In addition, volume at existing British and Norwegian fields remained at high levels.The results included a pounds 37m gain on the sales of peripheral assets to a Japanese energy company.However, interest charges up from pounds 46m to pounds 58m and a soaring tax bill - up from just pounds 4m to pounds 58m - depressed the bottom line.A sharply reduced drilling programme led to a fall in exploration expenditure from pounds 116m to pounds 74m. Businessmen in Port-au- Prince can tell you their projected date of arrival and interdiction would be a simple matter. The embargo is a farce. Two thirds of households in the North have a video machine - the same as Greater London; 94 per cent have a colour TV, the same as in the whole South-east.Environmental indicators show that regions are shedding their stereotypes. The industrial output figures suggest economic recovery remains intact, with consumer spending providing much of the impetus. I think that even if a genetic test told me I was likely to get it, I would talk to anyone and everyone to find out if it was absolutely necessary.Breast cancer is a very complicated disease, and I don't believe doctors know much about it. Are we just becoming more crooked?Many observers thought that all the cases likely to be shaken out by the recession would have come to light by now, but KPMG insists that recession is not the main explanation for the increase in prosecuted fraud.Even the mighty BCCI case, which counted for over half the value of frauds brought to court in 1993, had little to do with recession. In retrospect, it looks more like regress than progress.' Accurate information about political and religious detainees in China is extremely difficult and risky to obtain and any list is bound to be an under-estimate.

Savings could come from cutting out over-prescribing and drugs that do not have much effect - for example antibiotics for colds and flu which do little except increase patients' resistance to the drugs. The Andy Norman affair all but wiped out the golden memories of success in last season's World Championships in Stuttgart Sponsors dropped out and television began to lose interest. I went to pick up my pre-booked ticket from British Airways and the bookings clerk asked for my passport.I happily handed it over She frowned and said: 'This won't do. After obtaining an economics degree in his native New York City he has worked as a stockbroker, fund manager, financial journalist and lecturer. The President is also able to appoint 12 seats in parliament which will give Kanu 112 seats out of a total of 200.Opposition parties are expected to challenge at least 17 results in the courts.The presidential poll result was: Daniel arap Moi, 36.3; Kenneth Matiba, 26; Mwai Kibaki, 19.5; Oginga Odinga, 17.5.Kenya at the crossroads, page 17.

Among other duties he is in charge of international trade services, private banking, consumer credit and corporate strategy.Mr Joss said Westpac had a strong retail franchise and key core activities in institutional and offshore banking which had great potential.'I am looking forward to taking on this exciting and challenging task, meeting with staff and working with everyone to rebuild Westpac,' he added.'I believe it is a bank with a tremendous future and I am determined to ensure that it regains its position as a strong and profitable bank.'Mr Joss was considered a frontrunner for the post, along with the former Bank of New Zealand chief executive Lindsay Pyne.Speculation about Mr Joss's appointment had already stirred up some controversy in the media about the suitability of a banker with no local experience taking on the job of reviving Westpac.The turmoil at the 175-year-old bank follows its record loss of Adollars 1.56bn (pounds 685m) for the year to 30 September 1992.Last week's annual meeting, attended by more than 5,000 people, was adjourned until January 27 after more than eight hours of heated discussion on the bank's performance and board reappointments.The meeting has yet to consider the reappointment of Mr Uhrig, who took over in October when the former chairman Sir Eric Neal and four other directors quit Nine directors have left the bank in recent months.. Since the aforementioned Timothy is managing director of the target company, an engineering firm, who tries to arrange an MBO at the same time as indulging in a passionate extramarital fling in Paris at the same time as being racked with Catholic guilt, it's not surprising that Mr Miles 'prefers to keep my identity secret'. LLOYD'S was taking a battering last week And that was just the building. La Papaya is closed for holidays at present, but reopens on 1 July.In Santa Cruz itself, the restaurant of the Hotel Mencey (27 67 00) is where Robert Maxwell is reputed to have eaten his last dinner.Sights to see: Tenerife's autopista, a four-lane highway, runs around the eastern side of the island from Playa de las Americas in the south to Santa Cruz and beyond.

Remember the Sixties] Your Mondrian minis, your naked lady Pop Art midis Wow] You were so groovy, you were Rive Gauche. 'Pete's got it and he'll make it,' he asserted.Two year's tutelage with Harvey and work at Cannon's Club in London have helped toughen the unworldly lad from Inverurie, a town of only 10,000 people near Aberdeen. I like the tradition.'But doesn't English football sacrifice technique and grace for power and pace? 'I think of it as rhythm and speed, and it is difficult to find the level of rhythm and speed of English football in any other league. This law will be difficult to police, though fear of it may haunt some teenagers.