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 long in office now. HARD-PRESSED money advice workers coping with a recession- induced bumper crop of debt problems are responding with a mixture of scepticism and concern to controversial proposals to introduce credit counselling agencies in Britain. But happily for the Chancellor the case concerned a close namesake – James Lamont, a 27-year-old unemployed Scot, who pleaded guilty to attempted fraud on a Threshers off-licence in Luton earlier this month. Next month, the Commons Public Accounts Committee will question council officials about the allegations, which have so far resulted in three people being charged.

As an acknowledgement of the march of youth, the succession of sick notes may well have been more than mere coincidence. When he was told no, he blasted Mr Dale in the face, Charles Barton QC, for the prosecution, said.Williams then dragged Mr Dale’s body from the taxi and searched him Although Mr Dale had pounds 30 on him, he did not find it. The company, he said, was involved in trade with Azerbaijan and with negotiating the provision of military support. Perhaps the great challenge for chardonnay is to remain reasonably priced without becoming boring.One answer, according to James Halliday, the wine writer, lies in the development of unwooded chardonnays. ‘We are not asking them to change the recipe, just to tell us what is in the food.

In addition, the DSS is exploring ways of co-operating with other countries’ benefits agencies.. Lord Nicholas Gordon Lennox, a BBC governor, came to Edinburgh 48 hours after Grade’s speech and outlined plans for radical change. They bring a wealth of experience, which, on the evidence of a humbling 46-6 defeat by Wigan in their first match back in the top division, Sheffield will need in the months ahead and certainly at Warrington tomorrow.Hull have the Canberra utility back, Scott Gale, in the country in time for their game at Wigan, but his luck with injuries does not appear to have improved much in the four years since he was last here. Oh, anything really; get a video out, pop down to the off-licence and buy a bottle of cider Just don’t make me listen to your new album again. ‘Lots of local authorities will have to pull out of Section 11 commitments A lot are talking of redundancies. If you have a shot and a defender says ‘Unlucky’, or if he tackles you and when you pick yourself up he asks if you’re all right, then you’ll talk to him, because you know he is going to be hard but fair.’But you also get defenders who want to kick you all over the place and have a go verbally, too I’ve learned I won’t talk to them.

But the British UN forces face a separate threat – attacks by Serbian forces positioned only 20km to the north on Mount Vlasic.Major Bryan Watters, of the Cheshire regiment in Vitez, has said a local Serbian commander threatened the Cheshires with ‘immediate shelling if Western air strikes on Bosnian Serb positions take place. ‘But she isn’t hard-hearted – far from it,’ one Whitehall insider said ‘She’s very bright. ‘Of course, we all know he’s wholly unfit to take over,’ she confides as the tour group move off ‘But they need a genuine reason for an Act of Parliament. William Hardy, 24, has been charged with the manslaughter of Seamus Lavelle, 30, a back- row forward with Hendon rugby club who died after an incident during a match in March.

She will push ahead with his proposals to introduce greater freedom for workers to join the union of their choice and to render more difficult the system of ‘check off’ (under which employers deduct union dues from workers’ pay packets), then turn her mind to questions of industrial training and job creation.Other union optimists point out that John Major does not have Margaret Thatcher’s visceral loathing of the unions. The soaring moments of Vaughan Williams’s score are replaced by a ragged bagpipe rendition of ‘To be a Pilgrim’ playing us in and out.The actor playing Christian treads as perilous a path as the character, negotiating the Sloughs of Sanctimony, and the Valley of Bathos. Newlove has been in brilliant form in the League and played just as well for Great Britain in last autumn’s series against New Zealand.He would have been one of the first players chosen to face Australia this year, but now appears to have pulled down the curtain on what should have been a glittering Test career.Deprived of the services of Shaun Edwards and Martin Offiah, also banned this weekend after pulling out of the Sevens, the Wigan coach, John Dorahy, has recalled Martin Dermott, Neil Cowie and Andrew Farrell against Widnes tonight, along with Paul Atcheson, the former Widnes utility player, who has been out injured for most of the season.With Phil Clarke in Sydney as Edwards’s replacement, Dorahy loses three players because of the Sevens. The Tofflers’ description of it is broad, concise, provocative and close to the modern pulse.