INCENTIVE awards of pounds 500 a year aimed at encouraging more high-calibre students to opt for an accredited engineering degree were announced by

INCENTIVE awards of pounds 500 a year aimed at encouraging more high-calibre students to opt for an accredited engineering degree were announced by the Government yesterday. Being awful isn't nearly as much of a drawback as being female. A rumoured SNC sell recommendation sent the shares tumbling 6p to 44p in brisk trading.Standard Chartered, the banking group, was helped along by a rumoured Cazenove push, up 10p at 788p.Electricities were bright as Southern Electric took the lead in the dividend race with an increase of 17.9 per cent. WITH no more than a nod from the United Nations Security Council, the UN could deploy extra forces to secure the vital road link from Mostar to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.

Julie Summers, deputy curator of the foundation, said: 'It's terrifying.'All but one of the known fakes are still in circulation. Disturbing.'Erasmus Montanus' (081-858 2862); 'Images of Tiffin' (071-837 7816); 'A Report to the Academy' (071-730 1745).(Photograph omitted). He first met Mr Clinton when they both worked for Arkansas Senator William Fulbright. At 35-40kg, the backpacks would certainly have been heavy but in line with what you would expect for this kind of mission. Cylinders give the best finish, while rotary and hover mowers are better for rough grass and for sloping or bumpy ground.

Merci, merci, thanks a million, I thank you]' One expected Grappelli to get a rousing reception just for still being alive, but the standing ovation at the end of this concert came as a thoroughly deserved tribute to genius. But you find other things, too, included in the price of pounds 13,990. He is beyond the road'.We look at a photograph of Kerouac in New York, famous check shirt-sleeves rolled up. Newspapers were filled only with trivia - the 'cucumber season', as the Eastern Europeans like to call it. The pound rose strongly when trading opened yesterday, continuing a rally fuelled by glimmers of economic optimism in Britain, a weak German mark and the squaring of short sterling positions before the year-end. 'This means that 'natural' thinking - ordinary day-to- day common sense - will never give an understanding about the nature of science.

CHILDREN trying to protect their ponies and horses against serial sex attackers by sleeping in stables with their animals were warned by police last night that they too may be at risk. One is the constant undercurrent of humour, which functions here as the brandy of the damned. Her most recent novel, Ordinary Decent Criminals, has just been published in paperback (Flamingo, pounds 5.99). I came over all fatherly towards these wonderful kids, but what about hard drugs such as heroin? 'To me that's really scruffy, dirty,' said another lad. Much was made of the fact that the Masters champion, Bernhard Langer, had declared his support in writing. But why should we take players' opinions so seriously? If it had been up to the England footballers - including estimable performers like David Platt - we might still be saddled with Taylor. IT LOOKS an unlikely battleground.

'We belong historically, culturally and economically to Europe. The rest of you managed to be here on time, so we'll take off.'The stewardesses then began the ritual of spraying the cabin with insecticide. But they concluded that there was no justification for banning the sale of any video because a child might accidentally watch it.The report follows the Government's proposals to introduce laws to tighten up the classification of videos and impose stronger penalties against retailers who supply outlawed films to youngsters. But Britain has proved better at opposing European projects than pursuing a positive continental agenda, while France seems to enjoy baiting the Americans at every opportunity. A task of seven an over off the last 10 was always going to be a tall order for the last four wickets and left-armer Mark Davies duly applied the last rites. Moore, of Cleethorpes, Humberside, is believed to be using a stolen blue Vauxhall car with a woman friend named as Trina Powell, police said.. Nowhere was that sense of outrage more justified than in Bethnal Green.