One neighbouring farmer who helped him clear winter snowdrifts from his drive actually invites him and his eight-year-old son, Ianto, into his home these days.Down the road in Keith is a co- operative which makes flower tubs and furniture out of old whisky barrels – creative recycling. ‘The English are either racists or bad losers, or maybe both.’The Pakistan touring party stopped over in the Netherlands for a one-day match on their way home after beating England 2-1 in the Test series. It also caused damage, in some cases severe, to more than 700 homes and other premises. President Francois Mitterrand concluded that Eastern Europe could be dealt with only after Maastricht had poured tons of concrete on the German giant. As Ruth Deech says: ‘We worry about our decisions.We know it’s going to change your life if we say yes or no.’Finally, the interview is not everything. THE GREAT British public had its annual taste of the glamorous world of fashion yesterday. You can start them indoors or on a seed bed, then plant them out, but you usually get better results by the more wasteful method of sowing a row and thinning out as they get bigger.

PILKINGTON moved to take control of distribution for its UK glass business yesterday by buying Heywood Williams’ processing and merchanting division for pounds 95m. The amount of money spent on the arts is modest, but the benefits are immeasurable. THE CHANCELLOR yesterday granted the Bank of England a free hand to analyse and report on inflation trends but suggested that giving the central bank control over interest rates remained far off. You stood by our rugby fellows who wanted to play in South Africa. Peters even quoted Freud to press his point home: ‘What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult’. Each year there are too many under or over-payments because of errors.

may the culture of death recoil – that culture which humiliates the individual, not respecting the weakest and frailest creatures and trying to undermine the sacred dignity of the family’. ‘Bath are a great side, but we are never more dangerous than when we have a defeat to avenge.’Leicester: Tries Boyle, Hackney, Underwood, Potter, Smith; Conversions: Harris 2; Penalties Harris 3. It was also normal for other CSA staff to take turns keeping an eye on Mrs C because of Mr Davies’s unwelcome attentions, he said.Mr A said that a drunken Mr Davies had once laid a bet that he would sleep with Mrs C despite her rejection of his advances.Mr Davies denied the claim and indicated that Mr A’s advances towards Mrs C were real and were made in Newcastle during a training visit. The friend is in intensive care at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital with the latest case of a mysterious infection that can kill within hours – an infection caused by a microbe which usually causes little more than a sore throat but which has claimed two lives and possibly a third.

The Clapham Picture House is a very nice cinema: small and cosy and running a remarkable variety of films on its four little screens. At a time when the Government is actively encouraging greater road safety through its ‘Kill Your Speed’ campaign, Royal Mail van drivers appear hell-bent on turning the capital’s roads into a Daytona for Leyland DAFs. ‘A lot of people have become obsessed with me.’Mr Carman’s head had already swivelled to the jury, a habit of his while a witness answers, as though to say ‘You see?’ ‘. ‘It has all been a welcome surprise,’ said a diplomat in Seoul. Using a drily sardonic tone and a neat turn of phrase she captures the bleak vacuity of club culture with an air of enervation that reaches Laurie Anderson-esque heights on ‘Prisoners of Paradise’, a numb depiction of new- age hell. Not the least of Bodyworks attractions is that it is comparatively low-priced (under pounds 60). Cockerell, after all, earns his living as an antiques restorer.Leicester’s Cockerell will have something to crow about should Harlequins suffer.

In an ideal world it would be very nice to have lots of different ways to rescue companies, but a lot of them are already misused by directors and accountants.’However, Touche Ross did say in its annual business failures review that, barring some wholly unexpected disaster, total UK receiverships in 1994 should fall to fewer than half 1992’s peak figure of 5,100.. The black/white spending ratio was 18:1 in 1969 and by 1990 it was 4:1. When Baheeja rang her daughter’s friends, Iraqi soldiers answered.While Samira was held in Kuwait, for two months until the beginning of January 1991, mother and daughter were able to exchange letters. It would be ‘mildly suprising’, he says, if this did not lead us to think differently about ourselves.But there is one problem about the brain that he believes will elude science for ever.