers, had sent a letter of intent to the university but had yet to sign a contract.A diamond coating on razor blades would make them tougher and more durable. Christie might complain about it, as he did later, but he also benefited. SIGNAL Success in Bridge by Danny Roth (Gollancz, pounds 6.99) was very well received when it first appeared, writes Alan Hiron.

While living there I never met a black manager.I travelled around America and found these prejudices were not peculiar to Ocean City It is these attitudes that must be changed. President Boris Yeltsin rebuffed attempts by John Major to rally Russia behind Nato's plan for military action in Bosnia, and said bluntly that Moscow would not tolerate being ignored 'We shall not allow this to happen. The motor insurance is restricted to 21- to 74- year-olds driving vehicles up to class 12, such as a BMW 316 This excludes hot hatches and the sleekest executive cars. Mr Gummer, a slight figure in a brown check suit, is smiling impishly as he casts phone books over his shoulder into a big yellow skip.

Its use in preference to 'Camford' may be for reasons of euphony, but one might also conjecture that it provides a fairer balance between Oxford and Cambridge. The possible dates for travel were, in fact, more convenient for us than the limited choice offered within the package. The nocturnal, flightless bird is being eradicated by stoats, ferrets, dogs, cats and Australian bush-tail possums introduced to New Zealand, which once had no mammals, by man. 'They show the classical signs of a species in trouble - small and shrinking populations, fragmented range, threats which are proving extremely difficult to deal with,' said Alison Stattersfield of Birdlife International, which monitors endangered birds around the world.Kevin Smith, conservation director for New Zealand's Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, said: 'As a Kiwi, I'm shattered to admit we're letting them slip away Ten years ago we thought we had them secure. The big German 56- footer Splendid produced a particularly spectacular corkscrew broach into the wind.Some of the Mumm 36s were a little unwise mid-race to go south of the Beta buoy, part of the eventual finish line, instead of north, as the sailing instructions required.Although he was first over the finish, Neal McDonald, in Shogun, duly retired. All that was missing was the display of compassion that actually obscures its objects.

The pass can only be purchased by UK residents holding Qantas tickets to Australia. Neither he nor Hunte had received a pass worthy of the name.No doubt the Great Britain coach, Malcolm Reilly, was justified in pointing to the quality of the Australian defence as a major inhibiting factor. Granted, on the form of his second placing behind Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy Gold Cup on this course five weeks ago, Jodami must make further progress before he can threaten The Fellow's title as favourite for the Gold Cup, but given his age, and genetic and physical composition, he is almost certain to be making substantial headway ahead of the Cheltenham Festival in March.'He has got an awful lot going for him,' Mark Dwyer, the jockey who has done much to improve Jodami's prowess and concentration, said yesterday 'He's a great big chasing type of horse. Joe Collins, of Invest for School Fees, said: 'You have to go for the mix-and-match approach.'You must not have 100 per cent PEPs or unit trusts or other equity investments, otherwise you could be caught out.'If your adviser offers you only one investment vehicle for school fees, always ask why. The menu includes Angus Aberdeen beef, venison, finnan haddie, lobster, salmon, even Atholl brose.Some of the dishes are perfectly pleasing and a mite old-fashioned, such as Scottish lobster baked into a puff pastry case New wave for this dish is its garlicky sauce. In fact, your genuine bibliophile is impelled mostly by a batch of primeval instincts.