FIFTY years ago, Allied troops armed with flame-throwers blazed a trail across France. After the War he returned to the State Department in Washington and, when he reached statutory retirement in 1960, he was sought out for a series of attachments to governments in the Far East. He says: 'When we showed our Escort Seeker, the leisure and camping styling exercise, two years ago, the reaction was tremendous. No injuries were reported.Riot police patrolled Johannesburg city centre and black taxi vans were banned from the city following clashes on Monday and Tuesday that left at least one person dead and several injured. The bulk of the army under Babangida regroups at the new capital, Abuja, and is joined by most of the air force. The object of change must be better rail services, not ideological point-scoring.

He went on to study gynaecology and obstetrics and became a specialist in fertility treatment, working in Venice, then Rome at the Istituto Materno Regina Elena, before setting up the Raprui clinic. LIGHT entertainment is a bit like professional boxing: they're both branches of showbiz, they both stuff silly money into the pockets of people it's hard to admire, and they're both separated into divisions. The Riverside's tiny Studio Two can barely contain the energy of these excellent dancers (one collided with a lighting rig as she streaked dangerously off the stage), and some of the time the dancers are obviously having to perform with the volume turned down. Parents should exercise a thoughtful respect for babies and small children in their charge: they are people and sensitive personalities in their own right.

Mike Dubock, the London Boroughs Association finance officer, estimates the population shortfall will cost London alone pounds 135m and warned it would be a 'minefield'.By region, the recorded 'falls' in population were: 744,000 in the South-east (415,000 in London); 265,000 in the North-west; 174,000 in Yorkshire and Humberside; 152,000 in the West Midlands; 120,000 in the East Midlands; 92,000 in the South- west; 70,000 in the North; 52,000 in East Anglia and 130,000 in Wales.There is concern now about the manner in which the anomaly is being corrected. The Turbo is the best of the new Cavaliers, not because of its prodigious power but because it performs with such proficiency.The first thing the driver notices is how fast the thing is: heart-pounding, breath-shortening, pulse-racing fast. One effect of this has been to make all Catholic churches seem thriving and full, even when there were far fewer Catholics than Protestants in this country.Professor Gill's remedies involve a professionalisation of the Church of England's response. There again, the effects of recession have not cut the queues at Newcastle or Stoke.Villa will again be without Dalian Atkinson, who had a stomach muscle operation yesterday and will not return until the final half-dozen matches. We also agree that this procedure does indeed require a highly skilled anaesthetist, and such a service is available in most British obstetric units. ONCE, in an infamously injudicious moment, Brian Clough punched two marauding Nottingham Forest fans around the head.

Halfway through the holiday, I took a train up to the London Hospital. A child killer was on the run last night after absconding from Leyhill Open Prison, near Bristol. ON DEMAND Information, a loss-making electronic information provider, is joining the Unlisted Securities Market via a pounds 9m share placing valuing the company at pounds 40m, writes Neil Thapar. The suit is seeking dollars 4bn for the 'tragedy of human suffering'.