Like most male educators of the time, he is also a clergyman, and his marriage to the daughter of a bishop looks like a smart career move. While the arguments are theoretical they were obviously based on a genuine sense of the danger in javelin hurling, and possibly derive from a real incident. I handed him the card: ‘Building and Hod Carriers Union, Local 720, Fort Collins, Colorado’, it said. Once you’ve been in that position then you automatically command respect.’ One assumes that the BBC are making it worth his while.Not that he needs the money. The task is not confined to tracking down absent- minded share-owners or their descendants. His pounds 80,000 a year contract will initially run for five years. Since 1991, the number of venture capitalists in the UK has fallen by 15 per cent, while the proportion prepared to invest less than pounds 500,000 has dropped by 36 per cent and the number willing to refinance bank debt has slipped by 14 per cent.

They also carry passengers; locals returning home and tourists, too. For decades the company’s style, repertoire and training centred around Balanchine – and, as one of ballet’s few canonised geniuses, he’s a hard act to follow. Five men and a woman are to appear in court today on charges which include murder and membership of an illegal organisation.Police sources have indicated that a number of other suspects for the murder had gone on the run, one of whom was Mr Hamilton, who came from the Woodvale district of the city.The UVF said he had been ’summarily executed’ after being picked up by an ‘internal security’ section of the organisation. He also ordered that she should forfeit all 153 copies of the booklet and pay pounds 500 towards the prosecution’s costs.

Three years ago, the Austrian Horst Skoff bounced back to win 0-6, 7-6, 3-6. This, their ninth engagement (with Becker leading 5-3, 4-0 in tie-breakers) was decided by another overtime, as two of Becker’s previous wins had been. UN agencies, working to UN rules, refused to evacuate their local staff when they pulled out, knowing that many of them faced certain death.
But this is not another cock-up by UN bureaucracy. UN personnel who witnessed the attack last weekend said the bombs were dropped on the villages of Gladovici and Osatica, five miles south-east of the Serbian-besieged Muslim town of Srebrenica.