He said Sinclair was very pleased with the integration of Secto and had left its management and workforce intact.Prospects for the current year were difficult to assess because of the seasonal nature of much of the business, but the company was still on the look-out for acquisitions, aided by a cash surplus and strong balance sheet.There was just one setback for the Lincoln-based group. PATIENTS outside London lost out yesterday as the capital's health authorities had to be cushioned against the continued exodus of people from the city, writes Nicholas Timmins. With his trademark goatee beard and beret, puffed-out cheeks and trumpet bell jutting skyward, he looked every inch a jazz musician - and only a jazz musician.Until illness forced him to cancel many engagements, Gillespie practised his trade as vigorously late in life as he had in his prime, performing around the world, training young musicians, and fronting a big band called the United Nations Orchestra. Even now, if you picked on merit you would be hard pushed to justify more than Nick Popplewell representing Ireland among the Lions. Last Monday, there were also signs of a lack of confidence - hesitations and stiffly-timed jokes. Officials of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (Untac), whose mission is to restore peace to the country and create a 'neutral political environment' before elections are held, have identified 46 attacks on party offices and workers since early December.In most cases the victims, like Mr Kiev, have been members of the royalist party of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, known by its French initials Funcinpec, which expects to win the most votes in elections for a national assembly in three or four months' time.The finger points at the Phnom Penh government, which is likely to fare extremely badly at the polls.

The negative result was to concentrate so much political power at the centre that hubris became inevitable, exemplified by the poll tax.John Major has been forced to become more responsive to party and public opinion at the price of being blown off course, notably over the miners.More willingly, he has tried to empower the consumer in new areas such as education, health and public services in general. Obviously, the contributors who rose to their feet at the turning points of history - Lincoln at Gettysburg, Churchill in 1940 - had an unfair advantage And some were dealt even more outrageous hands. 'Vegetarian books are even written by meat-eaters,' Spencer observes, 'a strange anomaly that would have struck the founders of the movement as immoral but which now arouses no comment.'But supermarkets must take a share of the credit for changing our perception of vegetables. When Faldo reached it, he spent an age replacing his ball on the green as though trying to balance it on a pin head He missed from four feet. John Major may return from his holidays and proceed to plunge the Government into crisis again; commodity prices - oil in particular - might soar, putting pressure on recovery; or the US stock market, which has also been riding high, might catch a cold that would immediately transmit itself to London.Assuming none of these mishaps occurs, the London stock market looks as though it has reached a new trading level.It may hover around the 3,000 level for some time, but there is very little reason to expect it to fall back significantly. 'Memories fade,' he said.Or do they? I drove down to the old Jewish cemetery where some of Trzebinia's murdered Jews lie buried. When the windscreen-wiper mechanisms were still being produced in 1992 at one of Bosch's traditional plants in western Germany, there were 2,000 errors per million parts delivered to clients, according to the accepted method of calculating faults.In 1993, the first full year of production of Eisenach, a target of 500 faults per million was set, and already 300 faults per million has been achieved.

'The number of stars is invariable, 12 being the symbol of perfection,' is the way the official description puts it. Instead, he lures each 'innocent' reader into filling in the blanks from their own imaginings, making the reader, as he later wrote in a preface, 'think the evil - think it for himself.'James knew his audience: 'They were all listening now, and of course there was somebody to be arch, or at any rate draw the inference,' he says of the guests at the Christmas house-party which forms the story's prologue. One of the most enjoyable kites.' John Gilbey found an over-long spine made it flap about and thought the instructions too difficult for an eight-year-old: 'Despite this, it did fly, it did steer, it did survive strong winds without damage and I am sure a young flyer could enjoy it after Dad or Mum had put it together.'**** BROOKITE .TX.- STUNT KITESpinnaker nylon/glass fibre,two-string, pounds 10, for age 12+A diamond-shaped kite with a long tail, the panel gave it top marks on speed and manoeuvrability. It was notable for the cheerful self- confidence of its demolition-job on the Tory record and for some strong hints about future Labour policies. Defeat could mean his departure, and also transfers for the likes of Craig Short, Tommy Johnson and Paul Kitson.Kitson, who tore stomach fibres in April, hopes to be on the substitutes' bench However, there is no place for Shane Nicholson. That's what television has done to us, the idea that you cut, cut, cut to the punchline. But two, both demanding pearl- encrusted gowns and foie gras and ghastly oil paintings of themselves The propects for Zaire look darker than ever..