Debates on hanging and lowering the age of consent from 21 are expected to take place early in the Bill’s committee stage.
Edwina Currie, Conservative MP for Derbyshire South, said young people felt able to make up their own minds at 16, the current heterosexual age of consent. Apart from the generally unflattering portrayal of golf-club life, it drew attention to the fact that lady members have no voting rights and are not allowed to play at certain prime times over the weekend.
Northwoood have since been inundated with telephone calls from indignant ladies all over the country complaining about this disgraceful treatment and also from a few men who said it sounded like just their sort of club and asked if there were any vacancies.The more significant reaction came from within the club and already a director of the board has resigned and an extraordinary general meeting has been called by angry members wanting to know why the club had allowed themselves to be exposed to public ridicule.Cutting Edge is the documentary programme that added such a sad postscript to Graham Taylor’s forlorn career as England manager. Only in a beautiful coda, a fantasy of what life might have been in the Calabrian sun, do we come to feel for the people we’ve seen mown down.La Crise (15) is a highly intelligent comedy from Coline Serreau (director of Romuald and Juliette and the original of Three Men and a Baby), with one major drawback – it’s not that funny. I just relax in one-dayers and am happy if it turns out to be my day If I fail, I don’t worry I know there will be another one along soon.’. The figure was excised in line with instructions by John Smith, the party leader, not to make firm and costed policy commitments far in advance of the next general election.. The easiest thing to do is to open people up; it is much more difficult to develop a strategy for putting them back together again.Anyone contemplating going on a course should find out whether there is any support after the event. Demand was so high that supply could hardly keep pace with it.Remember the warning in the summer of 1989 of champagne rationing? Heady days Big price increases followed.

Now, with The Cubisms of Juan Gris at the Whitechapel, we have some compensation Gris is generally reckoned the third man of Cubism. But after an intensive audit, Mr Fife said he believed the systems were probably not at fault.He said: ‘The mechanics worked, but we missed something in the communications. I was expecting to hear the voice of the alien intelligence which controlled the building to start telling us what to do.Behind the bed was a notebook to record one’s comments, and even pre-printed multiple answer sheets on sexual themes, with his and her columns – how was the foreplay, how long, orgasm count, and so on.The whole thing was more intimidating than one’s firstadolescent experiences with the opposite sex. ‘I’ll now try to beat Pat’s 209, but for the moment it’s just great to reach this target,’ he said. He will also accompany Ian Wright, the striker who is on a misconduct charge, to his hearing tomorrow.’We’ll take our punishment when we deserve it but I know the media loves making a great thing of it whenever Arsenal are involved,’ he said.

‘We checked them all before they came in for this season and they were all right,’ he said. Between such promises and his avowed commitment to open and free trade, and to completion of the Uruguay Round and a North American Free Trade Agreement, there is ample room for misunderstanding.He would do well to negotiate immediately an overarching political framework with the EC that would allow both sides to better manage their sector-specific trade disputes, as well as any broader challenges. Its advice is frequently sought by official bodies, and behind the scenes it does much lobbying of government. Condompower, or the Condomerie as it is also known in Dublin, stocks more than 200 types of condoms and related products.

Ben Luckwell and Mark Walsham, ‘guesting’ just for the Milk Race, each picked up pounds 1,000 for winning stages.Such hauls are only once-a-year even for a Banana man. But he goes on painting, and has a major show later this year. ROBERT KEY, the roads minister, recently scandalised environmentalists with a shameless confession of his youthful and enduring passion for cars and roads. Even now, nobody knows what catalyst it was that was added to the chemistry of their alienation, or their relationship with each other, or their past experiences, to produce that terrible reaction. The economic recovery, the market believes, remains on schedule and there is a wide expectation that shares will continue to improve. Powergen, for instance, has given a lump-sum payment to existing pensioners and increased the size of its regular pension payments.Nuclear Electric did improve some terms of its scheme, as a result of the surplus, at the insistence of elected trustees. The women’s bright red wigs and stockings strongly evoke Otto Dix and, in one of the most visually effective scenes, when Wozzeck, having murdered Marie, returns to the dance, the ‘black house’ is just slightly raised (like a hat) to reveal a mass of dancing red knees.
The starkness of the set and the vividness of the colours serve, paradoxically, to emphasise the richness of Berg’s score.

But while it may once have been crucial to the international aid effort in Bosnia, that is not the case now.The apparent end of the Muslim- Croat war, and the lull in fighting on some other fronts, mean that the UN has been able to increase its aid deliveries by road to central Bosnia, the worst affected area. The sport’s administrators and the owners of the Formula One teams seem permanently locked in a ghastly battle to prove that – as the old yuppie T- shirt slogan had it – he who dies with the most toys wins. THE DECLINE of Britain is even more serious than stated by Chris Waller (Letters, 10 July). Fitch, though, should be careful.One of the Americans who may lose out is called Matthew F Napoleon.As the City Road column on this page comments, the announcement of Abbey National’s wacky tax credit wheeze served to obscure detailed examination of the bank’s results.In fact, City hacks attending the company’s press briefing were perplexed to find that results were not even included in the press pack.They were further bamboozled by the prolixity of Sir Christopher Tugendhat’s answers to their queries. Rick Holden, the pounds 900,000 winger bought from Oldham in the close-season, may be left on the bench. The small pile was the one we were selling to Italy; the mountain was the rejects.’Didn’t you know that you can’t sell anything over there that is over two inches long?’ he asked. Those who had finished their round retired to the bar while others continued their, for the most part, pedestrian progress around a pedigree course in a Stableford format: one point for par, two for a birdie, three for an eagle.George Nunn, at 90 years of age the oldest of 93 competitors, scored 23 points.