The other is to try to support two-parent families and minimise the creation of one- parent ones.Is it not curious that young people are not taught the crafts of parenthood or family life? It is not easy to do this - we do not usually think of these as learnt skills - but the costs of failure are so great we should surely try harder. Local health authorities would continue promoting safer sex, he added.. No one is suggesting that Thompson and Venables did not deserve to be detained for a long time. Scratch the surface of these sportsmen and there's a racist element about them, the 'bloody wogs' sort of psychology.Like: 'All Indians are cheats,' and 'All Pakistanis are cheats.'Like: not even looking at the country.

The Palestinians had last week reneged on draft agreements reached in the Cairo talks, he said. Following a meeting of the Israeli cabinet yesterday, government sources suggested new talks, due to begin in the Red Sea resort of Taba this week, might be suspended until Yasser Arafat, the PLO chairman, accepted the Cairo drafts as a basis for the next round of discussions.Despite the public threats, both sides were keen yesterday to display a willingness to resume negotiations - on their terms. One on the Derwent, one on the Ouse - but forget them, it was the one in the eye that mattered.3 The Paladin who wielded Durendal died in the defile.4. So far there has been no contest: the civic nation has never seriously been challenged. Some have called the moves 'financial terrorism'.After a series of expensive individual court battles against councils trying to impose the rule, drivers from all over the country will meet in Hull on Tuesday to decide whether to take their fight to the European Commission.Rob Naylor, chairman of the Hull Taxi Association, organised the meeting after his city council imposed the black cab-only rule.

Looking at a period when smaller companies performed less well than larger corporations, their analysis found that ethical investments performed worse than the FT Index. - Neil Howarth, Redruth, Cornwall.Why do no jockeys wear beards or moustaches?It is not unknown for amateur jockeys to sport moustaches or beards, but I can never remember seeing a professional jockey in Britain or Europe who was other than clean-shaven. Can you pin down the psyche - particularly the collective psyche of a generation - like a butterfly? Is that not the job of poetry and literature?What we have, instead, is a comprehensive primer on all the forces underpinning our psychic orogenesis - a kind of geomorphology of mind. 'But my wife's mother who was a santera used to receive people looking for preparations for their problems.'Valoy has continued to work hard and successfully for the last few years, playing three or four dates a week across North and South America. A long-serving senior BBC employee said: 'John Birt appears to have used his position to get around a problem that a large number of his staff are forced to accept.'William Rees-Mogg, a former BBC vice-chairman, said other senior broadcasting executives, particularly those in ITV, were paid through private companies. Union leaders at Ford have postponed a strike ballot due to begin next Monday, after management agreed to talks on the threat of compulsory redundancies. 'Why doesn't Mr Brooke publish the truth about this fire and not simply expect the public to foot a bill of up to pounds 60m without actually having its questions answered?'Mr Brooke said the fire report, produced by a five-strong team of fire officers, police and forensic experts, was unanimous in its conclusions.

While it is in the British EC presidency's interests to play down the chances of success - so agreement may be hailed as a triumph for Mr Major - the agenda is becoming increasingly long and complex.A key summit target is to agree a formula allowing Denmark to put the Maastricht treaty to a new referendum. It was 20 years before he got on to the RHM main board, becoming managing director in 1981.The subsequent decade has been far from uneventful for him.He is credited with effecting a dramatic reduction in RHM's bread-baking capacity since taking charge and for slimming down a sprawling portfolio of interests.During that time he has had no fewer than three threatening shareholders on his register and has already fought off one full- blown bid before Hanson sprang yesterday morning.His feat in getting the pounds 1.7bn bid from Goodman Fielder Wattie, the antipodean food group, referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in 1988 seemed to many a triumph of political lobbying.Twice he has counter-attacked companies with unfriendly stakes in RHM, including a counter-bid for Goodman Fielder.So beneath his air of slightly crumpled affability Mr Metcalfe, who took over as chairman of RHM in 1989, clearly has his share of Yorkshire grit, which Lord Hanson, for one, will surely recognise.With RHM's back to the wall, he will need all that and more in the coming weeks and months.. Strong in defence, Italy seem hopelessly unfocussed going forward. There's also much bustling drama among the minor characters, who gossip and gawp at the sidelines of the action.