These days couples are more likely to argue – like Caroline – that children are

These days couples are more likely to argue – like Caroline – that children are better off out of a relationship beset with misery or conflict. Hibernian have gone 20 games without victory against their Edinburgh rivals, Hearts, and have won only one of the last 42 Is there a greater record in local derbies?

A. When the Maastricht agreement set out a detailed timetable, they became much more confident about the prospects of volatile currencies such as the lira and the pound because of their firm links to the mark.But with Maastricht under threat, investors are once again treating the system as the loose arrangement it was when it began in 1979 The markets which beat Ted Heath have done it again.. a very young and somewhat under-developed 11-year-old being exploited by adults in serious criminal offences’. One is a health device, the nicotine patch, which smokers who want to become ex-smokers wear to give them a continuous fix of nicotine Success rates are up to 40 per cent. In the middle bracket is the art nouveau Parisz, in the Old Town: pounds 110 for a twin room with bath and breakfast.

In a well-lit room, you are invited to say which of each pair is real and which a replica: you may take all the time you need. However, it is planning to drill 20 wells by March on its other US assets in Texas.Meanwhile, it has entered into a Russian joint venture to develop a Siberian oilwell with proven commercial reserves of about 80 million barrels.At present Richmond owns a 39 per cent stake in the venture. All of a sudden, a match originally identified as a weekend break on India’s mid-eastern coast assumes the proportions of a crucial Test trial.Appropriately enough for this venue (the town centre resembles Dodge City circa 1840), the match against the Rest of India boils down to a shoot-out between England’s three specialist spinners for the second Test in Madras next week.Keith Fletcher, the team manager, came as close as he has so far to admitting that the tourists misread the pitch in Calcutta by saying: ‘If conditions are similar in Madras, we will probably go for a more balanced (two spinners) side.’ This would be more comforting if England had a better track record of identifying what a pitch might do before the game rather than after it.Madras, though, is expected to be as spinner-friendly as Calcutta and another intriguing Test is in prospect. The limitations of the approach are sometimes all too apparent.

Left-wing trade union leaders put the boot in from the other side, saying the early election would jeopardise their hard-fought ‘Strike Law’, a controversial, still-pending parliamentary bill that would leave Spain’s strike-prone workers with rights that employers regard as ‘a nightmare’.—————————————————————– Table: Spanish House of Deputies —————————————————————– Socialists 175 (39.6%) Popular Party 107 (25.8%) CiU 18 (5%) United Left 17 (9.1%) CDS 14 (7.9%) Basque Nationalists 5 (1.2%) Others 14 (11.4%) —————————————————————– Chart shows the number of seats each party won in 1989, according to percentage of votes received CiU is the Convergence and Union Party, Catalonia. WINSOME WOOSTER and Robin Lake went at it like prizefighters in the final furlong of the opener here yesterday, but their attempt to generate some excitement from a thin card of claimers and handicaps was as brave as it was futile Most punters’ minds were miles away. No one dares do any paperwork, for fear of being spied on by their next door neighbour, who is almost certainly from a rival bank.MY SNIPPET last week that a Brummie entrepreneur wants to sell advertising space above urinals in the toilets of pubs, hotels, airports and shops has generated a lot of interest. It’s not a roaring night out, but has a quiet fascination – more a debate than a date movie.The dream man in Mr Wonderful (12) doesn’t turn up. However, he would like the opportunity to show that he can actually manage money instead of just telling others how to do it.”I have no wish to climb the management ladder at Nomura,’ Knight said, ‘but I wouldn’t mind turning my hand to fund management one of these days. That followed from the nature of a pawn or pledge of personal property.A pawn or pledge involved a transfer of the possession of personal property from the pawnor to the pawnee by way of security; the ownership in the property remained in the pawnor subject only to the ’special interest’ to which the pawnee was entitled for the purpose of protecting and realising his security.When the pawned articles were sold by the pawnee the property in those articles passed to the purchaser The proceeds of sale were paid to the pawnee.