I was almost made to stand in the corner

I was almost made to stand in the corner.Days settled into a comfortable pattern of life afloat Rigging and sailing, de-rigging and relaxing. COMPENSATION paid to badly advised or cheated investors soared last year by 48 per cent to pounds 18.6m, and claims continue to rise. I write on the anniversary of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre that marked the beginning of the French wars of religion. Certainly an old touchline was still visible from the main stand, with the new one about five yards in from that point.Rangers, then under Graeme Souness, denied they had done anything they shouldn't have, and even if they had it could hardly be described as illegal Ungentlemanly, perhaps Rangers won 2-0 to go through 2-1 on aggregate - Robert Bray, London SW19.Answers PleaseQ. A parable in the Bible says people were given a sum of money and told to go forth and use their talents wisely.

.1 CELTIC suffered their third defeat of the new year, falling to a Phil O'Donnell double in a game that sucked the breath from players and fans alike.With the clubs due to meet on cup business at the same venue on 29 January they could hardly have served up a better dress rehearsal last night. AN OLD friend, a Londoner who has lived in the United States for 30 years, never tires of the notion that most Americans, especially in his neck of the woods, find it difficult to accept that small men (jockeys apart) can achieve great things in sport. 'To be perfectly honest, I wasn't fast enough to be a sprinter, but I was fast enough to hurdle.' Or play on the wing. Fay, whose parents divorced when he was seven, lives with his father in Dayton, Ohio, but was visiting his mother and stepfather in Singapore when he crossed the nation-city's famously unbending authorities. Untouchable, unteachable, impregnable.If you were offered the heart of Jesus Christ, your Lord and your Saviour - though not mine, alas - you'd sniff at it like sour offal.

How to get there: London Underground to Wembley Park (Metropolitan or Jubilee Lines) or Wembley Central (Bakerloo Line) British Rail to Wembley Central. 'One young woman working in Croydon was spending four hours getting to work from north Essex. Now, despite the fact that every person who's seen it said they loved it, and Thierry Mugler doesn't lend clothes to just anybody, the girls went on record in the New York Times last Sunday saying they weren't especially happy, and if they'd had more time they would have avoided Mugler - because everybody wears it.This job can be no fun. The real enemy, he said, was instant pop culture and the multimedia multinationals that own and control it. Any repeat of last week's showing against Forest and Wilkinson may need the table for different reasons.Tomorrow is derby day in Bristol or rather Bath, where the exiled Rovers take on City in a First Division match given added allure by Malcolm Allison's early impact on the hosts' form.

JUST WHO is Kevin Cahill, author of those tedious and sometimes inaccurate rich lists (remember Paul Raymond being wealthier than the Duke of Westminster and Lord Sainsbury) that regularly grace Business Age magazine?In the week that the latest, 'Britain's paper millionaires', came out, a curious document reaches me. Most club members do not fear 1997.In a colony not renowned for nostalgia, Mr Tang has created an exquisite retreat from the heat and bustle of Hong Kong. Coal production continued to slide.The rise in factory output boosted the pound on the foreign exchanges - it rose 1.7 cents to dollars 1.4935 and over a pfennig to DM2.5678, the highest close against the mark since the aftermath of sterling's ignominious departure from the European exchange rate mechanism last September.The money markets reflected hopes of an early interest rate cut receding, with less need now seen to boost the economy. But the readings she did on her trip to London were packed to the rafters.

In the UK, that usually means rationalisation, especially of people who can be classed as overheads. He is Roger Luard, chief executive of the media company Flextech. The case had been expected to last up to four weeks, with a judgment expected to take as long again. Lep announced that it would be paying no compensation to Mr Read but would meet his court costs up to an agreed amount - believed to be around pounds 350,000.Mr Read was dismissed at the behest of the group's bankers without compensation at the end of 1991.He had a three-year rolling contract with the company worth more than pounds 300,000 a year. A survey published last year showed that many families suffer severe financial hardship as a result of visiting their sick child in hospital: 5.6 per cent of families go into debt; 12 per cent said they would have nothing left at the end of the week to cover visiting costs, and more than a quarter said they would like to visit more. But he is determined to carry on - and will today emerge from hiding to face his critics. Atherton has been supported throughout by Ray Illingworth, the chairman of selectors, and senior officials of the Test and County Cricktet board. They gleefully bargain on the entire Serbian regime being dragged down by any investigation of atrocities.The rejoicing of the Serbian opposition over the spectre of a Nuremberg process in Belgrade may be premature - Mr Draskovic at one time fielded his own volunteer units in Croatia, whose conduct was far from angelic. The company Grigorovich is bringing this time is full of new dancers, moulded in the Bolshoi factory.