The dividend was held at 0.5p.Helio produced its highest first-half profit for several years. Brittin, England's most experienced player and a local to boot, scored a measured 104 to pave the way for a record England total in the 60-over format.Whereupon Denmark slumped to 10 for 5, recovered to reach 46 without further alarm, then lost their last five wickets for one run as Hodges's off-breaks completed the annihilation with a hat-trick. Prevention is always better than cure, and children such as Irma need peace to grow up healthy and happy. Hans-Adam II is said to be worth pounds 2bn, and few of his subjects appear to be short of cash either.To judge by the conspicuous wealth in the capital, article one of Liechtenstein's constitution must require a national sense of self-satisfaction.

BARRY HEARN'S Matchroom organisation yesterday dismissed allegations that the Nigerian-born Herbie Hide was not a British subject when he won the national heavyweight title in February. The rule was that you couldn't leave the desk without locking them away.'But I didn't let them out of my sight I only went to the tea-trolley. After all, it was the move by Labour in the direction of law and order that pushed the Government in the direction of its present policies.Mr Blair may say he has played straight and spoken perfect sense. Surely, the answer is not to release anyone and just build more and more prisons.The alternative - rehabilitation - is, in my experience, little more than a superficial veneer on the real business of prison. Ten thousand signatures were raised, enough to call a national plebiscite which approved the ban by nearly 52 per cent at the weekend.'We will protest,' Carlos Westendorp, Spain's state secretary for European affairs, said yesterday. The following day I came across the journalist and a former French army colonel, another neighbour who used to work in the military archives. This year, he could while away the time downing a couple of Becks in front of the TV.

The 30ft-long guitar-shaped bar, while no match for the Great Wall, was none the less awe-inspiring. LAGOS - Nigeria's oil strike in pursuit of democracy escalated yesterday as senior oil workers joined junior colleagues to demand the release of opposition politician Moshood Abiola and an end to military rule Reuter. Specifically, of course, the new pessimism caused unprecedentedly high German real interest rates. Although they wore civilian clothing in public, most seemed to have chosen identical check shirts.