70 M Mackenzie, A Sorensen (Den), C Montgomerie, J Farmer, J Sewell, G Orr, B Barnes, H Baiocchi (SA). Although he has been sculpting for 35 years, the market for his work has flourished in the past decade and his prices have quadrupled. But the biggest demand comes from people who go away on holiday and can't stand to miss an episode of their favourite soap.'But surely this demand must fade away outside the holiday season?'You have to remember that the holiday season lasts longer and longer, and that people also go away skiing in winter, and other people go on business trips, or off-season bargain breaks. Even car repairs and servicing attracted just 3,083.The figure for second-hand cars? 9,234.. Refugees crowd around a helicopter in the village of Chubery to collect bread yesterday. We began with a plate of pasta cooked with broad beans (from the garden), pancetta, and Parmesan, followed by fried calf's liver and a salad (again from the garden), finishing with cherries picked that morning in the orchard. But while many Slovaks would like to turn the clock back, hardly any see that as realistic.'A lot of us would love reunion, but the Czechs do not want it now.

Mr Clinton's line of defence, that he had lost dollars 69,000 as a result of Whitewater, began to look thin when it was revealed he had not set the loss against taxes.Cosy deals between politicians and businessmen are traditional in Little Rock but, even so, Mr Clinton's connection with Madison Guaranty seem to involve a particularly glaring conflict of interest. In a few vivid, nightmarish pages, Raymond conveys the sense that for Jidney, murder is a kind of theatrical catharsis.Cut to a meeting between the detective and his ex-cop friend, whose suspicions have been aroused by the sudden disappearances of a succession of Jidney's (aka Henry Cross) women friends. Operating profits have more than doubled from pounds 20.4m in 1992 to pounds 43.9m in the year to January, sales per square foot have risen 12.5 per cent to pounds 144 and operating margins have widened from 3 per cent to 6.2 per cent.The group is confident that other planned changes - such as better targeting of merchandise, store refurbishments, and increasing the proportion of part-time staff - mean that the real improvement has yet to come. In a slippery author's note, Berendt admits he has 'taken certain story- telling liberties. It is now part of a property company registered in the Isle of Man, and its most spectacular asset is not maritime but terrestrial, a 300-acre canalside site at Dumplington.

Confrontation is also looming with the TUC and local government unions, which are seeking an even more generous package because of the likelihood of long-term unemployment for former public service workers. Many thousands of jobs could go under the plans to re- organise the two-tier system in English counties into slimmer unitary authorities.The Local Government Staff Commission (England) is pressing Tony Baldry, junior environment minister, for an upper lump sum limit of 82 weeks' pay. .Malcolm - It has been too long since we last shared a bed at the Savoy, or exposed our privates to each other's children. He then poured hundreds of thousands of pounds into its restoration, hiring Wedgwood, Turnbull & Asser, Crabtree & Evelyn to decorate its rooms. The school is being transported en bloc to Japan at a cost of pounds 20,000.Oshika fears its own school, hit by declining numbers, may close.