It offers the Parisian tourist the opportunity to see the sights from the

It offers the Parisian tourist the opportunity to see the sights from the comfort of a bicycle-towed yellow carriage. Velo-Taxi, invented by two French brothers, 39-year-old Patrick and Didier Leonhart, 34, was launched yesterday on the Place de la Concorde. RICKSHAW MEETS yellow cab is how one might describe the latest addition to the ranks of Parisian taxis. Its success could be seen in the rapidly dwindling numbers over past years - and the lack of trouble.But a recent ruling in the House of Lords held that the public had a right of passageway along the highway, provided there was no nuisance or obstruction.Last year about a hundred people attended the solstice celebrations at the stone circle, including Druids, pagans, astronomers, archaeologists and local residents.. Ms McDougal had spent 18 months in prison without trial for contempt of court.. WILTSHIRE POLICE will not apply for the usual four-mile exclusion zone around Stonehenge this year over the summer solstice. The landowner, English Heritage, says the stones will be closed to the general public although it intends to allow limited access to more than 100 people with bookings. English Heritage is now in talks with police over security arrangements.

The exclusion zone was brought in after violent clashes between police and new-age travellers at the so-called Battle of the Beanfield in 1985.The ban was used to stop numbers of vehicles and travellers converging near the monument site. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on three other charges and a mistrial was declared. The financial and ethical penalties, however, could be crippling. Ms Jones alleged that Mr Clinton had propositioned her for oral sex in an Arkansas hotel room when he was State Governor and she was a junior state employee.

She agreed an out-of-court settlement with Mr Clinton that gave her $850,000 (pounds 537,000) three quarters of which went to pay lawyers.The case brought by Paula Jones was a civil lawsuit, and Judge Wright's ruling does not expose Mr Clinton to prosecution unless the state judiciary chooses to take it further. But he stopped short of admitting - even implicitly - that his earlier testimony had been untruthful, in the apparent hope of escaping just the sort of ruling handed down by Ms Wright yesterday.Ms Jones's lawyers sought to use Mr Clinton's relationship with Ms Lewinsky to demonstrate that he showed a "pattern of behaviour" towards young women employees. The specific answers she singled out related to his denials of a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. In his testimony in the Paula Jones case, Mr Clinton said: "I have never had sexual relations with Ms Lewinsky." And he denied specific acts contained in the judge's definition of sexual relations. Eight months later, however, after Ms Lewinsky had handed over her semen- stained dress to prosecutors. Mr Clinton admitted to an "inappropriate intimate relationship" with the White House trainee when he testified to the grand jury hearing evidence about the Lewinsky affair. Judge Susan Webber Wright said: "The record demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence that the President responded to plaintiffs' questions by giving false, misleading and evasive answers that were designed to obstruct the judicial process." Judge Wright ruled that Mr Clinton was in contempt for answers he gave under oath in January 1998, citing his "wilful failure" to obey her repeated instructions to testify truthfully.

It didn't mention it was a fund-raising event, for which pounds 2.50 tickets were sold I bet the champagne was rotten too.. A NEW shadow fell across Bill Clinton's future yesterday when a judge in Arkansas found him in contempt of court for his testimony in the sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Paula Jones. The ruling could make Mr Clinton liable for Ms Jones's mountainous legal costs and lead to his being banned from practising law in his home state. Until 1832, the bishop had a private army to keep out the Scots.

In those days, too, the Archbishop of Canterbury had an income of pounds 19,000 a year, equivalent to several million pounds today. Nowadays the family of the Bishop of Durham huddle in one wing of the castle If the Church could sell the rest it would. But who would buy it?The Sunday newspaper said that the Bishop of Salisbury had hosted an Easter champagne breakfast. The first time I dined with an Archbishop at his palace we drank Wine Society claret rather than anything grander.Most of the grandest buildings of the church are uninsurable and unsaleable. Auckland Castle, where the Bishop of Durham lives, was built when the inhabitants were powerful figures on a lawless frontier.