Gerry Sutcliffe, leader of a city council securely controlled by Labour, is forecast to proceed to Westminster with 60 per cent of the poll in the Bradford South by-election. Its shares have underperformed the market by 10 per cent in the past five years while the predictable Marks and Spencer has outperformed by 80 per cent.
Ms Iverson does appear to be simply taking up the offer of a better job in her own country rather than fleeing a disaster. It makes turning over to The Word seem almost rational.WONDERBRA and Ultrabra are both running advertising campaigns that some women (OK, I’m one) consider not very uplifting. This is because the once dry and worthy current affairs slot is turning a less than impartial eye, say critics, to social issues.

‘I’m on a shortlist of four (along with Jimmy and Chris Nicholl and Bryan Hamilton), chosen from 20 applicants,’ he said. Recent plays that could be said to have extended the theatre’s repertoire have included Philip Ridley’s The Fastest Clock in the Universe and Brad Fraser’s Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love and, now, Punchbag.
Punchbag, written by Robert Llewellyn and set in a women’s self-defence class, was programmed before the furore about date rape burst but, when it did, we anticipated that such a topical play would excite interest.This is a play for the kind of audiences that had turned up in their tens of thousands to see An Evening with Gary Lineker: it is not a traditional play, with references to populist, traditional entertainments as well as the modern ones of stand-up comedy, disco and self-defence. And if you put the same question to artists, I suppose that’s the only reply they could give, too. The BBC signed a 10-year deal with HutchVision, the company founded by Richard Li, the son of the Hong Kong mogul Li Ka-shing, to run Star TV. About 6,000 stay in Kongor and the others camp in the surrounding bush. In Britain and Europe, pricing is also under pressure, with the trend to transfer part of the burden for medical care to the private sector.
One result of this hostile regulatory and economic climate is the growing importance of the over-the-counter (OTC) or non-prescription business. But sworn affidavits from GM executives stated that these photographs were given to Mr Lopez in early February 1993.The court also heard how Mr Lopez had requested in February the copying of 150 charts and 300 ‘flimsies’ for overhead projectors on future purchasing plans.

I had taken a wrong turning and finished up at a demonstration of farriers shoeing carthorses. The Venezuelan Congress assembled last night to elect Ramon Velasquez, a 77-year-old independent senator, as interim president in place of Carlos Andres Perez, who has stepped down to face impeachment on corruption charges, writes Colin Harding. Roy Strong, the V&A’s then director, said that the company’s name “was a watchword in all circles where design is taken seriously”.Rosamind and her husband were jointly awarded the Royal Society of Arts Bicentennial Medal in 1972 for “exceptional influence in promoting art and design in British furniture”. Scotland have got a lot of praise for that department this season but our players will be staring up at giants like Wade Dooley and Martin Bayfield. His superhuman efforts at Covent Garden and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (stretching over 22 years from 1969 to 1991) have been matched by a unparalleled recording career running for more than 45 years and more than 250 LPs.