So were the listing rules the Stock Exchange and an entire army of investors

So were the listing rules, the Stock Exchange and an entire army of investors. After the success of Fabre’s Arcangues in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, the European challenge for that dollars 3m event will be stronger than ever this year. It seems to me that I have stretches of time ahead of me in which real life goes on somewhere else.As my imagination is at least partly gastronomical, I have had much pleasure catching up on the first three volumes of an admirable journal called Convivium, available four times a year from (the address itself is redolent of the not-quite-real) The Neuadd, Rhayader, Radnorshire LD6 5HH. The group is paying pounds 4.4m cash for Grimsby-Cleethorpes Transport Company (GCT), but will also give the vendors – the borough councils of Grimsby and Cleethorpes – a pounds 300,000 pre-acquisition dividend.
GCT, formed in 1986 to run municipal bus services in Greater Grimsby, has 100 buses and coaches and employs about 200 people. But now we need only one man – Yeltsin.’In conclusion, we have a most alarming lesson. Terence Holt, 40, was found in the Claremont pub with injuries from which he later died in hospital. The commonest use of Order 24, rule 16 was to enforce a party’s obligation to serve a list of documents.Moreover even if a party had to await the outcome of the trial to discover if there had been a breach of discovery, a party in default was liable for committal under Order 24, rule 16(2).The judge erred in admitting cross-examination in this case.LORD JUSTICE McCOWAN and LORD JUSTICE KENNEDY agreed..

HEALTHY individuals who do not claim often on their Bupa private health insurance policies may be offered preferential treatment by the insurer before the end of the year, writes Maria Scott. (First Edition)

Computer-enhanced videotape of a truck-driver’s beating during last year’s Los Angeles riots helped persuade a man to plead guilty to assault and robbery charges, AP reports from Los Angeles. At that moment in Mr Glasgow’s submission, observers said, there was a sustained outburst of applause from a packed public gallery.According to the submission, the sedition laws under which Mr Chihana was convicted are contrary to the Malawian constitution and its own laws, which demand conformity with English common law. – Len Raine, Manchester.What is the longest recorded hole-in- one?The feat reported by Simon Owens (Q & A, 26 July) is not unique. WASHINGTON (Reuter) – US retail sales rose modestly last month as the key holiday sales season opened, the Commerce Department said yesterday.

So this is the most holy shrine, which on certain festival days attracts a mass of religious devotees to drive here and queue for up to two hours for perhaps 10 seconds before the shrine.If you put to the president the locally expressed fears that planning permission and access road would open the door to regular hordes of Hindus every weekend, he says: ‘Why would there be more people? Where from? Hindus come when they choose to, they are not made to, he insists. In other words, it had minor errors of construction, but was still quite understandable.The technical translation was adequate, in that terms such as Lan (local area network) and hard disk were correctly converted But it slipped up on words like workgroup and bus. It has taken a long time for Christians to recognise the significance and practical implications of the fact that women and men are made equally in God’s image and share equally in Christ’s priesthood.I have spent most of my professional life working as a doctor in the so-called Third World. With second-placed Feyenoord dropping a point in a 1-1 draw at Go Ahead Eagles, Ajax extended their lead at the top of the league.In France, the Brazilian striker, Anderson da Silva, scored twice to help Marseille to a hard-fought 3-2 home win over lowly Lille.Marseille looked on their way to a comfortable victory but the Lille striker, Eric Assadourian, scored within a minute of Anderson’s second goal and then made it 2-2 in the 52nd minute.Rudi Voller enabled Marseille to pick up two precious points by scoring the winner in the 68th minute.In Germany, Christian Nerlinger and the Colombian, Adolfo Valencia, scored in the second half to restore Bayern Munich’s lead in the German league with a 2-0 home victory over the defending champions, Werder Bremen.. The prices aren’t cheap, compared with those at traditional sandwich bars, but a meal works out no more expensive than a trip to McDonald’s. THE success of England A’s South African tour is in the balance after another weak batting display raised serious questions about the side’s character and left them facing their second defeat.

If his style as a Democrat in the White House works, it will greatly encourage the European left: but more because of the reassurance it will give about the efficacy of old bromides than because of experiments with new ones.(Photograph omitted). Honest as he is, he does not pretend he has a free hand.He was patently not allowed to challenge his team-mate and the world championship leader, Alain Prost, in last Sunday’s French Grand Prix. Steven Waller, a 23-year-old private, had been home on leave from Cyprus when he was killed by gunmen in his mother’s home in north Belfast.On New Year’s Eve, loyalist gunmen stormed a crowded betting shop in Flax Street in the Catholic Ardoyne area and opened fire with machine guns. But hand him a racket and he could deal out enlightenment in every direction at once. So, what with the vagaries of time travel, a handful of dance interludes – to Jean-Michel Jarre’s ‘Oxygene’ – and some business with an old car, there isn’t an awful lot of time left over for the climactic nativity scene This doesn’t bother Mary (aka Rachel): ‘It’s boring.

You won’t find his pornographers, Fascists, tarts, chancers and rent boys in the likes of Murdoch or Drabble. But earlier this year a report from the Arundel and Brighton diocese in Sussex showed that Catholic schools were admitting ‘an ever-increasing proportion of non-Catholic pupils’. Police believe that Escobar has not left the Medellin area.A new government report, meanwhile, showed that the Bogota government had foreseen the danger that Escobar could escape and ordered extensive security improvements at his jail costing several million dollars. Judges who stubbornly failed to countenance the possibility of a mistake subsequently blamed the police when injustice was exposed These officers, in turn, have been spared from facing trial. There could also be benefits with reduction in drag, but there could be considerable hazards when the lights changed again.It is easy to visualise ‘turning on a sixpence’, and to appreciate ‘a penny for your thoughts’ and even ‘ten a penny’ but what is so superior about ninepence that eightpence or sevenpence do not have, in the saying ‘as nice as ninepence’ or ‘as right as ninepence’? (John Walker, Salisbury).According to B A Phythian’s Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, the expression ‘as neat as ninepence’ owes ‘more to alliteration than good sense’.