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For a final time, Ford took one of Yves Saint Laurent’s great themes and reworked it: for autumn/winter 2004, China was the inspiration. This meant Mao jackets in jewel-coloured satins worn with sexy, skin-tight pencil skirts. These were followed by full-length silk evening dresses patterned like antique Chinese screens.More references to the Orient came in the form of fur and patent leather stamped with fish scales and vertiginous peep-toed black sandals with lacquer red wedge heels. In Ford’s hands these became liquid black fishtail ensembles that clung to every curve It was clearly an emotional moment for the designer. As always, Ford paid tribute to the master of French fashion with a final sequence dedicated tole Smoking, introduced by Saint Laurent in the 1960s. The New Democracy leader must now deliver a successful Olympics in less than five months.Mr Karamanlis said: “We think there have been serious delays, omissions and mistakes but the time is up for criticism.”Our responsibility the day after we take power is to guarantee that the preparation flows onand we reach D-Day – D day one of the Games – and stage the best possible Olympics.”New ministers will have to bed in quickly.

He said: “I expect that we will have continuity in foreign and economic policy, and on the EU and the issue of Cyprus.”The future of Cyprus and the return of the Olympics to Greece after 108 years is likely to dominate the first year of the new administration.A host of projects for the August Games remain delayed, including a hi-tech dome over the Olympic stadium and roadworks on the centrepiece marathon route. The prison population has reached a new record, passing the 75,000 mark for the first time, the Prison Service said today. Gordon Brown may have to reducespending on education and defence to balance the nation’s books,a report by a Blairite think-tank says. The 2004 spending review is all about slicing up the remaining pie once health has been taken out.”The IPPR report said forecasts for economic growth would still allow increases in spending on education and other services. But it warned that they would fall short of the record rises of recent years.

A freeze in the proportion of GDP spent on education would produce real terms annual increases of about 2.5 per cent, compared with 6 per cent real terms rises in recent years.Mr Robinson said: “The proportion of GDP for all the public services other than health on average will have to fall, so some core areas of public service are going to have to see their proportion of GDP decline. Grey says: “I know of people who still have drug and alcohol problems because of the abuse they suffered from the church. I’ve managed to break with my past, but I know their lives are still pretty awful.”. The nine police officers forced to resign after being caught making racist comments on a BBC documentary will not face prosecution, it was confirmed today. The victims have had to wait nearly 30 years for their complaints to be properly heard.