Despite the indignant protestations to the contrary by the tour management, it is patently obvious that a number of the players have already run up the white flag Ian McGeechan has been bitterly hurt. It wants to get them to toe the line by hitting their pockets, to make them, as the management jargon of 30 years ago would have put it, 'jump for the jelly beans'. Anna is one of those Italians who can slip from her native language into English and back again without noticing, and it is she who runs the kitchen. He spoke French that sounded chicly Parisian, and always knew the newest 'good address'. In blunt terms in his brief speech of thanks he told them that, after the war, he would be resigning from the service, and going into business and politics. FORGET Brazil's Leonardo in World Cup 94 (ITV, BBC) and Agassi at Wimbledon (BBC); the week's prize for televisual athleticism goes to Wendy and Tony of Leyton.

Despite three successive bumper crops, sales to the UK dropped 34 per cent last year, and the first three months' figures for this year show a 12 per cent fall.Not all the supermarkets disagree with Moet: ' pounds 7.99 is still a lot, given that the average purchase is under pounds 3 a bottle,' says Philip Clive, wine buyer for Asda, who cut the price of its own-label champagne instead of introducing a cheapie. 'Family planning is one of the most cost-effective services, but family planning figured low in our survey. (First Edition) THE GOVERNMENT'S dispute with the insurance industry over who picks up the bill for terrorism is a direct result of the IRA bomb which destroyed the Baltic Exchange in the City. THE PALESTINIAN peace negotiators have received assurances from the United States that if they announce an end to the peace talks boycott, Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister, will guarantee not to carry out further deportations. At one of the current batch of inquiries - a planned bypass near the interesting neo-Gothic chapel at Lancing College, Sussex - mutterings about dirty tricks can be heard from a principal opponent to the scheme, the school's geography master and director of studies, Tom Aubrey. 'ENTREZ] I love weekends, don't you?. 'The present legal position is absurd,' commented Dr Harries.

When you've been such a good player that's the most difficult thing. On Tuesday, students were in line across the Union quad three hours before he was due to appear, desperate to secure their place in the chamber.'We love him,' said one queuer, wearing a Santa hat. 'It's just a photograph of two similar dogs, torn from a newspaper. He later announced his intention to retire at the end of the season.For Assinger, a native of the surrounding region of Carinthia, this triumph represented a notable recovery. VAN Gogh's first picture of boots was painted in Paris in 1886, when the artist was living in poverty. 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------- REMAINING FIXTURES ----------------------------------------------------------------- Today CSKA Moscow v Marseille (at Olympiastadion, Berlin); Club Bruges v Rangers 17 March Marseille v CSKA Moscow; Rangers v Club Bruges.