No one is saying that those who wish - for religious or other reasons - not to use particular sorts of family planning methods or reproductive health care, should do so. Here, as in his earlier study of Protestant paramilitaries, Bruce calls the defensive Unionist attitude 'pro-state', but he shows time and again how thoroughly the British state is distrusted.Bruce is no admirer of nationalism in general or of the Irish republican movement in particular, but his chief target is the incoherent, pointless, doomed policy of the British government. What is the effect on patient care?You won't have anything like the present standards, which even now are not adequate.'They're sending up prayers for us in the local churches. During Group 4's embarrassing first week, the public sector lost a convicted murderer and rapist - who remains at large.The argument for putting out to tender the escorting of prisoners is a simple one. Later, he was to deny Gray again.His opposite number, Alec Chamberlain, was his equal, gathering every threatening cross. But Mr Houlihan thinks that the market's optimism might be difficult to reconcile with results that are looking backwards at the first six months of the year, which for many companies were still difficult.Of course, expectations are not the only force driving the stock market to new highs. Richard Coyles, chairman-elect of the Police Federation of England and Wales, told a protest meeting in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, attended by more than 1,000 police officers, that the service owed the Sheehy committee a debt of thanks - it had managed to unite all ranks of the service in a manner not seen for 75 years. Last week, Sir Hugh Annesley, Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and three other chief constables in England and Wales, suggested that they would resign rather than preside over the implementation in full of the Sheehy report.Last night, Tony Leonard, Chief Constable of Humberside, joined Mr Coyles and leaders of the Superintendents' Association on the platform at Harrogate.

LATE last Wednesday afternoon, Robin Cook, the Shadow Trade Secretary, emerged from the National Executive Committee's private tea room in Brighton's cavernous modern conference centre. The Government will be in a position to make team sports compulsory for pupils aged 14-16 when it can claim enthusiasm and support from schools themselves. Latvian police have arrested a former KGB chief for his alleged role in carrying out purges after the Second World War. He had also benefited from 300,000-odd share options at less than half the then share price.After being handed his marching orders, he also picked up a full year's pay, pounds 780,000, plus pounds 722,740 towards his pension arrangements.Yet within 18 months he was back in the public eye, this time as chairman of Railtrack - at a salary of pounds 120,000.

'Expectations were raised far too quickly and unrealistically at the beginning Forty years of division can not be overcome overnight But, of course, it will do in the end We are all Berliners.'(Photograph omitted). Moving between two worlds, childhood and adulthood, British and West Indian, black and white, his poetry has a post-colonial preoccupation with redefining Britishness. 'A problem is the high cost of propagation from stem pieces,' he says, 'but micropropagation and production from seed will bring the price down.'This spring the Maff started a trial with large plots of miscanthus in Cambridgeshire, Devon and Herefordshire. These are the rump of shareholders who get left behind when their company is subject to a takeover bid by failing to ensure that they are transferred to the register of the new firm.Under the Companies Act, a company can complete a takeover by acquiring 90 per cent of the shares, lumping the remaining shareholders' interests together in a statutory trust. Francis concurs with the view that Bruno is probably the most muscled heavyweight ever to climb through the ropes.

Beyond that, it might be fairest to say that, from New Delhi to Darjeeling, the Ambassador serves the Indian taxi trade well. A much more intriguing new import is the Tatra 613-4, a rear-engined, air-cooled, luxury saloon from Koprivnice in the Czech republic. On the staff side, we sometimes feel that we are being managed by lay people who have little knowledge of mental disorder. He was still not quite out of trouble on the session, but after that he was dealt A-K suited and J-J, which both stood up. The 10p rise on yesterday's results to 143p suggests followers may be returning.But with the shares trading on a prospective multiple of 16 times earnings, there is no need to chase them..

The Health of the Nation calls for the development of 'healthy alliances' at local levels: perhaps we need to have a healthy alliance between education and health at government level first.Yours faithfully,ROGER SINGLETON, Senior Director, Barnardo's; DOREEN MASSEY, Director, Family Planning Association; LESLEY RUDD, Director, National Aids Trust; ANNE WEYMAN, Director of Information, National Children's Bureau; PHILLIP NOYES, Director of Public Policy, NSPCC; MARGARET JONES, General Secretary, Brook Advisory CentresLondon, EC1. The Select Committee on Transport, chaired by a Tory MP, Robert Adley, will publish an interim report challenging key aspects of the Government's plans, including the safety of the network.It agreed to rush out the report before the Government published the Bill, underlining the continuing conflict between Mr Adley's committee and John MacGregor, the Secretary of State for Transport.The Government hopes that its BR privatisation paving Bill will receive Royal Assent early next week, enabling it to publish the main Bill by the end of the week. There is enough here to feed four as a substantial first course, or as a light main course, padded out perhaps with a generous dollop of mashed potatoes and a plainly cooked green vegetable.Baked Stuffed OnionsServes 44 fairly large onionsolive oilsalt and pepperStuffing:2tbs olive oil1 clove of garlic, chopped2oz/55g brownbreadcrumbs4oz/110g crumbledLancashire cheese8oz/225g tomatoes, skinned, deseeded and diced8 black olives, pitted andchopped1tbs chopped parsley1/2 tsp dried oreganosalt and cayenne pepperPreparation: Trim roots and loose bits of papery skin from the onions, but do not peel Boil in salted water for 15 minutes Drain, run under the cold tap and peel. Franchisees will have to be committed to maintaining high standards to ensure they continue to attract the parental recommendations that are so important to Crechendo's success.Tumble Tots, a rival of Crechendo's, 'has shown that active learning centres are something which people do like to own and run', Mr Way says.