AS tensions built up again yesterday in Hebron, on the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Amer Sider, a Palestinian metal merchant, watched through the jagged panes of his front window as a motley procession passed by his house. Peugeot mentions how easily the sound-deadening material can be removed in preparation for competitive motoring. She chooses a bottle of wine, but with reluctance; she still smarts after being criticised once for not choosing a cheaper bottle in similar circumstances. We look at the menus. The new 1,200-seat opera house is sold out for every performance and there are 600 on the membership waiting list.Though the prize-winning design of the circular red brick opera house by Michael and Patty Hopkins lacks the intimate country house atmosphere that has been synonymous with Glyndebourne, other aspects are improved. New contracts being negotiated offer 150p, but for much lower tonnages of coal.Neil Clarke, chairman of British Coal, said if no contracts were signed and the company was forced to sell on the world market, many more mines would have to be closed with the loss of thousands more miners' jobs.The DTI said that a task force of up to 20 people would carry out the review, taking evidence until 1 November. The first is that the antagonism is almost invariably generated in declining industries; the second, that the really big trade imbalances in the world are generated by expanding industries; the third, that companies are developing ways of manufacturing close to their markets so that they are unaffected by protectionism.Thus the steel row is about how to share the pain of a declining market for a basic product. The most likely forum, however, is the Joint Liaison Group, which exists to discuss Hong Kong's transition to Chinese rule in 1997.If significant progress is made, the Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, might agree to meet his Chinese counterpart, Qian Qichen, in Peking in the next few weeks.

French ministers are required to declare their financial status when they take office. The British champion partners Thierry Jarnet of France to take on Kent Desormeaux and Gary Stevens (United States), Michael Clarke and Ken Russell (Australia) and Yutake Take and Yukio Okabe (Japan). Roberts also hopes to meet the Sheikh for the first time. Few clients, it says, care about internal profit-sharing arrangements, being more concerned about the quality of the legal service and its price. 'I think they've got the money to spend if they want to.'On the stall, next to Debenhams, Anita was selling what seemed to be the best Christmas paper offer on the street, 15 sheets for pounds 1 'Money still seems to be tight,' she said. 'Someone can be diagnosed as both a psychopath and not mentally ill but they are mentally disordered,' Dr Eastman said.)Despite the fact that Whitehouse was classed as suffering from a mental disorder he was first granted two days' home leave from Risley prison near Warrington in Cheshire in January 1991.The violent offence for which he was imprisoned, a history of drug abuse and a string of convictions for burglary, should also have set alarm bells ringing. Sir: Douglas Hurd was uncharacteristically clumsy in his pronouncements about Maastricht and the Social Chapter (report, 11 February).

Whatever happens, the dispute will not sputter fitfully like the damp squib of Britain's post-imperial identity crisis. Others are complex plans specially designed to meet inheritance tax problems.You can take out a whole of life policy - which provides a lump sum on your death - to cover the cost of the tax. The Serbs see themselves a victims, misunderstood by all the world except Russia.Sanctions will reinforce their view.Almost certainly, therefore, other forms of pressure will be necessary. Instead she suggested that they both stayed in a local authority assessment centre until he agreed to her conditions of behaviour.