A Yellowhammer ad for Yorkshire Television in 1987 featuring yellow and black horizontal wavy lines attracted complaints saying it was likely to cause epileptic fits.The possibility of a leadership challenge to John Major has become too much to resist for IG Index, the financial bookmaker. Doctors have found much evidence to suggest that circulating female hormones influence the risk of breast cancer.’Physical activity leading to cycle disturbance reduces exposure to oestrogens. Terence said that if you were to try and write such an incident in fiction, people would dismiss it as preposterous.Terence’s widowed mother took in what were never called ‘lodgers’ but always ‘paying guests’. And my teacher said he had a gun,’ he said.Reddock said the attacker was a professor at the university, but his name was not released.. ‘America has lost its way.’ That may have been the virtue of Sachs’s book, but not Auster’s, which does say it, in many words, again and again.For Leviathan detonates once and for all two myths about Auster’s work which have gained inexplicable ascendancy: first, that Auster’s ideas are complex, and second, that his writing is an exercise in tightly etched minimalism. Tel 071-836 9167.For after dinner entertainment, create your own romantic scandals with ‘Liaisons’.

N&P gets all the upside of cross-selling their products but only half the downside,’ he said.
The business made losses of pounds 6m in the year to November 1992.The nationwide agencies are run under their original names, including Alan de Maid, Aitchisons and Brian Barber Associates.David O’Brien, N&P’s chief executive, said that ‘in due course where the opportunity exists, we intend to invite equity participation in the local estate agency groups’.The news comes just a day after TSB said it was selling Bell Lawrie Wight, the private client stockbroking business, to Brewin Dolphin It will keep its own name.View from City Road, page 28. Cleverly laid out (on the left, in vivid sherbet colours, animals act out the fantasy and on the right a little cherub imitates the movements) and good for up to 5s and 6s on wet afternoons – there is some rolling around on the floor and crashing about which may not be encouraged at bedtime.Betty’s Not Well Today by Gus Clarke, Andersen Press pounds 7.99. Everyone was amazed that the President had made Mary, the Kansas teacher, ambassador to Romania, but those who last saw Jaclyn in Charlie’s Angels will have known that it was only a matter of time before she melted the Cold War.And finally, a joke: I say, I say, I say, what is the difference between a bent copper and a fly-on-the-wall documentary maker? You tell me Both want to win public approval. The well-known Dreyfus name is to be retained for the mutual funds under its management.. NOTHING is more important for Europe’s future than a successful outcome to Germany’s quest for an identity – with the possible exception of developments in Russia. The campaign contains a strong educational element and schools are invited to take part in knowledge tests on aspects of pet ownership. That tree it seems to me was not even sick, let alone dying.’They finally reduced the tree to an ungainly, dark-red stump I didn’t watch.

The US first let markets believe it favoured a rising yen to force the Japanese hand, only to then worry about a free-falling dollar. Immediately after Israeli troops surged down to the Jordan river in 1967, the defence minister, Moshe Dayan, ordered that the bridges across the muddy trickle be kept open. But a poll on Tuesday put Mr Tudjman and the HDZ way in front, with 43.2 per cent and 38.1 per cent support respectively, more than double that of their nearest rivals. Lord Stevens will remain chairman of United Newspapers, owner of the Daily Express, Sunday Express and Daily Star. Northumbria Fine Foods’ chairman and chief executive, Richard Adams, received pounds 225,000 after ‘tiffing’ with the board in June. Those who own and sail a boat together, and those who share but never climb aboard at the same time. To its credit, Imro was probably more critical than any outsider would have been.Norman Lamont, the Chancellor, who recently inherited responsibility for investment regulation from the Department of Trade and Industry, perpetuated this system of self-appraisal by telling the Securities and Investments Board, the City’s chief non-banking regulator, to review its own role.Though his instruction was phrased in the form of a ‘request’ the phrasing fooled no one.Initially seen at the SIB as a welcome opportunity to address central issues such as the continued viability of self- regulation and the extent to which market professionals could become more involved in regulation, the reaction soon became muted.Reports from insiders suggested that Andrew Large, the new SIB chairman, was carrying out the review himself rather than letting old-timers take control.Mr Large, who has spent much of the past few months learning the ropes, has now brought in Philip Thorpe, who works for the Securities and Futures Authority, to help him in the review.However independently minded Mr Thorpe is, it is tremendously disappointing that Mr Large has not gone outside the existing regulatory system for assistance.

Since Britain’s withdrawal from Europe’s exchange rate mechanism last month, Ireland’s punt has been worth more than sterling for the first time. It is a copious and brilliantly researched account of the life of Herbert Trollope, the great-nephew of the novelist, who lived an uneventful life of no visible achievement, but who will long be remembered as one of the few men ever to have had Trollope as a great-uncle.I am reliably informed that Morgan is now researching a full life of Maisie Trollope, Herbert’s splendidly straightforward wife, for publication in early 1998, a work earnestly to be looked forward to.In the arena of essays and appreciations, no book meant more to me this year than My Trollope edited by John Mortimer (John Murray, pounds 12.95), in which luminaries from the world of literature, Roy Hattersley and Godfrey Smith among them, choose a favourite Trollope they would take to bed with them. He was backing up very gently’.Mathur said: ‘It is preposterous to doubt Kapil’s sportsmanship and commitment to the values of the game. When he came on stage, he saw there were only 25 people in the hall. The shares rose from 250p to 285p.Return on capital rose from 17.5 per cent to 28 per cent.Earnings per share increased by 118 per cent to 36.2p, and Smiths took the opportunity to raise pounds 41.2m through a two-for-seven rights issue at 210p.Mr Marks said the proceeds would be used as ‘working capital to be handed out to our existing businesses where and when it is needed’.The rights issue will reduce the stake of the Swiss-based Rothschild holding company from 37 to 26 per cent on a fully diluted basis and that of the Carl Marks family.

‘ But what exactly is the ‘appropriate’ treatment for impotence?Until 10 or 15 years ago it was assumed that most impotence was psychological – and that psychotherapy was the only treatment. Theirs is the Soviet Union,’ he said, referring to Eta’s Marxist-Leninist ideology. Time and temperament will tell.ENGLAND UNDER-15 (4-4-2): O’Toole (Sefton and FA National School); Dickman (Derwentside and FANS), Curtis (Nuneaton and FANS), Perry (Ealing), Clement (Solihull and FANS); Marshall (Bournemouth and FANS), Gower (Havering and FANS), Morris (Surrey and FANS), Platts (Sheffield); Bunn (Enfield), Branch (Liverpool and FANS). A rumoured acquisition has yet to materialise, but it is normal for deals to take longer than expected to come to fruition.Less successful so far has been Bernard Kerrison’s Strategem Group, at 120p against 134p, but there seems no specific reason to lose faith.The next couple of recommendations were in the front line in market terms, with share prices bubbling around peak levels. But Lord Scarman, formerly one of the country’s most eminent judges, has written in support of the women’s applications for bail as part of a growing campaign in support of the women in Parliament.If convicted, the maximum sentence that can be imposed is life, but American lawyers are predicting the women will get 20 years.(Photograph omitted). In his absence last year Black was just overtaken by Antonio Pettigrew for world championship gold, and there are plenty more top performers where he came from.