It is expected to use a variety of means to get to

It is expected to use a variety of means to get to the domestic user, including links with cable television companies, BT and new telephone network operators such as Cambridge-based Ionica.AT&T said that it had not yet seen the licence, which may include obligations concerning standards and services.The company is not likely to build its own long-distance network but will probably lease capacity from existing networks, including those of BT, Mercury and Energis, part of the National Grid Company.AT&T was for months in abortive talks concerning a joint venture with Energis but now says there is no barrier to forming business alliances with the company, whose long-distance network is due to open in the autumn.Merrill Tutton, president of AT&T in the UK, said the company would do whatever deals were necessary to enable it to provide high-quality services at the right price. The World Health Organisation estimates that by the year 2000 the disease will have created 10 million orphans world-wide. For 20 years he was dealing with crimes that challenge any faith, but though he turned against religion he never lost the hope that the great social evils might be mitigated through informed intervention. We've also been known to sneak off to the cinema in the afternoon. They think it's really hip to act like that because they come from the suburbs where they'd never dare.I like being alone at night to wind down and think - I get all my greatest ideas then, like staging Der Rosenkavalier in a shopping mall. The Molineux board accepted both, entrusting temporary control to the captain, Peter Shirtliff. Wolves' chief executive, Keith Pearson, said the club hoped to appoint a successor 'sooner rather than later' and claimed that while they had no one particular in mind, the new man would be 'someone with experience'.That might appear to rule out Robson, who is thought to have boardroom support, while enhancing the prospects of Steve Coppell, Arthur Cox and Taylor.

Ian Sinclair, an estate agent in Norfolk, was prosecuted for failing to change a card in his window on a house where the client had dropped the price On the written particulars the price was correctly changed. Responsibilities: babies, neighbours and friends popping in, turkeys to stuff, frosty in-laws to thaw. Unions and management have agreed on the latter, though they dispute whether the final settlement involves a 20 per cent or 10 per cent cut in wage costs.Here in Britain workers at Sheffield City Council, though many of them earn only modest wage packets, have agreed to a 5 per cent wage cut to prevent any of their colleagues being sacked.The Sheffield agreement is the first time a large group of British workers has voted to retain jobs by sharing out the numbers of hours that could be paid from a Government-imposed cut to the council's budget. King Hussein dissolved Jordan's parliament and scheduled the first multi-party legislative elections in 37 years for 8 November.

He had just received an award from City Challenge, the body set up by Prince Charles to revitalise the inner cities.The grant was for pounds 12,500. Cosmos, for example, said: 'It is not up to overseas operators to determine what is built by hoteliers and what environmental and social standards should be maintained.' Patricia Barnett, Tourism Concern's co- ordinator, said yesterday that operators refused to use their 'enormous influence' with government in Goa. They struck sparks off each other and produced the true frisson of verismo opera, not to forget their faultless diction, a sphere in which their successors could well learn much from them.Allied to his Scarpia was his tormented Rigoletto. They had to make people look good and feel good.'When she refers to Langan's fixation with sexy restaurants, she is talking about customer care This was a subject that rang bells for Ms Jones.

But anyone wanting to make an informed choice between one endowment or pension plan and another will face much more work than is required when they choose groceries in the supermarket.Under rules drawn up by the industry regulator, Lautro, life companies will have to explain how much of their premiums are absorbed by the expenses involved in marketing the products.Companies must use their own true costs in calculating the expense figures but will use assumed rates of investment growth laid down by Lautro so that comparisons can be made.Expenses vary widely. It is time we took the view which other cities have and praise our successes,' he said. Towcester is the 28th victim of the jumps season and the seventh this year, a tally which includes yesterday's cards at Market Rasen and Worcester. Wounded national feelings, dislocation, poor living conditions.

Stephen Shaw, director of the Prison Reform Trust said: 'Doubling the maximum penalty for teenagers who commit minor offences will inevitably lead to more children spending longer behind bars in these benighted institutions. 21: ENGLAND V AUSTRALIA Second one-day international (Edgbaston). Two weeks later, he lost to the same guy in another final, and I found it buried away in the stop press.' The inference being that in England he would have been buried in an entirely different way.Hick, not unnaturally, has become more sensitive to criticism since his England career began - 'after a while, you get tired of being laughed at' - and the fact that he has consulted the same psychologist/motivator as David Gower would suggest that he might have lost some of the self- belief that was once the most striking feature of his game.However, Hick denies this. All becomes clear when you know that this is the portrait as retrospective self-justification: it was commissioned by Lady Digby's husband to put down rumours that she had had an affair with the third Earl of Dorset. In similar circumstances in the past, he has welcomed the company, and enjoyed a convivial post-match meal with the hacks.