A TOUGH day for the New York Giants ended with the sad, if predictable, news that Lawrence Taylor, arguably the greatest player to ever wear their uniform, would not be coming back. He did not add that that is how officers are trained to appear. This has resulted in the most extraordinary sight of all: the army erecting a Bailey bridge over an island that was once a roundabout, while people windsurf down the Brighton to Portsmouth carriageway.The top of the bridge affords an excellent view of the remains of Sainsbury's, which burnt down just before Christmas. There was also some trimming of management at a cost of pounds 100,000.But he said that the group's remaining businesses - which account for about two-thirds of turnover - were all performing well.
THE BRITISH passion for gardening has found an artistic outlet in London this month. In the late Eighties and early Nineties, it was breasts once more as the strong sales of Gossard's celebrated Wonderbra, which gave extra definition to the cleavage, demonstrated. He promised pounds 5m to the Spastics Foundation, the NSPCC received pounds 150,000 and large sums were also pledged to the Royal Opera House, Sadler's Wells and the Royal Society of Arts. The crowd seemed to enjoy it yesterday, but then again, this is the one part of the world where it is possible to paint a wall and sell tickets to watch it dry.
They were not expected to be models.Without going back to some of the more appalling examples of the past, it would be no bad thing if future monarchs were to be relieved of the pressure to meet standards of private behaviour that are not applied to their subjects, or even accepted by many of them.Recent events have rightly provoked a serious debate about the future of the British monarch. The French Health Minister, Bernard Kouchner, said yesterday that the case had been dropped following an agreement between Williams and the French anti-tobacco lobby.The French Senate ratified an amendment passed last week by the National Assembly permitting television coverage of foreign races showing cars with cigarette advertising and halting legal action similar to the Williams' case. UBS withdrew at the last minute.The price of pounds 770m was criticised at the time because the offer was made before the October 1987 crash but completed afterwards.TSB declined to force a renegotiation of the terms despite the big drop in merchant bank share prices and was left holding an overpriced acquisition that soon went wrong.Under the ownership of the strongly capitalised TSB Group, Hill Samuel raised its own lending rapidly, and also took over some of TSB's corporate business.In the 18 months after the acquisition, the loan book expanded by pounds 3bn, or 66 per cent, well above banking averages, and standards for assessing new borrowers fell.Much of the expansion took place at the peak of the late-1980s boom just as longer-established lenders were beginning to withdraw. Today marks the beginning of Meningitis Awareness Week: the trust is keen to raise greater understanding and recognition of the disease, in its various types, as a prompt diagnosis allows a greater chance of full recovery. More of a trap for one director was a multiple choice question designed to reveal character traits.
It's affected my daughter very badly, not because she was frightened but because she didn't get the attention she needed. Classic contemporary places such as the Union Square Cafe, Gotham and Odeon have held up well through the hard times and score highly in the latest edition of the influential Zagat restaurant guide, despite the rise of restaurants specialising in herb-infused oils and Thai spices (Jean-Georges Vongerichten's JoJo), politically correct vegetarianism (Zen Palate), and punk sushi (Fujiyama Mamma) Most of the fashionable places continue to be Italian. He retired on the first stage, but Charles Holland forged on until the 11th. Inquiries in California revealed that it had been sent at her request.Police released her because they said it was not an offence to obtain the venom. The winger had by now arrived on the angle of the six- yard area, and beat Steve Ogrizovic with a cross-shot.Garry Parker and Cox spurned simple chances before Coventry, spurred on by a sense of injustice, came belatedly to life.