INFLATION dropped to an eight-month low of 3.9 per cent in June, as subdued high street spending continued to restrain price rises, official figures showed yesterday. Despite the predictable condemnation at the UN, the raid was a spectacular military and moral success. But the Government is also certain to rule out any scheme which would lead to a large increase in legal aid.Last week, newspaper editors announced guidelines warning journalists not to use bugging devices or tap telephones, except in special cases in the public interest.The editors added an anti-bugging clause to the profession's voluntary code of practice, defining public interest as detecting or exposing crime, serious misdemeanor or seriously anti-social conduct, as well as protecting public health and safety and preventing the public from being misled 'by some statement or action of an individual or organisation'.. This week, she has given all the stores a top-to-bottom spring clean and with it a new name - her own.The change is partly practical. (First Edition) A man who raped a 'lonely and vulnerable' woman who he met through a telephone chatline service was jailed for seven years yesterday. The result was that when they arrived in Algiers no transport was provided for the offending ministers who were obliged literally to fight their way into the cars which followed de Gaulle.

The offer opens on 12 November. A second scheme sponsored by Noble & Company has created two linked units, Premium Trust and Premium Underwriting, to raise a maximum of pounds 33m of capital and will back 26 syndicates. BTR, the unglamorous but highly rated manufacturing conglomerate represented by Alan Jackson, chief executive, and Kathleen O'Donovan, finance director, took the first prize, followed by Marks & Spencer in second, and Glaxo in third. The winner will receive the money left in his election account.Among his rivals is Alexander Krasnov, a disillusioned reformer now more angry with Mr Yeltsin than the Communists. One medium- sized company undergoing a transformation is Matthew Clark, which is yielding 3.8 per cent at 557p. Also in Scotland, C-N-DO (0786 445703) puts together packages from pounds 59 for two nights' self-catering in Glen Doll.

It is popular, too, with up-and-coming trainers and jockeys, who can grab priceless attention before the big yards hit their stride.One such rising talent is Gay Kelleway, who will saddle Castel Rosselo, the ante-post second-favourite, at Town Moor on Saturday. But the task force found that these were unspecific, and gave little help in how to proceed.'Where the offence under the criminal law would be considered not serious, we see no impediment to using internal procedures without involving the police. He challenged Mr Smith to say how Labour would enact a radical anti-discrimination law that would, according to ministers, cost pounds 17bn.With the row threatening to resurface in the Commons today at Prime Minister's Question Time, Mr Smith replied by saying Mr Major had 'totally' missed the point, adding: 'If you and your government did not want this Bill, you should have had the courage openly to oppose it rather than resorting to underhand and deceitful tactics.'Opposition MPs also turned their fire on Lady Olga Maitland who, with four other backbench MPs, had been involved last Friday in tabling 80 amendments to the Bill which led to its running out of time. But after the initial shock of Sunday night's defeat, the knives came out for the team manager, Berti Vogts.Despite receiving a vote of confidence from the German football federation yesterday, the onslaught against Vogts is being spearheaded in the popular press, with Bild leading the field. Two classical Greek heads, thought to portray philosophers, are of high quality, as is the bronze from the fourth century AD - a little girl with a serpent entwined around her waist.

Bellini, Antonello da Messina and sundry lesser masters feature. Nick Atkinson, a park officer, said: 'This may not be everyone's idea of what they expect to see from stock grazing on the moor but we think it is worthwhile.'. But Dr Sutton warns we should not take at face value many of the academic studies, because they rely on smokers remembering why they lapsed. 'What do you feel about the conservation area?''Spectac'lar]''Wonderful]''Fabulous]''But it's not growing any food I could plough it up and plant wheat here.