He also denied that there were plans to close two of the BBC's

He also denied that there were plans to close two of the BBC's radio stations.His decision to stay on will dismay some of his senior colleagues, who believe there is bound to be paralysis in the BBC's leadership until John Birt succeeds him.'There hasn't been a vacuum of leadership,' Sir Michael insisted in an interview with Brian Redhead on Radio 4's Today programme. Evans had captained Queensland and would have won a Wallaby cap but for contracting hepatitis while on tour in New Zealand in 1960. The present Act requires some kind of connection - direct or indirect - with the company whose shares you are buying or selling for you to be guilty of insider dealing Not so the new one. That way, you experience the world only at decent intervals, rather than as a pile-up of unwelcome messages. Further debate is likely over the extent to which the reprieve should be presented as offering long-term hope for the future of the pits, and whether the susbidy should be financed directly from taxation, or, as looks increasingly unlikely, as a surcharge on electricity bills.As a Nottinghamshire MP, Mr Clarke is said to have been particularly disturbed that miners at 10 of the 31 pits identified as the most viable belonged to the National Union of Mineworkers rather than the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, whose members worked during the 1984-5 strike.Senior ministers dismissed claims by Robin Cook, the Opposition trade and industry spokesman, that a speech on the coal industry given by Lord Wakeham on Friday night had been an attempt to 'sideline' Mr Heseltine.

'What we need is schools of responsibility, not colleges of crime,' he said. He should know, because he is only 11 years old. Mark, from Halewood in Liverpool, wrote to Mr Major after the murder on Merseyside of toddler James Bulger and after his brother was mugged twice 'The good kids don't seem to get any reward,' he wrote. Hampshire 355 Nottinghamshire 275-9 A LITTLE piece of paradise at the loveliest of England's Test grounds belongs to Paul Johnson, though the idea of rolling up the turf and carrying it around in his bag would horrify Ron Allsopp, the venerable groundsman.Johnson made a dazzling hundred from 148 balls on the very same pitch where 13 days ago he scored a Sunday League 167 not out against Kent, the highest by a Nottinghamshire batsman in limited-overs cricket He must know almost where every earthworm reposes. Unfortunately, the Thatcher government adopted the agency idea primarily as a means of cutting staff costs.Worse was to come, as the agency initiative has been overtaken by market testing: putting as much Civil Service work as possible out to tender with private organisations.

This meant the Liberal Democrat being asked to stand down in 110 seats and the Labour candidate standing down in 21 seats. This made it the fastest-growing manufacturing company (and 43rd overall) in the survey of independent businesses carried out by the Independent on Sunday and Price Waterhouse. She advised against approaching the airlines direct: 'Buy through a discount agent, and don't pay more than pounds 100', she correctly prescribed.Do I need a visa?Not if you are a British passport holder on a temporary visit, you don't, advised the representatives of the countries that do not require them. But with good capital equipment Bensons should be better able to compete.The new plant began production after the 30 November financial year end. Five minutes prior to my very first trip to a discotheque, at age 14, he sat me down for a 'talk'. Ms Keller contends that both these highly successful foreign competitors are succumbing to Big Company Disease.

The preferred technique - and the most likely in this case - involves a steel plate screwed into the fibula to hold the break in place while it heals.Gascoigne's leg would be put in plaster, probably running from ankle to above the knee, for about eight weeks. He progressed through the Treasury, earning a reputation as an outstanding Assistant Secretary and was promoted to Under-Secretary in 1964.Rampton's transfer to the Ministry of Technology in 1968 on promotion to Deputy Secretary initiated an interest in the problems of energy and of British industry, which continued for the rest of his life. 'A Doll's House': Theatr Hafren, Newtown (0686 625007), Fri; Sherman, Cardiff (0222 230451), 10 & 11 Jun. But he insists that teachers should not imagine he wants to drive them back to traditional methods.'I'm not the professional, and we are not, as a council, trying to tell teachers how best to teach We are trying to define a framework. Wassall, which dropped out of the battle, added 1p to 210p.Mirror Group Newspapers continued to attract attention In brisk trading the shares rose 4p to 101p. The US navy was later to admit its success rate with ship-to-ground missiles was only around 50 per cent. He had particular affinity with men and women from the Indian subcontinent, who revered him as a guru, but he gave counsel and hospitality at his home to everyone generously.William Mushin was quite a private man but his painting with water-colours in his early days, his collection of old books and his fascination latterly with the new technology kept his encyclopaedic mind active to the last.

He also faces warnings from local CID officers that resources are being severely stretched and many crimes are not being investigated.Mr Condon has said he sees the police as a public and social service; he maintains that society must accept limits to what the police can achieve.Leading article, page 16(Photograph omitted). 'Lawyers for Business gives you the first contact point,' he says. This time the damage goes much deeper, striking at the roots of the political system and shaking public confidence in institutions.Mr Amato may hang on to power, if only because there is no alternative. We just ducked down on to the stall and then the police started moving everyone.