Sky One retaliated with a full hour of The Simpsons from 6pm but its ratings

Sky One retaliated with a full hour of The Simpsons from 6pm, but its ratings have dwindled a little.ITV is streaking past the old enemy as well, swamping BBC 1’s Sunday sitcoms As Time Goes By and So Haunt Me, and the comedy- drama Lovejoy. But still, they chopped the goose livers, and prepared the Yemenite soup in solemn silence, rebuffing all questions about their former patron. Albums are far more profitable for record companies than singles. But just as one defeat in Cardiff didn’t turn England into paupers overnight so one victory on the same ground hasn’t transformed the Irish into princes. The songs are romantic, saucy; ‘La Fille et Le Chien’, the lament of a homeless girl talking to a stray dog, displays her art in all its simplicity. It is an open secret that Mr Gonzalez would like nothing more than to take over from Jacques Delors as European Commissioner in 1995.And so, confounding the polls, Mr Gonzalez ‘won’.

The forecast had threatened rain on the stage from Villard- de-Lans, with temperatures of 35F at the top of the Galibier mountain. British and Irish producers have been targeting their export marketing efforts at France in recent years, successfully increasing UK exports of both carcass meat and live sheep and lambs.British exports of mutton and lamb to France last year were 72,400 tonnes, worth pounds 216m, up from 53,400 tonnes in 1991, according to UK government figures (EU figures put French imports much higher). The stallholders are doing a brisk trade, selling traditional Advent wreaths and the bells of the 14th-century church of St Martin’s ring out above the steep roofs. A boy, 12, who was killed when the stolen car he was in crashed, was on the run from an assessment centre after appearing at Wakefield magistrates’ court last Friday on a joyriding charge. Concluding that society has the level of crime it is prepared to condone – and should, therefore, stop complaining about it – Barrie Craven and Brian Dick, of the University of Northumbria, say that social workers and probation officers should be removed so more money could be given to the police to catch criminals.
Central to their theories, published in the right-wing Salisbury Review, is the argument that the cost of crime should be increased to outweigh its benefits. Although he has just been released, Zargana, 33, was warned by the junta to keep his mouth shut It could prove difficult.

Although he had determined that they belonged to 14 separate species, the striking similarities in appearance and behaviour left little doubt that they had all evolved from a common species.The finches and giant tortoises of the Galapagos have to this day provided evolutionary biologists with fertile research material on natural selection. In benign conditions there must already have been birds with a range of beak sizes both smaller and larger than the average. The vast new airport outside Barcelona, Seville’s new railway station of Santa Justa, the Alamillo bridge that crosses the Guadalquivir into Expo, Madrid’s new ring road, Barcelona’s Olympic port – all these now display signs of Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas.This is the mark that the sisters, who are both vice-presidents of the new corporation, have taken direct control of their inheritance.Madrid’s brokers are still waiting for the usual roadshow, when the company will explain its new configuration. The day belonged to Nicole Uphoff, who won the individual title for the second time with a flawless performance on Rembrandt.

This last week has been so frustrating but I was confident about this filly and I’m delighted I have done it on one of my guv’nor’s horses.’The ‘guv’nor’ is Alec Stewart, who was instrumental in bringing Roberts to Britain, but who has been unable to provide his stable jockey with his usual number of winners this campaign.’It’s a pity that we couldn’t contribute more to his total this season, but we lost more or less two months to the virus,’ Stewart said. ‘He’s a nice horse, but he’s very lazy and I had to work at him all the time.’The last time he ran in France he hit the front too early and idled. Last January he acquired a 5 per cent stake in Venture Plant, the equipment hire company, but sold out a month later at a substantial profit.Anglia said yesterday that it would be getting in touch with Mr Shute ‘in due course’.. She will probably have a laparoscopy at the same time, allowing her uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes to be examined microscopically using keyhole surgery techniques and a fibre-optic cable to see if there are ova – eggs – or signs of infertility.If the pandas fail to conceive they may leave London by the year’s end. Since the Victoria Cross and the Mention in Despatches have always been available to all ranks of all three services – in all conditions, at sea, on land, in the air – dependent only on the level of bravery displayed, should he not insist on just two new awards, one to each of the two middle levels of gallantry, available to all members of the services?
If this concept for change is accepted, it will do much to foster mutual understanding and inter- service comradeship-in-arms which, in conflict, is the very basis of success.Yours faithfully,STUART RYDERRadlett, Hertfordshire5 March.

Their craft requires a unique blend of high professionalism and extreme self-delusion.You need a journalist’s most advanced technical skills, for a good diary paragraph is a model of compression. He added: ‘I am particularly disturbed by evidence which indicates that Croat-armed forces arbitrarily executed several inhabitants of the villages.’UN peace-keepers brokering a ceasefire with rebel Serbs recovered the bodies of 67 Serbs from the villages, near Gospic, after the Croatian army withdrew; 18 bodies were mutilated Another 48 Serbs are still unaccounted for. And the conductor, Alexander Anissimov (a regular at the Kirov), is impressive, despite some out-of-step ensembles. PETE SAMPRAS, who has consolidated his position as the world No 1 since winning the Wimbledon title last year, will reacquaint himself with grass courts by competing in the Stella Artois championships at London’s Queen’s Club from 6 to 12 June, writes John Roberts. ‘It was very nice to have had the opportunity to spend some time there,’ he said.