They were not used for a full international match until 20 November 1963 when England played Northern Ireland

They were not used for a full international match until 20 November 1963 when England played Northern Ireland.Other illuminating points are that the League Cup was inaugurated to encourage floodlit football and the last two league clubs to install floodlights were Hartlepool in 1965 and Chesterfield in October 1967.Floodlights encouraged glossy synthetic shirts and white balls. I was not being entirely facetious when I suggested recently building a concert hall at Heathrow - partly to make sure Mr Terry Dicks MP had some voting constituents in the arts, but also to offer a cultural heart to an area dominated by impersonal activities.All in all, a lot of serious and imaginative thinking needs to be done, and quickly, if the city is not to become unappealing in comparison with Paris, Berlin and Prague or even Britain's other cities. The intention is to illustrate the long journey of technology, but these two items also symbolise the problem with the show: the overshadowing of today's radio by the ghost of radio past. In the event, trading profits were so good HSBC decided to take the bad news in the first half and keep the profit for the full year. Meanwhile the secular London University, founded in 1826, was already experiencing cash-flow problems, and professors were encouraged to give profit-making lectures and increase student numbers.The range and diversity of London - World City admirably captures its subject. 'Disruption has been very minimal,' she said.Napo took action after a claim for a 7 per cent rise above inflation to compensate for extra duties brought in by the new criminal justice system was rejected.

There is also an exhibition at the Leeds City Art Gallery called 'Cotmania and Mr Kitson', celebrating the superb collection of watercolours by John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) formed by Sidney Kitson in the 1930s. JAMES BAILY, who won the Australian Open junior singles title 11 days ago, lost his first senior match yesterday. One minute he's gazing into the big blue horizon, the next he's peering through his neighbours' windows: taking a peek at fathers sipping coffee; children doing homework; women undressing by the light of a television set. Wealthy pensioners whose income takes them well into higher tax rates will be pounds 428 a year worse off. Is there now a giraffe named Sally Gunnell at London Zoo? Yes, there is. Mulberry-scented, robust, lively Portuguese red for equally robust parties.1992 Angoves Nanya Estate Grenache Pinot Noir, pounds 2.99, Oddbins. She was generous in character, and nothing that might help the plight of animals escaped her attention Her house was always a sanctuary for animals in need.

However, if only in the interests of historical accuracy, the letter of 1 March from your correspondent Philip Stewart must be corrected. AFTER months of delay, during which he claimed that he was suffering from brain damage, depression and a fallen IQ, Alan Bond, the bankrupt Australian tycoon, changed his mind yesterday and agreed to appear before an examination of his bankruptcy. The cut came after an emergency meeting last Friday between the Prime Minister, Kiichi Miyazawa, and his top economic advisers, called to inspire some confidence in the Japanese economy in the plunging Tokyo stock market.Economists said the timing of Friday's meeting and the subsequent leaking of news about the discount rate cut appeared to be politically motivated since Japanese voters went to the polls yesterday to elect 127 members of the upper house of parliament.Traditionally the ruling Liberal Democratic Party gains electoral support during times of economic downturn by projecting itself as the only party that can be relied on to get business moving again.On Friday Mr Miyazawa said a supplementary budget in the range of Y6,000bn to Y7,000bn ( pounds 26bn to pounds 30bn) would be presented by the government in September.News of the meeting came after the Nikkei stock average plunged to its lowest level in six years. They may like him, but they know he has not brought them good fortune. The bailing-out of the US savings and loans industry - the equivalent of our building societies - is costing the taxpayer several hundreds of billions of dollars.

These two, he has always claimed with characteristic modesty, are much funnier than he is. The news of Mr Mellor's intervention in one of the biggest financial scandals in the recent history of the NHS coincides with an admission by the Government that ministers had repeatedly been warned about the project. Two months ago, an investigation by the Independent and Computer Weekly revealed the existence of two confidential district auditor reports which criticised the role played by the Wessex chairman, Sir Robin Buchanan, in the management of the Regional Information Systems Plan (RISP). After her acquittal by a jury at the Old Bailey in London, Rebecca Teacher, 18, said that she would be asking the police to investigate The Teachers, set up by her father Kevin O'Byrne, 55. The company encouraged a new generation of directors including Roger Blin, Jean-Marie Serreau and Roger Planchon who mounted new plays by these and other playwrights. A Dublin businessman at the centre of the case which created an international outcry over Ireland's abortion laws was yesterday jailed for 14 years for unlawful sex with a 14-year-old schoolgirl. The deep river of the later book's title, the Ganges, serves as a fluid metaphor throughout the novel. The seemingly more exacting activity, securing a new contract with Williams-Renault, goes on amid growing expectancy that he will have the opportunity of defending his world championship.