Her own slightly stammering speech and diffidence helped her understand her students' lack of confidence: she had the gift of making them believe she understood their difficulties, but also that she knew and would rigorously encourage their potential.A student in The Maze Prison in Belfast - she taught in several prisons - wrote an essay she treasured on King Lear: it was not great literary criticism, but the deepest appreciation of King Lear's suffering she had ever encountered.Her Ph D research on 17th-century drama, and The First English Actresses, took an equally clear-sighted view of the plays as they would appear on stage. Amid yet another round of mutual recrimination, it seemed a pitiful end to a once powerful and colourful force. Someone else will be delighted to buy that oversized nightdress or painfully small skirt, and the cash will be helping a good cause. But then as he plays for Bath, the cup-holders, and Bath were knocked out of the Pilkington Cup at Waterloo, he would say that wouldn't he? In fact the Pilkington draw was a sponsor's delight. I think people want to know what on earth happened after they drove over, or, well, they didn't get to Manderley in the end It lends itself to a sequel. Co-star Michael Caine: 'Maggie didn't just steal the film, she committed grand larceny'. Indeed, both he and Mr Zelmer stressed that the company could not relax, especially as others are catching on to the approach.

THIS Saturday, animal protection societies around the world will mobilise in protest against the use of animals in scientific research. Sir: So, 'to finance social security, every working person now pays, on average, over pounds 13 every working day' (report, 24 June). WHAT a week it's been for the Irish. Clues to the source of this pessimism among professionals lie in the genesis of the Home Office memorandum.