With Oldham having only scored six Premiership goals away from home, you might have expected David Seaman's slate to remain unsullied. Coarse- chop onions, saute in butter until dark gold; dice peppers and potatoes and cook for 5 mins. A lot of powerful people in the theatre are gay, but they're men who aren't interested in women.'At the moment there are no openly lesbian woman politicians. Over the past 12 years, Christine Forecast has made an ambitious series of herb gardens here, linked by a wide gravel path.

Women compete only in foil, for both team and individual medals.The outstanding individual performer could be the Frenchman, Jean-Francois Lamour, who competes in the sabre. The two W's - and Waqar is still not his fully fit self of last season - are, at their best, masters of the short ball, the length ball and the yorker.What is more is the manifest enjoyment they find in their cricket, especially when the scoreboard operator places a number six in the wickets column. Their whole life resides in these few hours of remorseless wrath.What of soul is left, I wonder, when the killing has to stop?These are grand ways of looking at it, but then the Alien trilogy is grand.Not pretentious and talkative, just laden with images of doom and sexual control, the unstoppably fecund as well as the unbearably blocked. Today about a dozen textile firms survive, mostly involved in dyeing, finishing, printing, knitwear and makings braids and trimmings.Tony Wilson, chairman of the Leek Chamber of Trade, said: 'Unfortunately no new industry has come along to replace textiles except for the antiques and pine furniture businesses.'Pine furniture manufacturing and antiques businesses appear to have found a natural home in Leek for no very clear reason other than that redundant textile mills make wonderfully spacious showrooms. Yet Churchill Square, a grim modern shopping centre in the centre of town, worth a visit only because all the buses stop there, was still a centre of activity, with students waiting en masse for a bus to take them to a pop festival in a park just outside town.

In Britain the debate centred, above all, on the powers of the House of Commons.Mr Seguin is drawing on a tradition in which state, nation and citizen are intimately connected. AUGUSTUS, assistant manager, McDonald's: People take dole money for granted, they should work for it. After taking cannabis, 'colour is brighter, music more vivid and time appears to pass more slowly. At one point, Mr Bedwith, using the name 'Wandii', was exchanging messages with another person using the name 'Pad'.In the transcript Wandii asked: 'Have you got the ISTEL NUA handy?' (He wants the address of the ISTEL computer network in the US) Pad answers: 'Yo yup]' and gives a 12-digit number Later, Wandii asked: 'You got access to a bank?. The European Commissioner for External Political Relations, Hans van den Broek, played down expectations of an early agreement on a trade pact, telling a news conference: 'I don't think we should have the illusion that all this can be obtained, let's say, in a year's time. Recently I asked Kerry, now in her twenties, which book she had enjoyed most during our holidays There was no hesitation.'Kim,' she said.

Player-Manager: G Hoddle.Sheffield Wednesday (4-4-2): C Woods; R Nilsson, D Walker, N Pearson, N Worthington; C Waddle, J Sheridan, G Hyde, A Sinton; M Bright, C Bart-Williams Subs not used: B Linighan, K Pressman (gk), G Watson. Sitting at the River Cafe the contemporary architect can believe that under his expensive braces and half-moons, he is an Italian Peasant, evolved to perfection. CAPTAIN Moonlight, being the kind of man he is, takes a close interest in newspaper corrections. By simplifying the interaction between the tax and benefit systems, Basic Income schemes might also cut administrative costs.Means-tested benefits - of which Income Support and Family Credit are the most important - are expensive to administer and complicated to claim, as demonstrated by the fact that the Child Poverty Action Group's latest users' guide to such benefits runs to 488 closely printed pages.The complexity of means testing, together with the social stigma attaching for many would-be claimants, means that a large share of the money available is never claimed.The safety net of the means- tested benefits system also contains significant gaps, particularly affecting people in low-paid work (who cannot claim Income Support) and who are childless (unable claim Family Credit).Mr Clarke is not the first Chancellor to be attracted by Basic Income schemes, which appear beguilingly simple in textbook diagrams. 'They would also want to choose an individual, not a job.'(Photograph omitted)SPECULATION is rife over whether Lazard Brothers, the City investment bank, is suffering from an outbreak of mice. Her singing teacher, an Englishman called Archie, is lofty, driven, gloriously intolerant and entertaining.