JOHANNESBURG Reuter - The death toll in 10 days of violence in South Africa's black townships rose to at least 220 yesterday after

JOHANNESBURG (Reuter) - The death toll in 10 days of violence in South Africa's black townships rose to at least 220 yesterday after more than 60 people were burnt, shot or hacked to death over the weekend. It soon emerged that Ferruzzi had been vastly overstretched and was in great difficulty. Jolly chaps from the Society of Practitioners of Insolvency (SPI) tore themselves away from liquidating companies over the bank holiday to attend a conference at the Peebles Hydro, a Scottish spa hotel The highlight, we learn, was a French theme evening. In these episodes, the social comment would stick harder coming from someone who looked superannuated rather than like an anachronistic advertisement for HRT.Sally Crabb's witty caricatural designs move the proceedings fluently and with economic flamboyance through a host of settings: the marble spa at Bath, for instance, scene of a naughty new angle on gold-digging (the coins are in the crotch flap of a bathing-suit), converts in a trice to the couple's marriage bed. FINDING a 'bargain' repossession is getting harder every day. The armed men who came into the town have disappeared,' he added.

Our guests can dress either formally or casually.'There will, of course, be some who will lament the gradual passing of traditional standards of dress. They obviously see it as a possible way of trying to by- pass Whitehall and building up their links with Brussels.'One Government source said, however, that ministers were considering the possibility of using the committee to 'step over' demands for Scottish devolution.Dennis Canavan, a Labour member of the foreign affairs committee, said he did not want to detract from the importance of the Committee of the Regions.'But it is purely a consultative body, and certainly cannot be seen as a substitute for a Scottish Parliament, with real legislative power.'Richard Caborn, Labour chairman of the Trade and Industry Select Committee, said he wanted the regions committee to force subsidiarity and a devolution of power to the English regions.. There was reason to worry at the death as a corner in injury time flashed in front of Southall, but it ran to safety and Wales were home.CYPRUS: Christophi (Apollon Limassol); Costa (Apoel Nicosia), Pittas (Apollon), Constandinou (Omonia Nicosia), Nikolaou (Pezoporikos Larnaca), Yiangoudakis, D Ioannou, Charalambous (all Apollon), Sotiriou (Apoel), Papavasiliou (OFI Iraklion), Savvides (Omonia). Taxing other social security benefits to target them at those on the lowest incomes is being considered.Acute prison overcrowding could get worse and the Tory election pledge to 'sustain our massive prison reform and building programme' could be challenged. The SNP has failed to come up with anything new.'Norman Hogg, Labour MP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, who campaigned with Mrs Liddell yesterday, said: 'The SNP always have one mid-term peak. The group is believed to be seeking a US acquisition.Supermarkets found support with J Sainsbury, still enjoying Goldman Sachs backing ahead of a US investment roadshow, gaining 13.5p to 416.5p. Then there are the magnums of red Friuli Cabernet Franc wine, with Mr Craxi's signature in the glass, bottled for the Socialist party's 100th anniversary in 1992.

'Artists are secular theologians of sorts, in the same way that Jesus was the first great novelist. He was fully justified in doing what Peel, because of parliamentary arithmetic, could not do - rub the rebels' noses in the dirt and force them to choose between ruining their party or keeping in power the government that had won them the general election and to which they should have owed at least a flicker of that loyalty once described as the Tories' 'secret weapon' - ironic though the phrase must seem in present circumstances.The dissent in the Conservative Party over Maastricht is often compared with the anger aroused by the Corn Law crisis. This mutiny by inertia should be unthinkable if the culture were more familiar with the idea of service than force.For progressive police managers, the Sheehy report's proposed reform of the ranks and plans for performance pay and slimmer middle management may support their struggle to professionalise police culture. Grant won the British title with 2.25m; Smith, who jumped 2.33 off just five strides two weeks ago, managed only 2.05. In Nottingham, court hearings had been postponed because Group 4 had 'got lost' in the one- way traffic system.On Wednesday, Mr Blair went on, 'A Group 4 van carrying prisoners crashes into a police car outside a police station.' It was time Kenneth Clarke, the Home Secretary, took a grip and 'started running the prison escort service with some regard to public safety rather than like something out of an Ealing comedy'.Dennis Canavan, Labour MP for Falkirk West, suggested it was part of the Government's plan to reduce the prison population.