AS THE British Championship in Dundee approaches its end the play becomes entertaining

AS THE British Championship in Dundee approaches its end, the play becomes entertaining. Although not a classic, this track received the biggest cheer of recognition, perhaps because it’s the opening theme of Terminator 2: Judgement Day.After an encore of ‘Paradise City’, Rose threw his mike 30 metres into the crowd and distributed roses Then the band lined up for a communal bow. BAREND STRYDOM, self-proclaimed ‘White Wolf’, said yesterday in his first newspaper interview after his release a week ago as a political prisoner that he would mow down another eight black people in cold blood ‘if necessary’. Police are not treating the case of Jean Coburn, 36, as a suspicious death. They just roll up their sleeves, lower their heads and play to their strengths And foremost among these is strength itself. Lonrho first approached Newspaper Publishing some months ago after it had concluded that it no longer wished to sustain the large losses which the Observer was making.2. Opposition MPs say the report ’strikes at the heart of the Scottish judiciary’ and that the allegations in it must be investigated immediately.The report includes the names of a High Court judge, two sheriffs and two other leading members of the legal system.Looking into the handling of five legal cases, the report concludes that the authors felt that, in one case, the decision to drop charges and prosecution was ‘a tactical one.

More than half their clients were young professionals, either relocating, or choosing to rent for the convenience and flexibility. Britain’s four-in-hand drivers are relying on George Bowman to win an individual medal.That leaves the vaulting team, whose eight members are aged between 12 and 17, as the only group who are going to The Hague without great expectations. This was rejected in favour of a special seeding consideration.’That thinking,’ Smith said, ‘was in anticipation that she might return before the end of last year. Mr Williams warns that it will not establish whether land is contaminated.The report will be compiled from a study of Ordnance Survey maps and information from such organisations as the Waste Regulatory Authority and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Pollution. Rumours of a deal have been circulating in the usually gossipy drinks industy for months.
But it is thought supply contracts PepsiCo has sought with Bass and Britvic’s two other brewery shareholders, Allied-Lyons and Whitbread, have caused the delay.PepsiCo already has a modest interest in Britvic, which produces Pepsi Cola under licence and is second to Cadbury Schweppes in the British soft drink industry.Its brewery dominance stems from the days when most brewers had soft drink operations to supply their pubs.But the relaxation of the brewers’ tie, underlined by the Government’s controversial Beer Orders, has reduced Britvic’s captive pub audience and lowered its appeal to the three brewing groups.For Whitbread the deal will represent yet another cash inflow, as it builds on last year’s restructuring when it equalised its two-tier voting structure and took over its investment arm, the Whitbread Investment Co.This week it realised pounds 225m by selling many of the regional brewery shares inherited when it took over WIC. But enough people find that Hite’s research and ruminations so resonate with their own experience that they buy her books in the kind of numbers that make her a rich woman.The arguments about Hite usually dwell on these questions: is her research methodology scientific? Are her findings authentic? Is she a nice girl and would you want to marry her?Shere Hite should never have got into the methodology argument.

Coca-Cola duly left in a huff, only to return last Christmas, ready to fight Pepsi for the conquest of India’s potentially colossal beverages market.
After Coca-Cola pulled out, Indians had nothing to gulp down but sickly imitations of the real thing such as Campa-Cola, whose trademark is a copy of Coca-Cola’s but which tastes like sweet, effervescent mud.Profiting from the Congress government’s recent economic reforms, Pepsi thought it safe to enter the country through partnership with Lehar, a big local drinks firm.Now the cola wars are bubbling in India. The courses, she insists, are an attempt to help women to learn to defend themselves. Any new Western policy should combine strong support for domestic reform with greater consideration of the country’s justified security fears.The author is director of the Ukraine Business Agency. Some of the most notorious crooks of recent years have built up small empires by engratiating themselves with a community and roping in groups of friends.ROUTINE testing for a wide range of inherited diseases is on the horizon. A Martinair spokesman said there were 327 passengers and 13 crew aboard. I do have my memories of the fringe, such as of the gently amazing Trestle Theatre, the explosively amazing Chinese State Circus, an addictive close harmony group called Draylon Underground, a late night rhythm and blues group called the Honking Hep Cats, who are the only musicians I have ever met claiming descent from Tiny Grimes and his RockingHighlanders .Enough. What people write about productions is just fashion notes: if it’s in modern dress it’s radical, if not it’s traditional.It’s just too easy for a director to say, ‘Here’s a piece that works like this, I’m going to do the opposite’ – and provided you do it with enough chutzpah you get noticed But I don’t think Opera Factory’s ever done that.

Yet it seems an inadequate explanation for the ferocity with which Hutu extremists set about systematically ridding their country once and for all of their former overlords.As in Bosnia, the warring factions had – despite periodic and horrifying blood-lettings – lived virtually on top of each other, inter- marrying and even changing their ethnic identity It is hard to see how they will be able to coexist again The RPF claims to be non- ethnic. Britain’s going to win a medal, so it must be a sport.J is for Jay. They were told that a new trust for company employees would have an option to buy 4 million of Quantum’s remaining British Land shares at cost after 2003.This seemed to leave the Quantum Fund with 5.3 million British Land shares on which it stood to make a gain. He was entitled to expect that advice, however sophisticated an investor he might have been. Blyton’s books are reappearing on library shelves after falling from grace in the Eighties.While the survey indicates a resurgence of popularity for Blyton, I think we should treat it cautiously I suspect more than a little parental influence here.

When he was arrested and accused of attacking the 25-year-old solicitor – ‘Miss X’ – Mr Diggle said it had been a ‘nightmare’.
Mr Diggle, 37, of Bolton, Greater Manchester, has denied attempting to rape Miss X after taking her to a St Andrew’s Day ball at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, last November. It involves the conclusions of an expert witness on the plight of Iraqi civilians two years after the Gulf war. ‘Had you succeeded in your plan all that would have been plain sailing.’The judge said he took into account Jones’s previous exemplary character.Jones, of Wymans Brook, Cheltenham, had shaken his head in disbelief when the jury returned its verdict on Thursday at the end of a week-long trial.The magistrate, who remarried last year, constructed a home-made ‘gas chamber’ in the shape of a wooden box which was connected by piping to the exhaust of his wife’s car outside. But the pounds 18.2m budget agreed will still mean the loss of 176 jobs and other cuts.