We are coming out of the recession, they are going into it.'I think we will recover, we would have recovered faster if our markets had been booming as well. Flood praised his horse's application and staying properties, but also conceded that she was running against beasts debilitated by Aintree's void race just nine days earlier 'We had a fresh horse going in there today,' he said. At its Catalytic Systems Division in Royston, Hertfordshire, 150 people work on production which contributes to the 20 million devices produced worldwide.Robert Searles, the market development director, said refinement of the autocatalyst, which converts carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen into less harmful carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water, had not stopped for the 19 years it had been in production. When Marlowe's Faustus quizzes Mephistopheles about Hell, the devil replies that it is not a place but the torture of knowing his own damnation.

Martin Johnson, one assumes, would be the one to switch to the middle. 'MY FIRST encounter, when I realised what was what, was in 1978: a man hung on some railings with a knife stuck through him He was still alive, then But they'd cut him all to bits, cut his private parts off And he was just hanging there That was done by one section of the community. United Biscuits closed unchanged at 359p.The drip, drip of cash calls continued with Airtours, the holiday group, seeking pounds 82m to fund the signalled acquisition of SAS Leisure and a cruise liner.The shares fell 24p to 424p.Two newcomers managed to resist the swing. The great bulk were about hospital services and since the NHS reforms were introduced in 1991 patient complaints have risen by 56 per cent in two years, from 37,300 in the year before the system changed. The figures detailing the number of written complaints come from parliamentary answers provided by Dr Brian Mawhinney, Minister for Health, and reflect similar rises in complaints to the General Medical Council, about family doctors and to the Health Service Ombudsman.Details of the 7,000 rise last year come as the Government is expected next week to publish the Wilson report recommending a marked simplification and unification of the complaints system, with earlier conciliation aimed at reducing the number of formal complaints made.Doctors' leaders and others suspect the Patient's Charter and other government initiatives have helped stimulate the marked rise in complaints in recent years, but Mr Milburn said yesterday: 'A record number of patient complaints is an indictment of the Conservatives' running of the NHS.'. Over the past couple of years, though, the anti-Maastricht crusade has driven right-wing Conservatives towards the democratic weapon, too. Mr Howlett, secretary of the Vintage Model Yacht Group and measurer of the Model Yacht Sailing Association, is still resolutely a free sailing man. Mr Blair made it clear that a Labour government would maintain pupil assessment, parental choice, and the information needed by parents to judge the varying performances of different schools. Mr Blair's pledge came in a wide-ranging interview in which he went out of his way to highlight the high rates of income tax paid by ordinary families and some middle-income groups under Conservative policies.

'We thank you for starting to build a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem.' Down at the Palestine Hotel, Mr Arafat was holding court with his servants, the Fatah leaders who ran the resistance battle against Israeli occupation and whose absolute loyalty he must have in the coming days. The three-year-old is certainly not a quitter, having scored four consecutive wins earlier this season, but he has climbed rapidly up the handicap and is now too short a price.Best to look for a long-odds contender capable of cutting down Double Blue inside the final furlong. But the companies themselves can be caught out, writes Roger Trapp. Thomas Sunnegardh's soliloquy as Florestan at the beginning of Act 2 brought the only moments of sustained intensity.Gabriela Benackova's Leonore was particularly disappointing: physically static and often expressively monochrome. A bank might be inclined to look over its shoulder more frequently than you or I'Another solicitor was much more forthright in his views about banks as trustees: 'I don't like them administering estates They have a book of rules to follow.