The most pleasurable thing is that I can walk down any street and people smile at me and say, `There’s Uncle Albert.’ That’s magic.”Tom VallanceBuster Merryfield, actor: born 27 November 1920; married (one daughter); died Poole, Dorset 23 June 1999.. “Who knows what’s round the corner,” he said, adding, “Of course, I’m in the enviable position of being an actor with a pension. The final episode was watched by over 24 million viewers, a record figure for any television programme except state or royal events.Merryfield later stated that it was difficult to admit that the show had ended for good. The show’s popularity led to the making of annual Christmas specials, and the weekly episodes were expanded from 30 minutes to 50, then 60.The series ended in 1996 with three hour-long episodes in which Del and Rodney find that an antique watch Del has had for years is in fact a rarity that sells at auction for over pounds 6m. “An Albanian family returning from Macedonia found that their apartment had been taken over by Serbs,” said Cpt Vicki Wentworth, of the Royal Logistic Corps, who was called to the scene. British Royal Military Police are investigating a shoot-out between a Serb family and Albanians which started in an apartment block and continued in a hospital. GUNFIGHTS ERUPTED in the corridors of Pristina’s main hospital yesterday just as Javier Solana, Nato’s Secretary-General, was telling Kosovo’s Albanian and Serb communities that their only chance for peace was to work together.

In the meantime, surly Macedonian guards watch over them, and spotters for the Kosovo Liberation Army keep a close eye to ensure that the young men, their recruiting pool, do not drift away.. Those who do want to go back are uncertain how and when it will be possible. It makes me feel sad,” she said.There is, indeed, a mood of melancholy in the camps now. They took all my stock and then burnt the shop and our flat upstairs.”We all say we want to go back But our thinking is maybe it’s time to start somewhere else I do not want to go to a foreign country. The chances of getting to a third country in the West is increasingly slim.Nevertheless, according to aid workers, 20 per cent do not want to go back and 40 per cent are prepared to wait before they do so.Gani Hyseni lost his home, his livelihood and members of his family, including his brother, to Serbian paramilitaries in Podujevo “I had a little grocery shop.

The Macedonians, unwilling hosts to the refugees, would kick them over the border tomorrow if they could. Now the question is: do they actually want to go back there?Most have no choice. The euphoria of their homeland being liberated has begun to wear off. I want to go to another country, perhaps America, and start again.”What has happened to Mr Bajrami is a reality for thousands of Kosovar exiles. “I don’t want to go back to Kosovo, there is nothing there for me. Now what do we do? Who will provide for us?” He waved towards his wife, Majma, and four children huddled together in the semi-darkness of the tent. Now we have nothing to go back to, nothing,” he said with weary resignation outside a tent at Stenkovic 1 refugee camp in Macedonia, which has has home for him and his family for two months.
“When we were on our way here the Serbs robbed us They took all the money I had, almost 3,000 Deutschmarks.

The shell is still there, what’s left after it was looted and burned by Serbs

“I found out about this last week. THE HOUSE that Idriz Bajrami built in Kacemik is on the high ground to catch the breeze. The Kosovo Family Finder is at www.kosovofamilyfinder .. If not, they should be brought to trial swiftly.n A directory of almost 20,000 heads of families of Kosovo refugees in 23 countries was published yesterday. His total dependence on Solomon Islanders, not only for his safety but also for food, had a profound influence on his subsequent career.