The research shows that even low income southern voters distrusted Labour’s tax policies during the last election.With delegates gathering for conference, which begins in Blackpool tomorrow, it was confirmed that the independent commission on electoral reform, which Labour would have set up had it won the election, will not be established in the near future.The delay is a setback for those seeking an independent body modelled on the Scottish constitutional convention. In 1987 the rule-book was rewritten, when the index dropped more than 600 points below its moving average. The adults danced to the boisterous African rhythms, but the children, of whom there were far too many for National Party comfort, were entertained by three clowns with appropriately multi-coloured faces.’F W de Klerk is on his way]’ screamed the announcer. They might have been exploited to even better effect had Joll not in 1950 been selected by Bill Deakin to be his principal assistant in setting up St Antony’s College, where he was to serve as Sub-Warden for 17 years.It would not be too much to say that Deakin and Joll created St Antony’s between them. On 7 March the club will request permission from the Football Licensing Authority to shelve any redevelopment plans for a year.. I am sure none of my colleagues would see any conflict of interest when my clients with Westminster Communications are the Foundation for Sport and the Arts and the Commission for Racial Equality’.Mr Campbell said: ‘I agreed to join the company only on the basis there would be no conflict of interests between my responsibility to my constituents and my party.’Sir Keith said: ‘Ann Taylor and Menzies Cambell are in a position to provide strategic advice on Labour and Liberal Democrat thinking in particular areas We are all very friendly and absolutely professional’..

A niche in the centre contained the head of Mercury, the god who would lead the souls of the blessed across the Styx to join Homer and Socrates in the ‘Elysian Fields’ opposite. Aldershot FC never made it to Wembley: they beat Wolves in the 1986-87 Fourth Division play-off final, but in those days it was a two-leg home-and-away affair. In contrast, a six-page poem in dialect by Tennyson is insufferable, and a seven- pager by D H Lawrence acutely embarrassing (‘Oh Bibbles, oh Pips, oh Pipsey, You little black love-bird]’).The Chatto Book of Cats is far more intelligently selected and much better arranged, being laid out in sections – Eating, Voices, Wisdom, Magic and so on – which help to focus a reader’s attention By no means all is soft and furry. Drs Sara and Richard Cunningham agreed to buy a house in Nottingham for pounds 84,500, and were surprised when the agent, Black Horse Life, wrote asking for money: ‘As is our normal custom, I would also be grateful if you could forward a pre-contract deposit in the sum of pounds 350 as an act of good faith. Julia Heasman, the Oxford president, has taken on Ben Hunt-Davis of the British Olympic eight to train them this year and he has transformed their approach.Like next week’s men’s event there is a sprinkling of foreign postgraduates. They frown and scowl, they shake their heads and look to the heavens. The ordinary catmint Nepeta x faassenii and even Six Hills Giant have little bunches of upward-facing flowers so that the effect from a distance is of an inverted lavender, arranged in tiers.

BERLIN – When I moved to what was then East Berlin, exactly three years ago, the city was still in a frenzy of excitement over the opening of the Wall and the word on everybody’s lips was ‘reunification’. Evander Holyfield, the man beaten by Bowe, made dollars 60 to dollars 70m in two years, and that was without Lennox’s appeal and personality.What Frank likes is ‘the atmosphere of the hall on the big night’, and the deal. Seeking to evade the prescriptive friendships of schoolgirl snobbery, she is inveigled into the school’s unofficial soccer team.Throughout the rest of the novel, sport and familial obligation uneasily contend. He has painted off and on ever since, and was shortlisted for the 1986 Turner Prize. Until a moment of undiluted class from Shearer in the 70th minute. ‘A gregarious recluse, that’s what I’d like to be called.’Certainly, if his 50th birthday celebration at the Oval where the Tom Phillips XI took on the Rest of the Artworld (Brian Eno and various members of the Monty Python team were among the players) is anything to go by, he is not without friends and admirers.But then the Oval is a very important place in the universe of Tom Phillips.’Cricket’s my beach, let’s say. There have been many of them recently because of his retrospective at the Tate; a further 30 are listed in the show’s catalogue and the latest addition to the literature on the artist is Julian Rios’s Kitaj: Pictures and Conversations (Hamish Hamilton, pounds 17.50), a book that’s essentially an interview at great length, with more sophisticated questions.

The defendant appealed against conviction, relying on the rebuttable presumption that a defendant between the ages of 10 and 14 does not know his act is ’seriously wrong’ as opposed to ‘merely naughty’ and contending that the prosecution had not rebutted the presumption.Andrew Nicol (RM Broudie & Co, Liverpool) for the defendant; JT Parry-Jones (CPS) for the prosecution.LORD JUSTICE MANN said that the cases demonstrated that if the presumption was to be rebutted there must be clear positive evidence that the defendant knew his act was seriously wrong. The first of these companies, Gatwick Express, has been operating as a shadow franchise since October last year and the other early candidates for privatisation will start working as shadow franchises as 1 April.Mr MacGregor stressed that a new timetable for privatisation had been worked out with Mr Salmon and that the first six franchises would be let to the private sector by the end of 1995 instead of during 1994 and early 1995 as originally planned.The six are Gatwick Express, the East Coast Main line, the Great Western Line, Scotrail, Network SouthEast’s south-western division and the London, Tilbury and Southend line. Tonight’s tie was ‘reminiscent’ of that embarrassing night when the Eagles of Lisbon showed their talons, but, he said, ‘we’re more experienced now, and realise the Italians will be just as formidable here as they were in Turin.’Graham has reason to be wary. Rents are shooting up, English-speaking secretaries are hard to find, and hotel rooms can cost pounds 100 a night. The industry is split roughly equally between the private producers and state-owned operations that get huge subsidies. Dealings should begin on 10 December.Hiscox Select Insurance Fund raised pounds 28.9m after expenses.

A modernist collector like Alistair McAlpine says: ‘The Tate’s one responsibility is to do what it thinks best; instead, it does what it thinks safest.’The precise nature of Serota’s acquisitions policy gets lost in the annual furore over the Turner Prize, but he does not give a damn: ‘The justification for the Prize is that the Tate is concerned with making judgements about the art of our own time, and it should not shirk these. She had sort of gone out of my mind.It was like somewhere, in some other part of the universe, somebody had thrown a switch that went to ‘Love’ Whoosh] and my life completely changed. They are shouted about by politicians and taught about in schools. ‘Football is about passion, aggression, confrontation and above all spontaneity It’s unreal. Garden, indoor swimming pool, creche (daily during school holidays, full supervision during lunch 1-2), entertainers in the morning and 6-9pm in the ballroom, outdoor play area Rooms 105. ‘I WOULD be quite happy to get into bed with you myself,’ said the doctor, declaring his patient to be free from infection, ‘and even to have sex with you – if you were a woman.’ As you can tell from the last bit, we are not discussing the vexed question of the age of consent, nor was the feared infection HIV.