They appear to have decided before the curtain rises who are the heroes and who the villains.In the report on News At Ten, issued within 24 hours of taking evidence (funny how fast MPs can write reports when it is a subject that concerns their own public exposure), the ITV chiefs seem to have changed from witnesses to defendants. As for the SFO forgery allegation, the Attorney said he had personally apologised to Sir David for 'a grave error of misjudgement'.However, he assured MPs that the forgery had not been 'a matter of dishonesty'; rather a very stupid thing that should not be allowed to 'muddy the waters'.Yesterday, as publication of letters between Mr Mates and the the Attorney General was delayed for at least 24 hours, the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee decided to examine the operation of the Serious Fraud Office in the autumn.It was left to Sir David to reveal that his complaint had been brushed aside by the SFO, which said the forgery had been a 'thoroughly misguided April Fool joke', and that he had been unable to pursue the matter because the letter had been destroyed.The author of the forgery, an SFO lawyer, had been 'heavily ticked off', but was still working for the Office, according to a government source.In his response to Mr Mates's resignation statement, Sir Nicholas said the police were investigating an alleged conspiracy to bribe Mr Justice Tucker, the judge in the Nadir case. Yet after he emigrated to Rhodesia and rebuilt his fortune, Rowland chose to return to the UK in the early Sixties and fight his battles with the British establishment on its home ground.Bower's book delves deeply into Rowland's life and career to reveal a buccaneering, charming entrepreneur who lives by his wits and is not averse to making payments to the odd African politician. Serbia's bakers have stopped baking - why sell bread at that price when a kilogram of flour costs 10,000 dinars on the black market?Agriculture, the pride of Serbia, is becoming a source of social tension. Apart from his laughable lisp, now insured with Lloyd's of London - it was said - for a million dollars, he had a catchphrase - 'Oh, you make me tho mad]' - and comedy clothes, an unchanging uniform of checkered pork-pie hat, jacket to match, and outsize, flowing tie.

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Two hundred staff will be in place early next year with the rest following by 1995.Mercury hopes to have 2 million domestic customers by the end of the decade, compared with about 250,000 at present. The two occupants of the car, a Sikh and his wife, were shaken but unharmed.'Manoj,' I asked my driver, 'why did the bus man run away?''Maybe he thought the people in the bus would kill him,' Manoj replied matter-of-factly.That conversation stayed in my mind when I read a macabre story in yesterday's newspaper. He told me 'I can put a meter in for you, mate, but there's no power.

But he is also a proud clansman, whose family motto is 'Thank God I am a Maclean,' and whose most distant forebear, Gillean of the Battle-Axe, commanded the 13th-century territories of Ardgour, Duart and Lochbuie.In their ambiguity towards cohesion, the Yugoslav plemena (tribes), are not unreminiscent of the Scottish clans who once butchered each other with the frenzy now evident in Bosnia- Herzegovina. The rules of this country's criminal justice system are of little value if they are not applied equally to everyone. Source: Hardwick Stafford Wright -----------------------------------------------. 'Naturally, I shall not be a candidate,' he said.'Young people aged 15 to 20, for as long as they have been politically conscious, have seen nothing but me,' he said. We are achieving the performance measures we have set.'What is more, he says, it will evolve A statement about the environment is one recent addition. So a law firm, when looking at its business plan and its clients' needs, should also think about the training it is giving. In the event it was a correct reading of the market's jittery runes. Investors are finely divided on whether House of Fraser is a down-at-heel example of a low- growth retail formula or a genuinely cheap issue at an unfair discount to its sector.Both arguments have their merits.

But the best was saved to last; a team from the Kelleway family - their Slight Risk posted the fastest lap, 8min 11sec - and a couple of Hamdan Al Maktoum horses began to redress the balance. Patrick Minford and others have calculated that the immobility of unskilled labour induced by the Rents Act and council house subsidies adds two percentage points to the natural rate of unemployment, say, 500,000 workers.The Government has been far too timid in its approach to housing deregulation. A total of Y10.7 trillion, or 2.3 per cent of the GNP, was earmarked for reviving the country's sagging economy. It can be written on anything.Indeed, he once tested this by cashing a cheque written on a cow, and the bank accepted it. He was a remarkable all-rounder and a splendid companion.(Photograph omitted).

It's also true that one can weary of compositional sketches by, say, 17th-century church decorators. Labour MPs also shouted: 'Disgraceful.'Mr Lamont later told friends that he had given Mr Major a chance to reinforce his support for the Union. This information would be passed to the Foreign Office, which if necessary would send it to experts in other departments.But the vice-chancellors have overwhelmingly rejected the scheme. Narrow lanes coursed between exquisite wooden houses, executed in the local, linear style. It was the latter parent that provided the short stiff straw that was to make Proctor so useful. Seventy five people were transplanted from HTB to start things off, including Dave Clifton, a professional musician who has played the guitar for, among others, Tanita Tikaram and Julia Fordham.'As soon as people find out you can play music, you find yourself roped in,' he said.