On the surface these are human comedies, but beware: the world shifts, people deceive, friends change. The French champion, master of the great escape, sped away after the first four km with the Italians Gianluca Bortolami and Marco Serpellini and Australia's Stephen Hodge. 'We have had no word from New Zealand and no direction from home. 'I remember when he was doing a Far East thing from Singapore, he threw in an elegant quotation from one of the First World War poets. As the House of Hammer teaches, vampires always come back.'Actually, Aids has been awfully good for the vampire,' explains critic Richard Dyer, author of Children of the Night: Vampirism as Homosexuality, Homosexuality as Vampirism 'In the Eighties no one believed in vampires any more.

Justifying the purchase, London Underground says that the sunglasses enhance the colours of the signal lights when the trains are going in and out of tunnels. Lest we forget.CASSANDRA HARRIS, 19, drama student: I didn't watch it It doesn't really interest me. None the less Mr Prescott remained firm that 'Labour should set out targets for creating jobs and reducing unemployment at the time of the next general election.Unemployment had put a 'crippling burden of more than pounds 30bn a year on British taxpayers'. A CRASH on the world's tallest roller-coaster occurred after a computer-controlled brake failed to stop a train-load of passengers speeding down the rails, it emerged yesterday. The copse where Rachel Nickell was stabbed to death on Wednesday was sealed off by the Metropolitan Police, which conducted an intensive search of the undergrowth.

Still, ties between Hungary and Romania remain frosty, with the former determined to win guarantees for its minority and the latter suspicious of Hungary's real motives.Hungarians in the former Yugoslavia used to have a well-protected status, but two years of civil war have darkened the picture. The last time Robin Smith made a century abroad before this weekend was in Queensland in 1991, an achievement commemorated by David Gower's aerial salute from the cockpit of a Tiger Moth. The trouble is that nowadays, any old Escort can be a rag-top. Morris, Glamorgan's alchemist, mixed the now familiar, winning formula on a Sunday, even though his footwear seemed to have been dipped in the cauldron, such were his slippings and slidings while batting. The feminist revolution that began 25 years ago has spluttered to a halt.

ADVERTISING has its own 'biofeedback' loop with the public through market research. Economically best-off is Kazakhstan, which produced the most successful - and certainly the prettiest - new currency, the British-printed tenge.Confused Uzbekistan produced a transitional unit called the som-coupon, an unlovely Monopoly money of uncertain value. Lord Rockley said the bank aimed to increase its fund management activities in the US and to pursue a series of joint ventures in Japan and India.Lord Rockley said staff bonuses payable in March would reflect the bank's performance but would not be on the scale of recent payments by some American banks.Bottom Line, page 34. She told detectives at her home in Corby, Northamptonshire, that she last saw Catherine at a family get-together in 1968.In 1969 she was told Catherine was leaving her husband and moving abroad.