'Crime' is a word you will always hurl at your enemy, but seldom apply to your own side or your friends.Until the Second World War, this was scarcely disputed. After all, they were at the bottom of the whole business,' one associate said. Mr Mates has told friends he believes the SFO sought to undermine him from the moment he took up Nadir's complaints about its investigation into the fugitive businessman's company, Polly Peck.Nadir said last night that he felt no guilt over Mr Mates's resignation, and hailed the former Minister of State for Northern Ireland as a 'man of honour'.As Mr Mates went into hiding, Nadir told the BBC: 'I see no reason why I should feel guilty at all. .'One of our reasons for bringing the case was to establish a point of principle: that whoever we are, all of us in this country are entitled to be treated with courtesy and fairness by those with authority over us.'. 'He'd do well with it,' said Bill.ONE item you didn't see on Rory Bremner's new Channel 4 show last night was a series of telephone calls to members of the Tory Barmy Tendency by Bremner pretending to be John Major. No two ways about it, it is time to make our excuses and leave.(Photographs omitted). The Twelve have now rallied around, with concessions on both sides keeping France in line with its partners.

A SERIOUS division of opinion has opened up between the British and Irish governments on the strategy to pursue in the search for peace in Northern Ireland. She had referred to a 'number 6' bus from a camp outside Oporto town centre.The following day Mr Gordievsky resumed his evidence, and, according to Mr Tansey, 'with no prompt' began referring to the 'number 6 bus stop'.If the court was supposed to be in closed session, said Mr Tansey, how did Mr Gordievsky know about the number 6 bus? Mr Gordievsky said he picked the number 6 'at random'.The trial was adjourned until Monday.. The 1992 Formula One champion, who has been in Indianapolis since Monday practising for the Indianapolis 500 at the end of this month, said: 'I'm sitting here talking to you this morning and I don't really want to believe it has happened There is a tremendous void in Formula One. It's impossible to say what went wrong.'Drivers, teams, officials and the public will be asking whether the changes, decreed by FIA, to reduce downforce and cornering speeds, following the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger, at Imola, and the serious head injuries sustained by Karl Wendlinger, at Monaco, have been introduced too hastily. ONOCHIE ACHIKE gave Britain their only individual gold medal of the World Junior Championships when he leapt to the triple jump title here last night. 'It was the dream of my life to be the Olympic champion,' Zasulskaya said. The fall in the housing market and the collapse of parts of the commercial property market put severe pressure on the balance sheets of banks, building societies and insurance companies This will continue to constrict lending.

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