Gary Waldhorn plays Shylock as sympathetic and resigned to the evil around him.At the end Kelly invented a moving scene placing Shylock’s daughter, Jessica, who has run away to marry a Christian, beside a Jewish menorah (ceremonial candlestick), crying inconsolably as Jewish traditional music plays.David Thacker has gone even further. Suppose she played a sitcom actress with a weight problem, a manic depressive of bingeing and cruel diets, driven mad by the sight and smell of food, and beginning to feed on her young, her lovers? I know, that would need Bunuel. This has left the Bank offering about 5.75 per cent for money lent for three months.One dealer said that this amounted to the Bank giving pounds 600,000 away to market participants for no risk.Ian Shepherdson, of HSBC Greenwell, said dealers were looking for the Chancellor and the Governor to agree a rate increase at their next meeting. He is optimistic that the ground will be sufficiently watered, however, and hopes Pat Eddery will ride.The horse is currently a 16-1 chance.Clive Brittain’s Sayyedati is an absentee from the ‘Heinz 57′ Phoenix Stakes at Leopardstown on Sunday because of unsatisfactory blood tests. When parliaments went into recess, politicians in Moscow, London, Paris and Washington could confidently go on their holidays.But the past few years have put paid to that Now, August is the month of cancelled vacations. Better head north, for Dublin, to Rathcoole, and there turn right Rubbish, said a third. You know how you sometimes swallow a piece of meat so big that you can’t get it down your oesophagus and into your stomach, so you bring it up? Well, it’s like that.

From time to time, Nando Parrado would ring up from Montevideo, Rio, Marbella or New York – he had become something of a celebrity as a result of the book – asking if I had news of the movie. They expect a demand from religious groups, including Muslims, and private promoters, writes Donald MacLeod. Of all the small forces threatened, the City is the safest because of special interests protecting it.’Merger is an idea the Corporation of London, which acts as its police authority, firmly rejects. Leeds had just spent millions on giving itself a new corporate image The directors were ‘obsessed with league tables.

The FT-SE 100 index, which measures the shares of the UK’s leading companies, rose 34.5 points to 3,006.1 – the first time it has been above 3,000. It won an Emmy and 14 million viewers – as many as the first.’The series continues to tackle controversial issues. CRAIG BROWN will supervise Scotland’s international players in Malta next week, not knowing if the curtain call of another World Cup campaign also indicates the end of his temporary reign as manager. To tell the truth, it was a great match only if you happened to be English.

Supermarkets were the most popular.The rise in share prices during 1993 has gone hand-in-hand with rising gilt prices, as growing optimism about low inflation and diminishing fears about the Government’s ability to fund its borrowing pushed yields on government debt to their lowest levels in a generation. The fee was to cover the cost of collection, sorting, and a subsidy towards recycling. They may underwhelm in the long haul of league rugby, but in the intense cockpit of a do-or-die quarter- final they overwhelmed Sale.Sale made the long journey from Cheshire and the even longer one from the Second Division to find that the gap between the top flight and the followers is a chasm. The stricken Schatz (Robert Lindsay brilliantly revisiting the Third Reich tics of GBH’s Michael Murray) accedes to the demands of his pesky victim. The combined Mirror and Record figures show sales of 3,601,000, only 11,000 up from August when the MGN titles were boosted by the pictures of the Duchess of York on holiday with her financial adviser.This reverses a trend since the death of Robert Maxwell, last November, in which the Mirror first narrowed the gap over the Sun and then, in April, took a lead over its rival for the first time in more than a decade.Vic Horwood, MGN’s chief executive, said yesterday that the price rise strategy had been a success.