It sparked renewed interest in the show, and a summer stock production starring Bob Fosse confirmed that the libretto was equally strong. Last weekend, at the Arms Park, Barry shocked Cardiff City with a 2-1 triumph in the Allbright Bitter Welsh Cup final to secure their ticket to the Cup-Winners’ Cup. Even the Czech’s 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 win over Patty Fendick in the semi-finals of the Autoglass Classic yesterday merely emphasised her sense of loss. It is the first time that heritage grants have been given for the maintenance of working industrial structures. We want to win the cup and get to the play-offs, but there is a temptation not to replace the Americans.’. Hayes underestimated the Japanese because he underestimated the importance of quality

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Birmingham. chickens.So, the City marathon runners (pictured right) dressed as rhinos to raise money for Save the Rhino, managed to break the six-hour barrier despite their floor-length costumes weighing two stone apiece.

The Charity Commission registers some 4,000 new charities each year. GLATISANT, a long-striding filly, instantly found many admirers after an impressive debut in the Virginia Water Stakes at Ascot yesterday. Under the terms of the refinancing, banks and bondholders owed pounds 1bn will get pounds 30 of senior debt, pounds 7 of junior debt and seven shares in Heron International for every pounds 100 owed.
If the deal is agreed, the bondholders – which are owed pounds 535m – and banks will initially own 95 per cent of the company. It is worth noting that in LWT’s current accounts for 1992, four directors’ salaries were partly paid into private companies.In contrast, the respected Robert Phillis, who joins the BBC next month as deputy director-general, has always been a PAYE member of staff, even though his career has included executive directorships at the far more substantial Central Television, Carlton Television and ITN. Three years ago, a 15-year-old girl was rushing to get to school when a teacher slammed the gate on her.

Spring Ram, which has just completed the pounds 12.3m acquisition of Stag Furniture, rattled the market when it disclosed accounting irregularities at a subsidiary.Alexon, the fashion group, slumped 27p to 98p after it warned that trading was poor and market estimates of about pounds 7.5m were over the top.Khaleeq Taimuri of Carr Kitcat & Aitken cut his forecast to pounds 4.5m and warned the final dividend could be lowered from 7.6p to 4p.The shares, 382p earlier this year, have fallen from 200p since reduced interim profits were announced two months ago.The Etam fashion chain rose 9p to 240p, reflecting the increased shareholding of Oceana Consolidated, a thwarted bidder.Internationals were helped by a strong US dollar and American buying.Imperial Chemical Industries enjoyed the added bonus of anticipation of Monday’s presentation by Zeneca, its drugs division expected to be demerged next year.Courtaulds, up 5p at 544p, and British Vita, 11p at 236p, drew support from analysts’ visits, and Boots improved 5p to 530p following an SG Warburg investment presentation.Hong Kong-related shares, after early weakness, recovered on hopes the colony’s share market, weak on growing tension with China, will rally today.HSBC, the banking group, at one time down 24p, ended 5p higher at 485p.Cable and Wireless rose 7p to 650p.Reuters, the information group, jumped 25p to 1,376p, a peak, on US buying and hopes of a share split.Wickes, down 2p at 75p, placed 13.5 million shares at 72.5p through Warburg to finance its store opening programme.Pepe, the hard-pressed jeans group, lost most of Wednesday’s advance based on rumours, later denied, of a reverse takeover by Joe Bloggs. The two works just published do not have quite the impact of an instant book; yet neither effort possesses comprehensive and reliable information to provide cool analysis and historical perspective. It shows a street in what looks like a French town, completely empty in the clean grey/blue light of either dawn or dusk, with three people walking away from the camera The one on the right is an elegant young woman The one in the middle is a plumpish, balding man. The contrast of this season’s dismaying Super Ten visit to the Antipodes, where they lost quite badly to Queensland and North Harbour, turned out to be highly therapeutic.’After that, we decided we were going to enjoy our rugby again,’ Pienaar said, and the consequence was devastating for England. Her arms were around the dead child when found in woods two miles from Whitegate. This concerned my proposed biography of the lad Giggsy and my subsequent discovery that Jim White, following a telephone conversation with Mr Alway, was already embarked on the same project.
The first Mr Alway knew of impending trouble was when, in his capacity as the Independent’s lawyer, he received a letter from himself complaining that this passage seriously defamed him.As an experienced libel lawyer, Mr Alway first tried the customary blocking, or time-consuming, tactic (which is not to say, of course, that he planned to run up crippling costs against himself), seeking to be told which references he, Mr Alway, maintained were defamatory of himself and the sense in which the words concerned were to be understood by a person of ordinary intelligence.Proving to be as resourceful a litigant as he was a defendant, Mr Alway replied immediately, claiming that the passage implied that he, Mr Alway, had behaved improperly as my literary agent, passing on my idea to Jim White; further, that if he, Mr Alway, thought that he could shake him, Mr Alway, off with a costly, and time-wasting, holding defence, he had another think coming.At which point, and having informed me that I would have to look after my own career while he sorted the matter out, Mr Alway returned to his law books, and I, by a strange coincidence, flew to Dublin with Classy Cressida to attend a party celebrating the publication of J P Donleavy’s The History of the Ginger Man.

SO Sean Kelly rides again. Index will continue its monitoring of free speech violations, its tradition of news analysis, its publishing of banned fiction and poetry, of personal witness. If we did we would not have done what we have done.’Their accounts gave some idea of the everyday compromises they made to serve a regime with which they so profoundly disagreed. ‘The matter puts the party at the brink of life or death,’ said the Socialists’ leader, Sadao Yamahana, last week, after party leaders studied an election analysis which showed the Socialists could lose nearly 50 per cent of their seats in this weekend’s general elections.

‘The boys are not used to drink and they don’t feel free to do what they want because there are some older men here as well.’Part of Gurdial Atwal’s argument was that beauty contests had long been discredited in mainstream British society. ‘Increased attention to external stimuli results in alpha blocking. Competition will improve the Milton Keynes comprehensives, they say.Opponents argue that creaming off bright pupils from the new town comprehensives will turn them into secondary moderns and damage the education offered to most children. Their conversion should, perhaps, be seen more as a protest against the arrogance, cruelty and collectivisation of modern man playing God rather than as an uncritical endorsement of organised religion.The courage for which Kitty Muggeridge was known throughout her life was not weakened by the advances of old age and death about which she wrote:Seeing the world through dimming eyes we see ever more clearly the ravishing beauty of God’s creation. Above all, the dead are irretrievably lost, the soldiers on both sides but also the French families killed by Allied bombing in the moment of their liberation.