With such a low base a 50 per cent increase only brings a living wage

With such a low base, a 50 per cent increase only brings a living wage and they need a good year to give them a working margin, argues the National Farmers’ Union.The price of wool tumbled when China stopped buying two years ago because, after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, Communist-style woollen jackets went out of fashion. Some vegetables put up with mediocre conditions, but not trench celery. THE Legal Protection Group – the only insurer offering legal expenses insurance policies direct to the public – has raised its premiums by 30 per cent. The sentence is and must be custody for life.’Initially, Feathers, who buried his head in his hands, will serve his sentence in youth custody. He points out that the rights to the broadcast have been sold to certain countries for a nominal sum of dollars 500.Fuscagni says the producers expect to recuperate most of their money in the long run, thanks to the sales of a high- quality video tape and laser disc recording.

The poll looks set to bring verdicts on domestic politics in other EU member states. ‘I CAN see the market for five- to six-year-olds. Ritchie particularly enjoyed Cambridge and his career might have lain in classical studies, but the Second World War interrupted it and he was on army service from 1940 to 1946, with some prolonged spells in Italy.After demobilisation he joined the staff of the National Library of Scotland, then still in its old Advocates’ Library premises and preparing for its move into the new building on George IV Bridge that had been started in the 1930s. He wore a very shiny grey suit, the kind a Mafioso might wear. Manchester United attracted 60,612 when they beat Leeds in the League at Old Trafford on 12 March 1977, while 53,000 were present at the Liverpool v Nottingham Forest FA Cup semi-final on the day of the Hillsborough disaster, 15 April 1989 This game was, of course, abandoned.

That would lose us pounds 270bn in extra world growth by 2002, according to the latest figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. But the banks outplayed them: they merely widened the bands in the exchange rate mechanism, and the French franc stayed put. When Laurie Mains said that New Zealand had not yet given of their best, we were only too inclined to believe him.It might improve the morale of England supporters if they noted that Mains is able to say this only because (the London match apart) New Zealand have been disappointing until now. That’s how I approach this weekend.’ The reality is that we still have no idea how good Hill is or can become Given licence to race here, he may grant us a glimpse. Why else would Taylor be at pains to acquaint the public with his changing role?Injuries having taken their toll, Laidback of Liverpool is no longer a penetrative winger, capable of leaving a trail of defenders in his wake. ‘Yes, there were fears that artistic integrity would be diluted,’ says principal second violin Bob Chasey.

David Graham, group unit trust manager at Scottish Widows, said it was better to give clients a bigger spread and lower charges through a collective vehicle. His supporters describe him as the driest, least European Chancellor on offer, and much nicer than Mr Clarke.What is going on? Do we have a politically dying Chancellor, who would have been sacked by now, except that the Prime Minister hasn’t quite got round to it? Or are others pushing their luck?The case for Mr Lamont is unfashionable but real, and deserves to be put He has achieved some neat political tricks and reforms. Market research is generally useless, as most people say they like colours because they are fashionable and have little long-term feeling for colour. CONSERVATIONISTS will demonstrate in Carmarthen today as planners meet in yet another attempt to resolve one of Britain’s longest and most bitterly-contested environmental battles. Before the gloved wrist, the cascade of tucks, the chef’s-toque gathers on a coat sleeve, Penn is like a Zen monk meditating before a flame.As a safety valve, perhaps, he turned to different ways of being, different kinds of style. Wonderfully free of cliches and preachy stereotypes, it moves at a compelling pace.(From 11.)The Tunnel by Anthony Browne, Walker pounds 3.99 Sister and brother are at war Mother sends them out to make friends. A decade spent running a San Francisco restaurant doesn’t seem to have dulled the appetite of the stylish blue-eyed soul singer best remembered for the proto-yuppie disco music of ‘Lowdown’ and ‘Lido Shuffle’.

President Mitterrand’s proposal for a European ‘confederation’, a recycled Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, was greeted with irritation and a highly embarrassing public rebuke from the Czech president, Vaclav Havel.But there was worse. Even so, he said, this would only be ‘by something between UK inflation and what earnings per share growth we can achieve.’Amersham made pre-tax profits of more than pounds 43.5m in the year to the end of March, a 65 per cent increase on 1993. My life has not changed, and despite all our affection and goodwill towards them, our neighbours have been burgled twice.I suppose that Neighbourhood Watch schemes, like Citizen’s Charters, are designed to be briefly therapeutic, to lull the citizenry into thinking it is empowered. Police were questioning two prisoners after an inmate at the Mount jail, Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, was killed in a fight.. Calvino simultaneously imagines both the sunny and the dark side of the planet, and compares this to human vision – we see all before us bathed in sunlight, but can only guess at the shadows that flit around out of sight, behind our backs.