China has maintained command politics but abandoned command economics; that may well prove a short-term defence of Communist power. Together with other colleagues, he set up a 'pig park' near Edinburgh in an area of mixed woodland and grassland in which the pigs were observed 'free-range'. Yesterday they went on strike and refused to withdraw their money, despite the owners' announcement on Wednesday that the bank was closing and that pounds 83m on deposit was to be handed back to customers. Elton John returned to Israel yesterday to give a concert that was postponed by a day when he bolted the country after an ugly brawl between bodyguards, fans and photographers, Reuter reports from Tel Aviv.

'You have to be glamorous to win the first round of voting, but after the bottom city drops out and the votes are transferred in the second round, the game changes We play it patiently Being acquainted with Labour Party politics helps. If so, it is a job which Atherton's engaging smile, often employed to irritate hot-under-the-collar Australian bowlers, will do well to survive.Atherton made two half-centuries over the weekend, and the opportunity to bat twice in two days was more or less pre-ordained after Australia had made 653 for 4 declared. It is inevitable he will be struck off from the roll of solicitors and it will result in the loss of all he holds in high esteem.'The Old Bailey trial heard how what began as a lighthearted evening of Highland dancing ended in a drunken attack on the terrified Scottish solicitor, whom Diggle had met six weeks earlier.He invited her to a St Andrew's night dance in London at which they both had a lot to drink. Oleg Kalugin, who has previously revealed details of the KGB's involvement in the assassination, was arrested on Saturday at Heathrow airport and taken to an unspecified police station in central London. Itar-Tass, the Russian news agency, reported that Mr Kalugin expressed his readiness to co-operate with the British authorities over the murder before being released without charge last night.Mr Kalugin had been invited to take part in an edition of the BBC's Panorama programme about MI6, the British intelligence service.Mr Markov, 49, a writer and broadcaster, died four days after he was injected with poison in September 1978 on Waterloo bridge near the Bush House headquarters of the BBC World Service, where he had worked since fleeing Bulgaria in 1969.The device used to inject the poison was concealed in an umbrella.

Quite despicably you took no action to deal with the problem yourself when you were told about it.'I'm not allowed to impose imprisonment - if I was I would find it hard to avoid.'Hayley's father, Peter Hadfield, called on the Government to regulate adventure holidays. What has lifted the dark cloud from his horizon is the fact that he is driving the ball far more accurately. He laughed, a trifle wanly, and no wonder, given that the line proved to be emblazoned on the bumf to his own next production With piquant perversity, 'They fuck you up. .4 MILAN took the European Cup for the third time in six years, and the fifth overall, with a performance of awesome quality and conviction which reduced Barcelona to the role of bemused onlookers in the Olympic Stadium here last night.How the Milan president and new Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, must have enjoyed the spectacle as he watched on television in Rome. Gunmen are believed to have moved the two prisoners some 30km from Pahalgam, where they were seized.A senior Indian official, Hindel Tayubji, said: 'We have a rough idea where they're being held but we don't want to mount a rescue operation.