The pound's weakness has largely been caused by the perception that the Government could not afford to raise interest rates. As the number of overseas subsidiaries of Japanese corporations has increased over the past decade, so too has the number of Japanese living overseas.Some 660,000 Japanese citizens live outside the country, according to the Foreign Ministry. For some, the works council movement means collaboration with capitalism. 'Practical musicians wouldn't ask that - putting in so many italics, brackets and so on would just have made the scores so much more difficult to read. They will be part of the furniture that future Chancellors will find hard to move.The only risk is that the recovery will still not be strong enough even in a year's time to withstand the pounds 6.7bn of tax increases in 1994-95.

Demonstrators blocked motorways, looted shops and threw stones at police. The legitimacy of the benefit system is also undermined if it is seen as a device to maintain people in semi-permanent idleness. Lindis Percy had been representing herself on charges of criminal damage before Pately Bridge magistrates in North Yorkshire. 'There seems to be a trend towards culture,' he said.One piece of good news is that tourists do not appear to have been deterred by the recent car-bomb attacks, not even by the one that damaged the Uffizi gallery in Florence.

IN VIENNA in 1930, Sigmund Freud told the American journalist George Sylvester Viereck, who had wondered what his own complex might be: 'You have sought, year after year, the outstanding figures of your generation, invariably men older than yourself The great man is a symbol. Mr Hurd said the operation in support of UN aid was costing a lot of money and he needed to see that 'the good that is done outweighs the risks that exist. Such is Norman's might that you complain at your peril.'Norman is very helpful to those who can be of some use to him,' is how one coach sees him - a view echoed elsewhere. Callard will test his hamstring for Bath against Orrell, a game another England man, Ben Clarke, will miss so as to rest an injured calf.Also absent from the leaders' line-up will be Nigel Redman, a heroic figure in England's win over the All Blacks but destined for demotion as soon as Martin Bayfield recaptured his fitness.

'We have to fight.'At a football field below Kosevo hospital, long since turned into a cemetery, eight gravediggers cut more holes into the earth.In the market-place where the mortar bomb landed, blood mixed with rainwater in the newly-made craters. Eurostat estimates Americans throw out 1,584lbs of rubbish a year, compared with 770lbs discarded by Europeans.Obviously keen to present an easy target to Euro-sceptics, Eurostat's findings are part of a document called 'What a lot of rubbish'.National Westminster Bank is pitching up against Banque Paribas, Swiss Bank Corporation and others in a golf tournament to raise pounds 8,000 for the Spastics Society. So high was early expectation at its inception after the signings of Geoff Thomas from Crystal Palace - injured all season - David Kelly from Newcastle and Kevin Keen from West Ham, that a poor start led to calls for his sacking from a sizeable chunk of the support. The former rebel leader Charles Taylor said yesterday his National Patriotic Front of Liberia would start disarming immediately, despite continued fighting in the country's south-east Reuter reports from Gbranga. Presley made these recordings in studio conditions which would have left artists such as Madonna or Michael Jackson helpless.