The reports by Judge Stephen Tumim are published as the Home Office outlines a strategy to curb the bullying of vulnerable prisoners. We put on the cap and bells, and we tell jokes about - well, it could be Hereward the Wake, or Sir Bedevere, or maybe one of the Crusades. Treasury controls on overall public expenditure would remain, but some forms of private sector investment which would carry risk, would not count against the public sector borrowing requirement.'Our concept of public-private partnerships is ambitious and expansive. From low-ranking policeman to senior politicians, the whispered word has been that the convictions of Hill, Gerry Conlon, Carole Richardson, and Patrick Armstrong were quashed on a mere 'technicality' and that there was no miscarriage of justice.It is true that at their 1989 appeal the Four's conviction was quashed on the narrowest of grounds: five Surrey police officers appeared to have doctored two confession statements and lied at their trial. Throughout, Demme stays close to faces, especially Beckett's, gently tracing the limits of the flesh, in a way that seems both mournful and hopeful. 'They were the catastrophes against which the underwriters had been paid to reinsure,' he said.Any one of the catastrophes would have exposed the failings of Gooda Walker's underwriting, Mr Vos said. NO ONE can doubt Dave Burnley's love of Burnley FC.

You know, he came along and he had the right trousers for the mid-Eighties, and they took him on He just said 'Hi, I'm Gary. Even at this stage in his career, his enemies might be less nerves, presentation and technique than staleness, contractual small print and jet-lag. They assume Mr Clinton will help them regain regions in which they have suffered from 'ethnic cleansing'.The administration would like to see further concessions to the Muslims from the Serbs and also from the Croats, but it is not clear whether a Clinton envoy would be any more successful than Mr Vance and Lord Owen - unless the US threatened force.US officials complain that there is no agreement on how to enforce the Vance-Owen plan, but this is a point that Mr Vance and Lord Owen concede because they say such details cannot be considered until the administration decides to what extent it will participate in enforcement of their plan, particularly whether it is prepared to use air strikes.Mr Clinton has rejected one Vance-Owen proposal: that any Bosnian faction which does not sign up should suffer UN-imposed sanctions. The time-lag means that the National Union of Mineworkers will have completed its planned strike ballot - due to begin on Friday - over the coal fiasco.'It puts Heseltine in a no lose situation; if there's a strike, the miners will lose sympathy; and if they don't strike there's no problem,' a Labour MP said.There may also be knock-on effects on the Government's plans to designate assisted areas to receive government and European Community aid. People like the banks have lost confidence.'In Commercial Street in Lerwick, the claims office run by the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (IOPCF) and the Skuld Club, the protection and indemnity club to which the Braer's owner belongs, is busy. If it is an Irish company, that would make no difference.'The computers are shipped from Ireland to Russia via Dell's eastern European operation in Warsaw, Poland. I mean Lydgate has a profound moral sense but it's very difficult to act him without seeming like an insincere bore.'Even now Hodge remains unconvinced of his success - 'Somebody called me an ascendant actor the other day I've been bloody ascending for years.

But the Canadian 'friend of Haiti' ripped out and exposed the roll, saying: 'A man could die for this.' At the cameraman's insistence, he replaced the film with a fresh roll.. BRITISH AIRWAYS has doubled the frequency of safety checks on its fleet of 42 Boeing 757 jets after a panel fell on to a Glasgow school, writes Christian Wolmar. However, even moderate hospitality will be outlawed by European Commission legislation due to come into force next year.There is mounting concern about the way in which drugs are promoted to doctors. Last year, Far East trusts - both including and excluding Japan - were in the top four performing sectors of the investment trust league tables, rising by at least 80 per cent over the year.

Even as we giggle, isn't it right to ask whether he is demeaning the profession of politics far more seriously than Hartley Booth with his no-sex affair?. Half-way through the duck and off-balance he gave a hoick over his right shoulder intending to steer it to fine leg. This approach is, however, generally considered austere on the Continent and the 'English sound' (however accurately it might reflect 13th-century practice) is eschewed in favour of more overtly colourful and varied interpretations.Barbara Thornton and Benjamin Bagby, the directors of Sequentia, base their performance decisions on what they describe as a dramaturgical approach. Derrick Spencer and George Taylor, both mechanical engineers, have invented an anti-theft device ('PC Cuff'), that secures computers by clamping the central processing unit to a desk and protects the memory and disk drive A later unit will protect the printer. But policing of the market was inadequate, costs were poorly controlled, and Lloyd's was wrong-footed by the late-Eighties surge in litigation in the US.These structural weaknesses were evident even by the end of the Sixties, and there have been no fewer than three major reports on its future But change was always resisted. To the side, in a small ramekin, sat bearnaise sauce, with just the right amount of tarragon.One could quibble, if inclined, with the lemon tart: too citric, slightly overcooked The cream tart was also overcooked, but tasted great. Or better still - buy two, they're small]' It's nice to see there's still room for your sense of humour on the mantelpiece beside your Booker Prize]Aren't Irish actors great all the same? Even the kids, Rodser, were brilliant.

They had the run of the garden when we were around and mowed the lawn for us. He complained he had tried to book a room for a party of disabled people for the end of November, yet Tories were offering dining at the Commons 'on a regular basis' to those who gave pounds 1,000 to the party.He said he would supply Miss Boothroyd with a document, headed 'Team 1000', from Sir Norman Fowler, the party chairman, which made such a pledge.Leading article, page 13. The following have been elected to Fellowship of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. The Bar Council in England and Wales also backed the Scottish move. If any of my fellow judges - Victoria Glendinning, John Coldstream, Valentine Cunningham or Harriet Harvey-Wood - loved a book that I had dumped, then I resumed the struggle through it I am sure they made the same deal with themselves Such force-reading is the worst part of judging. They see their own histories as irrelevant.Yesterday, however, these self-effacing women became the centre of attention when SBS won the Martin Ennals Civil Liberties Award for their work on human rights over the past 10 years. It was an ambition not altogether realised - though, that's perhaps not surprising when you see the restrictions under which film-makers work.