This makes bargains of three wines in particular: a wickedly drinkable, vanilla-flavoured 1991 Chateau Beychevelle and a perfumed, juicy 1987 Carruades de Lafite, now both pounds 9.99, and the supple, sweetly oaked 1990 Les Trois Moulins de Cantemerle, down to pounds 5.49.Majestic Wine Warehouses, too, has a useful red bordeaux offer, from petit chateau claret such as the old-faithful, old-fashioned 1989 Chateau Meaume, pounds 4.49 (from pounds 4.99), to the smooth-textured, coffee-bean-flavoured 1990 Chateau de Louviere, pounds 7.99, and the fragrantly grand 1989 Reserve du General, pounds 13.99, second wine of Chateau Palmer.From claret to another traditional Christmas drink: vintage port. While sociologists debate whether their clowning is harmful, generations continue to enjoy both the agony and the ecstasy Cat chases mouse Mouse gets smart Cat gets mad Mouse gets cat. Her father, Sir Charles Tennant Bt, was by then 79 years of age, himself the son of a near octogenarian. 'I am a little bit sad because I know it's the last time,' the 26-year-old said, 'and on the other hand I am happy, because I am going to start a new life.'She is pleased, also, to be freeing her husband, Francois, from the stress of waching her matches.

But football has changed; and in the age of the Citizens' Charter so have the expectations of fans who, while appreciating that most clubs no longer regard them as a necessary evil, are not prepared to be merely tolerated.What are the roots of this vocal, but almost entirely non- violent movement? Most people point to the Eighties disasters of Heysel and Hillsborough as turning-points. If they were withdrawn (along, presumably, with the pounds 4bn annual subsidy) it would go on as a fight to the death between rival warlords. They didn't want me to be an actress as it was unreliable.' But she joined the National Youth Theatre and at 18 played Cleopatra, which had agents queuing up. This, for instance, from Claude Waife, of South Bend, Indiana: 'That American punk is getting exactly what he deserves. PERHAPS intoxicated by the surge in ticket sales after his record-breaking innings of 375, Warwickshire put up crush barriers yesterday as they prepared to welcome Brian Lara to Edgbaston.

Charges of corruption laid last week against one of the main contenders to be the next prime minister, Francois Leotard, only reinforced a popular view that France's politicians are a dishonest crowd. Minolta and others have models which respond to the movement of camera to eye by switching on. The Retail Prices Index is predicted to rise by 2.2 per cent on average this year and by 3.6 per cent in 1994. Crawford's limitations were immense, however, and she could only play these tough women who suffered and suffered. So when we do a party I send those people the flyers and tell them to give them to their best friends, who then give them to their best friends, and so on.'But there's more to it than that The small room, capacity 120, has no record decks. Dr Todd had then pointed out that one of the problems was that Dr Starkie's post was funded partly by the NHS, and partly by the University of Birmingham.But the surgeons were already taking matters into their own hands. Free tickets to each of the one-day seminars will be available to the first five Independent readers who turn up at the box office on the day clutching a copy of this page.