The clear winner would be Gerry Anderson host of Radio 4's famously hated afternoon

The clear winner would be Gerry Anderson, host of Radio 4's famously hated afternoon series, Anderson Country. There are more post offices than all the country's banks and building societies put together.Understandably, the National Federation of Sub Postmasters has told the Trade and Industry Select Committee that the commercial prospects of the Post Office network need 'reinforcement'.Private-sector parcel carriers agree. Although Filipinos are generally English-speaking, well-educated and cheerful by nature, they are frequently subjected to exploitation by their foreign employers and by employment agencies.Ms Mercado earns 150,000 yen (pounds 880) a month working as a maid for an embassy in Tokyo. Of that figure, pounds 14.9m went on training programmes and pounds 1.2m went directly to trainees.Under their contracts with the Government, the TECs are allowed to generate a profit but the size of the total is much greater than previously thought. 'What do you want me to do different?' And Kaufman said he wasn't sure, but he felt repetition would take them deeper. Griff has cricked his neck and Mel is offering instant relief.

As Professor Clogg notes, Konstantine Karamanlis, the current president of Greece, was born a citizen of the Ottoman empire.Even today the frontiers of Greece are determined neither by geography nor ethnicity. Officially, the move is to cater for 'the outstanding depth of talent in Australian cricket'. Women are prepared for the delivery - but less time is spent preparing them for after the baby is born.'Men are under pressure too. Newspaper Publishing, publisher of the Independent and the Independent on Sunday, has given Soginvest Banca seven days to provide it with information about the ultimate beneficial ownership of a block of shares in the company now owned by the Swiss-based bank. 'It's white skins against black skins', he said. Jahangir thought otherwise: 'A referee can just make a bad decision without it being based on colour,' he said. The rich Pinot Blanc, pounds 6.99, and spicy Gewurztraminer, pounds 8.99, are hot stuff too.1992 Bourgogne Blanc Henry de Vezelay, pounds 5.99, Thresher, Wine Rack, Bottoms Up. THE KEY question that the Chancellor has to address between now and his Budget on 30 November is by how much to raise taxes.

It was 15 minutes before Awford moved forward to mark the dangerous Dutchman.Darren Anderton, the Tottenham winger, failed a fitness test on a groin problem, so his Queen's Park Rangers counterpart, Trevor Sinclair, came in for his Under-21 debut. Commercially cured green olives are usually soaked in a soda solution to draw out the ferociously astringent bitterness, then finished in a heavy brine Home-curing is a slower process. Both must calm down, said Mr Zorkin yesterday, 'to prevent the country going up in flames'. It then climbed slowly to a maximum of 239 in May 1943, the climax of the Atlantic battle - but by then Donitz knew that they were obsolete.The first U-Boat pack attack on a convoy was upon SC2, homeward-bound from Sydney, Nova Scotia, in September 1940. Four of the first six in the visiting order were seduced by his seamy wiles yesterday in a resourceful stint that kept Surrey from achieving their potential on a bland pitch. So long as his health holds out (he had heart surgery last year and recovery has been slow) he will still be commuting between London and Greece (where he goes to think, maintain his contact with echt-Orthodoxy, and top up his suntan), still immersed in what he calls 'primordial tradition', and still setting texts by his chief human inspiration Mother Thekla, a former actress who became an Orthodox nun and now runs a religious community in Yorkshire.

International Bio-Technology Trust, placed at 100p, ended at 95p with the warrants at 39p. To the dismay of many Republican conservatives, her opinions show she is certainly not one of the boys among the Reagan and Bush appointees Yours faithfully,VIRGINIA SAPIROColchester, Essex1 July. First-time buyers can afford to leapfrog the cheaper flats and buy a small house instead. 'A borrower is unlikely to be good for a pounds 50,000 shortfall.

POLICE are investigating more than 500 incidents of suspected abuse and neglect at a home for severely mentally handicapped adults, it emerged yesterday. Derby Bucks, whose best-of- three quarter-final series against Tigers is the only definite tie of the round, sacked Terry Manghum on Wednesday after six defeats in seven games, writes Duncan Hooper. Sir: Malcolm Rifkind appears to be claiming that disposing of four brand new Upholder Class submarines, which cost a total of pounds 900m, is a saving for the taxpayer Such is the mind-numbing logic of the Ministry of Defence. Cats may have domesticated themselves, drawn to vermin-rich 'food clusters' around human settlements.