Galaxy is funded by the DJs, who have close links with a south London community centre. You have to put events in their worldwide setting, but there is no doubt some ghastly mistakes have been made.’ And Sir John Cuckney (Royal Insurance) observed: ‘Intention has been fine; execution has been bad.’ John Bairstow (Queens Moat Houses) said the Government had been ‘rightly criticised’, and there had been ‘an absence of strong economic policy’.But the general tone was sympathetic. It has been so successful because, along with Marks & Spencer and Japan’s 7-Eleven, it understands social and economic change: the way we live now.A generation ago people would have made their own fruit salads and cut their own sandwiches, but bought their furniture already assembled. This setting of words from the Kalevala tells a mysterious story of creation: after the mating of air and water, a gull’s egg splinters in the ocean, producing heaven, moon and stars. He added: ‘It’s just one more day on which people can find out they don’t really need the railway. A Catholic rising in 1536 (the Pilgrimage of Grace) was bloodily suppressed. It is one of a range of options being examined by the Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS hospital trust.Day-case surgery accounts for a growing proportion of NHS and private sector operations, 25 to 30 per cent in some hospitals Most trusts are planning to expand day surgery facilities.

But amid the ranks of limousines, Per Gunnar Haugen, a 23-year-old windsurfer, rolled up in his tiny green Fiat to join his girlfriend, Norway’s Princess Martha Louise, 21, thus scotching expectations that she might be paired up with other royal guests, including Prince Edward.The Japanese press meanwhile are getting excited about a potential royal romance nearer home. But the decision was taken out of his hands by the board of Tabacalera, the Spanish state tobacco monopoly which is funding Smith, in Madrid.The yacht’s original designer and project manager, Javier Visier, said the yacht had been withdrawn because, after losing the mizzen mast, she could not win. For infringing party discipline by standing for election against a party member, he was suspended from the Centre Social Democrats. They go intotoday’s original dance – where they will perform the rumba – in joint second place, having finished behind the Russian world champions, Maya Usova and Alexandr Zhulin, in the compulsory dance.Torvill and Dean’s choreographer, Bobby Thompson, was inclined to look on the bright side yesterday.’It seems to be doom and gloom everywhere,’ he said.

Whenever one side of the stage lit up for Gielgud, say, to soliloquise, the other side darkened. Police said it dug its claws into the man’s face and held on until he ran away.. A quickly taken free hit by Mike Williamson sent Jon Rees away to cross for a diving Bobby Crutchley to get the touch.Although the Dutch equalised six minutes later Hounslow stuck to their defensive plan and with superb performances from the experienced Jon Potter and 18-year-old Guy Fordham denied the opposition and their penalty corner specialist, Floris Jan Bovelander, even one penalty corner.The winning goal came in the 17th minute from another quick free hit, Nick Gordon going behind the defence enabling Dave Hacker, sneaking through a crowded circle, to score the winner.Results, Sporting Digest, page 31. Individual cases hit the headlines, but do nothing to reveal the scale of the problem. The sole advantage of being British comes at Customs, where an American importer would probably not be so lucky.Whether screwed to the wall or hanging from the ceiling, Mr Bowman’s accumulation of nostalgia is meant to resemble ‘a pub that’s been here since early in the century, where people have kept on bringing in items: ‘I brought this over from the States but my wife has told me to get it out of the house’ – that sort of thing.’It was we Brits who first thought of the idea – the Bricklayers Arms in Putney, south London, is hung with bric-a-brac exchanged by dustmen for pints since the Thirties (much of it nicked by antique-hunters). Her remark received wide coverage after which she claimed she was misquoted.Borrowing the immortal words of another professional lady, ‘Well she would, wouldn’t she’.