THE BRITISH were confident of outwitting the worst of the French lorry drivers as the weekend holiday invasion of the French roads began in earnest last night. Selected: 24 G LeMond (Z, US) +2:56; 48 R Millar (TVM,GB) s/t; 85 M Earley (PDM, Irl) +6:37; 86 S Kelly (Festina, Irl) s/t; 97 S Yates (Motorola, GB) +8:10.Overall: 1 P Lino (RMO, Fr) 55hr 46min 51sec; 2 Indurain +1min 27sec; 3 Roche +1:58; 4 Delgado +4:08; 5 LeMond +4:27; 6 Bugno +4:39; 7 Chiappucci +4:54; 8 Perini +5:31; 9 Y Ledanois (Castorama, Fr) +5:52; 10 L Fignon (Gatorade, Fr) +7:32; 11 J Heppner (Telekom, Ger) +7:38; 12 R Alcala (PDM, Mex) +7:46; 13 G Rue (Castorama, Fr) +8:14; 14 L Leblanc (Castorama, Fr) +8:34; 15 E Breukink (PDM, Neth) +8:38. And that industrial anvil on Dolby's own 'Cruel' is a tambourine, played back four octaves lower.'Cruel' is part of Astronauts and Heretics, Dolby's new album. Pro-am day, 14 October.Admission: Daily pounds 8 adults, pounds 4.50 under-18s and OAPs Season ticket pounds 30, pounds 15 (includes pro-am day).

John Major is now expected next week to confirm Sir Leon Brittan and Labour's Bruce Millan as Britain's two members of the commission. So how had he spent the most momentous night of his career? 'The usual way Something to eat A couple of beers with the lads. We would not be able to do that if we were a teaching-only institution.' Up to 25 per cent of Keele's students are postgraduates, and Keele has the largest proportion of academics under the age of 35. Without that cost the company said earnings would have risen 3 per cent.The results prompted a series of profit upgrades by stockbrokers' analysts. Officials denied this would involve buying a new missile system, but there were unconfirmed reports that Britain is seeking to buy Tomahawk cruise missiles from the US, the type fired at Iraq last week.Archie Hamilton, the former Minister for the Armed Forces, renewed his call for the troops deployed in Northern Ireland to be reduced.

The hospital's repeated denials badly dented Mr Biddle's credibility.A copy of this audit is, however, in the possession of the Independent and it states that some of the fee income from the post- mortems should have been paid to the hospital. Also paying tribute to Eleanor Fry, the teacher, Mr Hill fought back tears and said the pupils, most of whom where musicians, were the 'cream of the crop'. Among them was Nicola Misiolek, of Stourbridge, who would have been 13 yesterday Her presents and cards remained unopened. Why is this? The urge is lifelong, but it is only since I reached 60 that I have found ample time and energy to devote to this delightful pursuit Margaret Allen, London SW10. 'Apparently you can't be a knight and a QC, as happens in Murmuring Judges. But somewhere here there's got to be something nasty enough.It's not Sandra Curtis's entry though. This he signally failed to do, as Rowland embarked on the celebrated fight with his non-executive directors in 1973, following that with the unsuccessful bid to take over House of Fraser, and the spectacular feud with the Fayed brothers. Throughout these sagas, Spicer maintained a straight face and an even straighter bat, worthy of the Kremlin at its most Stalinesque. Classical, modern and Burgundian specialities - not prissy, tarted-up interpretations.