POOR sales of casual footwear luggage and sponge-bags marred an otherwise solid annual performance from Peter

POOR sales of casual footwear, luggage and sponge-bags marred an otherwise solid annual performance from Peter Black Holdings, the Yorkshire-based personal products supplier to Marks & Spencer, writes Patrick Hosking. Let me disobeymy own best instinctsand do what I want to do, whatever that may be,without regretting it, or thinking I might.When I come home late at night from home,saying I have to go away,remind me to look out the windowto see which house I'm in.Pin a smile on my facewhen I turn up two weeks later with a tanand presents for everyone.Teach me how to stand and where to lookwhen I say the wordsabout where I've beenand what sort of time I've had.Was it good or bad or somewhere in between?I'd like to know how I feel about these things,perhaps you'd let me know?When it's time to go to bed in one of my lives,go ahead of me up the stairs,shine a light in the corners of my room.Tell me this: do I wear pyjamas here,or sleep with nothing on?If you can't oblige by cutting me in half,God give me strength to lead a double life.. Unfolding in abrupt, weird fragments, the piece purports to be a dark satire on contemporary mores. Innocent-looking students with hairgrips peer out from the pages. But it was very accurate about how relationships move on; I couldn't fault it. The ultra-green charity says debt is an important factor in tropical rain-forest destruction.

Although nearly six months remain before the final bell of the general election on 16 October, such a point has already been reached in Germany, as the opposition Social Democrats and the centre-right governing coalition trade punches over who will be the most brutal fiscally The fight allows unusually little room for manoeuvre. This version, shorn of the boring bits and concentrating on the action, was a huge hit with the children. I suspect the regular Sunday congregation would be grateful, too. Yours sincerely,BARBARA POINTONRoyston, Hertfordshire. It is buying the Hong Kong International Trade Fair Group, an exhibition and trade show business based in Hong Kong, for dollars 35m in cash plus up to a further dollars 9m depending on performance. The company, founded by Themistocles Vokos, who is staying on, runs seven exhibitions on subjects ranging from leather and shipping to cosmetics.In 1993 it made pre-tax profits of dollars 2.74m on revenues of dollars 9.78m. Unless it goes seriously wrong, we do not even notice whether a queue is as fast as any other But we do notice when it is the slowest. She has rewarded doctors with her first smile in the 11 days since she was flown out of Sarajevo Ray of light in Sarajevo, page 8.

Harold Worth Lester, variety performer: born Fort Worth, Texas 9 July 1895; died Birmingham 4 July 1993. Sir: Much has appeared in your newspaper recently about the performance of the Welsh Development Agency. Pleasantly astringent and very raspberry-fruity.1990 Vina Pilar Tinto, Ribera del Duero ( pounds 4.99 Oddbins and Victoria Wine) Young and fairly tannic, richly plummy and vanilla-oaky. But if the current elections go as expected, and the LDP loses its majority for the first time in 38 years, Mr Miyazawa may be wishing he was dead..