A number of people have got shot dead on that same road in recent weeks These are literally bandits There are no organised attacks. He warned, however, that the improvement had only been achieved through sharp price reductions.His claim that customers are more 'promotionally aware' followed comments on Wednesday from Hugh Clark, of the Retail Consortium, suggesting that department stores' sales had held up better than at smaller shops because shoppers were on the lookout for bargains.He struck a further note of caution by warning that 'the board has not yet detected convincing signs of real economic recovery.' Burton announced almost 2,000 redundancies two weeks ago.Ian Prosser, chairman of Bass, also treated shareholders to a mixture of good and bad news. He met her in Nottingham, a Royal College of Arts fashion graduate. 11 December, 11am, Hampshire County Council Special Celebration of Christmas 12 December, 7.30pm, Christmas Concert. We are, after all, trying to engender a uniquely emotional human experience - that of music.Postscript: I have just realised that I could not give you Beethoven's exact dates without looking them up. Smaller jobs - weddings, birthdays and sports events - cost less.

'This time I'm going for the win.'This came as no surprise, for Mansell's world championship is all but won, whatever the result of today's race, and Patrese knows he will not be staying with Williams-Renault next year. The increase in numbers applying makes it'increasingly difficult, expensive and time-consumingeach year to give every application the careful and separate consideration it requires', says the report. GERALD and Vera Weisfeld, the millionaire couple who made a rescue bid for Brown & Jackson, claim the company is in breach of contract by supporting a rival offer from Pepkor, the South African retail group. Simon Wilson, curator of interpretation at the Tate Gallery, which owns one Hirst piece, insists that the artist is 'extremely intelligent and shrewd; a very professional, together personality with an intense and highly original sense of creativity'.For people such as Wilson, and there are quite a few of them, Hirst is the most exciting young artist in Britain.

Derek Foster, Labour's chief whip, his deputy, Don Dixon, the left- winger Bob Cryer, Dale Campbell-Savours and all but two of the rest represent north of England seats. Wilson and Bowden were determined to achieve a settlement if they possibly could and went far to meet Smith's demands, a good deal further than their attorney general was happy to go.After two days of contention, heads of agreement were drawn up which had they been put into effect would gradually have resulted in majority rule in Rhodesia as more and more Africans got on to the electoral roll. Mr Corrin said group sales would be pounds 210m once C&T and Carleton were integrated.Barclays de Zoete Wedd, Allied's stockbroker, is forecasting a taxable profit of pounds 17.4m for the year to next September, equivalent to earnings per share of 37p.The company has spent pounds 36.5m on capital expenditure projects since 1990, which has enhanced operating efficiency. Conventional mountaineering theory of building up clothing in a layering system goes out of the window in such circumstances It is physically impossible to do so.

The year also saw the largest amount raised - at pounds 5.1bn - since KPMG's records began in 1984, writes John Willcock. American Express charges restaurants a maximum of 3.5 per cent, which reduces according to individual circumstances. The lesson will not be lost on Mr Clinton, whose top political strategist, James Carville, handled the Florio campaign.Less clear-cut were the implications of Rudolph Giuliani's 44,000 vote edge in New York and the 58 to 41 per cent landslide for the Republican George Allen in Virginia, where a naturally conservative Southern state was reverting to type after an unprecedented 12-year Democratic grip on the Richmond State House.Only in New York and New Jersey did the President campaign actively for his fellow Democrats and in all three races his impact was debatable. There was little inducement to go ashore for recreation, since alcohol prices were high in Norway and astonishingly low in the base. In the second case it's a matter of not wanting to be drowned in slime. there is still a big question about what he will do if China says no.'(Photograph omitted). Paperwork consumes 16 per cent of US health spending, but has had little impact on controlling costs.