They allowed transactions to take place in conditions of 'extreme secrecy' which could

They allowed transactions to take place in conditions of 'extreme secrecy', which could be 'used by fraudsters like Maxwell and the management of BCCI unlawfully to remove many hundreds of millions of pounds from our citizens'.. Gary Marsh, chief economist at the Halifax, Britain's largest mortgage lender, said that the slight rise was expected after recent falls. Recently, because the RAI is in severe financial difficulties, it was reduced to 40bn. A PLANNED bypass through a Dorset beauty spot could force the National Trust into a confrontation with the Government.

The mystery can now be explained: the winner of the competition had devised a project called 'The Truth Test', and Mr Waldegrave therefore deemed it politic to gracefully withdraw.A SIGN of the times at Bonhams yesterday when a black and white (at least it wasn't grey) publicity photograph of John Major - the catalogue rather breathlessly informs us that the subject signed the photograph in blue ink - failed to make its guide price of pounds 30- pounds 40. Until the post-mortem examination, however, the case had to remain 'suspicious'.The autopsy was conducted by Iain West, one of the most experienced Home Office pathologists, and the police confirmed on Thursday that Milligan died from asphyxiation due to the 'compression of the neck by a ligature'. No action ensued because no order came from the UN's secretary general, Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Substitute not used: Coyne (gk).Nottingham Forest (4-5-1): Crossley; Lyttle, Cooper, Chettle, Pearce; Stone (Bull, 78), Webb, Phillips, Gemmill, Woan (Black h/t); Glover Substitute not used: Wright (gk)Referee: A Dawson (Jarrow)..

The Iranians are understood to have accepted that the Hizbollah militia - Israel's most ruthless enemy - would in these circumstances be turned into an exclusively Lebanese political movement, since Israel would also withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon. But the Syrians also want the Assad-Clinton meeting to be followed by a clear-cut Israeli declaration that the Golan is Syrian sovereign territory: in effect an Israeli revocation of its annexation. Displays must also work well within normal household temperature ranges and have good optical properties.'Manufacturers would like to get a specific degree of twist or a particular level of resistance to the current,' Dr Allen says. It's hard to believe that it was deemed troublesome enough to muzzle, as the storyline seems cosy enough and the points of reference are lost on a modern audience, and it's perhaps a flaw in Ben Crocker's otherwise enjoyable production that he doesn't find a way of really driving the satire home. Nicola Maxted, head of land sales at the surveyor Hillier Parker, reports that her department sold pounds 13m of residential development land between April and September. PIRATE radio operators are making a comeback and some of them are being used as a front for drug-dealers, according to the Radiocommunications Agency, which released new figures on illegal broadcasters yesterday. Perhaps brewers can ensure that their beer is bright, and has not gone sour, after nine months - but they cannot say that it will still have a freshness of aroma and flavour.The consumers should always be told when the beer was bottled, and what it contains, apart from barley or wheat malt, water, hops and yeast.