It would be nice to know what I did for that 150 metres.’Alas, he will never know. It’s deceptively easy to slip into conversational mode – which mustn’t happen It’s like walking a tight-rope. Sir Alec Guinness, now 80, is made a Companion of Honour, as, from a rather different theatre, is the European Union’s [...]

When Faldo challenged strongly for the US Open five years ago he, like most of the leading Europeans, played regularly in America. He pleaded guilty to five kidnaps, three rapes and an attempted rape between June 1988 and December 1991 in Weymouth, Dorchester and Bridport. It is an ideal course, he said, for team engineers [...]

Although it costs more to preserve food by ohmic heating than by freezing, the subsequent costs are lower because goods do not need to be distributed and stored in freezers. Geoffrey Langley has now supplied us with a complete set of jokes to fit the punch-lines, including the following theological riddle: If the Trinity is [...]

In Medway, where a pilot scheme has been run, half the patients who called had agreed to visit the centre, he said.Brian Mawhinney, the Minister for Health, in a letter to GPs’ leaders, says that he agrees ‘in principle’ to the idea ‘I envisage that these centres could. Already Britain’s strict laws of libel provide [...]

‘If you live in a low inflation, sound money environment, then people’s attitudes towards housing will change, but that is not a policy objective,’ said the source.Ministers also believe that many banks and building societies are now reverting to more prudent behaviour over loans and the gearing ratio with borrowers’ incomes.Gordon Brown, the shadow Chancellor, [...]

Mr Husseini conveyed this to the US Consul-General in East Jerusalem, Molly Williamson, shortly after he returned from Cairo on yesterday.’Mr Husseini had explained to Miss Williamson that the conditions do not help our attendance of the negotiations on 20 April,’ spokesman Salah al-Zuhaikeh said.Mr Zuhaikeh said this was the common feeling at the meeting [...]