Often we were scattered around the Biosphere all day, so the meeting was important.’We had a very small amount of animal produce Meat was a big treat. Whatever happened (he had, after all, already written the fine Malayan Trilogy), six novels did flow from his pen in a year or so. Rainer Lepper, chairman of [...]

Just before you eat, fry the monkfish slices briskly in olive oil over a high heat. MORE THAN 30 members of the Lithuanian 12th police battalion which killed thousands of civilians and Jews in eastern Europe during the Second World War are believed to be living in Britain. The two conservative groups are expected to [...]

KELWAYS, the nursery in Somerset whose peonies are world famous, has been saved. One often sees in films, particularly television films, scenes set in imposing safe-houses, probably in the home counties, houses with long, winding drives and a place to park a very fast car or three. This time it was Bulgaria’s Magdalena Maleeva, the [...]

Almost certainly the funniest introduction thus far to America’s angry debates about redefining the canon, this mischievous spoof recasts abstruse questions of cultural hegemony and the like in terms of a hard-bitten Chandler / Hammett detective yarn:’ ‘So what are you saying? You want me to shut down this operation? Round up the bad guys?”Nothing [...]

‘When you first discover you are ill, you need something to take away the fear. So, Helene Steiner did not have an easy time proving herself in the life-and-death world of rock and ice when she became the first woman to win the Austrian license. The four other members are studying at Newcastle University, although [...]

But unless Mr Clinton and Mr Jiang can achieve some insight into the other’s goals, the notion of Asia-Pacific co-operation will remain theoretical.Trade, the official reason why everyone is here, will be the focus of much rhetoric but little substance. In Zagreb, air-raid sirens were wailing, sandbags lined the streets and posters on the walls [...]

The width of the tree should not be greater than 1.3 times the height of the tree, nor less than one third its height. This may indicate that City hopes of a decisive gain in December sales in official figures released tomorrow could be disappointed.Despite these developments, Norman Lamont yesterday reaffirmed his belief that conditions [...]

And I’m seriously contemplating getting one.’The Arkwright mail order catalogue is available on 0532 428003. At half-time I told them to make sure they didn’t let the occasion pass them by. Where defence counsel in a criminal trial has made decisions in good faith after proper consideration of the competing arguments and, where appropriate, after [...]

According to Dr Bernard Crump, director of public health, South Birmingham Health Authority, three received unnecessary radiotherapy; two unnecessary chemotherapy; one unnecessary chemotherapy and surgery; and one unnecessary surgery and radiotherapy.In some cases cytology – the examination of cells aspirated through a needle – was used, according to the leaked evidence in the surgeons’ report [...]

For the Liebestod Isolde stands in a gold shift at the front of the stage to die upright, by an act of will.Before the final chord had faded the boos began, abating only briefly for the singers but reaching record levels, even for Bayreuth, when Muller appeared. First, prices will benefit as investors chase higher [...]