Surely someone could have got hold of a video to allow him a sneak preview, unless they thought it would be like a horror movie? Andy Caddick was allegedly told to 'just put it there' on the first morning and bowled innocuously as a result.What it all boils down to in the end is desire and pride - or 'mental fibre' as Graham Gooch calls it. A growing number of his MPs would like him gone, but there is no a keen challenger: nor has the ditch-Major campaign gathered much momentum. It's jealousy, that's all.'A few decades ago, Hastings was a British version of Wimereux. The problem for some, such as Joan Thornley, 74, is that their 'habit' soon outstripped that of children or grandchildren who moved on to more interesting pursuits.'We sit down and say we are not going to play it tonight, we'll go to bed early instead,' says Joan, her husband, Les, 70, nodding in the background.

As things stand, though, it looks more like a conscious experiment.Think again about that title Wonderful Life. But it's certainly worth seeing if you think you can get time knocked off purgatory in exchange.'Move On Up' is at the Hen and Chickens, London N1, until 4 Sept (Booking: 071-704 2001). Another testing cross, an inadvertent header back to the near post by the Chelsea defender Frank Sinclair, and there was Graeme Sharp to bundle the ball in.(Photograph omitted). FERNANDO REY sprang into international prominence in Viridiana (1961), which marked Luis Bunuel's return to Spain after two decades in exile. The great moralist was working in Mexico (of which he was a naturalised citizen) when a young local producer proposed a co-production with a Spanish company.