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In Stockton-on-Tees, Sheffield, Oldham, Stafford, Loughborough or Northampton, you could have two semis for that price. They want men of calibre to believe in.' It is possible that Bob Lasagna, the genius from Saatchi & Saatchi who masterminded the Berlusconi campaign, might have welcomed the chance to rewrite these unscripted observations by the wife of the man likely to become the next Prime Minister of the Italian Republic. I made a canal cruiser which we still use, a dinghy, a conservatory for our house in Kent and I invented electrically powered fanlights for it. The college wants to extract 3.5 million tons of gravel from fields near the Thames at Dorney to protect its pupils from the dangers of rowing on the overcrowded river. John Gummer, the Secretary of State for the Environment, yesterday overturned a county council decision to reject the scheme. In real terms, Yomiuri Verdy, the Marinos and the eight other teams in the J-League, are more than just a score line.

Even finding a common agenda will be an enormous challenge.A theoretically workable solution might be as follows. The Midland Bank, for example, has agreed to donate copies of The Forward Book of Poetry (containing tomorrow's prize-winners) to British schools.(Photograph omitted). Jones flung over another of his devastating long throws, Fashanu flicked it on and in the melee of panicked defenders, Neil Ardley's determination was enough to bundle the ball home.The Dons were never content to rest on their lead. MERCANTILE & General, the reinsurance company owned by Prudential Corporation, said it was extremely pleased with the outcome of this year's general insurance renewals seasons, and reiterated its aim to be the world's leading life reinsurer.

Even those life companies that use independent financial advisers will have to overcome the negative effect that disclosing what they earn will have on the selling process. 'I know of no one in Bonn,' retorted the holidaying chancellor, 'who has more contact with people in the East than I do.' Presumably, by telephone.KARLSRUHE - An East German woman who worked as a secretary for Martin Bangemann, the EC Commission vice-president, has been charged with espionage, German prosecutors said yesterday, Reuter reports. It says earnings will be pounds 5,000 and more a month and that they believe the scheme will generate the biggest incomes ever seen in networking. I had no pension, I had asked my family to sacrifice a lot over the years (Des has been married three times) and so I thought it was time to make some money.'This is the Des who worked for the Liberal Democrats for nothing - and for precious little thanks - for two years, the Des who used to doss in cheap King's Cross hotels between the last meeting and the first breakfast meeting, the Des who had come from New Zealand wanting to watch a lot of cricket and movies and had managed very little of either.It is a mark of Des's particular talents that none of this sounds defensive. Last week record rises greeted the prospect of an end to political uncertainty.All the signs are that Mr Berlusconi has lost patience with the League's leader, Umberto Bossi, who yesterday stepped up the tirade of political invective he has been pouring on his 'ally' since the last days of the election campaign.Mr Bossi, dubbed the Attila of Italian politics, accused 'Berluskaiser' of endangering democracy. I SEE that the Home Office minister David Maclean rejected a document because it was politically correct, so we can now be confident the Home Office will do all in its power to maintain the incorrect bias in favour of white, British, middle-class, hetero males That's all right then David Bradnack Aylesbury, Bucks. This is a historical timepiece, an interesting experiment of the age, and has to be given special status.'Crittall, the manufacturer, which has been involved in the high-profile renovation of the Hoover Building in west London and the famous steel curtain-walling of the Boots Building D10 at Beeston, near Nottingham, finds itself caught between the conservationists and the users.Mark Schlotel, Crittall marketing manager, is in the thick of it.

THE DECLARATIONS and odds for Sunday's Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown, released yesterday, present a puzzle. She is wary of her interrogator, a police sergeant who could not possibly understand her eccentric life, and who, she mistakenly believes, is investigating the murder Moloch committed years ago.Because of this staccato narrative and the startling scenes - the fantasy battle the missionaries hear above the still waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Catherine's night in the Australian forest, her visit to the slaughterhouse - the novel seems at first a bewildering collection of visions and mysteries. But he has noticed a subtle change in the problems brought to him by women. Most are already putting finishing touches to the best embassy buildings in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, which for the past 120 years has been the chief commercial, industrial and administrative capital of Central Asia's 50 million people.'I suppose you'd have to call Britain's policy one of benign neglect,' said one European ambassador, an echo of straitened times in the 19th century when British India justified inaction with a policy of 'masterly inactivity'.The mission will certainly be important. Taking December and January together, the figures point to average lending growth of around pounds 2bn a month, up from the pounds 1.5bn monthly average of the previous six months.The lending figures were adjusted for seasonal influences, like large corporation tax payments last month, which may have prompted companies to borrow more. Loik Le Floch-Prigent, Elf's chairman, who yesterday revealed net profits for 1992 down 36.7 per cent at Fr6.2bn ( pounds 756m), said he hoped a 10-15 per cent cut in this year's investment budget would mean higher profits, even without an upturn in the world economy.Like other oil companies, Elf has been hit by a weak oil price, poor refining margins, a falling dollar and declining demand.Last week, Elf, which owns a quarter of Enterprise, the UK oil company, said its separately quoted Elf Sanofi pharmaceutical arm was buying the couturier Yves Saint Laurent for pounds 400m.

And to a score by John Lanchbery, assembled out of Victorian and Edwardian theatre music, he concocted a series of charming danced divertissements. MOST PEOPLE, when they hear that a house has been bought by the National Trust, will picture in their minds a country residence of the 18th or 19th centuries. Throw in the national networks Classic, Virgin, Talk Radio UK (due to come on air next February), and, of course, the four new licences up for grabs, and we are talking about a commercial marketplace only marginally less crowded than the Portobello Road on a sunny day.Commercial radio's growth in London has been remarkable - it has more than doubled its share of listening hours from 25 per cent in 1987 to 57.2 today. At one point a consultant had asked me very diffidently if I was gay. This happens despite the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees that flatly prohibits expulsion of a refugee, especially those fleeing wars and persecution.The anti-immigrant laws are having the desired effect: in the first six months of 1992, there were 11,875 applications for asylum; in the first half of 1993, there were 2,490.The legal perimeter fence around the country is similar to that which the EC has been building for the past few years, under which asylum is refused when a refugee has travelled through a 'safe country'.