The US stores lost more than dollars 40m in the three years before their sale and Mr Traub has been unable to turn them around, although five loss-making outlets were closed.. The plea bargain with Mr Hale was reached at the request of Robert Fiske, the special prosecutor, who is looking into Whitewater. The Rangers End already had seats and cover, which means that the South Stand - with its roof-top press box designed to make vertigo sufferers of us all - is the only part of 'old' Hampden in use.Even that is to be replaced by a 17,000-seat, twin-deck cantilever stand that will take Hampden's capacity to 52,000 - though a further pounds 12m to pounds 15m must be raised before the hard hats move in.'A huge programme has been undertaken, both externally and internally, but we're still only at half- time,' Jim Farry, the chief executive of the SFA, explained. ROME (AP) - Alberto Franceschini, one of the founders and leaders of the Red Brigades left- wing terrorist group, has been released from prison 30 years early, after 18 years in jail. He is withdrawing to enjoy the prosperity of his family business, but until he leaves next year he is a lame-duck chairman.Battle lines have been drawn within Lloyd's in the fight for a successor, but it will be a while before they choose a new leader.

Sir: For the second time in a fortnight a highly responsible organisation, this time the King's Fund, has published a report predicting grave problems if provision for the growing frail elderly population is not urgently improved. Jan Graveson and Charlotte Bellamy are convincing as the intellectually frustrated Trudi and her cheerfully hedonistic friend Laurel. Still, anyone of such dazzling abilities is entitled to some self-satisfaction, and Burgess is endearingly fond of dropping his own name in satisfying circumstances - being whistled to by Thomas Mann's daughter, talking to Jorge Luis Borges in Old English, moving a KGB official to tears by quoting Pushkin at him, having his own name listed in the Collins Dictionary, being presented with prizes, using the past subjunctive during a lecture to French students. An uninspired Tristan is no Tristan at all; great performances of this piece are not manufactured, they evolve You don't counterfeit Wagner's eternal longing. They were a man from Hawkhurst, Kent, and a woman from Redbridge, Essex, both 19 British Gas is investigating.. 'Nothing ever happens here.'THE 'IST LISTBRIDLINGTON:Population: 35,000Location: On the east coast north of Hull.Ethnic-minority population: Too small to be significant.Sources of communal tension: Conflicts between locals and incomers from Hull. News International, publishers of the Sun, would not confirm the figure.The main victims seem to have been the Star and Today, which both stayed at 25p.

Up went the Russian Su-29 aerobatic aircraft, its 360hp engine thrusting the little two- seater vertically into the sky, until the plane fell back with a kind of exhaustion. The first hat-trick of the 21- year-old striker's senior career saw Luton Town through to the FA Cup semi-final after a sixth-round replay against West Ham that was as fluctuating as the wind in which it was played.After the Premier League side had opened the scoring on the half-hour and then recovered from going 2-1 down, Oakes settled the game in the 74th minute by running half the length of the pitch after Steve Potts, West Ham's normally punctilious defender, had stepped on a high ball and let it run behind him.The Endsleigh League First Division side - who disposed of Newcastle United in the fourth round - thus meet their third Premiership opponents in this year's competition when they face Chelsea on 9 April.David Pleat, Luton's manager, did not want to think about that last night 'We are going to enjoy this win,' he said. That seems to be how Arcand and screenwriter Brad Fraser, on whose hit stageplay the film is based, view all their characters. 'You made reference to him (Mr Miller) having written something on a telex about a body being found - and hoping it was yours.'Miss Halford replied: 'Yes.

First-time buyers can have conveyancing done for as little as pounds 100 in Hull, a city where competition became so intense that some solicitors took to advertising on posters on the buses.Leon Lurie, of a Hull-based law firm, Stamps, said: 'People do negotiate what the price will be, and they will ring to check that price with other firms.'In other areas, law firms have gone out of business because they pitched their conveyancing flat fees too low.One certain consequence of the movement towards flat fees will be the development of highly specialised firms. But they found the commemoration of Christopher Columbus's landing in the new world 'quite revolting'.Ruth said he was a murderer and wondered why there were not blacks on the dockside I hoped they stayed on for the march past. Prices above pounds 12,000 were too high and the pounds 3,000-pounds 5,000 range was preferred. Mrs Holmes recalled the occasion: 'I picked one up and thought 'very nice', and then went a bit further The detector suddenly went mad pipping everywhere. Which leaves them, almost a decade on from their fresh, startling beginnings, very little further down the road, and in grave danger of repeating themselves once too often.The Sound of Speed doesn't do them any favours, either. Those who can, do; those who can't, watch it on Casualty.Is it as popular with the BBC as it is with viewers? Are you kidding? The BBC loves it: it's shot on video, costs a relatively cheap pounds 300,000 per hour and attracts an average of 15m viewers. There is also evidence that low birth-weight babies are more likely to have learning difficulties.