Most have decided however to postpone any decision on balloting until next term when they have a better idea of ministers' intentions

Most have decided, however, to postpone any decision on balloting until next term, when they have a better idea of ministers' intentions.Schools are particularly anxious to know whether opting out will offer the prospect of more money. Mr Howard had, he explained, been influenced by 'public opinion', by which he seemed to mean a 500,000-signature petition organised by the parents of Jamie Bulger. The Bulgers' lawyer also passed on a 'big thank you' to those 21,000 readers of the Sun newspaper who had sent a printed coupon to the Home Secretary demanding life imprisonment for the two young killers. What a find she is - a genuine Slav sound, but with a chastened, far-reaching top Breath-taking. Gartmore attracted more than 100 new clients for its pooled investment service. Gartmore's chairman Paul Myners said the performance was 'exceptional, and unlikely to be repeated by many in our industry on a frequent basis'. England A 29 Ireland A 14 ENGLAND have dug deep into their resources during an injury-afflicted season and they have to hope they do not have to dig any deeper. During the call, Mr Grachev invited the US to join Russia in sending peace-keeping forces to Bosnia.It was a provocative line of conversation, since Mr Grachev knew that the Americans had set strict conditions for dispatching troops to Bosnia and were none too happy with the way Russia had intervened in Sarajevo last week. I suggested it was the duty of the bank to refund direct debits made in error ( pounds 116 in my case) and followed it up in writing (first lesson: always get things in writing). The manager wrote back.

Only a toddler exhibits greater courage in braving public spaces. Now for some of the lighter discoveries of the year.I have learnt how to make good nourishing soup The secret is in the bones In France, every butcher gives you these for nothing. On the other side of town, at the unofficial al fresco stock market, trading still bubbles away, but nowadays only some 2,000 players turn up each day, well down from the 50,000 when the market was really hot. Her Ladyship's present view was that in High Court proceedings, the 1991 Rules did not alter the general procedural rules laid down in RSC Order 80, and children were to be parties.Moroevoer, children intervening in family applications in the High Court certainly ought for practical reasons to be made parties in order to be clear about their position and to obviate any difficulties over who represented them. But as the UN nears its 50th anniversary in 1995, there is no choice but to rise to the challenge. .'G Q Simpson, whose double-door problem is now, we hope, solved, returns with another anxiety: 'Why do people refer to searching with a fine tooth-comb instead of a fine-tooth comb?'Any information on the history, design and applications of tooth- combs would be gratefully received.Answers would also be appreciated to the following:'We all know that hot air rises, so why does it get colder the higher up you go in the atmosphere?' (Robert Young)'Given the vast number of tins of oxtail soup produced every year, why do you never see the great herds of oxen needed to make it. It is superior to repartition because it is acceptable to a larger number of people. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are set to turn to Chris Bart-Williams as an emergency striker in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final derby against Sheffield United at Wembley.

Starting in bottom place, the expense paid dividends as they have moved into third place behind NMP Menzieshill and Kelburne.. A much more serious obstacle to the band's satirical progress is the sense of irony they're supposed to have acquired. Even so, the notion that those on view at the Arms Park will develop an East or West identity is faintly ridiculous however deep the east- west divide may have been in the past.And while the fixture will perform a most useful function by bringing together the best of the Welsh in a representative, highly competitive setting, it can hardly be called a 'provincial' championship when there are only two participant teams. But investigators would still be allowed to apply for custody for corruption suspects.

His principal comment was that it reminded him of the ornamental gardens at Stowe.In truth, there are only two fundamental categories of travel writers - good and bad. The recession, and the resulting huge stocks of unsold new cars, means the industry has been given a reprieve and 'non- cat' cars may be sold next year.The use of the catalytic converter is already so widespread that the numbers of non-cat cars sold in 1993 will represent only 3 per cent of the total UK market.In addition, Michael Howard, the Secretary of State for Environment, has announced that the government may impose environmental taxes on fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas. .83 and 378-3 LANCASHIRE have played almost as two different teams here and although Derbyshire still hold the whip hand, the ignominy of defeat inside three days need no longer trouble their captain Mike Watkinson. After Mao died in 1976, some personal expression did begin to creep back. But it is also - and more realistically - fearful of competition to attract foreign money.

A sort of off-centre logic which makes sense when you look into it. Christopher Gelder, 25, was jailed for 18 months at Warrington Crown Court for terrorising Christine Howells, a customer of the bank, over a nine-month period. Gelder, of Burton Green, Great Sutton, Ellesmere Port, was found guilty at Chester Crown Court in May, but sentence was adjourned until yesterday for reports.Gelder, a clerk at the Royal Bank of Scotland's Runcorn branch, subjected Mrs Howells, 33, to obscene calls sometimes three to four times a week.. It appears to be in the permanent grip of the monsoon season, is so delightfully disorganised that on England's last visit Guyana Airways managed to 'lose' its one and only plane after putting it in for a routine service in the United States, and has the most volatile of all the West Indian crowds. However, the fact that all five Test venues here have their own separate identities is not to England's disadvantage should they get their act together, and after Vivian Richards had inflamed the large Asian community here in 1990 by talking about his 'proud African descent', the crowd mostly sided with England.During the final one-day international here on Sunday, there were more protests directed at the West Indian journalist Tony Cozier for daring to suggest that Phil Simmons, of Trinidad, might be left out of the second Test in favour of Jamaica's Jimmy Adams, and when South Africa played their first-ever Test in Barbados in 1992, there was a crowd boycott when the selectors left out the local favourite, Anderson Cummins.Presumably, the West Indian selectors will not feel inclined to incite a riot by leaving out Carl Hooper for the second Test if the Guyanese has recovered from his back problem, which will effectively mean a straight choice between Simmons and Adams.Adams is technically better suited to opening in a Test than Simmons, who has apparently honed his technique from a baseball manual. The aim is a five-fold increase in profits over the next three to five years, helped by privatised mail, parcels and prisons in the UK and overseas expansion. This is the school the Tory press loves, the opted-out, self-governing, selective-entry lesson to us all. The day she arrived as headmistress at Chelmsford three years ago, Bernice McCabe started to cut items about the school from the papers. The inspired, the 'great', is not an endangered species: it is extinct - edged out by the slick, the routine and the downright meretricious.