95 per cent of the financial flows in the financial markets are almost purely speculative and we have really

95 per cent of the financial flows in the financial markets are almost purely speculative and we have really got to look at how we can have better means of reducing the impact of speculation in a 24-hour trading market. How could she have been expected to make sure all her papers were in order?'A spokeswoman for the Home Office said Ms Rai had only ever been in Britain legally for a period of six months. These should be accompanied by much wider participation of the private sector.Among examples it gives are that regular maintenance for an outlay of dollars 12bn would have saved African road rebuilding costs of dollars 45bn in the last 10 years. Here, we've got a countess, who has got her land back.' Getting rid of the unwieldy and inefficient collective farms has proved to be a difficult task throughout eastern Europe. The violence of it affected me, too, upset me almost more than the death itself. On several occasions, it was hinted to Bernd Pischetsrieder that if he aspired to the pinnacle of BMW, he ought to grasp the shaver. That is comfortably above the rights issue profits forecast of pounds 130m.

He says: 'Doesn't it make you laugh when the Lloyd's thing comes up? All those people whingeing? They thought they could haul in 30 per cent profit and then reinvest that and take another 15 per cent so they were practically doubling their money each year and they thought that could go on for ever. Films like Jurassic Park and Terminator 2 are a good example of how traditional film techniques are starting to merge with modern computer technology, but you do not need a Hollywood-sized budget to get started with computer-based video systems. JAGUAR'S new 155mph sports saloon makes its debut in Amsterdam today - next door to the country where it is expected to have its main European appeal. As pure movement it appears to mark an evolution towards a terser and more starkly linear style then his previous headlong fluidity.There are marvellous and unsettling things in this, such as a diagonal of four woman tensing their bodies against a brooding passage of music, straddling the ground and arching away from it in a dangerously erotic trance. Meanwhile, we should devalue within the ERM, or leave the ERM, or the ERM should abandon low inflation as a goal.

SMITHKLINE Beecham, the Anglo-American drugs company, is putting its US over-the-counter medicine business into a joint venture with Marion Merrell Dow, its US rival, in a deal that could give it acccess to the hay fever treatment, Seldane. THE CAT has rather abruptly had her kittenhood truncated She has become a mother within the last 10 minutes. Corydalis, the wall weed with ferny leaves and yellow flowers, is a case in point Daisies are enchanting So is speedwell. It recommends no further sporting events should be broadcast by any terrestrial channel once existing contracts have expired. Richard Pugh, deputy chairman, said the speculation, which has sent its shares soaring from 551p to 587p in the past week, was 'overdone - the board was quite surprised to read about it'.

A take-off or landing by a modern, quiet jet counts as less than one aircraft movement, while one involving an older, noisier jet counts as several.Mr MacGregor said the new restrictions would encourage the use of quieter aircraft. The agreement created Midlands Gas, 75 per cent owned by the British company and 25 per cent by Utilicorp. The day-to-day management is British. Protocols have been signed for a Turkmen natural-gas pipeline to transit Turkey on its way to gas-hungry Europe. A prospective p/e of 21 puts the shares, up 7p to 347p, at a 22 per cent premium to the rest of the market. A fellow-Crusader told Turner: 'I think that one of the things that attracted him to our group was the fact that there were no girls to bother him. This, as far as I'm concerned, is the start of the golfing year The best players usually play their best golf in the majors I don't think it would be phenomenal for me to win here.