You are, quite simply, in the right place at the wrong time.And so you wind up, after a day of enjoyable but pointless pursuit, in the crowded zcalo to which all roads lead. It fits Aiken’s description geographically, and is the first bar you would come to on the “palace square” – the Alameda – [...]

Regular-premium business also grew by 15 per cent to pounds 182m.Prudential’s direct sales force grew sales of single-premium business by 12 per cent and regular-premium business by 15 per cent and doubled sales of investment products. We are continuing to enjoy sales growth in all our major operations around the world,” Sir Peter said.Prudential’s star [...]

They are simply different facets of poverty and exclusion.If it is the case that the same people are stuck in no jobs or bad jobs, and tend to be lumbered with part-time or temporary work – in short, who bear all the brunt of making our economies flexible – the social consequences are bleak, as [...]

However, they remain above the terms of the fully underwritten two-for-nine rights, which are priced at pounds 12 a share.
The new money will arrive some 18 months after British Borneo raised pounds 54m in a rights call at just 310p in early 1996. British Borneo Petroleum Syndicate yesterday launched a pounds 167m rights issue on [...]

We’re not looking for the best-looking girl or the most intelligent or the one with the best figure … Tonight their families and boyfriends have come to cheer them on, their little sisters have clamoured at the backstage entrance, they have met Ricky and Phil. The important thing is to have taken part and to [...]

Bernie had vaguely mentioned something about the filming, and they were the last thing on my mind that day. Someone shouted, “Did you come by bus? Tickets please!”There was general mock horror when people realised he was going to wear it on stage (eventually he threw it frisbee-like into the crowd after a couple of [...]

Nothing tip-top, because people who own property with good decoration and up-to-date kitchens, bathrooms, showers etc don’t want three young professionals who are going to have parties and people staying all the time; they want to let to families.”Even here, when a company brings in an employee and family from overseas, the company is likely [...]

It was part of a deal to end a conflict in which there was no outright military victor and therefore no possibility of Nuremberg-style trials.”In all countries where there have been huge violations of human rights there are thousands of perpetrators,” he says. The truth, they say, is being “managed” and perpetrators are getting off [...]

In contemporary dance we are accustomed to seeing dancers more earthbound, falling into the floor or working on it with ease and grace, but when ballet succumbs to gravity it looks incredibly awkward. The ballerina suffers a similar humiliation to that of the dying swan. Another convincing “ballerina bird” was Irma Nioradze, who gave a [...]

His 34-year-old wife Karen, the mother of his three children, divorced him while he was inside but, none the less, was there to meet him at the gates “He could not believe it,” she remembers. He was dealt with early on because, unlike other policemen, he had actually been jailed for his crimes, and so [...]