The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme was created entirely under prerogative powers – making Michael Howard’s

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme was created entirely under prerogative powers – making Michael Howard’s proposed cuts much easier than if it had been established under statute.Even when ministers’ powers are clearly laid down by statute, their accountability to the Commons is scarcely satisfactory. ‘The officials should be in the position to know the times of the players going through. ‘It’s nice to get back to work,’ Faldo said, resuming the season after a break of three weeks. With nearly 15 per cent of the ballot papers either spoiled or left blank, they argued, Mr Savimbi’s National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) could make a strong argument for a second round of voting.The controversy sparked by Mr Savimbi’s radio address appeared to catch Unita officials off guard, and they spent much of Saturday night and yesterday in damage control.’It was not a declaration of war, but a warning to the government that the people will not just accept any electoral process,’ said Unita’s spokesman, Jorge Valentim. MEN’S SINGLES

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Holder: A Agassi (US)J COURIER (US) bt T Martin (US) 6-2 7-6 6-3P SAMPRAS (US) bt A AGASSI (US) 6-2 6-2 3-6 3-6 6-4S EDBERG (Swe) bt C Pioline (Fr) 7-5 7-5 6-3B BECKER (Ger) bt M STICH (Ger) 7-5 6-7 6-7 6-2 6-4MIXED DOUBLESSECOND ROUNDHolders: C Suk (Cz Rep) and L Savchenko-Neiland (Lat)M KRATZMANN (Aus) and N ZVEREVA (Bela) bt C van Rensburg and E Reinach (SA) 4-6 7-5 6-3THIRD ROUNDT WOODBRIDGE (Aus) and A SANCHEZ VICARIO (Sp) bt R Reneberg and B Nagelsen (US) 6-2 6-3.M WOODFORDE (Aus) and M NAVRATILOVA (US) bt L JENSEN and M McGRATH (US)6-4 6-2P GALBRAITH and K RINALDI (US) bt S KRUGER and A COETZER (SA) 7-5 6-1G CONNELL (Can) and R WHITE (US) bt C Suk (Cz Rep) and L Neiland (Lat) 7-6 2-6 6-2M J Bates and J Durie (GB) bt J FITZGERALD and E SMYLIE (Aus) 6-2 6-7 6-3J Apell and M Strandlund (Swe) bt S Stolle and R Stubbs (Aus) 3-6 6-3 6-4T NIJSSEN and M BOLLEGRAF (Neth) bt R LEACH and Z GARRISON-JACKSON (US) 6-7 6-2 6-2BOYS’ SINGLESTHIRD ROUNDR Sabau (Rom) bt J Delgado (GB) 6-2 7-5L Burgsmuller (Ger) bt S Iwabuchi (Japan) 6-2 6-3N Escude (Fr) bt G Kuerten (Bra) 6-0 7-6A Strambini (Swit) bt P Martin (GB) 6-2 3-6 6-4J Appel (US) bt R Wassen (Neth) 2-6 6-4 6-4J Novak (Cz Rep) bt C N’Goran (Iv Coast) 6-1 6-2B Ellwood (Aus) bt L Rehmann (Ger) 6-4 6-4J Szymanski (Ven) bt J Greenhalgh (NZ) 7-6 7-6B Ellwood (Aus) bt L Rehmann (Ger) 6-4 6-4BOYS’ DOUBLESFIRST ROUNDS Humphries and J Jackson (US) w/o N Escude (Fr) and A Strambini (Swit) retN Godwin (SA) and G Williams (SA) bt A Chotiyarnwong and S Yongchantanasakul (Thai) 6-1 6-0M Coombs and J Fox (GB) bt V Martins (Bra) and P Zannoni (Bra) 4-6 7-5 6-4L Burgsmuller and C Vinck (Ger) bt T Catar and M Hromec (Slovak) 4-6 6-4 13-11G Kuerten (Bra) and N Lapentti (Ecu) bt J Fallis (GB) and R Lumsden (Jam) 6-1 6-1D Van Scheppingen and R Wassen (Neth) bt L Sabin (GB) and A Shafik (Pak) 7-6 3-6 6-1R Kukal (Slovak) and J Novak (Cz Rep) bt J Hind and G Jones (GB) 6-3 7-6S Iwabuchi and T Suzuki (Japan) bt A Ilie and J Sekulov (Aus) 6-3 6-4B Ellwood (Aus) and S Koehler (HK) bt C Halim and S Suwandi (Indon) 6-3 7-6S Prieto (Arg) and J Szymanski (Ven) bt A Savolt (Hun) and R Witz (Aut) 6-4 6-3J Appel and J Roddick (US) bt J Baily (GB) and E Erlich (Isr) 6-3 7-6L Rehmann and C Tambue (Ger) bt J Esqueda and R Rosas (Mex) 6-4 6-2J Delgado and T Spinks (GB) bt R Sabau (Rom) and J Stoces (Cz Rep) 6-7 7-5 6-4GIRLS’ SINGLESTHIRD ROUNDN Feber (Bel) bt N Vaidyanathan (Ind) 6-1 6-2M Hingis (Swit) bt T Weng (Tai) 7-5 6-3S Park (S Kor) bt J Lee (US) 6-3 6-2R Grande (It) bt Y Yoshida (Jap) 6-4 6-1L Richterova (Slovak) bt M Diaz Oliva (Arg) 6-4 7-6N Louarsabishvili (Geor) bt F M La’o (Phil) 6-3 6-2G Reid (Aus) bt H Gourlay (Aus) 6-0 6-3GIRLS’ DOUBLESFIRST ROUNDS Cortina (Mex) and S Mingmolee (Thai) bt M D’Agostini (Bra) and M Lopez (Arg) 6-3 6-3M Hingis and J Manta (Swit) bt M Abrate (Arg) and M Miller (GB) 6-1 6-1A Basica and J Lee (US) bt T Croson and S Tse (GB) 6-3 6-4Z Nemsakova and L Richterova (Slovak) bt F Hearn and Z Mellis (GB) 6-3 6-4H Mochizuki and Y Yoshida (Jap) bt E Gevers and L Horn (SA) 6-2 6-0M Benitez (Par) and M Landa (Arg) bt Z Csapo (Hun) and P Kansuthi (Thai) 6-4 6-3C Taylor and A Wainwright (GB) bt N De Villiers and L Hitge (SA) 6-1 6-2J Pullin and L Woodroffe (GB) bt F M La’o (Phil) and N Vaidyanathan (Ind) 6-1 6-1C Moros and J Steven (US) bt N Louarsabishvili (Geor) and D Randriantefy (Mad) 6-1 6-1S Park (S Kor) and R Tedjukusuma (Indon) bt E Jelfs (GB) and E Roubanova (stateless) 7-56-1L Courtois and N Feber (Bel) bt Y Choi and H Shin (S Kor) 6-4 6-4M Koutstaal (Neth) and A Pastor (Fr) bt H Mat thews and J McMahon (GB) 6-4 6-3MEN’S OVER-35 DOUBLESFIRST ROUNDHolders: P Fleming and S R Smith (US)J C Kriek (SA) and T Smid (Cz Rep) bt T and T Gullikson (US) 7-6 4-6 6-3MEN’S OVER-45 DOUBLESQUARTER-FINALSHolders: M Riessen and S Stewart (US)M Riessen and S Stewart (US) bt M Cox (GB) and R D Ralston (US) 6-4 7-6R Hewitt and F McMillan (SA) bt I Nastase (Rom) and N Pilic (Ger) 6-2 6-2J Newcombe and A Roche (Aus) bt O Davidson and C Drysdale (SA) 4-6 7-6 7-5K Rosewall and F Stolle (Aus) bt R Carmichael and R Lutz (US) 6-3 7-6WOMEN’S OVER-35DOUBLES SEMI-FINALSHolders: W Turnbull (Aus) and S V Wade (GB)F Durr (Fr) and M Jausovec (Slovak) bt D Dal ton (Aus) and Y Vermaak (SA) 6-3 6-2B Nagelsen and J Russell (US) bt R Casals and S Walsh (US) 6-3 6-4W Turnbull (Aus) and V Wade (GB) bt O Morozova (Rus) and B Stove (Neth) 6-2 6-4*seeded players in capitals. From the back row of the grid in 1986, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in northern Germany has purred effortlessly into contention as one of the largest events of its type in Europe.

The next novel got a hatchet-job review in 1970, so rather to mark time I wrote a biography of Julian Grenfell (a First World War poet), and then embarked on this incredibly obscure work called Catastrophe Practice. I inspect the sculptures on sale, these being lobster carcasses outfitted as different characters: a lobster golfer, a lobster doctor in physician’s gear labelled ‘Dr Who’. The bilateral pacts would vary, enabling tighter co-operation with the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, and looser ties with Russia. Last night the script broke out in a Shakespearian rash with direct quotation and some dark allusions – ‘Watch him come down’ says Urquhart of the King, a chilly echo of the murderer’s cry in Macbeth, ‘Let it come down.’But where the Jacobeans were solemn and horrified at the processes they revealed, To Play The King is horribly cheerful – it’s a comedy, not a tragedy.

The novelty had worn off.Savalas’s brother George played his shambling subordinate Stavros, and it was not till the end of the first run that it was revealed that they were brothers in the show as well. It is here that the committee decisively rejects the arguments for voluntary euthanasia as being not ’sufficient reason to weaken society’s prohibition of intentional killing’. The court was told that when police went to their house after the baby’s death it was infested with flies and vermin.
Detective Inspector Sue Akers, of Islington Child Protection Team, told the court: ‘It is shocking to see a baby who has been left to die – but this was the worst case I have ever seen.’The father, 44, and his 38-year-old wife whose low IQ put her in the ‘the mild mental handicap range’, were remanded on bail until 7 March for reports. The land was cultured, rather than cultivated, a 17th-century coinage.
Leaving aside its specialist uses, culture still tends to be the sort of word that has us reaching for the delete button, unless we distance ourselves from it somehow; we may speak of culture-vultures or culture-hounds Dylan Thomas called Americans ‘culture snobs’. Nacsa, the largest organisation, says it has 212 local groups and a membership of 200,000.David Holder, its spokesman, says: ‘There are groups springing up in every town and village; the largest one is in Newcastle, with 800 members. While Viv Richards, the former West Indies captain and a fierce opponent of apartheid, was reported to be signing a contract to play in South Africa with Western Province, the MCC revealed that Basil D’Oliveira, whose banning from the Republic in 1968 set off the sporting boycott, had not replied to an invitation to attend the tourists’ first Test at the home of cricket for 29 years.
In a statement issued through his British agent, the 42-year-old Richards was said to be ‘delighted to play out his career in South Africa’.