MEMBER governments have decided to close down the London-based International Sugar Organisation if its financial crisis, which results from unpaid dues, is not resolved by the end of this month. This was precisely the end point that the hawks had planned all along; for them, the exercise was coolly planned and clinically executed.Britain is not the only country left in trouble by these developments, but it is probably the one in deepest trouble, since it needs a cut in interest rates more desperately than any other economy. I collided with another rider,' Mann said.The Irish racer, Martin Earley, rode in a daze for several miles after hitting his head on a rock when he was forced off the road.KELLOGG'S TOUR OF BRITAIN Stage Three, Middlesbrough to Hull, 166km (103 miles): 1 D Abdoujaparov (Carrera, CIS) 4:36:41; 2 J Museeuw (Lotto, Belg); 3 O Ludwig (Panasonic, Ger); 4 M Sciandri (Motorola, It); 5 P Anderson (Motorola, Aus); 6 A van der Poel (Tulip, Neth) all same time. Sales of new cars in the UK, a barometer of consumer demand, also rallied for the second month in succession. Acuma Life and Cannon were then excluded because of their worsening investment performances.The charging structure was the next aspect to be put in the spotlight.Failures here included those who levy a penalty on investors who transfer their funds elsewhere or retire early - Colonial Mutual, Equity & Law, Scottish Amicable and Scottish Equitable.Bacon & Woodrow also looked at the financial strength of the pension providers on the shortlist.

He had the motive - unbridled lust for the acres of prime land hogged by Morse during an interminable series. Winners: Millfield.Group B: Brynteg 17 Wallington 14; St Edmund's, Ware 12 Newcastle-under-Lyme 14; Wallington 14 Arnold 28; Brynteg 39 Newcastle-under-Lyme 5; Brynteg 26 Arnold 14; Wallington 7 St Edmund's 31; Arnold 24 Newcastle-under-Lyme 19; Brynteg 19 St Edmund's 14; Arnold 14 St Edmund's 12; Wallington 14 Newcastle-under-Lyme 28. Yet this is now almost invariably the reason given for turning down such applications for political asylum. It only has implications for serious arts and review programmes.'The programme was originally due to be shown on 5 October, but Time Warner, the film's distributor, was granted an injunction late that day, on the basis that the intention to show the clips constituted a breach of the copyright.Warner had alleged that the Channel 4 programme could not be for the purpose of criticism and review because the film had not been shown in Britain for 20 years.It further argued that the clips were all scenes of violence and did not accurately represent the film as a whole, and were part of a campaign to challenge Warner's decision to withdraw the film.But Lord Justice Neill, sitting with Lords Justices Farquharson and Henry, said Warner had not demonstrated 'with sufficient clarity' that it had a case for an injunction.. The museum trust was set up in 1983 with three aims: to house an East End history museum, to save three canalside warehouses from demolition, now the only mid-Victorian warehouses left on the six miles of canal and towpath in Tower Hamlets, and to provide education, activities and space for temporary exhibitions. Just set reasonably high hurdles for your incentive pay system, then let folks figure out their own paths to salvation. The more you think about it, the more you wonder if it is possible to do the England job from anywhere else.Alas, the above is unlikely to happen.

Sir: John Thomas (Letters, 11 February) laments that 'it is a pity that America has seen fit (the institutions and the critics) to ignore such a fine artist' as Norman Rockwell. It will have to do.The show begins with a broad selection of works exhibited at the 1859 Paris Salon: a pot-pourri of the sort of art the founding fathers of Impressionism would revolt against. Alicia Merrett specialises in soft cloth dolls made from stretch stockinette. Ministers meet, page 8(Photograph omitted)Leading article, page 16Sterling hit, page 20Hamish McRae, page 21. Asked which bit of Blind Date he liked best, Robert said: 'When the screen comes back and you can tell they can't stand each other.'Over on BBC1, Brucie was 'avin' a smashin' time in the Generation Game. 'For sheer concentration of pleasure,' she explained, 'very little will match it.' This observation came at the end of an hour in which The Sexual Imperative (with Gordon on voiceover) had pushed and prodded at the question of sexual attraction.

SHELL'S image as a huge ice-breaker with the ability to sail serenely through problems that would sink lesser ships has been holed below the water-line. 'If compromise is exhausted, then there will be war,' said Valery Zorkin, chairman of Russia's constitutional court.Mr Zorkin complained that Mr Yeltsin had failed to co-operate with the court, which met throughout the day and then reconvened last night. In June, we were told of a retired half-brother in California. 'I'd be surprised if the best horses don't win,' Wayne Lukas, the meeting's most successful trainer, says.Unfortunately, they are seldom Europe's competitors, with only 10 of the 63 winners coming from this side of the Atlantic, seven of those from France. Finding out that your tiny pounds 12 nest-egg has been wiped out by management charges is, however, an unusual variant on the theme. Douglas, the title-holder, was beaten 21-19, 21-18 in the quarter-final by the man he beat in straight games in the team event the day before; Chen, the top seed, foundered 21-16, 21-7 in the semi-final; then Alan Cooke provided a trio of English victims for Matsushita when he was beaten 21-17, 21-17 in the final.The fierceness of the pen- grip player's attacking, more potent than when he arrived in this country a week ago, places a different perspective upon the next two matches of the England v Japan series, at Grantham tonight and Bletchley tomorrow.