Yet these pleasant reflections last hardly a minute before the Dark Ages return

Yet these pleasant reflections last hardly a minute before the Dark Ages return. The company is now generating a quarter of all the electricity consumed in England and Wales. In addition to the musical chairs over childhood companions, his choice of a bride - the daughter of Sir Barnes ('Dambuster') Wallis - drove Dr Stopes into a fury. THE Scottish National Party will gather for its annual conference in Perth this week armed with a provocative new slogan: 'It's Scotland's Water'. FIVE books on a list of suggested titles for teenagers studying Higher English - including Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, The Color Purple, and books by an acclaimed contemporary Scottish writer - have been banned at a school in Scotland after complaints that they are obscene and disgusting. He knew the chances of success were remote but, he says, 'luck was on my side.

Power has flowed from France to England of late, but it is by no means impossible that this flow could change direction in the foreseeable future because of the supply/demand balances in the two countries. When a person is dumped into cold water from a boat or a plane, it is best that they keep still to conserve heat. There are snakes here in summer - and many scorpions.' The deportees have just discovered to their consternation that the hillside upon which their grubby tents are pitched is known to local Lebanese villagers as Mother of Scorpions Mountain, a sinister prelude to a long hot summer.The deportees' encampment is slowly turning into a theological college with a tented mosque, religious discussions and regular prayers on the road.A 'University of The Return' has been opened by the academics among those expelled by Israel, complete with a dean and rector. The day I lost my diary and found it in the microwave, forgot to go to a meeting I had convened at school and absent- mindedly put a forkful of catfood in my mouth, thinking it was cake, I decided enough was enough. We considered the options. By contrast, those dissenting from the official view of O'Keeffe will have to rest their case on a less easily communicable, less easily shared experience: the experience, simply, of looking at her paintings, the things themselves, hung on a gallery wall.To see O'Keeffe's paintings after having known them only in reproduction is an immensely disappointing experience.

To find better ways of analysing CO at these low levels, Norwegian scientists are looking at methods based on tuneable lasers, while at Europa Scientific of Crewe, Cheshire, they are investigating photoacoustic spectroscopy. The four spoke as one, each chipping in words to form a coherent sentence 'We don't care what he does with his chest hair,' they said. A YEAR can make only so much difference. This time, it is Matthew Modine who demonstrates the triumph of nurture over DNA by playing both Henry Petosa, a timid nerd who passes his evenings watching self-defence videos and plucking up courage to ask his best friend's sister (Lara Flynn Boyle) for a date, and Henry's identical brother Freddy Ace, a swaggering chauffeur cum gangster. 'I didn't resent that but it did put more pressure on me.' After Azinger's triumph at Inverness on Sunday the label will pass to somebody else. Ramsden apparently believed that the value of the shares would rise. we ate dinner normally,' Mr Zhirinovsky's aide said, though he admitted that one of the party ended up in the ice-cold lake. Meanwhile Mr Zhirinovsky's strategic visions continue to send tremors through eastern Europe countries - though whether they should be shaking with fear or laughter remains debatable.

THEY call them jellies, eggs, tems and smack Teenagers spend 20 hours a day stealing to buy them. As a result, Mr Husseini and Mrs Ashrawi are not official members of the delegation, although they are the de facto leaders. The Nags Head shopkeepers have been arguing that Waitrose should be the last new store, though they would favour a DIY or furniture shop on the megastore site.The fear is of an imploding market, which would leave even bigger and uglier holes than those created by the bankrupt estate agents.New point-of-sale technology is one reason for the rush to build ever more efficient supermarkets. The 11-5 win was not enough, however, to see last season's League and championship winners into a position where they could reach Wembley again next month.

'I say, you fellows, there's a pounds 6.5bn postal order on the way from my old Auntie Taxpayer. A forgotten sub headlined the story 'Sick transit Gloria, Monday'. But he's recently signed a new distribution agreement and his new secret project has a budget of 'Hell, I can't tell you, very high. A FLAGSHIP Conservative local authority has lost several hundred thousand pounds in a string of allegedly irregular financial transactions involving senior officers.