Mr Imam claimed that between 4 September 1991 and 20 March 1992 he was

Mr Imam claimed that between 4 September 1991 and 20 March 1992 he was induced to believe that he would be a witness for the Crown concerning the BCCI affair and would not be prosecuted. Mr Imam had originally volunteered as a witness to the US authorities investigating BCCI. Electrical contracting and gas supply made a profit in the first half of the year.The workforce was reduced by 450 between April and September, including a fall of 150 in the core electricity distribution and supply business. The figure compares with 718,000 at the time of nationalisation in 1947. Mars, fading fast, is setting at around 11.30pm BST now, and will shortly be gone from our skies.

The prize will be a bottle of 1989 Vouvray Moelleux from Brisebarre, imported by Reid Wines of Hallatrow, near Bristol.. In Paris, in London, the excitement at the best shows is sometimes so tremendous it makes the heart race But I rarely feel the urge to open my wallet. .18 WIGAN carried off the Stones Bitter Championship for a fourth year in a row at Central Park last night, thanks to a blistering start to the second half and the record-breaking marksmanship of Frano Botica.The former All Black finished with 17 points, beating in the process Fred Griffiths' club record for points in a season set in 1958-59, and ensuring that Wigan would get the win they needed to beat St Helens on points difference in the tightest championship ever.The match was delicately balanced at 9-6 when Botica scored the try that accompanied his six goals and one drop goal a minute after the interval. The group's three titles, the Daily and Sunday Mirror and the People, are the only national tabloids that support Labour.Since October many former staff members have left, including the editors of the Daily Mirror and the People, Richard Stott and Bill Hagerty. Sir: In all the furore over the BBC's proposed long-wave radio station, I have seen no reference to the invaluable shipping forecast. In recent years, building societies have increasingly used their own estate agency chains to carry out the work. The biggest problem is not the problem between Rubens and me.

The assessment of research, carried out by fellow academics under a well accepted peer- review process has not only enhanced the quantity of research but also its quality. He wears urban tweed and collects P G Wodehouse first editions He is 36, and married with two children When he says 'gig', it jars. The most obvious one is that it will have shorter paragraphs. Not only will this make it easier for you, the newspaper reader, to read, especially if you have not been reading for very long, but it will make it easier to write.Sometimes, if I feel that an individual sentence is going particularly well,I might continue it on into a second paragraph.Or even a third.But that is not all.The column will also be split into different sections.This is the first time that any column has been divided into separate supplements.There will be a Leisure Section, a Business Section, a Deathstyle Section, a Property Section, a Media Section, a Sports Section and a Disappointments Section.What is a Disappointments Section?I'll tell you what a Disappointments Section is.It is the opposite of an Appointments Section. She's lost all interest in anything else.' We turned in.FRIDAY I woke about teatime I went into the kitchen There was Di I cannot say I was feeling quite up to a serious talk. I've been seeing Lori Carlson, to whom 14 Sisters is dedicated, for three years but I'm taking time out to think things over right now.That's not to say women aren't immensely important to me - 14 Sisters was intended as a tribute to the female sex, to their inventiveness and durability. Children are likely to relish books that are written for a supposedly older age group than their own. North raised to Three Spades, East volunteered Four Diamonds (where,if doubled, he might have escaped for a loss of 300 points with inspired play) and South went on to Four Spades.

There had been insufficient evidence, the judge said.Peter Quinn, Mr Hatton's solicitor, said the verdicts should lead to the immediate abandonment of Operation Cheetah.Defence laywers will next week consider litigation and other measures devised to reveal whether the investigation was properly conducted from the outset by the police and Crown Prosecution Service.Mr Hatton said he had been ruined by the shadow cast over his reputation by Operation Cheetah. Films as producer include: Dead Calm; The Year My Voice Broke; Flirting.Lorenzo's Oil opens tomorrow(Photograph omitted). SCOTTISH rugby is beginning to speak with a West Country accent First there was Ian Smith, then Peter Jones, now Alan Sharp. They had been engaged so long in one struggle that with the withering of the enemy there were only irritating targets to shoot at: petty nationalisms (though no nationalism is petty to its nationals), political correctness, feminism, homosexual activism, racial disintegration - the usual targets.The real enemies of our freedom - a world that abolishes history and rebuilds time into instant gratification, that reduces distinctions to the point where language begins to lose its meaning - were hardly mentioned until Sam Lipman, editor of New Criterion, the distinguished American political magazine, pointed a finger. Recreation is important, not only to maintain muscles that tend to deteriorate under weightlessness, but also to combat tedium.Conventional diversions will not be enough during the long months, however - escapism will be vital. He argues that it is an intolerable handicap for British companies to operate under higher inflation than their competitors.His second motive for destroying inflation is that the supposed short-term advantages it carried have all but disappeared. For the free market was just another simple-minded rationalism employed to assault the British and their institutions in the post-war era.