One local authority, Great Yarmouth district council, has refused, on a point of principle, to submit a recycling plan.Its refusal is based on the grounds that such a plan would be impossible to implement without financial support or at least a national recycling strategy and that therefore money and time spent on such a plan would be wasted.Barbara Baughan, who chairs the council's environmental health committee, said: 'If we did prepare a plan in the cheapest way possible it would cost pounds 10,000 - this council has better things to spend that money on.'Our rough calculations suggest that a comprehensive recycling package capable of meeting the Government's target would cost about pounds 500,000 a year - a sum we have no hope of raising, so why should we pretend?' She is quick to add that the council is by no means against recycling.There is a recycling sub-committee and the council maintains a drop-off system for collecting paper, bottles and cans. But the fact that every single government south of the Sahara has had to make some concessions to multi-party democracy is proof of the power of Western countries in Africa. We speak a mixture of languages at home - the children will speak English to Charlotte and French to me: Charlotte speaks fluent French without an accent.She is probably the person least obsessed about her image that I have ever met. Most began novels; a couple tried their hand at short stories All of us felt guilty when we weren't working. Rome is not necessarily the top of the list.'But Sir John also wants to take BAA's skills off-airport.

I knew she'd been trying to con me and was glad she was gone But something still didn't feel right I felt uneasy. Group profits before tax, including an exceptional credit of Adollars 49m from disposals, rose from Adollars 175m to Adollars 227m.Nick Bryan, managing director of Courage, said the company lifted its market share in the UK from 19 to 19.2 per cent amid heavy discounting of up to pounds 80 on a 36-gallon barrel of beer.Courage was not responsible for the beer price war, he said. be held to ransom by captives of the apartheid past.'Tough words, but held to ransom the ANC was. The official guidebook lists Fort George, where Maurice Bishop, the prime minister, was assassinated in 1983, as being 'open for sightseeing'.St Vincent is your usual West Indian island: pear-shaped, population 120,000, plus all those islands.

It was in the mid-1960s at St Bonaventure's Church in Bristol and on the occasion of some midweek holy day that I pointed out to Father Victor that there was a big football match on television that evening and younger elements of the congregation might get fractious if he went on too long. When it came to the sermon, he surveyed the congregation, the older members settling back in their pews for the usual 20-minute stint, and said: 'Love thy neighbour - you just go home and think about it]'Yours sincerely,CHRIS MAXTEDAltrincham, Cheshire9 May. With more money he would have liked to have fought all 87 European constituencies.Dr Sked's only previous political activity was unsuccessfully contesting an Oxford City council seat as a Liberal in 1970, while an undergraduate at Merton College. This is no worse than the budget deficit at the trough of the last recession in 1982/83. When it came to Britain, Dilys Powell wrote that Deneuve managed to look 'both chilly and subterraneously debauched'.Her aloofness is her own; she was hardly born to 'la vie de chateau'. We said: book a seat on Aeroflot, but let us know if PIA comes back. It is a pity you did not find another name - I admit I was little help - but you made your problems worse by calling it the committee on The Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance. The two main opposition parties, the nationalist Istiqlal and the left-wing Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP), called for a boycott of the referendum, saying the constitutional changes did not go far enough.They wanted parliament to have more powers and for all MPs to be elected by popular suffrage, rather than a system by which one- third are appointed.Opposition politicians said there were irregularities in compiling electoral registers and complained that they were given no access to the public media.The USFP's leader, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, cast doubt on the official voting figures and said he feared they would stretch the credulity of international opinion, which would be surprised by the results.

John Sergeant stepped into the breach with such character and authority that you wondered why he had been denied the crown of King Cole.On News at Ten (ITV), the Prime Minister turned up to put the nation right about that awkward little misunderstanding over the pit closures. Eight points clear of England's elite, the East Anglians are showing that, under Mike Walker, they have the skill and strength to overcome such diverse teams as Aston Villa and Wimbledon.Their ability to switch styles - a flowing, passing game at Villa last week, a battling, gutsy display against the determined Dons yesterday - has taken them to the peak of the Premier League and, almost certainly, achieved Walker's first target: 'to avoid relegation'. The shop girls were crying and everyone was running.''One very English lady told me to stay calm She said we cannot give in to them. Thus Kinnock was talking to Jeremy Paxman ('They said to me, Neil, there's no way you can lose this election And that Be came The Challenge') when Major cut in, then Tebbit. Industry sources say that component suppliers have not been falling over themselves to process orders given the company's well-publicised problems.Conceivably, any loss of DAF capacity could introduce stronger rivals for the British market, preferably Volvo or Saab, which outsource components, whereas Mercedes and MAN manufacture in-house.There is renewed hope, too, for ERF (Holdings), the UK independent, which has been losing money for the past 30 months. All the public utilities received his attention for their poor quality of service, particularly the railways and the Post Office. I think John Knox is marginally higher up than St Patrick.' This was one of the final worries of staff putting the finishing touches to a new pounds 6m museum of religious life and art which opens in Glasgow today.