Ministers are struggling vainly against clogged diaries as they try to find the time and energy to initiate policies, think fresh thoughts or even dictate thoughtful speeches. RADIOACTIVE testing of the thermal oxide reprocessing plant (Thorp) in Cumbria will probably begin in three weeks, the Government said yesterday. I think the two of them were patsies - they were young and stupid, as we all are at some stage. Tiphook, the container group, was unchanged at 234p, although Bank of New York ADRs now account for 46.19 per cent of the capital.Telemetrix rose 18p to 180p, reflecting interest in the shares of its 61 per cent-owned, quoted, US subsidiary.Carr Kitcat & Aitken added to Kingfisher's woes by suggesting a switch into Marks & Spencer. QAT - Catha edulis forsk - is a plant containing a stimulant that has been chewed on social occasions in Somalia for centuries, with little ill effect. It was an insult - to Coco, to the Chanel customer, to the models and to women in general.The audience signalled how far Lagerfeld has fallen. Commander Achua said the corpse had the tribal markings of a Nuer man - the same tribe as Mr Nyuong.A similar story is given by the Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Association, the humanitarian wing of the SPLA.

Patrick Gilles-Marie Le Quement, Renault's vice-president for corporate design, recalls a critical moment in the secret life of a super-mini whose futuristic shape worried many of the top brass 'It was regarded as a great risk. Sharon in EastEnders (BBC1) could do worse than stick one into her hubby, Grant, and his brother, Phil: a more immature pair of gonads you will not find in all British soap. Nor did I understand his secret, which must have been frustrating for him. The impatient fingers of our judging panel soon smudged the holograms, however, and the book seemed lost without them.Tired is not the word to describe the children's reaction to Dr Xargle's Book of Earth Weather by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross (Andersen Press pounds 6.99) Confused, more likely. Lee TD RRF; DM Moore RAOC; JPAJ Turner TD RAOC; BF Vousden TD REMET; The Duke of Westminster QOY.CAPTAIN TO MAJOR: LA Anderson TD AG CORPS (SPS); JL Andrew AG CORPS (SPS); PE Ash RAMC; CJ Batty AG CORPS (SPS); RJ Bedder AG Corps (SPS); G. It opened its Caythorpe gas field in North Humberside, the first onshore UK field to be developed to compete with British Gas.The FT-SE 100 index ended near its lowest of the day, down 25.5 points at 2,737.6 The FT-SE 250 index retreated 9.8 to 2,885.9. Morrison, for instance, will spend a month training in various British cities before Christmas, a purely promotional exercise that would hardly be contemplated if Lewis v Morrison had anything like the same appeal to American viewers as Bowe v Holyfield.And what would a fit and angry Riddick Bowe do to the Lennox Lewis of rounds one through six yesterday morning? Frank Maloney may now be in a little less of a hurry to find out..

Some recruiters suggested that a non-vocational higher degree could be a handicap.A statement issued by the AGR, the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services and the Central Services Unit warns: 'The AGR survey confirmed that a postgraduate qualification is not always a benefit when seeking employment. He sent the French-bred past the long-time leader Rathvinden House at the cross fence five out and, after a tussle in the straight, shook off his rival to come home 12 lengths clear. In 1992 science options were just over 8 per cent of the GCSE entry for girls and just over 9 per cent for boys - added to which, more girls than boys take GCSEs. And speaking of squelch brings me to the animating principle of the whole dreary saga, the pulsating author's sexual encounters.Those who are foolish enough to read this book in search of the erotic will be disappointed. But that, after all, is a place where politicians live, too.. I do not wish to be a woman; what I wish is to experience things as a woman, while still being a man - in effect, to experience a heterosexual relationship from both sides of that relationship simultaneously.''Yvonne Sinclair' said: 'The happiest TVs are those who can share it with others, who can go to work in a suit, play football, then come back home, put on a frock and become Shirley from Purley.'A longing to share his secret with his mother might well be the reason that Gill's son had not locked his wardrobe door.

Not as peculiar as that available on BBC, though, which is leading up to Easter in as inoffensive a manner as it can contrive Inoffensive to secular humanists, that is. Rolls-Royce, partly on the Defence white paper but still reflecting the recent strong United Technologies results, made further headway, up 4p to 203p.British Airways' additional French flights lifted the shares 8p higher to 428p but P&O, still fretting about a rumoured downgrading, drifted 4p lower to 711p.Gerrard & National's decision to abandon the crowded world of gilt market-making left the shares 39p higher at 448p. Judge Kriegler, in pronouncing the KwaZulu-Natal elections free and fair, overruled the views of IEC staff working in the province itself. A sharp relaxation of policy and higher inflation could do the same again.Then there is the impact of recent events on the rest of Europe, and hence our relations with it. We are looking for airlines to co-operate with this programme, which will be carried out on normal flights.'Although the FAA accepts that cargo versions of the 747 operate at higher maximum take-off weights than passenger aircraft, the letter says 'these loads do not significantly affect the pylon-to- wing structure'.