'The situation we would like to address,' says Ms Burne- White, 'is that of the nurses who claim that they actually injure themselves by bending or lifting while trying not to show their knickers. As George the Barman was temporarily out of the room on a mercy-dash to the cellars, I stepped forth to 'do the honours' 'Ahem,' I intoned 'Ahem May I introduce myself. Another demonstration of embitterment is unlikely to endear him to selection committees.Meanwhile, battered by a string of reports about leaks of Mr Major's conversations, and by revelations about Tim Yeo's affair and his subsequent entertainment of his mistress at Langan's, backbench MPs have developed a sense of humour about such incidents. A company spokesman said last night that it knew about the police operation: 'We were doing some local development work in Preston We were part of the police investigation We responded and gave them all the help we could.

After half a century of imposing their will through the infamous laws of apartheid, the majority of Afrikaners have recognised, however reluctantly, that the days of white rule are over. Lyman, by contrast, is 'a dark-minded schemer, a bitter and shaman-pleasant entrepreneur who skipped money from behind the ears of Uncle Sam'. The Nigerians were good and Lechkov was tremendous, but I'd go for Romario first, he's so sharp and clever he'd do well here Sadly these players tend to end up in Spain or Italy. Every kind of pot is bubbling already: nationalism, class hatred, paranoia, bankruptcy, and superstition. This year they have managed to process only eight 'selling' days, while at the same stage last year they had processed nine.Those who ticked a rise of 4 per cent have noticed that so far this August there have been two Sundays compared with one last year.

The 19 Brigade, based at Colchester, with Saxon wheeled armoured personnel carriers might be able to provide the right sort of infantry. As maternity pay is more generous elsewhere in the EC, Britain is the only country that will really benefit from the decision.Report, page 8. 'How can a modern man know if his children are his?' Modern man has 'turned the mother of his children into a whore'.His escape from religion has clearly been an imperfect one. But Europe is also a desirable future, because, without it, it is hard to see how we can accommodate the states to the east. Has extended her repertoire to the 200m butterfly, an event which was one of only two that had no European medallist at the Olympics.FRANZISKA VAN ALMSICK (Ger)Won four Olympic medals at the age of 14 and has since had the keepers of the short-course record books in a near constant state of re-writing. Having gained entry to the European market, the Japanese firm now has a plant in Britain with the capacity to turn out 200,000 European cars a year.Despite its 20 per cent shareholding in Rover, it is hard to see that Honda would have wanted to go on sharing its new models with the British company indefinitely. Though the film didn't mention it, it's an intriguing fact that Saipan is now quite a popular holiday resort for Japanese tourists, with tours of the suicide cliffs and caves a speciality..