The number of incidents of people having a firearm rose by 95 to 435 in 1993. There was also an eightfold rise in the number of road checks due largely to anti-terrorist measures taken in the City of London, figures in the Home Office report showed.Of the 55,900 arrests in England and Wales almost 20,000 were for stolen property and drugs offences. I have therefore asked the corporation to accept my resignation as South Asia correspondent.'The BBC said: 'Mark Tully has resigned from a freelance position We are very disappointed.'Tully on the BBC, page 6. Other leading dandies of the period were also his clients, including Sir Roy Strong (then Director of the National Portrait Gallery), Mick Jagger and Elton John.Nutter also applied his craft to dressing female icons of swinging London society at the time, including Cilla Black, a close friend, and Bianca Jagger, who was much photographed at the time in a white dinner jacket with white satin facings. And so much of the old heart of these cities has been conserved or restored that the artists would still feel at home. The narrative has moved firmly from post-Sixties idealism through political disillusionment to punk nihilism; but the programmes have worked the way memory does - fractured, episodic, sprinkled with leitmotivs and unexpected connections. They teach the pleasures of the long, slow unfolding of a plot, of patience in waiting for characters to develop and the denouement to spring its surprises. He eats well, appreciates a good wine and for relaxation reads - as many as three books in a weekend.There was an Irish press clamour for Sutherland to be kept on as Commissioner, given his enormous success in Brussels in making the single market work.

Sister Helen is convinced people will reject it if they read her book, but she needs more allies inside the system if she is to change it.An important convert appeared last week. I hope it will be a young and spirited side we take on tour to the West Indies. The death penalty is mandatory for murder in South Africa unless convincing extenuating circumstances are put forward. Justice C F Eloff, who is expected to pronounce sentence today, ruled yesterday that Janus Walusz, 38, was guilty of having fired the four shots that killed Hani, an incident that precipitated a nationwide crisis. And he promised to devote himself entirely to prime ministerial responsibilities.With the Socialists (in the form of Mr Rocard and Laurent Fabius, former prime ministers for whom the school issue is a boon) going on the attack, Mr Balladur can also expect a rougher ride from the left.It is a year in which la politique politicienne (politicians' politics), which French politicians all profess to despise, should thrive.One who is likely to revel in it is Mr Mitterrand.

After all, why should we be treated any differently to drinkers who are posted to countries where drinking is an offence?'The answer might have to do with the fact that, unlike drinkers, gay officers still have a taboo to fight at home as well as abroad. 'You have to anticipate hostility and make provision for a certain amount of giving ground to your opponents,' he says.Who actually drafts Private Members' Bills promoted in this way? 'You draft them yourself as you think right, although you must recognise that they will never end up that way,' Mr Tench says. A paper published in 1991 entitled 'Psychological Morbidity of Hirsute Women (Dixon et al)' drew doctors' attention to the fact that, in scientific surveys, hairy women who present themselves for treatment are five times more likely to be depressed than other women.This observation is not as facile as it might seem. Some complain efforts to achieve this are keeping Europe's unemployment high - ironically, Britain approves of it.Q. 'She'd kill you.'Lemon Souffle will now parade her talents at Deauville, first in the Prix d'Astarte and then against the colts in the Prix Jacques le Marois.Geoff Wragg, Glatisant's trainer, later had a stab at equine psychology to explain his filly's squat in the stalls. There was much more terror in people's faces than two weeks ago.'Aid flights to Sarajevo, interrupted after an Italian plane was shot down early last month, are set to resume today.