A handful of other designers are starting to offer fashionable clothes in large sizes (see panel, right).The principle adopted by these companies is simple: that large women care about looking good as much as smaller women It's just that half the time they are not given the chance. They have probably been hit harder than any other group by the premium increases imposed by insurance companies in the last year.This point was emphasised last week by General Accident, which has launched a scheme in conjunction with British School of Motoring (BSM) whereby it offers discounts of up to 25 per cent to newly qualified young drivers who take a further course with BSM.A 23-year-old Bristol man driving a Rover Metro would pay pounds 767 to insure his car under General Accident's standard comprehensive policy. In November, the Heritage minister, Robert Key, signed a regulation pledging Britain to help control the movement of items by introducing new export licences for all 'cultural goods' leaving the EC.The art world is beside itself with fury at the torrent of paperwork that this will unleash. But it would be hard to read it as that of some Southern conservative, a praiser of the past. These antediluvian stories are interested in comprehension, in power, and in strange powers. Some think Bill Rooney, the founding chairman and chief executive who saw the value of his 8 per cent stake slump by pounds 18m yesterday, will also have to resign.Spring Ram admitted that results for 1992 would be 'significantly less than current market expectations'.

And a film like this needs good reviews to reach an audience. Adoptive parents need to be able to accept a child with a different history, a different inherited personality type, different physical characteristics and a different family living somewhere else, with whom adopters are encouraged to meet and sometimes have ongoing contact.Some applicants withdraw during the preparation, realising that adoption is not going to meet their needs Sometimes the agency decides not to progress. But such was the tangle of inter-penetration and disinformation in the intelligence war in Latin America in the Eighties that there can be no certainty.Enrique Haraldo Gorrioran was the commander of the ERP cell in Managua, and ordered the fatal barracks attack, but he did not take part. The Clarkes said they were 'very unhappy' with Couture's handling of the contract.Couture is demanding pounds 5,000 it says is owed from invoices sent to the Clarkes, and is also claiming another pounds 50,000 that it says is owed from the contract.The Clarkes have replied with proceedings of their own. Earnings per share will grow only slightly to 28.7p but this dispels fears about dilution from the Devenish deal. Dairy farmers, in particular, are slaves to routine: they must milk the cows twice a day, 365 days a year, come what may. It's what Norman Lindsay called 'wowserism'.' And what of the criticism that Sirens is a film for those who claim to read Playboy for the articles? Duigan smiles thinly.

Have you actually been yet?''Oh, yes, we went last summer and had a wonderful time The children thought it was wonderful, too.''But. 'A new campaign was called for in which it was drunk in a slightly more classy situation,' Mr Green said.'With the pounds 6m for a year's television commercials you could afford to run two or three with a story, male and female heroes and a go-between - the jar of coffee. It was another frustrating journey, trying to locate mbenga, as the natives call the fish.Wade was suffering the symptoms of malaria and Boote had cracked ribs; they had been attacked by army ants; they had slept on the logs of a riverboat and fished little. Why not cathedral statues? They are just as moveable.'She calls for cathedrals to introduce security cameras and higher levels of properly-trained staff.

Matches won by the team scoring the greater number of tries:1947-1956: 74%1957-1966: 61%1967-1976: 76%1977-1986: 62%The explanation is simple - referees make sure, unintentionally or otherwise, that penalties cancel each other out so that if one team kicks four penalties the chances are that the other team will kick two, three or four. Best comeback: Jack Burke Jnr came from eight shots behind in final round to win 1956 title. But he has firmly repudiated the vision that many Catholics had of it.The Council had seemed to promise to Western liberal middle-class Catholics a church that they could understand and be citizens of in the same way that they are citizens of their own countries. Whilst he enjoyed a comfortable life, there was little satisfaction for him in graphic design, and in 1937 he gave up a successful career to become a painter; first as a student at the Slade, but then, after a year - persuaded by his friend Barnett Freedman - at the Royal College of Art, studying painting under Gilbert Spencer.During the Second World War, Chapman taught at Worcester School of Art, his deafness exempting him from active service. I didn't feel embarrassed - I felt annoyance.'Feltham South is one of the more favoured areas of Hounslow borough, with an unemployment rate of just over 9 per cent, and a mixture of owner- occupiers and council tenants. I wish we could turn the clocks back,' Mrs Venables, 36, said.