It is using programmes made in the US and Caribbean but eventually hopes to put out mostly home-made material. Identity TV is running in six-hour segments on five cable networks - Videotron, Telewest, Encom, Nynex and Cable London - which have teamed up as London Interconnect. AS THE economy emerges from recession and merchant bankers prepare to give the deal roundabout another spin, Bimec Industries stands as a late but terrible warning of the excesses and lax standards of the past. United would be champions again; the big prize already as good as theirs. 'It's brilliant - like an Art of Noise video,' eulogised one, as four of the company glided on in hoop- bottomed black-and-white costumes to a grinding industrial beat.Fuller's preference for 'texture rather than narrative' made the work immediately accessible, but some puzzled over intended significance. This is a great disappointment to us.'Without the pounds 40m contract to refit the auxiliary ship Sir Bedivere, there is just four months' work left at Swan Hunter.

.'); his best friend's 'battered, motley-panelled 2CV'), the sensible VW Golf he buys after the death of his father; and the burgundy Bentley Eight, 'showroom- clean, unlived in'. In Britain nearly one worker in four is part-time, according to the Department of Employment, and more than 1.5 million such jobs have been created since 1980. Is this another blow to what remains of the Chancellor's credibility, or could we be witnessing a cunning Treasury plan coming to fruition? Professor Tim Congdon, of the City firm Gerrard & National and Cardiff Business School, launches a blistering attack this week on the wisdom of his fellow panellists. However, the rate of conversion had not changed from the average of about 30 per cent in the previous year. Sales in the weekend before the Budget fell 50 per cent, but have returned strongly since. You have a range of products - the policies - and if the people say they don't like what you're offering and they slam the door in your face, you're an idiot if you don't change. They could be judged partly according to what they do in the Commons, but much more important to me is what they do in their constituencies.SIMON HEFFER, columnist: Without question That way they wouldn't get any money at all They should go out and get proper jobs. Martin Pipe's gelding is also entered in Ireland, but Haydock appears to offer a much better chance of opening his account for the season.Indeed, if he is to mount a serious defence of his title, Granville Again must surely beat Saturday's field.

(Photograph omitted) A pen by Jenny Maddock and a ring in Sophie Harley's collection at the third Decorative Arts Today exhibition and sale at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, west London. The funny thing is, I can remember more about sailing incidents than romantic ones.I wouldn't have wanted to stay unmarried. The group is believed to control 20 per cent of Amstrad's equity - enough to block the proposals - but it has yet to state its views on Mr Sugar's 30p a share offer.However, it is understood to be deeply unhappy with his terms and is poised to block the proposal at the shareholders' meeting next Thursday.The group comprises representatives from institutions with relatively large stakes in Amstrad. The Passion plays were popular entertainments, comparable in appeal to present-day football matches.

As signatories to a bank account opened in Antwerp, Cols Burn and Rich had control of the money with a third signatory, Stuart Ford.When Mr Ford introduced Gamil Naguib to the plot, Mr Naguib asked for the money to be put into an account, with Naguib, Ford and Burn as signatories. He raised the curtain and discovered that the empty house next door had come alive - lights on in every room, shouting, dogs barking and unspeakable music blaring out. One of her most powerful arguments with potential widespread appeal to the economically depressed US is that it costs the taxpayer anything between dollars 2m and dollars 3m ( pounds 1.4m- pounds 2m) to carry out a sentence on a condemned man - most of that going in legal fees to the lawyers processing the mandatory appeals. The lesson may be that great teams are built painstakingly, not assembled overnight Pride and passion cannot be imported.