According to his custom, Akram switched from round to over the wicket, which Davidson never did, except to bowl his occasional spinners; though before the war, according to Trevor Bailey, left- armers like Voce used to angle the ball in like Akram.He dismissed Neil Mallender with a yorker, which swung in, turned him round, and splattered leg-stump. Scotland and South Wales will be left with one pit each.On Friday 5,000 jobs will go in the North-east (Vane Tempest/Seaham), Yorkshire (Markham Main), Nottinghamshire (Cotgrave, Silverhill), South Wales (Taff Merthyr) and Staffordshire (Trentham).Mr Heseltine promised regional assistance on top of severance payments - but any extra cash will have to be fought for in the review of public spending.Neil Clarke, the chairman of British Coal, blamed the sudden surge in gas-fired power generation for the company's fate. Those contracts forced the generators to buy 70 million tons a year for two years, dropping to 65 million tons this year.A source at the generators said that when the Government set the contracts it enormously overestimated the requirement for coal.That still begs the question of how the old Central Electricity Generating Board could burn 75 million tons a year in the days before privatisation, yet stocks have soared in the last three years.Malcolm Edwards, the former commercial director of British Coal, says that the Government allowed unfair changes in the market. 'I walked on those telephone wires for two hours after holding your love like a parasol to balance me.' The image is quintessentially Zelda - extravagant, surreal, profligate. 'WHAT you see', she explains disarmingly, 'is what you get.' Evelyn Glennie intends that the personality on stage, and the personality off the stage, are seen to be one and the same.

THE announcement that cabinet members will have to sit regular ability tests is said to have ministers in an uproar Many say they work hard enough as it is. At stake are government grants for companies opening factories and creating new jobs. Bradford, Corby, Shotton, Darlington and Scunthorpe all conform to the popular image of communities that suffered in the recession of the early 1980s and have struggled to recover through the rest of the decade But they have all lost their assisted area status. That was what happened after the film ended - that was Tina's happy ending And she didn't even get the part -. After his exclusion from the first comprehensive, he received just an hour and a half home tuition a day but since the second, a month ago, he has had no teaching.Mrs Nethercoat said Sean's reports from his home tuition lessons were good and she believed he could cope well in a small class and calm environment.She said: 'We feel we are banging our heads against a brick wall in finding a school for Sean If schools want to exclude a child they can.

RACEGOERS in the Midlands have a problem if they want to go racing today - which meeting to choose. You win some, you lose some, that's sport.PAUL BURGESS, ice-cube delivery man: They'd had their day and that was it - they shouldn't have come back, it was embarrassing when they didn't get the gold, and they just looked old surrounded by all those youngsters.DEBBIE TURNER, PA to Torvill and Dean: Jayne and Chris have received about 300 telegrams and faxes from all over the world from the likes of Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards, the English National Ballet and the Bank of Norway who wrote 'We hope we're not robbed like you were'. 'Why are we washing our dirty linen in public? Families should try to resolve their quarrels at home.'Mr Nemtsov disagrees: 'Instability in this factory means instability for the whole region If this were just a pantyhose plant I wouldn't mind They must change.'. When she was 11 her mother, Su, and her drug-addict father finally split, which meant a move back to Britain, with her mother and baby brother Neil, to a room in a Hertfordshire hostel and then a council- flat in grimy north London.Wasmund's mother is still the dominant force in her life. The two parties, members of the election-winning Freedom Alliance of the media tycoon, Silvio Berlusconi, agreed that Italy's constitution had to be rewritten and its changes put to a referendum.

This is Whitehall's biggest computer privatisation under the Government's 'market testing' programme which allows private companies to bid for public-sector work. Michael Meacher, Labour spokesman on the Citizen's Charter, is to demand a full breakdown of the savings to the Treasury from the deal in a series of parliamentary questions he is tabling today.An announcement confirming the deal between the Inland Revenue and the computer company EDS is expected early this week, possibly later today. Richard Jackson, 32, of Sandal, Wakefield, was charged with the manslaughter of John Myers, 78, of Featherstone, West Yorkshire, who died after an incident at a set of traffic lights in Featherstone.. So too, bewilderingly, was Graham Gooch, who was sitting in the dressing-room while Javed, Aqib and one or two other visiting fielders were embroiled in a furious argument with umpire Roy Palmer.Hunte may have plucked out the short straw here, in that he was only standing in on Monday while the official referee, Clyde Walcott, was away in London for an ICC meeting, but he has clearly slipped smoothly into standard ICC procedure. In fact, they have a right only to express a preference.The message can be deduced from a careful reading of the Parents' Charter, launched a year ago. The first one joined Rothschild in 1985 and, says Carolyn Morris of the Occupational Advisory Service, 'for four or five years there was a lot of interest'.