England responded by shedding some perspiration yesterday on the first day of the second Test, but this was largely in retrieving the ball from the boundary, and in terms of results, Graham Gooch might just as well have addressed his stirring pre-match battle cry to the Speaking Clock.Had he rung yesterday, the three pips would have been preceded by the information that it was four minutes to five o'clock when England took their first wicket, and while Michael Slater did not keep Mark Taylor company for the entire day - as Geoff Marsh did at Trent Bridge in 1989 - and unless you classify Australia's descent from 260 for 0 to 292 for 2 as a collapse, yesterday provided further evidence that while one team reaches for the zinc cream in this series, the other is using embalming fluid.Slater and Taylor's 260 was the third-highest Australian opening partnership in Test history, behind the 382 of Bill Lawry and Bobby Simpson, and the 329 that Taylor and Marsh went on to make after walking off together in 1989 with the Trent Bridge first-day score at 301 for 0. 'I was already well known so my image in his portfolio was a talking point.'Since working together, we've fallen into being friends. Who knows the horror going through her mind on this journey?'Someone in the queue at the traffic lights must have seen this man forcing his way into her car. Unfortunately, we're carrying a pounds 6m debt from days gone by, and servicing that debt is expensive. WHEN Andy Warhol took Doris Duke to Studio 54 in New York, a South American television crew turned the lights on her and began to announce her in Spanish as 'The Richest Woman in the World'. At least for women, warm underwear need no longer be a passion killer. Enough is enough.The history of the press in this country is characterised by long periods of journalistic excess followed by longer periods of government clampdown, to the extent that it now seems part of the natural cycle of British public expression.

Stop it; that's not polite.Next time you speak to my son (your father), please tell him from me (his mother, your grandmother) that it's high time he wrote a letter to his mother (me).I'm so glad you liked the sweater I sent for your birthday. 'It was terrible for him to be fired, just like that, because he was a Serb nobody wanted to see him or say 'hello'. Their main target was Giuliano Amato, the Prime Minister, caricatured as Pinocchio, a chronic liar. Is the British opt-out on the Social Chapter of the Maastricht treaty watertight? Again, only the 13 judges can settle the issue.'Given the power and importance of the court, ignorance of its workings, not only in Britain but in other countries as well, is quite staggering,' a European Commission lawyer said.There has, for instance, been little scrutiny of the way judges are appointed, or criticism of the fact that it is an all-male institution.The judges are given their jobs by national governments with a 13th member appointed by the larger states to avoid even numbers and hence deadlock in split decisions.

The Commonwealth declared the election 'broadly free and fair' but it was not accepted in substantial parts of Uganda.The Scandinavian-Canadian monitoring group, from countries with the least commercial or political interest in Kenya, also condemned the election.Their report spoke of serious delays in opening polling stations, lack of election materials, shifting of polling stations at the last moment, lack of preparation and numerous irregularities during the counting phase.Having gone for the easy option of accepting the election result, Western governments may now try to use their aid leverage to force Mr Moi into a government of national unity. They should be sent in writing (no more than 100 words) to Gazette (Appeals), The Independent, 40 City Road, London EC1Y 2DB (fax 071-956 9358). It was huge box-office hit and was soon followed by the equally successful historic romances Shah Jehan and Bairm Khan, set in the Mughal era.But after the succes of Mughal- e-Azam in 1960 and Pakeeza 11 years after, Amrohi made his last film, Raziya Sultan, in the mid- Eighties about a female Muslim princess who inherited the Indian throne from her warlord father in the 13th century. He will decide next weekend whether to compete in the world indoors. The book is composed in five one-sided dialogues which feature only half of each coversation.

This was not an emergency anouncement.' The omnipresent public address systems - grey speakers on the top of poles in residential areas - are intended to warn people of natural disasters: earthquakes, large fires, typhoons. Ballesteros is in bed in Spain with bronchitis and the other three are pursuing Ryder Cup points in Austria. Then Colin Cowdrey, in his last season, hit an unbeaten 151 and Bob Woolmer, despite a trip to the adjacent hospital after being hit on the head, 71 not out as they chased down 354 at more than a run-a-minute. If Hide does withdraw, Akinwande, who stopped the fat Italian, Biagio Chianese, in the fourth round of his first European title defence at the Albert Hall on Wednesday night, will pursue his career in another direction. 'I sat down with him and his manager Barry Hearn, and Hide said he was entitled to more money than Henry, even though he is the European champion,' Duff said 'That's getting ready for a pull-out.'.