Under the charges scheme, the Government wanted pounds 25,000 from the race but agreed to reduce the charge to pounds 15,000. As someone who used to live near its start in Greenwich Park, I can vouch for the need for someone to pay. HOUSEHOLDERS could lose their homes if they fall behind with their council tax under new regulations. Nearly 50 had retired of the original 247 starters and the small boats were into their sixth consecutive day at sea, writes Stuart Alexander. Allied- Lyons was weaker, falling 3p to 571p, with analysts expecting some subdued comment from the international group about the outlook for wine and spirits sales.Those thoughts also unsettled Guinness, down 15p to 431p.

The new ice is said to be soft and slow but at least the infamous slope has gone.Figures were slightly better the next day for Sheffield Steelers' visit. Last autumn, all hell broke loose when it emerged that the brave new BBC had sent 84 staffers on an all-expenses paid sales trip to Cannes, the playground of the the rich and famous. The engineered virus should be sprayed on to the plants within a month - and the caterpillars should be dead a fortnight later.But some scientists, including Britain's best-known genetic scientist, Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College London and the 1991 Reith lecturer, argue that vandals or birds could rip open the fine netting over the test plots and allow infected caterpillars or virus particles to escape.The modified virus might then combine with wild viruses and infect insects other than the caterpillars at which it is aimed, upsetting the natural balance between species.The opponents are also angry that the test is taking place in a field less than half-a-mile from Wytham Woods, one of Britain's most sensitive ecological havens.The pesticide is one of the first genetically engineered organisms to have been released in Britain.The team conducting the experiments says that precautions taken to keep the caterpillars in, and predators out, have considerably reduced any risks.David Bishop, who heads the team, said yesterday the chance of the virus being passed on beyond the target caterpillars is so small it can be discounted. Employers are increasingly looking for flexible, white-collar, non-manual workers, while services should continue to grow in importance relative to manufacturing. He regards it as a sentimentality.With its hideous rapes, mutilations, coldly clinical blindings, ghosts and shootings, Bond's revisionist Lear is more reminiscent of Titus Andronicus on the atrocity-count.

He took him to Notts County from Ballymena in 1981 and signed him for Wednesday for pounds 100,000 in 1984.Steve Froggatt, Aston Villa's England Under-21 winger, has agreed a four-year deal with Wolves. Fred's sinuous secretary, Miss Stone (Halle Berry), is called Rosetta in the press kit, Sharon in the finished film.It is in the other sort of pun characteristic of the cartoon, whereby modern American conveniences are duplicated by devices that comprise or involve animals, that the film-makers are most defeated by cultural change. Smoke and smoking is one of the most obvious causes: the children of women who smoke in pregnancy are 30 per cent more likely to develop asthma by their teens. As the island has two industries - copra and funny-coloured stamps - this is more serious than you might have thought.

It is likely that the 'no- fly zone' will be implemented by the weekend.The United Nations was not consulted before yesterday's decision, nor does any Security Council resolution authorise the actions being carried out in the name of besieged Marsh Arabs.Instead the allies were acting under a controversial principle of international law permitting military intervention in cases of grave humanitarian abuse. Mr Clarke's reputation as the thinking man's thug had preceded him to the Home Office. so what? Exams, as everybody knows, are not a guide to how clever you are - they're a guide to how good you are at exams; a guide, in a sense, to how good you are at life. 'There was a match at Roehampton on Thursday that went to 20-18 in the third set.' Masur, whose last of three tournament victories was in Newport, Rhode Island, five years ago, will now meet Jason Stoltenberg, the 6-7, 6-2, 6-3, winner over France's Stephane Simian Stoltenberg is Australian Results, Sporting Digest, page 55.

The Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq asked the UN Secretary-General 'to ask the Iraqi regime to stop draining the marshes and the shelling, get the UN humanitarian organisations to urgently help the fleeing refugees'.. CADBURY Schweppes, the drinks and confectionery manufacturer, yesterday signalled its intention to win a larger share of the key US soft drinks market by paying dollars 231.3m for a 20.2 per cent stake in Dr Pepper/Seven-Up. I just hope it turns out all right and you're not left explaining why Peking wouldn't be so bad after all. Mrs Weatherson, of Warsash, Hampshire, is claiming sexual discrimination. Kenneth West, head of the Peel House nursing home in Stubbington, said he did not even know Mrs Weatherson was pregnant. InSkinParams = new Array(); InSkinParams['srv_SectionID'] = '124015'; InSkinParams['srv_Keywords'] = 'home'; InSkinParams['srv_Categories'] = ''; InSkinParams['srv_UseSAS'] = 'false'; InSkinParams['sas_PauseAdTag'] = ''; InSkinParams['plr_InSkinID'] = 'myPageSkin'; InSkinParams['plr_ContentID'] = 'myContent1'; InSkinParams['plr_ContentW'] = '975'; InSkinParams['plr_FrameTop'] = '90'; InSkinParams['plr_FrameSide'] = '130'; InSkinParams['plr_FrameBottom'] = '90'; InSkinParams['plr_TotalW'] = '900'; InSkinParams['plr_TotalH'] = '600'; InSkinParams['plr_ContentType'] = 'PAGE'; InSkinParams['plr_HideElementsByID'] = ''; InSkinParams['plr_HideElementsByClass'] = ''; InSkinParams['plr_ExpandableDetached'] = 'true'; InSkinParams['plr_NoSkinInSkinResize'] = 'true'; InSkinParams['plr_AssumeSkin'] = 'false'; function addEvent( obj, type, fn ) { var obj = ( obj.constructor === String ) ? document.getElementById( obj ) : obj; if ( obj.attachEvent ) { obj[ 'e' + type + fn ] = fn; obj[ type + fn ] = function(){ obj[ 'e' + type + fn ]( window.event ) }; obj.attachEvent( 'on' + type, obj[ type + fn ] ); } else obj.addEventListener( type, fn, false ); } if ((navigator.platform.indexOf("Mac") == -1) && (navigator.platform.indexOf("Linux") == -1)) { addEvent(window, 'load', function() { var adjustment = 0; InSkinParams['plr_ContentH'] = jQuery('#InSkinPageContainer_' + InSkinParams['plr_InSkinID']).height() + adjustment; if (screen.width >= 1235) { InSkinLoad.init(InSkinParams); } }); }. While Mr Thrift declines to predict that Britain will become like the United States, where poorer areas are uninsurable, he says that it is a possible outcome.