THE SPLIT between the United States and the European Community over Yugoslavia came out into the open again yesterday. After several false dawns, Wolverhampton understandably gave the new regime a guarded welcome. In taking on people under the Chancellor's scheme, we are boosting the numbers of people with an understanding of Western business techniques and of the local situation. 'But you have got to look on the bright side of life.'Like the members of the Hungarian Meteorological Optimists' Society. Reading Crown Court was told that Jonathan Farr, 42, a member of the Royal Academy of Music, put a petrol-soaked rag through the letterbox of Elizabeth Rowe's home 'to frighten her'. Mrs Rowe, 79, had to flee when she woke in the night to find the electricity supply cut off and an armchair ablaze at her home in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, last June.

The carefully planned scandals and shameless re-invention of her own image are only part of the fascination.Los Gusanos by John Sayles, Penguin pounds 5.99. If not Italy and Spain, what about Britain?And that gives a rationale to the robust inaction of Mr Major. He also indicated he would try to obtain cheap energy from Russia rather than the world prices Lithuania is now being forced to pay.Mr Brazauskas, who was Lithuanian Communist Party leader at the end of the Soviet era, had long been popular. He has no hesitation when asked why he likes writing for what will always be a marginal area of film culture, rather than for new movies.

He was given the maximum sentence of seven years for rape and incest, minus six months for time already spent in custody, with five years for causing actual bodily harm to run concurrently.The case has caused widespread alarm in Ireland, not least because of the apparent failure of medical and social services to recognise what was happening.The girl had contacted a doctor who called in the parents, but her father walked out of the meeting. I know I will find just listening inspiring enough.'The Welsh, though, were preparing to sing his praises almost as soon as the anthem had died. Bernadette Cullen's Leonora is firmly controlled, Bonaventura Bottone's Fernando fulsomely fruity at volume But Bottone almost always sings at volume. The crowd raised their eyes at the sound of a helicopter, and cheered as it landed behind the stage, bringing Guns N' Roses back to Britain. The cuts, which hit the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, and the shift towards transport, emphasise the 'critical' importance of Britain's forces to Nato's Rapid Reaction Force, officials said, and the move away from Cold War tasks.But Nato sources said that there is a desire at the organisation's Brussels headquarters to establish how far defence cuts will go in all the 15 nations that are part of the integrated military structure. But it's one thing spotting an idea and another doing something about it.'What he did, first thing on the Monday morning, was to contact Mike Leggo, executive producer of Noel's House Party Mr Leggo had no plans to market Mr Blobby. I have been known to take a drink, and in the trade union movement and Westminster, the vineyard in which I chose to labour, this has been no small professional advantage.