Rationalisation continued slowly until 1990, when it speeded up with a vengeance. But it must be backed up with statutory pressure to make the scheme obligatory.’Will the Government continue to risk lives for the sake of 50p a child?(Photograph omitted). That won’t be as impossible as it sounds, for buffalo burgers and steaks have just made their debut in a British supermarket and are already attracting lively interest.The North-Eastern Co-operative launched buffalo burgers and steaks in four outlets last Wednesday, after customer taste-tests. When they do, they hear a recorded message full of helpful ideas about how they might behave the next time they come into contact with the singer.
So disturbed were three of his communicants, though, that they have felt moved to sue him for distress. He’s been on the show since it started: probably the youngest critic in the business and certainly the most deadpan.’When I first started I used to leave thinking: why did I do that, why didn’t I do it this way?’ He sits on the bed talking in a low, slightly nasal voice, like a librarian with a cold ‘It’s easy to think like that in retrospect.

The French facades that once adorned the glittering streets lie in the road or hang tentatively from shattered girders.The centre, Martyrs’ Square, used to resemble Piccadilly Circus, but only the statue of the Martyrs now remains. Traditionally, opera in concert performance rescues pieces deemed unworkable in the opera house, but there’s an emerging tendency to present repertoire operas in concert, as if to rescue them from directorial whimsy. In a flashback to China, one of the older women, then aged 15, is given in arranged marriage to a plump-cheeked boy They sleep side by side – chastely. But Deutsche Bank brought powerful business support and a strong branch network, which are decisive factors,’ says Mr Ritterbex.German insurers accept that agent networks make them expensive compared with some foreign operations, but argue that this is not a cost disadvantage since any foreign aspirant in Germany would have to build or buy a network.There were once high expectations of direct selling in Germany, but it never got beyond 8 per cent of the market.

(I have to say, however, that in my experience it is men who give in first to hysterical demands for sweets or BSE-burgers. English boarding schools may remain popular among foreigners and the diminishing number of senior British diplomats and soldiers stationed abroad; but for London families, the brutal adolescent rituals of boarding school have become an anachronism as well as an extravagance.Private schools with an eye to the future should therefore see the current recession as a shot across their bows. Ireland’s gain is Britain’s loss.Mr Ladenis is not alone in a special admiration for the Irish. Morcote was fourth, doing her best work at the finish on her seasonal debut.Fillies took centre stage in Britain as well as in Ireland. When some of the evidence, such as the very close connection with dyslexia, was put to her, she simply replied: ‘I don’t believe it.’In a recent study she found that far from being disadvantaged, left-handers are more likely to turn in outstanding performances in their chosen fields.Her findings suggest that there is a greater than normal proportion of left-handers among very bright children and that left-handers are likely to have better all-round ability.

THE stock market yesterday slumped to levels last seen as the Gulf war was drawing to its close nearly 18 months ago. ‘The consequences would have to be spelt out,’ Mr Field said. I don’t know what the hell he did that for, but see, he’d always played music in a military band. He took the last set of a blistering 69-minute semi-final 6-0. France raised the price of cigarettes, petrol and telephone calls, Reuter writes from Paris.