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And don't forget John Eliot Gardiner's English Baroque Soloists, who have won numerous international awards in the past five years thanks to the sometimes charming, sometimes intolerable Gardiner. His first assignment on radio was reporting on a vessel that caught fire in Southampton dock in 1963, and his first big exposure on network television came when the tanker Torrey Canyon struck a reef off the Scillies. Sometimes she went with her husband, before their divorce, sometimes alone, always doing the same course in music appreciation.'I'm not the sort of person who can sit in a deckchair on a beach for days - I like to have something interesting to do,' she says. Also at the ringside are the fans, Jane and Joe Public, taunting each other with enough ideological certainty to fuel Sellafield.

Lord Mackay of Clashfern, the Lord Chancellor, has been asked by the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee to justify legal aid cutbacks planned to come into effect in April and likely to affect 14 million people. The Palestinians said they had a narrow escape when a mortar bomb landed in a group of them on the road in the night but failed to explode.They tried in vain on Monday to march back into Israeli-held territory but were met by warning shots, mortar bombs and tank-fire from the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army Two of the deportees were wounded.. In 1973 they killed a Moroccan waiter in the Norwegian resort of Lillehammer in mistake for Ali Hassan Salameh, perpetrator of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games massacres.In 1987, British police investigating the murder of Naji Ali, a prominent Palestinian cartoonist, arrested another Palestinian in Hull, Ismail Sowan. Well might he have sought solace in food and drink, as his self-image dwindled and he was left playing a fat fool - clumsy, stupid, hot-tempered, and hypocritical (tetchily dismissive of Stan, but unctuously polite to outsiders: 'Why, thank you, Ma'am').Hardy hated being fat. People don't ask for them and guests certainly don't like giving them.In a majority of cases, women are the most interested in the list We've only had two men coming in completely on their own The women just couldn't get time off work. FROM THE moment that a refugee from Iraq paid 400 shekels of silver for a plot of land in which to bury his wife in the Judean hills south of Jerusalem 4,000 years ago, the history of that land has been soaked in the blood of rival claimants. THIRD-quarter figures from Thorn EMI showed strong profits growth in its music and rentals businesses, but continuing losses in electronics.

Mr Sproat has Thomas Hardy and the Duke of Wellington from the National Portrait Gallery. Sir: Tee, hee. Who says we have become a selfish nation? Yours sincerely,KATE STEVENSONKensington Consultation CentreLondon, SW815 October. 'Yes sir, come and have a look,' he told Western journalists with a broad grin.The UN refugee spokesman in Sarajevo, Peter Kessler, says that the fall of Igman is likely to spark panic - with up to 32,000 Muslims trying to flee from Hrasnica and other hamlets on the slopes of Igman across the free- fire zone of the airport to the city. The causes included the undermining of officers' credibility after the spate of miscarriages of justice, cost-cutting, and the looming root-and-branch reorganisation of the service by Kenneth Clarke, the Home Secretary.Mr Bennett denied solicitors' claims that officers were on a 'quiet strike'. 'He doesn't do it again, but he doesn't denounce it as evil either.

Pearly Harvest Festival, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London WC2. Few Israelis would dream of going to Gaza.And nowadays the Palestinians are often penned in, as they are now, under curfew. Spokesmen for the ministry in Bonn, however, say that the opposite was the case and that they advised caution until the UN gave the all-clear.According to some Bonn sources, the administration of Saxony-Anhalt sought the speedy evacuation of the children in order to ensure that their spare capacity to house orphans was used and that they would therefore receive more public funding.(Photograph omitted). Chesterton's residential arm, now owned by Woolwich Building Society, was sold the previous year.About two-thirds of sales come from property consultancy, including property management, valuation, rating and planning work and research. The officials, who are based in Banja Luka, said armed Serbs in uniform had murdered, raped, robbed and beaten Muslims and Croats in a series of attacks that the Bosnian Serb authorities had failed to discourage. 'In the last one or two months, we have seen an increase in ethnic violence in the area against non-Serbs, especially against the Muslim population,' said Joran Bjallerstedt, a UN refugee official. He noticed when he was young that newsreaders didn't have Geordie accents, so he dropped his own: 'Access to power and success had to mean changing the way I spoke,' he has explained, coolly, in his new polite and classless tones.But it didn't happen overnight.

On the buses, the introduction of the passenger information system 'Countdown', which gives the expected arrival time of the next bus, is likely to be delayed.Dennis Tunnicliffe, managing director of London Underground, said: 'We are going to have to concentrate on things that the passengers never notice, like drainage, embankments and power supply.'. David Cranston said Northumbrian's future plans were still likely to involve the incineration of sludge, but he said this would prove less profitable than treating toxic waste. Had the latter project been given the go-ahead it would have boosted Northumbrian's non-core activities. The scheme aims to provide volunteers as guest teachers or assistants in British schools (Photograph omitted). This was the result of pressure from campaigners, notably the television presenter Anne Diamond, whose baby Sebastian was a cot death victim.. Nigel Lloyd scored 37 points to lead Thames Valley Tigers to a 112-85 win at Oldham..