RELIGIOUS bodies will now have to apply for listed building consent if they want to alter their buildings unless

RELIGIOUS bodies will now have to apply for listed building consent if they want to alter their buildings unless they have a recognised system of control. One cannot exactly describe as revisions the kind of changes Handel made to his oratorios before almost every run of performances; it was simply Baroque common practice, within a still fairly fluid idea of the work as a whole, to alter the scoring to fit the conditions or to substitute arias to suit the singers. The paper also suggests banks should give a seven-day notice period before appointing a receiver to companies that were not able to meet their commitments.The paper’s aim is to promote a ‘rescue culture’ for companies, but this has been greeted with deep suspicion by the banks, which are co- ordinating their response through the British Bankers Association. It may take eight to 10 exposures to the food before that happens.’Parents must not see a child’s initial rejection as a fixed dislike. The final dividend is to be cut sharply from 4.1p to 0.85p, reducing the total for the year to 2.5p against 5.75p.
Burnfield said the expected second-half loss, which compares with a pounds 1.27m profit in the first half, reflected redundancy and reorganisation costs at its Isopad and Budenberg subsidiaries, the withdrawal from a possible acquisition and a compensation payment to Mr Staples.The workforce at Isopad, a maker of electrical surface heating systems, has been cut by 23 per cent. Each pig was restrained on its back for 60 seconds with a hand placed loosely over its head. She recalls her distress when she discovered her eldest child was using drugs, and regularly getting into trouble to the extent that Laurie and her partner would have to ‘bail her out at the police station’.'The hard thing for parents,’ she says, ‘is to accept how prevalent drugs are and that if your teenager chooses to experiment it is out of your hands.

Each PCA machine costs about pounds 1,000, while the price of the morphine used is negligible. The question is whether their successors in the Foreign Office are of the same mind. Little touches of realism like this distinguish Carpenter in the genre, as does her easy rapport with the fans. Still smiling and waving, our guide dispatched us back to our vehicle and returned to his duties.Two days later, we were invited by a local historian (who was staying in the same hotel in Kaza) to join in a festival at Kungri Monastery in Pin Valley. He rang from the airport, was told it had been approved, and flew to Singapore. For then their first innings was fatally congealing, before Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram began their aerodynamic miracles.In the one-dayers Graeme Hick and Neil Fairbrother have batted like the leading stroke-players they are in county cricket. All the bills have been paid promptly, and the policy was very competitively priced.’David Potter, a spokesman for OHRA said: ‘We tried to do what was best for this lady.

Many schools continue to buy services back from the local authority, or from private charitable trusts that employ their own instrumental teachers.But music-education specialists have expressed concern about the quality and uneven distribution of instrumental teaching under the new system. WITH just two wins from seven attempts at Parkhead this season, it was less than surprising to hear Celtic’s manager, Lou Macari, admitting yesterday that winning the Premier title ‘hasn’t entered my mind’. He was here for some meeting of the Council of Chieftains (nothing to do with Paddy Moloney) who seek to preserve what is left of the Gaelic aristocratic order, if not, more’s the pity, to resurrect it entirely. She goes into the 400 metres hurdles final bearing the same weight of expectation that her compatriot took into the 100m final on Sunday night. THE European Commission yesterday accused Eastern Europe of ‘unacceptable’ behaviour in the growing farm-trade war. Revelations from a previously suppressed report on the involvement of the Welsh in the birthday tour caused twitches in the respective international camps as players from both sides were involved.Robert Norster, the Welsh team manager, along with three members of his current squad, Robert Jones, Mike Hall and Tony Clement, made the trip in 1989, as did the England forwards Jeff Probyn, Peter Winterbottom and Mike Teague.According to the man who headed the Welsh Rugby Union’s inquiry team, Vernon Pugh QC, evidence pointed towards players having received handsome payments over and above the International Board daily allowance.’The impression we were left with was that the Welsh players were no different from the others in having received payment,’ the report said.

After a nervy, hurry-scurry start they had been the first into their stride, twice threatening to spoil Lukic’s return to his old stamping ground in the space of the 20th minute.The first chance, created by Merson’s low, raking cross from the right, saw Kevin Campbell charge in at the far post, only to shoot against the crossbar at close range. Outraged by what it contained, Mr Berry believed the handwritten notes – transcribed and printed in full by the inspectors in their report – were evidence that Mr Fromstein was planning a boardroom coup, perhaps leading to a demerger of Manpower from the Blue Arrow group.The discovery of the Filofax led directly to another board meeting at which Mr Fromstein was fired, although other directors were already wondering whether he or Mr Berry should go.Mr Tebbit told the inspectors: ‘In retrospect, I think although we had not come to the conclusion in the right way and we had probably picked on the wrong man, that we were right to say Fromstein and Berry could not co-exist indefinitely in the company, particularly while Mr Berry was chief executive officer.’But Mr Berry himself resigned as chief executive five weeks later, on 12 January 1989, in the wake of directors’ growing concern about his stewardship of the company He was replaced by Mr Fromstein.. If they have no money they can do worse because of worry than because of working. Shrewsbury, the bat-making rival of Gunn and Moore, eventually shot himself during a match in 1903. The difference between Marks and some of its rivals is that it has not had to sacrifice profits to do so. COMEDIAN Ben Elton yesterday married saxophonist Sophie Gare.

‘Instead you would rather press one button and tell the secretary to get the letter.’ The secretary will not be a human one, of course, but an intelligent ‘personal digital assistant’, who will interpret your requests and learn your habits.’How do you select which movies you want to watch?’ Mr Negroponte asks. The postbag following my own televised Royal Institution Christmas Lectures has been so extensive that I have yet to reply to many letters.There are hundreds of others like us, less well known, perhaps, but no less driven to communicate the excitement that made them choose science instead of some more financially rewarding career. ‘At the end of the round I said to her, ‘Deirdre, go for her tits and bring her hands down’. Only a couple of the Top 20 cinema releases were made in Britain – but one of them (Alien 3) was science fiction.
What do we see happening in the bookshops? Publication of science fiction novels plunged from 130 in 1989 to 84 in 1992, a drop of nearly 40 per cent (Locus magazine, April 1993).