The heavy going, and a body-clock which told her winter was coming, were offered as excuses for her poor performance, and the bookmakers appear to have been persuaded. At a resumed inquest into his death in Bradford yesterday, the West Yorkshire coroner, James Turnbull, returned a verdict of accidental death due to traumatic asphyxia on Mr Bland, 22, consistent with his being crushed at the Hillsborough disaster. Mr Bland had remained in a persistent vegetative state at the Airedale hospital in Keighley, virtually from the time of the disaster on 15 April 1989, until his death in March this year. Deforestation could be one of the prime man-made contributors to global warming. Brave Nancy skated resoundingly through, the knee looking strong enough to resist pickaxes and sledgehammers. Once a reluctant supporter of Mr Gaidar, the president is now fully behind his economics team - at least in the wake of the international meetings. I hope they catch the thief - a JCB is not worth someone's life.'Scotland Yard said last night the man who drove away the JCB was reported to be white, 'scruffy', about 30, about 5ft 9ins tall, with short or collar-length black hair and probably wearing a black donkey-style jacket..

A good start would be for building societies to stop profiteering from owners who have to let their homes, and for the Government to amend the rules slightly on tax relief in these circumstances.Yours faithfully,ANNABEL CARTWRIGHTCharlbury, Oxfordshire25 August. Mezzanotte's monologues to Stefano rehearse the details of his passion and solve the mystery of his mutilation. Wrench the headphones off his head, throw them out of the window and throw him after them, saying, 'I do regret this, believe me, but there are some things that even etiquette can't help with.'. Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been holding a series of secret meetings with trade union leaders and senior members of the opposition Social Democrats in an urgent effort to establish the contents of a pact before Christmas. If there had been any slander or libel it would have been a matter solely for the interested parties, for example, Arsenal versus Michael Thomas.Similarly, the PFA has just stood back and allowed the FA to indulge itself with this ridiculous rule.

He describes himself as a developer.The advertisements placed by Mr Sullivan and the letter signed by him are addressed to 'fellow mortgagees' and seek the support of borrowers. Dave Wannstedt, then of the Dallas Cowboys, was among many coaching officials who turned down the top job with the Giants.Bowe, you suspect, has landed himself with all that stifled, soured expectation, and will experience a city's full blast of relief if and when he dispatches Dokes to the famous canvas on Saturday night. Bunzl also has a similar business in Australia.Mr Habgood said all divisions apart from fine paper, which had been hit hard by recession in mainland European markets, were strongly ahead of last year. Released to Russia to serve the rest of his sentence, he was immediately set free by Mr Yeltsin and feted by hard-line Russian nationalists upon his arrival in Moscow as a free man on Friday. whom we should periodically despatch to the rice fields for thought reform and indoctrination. Second prize will be a return ticket to the value of pounds 400 to North America and five Rough Guides. ICI, the chemicals giant, is boosting its interests in South Africa by taking majority control of a local explosives business, writes Neil Thapar.

Although the measures should eventually improve profits, their immediate impact will be negative. 'They come to see the characters they've seen in newspapers and on television.' And as photographic shows have also drawn some of the highest attendance figures, new displays will mix photographic images with painted, sculpted and drawn ones.For the first time, too, there is permanent space for works which reflect that the NPG's finger is on the pulse of contemporary art.There will, for example, be the memorable video portrait by Marty St James and Anne Wilson of Duncan Goodhew, the Olympic gold- medal swimmer: in it, fragmented images of him swim across 11 television screens to a soundtrack of splashing water. David Russell found it less breathable and more bulky when the inner jacket was zipped in, but very warm: 'Well suited to severe conditions,' he said. Furthermore, the first 1 per cent increase in social contributions to pay for the new regime in nursing for the very sick and elderly also begins in January 1995.INCOME SURCHARGEThe Social Democrats have said they will, if elected, replace the 7.5 per cent 'solidarity' tax with a 10 per cent surcharge on incomes of the top 20 per cent of earners, those with net annual incomes of about DM50,000 per single person, or DM100,000 per married person. Why do your fingers go wrinkly in the bath? (Elen Gwynne, age four, of Runcorn, Cheshire) The simple answer is because the outer layer of the skin absorbs water, which increases its volume making it too big to fit your fingers without wrinkling The extra water also makes it look whiter.