The more Labour politicians fight their way in front of the cameras the

The more Labour politicians fight their way in front of the cameras, the more they confuse Tory failure with left- right bickering and rally their opponents. Unlike the Public Accounts Committee, which last week questioned Sir Tim and is confined to quizzing officials, it has the power to call ministers. If you can show people that the Army has got a sense of humour and can let its hair down, you're half-way home.'And how is he going to do that?'Well,' says Wetherspoon, measuring his words carefully, 'we're going to ginger up the D-Day celebrations a bit. Texas, also in a new ballpark, have plenty of punch, with Will Clark teaming up with a rejuvenated Jose Canseco and home-run leader Juan Gonzalez, but the pitching depth is suspect. Now I'm up and running - eager whitecoats clasp and unclasp their hands and talk of lumbar punctures, brain scans and observation. The jury were left with a large part of the evidence which had an undetermined and questionable relevance to the one issue which was isolated for their decision.By January 1992, the only course open to the judge was to discharge the jury. It commands beautiful views to the north across the Solway to the Langholm hills in Scotland, and south to Crossfell on the north end of the Pennines, and to Saddleback, Carrick Fell and Skiddaw in the Lake District.The lonning begins as a wide bridleway with mature beech, oak and holly trees but after a short distance the way is blocked by barbed wire.

How seriously can one take a minister who seemed relieved to abandon the chief means by which that policy was previously being put into effect?For Mr Major, the next big challenge will be to restore his own and Britain's credibility as big-league European players at the Birmingham summit meeting on Friday. Joanna, 25, disappeared from a car park near her home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, last week and turned up in a distressed state 36 hours later, saying she had been abducted by two men. Although the auction catalogue bore a note about the recently-imposed UN trade embargo preventing them from accepting bids from persons in Iraq, Serbia and Montenegro, Charles Young, of Phillips, said that all their catalogues bore that note. AN EERIE wail filled the West Indian Centre at Wood Green in north London last Wednesday night. Already, the pair appear to have assembled a partnership full of awareness, accurate passing and quick support-work that promises to propel Souness's side far along the road to Premiership prosperity.One move on the hour, into the teeth of a delirious Kop, was definitive Liverpool, as if all the sores of last season had healed without trace.

The RSPCA argued yesterday that the controversial export trade in live sheep to France for slaughter was underpinned by this case of mistaken, or falsified, identity. The slaughtered British lambs are marked with a French abattoir meat inspection stamp - as opposed to the UK abattoir stamp on British carcass imports. This is not the case with GHB - a steroid otherwise known as gamma hydroxybutyric acid or, by those who speak in awed tones of its effects, 'grievous bodily harm'. A lawyer said such a policy, agreed by the party, could fall foul of the Sex Discrimination Act. This would involve linking these countries with Nato for peace-keeping purposes.In talks in Warsaw yesterday the French and German foreign ministers suggested that the Central and Eastern European countries might be made associate members of the Western European Union, the EU's embryo defence body. THE LATVIAN parliament yesterday approved the first reading of a controversial law imposing strict restrictions on the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Russians pressing for citizenship of the Baltic state.