But the fact that it has borne up so well must be thanks in some measure to strong civic common sense, manifest today in such simple things as the attitude to the car. After he called on its commander, a brigadier, to surrender, the brigadier ordered one of his soldiers: 'Shoot that man.' When the soldier refused, the brigadier realised his men were not with him, and the unit joined the coup.Mr Soares's popularity, with two years left until the end of his second five-year term, was evident. At Pisa airport there is a train shuttle service which takes 1 hour to Florence, tickets are bought at the airport for approximately pounds 3.TOUR OPERATORS: Magic of Italy (081-748 7575) has a 7-night stay, including flights, transfers, and bed and breakfast in 3-star accommodation for pounds 449, departing from Gatwick. After 25 minutes Taylor awarded a second, to the Germans.A veteran of three World Cups, FA Cups and European Cup finals, awarded an OBE for services to football, Taylor feared withdrawal symptoms when age regulations in England compelled him to retire at 47 'I had visited 60 countries in 30 years.

They should have done the same with the scriptwriter who decided it was a good idea to mark the occasion with a street party. There is some painstaking working-class dialogue and some cataloguing of society's victims - alcoholics, down-and-outs, abusers and abused - but the dominant narrative voice is one of highly wrought sensibility. He reportedly said as he collapsed: 'The bastard stabbed me in the toilets.' His attacker was described as heavily-built, white and in his 50s. It's not a great movie, but there are moments which really connect with folks in their thirties and forties.