This isn't the only empty building in the West End.'While Creative Block and friends ride the ill wind of recession in central London, there is a gale blowing in the south-east of the city. The reason is that it was inconvenient for the European Community and the United States to highlight the fact that it is one of their own allies, Greece, which is holding up recognition of Macedonia.The EC, in particular, perceives a need not to upset the Greeks at a time when it is trying to keep everyone on board for the Maastricht treaty. Musical instruments: Bonham's Wednesday (11am), Phillips Thursday (11am).COUNTRYWIDEGood general sales of antique furniture, artworks: Stockport, Manchester, Thursday (10.30am and 2.30pm) at the Alma Lodge Hotel, A6 (Buxton Road).David Dockree (061 485 1258). SHEIKH Maktoum, the senior member of Dubai's ruling family, was at Longchamp rather than Newmarket yesterday. Despite the NYSE's claims about the superiority of its auction-specialist market over its rival's quote screens, many Wall Street brokers say Nasdaq's lower costs and faster execution have made it the market of choice.And the growing effectiveness of the Securities and Exchange Commission has quelled the fears of 'Balkanisation' of equity markets expressed when America established its national market system in 1975.There are important disadvantages to trading through Nasdaq, some of them related to the absence of the market-making specialists who step in to provide liquidity when order imbalances would otherwise halt trading. Among those not declared were Martin Pipe's Lemon's Mill, an entry for the Supreme Novice Hurdle tomorrow, and Reg Akehurst's Dare To Dream..

'He wants to be an American,' according to his former personal manager. He is just anxious to point out that companies may not be saving as much as they think.This would be particularly true if the half-way house put up for discussion in the document, which must be commented on by the end of this month, is adopted. Sitting in just such a vessel, a starter of tagliolini with a cheese and tomato sauce was perfect, and quite enough for a main course. There's no room in their Ireland for anyone else.'On the television screen above them, the Rev Ian Paisley was seeing off an interviewer. We are simply making use of this equipment, while the opportunity arises, to give us an indication as to whether there are areas to explore,' she added.It is the first time the device has been used in a murder inquiry.Yesterday, the remains of another victim were exhumed from the cellar of 25 Cromwell Street, where eight sets of human remains have been found since digging began 15 days ago.Police said that it was too early to say whether the newly-discovered body was female, as the others have been. FOR 21 years Viktor Afanasyev was the autocratic editor-in-chief of Pravda, the main political organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Afanasyev joined the Communist Party at the age of 20, while serving as a soldier during the Second World War. You wonder why the police didn't have her in the frame.The flaws in Holloway's production are all incidental - there's nothing wrong with the basic concept, and some moments are really ingenious: the impression, in the dreamlike opening tableau, of a film running backwards, or the silhouetted Punch and Judy-style murder at the start of the second half.