Ken Livingstone former leader of the GLC and MP for Brent East is the most likely contender but there

Ken Livingstone, former leader of the GLC and MP for Brent East, is the most likely contender, but there are doubts whether he will be able to pick up the necessary number of nominations from fellow MPs to stand.Blair and the Lib-Dems, page 6(Photograph omitted). Just as his artistic vision seemed fully achieved as early as his nude of Patti Smith, or his picture of the tattered American flag, and just as he would investigate new subjects with new techniques but not evolve a new sensibility, in the same way as a person he would grow in wisdom but not change in temperament.What was dandified about him was his high-handed manner of disrupting traditional values or conventions and replacing them with a simple standard of beauty, the gold standard, whether the beauty was to be found in a navel, a bald head, an orchid or a tranquil scene of torture. A British MEP was flown in from his hospital bed to vote. Anyway, if the message is meant to hurt and scare, as it should, ought it not to be a mother who bends over her dead daughter and then rises to look straight into the face of her killer? Prison is less of a deterrent than that But instead we got this ghost.I think I know why The ghost, in effect, sends a reassuring wink to the viewer. Before lunch, talk of a cut in UK interest rates was in the air after a subdued set of factory gate inflation figures for March and evidence from the CBI of retrenchment on the high street ahead of this month’s tax increases. He steadfastly set his mind against even considering the seamier, bookmaker- oriented side of the sport which he worshipped and to which he had dedicated his life.Peter Scott was one of the very few really good people in the racing world, who never said a nasty thing about anyone and had no enemies.(Photograph omitted). The first hearing is expected next month.A spokesman for the church said the property had passed previous fire inspections but conceded that ‘the fire standards can be upgraded; we are in the process of making improvements.’Ms Barton also confirmed that cult officials had led her during a recent inspection to believe that only about 50 people lived permanently in the main house at Stonelands.

And each terrace was to have its own common room where students from each of the houses can meet, hold parties, compare trust funds or plot the overthrow of the state. Sceptre went to the United States but was soundly beaten in four straight races by the defender, Columbia.In acknowledgement of his contribution to the challenge and services to yachting Aisher received the Yachtsman of the Year Award in 1958. The Right Rev John Daly, priest, died 15 August, aged 90. ‘The art editor decided that I had the stupidest face,’ he says bravely, ‘and that I would therefore make a wonderful judge.’BOOK BORESAs a newspaper editor, Max Hastings is easily bored – he cut back on the Daily Telegraph’s general election coverage in the run-up to the 1992 count because of his low ennui threshold – so I’m not surprised to learn that he has no truck with the less accessible type of modern novel.In the diary of the current Spectator, he admits to finding many of them unreadable (he singles out Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Peter Ackroyd) and muses on why the London literary set is so reluctant to transport its private opinions of a fellow member’s work into the public domain.Mr Hastings is not the only one to feel this way. So now the appointments are announced and what do we find – three green-as-grass bumf-handlers fresh from the Government Information Service whose total journalistic experience amounts to one of them having spent two years on the Grimsby News Brilliant. I mean a new wrong man and one who, while several classes up on the fat West Countryman, of course, still isn’t good enough for Penny, my beloved. Catalogue, pounds 6, admits two.Sotheby’s (0244 315531).Reading: Furniture and liquidated no-reserve stock, next Saturday (10am) at cattle market.

The US government says this is essential to protect itself from criminal gangs who would otherwise be able to communicate without fear of their conversations being monitored.
The issue has stirred up a tremendous argument between civil libertarians, software companies and the US national security establishment. I’ve always found that the best directors started out as actors. For further information, contact: Garth Lindrup, the Manchester Law Library Appeal, Addleshaw Sons & Latham, Dennis House, Marsden Street, Manchester M2 1JD, telephone 061-832 5994.. How much more stupid can you get? Well, quite a lot actually.Pre-match preparations often focus on the way we get to a game. Queues were huge by midday as soldiers checked voters for weapons and it took around 10 minutes for each person to cast the complicated ballots.Leading article, page 13. An armaments deal to sell 28 Hawk combat trainers and a pounds 234m British aid package to build a hydro-electric dam followed despite opposition from the Overseas Development Administration and the World Bank.Now, annual two-way trade stands at pounds 2.6bn and British investment in Malaysia last year was more than pounds 200m, adding to the pounds 2bn already there. ‘I expect months of fierce debate before it finally comes into force.’The extent of that division was reflected in the fact that no fewer than five draft citizenship laws were presented to parliament when it began debating the issue.

Be immodest in your long-term aims, realistic in your first steps. 69 M Pinero (Sp), J-M Olazabal (Sp), G Brand Jnr, G Day (US), D Feherty, J Spence. This is a critical season for Worcestershire have to prove to their members and supporters that their days as a leading county are not over.BAC: 17 NWT: 1st round B & H: Quarter-final. The device was attached to a car owned by a Catholic man living on an estate in Antrim, Northern Ireland.. Pay bill costs had risen to a greater extent than productivity, BR contends.In the private sector, white-collar staff at Ford have threatened industrial action for the first time since the company established plants in Britain before the First World War.. Just 5 per cent of the industry association’s members had introduced short-time work a year ago; now the proportion is heading for a third.That the big Japanese producers have also been battered by the international slowdown provides only small comfort to the Germans. The counter-argument is always aired, whether it’s doctors warning against treatment with untested oil or parents of other ALD children trusting in ‘the solemn sanctity of science’ At worst the opposition seems tiresomely myopic.