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The local authority sought a middle way and drew up a strict plan controlling development to 2000. Sir: Charles Kennedy was right to criticise Peter Snow’s analysis of the European votes on the BBC’s Europe Decides programme last night. I was taken aback, until she began laughing and said: ‘The whole school’s caught puberty.’She went on to say that the five- year-olds had got it, the eight-year- olds had it and and some of the more enterprising children had taken it home and passed it onto their brothers and sisters.She had been alerted to this by phone calls from a few perplexed parents who, when asking ‘And what did you do at school today?’, had received strange replies. The British pair intend to concentrate on putting together a farewell professional tour following their failure to capture a second Olympic title in Hamar last week.
The decision reflects their confusion and disillusionment with the judging criteria which placed them third at the Winter Games despite the fact they gave what they regard as one of their best performances.The judges’ verdict dismayed a majority of the 23 million viewers who watched their performance on BBC – a record domestic figure for a sporting event. Somerset have a Dutchman playing for them who could one day play cricket for England. It went very well.”It’s both pathological and useful to her,’ said a former Chatto executive.

NEXT year is set to a be a ‘crunch’ period for financial reporting, Sir Ron Dearing, chairman of the Financial Reporting Council, warns in the accounting watchdog’s second annual review, published today. Eminent jurist-linguists, including the brilliant Jean-Claude Piris of Brussels, had frowned on ‘thus’ and ‘therefore’ but Jean-Claude had gazed on ‘accordingly’ and pronounced it good. She was not sufficiently pressed to do farmyard impressions until playing Mary Joe Fernandez in the semi-finals and Sanchez Vicario in the final, which she won, 6-3, 6-3, in 90 minutes.Since turning professional three and a half years ago, the 18-year-old Seles has won more than dollars 6m (pounds 3.15m) in official prize-money alone; one reason, perhaps, why she has not been taken off the tour for a spell to eliminate the grunting habit. Mr Pitman was right about the need to rationalise high street banking in Britain – his vision was utterly correct – but in truth he was never going to be allowed to do it; no government in its right mind could have sanctioned such a merger.The second attempt, yesterday’s agreed pounds 1.8bn takeover of Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society, is a more pragmatic and infinitely safer approach to the same problem. Hence, the speculation that elements within the PRI itself may have behind Colosio’s assassination.

HAD he played his cards right it is possible that Darren Clarke could have been scrummaging down with the Irish pack, preparing for a hard season in the Five Nations’ Championship. His presence at the largest extermination centre in history would be likely to generate worldwide outrage among Jews and non-Jews alike – something he might welcome as a way of enhancing his nationalist credentials at home.In contrast to his planned trip to Germany last month, which was cancelled after the German government refused him entry, the Polish authorities say they lack legal grounds for keeping him out. Fire with Fire proposes a different prospectus, one that scours all blocs in the political firmament for radicals and egalitarians, for a new coalition around Power Feminism. He added that it behaved ‘like a doctor who waits for the patient to be certified dead before going to the bedside’.