'To let slip these opportunities' would be 'the surest possible way to impoverish our country and damage our standing in the world - almost beyond repair,' Mr Major added.The new Cabinet onslaught is partly directed at members of the 'soft core' of up to 45 Tory MPs who say they cannot guarantee support for government closure motions, which call a halt to debate on groups of amendments. Over 1000 young people, both boys and girls, now play each week at the club and the coaches like Francisco have really won the respect of the community. This is a major shift in policy and will almost certainly fuel the debate about the police being constantly armed. William Waldegrave, the minister for open government, was challenged by Marjorie Mowlam, his Labour shadow, over claims at the Scott inquiry that he had misled Parliament about the export of weapons equipment to Iraq when Minister of State at the Foreign Office.Ms Mowlam asked Mr Waldegrave, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, to comment on his ability to deliver the openness he has promised in central government 'in view of the fact that his integrity as a minister has been seriously questioned by evidence produced last week that he misled the House over the Matrix Churchill affair'.Intervening, Betty Boothroyd, the Speaker, ordered Ms Mowlem to withdraw the unparliamentary charge 'No minister misled the House,' Miss Boothroyd insisted. Co-director Nick Gaiger , co-director visits India two or three times a year, to bring back the 'talking pieces'. More seriously, at a time when consistent sentencing was being sought more and more by both the Court of Appeal and the public, Miskin could vary markedly in the punishment he handed down His bark could also be worse than his bite. As Mr Major sidestepped each call for condemnation, Mr Smith pointed out that the auditor's investigation had taken four years.'What has been revealed is a devastating example of corruption and the abuse of power by senior members of the Conservative Party.'Mr Major maintained it would be wrong to comment on the case while the auditor was still considering it.

The refrain after the first verse runs:And it all goes into the laundry,But it never comes out in the wash,'Ow we're sugared about by the old men('Eavy sterned amateur old men])That 'amper an' 'inder an' scold menFor fear o' Stellenbosch]At the end of the poem, when the fighting men have suffered for their general's incompetence, and then been blamed while he collected decorations instead of being sent in punishment to the town Stellenbosch, the refrain changes to:An' it all went into the laundry,But it never came out in the wash,We were sugared about by the old men(Panicky, perishin' old men)That 'amper an' 'inder an' scold menFor fear o' Stellenbosch]Like Trollope, Kipling is concerned with things that do not come out in the wash The image is of truth going down the plug-hole. A reopened inquiry into the death of PC Blakelock ended with the case unsolved.(Photographs omitted). But Japanese connoisseurs, as opposed to crooks and investors, are genuinely fond of art - and they have started buying again over the last few weeks, displaying a familiar taste for works by the Impressionists and good home-grown art. Discus: J McKernan (Lisburn).Javelin: T Sanderson (Hounslow). Essex win by an innings and 37 runs THEY think it's all over - and it might as well be now.

Friends from the States were calling to 'see that I had arrived safely' and to ask, whether I have room for them during their newly scheduled London vacation.Now I cherish that one week of tranquillity as I stumble past the toy trains parked in the stairway, and the panty hose drying on the bannister. There are fears that their deaths - thought to take the total British dead to five - may be among the first of many.A Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday the number of Britons serving with the Croats, Serbs and Muslims was 'substantial' but David Lord, editor of Combat and Survival and a former army officer, said the evidence suggested 'thousands'.'The amount of mail I am receiving from British men fighting in the area is astonishing,' he said. After experimenting with hair and make-up, she has settled for a transatlantic version of the Princess of Wales Look; well-tailored suits, short, highlighted hair and neat, expensive accessories. The deterioration in living standards has been particularly severe among families with children, with predictable results. GSP eligibility, however, is subject to annual review, and the trade-restricting effects on non-tariff barriers are hard to assess.It is also true that western European industries that suffer from overcapacity and inefficiencies - agriculture, steel, chemicals and textiles - face new competition from the lower-wage east, and these 'sensitive sector' industries are clamouring for protection.

'I don't know its equal anywhere in the world, and it's two-and-a-half- days-old.'A stunning statement True, many of the singers had worked with Shaw before. The agency says that two-thirds of debtors pay up straight away, though one hardened Scrooge put up with a rabbit trailing him for three days. We sometimes moan about the heat, but it is much better than the cold. The emphasis is on Churchill's failings and on the transformation of his reputation as a result of his achievements as a war-time leader. Rather, the German attitude is based on an absolutism which may or may not prove to be justified, but which probably has as much to do with paranoia as with patriotism.The Germans base their call for toughness on a conference on BSE in Berlin last year, and recommendations which were later submitted to Mr Seehofer. They are excellent in shade.Dead-head roses to encourage further flowering. The media gaze has focused, or rather re-focused, on Mr Clinton's real mate, Hillary.