HISTORY may often run first as tragedy and then as farce, but it rarely happens that both plays run simultaneously at theatres on opposite sides of the same street. The sale to a French consortium has sparked intense speculation that MB Caradon is poised to make a big UK acquisition. He has the great knack of taking wickets in bunches.NEIL FAIRBROTHER (Lancs)1 Northants have a good balanced side, a great overseas player in Ambrose and a couple of England seamers. The problem is that on this side of the water in the Conservative Party, enthusiasm for that experiment has been very much on the wane.'. Chang has also shown encouraging form recently.The sight of Wilander may remind Steffi Graf of a time when she was unquestionable the best female player. Police and motoring organisations have issued advice to motorists on what to do in such a situation.

For the time being it is spending a total of pounds 52m on Canadian concern Cleyn & Tinker and the US- based Carleton Woolen Mills while issuing pounds 27m in shares and forking out pounds 25m of cash. Allied could have bought C&T and Carleton without recourse to the market but it has also identified several small companies on the Continent that it wants to buy as soon as recession lifts.Like Allied itself, C&T and Carleton do not try to compete with the commodity textile producers of the Third World. Television companies overwhelmingly regard news as the most solidly virtuous and significant part of their output.During last year's controversy over whether News at Ten should be moved to a different time slot, Sir David Nicholas, the former ITN editor and chairman, said the move would represent 'the end of serious commercial television'; and when he responded to Martyn Lewis's campaign for more good news, he said: 'Hard news is something that is exceptional, and by its nature hard news is not good news.' And Peter Sissons said: 'If television news is to make people feel better, we are into a kind of social engineering, and this is the thin end of a very dangerous wedge.'Underlying all these remarks is the puritanical newsman's credo that the news may be difficult and unpleasant, but, like medicine, it has to be taken. (First Edition) A leading opposition politician has dropped out of the battle to become Japan's next prime minister, an aide said yesterday, Reuter reports from Tokyo. For us to change the guidelines, the law would have to change.'Ann Taylor, Labour's education spokeswoman, yesterday accused Mr Patten of creating 'turmoil' in schools because he wanted to dictate everything that happened in the classroom. Not himself a racist, he allowed the use of the Willie Horton advertisements, a scarcely masked appeal to racial prejudice that featured a black man released from prison. He confirmed that the office has a team of officials who look at the books of Citibank and other banks as part of a continuing process of supervision.Among the criticisms levelled at Citicorp in the leaked report were that it aggressively chased volume in the home mortgage market by neglecting credit quality considerations. 'If we are labelling cosmetic changes to our food then we ought to label food that contains foreign genes.

I suppose now that I've left that world, and am enjoying one that's more like his, it might be difficult to keep that separateness established.'They have two sons: Will, now at Georgetown University in the US, majoring in history of art, and Jamie, who has just finished his first term at Oxford reading chemistry. It is mainly transmitted in Britain through sexual activity and the sharing of needles by intravenous drug abusers. He has brown eyes with dark eyebrows, a long nose and long face. 129 (195 min, 145 balls, 12 fours, 6 sixes) A J Stewart b Kumble 33 (96 min, 68 balls, 2 fours) G A Hick c More b Prabhakar. The list-makers and loggers might be able to shake off a little frustration today when two of the races at Sandown could help establish who would have won the National and who will win the Derby. We must teach the importance of accepting responsibility for our own actions, and considering the consequences for others.'But Mr Howard said there was no point in politicians calling for a return to 'old fashioned morality and respect for authority' if they did not know how it was going to be achieved 'It must start at home. After price and place comes the product: there are league tables of examination results which tell you something about a school's performance and its pupils.

But the US contributed just pounds 62,000 on equal turnover.The improvement in UK profits was due to a smaller depreciation charge and savings from lower debts and interest rates.Mr Pilkington said US revenues had actually fallen 10 per cent in dollar terms, but the ground was made up on translation into sterling.The company took dollars 300,000 of costs for rationalisation in the US above the line. 'We may never be absolutely sure what happened,' he said.Ten children and a teacher, Eleanor Fry, 40, from Hagley Roman Catholic High School near Stourbridge, Hereford and Worcester, died just after midnight when the minibus crashed into a stationary motorway maintenance vehicle. Her accompanist, Roger Vignoles, was attentive, but neither he nor Rodgers quite managed to stamp their identity on the evening Only charisma can do that.. It is really frightening,' Mrs Nomura said.'We can't sell now No building society will touch us No estate agent will put us on their books The council offered to buy the flat back for pounds 75,000.