My sincere thanks go to Frank Williams, Patrick Head, Sheridan Thynne, my mechanics and all the others, far too numerous to mention, who make up this great racing team.The fact that we have achieved this championship with five races remaining speaks volumes for our performance this season We have been fast and consistent, worthy of victory. 295 J Berendt (Arg) 75 71 81 68; A Sorensen (Den) 74 72 79 70; J Van de Velde (Fr) 7176 77 71; B Gallacher 74 71 77 73; C Mason 75 68 78 74; H Clark 73 71 76 75; S Little 76 70 74 75; S McAllister 70 71 78 76; P Lonard (Aus) 72 74 73 76. They also stress the need for urgent initiatives to deal with the recession. You simply can’t win.So what can Clough and Souness do? They have many choices. In British schools, however, Acorn (which is now Italian-owned) remains by far the biggest single supplier. Toto, a marmalade kitten, and Percy, a black and white dog, gradually make peace.
On Saturday 50,942 turned up – and went away disgruntled – a drop from 55,383 in 1992.But first there is the return of a horse that could stimulate the right sort of interest in racing. Last month shares in the debt- laden former owner of the Stead & Simpson shoe chain soared after he and his partner Anthony Bodie bought a 5 per cent stake for a third of the current share price.
His investment is part of a pounds 27m placing and open offer. Sales in the first quarter of the new financial year were slow, he said.’The market is flat and very competitive, but the bulk of our sales, which is in brown goods (televisions, video recorders etc) comes in the October to January period.’He was not relying on an economic upturn. Stephanie Rose of Kibbutz Representatives (081-458 9235) says that if Charlotte is prepared to spend at least two months as a ‘working visitor’, then she could not do better than spend time on a kibbutz in Israel. Gartmore’s UK index fund, for example, has tracked the FT-A All- Share index to within 0.15 per cent in 53 of 56 months.
Don’t you know?I’m sure that they all read the Independent on Sunday. They are making the time- honoured parallel between sacred architecture and the architecture of the human body. Alternating almost flawlessly in English and French sound-bites, he invites the nastiest questions from his audience, and occasionally responds with a cracked grin which suggests he is agreeing with them, while actually saying the opposite.This weekend, however, he was exercised by the murder of his soldier and by the theatrical decision of President Alia Izetbegovic to refuse any more UN food aid.Behind him stood a large map showing the ‘fall of shot’ which killed the legionnaire and wounded three others near the airport headquarters of the UN’s French battalion. This is the Messiah of suede-silk boy soprano arias (‘I know thett my Redeemer liveth, ent thett he shell stent. Beth Chatto writes on fritillaries; Penny Hobhouse describes Frank Cabot’s American garden; Stephen Anderton explains how to cut grass with a difference; Anthony Sampson unravels his anatomy of a gardener; Michael Leapman profiles Sir Simon Hornby, chairman of W H Smith and president-in-waiting of the Royal Horticultural Society; and Eluned Price wanders in a bluebell wood at Fairhaven in Norfolk. These prevent flowers such as argyranthemums flopping too much.