The writer Radclyffe Hall was a big believer in common with thousands of others just after the Great War

The writer Radclyffe Hall was a big believer, in common with thousands of others just after the Great War, when mass bereavement fuelled an explosion in spiritualism. or when he followed up by bowling Winston Benjamin.PORT OF SPAIN SCOREBOARD(First day; West Indies won toss)WEST INDIES - First InningsD L Haynes b Salisbury 38(127 mins, 98 balls, 4 fours, 1 six)*R B Richardson lbw b Salisbury 64(267 mins, 172 balls, 8 fours, 1 six)B C Lara lbw b Lewis 43(141 mins, 104 balls, 5 fours)K L T Arthurton lbw b Lewis 1(21 mins, 17 balls)J C Adams c Smith b Lewi 2(10 mins, 9 balls)S Chanderpaul b Fraser 19(65 mins, 52 balls, 3 fours)J R Murray not out 22(103 mins, 65 balls, 3 fours)W K M Benjamin b Fraser 10(17 mins, 15 balls, 1 four)C E L Ambrose not out 5(25 mins, 20 balls, 1 four)Extras (b1 lb11 1w nb11) 24Total (for 7, 395 mins, 90 overs) 227To bat: K C G Benjamin, C A Walsh.Fall: 1-66 (Haynes), 2-158 (Richardson),3-158 (Lara), 4-163 (Adams), 5-164 (Arthurton), 6-201 (Chanderpaul), 7-212 (W Benjamin).Bowling: Fraser 21-9-37-2 (nb3) (8-3-13- 0, 7-4-9-0, 6-2-15-2); Caddick 19-5-43-0 (nb2 w1) (5-1-6-0, 3-1-6-0, 6-1-19-0, 5-2-12- 0); Lewis 23-3-50-3 (nb4) (5-0-11-0, 2-0- 9-0, 6-1-14-0, 7-1-14-3, 3-1-2-0); Salisbury 22-4-72-2 (nb4) (3-1-5-0, 4-0-17-1, 14-3- 48-1, 1-0-2-0); Ramprakash 2-1-8-0; Hick 3-1-5-0 (one spell each).Progress: 50: 108 min, 24 overs Lunch: 58-0 (Haynes 31, Richardson 20) 27 overs 100: 202 min, 44.4 overs Tea: 133-1 (Richardson 55, Lara 27) 54 overs 150: 259 min, 59 overs New ball taken after 75.1 overs at 194-5. He is under intensive treatment before Sunday's cup tie. Ron Atkinson, the Aston Villa manager, has denied making a move for Sheffield Wednesday's former England midfielder, Carlton Palmer, but he did finalise a signing of modest proportions yesterday: paying the Highland League club, Fraserburgh, pounds 35,000 for a 19-year-old striker, Scott Murray, who scored a 12-minute hat-trick for Villa's reserves last week.Birmingham City completed the pounds 180,000 signing of the 20-year-old Benfica winger, Jose Domingues, yesterday - despite opposition from Blackburn Rovers. I agree with everything you say about the dog-shit problem, and the irresponsibility of many dog owners, with their total disregard of local by-laws. My father and I never spoke about music thereafter, I thought it was better.

St Thomas's Hospital, London, has copied the pain management course, and so have hospitals in Manchester and Nottingham, but many cities do not have even a proper pain clinic, much less a course like this.In America, where Dr Wells studied pain management, some companies, Boeing for instance, will pay for an employee to go on a pain management course because it is worth the expense to get them back to work. When the two most senior judges in the land - the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls - and a whole series of bodies as diverse as the Spastics Society, Age Concern, the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee and the National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux have expressed alarm at the proposed legal aid cuts, it is surely time to think again.The author is director of the National Consumer Council.(Photograph omitted). IF Bill Rooney, the chairman of Spring Ram, had been expecting a barrage of criticism when he announced a 30 per cent fall in profits to a group of City analysts in the Savoy last Monday, he must have been pleasantly surprised. 'Our costs continue to come down as we increase our volume and reduce the size of the organisation,' Mr LeFauve said.While there continues to be a six-week waiting list for some Saturn models, dealers now have an average 20-day supply in their showrooms.Many industry analysts had been sceptical of Saturn's prospects when the project was first unveiled in the mid-1980s.While the company never released projections for when it would cover its costs, a spokesman said yesterday that Saturn's performance 'is close to schedule'.. The only danger is of missing one of his nonchalant apercus - about Americans, 'prissy-voiced' BBC weather announcers, or women, who are described as having 'the passion of conspirators, the energy of the underground, supplied by hope of seizing power'.

McNeill was brooding over a nasty injury that prevented him from joining Stein's squad for a break on the Ayrshire coast 'I was struggling,' he said. His plays team with images which link man to the flowers, the animals and the universe: to the whole mystery of creation, birth, death and rebirth - the magical spring which also follows even the darkest winter.Schweitzer's Reverence for Life comes to mind but Fry's love of humanity and all creation, though certainly reverent, is never solemn. And because they are the lowest vessels in the part of the circulation system that carries blood back through the liver to the heart, they are prone to stretching. And, of course, they are by domestic standards very good value. The police would have had less than a 50 per cent chance of a conviction.As it was, the cameras followed two of the men who were arrested within eight minutes of the assault The others were picked up a few hours later. Some pupils were given more help than others, researchers at Bristol University found. The proportion is expected to rise to more than half within five years.Clive Lawton, the chief executive of Jewish Continuity, puts the situation in stark terms: 'The catastrophic thing for the Jewish community is that if you don't marry Jews you can't create Jewish community.'The charity is currently studying how to encourage traditional synagogue weddings.

Sir: I was interested to read the arts diary 'Artefacts' (19 April), which mentioned Damien Hirst's modelling and artistic debut in Esquire magazine. His father was a fireman, and his mother used to do piece-work in a factory until an accident with a machine made her lose her arm.They pushed him through school, and although he was not able to go to university, he began working for a television station in the capital in 1976. But, by using a less expensive version of this processor and a cheaper monitor design, Apple has been able to keep the LC475 to a bottom-of-the-range price.The only limitation of the LC475 is that the processor lacks a floating-point unit, a device used for certain types of complex calculation. Initially, Mr McLintock returned a percentage of these fees as royalties to the council, but this arrangement has now ceased. 'We really believe that what we are doing is benign in the extreme,' he said.Despite claims that the British government ignored environmental considerations in its rush to finance Pergau, Mr Sunderland defended its impact.

Nato had threatened to bomb the Serbs unless the Canadians were allowed out and replacements allowed in. People do complain, but whoever phones up gets a choice of whoever else is on my books. We thought insulin was something she would need eventually.'Dwight went back to see the GP, Dr Phillips, on 23 December. The Law Society's campaign to persuade the two-thirds of the country's adult population who have not made wills to do so has made its third annual appearance. 'You are the responsibility of the local (Croat) authorities. They are all members of Equity, that notoriously impenetrable actors' union.'How did you get your Equity card?' the French girl asked the Yorkie man while they sat between takes.