Whether parts can be imported to the Our Price stores must therefore be questionable

Whether parts can be imported to the Our Price stores must, therefore, be questionable.The deal might yet be scuppered by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, which is already conducting a review of the music retailing industry and may look askance at Smith's 29 per cent share if sales through its newsagents are included.If that hurdle is cleared, Smith should benefit in the short term from taking a bigger share of Virgin's higher profits, but the long- term attractions of joint ventures have yet to be proved.. The family had settled in Landevant, Brittany, following attempts by Mr Malkin to abduct Oliver. It has happened two or three times in my life and I don't see why it shouldn't happen again.'Paula Carter, a PA to a senior manager with a life assurance company, is 40, and split up with her husband last year after 15 years of marriage because of what she describes as a 'mutual, irretrievable breakdown' She has two children by the marriage who live with her. Many boys didn't bother to complain and those that did found their complaints found no credence.'One boy - sent to St William's by the local authority after being sexually abused in another home when he was six years old - found himself subjected to further ordeals, this time by Carragher.After trying to run away, the victim tried to take his own life in 1990 by slashing his wrists and swallowing a razor blade, Mr Ferm added. EC officials are meeting their Japanese counterparts next week in a bid to persuade them to cut exports further.Owner-managed businesses are twice as confident about economic prospects as they were six months ago, according to a survey of chief executives and finance directors by Ernst & Young, the accountants.London and south-east England showed the most dramatic improvement, with 66 per cent of companies expecting the economy to improve compared with 28 per cent at the end of last year. 'And this,' says a Naples law reporter, 'is just the beginning.'Furthermore, to make sure their cosy business was not disturbed, the Camorra allegedly corrupted the local judiciary: seven former key figures in the public prosecutor's office and the courts are believed to have favoured the Camorra in judgements, or passed on vital, confidential information.The ordinary, daily woes of Naples seem negligible by comparison: the 20,600 city employees who have not been paid for weeks; the homeless and the unemployed; the fact that no births, marriages or deaths have been registered since 19 October 1991; or that some 200 of the city's 250 sets of traffic lights don't work, with effects that can be imagined.The deputy mayor was in the hot seat last week because the mayor himself, a Socialist, Nello Polese, was under house arrest and had resigned.

The pound was made to walk across no man's land under heavy machine-gun fire, and each successive wave of reserves was thrown in and wiped out. Why, for example, was her patronymic - middle name - sometimes Nikolayevna and other times Alexandrovna? The people Izvestia talked to say she never worked for the KGB, and the riddle of the names is easily explained. But the Panel stressed that it was not alleging that statements published during the takeover were deliberately misleading.The Panel said that it found no reason to hold Kleinwort Benson, which advised the Fayeds, responsible for any breach of the code.View from City Road, page 27. 'I've never really sat down to work out what my sport has cost me in time and money but when I march with the British team at the opening ceremony that's when I will know the hardships have been worthwhile,' Burgess said.'If I came back from Barcelona with a medal, that would mean everything to me, though a more realistic objective is simply to make the final.

Perhaps if I was a British basketball player I'd be furious but a canoeist isn't really comparing like with like. When I asked her how she had slept, she said, 'Pretty well,' in her usual courteous manner; but her voice had a sort of hollow and distant softness not to be described. A recent campaign for the Scottish National Sports Centre, Glenmore Lodge, had David Bell and Andy Cheetham digging snow shelters, white-water rafting and rock climbing, 'to get a feel for what we were advertising'.Mr Bell accepts that there are limits to the agency's enthusiasm for experiencing its clients' products: 'We hope we never have to come up with ideas for advertising a laxative.'(Photograph omitted). Mr Reenboog probably talks of how he has come to 'own his anger', how he has been 'empowered' by his experience and has become more 'centred' since he loaded his wife's body into the car with several bottles of flammable liquid and staged a somewhat far-fetched accident (the cigarette lighter apparently flew from its socket on impact, igniting the broken bottles).Mr Reenboog may even have got in touch with his 'inner child', in which case I hope he asked him what on earth made him think he would get away with such a juvenile explanation.What all these phrases have in common is the illusion of concrete simplicity they deliver. They seem unexercised by the equally prompt - and weird - disclosures concerning Mr Rusbridger's (the oilskins, the gasmask - and a rope connecting neck and ankles to a series of pulleys).

HAVE WE become so cynical about our political leaders that we do not even catch our breath when they are exposed in falsehood and deception? On 1 November, John Major told the House of Commons that talking to Gerry Adams and the IRA would 'turn my stomach'. Co-opted as a label for what the Sturdy Beggars have in store for us, these trouts are a bit of a red herring. After resuming at 174-2, they lost both overnight batsmen in close succession after Essex introduced the left arm spin of John Childs.But this brought Cairns into partnership with Graeme Archer, a 22-year-old right-hander with scant experience but much promise. The main characters are the Reigner's Servant - Mordion - and his two young friends, Anne and Hume. Fortunately the pounds 1bn provision in 1992 will leave more than enough to cover the costs of rationalisation around BAe's facilities at Prestwick without scarring the company's profit and loss account.Rover, once the pariah division, is the one area of BAe needing no further spade-work. The Princess of Wales wanted to but didn't, Prince Philip might not have wanted to but did, Prince Charles was previously booked for King Juan Carlos's father's funeral in Spain, and the Queen - wise old bird that she is - said that she never went to funerals anyway. 'The party must be accountable to the people.'The party was thrown into turmoil last month by a judicial report on the 'Filesa case', named after a Barcelona-based group of consultancy firms that allegedly channelled illegal funds totalling 1bn pesetas ( pounds 6m) to the Socialists.