Was it the programme or the pull of more widely enticing festival events a complete Swan Lake

Was it the programme or the pull of more widely enticing festival events (a complete Swan Lake and a Dubliners concert) that explained the dishearteningly small attendance?Whatever, the performers gave no sign of relaxing their efforts, and suggestions of less than complete confidence were rare. The Opposition also professes to be disturbed by the suggestion that Michael Heseltine, the President of the Board of Trade, is attracted to 'workfare', a system under which benefits would be withheld from those who refused offers of jobs or training. Mr Grade accused the BBC of editorial dictatorship with more centralised control and said it was guilty of 'political appeasement. As played by Vivien Parry, a model of gently virtuous devotion until she erupts in red tights and a tail on Walpurgis night, sister Anna is by far the most interesting figure in the piece. But he should give our own boys credit for a little style pioneering, too. In his teens he reacted against his academic parents, and left school to set up a successful safari company. For as long as I'm the champion I will not recognise, defend or fight for their dishonoured belt.'Bowe's manager, Rock Newman, was even more viciously dismissive of the WBC, and insisted that the champion had not reneged on a signed pledge to defend first against Lewis if he took the title from Holyfield.

Sometimes that mission was misused to justify dubious interventions, be it through proxies in Latin America and Africa or directly in South-east Asia. Substitute not used: Bosnich (gk).Referee: R Dilkes (Mossley).. In aiming 'once again' for full employment - an objective some Labour supporters fear has been abandoned - he said it was 'more important than ever that governments assume greater responsibility for encourage investment in people'.He echoed other Opposition MPs when he said inflation had only been suppressed, not cured, as yesterday's inflation figures showed a six-year low of 2.6 per cent last month. One thing child stars now approaching middle-age have in common is a different perspective on life from the rest of us. Miss Lee, though, is no Michael Jackson recluse.

Civil servants from the Scottish Office in Edinburgh will be redeployed to make them accessible to the public.Although regional Scottish Office staff will not have the wide powers enjoyed by prefects in France, they will be able to offer advice to the public and provide a local forum for complaints.The measures, approved at Thursday's Cabinet meeting, fall well short of expectations raised by the stock-taking exercise, which followed a campaign for a Scottish parliament. Yugoslavia is being ethnically cleansed with almost Nazi zeal Czechoslovakia has fallen apart along racial fault lines. 'I have to read the law reports, Law Commission papers and other material.' It usually takes one or two hours.Tuesday 30: The morning in court but the case is adjourned at lunchtime. Generations of Tory ministers have denied the possibility of other links.Speaking in Leicester, Mr Blair said the current Tory argument seemed to accept that bad upbringing could influence adversely the development of young people.'So there are 'causes' of crime.

And celluloid film from Disney's Cinderella, which had languished for years in a brown envelope, sold in New York last year for pounds 7,000.The decision by Paul Willcock, the senior shareholder at Halls, to set up a fine art department is already paying handsome dividends. PETER Middleton last night warned that the survival of the Lloyd's of London insurance market, where he is chief executive, depended upon the success of NewCo, a ring-fence for present and future capital from the increasing number of pollution and absestos claims. It'll be interesting to see if this year's, out today, will have any more success. The middle-aged man with the younger girl should say to himself 'Well, she's not doing it for my looks, it must be for my money.'PHIL REDMOND, 43, chairman, Mersey TV: When your waistline exceeds your inside leg and the hairs on your chest outnumber those on your head, between the ages of about 28 and 38 - you've been grown-up for about 10 years and you wonder what to do next. The other allows him to draw telling comparisons between the confidence of Redmond's professional judgements and the uncertainties of his personal life. I think it strengthens his position.'Mr Gould's replacement in the Shadow Cabinet will be decided by a by- election among the party's MPs.. He did not say that, and it was not what he intended to say.' But the markets were not convinced, precisely because of the previous history of the Bundesbank's views.