Club captain Colin Calderwood joined the club after an offer of thousands of pounds in under- the-table payments.The Argentine international and former Tottenham Hotspur player Ossie Ardiles, who succeeded Macari as manager, said that he had not liked what was going on and secured a promise that no more side payments would be made.But before an important match against Southampton he was forced to offer players a tax- free cash bonus if they won.The trial marks what could be the only public airing of the major operation by the Inland Revenue to crack down on tax 'dodges' practised by many professional football clubs. Harold had eloquently stood up for working out as a form of personal grooming without sinister overtones. ENGLAND is in danger of having to participate in next year's World Team Championships in Pakistan without three leading players unless a threatened boycott of next month's National Championships in Manchester is called off. IN BELGRADE'S central Palilula market, where the trestles groaned with imported Ecuadorian bananas, it was hard to believe that the rest of the world saw Serbia's election yesterday as a fateful moment in the country's history. Stakis has been under pressure to reduce its debt since it failed to sell its casinos operation, put up for sale in 1991, two weeks before the London Clubs flotation was cancelled in controversial circumstances.The rights issue will be at around 35p, compared with a share price which closed on Friday at 43p, a rise of 5p.The joint venture on its nursing homes operation, Ashbourn Homes, will involve the sale of 50 per cent of the operation to a third party, bringing in around pounds 30m cash. All our tests take place in the US - so no US testing means no British testing.More positively, it is widelyheld in the international community that an effective global non- proliferation regime depends inter alia on our living up to ourcommitment in the 1968 Non- Proliferation Treaty of 'seeking to achieve the discontinuance of all test explosions of nuclear weapons for all time' More than 150 states have acceded to that treaty.

Mr Yeltsin at the moment represents the best hope of progress towards democracy and a market economy, even if he is now being somewhat economical with constitutionality. The associate producers, as we were originally called, initially got an unfair lack of credit. An associate with Price Waterhouse in the early 1970s, he was hoping to join a British merchant bank. Among the electricity stocks, Eastern gained 3p to 592p, Northern added 3p to 630p and Yorkshire put on 4p to 624p.In the water sector, Anglian closed 6p better at 544p, Southern increased by 5p to 588p and Welsh advanced 6p to 648p.There was more lively action amid the television companies. The performance, planned last April at the behest of the Princess of Wales, is to mark World Aids Day. More extraordinary evidence of China's changing face would be hard to find.