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Wayne McCullough left Glasgow’s Southern General Hospital yesterday after spending a night under observation following his futile attempt to win the World Boxing Organisation featherweight title in a brutal bout at the Braehead Arena in the Scottish town on Saturday.
McCullough was a miserable and bruised loser after 12 one-sided rounds against the local idol Scott Harrison. The four-game series between the Sharks and Bears is tied at one win each and their final match is at Sheffield Arena on Sunday 6 April.Towers’ win over the Jets guaranteed their place in the post-season play-offs along with that of Scottish Rocks.The Jets have probably lost their chance of defending the BBL title after Saturday’s defeat where they were without injury victim Kenny Gregory, the BBL’s leading scorer.Jets’ New Zealand international captain Pero Cameron, who is leaving at the end of the season, was forced to play all 40 minutes with Calvin Davis, John McCord, Todd Cauthorn and John Thomas.The only remaining issue is whether Milton Keynes Lions can hold off the Bullets and Essex Leopards to claim the final quarter-final place.. More than ever, it seems to me, Britain’s destiny is with Europe The quarrel over Iraq doesn’t change that
More from Andreas Whittam Smith. In addition, the types of American right-wing politicians with whom we are forced to work would get no hearing here. The cogs and wheels of co-operation have been sprinkled with grit.

As it is, the combined gross domestic product of the UK, Spain and Italy exceeds France and Germany counted together.But Britain also needs Europe. The problem for France is that following enlargement, Anglo-Saxon style countries will be in the majority. There is no substitute for experience.Britain and France are looking at the same damaging split in Europe. While neither party likes what it sees, of the two, France is probably the more uncomfortable. For “old Europe”, led by France and Germany, is economically the least successful part of the Continent The best measure is unemployment. Britain’s armed forces exceed France’s in size and capability, as President Chirac openly admits.

And in a second paradox, the value of Britain’s military assets for Europe as a whole is increasing by the minute as the war in Iraq unfolds. At the moment France is constrained to discuss these matters with pacifist Germany and tiny Belgium. They see that Mr Blair’s stature has increased even as his political strength has declined – though the Prime Minister’s methods bring to their minds the advice given to his colleagues by Talleyrand, former bishop, foreign minister for Napoleon and chief minister in the first post-Napoleon government in 1815: “Surtout, Messieurs, pas de z?!” Moreover, France can make no progress with its plans for constructing a European military force without the full-hearted participation of the British. Again, however, “rapprochement” is likely to follow in short order.Paradoxically, Tony Blair is more respected by the French here in Paris than he was before all this started. Now it is only around the horseshoe table of the UN Security Council in New York or at a European Council supper in Brussels that we quarrel. Indeed this golden period of friendship, 1815 to 1830, developed in the immediate aftermath of the very last occasion on which the two nations went to war against each other.