Those wielding a mallet in the gloom included Dario Garcia, who is a big noise in Jaffa cakes and Girl Guide uniforms.This is not as exciting as it sounds. With his doughty predecessor hovering in the wings it will be doubly so for Sir Colin.With some notable exceptions, the two worked well together at BA as chairman and chief executive. 'I remember my brother kissing me on the forehead when he visited me, which had never happened before,' he says. JORDI ARRESE, of Spain, battles for the gold medal in today's final of the Olympic men's tennis event with the whole country desperate for a home victory.

Remember the classy swagger with which Channel 4 entered the fray 10 years ago.The programme-makers are not chiefly to blame. No one who reads this book can fail to yearn for a glimpse of the Royal Mosque at Isfahan, or a sniff of the lemon-scented air at Shiraz.Arriving in Tehran after six months' hibernation in Tabriz, they feel like Auvergnat peasants in Paris, but they dine that night on sheep's head in yoghurt, and play chess with a local chief of police who receives them in his pyjamas. He says he loves his wife and desperately wants her to come home. Michael Morris, the deputy speaker, selected the latter two for debate instead of the first; the Government accepted 74 and 75 and the game was up.

In an electoral system which rewards parties with a concentration, rather than a spread of backing, a rise of support in the South, from 23 per cent at the election to 35 per cent, according to Mori, is good news even if that means a slipping vote in urban Scotland. Like Ezzoud, Armiger should be a fresh, eager horse, but since his main target is still many weeks away, perhaps not as close to his peak. On a cross-party basis the split was 56:35 in favour.(Photograph omitted). It originates in the ancient 'builders' rites' superstition, when various items - even living creatures - were placed in the base of buildings to propitiate the gods.The London obelisk has nothing to do with Cleopatra. Both have been in business for a little over a year.Hedge fund managers can earn such large sums because they are partly remunerated in performance fees, typically, of 15-25 per cent of any gain.

Begun by Julius Caesar, completed by Augustus and ruined by Byzantine emperors, Arab warriors and earthquakes, Baalbek was more recently rumoured to have been a temporary prison for Western hostages.In the evening, the cool green hills to the east of Beirut provided a natural refuge from the parched Bekaa plain. 'I will now do all I can to close the system so that each person will be satisfied.'That will be easier said than done. Yet it is clear that here, as in the United States, the cost in terms of stolen merchandise and social misery is huge. Tom Stoppard's narration, delivered with stylish weariness by Dirk Bogarde, is more than wrapping - fascinating to hear a full Festival Hall chortling nostalgically at lines like 'In my experience, domestic happiness without domestic staff is a dangerous fantasy' England a classless society? Vienna will ban waltzing first. Where Andrew Holmes's production touches on this double awakening, it is only to underline Anglo-Egyptian wrangling over the Luxor jackpot, with Carter expelling the trespassing Prime Minister (Zaghlul) as a 'baboon', and the PM then commandeering the tomb for a Wafd Party thrash.Otherwise the show follows the personal fortunes of the fanatical Carter (Nick Rawling) and his doomed employer (Peter Glancy). Charleston Famhouse, guided tour of the home of the Bloomsbury Bells, April to October, 0323 811265 Seven Sisters Country Park and Friston Forest Magnificent coastal park The Living World, Exceat. Lord Blakenham, chairman, said the strong cash flow - a positive pounds 46m - justified the increase.Oil services were hit by a dearth of demand.