Almost identical front-page stories are run by the Hudson Register Star (Keeping River Open Never Ending Task: and the Catskill Daily Mail (Keeping River Flowing A Tricky Task). If I'd been working with my partner he'd have got Bryan punching me and that would have sold brilliantly. He supports the Variety Club of Great Britain, and likes to invite aboard his yachts such stars as Joan Collins, Jimmy Tarbuck, Tim Rice and the Duchess of York, who party the night away to the strains of Girl From Ipanema, a Gosling favourite.In between such jollies, Sir Don rents out the Leander at pounds 28,000 a day. Why? Because Italy neighbours Yugoslavia but, unlike France, is not one of the permanent five.British officials were trying to save Lord Carrington's face and delay any talk of ground-troop deployment, since Britain itself is not planning to send any.

In recent years he had given lectures on the subject to horticultural societies and gardening clubs in East Anglia.Barran's relationship with cars was always problematic. 'We don't offer the same instant communication as a cellular system and there is no instant recall.When you are travelling you need to be within 100-200 metres of a base station to make a call and you cannot be contacted direct.'To overcome this possible disadvantage, Rabbit offers a message service costing pounds 5.50 per month. HENDERSON Administration, the fund manager which last month bought the rival firm Touche Remnant, is making nearly half of its newly-acquired staff redundant, writes Paul Durman. 'If a state starts asking 'Who is stronger - the President or parliament?', then that state is on the verge of civil war.'Mr Yeltsin's walk-out, joined by the Prime Minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, came after the Congress rejected amendments to a resolution fixing the balance of power and scapping a truce worked out last December. Mr Dyke, who helped to rescue TV-am from the brink of collapse nine years ago, said: 'I'm fairly optimistic that GMTV will be a profitable business in 1994.' He also hinted that suppliers would be looked at in a fresh cost-cutting exercise.

Given the importance which both countries attach to the grandly named Franco-German Economic and Financial Council, which takes place twice a year, the cancellation by Bonn was all the more surprising.French officials put the snub down to a translation error which was made by the German news agency when it quoted Mr Alphandery's remarks on a French radio interview, and there were then promises all round that the meeting would go ahead later this summer.Nevertheless, the diplomatic spat, put down to ruffled feathers more than a serious falling-out among allies, comes at a time of increasing friction between Germany and the Twelve.Bonn has taken a series of contrary positions on issues involving its European partners over the past few weeks, the most serious being Chancellor Kohl's call for a lifting of the arms embargo against Bosnia and his brandishing of a letter from President Clinton at the European summit last week calling for Germany's support to bring Britain and France around to the US point of view.The US has been flattering Bonn for the past few months, suggesting it should be given a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and then cutting a secret deal that enabled Germany to escape from sanctions the US has slapped on the EC over the telecommunications industry. It applies the rules for distance to every case.In one of Pissarro's paintings of the Pont-Neuf, there's a flecked patch of blue and red. It was no reflection on her that a veil was drawn on the service, launched in June, before the summer was out. But tell them you will fight to get them water, and then get it - get them another tap installed - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth.'And that, in the end, is what South African politics will be about in the coming years.

The tabloids have always been good at making a little Royal Family go a long way, conferring on associated commoners a sort of honorary royalness, but I noticed a while ago that this had started to be reflected in the grammar of headlines, as well as in the coverage itself.'Di mum to wed again', read one tabloid banner when the Princess of Wales's stepmother fell for a French count. For while all musicians acknowledge that the gifts of too many conductors lie in self-advancement and careerism rather than musical perception, there is still palpable evidence that a limited number of them possess the well-nigh magical gift of eliciting something quite special from their players, and consistently shaping interpretations of original inspiration.If Omnibus ignored this fact, The Art of Conducting made an excellent stab at pinning it down in terms that the ordinary music lover could understand. Fourteen months into unlicensed existence, Thames is proving that there can be life after broadcasting death. If the non-nuclear majority of the company was privatised, it would be one of the world's largest private-sector research and consultancy companies.But the privatisation is likely to be difficult as well as controversial because the Government still provides more than half of the AEA's income. The account ends on Friday with settlement due on 21 March.Alfred McAlpine, the builder, shaded 5p to 311p. The general elections in a week's time were meant to consecrate Italy's transition from being, in effect, the last one-party state in Europe to a country in which there was a genuine opportunity for the opposition to assume power.