He loved sport; he was a superb tennis player and keen squash player. UNCLE BUCK is probably the best of John Candy's half-dozen star vehicles and the best despite the rather simple-minded humour endemic to the films written or directed by John Hughes. Secondly, our people will push for an undertaking from Rupert Murdoch that he will start promoting a new, more positive, image of the family in his titles,' one official said.The timing of the message is likely to be brought forward from 3pm to 2.45pm so as not to interfere with Sky's peak-time film. FOOD poisoning costs the economy pounds 1bn a year in lost production, absenteeism and health service and personal costs, according to a new study. ----------------------------------------------------------------- TOP 10 MODEL RAILWAY COLLECTORS' ITEMS ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Hornby, West Coast Mainline 'Princess' locomotive 2 Marklin, LNER locomotive 'Cock of the North' 3 Carette, North British Atlantic 4-4-2 locomotive 4 Bing, Great Central Railway 'Director' 5 Bassett-Lowke, 4-6-0 5XP 'Conqueror' 6 Hornby, Southern Region 4-4-0 'Eton' locomotive 7 Marklin, Bavarian State Railway 'Wurttemberg Pacific' 8 Lionel, Burlington Zeffer express 9 Hornby, Metropolitan Railway Electric locomotive 10. The inducement, it is claimed, was made in 1992 when the England manager was Tottenham's chief executive, supposedly to tempt the agent to persuade three of his clients - Justin Edinburgh, Paul Moran and John Hendry - to accept new contracts.

'Good news is like a goldfish,' he warns Frank, 'it shimmers and sparkles in the light, but if you look closely there is nearly always a long piece of shit hanging off it.' Dirty-minded, and genially aggressive, Blue Heaven restored my faith in human nature.. Instead, it was to seek a new niche somewhere below the Express and the Mail and above the Sun and the Mirror.'He helped me to clarify what the paper should be; a popular, modern version of the Mail and Express and a more aspirational version of the mass market tabloids,' Mr Dunn says.Newspapers in distress are often beguiled by a 'gap in the market', most of which prove imaginary However, Mr Murdoch's hunch seems to be working. THERE was nothing phoney about this one. Among other things, legislators should support college access for all, and establish robust training and retraining incentives for companies and individuals. Ronnie O'Sullivan's swift elevation from 57th to ninth in the provisional rankings for the 1994/95 season has made him the second favourite behind Stephen Hendry, the world champion and world No 1, to win the Regal Welsh tournament, which starts on Sunday in Newport.

It decided on a policy of selecting fewer, quality suppliers through a process of competitive tendering. Without that, ABB Transportation said that work at Derby would quickly dry up.The company has been negotiating a pounds 440m deal with London Underground to build and maintain trains to replace 30-year-old rolling stock for the Northern Line.The scheme has the support of Steven Norris, the transport minister, but has run into Treasury opposition.The debate over the proposed deal, which amounts to a 20-year leasing agreement, has attracted attention because of frequent delays caused by breakdowns on the so-called 'misery line'.Bo Sodersten, chief executive of ABB Transportation, said: 'It is desperately disappointing for the company to be in this position as during the last three years all of our employees have made a tremendous contribution to improving flexibility and productivity.' He said that he was doing all he could to win more work in the UK and overseas.. Warburg fell 14p to 238p.Johnson Fry, the financial group, fell 33p (after 38p) to 250p on continuing disappointment with its figures, announced on Monday.Eastern Electricity was particularly weak in a dull sector. The Premier League, facing protests from Ipswich Town's relegation rivals over the rescheduling for live television coverage of the Suffolk club's final fixture, last night intimated that it may resist pressure to switch the match back to its original Saturday date.

Maybe the state of the ball derived from the length of the Twickenham grass, which has always struck me as excessive and detrimental to rugby at its best. By this morning, up to 20,000 Irish fans could be in town, half of them without tickets for the big match. A master of literary and political controversy - born Christopher Grieve in the conservative Border town of Langholm on 11 August 1892 - he is the country's greatest poet, give or take Robert Burns, and has done more than anyone to put 20th- century Scotland on Europe's literary map. He had proved most disappointing in four runs since winning the Lingfield Derby Trial by seven lengths in May, but clearly relished yesterday's near two-mile trip in soft ground.Sent to the front by Richard Quinn a furlong-and-a-half out, he stayed on strongly to beat Henry Candy's Always Friendly by two-and-a-half lengths, with odds-on favourite Sought Out six lengths away in third.'He loves this mud,' confirmed Quinn.