Too many issues too many stamps flooding the market overwhelming young collectors travelling the road that made Hungary and Tuvalu philatelical outcasts and sneer-

Too many issues, too many stamps; flooding the market, overwhelming young collectors, travelling the road that made Hungary and Tuvalu philatelical outcasts and sneer- objects. 'There are many complaints both from dealers and collectors at the substantial number of trivial commemoratives,' says Mr H S Whittaker, assistant librarian at the National Philatelic Society. But there was more, a craving for colour and texture, beauty and shape. A bullet came into my bathroom the other night, just missing my head. Both unpretentious professionals, they made a highly effective team.Much of the rest is anecdote, for the veracity of which we have to rely on Siegel's memory. The consensus of opinion is that the high prices of these events, together with a stagnation in the all-important creativity process and continual interference by the authorities, have combined to all but kill off such events.So where does it go from here? Bob Dog, a key figure behind the seminal Club Dog and Mega Dog, believes that 'nights will move back indoors, back into the club environment There will be a crossover between gig goers and club goers. During the Second World War he became involved too in politics.

After Dunkirk he served in the US Army, and eventually the Dreyfus family of Rene, Maurice and their sister settled in New York, starting a restaurant. 'The glaziers and builders have done rather nicely out of the bomb in Newtownards just recently,' said Mr Espey.Unemployment, however, remains stubbornly high. Katrina Glennie, an executive member, said in a letter to Napo News that the constant accusations of racism had left her feeling 'intimidated and oppressed'.In Bridlington itself, suggestions that the town was a kind of Pretoria on the Humberside coast produced a bemused response. The 'seafront' would only make sense if there was such a thing as the 'seaback'.A hundred years from now, when drugs will be a legal and normal part of athletics, and people will be banned only for not taking certain substances, Ben Johnson will be posthumously reinstated as the fastest man in the 20th century. Two of its three semi-submersibles in the North Sea are stacked in Nigg Bay with no plans for work until 1994 at the earliest.Other contractors have moved their rigs to more favourable waters off Brazil and Trinidad.Fabrication yards do not have the option of floating their business around the world's offshore oil fields but managements have been casting around to find work to replace construction contracts either completed or nearing completion.The large volume of construction work involved in recent field development is tailing off.

We've got gammon, egg and ham and chips, pizza and chips, pasty and chips. The environmentalists, waiting with diving gear and rubber rafts, say they will attempt to board the Chiara and demand to check its cargo in Le Havre.Greenpeace says it is protesting against 'France becoming the garbage can of the world' and claims the PCBs is only a first, 'trial' shipment of Australian waste to be incinerated at the Tredi plant in Saint- Vulbas, near the Swiss border.. The CBI survey a fortnight ago showed a rise in companies that thought their stock levels were more than adequate: that may spell a renewed cut in production as businesses meet demand from the storeroom rather than the factory floor.Any package, though, has to meet a demanding set of criteria First, it must be credible. KINGFISHER, the retail group that owns Woolworths, B&Q and Comet, has recruited Tim Breene from Guinness to be its strategy and international development director. Last week Timewatch (BBC 2) gave us a fascinating account of the life and times of Rasputin. The frequent appearances on a Friday of Lady Olga were noted yesterday.Inside Parliament, page 10. Gerry Francis met Armfield for preliminary discussions yesterday.