When banks and building societies were unleashed on each other in free competition after 1980, the right course for monetary policy was to keep real interest rates (after allowing for inflation) unusually high. He would like to reach 11,000 runs: 'I have to set the young a target.' If Border were to achieve this it could be a while before the target was overtaken. But whereas the Olds of earlier books could be brash and even triumphalist, now she is chastened, feeling guilty, for instance, that the cigars she used to give her father may have helped to kill him. However, the arrival of militant anti-abortionists from America who plan to make women run the gauntlet of their protest should play no part in such advocacy. List of B & Bs from Tourist Information Centre (091-384 3720).

Almost 700,000 more former Yugoslav citizens sought sanctuary in 1992 in other European countries. The target looked even more elusive when Saunders wasted another of the kind of openings he relishes when in the form that saw him bag 14 goals in his first 24 games for Villa.The street-wise Atkinson is likely to have predicted the sequel after 24 minutes. They may find that their claims to jobs, houses, even reputation, are less readily granted than they had anticipated. Who will they be meeting and what do they know about them? Even if one of the prospective client team is an in-house lawyer, there is no point using legal jargon if there are non-lawyers present who will be making the decision We spend a lot of time on dealing with difficult questions.

No one knows this better than Keith Fletcher, the current team manager, who was generally held to have paid the price, not least by himself, for frustratedly flicking off a bail on a tour of India.Ian Botham resigned just before Alec Bedser, then chairman of selectors, arrived at the dressing- room clutching blindfold and last cigarette, and David Gower was sacked twice either side of Mike Gatting's term of office.Latterly, Graham Gooch resigned when he lost both matches and contact with his players. Dalglish, whose last game as a manager in England's top division was a Merseyside derby in February 1991, has to wait until 12 December for the season's first encounter with his former club, Liverpool, at Anfield.However, the Ewood Park fans have two attractive home games with which to launch the Premier League in east Lancashire: against Arsenal on Tuesday 18 August and Manchester City the following Saturday.Leeds United, the reigning champions, start at home to Wimbledon. Magnificent gold and silver mirrors from Harewood House, West Yorkshire, included '2 Exceeding neat & Rich Carved Gerandoles. They did not have the money to buy a controlling share in such a huge firm themselves, so Zil management, supported by the trade union, negotiated another option.

For example, when riding side-saddle there is a real danger, if an accident occurs, of the horse falling sideways and crushing the woman to death. Just to prove the point, of the top 13 brokerages which announced their half-yearly results yesterday, all bar three reported losses. Who else benefits? Certainly not Dan- Air's shareholders, who were denied the opportunity to vote on the sale of their company for pounds 1. If its conclusions are radical, and Labour accepts them, the party will have to find new ways of selling that message, too.