‘You like to suffer?’ she shouted back.She expanded on the theme to a small knot of listeners ‘I am a whitey myself. With Second World War anniversaries in mind, it is an appropriate time for a hill and riverside walk ending at one of the most affecting modern war memorials and taking in the meadow [...]

But he feels that while overall quality is better now than 15 years ago, there is little that stands out and makes people gasp.’I don’t mind the smaller size, but the package is very unpleasant I hate the plastic it goes on. Four people, including a two- year-old child, died in a three- car accident [...]

A High Court injunction granted yesterday to Halifax Insurance and Provident Financial, its Bradford-based parent, bans the other Halifax, the world’s biggest building society, from using the name of its home town when selling motor insurance. When confirmation duly materialised the shares fell 4p to 160p, more influenced by a cautious statement and the lack [...]

The only way to avoid such calamity, Mr Weiss said, speaking far more openly than he had ever dared as BDI president, was via a radical reduction in pay settlements and drastic cuts in public spending in western Germany.At the same time, senior industrialists and government party members called for Monday’s settlement at Lufthansa, the [...]

136 M Farry (Fr) 71 65; J Spence 69 67; B Gallacher 70 66; S Luna (Sp) 67 69; F Nobilo (NZ) 64 72. The appeal to find a joint candidate came from Gerard Longuet, of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), in response to speculation that President Francois Mitterrand may step down soon. He [...]

LABOUR HAS no doubt enjoyed the Government’s embarrassments over the events that have led to Michael Mates’s resignation. He pledged to reverse the Bush administration’s concentration on foreign affairs I was there on several occasions when he said it. He described the intimacy of his relations with many editors when he was at the CIA [...]