Overcoats will still be cut from 30oz cloth (20oz is the norm) and the staff (including 'gels') will still look fresh from the Upper Fifth Remove.Sleek Spaniards, elegant Italians, streamlined French and squeaky-clean Japanese will see reflected in the mirrors of Hackett's overseas shops an image of the English gentleman they want to be. (First Edition) SLOPPY procedures and lack of support for junior hospital staff, be they doctors or secretaries, are 'deplored' by William Reid, the health ombudsman, in his latest report on complaints about health services.In one case a woman was admitted to hospital dying of lung cancer, though neither she nor her husband were told of the diagnosis. The NHS management executive and the Audit Commission have identified measures for inclusion in the tables, while district auditors will monitor how hospitals gather and provide information to try to guarantee accuracy. Sir Duncan Nichol, the NHS chief executive, agreed yesterday that 'hospital activity' - the number of patient treatments carried out and the yardstick most often quoted by ministers - was not an adequate benchmark for judging the success of health service changes.'Activity is an important way of assessing value for money. Not only because his exemplary Irishness cocks a snook at its landlords and new promoter Vince Power (who will reopen it shortly under its old Irish dance hall name, The Forum), but also because one of the most powerful features of Van's work has been its sense of community - exactly the feeling that was mobilised by the threat of the T & C's closure. So we watch a series of videotaped 'confessions' (geddit?) made earlier by members of the audience, now televised.

But the Audit Commission has only looked at them institution by institution. The text, after all, contained no explicit criticism of the Health Secretary.But the following day, half- a-dozen political editors and commentators were summoned to a private briefing at Redwood's office in Gwydyr House, five minutes' walk up Whitehall from the Commons. Included in the rubbish were some warm teabags.' But next morning - a miracle] 'On going outside to put more rubbish in the bin, I took off the lid and there was Hammy running around none the worse for being thrown away. 'Even excluding exceptional factors, the 1993 dividend is covered only 0.7 times by earnings.