Plans for the sale which industry observers say could raise about pounds 200m were attacked by unions as 'the ultimate madness' and

Plans for the sale, which industry observers say could raise about pounds 200m, were attacked by unions as 'the ultimate madness' and as a potential precursor to privatisation of the rest of the nuclear industry. The Institute of Professionals, Managers and Specialists said that at least 2,700 jobs would be lost and Britain would lose an important reservoir of science and technology skills. And more businesses are locking in on low interest rates through long-term, fixed-rate loans. But Salisbury later retaliated by removing Hamesh Anthony with the help of Hick's well-judged catch at deep midwicket.When Caddick, easily the pick of the bowlers on Monday, produced another hostile spell - this time with the second new ball - to have Chester Joseph caught behind and Vince Smith taken at second slip, Antigua were 301 for 7.But Simon remained the thorn in England's flesh and the runs that took him to 100 were struck off Caddick, the bowler who thought he had got his wicket cheaply on Monday when a caught behind appeal was turned down.Simon batted for four hours and hit 14 fours as well as that six. Gary Parker stretched it with the best try of the match to finish off a typical Cleary drive, and Charles Cusani was credited with the third as all Orrell drove over the line.Marc Thomas's try was rather less than Coventry deserved, but with more displays like this, they will keep making friends.Orrell: Tries Southern, Parker, Cusani; Conversions Langford 2; Penalties Langford 2.Coventry: Try Thomas; Conversion Lakey.Orrell: S Taberner (capt); J Naylor, C Bibby, S Langford, G Parker (M Webb, 52); A Peacock,D Morris; M Hynes, G French, D Southern,C Cusani, C Cooper, S Hayter, N Ashurst, D Cleary.Coventry: M Thomas; B Evans (capt), S Chapman, N Thomson, B Shepherd; M Lakey, S Dowson;G Tregilgas, G Sharp, W Bulluck, A Gulliver,R Field, L Crofts, J Horrobin, S Carter.Referee: R Bullock (Leicester).. When Bridges gets robbed of his savings, he pleads with his landlady: 'Can you cut me a bit of rhythm on that. This makes them feel that they are investing in businesses that are both safe and familiar.

The obstacle was the United States, still aggrieved at losing the Vietnam war and maintaining an economic embargo until 2,200 servicemen missing in Indochina are accounted for.In July, however, President Bill Clinton finally withdrew the American veto on Vietnam reaching a settlement with the IMF.The delay, if frustrating, has at least meant that there has been plenty of time to identify priorities and ensure that the wave of money about to come in does not produce harmful distortions.There is no shortage of projects: Vietnam, for all the progress it has made since the leadership decided to change course in 1986, remains desperately poor.Virtually nothing has been spent on the war-shattered infrastructure since the fighting stopped in 1975, and until a few years ago pockets of famine were not unknown.Foreign companies venturing into the country have found that the advantages of a cheap, literate workforce are eroded by cratered roads, power shortages and primitive port facilities.The World Bank is about to disburse dollars 335m for three projects - dollars 70m on primary education, dollars 145m for repairing highways around Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) and dollars 120m for increasing crop yields.Other priorities identified by the bank include rehabilitating road and rail links between the two main cities, building power stations in the south and bringing the country's two principal ports, Haiphong and Ho Chi Minh City, up to scratch.The ADB has its own list of 10 infrastructure projects requiring dollars 600m in foreign loans up to the end of 1994: this month it will approve dollars 76.5m in soft loans for an irrigation and flood protection scheme south of Hanoi.Although some commercial and government debt remains outstanding, an aid conference in Paris next month could see as much as dollars 1bn in pledges.A World Bank official warned against getting carried away: 'Commitments are likely to be well ahead of disbursements for the next year or two, due to a lack of capacity to absorb the money.'But for a foreign banker in Ho Chi Minh City it meant the end of the American embargo in any meaningful sense.'The main thing was the rescheduling,' he said. THE DRIVER of a black London cab who raped a 22-year-old Spanish student in his taxi was jailed for eight years yesterday. WHILE estate agents were pressing for a 2 per cent interest-rate cut earlier this week, one leading analyst said rates may have to fall as low as 6.5 per cent if the Government wants to stimulate a housing-led consumer boom. 'For 20 points, what was the year of the Great Exhibition of 1851?'Sure enough, my young pals from Oxford answered straight away, and, after the great unwashed from Essex University had singularly failed to come up with the exact scientific format for the construction of the atom bomb, I had no hesitation in cancelling the rest of the competition and awarding the magnificent trophy, without further ado to New College Breeding, as I always maintain, will out.

'Even though we have a new baby, the whole family will never be happy and complete until Ben is returned to us. The brute fact that the address has yielded nine bodies is enough to give it mythical status The address alone fascinates. Sales people, be they direct employees or indirect representatives, were encouraged by the reward system to sell the longest-term contracts, for these paid the highest commission. They await the first 20 readers to present this page at the Odeon Marble Arch box-office today between 12 noon and 6pm.(Photograph omitted).