It may surprise you to know that we don our gloves and waterproofs and march into High Standards House at least twice a

It may surprise you to know that we don our gloves and waterproofs and march into High Standards House at least twice a week, there to adjudicate upon what our fellow citizens should or should not have watched o'er the preceding days. Holiday's legend soon outdistanced her music.There is something about the relentless self-abuse of American artists which has always been misinterpreted as a sort of mystic yearning, and this has marked them out as totemic figures. The law should be changed, he said, so that where parents had been married the CSA could presume paternity and it would then be up to the father to challenge that.The CSA was unable at the weekend to provide figures on how many fathers had denied paternity or how many cases it had taken to court. Losses last year, including a pounds 10m charge for restructuring, were pounds 69m.Earnings from refining and selling fuel increased by 13 per cent from pounds 431m to pounds 488m. The excruciating baby talk with which Grahame approached his wife, another child-adult, and the disaster of a sexual relationship based on shared childishness is all too apparent here. Agents report prices creeping up at the pounds 75,000- pounds 90,000 mark, under pressure from first-time buyers. For many that means joining a queue at the local park or sitting it out at the tennis club For a lucky few it means walking into the garden.

He was unhappy at being an absentee landlord and when, some six months later, one of the farmers on the estate went bankrupt, and his farm became vacant, Murray decided overnight to take over the farm and to live on the estate. Much of Mr Thomas's working life has been spent as gardens adviser to the National Trust. And the cities they visit include New York, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans and even Chicago but never Cleveland. When the votes were counted, Mr Edwards could finish no better than third.There was but one consolation as he contemplated the wreckage of a substantial political career - dozens more of his fellow incumbents might meet a similar fate, come general election day on 3 November.Perhaps the voting for the 103rd Congress will not quite go down as the political equivalent of Hercules in the Augean stables. He mentions that 'doom- mongering' is a tradition 'that goes back to a time before England existed', but seems to have forgotten that England is not the same as Britain. Will you drive his taxi tomorrow night?'My appetite, for some reason, deserts me.(Photograph omitted).

Nirvana's show at the Roseland Ballroom was a last-minute addition to the schedules of the New Music Seminar taking place here last week It was also the event's highlight. In this he was fortunate to have the assistance of a French mandate architect, Lucien Cavro. The FT-SE 100 index fell a further 40 points, taking the decline on the week to nearly 100 points.The headline rate of inflation is expected to have jumped sharply last month, from 1.9 per cent in December to around 2.5 per cent when the figure is published on Wednesday.David Hillier of NatWest Markets said that less generous price discounting could help push inflation to 2.9 per cent.Even some long-term optimists on inflation, such as Adrian Cooper of James Capel, believe this week's figure could disappoint the market; he expects 2.7 per cent. 'The new interpretations (such as banning the tackle from behind and the change in the interpretation of the offside law) contributed to some very fast games, and I'm sure that the commitment and passion which are the hallmarks of the game in this country can be maintained,' Don said..

My daughters got a lot of pleasure out of the Brontes, particularly Jane Eyre, and Jane Austen, but I should never say all children should read them Some are ready for the classics in their early teens. Girls hear disturbing things from each other, generally about bleeding and pain, and their anxiety may not be dispelled by PSE classes at secondary level.Surprisingly, most teachers appeared not to have thought about the significance of their own attitudes and behaviour, or the effect of school facilities and policies on girls' ability to cope - often school secretaries were more aware and understanding.Although more than 80 per cent of the girls in the study reported tiredness, irritability and heavy bleeding, male teachers in particular were found to ignore the problems, and some women took the attitude that 'We coped, so you must, too.'Evelyn Tully, a trained nurse who recently moved to the all-girls Parliament Hill School in north London, was surprised at how much girls suffer. It was a kind of spiritual inflation; you knew you were being conned, but being conned was something you invested in, because it enabled you to con others - the flash car and the expensive suit really did give off positive signals. He might be speaking on behalf of every white South African.The shape of Playland conforms to the model Fugard established in The Blood Knot - a cast of two of 'the poorest of the poor of my South Africa' embodying the tensions current in that society 'Poor theatre' is for Fugard a matter of preferred practice. Depreciation charges based on these amounts will then be shown in the accounts. However, two categories of fixed assets - infrastructure assets, including roads and footpaths, and community assets, such as parks and museum exhibits - will be shown at historical cost, net of depreciation.