And though the Dublin press called it 'the most politically incorrect statement of the year' there were allies prepared to point out

And though the Dublin press called it 'the most politically incorrect statement of the year', there were allies prepared to point out that this was not malicious sexism (he shares a house with his wife Kathleen and five strong-willed adult daughters): 'He was just sick of being ganged up on.'The Fianna Fail (FF) party leader's brazen directness is part of his plain-man's-politician appeal. In 1988, we were trying to come to terms with the Lockerbie air disaster. Retaining them in larger areas of countryside - including broad-leaved woodland - may be worth a try but will not work unless the numbers of greys are relentlessly, and effectively, controlled.In conifer plantations the number of conifer species may need to be increased to improve the chances of cone crops at different times of year. And her husband is Maurice Saatchi, he of the advertising agency, who will become non-executive chairman of the reconstituted board.Then there is the intriguing Irish question. Billions of dollars have been spent on the region, bringing a new high-speed train link with Madrid and a smart new airport that is more like a luxury hotel than a regional hub.But some of the statistics do not quite add up.

That anyone other than publishers' shareholders should see this as a problem is puzzling. In 1981, there were 955 women for every 1,000 men, and by 1991, the figure had fallen further, to 929 women.In Tamil Nadu, an improbable saviour has come forth to save female infants. But if you're playing league rugby week in and week out you can't keep peaking and there's the danger of becoming jaded. Last year Whitecroft's restated losses before tax were just pounds 3.6m and it paid a 4p dividend.

The picture had been taken by Luca Marinelli, a photographer travelling with Italian paratroopers enforcing what the United Nations calls a 'pacification programme' in the Aadan Yabaal region A patrol had just brought in a couple of Somali 'bandits'. In Britain, a company is more likely to be pressurised to accept a system that approximates its needs and encouraged to make any necessary alterations later, when it has been tried out.Peps will set out the basic standards that will allow companies to become more informed customers. I was there to help them improve their mental skill, just as they would try to improve their physical skill.'What clearly emerges from Taylor's adoption of alternative expertise is that even if you had misgivings about it there wasn't much scope to duck out. William discovered four moons and a planet; Caroline discovered eight comets, and John took the first photograph on glass of the Sun's spectrum. We have always been prepared to see air power used for these purposes, provided the commanders judge it appropriate.'John Smith, the Labour leader, said if no action was taken to protect the people of Sarajevo from 'pitiless shelling', the Serbs were bound to conclude no action would be taken whatever they did.

The 50p increase announced yesterday was condemned as a 'tax on the sick' by doctors and pharmacists' leaders and by the Labour Party. Dr Sandy Macara, chairman of council of the British Medical Association, said: 'All doctors have anecdotal evidence of patients asking which of two or more items on a prescription form are the most important as they cannot afford to pay for more than one at a time.'With each appalling rise in prescription charges our concern is more and more patients will be dissuaded from visiting the doctors when they are ill.'Dr Macara's criticism was echoed by Nicholas Wood, president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, who said that with three medicines costing more than pounds 14, 'pharmacists are put into the invidious position of having to decide with the patient which of the medicines to take'.The Royal College of Nursing said: 'It is deplorable that this rise is well above the rate of inflation. Looking down, so high up off the ground, so deft in my movements. They indicate their moves by blipping the relevant squares on a computer chessboard. A member of the Gauge 1 Model Railway Association adjusting a steam locomotive at the National Model Railway Exhibition in London yesterday Photograph: Dillon Bryden (Photograph omitted). The rights issue is on the basis of 6-for-19 at 270p a share.Some analysts, however, were not won over by a projected 10 per cent dividend lift and claims by Compass that the purchase would enhance earnings.

Yet national tests for nine- and 11-year-o1ds and, more recently, for 16-year-olds, has provoked little more than routine grumbling. Government surveys show that 80 per cent of the teachers welcome the tests though some complain that codifying the results is too complicated. For all three large database software companies - Borland, Microsoft and DataEase - the next few months are critical. All eyes were on Erhaab, odds-on to become only the eighth Derby hero this century to beat his elders in the first Group One clash between the generations of the season. Before the race Erhaab was about the coolest of the field of eight, winners of 31 races between them, on a sultry, sweltering afternoon that had most of the runners dripping with sweat before they left the paddock.Philip Robinson set a pace as scorching as the temperature from the start on Bob's Return, setting off so fast that Erhaab's pacemaker, Lattam, could never get his head in front. If dental services were not saved, 'no part of the NHS was safe'.Some Tory backbenchers privately accused ministers of 'mishandling' the confrontation - ducking the issue before the general election rather than setting up a fundamental review of dentists' contracts as promised. Rather than share in the glory, he slipped unnoticed away from the cameras.And yet, he had earned his place in the victory parade. This was refused and they were issued with deportation notices in 1988. Townley and her team of advisers decided to target specific projects and go for simpler, cost-effective administration So Cambridgeshire Aid to Tibetans (CATA) came into being.