at the same salary as Sir John Harvey-Jones

at the same salary as Sir John Harvey-Jones.'MICHAEL CLARKE - Chief executive, Local Government Management BoardMy wish is peace and harmony, and that central government would leave local authorities alone to get on with the tasks they are elected to do.LADY ELIZABETH ANSON - Chairman, Association of District CouncilsTo speak in plain English, without jargon, gobbledegook, or unexplained initials; not to say 'Er, well. She did TV time on Starsky and Hutch and Charlie's Angels, but she never looked fetching; she looked liked a treasure ship you'd have to board and tow home. What genre is that, one wonders - the love poem, the seduction poem, the 'fighting her corner in a man's world' poem? The poem's bafflement - desire stays unrequited - is fine and compelling, its 'So we lay in grace' lyricism rather more bookish and fantasy-like.Rumens' seriousness is admirable, and so is her determination not to divide herself up between the personal and the political, but to see things whole, in all their splendid mess. Imagination runs riot; nightmares don't just happen at night.I have a friend in Hungary whose husband simply disappeared during the Second World War.

The department produces a weekly diary for internal circulation, highlighting areas of likely interest and papers on major pieces of legislation. In an interview in this paper a couple of weeks ago, Michael Bukht, the station's programme controller, said that he wouldn't be competing with Radio 3 so much as with Radios 1, 2 and 4; and, doubtful though that seemed at the time, he may have been right. 'The proportion of pupils obtaining graded results will naturally be greater in the GCSE than in existing examinations,' they said in 1985. Monaco, the 1991-92 runners-up, were held 0-0 at home by Polish Second Division side Miedz Legnicao to sneak through 1-0.The Swedish international Stefan Pettersson scored twice as the Uefa Cup holders, Ajax, defeated Salzburg 3-1 in Amsterdam to gain a 6-1 aggregate victory Pettersson scored in the 26th and 79th minutes.

Previously, miniature TV screens have been unable to reproduce the picture clarity and colour quality of the big screen. For a while they were posted to Malta, where Philip had his own command, and Princess Elizabeth went out to a hairdresser for the first time. It is so rare for a man of great wealth to dole out money to academics that the scholars have not, apparently, bothered their heads as to its source.Dr Khalili's wealth has also dazzled his chief promoters, Lord Young of Graffham and Sir Tim Bell - both Tory stalwarts of the Thatcher era. The agreement on subsidiarity will usefully subject the Commission to greater scrutiny and reassure sections of public opinion, but it is open to abuse by countries wishing to protect unequal competition. As I left, I saw six riot control officers equipped with batons and shields making their way up to his second-floor flat. The Detectives has been stretched from a sketch in Jasper Carrott's show into a six-part series. It may have a greater impact on the next Tory manifesto than on spending in this Parliament.At the Young Conservatives conference in Southend yesterday, Mr Lilley said that contracting out of the state earnings- related pension scheme had been a success 'and something we can build on'.

It all seemed a pretty good waste of time since the three most popular names were the same as in their 1988 survey. 'Better to marry than to burn,' says Matt, and 'The past isn't another country - it's here in your head.' The wisecracks were neatly tailored to the Matthau method: 'I can't hear myself with all that euphony going on,' he complains as Nina sticks on the Vivaldi. I had this feeling that I was going to get to the age of 60 still sitting in a recording studio, still playing baroque music and regretting every moment of it. The president turned to those around him and made the mistake of picking on Maina and asking him what he thought. This poem is from The Collected Shorter Poems of Tom Scott published by Chapman/Agenda at pounds 11.95..

The majority appear ready to leave the fighting now to the armed militants, to whom they will lend ready support.'We want to feel this is Palestine. The last episode left everything dangling: silly Tilly was homeless and Evie (Louise Lombard) was biting her lip again over slipping standards: 'Go to the high street with its mediocrity. However, another Thatcherite MP suggested if it was a choice between enlargement and a compromise on voting the first could be sacrificed.Mr Hurd is due to address a meeting of backbench MPs this evening. We did tell you to look it up. All the entrants correctly guessed the other two tie-breaker questions: the first letter of the alphabet is indeed 'A' and the first name of the Queen of England is 'Elizabeth'. In a determinedly anti-intellectual family, he was denied even the stimulus he might otherwise have got from books and ideas. 'It's simply not true for them to say there was no support for carrying on with the fight.'Fidelity is also being criticised for having been a strong buyer of WPP ordinary shares as the price was being driven down by its own threats to vote against the refinancing proposals. I don't smoke, drink or take drugs,' Davies said recently, adding, mischievously: 'and I lie a lot.' There's nothing for her to lie about now.