The LSO enjoys this repertory and with the best brass in the country does it gloriously

The LSO enjoys this repertory and, with the best brass in the country, does it gloriously. And don't forget that different technical standards and systems vary across the Community - televisions, video recorders and software for example, purchased abroad, may not work in the UK.Will I be able to bring back more from abroad?From tomorrow, you can bring back unlimited quantities of most goods bought in an ordinary (ie, not tax-free or duty- free) shop for personal use, without having to pay additional VAT or duty (see below).Will duty-free allowances be abolished from tomorrow?Not in 1993, but the allowances for duty-free and tax-free purchases for journeys within the EC will go by July 1999 at the latest.Will I be able to shop abroad for services?Yes, but if you decide to go abroad to take out a financial service, for example a mortgage with a bank in Germany, where interest rates are generally lower, you run the risk of changes in currency exchange rates as well as in interest rates - unless there is a common currency. something.The church badly needs a similar relaunch, not just because its finances are awful but because one in 24 is a lousy attendance figure and nothing much else seems to be working. Then Kenneth Clarke was asked the same question on Sunday's The World This Weekend and put the anti-referendum case.Suddenly, Conservative divisions over a referendum had become the main story. 'Ja, I get half the catch, but I have to pay for the diesel and all the repairs. 261-4 Surrey win by six wicketsAN unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 146 in 129 balls between David Ward and Adam Hollioake took Surrey to a thrilling victory over New Zealand with five balls left yesterday.When Andrew Smith was fourth out in the 33rd of the 55 overs at 115, New Zealand looked as if they would win in spite of a fairly innocuous attack. John Talbot and Murdoch McKillop of Arthur Andersen are to negotiate exclusively with GEC.

LLOYDS BANK'S takeover of the Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society represents a further step in the decline of mutual organisations owned by their customers. In 1976, one of his friends, Mark Perry, started Sniffin' Glue, the first punk fanzine. He told the Independent: 'These were obviously fine words but not enough. Terry Lax, 39, of Bow, east London, had no part in the rape but terrorised the woman The rapist was jailed for 10 years at an earlier trial.. It dates from 1960 and was a way of performing open-heart surgery by cooling people down to a state of suspended animation.

FOR others it would be a rugby dotage, but Jeff Probyn gladly reminded the England selectors yesterday that even at 36 years and 11 months he has no intention of retiring. One of the alleged killers was caught after being wounded by a grenade that exploded during the incident, police said yesterday. 'Most of what is in The Highway Code is just common sense,' he said, flicking through the new edition. Subsequent court action proved negligence on the part of Bethnal Green Borough Council.

The women, who worked as administrators and financial clerks at a vehicle dealer, yesterday received a total of pounds 15,000 after a tribunal found that their work was of equal value to a job held by a man who worked as a parts salesman, a van driver and a car cleaner. Last week, H & J Quick, a Ford dealer in north-west England, withdrew its appeal against the decision and paid them the difference in wages. If the British economy is properly managed from now, the 1990s can be the decade in which manufacturing is the sector to make money rather than property or financial services. A story of pain and misery may lie behind this early separation (she was still only 24); or it may be that the marriage simply failed to work, for all the usual reasons. whatever the fireworks that streak across the heavens, whatever the noises elsewhere.'He compared China's attitude to 'playing tennis on my own', saying: 'Unless the ball comes back over the net, it's rather difficult to have a co-operative game.'Over the next few months, Mr Patten will have to hold together the support he has won in Hong Kong, a task likely to require all his political skills.So far the stock market has behaved reasonably encouragingly: it rose by 5 per cent last week, despite the acrimony in Peking. It was addictive, and no sooner had I started my descent than I was itching to get up there again.Professional sailors who worked aloft every day would doze off in boredom, drooped over the yard, secured by harnesses. Two minutes after arriving, a bone tied in red-and-green plaid ribbon was delivered to our room accompanied by a letter of welcome for Zephyr from Gunther and Rufus, Mr Payton's bandana-wearing giant schnauzers.

With the Chempark at its heart, he is working to give new life to Bitterfeld. The cost is pounds 147m.The BBC's 25,000 broadcasting staff have accepted a 4.3 per cent pay rise.BSkyB is installing a powerful computer system at its subscription centre in Livingston, Scotland, to handle the launch of pay- per-view on an experimental basis next year. Telephone delivery of things we buy in quite different ways at present will soon be a reality; movies and music are just the beginning Sir Colin and others ignore the revolution at their peril.. At the Margaret MacMillan Nursery School in north London, a large PC with a keyboard and a mouse is left out for the children - aged between two years 10 months and five - to use, along with the clay, the water, and the sandpit. I broke two of my toes kicking a chair when we played Chelsea.