For the dining-room, just below the crypt of her chapel, she ordered a baronial dining-table that required 10 men to instal; it was always set with Limoges porcelain and her American grandmother's silver, and graced with wonderful food. Although a few stockbrokers may still allow favoured clients direct investment in European shares, the cost and complexities and difficulties of getting an adequate spread of risk are too much for most PEP managers.Scottish Widows and Barings were two of the very few managers which included European shares in their PEPs and both are now offering only collective vehicles.David Graham, group unit trust manager at Scottish Widows, said it was better to give clients a bigger spread and lower charges through a collective vehicle. Most will be recalled because the original test will not be readable.Dr Elaine Farmery, chairman of the national co-ordinating network of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme, said the Scottish problems had come to light 'because of the External Quality Assessment Programme had worked'. In the Seventies, punk was such an earthquake - you couldn't duplicate it again. He may have exaggerated the fear factor and the extent of the personality cult being fostered around the director- general. THE CIVILIANS were shabby and grubby.

Even so, he continued to affirm man's courage and (in the medieval sense) his mirth in the face of desperate odds: his TV programmes remain an unrivalled educational venture, while he conducted performances (for instance of Fidelio, Tristan, and Falstaff) that have become legendary. The flow of aid is diminishing, the terms of trade are worsening, per capita income has fallen by 25 per cent in most of Africa in the last decade Meanwhile the debts increase and so does the population. Yet it was too easy to agree when the wildly posturing Student suggested that 'Everybody knows the arts are selfish.'In the event, it was rather whimsical of Firsova to set poems by Christina Rossetti for the Nightingale's dying song: so high, so long were the notes bestowed on Carol Smith that text became vocalise, albeit rather lovely. The white- collar rail union TSSA reported that for the first time the company was suspending managers who are qualified to operate signal boxes, if they refuse to do so.Richard Rosser, leader of the TSSA, said he received numerous calls from supervisors complaining that they were being 'bullied' into breaking strikes mounted by their subordinates.The RMT executive meets today to decide whether to step up industrial action from one day a week to two, after next Wednesday's scheduled 24-hour strike. An advertisement for smart drugs placed by the Health Development Company in Cheltenham in last week's Time Out, the listings magazine, was 'almost certainly' outside the law and the department would be taking immediate action.Medical experts also expressed concern about smart drugs. He has been in custody since being arrested when his yacht was intercepted last Wednesday Police in Jersey intend to seek his extradition.. But Europe has started to break into camps even before any formal decision is made to push for a two-speed union.

I was frightened and embarrassed.' Joanne's ignorance of menarche, the onset of menstruation, is not unusual for 12-year-old girls. Those whose recipes we choose will win breakfast for two at a window table in the River Room of the Savoy. It was a heat-of-the-moment reaction.'The heat is building at Liverpool as the friction between goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar and his manager, Graeme Souness, shows no sign of easing. For example, they went skinny-dipping in front of the Muslim locals, not understanding they would take offence.