The Treasury said yesterday that the full 17

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The Treasury said yesterday that the full 17.5 per cent on fuel bills as a result of the tax would cost the average family about pounds 2.30 a week.In the wake of Wednesday night's parliamentary mayhem over rail privatisation, the Cabinet yesterday concentrated on the legislative programme for the next session of Parliament, which Mr Major is hoping will help to revive the Government's fortunes. Finger-pointing can only damage the Anglo-Irish relationship that will lie at the heart of a peace settlement.. Scene-of-crime officers, rather than scientists, are now making these vital early choices.Angela Gallop, a scientist who left the Home Office to set up Forensic Access, an independent company specialising in defence work, says the colleagues she left behind are despondent. But this leaves a large part of the divergence unexplained.Britain's trade deficit with the whole world barely changed in 1993 over 1992, reflecting largely offsetting rises of 13 per cent in the value of exports and 11.5 per cent in imports. Bell makes spectacular saves, but he is all too frequently fallible.Elaborating on what he perceives to be a critical factor, Brazil's coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira, defined the issue exactly 'Goalkeeping errors undermine morale,' he said 'They can tear the heart out of a team. You'll just know.''What? when you meet the man of your dreams?'No, when you see the right dress,' says Lesley Reid, who is getting married in November and is trying on a dress for the third time, helped by her best friend.'The whole choice is quite frightening It's just so important to feel absolutely right It's like indulging your wildest dreams.

Representing your country can be an expensive business, especially if you are a rower. Brand new, it is all blond wood and red-checked curtains in the kitchen, a toy Swiss chalet backing on to a pine forest.The kitchen is impeccable, the shower room immaculate, although you have to throw used toilet paper in a plastic bin otherwise it blocks up the system. These stations now operate at a cost of less than 1.2p per kilowatt-hour (kWh) while the extra generation from continued life will save the emission of 100 million tonnes of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.Furthermore, nuclear power stations do not add to the increasing problem of nitrogen oxides which contribute to acid rain and summer smog, nor to the emissions of sulphur dioxide, a prime component of acid rain. He drinks copious water to reduce stomach acids and they plop out, but only after one becomes stuck somewhere, so it seemed, near his pelvis.There are no encores - counting internal change in public is still in development stage. SHARES in Haemocell, the medical technology company, shot up 25p to 249p after the company announced a rights issue to fund further development of its principal product, which has just been licensed in the US. It had been expected Albert would renounce the throne in favour of Philippe, but he decided to take it himself.

More sedate? Push it in.Then there was the Allard coupe - real class and style at last? In a way, but recalling more the late Stewart Granger, say, than a pukka grandee such as Sir Alec Douglas-Home. And the more I looked and sniffed, it seemed, the less I knew.Out on our own the next morning, we had a chance to put our unlearning to the test. The Angolan government yesterday denied a claim by Unita rebels that its forces had tried to kill the guerrilla leader, Jonas Savimbi, Reuter reports from Luanda. It's not much of a problem unless there is a public nuisance aspect in relation to 'cottaging', or homosexual murders.'Galop, which provides advice for lesbian and gay police officers, believes that the present age of consent makes young gay men distrustful of a law that criminalises them, and makes them less co-operative with police.A spokesman said: 'We frequently get calls from men over 21 who have found themselves attacked, robbed or held at gunpoint by younger men, who say if they report the crime they will use their sexuality against them because they are 19 or 20 years old.'One of the most recent examples of blackmail, which often involves extortion, came last September when the Pink Paper reported the conviction of Paul Mellon, 35, for extorting pounds 30,000 from a gay man. Namibia's President, Sam Nujoma, who grew up in Walvis Bay, will officiate at the ceremony.When Namibia gained independence from South Africa in March 1990, Pretoria kept Walvis Bay and President F W de Klerk's government said the enclave would not be returned. and Baby Comes Too' will be published by Macmillan on 25 March at pounds 9.99.. It is not difficult to imagine the polite reassessments that may have been offered over their Roman repast.

Another good performance might make them twitch a bit.'THE NETHERLANDS (probable): De Goey (Feyenoord); Blind (Ajax); Valckx (Sporting Lisbon), Rijkaard (Ajax), F De Boer (Ajax); Wouters (PSV Eindhoven, capt), Jonk (Internazionale), Witschge (Feyenoord); Overmars (Ajax), Gullit (Milan), Roy (Foggia).SCOTLAND (probable): Leighton (Hiberbian); Clarke (Chelsea), Hendry (Blackburn), Irvine (Aberdeen), McKimmie (Aberdeen); I Ferguson (Rangers), McKinlay (Dundee Utd), McAllister (Leeds, capt), Collins (Celtic); McGinlay (Bolton), Jess (Aberdeen).. When we returned home there was a note pushed through the door: 'I am next door - Dennis.' I flew round There he was My beloved. They agreed to ease the return from Zaire of more than a million refugees. 'We made a strange sight: two white girls and a brown girl wandering around these dusty construction sites in Delhi,' Ms Carter says.In Women of the Dust, Ms Bhuchar plays a labourer from Rajasthan, forced by a drought to leave her village. Crook then demanded an even smarter save from the Rangers keeper with a firm drive.Sutton, Robins' striking partner, looked sluggish in the first half but he gave a hint of what was to come with a snap shot that slipped just wide four minutes from the break.