'The general standard of refereeing at the finals has been good to very good,' he added 'But there have been exceptions.'. The Telegraph's Saturday circulation is thought to be stable at about 1.18 million copies.The Telegraph itself claims to have increased its Monday to Friday circulation by around 80,000 copies a day.The Times, which has dropped its Saturday cover price by 10p to 30p, is thought to have boosted its weekend sales by around 60,000 and may now be selling more than 600,000 copies.Losers in the circulation war appear to have been the Guardian, Independent and Express, which were selling 405,000, 277,000 and 1.34 million respectively shortly before the latest round of price- cutting. We have 10 signed copies of Lady Thatcher's debut CD (EMI Classics CDC 754539-2) to give away. At the Lord Mayor's Banquet he informed Pepys, sitting next to him, that 'frogs and many insects fall from the sky perfectly formed'.Comments on the deaths of friends and relatives occur with distressing frequency, as do accounts of his own ill-health - loose teeth and bowels, colics, surfeits, hot and cold agues, gout in the hands and both little toes.

Two Dublin girls seek men who 'must be prepared to spend money'. He either scores a goal or makes one.'It proved to be a prescient remark. Britain was outvoted in an attempt to block looser voting rules on one area of trade retaliation, which covers safeguards in the event of a sudden rise of imports. Without such guarantees it would be impossible to sell to retail chains needing to transport perishable food, and to motor manufacturers, now operating a just- in-time production chain.Rail freight is also having to compete on price - a concept that is totally new to the historic railways practice of quoting a standard rate which is based on the length of the journey.Many contracts cannot be signed until Eurotunnel gives British Rail an exact starting date. You then subjected them to terrifying ordeals from which they have not yet fully recovered You subjected them to sexual indignities.

Phuket, or something along those lines.Iain Pyman, the British amateur champion, was another European checking out of his hotel on the Bobby Jones Expressway but at least there were mitigating circumstances surrounding the departure of the 21-year-old Yorkshireman. He said he expected the two sides to meet again soon.Colonel Frank Mugambage of the RPF denied government accusations that the rebels were backed by Uganda and included Ugandan fighters, saying: 'We are capable of fighting and we will continue to fight with or without anybody's assistance.'Doctors at the International Committee of the Red Cross hospital in the government-held city centre said they admitted at least 40 people, including 10 soldiers and 10 children with shrapnel wounds. As foreign minister, Mr Papaconstantinou shaped Greece's tough policy towards Macedonia and he has no truck with the Albanian leadership either. The apparent trade-off between inflation and growth - that countries can grow faster if they allow a little more inflation - only works in the short term.But central banks need to keep convincing people of this point. He loves the solitude, the long thoughtful walks, the nearby barrows and tumuli, the fruit trees he has planted in his garden.