He had even done a summer show with Cyril Fletcher the comedian from That's Life 'That's what Blue Peter has lacked

He had even done a summer show with Cyril Fletcher, the comedian from That's Life 'That's what Blue Peter has lacked ever since,' Ben laments. 'I bowled a bit slower, I think, and John was a bit too short to take full advantage of what was on offer. BRITISH RAIL predicted that at least 20 per cent of the normal 15,000 train services would operate today despite the fifth 24-hour strike by signal workers. Silver, always volatile, leapt by nearly 40 per cent as production fell.Cocoa prices advanced by around 22 per cent, fuelled by political uncertainty in the Ivory Coast and declining stocks. JOHN PATTEN, the Secretary of State for Education, is planning to carry out his long-term threat of closing down schools to cut surplus places, but it will be fewer than 100, his department said yesterday. We have juvenile delinquents (they used to be called naughty boys). Last week, Robbie was taken to Birmingham, where he will be confined with some of the most disturbed and violent children in the country.

After giving a child money for her mother and seeing the family leap into a taxi, David Wilding, from Bridge, near Canterbury, now adopts the same policy. The partnership was made up of France and Germany - in that order - enthusiastically and influentially supported by the European Commission, especially under Jacques Delors. This week's Breath of Life campaign by St John Ambulance (or in Scotland the St Andrew's Ambulance Association) aims to put between 150,000 and 250,000 men and women through the same life-saving paces, in a series of free two-hour courses around the country. 'Some years there is a much bigger peak than others and this year looks like one of those.

The seller was Hollinger, the Canadian owner of 68 per cent of The Telegraph. The proposal raised several questions: (1) Why should the Telegraph buy at Cdollars 18.10 when it could have picked up Southam shares on the Toronto stock exchange for Cdollars 13.50 each? (2) Why should the company be investing in North America at all when it hinted, in its flotation prospectus last year, that it planned to concentrate elsewhere? (3) Why should the independent directors, who approved the deal, choose to rely on the advice of NM Rothschild, which also advises The Telegraph?Since then the company has told shareholders to ignore the proposal, announcing it wants to modify the original deal because Hollinger has agreed to sell some of its Southam shares to its long-standing corporate buddy Power Corporation of Canada - at a price of dollars 14 a share. He still had shaving foam behind his ears.The people I can get jobs for do not earn much money, but they are important members of our team. AT LAST we are seeing the beginnings of a debate about the existence of the monarchy. KALON, the Yorkshire-based paint maker, has spent Fr161m ( pounds 20m) on Novodec, a French paint manufacturer, writes Robert Cole Novodec will be Kalon's first major acquisition overseas.

Mandy Merck, now lecturing on feminist writing in New York, arrived at Oxford as an American graduate student in 1969. While the recession has narrowed inequality in income levels between regions, the ratio of house prices - where heaviest falls have been in the South-east - to income means homes are more affordable than they have been for 20 years, Mr Foley said.That conclusion is likely to be a relief to the Government. He and James Watson unravelled one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century - the double helix structure of DNA, the chemical blueprint of life - when young men in the early Fifties. For the last month, when I arrive home, he runs to her and not to me, and at weekends he sometimes asks for her He seems to be growing away from me.

After allegedly receiving the pounds 625,000 from Mr Saito, the governor gave permission for the developments as 'special cases'.. The move highlighted a growing view that Germany's recession, relatively high inflation and budget deficit crisis are undermining the anchor role of the mark in the European exchange rate mechanism. But in the Forties and Fifties the balance of forces looked very different.Stalin had transformed the East European countries into small-scale replicas of the Soviet Union; Mao Tse-tung had triumphed in China and the two Communist giants were still close allies; and many Third World liberation movements and newly independent ex-colonial states in Asia and Africa looked to the Kremlin for inspiration and aid.Never at a loss when it came to boasting, the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, told Western ambassadors in Moscow in the autumn of 1956, shortly after Suez and the Hungarian uprising: 'We will bury you' No one doubted that he meant what he said. 'I felt that a fine collection of television sets would encapsulate all that was great in Great Britain,' he says.There were some nailbiting moments.