Lord Morton accepted medical evidence that if a senior obstetrician had been called in earlier it would have made a material difference to Martin's chance of survival. Does beauty always make us behave like beasts, or is the actress wounded from the start? 'That's my nature,' Dalle says 'Vulnerable, beaten-down roles. THREE European leagues will experiment with kick-ins instead of throw-ins next season, Sepp Blatter, the general secretary of the game's world governing body, Fifa, said on Saturday. He is also the author of several influential books, including a pioneering theoretical work, The Signifying Monkey (1988), and editor, or co-editor of, among other projects, the Oxford Companion to African- American Literature, the Encyclopaedia Africana, and the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers.More important than Gates' prominent standing within the academic world or his industriousness, though, is the fact that he is willing to think calmly and write lucidly - to a mass audience, that is, and without moth-eaten jargon - on some of the most important cultural questions facing America. Professor McWilliams' latest forecasts for the Chartered Institute of Marketing suggest that the expansion is facing enough constraints to ensure that a 1980s-style import boom will not be repeated.

Before that United had not looked as if they were going to score. tension is transmitted to the luge.' The Greek entrant relaxed so much that she decided to let the luge have a turn on top but unfortunately I missed his remarks about that. You can sense the broad, slow current even when the great river seems momentarily to be lost to view Perhaps early Bruckner is going to get his due at last. Nicholas Price, QC, for the defence, said that the breakdown of Mr James's 'ill fated and disastrous marriage' to a teenager 30 years younger than him had played a large part in his mental breakdown.Mr James, listing his previous convictions, said he had not personally been involved in any violence. AROUND Headingley these days people are thinking the previously unthinkable - that Doug Laughton might actually have been right about one or two things, writes Dave Hadfield. This man, you might think, will do anything for a night at the Randolph hotel. I am now thought to be a turncoat.

In Havana, no scrap of material is wasted.The tiny buildings are painted three colours, representing the three major phases of the city's development. A lucky 13 players qualified on 139 and eight others were on 140. If we just stand aside and accept that sort of behaviour, what is to stop that happening again?. They have a habit of getting things right, then getting into trouble and then getting right again.'We will be very reluctant to buy things for a while.

A baby girl has been taken into care after pieces of sewing needles were found inserted into her body - two months after her younger sister died after suffering similar injuries. Gillian Shephard, the Employment Secretary, said that contracts would be drawn up to minimise that effect.More conventional measures included the offer of 60,000 places on a new Community Action scheme whereby people would perform voluntary work for the community on a part-time basis combined with the active search for a job. Bernard Jenkin, one of the new intake, who was still undecided, said: 'It looks like a bit of a fudge but it does still contain some controversial elements.'The wording recalls the Bill's large majority on second reading, how the House was promised a debate prior to the Committee stage, and the Lisbon and Birmingham EC council commitments to the principle of subsidiarity and how to implement it, and declares that the Danish government's intentions have now been clarified.It then 'recognises that the UK should play a leading role in the development of the European Community to achieve a free-market Europe open to accession by other European democracies, thereby promoting employment, prosperity and investment into the UK'.A Labour amendment, to be published on Monday, will press for the Committee stage of the Bill to be delayed at least until the Edinburgh summit on 11 December.Hard core Tory Euro-rebels appeared momentarily fazed by the motion, indicating that the painstaking word-polishing might have hit its target.But while the hardliners will defer any tactical decision on the vote until early next week, equally there were renewed predictions that between 20 and 32 Tories will still rebel.A Scottish National Party/Plaid Cymru amendment reads: 'This House has no confidence in the Government's handling of the Maastricht treaty.' Twelve of the 13 Northern Ireland MPs are also expected to vote against the Government.The motion's prospects looked under threat at one point yesterday as delegates at the annual Scottish Liberal Democrats conference prepared to vote this morning for an emergency motion urging MPs to vote in the way best calculated to bring down the Government.But Paddy Ashdown, the party leader, said in a statement last night: 'Following consultations with senior colleagues, I will be recommending to my parliamentary party when we next meet on Tuesday that we should vote for the Maastricht motion.'If that stymies an incipient revolt, 19 of the 20 Liberal Democrat MPs will support the Government.Predictions of an adequate, though far from overwhelming, victory were likely to have been underpinned yesterday by the parliamentary approval of Denmark's compromise to win approval of the treaty in a second referendum.While Labour's foreign affairs spokesman, George Robertson, accepted yesterday that the Tory rebellion, like most others, could well fade, party managers pointed out that the arithmetic frantically being done by Government loyalists was being concentrated on rebels' views of the motion.Its amendment could, however, appeal to some MPs as a way out of their agony. 'I don't mean, necessarily, an unhappy one, but children who have had to learn how to watch the grown-ups, assess them, know what they really mean, as distinct from what they say. The two had clashed seconds before the whistle and carried on their argument in full view of the standside linesman.The United man was later called into the referee's room and was informed that the matter would be reported to the authorities.