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The dry roses can be good if young (beware a pink-brown colour, and the kick – they can be quite alcoholic). The FT-SE 100 share index rose by 26.4 points to end at 2,969.8, easily clearing the previous record close of 2,957.3 reached nearly four months ago. Coming after the inspired Pigspurt, Jamais Vu feels a bit deja entendu, the fantasies not quite as funny, the long and involved riff about John Birt’s lack of charisma an extended elaboration on the brilliant portrait, in the earlier monologue, of the actor who ‘could make a stage seem somehow fuller if he left it’. ‘I just own a little piece of it.’ Holmes says he will retire soon ‘You can’t go on forever ’cause you get old. A BANK customers’ action group has bought 300 Barclays shares and plans to give them to people with complaints against the bank, so that they can join together and ask questions at the annual shareholders’ meetings, writes John Willcock. The Design Council has recently seemed concerned more with giving awards to mechanically-correct widgets than raising the banner of contemporary design.. (First Edition)

NICHOLAS SCOTT, the minister who talked out a backbench Bill to extend the civil rights of the disabled ‘because it would cost too much’, yesterday brushed aside calls for him to quit, writes Paul Routledge.
Asked if he would resign, he said: ‘As long as I have the confidence of the Prime Minister and my colleagues, certainly not.

A used luxury car can be serviced by cheaper, independent dealers without invalidating its warranty.Although these retired directors’ cars have often covered monumental mileages, they’re designed to cope. The fact that he will not have to face Johnson there – the world 200m champion having elected to concentrate on the shorter distance for the Olympics – is cold comfort.Johnson’s words were as demoralising as his deeds. Mentally he was broken.’I was alive, dead, alive and then very much dead again,’ he said, his disappointment rendering his thought processes into staccato patterns. Many of the illegal Continental importers are reluctant to export to the UK because of tight import controls, but the plants come in because the collectors bring them in.Demand from British collectors is one of the reasons for the buoyancy of the illegal European trade. A menu chalked up over the counter shows enthusiasm for good, hearty food Smoked trout pate comes with warm wholemeal toast Duck breast is marinated in madeira, and baked. In terms of bringing democracy to Cambodia as a whole, maybe he is.

A majority of those surveyed expect small increases in staffing over the coming four months.But the turbulence in the currency markets and the deepening recession on the Continent appear to have dented export confidence. However, selenium deficiency is highly unlikely in Britain, says Roger Whitehead, director of the Medical Research Council’s Dunn Nutrition Unit at Cambridge and chairman of the panel that in 1991 drew up selenium intake recommendations for the Department of Health.’There is no doubt that selenium is essential, and it is especially important that pregnant and breast-feeding women, and children, get enough,’ says Dr Whitehead. A UN conference on Somalia which opens in Addis Ababa today until Thursday to secure the future of relief operations has been called the last chance for peace in the country The omens are bad. And finally, the Pope has endorsed duvet covers showing details of Michaelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Inquire at the Vatican..

Adrian wrote music such as ‘Inca Gold’, which he now owns after originally recording it for Chrysalis. The past is past, and it is the ‘Fergie Babes’ to whom the red legions pay homage these days.The man has a profound sense of history and, having steeped himself in United’s tradition, he needs no reminding of the significance of this particular Cup final. Then Ed Rollins, co-chairman of his campaign, resigned, leaving little doubt that he found Mr Perot impossible to deal with. He now has a lead of 30 over the current champion jockey, Pat Eddery. I am afraid Mr Bond is totally wrong in his comments about Rover’s export cars.

Underlining Tory concern at Mr Blair’s confidence on the law- and-order portfolio, Mr Clarke warned people not to trust the ‘new mood music’ from Labour on crime.
‘I wonder whether the police much trust a shadow Home Secretary of a party which has such an appalling record on law and order and support for our police forces,’ Mr Clarke told the Conservative western area conference in Weston-super-Mare.’I accept that Labour abhor terrorist violence as much as we do. After newspaper reports said he was about to be replaced at the head of the United Nations Protection Force (Unprofor) in Bosnia last weekend, he said he wanted to stay.
In Britain, the arguments may be raging about Baroness Thatcher’s call to arm the Bosnian Muslims. Sir: Stephen Johnson (‘No sound and fury’, 26 August) is sadly correct about a subdued Proms; the reason is the ageing nature of the regular Prommers, mainly season ticket holders, who are responsible for most of the shouts. Yet her account of the current state of philosophy, and of its relationship with science, is unfairly reductive.