It didn’t particularly reduce the amount considered by members, but it did make members think more strategically. This was precisely the course urged on Mr Patten by Tristan Garel-Jones and Patrick Rock, his loyal and experienced special adviser.By contrast, Douglas Hurd counselled against; this was partly, no doubt, because of the fastidiousness Mr Hurd had [...]

While the mother’s situation might be changing, the child’s needs do not.If child care is to be consistent, childcare policy must be equally consistent across government departments. Wembley’s weak financial position has choked the availability of funds.The FA consortium is believed to include a leading leisure operator to provide the financial muscle. ‘Will Carling still [...]

He said people often died without uttering anything picturesque – even worse, they sometimes died after having said something banal, such as ‘Those flowers need more water, nurse.’
To forestall this, my solicitor suggested that I register my dying words now, which he could read out after my death and which would then become my legally [...]

These include James Guerin, who sold ISC to Ferranti and who has been sentenced to 15 years in jail.However, Mr Anderson is pessimistic about the chances of recouping the money in the forseeable future. ‘All we, the players, have seen of them is half of their qualifying match against Japan, on a video,’ said Dennis [...]

And therein lies the source of everything I am.I grew up on those rivers, they were our entertainment We fished and swam and skated in and on and around them. They called for strict new laws regulating suicide and assistance to suicide, with the aim of eliminating the vast ‘grey area’ in which ‘dealers in [...]

Here we have a Mr J Trevor, a Victorian cleric who has what we might now call an out- of-the-body experience on the hills near the Cat and Fiddle at Macclesfield in the Peak District. The 29-year-old Kent golfer shot a level par 72 at Castelgan- dolfo yesterday to share the lead with Frenchman Jean [...]