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The group made an operating loss of pounds 1.4m, after profits of pounds 4.8m in 1992. What you try to do is to get them to move aside that veil.' Pre-marital counselling has always been part of the clergy's job. JOHN PATTEN, the Secretary of State for Education, yesterday suffered a humiliating climbdown when he settled a libel action brought against him by Professor Tim Brighouse, Birmingham's chief education officer, whom he had called 'a nutter'. But banks which hold shares as security for loans will be exempt from the 3 per cent threshold if they have voting rights.The first consultative document on share stake disclosure was issued in the summer of 1988.. Here's Helen from Thorpe Hamlet Middle School: 'I tackled my brother,' she writes, 'and I have never done that before I am better at football now. Then Oti produced a blistering break down the right before appearing seconds later on the left in support of Buzza, who was squeezed into touch inches short of the line. PARENTS should be on the look-out for hairs trapped inside baby suits.

Many young Orcadians leave either to find work down south or to go to university - though a high proportion (some say 60 per cent) find it hard to settle elsewhere. His father taught him how to fish to help with the family dinner table. The US government withdrew an Aids prevention radio advertisement featuring Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer for Red Hot Chili Peppers, after it became known he had been convicted of sexual battery, Reuter reports from Washington. Scores of hands shaken and female fans winked at (the right eye shifts to automatic flutter mode when women approach), Oliver North makes for the door. 31 January: 1606: Guy Fawkes is hanged, drawn and quartered.1747: The first venereal disease clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.1876: From this date all American Indians are required to move into reservations, or be deemed hostile.1910: The first labour exchanges open in Britain.1983: The wearing of seat- belts becomes compulsory in the front seats of cars in the United Kingdom.1 February:1884: A-Ant, the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, is published.1902: China abolishes the compulsory binding of women's feet.1911: Edward Mylius is jailed for one year for libel, after calling George V a bigamist.1915: Photographs become a requirement in British passports.1965: The singer P J Proby is banned by the BBC after splitting his trousers on stage.1973: Women are allowed for the first time on the floor of the Stock Exchange.1989: Death of Omiuri, a 16ft python believed by the Luo tribesmen of Kenya to possess magical powers.2 February:1709: Alexander Selkirk is rescued after five years as a castaway on the island of Mas a Tierra and the legend of Robinson Crusoe is born.1852: The first public flushing lavatory for men is opened in London's Fleet Street.1880: The first frozen meat to be imported to Britain arrives from Australia.1962: A conjunction of eight planets portends the end of the world. Other costs that affect premiums include hospital beds and expenses of the medical insurer. He is author of English Seafood Cookery (Penguin, pounds 10.99).

For a state that has attracted more than its fair share of publicity in the past 12 months because of the number of violent attacks on tourists, there is some irony in Florida's anxiety that the visitors could now be striking back. Both would probably have been seeded had the EBU had its way. The absences through injury of the top-seeded Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen and the former European champion from Essex, Darren Hall, left the top half lopsided. He's a bricklayer, used to be very good at judo, and always managed to have a big Arab horse to ride. But many players have noticed a change in the way the US Golf Association sets up the contemporary US Open course. DEFENCE orders worth pounds 5bn and estimated to preserve 10,000 jobs were promised yesterday, as 'sweeteners' to offset the pounds 750m-a- year cuts.

In return, householders should enjoy low heating bills because their homes are so highly insulated, and the satisfaction of living more in harmony with the earth.Some of the houses would be do-it-yourself constructions and seven registered would-be residents have already helped draw up details of the estate, its management and ecological code.Mr Beddington says he has been unable to find any British bank interested in backing the project. Unlike a traditional street, the height and angle of the towers admit abundant sunlight and create wonderful views over London.This does not mean that the block should automatically be preserved. The substance of these complaints was greater than that of the complaint in 1989 which led to Beck's ultimate conviction.'But the report said that there was no 'equitable basis' for bringing disciplinary charges against any officer. An intruder - statistically almost certainly male - is at the end of your bed. It is likely to be around 1 July before Mr Gonzalez's plans are known. He didn't do anything wrong really.'The thought remained that while the pattern of the race had gone right against Sabrehill, it had come to the rescue of the enigmatic Ezzoud, who has run with disinterest for much of his career.Michael Stoute, the colt's trainer, was the expected character witness in the winners' enclosure, however. Anthony Holden's The Oscars (Little Brown pounds 20) promises 'the secret history' of the Academy Awards, and delivers a lot of anecdotes followed by an exhaustive listing of the main winners.Last year's re-release of Casablanca has been followed up by James C Robertson's biography of the film's neglected director, The Casablanca Man: The Cinema of Michael Curtiz (Routledge pounds 25) and Aljean Harmetz's Round Up the Usual Suspects (Weidenfeld pounds 15.99), a history of the making of the film.