Another press officer – the events of the past week have been driven by journalists and press officers

Another press officer – the events of the past week have been driven by journalists and press officers rather than politicians – called the Foreign Office to check if the reports were accurate.The clamour for something to be done was soon overwhelming and the Sun – not a paper noted for its Balkan coverage in the past – offered to send a plane to the rescue Major decided to act.SUDDENLY, the obstacles vanished. As indicated elsewhere on this page, however, the hurdles are such that the Chappell model stands little chance at present of leaping from print to life.As a consequence, bar-room disputes over past performers – would FS Jackson’s England side of 1902 have put one over Len Hutton’s Ashes heroes of 1954-55, and so on – have been rendered all the livelier by the fact that there has never been any quantifiable basis from which to make such assertions. ‘Until Mark Dwyer rode Auntie Dot, I think he was one of those who could take it or leave it,’ Orkney says.’You certainly do have a much better chance of getting round now, especially as they’ve levelled the drop at Becher’s. In the process, everyone benefited.Having just returned from Europe and numerous conversations with central Europeans, I am struck by the extent of the damage limbo status can bring.For example, how encouraging to hear a leading Czech intellectual assert: ‘We know now we can make it economically.’ But how discouraging when he adds: ‘We live in fear that someone will try to take it away from us and we will stand alone.’This is one of the messages President Clinton is hearing on his trip to Europe.

But that alone could not have turned the relentless tide of Springbok control and when, in the final minute, Joubert touched down in splendid isolation behind England’s posts England were in shreds. Barclaycard is unusual among the big credit card firms in offering an automatic emergency cash and replacement card service.’We can get emergency cash through in a matter of hours,’ says a spokeswoman. Certainly baskets of gleaming eggs can be found in the Saturday market in the centre of the city. Kaminsky recalls, ‘Ben Kingsley came out from the first day of rushes and said, ‘People think that actors are not as good as they used to be. Spare a thought for them the next time you hear about an American court refusing to send an(Photograph omitted).

Crawford finds many dislocations in the contradictions between Scotland and England. Under persistent assault of this kind, continued over several seasons, it gradually dies off, allowing useful species such as heather, bilberry, crowberry and grass to recolonise the ground.One day, as Jack was scything, his persistence led to what may prove an important discovery When a deluge of rain came on, he thought, ‘Oh, sod it I’m wet anyway I may as well get soaked’. MICHAEL HESELTINE, the President of the Board of Trade, evidently wants to be a consumers’ champion. The bakery, which employed 65 people in Dundee, is the fourth to close and brings the number of job losses at RHM’s British Bakeries division to 1,000. To a casual observer, it looks like a patch of old moss, which is what it is.