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During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces. Actors - Brunella Bovo, Alberto Sordi. Duration - 83 Minute. 1952. 
. Ratings - 7,8 of 10.
Uma das letras mais belas do musica brasileira. Quite an interesting comedy with ideas about fantasy versus reality, a wonderful Nino Rota score, and great work by Bovo, an actress who can capture some great expressions on her face: realistically big-eyed, naïve and innocent, as is required for her character. The film does however suffer from unevenness, trying to balance two styles of comedy - light-hearted semi fantasy and silly slapstick. By themselves either style works fine, but when joined together, it becomes a little messy. The film is not really helped by excessively silly supporting characters, and Trieste feels very over-the-top at times. Still, the aforementioned virtues, and interesting camera-work with an extensive range of different angles, are enough to keep this film afloat. Definitely recommended, even if not perfect.
Download torrent abismo de um sonho dourado. Fiquei com medo desse filme no entro em caverna nen a pau. Lindo e emocionante filme, amei. Edit Release Dates Italy 6 September 1952 (Venice Film Festival) (premiere) 27 September 1952 (Milan) 13 December 1952 (Rome) 14 August 1953 (Turin) Belgium 15 April 1955 France 7 October 1955 USA 25 April 1956 Netherlands 29 March 1957 Portugal 16 May 1958 Spain March 1959 (Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid) Denmark 10 October 1959 (TV premiere) West Germany 27 April 1962 April 1965 (Madrid) Finland 15 February 1977 (TV premiere) Argentina 8 November 2002 (Clásicos de estreno) 6 June 2003 (re-release) 20 August 2003 (Copenhagen International Film Festival) Poland 20 July 2007 (ERA New Horizons Film Festival) Canada 15 September 2009 (Toronto International Film Festival) Serbia 28 November 2015 (FAF Belgrade) 31 August 2019 (Venice Film Festival) Also Known As (AKA) (original title) Lo sceicco bianco El sheik Belgium (Flemish title) De witte cheik Belgium (French title) Le scheik blanc Brazil Abismo de um Sonho Bulgaria (Bulgarian title) Белият шейх Canada (French title) Le Cheik blanc Den hvide sheik East Germany Der weiße Scheich Valkoinen sheikki France (alternative title) Courrier du coeur Le sheik blanc Georgia Tetri Sheikhi Greece (transliterated title) O lefkos seihis Greece Ο λευκός σεΐχης Hungary A fehér sejk Netherlands (Dutch title) (theatrical title) De witte sjeik Norway Den hvite sheiken Biały szejk O Sheik Branco Romania Seicul alb Beli šeik Soviet Union (Russian title) Белый шейх El jeque blanco UK The White Sheik Die bittere Liebe World-wide (English title) Yugoslavia (Serbian title) (literal title) Beli seik.
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Year after sodden year, his “Low Life" column in the Spec- tator kept the magazine's thoughtful, right-wing, reader- ship up to speed what - lesser mortals were doing - 'drinking, smoking, gambling and forgetting who they had had sex with the previous nighL His funeral yesterday brought the louche, the sleazy, thegrog-blossomed, the ashen- faded, the wrecked, the sullen and the urtargaably glamorous to the West London CremaUv rtum at Kensal Green, immor- talised in Chesterton’s poem The Rolling English as the place we shall all wind up, en route to paradise. ■; Learning Welsh can help with; your maths ‘. -‘V’ The poem vvas readfi^Pdtcr OTbore, his eyes alapnra^y- bright, Ms tie red, his shut white, his suit blue, Kke a walk- ing d econstructed Union Flag.. Around him, writers, wits,! ■. drinkers,. • stay-up-aU-nigbt phi! osopbers and brazen former squeezers listened to this tri- ■ umphant vindication of this rolling English drunkard. Alice Thomas Blis, a -tragic vision in monochrome maqitil- lagt, looked as though she had walked off the set of Medea. Beryi Bainbridge looked girl- ish, Jonathan Meades looked unusually ge- - ■ _ nial, Paul Ray-, TJ », mond (of Jeft SLS Revueba flame),. •, was untecogois- hlR iUC able. ■Present and. ■ £IS 1 past editors of the Spectator. tacked to. and fro.. _ Alexander Chancellor made a speech which included the line; “Well, the paparazzi are definitely not -responsible for this'*. ' “I was' talking to Charles Moore the other day", said Frank Johnson, “and told him, you know I think I was theonly i' M bn »T. ' gtcnuJf THW Spectator' e&ai he genuinely liked.. Charles said yes I nursed thariHuacin for a while myself’. " Hi^were Iin Cbok and An- thony Macfotosh, owner of tbe Grqncho dub, and Sue Gluck, ‘Jeff always said it would he just his luck to go on the same day as the Queen Mother... ’ last ofBernanfs four wives, his daughter Isobel his brothers Brace, tbe art critic; and Oliv- er -who read movingly a plea for tolerance from one of Jeffs columns, and startled the gath- ering by doing itin Jeff’s voice. It was a family bereavement but it was the nation’s —but no, there was little chance of grandiose sentiment, with such a concentration of cynics -arouitdL “Jeff always said it would be jiist his luck to go on the same day as Tbe Queen Mother" said Keith Waterhouse. “But to die juist in between Princess Diana and Mother Tbresa, with George Solti as a kind of run- ner up - well ifs ridiculous. And did you see the guy who was cremated before him? Aif Fletcher, a bookie. There was a floral picture of a horse and rider, winning a race. It was perfect - Jeff Bernard pipped ■ ' ' at; the post ', ' a gain: * De JUSt As every-?. ■ one lit' up Qedav Marlboro --, *' Lights (the tii crematorium lobby* ham- ■ mered by a ■ sudden thun- derstorm, became a grimly de- termined smokers convention), a controversy blew up. The family had decided to hold the post-funeral wake at the Grouaro. But a hard-line faction insisted only the Coach and Horses, Bernard's old wa- tering hole, would da At the pub, the landlord, Norman prowls about, violet- shirt ed and growly.. Bruce Bernard arrives to shepherd stragglers to the Groudio wake, A bleak tray of salami and mortadeDasats wanly on ihe bar: A drooping red-head orders an- other large Bell's. O’Toole, drinking pints, widens his blue eyes in amazement at what someone has said. Soho in September. Jeff’s patch. We could be here all af- ternoon. Nazi gold in Britain to goto Holocaust victims Judith Judd.. Education Editor W&h, a language which; not long; and peasants, can help pupate un-. deretand maths better, according, to a new research paper.. Welsh-speaking pupils may - have an advantage over. others because of the way in which Their language expresses math- ematical ideas.. In Welsh, for'exwnpfe, the immberl8ismidfSflgw^h ot dh maw. Tfam$lated, they be- ■ cqmc “one ten andeight” and ‘faro n£^’* re^pec^ly; Wslsh-speakmg children con- fronted ‘with a question on --quadrilaterals in' the 1995 ns? -bond test for U-ycsar-oWsittay have had an advantage, pa- perougues. because the Welsh for quadrilateral is pearachz which translates as four fives. • -. Dylan V Jones, erf the Dep- artment of Education - at die. University of Wales. Abeiyst-. who will present the pa-' per toihorkw at the British Education Association's annu- al conference m York, said “the past few years have witnessed Anthony Bevins Political Editor ■, •. ■ British and American holdings of Nazi gold, worth up to £4Qm, are switched into a fend to help victims of the Holocaust, it was announced last night. Agreement reached between the Uflited States, Britain and France unlocks' a 5&-year-old post-war reparation deal that dt- wded the gold up between gov- dnments - specifically excluding all claims from indi- viduals whose gold was stolen. few the Nazi Reich.... ' deal was announced in Brussels yesterday after a "meetirw rfmeTHpaitite^3old' Commission which has kept ■ tight control over the German gold holdings since it was set up m. 1946. Last September, after the US and Britain had accused the Swiss of concealing holdings of Nazi gold, the Foreign Office is- sued a “history note** showing that some of its own hold hold- ings were suspect: A month later, a Foreign Office -minister told Jeff Rook- er, a long-standing Labour cam- paigner for the gold to be redirected to Holocaust vic- tims, that the three Govern- ments were considering that question. Last night’s an- nouncement gave the answer.. Mr Booker is now' an agri- culture ministe r, but the Lon- don-based • Holocaust Educational Trust, -which -has ■ campaigned for the remaining Nazi gold to be used to help sur- vivors of the camps, last night welcomed the decision. “This needs to happen as quickly as possible because the survivors wiD not survive far very lone. ” it said. :. distributed more than £2bn of the gold to the central banks of countries which were looted during the war. - The 5. 6 tonnes which are left in bank vaults in London and the US is less than 2 per. cent of the gold recovered% the al- lies at the end of the Second World Whr. But- Francis Richards, For- efeo Office Director for Europe, said in Brussels; “We hope a very large proportion of thaiwfll end up in the fund. " He added that ft was hoped the fund could be established by the end of the vear with oayments made to a brave new world Last orders: Tbe~actors Mictiael H^lckand Pe^ O’Teotofluid the vwft^^Vltotertiouse^ author ^of the Wt West End play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell. (hi which Olotgjr crafted the tftte-rofe), attheCoach and Horses pub in Soho. ^ontrnl London, foilowfoig theltinertf of Jeff Bernard, who I mm ortaOsed the pub and Ife regufarsIn tHs low LHe’ cofmnn fbr the ^pectator ma^gazhie ■ ■ Photograph: John Voos Norman Balon, hunched like a vulture, a man for the word “hangdog" is fax too ebullient, admitted his disappointmeoL “I was wounded" he said. “Jeff’s been coming in here for was the first aistomer. He was there at 11am when the doors opened. He had his stool and he’d complain if anyone else sat on it He'd say, Tve been sitting there for thirty fucking years'. “He tried to be disliked, " said Alexander Chancellor m his speech, “but it never seemed to work. " At the Coach and Horses, O’Toole is drinking pints, and Michael Elphick, currently star- ring in Pygmalion, is persuading photographers to buy him a Stephen Goodwin Tony Blair flew to Edinburgh yesterday morning to hail an emphatic vole for a Scottish Par- liament as the beginning of the end for “big centralised gov- ernment". The people of Scot- land had lit a flame that would sear through the outdated parts of Britain's constitution, the Prime Minister told cheering crowds in the heart of the cap- ital For Scots, the prospect of their own parliament after 290 years was enough. But Mr Blair made plain that, for him, the de- cisive vote was the first act in a programme of change extend- ing beyond next week's refer- endum for a Welsh assembly, to regional government in Eng- land, reform of the House of Lords and, implicitly, aless ar- chaic monarchy. “Now we have a chance to build that modern constitution for the United Kingdom that will see us through m the next century, proud of oar history but dexmined to live in •our fu- ture, " he said. peaking to a crowd of several hundred in Parliament Square - Scotland's last legislature van- ished with the Union of 1707 - Mr Blair said the benefits of the referendum victory would be felt throughout the LHC. “The era of big centralised government is over. This a time of change, renewal and moder- nity. This is the way forward. " Devolution brought govern- ment “closer to the people and closer to the people’s priorities". 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And with such a re- sounding mandate, Toiy opposition to Home Rule is falling away. As Mr Dewar put it, after a sleepless night and running on adrenalin: “The re- sult exceeds ail my expectations. It ends argument and dispute. ” Elections to the 129-member Historic vote, pages 3 and 4 Leading article, page 17 are planned for spring 1999, with the Parliament coming into being on a site in tbe city yet to be decided by the turn of tbe nuDennftun. It will have charge over most of Scotland’s domestic affairs, including ed- ucation, the health service, lo- cal government and agriculture and will be headed by a First Minister. - in all likelihood Mr Dewar hims elf, combining the job of Scottish prime minister with his residual Westminster cabinet role. Celebration across Scotland as a whole was muted. Volets seemed to have made their minds up on devolution at the May genera] election and even Lhe last 100 hours of cam- paigning by party leaders failed to arouse public passions. But however undemonstrative, Scotland's own version of a “velvet revolution" is underway and as with those of eastern Eu- rope, there will be ripple effects. As tbe campaign has pro- gressed, ministers have in- creasingly portrayed it as a forerunner to more regional au- tonomy in England. The Scot- tish parliament will decide how to spend hs £13bn-a-year grant from Westminster and wiQ have power to raise a further £450m by adding 3p to the basic rate of income tax. Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party, made no secret of his hope that the Parliament will lead to inde- pendence - noting that if he had been given a £1 for every time he had mentioned indepen- dence during the last three weeks he would “the richest man in Scotland”. But he said both he and Mr Dewar were united in believing change would only come if the Scottish people voted for it “Donald and I are solid chums, ” Mr Salmond quipped. 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Greenham Common was the site of a continuous women's peace protest from 1981 until the final American Cruise missiles were removed in March 1991; the demonstrations ended with the closure of the base. The two-year restoration programme will create the largest area of open heat hi and in Berkshire. Greenpeace should be so lucky Rock stars and celebrities are backing a call to the Government for action on the threat to the dimate from Fossil fuels, and have signed a Greenpeace petition to be presented to Tony Blair underlining the growing demand for a halt to North Atlantic oil exploration. Among the 113, 000 signatories are Damon Albarn from Blur, Jarvis Cocker from Pulp, Kyiie Minogue (left), Bryan Adams, Suede, comedians Ben Elton, David Baddiel and Greg Proops, as weU as presenters Zou Ball and Denise Vhn Outen. Greenpeace wants the Government to encourage investment in renewable sources of energy, like solar and wave power. 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However, her audience - all pupils at private schools belonging to the Girls' Day School Trust - may know her best not far her ability to juggle infants and investments but far her skill in making a media drama out of a crisis. Mrs Horiick, pictured, already well known in the City for her banking track record and earning power, burst on to the public stage last January after be- ing suspended from her post She had tried, her employers claimed, to poach senior colleagues to join a rival bank in London. Incensed at claims of greed and disloyalty, Mrs Horiick resigned, hired a top-drawer lawyer and a spin doctor and embarked on an extraordinary campaign to dear her name. Pursued by reporters and vowing; “I will be heard”, she confronted her bosses at Deutsche Morgan Grenfefl and demanded a meeting with the parent bank's management committee. Her loyalty, she claimed, had been shown in her willingness to return ear- ly to work, new-born baby on her arm as she rushed between meetings, dur- ing an earlier crisis at the bank. Eight months on, however, the bank and Mrs Horiick have not been reunit- ed, and the fund manager known in the City as “superwoman" is budding up new business interests. Lucy Ward Python star takes to the rails Rail buff and Monty Python star Michael Palin, who re- cently admitted on television to being a former tralnspotter, is to have an engine named after him. F*alin, who is a well-known campaigner far better public transport and president of pressure group Transport 2000, will give his name to a local train running through East Anglia, the region where he spent much of his child- hood. He joins a number of oth- er celebrities, including Delia Smith and Sr Atf Ramsey, who have given their names to trains. Andy Cooper, Managing Di- rector of Anglia Railways, said yesterday: “1 am delighted that Michael Palin is giving his name to one of our train$-He is recognised for his travels across the world and for his interest and support for rail- ways and public transport in general. " Amanda Kelly Artist quits academy over refusal to show Hindley picture The acclaimed British sculptor, Michael Sandle, known for his spare and functional work in met- al, has resigned from the Royal Academy in protest at the inclusion of the contentious portrait of the child killer Myra Hindley in its new Sensation exhibition. “I have had enough, " Mr Sandle following the meeting with fellow academicians, several of whom were also incensed by what they saw as an insensitive decision to display Marcus Harvey's painting in which the Moors murderer’s face is depicted with the handprints of young children. The academy voted 26 to 19 in favour of hanging the portrait, called Myra, in spite of the pleas of one of the murdered children's mothers, Winnie Johnson. Th e Sensation exhibition, which opens to the public on Thursday next week is drawn from the col- lection of Charles Saatchi and also features the work of former Turner prize winners Rachel Whiteread and Damien Hirst. Sandle, 61, said he had come to object to what he saw as the academy being manipulated by its exhibitions secretary, Norman Rosenthal. For him, this new and deliberately shocking exhibition was the last straw, he said, adding that the academy’s magazine had also been hijacked, becoming not much more than a propaganda sheet for contemporary art “Should the Academy be putting on a major show for the benefit of Mr Saatchi who, though heralded as an Important collector of con- temporary art, is to all intents and purposes a dealer? " he asked. Artists Anthony Green, Craigie Artchison and Peter Coker are among the other academicians ei- ther opposed to the Hindley por- trait, or to what they regard as the attention-seeking nature of the new exhibition itself. Vanessa Thorpe HEALTH Surprise finding points to cancer risk from fruit prevent cancer by mopping up free radicals mu DMA. However, a studv by Dutch researchers hai shown that fret. radicals can also kill cancer cells. If so. anttoxidanls may be bad for cancer sufferere because they remove free radicals. The study, by scientists at Nijmegen University in me * Netherlands, involved creating a cancerous cell line h> damaging the P53 suppressor gene which makes a protein mgpnng _ programmed cell death (“apoptosis’’) in tumour cells. With the gene damaged, tumour cells are able to survive and spread. The researchers then raised the Icvclof antioxidanu; in lire cancer cells so that the free radical levels fell. This reduced the death rate of the cancer cells, they say. The results, reported m New Scientist are to be published in an academic scientific journal later. The researchers say an anti-cancer drug capable of generating free radicals may be effective against cancer but is sull a fong way oft Jeremy Laurence DEFENCE Hi-tech maps aid battle plans Amoy chiefs yesterday disclosed how frontline warfare is being revolutionised by the ability to produce detailed maps dmxtty on the battlefield. Satellite photographs, digital information and visual observations are put together to give accurate guides to the ^TheMilitaiy Survey; which is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year; is now creating these maps for the United Nations in Bosnia. Computer technology advances are also allowing co mmand ers and pilots to “fly through’' 3-Dimensional maps before entering battle so that they can view hidden ground and concealed positions. TECHNOLOGY Japanese nanomachine first Computers have been getting smaller since they were invented in the Forties. In the early days of computing, a typical machine might occupy an entire building. By the Sixties, the advent of transistors, meant that computers could fit inside a single room (below). The microprocessor revolution in the Seventies paved the way for today’s desktop and hand-held machines, which can have thousands of times the power and storage capacity of their gargantuan ancestors. - -. - - Now scientists are a step doser to producing microscopic.. ; computers. “Nanomachines” are devices that act on the ' - _ microscopic or even molecular scale. A team of scientists in Japan. tins succeeded in making a binary switch - the fundamental. ■-/ • working unit of any computer - out of a single molecule. A report in this week’s New Scientist outlines how the string-like molecules, of a chemical called azobenzene, can act as a locator for another molecule, cyclodextrin, that occupies one of two places- a binary “zero' 1 * or “one” — on the “string" depending whether the-. i - molecule is exposed to visible or ultraviolet light The whole assembly, known as a rotaxane, was created tty Naotoshi Nakashima and colleagues at Nagasaki University. Jon McGeverty of Bristol University described the work as a “breakthrough", but added that practical applications may be some way off as thhe system takes several minutes to operate - millions oftimesrelower than conventional electronic systems, ' „ Michael Hanlon COMPUTING New York faces Millennium blast New York city; along with the world’s other mayor conurbations, faces significant disruption at the turn of the century as a result of the so-called computer “millennium bomb'*. At m id night on 31 January 1999, mill I ons of computers oil over the world will dick over to the wrong new year - 1900 rather than 2000. This error is due to progr amming conventions established in the 1960s and 1970s when computers had much less memory than they do today; and carrying a four-digit year took op too much capacity The consultancy Corporation 2000 warned this week that despite being better prepared than most dttes, New York, the commercial capital of the US, will be hit badly by the bug. The implications are serious: the banking system, tax and welfare offices, the police and New York’s social services could all face catastrophe if the problem is not dealt with quickly, State Governor George Pataki has ordered all technology initiatives to be concentrated on defusing the Millennium Bomb. FARMING Poor grain harvest expected The UK is facing its worst grain harvest for many years, farmers were warned this week. Prices for grain are at a 20-year low, and there are significant shortfalls with the quality of this year's crop. ' ■Paul Kirk, chief executive of Dalgety Agriculture said this week, that 1997 would be “the most challenging harvest for UK farmers for many years. ” Prices were at a 20-year low, he said, and the quality problems stemmed from extreme weather conditions. There was a drought over much of the country early in the year, followed by a cold wet June. Heavy rain last month dclaycd the harvest. Dalgety forecasts that the total grain harvest this year would be 23. 5 million tonnes, down a million tonnes on lasl year. Most of the reduction is in the wheat crop. NEWSPAPERS SUPPORT RECYCLING Recycled paper made up 43. 6% of trie raw material for UK newspapers In 1996 'lS! ' 'M' ‘ - -‘. J. ; •!.. • i. i. V 1 " ' L i’: ■ }-i -. •/:,., THE INDEPENDENT • SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 1997 w* 'CV "TSAiiiSiSil:' *0 -H 'X -V H " I'tt'';. r ~-l i-„ 4 ' v '. V' f iium btest ^-';, :-t. ^ - p * '•* ■. I - •-• "V. I. ;. «i» » r ■■’. w- iS.. -. -i-: -;v,..! <>*.. > '' •.. 1 1: ’•• Hltcd J usl as half the nation is piedg- V ing lo swear off the palace soap opera and give back, a modicum of privacy to the Windsors, in the wake of the death - of Diana, Princess of Wales, fresh and dastardly temptation is upon us. - With tinting that is either bril- liant or unspeakably distasteful, the American publisher Warn- er Books is releasing next Wednesday The Royals, a biog- raphy (decidedly unauthorised) of the Windsors going back to the First World Whr, written by the poisoned of pen, and fa- mously ruthless, Kitty. Kelley. It mil be little solace to the Palace that published in Britain. That, off course, has to do withtjnkiud, content and 'tough British H^el laws. Thanks to the wonders of i»-mnil. not to mention the postal service, its pages will not take long in reaching British shores. The least that the book promises to do is furrow brows of British editors, who must de- cide now much can be passed A new book on the Windsors is out next week. David Usbome reports on to readers without risking breach of the new puritarusm erf the post-Diana era.. In the US, People magazine decided to scrap plans to nm ex- cerpts of the bobk next week, precisely, a spokesperson said, because editors thought it was “just inappropriate right now”. Instead, the magazine, which is also part of the Warner media empire, will run an interview with Ms Kelley. - M worst, however, the book, ; which has been four yeais in the writing and, according to Ms: j@dley; 5 the fiuitdf 1*000 m- tifryiew$ Could trigger cfisKTOf ffie;Wtodte at a tube wftifi already km. i". • The anticipation is consider- able for mufojfe reasons. Ftr^ thcreis fl&'rtffcitetioiS of Ms Kel- ley as a mcortaess digger of dirt that was esfeibfished by her pre- of Frank Sinatra and of the for- mer Hist Lady, NanqrReagan. Arc^^^^^^published in 1991, Ms Kelley portrayed the First Lady as a domineering and deceitful wife Who bad almost as modi power in the ^presidency as Ronald himself. One scene bad her seducing Sinatra lunch, in theWhite House. The Sinatra work included a de- scription of him eating eggs and bacon from the breasts of a prostitute. Ibflingjy, both Sinatra and Mrs Reagan threatenedTosue over the books; neither did so successfully. Indeed, Ms Kelley has never been successfully sued. And while critics ana jou rnalis ts have energetically questioned the veracity of some of the details of her past books, most also concede her com- mitment to serious, research. She never throws away records of her interviews. Iferner Boolpi in New York, meanwhile, has. further stirred fascination by throwingan impenetrable blan- ket of secrecy around the book. British journalists trying to find it- it was printed at a secret lo- cation - have been frustrated. Showing no restraint, Warn- er actually moved up publica- tion from 23 September to next Wednesday, citing irresistible pressure from bookshops them- selves evidently anxious to cadi in on the surge in curiosity. Not that titbits of what the book alleges have not been widely reported. Ms Refley herself has herself been offering obscure hints. In an interview with tile Kansas City Star in June, she respond- ed thus to a question about the Windsors: “Have jjou ever been. around a dysfunctional family? This book is going to make us all feel reassured by our own dysfurudions. Our dysfunctions are going to look like mere ec- centricities. Theirs are played oot on a huge scale". Kim Sengupta Prince Charles and his sons William and Harry have ex- pressed their thanks to Uc lor rapathy and support following the death of Diana, Princess of Wiles. The Royal family has received more than 300, 000 messages of condolence. It was also annoanced yes- terday that the priiice of wales. ' will cany out his first public en- gagement since the tatal acci- dent in Paris and take pari m a •. walkabout.. : The Prince and his'aavisws ■■ webdieved to have considered Prince has received 7, 000 fax- es and telegrams. of condo- lence as well as as a large number of message? on the In- ternet. They will be seen by the Princes, Ymiaffl and Harry.. Cash do'naliong; to tw^g WLnww. T' r—v -. ■, for the -Diaria, PHiieess of Whles, -Memfeial Fund. Stamps from envelopes will, also be used tobenent charities. A team of volunteers began the task of dealing the field of flowers outside' Kensington Palace yesterday. morning. Around ‘20 members, of the. Woman’s RoyalWnltaiySer- viee and * dorian Royal Panes with reports of huge sales. In Britain, queues were expected this morning outside record strops for the song's British re- lease. Shops have placed orders for -L5 million copies, bill only of the' ■stobrt notice. American outlets have ordered an unprecedented 3. 4 million copies. " Elton John has refused in let footage of bis tribute to Diana appear in rideos being produced by BBC and UN. A spokesman for the singer said; “TIN stated jt donate all profits from the sale of the video to the widespakesman stud the-cor- ■ angeu-mavi*-**"- * —j— However, it was decided • would be more appropriate to carrv but the engagement. Ai St James's Palace, the Ehon John’s reworked ver- sfon of “Cintflc in the Wind” be- came available in Pans yesterday ™ TT W money out of. ■. ; The body of Henri Paul, the driver of the car in which the Princess and her companion Dodi Fayed also died, was yes- terday released for burial near his family home in Brittany to- day, effectively ending the pos- sibility of further tests to establish his physical and men- tal condition at the time of the ■ accident two weeks ago. ■Two women tourists jafled for walking off with armfuls of tributes left in memory of Di- ana, Princess' of 'Rbles, were yes- terday freed by an appeal judge who wanted to reflect the coun- try’s “spirit of compassion” in ttie wake of her death. They bad each been sentenced to 28 days. - Agnesa Siberska, 50, and Maria Rigodova, 56, both fraffr., Slovakia, said they adored the Princes and had Ontywkntedto' keep the tributes taken frbnrtioi-' side Westminster Abbey as “everlasting* memories to give to the people of their country. Walter Mitty life of butler ‘millionaire’ Jojo Moyes A Belgravia butler who served up lavish banquets of wild boar and £1, 500 bottles of Chateau Petrus in his employers’ home before stealing their £59, 000 Bentley Thrbo was jailed for three~and-a-halfyeajs yesterday. Perdval Hole, described by Judge David Elf ex as having “a streak of Whiter Mitty”, so loved the high life that when his employers travelled abroad he posed as a millionaire and hired his own butler and cook to im- press his pub friends. The boiler was so convincing in his role as host that his friends never suspected the truth. Neither did his employ- ers, the Thistle hotel group chairman Rodney Price ana his wife, Loeen, until they returned one day to find him, Iheir car and £3, 500 miss in g. By the time Hole was ar- rested the car had been sold and most of the proceeds spent on an orgy of Srst-dass travel, champagne, cocaine, and pros- titutes. Hole now wants to atone for his wrong-doing by becoming a monk. Judge Etfer told the butler he accepted that alcohol abuse was partly the reason for his ac- tions, but added; “You un- deniably had a yen for what you considered to he the high life and you were prepared to stoop to dishonesty to achieve it. " The court heard that when Hole was hired by Mr Price in '149510 work at his £4 milli on fidme, the butler hid the fact tfiM he hiid a tfiminal pasL He received. a salary of afrout £21, 500, with all accommodfi- tioil and expenses paid. Martyn Bowyer, proseent- An artist’s impression of Perclval Hole ing, said Hole, as pan of the “enormous responsibility and trust" invested in him, had been given a Coutts bank card to pay his employers' household bills. The butler became a fixture at the Nags Head pub in Lon- don's Belgravia where he es- tablished a reputation as a “bon viveur". Hole would take pub regulars to the Prices’ Regency house, pretending portraits there were of his ancestors. “Your employers, decent, ho- nourable and trustinl people, left you for many months at a time, in charge of their house- hold here in this country, " the judge said. “But you wanted more. Yon warned the trappings and the appearance of your em- ployers’ wealth and you abused i ■ j.,. m. V their trust. So in January of this year you decided upon a scheme to make that sort of wealth easily available and that involved the sale of their Bent- ley, " be said. That involved “clear-headed planning” Hole duped Mrs Price, an Australian, into giving him the documents for the car by telling her English Law re- quired them to be kept in the vehicle. He re-registered the car in his name and sold it for £56, 000, before emptying the safe and disappearing. Hole had manned to travel to Estonia ana invest in a timber company a fellow drinker had loldhim was a “good bet". But on the way, m Germany, he could not “resist the pampered life that money could buy. There were first-class fares, air and rafl, good hotels and body- guards at £200 a day. prostitutes, drugs and drink, until illness caught up with you. " Having contracted hepatitis. Hole abandoned his business plans and relumed to Britain, booking into a Manchester hotel under an assumed name. The judge said there were two sides to Hole's character, one of which had involved working. with a voluntary group helping London's homeless. Bui the other side indicated a “total lack Of remorse until caught. " Hole, who was ordered to re- turn the £3. 700 still remaining, bowed briefly to the judge be- fore he was led to the cells. Owen Davies, defending, saki his cKent had had a genuine change of heart. “He is intend- ing tp become a monk and he has had a visit from the abbot of rate of the monasteries an the edge of London, " he said. IN TOMORROW'S aSEElU five sections nor the best in news, features. Sport; ' business, travel, property and money / TIME IS OVER MicbadByrv^ater' remembers hisfrierid Jeffrey Bernard LOOKING FDRA Europe's lest great. sea voyage SEX SECRETS What's in the gay Kama Sutra PLAY FANTASY FOOTBALL Win a trip to the World Cup Finals SUNDAY PREVKW Full 7-day TV guide IT IS. ARE YOU? v. • 4 ■ V>W,, — _ •( '; 3T 'r f* &****^:% I ' fV 'JfJWCWe, WHISKEY. We hope you! join us in celebrating Me Jacks birthday. 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Rock singers join queue for parliamentary place Rock singers, media personal- ities, business leaders and rad- ical left socialists will be jostling chance of a place in Scotland's new parliament. With only 129 seat to play for and the growing realisation that it will be a “grown-up" par- liament with a £13bn budget. competition to gel on the par- ly lists in going to he fierce. Only the moribund Tory party' is short of youthful or middle-aged talent. The system of propor- tional representation for the elections in 1999 could also open the door to minority par- ties such os the Greens. ' A large raft of talented pro- fessionals will be vying for a place on Labour's list. Likely contenders include Keith Gcd- des, the leader of Edinburgh Council; the city's transport convenor David Bcgg loved and hated for his crusade against the car; Jack McConnelL general secretary of the Scottish Labour Party: and Bill Speira. deputy general secratarv of the Scottish TUG The parliament is supposed be balanced between men and women, though precisely how parties achieve this yet to be worked out. Here again Labour Is likely to hove a surfeit of able contenders, including Esther Robertson and Isabel Lindsay, both leading figures in the Scot- tish Constitutional Convention, which drew up the blueprint for devolution, and Yvonne Stra- chao, Scottish organiser of the T&G union. At least three former lead singer; could he seeking a place on the Edinburgh political stage - Labour's Donnie Munm. from the gaelic rock band Run rig: Pat Kane, the fircy left-wing na- tionalist from Hue and Civ: and the more youthful Ricky Roth from Deacon Blue. The SNP may field the gael- ic singer and academic Anne Lome Gillies, who contested the Western Isles in the general election, and actress Elaine C Smith. Who better than the woman who plays ‘Mary Doll* in Rah C S’csbift to wrest Rah C*s stomping ground of Glas- gow Govan from Labour? The nationalists will be an impressive force in the new parliament with Alex Salmond leading his party from home soil. He is likely to joined by his five Westminster MPS and' fig- ures such as Mike RussclL the party's chief executive and one of the most consumate political operators in Scotland, and James Scott, a former top civil servant. Liberal Democrat MRs, including Jim Wallace, the par- ty's leader in Scotland, are con- sidering u move to Edinburgh. Andy Myles, the party’s gener- al secretary and u tireless ad- vocate of Home Rule, would eenainly be on the lisL Figures from the Scottish media could also be attracted, with columnist Magnus Lin- klatcr. former editor Df the Scotsman an outside possibili- ty,. or even the Scotsman's ed- itor in chief. Andrew NciL every parliament needs a trouble- making maverick. If you tell your girlfriend, will she think less of you! ”, v... m • When you have a problem, it’s the most natural thing in the world to want to talk it through with someone. Sometimes, though, this creates- another problem; who’s the best person to confide in? An obvious choice would be a close friend. But let’s face it, we don't always choose our friends for their amazing powers of tact, diplo- macy and discretion. Tell one person, and you may end up telling the world. You may be lucky enough to be able to talk to someone in your family. 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The reason, the British As- sociation heard yesterday, is that scientists have discovered that species as diverse as elephants, oats, bees and haddock all use entirely different systems to communicate across a super- human range of frequents, rhe topics, though, tend to fo- 2fd? coT etErnal ^ « Elephants use tbeir vocal cords to generate infrasaaic noises, ranging from 15 to 35 Hertz (Hz), according to Dr Bin Umgbauer of Pittsburgh Zoo in the United Slates. “They can communicate over more than two miles, ” he said. “But the majority of it is inaudible to ha- mans. The normal human SEar*. -*«*»*» M The newly recognised noises explain a lot of behaviour that was a mysteiy before, such as bow elephants co-ordinate their behaviour across lone dis- tances. ” A principal use is by the fe- male elephant, which only be- comes receptive to sex for about four days in every four years. “They use infrasonic calls last- ing four to five seconds, re- pcated for up to 45 minutes, ’ Dr Langbauer said. “It's really well-designed for letting other elephants know where she is. because the high- er-pitched harmonics are at- tenuated with distance. The more harmonics the male ele- phant hears, the nearer be knows she is. " However, bees go a step fur- ther. German scientists have now determined that when a nee “dances" inside the hive to describe the direction and dis- tance to food, the bees nearby actually “bear’ 1 the air currents it generates - and those are as loud to them as standing near a jet plane taking off would be to us. “Vfe have known about the dance ofthe bee since 3 M6, " said Professor Axel Michelson of Odense University. “But what was not explained was how they rould see this, since the beehive is often absolutely dark. " Scientists suspected that the air pressure created by the Top scientist movements of the dancing bee’s wings, allied to the wag gl ing of its body — all of which encode the journey to food - might trig- ger the surrounding bees’ an- tennae. By sensing ihe changes in air currents, the bees could work out what movements were being made, even in the dark. To test this, the researchers built a robot bee from brass, Sam into BSE Science Editor The new president of the British Association yesterday called for a full-scale judicial inquiry into the “disaster of BSE" dur- ing the past 10 years. Colin Blakemore, a leading neuroscientist, told the associ- ation's Festival of Science, meeting in Leeds, that he be- lieved any such inquiry should also set levels of compensation for the families of people who have died from the “new vari- ant” of Creutzfeldt-J akob dis- ease (v-CJD), which the government acknowledged last year was probably caused by ex- posure to the infectious agent of BSE, or "mad cow disease". Professor Blakemore, who holds the chair of physiology at Oxford University, now also represents scientists across the country in their efforts to com- municate their work. He said he gave up eating beef in I9S7 as soon as BSE, or bovine spoogi- fonn encephalopathy, became publicised because he had “recognised the possibility of a new disease’'. He also blamed successive Tbry administrations since 1985 for cutting back on govern- ment-funded science research, which might have been able to spot BSE more quickly, and forecast more accurately whether it could pass to hu- mans. He said one problem was that scientists’ opinions about the dangers posed bv BSE were “channelled through a small number of mouths. I think sometimes, scientists were say- erament wanted^o hear {fan what they felt”. Professor Blakemore said the only way to prevent that happening again when the new Food Standards Agency is split off from the Ministry of Agri- culture would be to investigate the events of the past 10 years. •“It’s time to look back to see what lessons can be learnt from the disaster of BSE, " he said. **We need a judicial inquiry be- fore -the Food Standards Age&ty is set up, because we need a policy for compensation of victims, which requires a deeper understanding of the whole background of why this happened. ". Professor Blakemore ’s call follows the publication on Thursday in JVew Statesman magazine of a letter also call- ing for a full inquire imo BSE, co-signed by 16 families of v-CJD victims and also Profes- sor Hugh Pennington, who investigated the food- poisomog outbreak in Scbl- land last year. Left-handers lose out in art Left-handed people are less good at celling when they are be- ing lied to than right-handers, according to a scientist who en- listed the population of York- shire to establish his findings, writes Charles Arthur. Bui other research has found that lying does not necessarily indicate advanced intelligence: children as young as two or three can be expert liars, the. British Association was told yesterday. ' The left-handed bias towards gullibility emerged in an ex- periment on Thursday night carried out by Yorkshire Tele- vision, which showed a pro- gramme in which a presenter told two contradictory stories about her childhood. Viewers then rang one of four phone numbers depending on their the whole of life is sacred. actions not words arc the test of faith ■ peace and justice are the consequences of the spiritual life ■ in quiel listening we can Find the divine within ■ dovou share these insights? 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" Humans begin working on the ait of deception from a young age, the meeting was told by Dr fesudevi Reddy of the Univer- sity of ftinsmouth. “Weil before the age of four, we found chil- dren were lying, not just in sim- ple ways, but using fairly complex tricks'... " she said, "ft ’s probably a mistake to assume that children need a dear idea of how minds work before lying. They are into the practice before they develop the theory. ” wth a single wing made of a piece of razor blade. By wag- gling the wing and moving the body, they found that Ihe bees were reacting to changes in air pressure caused by the wine flapping up and down. "The air moves at about Im per second over the wings, which for us would he like get- ting close to a jet engine, " he said. "Bui the pressure falls oil’ very quickly with distance. A me- tre away, the surrounding bees cannot feel anythin^, Whunyou for somewhere with 5atiUU oth- ers. it’s valuable to have a wav or telling something that’s m« audible to everybody. ” Bats turn out u» have two svs- tems for detecting food and ob- jects - depending on whether they feed »>:i m< nine items, such a> insects and snvuli animals, or sialic I ‘lies, such as fruit or (in the case of the vampire bat) bl» v-J! rom sleeping animals. Pn ‘lessor David “pye. of the University of London, found that bats which detect moving objects use a singe frequency sound, because when that is re- flected back it will be shifted up- Dinner time: Fruit bats emit a sweep of frequencies to accurately determine the distance to their prey Photograph: P Morris'Ardea wards or downwards, rather like the whistle of a moving train. By contrast, bats which rely on static prey pul out a sweep of frequencies, which is better for measuring distance. However, possibly the strangest noises of all belong to the common haddock. Profes- sor Tony Hawkins, director of the Scottish Murine Laborato- ry. explained that male haddock make a knocking sound by con- tracting the muscles in their swim Madder, the fluid- filled sac that lets them control their buoyancy. The pressure wave is transmitted outwards to other fish. The knocking sound nor- mally indicates aggression, and is repealed about once a second. But when a female approaches the noise hccomcs more rapid, soon reaching many beats per second - requiring museic twitches faster than anv other vertebrate animal. "The male sticks its fins up, and becomes worked up, and then the two fish embrace - thev realty wrap their fins around each other - and the noise from the male gets louder. Then ihe female releases millions of eggs and Ihe male releases its sperm, which are fertilised in the water around them. " It is. he adds, “one of the more interesting animals. 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Virtually" the only reason any post office doses is because we cannot find anyone lo take over the running of it when an existing sub-postmaster leaves. Our message lo the community is a dear one - use your post office or lose iL" The post office which has served the Gloucestershire vil- lage of Thrupp for more than 50 years yesterday became the latest casualty of the decline. Sub-postmaster Reg Barton said: ""We are closing because our customers have chosen to take their business to super- markets which have opened up near by in the last few years. ” Nurses seek big pay rise to curb exodus Jeremy Laurance Health Editor Nurses yesterday demanded a substantial pay rise to curb the □umbers leaving the National Health Service and to attract more back into the profession. In the first challenge to the Government's tough financial plans for the NHS, health union leaders said a rise of up to 20 per cent was necessary to bring nurses into line with oth- er public service workers. Evidence submitted by unions representing 500, 000 nurses, midwives and other staff to the independent pay re- view body yesterday shows that newly registered nurses on a starting salary of £1 2-385 would need a 13 per cent increase to bring them into line with (he £13, 920 paid to qualified social workers and a 16 per cent rise to match the £14, 463 paid to most teachers on a comparable scale. A police constable's start- ing salary is 20 per cent more. The unions claim that staff shortages and increased work- load are deterring new recruits from joining the profession. Many newly qualified nurses are choosing to work outside the NHS in private hospitals and old people's homes. The increased difficulty that NHS trusts are experiencing in recruiting nurses is indicated by last year’s 13 per cent rise m the use of agency staff. Some agen- cies, who charge hospitals com- mission for finding temporary nurses, have been seeking staff abroad. Last year, the previous Con- servative government awarded nurses a 3. 3 per cent pay rise, paid in two stages which re- duced its actual value to 2. 4 per cent - below the rate of infla- tion which was then 15 per cent At the same time, the Tory government announced a one- year moratorium on its exper- iment with local pay. The new Labour government announced in May that it would stick with national pay awards. Frank Dobson, Secretaiy of State for Health, has repeatedly stressed the importance of nurs- ing staff in the NHS. But tight health service budgets leave little room for substantial pay increases. Christine Hancock, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said there was a need to recognise the real needs of nurses. “The biggest problem facing the NHS is the serious shortage of nurses and it is one that is costing it a lot of mon- ey. Hospitals are wasting cash if they arc hiring temporary staff. 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Some experts argue that the introduction of the nine-subject national curriculum into pri- mary schools in 1989 has forced schools to concentrate more on science and technology and less on literacy and numeracy. The Manchester study which looked at reading scores of children between 1989 and 1995 found that, though the scores of seven-year-olds remained the same, those of 1 1 -year-olds fell. Julie Davies and Ivy Brembcr of the University’s school of education showed that the num- ber of poor readers went up while the proportion of very good ones fell. Their research, to be pre- sented at the British Educa- tional Research Association's annual conference in York to- day, involved 1, 300 seven-year- olds and 1300 1 1 -year-olds. They were given an untimed multiple choice reading test. The percentage of 1 1 -year-olds who scored less than 85 rose from 10 per cent in 19S9 to 18 per cent in 1994. At the other end of the scale, the percentage scoring more than 115 fell from 22 per cent to 7 per cent There was a slight improvement in 1995 but the scores were still Slipping standards: Reading ability among 11-year-olds has fallen sharply since 1989, according to a new study well below those registered six years earlier. The researchers conclude: “The considerable cost of imple- menting the national curriculum and assessment arrangements has not appeared to result in raising standards. ” They add: “The national cur- riculum. with its nine subjects plus religious education, has made great demands on the lime available for the teaching of reading. In addition, assess- ment recording and reporting arrangements have been intro- duced which are onerous on teacher time, it might be that the time traditionally given to the teaching and learning of reading has been eroded over (he last seven years. ” But they accept the connip- tion between lower reading standards and the national cur- riculum is not proved. Controversy over reading standards has raged since the curriculum was introduced. Critics of primary schools have accused local authorities, many of which administer annual reading tests, of covering up a decline in standards. A study in 1991 from the Na- tional Foundation for Education Research into local authoriy ev- idence about reading standards among seven and eight-year- olds found there had been "a six- mo nth decline in pupils' read- ing ages hut warned that com- parisons were difficult because of the different tests used by dif- ferent authorities. Another study of ll-ycar- olds’ reading, also from the Foundation, suggested that, apart from slight rises around 1950 and in the Eighties, sian- Photograph: John Lawrence dards had changed little since 1945. David Blunkctl, the Secretary of Slate for Education, has al- ready hinted that the national curriculum may be cut bade in primary schools to allow more time for literacy and numeracy, All primary schools will have to have a literacy hour every day. Universities stand firm over fees threat to students Lucy Ward and JukRUi Judd Leading universities insist they will not lift a threat to charge students extra up-front tuition fees despite government moves to prevent them levying more than a fixed £1, 000 a year. Five universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, are refusing to rule out top-up fees until minis ters make dear how much cash wfli be made avail- able next year to avert a grow- ing crisis in funding. Vice-chancellors’ leaders made clear that universities would not budge until they had “seen the colour of the Gov- ernment's money”, and pledged to consider challenging any move to legislate against top-up fees. Universities dug in their heels after it emerged the Gov- ernment was taking legal advice on how to stop them charging extra for tuition. From next Sep- teraberstudentswifl, for the first time, be charged £1, 000 a year for tuition fees, repayable after graduation. At present, universities are free to charge extra fees on top of that but none has so far said that it will do so. But six insti- tutions - Oxbridge, Bristol. Durham, Nottingham and the London School of Economics - included warnings of possible top-up fees in prospectuses available this year to students applying for 1998 entry. AU said they had no desire to levy fees, but were prepared to do so if lack of funding would otherwise threaten quality. 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Photographs: Ariel JarozoTimski f* ►;vV nti Patrick Cockbum Mevasseret Zkm At first, Aliza Landau hoped the fire in the kindergarten she runs on the outskirts of Jerusalem had hap- pened by accident. “1 didn't want to believe anybody would do it on pur- pose, " she says. “Then the police showed us where they broke a win- dow and threw in burning liquid-" Inside the gutted school, its walls blackened by smoke, Mrs Landau shows the spot where the fire reduced a dozen children's miniature plastic chairs to a puddle. The floor is wet with dirty water and ashes, while on the balconies are heaps of toys and children’s paintings. Nobody is under arrest for the at- tempt to burn the kindergarten in Mevasseret Zion, a town of 20, 000 in a forest west of Jerusalem, but lo- cals haw: little doubt who was behind t'L The 41 schoolchildren and their parents are Reform Jems, a mod- ernising tradition in Judaism, much Hatred between Orthodox and Reform Jews reduced a Jerusalem kindergarten to ashes disliked by Orthodox Jews. The ar- son attack is the latest incident m the increasingly violent struggle be- tween secular and religious Jews, a battle dividing Israel almost as much as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict In few places is the hostility be- tween the two sides as deep as in Mevasseret Zion. It was first settled by poor but religious Jews from Mo- rocco and Iraqi Kurdistan in the 1950s. But recently they have been swamped by bette^off, secular Is- raelis. often of European origin. A new, ~ expensive shopping mall, topped by a McDonald’srestaurant, kawmhnl rf y nn i fi rati nn mnrhrtic- liked by older residents. ■ Aliza Landau bad a taste of the anger of her more religious neigh- bours when she attended a council meeting in Mevasseret Zion in Jan- uary which was to discuss giving the Reform Jews - a small minority in Israel but numerous in the US - land on which to build a synagogue. Al- though Mrs Landau is a survivor of the Holocaust one of the opponents of the plan came up to her and shout- ed: “You are not a Jew. " Chana Sorek, chairwoman of the Reform congregation to which 120 families belong, finds it too painful to recall the insults hurled at her at the same meeting. She told a local newspaper that somebody shouted: “It’s too bad they didn't bum yon at Auschwitz. " Another, showing how religious and class animosities com- bine in Mavasseret Zion, said: “You sell pork in the shopping mail bom the shopping mau and we’ll bum you, too. ” Even when the kindergarten was burned earlier this month, criticism was not whofly muted. Ahza Landau, the kindergarten’s educational di- rector, asked the local council to let her use a disused school while here was being repaired. They agreed, but she recalls that two members of Sbas, a traditional religious party drawing most support from Middle East Jews, voted against Chana Sorek says she has had lit- tle contact with the original residents of Mevasseret Zion, but adds: “Some of them are not only religious but have criminal records. ” But the lo- cal construction workers repairing the kindergarten have no doubt about the protagonists in the dispute As Alia Landau showed us the dam- age to die school one of the work- ers shouted out jovially: “Shas told us not to allow in any journalists. 1 ’ The ferocity of the conflict in Mevasseret Zion is not unprece- dented. The Orthodox Jewish es- tablishment uses extraordinarily vituperative language when speak- ing of secular Jews,. or of those be- longing to the Reform or Conserv- ative traditions. This month, Ytsrael Lau, the Chief Rabbi of the Ashke- nazi [Jews of European origin], compared Reform Jews to the sui- cide bombers of Islamic Jihad. The threatening rhetoric is taken seriously because h resembles rabbinical de- nunciations of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister assassinated in 1995. Professor Shlomo Hasson, a spe- cialist on conflict between the secu- lar and religious at the Floetsheimer institute for Policy Studies In Jerusalem, sees the incidents in Mevasseret Zion as “pari of a wider battle for Jerusalem". A poll he conducted shows 40 per cent of secular Jews in Jerusalem want to leave the city. The reason most often given is bad relations with the Ultra-Orthodox. He says: “Many of them moved to Mevasseret Zion which they thought was a secular stronghold, but also contains tradi- tional Jews who came in the Fifties. " An alliance of ultra-Orthodox and right-wing traditional Jews, of- ten of Middle Eastern origin, has controlled Jerusalem's local gov- ernment since 1993. A sign of their strength was shown earlier this month when a small group of men and women from Reform and Con- servative synagogues tried to pray to- gether - something forbidden to Orthodox Jews - near the Western VVfrD. They were dragged away, kick- ing and screaming, by the police. The melting pot has never quite worked in Israel The very striden- cy of Israeli nationalism, in part, is an attempt to bridge the divisions. Different communities dress, wor- ship, vote and behave differently. In Mevasseret Zion, says Professor Hasson, “ethnic and religious dif- ferences come together in a dan- gerous cocktail". Only recently 1, 000 police drove out more than 100 squatters from the old Moroccan and Kurdish com- munities; in Ihe town who were homeless and who had occupied houses used by the government to temporarily accommodate new Jew- ish immigrants. This week. 10 of these homeless families asked for asylum firuru Yasser Arafat's ftrles- tinian Authority in Jericho. Some car- ried banners saying: “Mevasseret. life or death". For many secular Jews there is an obvious link between the motives which led la the smouldering kinder- garten in Mevasseret Zion and those of Yigal Amir, the religious nation- alist student who assassinated Mr Ra- bin. Israel is a profoundly religious country and in any conflict, nation- al or religious, it does not lake much for those involved to believe they are not only in the right but are the chosen instrument of God. Hard decisions needed in Mid-East, says Albright j V Patrick Cockbum. Jerusalem • Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of State, said she had been unable to make sig- nificant progress during ho* three-day visit to Israel and wookl return oofy when leaders “have made hard decisions". Israeli and Palestinian del- egations are to meet in Wash- ington and New York later al the month for talks, hut Mris Al- bright said: “I wished this trip bad produced larger steps, be- cause they are needed. ” During flie first half of her vKitMre Albright pleased Ben- jamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Ifrirae Minister; by focussing on the need for Yhsser Arafat, the Palestinian leads; to guarantee Israel's security by arresting members of Hamas, the Islam- ic militant organisation. But Mrs Alhright then sup* prised the Israeli government by saying dial “Israel should refrain from unilateral acts, including what Palestinians perceive as the provocative expansion of settle- ments, land confiscation, home demolitions and confiscation of IDs”, the American demand was swiftly rejected. 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At first sight, the elections look like just another confir- mation of the ethnic freeze that has existed since the cease- fire two years ago. Serbs, Croats and Muslims all now live separately - in some in- stances glowering at each oth- er across the street in the same town, but still living apart -and nobody has shown much incli- nation either to return home or to welcome back refugees from the “wrong” ethnic group. But these elections cany a se- cret weapon. This is the power given to voters to cast their bal- lot in absentia in the towns and villages where they lived in 1991. before the war started. In other words, a Muslim from Srebrenica now living as a refugee in Sarajevo has the right to vote in Srebrenica - but without needing to ran the risk of actually going there on elec- tion day. Similarly, parties are putting up candidates in areas where it is too dangerous for them to campaign but where they can count on the support of hun- dreds or thousands of refugees of their own ethnic group who want to influence the outcome in their old home towns. The results could be spec- tacular, particularly since unofficial estimates put the number of absentee voters as high as 40 per cent. A (own that is now purely Serb, such as Visegrad, might suddenly find itself with a Mus- lim town council; a former Serb stronghold such as Drvar in western Bosnia, which is now ex- clusively Croat, might find that the Serbs are in charge again, albeit from a distance. These are explosive scenar- ios, and not necessarily ones that will end happily. The risks arc enormous, but so are the pos- sible rewards. This is (he last chance for the interna lional community to prove the Dayton Accords can be put into action. '’ said one Western official. “Fail- ure will mean permanent dis- memberment of a European country along ethnic lines. Suc- cess won't lead to reintegration, but at least ft will bring back some normality. " • Originally, the municipal elections were supposed io have taken place Iasi September alongside parliamentary and presidential elections for the dif- ferent levels of Bosnia's complex government They were can- celled because political condi- tions were not right Since refugees at that time were entitled to nominate any new place of residence, the main nationalist parties tried to use the elections as a means of further ethnic engineering - massing their supporters in strategic towns that they yearned to wrest back from one of the other factions. This year the rules have.. changed, and voters have to. choose either the place where they lived in 1991, or the place where they have been resident Keeping; the peace: An SFOR soldier in front of election posters In Mostar, which is split between Muslims end Croats Photograph: A P since June 1996. The Organi- sation for Security and Co-op- eration in Europe (OSCE) has been ruthless in checking reg- istration lists for both candidates and voters, and in some cases has struck candidates out of the election as punishment for at- tempted irregularities. There is sure to be stiff re- sistance to any Muslim victory in a Serb-held area, for exam- ple. But the international com- munity hopes to pressure the two sides into accepting one an- other through a rigorous pel icy of sanctions. “If municipality A' refuses to let the winning candidates en- ter its territory, it cut off from all international aid. That may not make much of an im- pression at first, but over time, as people see that municipal ity l B' down the road is begin- ning to prosper because it has a poUty of co-operation, things may change, " said Fabio Ger- golet, OSCE spokesman in, Banja Luka. “Economic well- being is the key to change in the country. " If things go wrong, the elec- There are so many parties run- ning in this weekend's munici- pal elections that -even well-informed voters stand tittle chance of distinguishing be- tween them. Y. In a country with barely 2 J5 million registered voters, there are a staggering 91 parties and almost 20, 000 eandktatBS. : A fine example of democracy in action, one might argue. But how is the average voter, con- fronted with as many as 46 names on the balkff form for Ns or Harmuoidpainy, supposed to distinguish between the Demo- ' cratic Party of R^MJbflkaSrpe- Serb DornocraTPartyths lions could lead to a heighten- ing of tension in key flash- points and an entrenchment, not a loosening, of nationalist aggression among the three groups. Some municipality bound- aries are still in dispute, notably along the internal divide be- Sarb Democratic Affiance and ttw Serto Dempcralfc Party of Dis- placed Persons? Or between the Citizens' Party, the People’s Party; ths Worker's Party and the New Worker's Party? tt sounds ffice a Balkan rewrite of The Ufa of Brian. ■ It does not he £> that most par- ties have Stile or no media pro- ffle. One Independent magazine based in Barja Luka, Reporter, has vatantly tried to compile In- formation on the patties to help the voters. ■ ■ Not all ifie parties have want- ed to advertise' their pro-- -. -grammes or even their leaders’ names. Someofjhe in fo rma tion tween Serb-held Bosnia and the Muslim-Croat federation. There are also rivalries growing within each half of the country - especially between the Bosn- ian Serb President Biljana Plavsic in Banja Luka and her predecessor Radovan Karadz- ic and his friends, based in tiuft has been provided is down- right bizarre. There is a Serbian Worker's Party that supports the return of the monarchy, snd any number of nationalist parties that sup- port, at least in prmdpts, the im- plementation of the Dayton peace accords. As for the New Communist Party, ft fists te basic aims as "so- cialism, human rights and the Dayton Agreement, Marxism and Len/rasm”. Asked how it ex- pects to do In the elections, it answered: "Average”. What on. earth is. "average* in a crazy place like postwar Bosnia? Andrew Gumbo! Pale. Places to watch include Brcko, in the northeast, whose status still has not been deter- mined by the international community. The town itself is now Serb- dominated, but the municipal- ity as a whole is balanced almost evenly between Serbs and Mus- lims. The outcome of the elec- tion could, m a worst -case sce- nario. result in one or other of the populations being driven out. Drvar will also he interesting, since busloads of Serb refugees will be arriving over the week- end. not just to vote hut also to moke their presence keenly felt in their former home. In June, a number of Serb homes were burned in Drvar just as former inhabitants were pulling together a request to be allowed tack. Overall, the performance or the mam nationalist parties will be cruriaL Last year, they dom- inated everything, but this year they are under pressure both from their own internal disputes - as in Serb Bosnia, for exam- ple-and also from a profusion of smaller parties that have emerged. A sign of the main parties' nervousness is that two of them, the Croats and the PaJc Serbs, threatened to boycott the poll altogether. But yesterday, under intense international pressure, both agreed to lake part. Eight killed in Kenyan police raids Mombasa (Reuters) -y Al least eight people were killed yes- terday when Kenyan police launched a huge operation, in- volving 200 officers, to flush out a group of gunmen terrorising residents in the Ukunda area south of the port city of Mom- basa. police said. Local police chief Japheth Mwunia said that six of the dead were gunmen suspected of be- ing members of a 100-strong group that attacked Ukunda on Thursday. The two others were civilian bystanders caught in crossfire, he said. Mwunia. recently assigned to Mombasa to deal with the vi- olence there, said a one-ycar-oUl child was missing after its moth- er was attacked on Thursday night. One person died and two were wounded, and witnesses said the attackers razed JM kiosks and 7U buildings. Mwunia said police hud re- covered two stolen police firearms. Lost Friday up to five people, including a two-year-old child, were hacked to death and riouslv wounded by heavily armed raiders in Momb. ’isa's Liknni suburb. Areas around Momhasu have suffered a wave of violence since August in which more than 40 people have been killed. lens of thousands of people hare fled since President Daniel amp Moi, 73, ordered a police crackdown on violence. Moi. who has been in power for 19 years, accuses the oppo- sition of fuelling tribal tensions before u general election Lb is year. 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I;"* ( Self Assessment - a deaxer tax system ■When the mountain crash, and you see the ash, just jam, jam, jam to the North': Thus goes a popular calypso about the volcano by local singer Mighty Ash Photograph: AP Calypso for calamity island Phil Davison Gerald's Bottom, Montserrat |> tree Equator Travel Bag rrp £ 22. 00 “On the map you can hardly find it, but it's almiys my paradise and everyone who have seen it has always been hypnotised. But beneath the green and the moun- tain, a volcano has been steepin', and now he is awakenin ”, I don 't blow what to do. " On some maps, Montserrat is not even marked. But an angry volcano has thrust it on to the world stage, turn- ing it from a hypnotic Caribbean par- adise into an island of s niggling but plucky refugees. The lyrics above, sung by the local Montserratian soca-calypso star known only as Arrow, will electrify the Roy- al Albert Hall on Monday. Following moving video images of the devastat- ed island. Arrow will launch into his second best-known song, /! // Just Can't Run Away. It tells why he and thousands of oth- er islanders are refusing to leave de- spite two years of an erupting volcano which last month wiped out the island's capital, Plymouth. In case anybody gets too morbid, be will also sing his biggest worldwide hit, (Feelin ') Hot, Hot, Hot, a soca-calpso number he partly recorded in Sir George Martin's Air Studio on the vol- cano island. The studio is nowash-coy- crcd and abandoned in the volcanic flow danger zone. At the same time that people are watching the Music for Montserrat Sting and the former Beatles producer Sir George Martin are just two of the stars helping Music for Montserrat. The Royal Albert Hall concert will link up with musicians on the island erupted. “When the mounluin crash, and you see the ash. just jam. jam. jura to the North. " it goes. "Listen to the scientist, listen tn the latest, and hear what they have to say, and when they say to run. and you havin’ fun, just prance, prance, prance to the North. " Gerald’s Bottom is in the heart of the northern “safe zone”, about six miles from the volcano as the crow flies, and though! to he out of reach of its deadly pyroclastic flow of red hot ash. gas and rock. Those attending the Albert Hall may be lbcused more on Eric Clapton. Sting or McCartney but 's lilting song.. 4/r Just Can 7 Run written after his island’s Soufricre Hills volcano first erupted in 1995. is likely to be the touching highlight of the concert. The celebrated singer - real name Alphonsus Cassell and a shopkeeper in Montserrat in between his concerts - wfli launch into the number after an emotional video film showing the Montserrat capital. Plymouth. Ivefore and after it wus devastated a month concert in London, Montserratian and other Caribbean singers and groups, topped by former members of the Climax Blues Band, will hold a par- allel concert here, right alongside a tent camp for refugees from volcano- affected zones. The free concert, aimed at lifting the spirits of the islanders, has the bless- ing of Sir George Martin - the Beat- les' producer and organiser of the London concert because of his love for Montserrat - and the British Foreign Office. The Climax Blues Band were the first artists to record at the Air Studio, graced later by the Police, Dire Straits, Paul McCartney. Mick Jagger and countless others. Climax's keyboard player, Peter Rlleul, is helping organise the bash in the village of Gerald’s Bottom. It is the butt of many Jokes - “live from Gerald's Bottom" - but the village is so named because it is on a piece of land that bottoms out at the toot of the island's Centre Hills. The local concert will be small compared with London. There are probably little more than 4, 000 is- landers still lefL The organisers arc being careful not to upset anyone by bringing in too much equipment on already-over- loaded ferries. They have told the per- formers to expect no luxuries. “No limousines or luxury hotels on this trip. More of an expedition, " said Filieul. But it is being seen as a highly- symbolic event, aimed at cheering up the weary islanders, who have been breathing in volcanic ash even between eruptions, and signalling that normal life can still go on in Montserrat. The concert is being called Many Happy Returns, not a reference to any- one's birthday but to all islanders' hopes - 7, 000" have left over the past two years - that they will one day return. Alongside Caribbean bands such as the Burning Flames from Antigua and Bankie Banx from Anguilla, local ca- lypso singer the Mighty Ash will sing his popular tune Run to the North, re- ferring to the fact that the islanders have had to flee to the safer northern zone as the volcano, in the south. Arrow has spearheaded the senti- ment that Montserratians should not take up British suggestions that they leave. Backing it up with deeds, he is con- structing a new shop in the north to replace his supermarket in Plymouth, now covered in ash, and one still op- erating in the possible danger zone at Salem. when you buy any Motoivla mobile and connect to CettneV Jiang extols virtues of downsizing Teresa Poole Peking 0-l« on*; Tlh September 1997 wMle stocks last Motorola SlimLite • up to 45 hours Standby • up to 130 minutes Talktime only £49. 99' uIt- -'onnectK-n £. 35 iMi MOTOROLA ‘ Vvh*? n y:-u subscribe to a new 12 month airtime will" Call Connections Ltd., eg. 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Standing beneath a huge hammer-and-sickle emblem in the Great Hall of the People, Mr Jiang opened the 15th par- ty congress by nailing his polit- ical colours to the reformist mast of Deng Xiaoping. This is the first congress since the ar- chitect of China's modernisation died in February, and Mr Jiang On Job k»a se s a ‘ftindafnent alt y ia con- ducive to economic development, thus conform- ing to the long-term interests of the working class. ” On political theory; ‘Marxism will necessarily advance along with the development of the times. ' practice and science; it cannot remain unchanged. ” On being flexible: "The shareholding system... can be used both under capitalism and soctafism. * Oh losing control ot industry: "Even if the state- owned sector accounts for a smaller proportion of the economy, this wiO not affect the Soc&Ist nature of our country. " To the West: "We do not tmposeour social sys- tem and ideology upon others, nor will we afiow other countries to force thetrs upon us. ” On ataa a o s “The tight against dornytton tea grave political struggle vital tothe very existence of the Communist Party and the state. ” On the media: “We should tighten control over the press and publishing. ”. On Chinese culture: “We must resolutely resist the corrosion of decadent Ideas and cultures. ' On Taiwan: ”We sbaU work for peaceful reunifi- cation, but we shall not undertake to renounce the use of force. ”. T Oh foreign raAaObbs; ”K is stUI serious that Ihit man rights and. other issues are used to Interfere. in the internal affairs of other countries. '*: On the futures "By the middle of- the next century China «nB have become a prosperous, s&ong, democratic and cutaxafly advanced sodafist country. ‘ '• *... Teresa Poofe must now seek legitimacy as Mr Deng's anointed heir. Deng Xiaoping was men- tioned no fewer than 60 times in Mr Jiang's two-and-a-half hour speech, but yesterday China’s leader was determined to make his own mark as an innovator. Hie President declared that the party must not indulge in “book worship" of Marxism, but be open to “bold experiments''. The boldest of these was Mr Jiang's redefinition of “public ownership” and his decision that privatisation will be the main method of dealing with the burden of loss-making state enterprises. Most of China's 300, 000 state firms will be reorganised, merged, leased, sold off or turned into shareholding com- panies, and they will all now be responsible for their own prof- its and losses. If the policy goes wrong Mr Jiang will be left to the mercy of his political opponents. Yes- terday he pre-empted a likely broadside from the remnant of left-wingers who say he has abandoned the socialist path. “We cannot say in general terms that the shareholding system is public or private, for the key lies in who holds the controlling share, ” said Mr Jiang. But the main danger, as Mr Jiang knows, comes from the millions of jobs which will be placed at risk when market forces are unleashed on stale firms, half of which were in the red last year. The President ad- mitted: “It would be hard to avoid the flow of lay-offc. It will cause temporary difficulties to [some] of the workers. " Reform of state enterprises has been under way for sever- al years, albeit without an offi- cial imprimatur. Workers’ strikes and public protests over redundancies and unpaid wages have already threatened the social order m some north-east and inland cities. Mr Jiang’s decision to cut 500, 000 of China's 3 million sol- diers over the next three years will add to the employment problem. This follows a reduction in troop levels of 1 million during the Eighties. Mr Jiang yesterday called on the army to “upiiold the absolute leadership by the Par- ty" but in reality he desperately needs to retain the support of the military to bolster his position as supreme leader and it is nor dear how the generals will feel aboui the latest cuts. Mr Jiang has also put himself in dangerous territory by de- livering a broadside against corruption in the party. “We should be mentally prepared to fight u protracted war against corruption, " he said. Everyone pays lip service to a crackdown on corruption in China, but so many people have their fingers in the pot that a real top-level onslaught amid cause a serious political upscL Earli- er this week it was announced that the disgraced former par- ty secretary of Peking. Chen Xi- long, had been expelled from the party and would be prosecuted. Ordinary Chinese w elcomed the move, hut it sent ripples of disquiet through the party's up- per echelons. ” HEALTHY EATIHC Vitamins for vitaiitr/. Why you need them. Ho w they help Healthy earing habits from Good Health with plenty of recipes to get you going Fo* dclfpls of y? ne. l. r £-s; BT Sl-cp. Freefone 0800 400 004 FOR ALL THE FAMILY Simply skin. Totally free, - Your A-2 Guide to skin care and protection Discover how the wealthy stay healthy.. • • Enter our competition to win a weekend for two at a luxury health farm i- ■';.. iyo 4 izin THE INDEPENDENT « SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 1997 EU hunts for a tax system to save jobs Katherine Butter Luxembourg European Union governments will today be asked to take the first highly controversial steps towards the harmonisation of direct taxation. Finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg will be urged to sign up to plans to collaborate on company taxation to avert a damaging slide towards tax “competition’' between member states after the launch of a sin- gle European currency in 1999. More than a third of EU un- employment, running at IS mil- lion, is directly traceable, EU officials now believe, to the shift in the burden of taxation away from capital onto labour. That shift has been provoked by aggressive competition between member states to seduce multi- national investors with corpor- ate tax perks and incentives. The growing consensus in Brussels is that divergent tax sys- tems and rates among the mem- ber states will destroy even more jobs after the launch of the single currency. 'No longer subject to ex- change rides and transaction costs within the EU, capital wiD bfeoome even more mobile, -so tax will becoxne the big decid- ing factor for companies select- ing investment locations. But the most worrying trend is for governments to compensate for lost revenue on company taxation by heaping costs on labour, with obvious conse- quences for jobs. According to the Commis- sion, as much as 4 per cent of EU unemployment can be blamed on the shift in the bur- den of taxation from capital to employment over the past 15 years. Taxation on wage-earn- ing labour has risen from 35 per cent to more than 42 per cent but, for capital, has fallen from 45 percent to below 35 percent on average over this period. There is growing alarm at the extent to which bosses of multi- nationals can avoid income tax by exploiting different tax res- idency laws in the EU, while low-skilled workers in small companies, whom Brussels calls the “fiscally immobile’', bear the Finance ministers urged to cal! a ceasefire in battle to attract investment by the multinationals brunt of direct taxation. Fortius reason the Commission's plan will introduce the notion of a European fiscal “citizenship'* to suppress differences between tax residency and non residency. Mario Monti, the EU Com- missioner for taxation policy who drafted the co-ordination plan, warned yesterday of a * “potential explosion of political conflicts between the member states” unless action is taken. Britain, which strenuously opposes ceding the national veto over taxation and any moves to harmonise tax wi thin the EU, will greet the propos- als with extreme apprehension. Reflecting the political sen- sitivity that surrounds direct taxation, Mr Monti’s proposals at this stage are fora tax “code of conduct” whereby member states would agree to a mora- torium on company tax perks. used by some governments to. poach jobs and multinational in- vestment from their neighbours. The code -would be non- binding but would be given teeth by a system of “peer re- view” whereby other govern- ments could judge if a country's tax rates were harmful to the EU as a whole. The move will arouse suspicion that Brussels is nnveihng the thin end of a wedge leading progressively to a single tax authority and, ulti- mately, the harmonisation of national taxation,.. Mr Monti, whose proposals are the culmination of months of study with national tax ad- visers, aid his initial priority was to achieve a standstill on cor- poration tax perks but admitted there were growing demands for a minimum rale or a-common “floor” on corporation tax. Hesaid it would not be realistic to expect immediate agreement on a minimum com- pany tax rate common to all member states, lo be consistent, this rapid imply full bannoni- sationspf the taxbase, but, not- mg even co-ordination^ significant shorts Chretien in plea to US over landmines ban Jean Chretien, has made a special pitch to President Bill Clinton to drop US objections to an international ban on landmines, a spokeswoman for the Can a dia n Prime Minister said yesterday. Mr Chretien telephoned Mr Clinton on Thursday to stress that the coming week is the last chance to make changes in the proposed treaty being hammered out in Oslo. From next Friday, countries wfll only be ableto approve it or reject it but not change its wording. “He definitely doesn’t want Clinton to let the opportunity pass, " a Canadian spokeswoman said. “Time is pressing and it has come to an urgent point. " Reuters - Ottawa Australia to hold monarchy talks Australians will hold a constitutional convention in February to deride whether the nation should become a republic and dump the British monarch as head of state, the government said. Prime Minister John Howard announced the constitutional convention will be held at Old Parliament House in Canberra from 2-6 February and 9-13 February. Half of the 152 delegates will be elected by postal ballot, half appointed by the conservative government. “ Sydney Le Pen forced to flee mob fury National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen (centre) and rity mayor Catherine Mcgret QefO ren^ag for awdr m. xrpv [hern French stronghold of Vitro lies JSSrfKU* under attack tan ■demonstrators opposed to the party s fer-nght policies. Anniversary tribute for Bike Nelson Mandela laid a »reath yesnmlmat the Biko, honouring the martyr of South grave at bteve b on m e 20th anniversary Afnca. b UJSSSB in the Eastern Cape bis of Siemoration, including the province started a i day t m ^ SS55S? Si stame ° Reuters - Bast teuton Tudjman seeks place in history Thechildbw^' ne °^^ t ^d^m’^n as a memorial Tudjman s is hJg/SJJSS see as a further sign of his next niemth in what founder,. Ji- lev House, SiamforiL Camhridjreshue. Changing of the Guard TODAY: The Hi’usefc-M C. Misini- c j Regimen I tnounis the Queen's Life Guard" al Horse Guards. I lain. TO- MORROW: The HtiusehulJ L airs Mounted Reament nunutl* the Queen's jjle Guard at Horse Guards foam: Ni- Ci'inpanj Orcrutlicr Guards the 's Guard, ji Bucking- (kw- Palace. I l-'^Um. kind pn* hk-d In- the Suds Guards. of Carts ale. to he lie Council of ihe mu Brugge, io ho Supreme CViun. Kbv. m he. i Dls M unhem Circuit. Birthdays TODAY: Miss Carol Barnes, televi- sion newsreader. S3; Sir Rodger Beil High Court judge. SS; Miss Jacqueline Bfesen, actress. 5x Lt-Gcn Sir Derek Boorman, farmer Chief of Defence Intelligence, 67: Sir John Coulaau, former Secretary-General of Efta. 88: Sir Georg; Engle QC. for- mer first Parliamentary Counsel, 71; Baroness Fisher of Retinal, former MER 78: Lord Flowers, former Vice- Chancellor. London Universiiy. 73; Professor Sir John Gunn, natural philosopher. SI; Dr Gordon Johnson. President, Wolf son College, Cam- bridge. 54: Shr John Kay, High Cburt judge. 54: The Hon Colin Moynihan. former MP. 42: Hie Most Rev George N oakes, former Archbishop of Wales. 73; Mr Colin Pickthall MP, 55; Sir Thomas Risk, former Gov- ernor ul the Bank of Scotland. 75; Mr Rohm Smith, cricketer. 34; Mr James Sluart-Smilh. QC. former Judge Ad- vocate General, 78; Professor Sir Malcolm Sykes, anaesthetist, 71 Mr Keith Thompson, former Vice-Chan- cellor. Staffordshire University, 65; Mr Mel Tonne, singer. 72; Mr Shane Wame. cricketer. 28: Lord Weiden- feld. publisher, 7S. TOMORROW: Mr ftiul Alkm. crick- eter. 41: Mu> Amanda Barrie, actress, Stfc Mi» Sandra Blow, pointer. 72: Mr James Clnppiton MP. 41; Lord Clod- wynol Pcnrhm. former government minister. SI: Professor John Coales, electrical engineer, MQ; Sh James Cohban, former Headmaster. Abing- don School. 87: Vice-Admiral Sir William Crawford. 90; Lord Dean of Harptrce. former ME 73; Mr Morten Market, pop sinter. 38; Mr Manvn Hill. LijvraliL- tenor. 55; Mr Michael Howard, organ recitalist and con- ductor. 75: Mr King MP, 49; The H-m Sir Angus Ogilvy. husband **f Princess Alexandra, b 1 *; Ail Mar- shal Sir Frederick Sowrey. 75; Mr Ke- pler Wesscls, cricketer, 40; Mr Ray Wilkins, footballer, 41; Mr Nicol Williamson, actor. 59. iversanes Y. Births: Arnold Scboen- •, 1874; John Boynton author. 1894; Claudette ( Lily Gaudetle Chaucboin), 1903; John Smith QC MP. Labour Parry leader, 1938. Deaths Andrea Mantegna, painter. 1506; duties James Fbx. statesman, 1806; William Heath Robinson, artist and QlusUator, 1944. On this day: Mon- trose was defeated by the Covenan- ter^ at Philiphaugh. 1645; John Bunyan was released from Bedford jailhfter 13 years, 1673. Today is the Feist Day of St Amatus or Amii, ah- boti St Amatus or Ame, bishop, St Eulogius of Alexandria, St John Chrysostom and St Mauritius. TdMORROW: Births: Sir Peter Lely (Van der Faes), painter, 1617: Johann Michael Haydn, composer. 17B7; Jack Hawkins (John Edward Hawkins), acres-. 1910. Deaths Dame (Durante) Alighieri, poet, 1321; thur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman, 51 Isadora Duncan, dancer, killed a Car crash 1927; Princess Grace inice Kelly) of Monaco, after a car 1 198Z On tUs day: Napoleon and f^is army entered Moscow, 1812. 1b- F row is the Fcm Day of St Maler- of Cologne and St Noiburga.. lectures ODAY tritisb Museum: Paul Collins, "Ar- iaeology and the Bible", 1. 15pm. TOMORROW P attonaf Portrait Gallery: Alfred radlcy. “TS. Eliot". 3pm. Why the monarch must wash the feet of the poor At the Coronation in 1953 1 sat on the pavement in the intermittent drizzle with thousands of others. Most people listened intently to the service broad- cast from Westminster Abbey over the loudspeakers. I remember partic- ularly the sonorous prayer of the Archbishop as he anointed the Queen; Be thy Head anointed with holy Oil: as kings, priests and prophets were anointed. And as Solomon was anointed King by Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet, so be tbou anointed, Wessed and consecrated Queen aver the Peoples, whom the Lord thy God hath given thee to rale and govern... I guess that this concept of the monarch as a sacred, anointed person stiU resonated with many people in 1953. Even if they failed to recognise all the references to Old Testament figures, they were proud to feel that they were celebrating an institution with a long tradition. They wanted a “traditionar Coronation as they wanted a “tradi- tionar wedding or funeral. When they saw “Jones & Sons, Family Butchers'’ over a shop in the High Street they felt reassured. Long-established family businesses by definition gave good reliable service. The Christian concept of the monarch as sacred and anointed goes back to Judaism. When King Saul be- came jealous of David the heir to the throne, he determined to kill him. David and his friends were hiding in the recesses of a cave when Saul came in. David stealthily cut off a piece of Saul’s cloak. Davids men told him that faithqn reason The anointing of the head of the Queen with holy oil at the Coronation was not an empty ceremony. Rather it offers the theological key to re-defining the role of sovereign, argues Canon Alan Wilkinson. this was his chance to kill him. But David refused: Hie Lord forbid that T should do this thine to my lord, the Lord's anointed... (I Samuel xriv. 6) In Judaism the king was not only a warrior and a judge. He was also charged to have a special care for the poor and for the faith of the nation. So Jeremiah the prophet pointedly asked his kin° if he thought that it was living in a rich palace which made him a king: Your father judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the Lord (Jeremiah xxii. 15-16) That is to say that when we act for social justice we know God. The idea of the monarch as a sacred person is also dear in Shakespeare: Not aE the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king Tbe breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord. ( Richard If) As a sacred person the monarch was also regarded as a healer up to the 18th century. Queen Anne was the last monarch to allow people to be brought for her to touch in tbe healing rite then provided in the Prayer Book. But in tbe Sixties people began to think that what mattered was not what office you held but what kind of per- son you were. When Archbishop Cog- gan preached in Cambridge in 1962, there were questions afterwards. The first came from a student: “What do you believe as Donald Coggan, not as Archbishop of York? ” It was a very typ- ical question of that period. People wanted to reach the “real person" be- hind the facade of office. Newspapers discovered that they could make mon- ey out of exposures of that type. It was not a context favourable to monarchy. The royals were tom between their desire to keep their mystique and the demand for accessibiliiy. In the last few years people have swung from idealisation to anger and contempt as their idols turned out to have feet of clay. Certainly one style of monarchy seems to have run into the buffers. Instead of remaining silent and embarrassed, ought not the Church to initiate a really serious debate about ihe theology and meaning of monarchy? Is hereditaiy monarchy now so untypical prcfe they rejecting the hereditary principle upon which monarchy depends? Are they in effect asking for an elected pres- ident, not a monarch? Some used to ar- gue that the very arbitrariness of the hereditaiy principle ensured that the monarch was God's anointed, because it removed the selection from human hands. But who still believes that today? When Jesus went to synagogue in Nazareth he read from Isaiah: The Spirit of the Lord... has aooiated me to preach good news to the poor... to set at liberty those who are oppressed... (Luke iv, 18) For Jesus, being anointed meant wash- ing feet, as our monarchs did up to James II on Maundy Thursday. Can we envisage a reformed monarchy anoint- ed not for wealth and privilege but for servanthood? Though this is a Judaeo- Christian concept, it would appeal to people of other faiths and none as well. We already have hints of that concept in Prince Charles’s concern for the inner city and the unemployed. When things go^ wrong with hopes and relationships, we often react by wanti- ng to rid or the source of the pain. This is how many people are reacting to the failures of the monarchy. Ought we to abandon an institution which is woven into every period of our history, out of disappointment or a fit of pique? There isstiQ time to salvage the monarchy, but there is not as much time as some in authority once seemed to assume. * ‘Faith & Reason' is edited by Paul lidlelv UP SATURDAY IS SEPTEMBER 1997 ' '^n 1 4 - FOUNDED 1 9S6 ONE CANADA. SQUARE CANARY WHARF LONDON E14 5DL TELEPHON E 0171-293 2000/0171-345 2000 FAX 0171-293 2435/0171-345 2435 A new model parliament, made in Scotland T he Scottish people have spoken, and me Prime Minister and other leaders have responded with due humility, talking of history, momentous days, and the work ahead. Tony Blair rightly took the credit for trusting the people. “And the people have had the courage and the confidence to trust themselves, he said yesterday. But demo- cracy is like a game of Chinese whispers and we have an imperfect idea of what it is the people were really trying to say, and hence long-term significance might be. The immediate ambiguity is that which is symbolised by Labour’s uneasy alliance with the Scottish National Party. For Donald Dewar, this was a vote to strengthen the Union between England and Scotland. For Alex Salmond, it was a vote to weaken it, and part of a process leading to independence. Of course, as all three home-rule parties, including the Liberal Democrats, repeatedly insisted, which of these futures comes to pass is a matter for the Scottish people, and lim- ited home rule will allow them to clarify that choice - just as the referendum enables the Scottish people, at a future date, to choose between higher, lower or unchanged taxes. Yesterday, acknowledging the exhausted cheers of devolution campaigners, all passion nearly spent after 20 years on the road, Mr Blair described devolution as the “third way” between separatism and the status quo. No doubt Labour’s policy of no change in income tax rates is the “third way” between 3p in the pound up or down. It is an option familiar to the rest of us as the “middle way”. But the middle way does not have to be a static compromise: hr is part of the genius of Mr Blair’s vaulting rhetoric that be can speak of historic change in the language of moderation. Thus is the centre of gravity of British politics beginning to shift. Standing against the inevitable backdrop “New Parliament, New Scotland”, the Prime Minister declared: “This is a time for change, renewal and modernity” The qualifications were almost audible: “Tampered by conti- nuity, stability and tradition. ” But there is no doubt that we were witnessing the Old giv- ingway to the New. Thursday’s derisive “yes, yes” vote was the second domino in a row which started with the general election and which stretches into the unseen distance. But there are many lines of dominos leading from t his point. Some of them are false trails. One is marked “Scot- tish independence”. In the short term, the prevailing argument in Scotland is the most convincing: that passing power from London to Edinburgh win absorb and dissipate nation- alist energies. For many years, a Scottish par- liament will have its work cut out as it tries to get a grip on education, health and all the unexpected issues which present themselves for debate and decision. In the long term, the national question may revive; but if it does, it is likely to be in a European context Another false trail is marked “English regionbood”. John Prescott on Wednesday urged the Scots to vote “yes, yes” “because that will lead to greater decision-making for the English regions”. No doubt they bore that in mind as they went to the polls in Oban and Pollokshields. It is only a pity that there were no exit pollsters to record that people voted “yes” because they wanted Yeovil to have a regional chamber of appointed local coun- cillors. It is true that many regions of Eng- land will continue to feel ignored by London, and that many local politicians will continue to feel envious of Scotland and Whies. And Mr Blair offered some comfort to his deputy prime minister by saying that the referendum marked the end of the “era of big centralised government”. But the truth is that direetty- elected mayors for big cities would be more relevant to most people’s lives than a layer of regional government. There is a danger, however, that this gov- ernment’s early start on the “unfinished busi- ness” of devolution will focus debate about democratic reform on the boundaries between bits of the United Kingdom. What is more significant about the Scottish par- liament in the long run is that it will be elected by a proportional system, which could lead to the renewal of democracy itself, rather than simply its structures. The Scottish parliamentary elections will be held in 1999, and the parliament itself will open with the new century. A year later there wifi probably be a LTC-wide referendum on the question of a proportional system for electing MPs to the House of Commons. The Tesult of the Scottish elections, and the rela- tionship between Labour and Liberal Demo- crat members when they take their places in the Edinburgh parliament, will proride a working model for Lhe rest of the country to consider. Given that under a proportional system Labour is unlikely to win an overall major- ity in the Scottish chamber, its First Minis- ter will need Liberal Democrat support to govern. So Paddy Ashdown’s flirting with the word “coalition” in this week’s New States- man was not quite as presumptuous as it seemed. This, rather than outdated projects for Scottish independence or devolution to the English regions, is the place of Thursday's vote in Britain's democratic history. It is a story of resumed progress after 18 years of arrested development, but the “re-constitu- tion” of the United Kingdom is not simply going to continue where Labour left off in 1979. We are now setting off in a much more interesting and challenging direction. LETTEKS TO THE EDITOR Ik* {M Scottish vote must lead to British federalism Nato’s role in European defence Sin Let us rejoice at the result of the Scottish referendum. But let us also consider the inevitable and bene fici a l consequences for all four nations of Great Britain. If there is to be devolution to Scottish, Welsh and ultimately Northern Ireland S "laments then this must surety us down the road to British federalism. Why not? Quite apart from the v l claims of the Celtic nations to be self- governing, do not the English also have the same right? We must surety - have four self-governing assemblies, with a further federal assembty on top. This is the opportunity to dispense with the House of Lords and replace it with an elected federal parliament exercising whatever overall responsibilities we decide to reserve to it We need not abolish the monarchy. But if in the future there was a need for a federal president, there would be nothing to prevent members of the royal family with appropriate skills from standing for the office. As remarked in your article on Mary Robinson (“farewell to a right royal president”, 11 September), the fact of election, not inheritance of an office, gives confidence and a true sense of purpose. wtke up Britain! Anew dawn in Scotland gives all of us the chance to create a democratic constitutional structure, not dominated by any one nation, or archaic and outworn conventions. It is time to take the best of the old into a new and more flexible system. Who knows, astrong British Federation might one day even feel at ease within me wider world of an enlarged Europe. •... JOHNCRAGG Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Sir. In your coverage of devolution issues you imply that this is an issue for Scots alone. Actually, there are a lot of English people living up here who are entitled to vote. I am one of these and have voted yes, yes. Quite simply, even if you do not cany a cultural heritage of dissatisfaction with the current arrangements, you quickly learn to. the fact that Scotland is not well understood south of the border. Its distinctiveness in terms of the legal and educational systems, its sheer size, and even the fact that its climate is so different that it makes the UK conventions about special winter payments contentious, are all facets of the issue. You do not need to be Scottish to accept the case for devolved powers. PHILIYON Dundee Sin Can we be assured that the new Scottish Parliament win use its tax raising powers to pay its costs, salaries and the expenses of running the referendum rather than being subsidised by the rest of the United Kingdom? GRAHAM EVANS Brbavorth, Northampton Sin Michael Howard is wrong to assert that a common European foreign and security policy (CFSP) poses a threat to the role of the US and Nato (“Howard says Brussels is threat to Nato”, 9 September). Prior to the Amsterdam summit earlier this year, both Tony Blair and Robin Cook stressed the continuing importance of Nato and its role in European defence. The subsequent Amsterdam treaty dearly specifies that any common European defence policy must both respect the obligations of member states towards Nato, and be compatible with the Nato framework. - Nor is the special relationship between Britain and the US threatened by a common foreign and security policy. Stuart Eizenstat, speaking in 199S as US Ambassador to the EXJ, outined the American Administration’s backing for a European CFSP, saying that the US “fully supports) the European defence identity and the Western European Union as the European pillar of Nato”. Mr Howard also fails to recognise that the Amsterdam treaty safeguards the right of member states to take an independent foreign polity tine. Under the process of constructive abstention, all member states retain the right to opt out from a collective foreign policy decision. A common Europe an foreign and security policy will widen the capacity for EU member states to work together to prevent future conflict breaking out in the central European states. Mr Howard mentions the Gulf Afer but neglects to say that the EU countries acted together to apply sanctions on Iraq after its invasion of Kuwaiti The uniform application of sanctions aptly illustrates how a CFSP can enable member states to act in concert. As Mr Howard says, many Europeans still see Nato as the basis of their defence and cherish their links with the US. What he fails to state is that a CFSP effectively ensures that the EU has an extra leg to stand on, without having to sacrifice the security provided by the US and Nato. STEPHEN WOODARD Director European Movement UK London SW1 'Evangelists’ trying to save British science mM ‘Yes, yes’ voters in EcfinbunSh celebrate their victory Cycle network needs rethinking Sir: The research by lhe Dean Don’t victimise the regional press i Sir. Drily Tbynbee“(“Weasel words in E Sin The Save British Science Society (SBS) welcomes the support of The Independent (leading article, 9 September) in making the case for increased public funding for British science, with a balance preserving an adequate share for basic research. We nave been saying as much for some years and our analysis is broadly confirmed by the Dearing report: “The resources must be found to enable the UK to maintain its place as one of the world’s major research centres... [and our universities to] continue to be valued partners in research with overseas institutes. ” We in SBS are not prophets of doom; we are evangelists for an enlightenment of society and government in their understanding of the role of British science, and its contributions to world culture and our economy. SBS has organised a Photograph: Reuters number of symposia on bow the exploitation of academic research 4. might be improved, the most recent OI wa lki ng sponsored try the Department of Environmental Alliance showing that the opening of cycle routes m the Forest of Dean has greatly merged motor traffic (8 September) confirms wbal many people have feared over the work of Sustrans. The name short for Sustainable Transport” and its original aim was to provide cycle routes that would make cycling a safe alternative to the car. But Suslrans has concentrated. not on routes that can fulfil that function, but on routes that are relativety easy to establish, mainly' difflised railways in attractive eoun ffysKie. As the Dean research shows, these do not transport need, butact asyet another remote entertainment fedlitvand destination erfyet more car journeys thatwoidd otherwise noth&e ^enmde/m environmental damage likely to be done by Sustrans’s lottery-funded National Cycle Networkshould now be recognised and the project completely re-thougfaL What cycling, as sustainable transport nec£tfspa^o° the ordinafy road*- 2®? “KSw land September) should remove her Stables are navmg on uruiasione blinkers. Her diatribe on the beach, Pembrokeshire (“Tide turns perceived ills of her industry fare® against riders on the sands” 2 huge number of undeserving victims, September), namely the regional press. They are as nothing, however. There is a greater world beyond the compared with the problems walking. ■ ■ tL 1. L. incitnre anH Irv~a1 nporJo >i«vo hart Problems of walking in Pembrokeshire Sin It was interesting to read about the problems East Notion Riding Stables are having on Druidsione beach, Pembrokeshire (“Tide turns against riders on the sands”, 2 Trade and Industry and a major bank. The path to discovery and application is usually tortuous, unforeseeable and unplannable. Results and techniques from unrelated fields are often crucial to advance. This must be remembered when “greater selectivity” is invoked. Selectivity will always be with us, the imagination of scientists knows no bounds, but whenever the screw on basic research is tightened, opportunities will be lost. lb “make the best of British science”, and ensure it continues its record of outstanding contributions to the “global enterprise” of advancing the frontiers of understanding, we must ensure that internationally competitive levels of resource reach our best scientists and engineers, enabling them to exercise fully the originality and flair for which British science is justly renowned. Dr JOHN MULVEY Director, Saiv British Science Society Oxford I Even ‘good’ employers need trade unions ey are as nothing, however. I national comics and the sanctimonious heavies to make the. total picture of what she describes as a “grotesque press”. Many more people in this country | read regional papers than nationals. These journals and their editors don't always get it right. But they respect, welcome and adhere to lhe Code of Practice in a manner very different from Polly Tbynbee’s viperfeh reaction to it..... There is much good, indeed great visitors and local people have bad with the landowners over more then a decade: an illegal diversion of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path (a National Trail) down a dangerous cliff without prosecution; intimidation of walkers on other public paths, inducting turning back path surveyors; no signs orwaymaris on the paths and riding horses illegally down a public footpath on to the beach. Of more relevance than the plight of the horse riders on the beach is that no one else wants Kfority and Evening Post' jour nalism m the national press. of the horse riders on the peats is Recognising that is a prerequisite for why the local authorities, including toSgtherottenbits. the Pembrokeshire Coast National PtiUvTbynbee tells us how she Park have not taken resolute action laughed out loud when she came to protect and assert the rights of the aefossthe “legendary” Code of public to the use and enjoyment of & ■ I The Ramblers' Association Newport, I Pembrokeshire Sir Your opinion (leading article, 10 September), “Yes we need unions, but unions need to change”, is based on a fundamental misun der standing- tt is not just because some employers “fail to reach the gold standard” that trade unions are needed. It is because, as you say, “conflicts between those who create jobs and those who take jobs are ineluctable”. 1 write as a former trade union official, who spent much of bis working life dealing with workplace Inca punishment for the privileged Sir. Peru has called on the International Anti-Corruption Conference to adopt Inca rules of conduct (report, 8 September). This is a good idea, particularly the Inca rule that the higher and more privileged the position of the offender, the more severe should be the punishment Not for them the soft open prison and early parole, but something large, bare, and heavy dropped on them from a height. CHRISTOPHER PADLEY Market Rosen, Lincolnshire know riven to road provision ghoa Hbe addressed to Letters to the Editor; The Independent, One Canada Square, Canauy Wharf, London E145DL that IS Dtwpw letters 0171. 293 2056: e-mail: tetters@iiuIqpewIeD£jc(Mitl ant indnde a daytime telephone number. KfS^KT' Ifttera may be editrffor length and darity. "We regret we are onaNe toackDowtedgennpobfisbed tetters. XValkiey. Sheffield ___. ^ safety and health hazards. Statutory national standards of occupational safety and health are set by governments, not by employers or employees. Both sides of industry have an equal right to be consulted in their formulation. Employers, even good employers, of whom there are many, cannot be accepted as sole arbiters. That is one important reason why trade unions arc necessary. CRDALE Saffian Walden, Essex Hypnotised by Diana’s spirit Sin Jack O'Sullivan names the new spirit following the death of Diana, the New Protestantism; Angela W0 hams (Letters, 11 September) thinks it is humanism. Increasing numbers l meet call it mass hypnotism. Will “do gooder” henceforth no longer be a term of abuse? I doubt it. NORMAN WEBB Halifax. West Yorkshire Sir: So, people who pick up discarded rubbish in public parks are now being imprisoned or fried. That's the last time I do my civic duty lest that crisp packet or cellophane wrapper has been left as a mark of respect for Duma. TOM HARDY London SW12 LETTER from THE EDITOR T orrents of letters from readers have continued to arrive here, in the wake of Diana’s funeral. The sheer weight of correspondence means some replies arc being delayed. Apologies: I am going as fast as I can. But what of their content? This is clearly one of those stories where an editor cannot win. The paper has been savaged by some of you as a sneering republican rag, while others think I am a slack-jawed monarchist stooge; some felt we were ludicrously pro-Diana, and others that we were ludicrously not: I have had letters complaining about far too much, too chocolate-sticky coverage; 1 have had others asking whether any of us here have a heart. Did we get everything right? Of course not. Was the overall balance wrong? Looking hack, we may see the tune as one of mass hysteria, in which the paper was implicated, but the feelings were real enough at the time. It’s hard for me to be objective, but I felt we kept the balance and tension this paper depends on. What is dear is that the death and mourning pro- voked strong responses of an unpredictable kind. I was wiyty amused by the Scottish reader who politety explained that The Independent had done very well, but that he felt obliged to make a stand against the tabloids and, since he didn’t read a tabloid, had decided to cancel the Indy instead. Another reader wrote similarly. I also enjoyed the reader who said he had agreed with almost every- thing in the paper: but he bought The Independent to be provoked; and could we make sure it didn't happen again. Editors are required to take criticism on the chin: the cus- tomer is always r%ht. and all thaL Even so, perhaps I could note that intemperate and offensive language doesn't help the case; one correspondent who de- scribed our writers as scum and bitches and myself in less com- plimeniaiy terms than that, is now outraged that his letter was not published in full. Well. bell, my friend, there are limits. Many thanks, though, to those who wrote applauding the deci- sion not 10 use pictures of the princes William and Harry in private situations ever again. Violent arguments have erupted elsewhere in the press, notably between 77ie Telegraph and The Daily Mail, about which editor is the most villainous, hypocritical, and so on. We will continue ploughing our quiet furrow: so far. a few days on, our pro-privacy decision has already obliged me to turn down a possible story. But it was trivial and nasty, so that’s fine. On the other hand, one realty substantive point has been raised tty a couple of readers: does this ban on intrusive pic- tures taken in private places apply to bereaved royalty only, or is it for the rest of the coun- try too? The subject was raised in one of our morning confer- I was amused by the reader who cancelled the 'Indy’ in order to make a stand against the tabloids cnees and my view is that it must, of course, apply widely. We will look much more cau- tiously at pictures of people weeping at funerals, and such- like. But the usual public inter- est (as opposed to public curios- ity) defence applies: politicians taking freebie holidays during tiie parliamentary session, for instance, are still fair game - embarrassing paunches or not. It won't be an easy line to tread, partly because so many people want it both ways - they want to blame the gossips, while knowing all the gossip themselves. Such ambivalence about (in this case) newspapers is perfectly reflected In the sales figures for the relevant period Masses of people were irate about the press, and par- ticular})’ the tabloids. So what happened? Most papers (including this one) rocketed up in sales... including the tabloids. Baudelaire, was it, who coined the phrase, “hyp- ocrite IcaeuP'l Andrew Marr QUOTE UNQUOTE The people’s party and the people's princess combined could lower the Buckingham Palace flag for good - Derek Draper, former adiiser to Peter Mandelson The last thing we need is a New Monarchy like New Labour - Lord Tebbit Having a hereditary monarchy is like having a hereditary rugby team - Paul Flynn, Labour MP If you have a Royal Family you have to make the best of what- ever personalities the genetic lottery comes up with - Ben Pimlott, royal biographer A review in the Financial Times said 1 was an extremely funky pub pianist. That was a good summing-up of what I am - Elton John Every room in my house is unbelievably tidy. Fm getting treat- ment for this - Michael J Jackson, star of 'Brookside' If people saw me spitting blood trying to deal with a problem they'd realise this is not the ministry of bloody fon -Tony Banks, sports minister I have learnt that the cutting edge of tax proposals is in the small print - Tam DaJyeU MP. anii-devoJutionist People gp into counselling and never emerge. 1 wonder if coun- selling isn’t the new religion - Dr Rty Persand. psychiatrist I pity non-novelists. How are you going to live in a denuded world when you are just Irving in it no longer giving it some shape? - Martin Amis, author A dear old poppet - Stephen Fky, actor, on Peter Mandelson 18 -flTTTTrnfiY - SEPTEtmER 1997 • THE INDEPENDENT the Saturday story The UK’s new export: Brit Grit ’ While the think-tanks struggle to find new ways to sell Britain’s Image’ abroad, the country already has a new identity that is not only appealing and successful: it’s true. Reggie Nadelson tells us what New "Workers really like about the United Kingdom L ast week, unable to bear any more of the wall-to-wall TV coverage of Princess Diana’s death, I go out to the pictures. The Full Monty is playing at my local theatre here in New York where the midday audience consists largely of seniors. (The tickets are cheaper. ) And they’re in stitches. Here’s this tale of six unemployed guys in Sheffield, steel workers on the dole, who cook up a scheme to make a buck as male strip- pers, and here's this audience of American oldies who are clutching each other from laughing, popcorn spilling merrily onto the floor. The movie has a grim setting; half the northern lingo must be incomprehensible; the guys are not exactly Ralph Fiennes. We are not talking Brideshead Revisited. But it is tough, raunchy, sweet, accessible and very, very funny. This is Brit Grit and we love it. Jane Austen, RIP. It’s not just New York, either. Next week. The Full Monty, which cost around £2m - lunch money for a Hollywood exec - opens big in America. It's already made a bundle and looks like being the Four Weddings and a Funeral of 1997. And if Four Weddings gave America a vision of Britain as a modern middle-class fairy tale, then The Full Monty gives it to us as a working- class fable, an inside-out look at gender politics and unemployment brought off with a lot of laughs and a generous but unsentimental heart. These guys in The Full Monty discover that, unemployed, they’re as worthless as the scrap metal around them. That without work or money they’re reduced to hunks of raw meal - and hunks they are not. Desperation is the mother of their invention: to fix their miserable lives, they cut through the crap of convention, risk embarrassment on every level and let it all hang out. Literally. “WelL no looking. ” Dave warns as they try out their strip number in Ger- ald’ s front room. “And no laughing, ya bastards. ” The real thing. Brit Grit. At the movies we've had Secrets and Lies, Breaking the Waves, Trainspotting, The Van, Twin Towns, Brassed Off, and now The Full Monty and not a Corgi among them. The game is up. These days, we love you for your Chippendale wannabes more than your Chippendale chairs. Americans have had it with chintzes and princes, we're bored rigid by guardsmen in stupid fur hats, men in striped pants selling stale groceries, beads of state who talk with a mouth full of fruit, and London hotels that make you stick on a crappy old tie if you want to eaL ("We’ve been here before, of course, in the Swinging Sixties, so-called, but it was a long, long time ago and in another country and that revolution was about styles of style rather than styles of being. ) Give us the cocky Robert Carlyle in The Full Monty, give us Robbie Coltrane in Cracker, Oasis and Absolutely Fabulous, Irvine Welsh and Eddie Izzard, and a young and handsome Prime Minister who. when he came out to offer com- fort over Diana' s death, had a lump in his throat and his heart on his shirtsleeve. Long Live King Tony. Down with the irony curtain. And Diana knew, that was the point. The sto- ries. the questions the obsession, the myth-mak- ing. will go on and on: Britain has its own grassy knoll now. But the touchy-feely outpouring, the instinctive gathering of the tribe, the warmth, the lack of embarrassment, my God. Britain last week looked like something we Americans could gel down with at last. No more hiding. No more suffering in silence, no more stiff upper lip. You took it all off and we watched, in thrall. The emotional Full Monty. In the presence of this Britain, we can dump If you are planning a baby, start here? ™s nacare'. iiw. * BffotrCamrpHim *1 •* add. alongwith a careful balance of 15 other vitamins and minerals to safeguard your requirements during pregnancy Pregnacare replaces your usual multivitamin. It is recommended from several weeks before conception, right through to the end of breast feeding. So, if you’re already pregnant, or could be soon, start with Pregnacare right now. 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She was one of us in our dreams: she was our new Jackie, a movie star, the dazzling filament in the tran- scendental lightbulb. Pop. “As a result of what has happened we have changed, " said the Prime Minister of the events surrounding Diana' s death. No. the change was in the works. What happened crystallized iu clar- ified it, was a catalyst. People already knew. In America, we knew. For years at a time, we don't actually think about Britain at all over here; we’re as xeno- phobic and insular as you in reporting the news and we’re no longer a majority European cul- ture. Some of what we do think about Britain, when we think about iL is what’ s peddled to the reading classes here by a handful of powerful British magazine editors living in New York, a kind of East Coast division of London's chat- tering classes, which means what we get is about their prejudices and power struggles. It’s a schitzy rag-bag of attitudes and images we’ve got of Britain one way and another now. but nothing is less coherent than change and, as a wise guy (paraphrasing Ralph Waldo) once said, “consistency is for fools". So it’s not sur- prising that even as Brit Grit takes hold, some of us have left our hearts and minds at the travel agents' theme park. Earlier this week, 5, 000 American travel agents met in Glasgow’, that grittiest of British cities and pleaded with Britain not to “mod- ernise”. A bagpipe band played in the back- ground. A stall selling “Agatha Christie Coun- try" did enough brisk business to make you weep. Trainspotthig this was not. “Heritage" still sells, it seems, according to the American Society of Travel Agents whose pres- ident said, “What are you going to do, rebuild Big Ben? ” A lot of us still want cashmere and crumpets not Galliano and goat’s cheese. Well, 324 million of us Yanks travelled to Britain last year- that' s about one of us for eveiy 18 of you - and we spent 2. 4 billion bucks. Send in the Morris dancers. Curiously, in the same week that American travel agents met in Glasgow. Demos, the think- tank, issued its report on the need for modern- ization, for the “rebranding of Britain". Britain, says Demos, suffers from the “misperceptions of foreigners". But if the travel agents of America purvey one kind of theme park, the Demos mob have something just as bland in mind: what could be worse than institutional modernisation? P lease, God, not the Vision Thing, not that. No working parties, no image makers, no marketing guvs and public relations hacks, please please please, you had all that in the Eight- ies when the Thatcher government thought it did- n't matter what they did so long as the image was right; all you got were dirtier streets, degraded health care, lousier education, mserablc trains, the dismemberment of the best television on earth. Oh, and empty steel mills. Which brings me to The Full Monty, but I'll get back to that. In the light of our current fascination with the messy, funny, angry, raunchy expressions of Brit Grit, in the light of the spontaneity of the Diana Nation in full flight, it’s pretty curious reading extracts from the Demos report. Demos, if you ask me, is out to lunch. Speaking of which, one of its suggestions (along with the need for a new furniture in its embassies! ) is to offer tourists arriving off planes and ferries “morsels” of the new British cuisine. I can see it now: me, bleary-eyed, staggering off a flight from New York at Heathrow at 5am. A perky young Demos person rushes towards me with morsels of, say, goafs cheese mousse from Kensington Place. Welcome to Britain. “Tourists think the food is bad and tbe natives arrogant, ” the report goes on. (Hey, I only take my cues from your Prime Minister who went to Tuscany this year. ) You want to fix thing?? You want more and happier tourists? Look, we’re willing to spend billions every year coming over to see you and what we care about is that London hotels are hideously overpriced and seaside resorts are a rip-off. That the natives, especially those work- ing in provincial shops and restaurants, are not so much arrogant as sullen. Angry. Bui a lot of them are young people working for minimum wage without a hope in hell of anything better. It would make me plenty sullen. If the Government does what governments ought to do, if it provides the jobs, the educa- tion, the health care, it won't need to change the furniture in its embassies. Hie trickle down effect, the feelgood factor, will have the tourist dasscs cheering. Most hilarious of all however, is the Demos idea that you can codify, formalise, and institu- tionalise Britain's “eccentricity, individuality and non-conformity”, not to mention its “buc- caneering entrepreneurs”, and that these can go into a “toolkit” for renewing Britain's identity and telling its stories. It’s an almost fabulously old- fashioned idea, like early socialist engineering at its silliest. Anyhow, we’re just now getting to know who you really are: don't put the wraps back on. Britain's stories are getting told the way they always do - by people who make films and TV programmes and plays and music, by designers and inventors, writers and researchers and sci- entists. And the grit's in the rebellion, the genius in the seditious response to institutions, to the establishment, to the received image: it doesn't matter if it's Diana against the in-laws or the guys in The Full Monty. That's where the bravery is. That’s what gives Diana her following and what turns a bunch of guys “jiggui' around in the buff” into a joyous fable'of true Brit Grit. The wraps are off: Britain has begun to reveal all, and not just with The FUU Monty* ( £ S hooting defenceless - yet very tasty - grouse is what I do each August in Scotland. My man comes along but does not kill. I do. It makes me feel like the man I always wanted to many. 1 reckon if you arc going to eat something with a face, you should have tbe nerve to kill it yourself. My man insists that beef comes not from cows but from Sainsbury’s. I justify hunting psychologically. Those grouse look more depressed with each passing year. Like lobsters in restaurant tanks, they want to die. I'm the grouse’s answer to Dr Kevorkian. There's a huge difference between rural and urban in Scotland. These Scots really love the land. They work hard to maintain the forests, fences, pheasants, fish, all that. Land to us city- dwellers? Why, that's something to mow, isn’t it? That's why my friend Roy, who has chosen lo make his life in the Highlands, is keen on rural people's land rights as well as getting a “voice for Scotland". Symbolic of this rare breed of Scots is Bob. He’s the town of Laggan's human answer to the Swiss army knife. Whatever needs doing. Bob can do. Stacking firewood kilns, seeing if the pony's still alive, you name iL He's there when you need him add not when you don't. Bob’s real value locally is his coining the word “yerragh", a universal sound which is this small town’s contribution to the language of Shakespeare. Instead of “yes", “alt right”, “Okie doke”, “okay”, “aye”, “yo”, “sure” “fine by me”, "no problem”, “of course” “cer- tainly” ana all other forms of middling responses. Bob has invented the word for all occasions, the answer to the ques- tion of the gods. “Yerragh. ” As Roy explains, “You need to cele- brate the best contract of your life? Yer- ragh. The truck has broken down bring- ing the four-poster to the honeymoon hotel? Yerragh. The bottom has fallen out of your kayak? Yerragh. ” Like any good invention, the whole town has adopted it for very good rea- sons. “Yerragh" tends a sense of com- munity lo these rural folk in a way other words can't muster. Indeed, “yerragh” works beautifully, subtly, relying on tone to reveal its meaning - much as the four tones of Mandarin Chinese reveal “ma" to mean mother, a horse, rope or a swear word. Anyone who wonders why Scotland voted Yes- Yes will understand devolu- tion better if they consider the town of laggan. Theypull together. They know what’s whaL They are a true rural com- munity struggling to keep itself as fit as possible. And the best people for that job are the people themselves. No wonder they said in T uvozn that the vote wasn’t really a Yes- Yes. It was a “yerragh”. Just like Bob - that ginger- haired symbol of the Highlands, the rus- tic example of everything good and Scot- tish - who. it turns out, was bom in England. H e looks like my brother and that's why I went Don McCullin’s portrait of a shell- shocked Marine, circa 196 8, is the rea- son I went to the celebrated photo- journalist’s exhibitional the Barbican in London yesterday. This image of a young soldier - a broad-faced Marine whose staring eyes are barely discernible in the shadow of his helmet - could have been mv brother. He looks just like him, although Michael died in 1967, the only one in our small town who went to war and never came back. McCullin's coverage of war-torn Cyprus, Cambodia and Beirut rustles up feelings and recollections that have lain dormant for years. Seeing some of fas famous images - troops running in the streets ui Northern Ireland, for sample - operates like a time-capsule. Personal history comes back in a flash. The feelings of his subjects - their despair, their dilemmas — are palpably present. Although I suspect some critics mav poo-poo McCullin’s work as being too accessible, the beauty of these stirring photos is their balance. McCuUin lakes us far enough into human sufferin' 1 to be quite distressed. Thank God' he never leaves us there. For me, each of McCullin’s works is as substantial as reading a novel in a nanosecond - downing a whole visual universe in pill-form. Go. See for your- self. Take tissues. I did my bit for public transport today. I queued for a bus. No, it's the wait for the bus that is humiliating. That long; dulL slog that tells me that I*m just nor £ successful enough. If 1 were. I wouldn't^ be standing there like a jerk. Steadfastly. I thought of the environ- ment Maybe by me taking the bus an ambulance could get through traffic faster. Maybe someone would be happier. Not me. 1 was pestered, as usual, by tourists wanting to know what bus to take where. Despite my American accent, people always ask me questions meant for a London native. Maybe I look as if I know what I'm doing. Whatever, my large Culler & Gras sunglasses aren't doing their job of repelling people. “Which bus goes to Earl’s Court? " asks a nice grey-haired lady. She weans the same blue puffa coat as her grey-haired, smiling friend. Sisters? Friends? Clones? "The 74, " I sav with confidence. “Ah. 74. Thank you. " Half an hour later, the same lady is standing next to me. rocking slightly on her heels and humming an annoyed tune. 1 can feci her looking at me as if * made up the idea of the 74 bus just to waste her time. Another 15 minutes. She's not hum- ming now. Her friend is standing next lo her. next to me. agitated. I’m begin- ning to feel responsible. The 74 hasn’t £> come and 1 told them that was their bus. Ten minutes later. How could I have lied to two little grey-haired ladies? I grab the first cab that hurtles past ii id THE INDEPENDENT » SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 1997 19 the commentators poor woman If you or I were cut off we'd cope. We might make tea, perhaps even toast david aaronovitch O ne of the most complex and bitterly disputed questions of the 20th century is whether poverty is relative or absolute. But today we may be able to settle it. for the strange case of Mrs Jocelyn WHdenstein - being heard before a divorce court in New York this week - has provided what T regard as final proof that the relativists have been right all along. Mrs WHdenstein, 52, is not, by the usual measurements of these things, poor. Ouite the opposite, in fact. Her estranged husband, Alec, is the biUioiiaire head of one of the biggest art dealerships in the world Until recently the couple shared priceless' masterpieces of world art, a large jet, a 66, 000-acre ranch in Kenya (whence, apparently, Mrs Wildenstem hails), a Manhattan lownhouse, and a French chateau. Alas, they share them no longer. Ten days ago Mrs Wildensteiu arrived at their New York home, travel- stained (she subsequently said) and in need of a bath after the long flight out of door but hers and - worst of ah - the chef and the butler abruptly ceased their cooking i their batlint. Africa. Kicking off her shoes ring hi and removing her ear-rings, she opened the door to the matrimonial bedroom - and surprised her 57-year-old spouse, in the arms of a woman 38 years his junior. Not only was Mr WHdenstein surprised, he was also alarmed - for Jocelyn was not alone. Strangely - almost perapierjlly — she was accompanied by two “bodyguards 7 ', and when Mr WHdenstein produced a revolver (from where, 1 wonder? ), be was swiftly disarmed. The authorities subsequently bound him over to keep the peace, which, in view of the circumstances - ie the eruption of two burly men and one screaming woman into the room where he was making love to a Lolita of the Lower East Side - may be regarded as ironic. But what, you will probably be asking by now, has all this to do with deprivation? Well according to attorneys for the wronged wife, Mr WHdenstein deckled to revenge himself upon Jocelyn by cutting her off from his wealth. Her credit cards were annulled, the chauffeured limousine turned up at any and their batting. Now, if this were to happen to you or I, we would probably cope. Venturing into the kitchen we might make ourselves tea, even toast perhaps. Provided we wens allowed to keep a house and a million dollars, we’d get by. But Mis Wildenstem cannot She has, over the years, lost the knack, if ever she had iL Her sensitive face, lips perpetually smiling, skin stretched taut over prominent cheekbones, suggests that nature (or surgery) has marked her out as an essentially decorative person. She cannot make toast, nor boil a kettle. The cupboards and larders are mysteries to her, every bit as perplexing as the labyrinth of Minos. As her lawyer put it, her expensive townbouse is, for her, “a prison". It is templing to say ‘Trails! '’ to Mrs WHdenstein. And I would, were it not for my recollection that such helplessness is not confined to the idle rich, but often shared by widowers 6f the older generation. These men, when their wives die, discover that they do not lmowwhere anything is, nor how any of the household appliances work. Practical men, often professional. they have simply not been prepared for domestic life. As a result, in the midst of plenty, they are indeed poor. And my argument is that in the same way, without her butler and herehef, Mis WHdenstein is living very badly. Here is a genuinely impoverished life. The answer is not to bail her out. As Messrs Blair and Field have stated, to do this would be to encourage dependency, and Jocelyn ‘help needs to be helped to 1 herself No, the unfortunate woman is in want of training. She will require courses that leach one bow to make boiled- egg soldiers, to manage the washing-up and which impart baric shelf organisation. The alternative is that she will join the ranks of the socially excluded and - eventually - become just another crime statistic. And we wouldn't want that on oar Opening soon: the doors to the inner sanctums F ling open the win- dows; unlock die doors and let the people in. The British people have caught a dose of democracy, and it's spreading like wildfire, against the main of centuries of tradition which decreed that everyone should know fas or her place. Only the British could have invented a word like “club- bable". When I first heard it, 1 assumed that 1 was being offered an invitation to take a stout stick and beat some bloke to death, rather as other nations deal with seal cubs. It was explained to me the word merely meant that the chap was decent, * one of ns, a sound fellow, the sort of per- by Trevor Phillips sou that could easily join your nly got hold dub. We’ve suddenly got h of the rather un-British idea that anyone should be allowed to be anything they like if they have the talent, resources and ability; that they should be aOoacd to go anywhere as Jong as they pay the entrance fee... At the same lime, the corol- lary of this seems to be true: as long as you do your job well, no-pne has the right to disap- prove of the way that you live, or of what you are. The decla- ration of the MP Angela Eagle that she is a lesbian was fol- lowed by -wen, not veiy much. No one thinks it matters, since she seems to be a pretty effec- tive politician. It’s a far cry from the old days, when it might have been made impos- sible for Ms Eagle to. do her job. Even the most conservative elements of our society are waking up to the truth. When the trades union movement decides it’s time for a change you know that some kind of revolution is happening. The Transport and General Work- ers Union is a byword for the sort of curmudgeonly, back- ward-looking industrial rela- tions that helped to enfeeble the unions. They were the staunchest defenders of, for example, the dosed shop, and at-the-gate recruitment, which ensured that only those who “belonged” would get jobs - no women, no blacks, no Irish. Under its current General Secretary, Bill Morris, there have been efforts at moderni- sation - ballots, financial ser- vices to members, the recruit- ment of a new breed of younger organisers, and a new spirit of co-operation with But there are sev- generations of history to When I first heard the word ‘clubbable’, I assumed it was to do with taking a stout stick to beat some bloke to death, rather as other nations deal with seal cubs consciences. shake off. not to mention sev- eral generations of the mem- bership. Ironically, the union that elected the first black general secretary, just two generations ago stood out against the recruitment of black workers to the motor industry on the grounds that it would cause conflict (ie, they did not want to compete with blade work- ers). In practice, die best pay- ing sections became all-white enclaves, no less exclusive than any London gentlemen’s dub. Today, in theory, no one in industry could take such a stance. Ford has developed, as pmt of its parent company’s diversity policy, a model equal opportunities programme. But the current dispute at R>rd’s Dagenham plant shows that the old reflexes are still there. 42 per cent of Ford’s North Estate workers are from minorities, earning, on average, below £20, 000 a year. Yet in the so-called elite truck fleet, where earnings go from £30, 000 upwards, fewer than 2 per cent are non-white. That’s because this is one of the few places that stHl puts recruitment largely in the hands of the workers - they do the tests on new recruits. After some six years of painstaking negotiation, the TGWU has negotiated a series of agreements that would drag this endave into the 1 980s (ok, they're 10 years adrift, but we cannot hope for too much too quickly from backward types uke these). In theory, a new series of practices has been in operation for the past few weeks that should ensure fair- ness in recruitment. However, the most ciudal innovation - that there should be an inde- pendent person involved in the assessment of applicants for the truckers’ jobs - is still being resisted by the men. Some have even joined a breakaway union. The upside of all this is that the TGWU, to its credit, has given up on these members than compr Lbe issue- li is hard to see whai kind of compromise is possible between those who can work with a dc facto colour bar and those who cannot. Mr Morris and his colleagues at Ford would be right to insist that it is time for a change. The mood British p of the great British people is to trash all the closed, exclusive clubs which shut people out because of an accident of birth. It won't slop with the unions, though- We used to accept that there were places that wc should not pry. At school you peeped into the staff room at your peril; at work, the executive washroom or dining suite remained a mystery to most encountering u dosed door. Al present, there is polite knock- ing on most of these doors: but unless they open soon, expect the hobnail bool of legislation to be applied. As with Ford, many of ibe doors are not physiol barriers; they consist of arcane customs, jaiobbish rituals and baffling, unex- plained entry qualifications. Eveiy great institution that has any of these barriers to entry can anticipate a serious assault in the near future. We've already seen the demands on the most exclusive club of all - the Royal Fbmily. They are responding in their slow. Hanoverian way. But many others arc vulnerable to our need for transparency; and because I'm a helpful sort of guy. let me just warn some other targets: • Hie Freemasons: a tourists’ guide around the Lodge and a list of charitable donations isn’t going to he enough: we need in know what vou do. why. how and roost of ail who does it. Why not pub- lish your handbiuik for mem- bers! if such a thing exists? •Tile Civil Service: >;ou won’t be able to htcfc behind the need to appear impartial forex er, wc need to know who gives what advice and why: and wc need to believe that any cTcor young person can become a Permanent Secre- tary. ex on if they haven't been to a “gtHxl school". I know (hat such people exist, but few of the puhlie know of not copy the White House’s programme of attaching bril- liant young men and women to top civil servants for a year, working inside the machine, learning its language, and in the process, reminding the Sir Humphreys what real people not mired in the machine look and sound like? • The Royal Opera House: who cuuld fault the product? Bui now you’re under new management and you've raised oodles of money, lots of it from (he great unwashed. Isn’t it time to open the hursio peo- ple who don't look tike horses and bray like donkeys? • The Services: we know that you're concerned about the problems of recruitment. But might it not he easier to recruit ambitious young people from mm-semee backgrounds if the lop echelons of the ser- vices did not consist of people from such similar - elite - backgrounds? •London's Gentlemen's Clubs: call lime on the exclu- sion of whole classes of people. Rooms marked “No Ladies" aren’t even quaint any more. You. reader, may have other targets. The point is that:ifler centuries of accepting that some clubs are just too good for us to contemplate joining, the British people have derided that Groucho Marx was wrong. He said (hat he did- n't want To join any club that would accept him as a member. The store here is that every club has to be the people's club: everyone knows their place in a modern society - anywhere their talents and abililes lake them. employees. Not any more. Awe of tile inner sa inner sanctums lias given away to deep irritation at Mother could soothe, but not cure I n death. Mother Tferesa has been clasped warmly to the bosom of India, her adopted home. In the chancel of lie neo- classical St Thomas’s Church in the heart of Calcutta, the small Albanian woman whore her fam- ily called “Gonxha". “flower bud", because she was so pink and plump, has lain yellowing on her bier, draped in a large Indian " tricolor, while tens of thousands of Hindus, many Muslims and a handful of foreigners and Indian Christians trooped past to obtain danshan, the merit that comes from dapping eyes on the holy. She has been guarded by senior officers of the Indian Anny, and irorlv this morning she will be buried by India with all the pomp and circumstance the state can The throngs of Indians, nicely col Up in clean shirts and best saris, most carrying bouquets, few betraying much emotion but solemn, quiet and patient - these are one measure of bow dosehr India has taken Mother, as she is always called toits heart. For another indication vou can take the metro two aopssouth to KajjghaUhesite of Kali Tfcmple, the hohesi in the dty, wbidi is devoted to one of Hinduism’s more fn# l gmV deities -M, the bladc-fe«d goddess of -destruction, with eyes andatongue Uke an elephant’s trunk- But today, ' “ theltalls selling religious ' paraphernalia that line the. shabby street, Mother vie for space with- Peter Popham explains why the brahmins and people of Calcutta took to a Catholic Westerner who flaunted their caste system posters of Kail while outride the temple itself, mounted on a rickety pedestal and sheltered under a beach umbrella, stands a large, beaming plaster statue of Mother in her inevitable blue-fringed sari, garlanded with jasmine, hibiscus and marigold. “All the brahmins of by the^ath af^yw beloved Mother. " Brahmin Bapi Cbakravorty told me, “and we pray to God to Jet her be born a gain and a gain in our country. ’* All this week, comparisons have been drawn between Mother T&resa and Princess Diana, when on the face of it two more different human beings or careers are hard to imagine. For the world at large, a world bereft of belief, both offered vicarious satisfaction^ for the wavering royalist, Diana restored the glory and voltage of monarchy; for the hapless agnostic, Tfcresa became a totem of religious faith. These ■similarities, far more than their obvious compassion, united them as public figures. But the case of Mother Teresa and India is a little harder to plumbs She was after ad a for- eigner, the representative of an alien faith. She achieved no miracles of conversion: Calcutta and India were as overwheim- inghr Hindu at the end of her life as when she arrived, in 1929. Dying destitutes are no longer so frequently to be tripped over in Calcutta’s streets, but this remains a city of staggering poverty. No miracles there, either. So why do they love her? What do Indians love her for? One answer is that India is repaying the warmth and devo- tion that Mother Teresa gave to her adopted home. She did nothing to separate herself from the people she worked among, and much to merge with them. When she began her mission, she adopted the homespun sari as her uniform. At her first makeshift school for the poor, the letters she scratched in the dust were the Bengal alphabet. Braving the disgust of other for- eigners, she taught herself how to beg. And it is no insult (in Indian terms) to say that by the end of her life she was the world’s most successful beggar. In other ways, however, her work with the order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity, was a shocking attack on Hinduism. A respectable foreigner, she did what ho Hindu of caste could bear to do, handling dead and dying outcastes, and persuading respectable Indian women to do likewise. indif- ference to people dying on lbe pavement is explained fry Hin- duism’s unconcern with the material body: all that matters is the soul migrating endlessly down the generations. By ben* ■work and example Mother Teresa eloquently condemned this attitude as- barbaric, and relentlessly drew the world’s disgusted attention to it She heard the caD to start her mission in 1946, just as the struggle of India's freedom fighters was nearing success, and though she never met Gandhi her zeal had much in common with his. She named one of her leprosy centres in his honour, and her biographer. Navin Chawla. says (hat “she recognised a kindred spirit in him. And at the outset, like Gandhi she courted the fury of traditionalists. When she opened her first home for the destitute and dying next to the Kali Temple where her statue now stands, the brahmins were outraged, and did everything in their power to get it removed. The brahmins were won over when she took in a dying Hindu priest and named him. And in other ways down the years, she took pains not to estrange Hin- dus or Muslims. On her trips to the West, she was happy to embarrass her audiences with her hard-line opposition to con- traception and abortion. But m India, though she talked inces- santly of God and Christ, hell- fire for the unbeliever never got a mention. In her acceptance of the idea of “many piths to the top of the mountain",, she was as dripping wet as any pan- tomime Anglican. Yet the fad that she could be so uncom- promising about one aspect of her faith (the sanctity of life), and so casual about another (the preconditions for entering heaven) is never remarked upon. In the end. Mother Teresa made a pact with India. She got on with her chosen work (no- one ever bested Indian bureau- cracy more brilliantly), she loved God, she performed as "a little pencil in God's hand" as she put it, and the pencil skit- tered over the pages. In return she accepted limitations. She did nothing to fight the evils of caste injustice "whose worst symptoms she alleviated. The stagnation of Indian society, the negligible self-esteem of those at the bottom, their abject ness and resignation, none of these came within her remit. And because she did not challenge India, India embraced her. In hex asceticism and simplicity and dedication, she fitted read- ily into the mould of the Hindu saint. Drawing back from the reformer's tasks, she was enfolded in the great Indian stasis. And the beggary and wasre and indifference go on. The strongest criticism of Mother Teresa is that she did nothing to redress India’s fun- damental ills. 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E-dv? * P *■? •* 5 £ §.!? • SATURDAY 13 sWPTEMBfeB Mg - ^ TWnBPEW3 * g Fin ancial JOURN AL of the Year Business news desk: tel 0171-293 2636 fax 0171-293 2098 BUSINESS & CITY EDITOR: JEREMY WARNER Care First feces fight to secure £ 100m contracts Sam eena Ahmad Care First, the troubled nursing homes group, is facing an up- ton fight to secure £100m of con- tracts with two local authorities. News of the struggle to retain the business with the authori- ties comes just a fortnight after a boardroom row at the com- pany. which culminated in Chai Patel quitting his job as chief executive. According to sources Mr Patel, who joined Care First in October when his company. Court Cavendish, merged with Tiikare, is understood to have fallen out with Keith Bradshaw, Takare’s executive chairman. The fallout from Mr Patel’s departure has unsettled in- vestors, and has started to gen- erate concern among some of the company's clients. Care First’s shares have fallen steadily from 151p since the merger to the current level of 97-5p- A source at Bedfordshire County Council said yesterday that it was reconsidering whether to sign a £70m 10-year contract with Care First, which is the UK’s largest nursing home operator. The contract is due, to be formally signed by both parries on Ibesday next week. Failure to secure the contract could be damaging to Care First’s expansion plans. The contract with the local author- ity would be one of Care First’s largest, involving managing all of the county’s 15 elderly resi- dential homes and also some day centres. The terms of the deal also in- clude a multi-million pound refurbishment programme and the establishment of a separate trading company, to be called Care First Bedfordshire. An insider at Bedfordshire County Council said yesterday: “Wi met Mr Paid and were very impressed with his profession- alism. We selected his compa- ny as the best of fom companies pitching for the contract.. “This is very worrying. We. could very well reverse Our de- cision given that one of the key players has left. It could very weft be that this contract is not placed with anyone on Ibesday. ” A contract from Bromley Sodal Services which was orig- inally won by Mr PaleTs former company. Court Cavendish, is also being “looked at closely” in the light of recent events, ac- cording to mskiers. Tbe Brom- ley contract c worth £4mayear for five years. Meanwhile there is still con- fusion about bow Mr Paters de- parture was bandied within the group. While Mr Bradshaw maintains that Mr Patel’s res- ignation f*mp. “out of the blue” to himself and the board, it is understood that Mr Patel went to Keitb Ackroyd, a senior non- executive director, about his dif- ferences with Me Bradshaw several weeks ' before his resignation. Mr Patel is believed to have felt constrained in making de- cisions «nd wanted Mr Brad- shaw to specify a due when he would step down to became non-executive chairman. Ac*, oording to sources, Mr Ackroyd consulted directly with Mr Bradshaw rather than putting tiie issue to the entire board. Care First, however, said that all board members who were in the country at the time were consulted about the situation with MrPateL ‘ Immediately following Mr EfeteTs departure, Mr Ackroyd, formerly at Thkarr, was ap- pointed deputy chairman. It is beKeved that his salary was doubled to around £35, 000. Both Mr Ackroyd and Ian Kirk- patrick, a second non-executive director, are currently talking to institutional investors who are c o nc e r n ed about Mr Patels depa rture. Several institutions have called for Mr Patel’s reinstttement. Friends dose to Mr Patel sai d; howeyer, that he was un- Kkety jto agree to return with- out the 5 resignation iof Mr Bradshaw.. He was also looking for the r yjBgrmt inn of Ron Read, finance director and formerly a direc- tor at Thkare. Heir apparent to Davis quits the Prudential Magnus Grimond heir apparent to Sir Peter Davis a power struggle at the top. News of his resignation ac- companied an announcement that his responsibilities for all Prudential's UK operations were to be split between four new maitew aged units The changes are part of a radical shake-up of the business following the £22bn acquisition of Scottish Amicable eartier this year. Sir Peter, who will now take direct responsibility for the UK retail operations, said yesterday that Mr Sutcliffe had been of- fered an alternative job involv- ing “a redistribution of responsibility at board leveL He saw it as not of the same im- portance and decided a clean break was what he would pre- fer. ” Mr Sutcliffe, who earned £315, 000 a year and was on an 18 month contract, will receive a payoff, but Sir Peter implied that it would be heavily miti- gated by bow quickly it takes Kim to get another job. The departure had been prompted by a difference of style. Sir fteter said, but he denied that it was particularly sudden. “We have been discussing the reorganisation for three to four months and have been discussing the implications for him fora couple of months.... There is nothing sinister and nothing sudden, " he said. He also denied that the de- parture bad any connection with the pensions mis-selling scandal ‘Hie Pru admitted for the first time yesterday that it was “unlikely” it would meet the deadline for priority cases laid down by the Securities and In- vestments Board, which has said 90 per cent must be dealt with by 30 September. However, insiders suggest that Mr Sutcliffe, who was seen as a strong favourite for the chief executive’s job before Mr Davis arrived in May 1995, had been attempting to distance the UK operations from the group’s head office. He was also being seen as having borne some re- sponsibility for the Pro’s failure to keep up with developments in direct sales of financial ser- vices, with the n on-financial companies like Virgin and Marks & Spencer having stolen a march on the insurance giant by canting out a growing and profitable market in this area. Sr Fetor Davis, chief executive (left), and Jim Sutcliffe, head of UK operations, differed over responsibilities Ex plaining the reorganisa- tion, Sir Peter said they had beeo facing a changing market and “some compliance prob- lems” in the UK, which still rep- resented half the group. “I want to get doser to the UK market There are some issues feeing the market which I would like to see handled in smaller units with more responsibility for the I IK manag in g directors” The new divisions will be di- rected at the Pro’s four main customer groups. One will fo- cus on IFA’s via the new Scot- tish Amicable operation, one will be based on the Pro’s home sales force, another will deal with corporate pensions and the fourth is to encompass direct sales by telephone or comput- er. As well as Sir Peter, the new UK management team will be beaded by John EDxmrne, cur- rently managing director of Prudential Assurance, Roy Nlcolson, managing director of Scottish Amicable who will lake over responsibility for EFA busi- ness, and Mike Harris, the for- mer head of Midland Bank’s First Direct banking operation who will add the new direct op- eration to his existing role as head of Prudential Banking. The Prudential’s shares fell 8. 5p to 62Q. 5p yesterday as the news of Mr Sutdiffe's departure was greeted with dismay by many analysts. Charles Landa at brokers Sotidfe Gfin&al Strauss Turnbull said Mr Sutdiffe had been reorganised out of a job. “I think its agreat shame. He was very much the rising star at the Pro. As far as I know, he was side and outsi^the Pro. He was behind many of the market leading moves at the Pro over the past five years. ” Roman Cizdyn at Merrill Lynch, who described Mr Sut- cliffe as “a leading actuary and a great manager”, said his leav- ing was a great loss to the com- pany. Both analysts said Mr Sutcliffe, who has been with the Pro for 21 yearn, would have no difficulty finding another job. ready to sell off its key assets NteaJGop® Cfty Correspondent Dalgcty, the struggling Winatot and Felix petfoods business, is r expected to put several of its key assets up for sale an Monday as part of an attempt to return val- ue to long-suffering investors. The company, which has is- sued two profits warnings in the last four months, is due to re- port the findings of its strategic review when it reports its full- year results on Monday. Ana- lysts are expecting the company to announce news on some dis- posals which could Sodnde plans to sell all or part of two of its core businesses. The company would then be expected to un- dertake share bqy^jack to pre-Jfe, vent earnings dilution. Dalgety W* shares jumped 7. 5p to 274p as the market wanned to the news. - "They certainty need to do something, " one analyst said. “Management has been stretched by the problems in the Moriand is planning to export Ruddles beers around the world to complement its OM Speckled Hen brand (above) Anrkew Yates Moriand, the second oldest brewer in the country, yesterday announced the aegukition of fee Ruddles, the Rutland-based brewer, for £4 An from Grolsch, the Dutch brewing group. The deal should save Ruddles and its beers, such as Ruddles County and Best Bitter, which had appeared to be in terminal decline. Ruddles has had a troubled history over the last few decades in the hands of a succession of big brewers. Grolsch was be- lieved to have paid well in excess of £30m for Raddles when it bought the business from Courage five years ago. But sales of its beers have been sliding in the last few years despite a multi-millioa pound marketing campaign. Mike Witts, Moriand’s chief executive, said: “Ruddles has Moriand comes to the rescue of Ruddles come home to a regional brewer at last. The brands have lost their way. A lot of money has been thrown at them with little success by a succession of big brewers who were probably more concerned with lager. " Moriand is also looking to launch a fresh marketing cam- paign to revamp Ruddles in the UK specifically designed to boost sales in off-licences and supermarkets. The group also hopes to export Ruddles around the world, complementing its Old Speckled Hen brand which is currently sold in 17 countries. However, a question marie hangs over fee future of theRud- cfles brewery, founded by the Raddksfenrityin 1858. Moriand is conducting a review of the business and may close the brew- ery with the loss of 100 jobs and shift production to its own brew- ing headquarters at Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Ruddles breway is currentty ooty producing around 100, 000 barrels a year com- pared to an output capacity of 300J100 barrels. •. The acquisition marks the latest stage in the rationalisation of the regional brewing indus- try. Many of the smaller players have been forced to eat brew- ing, unable to compete with the larger players who have the re- sources to launch huge adver- tising campaigns. Eldndge Pope recently soiefits brewery to a management buyout team and Ushers has taken over Gibbs Mew’s brewing operations. Despite this, Mr Witts denies that the days of the regional brewer are over. “Brewers with non recognised brands will con- tinue to find life more difficult. However, with more regional brewers exiting brewing and the big brewers concentrating ou bigger brands there are more boles in the market. There is room for niche brands. ’’ of BSE A slimmed down Dal- gety migh t be toast able to get more ofagnponjts problems. ” Hie divisions that are ex- pected to be sold are the food in g r e d ients business which an- alysts say could be worth up- wards of £300nu The other candidate for safe is the Mar- tin Brower food distribution m the United States which could fetch £5Qm-£&m. Analysts have suggested that Kerry Group, the tri&foodcompan, or Garry Westons Associated W- British Foods would be inter- ested in food ingredients. The management team may be in- terested m Martin Brower, which woiikUttract blower val- uation as its safe woiiidneed to be ftnefioned tty McDonald’s, the fast food {pant which ac- counts for the optus share of the Martin Brower Business. The ' sate, of all or parts of chfcje two 'businesses would: l&tyC JJalgety focused on its. p^ri6& business, which in- dudeS; Felix catfood and Wnafclot dogfood and its agribusiness, which includes the Rg Improvement company.. Analysts say the Dalgety rump would then be vulnerable to a bid from larger food groups keen to expand their interests in petfood, irossible bidders would mdnde Ralsjon-Purina, Heinz and Nestld, which was the un- derbidder for Quaker's Euro- pean petfoods operations bought by Dalgety two years ago. It is thought that Richard ■ Clothier, Dalgety’s chief execu-C « live may quit following the sale of some assets. He has come un- der fire for the two profits warn- ings and a share pnee which has underperformed the market by 63 per cent in the last five years. One analyst said: “I think he is there to see through a short- term job. If he did these deals and returned some value then be might do the honourable thing. " Dalgety is expected to report fuD-year results io Boe with its Juty warning on Monday. Analysts are expecting profits of £65m. Spottiswoode faces call to help ‘poor’ gas users Chris Godsmark Business Correspondent Clare Spottiswoode, the gas in- dustry regulator, came under in- tense pressure last night to block selective price cuts planned by British Gas which would see 3 million of the com- pany's poorest customers large- ly excluded from a 9 per cent reduction in bills. Sue Slipmun. director of the Gas Consumers Council, wrote to Ms Spottiswoode yesterday evening, disputing the legality of the cuts and urging the regula- tor to intervene. The fetter ar- gued that Centrica, the demerged British Gas supply business, had a statutory duty in its operating license to spread the reductions acrus ail of its 19 mil- lion domestic customers. It emerged that Ms Spottis- woode was told about tne se- lective price cut plans several weeks ago and bad apparently offered no opposition. They would knock £28 off an average £340 gas bill from January, but only customers who pay bills by direct debit or who settle then- accounts within 10 days would get the full benefit One million homes which use pre-payment meters would see no reduction, while a further 2 million low income households would mostly see their bills drop by less than 1 per cent The cuts are the result of a fall in pipeline chaises levied by Thansco, the pipeline division of the former British Gas, along with the abolitioQ of the gas levy, a taxon North Sea contracts, in the Budget Ms SKpmansakfc “The regula- tor has to explain why British Gas hasn’t been asked to pass these savings on to everyone. They’re discriminating a gainst one of customer. " John Battle, in- dustry minister, is understood to be unhappy with the plans. The row was widened by in- dependent gas companies com- peting in domestic competition trials, which claimed tne cuts were designed to hdp British Gas fend off its rivals when the residential market opens up fully nexi year. Eoergis, part of United Util- ities, said it was “very con- cerned" that Ms Spottiswoode had not intervened. “Our major concern is over the timing of the announcement, which may well serve to discourage new players into the market, " said a spokesman. British Gas insisted ii bad not broken any rules. “We think the GCCk wrong on that, ” a spokes- woman said. The company said pre-payment meter tariffs had been frozen peodmg the outcome of a Government review into the workings of the systemin the co mp e ti t iv e market. It also emerged yesterday that Ofgasbad formally object- ed to proposals to subsidise pre- payment meter customers in a paper submitted last week to the Government by one of the two official working parties investi- gating the issue. The parrel, fed by the GCC and mouding most leading gas suppliers, said action was urgently needed to ensure low income customers were not penalised by competition. 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The Dutch bank has been on a global shopping spree for the last couple of years and now has □earty 6, 000 employees in its various investment banking op- erations. It bas marip acquisi- tions in Paris, Milan and Chicago in the last two years alone, having bought London- based Hoare Govett in 1992. The bonus overhaul was an- nounced at a meeting of 400 top executives from ABN Amro’s investment banking division and is set to come into force in January. Bonuses are to be linked much more dosety to perfor- mance, with a part of the bonuses pooled in a fond, which will be withheld from executives for three years. The payments will also be more closely linked to the performance of each business unit., /lv A sharp rise in bonus pity- ** * ments was partly responsible for the 9 per cent fall in investment banking profits in the first half of this year, ABN Amro said. • A spokesman for the- bank said yesterday: “We held a board meeting last week at which we decided that we needed a new system. We have made so many acquisitions that we have a whole patchwork of bonus payment systems, which we now must bring into line with each other. " The bonus pool wffl be used mainly for lop management, “to • stimulate them to fight for the business as a whole and and to remain with foe hank for a kx^er period” said the spokesman. The huge rise m City bonuses in the latest bull market has prompted criticisms from the Bank of England and politicians alike. But attempts to limit nses by self regulation have wilted in^ the face of intense competition between invest- ( ment banks to lure the best staff. 0j[ The acquisition of a number of oU British merchant banks by - giant foreign institutions with strong balance sheets has fuelled a bidding war for city talent. triti* ton iscei tspn — -$rr#*r i • — HE ^DEPENDENT « SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 1997 21 business H, 1 W, % ( ‘Hdt ‘O -: k L «ft- A sensible solution to the Eddie George problem JEREMY WARNER ‘Giving the Governor a limited extension of, say, just tvro years would allow time enough for the newly independent Bank to get properly bedded in while providing the financial markets with the sort of continuity they want To install a Labour placeman so soon after independence might look like political interference’ TJeriiaps it has something to do with x Diana’s death, bin things have yet to pick up significantly in the world of business and finance from their usual state of summer stupor. I might therefore be forgiven an unashamed meander through some matters of general interest. First, vmo’s going to be the next Governor of the B ank ofEngJand?. The save Eddie George campaign (go on, give him another term) has apparently won a powerful ally - Tony Blair. Nobody actu- ally knows what’s in 'the Prime Minister's mind, but in the fevered imaginings of Whitehall and City gossip, Mr Blair has thrown his weight behind a second term for the Governor of the Bank of England This is actually an entirely plausible rumoar. Smce Mr George dramatically threatened to resign over the Government's plans to strip the Bank of its supervisory functions, relations between the Bank and the Government are said to have improved quite markedly, Mr Blair is more than happy with the way the Bank has pursued monetary policy since it was given independence. The strength of the pound continues to cause some concern, but on the whole the Government could scarcely have hoped for a more sunny economic dis- position. After throwing hs initial wobbly, the Bank has also buckled under and demon- strated professionalism and speed in handing its supervisory powers over to the new Super- Sib. Jr is wrong lo suggest, as some have, that the Bank is continuing to be obstructive or even that this is what the Treasury thinks. La other words, the Government has no reason to fed unhappy with Mr George. So why change him? There’s a flip side to this argument, however. Why not change him, the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, might ask? Mr George will have been there five years by the Lime his contract comes up for renewal next _ July and that's quite long enough! Tbk is an opportunity to put our own man in at the Bank so let's take it, some members of the Cabinet will be saying. li is from this to-ing and fro-ing of the argument that the idea comes for giving Mr George a limited extension of, say, just two years. That would allow time enough for the newly independent Bank to get properly bedded in while providing the financ ial markets with the sort of continuity they want lb install a Labour placeman so soon after Bank of England independence might look like poUtKalmleifereojce. The trouble is that the new Bank of England Bill doesn’t allow for a two-year term. It's five years or noth- ing. The clause could be changed but that would risk undermining the idea of inde- pl eased. So any extension of (his sort mau/d have to be on the basis of an informal understanding. It would be understood that the Governor would resign after twoyeare and make way for Gavyn Davies of Goldman Sadis, or who ever else happened to be in favour at the time. This seems to make such eminent sense that it is hardly surprising that the idea has assumed the status of truth. This » actually what has been decided, many are saying, and indeed the prophesy may weD become self-fulfilling. But actually nothing has been decided, nor does it need to be for six months or more. There is still everything to play for in the battle for the Governorship. /"'tan anything he read into the appointment V^of Steve Robson to the position of sec- ond permanent secretary at the Treasury? Under the last Government. Mr Robson was Lbe Treasury’s privatisation expert so it might have been expected that he would suffer the same fate as Sir Patrick Brown, recently ousted by John Prescon as perma- >fTr cent secretary to the Department of Trans- port because of hisTolc in first bus. then water, and finally rail privatisation. Instead, Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, has chosen to promote him. Why? There are aD kinds of theories on this. For entertainment value, try the following. Morale at the Trea- sury is rock bottom. Career civil servants arc being bypassed in the formulation of policy and are still bopping mad about control of ilicy beint monetary policy being ceded to the Bank of England. What arc they going to do now? Worse, they suspect the Chancellor is about to shake the whole place up in a way that will be highly uncomfortable for every- one concerned. Furthermore, the per- ception, if not the reality, is that policy is being run and implemented on the hoof by a small coterie of special advisers led by the youthful Ed Balk The Chancellor needed lo do something to correct this view and so he gave a career Treasury man a leg-up in a way that ought to satisfy the troops and indicate that there are no hard feelings about what everyone did under the previ- ous Government. Actually, there may be just the tiniest ele- ment Df truth in this explanation but the real reason is a rather more obvious one. Mr Rob- son is a class act and he's also new Labour through and through, a sort of reformed Thatcherite- a bit like Tony Blair really. It’s amazing he's still at the Treasury at alL given the number of highly paid job offers he must have had from the City. The Chancellor would have been mad not to have put him at the centre of things. As it happens he's been dose to Gordon Brown for some time. He's also a long-time advocate of the way Labour is reforming City regulation. In other words, be fits the new adminis- tration like hand in glove. Were it not for the fact that he was already there, Mr Brown might even have wonted him os one of his special advisers. I m not a freemason, honest, but someone's got lo slick up for the City's archaic form ofTocal government. This may sound like try- ing lo defend the indefensible but the case for reform is run nearly us dear cut as might be thought. Certainly the reforms proposed don't sound tike much of an advance. U has to be admitted that the present sys- tem does seem a little medieval. The elec- torate is confined to residents, of which there aren't many, small businesses, accountants and lawyers. The great hulk of people who work in" the City "and the companies that employ them have no say at all. Even if ducted, an alderman can be blackballed as unsuitable. No reasoning is required. But when all is said and done, no one can fault the way the Corporation of London is run. The Square Mile seems to be relatively good and efficient at administering its affairs, and despite its lack of accountabil- ity. there's been no recent case of corrup- tion. Furthermore, the City has an unrivalled record in promoting Britain and winning inward investment. It is also Britain's biggest export earner. There is no evidence that any of these things would be improved by expanding the franchise. On the other hand, anything's better than being merged with the London borough of Islington and if giving the foreigner a few more votes is the price of independence, then I'm all for it. Now what did I do with that apron? Shell answers its critics with £L3bn chemicals shake-up Chris God&mark Shell, the AngJoDutch oQ giant, yesterday moved to answer its critics with a radical shake-up of its chemicals businesses, coupled with a S2bn (£13bn) deal to buy oul its joint venture partner in the world's largest polyp ropy-. Iene producer. % The restructuring plans, a ** response to fierce price com- petition in global chemicals markets, involve Shell buying the 50 per cent of MonteU, the Amsterdam-based polypropy- lene business, which it does not already own from Montedison of the Netherlands. MonteU was formed just two years ago to include most of the iwo companies' polypropylene making capacity, with manu- facturing plants in 16 countries. Last year Montefl, which was the number one producer of the chemical everywhere apart from Asia, had revenues of $3. 8bn and made profits of $334m. In a statement yesterday. Shell said Montell would con- tinue to trade under its own name and with the same man- agement. but would be con- trolled by the new chemicals group, called Shell Chemicals, being created when the reor- ganisation takes effect from 1 January. The acquisition also needed approval from the European Commission's com- petition authority. The wider shake-up in the group, which was described by Shell as “decisive'', would re- place three existing divisions, covering Europe, the US and the rest of the world, with a single company structure. A Shell spokesman said the move would not result in widespread job losses or other changes to the company's executive team. The new structure, under Evert Henkes, currently director of strategy for the chemicals group, will create three presidents’ posts for busi- nesses in the Americas, Europe and Africa and Asia Pacific and the Middle East Analysts were disappointed at the decision to pour money into the chemicals businesses when other parts of the Shell empire have earned higher returns. Shares in Shell slipped 3J5p to 423 J5p. John ToaJster, oil analyst with Society Gtfofirale, was scepticaL “It’s almost a non-evenL It’s not particularly a big deal in terms 'a pile. of Shell’s cash pile. The money would have baa a better return in other parts of the business such as refining and marketing. This is a damp squib and it's also an expensive damp squib. ” The performance of Shell's chemicals businesses was singled out as disappointing by Mark Moody-Stuart, group managing director, at the company’s financial results presentation last month. Outside the US earnings foil 38 per cent to £86 tn, with £30m of the foil blamed on the decision to spend three-quarters of the divisaon’s maintenance budget in just three months. Shell has oome under per- sistent fire from investors and analysts for its famously cautious approach to spending itsfTbncashpile. Mr Moptfy-Stuait was forced to dampen speculation of im- minent share buy-backs by Shell Transport & Trading, the UK quoted part of the group, as British Petroleum led the way with plans for a series of buy- backs next year. Who will be in EMU? The financial markets' view mi- mm ■ v. -'V^Wv. - Mood of growing optimism Monetary union prospects re- ceived a' big boost this week from the surprising news that Germany's budget deficit was lir'sbre: r --y** ■ — »• -. V 1 -’ "«: -T. -. ■i’TK • • *-• »• •. V; =- ->■ Wv^L-% "-T vvr • • -. • - •/:.. •:. •: tftfej&wfmsss feipfeibe epotnan SCSESvV^:^".. £. £•- r ZK -p r-. *• - BffltaNtttfiL t ~--y '■■■■' running a hair's breadth above the Maastricht limit. A combination of statistical revisions and other adjustments agreed with Brussels has slashed the figure for the Htsl six months of 2997 from the pre- viously announced Maastricht- busting level of 3J5 per cent lo 3. 1 per cent, jusi outside the 3 per cent target. As European finance minis- ters gather this weekend in Luxembourg, a mood of grow- ing optimism seems to be per- vading our panel of experts, albeit tempered whh a little cyn- icism in some quarters. Robert Prior at James Cape) described the deficit figures as "surprisingly good" and cer- tainly enough to increase the probability of EMU going ahead on lime. However, he said the new numbers may prove somewhat optimistic about revenues raised by the state governments. Julian Jessop of Nikko was even more scepticaL “I simply don’t believe lbe 3. 1 per cent figure, " he said. It was difficult to reconcile with higher un- employment and lower taxes seen so for this year. Concern in the City as National * Express directors sell shares Andrew Yates m 1! 1 I K« iTw! ‘ Two lop directors at National Express yesterday made hun- dreds of thousands of pounds by exercising and selling large tranches of share options. The share sales raised some concern in the City, given that they came just just 24 hours after Na- tional Express reported sharply higher half-year profits. Colin Child, finance director, made a net profit of £541, 000 by cashing in and selling three average strike price for the options was around 188p, and all the shares were sold in the market ai 517p each. He now has just 4, 666 shares left in the company. Phil White, the transport group's chief executive, also raised £180^50 by selling 35, 000 shares, almost half of his stake in the group. On Thursday the company announced a 39 per cent rise in undertyiqg profits to £3 1. 8m for the six months to June due to a strong performance from the train franchises it acquired under the privatisation of British Rail. Analysis raised concerns that the share sales were a signal that the group may struggle to main- tain its profit momentum. One analyst said; “This can hardly be seen to be a sign of confidence in the group. '* However, National Express sai± “I can assure you there is absolutely nothing sinister going on. Colin Child Iras rased the money to bey a house, Mr White has sold shares to settle some tax lia bilities, that is aft. The group is disappointed that the share sales will overshadow the com- pany’s good set of results. ” She said that Mr Child was moving from the suburbs of n».. j VJ L. t*. TTK: parry refused to comment on whether he would sell more shares in Lbe group to cover the Weybridge in Surrey to Win- ' ome of 1 attempted to-day down the significance of the share sales. A spokeswoman for the group cheater, the home of National Express's headquarters. He had finally found a new property after looking for a house for the last 18 months. Mr While, who used to work in Birmingham at the group’s West Midland Travel bus sub- sidiary, is also understood to be looking for anew house around Winchester, However, the com- Mr Chfid and Mr White are still sitting on a potential for- tune. Mr Quid has a further 213, 075 share options, exercis- able al prices as Jaw as 75p com- pared to yesterday's share price of 521p. Mi White has another 178, 422 share options. Mr Quid and Mr White were yesterday in Scotland meeting analysts and were unavailable for comment. National Express said on Thursday that it planned another large round of, re- dundancies, having already sacked 600 people from the workforce it inherited from British Rail. Tesco bid for French store group ruled out Njgel Cope Analysts yesterday ruled out a Tfesco takeover move for Casino, the French supermarket group, as a second bid was tabled for the company. RaOye, the retail group yesterday launched a counter offer for Casino, hoping to see off a rival £2. 9bn bid for the group taunched last week by Proinodes. Shares in Tesco dipped slightly on stock market ru- mours that the UK grocery giant might be preparing a strike. The company declined to comment on the speculation ahead of its half-year results oo TUesday unlikely as Tfesco was preoccu- pied with its recent acquisition of stores in Ireland as well as its growing interests in central Europe- It already owns the Catteau supermarket chain in France bat h as been strug- gling to expand due to planning restrictions. Rallye, which is controlled by the Euris group, already owns 28. 8 per cent of Casino's share capital and 36 per cent of the voting rights, had said it op- poses Promodes* Fr340 per share bid for Casino. Ptamodes had simultaneously launched a bid for Rallye. Rallye is offering a Fr347 cash payment per Casino share with an alternative involving bonds. Rallye said its offer was dearly superior to Promodes. Prom odes responded by saying that Rallye's offer was merely a “complex financial bid". Promodes oflfer would have made it the largest retailer in France. IN BRIEF Europeans are buying more cars Western European new car registrations rose 53 per cent in August from a year earlier, ted bv (he UK and Germany, the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association said. Voikswagpn ranked first in terms of market share in Europe, with 253 per cent of the German car market in August, up from 14. b per cent a year agp and down from 1S3 per cent in July. Western Europeans regis- tered JJ! 19. 000 cars in August, up from 1. 157300 a year earlier. In a longer-term comparison, which tends to smooth out month- on-month fluctuations, passenger cur registrations rose an esti- mated 3. 1 per cent in the first eight months of the year from the same period a year ago. UK reparations rose 9. 6 per cent to 525 J00 cars in August compared to 479, 400 a year ago. New managing director at Johnson Fry Johnson Fiy Holdings has appointed Rebecca Thomas as group managing director in succeed Michael Fletcher, who has resigned. Charles Fry. chairman, said Mr Fletcher was going to pursue other interests. Mr Fletcher will receive a payoff under his one-year contract The retail fund management group also promoted Alakair Allham lo the post of marketing director. The company has already appointed a new finance director, Cathy Toman, from St James Place Capital, who wDl arrive next week. Saracen investors opt for Invesco offer Saracen &Iue Trust ended a month-long bid battle yesterday by opting for the offer from Invesco Asset Management. HSBC Asset management had triggered the battle with an unsolicited bid on 5 August, but Saracen shareholders preferred lnvesco’s plan. Under this plan Saracen will be liquidated and shareholders will able to switch to another trust, a unit trust or a cash alternative. Antony Dick, Saracen's chairman, said that the impressive performance of the Invesco English and International Investment Trust had swayed a lot of shareholders. He said they had received letters of support representing 59. 7 per cent of Saracen’s issued share »lai for the Invesco option. capil DTI grant for gene therapy company Oxford Biomedica, the gene therapy company, has won a Department of Trade and Industry grant for almost a quarter of a million pounds to develop a process for the production of retro- viral vector particles for gene therapy. The AIM-listed company said the funding would housed over a three -year period to develop the technology, which it says “has the potential to deliver genes at efficiencies higher than any of the current available methods, open- ing a raft of opportunities''. Oxford Biomedica specialises in gene- based therapeutics for the treatment of disease. The company made a pre-tax loss of £ 1. 25m for the nine months to 30 June 1997. John Lusty buys snack supplier John Lusty Group is buying, via its main trading subsidiary, Trustin The Foodfinders, the business of Wunderbar for a maximum £2. 255 m. John Lusty also announced plans lo raise around £2_3m by way of a underwritten one-for four rights issue of 31397 mil- id tin lion shares at Sp each. The company said the acquisition of Wun- derbar would substantially enhance the earnings per share of the group. Wunderbar specialises in the supply of luxury confectionery and savoury snacks to leading supermarkets. Its turnover for the year to April was about £7m. Stanley Leisure profits ahead at the annual meeting that betting turnover and profits were ahead of last year. He expected that the company lo add a reasonable number of betting shops this financial year and disclosed l hat it was in detailed discussions in the case of one casino and In very early talks regarding another. The company has recovered from the effect of scratch cards, which initially caused its racing business a lot of harm, he said. American Port Services raises £4m American Port Services has raised £438m before expenses through ional investors in the US and the a placing of shares with institutional i UK. 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The move will mean a saving of as much as £150 for a family of four paying £1. 000 for a holiday. Thomson also said it was se- riously considering legal action auninst the Association of In- dependent Tour Operators (Aito) over allegations it had made that Lunn Poly, the group's travel agency arm, gave iis stuff financial "incentives to sell Tl]i «m>* in holidays in preference to other lour operators. A Tliomson spokesman said: -We have repeatedly said this is not the ease. Anybody that savs anything different is not iciling the truth and there could be legal repercussions. " Alto says it has sent evi- dence to back its claims to the Monopolies and Mergers Com- mission which is currently investigating links between trav- el agents and tour operators. A spokeswoman for Aito said: “All the big compan ies are involved in these practices. We have sent evidence to the MMC from former staff at Lunn Poly and Going Places [owned by Airtours] that they were offered payments to sell in-house hol- idays. They were also offered commissions to sell their own insurance. " However, Thomson yesterday launched a stinging attack on Aito in an increasingly bitter row between the big and small players in the industry. Martin Brackenbury. a director of Thomson Travel said: “We are clear there is not a case to answer. Aito have waged a clever campaign. They have dressed their commercial interests up with claims that the consumer will be disadvan- taged. In fact, they want to destroy the discounts offered tty the large travel agents for their own commercial ends. " Aito reacted angrily to Thom- son's claims: “This suggests that Thomson is rather worried about the MMC enquiry. It smacks of a last-ditch campaign to send the MMC off the scenL” Thomson has recently launched an advertising cam- paign in the trade press de- fending its position and its sales methods and is considering tak- ing its campaign to the nation- al press. Paul Brett, chairman of Thom- son, said recently: “TTG [Thom- son Travel Group] is accused by so-called independents within the industry of directional sell- *Y m. - T. v£ hsUiirv 9 i s3- •;*A2 ', 5! Tbur wars: Hie MMC is investigating travel agents and tour operators and may recommend changes, such as re-branding, to make relationships clearer ins while they portray them- selves as acting impartially. This is a travesty of the true situation and we will not tolerate any further misrepresentation. " A leaked letter from the MMC recently revealed that it was considering recommending that the tour operators re- brand their travel agents to make their relationship with the parent tour operator clearer or even dispose of a large chunk of its outlets. The MMC has now finished How to gel the jump on four rivals and get the d best deal going. bioni, /. Siiv-jrsitvn h. T. i fought tooth a f ki no-! tor Ovorvthrio soo'J ovo 1 And with (Jr-qnq- ohinong available w Fwope and boy and sho irdorv Give your company an unfair advantage. Cali Oranoe Direct Business Sates on osoo 731 ■0. Or viSrt www, on; gathering submissions from interested parties in the industry. It expects to hand its final recommendations to Margaret Beckett, President of the Board of Trade, on 7 November. A final decision by the Gov- ernment is not expected until early next year. Lucas Varity warns flat markets will limit growth WBchael Harrison Lucas Varity, the Anglo-Amer- ican car components and aero- space group, warned yesterday that tap line profit growth this year would be modest because of fiat automotive markets in Europe and the US. The warning came as the company reported a slight fall in first-half profits to £I67m as a result of exchange rate losses which knocked £llm off its bottom line. But Lucas Varity said that it remained on course to achieve £I20m in annual cost savings by the beginning of 1999 -the tar- get set when Lucas and Vfcrity merged in September last year. In the six months to the end of July cost savings from job re- ductions and asset disposals reached £16m and are due to rise to £40m for the full year. Meanwhile the tax charge has fallen from 36 per cent to 30 per cent. At the time of the merger Lucas Varity promised £65m in tax savings a year. Of the £100m the group aims to raise through the disposal of 13 business with annual sales of £270m, a total of £40m has so far been achieved. Lucas Varity has sold five of the 13 businesses and bought three businesses, re- ducing the worldwide work- force from 55, 000 to 51, 000. Victor Rice, chief executive, said that both earnings and trading margins had improved in the second quarter of the year. However, the outlook in its main automotive markets re- mained flat. Within Europe, Lucas Varity expects the UK, Italian and Spatush markets to improve this year but France and Germany to continue to be weak. Figures released yesterday show that West European cat sales rose by 53 per cent to 1. 2 million in August, taking the overall increase in the year to date to 3. 1 per cent. Tbny Gilroy, chief operating officer, said that while the US market was mixed, Lucas- Varity's strength in the light tracks sector, which includes vans, pick-ups and utility vehicles, should show through in stronger second-half sales. Mr Rice said there were no signs yet of car makers seeking to squeeze UK supplier prices because of the strength of ster- ling but he did say that Lucas- Verity was considering whether to source more of its own sup- plies from outside the UK be- cause of currency factors. Meanwhile he shrugged off suggestions that the decision by Ford and General Motors to hive off their components divi- sions into separate companies posed a threat to traditional sup- pliers. He forecast this would only result in a “minute" pc. centage of business being lusl. The company also confirmed that it would complete its share buy-back programme. Earlier this year it announced it would repurchase 43 milli on shares equivalent to 3 per cent of the company. So far it has com- pleted the purchase of 33 mil- lion shares. Among its new business deals is a contract to supply all the braking requirements on a new model range from the Malay- sian car maker Proton. Skyepharma shares plunge into freefall Saroeena Ahmad Ian Gowrie-Smith. the founder of Skyepharma. blamed a crash in the biotechnology company's share price yesterday on the fall- out from Biocompatibles’ failure to agree a critical deal this week. Shares in Skyepharma, which makes generic drugs, plunged almost 30 per cent to 49p after the company announced a plac- ing and warned that revenues from a key project would be de- layed for a year. Yesterday’s fall takes the group’s share' price perilously close to the placing price of 45p a share, risking the possibility that the £7. 4m fund- raising may prove unattractive to investors. Skyephanna's an- nouncement follows a spate of disappointments in the industry this year. Speaking as the group an- nounced a more than doubling of interim losses to June, Mr Gowne-Smith said that that while the placing funds would meet the group’s cash needs for the next 10 months, it would re- quire another round of fund- raising before becoming cash now positive. The group was also looking to strike more coflalxK native deals to “conserve cash". Mr Gowrie-Smith said that the share price fall was exac- erbated by market conditions after shares in Biocompaii- bles, the medical coatings group crashed 40 per cent in a day: “I’ve never run into such confusion among fund man- agers. They have losi confi- dence in their judgement of this sector. The one thing they have been riding high on. that looked a dead cert in their port - folio was Biocompatibles. We couldn't have given our shares to some of them. This is a black day and unfortunate timing for us. " News that a rival generic manufacturer has brought a low-dose version of a key heart drug to market before Skye- pharma also disappointed. But Mr Gowrie-Smith said he wa*. confident in the group's future. He said he had bought 100. 000 shares yesterday morn- ing and that 10 of the 13 hoard 'f members had taken up £2. 75m shares in the placing. “Tbdny has been a black day. but tomorrow will be sunshine. ”,, V _ S* J XV market report / shares Data Bank K;484$£;:?. -FreE‘i250v:/ 4630. 8- •::, CT$E-3^PK J^cH: Vog l&. ^';share! s> Ukrainian raid may have sabotaged £54m oil deal Share spotlight stare price, pence h has not taken fanner com- munists long to leam how to play capitalists at their own game. This week a Ukrainian- funded stock market raid may have sabotaged a £54m agreed takeover bid. Oil and gas explorer Ramco Energy, where former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rtfkind is a dire ctor, seemed to be o utline. ■ JKX Oil & Gas, headed by Rail track chief Sir Robert Hor- ton, out of its misery when it mounted a bid in July. All seemed to be going smoothly until UkraGazpron£ the state owned Ukrainian energy company, picked up shares through stockbroker T Hoare & Co. It now has 11. 67 per cent of the capital, paying around £7m. The intervention has so far prevented Ramco, which has interests in the former Soviet Union, gaining control. It had hoped to do so on Thursday but had to be content with a 4&5 per cent shareholding. The bid has been extended un- til September 'B. To complicate. matters Ramco's share ex- change offer equates to only 45J5p a share against 52p (the price the Ukrainians paid) in the market. It could be that Ramco, off I7. 5p to 1J37 Jp, will have to increase, or even abandon, its. offer. Still it is seeking to come to terms with the intruders. But Steven Bertram, Ramco’s chief financial officer, said if it could not work with Ukra Gazprom 'there would be no point m the deaT. JKX. with interests in Ukraine and Georgia, has been one of the market’s new- fesue disasters. Shares were placed at 190p two years ago. They touched 201p bat have been in ragged retreat since, hitting 29. 75p before Ramco offered a little salvation. The rest of the market ended a dismal week on a MARKET REPORT DEREK PAIN Stock market reporter of the year suitably dismal note. Due, shares finished above the day’s worst After swinging from ex- tremes of a 23. 2 points plus to a 20. 9 fell, Footsie dosed 6. 6 lower at 4, 848. 2. bathe perastent story of a deal over its securities arm, rose a further 7. 5p to 841 Jp. The shares have risen 29p in a weak market since (he German Commerzbank's rights issue started rumours the cash was earmarked for the securities side of Nat West. Barclays, up 4Jp to 1. 425Ap, got a little help from the gentle buy-back pro- gramme. Another 1 mill i nn shares were picked up at], 4224£4p. Like NatWest EMI, the showbiz group, is bucking the trend. Stories of a Seagram swoop edged the shares a fur- ther 3p higher to 586J5p. BTR's conversion from con- glomerate to focused engi- neering group failed to produce any follow-through to Thursday’s 15p advance. Although NatWest Securities talked of a 280p target price, the shares relapsed 2. 5 p to 231 Jp. General Electric Co fell I4Ap to 380. 5p after confirm- ing it had been dropped from the list of bidders for the de- fence electronics arm of Ger- man group Siemens. B1CC lost 13p to 145-5p; US glass maker Coming's warned about overcapacity and a slowdown in optical fibre demand. Best of the blue chips was British Airways, up 14. 5p to 678 Sp on what seemed placa- tory noises from the European Commission over the pro- posed American Airways long-running and destructive cabin anew pay dispute. Prudential Corporation's Drugs remained under the weather although Biocoupat- ibtes International rallied a further J7_5p lo 592 Sp. SkyePharma, the Ian Gowrie Smith vehicle, could not have picked a worse time lo produce a cash call and disappointing figures. The shares crashed 195p to 49p. Another rights issue is likely next year. Croda, the chemical group, was little changed at 565p although Merrill Lynch has pul a 420p target on the shares. Next the fashion chain, fell 23p lo 731 -5p on Credit Ly- onnais Laing caution. Interim figures are due next week with the market looking for around £6Sm, up from £56 m. Dalgefy, another reporting next week, gained 6. 5p to 2^4p on hopes that a dismal profits out-turn will be countered by break-up developments at the pel foods group. Xnchcape, the international trader, fell K5p to 2£lp. lowest since ApriL It, too, reports new week and an interim profits fall from £8i8m to around £73 m is e. 'qiecicd. Recruitment agency PSD rose a Anther Sp to 32Sl5p fol- lowing a 42 per cent interim pro fif gain to £3. 9m. limelight, the bathroom and kitchen group, remained closeted m a darkened corner. The shares fell 25p to a new 35p kwv. Taking Stock 3 Gaelic Resources enjoyed the day’s biggest percentage gain, up 0. 75p to 2p. The arrival of Greenwich Resources men Colin Phipps and David Quick sparred the action. They are pumping their European Hydro- carbons business into Gaelic in exchange for shares and warrants. lT Prime People, a recruit- ment group specialising in catering and hotels, held at 5. 5p. 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Where he had birdied the last four holes the previous day, Seve managed a different grandstand finish. His tee shot at the last, a downbiD par-three where he was at- tempting to cut a five-iron, clapped Into the spectator seat- ing on the left. The ball was not finished there, bouncing high over a path and coming to rest outside the windows of the line stonewalled clubhouse. A recovery shot from here, off the flagstones and through the legs of tables and chairs and over a couple of crash barriers, is the stuff of Ballesteros legend, to which he had added only 24 hours earlier with his shot off his knees during the first round. Alas, the ball lay the wrong side of the white line that denotes out of bounds David Garland, the tournament di- rector. was on the spot but pe- titions for the OB line to be overlooked in the cause of entertainment were not to be entertained. This left Ballesteros lacing the infinitely more tricky propo- sition of replaying his lee sboL This time he did hit the green, but two putts gave him a 73. two over par. leaving him four un- der for the tournament and six adrift of the leader. Zimbabwe's Tbny Johnstone. “I play great today, ” Balles- teros said. “Just, you know_. " With a little more luck at die fin- ish: “That's the way it goes this year. I will make things change. I will shoot 64 tomorrow. " Af- ter his great start, hopes of a first Ballesteros victory for two years always depended on the Spaniard being able to remain in contention until the final day. At least, for only the third time this year, he made the cut. Darren Clarke, from the septet of European Ryder Cup players here, did not qualify for the weekend and Colin Mont- gomerie only did so an the one over par cut-off line. The Scot, who has not missed a cut in 23 tournaments this year, left the course head bowed after a 72. Asked if he had any comment, he replied with a sorry: "No”. Instead of further discourse. Monty headed straight for the practice putting green. If Clarke will prove no threat to Montgomerie's record fifth order of merit title hopes over the weekend. Ian Woosnam and Langer will do so. The Ger- man equalled the day's best score with a 65, to be one be- hind Lee Westwood, at six un- der. who is the leading Ryder Cup player. The 24-year-old. who barely misses a tourna- ment, was raring to go after two weeks off and added a second successive 68. Westwood, whose play from tce-to-green has been exem- plary given he has taken as many as 31 putts on each of the first two days, is at the opposite end of his career to most of those on the leaderboard, which showed Johnstone, after a 65 in which he played the front nine in 30, leading by one from Nor- man and his fellow Australian Peter O'Malley. Johnstone is 41, Norman a year older. “It doesn’t matter who is up there, you chase just as hard, ” West- wood said. Norman, who is back where he has been for most of the last decade, holding the No 1 spot in the world, birdied the last live holes. “I think I get more sat- isfaction from winning now than when I did in my 20s, " the Shark said. “It doesn't get any easier the older you get. But my competitive drive is bigger than before. " LANCdME TROPHY (SainUtam-La-Bre- tfietta) LHdni Mcood-raand scores (GB or Irt unless stated): 122 T Johnstone i2m) 67 65. 133 G Neman iflus) 67 68: P O'Mal- ley (Aik) 65 63. 135 S Oappaaxrt fit) 66 69. 136 L Westwood 68 6® M OHfeore (US) 69 67; E Romero (A i® 68 68; S Sbuuer Bosman effect is spreading T he name Bosman does The Budweiser League season starts not appear on any of the toc j av with basketball clubs having to cope weiser 1 ilS^So^be^mfing with a new order. Richard Taylor reports sakL “Someone has to be re- Sheffteld iSharits. S«»n McKie English basketball into the sponsible for the mes^but he is ^ ^ kiiL- Ml^ foreseeable future. lost in the nnstsomewhere. 1 am many), keun of tabes keen to lead a well-funded mam English taJentio richer conti- through another three-yeurcon- (Portugal) h. 3 St££FJS 5 S££ peimtaing each teamw sign up guilty fete^irgtam for ta land '"XtaS “m'enk to five OM-European foreigners, sake of my own job security. plug -JJ _£3h hi win- almost all Americans. With the The Association is chasing Leopards championship-* in snort on a roll domestically, funding from the Sports Coun- nmg team last season, is als* whvehanee the formula? cil and National Lottery but holding out for a continental dub. “It's reality of where we might not have a result before Leopards American coach. JbeffiS England begin their group Billy Mims, said: “RonmewanLs Mike Smith, said. Tl* no- games the end of November, to ctmlmtoal emttre/on attendaacesln- '. taTpjngh. un^ntter^rnd would same, Sasim^°nSt him to saged by £1 per sea t pro- agent motions; increased media cl “ t f ail o'er Europe. coverage and an impressive All 1 is be raft ofcorporare sminsors nngm Bnxton waning tor This week Mitsubishi re- a phone calL placed 7-Up as backers of the league trophy. Chib owners indude im- presarios Harvey Gold- smith and Ed Simons {The Leopards) and Barrie Mar- have boosted tneir shall (London Towere); ■HHKSBHI foreign nmks by retaining Chrysalis TV’s Chris Marco BakO: Italian import happy to Paul Dcppisch, a Ger- Wright (Sheffield Sharks), be with Towers Photograph: Peter Jay man. and adding Maren Sir John Hall (Newcastle Baldi, a 6ft 1 lin, 30-year- Eagles) and the American old Italian. There may be millionaires BOX Cook (Man- Most of the leading England 55 Americans lining up this Chester Giants) and Greg Fuller- internationals, who took ad- weekend but Baldi has more in- ton (Worthing Bears). vantage of the freedom of trans- ternaiional club experience a phone calL The only League club exploiting Bosman are London Towers, who ean " use only two Amerieaas in the European Cup, but have boosted their foreign ranks by retaining Seve Ballesteros chips on to the third green in yesterday’s second round of the Lancome Trophy in France Photograph: Phil Cole/Allsport Sir John Hall (Newcastle Eagles) and the American millionaires Bill Cook (Man- chester Giants) and Greg Fuller- ton (Worthing Bears). Last summer an indiscreet 4 g i- Tftagne memo revealed the dubs clubs restricted to two Ameri- years of the English League af- had lost £1. 5ra the previous sea- cans, have stayed on the other ter playing for Milan in two Ko- ron and nr> h iwmssman k mat, side of the Channet Steve Buck- rse Cup finals and a European ing money out of basketball, nell and Martin Hcnlan Cup Final Four tournament. Smith, an accountant, said: (Greece), John Amaedii (Italy). Baldiwm to high school and “The owners are still investing. " Trevor Gordon (Portugal), Ian college in America and makes In contrast to this high pro- White and Andy Gardiner (Bel- his league debut at Ciyslal file brigade, the governing body, giiim). While Delme Hcrriman Palace tonight. “I never imag- the English Basketball Associ- has left Trieste to join Man- ined ever playing in England hit ation, appears impoverished Chester Giants and Andrew Bai- Bosman has opened everything v and anonymous. T arfring funds ley has quit Germany for up. Towers have a reputation on for the national teams, Eng- Newcastle Eagles, a fresh crop the continent now and I’m very land's Hungarian coach, Lasz- has gone abroad this summer happy to be here. " lo Nemeth, is threatening not to chasing bigger pay-days in Milan, ironically, arc in lead the men into this season’s leagues which are not salary- London's European Group and European Championship. capped like in England. visit Wembley Arena on 23 “I've had three years of crisis The most notable loss is September. “I can't wait. " Baldi management in the role and nev- Roger Huggins, who has joined said. “There will be big battles. ” er found who is accountable, ” he Royal Antwerp in Belgium from Weekend fixtures, page 25 Most of the leading England internationals, who took ad- vantage of the freedom of trans- fer ruling to join continental clubs restricted to two Ameri- cans. have stayed on the other side of the Channet Steve Bucfc- nell and Martin Hcnlan (Greece), John Amaedii (Italy). Trevor Gordon (Portugal), lan White and Ancfy Gardiner (Bel- gium). While Delme Hcrriman than any player to appear in 25 years of tne English League af- (Ger) 71 66; D Smyth 69 67. 137 A Hunter 88 69; C Suneson (Sp) 71 66; A Okfoom 71 66: s fate 69 68; B Langsr (Gert 72 86; D Gilford 68 68 R Gooean (tea) TO 67: P Prtce 69 6& 138 D Homel 6B 72; S Belas- teros (Sp) 65 73: P MachaB 66 69; M Jon- axi (Sue) 67 71. 139 R Oaydon 69 70; WJ Johansson (Safe) 71 68; FTamaud (Fr) 69 70; J Lomas 68 70; S Ames (Trtn) 69 70; P HecMom (Swe) 71 68; P Lawrte 68 71; P Affleck 67 72; P Eaies 70 69. MO G Turner (NZ) 69 71; M Roe 71 69; G Brans 69 72; G Ctarh 71 69; J Sandefti (Swe) 70 70; I Pyman 72 68; R Russell 69 71. 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New subsoAen ffiB Lyt>^£Gs 'N the INDEPENDENT « SATTTgmv 13 SEPTEMBER 1997 '§ ‘ n. f. _ Ss « COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP: All-rounder frustrates Glamorgan while Donald keeps Warwickshire’s faint hopes alive Grayson plays his part in title race DAVID LLEWELIYN reports from Cardiff Glamorgan 361 Essex 169 and 320-8 fe brksbi^u were yesterday plav- g a larger part in the build-up id the out come of the County Championship than might have been anticipated. Of course there were the goings-on up at along the banks of the River Taff a lone York- shireman stood between Glam- organ and a resounding victory over Essex. Paul Grayson hails Erom Rjpon, but he discarded the While Rose to join Essex for the 1996 campaign after six unful- filled seasons with Yorkshire. His northern grit and obdura- cy was called open in no un- certain measure at Sophia Gardens yesterday as he re- sisted the best that Glamorgan could bowl ai him. Even with half a day lost to the weather - brinsanG' their to- tal overs lost in the"' Champi- onship th/s season to a figure approaching 2. 000 - Glamorgan most have thought they were well down the road to a win. Maximum points and an early finish beckoned when Essex stumbled to 130 for 4. still more than 60 runs away Grom making their hosts bat again. But then they ran headlong into a hold-up called Grayson. He managed what Paul Prichard, Nasser Hussain and, later. Ronnie Irani signally Donald departs * with a flourish failed to do: keep his wicket in- tact after reaching his half-cen- tury. Grayson’s graft is probably not enough to prevent defeat, but it restored some pride to an otherwise disappointing and unsatisfactory Essex perfor- mance overall and took them into a lead of 128 runs. So far he has been at the crease for al- most four hours while frustrat- ing Ghmnip n’ii Champiwnshy challenge... There was a typical York- shire pragmatism to Grayson's approach, and he could not be tempted, as was Prichard ear- lier ia the day, to have a swing at the occasional bad ball. A measure. of that willpower lies in the fact that only six of the 209 balls Grayson has faced have been dispatched to the boundary. In contrast, when Prichard went to punish a Robert Croft long- hop he was comfortably held by Steve James at deep square leg, two balls after reaching his MIKE CAREY reports from Edgbaston Warwickshire 418 Gloucestershire 113 & 224 Wterwicteh/re win by an innings and SI runs Allan Donald - who else? - end- ed Gloucestershire’s modest resistance here yesterday by bowling fast and straight, even off a considerably reduced run- up. to take four wickets for 25 runs in 7. 5 overs, all of which nudged Warwickshire into third place in the Championship. —, Depending on events else- |where. the title is still a math- ematical possibility, however remote, and the weather is un- certain enough for the front- runners to he casting anxious glances over their shoulders. But whatever Warwickshire achieve in their final game, against Northamptonshire at Edgbaston, they wiD have to do it without Donald. He will play, on Sunday^ but tbeure-. ;. turns loSou%^^a' pare for a foil* Warwickshire - wi&: misS*-fc^ only his wickets but ones that his presence obtains for the bowlers at the other end. There were handshakes all round after Donald had signed off, characteristically, by up- rooting Mike Smith’s off stump. Helped by' two stoppages for rain, which kept him fresh and TODAY the batsmen unsettled, he had put together a perfect fast- bowling vignette. He struck with the first ball of the day when Richard Davis prodded' a catch to the substi- tute fielder, Steve McDonald, at short leg and then Marlyn Ball was caught at cover from the fourth delivery after the restart. Jack Russel] then picked up where he had left off the pre- vious evening, before being forced to retire by a blow on the back of the bead For a while there was the in- triguing sight of Russell delib- erately giving himself room at one end to play a series of strokes through the covers and Jonathan Lewis doing so in rather more involuntary fash- ion at the other, mainly to keep out of harm’s wry. Lewis - survived a couple of sharp blows on the band, while Don- ald fust stopped Russell's little game by going round the wick- et to deny him room, then get- ting hhn^CTught off a m ^i nrid e / Resuming era 44. Russell, who reached his personal rmle- itone In his 17tb snmmer dathe... county circuit, made 67 in- cluding 12 fours from 121 balls.. Russell was eighth out at 222 and, with Dominic Hewson. 'again too ill to bat. Smith added only two more runs. Hussain perished just after lunch, trying to work a delivery from Steve Whlkin to leg and losing his middle and off stumps. He too bad only just eased past his half-century. For a while Irani carried the fight to the enemy. Unfortu- nately for him ^faqar Younts had returned to the nay, and he delivered a wicked, full-length ball 'which bowled the all- rounder.. Waqar struck again a couple of overs later, with an un- playable yorker thudding into the base of Danny Law's stumps, and it looked as though Glamorgan would have a nom- inal total to knock off. Grayson disagreed. He and Barry Hyam put on 62 for the seventh wicket and, even when Mark Hott was bowled by off- spinner Croft, Ashley Cowan stuck around to the dose. It is not all over yeL Yorkshire's Michael Vaughan almost chops an Alan fc*gtesdon delivery on to his stumps at Headfrgley Photograph: Empics Peirce’s century sets target Round-up Toby Peirce’s maiden century helped Sussex set Hampshire a winning target of 260 at Southampton yesterday. Peirce batted five-and-a-half hours for his 104 as Sussex attempted to recover from a disastrous first- innings performance when they were bowled out for 114. Sussex faired far belter sec- ond time around thanks to Peirce and some solid tail-end resistance and were all out for 390. This left Hampshire a whole day, plus 13 overs, to reach their target and by the dose of the third day they' were 37 without loss. Worcestershire's victory charge was held up by an un- beaten ninth-wickct stand be- tween Derbyshire’s Karl Krikken and Simon Lacey at New Road. They put on a battling 70 to lift i heir struggling side to a 33- run lead by the time they dosed on 364 for 8 after following on 331 behind. Krikken made 47 not out and Lacey 19 not out af- ter Derbyshire "had been un- settled by a four-wicket haul for the off spinner Graeme Hick. The visitors did well to keep Worcestershire at bay and were particularly grateful' for a de- termined 156-run fourth-wick- et stand spanning 43 overs between Tim Tweats and Kim Barnett. Tweats was finally re- moved for a Championship best 83. which contained 15 fours off 132 balls. His previous highest score in the competition had been 7S not out against Worcestershire at Kiddermin- ster two years ago. Barnett stroked 86. including 17 fours off 161 deliveries be- fore he became the second of iwo victims in the space of four deadly deliveries from the ac- curate Hick. Keedy cashes in as Surrey succumb in sorry style HENRY BlJDFEU) reports from The Oval Lancashire 5S^4 dec&. : ajjrf 55 runs Itis to be hoped drat Surrey wffl conduct an inquest into their ade'sperfbnuaace against Lan- cashire. 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Their bowfiiig oh the first two ' a disgraoe and fettti^has beensfightiy worse. With such an exciting ead to the Championship brewing, it^ would ' be appalling if Surrey were to surrender to Kent at Canterbury in then 1 last game as they have just done against Lancashire- Starting the day 338 nms be- hind at 254 for 7, they had no chance erf avoiding the follow-on DmSXXUL FRBMERSMP Qwrtar-taata: HufcMaiWdvFBStheBtDi»ta30):HulvKvi- steS G. 15); LW01 v Woriaigaxi v W0*y. but pride Should have dictated that the last three wickets should hold up Lancashire for as long as possible. But in the very first over Ian Salisbury, who has had a dreadful game, chopped Peter Martin’s fourth ball into his stumps and Joey Benjamin edged the sixth to first slip. Pride did not dictate very much more in the second innings either. Darren BickneU was im- mediately Ibw playing across the line at Martin, out then Mark Butcher and Jason Ratdiffe buckled down to ft for a while, addmgfll before Butcher was Ibw coming forward raid playing no stroke at Mfice' Witkmson. A storm at hmch d aimed 13 ovets and as soon as play restart- ed Alec Stewart tried to pull a long hop from Wilkinson, missed and was Ibw. Alistair Brown threatened to restore some order but in the first over after tea he square-cut another Ufcrkmson long hop to backward point. The HolKoakes were as pa- thetic as anyone. Adam drove over a straight half-volley and Ben pushed with firm wrists at one which Gary Keedy (ortho- dox left-arm spin) turned and was caught at dip. In view of the faith in them both by the se- lectors, these two should be per- forming. When Ratdiffe, whose determination was impressive, was bcrwled round his kgs sweep- ing at Keedy when lOrtmsshort of his hundred that was effec- tively that. Keedy’s steady bovd- ingtroughthim sixwickeis in the innings and 10 in the match. CRICKET SCOREBOARD Rngby Union vw tew. NOSTH WBT COUHTES LEAGUE Flnt Dt- yWok Atherton U) w Vonhafl GM; Ocssop v Blackpool Rovers Uosfingtfen « Cfuddenon; Kctta Old tSofi v Ramsfcattom; «art«*n b Rrascor SaUpri bJCdsgfQbB- Uagg Coppnj- - totaary iwmd; Bachpocl Machomcs v Mag- huO; Fteemaad « Sranraodate. JEWSON WESSEX LEMBUE: NWbury V BounemGUtiFC; BAT Spans v Cowes Spots Bemeraxi Hvon v East Cows Wcsi Onaawwi v Acnsnuctures; Bwwey v EBsto^K Ryte SoaRswADdnet; WbUtinth « Tooen. ffiHorr msorance Nomiew lbwue RrcttNYtobn: Crook vTw Low GuEboraugi v KkxotK Nanhafladon wCbaMm; Sioctajo v Seaham T^d Star. JEWSON EASnWH mfiUE Pnoto DhWon: Ely »Su8wy Town; tWsteadvFMentiBm; tip- Hockey WSHUISIHI CtUUBME to 7. 01 far Pmkk&on ReomSen ttouirt Uxtdon). 0B«l IWOtHE*: SoutMTO » IWer- 21 ram tar Trent Part;; HaroofTie v Leek. 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PREMCR league: Oaseow V Man i6-30i; Naweasde v Edrturgi (630i; Sid* i ShoMd (6-Pt; Stohn U t iZ3P) tit Newport). Other sports ATHLETICS: Bupa Great North Run (aT GnaAoadL EQUesmWtmu: Eunpoan Thw-DayEwm Chawpont j ap m Burghfcy). ' SOEF: Oubhaus Semore Class*: far The tWu- wte*srtie CO. JAOTORCTCUNtt BnOS" $yptiWv» Cnonrplai slap meeting lat Brands Hatch). MOTOR RACWft Bnteh FmmJB thee Ohdif *MtotwMetitSiKBmw:R*kmmtansl GI Champkmamp M Danuffont. TENMSi Sameune Opan jar BttmmouthL TODAY'S NUMBER a cup Hut i i-w wtt irwi»AttwaMn60J):BN^UM*t tor (3. W. WH>IAQa< NMMlj*rawarMandPN|. odor MvWo«r Co*k C#y aOeny Qty (12-0)1 SSawtyCeaKO. 0ut*ivK*anrTaTS,. IffunfessaWH) *mtgSPBHWB«WPq a*rt« > a «a>B^» iMd vCastteiaid (63): lmdon vShfiMO (330L 2, 700 The number (rf-tons of sand heeded to tennis courts into six beach uoitey- bali courts for the sport’s in- augural wodd championships y^hich started at UCLA, California- Britannic Assurance Comity Championship Thtrd Hay ot tour. 10. 30 today Ehnliam » Somerset CHESTER-L&STRFET: Sooicrsst (21pts) beat Italian (5> by eight wSchstfl. Dubam mxi toss SOMERSET - Fk*t knrqSB 237 fM N Laih- we* 57). DURHAM - FUst tobnCs 230 U E Monte 79L DURHAM - Second bntags (Ouemigm: 132 tbr 7) M J Foeasr c teaHttck b CodchcK —. 37 J Boitaig ran out 0 SJE Blown four iiftws.. J A Wafer tow b Rose Q Extra* (b4, to7, nb6l 17 Tbta (53J5 overa)...... J« FOB (cont): 8-132, 9-liE. Bawling: CaddicK 21-7-60-4: Rom 13^-2-43-3; Mushtaq 13-10-4-3; Bowter 6-3-17-0. SOMERSET - Second Rwfa*s tR J Turner c Lawis b Foster 41 PCL)^oU^a^o^'cSp6^bFiosIe^ 33 S C Ecclestone not out 54 M N Lxbwell not out. 20 Extra* W) 4 Total (for 2, 34 over*) 1SZ Mb 1-76, 2-87. Did not bat: M E Tresoottitck, M Burn*. G D Rose. *PD Bonder, A R CaaSck, Mush- taq Ahmad, K J Shore. BowfaiC Brown KMV52-0; Bens 5-1-21-0; Foster 11-1-48-2; Walter 6-1-24-0: Bori- ng 1 -0-2-0; Momis 1-O-1-0. - Umpires: 1 D Bond ®id J W HoWet Sbmoqian v Essex CARDfF: E*so< (4pt^, arttb t wo second- tanfagg wMgta staixfing, are 128 run* ahead of Glamorgan (81 Oamorgen eon toes GLAMORGAN- FlrSL tanlngs 361 (H Mor- ris B2. M P Mayranl 71: D R Law 4-69). ESSEX- Ffcst hiring 189 (SG Law B6). ESSEX- Second toning (Ovem^tt: 52 for 1) *PJ Prichard c James b Croft 31 N Hussain b Watkm — —53 S Q Law c Shaw b Wafcm. 9 R C teani b Wiaqar..... 50 A P Grayson not out B3 D R Law b Waqor 1 tB J Hymn B>w b Thomas —26 MCttmb Craft...... 7 A P cowan ret out 13 Extras CbQ. tolB. nb2i.. _ -. 27 Tbtai (for 8, 300 over*) 320 Fan: 1-2. 2-104, 3-123. 4-130, 5-211. 6-215. 7-277, 8292. Tb bat PM Such. Bowling: Waqar IS- 1-72-2: WatWn 22-8-58-3; Croft 31-6-86-2; Coster 11-3-25-0; Thomas 18-0-54-1. Umplres: J H Hams and R Julian. Mkkflesex v Notts LORD'S: ftottinfamshirB (3pts), with eigM second-innm^ srfeteBB staxflng. am 127 runs behind MtkMscx (7). MUtesex won toss MD0U6EX -• Fkat teilieB 430 for 8 dae tO A Shah 104m. JCRsolay 08, MR ftwnpaK as n 55j- NonWGHAMSWRE- Rret tartng* t0wrrt^icllfiibr4j U Atonal b KaBlS., ^......... ^. 14 C M Toney c Brown b Kalis -. 42 tWM Noon run out — ^... 39 Pj Franks cGattmgb Mils -. 1 K P Evans e Shah b TbfireU - — 13 RT Bates not out § M N Bowen c Nash bTutrefl 3 Extras DbB, nM) -J2 ■fetal {*) — 2t0 Fad (cant): 5-123. 6-148. 7-152. 8-170. 9-207. Bawling: Fraser 14-7 -24-0; Hewitt 17-5-48-0; TufneB 32. 1-661-5; Kafle 1S-S-3&-4; BloomMd 4-1-12-0; Ramp- rakash 63-18-6 Second Innings M P Damron c Brown b Tufadl 13 R T Robinson ibw b BfoomfieW.... 19 G E Wefmn not out.............. — 33 *P Johnson not our IS Extras (b3. to3. nt> 4| 10 fatal (far 2, 39 own) S3 Fait 1-30. 2-47. To bat RT Bates, U AfcaaL CM Tolley, JW M Franks. MN Bowen. Bow Sngi Fraser 9-4-160; Hewnt 50-200; Bloomfield 7-3-13-1; Kants 63-14-0; Tufrwff 12-3-24-L Umpires: B Leadbeater and G I Burgess. Wor ttanta v Leicestershire NORTHAMPTON: Northamptonshire (Gpts), wilfi nine secontUrrnngs eSctels stamfin^art* 189 runs behind Leices- tershire (S). Northamptorshlre kvi toss - N0RIHAMPT0NSmE-ffaftterag»332 (P Rtptey 92, A L Ftenberthy 65: J Ormond 6881. LEKESTERSHRE - Rrst Innings (Qvemighe 380 far 6i i M Dahm st Riptey b Davies 190 D J Millns c R^ey b Dawes 121 ARK Piereon b Brown „. 40 J Ormond tow b Daves O M7 Brimson rid out 4 Extras fb5, tol2, nh24) 41 fatd Q443 overa) 3 57 Rafi (cant): 7-476. 8-531, 653L Scant at 120 overa: 476 far 7. Bowling: Taylor 1 7-0-82 - h 80 S wait 19-3-89-2: Browi 52J- 14- 142-3: Dawes 34-8118-4; Penbetthy 12-0460: BaJey 3-0-12 -a Curran 7-6460. NORIHAMPTONCMHI - Second kadngB A Fbrdham tow b Branson 15 R R Montgomerie not out — 19 S A i Boswell nyi out —... 2 Extras 0 fatal (for 1, 33 overa) 36 Mb 1-27. fa bat: *R J Bale* K M Curran, D J G Sales. A L Benbenhy. ID Ripley, j P Taytoi; M K Davies. J F Brown. Bowling: Millns 3-0-10-0; Ormond 3-1-14-0: Pwrson 4-0-11-0; Brimson 3- 2-1- 1. Umpires: M J Krtrhen and R Palmer Hampshire v Sussex SOWHWPTWfc HaofiMn( irilsaconcHnnhq^wid taLs a tet uft i g, rc- qure 223 rum to beet Sussex (41 Sussen win mss HAMPSHIRE - First htrtngs 345 1G W White 80. P R WWWer 73; A A Wtan4-79. R J Kirtfey 4-41). SUSSEX - Fast Innings 114 (S D Udal 4- 17. S M Milbum 4-38). SUSSEX - Second tananss (OYOTV0M: 203 far3j M T E Peirce Ibw b Ronshaw.... -104 ft NeweH c Hjryder b Renshaw 44 JRCaT«ntercftmdall b Hayden..... 63 PW Jarws e White bMffium — G J J Bares c Mam b Stephenson 12 A A Khan run out -52 M A Robinson tow b Hayden 3 R J Kinley not out...... — —. 7 Extras (04, »5. w2, nbdi. — - 15 fatal (1863 overs) 390 F«1 (Cant): 4-238, 5-245, 62S2. 7-287. 8-336, 9-348. Bowfa^: Milbum 32-3-106-3; Renshew 27. 3-1652-3; Udal 44-12-964); Maru 21-6-30-0; Stephenson 25-5-78-1; Hay- den 6-0-17-2. HANKWC - Second bmbtfs J S Laney nor out — 24 M L Hayden not out —.... — -10 Extras itoJL. nb2) 3 fatal (for a 13 overa) 37 fa bat: G w WTrae, P R Whnater, w S Kendafl. *J P Stephenson. tA N Aymes, S D Udal. R J Maru. S J Renshaw. S M Mrt- tJdm. Bowtow Janos 60-15-0; hurley 62-140; Knan 2-1-2-0; Robinson 1 -0-3-0. Umpires: J C Bafaersione and R A White. Surrey v Lancashire THE ORAL: Lancashire (24pta) beat Sur- rey GO by an brings end 65 nms. Lancashte won toss LANCASMK - Fbet lw*«i 592 for 4 dec fN T Wflod 155. M A Atherton 149. N H Fairbrotner 112 no. G D L»ya 65 no. j P Crawley 641. SURREY- First timings tOverragpe 254 tor 7| I D K Safisbury b Maron 1 J E Berqarmn c Faubfather b Manm. 0 R M Amn c Negg b Maron 2! M P BaAneD ret out — 14 Extras 105, to6. etc I 13 fatal (84J overs) 270 FaH [coal): 6254. 6255. Bowing: Mamn 12. 64-42-3: Chappie 7-2-18-0: Ridgway 5-1-30-0: Keedy 35. 11-94-4: Wathinscn 267-763. SURREY - Second Innings DJ&e*? iefl tow b Martin 1 M A Butcher rjw b Waflunson 52 J 0 Ratctrffe b needy..... 90 tA J Stewart tow b Waihmson 7 A D Broun e Lfayd 0 Keedy...... 47 *A J Holboahe b Cnappie. J3 B C HrtLoate c Feiitsother b Keedy 8 I D K Safisbu/y c Uoyrt b Keedy... 12 M P Bichnell Ibw b Keedy — 3 J E Benjamin not out — 24 R M Amin tow b Keedy. 0 Extras 103. Ibl2) — 15 fatt(7L4 overs) 267 Fate 1-& 2-89, 697, 4-173. 61B4. 6212. 7-239. 6242. 9-257. Bowling: Martin 13-3-58-1; Chappie 11- 1-461: Keeay 29. 4-6766; Wadanson 160-53-2; Rdeway 2-614-0. Umpires: a ciartaon and P Willey. Wfarerickshk* v Gtoncs EDGBASTON: teteretefcaliire (Mptstbeat Glou ces t er shire (4) by an innings and 81 runs. sture non toss VWRWXXSWtE - First Inidn^ 418 |N K1 ft Smith 148. D R Browi 79. N V Km0Ti 7 J, P L Hemp 66; J Lews &$9. A M Smsh 4-701. eUDUC£STERSMRE-F1ret Imdngs 113 (NMK Smitfi 4-32). Second irmngs lOvemigftn 186 tor 51 rfi c RusseN c Pip « b OdnaW 67 M C J Bali c Kni0u b Donald 23 ft P Davis c sub b Donald.. 3 Jlseisresoirt.. — A M Smith b Donald J2 D R Hewson absent _,. 0 Extras Ibl3, to3. w2, nbBj.... 26 fatal (685 overs)? 7* Bad (conft 61S6. 7-191 8222. 6224. Bowfing: Donald 15. 5^63-4; Brown 167-23-0: Welch 4-1-17-1; Giles 166^8-2: Smith 14-2 57-2. UmpaDK G Sharp and NT Plews. Worcostershire v DerirysUra WORCESIBt Drtydte Ppta). retatwo seconcFtetegswfctets standng, we53 ram ahead of Worcestershire (Eft. Hiwcesttis/tae won ross Custom Made makes running Equestrianism GENEVIEVE MURPHY reports from Burgh ley David O’Connor and Custom Made, the winning partnership at this year’s Badminton Horse Trials, now bold the lead for the United Stales in the European Open Three-Day Event Championships. O'Connor, the second last of 79 competitors in the dressage, overlook lrelancTs Lucy Thomp- son, who had made a fine start to the defence of her European title with a splendid test on Wd- ton Romance, who is now just U. 2pt behind the leader. "She has natural flair, she gave her all and sparkled, ” Thompson said of the mare, who missed last year’s Olympic Games through a leg tnjuiy. This is therefore her first three- day event since she won the 1995 European Open in Italy. Britain’s defence of the team title began satisfactorily. With an four team members now in the top 12, the British are ahead of the United Stales and New Zealand, with the Netherlands m fourth place and the best of their European opponents. Christopher Battle, lying fifth I on Word Perfect II, is the high- est placed of the home riders, i Having finished sixth in “pure” dressage at the 19S4 Olympic Games, he has no problem I with the two flying changes, which were introduced into (he three-day event test this year. Word Perfect gave an all too rare demonstration of how the movement should be executed. Mark lodd. ai present the best-placed New Zealander in sixth place on Broadcast News, is one point ahead of Britain's Wflliam Fbx-PiU who is seventh on Cosmopolitan 11. Todd’s compatriot, the reigning Olympic champion Blyth Tail, could manage no better than 21st on Ready Teddy, whom he rode with the utmost tact. Today’s cross-country could bring a major re-shuffling in the order. “It’s a very strong course, in some ways it’s tougher than Badminton, " O’Connor said, af- ter his outstanding dressage, which was one of the best that Custom Made has ever done. Fox-Pilt is hoping that he wfl! be able to scttle Cosmopolitan in time to cope with the prob- lems at the Leaf Pit Log and the Kennel Tree Stumps, fences three and four. The horse, who is naturally exu- berant, will need to be con- centrating if be is to answer these early questions. Results, Digest, page 29 WORCESIBtSMRE- FfrM faring* 554 for 8 (tec tw PC Wbsfan Moody 101, D A Leaitiesdale 93i. D81BV5MRE -Ftat taring* 223 (ME Cb- sar 76no>. Second tank# S Stubbfngs ibw b Shenyar ~32 A J Hams c Ifegwfth b Shenyar 36 D G Cork b Hck — 9 T A faraats b Uirgwonb S3 K J Barnett c Leathadale b Hick...... 86 V p Ciartie c Laathentale b Hek 37 M E Cassar tow b Hick £ TKM Knkkan not out — 47 •P A J DeFiwtas c Lamprtt b Sberyar.. 1 S J Lacey not nit 19 Extras (Jb2. w4, nblO) — 16 fatal (fwrB, 102 overs) 384 Frifc 1-52. 2-71. 673, 4-229. 6283. 6284. 7-293. 8-294. Tb bat D E Malcolm. Bowflng: Lampm 361-55-0; Haynes 8-1-51-0; Shenyar 17-6-68-3; Hick 266-70-4; Ulm0voith 23-7-461: Moody 5-0-30-0; LeathMflale 13-642-0. Umpires; D R Shepherd and A G T White- head Yorkshire v Kant HEADMGLEY:Y3rl- •• ■■ i ri'- 77 im^y ™ September 1997 • the independent Keast unravels the Harlequins enigma Chris Hewett on how a coach is restoring order at the Stoop after the upheavals of last spring W hai it ii with Harle- quins. exactly? If the highest of high rollers are not quite the lowest of low achievers, their reputation as the weak-spirited enigmas of the English game has been earned a hundred times over. Talented they may be. but one good puff can still blow the Stoop Memo- rial Ground clean off its foun- dations. As one rugged Bath forward of fairly recent vintage put it: “Look at those shirts they ponce around in. Eveiv colour under the sun except the one that sums them up. Yellow. ” Quite how successful Andy Keast. Quins' new director of rugby and one of English coach- ing's brighter young things, will btTin applying some backbone to all that soft tissue is one of the most intriguing aspects of the campaign. OF Square Eyes, um he is affectionately known af- ter spending countless man hours compiling video analysis for the Lions during their sum- mer trek through South Africa, has already seen his dissolute charges at’ their most indisd- plined and the experience drove him back in front of the small screen this week for a merciless dissection of his side's half- baked performance against Munster in last Sunday's Heineken Cup opener. "It’s the only way. ” he sighs. "I came back from South Africa never wanting to watch a video again - 1 would go days, quite literally, without seeing some of the Lions because my time was divided between sleeping;, eat- ing and analysing - but it's im- portant to confront players with their own shortcomings. We gave Munster 20-odd points in missed tackles and allowed the Irish pimple to become a rash, so I sat everyone down in front of the tape and we spent two and a half hours discussing it. If they didn't realise before that they'd let themselves down, they realise it now. " To rugby folk outside the leafy suburbs of south-west London, the Quins job is the most toxic of poisoned chalices. Many of the big names have egos’ to match, the swank city slicker image raises the hackles of hard-bitten provincials to Hands on: Andy Keast (centre), Harlequins' new young director of rugby, oversees training at the Stoop Memorial ground such an altitude that they snort lire at the merest glimpse of Will Carling and the superb specta- tor facilities are too often be- trayed by a lack of... well, spectators, lb make matters worse from Keast's point of view, he inherited a workforce in open revolt. Player power had accounted for his predecessor and partner, the abrasive former England coach Dick Best, and speculation was rife that Jason Leonard, the king-pin interna- tional prop, had seen enough and was hot-footing it across the Thames to Saracens. “Things happened, obvious- ly. " Keast agrees. “Look, Fma good mate of Dick’s and he had the right vision for the club and was moving it in the only real- istic direction available in a professional sport. Some of the changes he wanted to introduce - daytime training, for instance - are now up and running. Quite honestly. I would liked to have continued working with him, but in the end I was asked to lake on the job and. welL I've got a family to feed. “As for Jason, he's going nowhere. We've had requests and there has been a tot of big- money transfer talk, but this is not just any old Quin we're talk- ing about but a Quin through and through. I'm glad about iu too. I wouldn't (ike to coach a side that didn't have him there in the front row because he of- fers tilings in terms of knowl- edge and heart and enthusiasm that others couldn't hope to of- fer in a month of Sundays. " And Carling, the biggest cheese in the shop? How is Will these days? “I have to say that the guy has worked his butt off. Really, I just can’t fault him. He was under a fair bit of pressure during all the upheaval at the club back in Ihe spring, with people pointing the finger at him and things being written and said. But you wouldn't know that from watching him play. The old buzz is there and he looks after himself proper- ‘It's up to me to manage the squad with the right degree of flexibility' ly and professionally. He’s a ma- jor asset to us, a key figure. " Keast is too modest to claim full credit, but he has presided over a sudden sea change at the Stoop. Rory Jenkins, Spencer Bromley and Gareth Allison, front-line players alL have put their City jobs on hold and signed up as bona fide full- timers. That leaves just two se- nior staff. Jim Staples and Alex Snow, on the part-time list - pre- cise ly the kind of professionali- sadon Best was seeking when he ran into such stem opposition to- wards the end of last season. “No-one twisted any arms. ” Keast insists. “The decision to change came from the players themselves and now they are into this different cycle of life, they're loving every minute of it. It's the way things are going and. while it won't happen im- mediately. the long-term im- plications arc that those who do not feel able to commit them- selves on a full-time basis will be left behind. " Snow, a successful equities broker, is deeply unsettled at Quins and his departure would leave an awkward gap in the Stoop's second row stable, but Keast believes he has been more than accommodating to- wards the part-timcrs/Tm not interested in forcing the full- time issue on cither Alex or Jim. The very last thing I want to see is players of their quality leav- ing this dub and even if they make only one training session a week, they'll play the top games if they're performing better than anyone else. In the end, it’s up tome to manage this squad with the right degree of flexibility. " Ah, the squad. Quite a melange, the Harlequins set-up: an environment in which up- standing Englishmen rub shoul- ders with sundry Celts, a quartet of tres sophisticated French- men. a couple of Yanks, an Ital- ian, a South Seas islander and aUirldsh-CyprioL Keast relishes the man management chal- lenge that lies at the heart of his quest for a trophy this season. Photograph: David Ashdown “It's not easy, hut I find the management side of tilings fas- cinating, incredibly rewarding. Look at the range of people in- volved: a real life legend like Will, a new Frenchman who barely speaks the lingo and a Tongan complele wilhwife and kids, not to mention youngsters like Nick Whlshc. who Is still very much in his shell and needs bringing out. A big job, definitely. "For that very reason, I trea- sure the Lions* experience. It was. in effect, a crash course in professionalism because if the tour was to stand any chance of success, it was essential to ob- serve the very different people involved and" at least liy to un- derstand their personalities. The situation here is just the same and that means pressure, but hell, this used to be a hob- by and now Tra being paid. I consider myself very fortunate. " Guscott’s return brings renewed lease of life for Bath CHRIS HEWETT Obituaries marking the sudden demise of Bath as the dominant power in English rugby were dearly premature. Having start- ed Ihe campaign in Old Mother Hubbard mode -caiiy-senson in- juries to umpteen internationals gave the Recreation Ground cuplioard a distinctly barren ap- pearance - the fiercely compet- itive West Countrymen are back in the land of plenty. Tomorrow afternoon's Hein- eken Cup tussle with a relatively lightweight Scottish Borders outfit at Hawick signals the re- turn of Jeremy Guscott. The Li- ons superhero has spent more time smiling sweetly at television cameras than smirking conde- scendingly at bewildered oppo- sition defences of late but. now that he has recovered from the hroken arm suffered during the final Test with the Springboks in July, he feels ready for some- thing a little more strenuous. Guseoit plays alongside Phil dc Glunville against the Scots, which means a move inside to stand-off for Mike Catt and a rather more depressing move to the bench for Richard Bulland, who contributed handsomely to the victories at Harlequins and Pontypridd over the last fortnight It remains to be seen whether Cau will get another run at centre now that Guscott is back on the scene: his per- formance there against POniy lent credence 10 the theoiy that the No 12 shirt fits him far bet- ter than the No 10. but unless injuries strike hard we may nev- er find out for sure. Wasps, who also won in Wales last week, face Glasgow at the Scotstoun Stadium and field Kenny Logan on the left wing against his old district. The hosts welcome back their in- ternational centre. Ian Jardine, after a seemingly endless injury lay-off. but their chances of em- bellishing their unexpected win in Ulster with a second pool vic- tory are remote to say the least. The most obviously competi- tive tie of the weekend - in Britain at least - rakes place at the Sloop this afternoon. Har- lequins. dose to full strength with Keith Wood restored to the front row and Rorv Jenkins back among the loose forwards, lock ho ms with the unknown quan- tities of Bourgoin. who not only won last year’s European Con- fercnoe title and finished runners- up in the French championship but were good enough to see off an expensively recruited Cardiff side in their opening Heineken match lasL weekend. On the face of it. Quins should go in against Marc Cecil] on's merry musketeers far better pre- pared than mosu after alL Lau- rent Belligoi, their new 6 ft 2in wing, played for Bourgoin last season. Things are not that straightforward, however. Bci- ligoi’s English is roughly com- parable to captain Wood’s French - that is to say. virtually non-exisiem -so the potential for a faux pas or two is rich indeed. Thanks to Jim Staples’ seri- ous back injury, which required a scan on Wednesday, Jamie Williams is the only fit and el- igible full-back available. Bour- goin have no such problems and include the outstanding Tried- ■ ore threequarters Stephane Glas and Laurent LcflemancL The Welsh contingent face a testing 48 hours. Cardiff and Swansea are desperate for home wins over Munster and Ulster respectively. Pomypridd travel to Brive, the champions from France who are unbeaten in eight Heineken Cup outings, while Llanelli pay an unenviable visit to Pau without two of their Test backs, Nigel Davies and Wayne Procter. Bristol, meanwhile, have ap- pointed the former interna- tional referee Fred Howard as their new rugby manager. The retired schoolmaster replaces Ralph Knibbs, who has taken on a coaching role at Coventry. Woodward * wanted by Bath and England Clive Woodward' s installation as the new England coach is still subject lo negotiation but the Ruolw Football Union expects to link him and the manager. Roger Uttley, with ihe 77 players at next Wednesday's squad session. The RFU will not yet confirm the identities of the uwmige- ment team to succeed former coach Jack Rowells panel while 9 talks continue, hut it has been discussing the terms of Wood- wards release Irom his position on Bath's coaching stall. Bath's chief executive. Tony Swift, was annoyed that the RFU first approached Wood- ward without going through Ihe club, who will receive substan- tial compensation for the toss of Woodward, even though he lias no formal contract with them. Don Rutherford, the RFU rugby director, said: “It's not as easy us in the old days when you simply asked the bo-l man to take on the job and he slipped effortlessly in. Now obligations to clubs and employment con- ditions make these appoint- ments more complicated. " ^ Fran Cotton, the powerful $ vice-chairman (playing) of the ' • RFU Management Board, insists the coaching jnb must he full- time. This gives Woodward no ehiince of staging his three coach- ing sessions per week at Hath and watching only them on Saturdays. TTie RFU Is m«v two weeks behind schedule, having post- poned the announcement of England's World Cup manage- ment team last month. Without selectors. Rutherford was forced to invite a huge squad, hut fur- ther disruption to the build-up 10 the four Tests before Christ- mas cun he avoided - if Wood- ward and Unley can be paraded at Bisham Abbey next week. English Rugby Partnership has announced that its chief ex- ccutive Kim Deshuyes is to quit '! his high-profile post at the end • oF this year. Doshayes. a key player in thrashing out agree- ment between England's lop- clubs and the Rugby Football Union following months of hit- ler argument over running the professional game, will pursue other business interests. “1 am pleased lo have helped create the right structure and commercial - framework to se- cure the future health and pros- perity of England's professional dub game into the next centu- ry, " he said. "I feci that the time is now right lo pass the ball on to a successor who will take the top clubs through the next stage of their development. " Deshuyes headed ERP. the joint company formed by top professional clubs and Twick- enham. having previously run Epruc (English Professional Rugby Union Clubs). 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Real Fire. 25-1 Smupn, 33-1 others I o '/tril bhyn-y-pys NOVICE CHASE (CLASS D) jA-^Ul £5 jooq added 2m 4f 110yds 1 &2U Kie OF SHADOWS (28) (OJlBHtftihsiriWU 12 -Gay Ijens 2 3-0331 FRASER CARET (IS) (D) r 511S TJUnphyB 3 4S0F-2 CHAPFUCCt Ct9) Un E Heart: 7 11 S J>GaBa0Mr A UoAV FRSJOE MUCK (147J [C} (Q) N T-0Bdes 7 11 6 T leaks; 1350- NOIMNGnXXMITIIME (278) T F«X: 7 11 6 J Osborne 0 &W3- PHARAfS (1311 fC] A Woaffuse J 11 6 WDM 7 ITO3-P IMG OF BABYLON (19) F Ionian 5 11 3 PCwbany 9 3US5- ANABRANCH (M3) JJflUton 6 111 £Ca*#Mi(3) BETTING: 8-11 RedffloMudk. 4-1 AnaDonch. 7-1 Phsam. 8-1 Ktafi Of Stad- (MS, 10-1 FVaser Cany. 12-LCMapjncd. 14-1 Nu tU rtfadCT d ttwne, B0-1 King 01 Babjtan 7 -32734 DANE ROSE (91 LI Swptara U 10 10 Jl Ttiorntoo 8 0 U33 BHKHT SAPPWS OB J R Bes U 20 10 DFortT 9? 0:t- PERSUH DAWN IF52) R PhiljM J 10 10 GHc«n 10 12&Q3 SAFECRACKER (191 C Hot** 4 10 10 PHwfcy 11 -J£3-0 JUST FOR A REASON (U>m A Judes 5 10 8 -R Massey V 1? Am-b ACQUITTAL (A3| a Soma 5 10 2 DPmkerV 13 -60013 GAU4HKGU6(29(CD]BUei>eLri510? -JMkhMB»nn K 0090E- DODGY 0AHCQI 1204) L WUmrsen? U1. T DntctnAHi a TOHASHENKO (F11UJ T Omrtfy 9 10 0 Jf HNat^dSd •A OJPt IffiRay MORTAL (407) 6 100 JMc«hni(S] 17 0t»- BACKHANDER (F2B) R WilHcs 5 10 0 (5)B 18 330^6 AGAINST THE CUICX (28) PBoL-cn 5 100 LCmtekeB - IB d rria nd - f. JOa 7>> ftytfcx />c; Timasnento 9st SB. Merely Mv:s. Biri wsar &sr W. ASArjf Pie Ct* SM 3b. BEITDIG: U-2 6aOoptag Guns, S-l Contract Bridge, T-l Satacraclur, B-l Dane Rose. H0HBO3L 10-1 Bright EanilMfe, JiBt For A Reasaii, Ur Bean, Peniafl Damn, 12-lotten ro"EKl QUEENSWW MAIDEN HURDLE (CLASS F) ^ £2375 added 3m 1 S' PUB'S lADfF3)BUasn» till 5. £ Upton - 3 7° *5 CCTtAGE JOKER (IS J Men 7 11 5 XJUzpnni(5) 2 331° GALLANT IDRO (543) (D) Mrs L JnNI 8 11 5 I R Kanwgi - ■» IflRDABCKYtlSJPHfllSKaUS GTgrmey - -73 <72 OLD BOMBW (4fl) 0:i*jia3Ti 5 11 5- AMqgftc o 4-5? AlUS DESERT 1171) D Race G 11 5. LHaney ‘ -xrp- ST MBLU0N LBGUE (2DB) N 3 11 3 ATtaMM b 22PP THEYDKajSSBBSauCillUs RJMru “ M02 WELSH SRJ( (Ififfl D ukUTd 5 11 S RDwoody t- -a. ' 32 OUR (BNB (U P ROOM 7 U 0.. JSBumnpi U L-22G2 SEAtARIH (21) P Sown 6 11 0 —NWttamwn U 02-523 SPARNM BUCK (271 N AMe 5 11 0 teyle*0) - 12 declared - BETTMG; 2-1 Sea Tarth. MQU BnMay. 9-2 Brin Lad, 6-lWt*sh Sflk. 13-2 SpJrtlhg Bach. 20-1 Our NMU. f*ar Desert. odwi WREXHAM HANDICAP HURDLE (CLASS E) A ^ £5JOO added 2m 4f 1 51233- ANNA S0UB- PJO) gJ) 0 SAevcod J 12 0 [Osborne 2 03434- SHAHRAN (150) M P®e 5 1113 CMandS 3 4211 BIPHORK RLUSKJN (Fll) (C) MnS Snui 6 11 10 -R Guest 4 1163-P BEUROI (33) (08 M romckre 6 11 9 A Dobbin V 5 00-P24 BUSS 0B) Mrs JBr»n 0116 RGanUyV 6 31214. 1 RRST CRACK (19) (C) (D) F jodai 12 11 3 PCabeuy 7 0020-1 PRUSSIA (18) (D) WOQy 6 11 3 J CalaglBT S 464122 FRONTER FUStT (14) Mss L S«Mal 7 10 13 -E HnsbeM (3) 9 220-41 OPERA FAN (19) K Morgan 5 10 11 J 1 Monts (5) 10 <2-503 IHRXrS LAW (8) R Smpscn B 10 3 PMcLoo^*i U 51P0- PUV GAMES (USA) (194) R Lee 9 ID 2 HrSDand<(7) -lldedared- BETTWa 5-2 Embodc Rhahm, 4-1 Shatesni. 6-1 Anaa SoML 7-1 Frae- UerFRgM. 8-1 Opera Fn. 10-1 Seltnjl, 12-1 Major* Urn, First Crack, 14-1 Prussia, U-l throe. 25-1 Play Games y|g| NOVICE HANDICAP CHASE (CLASS E) £5 i oo0 added 3m 110yds 1 1-2033 BB OF A DREAM (19) MrtSSnBT7 11 ID R Guest 2 00501' IDSKAN0 p23) D iWams 5 11 0 HrSDndO) 3 6-33F1 MGHlYimC (33) (D) Mrs B Broad 9 11 0 JVDoM*i 4 PPB-F2 TDNTS FEELMGS (15) (D) Lta 0 Tharccn 9 10 13. D Storey 5 P4S21- UTTH BY UTTIE (X3J) B 7 10 6 T Boy 6 PDF'S -1 R014BI GOLD (9B) (D) Uss V WWams 8 104 — IJMarpby -6 declared- BETTING: 7-4 Bit Of A Dream. 2-1 M^ity Mare, 100-30 Tonyt FeelngB. 15-2 Rolled Gold, 14-1 Toskano, 20-1 UHJe By Lttde |Q on I ASTLEY HANDICAP CHASE (CLASS C) J, JU 1 £6^00 added 2m 7f 110yds 1 -11221 mEE (IS) (C)(D) P Bmai 10 12 0 RJabnaonB 2 50131 RVQaaj BUNDS (53 (CD) Mss L Rusad ID 11 9_ATlanbM 3 12025- 0UXXE5 CRUSADER (14Q nOGmata 6 10 13-RDBinady 4 22341P AMKELOT (ID) [Q (D) P Bowen ID 10 12 -R Ibmnbia B 5 iPnj-3 CANTOJNS FRAJER (IQ (C) M Rmai 10 100 WMadM G 3323-P HAmsniWN IADY (3S) (D) G B*6ng 10 10 O^A Maedm B 7 15P21- CARDMAL RUE 11131 MkSS V VWUi&S 100 — N HfaBSM -7 declared - Uewum vttfrt lQst rrje hanett® waffc CanAuf a* 93 11* BETTme 1W Cansm Rnk, 7-a FM40I Bdds, 4-1 Ntaae, 5-1 CaraWS Crusader, 8-1 Andrekrt. ID-1 Cantoris Fraier. 14-1 Hantattm Lady 1 A Aft I JOHN E SMITH 60TH YEAR ffCAP HUR- OLE (CLASS C) £4v850 added 2m 4f 1. '4-121 SHEJBFF (IflJ (CD) JHfc 6 U 13 —CI1H)W 2 -443P6 BAMAPOUR (36) (D) M Rpe 7 11 6 — A P McCoy 3 51513- COKEMff BDT (22(Q M Ronan 12 11 4 J HAanson 4 331P- CRAfBXRI BOULEVARD 1163) Ms J Reran 4 U "_R Rananl 5 561-13 IASAN08) KMn^n4 106 RDamody 6 4551-0 W1ISF0RD HB1 (98) (BF) I WRarre 3 10 1 _DPonA 7 31044 C«CA£ffSBES7(2® (CQMlinrJelOlOOJ^sMCOontwB 8 20522 PQtSAH MVSTIC (33) 0 Bfirat 5 10 0 WHaSM -8 declared - Wrwaim ae^i f Its: (rur hjndhap nrijbt My sue 9si 36. BETTING: 5-2 Banapeur. 4-1 Sbertff, 3-2 Lagan. 14-2 Cotemy Bey, 6-1 Crandee BmdmnL B-lWnsftad m. 1 Paretai Mysde. 14-1 CMesgaV: Best rarffe l W & P FOODSERVICE NOVICE CHASE {CLASS Dl E4J95Q added 2m 1 113-11 AAttAH (USAH1B) (D) P Hotis 5 11 8 BPomB 2 -0F31F FGMUOCSBBII>eR(lZPRU5S5iTi>i7113-RimnB 3 01-UOP AUPME NET (S3) (CD) JOShea 511 l. DtWtamd) a 36305- At»WE(U6A)(U18(D)PE»e581010„. u _JlltaflAe 5 WP- AQUEOUS ROCKS (131) 6 ftwcu 6 10 McgftMl (7) S 1G3 J ASngRDC(l«JMa9&y91010 Ajoboson A on I COOPERS & LYBRAND H’CAP HURDLE (CLASS o £5, 000 added 2m If 1 33160- GREBIGRTOI DESBtT(133)OSbenood6 120J0sbarea 2 21301- DANEG0U3 (F2) M Crianmn 5 11 1 DteBqpar 3 1124- CONfRAfffE (110) (CD) A SaenOanh 5 11 0 JSqvbi 4 125-1 STCRET SERVICE (1^ (D) C Toubit 5 10 9 MFbstw 5 5-6340 CHEF MOUSE (3) (0) F Jok&i 4 106 PCafieny 6 1HJ3-F NOBLE COLOURS (9) (D) SGnffuw 4 100 A Dobbin -6 declared - BETTffla9-4 Secret Sendee, 3-2 Green Green Desert. 9-2 Done&Ad. 11-2 Noble Cotan rs. 13-2 Co otraflre. 8-1 CMef Monte l ARAl aCK FRANCIS HIT NOVICE HIMJLE (CLASS D) £4, 000 added 2m If 1 /45PP- FELL00 (189) TGeof^S 10 10 TJIdwpbyB 2 202325 FOLLOW DE CALL (8) □ McCan 7 ID 10 3 UW KE7 6Hf> (577) MraSSmitrin 1010 R Guest; 4 03- SITMESr (ISO) G M Moaie 5 10 10 1 CnBaghan, 5 0M WBSH SPBMER (49) Uh I Write 6 10 10 ICMtaty I 6 OM DUKSnKieXMllMGBanaMiOS -.. B Storey 7 OOP- CMMOOKS DAUBHIBi (143) G Ffcbatia 5 105 — ADobUn 8 UTTLEDOlirr BI7105 7Bey 9 5684> MB*8ai£(19)0Wfcms510 5 Mb S Dmaclt (7) 10 24122- MFAAF (USA) (2S8) KMo^i5105. ASSndBi 11 00- ABS0UJIE PROOF (OB) WGM Turner 4 103 JPmwrT) BEnwa 15-8 NUaaC 3-lSIeaesby. 5-1 FUtoo, 13-2 CUwoJre Daum- ier, 8-1 FOBn De CaB. 12-1 Kay Grip, lfi-1 Abrehrte Proof. 20-1 Uri- bfde, 25-lribent RACING RESULTS 7 0R53- CAMP HE 8 IKl 207 FOR JUST 9 104 SAUIM 10 5304)0 SCALP Q 11 PiPPfr BARA AU 12 500- STAMM 13 02421- CUSLUH C BETTING: 7-4Aedab, 7-2 er, 8-1 Staonore, 10-1 kCA Caper, »ifi AD (106) 0 9nwnl 6 10 10 lAUcCartiiy B* (1423) (Df R Alner 10 10 10 ATbomton KSma. (38) (B) m M PUnan 6 10 10-R Fata* 4 (87) Dr P ftanart g 10 1C Or P JVAcbart RMM (F38) I WKans 5 10 B APUcCoy C(BDCB«»B51flB SBrdn! AFd WW TMftBs onS 10 3 WMaston AIMaAe. U-2 Onop Head, 13-2 FemrickV EbDtb- BaM Au Item, 1*-1 Seflsi Minsbd. 20-1 Aster- I ' Rftgl EDGBASTON standard open nh flat P** 0! RACE (CLASS HI &L500 added 2m 1 BOOTH) OUT D 5 11 4 -LHawy 2 02 CCHHL'S CROFT nSZ] T KeOb 5 11 4 SRyaalSj 3 Qf46- DRAGON Fiy(40qp Sown 6 11: JEJobnon 4 050 HHftlf71JDO»(4fl)AJanies51 AMi&fce 5 HEHBSAHfiA0GMcCar5UJ DJ Moffat 6 IUGGSV N TosaoOBAes 5 11 4 XUesnMyn 7 AHRWDOIBLEroU Mrs 5 Smm 4 112 RIM)omi|S) 8 0 BLK9NG 10RD (17) J m Sosey 4 11 2 NWOwBcn 9 SMtSHAH K JUg; 4 11 2 KJohoMn 10 BAtmjRAPffiwSn)5 1013 SQwrougfi u auPAssaFFjMBeaeyoioia aFeren 12 HAMUDN PRMCES K Hagg 5 10 13 ATbomton 13 PIRPLE LACE H Ho«S 10 13 BFnd 14 0> SS3JH0N LASJT (£39) C flOSTI 6 ID 13 _. Jiss 5 Jncfcum 15 nPSCH0URG^i%51D13 vsbnery 16 0- WBJWS CHOICE fftffl D Geragny 6 l(m R Supple 17 CATCH WE ACTUM M R SaSfey 4 Kj U RDBsaood* 18 «DKBITSIHE1EG83irieB410D MrBiewr 13 3 WOES CHJHI 117) RJPnee tiou. TCHupfay (71 20 0 MARY FRANCK (17) L &WSC* 4 10 JJ„. J* 0 MeFTie* (7) -SOdeeUred- BET7W6: KKM0 laeeR’i 4-1 Kates Ctom, 11-2 Heriaaahead. 8-1 Caleb n* AcfloB, 10-1 CnooeTa Crofl, 12-1 Abreynouweyan. Drnpn Fly. 16-1 HemylUdn; Hmfton macess. 20*1 oUnrt DONCASTER UKk 1. CITY HONOURS U FtoMi 13-10 fa v: 2. Proto 3-1: 3. Mutawwaj 7-2. 8 ran. Shl-hd, ‘/i. (PChapple-Hyam. E2. 30; £ 1 - 20. £1. 60. £ 1120. Dual Forecast: £2. 40. Computer Stragm Forecast: £4. 19. 2. 05: 1. FAITHFUL SON U Reid) 11-8 jt tw, 2. Alazal 71:)sal ll- 8 jtfav. 4 ran. l: /s Hd. iM Stoute. NewmarWsi. Tote: £2. Bui Forecast £4. 70. Computer Strain Forecast £3. 53 NR: F^anaung Rhyriim. 026: 1. BUSY FLIGHT tM H451 11-8 lav; 2. Memorise 2 1: a Bahamian Knight 20-1. 5 ran. 8. IB UK Lamooumi. Tote: 5; £L30, £L5<3. Dual Rore-^st £230. Com- purer Sn»eM Forecast £4. 04. 3JD5: 1. DAGGERS DRAWN IK Fadcmi 4-6 ftiw a Doehstder 9-1: a Saratoga Springs &- 2. 5 tan. h, l x iH Cool. Newnicrteu. Tote: £1-60; £1. £330. Dua Forecast; £5 COT W« t ■Stragju Forecasi £7. 133. After a stewards' inquiry. pAaangj unaltered 336: 1. DANTESQUE (G WHSfiari 15-2; 2JBMatn 1 3. Ferny Mi » L 4. Slean- roHar Stanly 20-1. 16 ran. 9-2 few Do* bnds Li mo. 1 2. (G Wragg. Newmaker). Tote: £8. 40: £1. 80. £2. £230. 9Ci Dual Forecast £35 S3. Conmurer Straujrf Foretast £75. 97. Tncast- 7S83. 3L Tno' £■31. 40. 4JO: 1 - JUST BOB (Doan J. VJVMvnl 25-1 a sh^&yoly 8-U 3. eras. The Border b-1; 4. itm Happy ft* 16- r 22 ran. 5-1 1*1 LMd High Aomirai. ■/-. rr,, s KerecwHi. Midmehami. Tote: £27. 80: ££. -TO. £1 50. £2-20. Dual Forecasr. £218. 00 computer Straight Forecast: £205. Tn>- a^SW. Tnq. £557 90. 4. 40: 1. REVOQUE O RmI 6-5; 2. Bah- Jore 10-11 fav: 3. KumaH 9 1. 3 ran. 1 «. fPChatmte H>on. Mareom. Tote: £ 2 " ca^ F £ 2 ^ C CorrMJ, erStra ^, tr ^' lacfcpot £19. 292. 60. Plwepofc £13 00. r^ipqt. £7 ^ Place fi: £58. 07. Pla« & £q 6. 7 j ' GOODWOOD „ ^^J-GOLOLANCElLDc-nonT&lja.... 2. «ep On Degas 11 - 1; 3. Ca d'ora 14-1- 4. Sowredgns Court 12-1. 22 ran. NK_ „! iR OSuiliuan, Wntcwnbel Tote: csrtn- ^^• 50 - £4 - 50 - W ao OudFowmsi; £15 60. Compulw Strain Foreiasi; £61 32 Tncast £374. Tno: £13 l2_J0 2. 40: i. ALBOOSTAN iG Careri 11- ■» •* «nwtrewKnl 8-13 tw 3. Doe South oo’ rota g-ro: £3 60. DF: £2. ^ wwsody, 1 V Hvant £12-30: 12. 7 u. £? so y in f. o, -. DF: £90^1 CSF: £89 70. Tna- £319 60. NRs; Shorn S 3. KAHAL (L 1 13-8 2 Lai 8 -t 3. MamaRk lO-ll^ 4 NftL, ndri'4! iT Tote: £2. 00- OF: £4. 00. OSR £r 1 tor B Stanwtls- inquiry, piacm^. malreiw? " 4. 1S: 1. ITT AN 0 F E^nl 3-1: 2. Jungle Story 9-2; 3. Who Nose 10-1. 10 ran. 4-1 fav Vice Prt-wjentaJ i4iM. Hd. nK. (5 Dow. Epsomi. Tote: £17. 90: £3. 90. £2 20. 40 DF: £42. 10 CSF: £39. Tncast: £341. 59 Trra £112. 00. 4. 50: 1-AERLEON PETE (O Holland) 7-i 2. Pennya From Heaven 7-1; 3. Agony Asnt 14-1. 7 ran. 100-30 lav FamuBi 16 U 11. 6. nk. iM Sioqre. NewnjrttatJ. Tote: £3. 50: £2. 03. OF; £12. CSF; £2«. 14. 5. 20: 1. ICEBAND iL Detmnl 4 5 tav. 2. Title Bid 9-1; 3. Sabttaan 11-2. 12 ran. 3. I. X (J GcwJen. PJewnarivei). Tote: £170; £1. £180. DF: £7 JO. CSF: £8. 02. Tno: £10. 50. NRs: Asyaad. Storm From the East Plaoopot £234. Quadpob £87. 60. Place 6: £413. SO. Place S-- £130. 08. 2. 2th 1. TOBY BROWN (A Maftimi 6-4 fair: 2. He's Got Wings 25- 1: 3. Diego 7-4 II ran. 17.. 21. 1: 1 RomaHta 5-1. 8 ran. 5-J liA Torch Vert. 4. 13 iMrs M Jrrea'. IMe: £10. £1 60. DF: £30. 10. CSF. £127 SG. TncvsL £731. 95. 4. 00: 1. REGAL ROMPER (RktVW Gu MU T L 2. Who's To Say &>1: i ^panbb U0» 8 1 6 ran. U-l0lavYijrprateei4tnt 5. 1 L. iMrv S Smiihi. Tote: £7. 50; £3. £6. 70. DF £. 20. CSF. £137. Tficasr £3. 076 76. 4. 30: 1_ INFAMOUS IA P McCcuri lu-11 'A. 2. AlaKah 8-1: 3. CIMre'S Dancer 33-1. 13 ran. 2 ■-. iR OSuUaWI). W* U- so '- £1 SO. i2 20. VL 90. DF. £7 00. CSF: C7 53. Jno: £57 90. 5. 05: 1_ NtSHAMRA I A tA30#e) 2- 1 lav: 2. Kme Of Sparta 5-1; 3, swung Moon 5- 1 7 ran. 16. ( D £430: £1 80. i2 30 PF- £9 50 CSF £11-05 fn c-vj. £38. 31 Nft. Touch Surer. Piacepot £t. Quadpod £8' 00. Place 6: 0. 78. Place 5: £143. 63. RACING SERVICES 0891 261 + Dags' Dtv ^CDWoc ilS W. -.. All COURSES RESULTS 0891 261 970 [ MffikigaEi 4£205» £2s_t GQ53 THE INDEPENDENT * ratttp ^y *3 SEPTEMBER. 3097 j h< "'tej a 'f>, n 0ai. / sport • ST LEGER: The Derby runner up is taken to reverse Great Voftigeur Stakes pfacings with Stowaway in the world’s oldest Classic Patriarch can have the final word liillil lllSl RICHARD EDMONDSO N Such has been the Arab domi- nation in the recent history of the St Leger that it would be no surprise if the traditional ba«- gy cap awarded to the winning jockey is replaced by a fez al- ter today’s 22Jst running of the world’s oldest Classic. If there is sand in the bottom of the old trophy h will be be- ^ cause it has been an adornment ™ in Sheikh Mohammed's home for the last three years. Shan- tou and Moon ax have scored in his persona] maroon and white colours, sandwiching Classic Cliche’s victoiy far the Godol- pbin enterprise. Now there may be another for the Royal blues in the shape of Stowaway. The colt’s latest success in the Great Voltigeur Stakes appears tobethekwerfubuintheL^- er case. Godolphin assess the ev- idence as proving that their horse will again finish in front of Silver Patriarch, whom he beat *Tte can definitely overturn the Great Voltigeur form be- cause I had a hold-up in his work before that race. " John Dunlop, Silver Patriarch's train- er. said yesterday. “The horse came and won the race and then just got tired. He was a gallop short and in need of the race and I have every hope of turn- ing the tables tomorrow. ” Simon Crisfbrd, Godolphin *s racing manager, might refer to that dissection as tosh. “Silver ■ Patriarch is a silver shadow that’s always. there, but we haven’t got to the bottom of Stowaway by any means, and he is such a progressive horse that we are very hopeful, ” he said. “We believe he has a first-rate chance of confirming the plac- ings with SDver Patriarch. ” Godolphin have denied that their Hakarm is a pacemaker, though if there is a dawdle he wiQ make the running, which means he is a pacemaker. What- RICIIARD EDMONDSON NAP: saver Patriarch (Doncaster 340) NB: Desert Story (Goodwood 2^5) ever the method, be wiH not win. Indeed, there are several old tags in the field who have little chance. This corps seems to in- clude Shaya, a final Classic nm- ner for the incomparable Dick Hem, who has won six Legeix. One who does carry prospects is Vertical Speed, who was sup- plemented for £18, 000, which is about what his owner, Daniel Wild eastern, pays for an easel. The Parisian art dealer won the 200th running of zhs race with Crow and has another chance now with an unbeaten colt who provides Olivier Feslier with his first ride in the Classic. Vertical Speed is not guar- anteed to perform to his best on today's good to firm ground, and a line through Book At Bedtime makes him barely a better horse than Windsor Castle, who is thus the best each-way shot It is difficult to look outride the big two for the winner. It was this race two years ago which provided franloe Dettori. Stow- away's rider, with his 1, 000th do- mestic winner and by a statistical caprice it may be that it now gives Pat Eddery his 4, 000th. For those of us who want to believe in the Derby form it would be pleasant to wit- ness the Irishman gtreurring up the straight on SILVER PA- TRIARCH (nap 3. 40). If the Si Leger is the day's fo- cus it can hardly be argued that its field contains the best horse. That honour belongs to Leop- ardstown’s Champion Stakes, in which PQsud&ki takes on Desen King, one of three Aidan O’Brien entries. Victory for the former wifl mean he has won Group One races in four coun- tries following; successes in Ger- many, Canada and England. France hardly suffers by com- parison either this weekend, with its medley of Prix de 1’Arc de Triomphc trials at Long- champ tomorrow. Helissio warmed up before winning last year’s Arc in the Prix NicL a race which now features a strong con- testant for next month's honours in Peimre Celebre. Michael Bell saddles Ivan Luis, who should at least get dose to the favourite in the parade ring. There is a considerable British entry for the Prix Ver- meille, in which John Dunlap is represented by Dust Dancer and Luca Ciimani sends out Kali ana and Ridaiyma, but they will have a job coping with fil- lies who were placed in the French Oaks. Tamil re carries the standard for John Gosden in a Prix Fpy of some cos- mopolitan merit. Among his ri- vals are Japan's Sakura Laurel and a horse who must certain- ly have been named after a day with the tinnies by the side of a billabong, the ex-Australian Nothin’ Leica Dane. Daggers drift down to Docksider factor Dettori banned again Daggers Drawn set off as the 4-6 favourite for the Cham- pagne Stakes, so his victory was hardly unexpected, but a half-length defeat of Docksider was harrny the procession which many punters had turned up to enjoy. Those who have already taken a short price for the 1998 Guineas will console them- selves with the thought that, when asked to quicken from a less than promising position. Daggers Drawn responded de-:iss0 GREG WOOD reports from Doncaster The mysterious forces which # govern ante-post betting were in evidence at Doncaster yes- *’ terday, as the winner of the sea- son’s best two-year-old event immediately drifted in the lists for next year’s 2, 000 Guineas, while a horse who was standing in his box 200 miles away moved in the other direction. 200 BJntang 4JL5 Titanic 230 Epic Stand 4*45 Song Of Freedom 3X>5 Stanton Harcourt (nb) 5JL5 Far Removed 5L40 SILVER PATRIARCH (nap) GOING; Good u> Firm. STALLS: Straight course - stands side; round course - Inside; round mOc - outside. OKAW ADVANTAGE: None. ■ Left-hand, pear-shaped course with one uric straight. ■ Course is Enfurwn off Ule A038 IMIS Jew 3 £ 4). Bus Unit from Doncaster Central suturat. ADMISSION: CWb 52a; Grandstand 512; Family Enclosure £5 (under- 16s live all 1-nckMures) CAB PARK; Free. ■ LEADING TKAINEBS: B Hflta — XI winners from 166 numm gma a amm ratio of J Gooden;l| from]4fi (21. 4%); J Dunlop 27 Titan 138 (lPO%); B Cedi 22 lYnrn B? (23. 7%). ■ LEADING JOCREE&Z. Dettori 38 wfeu Sum 2JS rides gives a sucres* ntio oft 7. 041; E Dnky 36 Iron 201 ( 13. 4%); M HBtaSl Emm 100 (ISLaftt; KFaHon 28 bum 213 (13. 1%). ■ FAVOURITES: 223 wins In 740 races 130. 1%). BUNKEBKD POST TOfRr SUmkOi (2J0>. Hawaii {3. 06), Premfinu Ptaaaft (£. 16). Lamb* Lane (B. 15), UTe Sentence (5. 1B). WINNERS IN THE LAST SEVEN DAYS: Book At Bedtime (040) mm at Doncaster on Wrdnesditf': Brian Heights (4. 4P) «wn at Leicester on Tuesday- LONG-DISTANCB BDNNEKS: Stnrtut Mrndc(3jD6) baa brat wnl 241 TnOeahy Gay Xtfle- ttay rrornWhiKOiTibe. DoisM; DraaaM End (A46) sent 288 mSes fay P Ba«wi from Hawcr- fenhrest. fiyfed; hrtatnatSnn (4^16) «nt 224 mfles ty L«t» Herrtesfttun AnjOnmng Park, WStont*. |Aaa| GREAT NORTH EASTERN RAUWf STAKES (CLASS C) £7, 000 added 2YQ6f Penalty Value £4340 1 1 BMWN6{23)WWMirttePWns^PCtfc91; 7Qte4 2 I NMWMCIW(snmaitaMHtoiOandWftQiMDafil XHdtonl 3 2512 WUl ^BA) 08) (D) pF) Otertfcn N MrtMV D 8 3 R M»8 a 3123 HAMMG EMBER (89) (B Scfimift-ltaanei) B Meehan 8 13 ntBttsyS 5 46 SARA MOON CLASSIC (29) (HfpgtMDMlcpnerriKMcAiAIbB 11 IF&m3 0 swr rochet Sae«iSrriM)Msm 88 — iw» -8 decried- BEnWE: 4-6 Btatang, 11-4 Hsj8, 8-1 Kannonic Wag, 8-1 Sky Rocket, UH FtarilC Bdu; 23-1 Mooodasaic 1996: Magical Tunes 2 0 IK FMon 7-2 (R Bon} Oman (41 8 on. PT5nl ROTHMANS NORffl SOUTH SHUESSEIffl-FWAi. HANDICAP 1 | (CLASS C) £25jQ00 added Ixn Penalty Value £13^50 2 DA000A MJNtBtS OF BRORA pjf {Df (BF)PtXenGtiXnf)JEMhel71I>D — I We* 2 202605 MU5U8WSE(35>WIAEWedWn}C5cah4100 ItmR 3 ‘ 548200 ALBHff THE BEAR (MJ TO (On QfUmlJBeny 4 9 12 _TEtriCri(3] 23 4 £03101 QUffi6C0NSU. p^(DJIMssH(B#ierLIWBiHBRDBwrt7911 UMHlB 5 006600 l»(4Z){E9(GW*stprtti)MeaSMal698 — - — OHataidK 6 106400 MWOHTHEHLW(lG(C0)DJA»en)0McMalsteJO97 3QM">2 7 431020 KWJE OF PEH01E 00)108 (MB LMB Mfcr) M tare 8 9 3 M Robert* 23 8 120*10 CASWdE LA0T p‘5) (D) (Ms 5)bl J L 5 9 3 Of* m3 9 0-5200 SWimoUX(l^(WBMistesniDfidArtiHSonae£«)C! Mw593_h*EdilByira 10 102440 OUWWPO] W(AStliteJDSll*i592 CLoafrif [5)9 11 (BO 623 R»WWHraOKrflOI(asgarWtas»^3Bl; — UWlDfJBB 12 000660 8HWES ASH (USA) (M) (CJ (H S L Lknded) 0 Nthoas 6 9 1——— Mwft* Bmwfe 8^ EpteStimA 10-1 Spat*. 12-1 »eew Calf Stoma, tomtcUc atnnn. Oadta MBaxye, 1*1 oa**s ia9& a*V wttape 3 8 0 A MXHy 12-1 0 Ejre) dsan 114) 25 ran 2AS Law Conuntssston 2. 45 Green Card 3L20 Vbudontsay 3^5 Lady Of The Lake 4. 30 Wales 5 jOO Thfewater GOING: Good UWid ur Firm to phew on round STALLS: Wrataht course - aunde <*J« round course- bdde (except lm4f- ooufefc). OKAW ADVANTAGB: High best for 7f u> 1OT In big Qaida. - ■ Rhail-lHiiul course wflli «harTi bends and pndlents. ■ i Wtrac b N <>f Chichwter hetsrpen AaSG and A28&- CUct ester station 4m. ADMIS- ^^Siri^^^lMU8. 7%)«WieB4^6f26%V ■ i RAMNfi JOCKEY& T Qabn — frinnen Don 281 ridefi (J W). L D^Mari MalUa (HJOlaem SK Barnm Cmn UwBto MG M ASSURANCE RATED HANDICAP (CLASS 2. 15 g) SJSJ300 added 7Y Penalty V^ie £WW 2 201300 _PMbW>*» 12101 a '430400 ^J}Dw2U0 5 MOT 6 20-624 7 10301 8 006622 9 312100 10 1-3100 430400 naio 13140 cum HOT HMI 2D624 S«B* 10301 SHOW 006623 UNCI nawo'WJ ROPttljlMDlBnwiSj maucsnanjlB* (23) (DJffiO **■«*■ BRttm»? 812 [385D l)Bms389 Km* Daw* 7 80. jrawauo __j JwmOVeSV. 306 Mama Omjtrb 102 CMBoUl 99 SDnmoiT 11? RRneh (3)8113 006623 n ° - — anweaBiaiij 31M00 WffOWLW W Jgl u hwa 3 a 7 — RCneftnae8106 BAOS1&G W (S9? (Q ^ flttrflO 94 21-oco - Unman amghtlht ft^garon, 7-lfcatfmr, vbypoM, s-ispecdMi. iMomiasiwMiw 46-lUraaWw ^ 1(MS «i HJ *amffl8wi 1996: Star 0(^«99*O^^ 1{M ^*^pE 139&: star Vi atouc.. SHOWBOAT, who B 108 ana*. The! M222K222«lmi5iSft£l ^ “^ e f twr « to o™p buNnd Among Mvtin "awl m May on fcm Mar a tt»«e^rian*BtofloneB » tampion ttnw J^Kyllmi. He can Wow up awn when iriaro^ngTareW by a dncb fivttic Kayvee a neck at Ascot. most recent ««. tw? ie^^ ^^w w! (Sdo»»«Vc^ ta« pme *l**S! SSd SttMUK «S bea»r.. — — - dsivcly. Once ahead, however, be did noi go dear, unlike Cen- tra] Park, who quickly put five lengths between himself and Docksider when winnmg Good- wood’s Richmond Stakes. Thus it was Central Park who accelerated towards the top of the Classic betting with most bookmakers, and Paul Cole’s coh is nowassborl-as7-l (from 9-1) with the Tote. Only Lad- brokes refused to budge, leav- ing Central Park on 14-,!, wiih Daggers Drawn unchanged on 5-1, a decision which some backers will no doubt wish to quibble with this morning. Of course, any involvement at this stage is probably a waste of money, at least before Dag- gers Drawn's next test in the De- whurst Stakes at Newmarket next month. “Kieren [Fallon] was very happy with him, ” Hen- ry Cecil, the colt's trainer, said. “He said he would have quick- ened if he had needed to. ” I o ne I PORCELANOSA RATH) HANDICAP (CLASS B) P 3H RI ^^1 £20^00 added 1m (straight) Pen. Value £. r M***] 1 010-20 YEAST{8ffroiBKewWt«BB597 TQuta2U« 2 000324 RESTRUCTURE pn) [D) (Bf) (rtfffirrps US Mr; J Cod 59 7 U Roberts 6 106 3 530433 RQSSUHMUSCp^(nieSevemHenH)l^ana£np|GqrKBle«B)r4B2XMaB8l06 4 025310 70BnEflEORGC(i487 I Fbrtuw 9 108 S -00630 MUWXMR(US4){49)OtvR]»4IUsH0(nyCSensaB(l386 BHfcl 1D7 10 11-602 AL«H*R(22)fla))(«lto*ql*re»dWlBaWrg3B2 CUMr3 99 11 100256 HAW4IH23) WEtooifnN(ibWnrij0Hfe382 PRamy (1)10 0160 -Utahrod- Uauun W0B 8sl 7B f^p BS 2BL 7 ujb hmx/ap tw/ffts: Pomm 9a 3AM 8st Ha, NubI 7am BEnDIC: 5-1 StsntroBsreoort, 11-2 RestmctiTi«. 6-lJo Mai, YbrideQwqJs. 8-1 AlWiar. Poinona. Rurin Hnle. 10-1 Vtari. IB-1 Fraiar Bay, MaCdar, 20 M 1996: DKVHM Hao 4 9 4 L Oeoun M U tarter} (tan Q) 11 nn FORM GUBE R now seena PW a mile tsVie beampItarStanttM Karoourt so Nsflfth m Msmoita a Nev»marim corT¥gBteabte. Wlnriafsgtfofe haft come li uin tha t iace. notnbly »4i»ylane. Amyasnnd Monazi. ondStaraco Harcoirt neimgujbehaid to beat at- ttr IW aubsequara win at Mawmamot (lmj, when to |p* Ufc to flie dscent Specuator. JO MELL ran Mtowfeim « YDrt last dmo wtan his ragUar alar Lkwsay Chamack urns or* H WxL OBmoek is rcwAed Md8» and Jo Udl ray isme the farm «Kh RuMsn Music - (tfiM d Qnrsr Urp Aen Jusr a ixximl pu^ Jo MeA so irrgirssslw 8f NaseastiB, Hay^ dock mid York, woidd Me rain, though ho dd cope wrth the MR Donnons a YWK whsi boaUngThaitiea Pornotra. stt longjis twftrid Jo ^ al YCrk. ha3 8Jnc8«ncneas%oobet- toQouad at VfintittlM'Berty&i better in. VceJOeGeonpo, artJWos smite fcrtho first ttna. <«> boaten by Jo MM M NsncaMto (71) » Jun«. but tt«t wh on isstine eounL Vtorkie Geor») »-l Ste m my, 9-1 B e d s^. UrlRtetaigQrs- Ke. U4T1* nr, Jfi-l rmmm Cfe 26-1 MAara, 3U Stag% PoesUoe, Book At BecMnn 1998E9aaoa390L Oeuwi 8-1 (I GosrW draw UU) llran FORM GUIDE After Iasi year’s batmen Shantou end Dusbyomor, rt could be another DeOm-Eddery bottle. DatOorLBOaVAr the M-otek after Ctassk: Ciche in 1595, teonimftMnnorseStoia- magr. who prevadad In me Great vdOfieur 6wo the Derby runner-up SBuer Patriarch. Ihai resulruBS teso Utftt. rrtlh Slver Ranlarch looking me termer ten out only lor Stemmy to p«g «m bad< near. tf» lm after being under pressure somo my out John Dirtcp doutr- ad SDw PHtnareh’s peak fitness for mot race, and me enforced dme off cenamfy took its ml In the final furiang. A sick bane rthsn bekw form m the Irish Derby. Siber Patnarch tel • be a cWferent proposicin ndsy alter run and ml raWi me seerctung tnpi Tha French raider VS7TICAL SPEED, supplemented for the raca at a cost of £18, 000. looks tou^rest m bea. CHw Foster dons me oolatJiB sjccasslu] mb Cnm in 1S76, and Andba Fsbru trained a St lager rdrmw m Toulon dxyvmaffi. iMwatan in mree starts, Vartsa Speed should haw starnbia *t abundance as hta dam. vtmoim Bteue, a Prtr Cadran winner, there has bean support tor Besfafte despite not hayhe raced Knee April. He an to ma pound Wth Benrw The Dip Id the Raong Post Duphy hare attenheRo)«ll«® end. mouffi he b unreal- ed ante tup. a oomptote ^iseb » the &v, couU surprise. The Hy. 12 lengcftsbelvndSI' m IteManm a Epeoia seemed uneuted by maMrrg the nnsrg ki the Irish Derby. Bemg a haU-bcQUwrmRHnKh, ne has awry chance at staying. tMndsorCastla and Book At Bed- Hm wuM seam 0 took the nsosssraydass; butSbajacouta be anypiffig ter m e longer journey aid Dick Hem has won the lacesattmes. S elec ti o n: VERTICAL SPEED [o-ycl WESTMWSTERTAXl MSURANCE SELECT SnKRSg»S£l [Z^IO[ (Group 3) (CLASS A} £35fl00 lm 2f £22j960. 1 DQ544 ACRNK(9)([teia! )ecln0CBnDart4 9O G MR* 3 114- 2 21-162 DE5Sa'M1]Rr(122}|MBKbwnNMteiudMSBuB3B10, W Byre 5113 3 134251 JUW MBHU (USA) (39) 08 Pksndan M Matnun) J DnSop 3 8 7 — GC*rttr4BlI0 4 -16233 RUiaS {21} Otmd»l N MiMora) B Hap in me Dante at ttrt in May aid Mtchael Stmne wrin haw Mm ft enoutfi despite the 122-day absence. FWrris is proaMy me form pick but ihtfn not be at ms best on this sharp traefc He w» no* sulied to Wind- sw wffien mad W fctrt to Anm* Mkabais test tlnte. aid both ha wns baw been on flill tracks - at Sabsbury 33 months e©» and Newmarket tn me spmg. AnUd ABredu, in the same ownership as Fahta bur from a dttferant yaw wok a rteabuy handicap in Aprd on Iks raum and then landed a dow(y ivn r*» at Epsom when m Urkets tor Pw first tkne. But Green Card holds ban on mee naming when fourth and filth ai a Group Three at the Cur- ram ta Ji^, and Qaen Card Is 2lb bettar vi wdh Acbania than when almoGl four tenths dear aum rt«ei in Salmon Ladder's race at Windsor. SatecOoe: DESERT STORY ra-K5kl WILIAM HLLSPRNT CUP HANDICAP (CLASS Q | o^U j £20000 added 6f Penalty Value £15^65 1 213 UJCWteatiaejmiBnucamNiBaidngsgu-—. S? *"'®! ® 2 -46000 IDCM P*n*X CM) (C; 0*SE M L Ccart U nir ' flk 7 & 17 k Etfctoy (7) 28 ® 3 -Vnngp 1WLDWOOO fUlWBi (:) fCtlj c Hkwew^Spt*) R rtsrron 4 9 12 — Item OTto* IB SO ■4 - 1-2405 eawtw«pnnjftHia*«rtJ^ s 012102 M0EHR4S (211 Pt^CKUgSOrilGLMocre 797 =dSS^? 2« 6 -02111 7 052X11 iMRWCMSWfflfiajWPMSMAlIWdDiatfflHa^aoe—--^^ 8 5ttWPPWfl. (2J)(Dalf*miOrlPRV*ttl0r4 9 6 D Sw e tee y (3) 12 B 91 ID 1KB05 YOUDONISWOfljCJ WP®»NHBls)Tjim5wn593 DtrDeaeimaS% U 110001 0OURlOSCfflIU)mnitolte^ONtfi*493 ■>— A*tel»fl)318« 12 - fl P Offi SRinMRaAMDA9anti])M(>0iMn592 r-~Jt Carter 11 66 33 SvSlSp^^W*aa«r«4(to^na«392_Bffc-ck(3)1532 s s i s ssswainr^^a±==3sssa s JS 23 034516 MO OF U^»(P) [Mrs Bills) 90^4^--—- SUmmeMW 23 S* 8MH)OHHWIIIlM)88(ParidRa8iia)PlitlviiS82 24 000002 iMUiA(14)flM(HTDaddnlTDBaiion47 13 ■ ■■■— — - > Hit >^149S X 003SX SOSS«iafflttl)|W(D«WJSrnlNJftia8s571fl „ rZZZ ^^arutRimbnmteMmMUdfirBTUl R Sheet 18 92 14 644515 BaflW«JI»W«OTnB? aiM^K* 16 -mum ttwt(2i)Ea3)(amin^a««t«Ri^n'i 16 -131036 SBIfiOFCAiniWflUCFiawaQDSteai490_ 17 020033 UPEWERggP77P)P 1 E34J0Q0 added 2YD 5f Penalty Vatue £25. 667 ^ 1 051155 ItePCTBDT (43) {mtH^neDeudopouns tinted K McftkJfc 9 3 IFEj^l 94 2 116 TnAMC (24) (CtQ W (SMb Uatarnned) J GoBXn 8 12 LDMtoriC 99 3 633321 AURKffrt2B}OTt/A5ft! 4tS0nr87 5 Sarin 7 nT 4 463423 BMWBK0UM BLADE (1^ IP) lOtMTi S493) H hwy 8 K Prion 3 119 5 1 BGlEtF (57) (D) OsOf RnnttM) R Wvoon 8 7 HteM4J0B B 1202 UUa>0FDREMB(19ainAIUMuniUJalnsan87 DHriririBUF 7 101220 MKSEL10 (! K4 mi]BF) (Us Ann Isnisl kJms 8 7 HM>2 5© -7Rdnd. BETTta7-2ArelOiy. »2'ntMle, S-lPuiWlngnin0inriw. (w10fDreriit, ll-2>lagrio, 6-llte)teM. 10-1 IMtt Boy 1966: EEagcM 2 9 3 M TeHut SI (B Meehani drawn (1) 7 on Bremlngtam Btau* continues to run her heart oul She a 31b better tar the head oefeat by Aurtgny at Kewbuy ana has Keren Fallon on board. Aunpiy is afl a big threat on her prewous urn a&lnsi Greenlander In Fr^ica. MugeBo faded In me Newbury race tram a poor draw end she had earlier fHshed ahead of Banrenpram Blade and nppBt Boy at Good- nood. BAYIEAF could ttemBumeron her Newbuiy debut wm from Ctoudbeny. who fin- Isheo a doee tourth to Aungy al NeMAuy. This dau^rter ol Efiao is bound m haue rmprowd with the expert nnce. ntatic looked good q^tast second-ratere on he first wo starts and theian-softened^rera) wsagansihmei Vtark. Selection: BAVLEAF A T,. -] LADOtOKE HANDICAP (CLASS O £20000 added pi>3TT Im2f60yds Penalty Value £1££60 1 544020 MV IEMC1A (23) IGKixjjtl PHnrB4 1PD PatBkterj3 88 2 2OC045 KUALA LFtS (USA) (24) |C) CH RH SllUr Minad SlDhJ PCDIS4 99__T(ktaa 14 BBS 3 01-330 Mnwaip >4)t23J (KvndanAIUakK)unilJIXrtap396 RMM38B6 4 12004 0OKKnC(Z3)(C0|MsOlitacftefUsJCBa(496 ICmofflflW 5 1-65 BOWL CWSAOepi) WxJhb T txro^tted Raongl W Ihggg 3 9 3-. S S wtare 12 85 6 610640 DREAMS BB (24) (0) IT G rtce) P Bo«n 9 9 3 — II Fentoe 20 98 7. 64313 KH4XUI(42)mN>nte>AMMEUr))DMcffey392 K Fries 13 £6 8 -71510 S0Na0FnEBniaR(D)miS)alhUDlarmed)JGasdGn3B2 LDelMSEM 8 2U040 WR (21) (0) (toVWi ktetflBaDtl P Caw 5 91. Mm ■ 85 10 141600 BR6AKTIEMItB(5q(Cty(MBk>Odn*lrtDI«moC18)rUEj RFterader)MnJRam30en88 1 Forte* U 6 066010 Rk RA RASnitM (1^ |JJ) [BF) ff) J Afcnt B lk*M*n 8 8 MUwte4 | 7 0050 SBttW0R^SBCREr(4Q(JteSte0TiicteJ8»fertan8 7 J>al Eddery 15 8 060 LAWS LAICCUQ (ADBricrteyiT EaflBtyB5 LChemodr IBB | 9 252361 MCHAL0NG (1£) (D) (Nonhgee Ud(? RareMgSI M EMiata B 5 £Mrd3 10 501660 «MLEWI8BT{U)(RTMgaod)UWE8ttediy82 Dali«Bm2 11 3035 IftlMNROSEtlS)(SerEfinoA§cdnj) WUuzenSl IFEgriS 12 (ME5 LIFE SENIBCE UmHophad Rack® J 6 Sn^mOstaune 7 ID FNartoaUB 13 4000 B&00KH0USE LAOT (18) IMS D J Snail R Hahnshead 7 lb NCetMe5 14 040 CO0t»SIBn’a4>fn»GttBEafcyftia«fliB»aRjlAMiM«»71O_DIIM4 7 16 400 MEMORML [24) CHgctere Thcm»^<«a Rawig LKfl R Hamon 7 10 C Rater 14 16 001 JIM TRRH TEMCtS (43) [0) [N J Uteri) J Berry 7 10 PFassqfRlB Mtahun 7« IOSl 7/ri handtata MemiM 7a ah Three Tenners Ta 8Bi Btnmfc 5r2 Fte Beowed, 54 MRrt Shot, 7-1 Aegel HB. B-LPterefceB Pweidt, 10-1 tte Ra Rapade. BreoMwm Lady, lecMang; 124 Shrenorffc Secret, lent* Laos, U-l Cool Mptaift Mae Rosa, Three Ttetoers, 8k» WbA Mee»l% 2-ID etbeni 1996; Snap H« 2 9 4 L Dedal 6-1 01 Hannon) Dram 121 16 ran Ctan Chief was drawn at two n a heU of 21 when wmrtng the a year ago and Daneume rook the Stewsrdsr Cup over couse and dstance sb weeks ago fiotn smd five 0O ran). AL- WAYS ON MY MIND, who 0aes Item Stax five, was compieUig a hat-tnch when treating Many Magdalene by a neck at Doncaster r JUty despite the satMe sfippkg efDer a furton&. She ts 6D higher ttes tune but looks capebto of further hdg«s and acts on soft. No Ex- tns ran seventh to Danettna here last month, beaten tittle more than two tenons, and Should aipm account tor WBdMad Ftower (14mi snQ Loch Patrick G3n». On 2to bone* terms No Extras, who eras on softsh ground, can reverse last month's course and dstance nnreng anti RML SriecUoa: ON MY MIND |Q ~ ce | IflGtfl^NDSPHNG/ROA HANDICAP (CLASS C) £30000 added 2m Penalty Value £7^40 1 *0016 PURPtE SPLASH (IS) ®r QtttopWVWbrtn P Wta 7 100 AOedrlV 2 0-3005 MALBANArinun(Qia)SoB^SintoaretDEbHrei4g7 trite 0NaM8 3 304102 SnRHWE(22HP)UCtee)At>SDMJifinan793 BIhdBekl9 « 102004 ntDKR rBGHT (3) ID G Ctwrerel S Dte 4 9 3: R Prion B 5 205111 lADrOFITELAIE(30)(D)tC3ptIhtaOdonall-8iichatang Jlritap3811 — 6 Carter 7 6 025044 HAfirON POWT piSAj (ST) (D) [LG Laansl tfltv Haras 5 S 10 RCBctaaea4V 7 -11033 MWaSPl«y(«0Tlwa^»CHagmS8I0 MBtriyS | 8 6-4110 MGH MRHE (25) (US E A ftn&l H Ced 38 G WRyan2 I 9 04411- 0REXnERN(323tiMnCai«g|NBal»a^5 7U A MuBan (G» 3 -Ododreed- UMnmwtegN 7B lOta. 7m nanteqa rw^c Qea tern 6a 13b RB1UH: 7-2 Left Of the Lake, 4-1 Ktfi totrigea, S-l Star Ra0L 6-1 Plantar Mgt, 1M Pripie Speri, 7-1 MariAMhMoe, B-l Martee Fatal. Bring Sprey. 1A-1 WaeL Tree 1996: OeetEateby 683 J Fanrtnc 10-1 (W Staey) draw S) 13 an | I Xon l EBP. 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Crai&ew. w bo likes the mud. could return io form af- ier j couple of truiEkss Frcnvii tripi. □□□ 2ASt A doscly matched hunch and CREEK CARD is onh' mafginalh- pirfcircd. Held by Desert Story on 2, 000 Gniueas fono - and by Amid Albedo on Kempron mooing be- hind Among Men - he has marc scope tor progress than ihai pair and. although unified on easy ground, is feed id ad on soft. □QQ 320; Sharp Peari and Doable Ot- aur arc al the top of ihcir form and No Extras and Kftfl aa weD on this trade, but YOUDONTSAY, who sig- nalled a return to form last time, will Kke this easy ground and has a useful apprentice taking weight off his bade. 3JB5: STANTON HARCOUKT. who landed a rated handicap fe* a bead from Speculator over a rink* al Ncw- madceiinJuK’ not nm since but remains on a lenient handicap inarL Restructure, who ran as if he rcaBy needs today’s trip of a mile nowadays when three Jcngths fourth to Swiss Law over 7f al Goodwood Iasi time, is the danger. 3*48: SILVER PATRIARCH, wbo pusabh' needed ihe race - his finl since be disappointed in the Irish Dertw-when half a length second lo Stowaway (a doubtful stayer) in ihe Great Voftigcur Slakes al York, tan mm the tables over this longer trip. The selection, beaten just a short -head by Benny The Pip in the Derby, is the classics! contender on that form. Verticul Speed has more to do than when notching his hat- trick in France white the only oth- er certain stayers - Pananm City. Windsor Castle and Book At Bed- time - do not look good enough. Alffc TITANIC, a disnal 71: lengths sixth to Bay Princt: in the Roses Slakes wer 51 at York, is capable of better than that am) in any case does not appear to face as harsh a task here. cm 445: SONG OF FREEDOM, who dnjppotmed at Sandinvn lost time. 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YWw3 -Sdechred- BEITWG: 3-1, 4-1 FerVMoar, 5-1 LeDutto, 8-1 YMriuniB, 8-1 Ttam, 12-1 HoUb' Ltaca Dene, 14-1 Sahara lawel 1998; Sm 4 9 2 1 Jam «m (A Fata* i draw ra 5 ran Doncaster— 305 M M BO* -XL2 --11-8 Jo MW 11-2 U-3 NArtwr_ U ftl BewhaMita fc... 8-1 _8-l 7-1 Pomata 91 UV1 P wetarBw. 1 8- 1 _1&1 — 2 0-1 Hrea k 20-1 2S-1 20-1 Eecfrnaya Blfr tee eras Haas 1, 2 3 C - CuA H - 89tam Hi. L Urtbmlcs. T - Ton Goodwood— 320 lt-i a a-i ini MM I M 1W 14-1 p-1 4*BW0? SllSeAU Mil. 12:1 — 14:1 QtardParoro 1 01 l fel lfrl. IM. 14-1 18-1 20-1 IB-1 2B-1 16-1 16-1 141 lladiCnuriir 2&-1 20-1 20-1 20-1 Sa w 3P-1-J8-7)&3. JM St ta rirraan 16-1 14-1 16-1 30-1 MwMkP te la an i s i_»i WtwnKmrer 20-1 2fl k i ao-l ao-i Doncaster — 340 Hmt C H L T S(tagj! Md^_9^11 = 4_^2_llt« SWWPI WrilMlSriW IM 3-1 11-4 it Breterta 9-1 9 -1 9- 1 9-1 WriwrCaM e IP- 1. IP-1. U 1 PantariC to 1 4-1. 12-1 _. 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ENfrriy 3 «*Nr the MR. ptxeS 1, 2, A 4 C"Ocri, H-lMRBHi, L-iainkEa, T-TaB fcft ri 14-1 2 0-1 2S1 501 M wttneo SI SI S t »1 BPriCrasato 20-1 g4 XM Si RatefCnunh 33-1 38- 1 25-1 3 3-1 Earn** a earner Ae utiu efea 1. 2, 3, * Tire Tori bet on the 2JB M Ooodweo d: 11-2 Cosnve Prmca, Law Comtnfeson, 6-1 ShM»Bt. Tiee0nn, 7-1 Crapeuar. Uteypoa*. 9-1 Hrio Mtster, Soeedbri. U>-1 Dancerg OopL TurtJiewai ftd^. 25-1 Bschetars Pad. 66-1 Ursa Mjfw. ttre Tato bet an Are &40 at UapentatoMc owns PRsufekL W Deaart Ytog. &-1 Atoth. ID- IRayounr, 20-1 CW^BOBDwa. Sure Gul- IWer, 180-1 No Slouch. Man who swapped a building site for the Madrid cauldron Glenn Moore meets Leicester City's Matt Elliott, whose rise from football's twilight zone reaches a new landmark in the Uefa Cup on Tuesday S o what's it all about, then? ” asks the player. “Well, each week we do a major football interview, so far we've done Marc Overmars, Alex Ferguson, Ruud Gullit, Chris Waddle. " replies the re- porter. Matt Elliott looks impressed, then asks, without a hint of false modesty: “So why are you talk- ing to me. then? " At 28 Elliott has come late to the fame game and, like his Leicester City team-mates, he is not taking it for granted. The reason we met in a hotel on the outskirts of Leicester this week was that he has already had a more interesting career than most and it is about to enter a new dimension. Tomorrow Leicester fly to Spain for Tuesday’s Uefa Cup first round first leg tie against Atletico Madrid. It is arguably the most daunting fixture in the competition - Atletico, Span- ish double winners 18 months ago, spent £23-5m in the sum- mer on Christian Vieri and Juninho alone. Leicester spent £1. 4m. This is not what was predicted for Elliott or Leicester a year ago. He was playing for Oxford United in the Nationwide League and City were being lipped for relegation from the Premiership. Leicester Lhen paid £1. 6ra for Elliott and not only stayed up but also won the Coca-Cola Cup (for which he was cup-tied) to gun Uefa Cup entry. "I've been to Spain like most people but never to the capital, " Elliott said. “I'm told it's a «Ulft» all-sealer, so it should be quite an atmosphere. We’ve got three or four players with in- ternational experience, and some with European experi- ence, but for the majority it will be a new situation. We are un- der no illusions. We know it is going to be a really tough game but it will be another chapter in Leicester's recent histoiy if we did pull off a result. ” To show those European vir- gins, like Elliott, what to expect, Martin O'Neil] took Leicester to Greece for a match with Olympiakos. "It was supposed to be a pre-season friendly and we found 20. 000 mad Greeks spitting and swearing at you, waving banners about Satan and the devil. We thought ‘hang on a minute', but well proba- bly get that in Madrid to an ex- tent, so it was good experience. ” It is certainly a long way from Torquay and Scunthorpe, where Elliott spent his forma- tive football years - and even further from the building ate he found himself on, having re- jected the chance of a profes- sional career as a schoolboy. "I thought the chance of playing at this level had passed me by, ” be admitted. “I was quite surprised and relieved that Martin O'Neill came in for me. It was quite a lot of mon- ey for someone of my age and ray experience - the level I had played at. " Born and brought up iu south-west London, Elliott, at 14. was playing Sunday football with the likes of Richard Shaw (now Coventry). Michael Thomas (Liverpool), Gareth Hall (Sunderland) and Neil Sullivan (Wimbledon). He was also playing Saturday football, schools and district games and training and playing with Crys- tal Palace, it was a classic ease of a good young player playing loo much! something Howard r. T _ T1Tr7, irr? r T? inoT • THR INDEPENDENT "™^ 1g SEPTEMBER lBgv — Late starter: Matt Elliott, who Is being tipped for his first England honours at 28. ‘It would be lovely, but I don't really thunk about it’, he scud Photograph: Peter Jay Wilkinson's reforms are de- signed to stop. “I was playing seven days a week and when Palace offered me schoolboy forms I turned them down. Perhaps I should have dropped something else but at the time it was too seri- ous for me, I just wanted to play for fun. The only incentive was a tracksuit and set of boots. I was OK as a youngster but never one of the best, not like Vumy Samways. Every dub in London wanted him/ Elliott moved towards crick- et, playing in the same Surrey schools side as Graham Thorpe but continued playing football and, after leaving school and be- coming a labourer, joined his lo- cal non-League club Epsom & Ewell. At 19 he was spotted by Jimmy Hendrie. the Charlton physiotherapist. “He thought ( bad some potential and with a bit of coaching might be balf- decent. Lennfc Lawrence was kind enough to give me a year’s contract but 1 was never really part of the set-up, I wasn't good enough. They were in the old First Division and had Tom- my Caton, Peter Shirtliff and Colin Pates. 1 played one game in the League Cup, then he loaned me to Torquay. ’* Elliott signed for Torquay and began playing regularly, but admits the distractions of a holiday town were too tempting for a young pro fresh away der the tuition of Bill Green, the former Carlisle and West Ham centre-half. “He said: 'All I want you to do is head it'. I thought: 'Well, OK. but a lot of people can just head it’. I want- ed to prove, not just to him, that I could do a bit more than that. He trusted me to further myself like that and Denis Smith [who 7 was OK as a youngster, but Vinny Samways - every club in London wanted him’ from home. “I really enjoy ed mv time there but did not concen- trate on my game as much as I should have, 1 couldn't believe Td become a professional foot- baller and I enjoyed the other side of it. I realised I needed a change, a move away from the distractions. " At 23 he moved to Scun- thorpe for £50, 000 and came un- was to manage Elliott at Oxford] was the same. " Smith played for Stoke City when they were a force and was one of the best centre-halves nev- er to play for England - partly because he suffered so many bro- ken bones. Elliott having missed specialised coaching for most of his teens, benefited from Green and Smith's knowledge. Now he is under Martin O'Neill's wing. "He has his own style, which is different to anything I've encountered. Sometimes he won't come out training fora week, he’ll leave it to Steve Walford and John Robertson. The next week he’ll come in every day and analyse you. He’s very intelligent and doesn’t let you get away with anything. You wili do something in a match and think you've got away with it, that no-one's no- ticed, and he'll suddenly pick you up on it in a team-talk. ” Shades, inevitably, of Brian Gough here, as with the early departure for Madrid (most teams leave the day before Eu- ropean games). Gough's moti- vational techniques also appear to have rubbed off on O’Neill. The Leicester manager, says El- liott. is both a bollocker and an arm-around-th e-shoulder man- ager. "What do you prefer? " I ask naively. “Not being shouted at, " comes the reply, to a bare- ly concealed snort from the photographer. The question which should hove been asked - “what works best with you? ” - is then put. “Sensible, constructive criti- cism. PH hold my hands up if I've made a mistake - some players will complain until they’re blue in the face rather than admit they're wrong. The over-riding thing for me is his passion. He doesn't try to hide it, everyone has seen biin on the touchime in games. He is very intense on match-days, players realise how much he wants to succeed. He’s not obsessive, he's passionate, but hell talk as long as you like about football. ” O'Neill has created a team of similar desire. Elliott admits that during the summer he won- dered whether the dub could maintain last year's standards but the consistency of perfor- mance last season, and early wins over Aston VDla and at Liv- erpool, quelled any doubts. Leicester, who host Tottenham today, have also drawn with Manchester United and Arse- nal. results which Atletico will have noticed admiringly. "Were not particularly dose £ outside football but we oil seem * to get on well, there's no back- biting" Elliott said. “The man- ager and staff instill how hard we have to work. If we win two games, they say 'don’t think you're something you're mu'. " Elliott, married to Giflicrine with two young children. Jade and Oiarfie, is keeping his own feet on the ground. Such has been his impact at Filbert Street the prospect of intemalionul ho- nours has been mentioned. “1 think they are getting a bit car- ried away, " he said. “It would be lovely but I don’t really think about it. ” He has played at Wembley - two play-offs and a Sherpa Van Trophy final - and won pro- motion. Now, he says, “my am- bition is to win some honours. The league might be pushing it, but why not Leicester for the" FA Cup? I think players who come the long wav up appreciate it. At the end of my career l want to have no rcgTels, to have achieved what I can and enjoyed it whatever happens. " v Boro in a mess again Smith backs Gascoigne NATIONWIDE LEAGUE Middlesbrough have big prob- lems ahead of today’s First Division fixture aL high-flying Bradford City. Bryan Robson, the Boro manager. is without no fewer than 13 lirsl-team squad members, including the injured Derek Whvte. Gaytan Black- more. Craig Hignett. Alan Moore and Phil Stamp, the ill Nigel Pearson and the sus- pended Gary Walsh and Gian- iuca FoMu. To make things worse for Robson, his unsettled Fabrizio Ravunclli has failed to return Irom lialy. The former Juven- ilis man had been given per- mission to return home, but has not returned since despite be- ing expecLed to report hack this week. ”1 will answer no questions on Ravanelli. " an an- gry Robson said yesterday. The teenagers Andy Camp- bell. Anthony Ormrod. Stephen Baker and Craig Harrison arc all drafted into the Boro squad along with Emerson's eousin. Fubio. while Andy Townsend also looks likely to play despite having eight stitches in a foot wound while playing for the Re- public of Ireland last weekend. The Bradford manager. Chris Kamaru. is expected to keep faith with the side that lost 4-0 at home to Sunderland in their last outing. SCOTTISH LEAGUE Rangers return to Premier Di- vision action today when they entertain Aberdeen at Ibrox. The England midfielder Paul Gascoigne and Sweden's central defender Joachim BjdrkJund arc expected to return to the side after missing the 1-0 Coca- Cola Cup defeat to Dundee United in midweek when they were on international duty. Gascoigne was outstanding in the 4-0 defeat of Moldova and the Rangers manager. Waller Smith, would settle for a repeal performance. “If Gaga is play- ing well, he will make a differ- ence to any side. I just hope he continues that form against Aberdeen, " he said. “We are looking to build on our good start in the league. Aberdeen tend to raise their game against us and we know we will have to work exceptionally hard. " Celtic travel to Motherwell with Marc Rieper due to make his debut after completing his £l-5m move from West Ham yesterday. Another Dane, Morten WicghorsL, returns to the Celtic squad after bis mid- week international duty. Motherwell may give a full debut to their latest import: Elias Shivute. a Namibian in- ternational striker who has ar- rived from the German club, Alemania Aachen. Football in New Zealand has long been held in high regard around the world and is credit- ed with playing a major role in the psychological and historical make-up of the country. Hours of coverage are given to the sport on television, both with full cov- erage of domestic games and in documentary format. No news report, at any lime of the year, goes out without some form of reference to “our national sport". Unfortunately, the meaning of the word "football" in New Zealand is what everybody else calls “rugby”, and, equal- ly unfortunately, the voice* of football (as we know- it) is totally swamped by endless prattling on about Zinzan Brooke and how- many hundreds of points the All Blacks will score against Japan. The situation that the round ball game finds itself in this part of the world is tru- ly bizarre. There seems to be an enormous battle going on between the public who are keen to see the profile of the game raised, and soccer administrators and the televi- sion companies who appear intent on killing it stone dead. The problems seem to be created by the very opposite of the situation in England. Here, everybody's opinion is taken into ac- count and therefore nothing is ever agreed on. If you can imagine hundreds of small- minded accountants, teachers and govern- ment bureaucrats (similar to the people who obtain Cup final tickets through the FA's am- ateur ranks) having the perverse thrill of wielding a small bit of power for once in their sad lives, and then trying to come to a com- promise. you can begin to imagine the mess. On second thoughts, just imagine the Eng- lish EA in a warmer country. New Zealand operates a national league of just 10 teams. These dubs play each oth- er twice and then the top four have a sort of a round-robin competition. This system can rather oddly result in the fourth-place team winning the championship, which is actually quite funny, unless of course you support the original top team, but with av- erage attendances being around 1, 000 then chances are that you don’t- There is no relegation from the national league, but we like to imagine that the club finishing bottom gets quite a severe telling off from Soccer New Zealand. The beauty of the national league i_s that it is played in the middle of summer in or- der to av oid the ever-pcpular ruglty season. As a spectator this is truly blissful, and the genial atmosphere at matches played op a long summer's evening is the sort of thing that helps you overlook the quality of the game. There can be no finer example of this than New Zealand's recent World Cup qual- ifier against Australia in Auckland. Some 25. 000 people, 5, 000 more than had attended an All Blacks’ game at the same ground the pre- vious week, decided to go along to cheer the boys and Lo drink too much in the sun. Heading home that night it was easy to overlook the 3-0 thumping from El Tel’s boys and the occasion has gone down as one of the great days in New Zealand’s foot- balling histoiy. I think that we managed two shots during the match. The World Cup road to France 98 was more of a “not worth taking the car" trip, it was so brief. The time between the firat and last qualifierplayed by the All Whites (shudder) was 29 days and it only lasted that long because wc qualified for the next phase! Still, only four more years before the next World Cup game. Our run this year included an away de- feat against Papua New Guinea which did nut herald well for our new Irish coach, Joe McGrath. ' This genial Irishman (aren't they all? ) had been appointed to lift the national side out of the doldrums, and to turn on some of the magic that he gave to Jack Charlton's era during the Republic's halcyon days. After the PNG result the re- alisation struck that no one had in fact beard of him, or checked his highly vaunt- ed credent iak Faceless bureaucrats are al- ways suckers for a smooth Irish charmer! For more on Kiwi football contact: Sitter!, 14 Hyde Lane. Nash Mills. JJemel Hempstead, HP3 8RY MAJOR WEEKEND FOOTBALL FIXTURES AND POOLS CHECK 3. 0 unless stated FA CarHo£ Premiership P W D L F A PS Btoddjura 5 4 1 4 1 Aston Vita 5 1 0 Wimbledon 4 0 2 1 Arsenal v Bolton! ; 2 Barnsley v Aston VtBa 3 Coventry v Southampton.... — 4 Crystal Palace v Che sea B Derby v Everton.. 6 Lecessar v fottanham 7 Liverpool v Sheffield Wed B Manchester Utd v West Ham 9 Newcastle v Wimbledon Nationwide FootbaH League First DIvIsIoh 10 Bradford City v Mtddlesbnxigh 11 Huddersfield v Ipswich 12 Norwich V Port Vale............. 13 Rytsmouth v Crave 14 QPR vWast Bromwich.., ; _ 35 Reading v Oxford Utd IB Sheffield Utd v Nottm ftjrest 37 Stotos v Stockport 15 Swindon v Tranmere 39 Wolves v Charlton-. : — Second DMsJoa 20 Bournemouth v Luton 21 Bristol Rovers v GHfingham 1 22 fijiham «r Grimsby 23 NWwaii v Southend 24 Oldham v Nort ha mpton. 25 Plymouth v Brantford -; 28 Preston v Watsan 27 Watford v Chesterfield... l V Blackpool 29 Wfexhsm v Bnstel City 30 Wycombe v Cafisle 31 Male v Burnley............... TtalrdDtvisloa - Brighton v Dartngton 32 Cambridge Utd v Barnet 33 Cardiff v Rochdale 34 Chester Shrewsbury 35 Haitfepoof v Torquay 38 Hun v Lincoln 37 Leyton Orient v Exeter 38 Macclesfield v Swansea •: 39 Notts County v Mansfield - Rotherham v Fteteftwraugh ~ - Scunthorpe v Doncaster BalFs Scottish League Premier DMskm 40 Dundee Utd v Krtmamoc*.... 4L Hfoerrren v Dunfermline 42 Motherwell v Celtic 43 Rangers v Aberdeen 44 St Johnstone v Hearts FNst Division 45 Ayr v Dundee 48 FalKjrv v Hamittor. 47 Morton v Airdrie 4B v Stirling 49 Rsuth v St MJrran Second DMsJon - Bradim v LKimgsttm - Gjrte v Stenhousemulr - Clydebank v Eiast Fife - Irnremess CT v Stranraer - Queen of the South v Forfar Tlrird Division - Albon Rovers v Dumbarton - Alloa v Mijntrow - Arbroath v Ross County - Cowdenbeath v East Stirling - Queen's Path v Ben**.... - FA Carting Premiership BecHjum v Leeds 14. 0).... Nationwide Foot ba H League First Dtvtftkm Birmingham v Sunderland (1. 01 TEAM SHEET - Arsenal v Bolton to corresponding fwtUB. Last tiro League matches: Arsenal DWWDD: Bolton DWDLD. Adams Is being keprln readiness Ibr Arsenal's Uefa Cup tie and Bergcamp will spearhead the attack alongside Wright. Bolton defender Cat (ham- string Injury) is out Taggart is tit Phittps and McAnespie are expect- Cd. to be gsen the fan-back rotes. New slgiingRshstiBawars a work permit Coventry v Southampton Last season: 1-1- Last five League ma tche s: Coven- try WLDDL; Southampton LLLWL McAllister is recalled to Coventry's midfield after damaging an ankle four weeks ago- Richardson will captain Southampton on his debut against his old dub. Norwegian international Lundekvam, midfielder Oakley and de- fender Drytien are in contention after injury but Benalt ts struggling. i-g-ttrt, ^ Barnsley v Aston ViHa No f XHTes P° nd, n fi fixture. Lartfiva League ® arns, ey LWLWL: Aston VBa nnw doniarfuTtematton^Hn^r^r^m? W, H mal ' e hls debut alori ^ide I — ' — — ft. i ao* Crystal Palace v Chelsea Derby v Everton fi Last season: 0-L Last five League matches: Der- by WLLLW; Everton LLWLD. DerbyirtWfie Ider Asanovic (hamstring) has recovered, but Wanchope may be drafted in instead. Everton whig-back Phelan (calf) is ruled out, so Hmch- drife comes tn: Full-back Thomas (calf) is also out, white defender Wat- son (ankle) is struggling. Grant and Cadamarten are added to the squad HJ] Liverpool v Sheffield Wednesday tXJ Last season: O-l. Last five League matches: LJver- pool DDLDW; Sheffield Wednesday LLDLW. Norwegian midfielder Leonhardsen (hamstring) has not recovered for Liv- erpool. Fowler is still out and Ber$y is pushing for a first-team spot Wednes- day manager Pleat Is set to hand debuts to new midfielder Magi ton arte loan signing Clough. Strikers Booth and Humphreys are still injured Newcastle v Wimbledon Last sombre 2-0. Last five league matches: New-. castte DDWWW; Wbnbfedon WDDLL ™ Manager Danish waits forAsprifla to return from World Cup duty before finalising Ns team. lfi‘ suspended, while Peart* and Peacock face fitness tests. Wimbledon manager. Km near has added young stnker Oon tothe squad. Thatcher and Jonas are available ■after rrtssmg the last match Last Tottenham ter TottelS^^ 1 * 3 " iatches: L * ices ' key. PariS- has 'ihaken^fT a stomSfl 8 ' In Partnership wit:= _ _:r _ — ^om n^rns appearan ce since De cemft fl chaster Utd matches: r! Cote and Se/iotes look WWLDW. i |nsbarn out with broken J?!? * for Manchester U | Pons returns for V«E? Ha? JhD 8 ® n into ftendfy *3 passed fa after cQn?? l? i? ear: * walf '"NW an* 1 THE INDEPENDENT ■ SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 1997 29 Buxton to keep China on course ‘i. Mil;:r> ■■■■■’ •■Ik "!,, v ans lr| Jfr i, l 4, r W«*Sfc l '‘nil Sid anofl, % "■"‘"Ullto, l '° WUM* rst 1 1 T-Mlt, ■■; i'. ^« '; l '? • ' •• «l.. :!. «. • •. *... • i-yi,,. i. ■:ii., TOMMY S7ANIPORTH Glim's English coach, Ted Bux- ton, is confident his side are on course for France 98 - despite a tough World Cup qualifying match against one of the Asian favourites, Iran, today. Buxton, who was an assistant to Terry Venables when he was the England coach, said a dra- matic change had come over China in the nine months be had been with them. They have improved in crearfy area on the field. It has beentieyond my ex- pectations. You can see it in Chi- na's world ranking which has shot up thirty places. " Buxton was brought in as a consultant with the former Eng- land goalkeeper, Jimmy Rim- raer, last year for the World Cup qualifying tournament. “Nine months ago I thought it would be a miracle for mem to get through. Now 1 think they have a very good chance of winning one of Asia's automatic quali- fying places. " The winners from the two Asian groups will qualify auto- matically for the finals and the two second-placed teams will play off for a third spot The los- er of the play-off will play Aus- tralia, where Venables is now in charge, for a fourth place. U 1 speak to Teny nearly every day and 1 think he is a bit wor- ried now. He keeps asking me about the Chinese players and I say; ‘You tell me about the Australians'. " Buxton said Ven- ables had received special re- ports on China's recent tour of England for matches against Premiership sides, which Bus- ton described as hugely bene- ficial. “Our defence has improved a Ipt and now I think there are four or five players that could make the grade in the Premiership, ” he added The Dalian stadium in Peking wfll be packed today and, for the first time, fans will be coming from all around China for the match, with special transport laid on from all over the country. ■ In the UniLed States, the country’s first women's profes- sional soccer league wUi Kick off next year with the hope of building on the success of the States' gold medal performance - ‘‘-r Altar- ' ie fori leagu, cer Affiance (NSA), was announced on Thursday by the League's Development Con- sultant, Jennifer Rotten berg. The league, which will feature LIS international players, college graduates and some foreign ptayersL will play a 20-gome sea- son from 17 April to 21 June with a championship to be played on 4 July. Tisha fenturini, a member of the US national team and one of 18 American players who will play in the NSA, said: “Other countries have [women’s] leagues going on, they get an edge on us every day. " The original eight teams wfll be based in Seattle, Rale igh, North Carolina; San Jose, Cal- ifornia; Fullerton. California; FEscataway, New Jersey; Bethes- da, Maryland; the Boston area; and in Duncanville, a suburb of Dallas. I- l>Sl • •• ‘ft. -. V -i K KiclUdfc | Easter Road ruled out Scotland's vital World Cup qualifier on 11 October against Latvia has been switched to Celtic Park from Easter Road. The Scottish Football Asso- ciation moved swiftly to change the venue after it became ap- parent that Craig Brown’s team will almost certainly qualify for the finals in France if they se- cure the three points/ There was a growing clamour to move the game away from Edinburgh in view of the im- portance of the game, as Hi- bernian’s capacity is only just over 16, 000, Celtic’s stariiuin can hold three times as many, and should be full to capacity on what could be a momentous day for Scottish football. The SFA chief executive, Jim Farry, said: “i would like to ex- press my thanks for the willing and helpful co-operation we have received in this matter' TrbmFrfa, Latvia, Mbs, Celtic and other parties in allowing the match tote moved” Hibernian, who had refused to give up the game last month, agreed when approached again yesterday. Rusedski hits No 10 in rankings Greg Rusedski hits a smash during his victory over Lucas Arnold yesterday Photograph: Ross Kinnaird/Allsport Tennis JOHN ROBERTS reports from Bournemouth The West Hants Gub. an unlikely seflira for tennis history, proudly took its place in the record books for a second lime yester- day. Greg Rusedski was hailed as the first British man to reach the world's (op 10 since computer rankings began in 1973. Back in 1968 Britain's Mark Cox became the first amateur to defeat professionals in open completion, eliminating first Pane ho Gonzales and then Roy Emerson in The Bournemouth tournament. Moreover. British competi- tors are not noted for winning matches on slow day courts such as the ones here, hut nobody appeared to emphasise the point to Ca and Rusedski. Other information withheld from Rusedski yesterday was the fact that he was already guaranteed tote ranked No 10 next Monday, win or lose his quarter-final against Lucas Arnold of Argentina. This was due to an unforced error, the failure to take account of rank- ing points ahout to he dropped by Austria's Thomas Muster. When the oversight was dis- covered. it was decided to leave Rusedski with the notion that he still needed to advance to tomorrow's final of the Samsung Open in order to reach his coal. *1 think it worked out better this way, " he said after defeating Arnold. 7-6, 6-3. “It kept pie motivated to get my ranking even higher. ” Word of Rusedski's new sta- tus swiftly reached Tashkent. 3, 240 miles away, where Tim Henman, the British No 2. ad- vanced to the semi-finals of a tournament on medium-paced concrete courts, defeating Amer- ica’s Vince Spadea, 6-3. 6-4. Henman’s response to Rusedski's progress was typical of their healthy rivalry. “That's a hell of an effort, " the 23-year- oki said, “but it’s not a great sur- prise the way he’s been ploying. He deserves it/' He added, “Two in the top 2fi is not bad, but I need to pull zny socks up now. That’s what I’m doing here this week. " Henman, seeded No 2, now plays Fr Jin- cisco Gavet, of Spain. The Cunaduin-hom Rusedski made his ambitions dear. “I'm not satisfied. ” he said. “I wan 1 to go higher and higher, and I h i sv a good opportunity. No player has been ranked in the 1 op Hi "in the Open era. but that doesn't compare to the grafts. “Fred Perry's the greatest] British] player who ever pla; rd the game. He won three W i m- Ncdun titles in a row. and he won the United States. Frc rich and Australian titles, and ev scy- thing. He stands alone. You c:m't compare with that. But 1 mt idel myself on that, and I think I f i aw a good opportunity to wi n a major diampionship. ” Rusedski served notice of ’that by reaching the final of the US Open last Sunday, and his ‘■er- formances here this week h. rve underlined his dcierxninaiio u to make the mosi of his ah Dill:*. While some players might have reacted with a sens*; of anti -climax to the not tor, of leaving the massive Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York for a regular ATP Tour event on. the south coast of England. Ru- fed- ski rose the the challenge.. Although fatigue set in, he successfully defended the r: l nk- ing points he gained by re. i ch- ing the quarter-finals last v txtr. and pushed himself thro* igh another test against a nal nral clay-courtor in beating An i old yesterday. Rusedski, the No 3 seed, '-vill today play the top seed. Ca 1 los Moya, of Spain, who w: a singles finalist at the Austra 1 iun Open. The other semi-fin: 1 1 is between the No 2 seed. F’triix Mantilla, of Spain, and Mai • cos Ondruska. of South Africa. Cox was among those wat: ch- ing Rusedski’s progress yes ler- day. The third highest rang ed British mole with Henman t INo 14), behind Rusedski and Ro];er Taylor (No 1 11. Cox is direi i or of’ the Lawn Tennis Associa- tion's Rover junior ten nis initiative. “Tremendous interest has been created bv Greg’s succ ess at the US Open'" Cm said. “T he youngsters need someone to aspire to, and what Greg a nd Tim Henman arc doing ism; ik- ing a tremendous difference Paper calls for Australian style play-offs blast. ■,. n*y § ■iir*,. -s», U. Iii: Rugby League DAVE HADF 1 ELD The Castlefbrd coach, Stuart Raper, has joined the call for an Australian-style play-off, de- spite the way that the existing Premiership format gives sides like his a chance of gloiy. Castleford, whose season consisted of a long and ulti- mately successful battle ag ai n st relegation, go to Bradford to- morrow to meet the runaway winners of Super League. “Under this system, it’s a level playing field and it comes down to 80 minutes of football, ” Raper said. “I'm thankful for that, but it's ludicrous that Bradford could he knocked out "by us and the team that finished two from bottom could go on to win it. " Raper would favour the sys- tem used in his native Australia where the teams finishing first and second get two chances to progress. This year, however, Cas will by. to exploit the rules as they stand. Tm very pleased at the way we’ve turned firings around, ” he said. “It has been partly a matter of malting some crucial signings, like Jason Critchley, Richard McKefl and Brad Davis, but also of the players who were already here. improving their fonn. " Raper is wailing for fit- ness checks on Dean Sampson and David Chapman before finalising his side. The Rugby League has suggested a solution of almost bftilical simplicity to the problem of both New Zealand and Brad- ford possibly needing Robbie Paul on the same weekend. If Bradford are involved in the Premiership final, they have suggested to the Kiwi coach, Frank Endacott, (hat he takes his brother, Henry, instead.. If the quarter-finals go to form, with Bradford beating Castiefoid and Wigan account- ing for Leeds on Monday, the two dubs wQl meet in the seta i- finaL The League's suggestion is that New Zealand should Then take the Paul who is on the losing side far the Test against Australia on 26 September.. Cro nulla ’s Tawera Nikau has withdrawn from the Kiwi side rather than play alongside his one-time Castleford team-mate, Richie is now with Leeds. The League has also com- plained about the timetable for the World Gub Championship quarter-finals that involves Brad- ford flying to Auckland on 1 Oc- tober and playing two days later. In tomorrow's other Pre- miership quarter-final, Peter Gill returns for the London Broncos, at home to Sheffield. Terry Matterson moves to hooker and Robbie Beazley io stand-off. in the absence of the injured Tulsen IblietL Apart from its significance to a London club that has set its sigjus on the Old Trafford final, the tie represents a chance for the Great Britain veterans. Shaun Edwards and Martin Offiah, to show that they should be called up for the Tests against Australia u November. The opening Test, at Wemb- ley on 1 November, is to be the first to use tbe video referee and giant screen replays. Brown concerned over financial support Athletics Brendan Foster, the former world record-holder, angrily hit out yesterday at the lack of support for British distance runners. Foster, founder of the Bupa Great North Run, which takes place on Tyneside tomorrow, believes Britain's distance ex- perts are the poor relation of the sport. The former European 1 0. 000 metres champion has pinpointed Jon Brown, a strong contender for victory in the half marathon from Newcastle to South Shields, as a good bet for a medal in the marathon at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. However, raster fears Brown could miss out unless he is giv- en the proper financial aid in the few years leading up to the Games. “It makes me angry when I hear Jon talk about the lack of support. " Foster said of the Vancouver-based Brown. “The Prime Minister, Ibay Blair, has said athletics is one of the sports that should be supported, but I hope he just doesn't mean in terms of facilities. “The Belgians pay their dis- tance runners not to run lots of races In Jon we have somebody who has a real chance of a medal in Sydney and we should be asking him what support he needs before then. Runners bora at altitude have natural ad- vantages, but when I here that the Moroccans and Kenyans also have a better training set- up it make me sad. " Brown admitted that unless he had the proper financial cted •* «iv WEEK MHowmuch cfei jot^gel ortthe dole Dominic being omitted from ttte touring party to"-the West indies, ibis winter- J ■ wfien. 1 gpt the phon&. ‘call, I -just felt wmb; jrs' a sunny cte^pufekletMitlbi' me, it’s a sad one. -Devon Malcolm, also oyeftootted by Engfand. ; ' ’*• '^-7 ' ' ■ I was feefin&as sfek «& the Ire reaction of Mick M^r-r Carthy, the Pepubfic ofjre- tend teenage*, after- the end^tteend 4-2 Wforid Cup' victory over. Ipfeland. :o H When Italy has its back to bw vrairthen rises to the: ooeasiGn,. -^. ‘bfet': s Mflll. T? e:a^inst the EryfiSh, GSanfraneo 2Ma ■ the gnetetewere;^3ft unttemeathend'cri^ron: r - ■-:*: Wt:-llfe»A tey; on, tfiei pt^rig t^irfeces at‘ ^Master? -;: SPORTING DIGEST England stage bold fightback In Seoul, in a remarkable fight- back yesterday. England took seventh place in the Women's ju- nior World Cup, beating China 4-2 in a penally shoot-out after a 4-4 draw, writes BUI CohvilL With just right minutes of nor- mal time left, England were trailing 1-4 when Sally Wigbt pulled a goal back at A pe^ty corner. Jennie Bimson, who had scored England’s first, got her second, with LuriQa Wright, gain- ing the dramatic equaliser. The Westminster Challenge tournament af Paddington Recreation Ground, west Lon- don, is this weekend’s highlight, with 12 senior men’s teams contesting the pre-season tour- nament, which should produce some stimulating games. This year’s guest side is Zehlendorfr the Berlin Bun- destiga club who have been drawn in the same pool as the host dub Hampstead and Wfest- minster and the National League Division side, Brooklands. Surbiton, who lost their Pre- mier League place last season to Beestoo, expect to indude the South African international Greg NicoL The 21-year-old was the joint leading scorer at the Atlanta Olympics last summer. Reid remains in hospital Robin Reid is still in hospital under observation after col- lapsing in his dressing-room following his World Boxing Council super-middleweight title fight in whines on Thurs- day night Reid, who beat challenger Massine Cherifi on a splitded- sion after 12 rounds in stiffing conditions, was taken to Whis- ton Hospital in Widnes after the bout. He never lost consciousness and it. was at first thought that he would be released yesterday morning but a hospital spokes- woman c onfirm ed lhat Reid, de- scribed as “comfortable", would be kept in for more observation. H Leonard Read has been elected as President of the British Boxing Board of Con- trol Read, a former policeman, succeeds Sir David Hopkin who died last month. Lathe 1960&, -tbe pair were instrumental in convicting the Kray twins. Read has been vice chairman under Sir David's chairmanship since 1988 until he' took over man last year. Badminton US OPEN CHAMPKIN6HVS MetTsi < _ q ua rtnr-fliute P GadfrCtwEansen (Deni M A Budi Kusuma (lndcni 17-18 15-2 17-14; J van Dtjk {fcetni « H Susanto Qndoni 15-9 15-5: Luo Vtaang tCW M T Stuer-Laundsen (Dent 15-11 15- T: Mr* HoyeMaoeii (Den) M Matew Mainly (1ndon> 15-9 15-6. Women's statfos, qoaftar- finals: C Mamn (Den) H K MoiAan (Wan 11-4 11-5: D Yun (CnibtCSM (US 12-10 11-2; HJrtHia (Cn) ia7ahafco Wa Uapan) 10-12 11-2 11-2; M AnunwfflKaw (Swel tn M PwJwsen (Don) 11- 0 11-4, Mixed doubles, quarter-OMls: C Hun and D Ketogg tG8) at I Sydte End D Juken (Can) 15-2 15-7: Kwi Dong Moon sn] Ra feung Mn fS Kon M Luo Yjgang «nd QM Yinuan [QD 15-5 15-9: BamWng Supnerao and Ros- allna Kteeu ftndon) bt Cnen Gang and. Tang Ywwahu iChl 4-15 15-11 15-10; S Arehet and J Dows (SBiblPAttteson and C Bangs! * son (S*4rt 15-10 15-6. Boxing PROFESSIONAL PROMOTION (Widnes, Thursday}: 8-rtf A Ennebau jFr) lx S Goodwi ffheflidet) rat 3d. 4-nl teaih- mnmt&b U Gomez (Manchester} bt W Jones (Plymouth) rst 3rd. 8-id ewper-nital- dtamteltE ft Moodhal (Telford) bt B Baber (US) ra 4-rd aopetvbanta u i wo l tf i L T MiAhoUand rtJvtapool) bt C WSams (Meflfiyr lydN] pa. 4-rd P Ndou (SAl bt N Leake (WfekefleW) rst 2nd. 4-rd Bgw- wwlter— Ights ft Haittm (Manchester) « K McAulry ((5oncaeie»i ret 1st- 12-rd British and Commonwealth flywal0tt champ). oosMkA Lentfi (Bwv. flrttBft hotter/ bt PCuf- Eftawpsfi^p^OornnmieellliroUaiJitfSai 12-rd Wodd Boxing Council eupar-ndd- iBawaVrtdwapiaoeNp: R Rad (Runcorn, hoMeifbt H Chenfi (Fri ps. Cycling 1Aon Ifirienots. of France, yesterday mmi the seventh stage of the Tour of Spain over 2I9rtn ftatween Guatflt and Sier- ra Nevada. Laurent Dufaux. of Switzer- land, took over from France's Laurent Jatabert as the new overall leader. DMng Mynam Bofleau. of Canda, stagsd a speetscutar vtetwy over her Chinese rt vats to win the gofd medal in the 10 m pfatfonn event at the Worid Cup Owng t*ampiorshsJslnMeacoCriyoo'ThufB- ds)y On herfouth of five dMs. Bodeau executed a needy flawiesstwo-and-a- half summersaults to gn three ass and one 9. 0 from the judges, putting her in first place. Boileau finished with 352-23 points, ahead of China's Wang Rui with 347. 10. EquestrianisHt EUROPEAN OPEN THREE -DAY EVENT CHtt«ONSWPS ^utfday ndpeo Ctera HorM Trials, Lines): Standing after *os- sagK IndMcbial: 1 Custom Made ID O'Con- nor. US) 40. 0; 2 Wetton Romance il T hompson, lri> 40. 2; 3 Cyna (P Pantsu. Fm) 42. 0; 4 Watennfl Stream IB Ounesdveoh- ar, Gert 42. 5:5 Wbid Perfect UiCBarde, OB) 43. 4; 6 Broadcast News iM Todd. NZ) 445; 7 cosmapafatan U (W F<» -Pro, G8l 45. 2; 8 Wn for Me iC Mciiad, NZ) A6& B Dendfo lA Nicholson, NZ) 46J3; 10 Star Appeal (M ttt® GB) 4 TSL Teams 1 Great Bnoin 1353 penates; 2 US 14 L2: 3 NwrZeafend 14L6: 4The Netnerlanas 1323:, S Sweden 153. 0; 8 Fiance 154. 6: 7Wdand 154 & 8 Germany 155 & 9 Canaoa 1560; 30 Ausoaia 162. 4. WORLD CUP Asian zone second round; Group B (Seoul): South Korea 2 iChot Yong- SOO 15. Lao Sarg-Jiocn 87) Ua»taaan 1 £Shae**h 74). (Abu Dkate}: Ureted Arab Emt- rates 4 (Hassan 20, Obeid pen 43. Befdit 78. Soafl 85) Kazakhstan 0. TRANSFSlfe Darid Seal (fnwani) Bnswi Oiy lo NcrmerTHKor; Dmfo Craig idtftndert Raitfi to Harntron; Marino Keith (forward! Dundee IKd m FaJMrti; Jason Mr ifwward) MUwi LOANS: Bqaalmd tdelendefj Boton to Ui- we Davis i wr. Stew Dav» (defender) BamaeyWYcrK Stona Davoy IrfodfieldeiT Piesron lo Dac- Vngnn; Paul Hotaonw (forward) ftearfingio Gnmsby; Jastln SKImer (riVdrieideri Bnstol Rrners to WNori; Jason White tibraerffl Nonhempton d Rotherham. TRIALS: Helnrtl Watson idefenderl Cartarra Cosmos (Aus) u ftmfermwa: Math Patter- son (defonden Ptymouth to GlUntfiam. THURSDArS LATE RESULTS: PonUns Laagao Second DMifottRocfiraeOBcite- ham 5. Avon insurance ConfotaaiSon Ftest Dfrison: Queen's Parti ftenQmO Norwich 1_ FA Cwteharf Vase Rrat pnoKylng round: Bmttanhura 1 Cones Sports 2. French League: Chteaurouxl ftennesr 0 i&w®4it|) 2 tens 1. Batch Laague: Heeemwn o FeyenoortO. Britain's Dale Reid tot a five-under-par 67 for a share of the lead with Kame Webb, the defending champton Horn Australia, and Sweden's Anmk Soren- stam m the opening round of the LJ^GA Safeco Classic in Kent Washington yg&- terday. it was an encouraging perfor- mance by the 26-year-old Scot who is trying to salvage a disappointing sea son whSeWteDb, vriiolsthe Bntjsh Open champion, and Sorenstam are vying for lead m the 1997 prtze money list. LPGA SAFECO CUSSIC (Kant, Washington) Lsadhgftrst-round (US imlesa stated): 67 KWeSbMus):ASorenaam(Swe); DRMIGB. 68 STumar; L Neumann (Swe): M McGam J bdBeck (Per): D Efflrtnfi S Waufji lAus); W Wad. B9 P SrwefSn; C Schre^r C Fjgg- Currier: M Edge: D Andrews R HemerinBm (Aus);L Brewer L8em«niit( IBrt;P Sinn ilfort; ■ J Crater tAusi; C Matthew iGB); M Lum lAus); C h Foch Ow). 71 L Walters idn); S Mavnor IGB): N Hanmy (Can); G Graham (Can); c SoreiHtam iSnei. Other S& 72 H Dobson; 73 C Rotes, S SlAKhulCh. 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Higgins stated the event only fourth In the cham- pionship standings, 21 oomts behind Aiister McRae but after 21 srages only Hlggns and Martin Roue, considered me pair least likely to emerge wfth the title, remained m the rally. MANX RAliyfble of Man) tearing poettfcnB (after 22 stag es): 1 M Miffing (loM) Msw Surm2fr33mn05mc:2MftcMe(loM)lte- nour Ms«9 +3Cteae; 3T LaJtown «Rni Vbfc- swagen&fl +ldmn4&se■ 601, and Ireland's Sonia O’Su "inrun, ii»her first half-maralho should aLso be thrcals. II Snooker REGAL MASTERS QUALIFYING TOURS t r- MENT {SpeocoTs Letetfrc Centre. SUrfln j'_ llwre): Senri Steals: T iMjii MO). ■> lor IN Wi 5-3; A MrLlreie- iScw m L' W‘ i f3niVl6Ji5-L Final: McMarnt; re '. The King's Lynn nder Raul Hurry has bt » n called up for his fourth England cap > i i- ter a gap ol nearly two years. He h • s been drafted into foe Uons skIc to la * e on Australia in the second fcst at Suit 1 1 - don fomorrow as a replacement for t r e injured Kebm Tatum. 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Keast in control are toughening up, page 26 Europe’s best take the test at Burghley's dressage arena QvrrmnAY 13 SE PTEMBER 1997; THE INDEPE|||g The twilight zone Matt Elliott’s journey from building site to Madrid, page 28 | Kent made to suffer with injuries The Premiership? No. don’t tell me. the name rings a bell. It’ll come to me. So much has happened, the nation has been so thoroughly and sadly diverted, since the last time England's elite football dubs took to the field, the Pre- miership has been neglected to the point of forgetfulness. All of a sudden Keith Burkinshaw's words ’’There used to be a football club over there" has be- come a jog to the memory as well as a philosphicnl point. It has not quite got to the stage on Tyneside where old codgers take young hoys to St James' Park and say “In my day they used to play League fool- ball. " but it would be easy for the Toon Army to Lhink the sea- son is passing them by. New- castle have the only 100 per cent record in England but as they have managed to shoe- horn in only two home Pre- miership matches in the five weeks since the opening day the achievement is devalued somewhat. "It feels like two months since the season started” Ter- ry McDermott Newcastle’s as- sistant manager, said “It’s a bit strange to have only played two Premiership games. But we’re undefeated, m the pack, and if we could string a few wins together now we’d be right up there with three games in hand” II sounds good on paper but if any team has been designed to bring reality with them on the coach it is Wimbledon, who are smarting for two reasons. A re- ward of two points from four matches is one. the other is a controversial match at St James' Park last season when they had a perfectly good equaliser over- ruled On that occasion their manager Joe Kin near suggest- ed the baying crowd had as much influence on the offi- cials’ decision as football's laws. Ironically, given the stop- start character to date, the biggest influence today might be fatigue as England's poly- glot players reassemble from all pan's of the world. Last time international commit- ments intruded on the pro- gramme Newcastle had to do After 12 days’ break the Premiership returns today. Guy Hodgson looks forward to the resumption of hostilities without Faustino Asprilla, who posed at Selhuist Park by Ciys- failed to get back from Colom- tal Palace, who, unlike Gullit, without Faustino Asprilla who failed to get back from Colom- bia in time, while Manchester United and Blackburn Rovers dropped their only points of the season. That could be a coincidence - Chelsea's league of nations walloped Barnsley 6-0 that same weekend - but the theme of tiredness will be a recurring one as player resources are stretched from Barnsley to Barcelona Chelsea’s player- manager. Ruud Gullit, summed up the mood of more than one manager when he desribed the situation as ‘■frustrating**. “When the players come back they can’t train properly, " be said. “You don't get them back until Thursday and you've got the next game on Saturday. You can’t work on anything tac- tically when you're together for two days. " Any Chelsea tactical shortcomings will be ex- have only one Italian to choose from after failing to sign Giuseppe Signori from Lazio. Five Manchester United players figured in England’s win over Moldova on Wednes- day and it could have been six if Teddy Sbeiiogbam had been fit. The £3. 5m striker will also miss today's match at home to West Ham, although Ronny Johnsen should return to a de- fence that has yet to concede a goal. “He needs to get a game be- fore we start our Europea cam- paign, " Alex Ferguson whose side meet Kosice in Slovakia in the Champions’ League on Wednesday. Liverpool might include Oyvind Leonhardsen for his first game since his £3 iim trans- fer from Wimbledon and if the Norwegian needs any remind- ing that a big fee might nor lead to a big future at Anfield he will need only to look across the field to the Sheffield Wednes- day opponents. Nigel Clough arrived at Liv- erpool as “the new Kenny Dalglish” and departed the equivalent of Paul Stewart, and it is a measure of his decline since that he cannot now get a first-team place at Manchester City. A loan to Wednesday might in, his new manager David Pleat’s words, “give him a chance to remind people of his talent”. Coventry will not have for- gotten Kevin Richardson’s tal- ents, but will get an instant reminder because be returns to Highfietd Road just three days after being sold to Southamp- ton. He left as surplus to re- quirements, he returns as captain. Bolton travel to Arsenal aware that this match will put their bright start into proper perspective. “This will be our biggest test to date. ” their man- ager, Colin Tbdd, said. have surprised a lot of people and we THE INDEPENDENT CROSSWORD No. J4W Saturday 1 3- September By Spurius Fridav's solution a b BBSs □iibhqcsqc] nnanan a d □ o H a □ QQQE30 EDISSHElHBl, 0 0 E BD HnEHnEBQHiaSQHH n q u 00 OESfflHQ 0D0HHG B a B 0 0 EnGBantmBBUBQBDl E2 B CD □ 0 □BEHnEQIlEO 000011 r H h n e a m d, QHBOIEJE nE00HO0I3 E S 0 0 ho Last Saturday’s solution 0000000009 E5II0CJ HBrnontorara nnnnnranHnnBHBni 0 0 1300 H B n n □HHEin ninsnHmnmE 0 0 □ □ H 0 B snniUHSHmHnHciHn 0 n n s m 0 000000000000013 0 R n 0 n n 0 0000(110000 0HH0D ora 0 h nora m 0 ssQQonnnn BOnnci b o b n o 0 m r OO 0 D nHHnnQHHRE ACROSS DOWN I Scoring shot probably at- 2 Row after shirt gets tributable to direct ap- crumpled in drier (9) proach fS, 5) 3 Aunrs companion is an 10 It’s worn regularly, all absolute pain (5) the same (7) 4 Athenian character with- I I Sale involving us initially in gun’s range (5) in legal process (7) 5 Business designation apt 12 After match, Yorkshire to make customers call? opener’s irritable (5) (9) 13 Attempt to catch every- 6 Products of bakery in one connected with Gib? {4, 5) monarch’s betrayal (9) 7 Utter depravity sur- 14 Constable escorting rounds head of organisa- knight around firm (5) lion (5) 16 Vote hot to admit last 8 Being ethnically diverse, one to leave table? (9) hence harbouring various 18 It was once held to im- micro-organisms? (13) prove vision (9) 9 Reference book and fen- 19 Lower teeth not charac- ny day pipe deacon left tensed by this configure- by piano (13) lion? (3-2) 15 American cellmate one’s 20 A French dealer’s new in communication with? application to inhibit (3-6] rusting (9) 16 Comparatively affluent 23 Material lining trouser punter not hanging generally? (5) around? (6-3) 24 Red coat fashioned in 17 Playing a nonet for the twenties style (3, 4) PM? (9) 25 Reasoning from cause to 21 Italian tenor’s opening effect produce endless note same as before? (5) disorder within one short 22 Woollen doth, American, month (1, 6) everyone’s got up in (5) 26 Admonition which can 23 Nurse takes care of Irish be read in cave? (4. 2, 7) rock singer (5) The first fht correct solutions to this week’s puzzle opened next Hum- day receive harribacked copies of the Osford Dictionary of Quotations. Aa- Sw«« and •tatters’ names wiQ be published next Saturday Send solutions to Saturday Crossword, F. O. Box •♦018, The Independent I Canada Square, Canary Whart London E14 5BL. Please use (be box number and postcode and gbe joor own postcode. Last week's winners: J RMd, Luton; J Party, Dideot; P Marion Leicester; E Bart, Wfejt HsmK H Stewns, London NW7. 2 Row after shirt gets crumpled in drier (9) 3 Aunrs companion is an absolute pain (5) 4 Athenian character with- in gun’s range (5) 5 Business designation apt to make customers call? 6 nets of bakery in Gib? (4, 5) 7 Utter depravity sur- rounds head of organisa- tion (5) 8 Being ethnically diverse, hence harbouring various micro-organisms? (13) 9 Reference book and fen- ny day pipe deacon left by piano (13) 15 American cellmate one’s in communication with? (3-6) 16 Comparatively affluent punter not hanging around? (6-3) 17 Playing a nonet for the PM? (9) 21 Italian tenor's opening note same as before? (5) 22 Woollen doth. American, everyone’s got up in (5) 23 Nurse takes care of Irish rock singer (5) Celtic capture £1. 5m Rieper C-FuMidinl S Nwr-*r-T PuNr-lunr PI C I Canada C, -nar> WTurt London EM SDL. and primed at Mirror Colour Prim. Si Alhans Road. Watford | lark i«ih=. aiaiLihk-, Vwwspapera. S4O? 70. Vihu. 'M- NICK DUXBURY Marc Rieper put West Ham United in their place yesterday when he left them to join “oae of the big names". The only so- lace for the unhappy Hammers was the £1. 5m transfer fee. A four-year deal with Celtic ended protracted negotiations for the Danish international, whose contract at Upton Park was up at the end of the season. “I’ve always wanted to play for one of the big names in Eu- ropean football and the op- portunity to join a club of Celtic’s standing fulfils that amb ition. " Rieper said. “As soon as I heard they were interested I was delighted to talk to them - it has taken quite a time but I'm pleased to be here at lasL “I'm excited at the prospect of playing in front of home crowds of over 40, 000 every other match - few dubs in Europe can pro- vide that platform combined with this magnificent stadium. ” Harry Rcdknapp, who signed Rieper for £lra from Brondby in 1994, was reluctant to lose the central defender. “I've got a lot of time for Marc, but at the end of the day we're geltiqg a profit overall and we have bad three years out of him. so it’s not a bad deal, ” said the Hammers manager as he wrestled with the problem of re- placing the player in his side at Manchester United today. Rieper, meanwhile, will be play- ing MotherweiL The 29-year-old Rieper. who was not signed in time to play in Celtic’s Uefa Cup home match against Liverpool on Tuesday, is the Glasgow club’s seventh new arrival of the season as they at- tempt to break Rangers' stran- glehold on Scottish footbalL Ian Pearce has been told be be can leave Blackburn Rovers but only if Crystal Palace pay £3m for the 23-year-old defender's ser- vices. Palace have made two of- fers, neither of which have matched Rovers' valuation Wolverhampton Wanderers have raided the GM Vauxhail Conference to pluck the 19- y ear-old striker Jason Roberts from Hayes for £250, 000. Roberts is the nephew of CVrifle Regis, the former England and West Bromwich Albion striker, who also began his career with Hayes. “Roberts reminds me of Chris Armstrong. He obviously needs time to develop, but be is a very good prospect" Mark McGhee, the Wolves manager, said. Notts County have escaped with a warning alter an incident during. last month's game against Lincoln City when the referee was allegedly assaulted by a spectator. The Football Association has notified County that after carrying out a fell inquiry, it has decided not to take any further action. Anita Nemtin of Hungary performs her dressage test on Kaesar in the European Three-Day Event Championships at Buighley yesterday Report page 25. Photograph: David Ashdown Elite aim for a happy return want to show how good a side we can be. ” So do both Barnsley and As- ton Villa who meet at Oakwell with a the whiff of concern in the air. A defeat for eitherside could define their season but a reverse would be felt particu- larly by Villa, wbo meet Bor- deaux in the Uefa Cup on Ttiesday. Blackburn, the Premiership leaders, can watch the tiring Eu- ropean efforts with mixed emo- tions. They would like to be involved, too. but at least their players are not going to get get jaded. They meet Leeds at Ewood Park tomorrow re- freshed by the news that Roy Hodgson has won the manag- er of the month award for Au- gust “He has already generated a renewed air of expectancy, " a spokesman for fee sponsors, Carling, said. The player of the month was Arsenal's Dennis Beigkamp, who, given his fear of flying, wfll not want to be accused of gen- erating an air of any thing. More football, pages 28 and 29 DEREK PRINGLE reports from Headingley Yorkshire 312 and 290-8 Kant 374 The BritannxrCbuntyCiampacffi- ship is not a contest for the feint hearted, or the infinre which may be why Glamorgan, providing they can polish off Essex, have suddenly become favourites to win this year’s pennant. While they prosper, both Kent and Yorkshire, still locked in a ding- dong battle for the points at Headingley, gain in casualties, the latest concerns being Dean Headley and Steve Marsh, nei- ther of whom took part after tea It has been a strange 24 hours for Kent, who have seen their hopes both lifted and dashed, and not just by York-' shire’s spirited cricket or the 30 overs lost yesterday to rain and bad light. Fortified by the knowledge that Paul Strang, their Zimbabwean all-rounder, is to stay until Monday- he was due to By out to Zimbabwe on Saturday - they suddenly found themselves back in the emo- tional doldrums as the injuries became apparent Marsh, their talismanic cap- lain and one of the team's lead- ing run-scorers, will be the greatest loss, should he be un- able to bat today. Although x- rays showed no obvious fracture to his left thumb, it is painful- ly swollen following the nasty knock it received while stand- ing up to Matthew Fleming. Already hampered by the loss of two of their front-line bowleis, Headley’s absence with a recurrence of an old hip in- jury, reduced Kent’s chances of bonding Yorkshire ouL Unless the home side roll over quick- ly this morning, Kent will prob- ably now have to wait until the home side declare, a situation that many believe Headley had in mind all along, following his 13 wayward overs. It has been a bad few days for England bowlers picked for the In Monday's 24-page Sports Tabloid Bobby Robson talks about his new role at Barcelona in the Monday Interview p W LDUtMIM Kant (4)..., 15 7 4 4 39 52 230 SpMBnlin 15 6 2 7 42 49 308 S57fei. l& 6 2 7 36 49 202 nHHff (13).... 15 6 5 4 33 52 193 wwwua IB)., 15 6 2 7 M 45 &B8 tMOOMX I9I.. 15 6 4 5 27 48 US Po lwf n fro nt CMti*rosn«fc Kent 8; organ; & York****: 7; MU am mc 8. 0 TTM match betw ma i Ww w fctaMm Q4pu) and elonef t— M i has UMBL winter tour to the West Indies. With Darren Gough straining a hamstring on Thursday, and Ashley Cowans stirring a chron- ic shoulder injury down in Cardiff, only Andy Caddick and Angus Fraser remain fit to work. Ironically, it is Caddick, whose recent history of injuries would fill The Lancet, who may yet have a vital role to play in determining where the Champ- ionship pennant ends up, when i* Somerset play host to Ghunftr- *t gnn in the final round of match- es next Thursday. Meanwhile, at Headingley there is all to play for as a even- ly contested match reaches its climax today. Yorkshire begin- ning the day and their second innings 62 runs in arrears, fin- ished it 228 ahead, with two wickets in hand. On a pitch now beginning to; reveal Us fickle nature and bounce, it was a superb effort and one that owed almost every- thing to their two imposing left- handers, Darren Lehmann (68) and David Byas (74). If it was Rendi cricket rather than the English variation that was being played. Lehmann would be referred to in the « besttraditiomafFranglaisasLe 9 Man. With 1, 528 runs at an av- erage at almost 67. he has been the' outstanding batsman lor Yorkshire this summer. Confident that the pitch, de- spite its slowness will provide a stem test for Kent. Yorkshire threw the bat, losing six wickets -four of them to Mark Ealhara before bad light brought a pre- mature end to the day. With both sides really need- ing to win, only prolonged showers, unfortunately fore- cast for today, can now make this game anything but riveting. At- ) MOUTH WATERING OYSTERS. (BUT NOT FROM OUR FOOD HALL. )% KOLEX r'*'! p"* i *. « auto. Thr Uatek ft**,. It’s probably the largest, most tempting display of Roiex Oysters you’ll ever see. all glittering beneath the crystal chandeliers in our W a, eh Room. And because we don’t believe you’ll ever sec finer chronometers in your life, we’ve made sure its not at from the champagne in the Wi ne Department. Just in case you should feel like celebrating the purchase of a lifetime. lTAVieti< ■ 1 ►■** »**'*'■ sti'ix TXL. •«**., nrt-w r. 9 - ■ ■ a a Ly* UVlIJ'g sssess IMAGE OF The ayes had rt. It seemed appropriate in the week that Scotland made its decision to establish its own parliament that we should find ourselves on Hadrian’s W&ll, the barrier between the marauding tribes. THE WEEK Photograph: Andrew Buurman. Taken with a. Canon EOS 1, 17-35 mm zoom at fll, 125th of a second with Kodak multi-speed film. To order a print of this picture for £14, call 0171-293 2534 rvdn i Lice - V '. A It "s been coming our way firm outer space for 45 Jays... THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. On 29 July, John Updike published a 300-word paragraph on the Internet bookstore - it was the beginning of a short story which way completed at 6am US Pacific Daylight Tone on Thursday. Called 'Murder Makes ihe Magazine’, the magnet for website wordsmiths was a $100, 000 prize which will be awarded in a random draw of all the contestants. It started like this... M Polk at ten-ten alighted frerat the elevator on to the olive tilesof the 3 9th floor only lightly nagged by a sense of something ■ wrong. The Magazine’s crest, that great black M, the thing masculine that bad most profoundly penetrated her life, echoed from its inlaid security the thoughtful hu mmin g in her mind: “m”. There had been someone strange in the elevator. She had felt it all the way up. Strange* not merely unknown to her personally. Most of the world was unknown to her personally, but it was not strange. The men in little felt hats and oxblood shoes who per- formed services of salesmanship and accoun- tancy and research and co-ordination for the firms (Simplex, Happitex, Tfechnonitrex, 1 nsta nt-Pix) that occupied the 17 floors beneath the sacred olive groves of The Magazine were anonymous and interchangeable to her but not strange. She could read right through the but- list l K s WORDS OF THE WEEK John Updike's literary adventure into cyberspace is over. • But how will the adventure of Miss Tasso Polk end? ton-down collars of their unstarched shirts into the ugly neck-stretching of their morning ■shaves, right through the pink and watery whites of their eyes into last night’s cocktail party in Westchester, Thnytown, Rye, or Orange, right through their freckled, soft, too- broad-and-brown hands into ' adulterous caresses that did hot much disgust her, they were so distant and trivial and even, in their sub- urban distance from ber, idyllic, like something satyrs do on vases. Miss Polk was 43, and had given herself to The Magazine in the flower of her beauty. c The contributors then take us on a convoluted saga of the suicide (oris it? ) of the editor; Mr Mer- riweather; a video message from the grave (per- haps); business rivalries; an attempt at hypnotism and kidnapped cats- Arid here is Laura Kane's penultimate chapter, in which an increasingly bemused Tasso Polk is about to discover the truth about Mr Merriweather's death... Levelling her gaze at Unde James, Tasso Balk decided it was high time for the cards to be placed oo the table for all to see. Despite the crackle of danger she could sense in the air, she would be the first to lay a face card down. “I heard much more than that, ** she said, “thanks to dear old Mauser, who seems to be the only creature worthy of my trust. ” Her eyes shifted to the faces of the other two men: the stranger, Franklin Boyce, and her former lover, William Evermore. Tm supposed to have seen a ghost somewhere, 1 believe, the ghost of Mr Merriweatber in the library of his house, hover- ing in front of the calfskin classics- Is that not so? ” The men exchanged furtive glances as she continued. “Now, I have no intention of going to the police in hysterics come morning; sorry to foil your little plan. As for the blasted key that you are all so eager to retrieve. I'm not sure I recall where it is. Perhaps if I knew the truth behind this little drama of yours, I might remember. ” Franklin Boyce was the first to break the silence. “My dear Miss Polk, *' he said in his accented tones, “it would be in your best inter- est to co-operate. Since it is now evident that you realise just how central a character you are in this "little drama*, as you put it, you have just raised the stakes. ” He glanced pointedly at the body of Mr Merriweather. “One more dead body would hardly be a burden, especially one as slight as yours. ” Anger, rather than fear, flashed in her eyes. “Are you threatening me? ” “Tasso, please say nothing else! ” pleaded Uncle James. “You don’t know who you’re deal- ing with! ” She turned her furious glare back to ber Uncle. “And you! What pan do you have in this charade? I don’t even know you any more! " He was silent for a moment Then he sighed deeply, torturous^. “You’re right Teacup ” he said. “It's time you knew. ” He looked at the other men. “We must tell her. It’s the only way. " For John Updike's final chapter contact: coni INSIDE John Walsh meets Andrew Davis page 3 Ralph McTell: escape from the Streets page 4 PLUS Games, crossword 2 David Lister’s notebook 3 Arts and reviews 4, 5 Travel, outdoors 9-13 Country 16-17 Shopping 18-19 Motoring 21 Property 22-23 Money 24-28 TV, radio reviews 31 oi» 1 1 At- 1 II l( >hS: K--VI t the games page 13 SEPTEMBER 1997 • THE INDEPENDENT LONG WEEKEND An aerial view of Adrian Fisher's Windmill Maze at Willett’s Farm, Frilford - rotate anti -clockwise through 90 degrees to see the windmill Chris Maslanka guides us through the labyrinthine complexities of mazes, large and small M azes turn up everywhere; in ancient myth, in pre- historic rock carvings in Sardinia, in Roman mosaics, in the cathedrals of Europe as well as English stalely homes and more recently in fields of maize (mind the pun! ) and even in the murals of Wuren (as in rabbit) Street tube station in London. The most famous maze myth is undoubtedly that of Theseus and the Minotaur. King Minos of Crete, the story goes, enlisted the help of Daedalus (he of the waxen wings whose son suffered a drop in the ocean) in the construction of a labyrinth under his palace, so cunningly contrived that no one entering could hope to escape. In its corridors he lodged the Minotaur, a monster half man and half bull. Athens regularly sent human sacri- fices to this Minotaur by way of tribute to Crete. Theseus, determined to end this tyranny threaded h/s way through the labyrinth, unwinding as he went a clew of wool (whence the modem word “clue" meaning a guiding principle in problem-solving). This had been given to him by Minos's daughter Ariadne who had conveniently fallen in love with him on sight. After killing the beast Theseus was able to retrace his steps by rewinding the wooL One docs not need balls of wool to solve the clas- sical labyrinth, a form found all over the ancient world, not only on coins from Knossos but also dotted about the Scandinavian coastline in ' v * stone labyrinths bearing such sug- gestive names as. Troytown and Jericho. Presumably its simplicity explains its ubiquity. Even a child could draw it, as ancient graffiti show. These early mazes and labyrinths were not puzzle mazes. They generally had no branch points, so one could pro- ceed from one end to the other, just by not stopping. Their purpose was symbolic and ritualis-. — ' — tic. U mil the turn of this /O- — centuiy. for example. / Nordic fisherman / / would ritually / / / walk the stone / / / / labyrinths (III/ before putting I ( {((//* to sea to fish. I l [ ( l / As happens V ' to ail robust pagan customs. the maze was adopted and) adapted by the Church. In Europe mazes were used to decorate cathedral interiors and symbolised pilgrimage and *7v -eu vVv' •f. >• -• g^jp iSSSl The amazing maze of maize the road to salvation: keep your head down, stick to the right path and you’ll get there. The English, less flamboy- antly, cut turf mazes in the church ground. With the growth of formal gar- dens towards the end of the Renais- sance, hedge mazes became popular for amusement and social ritual. Some were designed merely to be viewed as interesting patterns from balconies, others promenades and means of pleasantly complicating walks. However, it must not be sup- posed that mazes have only ritual and recre- ational func- tions. Psycholo- gists place rodents and even earthworms in mazes to shed light on the process of learning. They have even shown that rats are as good as humans at maze-solv- ing. which makes this type of problem a "species non-differentiating intelli- gence test". Even for non-carbon-based species, one might add, for students of artificial intelligence set logically pro- grammed robotic mice to run 1 st how well they eir way about interpret their riranmenL Mathemati- ally speaking, the study of mazes is part of elementary topology (“the science of place") which deals not so tuch with size d angles but connectivity (what joins on to what) and contiguity (what borders what). A map of the London Underground is topological; it isn’t a scale model of the network, but a diagram giving the order of stations on the various lines. Having a map of a maze or its graph (analogous to a tube map, showing only the connections of the branch points) is useful only if you know where you are. But what if you’ve taken a wrong turning in a maze with no distinguish- ing marks, or if you have no map at all? Blundering about randomly like Jack Nicholson in The Shining may eventu- ally work, but the bigger the maze the less advisable this approach, particu- larly since humans tend to repeat errors. There are rules to traverse mazes. These are particularly simple for “simply connected mazes". A “simply connected" maze is one all of whose walls are connected in one continuous - if meandering - sweep. Multiply connected mazes have detached portions of wall forming islands not connected to the outer walL If you keep one hand in contact with the wall of a simply conneaed maze as you walk you will traverse each cor- ridor twice: once coming and once going. This is because such a maze consists of a single wall whose perime- ter you arc following just like a pencil drawing the outline on paper. With multiply connected mazes the hand on wall routine will not take you round all of the maze, just those parts of it connected to your starting point. In general, it may not take you to your goal. Tremaine* s method is designed to reach those parts that other methods cannot reach. Why do mazes still fascinate us modems? Partly because wc live in an age of leisure but also because the timeless symbolism of the maze still holds good. Theseus's triumph over the Minotaur symbolises not just the shak- ing off of tyranny, but also the inroads A simply connected maze A multiply connected maze TfSmaux’s method for traversing multiply connected mazes: consistently mark one side of the route (whichever side you choose stick to It throughout) with chalk, for example, i) At a new junction choose any path you like Ii) When by a new path you reach an old junction or a dead end turn round and return the way you came. iii) When by an old path you come to an old junction, take a new path if there is one; if not, take an old path. iv) Never go along any path more than twice. that science could make into the world. With so much twisting and turning in a small space we too can feel lost without going anywhere and insecure without being in danger. As in life so in the maze: wc can be systematic or footloose and fancy free. There is still that same thrill that our goal may He just around the next comer. Much of the recent resurgence in interest in things labyrinthine is due to Internationa! maze designer Adrian Fisher, who organised the year of the maze in 1991. Thrice holder of the Guin- ness Book of Records title for the world’s latest maze (1993, 1995 and 1996) Fisher has designed more than 135 mazes worldwide: hedge mazes, pave- ment mazes, water mazes and mirror mazes with themes as extravagant as Alien Abduction, Martian Exploration, Jurassic Park, and a Yellow Submarine. His designing the world's iflrst maize ’maze in 1993 triggered a highly com- petitive maize maze craze in Canada, the USA, Britain and France. Fisher’s latest world record attempt is a Windmill Maze at Millets Firm in Oxfordshire, in the form of a traditional English windmill 975ft in “height" complete with sails, spur wheel and millstones. It was made by selectively uprooting plants in a field of heavy duty forage maize marked out in a grid, using for reference the maze design on squared paper. Weeding out by hand one fifth of the plants resulted in 4. 47 miles of pathways covering nine acres. Unlike mazes in other media, maize mazes are seasonal. In late October, (he windmill maze will end up as forage. 77ie Windmill Maze opens 10am Satur- days and Sundays until mid-October, last entry 4. 30pm. Adults £3, children £2 ( under 3s free), family ticket £10. Mil- lets Farm is at Frilford, eight miles south-west of Oxford, signed from the. 434 at the Abingdon South exit and on theA338 the Oxford to Wantage Road. ( Tel: 01865-391266 for details. ) Games people play * I, Don Black finds poetry and elegance in the ■&/ green baize of the snooker table Don Black, 58, lyricist and songwriter Snooker is often maligned by people who tend to. think of it in terms of a misspent youth, but -, v always found a kind of poetry and elegance about the game. There's something very peaceful wvui: i green baize, through which you enter a vvondcrful, ^ universe of cushions and clicks of balls; skill and I -- - tre u? the ’only game that makes me forget about 9. everything else" for a couple of hours. All I care ^ about is getting the white ball black. I play with •% ■. friends at the RAC and we’re very childish about it..? ^ Even serious players take on another persona and.. jJr use the phrases that come up in television ± commentaries: such as “Oh. he’s still got a hit o! f ‘ work to do” or “He may not win a lot of trophies but he’s the most exciting player*. Wc copy all of these, and if anyone gets a break of 10 or 1 1, wc ask; if they mind taking a urine test, as drugs must be involved. Completely idiotic. I rhink it lakes out the tension.. *. - ■ Mozart was an avid billiards player; so was Ira Gershwin. In fact I've been residing a book by the man who wrote The Bridges of Madison C aunty and ^ ^ he’s written a whole chapter on the poetry of -7? w; i snooker.. i There’s a kind of elevated, almost meditative thing _ about it. To win a game is victory; it’s elation and you 1 can’t put a price on it. To give you some idea, a man ** called Donald Alcorn won the competition a couple of years ago. He's 76. and winning was the equivalent ^ of a knighthood. Sometimes I look at my watch and I can't believe I’ve been playing for two hours. A game of snooker and a sandwich. That’s not much for a man to ask, is it? # f 'The Bridges of Madison County' by Robert Janies Waller is 'available from ■ Mandarin Books in paperback for $4. A full wedding service with champagne and powers may be booked at Rnscmun Bridge. Madiwn. for around £250. Chess William Hartston White to play and mate in five. ■ - v ■., / « £ • X '• • m • This problem by A. Popandopoulo rfcj won first prize in •/. 'siS:..... a Soviet chess •. r -V J ■ T magazine. >. < * ' 1 -c: problem, -w '3J? V'ftjX composing. S. 'Jw; '. /jk -a- tournament in White's problem here is how to dig the black king out of its bunker. With both black knights pinned, there is dearly a danger of stalemate, so While must find something to do before moves of the black f- pawn run out. The proto-solution must therefore begin something like this: White plays a move; Black- plays freed or frcg6; White unpins one of the black knights; White plays another move; the knight hops right back where it came from... and then what? Somewhere along the line. White must get rid of one of those knights without delivering stalemate. Of course, if he could capture the knight with check, it might even be mate, and that's the clue to the answer. The knight on gl can only move to e2 or B. both of which could be controlled by a bishop on the d 1- h5 diagonal; the knight on g2 can only move to el. e3, f4 and h4. all of which can be covered by a rook on c4. Now all we have to do is put all the pieces together. The basic line works like this:! fxe6 2. Bbl! Nc2 3. Bc2+ Ngl Nc2 (or Nf3) 5. Bxe2 (Bxf3) mate; or tg6 2. Rd5! Nf4 (or anywhere else) 3. Rd4+ Ng2 4! any mate. Just two more lines tidy up loose ends: l... f6+ '5 6cc5 3. Rxc4 e44. Rxe4 and mate; and l... f5 5 f4! f3 4. Qxf3! Nxf3 mate. 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II Intro, 12 Geyser, 14 Cellar. 17 LighL 19 Apricot, 22 Emerald. 23 Mourn, 24 Needy. 25 Descent. Dt)WN: 1 PiloL 2 Eagerly. 3 Syria. 4 Doctor. 5 Vifarlike. 6 Inapt, 7 Har- bour, 12 Galleon, 13 Estuary. 15 Lecture. 16 Candid, IS Grebe, 20 Remus, 21 Tenet. Bridge Alan Hiron Game all; dealer South North ♦ A5 v*S 7‘6 0 A 75 4 2 + K76 t East West ♦ J 9 6 3? 4 3 0 JO 9 8 63 +J3 ♦ 10 8 4 VKQJ 109 0KJ ♦ 5 4 2 South ♦ K O 7 3 more Last Nights than aiiyobe glory days of Sir Malcolm Smgeefc s. thrown himself with more evident mer- riment than anyone else into the role of- bcnevolent musical unde - Davis con- ducting Henry Woods* Fantasia on British Sea Shanties through a jungle of orthos- - trated parps and duck, calls and random honks from the motor-horn madcaps in the arena; Davis whirling round to face the audience, his fringe of hair sweeping wetty aside like a Timotei commercial, to lead Preaudi- ence in the of Rule, Britannia; Davis’s Bero- stetnian thrasb-baton dimaxes to the works of Mahler, Davis brushing away the tendrils of party-popper streamers that eventually fringe his face like pastel dreadlocks, in order to make a - speech that tactfully appeals to the assembled anoraks' musical knowledge, as well as their, you know, incorrigible zaniness... “The Last Night of the Proms is something I enjoy enormously, though I look forward to it with a mixture of eager anticipation and dread, ** be told me. “You might think nothing can go wiring, but it certainty can: The emotional temperature varies considerably year, by year. 1 think ft was 1994 when things got really out of hand. ' Someone ' tipped about 200 balloons into the audience, and they were bursting - not because people were pricking them, I think, but because of die heat. But everyone was wound up, possibly because we’d finished the first half of the concert with perhaps the fastest Belshazzar's Feast ever played, arid ft was so exciting, they were virtually, hysterical by the time the second half began. " He 'giggled delightedly. “That was the year Sir John Dram- mond [the former controller of Radio 3 arid iras- cible Proms commissar] decided to rap the chil- dren over the knuckles. But it bad an effect. Nest year they were much better behaved" I thought of the mghiwbea; weflbeypnd the call of duty. Davis sung to the audience- his self-com- posed variant of Gilbert and Sullivan’s famous Pirates of Penzance song, “A Modem Major Gen- eral". The first two lines ran: “This is the very, model of a modem music festival / Witfrenter- tatnment sonic, promenadable and aestrraT 7 - Davis had even found a rhyme for “festival^wto a semi-obsolcie word meaning “summery'. His performance betrayed an indulgence wife; the i promcnadcre, of a kind unknown toStr John. : - • • t Did he ever meet the hard-core Prot&emadeis, the ones who chant in unison at the conductor, the musicians and the audients in the gallery? -Occasionally I get little notes from them saying ‘Could you mention so-and-so in your speech. Andrew Davis (below) will tonight conduct the Last Night of the Proms: he can handle party streamers, he balks at balloons during cello solos Montage (above) entitled 'Malcolm Sergant Pepper’s Lonely Heart's Club Bland', inspired by the King’s Singers singing the Beaties earlier in the proms, by Sophie Dixon qould you say Happy Birthday to my Auntie W and so on. Sometimes it’s more, er, viable things... ” Did he ever lose patience with them? “Yes, once when a balloon burst in thfe middle of a wonderful cello solo in the Sea Songs, it made me furious. I'd been working hard that summer, and I had a rather short fuse. ” Did he yell at them? “Oh no -T just gritted my teeth—” Sitting on the sofa of his immaculately tidy sit- ting-room, with its great picture window that looks out over the rolling sweep of the South Downs, Davis does not seem a man easily roused to anger. His burly fraifie encased in a violently patterned jumper, he bounces slightly while talking and Hire peeled grapes but soften into a brilliant smile, that suddenly stops dead. With the ragged and grey-flecked beard below, and the, rich chestnut hair above, be can look at different moments like a behevolenj scoutmaster or one of the doomed kriigBffcS id Hen&ffsAgu&rs, Wrath of God. You get the impression of'Sfhdgfc, serious musical intelli- gence that hisleartft affabQity along the way. The Only silences that Interrupt his flow of bonhomie are' connected with death. ' And it's a subject that trill hang over tonight’s proceedings, because of the two shocking recent demises removed both Sir Georg Solti (wbo was to have conducted last night’s Verdi Requiem) and, some would say, the emotional heart of England. “We’d been on holiday in Italy for a fortnight, and Diana’s funeral was on the day we returned. We watched the first repeat I thought the music for the service was beautifully done, extremely we II chosen - the Purcell, the traditional hymns. The Abbey choir were fabulous. And I thought Elton John was great, though 1 just don’t know how he managed to do it One knows how it is wheo some- one you’re dose to... ” His voice dies away. Davis’s own mother died last year. VAs it true be and Elton John were related? "WeD... his... It’s... No, I mean there’s a distant part of my family that are Dwights from vaguely the same part of the world. " You mean Pmner? “Ah no, Buckinghamshire. " - We leave this highly contentious topic, never to return. Did he anticipate a mood of grief at the Albert Hall? “I think it’ll be lively. We are slowly moving away from. (Silence fell again). “But I think this is an illness thaf^s going to keep the coun- try in its grip for a while yet. I’m going to make some reference to the Princess in the speech. It’s something I've been thinking about at length. It’s been two weeks since she died, and perhaps one should get on with life, bat it’s had such a profound effect on everybody, something needs to be... But I’m not going to suggest that we sing 'Land of Hope and Gloiy^ in her memory. " Ah yes, that song that:became such a dichfi, Elgar himself got adc of hearing it In a con cert recorded towards the end of his fife, the great composer can be beard wearily instructing the orchestra, “Play it. as if you never heard ft before. ” It's become, thanks to the Proms and Davis, a solid export success. “It fascinates me that the Proms have become so pop- ular overseas. You’d think, nobody but the British could be remotely interested but in Germany, Hol- laed, Sweden; people are always iafldng to me about it. Even Japan. I was there earlier this year with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. We arrived for rehearsal, and the organiser came up and said, You wifi play Pomp and Circumstance, won’t you? ’ I said, ‘Sony, no, we haven’t brought the music. ’ They were horrified. it’s in the programme, ’ they said. 'If we get the music, wfil you play it? ' and I said, ’Sure’. That was at 530pm, and with typical Japanese effi- ciency they had the music by 730pm. The concert went ahead, ' we played the last piece and I announced that, for an encore we were going to play Pomp and Circumstance. A great cheer- went up. I turned round and started conducting - and there was this odd expression on the orchestra's face. So I turned round, and everyone in the audi- ence had pulled out a Union Jack and was waving it, grinning ecstatically. ” The Proms maestro win preside over these pleasant excursions for only three more years - his last Last Night will be in September 2000, after which he leaves these shores with his American wife, Gianna Rolan di, and their eigbt-year-okl son Edward (of whom there’s a charming photograph, on the table beneath a spectacular Tiffany lamp, seen playing the piano in an Athens concert hall clad in a stylish Hussar dressing-gown) for Chicago, there to direct the Chicago Lyric Opera. It’s the culmination of a life spent guest-starring in several dozen orchestras world-wide. Davis’s curriculum vitae is an unbroken trajec- tory of music-making in every comer of the globe. He was born in a Nissen hut. a wartime hospital in the grounds of Ashridge House, Hertfordshire, but grew up in Chesham, Bucks, before the fam- ily moved to Watford. His father was a printer’s compositor, who sang in the church choir his mother is an on-off parlour pianist “I started play- ing the piano when I was five or six, with the music teacher up tbe street and just figured out that I liked it I wasn’t a great prodigy. At 10 or 11, 1 played for the Hertfordshire countiy music adviser, who recommended me for a junior exhi- bitionship at the Royal Academy, where I used to go on Saturdays and then all through my teens. " What kind of teenager was he, this chap whose first or second record purchase was the Berg vio- lin concerto? David leapt to his feet “You realty want to know what I was like? Look. ” He crossed the room and returned with a monochrome hol- iday snap: two beaming parents, looking old before their time in that weary post-war way, one pretty, pubertal sister, two small brothers astride Muffin the Mule - and, standing seri- ously aloof from tbe family, one 15-ish Andrew with tiny icc-crcam cone and posing cockatoo. ’ His long gawky face and disastrous NHS specs, his fifth- form clothes and air of spotty embar- rassment arc hard to connect with the coo! and beaming sensualist beside me. "It’s the worst photograph ever taken of me, " he confesses. “My mother died but my father's alive at 83, and doesn't look that much different now. " But Andrew'... “Yes, I know. I was a typical school swot, an eccentric musi- cian. " This was the late Fifties. I said Wks he aware of coffee bars, Elvis Pres- ley, rock ’n’ roll? “Oh, 1 noticed them, but only with disapproval. 1 was a faw- n'd little prig, basically. Then J sinned to play the organ when I was 15, and my voice broke and the assistant organ- iser at the local church left at the same time, and I stepped in. ” Another pro- fessional break came at the Watford's celebrated Palace Theatre, where "an Italian trio used to play during the interval. The pianist was off for six weeks with jaundice, and they asked me to stand in. We played everything. Lois of Rogers and Hammerstein selec- tions. One week there was a Blackpool farce and we played 'O I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside'; the next week it wus Henry V. It was great. I fell in love with the theatre. ” He thinks hack ami a sweet tuen-dream smile crossed his face. “I fell in love with the leading lady too. a complete schoolboy crush. ” You can almost imagine the moment that the Crowd-pleasing showman emerged from the gecky young academic. He went on to be organ scholar at King's College, Cambridge, hut decided to switch to conducting, made his debut with a srudent orchestra playing Haydn drvertimenti, and won a grant that took him to the Accademia di Si Cecilia in Rome. His hig break came in 1970 when he stepped in at short notice ($tepping-in is a leitmotif of his early career) at the Festival Hall to conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Janacek’s impossibly difficult Glagolitic Mass. He was made. By 30, be had con- ducted every major orchestra in Amer- ica, toured the Far East and Israel. Four years later, he'd made it as far as China, conducting the rusty Peking Central Philharmonic in Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. “It was the only one that hadn’t been disbanded in the Cul- tural Revolution, " be recalls. “I met the conductor of the Shanghai Philhar- monic, who’d spent the eight years of the Revolution working as the bicycle parking attendant outside the building where be used to conduct... " David spent 13 years with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, playing lo ever-increasing audiences and indulging his fondness for his favourites -Elgar, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, Mahler, Rossini. This eclectic stew of compositional flavours is typ- ical of a man who loves using an orchestra to Ibring out the essence of contrasting idioms, wbo thought nothing of putting, say, Stravinsky and Richard Strauss on the same bill at the Festival Halil “There’s been a lot of complaining'that orches- tras all sound the same these days, " he said, “but of course, ibey don’t The Philadelphia for instance, in the years when Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy were running it, was distin- guished by its voluptuous string sound - which was great but you wouldn't want to hcarithcm doing, say, Mozart. Now they’re much more*, flex- ible, and people say they’ve lost their distinctive sound. It’s a balance... " But you don't want an orchestra that homogenises the extremes of the repertoire? “No, indeed, it’s something; I've fought against all my professional life. Whait l*ve always tried to do with the orchestras; Tvc worked with, is 6nd that versatility and flexibil- ity for things that are important. " “Flexibility" is one of Davis's words. It's »ome- thing the BBCSO has needed, in order to accom- pany him through his long-standing nbsessioin with 20th-century English composers - Elgar. Vaughan Williams, Michael Tippett - and his fearless engagement with the home avant-garde, includ- ing Judith Weir whose work is featured in the Proms tonight But spend an hour in the cnnnpaity of this charmingly explosive man - four parts hyper-precise academic, six parts adrcnnline- faelled populariser - and you feel that had you a micron of musical talent and a French horn, you'd follow him anywhere. Before he legs it to the Windy City (“It's bloody cold there, 1 iknnw, but I survived Toronto for 13 years and Cfeiicago is such an exciting place to be"), we shoulfd cel- ebrate his remarkable talent with something more than duck-noiscs, motor-boms and plastic parrots. Go for it Promenadcrs. The first part of Last Night of the Proms is {broad- cast 730pm tonigfit on BBC2; the second part will be broadcast from 9pm on BBC1. There is a simul- taneous broadcast on Radio 3 T he membere of the Royal Academy who protested this week at the inclusion of MarcusHarvtty’spamt- in K of Myra Hindky in, nest weeks. “Sensation’’ exhibition are impfiatty,. taken to task for their philistinism art journal produced before the Acade- Sns omered the row. Ita jcwtaP. editorial, thinking the only come from the Pf? - Sf “extreme emotional response of ™ Procters who “bitterly resent the idea, that art can tackle important issues^The journal is the Royal Academy Magazine* published before it realised that someof the RA’s own leading about to become «X£! Academy was matchedbyan Z- Sr irony when ait enfas and otfa-- lie theHindleypamt- All sensation and little explanation One of the “White on ’White” an all-white canvas. The programme’s chairman, Andrew Hefl, roared with laughter asking if it was a snowstorm. An all-white canvas is in fact the star of the satirical play An cur- rently in theWest End. Tbedenouement finds one of the charactes coming- to twins Vtith the picture by thinking of it as a snowstorm. to ttpiajn OT'Wi«;sKjes. »ureiy uy now thechampioas ofet&ceptiralist art should be able to articulate their passion, rather than merely condemning as old-fashioned and philistine anyone who disagrees them. The visual arts seems to be seething with cultural snobs, and light on cultural commu- nicators. A mission to explain is needed. And the troubled and vacillating Royal Acad-' any could begin the mission next week by explaining the -artistic- worth of the Myra Hindky painting, rather than simply accusing their detrao- •. tors of “prejudice” as they tiki tfcfeweeik- The literary world seems suffused with intfrjt Tfckethe fall -out over the Edinburgh Book Festi- val. Publishers are com- plaining about alleged poor organisation. For example, Iain Banks was billed as talk- ing about the intricacies of adapting his book The Crow Road for TV, though he had had nothing to do with tbe adaptation. But surely this -was u way of challenging a top author’s Imaginative powers. My favourite com- plaint though is about the event at the Hook Festival which looked at eating dis- orders. The sponsor was a delicatessen. and the talk was followed by a food-fast- ing session. Incompetent organisation? Not at all. Martin Amis would kill for such a deliciously grotesque plot The BBC Symphony Chorus performs, in The Last Night of The Proms tonight. The singers, whose day jobs include vic- ars, policemen and accountants, recently returned from a triumphant debut at the Salzburg Rstival. One assumes their time between concerts there was spent prac- tising for the mother of all music festi- vals. One would only be half right. The vicars, policemen and accountants were spied re-creating favourite scenes from the film The Sound of Music in situ. Find- ing that they were performing ini the actual avenue where the Von Trap fam- ily gave their last performance btsforc Seeing, members of the BBC Symphony Chorus climbed up the arches, yelled “They're gone, they’re gone" at th e top of their voices and broke into a romsing chorus of “Edehvcis". A touching tale from the French piano- playing Labeque sisters, Mariefie: and Katia. They tell today’s issue of Classic FM Magazine how they lived for 'seven years in a London flat above the -actor Dirit Bogarde. Fans of his, the two sisters were thrilled when he sent them a I fetter. *T was very happ^” says Katia, “I thought be wanted to meet us. " fa fact, hn was writing to complain about tbe noise, and continued to complain on a regular basis until they moved out 5 “•x -. lr, _. if arts ■%? A kMK. <$£$ fis** CSiS. ff books Jan Marsh on Hogarth s spitting images; John _ Sutherland on Millennium Anxiety p6; New fiction from Ruth Rendell and Richard Ford p7/8 And the dude? se When cultures collide • XT, THEATRE With Love from Nicolae Bristol Old Vic played on &f=T" j Ttv W ith Love from Nicolae - which brings together an Irish playwright and British and Romanian performers - X- L -. I' Jr i f i ttM Ralph McTell’s street cred may have taken a knock back in 1974, but he can still sing you a song that’ll make you change your mind. By Colin Harper onight in Huntingdon. Ralph McTdl 1 1 begins a 46-date tour that marks, refrcsh- 1 1 ingJy without a single item of anniversary 1 1 merchandise or even a passing mention 1 1 in the promotional advertising, his first 30 y» tars in showbiz. It is with art irony as subtle as the s ingcr- songwriter's own work - dealing as it so ofter i has. in its own quiet way, with cveiythTng from old: igc to homelessness, autism, addiction, injus- tice, 5-iuI racism - that such radical barnstorming, however sheepish the clothing, should be kicking off ii the very heartland of Conservative values, it conies as no surprise to find that the image of myself - because the world knows it, it gets played in schools, people I earn to play guitar to it. and maybe some of them get a perspective about alienation and loneliness through it I can t knoek it-" Which doesn‘t stop other people. But whai other people? Not that long ago French and Saunders memorably rounded up a squad of rock's guitar heroes for a TV sketch revolving around the premise that McTell. arraigned in the dock before a judicially attired Dawn French, had conned a gen- eration with a play-in-a-day guitar book that didn't work. John Williams turned the gig down, but McTell was duped into being there and couldn't wriggle out of it. The result? A nation of twenty- and thirtysome- things marvelled sympathetically at the man's sheer good-blokishness for months thereafter. “The funniest thing was, straight after we'd done the thing in one lake, and l was trying to find my manager to break his nose, Lem my out of Motorhcad went up and asked for his money - and it was only a 30 quid appearance fee - and they said, ‘Well. Ralp I h Mctell at the Isle of Wight Festival, 1970 (top) and today (above): er, it's the BBC. ‘Ybu shouldn’t be tired, you should be on the ball' Photos: Redfems Lemmy, you’ll get the money in due Half »h McTell as cardigancd heir to the tonering throne of bl Doonican in the family entertainment stake: < is one that's become increasingly irksome to the n • mn himself ever since "Si reels of London" was a uoi ■ Idwidc. smash in 1 974. “It's a shame when a good song becomes a cliche and people are embarrassed by iL" he sighs, and obviously not for the first time. "But, by any criteria. I have to say fhat it is a good *ong - even if I didn't particularly like it ai one time course. ' 7 want it now. ' he said And they actually had a whip round among the camera crew to get him his 30 quid! So I was standing there, just staggered by this - it was real rock 'n' roll, and it took the heat out of it of course when the show went out peo- ple would point at me in the street and shout ‘Guilty! ’ I couldn't believe how well the whole thing went off. " Credibility's a slippery cove. It's taken as read that Ralph, writer of gentle melodies, careful words and delicate sentiments doesn't have any. Yet even ran- dom listening to his albums reveals a powerful crafts- man whose best work transcends its period of cre- ation. A straw poll among friends and colleagues reveals some surprising results too: musicians, from heavy metal guitar players to Irish traditional singers, have absolutely no hesitation in calling him top man; young women, and I have no explanation for this, have simply never heard of him; while media folk tend to chortle and launch into good-natured banter concerning caharct acts and Radio 2. But. for some brief period around the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. Ralph was well on his way to the land of the Nick Drakes and the Tim Buckleys - those doomed adonis types who reside in a posthu- mous netherworld of boxed sets and glittering ret- rospectives in Mojo. He was, as contemporary reports confirm, the popular sensation of the whole vast end-of-swindng-Sixties event Surely the biggest audience of his career? u Yes, apart from Episode 10 of Alphabet Zoo. when we hit seven million. " he muses, with a dead- panningly profound grimness. “But it’s a shame really that I couldn't have gone on seamlessly from the Isle of Wight 'cos it couldn't have got more cred than that, could it? I mean, there I was in front of 250. 000 people with an acoustic guitar, two mikes and absolutely no crowd-manipulation powers, just the songs. I was on for 35 minutes, it weal down a storm. I got an encore and it was just amazing. -, ” He can remember exactly what he was wearing on the day too. But’no, the great god of rock iconography had other plans for the young man from Croydon - and who is to say they haven't had their own quieter, sub- tler rewards? Certainly' Ralph isn't denying his grat- itude for an enviable career that's maintained con- cert hall audiences over three decades and still encompasses, at his live shows, three generations. Others may have burnt out only to live on in the imag- inations of biographers and dream-seekers years hence, hut Ralph has just dealt with his muse in a less sensational, but no less passionate, manner. “I really don’t try to offend and shock, " he says. “I want people to he stimulated by what they hear from me and maybe discuss it. Fd never say to some- body ‘You're talking a load of shit you fascist bas- tard' - that’s not my way. I take era on but I do it in a different way. With 71m Buckley, and some of the others that passed on. I always fell they knew evciy- thing too soon and wrote with a certainty that leads to a finality. What would they have done at 45? What would they have done at 50? Whereas me. I didn’t know, 1 suggested, I put some things across - very gently, perhaps too gently for some people - but I've been finding out. I'm 52, I'm still not entirely cer- tain and I'm still looking to back up my theories and opinions through the response of others as l share them in songs... I think Ivc just put that rather well! " His communicative powers are at their height, he works out every day, his memory is razor sharp, but he knows his time is coming. “I can’t bear it when people talk about legendary players and say, ‘Yeah, he was OK, but he was a bit tired. ’ You shouldn't be tired, you should be on the ball - 1 hope people never say that about me. ’But it’s getting harder and harder to gain the fitness for these long tours. It’s a young man's game. " There may be no box-set, but a biography is immi- nent and right now autobiography is absorbing all the man's creative energy. He’s written onlv one new song in two years. A worrying trend? “Well, it used to worry me tremendously. '' he says, “hut then the kids aren't breaking down the doors to get the lat- est Ralph McTcIl album any more. I also think that I should only write when I'm really moved to. But and pages and I know it’s going to be OK because I go into a kind of daze when I know I’m writing good stuff. I mean, right now I could get up from my word processor, walk out the from door and meet someone I knew when I was seven years old and not be surprised - I'm right there, really there, like a catharsis, and I’m really excited about it. I'm also much more interested in working hard and get- ting a good show across than when it was easier - when I was current, when the audiences were guar- anteed. I carried my nerves and insecurities on-stage and it all rushed past. Now I actually go out there and love to work. " Ralph Me Tell plays Hinchinbroke Arts Centre, Hunt- ingdon, tonight (teL 01480452119) is a play that attempts to cram an awful lot into a very small space. Scattered in the ver- tices of a family drama, a talc of the prodi- gal son who left and the bitterness of the good and obedient son who stayed behind, and a history of a woman and her child abandoned by her man, there lie stories of life in Ceaus- escu's Romania, the hope that the 19S9 rev - olution has engendered, and the eternal problems of communication between a sin- gle mother and her son. Maggie, an Irishwoman, takes her son Nicky - a bolshie London teenager trapped in the saltflats of adolescent inarticulacy - to Romania to visit the scenes of his absent father’s childhood. In the Black Sea port of Constanza they meet the family of Nicolae. her former lover, and their initial warmth and hospitality opens the door to traumatic truths about the past. At its finest points, the play explores the contrasts between the two cultures that meet through Nicolae’s absence; the Irish, with its fascination for roots and the personal history that made each of us, and the Romanian, blanking the unpleasant past and focusing fixedly on the brighter future that has so recently opened up. Watching a procession of candles, Maggie asks “Are they for the dead, for souls? " "No. " replies Mihail, “they are for hope, for a good year to come. " in a story that the writer claims is based on the similarities between the two cultures, it is tbis total contrast which stands out most strongly. Of course, neither of these attitudes is healthy, and it is the intermingling of the cultures that brings some form of release and acceptance: Maggie, whose life has been totally dominated by one Nicolae, has to come to a country that has finally shaken off the dictatorship of another to learn how to move on. With a clear visual echo, the set is a Dali nightmare of twisted organic abstracts, which hover over the action like the dried-out corpses of the past haunting the present Hav- ing opened so many rich cultural and philo- sophical seams, one wonders whether it is necessary to devote a large chunk of the sec- ond half to the more conventional subject matter of the single mother's perennial dilemma In prioritising between her new man and her child. Nevertheless, the play holds the attention, and is exciting In its unashamed use of some unusual theatrical techniques and a bilingual script which, while creating utter authenticity, never leaves an English audience fidgeting or confused. With Love from Nicolae offers British audiences an opportunity to see some fine acting talent which, until very recently, was locked firmly away from Western eyes. Yet its most remarkable and promising feature lies in its collaborative nature, the linking of hands from the Irish Sea to the Black Sea. One can only hope that it is the first of piany works that trample down the rusting remains of the Iron Curtain. To 20 Sept. Booking: 01 17-987 7877 Toby O'Connor Morse GERAINT LEWIS%]i THE EVDEPENDENX MONDAY MEDIA+ j& T he more entertaining *5? media section with Paiges of media and ni i arketing jobs xwm David Benedict WEEK IN REVIEW v„* ti £. - ■ ^ ■ vgr t r? THE PLAY THE FILM TUESDAY METWORK+ Cutting edge know-how on computers and IT. YieVN? Cyrano de Bergerac Air Force One THE TV SERIES Holding On WEDNESDAY CITY+ 0 ur enormous section to m ake you a winner in the office - office politics, office pleasures, office ^ success. Plus pages of y appointments The RSC launches its new season with Gregory Doran's touring production of Edmond de Rostand’s classic romantic drama about the long-nosed poet-soldier who woos the woman he adores on behalf of a tongue-tied pretty boy. Rising star Alexandra Gilbreath plays Roxane, the object of desire. “Harrison Ford is the President of the United States", yells the poster. (He’s certainly more attractive in the role than Ronald Reagan. ) Wolfgang In the Line of Fire Peterson helms a US box- office smash techno-thri/fer with baddie Gary Oldman as a dedicated follower of fascism... or is it communism? Adrian Shergold directs Phil Daniels, David Morrisey, Saira Todd and a cast of major acting talent in an eight-part drama series about seemingly only loosely connected people by Tony Marchant, writer of Goodbye Cruel World. Does for London what Robert Altman's Short Cuts did for LA.. ’' Sri- EXCELLENT THURSDAY EDUCATION + Essential reading for everyone who educates, is f u in 5 e< * ucate d or cares about th, :3 JW national debate of ou r time Raul Taylor felt that "as with Anthony Burgess's bludgeoningly clever translation there's no lightness of touch l but] Gilbreath's marvellously winning Roxane is so playfully intelligent, strong- minded and modem-seeming that you begin to wonder why she has fallen for the strange notion on which the play is predicated. " "Sher's false nose cannot be faulted. Sadly, that is more than can be said of Sher himself or anything or hardly anyone else “ despaired the Standard. “Sher gives one of his most moving performances... admirably set off by Gilbreath’s Roxane, " approved the Mail. “An heroically anti-heroic performance, " nodded 77ie Times. “Doran captures its great heart... much more than a one-man show... does a lovely play proud, " sang the Telegraph. Adam Mars- Jones noted official approval. “You can be sure that the armed forces (Advertising Section) won’t rubber stamp anything that even the dumbest viewer would find credible. " “Pass the sick bag. " groaned Time Out. A long haul, " yawned the Telegraph. He thwacks. He kills. He shouts. ‘Get off my plane'... fun of an old-fashioned sort, admitted The Times. “Delirious nonsense... the frustrating thing is that there are touches of a better film straining to emerge from the wreckage ” lamented the FT. "Moderately diverting, " sniffed the New Statesman. “Jingoism is subsumed into visceral highs like calories converted into energy. " dapped the Standard. “I got so excited I chewed my pen in half " squealed The Express. Tom Sutcliffe welcomed "enough storylines for an entire autumn season... Shergold's direction has to be nimble to deal with this ambitious juggling act but has proved equal to it... well worth a visit. ' “There is a danger in Merchant's drama that keeps you in suspense throughout, " enthused the Mail. They were all living on the edge... and I was living on the edge of my seat. I can't speak too highly of the gritty drama, " gasped The Mirror. “Moody... The opening episode set a cracking pace, " encouraged the Standard. “An outstanding, dark and nasty piece of work, " declared The Guardian. “The English Tourist Board won't be nagging Marchant far copies to use in its promotional 'Visit Britain’ campaigns, " smirked The Time s. The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon (01789 295623) and then touring the country. Cert 15, 124 mins, across the country. Tuesday nights. BBC2, 9. 30pm ’Eksr-'* A careful division between unashamed sentiment and shameless sentimentality but, on balance, the noes have it Mission Implausible. Airplane without the laughs. A Characters galore but, mercy, not a single vet. * With a little help from my friends fit Ann & «S' G iven half the chance, Ann music tell us. When last I heard bee, she emotion: the conquering coloratura of Murray would erase herself was Donna Elvira in a conceit performance “Presti omaT, Caesar’s entrance aria, the from the interview altogether, (and recording) of Don Giovanni conducted revulsion and disgust of “Empio, dirt), tu Pretend it wasn't happening, by the late Sir Georg Solti. And with a sin- sei", his contemptuous message to Ptolc- pretend she wasn’t there. If gle aria - “Mitred! ” -she walked off with my on receiving the bead of the defeated you let her, she'll answer most erfyourques- the evening. It wasn't “beautifuT- the voice Pompey. As Murray is all too aware, Cae- tions with a vote of confidence in one or isn’t - but it was intense, it was meaning- sar is full-on from the start No “Ombra more ofher colleagues: share the limelight fid in the best sense. The palpitating vocal mai fu”, Handel's so-called “Largo from even when there's no one else to share it line actually connected vrith the words, the Xerxes", to break her or us in gently. W with. An interview with Ann Murray is like anger of betrayal was tempered with the pity We are seated in her dressing-room at an Oscar acceptance speech. The DubKn- of compassion in such a way as to convince the Barbican, 10 days “on the wrong side" born singer credits everyone but everyone the audience that this was the truth, the (be r words) of opening night. It is thecom- - from tire nuns who educated her to her whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And p3ny*sfim day on at the Royal Opera's agent - for her success. Everyone, that is, it was. of course. Now that is great singing. temporaiyhome(weH 7 oneofthem) exrept herself. Whoever it waswho said that “1 try to be honest, ” says Murray wifi ray is uneasy. The show is at that nervy, crit- the Irish were born saying sorry was defi- characteristic honesty, “to express how I real stage, the point at which everyone - not nitely thinking of Ann Murray. Ask her would fee) in any given situation, or how I least Murray- is painfully aware of just how about her latest recording - a collection of would fed for someone else in that situa- much “flesfrargouTisstill tobe done. “The Bizet songs- and the impish face contorts:" tkrn Hew would feel And once temptation, ” she says, “is to over-corn- “Oh, God, they're dreadful! Someone you’ve made that connection, things begin pensate, to tty tcrahari to fifl rathe cracks. ” should donate them to the insomniac so- to happen. I suppose I’ve been lucky in that Her only practical point of reference for the ciety. " Ask her what she docsn ’t like about Fve never really had a problem singing. I role has been Richard Jones’s “wacky but her voice, and the response is swifter still: was well trained, I had teachers who laid terribly clever” staging in Munich. She “From about bottom G to top C sharp. I the foundations of a technique that would adored that experience tmt is quick to recog- think the softer I sing the ‘prettier 1 it is... iwt get rathe way. I always thought that my nise that one’s first encouuterwith a piece Ifyou can't hear me at all, it’s wonderful. ” singing voice should be an extension of my generally takes on a special significance. Take no notice. Anri Murray was taught spiking voice, in the sense that the words Lmd^ Posner’s new production will lx: just never to boast (offidal convent policy). So just happen to be sung rather than spoken, fine, she says, lightening the moment with it's high time someone boasted on her be-. So when you’re angiy, when you’re upset, a sneak preview of her costume: Roman di- half. In an age when so many voices still you don’t speak in carefully modulated nic {“ Rhwdance, don’t you think? ”), calf- come “gift wrapped”, whensowndis stDI val- tones.. There’s an edge, a hardness creeps -skin coat (“7 he Vhpman? ”), and the ued over content, when record company ex- into the voice. And if ifs ugly, it’s ugly. " obKgaloiy laird wreath (“God help me, Fm ecutives still speak in terras of the “good Just so. When Handel's Julius Caesar going to look like a corps debalia cast-off”), recording voice”, Murray is here to remind (Ghiho Cesare) strides trace more into the You've got to laugh: singing is such a seri- us that great singing; great music, is not public arena tonight, in the guise of a man- ous business. about sound, but made with sound. It’s about' lyAnn Murray, singing- beautiful or oth- Singing Handel certainly is. And few do gesture, expression, drama. It’s about fiv- erwise - will be the last thing on her mind, it better than Murray. She thanks her agent, ing, breathing, feeling what the words and But rather the stuff of high drama, high Robert Rattray (often and profusely), and Peter Jonas (late of English National they encourage you to egress the emotions Nm that she ever has. On the whole, its Opera, now intendant in Munich) for physically as well as vocally. At the begin- been a healthy, judicious, career (“I really showing her the way to Xerxes ( the hi- ning of my career, rehearsals were always don't know whai I’d do without Robert, my umphant Nicholas Hytner/Cfaarles Madi- a problem for me. Performing was fine - 1 agent"): low of Mozart and Rossini and Oc- erras ENO staging). Prior to that, there had was someone else. But rehearsals... 1 felt laviun. of course - one of her key calling- been Judas Maccabacus and a Bradamame so inadequate, so inhibited. It was Jean cards and. incredibly, a role she veiy nearly mAlcina that and I quote, “sounded like Pierre Ponndle who first opened something didn't go through with (suffice it to say, the water going down a sink - and about as up in me. He didn’t care where I’d come booted foot of Robert, the agent was right dean” (it was, she says, way too low for her), from, what my background was: he was the behind her on that one). Right now. it looks but nothing to suggest that Handel might first one to make me feel free to express like her operatic life is coming full-circle, prove such a good fit for her voice and tem- what the words and music meant to me. ” Apart from the exciting prospect of perament She thrives on the da capo con- Murray is unique among singers in my Donizetti’s Mary' Stuart in a new produc- vention, seiang the opportunity to intensify, experience in that she tdways-aMvys- re- tkxi for ENO (“Usurper. '" Janet Baker fans to bufld on the message of each aria in the lates the musical experience to the dramatic will ciy). her future engagements will “take treats. She thrills to the risks associated context. Opera only exists for her as a the- her back” to when she first arrived on the with the vocal pyrotechnics (“it's called jear, atrical entity, and in that regard she’sopen mainland, as green as an Irish mascot In you know"). She may not say as much (well, to just about anything. The show' s the thing. Amsterdam, she’ll be revisiting Gluck’s Al- she does if you sniff out the subtext), but Which in turn has enormous bearing on ceste, the first role she sang after leaving she loves to live dangerously. her redial work. We can trace that back the Opera Centre, and in Munich she's been It's been at least a minute since she to the behest of an ardent young liedere n- invited, and feels “honoured", to re-create thanked anybody, so now it’s the turn ofher thusiast who invited Murray to become a the roles of Ariodante, Cesare and Xerx- teacher, Frederick Cox, who made a point founder member of a new venture devot- cs (and re-create them she will - Murray of providing motivation for even the most ed to regenerating interest in the genre, is not one to pack the interpretation with technical of exercises. That stood Murray Graham Johnson was his name and “The the passport) in a projected Handel Fcsti- m good stead for workingwith directors like Songmakers’ Almanac" his cause. “If only val. You get the feeling shell leave it at that, Nicholas Hytner or David Alden, with Graham had left me at home. I'd have been Her motto has always been to “keep whom she collaborated on the stunning all right! " she jests, launching into an im- running”. She longs for the day (not too ENO Ariodante. She suras up that expert- personation of Johnson so painfully accu- soon. I hope) when shell no longer have ence simply, as “wonderful work”. And to rate (a whole gallery of her colleagues are to “keep running” - away from her home, those tired old reactionaries who still insist thus captured) as to have you wonderi ng her husband (the tenor Philip Langridge) that the Aldens of this world ruthlessly im- if she chose the right branch of showbusi- and her son (Jonathan). Meanwhile, on pose their will on reluctant singers, Mur- ness after all. “No, seriously, Songmakers stage, it's a question of having to, a phys- ray dtes Ariodante’s Act 2 aria “Scherza taught me so much about finessing what 1 icaT necessity: “1 can’t bear just standing bifida”, where the physical business of slid- did. Each song was a miniature opera, and there. Keep running, and they can’t work ing off a roof whilst simultaneously nego- in creating a concentrated acting perfor- out how big or old you are! ” dating Handel's athletic coloratura was tnance for each, I was developing some- ‘Giulio Cesare ’ opens 6. 30pm tonight, Bar- entirely of her own making. “Directors like thing that I could then take to opera without bican Theatre, Silk St, London EC2 (book- David [Alden] liberate your imagination, have to fling myself around vocally. " mg: 0171-304 4000), then in rep to 1 Oct Can’t help acting on impulse Stand by your mania THEATRE Henry V RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon T o stage ttenty v in a war memorial surrouna ana to. anng on a doomily-Iit brigade of modern soldiers as a caution- ary counterpoint to the Chorus’s rousing introductory speech is par for the course these days. We're used to produc- tions that strive to atone for the play’s now embarrassing patri- otic fervour by heightening its equally vivid depiction of the hor- rors and the cost of war. Ron Daniels' new RSC account of the play could not be accused of even the slightest delay in this department After that initial march-ire Michael Sheen’s Henry and his men are seen back at court watching film footage of the corpse-littered trenches of the Great War, of soldiers going over the top to bo massacred. The King’s silhouette falls on the screen, the ghastly images tattoo his face. ‘ It’s an odd time, you might have thought, for Heniy to be sub- jecting himself to this painful spectacle of senseless carnage, given that he’s also looking to the Church to provide him with a motive, however convoluted^ conscience-salving, for an imperialistic inva- sion of France. But that’s how the production insists on viewing the king - as a man forced by his position to veer between wild emotional extremes. •... - Sheen's physical presence as an actor is potently contradictory: at once very virile and curiously elfin, Here, in a production that asks him to lurch from ugly, psych«i-up ecstasies of brated bel- ligerence, to sobbing sensitivity and starmg-eyed self-doubt he rirclv eets the chance to show his qualities in mtngumg consort * The performance is taken at too high a pitch. Confronting the friend who had plotted to assassinate him. this Heniy reacts with an embarrassing neurotic intensity, first putting a puntm the man's hand and daring him to shoot, then snatching it back and boldine it to the ex-friend’s temples in a fiwiaed, near-mimJer- nus scuffle He seems such a creature ofunpulse at moments like this that you foreel that Heniy is also the wily political operator whose exposurcof this friend and the other traitors is a piece of coolly-studied stage management. Indeed, there are times when SSfcd that, if he goes on at this rate, he’ll have to woo. Kather- ine in the final scene from inside a strait-jacket. Daniel' production equips Heniy with a ‘^ “^aence- stricken colleague in the shape of the your^l This expanded figure is so appalled by the King s speech tnreat besieged town of Harfleur with hair-raising horrors - n sS made all the more unpleasant here by the squared Mimd of the loudspeakers through which it is relayed. that! “ tries to snatch the mike from the crazed monarch s hand.. l £L waf to which Vfciwick is, it seems, onfybdatedly recon- business in this staging. The French are at some-, died, i* a rum wsra in ms w-w rnarain, - ™k£ horses that look more like the weinfo. ft&^fsm^pc®t*Vivienne Westwood designer than animate. you’d take anywhere near a battlefield. Whatever point Daniels thinks be is making here is vitiated by the seriously ludicrous spec- tacle it affords...... There are one or two compensations, such as Alan David's splendid Fluellen. But, for the most part, the uneasiness gener- ated has less to do with the play than with the production that spells out the contradictions too crassly to be moving. A formi- dable actor like Sheen deserves a more coherent showcase. To 77 Sept (01 789 295623), then touring nationally " ’• Paul Taylor A man sat, alone with his guitar, on a stage barely big enough to swing a supermodel Well not quite alone. In the enforced absence of the other nine or 10 members of his Nashville-based cham- ber coon try ensemble, Lambchop mainstay Kurt Wagner did the next best thing and brought their contributions along with him on cassette tape. This worked sur- prisingly well, and not just as a conceptual riposte to the phoney intimacy of electronic bands playing gigs down ISDN lines. For all his misgivings about playing on his own (“It's (ike a dad going on holiday without the wife and kids, ” he observed poignantly) Wagner’s solo appearance achieved an arresting and at times - as in the extraordinary synthesis of taped and live sound on “Gettysburg Address” quite magical union of hi-fi and lo-fi. His precise, soulful guitar playing and unpredictable but intense vocal phrasing were set off to a tee POP Lambchop 12 Bar Club, London by the strange assortment of swirling feed- back noises and spoken-word excerpts that his band supplied him with. And the pathological shyness of his stage persona only set die distinctive forthrightness of his songwriting in sharper relief. In the suitably cordial opening “My Face Your Ass", Wagner enunciated the Iasi word of that title as if his life depended on h. Like kindred spirit Vic Chesnutt. Wag- ner’s courtly demeanour amplifies a keen sense of mischief. His songs are alive with deliciously arcane metaphor (for sexual relations: “do the shabby thing with you - separate the beef from the stew"), and his willingness to embrace subject matter that others in the broader country and western fraremity would probably consider a little too audacious is much to' be commended. It is tun to speculate how Dwight Yoakam or Jewel say might handle “Scamper” - undoubtedly the most affecting song ever written about trying to lay a wooden floor (Wigner's day job) in the house of an old woman with bladder problems. A lone island of modernism in a nos- talgic musical archipelago, Wagner lakes the hulk of his set from the already almost completed follow-up to Lambchop’s fine forthcoming album Thriller. If that Michael Jackson-inspired title seems perverse, ask yourself why Wagner has chosen to grace his most upbeat and commercial song to date with the less than radio-friendly title of “Your Fucking Sunny Day"? If your mis- sion in life were to play some of the most eompellingly quiet and mysterious music ever recorded and fate had blessed you with the first name of Nirvana's Cohain and the second of the Ring cycle's Richard, perhaps you might feel the same way. Ben Thompson Polished performance: Michael Sheen Geraint Lewis T here’s still a fire burning in the grate of the Cardiff Coal Exchange - the wonderfully imposing 1 9th-centiuy industrial palace that was the venue for this con- cert - but, sad to say, it’s now ah electric coal-effect job. Whatever, the woody acoustic of tbe mahogany-dad interior provided a fittingly rich setting for three strongly contrasting works. Though the Vale of Glamorgan Festival - a week- long celebration of minimal- ism in all its guises - failed to be attended as expected by the two principal dedicatees, Terry Riley and John Adams, the closer-to-bome figures of Charlie Barber and Graham Fitkin, both of whom had a cumber of works on show, were present and correct. Barber's Shut Up and Dance, which was commis- sioned by the BBC and pre- miered by the orchestra in 1994, opened the programme quite brilliantly. Inspired by In a nutshell NEW MUSIC Barber, Fitkin, Adams! BBC NOW Vale of Glamorgan Festival at Cardiff Coal Exchange the rhythms and textures of both contemporary dance music and Balinese Gamelan, the piece has the rare virtues of being short in duration, continuously witty and intensely joyful. Though it's relatively simple, the orchestra dispatched it with due deco- rum. and the raoiri: effect of the tonal colours continued to shimmer in the mind’s eye long after its conclusion. Nothing, however, could have prepared you for the world premiere of Graham Fitkin's Clarinet Concerto, Agnostic - a Festival commis- sion -which followed. Though Fitkin has been producing really interesting and engaging work for some time now - usu- ally hard, flinty pieces with uncompromising titles such as Tough, Gruff and Blunt - this was. by any standards, a quan- tum leap forward. Opening with a long, Mahler-like breath of strings, the soloist David Campbell - who played superbly - was forced through a deeply moving progression of increasingly querulous and turned-in-oD-themselves har- monic loops, while the strings set a sinister background of brutally stark Psycho-tike stabs. The resolution was almost achingly Romantic, British pastoral updated to an edgy, utterly contemporary, urban landscape. Though to say so sounds suspiciously like over- kill this may turn out to be one ’ of the most important pieces of the age. and it demands to be heard again soon. The Violin Concerto by John Adams, which comprised the second half, has become, sin«r its composition in 1993, a kind of symbolic token of the mainstream acceptance of American minimalism - or at least of Adams - by orchestras world-wide, and it was per- formed with great elan by the star soloist, Kurt Nikkaneo. This, however, is perhaps a minimalism that has conceded much of its aesthetic raison d'etre to the Romantic demands of the modern orchestra, with the virtuosity of the soloist occurring at the expense of the ensemble. Nikkanen - who, the pro- gramme notes informed us, is. a keen tennis enthusiast - even interpolated a few Jimmy Connors-like grunts into his dizzyingly effective perfor- mance. He was good, too, but Fitkin's Concerto remained the prize of the evening. Phil John 1 ". ■ - ■_ u.. SEPTEMBER 1997 - THE INDEPENDENT LONG WEEKEND Jan Marsh meets the evergreen satirist with a soft heart but savage art A brush with kidding Billy Hogarth by Jenny Uglow. Faber. £25 O ne night in 1732. as a youngish married man. William Hogarth set off with four friends on an impromptu jaunt, proposed in the tavern and then executed forthwith. Amid non-stop drinking from the Thames to the Medway, they flung dung at each other in mock fights, lost an overcoat (hut held onto their wigs) and were nearly marooned on a mudbunk. In the churchyard at Hoo. Hogarth dropped his breeches and perched on a grave rail, "having a motion": whereupon one of his companions swished his bum with a bunch of nettles, obliging him l. i finish the business with his back against the church door. Such irreverence, to both the deceased and the Church, was woven into Hogarth's art as well as his life. It is a clue us to why, despite his aspirations to honours in history painting, he remained always a satirist of genius, a. scatological comedian seldom Invited into the solemn purlieus of High An. Today. 300 years after his birth into the world of the Protestant succession, explod- ing consumerism and Augustan wit. sequences like The Rake 's Progress, Marriage a-Li-Mude and The Election fall on view in a tercentenary exhibition at the British Museum opening on 25 September, together with works by William Frith and David Hock- ney) are integral parts of our visual heritage. Despite the Toss of context, their crowded, vigorous and inventive mockery is endlessly available for re-use, like a sort of Spilling Image pickled in aspic. One can easily transport Hogarth out of time, imagining the asperity he would direct 3t current follies and evils: the celebrity wed- dings. the greedy speculators, the savage tabloids, the miscarriages of justice, the self- important scribblers. And his grim vision of Gin Lane is. pari passu. that of apocalyptic essays on death and destitution from the "menace of drugs" in the present day. Jenny Uglow'mokes use of all the schol- arship that now attends Hogarth studies, and has resolutely kept her subject within his his- torical place and time. She resists notions of universality, offering more of a synthesis of latest knowledge than a persona! view. Occasionally, indeed, her Hogarth is almost lost in his world, like a short ( he was under five feet tall) unfashionable figure in a busy street. The narrative of Uglow’s previous biog- raphy was propelled by the breathless speed of Elizabeth Gaskell's own letters bur - while his paintings and prints are full of movement and noise - so few of Hogarth's words sur- vive that we strain to hear his voice. When we do. the sound is as vivid as the pictures. For instance, he writes about the rendering of baroque angels as swarms nf babies' heads with duck wings under their chins, "supposed always to be flying about, and singing psalms, or perching on the clouds", and yet so agreeable that their absurdity is forgiven: "St Paul's is full of them. " Or the cant nf the art dealer, who talks up a dismal Old Master-piece and then. "Spit- ting on an obscure Place and rubbing it w ith a dirty Handkerchief, lakes a Skip to t’other end of the room, and screams out in Rap- tures - There's an amazing Touch! A man shnu'd have this picture a twelvemonth in his Collection, before he can discover half its beauties! ”' Hogarth was a Londoner, born hard by Darts Hospital and Southfield. He was apprenticed to engraving and set up shops in Leicester Fields, as it Then was. This cen- tral area, between the City and the Court, was that of the newspapers, print shops, the- atres. studios, coffee houses and taverns where all men who lived by their talents in the arts and media meL He had a chip on his shoulder, because his Cumbrian-horn father - a struggling school- master with avast. unpublishable dictionary' -was for st time imprisoned for debt. This surely fuelled Hogarth's stubborn inde- pendence and insistence that his deserts were greater than his rewards, as. well as his refusal to play the polite ape. which could have brought preferment. His friendships were those of honest fellowship. In portraiture, he could never flatter for frankness was his best tribute. Culturally, in his lifetime, satiric wit gave place to refinements of sentiment, w hich he seems not to have felt. Yet the most remark- able testimony to affection is glimpsed in a brief note to hisuife of 20 years, which begins “My dear Jenny. I write to you now. not because l think you may expect it only, hut because I find a pleasure in it, which is more than f can say of writing to anybody else. ” If the postman brought news of her return it would he belter than the music of a ket- tle-drum, but she was not to hasten home. lb both Jane and her Billy, the lack of chil- dren must have been a deep, if silent grief, poignantly refracted in Hogarth's energetic, extended support for Thomas Coram’s Foundling Hospital, where a sequence of orphans were renamed William and Jane Hogarth. As well as a savage brush and burin, their benefactor had a sympathetic heart. Voyage from Dome’s day to doomsday John Sutherland enjoys his flight in a revamped Time Machine A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright Anchor, £9. 99 S et in late December IW this is the first of what will be a numerous and remu- nerative genre: millennial novels. The nervous- Nine lies invariably induce in the Western world an apocalyptic hysteria, bet- ter expressed by literature than public festivals.. d Scientific Romance is, among other things, an end-of-the-world fiction, replete with allusions to the Book of Rev- elation. Above all. as the Wellsian title indicates, thus is a homage to the father of 20th-century science fiction (or “speculative fiction”, as some have preferred to gloss SF). Wright’s scientific romance (H G Wells's preferred term) pays homage to The Tune Machine. By a nice coincidence. Time is to be the great theme of the Millennial Dome Experience (if they get it up in time). This novel provides an uncomfortable overture for that jubilation, as did Wells's picture of racial degeneration and the final heat-death of the solar system. Literary historians will have happy hours exploring this hook's intertcxtual tissue. This is a novel about novels. It is not, of course, the first of its kind, although it may be the cleverest. In 1976 Christo- pher Priest produced The Space Machine: a scientific romance, a fantasia also based on The Time Machine and dedicated to Wells. In its often baffling cleverness, Wright's novel recalls Brian Aldiss's homage to the mother of SF. Frankenstein Unbound. But A Scientific Romance is more ambi- tious in weaving together a whole library of works: not just Wells's fable, but Richard Jefferies’ lesser known vision of a future drowned England. After London. Mary’ Shel- ley's The Last Man. William Mor- ris’s News from Nowhere and M P Shiels’s surreal visions of planetary catastrophe. And few cognoscenti will read it without being reminded of J G Ballard’s beautiful and pre- scient vision of global warming. The Drowned World. Beneath its mantle of literary sophistication. Wright provides a gripping story -almost as gripping as Wells's original. It takes the form of a “message in a bottle": a found manuscript. The narrator. David Lambert, is an industrial archaeologist, curator of the Museum of Motion in a converted St Pancras Station. Professionally successful, Lam- bert has a disastrous personal life. He has betrayed his best friend. “Bird” Parker. Bosom friends at Cambridge. David seduced Bird s bird, the Egyptologist Anita, while on a dig in the C;Lst. Bird flunked out of "Cambridge and is now a down-and-out. Meanwhile. Anita has died of a w asting illness -I’JD. as it turns out. More ominously, it seems that David himself (along with the whole British popula- tion) may also be infected. He suf- fers strange interludes of paralysis and hallucination. Amid this crisis. David is pui in possession of a mysterious letter from none other than HG Wells. It emerges that the novelist and his lover Tania (an anagram of "Anita") actually did create a time machine in the late ISVOs. She look off and is due to return a century later, on 31 December l y guaran- tee stability were trapped between two worlds - their obligations to domestic economies and the new force of the global market". This is as good an explanation as any of a cur- rency crisis, but it misses the point. The financial markets are the guardian angels of global capi- talism. but they spring into vigilante action only where there is something to be vigilant about. Most often, this is either a government issuing IOUs it is unlikely to be able in repay easily, or a nation sucking in far more imports than it can puv for with export earnings. The markets force unsustainable situations to a messy conclusion. Is this a profoundly undemocratic evil? 1 think it is exactly the reverse, especially in Ihe case of countries whose politicians have more of an eye on their own than the national fortunes. This is not to say there is nothing to worry about in the way the global economy now operates. But it is a worry about politics rather than economics. It is shared by Benjamin Barber in his polemic Jihad vs McWurld. and. in a far more intelligent way. by Anthony Ci id dens in Beyond Left and Right. The trouble is that while fundamentalism is anli- demoeratic. capitalist democracy has become anti-political. It presents all issues as technical problems, matters of good or bad administration. As Greider puts it, the trouble with those opti- mistic about globalisation is that their optimism “lohoroniKcs history, mainly by separating the epic economic changes from their political conse- quences". When 1 read this sentence, 1 found something to agree with. Tile nthcr pages pile up more travel notes and mure rhetoric. Sadly- it is all whipped cream and no pudding. Look else* where for plums of analysis. the INDEPENDENT LONG WEEKEND - SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 1997 7 2 JIS S**™? 1 wth Men by flctefd fcrrf Hannll, £14. 99 T hese quiet stories of bewilderment between the sexes are marked by a peculiarly contemporary loneli- ness. The men are querulous, mind-blind and childish; the women pres serve their inner world as best they can. Austin, the narrator of the first story, is introduced with great precision. From the first moment we catch him smiling at the edge of a publishing party in Paris we know his exact notch on the corporation ladder, the length of his marriage, his uncase in the French language, and his habit of picking up presentable young women on jaunts abroad. He has a cer- tain pathos, as if such womanising is lit- tle more than pursuit of a self his own life has never supplied. The woman he sets his sights on in Paris is Josephine. She is in the throes of divorce, living alone with her son, and Americans embarrassed Elaine Feinstein takes delivery of a melancholy message from the US male her appeal lies in her sadness. On Austin’s la st night in Paris, she drives him back u> his hotel, and they sit for. some time in the car. She lets Austin hold her and kiss her, as if it docs not matter much one way or the other, and he is too disconcerted to push their inti- macy further. As far as Austin is concerned, his long marriage has been a happy one, though regrettably no longer satisfying all his needs. Back in America, he discovers his wife sees their relationship rather dif- ferently. In the expensive restaurant to which he has taken her as a placatory gesture, she astonishes hini by announc- ing she has decided to leave. Austin enjoys a momentary sense of relief that her gesture has turned him from villain into victim, but is nonplussed by her evi- dent dislike. What more natural than to take a plane for Paris? Yet Austin has been more disturbed by Ms wife's summary description of him than he realised. It takes him some days to contact Josephine, and murmur his belief that there is something between them. When he does, he meets only irritation. “What? " she asks. And that short ques- tion is Lhe nub of the stray, not the ensu- ing melodrama of Austin losing her lit- tle son Leo in a Paris park. The second story has an American rural landscape. A marriage has broken up. A boy is to be taken off to his mother by his feisty aunt Doris, who hud once been a rival for his fathers Jove. For a time, it looks as if the story will centre on the hot's sexual initiation by bis aunt. Instead, it turns on Doris's encounter with Barney, an Indian she meets in a bar. When police arrive look- ing for Barney. Doris unexpectedly directs them to the lavatory where he is hiding, and there Barney is canned down. Doris's motives arc never clarified. It may be an act of vengeance, since she w as once married to and abandoned by an Indian, or it may be. as she explains to the boy, because she intuited that Barney has murdered his wire. In either case, it is un unpredictable, almost whimsical betrayal. In the third story, we are back in Europe, this time with Matthews, an undistinguished teacher of Atricaii- American literature, whose first novel is abour to be translated into French. Matthews is accompanied by blonde, buxom Helen, whom he has taken up w ilh in the aftermath of a collapsed mar- riage. When Matthews' publisher explains his inability to keep their appointment, he and Helen determine to enjoy their visit to Paris as the most unsophisticated of tourists. Helen turns out to have her own agenda, however, and Matthews begins to teel at the periphery of his own trip. Helen is looking for something, we grad- ually realise, because she knows she is dying of cancer, and is too honest to accept Matthews* mumbled words of Lac. Their hole! is placed at the edge of a famous cemetery. If there is any spiritual solace at the edge ot mortality, these stories show- none of ii between men and women. Richard Ford is arguably the finest American nov- elist of his generation, and these stories have all his usual chill veracity; but his is a bleak vision. Dashed dreams Maya Jaggi on a tragedy of slavery Brothers and Keepers fc>- jc^n Edgar Wideman. Pizazzr. £5. £9 The Cattle K36ng ny Jem Ec'&zr Wk/eman, Pleader. £3 $. 9? I n John Edgar Widetnan's brother u as convicted o! murder after a botched hold-up and sen- tenced to tile imprisonment, Ur, ali- en unJ Atv/v a. published in l‘»S4 in the l"S and onN now in Britain, is his moling at' io " something from the grief and uiLste". Though it traces his younger brother Robin's downfall, the hook is the story «»i:v.. * A! tic un-Ameri- can lixes. Robb;, '* tugiiwe status arrests the author's own flight. As he notes when hauled in for and abetting: "No matter that 1 wrote hooks and taught creative u riling at the university. I was Rnbhy was my brother. Those unalterable facts w ould::Jw ay s incriminate me. “ This painful “mix ol memory, imagination, feeling and tact" draws on Robin's tnttsings in jail and flashbacks to the brothers* growing up in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania - the setting for much of Widcman's fic- tion. Yet this is more than a guided t« mr ot the ghetto by one who strad- dles the trucks. Open-ended but with a honed anger, it ranks as one of the sharpest, most disquieting tes- taments on the state of America. Wide man’s novel The Cattle Killing is a similarly questing explo- ration of the black condition across continents and generations. As a plague in ISth-eentury Philadelphia becomes the pretext to ostracise its black citizens, an itinerant preacher rebels against a Church that con- fines his brethren to back pews. Seg- regation and torehings presage a later era. as do echoes of Martin Luther King’s elusive dream. The young preacher relays "i trphan "tales** from his life to a siek w oman he hopes to cure. His haunt- ing store of Kathryn, a blaek maid who disappears into a lake duleh- ing the golden-haired cotpse of a bain -, loops into that of a Mind white woman running a Negro orphanage with her husband, a philanthropist In day and rapist by night. Another tale is of the middle- aged Liam, a slave “gifted’* to the painter George Stubbs. Liam fled with a while maid to the “freedom” of the New World, where the illicit couple must pose as a widow and “her husband's trusted servant”. The linchpin is a tale of Xhosas tricked by false prophecy into killing their cattle, ushering in (he settlers* reign. “The Africans are destroying themselves, doing to themselves what British guns and savagery could not accomplish. ” A frame store, where an author returns to his hometown ghetto, makes explicit the parallel with the hip-hop gen- eration gunning one another down. Though its abrupt shifts between different voices can he confusing, the novel's form allows echoes between fragmented lives. Its char- acters battle to keep from losing their faith, while stories are told with an urgent mission to heal and redeem. The author-persona wants “every word... to be a warning, to be saturated with the image of a dev- astated landscape”. In prose both poised and starkly beautiful, this novel by one of America’s most audacious writers hits its mark. Travels with my art views of Santa Monica Beach, California (above), and the station at Metz, France (left), by Paul Hogarth. The globe-trotting watercolour specialist celebrates Ms 80th birthday this autumn. His memoirs in pictures and words, 'Drawing on life’, are published by David & Charles (£30), while the Royal Academy’s exhibition 'Paul Hogarth at 80' runs from 24 September to 31 October 7 1- 4 wf ■> Autumn on a home front Patrick Gale enjoys a saga of myths and mellow fruitiness Echoes of War by William Riviere, Sceptre, £16. 99; T he end of the last century was. marked by literary decadence and anti-respectable satire. As the fin looms to our sitcle, novelists seem drawn in a very different direction - to that most bourgeois of forms, the family saga. Among gay writers, the impulse behind this is the threat of the Aids epidemic to erase memories along with fives, and a desire to delineate common ground with ancestors. Sagas emerging in the main- stream, however, hark back to the first half of the century and its two world wars. Perhaps the imminence of full European union is feeding this odd nostalgia, or the lack of a common enemy, or simply a cli- mate of moral relativity.. At first glance. William Riviere s addition to the heap contains all the salient ingredientsof the ^^anti- heartache genre. There are two Norfolk manor houses, a Tuscan villa and the clamour of interwar Rangoon. h As well as the honourable, war-torn clan at the story’s heart, there is a strangely beautiful wayward heroine a smattering of attractive but morally flawed gentry, oodles of money, doomed love, frocks, family jewels and halls aplenty. Wrapped in a warurae-romance cover! Echoes of War is marketed as an d£S£d ^r^n^aStonJ^ esting a writer to produce anything so pedestrian, however. Hemesto sdumit ^presumably at the. urging of agent or publisher - and succeeds here and there. His interest in psychological truth repeat- edly defeats the banality of the proposed material,, producing at. times the weird effect of reading a Rosamunde Pilcher novel rewritten by Ian McEwan. There is a constant undercurrent of pain, an uncomfortable awareness of the effort of maintaining a civilised social front, an unsettling ambivalence to most characterisations. With the exception of the servants, who are the time-honoured stereotypes of tight-lipped dedication and unswerving loyalty, none of Rivi&re's characters are reducible to their defining traits. ' Rather, he gives us personalities, with all the psychological contradictions and moral complexity the term implies. The central figure is a society painter and war hero, Charles Lammas, whose marriage to adoring but Inhibited Blanche was founded on their each having lost a brothenin the I9I4-1S conflict. As well as their son and daughter they have an extended family in the shape of Blanche’s feckless, fatherless nephew, who marries local money, and Charles’s wayward god- daughter. The latter, the strange beauty Georgia Burney, prorides one of its chief emotional conduits. She conducts an illicit, quasi -incestuous affair with Charles's son before. xnoving on to a fam- ily friend to be her father. Rfyifcre is startlingfy strong on physical evokes the Norfolk landscape, the’ smells and sounds of a traditional country Christmas and the sensations of a Booting Day shoot with the same sen- suous precision hehas brought to bear on the Mediterranean and Far East, both set- rings whidh he incidentally returns to here. The title implies that this is to be a novel about warfare perceived at a dis- tance. In the 1930S, Norfolk was peculiarly remote. Blanche is more taken up with horseflesh and herbaceous borders than with distant politics, just as Charles’s pri- mary concerns are his painting and the possibility of acquiring a young Italian mistress. Even once the war gets underway we see h filtered through garbled, late letters, unhelpful telegrams and Home Guard directives. When the survivors return to Norfolk, each has witnessed and suffered atrocities. The rural routines, centred around church, architecture and the plea- sures of field and table which the older characters have battled to preserve, are offered back to them at the end. A humble, autumn wedding proves a kind of redeeming cultural ritual. The effect, however corny and Mrs Miniver- isfa, touched even this old cynic. If the novel loses its way it is when Riv- ifere breaks away from his Norfolk world to give us chunks of history or to show us in cleanup atrocities in Burma or Europe which might have proved more shocking delivered indirectly. He also has an unfor- tunate habit of lessening the impact of narrative- developments by hinting. at them in advance. Echoes of War is no great addition to the catalogue of war literature - although its evocation of the horrors suffered by European women under the Japanese proves a corrective to the relatively cosy picture painted by Tenko. As a record of an intensely English country scene, how- ever, it is sure to win admirers among the urban disaffected or homesick. Festival of RA Jn association •>. 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Dent’s trawl of journalism from 1831-51 reveals Dickens as a dazzler among hacks. He chews the fat with coppers, blasts the PreRaphaelites. chortles at melodramas, taunts writers of begging letters and presages Rev Audrey by anthropomorphising locos. He tenderly observes the inmates of a workhouse but brusquelv defends the use of the treadmill in prisons. Dickens "wouldn't be Dickens without a dollop of sentimentality, but there is also plenty of waspish satire. His effervescent energy fizzes off every page. Penguin's wonderful 600-page compendium (edited by David Pascoe) chooses highlights from the magazines that the mature Dickens founded and ran. Household Herds and Alt the Year Round. He goes on duty with the "detective police', sails to Calais on the night mail, joins strikers in Preston, attacks the empty pomp of state funerals and digs deep into every niche of London life, high and low. Superb writing and tremendous value. Sap Rising by A A Gill (Black Swan, £6. 99) How do you sell a novel that received notoriously mixed reviews? ’ Simple. You print “'Do not buy this book*: The Guardian" on the front cover. In fact, it is hard to see what all the fuss was about GUI’s portrait of energetic couplings in Knightsbridge is little different to dozens of other smutty, sniggering yams published every year, though stylistically he aims higher (Tom Sharpe out of E F Benson) and sexually he goes further (bestiality with an alsatian) than most. Many pages show signs of;tn overstretched imagination in a work that succeeds neither as comedy nor pom. The Prehistory of Sex by Timothy Taylor (Fourth Estate. £8. 99) In this persuasive survey. Taylor imparts an erotic frisson to dry-as-dust archaeology. Noting that "megaliths are undeniably phallic”, he insists that humans have always regarded sex as much more than reproduction. Ice Age sculptures from Siberia were possibly bondage pornography. The contraceptive properties of plants (the seed of Queen Anne's lace is a ‘morning after” remedy) have been known for thousands of years. In Roman brothels, illustrative tokens specified the service required. Their imagery reveals that there's nothing new under the tongue. Stiff Ups by Anne Billson (Pan, £5. 99) It has always been Clare’s ultimate fantasy to own a flat in Netting Hill in London. So, when best friend Sophie (of the naturally glossy hair and Harvey Nicks charge card) gets there first, it's a little too much to bear. That is. until Miss Perfect starts to complain of unexpected bumps in the night and nocturnal visitations from the long-dead members of a Sixties band. Not as off the wall as it sounds, film critic Bfllsons sardonic, sexy ghost story explores the nastiness of close friends and the allure of Wll-a location, it seems, people are wiling to die for. James Stewart by Roy Pickard (Hale. £9. 99) Sadly fortuitous in timing, this portrait is as workmanlike as its subject. Stewart's low-key style suited directors such as no-nonsense Henry Hathaway (“Don't ask questions. It’s a load of crap”). Erstwhile lover Gloria de Havilland saw him as “a grown-up Huck Finn”. This was as true in life as on the screen. Though a brave wartime pilot, he ended up in Birmingham when driving from London to Norwich. His versatility ensured work in 80 films - but Ford bawled him out during Liberty V'alance and the legendary It's a Wonderful Life bombed on release. Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson (Minerva, £6. 99 1 Rarely has Belfast sounded so appealing: city of bombs and knee-cappings, but also leafy avenues, green hills and whimsical street names. Written with ease and gabby panache. McLiam Wilson’s fourth novel describes the coming of age of Chukie Lurgan - fat. Methodist and lucky in love - and Jake Jackson, a Catholic; atheist dumped by his English girlfriend, as they get to grips with grown-up sex and less than grown-up polities. Mars and Venus on a Date by John Gray (Vermilion. L'7 > Men arc from Mars and women are from Venus and international love guru, John Gray, is front California. But his lake on the extra- terrestrial dating game is decidedly down to earth. Martians are advised To dress in uniform (“even when off duty”), compliment women lavishly on their choice of sunglasses, and be seen in the company of gurgling babies: while Vonusians are advised to hang out by the loos on long haul flights and cruise the aisles for potential soul mates. Life on the mothership gels complicated. Back Door to Byzantium by Bill and Laurel Cooper tAdlard Coles. 99) A voyage by barge from Calais through the cockpit of Europe to Turkey should make a great 'travel book. Unfortunately, this yarn is marred by excessive detail. We're told of every sleeping pill swallowed, every bill paid and every local cat encountered. Bad jokes proliferate: "There was no crock of gold at the end of the Rimbaud. ” Though a trifle pleased with themselves ("Laurel is very fond of her eats and Bill is very fond of Laurel”), the Coopers are keen observers. Lost somewhere among the twee humour is a perceptive portrait of Mittelcuropa. Audiobooks W hat exactly are recitative and raientado? How did the oratorio develop into opera, and chorale become concerto? Huge numbers of us like to hum along with Pavarotti and tap our feet to the "March of i he Toreadors", but have a profound inferiority- complex about our general knowledge of music. Listening to The History of Classical Music (Naxos. 5hrs+. 99 tape: £14. 99 CD) is like witnessing the scattered pieces of a half-familiar jigsaw being filled into an orderly historical frame extending from Hildegardc of Bingen U) Benjamin Britten. Robert Powell, one of the very- best readers of the spoken word, reads Richard Fawkes’s fascinating text with interested intelligence. The four tapes are punctuated by dozens of examples of the music in question, with informative cover notes for those who want to hear more. NEW AUTHORS PUEUSH VOufi WORK AU SUBJECTS CONSIDERED MW Sc>7X*7 Rofcp’WV »0OTy Crswn, oumcRS wcmowHE avitcd warts ob send voub uwjscflff’r TO MINERVA PRESS 3 OLD BHOOPION RQ. LONDON SW *» Christina Hardyment Confronted with the bespectacled gaze of Cardinal Nino de Guevara, the last things his victims could say was ‘I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition'. For Guevara was the Grand Inquisitor himself, and El Greco (c. 1600) doesn’t let us forget it- From ‘The Papacy, (Wetdenfeld, £25), a sumptuously illustrated but rather bitty collection edited by his eminence Paul Johnson. Three papalplcture- books appear this autumn; publishers clearly expected a vacancy would soon arise in Rome. Now, of course, they have other plans Earthly powers The Conversion of Europe: from paganism to Christianity 371-1386 by Richard Fletcher, HsrpefCoHins, £25 hould you expect u reward for converting to Christianity'. ’ The question embar- riisscs many modern Christians, but the answer from past missionaries and con- vert% was an emphatic yes. However, should the reward be left solely to the next world - harps and thrones. eieV Or should I he goods start being delivered in this life? The Bible's many books offer a variety ot options. Scripture written in good times suggests that good times begin the reward: eom and w ine and oil increase, and they are a down-payment on being faithful to God. Scripture written in bad times argues that bad limes make good Chris- tian^: in tact they are a necessary entrance pass. “We are God's heirs and Christ's fellow-heirs, if we share his sufferings now in order to share his splendour hereafter. " Paul told Christians in Rome. Unpleasant phenomena like being thrown to lions by Nero were included in the deal. By contrast, during the l years covered by- Richard Fletcher's masterly book, most of those lining up for baptism expected immediate ben- efits. The trend started with the Roman Emperor Constantine 1. who believed that he won the most important battle « if his life by direct decisions of the God of the Christians. He does not seem to have had any further instruction in Christian doc- trine. He poured out money and favours on the Church. Tills was a fateful turning-point in its his- tory. When Fletcher's story opens. Constantine's successors were turning the alliance between Church and State into permanent establishment. Christianity and the Roman Empire were now inseparable. The Church called itself Catholic, which means worldwide, but its world was that of the Roman slate - urban, suave, tidy-minded - founded long before Jesus Christ lived in back- woods rural Palestine. Pie in the sky - or lavish parties now? Diarmaid MacCulloch asks why Europeans chose Christianity This had a curious effect when the western, Latin half of the Roman Empire fell to pieces in the fifth century. The Latin-speaking Church became a curator of Romanness. That was a paradox, since Jesus had been crucified by a Roman governor, but the alliance stuck. Bishops still dress up on sacred occasions in copes and mitres, a version oflate Roman aristocrats’ best clothes. Monks who began by opting out of Roman society, as Paul had urged, took to copy- ing classical manuscripts. Without these monte, very little would survive of Greek and Roman lit- erature; it would have crumbled to dust. By Fletcher's closing date of 1386, Christian- ity conquered ail Europe. In that year even the highly sophisticated pagans of Lithuania, mak- ing the best of a bad job, allied with one Chris- tian power to avoid annihilation by another. Why the success? In the previous 1, 000 years, a mirage of the Roman Empire haunted the peo- ples who had helped to demolish it: Goths, Franks, Saxons. They wanted to be Roman, and the Bishop of Rome was happy to oblige. When he sent a mission to die English in 597. he turned Kent into a little Italy, with churches and cathe- drals dedicated in the same way as the leading churches in Rome. An Anglo-Saxon king even retired to Italy, thus inventing Chianrishirc. In SOU, Christian Europe carried its love affair with dead Rome to the extreme of invent- ing a new monarch who called himself the Holy Roman Emperor. Like Constantine, many such rulers saw Christianity as a religion which won battles. They were also prepared to send in the troops to save souls. Not all missionaries were happy about this, bur they remembered how Augustine of Hippo had wrestled with the ethics of forcible conversioo. 'He pointed out that Jesus had told a parable in which the host of a wed- ding party filled the room by getting his servants to force people to Come along. “Compel them to come in” became a missionary slogan: “benig- nant asperity”, which means clobbering people with the best of intentions. The Crusaders took this to its logical conclusion by gathering armies to tight land massacre) non-Christians. It was a long way from turning the other cheek. So there were carrots and sticks in converting medieval Europe. Few seem to have understood conversion as Billy Graham might today. Most people were ordered to become Christians, usu- ally by their lord or lady. But it was not all mind- less coercion. The Church could be sensitive to the pride of the people, and one of Fletcher’s major themes is the way it married new to old. In many places, it allowed people to go on expressing their grief by filling the graves of the dead with prized possessions. Even the great Christian holy man Cuthbert of Undisf&me was gjven his grave goods to take with him. The Church encouraged royal families to trace their genealogy further beyond the fierce pagan God Woden, all the way back to Biblical Adam. Bish- ops outshone non-Christian religious leaders with their splendid hospitality'. Wilfrid of York threw a three-day party for high society after dedicat- ing what is now Ripon Cathedral. No doubt the occasion was a satisfying mixture of solid Anglo- Saxon cheer and delicate Roman canapes, if any- one was capable of remembering afterwards. Fletcher writes deliberately for the non- specialisL He avoids false piety, and effectively conveys the sheer strangeness of the Christian faith in past contexts. Even if God exists, She or He needs constantly to be reinvented, and this is a lively panorama of some of the reinventions fuelling a millennium of Christendom. Independent choice Mary Scott on very English whodunits O ne of the pleasures of any mystery series is that jx>u know Freltymueh what vou'rc going to get. In Ru h Icndelt's case (Road HuKhm>on, ■16. 99) the expected is Chief Inspector Vexford. who brings to murder in Cingsmarkham all his cusiomatv integrity rod steady, logical intelligent*.. But ihi ime there is more at stake than «k olution of a crime: Wexford s wife. Dora. ias been abducted.., The rage of the title is that ol varied protestors who oppose the building of a icw Kingsmarkbam h^ass. They eiwcr the pectrum of activists: Fnends of the Earth, he Sussex Wildlife Trust; Swampy- ookalikes; New Age travellers: a pagan vho poses for Today wearing three hubaib leaves; and Dora, with other ■espectable citizens who make up the loeui rroupKabal.. „ But the first crime to claim Wexford s mention is only incidental to their efforts, h the process of the destruction of old >adger habitats and the creation of new >nes. the badly decomposed body of a girl s discovered. She is soon identified as a nissing German hitchhiker and suspicion alls on a seedy minicab driver. Before the action can move much urther, the minicab office is subjected to a leemingly senseless (and violent) attack, ’fcople begin to disappear. Worford suffers in agony of apprehension for his missing wife. She is held along with other ipparentfy unconnected people by Sacred jlobe, whose price for the return of the lostages is the abandonment of the by- jass. Dora's release is dramatic and her iubsequent courage is remarkable as iVexfbrd leads her through everything that lappeued to her which might constitute a due to die location of her prison. In the tradition of the best mysteries, Rendell does not cheat her readers. The of the pleasure lies in its solid delineation of place and character, and in tbe serious, highly moral deliberations of its endearing, complex protagonist Booked for Mnrderby Val McDermid (The Women's Press, £6-99) is anything but serious. Its the fifth Lindsay Gordon novel, a jolly romp through the world of London publishing. It gets off to a cracking start when a bestselling author is murdered by the somewhat exotic means by which she has chosen to dispatch the victim in her new novel: death by exploding beer bottle. The manuscript has disappeared, so has the computer on which it was written and all ihe floppy disks. Only the winter's agent, her editor and her cx-girlfriend know the plot of the book. Enter Lindsay Gordon the reluctant sleuth, hired to clear the name of Meredith, the ex-girlfricnd. Lindsay is tough, prepared to take chances and, as she uncovers the facts, ludicrously apt to put two and two together and make five. She is certain that first the agent, then the editor, is guilty; and she as good as denounces each of them, to her own subsequent embarrassment. Meanwhile, she is up to a spot of skullduggery on behalf of her friend Helen whose partner has all but squeezed her out of their joint business. The two plot strands merge when Lindsay, after an evening spent backing into the company's computer, is pursued fay a hit man intent on silencing her with a baseball bat. The denouement - which also involves Pick of the week Booked for Murder by Val McDermid computers - features a dramatic battle between the villain and Lindsay and her girlfriend. It climaxes with our battered heroines staggering into the street to find armed police surrounding the building. Along the way there are wisecracks galore, and the whole ends on a high note with a jolly good joke: this is terrific fun. Fun is the last word you'd use to describe John Harvey’s Nottingham policeman, Charlie Resnick (Still Water, Heine m arm. £15. 99). A bulky, lugubrious man, he sets about his business of catching criminals with a world-weary air. A central theme of the novel, and one which links Resnick's own relationship wth the circumstances of the murder victim, is the female characters' ambiguous attitude to male violence. That’s a bit of an old chestnut, but the plot is intricate and satisfying, with a substantial sideshow in the world of professional art theft. Whole C lotta shakirf:oin’ on hristopher Hope has always spe- cialised in exposing the absurdi- ties of political extremism. In ear- lier books he satirised South Africa’s apartheid regime through a mixture of bizarre and chilling images. Now he has turned his attentions to its successor. Welcome lo the topsy-turvy world of Buckingham, a small town in the veldt, where ihe district surgeon is being pur- sued for malpractice by his former gar- dener. nnu the town's health inspec- tor, while a hoy who lived in a tree has been promoted to captain of police, Buckingham, or Lulherburg as it was known before democracy, has been through more changes of identity’ than Michael Jackson. In its current incar- nation it acts as a magnet for all those who see "The Change” as an oppor- Daniel Britten visits a new veldt Me, Ihe Moon and EMs Presley by Christopher Hope, Macmillan £15. 99 tunity to take advantage of the much lalked-about new spirit of conciliation. King of the freeloaders is Pascal Le Gros. a white attorney wanted for embezzlement who plans to open up a Bushman theme park, and who hap- pens to be sleeping with the town’s black deputy- mayor. Mi mi. The new South Africa has become even more fractured and bigoted than before. Recriminations run riot and some of the novel’s most scathing moments derive from the wav the two communities, white and black, echo feelings of contempt. The new mayor, an Indian posing as a black, reflects on the uselessness and brutality of the for- mer white rulers: “If they could not shoot it kick it, fuck it or cal it, they went home and beat someone up. " The white churchgoing population has split into two camps over the issue of whether to admit blacks to services. The half that refuses re-names itself the Dutch Reformed Reformed Church. At times the flippancy of the tone can be excessive, but Hope counter- balances the farce with a tragic account of sinister goings-on under the old regime. Mimi, who spans both stories, was once purchased for six bars of soap, and like most characters dreams of the future while struggling to escape her past She comes up with an idea to mark the first anniversary of democ- racy 1, an Elvis Presley iookalike com- petition. Presley is the one symbol able to unite this motley collection of char- acter. The farmers like him as a coun- try boy. The Communists like him because he’s working class; the blacks, because he sounds like a white negro. That the golden age never really existed is no longer of importance. The key point is that the past can be a source of redemption as well as recrim- ination. In the bloated image of fis- cal dressed as Elvis, replete with satin jump-suit and wing collar, and leading toe way forward to a new South Afrw^ Cb ns top her Hope has produced one of his most bizarre images yel. Ptfk Of tf: Oil man Robert P McCulloch paid $2. 5m to move one of the world’s most famous landmarks from the Thames to the Arizona desert Trouble is Williamson can now confirm, he got the wrong one A bridge too fars Tower Bridge it ain't, butLondon Bridge, Lake Havasu Cfty, Arizona, a ttr a ct s a million visitors a year PHOTOMONTAGE; JONATHAN ANSTEE; PHOTOGRAPHS COLORIFIC U v ". y j-r Bridge across the Atlantic T he stars and stripes on London Bridge hang limply in the desert air. Welcome to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, home of the most expensive antique in salesroom history. It is now 30 years since the London authorities con- cluded that under of 20th- century traffic old London Bridge was not falling down but slowly sinking into the Thames mud and would have to be replaced. Amid great controversy the 10, 276 numbered granite blocks originally quarried from Scotland and Dartmoor and which had spanned London’s river for 130 years were sold to the Americans, shipped across the Atlantic and reassembled in the desert of Mohave County. All that was missing was some wafer. to flow under the bridge. But Americans go for simple solu- tions to these problems. No one found anything strange in remov- ing 3 million cubic yards of desert to create a chan- nel to divert the mighty Colorado River from the course it had followed for tens of thousands of years. For the bridge, plucked from its comfortable, foggy blankets of London grit and soot, the change could not have -been more dramatic. Havasu regularly features on US weather reports as the hottest spot in the union. Last summer the place recorded temperatures in excess of 110F cm 100 successive days, the thermometer peaking one melting July day at 128. Yet London Bridge smns perfectly at ease under the unrelenting sun, and is how second only to the Grand Canyon among Arizona’s top tourist attractions. Through its elegant arches an endless proces- sion of vessels, from the old paddle steamer Dixie Belle to higb-powered wave riders, head for the expanse of blue water from which the dty takes its name. The Havasuvians are proud of their bridge and alongside it there is now a thriv- ing “English Village”, complete with a traditional pub serving British freer, a London Transport doable-decker bus (now an ice cream parlour), a solid Vic- torian post box and a red Giles Gilbert Scott telephone kiosk.. The pub, the London Bridge Arms, even has its own genuine Londoner propping up the bar most days and telling stories of the Battle of Britain. A former RAF navigator with a bristling moustache and apukka accent he is loved by the Americans! This ts my lather. What he is doing here is a long story but after 14 years he is liter- ally part of the furniture: the staff of the pub have put a bras plate on his favourite chair, bearing the legend “Sir Neville”. He hasn't had to buy a beer for himself since he has been bere. Until 1964 Lake Havasu City d5d not exist Tbday it draws a milli on visitors a year. Their presence is due to Robert P McCulloch, I man and developer who had flown oyer the area as a Second Wbrld War pDot and who decided that the site by the lake was a natural resort locatioa Tbgetber with his architect C V Wood he resolved that what was needed was a centrepiece - some- thing unique to put the new resort on the tourist map and to complement the obvious attractions of the lake. When McCulloch heard that London Bridge was for sale, $2JSm for such a large slice of British history seemed like a bargain. Rumour has always held that be believed that be was buying the Gothic castellations of Tbwer Bridge. The story was strenuously denied for years, but Stan Usinowicz, managing editor of the local news- paper, told me that shortly before he died Wood had admitted to him off the record that the rumour was true. Yet if Havasu is proud of its bridge, the town has a love-hate relationship with its lake. On the one hand, the waters arc the only thing that make desert living tolerable. On the other, the lake forms the border between Arizona and California, and every self-respecting Arizonan in a cowboy hat has nothing but contempt for the “Californian crazies'’. Los Angeles is a five-hour drive and every week- end throe urban cowboys arrive with their power boats and jet skis, turning the lake into a play- ground and behaving as local folklore claims only Californians can. Fbr away from the lake and the tourists, this is a sleepy, small tows. Republican middle America - full of the sort of people who think Ollie North was merely doing his patriotic duty. The front page of The Lake Havasu News-Herald is devoted to ama- teur dramatic productions and chflli cook-out con- tests, although the occasional arrest for drunken rowdiness is always big news - particularly if the cul- prit comes from California. Equally unpopular are ihe “snow birds", the thousands who swell the population between October and March, fleeing the harsh northern states for a winter in the sun. Their crimes include driving at 30mph, stealing favoured spots in the parking lot and grabbing all the best tables at Denny’s for Sunday brunch. In truth Lake Havasu is in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by hundreds of miles of America’s most arid desert. You are advised to carry a gallon of water in the car if you should decide to venture out on a summer’s day. Rat- tlesnakes are a common hazard and coyotes run wild through the washes - the wide, diy riverbeds which carry the surface water down to the lake on the rare but blissful occasions when it does rain. Yet there is no denying that the desert scenery possesses a wild and rugged beauty. Every turn of the road reveals a new vista right out of those John Wayne westerns. Some 50 miles north and a short turn on a winding and rocky section of old Route 66 is O atm an. a real cowboy ghost town and a thriving gold-mining community at the turn of the century. Today it caters exclusively for tourists, with mock gun fights in the street on a Sunday afternoon - but the donkeys which roam the streets are feral animals, descended from the beasts of the old prospectors, and the tumble-down weather- boarded saloons and corrugated-iron buildings, with names such as “Hist Fannie's", are original. A visit here is a surreal experience - but if you are ever in the city, do drop in to the London Bridge Arms and buy my dad 3 beer. Nigel Williamson paid £347 fora return flight from London to Phoenix on Continental ia Houston, and a further £120 for the hop to Havasu on America West The only airline with direct services to Phoenix is British Airways (0345 222111), but other carriers offer lower fares for connecting senices. For tkoi^Rnds ©f World Offers tail now on: tVoRio Offers o, BRITISH AIRWAYS Book 1>5 ist October H7. The world's favourite airline Fares '■ n,, n fiwn'tond**-' All aw subject w tinSred walUalhy indmuel pafeds. Passenger cue exetudedL'Rjr details and conUdons see ITV Tdetnr p. 380, your WwsJ a#M« « Brtrish Always Travel Shop. Or hook and pay a our internet sire, httre /TwwwJbritish-a Hways^ofn 10 eastern europe SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMB ER 1997 * THE INDEPENDE NT L r_ -,. i ijiij Prague •. /•' Krtow® I® CZECH >vx __, REPUBLIC / - @ I task* _y Poprad,. J “r SLOVAKIA Budapest B-A® Brads lava. t A U ST R I A Ojfluo* hom Wary / 100 mite Slovakia offers untold treats in town and mountain, says Simon Calder *Uly (owns hemmed in by wild couni lysidc: Slovakia epitomises ihe enticement of Eastern Europe, a land preserved in ster- ile solution for half a century. Yet on a visit to Slovakia, my first encounter with the country was an abject failure. June l y SS. and the place was merely a four-syllable payoff to Czecho. Further- more, a isit to the federation was possi- ble only after spending so much time and energy at the consulate that it amounted to a near-apprenticeship. So instead of exploring Slovakia’s neat towns and wild countryside. I elected to travel through on a no-visa- required boat. I enjoyed all of 20 minutes clipping a comer of Slovakia, aboard the Cometa hydrofoil as she whizzed along Che Danube from decadent Vienna. The vessel passed, non-stop, through the stem facades of Bratislava, before veering through waves of ungainly suburbia to a Hungary teetering on the brink of capitalism. Cm to |W, and Slovakia is seductively easy jo reach. OK, so Bratislava airport’s only daily connection is with the old enemy. Prague. But the key to Europe's newest capital lies 30 miles west of the Slo- vakian frontier, at Vienna's airport. Thanks to a fust, frequent bus link, you can reach Bratislava from London or Man- chester in less than four hours. The capital looks dangerously schizoid, a condition created by half a century of communist role from Prague. Bratislava, a city at the heart of Europe, has precisely the right assemblage of ragged lanes and arrogant avenues, tottering townhouses and enticing churches. Four years of independence has bestowed the place with a comprehensive makeover. The pre- dominant pastel colours look several lones brighter, while new cobbles for old Dangerously schizoid: dy 1 of Bratislava there are enttemg Churches and tottenng *""**£“ - but you need to in order to avoid the sigh* of _ the tower blocks scarring the suburbs PHOTOGRAPH. JAMES STKACH AN. 'RHPL A cracker behind concrete Tarmac give the right feel underfooL All of which is marvellous, presuming you have been brought blindfold to the city amtre. But the past 50 years have seriously wounded Bratislava. Ghastly apartment buildings scar the suburbs like building blocks scattered by a child in a temper. And the Slovak National Uprising Bridge is unforgivcable. A year's production of con- crete seems to have been employed to build a piece of uncivil engineering that resem- bles the frame for a giant tent. A road has been slung through the middle: not content with disfiguring the Danube, it proceeds to amputate the castle from the Old Town and zip past the cathedral of St Martin. Hang on. though: you are here to relax, not to rant about past misdeeds. So slip inside the cathedral and inhale history. Bratislava became capital of Hungary when the Turks took over Budapest in 1536, and for the next three centuries Hungarian monarchs were crowned at the altar of this Gothic masterpiece. St Mar- tin himself is depicted cutting off a cor- ner of his cloak to give to a beggar - an image, you might conclude, with worrying parallels to the way the E65 superhighway slices through the city. Time to move on. Bratislava's main station is one of the great transport nodes of Europe, a place where the destination board gives you a shiver of romance: from here you could board a train to Warsaw, Kiev or Venice. But confine your ambition to within Slo- vakia's borders, to explore a country with the same area and population as Scotland. Like Scotland, Slovakia has a generous helping of rolling lowlands speckled with castles - extravagant structures born of excess wealth and sheer folly. These escort you eastwards into the Tatras, a brute of a range that easily trumps Scot- land's Grampians. Yet you can ascend the mountains without any special equipment - indeed, with barely anything except some small change. Hop off the express at Tatranska Strba, and climb aboard one of the world's most heroic little trains. It hauls itself up an impossible gradient, assisted by some extravagant loops, for five miles. Suddenly you are deposited in a full-scale ski resort, Strbske Pleso (vow- els seem to be rationed in Slovak). More bizarre still, a tram is waiting for you. Silent but for a gentle electrical whirr, the tram slides off for an epic ride along the mountain ridge. Swaying through thick clumps of firs, it provides glimpses of broad plains far below. Then you get into sanatorium territory. One of the ideas of Eastern Europe that survived the post-war ideological spring-cleaning was the spa resort. Imposing sanatoria, a cross between a pompous town hall and an almost -de luxe hotel, flank the tramlines. Step inside one and you are dragged back a century (the approximate age of most of the atten- dants). Queen of the latras - that’s a title Fve just made up, but she deserves it - is the Grand Hotel in Stary Smokovec, where the tram unloads you. Like all the best examples of faded grandeur, this one has three layers of net curtains too many, and three layers of paint too few. Life slows down as soon as you cross the the- atrical threshold: ordering a beer in the bar takes an age, during which you can indulge in wonderment at the way the 20th century has swerved past the place. Another patient tram awaits your descent to something approximating to real life. Plug back into the main line at Pbprad. and make for the city which is Iasi stop before Ukraine. Having spent the last few days revelling in the past, it is a shock to discover Kosice’s new attraction: Slovakia s east- ernmost branch of Tesco. That familiar red and blue logo looks ludicrous in a place where the narrow streets reck of intrigue and tragedy. But turn your back on it: north, a life-size and supremely ath- letic bronze statue of a marathon runner emphasises a trait left over from state socialism, that Kosice is global HQ for the 26-mile run; or south, towards Hlavne Namestie - “main square”. Head back to the station, in anticipation of another grand journey, this time along the sou th- ern railways line through plump hills. Someone has perched a preposterous fortress on a street corner. Jakabov Palace, once a presidential residence and now the local beadquarteis of the British Council. Pop your head round the door, and some- one will politely point out the spot in the fine reception room where Vhciav Havel stood in the brief moment between Velvet Revolution and divorce. We may possess only a tiny shred of Slo- vakia, but it’s a lovely one. There are no direct flights between Britain and Bratislaw. Plenty of fli&its, however: operate to Vienna; from here there is a reg- ular bus service to Bratislava. costing about £7 each mot. Flights to Vienna are operated from Heathrow by Austrian Airlines (0171- 434 7300); from Heathrow and Gatwick by British Airways (0345 222111). and from Gatwick and Manchester bv Lauda. *lir ( 0171-6305924), Simon Calder paid £140 return ( including tax) from Gatwick to Vienna on British Airways. Visas are no longer required for British passport holders visiting Slovakia. 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' “ ' ~ The pearl of Slove- nia’s short shoreline is Piran. Tiny, beautiful, impossible for traffic and irresistible for yachts- men, this will one day be the Adriatic Portofino. An energetic copper- green statue of the vio- ucauicuvci, vDiiui3iiav^ lin virtuoso Giuseppe not yet returned in their “Devil’s TKIT Thrtmi, bora here In 1692, commands a lit- jKe-war numbers, living is cheap by western European stan- tle oval piazza of smooth white marble between a rain- dards; there is excellent peaceful camping with hardly any Ta Venice harmless. It isn’t. It stands for Fmkdrperkultur, which is the German for nudism. Unbalanced by my free melon, 1 pedalled into one such establishment near Novigrad. Pondering the defects in the Maastricht c on v erge nce criteria helped me to endure a parade of athletic young German women in a stale of nature until the evening cool descended and it was acceptable to be textil once more. By a violet sea under a peach sky I drank “mishmash”, a curious mix- ture of orange juice and red wine and ate pizza dabnaaja, of which one ingredient was prscut - Italian prosciutto with Croatian vowels. While the morning cool lasts, the Istrian coast is won- derful, rolling cycling. Die next morning I passed a man on a tractor who was mowing the verge. There was a pow- erful smell of fresh-cut corander. A few minutes later 1 passed a field which smelled of liquorice. Apart from the lingering suspicion of beards, this beau- tiful coast was scarcely touched by the Yugoslav wars. In fact here the legacies of conquest tend to be much older.. Pula, the somnolent port at the southern tip of Istria, has the axtb largest Roman amphitheatre extant. And in its qttare fo n ne ifytall^TigRqnibfike, ithasaniov- mg and remarkable juxtaposition of two edifices, built in the same soft white marble but L200 years apart - a temple to the emperor Augustus arid a 13th-century town restraint of the Roman marble-tiled metresfrom to the cove at Bredova ixxd ^ and, onfit ^) ^? itself as a dense maze of ties are ovJvvisitDis haw not yet returned in their Vowel -free zone '%*.. L *, ;x -M bow of houses and the indigo sea. At the Croatian border I was held up for half an hour while unsmiling officials took turns to glare at my pass- port The photograph shows me with a beard but 1 was dean-shaven; I wondered whether they still associated beards with their Serbian former enemies and suspected me of infiltrating a bicycle into their country. It seemed better not to raise the question, however, and eventually they derided that anyone cycling in that heat was more insane than dangerous. Maybe it is the heat, but the very few beards I saw in Croatia were growing on foreigners. As you cycle further south in Istria the traffic dimin- ishes and you can look around a bit without fearing for your life. The landscape and vegetation are standard Mediterranean - maize, olives, wheat and vines inter- mosquitoes. There is bags of history, beautiful countryside and more than 4, 000km of coastline, much of it imposingly rugged, washed by temptingly dear, warm seas. The only drawback is actualfy getting into the water -there are few beaches and usually you have to pick your way over rough rocks or little patches of concrete packed with sunbathere. But once you are in the water you want to stay there for ever.. Unfortunately my time ran out in the little port of Mali Losmj where I caught the twice-weekly fcny back to Venice. It is particularly satisfying to sit in comfort on the cakn sea and watch the Istrian coast slip past We sailed into the Venetian lagoon as the sun was set- ting. The lights were coming on in the glorious grand- parent of all those pretty Adriatic ports. We steamed „ * *m Ci I r r* Mediterranean - maize, olives, wheat and vines inter- slowly past the city, a couple of gondola-lengths from the spersed with a rocky scrub - with the turquoise presence landing stages of Piazza San Marco and the Accademia. of the sea. The towns still have many of the graceless. The younger Italian passengers started punching buttons unlovable communist-era blocks but there is a frenzy of on their mobile phone& as if so much magic was the most construction everywhere - pretty family houses with bal- conies and arches. There is a burgeoning small-scale tourist industry, too, with new holiday complexes and campsites everywhere. And on this here’s a won! of warn- nonnal thing in the world. British Airways (0345 222111) flies daily from Gatwick to Zagreb, while Croatia Airlines [0171 306 3165) flies daily ing to the English-speaking traveller: the Croatian lan- from Heathrow. For travel in September, BA has a return guage seems rather tightfisted with vowels - Trieste, for fare of £195. The Croatia National Tourism Office is at instance, is Trst and there is an island called Krk-so the 2, The Lanchesters, 162-164 Fulham Palace Road, London word FKK on signs to many campsites might se em fairly- W6 9ER (0181 563 7979).. U apftiB aw** Nkaatt.... C95 CaM* tan. CrnDniA CBS Aba CM |« tag.. IWW *» Sxtar MW For all your flight mpitabMiiu plat • Cat Hits • Airport Hon* • Airport Parking ■ tnmtrmca CALL NOW FOR DCTAHS OF hundreds MORE BARGAINS 0990 014101 I London Bridge is falling - down True. Last weekend a drunk driver drove a pick-up truck over the parapet on the north side of the bridge in Leke Havasu City. 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Trouble spots Advice to young travellers from Chib Freestyle, the offshoot of Thomson that promises: “no screaming kids, no whining families and no doddering old fogies... Everyone there is *up for it* in foe broadest possible sense. ” Thomson has worked doseiy with the Department of Health to provide you with expert tips for safety in the sun. You’ll find these listed in foe holiday guide sent with your tickets. Do make sure you take an adequate supply of any medicines needed. Aids has now spread across the world. There is no vaccine or cure for Aids. Casual intercourse can be very risky. People can be infectious even though they may not be aware of it and even if they look and feel welL If you do have sex with a new partner always use a condom. They arc the most effective protection against HIV/Aids and other sexually transmitted diseases. All the resorts featured are lively places, popular with young people. 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Vic- toria Thornton, project director and also director of the RIBA Architec- ture Centre, had seen for herself how successful projects were abroad and was enthusiastic about making it happen here: “The idea is to increase people's appreciation of architec- ture, and to make the people work- ing in these extraordinary buildings proud of them, too. " Now more than 20 boroughs are taking part, and the success inspired the Civic Trust to take up the baton and organise Heritage Open Days, taking place outside London this weekend: properties on display range from the Oxford Union and Chel- tenham Ladies College to Barclays Group Archives in Manchester. The building causing most excite- ment in the years Open House is the recently restored Foreign Office. The Foreign Office had been intend- ing for some time to admit the pub- lic. but the refurbishment was not completed until January this year. The Fine Rooms, through which the public will be allowed to walk, are stupendous: the Durbar Court, a three-tiered courtyard with Indian overtones and roofed in Victorian Personally recommended A chance for readers to choose England’s best family holiday An open door policy glass and ironwork; the Grand Stair- case with its marble columns and glo- riously politically incorrect murals (Britannia Peacemaker, for exam- ple): and the Grand Locarno Recep- tion Room, with its high-lit. soaring zodiac-decorated ceiling: “I always think it's like a secular cathedral, ” says Kate Crow, historian and. appropriately enough, open govern- ment officer for the Foreign Office. Incredibly, in 1963. all this was sched- uled for demolition. Meanwhile, behind the famous win- dow less facade of the Bank of Eng- land (the “curtain wall" designed by Sir John Soane) is another extraordi- nary slice of gracious living. Visitors will' be greeted by the gatekeepers in their top hats and pink frock coals and guided in groups of 25 along the mosaic pavement, past the flower- filled courtyard to the Court Room and Governor's Office. Oil paintings, leather seats, parquet floors and a waiting room which is more like a drawing room give an intriguing insight into the world of high finance. At the other end of the scale, the 1930s Finsbury Health Centre (designed by Lubetkin) and Rother- hithe Youth Hostel are opening their doors. There's a pumping station in Southwark, a Buddhist temple in Wimbledon and London’s third old- est synagogue in the garden of an 18th-century Spitalfields house. Most visited last year were Somer- set House and the former Midland Grand Hotel, which is now St Pancras Chambers. Designed hy Sir George Gilbert Scott, the Midland Grand Hotel, with its towering staircase and grand Ladies* Smoking Room, had 8, 000 visitors. It has opted out this year, in favour of other openings organised in conjunction with Open House. Also popular last year were the architects' offices - those of Richard Rogers and Norman Foster attracted up to 2^00 people each. The scheme has generated a great following. “We've had letters from people who have done as many as 13 buildings in a day. ” Victoria Thornton says. Christopher Salaman. a City of London guide, devoted a weekend to Open House last year. “There's a great appeal in seeing buildings that are not normally accessible. like the Old Treasury in Whitehall - won- derful. ” He also recommends the Economist Building and the former Fort of London Authority (now head- quarters for Willis Corroon Group). An innovation this year is aimed at schoolchildren. A Passport to Design can be used by children visiting nine particular buildings, with questions to answer and spaces for drawings. Among other places, the passport will take them to the Foreign Office. What has Open House got its eye on next? “The Prime Minister's home. ” says Victoria Thornton. “Why not? They do it in Paris “ Open House information line 0891 600061: Heritage Open Days (this weekend): telephone 0891 8(8)603. E ach year, the English Tourist Board stages the England for Excellence awards, giving recognition to the people who do (he most to welcome visitors and present the nation in a good light Beginning this year, the board has enlisted the help of readers of The Independent. We want you to vote tor a new category: the Family Holiday of the Year. The definition is broad. You may choose a resort, or city: a campsite, or hotel: a holiday camp, or activity centre - any location which you feel reflects the best of an English holiday. Your entry will cam you the chance to bask in your nominee's glory at the England for Excellence awards ceremony in London on 4 November-and to be chosen as the family to visit a new attraction for our regular Outings feature. The English Tourist Board will bring you to London for the ceremony, while The Independent will provide a journalist and photographer to accompany you on your day out. To enter, just write to The Best Rtmriy Holiday Award. PO Box 4AP. London WiA 4AP with the following information: Your nominated family holiday - and, in 100 words or fewer, your reasons for choosing it. Your name, address, and daytime Here's how your entry could look: Independent/ETB Best Family Holiday in England Award Nomination: Thomfield Halt near Rochester, Kent Relaxed, fun and full of the itnexjiL'cicd. this elegant hotel is set in glorious countryside and caters especially for families. There’s plenty for children to do in the area - from hone riding and supervised moutuain-bike treks to painting and pottery sessions laid on hy the hoteL Fur parents. Thomfield is a haven - and there’s a child- minder on hand to read stories and take charge at children 's meal times. 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Elsewhere you might perhaps think you should wander the hack streets in search of authentic local culture, but pick any bar in Honfleur's old port and much of the town's con- siderable beauty is laid out around you. The main attraction of Honfleur is the old harbour itself. Th is is surrounded on three sides hy w ohhly gabled houses that seem to be a couple of storeys higher than is safe - and appear to lean against one another for com- fort and support. Inevitably, though conveniently, most of the fronts of the houses have been turned into crepe ries or terrace bars. It almost goes without saving that you can expect to pay a premium for having a drink here, but thanks to the 10-franc pound a beer in such a location is merely expensive (£2. 40) rather than extor- tionate. Yet the extra cost is worth iL Exclusive yachts hoh in the harbour alongside local Ashing boats. TTie entrance to the port is guarded by the old Licutcnuncc. the 16th- century house that was once home to the governor of Honfleur. Just across the dock stands the enormous lintel de ville, as imposing a town hall as any’ dreamed up by Victorian burghers in Britain. A gorgeous, fm-dc-sieclc carousel is a reminder that Honfleur remains a popular seaside destination for the French. Artists complete the scene by setting up their easels around the quayside. They are following a well established tradition. In the late 19th century Honfleur was a retreat and an inspira- tion for artists. Eugene Boudin, a forerunner of the Impressionists who taught the young Claude Monet, was bom here. Pissarro, Cezanne and Renoir also spent time in town, and it was in the St Simeon Inn that many of the Impressionists were said to have first met. Little appears to have changed in the town since then, mainly because Honfleur escaped the wartime bombing that devastated nearby Caen. There are many parallels with St Ives in Cornwall: along the back streets, away from the port, are several artists’ galleries, though these are scarcely as fre- quented as the quayside bars. Prising ourselves away from our table, we strolled across the harbour to Rue de la Prison, a narrow zig-zagging lane that takes you past craftsmen sitting on steps as they make miniature boats. The original old shipbuilding quarter. Rue Haute, is a short stroll away, leading to the Museum Eugene Boudin, which houses’ a numlxT of the artist's paintings and also u handful of Monets. A slightly bizarre exhibition of paintings of cows continues until October. The exhibition may just he a consequence of the Nor- mandy obsession with dairy products. You need to watch out for your waistline in Honfleur. Dinners here can be a formidable experience as nearly every dish is covered with cream, butter and apple or pear cider. We ute at Le Crystal, on Rue Haute, a tumily-run place where the dog sits on the h;ir and servings of monies mariniiw seem unlimited. I could only watch in admiration as a couple on a nearby table tackied a triple-decker helping of fruits tie mcr. A short, steep hike up the hill behind Honfleur to the Cote de Grace, where sailors used to come to pray for safe passage, will help work off the calories. Here you will find the chapel of Notre Dame de France, whose bell lower is a separate building from the church. The town's principal church. St Catherine's, shares this style: the belfry stands across the street from the main building and still rings out every day. St Catherine’s is the largest wood church in France, built after the Hundred Years War when there was a severe shortage of stone. Inside, look for the carved angels tucked away behind the w ooden beams. The setting for Honfleur. this nugget of old-world France, may seem a little incongruous given ihal u cement factory, a spectacular state-of-the-art bridge and the hus- tle of Le Havre are all within striking distance. The monolithic 1. 4-mile Pont Normandie suspension bridge lies to the cast. It opened in 1995 at a cost of 2bn francs and now cuts one hour off the journey times between Le Havre and Honfleur. This, coupled w ilh the expansion of autoroutes from Calais, makes Honfleur far more accessible for a weekend break from Britain. Indeed, take an overnight ferry to Le Havre. Cherbourg or Ouistreham and you can be on Honfleur's quayside in time for a breakfast baguette or crepe - but stay off the cider sauces until lunchtime. Ferries to Le Havre are operated from Portsmouth hy P&O European Ferries {0990 9S0555). Prices in September range from £9 for a day return for a foot passenger to £180 fur a 10-dav return for a car and h%v people, with £10 return for each additional passenger. ilia Reef i ^^“he best thing about the I end of the school I summer holidays is a 1 reduction in the numbers of disco nsolatefeces of the people at any of Britain's big airports. Every year the airlines promise to do their best to make it a stress-free summer, yet every year holidaymakers are left stranded. Florida seems to attract more problems than most destinations: last summer, thousands got stranded at Gatwick or Orlando while Laker and Airtours got their acts and planes together: this year, 350 holidaymakers were stranded for a day and a half at Belfast International. Heathrow Terminal 3 is a happy airport, either, even though it handles only scheduled flights. “Is it always this chaotic? ” I asked the poor chap whose job it was to shepherd travellers through the shambles resulting from the collapse of a tunnel being dug for the express-rail link. “It'll be like this at least until December, " was the cheery response. But by the time you have battled through the labyrinthine queues, Richard Branson may give you cause to smile. He has named his latest Boeing 747 “Tubular Belle”. This is more than just a poor pun on. the name of Mike Oldfield’s album - It is recognition by Mr Branson that the success of the simplistic euphonies of Tubular Bells created the wealth that led to the creation of Virgin Atlantic Airways. Mr Branson has since expanded his empire to include a large slice of Britain's rail network. 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THE INDEPENDENT LONG WEEKEND * SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 1997 Let there be light Workshop: spare rampant trees and lift the canopy, Anna Pavord advises a couple arriving in a splendid old home gardening We have just moved to a house where there is a large number of overgrown shrubs, a mossy mess of lawn to the front, and a mul- tiplicity of hideous holly trees almost every- where. There is an almost unrecognisable rockery and some impressive feature trees, including a couple of pines and monkey puzzles, but they can't be appreciated because of the encroaching undergrowth. The road is moderately busy and the only benefit of the overgrowth to the boundary wadis the screen it provides to the noise and visibility of traffic. But the overgrowth is ugfy and takes up a lot of space. It restricts the. view from the house and makes die garden seem smaller than it is. Ki K eith Purcell and his wife Susan have spent just four months in their house in the West York- shire village of Bafldoo. It is a splendidly solid home, built in 1915 for a Bradford wool merchant, Henry Holroyd. The garden that he laid out round the house, with its screening trees, is now what estate agents tend to call “mature” and the rest of us simply call overgrown. But that is less of a problem than a patch where there is nothing going on at all. Especially up here on the heights overlooking Bradford, where winter winds must be cutting. But Keith, 44, and Susan, 3S, are used to that. They are both Yorkshire bom and bred. “Wild horses wouldn't pull me from this place, " he says fiercely. The garden, with its handsome trees, has great potential. It sits roughly in the middle of a comer plot, with roads run- ning along the south and west boundaries. The drive comes in from the west side. hugging the larch lap fence that divides the Purcells’ garden from their neigh- bour’s. The fence replaces an old hoJty hedge that Mr Purcell had cut down to the ground, but the stumps were resprouting merrily. It was obvious from Mr ‘Purcell’s letter that he did not share my passion for boDy. but instead of pouring poison on the stumps (his first instinct) he could perhaps allow some of them to grow up, then keep them trimmed as thin, tall pillars, to make an enfilade down the the left-hand side of the drive. They would only heed clip- ping once a year. The fence behind could be disguised with some vigorous roses, trained out against it on parallel wires. ‘Rambling Rector* would do the job. Or ‘Seagull’. Or ‘Felicite Perpetue'. In front of the holly stumps was a nar- row shrub border, withpotentilla and too much crocosmia (montbretia). But the border could easily be thickened up with other flowering shrubs to contrast with the potenti 11 a. You wouldn’t want anything that grew too big. Brooms (the border faces south) such as Cytisus scoparius ‘Zeelandia' would provide cream and lilac flowers m May and June. A daphne would give delicious scent early in the year and by the gate, where there & a little more room, evergreen choisya would make a handsome, welcoming feature, if it could take the winters. I'd be tempted to experiment. The right-hand side of the drive is bor- dered by one arm of the intriguing rock feature that than bends round to run all the way along the western edge of the gar- den. That needed to be cleared gradually of the leafmould and pine needles that had silted it up, obscuring the fine stones. V. / ■ *- VWl YV -. •*. e f w Pac Jted with potential: Keith and Sus an Purcell have taken on a gar. den that estate agents might reft sr to as ‘mature* but the rest of u us would call overgrown! *J{< il iftiKAlU: MI. E1 IIILUHR The L- shape encloses a lawn, mossy and as Mr Purcell had said, not very good. But the soil is add, and the grass shaded by trees - not propitious for lawns. But much can be achieved by lifting the canopies of trees and this is perhaps what Mr Purcell should do with the fine pines, and both the monkey puzzles (Araucaria araucana). All were disfig- ured by rings of dead branches. Without those, the trunks would look superb - monkey puzzles have trunks as creased as elephant’s legs - and more light would be let through the canopy. Mr Holroyd, the original owner, had overdosed on various kinds of eh am a e- cyparis, which, unlike hollies, are not trees that grow old gracefully. Some, set forward of the boundary screen, needed to go. When they were" out of the way. perhaps Mr Purcell would come to love the hollies around the south and west boundaries of the garden. They were smothered in berries. They didn’t even have prickly leaves. And they were doing a brilliant job in protecting him from wind and the sight and sound of traffic on the roads outside. 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Offer E2=3 l? 51 subijectfoavcfcfc* As**aaa%n><«neuM*anMC PROFESSIONAL DIY CONSERVATORIES Made-to-Measure • Direct from the Manufacturer and would be worth trying to save. TI ie lawn that now fills the space hctvv cen the southern boundary and the hous e was once occupied by what an old neial ibour remembers as a “maze". I’d guesa s it was a formal arrangement ot box edae d beds typical of the Edwardian peril, ul, filled perhaps with roses. Just one rcmi ndcr of it remains on the lawn, a cir- cle c if box hedge with a young, very scrap ahies inside. Although it was odd, I'd i. cep the box circle as a reminder of the |*ardcn’s past history (hut wit the abic>), bringing it down in height and grad i tally reducing the width of the hedge by ci’ipping round the inside. A rugosa rose Much as ‘Roscraic de rHay" would fill the cenire and provide a long succession of so. Tied flowers. Mr Purcell was keen to to something to bn"; ghten up the southern boundary. It does need it. But the lawn was already quite: ■ in proportion to its width, and more shrubs in front of the sheltering buunt lary would do nothing to improve the pn ^portions. He could compromise by settinj * three or four big, handsome tubs along in front of the evergreen screen, till- ing! h cm in in spring with great armfuls of lull ps and in summer with a tumble of white petunias. The tubs would give the Puree! Is an opportunity to vary the way the ga rden looked each year The v have taken on a garden that needs. their kind of energy. It needs the skills of a tree man too. to fell some of the dri >ss and grind out the stumps that presen tlv disfigure the rockery. And when i he hollies’ berries ripen and start glowin, g among their glossy foliage. Mr Purcell perhaps will feel differently about them. 1 Here's hoping. 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" says Mike Bradbury, Jho keeps a pack at his home in Herefordshire. “Whin they run well, it’s a dream, because you’ve moulded something that’s profit a i7d into working its heart out for you. ” A high-class fencing contractor with his own business, and also a forester. Mi We is now on the verge of 50. and formidably tit. £le and his wife Marion took up huskies eight years ago, and today are at the forefront of dog-raring in this country. They Ihe in lovely, rolling hills near Ross-on-Wye. but one look at their 17-uere patch 4; enough to show that Mintelhing pretty odd is going on there. Most of the ground is planted with flourishing young trees, hul round and through the plantations run close- niovn grass tracks about five feci yride. forming, in all. a running-trail nearly (bur miles long. Here Mike ctn train his huskies without leavjng home. In his 30s he took up cycling, and won a national cyrio-eroNS championship: but then, looking for a new sport after a had accident, U chance meeting with a husky owner set him off m a new direction. At the outset Mike and Marion j'made all the mis- lukcs in the world". Their first was. to buy the wrong jey got were rela- avy, and Mike realised too late that they were of the trotting type, which will keep going all day at eight or nine miles an hpur. but will never gear up enough to take part in British sprint races. Hui ing owned Jack Russell lerjriors for years, the Bradbutys imagined that they could irain any breed of Jog. and tried walking the six-month-old huskies, loose, through their sheep, to make them steady. "Then, " as Marion recalls, “we slaw their heads go Wild at heart: Mike Bradbury and his husky pack at their palatial quarters near Ross-on-Wye takes in the world. I heir hist was. t kind of dog. The four animals the; t iv civ hie and heavy, and Mike reali" down, their shoulders drop in a wolf-like attitude, and thought, ‘Look out - back on the lead, quick:'. " To get diem going, Mike had to drag dead rabbits round the field behind a motorbike. “Then Marion used to drive ahead in a Land Rover, and X would chase her. the dogs pulling me on a three-wheeled rig. That got them fit, and I won a few races with them 'but no matter what I did, 1 could never get them up above 14 or 15 miles per hour that was thdr limit 7 ' Today the original quartet is pensioned off and living happily in a big, grassy compound near the house. Four years ago Mike changed the blood-line, bringing in a lighter, race-bred strain capable of sus- taining^ or more miles an hour on snow. His pre- sent star is Davy, “one in a thousand", bought from a breeder in Caithness who had imported high- performance huskies from North America. The Bradbury pack lives in palatial quarters, designed and built by their owner. Their huge, aity kennel has separate wire-mesh compartments, so that all ranks can see each other but also have their own territories. Outside there is a one-acre enclo- sure. more forest than run, thickly grassed and full of young trees, in which they can let off steam. They get one meal a day of Respond, a patent Irish greyhound feed, mixed with minced chicken. When they go into hard training, later in the autumn, they will move on to minced beef, because the fat in the chicken makes them thirsty and inclined to stop suddenly when running and lap at puddles; causing chaos in a 14-strong team. In spite of their wolfish appearance -often with one eye white or pale blue and the other amber - huskies are gentle and affectionate with humans. When Mike cuddles one and gives it a kiss, it licks his face just as any other dog would. Nevertheless, in a pack their wild instincts are never far from the surface. At night they often set up a communal howl - their boss has fixed up a loudspeaker through which he can order silence from his bedroom - and woe betide any cat that gets in their path.. Mike does much of his training in. the Fbrest of Dean, where a licence from the Forestry Commis- sion allows him to run the dogs, with the proviso that he is in and out before ordinary dog walkers are abroad. This suits him fine. First, because it is coolest at or before dawn, and second, because dogs nosing about off the lead are a menace. Normally the huskies hurtle straight past, but if a terrier took a rush at the team, it might get a nasty shock. hi their early-season training (proceeding now), eight-dog teams tow their owner slowly on an engine- less quad bike, whose weight makes them work hard. Then gradually they speed up with lighter rigs behind them, honing their fitness for the winter's races. Last year, after “a big bust-up” in the British husky world, the Bradburys created their own PHOTOGRAPH: JOHN LAWRENCE racing association. Sled Dog 2000, with the aim of re-constituting the national championships, which had lapsed, and of setting up a body in which all enthusiasts are welcome. Six two-day events will be held this winter, three in England, three in Scotland, with 80 or 90 teams entering for each. There are ho cash prizes: only small trophies. But nobody is in this game for the money. According to Mike, there are now 300 racing teams in the country, “and the whole sport is coming up fast”. Much store will be set on the meet at Aber- foyle, in the Scottish Highlands. All competitors will take their sleds along, hoping for snow. “You can ride a rig, and it's peat, because- you’ve got efficient brakes, ” says Mike, eyes lighting up. “But on a sled you can hardly brake at all, and that makes racing on snow the ultimate. 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The Storm damage of 1987, above, whk^ initiatfHl work on restoring the Landscaped grounds - masterminded by GSy Drummoncf, right photos tom puton Paradise regained ll IV The Great G I I Drummond, Manor est I V I an extraordinary j. — v ‘ ". vvw,... r: ' ' V r v ' •• £ £ WL My Strongest mem- ■ ■ l #1 ory of the Great I% # I Storm, ” says Gilly R £ I Drummond, “is of I v 1 an extraordinary sound, like the thud of heavy guns firing in the distance. It was the weight. of huge trees hitting the ground. ” Her} husband, Maldwin, remembers that 1 “the atmosphere was thick and there was a feeling of Mediterranean zephyr around the house”. The next day, the Manor of Cadland, home of Drummonds for two centuries, on the shores of Southampton Uteter - and overlooking the Isle of Wight, was a scene of devastation. Its remarkable dumps of wooded landscape had been blown out The shelter belt of 80-foot lime trees and evergreen oaks, some of them 200 years old, lay mortally wounded on their sides, thetr huge root. plates torn from shallow sandy sofl, “It was as though a giant had miked through and just pushed them over, ” says Mrs Drummond. The hurricane, which hit this stretch of Hampshire coastline first on the night of 15 October 1987, wrecked the rest of the countryside as it tore across southern England. “It was the most widespread night of disaster in the south-east of England since 1945, ” said Douglas Hurd, the then Home Secre- tary. Eighteen lives were lost Hun- dreds of communities were marooned. ■^Jhere had been no gale like it since the «lbreat Storm of 1703. But once Mrs Drummond got oyer the initial shock, she was full of excite- - ment. For the bombardment had exposed a miniature masterpiece by Capability Brown, the celebrated 18th- century landscape garden ct, whose design for Cadland had been forgotten for over a century. Time and the over- maturing of the trees he planted had obscured his signature: the generous views, his characteristic “peeps” providing glimpses through the The Great Gale of 1987 devastated Cadland Manor estate - and revealed the original layout by Capability Brown. By Jack O’Sullivan undergrowth of passing ships, and the variety of the shrubbery he planted. Brown's original plans for the park, dating from 1772, had recently been rediscovered in the family archives. They even found a bill signed by Brown returning half of the £200 paid for the garden on the grounds that the Drummonds had overpaid him - Most important was Brown’s instruction to the Mrs Drummond of his day. “NB.. None of the views to be interrupted with planting. ” Some conservative cutting back of the woodland had already begun. But those feint hearts who had shied away from culling majes- tic trees found the job had been thor- oughly done for them try the ruthless elements. The task which nature began, Mrs Drummond vowed to complete.. She had plenty of encouragement “The ‘Men of the Trees' came to see me, " recalls Mrs Drummond. “Won- derful old gents, they gave us £500. ” The local shoot, cancelled for the year, offered another £1, 000. The Countryside Commission supplied vital expertise and several thousand pounds. But the restoration, costing about £40, 000, was mostly funded from the estate. The job was monumental Brown’s landscape, taking up just 15 acres, is a gem within a 2^00-acre estate of which 100-acres of trees had been lost The best of the wood was sold oft Storm oak was used for the Drummond’s new kitchen. Tree surgeons were called in. “We had huge bonfires for weeks. I felt I just bad to do something" says Mis Drummond. The giant root plates, full of shingle, were cleared using large machinery because chainsaws broke against the stone. The quagmire left Sv •**-’?? * behind resembled the Somme. But Mrs Drummond is a no-nonsense, business- like, woman. The old gravel paths were replaced. Lawns were replanted. The beauty of Brown's original gar- den began to reassert itself. He had designed a shoreline path, which he described as “walks among the furse (gorse) bushes". The next year, with the dead lime trees out of the way, the gorse thrived. Meanwhile, beneath the shade of giant trees, the Por- tuguese laurel had survived, the “shining greens” which the Georgians loved. But the Romantic movement’s principle that every “evergreen bears a rose” had fallen into abeyance. Only the tough rhododendrons and vibur- num had been able to live with the overpowering frees. Mrs Drummond restored flooring shrubs, roses, lilacs, broom and philadelphus in the raised beds alongside the paths Brown had cut into the landscape. And she brought back the wild flowers (Brown called it “herborising”) such as sweet woodruff, wild strawberries and ox- eyed daisies, winch would have scented the garden walks in the 18th century. Only plants available in 1780 are being used. Now, as you walk down to the sea. you are met by the apple scent of rasa eglanteria, Shakespeare’s “sweet eglantine" mentioned in Twelfth Night. Some of the older trees survive. Evergreen oak still provides protection from salt- iadcD gales. There are beech and yew. A Scots pine, not normally associated with Capability Brown, stands like a lone piece of abstract sculp- ture beside the house, a tree often found in the English homes of Scottish Jacobite families. (The Drummonds headed south after Culloden and made their money as bankers for George Ill’s war against America independence. ) Now, however, while standing within the parkland, it is possible to make out the steeple of Ryde church on the Isle of Wight, several miles away and across the water. It is one of the land- marks, known as “eyecatchers”. which Brown used in his designs to draw the eye into the distance. And the under- growth of die perimeter walk is care- fully managed so that at each turn a fresh view unfolds. “These walks, " says Mis Drummond, “were not meant for people wandering about with heads down, worrying. They were for phflasophising about the wonder of nature. They are meant to look entirely natural, when in feet they are very sophisticated and contrived, providing a succession of vignettes as you stroll along. We have to cut the under- growth every year to be faithful to Brown’s intentions. Before the storm many people thought of the land- scape as a clean sheet of paper. ” The restoration has had its diffi- culties. The years of 1988 and 1989 were dry, meaning that replanting failed to take. As Brown realised when he referred to using “shrubs and plants that will grow”, the harsh con- ditions and acid, thin soil is inhos- pitable. Then the second great gale of 1990 carried off many of the surviving great trees. Yet, says Mrs Drummond, “In many ways, the storm was the best thing that could have happened. The great bulk of these trees were overmature by the time of the First World War, but there were no men or machines then to do the job. By the time everyone was get- ting a grip again, the Second World Wit came along The Great Gale came at the right time. It has been a won- derful opportunity for my generation. It is just sad that it has proved veiy hard for the older generation who may not gain the chance to see the results. ” ‘There will be no hurricane’ T he 1987 Great Storm was the worst to hit the south-east and east of England for more than 250 years. It principally affected 16 counties, plus Greater London. Eighteen people died, as winds of up to llOmph were recorded, causing severe flooding in places, a shutdown of the National Grid in the south-east and power cuts which lasted for weeks in some places. The forecasters had failed to predict the gale and the BBC's Michael Fish, in particular, became infamous for actually telling listeners that there would not be a hurricane. Some 15 million trees were lost and many others were damaged Whole plantations of pines snapped 10 or 12 feet off the ground Six out of the seven trees which gave Sevenoaks its name were lost. Some 2, 000 trees fell on the Blickling estate in Norfolk. Most of the counties where the winds were strongest also had the highest levels of woodland (such as Surrey with 18. S per cent and West Sussex with 17. 4 per cent). However, some of the oldest trees did survive - many of those which were four or five hundred years old simply creaked a little in the wind, often because their hollow ulterior makes them inherently stronger than a solid tree. Many famous estates and gardens suffered heavy damage. Country Life reported that at Scotney Castle it took a gang of six men working all daylight hours three days to dear a path to the house. And there was a great deal of damage to houses and hotels. At St Osyth’s Priory in Essex, 16 chimneys came down and four stacks fell through the roof. In Essex, a chicken house containing 17. 000 birds was so badly crushed that all the animals had to be destroyed. The total bill nationwide for damage was estimated at £S00m. And there was more to come when the gale of 1990 hit many areas that had already lost their shelter in 1987 and so were far more vulnerable than before. The crisis provoked by these two events did, however, produce a sense of optimism, as many people became enthused with the prospect of fresh planting The Countryside Commission has sponsored the Task Force 'frees project; grants totalling £ 13m have led to 2 million trees being planted. Many other trees were saved by tree surgery and there has been much natural regeneration in the spaces left by the dead woodland. $0 There’s gold in them thar hills DORSTONE H uddling beneath the Welsh hills at the head of Herefordshire’s Golden Valley, Dorstone is a model English village familiar from picture books, its trim stone cottages ^clustering around a tiny green with a squat-towered church just across the stream. Besides great charm and an excellent free house - the 500 -year-old Pandv Inn - Dorstone provides an ideal base for a five-mile round walk to Merbach Hill, one of the most stunning viewpoints in England On a clear day you can see right across u counties; even on a dull one the view is breathtaking. Starting from the uin, skirt the eravevard and cut across the football field and meadow beyopd. Through a small copse, cross the river Dore - giving both the viUage and v^ey its name - and watch rabbits dash for cover as you emerge on to the site of dismantled railway line. Bear slightly left, cut behind the iron gate, and head for the hills to the right of the ^Crossing Spoon Lane (actually more of a trackthan a lane), you see the'fooipathmarldng a considerable ascent. Cross the rieia and take the Thrmac path heading ^ towarisTuan ^®rm; plough themap I suggests you pass sight through the fafiC the signs you or! a jW MSS via several cow fields - until you rejoin the path. (UK* out for two Weekend walk: Emma Haughton takes a 24-carat hike through Herefordshire’s Golden Valley yappy sheepdogs - fortunately more bark than bite. ) As you climb, don’t forget to admire the wonderful spread of the Golden Valley below, -one of the most lush and forgotten corners of England. • - Follow the yellow footpath signs upwards across the fields (you may have to detour around crops). Crossing another lane, keep climbing until you hit Arthur’s Stone Lane, with its sideburns of dog rose and a promising harvest of blackberries. A few hundred yards to your left you meet a house beside a large field full of sheep. Enter the field, bear slightly left and up; just when it seems you will never reach the summit you see the gorsey outcrop surrounding the disused pits and trig point (318mfl043ft) of Merbach HilL.... Here you will be rewarded with a view so magnificent you’ll be lost for superlatives, lb one side the looming Black Mountains, to the other the meandering Wye cutting through the valley towards Hereford. When you’re punch-drunk with the view, sb'p below the trig point to the upper bridleway bearing right through the bracken. Past the corrugated-iron bam you meet the lane dropping into the valley towards a stone cottage on your right Pick your way behind the back garden into the field. If s a bit of a pull past the edge of gloomy Caelees Wood until you see the stile in the hedge ahead, then keep on past the fir trees and dew pond until you reach the grassy trade leading back to Arthur’s Stone Lane. There you’ll find Arthuf s Stone, a great flat slab on uprights, a Neolithic burial vault dating from 3700- 2700 BG The last mfle is wonderfully effortless. Facing Dorstone. simply plunge ever downwards, past the lovely garden bordered by a stream and down the stone track to the road. Turn right over tbe river, and you’ll see the sign to the Pandy Inn and Dorstone; a little way up the lane turn right again to cut bact into the village past tbe cottage gardens and the diminutive Bethesda Primitive Methodist Chape], drea 1864. Time your return for pub opening, and you can treat yourself to a pint of Dorothy Goodbody's from the wye Valley Brewery and some of food in the area. The Friday lunchtime menu included pork and juniper pate with onion marmalade, £350, mozzarella, plum tomato and basil salad, £450, and Welsh lamb cutlets with rosemary and redcummt jam, £7. 95, with homemade raspberry and cranberry ice-cream or gooseberry syllabub for pudding. Alternatively, you can opt for a simple ploughman’s or sandwiches. Directions •From the Pandy Inn walk past the church, following the footpath signs across the playing fields, dismantled railway, and straight across Spoon Lane- •Take the footpaths past Llan Farm until you come to Arthur's Stone Lane. Turn left until you see the path leading across the fields to Merbach HilL Keeping left should bring you to a gorsey outcrop and the trig poinL •Cuffing behind the trig point follow the bridle path until you reach the lane. Continue downhill to the stone cottage on your right. ■TUrning right, follow the signs and stiles up the hill until you reach Arthur’s Stone Lane. The monument is a few yards on your left •Head straight downhill towards Dorstone. At the bottom, turn right along the road until you see the village signpost. Turn right again to cut back to the inn. Ordnance Survey Pathfinder map 1016... -,. a... •• The Net has many plugs It's quite simple - they want your money. Meg Carter on going online M M A do we wait ■ ■ m m / fur letters and 1 / 1 / faxes? " asks the U little girt in BT s V V advertising campaign. “Why do we spend so many hours travelling to meetings? " “Why are there never enough hours in the day? " She has a point. And BT hus the answer, it claims: turn on your computer, plug in your modem’and go online. Ask how’ however, and the answer is not so simple. “Lack of truly independent advice on what set-up is best for your needs is a problem, " says Alan Denbigh, executive director of TCA. an asso- ciation representing people who work from home by telephone and com- puter. Ail too often, those offering advice have vested interests. Take BT It appears to be offering the answer with BT Business con- nections, the service advertised by the “Why? ” campaign. Dial the 0800 number advertised and you can access a range of PC, modem and Internet advice (including details of how to sign up to BT Internet. BTs own online service provided in partnership with News International) - but only if you are a business customer. Now, you don’t have to be a busi- ness to be a business customer. All it takes is to apply for a business line. Depending on how heavily you intend to use the Internet this might make sense, as although quarterly rental is higher (£35. 84+ VAT com- pared with £2265 for residential) you can enjoy discounts of up to 31 per cent the more calls you make. If you are a residential customer, however, you will be referred to BT residential services on 150. Infor- mation here is sketchy. “Most cus- tomers" have separate lines for Internet use. the 150 operator help- fully suggests. “BT Internet can offer additional advice - you need to call our Internet Helpline - but bear in mind they will probably sell you BT Internet. " she adds. And don’t expect BT to point out chat you might get a better deal from a cable Retailers can be unhelpful. “You must invest in the future. " a salesman at PC World says. “We advise every- one invests in foil multimedia capa- bility. If you don’t spend money you risk your computer becoming obso- lete in three years. ” Unless you have bottomless pock- ets. it is worthwhile understanding what you want before giving your local computer shop a call. Denbigh savs. Caught in the web: BTs Internet Invitation isn't quite as starry for residential customers First consider the computer. You may think you arc home and dry if you have one already, but take note. Older models with older operating systems may not have enough power to handle the latest communica- tions software you will need to go online. The cheapest way of setting up is by buying a second-hand computer. Bui take care it has sufficient mem- ory. The recommended minimum memory for second-hand machines is 8 megabytes of random access mem- ory ( RAM) for basic use. Next, you will need a modem. Most now also include a fax function. The latest software runs most effectively on faster modems - look for one capable of transferring data at least at or. even better, 33. 6Kb/scc. Treat modems promising 56Kh/see with caution as there are two rival standards at this level, and internet service providers arc waiting to see which to adopt If you do not yet have a computer, take comfort from the fact that most nowadays are sold with Internet capability - with modem and relevant software bundled in. A standard computer offering a basic range of functions plus Net access will cost between £1. 200 and £1, 500. So, you have got the hardware. But how do you use it to go online? You need a password and a map - which come in the form of communications software needed which allow you to surf, send and receive e-maiL This is typically provided by online service providers - the gatekeepers to the Web who allow you access in exchange for a registration charge and a monthly fee. There are two types of service provider: access providers, like Demon, which provide a slip road onto the Net and service providers, like CompuServe and VlrginNet, which provide specially packaged and premium services as well, as Web-access. Monthly fees start from around £7. Trial and error is the only real way for the home-based online novice to work out how to use online functions like e-mail and surfing the 'Net. A spokesman for the computer com- pany Dan Technology, however, has a useful tip: “‘Before you decide which service provider is best, visit your local cyber cafo and invest in a half-hour session to get a clearer idea of how it works and what you might need” TCA's new teleworking handbook, costing £15. 95 plus postage, is pub- lished late this month. Call for 0800 4I400S for further details. Computer Shopper magazine can be contacted on 01716311433. Personal Computer World can be reached on 0171 316 9186. BT Businessconnections can be con- tacted on 0800 800 800. Under the counter with Lindsay Calder rv j * I can do it- Last week I finally got to grips with it, and now I'm winging electronic missives all over the world. I’ve decided that an e-raail facility is as _ important to a girl as lipstick and a little black book. When I discovered how to check out my mailbox, it started flashing at me, and a whole reel of messages scrolled up on the screen - 49 of them, in fact- I have To admit that many of them were from my “server” - Virgin Net - there was even one from Richard Branson himself. The mail isn’t apparently sitting there on a shelf behind your computer screen - it’s sort of hovering up in the sky somewhere, waiting to be beamed down, ■ Anyway, now that I know how to “connect”, “send" and “reply’’. I have yet another distraction to stop me working when I’m at home. Not only do I have to check the post and answerphone when i get in, but now there are e-mails too. This is OK if you have got mail and messages, but if there’s nothing, it’s a bit of a triple-nobody-loves-mc- wha mmy. I received one message from a friend entitled “Nobby No-Mate”. He hadn't received mail for months, and ended his message > Please reply before I jump - he had copied it to. 17 people. E-mails in a relationship can be confusing. Far from being the electronic love letters of the Nineties, there is something very unemotional about them. You find yourself writing like Doctor Spock: >see you. 7pm. Kings Head > confirm. A non-verbal request for a date fills you with uncertainty - will they turn up? Then it’s difficult to interpret the message itself. On the phone you can usually tell from the tone of voice, but there are no such Clues with e-mail. Docs, for instance: >can we meet tonight? mean “because I vc decided it’s over, bull’d^ better tell you iff person, or “because I can’t stop thinking O' about you and I want your body now”. No way of knowing. No matter how hard you try toxead between the electronic lines, the subtle nuances of the telephone conversation are just not there. On the phone, you can sort of play it by ear - so to speak - hedge your bets, change your mind at the last minute, but once you’ve written your c-xnail and clicked on “send", that s it. You can’t go rummaging around in the back of your computer to try and retrieve it, or click on “undo”. An ex- colleague, who fancied Mr Handsome in the office, O- finally decided to bite the bullet, be a Nineties woman, and ask him out - by e-mail. So, one spontaneous Friday morning, she sent him an outrageously flirty message about meeting up that evening. By 6pm Friday, no reply - he worked on another floor, so she didn’t sec him. She then spent the whole weekend curled up in shame on her sofa, bitterly regretting her rash clicking of “send". 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Before switching off completely, thinking “not another sports range”, this one has been produced as a direct response to the demands of Burton Menswear customers who want their actrvewear to be more than a walking advertisement. So Burton launched Atlantic Sports. Instead of a designer logo which supposedly imbues the wearer with kudos and individuality, but actually makes them look like sheep, the range offers logos for those who want them, and discreet tabs for those who don’t. It also uses the latest in performance fabrics such as micro-fleece, a “warmth without weight” fabric; Tyrvek which prevents leakage in down-filled jack- ets and TWIon, a stain repellent and waterproof coat- ing - the very same stuff used on frying pans. This is what The giant lip sofa, right, is bound to raise a few smiles. It costs £3, 000. The only prickly thing about th, s Cactus coat rack, far right, is the £1, 500 price tag. You wouldn’t guess it butthe Big Meadow, above nght, priced £4, 500, is actually a chair. The blades of grass bend with your ■ body, as though you were sitting on a lawn. Shaped into a marble col- urrmthe Capitello armchair is made upof peb- ' bie-stvfe pieces which siot E^Xto torm a lounging space on * Massolo marble coffee table arnf^s am fumed into chairs which cost £650/£750. and in reality needs when he (or she) goes cycling, canoeing or mountain biking. Sportswear has infiltrated every aspect of fash- ion this decade Grom the late Gianni Versace's go- faster stripes in his Atelier (haute couture) range to the spin-off lines from Paul Smith, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan. In fact, there are probably young people in this country who don't know that Ralph Lauren designs women's clothes. It is no wonder, then, that a high street store has been able to pro- duce a range of this quality at a time when a designer T-shirt can cost anything around £50. and a fleece top well over £100' The campaign to go with the launch is culled Local Heroes and shows "rear British men ui play - like Run Rodden. Linford Christie’s former Hamer, or Mick Tim- ers, a stock car racer. “1 really liked the clothes" says Rod- den, “they're not about being in a gang like Nike or Adi- das dothes are. I would even wear them down the high street and I’m 66, but 1 could also imagine a 1 6-year-old wearing them. " Rodden likes the idea nr real men modelling clothes because, he says, “that way you're looking at the garments, not the faces”. It also means that there are no alienating muscle -bound bodies, typically handsome faces, or aspira- lional sports stars to contend with. Mick Towers. 31, feels the same. By day he runs his own garage, hut the weekends are taken up with stock ear racing. “It was fun being a model; they were after average guys who do fun things at the weekend, and that's good. I've got a jacket and a fleece from them, but as soon as I received them, my wife Suzanne nicked them. ” he says. When rac- ing. Towers wears regulation fireproof racing over- alls hut needs a warm jacket as soon as he steps from the car. He’s planning to retrieve the jacket soon. Towers likes good quality clothes, but isn't that concerned with labels. “If I need a new coal 1 just go and get it. 1 tell the shop assistant what 1 warn and if the quality is good and I like it. that's it. " he says. Atlantic Sport is just the thing for Rodden. Tow- ers and men like them across the country. The range comprises T-shirts from £12, fleeces from C5 and jackets from EM). The colours are bright and func- tional. and the designs modern enough to be worn for fashion, but classic enough to rise above being simply trendy. These clothes can be worn in a year's time without fear of sneers from the label snobs. And the good news? Burton is getting in a healthy sup- ply in small sizes so women can wear it too. Marvellous An exciting 3 night weekend from only £269 per person (SI 0 Air Passenger Dray not included! C oupled with exritemenr and a passion for the traditional way of life, Madrid offers you a fascinating weekend break. Situated in the heart of Spain, this bustling capital with wide avenues and elegant plazas is foil of history, culture and beautiful architecture. You cm stroll along the stylish Gran Va then relax at one of the popular pavement cafes in the old quarter. 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The biennial German exhibition is habitually Europe's most sig- nificant motor show. But this was a Frankfurt Show unlike all others. There were so many important new; c cars that most visitors left the show con- vinced that the motor industry post- Frankfurt was on the verge of revolution. ■ Not only were the mainstream new mod- * - els more interesting than ever, but there was a plethora of “new wave" cars. There was even a new version of the world’s most innovative car ever - the Mini - even " it was shown only at a press briefing. As a sign of change, the star of the show is neither a fire-breathing sports car cor multi-cylinder luxury sedan. It was a little Jthree-cyUnder rear-engined “city coupfi". the product of a new car maker. Smart. The “ thinking behind the car is as new as the company. BMW launched a revolutionary city vehicle that is half-bike, half-car. Not to be outdone, Audi showed its first baby car, slated for the year 2000. Among other "novefties, it uses an aluminium 1 body. Toyota also previewed a new baby car, to be built in Europe. There were three new major. family hatchbacks launched, including the new Golf. There ‘ T 'l were lwo major new 4x4s, includ- Im|J 1 ing a new Land Rover, and an innovative new people carrier, • < the Vhuxball Zafira. And, backm more traditional motor show star territory, Porsche unveiled a new version of the world’s most enduring supercar, the 91 1. Ford • previewed its new Cougar ooupd, to be sold in both Europe and America. And as if all the above ^[Jyeren’t enough, at least three makers unveiled new hydrogen- fuel-cei! concept vehicles - increasingly spoken of as the way ahead. Many car makers now expect to have production vehi- cles in about 10 years. ^ The star, though, was probably — the baby Smart. Smart may be a - ^ new company, but it is backed by experi- ence- Mercedes-Benz, the world’s oldest •: car company, is the biggest shareholder. (The other shareholder is Swatch, the... v watch people. ) • * ■ ' 1 have my doubts whether it will be a commercial success - I just can’t see enough Europeans willing to spend over £5. 0UO on a two-seater runabout, when for a few dollars more they can buy a... “proper" little hatchback. But there’s no doubting the radical nature of the little beast. For starters, it’s tiny - only 2. 5 F i-, ; -H- metres long. It's as colourful as a Benet- 9 ton jumper and. what's more, you can chance the colours almost as easily as you... can change your sweater. The doors, front wings, bonnet and boot are plastic dip- r - on parts, attached to a strong steel safety,. [V r ifc c |i. So, when you tire of your peppermint 1 creon Smart, you can swap the green, • panels for orange ones. The tedinicolour upholstery can also be easily changed. *' The Smart is aimed at trendy young, urbanites who care about poUution and congestion and who want to stand out from the crowd. Bower - if that’s the right word for three-cylinder 45 or 55bhp 600cc turbo units - is parcelled to the rear wheels via a semi-automatic sequential six-speed gearbox. The engine is rear- mounted, just below the boot, and on top of the rear axle. Tbp speed is 85mph, and 0-35mph takes 6. 5 seconds. Safety is said to be excellent Twin airbags and ABS brakes are standard, and the Smart uses a Mercedes A-class-Iike twin fioorpan, further to strengthen the main structure. UK sales are possible but for the time being, sales are restricted to eight continental Europe an countries, from next spring. That’s about two years ahead of the new Mint but as a way of counteracting all the publicity for Mercedes with the Smart. BMW authorised Rover to give a sneak preview. Few technical details were available at the press conference, but it's clear that the new Mini is nothing like as radical as the old one. It’s a stylish, bijou baby car aimed at affluent design- conscious small car buyers. Technically, it will be very conventional. _ Left, Porsche’s new 911- longer, faster and better. Below left, BMW’s innovative ‘city car’ the Cl..... - /...... '"VvC^ v;&. v -•xjj; The four-cylinder engine will be made Brazil, in a joint-venture Ctaiysler- BMW factoiy, and it will be sited in the manner pioneered by its forefather, trans- verse, driving the front wheels. The springs are conventional steel, and the new car is of Metro length - short, but appreciably longer than the original Mini There will be a sporty Cooper version (the model shown in Frankfurt), as well as more basic versions. It won’t be cheap: the starting, price will be about £8, 000, which will make the Mini pricier than many larger batches. Instead, it will occupy a BMW-like sporty, exclusive niche in the baby sector. Rover hopes to make about 100, 000 a year, in its Long- bridge factoiy in Birmingham. The new Mini wasn't BMW’s only baby “car’’ proposal at Frankfurt. It also unveiled the Cl, a single-seater, ultra-economy vehicle also slated for the year 2000. Essen- tially a motorcycle with a roof, a wind- screen. seatbelts and a safety cell - includ- ing a front-end crumple zone - the Cl is a radical rity alternative. BMW reckons that the ultimate city vehicle is actually a motor- cycle, but accepts that most people won’t buy a bike, owing to safety, eiqjosure to the weather and the need to wear a helmet Thus, the Cl is parity enclosed - although there are no doors. BMW also claims that it is as safe, in a front-end accident, as a small car. In a side impact, however, there is no airbag- just air. It has no doom. It uses a. l25cc single-cylinder motor, a CVT ’ ■. - automatic gearbox, ahd wfD cost about £3, 000. There are question marks about its legality. In Germany, apparently, it will be fine, but other countries, including Britain, may insist on the driver wearing a crash helmet Some markets will also insist on a motorcycle licence. BMW is flagging the Cl as its “rity car” solution, and reckons it has spent almost as much on it as Mercedes has on the Smart. In truth, the concept is nothing like as convincing; but it’s an intriguing vehicle nonetheless. Not to be outdone by its prestige badge rivals, Audi also unveiled a fuel-sipping tot It showed a prototype of a new four-seater small car, the A12. The AJ stands for aluminium, and the lightweight metal is one of the keys - along with a new direct-injection three-cylinder petrol engine - to remarkable fuel econ- i omy. Audi promises about 65mpg. It too, | is slated for the year 2000., Back closer to normality, there were a j bevy of new small family hatchbacks on show; a new Golf, a new Vauxhali Astra and a new Citroen, the Xsara, which replaces the ZX. The Golf is a conserv- ative-looking but beautifully detailed car, with the classiest best-finished cabin I can ever remember for a car of this size and price. UK sales start next spring, with prices beginning at £12, 000. I People carriers in Europe are now all the rage, but in Frankfurt there were only two new ones. The Grand Espace is a longer wheelbase, roomier version of the normal Espace, and is Renault’s attempt to dominate the top-end of the sector which it, more than any other maker, invented. More inventive is the new Vaux- hall Zafira, still a year away from the show- rooms. What appeals is its cabin versatility. Vauxhali has concluded that MPV cab- ins are nothing like as versatile as many makers pretend, owing to the inconve- nience of removing and then stowing seats. Instead, the Zafira's seats aD fold away. The back pair fold down flat into the floor, while the middle bench - big enough for three people-can fold up against the front seats, station-wagon-like. (It also splits 60:40. ) In addition, the middle bench is on runners, which moves the length of the cabin. The most important British car at Frankfurt, apart from the far-away Mini, was the new Land Rower Freelander. It is Land Rover's first foray into the small, stylish 4x4 sector, dominated by the likes of the Toyota RAV-4. The Freelander is a handsome, imposing vehicle, bigger than the class average. Novelties include an ABS system that arrests unwelcome descent down muddy slopes. Push a but- ton, and the brakes will ensure that you'll never exceed 5mph downhill. On the Japanese stands, Toyota pre- viewed two crucial new models. The first was a new baby car, called the Funtime. that goes into production at a new Euro- pean plant in two years. It replaces the slow-selling Starlet. The Funtime at the show was tagged a concept car. In fact, it is based heavily on the upcoming new pro- duction Toyota, although there will be dif- ferences to the nose and tail. Intriguingly, the dashboard and all instruments are centrally mounted. The second important Toyota was the new Lexus GS300. Completely restyled, the new car is smaller but roomier. Power comes from the familiar 3. 0-litre straight- six engine, now fitted with variable valve timing. There’s a new five-speed “intelli- gent” auto box. As with the exterior, the interior is all-new. Although unusual small cars domi- nated, high-performance cars weren’t forgotten. Porsche unveiled the new 911, using a water-cooled flat-six - still in the tail It carries over most of the old 91 1 styling cues, but is longer, faster and bet- ter. The 3. 4-litre engine produces 3U0bbp: a six-speed manual gearbox is standard, although a new five-speed Tiptronic auto is available. Tbp speed is 175mph. Alfa showed the new 156, which replaces the slow-selling 155, and promises to give Audi’s A4 and BMW’s 3-senes some huny-up. BMW unveiled two autobahn stunners - the Z3-hused M Coupe, and a new M5. The M Coupe, which looks like a 213 with a roof, uses M3 mechanicals, including the 321 blip six- cylinder engine. Top speed is electroni- cally limited to 155mph. The M5 was pre- viewed at the same BMW press briefing that gave us a taste of the new Mini, but wasn't at the show. BMW claims it will be the world’s most powerful sports saloon. The 5. 0-litre V8 is good for 400bhp. Sales start in early 1999. There was a Ford show ear called the MC2, which underneath the concept car veneer is actually the new Ford Cougar coupe, big brother to the Puma, which goes on sale in Europe next spring. There will also be a Mercury version, for the US. The fioorpan is Mondeo-based, and engines include a 2. 0-litre four and a 23- litre 24V V6. Jaguar launched the new V8-engined XJ8, Suzuki showed a brilliant little road- ster called the C2 which uses a twin-turbo 1600cc VS, and Mitsubishi unveiled a couple of wacky concept cars called the HSR-V1 (drives itself, looks weird, but at least uses highly relevant direct-injection petrol engines and a new CVT auto) and the Technas (the Mad Max of sports util- ity vehicles which carries mountain bikes, has an unusual central aisle walkway from front to rear, looks strange and has no production relevance). And there was much, much more - for the Frankfurt Show was a reminder that the car industry is a massively creative force. Frankfurt was the beginning of a new era of bold thinking From now on, the pace win just get faster. classified • house and home check: Roof Type, Gabled Q Hipped Q Mono D Flat O Commercial FT Does your roof suffer from any of the following problems! 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So instead of having a trail of spaghetti tangling behind the desk, there is one, neat tube (£8. 50). A new Holding Company store will open in Glasgow before Christmas, with Dublin, Newcastle, Manchester and Leeds next in line. Any stray muddle makers not in the target areas can be mopped up by reading Dawna’s book Organised Living, which is published at the end of this month by Conran Octopus. The Nomad desk from the Hold- ing Company’s mail-order range costs £275; a Club chair £69. Modest prices; but still a luxury to a fledgling charity like Zerbanoo Gifford’s Asha Foundation, which is raising funds to help street children in India. “We’re still working at tables and sitting on my dining chairs, " says Calcutta-born Zerbanoo. ‘‘It’s difficult to find office furniture that doesn't dash with antiques elsewhere in the house. Besides, I tike to keep things Three on view Functional living South Hayes, a three-bedroom period bouse in Stow-on-the- Wold iathe Cbcswolds has a studio room, presently used as an office, in the garden. Covered, with dimbing acStoSheep Street, where farmers used to herd their flocks to the market place in the middle of town. -With beamed rtrfffnge, window seats and a cellar, the property is for sale at £150, 000 through Butler Sberborn (01451 830731). The views from Higher Col la ton Farmhouse near Kingsbridge in Devon could be distracting for anyone trying to wfrrk from its The Grade 33 listed thatched house sits in 19 acres of rolling hitisfde ami gardens which face down to the Salcombe Estuary. The nearest beach is a mile’s walk down a footpatii through the valley. With four bedrooms, two bathrooms, oak beams and a two-storey barn, it’s for sale at £350, 000 through March and Petit (01548 857588). Wicker and steel magazine rack, chrome shelf unit- from Homebase Gross Guns Cottage near Alcester in Warwickshire is a black-and- white thatched cottage with simple. The less clutter you have, the more you get done. " A cheaper option would be the new storage range from Sainsbuiy’s Homebase, pitched at the student market, but just as viable for anyone who works from home. A desk, in green, aqua or pine effect costs £39. 99, a matching mobile pedestal file £34. 99 and a swivel chair £14, 99. They're available until 20 October. The Holding Company mail-order cat- alogue 0171-610 9160. oral 241-245 King's Road, London SW3 5EL; for Homebase stockists and availability call 0645 801800; Asha Foundation 0181-422 8556. gardens which run down to die ' River Arrow. Built in 1550, it -... was later a pub: and now has three bedrooms, conservatory and summer house. In the outbuildings, there are two offices with fax, ^ phone ancl computer lines and a garden room. 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And the two ma i n reasons they give are choice and because they don’t want to live on an estate. ” Another reason is that bufldihgyour own home is up to 30 per cent cheaper than buying off the peg. The only way Graham and Cora Hitchcock could afford-a larger bouse for their growing family was to build it themselves. They wanted' to stay in their home village in north Kent and were lucky enough to find a plot next to the church. The owners were asking £30, 000. The Hitchcocks' offer of £20, 000 was accepted but, even so, “we took a bit of a flier, ” a dmi ts sales engineer Graham Hitchcock. “The drainage was uphill to the nearest sewer. If we hadn't managed to get permission to go through a neighbour’s garden we would have had to have a septic tank. ” Medina Gimson modified one of their timber- frame kit designs to suit the she and Graham and Cora employed an NHBC-regjstered builder to construct the house. Including the land, the four- bedroom house cost £110, 000 and is now worth £150, 000. Plot prices vary hugely. Robert Pennicott of Landbank Services, which has a database of about 3, 500 plots nationwide, quotes around £7, 000 for Period piece? Tim and Sue Bunker's home looks like a typical Devon thatched cottage that has been extended over the centuries. In feet it was built between 1991 and 1993 Six steps for seif-build The plot Estate agents, newspapers, magazines such as BuHd 6 aB mM ptota. A tfiree-morth subscription to Landbenk ■ Smviaa costs £29 or £42 tor mow frequent Planning permission. Never buy a plot wfthout It Bo prepared to wot* with the local pfenning department, partteularty if you want toawr. detailed planning permission. ieraBreaw^berQf«Pagei^ paymara mortgages for aa ^ ' borrowers have to rain some or afl U»jpo«t Of ffmptaL; 7j The warranty. Lendara inaMonattrurpural - 1 warranty from an NHBC buBder. Zurich Custombuiki. Project BuBdtar or art approved, architect or surveyor The coat Suiki costs start a! sbbtft B40 a square foot for a metfum apedflpSBon hows*. TTb total budget breaks downlnto one^htrd tor land, one-tbird labour and Padcage prices vary. Medina (SlrBhari*Ji Wt* cost from £11, 000 to E63. 000., _. -, Wt Keep a&reoatpts -you oan^K|p^P|^ ■tee end. - - a plot for a four-bedroom house in Powys or the Highlands and £200, 000 on the borders of London and Surrey. Mr Pennicott wains buyers to check when p lanni ng permission was granted. “Outline permission lasts three years, detailed lasts five years and there is no guarantee it will be renewed. " Deciding exactly what to build on their plot is probably the most fun self-builders have. Package companies, which supply timber frame or brick and block kits, offer standard, adaptable designs. Other self-builders prefer to employ an architect “An architect is independent, can advise on all options and will trouble-shoot" says Adrian Spawforth, chairman of the Association of Self Build Architects. Fees average 6 to 7 per cent of the total bufld costs. He adds that 50 per cent of architects’ work is in dealing with planning and building regulations for people who are confident about managing their own build “People are building far more imaginatively today. There are more exciting, genuine one-offs, " says Rosalind Renshaw. Tun and Sue Bunker live in what looks like a typical, 16ih-cemuiy. thatched Devon longhousc. extended oxer the centuries. Sensitive period details include random-length floorboards and plasterwork finished in pans' to suggest an uneven cob wall. In fact, the house was built between 1991 and 1993. Tim and Sue designed the house themselves then handed the project over to a local surveyor. Including land, the house cost £270. 000 and is now valued at £320. 000. Rosalind Renshaw's advice to people planning to build their own home is: “Plan, plan and plan. You cannot think a project through loo carefully or in too much detail. And never pay money up front for goods and money not received. " The S'ationa I Self Build Homes Show is at Alexan- dra Pulaee. H{Jod Green, London S22 from IS to 21 September. Admission £7. 50 or £3.? 5fanuhwice bookings: call 0171-Sto vfW2 Association of Self Biuld. Architects: 0800 387310: Landbank Senices: 01 IS 0620022 London Property TO CD THE NEW GALLERY NEXT TO THE NEW TATE. Final phase of Gallery Lofts at Bankside with dramatic river and City views, terraces, balconies and double height ceilings. • Shell and fitted apartments available • Prices from £200, 000 - £600, 000 Call the Sales Office __ now for information 0171 401 9S now for information 0171 401 9922..... 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If that makes von whistle, consider that a single picture owned by the same collector an oil painting by the German futurist August M-icke is estimated at up to £lm at Christies next month. So what price Rolex? Those in the sale will sell for between £3UH and £15. 000 each, not a patch on the 194? philinne perpetual model showing moonphases. in Linless steel, not even gold, that fetched £573. 500 at Snihehvs in October, a British record price for a wnstwaten. T| K ultra-discerning cannot help shaking their heads over Rolex They are not hand-made: the company now turns out 800 000 a year compared with Patek’s hand-finished Ever since 1910, when the meaningless but inter- nationally appealing name Rolex was dreamed: up by the brand's creator, the 22-year-old German whiz^d Hara Wilsdorf. there has been a suspicion that they are flashy and The firet woman channel swimmer in 1927 j ust happened to be wearing the new Oyster waterproof model, the intre- pid Explorer model went up Everest with Sherpa Tensing 1 i. : i.. Snhmanncr dived with pul explorer mou« wan up; - r!, nd the seemingly indestructible Subraannw dived with Jacques Piccard. The icuucs nccaru. i nen there was the Paul Newman Rolex... Who loves them? Not long-temt investors, who puttheir faith in Piitck. but, typically, cash traders who understand the value of portable wealth which, in lean times, can be quickly transformed into folding money without loss. Tnat is. as well as muggers, fairground operators and car sales- men: the sort who, to BMW’s dismay, drwe BMWs. Be snooty about Rolex if you wilt There may come a ume when yuu will be pleased to discover that they are the pawn- broker's pride and joy. They are a steady investment. What was the only wristwatch that kept w 2? “ the price of collectables crashed around 1990. The dis- tinctively double-dialled chronometer-standard Rolex prince, made between 1927 and 1950. A yellow and white ISct gold Prince, sold at auction for £7, 48Q at the market oeak in 1989, sustained its value throughout the recession and is now worth double. By comparison, Patek prices, which were spiralling 50 per cent a year at peak, dropped two- thirds in value as hard-pressed investors rushed to unload them. A late Forties Patek World Time model that sold for £250, 000 at peak would be worth only £ 70, 000 -£ 80, 000 new, and is only just beginning to recover in value. The only reason for investing in watches that are more expensive than Rolex, despite their P&tek-stylero lie mas- tering from boom to slump, is the belief that tip-top work- manship will win in the end. Most dealers and aucUoneere have at the back of their minds a form-card of daxk-norse tickers whose innards, they believe, are undervalued. Such as International Witch Company, one of their mod- els lakes 1 8 months to make. Then there is ^cheron Con- stantin. Audemars Piguet, Piaget ind 1 Movado, a first-division hanger-on hurt badly by the reces- sion, is also tipped as undervalued. ■ But with only Rolex to choose from in the sale, there is still plenty of scope for discrimination. Look first at the watch's diaL Is it the original? American, Japanese and British collectors want original, not refinished dials. Some of them will wait months for a bright original dial th? 1 has been shielded from sunlight for years in a drawer. Others savour the parchment-coloured patina of age. BntGerman taste is for the pristine and unblemished, even if refinished. This is worth bearing in mind if you are thinking resale. The consignor of the collection at Christies, 76 -year-old Hans Ravenborg, accepted refinished dials and there are plenty in the sale. One or two are poor such as lot 297, one of the famous Rolex Oyster waterproof model^which has a childishly painted skew-whiff Rolex crown i (£800-£1. 200). Trade bidders may shun this one, but the Ravenborg sale will not be one of those regular gatherings where dealers with an eye on their margins nod and wink and keep prices down. Being unprecedented, it will attract private coUec- tors from throughout the world. They are expect ed to cb asp prices up to 150 or 200 per cent of the sale s published esti- mate. Do not get carried away. Fix a budget and stick to iL James Dowling, vintage Rolex dealer, consultant to the Christies sale and co-author of the authoritative Rolex guidp book. The Best of Tune -Rolex Wristwatches (Schiffer 1996, £1001, expects the final lot, a stainless steel triple edendar chronograph estimated £5, 000-£7, 000, to gofor £15, 000 or more Why? Because it is rare (fewer than 1000 were made) and it doesn't look like a Rolex. If you want the: Rolex rec- tangular look but cannot afford a Prince, consider bidding for lots 205 and 206. They are Thirties raodels in statntes steel, rectangular, but without the Pnnce s doi^le diai. One is estimated at £300-£500, the other at £600-£S00. The Ravenborg Collection of Rolex Watches, umber. lOJOam. Christies, SKingStneL UgmSm, Wl- 839 9060. Dealers: James Dowling, 0171-794 3836, George Somlo, 0171-491 8916; John Das, 0956-581 419. What will IT COST YOU PUT OFF starting a PENSION P '‘ H itne-war delay could cost you £ 19, 000 | *Basrdcma25ya>r The longer you leave it, the harder it could become to build up a decent pension fund. Don’t lose out - start the ball rolling today with a simple, no-obligation call to Legal & General. Q Start from £50 a month Q 2-year satisfaction guarantee 0 Low charges increase your pension’s potential 0 Portable from job to job 0 flexible contributions e Payment holidays* General TRUST IS TO DELIVER Rolex watches are loved by cash traders, car salesmen and muggers PHOTOGRAPHS: CHRISTIES. By uttering the words ‘Skipton Building Society', John Major may have started a mortgage revolution I s It possible that John Major unwittingly played a bit part in an unwelcome revolution about to hit mortgage borrowers? You may recall that about two years ago, he was defending himself against charges of being a skinflint after the government extended to nine months the waiting period before people who. lost their jobs could claim mortgage benefits from the state. Not so. he argued, summoning up the name of Skipton Building Society, which had just launched free unemployment insurance cover to new borrowers, as an example for all other lenders to follow. Skipton's example stood virtually alone until recently, when Royal Bank of Scotland joined the fray by offering Nic Cicutti free cover for four years to all new borrowers with mortgages of 95 per cent or less of a home’s value. After four years, unemployment insurance costs £2. 84 per £100 of monthly repayments. Fuller cover, which includes accident and sickness, costs £6. 03 per £100 of benefits. RBS’s initiative, while welcome, barely scratches the surface of the problem. In the past year or two, a combination of rising house prices and falling unemployment has shielded most people from the traumas of repossessions. All this could change if the economy goes through another downturn as it did earlier this decade. It is in this context that the Council for Mortgage Lenders, the industry trade body, this week launched a discussion paper which calls for mortgage protection insurance to be made compulsory. If this happens, CML said the cost of comprehensive cover could be cut from about £5. 50 to £2 per £100 of benefits, perhaps even less. This is because if everyone were in a scheme, its overall costs could be cut. That may be so. But for borrowers, this would add an extra £6 a month to the cost of a typical £50, 000 mortgage. Small beer perhaps, but coming on top of every other interest rate rise so far this year, it would affect most deeply those least able to afford it. Tb be fair. CML has offered up this idea as part of a package which would include a £25Qm boost to less well-off mortgage borrowers along the lines of benefits already given to low-paid tenants in work. But there are no prizes for guessing what some of New Labour’s great thinkers are already saying: “Thanks very much for the compulsory insurance idea. We’ll tie it in with a removal of benefits to unemployed borrowers for 18 months or even two years. Oh, and forget about the £250tn aid to poor borrowers. ” As seems to happen so often nowadays, Mr Major and his cohorts fashioned the bullets. Now it is Labour, that is firing them. He**. - wnd me a pcmmal fllustrauua and knfonratioo pads i, n ihc Lcjyl & General Pvr-unal Pension Plan. Title, Mi Mis. Mm I When. — FoR3ttIDfr Surname: — Aiklma: — ■ Bin qns fake the jlVSt StCpS to. Postcode:. Air >vu. Sdf-cmfdreyrd - Employed □ Unemployed ^ J am", am run - currently in an employer's pension scheme Manned retirement ape iw Date nf birth: f 1 Initial cuntnbuiion itiiwi £. per month ram Wi c per annum man HMi i ■single i mm. *a, OOG>. Hew Irjtal ft Gconal rnokHs, tlm, rmrOff (ITOOW, Canfiff CFI rtw. hMhcr lubtfqunrci iffllrpl a General pmdix-a b araibHe on yorrr fitutitcuil iw* «w. s»jaiinpgacnirHiiniia‘» <, > «lul t»x Prtoc ^ anatsi to ««. U rui reefer to powml botan Aubonty ud IWBO farihepmpowMSf loose change Cborehill, the telephone insurer, is teaming up with FirstMortgage, the mortgage-by-phone provider, to offer home loans. The range includes a standard variable rate of 12 per cent, a two-year fixed rate of 5. 15 per cent, a five-year fix at 7. 79 per cent and a four-year discount of 1. 27 per cent off the above variable rate with a £500 cashback. Call 0800 080030. Merchant Investors, the pensions specialist, is offering a free guide to retirement planning with a separate pensions calculator, giving concise and impartial advice on the subject. Call 0800 374857. TR City of London Ttnst did not show a fall of more than 40 per cent in the year to 12 August, as indicated in our recent CfiCT Portfolio feature. 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HA*iy lovesuwms Imc-Runmul la ivjnjLned by amlihc Pewunol AmbrnBy HifcOiy only prwtde* lafumaiiim aJ»*K «» pBuJuas and win mu gw umeanm aihia: SimlWAJ K No future for dealers A lmost my first job in the City was as aii unautho- rised clerk, or Blue But- ton, on the floor of the Lon- don Stock Exchange. For those who experienced the British public schools system during the immediate post- war period, it was a bit like being a fag. In this case you were fagging for the autho- rised clerks, or dealers. They were the people charged with buying and sell- ing shares on behalf of the firm's clients. The most senior of these were members of the Stock Exchange: In 1966, when I was trans- ferred from the market back to the office, 1 did notwant to go. At the age of 21 1 could have become authorised myself* but a kindly old member told me I should take the opportunity to move away from the floor of the Stock Exchange. The future did not rest with deal- ers in L’s opinion. How right he was. Over the past three decades 1 have seen the number of peo- ple employed in dealing departments slashed. In terms of numbers the reduction has - probably not been that great. /But becauF. * business has expanded massively, as a per- centage of employees in a stockbrpking firm the number has dropped dramatically. Next month more changes seem set to continue the ero- sion of the position of stock- broking dealers. The Stock Exchange Elec-;, tronkr Hading Service (Sets) comes intoope¥Sffont*T 2® ■ October. If will briogtbe Lon- don market up to the same speed as many overseas exchanges. It will allow buyers and sellers of shares to be matched by way of the com- puter rather than having orders executed through a market-maker who would make a profit- on the transac- tion. Not only should it lead to more efficient markets, but the cost of dealing should he cut as well. Electronic matching of bar- gains is not new. In the 1970s rtfl group of institutions set up i trading system called Ariel. It was not a success. Many oF the institutions who subscribed watched the screen to find out what other people were doing and then used the anonymity of the stock market to transact their owtj business. Things arc different today. Computers have become much more important both in trading shares and in moni- toring activity. Knowledge once confined to dealers on the floor of the Stock Exchange is now displayed on The only surprise is that electronic trading has not happened sooner screens around the City. With the ending of face-to-face trad- ing on the floor and the pub- lication of market-makers' ■prices on screens in every investment. professional’s office, there no longer seems the need to avoid taking that extra step which wiD remove the need for human involve- ment in a transaction. The only surprise is that it has not happened sooner. For the electronic ordei book, as it is known, id work properly, all those involved in securities trading need to have confidence in the system. Many City workers had last weekend disrupted by the need to submit to tests of Sets. The result was mixed. In order to ensure, the system would cope with volatile markets, a day's tradin g wa s simulated whereby the FTSE 100 index rose and fell 200 points rapidly. On balance most practitioners consider the system can take the strain, but there was by no means universal aedaim. One effect though, has been quite dramatic. The Stock Exchange announced it is to lop 60 per cent off the charges it makes for allowing business to he transacted through Lon- don. This is a reflection of the fact that Trade Point, the alter- native market formedTry for- mer Stock Exchange employ- ees. is now sufficiently well established to represents real ihreatand is providing a much cheaper alternative. - 1 The. that a | |im ber SOpportHig 'firwJcFomt finan-- dally, will switch electronic trading to the new exchange must have caused some dis- quiet in Throgmorton Street. It takes competition to bring prices down. This introduction of the electronic order' book is expected to lead to much higher volumes for the Lon- don stock market, so in the end the Stock Exchange may not necessarily lose revenue by cutting charges. Its introduc- tion also follows a period when an increasing amount of busi- ness is now. handled by com- puters anyway. Many of the larger firms have direct links to market-makers. Dealers will still be needed to execute difficult or unusual orders. It is just that not so many. will be required as before. Pm so glad I took that veteran stockbroker’s advice all those years ago. Brian Torn is chairman of the Creig Middleton investment strategy' committee and am be contacted on 0171 -655 4000. Money for the masses ✓^limbing interest rates please savers and. I ' puifish borrowers. But if you’re on a low “ft nfityVfiake'itod ffferencealalL Returns oq small balances are rarely more titan a pittance and when it comes to borrowing. banks often refuse - leaving you to pay extor- tionate rates to a door-to-door lender. “The returns on offer to poorer savers can be so bad, manywould do as well stuffing their cash under a mattress or splashing out straight away, " said the National Consumer Council’s charrman, David Hatch, earlier this year. The extra costs in handling small amounts of money at a time put saving institutions off, and they concentrate instead on winning bet- ter-off customers, the NOC said. Credit unions - a type of do-it-yourself bank - often provide the answer. Dubbed Britain’s best-kept money secret by the NCC, credit unions are formed by people clubbing together to save their money. After a certain period of regular savings, membership entities yaw to borrow at a low rate of interest - 1 per cent a month, or I2tiS APR. Each credit union has its own formula for how much you canboirow. A smaller credit union may lend two or three times the amount you have saved. Because they rely largely on volunteerstaff, returns on small savings balances can be much higher than commercial savings institutions givei-Sometimes they even rival rates’paid on larger sums of money. For instance the credit union run by West Midlands police has paid a 6 per cent dividend for the past three years. Apart from reaping the returns credit unions offer, many people see supporting them as part People who can’t borrow from banks are forming Credit unions. Rachel Fixsen reports on a concept that is popular with the self-employed and those on low incomes of an ethical approach to their savings. “Money is recycled within the community, stopping it being leeched out by anonymous multina- tional organisations, " says Heather Rainbow of the NCC They also help people develop skills, because volunteers on the committees have to learn skills such as accounting, she adds. Credit unions are formed by people who have a common bond. Either they work together, belong to the same association or live in the same area. The idea is that members are less likely to default on a loan they ultimately owe to friends, neighbours or colleagues. The concept developed in Germany last cen- tury but it was not until 1964 that the first credit union was set up in the UK. The 1979 Credit Union Act gave the movement a legal frame- work. Under this law, their objectives are to encourage savings and play an educational role in financial matters. London cabbies often find it hard to borrow from banks so the London Taxi Drivers Asso- ciation Credit Union, which was formed in 1979, has been a godsend for its IL500 mem- bers. it’s extremely popular because a taxi dri- ver is basically a self-employed poison, and they have great difficulty obtaining a loan of, say. £1. 500 from a bank, " says Neil Cunningham, manager of the credit union. Taxi drivers typically borrow when faced with their twicc-yearly tax bill, he says. But because of the way credit unions work, when the mem- ber re pms the loan, he or she has to continue contributing a regular amount into their sav- ings as wclL So next lime the tax bill comes around, things will be easier. Credit unions lend for a wide range of pur- poses. Often members need to borrow for hol- idays. household goods and Christmas expenses, says Stephanie Sturrock. general manager of the Association of British Credit Unions (Abcul), one of the two trade bodies which represent credit unions. The other is the National Federation of Credit Unions, which has a smaller membership, but covers the small- est credit unions as well as larger. Residents of Clydebank set up the Dalrauir community credit union in 1977. There are now more than 5, 000 members and the credit union was able to loan £3m last year. About 49 per cent of the membership is unemployed, says Dalmuir credit union chair- man Rose Dorman. Banks are not exactly queu- ing up to lend to the jobless. “There are plenty of alternatives, " laughs Mrs Dorman, “from loan sharks to provident cheques. " By this she meaas the notorious door-to-door money lenders who charge anything from 60 per cent in annual interest. Dividends vary from one credit union to another. In each of the past six years, the LTDA credit union has declared a 4 per cent dividend, while Dalrauir has paid out 3 per cent. There arc now nearly 600 credit unions in the UK. with more than 50 groups in the process of registering. In 1995, they loaned a total of £74m. Changes to credit union laws three years ago have paved the way for more people to become members of these organi- sations. Now you can belong to a community credit union whether you live or work in a cer- tain area, whereas before, ail members had to live in the area. But less than 1 per cent of adults in the UK belong to credit unions - a far cry from coun- tries like Canada, Ireland, Australia and the US where between a third and a half of adults belong to credit unions. If you want to join a credit union, Abcul will give you contact details for one in your area, if one exists. If not, you could start one. You need to find 12 to 15 like-minded people to start a study group. You then have to become trained in credit union management and reg- ister with the Registry of Friendly Societies. The Association of British Credit Unions. 0161- 832 3694; the National Federation of Credit Unions. 0191-2572219. 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There is the imia! trap of students looking for the best deal as jerni-iime looms, its well as school leavers striking out on i heir own. Although a challenge, finding a new home can be rewarding. Vet there are still plenty of traps lor the unwary entering the rented property market. The previous government encouraged the growth in Agree everything with the landlord before moving into a rented flat, writes Ian Hunter property available for rent, yet it still represents only a small slice of the total property market. Finding a flat is not always easy, particularly in a large city or a student town. Often flat-hunters turn to flat agencies. Anyone using an agency should examine Direct Line Rates nirvrt Line lostanr Access Account U L Ni f ANNUAL CROSS RATE £1-4 J. ’i'i’i 5. 55% i /„, l 1, i, l, l 5. 90V. / jii, ihhi-»;;4., », "» b. 65‘. 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However, at any time after the first four months of the tenancy agreement, the tenant can be asked to leave on two months' notice. Many landlords will insist on taking a deposit as security for any damage caused to the property during the tenancy. Landlords are often reluctant to release the deposit at the end of the tenancy. It is therefore best to avoid paying it out at the outset. Much w ill depend on the strength of your negotiating position. If the landlord will not agree to this, an alternative is to pay the deposit into a joint account so neither party can obtain access to the money without the agreement of the other. Another option is to ofTset the last instalment of rent due against the deposit withheld. If the deposit is withheld and no amicable agreement is possible, an action can be taken in the small claims court Tenants should be clear regarding their responsibilities under the lease. 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Foreign r ^L Colonial To: Foreign & Colonial Management Ltd, PO Box 2, Twyfbrd, Berkshire RG10 9NW Name Town Postcode Code P13997ID Ilw value of shaw and the income from there can fall m well as ibe and you may rot an bad thn f,, n ■ Svtf* to *» We. All figures sourced Mkropat: 30. 6. 77-30. 97 hwsmm W PaSt p * rtomW! rK “ historical ASH notional expanses. (Actual Han charge 02^ commiKien and 0. 5% GoUt^tamo income reinvested tod rate awrlaUe from Mioupal CE25. 000* Account) bawl on total rnum, net income reinvested^lStTV. ’^ f^ 1 " 9 fl 3 Uf " h »K hl 9 h«* «« reinvested, ind. hhwrical 6. 5% notional expenses. Forei^, & CrfonS SS " SU " fS basls: affer to o! fer - «« income Authority} or its subsidiaries are the Managers ol the investment trusts NMna ® C ^ ^ulsted bp «WRO and the Personal Investment THE INDEPENDENT LONG WEEKEND ■ SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 1997 The price of advice Should you pay IFAs commission or fees? Nic Cicutti reports T rust is probably the most com- monly used term to describe the nature of a relationship between financial advisers and their clients. But can you trust someone if he or she is paid not because of what they do for you but by the commission they receive on the products you buy? The dilemma is alleviated only slightly by rules introduced a few years ago, whereby advisers must tell you how much commission they stand n to earn for each of the products they ~ recommend. For hundreds of thou- sands of people who desperately want an unbiased adviser to help them resolve their often messy finan- cial problems, the uncertainty created by this state of affairs makes them reluctant to speak to anyone. The issue has surfaced again in the wake of a brief guide issued by IFA Promotion, a body which promotes independent financial advice, on how to begin to resolve this question. The IFA Promotion leaflet explains the basic difference between fees and commissions. “If you decide to pay a fee. ” it says, “you’re not going to be suddenly confronted by an unknown amount. “You will know in advance if the IFA charges a hourly rate. Any cora- | mission paid by the product provider T will usually be returned to you in cadi or as extra policy benefits. " Advisers are bound by rules, policed by their financial regulator, which mean they must give you suit- able advice, taking into account your persona] circumstances, the product's financial performance and their charges. If you pay by commission, you wfl] always be told the amount your IFA is earning before signing on the dotted line, the leaflet adds. For increasing numbers of advis- ers, however, simply spelling out the difference is not enough. Chartwell Investment Manage- ment, a firm with offices in Torquay and Bath, this week published its own. pamphlet in which it argues that pay- ment by commission increases the risk that advice may be biased in favour of products that pay more, rather than being better for the client. This is most likely to be the case with pensions and life company prod- ucts, where commission for regular- premium policies can often be up to 75 per cent of the first year’s contri- butions. Even with life insurance company investment bonds, the com- mission usually paid is between 5 and 6. 5 per cent If you have £100, 000 to invest, that would take a huge chunk out of your money. Nor is the problem confined to life companies. Stephen Brady, an IFA with Chartwell, points out for exam- ple that most commission-biased advisers tend to recommend unit trusts in preference to investment trusts. “The difference is often that unit trusts carry initial commissions of up to 3 per cent, whereas invest- ment trusts cany none at all, " Mr Brady says. Moreover, be adds, financial plan- ning is not simply about products: “In many cases, our advice is about the Matter of trust: it is important that investors feel comfortable with their adviser photograph: tony stone best instant deposit account to put ramy-day money into, how to min- imise inheritance tax and wider tax- planning issues. None of these nec- essarily pay any commission" Fees are not cheap. One example is of a client who wanted advice on bow to invest £450, 000 for both income and growth purposes. Chartwell charged him £5, 000, which will involve regular reviews of his portfolio. But Mr Brady adds that all commission payable by products providers was rebated back to the client and used to enhance his invest- ment. In effect, the client gained far more in rebated commission than the £54)00 be paid. Janet Waiford, editor of Money Management, set up a register of fee- charging IFAs a few years ago after a survey by her magazine, regarded as a bible by many advisers and their dients. revealed large differences in fund performance depending on commissions paid by life offices. 77ie register, with more than 50Q advisers* names, is run for Money Management by Matrix Data, a spe- cialist information provider. Callers to the register leave their name and address together with the sjiecific areas for which they need advice. A computer then matches llers address with that of the nearest advis- ers with that special area of expertise and a list of six is sent to the caller. Another option is provided by the Institute of Financial Planning, whose 400 members also operate on a fee- charging basis. The 1FP can supply details of suitable advisers to callers. Despite her personal commitment to fee-paying advice, Ms Walford is sceptical of those who say this is the only way forward: “My primary aim is for people to receive independent advice however it is paid for. “There can be problems with fees in that you may have to pay VAT on them whereas you can get tax relief on commission. The other problem is that vary often people can’t pay the fees, which can be between £70 and £1 00 an hour. The important thing is that people are given a choice. The pivotal thing is trust. Without it how an adviser is paid matters very little. " Richard Hunter, a senior financial adviser at Holden Meehan, a London IFA firm, adds: “We arc very relaxed how people pay and are happy to hand commission back to clients if they pay fees. In some cases, after you have factored in all the costs, it is cheaper to pay by commission. ” Roddy Kohn, a financial adviser at Bristol-based Kohn Cougar, is even harder-hitting, despite also giving his clients a choice of paying by fee or commission: “Consumers want honesty from their advisers and this need not be represented simply in an adviser who charges fees. History is plagued with stones of fee-charging professionals who have embezzled money, given inappropriate advice or who have been simply negligent “What is needed in the relation- ship is trust That doesn't come from one method of remuneration over another. The bottom fine when you meet an adviser is, ‘Can I trust him to look after my financial interests? ’ If your common sense suggests not it doesn't matter how he is paid. You simply shouldn't use him. ” Questions to ask your adviser Wftai exactly do you mean by -suitable advice'? How many recommendations did you consider were suitable for me? Why efid you choose this one? HcMrwfii your charges affect the returns 1 get from my imes&ms’Tte?. If a company is offering you a very high commission on a product, are you prepared to take a smaller percentage? is it better to pay a fee or do I benefit if you get commission? Iff Perhaps you think that all pension plans are the same. If you do, then you would he making a big mistake. Here are some of the reasons why you should consider an Equitable Pension Plan. The Equitable Life: * Pays no commission to third parties for the introduction or new business. * Has no shareholders. Our Pension Plan: * Lets you retire earlier or later than planned - without penalty. * Lets you vary your contributions — without penalty. ■ Provides full return of fund in die event of death before retirement. 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Their promise of low- risk investment with high, tax-free income is the key to this success. But charges and performance can vary significantly. Although they may have received high income, some investors have seen the underlying value of their money falL Choosing the best is not straightforward. Corporate-bond PEPs were one of the last brainwaves of the Conservative government Introduced by Ken Clarke, then the Chancellor of the Exchequer, they involved the relaxation of rules which required investments into PEPs to go directly into equities. To meet the rules for PEP status, a corporate-bond fund must have at least half its value invested into UK or EC-qualifying stocks. The rest of the fond can go into gilts, other government- backed securities and cash. These qualifying stocks are issued by companies with shares traded on the Stock Exchange. They arc issued as a cheaper and more convenient way of borrowing money. Bonds pay a fixed rate of interest and return the issue price (the amount paid for them) at a future specified date. Some carry a conversion option, which means they can be turned into shares or cash at the redemption date. Two types of risk attach to corporate bonds. First, the company issuing them might fail. Bondholders will rank behind trade creditors, but above ordinary shareholders in any wind-up. This makes company's credit rating important in selecting bonds. A second type of risk comes from what happens to interest rates once a bond has been issued. They can be traded like any other share, and if interest rates fall, they may be sold at a capital gain. But if interest rates rise, they may be sold at a loss. This is because the amount of interest payable on a bond determines its worth: if an investment gives you poorer returns, it will be worth less. Of course, when you buy a corporate-bond PEP, you are paying a fond manager to manage this risk - choosing the right bond to invest in - as well as any commission doe to your financial adviser. The amount and wav in which these charges are made on your investment will affect performance. Because you are buying into a unit trust, which in turn invests in these bonds, there may be a bid-offer spread on the fund, sometimes referred to as an initial charge. This is the difference between the price at which you buy units and the price at which vou can sell them back to the fond manager. These can vary from 1 per cent to 6 per cent. Annual management charges tan be made on income from the fond, its underlying value, or both. These charges range between 0. 5 per cent and 1. 5 per cent. The basis on which they are charged in an issue of key importance, if charged on the fond value rather than the income, the investor may be trading income now for future capital losses. Rar example. Fidelity makes no initial charge, with an annual management charge of 0. 7 per cent out of income. Sun Life of Canada, by contrast, is much more expensive, with an initial charge of 6 per cent and annual management charge of lJ-perceut. Charges are not everything, however. The crucial equation for fond managers lies in maximising income while controlling risk. Compare the approach of Fidelity’s Ian Spreadbuiy with M&G’s Theodora Zemek. Mr Spreadbury is clear: “We don’t take interest rate bets in this fund. History shows how often we can be wrong about these. Our approach is one of targeted active management Targeting means pre- selecting types of security which will allow the fund to hold its value if interest raxes change. ” Research is based on the credit ratings of companies issuing bonds, and highly quantitive. Instead of looking on the management of a company, they will look at the stocks in terms of where they stand on market averages. This may reduce the fund yield but he adds: “The majority of our corporate- bond PEP owners are over 60 and do not want to lose the money. ” Ms Zemek’s approach has a different emphasis: “We control risk in three ways. Credit ratings are a selection sieve, but not gospel. A double A-rate company can go to non-investment grade in seven days. In-house research on a company is vital. We have a 3 per cent ceiling on exposure to any one bond. If it fails, the world will not come to an end. ” M&G does not ignore interest rates, but “stock picking is wbat we’re good at. Hidden value can move a company credit rating from nothing to triple-A. We like to buy before this happens. ” Both agree on one poinL Their objective is to give high income and a return of the capital invested. This should be the mini mum benchmark for performance used by investors. Ms Zemek says: “Too many funds dress up poor performance as non- risk taking. ” As our performance table shows, the charges and returns on corporate-bond PEPs can vary widely. Over the same period, the sector’s worst-performing fund from ABN Amro produced returns of just £1016. M&G has occupied first or second place in the sector since corpo rate- bond PEPs were launched. The Association of Unit Trusts and Investment Funds publishes a corporate-bond PEP factshcct. Ring 0181-207 1361 for a free copy. Best five corporate-bond PEPs over 12 months iCorn party Initial Annual. offer: Yield ■ charge 1 charge to bid:- '<%); (%) {%) ' income ■ ■'/■. *.. -.. : reinvested-. • M&G. > Commercial Union Perpetual leg£l & General Lloyd's Bank 3. 25 0. 3. 5:l 1. 3 1. 25 0. 75 £ 1 - 177: - 'f 6. 73;-; £1159 ■ 7. 94 £ 1151, ; 7 m: £1136: 6. 20 £1132 v 6. 95 fiSSoO^ towstedT* n6t rf Calculated on i iyo Vi inside back THE INDE PENDENT LONG WEEKEND • SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 1997 TO FIND OUT WHAT’S ON TV, WHERE TO GO AND WHEN, READ THE EYE TODAY ■us t lid Serena Mackesy In my week Norman spends his time in the artists’ room with his feathered friends Harold, Pepe, Maurice, Cyril, Edward, Jean-Pierre, Peter, Klaus and Freddie Halfpenny (who, is, apparently, Ken Dodd’s favourite bird) T hirty people are crammed into Stage 3 at the Park JRoyal Studios, a maze of concrete passage* ways in that glamorous media location, Hariesden. They haul bits of wires around, spray things and try to avoid tripping over two-year-old Archie, three-year-old Kameel and Norman Barrett's suitcase of budgies. The same phrase is on everybody's lips: “Never work with children and animals”. This particular idea is where i the worlds of film and advertising diverge. Because, where the world of celluloid avoids the young and the mul- tipedai like the plague, the sellers of products tend to take the line that one should work with them wher- ever possible. The £50m campaign that will accom- pany the launch of integrated commu- nications giant Cable and Wire- less (with, among other things. Mer- cury, Nvnex and Bell Cable Media under its umbrella) cm 15 September - under the banner slogan “Getting to Know You" - uses toddlers, animals, a panto horse and a space alien. And today, in one ghastly swoop, these poor peo- ple are filming both budgies and babies. Production helL 1 realise, arriving at lunchtime on the Thursday, that to make one 40-second film and two five-second idents they have been cajoling Archie and Kameel since yesterday morning. Archie and Kameel are not only angelic-looking children, they are amazingly good-tem- pered about being ordered around under the glare of a dozen spotlights, but all the same. Sweet enough to threaten your insulin levels in dressing-up-box gear - Archie in a silver jumpsuit making up pan of a deep-sea diver's costume; KameeJ in a green and plastic armour breastplate - they are required, when I arrive, simply to walk across the filming area. "Okay, Archie, when I say, walk over there. No, when I say. Wait! Okay, walk, Archie. ' 1 Archie drops to hands and knees, huge grin on his face, and crawls. “No! " si ^ — i:JlfA, : ' -"“**«*... ^4... “Archie! Walk! Stand up! No, don't sit. Stand up! That's right! Good, now walk! ” Three feet from the out-, stretched adult, he takes a few steps, waves his hands around and gums. “That’s great, Archie. Now if you’d just go bade to mummy and do it: again. Between shots, adults take it in turns to turn the boys upside-down, tickle them and generally keep them good-humoured. Norman, meanwhile, spends a Jot of time in the artists' room with his feathered friends Harold, Pepe, Maurice, Cyril, Edward, Jean-Pierre, Peter, Klaus and Freddie - Halfpenny (who is, apparently. Ken Dodd’s favourite bird). There are 14 of them in all, but all the yellows are called Pepe. Norman has put on a show for everyone, and it’s music hall at its corniest: lots of going “sit", balancing the perch on his face, wiping his eye and saying. “1 said sir. The crew loves it, bursting into applause as cheeky Pepe trun- dles back and forth on the portable table, sabotaging tricks. Despite the certitude among agents that variety is dead, Norman is booked up until the year after next. He's -an old- fashioned end- of-lhe-pier entertainer. Now be travels the world with his beaky buddies. Tbe oldesr working mem- ber of the troupe ninc-and-a-halt And they are ali boys, because when he had some girls, just like in real life, fights kept breaking out. “TVe got proba- bly. the only homosexual budgie act in the country, " he says. Then someone appears to tell him he's on. Today we are filming close-up shots of Pepe and Freddie Halfpenny looking around for someone to make friends with. The camera Is placed six inches from the perch and Norman calls out to his charges to attract their attention. FYeddie sits for a while, has a poo, ignores everyone. They try finger-snapping; Freddie turns his back. Half an hour later, a man in a T-shirt approaches, glaring at the heavens. “You know what they say in this business? Never work with. -" ' A name to conjure with X traditionally stands for on unknown quantity, and presumably this was what the progenitors of XJfrn (HW. 5FM in the London area) had in mind when they chris- tened it: they wanted to sug- gest to listeners that this was a radio station that would deal with the unknown, alien face of rock - X as in The Beast from Planet X or The X-Fiies (perhaps, too. they were think- ing of X-certificate - hardcore, explicit rock, music that chil- dren shouldn't be allowed to listen to). The other possibil- ity, though, is that they called it X because it was an unknown quantity for them, too - they really hadn't worked out what ingredient X was. If that’s so, they get ray sym- pathy. because! can't work it out either. At any rate, I don't know how to define Xfm's brief, except by multiplying examples of what it plays, which would likely be unhelp- ful. certainly tedious. The sta- tion's slogan is “London's only alternative" which seems to imply that “alternative music" is what it plays (though it's also the case that the slogan has Robert Hanks i£ week on radio come perilously close to being literally true over the first two weeks of the station's life, while the BBC has been indulging “the national mood"). But that label begs all sorts of questions, as do others such us “indie rock". Still, you probably get the idea: Xfrn is a sort of all- day, room- temporal Lire ver- sion of John Brel. Or. better, it's the station for people who liked bands before they went commercial. You know whul area we're in - music that would get written about in NME rather than Smash Hits. Xfrn has been trying to gel on air for some years now, having had a series of temporary licences from the Radio Authority to broadcast for u few days at a time, arguing (hat there is no outlet for the sort of music it plays- This isn't quite uric - Radio 1 provides a fair amount of airtime for this or ange, shapeless non-genre, as doevGLR. the BBC's London station (one of Xfm's main attractions. Gaty Crow let. was poached from GLR); it should also be said that the standard of DJing, Crawley apart, covers all shades from average to mediocre. Still. Xfrn, somewhat to my surprise, does fill n hole - a station where one can be reasonably sure of finding melodic, reasonable noiw pip of a morning without running into Simon Maw. It has. ai least temporarily, replaced Radio 5 as the main soundtrack round our way. without wanting to go over the up about it. the thought occurs that X also marls buried treasure. More buried treasure on Radio 4 on Thursday after- noon. in the shape of Learning the Language, a play about g monoglot Englishman stranded in Spuin In his love tor a local girl, and being driven to the edge by his complete inability to communicate. In this ease, the treasure was buried under a corny production and sonic siixky ’characterisation - Dave, our hero, is a stereo typically tw ittish public schoolboy, com- paring his alienation to “the Outsider chappie in that hook by that frog... I read bits of it trying to look clever in the park. " And the climax, in which a blow on the head relieves Dave of his inhihitioas about language, enabling him to pro- pose to Elena in fluent Span- ish. was an appallingly blatant piece of w ish-lulfilment. All the same, it was some- thing of a victory lor Human! Bains, a writer who has strug- gled against being typecast as a Britislt-Ashm writer in the Marti I Kurcishi nmuid, and whose st age -plays have been criticised for their bludgeoning nioralism. Here, he tackled issues ot culture and national- ity with a deliberate, delicate silliness and a very attractive streak ol romantic optimism: a souffle it was worth taking a spade to. The femme can’t help it I n the course of a normal TV week you don’t have to put in too many couch-hours to witness a couple of dozen deaths. For one week only, however, broadcasters were unwilling to up-end a packet of salt into the suppurating wounds of an already grief- stricken populace. Hence the bizarre situation in which one real-life death postponed all fic- tional reminders of mortality. My favourite concession to public hyper-sensitivity involves NBC Europe, who apparently pulled a National Geographic natural history film about mon- keys in which a mother dies leaving her young offspring behind to fend for itself. Somehow Vets m Practice (BBC1, Tues and Fri), in which the nation’s livestock is given a twice-weekly pre- scription of daisy root to chew on. slipped through the net It was joined this week by Noah's Ark (ITV, Mon), which ought to be called Vets in Theory, the theoiy being that veterinary surgeons on televi- sion equals bums on seals. So* much for theory. It already feels so dated it would have, been fairer to farm it straight out to UK Gold. La Femme Nikita (C5. Fri) was initially scheduled to begin its run the night before The Funeral. It’s about a beautiful blonde woman whose death is faked by a clandestine gov- ernment agency which rein- vents her as a lean, mean fight- Jasper Rees week on television ing force for good. You can see the problem. The conspiracy theorists who think Diana has done an Elvis would have loved this scenario (even if. strictly speaking, Elvis didn't actually do an Elvis himself). But the rest of us would have’ had to spend all last Saturday composing bilious letters of rebuke to Channel 5 rather than concentrate on sobbing our sockets out to the sound of Elton John. So, La Femme Nikita began last night Except “began" needs qualifying. La Femme Nikita is a television spin-off of the Hollywood movie The Assassin which is itself a remake of the French movie Nikita. The aforementioned conspiracy theorists will fur- ther note that Elton John once had a fait with a song called “Nikita". As intellectual property, the trade name is thus in the possession ot its fourth or fifth owners. The word “shop-soiled" springs unbidden to mind. It's difficult to know what to make of the Francophone flavourings in the title. Perhaps the American audience it was made for is meant to feel flat- tered that it can handle the implied existence of other, alien cultures. In a more inter- esting spin, it could he that appending “La Femme “ to the title is a niche-marketing device calculated to lure the square-eyed lesbians who have already iconised Channel 5's Xena: Warrior Princess. At this early stage in the series, Nikita does seem to be eyebrow-rais- ingly boy-friendless. The single woman who lives across the landing suddenly tantalises with plot possibilities. Then again, don’t rule out the sex- ual charisma of Nikita's recruitment operative. His chin's so big he could dig his own grave with it. (Oops, sony. ) If his libido is even half the size, hell be truffling into Nikita's underwear by next week. He delivers his dialogue in a post-coital school-of-Clint whisper, as if he’s already had sex with the rest of the cast. Any minute now. you think, he's going to nod off. On the same night. ITV 1 ' introduced its own American import. The Practice (ITV, Fri) falls off the conveyor belt that brought you LA Law and Chicago Hope. They could have called it Boston Plea Biirgain and ou'd have got the general picture. Lots of defence lawyers all talking ut once, only stopping io listen to each other when you're meant to ion. This being American television as opposed lo American reality, the lawyers are wholly admirable rather than wholly detestable. When we first come across one young attorney, she is dis- traught that she has just suc- cessfully defended her lllh drug dealer in a row. and you can practically see her heart bleeding right there on the sleeve. Occasionally, the constric- tions of the genre arc con- fronted, even undermined. When the shoot-from-the-hip juvenile-lead lawyer takes on the near-impossible defence of a woman wrongly accused of drug-pushing, wc see him begin his summing up with that tired old speech entitled “Beyond all reasonable doubt". You're sitting there thinking “this is so... so... generic", and then the camera pulls away to reveal that he is addressing his empty office. In this pilot" episode' s comedy plotline, a serial flasher comes before the judge and offers his usual defence. “You exposed your penis by accident? " The other juke was the wig worn by Linda Hunt’s circuit judge. Last seen, I kid you not. on Elton John’s head in West- minster Abbey. IA/U«4. «. +/- It was the aftermath of World W&r Two and the Wnatever nSPPGnOCI IO advent of the mainstream leisure which created the 1 weekend as we know it. Before this, the larger por- tion of the population were deeply deprived, far too _ — ^ busy contending with acute unemployment and Wppkpnrfc? wi, &prcad. W W I ■ ■ The consumer boom in the fifties and the emergence of The Welfare State changed this. The mods were the first group of young people with a disposable income. They would dress up in their sharp suits on a Friday night and leave their drab office job with the smell of burning robber fuelling them down the mo to way. The weekender was born. The disposable income and leisure boom was a mar- riage made in a bankers dream. Although it wasn’t until 1993 that MPs finally validated the consumer weekend by legalising Sunday opening, the Sixties onwards saw many ingenious ways of expanding leisure hours. Youib culture has extended leisure hours in duhs. Ravers know the weekend as something that begins on Friday and doesn't end until they get some sleep on Monday nighL But when will it end? Super- markets are experimenting with all night shopping. But what will happen to the working week? Mid- week blues, stress and extending working hours make an unhappy marriage with the hedonism inspired by the consumer weekend. The hangover could produce calls fora four-dav week, a new cer- emonious day for celebrating the pagan ritual of relaxation, away from the shops and away from the duhs. What wuuld we do? Jennifer Rodger WEATHER The British Isles General Summary and Outlook: Tbe north and north-west of Scotland will have frequent showers, some heavy and pro- longed, with strong to gale force winds. The east and south of Scotland, along with north- ern England^ will see longer sunny spells but a few showers will break out. and it will be windy. Apart from Shetland, showers begin to dear away towards evening. Showers in Northern Ireland, Wales and the Midlands trill be few and far between and they will dear during the afternoon. The south is going to stay dry with periods of sunshine. Tomorrow, southern England will be dry with periods of sunshine developing. Wales and the north of England will be cloudier but should also stay dry. However, Northern Ire- land and Scotland are going to be wet, with outbreaks of rain followed by drizzly, misty, windy conditio® in the west The next few days should be dry in the south but wet in the north with some very heavy rain for Scotland by Wednesday. Europe and The World Aberdeen * Anglesey c Ayr ' Belfast sh Birmingham sh Blackpool f Bournemouth sh Brighton sh Bristol -f Cardiff sh Carlisle Cork Dover Dublin Edinburgh Exeter Glasgow Guernsey Inverness Ipswich sh 13 55 f 13 55 C 20 68 Sh 13 55 Sh 12 54 f 15 59 Sh 10 50 f 16 61 f 18 64. moil -7:19prt t» 6*3*11 ristot 7-. 29JW1 to 6:43am fairingham. 7:28pm to &40«n lanchester —7:30pm * fc41am I ewcartfc 7:29pm to 637am tosgow 7540pm to 6A7m ctfast -7:45«n * 6r5*mi tbrnormw London. — — - Bris t o l...., ■ — Bfaririntfam—. Manchester-- Newcastle— Isles of Scllly f Jersey c Lincoln n/a Liverpool sh Lizard ' sh London. th Manchester sh Newcastle f. Nottingham rt/a Oxford sh 10 635am to 6r45am to 642am to 6542am to 639am to &48>m to- 656am Plymouth s*i Ronaldsway s Scarborough sh Shrewsbury f Southampton f. Southend c St Andrews f Stornoway sh Tifee sh York f WORLD WEATHER YE5TERDAX MIDDAY (GMT): c-doudy: Oain I&Job hz, hazy; mjnteL 1 nain; sn^now; asuimy: tWhunder "{various day’s tsure at bu tone. Athens s 26 79 Ftorenca f 28 82 New York c 24 75 Auckland 1 15 59 Frankfort Nice S 26 79 B. Aires f 12 54 Geneva Nicosia t 29 84 Bangkok til 23 73 Gibraltar s 27 61 Ban's r 19 66 s 27 81 Helsinki c 15 59 Prague I 24 75 Beirut Beteradfi Benin 5 25 77 Istanbul f 31 88 f 22 72 Reykjavik Rio ae Jan C 4 39 dr 20 68 s 24 75 Jerusalem f 27 81 Riyadh s 42108 Bombay Brussels c 19 66 Jo’burg K. Lumpur c 14 57 c 32 90 Roma Stockholm r 14 57 Budapest 1 23 73 Lisbon S 25 77 Sydney c 17 63 5 30 86 'Los Angeles s 25 77 Tenerife f 26 79 Cape Town f 33 91 f 29 84 Tokyo Venice Sh 27 81 Casablanca c 26 79 Majorca. 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Sun and Moon The Sky at Night Sunrises &32m Sun sets 7:19pm Moon rises 526pm Moon sets 159am FU1 Moon: Sopt 16 • • • PEGASUS • • - p:sces Moon Horizon Magnitude scale: J 3 2 1 0 AQUARIUS The Moon Res between Pisces and Aquarius as it rises in trie east in a stale of total eefipse on Tuesday 16 September, This chart shows the Moon's altitude above the horizon, as seen from the UK, at the point when totality ends (8. 18 pm BST) If the Moon rises into a clear sky on Tuesday evening this week (16th) it will present an unusual sight. By the lime' the Moon appears over the horizon in the UK. a total lunar eclipse will be well under w ay. Totality begins at 7. 16 p. BST, moments after raoonrise. During a typical total eclipse, the fail Moon remains visible though it takes on a dark coppery colt iur. How - ever. at moonrise on the 16th, the Sun is only just setting, so this eclipse takes place in twilight. As a consequence, ^! is not entirely predictable how easy the Moon will be lo see. To, discover for yourself, you will need an unobstructed eastern horizon - and of course clouds must kindly absent themselves. ■Tbtality lasts until 8. 18 p. BST. by which time the Moon wiU be some 10 degrees above the horizon. This is the last total lunar eclipse for over 2 years. The next will lake place in January 2020. Jacqueline Mitton THE INDEPENDENT LONG WEEKEND SATURDAY 13 -SEPTEMBER 1997 ' TODAY’S TELEVISION Gerard Gilbert recommends The Decision Sat 8pm C4 T he much-commented-on scrupulousness of our broad- casters in the wake of Princess Diana's death, excising whole episodes of Casualty, references to Prince William in Holding On, any film featuring Bruce Willis and large explo- sions - as wel I as countless other unfathomable editorial nips and tucks - has almost given rise to a new parlour game. Spot the insensitive Diana-related remark/ploUlne. tragically young in France) remains. Seriously, though, in what taste is the jingoistic vulgarity of the traditional finale - “Jerusalem", “Rule Britannia” etc - belted out just yards up the road from Kensington Palace? Oh well, if you fancy something astringent you could do woree than Alan dark's History of the Tbry Party (Sun BBC2). Refreshingly short on humbug, as usual, Clark's scries begins ImNsariiiHMm u normally innocuous, faintly ludicrous event full of flag-waving high spirits. A piece by John Adams entitled Short Bide in a Fast Machine has already been pulled, which is a shame as it's a thrilling piece of contemporary music. It’s replaced by Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man - or, as we perhaps ought to call it now, “The People's Fanfare”. On the other hand, the Prelude to Tristan and Isolde (British princess dies hours of 1 May, as Labour Party supporters harangue the silent, darkened budding. There follows a series of soundbites in which prominent lories try to summarise the Conservative ethos, most amusingly Lord Carrington, who asks warily: “What 'does everybody else say? ". The way the Tbry party regularly sheds its grandees, by the way, like a snake shedding its skin, is the subtext of the first programme, which follows the party’s formation in the Carlton Club “revolutfon" of 1922. "A government of the second XT’, Winston Churchill called the ad ministr ation of Andrew Bonar Law - echoing Che sort of snipes made against John Major’s government by the orig- inal Thatcherite rebels. Of whom, of course. Clack was one.. Boomark (Sat BBC2) goes back to Alex’s Haleys /toots, the bestseller in which. Haley purported to trace his African origins to a Gambian slave called Kama Kims, and claims that Haley was a pla giari st and that his genealogy was fraudulent. ' Omnibus (Sun BBC1) goes inside the portals of Royal Acad- emy to look at the effect on the crusty art establishment as it prepares to pay host to “Sensation", the exhibition of “Brit Pack" artists, including Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and, of course, that portrait of Myra Hindley. And The Decision (Sat C4) has a persuasively sympathetic film about female-to-male ofhonnmes^pen^-. _ ud i ians havetaken over from ^-jssiKS-gafjas DiSrS- remember Mehyn B Time to Dance? It must be the fresh air. 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