Disney promised that the theme park would not just be feel-good fantasy but would realistically portray

Disney promised that the theme park would not just be feel-good fantasy but would realistically portray slavery and the civil war.But, while Disney underlined its deep respect for American history, there is no doubt that its theme park will urbanise areas which were among the most fought over of the civil war. Bruce considers his chances: after Buxton he might be promoted to Glossop, and in 20 years, who knows, Matlock] No wonder he settles for the 'Narnia of Stockport' with his lost boys Fun is more important than getting on. CIVIL war is the most vicious type of conflict, in which opponents lose all mutual respect, perceiving one another as traitors. Birdonthewire should win this one.Ezzoud's prospects in the Classic, the meeting's most valuable race at dollars 3m ( pounds 2m) on a day when each of the seven races is worth at least dollars 1m, are no more rosy. The history of political initiatives in Northern Ireland is one of miserable failure, while the durable Anglo-Irish agreement of 1985 was a simple government-to-government deal which neither required nor won the support of a majority of Ulster's people.

THE FORMER Bishop of Galway, Eamonn Casey, whose affair with an American woman scandalised the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, has been traced to a convent in a remote village on the border between Mexico and Guatemala. Gillian Shephard, the Secretary of State for Employment, visiting the creche at the launch of a series of regional presentations called 'New Horizons for Women' in Manchester yesterday. The Poetry Book Society has established a pounds 5,000 poetry prize to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the society's foundation. The thwarted attack, and a firebomb attack at a refugee shelter in Oschersleben, indicated that anti-foreigner riots that have hit the northern city of Rostock may be spreading. But drugs suppliers might disappear from the streets because their potential profits would no longer outweigh the risks.

Any moves to raise interest rates, tighten fiscal policy or mount an attack on housing subsidies would risk destroying a very fragile market.'The Halifax's May report was more a lobbying tool aimed at influencing the Government than a measure of what has happened to the value of your house.(Photograph omitted). It not only has to consider the diet of cormorants but also to decide if the Ministry of Agriculture has itself complied with the law by issuing shooting licences.(Photograph omitted). Sadly, the ozone holes would continue to grow for some years evenif all production ceased tomorrow, for the chemicals take time to reach the stratosphere.The Nasa numbers have a broader lesson, however. Linford Christie plans to defend both his European and Commonwealth 100m titles, although his avowal that he is not counting out competing in the 1996 Olympics has reduced the potential dramatic impact of such an achievement.So much for the main events. The alternative is private graveyards, but they are mostly far outside the city.

New models include a 174mph 911 Turbo.RELIANT: Yet another reprieve for Reliant's nifty, under-rated sports car, now called the Scimitar Sabre (nee SS1 and SST). READERS are being given the chance to win a six-day sailing trip for two around the Caribbean with Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. His life, too, was a ragged affair, pierced by erratic impulses, and spent betwen France, Italy, the German states and Austria, with forays to London and Moscow. It's not TV's fault, or Graham Kelly's, but the fear factor among club chairmen worried about losing their status and the revenue it entails.'It's essential that we get down from 22 clubs to 18 as soon as possible.That would give our top players fewer matches, break the cycle of play-recover, play-recover, and allow them time to practise properly.'Old chestnuts: but what of last Saturday's supposed new dawn, the champions' 4-3 defeat of Liverpool, in which his French colleague Eric Cantona scored a hat- trick? Chapman suggests that it was unlikely to be any kind of pointer to the Premier League, because while the players wanted to win, the fear of losing was for once absent.'It would be great if our football could always be so open,' he says, 'but life isn't like that. Warwickshire 417 and 288-6 dec Kent 359 and 270 Warwickshire win by 76 runsFAME has cast aside Neil Smith since his last-over six which inspired Warwickshire to beat Middlesex in the NatWest Trophy final five years ago, until yesterday, that is, when he emerged from the shadows with a career-best 7 for 133.Smith's timely stroke at Lord's, together with a career- best 161 in the previous championship match against Yorkshire sustained him in the game. While I was waiting for her in the pouring rain, an altercation took place between a driver and a taxi-driver, which soon developed into a fist fight.