A Bristol & West spokeswoman said interest would be credited from the day after the investor’s cheque was received.One Independent reader complained that her deposit in the Fixed Rate Bond account was acknowledged on 28 July and she was still waiting for her passbook three weeks later.The spokeswoman said applicants should now be receiving passbooks within a week of receiving acknowledgements for their deposits, which in turn are going out within three days of receipt.Scarborough Building Society’s First Post account can now be opened with a minimum of pounds 250, reduced from pounds 1,000.Norwich & Peterborough Building Society is raising rates on its Postmaster account by 0.2 percentage points.The account now pays from 10.25 per cent gross (7.68 per cent net) to 10.8 per cent gross (8.1 per cent net).. The brown tail moth caterpillar sheds toxic hairs which cause painful skin rashes. Norman birdied the final two holes, making excellent approach shots and three-foot putts to put pressure on Frost, but he responded by sinking a tap-in putt to win with a 12- under-par 268.
Frost birdied the 15th and 16th holes, but bogeyed the 17th to set up the tight finish. RICHARD HOLMES’S new study of therelationship between Richard Savage and Samuel Johnson (‘Dr Johnson & Mr Savage’, Review, 3 October) makes stimulating reading But it contains a factual error. David Bates, 40, was a roadie and worked as a DJ before becoming head of A&R at Phonogram Records in 1985. More than half of all 14 to 15- year-olds are drinking alcohol every week, according to a report published today by the Schools Health Education Unit, writes Ngaio Crequer.

As The Cuban Missile Crisis (BBC2) showed, John Kennedy’s reputation for saving the world from both Khrushchev and his own barking-mad generals (even Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove paled alongside the terrifying black comedy of the real thing) should rest secure.The problem for posterity will be to measure this global political achievement against the evidence emerging about a dynasty fatally blemished by its founding-father, the greedy, ruthless Joe, the US ambassador to London now remembered mainly for his pro- Nazi sentiments and cowardice during the London blitz.In its own sad way the meticulous integrity of the Bolton- Whitehead series almost certainly marks the end of another dynasty: a creative community that regarded commercial television as a platform to investigate and inform. Now the department has conceded that such a route would be possible and only two problems remain.’At the east end the proposed route passes close to the Army’s married quarters and particularly close to the brigadier’s house At the other end it would pass close to an ammunition dump. .0
EVEN with temporary dressing-rooms a bus ride away from the partially and palatially rebuilt Ewood Park, there is no place like home for Blackburn Rovers, FA Cup apart.Most of the talk after nine successive home Premiership wins was whether Rovers can catch Manchester United. The figure represents RSPCA convictions only, and does not include the recent spate of unexplained knife attacks on horses.
Reasons for the steep rise in horse cruelty convictions, most of which are for neglect rather than deliberate cruelty, are thought to be high upkeep costs, the effects of the recession on farmers and ignorance.Mick Flower, a chief superintendent in the RSPCA’s prosecutions department, said: ‘No matter how hard times are, the desire for a quick sale should never override the welfare needs of a horse.

In one case, a 34-year-old woman, with two daughters of school age, was sentenced on 22 December to 18 months for handling stolen goods. Recently he got fascinated by the name Palumbo and came up with this totally fictitious story.’Adrian picked a sheet of paper off his table and handed it to me. Bragg is wealthy enough now to retire from the studios and the boardroom, to settle down in his beloved Cumbria and devote himself to writing. Les Aspin, the US Defense Secretary, and General Pavel Grachev, his Russian opposite number, have signed an agreement on joint military exercises.

This tour has confirmed what was already widely appreciated: that Back is among the bravest, as well as the most skilful forwards in English rugby. I leave Sicre in a bar playing pinball with Ange B’s girlfriend, the Trobadors’ number ‘Homo Flipper’ – which announces homo sapiens’ successor as homo flipper, ‘the latest one out and the best’ – buzzing merrily in my mind.. He is another great character that has gone and there doesn’t seem to be anybody coming along to replace him.’(Photograph omitted). I don’t want to carry on like an old turkey,’ he said.While Player had a practice round here in heavy rain, 480 players competed in the first of two qualifying rounds at four courses. To make the Independent the first daily paper with no fixed price, for which readers could pay as much over the odds as they liked. DI Austen advocates the use of local area networks (LANs), systems where two or more computers are connected together using special operating systems.