THE MUCH-HYPED hot air that came out of the Earth Summit in Rio last month looks set to breathe new life into local government environmental action.Having agreed to Agenda 21, a wide-ranging list of environmental proposals for the next century, the Government and local authorities are now faced with the task of deciding how best to turn that agreement into action. The sea is very peaceful, no swell.''It was around 10pm and we were eating dinner,' said another passenger, Nat Welch, of Lincoln, Massachusetts 'The whole ship started to shake quite violently There was no panic. That is probably what the French and Benelux countries would prefer, although last week Helmut Schlesinger, President of the Bundesbank, advised against such a move In this context, Mr Schlesinger is Godot. Scientists do not know how long they will survive in the body, or what dose to use. The goals included a hat-trick by Rick Fera and two from Kevin Conway, his Basingstoke Beavers team-mate. Courses cost money and it's understandable that people are not clamouring to do them,' he says.The Government accepts that the problems now faced by the courts in dealing with the mentally ill should not be left solely to the solicitor.

But we're happy.CHARLOTTE RAMPLING: In 1976 I was living in St Tropez with my husband, Bryan, and our son, Barnaby. But Jack (Andrew Robertson) is more preoccupied by private manual pleasures, and, as he dedicates himself to these in the bathroom, his father keels over from a fatal heart-attack. These Oedipal overtones gather a crazy momentum after the mother takes to her bed and quietly fades away - but not before telling Jack and his elder sister Julie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) that they will have to assume the parenting role towards their siblings. Early this year, before worries about the group's US operations surfaced, they were above 700p.The rest of the stock market had a roller-coaster session with the FT-SE 100 index ending eight points down at 3,077.6. Here was the infamous Bridge over the River Kwai.Two enormous bombs stood at the entrance to the bridge. At the same time, it rejected a demand for compensation and damages by the mother, who has effectively brought him up alone for most of his life The boy will no longer be allowed to bear the man's name. She has to if she is to keep Nestle sweet; but whereas in 1989, 70 per cent of bottled water sold in Britain was sparkling, last year 68 per cent was still.'But this must be put into perspective,' she says.

She knew many of the surviving suffragettes well, and with the help of Nancy Astor and Ellen Wilkinson in Parliament, worked with the 'Women in Westminster' group to push hard for more women MPs And she kept close links with Canada. The header was good and strong, but Peter Schmeichel proved equal to it, with an all-consuming save.United's response saw Cantona hold off three converging defenders to meet Denis Irwin's left-wing cross with a hooked volley, well saved.Speed and Cantona had lit the fuse, and smoke became fire two minutes into the second half, when United scored a goal of classic simplicity. SIR PATRICK SHEEHY, chairman of BAT Industries, seemed surprisingly confident yesterday about the likely outcome of President Clinton's proposal to levy a 75 cent excise duty increase on a packet of cigarettes. All the leaders agreed yesterday that a breakthrough would deliver an upswing in business confidence.Norman Lamont, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stressed that a breakthrough in the Gatt (world trade) talks would have a significant impact on the world economy and brighten the trading prospects of the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.Britain also worried that its attempt to build up the prospects for recovery at the London summit was a mistake. It would also avoid upsetting the presidential election in the US, where protectionist measures are mounting.President George Bush and James Baker, the US Secretary of State, scheduled a meeting with Jacques Delors, the President of the European Commission, and Frans Andriessen, the European Community's chief trade negotiator, to set the political tone of the detailed negotiating sessions.John Major, the Prime Minister, meanwhile made a determined attempt to win around President Francois Mitterrand - who is seen as the main opponent of a Gatt accord because of his fear of losing the farmers' vote - to achieve a political breakthrough.But officials dismissed reports of a sharp exchange over Gatt between the two leaders.The Prime Minister has placed a Gatt agreement at the top of his agenda for the British presidency of the EC. They look after two groups of birds: the 76 varieties of exotic wildfowl in the official collection and the large numbers of indigenous birds which, mainly because of the regular supplies of food, choose to make their homes there. Even if the pound had been devalued by 50 per cent against the dollar, there would be still probably be a million Britons who would consider America very good value..