But where did Baroness Thatcher fit into his scheme of things? 'Well, she did speak up for British products, which was a good thing, but she'd never do anything to control imports.'In fact, as Mr Dunsby acknowledges, the threat to English apples began some years before her premiership, when we joined what was then known as the Common Market. Now, due to the bankruptcy, these will not be possible.Bradfield said: 'What do you want to know about Martin Deaner?''Er. Since the story appeared the telephone has been abuzz with stories of Deaner. But geese, especially the Canada variety, honk enthusiastically and eat a lot of grass.National Mutual has recently taken to sending in shotgun-toting executioners on quiet Sunday afternoons - when the offices and a neighbouring conference centre are empty - to silence the birds and thus rid the designer lawns of evidence of their eating habits. There are two companies who are using the Virgin name, and Branson is pursuing them with a vengeance.One, a store in Dorset, has started trading as Virgin Computers and another outfit in Durham is trading as Virgin Transport.Branson believes both are guilty of 'passing off' and means to take action.'We will take action against anyone using the Virgin name in this way,' says Will Whitehorn, Branson's affable spokesman.And as for the book? He hasn't seen it yet.(Photograph omitted). For instance, yesterday the Virgin Megastore in Hamburg closed its doors for the last time.

(Southwest ended up distributing a lot of booze.)Two decades later, Fortune wondered, on its cover, if Kelleher was the best chief executive officer in America He may well be. 'Our people are results-oriented, not process- oriented,' Kelleher said. We don't care that much about education and experience, because we can train people to do whatever they have to do. Kelleher insists he gets his kicks hanging around his people at Southwest.'They are restorative and rejuvenating for me,' he said.

Or, as Kelleher, the airline's larger-than-life CEO, puts it: 'We defined a personality, as well as a market niche. Its youthful aircraft fleet logs many more flights than those of others carriers. 'To create togetherness, sit near each other, talk to each other to keep the brain going is important in order to survive,' said army survival expert Lars Falt. Then I helped him into the lifeboat and he helped me.'The two kept alive through the night by hugging each other and talking 'Then in the morning we saw helicopters A helicopter came for us, too. They made a pact to survive - and to have dinner together in Stockholm the following week Then they jumped, hand in hand, into the stormy black water The other 15 in their life raft died of cold that night. It was the tragic sum of little mistakes.'Whether investigators can ever work out just how little or how big any such errors might have been, however, will depend on the conclusion of a missing person report filed with Estonian police on Friday Where is Avo Piht?. In parliament, Estonian politicians defend with slightly too much vigour their country's place in Europe: 'Are Britain and France banana republics because ferries sank there too?' spluttered Rein Helme, chairman of the parliamentary defence committee.