No self-respecting French person would have gone near it, but our canny estate agent knew that the English loved to ‘do it themselves’ and we knew that with just a bit of imagination and a lot of work it would be sensational.
It was just an hour from Paris – half an hour from Charles de [...]

The industry has been campaigning long and hard – but so far in vain – for tax relief on ship purchase and on wage costs. ‘People at crime scenes never get to see the actual crime, they always see the aftermath. At the Adriatic resort of Durres, there is a particularly strange crop rising up [...]

In a hilarious variation, Rylance makes it a drily matter-of-fact, duty-calls, confidence to the audience. ‘I started thinking about doing the play last year when we were going through agonising times. IN his 1968 poem ‘Posterity’, Philip Larkin grumpily imagined his own biographer. ‘His negotiating skills have delivered a bargain in which he has provided [...]

All I can say is please come forward and help us.’David Edwards, chief executive of the hospital trust, said it was necessary for the baby to be fed frequently – if bottle fed about every four hours. Rifat Ozbek is one of Britain’s brightest fashion talents But his life has been changed by loss. They [...]

So resonant that on Sunday, James Wood, presiding over a Microtonal Weekend that was essentially a percussion smorgasbord, issued an ‘aural health warning’. She had her own ideas on politics as she had on almost everything else.Never more was this evident than, when in her old age and when her son Greville Janner was assiduously [...]

The proposal to set up a separate funding system for campaigning activity fails to realise that there is no clear line to be drawn between what could be perceived as ‘campaigning activity’ and other ‘legitimate’ student union activity. When England lost to West Germany in the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup, everyone talked about [...]

Thus he was able to help Pope John Paul on his first foreign journey to the Latin American Bishops’ Conference Puebla in January 1979 where the aim was to ‘correct the mistakes’ of the 1968 conference at Medellin, Colombia.Baggio also signed the ‘declaration’ of 27 November 1982, which changed the status of Opus Dei from [...]

Until recently, the council actually used special green-coloured forms to expedite applications from those who were ‘connected’.Second, there is evidence – being investigated by the Scottish Office – to suggest that Catholic Coatbridge was favoured over Protestant Airdrie when public money was spent. ‘Leave that to John Patten.’But it’s not really stuff and nonsense. In [...]

Many libraries requested a special non- destruct version, which simply does not exist and the mischievous dimensions of this curatorial problem particularly appealed to its originators. Dolby says about 8 million systems have been sold worldwide, about half in North America. The cards, which cost pounds 10, work the locks and open the moorings’ washing [...]

Take on the SerbsTHE UN could ask Nato for more air strikes against Bosnian Serb targets and perhaps increase its ground force presence. —————————————————————– Source: AITC —————————————————————–. It is when those two factors interact that the alert starts sounding for racehorses.’The hurdles are too stiff,’ Trevor Wall, who rode For Heaven’s Sake on Wednesday, said [...]