‘Like millions of Somalis Sahnoun has become a victim of the UN system’ said Mike McDonagh

‘Like millions of Somalis, Sahnoun has become a victim of the UN system,’ said Mike McDonagh, head of Concern, the Irish aid agency. It’s the best piece in the show – but perhaps too modest to have won the prize.At the Saatchi Gallery are works by four young or not-too-old British artists Some of this is already familiar. The population in Britain is now thought to number 250,000 adults, which produce some 175,000 cubs a year. What do you call a government that has mobilised gutter nationalism, armed it, decorated it with religion and paranormal superstition and yet – almost contemptuously – allows a small number of journalists and intellectuals to criticise and mock it? Then we walked down Knez Mihail street towards the Kalemegdan, past stalls selling Chetnik kitsch: Serb royalist badges, skull-and-crossbones flags (‘Liberty or Death’), car stickers inscribed ‘Thank God I am a Serb’.The sanctions are tight and harsh on the city There is little traffic, because there is almost no petrol. I write ‘confessed’ because he was telling me, not a shameful secret exactly, but something that might land him in trouble if it became generally known. Graeme Souness, the manager of the Merseyside club, is believed to have offered Southampton Don Hutchison, the 22-year-old midfielder, and the former England Under-21 goalkeeper, David James, plus a cash adjustment. For the younger players, it will give them an early introduction to the demands of international hockey, which these days are extremely challenging.’We have some talented young players but they need to be fitter and stronger as a unit,’ Slocombe added ‘We have a depth of players.

I HAVE in my hand a piece of paper. I was disappointed that the wax model of the Mad Monk now seated therein did not give off the odour of goat’s cheese apparent to all who met him in real life. With a remuneration package linked to performance, he’s also got quite an incentive to succeed.WILLIAM KAYWhen a share is flat on its back, the only way left for it to go is up – as long as it doesn’t go bust, of course. Some ministers, particularly Peter Lilley at the DSS, are pursuing radical agendas, though mostly long-term and in privacy. Police reported 11 other bombings, including two attacks on taxi ranks and several on polling stations, in which no one was hurt.Politicians and security chiefs said there was no doubt the country faced a concerted and well-organised attempt – almost certainly by the far right – to disrupt the voting over the next three days.

Sir: 1994 is the Year of the Family. Our meetings have been enormously successful, but the crunch is going to come if somebody is hurt in a corner where the drivers asked for changes, because then we may become open to political manoeuvres. In 1937 she returned to Europe to join Massine’s Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with whom she danced a number of solo roles. Some powers were taken away from local government, control of trunk roads went to the Department of Transport, control became more centralised.

WARBURG, the leading City securities firm, has stopped making a market in the shares of 362 small companies quoted on the Stock Exchange. In addition, both the 200 and 400 ranges are revised and get their first showing at Birmingham.In essence, the MG RV8 is a tarted up MGB, a model launched 30 years ago.While the bodywork may be familiar, the performance is bang up to date. Another thorny issue is contraception, the subject that most perturbs young Catholic couples. ‘People wouldn’t have believed you would ever be able to do your shopping like this, under cover,’ said Mr Ward Dora East, 72, agreed. UNTIL next February the Egyptian government has re-opened the tomb of Tutankhamun to mark the 70th anniversary of its discovery. His crowning assertion, that there is an unpalatable truth behind recent allegations of satanic abuse of children, follows on from the hysteria that the book whips up, but is not backed by any concrete evidence.At the Heart of Darkness disturbs but never illuminates.