Turnover, at pounds 42m in the six months to November, was only 2 per cent higher than last year. As he himself admits after describing the pleasures of cornering female visitors at Saltwood: 'I fear that if I had come from 'an underprivileged background' I'd probably by now have done time for GBH, or assault, or even what Nanny calls the other.' Yet repellent though many of Mr Clark's values are, the overall effect of his book is oddly endearing.This is partly because he is so rashly honest, partly because he cares deeply for nature and animal welfare, and partly because he writes so brilliantly But ultimately it is connected to his snobbery Mr Clark is preposterous. But he comes from a river family which has never won the Doggets race and needed to prove his worth.Starting under London Bridge, the four scullers found the tide still flowing against them and they were soon close to the shore, in line astern, with Bullas leading.With the inshore passage along Jubilee Gardens blocked by barges working on the Tube extension, the scullers crossed to Parliament. The Daily Mail may soon be taking a markedly more critical line on the Chancellor's policy. However, to be allowed to 'incur expenses', I have to apply in the Science and Engineering Research Council lottery, where only one in five grants rated as 'at the forefront of UK and world science' is funded. SONA ABANTU, manager of the Oxfam shop in Drury Lane, is groping for the right words: 'Underwear,' he says tentatively 'Corsets, bras.

The bad parts were horrid, but the good parts so very very good that they not only saved his bacon but secured the Canaries' second away win of the season and kept his team firmly in touch with the leaders.Phillips has long been renowned as one of the sweetest strikers of a ball in the land. LIHUE, HAWAII (AP) - As troops patrolled and helped clean up districts of Kauai, federal officials said 10,000 of the island's 21,000 homes were badly damaged when Hurricane Iniki, Hawaii's worst storm this century, blasted across the island on Friday.Most of the island's 70 hotels were seriously damaged. If the pound stays low this will make it more expensive for British companies to import goods from abroad and make our goods more attractive to foreign buyers.The resulting boost to exports and to companies who face foreign competition should help industry pull out of what is the longest recession since the Second World War. 'If we don't protest to the Americans this time, we will get walked over next time.'Mr Foulkes said he would be questioning ministers about the contract next week, when Parliament resumes after the summer recess.Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat spokesman, called on Michael Heseltine, the President of the Board of Trade, to intervene by setting a diversification programme for the British arms industry.The loss of the Kuwaiti tank contract comes at a particularly bad time for Vickers. It also provides an especially effective mechanism for transmitting the views of the monetary authorities into the process of industrial bargaining.Whatever the level of independence of the central bank, it will operate efficiently only when it can interact with a system of co- ordinated wage bargaining.This analysis has important implications, for both Britain and the EC more generally. A small further rise would probably trigger mortgage increases.French experience has uncomfortable parallels with that of Ireland.

The latest move followed denunciations by several entrepreneurs who alleged they had to make payments to the party on the sale of numerous buildings for public use.The future of Giuliano Amato's government still looks shaky, despite the weekend's reshuffle following the resignations of two ministers touched by scandal. The Nationwide is offering a two-year 4.25 per cent fixed rate to the buyers of 1,500 properties from its repossessions book.Some lenders are offering first-time buyer discounts on their variable rates Others are focusing more on fixed rates. Having said that, they have won only one of four away fixtures in this season's tournament, at Glentoran last September.The vaunted talents of Rudi Voller, Abedi Pele and Alen Boksic managed too little in the way of attacking menace on Wednesday. The present Employment Bill will abolish wages councils which dictated basic pay for about 2 million workers, 80 per cent of whom are women.Since the 1986 Wages Act, which removed workers under 21 from wages council protection, unions report reductions in the going rate for jobs. The continental tradition is quite different in this respect.