It’s important to be healthy, but it shouldn’t be this fixation.”When you are young and you want to make everyone happy, you take everything personally, you want to live up to everybody’s expectations. If you look thin and you look good, you must be a good person and we love you – that’s how society looks at it. And then you look in the mirror and you are a size two and you think you are fat,” she said.Seles, who is almost two stone heavier than she was two years ago, admitted she was overweight and over-eating because of worries about her father Karolj who is terminally ill with stomach cancer.Emotionally it’s hard to exclude what’s going on and my dad’s struggle. Asked by Tony Blair to take soundings, Peter Mandelson, the minister without portfolio, appears to have decided that the existing structure works well, even though Sir Robin Butler has had little time for the job of leading the Civil Service.Outside the office, Sir Richard lives a quiet domestic life in Buckinghamshire with his wife, Caroline, herself the daughter of a permanent secretary.

His new salary will be on a scale of pounds 92,480-pounds 158,750. The Cabinet Secretary also qualifies for performance bonuses, decided by the Prime Minister in consultation with advisers from private business.Whitehall considers Sir Richard (Radley College and Cambridge) more conservative and “mandarin” than the two other officials considered for the top job, Richard Mottram ( King Edward VI Camp Hill School, Birmingham, and Keele University), permanent secretary at defence, and Andrew Turnbull (Enfield Grammar and Cambridge) head of environment, transport and the regions. The head of the Civil Service plays a key role in the appointment of permanent secretaries and so Sir Richard Wilson’s mark will be felt for years to come.Yesterday, the Prime Minister paid tribute to Sir Robin Butler’s handling of the transition from the Tories to Labour, saying that this professionalism had been “a real success story for him and the Civil Service”.David Walker. Monica Seles, the former world number one female tennis player, has attacked the media’s “obsession” with lascivious images of young players. The new man is an old-style ministerial adviser with great experience of the machine and immense personal charm.

Tall, with a droll manner, Sir Richard’s colleagues nicknamed him “super” because of his excessive use of the word. His charm seems to work, however: like Orpheus, he proved able to tame even such angry political beasts as Michael Howard.
Having served as permanent secretary at the Department of the Environment with Mr Howard, he was asked to move to the Home Office when the latter became Home Secretary in 1994. He is widely credited with holding that department together through a stormy period, during which Mr Howard sacked the head of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis, and had to pay him substantial compensation after a court case.Sir Richard was widely tipped to succeed Sir Robin Butler, who retires at the end of December – once Labour had decided against reorganising the heart of Whitehall. The appointment confounds speculation in Whitehall that Labour would either split the two jobs or appoint someone less obviously a clone of the retiring incumbent, Sir Robin Butler.

The choice of Sir Richard, 54, permanent secretary at the Home Office, implies that Labour has ruled out radical change at the centre of government. Mr Gough said Inca and Gretel – who weigh 20 stone each – did not want to “fit in with the others any more”.
The remaining Himalayans – Spartan, Winnie and Wellington – were glad to see the back of them, said Mr Gough.. Sir Richard Wilson, who was former home secretary Michael Howard’s favourite civil servant, was yesterday appointed by Tony Blair as Cabinet Secretary and head of the home Civil Service. What’s less easy to accept is the blissed-out, hedonistic undertow to the music, which finds corporeal pleasure colonising even the solitary recesses of meditation. For non country music fans, Kathy Dawn Lang was a well-kept secret until the release of the platinum-selling album Ingenue made her famous in 1992.

(Perish the thought that the whole process may be a managerial ploy in the hope of diffusing protest by the time the changes actually come in.)
After scanning the introductions by Kenyon, his managing editor Brian Barfield and head of presentation Cathy Wearing, any ordinary listener laying hands on the Guide would doubtless skip the ensuing pages devoted to the internal-market nonsense of “Producer Choice”, turning directly to the three pages of schedule changes. The first of these, planned for mid-September, are relatively minor, including the welcome assigning of three weekday afternoons from 2pm to 4pm to the BBC orchestras and the not-so-welcome extension of In Tune by moving the Music Machine 15 minutes forward.The second set of changes, starting next January, mainly concern weekday mornings. Out of the virtually unbroken sequence of middle-of-the-road disc programmes that already runs from the 5.00am Sequence to the arrival of Composer of the Week at midday, the two-hour Musical Encounters – into which more enterprising presenters still manage to insinuate some quite enlivening choices from the less familiar – is to be dropped. This will allow for a half-hour extension of the more formulaic Morning Collection, a 30-minute Artist of the Week slot and a new “strand”, yet to be assigned, for which the Guide’s invitation to tender reads: “We are seeking a 60- minute disc-based programme featuring central repertory in an engaging and entertaining mix, interspersed with personable and informative links.”But it is in the third set of changes, applicable from April 1998, that this “philosophy” really looks like taking hold; for Andrew McGregor’s On Air, which currently fills weekday mornings from 7am to 9am, will then be extended to Saturday and Sunday as well. Mr Stark, who was named in a statement authorised by school governors, has been a teacher at the St John’s since 1995.
Michael Streeter. Two bears have been moved to Glasgow Zoo after disrupting the “settled family life” of their compound at a English zoo. The pair were sent north because of fears they could cause serious injury after assaulting three other bears in Dudley, West Midlands.