And, for the first time, the company will be obliged to offer to the profoundly deaf a service enabling them to carry on telephone conversations with speech converted at the exchange to text.The main change imposed by Oftel limits the price increases on BT's 'basket' of basic services to inflation minus 7.5 percentage points, compared with inflation minus 6.25 points under the existing regime.But although BT has flexibility within that cap to increase some charges more than others, none can now go up by more than inflation. Surrey were 42 for 2 after 22 overs with their openers gone and it was then imperative for Glamorgan to keep it as tight as possible.Graham Thorpe was the key batsman for Surrey because his left-handedness, combined with delightful improvisations, managed to unsettle the bowlers. He says: 'Until last year our marketing strategy focused on tapping parents' feelings of warmth and nostalgia about Meccano. If the politics is screwing it all up and incensing these people so they carry on killing, then it makes the relief effort harder day by day.' He said the West could allow the Bosnian Muslims and defenders of Sarajevo access to weapons, at present denied by UN embargo, so that they could neutralise Serbian artillery positions. If I had to bet I would think that the result is likely to be indecisive, but if we got a record reply that would obviously tell us something.'One person likely to reply is Bill Gredley, the successful owner and breeder who touted a strike of race meetings last year which ultimately came to nothing.Although he has met with great success through the exploits of User Friendly, the filly he bred, part-owns, and will see in action at Ascot on Saturday, he has often complained of poor prize-money, lack of respect from racecourse officials and skimping on handouts of owners' badges.Gredley raised the boycott issue again yesterday at a meeting of the ROA council, the 'toothless' body to which he has just been elected.The response was to send out the survey, to which neither Locke nor Gredley will know the answers until September, by which time the results of a poll of the best and worst racecourses will have been published.Earlier polls within the ROA have thrown up surprises, not least that Ascot comes well down the list and Uttoxeter, the Midlands jumps course, at the top.The Maktoum family paid dollars 2.77m ( pounds 1.9m) for nine yearlings on the opening day of the Keeneland Sales in Kentucky despite reports that they would not be buying.

Taranaki .25 British Isles. 'I would have been back on the bottle in no time at all.'How successful the six-month programme will be for new cases at Battersea remains to be seen. THE CITY firm Frere Cholmeley caused something of a stir last week when it announced its merger with the 22-partner practice Bischoff & Co, not least because it is the first such move involving major players for more than two years. Mr Laird argues in an internal union memorandum that although his system would still involve a sizeable union influence, it would avoid 'the spectacle of 'union barons' casting millions of votes'.Under his proposals, each union would initially elect one delegate for every 10,000 of its members who paid the political levy - some of whom may not be Labour supporters. Expected to cover all central and east European countries, whence most refugees come, it would cut the asylum influx at a stroke.Given strong grass-roots support in the SPD for urgent action to relieve the refugee pressure, the leadership could find it comparatively easy to get the necessary party congress blessing for its U-turn. It doesn't matter if the player who scores their winning goal subsequently fails the drugs test; they can still keep the trophy.Blatter offered another reason why Argentina escaped punishment.

Pointing out that the days of sending people off to prestigious international business schools for open courses are numbered, he says: 'Most large organisations and many small and medium-sized enterprises say 'We accept there are generic management skills, but there's a need for the provision of specific knowledge.' 'But as he acknowledges, satisfying that need within academic restrictions is easier said than done. TWO days after the Maastricht treaty went into effect, an anonymous and powerful group of national security officials - the K4 Committee - met in secret to inaugurate an era of unprecedented inter-governmental co-operation on security matters in the new European Union. The papers, at present divided between garden sheds, his basement office in Holland Park, west London, and a garage, include all Mr Benn's speeches since 1946, hundreds of Labour party documents, conference reports, press cuttings and pamphlets.There are 13 boxes of political correspondence alone and the Benn diaries, transcribed from original tapes. The main provisions of the treaty are only likely to be implemented if the political and economic climate within the EC is favourable. The dancer kept his condition secret until the end because Nureyev was terrified that were it known it would prevent him from travelling and working.