Their two teenage children were adopted - a rewarding choice for Dame Kiri, adopted herself, but also one which prevented the voice becoming darker after pregnancy Golf keeps her fit. They amount to little more than compilations from phone directories, car registrations and property records.Well if so, Wendy M Cornwell has not done a thorough job. She had watched as Miller, who had beaten world champion Kim Zmeskal in the US trials, pulled off two superb vaults, the first of which scored 9.975.That left Gutsu needing 9.938 to take the lead, and she surpassed that mark on her second attempt.Even then, Gutsu was not home and dry as her team-mate Svetlana Boginskaya, lying third after three of the four apparatus rounds, needed 9.965 from her beam routine to take over the gold medal position.A slight wobble, however, meant that Boginskaya, who had led the former Soviet gymnasts to the team title on Tuesday, could manage only 9.912, a mark which dropped her down to fifth overall.Miller won the silver medal but the biggest surprise of the competition was the failure of Zmeskal. I will simply tell Rowena that there is no room at the inn, and we have to re-think the trip.TUESDAY: Alan arrived in my office this afternoon with a very formal air. I ate my bread pudding, watching clips from King Ralph and Lethal Weapon (II? III?) with Mel Gibson possibly on the motorcycle in the Planet Hollywood lobby, right underneath where I was sitting.And then I walked out, slowly, past the Gladstone bag used in License to Kill, which contains a tube of toothpaste, a shaving brush, a razor, two mouse traps and a tube of Pritt, past the sand-scratched Webley pistol used by Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, the glasses worn by Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy, and Spock's ear-tips, 'specially rare, since they have not been marred by glue- seams', and out into the tacky, pulsing, kiosk- lined, billboard-decked theme-park that is the West End of London. They will only be introduced gradually as new cars come on the road, and the effect will soon be overtaken by the increase in traffic. IT'S BEEN a quiet night.

Ferguson reacted angrily when told Hill had been critical of Eric Cantona, who aimed a boot towards the head of Jeremy Goss in the first half and kicked John Polston on the head 17 minutes from time. 'When it comes to cattle breeds, for example, we would have no problem conforming. 'They want to get away from it all, not get stuck in a traffic jam.'(Photograph omitted). Substitute not used: Linton.West Bromwich Albion (4-4-2): Naylor (Lange, 68); Parsley, Strodder, Burgess (Mellon, 60), Darton; McNally, Hamilton, Donovan, Smith; Ashcroft, Taylor Substitute not used: Hunt.Referee: P Danson (Leicester)..

On Friday evening, the treasured putter was handed in by a spectator. There is concern over the possibility that some companies will have price increases capped to less than the rate of inflation by Ofwat, the industry regulator. .can only say I saw what I saw - and try to look at that.' V S Naipaul is speaking about the Republican Party Convention in Dallas in 1984, which he attended and wrote about, side-stepping the cliches and received ideas of American election journalism. The health authority sold the land two years earlier - when land prices were considerably higher than today - for pounds 675,000.Last week the authority signed a contract with the owner, Hospital Corporation International, to pay pounds 2.2m for West Peaks. They are widely believed to have helped President Saddam to build up his military machine before the Gulf war.The renewed headlines made by the affair have arrived at the worst possible moment for President Bush, threatening to tarnish further his proudest foreign policy achievement - and on the very eve of last night's first presidential debate, which offers probably his last chance to reverse his dismal standings in the polls before the 3 November election.The issue has already been seized upon by his Democratic opponents.

As he moved from function to function, including a lunch with state governors and culminating in a celebratory gala last night studded with the cream of Hollywood, his spokesman, George Stephanopoulos, said that more than 110 sub-cabinet officials were 'ready to go'.Rebutting criticism that the transition had been too slow, Mr Stephanopoulos declared that the incoming administration would be 'ready on Day One to take over the government'. The trouble started when Zhong was pecked by a pheasant in March and kicked the bird back, inflicting fatal injuries.Nuku'alofa (AFP) - Tonga's pro-democracy politicians were yesterday accused of treason and trying to create revolution by the Police Minister, 'Akau'ola. For 90 minutes on a Saturday afternoon, he takes a holiday from reality. The Paddington six shared a similarly evangelical view of sprinting.'I guess if I wasn't here I'd be on the estate, messin',' said Gareth, 17, gently stretching his hamstrings.'Your mates from school, either they're in prison or you see them going round in flash cars,' said Lloyd. Dogs do not muzzle themselves and ruling parties do not write constitutions which are designed to ensure frequent changes of government through the electoral process.'The constitution, even amended, would remain 'fatally flawed' and 'any election under it must be rejected as undemocratic'. Two years ago an American team published the results from its satellite, Cobe, the Cosmic Background Explorer.