Instead she suffered (or perhaps in her case enjoyed) the fate of many travel writers whose modest journeys are made to seem quite heroic by non-travellers.Page by page this book gains tedium. He is examining a complaint from Kingfisher, which owns the Superdrug chain. Parry and Patrick Clark were 'part of a scheme to launder the cash to make it safe to use', he said. .Until now Scottish Equitable has offered two plans, one investing only in unit trusts and another in a mixture of unit trusts and shares There has been a 5 per cent initial charge. During the following two years he broadcast many radio dispatches that showed the affection he had for Britain.
The aborted trial, which ran for two days, cost the taxpayer about pounds 12,000.. The Chancery Lane premises will close and its records (35 shelf miles) will move to Kew.One of the marvels at the new facility is that visitors will be able to use a simple keyboard when ordering documents These will then be delivered mechanically. Set in its own garden and play area, the 'Jungle Bungle' is a self-contained fun-house (admission pounds 1) for all who can pass beneath the gorilla's outstretched palm. I have not done anything wrong.'Mr Smith claimed Mr Faram, 52, also came at him, swinging punches, and a blow landed on the showjumper's shoulder. You don't learn the knack - decent journalists have it; intellectual pretenders don't''I agree with the original entry: it seems to me the best yardstick for judging news importance is to ask yourself what contemporary historians will see as the most important event which occurred on this day.
The fate of Poti's inhabitants was not immediately known, but they are mostly Mengrelians likely to accept the rule of the 'Zviadisti' rebels.A fresh human disaster has followed the panic and the rout of Georgian forces from the autonomous Black Sea republic of Abkhazia, as the last of 200,000 Georgians flee their homes in the subtropical coastal strip. Last week, prices of the cheapest seats for each game at the Savoy Theatre were cut from pounds 45 to pounds 20 'to make the championship accessible to as many people as possible'.Even before the announcement however, the London Chess Centre (home of Chess & Bridge) gave details of its own cut-price commentaries on the games. (First Edition) PLANS to lock up more young offenders are a costly 'panic measure' which can only lead to more crime, according to a report published today. The Government has pledged a crackdown on juvenile crime, with legislation promised to give courts power to impose a secure training order on 12- to 15-year-olds.But the Penal Affairs Consortium says in its report that the proposals are 'misguided and unlikely to make any impact on juvenile offending - except to make it worse.'All the evidence suggests that incarcerating juveniles only leads to a hardening in their criminal behaviour, setting them on the path to a life of crime,' it says.'In contrast, diverting young people from custody and using community sentences is demonstrably more effective in turning juveniles away from crime.'The consortium, which is supported by 23 organisations concerned with the penal system, including prison staff and probation officers, disputes claims that young offenders are getting away with serious crimes because police and courts lack powers to deal with them.It says courts can already give custodial sentences to juveniles who have committed very serious offences against the person.Local authorities also provide secure accommodation for other serious offenders, although the consortium accepts that more such units may be needed.It maintains there is no evidence that Britain is gripped by an epidemic of juvenile crime, or that there are large numbers of persistent young offenders.It estimates that it costs pounds 452 a week to lock up a juvenile in a young offender institution, and past experience shows that incarceration leads to high rates of reoffending.The non-custodial approach has been more successful, it claims, with surveys indicating that only about one in 10 young offenders cautioned by police are convicted within two years.Community sentences, which force offenders to confront their criminal behaviour, have also had 'notable successes'.Warning that ministers are about to 'take a step in the wrong direction', the consortium's report concludes: 'A panic measure which runs counter to other recent government legislation and promises to place an increased burden on the taxpayer will do nothing effectively to tackle juvenile offending.'. If so, a new leader would still have plenty of time to rally the party.Probably, possibly, may, perhaps, if: these are still the most potent words in political fortune-telling.But a party divided against itself, in the way the Conservative Party is, cannot stand. As Ventris says: 'People's imaginations are always far wilder than anything you can show on stage.'Entrances and exits evolved in much the same way. With Nick Barmby and Anderton to provide, respectively, ground and aerial support, he is the spearhead of what is currently the country's sharpest forward line. But it ended up implying that the generators were demanding too much for electricity derived from British Coal - a claim made repeatedly by several regional electricity companies and one that has completely stymied any attempt to sign unconditional contracts between British Coal and the electricity industry.The RECs are looking more like the good boys at the moment after a reporting season in which they have tried, successfully, to be all things to all men.
We are not asking to see anything that is client confidential, and we will always attempt to make an appointment first.' The measure, she says, 'should be welcomed by the vast majority of solicitors as a way of cutting out the possibility of fraud'.In a joint statement with the Law Society, published in the Law Society's Gazette this week, the bank attempts to clarify its position and to reduce the sting of its original message. The business has been hit by the slump in construction and recently announced an pounds 8m provision against bad debts and stock losses. BOB GODFREY's cartoon animation celluloids (cels) of love-making on a bicycle enliven Sotheby's sale of literature, illustration and animation, Wednesday (11am). Imports of Alsace wines to the UK plummeted from a 1990 peak of 226,000 cases to fewer than 120,000 last year. Could it be that the British don't understand Alsace wines? Or even that they don't enjoy them much? Part of Alsace's problem is undoubtedly its blurred identity: is it French or German? It was German; but although it doesn't have a very French feel, it has been part of France since the end of the First World War. An agreed Ireland could mean a unitary state, possibly even joint sovereignty (though that is highly unlikely and would inflame Unionist opinion, not win their consent), or the territorial status quo, albeit much reformed.The declaration also eschews the notion that the British government should join the ranks of the 'persuaders' and seek to convince Unionist opinion of the inevitability of Irish unity. A SECRETARY has won compensation and damages of pounds 40,000 for repetitive strain injury after being dismissed by a City law firm.