THE Irish community in San Francisco was celebrating last night after a judge granted bail to James Smyth, a purported IRA terrorist who nine years ago took part in a mass break-out from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland. And, as Rowena said, ‘It sounds German, doesn’t it?’ I do not think he will be [...]

Some people are temperamentally incapable of allowing strangers to occupy their home or of coping with the culture shock when they do. Their belated pressure told when the 17-year-old Turner, a Lilleshall graduate, volleyed left- footed into the crowded box, the ball deflecting off Dave Watson past Southall.’It’s another hard-luck story,’ Howard Kendall, the Merseysiders’ [...]

Nigel Williams, Jeanette Winterson and Henry James are all contenders, as is the idea of reading poetry, but the club clearly prefers getting its teeth into a good yarn rather than a sonnet or two.’Poetry] Oh God, no way,’ shrieks Helena ‘Unless it’s Pam Ayres. if any phase of school education is funded at a [...]

They are books about intellectuals, the people that Mao Tse-tung dubbed the Ninth Stinking Category, but the importance of both works goes beyond that, for they provide a catalogue of the mad-house that is China under the totalitarian and chameleon-like rule of the Chinese Communist Party. To get past that, and appreciate this music’s capacity [...]

My team, Barnet, have lost their first eight League fixtures of the season Is this a record?A. His aestheticism would be mocked for the benefit of the half-watching viewer He would look foolish. Euro Iseki of Stratford-on-Avon, which supplies the technology, says that pipejacking is cheaper than digging trenches, and that there is less risk [...]

One, which Bolton called ‘Taurus A’, was located in our own galaxy: the Crab Nebula. As a solicitor caustically put it, ‘they showed a medical history of falling down holes.’
In Cork a case thrown out of court in 1991 involved Edward O’Leary, who claimed he was a victim of whiplash injuries after a car crash [...]