Sources said the House of Bishops had approved, though not yet announced, the three candidates for the post - and that none would accept the code.. Cleveland, in a new stadium, may run them closest, with Dennis Martinez and Jack Morris adding experience to their starting pitching. And that comes straight back to the leadership question, since integrity must flow from the top. He had a trenchant, shrewdly penetrating mind, but he belonged to that old-fashioned category, the 'private scholar'. Until 1983 he owned a shop in Carnaby Street selling badges and knick-knacks. 'I thought it would be lovely to get up and wear a skirt and tie, neat little clothes without the hassle of choosing Maybe I wanted to be part of a crowd,' she said.

.2THE TWO pretenders to Rangers' crown failed to take advantage of the champions' dropped point the previous evening, and despite producing an entertaining game with four goals and superb goalkeeping, the night ended inconclusively for both.Defensive frailties struck Celtic again after Stuart Slater had scored his first goal for the club since his pounds 1.5m summer signing from West Ham.It was nothing spectacular - a 12-yard grounder after seven minutes from a Brian O'Neil knockdown, but was enough to send player and home supporters into rapture.Already without Duncan Shearer, a victim of a training accident, the Aberdeen attack was further dented by the loss of Eoin Jess but not before he had equalised Slater's effort, slipping his marker and shooting past Pat Bonner.With a little more than half an hour played Aberdeen conjured up a second goal. The first phase of the loan, of nearly pounds 200m, is exceptionally large for a single transaction with a firm that was never a blue chip property developer. The recent Flexit BES raised pounds 15m more than its capacity of pounds 50m. We also have something called an Appreciation Index, which measures how much the listeners are actually enjoying the programme, and Just A Minute scores higher with the 25- to 34-year-olds than with any other section of the audience '(Challenge Deviation. The Stadio Olimpico's scoreboard operator added insult to injury by confusing him with another sub, Chris McCart, McStay being introduced as P McCart.STATS LIFE: THE bottle of Aberlour malt for freak fact of the week goes to M Clark, of Wrington, Avon, for this:'Last Saturday was no different than any other. THREE more coal mines face the prospect of closure with the loss of 1,450 jobs. The problems facing our predecessor health authority are irrelevant to the task of properly planning the future provision of services.

Certainly he came to power just as Britain was, at last, emerging from recession, and he has profited.But he has not ridden the recovery in a passive way. The course of the book - reflected in the fact that there are about a hundred good jokes in the first part, and virtually none in the remaining two parts - is a process of falling out of love with the place The novel ends in brutal tragedy. Discounting is often most dramatic in outlets that are under-represented in the surveys used to assess the price of the basket of goods bought by the average family - such as warehouse sales and shops selling bankrupt stock, for example.Discounting is also more common in department stores than in single outlets with less financial muscle. Chief Buthelezi said yesterday it would require 'almost a miracle' for the talks to succeed..

The most dazzling fruits of technology will be profitless without harnessing their creative talents.Mr Birt's much-criticised policy of 'producer choice' created an internal market in the corporation. The Home Office said that Sir John had decided to end all public hearings in the inquiry in order to meet a deadline for preparing his report to the Royal Commission into the justice system. Also, an international call can cost up to seven times as much as a domestic call of the same distance. A minute from time, the immutable football law - 'a former player shall undo ye' - came into play when Paul Hardyman, bought from Sunderland in the summer, equalised.THE Second Division leaders, Stoke, thrashed Mansfield 4-0, but second-placed West Brom needed a penalty six minutes from time at Exeter to take three points home, Ian Hamilton converting the penalty after Exeter's goalkeeper had been sent off.Third-placed Leyton Orient had their second consecutive 0-0 draw, away at Hull this time, allowing Port Vale, 2-1 winners at Chester, to move to within a point Rotherham, who were fourth, lost to lowly Blackpool.