POOR snowfalls in European resorts are blighting ski holidays again this year but people hoping for compensation from insurance policies

POOR snowfalls in European resorts are blighting ski holidays again this year, but people hoping for compensation from insurance policies are likely to be disappointed, writes Maria Scott. This would threaten him with a long and costly trial at the end of which he might go to jail on several counts of embezzlement or theft.The scandal started in 1991 with an inquiry into petty corruption in the House post office but has gradually broadened into an investigation of how he used his official position to make money through 'sweetheart' deals and the padding of office expenses. I never seeanyone who looks as though they are enjoying driving. 'The problem here is that so much of this supplementary budget has already been leaked to the press that it will contain few surprises,' Jesper Koll, chief economist for SG Warburg, said. His jockey, Pat Eddery, is in danger of dropping out of the riding big time following the loss of his lucrative contract with the Saudi owner, Khalid Abdullah. Rwandese must carry identity cards which bear their ethnic group and there have been numerous instances of Tutsi children being shunned or humiliated in schools and many cases of adults being refused jobs or houses.In 1990, the Tutsi exiles in Uganda formed the Rwanda Patriotic Front and launched an invasion.

After the first strike it is likely that he would delegate his powers, said Nato officials last night. 'It was met as a very positive sign, a stronger statement than anybody else had made,' said one senior Baltic envoy. 'Anything can happen, but in a world where everyone is so uptight about doing things properly and worried about the mortgage, it's nice for a couple of days to really have a blast, to act in an utterly immature way and not care.'It does not stop with the racing. Replete and enraptured, his audience declare their delight, to the rage of their aunt. The latter include the historian, Correlli Barnett, who argues that: 'Emotional moralising is simply not enough.'On the facing page, our Defence and United Nations correspondents look at the practical aspects of implementing the plan, while the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, David Howell, comments on how politics has hindered the aid effort.The Independent has received more replies to its invitation to readers to express their views on Sarajevo than on any previous issue.

For those with only a couple of thousand pounds earmarked for stock market investment, that is fine. .6 IT was a heart-warming triumph of graft over glamour, of grit over glitz. The 30-minute break between practice and lunch is sacred.Apprentices have to be between 18 and 25 years old. Former Chief Editor of the American Medical Association's Archives of General Psychiatry.. For while Italians have a reputation as tax-dodgers - and millions undoubtedly are - everyone has to fill in the forms and pay something. Zola cycled all over Paris and declared that if it wasn't for the gradients the bicycle could replace the horse.

Daly is often put with the extrovert Fuzzy Zoeller as a crowd-pleasing double-act. Forty cases of toxic shock syndrome occur each year in the UK, of whom about three die. Just a few months ago - with European unity apparently on course - few would have doubted the wisdom of staging an event imitating German culture in the heart of London.Importing Oktoberfest, the Bavarian beer festival, seemed to make great sense. At retirement, the investment is used to buy an annual pension.'Because it is a money-purchase scheme, it is very flexible. (First Edition) THE after-effect of midweek matches in taxing conditions is likely to be a major factor in tomorrow's three Regal Trophy quarter-finals, writes Dave Hadfield. Salford came through a tie on a mudheap at Batley on Tuesday that will have drained them rather more effectively than anything drains that poor surface. He went from 28 to 100 in 33 balls, gave two difficult high chances and added 13 fours. So why did he not take them? 'It is very hard to say, because of course I can understand the thrill, the enjoyment.

Assad Saftawi, who was assassinated yesterday, was one of the wise old men of the Palestinian community in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. Political sources, particularly those opposed to Mr Chirac, say his popularity has strained relations between the two Gaullists, although this is denied by their associates.Some members of Mr Balladur's entourage, insisting that he would back Mr Chirac as the RPR candidate, said the Prime Minister believed his standing would fall as the recession continued to bite.Although Mr Balladur himself is widely popular, his government's performance in recent weeks has been hesitant. Visiting its monuments to primitive Methodism - the Zion Congregational Church, the Barnoom Gospel Room - I felt they represented something so remote from riches or world culture that a Modernist artist might feel more at home than in, say, Garsington, Cambridge or Chelsea.St Ives veterans talk about a 'sense of place' more than about their sense of social freedom. So the second movement wasn't quite as lush and flowing, nor the contrasting passages, in which Brahms bristles with passionate indignation, so alarming as they might have been. A pungent editorial in Country Life takes the Government to task for its plans to cut Oxleas Wood in two with a six-lane motorway, and to replace the 8,000- year-old wood with a replica on some other site.'You simply cannot create,' so they say, '8,000 years of undisturbed soil and ancient woodland, still less rare plants such as the guelder rose, butcher's broom and wood anemone It goes against all ecological principles.