But they jumped into the back of a camper van at the French port and the driver did not know they were inside until he saw them leap out 50 miles from Portsmouth at Fordingbridge, Hampshire.Police arrested them and handed them over to immigration officers who were preparing to send them back to France. Inside this hotel there are neither beds nor chairs – in fact there is very little furniture at all. This belief was not born out of a lack of interest in the rest of the world. Tim Sainsbury, the Industry Minister, said the Government would not intervene.Robin Cook, Labour party spokesman on trade and industry, said: ‘The steel industry in Europe is in crisis and instead of tackling that crisis the EC have just done their best to deepen it.’At a time when the future of jobs in British Steel turns on a knife-edge, today’s whopping fine could tilt the balance to more redundancies.’Mr van Miert announced the fines within hours of a meeting between Martin Bangemann, industry commissioner, and heads of European steel companies to discuss further capacity cuts.The European steel industry has excess production capacity of 30 million tonnes and the Commission is demanding that unsubsidised firms offer initial capacity cuts of 3 million tonnes by 22 April.(Photograph omitted)Leading article, page 17.

Efforts to get him to testify at the Constitutional Court’s trial of the Communist Party – the core of the row with Mr Yeltsin – were doomed to failure, said Mr Gorbachev. Instead, it is designed to encourage accountants in public practice and business alike to use their ‘expertise in measurement’ to develop systems of performance measurement that integrate the financial and non-financial sides and to consider what impact such a development might have on different types of organisation. Writes Pooh: ‘I have found Mr Rutland, my local butcher, of inestimable assistance.’If I had pounds 445,000 lying around, I might be severely tempted, if only because of the home’s romantic pedigree: Lady’s Cottage and its 70 acres of woodland are rumoured to be the model for the setting of steamy goings-on in D H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. At one time there was a feeling that if you went north you were betraying your own people but everyone was very kind to me. Most of this has been made without great publicity and involves private money – precisely what every other Western investor has failed to deliver.

Although in some cases the courts have attempted to go as far as they can down this road by making no award, or a nominal award only in respect of a child, the door to future claims for child maintenance has never been completely closed in such cases.
The important difference is that in an application to a court to award child maintenance following a Clean Break Order, the court would undoubtedly take account of the previous clean break arrangements, but the Child Support Agency takes no such account and is free to operate as though an otherwise perfectly valid court order did not exist.It seems to me that in thus stepping outside the established legal framework and creating a new set of rules of its own, presumably in order to produce the result it wants, the Government is setting a dangerous precedent.Perhaps, to redress the balance, the Government should amend the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 so as to permit a review of Clean Break Orders where a Child Support maintenance assessment is subsequently made.Yours faithfully,J R GUDGEONPartnerP T Ryan & Co (Solicitors)King’s Lynn,Norfolk23 December. Directors Stephen Frears (in Dangerous Liaisons) and Martin Scorsese (in his forthcoming film of Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence) have both found techniques that enable them to be suspicious about the past. (First Edition)

AS Valentine’s Day approaches, it’s hearts and flowers all round. (First Edition)

Cissie, a 10ft-long Indian rock python, was stolen while its owner David Bacon, 43, a stripper from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, performed on stage. Either way, he let the buyout go through – though even he did not bargain for Holloran taking his office furniture to his new base.’The deal was that I could have all the assets in the BPC businesses,’ Holloran explained. How much is paid into the long-term bonus scheme is determined by a complex formula related to the share price. In Chester Square, Lady Thatcher’s intended new address, a purpose-built flat with a 65-year lease took a year to sell, for pounds 480,000, after dropping pounds 45,000..

A row like this, argues Lynne Taylor-Binns, consultant psychologist to Exploring Parenthood, a parental guidance organisation, is often about something other than the issue that triggers it.In this case, Marianne had returned the day before from a residential training course and felt out of sync and tired. But a somewhat sinister note was struck when ultra-nationalists leapt on to a hastily erected stage brandishing posters of Jozef Tiso, leader of the Nazi puppet state set up in Slovakia during the Second World War.’There is no justification for drawing parallels between the Slovak state created then and that of today,’ assured Mr Meciar at an eve-of-independence press conference ‘At that time, it was enforced upon us. The high-profile battle to save Bart’s dominated media coverage of the saga.’They used everything bar artificial snow and violins,’ sniped one hospital chief executive. ‘Sampras is probably a better No 1 than Courier, because he always had the potential to be the No 1,’ he said, ‘but it is not good for the game that a player can be No 1 without winning one of the Grand Slams. Elvis Costello raised the matter of the poignant pronunciation that they share with David Vine, and spoke movingly of the video for ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’, in which Agnetha appeared through a ‘gauze halo’. In addition MAFF is encouraging bakers and cereal manufacturers to put folic acid in a greater range of their products..