The man shovelling at the coal face can earn more than pounds 500 a week - well above the pounds 210 basic rate for a face worker in a BC pit and a handsome sum in this part of Wales. Headline inflation is 1.3 per cent, which if sustained would give a real yield of nearly 7 per cent for 10 years and more than 7 per cent for 20. Although the Lord Chancellor expressed interest in those proposals, the savings would not achieve the targets for legal aid spending.In April, four statutory instruments amending eligibility for legal aid came into force: the Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 (SI no 565); the Civil Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 1993 (SI no 788; the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General)(Amendment)Regulations 1993 (SI no 789) and the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1993 (SI no 790).The Law Society applied for judicial review of the regulations on the grounds, among others, that (1) they were unlawful in that they frustrated rather than promoted the purposes of the 1988 Act; (2) they were so unreasonable as to be irrational; and (3) they were made without proper consultation with the Law Society.Michael Beloff QC, Robin Allen and Helen Mountfield (Bindman & Partners) for the Law Society; David Pannick QC and Mark Shaw (Treasury Solicitor) for the Lord Chancellor.LORD JUSTICE NEILL said that the purpose of the 1988 Act was to establish a framework for the provision of advice, assistance or representation which was publicly funded. As George Will would say, 'Et tu, Britain?'The authors are the directors of Independent Policy Research, an Anglo-American consultancy. Blurring the image within the image, or darkening it, or making it faint, or painting it in simple broad strokes usually does the trick.

Illegal immigration is seen as partly responsible for unemployment of 11 per cent, and the drugs trade.Mr Pasqua, adding that 'national sovereignty belongs to the people', said the council's decision to go against the government was 'worrying for the council itself', hinting that measures might be taken to limit its powers. The more trade and foreign investment tie countries together, the less freedom any individual country has to make its own policy. I might do some workshops.'CORRECTION.In the article in yesterday's paper about Dave Walker, an actor with the English Shakespeare Company, it stated that he took part in a robbery on a private house. A CAR TRACKING device introduced into Britain three months ago has been used to trace and recover a stolen BMW worth pounds 15,000, writes Simon Midgley. 'The first of these was to make a measured personal contribution to the debate as to whether Australia should become a republic,' Commander Aylard said. Liming helps: clubroot is less of a problem on alkaline soils. Raising the university entrance requirement might help, but she - and many of her classmates - feel that too much is packed into the professional subjects in the first two years, without the option to specialise.The course is not preparing her for employment, she says, but neither is it allowing her to read, learn and analyse the subjects.

Working in a nether world, these women have discovered they had no rights and are being denied protection under employment law.'Questions to the women were fielded by Mr Dromey, who lobbed them over the 5ft screens to Mrs A and Mrs B, both 59, and Mrs C, 41. They chatted and gesticulated above his head, and then moved on, jabbing the air.A young mother passed with her daughter, aged about eight or nine. 'He has two minds - one that thinks commercially, and another that is pure fashion, like an old-school couturier.'Knightly believes his three years at college helped hugely: 'It was like three years in the territorial army. The demonstrations of 1992 are in part a lament; it was the steel and coal strikes of the 1980s that were the protests of hope.Several of the Armthorpe lads have had enough of the pit. Birmingham Bullets discovered that six wins out of 15 games in the Carlsberg League left them short of confidence when they faced CSKA Moscow in the opening men's game of the World Invitation Club tournament at Crystal Palace last night, writes Duncan Hooper. Just the folds of her robe at first, creamy and stiff like a poppadum curtseying.