Cormack an 18-year-old centre- half joined from Meadowbank Thistle for a small fee

Cormack, an 18-year-old centre- half, joined from Meadowbank Thistle for a small fee.Marseille, the French champions, have signed Rafael Martin Vasquez, the 26-year-old Spanish international midfielder, from Torino for just under pounds 2.4m He joined the Italian club from Real Madrid two years ago.. There are no trains, newspapers or telephones, except for lines within the city. YOUNG women who are worried about their weight may be using the drug paracetamol, a common painkiller, to induce vomiting and nausea and to gain weight control, writes Liz Hunt. In fact many describe Contact as bringing Christmas 12 times a year to the elderly and frail people it helps.

A FIRESTORM was how Major- General Charles Wilhelm described the United States marines’ biggest battle against Somali fighters since they intervened in Somalia a month ago with the stated mission of protecting famine aid from looters and armed gangs. Junction 6 of M6 and the Arena is signposted from the A38(M). A wealthy man who numbered admirals and leading financiers among his friends, a researcher and author of internatonal renown, he none the less never lost touch with ordinary folk. He was shot dead in an ambush while trying to broker a settlement between feuding Ingush and Ossetian peoples. Decisions would need the support of four-fifths of member states and the vote would have to be cast by a combination of countries making up four-fifths of the EC’s population.Another suggestion is that an EC ’senate’ be established, with members from national parliaments, giving them a direct stake in shaping the Community and ensuring the hallowed ’subsidiarity’ principle, under which laws are made at national level when practicable, is adhered to.The CDU also wants the presidency of the EC to last a year, rather than six months as at present, to ensure the country holding the presidency does not find itself with its hands tied by its own electoral timetables.

LONDON’S art world emerges from its seasonal hibernation with a number of gallery moves. THE EUROPEAN Parliament yesterday voted to dismiss Lord Owen as European Union mediator in Bosnia. ‘The time I have spent looking at old videos will I’m sure help.’Doug Wyllie is hoping a more modern influence will improve Scotland’s threequarter play. ‘One of the pleasures here,’ says Pat.Jane Barraclough.Jane is lucky She has a garden which spans two-and-a-half acres in Surrey. The organisation, provisionally called the GIFA group (Green Independent Financial Advisers), was established last month in London.Geoff Griffiths of Barchester Insurance and Investment, the Salisbury-based advisers that called the initial meeting, says ethical investment advisers have good reason to co-operate rather than compete.