Some models have colour screens and most have a socket for an external colour monitor

Some models have colour screens and most have a socket for an external colour monitor.Portable PCs have a nasty habit of running out of power. But the funds must be drawn down within four months of the original agreement with the prospective borrower. 'On his worst behaviour,' laughed Peter, a man who forged his own iron-clad cheerfulness in the teeth of John Noakes.Undeterred by the increasingly barking contestants, Peter and co- presenter Cheryl Baker, formerly of Bucks Fizz and still employed for her bubble and squeak, kept up their thrilling exchanges: 'Let's catch up with Peter and his favourite event, Gundogs]' 'Yes, Cheryl, you're quite right, I really love this event.' It was more than could be said for Duncan. I despaired when I read 'Award-winning writer struggles into print' (3 October) telling us that the playwright Rod Wooden cannot get his text of Moby Dick published Since the opening is imminent, it is probably too late. Heron tried to find a buyer for the business in 1990 but when that failed, Pima was taken over by an official agency and later went into receivership.

Closed 1 Oct-Spring Bank Holiday.LLANWENARTH ARMS HOTEL, Brecon Road,Abergavenny, Gwent, tel: 0873 810550A roadside inn (on the A40) some three miles west of Abergavenny, standing on an escarpment above the Usk valley. Statues of William Tell are as common in some Swiss cantons as busts of Lenin used to be in the USSR. Yet there is not the slightest historical evidence that William Tell existed. Until quite recently I couldn't get through a first night without rushing to the lavatory and being violently sick in the interval. In these days of the one child policy, the one child is forced to spend a lot of time studying to fulfil his or herparents' ambitions.The 15th, 16th, and 17th floors were empty, but on the 18th was the palace's 'Window on the World': a grubby canteen serving beer and snacks, which none the less offered a stunning panorama of Kunming.

Mr Heseltine, with his keen antennae, senses harmonisation, compulsion. Mr Major's survival chances depend on the reaction of Conservative MPs when the election results come in. Optimists will point to the famous crash in the 5 million line computer program that runs America's long-distance telephone network. In their first game of the tournament the national team, the Azzuri, lost to Ireland (remember them?). Some of the funds will be held in cash to pay the early premiums on the policies.Most of the policies will have 10 or 11 years to run, but some shorter-term policies will be bought, which will fund later premiums when they mature.The policies will be from 25 of the leading life offices. Mr Oyston still clings to a 29 per cent stake and may return with a full bid.

A MANAGEMENT team at Leyland DAF's Lancashire truck plant yesterday put forward plans for a buyout of the business from the receivers, writes Michael Harrison. As for Lotus, its problem was that it kept trying to grow its car production business when it should simply have run a consultancy and made a handful of cars on the side. THE TWELVE regional electricity companies have told Whitehall officials that they are now prepared to sign a coal contract for the coming year - a key component in any package to save some of the 31 pits threatened with closure. The Maoris, Otago, Waikato, Canterbury, for the first 20 minutes, and the All Blacks in the third Test, bore testament to the diversity of their skills and to the positive approach taken by them. In fact, Professor Patrick Minford was one of the first to import this type of 'debt sustainability' arithmetic into the UK debate. Lloyd's capital base fell from pounds 11.4bn in 1991 to pounds 8.8bn last year. Nobody said it was wrong to pay Alan Clark for his memoirs in which he named several women he had had affairs with.

A naturally droll person, Romanian-born and writing in his second language, Ionesco noticed that not only do objects have different names in two tongues but are often understood differently, and that there are many comic ways of presenting the many unexplained incidents that crop up in everyday life.His first play, The Bald Prima Donna, was performed in 1950, directed by Nicolas Bataille, and is based on a visit to Bristol, where Ionesco tried to learn English. First, it must be seasonal, using ingredients at their best (the final of the competition will be held on 27 June). They won't do it unless you're on a waiting list which can take four years. One of the more blue-blooded merchant banks is, according to a close observer, not only packed with public school boys, they are public school boys who meet each other at weekends to hunt, to shoot, and to fish. We had watched a television documentary of east German skinheads being urged into action by a British neo-Nazi 'Why does your media play this up?' Hans asked 'If you'd ignore them, they'd stop: they feed on opposition.