And that is on top of an pounds 18m bonus.It was not all unalloyed joy for the City. It may not even be the new century yet - does it start in 1900 or 1901? Poliakoff's subject is the false optimism of the fin de siecle - that sense of salvation through science you find in the Sherlock Holmes stories, with their belief that any problem can be solved through deduction. On Tuesday, Scott Hardie, his agent, in an attempt to revive a potential money-spinner, alerted the police investigating the death of Stephen Milligan MP, suggesting Fashanu could help; the officers who interviewed him angrily announced that he was wasting their time, he knew nothing. American scientists have found that a small group of women who drank around 10 units of alcohol a week (one unit is equivalent to a small glass of wine, half a pint of beer or a pub measure of spirits) weighed from 3kg to 4kg less than those who did not drink at all.

They looked at what had happened with his birth mother and the therapist, taking the role of George's mother, held and fed him with a bottle. Time and Newsweek have remade themselves in desperate attempts to reach out to young readers and its busier, older mainstays. Lloyds Bank is the first to drop its rate from 1.9 to 1.8 per cent a month, or from 25.3 per cent APR to 23.8 per cent APR.But the APR relies on making assumptions about the credit limit, and how it is repaid, which means there are huge inconsistencies when comparing rates.The Bank of Scotland and Clydesdale Bank both have a pounds 10 annual fee and monthly interest of 1.9 per cent, but the Bank of Scotland ends up with an APR of 26 per cent, and the Clydesdale with one of 26.6 per cent.Barclaycard has the same fee and a lower rate (1.85 per cent) but a higher APR of 28.5 per cent.Things are likely to become more confused, as moves are afoot to harmonise the calculations across the EC.The credit card industry says the monthly interest rates are a truer guide to the cost of borrowing on plastic.But at least changing 2 per cent a month into something like 28 per cent APR rings some warning bells that this sort of borrowing can be expensive. Letters in response from victims, the police and a former habitual criminal have produced interesting explanations. GREED IS the besetting sin of The Last Action Hero (15).