Ubogu loves nothing better than to get his hands on the ball and run at

Ubogu loves nothing better than to get his hands on the ball and run at the opposition. That assurance was privately welcomed by James Molyneaux, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, who has been kept informed about the hard bargaining between Dublin and London for the meeting between John Major and Albert Reynolds at the European summit at the weekend in Brussels.It followed a warning on BBC Radio yesterday by John Taylor, a leading member of Mr Molyneaux's party, that Ulster Unionists might flee to Scotland if there was a sell- out on the union by Mr Major. AN ARMENIAN allegedly linked with the KGB and Russian mafia hanged himself in a prison cell while on remand for a double murder, an inquest jury decided yesterday. It has also prompted questions about the capacity of a randomly selected jury to function properly in a racially diverse, deeply divided city.The two defendants, Henry Watson, 29, and Damian Williams, 20, face the possibility of life in prison after being accused of multiple offences, including attempting to murder Reginald Denny, who was dragged out of his lorry and assaulted beneath circling TV helicopters at the start of last year's riots in Los Angeles.

ALMOST pounds 13bn of investment cash chased pounds 1bn worth of shares on offer to French and foreign investors in the privatisation of Banque Nationale de Paris, it emerged last night, writes Peter Rodgers. A state trooper, stopping the killers for no real reason, says, 'Get out of the car. I didn't watch the England-Germany game because of sport fatigue and my lack of love for those overpaid, sexually incontinent players, who are bound to break our boys' hearts Mostly I benefit from the World Cup The streets are empty I borrow other men's wives for cocktails Every night is Ladies' Night. One is that many big institutions still feel the need to be financial supermarkets rather than specialist boutiques. 'From my knowledge of the person concerned, I am quite sure it comes from legitimate sources,' Lord Young told me last week.

Its windows were almost covered by foliage from the garden, so that the sunshine filtered through with a pale green, subaqueous light, emphasised by apple green walls. When a cowboy cuts up the face of the whore whose favours he has bought, none of the parties wants a court-case, and the sheriff, Little Bill (Gene Hackman), has to decide on punishment informally. DAME Iris Murdoch was on television the other day, talking about difficulties with words. Both will join Ford's Halewood plant on Merseyside on short-time working next month.Ford has been trying to compensate for the sharp decline in domestic sales by exporting more cars from Dagenham and Halewood to Europe.

Meanwhile, when I got home, the kids kind of said hello then went off to play in the garden.A few weeks later, the publisher rang to say that Let's Be Friends was going to be the title track of the next album. The only witness to them in the film, though, a French musician who collaborated with Gould, seems to find such behaviour perfectly sensible. The whips' unprecedented attack on Mr Devlin came after he said on Radio Cleveland yesterday morning that he had resigned over cuts that will close the Eaglescliffe Royal Navy stores depot in his constituency with the loss of 380 jobs.The whips instantly responded by saying he had been summoned to see Greg Knight, the deputy chief whip, at 9pm on Thursday night and dismissed.The centre-left, independent- minded, pro-European MP said that was a lie. A year further on, why not simply shrug, submit the same yellowed article, and slope off through the drizzle for a festive sorrow-drowner? Well, because the detail shifts long before the general picture changes. Sir John is chairman of the independent Local Government Commission charged with the difficult task of reviewing local government structure in England. A legal document containing the merger terms will be drawn up next.

And while I was there, the bloody things fell out on the table. If so, why did he not resign (or even raise his voice) in protest at policies and attitudes which were so profoundly damaging to our long-term economic prospects? The truth would appeear to be that, like the apparatchik throughout the ages, the guiding principle of John Major's career was, and is, his own political survival.Yours faithfully,ANDREW MITCHELLLondon, W4. A spokesman for DAF dismissed the reports of a rescue package as speculation.The UK receivers are separately waiting for proposals from management who hope to stage a buyout at the Birmingham van site. 'We like companies to reflect their prospects and Barclays' prospects are not good.'Another said: 'The Imry announcement hastens the dividend cut.