It squeezes much dramatic mileage out of Oxford’s dreaming spires and centuries-old traditions; from the opening sequence, you sense the cogs and wheels of the heritage industry purring away comfortably in top gear. 28 March:
1906: The Meteorological Office in New York announced that the science of weather forecasting is ‘within our grasp’.1909: A formula is agreed for Serbia to renounce its claims on Bosnia and Herzegovina.1912: Both boats sink in the Boat Race.1955: New Zealand make the lowest-ever score in a test match, all out for 26 against England in Auckland.29 March:1886: John Pemberton of Atlanta invents Coca-Cola, describing the new drink as an ‘Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage’.1922: The US Census Department reports that 11 per cent of the population are unable to speak English.30 March:1842: Dr Crawford Long pioneers the use of ether as a general anaesthetic. If the remainder of the count proceeds at the same pitiful rate, it will continue until the end of next week. Officers from Austria and Azerbaijan, Belgium and Belarus discussed details of practical co-operation, in particular command and control, standard operating procedures, Rules of Engagement, training and language.The regional organisations – Nato, the Western European Union, the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, and the CIS had separate representatives.

Golden Shred marmalade, Granary malted flour, Hovis brown bread, Paxo stuffing, Saxa salt and Sharwoods ethnic food range are all top brands in their areas.RHM’s brands were independently valued at pounds 608m in the company’s 1991 balance sheet but Mr Metcalfe said yesterday that these values were not intended to reflect the open-market value of the branded businesses.Hanson has made a speciality of selling brand names in previous takeovers.When it took over Imperial, it disposed of Courage beer, Golden Wonder crisps and Ross Young’s frozen foods, leaving it with the lucrative tobacco side, for which it in effect paid nothing.RHM’s profits from branded grocery products have generally held up well during the recession, but it has suffered badly from overcapacity and price competition in milling and baking, which employ 45 per cent of the group’s workforce of 30,000.Analysts expect RHM’s pre-tax profits to have fallen sharply from pounds 150m to around pounds 95m in the year to 31 August, almost entirely due to a severe slump in the contribution from milling and baking. Amanda Mealing, 25, is an actress and shares a flat with a girlfriend in Shaftesbury Avenue, London.I’M GOING to the Canaries, so I don’t think I’ll be wearing very much on Christmas Day. In 1955, he was imprisoned for a few days because of his anti-Franco activities. In the Place of Fallen Leaves is technically sophisticated for a first novel, and the author keeps a robust, countryman’s distance from material that could be twee. It’s like an old lady trying to cling on.’Andrew Blackler packed up his camera. In the one-plus-one-makes-five world of publicity, the marketing men are only too aware of Dundee’s failure just five years ago.

All plus-fours and pre-prandial snifters served outside by starchy butlers: this is the Wooster world of the Twelfth, when the seriously tweeded forsake the creaking club chairs of St James’s for heather-topped butts and the start of the grouse season

As with most caricatures, there is an trace of truth. Speaking at a press conference in New York, Eubank did what no man has managed before: make Don King stop talking. The Arts Council budget for literature is only 1 per cent of its total, yet writing is what this country has always been best at. I wonder what evidence she has that all ‘therapists’ impose the objective of ‘emotional correctness’ and aim for the ‘empty triumph of being right all the time’. That puts the shares on a forward multiple of about 10 times earnings per share. Soon we were high above a deeply wooded valley, with occasional glimpses of the river through the gaps in the trees, our only companions the squirrels and a young man who jogged past us in hiking boots with a rucksack on his back.At Wynd Cliff the path crosses a minor road before climbing circuitously to the ‘Eagle’s Nest’ on top of the 700ft cliff.