- Tony Brown 10 Raeburn Drive Beeston Nottingham NG9 6LF

- Tony Brown, 10 Raeburn Drive, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 6LF.In view of Prabhakar's role in the Test series just passed, how many other Test players have opened the bowling and batting for their country, regularly or otherwise?Prabhakar is the 38th player and the seventh Indian to open the first innings' batting and bowling in the same Test. It certainly needs more than a John Major.MARY SPILLANE, image consultant: John Major could learn a lot from the way he presents himself. The loss of pounds 800m in property speculation towards the end of the Eighties by the Church Commissioners, who look after the clergy's pension funds and subsidise their salaries, has shocked the Church of England to its roots. It is a plea not to play down the whole experience to being one merely of utility. FEARS that funding for community care for the elderly will be insufficient to meet the needs of Londoners appear to be borne out by proposals in a letter from the Department of Health to local authority organisations.

MOST Madonna books involve the (invariably male) author in a rustle through the garbage in search of a salacious image of the Material Woman that is not of her own design. Time limits are usually imposed, and late claims are normally time-barred.Thefts of property or damage to it, must also usually be reported to the authorities within strict limitation periods. Sarah-Jane Fenton is the high-minded Lady Susan Harabin, whose reaction to her husband's adultery, running away to Egypt in search of her own romantic adventure, shocks her friends.The play is partly an attack on the double standards that then allowed men to be unfaithful but not women; but it also pokes fun at the women who found their marriages on unrealistic ideals. To be asked to model is usually taken as a privilege, only this time good old British nerve and a stiff upper lip were needed to walk out in front of everyone in dresses that were hardly there at all - for although they fell to below the knee, they were see-through, so that all these nice English girls were forced to show their knickers. After catching Timmy and spraying him mercilessly with flea-spray, wrote Sally Gibbons of Margate, 'all you will have to do is leave the tin prominently displayed somewhere on his path between his garden and yours and you won't see him again. Nato officials say privately that the threat is exaggerated.Rupert Brooke was on a troopship bound for Gallipoli when he died of septicaemia. Many books still list sea trout and brown trout as separate species.

Rather than straightforward muggings, tourists are fleeced more imaginatively - the most common ruse is an approach from a 'guide' who (free of charge and for a chance to practise his English) offers to take you to a gemstones dealer who overcharges for poor quality stones.Frank BarrettLONDONPetty crime is common, but violent crime is still rare. When, as Peter Shaffer's Lettice, her long arms snaked out of a shapeless cardigan to perform slithering arabesques, it was strictly to evoke the gory past of Fustian Hall, not (as might once have happened) to stir farcical echoes of Lady Macbeth.On the English stage, with the exception of an early Desdemona to Olivier's Othello, the tragic peaks are missing. It successfully converted the Marathon bar into the less euphonious Snickers, the name used for the product outside the UK.So far it is too early to measure the success of the revamp The publicity inevitably gives a short-lived boost to sales. In fact it is amyl acetate, the dominant smell in nail-varnish remover and pear drops.I get full marks for identifying one aroma as 'lemonish - some kind of boiled sweet from childhood' but Rebecca also gets full marks for 'lemon Opal Fruit'.

As usual everything in Russia is ugly.' Like so many other Russians trying to cope with the traumas of the transition to a market economy, Ms Pavlova has turned to the Orthodox church for assistance 'God helps me God gives me what I ask. The contrast between the small icing-sugar-pink flowers and the lolling purple tongues of foliage, has always put me off this plant, but at Barton Springs it was grown against a backdrop of wild blue rye. A likely scenario is that high pollution levels in the preceding weeks sensitised people's lungs.'We have had plenty of thunderstorms in the past which have not led to such episodes There must be other factors. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.

Qg5 Rh5 she has nowhere to run.White: Ian RogersBlack: Michael Hennigan1 e4 c52 Nf3 Nc63 Bb5 e64 Bxc6 bxc65 0-0 d56 d3 Ne77 c4 Ng68 Nc3 Be79 b3 0-010 Ba3 Bd611 Re1 d412 Na4 e513 Bxc5 Nf414 g3 Nh3+15 Kg2 Bg416 Qd2 f517 Ng1 Nxg118 Kxg1 Bf319 Bxd6 Qxd620 Qg5 f421 Rec1 Rf622 Kf1 Rg623 c5 Qc7White resignsWith the PCA qualifier taking away many of the world's top players from the Hastings tournament (including Yevgeny Bareyev and Judit Polgar who won last year), the event is unusually open. He was to spend eight years in the sanatorium before a new generation of drugs became available and he was healed. I'm afraid I don't really allow words like that in here.''Well, will I feel better then?'''Yes, she replied, briskly 'If you want to, you will. Indeed the most extreme theory, held by at least one MP, is that Mates - as a Northern Ireland minister an IRA target, not to mention a politician with a somewhat chequered private and professional past - was in the constant sights of the security services and that this explains the leaks not only of his dinner on Wednesday night but of the watch episode as well.It is a theory that fits the remarkable matter of the orginal leak to the Mail on Sunday, but there is no more corroboration for it than there is for the competing theory that it was a disgruntled member of the SFO angry at Mates's campaign against its prosecution of Nadir. But at the same time the prosecutors are being kept on a short leash to stop the scandal spreading too far into the LDP.It is widely suspected that many LDP leaders were involved in the scandal that felled Mr Kanemaru. In particular, make sure that the URL you typed is all in lower case. 'What was your university?' the man sent down from Balliol would ask a new acquaintance.