So popular were his courtroom antics touts would sell seats in the public gallery

So popular were his courtroom antics, touts would sell seats in the public gallery. Hence it’s ‘10.06am’ rather than ‘10am’ or ‘10.10 am’ or ‘not long after breakfast of coffee, crunchy nut cornflakes and half a pink grapefruit’. Even if all parties wanted the matter dealt with internally, the university should leave the action to the police.The university is entitled or ‘probably bound’ to take internal disciplinary action where the conduct is related to the work of the university, or occurred on campus and affected staff or students. It’s been a very windy month, but the wind has tended to help rather than hinder the hitters.

More worrying still, the system would discriminate against the borderline applicants who would be excluded automatically but might still have much to gain from university.The report’s alternative proposal is more attractive. For once, however, I saw what stunted really means: too many stunts. The herbicide paraquat, for example, which is described as of ‘very high toxicity (with) possible systemic effects’, causing ‘irreversible rapid pulmonary fibrosis’ in overdose, is ‘a constituent of numerous proprietary herbicides’. As Beatrice Ballard’s comprehensive first episode (of eight) shows, once the fame genie is out of the bottle, it is very hard to put back.

‘REFUGE for war babies’ was the promise in last week’s Mail on Sunday: Britain was opening its arms to the poor innocents of the war-torn former Yugoslavia. The display of military hardware on Katlehong’s dusty streets evoked images of Operation Desert Storm. Troops dispersed a protest by several dozen Jewish settlers angry at the attack who blocked the Jericho-Jerusalem road near Wadi Qelt by burning tyres and wood.A ‘certain number’ of Palestinians opposed to the PLO- Israeli accord have been arrested in Tunis and are being ‘investigated’, following the discovery of a plot to assassinate Yasser Arafat, writes Safa Haeri.News of the arrests came as the Tunisian government cut telephone lines to many prominent Palestinians, including Bassam Abu Sharif, a top Arafat adviser, in an attempt to recover money owed for unpaid phone bills.Palestinian sources said the decision affected lines to PLO offices, residences and guest houses, including those of Mr Arafat. The FT-SE 100 share index closed 26.7 points higher at 3,156.3, while the three-month interbank lending rate – which tracks base rate expectations – fell one-eighth of a percentage point to 511 16 per cent.
High street spending volume rose by 0.5 per cent in September to its highest level on record, according to the Central Statistical Office.