Judge-Advocate Commander Bernard Davis said the severity of the crimes meant they could only be dealt with by custodial sentences.The pair, who became lovers after forming a close relationship on board, had deserted with pounds 11,301 from the ship while it was anchored off the Greek island of Corfu last September. ‘Action was triggered off by a stream of letters we’ve had for the last 12 months,’ he says. Now, on the same page of your paper (12 March) I read two astonishing reports. They also regard the velvet on the antlers as an aphrodisiac.

‘This is not a referendum, this is a party,’ said one old man in the bar, offering to buy drinks for a group of foreigners. He had performed an impulsive, silly gesture, which seemed consistent with his outspoken character and a charitable view of Mr Nadir’s position. But the audience – many from pressure groups such as the Campaign for Quality Television and the Voice of the Listener and Viewer – were not about to be diverted from what they saw as the real agenda.Mr Birt began by saying he was relieved to be out of London, and was there principally to listen. Now the direct train is preferred, partly because brigands and thieves have made Georgia too dangerous.Few Turks see much reason yet to go to Leninakan. I once knew a county player who grunted periodically, but it was a muted harrumph of a grunt, a milli-Seles of a grunt, and nobody ever complained. In addition to commanding more than 70 per cent of parliamentary seats, the two parties together received 50 per cent of the vote.After yesterday’s signing ceremony, Gyula Horn, the HSP leader and future prime minister, declared that the agreement was of historic importance.

A day spent underground at Monktonhall Colliery, in Scotland, with miners who, in the teeth of obstructiveness by the Government, British Coal and bank managers, had formed a cooperative to buy their ‘hitlist’ pit, prompts genuine, sympathetic anger and some of the best and fiercest writing on the subject that I have read anywhere.Paddy Ashdown has devoted much time and energy to researching this book. One former minister sank to one of the benches, appalled.Grief at the loss of a friend and colleague was doubled by the morale-sapping blow to the Government’s hopes of recovery. ‘And in any case, whatever I did – even if I was still waitressing – I would be very interested in people. To skin, cover with boiling water, leave for a minute or two, drain, and run under the cold tap.Serves 4-6Ingredients: 1-3 cloves garlic, roughly chopped2oz (55g) blanched whole almonds, roughly chopped2oz (55g) fresh white breadcrumbs1-2tbs red wine or sherry vinegar2tbs olive oil1 pint water8oz seedless white grapes (muscatel if you can get them), peeled and halvedsaltPreparation: Place garlic (be warned – one clove alone is enough to give a noticeable kick), almonds and breadcrumbs in the processor with the vinegar, olive oil and a little salt. Khomeini won and Shariatmadari was defrocked and put under house arrest accused of counter-revolutionary activities. Agricultural experts have also found strong evidence that cultivated barley originated in Egypt. Counsel for the first defendant objected to the prosecution approaching existing witnesses for further statements on matters arising from the defence case statement.The judge ruled that the prosecution were not entitled to make use of a defence case statement by re-interviewing prosecution witnesses and asking further questions arising out of the case statement unless the prosecution had drawn up a list of questions and obtained leave from the court to ask those questions.

In one, human beings live for a day; in others, they live forever, or prepare for the end of the world, fall into the past, get stuck in time, know the details of their future in advance, or have no grasp of the future at all. But watching Bragg’s interview again you could see the decision made sense. In the past year, Mr Hunt has published a pamphlet called Right Ahead. They have also been active in regional councils for funding of small businesses.’A spokesman for Bank Monitor, based in Essex, another account-checking company, said: ‘From our experience, we have not found Midland to be the worst offender in terms of either private or small-business accounts.’Griffincheck, tel 0707 274200.Bankcalc, tel 081-954 7227.. Yemen’s rival leaders signed a reconciliation designed to avert civil war and fragmentation of their country, Reuter reports from Amman.